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Jury declares rapper guilty on 1 count of intimidation BY ROBERT J. BAKER bbaker@theitem.com A 29-year-old man accused in January of threatening two judges in a rap video posted on YouTube was given a four-year sentence on Tuesday after a jury convicted him on one of two charges. Rodregiz Anthony Cole was found guilty after little deliberation on Tuesday afternoon of intimidating a COLE public official but not guilty of one count of threatening the life of a public official. Twelfth Circuit Court Judge Michael G. Nettles sentenced Cole to seven years in prison, suspended to four years in prison and two GADSON years’ probation to follow. Cole and his attorney, Shaun C. Kent, had argued that Cole and Keith Allen Norman Gadson were utilizing metaphor when they mentioned 3rd Circuit Judge R. Ferrell Cothran and 3rd Circuit Drug Court Judge Amy Land in a song posted to YouTube in December 2012. SEE VIDEO, PAGE A10

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After an almost four-hour manhunt over a two-mile area of woods and farmland east of Sumter on Tuesday, Sumter County sheriff’s deputies take burglary suspect Terrance Jamell Barno, seen above middle, and alleged accomplice Jerome Marquise Daniels into custody. Barno was spotted when he emerged onto a residential section of Fletcher Drive covered with patrol cars.

Reported burglary leads to 4-hour chase in east Sumter BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com A report of a burglary Tuesday morning resulted in a car chase, an SUV driving through a cornfield and a manhunt for the suspects through a wooded area, all ending with law enforcement vehicles flooding a residential street. Terrance Jamal Barno, 25, and Jerome Marquise Daniels, 20, were ulti-

mately taken into custody and charged with seconddegree burglary after an extensive, almost fourhour search in a rural area of east Sumter off U.S. 76. On Tuesday afternoon, two neighbors were standing outside their homes near the dead end of Fletcher Drive talking about the multiple patrol cars clogging the street and the search helicopter flying overhead, then reportedly spotted Barno

coming out of the woods. “I saw him come out of the bushes, and he said, ‘hey,’” said resident Henry James, “and I was like ‘oh, hell no.’” Barno attempted to walk calmly across the street where several sheriff’s patrol cars were already parked, but neighbors quickly recognized the shirtless young man was not a regular in the area. “We were just standing

there having a general conversation, then all of a sudden this guy is just standing in my yard,” said Anthony Robinson. “I said, ‘There he is!’” The drama began about 10 a.m., when Sumter County sheriff’s deputies received a call about a burglary in progress at a home on Danville Lane near the intersection of West Brewington Road

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BELOW LEFT: Law enforcement had to enlist a neighbor with a tractor to pull the suspected vehicle driven by the suspects out of a Brewington Road cornfield Tuesday. After leading deputies on a chase, the car reportedly became stuck in the corn, far off the roadway. BELOW RIGHT: Deputies with a canine unit run down a section of East Brewington Road after receiving word that a suspect from an earlier chase had been spotted. Between 20 and 25 deputies and a SLED helicopter were involved in the manhunt.

hen I got the call to interview Knowledge Supreme Scientific two weeks ago, I didn’t know what to expect. So many claim to have shirked their criminal lifestyle only to fall back into old habits as quickly as they “find religion.” Too many manipulate others under the banner of spiritual reformation in order to get some sort of sympathy or leniency. This doesn’t appear to be the case with Knowledge, who seems to have genuinely turned his life around. I hope he keeps with it. The change in Knowledge’s life is evident to every person I spoke to through the course of writing the story. The very people who arrested or sentenced Knowledge now venerate the man for his love of others. It wasn’t until after the story ran that The Item learned through letters to the editor there are some who are not so convinced of this SEE FAITH MATTERS, PAGE A8

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More charges in killing of sex offender, wife UNION — More charges have been filed against a couple accused of targeting and killing a South Carolina sex offender. Bond was denied Monday for J. MOODY Jeremy Moody, 30, and his wife, 36-year-old Christine, on charges of first-deC. MOODY gree burglary and two counts each of kidnapping and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. The Moodys were arrested last week and charged with murder in the deaths of Charles Parker, 59, and his wife, Gretchen, 51. Both Parkers were shot and stabbed at their home in Union County. Union County Sheriff David Taylor has said Gretchen Parker wasn’t specifically targeted but was killed because she was in the house.

SCE&G removes 280K tons of ash from river COLUMBIA — South Carolina Electric & Gas has removed 280,000 tons of coal ash from lagoons at a river near Columbia as part of a settlement agreement, an environmental group said Tuesday. The Southern Environmental Law Center said Tuesday the disclosure came in paperwork filed as part of a settlement over coal ash removal. In August, SCE&G settled a lawsuit accusing the utility of illegally discharging arsenic and other contaminants into the Wateree River at its 700-megawatt, coal-fired Wateree Station near Eastover, about 25 miles southeast of Columbia.

Coroner: S.C. woman killed by bullet in back ANDERSON — Authorities said a 21-yearold woman was fatally shot in the back outside an Anderson nightclub before her bullet-ridden pickup struck a utility pole. An autopsy showed that India Lomax died from the gunshot wound. Deputies found her and passenger Willis Donald after her truck hit a parked car and pole about 4 a.m. Saturday. The mother of three died at the scene. Donald had been shot in the arm. Investigators said Lomax crashed after leaving Marvon’s. The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the actions of private security guard Joey Johnson Jr.

Church opens ‘The Blessing Closet’ BY JADE ANDERSON janderson@theitem.com An old ministry is a new outreach at a local church. About a month ago, Salt and Light Church opened The Blessing Closet. Modeled off the Dorcas Closet often found in the United Methodist denomination, it features free items, and it was hopping Tuesday. “We tell them to come through and get what they need,” Barbara Painter said. “We were loaded down this morning, but we’ve had very good turnout today. Last Tuesday, we had only two people.” Open from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the church at 360 Miller Road, the closet offers food, clothing for all ages, shoes, toys, purses and more. The closet even had some office equipment and will accept pet food, Painter said. “You don’t have to show a driver’s license,” Angela Pate said. “There are no qualifications. There are limited places within walking distance where people can get things for free. I think there should be different places all over the city.” Individuals can also use the closet as an exchange place. Painter has brought in the clothes her children have outgrown but are still in good condition and picked out better-fitting ones. “I think all churches should do this,” she said. “With the economy the way it is now, sometimes people have to choose between paying a bill or food. They can come here and get the items they need to help them.” Painter, Pate and Gwen Burke, who also works with The Blessing Closet, help visitors find what they are looking for, such as varying clothing sizes. “I have eight children, and I thank you guys so much,” one woman said. “And if the clothes don’t fit, just bring them back,” Painter said. Donations in good condition are welcome and can be dropped off at the church whenever it’s open Sunday and Tuesday mornings or Friday evenings. “It’s a shame the church is

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ABOVE: A woman checks out the ladies section of The Blessing Closet on Tuesday. BELOW: Salt and Light Church off Miller Road opens its giveaway closet every Tuesday morning. The project was started about a month ago by three church members: Barbara Painter, Angela Pate and Gwen Burke.

ever closed,” Pate said. “I guess the Lord has been speaking to us. We felt led to do this.” For more information or to

set up a donation drop off, contact Angela Pate at (803) 968-2426 or (803) 435-5080. Reach Jade Anderson at (803) 774-1250.

COLUMBIA — In an effort to assist parents in meeting new school requirements, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control will offer free Tdap, commonly referred to as whooping cough vaccines, at mass vaccination clinics across the state in August, the agency announced Monday. Beginning this school year, Tdap is a new school entry requirement for all incoming seventh-graders. The free mass vaccination clinics help parents make sure their children are ready for school. “Tdap is a booster to the whooping cough vaccine given to infants and protects against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis,” said Dr. Riyadh Muhammad, pediatrician and DHEC medical consultant. “Unfortunately, protection against these diseases fades with time, and by age 10, the effectiveness of the original vaccine can decrease, causing the child to be more susceptible to these diseases. This makes the Tdap/whooping cough vaccine an important step in keeping children healthy.” Vaccinations will be available for everyone at a clinic location in every county. In addition to the requirement on rising seventh-graders, the Tdap shot is recommended for: • Children ages 11 and up; • Individuals who spend time around babies less than 12 months old; • Pregnant women; and • Anyone who has not had a tetanus or Tdap booster in the last 10 years. All clinics will accept walkins. The vaccine will be given at the following places and times: Clarendon Health Department, 110 E. Boyce St., Manning, 1-6:30 p.m. on Aug. 9; Lee Health Department, 810 Brown St.. Bishopville, 1-6:30 p.m. on Aug. 16; and Sumter Health Department, 105 N. Magnolia St., 1-6:30 p.m. on Aug. 7.

Red Cross launches app to recruit volunteers BY STAFF REPORTS The American Red Cross recently launched the Team Red Cross App, which allows people to sign up to help, get an overview of basic tasks and receive notifications about Red Cross disaster volunteer opportunities in their community. “When people see an emergency happening in their community, they often want to help but may not know how,” said Nancy Cataldo, executive director, American Red Cross Sandhills Chapter. “The Team Red Cross App provides an easy and quick way for people to sign up to help the Red Cross and support their community.” Interested persons can download the app, create an account and then learn about

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S.C. approves bidding for taxpayer credit monitoring COLUMBIA (AP) — A state board has given permission for South Carolina to seek a contract to continue credit monitoring for five years for taxpayers whose personal data was stolen in a massive hacking incident last year. The South Carolina Budget and Control Board met for less than three minutes Tuesday before unanimously agreeing to put out a proposal for bids for the contract.

The company that wins the contract will provide credit monitoring services after the one-year, $12 million no-bid deal that the state signed with Experian expires in October. A separate board of government officials and people in private business will consider bids to continue the monitoring for five years with an option to reconsider after each year.

About 1.4 million people signed up for the monitoring. Data, such as Social Security and bank account numbers, was stolen from about 6.4 million taxpayers and businesses in the hacking of computers at the Department of Revenue last year. The General Assembly set aside $10 million for the new deal and $15 million to improve cyber security in state agencies.

Gov. Nikki Haley, one of the five members of the board, seemed surprised when no one said anything when she asked if there was any discussion about document outlining what bidders need to do. “Didn’t expect that,” she said after the other four board members agreed with her and approved what is officially called a Request for Proposal.

The Budget and Control Board is made up of Haley, Treasurer Curtis Loftis, Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom, House Ways and Means Chairman Brian White and Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman. All five are Republicans, but they frequently clash over their administrative role. This board will not have any more input into the contract bids.

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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., on Monday.

Man found guilty on WikiLeaks charges; spared most serious FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the most serious charge he faced â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges Tuesday, more than three years after he spilled secrets to WikiLeaks. The judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, deliberated for about 16 hours in three days before reaching her decision in a case that drew worldwide attention as supporters hailed Manning as a whistleblower. The U.S. government called him an anarchist computer hacker and attentionseeking traitor. Manning stood at attention, flanked by his attorneys, as the judge read

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her verdicts. He appeared not to react, though his attorney, David Coombs, smiled faintly when he heard not guilty on aiding the enemy, which carried a potential life sentence. When the judge was done, Coombs put his hand on Manningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back and whispered something to him, eliciting a slight smile on the soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face. Manning was convicted on 19 of 21 charges, and he previously pleaded guilty to a charge involving an Icelandic cable. He faces up to 136 years in prison. His sentencing hearing begins today. Coombs came outside the court to a round of applause and shouts of â&#x20AC;&#x153;thank youâ&#x20AC;? from a few dozen Manning supporters.

Practice air-powered handguns sit on a teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desk in a classroom at Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Ark., recently. Twenty Clarksville School District staff members are training during the summer to be armed security guards on campus.

Arkansas school district to arm staff CLARKSVILLE, Ark. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; As Cheyne Dougan rounded the corner at Clarksville High School, he saw three students on the floor moaning and crying. In a split second, two more ran out of a nearby classroom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a gun,â&#x20AC;? one of them shouted as Dougan approached with his pistol drawn. Inside, he found one student holding another at gunpoint. Dougan aimed and fired three rounds at the gunman. Preparing for such scenarios has become common for police after a school shooting in Connecticut last December left 20 children and six teachers

dead. But Dougan is no policeman. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the assistant principal of this school in Arkansas, and when classes resume in August, he will walk the halls with a 9 mm handgun. Dougan is among more than 20 teachers, administrators and other school employees in this town who will carry concealed weapons throughout the school day, making use of a little-known Arkansas law that allows licensed, armed security guards on campus. After undergoing 53 hours of training, Dougan and other teachers at the school will be considered guards. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The plan weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been given in the past is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, lock your

doors, turn off your lights and hope for the best,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Superintendent David Hopkins said. But as deadly incidents continued to happen in schools, he explained, the district decided, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a plan.â&#x20AC;? After the Connecticut attack, the idea of arming schoolhouses against gunmen was hotly debated across the country. The National Rifle Association declared it the best response to serious threats. But even in the most conservative states, most proposals faltered in the face of resistance from educators or warnings from insurance companies that schools would face higher premiums.

Researchers aim to create virtual speech therapist PHILADELPHIA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Debi Green is trying to book a vacation, but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s having a hard time getting the words out. Even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been nearly nine years since she suffered a stroke, language sometimes fails her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would like ... um ... um ...,â&#x20AC;? she said, faltering. Luckily, the computerized travel agent has all the time in the world. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an avatar being tested at Temple University in Philadelphia, where researchers are working to develop a virtual speech therapist. Cyber-clinicians can be a crucial tool in overcoming the language disorder known as aphasia, experts say. While the verbal impairment can be lifelong, health insurers only pay for a limited amount of therapy. Yet patients like Green need to continuously practice their skills. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the adage of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;use it or lose itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? said Nadine Martin, a communication sciences professor at Temple. The universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twoyear study will add to the emerging field of virtual rehabilitation. About 1 million people in the U.S. are affected by aphasia, mainly as the result of strokes, according to the American Speech-LanguageHearing Association. Whereas previous cyber-therapy options involve patients practicing conversational scripts with an avatar, Templeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach challenges patients to spontaneously generate speech, said physical therapy professor Emily Keshner.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are actually put in a situation, which we hope is going to be natural, that requires that they come up with the correct words in the correct order,â&#x20AC;? Keshner said. In Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, she has been given a â&#x20AC;&#x153;brochureâ&#x20AC;? so that she is forced to make choices about the trip. As Green responded, a doctoral

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U.S. limbo for Nazi suspects ordered out AMY FORLITI & RANDY HERSCHAFT The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — At least 10 suspected Nazi war criminals ordered deported by the United States never left the country, according to an Associated Press review of Justice Department data — and four are living in the United States today. All remained eligible for public benefits such as Social Security until they exhausted appeals, and in one case even beyond. Quiet American legal limbo was the fate of all 10 men uncovered in the AP review. The reason: While the U.S. wanted them out, no other country was willing to take them in. That’s currently the case of Vladas Zajanckauskas in Sutton, Mass. It’s the case of Theodor Szehinskyj in West Chester, Pa. Of Jakiw Palij in New York City. And of John Kalymon in Troy, Mich. All have been in the same areas for years, stripped of citizenship and ordered deported, yet able to carry out their lives in familiar surroundings. Dozens of other Nazi war crimes suspects in the U.S. were also entitled to Social Security and other public benefits for years as they fought deportation. The United States can deport people over evidence of involvement in Nazi war crimes, but cannot put such people on trial because the alleged crimes did not take place on American soil. The responsibility to prosecute would lie with the countries where the crimes were committed or ordered — if the suspects ever end up there. In the 34 years since the Justice Department created an office to find and deport Nazi suspects, the agency has initiated legal proceedings against 137 people. Less than half — at least 66 — have been removed by deportation, extradition or voluntary departure. At least 20 died while their cases were pending. In at least 20 other cases, U.S. officials agreed not to pursue or enforce deportation orders, often because of poor health, according to a 2008 report by the Justice Department. In some cases, the U.S. government agreed not to file deportation proceedings in exchange for cooperation in other investigations, the report said. But the key stumbling block has been the lack of political will by countries in Europe to accept those ordered to leave. “Without any doubt, the greatest single frustration has been our inability, in quite a number of cases now, to carry out the deportation orders that we’ve won in federal courts. We can’t carry them out because governments of Europe refuse to take these people back,” Eli Rosenbaum, the longtime head of the Justice Department agency charged with investigating accused Nazi war criminals, said in the 2011 documentary “Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals.” Justice officials declined to make Rosenbaum available for an interview.

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Jakiw Palij, left, seen in this 2003 photo, and Michael Karkoc, right, seen in this 1990 photo, are among at least 10 suspected Nazi war criminals ordered deported by the United States who never left the country, according to an Associated Press review of Justice Department data.

