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High court upholds Obamacare Ruling affects some 154,000 enrollees in South Carolina

BY SEANNA ADCOX The Associated Press COLUMBIA — The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday on the federal health overhaul means more than 154,000 South Carolinians can continue to receive federal subsidies that help pay for their health insurance premiums.

They are among nearly 6.4 million people nationwide who otherwise faced being unable to afford their policies. The case involved subsidies provided in South Carolina and 33 other states that rely on the federal health insurance exchange.

A handful of words in the Affordable Care Act suggested the subsidies were to go only to consumers using exchanges operated by the states.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson was among five attorneys general in February 2014 to file a brief supporting the lawsuit. But the high court said in its 6-3 ruling that those subsidies did not depend on where people live.

“I’m relieved it’s finally settled,” said Sue Berkowitz, director of the Appleseed Legal Justice Center. “I’ve always thought the challenge was unwarranted, but one more Hail Mary pass.”

An advocate for the poor, Berkowitz said she hopes the ruling causes South Carolina lawmakers to accept the law and work to expand Medicaid eligibility to more poor adults as it intended.

But that seems unlikely.

Republican Gov. Nikki Haley continued to call the law an economic disaster the state will try to work around.

And the state’s Republican congressmen pledged to continue fighting to replace it.

“For now, the glitch-laden federal exchanges will stay in place, but this ruling does not mean the law is good policy,” said U.S. Rep. Tom Rice.

Wilson said he agrees with the court’s dissenting opinion that the decision changes the usual rules of legal interpretation.

“Today, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the plain meaning of this law in the broadest and most abstract way possible in order to save a broken governmentrun health care system,” he said.

“This case has never been solely about the merits of providing health care to the American people,” but rather how the law was implemented.

Students showcase REACH talents

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Students in Sumter School District’s Reinforcing and Expanding Artistic and Creative Horizons program displayed their talents in art, chorus and theater through work they’ve been doing in classes at the summer showcase at Sumter High School on Wednesday evening.

About 200 students, grades three through 12, participated in the district’s three-week program. Each student chosen for the program was referred by a teacher and then had to audition. Students could audition for all three sections, and if they were selected, could then choose which section they wanted to do.

Each child in the art program did between five and 10 pieces during the program.

“We try to do projects with different mediums and concepts that we normally don’t have a chance to do in the classroom,” said Heidi Adler, art teacher.

Students in the chorus program

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Angel Mickens takes a picture of her daughter Ali,15, in front of the self-portrait she painted during the REACH program at Sumter High School. The students’ art, chorus and drama programs showed off their skills during an open house at SHS on Wednesday.

Hundreds attend 1st funerals for church shooting victims; Obama arrives today

BY JONATHAN DREW AND MEG KINNARD The Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON — A choir and band launched into one of Ethel Lance’s favorite gospel tunes and roused hundreds of mourners from their seats Thursday in a crescendo of music at the first funeral for victims of the massacre at a historic black church.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS People stood to clap, nod Mourners gather in North Charleston before the Thursday funeral ser- and sway — some closing vice for Ethel Lance, one of nine people killed in last week’s shooting their eyes under the exertion at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. of the cathartic singing. Ush-

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ers walked through the aisles with boxes of tissues for people to dab their tears as an organ, drums and bass guitar played along.

The service was fitting for the 70-year-old Charleston native with “an infectious smile.”

She served with vigor as an officer at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, said the church’s interim leader, the Rev. Norvel Goff.

“When it was time for the ushers to usher, she had the usher strut,” Goff said.

“When sister Lance praised

the Lord, you had to strap on your spiritual seat belt.”

Police officers stood guard and checked bags as mourners filed in for the funeral, which was held as the debate concerning the Confederate flag and other Old South symbols continued. A monument to former Confederate President Jefferson Davis had the phrase “Black Lives Matter” spray-painted on it Thursday in Richmond, Virginia, the latest of several monuments to

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Hamptons to expand with new bar soon Committee OKs changes to building on North Main

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Sumter Historic Preservation Design Review Committee approved exterior renovations to a building at 34 N. Main St., which is planned to serve as the newest expansion of Hamptons restaurant, during its meeting on Thursday.

The building is between the former Main Street Antiques and The Main Room, another extension of Hamptons, and is planned to be transformed into a bar with the capacity to seat 50 people.

Proposed exterior renovations include outdoor seating at the front of the building on North Main Street. The existing storefront windows will be removed, and the quarry tile flooring at the front entrance will be removed and paved to match the sidewalk on Main Street.

The plans also include the installation of a flat, 5-foot aluminum awning over the front entrance of the building, and planters will be placed in front of the outdoor dining area to differentiate between public sidewalk and the seating area.

At the rear of the building, the existing security doors will be replaced with a new double entry door and covered pergola.

The rear of the bar will provide access to Hamptons’ outdoor venue, the Alley.

Danielle Thompson, co-owner of Hamptons, said plans to expand the restaurant began about three months ago.

She said the expansion will give the public more opportunity to enjoy the services of the restaurant on days with extreme weather.

She said the proposed bar would have craft beers on tap and would offer locally made alcohols.

