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FROM STAFF REPORTS A 48-year-old Gresham woman has been arrested in the shooting death of a 58-year-old New Zion man and is being held on murder charges at the Clarendon County Detention Center.

Sharron Marie Rogers, of 1127 U.S. 378 West, was arrested about 3 p.m. Wednesday in Johnsonville. Shortly afterward, Rogers was transported back to Clarendon County for detention.

According to Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett, Rogers’ arrest came about five hours after his office had been contacted by Turbeville law enforcement, asking for them to investigate the death.

The body of the New Zion man was found Wednesday morning in a room at the Featherbed Motel in Turbeville by the motel’s owner.

As of Thursday evening, the victim’s name was still being withheld by Clarendon County Coroner Hayes F. Samuels Jr., who was attempting to find the victim’s family so he could notify them of the death.

The slain man worked part time at the motel cleaning rooms, Garrett said, adding the motel owner told authorities he last spoke with the victim about 9 p.m. Tuesday about which rooms needed cleaning Wednesday morning. According to the sheriff, when the motel owner arrived that morning, he didn’t see his employee and began cleaning rooms.

Outside of one of the rooms, the owner found

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ABOVE: Marie Gibbons, left, her son Nelson, center, and Amber Perdue, right, showed off their patriotic spirit by participating in the 2013 New Zion Fourth of July parade.

BELOW: The East Clarendon High School Wolverine State Champion softball team was honored during the event.

Members of the KFA Dance Group entertained the crowd by dancing and performing gymnastics stunts during the parade.

‘When one firefighter hurts, everybody hurts’

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Local firefighters grieve with those in Arizona

BY JADE ANDERSON janderson@theitem.com The deaths of the 19 Arizona firefighters on Sunday hit close to home for firefighters in Sumter and Clarendon counties.

“When I heard about the big tragedy, my heart just melted,” said Johnny Rose, battalion chief for Sumter Fire Department. “Any time we lose a firefighter anywhere in the country, or even the world, we know what they are going through. When one firefighter hurts, everybody hurts.”

What The Associated Press is calling “the nation’s biggest loss of firefighters since 9/11” happened Sunday when wind turned a lightning-ignited forest fire into a fatal trap for the team of Hotshots.

“This is a significant loss and such a great tragedy,” said Frances Richbourg, chief of the Clarendon County Fire Department. “Our heart goes out to the family and friends, their fellow firefighters and the command staff.

We know they are hurting, and we send them our thoughts and prayers.”

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ABOVE: George Murphy of the Yavapi Tribal Police pays his respects at a makeshift memorial outside the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew fire station on Tuesday in Prescott, Ariz., honoring 19 firefighters killed battling a wildfire near Yarnell, Ariz., on Sunday. The elite crew of firefighters was overtaken by the out-of-control blaze as they tried to protect themselves from the flames under fire-resistant shields.

TOP RIGHT: Linda Lambert places her hand across a plaque hanging on the fence outside the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew fire station on Tuesday in Prescott, Ariz. The plaque has the names of the 19 firefighters killed Sunday. Lambert is the aunt of firefighter Andrew Ashcraft.

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After six months of detours around one of the most heavily trafficked interchanges in Sumter, construction of the new flyover bridge on U.S. 76/378 was completed under budget and within the time frame transportation officials expected.

The bridge connects U.S. 378 with Broad Street Extension by crossing over U.S. 521/ Camden Highway, one of the main routes for getting across town. It reopened June 28 after closing on Jan. 2 for construction work.

At the time it was closed, the state Department of Transportation projected May 24 as the date the project would be completed. It did take longer than expected to open the bridge back up to traffic, but resident DOT construction engineer Jeffrey Wilkes said contractors still have until Aug. 31 to finish up.

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‘Governor’s warrant’ sought in arson case

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A man wanted on arson and murder charges will spend at least two more months in his home state of Kentucky after an extradition hearing Tuesday.

Joseph Manners, 20, is accused of killing his MANNERS grandparents, James and Joann Topper, by setting fire to their Barnwell Drive home on June 1. Manners reportedly fled to Kentucky after the killings, where he was apprehended the next day after a police chase ended with the suspect driving his car into the Ohio River.

Manners indicated he intended to fight his extradition back to South Carolina in a Kentucky courtroom this week, necessitating another hearing tentatively scheduled for September before he can face charges in Sumter.

Officials with the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday they plan to seek a “governor’s warrant” to formally request Manners’ extradition from Kentucky.

“We’ll work with the solicitor’s office to have it drawn up, and the governor will actually sign it and send it to the Kentucky officials,” said Capt. Allen Dailey.

Manners is being held

by Kentucky authorities pending the extradition hearing.

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A police recruit was misidentified in a photo that appeared on Wednesday’s front page.

Glenn Baun was the recruit loading water into the back of the vehicle.

To see photos of two other recruits helping in Operation Hydration, visit theitem.com.

A lengthy undercover operation has landed a Sumter man in jail on drug distribution charges.

Myers Dashon Prince, 24, of 756 Brand St., was arrested Tuesday on two counts of cocaine distribution and one count each of distribution of a controlled substance and distribution of

an imitation substance.

During a three-month undercover operation, investigators with the narcotics division of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office reportedly purchased cocaine and other PRINCE illegal drugs from the suspect on more than one occasion.

In addition to powder co-

caine, officers also were reportedly sold prescription pills and an “imitation” non-narcotic substance under the guise of it being a drug.

“If you’re selling some kind of a white-powder substance and calling it cocaine, you can still be charged with distribution of an imitation substance,” said Capt. Allen Dailey, commander of narcotics and criminal investigations at the sheriff’s office.

The amount of cocaine allegedly purchased was not released, but investigators reportedly secured drugs from the accused in “several buys” across Sumter during the course of the investigation, Dailey said.

Prince was taken into custody without incident Tuesday and is being held at SumterLee Regional Detention Center on an $8,000 surety bond pending trial.

1st Patriotic Pet Contest happening Saturday

BY ROBERT J. BAKER bbaker@theitem.com The Sumter Downtown Market will open Saturday as usual with its vendors and new look, local produce and a variety of merchandise.

But this weekend children and their pets will be the main attraction as the market hosts its first Patriotic Pet Contest. Sponsored by The Item, the event will award prizes to the children with the best-dressed pets.

“We have grown our Sumter Downtown Market this year to include not only fruits and vegetables but prepared foods, artisan items, kids activities and live entertainment,” said Sumter Growth and Development Specialist Leigh Newman. “We just thought this would be a fun Fourth of July event to bring families downtown and give them a chance to show off their furriest family members.”

Judging for the event will begin at 11 a.m., one-half hour after registrations are due. Participants must be 12 or younger to PHOTO PROVIDED participate, and all The Sumter Downtown Market will host its first Patriotic Pet Contest this Saturday. The pets must be leashed event will award prizes to the children (12 and younger) with the best-dressed pets. Turn or caged and conto page A4 of today’s edition for the registration form. trolled at all times.

Owners must also provide a copy of current rabies vaccination certificates for dogs, cats and ferrets.

“To be able to give prizes, we felt we had to limit the ages, and we knew the younger children would really enjoy participating in this event,” Newman said of the rules. “And let’s be honest, what’s cuter than kids and puppies?”

“And it’s not just limited to any one type (of) pet,” Newman continued. “Kids can bring their hamsters, birds, snakes, whatever they have as a pet, as long as it’s safely contained, current on vaccinations and decked out in the red, white and blue.”

Newman said the event is not a fundraiser for any particular cause.

“This isn’t a fundraiser. We aren’t charging any entry fee,” she said. “We just want everybody to come downtown and have a good time,” she said.

For more information, call Newman at (803) 436-2635 or email lnewman@sumter-sc.com.

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Father, 2 sons arrested in connection to farm thefts

BY SHARRON HALEY sharron@theitem-clarendonsun.com MANNING — A recent traffic stop resulted in the arrest of a father and his two sons in connection to farm thefts in Clarendon, Sumter and Lee counties, according to the Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office.

On June 28, a Clarendon County deputy stopped a vehicle for failure to use a turn signal and reportedly found items inside the vehicle that were identified as stolen from Ward Farms on S.C. 261 west of Manning. The deputy also reported finding pills thought to be controlled substances inside the vehicle.

The driver of the vehicle, Robert Morse, 40, of 2824 Hicks Road, Turbeville, was

arrested on five counts of burglary, second degree; one count of grand larceny; one count of safe cracking; and R. MORSE one count of possession of burglary tools.

After Morse’s arrest, investigators with the Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office searched T.R. MORSE the suspect’s home and recovered numerous items that were reported stolen from Double D Farms and DuRant Farms in the Gable area and Jackson Farms, also located west of Manning off S.C. 261.

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Tyler Ryan Morse, 20, of the R.W. MORSE same address, was arrested on one count of burglary, second degree; and one county of accessory after the fact of burglary, second degree. Another son, Robert Wesley Morse, 19, also of the same address, was arrested on one count of grand larceny and one count of accessory after the fact of burglary, second degree.

During their investigation, Clarendon County investigators were able to link the trio to farm thefts in Sumter and Lee counties.

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older Morse has been linked to vandalized augers where copper was the main target.

Garrett also said the suspect has been linked to the theft of thousands of dollars in hand tools and farm equipment.

All three men are being held at the Clarendon County Detention Center. No bond hearings have been held as of Tuesday afternoon because each man has pending charges.

Lt. Robert Burnish with the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said his office has warrants on Robert Morse and Tyler Ryan Morse.

Burnish said the warrants involve break-ins and thefts from area farms.

Harry DuRant with Double D Farms in Gable said his of-

fice, packing shed and shop were broken.

“They must have gone through seven desks in the office,” DuRant said Tuesday afternoon. “They just jerked the drawers out and dumped papers on the floor.”

DuRant said a set of deer antlers mounted on a board was stolen along with a pistol and a rifle.

From the packing shed, rods and reels and an ax were stolen. From the shop, two chain saws were stolen.

“Someone even took the cooper wiring out of our auger,” DuRant added. “I guess when you total up everything, we’re out more than $3,000.”

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Sumter County Auditor Lauretha McCants is sworn in for a new term Tuesday at the Sumter County Judicial Center. The oath of office was administered by Judge George McFaddin Jr., and the auditor’s husband, Leon McCants, held the Bible. Tuesday’s swearing-in was the first such ceremony at the new Judicial Center on North Harvin Street.

Sumter County Treasurer Carolina Richardson is sworn in to a new term by Judge George McFaddin Jr. on Tuesday, while Richardson’s son Jeremy holds the Bible. Both Richardson and Auditor Lauretha McCants were sworn in at the Sumter County Judicial Center after winning re-election to their respective offices in November 2012.

Engineer works to restore 1930s clock for college DREW BROOKS (Spartanburg) Herald-Journal SPARTANBURG — Peter Knapp doesn’t have a lot of time.

But clocks? He has plenty of those.

Knapp, a Swiss-born engineer who has worked on Spartanburg’s clocks for 30 years, has a special project — restoring a piece of history that once kept Spartanburg High running.

The so-called “master� or “supervisory� clock will be restored to its place in the school once it opens later this year as the new downtown campus for Spartanburg Community College.

SCC officials purchased the clock earlier this month and briefly displayed it in the college board room.

Now, the clock is in

Knapp’s workshop south of Spartanburg, surrounded by dozens of other timepieces in various states of repair.

The clock, standing about five feet tall and weighing over 120 lbs, was made by IBM in 1938, Knapp said. At one point, it would have been connected by wires to nine smaller, “secondary� clocks. “This clock tells all the other clocks what time it is,� Knapp said, adding that similar clocks could be found in mills and factories.

The clock, which appears to be in good shape, is the first of its kind Knapp has worked on after nearly three decades of fixing clocks. “They’re not very common,� he said. “There just aren’t a lot around anymore. Every clock is different. But

this is something new to me.� “I love this clock,� he added.

The clock itself is younger than the 1920sbuilt Evans Building, formerly known as Frank Evans High School, Evans Jr. High School and the original home to Spartanburg High School, but it would have sat in the school principal’s office and dictated school bells through a mechanism attached to the clock. “These nine disks have little starts and stops,� Knapp said. “It triggers a switch or a school bell.�

Knapp will soon begin the process of cleaning and refurbishing the clock, cleaning up past, haphazard repairs that left glue visible on the clock’s glass door.

He’s not yet sure if the

clock will run — Knapp said the wiring is old and needs to be tested before he can plug it into a power source. But he’s confident it will run again.

Knapp, who moved to Spartanburg in 1977 to work as an engineer in the textile business, said clock repair began as a hobby he inherited from his father. “I’m mechanically inclined,� he said by way of explanation.

In his home, his work has expanded out from his workshop and spilled into at least three other rooms.

At any given time, Knapp said, he’s working on 10 to 15 clocks.

Sam Hook, executive director of the SCC Foundation, presented the clock to the Spartanburg County Commission for Technical and

Community Education at its meeting June 17.

Commissioners, noting that the clock would have been in the principal’s office, joked about it looking familiar.

At the time, Hook said officials paid $100 to Dr. Thomas White for the clock and heralded its return to the school.

“It will return to its original home,� Hook said. “We’re very proud of it. Proud that we finally found it.�

Knapp said the school got a good deal, too.

If the clock was in pristine condition, Knapp said, it would be worth between $2,000 and $5,000.

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Olanta honors slain police chief 37 years later

BY TRACI BRIDGES The (Florence) Morning News OLANTA — Stacey Watts recently got a gift she had been waiting on for 37 years.

The Town of Olanta officially recognized and honored her father, former Olanta Police Chief Robert F. Sexton, with the unveiling of a portrait that will hang in the new town SEXTON hall.

The recognition comes more than three decades after Sexton was gunned down by another police officer on Olanta’s Main Street, but Watts said it’s better late than never. “I really thought this day would never come,� Watts said. “It’s bittersweet. It means so ... I can’t even put a value on how much this means to me.

