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Police seek 4th suspect after fight BY MATT BRUCE matthew@theitem.com The wheels continued to turn in a conflict between two Sumter County families that led to an all-out brawl late Sunday evening, leaving one man critically injured after he was reportedly run over and dragged several yards by a pickup truck. Authorities said Crystal Gainey, a 38-year-old Sumter woman, is now being sought on charges associated with the brouhaha, which took place outside a Young’s convenience store at 3120 U.S. 15 South. Sumter County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Braden Bunch indicated investigators have drawn up arrest warrants against the woman for two counts of attempted murder and a charge of third-degree assault and battery. Those charges stem from a street melee that spawned at a Food Lion about two miles north of the Young’s convenience shop. Reports indicate Gainey confronted two members of a rival family in the parking lot of the grocery store in the 1700 block of U.S. 15 South and followed them to the Young’s. That’s where the incident reportedly turned chaotic, with eight people embroiled in the group fight at its height.

Some local pharmacies don’t have anti-viral med in stock BY JADE REYNOLDS jade@theitem.com Many South Carolinians started the New Year sick or recovering from being ill. During the week of Dec. 21 through Dec. 27, 465 people were hospitalized with lab-confirmed cases of the flu, and five deaths occurred, according to the state Department of Health and Environmental Control. Sumter has seen a similar spike of not only the flu, but also secondary ailments such as upper respiratory infections, pneumonia and bronchitis. “I’ve been working here eight years, and this is the worst flu season I’ve ever seen,” said April Hartwick, center manager for Doctors Care. Not only have they had patients coming in, but they’ve also had employees come down with the flu, she said. Tuomey Regional Medical Center is no different. During the last two weeks, five or six employees have been out each day hospitalwide, said Eric McFarland, manager of the Sumter hospital’s emergency department. Normally, about 175 patients a day go to the emergency room for a variety of reasons, he said, but for the last two weeks straight, more than 200 people a day have visited the ER. “Mostly that surge in volume is the flu,” McFarland said. “We’ve seen 20 percent more patients

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Pharmacist Nikki Cross sorts pills at Alderman Drug Co. recently. Cross said this has been the most active flu season she’s seen in the past few years. with the flu.” Many of these patients are able to take more of the fast track, getting a rapid flu test and being sent off with a prescription for the antiviral medication Tamiflu, he said. But some are experiencing symptoms severe enough to be admitted to the hospital. “The most vulnerable patients are the super young and the elderly,” McFarland said. “They don’t

have the robust immune systems to combat the flu.” If the patient started presenting symptoms in the last 48 hours, the hospital personnel will administer Tamiflu and provide other supportive measures. “Beyond that, the body’s natural mechanisms have kicked in, and you’ll see diminishing returns,” he

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the flu or another illness, and the two of you can discuss your best treatment option. If it is the flu, your health care provider will most likely prescribe an anti-viral medication. • What are the benefits of anti-viral drugs? When used for treatment, anti-virals

can lessen symptoms and shorten the time you are sick by one or two days. They also can prevent serious flu complications such as pneumonia. For people with a high-risk medical condition, treatment with an anti-viral drug can mean the difference between

having milder illness instead of a serious illness that could result in a hospital stay. • What are the possible side effects of anti-viral drugs? Some side effects have been

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Police hunt for suspects after 12 killed in France BY JAMEY KEATEN and LORI HINNANT The Associated Press PARIS — Masked gunmen stormed the offices of a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people Wednesday, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France’s deadliest terrorist attack in half a century. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Shouting “Allahu akbar!” as A French soldier patrols the Montparnasse railway stathey fired, the men claimed tion in Paris, France, on Wednesday. France reinforced se- links to al-Qaida in their milicurity after masked gunmen stormed the offices of a tary-style, noon-time attack French satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people. on the weekly paper Charlie

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Hebdo, located near Paris’ Bastille monument. The publication’s depictions of Islam and Islamic extremists have drawn condemnation and threats before — it was firebombed in 2011 — although it also satirized other religions and political figures. Police identified three men, including two brothers, as suspects in the attack at the offices of the newspaper as security officers fanned out across the Paris region in a manhunt. One police official said the

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COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT FLU VIRUS AND USING ANTI-VIRAL MEDICINES Influenza is a virus that often includes fever, cough, sore throat, a runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. • What should you do if you think you have the flu? See your health care provider. He or she will determine if you do have

Experts warn to be watchful for fire hazards As Sumter wakes up to an extremely cold morning, Sumter Fire Department Capt. Joseph Duggan is reminding area residents to keep safety in mind when trying to keep cold temperatures at bay. “We typically run across heater fires,” he said about the type of incidents the local fire department usually encounters during cold snaps. “People put their space heater too close to a bed or a curtain, and it starts a fire.” He said the belts on central heating units also lead to calls. “We run across an issue when belts on central heaters put out a burnt rubber smell,” he said. “It’s not necessarily a fire, but we still are called to check it out. People should have their heaters maintained regularly.” State Fire Marshal Bert Polk issued the following fire safety tips:

FIRE SAFETY TIPS: • Check your smoke alarms to make sure they work. Replace any that do not work or that are more than 10 years old; and • If there is a fire, get out and stay out. Call the fire department as soon as you are safely outside.

HEATING SAFETY: • All heaters need space. Keep anything that can burn at least three feet away from heating equipment, such as the furnace, fireplace, wood

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2 arrested on drug charges Sumter County deputies arrested two Sumter men Tuesday afternoon after narcotics officers found several grams of marijuana. David Kinsey Jr., 21, of 5 Carrie St., and Charles Nelson, 27, of 5350 Sidjon Road, were both charged with KINSEY distribution of marijuana in connection with the incident. According to a Sumter County Sheriff ’s Office incident report, an undercover NELSON officer bought suspected marijuana from Kinsey at Patriot Park. Deputies initiated a traffic stop on Kinsey’s vehicle soon after he left the scene of the drug deal and found the second suspect inside the car. Officers searched the vehicle and also found 39 grams of a substance thought to marijuana inside.

Sumter family loses home in fire A Sumter family was burned out of its home after a house fire that scorched large portions of the structure Tuesday. According to reports from Sumter Fire Department, the blaze touched off at the home at 146 Anderson St. just after 3 p.m. Initial reports indicate it began as a kitchen fire. Emergency crews arrived and found nearly 40 percent of the 1,200-square foot structure involved. About a dozen firefighters from four different departments descended upon the scene to extinguish the blaze. Fire officials estimated the residence sustained about $65,000 in smoke and heat damage from the fire. Sumter Fire Department Capt. Joey Duggan said a family of two children and one adult resided at the home, which he described as a total loss. Each of the occupants escaped the home without injury. Authorities attributed the blaze to unattended cooking and noted Red Cross responded to the scene to assist the displaced family.

CORRECTION In Tuesday’s advertisement for Sumter Master Gardener training, the number for information and registration should have been listed as (803) 773-5561 (Clemson Extension). Ask for Pat McDaniel.

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Representatives Murrell Smith and David Weeks address the Sumter Community Vision VIP (Vision in Progress) meeting at the James E. Clyburn Intermodal Transportation Center on Wednesday. The Sumter Community Vision group is open to all community members and seeks to address the needs of Sumter. The group holds a VIP meeting on the first Wednesday of the month for approxmately one hour. KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

City Council may rezone Bultman Drive property BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adreinne@theitem.com Sumter City Council approved first reading of a rezoning request Tuesday that could allow developers to build a new grocery store on Bultman Drive. The developers, Polestar Development LLC, propose to add 2.21 acres of land to an existing 5.31 acres of limited commercial land to build a 33,000-square-foot grocery store with a fuel center equipped with six pumps on the corner of Bultman Drive and Kilgo Street. The name of the grocery store has yet to be disclosed, but it has been confirmed that it will sell alcohol. Sumter School District, which owns the property, rezoned 5.31 acres to limited commercial in 2009. The former Sumter School District 17 bought the land in 2007 to build a new district office headquarters on the limited commercial portion but later withdrew the proposal after its first reading with city council due to opposition from the neighborhood. Two Sumter residents spoke against the proposal, both stating that the addition of a store near the neighborhood of Kilgo Street could lead to crime and disturbances in and around the neighborhood. Councilwoman Ione Dwyer suggested that the developers put up a fence behind the store to protect the surrounding homes from any disturbances. Dwyer also expressed concern for the increase in traffic that the grocery store would bring to Bultman Drive. She also mentioned that there will need to be changes made to the side-

walks in the area to accommodate for the growth in traffic. Planning Department Director George McGregor stated that a traffic review will be completed in the future as plans continue. Two people said they approved of adding the grocery store to the neighborhood and believe it would be “a good fit and a good commercial citizen” for the neighborhood. “We will do whatever we can to work with the community to come up with a mutual plan,” said Jeff Soeble, Polestar Development representative. Council unanimously approved first reading of the development proposal. Councilman Robert A. Galiano was not at the meeting. In other action at the meeting, Sumter Police Chief Russell F. Roark II presented the City of Sumter Police Department’s annual report for 2014. Before Roark presented the data from the report, council and the audience watched a slide show of photos showing city law enforcement officers interacting with members of the community throughout the past year. Roark said the police department has focused on creating a positive relationship with the public and taking proactive measures such as having road checks, foot patrols and informing the public through social media. He said crime in the city has decreased in part because of the proactive approach. The public can “help us help them,” he said, by following safety practices, especially by ensuring their cars are locked to help reduce the number of

auto break-ins, car thefts and weapons thefts. “A partnership between the community and law enforcement is more important than the decrease in crime,” Roark said. Highlights of the report include: • one homicide was reported in the city in 2014 which is a 50 percent decrease from the previous year when there were two reported murders. Six homicides were reported in 2012; • aggravated assaults have been on a slow decline from 2012 to 2014 and has dropped by 4.24 percent between 2013 and 2014; • sexual assaults have decreased by 12 percent since 2013; • auto break-ins increased from 267 to 314 while auto thefts decreased by 8.97 percent; • organized Crime and Vice Control seized $154,426 worth of drugs and 147 weapons during its investigations in 2014; and • city police solved 84 percent of juvenile and 57 percent of violent crimes. In other action, the council: • approved final reading of the Community Development Block Grant Entitlement Budget of $298,862 for fiscal year 2015-16; • approved the first reading of a resolution to authorize the mayor to execute agreements for the city with the South Carolina Water Quality Revolving Fund Authority; and • an ordinance declaring the closure of a portion of Maxwell Avenue located between Pocalla Road and Manning Avenue was approved for first reading.

N.Y., Georgia men nabbed in cocaine bust on Interstate 95 BY MATT BRUCE matthew@theitem.com Sumter County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested two out-of-state men after finding more than $32,000 worth of cocaine in their vehicle Tuesday. Joseph Mincey, 26, of Brunswick, Ga, and Jarvis Dubose, 23, of Bronx, N.Y., both face a single count of trafficking cocaine in connection with the incident. Dubose, who was wanted on drug counts by New York City police, was also charged as being a fugitive from justice. Deputies spotted the sus-

pects traveling southbound along Interstate 95 near the 135-mile marker in a Honda CR-V with Georgia license plates. According to a sheriff’s office incident report, the vehicle was traveling about 15 miles under the posted speed limit, and officers observed it veering across the center line and initiated a traffic stop. While officers were questioning the two men, Mincey indicated he had not worked a job in six months and said he went to New York City to work out with his agent in an attempt to play basketball in Brazil. He

identified Dubose as his cousin and told officers he borrowed the car from his grandmother to drive to Georgia. Deputies noted both men appeared to be nervous as they were questioned and asked to search the vehicle. When the driver declined to allow the search, officers called a K-9 unit to the scene. The drug-sniffing dogs gave a positive alert to a black book bag located in the back seat of the SUV. Deputies searched the bag and found two vacuum-sealed packages containing 326 grams of a substance

thought to be cocaine pressed into the shape of hockey pucks. A boot in the back of the vehicle contained a clear bag filled with several small yellow baggies commonly used to package drugs, the report stated. Deputies seized the drugs as well as seven cellphones found in the vehicle. Authorities transported both suspects to Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center, where they remained Wednesday. Records show a judge set Mincey’s bond at $200,000 Wednesday morning. Dubose still awaits his bond issue.

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Co-stars remember Elvis on his 80th birthday BY NICK THOMAS Tinseltown Talks

or many, the title “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” is reserved

for one man: Elvis Presley. Had he lived, Elvis would celebrate his 80th birthday today. In addition to his music, Elvis lives on through a phenomenal number of appearances in scripted motion pictures — 31 in all — beginning with “Love Me Tender” in 1956 and ending 13 years later with “Change of Habit.” Although his films were often dismissed because of weak and predictable scripts, critics generally regarded Elvis as a surprisingly good actor. But what did his co-stars think? In 1966, 10-year-old Donna Butterworth appeared in “Paradise, Hawaiian Style,” the second Elvis film set in Hawaii. “My mom and dad took me to see ‘Blue Hawaii’ when I was just a little girl, and I fell in love with him right then and there,” Butterworth said. “I couldn’t get enough Elvis.” Butterworth recalls filming her first scene on the cliffs of Makapuu on Oahu, running into Elvis’ arms. “I had only met him a few minutes before that,” she recalled. “So when the director called ‘action,’ I ran up and got in his arms, and his face was about 4 inches from my face. After all the anticipation of meeting Elvis Presley and working with him, I just froze. I couldn’t believe I was so close to this beautiful man. All the crew cracked up because they knew I was so enamored. In fact, Elvis laughed the hardest — he just loved to laugh.” Unlike Butterworth, 7-year-

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Marlyn Mason appeared with Elvis Presley in “The Trouble with Girls” in 1969. Mason said Elvis was great to work with. old Susan Olsen wasn’t an Elvis fan when she briefly appeared in the talent contest audition scene in Elvis’ secondto-last film, “The Trouble with Girls” (1969). “I couldn’t understand all the hype over him, and I didn’t even think he was good-looking,” said Olsen, who went on to play youngest daughter Cindy on the popular ’60s TV show “The Brady Bunch.” That changed after their first brief encounter. “I remember that a bunch of the kids’ mothers suddenly started screaming,” Olsen said. “Elvis had come out of his dressing room, and they crowded around him for autographs. So I thought ‘What the heck. I’ll get one, too.’ So I went up to him — and I’m not making this up — when he looked at me I thought, ‘Oh, I get it. I see why they like him so much.’ He had this special aura about him. I was just dumbstruck, I couldn’t say anything. He signed the photo,

Elvis holds 10-year-old Donna Butterworth in a scene from “Paradise, Hawaiian Style.” thoughts about his acting. “The saddest thing Elvis said to me was ‘I’d like to make one good film because I know people in this town laugh at me.’ I’ll never forget that,” she said. “But he was always down to earth and comfortable with himself. Some of that dialogue was so corny, but he managed to bring a realness to it. And I think that’s just how he was in real life. He was a natural comedian, and his timing was just impeccable. I just found him to be a very genuine person.”

handed it to me, and said ‘Here ya go, darling.’” Elvis’ leading lady in “The Trouble with Girls” came away with more than just an autograph. Marlyn Mason snagged an on-screen kiss. “It was a comedy kiss,” Mason said, indicating that the only fireworks were the real ones in the movie scene. She took an unusual approach to get the required reaction from Elvis. Just after the fireworks scene, Elvis comes up behind her and starts rubbing her shoulders. “I just turned around, off camera, and started undoing Elvis’ belt and trousers,” Mason said. “Well, I didn’t get very far because it wasn’t a long scene. Elvis got this funny look on his face, which you can see in the film. He was great fun to work with because I could throw anything at him, and he’d just throw it right back.” She also recalls a private moment when Elvis shared

With each passing decade since his death in 1977 at age 42, the Elvis legend and legacy continue to grow. When viewed in the context of the often zany ’60s TV and film period, it is gratifying that there exists such an extensive film library of the most celebrated entertainer in history. Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama, and has written features, columns and interviews for more than 500 magazines and newspapers.

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House GOP forcing debate on Social Security’s finances

In vitro fertilization risks rare, study says

BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER The Associated Press WASHINGTON — House Republicans want Congress to address the troubled finances of Social Security’s disability program, setting the stage for a contentious debate that could affect 11 million people in the middle of the next presidential campaign. The House has adopted a rule that could force lawmakers to tackle the issue by the end of 2016, when the program is projected to run out of reserves, triggering automatic benefit cuts. An easy fix was available. Congress could have redirected payroll tax revenue from Social Security’s much larger retirement program, as lawmakers have done before. But Tuesday’s new rule blocks such a move, unless as part of a larger plan to improve Social Security’s finances, by either cutting benefits or raising taxes. Tinkering with Social Se-

BY LINDSEY TANNER The Associated Press CHICAGO — Complications are uncommon for women undergoing test-tube fertility procedures. A new 12-year U.S. study shows the most frequent involve drugs used to stimulate ovaries, but it suggests problems are rarely fatal. Over-stimulated ovaries occurred in 154 out of every 10,000 pregnancy attempts; rates of other complications were less than 10 per 10,000 attempts. There were 58 deaths reported during the 2000-11 study. The study lacks information on their causes, and with more than 1 million pregnancy attempts involved, the results are reassuring, said Dr. Jennifer Kawwass, an Emory University assistant professor and the lead author. The study is the first largescale effort to quantify risks for U.S. patients undergoing these treatments, Kawwass said. Results were published in Tuesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.

TREATMENTS STUDIED The researchers examined federally-mandated reports from U.S. fertility clinics. The fancy term for treatments involved is assisted reproductive technology, the shorthand is IVF. It refers to in vitro fertilization — mixing eggs and sperm in a lab dish. Any resulting embryo or embryos are then transferred to the uterus. A type of IVF involving injecting a single sperm into an egg was included in the study. Fertility drugs are used with IVF to stimulate ovaries to produce eggs. High doses can cause swollen ovaries and mild abdominal bloating. Se-

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vere cases may involve persistent pain, substantial weight gain, vomiting and dangerous blood clots. The data includes women using their own eggs and those donating eggs.

MORE ON COMPLICATIONS Deaths included 18 within 12 weeks of starting fertility drugs — suggesting the drugs might have played a role. The other 40 deaths occurred later, suggesting pregnancy-related complications might have been involved. Eighteen of these women were carrying twins, triplets or more. The reports don’t list exact causes of death. Rates for over-stimulated ovaries didn’t change during the study but rates for other medicine side-effects and hos-

pitalizations declined. Stable rates were seen for other problems, including infections, bleeding and anesthesia complications. Complications were most rare in donors, who typically are healthy young women, and none died.