Thompson said she anticipates the renovations will be complete by mid-September.

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Police search for 2 after Manning woman scammed Manning Police Department is seeking the community’s help in locating two female suspects who allegedly scammed an 83-year-old woman out of $3,800 at a Manning grocery store June 17.

The two suspects approached the victim in the 600 block of South Mill Street in Manning about 10 a.m. One of the suspects told the woman she had found a pouch containing $20,000 inside. The

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A fishing clinic conducted by Poinsett State Park rangers will be part of the Clemson Extension 4-H20 camp at the park in July.

Campers from 9 to 14 will learn about water quality, survival skills and more during the three-day camp.

Kids, escape heat with camp at Poinsett Learn which bugs you can eat, test lake water, meet snakes and more in July

SIGN UP FOR CAMP The fee for the three-day camp is $50, which includes equipment, activities, snacks and drinks. Registration is limited to 20 students and is first-come, firstserved.

Campers should wear comfortable clothing and closed-toed shoes that can get wet. They should bring lunch and a T-shirt for tie-dyeing. Parents should drop the children off and pick them up at the ranger’s office each day.

To register or for more information, call Breann Liebermann at (803) 773-5561 or email her at blieber@clemson.edu.

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com Young people looking for interesting things to do — especially those who like the outdoors — might just find what they’re looking for in Clemson Extension’s 4-H2O camp at Poinsett State Park.

The three-day camp offers a remedy for summertime boredom that’s not only fun, but educational as well.

Breann Liebermann, a Clemson University Extension agent based in Sumter, and Terri Sumpter, a Sumter County extension 4-H agent, will host the camp that will offer the “hands-on, water-based science camp (that) will teach children about their local watersheds, the organisms living in nearby lakes and streams and how to protect our state’s water resources,” Liebermann said.

Open to young people 9 to 14, the camp will meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

July 14 through 16.

Liebermann said Poinsett’s park rangers will assist with several of

suspect then suggested the three of them go see a lawyer in Manning to see if they could keep the money.

The victim agreed and drove the two suspects to what she thought was an attorney’s office. One of the suspects came back to the victim’s car after “seeing a lawyer” and asked the victim if she had any money to pay the attorney.

The victim gave them $1,800 she had on her. The suspects then told the victim they needed more money because they would be dividing the $20,000 but that it would have to sit in the bank for about six months.

The victim then drove to a local bank and withdrew an additional $2,000, which she gave to the suspects.

the camp’s activities, including “a float (a guided boat trip), fishing clinic, guided hike and creek adventure. Campers will explore the watershed and its diverse animal population.”

“Terri will lead the crafts activities,” which includes tie-dying a Tshirt, she said, “and I will be doing the water quality activities.”

Rangers will conduct a survival clinic, which “will teach the campers what to do if you get lost, how to find food and water, make shelter and make a fire,” Liebermann said. “The campers will also observe a demonstration on eating insects — which

The suspects then fled.

Anyone with any information related to this incident or suspects is asked to contact Investigator Rick Elms at (803) 435-8859.

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Manning Police Department is looking for this suspect and another female suspect involved in a scam at a grocery store June 17.

ones are safe to eat.”

She said Josh Castleberry, an instructor at Central Carolina Technical College, will bring his snakes for a demonstration.

“He has both venomous and nonvenomous snakes,” Liebermann said. “I’m sure the campers will be allowed to hold the non-venomous ones if they want to.”

Liebermann will teach the campers how to test the lake water for pH — the acidity or alkaline level.

“This can reveal the amount of dissolved oxygen,” she said. “That determines the types of organisms that can live in the water.”

In the creek adventure, campers will use nets to collect insects and other creatures, Liebermann said.

“They’ll identify the bugs,” she said. “The different types of insects are indicators of good quality or bad quality water.

“We’re lucky because Poinsett is in a forest, so there is a lot less pollution than there would be otherwise.”

When they’re not participating in field experiments, Liebermann said the campers will be in a covered shelter for lessons.

This is the first time Clemson Extension’s 4-H20 camps have been offered in Sumter in about eight years, Liebermann said.

Downtown street will be closed during concert today North Main Street between Hampton Avenue and Liberty Street will close at 4 p.m. today for the 4th Fridays concert with Second Nature. Presented by Downtown Sumter from 6:30 to 9 p.m., the concert is free and open to the public.

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Rashaun Downs, Mary Beth Ruffin and Kiara Davis, above, employees of Forest City property management company, decorate a gift basket for a client of The Advocacy Center on Wednesday. The group was participating in their company’s annual Community Day during which they volunteer.

Wayne Parker, Michael McCoy and Herb Simmons, left, work on installing a new air conditioning unit at The Family Advocacy Center on Wednesday. The three are employee of Forest City property management company, which manages the housing at Shaw Air Force Base. In addition to installing the new air conditioning unit and the gift basket, the group painted.

POLICE BLOTTER STOLEN PROPERTY A 6-by-8-foot utility trailer valued at $699 was reportedly stolen from the 2200 block of U.S. 401 on Monday.