Olanta finally taking the time to honor one of their own — it’s long overdue, but done right. He finally got the recognition he deserves. I just wish his mother could have been here to see it.�

Watts was just 2 months old the night her 29-year-old father was shot and killed on Main Street by another Olanta police officer.

His sacrifice went unrecognized until recently when Olanta

‘He finally got the recognition he deserves. I just wish his mother could have been here to see it.’ Stacey Watts, daughter of former Olanta Police Chief Robert F. Sexton Mayor Jimmy McCutcheon, Councilman Jack Hyman and Olanta Police Chief Jack Chamberlain decided to do something about it. “The chief, myself and Councilman Hyman had the opportunity to attend the fallen officers memorial service in Florence a few weeks ago as part of National Peace Officers Day, which was fitting because one of our own was being honored,� McCutcheon said. “But through attending that, we came to realize there had never been any kind of memorial for Chief Sexton here in Olanta, and that wasn’t acceptable to us. We wanted to do something to try to rectify that injustice.�

Chamberlain said the portrait was a small gesture, but officials felt it was important to do something as soon as possible. “We studied and did all the research and couldn’t believe nothing had ever been done,� Chamberlain said. “It was time to do

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son later told investigators he and the chief were walking back to the police department from the drug store when Sexton suddenly said he saw a man with a gun emerging from one of the neighboring stores and ordered Wilson to shoot him. Wilson said he pulled his .38 out of the holster and fired, but Sexton got in the way of his shot and was struck by the bullet.

Autopsy reports indicate Sexton was struck right above the mouth, and the angle of the bullet indicated he was standing face to face with the shooter. Sexton bled to death and was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.

Testimony during the inquest prompted many questions as to whether the shooting happened as Wilson described.

Sexton was armed with a shotgun that night. Why hadn’t he fired at the alleged intruder himself? Furthermore, there were two shotgun shells from his gun at the scene — one spent.

Had he fired, and why hadn’t Wilson mentioned that?

Sexton’s wife testified that three strang-

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ers came to her trailer that night and warned her that her husband would be dead by daybreak. Who were the strangers, and what was the warning about?

Sexton’s wife also testified her husband asked her not to tell Wilson where he was that night. She said she assumed he didn’t want Wilson to drive the police car to the location and alert people to the stakeout.

But in hindsight, was there some reason he didn’t want the other officer to know where he was?

Wilson was charged with murder but eventually plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and served less than a year. He is currently serving a 16year sentence in federal prison for drug and gun crimes. “I don’t think I will ever be able to get the justice for my father that he so rightly deserves,� Watts said. “But the Town of Olanta honoring him means something.

Even though this took as long as it did, I feel like we’ve finally gotten him some of the recognition he deserves.�

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McCutcheon said he doesn’t know why the town hasn’t done anything to honor Sexton in the past. “I don’t believe there were any ill intentions, but it’s not a happy part of Olanta’s history,� McCutcheon said. “People have never accepted what happened that night.

There’s a lot of doubt out there and a lot of rumors. But that doesn’t matter. Chief Sexton still needed to be recognized.�

Sexton was fatally shot in the face by then-27-year-old Olanta police officer Arthur Deleon Wilson.

According to statements taken during the investigation in 1976, Sexton’s death was the tragic culmination of an odd night that began when thenOlanta Mayor Kelton Floyd asked Sexton to stake out the drug store he owned on Main Street.

Sexton was off duty, at home asleep that night when Floyd stopped by about 10 p.m. to tell him some fuses at the back of his

downtown drug store had been tampered with. Floyd said he feared the person or persons who tampered with the fuses may be coming back to burglarize the business and asked Sexton to stake out the store for the night.

Sexton agreed and drove to the downtown area in his family station wagon, leaving the town patrol car behind for Wilson, who was scheduled to work about midnight.

During a coroner’s inquest into the fatal shooting held in June 1976, Floyd testified he left Sexton in his drug store about 11 p.m. and returned home. The chief apparently left the store a few minutes later after talking with Wilson on the radio after he picked up the patrol car at Sexton’s house. At 11:40 p.m., Sexton showed up at the mayor’s house to get a key to the store, explaining he’d accidentally locked himself out while talking to Wilson.

Sexton and Wilson went back downtown and just after midnight, Wilson was banging on the fire chief ’s door, reporting Sexton had been shot and needed help. Wil-

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Doctor returns Vietnamese vet’s arm HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An American doctor has arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966.

Dr. Sam Axelrad flew into the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Saturday from Houston. He was traveling through central Vietnam with his sons and two grandchildren Monday to meet the amputee, Nguyen Quang Hung, a former North Vietnamese soldier.

After Hung was shot in the arm by American troops, Axelrad, then a 27-year-old military doctor, amputated his infected right arm. His medic colleagues boiled off the flesh, reconstructed the arm bones and gave them to him, he said.

Axelrad, now a urologist, said he brought the skeletal keepsake back to the United States as a reminder of doing a good deed but looks forward to returning it to Hung. “It’s just time for closure,� Axelrad said Sunday at a hotel bar in Hanoi.

Hung was surprised, to say the least, to hear that he will be reunited with his lost limb. “I can’t believe that an American doctor took my infected arm, got rid of the flesh, dried it, took it home and kept it for more than 40 years,� he said by telephone last week from his home. “I don’t think it’s the kind of keepsake that most people would want to own. But I look forward to seeing him again and getting my arm bones back.�

After decades of silence, Axelrad learned that Hung was still alive after a Vietnamese journalist met Axelrad at a Hanoi hotel last July and wrote an article in a newspaper saying the

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In this January 1967 photo, Dr. Sam Axelrad, left, displays the bones of an arm he amputated from North Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Quang Hung, right, in October 1966 in front of his military clinic in Phu Cat District in central coastal province of Binh Dinh in the former South Vietnam after Hung was shot by American troops near Hung’s hometown of An Khe. On Monday, the Houston urologist met Hung at his home to return to bones.

American doctor wanted to return the bones.

Hung said his brother-in-law read the article and contacted the newspaper. The journalist, Tran Quynh Hoa, arranged the reunion, which was planned for Monday morning in Hung’s hometown of An Khe, near the coastal city of Qui Nhon in central Vietnam.

Hung, 73, said he was shot during an ambush about 46 miles from An Khe in October 1966.

After floating down a stream to escape a firefight and then shelter-

ing in a rice warehouse for three days, he was evacuated by a U.S. helicopter to Axelrad’s nofrills military hospital.

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ing American military doctors, he said. He spent the rest of the war offering private medical services in the village and later served in local government for a decade before retiring on his rice farm.

BEIJING (AP) — Mothers and fathers aren’t the only ones urging adult children to visit their parents. China’s lawbooks are now issuing the same imperative.

New wording in the law requiring people to visit or keep in touch with their elderly parents or risk being sued and facing penalties came into force Monday, as China faces increasing difficulty in caring for its aging population.

It remains to be seen how much the amended law changes the status quo, however. Elderly parents in China already have been suing their adult children for emotional support, and the new wording does not specify how often people must visit or clarify penalties for those who do not.

In the first ruling since the new wording, a court in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi ordered a couple to visit the woman’s mother or face possible fines — and even detention.

One of the drafters, Xiao Jinming, a law professor at Shandong University, said the new law was primarily aimed at raising awareness. “It is mainly to stress the right of elderly people to ask for emotional support. ... We want to emphasize there is such a need,� he said.

Cleaning lady Wang Yi, 57, who lives alone in Shanghai, said the new law is “better than nothing.� Her two sons work several hundred miles away in southern Guangdong province, and she sees them only at an annual family reunion. “It is too little, for sure. I think twice a year would be good,� she said. “We Chinese people raise children to take care of us when we are old.�

Later Monday, the court in Wuxi ruled that a woman and her husband must visit her 77-year-old mother — who lives 25 miles away — at least once every two months in addition to mandatory holiday visits, or face possible fines and detention, according to the state-run People’s Court Daily.

China’s legislature amended the law in December following frequent reports of elderly parents neglected by their children. It says offspring of parents older than 60 should see that their daily, financial and spiritual needs are met.

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Ricarldo Johnson, 25, of 35 Pocotaligo Drive, was charged with criminal domestic violence and simple assault following an incident that reportedly took place about 5:04 p.m. Saturday. The 26-year-old victim said that following an argument the suspect choked her and pushed her into a sliding glass door, shattering the glass. According to the report, Johnson admitted to pushing her into the door, and law enforcement noted large scratches and abrasions on her body. Sumter County Emergency Medical Services responded and treated her at the scene.

Jermaine Johnson, 29, of 6145 Sammy Swamp Road, Pinewood, was arrested Monday and charged with unlawful dissemination of obscenity and unlawful use of a telephone. Johnson reportedly posted a 12-second video of a woman’s buttocks on his Facebook page with her name and phone number next to it.

Johnson also reportedly made calls to the victim where he threatened to “shoot up� her residence, run her off the road and put a gun in her mouth.

Johnson was reportedly upset with being ordered to make child support payments to the woman.

Janice Lynn Cooper, 49, of 214 Rose Lane, was arrested Tuesday and charged with criminal domestic violence. At 12:30 a.m., Cooper reportedly scratched a 57-year-old man under the eyes at the address. The victim declined treatment by EMS. Jerome N. Smith, 57, of 214 Rose Lane, was arrested Tuesday and charged with criminal domestic violence. At 12:30 a.m., Smith reportedly bit a 49-year-old woman on the left forearm at the address. The victim declined treatment by EMS. Christopher O’Neal McFadden, 40, of 422 Virginia Drive, was arrested Monday and charged with criminal domestic violence. At 10 p.m., McFadden reportedly assaulted a woman at the address by pulling three hair braids out of her hair

then struck her in the side of the head with a steeltoed boot.

STOLEN PROPERTY:

A commercial stainless steel refrigerator/freezer was reportedly stolen from the side of a business in the 500 block of North Lafayette Drive between 5 p.m. Friday and 3:45 p.m. Monday. The item is valued at $1,000.

Wires and piping were reportedly cut from two air-conditioning units in the 800 block of Salterstown Road at 2:55 a.m.

Monday. Damage to the units is estimated at $1,000.

A blue Glock .40-caliber handgun and a blue Keltec P32 gun were reportedly stolen from an unlocked car in the 2800 block of Windmill Drive between 2 and 8:20 a.m.

Wednesday. The guns are valued at $750.

A church reportedly sustained $50 worth of damage to a shutter, $2,000 worth of damage to windows and $60 worth of damage to the front door about 10:40 a.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of N. Brick Church Road, Mayesville.

An air-conditioning unit valued at $3,500 was reportedly stolen from a home in the 400 block of Crosswell Drive between 4 p.m. Friday and 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

A 46-inch Hisense LTI TV valued at $500, a 24inch TV valued at $200, a Sony PlayStation 3 valued at $400 and a Coby 42inch TV valued at $500 were reportedly stolen from a home in the second block of Carolina Avenue between 1 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday. A rear door also sustained $600 in damage, according to the report.

A 52-inch black Sony flat-screen TV valued at $1,200 and a gray Acer desktop computer valued at $500 were reportedly stolen from a home in the 700 block of Olive Street between 10 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday. A window sustained an estimated $100 in damage according to the report.

A 65-inch Panasonic flat-screen TV valued at $3,000 was reportedly sto-

len from a home in the first block of Dixie Drive between 10 p.m. Saturday and 12:55 a.m. Sunday.

A 2006 black American Iron Horse chopper motorcycle valued at $11,000 was reportedly stolen from the 2000 block of Broad Street between 6:33 p.m. Thursday and 5 a.m.

Friday.

10:30 p.m. Sunday in the 6000 block of Broad Street. A Sony radio valued at $400 was also reportedly stolen from the vehicle.

A business in the 400 block of Broad Street reportedly sustained an estimated $2,650 in damage to its windows and doors between 6 p.m. Friday and 6:20 a.m. Saturday.

DAMAGED PROPERTY:

An air-conditioning unit was reportedly stripped of parts about 4 p.m. Saturday from a home in the 5000 block of CWP Drive, Rembert. The parts are estimated to be worth $1,500.

Both driver side tires on a light blue 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis LS were reportedly cut, causing $300 in damage, and both driver side tires of a silver 2012 Dodge Avenger were reportedly cut, causing another $300 in damage about 7:28 a.m.

Sunday in the 200 block of Brent Street.

A vehicle reportedly sustained an estimated $3,000 in damage from broken tail lights, windows, slashed tires and broken side mirrors about

POSSIBLE ARSON;

A suspected arson occurred about 3:29 a.m.

Saturday in the 2000 block of Nettles Road and Sumter fire fighters put out the flames of the 1986 Delta 88 Oldsmobile.

ASSAULT & BATTERY:

A 38-year-old female told law enforcement that while she was outside a nightclub in the 100 block of East Bee Street between 1:42 and 1:45 a.m.

Saturday, three men and one woman hit her all over her body and her cellphone is missing. She sustained a large knot to her forehead as well as lacerations to her back and a bruised left toe. She was treated by EMS. EMS CALLS:

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Cars pass over the new flyover bridge on U.S. 378 connecting the highway to Broad Street Extension, as seen from South Pike West. The bridge recently reopened after closing for six months to allow for construction work. Contractors still have to lay grass on the sides of the flyover, among other aesthetic changes.

will continue even after it opened to cars and trucks. Wilkes said engineers want to put up new signs around the exit from Broad Street to give drivers a better idea of where to turn. The contractor also has to let the asphalt sit for at least 14 days before permanent lanes can be painted onto the bridge. “That will be an annoyance, because it will have to close to one lane,� Wilkes said. “But the bridge isn’t going to close again.�

No date has been set for the permanent paint to be laid down.

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Even with some loose ends to tie up, DOT and the contractor wanted to make sure the bridge span itself was structurally sound enough to open in time for holiday traffic heading to the beach over the Fourth of July to flow onto 378 as smoothly as possible. “Our hope was always to get it open before then,� Wilkes said.

Elsewhere, road contractors still have work to do. Work on the U.S. 76 bridge near Mayesville that has diverted traffic between the town and Sumter for more than a year is slated to continue until Aug. 20, weather permitting.