WHAT EXPERTS SAY Dr. Richard Paulson, vice president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said many complications and deaths could have been from underlying conditions causing infertility, rather than the treatments. Doctors in recent years have limited the number of embryos transferred, to reduce chances for unsafe multiple births. Paulson, also director of the University of Southern California’s fertility program, said the move could lead to a decline in some complications including those related to over-stimulated ovaries. Dr. Jamie Grifo, director of New York University’s fertility center, noted that about 2 percent of U.S. babies are born from IVF, and said the study confirms that risks facing women undergoing the procedure are small.

curity never has been easy, and factoring in electionyear politics makes finding votes even harder for those alternatives. Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., said he sponsored the provision to prevent Congress from “raiding” the retirement fund to prop up the disability program. Reed said lawmakers are working on proposals to bolster the disability program’s finances, but that taking tax money from the retirement program is “a short-term Band-Aid.” “We need to do better than that,” Reed said. Added the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.: “We just want to make sure we improve the integrity of the Social Security trust fund all across the board.” Advocates for older Americans say the rule could be used to help push through benefit cuts, especially because House Republicans have opposed raising taxes.

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Army widow Aimee Wriglesworth is seen next to a display of some of her late husband’s awards and artifacts in her home in Bristow, Virginia, on Dec. 16. Wriglesworth lost her husband, an Army major, to cancer in 2013. A stuffed animal, below, wearing the dog tags of the late Army Major Chad Wriglesworth sits on the chair where he died in Bristow, Virginia. AP FILE PHOTOS

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ing what these families need,” he said. “Recognizing the need will allow us to make better policy recommendations as to what sort of servic-

ilies share much in common with other grieving families, there are distinctive aspects to many military deaths. Whether in combat or by accident or suicide, they often occur suddenly, and many of the deceased are in their 20s or 30s. “These are young families — a lot of single parents raising kids alone,” said Harrington. “When someone dies young, there’s a loss of the future. How do you live with that loss in your life?” Some insight on that question will be provided by the roughly 100 children, ages 6 to 18, who are participating in the study. Most are the sons

or daughters of deceased service members; a few are younger siblings. “Many of these children, when their parent died, were very young and didn’t know them well,” said Cozza. According to preliminary findings, he said, a factor helping them weather the loss was having pride in their departed parent’s military service. The website for the study encourages bereaved parents to let their children participate while acknowledging that the one-on-one interviews, lasting 90 minutes to three hours, cover sensitive matters.

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ith his wife and child close at hand, Army Maj. Chad Wriglesworth battled skin cancer for more than a year before dying at age 37. “It was long and painful and awful,” said Aimee Wriglesworth, who thinks the cancer resulted from exposure to toxic fumes in Iraq. Yet the 28-year-old widow from Bristow, Virginia, seized a chance to recount the ordeal and its aftermath to a researcher, hoping that input from her and her 6-year-old daughter might be useful to other grieving military families. “To be able to study what we felt and what we’re going through — maybe this will help people down the line,” Wriglesworth said. By the hundreds, other widows, widowers, parents, siblings and children are sharing accounts of their grief as part of the largest study ever of America’s military families as they go through bereavement. About 2,000 people have participated during the past three years, and one-on-one interviews will continue through February. The federally funded project is being conducted by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Marylandbased Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The study is open to families of the more than 19,000 service members from all branches of the military who have died on active duty since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, regardless of whether the death resulted from combat, accident, illness, suicide or other causes. “We’ve been impressed by how many people who’ve had this experience really want to let us know about it,” said the leader of the study, Dr. Stephen Cozza. “They want to talk about what happened — to provide information that will help them and people like them in the future.” Aimee Wriglesworth is hopeful that the study will provide new insight on how best to support young families like hers. “A lot of things that are helping us now come from Vietnam, Korea, World War II,” she said of existing assistance programs. “But now it’s a whole new world of military losses. Studying us is really important.” About half of the participants are providing saliva samples that will be used for genetic research, aimed at determining if certain genetic makeups correlate with the duration of the grieving process and the levels of stress and depression experienced as it unfolds. Some previous research has suggested that a certain gene variation is associated with greater risk of “complicated grief,” especially in women. Cozza said a final report isn’t expected until 2017, and he is encouraging more survivors to sign up for interviews before the cutoff date in late February. “Our interest is understand-

es would be appropriate for them.” The questionnaires and face-to-face interviews are being handled by eight field researchers based in regions spanning the country. Jill Harrington, the senior field researcher, said the team members are experienced in dealing with grief and wellversed in military culture. “For the families of the fallen, whoever they talk to, they want to be able to trust,” Harrington said. “We have a highly trained group of folks who know how to listen and how to be patient.” While bereaved military fam-

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device on his ankle upon release. Ridgill’s arrest came two days after 43-year-old Joseph Lloyd Henderson Sr. and his 20-year-old namesake were arrested. The elder suspect faces an assault charge and was released from jail Tuesday. Henderson Jr. faces a count of attempted murder in connection with the case as he was reportedly driving the 1993 Chevrolet pickup truck when it struck and dragged the victim. The duo contend they were trying to escape an onslaught from the rival family. According to incident reports, Gainey was the chief rabble-rouser helping to escalate tensions Sunday. She allegedly initiated the confrontation when she tried to pepper spray Henderson Jr. and his brother at the Food Lion. She was also part of the convoy that followed the

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Fire strikes twice in Clarendon County BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Clarendon County Fire Department had a busy evening Sunday. “We had two structure fires,” said Chief Frances Richbourg. “Just as we were cleaning up the RICHBOURG first, the second call came in.” The first fire was on Nicole Road in Buckhorn Subdivision just after 6 p.m., she said. “The garage was fully involved when we arrived,” Richbourg said. “It was working its way quickly into

the attic space.” She said firefighters were able to bring the fire under control but not before the house was “a total loss.” Two adults and two children were displaced by the fire, Richbourg said. “They lost a lot of the contents,” she said. Damage to the structure was estimated at $152,000. “Their insurance company is working with them on that,” she said. The second fire involved a singlewide mobile home on Doughty Road in the Davis Station area. “It was a pot on the stove,” Richbourg said. “He tried to fight the fire himself, but it got away from him.”

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS TURBEVILLE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL LEAGUES Applications for the Turbeville baseball and softball leagues will be accepted from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays through Fridays at Town Hall or from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m Saturdays at Smith Field through Jan. 30. For more information, call (843) 659-2781 or (843) 6593030.

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BOYS TO MEN: BREAKING BREAD TO BE HELD JAN. 17

Join the City of Manning in honoring Martin Luther King Jr. with a Day of Service. Help in a litter pick-up beginning at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 19. Meet in the parking lot of 102 S. Mill St., County Judicial Center. Bags and gloves will be provided. Contact Carrie Trebil at (803) 435-8477 for more information.

The Youth Ministry of St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in Pinewood will sponsor the “Boys to Men: Breaking Bread” program at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17. The ministry encourages all parents to bring their young men out to take part in this mentoring program. Adults and young women are also welcome. Refreshments will be served.

The Clarendon County Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual retreat Jan. 16-18 at the Embassy Suites in Savannah, Georgia, sponsored by SAFE Federal Credit Union. For more information, call the chamber at (803) 435-4405.

LIBRARY PROGRAM WILL FOCUS ON HEALTH CARE An additional discussion on the Affordable Care Act with guest speaker Carrie Sinkler-Parker will be held at Harvin Clarendon County Library at 6 p.m. Monday. The program is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. For more information, call (803) 435-8633.

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The Red Cross also offers counseling and emotional support for fire victims, she said, as well as assistance with eyeglasses and life-sustaining medications. “We try to help them get back on their feet,” Cataldo said. Victims in Clarendon, CATALDO Lee, Kershaw and Sumter counties can call (803) 7752363 during the day locally or 1-800-REDCROSS (922-4469) after hours for assistance. A fund to assist fire victims has been established at the Bank of Clarendon. For more information, call (803) 433-4451.

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pre-registration for the 201516 school year from 8 a.m. to noon on Jan. 20, 21 and 22, in Room 20 of the school. Parents are asked to bring proof of residency (utility or cable bill), current immunization record and birth certificate (not the hospital copy) to registration. For additional information, call Ruby Simmons, guidance counselor, at (843) 659-2102.

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She said the mobile home was not a total loss but suffered damage in the kitchen and smoke damage throughout the home. The residents have been put in touch with the Red Cross, Richbourg said. “I don’t think they will be staying there until they clean up and do repairs in the kitchen,” she said. Nancy Cataldo of the Sandhills Chapter of the American Red Cross said the organization can offer a variety of assistance to fire victims, depending on the severity of the fire. “We provide financial assistance for clothes, food and medical needs,” she said. “We can also provide vouchers for housing.”

MANNING YOUTH COUNCIL ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS The Manning Youth Council is now accepting applications. Applicants must be Clarendon County residents attending Laurence Manning Academy or Manning High School or home-schooled students in grades 9 through 12. The Youth Council will serve Manning by planning and implementing social, educational, recreational and other activities for the youth and community. Students will also learn about city government in a fun environment. For more information and to obtain an application, contact City Hall at (803) 435-8477.

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Clarendon School District 2 to issue tablets BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Clarendon School District 2 will be assigning MacBook Air laptops and iPad Minis as part of its one-to-one technology learning initiative through the Carolina Consortium of Enterprise Learning. Tonia Smith, Clarendon School District 2 grants administrator and coordinator of special projects, said the consortium grew out of the district’s selection as one of three districts to receive the Race to the Top Award. The three districts formed the consortium through a collaborative agreement, she said. “The award is a large part of our one-to-one computer learning initiative,” she said. Smith said the devices will enhance the ability of students and teachers to coordinate their work. Teachers will be able to monitor students’ work in the classroom to see if they are staying on task or experiencing any difficulties with a particular assignment. “They will help the students stay more engaged,” she said. Smith said the computer learning project will help the district keep up with larger, better-financed school districts.

“We are a small, rural district, and this will put us on the same playing field,” she said. In order for a student to receive a device, a parent or guardian must attend one of the following meetings explaining the district’s acceptable use policy, how the devices will be used and proper care of the devices. • 6 p.m. today, Manning High School Lecture Hall, 2155 Paxville Highway; • 6 p.m. Monday, Manning Early Childhood Center, 2759 Raccoon Road; • 6 p.m. Tuesday, Manning Primary School, 125 N. Boundary St.; • 6 p.m. Wednesday, Manning Elementary School, 311 W. Boyce St.; • 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, Manning Junior High School, 1101 W.L. Hamilton Road; or • 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, Manning High School, 2155 Paxville Highway. Meetings will be available all day Friday, Jan. 16, at a location to be announced. A $50 user fee is required for each student device issued for students at all schools except Manning Early Childhood Center, which will require a $25 user fee. For more information, contact Tonia Mallett Smith, at (803) 433-7233 or tmsmith@csd2. org.

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4:51 p.m. Dec. 30, 2014: Officers responded to a report of a shoplifting in progress at Walmart. The suspect was described as driving a black Honda and was reported turning right onto Paxville Highway. A responding officer observed a small black car on Paxville Highway in front of Manning High School and two other vehicles matching the description. The officer initiated a traffic stop on one of the vehicles. The vehicle entered and exited the Shoney’s parking lot without stopping and headed toward Interstate 95. The officer pursued the vehicle on Crossroads Church Road and Old Georgetown Road before allowing officers from Clarendon County Sheriff’s Department to take over the pursuit, which entered Sumter County. CCSD officers advised the responding officer a suspect was in custody and requested transport. During inventory of the vehicle, officers reported finding a spoon with a white residue that appeared to be cocaine, as well as the items reportedly taken from Walmart. Ernest Sidney Shepherd, 55, 846 S. Harvin St., Manning, was charged with shoplifting and possession of cocaine.

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3:42 p.m. Jan. 3: An officer was dispatched to the 400 block of West Huggins Street in reference to a report of domestic violence. A woman at the scene said her husband had grabbed her by the throat and pushed her down on the couch. The officer reported that further investigation revealed the woman was the principal aggressor. Rosa Mae Parker, 43, 401 W. Huggins St., was arrested for criminal domestic violence and transported to Clarendon County Detention Center.

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9:45 a.m. Jan. 2: A deputy responded to the 1400 block of Motel Street in reference to a burglary. A man reported he went to Phoenix Charter High School to wax floors and noticed the door to the building was ajar and the windows were broken out. An officer noticed items thrown about the hallways and in a classroom and vulgar statements written on the dry-erase boards. A Lenovo All-In-One computer was reported missing from one classroom, and a 14-inch monitor was missing from another. Missing items were valued at $2,650. 7:50 p.m. Jan. 5: A deputy was dispatched to the 1000 block of Ponce Street in Pinewood in reference to a burglary. She said she left at 6:30 a.m. and her children left at 11 a.m., and everything was in place. When she returned in the evening, she said the curtain rod in her son’s bedroom window was bent and hanging off the wall. She said $500 in coins and bills wrapped in a pillow case was missing from her closet. Her daughter said her jewelry box was missing as well. No forced entry appeared to have been made. Missing items were valued at $525.

Autumn is a female, domestic shorthair calico with a half-orange face. She is 2 months old, current on her shots and is scheduled to be spayed on Jan. 16. She came in with her siblings Pumpkin, Garfield, Oreo and Sara. All kittens under 6 months old can be adopted for $65 until the end of January. Barney is a 2-year-old male black, brown and white Chihuahua mix who has been neutered. He is a little shy but loves to be petted and gets along with other dogs and cats. He was found roaming the roads. The adoption fee is $125 and includes current shots, heartworm test and neutering. Meet Autumn, Barney and many other cats and dogs at A Second Chance Animal Shelter, 5079 Alex Harvin Highway (U.S. 301). Adoption hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. To drop off an animal, call (803) 473-7075 for an appointment. If you’ve lost a pet, check www.ccanimalcontrol.webs.com and www.ASecondChanceAnimalShelter.com.

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Friday, March 20, 2015 - Andrew Thielen Band - An Evening with the Rat Pack Enjoy an evening with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and hear the classics like “You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You and New York, New York”. A fun twist to the evening will be a Best Dressed Couple Contest - in traditional 1960’s era clothing.

Friday, April 10, 2015 - Men of Distinction Beach and dance music at its finest. A huge hit in 2014 and coming back to Cypress after 5 by popular fan vote! High energy, great show and terrific music.

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HEALTH BENEFITS OF DIETS • Weight control: Vegetarians maintain a healthier body weight than non-vegetarians. • Blood pressure: Vegetarians with the appropriate body weight can help to maintain a healthy blood pressure and a diet low in total fat and saturated fat and high in fiber, fruits and vegetables. • Coronary artery disease: Vegetarians suffer less than meat eaters from diseases of the heart and arteries. The dietary factor most directly related to coronary artery disease is saturated fat. When vegetarians are fed meat which contains saturated fat, their blood lipid changed for the worse; when meat eaters are fed a low-fat diet, their blood lipids and blood improve. Semi-vegetarians who eat one to three servings of meat per week have blood lipids between the low blood lipids of vegetarians and the higher lipids of non-vegetarians. • Cancer: Some research findings indicate that vegetarian diets are associated not only with lower cancer mortality, but also with lower incidence of cancers such as colon cancer. When vegetarians are plan-

ning their diet, keep in mind a variety of foods that will deliver all the needed nutrients within an energy allowance that maintains a healthy body weight. Vegetarian adults should include at least 1 cup of dark green vegetables daily to help meet iron needs and legumes to help meet zinc needs also; the intake of the main nutrients will help with the lack of iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin B12 and vitamin D. Nutrients abundant in plant food include thiamin, riboflavin, folate and vitamins B6, C, A and E. Keep in mind, too, that diet is only one factor influencing health. Whatever a diet consists of, its context is also important: No smoking; alcohol consumption in moderation, if at all; regular physical activity; adequate rest;

Summons & Notice SUMMONS IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2014-CP-14-523 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CLARENDON Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. Plaintiff, -vsRoland L. Benoit (deceased), The Estate of May E. Benoit , Brandon Benoit individually and as personal representative of The Estate of May E. Benoit, The Estate of Jeannette Ann Benoit, Brandon Benoit individually and as personal representative of The Estate of Jeanette Ann Benoit, Tuomey Regional Medical Center, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, and any and all persons claiming any right, title, estate or interest in real estate described in the Complaint any unknown adults being as a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants or persons under disability being as a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendant(s)

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YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1640 St. Julian Place, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after 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 answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for a judgment by default granting the relief demanded in the Complaint. 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) RESIDE(S), AND/OR TO PERSON UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY, INCOMPETENTS AND PERSONS CONFINED:

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Carolina, containing 28.68 acres, more or less, with the exception of the 2.44 acre portion being know as Lot 6 as designated on a plat of Wilson subdivision prepared by Thomas B. Richardson, SCPLS No. 8612, dated August 15, 1998 and recorded in the Office of The RMC for Clarendon County in Plat Book A45, page 3; said lot having such size, shape, metes, courses, and distances as will by reference to said plat more fully appear. This being the same property, less lot 6, conveyed to William L. Wilson by deed of E. W. Odom dated June 2, 1998 and recorded June 2, 1998 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Clarendon County in Book A0347, at Page 275; a portion designated as Lot 6 of said property was then conveyed to Roland L. Benoit and Mary E. Benoit by deed of William L. Wilson dated May 10, 2005 and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Clarendon County at Book A0571 at page 290 which incorrectly described Lot 6 as consisting of the entire 28.68 acres as opposed to it being a portion of said acreage. This deed is for the purpose of clarifying that the property described in the deed found in Book A0571 at page 290 was not the entire 28.68 acres, but only a portion of this acreage designated as Lot 6.

EXHIBIT "A" All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land lying, being and situate in the County of Clarendon, State of South

LESS All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the County of Clarendon, State of South Carolina and being set forth and shown as Lot 6 containing 2.44 acres, more or less, designated as Lot 6 on a Plat of Wilson Sub-Division 28.68 acres total, prepared by Thomas B. Richardson, SCPLS No 8612, dated August 15, 1998 and recorded in the Office of the RMC for Clarendon County in Plat Book A45, Page 3; said lot having such size, shape, metes, courses, and distances and will by

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Being the same property conveyed to Roland L. Benoit and May E. Benoit by deed dated May 10, 2005 and being recorded May 17, 2005 in Book A0571 at Page 290. See also Corrective deed filed February 9, 2007 and being recorded in Book A0648 at Page 00235. See also Corrective deed filed March 12, 2007 and being recorded in Book A0652 at Page 00007.