A dark green Ford Escape valued at $2,000 was reportedly stolen from a lot of a torn-down residence in the 700 block of Olive Street between Friday night and Saturday morning.

An air-conditioning window unit valued at $500 was reportedly stolen from a residence in the 1000 block of Porter Street between Sunday and Monday afternoons.

On Wednesday night, $820 was reportedly stolen from a home during a burglary in the 400 block of East Charlotte Avenue. A deep freezer valued at $200, a microwave valued at $70, a smartphone valued at $70 and a refrigerator valued at $400 were also reportedly stolen. The suspects reportedly entered through the front door and did not leave any damage.

DAMAGED PROPERTY The owner of a 1999 Ford Explorer reported Sunday the vehicle sustained an estimated $1,500 in damage after all four tires had been slashed, all four sides of the vehicle had been scratched and an obscene word was scratched onto the hood. A JVC CD player valued at $150 was reportedly stolen from the vehicle.

The owner of a white

Freightliner truck reported the vehicle sustained an estimated $500 in damage after a neighbor’s dog chewed electrical lines under the hood while it was parked at his residence on Myrtle Beach Highway on Saturday.

The owner of a home in the 3300 block of U.S. 261 reported Monday two unknown suspects scratched the paint off his car and slashed two tires. The damage is estimated at $3,500.

A black Chevrolet Camaro sustained damage estimated at $1,500 after the owner found deep scratches on

the sides and rear of the car and a dent on the passenger side on Companion Court. According to police reports, the incident happened between 6 p.m. June 15 and 4 p.m. June 18.

An estimated $3,000 in damage was done to a green Nissan Altima in the 700 block of Warley Street late Monday. A suspect keyed an obscenity into the front hood and along the trunk.

There were also scratch marks all over the vehicle.

The owner of a green Ford Mustang reported his car sustained $1,500 in damage while it was parked on Reed

Street on Tuesday night. The car was keyed bumper to bumper, and an obscenity was keyed on the truck. An

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Public opinion behind government on health care WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans wanted the Supreme Court to side with the government on whether the federal government could continue subsidizing insurance premiums in all 50 states under President Obama’s health care law, according to polls conducted before the justices’ ruling Thursday.

In a ruling that preserved health insurance for millions of people, the court upheld the nationwide tax subsidies.

Polling ahead of the decision showed that few people had much confidence that the court could rule objectively in King v. Burwell.

MOST WANT LAW UPHELD Fifty-six percent of those questioned wanted the court to rule in favor of the Obama administration, according to an April Associated Press-GfK poll.

Thirty-nine percent preferred a ruling for those who brought the case. The plaintiffs had argued that actual wording of the law should have limited the government to subsidizing premiums in states that had set up their own health insurance exchanges rather than relying on the federal government exchange.

Nearly three-quarters of Democrats and a slim majority of independents wanted the court to rule in favor of the government; a majority of Republicans wanted the court to limit insurance subsidies under the law to states with their own exchanges.

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Ron Busby of Virginia, left, and other supporters of the Affordable Care Act react as opinion for health care is reported outside of the Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday. The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide tax subsidies.

Among people who opposed the health care law generally, 58 percent wanted the court to limit the government to subsidizing premiums only in states with exchanges.

But a significant minority of the law’s opponents (39 percent) thought the court should have ruled that the government could continue to subsidize premiums in all states.

LITTLE CONFIDENCE IN COURT’S OBJECTIVITY Nearly half of Americans were not too confident or not confident at all that the Supreme Court could rule objectively in the case, according to the April APGfK poll. Just 1 in 10 were very or ex-

tremely confident, while another 4 in 10 were moderately confident.

Six in 10 opponents of the law, compared with 44 percent of the law’s supporters, were not confident in the court’s ability to rule objectively.

A CBS News-New York Times poll released Monday found that three-quarters of Americans thought the justices sometimes let their personal or political views influence their decisions rather than deciding solely based on legal analysis.

FEW CLOSELY FOLLOWING CASE In the April AP-GfK poll, just 13 percent of Americans said they were following news about the health care case extremely or very closely, while 60 percent said they were not following the case closely.

Likewise, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll conducted in June found that 44 percent of Americans had heard nothing at all about the case, and 28 percent had heard only a little.

That’s true even though the vast majority of Americans, 78 percent, called health care a very or extremely important issue in the AP-GfK poll.

MOST WOULD HAVE WANTED CONGRESS TO ACT If the court had ruled against the government, 51 percent of Americans in the April AP-GfK poll said they would have liked Congress to update the law to

allow the federal government to subsidize premiums in all states. The poll Visit found 44 percent ap-gfkpoll.com would have preferred that Congress leave the law as is, letting states decide if they wanted to create exchanges that would allow people to receive subsidized premiums.

The Kaiser Family Foundation poll conducted in June also found most said Congress should pass a law if necessary so that people in all 50 states could be eligible for financial help.

And 55 percent of Americans living in states without their own exchanges said they would have wanted their state to create one if necessary.

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CONTINUED DIVIDE OVER HEALTH LAW In general, the April AP-GfK poll found that 27 percent of Americans support and 38 percent opposed the 2010 health care law, while 34 percent were neither in favor nor opposed.