The foundations for the bridge have now been laid, the engineer said, and the final span is tentatively scheduled to be put in place sometime in the next two weeks.

Reach Bristow Marchant at (803) 774-1272.

Statue of Liberty reopens as U.S. salutes July 4th

BY COLLEEN LONG The Associated Press NEW YORK — The Statue of Liberty reopened on the Fourth of July, eight months after Superstorm Sandy shuttered the national symbol of freedom, as Americans across the country celebrated with fireworks and parades and President Obama urged citizens to live up to the words of the Declaration of Independence.

Hundreds lined up Thursday to be among the first to board boats destined for Lady Liberty, including New Yorker Heather Leykam and her family. “This, to us, Liberty Island, is really about a rebirth,� said Leykam, 38, whose mother’s home was destroyed during the storm. “It is a sense of renewal for the city and the country. We wouldn’t have missed it for the world.�

Nationwide, Boston prepared to host its first large gathering since the marathon bombing that killed three and injured hundreds, and Philadelphia, Washington and New Orleans geared up for large holiday concerts. In Arizona, sober tributes were planned for 19 firefighters who died this week battling a blaze near Yarnell.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, speaking at the reopening of the Statue of Liberty, choked up as she told the crowd she was wearing a purple ribbon in memory of the fallen firefighters. “Nineteen firefighters lost their lives in the line of duty, and we as a nation stand together,� she said through tears.

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The island was decorated with star-spangled bunting, but portions remain blocked off with large construction equipment, and the main ferry dock was boarded up.

Repairs to brick walkways and docks were ongoing. But much of the work has been completed since Sandy swamped the 12-acre island in New York Harbor, and visitors were impressed. “It’s stunning, it’s beautiful,� said Elizabeth Bertero, 46, of California’s Sonoma County. “They did a great job rebuilding. You don’t really notice that anything happened.�

The statue itself was unharmed, but the land took a beating. Railings broke, docks and paving stones were torn up, and buildings were flooded. The storm destroyed electrical systems, sewage pumps

and boilers. Hundreds of National Park Service workers from as far away as California and Alaska spent weeks cleaning mud and debris. “It is one of the most enduring icons of America, and we pulled it off — it’s open today,� National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis said. “Welcome.�

The statute was open for a single day last year — Oct. 28, the day before Sandy struck.

It had been closed the previous year for security upgrades. Neighboring Ellis Island remains closed, and there has been no reopening date set.

Elsewhere in New York, throngs of revelers packed Brooklyn’s Coney Island, to see competitive eating champ Joey Chestnut scarf down 69 hot dogs to break a world record and win the title for a seventh year at the 98th annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth

of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Sonya Thomas defended her title with nearly 37 dogs.

In his weekly radio address from Washington, Obama urged Americans to work to secure liberty and opportunity for their own children and future generations. The first family was to host U.S. servicemen and women at the White House for a cookout.

Lawmakers used the holiday to speak out about national issues including immigration and gun control. Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords stopped at a Cincinnati parade as part of her seven-state tour.

Atlanta and Alaska planned holiday runs — thousands were racing up a 3,022-foot peak in Seward. In New Orleans, the Essence Festival celebrating black culture and music, kicked off along the riverfront.

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Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, 2571 Joseph Lemon-Dingle Road, Jordan, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Family and friends day during morning service.

Antioch United Methodist Church, 4040 Dubose Siding Road, announces: * Sunday, July 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Adult ministryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anniversary celebration at 4 p.m. Light refreshments will be available.

Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, 14 Brand St., announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Initial sermon of Deaconess Stacey Champagne at 4 p.m.

Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, 4319 Rowe Drive, Summerton, announces: * Sunday, July 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 16th pastoral anniversary celebration of the Rev. David Lawson at 3 p.m. Minister Delbert Singleton, associate minister of Green Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Alcolu, will speak.

Calvary Baptist Church, 459 Calvary Church Road, Bishopville, announces: * Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mid-Carolina singing at 7 p.m. featuring Oasis and Cedar Creek Quartet.

Concord Baptist Church, 1885 Myrtle Beach Highway, announces: * Saturday, July 20 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Preregistration for Vacation Bible School 4-6 p.m. * Sunday-Friday, July 21-26 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Vacation Bible School for age 3 years through fifth grade as follows: 6-8 nightly Sunday-Thursday; and 6:30 p.m. Friday, VBS commencement. Dinner served at 6 p.m.

Covenant Bible Church, 2805 Frierson Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gospel singing at 6 p.m. featuring Believers Quartet.

Deliverance Outreach Ministry of Clarendon County Inc., 9223 Paxville Highway, Manning, announces: * Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Free food distribution will follow 10:30 a.m. service.

Edwin Boyle Santee Summer Ministry, 1098 Lemmon Ave. at Boyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Point on Wyboo (across from Camp Bob Cooper): * Interdenominational worship program at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday through

Sept. 1. The Rev. Dr. Reginald Thackston will speak.

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Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 182 S. Pike East, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Services cancelled. * Wednesday-Friday, July 24-26 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Revival.

Joshua Baptist Church, 5200 Live Oak Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday, July 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pastorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aide anniversary during 10 a.m. worship. Church school begins at 9 a.m. * Sunday-Friday, July 28-Aug. 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Revival at 6 p.m. Sunday and 7 nightly MondayFriday.

Grant Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 5405 Black River Road, Rembert, announces: * Throughout the entire month of July, the church will host a Harvest Hope Food Bank food drive, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Kingdom Kind of Harvest.â&#x20AC;?

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Pastor Linda Speed and Minister Roneika ChinaJeannette will speak. Contact Quentina Gregg at (803) 8406405. * Sunday, July 28 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day celebration. Sunday school begins at 9 a.m. followed by 10 a.m. worship.

Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets at Bethesda Church of God, 2730 Broad St., announces: * Saturday, July 13 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Knitting Hearts Cafe will meet 10 a.m.-noon. Amy Gibson will speak. Continental breakfast included.

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Cookout will follow worship. * Monday, July 15 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; YPD SWAG Bible study at 6 p.m. * Tuesday, July 16 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Adult study of Revelation at 7 p.m. * Thursday, July 18 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; SWAG tutoring program focusing on reading and math.

Green Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 1260 Green Hill Church Road, Alcolu, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Homecoming at 11 a.m. The Rev. Delbert Singleton will speak.

High Hills Missionary Baptist Church, 6750 Meeting House Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Holy communion will follow the 10:15 a.m. worship service. * Sunday, July 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Senior choir anniversary celebration during 10:15 a.m. worship.

Land Flowing with Milk & Honey Ministry, 1335 Peach Orchard Road, announces: * Saturday, July 27 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Graduation commencement ceremonies at 11 a.m. for International Overcoming College of Religion, The James Dussault University.

Historic Santee AME Church, 1045 Dingle Pond Road, Summerton, announces: * Sunday, July 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Annual Layman program at 3 p.m.

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Howard Chapel AME Church, 6338 Old Manning Road, New Zion, announces: * Saturday, July 13 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LuBertha Fleming WMS Celebration of Generations at 11 a.m. Dr. Marilyn Pearson McLean will speak.

At 6 p.m., the young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s department will hold their annual day. * Saturday, July 27 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Community and family fun day festival at 9 a.m. at Britton Park, Bellwood community, Manning.

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Sudden sainthood of Wendy Davis

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ASHINGTON — I like Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis. I admire her intelligence, chutzpah, tenacity and, to be perfectly honest, her enviable continence.

But her elevation to national heroine, essentially owing to her ability to speak for 11 hours straight without a break while wearing (how many times did we hear or read it?) “rouge-red sneakers,” is absurd.

No matter what one’s politics, one can’t help noticing the strangeness of this latest phenomenon — fame by filibuster — or the remarkable acclamation bestowed on Davis for Kathleen her passionate de- PARKER fense of a woman’s right to destroy an unborn child (or fetus, if you prefer) up to the 24th week of pregnancy.

One may wish to leave unfettered a woman’s right to do anything to herself, even if it means destroying her own offspring, but shouldn’t one be at least somewhat discomfited?

Instead, we celebrate.

In the days after Davis’ now-famous filibuster to block a Texas bill that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks, as well as imposed stricter safety standards and doctor qualifications, the flaxen-haired damsel (if only to be consistent with media coverage thus far) has been on a magic carpet ride through the green rooms of America’s television talk shows.

Almost without exception, Davis has been regaled as a heroine of the war on women, a new gladiator in the pantheon of feminist warriors. As such, she faced such probing questions as “How are you even awake today?” and “What was it like standing for that long?” Like wowser-zowser, Wonder Woman, “Will you filibuster again?”

When MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asked a substantive question — whether Davis thinks 20 weeks is an unreasonable limit on abortion — she replied in part that some women don’t even know they’re pregnant at 20 weeks. Really? Even if true, though surely rare, this observation is utterly irrelevant.

We have indeed come a long way from Roe v.

Wade. In the early days of legal abortion, nearly everyone insisted that the procedure wasn’t intended as birth control. Millions of abortions later, original intent is laughable.

Even Bill Clinton’s call for abortion to be safe, legal and rare has a fairy tale quality by today’s

standards. Such that when legislators seek to place limits on abortion, based at least in part on technology that now allows us to see fetuses as more than a clump of cells, we are appalled.

No adult needs a primer on the politics of abortion. Part of what makes this issue so difficult is that both sides are, in principle, correct. Antiabortion folks see it as a human rights issue. Given that human life is a continuum that begins at conception, there can be no compromise.

Pro-abortion rights folks see any limitation on abortion as an infringement on a woman’s right to control her own body.

In their view, the baby isn’t a baby with human rights until it leaves the mother’s body, thereby becoming autonomous if lacking in self-sufficiency.

No wonder we can’t untwist this pretzel.

Ultimately, the question comes down to which awful option we can live with. Although a majority of Americans (61 percent) generally favor legal abortion in the first trimester, they become much more squeamish in the second (27 percent) and third (14 percent).

In other words, we seem to be relatively comfortable terminating a pregnancy before the fetus looks much like a baby. At 20 weeks, the halfway point, the fetus looks very much like a baby.

The abortion conundrum is further complicated by the dishonesty of our terminology. Simplistic phrases such as “prolife” and “pro-choice” distort the complexity of how most people feel. It is also deceptive to refer to abortion as only a “women’s health issue” or to people who push for abortion limits as waging a “war on women.”

Perhaps the silliness and vagueness of our language have led to silliness and vagueness in our understanding and behavior.

Who wants to talk about the meaning and purpose of life when you can talk about rouge-red shoes?!

But when the question of whether we should destroy human life at any stage is reduced to theater, leaving many journalists gushing like breathless red-carpet commentators, we have lost more than a sense of decorum.

One may agree with Davis’ principled stand on the Texas bill, which, she argued, tried to do too much. Even so, a little less glee from the bleachers would seem more appropriate to the moment.

Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com. © 2013, Washington Post Writers Group

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Right to freedom of speech should be applied equally RE Garneau letter, July 2: I totally agree with you. I would go one step further. As a nation with freedoms there are many times this freedom creates some negative situations. We have come too far. I grew up in Indiana during the 50s and the 60s. During that time in my culture using off-color jokes was standard language. I lived in a small farming community. We did not have any blacks in my school district. My first experience with students of color was when I went to Indiana University, and most of those were playing football or basketball. If you saw the movie, you saw my hometown was about 15 miles from my hometown. Now, times after 1950-60 have changed.

No one can go back in time and change cultures or apply today’s standards to cultures from 1965 and earlier. We have come too far.

When a white person uses words or phrases

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that are off-color toward blacks, the white is fired from his job. However, if a black uses words “against” whites, well, that is OK because some very distant family member was slave.

Take Paula Deen, for example. Deen used a negative word 30 years ago, when blacks bore the brunt of negative words. That was her culture.

Now 50-60 years later Ms. Deen is being punished for using a negative word 30 years ago. Has anyone heard of a black using negative comments or language toward a white lose his/her job? Of course not. We have come to a time when it is OK for blacks to use derogatory language against whites. After all, that is OK because some 14 cousins ago were slaves. We are now living in a society where the white culture is ignored and the black culture can not be ignored. We all have a constitutional right to freedom of speech. We are all citizens, and that right should be applied equally. We have come too far.

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Obama’s global-warming folly

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ASHINGTON — The economy stagnates.

Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a “29-yearold hacker” revealed his nation’s spy secrets to the world. How does President Obama respond?

With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.

Climate change? It lies at the very bottom of a list of Americans’ concerns (last of 21 — Pew poll). Which means that Obama’s declaration of unilateral American war on global warming, whatever the cost — and it will be heavy — is either highly visionary or hopelessly solipsistic. You decide: Global temperatures have been flat for 16 years — a curious time to unveil a grand, hugely costly, socially disruptive antiwarming program.

Now, this inconvenient finding is not dispositive. It doesn’t mean there is no global warming. But it is something that the very complex global warming models that Obama naively claims represent settled science have trouble explaining. It therefore highlights the president’s presumption in dismissing skeptics as flat-earth know-nothings.

On the contrary. It’s flatearthers like Obama who refuse to acknowledge the problematic nature of contradictory data. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who cite a recent Alaskan heat wave — a freak event in one place at one time — as presumptive evidence of planetary climate change. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who cite perennial phenomenon such as droughts as cosmic retribution for environmental sinfulness.

For the sake of argument, nonetheless, let’s concede that global warming is precisely what Obama thinks it is. Then answer this: What in God’s name is his

massive new regulatory and spending program — which begins with a war on coal and ends with billions in more subsidies for new Solyndras — going to do about it?

The U.S. has already radically cut CO2 emissions — more than any country on earth since 2006, according to the International Energy Agency. Emissions today are back down to 1992 levels.

And yet, at the same time, global emissions have gone up.

That’s because — surprise! — we don’t control the energy use of the other 96 percent of humankind.