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

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint in the above-captioned action were filed on November 3, 2014, in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Clarendon County, South Carolina.

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action involving real property known as 2524 Bill Davis Rd., Manning, SC 29102, in which you may have an interest, has been commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Clarendon County, South Carolina and that, by Order of the Clerk of Court filed therein on December 19, 2014, Kelley Yarborough Woody, Esquire has been appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for all minors and persons under legal disability as a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants herein.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in this Court upon the Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Roland L. Benoit and May E. Benoit to Ardent Mortgage Company, LLC dated May 9, 2005, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Clarendon County on May 17, 2005 at 1:45 PM in Book 629 at Page 52 The premises covered and affected by the said mortgage and the foreclosure thereof, were, at the time of making thereof and at the time of the filing of the Lis Pendens, as described on the attached Exhibit "A".

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FLU FROM PAGE A1 said. “Tamiflu has been a little hard to come by in pharmacies around the state. Patients report to us that they’ve been out of it intermittently.” Patients have also told Hartwick’s staff which pharmacies have it, have run out or have it on back order. The pharmacy at Sumter Family Health Center still has the pediatric liquid form, but the adult capsules are not available, said Nick Tomlinson, director of pharmacy at the center. At one point, Alderman Drug Co. and Medical Supplies also only had the liquid form, said Nikki Cross, pharmacist, as Tamiflu was in high demand right before Christmas. While other antiviral medications are on the market, she said, most

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health care providers don’t write prescriptions for them. Many are older and require taking the medication more frequently and over a longer period. “Tamiflu is a lot more convenient for patients than other offerings,” Cross said. A pharmacist for the past 11 years, she said this is the most active flu season she’s seen in the last two or three years. “The flu shot makes a big difference in the severity of it,” Cross said, noting that the vaccinations now contain more than one strain of the virus. But even after the flu medicine is gone, sometimes the individual is still sick or gets a secondary infection. Cross has seen a lot of colds and upper respiratory infections, she said, and Hartwick said she’s seen upper respiratory infections and bronchitis.

McFarland said they have seen breathing difficulties and pain associated with the flu as well as some commingled issues such as a stomach bug on top of the flu. “I feel we’re out of the woods,” he said. “I’m cautiously optimistic. But kids are returning to school. They’ll be swapping germs and taking things home with them they might not otherwise be exposed to. I anticipate a spike in the flu in a week or two.” The figures have improved so far, according to Shelly Galloway, spokeswoman for Sumter School District. The week before winter break, Dec. 15 through Dec. 19, the average number of students out two consecutive days for flu-like symptoms or other medical concerns were 748 in the elementary schools, 263 in the middle schools and 241 in

the high schools. The first two days back, this past Monday and Tuesday, an average of 144 elementary children, 55 middle school students and 101 high schoolers missed both days for medical reasons. Prevention is key, said Patti Trzcinski, a pediatric nurse practitioner with Sumter Family Health Center. It’s not too late to get the flu shot. She also recommended practicing good hand washing and wiping down surfaces such as grocery carts. If your child is sick, don’t send him or her to school, Trzcinski said. Do monitor the child for worsening symptoms, make sure the child gets plenty of rest, and encourage the child to drink plenty of fluids. If symptoms do worsen, contact your health care provider.

doctor can give you more information about these drugs. • When should anti-viral drugs be taken for treatment? Studies show that flu antiviral drugs work best for treatment when they are started within two days of getting sick. However, starting them later can still be helpful, especially if the sick

person has a high-risk health condition or is very sick from the flu. Follow instructions for taking these drugs. • How long should anti-viral drugs be taken? To treat the flu, Tamiflu and Relenza are usually prescribed for five days, but people hospitalized with the flu may need the medicine

for longer. • Can children and pregnant women take anti-viral drugs? Yes. Tamiflu is approved for the treatment of influenza for individuals ages 2 weeks and older. Relenza is approved for the treatment of influenza of individuals ages 7 years and older. Source: www.cdc.gov

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Sumter Seventh-Day Adventist 103 N Pike West 775-4455 Pastor Harry Robinson Sat. Sch: 9:15 am, Worship: 11:00 am Tues Bible Study 7 pm www.sumter22.adventistchurchconnect.org

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Anglican Church of the Holy Cross 335 North Kings Hwy (Hwy 261 N) 803-494-8101 Father Michael E. Ridgill, C.F.S.B. Sunday School 9:00 am Mass 10:00 am

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inter scenes are beautiful, but the cold weather sometimes brings unpleasant surprises, like frostbite or frozen pipes. A little preparation can save a lot of aggravation and prevent a lot of damage. Life can bring unpleasant surprises, too. Unwelcome events can cause frustration and resentment that freeze out the warmth in our hearts. How can we ensure our spiritual survival? Prepare ahead of time at your house of worship. Find the warmth and understanding to keep your spirit aglow in all seasons. You will survive and thrive with God’s love.

Mon. - Thurs. Chapel 9 am Morning Prayer Wed. Chapel 11:00 qm - Bible Study 12 pm Mass

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Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church 803 S Harvin St. * 775-4032 Marion H Newton, Pastor Sunday Worship: 7:45 & 10:45 am Sunday Youth Service: 10:45 am Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 pm

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Weekly Scripture Reading Psalm Mark Mark 72 3:1-19 3:20-35

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City of Refuge Church 16 Carolina Ave 938-9066 Barbara & Johnny Davis Sun School 10:00 am Worship 11:15 am Bible Study (Wed.) 7:00 pm www.cityofrefugeministry.com Spiritual Life Christian Center 4672 Broad St. Ext • 968-5771 Pastors Randolph & Minerva Paige Sunday Worship: 11:00 am Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 pm

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Hickory Road Baptist Church 1245 Cherryvale Dr 803-494-8281 Dr. Ron Taylor Pastor Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 10:55 am

Salem Missionary Baptist Church 320 West Fulton Street 803-775-8054 Rev. Lei Ferguson Washington Sun. School 9:00 am Praise Worship 9:55 am Worship 10:00 am

Long Branch Baptist Church 2535 Peach Orchard Rd. Dalzell 499-1838 www.longbranch_baptist.com Rev. Brian Benenhaley Sun School 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am Sun Evening Worship 6:00 pm Wed Mid Week Service 7:00 pm

Baptist - Southern Grace Baptist Church 219 W Calhoun St * 778-6417 Dr. Stephen Williams S.S. 9:45 am; Worship 11:00 am Evening Worship/Bible Study 6:30 pm Wed. Prayer Meeting 6:30 pm Wed. Bible Study: 6:30 pm

Shaw Heights Baptist Church 2030 Peach Orchard Rd 499-4997 Rev. Robert White Pastor Sunday School: 9:45 am Sunday Worship:11 am & 6 pm

Catholic - Roman

The Catholic Community of Sumter, St. Anne Site 216 E Liberty St • 803-773-3524 Fr. Thomas Burke, C.S.S.R. Weekend Masses: Sat Vigil 5 pm Sun. 7:30, 9:00 and 11:30 am Mass The Catholic Community of Sumter, St. Jude Site 611 W. Oakland Ave • 773-9244 www.stjudesumtersc.org Fr. Charles Michael Donovan, C.S.S.R. Saturday Vigil: 5:00 pm Sun. Euch.: 9:00, 11:30 am, 1 pm (Spanish)

Victory Full Gospel Interdenominational Church 601 Pitts Rd • 481-7003 Joann P. Murrill, Pastor Sunday Worship: 11:00 am Youth Bible Study/Respect Monday: 7 pm

Aldersgate United Methodist 211 Alice Dr • 775-1602 Dr. Webb Belangia, Reverend Traditional Service 9:00 am Sunday School 10:15 am Contemporary 11:15 am

St James Lutheran Church 1137 Alice Dr, Sumter 773-2260 / www.stjamessumter.org Pastor Keith Getz Sunday Worship: 10:00 am Sunday School: 9:00 am

Lutheran - NALC

Calvary Christian Outreach Ministry 220 Hasel Street, Sumter, SC (ACADEMIC Learning Center) Sunday Worship 11:00 am LaShonda McElveen, Pastor

Presbyterian USA First Presbyterian Church of Sumter 9 W Calhoun St (at Main St.) (803) 773-3814 • info@fpcsumter.org Interim Pastor Rev. Ray Fancher Sunday School (all ages) 9:30 a.m. Hospitality/Fellowship 10:10 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. 4:45 p.m. Children & Youth 5:00 p.m. Adults 6:30 p.m. Supper (all ages)

Sumter Bible Church 420 South Pike West, Sumter 803-773-8339 • Pastor Ron Davis Sunday School 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am & 6:30 pm Wed. Bible Study & Prayer 7:00 pm

St John United Methodist Church 136 Poinsett Dr * 803-773-8185 www.stjohnumcsumter.com Rev. J. Robert (Bob) Huggins Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 11:00 am Wed. Night Supper/Bible Study 6:30 pm

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men had links to a Yemeni terrorist network. Witnesses of the attackers’ escape through Paris said one claimed allegiance to al-Qaida in Yemen. Both al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have repeatedly threatened to attack France, which is conducting airstrikes against extremists in Iraq and fighting Islamic militants in Africa. President Francois Hollande said it was a terrorist act “of exceptional barbarism,” adding that other attacks have been thwarted in France in recent weeks. Fears have been running high in France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq will stage attacks at home. In a somber address to the nation Wednesday night, Hollande pledged to hunt down the killers and pleaded with his compatriots to come together in a time of insecurity and suspicion. “Let us unite, and we will win,” he said. “Vive la France!” France raised its security alert to the highest level and reinforced protective measures at houses of worship, stores, media offices and transportation.

Greater St. Paul Church 200 Watkins Street 803-778-1355 Sunday School - 10:30 am Worship - 11:30 am Evangelistic Service 7:30 pm Wed. Mid Week Service - 7:30 pm

Bethel United Methodist Church 5575 Lodebar Rd • 469-2452 Rev. Jeremy Howell Sunday Worship: 8:30 & 11 am Sunday School: 10 am www.yourbethel.org BMethodist@ftc-i.net

Trinity United Methodist Church 226 W Liberty St • 773-9393 Rev. Steve Holler Blended Worship 8:45 am Traditional Worship 11:00 am Sunday School 9:45 am trinityumcsumter.org

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First Church of God 1835 Camden Rd • 905-5234 www.sumterfcg.org Ron Bower, Pastor Sunday Worship: 10:30 am Sunday School: 9:30 am

Church of Christ Methodist - United Plaza Church of Christ 1402 Camden Hwy. • 905-3163 Stewart Schnur cell 361-8449 Sunday School: 10 am Sunday Worship: 11 am & 6 pm Wed. Bible Class: 7 pm

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Presbyterian Lemira Presbyterian Church 514 Boulevard Rd • 473-5024 Pastor Dan Rowton Sunday School 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am Bible Study 6:00 pm

First United Penecostal Church 14 Plowden Mill Rd • 775-9493 Pastor Theron Smith Sunday Service: 10:00 am & 6:30 pm Wednesday Bible Study: 7:30 pm Sumter First Pentecostal Holiness Church 2609 McCrays Mill Rd • 481-8887 S. Paul Howell, Pastor Sunday School: 10:00 am Sunday Worship: 10:45 am & 6:00 pm Wed. Bible Study/Youth Group: 7:00 pm

Christ Community Church(CCC) 525 Oxford St, Sumter 803-934-9718 Sun. Worship 10:00 am (Patriot Hall)

Immanuel Lutheran Church 140 Poinsett Drive • 803-883-1049 Pastor Gary Blobaum Worship Service 9:00 am Sunday School 10:30 am Wed Bible Class: 7:00 pm

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Pope picks 15 new cardinals BY FRANCES D’EMILIO The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis named 15 new cardinals Sunday, selecting them from 14 nations including farflung corners of the world such as Tonga, New Zealand, Cape Verde and Myanmar, to reflect the diversity of the church and its growth in places such as Asia and Africa, compared to affluent regions. Other cardinals hail from Ethiopia, Thailand and Vietnam. None came from the United States and only three European nations received new cardinals — Portugal and Spain, in addition to Italy. Cape Verde, Tonga and Myanmar gained cardinals for the first time. Francis told faithful in St. Peter’s Square that the new batch of cardinals “shows the inseparable tie with the church of Rome to churches in the world.” Five new cardinals come from Europe; three from Asia; three from Latin America, including Mexico; and two each come from Africa and Oceania. With his picks, the Argentine-born Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, made ever clearer that he is laying out a new vision of the AP FILE PHOTO church’s identity, including of Pope Francis named 15 new cardinals on Sunday, including Francesco its hierarchy. He looked beyond traditional metropolitan Montenegro, foreground, selecting them from 14 nations, including area for the “princes of the far-flung corners of the world such as Tonga, New Zealand, Cape church” who will help advise Verde and Myanmar, to reflect the diversity of the church and its him as goes forward with growth in places such as Asia and Africa.

church reforms. Cardinals also elect his successor. He has said repeatedly that the church must reach out to those on the margins. The Vatican’s chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the selection “confirms that the pope doesn’t feel tied to the traditional ‘cardinal sees,’ which reflected historic reasons in various countries.” “Instead we have various nominations of archbishops or bishops of sees in the past that wouldn’t have had a cardinal,” Lombardi said. The pontiff ignored another tradition: limiting to 120 the number of cardinals under 80 and eligible to vote for his successor. Counting the new cardinals, 125 cardinals will eligible to vote, although Lombardi noted, “he kept very close to it (120), so it was substantially respected.” The two nations with the biggest number of eligible electors are Italy, with 26, and the United States with 11. Notable among Pope Francis’ picks are churchmen whose advocacy styles seem to particularly capture matters dear to his heart. Monsignor Francesco Montenegro, a Sicilian, was at his side when Francis made his first trip a few months into his papacy. Montenegro welcomed the pontiff to Lampedusa, a tiny Sicilian island whose people have helped thousands of migrants stranded by smugglers. The pontiff has repeat-

edly denounced human trafficking and urged more attention to people on the margins of society. He also has thundered against Mafiosi, and Montenegro’s Agrigento diocese includes towns where people have dared to rebel against Cosa Nostra. The only native English-language speaker chosen by Francis is Archbishop John Atcherley Dew of Wellington, New Zealand. Summing up his own intervention at last year’s Vatican conference on controversial family issues, including gay marriage and divorced Catholics, Dew has said the church must change its language to give “hope and encouragement.” The archdiocese of Morelia, Mexico, has its first cardinal: Alberto Suarez Inda. The archbishop, who turns 76 this month, has helped mediate political conflicts and kidnappings in one of Mexico’s most violence-plagued states. Francis also bestowed the honor on five churchmen older than 80, including men from the pope’s native Argentina, Mozambique and Colombia. Speaking from a Vatican window to a crowd in St. Peter’s Square, Francis made another surprise announcement. He said that on Feb. 12-13, he will lead of meeting of all cardinals to “reflect on the orientations and proposals for the reform of the Roman Curia,” the Vatican’s administrative bureaucracy.

Stricken speechless, one’s ears, and heart, are opened

scratchy throat the Monday before Christmas reduced my voice to a caustic whisper by Christmas Eve. The illness was exacerbated by the fact that others couldn’t hear me when I tried to explain my affliction. “I’ve lost my voice,” I would whisper-shout. “WHAT?” the person would say as if I had also gone deaf. By Christmas morning, I was miming all communication. No matter how many cough drops I consumed, I wouldn’t be able to converse with rarely seen friends and family aside from my frantic hand gestures. But that was all I had, so we tried to make do. My husband served as my interpreter and briefed everyone on my predicament. We only had one miscommunication: when he translated my request to get a bag out of the other room as my desperate need to use the restroom, but I digress.

The whole of my contribution in any conversation I held was the act of listening, which afforded me an opportunity that a vocallyendowed Jamie normally doesn’t have. To actually hear what the person was saying. Normally, as someone is speaking I’m distracted because I’m preparing Faith Matters my next statement in my head. I’m choosJAMIE H. ing my vocabulary or WILSON sorting through my inventory of anecdotes — maybe even figuring a way to slip in a backdoor brag. I don’t possess a huge cache of talents and gifts, so I like to think I’m at least well-spoken. Yet, stripped of my speaking abilities, I quickly realized that my communication skills were lacking. For

years I had been carrying on conversations without listening to the other person. Now, I heard the subtle changes in inflection as a person described the joy of a grandson’s arrival. I caught the slight quiver in a relative’s voice speaking of an ailing friend. It was incredibly convicting. As I intently listened to my closest friends and family during the holidays, I actually began to hear them for the first time in years. What’s more, no one mentioned that they missed what, I thought, were my well-worded anecdotes, my clever asides, my acerbic summations. When it came time for me to respond to someone, I had to look into their eyes and try to convey what I felt in just a few words, which made me consider those words more carefully. After receiving a gift, an embrace filled the void left by my vocalization of “thankyou.”

In Scripture, a priest named Zechariah was stricken speechless because he doubted God’s plan. I sympathized. Zechariah immediately started listing his excuses when he received God’s message. As a priest, speaking would have been chief among his responsibilities, yet he was left to just listen. I couldn’t help but wonder if part of the reason God took his voice was because he had an impulse to speak instead of listen. I think God was trying to teach me the same lesson. My voice came back shortly after Christmas and along with it a new desire to listen more to those around me. I think on some level we all have some sort of pressure of speech, which is why so many of us speak without pausing to listen. It’s only when we stop to consider how God can use our words that we truly say what others need to hear. Email Jamie H. Wilson at faithmatterssumter@gmail.com.