But there was a significant partisan divide over the law, with 52 percent of Democrats supporting the law, but only 11 percent of independents and just 5 percent of Republicans saying the same.

The poll found 44 percent of Americans approved and 55 percent disapproved of the way Obama has handled health care.

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How do we fix our traffic problem?

There are many options but no single solution JUSTIN PRITCHARD AND JOAN LOWY The Associated Press

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he problem is clear: Traffic congestion will become signifi-

cantly worse and more widespread without big changes in how people and products get around.

Build more roads. Build more public transit. Rely on new technology. The possible solutions are many, but none is easy or cheap.

Here are a few ways to ease the nation’s gridlock:

PUBLIC TRANSIT RENAISSANCE Ridership on public buses, trains and subways has reached its highest level nationally since the 1950s, and transit boosters cite this as evidence that expanded service and routes is a good investment.

The nation’s driving capital, Los Angeles, is making a multibillion-dollar investment in building or extending five rail lines. Transit advocates say that should be a model: If LA can do it, any region can.

Skeptics point out that the record ridership still translates into just a fraction of all trips

nology that lets them share how fast they’re going, their direction, whether they’re braking and whether a wreck just happened ahead. These rolling networks could relay information to specially equipped traffic signals and other “smart infrastructure,” which in turn would be connected to trafficmanagement centers.

General Motors said it will put this “vehicle-to-vehicle” technology in 2017 model-year Cadillacs. Ford, Toyota and other automakers are working on the technology, but it could THE ASSOCIATED PRESS easily take a decade or more after smart cars hit showrooms Traffic slowly moves along the 101 Freeway on May 20 during afternoon rush hour in Los Angeles. There are many possible solutions for before they replace enough older vehicles to realize their traffic congestion, but none are cheap or easy. full benefits. converting carpool lanes that Eventually, smart cars and people take. They also make a may be relatively car free into trucks will be able to form tight bang-for-the-buck argument, “platoons” of eight to 25 vehisaying big-ticket transit projects lanes that solo drivers can pay cles, all electronically talking just don’t make enough of a dif- to use. Carpoolers typically travel for free. Hundreds of so they can closely follow each ference to justify their cost. miles of toll lanes are already other without crashing.

TOLLS ARE ‘HOT’ operating in or around WashThe University of Michigan Transportation Research InstiDriving is expected to remain ington, D.C.; Los Angeles; tute is setting up a mock city to the primary means of travel for Houston; Atlanta; Salt Lake City; Miami and other cities. test the technology in artificialmost Americans. But finding ly dangerous situations such as More tolls don’t mean more the money to maintain aging a truck running a red light. Auhighways, much less build more tollbooths. In the future, there tomakers are already testing may be no option to pay with lanes, is increasingly difficult. cash. Transponders in cars will the technology on Detroit-area To help fund new construchighways and streets. tion, the Obama administration identify vehicles, and the owner’s credit card or account will has proposed letting states toll SELF-DRIVING CARS federal interstates. That’s been be charged. Drivers already can take Interstate 95 from prohibited since the interstate The ultimate smart car Maine to Virginia using one system was launched in 1956, won’t even need a driver. “Selfexcept for a few exceptions, in- transponder so that they never driving” vehicles hold the pohave to stop at a toll booth. cluding highways that already tential to provide new mobility had tolls. Congress would have for the aged and the disabled DUMB CARS, to approve the change. and reduce the demand for MEET SMART CARS One way to make existing parking because they could be highways more efficient is summoned by other users.

New vehicles will increas“high occupancy toll” (or HOT) ingly be “smart cars,” In the San Francisco Bay lanes. The idea often involves Area, these self-driving cars of equipped with wireless tech-

the future are an increasingly common sight. Nearly 80 prototypes have permission from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test their skills on public roads, although a person must sit behind the wheel in case the onboard computers and sensors make a mistake.

Advocates say the cars will be able to drive more closely together, as well as avoid the wrecks that can snarl traffic for miles.

While some Silicon Valley companies want to see these cars proliferate in the next few years, traditional automakers are taking an incremental approach by adding features such as automatic braking or lane-keeping on newer models.

IN TECHNOLOGY WE TRUST Traffic smartphone apps such as Waze suggest the most efficient route from A to B, adjusting along the way based on real-time speed and traffic information from other users.

Dozens of transit agencies have apps that offer real-time travel information. Boston’s public schools have experimented with an app that tracks how soon the school bus will arrive so parents who don’t want their kids to wait in the cold too long can time drop-offs rather than opting for a drive all the way to school.

If package-delivery drones like those proposed by Amazon ever get off the ground, they hold the potential to decrease the number of truck trips on city and suburban streets.

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FUNERALS FROM PAGE A1 be defaced around the country.

Lance and eight other Emanuel church members were killed when police say a gunman walked into a Bible study June 17 and opened fire in a racially motived attack.

Lance served as a sexton at Emanuel for the last five years, helping to keep the historic building clean, and she loved gospel music. She had five children, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. “I want my grandmother’s legacy to be what she stood for,“ said granddaughter Aja

Risher. “She is going to be a catalyst for change in this country.�

Services for Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45, were held Thursday afternoon, and funerals for the other victims were set to happen over the next week, including one Friday for the church pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney.