The four men still living in the U.S despite deportation orders have all exhausted appeals: • Zajanckauskas, 97, remains in Massachusetts 11 years after authorities first began the denaturalization process. He was ordered deported to his native Lithuania in 2007, and ran out of appeals in 2010 but remains in the U.S. because other countries, including Lithuania, won’t accept him, Rosenbaum has said. Zajanckauskas took part in the “brutal liquidation” of the Warsaw Ghetto, according to Rosenbaum. Zajanckauskas, who didn’t return a message from the AP, has denied being in Warsaw at the time. • Szehinskyj, 89, remains in Pennsylvania nearly 14 years after DOJ began a case against him. He was denaturalized and ordered deported to his native Ukraine, Poland or Germany, and exhausted all appeals in 2006. The Department of Justice has said no country has been willing to accept him. Authorities say Szehinskyj was an armed guard at Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Poland, a claim he has denied. Szehinskyj’s attorney didn’t return messages from the AP. • Palij, 89, remains in New York 11 years after the DOJ initiated a case against him and seven years after he exhausted appeals. Court records say Palij — born in a part of Poland that is now part of Ukraine— was an armed guard at an SS slave labor camp for Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland until at least the spring of 1943, and helped to keep prisoners from escaping. Palij has denied the accusations. The original order deporting Palij to Ukraine has been amended to allow deportation to Germany, Poland or any other country willing to accept him. Justice officials say none have been willing. A man who answered the phone at Palij’s number had trouble hearing and could not carry out a phone conversation. A woman who answered the phone at the office of Palij’s attorney said he does not speak to reporters. • Kalymon, 92, is still in Michigan despite exhausting appeals earlier this year in a process that took nine years. Prosecutors said Kalymon, who was born in Poland, was a member of the Nazisponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in Lviv, which rounded up Jews and imprisoned them. Prosecutors said Kalymon also shot Jews. He

was ordered deported to Ukraine, Poland, Germany or any other country that would take him. His attorney, Elias Xenos, said his client was a teenage boy who was essentially guarding a sack of coal. “That’s not the government’s position, of course. But they’ve run out of true persecutors, and they are

trying to now prosecute people on the fringes,” Xenos said. He said he is not aware of any country that has agreed to take Kalymon, who he said has Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. In Poland, prosecutor Grzegorz Malisiewicz said an investigation of Kalymon was closed in January because authori-

ties couldn’t definitively tie him to crimes committed in 1942. In Germany, Munich prosecutors have been investigating Kalymon on suspicion of murder since 2010. Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said many countries lack the political will to accept suspected Nazi criminals who have been ordered deported: “I don’t think it’s any lack of effort by the American government.” Germany has taken the position that people involved in Nazi crimes must be prosecuted, no matter how old or infirm, as it did in the case of retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk. He died last year at age 91 while appealing his conviction of being an accessory to 28,060 murders while a guard at the Sobibor death camp. Before that case, Germany had been reluctant to prosecute Nazi war crimes suspects who weren’t German citizens, said Stephen Pas-

key, a former Justice Department attorney who worked on the Demjanjuk and Zajanckauskas cases. Germany has also resisted accepting those who are ordered deported because, like other countries, it doesn’t want to be seen as a refuge for those with Nazi pasts, the Department of Justice said. The case of Johann Leprich fell into that category. Authorities said Leprich, of Clinton Township, Michigan, served as an armed guard at a Nazi camp in Austria during World War II. He was 78 when he was ordered deported in 2003. Germany, Hungary and Leprich’s native Romania — which passed a law in 2002 barring the entry of war crimes suspects — all refused to accept him. A technical issue related to Leprich’s deportation order allowed him to remain eligible for public benefits until he died in 2013, although for unclear reasons he stopped receiving them long before that.

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FAITH MATTERS from Page A1 transformation and are still pained by his past deeds. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known Knowledge, if only by name, for several years. When I first worked full-time at The Item newspaper, his name would frequently pop up in the police blotter for shoplifting or trespassing. His unusual name made his listing stand out and, unfortunately, he became the butt of many jokes. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the man personally, but I joined in with the wisecracks. As I listened to others speak about Knowledgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transformation, I began to feel a sense of guilt. Perhaps part of it was for callously joking about Knowledge many years ago, but more so because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything to help Knowledge when he clearly needed help. He was just another person bound by his chosen lifestyle. At the time, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

remember making a conscious decision not to help: I guess I just categorized him as a lost cause. As I mulled over his current situation recently, a host of others came to mind â&#x20AC;&#x201D; people who I thought were beyond help who had come to be vehement upholders of the faith. They had done so without one iota of help from me, the one who claimed to hold her faith in high regard. There was the coworker whose defining quality was his use of caustic language around the office. He has since changed his life and found his ministry working with young people. There was the high school friend who was known for his casual use of narcotics. His Facebook posts are now filled with his testimony of working with addicted persons. A former friend, and mean girl, praises the Almighty for his continuing healing of her chronically ill daughter. The list continues to grow: countless people with whom I was closely acquainted who have become contributing members of the faith commu-

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nity, no thanks to me. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that I have a desire to be the sole gateway for each personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defining spiritual experience. I know that God uses other people and other situations in a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s road to redemption. I have just come to abhor my complacency. If I had said something, done something to encourage them or at least show them there was a different path, they may have come to the faith earlier. They might have been able to share their testimonies sooner, reached more people, helped others in their faith. Why wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t I the one? It was because I simply accepted people for what they practiced, not the

potential God knew they held. I refused to see them through His eyes. There is urgency to the message of faith because if we choose to stay silent, we risk missing out on the blessing of being a part of a divine plan. Certainly we are able, nay, compelled, to bear witness to the power of faith in our lives, if we truly claim that power. We must do it now before another person can delay the power of his or her testimony in the life of another. In the two-and-a-half years that Knowledge said that he has turned his life around, others have testified that he has spoken to a lot of people about his faith. He was

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recently diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer which had metastasized to his brain. Blinded by some swelling on his brain, those who know Knowledge said he has shared his faith to the medical staff that surrounded him. He speaks to others who are currently living the life he once led. He tells them of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great love. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be a spiritual dynamo, whatever that means, to share your faith. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure Knowledge would admit that he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have life completely figured out. Like every single person on this planet, he still makes mistakes. As members of the faith community, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

point to ourselves as the example of anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spiritual aspirations. We point to the author of our faith. In that way, we become the implements used by the Creator. Your involvement in anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faith could be as simple as being a presence. If someone knows there is another person struggling with the same goal, they would feel like their faith could be strengthened. With others, you might be what tips the scale in favor of a search for a deeper, more practiced faith. Still many more will simply see that inner light and praise God for it. Reach Jamie H. Wilson at faithmatterssumter@ gmail.com.

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f we put ourselves the 94 percent figure into the shoes of rac- means that 262,621 were ists who seek to sabmurdered by other otage black upward mo- blacks. Though blacks bility, we couldn’t devel- are 13 percent of the naop a more effective tion’s population, they agenda than that folaccount for more than lowed by civil rights or50 percent of homicide ganizations, black politi- victims. Nationally, the cians, academics, liberblack homicide victimals and the news media. ization rate is six times Let’s look at it. that of whites, and in First, weaken the some cities, it’s 22 times black family, but don’t that of whites. I’d like for blame it on indithe president, vidual choices. the civil rights You have to establishment, preach that towhite liberals day’s weak black and the news family is a legacy media, who of slavery, Jim spent massive reCrow and racism. sources protestThe truth is that ing the George Walter black femaleZimmerman triWILLIAMS headed houseal’s verdict, to tell holds were just the nation 18 percent of housewhether they believe holds in 1950, as opthat the major murder posed to about 68 perproblem blacks face is cent today. In fact, from murder by whites. There 1890 to 1940, the black are no such protests marriage rate was slight- against the thousands of ly higher than that of black murders. whites. Even during There’s an organizaslavery, when marriage tion called Neighborwas forbidden for hoodScout. Using 2011 blacks, most black chilpopulation data from dren lived in biological the U.S. Census Bureau, two-parent families. In 2011 crime statistics New York City, in 1925, from the FBI and infor85 percent of black mation from 17,000 local households were twolaw enforcement agenparent households. A cies in the country, it study of 1880 family came up with a report tistructure in Philadelphia tled “Top 25 Most Danshows that three-quargerous Neighborhoods ters of black families in America.” (http://tiwere two-parent housenyurl.com/cdqrev4) holds. They include neighborDuring the 1960s, hoods in Detroit, Chicadevastating nonsense go, Houston, St. Louis emerged, exemplified by and other major cities. a Johns Hopkins Univer- What’s common to all 25 sity sociology professor neighborhoods is that who argued, “It has yet their makeup is deto be shown that the ab- scribed as “Black” or sence of a father was di- “Mostly Black.” The high rectly responsible for crime rates have several any of the supposed deoutcomes that are not in ficiencies of broken the best interests of the homes.” The real issue, overwhelmingly lawhe went on to say, “is abiding people in these not the lack of male neighborhoods. There presence but the lack of can’t be much economic male income.” That sug- development. Property gests marriage and fahas a lower value, but therhood can be reworst of all, people can’t placed by a welfare live with the kind of percheck. sonal security that most The poverty rate Americans enjoy. among blacks is 36 perDisgustingly, black cent. Most black poverty politicians, civil rights is found in female-head- leaders, liberals and the ed households. The pov- president are talking erty rate among black nonsense about “having married couples has a conversation about been in single digits race.” That’s beyond usesince 1994 and is about less. Tell me how a con8 percent today. The versation with white black illegitimacy rate is people is going to stop 75 percent, and in some black predators from cities, it’s 90 percent. But preying on blacks. How if that’s a legacy of slavis such a conversation ery, it must have skipped going to eliminate the 75 several generations, bepercent illegitimacy cause in the 1940s, rate? What will such a unwed births hovered conversation do about around 14 percent. the breakdown of the Along with the deblack family (though cline of the black family “breakdown” is not the comes anti-social becorrect word, as the havior, manifested by family doesn’t form in high crime rates. Each the first place)? Only year, roughly 7,000 black people can solve blacks are murdered. our problems. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is Walter E. Williams is another black person. a professor of economics According to the Bureau at George Mason Univerof Justice Statistics, besity. tween 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384 black © 2013 CREATORS. murder victims. Using COM

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Man interviewed for article should admit he is a liar I just finished reading the article entitled, “Man Conquers Past Through Redemption and Religion” about Michael McCray, aka “Knowledge Supreme Scientific.” I must say I am extremely surprised and alarmed that you have chosen to recognize this individual. He has proven to be a liar and a criminal many times over the years and obviously has not changed based on the lies he told in this article. His foster mother, Ms. Claudia Davis, was a wonderful woman who opened her home to countless children through babysitting and foster care. In fact, she was my second mother, not just a babysitter, from age 8 weeks to 12 years of age. She taught me right from wrong and loved me as if I was her child. I loved visiting her home and being in her presence. Some of my best childhood memories occurred in her home. She was a true blessing to her community, raising children who had no families. She called all of her foster children, adopted children, and children she babysat “her babies.” It deeply disturbs me that Mr. “Knowledge Supreme Scientific” has chosen to dishonor the woman that took him, his brother, and his sister into her home. The worst part of this is that Ms. Davis now has Alzheimer’s Disease and is unable to defend herself. Because she cannot, I feel like it is my responsibility to do so. I owe it to her and her family to be her voice, since she can no longer speak for herself. Michael McCray was present in that home during the years I was there. During this time, he became a source of pain in people’s lives. He preyed on the defenseless, creating lifelong scars. If Michael McCray is truly “redeemed,” he will step forward and admit he is a liar and a predator. Media outlets have a responsibility to report facts. The Sumter Item has acted very irresponsibly by allowing this article to be printed in their newspaper. I hope that those responsible for this article will be reprimanded and that a retraction of this article will be printed. I will also be contacting other children who were in Ms. Davis’ care to provide you with truth, since your newspaper has chosen to report the lies of a criminal. SEANTELL N. GILLARD Charleston

Inflammatory remarks just stir the pot In response to Bishop O.W. Prince, I was wondering if you have any white friends? Are they bigoted and racist? You reached far into your vocabulary for your scathing, inflammatory remarks regarding anyone who isn’t black. I resent that. I have friends of all colors and nationalities. If you listened at all during the trial,

you know that Mr. Zimmerman did much to help homeless African Americans. He dated a black girl at his prom. So where’s the prejudice there? And so far, since the trial, I have not seen anything different here in Sumter. Would you like “your” people to march up and down the road screaming injustice? What about the little 13-month-old “white” boy killed by two “black” teenagers while riding in his stroller in Georgia; and the “white” mother of four gunned down at her place of employment in Columbia by two “black” robbers; and the 46-yearold “white” man beaten to death by three “black” men during a robbery in Georgia? What about them, Bishop Prince? The list goes on. Should we white folks march up and down the road screaming injustice? It’s a sad thing that happened to Mr. Martin. Both parties over-reacted, causing a tragic end, but to paint the entire nation with the “prejudice” brush is stupid. And you, Mr. Prince, are the bigot. It’s people like you who keep stirring the pot. And if you are an example of a religious leader, God help us. M.L. SALTER Sumter

Publication shows Tuomey lacks diversity with doctors I saw a recent sleek publication put out by Tuomey Healthcare System that disturbed me quite a bit. I like to read annual reports and the like that companies, educational systems and other community agencies publish. These give a kind of inside gaze into that business or entity and also paint a pretty good picture of how those who run the inside think and what makes them tick. The Tuomey publication that I am referring to really had an initial positive public relations impression on me. At first glance one would say that this hospital is on the move and has lots of programs in place to address the health needs of the communities which it serves and that these are administered by a diverse staff of health care professionals. I do share the aforementioned to a degree but must say that recent lawsuits, etc., somewhat diminish my complete confidence in the hospital and make me wonder if those at the top, the CEO and the Tuomey Board, are good managers and are sensitive to the needs of all who use their services. I hope that they are but reoccurring legal matters connected with the hospital just do not set well from an image point of view for the hospital. The main reason of my letter is to address the publication that I mentioned in terms of diversity. If I did not know better, I would have thought that Tuomey did not have blacks and other racial minorities on its staff as physicians and in other decision-making positions. Yes, there are blacks in the publication but there are no phy-

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sicians among them. There are physicians of the majority persuasion but no blacks. Some of us in the community want to see and feel that Tuomey is as diverse racially from those who do menial tasks to those who, at times, have to pronounce life or death decisions about our family members. I implore the board, the CEO and others who make decisions about diversity to show this in all aspects of what the hospital stands for and does as the only major health care facility in the larger Sumter community. K.D. SINGLETON Sumter

Open, honest discussion about race needs some rules his is response to Mr. Baten’s letter to the editor on July 24: Mr. Baten wants to have “an open and honest discussion about race relations in America.” Since he claims that “white leaders have always been reluctant” to do so I will have that discussion with him. I don’t claim to be a “white leader” but I am white. However, there needs to be some rules so it can truly be “honest and open.” he editorial page would be great. To have it in an auditorium or other place would only invite people with closed minds, ready to shout out “racist” when they don’t get their way, misunderstanding because they aren’t able to listen, shouting out so the opponents view cannot be heard, etc. A time limit, of say one hour, would not do justice because of starting late, introductions, people shouting out, clapping when their point is made, etc. If we do it on the editorial page we will have time to think about what we say and not just blurt out the irst thing that comes in our mind. Everything will be in black and white for others to read and interpret. We can use he Item as our proof, say page A1 and A2, the police blotter and any other articles they print, as the person making a point ought to have proof. Saying things like, “he right wing feels that they have inally received justice for the O. J. Simpson verdict ...” is justice crazy. How do you think up such nonsense? Do you have some kind of book that you refer to in trying to make a point? hat never crossed my mind. I accepted the jury’s verdict in that case although I sure didn’t agree with them. You have no proof that “Trayvon was racially proiled” except in your head. What lies did Zimmerman tell? Deine “stalked,” I would agree that he followed Martin but “stalked” is meant to be inlammatory. Are you saying that Zimmerman isn’t allowed to protect his neighborhood? Is he trying to do something about crime the reason why the NAACP and the media picked this situation? JACQUELINE K. HUGHES Sumter

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VIDEO from Page A1 The men were arrested in January after local law enforcement discovered the video while investigating a beating case. “Amy Land and Ferrell Cothran, I have your brains on the boulevard,” is rapped by one suspect in the video, in which the other suspect also makes references to “guns, money and powder.” Cothran testified Tuesday that he took the video as a serious threat. “I mean, in this line of work as a judge, I’m always careful, but now I look over my shoulder more than I used to,” he said. “I did take it as a very serious, credible threat, particularly having dealt with both defendants before.” Cothran sentenced Cole to 60 days in jail in 2011 for possession of cocaine, first offense. That case happened to be one of Land’s final cases as an assistant solicitor in Clarendon County. “I was a prosecutor for 13 years, and my father (former 5th Circuit Solicitor James Anders) was a prosecutor ... for 16 years

when I was growing up,” Land said in March. “Threats are not alien to me. They’re usually made in the heat of the moment. But these were not.” Kent said the verdict worked out to where his client was not guilty of threatening Cothran, but was guilty of intimidating Land. All along Kent has maintained that his client was being creative in the video when substituting the names of the only two judges he knew with the nickname for a Taurus handgun. That weapon is commonly referred to as “The Judge.” Kent also argued his client was not trying to threaten anyone as he did not publish the video or send it to Land or Cothran. “He was attempting to use metaphor,” Kent said. “Was it the best choice of words? No. But he has nothing but the utmost respect for (Land) and (Cothran). He believes they saved his life.” Charges against Gadson, 26, remain pending. Reach Robert J. Baker at (803) 774-1211.

