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BY ROB COTTINGHAM rcottingham@theitem.com (803) 774-1225 Maybe he just had somewhere he needed to be. Or perhaps it was a case of the munchies.

Either way, he’s keeping it all for himself, and though officers have their person, they haven’t found the stolen snack truck.

Officials with Sumter County Sheriff’s Office are looking for a snack vendor’s truck that was reportedly stolen by a passer-by

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Monday after a brief encounter with its owner.

Anthony Todd Black, 47, was arrested Monday and is now facing a charge of grand larceny for the theft of the vehicle and its contents. Despite efforts by investigators, Black won’t give them the location of the truck.

“The last thing he said to us was, ‘I’m not talking about it anymore,’” recalled Lt. Robert Burnish of the sheriff’s office.

According to reports, the owner of the truck was restocking a

snack machine in the 2800 block of Broad Street Extension on Monday when a white man reportedly approached him and asked for a ride to the interstate. The owner then told the man that he couldn’t help him.

The suspect then reportedly asked for money and a drink.

When the driver told the suspect that he couldn’t give him either, the man then jumped in the snack truck and headed down U.S. 378.

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A new weight restriction has been imposed on this East Brewington Road bridge over Mulberry Branch. Heavier vehicles — those with five tons per axle or seven tons total weight — might not be able to cross the bridge safely.

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BY CATHERINE FOLEY reporter@theitem.com (803) 774-1295 More than 20 bridges in Sumter County now have weight restrictions, as the South Carolina Department of Transportation recently added the East Brewington Road crossing over Mulberry Branch to the list of bridges with potential structural deficiencies.

SCDOT posted a detour to bypass the Brewington Road bridge last week after a recent investigation led officials to determine that heavier vehicles — those with five tons per axle or seven tons total weight — might not be

able to cross the bridge safely.

The East Brewington Road bridge was constructed in 1958, making it one of the older bridges in Sumter.

According to DOT officials, because of the bridge’s age, the timber piles used for support are gradually decaying.

Vehicles facing the weight restriction now face a three-mile detour route to avoid the bridge.

The bridge has been placed on a replacement list; however, DOT officials say there are no definite plans as to when that might occur.

Before construction can begin, each project must be approved, which officials say can take multiple months. Ultimately, it could take up to two years before the bridge is replaced.

“There are a lot of bridges that need to be completely replaced,” said Robert Dickinson, District 1

maintenance engineer with DOT, who added the state has been hampered by funding issues.

While the organization sets aside funding for bridge maintenance, Dickinson said there is only enough to replace about six to eight bridges in the area per year, depending on the length. Last year in Sumter County, six projects were completed using in-house crews and equipment.

For 2014, there are three bridges scheduled to be replaced. There are two additional bridges that have been approved, but it is likely that construction will not begin until late 2015 to early 2016.

Last year, the South Carolina General Assembly provided additional funding for bridge replacement, resurfacing and mainline interstate projects across the state.

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Sheriff: Video shows usefulness of criticized MRAP nated to local law enforcement by the U.S. military, in an early morning raid just this past May, and it has the video It’s the “most criticized vehi- to prove it.

In the video shown to memcle we ever got.” bers of Sumter County CounThat’s how the sheriff decil this week and posted to scribed his department’s MRAP, the military-style vehi- theitem.com, the heavily arcle donated to the department mored carrier can be seen from the dash camera of a for SWAT-type missions, a decision that’s been criticized as sheriff’s patrol car as it rolls a waste of money on a hulking up to a mobile home near Rembert and disgorges armed vehicle that wouldn’t be any members of the Sheriff’s use for ordinary police work.

Emergency Response Team, But the MRAP isn’t meant who storm into the home after for ordinary police work, said the bright burst of a “flashSheriff Anthony Dennis, but bang” grenade can be seen.

SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO for extraordinary incidents The raid netted nine arrests when extreme force is necesCapt. Terrance Colclough helps the MRAP Caiman back out in the and some $240,000 worth of parking lot of the Sumter County Sheriff’s department recently. Sher- sary.

The sheriff’s office made use drugs. iff Anthony Dennis has defended the usefulness and necessity of “the Use of the MRAP under most criticized vehicle we ever got,” citing video released to The Sum- of its Mine Resistant Ambush these circumstances was necter Item of its use in a drug raid earlier in May. See the video online at Protected vehicle, a weaponsessary because deputies had resistant combat vehicle dotheitem.com.

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been informed the suspect inside the house was armed with an AK-47.

“We thought about calling the ATF or State Law Enforcement Division, but we had to have our SWAT team hit it the next morning,” Dennis said.

If the situation had called for it, Maj. Allen Dailey said, “it could drive through the house.”

In addition to the MRAP, the sheriff’s office used a grant to purchase special $4,000 vests that can withstand bullets from high-powered assault rifles such as those carried by the Rembert suspect, which could penetrate the vests normally worn by law-enforcement officers.

In an environment where

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Clarendon County rep wants Senate seat

BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com (803) 774-1272 Some Clarendon County voters could be headed to the polls again early next year if their legislator successfully moves up to the state Senate this fall.

Ronnie A. Sabb, who represents the southeastern section of Clarendon County along with Williamsburg County in S.C. House District 101, announced his candidacy this week in

the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by the state’s new lieutenant governor.

Sabb announced his candidacy for Senate District 32 on Monday, the SABB first day filing opened for the seat vacated by Yancey McGill when he resigned June 18 to take over the state’s No. 2 job.

If he makes it past a primary challenge, Sabb could appear on some ballots twice on Election Day: once in his

regular House race and once in the special Senate election. If Sabb wins the Senate seat, it would trigger a new election for Clarendon voters within weeks to fill his former House seat.

Sabb is a Greeleyville resident who operates law offices in Kingstree and Lake City. He has served in the state House since 2010.

“We must continue to focus on improving our technical colleges, hospitals, education systems and infrastructure,” said Sabb in making his announcement. “We must rekindle

the pride in our neighborhoods, realizing that we are special, and our confidence can and will exude to others.”

Sabb will face Democratic primary opposition in the district that spans Williamsburg, Berkeley, Florence, Georgetown and Horry counties.

Rep. Carl Anderson of Georgetown is also seeking to move from the House to the Senate, and Caesar McKnight and Sam Floyd have also filed in Williamsburg. The primary will be held Sept. 2.

Sumterites gather for Pink Glove event Sumterites don pink gloves and hold photos of their loved ones who battled cancer in a “human breast cancer ribbon” in the new green space in downtown Sumter on Tuesday evening.

The event was part of Tuomey Regional Medical Center’s public relations team’s video entry for the Pink Glove Dance, a competition that will benefit cancer research. Tuomey PR must submit its video by July 31, and voting begins Sept. 9. The number of online views determines the winners. For more information, visit www.pinkglovedance.com and www.tuomey.com/pink.

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USC Sumter app makes school news, schedules easy to find for students

BY RAYTEVIA EVANS revans@theitem.com (803) 774-1214 Students now have quicker access to USC Sumter after the university recently released a mobile app available in iTunes and Google Play.

The app, which can be found by searching the university’s name, is also available to Sumter residents and can come in handy when trying to learn more about current news and events on campus.

Misty Hatfield, marketing director, said the school offers a lot of information and services, and the app makes them easily available to students, faculty and potential students.

“We have a lot of functions that students and potential students want to access quickly: current class schedules, applications, athletic rosters, social media updates,” Hatfield explained. “The app puts it all in one place.”

The university, along with

Beale Bagley Creations LLC in Columbia, started working on the app at the beginning of the year, and it became available earlier this summer. The Columbia-based company also designed the school’s website.

“We really want it to be a useful tool that is not just a reproduction of our website,” Hatfield said.

Through the free app, users can find out about what the school offers, read news pertaining to the school and students, watch videos and view photos. The app also provides easy access to course schedules, athletic rosters and schedules and the recent activity on the school’s social media accounts.

Another unique feature of the new app is that users are able to place an order at the Fire Ant Café directly from their phones or mobile devices, and the order will be ready when they arrive for pickup.

In the future, school officials say they plan on possibly

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USC Sumter recently released an app that allows users to view news, videos, photos, athletic rosters and schedules and course schedules. The app is free and available for download in iTunes and Google Play. adding other features.

“We want to keep it fresh.

We are working on possible webcam applications that will allow students and others to check out what’s going on on campus from their phone,” Hatfield said.

COLUMBIA (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto of a bill intended to help South Carolina’s public libraries keep disrupters out might stand because of a timing issue.

The bill allows a misdemeanor trespassing charge against people who return to a library before their written warning to stay away expires.

York County Library Director Colleen Kaphengst said Tuesday libraries need the legal backing to restrict an increasing number of patrons misbehaving in ways that aren’t criminal but make others uncomfortable or occupy employees’ time. She said that can include repeatedly shouting obscenities, pulling up pornography on computers, talking to other patrons’ children or following people around — “things we can’t really call law enforcement and have any kind of charge that can keep them out of the library.”

Haley’s veto said the measure gives library staff and unelected county li-

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brary boards too much authority in keeping people out. She vetoed it “in the interest of preserving due process and maintaining the spirit of true public use for publicly funded facilities,” she wrote June 13.

But Sen. Wes Hayes, RRock Hill, the bill’s main sponsor, said the point is to give libraries a uniform way to deal with an escalating problem.

Haley recommended county councils pass local ordinances on what’s considered acceptable conduct in public libraries, tailored to their issues. Kaphengst said the problem is that state law provides no authority to enforce local policies.

The Senate voted 39-3 to override the veto. But the vote occurred June 19, the last day of the extended legislative session, after the House already had gone home. The Senate had to take up the veto first, since it was Hayes’ bill. However, an override requires a two-thirds vote in both chambers.

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Millwood teachers learn how to include agriculture in their lesson plans for fall Three Millwood Elementary School teachers recently participated in the South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation’s annual Ag in the Classroom Summer Teacher Institute.

The event was hosted in Florence, where pre-K to eighthgrade teachers learned how to incorporate agricultural lesson plans into their daily teaching schedules.

Millwood kindergarten teachers Meri Wyn Hudson,

PEOPLE IN UNIFORM Air Force Airman 1st Class Taylor S. Brennan, Airman Cody A. Buff, Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Antwan J. Moore and Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Brian B. Hudson have all graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

The airmen completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Brennan, a 2007 graduate of Pinnacle High School, Phoenix, Arizona, is a son of Connie Brennan of Sumter and Joseph Brennan of Wappingers Falls, New York.

Brennan earned distinction as an honor graduate.

Buff, a 2011 graduate of Lakewood High School, is a son of Traci All of West Columbia. Buff earned distinction as an honor graduate.

Moore, a 2011 graduate of Crestwood High School, is a son of Stephanie Scott of

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Meri Wyn Hudson, Rebecca Osteen and Jaime Patterson of Sumter School District’s Millwood Elementary School participate in the South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation’s annual Ag in the Classroom Summer Teacher Institute in Florence. They learned how to teach the importance of family farmers and domestic products.

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Rebecca Osteen and Jaime Patterson were among 50 educators from public and private schools across the state who learned how to teach the importance of family farmers and domestically produced food, fiber, forestry products and fuel to their students.

“If agriculture is to maintain its status as South Carolina’s largest business sector,” said SCFB President David Winkles, “we’ve got to help people understand the link between their food, fiber and shelter and the farm.”

During the event, educators earned a set of grade-specific lesson plans aligned to the state curriculum standards to use in the classroom this fall.

The teachers also left the event with baskets full of resources they can use to teach students about agriculture and the benefits farmers add to the economy, the environment and the community.

The Millwood teachers, along with other participants, received three hours of graduate credit good toward their teacher recertification from Winthrop University.

Sumter and Frankie Moore of Columbia.

Hudson earned an associate degree in 2011 from ITT Technical Institute, Henderson, Nevada. He is a son of Dorothy Hudson of Sumter.

Army Pvt. Darius W. Jenkins has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia.

During the nine weeks of training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid and Army history, core values and traditions. Additional training included development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics and experiencing use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman.

Jenkins is a 2013 graduate of Lakewood High School.

Army Maj. Derwin Bradley has graduated from the Command and General Staff Officers Course at the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas.

The college is the Army’s senior tactical school.

The 10-month course educates and trains intermediate-level Army officers, officers from other U.S. armed services, international offi-

cers and civilian leaders from other federal agencies to operate in full-spectrum Army, joint, interagency and multinational environments as field grade commanders and staff officers.

Graduates are prepared to assume war-fighting duties immediately upon graduation. They possess the competencies, supporting skills and knowledge that enable them to perform duties effectively and help teams achieve organizational objectives. Command and General Staff Officers Course graduates are attuned to the complexity of the operating environment and consider the impact of culture on military operations; take an ethical, disciplined approach to meeting organizational and strategic-level leadership challenges; and are critical and creative thinkers who can adapt and thrive in ambiguous and ever-changing environments. They are selfaware and motivated to continue learning and improving throughout their careers and recognize that history is the foundation for understanding the profession of arms.

Bradley, a 1990 graduate of Mount Pleasant High School, Elliott, is a son of Christine W. Bradley and Albert Bradley, both of Mayesville. He earned a master’s degree in 2014 from Webster University, Leavenworth, Kansas.

John K. Crosswell Home for Children, 11 Crosswell Drive, needs your help in preparing its children for school.

The following items are needed: • Bookbags (ages preschool to high school); • Loose-leaf, wide-ruled paper; • Composition books; • 1- and 3-subject spiral notebooks; • Construction paper; • Graph paper; • Mechanical pencils; • Cap erasers and pink erasers; • Pencil boxes; • Glue sticks/glue; • Scissors; • 3” by 5” notecards; • Folders with prongs and pockets; • Poster board; • Binders, 1-inch, 1½inch, 2-inch and 3-inch (preferably hard cover); • Pens — red, blue and black; • Washable markers; • Colored pencils;

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To set up a time to drop off donations, contact Kelly Rowell at krowell@ crosswellhome.org or call (803) 778-6441.

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What’s making our economy one of the best?

Here are some reasons the U.S. is outpacing other major economies them there. Ultra-low loan rates have made it easier for individuals and businesses to WASHINGTON — How does borrow and spend. The Fed also launched three bond-buythe U.S. economy do it? ing programs meant to reduce Europe is floundering. long-term rates.

China faces slower growth.

By contrast, the European Japan is struggling to sustain Central Bank has been slower tentative gains. to respond to signs of economYet the U.S. job market is humming, and the pace of eco- ic distress among the 18 nations that share the euro curnomic growth is steadily rising. Five full years after a dev- rency. The ECB actually raised rates in 2011 — the same year astating recession officially the eurozone sank back into ended, the economy is finally showing the vigor that Ameri- recession.

It’s worth keeping in mind cans have long awaited. that the Fed has two mandates: Last month, employers to keep prices stable and to added 288,000 jobs and helped reduce the unemployment rate maximize employment. The to 6.1 percent, the lowest since ECB has just one mandate: to September 2008. June capped a guard against high inflation.

The Fed was led during and five-month stretch of 200,000plus job gains — the first in after the Great Recession by nearly 15 years.

Ben Bernanke, a student of the After having shrunk at a 2.9 Great Depression who was depercent annual rate from Jan- termined to avoid a repeat of uary through March — largely the 1930s’ economic collapse. because of a brutal winter — STRONGER BANKS the U.S. economy is expected to grow at a healthy 3 percent The United States moved pace the rest of the year. faster than Europe to restore Here are five reasons the its banks’ health after the fiUnited States is outpacing nancial crisis of 2008-09. The other major economies: U.S. government bailed out the financial system and subjected AN AGGRESSIVE big banks to stress tests in CENTRAL BANK 2009 to reveal their financial strength. By showing the “The Federal Reserve acted banks to be surprisingly sooner and more aggressively healthy, the stress tests helped than other central banks in restore confidence in the U.S. keeping rates low,” says Berfinancial system. nard Baumohl, chief global Banks gradually started economist at the Economic lending again. European banks Outlook Group. are only now undergoing stress In December 2008, the Fed tests, and the results won’t be slashed short-term interest rates to near zero and has kept out until fall. In the meantime,

BY PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer

POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES Ronald Ronell Mouzon, 25, of 520 Abbots Land Circle, Fayetteville, North Carolina, was arrested at 9:42 a.m. Monday and charged with speeding more than 15 but less than 25, driving under suspension and possession of marijuana. According to reports, an officer parked along Interstate 95 near the 135 mile marker observed a blue 2011 Hyundai traveling north on the interstate at a high rate of speed. The officer’s radar reportedly confirmed a speed of 95 mph in a 70 mph zone, so he initiated a traffic stop. As the officer approached the vehicle, he detected the odor of marijuana. The officer then ordered Mouzon out of the vehicle and observed suspected marijuana residue on his shirt and pants.

When confronted, Mouzon reportedly told the officer that he smoked marijuana in the car earlier and had about 1 gram with him in the center console of the car. A DMV check revealed Mouzon’s license was suspended, and a search of the vehicle yielded about 2 grams of suspected marijuana in a glass jar beneath the driver’s seat.

Mouzon was arrested and taken to Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center.

STOLEN PROPERTY Cash totaling $5,741 was reportedly stolen from a register at a business in the 800 block of Broad Street between May 3 and June 30.

VANDALISM It was reported at 7:47 a.m.

Monday that a window of a business in the 4700 block of Broad Street sustained $1,000 in damage.

EMS CALLS Sumter County EMS responded to 49 calls Monday, including 40 medical calls, two motor-vehicle wrecks, one fire standby and six calls listed as other trauma.

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During the past five years, U.S. stocks have outpaced shares of other major economies in Europe, Japan and Hong Kong.

Europe’s banks lack confidence. They fear that other banks are holding too many bad loans and that Europe is vulnerable to another crisis. So they aren’t lending much.

In the United States, overall bank lending is up nearly 4 percent in the past year. Lending to business has jumped 10 percent.

In the Eurozone, lending has dropped 3.7 percent overall, according to figures from the Institute of International Finance.

A MORE FLEXIBLE ECONOMY Europe needs to lift wage restrictions that prevent employers from cutting pay (rather than eliminating jobs) when times are bad. It could also rethink welfare and retirement programs that discourage people from working and dismantle policies that protect favored businesses and block innovative newcomers, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has argued.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed reforms meant to make the Japanese economy more competitive. He wants to expand child care so more women can work; replace small, inefficient farms with more large-scale commercial farms; and allow more foreign migrant workers to fill labor shortages in areas such as nursing and construction.

Yet his proposals face fierce opposition.

“Europe and Japan remain less well-positioned for durable long-term growth, as they have only recently begun to tackle their deep-rooted structural problems, and a lot remains to be done,” says Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University.