CHURCH NEWS Bethel AME Church, 219 E. Calhoun St., announces: * Saturday, Jan. 24 — Dedication of the new sanctuary / cornerstone laying at noon. Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 8749 Old Highway Six, Santee, announces: * Sunday, Jan. 18 — Martin Luther King observance and administration of the Lord’s Supper at 10 a.m. Community Church of Praise, 565 S. Pike Road, announces: * Friday-Saturday, Jan. 30-31 — Prayer Conference as follows: 7 p.m. Friday, Donna Jackson of St. Matthews AME Church, Lynchburg, will speak; and 8:30 a.m. Saturday, workshops, Pastor Dorothy Maple will speak. Concord Baptist Church, 1885 Myrtle Beach Highway, announces: * Saturday, Jan. 17 — Gospel concert at 6 p.m. featuring The Achormen, Jason Funderburk, Dennis Benton and The Believers Quarter. A love offering will be received. Faith Missionary Baptist Church No. 1, 115 Laurel St., announces: * Beginning Today — “Marriage and the church” Bible study at 7 p.m. each Thursday during the month of January. * Sunday, Jan. 18 — Dr. Otis Butler Jr. will speak at 3 p.m. at House of Deliverance Ministry, Florence. * Sunday, Jan. 25 — Pastor’s Aide program at 2 p.m. at God Is In the House Ministry. Dr.

Otis Butler Jr. will speak. First Baptist Missionary Church, 219 S. Washington St., announces: * Sunday, Jan. 18 — Sixth pastoral anniversary celebration for Pastor and Mrs. George P. Windley Jr. at 11 a.m. The Rev. Carolyn Windley Braxton, pastor of St. Peter Baptist Church, Myrtle Beach, will speak. Golden Gate Fellowship Ministry, 705 Oswego Road, announces: * Sunday, Jan. 18 — The ninth church anniversary will be celebrated at 4 p.m. High Hills AME Church, 6780 Meeting House Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday, Jan. 18 — “Keeping the Dream Alive” 200 men in black program at 5 p.m. The Rev. Ronnie Brailsford will speak. Immanuel Lutheran Church, colocated with St. John United Methodist Church, 140 Poinsett Drive, announces: * Monday, Jan. 12 — Pastor Matthew Riak, a missionary from South Sudan, will give a presentation of his missionary work at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary. Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, 803 S. Harvin St., announces: * Monday, Jan. 19 — MLK Celebration Program at 3 p.m. Pastor Larry C. Weston, of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, will speak.

Joshua Baptist Church, 5200 Live Oak Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday — Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during morning worship. * Sunday, Jan. 18 — Deacon and Deacon Wives anniversary celebration during morning service. Kingdom Life Worldwide Ministries, meets at Marvin Hodge Life Center, 609 Miller Road, announces: * Monday-Friday, Jan. 19-23 — Unstoppable Favor Revival at 7:30 nightly. Speakers include: Pastor Frances Washington; Prophetess Desheka James; Apostle Tracey George; Pastor Kevin Davis; and Pastor Tramaine Rush. Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets at Bethesda Church of God, 2730 Broad St., announces: * Saturday — Knitting Hearts Café will meet 10 a.m.-noon. International Bible teacher Dr. Satish Raiborde will speak. Knitting Hearts is a community-wide, multidenominational women’s ministry.Visit www. knittingheartsministry.org for more information. Mount Glory Baptist Church, 841 N. Main St., announces: * Sunday, Jan. 25 — Family and friends day at 11 a.m. Thomas “Bubba” Lowery will speak. Mount Sinai AME Church, 5895 Mt. Sinai Church Road, Lynchburg, announces: * Sunday — Gospel fest featuring the Singing Cousins at 3 p.m.

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 325 Fulton St., announces: * Sunday — 31st pastoral anniversary worship celebration honoring the Rev. and Mrs. James Blassingame and family at 10:45 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Sam Whack Jr., pastor of Chaney Grove Baptist Church, Timmonsville, will speak. New Hope AME Church, 18808 Panola Road, Pinewood, announces: * Sunday, Jan. 25 — Pack-apew program at 2:30 p.m. Minister Bobby Brunson, of Grace Community Christian Church, Amityville, New York, will speak. New Israel Missionary Baptist Church, 5330 Old Camden Highway, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday, Jan. 18 — Martin Luther King observance and the Lord’s Supper will be administered at 10 a.m. Orangehill AME Church, 3035 S. King Highway, Wedgefield, announces: * Sunday — 38th anniversary of the Good Samaritans will be celebrated at 9:50 a.m. Licentiate Marvis L. Stewart, of Friendship AME Church, Blair, will speak. * Sunday, Jan. 18 — Men’s Day will be observed at 9:50 a.m. Licentiate Marvis L. Stewart will speak. Savannah Grove Baptist Church, 2620 Alligator Road, Effingham, announces: * Saturday-Wednesday, Jan. 14 — 21st Annual Church Growth Institute. Bus trans-

portation provided at 3:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. daily at Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, 803 S. Harvin St., Sumter. Sheppard Ministries announces: * Saturday, Jan. 31 — 46th anniversary gospel singing of The Singing Sheppards at 6 p.m. at Shiloh Pentecostal Holiness Church, 260 Myrtle Beach Highway. On the program: Whiteman-Gore; The Sims Family; and The Singing Sheppards. Spring Hill AME Church, 4309 Bill Davis Road, Summerton, announces: * Sunday, Jan. 18 — Family and friends day at 3 p.m. The Rev. Dr. Harold Conyers will speak. St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church, 7650 Summerton Highway, Silver community, Pinewood, announces: * Saturday, Jan. 17 — “Boys to Men: Breaking Bread” program at 2:30 p.m. All parents are encouraged to bring their young men to participate in this mentoring program. Adults and young ladies are also welcome. Refreshments will be served. * Sunday, Jan. 18 — Pastor’s Aide Program at 3 p.m. The Rev. Frankie White of St. Paul AME Church, Camden, will speak. * Sunday, Jan. 25 — January Birthday Month Program at 3 p.m. The Rev. Michael Anthony Wright Sr. of Red Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Santee, will speak.

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Sundance offers smart, funny, compelling ‘Babylon’ BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Is James Nesbitt this year’s Steve Buscemi? Both men prove that character actors with non-Hollywood faces can make the best leading men. Fresh from “The Missing,” Nesbitt co-stars in “Babylon” (10 p.m., Sundance, TV-14), produced and created by Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”). A farcical take on the internal politics of London’s police force, “Babylon” stars Brit Marling as Liz Garvey, the newly hired and very American director of communications. Her job is to keep the old-school Commissioner Richard Miller (Nesbitt) “on message” and out of trouble. The series offers a dizzying and disturbing glance at police politics and the absurdity of image management in an era of an aggressive tabloid press and voracious social media. “Babylon” has some of the dark comedy tones of the slap-sticky “Veep,” but it also has the kinetic energy and explosive violence that Boyle brought to “28 Days Later.” In an early scene, we see three officials of a private prison reviewing video of a chaotic inmate melee while parsing the difference between “riot” and “disturbance.” This delicate minuet of spin takes on odious overtones as the non-“riot” explodes out of control. The show’s best scenes are between Liz and Richard. She speaks in nearly pure business jargon; he’s a volcano of profanity and regional slang. Other shows would be content to leave Liz as a two-dimensional type, but not “Babylon.” For all of her brash confidence, she’s desperately lonely and friendless in a foreign land whose shared language only accentuates her many misunderstandings. Worse, she socializes with underlings, a fatal faux pas in a society defined by class and status. This makes her an object of pity among those she deigned to befriend. Smart and funny, “Babylon” differs from police comedies and political satires because there are real issues, and lives, at stake. And that makes it much more compelling. • To paraphrase “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Archer” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA) continually navi-

ABC, TV-PG) * Christy meets her new neighbor (Colin Hanks) on “Mom” (8:30 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * Walden’s foster son cramps his style on “Two and a Half Men” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * A hacker leaks incriminating photos of Rebecca on “Bad Judge” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14) * Sibling rivalry on “The McCarthys” (9:30 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) * Alone time on “A to Z” (9:30 p.m., NBC, TVPG).

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From left, Jonny Sweet, Brit Marling and James Nesbitt star in the SundanceTV original series “Babylon,” premiering at 10 p.m. today. gates that fine line between clever and stupid. In tonight’s season opener, the self-absorbed super-spy (H. Jon Benjamin) ventures to Borneo jungles, where he encounters a geriatric Japanese soldier still fighting World War II. For about eight seconds, they exchange intelligent banter about America’s shifting alliances since that war. Then both Archer and “Archer” return to form with a discussion of how the very same thing once happened on “The Six Million Dollar Man.”

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TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Jennifer Lawrence stars in the 2012 thriller “House at the End of the Street” (8 p.m., CW, TV-14). • “Expedition Unknown” (9 p.m., Travel, TV-PG) looks for Amelia Earhart’s plane. • A nurse from Joan’s past goes missing on “Elementary” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-PG). • The family gathers around Zeke’s hospital bed on “Parenthood” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-PG). • Michaela feels blindsided by a prenup on “How to Get Away With Murder” (10 p.m., ABC, r, TV-14). • “Alaska: Battle on the Bay” (10 p.m., Animal Planet, TVPG) becomes the latest series about fishing in Arctic waters.

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Give Obama more credit, less hate

f you look at the numbers, Barack Obama should be a Republican’s dream president. Gas prices are hovering around $2 per gallon in some parts of the Palmetto State — about where they were when the Democrat took over in 2009 during the imploding economic recession. The stock market recently broke 18,000 — yes, 18,000 — and is setting new records all of the time. Corporate net profits have tripled over the last six years. Unemployment is down to pre-recession levels. Two ground wars are over. And contrary to NRA fear mongering, Obama hasn’t taken away anyone’s guns. The list of accomplishments, particularly economic, is impressive. Yet, all you hear around water coolers and tables full of Republican men at breakAndy fast is harping and carping, Brack moaning and groaning, about how bad Obama is. With the economy not sputtering, with headlines that say America will lead the world’s economy in 2015, with a revived auto industry and Wall Street, what more do Republicans and Fox News want? Sure, Obama has had problems. He’s had a recalcitrant U.S. House that opposed him so much that it shut down the government and voted dozens of times on toothless measures to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. He sometimes seems slow to act and hasn’t responded well to scandals, such as the suggestion that the White House orchestrated the IRS to be tough on conservative nonprofit applications (which the GOP eventually admitted wasn’t true.) Like predecessors, he got whacked in mid-term elections. Like Reagan before him, he increased the national debt a lot. And Obama has sometimes resorted to a go-it-alone strategy when he couldn’t woo Congress. But even if Republicans don’t like him in the nation’s increasingly venomous partisan environment because he’s a Democrat or because he’s (egad!) black, they need to face the reality that the country is on the right track economically, in large part, because Obama and his team pushed the country forward. There was even a 2013 article in Forbes magazine, not the most liberal of publications, that wondered whether Obama could be the country’s best president economically: “By all measures, President Obama has outperformed every modern president,” said Bob Deitrick, co-author of “Bulls,

Bears and the Ballot Box.” “The easiest comparison would be to President Reagan, whose economic performance was superb.” Since then, things have gotten even better. So consider these indicators:

NATIONAL DEFICIT In 2009 when Obama took office, White House and Congressional Budget Office figures showed the national deficit was $1.4 trillion. By the end of fiscal year 2013, it was $679.5 billion — a 52 percent drop. It is expected to be $506 billion for fiscal 2014. As a share of gross domestic product, the deficit has gone from 9.8 percent in 2009 to 4.1 percent in 2013, according to Politifact.

APPROVAL RATING Much is made about how Obama’s approval rating is in the 40s. Guess what? So was Bush’s after six years as president, according to Quinnipiac University polling.

STOCK MARKET The stock market has performed better under Obama than Bush. After 2,000 days in office, the market under Obama gained 142 percent. Under Bush, it lost 8.9 percent, according to Marketwatch.com.

JOBS After eight years as president, Bush lost 462,000 private sector jobs, the Campaign for America’s Future says. Obama? Created 6.7 million.

VACATIONS Much is made about Obama’s golfing outings, but compare vacation time. As of August 2014, Obama took less than a third of the vacation (125 days) that Bush took (407 days) at similar points in their presidencies, according to Politifact.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS According to the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Bush issued 291 executive orders over eight years. In 5.8 years, Obama issued 193 orders. Obama, a master speechmaker, has communications as his administration’s biggest weakness. It hasn’t told the story of the hard work done to rescue the sputtering economy and make it strong again. If Democrats want to win in 2016, they’d better start telling their story better and not let Republicans tell it for them. Andy Brack is editor and publisher of Statehouse Report. He can be reached at brack@ statehousereport.com.

ASHINGTON — Recent events from Ferguson, Missouri, to Staten Island, New York, might prompt an observer to infer that American cops are racist and that a bigoted white populace tolerates unnecessary lethal force against minorities. One might also conclude that America has a hearty appetite for the carnival barker, the jester, the rabble-rouser, the race baiter and, lest we leave anyone out, the performance-activist who pretends to be a newsman while fomenting unrest that only he can quell. I haven’t yet said Al Sharpton, but if his name came to mind, there must be a reason. In nearly every high-profile case in recent years that involved a black alleged victim and a white alleged perpetrator, Sharpton has injected himself as arbiter. Where once he was a Kathleen mere street Parker activist, he is today a disruptive celebrity. He has stepped off the soapbox and into the MSNBC television studio, where he is free to pontificate and to chastise those who don’t fit his template of truth and justice. This isn’t to say that Sharpton doesn’t have fans or that he hasn’t helped many people. He has. But in too many cases that he designates as racist, he has inarguably contributed to more harm than good. He has evolved into a variation on the Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: He creates a problem, then zooms in to save the day. One can argue that he isn’t really taken seriously, but this isn’t so. Protesters take him seriously. The president of the United States takes him seriously enough to bring him in as an adviser. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes him seriously enough to keep him close despite, or perhaps because of, Sharpton’s recent threat to the mayor: “If we’re going to just play spin games, I’ll be your worst enemy.” Well, now. This was in connection with Sharpton’s push to revolutionize the police department in the wake of the death of Eric Garner, who was asphyxiated after being placed in a police chokehold. Was that cop racist? Hard to say, but it’s not difficult to deduce racism in the subsequent murders of two police officers sitting in their car by a black man who described his act on Instagram as revenge. Sharpton was a key player in the aftermath of all instances, including the last. You do not get to stir the pot until it boils over and then

say, “Hey, whoa, I didn’t say to turn up the heat that much. Simmer down.” Other cases are numerous. In 2006, Sharpton took up the cause of exotic dancer Crystal Gail Mangum, who accused three players on the Duke lacrosse team of gangraping her. Ultimately her claims were found to be baseless. Even so, this story was immediately assumed to be true, even by the university, because it fit one of our cultural narratives — white males rape black females. Call it the Tawana Brawley Assumption, another one of Sharpton’s gifts. In 1987, then-15-year-old Brawley, who is AfricanAmerican, claimed she had been gang-raped by six white men (including an assistant district attorney and a New York state trooper) who scrawled “KKK” across her chest and a racial epithet on her stomach. Sharpton was Brawley’s spokesman and has yet to express contrition for helping perpetuate what turned out to be a hoax, though he was forced to pay $65,000 in damages to the assistant district attorney he falsely accused. Brawley, who, we remind ourselves, was a child, allegedly made up the story because she feared being beaten by her stepfather for being away for four days. Poor kid. She came up with the bestworst story she could imagine. And Sharpton, with nary a glance at due diligence, ran with it. To be fair, though the race card may be Sharpton’s ace, the game is also played by whites. Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who drowned her two young sons by letting her car slip into a lake, initially blamed her children’s disappearance on a black hijacker. Another hoax, another narrative. No one doubts that race sometimes plays a role. Perhaps white cops are more fearful around black suspects and react too quickly. Blacks are surely justified in their rage about being stopped and frisked for being black, a law enforcement technique that has ended under de Blasio. But as we try to ease racial tensions, we might begin by examining our own unconscious biases, which are too easily coaxed to the surface, and apply a more-critical eye to narratives before accepting them as true. We might also send racist agitators back to the soapbox, where the peddlers of outrage have always belonged. Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@ washpost.com. © 2015, Washington Post Writers Group

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THANKS FOR ALL WHO HELPED MAKE IT A HAPPY HOLIDAY Thanks to the many who gave their time and money and prayed to make it a happy holiday for all the kids. They gave food and time, too, so every family had food to eat and toys to give on Christmas morning. We are so blessed to have so much love in Sumter to help one another. We know without prayer, nothing works. Hats off to Sumter. HATTIE M. BELL Sumter

FATHER A DEVOTED SHS FOOTBALL FAN Abraham Pressley has undoubtedly attended more Sumter High School football games than anyone

in history. He even attended Edmond High School football games when it wasn’t the cultural or politically correct thing to do. He had to be strong by saying and doing nothing when he wanted nothing more than to yell or fight. He was there as the first African-American ballers played there. My sister, Darlin, and I conservatively estimate that the number of high school football games he attended is 550 to 600. But there is more to his story than his just deciding to boldly, slyly and even proudly sit on the 50-yard line for the past five to six decades. Let me brief you. He was born in Kingstree in 1930. It was just two generations shy of slavery and the war between the North and South. That was the first year of the Great Depres-

sion and just before the Great Dust Bowl caused the worst agricultural disaster in U.S. history. The year my dad was born, television was just starting to gain momentum, and Germany’s Adolf Hitler’s National Socialists became the second-largest party. The 27th U.S. president, William Howard Taft, was in the White House, and the first red and green traffic lights were put in place in Manhattan, NYC, too. According to the records of the Social Security Administration, the average yearly salary is about $44,000 today; but when dad was just a baby, the national average salary was just under $2,000 per year. With that in mind, I imagine the world might have sometimes appeared black, hopeless or Godless for my devotedly Christian grandpar-

ents. Well, I know that it wasn’t, but the world was pitch-dark for dad because he lost his eyesight as a teenager. During those days, months and years, a boy’s dream of watching a football game was more than likely the last thing he thought about. What you may or may not know, as result of his blindness, his wanting to work and to help the family farm was out of the question. And during this time, his medical treatments were unsuccessful. DARRYL L. PRESSLEY SR. Sumter Editor’s note: Because this letter exceeded the 350-word length as stated in our Editorial Page Policies which appears regularly on this page, it can be read in its entirety under Opinion on The Sumter Item’s website, www.theitem.com.