MANHUNT from Page A1 and Thomas Sumter Highway. Deputies en route to the call spotted a white Ford Expedition matching the description of the suspects’ car on Beckwood Drive. The deputies gave chase, and after a long pursuit, the car crashed some eight miles away when the suspects drove into a cornfield at the intersection of East Brewington Road and Florence Highway in an apparent attempt to avoid their pursuers. When the car came to rest deep in the cornfield, two men were reportedly seen fleeing from the vehicle into the corn. Deputies recovered several apparently stolen items from the home inside the disabled getaway car. “They had a couple TVs and a few other things,” said Capt. Allen Dailey with the Sheriff’s Office. “We’re still processing all of it.” A tow company borrowed a neighbor’s tractor to pull the vehicle from deep in the cornfield so law enforcement could take the car into custody. Between 20 and 25 deputies set up a perimeter around the cornfield between Brewington and Alligator Branch Road, scanning the area with binoculars. At one point,

a suspect was reportedly seen exiting the field near where the car first went in, then fled back between the stalks. Dogs were deployed to search the area, and a State Law Enforcement Division helicopter flew overhead trying to spot the suspects. Eventually, the chopper saw someone moving through a wooded area behind the field. One suspect was apprehended by deputies in the woods, but it was almost an hour later when the second suspect emerged on Fletcher Drive, about two miles from where the car was wrecked. When local residents pointed the man out to deputies, he was quickly apprehended and taken into custody. “My neighbor said they were looking for somebody with no shirt on,” James said. “If he’d had a shirt on, I might not have noticed him.” In addition to burglary charges, investigators said the driver of the car will face a charge of failure to stop for blue lights, and both men face other potential charges as well. “When they get the reports done, we’ll go over those in the morning,” Dailey said. “There might be some more coming then.” Reach Bristow Marchant at (803) 774-1272.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013

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TODAY

TONIGHT

86°

THURSDAY 86°

FRIDAY

SATURDAY 92°

90°

SUNDAY

89°

70° 72°

71°

73°

Couple of thunderstorms

Cloudy with a couple of thunderstorms

Variable clouds, a couple of t-storms

Partly sunny with a t-storm in spots

A thunderstorm in spots in the afternoon

Partly sunny with a couple of t-storms

Winds: WSW 3-6 mph

Winds: SSW 4-8 mph

Winds: SSW 6-12 mph

Winds: SW 4-8 mph

Winds: SSE 3-6 mph

Winds: WSW 3-6 mph

Chance of rain: 60%

Chance of rain: 65%

Chance of rain: 40%

Chance of rain: 60%

Sumter through 4 p.m. yesterday

Temperature High ............................................... 88° Low ................................................ 71° Normal high ................................... 90° Normal low ..................................... 70° Record high ..................... 100° in 2011 Record low ......................... 60° in 1960

Greenville 82/68

Gaffney 80/68 Spartanburg 83/69

Precipitation

Bishopville 86/70

24 hrs ending 4 p.m. yest. ........... 0.04" Month to date ............................. 10.37" Normal month to date ................. 5.36" Year to date ............................... 34.51" Normal year to date ................... 28.15"

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

7 a.m. yest. 357.48 76.33 75.37 97.50

24-hr chg -0.01 -0.08 +0.08 +0.68

River Black River Congaree River Lynches River Saluda River Up. Santee River Wateree River

Full pool 12 19 14 14 80 24

7 a.m. yest. 8.86 8.96 6.50 7.58 80.27 19.84

24-hr chg -0.32 -1.37 -0.93 +0.43 +0.15 +1.73

City Aiken Asheville Athens Augusta Beaufort Cape Hatteras Charleston Charlotte Clemson Columbia

Today Hi/Lo/W 85/69/t 74/64/t 84/68/t 86/69/t 88/74/t 84/73/pc 87/72/t 80/68/t 83/69/t 86/71/t

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 88/71/t 81/62/t 89/69/t 88/70/t 87/74/t 83/75/t 87/74/t 86/66/t 88/69/t 89/72/t

Sunrise today .......................... 6:32 a.m. Sunset tonight ......................... 8:23 p.m. Moonrise today ....................... 1:27 a.m. Moonset today ........................ 3:37 p.m.

Columbia 86/71 Today: Cloudy with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm. Thursday: Variably cloudy with a shower or thunderstorm; humid.

Aiken 85/69

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 88/72/t 84/72/t 87/72/t 87/72/t 87/71/t 87/71/t 86/69/t 87/71/t 87/73/t 85/68/t

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Aug. 6 Full

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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Charleston 87/72 The following tide table lists times for Myrtle Beach.

Wed.

Myrtle Beach 85/72

Manning 87/70

Today: A couple of showers and a thunderstorm. High 84 to 88. Thursday: A couple of showers and a thunderstorm. High 84 to 88.

City Darlington Elizabeth City Elizabethtown Fayetteville Florence Gainesville Gastonia Goldsboro Goose Creek Greensboro

New

Florence 86/70

Sumter 86/70

Thu.

City Greenville Hickory Hilton Head Jacksonville, FL La Grange Macon Marietta Marion Mount Pleasant Myrtle Beach

Today Hi/Lo/W 82/68/t 78/66/t 85/79/t 88/73/t 86/70/t 88/70/t 85/70/t 79/66/t 87/73/t 85/72/t

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 87/68/t 84/65/t 84/76/t 86/71/t 91/70/t 88/71/t 88/70/t 85/65/t 86/75/t 84/75/t

High Ht. Low Ht. 4:36 a.m.....2.6 11:23 a.m.....0.3 5:12 p.m.....3.0 ---..... --5:28 a.m.....2.6 12:18 a.m.....0.8 6:03 p.m.....3.1 12:14 p.m.....0.3

City Orangeburg Port Royal Raleigh Rock Hill Rockingham Savannah Spartanburg Summerville Wilmington Winston-Salem

Today Hi/Lo/W 86/70/t 87/74/t 84/68/t 82/68/t 84/69/t 89/72/t 83/69/t 86/77/t 86/70/t 80/68/t

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 87/72/t 86/74/t 86/69/t 87/69/t 87/71/t 87/72/t 87/70/t 85/75/t 85/73/t 85/67/t

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.

-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Stationary front

Cold front Showers Rain T-storms Snow Flurries

Ice

Warm front

Today Thu. Today Thu. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Albuquerque 91/71/t 91/71/t Las Vegas 102/84/s 103/86/pc Anchorage 73/60/s 70/58/pc Los Angeles 78/62/pc 78/64/pc Atlanta 84/70/t 88/72/t Miami 89/78/t 87/78/t Baltimore 84/67/c 80/68/t Minneapolis 78/59/t 80/58/s Boston 80/67/pc 80/64/pc New Orleans 90/76/t 91/77/pc Charleston, WV 80/66/t 80/61/t New York 85/69/pc 80/69/t Charlotte 80/68/t 86/66/t Oklahoma City 96/73/pc 97/73/s Chicago 80/62/pc 80/62/s Omaha 86/63/t 85/66/t Cincinnati 80/67/t 83/60/pc Philadelphia 85/69/pc 80/68/t Dallas 101/81/s 103/81/s Phoenix 107/87/s 106/87/t Denver 90/61/pc 93/66/t Pittsburgh 80/64/t 76/61/t Des Moines 82/63/t 84/63/pc St. Louis 84/72/pc 87/65/s Detroit 80/66/t 80/62/pc Salt Lake City 90/70/s 95/70/s Helena 87/56/pc 87/54/t San Francisco 65/53/pc 65/53/pc Honolulu 87/76/pc 88/75/s Seattle 83/59/pc 74/55/pc Indianapolis 82/68/pc 82/63/pc Topeka 88/69/pc 90/68/s Kansas City 88/67/pc 87/66/s Washington, DC 86/70/c 80/71/t Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice

contribution to. ARIES (March 21-April 19): the last word in astrology Overindulgence and LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): overreacting won’t pay Don’t be too quick to eugenia LAST off. Listen to what’s being judge or to believe what proposed and weigh the you hear. You can and pros and cons carefully should look at options and before you make a commitment that you may opportunities that can lead to a better future, find confining. but make sure your motives are right before you make a decision. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Turn an idea into a profitable venture. Promote and present plans SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Think, experiment and you will get support. Romance is in the and follow through. Believe in who you are picture. Put time aside to spend with and what you do. Let your imagination lead someone you care. the way and your heart decide what’s best for you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Mixing business with pleasure is likely to jeopardize your job. Focus SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Play hard, have on what you can do for others and you will fun and most of all, keep everyone guessing advance. A quick but practical response will what you’ll do next. The element of surprise put you in a favorable position. will be your best weapon when you face competition. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Take care of personal responsibilities. Your ability to take CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Make important control and make things happen will be decisions regarding professional direction or impressive. Love is on the rise. Live in the personal status. Staying in control will be what moment. counts if you want to protect your assets. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Proceed with caution. Be AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You can learn wary of anyone asking for too much or taking through observation. Not everyone will offer a advantage of what you have to offer. Don’t be clear description of what’s expected of you. afraid to speak up and let your wishes be Ask questions that will leave no room for known. misinterpretation. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Communicate, PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Put pressure on participate and enjoy what life has to offer. anyone standing between you and your You will find out information that can help dreams. Don’t let emotional blackmail lead you advance. Get more involved in events that you down the wrong path. Set your sights on you believe you can make a positive your goals and follow through.

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Chief John Slaten with the Mayesville Police Department scans a cornfield off Florence Highway on Tuesday, assisting sheriff’s deputies in their search for two burglary suspects who fled on foot after a high-speed chase.

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AMERICAN LEGION STATE TOURNAMENT

Florence earns rivalry revenge Defending state, Southeast champs end P-15’s season with 7-1 victory Tuesday BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennisb@theitem.com The clutch hitting that has marked most of the season for the Sumter P-15’s wasn’t present on Tuesday in their elimination game against Florence Post 1 in the American Legion baseball state tournament at Riley Park. And that’s why Sumter’s season has come to an end. The P-15’s left 11 runners on base, inlcuding leaving the bases loaded twice, and Florence had a 6-run seventh inning to win 7-1. The P-15’s finish the season with a 29-7 record. Post 1, the defend-

ing state champion and Southeast Regional champion, improved to 26-12 and plays in the championship round today. “We didn’t get the hits when we needed them today,” said Sumter head coach Curtis Johnson, who completed his second season at the helm of the P-15’s. “When you’re playing great teams like this, you’ve got to get those runs when you get the opportunity. We didn’t do that today.” Of the 11 runners Sumter left on, eight were in scoring position.

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Sumter P-15’s starting pitcher Gordon Owens, front, walks off the mound after Tuesday’s 7-1 loss to Florence Post 1 in SEE REVENGE, PAGE B3 the American Legion state tournament at Riley Park. Sumter finished the year 29-7.

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL STATE TOURNAMENT Saturday Game 1 — Inman 7, Goose Creek 4 Game 2 — Greenville 3, Florence 0 Game 3 — Irmo-Chapin 2, Murrells Inlet 1 Game 4 — Sumter 5, Greenwood 3 Sunday Game 5 — Goose Creek 5, Murrells Inlet 4, Murrells Inlet eliminated Game 6 — Florence 12, Greenwood 3, Greenwood eliminated Game 7 — Inman vs. Irmo-Chapin, susp. 5th inning, rain

Monday Game 7 — Irmo-Chapin 9, Inman 4, comp. of susp. game Game 8 — Sumter 11, Greenville 8 Game 9 — Florence 9, Inman 7, Inman eliminated Game 10 — Greenville 14, Goose Creek 4, Goose Creek eliminated Game 11 — Irmo-Chapin 7, Sumter 1 Tuesday Game 12 — Florence 7, Sumter 1 Game 13 — Irmo-Chapin 16, Greenville 6

Note 1: Pairings for games 12 and 13 will not match previous opponents against each other unless absolutely necessary. Note 2: If three teams remain after Game 13, the winner of Game 11 automatically draws the bye for Game 14.

Post 193 beats Greenville 16-6 to stay unbeaten

Churches Challenge coming Aug. 24

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS jdriggers@theitem.com

FROM STAFF REPORTS The Churches Challenge will be held on Saturday, Aug. 24, at Sunset Country Club. The morning flight will have sign-in beginning at 7 a.m. and with tee time at 8. The afternoon flight will have an 11:30 a.m. sign-in with a tee time of 1 p.m. The format will be 4-man Captain’s Choice and teams must have a minimum handicap of 50. Only one player per team may have a handicap of 8 or less. The registration deadline is set for Friday, Aug. 16, and the entry fee is $45 per player. The winning team will receive the Christian Golfers’ Association Traveling Trophy to display in its church for the upcoming year. The second- and third-place teams will receive prizes as well as the player closest to the pin and the one with the longest drive. There will also be a $10,000 prize for a hole-inone. The player’s church will receive $10,000 and the player who makes the hole-in-one will receive $1,000. Tax-deductible sponsorships will be available as well. The level of sponsorships are Presenting Sponsor, $1,500; Friday Evening Dinner Sponsor, $700; Hole-In-One Sponsor, $500; Eagle Sponsor, $400; Birdie Sponsor $300; and Tee Box Sponsor, $100. For more information, call the CGA office at (803) 773-2171.

Today Game 14 — Irmo-Chapin vs. Florence, 10:30 a.m. Game 15 — If Necessary

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Irmo-Chapin Post 193 Zach Ziesing pitched 6 1/3 innings and allowed four runs, three earned, on eight hits with four walks and four strikeouts on Tuesday during Post 193’s 16-6 victory in eight innings over Greenville Post 3 at the American Legion state tournament at Riley Park.

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USC’s Holbrook to guest speak at Gamecock Club FROM STAFF REPORTS

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press CLEMSON — Clemson coordinator Brent Venables knows his defense can’t wait as long as it did during his debut season to improve. Venables struggled to find the right combination up front and in the secondary in 2012 as opponents put up big yardage numbers on the Tigers for much of the season. Things started clicking at the end, though, with Clemson’s defense posting its stron-

Zach Ziesing pitched 6 1/3 solid innings, the Irmo-Chapin Post 193 offense rapped out 12 hits and took advantage of seven Greenville Post 3 errors on Tuesday for a 16-6 victory in eight innings at the American Legion baseball state tournament at Riley Park. With the win Irmo, now 23-3 on the season, is one win away from a state championship. Post 193 will face Florence Post 1 today at

10:30 a.m. If Florence wins, another game will be played roughly 1 ½ hours after the first game. “It was just a marathon,” Irmo head coach Kurt Seibert said. “It wasn’t a pretty game, but we did what we needed to do to win. “I thought Ziesing did a great job keeping them off balance and throwing strikes. He was tough to hit for most of the night.” Ziesing gave up four runs, three earned, on

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Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables, back right, hoping his defense can come around quicker this upcoming season then they did last year when the Tigers struggled early.

gest effort in a 25-24 victory over LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl to finish 11-2. Venables has worked with his players since then on making a faster start on the season. They’ll need to, too, as Clemson opens at home against another

Southeastern Conference powerhouse in Georgia. Venables was proud of how his players recovered last year. “We solved some issues and got substantially better as the year went on,” he said. SEE VENABLES, PAGE B4

University of South Carolina head baseball coach Chad Holbrook will be the featured speaker when the Sumter County Gamecock Club HOLBROOK holds its annual banquet on Thursday, Aug. 8, at the University of South Carolina Sumter’s Nettles Auditorium. USC football playby-play announcer

Todd Ellis will be the master or ceremonies and will give an update on the football program. Additional coaches from other programs who will be in attendance will be announced at a later date. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. with the program beginning at 7. Tickets are $25 apiece and are on sale at Danny’s Trophy Shop located at 713 Bultman Drive. For additional information, contact David Stewart at (803) 491-7397.