LESS BUDGET-CUTTING Weighed down by debt, many European countries took an ax to swelling budget deficits. They slashed pension benefits, raised taxes and cut

civil servants’ wages. The cuts devastated several European economies. They led to 27 percent unemployment in Greece, 14 percent in Portugal and 25 percent in Spain. The United States has done some budget cutting, too, and raised taxes.

But U.S. austerity hasn’t been anywhere near as harsh.

A ROARING STOCK MARKET The Fed’s easy-money policies ignited a world-beating U.S. stock market rally. During the past five years, U.S. stocks have easily outpaced shares in Europe, Japan and Hong Kong.

That was one of Bernanke’s goals in lowering rates. He figured that miserly fixed-income rates would nudge investors into stocks in search of higher returns. Higher stock prices would then make Americans feel more confident and more willing to spend — the so-called wealth effect.

Most economists agree it’s worked.

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Nonprofits help the dying make farewell videos for families SCARSDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Carolyn Ngbokoli doesn’t remember the sound of her mother’s voice. She was just 19 when her mom died, and no recordings were left.

Now Ngbokoli, 37, faces the possibility of her own early death, from breast cancer. But she has made sure that her sons, 4 and 6 years old, can see RUBENhow she loved STEIN them, hear how she spoke to them and be reminded of her advice to them long after she’s gone.

With the no-cost help of an organization called Thru My Eyes, Ngbokoli, of White Plains, recorded a video of memories and guidance.

“I want to be able to tell my boys as much as I can and leave them something to look back on,” she said.

Leaving a farewell video isn’t new — Michael Keaton did it in a 1993 movie called “My Life” — but it is evolving beyond the version in which a dying person talks to an unmanned camera on a tripod or spends hundreds of dollars for a videographer who also records weddings and bar mitzvahs.

Thru My Eyes, based in Scarsdale, and Memories Live, of Milburn, New Jersey, are among the nonprofits filling a niche in which people with terminal diagnoses — usually cancer-stricken parents with young children — get emotional as well as technical support, for free.

E. Angela Heller, a social worker for cancer patients at New York’s Presbyterian Hospital, has sent half a dozen patients to Thru My Eyes, which was founded by a cancer survivor.

“Every single one has said it’s a wonderful experience,” she said. “What makes this different is the deep support from the videographers. These people know illness, they know cancer. They know how to schedule around chemotherapy weeks.”

Ngbokoli found the production to be an emotional process.

“There were times when I was laughing about funny

‘People in the past have left letters and birthday cards for their children, but there is so much more impact with seeing the parent on film.’

KATHY YEATMAN-STOCK Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center social worker things that happened to us,” Ngbokoli said. “But then there were times when it was torturous, where I had to look in the camera and say, ‘If you’re watching this, and I’m not here.’”

Carri Rubenstein, 61, is the co-founder and president of Thru My Eyes, which has completed more than 40 videos. A cancer survivor herself, she was inspired when she heard a friend with a bad diagnosis wish aloud a few years ago that she could find someone to help her make a video for her family.

Rubenstein wanted to make it a free service, so with the help of her lawyer husband, she formed the not-for-profit.

She accepts donations and holds fundraisers.

Kathy Yeatman-Stock, a social worker in the cancer center at the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in Pomona, California, contacted Thru My Eyes in hopes of getting patients at Pomona to make videos via Skype.

“People in the past have left letters and birthday cards for their children, but there is so much more impact with seeing the parent on film,” she said.

Heller said patients are “facing their mortality in probably the most profound way” and want to give advice for their children at various life stages.

“They say, ‘I won’t be at the wedding,’ but they want to give advice.”

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An Israeli missile explodes on impact in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. The Israeli military launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking nearly 100 sites in Gaza and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion aimed at stopping a heavy barrage of rocket attacks against Israel.

Israel steps up Gaza offensive Ground invasion is possible in fight to stop rocket attacks GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military launched what could be a long-term offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking more than 100 sites and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion in what Israel says is an operation aimed at stopping a heavy barrage of rocket attacks.

At least 15 Palestinians, including three children, were killed in the attacks from air and sea, Palestinian medical officials said.

The military said the open-ended operation aims to deliver a blow against the Islamic Hamas group and end the rocket fire that has reached deeper into Israel in recent days.

“It won’t end in a day, and it won’t end in two days. It will take time,” Yitzhak Aharonovitch, the country’s Cabinet minister for

internal security, told Channel 2 TV, during a visit to the rocket-scarred southern city of Ashkelon.

“If we need to go inside in a ground operation, then we will do it. These things are on the table. These options exist. We will not stop anything until the rocket firing ends,” he added.

Asked whether there were any efforts to reach a ceasefire, Aharonovitch said, “Not now.”

Israeli officials said the government had authorized the army to mobilize an additional 40,000 troops, if needed, for the operation.

The army announced it had begun calling up some of the forces but did not elaborate. Israel has already mobilized about 1,500 reservists.

The rocket attacks and Israeli counterstrikes have intensified in recent weeks as tensions have soared regarding the killing of three Israeli teenagers and the apparent revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager by three Jewish suspects. Fol-

lowing the kidnappings of the Israeli teens on June 12, Israel launched a massive crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank, leading to the surge in rocket fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza.

Tuesday’s fighting was the heaviest since a similar Israeli offensive in November 2012. Israel’s military said 130 rockets were fired into Israel. One barrage set off air-raid sirens in Tel Aviv, some 45 miles away, signaling the deepest strike yet. The army said the rocket was intercepted and shot down.

The siren set off panic in Tel Aviv, the country’s commercial capital, as people scurried for cover in nearby buildings.

Israel’s military said it targeted the homes of several Hamas operatives allegedly involved in rocket fire, militant compounds and concealed rocket launchers. Later, it also took out what it said was a Hamas command center embedded within a civilian building.

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COMMENTARY

Spending, morality

D

uring last year’s budget negotiation meetings, President Obama told House Speaker John Boehner, “We don’t have a spending problem.” When Boehner responded with “But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem,” Obama replied, “I’m getting tired of hearing you say that.” In one sense, the president is right. What’s being called a spending problem is really a symptom of an unappreciated deep-seated national moral rot. Let’s examine it with a few questions.

Is it moral for Congress to forcibly use one person to serve the purposes of another? I believe that most Americans would pretend that to do so is offensive. Think about it this way. Suppose I saw a homeWalter less, hungry Williams elderly woman huddled on a heating grate in the dead of winter.

To help the woman, I ask somebody for a $200 donation to help her out. If the person refuses, I then use intimidation, threats and coercion to take the person’s money. I then purchase food and shelter for the needy woman. My question to you: Have I committed a crime? I hope that most people would answer yes. It’s theft to take the property of one person to give to another.

Now comes the hard part.

Would it be theft if I managed to get three people to agree that I should take the person’s money to help the woman? What if I got 100, 1 million or 300 million people to agree to take the person’s $200? Would it be theft then? What if instead of personally taking the person’s $200, I got together with other Americans and asked Congress to use Internal Revenue Service agents to take the person’s $200?

The bottom-line question is: Does an act that’s clearly immoral when done privately become moral when it is done collectively and under the color of law? Put another way, does legality establish morality?

For most of our history, Congress did a far better job of limiting its activities to what was both moral and constitutional.

As a result, federal spending was only 3 to 5 percent of the gross domestic product from our founding until the 1920s, in contrast with today’s 25 percent. Close to three-quarters of today’s federal spending can be described as Congress taking the earnings of one American to give to another through thousands of handout programs, such as farm subsidies, business bailouts and welfare.

During earlier times, such spending was deemed unconstitutional and immoral. James Madison, the acknowledged father of our Constitution, said, “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”

In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 to assist some French refugees, Madison stood on the floor of the House of Representatives to object, saying, “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

There may be nitwits out there who’d assert, “That James Madison guy forgot about the Constitution’s general welfare clause.” Madison had that covered, explaining in a letter, “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.” Thomas Jefferson agreed, writing: Members of Congress “are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare. ... It would reduce the (Constitution) to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please.”

The bottom line is that spending is not our basic problem. We’ve become an immoral people demanding that Congress forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another. Deficits and runaway national debt are merely symptoms of that larger problem.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. © creators.com

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Baten shuts down discussion on HIV/AIDS rates in Sumter On June 26, Eugene Baten told us how 7 of 10 HIV cases occur among blacks, 8 of 10 HIV women are black and 80 percent of cases under the age of 25 are black. He goes on to say there are disproportionate HIV/ AIDS rates, especially among blacks. In another paragraph he says 386 black males and 222 black females compared to 43 white males and 18 white females.

Despite having made all of these statements, Mr. Baten is somehow offended when someone connects the dots and says “HIV seems to have become a black person disease.” So Mr. LePage is a racist for drawing a conclusion based on facts that Mr. Baten himself put forth? How are we to have a discussion about an issue when one party shuts down the other by calling them a racist? This is reminiscent of a child on a playground who runs out of wit and simply calls the other a nasty name.

Perhaps the wrong person has been accused of being a racist. It must be nice to throw mud all around and then chastise others for being dirty while sitting on your high horse two weeks later.

In closing, a fitting quote by Winston Churchill: “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”

WES JOHNSTON Dalzell

The government is slowly taking control of our lives Hasn’t our government reached a grand state of affairs?

An adult has to wear a seatbelt, whether they want to or not, although the same item is not mandatory on school busses, which transport our most precious commodity.

Restaurants are not allowed by law to decide for themselves whether they want smoking inside or not in the City of Sumter and some other areas.

In Myrtle Beach, they passed a law that

you have to wear a helmet, even though it isn’t required by state law for persons over 21.

In Surfside Beach, there is a law against smoking in public view.

You can join the military at age 17 and be eligible to die defending a country that you are not eligible to smoke in, vote in or even have a drink in a bar in at that age.

You have to pay taxes on income or you go to jail.

You have to pay property taxes on possessions or they are taken away.

You have to pay a road-users fee, even if you don’t use the roads.

You have to pay a school tax, even if you don’t have a child in public school.

You have to pay a waste disposal tax, even though you are already paying county taxes that should cover this.

You have to pay a “water run-off” fee on your property in Sumter County, even though you can’t control the amount of rain you get and the water runs through ditches and the storm drain systems down to the next county. The only cost in that would be maintenance on the system, and we already pay property tax separately to cover that.

You have to pay sales tax on everything you buy, plus an extra “hospitality” tax within Sumter County. (What is “hospitable” about that?)

You have to pay into the “Social Security system to support other people who haven’t or won’t make arrangements to take care of themselves.

You have to hire, discipline and terminate subject to Affirmative Action, with racial and sexual quotas, no matter how well a minority or non-minority candidate is qualified or does the job.

JOE MOORE Dalzell Editor’s note: Because this letter exceeded the 350-word length as stated in our Editorial Page Policies which appears regularly on this page, it can be read in its entirety under Opinion on The Item’s website, www.theitem. com.

Racial differences are real but are no cause for discrimination

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ew analyses of the human genome establish that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional,” writes Nicholas Wade in his recently published book, “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History.”

That sounds reasonable, and Wade, a science reporter and editor for many years at Nature and the New York Times, seems an unimpeachable source. But many well-meaning people will regard his words as provocative and even dangerous.

For they fatally undermine the idea, widely shared by socalled progressives, that any apparent differences between groups of people are the product of nurture rather than nature, of social conditioning rather than Darwinian natural selection.

This has become dogma among certain social scientists. The American Anthropological Association states that race “is a recent human invention” and “is about culture, not biology.” The American Socio-

COMMENTARY logical Association calls race “a social construct” and decries “the danger of contributing to the popular conception of race as biological.”

Unfortunately for these folks, the decoding of the human genome in 2003 has led to research Michael showing sigBarone nificant genetic differences among people descended from Africans, East Asians and Caucasians.

Those differences must have arisen from natural selection in the different environments they occupied from the time the first humans left east Africa some 50,000 years ago.

They include not only skin pigment and facial physiognomy but many other physical characteristics, including genes that resist endemic diseases and (in Tibetans, developed only 3,000 years ago) the ability

to live at very high altitudes.

Many of the progressives who reject the notion that races differ in significant respects are the same people who accuse those skeptical of global warming of ignoring science, even though the alarmists’ warming models don’t match the recent past or the present.

But at the same time they refuse to credit the much more soundly based science that Wade cites in detail.

These genomic-science skeptics fear that acknowledging differences between races will encourage people generally, and Americans in particular, to engage in racial discrimination.

That fear has some basis in history, as Wade concedes. But, as he argues, it has no relevance to life in America today.

Americans today are entirely capable of understanding that there is more difference within racial groups than between racial groups. This is a lesson they pick up from their families, at school, at work and in everyday life.

They know that some members of a racially or ethnically defined group that on aver-

age scores low on IQ tests will score far above average.

They know that some members of a group that scores high on such tests will score far below average.

From that observation, ordinary Americans readily conclude that it is irrational to discriminate according to race or ethnicity or religion and that it is rational to judge individuals on their own merits.

Proof of this comes from our last two presidential elections.

Most Americans know or can readily guess that blacks on average score below whites (and further below Asians) on intelligence tests.

But they also know — even his most vociferous critics don’t deny this — that President Barack Obama, like all recent presidents and serious presidential candidates, is well above average in intelligence.

They would not have elected him president, twice, if they thought otherwise.

So the fact that there are differences in average IQ scores, or in some other testable characteristic, between races does not undercut the case against group discrimination, at least for the

large majority of Americans.

But it does undercut the case for racial quotas and preferences. It undercuts the case for the “disparate impact” legal doctrine that the Supreme Court concocted in a 1971 case on hiring discrimination.

The court acted when memories were still fresh of resistance to racial desegregation orders in the South. But the doctrine is out of date 43 years later.

“Disparate impact” doctrine assumes that in a fair society we would find the same racial or ethnic or religious mix in every school, every occupation and every neighborhood. But that’s nonsense, as anyone acquainted with American life knows.

Americans are quite capable of treating individuals fairly even while acknowledging group differences that, as science shows, are the result of recent, copious and regional natural evolution.

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner. © creators.com

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Oregon mental hospital honors ‘forgotten souls’ Cremated remains of thousands had been abandoned at facility

remains of two people.

Many of the 110 veterans still there will eventually receive proper military burials, though some are ineligible because of dishonorable discharges or insufficient

BY JONATHAN J. COOPER information available.

The Associated Press Some patients spent a lifetime at the hospital for conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder that, in modern SALEM, Ore. — They were dubbed the times, are treated on an outpatient basis. “forgotten souls” — the cremated re“At the time, they just put them in a mains of thousands of people who came through the doors of Oregon’s state men- safe place and treated them with what they knew to treat them,” said Sharon tal hospital, died there and whose ashes were abandoned inside 3,500 copper urns. Tucker, who led the two-year research project.

Discovered a decade Records are sparse, ago at the decrepit Oreeven for people who lived gon State Hospital, where for decades inside the “One Flew Over the walls. Some suffered Cuckoo’s Nest” was from severe delusions, filmed, the remains beothers from physical decame a symbol of the formities. Some seemed state’s — and the nation’s to be institutionalized be— dark history of treatcause their families just ing the mentally ill. didn’t know what to do A research effort to unwith them. earth the stories of those But what does survive who moved through the is a window not only into hospital’s halls, and to who they were, but also reunite the remains with the time in which they surviving relatives, took lived. center stage Monday as PETER COURTNEY • Mr. S. Erickson was officials dedicated a memorial to those once-forOregon state Senate president committed on Feb. 2, 1929, at age 78. A doctor gotten patients. who examined him wrote “No one wants to be that he “wanders around naked at night” laid to rest without some kind of acknowledgement that they were here, that and suffers from senility. A laborer, 5-foot-5, 125 pounds with gray hair and they contributed, that they lived,” said blue eyes, he arrived in New York from state Senate President Peter Courtney, Norway on the steamship Norstatter on who led a successful effort to replace the Aug. 22, 1883, according to the doctor’s hospital and build the memorial.

Between 1913 and 1971, more than 5,300 report.

• Wencel Devorak, a saddler born in Bopeople were cremated at the hospital. hemia, was 33 when he was committed on Most were patients at the mental instiJan. 31, 1890, struggling with delusions tution, but some died at local hospitals, that others on the road to Portland were the state tuberculosis hospital, a state following him and teasing him about his penitentiary or the Fairview Training Center, where people with developmental wife. The handful of notes in his file show his delusions continued throughout disabilities were institutionalized.

Hospital officials have been working for his 40-year stay at the hospital.

• Susanna Weber arrived at Dammasch years to reunite the remains of their forState Hospital, a now-closed mental instimer patients with surviving relatives. tution, on July 26, 1962, at age 82. A widSince the urns were found by lawmakers on a tour of the hospital in 2005, 183 have ower, she was committed by her sister and a friend, who had cared for her for been claimed. three years but couldn’t keep going. She’d The 3,409 that remain and have been identified are listed in a searchable online been sent to a nursing home, but administrators kicked her out because she database. Thirty-eight urns will likely wouldn’t stop wandering and rifling never be identified; they’re unmarked, have duplicate numbers or aren’t listed in through other patients’ possessions, acledgers of people cremated at the hospital. cording to a social worker’s report writThey came from different backgrounds, ten shortly after Weber arrived.

The remains of Erickson, Devorak, for different reasons.

Some stayed just days before they died, Weber and thousands of others have been transferred from the copper canisters to others for nearly their entire lives. They came from every state except Alaska and ceramic urns that will better protect them. The old canisters will be preserved Hawaii. Nearly 1,000 were born in 44 to give visitors to the memorial a sense countries. Five were born at sea. for how they once were housed.

Twenty-two were Native Americans.

“I think it will be very difficult to forget Their remains won’t be part of the memothem now,” said Jodie Jones, the state adrial; they’ll be returned to their tribe for a proper ceremony. Members of the local ministrator leading the hospital replaceSikh community are working to claim the ment project.

‘No one wants to be laid to rest without some kind of acknowledgement that they were here, that they contributed, that they lived.’

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SNACK TRUCK FROM PAGE A1 The owner said he attempted to stop the suspect, but the truck was moving too fast, as he last saw it heading toward Shaw Air Force Base.

Officers searched the highway for the truck but were unable to locate it.

“At one point, an officer passed the truck as he was responding to the incident location, going in the opposite direction on (U.S.) 378,” BLACK Burnish said. “By the time he turned around, he lost sight of it.”

Reports soon came in of several unopened soda cans being found in the roadway near the intersection of Wedgefield and St. Pauls Church roads.

“With the back door of the truck wide open, several things fell out as he was making his escape,” Burnish said.

Shortly after following this lead, reports came in from a convenience store in Pinewood from people who said they saw the truck near the intersection of Pinewood and Camp Mac Boykin roads. Officers followed the lead but did not find the truck.