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AROUND TOWN the chapter president, The Stroke Support Group will Debra Canty, at Debrameet at 6 p.m. today in the CanC2@frontier.com or via Alice Drive Baptist Church you suffered a stroke or know someone telephone at (803) 775-5792. library, Have 1305 Loring Mill Mail state dues to: NFB Road.who has? Sumter Chapter, P.O. Box Clarendon School District Two is ready to begin assigning stu- 641, Sumter, SC 29151. The Pinedale Neighborhood Asdent devices as part of its sociation will meet at 4 p.m. one to one technology on Thursday, Jan. 15, at the learning initiative through South HOPE Center, 1125 S. the Carolina Consortium of Lafayette Drive. Call FerdiEnterprise Learning. In nand Burns at (803) 968order for students to receive a Mac Book Air laptop 4464. or iPad Mini, parents are re- The General George L. Mabry quired to attend one of the Jr. Chapter 817, Military Order following meetings: 6 p.m. of the Purple Heart, will meet today, Manning High School at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. (MHS) lecture hall; 6 p.m. 15, at the Elks Lodge, 1100 Monday, Jan. 12, Manning W. Liberty St. All Purple Early Childhood Center Heart recipients are invited. (MECC); 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. For information, call (803) 13, Manning Primary School 506-3120. (MPS); 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, Manning Elementary The Sumter Combat Veterans Group will meet at 10 a.m. School (MES); and 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 16, at the Thursday, Jan. 15, Manning South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Junior High School (MJHS) Lafayette Drive. All area vetand Manning High School. erans are invited to attend. The district’s Acceptable Use Policy, how devices will The Lincoln High School Class be used and how to care for of 1963 will meet at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17, at Amerithe devices will be discussed. A $50 user fee is re- can Legion Post 202, 310 Palmetto St. Lincoln HS quired for each student deClasses 1960 through 1969 vice issued at MPS, MES, are asked to send a repreMJHS and MHS. A $25 user fee is required for each stu- sentative to help in plandent device issued at MECC. ning the reunion to celebrate the modern Civil Clarendon School District One Rights Movement. For inforwill conduct free vision, hearing, speech and developmental mation, call Ferdinand Burns at (803) 968-4464. screenings as part of a child The 15th Annual Dr. Martin Lufind effort to identify stuther King Jr. Dream Walk will dents with special needs. Screenings will be held from be held on Monday, Jan. 19. This three mile walk will 9 a.m. to noon at the Sumstart and end at USC Summerton Early Childhood ter Nettles Building, 200 Center on the following Miller Road. Registration Thursdays: today; Feb. 12; will begin at 8:30 a.m. with March 12; April 9; and May walk beginning at 9:30 a.m. 14. For more information, There will be a celebratory call Sadie Williams or Auprogram at 11 a.m. Call drey Walters at (803) 485Mary Sutton at (803) 9382325, extension 221. 3760 for details. The One Sumter Community The Sumter Branch NAACP’s will meet at 6:30 p.m. on annual MLK Program will be Sunday, Jan. 11, at Mount held at 3 p.m. on Monday, Zion Missionary Baptist Jan. 19, at Jehovah MissionChurch. ary Baptist Church, 805 S. Manning High School Class of Harvin St. 1971 will hold a planning Free income tax filing services meeting at 6 p.m. on Monand FAFSA applications will be day, Jan. 12, at Branch provided Feb. 1 through Street, Manning. For details April 15 as follows: 9:30 and directions, call Loretta Cantey Conyers at (803) 528- a.m.-3:30 p.m. Wednesdays, SC Works — Santee Lynch8183 or Lillian Hilton Wright es, 31 E. Calhoun St., (803) at (803) 236-8049. The Sumter Chapter of the Na- 774-1300; 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Fridays, 3-8 p.m. Saturdays, tional Federation of the Blind appointments only on Sunwill hold its monthly meetdays, Goodwill — Job Link ing at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Center, 1028 Broad St., (803) Jan. 13, at Shiloh-Randolph 774-5006; and 9:30 a.m.-7 Manor. All state dues for 2015 are now due. The spot- p.m. Thursdays and 9:30 light will shine on Lori Anne a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays, Lee County Adult Education, 123 Coley and the associate member is Patricia White. If E. College St., Bishopville, you know a blind or visually (803) 484-4040. For details and appointments, call Ms. impaired person, contact Samuels at (803) 240-8355.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Put your energy into something constructive. Travel plans or dealing with institutions will lead to setbacks. No matter what you do, avoid being indulgent. It’s best to be a minimalist to avoid unnecessary loss. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your charm and desire to have fun and enjoy life will make interesting people gravitate to your side. Both at work and in your personal life, you will be able to bring about change and get the help required to do so. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will face uncertainty at home and at work. Problems will arise regarding the responsibilities you are given. Be honest about what you can and cannot do. If someone makes you feel guilty, opt to walk away and do your own thing.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ask for favors EUGENIA LAST and offer something in return. Give-and-take will get you closer to the personal or professional goals you have set. Romance is in the stars, so try to begin making positive alterations to your lifestyle.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Make sure that everything is OK at home and with your personal relationships. Changes may need to be put into play if you want to keep the peace and avoid complaints. Make a concerted effort to share and show your true feelings. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can keep busy and try to avoid trouble, but eventually someone will question your intentions. Have a well-thought-out answer prepared that will buy you time to put whatever you need in place. Protect your assets and possessions. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Talk is cheap, so be prepared to follow through with actions. If you are good to your word, you will meet with approval and be offered favors in return. Love is looking good, and romantic plans should be put into play.

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PICTURES FROM THE PUBLIC Candis Montgomery comments on her photo submission, “Cash Lee enjoys swinging on a beautiful fall evening.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep a watchful eye over the changes taking place around you at work, in your community and within your family. You may have to bend in order to avoid being caught in a situation that is compromising. Keep busy, but remain aware.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You can bring about favorable changes that will encourage a stable future if you are willing to make a move or alter your lifestyle to fit the economic and cultural changes going on around you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Emotions will spin out of control if you don’t stay on top of what’s going on around you. A positive, helpful attitude will encourage good results, but trying to push or make demands on others will backfire. Diplomacy is key.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep your private and personal life and thoughts a secret. Divulging information that will cause others to counter what you are doing will hinder your progress. Be a doer and don’t look back. Let your creative imagination lead the way.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): An alternative option is apparent, but it will require you to remain secretive until you are ready to launch your plans. Don’t be surprised if someone comes out of the woodwork looking for a piece of the action.

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PREP WRESTLING

A Brave attempt at success Socastee tops Sumter High wrestling team for second time BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com There was a Region VI-4A quad wrestling match at the Sumter High School gymnasium on Wednesday featuring the Gamecocks, Carolina Forest Conway and Socastee. However, there was no doubt region newcomer Socastee was the team on which Sumter had its attention focused. The Braves were the 3A state runner-up last year and were considered to be a major challenger to the defending region champion Gamecocks. Socastee beat Sumter 37-27 in the Seahawk Duals in Hilton Head over the weekend, and followed it up with a 36-33 victory on Wednesday. “I’m not disappointed,” said Sumter head coach Cody Slaughter, whose team improved to 18-5 in dual matches. “The kids did everything we asked them to do. We just had three get caught in a headlock, and in wrestling it can turn that quick. ”If we win those we win the match,” Slaughter added. “We get them again on Jan. 27, and we’ll see what happens. They beat us by three, we need to beat them by four (to win the region).” The only time Sumter led was after the first individual match was completed. Reco Nicholson won at the 170-

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Sumter’s Reco Nicholson, right, takes down a Socastee opponent in their 170-pound match during the match between the two schools on SEE SHS, PAGE B4 Wednesday in the Region VI-4A quad match at the Sumter gymnasium. The Braves beat the Gamecocks 36-33.

USC BASKETBALL

PRO FOOTBALL

Kuechly, Wagner bring intensity to NFC divisional playoff game BY STEVE REED The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

South Carolina guard Tyrone Johnson (4) steals the ball from Florida guard Michael Frazier II (20) as Gamecocks Demetrius Henry (21) and Laimonas Chatkevicius (14) defend during the Gators’ 72-68 victory on Wednesday at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia.

Gamecocks drop SEC opener to UF BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press COLUMBIA — Dorian Finney-Smith scored 20 points and Michael Frazier II had 15 off the bench as Florida rallied past South Carolina in the second half to open Southeastern Conference play with a 72-68 victory Wednesday night. The Gators (8-6, 1-0) snapped a two-game losing streak and beat the Gamecocks (9-4, 0-1) for a seventh straight time. And they did it with starting center Jon Horford back in Gainesville, Florida after he was suspended for conduct detrimental the team by coach Billy Donovan. The hole in the middle looked like it might hurt the Gators against South Caroli-

na. Instead, Frazier hit a game-tying 3-pointer to start a 19-8 run midway through the second period. Finney-Smith had a 3, followed with two foul shots then completed a threepoint play on Florida’s next possession to lead 54-46. Tyrone Johnson had 20 points to lead South Carolina, which had won seven straight games coming in. The Gamecocks closed to 70-68 on Johnson’s three-point play with 6.8 seconds left. But Eli Carter followed with two foul shots as the Gators hung on. For Frazier, it continued the junior’s hot shooting at Colonial Life Arena. He was 12 of 21 overall, including 11 of 18 from three-point range in

SEE GAMECOCKS, PAGE B4

CHARLOTTE— Carolina teammates describe Luke Kuechly as one of the nicest guys you’ll meet, an awshucks, All-American kid who’s polite and still spends part of his offseason living with his parents in Ohio. Seattle’s Bobby Wagner is the charming, approachable kid-at-heart, regularly seen walking around with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles backpack draped around his shoulders. Off the field, nice guys. Harmless. On the field, it’s a whole different story when it comes to the All-Pro middle linebackers. Panthers safety Roman Harper, who previously played for New Orleans, remembers watching a game

SEE PANTHERS, PAGE B7

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Seattle wide receiver Kevin Norwood (81) is hit by Carolina middle linebacker Luke Kuechly (59) during the regular-season meeting between the two teams. The Panthers and Seahawks feature two of the game’s best middle linebackers in Kuechly and Bobby Wagner. The teams play again on Saturday in an NFC divisional playoff game.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

FSU QB Winston to enter NFL draft BY KAREEM COPELAND The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston announced he’ll enter the NFL draft on Wednesday, the same day the woman who accused him of sexual assault filed a lawsuit against the school’s board of trustees. The 2013 Heisman Trophy winner announced his decision to forgo his final two years of eligibility in a statement released to ESPN by The Legacy Agency. Winston was the most successful quarterback in college football during the last two seasons, but also faced lengthy sexual as-

sault investigations. He was not charged by police and was cleared by the university. In a lawsuit filed against the school’s board of trustees, the woman who accused him of sexWINSTON ual assault claimed the board had an unreasonable response to her accusations and created a hostile educational environment for her. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, including reimbursement for tuition, damages for emotional pain and suffering and loss of past and present earning and earning capacity.

SEE WINSTON, PAGE B7

SPORTS

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015

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7:30 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour South Africa Open Championship First Round from Johannesburg (GOLF). 6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WPUB-FM 102.7, WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Dayton at St. Bonaventure (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Michigan State at Iowa (ESPN). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Louisiana State at Missouri (ESPN2). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Radford at Gardner-Webb (ESPNU). 7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Buffalo at Carolina (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: George Mason at Richmond (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 7 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Texas A&M at Tennessee (SEC NETWORK). 7:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Charlotte at Toronto (SPORTSOUTH). 8 p.m. – PGA Golf: Tournament of Champions Pro-Am from Kapalua, Hawaii (GOLF). 8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Houston at New York (TNT). 8 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: South Carolina at Alabama (Joined In Progress) (WNKT-FM 107.5). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Robert Morris at Wagner (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Stanford at UCLA (ESPN). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Memphis at Southern Methodist (ESPN2). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Rutgers at Nebraska (ESPNU). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Arizona State at Oregon State (FOX SPORTS 1). 9 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Vanderbilt at Louisiana State (SEC NETWORK). 10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Miami at Portland (TNT). 11 p.m. – College Basketball: Pepperdine at Brigham Young (ESPNU). 2 a.m. – NHL Hockey: Dallas at Nashville (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 2 a.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Arkansas at Mississippi State (SPORTSOUTH). 5:30 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour South Africa Open Championship Second Round from Johannesburg (GOLF).

PREP SCHEDULE TODAY

Varsity Basketball East Clarendon at Lake View, 6 p.m. Dorchester Academy at St. Francis Xavier (Boys Only), 6 p.m. Junior Varsity Basketball Manning at Crestwood, 6 p.m. Darlington at Lakewood, 6 p.m. B Team Basketball Marlboro County at Sumter (Boys Only), 5:30 p.m. Heathwood Hall at Laurence Manning, 4 p.m. Emmanuel Christian at Robert E. Lee, 5 p.m. Middle School Basketball Alice Drive at Mayewood, 5 p.m. Hillcrest at Bates, 5 p.m. Lugoff-Elgin at Chestnut Oaks, 5:30 p.m. Furman at Ebenezer, 5 p.m. Kingstree at Scott’s Branch, 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY

Portland St. at N. Colorado, 9 p.m. Arizona St. at Oregon St., 9 p.m. Stanford at UCLA, 9 p.m. Montana at Weber St., 9 p.m. Montana St. at Idaho St., 9:05 p.m. Santa Clara at Portland, 10 p.m. Cal St.-Fullerton at UC Riverside, 10 p.m. Arizona at Oregon, 10:30 p.m. Long Beach St. at UC Irvine, 10:30 p.m. Pepperdine at BYU, 11 p.m. Loyola Marymount at San Diego, 11 p.m.

FRIDAY

EAST Quinnipiac at Monmouth (NJ), 7 p.m. Yale at NJIT, 7 p.m. MIDWEST Akron at Toledo, 7 p.m. Green Bay at Milwaukee, 9 p.m.

NBA STANDINGS By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE L 10 18 21 28 32

Pct GB .706 – .471 8 .344 12 .152 181/2 .135 201/2

L 8 11 20 24 24

Pct GB .765 – .676 3 .429 111/2 .351 141/2 .333 15

L 10 16 18 22 23

Pct GB .714 – .543 6 .500 71/2 .389 111/2 .324 131/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION W Memphis 25 Dallas 26 Houston 23 San Antonio 21 New Orleans 17 NORTHWEST DIVISION W Portland 27 Oklahoma City 17 Denver 15 Utah 12 Minnesota 5 PACIFIC DIVISION W Golden State 27 L.A. Clippers 23 Phoenix 21 Sacramento 14 L.A. Lakers 11

L 9 10 11 15 17

Pct .735 .722 .676 .583 .500

GB – – 2 5 8

L 8 18 20 23 28

Pct .771 .486 .429 .343 .152

GB – 10 12 15 21

L 5 12 16 20 24

Pct GB .844 – .657 51/2 .568 81/2 .412 14 .314 171/2

VARSITY BASKETBALL MANNING 51 EAST CLARENDON 42 MANNING – Manning High School defeated East Clarendon 51-42 on Tuesday at Thames Arena. Rayvon Witherspoon had a double-double of 36 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Monarchs. HAMMOND 81 WILSON HALL 35

COLUMBIA – Wilson Hall lost to Hammond 81-35 on Tuesday at the Hammond gymnasium. Drew Talley led the Barons with nine points. Sam Watford added six. Seventh Woods led Hammond with 16. LAURENCE MANNING 41 HEATHWOOD HALL 38

COLUMBIA – Laurence Manning Academy defeated

Heathwood Hall 41-38 on Tuesday at the Heathwood gymnasium. Rashaad Robinson led LMA with 21 points.

uel with 17.

COLLETON PREP 56

LAURENCE MANNING 50

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER 53

HEATHWOOD HALL 31

WALTERBORO – St. Francis Xavier High School dropped to 1-2 in SCISA Region III-1A with a 56-53 loss to Colleton Prep on Tuesday at the CP gymnasium. Dalton Foreman and Jay McFadden both had doubledoubles for the Padres. Foreman had 25 points and 11 rebounds, while McFadden finished with 15 points and 16 boards. Josh Craven led Colleton Prep with 21 and Nick Padgett had 20.

COLUMBIA – Taylor Lee scored 20 points to lead Laurence Manning to a 50-31 victory over Heathwood Hall on Tuesday at the Heathwood gymnasium. Grayson Gamble added 14 for the Swampcats.

SUMTER CHRISTIAN 71 EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN 45

HARTSVILLE – Sumter Christian School improved to 9-2 with a 71-45 victory over Emmanuel Christian on Tuesday at the Emmanuel gymnasium. TJ Barron led the Bears with 21 points. Aaron Pekuri had 14 and Grayson Dennis 13. Luke Raines led Emman-

JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL

CRESTWOOD 28 LEE CENTRAL 23

Crestwood improved to 2-4 with a 28-23 victory over Lee Central on Tuesday at The Castle. Rakeem Massingill and Cody Lambert both had eight points to lead the Knights. SUMTER CHRISTIAN 28 EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN 25

HARTSVILLE – Sumter Christian remained undefeated with a 28-25 victory over Emmanuel Christian on Tuesday at the Emmanuel gymnasium. Grayson Dennis led the 9-0 Bears with 17 points.

GIRLS AREA ROUNDUP

Charlotte at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Houston at New York, 8 p.m. Miami at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

Cardinal Newman tops LMA 46-40

NFL PLAYOFFS By The Associated Press

Baltimore at New England, 4:35 p.m. (NBC) Carolina at Seattle, 8:15 p.m. (FOX)

MANNING – Laurence Manning Academy’s varsity girls basketball team lost to Cardinal Newman 46-40 on Wednesday at Bubba Davis Gymnasium. Courtney Beatson led the Lady Swampcats with 11 points and Brooke Bennett had eight. On Tuesday in Columbia, Beatson had a double-double to lead LMA to a 47-28 victory over Heathwood Hall. Beatson scored 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds. Cora Lee Downer and Kaela Johnson both had seven.

SUNDAY

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WILD-CARD PLAYOFFS SATURDAY, JAN. 3

Carolina 27, Arizona 16 Baltimore 30, Pittsburgh 17

SUNDAY, JAN. 4

SATURDAY

At Glendale, Ariz. Team Irvin vs. Team Carter, 8 p.m. (ESPN)

DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS SATURDAY

Dallas at Green Bay, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Denver, 4:40 p.m. (CBS)

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS SUNDAY, JAN. 18

NFC, 3:05 p.m. (FOX) AFC, 6:40 p.m. (CBS)

PRO BOWL SUNDAY, JAN. 25

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY, FEB. 1

At Glendale, Ariz. AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6:30 p.m. (NBC)

CAROLINA 28

DALZELL – Thomas Sumter Academy improved to 9-3 with a 39-28 victory over Carolina Academy on Tuesday at Edens Gymnasium. Taylor Knudson led the Lady Generals in scoring with 20 points. She also had five steals and seven rebounds. Hannah Jenkins had six and Logan Morris had six steals.