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Braves stay hot at home, beat Rockies 11-3 ATLANTA — Freddie Freeman hit two home runs, Brian McCann added a three-run shot and the Atlanta Braves won their fifth straight game with an 11-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday. The Braves, who scored 10 unanswered runs, moved 10 games ahead of second-place Washington on the NL East. They lead the majors with a 36-15 home record. Rookie Alex Wood (1-2) earned his first career victory after allowing six hits, three runs, one walk while striking out seven in seven innings. PIRATES CARDINALS

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PITTSBURGH — Alex Presley hit a gameending single with two outs in the 11th inning, lifting the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the opener of a doubleheader on Tuesday. PHILLIES GIANTS

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Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman watches his 3-run home run in front of Colorado Rockies catcher Wilin Rosario (20) during the Braves 11-3 victory in Atlanta on Tuesday.

Young hit two-run homers to back John Lannan, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants 7-3 Tuesday night to snap an eight-game losing streak. BREWERS CUBS

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CHICAGO — Jean Segura hit a solo homer and the go-ahead double, Khris Davis added a three-run shot, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 6-5 after Yovani Gallardo left with a hamstring injury in the first game of a day-night doubleheader Tuesday.

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DETROI — Alex Avila hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the sixth inning off Stephen Strasburg and the Detroit Tigers beat the Washington Nationals 5-1 Tuesday. AMERICAN LEAGUE ORIOLES ASTROS

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BOSTON — Rookie Brandon Workman struck out nine while picking up his first major league win, allowing one run over six innings as the Boston Red Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 8-2 on Tuesday. INDIANS WHITE SOX

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CLEVELAND — Pinch-hitter Ryan Raburn’s two-run single in the eighth inning rallied the Cleveland Indians to their sixth straight win, 7-4 over the freefalling Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night. MONDAY BRAVES ROCKIES

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ATLANTA — Andrelton Simmons drove in Dan Uggla from first base with a triple off Edgmer Escalona in the 10th inning, and Atlanta won its fourth straight game. From wire reports

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Indians acquire Rzepczynski from Cards CLEVELAND — The Indians believe they’ve found the right reliever to fix their issue against left-handed hitters. Cleveland acquired lefty Marc Rzepczynski from St. Louis on Tuesday, adding an experienced veteran to a bullpen that has struggled all season to RZEPCZYNSKI retire lefties. The Indians’ left-handers have a 6.47 ERA. To get Rzepczynski (Zepchin-skee), the Indians, who began the night trailing firstplace Detroit by 2½ games in the AL Central, sent minor league infielder Juan Herrera to the Cardinals. The 27-year-old is 9-17 with a 4.20 ERA in 177 career games for Toronto and St. Louis. Lefthanded hitters have batted .224 against Rzepczynski, who pitched 2 2-3 scoreless innings for the champion Cardinals in

the 2011 World Series. Rzepczynski has split this season between St. Louis and Triple-A Memphis, posting a 7.84 ERA in 11 games at the major league level. But in the minors, he’s got a 3.07 ERA in 32 games and held lefties to a .185 average. The Indians’ only other current left-handed reliever is Rich Hill. However, this season they’ve had lefties Scott Barnes, Nick Hagadone and David Huff pitch in relief but they were all sent back to the minors because of ineffectiveness. DODGERS SIGN WILSON TO 1-YEAR DEAL

LOS ANGELES — The Beard is back in baseball. The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed free-agent reliever Brian Wilson to a one-year contract. He hasn’t pitched in the major leagues since April 12, 2012, the same month he underwent Tommy John surgery

on his right elbow. Wilson was one of the majors’ top relievers from 2008-11 with the San Francisco Giants. He was a three-time All-Star and led the big leagues with 163 saves in 186 chances. He was a key reliever during the Giants’ run to the 2010 World Series championship, striking out 16 in 11 2-3 scoreless innings in the postseason. Wilson is 20-20 with 171 saves in 315 career games with the Giants. The 31-year-old pitcher has limited opposing hitters to a .238 batting average during his career with 340 strikeouts in 320 innings. TWINS’ MAUER RETURNS TO CLUB

MINNEAPOLIS— Joe Mauer is back in the lineup for the Minnesota Twins after missing six games for the birth of his twin girls. Slugger Josh Willingham may not be all that far behind him. From wire reports

SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO TODAY Noon -- International Soccer: Audi Cup Semifinal Match from Munich -- Manchester City vs. AC Milan (ESPN2). 2:15 p.m. -- International Soccer: Audi Cup Semifinal Match from Munich -- Bayern Munich vs. Sao Paulo (ESPN2). 6:05 p.m. -- Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXYFM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 6:30 p.m. -- Youth Baseball: Big League World Series Championship Game from Easley (ESPN2). 7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: St. Louis at Pittsburgh (ESPN). 7 p.m. -- WNBA Basketball: New York at Washington (NBA TV). 7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Colorado at Atlanta (SPORTSOUTH). 8 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs (WGN). 9 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: MLS AllStar Game from Kansas City, Kan. -- MLS All-Stars vs. AS Roma (ESPN2).

MLB STANDINGS American League By The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Tampa Bay 63 43 .594 – Boston 63 44 .589 1/2 Baltimore 58 48 .547 5 New York 55 50 .524 71/2 Toronto 48 57 .457 141/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 59 45 .567 – Cleveland 57 48 .543 21/2 Kansas City 51 51 .500 7 Minnesota 45 57 .441 13 Chicago 40 63 .388 181/2 West Division W L Pct GB Oakland 63 43 .594 – Texas 57 49 .538 6 Seattle 50 55 .476 121/2 Los Angeles 48 56 .462 14 Houston 35 69 .337 27 Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 2, Boston 1 Cleveland 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Texas 4, L.A. Angels 3 Oakland 9, Toronto 4 Tuesday’s Games Detroit 5, Washington 1 Tampa Bay 5, Arizona 2 Baltimore 4, Houston 3 Boston 8, Seattle 2 Cleveland 7, Chicago White Sox 4 L.A. Angels at Texas, late Kansas City at Minnesota, late Toronto at Oakland, late N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Dodgers, late Wednesday’s Games Washington (G.Gonzalez 7-3) at Detroit (Verlander 10-8), 1:08 p.m. Toronto (Dickey 8-11) at Oakland (Colon 143), 3:35 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Peavy 8-4) at Cleveland (Kluber 7-5), 7:05 p.m. Houston (Bedard 3-8) at Baltimore (Mig. Gonzalez 8-4), 7:05 p.m. Arizona (Miley 7-8) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 10-3), 7:10 p.m. Seattle (Iwakuma 10-4) at Boston (Lackey 7-8), 7:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Williams 5-7) at Texas (M.Perez 3-3), 8:05 p.m. Kansas City (Guthrie 10-7) at Minnesota (Correia 7-7), 8:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 10-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 10-6), 10:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 12:05 p.m. Kansas City at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m. Arizona at Texas, 7:05 p.m. Houston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Seattle at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Toronto at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. National League By The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 61 45 .575 – Washington 52 54 .491 9 Philadelphia 49 56 .467 111/2 New York 47 56 .456 121/2 Miami 40 64 .385 20 Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 62 41 .602 – Pittsburgh 62 42 .596 1/2 Cincinnati 59 48 .551 5 Chicago 48 56 .462 141/2 Milwaukee 44 61 .419 19 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 56 48 .538 – Arizona 54 51 .514 21/2 Colorado 51 56 .477 61/2 San Diego 49 58 .458 81/2 San Francisco 46 58 .442 10 Monday’s Games

| Pittsburgh 9, St. Louis 2 Atlanta 9, Colorado 8, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 6, Miami 5 Milwaukee 5, Chicago Cubs 0 San Diego 2, Cincinnati 1 Tuesday’s Games Detroit 5, Washington 1 Tampa Bay 5, Arizona 2 Milwaukee 6, Chicago Cubs 5, 1st game Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 1, 1st game Philadelphia 7, San Francisco 3 Atlanta 11, Colorado 3 N.Y. Mets at Miami, late St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 2nd game late Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 2nd game late Cincinnati at San Diego, late N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Dodgers, late Wednesday’s Games Washington (G.Gonzalez 7-3) at Detroit (Verlander 10-8), 1:08 p.m. Cincinnati (H.Bailey 5-10) at San Diego (Stults 8-9), 3:40 p.m. San Francisco (Gaudin 4-2) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 9-7), 7:05 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 13-6) at Pittsburgh (Locke 9-3), 7:05 p.m. Arizona (Miley 7-8) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 10-3), 7:10 p.m. Colorado (Chatwood 7-3) at Atlanta (Minor 10-5), 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Mejia 1-0) at Miami (H.Alvarez 1-1), 7:10 p.m. Milwaukee (W.Peralta 7-10) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 6-11), 8:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 10-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 10-6), 10:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Miami, 12:40 p.m. Arizona at Texas, 7:05 p.m. San Francisco at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Colorado at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

WNBA STANDINGS By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Chicago 12 5 .706 – Atlanta 11 5 .688 1/2 Washington 9 9 .500 31/2 Indiana 8 9 .471 4 New York 7 11 .389 51/2 Connecticut 4 12 .250 71/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 14 3 .824 – Los Angeles 12 6 .667 21/2 Phoenix 9 9 .500 51/2 Seattle 7 10 .412 7 San Antonio 6 12 .333 81/2 Tulsa 6 14 .300 91/2 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled Wednesday’s Games New York at Washington, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Games Indiana at Connecticut, 7 p.m. Phoenix at Seattle, 10 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS The Associated Press BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent 1B Steve Pearce to Frederick (Carolina) for a rehab assignment. BOSTON RED SOX — Sent RHP Alex Wilson to Pawtucket (IL) for a rehab assignment. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Recalled RHP Andre Rienzo from Charlotte (IL). Optioned OF Blake Tekotte to Charlotte. CLEVELAND INDIANS_Traded SS Juan Herrera to St. Louis for LHP Marc Rzepczynski. HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHP Hector Ambriz to Oklahoma City (PCL). Recalled OF Che-Hsuan Lin from Oklahoma City. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Designated OF Brad Hawpe for assignment. Optioned RHP Cory Rasmus to Salt Lake (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Daniel Stange from Salt Lake. NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated INF Jayson Nix from the 15-day DL. Sent OF Curtis Granderson to Trenton (EL) for a rehab assignment. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with RHP Brody Greer to a minor league contract. ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed OF Reed Johnson on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Selected the contract of OF Todd Cunningham from Gwinnett (IL). CHICAGO CUBS — Recalled RHP Jake Arrieta from Iowa (PCL). CINCINNATI REDS — Sent RHP Jonathan Broxton to Louisville (IL) on a rehabilitation

Possible suspension for Rodriguez: Quick Q&A BY RONALD BLUM The Associated Press In question-and-answer form, a look at the issues and implications of Major League Baseball’s possible suspension of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez: Q: What penalties face Alex Rodriguez and why? A: Rodriguez is among at least a dozen players MLB had been investigating since the Miami New Times published documents in January alleging links between major leagues and Biogenesis of America, a closed anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables accused of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs. A-Rod faces up to a lifetime ban, with the Yankees expecting him to be accused of recruiting other athletes for the clinic, attempting to obstruct MLB’s investigation, and not being truthful with MLB in the past when he discussed his relationship with Dr. Anthony Galea, who pleaded guilty two years ago to a federal charge of bringing unapproved drugs into the United States from Canada. Q: What will he be suspended for and why? A: If he does not agree to a deal with MLB, he may be suspended first for violations of

baseball’s collective bargaining agreement, which would prevent him from playing while the union files a grievance and an arbitrator determines whether the penalty meets a “just cause” standard. MLB may use a provision in the Basic Agreement that states : “Players may be disciplined for just cause for conduct that is materially detrimental or materially prejudicial to RODRIGUEZ the best interests of baseball including, but not limited to, engaging in conduct in violation of federal, state or local law.” Rodriguez could later be suspended for violating the Joint Drug Agreement. He has never been suspended under the JDA, and a suspension for a first offender is served only after an arbitrator upholds the penalty. Q: Why are suspensions for players linked to the Biogenesis investigation likely this week? A: The penalty for a first positive test for steroids under the Joint Drug Agreement is a 50game suspension, and that appears to be the likely discipline for several players MLB has targeted. This is the last week a player could accept a 50-game suspension and serve it in time

to return either for the postseason, if his team advances, or the start of the 2014 season. Q: How likely is a lifetime ban for Rodriguez? A: If Rodriguez agrees to accept a suspension and doesn’t ask the players’ association to file a grievance challenging the penalty, the suspension likely would be for a year or two. If MLB announces a penalty unilaterally, if could be a lifetime ban, but an arbitrator could reduce it after a hearing. When Commissioner Fay Vincent suspended Yankees pitcher Steve Howe for life in 1992, after his seventh suspension for drugs or alcohol, arbitrator George Nicolau reduced the penalty to 119 days. Q: Any other lifetime bans in baseball? A: The most famous occurred in 1921, when Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned Chicago White Sox pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude “Lefty” Williams, first baseman Chick Gandil, shortstop Charles “Swede” Risberg, third baseman Buck Weaver, outfielders “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and Happy Felsh and infielder Fred McMullen for throwing the 1919 World Series against Cincinnati. Landis acted a day after they were acquitted on criminal charges. Philadelphia Phillies infield-

er Gene Paulette (1921), New York Giants pitcher “Shufflin’” Phil Douglas (1922), New York Giants outfielder Jimmy O’Connell and coach Cozy Dolan (1924) and Philadelphia Phillies president William D. Cox (1943) were banned either for life or indefinitely over gambling or bribery issues, and New York Giants outfielder Benny Kauff (1921) was suspended indefinitely by Landis following his indictment on charges of auto theft and possession of a stolen car. Cincinnati manager Pete Rose agreed to a lifetime ban in 1989 following an investigation of his gambling. Yankees owner George Steinbrenner agreed to a lifetime ban effective in August 1990 for his dealings with selfdescribed gambler Howard Spira and was reinstated in March 1993. Q: How did this happen to Rodriguez? A: MLB has been investigating the three-time AL MVP over various periods since February 2009, when he acknowledged using performance-enhancing drugs while with Texas from 2001-03. Rodriguez has denied using them since. He met with baseball investigators in March 2009, then met with them again in March 2010 and told them he didn’t receive PEDs from Dr. Anthony Galea, who treated

Rodriguez without the Yankees’ consent following hip surgery in 2009. Galea pleaded guilty in 2011 to a federal charge of bringing unapproved drugs into the United States from Canada. As part of the Biogenesis probe, Rodriguez met again with baseball investigators on July 12 this year. Q: How much will this cost him? A: Hard to put an exact figure on it until the length of the suspension is determined. Rodriguez is baseball’s highestpaid player this year at $28 million. If he’s suspended Wednesday for the rest of the season, he would lose $8.508,366 under the formula in baseball’s Joint Drug Agreement: 56 games (the total remaining for the Yankees) divided by 183 (the number of days this season) times his salary. He is owed an additional $61 million by the Yankees over the next four years: $25 million in 2014, $21 million in 2015 and $20 million in each of the final two seasons. Not at risk is a $3 million payment from the Yankees on Jan. 15, the final installment of his signing bonus, and $36 million-plus interest owed by Texas from 2016-25, funds that were deferred in his contract with the Rangers and converted to an assignment bonus at the time of his trade to the Yankees in 2004.

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REVENGE from Page B1 Six of them were in scoring position with less than two outs. “We ran into some tough pitching today, and we just couldn’t get the hits that we needed,” Johnson said. Perhaps the biggest inning on which Sumter missed out was the inning in which it scored its only run -the sixth. Trailing 1-0, Phillip Watcher was hit by a pitch by Florence starting pitcher Brandon Baggette with one out. River Soles singled and Andrew Reardon drew a walk to load the bases. Taylor McFaddin dropped a single into center field to tie the game at 1-1 and end the left-handed Baggette’s time on the mound. Post 1 head coach Derick Urquhart decided to bring in sidearming right-hander Zach McKay, who has served as Florence’s closer most of the season. McKay struck out Jacob Watcher and Will Smith to end the inning. “McKay’s been our closer all year, and we felt like that’s where we needed him to save the game for us,” Urquhart said. “He gave us a great performance.” McKay worked the final 3 2/3 innings to get the win, striking out five, walking two, allowing just one hit and hitting three batters. Baggette worked 5 1/3 innings, scattering four hits while walking two and striking out two. “Brandon gave us exactly what we needed,” Urquhart said.

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ABOVE: Florence Post 1 and Sumter P-15’s players and coaches exchange handshakes after Florence defeated Sumter 7-1 on Tuesday in the American Legion state tournament at Riley Park. LEFT: Post 1’s Brandon Baggette threw 5 1/3 innings and allowed four hits while walking and striking out two.