At the heart of Obama’s proCharles gram are EPA KRAUTHAMMER regulations that will make it impossible to open any new coal plant and will systematically shut down existing plants. “Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal,” explained one of Obama’s climate advisers. “On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.”

Net effect: tens of thousands of jobs killed, entire states impoverished. This at a time of chronically and crushingly high unemployment, slow growth, jittery markets and deep economic uncertainty.

But that’s not the worst of it.

This massive self-sacrifice might be worthwhile if it did actually stop global warming and save the planet. What makes the whole idea nuts is that it won’t.

This massive self-inflicted economic wound will have no effect on climate change.

The have-nots are rapidly industrializing. As we speak, China and India together are opening one new coal plant every week.

We can kill U.S. coal and devas-

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tate coal country all we want, but the industrializing Third World will more than make up for it.

The net effect of the Obama plan will simply be dismantling the U.S. coal industry for shipping abroad.

To think we will get these countries to cooperate is sheer fantasy. We’ve been negotiating climate treaties for 20 years and gotten exactly nowhere. China, India and the other rising and modernizing countries point out that the West had a 150-year industrial head start that made it rich. They are still poor. And now, just as they are beginning to get rich, we’re telling them to stop dead in their tracks?

Fat chance. Obama imagines he’s going to cajole China into a greenhouse-gas emissions reduction that will slow its economy, increase energy costs, derail industrialization and risk enormous social unrest. This from a president who couldn’t even get China to turn over one Edward Snowden to U.S. custody.

I’m not against a global pact to reduce CO2 emissions. Indeed, I favor it. But in the absence of one — and there is no chance of getting one in the foreseeable future — there is no point in America committing economic suicide to no effect on climate change, the reversing of which, after all, is the alleged point of the exercise.

For a president to propose this with such aggressive certainty is incomprehensible. It is the starkest of examples of belief that is impervious to evidence. And the word for that is faith, not science.

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com. © 2013, The Washington Post Writers Group

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Garrett said his office is working to determine a motive for the shooting, and that possible other charges against Rogers are pending.

“She was an acquaintance of the victim,” Garrett said. “We have recovered the murder weapon, a .38-caliber pistol.”

Garrett said the suspect was attempting to hide from authorities when she was arrested,

and that his office, along with the Marion Police Department and the Florence County Sheriff ’s Office, aided the Marion County Sheriff ’s Office in arresting Rogers.

The State Law Enforcement Division’s forensics team was called in to process the motel room and the surrounding areas, as well as the victim’s dark green Ford Explorer, which was located in Horry County near the Marion County border.

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His department is about what happens to considering doing them, and they care about what happens to something to honor the Arizona firefighters you.” and to The 24-hour ‘We always get help their families, station together to say but they shifts have not also lead a special prayer, chosen a to strong bonds, and we put them project yet.

Rose “You said. on our prayer list. really “As a unit, we They know what don’t know talk about the guys are going how you can help, what through in Arizona but you hapwant to pened so and how tough it do somethe firefighters can be, especially thing,” McElveen can vent,” he for little kids.’ said.

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Sumter Fire Department will continue into We alexactly ways get what happened and together to say a special prayer, and we put how such a thing can be prevented in the futhem on our prayer ture. list. They know what “They’ll go through the guys are going every piece of it to find through in Arizona out what to do differand how tough it can ent,” she said. “It’s very be, especially for little difficult to imagine kids.” every single thing that The closest thing the two counties see to could go wrong when you are out in the hot a woods fire is the ocseat trying to make decasional blaze at the cisions quickly and Shaw bombing range, keep people safe.”

Rose said, but that Residents can help. doesn’t mean their “I always tell people jobs aren’t dangerous. in the community to “You always think be safe when burning of, especially in our leaves and trash,” Rose area, structure fires as said. “Keep a hose our biggest hazards,” nearby, and just call us said Mitch McElveen, to let us know you are chief of the Manning going to burn. We’ll Fire Department. log in the burn area; “That’s not always the that way if something case. The reality is we happens and you call can be injured or us, we can send a truck killed on any type of to get there in a hurry call.” and contain it.”

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ARIES (March 21-April LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): the last word in astrology 19): Reflect on the past, A colleague or peer will and it will be easier to use any information you eugenia LAST deal with the present. share against you when it Stabilize your personal comes to advancement. life and the relationships Keep your thoughts to that mean a lot to you, and let go of what is yourself and do the best job possible. no longer working.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t let love TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Learn all you can stand between you and your professional and take an open-minded approach to goals or educational pursuits. Expand your discussions. Embracing different ways of interests and network with people you feel doing things will help you become more can further your career. diverse with what you have to offer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Deception and partnership will inspire you to try harder and disillusion are apparent. Don’t let your make positive changes to the way you live emotions lead you in the wrong direction. your life. Make sure that your motives are You need to be reasonable regarding your good and that emotional blackmail is not expectations. being used against you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Put greater CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Expect to face emphasis on getting things done instead of opposition. Prepare to have your facts ready making a big deal out of nothing. You’ll have to support your ideas and plans. Don’t fold a tendency to overdo it no matter what it is, under pressure or allow anyone to take so keep moderation in mind. advantage of you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Keep a secret to avoid AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Put more effort an abrupt change in your plans. You are best into challenges that make you think about to consider all consequences before you the future. Engage in social events that step into something that may or may not be enhance relationships and bring you closer in your best interest. to a stable, secure future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take your time to PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): An emotional respond. Jumping into something too matter will arise that must be dealt with quickly will lead to discord. Put more before you will be able to move forward. thought into how you can accomplish the Honest, direct communication is the only most. Your intuition will guide you. way to proceed.

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spca pet of the week Logan, a 6-month-old tricolored male Jack Russell terrier mix, is available for adoption at the Sumter SPCA. He is gentle, affectionate, playful, active, and gets along great with other dogs. Logan loves attention and loves to cuddle. He would make a great new addition to any family. The Sumter SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Visit the website at www. sumterscspca.com.

Would you like to help? The SPCA is always in need of the following: newspapers (no ads); stuffed animals; heavy duty trash bags (yard bags 30 gallons or larger); dishwashing liquid; laundry detergent; bleach; paper towels; sheets; comforters; baby blankets; cat litter; canned and dry kitten and cat food; canned and dry puppy and dog food; treats; leashes and collars; disinfectant spray; all-purpose cleaner; air freshener; no scratch scrubbers; two-sided sponges for dishes; litter freshener; and, of course, financial donations.

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Celtics hire Butler’s Stevens as coach

BY JIMMY GOLEN The Associated Press

PHOTOS BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS / THE ITEM

ABOVE: Veterans salute and place their hands over their hearts during the playing of “Amazing Grace” in memory of fallen servicemen and service women during a Fourth of July ceremony honoring veterans prior to the Sumter P-15’s game against Florence on Thursday at Riley Park. BELOW: Sumter’s JC Conner, left, and teammate Jacob Watcher shake hands during introductions. The start of the game was delayed for over an hour due to rain.

Sumter rolls past Cheraw

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER mchristopher@theitem.com

P-15’S LEADING FLORENCE 5-2

The Sumter P-15’s had no trouble playing the role of visitors at Riley Park on Wednesday with an 11-4 victory over Cheraw in a game that was originally scheduled to be played in Cheraw.

The game was moved from Cheraw because all of the rain over the last few days had water on Tom Brewer Field, so Post 23 was the designated home team on Wednesday. Weather once again played a role on Wednesday as more rain caused the game to begin an hour after its original scheduled time. “(Sumter Assistant City Manager) Al Harris and his 5-man crew did an outstanding job getting the field ready so we could play,” Sumter P-15’s head

The Sumter P-15’s led Florence Post 1 5-2 in the top of the sixth inning in a game that was delayed 1 hour, 20 minutes, because of rain.

The final result was not available at press time. For a complete recap, visit our website at www.theitem. com<http://www.theitem.com> Sumter scored three runs in the first inning thanks to four passed balls, two wild pitches and an RBI single by starting pitcher Will Smith.

The P-15’s added a run in the second when River Soles came through with a 2-out hit to score JC Conner and make it 4-0.

Florence cut the deficit in half in the third. A single, an error and a wild pitch set up Fonta James’ RBI single.

BOSTON — Butler’s historic Hinkle Fieldhouse couldn’t compete with the Boston Garden and all those NBA championship banners hanging from its rafters.

The Boston Celtics hired STEVENS Brad Stevens away from the school he led to back-toback NCAA title games, putting the 36-year-old coach in charge of their brand new rebuilding effort on Wednesday. Stevens had turned down offers from bigger college programs, but couldn’t resist the lure of the NBA’s most-decorated franchise.

“There are some brands in sports, and in the world of basketball the Celtics are one of those,” Butler athletic director Barry Collier said in an on-campus news conference on Wednesday night.

With aging stars Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce on their way to the Brooklyn Nets, and Doc Rivers already coaching the Los

SEE SUMTER, PAGE B2

SEE STEVENS, PAGE B4

Gainey tied for lead at Greenbrier

BY JOHN RABY The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sabine Lisicki returns a shot to fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska in Lisickii’s 6-4, 2-6, 9-7 victory in the Wimbledon women’s semifinals on Thursday in London.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — The mustache is gone, and for one round at least, Johnson Wagner also didn’t have to deal with playing bad golf.

Wagner and Tommy Gainey each shot an 8-under 62 on Thursday to share a twostroke lead after the first round of the Greenbrier Classic.

Webb Simpson and Jin Park were close behind after 64s. Daniel Summerhays, Tag Ridings, Steven Bowditch and 50-year-old Neal Lancaster were anoth-

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Bishopville native Tommy Gainey watches his tee shot on the 12th hole during Thursday’s first round of the Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Gainey finished the round tied for the lead with a 62.

er shot back.

Players were able to lift, clean and place their balls Thursday after rain fell prior to

Lisicki, Bartoli reach Coulter rallies to win Wimbledon final

BY CHRIS LEHOURITES The Associated Press LONDON — Sabine Lisicki advanced to her first Wimbledon final a couple of hours after Marion Bartoli reached her second.

Lisicki, a 2011 semifinalist at the All England Club, beat fourthseeded Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 2-6, 9-7 Thursday on Centre Court, overpowering her opponent at the start and then hanging on despite trailing 3-0 at the end.

“I go out there to win,” said Lisicki, the

first German to reach the Wimbledon final since Steffi Graf in 1999.

“I fight for every single point and I still enjoy the game, so I think those are the main parts why I won today.”

Bartoli took control early and never let up in a quick 6-1, 6-2 victory over Kirsten Flipkens. She also reached the Wimbledon final in 2007, losing to Venus Williams in straight sets.

Saturday’s final will be the second at Wimbledon in the 45-year SEE WIMBLEDON, PAGE B3

the start of play.

Gainey and Wagner had bogey-free rounds in the morning. Wagner was 8 under after

12 holes but finished with six straight pars.

Both could use a good week — Gainey is 125th in season tour winnings, while Wagner ranks 148th.

Wagner doesn’t have a top-10 finish this year and the three-time tour champion hasn’t won since the 2012 Sony Open.

In his last seven tournaments, he’s missed six cuts and withdrew from the Memorial.

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Southern 10s Closed consolation bracket

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER mchristopher@theitem.com William Coulter is just one example of the young and upcoming youth tennis players coming out of the Palmetto Tennis Center’s Junior Program.

Coulter, currently ranked fourth in the state for Boys 10-and-under, qualified for the Southern Closed tournament by finishing fourth in the Palmetto Championship tournament in Belton.

The Southern Boys and Girls Closed-East Level 1 tournament, which was held in Cayce on June 14-17, showcased the top youth tennis talent from South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia.

Other players from Sumter who earned a spot in the Southern Closed included Mark Carnes and Thomas Brown. Carnes had to drop out of the U16 division because of an ankle injury while

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Sumter’s William Coulter rallied to win four straight matches to take the Southern 10s Closed-East consolation bracket on June 14-17 in Cayce.

Brown went 2-2 in the U14 division.

After dropping his first two matches in the opening draw of the tournament, Coulter rallied SEE COULTER, PAGE B2

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8 a.m. -- International Cycling: Tour de France Stage Seven from Albi, France (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

9 a.m. -- Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Open de France Second Round from Paris (GOLF).

2 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Nationwide Series Firecracker 250 Pole Qualifying from Daytona Beach, Fla. (ESPN2).

3 p.m. -- PGA Golf: Greenbrier Classic Second Round from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (GOLF).

4 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs (MLB NETWORK).

4 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 Pole Qualifying from Daytona Beach, Fla. (SPEED).

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7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Atlanta at Philadelphia (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Baltimore at New York Yankees (MLB NETWORK).

7 p.m. -- American Legion Baseball: Camden at Sumter (WWHM-FM 92.3, WWHM-FM 93.3, WWHM-AM 1290).

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9 p.m. -- Professional Boxing: Eleider Alvarez vs. Allan Green in a Light Heavyweight Bout from Hartford, Conn. (ESPN2).

11 p.m. -- International Soccer: United States vs. Guatemala from San Diego (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

MLB LEADERS

By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE G AB R H Pct. MiCabrera Det 83 327 65 119 .364 CDavis Bal 84 305 61 101 .331 Pedroia Bos 85 328 53 106 .323 Machado Bal 85 366 53 117 .320 HKendrick LAA 83 320 37 102 .319 Loney TB 85 289 37 92 .318 DOrtiz Bos 66 246 41 78 .317 Mauer Min 77 310 49 98 .316 Donaldson Oak 83 308 46 97 .315 Trout LAA 83 337 57 106 .315 Home Runs CDavis, Baltimore, 32; MiCabrera, Detroit, 26; Encarnacion, Toronto, 23; ADunn, Chicago, 22; Cano, New York, 20; NCruz, Texas, 20; Ibanez, Seattle, 20.

Runs Batted In MiCabrera, Detroit, 85; CDavis, Baltimore, 83; Encarnacion, Toronto, 66; Fielder, Detroit, 63; NCruz, Texas, 61; AJones, Baltimore, 59; DOrtiz, Boston, 57.