Finally, reports came in that the truck had been spotted on Rooster Circle in Pinewood. Officers responded to the location

but again did not find the truck. They did, however, see a man whose clothing matched the description given by the victim.

“One of our officers spotted him walking down Pinewood Road,” Burnish said. “As soon as the officer approached him, the subject said he was having a heart attack.”

The suspect, identified as Black, was then transported to Tuomey Regional Medical Center. After he received treatment there, he was taken to SumterLee Regional Detention Center, where he is awaiting his bond hearing.

“He was originally charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, but we’re going to charge him with grand larceny,” Burnish said. “The victim actually picked him out of a lineup.”

Black faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of his charge.

The missing vehicle is a white box truck with the word “Snacktime” written in red along its side. The truck is valued at $10,000 and was reportedly carrying $2,000 in vending merchandise.

Anyone with information about the truck and its whereabouts should call the Crimestoppers tip line at 1 (888) 274-6372 or Sumter County Sheriff’s Office at (803) 436-2000.

BRIDGES

cents. That proposal did not come to fruition.

In response to the road-funding issue, last week Gov. Nikki Haley announced intentions to give legislators plans in January that will designate more funding for highway and bridge work should she be re-elected for a second term. However, Haley has provided no other details other than this money will not come from raising taxes or the “money tree,” her term for when spring revenue is greater than what was predicted the previous fall.

FROM PAGE A1 The $50 million committed to bridge repair is to fund 90 closed and load-restricted bridge projects across the state, eight of which are in Sumter County.

Earlier this year, there were attempts to raise the gas tax to pay, in part, for road repairs, with DOT supporting a proposal to raise the highway user fee from just more than 16 cents per gallon to 22.25

MRAP FROM PAGE A1 criminals carry militarygrade weaponry, law enforcement needs to have the level of equipment originally designed to fend off the Taliban.

“That’s what we encounter on the streets. It’s not the Saturday Night Specials any more,” Dennis said. “It’s a war out there, and I’m not talking about Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Members of county council and administrators seemed impressed with the sheriff’s office’s use of the vehicle and the array of potential dangers to which it can be used to respond.

“You think about a school shooting, this vehicle would be able to drive right up to the scene without worrying about the deputies getting shot at,” said County Administrator Gary Mixon. “I think the sheriff has a lot of support in this community.”

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FYI Agape Hospice is in need of volunteers. Whether your passion is baking, knitting, reading, singing, etc., Agape Hospice can find a place for you.

Contact Thandi Blanding at (803) 774-1075, (803) 260-3876 or tblanding@agapsenior. com.

Hospice Care of South Carolina is in need of volunteers in Sumter County. Do you have one extra hour a week? Opportunities are available for patient/family companionship, administrative support, meal preparation, light household projects, student education and various other tasks. Contact Whitney Rogers, regional volunteer coordinator, at (843) 409-7991 or whitney. rogers@hospicecare.net.

Amedisys Hospice is in need of volunteers. Volunteer opportunities include 1) special projects of baking, sewing, knitting, crafts, carpentry and yard work; 2) administrative/office duties of copying, light filing and answering phones; and 3) patient companionship — develop one-on-one relationships with hospice patients (training provided free of charge).

Contact Rhoda Keefe, volunteer coordinator, at (803) 469-3047 or rhonda.keefe@ amedisys.com.

Hospice Care of Tri-County is in need of volunteers. Volunteers offer support, companionship and care to the caregiver by running errands, reading to patients, listening and just being there for patients who need companionship. All you need is a willing heart and some time to give to others. No medical background is required. Hospice Care of Tri-County will provide you with the tools you need to become a hospice volunteer. Call Carol Tindal at (803) 905-7720.

ROAD to RECOVERY is in need of volunteers in the Sumter area.

The program provides cancer patients with transportation to and from treatments. Call the American Cancer Society at (803) 750-1693.

Sumter Newcomers Club welcomes new residents (and even some longtime residents) with coffees and luncheons each month. Call Anna Nunnery at (803) 469-0143 or Jeanne Bessel at (803) 469-0598.

OASIS Care provides free medical and dental care for qualifying persons living with HIV and AIDS. Call LaVonda Johnson at (803) 775-8523.

The Rise and Shine Call Program, sponsored by LifeLine Senior Services Inc., is a free service that provides a daily “reassurance” call to older

adults who live alone in the community. Call (803) 7747414 for details or to sign up.

The Westside Neighborhood Association meets at 5:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Birnie HOPE Center, 210 S. Purdy St. The Christian Golfers’ Association (CGA) meets at 8 a.m. each Tuesday for Bible study.

The group meets at the CGA office in Dillon Park. Refreshments provided and golf after Bible study. Call (803) 773-2171.

UAW Eastern Carolina International Retirees Council meets at 10 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the VFW in Little River. All UAW retirees are welcome to attend. Call Bob Artus at (803) 481-3622.

The Ballard-Palmer-Bates American Legion Post 202 meets at 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month at the Post, 310 Palmetto St. All veterans are welcome to attend.

Call (803) 773-4811.

The Civil Air Patrol Sumter Composite Squadron meets from 7 to 9 p.m. each Monday at the Sumter Airport. Contact Jared Buniel at (803) 481-7915 or JaredLotR@juno.com. Visit www.scwg.cap.gov/sumter/.

The Palmetto PC Club meets on the second Thursday of each month at the Capital Senior Center in Columbia.

Details about the club can be found at http://palmettopc. org/home/.

The Sumter James R. Clark Sickle Cell Memorial Foundation, 337 Manning Ave., offers free Sickle Cell Disease and Sickle Cell Trait screenings to the Sumter and Clarendon communities. For appointments, call (803) 774-6181.

The DAV will have certified volunteers to assist all veterans in filing claims with the VA from 9 a.m. to noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the VA Clinic, 407 N. Salem St., and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursdays at the Chapter 5 home, 18 Hardpack Drive, off of S.C. 441, behind Shaw Air Force Base. Call L. Pearson at (803) 499-9596 or Paul Fisher at (803) 840-1001.

The United Way Success By 6 Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) offers assistance to parents in Sumter, Clarendon and Lee counties with referrals to childcare programs, information on evaluating quality childcare and funding options for childcare, childcare licensing information, and a resource library with early childhood information.

For assistance with childcare information, call (803) 7737935 or (800) 681-0333.

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Gaffney 90/69 Spartanburg 92/70

Greenville 89/70

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Sumter 96/72

Aiken 96/70

ON THE COAST

Charleston 97/78

Today: A shower or thunderstorm in spots in the afternoon. High 91 to 96.

Thursday: A couple of showers and a thunderstorm. High 88 to 94.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Invest in your EUGENIA LAST appearance and your skills. A change will do you good and help to rejuvenate you mentally and emotionally. Don’t let criticism bring you down. An active schedule will prove to reinforce your confidence.

The last word in astrology

into helping others.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Help is on the way. What you offer others will be reciprocated. Teamwork will pay off and bring about favorable changes. A business trip, conference or seminar will bring you in touch with someone you want to get to know better.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Keep your money in a safe place and TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Look for refrain from making emotional the positive in everything you do purchases of items you don’t really and with every situation you face.

Having a good attitude will make a need. Getting together with people who share your interests will lead difference when dealing with to an interesting proposal. Push for business associates or personal what you want and you will get it. partners. Don’t let emotional disillusionment cloud your vision.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Let your You will be emotional regarding charm guide you. The heartfelt way your personal life and prospects.

Make a decision that will create a you express your ideas will have a lasting impression on those you closer bond with someone special. encounter. The energy you put A partnership can help you behind any job you do will bring stabilize your future. Romance will great results, as well as positive improve your love life. change.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll Don’t get pushed into an be put in a compromising position argument. A situation you face is if you offer help. Don’t let anyone likely to get blown out of take advantage of you. Offer only proportion, putting you in a losing what you feel is fair. Refuse to let position. Cut your losses and avoid anyone meddle in your affairs or a costly mistake. Emotional your decisions. Put more time into deception is evident. learning instead of teaching.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Put LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Make your skills to work for you. There is changes at home or at work that money to be made if you invest in will help you expand your interests, your talents and update your use your skills more efficiently and resume. Picking up additional connect with people who are knowledge will also open a supportive and influential regarding your ability to excel. Love window of opportunity through someone you befriend. is on the rise and romance can be expected.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Problems will develop at home if you let your emotions take over.

Don’t allow jealousy to ruin your day. Emotional self-deception is apparent, making it vital that you avoid making an assumption about a situation you face. Put your time

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep busy and you will advance. Idle time will lead to emotional confusion and problems with someone you thought you could trust. Protect your assets and possessions. You can stabilize your financial position by cutting back on household spending.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014

LEGION BASEBALL

Better effort, same result

ZOEY MILLER / THE SUMTER ITEM

Dalzell-Shaw’s Ron York, right, slides safely back into first base as Florence’s Logan McRae applies the tag during the Jets’ 12-8 loss to Post 1 on Tuesday at Thomas Sumter Academy’s General Field in Dalzell in the second game of an American Legion baseball first-round state playoff series.

Dalzell-Shaw puts up fight against Post 1 before late surge drops Jets into 0-2 hole

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennisb@theitem.com DALZELL — After getting drubbed 18-2 in the opening game of its American Legion baseball first-round state playoffs series by Florence Post 1 on Monday, DalzellShaw Post 175 put up a much, much better effort on Tuesday at Thomas Sumter Academy’s General Field.

Still, it wasn’t enough as Florence scored the game’s final six runs to win 12-8 and go up 2-0 in the best-of-5 series. The Jets will try to stave off elimination today when they travel to Florence for a 7:30 game at Legion Field.

“I’m proud of my team and the way we played tonight,” said Dalzell head coach Steve Campbell, whose team fell to 8-16 on the year. “We showed

tonight that we deserve to be in the playoffs and that we’re capable of playing with a team like Florence. We just couldn’t finish it off.”

Post 175 fell behind 5-1 before scoring seven runs in the bottom of the fifth to go on top 8-5. Post 1, which improved to 27-3, responded by getting single runs in the sixth and seventh, two in the eighth and three insurance

runs in the ninth.

“I told my guys this was actually a very good win for us,” said Florence head coach Derick Urquhart. “This was a game where we showed a lot of character by overcoming some adversity. We had that one inning that we just couldn’t get out of and we had to battle back to win.”

After Post 1 scored two runs in the top of the fifth, the Jets

responded by sending 12 batters to the plate in the bottom of the inning. Ryan Miller drew a leadoff walk, Juan Gardner reached on a bunt single and Edison Aldridge singled to load the bases with no outs.

Florence starting pitcher JK Love struck out Ron York before Matt Holloman singled

SEE JETS, PAGE B4

Sumter outslugs LC 18-10 Junior P-15’s nearly no-hit in 8-2 playoff-opening loss

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER mchristopher@theitem.com

LAKE CITY— Much like the dust clouds that lingered across Carolina Academy’s Buddy Wallace Field every time Sumter scored or took the lead, Lake City Post 73 hung around as well in the second game of their American Legion baseball state playoffs first-round series on Tuesday.

That is until the P-15’s scored 11 runs over the final three innings for a 18-10 victory.

Sumter scored in the first, third and fifth innings. Each time Lake City responded and even tied the

game in the sixth at 7-7.

The P-15’s scored four runs in the seventh and added two in the eighth before finishing Post 73 off with five runs in the ninth.

JOHNSON “I thought early in the game we were trying to hit home runs; we hit a couple and popped up a lot,” Sumter head coach Curtis Johnson said of his team’s offensive output. “I thought late in the game we got bunts, hit the ball hard on the ground.”

SEE SUMTER, PAGE B4

BY EDDIE LITAKER Special To The Sumter Item The Sumter Junior P-15’s almost fell victim to a no-hitter in their Junior American Legion baseball state playoffs opener against Marlboro County on Tuesday at Riley Park before bringing the potential tying run to the plate in the bottom of the sixth.

Sumter managed one hit and one run in the frame, but would come up

short in the end, dropping an 8-2 decision to Post 60 in the first game of a best-of-3 series.

“We didn’t play very well at all,” said Sumter Junior P-15’s head coach Randy Twitty, whose team dropped to 12-5. “We didn’t hit the ball, pitched good the first couple of innings and then in the third inning we couldn’t throw a strike. Once you start walking guys and putting them

SEE JUNIORS, PAGE B4

AUTO RACING COMMENTARY

NASCAR made right call to pull plug at Daytona

BY JENNA FRYER The Associated Press

W

hen the sky opened for a third time during the rain-rescheduled race at Daytona, and teams pulled out car covers to wait out the weather, it seemed the right time for NASCAR to put the Coke Zero 400 out of its misery.

The entire weekend was plagued by rain. Cars never got near the track for the scheduled Saturday start.

When the race finally did begin Sunday — delayed, because of rain on the pace laps — it went a whopping six laps before the cars went back to pit road for another 25-minute delay.

Then, the on-track carnage: a 16-car crash seconds before a scheduled competition caution, and a 26-car crash before another shower. A total of six drivers managed to avoid accidents, leaving just 17 cars on

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Aric Almirola’s car, right, and Brian Vickers’ car stand on pit road during a rain storm that stopped the Coke Zero 400 on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. the lead lap.

It would have been comedic if it wasn’t such a disastrous day for one of the biggest events on the NASCAR schedule. So pulling the plug

seemed like such a logical decision when the track was soaked through shortly before 3 p.m.

Drivers — especially those who were lined up behind

winner Aric Almirola when the race was called with 48 laps remaining — thought otherwise.

And so did the fans.

Using social media to vent

their frustration, fans blasted NASCAR for calling the race so early. Daytona International Speedway has lights, and many claimed they were willing to hang in there until they saw one driver take the checkered flag.

They were robbed of that right when NASCAR threw in the towel, they argued, and a race is not complete until someone crosses the finish line.

“I know a lot of the fans tuned into the TV and stuck around at the race track waiting to see a finish,’’ said second-place finisher Brian Vickers. “I was expecting them to wait a little bit longer knowing that we have lights here and it was going to be a night race anyway.’’

Those fans have a point. But when posting from their living room with the race on the television, it doesn’t really apply.

SEE NASCAR, PAGE B2

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SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014

SPORTS ITEMS

Sterling testifies in Clippers trial LOS ANGELES — Donald Sterling, who’s challenging the sale of his Los Angeles Clippers, gave testy, bombastic testimony Tuesday, contending he’s mentally sound, sparring with his wife’s lawyer and repeatedly drawing laughter from spectators.

“Tell me what you want to accuse me of...stand up and be a man,’’ he told attorney Bert Fields during a 90-minute afternoon appearance.

The 80-year-old billionaire also called doctors who’ve declared he has Alzheimer’s disease “hired guns,’’ pleaded a faulty memory about some of his most controversial remarks and declared he could top the $2 billion offer for the Clippers by $10 billion by selling TV rights to Fox and winning an antitrust suit he’s filed against the NBA. “What do you think, I’m doing this for ego?’’ he asked Fields.

“Yes,’’ the attorney replied.

“Well, you’re wrong, like you’re wrong with all your questions,’’ Sterling said.

He also repeatedly told the soft-voiced Fields that he couldn’t hear him, but at one point also said he was a good lawyer.

The NBA has moved to oust Sterling from team ownership because of racist remarks he made to a girlfriend.

His lawyers are challenging the authority of Shelly

STERLING

Sterling under a family trust to unilaterally cut a deal for the team with former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

NASCAR PENALIZES KURT BUSCH FOR INFRACTION

CHARLOTTE — NASCAR has penalized Kurt Busch and his StewartHaas Racing team for failing a post-race inspection at Daytona International Speedway.

Crew chief Daniel Knost was fined $10,000 on Tuesday because the track bar on Busch’s Chevrolet exceeded the maximum separation. Busch finished third in Sunday’s rain-shortened and rescheduled race.

Busch was also docked 10 driver points, and Gene Haas was docked 10 owner points.

straight Rose Bowl games during his tenure, when he had a career mark of 97-16.

2 MIAMI UNIVERSITY PLAYERS ARRESTED ON SEX CHARGES

MIAMI — The University of Miami reacted swiftly Tuesday after sexual battery charges were brought against two of its football players, immediately dismissing both from the Hurricanes team and suspending them as students.

JaWand Blue and Alexander Figueroa, both 20-year-old sophomore linebackers, are accused of getting a 17-year-old girl drunk the night of July 5 and then repeatedly raping her at an on-campus residential hall. Each is charged with sexual battery on a physically helpless victim, and Figueroa is also charged with possessing a stolen or forged driver’s license.

THE SUMTER ITEM

SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO TODAY

7:30 a.m. -- International Cycling: Tour de France Stage Five from Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, France (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

11 a.m. -- Women’s Professional Golf: ISPS Handa Ladies European Masters Final Round from Denham, England (GOLF).

1 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers at Detroit (MLB NETWORK).

3 p.m. -- International Soccer: FIFA World Cup Semifinal Match from Sao Paulo -- Netherlands vs. Argentina (ESPN).

3 p.m. -- NBA Basketball: NBA Summer League Game -- Indiana vs. Oklahoma City (NBA TV).

5 p.m. -- NBA Basketball: NBA Summer League Game -- Philadelphia vs.

Brooklyn (NBA TV).

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

6:30 p.m. -- American Legion Baseball: State Playoffs First-Round Series Game Three - Lake City at Sumter (WWHM-FM 92.3, WWHM-FM 93.3, WWHM-AM 1290).

7 p.m. -- NBA Basketball: NBA Summer League Game -- Detroit vs. Boston (NBA TV).

7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Atlanta at New York Mets (SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati (WGN).

8 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Pittsburgh at St. Louis (ESPN).

8 p.m. -- High School Football: The Opening from Beaverton, Ore. (ESPNU).

10 p.m. -- Professional Boxing: Alfonzo Gomez vs. Ed Paredes in a Light Middleweight Bout, Joseph Diaz vs.

Ramiro Robles in a Featherweight Bout and Diego De La Hoya vs. Miguel Tamayo in a Junior Featherweight Bout from Las Vegas (FOX SPORTS 1).

5:30 a.m. -- Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Scottish Open First Round from Aberdeen, Scotland (GOLF).

CARROLL 1 OF 16 CHOSEN FOR SOUTHERN CAL ATHLETIC HOF

SUMTER 16

LOS ANGELES — Pete Carroll is going back to Southern California — as a member of the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

The former Trojans football coach is one of 16 people who have been named to the hall’s 11th class.

Carroll coached the Trojans from 2001-09. They won two national championships, going 13-0 in 2004, and won seven straight Pac-10 titles under him.

USC won a record three

The Sumter 14-year-old all-star baseball team opened its district tournament with a 16-6 victory over Turbeville on Monday at Patriot Park SportsPlex.

Sumter had 14 hits with Daniel Reynolds leading the way, going 4-for-4.