As the two victims were laid to rest, the debate about Confederate symbols and statues raged on. In Richmond, where the Davis statue was vandalized, a small group from the Southern heritage advocacy

group Virginia Flaggers waved Confederate flags next to the monument.

Barry Isenhour, a member of the group, said they were offering a $1,500 reward for tips that led to the conviction of those responsible for the spray painting.

Some people in cars driving by honked in support of the Virginia Flaggers. Others yelled obscenities at the group.

While the group was there, 20-year-old Caleb Pollard ran around it, shirtless with American flag-themed leggings and underwear. He wore an American flag as a cape and pointed to it, asking the group: “Why don’t you raise

THE SUMTER ITEM U.S. flag. He also poses at Confederate museums, former slave plantations and slave graves.

Boyd Young, who represents Roof’s family, issued a statement on their behalf saying that they would answer questions later but wanted to allow the victims’ families to grieve. “We feel it would be inappropriate to say anything at this time other than that we are truly sorry for their loss,� the statement said.

this flag?�

In Memphis, Tennessee, the mayor there said he thinks the grave and statue of Confederate General and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest should be removed from a city park.

The suspected gunman, Dylann Storm Roof, had a Confederate license plate, and images on a website created in his name months before the attacks show him posing with the flag and burning and desecrating the

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Kelly Melton, theater program instructor, said a play was selected that could involve all 48 students in the program. The children were able to learn their lines in one

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Chorus students in the REACH program perform a Motown Revue for their parents at the conclusion of the program Wednesday night at Sumter High School. week, practicing six hours a day for the show.

Abi Kitterman, a recent Sumter High graduate, has been involved in the REACH theater program since her freshman year. “I’ve really enjoyed not only acting in the summer performance this year, but also building the sets and props,� she said. “It’s a lot of fun.�

Kitterman plans on majoring in theater or art and being a teacher in one of those fields.

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IS launches 2 major attacks in Syria BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants launched major attacks in northern Syria on Thursday after a string of recent setbacks, storming government-held areas in a mostly Kurdish city and setting off deadly car bombs as they pushed into a border town they were expelled from six months ago.

The two-pronged counteroffensive left dozens of people dead or wounded.

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split between Syrian Kurds and government forces, capturing parts of it.

The other push was into the Syrian border town of Kobani, which famously resisted a months-long IS assault before the extremists were driven out in January. An activist group said 12 people died in fighting Thursday in Kobani — the first time in six months IS had managed to enter the town along the Turkish border — and that the militants had detonated three car bombs.

In the Kobani attack, the extremists

donned Syrian rebel uniforms and carried flags of the mainstream Free Syrian Army to deceive the town’s Kurdish defenders, said Redur Khalil, a spokesman for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units. In Hassakeh, Khalil said IS militants attacked governmentheld neighborhoods on the southern edge of the town, capturing some areas.

Syrian state TV reported intense clashes inside Hassakeh’s southern neighborhood of Nashawi. According to the report, IS fighters killed several

people they captured in the city, including the head of a military housing institution. It said the militants sustained many casualties, including the commander of the group, who is a foreign fighter. An activist group said many people in neighborhoods engulfed in the fighting fled to safer areas in the city.

IS tried to storm the city earlier this month and reached its southern outskirts before facing strong resistance from Syrian government troops who pushed them away.

Conservationists say new China policy could help save elephants JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Conservationists hail it as a possible game-changer in the struggle to curb the slaughter of elephants: an unexpected pledge by a senior Chinese official to stop the ivory trade in a country whose vast, increasingly affluent consumer market drives elephant poaching across Africa.

Now they are waiting in suspense for China to outline how and when it would ban an industry that criminal syndicates use as cover for their illicit business in tusks.

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na’s top leadership to combat poaching that, by some estimates, has killed more than 100,000 African elephants in the past several years and prompted governments to publicly destroy confiscated ivory in major cities, including New York City last week.

The May 29 comment by Zhao Shucong, head of China’s State Forestry Administration, came at a Beijing event in which 1,455 pounds of ivory were crushed, rendering tusks, carved statues and other ornaments useless for sale.

“Under the legal framework of CITES and domestic laws and regulations, we will strictly control ivory processing and trade until the commercial processing and sale of ivory and its products are eventually halted,” Zhao said in an Eng-

lish-language translation of his speech that was provided by his office.

CITES is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which seeks to regulate the multi-billion-dollar trade in wild animals and plants. China allows trade in ivory acquired before a 1989 CITES ban and from a onetime, CITES-approved purchase by China and Japan of an ivory stockpile from several African countries in 2008. Conservation groups say China’s illegal trade has since flourished.

“The fact that China is now talking about shutting down its own market could be huge,” said Ginette Hemley, senior vice president of wildlife conservation at the World Wildlife Fund.

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Fifteen tons of elephant tusks are set on fire in March during an antipoaching ceremony at Nairobi National Park in Nairobi, Kenya. A Chinese official made a pledge to stop the ivory trade in the country.