“We wanted him to get us to the fifth or sixth inning and then we could go to some fresh arms in the bullpen. When we got the big lead and we knew McKay was shot for tomorrow (in the championship round), we decided to ride him out.” The P-15’s got a strong starting pitching performance from right-hander Gordon Owens. He limited Florence to four hits and one run through the first six innings before he ran into trouble in the seventh. After retiring the leadoff batter, Fonta

James and Austin King singled off of Owens. Zach Herndon doubled to center to score James and end Owens’ night. Phillip Watcher came on in relief and King scored on a passed ball and Herndon on a wild pitch to make it 4-1. Owens worked 6 1/3 innings, allowing seven hits while walking five and striking out four. “Gordon gave us all that we could ask from him,” Johnson said. “He got out there and he battled and fought and pitched a great game.” Post 1 added three more runs off of reliev-

er Javon Martin before Sumter finally got out of the inning. During the inning, Smith, the right fielder, crumpled to the ground while trying to make a throw following a Florence base hit. Johnson said Smith suffered a sprained ankle. While the goal was to win a state title, Johnson said it was a successful season for the P-15’s. “We won the league, we made the state tournament, we went 29-7,” Johnson said. “We wanted to win the state, but that just wasn’t meant to be. It was a great season.”

POST 193 from Page B1 eight hits with four walks and four strikeouts, keeping the Generals at bay most of the night while the Irmo offense took advantage of some Post 3 miscues. Brett Auckland led off the game with a single and took second on a sacrifice bunt. Justin Hawkins walked and Brandon White reached on an error to load the bases with one out. Tyler Lancaster then came through with a 2-run single and took second on a throwing error that also plated White for a 3-0 Post 193 lead. Hawkins made it 4-0 in second. Catcher Tyler Grubbs doubled to lead off and Barrett Charpia followed with a single and then stole second to put two in scoring position with none down. It appeared as if Post 3 starter Brandon Barber was going to get out of the jam, retiring the next two batters on a shallow fly and a strikeout. But Hawkins singled home Grubbs to add another tally for Irmo. The Generals got on the board in their half of the second. Jackson Norrell walked and Kevin Dobbins and Jackson Strange followed with back-toback singles. Sam Jones’ sac fly made it 4-1, but Ziesing worked around

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Greenville Generals Post 3 starer Brandon Barber delivers a pitch during Tuesday’s 16-6, 8-inning loss to Irmo-Chapin Post 193 at the American Legion state tournament at Riley Park.

any further damage. Another Greenville error led to another run in the third for Irmo as Cole Morris, who reached on a 1-out single, scored after stealing two bases. Grubbs drove home Chad Davis two batters later to make it 6-1. The Generals pulled within 6-2 in the fifth behind Norrell’s 2-out RBI single, but the wheels fell next inning for Post 3. Post 193 plated four runs in the top of the sixth despite a scary moment for Grubbs, the second batter of the inning. He was hit by a pitch in the face and lay on the ground for a few minutes. He left under his own power and was taken out of the game, but stayed at the ballpark for a while before being taken to a nearby hospital for stitches. “He’s just got a busted lip,” Siebert said. “He’s doing fine. Hopefully he’ll be back with us tomorrow. He took a ball off a bat yesterday in that same spot, so he may have reopened the injury.” Charpia singled to load

the bases next batter and Auckland lined a 2-run single to score two more runs and chase Barber from the game. Post 3 reliever Brandon Gibbs had a rough start, however, and allowed two more runs to score on a passed ball and a wild pitch as Irmo took a 10-2 lead. The Generals didn’t stay down for long, though, rallying for three runs in their half of the seventh. A 1-out error opened the door and after Barber singled, Norrell drove in a run on a double and chased Ziesing form the game. A passed ball scored another run, and Gibbs’ infield single cut the deficit to 10-5. It could have been more, but Norrell was caught leaning off of third base for the second out. The momentum was shot-lived. RBI singles from White and Lancaster plus two more Greenville errors led to three more Irmo runs. Bases-loaded walks to Robbie Lopez, Charpie and Auckland made it 16-5.

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Jimmie Johnson, bottom right, leads the field to the green flag for a restart during the Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis on Sunday. Many critics called the race the most boring Brickyard race to date.

NASCAR drivers find passing tough at Brickyard race BY DAN GELSTON The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Maybe NASCAR should steal a page from IndyCar and install a push-to-pass button. This past weekend saw the boring Brickyard at its worst. Juan Pablo Montoya griped over his radio that trying to pass another car cost him position on the track. Jimmie Johnson suggested the track needed a second lane with more banking to help the cause. Denny Hamlin called passing “impossible.” “If impossible is hard, then it was impossible,” Hamlin said. “It is just a product of the speed we run, the tire we’ve got and the surface. It all just makes for hard racing. It’s hard to pass anyone. You’ve just got to deal with it.” Even super-snail “Tubo” would have been stuck in Sunday’s single-file snoozer at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Never really considered an exciting 400 miles anyway, Indianapolis may have topped itself in the 20th Cup race at the famed track. There were three cautions, for stalled cars or debris, and no accidents or spins. And such little passing. The field fanned out into single-file racing for most of the event — a plodding style that perhaps is a big reason why the crowd has dwindled from 200,000-plus in the Brickyard’s NASCAR heyday to maybe 80,000 fans on Sunday. There were scores of empty rows along the frontstretch, and fans at home probably wound up changing the channel at times. The clean race was responsible for the fastest Brickyard in history at 2 hours, 36 minutes and 22 seconds. The race was basically a yawner until Ryan Newman used a flawless final pit stop to top Jimmie Johnson for the win. All this came only two months after one of the more thrilling Indianapolis 500s in history. Tony Kanaan passed leader Ryan Hunter-Reay to grab the lead in the last of a record 68 lead changes. The stock cars? They turned the 2½-mile Indy track into a leisurely Sunday drive. Just one pass for the lead under green that had nothing to do with pit stops. “On a flat racetrack, it’s just tough to pass,” Johnson said. “These corners, they aren’t really that long. You have four, 90-degree turns. That puts a lot against this racetrack for side-by-side racing. But we still love this place.”

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Cowboys’ Allen takes quiet path to NFL Hall of Fame BY SCHUYLER DIXON The Associated Press DALLAS — Larry Allen had just been drafted by the Dallas Cowboys when he found himself standing in front of a couple of hundred kids attending a football camp at Sonoma State, the alma mater that made his future Hall of Fame career possible. His coach, Frank Scalercio, knew he was testing the best player he ever coached, coaxing the soft spoken but massive offensive lineman into a few words. “Just say no,” Allen blurted out. That was it. “I can see that nothing’s going to happen, so then I jump in and kind of close it out for him real quick,” Scalercio said. “Some of the guys still laugh about it today when they’re around. They talk about the first speech he made.” Allen is getting ready for another one. A big one. After 12 dominant seasons and a Super Bowl title with the Cowboys — and two final years closer to home with San Francisco — Allen’s Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement speech Saturday night will be on national television in front of thousands of people at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio. Plenty of family and friends will be there — but not his mother, Vera

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Former Dallas Cowboys guard Larry Allen (73) tries to keep Detroit’s Shaun Rogers away from quarterback Drew Bledsoe. Allen will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, on Saturday.

Allen. The woman responsible for steering him away from gangs as a kid in the Los Angeles area died a year ago. The biggest public speaking gig of his life would have been the perfect time to have her around. “I miss her,” Allen said. “Whenever I’d get nervous or had a big game and got nervous, I’d give her a call, and she’d start making me laugh.” The six-time All-Pro has already cried once over the Hall of Fame — the day his name was announced. He’s not ashamed to say he’ll probably cry again. “She was one of the biggest reasons I’ll be up there, and I know she’ll be looking down on me,” Allen said. The soft side of Allen isn’t a familiar one to former teammates and opponents. This is a man who silently bench-pressed 700 pounds — “absurd,” says former teammate Daryl Johnston — in the Cowboys’ locker room while

players screamed and mobbed him. This was a player who made notorious trash-talker John Randle of Minnesota keep to himself when he faced the Cowboys, for fear of making Allen mad. “He never said nothin’,” said Nate Newton, one of Allen’s mentors on Dallas’ offensive line. “Every now and then you’d hear him utter a cuss word or hear him laugh that old funny laugh he had. “Other than that ...” Newton said, trailing off. Allen just played, which is how Scalercio discovered him at Butte College. That’s the junior college where the lineman landed after attending four high schools in part because his mom moved him around to keep him away from gangs. Then an assistant for Sonoma, Scalercio was recruiting another player when he saw Allen throw an opponent to the ground for the first time.

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Coaching Clowney no joke BY DARRYL SLATER Post and Courier COLUMBIA — Perhaps no first-year assistant in college football is in a more interesting position than Deke Adams, South Carolina’s new defensive line coach. When Brad Lawing left to coach Florida’s defensive line in the offseason, Adams came down from North Carolina and was handed the likely No. ADAMS 1 NFL draft pick in 2014, defensive end Jadeveon Clowney. “I find myself at times talking to him and getting ready to yell at him about something that he didn’t do, and he makes CLOWNEY the play two yards or three yards deep in the backfield, and he didn’t do things the way that we taught,” Adams said. “A player of that ability, he can make some mistakes at times and make up for it.” On Friday night, during USC’s first practice, spectators will probably see Adams coaching Clowney the same way he coaches the other linemen — encouraging, guiding through drills,

admonishing mistakes. But Adams understands Clowney is not a typical college player. “There’s no ‘You do this and you can get away with it and it’s OK,’” Adams said. “If he does something and it’s not the way he’s been taught, I’ll get on him just like I get on anybody else, because I expect it to be done. Obviously, there is a difference when he doesn’t do it the way I want him to do it and he doesn’t make the play, and then he doesn’t do it the way I want him to do it and he makes the play. My tone of voice is a little bit different when I’m talking to him.” One thing Adams and defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward sometimes discuss with their line is how to avoid being held. They want Clowney to listen, because this could be a significant issue for him this season, as he figures to face frequent double teams. Adams and Ward said officials could probably call holding on every play. Lawing always emphasized that if a defensive end leads with his shoulder to create separation with an offensive tackle, the end is asking to get held — with no flag. If an end wants to draw a holding call, he must create separation with his hands rather than by plowing into a tackle with his shoulder.

VENABLES from Page B1 And there were plenty of issues to solve. Things looked bleak for Venables’ defense early on as the coordinator who received a five-year, $800,000 a year contract watched his unit burned repeatedly on national TV when it gave up 667 yards, 35 second-half points — and Clemson’s 27-14 lead — in a 49-37 defeat at Florida State that cost the Tigers a second straight Atlantic Coast Conference crown. The secondary was hit hard by injuries with expected contributors like Martin Jenkins, Darius Robinson and Bashaud Breeland all lost to injury. The defensive line was an inconsistent mess of young players and older ones who hadn’t yet caught on to Venables’ high-energy system. It left the longtime Oklahoma defensive coordinator shaking his head at times. “We knew there was going to be a learning curve,” he said. “Even when

we blitzed a year ago early on, we didn’t do it with precision or violence.” Venables began to see his group change around Clemson’s mid-October bye week. A defense that had given up almost four touchdowns a game its first six contests allowed only 15 points a game its next four games. The improvement was most evident against LSU, when Clemson forced eight three-and-outs including a critical stop to set up its game-winning drive as Chandler Catanzaro connected on a 37-yard field goal as time expired. The 219 yards given up to LSU was Clemson’s second fewest of last season. “You could see us getting better each week. The players understanding more and more about what we wanted them to do,” defensive ends coach Marion Hobby said. “We think that’s going to continue this year.”

Gettleman: Panthers want to build around QB Newton BY STEVE REED The Associated Press

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Texas A&M said Tuesday that redshirt freshman Polo Manukainiu and a teenager joining the Utah football team this fall were among three people killed in a single-car rollover crash in the high desert of northern New Mexico, just days before fall practices begin.

Aggies frosh, Utah recruit killed in crash KRISTIE RIEKEN AND RUSSELL CONTRERAS The Associated Press Texas A&M said Tuesday that redshirt freshman Polo Manukainiu and a friend who was joining the Utah football team this fall were among three people killed in a single-car rollover crash in the high desert of northern New Mexico, stunning both schools just days before fall practices begin. Manukainiu, a 19-year-old defensive MANUKAINIU lineman for the Aggies, and 18-year-old Utah recruit Gaius “Keio” Vaenuku were killed, officials from both schools said. The wreck happened Monday evening on U.S. 550 near Cuba, N.M., about 85 miles north of Albuquerque, as the group of five was returning from Salt Lake City to suburban Dallas, where three of them had ties to prep football power Trinity High School in Euless. The southbound 2002 Toyota Sequoia drifted off the sagebrush-lined highway, New Mexico State Police spokesman Emmanuel T. Gutierrez said. The driver, 18-year-old Siaosi Salesi Uhatafe Jr. of Euless, over-corrected, causing the vehicle to lose control and roll several times. Alcohol wasn’t involved and it appeared the driver was the only one

wearing a seatbelt, investigators said. Manukainiu and 13-year-old passenger Andrew “Lolo” Uhatafe died at the scene after they were ejected from the vehicle, Gutierrez said. Vaenuku was pronounced dead in an ambulance that responded to the accident. The driver and his father, Salesi Uhatafe, were taken to the San Juan Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., and suffered only minor injuries, authorities said. Siaosi Uhatafe was a stepbrother of Manukainiu and, like Vaenuku, also is a Utah recruit. Manukainiu had apparently traveled to Salt Lake City for some relaxation, tweeting Sunday: “It’s always good to get away from the Texas Heat for the weekend. Utah got that breezeeeeeee.” On Monday, hours before the accident, he tweeted: “22 hour drive back to Texas on no sleep. Oh my.” Manukainiu played football at Trinity High and was part of the Aggies’ 2012 signing class. He was a recreation, parks and tourism science major, the school said, and is survived by his mother, Lima Uhatafe of Euless. “We lost a terrific young man,” Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin said. “Polo was loved by his teammates and coaches. Anyone who came in contact with him was struck by his sense of humor and smile. My heart aches for his mom and family members.”

SPARTANBURG — Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman said quarterback Cam Newton is a player he can build the franchise around. GETTLEMAN But Gettleman is quick to add “but now it’s time to win.” In Gettleman’s view, Newton has had the best first two seasons of any QB in NFL history, but said that gets lost on people “because of the elephant in the room, which is his 13-19 record” as a starter. In two seasons Newton has thrown for 7,920 yards and 40 touchdowns with 29 interceptions. He’s also run for 1,447 yards and 22 TDs. He was named AP Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2011. Newton’s contract runs through the 2014 season and Carolina has an option to pick up another year in 2015. The Panthers would also have the option to use the franchise tag on Newton in 2016 if they haven’t reached a long-term agreement prior to

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Carolina quarterback Cam Newton will be the focus of general manager Dave Gettleman to build the team around in the future.

that point. Gettleman said the Panthers are in no hurry to extend Newton’s contract right now. “Technically you have rights to him for six years,” Gettleman said. “... I’m a big believer in letting nature take its course. Things will happen naturally.” Newton has taken a good bit of criticism for his leadership ability during his first two seasons, but Gettleman doesn’t seem concerned about that. He believes Newton will mature into an outstanding quarterback and team leader. “It will take time,”

Gettleman said. “I’m new and I’ve made some mistakes, too. I’ve had days here where I wanted to punch myself. (But) he is bright. He works his fanny off. There’s no reason that he can’t continue to ascend and I think he will.” On the field, Gettleman said he couldn’t be more impressed with Newton, who has dropped about 12 pounds in preparation for this season. Newton had a rough day on Tuesday, throwing a pair of interceptions during team drills but otherwise has been sharp since practice began last Friday.

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Seattle wide receiver Percy Harvin (25) tweeted on Wednesday that he will need hip surgery.