Josh Sikes pitched a complete game to get the victory.

Sumter faces Clarendon County today at 6:30 p.m.

MLB STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

From staff, wire reports

Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston

TURBEVILLE 6

Oakland at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m.

Washington at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

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

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION Baltimore Toronto New York Tampa Bay Boston CENTRAL DIVISION Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota WEST DIVISION

W 49 47 45 41 39

L 40 44 43 51 50

Pct .551 .516 .511 .446 .438

GB – 3 3 1/2 9 1/2 10

W 48 46 43 43 39

L 37 42 45 47 49

Pct GB .565 – .523 3 1/2 .489 6 1/2 .478 7 1/2 .443 10 1/2

W 56 52 49 38 37

L 33 36 40 51 54

Pct .629 .591 .551 .427 .407

GB – 3 1/2 7 18 20

MONDAY’S GAMES

MLB ROUNDUP

Mets’ deGrom fans 11 Braves in 8-3 win NEW YORK — Rookie Jacob deGrom struck out 11 in seven shutout innings and also delivered a table-setting hit from the No. 8 spot in the batting order as the New York Mets tagged All-Star Julio Teheran and the Atlanta Braves 8-3 Tuesday night.

Curtis Granderson kept up his resurgence with a leadoff home run and Lucas Duda doubled twice, singled and drew two walks. Daniel Murphy also doubled twice and third baseman David Wright added two of New York’s 18 hits.

The shaggy-haired deGrom (2-5) pitched the Mets to their third win in a row. He scattered seven hits, walked none and matched a career best for strikeouts.

Atlanta has lost three straight.

er Travis Wood (7-7).

REDS 4

WHITE SOX 8

CUBS 2

RED SOX 3

CINCINNATI — Jay Bruce returned to right field and hit another 2-run homer, and Johnny Cueto extended his winning streak against Chicago, leading Cincinnati to a 4-2 victory over the Cubs in the opener of a doubleheader.

Bruce hit a 2-run homer in his final atbat during a 9-3 win on Monday. He homered again in the first inning off left-hand-

BOSTON — Conor Gillaspie hit a tiebreaking, 2-run homer in the sixth inning for his third hit of the game and the Chicago White Sox beat struggling Boston 8-3.

John Danks (8-6) started with four shutout innings, following a recent trend of stong pitching performances.

AMERICAN LEAGUE INDIANS 5 YANKEES 3 CLEVELAND — Michael Brantley homered and had three RBI, Nick Swisher hit a go-ahead 2-run shot and Cleveland stopped rookie sensation Masahiro Tanaka’s bid to become the major league’s first 13-game winner with a 5-3 victory over the New York Yankees.

Brantley hit a leadoff homer in the seventh. The first-time All-Star also had RBI doubles in the first and fifth.

Tanaka (12-4) allowed season worsts of five runs and 10 hits in 6 2/3 innings.

From wire reports

Baltimore 8, Washington 2, 11 innings N.Y. Yankees 5, Cleveland 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Boston 0 Kansas City 6, Tampa Bay 0 Houston 12, Texas 7 Oakland 5, San Francisco 0 L.A. Angels 5, Toronto 2 Seattle 2, Minnesota 0

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Baltimore at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

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

L.A. Dodgers at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 11-4) at Detroit (Scherzer 10-3), 1:08 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 4-2) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 8-6), 3:35 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (McCarthy 0-0) at Cleveland (Tomlin 5-6), 7:05 p.m.

Washington (Roark 7-6) at Baltimore (W.Chen 8-3), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 8-1) at Boston (R.De La Rosa 2-2), 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 6-7) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 4-6), 7:10 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 8-5) at Texas (Darvish 8-4), 8:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 7-7) at Seattle (Elias 7-7), 10:10 p.m.

Oakland (Hammel 0-0) at San Francisco (M.Cain 1-7), 10:15 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Oakland at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Boston, 4:05 p.m.

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

Washington at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

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

Detroit at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION

NASCAR FROM PAGE B1 Weather has wreaked havoc on four events this season, including the water-logged Daytona 500, which needed a stoppage of more than six hours. Then came Bristol a month later, and that race needed two stoppages of more than five hours.

Both times, there were fans that stuck around for the finish. And both times, the television window was stretched, but NASCAR’s partners worked with the series to keep the events on TV. Texas in April was just like Daytona on Saturday.

It rained hard all day, and the cars never got on the track. So NASCAR came back the next day, a Monday, and got the race completed under a sunny sky.

Some fans stayed, some left, but the television audience was appeased.

Daytona was an entirely different animal.

It was a long holiday weekend with the party scheduled for Saturday night’s main event. Rain had caused a wreck in the Nationwide Series’ shortened qualifying session, and the race was delayed

on Friday night by more rain.

When Saturday night racing for the Sprint Cup Series was scrapped, NASCAR and track officials picked an early start for Sunday to create the largest possible window to run the race to completion. But the final shower that spoiled it showed no signs of letting up until at least 8 p.m. It would likely take two hours to dry the track when it did finally stop.

Sure, there are some fans that would have waited out the bitter end. But plenty others had to get on the road to return home for Monday work.

NASCAR had to make a decision, and not stretching Sunday into a 12-plus hour day was the right call.

“We looked at forecasts and the potential of a few more hours of rain, we decided we were past halfway and just called the race,’’ NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton said. “We felt that it was in the best interest of fans, getting done and going home and competitors being done. We put on two-and-a-half hours or so of solid racing and when you looked at what was in front of us weather-wise, we felt it was just best for

all concerned that the race was concluded.

“We didn’t think there was an opportunity to get a good race in.’’

This was a case of damned if they do, damned if they don’t for NASCAR. Kurt Busch and several other drivers felt they’d waited through a wet weekend to reach that point, so they had no problem sitting in motorhomes to wait for another shot to race for the win.

But for those working concession stands, or security or ushers, it was another very long day. Same for the crews, who have few places to go to wait out the weather. So they crowd under covered pit stands or jam into the team hauler and numbly pass the time.

NASCAR knew holding everyone was unfair, especially since the next wait could have been up to seven hours. The series had to set a stopping point to give fans some closure — not the fans at home, who were warm and dry, but those sitting in slick metal grandstands wearing garbage bags to shield themselves from the rain.

“We didn’t think there was an opportunity to get a good race in,’’ Pemberton said.

Atlanta Washington Miami New York Philadelphia CENTRAL DIVISION Milwaukee St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago WEST DIVISION Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

W 49 48 43 40 38

L 40 40 46 49 51

Pct .551 .545 .483 .449 .427

GB – 1/2 6 9 11

W 52 48 47 47 38

L 38 42 42 42 50

Pct .578 .533 .528 .528 .432

GB – 4 4 1/2 4 1/2 13

W 51 49 40 38 37

L 40 40 49 53 53

Pct GB .560 – .551 1 .449 10 .418 13 .411 13 1/2

MONDAY’S GAMES

Baltimore 8, Washington 2, 11 innings N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 3, 11 innings Cincinnati 9, Chicago Cubs 3 Philadelphia 3, Milwaukee 2 St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 0 San Diego 6, Colorado 1 Arizona 9, Miami 1 Oakland 5, San Francisco 0

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Cincinnati 4, Chicago Cubs 2, 1st game Baltimore at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

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

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m., 2nd game Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

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

San Diego at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Miami at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 11-4) at Detroit (Scherzer 10-3), 1:08 p.m.

San Diego (Stults 3-11) at Colorado (Jurrjens 0-1), 3:10 p.m.

Miami (Eovaldi 5-4) at Arizona (Collmenter 7-5), 3:40 p.m.

Washington (Roark 7-6) at Baltimore (W.Chen 8-3), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (E.Santana 7-5) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 3-1), 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Beeler 0-1) at Cincinnati (Simon 11-3), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (R.Hernandez 3-8) at Milwaukee (Lohse 9-3), 8:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Cumpton 3-2) at St. Louis (Lynn 9-6), 8:15 p.m.

Oakland (Hammel 0-0) at San Francisco (M.Cain 1-7), 10:15 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

NASCAR

By The Associated Press SPRINT CUP LEADERS

Through July 6 Points 1, Jeff Gordon, 651. 2, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 624. 3, Jimmie Johnson, 596. 4, Brad Keselowski, 586. 5, Matt Kenseth, 580.

6, Joey Logano, 546. 7, Carl Edwards, 543. 8, Ryan Newman, 534. 9, Kyle Busch, 524. 10, Paul Menard, 516.

11, Kevin Harvick, 514. 12, Clint Bowyer, 509. 13, Austin Dillon, 494. 14, Denny Hamlin, 493. 15, Greg Biffle, 490.

16, Brian Vickers, 484. 17, Kyle Larson, 482. 18, Kasey Kahne, 482. 19, Marcos Ambrose, 472. 20, Tony Stewart, 465.

Money 1, Brad Keselowski, $4,128,138. 2, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $3,972,414. 3, Jimmie Johnson, $3,934,227. 4, Jeff Gordon, $3,825,192. 5, Jamie McMurray, $3,729,761. 6, Kevin Harvick, $3,528,908.

7, Matt Kenseth, $3,464,201. 8, Joey Logano, $3,460,387. 9, Denny Hamlin, $3,371,491. 10, Kyle Busch, $3,328,079.

11, Greg Biffle, $2,963,879. 12, Austin Dillon, $2,882,028. 13, Paul Menard, $2,867,282. 14, Carl Edwards, $2,860,112.

15, Aric Almirola, $2,827,158. 16, Clint Bowyer, $2,822,249. 17, Brian Vickers, $2,820,184. 18, Tony Stewart, $2,732,913.

19, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., $2,637,405. 20, Kyle Larson, $2,616,855.

TRANSACTIONS

By The Associated Press BASEBALL

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX _ Agreed to terms with C Ryan Plourde on a minor league contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS _ Placed RHP Justin Masterson on the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Tyler Holt to Columbus (IL).

Designated RHP Mark Lowe for assignment. Selected the contract of C Roberto Perez from Columbus. Recalled LHP Nick Hagadone from Columbus.

HOUSTON ASTROS _ Placed OF Alex Presley on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Sunday. Recalled OF Robbie Grossman from Oklahoma City (PCL).

Agreed to terms with OF Ronny Ramirez on a minor league contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS _ Agreed to terms with LHP Joe Saunders on a minor league contract and will assign him to Omaha (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS _ Placed RHP Ricky Nolasco on the 15-day DL. Recalled C-OF Chris Herrmann from Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES _ Optioned RHP Bruce Billings to Scranton/WilkesBarre (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS _ Designated C John Buck for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Brett Ash on a minor league contract.

TAMPA BAY RAYS _ Optioned LHP Jeff Beliveau to Durham (IL). Reinstated RHP Jeremy Hellickson from the 15day DL and LHP Cesar Ramos from paternity leave.

TEXAS RANGERS _ Placed RHP Nick Martinez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 2. Recalled RHP Phil Irwin from Round Rock (PCL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS _ Sent OF Mark Trumbo to Reno (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

ATLANTA BRAVES _ Sent RHP Pedro Beato to Gwinnett (IL) for a rehab assignment.

CHICAGO CUBS _ Recalled LHP Tsuyoshi Wada from Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS _ Placed 1B Joey Votto on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Sunday. Reinstated C Brayan Pena from paternity leave. Recalled LHP David Holmberg from Louisville (IL).

Sent 3B Jack Hannahan to Dayton (MWL) for a rehab assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES _ Sent OF Carlos Gonzalez to Colorado Springs (PCL) for a rehab assignment. Recalled UTL Kyle Parker from Colorado Springs.

Optioned LHP Yohan Flande to the Colorado Springs.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS _ Placed RHP Josh Beckett on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Recalled RHP Pedro Baez from Albuquerque (PCL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES _ Sent LHP Francisco Liriano to Indianapolis (IL) for a rehab assignment.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS _ Sent 2B Marco Scutaro to Fresno (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES _ Signed G Zach LaVine.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS _ Re-signed C Sean Collins to a one-year contract.

FLORIDA PANTHERS _ Agreed to terms with C Brett Olson and D Greg Zanon on one-year contracts.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS _ Signed D Anthony Bitetto to a one-year, twoway contract.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS _ Renewed their affiliation agreement with Stockton (ECHL) for the 2014-15 season.

OTTAWA SENATORS _ Re-signed D Alex Grant to a one-year contract.

SAN JOSE SHARKS _ Re-signed F James Sheppard to a one-year contract.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING _ Signed D Matt Corrente to a one-year, two-way contract. Re-signed F Cody Kunyk to a one-year, two-way contract.

MOTORSPORTS

NASCAR _ Fined Stewart-Haas Racing crew chief Daniel Knost $10,000 because the track bar on Kurt Busch’s Chevrolet exceeded the maximum separation. Docked Kurt Busch 10 driver points and Gene Haas 10 owner points for the infraction.

COLLEGE

ARMY _ Named Brian Bancroft acting track and field and cross country coach.

CLEMSON _ Named Joe Simon assistant athletic director for facilities management. Named Stephen Frazier Wong women’s rowing coach.

DAYTON _ Named Sarah Willis assistant softball coach.

MIAMI _ Dismissed LBs JaWand Blue and Alexander Figueroa from the football team.

WNBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta Connecticut Chicago Indiana New York Washington

W 12 9 8 8 7 7

L 5 10 10 10 11 12

WESTERN CONFERENCE Phoenix Minnesota San Antonio Los Angeles Seattle Tulsa

W 13 13 10 7 8 7

L 3 6 9 10 12 11

Pct .706 .474 .444 .444 .389 .368

GB – 4 4 1/2 4 1/2 5 1/2 6

Pct .813 .684 .526 .412 .400 .389

GB – 1 1/2 4 1/2 6 1/2 7 7

MONDAY’S GAMES

No games scheduled

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Connecticut at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Tulsa, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, 9 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Washington at Chicago, 12:30 p.m.

Seattle at Phoenix, 3:30 p.m.

New York at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Connecticut at Indiana, 12 p.m.

Minnesota at Tulsa, 8 p.m.

SPORTS

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AREA SCOREBOARD BASKETBALL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL

The Hoop Basketball Individual Development Basketball School will be held July 14-17 at the Mayewood Middle School Gymnasium at 4300 East Brewington Road.

The camp will be under the direction of James Smith, Harry Fullwood and Ronnie Brown. The cost of the camp is $50 per camper and is open to boys and girls ages 10 through 16. The camp will run from 8 a.m. until noon each day.

For more information, contact Smith at (803) 968-6874 or (803) 4693188.

SUMTER CHRISTIAN CLINIC

Registration is being taken for the Sumter Christian School 2014 Basketball Clinic to be held this month.

It is a 5-day session at a cost of $45 per camper. The camp for children in grades 9-12 will be held July 21-25. It will run each day from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The camp instructors will be the SCS coaching staff of Bobby Baker, Tom Cope and Jimmy Davis.

For more information, call Baker at (803) 469-9304 or (803) 4643652.

FOOTBALL POP WARNER REGISTRATION

Youth Athletics of Sumter, a division of Pop Warner Little Scholars, is registering children ages 5-16 for football for the 2014 season.

The last day to register is July 31 and the registration fee is $80.

Payment plans are available.

The fee includes security, ID Badge, use of shoulder pads, use of helmet, use of practice clothes, insurance and a mouthpiece. Parents will be responsible for buying a game jersey, game pants, cleats, a cup, and socks.

The practice season will run from Aug. 1 through Aug. 29.

Games will begin on Aug. 30 and run through Oct. 25.

Registration is being held every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Golden Corral on Broad Street.

To request registration and volunteer forms or for more information, email youthathleticsofsumteryas@yahoo.com.

AUTO RACING SPEEDWAY CHAMPS SEARCH

Sumter Speedway is trying to gather information on all of its champions from 1957 to the present.

The name of the driver, the year and the division in which the title was won and the track promoter is the information hoping to be gathered.

To provide information, call James Skinner at (803) 775-5973 or e-mail Virginia Ayers at vayers@ ftc-i.net.

CHEERLEADING POP WARNER REGISTRATION

Youth Athletics of Sumter, a division of Pop Warner Little Scholars, is registering children ages 5-16 for cheerleading for the 2014 season.

The last day to register is July 31 and the registration fee is $80.

Payment plans are available.

The fee includes security, ID badge, use of uniform, use of pompoms, socks, undergarment and insurance. Parents will be responsible for buying shoes.

The practice season will run from Aug. 1 through Aug. 29.

Games will begin on Aug. 30 and run through Oct. 25.

Registration is being held every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Golden Corral on Broad Street.

Volunteers are also needed. All volunteer applications must be turned in by July 5.

To request registration and volunteer forms or for more information, email youthathleticsofsumteryas@yahoo.com.

GOLF 4-PERSON SCRAMBLE

The Links at Lakewood Golf Course will host a 4-person scramble every Thursday.

The cost is $25 per person and includes golf, prizes and food following the scramble.

Call the pro shop at (803) 4815700 before 4 p.m. on Thursday to sign up.

GOLFERS BIBLE STUDY

The Sumter chapter of the Christian Golfer’s Association holds a golfers Bible study each Tuesday at its offices at Crystal Lakes Golf Course.

The study begins at 8 a.m. and is followed by a round of golf.

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WORLD CUP

Homeland humiliation Germany routs host Brazil 7-1 to reach final

BY CHRIS LEHOURITES The Associated Press BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — With Neymar out injured, just about everyone in Brazil knew it would be tough against Germany.

Nobody ever expected this.

The Germans tore apart Brazil’s porous defense time and time again Tuesday, routing the hosts 7-1 in the World Cup semifinals, the largest margin of defeat at this stage in the history of the tournament.

“We wanted to make the people happy ... unfortunately we couldn’t,’’ said Brazil defender David Luiz, who had scored in each of the last two matches. “We apologize to all Brazilians.’’

The astounding scoreline is sure to overshadow Miroslav Klose’s recordsetting 16th career World Cup goal.

The strike pushed Klose past Brazil great Ronaldo, who was at the Mineirao Stadium on Tuesday as the Germans advanced to their eighth World Cup final.

Germany will face either Argentina or the Netherlands on Sunday at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro with a chance to win for the fourth time.

Brazil was playing without Neymar, the team’s key player and the poster boy for the World Cup. He scored four goals in the group stage, but Brazil’s attack seemed to get weaker and weaker as the tournament progressed. The Barcelona striker was ruled out of the tournament with a broken vertebra after getting kneed in the back in the quarterfinal win over Colombia, weakening the sputtering attack even more.

With Neymar sidelined and captain Thiago Silva suspended, the collective hopes of a nation remained high even if expectations were lowered.

The atmosphere at the start of the match was spine-tingling, but the euphoria of the yellow-shirted thousands soon turned to tears as the Germans scored five goals in the first 30 minutes — four of them in a sevenminute span.