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Debate heats up; lawmakers want flag down Mark Moseley, commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans camp 1458 in Sumter, declined to comment on the debate, saying he hasn’t heard from the state office about his ability to comment and he would rather keep his opinion to himself.

While the Sons of Confederate Veterans are fighting staunchly for the flag to keep flying, the Legislature, including those from The Sumter Item coverage area, are fighting to take it down.

The Charleston Post and Courier conducted a survey asking all members of the state Legislature their views on the rebel flag.

All seven representatives serving parts of Sumter County — Sens. Thomas McElveen, D-Sumter, and Kevin Johnson, D-Manning; Representatives David Weeks, D-Sumter; Murrell Smith, R-Sumter; Joe Neal, D-Hopkins; Grady Brown, DBishopville, and Robert Ridgeway, D-Manning — all said they support the flag coming down.

Sen. Gerald Malloy, DHartsville, who serves Lee County, and Rep. Cezar McKnight, D-Kingstree, who serves Clarendon County, said they want the flag down.

In Wednesday’s edition of The Sumter Item, Johnson, McElveen, Smith and Weeks all voiced their opinions about the flag.

Johnson said the flag belongs in a museum, not on the Statehouse grounds. Weeks

BY COLLYN TAYLOR intern@theitem.com While momentum builds for the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, proponents for the flag are starting to fight back.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans spoke out against the Legislature on Thursday at a press conference in the shadow of the 150-year-old battle flag.

South Carolina Sons of Confederacy Commander Leland Summers said the flag is a symbol of his heritage and not a symbol of racism.

He went on to say the debate has been fueled primarily by the media and politicians to further their agendas.

“The groups that I speak to you today about are doing nothing but supporting and creating cultural genocide,” he said.

Summers also went on to say the focus should be on the nine who were killed last week instead of on what he called an attack to remove symbols of confederate flags.

“Attempting to use this horrible crime that occurred at Emanuel (AME) Church to remove historic articles and monuments and to deface them is despicable, shameful and disrespectful to them,” he said.

Summers said the group plans to take action if the flag does come down. However, Summers said he would let the state make their judgment before coming out with a plan.

Authorities say Dylann Roof, the alleged shooter, killed nine black Americans because he wanted to start a race war.

Summers said Roof is getting his wish, because now the state is even more divided because of the flag debate.

“Their behavior, the behavior of these unscrupulous opportunists, creates only more hatred and division,” he said.

agreed, saying flying the flag in front of the Legislature sends the wrong message.

“In front of the Statehouse is not the right signal to show of our state,” Weeks said. “I will support any effort to make this happen.”

And legislators from Sumter are not alone.

According to the Charleston Post and Courier, 74 out of 123 representatives in the House have joined Weeks in the belief the flag should come down.

As of Thursday, five refused to answer, nine think the flag should stay put, 10 are undecided and 24 have not responded to the poll.

In the Senate, the numbers are about the same. Thirtythree senators want the flag taken down, while two want the flag to remain on the grounds.

Four refused to answer, two are undecided and five have not responded.

Removing the flag would require a two-thirds supermajority vote in both chambers.

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Sons of Confederate Veterans member Dickie Phalen points at a statue of George Washington at the South Carolina Statehouse after a rally to support the Confederate flag on Thursday in Columbia. Phalen said if the Confederate flag goes, the statue of Washington should go too because he owned slaves. more than the 31 needed. The House has 75 out of the 82 votes needed for the resolution to pass.

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Surf, sun, musical numbers galore on ‘Teen Beach 2’

BY KEVIN M CDONOUGH As diverting as cotton candy and half as nutritious, “Teen Beach 2” (8 p.m., Disney) rings in the silly summer season. A brightly colored extravaganza that’s equal parts musical numbers and fantasy, “Teen” blends the fashions and sensibility of 1960s beach movies with contemporary pop music and choreography.

Its fantastical story (this is a musical, after all) revolves around the stars of a 1960s beach musical who depart the screen for the “real world,” pursued by rival gangs of midcentury teen icons from film genres like biker and surf movies.

None of this really has to make sense because the focus is on the forgettable songs and the remarkably elaborate dance numbers.

Ross Lynch (“Austin & Ally”) and Maia Mitchell (“The Fosters”) star.

“Teen Beach 2” has much to live up to. Its predecessor, “Teen Beach Movie,” ranks as the second-most-watched made-for-cable movie ever.

The ratings crown belongs to Disney’s “High School Musical 2.”

• Time-travel also looms large in the new Disney series “Best Friends Whenever” (9:53 p.m.). Best pals Shelby (Lauren Taylor) and Cyd (Landry Bender) inadvertently invent a time machine that allows them to glance back at history, peek at the future and, most importantly, patch up the social gaffes that have made their journey through high school so difficult.

• If live-action kids’ tales don’t thrill you, there is the CGI fantasy “Dragons: Race to the Edge” streaming exclusively on Netflix, beginning today. It’s curious to see this Dreamworks project

arrive on a very big day for its competitor, Disney.

• Viewers in search of music with a little more resonance should look no further than “The Gospel Tradition: In Performance at the White House” (9 p.m., PBS and TV One, check local listings).