CAROLINA Gaskins 12, Morris 5, Mueller 1, Ward 2, Durant 2, Weaver 6. THOMAS SUMTER Knudson 20, Chappell 4, DeMonte 3, Jenkins 6, Morris 2, Gaulke 2, Lyons 2.

EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN 57 SUMTER CHRISTIAN 35

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NHL PLAYOFFS By The Associated Press

TODAY

ATLANTIC DIVISION

EAST St. Francis (Pa.) at Bryant, 7 p.m. Howard at Cornell, 7 p.m. St. Francis (NY) at Fairleigh Dickinson, 7 p.m. Sacred Heart at LIU Brooklyn, 7 p.m. Canisius at Marist, 7 p.m. CCSU at Mount St. Mary’s, 7 p.m. Brown at New Hampshire, 7 p.m. Niagara at Siena, 7 p.m. Dayton at St. Bonaventure, 7 p.m. Drexel at Towson, 7 p.m. Robert Morris at Wagner, 7 p.m. SOUTH W. Carolina at Chattanooga, 7 p.m. Mercer at ETSU, 7 p.m. UNC Greensboro at Furman, 7 p.m. Radford at Gardner-Webb, 7 p.m. Charleston Southern at High Point, 7 p.m. Northeastern at James Madison, 7 p.m. Old Dominion at Marshall, 7 p.m. George Mason at Richmond, 7 p.m. Samford at The Citadel, 7 p.m. Liberty at UNC Asheville, 7 p.m. Delaware at UNC Wilmington, 7 p.m. VMI at Wofford, 7 p.m. Longwood at Coastal Carolina, 7:30 p.m. Hofstra at Coll. of Charleston, 7:30 p.m. Winthrop at Presbyterian, 7:30 p.m. William & Mary at Elon, 8 p.m. FIU at Middle Tennessee, 8 p.m. FAU at UAB, 8 p.m. Charlotte at W. Kentucky, 8 p.m. Appalachian St. at South Alabama, 8:05 p.m. Georgia St. at Louisiana-Lafayette, 8:15 p.m. Murray St. at Tennessee Tech, 8:30 p.m. E. Kentucky at UT-Martin, 8:30 p.m. Austin Peay at Jacksonville St., 9 p.m. MIDWEST Denver at IPFW, 7 p.m. Michigan St. at Iowa, 7 p.m. LSU at Missouri, 7 p.m. Wright St. at Youngstown St., 7 p.m. Oakland at Cleveland St., 7:30 p.m. N. Dakota St. at Nebraska-Omaha, 8 p.m. Sacramento St. at North Dakota, 8 p.m. Ill.-Chicago at Valparaiso, 8:05 p.m. Morehead St. at SE Missouri, 8:30 p.m. Rutgers at Nebraska, 9 p.m. SOUTHWEST Southern Miss. at UTSA, 8 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe at Texas-Arlington, 8:15 p.m. Georgia Southern at Arkansas St., 8:30 p.m. UALR at Texas St., 8:30 p.m. Memphis at SMU, 9 p.m. Louisiana Tech at UTEP, 9 p.m. FAR WEST San Francisco at Gonzaga, 9 p.m.

Wilson Hall’s B boys basketball team improved to 5-2 on the season with a 29-28 victory over Orangeburg Prep on Wednesday at Nash Student Center. Chandler Scott led Wilson Hall with 12 points.

TODAY’S GAMES

Indianapolis 26, Cincinnati 10 Dallas 24, Detroit 20

By The Associated Press

Barons B team edges Orangeburg Prep 29-28

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Phoenix 102, Milwaukee 96 Detroit 105, San Antonio 104

Varsity Basketball Crestwood at Manning, 6 p.m. Lakewood at Darlington, 6 p.m. St. Francis Xavier at East Clarendon (Boys Only), 6 p.m. Varsity and JV Basketball Scott’s Branch at Palmetto Scholar’s Academy (No JV Girls), 5 p.m. Heathwood Hall at Wilson Hall, 4 p.m. Florence Christian at Thomas Sumter, 4 p.m. Laurence Manning at Carolina, 4 p.m. Trinity-Byrnes at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m. Clarendon Hall at Patrick Henry, 4 p.m. Sumter Christian at Maranatha Christian (No JV Girls), 4 p.m. B Team Basketball Hammond at Laurence Manning, 4:30 p.m. Varsity Wrestling Sumter in Blue Devil Invitational (at Dreher High), TBA Varsity Basketball Sumter at Lower Richland, 3 p.m. B Team Basketball Wilson Hall at Thomas Sumter, 3 p.m. Varsity Sporting Clays Wilson Hall in Hermitage Tournament (in Camden), TBA Varsity Wrestling Sumter in Blue Devil Invitational (at Dreher High), TBA

BOYS AREA ROUNDUP

ATLANTIC DIVISION W Toronto 24 Brooklyn 16 Boston 11 Philadelphia 5 New York 5 SOUTHEAST DIVISION W Atlanta 26 Washington 23 Miami 15 Orlando 13 Charlotte 12 CENTRAL DIVISION W Chicago 25 Cleveland 19 Milwaukee 18 Indiana 14 Detroit 11

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HARTSVILLE – Sumter Christian School dropped to 6-5 with a 57-35 loss to Emmanuel Christian on Tuesday at the Emmanuel gymnasium. Dixie Jones led the Lady Bears with 13 points. Sarah Hutson added 10.

B TEAM BASKETBALL WILSON HALL 62 ORANGEBURG PREP 10 Wilson Hall defeated Orangeburg Prep 62-10 on Wednesday at Nash Student Center. Madison Elmore led the Lady Barons with 15 points. Emily Reynolds, Abby Glazer and Waverly McIver each added eight.

JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL CARDINAL NEWMAN 22 LAURENCE MANNING 17 MANNING – Laurence Manning Academy lost to Cardinal Newman 22-17 on Wednesday at Bubba Davis Gymnasium. Abby Patrick and Mason Ham both had five points for the Lady Swampcats. On Tuesday in Columbia, LMA lost to Heathwood Hall 26-23. Olivia Coker led LMA with 10 points.

EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W Tampa Bay 42 26 Montreal 40 26 Detroit 40 21 Toronto 40 21 Boston 40 19 Florida 37 17 Ottawa 39 16 Buffalo 41 14 METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W Pittsburgh 39 24 N.Y. Islanders 40 26 Washington 38 20 N.Y. Rangers 36 21 Columbus 38 18 Philadelphia 40 15 New Jersey 42 15 Carolina 40 12

L OT Pts GF GA 12 4 56 138 110 12 2 54 110 93 10 9 51 113 101 16 3 45 130 122 15 6 44 104 108 11 9 43 87 97 15 8 40 103 107 24 3 31 78 140 L OT Pts GF GA 10 5 53 118 94 13 1 53 123 112 11 7 47 112 99 11 4 46 113 90 17 3 39 100 121 18 7 37 108 121 20 7 37 94 118 24 4 28 79 105

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Nashville Chicago St. Louis Winnipeg Dallas Minnesota Colorado PACIFIC DIVISION

GP W 39 26 40 26 40 24 40 20 39 18 38 18 40 16

L OT Pts GF GA 9 4 56 119 90 12 2 54 124 87 13 3 51 124 99 13 7 47 103 96 15 6 42 121 128 15 5 41 107 110 16 8 40 103 117

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 41 26 9 6 58 115 110 Vancouver 38 23 12 3 49 112 100 San Jose 41 22 14 5 49 113 108 Los Angeles 40 19 12 9 47 112 103 Calgary 40 21 16 3 45 115 105 Arizona 39 15 20 4 34 92 130 Edmonton 41 9 23 9 27 90 139 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Philadelphia 2, Ottawa 1, SO New Jersey 4, Buffalo 1 Tampa Bay 4, Montreal 2 Nashville 3, Carolina 2 San Jose 4, Minnesota 3, OT Colorado 2, Chicago 0 Columbus 4, Dallas 2 St. Louis 6, Arizona 0 Detroit 4, Edmonton 2 Vancouver 3, N.Y. Islanders 2

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Washington at Toronto, late Boston at Pittsburgh, late Detroit at Calgary, late N.Y. Rangers at Anaheim, late

TODAY’S GAMES

New Jersey at Boston, 7 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Carolina, 7 p.m. San Jose at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Dallas at Nashville, 8 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Ottawa at Colorado, 9 p.m. Winnipeg at Arizona, 9 p.m. Florida at Vancouver, 10 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

SPORTS ITEMS

Musketeers upset No. 19 Seton Hall 69-58 CINCINNATI — Dee Davis scored 14 points on Wednesday night, and Trevon Bluiett led a late run as Xavier pulled away to a 69-58 victory over No. 19 Seton Hall, the Musketeers’ second straight home win over a ranked team. (3) VIRGINIA 61 N.C. STATE 51

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Justin Anderson scored 16 points and Malcolm Brogdon 14, as No. 3 Virginia weathered a sloppy effort and beat North Carolina State 61-51 on Wednesday, the Cavaliers’ 19th straight home victory. (4) WISCONSIN 62 PURDUE 55

MADISON, Wis. — Frank Kaminsky scored 21 points and Josh Gasser added 15 as fourth-ranked Wisconsin held off stubborn Purdue 62-55 on Wednesday night. NBA ROCKETS 105 CAVALIERS 93 CLEVELAND — James Harden scored 21 points, Dwight Howard had 17 points and 19 rebounds, and the Houston Rockets roared past Cleveland in the fourth quarter for a 105-93 win

Wednesday night over the Cavaliers, who played their sixth straight game without LeBron James. WIZARDS 101 KNICKS 91

WASHINGTON — The New York Knicks’ deconstruction project hit a new low Wednesday night with a 101-91 loss to the Washington Wizards, setting a record for longest in-season losing streak in the proud franchise’s 69-year history. ROLLINS EAGER TO ADD ANOTHER WORLD SERIES RING

LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Rollins waived his no-trade clause after 14 years in Philadelphia to join the Los Angeles Dodgers, where the 36-year-old will replace Hanley Ramirez at shortstop. It’s a big move for a kid who grew up in the Bay Area disliking the Dodgers. But Rollins was all smiles as he put on a blue cap and slipped into his No. 11 jersey on Wednesday. REDSKINS FINALIZING DEAL TO HIRE SCOT MCCLOUGHAN AS GM

WASHINGTON — The Washington Redskins on Wednesday were working

on the final details of a deal to hire Scot McCloughan as general manager, a move that marks a major shift in front-office philosophy under owner Dan Snyder after 16 years of mostly losing seasons. McCloughan and the Redskins were close to an agreement after two days of negotiations. BRAVES ADD OUTMAN, FINALIZE DEALS

ATLANTA — The Braves agreed to a $925,000, oneyear contract with lefthander Josh Outman and finalized two other freeagent deals Wednesday: an $8 million, two-year agreement with right-hander Jason Grilli and a $2 million, one-year contract with catcher A.J. Pierzynski. METS, PARNELL AGREE TO $3.7 MILLION CONTRACT

NEW YORK — The New York Mets and injured closer Bobby Parnell have avoided arbitration and agreed on a one-year, $3.7 million contract, the same salary while he was sidelined for nearly all of last season. From wire reports

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL AP ALL-BOWL TEAM OFFENSE

Quarterback Marcus Mariota, Oregon: Threw for 338 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 62 yards and one more score while outplaying Florida State’s Jameis Winston in a Rose Bowl matchup of Heisman Trophy winners. Running back Ezekiel Elliott, Ohio State: Rushed for a Sugar Bowl-record 231 yards and two touchdowns while averaging 11.5 yards per carry in the Buckeyes’ 42-35 upset of Alabama. Melvin Gordon, Wisconsin: Ran for 251 yards and three touchdowns in an Outback Bowl overtime 34-31 victory over Auburn and came up 41 yards short of matching Barry Sanders FBS single-season record. Kareem Hunt, Toledo: Ran for 271 yards and tied an all-bowl record with five rushing touchdowns in a GoDaddy Bowl 63-44 win against Arkansas State. Wide receivers Titus Davis, Central Michigan: Caught six passes for 137 yards and scored four touchdowns in Central Michigan’s 49-48 loss to Western Kentucky in the Bahamas Bowl. His final touchdown capped the play of the bowl season, CMU’s Hail Mary lateral. Davis went the final 15 yards as time expired on a play that covered 75 yards and included three laterals. Deontay Greenberry, Houston: Caught two touchdown passes in the final four minutes of Houston’s 35-34 Armed Forces Bowl victory over Pittsburgh. He had a 25-yard touchdown catch with 59 seconds left, and then caught the decisive 2-point conversion pass. Tommy Shuler, Marshall: Had 18 receptions for 185 yards and a touchdown in a 52-23 Boca Raton Bowl victory over Northern Illinois. Tackles Taylor Decker, Ohio State: Anchored a line that helped Ohio State gain 537 yards against a vaunted Alabama

defense. Jacob Gilliam, Tennessee: Had a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and an injured left hand that was heavily wrapped, yet he still helped Tennessee score touchdowns on its first four possessions in a 45-28 TaxSlayer Bowl win over Iowa. Center Jack Allen, Michigan State: Allen, who didn’t allow a sack all season, helped Michigan State gain 552 yards in a 42-41 Cotton Bowl triumph over Baylor. Guards Kyle Costigan, Wisconsin: Played through a leg injury and helped hold together an offensive line that was without its starting center, paving the way for a Wisconsin ground attack that rushed for 400 yards while averaging 7.4 yards per carry against Auburn. Shaq Mason, Georgia Tech: Helped Georgia Tech set an Orange Bowl record with 452 yards rushing in a 49-34 victory over Mississippi State.

DEFENSE

Ends Houston Bates, Louisiana Tech: The Illinois transfer produced 4 ½ sacks to help Louisiana Tech beat his former team 35-18 in the Heart of Dallas Bowl. Markus Golden, Missouri: Made 10 tackles - four behind the line of scrimmage - and had 1 ½ sacks and forced a fumble to be the MVP of the Citrus Bowl in a 33-17 victory against Minnesota. Tackles Chucky Hunter, TCU: Had five tackles - 1 ½ for loss - and helped limit Mississippi to 9 yards rushing on 37 carries in TCU’s 42-3 Peach Bowl blowout. Grady Jarrett, Clemson: Had 3 ½ tackles for loss and forced a fumble in Clemson’s 40-6 Russell Athletic Bowl rout of Oklahoma. Linebackers Darron Lee, Ohio State: Made seven

tackles - three for loss - and had two sacks against Alabama. Jordan Pierce, Air Force: Made 10 tackles - three for loss - and had two sacks in a 38-24 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl victory over Western Michigan. Martrell Spaight, Arkansas: Had two tackles for loss and helped limit Texas to 59 total yards in the Razorbacks’ 31-7 Texas Bowl victory. Cornerbacks Troy Hill, Oregon: With All-America cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu injured, Hill picked up the slack by making nine tackles, breaking up two passes and helping hold Florida State star receiver Rashad Greene in check. Brian Poole, Florida: Scored on a 29yard interception return and forced and recovered a fumble as Florida beat East Carolina 28-20 in the Birmingham Bowl. Safeties Dominick Sanders, Georgia: Intercepted two passes in Georgia’s 37-14 Belk Bowl victory over Louisville. Lorenzo Waters, Rutgers: Made 14 tackles, recovered two fumbles and blocked a field-goal attempt as Rutgers defeated North Carolina 40-21 in the Quick Lane Bowl.

SPECIAL TEAMS

Kicker Sam Ficken, Penn State: Made a 45yard field goal with 20 seconds left in regulation to force overtime in a 31-30 Pinstripe Bowl win over Boston College. His extra point in overtime clinched the victory. Punter JK Scott, Alabama: Averaged 55 yards per punt against Ohio State. Five of his seven attempts forced the Buckeyes to start drives inside their own 20. All-purpose player Leonard Fournette, LSU: Ran for 143 yards and two touchdowns - including an 89-yarder - and also scored on a 100-yard kickoff return in LSU’s 31-28 Music City Bowl loss to Notre Dame.

Trio of 200-yard rushers headline Associated Press all-bowl team BY STEVE MEGARGEE The Associated Press While the college football season won’t officially end until Oregon and Ohio State play in the inaugural College Football Playoff national championship game, all 38 postseason games with “bowl” in the title have been completed. So no reason to wait: Let’s reveal our all-bowl team in advance of Monday night’s championship game. Plenty of running backs

and receivers put up the kinds of numbers that warranted a spot on the team, but there weren’t nearly as many memorable performances from tight ends. That’s why we decided to go with a 12-man offense featuring three running backs, three receivers and no tight ends. Here are some of the players who didn’t make the cut: Georgia running back Nick Chubb (266 yards rushing in the Belk Bowl against Louisville); Baylor

QB Pryce Petty (550 yards passing in the Cotton Bowl against Michigan State); Boise State receiver Thomas Sperbeck (12 catches for 199 yards in the Fiesta Bowl against Arizona; and Florida defensive end Dante Fowler (three sacks in the Birmingham Bowl against East Carolina). The competition was tough, but after 38 games here are the players chosen the best of the best by a panel of AP writers who cover college football.

PRO BASEBALL

5 years later, Johnson, Martinez and Smoltz ‘old goats’ BY RONALD BLUM The Associated Press NEW YORK — Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz already consider themselves relics. Baseball transformed during the second half of their careers and has been revolutionized in the five years since their final pitches. Out: big boppers. In: strict pitch limits, a profuMARTINEZ sion of relief pitchers and sudden swell in defensive shifts. “Old goats” is what Martinez called the newest Hall of Famers, products of another age — remember back before high definition TVs and mobile Internet browsers were commonplace? So much has changed so quickly. “The game has kind of gone to a Stratomatic-type baseball game, where hitting is difficult because you’re facing nine and 10 pitchers combined per team,” Smoltz

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SMOLTZ

said Wednesday. “Guys are not going attain 3,000 innings. They’re not going to get 3,000 strikeouts.” “Vive le difference!” seemed to be the motto of their joint news conference. Smoltz, pretty much average for a pitcher at 6-foot-3, stood on a chair to drop a cap onto the head of Johnson, the tallest of 215 Hall of Fame players at 6-foot-10. All the while, the Big Unit struggled to button his cream-colored jersey with “Hall of Fame” in red script, unable to line up the buttons with the correct buttonholes. “Those left-handers,” Johnson quipped. At 5-foot-11 the shortest pitcher picked for Cooperstown since Whitey Ford in 1974, Martinez held both hands up with fingers raised and smiled broadly. The trio of pitchers, elect-

ed to the Hall on Tuesday along with Craig Biggio, are among the all-time greats statistically, given the era they pitched in. Martinez’s 2.93 career ERA is 1.47 below the big league average during the years he pitched, easily the best margin in major league history among pitchers with 1,500 or more innings, according to STATS. The next best are Carl Hubbell and Lefty Grove at 1.15, Hoyt Wilheim at 1.14, Greg Maddux at 1.13 and Roger Clemens at 1.12. Johnson’s 1.01 is 13th and Smoltz’s 0.97 is 15th. Speaking at a Manhattan hotel, Johnson said the game is just starting to get back into whack. He thinks pitching became more onerous in the 1990s and early 2000s because smaller ballparks replaced multiuse stadiums and Major League Baseball introduced QuesTec, a computer system put in place in 2001 to evaluate ball-strike calls. Umpires responded by shrinking strike zones back toward the rule-book definition.