“It was very important to stay calm, cool and courageous in facing Brazilian passion,’’ Germany coach Joachim Loew said.

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Germany’s Miroslav Klose, left, and Brazil’s David Luiz battle for the ball during the Germans’ 7-1 victory on Tuesday in a World Cup semifinal at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

The loss matched Brazil’s most-lopsided defeat ever, and it’s the first time the team has lost in an official competitive match on home soil since 1975, when Peru won 3-1 at the very same stadium in the Copa America.

Its last loss at home came in a friendly with Paraguay in 2002.

“The responsibility for this catastrophic result is mine,’’ Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said. “I was in charge.’’

Toni Kroos and Andre Schuerrle scored two goals each, while Thomas Mueller and Sami Khedira added the others.

Oscar pulled a late goal back for Brazil.

Klose scored his record goal in the 23rd minute to make it 2-0. The German had his original shot saved, but he followed up as Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar spilled the ball, easily scoring from the rebound.

Kroos scored his first goal in the 25th minute, knocking in a cross from Philipp Lahm that bypassed Mueller in the middle. He made it 4-0 a minute later, beating Cesar after a defensive mistake from Fernandinho left the ball on the feet of Khedira.

Mueller scored the first goal, onetiming a corner from Kroos past Cesar in the 11th minute. Khedira made it 5-0 in the 29th, taking a pass from Mesut Ozil and again beating Cesar.

“Today 10 minutes went wrong in the game and Germany did really well,’’ Scolari said. “It’s a chaotic and terrible defeat ... but we have to learn from it.’’

Schuerrle, who came on for Klose in the 58th minute, scored from a cross

by Lahm in the 69th, and then knocked a shot off the underside of the crossbar and into the net in the 79th.

Dutch captain in doubt for semifinal vs. Argentina

BY MIKE CORDER The Associated Press SAO PAULO — Dutch captain and all-time top scorer Robin van Persie is in doubt for the World Cup semifinal against Argentina after succumbing to a stomach problem.

Van Persie trained separately on Tuesday with defender Daryl Janmaat and coach Louis van Gaal said both were suffering “stomach and intestinal problems.’’

Van Gaal said he would

not rush into deciding whether Van Persie is fit to play at Sao Paulo’s Itaquerao StadiVAN PERSIE um against the Lionel Messiled Argentina.

“I have to make a decision tomorrow. I’m not going to do that today. We have more than a day,’’ Van Gaal said. “Van Persie is a very important player for us.’’

Van Persie scored three times in the first two Dutch

matches of the World Cup, including a spectacular diving header against defending champion Spain that was instantly hailed as one of the goals of the tournament.

Van Gaal said he has developed a plan to beat Argentina in a semifinal that is a rematch of the 1978 World Cup final the Dutch lost 3-1 in extra time.

But the master tactician, who has just two more matches in charge of the Netherlands before joining Manchester United after

the World Cup, said it could change today depending on how the Argentinians play.

And while Van Gaal said the Dutch were playing the entire Argentine team, he acknowledged they will have to find a way to stop Messi.

“If you score so many goals, you have something extra. And he always shows it on the biggest stages,’’ Van Gaal said. But he added, “he has sometimes had problems for the national team. He wants to change that and we want to make sure he doesn’t.’’

PRO BASKETBALL

James meets for 3 hours in Vegas

BY TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — LeBron James worked out and had a meeting agenda Tuesday.

In another summer of NBA Free Agent Frenziness, if James knows where he will be playing next season, he still isn’t saying.

Asked by The Associated Press how free agency was going when his afternoon meeting agenda was apparently complete, the four-time MVP said “no complaints.’’ He offered a quick greeting, and provided no hints of anything — including when his next “Decision’’ will be known — before leaving with a wave.

The entire exchange lasted about eight seconds. James, who has been relatively quiet while weighing his options, never broke stride.

He was upstairs in an exclusive part of a Las Vegas hotel Tuesday, holding court for a little more than three hours before emerging in the lobby, walking

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LeBron James held meetings for more than three hours in a Las Vegas hotel on Tuesday before leaving without giving any indication of what team he’ll play for next season. toward his assembled brain trust — including longtime manager Maverick Carter and Nike representatives, a sponsor of the LeBron James Skills Academy he’ll be hosting in Las Vegas starting today — and got whisked away.

James is expected to meet with Miami Heat President Pat Riley be-

fore making a final decision on his NBA future, and a person close to the situation said that meeting had not happened as of Tuesday afternoon.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no one has publicly announced the date of the meeting.

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LEGION BASEBALL

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014

STATE PLAYOFFS LOWER STATE

First Round Georgetown vs. Goose Creek Monday Goose Creek 11, Georgetown 9, Goose Creek leads series 1-0 Tuesday Goose Creek at Georgetown Today Georgetown at Goose Creek Thursday Goose Creek at Georgetown (if necessary) Friday Georgetown at Goose Creek (if necessary) Horry vs. Camden Monday Camden 11, Horry 2 Tuesday Camden 4, Horry 3, , Camden leads series 2-0 Today Horry at Camden Thursday Camden at Horry (if necessary) Friday Horry at Camden (if necessary) Dalzell-Shaw vs. Florence Monday Florence 18, Dalzell-Shaw 2 Tuesday Florence 12, Dalzell-Shaw 8, Florence leads series 2-0 Today Dalzell-Shaw at Florence Thursday Florence at Dalzell-Shaw (if necessary) Friday Dalzell-Shaw at Florence (if necessary) Manning-Santee vs. Beaufort Manning wins series by forfeit, advances to second round Lake City vs. Sumter Monday Sumter 12, Lake City 1 Tuesday Sumter 18, Lake City 10, Sumter leads series 2-0 Today Lake City at Sumter Thursday Sumter at Lake City (if necessary) Friday Lake City at Sumter (if necessary) Hartsville vs. Murrells Inlet Monday Hartsville 9, Murrells Inlet 2, Hartsville leads series 1-0 Tuesday Murrells Inlet at Hartsville Today Hartsville at Murrells Inlet Thursday Murrells Inlet at Hartsville (if necessary) Friday Hartsville at Murrells Inlet (if necessary)

UPPER STATE

Easley vs. Rock Hill Monday Rock Hill 5, Easley 3, Rock Hill leads series 1-0 Tuesday Rock Hill at Easley Today Easley at Rock Hill Thursday Rock Hill at Easley (if necessary) Friday Easley at Rock Hill (if necessary) Belton vs. Fort Mill Monday Fort Mill 17, Belton 4, Fort Mill leads series 1-0 Tuesday Fort Mill at Belton Today Belton at Fort Mill Thursday Fort Mill at Belton (if necessary) Friday Belton at Fort Mill (if necessary) Lancaster vs. Greenwood Monday Greenwood 3, Lancaster 2, Greenwood leads series 1-0 Tuesday Greenwood at Lancaster Today Lancaster at Greenwood Thursday Greenwood at Lancaster (if necessary) Friday Lancaster at Greenwood (if necessary) Spartanburg vs. Orangeburg Monday Spartanburg 11, Orangeburg 1, Spartanburg leads series 1-0 Tuesday Orangeburg at Spartanburg Today Spartanburg at Orangeburg Thursday Orangeburg at Spartanburg (if necessary) Friday Spartanburg at Orangeburg (if necessary) Greer vs. Chapin-Newberry Monday Chapin-Newberry 12, Greer 2, Chapin-Newberry leads series 1-0 Tuesday Chapin-Newberry at Greer Today Greer at Chapin-Newberry Thursday Chapin-Newberry at Greer (if necessary) Friday Greer at Chapin-Newberry (if necessary) Clover vs. Greenville Monday Greenville 11, Clover 0, Greenville leads series 1-0 Tuesday Greenville at Clover Today Clover at Greenville Thursday Greenville at Clover (if necessary) Friday Clover at Greenville (if necessary)

SECOND ROUND

Lower State Georgetown or Goose Creek vs.

Camden or Horry Manning-Santee vs. Florence or Dalzell-Shaw Sumter or Lake City vs. Hartsville or Murrells Inlet Upper State Easley or Rock Hill vs. Belton or Fort Mill Lancaster or Greenwood vs. Spartanburg or Orangeburg Greer or Chapin-Newberry vs. Clover or Greenville

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JETS FROM PAGE B1

SUMTER FROM PAGE B1

in a run to make it 5-2. Shane Bishop hit a hard grounder to Mclean Hartz at second base that ate him up for a 2-run error that cut the lead to 5-4.

After David Hayden walked to reload the bases, Love struck out Andrew Wrenn. However, Leniel Gonzalez responded with a 2-out, 2-run single to put the Jets in front 6-5.

Love walked Miller again to reload the bases. That brought an end to Love’s night with Alex Dorriety coming on in relief. He got Gardner to hit a line drive that rightfielder CJ Hopkins dropped to allow two runs to score and make it 8-5.

Love, a tall right-hander, went 4 2/3 innings, giving up eight hits and four walks while striking out five.

Only two of the eight runs were earned.

Florence got its first earned run of the game in the sixth off of Jets starter Aldridge, cutting the margin to 8-6. Hopkins singled with two out and scored on Logan McRae’s double.

Post 1 got another run back in the seventh when Hartz singled in Steven Calcutt. Gardner, the Dalzell centerfielder, saved a run when threw Calcutt out at the plate after another single. Gardner finished with three assists.

Florence opened the eighth with three straight singles off of Aldridge to tie the game at 8-8. That ended Aldridge’s night, giving up 13 hits in 7-plus innings. He walked six and struck out three.

“Edison pitched a good game for us,” Campbell said. “His pitch count just got high and we felt like we needed to get him out of there.”

Cole Benenhaley came to the mound and walked Keshaun Samuel to load the bases with no out. Benenhaley got Clay Martin to pop up on the infield. The infield fly rule was in affect, but third baseman Miller dropped the ball allowing Zach Herndon to score, making it 9-8.

“That play really hurt us,” said Campbell, whose team got out of the inning without further damage. “We were never able to recover from that.”

The Jets, who had 10 hits, got a leadoff double from York to open the bottom of the eighth. Florence chose to come with side-arming righty closer Zach McKay. He struck out

Lake City, which fell to 3-16 overall, responded with three runs in the bottom of the eighth to cut the deficit to 13-10. Will Prosser hit a RBI single and Vance Timmons hit a 2-out, 2-run double to bring Post 73 with three runs, but that’s as close as it would get.

“I felt like we competed and swung the bat a little bit better tonight,” Post 73 head coach Joey Weatherford said. “It was the same thing we talked about last night (that hurt us). We can’t give up big innings and Sumter had them.

“Our kids are going to battle, you saw that tonight,” he added. “They got beat handily last night and came into tonight and really played hard. They’re going to come back (today) and really play hard.”

In the ninth, a bases-loaded walk to Taylor McFaddin made it a 14-10 game. River Soles hit a 2-run double and an error pushed the P-15’s lead to 18-10.

Kemper Patton, Soles, Phillip Watcher and Jacob Watcher each had three hits to pace the P-15’s offense. McFaddin and Soles each had three runs batted in while Patton and Ian McCaffrey added two RBI. Sumter, now 21-7 on the year and leading the best-of-5 series 2-0, will host Post 73 today at Riley Park for a 7 p.m. game. A Sumter win will wrap up the series.

Johnson said Britton Beatson will get the start with Phillip Watcher, Soles and Javon Martin coming in as relief pitchers if needed.

Lake City was led offensively by Ken Parker’s four hits, including a double, three runs scored, a stolen base and an RBI. Will Prosser had three hits with three runs scored and an RBI. Garrett Weaver and Vance Timmons each had two hits.

Sumter led 7-3 in the fourth, but Lake City answered with three runs in the bottom half of the inning to make it 7-6. Prosser doubled to lead off the bottom of the sixth for Post 73 and moved to third on a 1-out single by Ken Parker and scored on Weaver’s RBI fielder’s choice to tie the game 7 all.

It only took the P-15’s two pitches to take an early lead as leadoff man Phillip Watcher hit a home run, but Post 73 tied the game on an RBI single by Timmons.

Sumter sent 11 men to the plate in the third, plating five runs on five hits and three hit by pitches. McCaffrey hit his first homer of the season to lead off the inning and make it a 2-1 advantage. Patton hit a 1-out RBI single to extend the lead to 3-1 then McFaddin followed with a 2-run double. Two batters later, McCaffrey earned an RBI hit by pitch in his second plate appearance of the inning to push the P-15’s lead to 6-1.

JUNIORS FROM PAGE B1 on base, things just go downhill from there. It kind of looked like we were very sluggish. “Maybe a little bit of that had to do with the fact that we didn’t play any games last week, but it was what it was and we can’t use that as an excuse. We’ve still got to get out there and find some energy and play the game of baseball the right way.”

Marlboro County, which improved to 11-8, sent 12 men to the plate in the top of the third as pitching woes cost the P-15’s. Sumter starter Rylan Williamson walked Chris Stubbs, struck out Cory Gibson then walked Rae Brown.

A Clint English single to left loaded the bases. Williamson then walked Brix Cribb to force home Stubbs, forcing Twitty to bring Caleb Larri-

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Dalzell-Shaw starting pitcher Edison Aldridge throws during the Jets’ 12-8 loss to Florence Post 1 on Tuesday at Thomas Sumter Academy’s General Field in Dalzell in the second game of an American Legion baseball first-round playoff series.

Nos. 4-6 hitters Holloman, Bishop and Hayden to get out of the inning.

“We felt like that was where we needed to us McKay,” Urquhart said.

“That’s where we needed him for the save instead of the ninth.”

The game couldn’t have started off much worse for Dalzell, but it ended up being a moral victory of sorts for Aldridge. Post 1’s Weston Bailey led off with a single. Hartz put down a sacrifice bunt that third baseman Miller threw away. Bailey came all away around to score with Hartz going to second.

Hartz was left stranded though as the right-handed Aldridge kept the ball on the infield.

Dalzell got an unearned run of its own in the bottom of the first to tie the score. Gardner drew a leadoff walk from Love. He moved to second on a passed ball and reached third on a ground out. York followed by hitting a hard grounder to first baseman McRae, who chose to throw home. However, catcher Jackson Williams couldn’t handle the ball and Gardner scored.

Florence picked up two more unearned runs in the third. Hopkins reached on an error to open the inning and Williams drew a 1-out walk.

They scored on 2-out singles by Calcutt and Samuel to make it 3-1.

Post 1 pushed it to 5-1 in the fifth, scoring after two were out and none were on.

more from right field to the mound.

Larrimore did not fare much better than Williamson, hitting Kinney Roller with a pitch to force home Brown.

Josh Brigman followed with a double to plate English and Cribb. Dayne Hooks reached on an infield single, then Stubbs drove home Roller with a single to left and Gibson drew a bases-loaded walk to score Brigman before Brown flew out to right, leaving Post 60 with a 6-1 lead.

Sumter had taken a 1-0 lead in the second as Tradd James drew a walk off Marlboro County starter William Smith, took second on a steal, advanced to third on a passed ball and came home on a balk.

Before the sixth, Sumter’s only other baserunner besides James was Ryan Taylor, who reached on an infield error to open the bottom of the first.

Courtland Howard reached on an infield error to open the sixth, taking second as Post 60 second baseman Corey Gibson’s throw to first got away from Brigman at first. Taylor was then hit by a pitch and caught at second on a fielder’s choice grounder from Ryan Moore before Josh Whitley poked a ball through the infield and up the middle for the P-15’s lone hit, plating Howard to cut the Marlboro County lead to 6-2.

Williamson would walk, advancing Whitley to second, as Daniel Twitty came to the plate and James to the ondeck circle, representing the potential tying run. However, the inning would end with Twitty grounding to short and Sumter still trailing 6-2.

Post 60 added some insurance in the top of the seventh as Cribb drew a 1-out walk, took second on a passed ball and came home as Brigman

doubled to the left field corner. Brigman took third on a passed ball and came home as Austin Locklear reached on an infield error, increasing the Post 60 lead to 8-2.

Sumter travels to Bennettsville today with its season hanging in the balance. A Sumter win would bring the series back to Riley Park on Thursday for a decisive third game.

“These guys (Marlboro County) hit the ball OK (finishing with seven hits), but if a guy can get there and just not walk guys and throw strikes, I think we’ve got a chance,” said Twitty, who plans to start Ryan Moore on the mound in Game 2. “I’m sure we probably saw their No. 1 pitcher today, so if we can get over there and throw strikes we can win Game 2 and push it to a Game 3. But, obviously, we’ve got to play better than we did tonight.”

SPORTS

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ON THE FRINGE

Wie, Lewis have friendship linked by golf

BY DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press SOUTHPORT, England — The friendly matches in South Florida can involve as many as eight players, with teams decided by drawing names from a hat.

Michelle Wie would seem to be a great pick, except for the timing.

“We usually play in the morning and then go have lunch,’’ Stacy Lewis said Tuesday. “And she usually gets very focused on the lunch and kind of doesn’t pay attention to the whole golf side of it. She’ll tell you the same thing.’’

Wie laughed when told the story Lewis shared. Wie loves her golf and works hard at it.

She also loves her food so much that before dinner gets to the table she’s already thinking about the next night’s menu.

For two personalities that could not be any more different, Wie and Lewis have become close friends.

One is an artist, the other a technician.

“You go to her house, she’s painted everything that’s on her walls,’’ Lewis said. “I need my sister to help me decorate.’’

One is tall and powerful, the other is compact and precise.

“That’s what Stacy is. She’s consistent,’’ Wie said. “She’s deadly consistent. Annoyingly consistent.’’

One thing they have in common is a college diploma, rare in women’s golf these days.

And even that was different.

Lewis graduated from Arkansas before she turned pro. Wie graduated from Stanford more than six years after she turned pro.

They are major champions and Nos. 1-2 on the LPGA Tour money list. And more than any two players, they are leading an American revival in women’s golf, which re-

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Michelle Wie, left, is embraced by Stacy Lewis after winning the U.S. Women’s Open in Pinehurst, N.C., two weeks ago. One is tall and powerful, the other compact and precise. Wie and Lewis, for all their differences, have become fast friends in golf. They’re also leading an American revival, which resumes this week at Royal Birkdale. sumes this week at Royal Birkdale.

Lewis began this recent surge of American success in the majors by capturing the Ricoh Women’s British Open at St. Andrews last summer. Wie won the U.S. Women’s Open last month at Pinehurst No. 2, making it around the Donald Ross greens without a three-putt over 72 holes. She won by two shots over Lewis, who rushed over from the practice range to be among the first to congratulate her.

A week later, Lewis rallied to beat Wie in Arkansas and take over the No. 1 spot on the

money list, raising curiosity about a budding rivalry.