Pitching Scherzer, Detroit, 13-0; Colon, Oakland, 11-3; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 11-3; Tillman, Baltimore, 10-2; Masterson, Cleveland, 10-6; Buchholz, Boston, 9-0; Sabathia, New York, 9-6.

By The Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct. YMolina StL 79 298 36 105 .352 Cuddyer Col 64 251 39 85 .339 MCarpenter StL 79 321 63 104 .324 Segura Mil 82 334 48 108 .323 Votto Cin 85 319 58 103 .323 Craig StL 80 310 46 100 .323 FFreeman Atl 71 272 43 85 .313 Posey SF 80 285 34 89 .312 Scutaro SF 71 282 35 88 .312 CGomez Mil 79 299 48 93 .311 Home Runs CGonzalez, Colorado, 23; DBrown, Philadelphia, 22; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 21; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 20; Beltran, St. Louis, 19; Bruce, Cincinnati, 18; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 16.

Runs Batted In Goldschmidt, Arizona, 69; Craig, St. Louis, 63; Phillips, Cincinnati, 63; CGonzalez, Colorado, 61; DBrown, Philadelphia, 60; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 56; Bruce, Cincinnati, 56.

Pitching Zimmermann, Washington, 12-3; Wainwright, St. Louis, 11-5; Lynn, St. Louis, 10-3; Corbin, Arizona, 9-1; Lee, Philadelphia, 9-2; Marquis, San Diego, 9-4; Maholm, Atlanta, 9-6.

MLB STANDINGS American League

By The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Boston 52 34 .605 – Baltimore 48 37 .565 31/2 New York 45 39 .536 6 Tampa Bay 45 40 .529 61/2 Toronto 41 43 .488 10 Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 45 38 .542 – Cleveland 45 39 .536 1/2 Kansas City 39 42 .481 5 Minnesota 36 45 .444 8 Chicago 33 48 .407 11 West Division W L Pct GB Oakland 49 36 .576 – Texas 48 36 .571 1/2 Los Angeles 40 44 .476 81/2 Seattle 37 47 .440 111/2 Houston 31 54 .365 18 Wednesday’s Games Detroit 6, Toronto 2 Baltimore 4, Chicago White Sox 2 Boston 2, San Diego 1 Seattle 4, Texas 2, 10 innings Kansas City 6, Cleveland 5 N.Y. Yankees 3, Minnesota 2 Houston 4, Tampa Bay 1 Chicago Cubs 3, Oakland 1 St. Louis 12, L.A. Angels 2 Thursday’s Games Boston 8, San Diego 2 Chicago White Sox 3, Baltimore 2 Kansas City 10, Cleveland 7 N.Y. Yankees 9, Minnesota 5 Tampa Bay 7, Houston 5 Oakland 1, Chicago Cubs 0 Detroit at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, late St. Louis at L.A. Angels, late Today’s Games Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 6-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 4-6) at Cleveland (Masterson 10-6), 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Correia 6-5) at Toronto (Buehrle 4-5), 7:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Axelrod 3-4) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 7-3), 7:10 p.m.

Seattle (Harang 3-7) at Cincinnati (Latos 7-2), 7:10 p.m.

Houston (Harrell 5-8) at Texas (Tepesch 3-6), 8:05 p.m.

Oakland (Milone 7-7) at Kansas City (W. Davis 4-6), 8:10 p.m.

Boston (Doubront 4-3) at L.A. Angels (C. Wilson 8-5), 10:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 7:15 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 7:15 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m.

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Houston at Texas, 3:05 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

National League

By The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 49 35 .583 – Washington 43 42 .506 61/2 Philadelphia 40 45 .471 91/2 New York 35 46 .432 121/2 Miami 31 52 .373 171/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Pittsburgh 52 31 .627 – St. Louis 50 33 .602 2 Cincinnati 49 36 .576 4 Chicago 36 46 .439 151/2 Milwaukee 34 50 .405 181/2 West Division W L Pct GB Arizona 43 41 .512 – Colorado 41 44 .482 21/2 Los Angeles 40 43 .482 21/2 San Diego 40 45 .471 31/2 San Francisco 39 45 .464 4 Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee 4, Washington 1 Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 5 Arizona 5, N.Y. Mets 3 Miami 6, Atlanta 3 Boston 2, San Diego 1 Cincinnati 3, San Francisco 2, 11 innings L.A. Dodgers 10, Colorado 8 Chicago Cubs 3, Oakland 1 St. Louis 12, L.A. Angels 2 Thursday’s Games Washington 8, Milwaukee 5 Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 4 Boston 8, San Diego 2 Arizona 5, N.Y. Mets 4 Oakland 1, Chicago Cubs 0 San Francisco at Cincinnati, ppd.

Miami at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, late St. Louis at L.A. Angels, late Friday’s Games Pittsburgh (Liriano 7-3) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 5-7), 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Hudson 4-7) at Philadelphia (Lee 9-2), 7:05 p.m.

San Diego (Cashner 5-3) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 5-3), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (Harang 3-7) at Cincinnati (Latos 7-2), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 1-1) at Milwaukee (Hellweg 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Miami (Ja.Turner 2-0) at St. Louis (Westbrook 4-3), 8:15 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 8-4) at Arizona (Skaggs 1-1), 9:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 6-3) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 8-5), 10:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Miami at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 4:05 p.m.

San Diego at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 7:15 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 10:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Seattle at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.

San Diego at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

Miami at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

TENNIS Wimbledon Results

By The Associated Press Thursday At The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club London Purse: $34.9 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Grass-Outdoor Singles Women Semifinals Marion Bartoli (15), France, def. Kirsten Flipkens (20), Belgium, 6-1, 6-2.

Sabine Lisicki (23), Germany, def. Agnieszka Radwanska (4), Poland, 6-4, 2-6, 9-7.

Doubles Men Semifinals Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def.

Rohan Bopanna, India, and Edouard RogerVasselin (14), France, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.

Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Melo (12), Brazil, def. Leander Paes, India, and Radek Stepanek (4), Czech Republic, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.

WNBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Atlanta 10 1 .909 – Chicago 7 4 .636 3 New York 5 5 .500 41/2 Washington 5 6 .455 5 Connecticut 3 7 .300 61/2 Indiana 3 7 .300 61/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 7 3 .700 – Phoenix 8 4 .667 – Los Angeles 6 4 .600 1 Seattle 5 6 .455 21/2 San Antonio 3 7 .300 4 Tulsa 3 11 .214 6 Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled Thursday’s Games New York at Los Angeles, 3:30 p.m.

Today’s Games No games scheduled Saturday’s Games San Antonio at Los Angeles, 5 p.m.

Connecticut at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Washington, 7 p.m.

GOLF Greenbrier Classic Par Scores The Associated Press Thursday At The Greenbrier Resort, The Old White TPC Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Purse: $6.3 million Yardage: 7,287; par 70 (35-35) First Round Tommy Gainey 30-32—62 -8 Johnson Wagner 29-33—62 -8 Webb Simpson 31-33—64 -6 Jin Park 31-33—64 -6 Daniel Summerhays 31-34—65 -5 Neal Lancaster 32-33—65 -5 Tag Ridings 31-34—65 -5 Steven Bowditch 30-35—65 -5 Brendon de Jonge 31-35—66 -4 Peter Hanson 33-33—66 -4 David Mathis 30-36—66 -4 James Driscoll 33-33—66 -4 Scott Brown 32-34—66 -4 Ben Crane 32-34—66 -4 Jonas Blixt 34-32—66 -4 D.H. Lee 33-33—66 -4 Bill Lunde 31-35—66 -4 Jason Kokrak 32-34—66 -4 Brendan Steele 32-34—66 -4 George McNeill 32-34—66 -4 Brian Davis 33-34—67 -3 Kevin Chappell 32-35—67 -3 Louis Oosthuizen 32-35—67 -3 Russell Henley 31-36—67 -3 Tom Gillis 32-35—67 -3 Jordan Spieth 34-33—67 -3 Bob Estes 32-35—67 -3 Michael Letzig 30-37—67 -3 Davis Love III 35-32—67 -3 Ben Curtis 33-34—67 -3 Greg Owen 33-34—67 -3 J.J. Henry 34-34—68 -2 Justin Leonard 34-34—68 -2

FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2013

Jackson leads Tigers past Blue Jays 11-1 TORONTO — Justin Verlander pitched seven shutout innings, Austin Jackson hit a two-run homer and the Detroit Tigers routed the slumping JACKSON Toronto Blue Jays 11-1 on Thursday night.

Jackson went 4 for 5 with a walk and scored four times as the Tigers pounded out 16 hits while playing without slugger Miguel Cabrera, who got a rare day off.

Torii Hunter had three RBIs and Prince Fielder drove in a pair of runs as the Tigers won for the ninth time in 11 meetings with Toronto.

Verlander (9-5), who won for the first time since June 7 at Cleveland, allowed three hits, all singles. It was his first start in Toronto since he pitched his second career no-hitter

MLB ROUNDUP on May 7, 2011.

WHITE SOX ORIOLES

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CHICAGO— Adam Dunn hit a one-out home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off Tommy Hunter to give the Chicago White Sox a 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday.

ROYALS INDIANS

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lorenzo Cain hit his first career grand slam, Salvador Perez provided a bases-loaded double in the eighth inning and the Kansas City Royals rallied for a 10-7 victory over the Cleveland Indians on a sunsplashed Thursday afternoon.

YANKEES TWINS

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MINNEAPOLIS — Vernon Wells drove in three runs, and the New York Yankees pounded rookie Kyle Gibson and the Minnesota Twins 9-5 on

Thursday to finish a four-game sweep.

NATIONAL LEAGUE NATIONALS BREWERS

PHILLIES PIRATES

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PITTSBURGH — Major league loss leader Cole Hamels pitched seven strong innings, Carlos Ruiz hit a tiebreaking single and the Philadelphia Phillies beat Gerrit Cole and the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-4 Thursday.

DIAMONDBACKS METS

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NEW YORK — Cliff Pennington hit an RBI single with two outs in the 15th inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks, boosted early by

er against Manning-Santee and Saturday against with a possibility of playing in a tiebreaker for second place on Saturday night.

Sumter took an early 3-0 lead in the first thanks to a Taylor McFaddin RBI double, a wild pitch and a stolen base on one hit.

McFaddin’s 1-out RBI double gave the P-15’s a 1-0 lead after Andrew Reardon walked and Phillip Watcher was hit by a pitch to lead off the game. River Soles’ sacrifice bunt moved Watcher to second and Reardon’s walk put runners on first and second with one out for McFaddin.

Reardon came in to score the second run on a ball four wild pitch to Will Smith. Smith later stole second base and McFaddin was able to score the third P-15 run on a delayed steal to home.

The P-15’s played fundamental baseball in the second and third innings. Phillip Watcher’s sacrifice fly in the second made it 4-0, scoring JC Connor, who led the inning off with a double. In the third, Jacob Watcher’s RBI single knocked in Reardon with one out to make it 5-0.

Jacob Watcher scored on a RBI groundout by Todd Larrimer to make it a 6-0 game in the fifth.

Post 23 got on the board as Allen’s 2-out, 2-run single cut into the P-15’s lead to make it a 6-2 game in the bottom of the sixth.

Phillip Watcher’s looping single over third base scored Conner to push the P-15’s lead to 7-2 in the seventh. Conner walked with one out, was sacrificed to second

by Javon Martin and scored on Watcher’s single. A River Soles single and a walk to Reardon loaded the bases for McFaddin, who extended Sumter’s lead to 9-2 with a 2-run single.

Pinch hitter Tee Dubose’s sacrifice fly and Phillip Watcher’s RBI groundout pushed the Sumter advantage to 11-2 in the eighth.

COULTER from Page B1 to win his next four matches, thus finishing as the winner of the consolation South bracket.

“William is kind of deceiving,” PTC professional Mark Rearden said of Coulter. “When you talk to him or play him on the court he doesn’t carry himself like that kid that’s willing to bite a 2 x 4 in half to win the match, but he’s quietly a really good competitor. He’s unassuming, but he’s a really fine competitor.”

Coulter, who will move up to the U12 age bracket in September, began the Southern Closed

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WASHINGTON — Wilson Ramos hit a goahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning Thursday in his Fourth of July return to the Washington Nationals, leading an 8-5 matinee win over the Milwaukee Brewers.

SUMTER from Page B1 coach Curtis Johnson said. “I bet nobody on this side of the state from Columbia over got to play (Wednesday). I’m grateful for the city and the hard work they put in and the things they did to help us be able to play.”

None of that seemed to bother the League III champion P-15’s, who improved to 19-5 overall and 14-1 in league play as every phase of the game was solid for Sumter, including its defense, offensive execution and pitching.

“That’s what we try to do, and we haven’t done the best job at it this year, but that’s what we try to do and if we do that we have a chance to be very successful,” Johnson said of the team’s victory.

P-15’s starting Phillip Watcher allowed two runs, one earned, on five hits while walking two and striking out six. Watcher pitched out of trouble in the first and fifth inning but a 2-run, 2-out single

by Trent Allen in the sixth was the only runs allowed by Watcher.

“When Jacob starts we can expect seven (innings) and two runs or less; that’s what he does,” the P-15’s coach said of his starter.

“That’s Jacob for you – seven innings and two runs or less – and every time he goes out we expect to win because we expect to score more than two runs.”

Cheraw added a run on a balk off in the eighth and a sacrifice fly in the ninth off reliever Brandon Spittle. In the eighth, Post 23 had the bases loaded with one out, but after a lineout to centerfield, Spittle balked in a run and was able to get a pop out to end the threat. In the ninth, a leadoff hit by pitch to Kaleb Leviner came around to score on a sacrifice fly

by Rodney McCoy. Cheraw, which fell to 6-7 on the season, did not play its earlier scheduled game at Hartsville, but will play Friday in a doublehead-

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with a pair of losses tournament with a 4-1, 4-5 (7), 10-8 loss to Chris McFarland beat Coulter 4-1, 4-5 (7) 10-8, and Rishi Kakkar beat Coulter 4-1, 5-3.