Look for performances by Aretha Franklin, Pastor Shirley Caesar, Rhiannon Giddens, Emmylou Harris, Darlene Love, Lyle Lovett and Michelle Williams.

Robin Roberts hosts this special, attended by the president and first lady. Producer T Bone Burnett is the executive music director.

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • China and the United States meet in the FIFA Women’s World Cup (7:30 p.m., Fox).

• An exercise in sharing, “The Briefcase” (8 p.m., CBS) concludes its short season.

• Problems large and small beset an 11-year-old and his family in the 2014 comedy “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” (8 p.m., Starz).

• Chandler’s team joins a resistance movement on the second season debut of the TNT drama “The Last Ship” (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-14).

• Nolan and Amanda vow to escape on “Defiance” (8

p.m., Syfy, TV-14).

• Candid cameras capture ethical dilemmas on “What Would You Do?” (9 p.m., ABC).

• An NBA oddity tries his hand at personal diplomacy in the 2015 documentary “Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang” (9 p.m., Showtime).

• A wicked warlord tricks the bounty hunters on “Killjoys” (9 p.m., Syfy, TV-14).

• Lack of evidence keeps a suspected cop killer at large on “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

• Seriously off course on “Dark Matter” (10 p.m., Syfy, TV-14).

• “Lisa Lampanelli: Back to the Drawing Board” (10 p.m., Epix, TV-MA) features the stand-up work of a selfstyled “mean” comedian.

CULT CHOICE Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson star in the 1967 thriller “Point Blank” (3 a.m., TCM), director John Boorman’s adaptation of Donald Westlake’s pulp novel.

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Mention of marriage causes man to run, hide DEAR ABBY — I am 59 and have a steady, goodpaying job. I was married for 20 years, but divorced 11 years ago.

Dear Abby I am set in my ways.

ABIGAIL I have VAN BUREN been seeing a woman, “Melinda,” for eight years now. She’s 51 and also has a steady job. We live 30 miles apart. Our relationship has been somewhat rocky, but we have also had some really great times.

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of every excuse not to when she brings it up. I’m in love with her, but when she brings up marriage, I run and hide.

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We start talking and things seem fine for a while, until the M-word is mentioned.

I suggested we move in together and see how it works, but it never happened. Abby, what is my problem? Why can’t I get married?

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DEAR TORN & STRUGGLING — Your problem may be that your first marriage — and probably your divorce — left you marriage-averse. Because you’re in love with Melinda and can’t manage without her, let me suggest that you discuss this with a licensed mental health professional and see if you can get beyond your fears. Joint counseling with Melinda would also be helpful for both of you, to ensure there are fewer rocky patches in your relationship in the future.

What teens need to know about sex, drugs, AIDS and getting along with peers and parents is in “What Every Teen Should Know.” Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 610540447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

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Put Confederate flag in museum I

t’s gratifying to see all members of our legislative delegation that includes the counties of Sumter, Lee, Clarendon and Kershaw coming together to call for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse in Columbia following the lead of Gov. Nikki Haley earlier in the week. Thank you, gentlemen.

The display of the flag has been a festering sore for this state since it was first hoisted over the Statehouse dome in 1962, ostensibly to commemorate the centennial of the beginning of

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the Civil War in 1861.

It should have been removed after the proper respect was given to the flag and in honor of the Confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the most divisive war in America’s history. Further division ensued as the state legislature let the flag continue to wave into the 21st century, presumably because of its displeasure with the growing civil rights movement in our state.

In a botched effort at finding a solu-

tion to the problem, the General Assembly’s “compromise” took the flag off the dome but moved it to the Statehouse grounds where it waved at pedestrians and motorists passing by in a far more visible location than the dome.

What has been overlooked in the controversy is the fact that the flag was never on public display on the Statehouse or its grounds from the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865 until 1962 when the Civil War centennial took place, thus kicking the can down the road for another round of

debate by legislators.

Today, in the wake of the Charleston slaughter, the majority of our state’s people, shaken to the core, have mobilized to demand action from the legislature, that being removal of the flag from Statehouse grounds and display of it in a place of honor recognizing the sacrifices of so many in a war that set the state back for over a century.

However, we should still remember that flag, but more as a cherished artifact that belongs in a museum, not on statehouse grounds.

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fter a massacre like the one at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, our immediate reaction is to do something. Something, for politicians, means legislation. And for Democratic politicians, this means gun control.

It’s the all-purpose, go-to, knee-jerk solution. Within hours of the massacre, President Obama was lamenting the absence of progress on gun control. A particular Democratic (and media) lament was Congress’ failure to pass CHARLES anything after Krauthammer Sandy Hook.

But the unfortunate fact is that the post-Sandy Hook legislation would have had zero effect on the events in Charleston. Its main provisions had to do with assault weapons; Dylann Roof was using a semiautomatic pistol.

You can pass any gun law you want. The 1994 assault weapons ban was allowed to expire after 10 years because, as a Justice Department study showed, it had no effect.

There’s only one gun law that would make a difference: confiscation. Everything else is for show.