Ducks, Buckeyes settle into ‘weird’ prep title week BY ANNE M. PETERSON The Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon is treating this week like any other this season. And while that’s more comfortable in a way, it also feels a little odd. After all, the Ducks are preparing to face Ohio State in the national championship game Monday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The two teams are the first to experience a season stretched out for one more game by college football’s new playoff system. MEYER Both teams have already had their bowl games and all the hoopla that goes with that, so this is more of a HELFRICH business trip, said Oregon senior safety Erick Dargan. A really important business trip. “It’s just like a regular week. I think that actually plays more to our advantage than having a lot of time,” Dargan said. “We’re back in our groove.” The Ducks (13-1) routed Florida State 59-20 in the Rose Bowl, while the Buckeyes (13-1) beat Alabama 42-35 in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day, paving the way for the championship 11 days later. Upon arrival for the game in Pasadena, secondseeded Oregon was involved in all the customary Rose Bowl activities, including the obligatory visit to Disneyland for the photo op with Mickey Mouse. They had essentially already done their work: There had been 26 days between the team’s regularseason finale and the Granddaddy of Them All. That gave the Ducks plenty of time to scheme for the Seminoles and quarterback Jameis Winston. The fourth-seeded Buckeyes were similarly prepared upon arrival in New Orleans, giving them time for events like a dinner that featured entertainment from a couple of alli-

gators and a python. Adding the national championship as a 15th game presents some unique challenges for coaches and their players — like guarding against fatigue or injury. “I was talking to someone earlier and they said it’s been like 25 weeks. I guess it is just part of the grind. Part of our job is taking care of your body and making sure you’re ready to go when you’re number is called,” said Ohio State senior receiver Evan Spencer. Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer led a former team, Florida, to national championships in 2006 and 2008. There wasn’t a lot of comparison he could offer. “Practices are a little different. Those ones, we had 37 days to prepare. I remember in ‘06 it was 37 or 47, some ridiculous number; ‘06 was the first one removed from the traditional bowl date,” he said. This one, Meyer said, “is a one game shot that really, you have four practices in shoulder pads.” Oregon was keeping everything the same as during the regular season. Same practice times, same meeting schedule. The Ducks, like the Buckeyes, leave Friday for the Dallas area. “We understand what we’re playing for. But the nice thing is that guys who haven’t been in a game like this — not many of us have — it makes it easier to treat it like a regular game,” Oregon center Hroniss Grasu said. Coach Mark Helfrich was one of those who called it all odd. But in a good way. “It’s weird in some sense: It’s obviously not just another game, but it’s sort of just another week of fall. We’re in school, they’re not, so that’s a little bit of nuance to it. But we’ve had a plan for this and built a plan for this last summer and our guys have done a phenomenal job of executing our longterm plan,” he said. “Logistically, the time of day and how we’re practicing, all that stuff is the same. But obviously what we’re doing during that time is different from when you are in Week 1 or Week 26, or whatever it is now.”

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Atlanta’s Dennis Schroder, Mike Scott and Thabo Sefolosha, left to right, have helped the Hawks become one of the NBA surprising teams this season.

High-flying Hawks emerge as NBA’s most surprising team BY PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press ATLANTA — Paul Millsap knocked the ball away. Thabo Sefolosha scrambled into the corner to grab it and passed quickly to Dennis Schroder, who took off the other way. Schroder dribbled into the frontcourt and spotted Millsap already ahead of him on the wing. Millsap didn’t keep the ball for long, bouncing a pass to Al Horford streaking through the lane for a thunderous dunk. That play epitomized the way the Atlanta Hawks are going right now. A stop at the defensive end. Four guys touching the ball. An easy basket. The Hawks are the biggest surprise in the NBA, leading the Eastern Conference with a 26-8 record that is the best in franchise history through 34 games. Most striking, they have won seven straight on the road, wrapping up a sweep of their West Coast road trip with a 107-98 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night. “We’ve got a good group of players, who play unselfish and play hard,” said secondyear coach Mike Budenholzer, who learned at the knee of San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich and is looking to build another powerhouse in Atlanta. The Hawks have won 19 of 21, but their play over the last three weeks has been especially impressive. Atlanta has twice beaten the Clippers and LeBron James’ Cavaliers, sending a bit of a shockwave through the league with a 29point blowout at Cleveland. The stretch also includes wins over Chicago, Houston, Dallas and Portland, so this is looking less and less like a fluke. The Hawks are facing all sorts of uncertainty off the court, from ongoing efforts to sell the franchise to what will become of disgraced general manager Danny Ferry. But the turmoil seems to have brought the team together, and Budenholzer — a longtime assistant with the Spurs — has instilled many of the same principles that work so well in San Antonio. Atlanta ranks among the league’s top clubs in steals and assists, scoring about two-thirds of its baskets off passes from teammates. All five starters are averaging at least 11.6 points. There’s not one true superstar, but Jeff Teague is emerging as one of the league’s best point guards, Millsap can do a bit of everything, and Horford’s return after missing most of last season with an injury has been a huge boost for the inside game. Budenholzer and his staff have also gotten surprising contributions from DeMarre Carroll, who bounced around to four teams before finding a home in Atlanta, and Kyle Korver, who has proven to be a lot more than a 3-point specialist. The bench is deep, too, with players such as Schroeder, Sefolosha, Mike Scott and Pero Antic making important contributions. Sounding very much like his mentor, Budenholzer talks constantly about “activ-

ity” at the defensive end, pushing his players to get a hand on the ball and cut off passing lanes. The Hawks aren’t a pick-and-roll-focused offense like the Spurs, but they feed off their defense, run at every opportunity, and wind up with a lot of easy baskets. “We know if we make plays on the defensive end, everything else will take care of itself,” Teague said. Teague’s development has been a huge key. He flashed plenty of potential over his first five seasons, but he’s finally demonstrating the sort of consistency that Budenholzer demands. Over the last five games, the 26-year-old is averaging 23.2 points, 8.2 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 2.6 steals while shooting 52 percent from the field. Horford and Teague are the only players who’ve been with the Hawks longer than three years, the roster almost totally overhauled the last two summers by Ferry. While the GM successfully turned things around in Atlanta, there’s no indication he’ll ever return to his job after making racially charged comments about potential free agent Luol Deng. Ferry is on an indefinite leave of absence, watching from afar as the roster he built keeps piling up the wins. Budenholzer is now in charge of player personnel, though it looks as if the bulk of the work is done. Once the Hawks get to the playoffs, the lack of one dominant scorer could prove to be a weakness. It certainly cost them last season, when they squandered a chance to knock off top-seeded Indiana in the opening round. For now, it’s not an issue. “We’ve got a good group of guys in that locker room,” Budenholzer said. “We’re playing well on both ends of the court.”

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Sumter’s David Pringle, top, controls his Socastee opponent in their 220-pound match on Wednesday at the Sumter gymnasium. Pringle won the match 4-1.

SHS FROM PAGE B1 pound weight class for the Gamecocks. Socastee won 9-3 before Sumter’s David Pringle, ranked third in 4A at 220 by SCMAT.COM, won by decision to make it 9-6. The Braves’ Kyle Burton, No. 6 at 285, won by pin to make it 15-6. However, the Gamecocks’ Majid Corbett followed with a pin at 106 to make it 15-12. The Braves scored a pin at 113 and won by forfeit at 120 to forge ahead 27-12. Slaughter said taking the forfeit there was part of a strategy. “We’d decided if they got

a pin at 113, we’d take the forfeit at 120 to try and break the momentum,” said Slaughter, whose team beat Carollna Forest 69-6 and Conway 73-6 in its other matches. “We knew Trevor (Keffer) could get a pin at 126. It was what we had planned, but it just didn’t quite work for us.” A pin by Keffer, No. 7 at 126, pulled Sumter within 2718. The Gamecocks’ Brian Budden gave the Braves’ Logan Gammon all he could handle at 132. Gammon, No. 4 in the state, prevailed though winning 6-3 to push the Socastee lead to 30-18. Socastee won by pin at 138 to make it 36-18 with

GAMECOCKS FROM PAGE B1 Florida’s win here in 2013-14. This time, Frazier was 3-of-5 from long distance despite not starting for the first time this season. Florida entered SEC play a struggling team, having lost by a combined six points to state rival Florida State and Connecticut in its past two games. The Gators were even more shorthanded with coach Billy Donovan’s suspensions of Horford, the brother of former Gators great Al Horford, and walk-on freshman guard Zach Hodskins. Neither player traveled with the team to Columbia. Donovan said he would re-evaluate their status when the team returned to Gainesville. It didn’t seem to matter as the Gators, helped by Frazier’s two 3s, built a 17-6 lead.

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three matches left. That meant Sumter needed six points in each match to forge a tie. Shyheim Perry got that at 145, winning when the Socastee wrestler had to retire with an injury. Sumter’s Donovan Jones, ranked eighth at 152, couldn’t get a pin though. He did win the match 4-1 to make it 36-27. Sumter’s Mac Mota, ranked third at 160, won by forfeit for the final score. Socastee went 3-0, beating Conway 69-9 and Carolina Forest 71-9. Carolina Forest beat Conway 42-33 in the other match.

But the Gamecocks turned up their defense with an 11-0 run to get back in it. Johnson had a three-point play and Marcus Stroman a basket to end the run. South Carolina grabbed its first lead of the game with 40 seconds left on Duane Notice’s 3-pointer to head to halftime up 34-31. TIP INS Florida: Michael Frazier II had a career game last time he played at South Carolina, going for a Gator record 11 3-pointers and 37 points in his team’s 72-46 victory. Frazier has 33 3-pointers this season to lead Florida. South Carolina: The Gamecocks have stepped up their defense this season. Last time out, they held then No. 9 Iowa State to 35.1 percent shooting, 15 points below its season average in a 64-60 South Carolina victory.

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MAE STARKS WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Mae Ellen Jefferson Starks, 89, passed away peacefully at her home on Friday, Jan. 2, 2015. She was born on Oct. 5, 1925, in Mayesville, to Ivory and Carrie Inez Wilder Jefferson. Mae received her high school diploma from Mayesville Institute High School and later went on to receive her bacheSTARKS lor of science degree in primary education from Winston-Salem State University. She obtained her master of science degree in elementary education from NC A&T State University and completed studies at Appalachian State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for her North Carolina teacher certification in special education. Mae’s career as a teacher spanned many years. She worked as a teacher’s aide with Edna Earl Johnson Bryan, the founder of the Farmette Kindergarten of Forsyth County, North Carolina, and the wife of civil rights activist and professor of religion Dr. George McLeod Bryan. She taught at Broad River School, grade 3, in Beaufort, and was later employed by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools as a teacher for Exceptional Children K-12. Mae joined Forsyth Technical Community College, teaching adult basic education classes, which were held at the Urban League Senior Center. She also worked in the after school program at Sprague Street YWCA. Very active in her community, she served as a Junior Girl Scout Leader at Columbia Heights Elementary School with the late Maxwell Grier; was a telemarketer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel newspapers; and participated in activities of the WSSU Class of 1955 and the Cherry Hill Community Club. She sang in several church and community choirs and served with Queen Esther Missionary Group at First Baptist Church, Highland Avenue. She was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by two daughters, Wandalee Inez Starks Nevels of the home and Winifred Wynné Starks (Paul Allen) Garrett of Durham, North Carolina; one son, Dr. Preston Henry (Wilma Evelyn Case) Starks of Jacksonville, Florida; six grandchildren, Adeia Michelle Nevels, Opal Wynné, Jasmine Inez, Taylor Alexander Garrett, Valerie Mae and Phillip Henry Starks; a host of other relatives and friends. A celebration of life service will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday at First Baptist Church, Highland Avenue. Entombment will follow in Gardens of Memory, Walkertown, North Carolina. The family will gather at the church at 10 a.m. and receive friends in the church sanctuary until the start of the service. Online condolences can be made at www.russellfuneralservice.com. Russell Funeral Home of Winston-Salem is in charge of arrangements.

JOSEPH D. HARRIS Joseph D. Harris, age 80, of Sumter, a longtime Delaware, Ohio, and former Cardington, Ohio, resident, died on Friday evening, Jan. 2, 2015, at Sumter Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born on Aug. 19, 1934, in Olean, New York, to the late Solomon and Selma M. (Tucker ) Harris. Joseph was a 1953 graduate of Olean High School and had served his country in the U.S. Air Force. He had worked as a computer programmer and was a member of the Jenkins-Vaughn American Legion Post No. 97. Joseph is survived by his children, Alan Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, Barbara (John) Gaydos of Wedgefield and Elaine S. Harris of Sacramento, California; grandchildren, Ethan Gaydos and Elizabeth Gaydos; sister, Beverly Simon of Cleveland; and

former wife, Gloria Harris of Delaware. In addition to his parents, Joseph was preceded in death by his brother, David J. Harris. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday in the Glendale Cemetery. Full military honors will be provided by Jenkins-Vaughn American Legion Post No. 97. To share a memory of Joseph or to send a condolence to the Harris Family, please visit www.gompffh.com. Gompf Funeral Service of Cardington is in charge of arrangements.

ANTONIA H. BRADLEY Antonia “Tony” Hutchinson Bradley, 95, widow of William Harvey Bradley Sr., died on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born on Feb. 19, 1919, in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Harley Arthur and Amy “Birdie” Hatfield Hutchinson. She retired from the City of Sumter Police Department, where she was the first police woman to be promoted to the rank of sergeant. Sgt. Bradley served under Chief Gene McIntosh, Chief C.N. Strange, Chief Harold Kirkland and Chief L.W. Griffin. She will be remembered by all for her beautiful smile and sweet personality. She is survived by a granddaughter, Ame Kee Stewart Wims and her husband, Travis Martin Wims, of Otsego, Minnesota; two great-grandsons, McKorey Stewart Wims and Kaden Bradley Wims; a sister, Lottie H. Johnson of Sumter; a former daughterin-law, Donna Severance and her husband, Don, of Lamar; a step-granddaughter, Misty Brown and her husband, Keith, of Florence; a sisterin-law, Emily B. Boyce of Darlington; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a son, William Harvey Bradley Jr.; a daughter, Betty Anne Bradley Stewart; a son-inlaw, James E. “Dickie” Stewart; and three sisters, Nina H. Hodge, Doris H. Sturkie and Wanda H. Neal. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday in the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Dr. Eugene Mosier officiating. Burial will be in Sumter Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the ASPCA, www.aspca.org. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements. www. ecsfuneralhome.com

MARTHA LEE ALLEN Martha Lee “Marlee” Davis Allen was born on July 22, 1945, in Sumter County, to the late Johnnie Sr. and Amelia Choice Davis. She departed this life on Friday, Jan. 2, 2015, at her home. She received her education in the public schools of Sumter County. At an early age, Martha accepted Christ and joined St. Paul AME Church Shaw, where she was a faithful and dedicated member of the adult church school class. She was employed by Mount Vernon Inn, Campbell Soup and Gold Kist for more than 17 years before retiring. Martha enjoyed life and nothing meant more to her than her family. Although her official birth date was July 22, she celebrated on July 13 along with her grandson, Marion. She leaves to cherish her memories: four children, Freddie (Trina) Allen Jr., John Lee Allen, Betty Jean (Marion) Allen Simms and Geraldine Allen-Jones, all of Sumter; nine grandchildren, Lyndon, LaShaun, Antony, Marion, Chedric, Kayola, Quineesha, Tyreek and Paroudyce; five great-grandchildren; two sisters, Minnie (Richard) Ramsey and Mary Colclough (Daniel) Maple; five brothers, Tommy (Angela) Davis, Herbert (Dorotha) Davis, Freddie (Evelyn) Davis, Julius (Betty) Davis and Silas O’Neal (Yolanda) Davis, all of Sumter; two uncles, Edward (Louise) Choice

and Daniel (Nancy) Choice; five sisters-in-law, Louise Davis, Patricia H. Davis Kirkland, Susan Joiner, Minnie Allen and Maggie Allen; an adopted daughter, La’Trealle (David) Smith; a special friend of the family, Kevin Sanders; a special son-in-law, Chedric A. Jones Sr.; an adopted granddaughter, Regina (Anthony) Dinkins-Hardy; a special niece, Cynthia A. Dinkins; a goddaughter, Ashley McGee; two cousins, Raffield Choice and Carrie Mae Terry, who were reared in the home; along with a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Freddie Allen; two brothers, Johnnie Davis Jr. and Ben Leon Davis; and two brothers-inlaw, William Dinkins Sr. and William Colclough Jr. Public viewing will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary. Ms. Allen will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. on Friday for viewing until the hour of service. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at St. Paul AME Church (Shaw), 1495 N. St. Paul Church Road, Sumter, with the pastor, the Rev. Eric Dent, officiating. Interment will follow in St. Paul Church cemetery. The family will be receiving friends at the home, 315 Dechamps Road, Sumter. Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements. Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or visit us on the web at www.jobsmortuary.net.

FRANCES D. CLARKSON Frances Dargan Clarkson, age 90, beloved wife of the late James S.H. Clarkson, died on Jan. 6, 2015, after a brief illness. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday at The Church of the Holy Comforter in Sumter. Interment will be in the church’s Memorial Ash Garden, which she helped to found. The family will receive friends in the social hall of the church following the services. You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.