Then the turnaround began and Coulter got off to a good start in his first two consolation matches, winning 4-0, 4-0 over Raghave Sriram and Tali Jarmond.

“I did a much better job of keeping the ball in play,” Coulter said of his success in the consolation round.

Coulter lost his only set in

Gerardo Parra’s bunt double, finally outlasted the New York Mets 5-4 in a back-and-forth classic Thursday to split an exhausting series at Citi Field.

INTERLEAGUE RED SOX PADRES

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BOSTON — Dustin Pedroia hit a two-run double, David Ortiz had a two-run single and the Boston Red Sox wrapped up a big homestand by beating San Diego 8-2 Thursday, sending the Padres to their seasonhigh sixth straight loss.

RAYS ASTROS

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HOUSTON — Yunel Escobar got three hits and drove in three runs, including a tiebreaking double in the 11th inning Thursday that sent the Tampa Bay Rays over the Houston Astros 7-5.

From wire reports

AMERICAN LEGION STANDINGS LEAGUE III L Pct. GB 1 .933 6 .600 5 7 .462 7 11 .267 10 11 .214 10 1/2 Tuesday Cheraw at Manning-Santee (DH), ppd,, rain Camden at Sumter, ppd., rain Wednesday Sumter 11, Cheraw 4 Thursday Florence at Sumter Today Camden at Sumter, 7:30 p.m.

Cheraw at Manning-Santee (DH), 5 p.m.

Saturday Hartsville at Cheraw, 1 p.m.

LEAGUE VIII W L Pct. GB Irmo 13 2 .867 -W. Columbia 11 4 .733 2 Orangeburg 8 6 .571 4 1/2 Dalzell 4 9 .308 8 Lexington 3 9 .250 8 1/2 Columbia NE 3 12 .200 10 Tuesday Orangeburg at Lexington, ppd., rain Wednesday Dalzell-Shaw at Lexington (DH), ppd. rain Today Orangeburg at Lexington, 7 p.m.

Saturday Dalzell-Shaw at Lexington (DH), 5 p.m.

W Sumter 14 Camden 9 Cheraw 6 Hartsville 4 Manning 3

McFaddin led the P-15’s offense, going 3-for-5 with three RBI. Phillip Watcher also had three RBI, while Jacob Watcher, Smith and Conner each had two hits apiece in the victory.

The P-15’s also got word that the state playoff schedule is changing and they will be facing the No. 4 team from League II, which is currently Lake City instead of the fourth-place team from its own league. Johnson said that wouldn’t change the team’s mindset.

“We just want to play baseball,” he explained. “I mean we just want, it doesn’t matter; we just want to play wherever, whenever, against whoever. We just want to strap it up and let the best team win. It doesn’t really matter to us who we’re going to play and go play.”

McFaddin led the P-15’s offense going 3-for-5 with 3 RBI. Phillip Watcher also had 3RBIs while Jacob Watcher, Smith and Conner each had two hits apiece in the victory.

the consolation bracket to Ryan King, who won the set 5-3.

However, Coulter rallied to win the next two sets 4-2 and 7-5 to win the match. He finished off the consolation bracket with a 4-2, 4-0 victory over Ryan Xiao.

“What he did was a really good effort,” Rearden said of Coulter’s finish. “Winning out after the first two losses was a real battle.”

“The only thing I need to work on is coming up to the net and putting balls away,” Coulter said.

In addition to his singles play, Coulter also played four doubles match with partner Harrison Luba going 2-2 in that span.

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Djokovic comes into semifinals feeling fresh

BY EDDIE PELLS The Associated Press LONDON— One semifinalist is rebounding from a taxing five-set comeback. Another was so overwhelmed to reach the final four, he sat on the court and wept.

One more has a knee that’s being kept in action through the miracles of ice baths, athletic tape and painkillers.

And then there’s Novak Djokovic.

Of the four men preparing for Friday’s semifinals at Wimbledon, nobody has had skated through a less-taxing road than the top-ranked and topseeded Serb, who remains the odds-on favorite to win his seventh Grand Slam title.

“Coming into the semifinals, I feel physically fresh,” said Djokovic, who has won all 15 sets he’s played and averaged DEL POTRO less than two hours per match, the lowest total of any of the final four.

“And I’m ready. Plenty of motivation to win every match that I play here.”

Djokovic will play eighth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro, who also hasn’t dropped a set in his first five matches at JANOWICZ Wimbledon, but is the opposite of “fresh” — dealing with the effects of hyperextending his left knee twice: First in a match last Saturday, then again in his quarterfinal victory over David Ferrer.

The other men’s semifinal pits No. 24 Jerzy Janowicz, a 22-year-old from Poland who is making his deepest run at a MURRAY Grand Slam, against No. 2 Andy Murray, who came back from two sets down to beat Fernando Verdasco and advance to his fifth straight Wimbledon semifinal.

Murray got himself into quite a bind in the Verdasco

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Novak Djokovic said he feels fresh heading into today’s semifinal match at Wimbledon against Juan Martin del Porto.

The top-seeded Djokovic has won all 15 sets he has played in London.

match, but slowed things down to make a meticulous comeback. He was on the court for 3 hours, 27 minutes to bring his total to 11 hours, 59 minutes, the most of the four semifinalists.

How big a toll will all that take?

“You never know,” Murray said. “The next match will be different from the one today. Who knows? Some of the guys, like Novak, (haven’t) lost a set yet. I’m sure he’s pretty happy with where his game is at just now.

I’m happy to be in the semis. Regardless of whether it’s been five sets or the first matches were in three sets, it makes no difference.”

Murray is trying to reach the final in the fourth straight Grand Slam he’s played. (He missed this year’s French Open with a back injury). He carries the hopes of a nation with him every time he steps on the court at

WIMBLEDON from Page B1 Open era between two women who have never won a Grand Slam title.

Lisicki has a 3-1 record against Bartoli, including a quarterfinal win at Wimbledon in 2011 in their last meeting.

Lisicki, who beat defending champion Serena Williams in the fourth round, dictated play in the first set by winning 22 of her 30 points on serve and breaking once. But her serve deserted her after that.

Once the second set started, Radwanska came alive and Lisicki crumpled.

Lisicki lost all four of her service games, with the lowlight coming in the final game of the second set. Leading 30-0, Lisicki lost four straight points, including two doublefaults.

“She made some really good points. I made a few errors too many,” Lisicki said. “But I regained my focus and game in the third set, and that’s the main part.”

In the third, Lisicki was again broken early but finally held to make it 3-1 and then broke to get back on serve. Both players held serve until Lisicki got the deciding break in the 15th game when Radwanska hit a volley long.

“It’s just one break,” Radwanska said. “She was serving very well. So the one break on one side was a lot, and on other hand was not really.”

A few minutes earlier, Radwanska had been two points from victory. The two were at 30-30 and later at deuce in the 12th game with Radwanska leading 6-5.

“I had a lot of chances.

Just two points from the match,” Radwanska said.

“Then she serve second serve like 100 miles per hour. Then, you know, it just turned the other way.”

Lisicki said her big win over Serena Williams helped her Thursday.

“I thought, ‘I’ve done it against Serena so you can do it today as well, just

hang in there,’” Lisicki said. “It gave me so much confidence and I’m just so, so happy I was able to finish it.”

Lisicki finished the match, but one of the two scoreboards on either side of the court didn’t, going blank late in the third set.

Bartoli wasted little time in her match, dancing and grunting her way to victory over the 20thseeded Belgian who was playing in her first major semifinal.

“I played great. I executed very well. I hit lobs, passing shots, winners, returns, everything worked out perfectly,” said Bartoli, who won in 62 minutes. “When I fell on the grass after match point, it was just so emotional. I dreamed about that moment, about returning to the Wimbledon final.”

Amelie Mauresmo, the 2006 Wimbledon champion who now coaches France’s Fed Cup team, was in the stands for the early match and had plenty of praise for Bartoli.

“She just played a great match, definitely the best match of the tournament for her,” Mauresmo said.

“Marion put huge pressure on her right from the beginning, first of all returning very well, serving better, which she had to do today.”

Bartoli was pumped from the start on Centre Court, mixing two-handed backhands and forehands with little hops between points, as she usually does.

In the first set, she faced only one break point, nearly putting Flipkens back on serve in the third game. But despite a double-fault and a backhand into the net to eventually get behind 30-40, Bartoli dug herself out of the hole and finished the game with the first of her five aces.

“I tried my slices. She didn’t have any problem with that,” Flipkens said.

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Marion Bartoli plays a return during her victory over Kirsten Flipkens in a women’s singles semifinal match at Wimbledon on Thursday. Bartoli will face Sabine Lisicki for the title.

“I tried the drop shot. She got it. I played a passing, she came to the net. I

tried a lob. I tried everything, actually.”

Flipkens, who again

Wimbledon. No British man has won the country’s Grand Slam since Fred Perry in 1936.

Janowicz is well aware of that.

“I hope Andy will feel some kind of pressure,” he said. “I’m sure he’ll feel some kind of pressure because Great Britain is waiting for the (British) champion in Wimbledon.”

Janowicz knows all about the feeling of playing for a country.

In an all-Polish quarterfinal, he defeated Lukasz Kubot in a match he called “one of the toughest matches of my life.”

“I was never in a quarterfinal before. I never had a chance to be in the semifinal of a Grand Slam. I never played against Lukasz before,” Janowicz said in describing the emotions of the match.

took the court with her right knee taped, called for a trainer after being broken for the second straight time at the start of the second set. The trainer added tape to the knee while Bartoli sat in her chair sipping water.

Whatever she needed, it briefly worked. Flipkens, after the medical timeout, broke for the first and only time, making it 3-1. But a few minutes later Bartoli broke again and held to make it 5-1.

“First of all, I’m not going to use it as an excuse, that’s for sure. I mean, Marion played an amazing, good match,” Flipkens said. “But I fell in the first set. Straightaway I didn’t feel anything, but I

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fell on my bad knee. At that moment I didn’t feel it, but a couple of games later I started to feel a really sharp pain like I had four weeks ago.”

Bartoli is now 2-1 in Grand Slam semifinals with both wins at Wimbledon. Six years ago, she beat another Belgian, topseeded Justine Henin, in the semifinals. But then she ran into Venus Williams, who that year won the fourth of her five Wimbledon titles.

On Saturday, Bartoli will be on relatively equal footing against Lisicki.

“It’s a good opportunity. She has experience at least,” Mauresmo said of Bartoli. “Maybe it’s going to help her for the final.”

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Patrick returns to Daytona seeking better finish

BY JENNA FRYER The Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Danica Patrick made history in the season-opening Daytona 500, where she hit new milestones again and again and again.

She became the first woman to earn the top starting spot in a Sprint Cup event with her pole-winning run, then became the first woman to lead laps under green at NASCAR’s top level on race day. Those five laps out front put her in an exclusive club of only 13 drivers who have led laps in both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500.

And of the 13 in that club, only six of them — Patrick, A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Robby Gordon, Juan Pablo

Montoya and Tony Stewart — have led at least five laps in each race.

Then Patrick finished eighth — the highest for a woman in Daytona 500 history.

As NASCAR heads back to Daytona for Saturday night’s race under the lights, her crew chief expects much of the same from Patrick.

“Goals for July are the same as they were in February when we went to Daytona,” Tony Gibson said. “We want to go down there and we want to make a statement.”

Well, then.

Gibson has every intention of seeing Patrick put the bright green No. 10 Chevrolet on the pole again. But this time he wants to

Labonte not ready to consider future

BY JENNA FRYER The Associated Press

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Danica Patrick made history when she won the pole for the season-opening Daytona 500. Her crew chief takes her back to Daytona International Speedway this weekend attempting to once again have the fastest car at the track.

see her get the finish she deserves.

Patrick learned a hard lesson in the closing laps of the 500 when Dale Earnhardt Jr. schooled her with a late move that catapulted him to a second-place finish.

There are some who also thought she might have had a chance to win it a few laps earlier if she’d pulled out of traffic and cut off the bottom lane — a move that might have forced the line of traffic to push her to the lead.

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Greipel wins 6th stage of Tour de France MONTPELLIER, France — Stage 6 of the 100th Tour de France was a textbook demonstration of teamwork.

Like playing pass the parcel, an Australian deliberately handed over the race lead to help a South African teammate and friend become the first rider from that country to wear the famed yellow jersey.

GREIPEL And Andre Greipel, who won the stage with a fierce finishing sprint, owed a debt of gratitude to teammates who plied him with drinks all afternoon, ferrying bottles back and forth from cars at the back of the race, so he didn’t melt in the scorching sun.

As the new leader of cycling’s showcase race, Daryl Impey can look forward to some first-class treatment, too. Being the first South African to wear the yellow jersey “will definitely change my life,” he said.

Rugby, cricket and, for the majority black population, football, are the big sports for South Africans. Impey can shop in the malls of Johannesburg, where he trains and lives, without being recognized, said his wife, Alexandra.

But that was before his buddy on the Orica GreenEdge team, Simon Gerrans, passed him the race lead at the Tour.

JEFFERSON, BOBCATS REACH 3-YEAR DEAL

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Bobcats agreed on Thursday to a three-year, $40.5 million contract with free agent center Al Jefferson from the Utah Jazz, said people familiar with the situation.

Jefferson will make $13.5 mil-

lion in each year of the deal, with the third season being a player option.

The people spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because the deal hasn’t become official.

The contract cannot be signed until July 10 when the NBA’s moratorium on signing new deals is lifted.

Jefferson, 28, gives the Bobcats a much-needed scoring threat in the low post, where they struggled last season. He should also help on the boards, where the Bobcats were repeatedly outrebounded the last two seasons.

HAWKS, KORVER AGREE TO DEAL

ATLANTA — A person with knowledge of the deal says the Atlanta Hawks have reached an agreement to re-sign guard-forward Kyle Korver to a multiyear deal.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been officially announced.