It’s too early for that, and there are too many other players in the mix.

“I feel very honored that people are putting me up against Stacy — No. 1 in the world, obviously,’’ Wie said.

“I don’t think you’ll find a rivalry where we hate each other or anything. But I want her to do well. I think she wants me to do well. But I think it’s fun because we definitely want to beat each other. I don’t want to lose to her but at the same time, I was really happy that she won in Arkansas and I think

she was really happy I won at the U.S. Open, so I think it’s very cool.’’

Lewis had to overcome more obstacles. Scoliosis forced her to wear a back brace for 18 hours a day from age 11 until she had surgery to insert a metal rod in her back before heading off to college. She has 11 wins, two majors and is the only American to be LPGA player of the year in the last 20 years.

Wie is the bigger star, the player who makes everyone look when she walks into a room.

“I don’t know if anybody

could be a female Tiger Woods, but Michelle definitely moves the needle,’’ Lewis said. “I think her playing good golf is good for everyone. It’s good for the tour and it’s good for the other players. I said the U.S. Open couldn’t have been scripted any better. We’re on our biggest stage there and our biggest star winning there — and she won’t even tell you that, but she is our biggest star. Her winning was huge for us.’’

Their paths first crossed at another U.S. Women’s Open.

Lewis made her pro debut at Interlachen in 2008 and played in the last group before finishing third. Wie didn’t break 80 in the first round and had gone two years without finishing in the top 10 on the LPGA Tour.

They played together at Qschool later that year. Lewis was medalist. Wie got the headlines for earning her card.

“I knew as much about her as everybody did, just seeing her on TV and stuff like that,’’ Lewis said. “A lot of players, your perception changes once you meet them.’’

They met as teammates on the Solheim Cup. They are now neighbors in Florida.

They practice together. They have the same trainer and are motivated by how hard each other works. They spent Fourth of July together. It rained all day, so they hung out all day, talked and set off a few fireworks.

“I don’t really know what it is, but I enjoy hanging around her,’’ Lewis said. “It’s cool how I’ve learned a lot from her, how she handles the media and how she’s handled the pressures and expectations. She doesn’t read anything that anybody writes and she doesn’t really care what anybody thinks about her.

Wish I could be like that, too.’’

RECRUITING

USC, Clemson commitments to attend high school showcase

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he July 4 weekend, combined with a 2-week dead period running through this Sunday, brought a rare bit of calmness to the football recruiting world last week.

Most recruiters, and many prospects, are on vacation and for a brief period have put recruiting on the back burner.

That will change some this week with year No. 4 of The Opening being held at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore. This made-by-ESPN event brings together 162 of the most highly rated high school prospects across the country for a variety of competitions. However, most importantly for the network, several of these prospects could announce their commitments, and that, of course, is the major hook from a viewership standpoint.

Four 2015 Clemson commitments were invited this year — wide receiver Deon Cain, offensive lineman Noah Green, OL Mitch Hyatt and linebacker Chad Smith. South Carolina’s ‘15 commitment class will be represented by LB Sherrod Pittman.

Also in the group of 162 is LB Michael Barnett of Woodland High School in Dorchester, who is a Florida State commitment. Notre Dame has the most commitments in the event with 10.

Eight of the uncommitted prospects have indicated they may announce a decision during The Opening, which began on Monday and runs through Thursday. The one for USC and Clemson fans to watch is running back AJ Turner of Centreville, Va. He has had the Gamecocks and Tigers in his top group along with Ohio State, Michigan State and Virginia. He visited USC in April. Turner has not named a favorite, though some recruiting observers are

predicting him for the Gamecocks. He was slated to possibly make his choice as early as Tuesday night.

Defensive end Austin Bryant of Thomasville, Ga., who is also at The Opening, plans to have a decision in a few weeks and has Clemson and ND in his lead group. He will visit Clemson again later this month for the “All-In Cookout” before announcing is decision.

USC AND CLEMSON Highly-touted OL Zack Bailey of Summerville High is getting ready to take some visits out of state and plans to see Georgia, North Carolina and Florida this summer. Bailey has been to USC and Clemson, along with FSU, and would like to take a look at some other schools.

“Before I have any favorites, I wanted to visit some other schools outside of South Carolina,” Bailey said. “I think I should see some more schools before I start narrowing my list.”

The Gamecocks and Tigers remain strong with Bailey. “I hear a lot from Clemson, obviously, and I’m hearing from Carolina a lot too,” he said.

“Georgia and North Carolina are showing a lot of interest too. I had heard some from Southern Cal(ifornia), but not so much lately.”

Bailey is in no hurry to begin narrowing his list and said it is important to take the process slowly. As for his official visits, Bailey has not finalized his plans.

“It’s possible that I’ll take all five, but I’m not making any promises,” he said. “Anything could happen.”

His offers include Clemson, USC, UNC, Georgia Tech, Miami, FSU, Florida, Syracuse and Southern Cal. Louisiana State is the latest to receive a visit from WR Darius Slayton of Norcross, Ga. Slayton visited USC last

month. LSU has offered Slayton as a defensive back, but that has not affected his opinion of Phil Kornblut the program.

“I kind of RECRUITING grew up an CORNER LSU fan so it was nice to get on campus and see it up close,” Slayton said.

Clemson and Tennessee are two he will likely visit, though neither trip has been scheduled. USC and Clemson are both schools in which Slayton has an interest. As for favorites, he said, “I don’t really know yet. I may put out a list of favorites soon, but I’m not sure.”

He added that it is in his plans to take all five official visits and that Clemson and USC will receive strong consideration for visits.

Defensive lineman DJ Jones of East Mississippi Junior College will announce his college decision on Dec. 13.

He’s down to Clemson, USC, Tennessee, Alabama, Auburn, Southern Cal, FSU, Mississippi, Florida and UGA. He also plans to visit Ohio State.

USC Though still committed to Florida, athlete Jalen Julius of West Orange, Fla., is planning an official visit to USC. Julius committed to the Gators in early May and visited USC shortly after his announcement.

“It went really well,” Julius said. “I spent some time with (assistant) Coach (Everette) Sands and (head) Coach (Steve) Spurrier. I like both of them a lot.

“I’ve always liked South Carolina and I still like them after the visit.”

Julius said he remains committed to Florida, but will take future visits, including

USC. “I talked to Coach Sands and he told me he wants to get me back up there,” he said.

“I’m definitely going to take an official there.”

As for his commitment, Julius said, “I’m still committed (to Florida), but I’m more open now.”

Other schools he would like to visit are Oregon State, Ole Miss and Louisville. Florida remains his favorite.

DB Micah Abernathy of Norcross, Ga., has not narrowed his list, but remains interested in USC and has been in touch with recruiter GA Mangus.

“I think I’m getting closer to narrowing my list and concentrating on the schools I’m interested in,” he said. “I would like to get it down to around eight schools.”

Abernathy has plans to attend a game at USC this season. He is also planning trips to Ohio State, Tennessee and UGA this summer and would like to attend games at Oregon and Ohio State this fall.

DB Carlton Davis of Miami plans to visit USC near the end of the month. He’s had a top five of USC, Florida, Miami, Ohio State and UGA. USC was one of the first to offer DB Desmond Cain of Delray Beach, Fla., and that put the Gamecocks out front for his services for some time.

However, a lack of contact from USC may have changed that.

“I haven’t heard from (assistant) Coach Grady (Brown) in a while, to be honest,” Cain said. “I tried calling him a couple of times, but he didn’t answer.”

Cain remains hopeful that he can take an official visit to USC this fall, but plans to take a wait-and-see approach.

“Once the dead period ends, I’ll see if they contact me,” he said. He has scheduled an official visit to Illinois following a bye week and said Illinois has

shown the most interest of late. He named USC, Illinois, Penn State, UVa and Rutgers as the five schools he would like to travel to for an official visit.

CLEMSON LB Jahvoni Simmons of Virginia Beach, Va., has a top 10 of Clemson, Alabama, GT, Miami, North Carolina State, Ohio State, Oregon, Tennessee, UVa and Wisconsin. He trimmed his list from 21 offers.

Last season, Simmons had 127 tackles with 17 tackles for loss, four interceptions, four forced fumbles and two quarterback sacks. Simmons’ only recent visit was to UVa in March for a junior day.

OTHERS Late last month WR Juval Mollette of Randleman, N.C., chose UNC over Clemson, committing at (UNC head coach) Larry Fedora’s Freak Show in Chapel Hill. Mollette had been flip-flopping between the Tigers and Tar Heels, but said the lack of contact from Clemson, in part, helped to make his decision.

“The only Clemson coach that I’ve really heard from since the spring was (assistant) Coach (Robbie) Caldwell, who still sends me letters,” Mollette said. “(Assistant) Coach (Jeff) Scott just sort of disappeared. I haven’t heard from him at all. (North) Carolina has stayed on me hard so I decided to commit.”

Mollette said his commitment is strong and he has no intention of taking other visits.

DE Trevon Hill of Virginia Beach, Va., a one-time Clemson target, committed to Virginia Tech over the weekend.

DB Antonio Parks of Reserve, La., who at one time talked opening about committing to Clemson, committed to Arizona on Friday.

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DANNY B. BRINSON Danny B. Brinson, 45, husband of Beverly B.” Lovebug” Brinson, died on Monday, July 7, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Sumter, he was a son of the late John W. “Billy” and Maggie Lorine McClain Brinson. He was a self-employed expert in the construction inBRINSON dustry.

Survivors include his wife, Beverly Brinson; a son, Tanner Brinson of Sumter; two stepdaughters, Michelle Holbrook and Jazlyn Haynes, both of Sumter; a granddaughter, Layla Brinson; a sister, Lori A. Pack (David) of Sumter; a half-brother, Joel Stokes of North Carolina; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday in the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Jodie Foster officiating.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 6 p.m. on Thursday at Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, 4217 Park Place Court, Glen Allen, VA 23060-9979.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

SAMMIE J. ENGLISH Sammie “Southboy” James English, 53, departed his earthly life on Saturday, July 5, 2014, at KershawHealth Medical Center at Camden.

Born on Sept. 3, 1960, in Sumter, he was a son of Sam Ellerbe and the late Susie Mae Glover English.

Sammie attended the public schools of Sumter County and was a graduate ENGLISH of Hillcrest High School Class of 1979. Upon graduation, he enlisted in the United States Army, where he received several prestigious awards and completed several tours of duty. He received an honorable discharge in 1989.

After the military, Sammie returned home and worked as a professional painting contractor for James Painting Co. and Philips National. He later became employed by New Millennium Concrete Finishing.

Sammie accepted Christ as his Savior at an early age. He was baptized and became a member of Union Baptist Church. He later became a member of Mt. Bethel Baptist Church, Rembert. He enjoyed life and the life of others.

Sammie was always willing to lend a helping hand and make people around him laugh. His life’s journey has been an inspiration to others and he took great pride in being a great son, brother, husband, and father. He admired his family and enjoyed spending time with them.

He leaves to cherish his memories: his loving and dedicated wife, Victoria Skinner English of Rembert; two sons, Sammie Reed of Atlanta, Georgia, and Brian Skinner of Rembert; four daughters, Ebony English, Samantha English and Shantall English, all of Rembert, and Erica English Diaz of Petersburg, Virginia; nine sisters, Doris (Curtis) English of Laurel, Maryland, Janie English, Rosetta (Frances) Hollimon and Jackie (Robert) Miller, all of Rembert, Delores (Kevin) Johnson of

Camden, Phyllis English of Dalzell, Peggy English of Maryland, Mary Nowlin of Baltimore, Maryland, and Towanda Tombs of Randallstown, Maryland; four brothers, Andrew English of Lugoff, Tommy English of Rembert, Samuel Ellerbe and Christopher Ellerbe of Baltimore; seven brothers-in-law, Theodore Simon, Willie Skinner, James (Delores) Skinner, Larry (Mary) Skinner and Anthony Skinner, all of Rembert, Kenneth (Carolyn) Skinner of Savannah, Georgia, and Eric (Latoya) Skinner of Temple, Texas; one sister-in-law, Sally Skinner of Rembert; seven uncles, Billy Glover and Willie Glover of West Virginia, Hazel Glover and Junior Glover of Tampa, Florida, Franklin (Shirley) Ellerbe of Rembert and Dargan Ellerbe of Dalzell; three aunts, Dorothy Mae Glover and Martha Ann Glover of Rembert and Geraldine (Sammie) Carroll of Dalzell; one great-uncle, Alan McCray; one grandaunt, Sally (Donny) Alston; father-in-law and mother-in-law, Deacon William and Mary Alice Skinner; three special men whom he called his sons-in-law, Silas Singleton, Jeremy Gregg and Rafael Diaz; his special family, Willie English and children, Williene English, Peggy (Clyde) Miller, Deloris Williams, Barbara Jean (Curtis) Spann, Carolyn (Jackie) English and Larry English; special friends, Janie Vaughn English, Joyce Skinner, LeRoy Campbell, Roger Mickens, Richard Loney, Anthony Porter, Gloria Skinner and Deacon Fred and Pauline James; as well as a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his beloved mother, Susie Mae Glover English; his grandparents, Johnny and Corrine Ellerbe; three brothers, Daniel English Jr., Frank English and Willie English; one sister, Minnie Simon; three nephews, Arthur Bennett, Larry F. Skinner and William Skinner; three aunts, Dary Ellerbe, Ethel English and Venia Bolden; one brother-in-law, Harvey Skinner; and a special cousin, James Ellerbe.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Union Baptist Church, 5840 Springhill Road, Rembert, with the Rev. Dr. Willie D. Dennis, pastor, the Rev. Dr. Freddie L. Thomas, eulogist, assisted by Minister Dorothy Floyd.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 7100 Pisgah Road, Rembert.

The procession will leave at 1:30 p.m. from the home.

Floral bears and pallbearers will be Hillcrest High School Class of 1979.

Burial will be in Union Baptist Churchyard cemetery.

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

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

Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter.

HERBERT A. MOSIER FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Herbert “Herb” A. Mosier, of Navarre, Florida, went to be with the Lord at 80 years of age, on June 30, 2014, at Chautauqua Rehab & Nursing Center in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, after a long battle with Parkinson’s. His loving, devoted wife of 56 years, Marianne, was holding his hand with his last breath and his daughter, Debbie, son-

in-law, Bill, sister-in-law, Janet Mosier, and precious dog, Roxie, were by his side in his final hours.

Herb was born on July 11, 1933, in Charleston, to Eugene and Beulah Mosier. He gave 48 years of his life to government service, both active duty Air Force and Civil Service. Through the tough times, he always relied MOSIER on the Lord to give him strength, reciting “The Lord’s Prayer” (Matthew 6:9), and it continued as part of his daily life. He and his family made their final home in Navarre on Santa Rosa Sound. He was blessed with wonderful friends and a very special family at Navarre United Methodist Church. He always went out of his way to do for others and show his love to all his family and friends as well as strangers he would meet with a smile or kind words. He served his country with desire and determination. He loved his wife and children with all the fiber within him. He was a good man and believed in his GOD. He is survived by his wife, Marianne; daughter, Debbie; son-in-law, Bill Rogers; Debbie’s best friend, Lynn Swaska, who he called his second daughter; his sister, Brenda Douglas (Carl); brother, the Rev. Dr. Eugene Mosier (Jenny); sister, Gail Gressette (Reeves); sister-in-law, Janet Mosier; as well as his loving family by marriage, motherin-law, Annie “Bobo” Hodge; sister-in-law, Jean Garnett; brother-in-law, Al Harris (Marguerite); and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and dear friends.

He was predeceased by his parents, Eugene and Beulah Mosier; his son, Ron Mosier; sister, Jean Lane (Edward); brother, Richard Mosier; sister-in-law, Murrianne Geddings (John); brother-in-law, Cal Harris; and nephew, Troy Geddings.

A Celebration of Herb’s life and memorial will be held on Friday at Navarre United Methodist Church, officiated by the Rev. Dr. Alan Cassady.

Visitation will be held at 10 a.m. with memorial service at 11 a.m. Full military honors will follow at 12:30 p.m. at Beal Memorial Cemetery, officiated by the Rev. Dr. Alan Cassady and his brother, the Rev. Dr. Eugene Mosier.

Navarre United Methodist Church will hold a reception for family and friends at the fellowship hall following the graveside service.

The family wishes to express their deepest gratitude, love and appreciation for the outstanding care provided by Eglin AFB 96 MDG Family Medicine Residency Program, hospital doctors and staff, with special thanks to his personal primary care physician and friend, Dr. Jeffery Schievenin, and Aliki Liaison, and friend, Leslie Perkins, at Eglin Hospital; additionally, his physicians, Dr. Henry Boilini in Crestview, Florida, Dr. Nicholas Nagrani and Dr. Norman Friedman, both in Fort Walton Beach, as well as all the staff at Chautauqua Rehab & Nursing Center, who showed unbelievable love with outstanding care over the past 60 days of his life before his final blessing of going on to be with his Lord and Savior.

Floral arrangements are being accepted or memorial donations may be made to Navarre United Methodist Church’s Building Fund, 9747 Navarre Parkway, Navarre, FL 32566.

THE SUMTER ITEM Arrangements are under the direction of Davis-Watkins Funeral Home of Fort Walton Beach. To share in memories, visit www.daviswatkins.com.

ANDREE P. DAVIS Andree Patricia Davis, wife of Bernard Davis of 5 Cedarwood Circle, died on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Sumter Funeral Service Inc. The family will receive friends at the home.

MARY LEE CURTIS Mary Lee “Nute” Curtis, 89, departed this life on Sunday, July 6, 2014 at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

She was born on Dec. 23, 1925, in Sumter County.

The family will be receiving friends at the home.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

MARY THOMAS Mary Frainca June Thomas, 70, widow of David Thomas Williams, departed this life on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at her residence.

She was born on May 23, 1944, in Sumter, a daughter of the late Brooks and Annie Mae McPherson June.

The family will be receiving friends at 745 Omarest Drive, Sumter, SC 29153.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

Melbourne, Florida; 14 aunts, Julie Ann (Pastor Stanley) Hayes of Sumter, Jacqueline (Andre’) Wiley of Sumter, Agnes (the Rev. Abraham) Temoney of Sumter, Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sally (Ervin) Norwood of Tampa, Florida, Minnie Gregg and Carolyn Gregg of Sumter, Addie L. Wilson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amelia Mitchell, Catherine Morant, Maggie Ricks, Gloria Jacobs and Roxanne (Patrick) Josey, all of Sumter, Kotel (Phillip) King of Stone Mountain, Georgia; eight uncles, Steven (Lorraine) McGee, Clyde McGee, Roosevelt (Henrietta) McGee and Carlos (Wendy) McGee, all of Sumter, Jerry Wilson of Florence, Sammie (Sandra) Jacobs and Leon Jacobs of Sumter and James (Louise) Jacobs of Portsmouth, Virginia; one nephew, Jaidynn; three nieces, Brayleigh, Cytirah and Jada; a host of cousins, other relatives, co-workers and friends.