PERTELL M. LOYNES Pertell McLeod Loynes, 92, departed this life on Friday, Jan. 2, 2015, at KershawHealth Medical Center at Camden. Born on Nov. 8, 1922, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Harrison and Roseanna Chatman Sanders. She was the widow of Warren McLeod Sr. and Elliot Loynes. She was baptized at an early age and became a member of Rafting Creek Baptist Church, where she was a member of the senior choir, Missionary Society, captain of the Young Women’s Association No. 8, Rembert’s Farmers Union and a member of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Pertell was united in marriage to the late Warren McLeod Sr. This union was blessed with four children, Louise M. Wilson and Edward McLeod (deceased), Warren McLeod Jr. of Rembert and David McLeod of Suitland, Maryland. She was a devoted wife, mother and homemaker. Besides her two sons, she leaves to mourn her sad passing and to always love her: one daughter-in-law, Marian McLeod; three sisters, Mazola C. White and Rosa Lee Jackson, both of Baltimore, Maryland, and Marie Jackson of Pinewood; 15 grandchildren, four of whom she helped raised, Rosa Lee W. Thomas, Carolyn Wilson, Gregory Wilson and Terry W. Biggs; two grandsons-in-law, Timothy Thomas Sr. and Joseph Biggs; 12 great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015 grandchildren; two sisters-inlaw; three stepchildren, Clarence, Melvin and Ora Lee McLeod of Rembert; a great host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by one brother, Bubba Chatman; and two sisters, Mary “Vehh” and Alice Chatman. Homegoing celebration will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday at Rafting Creek Baptist Church, 3860 S.C. 261 North, Rembert, with the Rev. Melvin Mack, pastor, presiding, the Rev. Douglas E. Franklin, eulogist, assisted by the Rev. Lillian Reynolds. The family is receiving family and friends at the home, 6683 James St., Rembert. The remains will be placed in the church at 2 p.m. The procession will leave at 1:30 p.m. from the home. Flower bearers and pallbearers will be family and friends. Burial will be in the Rafting Creek Baptist Churchyard cemetery. Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. com. Visit us on the web at www. williamsfuneralhomeinc.com. Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter.

RUPERT H. KIMBRELL JR. Rupert Hawfield Kimbrell Jr., 83, husband of Barbara Tisdale Kimbrell, died on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Services will be announced by Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter.

JUNIOR LEE JONES Junior Lee Jones was born on Nov. 29, 1941, in Sumter County, to the late Frank Pringle and Lou Ethel Pellman (Elder James Pellman). He departed this life on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Mr. Jones, known as “Pony Express,” attended the public schools of Sumter County. He was employed at Coker Mobile Home and Campbell Soup (Pilgrim Pride) for more than 30 years. In his youth, he attended Saint Jude Catholic Church and later attended the Church of God by Faith. He leaves to cherish his memories: a son, Minister Brian (LaShonda) Jones; three daughters, Eugenia Jones, Prophetess Santa Gadson and Ronda Tomlin; a special granddaughter, Shana (David) Newkirk; five brothers, James Jr., Karl, Jerome, James and Robert; six sisters, Betty, Juanita, Rovenia, Priscilla, Sally and Katie; one aunt, Agnes Spencer, of whom he also adored; grandchildren; great-grandchildren; a host of other relatives and friends. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one daughter, Rosemary Jones-McGhaney; and one brother, Charles Pellman. Public viewing will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary. Mr. Jones will be placed in the church at 12:30 p.m. on Friday for viewing until the hour of service. Funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday at Salem Chapel & Heritage Center, 101 S. Salem Ave., Sumter, with Bishop Sylvester Francis presiding and Bishop B.C. James, eulogist The family will be receiving friends at the home, 1011 Hudderfield Road, Sumter. Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements. Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or visit us on the web at www.jobsmortuary.net.

ALMETA G. BENJAMIN Almeta Green Benjamin, 62, entered eternal rest on Jan. 4, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born on June 12, 1952, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Beatrice “Dell” Green Harris and Harbe “Bo” Harvin and the adopted daughter of the late Blease and Mary Jane Conyers.

She attended the public schools of Sumter County. She was a former member of Calvary Missionary Baptist Church and Enon Missionary Baptist Church. In 2014, she joined Kingdom Builder Deliverance Ministries and was a member of the Sunday school and Bible studies. Survivors are her husband, Johnnie Lee Benjamin; one son, K’laus (Ashleigh) Benjamin; four daughters, Tomekia (Gussie) Thames, Shawntell Benjamin, Grace Latrell (Roosevelt) Isaac and Donmazja “Dee-Dee” Wilson; 14 grandchildren; five brothers, Elder John (Betty) Green, William Harris, George Lee Green, Rudolph Harvin and Hikie (Linda) Pugh; eight sisters, Sara Rogers, Odell Green, Carrie Mae White, Juliette Thomas, Elouise Harvin, Anita Harvin, Janie Pugh and Loren Chestnut of Pinewood; a host of other relatives and friends. Viewing will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. on Friday and funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church with Bishop Leroy T. James, pastor of Kingdom BDM, the Rev. Roger Mullins, Bishop Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Stanley E. Hayes Sr., Minister Stanley E. Hayes Jr., the Rev. E.L. Sanders and the Rev. Samuel Benjamin. Burial will follow in Bradford Cemetery. The family is receiving relatives and friends at 195 Pack Road. Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com. Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

RHUNETTE M. WOODS Rhunette McKnight Woods, 61, wife of Alexander Woods, was born on March 19, 1953, in Lee County to the late John Wesley Vaughn and Ruthie Mae McKnight, and reared in the home of Johnson and Willie Mae Gilyard McKnight. She entered eternal rest on Jan. 3, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. She attended the public schools of Lee County and graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School Class of 1971. Rhunette was a member of Galilee Baptist Church, Mayesville. “Net,” as she was affectionately called, worked as a manager at Holiday Inn for many years, until her health declined. She had a pleasing personality and was a fashion diva. She leaves to cherish her memories: her husband of 38 years, Alexander Woods of the home; one son, Terry Leander McKnight of the home; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; five sisters, Alice (Covett) Woods of Bishopville, Thelma Hodge of Mayesville, Jesse Muhammad, Delores Davis and Tyrita Stuckey, all of Elizabeth, New Jersey; one brother, Charlie McKnight of St. Charles; seven sisters-in-law; two brothers-in-law; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her son, Marques McKnight; two sisters, Jule McKnight and Carolyn McKnight Woods; and five brothers, James, John Ervin, George, Calvin and Johnson McKnight Jr. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday at Galilee Baptist Church, 126 E. Sumter St., Mayesville, with the Rev. Eugene Myers, pastor, eulogist. The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home, 1045 Manning Road, Sumter. The remains will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. The funeral procession will leave at 1:20 p.m. from the home. Floral bearers and pallbearers will be family and friends. Burial will be in Mayesville Cemetery. Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. com. Visit us on the web at www.williamsfuneralhomeinc.com. Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

COMICS

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MOTHER GOOSE

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ACROSS 1 Plenty 6 Cologne scent 10 “Now it makes sense!” 14 2011 Cricket World Cup winner 15 Actress Gray of “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” 16 Stores in rows 17 Film with the song “Maniac” 19 Formally proper 20 Philippine tongue 21 Gillette Mach3 predecessor 23 Uintah and Ouray Reservation residents 24 Film in which Garbo said, “I want to be alone” 29 Annoyances 31 Spanish demonstrative 32 __ Coast 33 Golfer nicknamed “The Big Easy” 35 Winter coat 37 Buck Rogers portrayer __ Gerard 38 Private club ritual, and a hint to this

puzzle’s circles 43 Lines of praise 44 One on a penny 45 Scarfed down 46 Like a new candle 48 Showed the way 50 Treats, as an icy road 54 “Unsafe at Any Speed” author 57 Real card 58 Desert formation 59 Like monastic life 61 Non-PC purchase 63 “That’s news to me!” 66 Actress Tushingham 67 Slimming option, for short 68 __ position 69 Biz bigwig 70 Twirled 71 Easy paces DOWN 1 Elate 2 Airing in the wee hours 3 Words of wisdom 4 Earthquake, perhaps 5 Satirist Mort 6 Thin, on the Thames 7 Coffee holder 8 [that’s what

it said] 9 Massage 10 “Whose Line Is It Anyway” technique 11 1777 battle site 12 Yalie 13 Street of nightmares 18 Husky, for one 22 Yearns 25 Embarrassed 26 It may follow eleven 27 Actor Estrada 28 Lovett of country 30 Spade and Hammer 34 Subway map dot: Abbr. 36 Cavity filler’s org. 38 Fermented, as milk

39 Novelist Ferber 40 Pen pal? 41 Island dance 42 More nourishing 47 Medicinal syrup 49 Precise 51 Didn’t come clean with 52 Clawed 53 Advances a base, in a way 55 Gets precisely 56 Appear in print 60 Piano on a piano? 61 Sore feeling 62 Socialize 64 With it 65 “The Simpsons” shopkeeper

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Rodgers sits out practice, still expected to start BY GENARO C. ARMAS The Associated Press GREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rodgers didn’t practice Wednesday because of a lingering left calf injury. The quarterback left no doubt about his plans for Sunday when the Green Bay Packers host the Dallas Cowboys. “No, I’m going Sunday,” Rodgers said. “Just a matter of how.” Missing practice was part of the plan for Rodgers, who has dealt with the injury for about three weeks. While the Packers practiced inside the frigid Hutson Center training facility, Rodgers stayed exclusively in the training room for treatment. He hopes that occasional acupuncture will also help, along with the valuable rest that the Packers received for earning a bye for the opening round of the playoffs. It’s possible Rodgers could also wear a wrap to further protect his lower left leg. There is progress, though “it’s never enough for Aaron,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “But I think the training staff feels good about it and we feel confident in the direction we’re going.” Rodgers at less than 100 percent health is still better than most other quarterbacks. Two weeks ago against Detroit, Rodgers had to be carted to the locker room after aggravating the calf injury. He limped back on to the field in the middle of the third quarter, throwing for one score and tumbling in from 1 yard for another to help lead the Packers to victory and a fourth straight NFC North crown.

FROM PAGE B1 last year and wondering who the crazy man wearing the No. 59 jersey for Carolina was. “He’s yelling, he’s talking trash — and then you meet him and he doesn’t even remember any of that,” Harper said. “He’s just the nicest guy, he talks about his mom all the time and all this other stuff and it’s just so funny. It really is like the SupermanClark Kent thing.” Wagner is the intense driven leader of the Seattle defense, which has finished first in the league in the NFL in each of the past two seasons. Kuechly was the catalyst for the Panthers holding the Arizona Cardinals to 78 yards in last week’s wild-card game, an NFL postseason record for fewest yards in a game. “They’re two of the better young linebackers in the league, for sure,” Panthers coach Ron Rivera said. “They’re exciting to watch.” For all the inherent hype surrounding quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Cam Newton entering Saturday night’s NFC divisional playoff game, this game could be determined by the teams’ two defensive play callers. The past three meetings between the Seahawks and Panthers have resulted in low-scoring matchups, hardly a surprise given the men manning the middle of those defenses. The Seahawks won those games 16-12 in 2012, 12-7 in 2013 and 13-9 in October, although Wagner didn’t play in the most recent game due to a turf toe injury. “We’re the quarterback of the defense so I think we should get as much recognition as the quarterback,” Wagner said. “(But) it’s a fun position. We’re in the middle of everything. We have a job during the run, have a job on

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Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) had his left leg stepped on twice by Ndamukong Suh in a victory over Detroit to win the NFC North title. Rodgers missed practiced on Wednesday, but expects to start Sunday against Dallas in an NFC divisional playoff game.

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Rodgers is such a stickler for preparation that no one in the locker room doubts the team’s leader can play well without practice. “We would definitely love to be able to have that preparation, but health is the most important thing for him at this time. You’ve got to trust the system,” receiver Randall Cobb said. The injury, though, has limited Rodgers’ mobility the last two weeks, which in turn has affected his trademark ability to extend plays. That mobility has bailed out the Packers in potentially troublesome situations time and again in Rodgers’ seven years as starter. The rest of the Packers have promised they will help pick up any slack. In the passing game, that means an offensive line that has been playing well might need to hold blocks longer to protect Rodgers in what would have otherwise been a scrambling situation. Receivers who must be prepared in order to earn Rodgers’ trust and targets must be even sharper on the field. “Just making sure you’re creating more separation and just doing everything you can to make sure you’re running your route as well as possible, make it less (stressful for) him,” rookie wideout Davante Adams said. Rodgers didn’t roll out much the last two games after getting hurt. The Packers lined him up in shotgun formations much of the time, even on running plays. Rodgers still displayed his typically accurate arm in making quick-strike tosses on slants and other short routes.

Panthers’ DT Lotulelei out with broken bone in foot BY STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — The Panthers will be without starting defensive tackle Star Lotulelei for Saturday night’s NFC divisional playoff game against Seattle after undergoing surgery Wednesday to repair a broken bone in his foot. Coach Ron Rivera said Lotulelei injured his foot late in Tuesday’s practice. Rivera did not say which foot is injured. Rivera said Lotulelei wouldn’t be available for the NFC championship game, but might be ready to play if the Panthers were to reach the Super Bowl. Carolina would need two road wins to get there. the pass, get sacks, interceptions, tackles. We’re pretty much involved. It’s the best positon in my opinion.” Kuechly agrees, although he’s fine without the attention. “It’s all good, and I wouldn’t want to change that,” Kuechly said. “That’s something you take with the position.” Teammate Greg Olsen called him the best defensive player in the league and said he’s already as good as Brian Urlacher was in his prime. Both players entered the league in 2012 — Kuechly as a first-round pick out of Boston College; Wagner a second-round choice from Utah State. Since their arrival, both defenses have vastly improved in part because of their ability to decipher offensive formations, run to

“We will miss Star, but we have guys that will be able to step in and do a very good job,” LOTULELEI Rivera said. Rivera said Wednesday he expects veteran Colin Cole will start alongside Kawann Short. The 6-foot-2, 325-pound Lotulelei has been critical to the team’s improved run defense down the stretch. He has 25 tackles this season, but is important because he takes up doubleteams in the middle of the defensive line, allowing AllPro linebacker Luke Kuechly a chance to run and make plays. Kuechly led the NFL in tackles this season with 153. the ball and make plays. Both excel in pass coverage, too. Kuechly, the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year last season, demonstrated last week just how valuable he is to the Panthers. He had 10 tackles, a key fourth quarter interception and tipped another Ryan Lindley pass that resulted in a turnover in Carolina’s 27-16 wild-card win over the Cardinals. “He can literally take over the game from the middle linebacker position,” Harper said. Wagner finished with 104 tackles in 11 games and doesn’t have quite the same big plays on his resume this season as Kuechly, but he’s just as valuable to Seattle’s defense. That’s why he was selected as an All-Pro despite missing five games due to the toe injury.

Representatives for the woman declined comment. Florida State president John Thrasher released a statement saying he is disappointed in the lawsuit, but the university looks forward to “addressing these meritless allegations in court.” The university has contended that it took all the proper steps in fulfilling its Title IX obligations and that, “FSU did everything the plaintiff asked for and that the assertions FSU shirked its Title IX obligations are false.” “In all, the University asked the plaintiff or her attorneys at least nine times over nearly 20 months to give a statement that would enable a Title IX investigation. FSU did not ignore the complainant or its obligations under Title IX,” Thrasher said in the statement. “The University’s victim advocates were at the plaintiff’s side within hours of the encounter and continued meeting with or contacting her or her representatives at least 30 times over the ensuing year. Besides offering emotional support and arranging numerous academic accommodations on her behalf, they informed the plaintiff and her attorney five times about the right to pursue a student disciplinary action. The first was in December 2012--before the Athletics Department ever became aware of the allegation--and the last was in December 2013. “Florida State University does not tolerate sexual violence in any form, regardless of who the alleged perpetrator might be.” A key portion of the lawsuit is expected to center on when the university’s Title IX coordinator was alerted. Florida State previously said the only authorities aware of the incident before January 2013 were Tallahassee police, campus police and the Victims Advocate Program. The university said its Title IX officials didn’t become aware of the incident until November 2013, when contacted by the Tallahassee Police Department and that the woman was not made available for an interview with the school until Aug. 6, 2014. The woman’s lawyers have maintained that she was willing to talk throughout the process. In his two seasons, the Seminoles went 26-1 with Winston starting and won the 2014 national championship. “I reached this very difficult decision after careful consideration and long thought, realizing how difficult it would be to say goodbye to my family at Florida State,” Winston said. “I will always take pride in leading our team back to national prominence and am confident that my returning teammates will continue the success for many years to

come. Winston set the national freshman record with 40 touchdown passes while throwing for 4,057 yards and 10 interceptions en route to winning the title. His numbers dropped in 2013 after losing his top two running backs, two starting receivers and his starting center. Winston threw for 3,907 yards with 25 touchdowns and 18 interceptions in 2014. Winston is expected to be one of the first quarterbacks selected in the NFL draft, but faces questions about the off-field incidents. NFL Media senior analyst Gil Brandt said NFL teams will find out everything they need to know about Winston’s background from league security. Brandt helped build the Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys as vice president of player personnel from 196089. “Initially, he’s going to get a grade and it’s going to be very good because he is a good player,” Brandt said. “They’ll look at the Notre Dame game and see all the unusual blitzes that they brought against him and what he did. They’ll look at the Louisville game where he threw three interceptions and knocks the ball loose from the interceptor and throws a touchdown pass the next play.” A state attorney declined to press sexual assault charges against Winston in December 2013, and the university cleared him in December 2014. “The way he’s played this year is unbelievable with all of the problems that he’s faced and all the adjustments he’s had to make to practice times and to do all the things that he has to do to defend himself, give depositions, appear in court before the student body, all of those things,” Brandt said. Winston was suspended for three baseball games for the theft of crab legs from a grocery store in Tallahassee, Florida, during the spring of 2014. He also was suspended from the Clemson football game in September after the quarterback made “offensive and vulgar” comments about female anatomy on campus. Coach Jimbo Fisher supported Winston throughout. “I would like to wish Jameis nothing but success at the next level as I think he’ll be extremely successful,” Fisher said in a statement Wednesday. “It was a blessing to be able to coach him. He’s one of the unique players that I’ve ever had the privilege to coach. He embodies what you as a coach want as a person, a student and a player. He’s a genuine and honest guy. He’s one of the greatest players in Florida State history.”

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