Korver averaged 10.9 points per game and ranked second in the NBA by making 45.7 percent of his 3-point shots. Korver also had reported interest from Brooklyn, Milwaukee and San Antonio.

The contract will not impact the Hawks’ ability to offer freeagent center Dwight Howard a maximum contract. General manager Danny Ferry and coach Mike Budenholzer met with Howard, Ferry and Josh Smith in Los Angeles this week.

ESPN reported the deal is for four years and $24 million.

KNICKS TO KEEP SMITH, PRIGIONI

NEW YORK — The New York Knicks are keeping J.R. Smith

STEVENS from Page B1 Angeles Clippers, the Celtics have been trying to get younger.

In Stevens, they have a mentor who is younger than Garnett and wasn’t yet born when Bill Russell won his 11th NBA championship in 1969 — or even when John Havlicek added two more in the 1970s.

It’s the first time the Celtics have hired a college coach since Rick Pitino in 1997 and their first coach with no NBA experience of any kind since Alvin “Doggie” Julian, who was hired in 1948 and gave way to Red Auerbach two years later.

“Though he is young, I see Brad as a great leader who leads with impeccable charac-

ter and a strong work ethic” Celtics general manager Danny Ainge said in a release. “His teams always play hard and execute on both ends of the court.

Brad is a coach who has already enjoyed lots of success, and I look forward to working with him towards Banner 18.”

The Celtics gave Stevens a six-year deal worth about $22 million, according to a basketball official with knowledge of the deal who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the terms were not public.

Ainge met with Stevens at his home in the Indianapolis area along with Celtics owners Wyc Grousbeck and Steve Pagliuca

and Pablo Prigioni, two key members of their first Atlantic Division championship team since 1994.

Both players agreed to new deals Thursday, their agents confirmed.

Smith, the Sixth Man of the Year, gets a four-year contract worth around $25 million.

Prigioni could make about $6 million over three years. The Argentine guard moved into the starting lineup late in the season and helped the Knicks finish 54-28.

CAVS, CLARK AGREE TO 2-YEAR DEAL

CLEVELAND— The Cavaliers have landed one of the Lakers’ front-line free agents.

No, not that guy.

Cleveland has agreed to terms on a two-year contract with forward Earl Clark, who played alongside Dwight Howard last season in Los Angeles.

Clark, who spent two days visiting with the Cavs earlier this week, is getting a deal worth $9 million, said the person who spoke to the Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because NBA teams can’t officially sign players until the free agent period ends on July 10.

NASCAR CONFISCATES ROOF FLAPS

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Sixteen cars failed inspection before Thursday’s Sprint Cup practice at Daytona International Speedway.

NASCAR confiscated the teams’ roof flaps, which are designed to keep cars on the ground during spins and wrecks at high speeds, for further inspection. Penalties could be possible.

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and worked out the deal Wednesday morning.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity with a historic franchise,” Butler President James M. Danko said.

“We have done everything we possibly can to keep him. Brad is a very bright, very articulate, and a wonderful, wonderful person who’s handled this as well as he’s handled everything else you’ve seen him do.”

Since taking Butler of the mid-major Horizon League to the national championship game in 2010 and again in ‘11, Stevens had been courted by Illinois and UCLA, among others. Butler just joined the Big East, but Stevens won’t be going with them.

“I didn’t treat it as inevitable (that he would leave),” said Col-

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.— Bobby Labonte has spent his weekends at the race track for 22 consecutive years, a stretch so long he doesn’t LABONTE even know what normal people do with their free time.

He had to figure it out the hard way last weekend, when he found himself out of a ride for the first time since 1989.

Labonte gave no specifics Thursday as to how he spent last weekend while AJ Allmendinger raced the No. 47 Toyota that Labonte has piloted since 2011.

“Ended up staying busy doing something,” Labonte said. “Obviously wasn’t what I thought I’d be doing.”

He didn’t watch the race at Kentucky Speedway, where his streak of 704 consecutive Sprint Cup Series starts came to an unwitting end. JTG Daugherty Racing decided to use Allmendinger in the car for a handful of races this year in an attempt for the single-car

operation to get more feedback on its car and the overall program.

Labonte was able to keep his streak going when the team used Allmendinger at Michigan last month by jumping into Phoenix Racing’s No. 51 car for the weekend.

But he indicated Friday that it was a one-time only deal because of the conflict between JTG’s Toyota relationship and Phoenix’s use of Chevrolets.

It put Allmendinger in an awkward position as he doesn’t want to be blamed for Labonte’s streak ending.

“It’s such a tough subject because I am just trying to go out there and do my job,” Allmendinger said. “They asked me to go out there and drive the car and get a feel for it and give my feedback. I’m just trying to give the best feedback I can, and at the end of the weekend, if they’ve learned some things, then I’ve done my job.

“Bobby is so well-respected, he’s a champion, and streaks are going to end at some point. Not that I wanted it to end like that, but I have no control over that. I’ve just been hired to drive a race car.

That’s all.”

GAINEY from Page B1 “The last couple of months have been really hard,” Wagner said. “I just haven’t been much fun to be around. It’s just been tough. Nobody likes to be bad at what they do, especially golfers.”

A product of Virginia Tech — which is less than two hours from the Old White TPC course — Wagner chipped in for eagle on the par-5 12th, then finished with six straight pars.

“I’ve been disappointed with 76s and 79s the last month, so I’m very happy to be disappointed with a 62 today,” said Wagner, who shaved his well-talkedabout mustache in a nod to his wife for their seventh wedding anniversary on Monday.

“I didn’t get her a gift. So I thought maybe surprising her with a clean lip would suffice,” he said.

The mustache will return at some point.

“I love irritating my wife too much to let it go for too long,” he said.

Gainey’s first PGA Tour victory came last fall at the McGladrey Classic, but like Wagner he has missed more cuts than he’s made this year.

Nicknamed “Two Gloves” for wearing gloves on both hands, Gainey had a serious talk with his wife, two other family members and his agent in the past month to try to figure out how to turn around his bad fortunes. Gainey said he had stopped having fun on the course.

“I had gotten away from that and I’m trying to get back into that now,” he said. “I felt like I knew what was going on. I was putting too much pressure on myself.”

Not Thursday, when he missed just one fairway with a new driver in his bag.

“Hitting out of the rough is no fun,” Gainey said.

“Trust me, I’ve been doing it for the past three years.”

Wagner admitted he had thoughts of shooting 59.

Gainey knows what it’s like to flirt with the magic number, which only five players have attained in official PGA Tour events. He shot 60 in the McGladrey Classic’s final round.

lier, who noted that the school had signed Stevens through 2025. “I looked at it like every year Brad was our coach, it was another good year for Butler.”

Stevens spent seven years as a Butler assistant and the last six years as the head coach, compiling a career winning percentage of .772. He never won fewer than 22 games in a season, and the Bulldogs went 33-5 in 2009-10.

Stevens, who didn’t attend the news conference, takes over a team that is rebuilding just three seasons removed from an appearance in the NBA Finals; the Celtics won their unprecedented 17th championship in 2008. But with Garnett and Pierce showing signs of slowing down in this year’s playoffs,

when Boston was eliminated by the New York Knicks in the first round, Ainge is trying to get younger.

He allowed Rivers to leave for the Clippers, extracting a first-round draft choice in return. Amid last week’s NBA draft, the Celtics and Nets agreed to a deal that would send Garnett and Pierce to Brooklyn in exchange for a package of players along with three first-round draft picks.

In all, the Celtics have nine first-rounders in the next five years, along with a dynamic but temperamental point guard in Rajon Rondo and talented swingman Jeff Green.

Now, Stevens will be the one to work with those young players.

OBITUARIES

FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2013

WILLIAM R. SEAL Retired Lt. Col. William Raymond Seal, age 82, beloved husband of Ann Foley Seal, died on Sunday, June 30, 2013, at Tuomey Regional Medical SEAL Center.

Born in Madison, Va., he was a son of the late John Arthur and Ellie White Seal. Mr. Seal was retired from the United States Air Force. He was a member of the Retired Officers Association, VFW and the Daedalians.

Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Catherine A. Seal and Cynthia S. Brown, both of Charlotte; one brother, John Arthur Seal Jr.; and three grandchildren, Heather, Zachary and Joshua.

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

Saturday in the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in Sumter Cemetery with military honors.

The Daedalians will serve has honorary pallbearers.

The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Bullock Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may made to Tuomey Hospice, 500 Pinewood Road, Sumter, SC 29154.

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

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.

Dr. CHARLES E. MILLWOOD Jr. COLUMBIA — A Celebration of Life Service for Dr. Charles E. Millwood Jr. will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Riverland Hills Baptist Church with Dr. Ed Carney and MILLWOOD the Rev. Emery Smith officiating. The family will receive visitors immediately following the service.

A private service for burial will be held at Fort Jackson National Cemetery.

Dr. Millwood died July 2, 2013, following a lifetime of devotion to his fellow man; his profession; his wife, Anne, of 45 years; his sons and their families. He was 69 years old. A general dentist in Cayce from 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he received the Order of the Palmetto in 2004 for recognition for his dedication to his profession, his community, his family and the children of South Carolina his efforts served.

He was born Sept. 9, 1943, in Charleston and grew up in Myrtle Beach. He was a son of

the late Charles E. Sr. and Frances Gillespie Millwood. He graduated from Myrtle Beach High School in 1961.

He received his bachelor of science degree from The Citadel in 1965; a master of microbiology degree from the University of South Carolina in 1971; and a doctor of dental medicine degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1974. After graduating from The Citadel, he served in the United States Army with a tour of duty in Vietnam. In 1975, he began his dental practice in Cayce and was joined by his son, Gregory A. Millwood, in 2003.

Many wonderful families and friends contributed to the success of his practice, and he was blessed to have been entrusted with their oral health care.

Dr. Millwood served in many capacities in organized dentistry in South Carolina. He was a member of the American Dental Association and the South Carolina Dental Association from 1974 until his death. He served as president of the South Carolina Dental Association in 2000. Also, he served as president of the Central District Dental Society in 1990; the College of Dental Medicine Alumni Association 1980 to 1982; the South Carolina Chapter of Psi Omega in 1985; and the South Carolina Chapter of the Pierre Fauchard Academy from 1993 to 1997.

He served his community as a coach with the Irmo-Chapin Recreational Leagues from 1980 to 1992. He was active in the Cayce-West Columbia Kiwanis Club; the Lexington County Children’s Shelter; the Citadel Board of Visitors; the Association of Citadel Men; the Lexington County Citadel Club; the City of Cayce Economic Development Council; and the Y-Indians Guides.

Dr. Millwood’s devotion to his profession and the children of South Carolina was well demonstrated in 2000 when he devoted many hours working with the South Carolina Legislature and a number of state agencies and children’s organizations to successfully implement a new South Carolina Medicaid program to provide dental care to more than twice the number of underserved children previously treated. His leadership extended to other states as he spoke at meetings in Chicago and Washington, D.C., explaining how South Carolina political and professional leaders agreed and implemented a working, successful dental Medicaid program.

Many of his fellow dentists wondered where Charlie got his energy to lead the many time-consuming projects for the South

Carolina Dental Association. He chaired the inaugural South Carolina “Give Kids A Smile Day,” spending hundreds of hours recruiting volunteer dentists, hygienists, assistants, students, nurses and receptionists, while procuring thousands of dollars in donated dental supplies. The program provided education, cleanings, examinations, radiographs, restorations and extractions to more than 500 children in 2003.

He continued to serve the expanding program in subsequent years.

Dr. Millwood also served on the steering committee of the James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine and was instrumental in raising more than $6 million from his fellow South Carolina dentists for construction of the new dental school. In addition, he served on the Medical University of South Carolina Dental Dean Search Committee in 2004 and the South Carolina State Board of Dentistry for a six-year term beginning in 2005.

He was honored with many awards including: Bronze Star and Army Commendation Award by the United States Army; Fraternal Achievement Award; Outstanding Student in Prosthetics; inducted into Omega Kappa Upsilon; Dentist of the Year Psi Omega; Pierre Fauchard Academy of South Carolina Dentist of the Year; Columbia Dental Assisting Society’s Appreciation Award; and Presidential Who’s Who in Business and Professional Leaders. In 2009, he received the George P. Hoffman Award from the South Carolina Dental Association and the Community Impact Award in 2010 by Harvest Hope Food Bank and the United Way of the Midlands.

He is survived by his wife, Anne Bozeman Millwood, whom he married in 1968; three sons, Charles E. “Chad” Millwood III (Leah), Dr. Gregory A. “Greg” Millwood (Alisha) and Ryan P. Millwood. He was blessed with two wonderful grandsons, Joshua and Grayson. Survivors also include a brother, Danny G. Millwood; sister, Barbara M. Geroca; a special aunt, Marry G. Wilson; a niece, nephews and cousins.

Dr. Millwood was well-known among his professional peer group for his time, energy and love for his family’s well-being as well as his commitment to The Citadel and the Medical University of South Carolina College of Dental Medicine by mentoring aspiring students to these institutions.

He was a member of Riverland Hills Baptist Church and the Friendship Sunday School Class. His love of history and travel

was shared and enjoyed by family and friends who were inspired by his knowledge and passion to see the world.

The family would like to extend special thanks to Dr. David Hammett and staff, Tidewater Hospice, Sigurd Center Staff and caregivers Martha McGaughey and Bridgett Lybrand, who lovingly cared for him during his journey.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to The MUSC Foundation for the Charles E. Millwood Jr. Scholarship at The College of Dental Medicine, 18 Bee St., MUSC 450, Charleston SC 29425 or The Citadel Brigadier Foundation for the Dr. Charles E. Millwood Jr. Scholarship, 171 Moultrie St., Charleston SC 29409.

Caughman-Harman Funeral Home, Irmo/ St. Andrews Chapel, is assisting the family with arrangements. www.caughmanharmanfuneralhome.net

HARRISON HILTON PHILADELPHIA — Harrison “Tex” Hilton, 55, died Wednesday, July 3, 2013, at University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.