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RENTON, Wash.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Percy Harvin will have hip surgery on Thursday, sidelining the dynamic wide receiver for the start of his first season with the Seattle Seahawks. Harvin made the announcement on his Twitter account on Tuesday night, hours after getting a second opinion on the injury in New York. The Seahawks then said the operation was scheduled for Thursday. Harvin was seeking more information for soreness in his hip, in the area of his labrum, that popped up just before the Seahawks opened training camp. Seattle coach Pete Carroll has not indicated which hip is bothering Harvin. He said earlier in the day that the team was still gathering information about Harvinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second opinion. Harvin started training camp on the physically unable to perform list and likely will remain there until the team has a better idea of his recovery time. If Harvin starts the season on the PUP list he must miss the first six weeks and would have to return to practice by the end of Week 11 to avoid missing the entire season. RUTGERS TO RETIRE LEGRANDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NO. 52

NEWPORT, R.I. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rutgers has not handed out No. 52 since Eric LeGrand last wore it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the day he was injured during a game and left paralyzed. Now, until LeGrand walks again, no one will wear that number for the Scarlet Knights. Rutgers announced Tuesday that LeGrandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jersey will be the first retired by the program that played college footballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first game in 1869. LeGrand and his No. 52 will be honored in a ceremony Sept. 14 when Rutgers plays at home against Eastern Michigan. AMERICANS DOMINATE AT SWIMMING WORLDS

BARCELONA, Spain â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Missy Franklin got the Americans rolling. Then Katie Ledecky really fired â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em up. By the end of the night, the U.S. team was awash in medals at the world swimming championships. Franklin and Ledecky each won her second gold medal of the meet, Matt Grevers led a 1-2 American finish in the backstroke, and there was plenty of reason to celebrate for the red, white and blue on Tuesday. In all, the Americans claimed three golds, two silvers and a bronze â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a strong meet for most nations, certainly quite a haul in a mere two hours. The only disappointment for the U.S. was Ryan Lochte, who labored to a fourth-place finish in the 200 free. SHS TO HOST CLINIC

The Sumter High School football coaching staff will host a football clinic for middle school and recreational Coaches on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the SHS gymnasium. The clinic will be free of charge. For more information, call Sumter High at (803) 481-4480.

sition.â&#x20AC;? Washington, who runs a 4.3 40yard dash, played his freshman season for Nease High in St. Augustine, Fla. He caught 67 passes for 790 yards and five touchdowns. His family moved to Maryland last season, where he played his sophomore season. The family decided to move back to the Jacksonville area for this year. Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, Reggie Washington, left little doubt the family is all for Jerad being a Gamecock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Steve Spurrier has been one of my favorite coaches,â&#x20AC;? the senior Washington said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a Gator. But after visiting that school (USC) and that campus, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going. We met with Coach Spurrier Jr., and he said if we were serious about coming, we want him.â&#x20AC;? Jerad Washington also plays baseball for First Coast, where he is coached by former Florida quarterback and Spurrier disciple Shane Matthews. Stallworth (6-3, 280) of Mobile, Ala., committed to USC on Saturday while on campus for an unofficial visit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m feeling great about it,â&#x20AC;? Stallworth said of Phil his decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel KORNBLUT this is the place for me the next three or four years.â&#x20AC;? Stallworth said the USC coaches told him he could be a DE or defensive tackle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really like their approach to defense,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They laid down the basics and told me whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best for me.â&#x20AC;? Last season, he had 59 tackles with nine tackles for loss and four QB sacks. Some of his other offers were Arkansas, GT, Mississippi, Louisville, FSU and North Carolina State. QB Bo Baldwin of South Aiken High threw in front of Spurrier and USC QB coach GA Mangus on Friday at the Gamecocksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Black Magic Camp. It was his second audition of the summer for the Gamecocks and his hope is it will lead to an offer of some kind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He had a good night and they were real impressed with him,â&#x20AC;? said South Aiken head coach Jeremy West. Baldwin is the only quarterback USC currently is considering for an offer for the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14 class. Baldwin only played in 3 1/2 games last season due to a broken collarbone. DL Dexter Wideman of Saluda High, considered the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top DL prospect in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14 class, announced a commitment to FSU last week. Wideman made his commitment a few days after camping at FSU. USC and Florida were his other two favorites, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not closed the door on the Gamecocks. He attended their camp on Friday. Wideman also had offers from Clemson, Michigan, Ole Miss and Alabama. DL Cory Thomas of McCalla, Ala., has a final four of Clemson, Mississippi State, Florida and Tennessee. He camped at Mississippi State earlier this month. He plans to announce on Friday. recruiting corner

unior linebacker Sherrod Pittman (6-feet-1-inch, 215 pounds) of Jacksonville, Fla., became the University of South Carolina football programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourth commitment in three days on Monday when he announced he chose the Gamecocks over Florida. Pittmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision follows that of defensive end Taylor Stallworth on Saturday, his First Coast High School junior teammate Jerad Washington on Sunday and defensive lineman Abu Lamin on Monday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the coaching staff,â&#x20AC;? Pittman said of why he picked USC on a local television station in Jacksonville. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shaq Wilson, (USC graduate assistant LB coach) a former First Coast player, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real good teacher, real great player and I could learn more from him like a mentor. (USC head) Coach (Steve) Spurrier said I have a strong chance of playing over there, playing real early as a freshman. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really a great coach, hard-working and dedicated. He has a goal in life. He wants to get to the SEC (Southeastern Conference) championship and win a BCS championship.â&#x20AC;? Pittman is considered to be one of the top LBs in the 2015 class. Some of his other offers were Clemson, Auburn, Louisiana State, Miami, Florida State, Georgia Tech and Central Florida. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s USCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sixth commitment for the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;15 class. Lamin is from Fort Scott Junior College in Kansas, and he committed on Monday to become USCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 12th commitment for its â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;14 class. The native of Fayetteville, N.C., chose USC over Florida, Arkansas, Nebraska and Alabama. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It feels really good, especially going back to the Carolinas,â&#x20AC;? Lamin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about, being back home, being able to play for some great coaches and being part of a great defense.â&#x20AC;? Lamin called defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward with the news, and he knows Ward and DL coach Deke Adams have big plans for him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They want me to replace Kelsey Quarles,â&#x20AC;? Lamin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know I have to go in there and compete. Nothing is handed to you. Replacing Kelsey Quarles, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the plan. They see me coming in and playing immediately. I love pass rushing, especially interior. I stuff the run. One of the great attributes I see I can bring is getting upfield and getting after the quarterback.â&#x20AC;? Lamin will enroll in January and will have three seasons of eligibility. Washington (5-11, 165 pounds) was offered by the Gamecocks at their camp about a month ago, and he and his parents came in Friday for the Black Magic Camp to meet with Coach Spurrier and assistant coach Steve Spurrier Jr. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I caught Coach Spurrier Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye and he took a chance on me,â&#x20AC;? said Washington, who compares himself to former Gamecock star WR Ace Sanders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try to play like him. Coach Spurrier (Jr.) said I run very good routes from the slot po-

Goose Creek High running back Caleb Kinlaw has announced a commitment to GT. Kinlaw picked Tech over Tennessee, North Carolina and Arizona. Kinlaw visited Tech earlier this summer and Tech went from fourth to first on his list in the last few weeks. Last season, Kinlaw rushed for 1,000 yards and 15 TDs. As a sophomore, he rushed for 1,500 yards and 12 TDs. LB Christian Miller of Spring Valley High in Collumbia committed to Alabama on Thursday. Miller once was committed to Florida, but backed off that in May. Miller visited Alabama earlier this month. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the son of former USC and National Football League LB Corey Miller. Last season, he had 121 tackles and 14 sacks. RB Isaiah Lewis of Hillcrest High in Simpsonville committed to Georgia Southern on Friday. Offensive lineman Donell Stanley of Latta High attended USCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Black Magic Camp along with his mother, little brother and Latta assistant coach Chris German. Stanley attended an Alabama camp earlier this month and German said on Friday USC and Alabama are Stanleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top two. Clemson and UNC are the others on his short list. Stanley has no other visits planned and German said a decision is close. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He should be about ready to pull the trigger,â&#x20AC;? German said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Next couple of weeks probably. He thoroughly enjoyed the Alabama and Carolina visits. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaning more towards right now.â&#x20AC;? Asked if USC and Alabama are the top two, German said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes.â&#x20AC;? USC and Clemson WR target Braxton Berrios of Raleigh, N.C., was offered by Ohio State on Friday while he was on campus for a camp. Berrios got the offer directly from Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer. Berrios has also been to USC, West Virginia and Kentucky this month. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had USC, Clemson, Tennessee, WVU and UK as his favorites though Ohio State is likely to join that group. DE Rick Leonard of Middletown, Md., has his choice down to Clemson and FSU and could make the call as early as this week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dead in the center between Clemson and Florida State,â&#x20AC;? Leonardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coach, Kevin Lynott, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where he is right now. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50-50.â&#x20AC;? Leonard is coming off a visit to FSU, and the Seminoles did a good job turning his head away from Clemson to some degree. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He realizes heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to step back from that and get the pep rally out of him and make the best decision for his needs and where he thinks is going to be good for him,â&#x20AC;? Lynott said. Leonard camped at Clemson in June. His teammate, OL Justin Falcinelli, committed to the Tigers earlier this month. LB Raekwon McMillan of Hinesville, Ga., has Alabama and Ohio State as his top two right now with Clemson, Georgia and Florida rounding out his top five.

SHS CROSS COUNTRY MEETING SET

The Sumter High School cross country teams will hold a meeting for those interested in competing for the boys and girls teams on Thursdsay Aug. 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s picnic shelter. Runners must have a physical to participate. Parents are welcome to attend. For more information, call boys coach Jimmy Watson at (803) 983-4047, girls coach Karen McFadden at (803) 491-4377 or the school at (803) 481-4480. JUDGE: 3 PENN STATE EX-OFFICIALS TO STAND TRIAL

HARRISBURG, Pa. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Penn Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ex-president and two former top school administrators were ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges accusing them of a cover-up in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, a court ruling that promises to prolong the media attention and court battles casting a shadow over the university. Prosecutors showed enough evidence during a two-day preliminary hearing to warrant a trial for exPresident Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley, District Judge William Wenner concluded.

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ANNIE MAE A. BETHEA Annie Mae Abraham Bethea, 93, widow of Calvin Bethea, died Friday, July 26, 2013, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born in Manning, she was a daughter of the late Annie AbraBETHEA ham. Ms. Bethea was a lifelong member of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, where she served faithfully in many capacities including the senior choir, missionary board and the ladies auxiliary. She was educated in the public schools of Clarendon County before integration. She loved to cook and was employed by

Dr. Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family and Dr. Kitchenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family. In addition to her mother and husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Lee â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dockâ&#x20AC;? Bethea. Surviving are two daughters, Carrie Ballard and Alma (John) Kennedy, both of Sumter; one son, James (Diane) Bethea of Sumter; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, 155 Wall St., Sumter, with the Rev. Larry C. Weston officiating. Interment will follow in Walker Cemetery, 700 W. Oakland Ave., Sumter. The public may view

from noon to 7 p.m. today at Palmer Memorial Chapel, 304 S. Main St., Sumter. Mrs. Bethea will be placed in the church at 12:30 p.m. until the hour of service. The family will receive friends at her daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence, Carrie Ballard, 1982 Forest Drive, Sumter. Please leave a condolence for the family on their memorial website at palmermorialchapel. com.

JUANITA FLEMING PAMPLICO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Juanita Fleming, of Pamplico, slept away peacefully at her residence on Tuesday, July 30, 2013, after a brief illness. Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Home of Pamplico is in

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charge of arrangements. The family is receiving friends at the home, 464 E. 6th Ave., Apartment 2B, Pamplico.

ENGLISH L. ROGERS FLORENCE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; English Lavern Rogers, 73, husband of Dorothy Williams Rogers, died Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at Carolinas Hospital System, Florence. He was born Nov. 12, 1939, in Darlington County, a son of the late Josiah and Roberta Thomas Rogers. The family is receiving friends at the residence, 445 Londonberry Drive, Florence. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

LISA T. LEWIS Lisa Tennelle Lewis, 36, died Monday, July 29, 2013, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville. Born Sept. 28, 1976, in Columbia, Md., she was a daughter of William C. and Carrie Yates Lewis. The family will receive friends and relatives at the home of Sonya Lewis Smith, 33 Wright St., Sumter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter. RINA MACK NELSON REMBERT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rina Mack Nelson, 96, of 185 Lewis Circle, Rembert, died Monday, July 29, 2013.

Family and friends may call at the residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Home of Camden.

ANTHONY McQUILLAR Anthony McQuillar, 50, died Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at his home. Born June 21, 1963, in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was a son of Elizabeth Loney McQuillar and the late Eugene McQuillar. The family will receive friends and relatives at the home of Jo Ann McQuillar, 2820 Frierson Road, Dalzell. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter.

AREA SCOREBOARD SOCCER FALL REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its fall soccer league through Aug. 14. The league is open to children ages 4-17 as of Sept. 1, 2013. The fee to register is $30 for 4-year-olds, $35 for 5- to 6-year-olds and $45 for 7- to 17-year-olds. No late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting for anyone interested in coaching will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 7 p.m. at the recreation department located at 155 Haynsworth St. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www. sumtercountysc.org. FOOTBALL FLAG LEAGUE REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its flag football league through Aug. 14. The league is open to children ages 5-8 as of Sept. 1, 2013. The fee to register is $50. No late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting for anyone interested in coaching will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. at the recreation department located at 155 Haynsworth St. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www. sumtercountysc.org. Tackle League Registration The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its flag football league through Aug. 14. The league is open to children ages 9-12 as of Sept. 1, 2013. The fee to register is

$60. No late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting for anyone interested in coaching will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. at the recreation department located at 155 Haynsworth St. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www. sumtercountysc.org. POP WARNER REGISTRATION

The Sumter Pop Warner Football & Cheer Association and Youth Athletics of Sumter is currently taking registration for the upcoming season. The football and cheer teams are open to children ages 5-13 years old. The fee is $80 for both football and cheerleading. Registration will run through July 31. The fee for football will cover insurance, ID Badge, use of shoulder pads, use of helmet, use of practice clothes and a mouthpiece. Parents will be responsible for buying game jersey, game pants, cleats, cup and socks. The fee for cheer will cover insurance, ID badge, use of uniform, use of pom-poms, socks and undergarment. Parents will be responsible for buying shoes. The practice season will run from Aug. 1-30 with the season starting on Aug. 31. For more Information call (803) 464-8453, (803) 2014531 (803) 720-6242 or (813) 786-9265 or send an email to youthathleticsofsumteryas@ yahoo.com. CHEERLEADING FALL REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its cheerleading teams through Aug. 14. The league is open to chil-

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dren ages 5-11 as of April 30, 2013. The fee to register is $50. No late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting for anyone interested in coaching will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. at the recreation department located at 155 Haynsworth St. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www. sumtercountysc.org.

VOLLEYBALL SCISA OFFICIALS NEEDED

The South Carolina Independent School Association is looking for volleyball officials for the 2013 season. Those who are interested must have knowledge of volleyball and be willing to receive additional training and attend scheduled meetings. For more information, call SCISA district director Teddy Weeks at (803) 446-3379 or email him at TWeeks51@aol. com.

SOFTBALL FALL REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its fall soccer league through Aug. 21. The league is open to girls ages 7-13 as of Dec. 31, 2013. The fee to register is $45. No late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting for anyone interested in coaching will be held on Thursday, Aug. 15, at 6 p.m. at the recreation department located at 155 Haynsworth St. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www. sumtercountysc.org.

ROAD RACING CYPRESS TRAIL RUN/WALK

The first Cypress Trail 9k Run/Walk will be held on Aug. 17 at Dillon Park. All registrations will be completed using Go-Green Events, with a $22 fee for the run/walk with a t-shirt and a $15 fee without a t-shirt. Awards will be given in the Overall, Masters, and Age Group categories. Proceeds from the event will be reinvested in the maintenance and improvement of the Cypress Trail. Additional information can be found at http://www.gogreenevents.com/CT9k or by emailing race director Shawn Delaney at sumterstryders@ gmail.com.

BASEBALL FALL REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its fall baseball league through Aug. 21. The league is open to boys ages 7-14 as of April 30, 2014. The fee to register is $45. No late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting for anyone interested in coaching will be held on Thursday, Aug. 15, at 6 p.m. at the recreation department located at 155 Haynsworth St. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www.

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The 2nd Annual Par 4 Pets Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Crystal Lakes Golf Course. The format is 4-man Captainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice with an entry fee of $160 per team or $40 per player. Entry is limited to the first 20 teams. Registration is at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start at 8:30. There will be $5 per mulligan available at registration

with a maximum of two per player. The event is a fundraiser for KATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Special Kneads small animal shelter. For more information, call Kathy Stafford at (803) 4693906, Julie Wilkins at (803) 968-5176, Melissa Brunson at (803) 983-0038, Gail McLeod at (803) 840-4519 or Crystal Lakes manager Mike Ardis at (803) 775-1902. ETC. BREAM TO SPEAK

Former Atlanta Brave Sid Bream will be the guest speaker for the Jason Robertson Memorial Celebration to be held on Friday, Aug. 2, at 6 p.m. at Bethesda Church of God. Bream will speak at the celebration on Friday. Tickets are $25 per person and will include dinner and a live auction. On Saturday, Aug. 3, he will take part in the Jason Robertson Memorial Shoot for Dreams, a skeet shoot that will be held at Indigo Shooting Club located at 14068 Garners Ferry Road in Eastover. It will start at 11 a.m. Robertson, who was from Sumter, died in 2011 at the age of 26 after a battle with cancer. Before his death he was able to enjoy his favorite outdoor activities with the help of the Outdoor Dream Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Anderson that provides outdoor adventures for youths diagnosed with terminal or life-threatening illnesses. The organization is putting on these two events. For more information or to register for the shoot, contact Kim West at (803) 968-5285 or email skip@outdoordream. org.