Public viewing will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary.

The body will be placed in the church at noon on Thursday until the hour of service.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday at Beulah AME Church, 3175 Florence Highway, Sumter, with the pastor, the Rev. Dwayne Bruce, officiating. Interment will follow in Beulah AME Church cemetery.

The family is receiving friends at 121 Fagan St., Sumter.

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

Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com.

LEWIS JOHNSON Lewis Johnson, 74, husband of Louise Pringle Johnson, departed this life on Monday, July 7, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

He was born on Jan. 9, 1940,in Stateburg, a son of the late Justice and Lucille Jones Johnson.

The family will be receiving friends at the home, 2130 Spot Road, Wedgefield, SC 29168.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced later by Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

DONT’A O. WILSON Dont’a Orlando Wilson was born on Nov. 27, 1982, in Sumter County, to Bennie and Jennifer McGee Wilson. He departed this life on Thursday, July 3, 2014, at Houston Medical Center, Macon, Georgia.

Dont’a lived by the Air Force core values: Integrity first; Service before self; and Excellence in all we do. He was promoted in June 2006 to staff sergeant. In May 2011 he was promoted to technical sergeant with responsibility for a large staff and a multi-million dollar vehicle fleet. His responsibilities included oversight of ground logistics, dispatching, and the operations and servicing of motor vehicles. For his service to this nation, Dont’a received the Air Force Commendation Medal with One Oak Leaf Cluster; Army Commendation Medal with One Oak Leaf Cluster; and the Air Force Achievement Medal.

Dont’a was stationed at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia.

Dont’a leaves to cherish his memory: his parents, Bennie and Jennifer Wilson of Sumter; brother, Benjamin Wilson of Sumter; special friend, Antebreia Shellman and her mother, Andrea Shellman, of

DEBORAH D. ALFORD Deborah Donita Alford, 59, died on Monday, July 7, 2014, at home.

Deborah was born on Aug. 19, 1954, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a daughter of the late Rev. Harrell O. Alford and the late Rev. Annie L. Alford.

She is survived by a son, Seth L. Jones II and wife, Nora, of Pelahatchie; daughter, Amanda C. Matthews and husband, Charles, of Florence; grandson, David A. Jones; brothers, Ovead Alford and wife, Charlotte, of Sumter, Fred Alford and wife, Liz, of Byram, Garry Alford and wife, Cynthia, of Bolivar, Tennessee, and David Alford and wife, Denise, of Galvez, Louisiana; sisters, Gwendolyn Nickens and husband, A.J., of Galvez, Marita Phillips and husband, Arthur, of Thaxton, Mississippi, Rhoda Spence and husband, the Rev. Alan Spence, of Opelousas, Louisiana, Angela May and husband, Randy, of Wichita, Kansas, Joyce Neal and husband, David, of Pelahatchie; numerous nieces, nephews, greatnieces, great-nephews and cousins.

Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, the Rev. Sidney Alford; and niece, Adina Alford.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. today at Parkway Pentecostal Church in Madison, Mississippi. Burial will follow in Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Pearl, Mississippi.

Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. at the church.

Obituary courtesy of Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter.

CYCLING

Tour de France champion Froome hurts wrist; Kittel wins 3rd stage

BY JAMEY KEATEN The Associated Press LILLE, France — Back on the race’s home turf after three days in England, the Tour de France faces a first possible shakeout today over the bone-rattling cobblestones in northern France.

Many riders dreaded the forecast for rain, meaning the stones will be slick.

Defending champion Chris Froome scuffed his left knee and elbow and injured his

wrist Tuesday during Stage 4, a crash that couldn’t have come at a worse time for him.

“Took quite a tumble today but I’ll definitely be starting tomorrow with no serious

damage,’’ Froome said on Twitter: “It’ll be a tough one for everyone on the cobbles!’’

An aching wrist could mean pain ahead for Froome. The cobbles on today’s 155.5-kilometers (97-miles) from Ypres, Belgium, to Arenberg Port du Hainaut, could make it difficult for him to keep his hands on the handlebars. It includes stretches of bumpy road.

Astana team leader Vincenzo Nibali of Italy kept the yellow jersey in what he called a “crazy race’’ — a 163.5-kilo-

meter (101-mile) ride along the Belgian border. Froome and 2-time champ Alberto Contador are among 20 riders trailing Nibali by two seconds.

KITTEL MAKES IT THREE Marcel Kittel got his third stage victory in this Tour and the seventh of his Tour career on Tuesday. Unlike his wins in Stages 1 and 3, when he made victory look easy, Kittel won by a half-wheel length at the end of the ride from Le TouquetParis Plage to Lille Metropole.

Kittel, of the Giant-Shimano team, didn’t celebrate this time, but panted. The gesture at the line came from runnerup Alexander Kristoff of Norway, who swatted the air in frustration after being beaten by the barreling German.

French rider Arnaud Demare was third.

After a difficult day of crosswinds, pockets of rain-smattered roads, and jumpy nerves in the peloton, Kittel said: “It’s never easy ... (I was) lucky just enough at the finish line.’’

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

ABOVE

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on February 6, 2014.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER

Plaintiff, vs.

Jimmy Dale Morgan; Jillian N. Morgan; Dorimar Baugh; Jerry Baugh, Defendant(s).

DEFENDANTS

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO: 14-CP-43-0764 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, PLAINTIFF, vs.

Donald Brooks, Individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Alice L. Lancaster; John Williams; Sharon Williams; Eric Williams; Steve Williams; Tonya Carlyle; Midland Funding LLC; AscensionPoint Recovery Services, LLC on behalf of Department Stores National Bank; and AscensionPoint Recovery Services, LLC on behalf of GE Capital Retail Bank, DEFENDANT(S).

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TO THE NAMED:

DEFENDANTS

Summons & Notice ABOVE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or to otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscribers at their office, 4000 Faber Place, Suite 450, P.O. Box 71727, North Charleston, South Carolina, 29415, or to otherwise appear and defend the action pursuant to applicable court rules, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint or otherwise appear and defend within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded therein, and 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 TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S) AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) SCRCP, as amended effective September 1, 2002, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Sumter County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) 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 action. If there are counterclaims requiring a jury trial, any party may file a demand under rule 38, SCRCP and the case will be returned to the Circuit Court.

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COMPLAINT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action, together with the Summons, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on April 21, 2014 at 1:59 P.M.

In Memory

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the Supreme Court of South Carolina Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may be eligible for foreclosure intervention programs for the purpose of resolving the above-referenced foreclosure action.

If you wish to be considered for a foreclosure intervention program, you must contact Finkel Law Firm LLC, 4000 Faber Place Drive, Suite 450 (29405), P.O. Box 71727 (29415), North Charleston, SC 29405, or call (843) 577-5460 within thirty (30) days from the date of this notice. Finkel Law Firm LLC represents the Plaintiff in this action. Our law firm does not represent you and is not authorized to provide you any legal advice.

IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION PROCESS, THE FORECLOSURE MAY PROCEED. NOTICE PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT (15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq.): This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information you provide will be used for that purpose. However, if you have previously received a discharge from bankruptcy, this message is not and should be construed as an attempt to collect a debt, but only as a requirement pursuant to the administrative order.

FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC THOMAS A. SHOOK Post Office Box 71727 North Charleston, S.C. 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorney for Plaintiff

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Carole Carberry’s watercolor, “Supper At Café Marsh,” was awarded third place in the Sumter Artist’s Guild Show.

Creativity at heart of Guild Show A REVIEW BY JANE G. COLLINS Special to The Item

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ach year for the Sumter Artist’s Guild Show some of the same vocabulary words emerge: fortunate,

missing, variety, medium, genre and dedication.

These words reflect the unwavering tradition of the works and artists represented in the exhibit.

Sumter is fortunate to have an active and talented group of artists, especially in a town of Sumter’s size. Even though it is not an art colony like Taos, New Mexico, Sumter can boast more than its fair share of artistic creativity. At the same time, it is often frustrating to see the names of other very exceptional people absent from the event’s collection. Regardless of those missing, however, the local recognition exhibit affords attendees an opportunity to enjoy the skill and progress of many local artists — both professional and “amateur.”

“Lost in Thought,” first place winner by Randy Abbott, reaffirms the concept of variety so prevalent in the Guild.

Abbott achieves depth and movement by the unexpected contrast of the intense, dark background with the almost luminous lime greens in the man’s face, adding extra intensity to the figure’s eyes. At the same time, his other two entries afford a look at Abbott’s own versatility, geometric design and a light, more abstract quality.

Second place “Protocol,” a wood and mixed media sculpture by David Sanders, emphasizes his ability to combine forms within forms, manipulating texture and movement.

Even the small face at the top of Sanders’ winning entry contrasts the overall broad scope of technique with his ability to create minute, detailed shapes.

Carole Carberry, no stranger to local art lovers, appears to transition from her lighter, more translucent swan figures to the darker and harsher drawn lines of her pelicans in “Supper At Café Marsh.” Even though her technique seems somewhat different, her ability to counter balance shapes — three birds and four reed clumps against the slightly separated bird on the left — is consistent with her sense of satisfying composition.

“Jeans #7,” honorable mention acrylic by D.J. Hatcher, uses light and shade to fuse and highlight the reclining figure against the monochromatic background. Another honorable mention award, Trisha Roman King’s photograph,

“I’ll Follow You,” gains interest with its captured moment of a young girl trying to emulate the movements of the bronze statue at Swan Lake.

The picture manages to focus on the girl’s intensity and the different texture of her living form with the bronze boy’s.

Great variety within each artist’s work is evident in several entries. Denise Greer’s marvelously painted “Medicine Woman” contrasts her use of intricate detailing in the woman’s face and the ascending doves with the almost wet water-coloring effect of her dress.

Constance Brennan also offers a range of genre and mediums.

Her life-size sculpture “Angel of Hope” combines intricate beading with flowing swirls of wings and designs. Her intent to encourage viewers to sign tags for peace is just as sincere as the realistic white bird in the woman’s hand.

Myra Barton also presents a variety of techniques and genres in her entries. Her collage “Splash” takes decals to emphasize movement and design, contrasting the angular brown arms and legs with the bright turquoise, blue and purple forms which sweep across the lower portion of the composition and gain added energy from the green fish.

Terrance McDow’s “Dragon Leopard” with its dark shapes and more realistic forms contrasts his technique with the flowing, almost surreal format of his complex “Human Plants,” a mixed media on paper contrasting the delicately painted pastel flowers and the partial form with a fantasy

PHOTOS BY IVY MOORE/THE SUMTER ITEM

Works in a variety of media characterize the Sumter Artist’s Guild Show at the Sumter County Gallery of Art through Aug. 29. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Sumter Artist’s Guild Show 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday, through Aug. 29 Sumter Gallery of Art 200 Hasel St. (803) 775-0543

“Lost in Thought” was the first place winner in the Sumter Artist’s Guild Show, which can be seen through Aug. 29. theme. Artist Marjorie Hooks’ entries underscore her ability to take “found” objects and create a variety of content and form. In “In the Corner of My Mind” she manages to catalogue a plethora of objects,

cataloging and placing them in a lockable container, giving them a personal significance with a message borrowed from Frida Kahlo: “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world….”

There are many other contrasts within the artists’ own work. Michael Broadway’s “Plastic Dreams” and “Dryad” differ in intent from his abstract “Third Eye.” Bobbi Adams’ small floral pictures differ from her more abstract collage on paper “A Froggy Went a Wooing.” Rose Metz contributes the gentle floral painting and her asymmetrically balanced acrylic “Asian Abstract,” its emphatic orange at the top contrasted with the mingled black, ochre and bluegray tones at the bottom and the arcing lines on both sides.

Susan Allen’s handling of her two horse heads differs from the impact of “Karen,” a tribute to her mother, artist Karen Starke. In “Karen” she reduces her color choices, forming impact from both the elongated body shape and the black and white almost ethereal feel of the shape.

Each year the Sumter Artist’s Guild Show reminds the Sumter community how fortunate it is to have such a strong artistic base, sharing individual visions and talents.

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“Fried” Fish BLT Pitas are sure to fill you up.

Bulk up classic BLT without adding fat

BY SARA MOULTON Associated Press In terms of flavor and texture, it’s hard to beat a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, reportedly one of the most popular sandwiches in America. Trouble is, it’s not exactly filling.

I’ve always thought of the BLT as an air sandwich; it packs plenty of calories but demonstrates very little staying power. So here I’ve rejiggered the traditional recipe in ways that simultaneously slim it down and bulk it up.

The best news, to start, is that a little bacon goes a long way. I’ve used the real stuff — no turkey bacon, please — but less than usual, just a slice per sandwich. Meanwhile, I’ve amped up the protein with a small piece of crispy breaded tilapia. A sustainable fish choice, tilapia has a mild flavor with a firm texture, which keeps it from falling apart in the sandwich. But any firmfleshed fish will do.

The tilapia is coated in flour that’s been seasoned with smoked paprika, which nicely echoes the bacon’s smokiness.

The crunchiness comes in when the fish is dipped in egg whites and coated in panko breadcrumbs (everyone’s favorite breadcrumb these days). The fish then is sauteed in a skillet and finished in the oven, a process requiring less oil than if it was cooked from start to finish on top of the stove.

I’ve flavored the mayo with lemon and fresh basil. Basil and tomato go together like love and marriage. And speaking of tomatoes, now is the time to splurge on the beefsteak heirloom tomatoes that may well be gracing your local farmers market. A properly grown, fully ripe tomato in season is one of the pleasures that make life worth living.

The standard lettuce of choice for a BLT is romaine, which I like for its crunch.

But you certainly could swap it out for spinach or arugula.

Finally, I’ve sliced the pita pockets horizontally to form two thin rounds. This little trick helps to cut back the usual amount of bread in a BLT. You end up eating one six-inch pita instead of two slices of bread.

“FRIED” FISH BLT PITAS Start to finish: 35 minutes Servings: 4 4 slices bacon 1/2 cup packed fresh basil leaves, finely chopped 1/2 cup light mayonnaise 4 teaspoons lemon juice 4 small tilapia fillets (about 2 1/2 ounces each) Salt and ground black pepper 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons smoked paprika 3/4 cup panko breadcrumbs 2 large egg whites 2 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided Four small whole-wheat pita pockets, halved to form 8 rounds 1 beefsteak tomato, sliced 1/3 inch thick 2 large romaine lettuce leaves, halved crosswise Heat the oven to 350 F. Line a baking sheet with 1 1/2 tablespoons of the oil. Add the fish and cook kitchen parchment. until lightly browned on the bottom, about 2 minIn a medium skillet over medium, cook the bacon utes. Turn the fish, add the remaining oil and cook until crisp, then transfer to paper towels to drain. until golden on the second side, about another 2 In a small bowl stir together the basil, mayonnaise minutes. and lemon juice. Set aside.

Transfer the fillets to one end of the prepared bakSeason the fish with salt and pepper. On a sheet of ing sheet. Wrap the pita rounds in foil and place kitchen parchment, combine the flour with the papri- them at the other end of the baking sheet. Bake for 4 ka. On a second sheet of parchment, spread the to 5 minutes, or until the fish is just cooked through. panko. In a shallow dish, lightly beat the egg whites.

To serve, spread a some of the basil mayonnaise on Coat the fish first in the flour mixture, then dip it in the cut sides of the pita rounds. Top 4 of the rounds the egg whites, letting the excess drip off, then with a piece of bacon, broken in half, a piece of fish, dredge in the panko, making sure the fish is well followed by some sliced tomatoes, a piece of lettuce coated. and the second pita round, mayonnaise side down.

In a large nonstick skillet over medium-high, heat Nutrition information per serving: 550 calories; 280 calories from fat (51 percent of total calories); 31 g fat (7 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 60 mg cholesterol; 42 g carbohydrate; 4 g fiber; 4 g sugar; 4 g protein; 890 mg sodium.

Phyllo stands in for crust

BY SARA MOULTON Associated Press My all-time favorite dessert is cherry pie. Yes, I rank it higher than any chocolate concoction you can name. I even like the gluey, over-thickened versions served up in diners.

But I admit I felt slightly virtuous when I discovered recently that cherries are such a healthy ingredient, rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber.

Naturally, then, I had a lot of fun whipping up a new version of this American classic, one that swaps out the buttery crust for less-caloric phyllo dough, a strategy that allows the eater to concentrate on the succulent fruit.

It wasn’t until I began my life as chef that I understood that cherry pie is supposed to be made with sour cherries, not the sweet ones we pop into our mouths like candy. Why? Because sour cherries boast more flavor. Unfortunately, the season for sour cherries is very short, roughly two weeks a year.

And then there are those darn pits. Sweet or sour, you have to pit cherries. But you have to pit more of the sour ones to fill up a pie because they’re smaller than the sweet variety. Back in my restaurant

that cherry flesh under your fingernails.

I thicken the filling with cornstarch rather than flour because I prefer the former’s translucence to the latter’s muddiness. The only trouble with cornstarch is that it breaks down and thins out if you boil it for too long, so you’ve got to keep an eye on the cooking time. Also, if you end up using frozen cherries, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS which tend to be watery, you’ll Mini Cherry Phyllo Pie probably need to increase the thickener.

As mentioned, I kissed off days, I’d have a prep cook do the usual pie crust in favor of all the pitting. On my own phyllo dough, but I kept some now, developing recipes for of the butter, which adds flahome cooks, I reach for the vor and crispiness. For extra sweet cherries, adding lemon juice and lemon rind to tart up crunchiness, I layered in almonds ground up with a bit of their flavor. cinnamon-sugar. The finished There are of course plenty crust, then, is less doughy and of kitchen gizmos for making more flakey than the traditioneasy work of pitting lots of al kind. cherries. I’m partial to the Finally, as advertised, these kind that does double duty as an olive pitter. If you don’t own pies aren’t served by the slice. one of these little wonders, the Rather, they are mini-pies, each the size the size of a mufbest method is to whack the whole cherry with the side of a fin cup and served one per chef’s knife, after which the pit customer. Still, it turned out that a single cup was a little slides right out. You’ve seen chefs on TV perform a similar too mini, so I flipped the tin over and draped the phyllo operation with garlic. They squares on the backside, not whack the whole clove, then easily pull off the peel. Believe the inside, of each cup. Now there’s ample room for those me, it beats using a paring cherries. knife and ending up with all

MINI CHERRY PHYLLO PIE Start to finish: 45 minutes Servings: 8 For the filling: 1 pound sweet cherries, pitted 1/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon lemon zest 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 cup water For the phyllo shells: 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons slivered or sliced almonds 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 8 sheets phyllo dough 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted Cooking spray 8 small scoops frozen yogurt (optional) Heat the oven to 350 F. In a medium saucepan over medium-high, combine the cherries, sugar, lemon zest and juice. Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer gently for 5 minutes. In a small bowl whisk together the cornstarch and water. Add the cornstarch mixture to the cherries in a stream, whisking constantly. Return the mixture to a boil, then remove from the heat. Let the filling cool to room temperature.