He was born Aug. 11, 1957, in Greeleyville, a son of Edith Ned Hilton and the late Thomas Hilton Jr. The family is receiving friends at the home of his mother, 185 Harrison Ned Road, Greeleyville.

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

JANIE MAE BOYCE FLORENCE — Janie Mae Gibbs Boyce, 84, formerly of Lynchburg, died Wednesday, July 3, 2013, after an illness.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday at Lynchburg Baptist Church, Lynchburg. Interment will follow in the Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lynchburg.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Layton-Anderson Funeral Home, Florence.

Mrs. Boyce was born in Florence County, a daughter of the late Bennie and Bessie Dickerson Gibbs. She was a lifetime member of Lynchburg Baptist Church, where she was a member of the ladies Sunday school class and the Coline Beasley Circle. She was active in the American Legion Auxiliary of Lynchburg.

At the time of his death in 2009, Janie had been married to Vernon Boyce for 62 years.

Surviving are her son, Ronnie Boyce and his wife, Barbara, of Florence; two sisters, Lois Ford of Florence and Evelyn Carter of Timmonsville; granddaughter, Kaesi Boyce and fiancée, Devin Chauvot; four stepgranddaughters, Stacey, Brandy, Tracey and

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Brandy; a number of great-grandchildren; and loving nieces and nephews.

The family would like to sincerely thank the Carolinian staff, Hospice of South Carolina and the many friends that she had while a resident at the Carolinian.

Layton-Anderson Funeral Home, 4210 W. Palmetto St., Florence, is assisting the family with arrangements.

FLOSSIE PLOWDEN Flossie Plowden, 94, of Mayesville, died Monday, June 24, 2013, in Fort Pierce, Fla. Flossie was a member of Unionville AME Church.

She is survived by 10 children.

Visitation will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary.

Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Unionville AME Church in Mayesville.

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

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

JOSEPHINE H. JOHNSON Josephine Hopkins Johnson was born Sept. 16, 1940, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to the late Charles and Angeline Hopkins. She departed this life on June 30, 2013, at her residence.

She was reared in Sumter by her grandmother, Josephine Canty. Later she returned to Brooklyn to finish school and pursue nursing training to become a nurse’s aide at Oxford Nursing Home. In 1962, she started her career at Ma Bell Telephone Co. in New York. After relocating to Florida, she worked for Southern Bell Telephone Co. She was a member of Mount Hermon AME Church in Miami, where she served as the secretary of the women’s missionary board as well as singing in the choir. Upon retirement, she returned to Sumter and became a member of Allen Chapel AME Church.

She is survived by her loving husband of 50 years, Wheeler Johnson; a son, Patrick McCain; two daughters, Cheryl Jackson and Yolanda (Kerry) Williams; grandchildren, Rochelle Stanley, Marcus Johnson, Alray Jones and Tracci Jackson; great-grandchildren, Sariyah Walker and Lailah Harley; three sisters, Arlene (Charles) Green, Portia Lucille (Curtis) Rogers and Gloria Hood; two brothers, Charles Hopkins and Joseph Hopkins; and a host of loving cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.

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Mrs. Johnson will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Saturday for viewing until the hour of service.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Allen Chapel AME Church, 471 Lynam Road, Sumter, with the Rev. James Sutton, assisted by the Rev. Harold Wilson.

Interment will follow in the Allen Chapel AME Church cemetery.

The family is receiving friends at 205 Trillium Lane, Sumter.

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

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

LINDA D. BLACKWELL Linda Diane Blackwell, 54, died Tuesday, July 2, 2013, at her home.

Born in Staunton, Va., she was a daughter of Jo Anne Haynes Blackwell and the late Charles E. Blackwell.

Ms. Blackwell was a Baptist.

Surviving are her mother of North Beach, Md.; a daughter, Leslie Dawn Crawford of Darlington; four brothers, Charles E. Blackwell of Shadyside, Md., Calvin W. Blackwell of Chesapeake Beach, Md., Timothy Blackwell of North Beach and Michael Farran of Sumter; a sister, Sandra Blackwell of Sumter; two granddaughters, Lacy and Raven; and one grandson, Brandon.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m.

Saturday in the Chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with the Rev. Jerry Berry officiating.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and other times at 4252 Eleanor Drive.

Online condolences may be sent to www. sumterfunerals.com.

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

VIOLA G. NEAL Viola G. Neal, 86, widow of Douglas Neal and daughter of the late Richard and Letha Pearson Glencamp was born in Sumter County on Sept. 13, 1926. She departed this life on July 3, 2013, at Sumter Health and Rehab Center in Sumter.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. The family is receiving friends at the home, 4640 U.S. 15 S., Sumter, SC 29150.

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

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The Campbell Soup friends lunch group will meet at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 6, at Golden Corral.

A South Main Street Neighborhood Watch meeting will be held at 6 p.m.

Monday, July 8, at the South Side Gym on Sumter Street. All concerned neighbors are welcome. Representatives from the fire department, police department and codes enforcement will be present.

Lincoln High School Class of 1964 will hold a class reunion meeting at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, at South Sumter Resource Center, 337 Manning Ave. Election of new officers will be held. Call Frances Woods at (803) 773-3804, Lillie R. Wilson at (803) 775-9088 or Bertha Willis at (803) 7759660.

The Colonel Matthew Singleton Sons of the American Revolution Chapter will meet at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, July 9, at the S.C. National Guard Armory, 395 N. Pike West.

The National Federation of the Blind (Sumter Chapter) will meet at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, July 9, at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, 125 W. Bartlette St. Mary Howell, representative of Melaleuca Wellness Co., will speak. Transportation provided within the mileage radius.

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The Ashwood Central High School Classes of 1976 and 1977 will meet at 5 p.m. Sunday, July 14, at McDonald’s in Bishopville. Plans are being made for the class reunion scheduled for Aug. 2-4. Reunion costs: $30 per person or $60 per couple. Contact Debra Martin Mickens at (803) 229-2445 or Barbara Mathis Wactor at (803) 6606706.

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• On two episodes of “Blue Bloods” (CBS, r, TV-14), undercover street-walking (9 p.m.), Erin feels responsible for an informant’s death (10 p.m.).

• On two repeats of “Magic City” (Starz, TV-MA), bail money comes with strings (9 p.m.), Ike wants Ben gone (10 p.m.).

• Freshwater freaks abound on “Monster Fish” (10 p.m., Nat Geo Wild).

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SALE - Public Auction SUMTER EAST SELF STORAGE 800 MYRTLE BEACH HWY. AUCTION LIST JULY 20, 2013 10:00 A.M. UNITS FOR AUCTION A-26 - CYNTHIA WILSON A-36 - JESSICA STUKES B-4 - WILLIAM HUNNICUTT B-8 - CASSANDRA MILLER B-12 - CALVIN JOHNSON C-3 - CHIREE DANIELS C-33 - TEVIN OLIVER D-20 - DORA M. GREEN F-25 - ROYAL PRIESTHOOD G-11 - TENESHA LEWIS G-25 - CYNTHIA WILSON G-27 - ANTONIO DENNIS

Public Notice Pursuant to state law, the contents of the following units will be sold at public sale to satisfy storage liens on Wednesday, July 17th at 9:30 AM at Dinkins Auctions SCAL#3896, 1941 Myrtle Beach Hwy, Sumter, SC. Anyone wishing to claim their contents by paying the delinquent amount must do so by 10:00 AM on Monday, July 15th, 2013 at Wedgefield Store-It-All, 2620 Hwy 261 S, Wedgefield, SC. Call 803-494-4848 for payment details.

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Summons & Notice SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) DEFICIENCY WAIVED IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO: 2013-CP-43-00717

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER United States of America acting through the Rural Housing Service f/k/a Farmers Home Administration or successor agency, United States Department of Agriculture, PLAINTIFF, vs.

Lewis Allen Keith Durham a/k/a Lewis A.K. Durham, a/k/a Louis Durham, DEFENDANT(S).

F13-01067 TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their office, 1300 Pickens Street, Columbia, South Carolina, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff, in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on April 26, 2013.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, (hereinafter "Order"), you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention.

To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, KORN LAW FIRM, P.A., P. O. Box 11264, 1300 Pickens Street, Columbia, SC 29201 or call (803) 252-5817. KORN LAW FIRM, P.A., represents the Plaintiff in this action and does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice.

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THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Eve Moredock Stacey (SC Bar #5300) Robert P. Davis (SC Bar #74030) William S. Koehler (SC Bar#74935) Vance L. Brabham, III (SC Bar #71250) Jaclynn B. Goings (SC Bar #77501) Andrew W. Montgomery (SC Bar #79893) Andrew A. Powell (SC Bar #100210) John F. McLeod, IV (SC Bar # 100693) Mary Powers (SC Bar #16534) J. Pamela Price (SC Bar # 014336) 220 Executive Center Drive Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29210 (803) 744-4444 Columbia, South Carolina 012507-01480 May 29, 2013 A-4394655

KORN LAW FIRM, P.A. P.O. Box 11264 1300 Pickens Street Columbia, South Carolina 29211-1264 MICHAL KALWAJTYS Attorneys for Plaintiff Columbia, South Carolina

SUMMONS Deficiency Judgment Demanded IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 13-CP-43-0738 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association as Trustee successor by merger to LaSalle Bank, National Association as Trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 2006-6 Trust, Plaintiff, v.

Dennis M. McDaniel; Defendant(s).

(012507-01480) TO THE DEFENDANT(S), Dennis M. McDaniel:

IN OBSERVANCE OF INDEPENDENCE DAY WE WILL BE CLOSED THURS. JULY 4. WE WILL RE-OPEN FRIDAY, JULY 5.

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SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2013-CP-43-851

the Plaintiff(s) herein.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on May 20, 2013.

SCOTT LAW FIRM, P.A. Ronald C. Scott, SC Bar #4996 Michael S. Medlock, SC Bar #65395 Elizabeth R. Polk, SC Bar #11673 Angelia J. Grant, SC Bar #78334 Priti M. Patel, SC Bar #79835 J. Harrison Rushton, SC Bar #100406 Meredith M. Robertson, SC Bar #68322 Kimberly R. Thompson, SC Bar #79161 Andrew M. Sullivan, SC Bar #100464 ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29204 (803) 252-3340

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Michael E. Roche a/k/a Michael C. Roche and Caitlin Roche, DEFENDANTS.

In Memory

130268.00273 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 4582 Cheryl Drive, Sumter, South Carolina 29154, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 1560206001, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 220 Executive Center Drive, Suite 109, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 29202-3200, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein. Columbia, South Carolina May 29, 2013 NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Sumter County, South Carolina on April 29, 2013. Columbia, South Carolina May 29, 2013

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention. To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm,Rogers Townsend and Thomas, PC. Rogers Townsend and Thomas, PC represents the Plaintiff in this action. Our law firm does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice. You must submit any requests for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date you are served with this Notice

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) CAITLIN ROCHE ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Sumter County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you.

If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by

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YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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Office Rentals For Lease: 3 1st floor front offices at 17 E. Canal St. Formerly occupied by the county corner. $530/mo. C/H/A, water incl. Close to the old & the new county court houses.

Call Newman Realty at 803-773-5576.

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Singlewide in Sumter, SC Call me at 803-469-3252!

LOW CREDIT SCORE? Been turned down for bad credit? Come try us, we do our own financing.

We have 2-3-4-5 bedroom homes on our lot. Layaway program available. For more information, call 843-389-4215.

3 BD/3 BA MH on 1 acre in Bishopville. $5500 down. Easy financing. 803-983-8084 Kiss your landlord goodbye!

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803-427-3888.

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Monday 7PM 1945 Myrtle Beach Hwy Dinkins Auctions 803 840-0420 www.SumterAutoAuction.com A Guaranteed Credit Approval AUTO LOANS We will arrange financing even if you have been turned down before.

Loans available for no credit, bad credit, 1st Time Buyers & Bankruptcy buyers. No co-signers needed. Call Mr. Ashley Brown at 803-926-3235

R& R Motors 3277 Broad Street Sumter 803-494-2886 '08 Mazda 6 $9550 '07 Colorado Crew $10,900 '06 Malibu $5995 '05 Camry (Sunroof) $8995 '06 Camry (Call) '03 Z71 Ext, $10,800 650 V-Star $3495

TRANSPORTATION 2007 Chevy HHR, Loaded Auto, CD-Radio.

Clean. $6,500.

803-481-8305

Guignard Storage: 57 Neal St. Personal storage units.

No deposits. Call 803-491-4914

REAL ESTATE

OPEN Ernest Baker Auto Sales & Equip: 3349 N. Main St. SUMMER SPECIALS: '03 Buick Park Avenue $5495 '94 Ford Ranger 4SP/AC $2000 '99 Mazda Protege AT/AC $2995 '99 Cherokee AT/AC 4DR $3995 '00 Mit Eclip, loaded $3995.

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Top $$$ paid for your wrecked or junk car. You call, we haul.

Barnette's Auto Parts 494-2800.

C&C Recycling Parts & Wrecker Service Top price paid for junk cars! We buy scrap metal, alum cans, batteries, copper. 773-7702

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Oaklawn MHP: 2 BR M.H.'s, water/sewer/garbage pk-up incl'd.

RV parking avail. Call 494-8350

STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015

Beach Forest 1785 Titanic Ct. Custom Built Quality Home.

2BR 2Ba Mobile home off Panola Rd. between Pinewood & paxville $450/mo. 843-884-0346 2BR/1BA, lg. yard. $475/mo. + $475/dep. Will work with dep. No Pets. Avail 7/1. 406-6159 For Sale, 4Bed/2Bath, Land, $325/mo.

803-494-5090 1996 2BR 2BA in Sumter All appl.

Sect 8 Accepted 469-6978

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Property overlooks pond & community clubhouse/pool. 3BR w/maple hardwood floors, 3 full BA w/ceramic tile. Solid maple 42" kitchen cabinetry w/Charleston Style concrete countertops.

Oversize 2 car garage. All appliances incl'd w/purchase.

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