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Pursuant to state law, the contents of the following units will be sold at public sale to satisfy storage liens. The sale will take place on August 16, 2013 at 10:00am at Morningstar Mini-Storage 1143 N. Guignard Dr Sumter, SC 29150. Unit 103-Debbie Prince: Mattress, Clothes, Dvd's, Microwave, End Table, Dresser, Shoe chair, Misc Unit 320-Sherry James: Washer, Dryer, Desk, Couch, Fan, Misc Lawn

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The following vehicle was abandoned at J & J Towing, 965 Bethel Church Road, Sumter, SC described as a 2001 Ford Escape, VIN # 1FMYU0319KF01076. Total due for storage and repairs is $2,700.00 as of July 26, 2013 plus $35.00 per day thereafter. Owner is asked to call (803)506-4858. If not claimed in 30 days, it will be turned over to the Magistrate's Office for public sale.

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This matter came before the Court on the plaintiff=s Motion for Service by Publication. The Affidavit submitted by the plaintiff and his attorney establishes that the location of defendant James Layton Floyd, is unknown, that he cannot be located at his last known address, and that the plaintiff possesses no other information by which James Layton Floyd can be located.

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Veda and Carlos Campbell, Plantiff, vs. Latonya T. Onwusah, Defendant. TO: LATONYA T. ONWUSAH, DEFENDANT ABOUVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the Plaintiffs, 3100 Eydie Street, Dalzell, SC 29040 within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. By:/s/Carlos Campbell/ Veda Campbell Veda and Carlos Campbell 3100 Eydie Street Dalzell, SC 29040

The Court finds that the whereabouts of defendant James Layton Floyd is unknown and that the plaintiff has exercised due diligence to find defendant, James Layton Floyd. Therefore, the Court finds that the plaintiff is entitled to serve defendant, James Layton Floyd, by publication. IT IS ORDERED AND DECREED THAT the plaintiff may serve defendant, James Layton Floyd, by publishing the Second Amended Summons and Complaint in The Item Newspaper, located in Sumter, South Carolina once a week for three weeks.

Notice is hereby given that GPM Southeast, LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of Beer & Wine at 337 Pinewood Rd., Sumter, SC 29153. To object to the issuance of this permit/ license, written protest must be postmarked no later than August 2, 2013. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the same county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protests must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P.O. Box 125, Columbia, South Carolina 29214; or Faxed to: (803) 896-0110

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EMPLOYMENT Help Wanted Full-Time Now Taking Applications for Assistant Manager's. Apply at www.captaindsjobs.com Residential plumbers & helpers needed for apartment complex in Sumter. Starting hourly wage based on exp. Send resume to PO Box 5839, Florence, SC 29502. Sparrow & Kennedy Tractor Co. Bishopville is seeking Bookkeeper. Apply online at www.spar rowkennedy.com or mail resume to PO Box 246, Bishopville, SC 29010 Exp. Bartenders needed with some serving exp. Apply in person to Sunset Country Club, Mon - Fri, 8 am - 3 pm, 1005 Golfcrest Rd. .

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Help Wanted Part-Time Maintenance Person Experienced maintenance person needed at Mobile Home Community. Must be a self-starter who would enjoy refurbishing manufactured homes as well as odd jobs that arise. Plumbing, electrical, carpentry background helpful. Must have own tools, valid driver's license, and own transportation. Apply in person at Windsor City MHC, 211-A Sussex Dr, Tues.-Fri., 9 am - 1 pm. $$$ AVON $$$ FREE TRAINING! 803-422-5555

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Mobile Home Rentals 2br, 2ba C/H/A, $425 mo + $300 dep. Off Nazarene Church Rd. 4 person max. No pets. 481-8134.

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hen the audience walks into the Sumter Little Theatre on Aug. 15, opening night of “Cabaret,” they’ll see a polished and finished set, and they’ll watch a musical play whose technical elements — as much as the performances — make it work. And that’s because of the skills and talents of a host of people. The evolution of the production, like most plays, starts simply with a script — dialogue, spare descriptions of the setting and the characters, maybe a few suggestions for set design. When the director and crew begin preparing a production, that’s what they have to work with. For the musical “Cabaret,” they also have a score and music for the nine-piece orchestra. Otherwise, they start out with a bare stage and their imaginations. Set designer Michael Duffy and technical director David Shoemaker are building the Kit Kat Club, a 1930s Berlin nightclub where much of the action takes place, in collaboration with Carmela Bryan, who is directing the show. How did Duffy and Bryan come up with a set design that’s accurate to the time and place and to fit the mood of the show? “You read, read, read,” Duffy said. “We did a lot of research, first of all on the show itself and its history, because this particular show came out of real experience. It’s not just some fantasy. Christopher Isherwood (who wrote the book on which ‘Cabaret’ is based) was in the Berlin cabarets a lot in the late 1920s and early ‘30s. “He experienced these places, and he wrote quite a bit. There’s also a lot of archival information on the cabarets of this period. We found a lot of photographs, a few videos. There’s, in fact, a website devoted to the history of the Berlin cabarets.” The mood of the play, which takes place in Berlin during the rise of Nazism, informs the set design perhaps more than any other element. In Armistead Maupin’s introduction to Isherwood’s “The Berlin Stories,” where the story of cabaret performer Sally Bowles is found, he wrote that Isherwood’s stories, based on his diaries, are “trenchant, funny, heartbreaking vignettes of a city already doomed to fascism.” And besides that, “The Kit Kat Club is not in the upper echelon of the Berlin cabarets,” Duffy said. “It’s a rather smoky, late night kind

designing the hair and makeup, and Joni Brown is musical director. “The music is extremely complicated and difficult,” Shoemaker said. “Our maestro Joni Brown, she is awesome. Our accompanist, Linda Beck and I have been playing for rehearsals.” Duffy added that “Libby Singleton and Jennifer Reimer of Miss Libby’s School of Dance are doing the choreography and working with “six wonderful cabaret dancers — the Kit Kat girls.” Shoemaker is also having to design the sound so that the audience will be able to hear the actors’ and singers’ voices when the band is playing. “There’s a lot of dialogue over music,” Bryan pointed out. “It’s another real challenge,” Duffy said. When “Cabaret” opens on Aug. 15, FROM LEFT: Carmela Bryan, director of Sumter Little Theatre’s upcoming production of the Michael Bacon, Taylor Mitchum and musical “Cabaret,” watches as Michael Duffy and David Shoemaker work on completing Tristan Pack will be in the booth to construction of the set. “Cabaret” opens the theater’s 2013-14 season on Aug. 15. run sound and light. “It’s always a cooperative effort few set pieces. This is a show that sort with the theater,” Bryan said, and AUDITONS of morphs reality, because the shift Duffy added, “We have had a corps of SLT has scheduled auditions for Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonfrom the cabaret to the boardingpeople who are loyal volunteers, and kers,” to be directed by Buzz Cornell. Auditions for boys house is pretty seamless. There are no we get other volunteers from the ages 10 to 18 will be held at 10 p.m. Saturday and for long set changes. Ann Beaty, who’s community very often. It’s like a small men and women at 6 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday. Prodone quite a few shows, is the stage theater company.” duction dates are Oct. 24-27 and Oct. 31-Nov. 3. Scripts manager, and the actors will do the Soon, Bryan said, she’ll be looking are available for overnight reading. Call (803) 775-2150. set changes, which is predominantly for dialogue coaches to work with the the case in live theater these days. It’s actors, who must play German, Britvery organic.” ish, French and American characters. of place,” Shoemaker said. Coordinating the many technical And she’s confident they won’t be Shoemaker is designing the lights elements is one of Bryan’s many dihard to find. and sound for “Cabaret.” recting tasks, in addition to working “It’s amazing that there are so He said, “I pretty much design acwith the actors. many talented people in the commucording to what Carmela wants to see. “We’re lucky that we have so many nity,” Duffy said. The more she tells me about what people in the area who are skilled in “And the talented actors, singers she’s trying to project on stage, as far the technical aspects of theater,” she and dancers ... ,” Shoemaker added. as the mood, that information helps said. “I think David’s experience (as me a lot.” “David is technical theater in Sum- technical director) of Patriot Hall has Shoemaker will also play drums for ter, as far as I’m concerned. All you added to the sense of unity with the the show. have to do is tell David what you (Sumter County) Cultural Center, “I’m really excited about that,” he want, and he makes it happen. I think too,” Bryan said. said. “I’ve put together a period drum it’s a real passion of his to do this kind Bryan and Duffy emphasized that kit, so the sound is as close as I can of work. He’s a magician. SLT’s production of “Cabaret” is not get to sounding like 1930.” “Most of the time in this show, evthe same as the movie with Liza MinDuffy, who will also play the emcee erybody’s on stage, so we’re isolating nelli and Joel Grey. in “Cabaret,” noted that the Kit Kat different areas with lighting, so that “It doesn’t have the Hollywood Club band “would have been pretty was a big technical job,” she continglitz,” Bryan added, “and it wasn’t inmuch what we have. Trumpet, clariued. “All the set pieces are minimal, tended to.” net, accordion, piano — Linda Beck’s because we wanted the set changes to “This particular production,” Duffy playing piano. She’s just been a work be part of the show, and there’s a lot said, “is based on the London revival horse.” of suggestion. That’s been a challenge done in 1987. It goes back to the more Logistically, he said, they’ve had to for Michael, too, to accommodate the original version of ‘Cabaret’, and it’s design the stage to accommodate two actors and the orchestra.” closer to the original intent. It’s edgisets; one is the Kit Kat Club, the other “And a perch for the dancing girls,” er, it’s darker, but it still has a lot of the boardinghouse where singer Sally Shoemaker said. the iconic songs that people would Bowles and several other characters Bryan added that “For this particu- expect.” live. lar show, the lighting is the most diffiThe Sumter Little Theatre will “That always presents an interestcult, and the costumes, makeup and present “Cabaret” Aug. 15-18 and 22ing technical challenge,” Duffy said, hair are very complicated, as well.” 25. For tickets, including season “to show two separate places, and we Marge Cowles does the costuming memberships, and more information, do that with lighting mostly, and a with Sylvia Pickell, Randy Abbott is call (803) 775-2150.

Marilyn Monroe fans can own photos, copyrights BY ULA ILNYTZKY Associated Press NEW YORK — Fashion and celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene was only 26 years old when he photographed Marilyn Monroe for Look magazine. He went on to take thousands of photos of the Hollywood siren, capturing both her vulnerability and her sexbomb persona. Now, 3,700 unpublished black-and-white and color negatives and transparencies of Greene’s Monroe archive are going on the auction block — with copyright. They are but a fraction of 75,000 celebrity negatives and slides Greene shot in the 1950s and 1960s that are going on sale Saturday at Profiles in History in Los Angeles and online. Copyrights are included with all the ma-

terial, which is spread over 268 lots, meaning a potential buyer can print images from the negatives and transparencies, sell them and license the material. “It’s a big, big deal. It’s like selling the recipe for Coca-Cola,” said Joseph Maddalena, owner of Profiles in History, which auctions original Hollywood memorabilia and artifacts. “It’s nearly unheard of in a public venue, particularly for an entire archive,” said Christopher Belport, the photography consultant for Profiles in History. The archive also includes hundreds of production stills of Faye Dunaway during the filming of “Bonnie & Clyde” and Cary Grant and Doris Day in “That Touch of Mink.” Among others are Sid Caesar, Jane Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Catherine De-

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Photographer Milton Greene is shown with Marilyn Monroe. The two became close friends after Greene began photographing her in the 1950s.

neuve, Ava Gardner and Marlene Dietrich. Most of the lots are expected to fetch between $1,000 and $15,000 depending on the number of negatives in each lot and the featured celebrity. But it’s anyone’s guess what they will bring. “It’s un-

chartered territory,” Maddalena said. He noted: “There are no vintage Milton Greene photographs. ... He was a work-for-hire photographer” shooting covers for Look, Life, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and other magazines.

Like his contemporaries, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Greene is credited with elevating fashion photography to fine art. But unlike them, Greene did not commercialize his work. “Only a handful was published,” Maddalena said. The seller is an unidentified American photography collector who purchased the archive about 10 years ago. The items came from the Greene estate “via a financial institute in Poland that had secured ownership from Greene in a business dealing” with the copyright, the auction house said in a statement. Milton Greene’s 1953 assignment for Look was the start of a close friendship and business relationship with Monroe. He shot more than 5,000 images of her dur-

ing more than 55 sittings over the next four years — until she married Arthur Miller. Greene was her confidante and mentor. Together they formed Marilyn Monroe Productions, which resulted in “Bus Stop” and “The Prince and the Showgirl.” The rarest other celebrity negatives in the sale are of porn star Linda Lovelace. Mark Vieira, an author on the photographic history of Hollywood, said he was flabbergasted by the vastness of the collection. “Usually this kind of material offers you a slice of history. The Greene collection is more like a chunk of history,” Vieira said. Visit the website artfact.com for more information about the Greene auction as well as others.

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Grilled veggies make for a great sandwich ELIZABETH KARMEL Associated Press Sometimes the promise of leftovers is almost more exciting than the meal itself! And who says leftovers can’t be planned? Whenever I’m heating my grill for dinner, I always toss on and roast a few red and yellow bell peppers, even if I don’t plan to use them for that meal. Grilled peppers can add so much to so many other dishes. And they are almost effortless to make. Wrap them around fresh mozzarella for an easy appetizer, layer them in a sandwich, or chop them up and toss with pesto and pasta for a simple summer side. I also almost always cook a couple of boneless, skinless chicken breasts to have at the ready for salads, sandwiches or meals on the go. I call all of these items “grilled-overs,” and my favorite thing to do with them is assemble a grilled vegetable sandwich. It’s just the thing to make the most of whatever I grilled too much of the night before. Particularly at the end of summer, I love to go to the farmers market and buy all kinds of vegetables, grill them and save them to make sandwiches. Sometimes I layer the veggies with shaved Parmesan and silky prosciutto, as in this recipe. Other times, I spread the bread with olive tapenade and a gracious layer of fresh goat cheese. Regardless, grilled vegetables make a crave-worthy, healthy sandwich. They also pack really easily — a bit of weekend sunshine in a weekday lunch. There are a few things that you need to know when grilling vegetables. Make sure all of the vegetables are lightly coated with oil before grilling. That will promote those beautiful grill marks, keep the veggies juicy and prevent sticking! You also need to cut the vegetables so that they are long enough to be placed perpendicular against the grates, usually at least 3 inches long. You

won’t need a vegetable basket if you slice them correctly. Always place food horizontally on the cooking grates — or the opposite direction of the cooking grates, never parallel. When you place the food in the same direction as the grates, you run the risk of having it slip through the grates. Even more important, you won’t get good grill marks on whatever you are grilling. The best marks are short and go across the food. Grill over a medium, direct heat and turn the vegetables once halfway through the cooking time; each vegetable will vary in the amount of time it needs. Really dense vegetables such as potatoes will need to be finished with indirect heat or the outside will burn by the time the inside is tender. When you remove the grilled vegetables, place them in a single layer on a sheet pan lined with a wire rack so they can cool completely before they are stored in the refrigerator. Make the sandwiches or serve the vegetables room temperature with a drizzle of fruity olive oil and a pinch of crunchy salt. GRILLED VEGGIE SANDWICH WITH ROASTED GARLIC MAYONNAISE

Because the vegetables are good hot or cold, they can be grilled ahead and refrigerated. Assemble the sandwiches just before serving. Start to finish: 1 1/2 hour (30 minutes active) Servings: 6 2 red bell peppers 2 yellow bell peppers 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar 1/4 cup olive oil, plus more for the rolls 1 teaspoon dried rosemary Kosher salt and ground black pepper 6 large portabella mushrooms, stems removed 1 medium zucchini, cut into 6 long strips 6 kaiser or onion rolls (or 12 thick slices of sourdough bread) Head of roasted garlic (see recipe below) 1/2 cup mayonnaise

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1 bunch fresh basil, leaves only 1/2 pound chunk Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, thinly sliced with a vegetable peeler 1/2 pound thinly sliced prosciutto (optional) Prepare and heat a gas or charcoal grill for high heat, direct grilling. Place the red and yellow bell peppers on the grill grate and cook, turning frequently, until the skin is charred all over, about 5 minutes per side. Use tongs to remove the peppers from the grill and place them in a large bowl. Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap. Set aside for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, the skins should slip easily off the peppers. Slice them open, remove the seeds, then cut into large strips. In a medium bowl, mix the vinegar, olive oil, rosemary and a bit each of salt and pepper. Add the pepper strips, turning to coat, and set aside to marinate for at least 30 minutes. This also can be done up to 3 days ahead. When ready to grill, return the grill to high heat. Set the mushrooms and zucchini in a large bowl. Pour the marinade off the peppers and onto the zucchini and

mushrooms, tossing them lightly to coat well. Grill the mushrooms, gill side up, for 8 to 10 minutes, then flip and grill for another minute, or until completely tender. Grill the zucchini slices for 3 minutes per side. Split the rolls in half. Brush the cut sides lightly with oil. Place cut side down on grill for 2 to 3 minutes, or until golden brown. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together the garlic and mayonnaise until smooth. When the rolls are toasted, assemble the sandwiches by spreading both sides with garlic mayonnaise, then layering a mushroom, zucchini, peppers, basil leaves, cheese and proscuitto. Season with salt and pepper, if desired. Nutrition information per serving (without the optional prosciutto): 610 calories; 290 calories from fat (48 percent of total calories); 32 g fat (8 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 30 mg cholesterol; 53 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 11 g sugar; 26 g protein; 1220 mg sodium. ROASTED GARLIC