Meanwhile, in a spice grinder, small blender or the small bowl of a food processor, pulse the almonds with the sugar and cinnamon until finely chopped but not pulverized.

Transfer to a small bowl.

Fold the stack of phyllo sheets in half, then fold it in half again and trim off the edges (reserving the

trimmings), to produce a stack of 32 squares, each 4 1/2-inches across.

Lay one phyllo square on a work surface, then use a pastry brush to lightly dab the square with a little of the melted butter. Sprinkle a teaspoon of the almond mixture on top, then set a second square over it.

Brush the second square with a little more butter and sprinkle with another teaspoon of almond sugar.

Set a third square on top of the second at a 45 degree angle, forming an 8-pointed star. Top with one last square, brushing it lightly with butter. Drape the stack of phyllo over one cup of an overturned muffin pan. Mist the stack with cooking spray. Repeat this layering process to form another 7 stacks, also setting them over the muffin cups. Reserve a little of the almond mixture and butter.

Lay the phyllo trimmings flat and brush them with the remaining butter. Sprinkle them with the remaining almond mixture, then transfer them to a small baking pan.

Bake the phyllo shells and the scraps on the oven’s middle shelf until golden brown, about 6 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool.

To serve, spoon the cherry filling into the shells, then top with the crispy scraps and the frozen yogurt, if using.

Nutrition information per serving: 190 calories; 70 calories from fat (37 percent of total calories); 8 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 29 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 13 g sugar; 3 g protein; 95 mg sodium.

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Lose leafy greens for this fresh salad large bowl. Add the snow peas and zucchini.

In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, shallot, orange zest With salad season in full swing, it’s inevitable that you and juice, vinegar and mustard. soon will be sick of your go-to Season with salt and pepper. Pour mix of greens. Doesn’t matter the dressing over the vegetables and stir gently to coat well. For if you favor romaine or Boston, herbed mixes or arugula, best flavor, allow the vegetables or even old-school iceberg. In to marinate in the dressing for at least 30 minutes. short order, the idea of yet another bowl of greens will Serve topped with sliced avocasimply seem depressing and do, grated manchego cheese, uninspiring. sprigs of dill and a drizzle of So we decided to create a honey.

BY ALISON LADMAN Associated Press

green salad that will keep you coming back for more. And not a single leafy green is harmed in the making of this meal. We combine fresh green beans, asparagus, snow peas and zucchini for a fresh and delicious take on a not-so-basic green salad. For good measure, we also pile on some fresh dill and avocado slices.

And since we already were mixing things up, we created a zippy orange-Dijon vinaigrette to tie everything together.

SHADES OF GREEN SALAD Start to finish: 20 minutes active (plus 30 minutes marinating) Servings: 6 12 ounces fresh green beans, cut into 2-inch pieces 1 bunch asparagus, cut into 2-inch pieces 1 cup snow peas, sliced lengthwise 1 medium zucchini, halved, seeds scraped out, then cut into thin half moons 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons grated shallot Zest and juice of 1 orange 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard Kosher salt and ground black pepper 1 avocado, sliced Manchego cheese, to serve Fresh dill, to serve Honey, to serve Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Fill a large bowl with ice water and have it near the stove.

Add the green beans to the boiling water and blanch for 1 to 2 minutes, or until crisp-tender and bright green. Use a slotted spoon to quickly transfer them from the boiling water to the ice water.

While the green beans cool, add the asparagus to the boiling water and blanch for 3 to 4 minutes, depending on the thickness of the stalks, until just barely tender.

Transfer the asparagus to the ice water with the green beans.

Once they have cooled, drain the green beans and asparagus, pat them dry and transfer to a

Give fruit salad zing with honey, black pepper

BY ALISON LADMAN Associated Press Looking for ways to jazz up your basic fruit salad this summer? Consider giving it a hit from the savory side of the food world.

BLACK PEPPER HONEY FRUIT SALAD Start to finish: 20 minutes Servings: 10 1 quart strawberries, halved 1 pint blueberries 1 mango (about 1 pound), peeled, pitted and diced 20-ounce jar grapefruit segments, drained 2 nectarines, cut into 1-inch pieces 3 plums, cut into 1-inch pieces Pinch of salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 tablespoon lime juice 2 tablespoons honey In a large bowl, gently mix together the strawberries, blueberries, mango, grapefruit segments, nectarines and plums.

In a small bowl, whisk together the salt, pepper, lime juice and honey. Drizzle the dressing over the fruit and stir gently to coat.

Nutrition information per serving: 110 calories; 5 calories from fat (5 percent of total calories); 0 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 27 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 22 g sugar; 2 g protein; 30 mg sodium.

Nutrition information per serving: 200 calories; 110 calories from fat (55 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 18 g carbohydrate; 7 g fiber; 9 g sugar; 7 g protein; 130 mg sodium.

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Shades of Green Salad combines green beans, asparagus, snow peas and zucchini.

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BIZARRO

SOUP TO NUTZ

ANDY CAPP

GARFIELD

BEETLE BAILEY

BORN LOSER

BLONDIE

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MOTHER GOOSE

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DILBERT

JEFF MACNELLY’S SHOE

Couple’s use of birth control is long past overdue DEAR ABBY — My 19-yearold son has been dating the daughter of one of my friends I’ll call “Mona.”

We didn’t set Dear Abby them up; they met at ABIGAIL some parties.

VAN BUREN Last summer we discovered they were having sex because “Meghan” thought she was pregnant. Luckily, it turned out she wasn’t. They broke up but have gotten back together recently.

When I asked Mona if she was putting Meghan on birth control, Mona said that she wouldn’t because “that would be letting her know it’s OK to

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have sex.” I said, “Better safe than sorry!” and we left it at that.

I let my son use my car last weekend and found an opened box of emergency contraception on the floor. Because my son never answers his phone, I called Meghan and stressed to her that unprotected sex is irresponsible and that they aren’t ready for a baby. I warned her to take precautions and get on birth control, and I helped her to make the arrangements.

Was it wrong to discuss this behind her mother’s back?

Should I tell Mona after promising Meghan I wouldn’t say anything? What should I do?

Mom versus friend DEAR MOM — Wrong? You de-

serve a medal. And you should now have the conversation with your son that you should have had before the first pregnancy scare, stressing to HIM the importance of using condoms not only to protect himself and Meghan from an unplanned pregnancy, but also an STD if she isn’t the only girl he’s having sex with. Girls don’t get pregnant all by themselves.

As to telling your friend Mona, who seems to have the parental insight of an ostrich where her daughter is concerned, keep your promise to Meghan and your lips sealed.

Meghan needs a woman she can confide in, and your friend seems to prefer living in fantasyland rather than giving her daughter the support and guidance she needs.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

THE DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1 Subway map abbr.

4 Early fifth-century year 8 Dreadlocks wearer 13 Bud 14 Mechanical recitations 16 Singer John 17 Transfusion letters 18 Stave off 19 Nonsense 20 Recording industry technician 23 Tin Lizzie 24 Director Kazan 25 Kingston Trio hit with the lyric “Fight the fare increase!”

28 Fray, e.g.

30 Santa __: Southwestern mountains 32 Obsessed whale hunter 35 It’s not free of charge 37 Hoity-toity types 38 One with a busy engagement calendar 42 Take in or let out 43 Petal puller’s pronoun 44 Way out there 45 Sicilian sea-

port 48 SOS responder 50 Prefix with thermal 51 Actress Catherine __Jones 53 Belief in one god 57 Kitchen appliance 60 Family car 62 Turkish titles 63 Galadriel in “The Lord of the Rings,” e.g.

64 Deadly virus 65 Ruled perch?

66 Ike’s 1940s command 67 Family car 68 With 69-Across, what 20-, 38and 57-Across do 69 See 68-Across DOWN 1 Jerk 2 Forbidden thing 3 One way to read 4 Nursery need 5 Woodworking joint 6 Santa Monicato-Jacksonville rte.

7 Threshold 8 Run through lines 9 Soothing succulent 10 Leaves in a huff

11 Pump part 12 Vague amount 15 Circus support 21 Ones with much to learn 22 German’s “never” 26 Indian drum 27 Nineveh’s land: Abbr.

29 Hold up 31 Brings to a boil 32 “Same here” 33 Green targets 34 Hurricanes and tornadoes, in insurance policies 36 School sweater letters 39 Grand Canyon State na-

tive 40 Calendar abbr.

41 Precedentsetting trial 46 Outlaw Kelly 47 Bond trader’s phrase 49 Well-developed, in a way 52 Shop jargon 54 “__ to recall ...”

55 Conductor Sir Georg 56 Dahl’s “Fantastic” title critter 58 “Return of the Jedi” dancing girl 59 “This is bad!”

60 “Rushmore” director Anderson 61 Civil War prez

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Mysterious ‘EXTANT’ sure to be another hit for CBS

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Despite fractured audiences, CBS continues to get very large shares for some of its series. What makes CBS stand out amongst broadcasters? It broadcasts.

While not above time-wasters like “Big Brother,” CBS has a knack for offering viewers something new and vaguely big. Despite its (many) flaws, the “Under the Dome” season opener was among the most watched shows last week.

I fully expect “EXTANT” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) to be as popular. Like “Dome,” it’s a head-scratcher. But its mystery is a lot more personal. In fact, it’s as intimate as it gets.

Produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, “EXTANT” is set in the near future. And it has the kinds of gadgety touches that have filled his films, including “Minority Report” and “A.I.” Bathroom mirrors become television/videophone screens. Personal tablets are transparent. And androids have become very, very personal.

Halle Berry stars as astronaut Molly Watts, recently returned from a 13-month solo space mission. Things seem a tad chilly between her and her husband, John (Goran Visnjic, “ER”), and their son, Ethan (Pierce Gagnon). Only Ethan’s not really their son. He’s the fully humanized android John has been raising since they found out they could not conceive children together.

This condition stands in stark contrast to news from Molly’s doctor, Sam (Camryn Manheim). Despite spending 13 months in space alone, Molly has returned, pregnant. Sam doesn’t know what Molly knows (and we learn): during the mission, she encountered a mysterious entity in a form resembling her deceased lover.

This is where “EXTANT” gets a bit murky and the potential for jokes about “Space Ghost and the Immaculate Conception” come in. This series is not without its faults.

Perhaps Berry/Molly overplays the passive angle.

Somewhere in space, her voice and personality seem to have been hijacked by Sally Field. But the show does a good job of mingling ele-

ments of personal paranoia and technological thriller. I want to hang on to find out what the heck’s going on.

• “American Muscle” (9 p.m., Discovery) chronicles the hard work and staff camaraderie at Mike Barwis’ strength-training facility located outside of Detroit. Professional athletes and Olympians come to him for off-season conditioning. Barwis also caters to local high school athletes and some disabled clients.

Barwis speaks, or rather, rasps, like somebody who has been screaming for 45 years.

For all of his hyper-macho attitude, he is what my 91-yearold mother might describe as “a glorified gym teacher.”

• TV is so liberal! Remember such shows as “Whey Up in Vermont”? About the mild socialist who made a mean cheddar? Or “Lucy Freeman: Unionized Teacher”? Of course you don’t. Because they never existed.

To get on cable TV, you have to be like the freaks uncovered on “American Fringe” (10 p.m., National Geographic, TV-14). This series scours America for neo-Nazis and bizarre racial and religious fanatics who share unhinged paranoia, a hoarder’s affection for firearms and a psychopath’s desire to use them.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Nick Cannon hosts “iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party” (8 p.m., CW).

• Phil embraces his key clientele on “Modern Family” (9 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG).

• Homicide in the holler on “Criminal Minds” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

• A Holocaust survivor is victimized on “Taxi Brooklyn” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• A skydiver’s plunge defies easy diagnosis on “Motive” (10

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Goran Visnjic, Pierce Gagnon and Halle Berry star in “EXTANT” premiering at 9 p.m. today on CBS. p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

• Sonya encounters a man from her past on the second season premiere of “The Bridge” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA).

• “Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman” (10 p.m., Science, TV-PG) ponders the evolution of consciousness.

CULT CHOICE It’s been a whole 30 years since moviegoers embraced “Ghostbusters” (8 p.m., AMC), the 1984 comedy about anarchic freelancers tampering with the forces of the universe.

LATE NIGHT Sharon Stone, Marc Maron and Rodrigo Y Gabriela are on “Conan” (11 p.m., r, TBS,) * Susan Sarandon, Chris Franjola, Arden Myrin and Kurt Braunohler are booked on “Chelsea Lately” (11 p.m., r, E!) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Kelly Ripa, Jason Clarke and

Sylvan Esso on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Andy Serkis and Neon Trees visit “Late Night With Seth

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Pie,

the original fast food

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ies served multiple functions for early Americans. They were the original street food, says Amanda

Moniz, an executive of the American Historical Association and author of the blog “History’s Just Desserts.” Crust was often made of coarse ingredients such as rye and suet, she says, and wasn’t meant to be eaten. It was simply a vehicle for the nutrition inside.

“Centuries ago this would have been fast food,” Moniz says. “People would have been walking through the street hawking pie. If you didn’t have your own cooking facility you could just buy a slice of pie the way you buy a hot dog from a cart today.”

But not all pies had disposable crusts. Hannah Glasse, author of the 18th century equivalent of “Joy of Cooking,” had several recipes for crust, as did Amelia Simmons, who wrote the 1796 “American Cookery,” the first American cookbook. Pies with a fine crust provided an inventive way to handle inferior ingredients and those past their prime, says chef Walter Staib of Philadelphia’s historic City Tavern.

“You didn’t have any freezers, there were no airplanes,” Staib says. “Food looked pretty disheveled after being in a cellar. Many pies were created to camouflage the look of the foods. They were all a byproduct of how the food looked. But the flavor was still there.”

Pies offered variety in the menu, culinary historians say. Unlike today’s well-trimmed, pre-tenderized meats, animal flesh in those days was tough and needed to be braised into

STRAWBERRY STREUSEL PIE Start to finish: 30 minutes, plus cooling Servings: 8 For the streusel: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup oats 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 12 tablespoons (1 1/2

sticks) unsalted butter, diced For the filling: 2 quarts strawberries, hulled and diced, divided 1/4 cup granulated sugar Pinch salt 2 tablespoons cornstarch 2 tablespoons lemon juice Zest of 1 lemon

submission. Pies provided an attractive delivery device. The soft, stewed meat and vegetables inside pliant pastry also provided the perfect texture for certain segments of the population.

“Pie was easy to eat,” Staib says. “People had very bad choppers because there was no dental hygiene.”

The configuration of the 18th century kitchen also had a lot to do with making pies a fixture on tables from cottages to presidential dinner parties. Hearth cooking was imprecise, and recipes descriptive, often referring to cooking in a “slow oven” or over a “quick fire.” ‘’Cakes are harder to bake,” says Susan Stein, senior curator at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. “Getting your fire exactly right requires a lot of skill. As a baker, pies are more forgiving than baking a cake.”

Pies both savory and sweet were generally eaten at room temperature, says Staib, which would have allowed busy cooks with small kitchens to make the pie in advance and free up the oven for other purposes.

But the line between savory and sweet also was unclear. Savory pies contained sweet elements, says Moniz, and sweet pies often contained savory elements. And some pies were just plain strange.

A guest at Monticello wrote in 1802 about a “macaroni” pie, whose precise composition historians are still trying to unravel. The pie “appeared to be a rich crust filled with the strillions of onions,” the guest wrote, concluding later that “it was an Italian dish, and what appeared like onions was made of flour and butter, with a particularly strong liquor mixed with them.”

A spiked macaroni and cheese? A pasta pizza? “I have puzzled over that recipe for years,” Stein says. “It doesn’t quite make sense to me. I wonder what it was.”

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Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Coat a 9-inch pie pan with cooking spray.

In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Use your hands or a pastry blender to mix in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press twothirds of the mixture into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared pie pan. Gently press a sheet of foil into the pan, then add pie weights or beans.

To make the streusel topping, spread the rest of the crust mixture evenly on

BERRY-CREAM POT PIES Start to finish: 30 minutes, plus cooling Servings: 8 1 sheet (half of a 17.3-ounce package) frozen puff pastry, thawed according to package directions 1/3 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 whole egg 2 egg yolks 1 1/2 cups whole milk 2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste 2 cups fresh berries (your choice) Honey, to serve Heat a countertop grill or panini press. If it has a heat setting, set it to medium-high. Unfold the puff pastry and cut it into 8 squares.

Working in batches, cook the squares of puff pastry on the panini press for 3 to 4 minutes, or until golden brown and crisp. Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely.

Meanwhile, in a medium pan, whisk together the sugar and cornstarch. Add the egg and yolks and whisk until smooth. Add the milk and whisk again until the mixture is completely smooth. Set the pan over medium heat and cook, whisking and scraping the bottom of the pan, until the mixture simmers. Cook for 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat and stir in the butter and vanilla bean paste.

Divide the mixture between 8 ramekins. Press plastic wrap onto the surface of each, then refrigerate until cool.

When ready to serve, remove the plastic wrap and top each ramekin with some of the berries, one of the crusts and a drizzle of honey.

Nutrition information per serving: 150 calories; 70 calories from fat (47 percent of total calories); 8 g fat (3.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 85 mg cholesterol; 18 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 12 g sugar; 4 g protein; 55 mg sodium.

a rimmed baking sheet. Bake both until lightly browned. The topping will be done in about 12 to 15 minutes; the crust will take 20 to 30 minutes. Remove the foil from the pie crust and set both pans aside to cool.

While the crust bakes, make the filling. In a large saucepan, combine half of the strawberries with the sugar and salt. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, then cook for 5 minutes, or until the strawberries are very juicy and starting to break down.

In a small bowl, combine the lemon

juice and cornstarch. Stir into the simmering strawberries and cook, stirring, for 1 minute, or until thickened. Remove from the heat and stir in the remaining strawberries and the lemon zest. Spoon the filling into the crust and sprinkle the cooked streusel over the top. Allow to cool completely.

Nutrition information per serving: 430 calories; 170 calories from fat (40 percent of total calories); 19 g fat (11 g saturated; 0.5 g trans fats); 45 mg cholesterol; 64 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 32 g sugar; 5 g protein; 130 mg sodium.

(Recipe by Alison Ladman)