This is one of those pantry items that make almost any recipe better. Substitute roasted garlic for raw cloves when

Healthy corn crepe works with both sweet, savory SARA MOULTON Associated Press One of the earliest French culinary imports to make a dent in America was the crepe. As a kid in New York during the ’60s, I remember dining with my family at quite a few creperies. I also remember the black steel crepe pan my folks bought, a token of their desire to make crepes at home every once in a while. This admirable ambition faced two stumbling blocks. First, if the pan wasn’t well-seasoned (which required using it a lot and treating it with special care), the crepes stuck to it. And that meant we usually destroyed the crepes when the moment came to dig them out. Second, conventional wisdom had it that each crepe in a stack of cooked crepes needed to be separated from the crepes above and below it using individual sheets of waxed paper, otherwise they’d all stick together. Well, who had the patience for that kind of fussiness? Happily, I have solved both problems. Though I’m not generally a fan of nonstick pans — the usual choice for making crepes these days — they do work. I’ve also discovered that you can stack crepes. They don’t stick to each other! Still, why bother with crepes? Because if you have some crepes in the freezer and some leftovers in the fridge, you can put an elegant dinner on the table in no time. And if you make the crepes without sugar, they can be used in sweet or savory preparations. You can stuff them with everything from leftover cooked

pork chops, to broccoli and cheddar cheese, to fresh berries and vanilla yogurt. The crepes in this recipe are made not with white flour, but with stoneground cornmeal and whole-wheat flour. This gives them not only better nutrition, but heartier taste and texture, too. As you cook them, be sure to re-stir the batter every time you reach into the bowl for more. That way the cornmeal will be evenly distributed in every crepe. CORN CREPES STUFFED WITH SUMMER FRUITS

Start to finish: 1 hour Servings: 4 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 cup 1 percent milk 2 large eggs 1/4 cup cornmeal, preferably stone ground 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour Pinch table salt 3/4 cup dry white wine 1/3 cup sugar 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise (or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract) 6 cups, pitted and cubed fresh summer fruit, such as nectarines, plums and peaches 3/4 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt In a small skillet over low heat, cook the butter until it starts to turn brown and smell nutty. Transfer the butter to a blender, then add the milk, eggs, cornmeal, flour and salt. Blend just until smooth. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and let rest for 30 minutes. SEE CREPES, PAGE C3

you want a mellower, smoky flavor. And if you are roasting one head, you might as well go ahead and make a few extra; they keep in the refrigerator for at least a week. Wrap each head in its own sheet of foil for easy grilling and storage. Start to finish: 40 minutes (mostly inactive) Makes 1 head 1 head garlic 2 teaspoons olive oil Heat a grill to medium, with one side prepped for indirect heat (for charcoal grills, bank the coals to one side; for gas grills, turn off one burner). Remove the outer layer of papery skin from the garlic. Slice off the top 1/2 inch from the pointed top of the garlic head. Set the garlic, cut side up, on a large square of foil. Drizzle it with the olive oil, then wrap the foil up and over it the garlic to form a loose packet. Set the garlic over the cooler side of the grill and cook for 40 minutes, or until the cloves are golden-brown and soft. Remove from the grill and let cool. To remove the cloves, simply squeeze the entire head (or each clove) and the cloves should pop out of their skins.

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CREPES from Page C2 While the batter is resting, in a medium saucepan over low heat, combine the wine, sugar and vanilla bean. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the sugar is dissolved. (If using vanilla extract, add it to the fruit after the fruit has cooked for 20 minutes in the next step.) Add the fruit, bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer, cover and cook for 20 minutes. While the fruit is poaching, make the crepes. Mist a 10-inch nonstick skillet with cooking spray. Heat over medium heat. Stir the crepe batter and quickly pour 1/4 cup of it into the skillet, tilting the batter in the pan to make sure that the bottom is completely covered. Cook the crepe until it is lightly browned on the bottom, about 1 minute. Flip, cook for another 30 seconds, then transfer it to a rack to cool. Repeat with the remaining batter to produce 8 crepes. Once cooled, the crepes can be stacked. Set them aside. After the fruit has poached for 20 minutes, use a slotted spoon to transfer it to a bowl, making sure to leave most of the cooking liquid in the saucepan. Scrape the seeds inside the vanilla bean out with the tip of a paring knife and add them to the fruit. Bring the cooking liquid remaining in the saucepan to a boil and cook it until it is reduced to about 1/2 cup. Transfer the liquid to a small pitcher and return the fruit to the pan. Heat over medium until hot. To assemble the crepes: Mound a bit of the fruit filling down the middle of each of the crepes, then roll up. Arrange the filled crepes, seam side down, on dessert plates, then drizzle them with the reduced sauce and top with 2 tablespoons of the yogurt. Nutrition information per serving: 410 calories; 90 calories from fat (22 percent of total calories); 10 g fat (4.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 110 mg cholesterol; 66 g carbohydrate; 6 g fiber; 44 g sugar; 11 g protein; 125 mg sodium.

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Young couple’s intimacy is risky without birth control DEAR ABBY — My BETRAYED IN girlfriend, “Allison,” and I BANGOR, MAINE have been in a relationship for two years. We met DEAR BETRAYED — in our sophomore year of You appear to be an intelhigh school and have ligent and responsible been dating ever since. young man. The first We have an incredible re- thing you should do is lationship. thank your higher We were virpower that there gins when we wasn’t an “accistarted dating, dent” and your girlbut decided we friend didn’t bewould lose our come pregnant. virginity to each The next thing other. We have you should do is always used birth Abigail find out why AlliVAN BUREN control pills and son would stop takcondoms to ening her birth consure we wouldn’t trol pills without be having any children. telling you. If there was a Earlier this month we medical reason, there are had a pregnancy scare. other methods she could Allison had failed to tell have used in their place. me she stopped taking (If you are planning to ather birth control pills tend college, she may three months ago. My have been thinking a baby trust was broken, but would “anchor” you to most of all I was scared her.) she might be pregnant. It And last, recognize that turned out she wasn’t, but if you resume having sex because of the incident I with her — which I emhave been skeptical about phatically DON’T recommaking love to her. She mend — that you won’t says this frustrates her, but be able to trust her as far I have told her the reason as birth control is conI won’t is because she recerned, and you will be fuses to take the pill. the one totally responsiAbby, we are way too ble for preventing a pregyoung to have a child and nancy. are totally unprepared. I’d The saying, “Fool me still like to be intimate once, shame on you; fool with Allison, but I’m me twice, shame on ME,” afraid. What should I do? applies here. dear abby

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TLC takes a baby step toward scripted drama BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH TLC, the cable home to such reality series as “Jon & Kate Plus 8” and “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” takes a baby step toward scripted drama with “Surviving the In-Laws” (10 p.m., and 10:30 p.m., TV-PG). Don’t go looking for big stars and stellar dialogue. Each half-hour vignette will feature a loosely scripted re-enactment of real-life tales of intrusive and ridiculous behavior, open hostility and passive-aggressive manipulation. Hey, who can’t relate? Mother-in-law jokes and stories were a staple of comedy, particularly on television, culminating with “The Mothersin-Law,” a popular 196769 sitcom produced by Desi Arnaz that starred Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard. I recently had a chance to rewatch a few episodes and was struck by their antique quality. Jokes about mothers-inlaw seemed to represent the state of television comedy before the era of topical humor ushered in by the huge success of “All in the Family.” Before Archie Bunker, it was thought that you might lose your audience if you joked about race, gender, generations and politics. But the success of “Family” proved that you could gain viewers, and then some. As old-fashioned and tentative as TLC’s “In-Laws” may be, its narrative still purports to reflect real stories rather than rehash phony “reality” conventions. • Speaking of topical comedy, Cedric the Entertainer’s “The Soul Man” (11 p.m., TV Land, TV-PG) wades

into the issue of gay marriage. • During the 1970s, a young woman (Michelle Dockery, “Downton Abbey”) discovers her mother’s (Charlotte Rampling, “Dexter”) secret life as a World War II spy in the 2012 miniseries “Restless” (8 p.m., Sundance, TV-14), unfolding tonight in marathon fashion. The series was adapted from a novel by William Boyd. Secrets are revealed and identities redefined as action unfolds in both the 1970s and 1940s. As I wrote last December, “Restless” is a period piece — make that two period pieces — set in the wilderness of mirrors of international espionage, a shadow world where no one can be trusted and where transgressions are never forgotten.

Tonight’s Other Highlights • Axl irks Frankie on “The Middle” (8 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG). • The “Do Something Awards” (8 p.m., VH1) honors young people under 25 engaged in social activism and social change. • Litigating meteorite damage on “Franklin & Bash” (9 p.m., TNT, TV14). • A spin doctor needs a real doctor on “Royal Pains” (9 p.m., USA, TVPG).

• Death wears a poker face on “CSI” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14). • Valentine’s Day erupts in July on “Camp” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14). • “Nazi Mega Weapons” (10 p.m., PBS, TVPG, check local listings) recalls the V2 rocket. • “Best Daym Takeout” (Travel, TV-PG) celebrates food in Chicago (10 p.m.) and New Orleans (10:30 p.m.). • Marco approaches a ransom case from a different angle on “The Bridge” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA). • A family camping trip ends in crisis on “Bulloch Family Ranch” (10 p.m., UP, TV-G).

Cult Choice TCM wraps up July with four larger-than-life 1950s Technicolor potboilers from director Douglas Sirk, films that have been considered both high camp and serious symbol-laden cinema, sometimes by the same critics. Feast your eyes on “Magnificent Obsession” (8 p.m.), “Imitation of Life” (10 p.m.), “There’s Always Tomorrow” (12:15 a.m.) and “Written on the Wind” (2 a.m.).

Fox, TV-14) * Oliver feels romantic on “Arrow” (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * George and Dallas grow closer on “Suburgatory” (8:30 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) * Motivational murder on “Criminal Minds” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Claire’s college reunion on “Modern Family” (9 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) * Tag with a vengeance on “Capture” (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * PTA politics on “The Neighbors” (9:30 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) * “ABC’s The Lookout” (10 p.m.).

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From left, are: Midnight Moon Blueberry, FireFly Moonshine Apple Pie Flavor, Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine Blackberry, Midnight Moon Moonshine and White Mountain Moonshine.

moves out of the hills and into stores

trade group The American Distilling Institute. But hard number are difficult to find, in part because the definition of ASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tim moonshine is a bit murky. Anything Smith, the clandestine star of from corn whiskey to flavored neutral Discovery’s unexpected reality spirits might be marketed as moonhit “Moonshiners,” doesn’t have anyshine. thing against the growing legion of legal As fans of “Moonshiners” — which distillers who are plying their brands at drew an average of 3.25 million fans to your local liquor store. make the He just doesn’t want to drink their show the ONLINE: stuff. Wednesday climaxmoonshine.com “Mine is just a real smooth moonnight cable grandaddymimms.com shine,” Smith said. “That’s the only way leader — Follow AP Music I can explain it. I’ve tasted some of the know, Writer Chris Talbott: other brands trying to figure out what Smith’s twitter.com/Chris_Talbott they’re making and stuff like that. I’m been havnot trying to put down nobody, don’t ing a hard get me wrong. Everybody’s got their time getting own business. But everybody I taste, in the legal game after two decades of that’s about what I throw away.” plying his trade in shadowy ways in the Smith’s Climax Moonshine is the lat- hills around Climax, Va. est entry in the big bang-like moonHis brand finally debuts in Georgia shine trade where new legal brands are this week and he hopes to be on the being introduced every few months it shelves in South Carolina soon. seems. Former outlaws like Smith and “South Carolina and Georgia right the descendants of larger-than-life fignow is all that’s stepped up to the plate,” ures like Popcorn Sutton or Jack Smith said in a phone interview during “Mimm” McClure — as well as corpofilming of the show’s third season, derate titans like Jack Daniels and Jim buting this fall. “The other guys are a litBeam — are all attempting to cash in tle bit unsure of what they want to do on the growing trend. because I’m still listed as an outlaw.” “It has just come from out of noSmith and “Moonshiners” taps into where in the past few years. There are the mythic nature of illegal outdoor disjust so many distillers popping up,” says tilling. Always an interesting subcategoAndrew Faulkner, vice president of ry in the American outlaw canon, the

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sudden availability of the over-thecounter stuff has taken the onetime cliche out of the dark valleys and into America’s trendiest bars and restaurants. You can buy moonshine drinks of every flavor and stripe, bake moonshine cookies or just drink it straight from the jar. That the clear corn liquor has made it into the stores is an irony Tommy Townsend, maker of Grandaddy Mimm’s Authentic Corn Whiskey, chuckles at. “Well, I guess the reason it’s popular is it’s illegal liquor being sold legally now,” Townsend said. “It’s funny. This term moonshine just came from people back in the old days making it illegally so they wouldn’t have to pay taxes on it.” Now it goes for $25 to $50 or more down per 750 milliliters on the corner. Townsend’s grandfather was something of a legendary figure in the field in Young Harris, Ga., the tri-state area where Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina meet. Rumored to have influential friends in politics and law enforcement, he only served time in jail once during his day. Mimm was the last of a breed and the recipe was in danger of passing out of memory when a friend idly mentioned the growing interest in moonshine. Townsend, the singer for the late Waylon Jenning’s band Waymore’s

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Outlaws, told the story of his grandfather’s business venture and the friend suggested he track down that recipe. “He said he’d help back it, you know, because there’s lots of money in alcohol,” Townsend said with a laugh. Smith doesn’t believe the escalation in legal moonshine has had even the slightest impact on the illegal trade — “We never could keep up with the demand no way.” — and believes it’s far more expansive than the general public believes. Not everyone can pull it off, though. Moonshine might seem simple: You mix corn, sugar and water together and run it through an easily learned cooking process. But it really isn’t. He says the moonshine-curious should make sure the brand they buy came from the still to the store. Anyone else is just pushing product. “What I’ve learned over say the last 20 years that I’ve actually been deep in research on the illegal side is that those legal distilleries out there have never made legal moonshine before, have no experience at all,” he said. “They only know the process. They go to an institute where they learn the process of it from a chemical engineer. Anyone can learn the basic process. You can learn it in elementary school. It’s chemistry. But actually doing it and tasting it and understanding what you’re doing, nobody’s done that.”

Many ways with

moonshine — cocktail recipes ALISON LADMAN The Associated Press

ot sure what to make of the many moonshines showing up on shelves at your local liquor store? We have you covered. Obviously, it’s easy enough to chill and sip it straight up. But if you want something with a bit more punch, we crafted four moonshine cocktails to get you started.

BLUE RICKEY SPRITZER

LOW-HANGING FRUIT

Start to finish: 5 minutes Servings: 1

Ice 4 ounces seltzer water 1 ounce Rangpur gin 1/4 cup fresh blueberries 1 ounce blueberry moonshine Fresh mint, to garnish 1/2 ounce lime juice Into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, combine the gin, moonshine and lime juice. Shake well, then strain into a tall glass filled with ice. Top with seltzer water and stir just to combine. Top with the blueberries and mint.

FULL MOON LEMONADE Start to finish: 5 minutes Servings: 1

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From top right, clockwise are: Full Moon Lemonade, LowHanging Fruit, Apple Cobbler and Blue Rickey Spritzer.

Ice 1 ounce limoncello 1 ounce lemon juice

1 ounce moonshine 1 teaspoon sugar Lemon slice, to garnish

In an ice-filled cocktail shaker, combine all ingredients except the lemon slice. Shake to combine, then strain into a tall glass filled with ice and garnish with lemon.

Ice 1 ounce blackberry moonshine

1/2 ounce Frangelico 1 ounce pear brandy Fresh blackberries, to garnish

In an ice-filled cocktail shaker, combine the moonshine, Frangelico and pear brandy. Shake well, then strain into a small cocktail glass and garnish with blackberries.

APPLE COBBLER Start to finish: 5 minutes Servings: 1 1 ounce apple pie moonshine 1 ounce apple honey wine or mead 1 ounce dark spiced rum

1/2 ounce ginger liqueur 1/2 ounce lemon juice Cinnamon stick, to garnish Lemon twist, to garnish

In an ice-filled cocktail shaker, combine the moonshine, mead, rum, ginger liqueur and lemon juice. Shake until combined and chilled, then strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and lemon twist.