And in this country, confiscation is impossible. Constitutionally, because of the Second Amendment. Politically, because doing so would cause something of an insurrection.

And culturally, because Americans cherish — cling to, as Obama once had it — their guns as a symbol of freedom.

You can largely ban guns in Canada where the founding document gives the purpose of confederation as the achievement of “peace, order and good government.” Harder to disarm a nation whose founding purpose is “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

With gun control going nowhere, the psychic national need post-Charleston to nonetheless do something took a remarkable direction: banishment of the Confederate flag, starting with the one flying on the grounds of the statehouse in Columbia, then spreading like wildfire to consume Confederate flags, symbols, statues and even memorabilia everywhere — from the Alabama state capitol to eBay and Amazon.

Logically, the connection is tenuous. Yes, Roof does pose with the Confederate flag, among other symbols of racism, on his website. But does anyone imagine that if the South Carolina flag had been relegated to a museum, the massacre would not have occurred?

Politically, the murders created a unique moment. Gov. Nikki Haley was surely sincere in calling for the Confederate flag’s removal. But she also un-

derstood that the massacre had created a moment when the usual pro-Confederate flag feeling — and, surely, expressions of it— would be largely suppressed, presenting the opportunity to achieve something otherwise politically unachievable.

But there’s a deeper reason for this rush to banish Confederate symbols, to move them from the public square to the museum. The trigger was not just the massacre itself, but even more tellingly, the breathtaking display of nobility and spiritual generosity by the victims’ relatives. Within 48 hours of the murder of their loved ones, they spoke of redemption and reconciliation and even forgiveness of the killer himself. It was an astonishingly moving expression of Christian charity.

Such grace demands a response. In a fascinating dynamic, it created a feeling of moral obligation to reciprocate in some way. The flag was not material to the crime itself, but its connection to the underlying race history behind the crime suggested that its removal from the statehouse grounds — whatever the endlessly debated merits of the case — could serve as a reciprocal gesture of reconciliation.

The result was a microcosm of — and a historical lesson in — the moral force of the original civil rights movement, whose genius was to understand the effect that combating evil with good, violence with grace would have on a fundamentally decent American nation.

America was indeed moved.

The result was the civil rights acts. The issue today is no longer legal equality. It is more a matter of sorting through historical memory.

The Confederate flags would ultimately have come down.

That is a good thing. They are now coming down in a rush.

The haste may turn out to be problematic.

We will probably overshoot, as we are wont to do, in the stampede to eliminate every relic of the Confederacy. Not every statue has to be smashed, not every memory banished.

Perhaps we can learn a lesson from Arlington National Cemetery, founded by the victorious Union to bury its dead. There you will find Section 16. It contains the remains of hundreds of Confederate soldiers grouped around a modest, moving monument to their devotion to “duty as they understood it” — a gesture by the Union of soldierly respect, without any concession regarding the taintedness of their cause.

Or shall we uproot them as well?

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com. © 2015, The Washington Post Writers Group

GUEST COMMENTARY

Consider constituents’ demographic

BY CARRIE SINKLER-PARKER Special to The Sumter Item Editor’s note: This column is a reaction to a S.C. representative’s comments that appear in another publication, not in The Sumter Item. n response to the Honorable Robert Ridgeway III, S.C. House of Representatives, District 64: Initially, I had not planned to make comments’ to your statements “Ridgeway fears Confederate flag issue distracts from Charleston tragedy,” published in The Manning Times dated June 22.

As a supportive constituent I am responding to make you aware of how I feel about your insensitive comments on this horrific incident.

Your comments did not surprise me after remembering our last conversation after a meeting in which you, a County Council member, and I were engaged in early spring 2015.

First of all, you should take into account the horrific incident that took place in Clarendon County on June

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21, 1995 as rendered by the Ku Klux Klan, now known as the Council of Conservative Citizens. The incident in Charleston parallels what happened in Clarendon County in 1995.

The only difference no lives were lost in Clarendon County, however a sacred place was violated.

I would suggest that you Google “Forgotten Fires” and “Two Klansman were indicted for Burning S.C. Churches.”

The Confederate flag has always represented a symbol of oppression, racism and violence perpetrated on groups not considered the majority.

Our governor was able to draw and understand a correlation between the Confederate Flag and violence. I surmised this conclusion prompted her to take bold steps on Monday calling for the flag’s removal from its hoist on our State House Grounds.

Her bi-partisan press conference was held on the same day your remarks were published.

I am strongly suggesting that you attempt to connect

with some of your constituents who are members of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church.

While you said “I am going to vote the way most of the people in District 64 tell me to vote.”

It is recommended that you take into account the ethnic composition of District 64 represented by you in the South Carolina House of Representatives.

So, how are you planning to “…wait and see how everyone feels about the issue?”

The greatest and only step you should take is to follow those who have seen and acted on the relationship of a symbol of oppression that holds a prominent place on our State House grounds.

To remove the veils of oppression, racism and violence in our State begins with you in Columbia and me in our county.

With you and I working collectively for the betterment of our county, let’s remember we still have so much to do to right the wrongs locally, in the state and society as a whole.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR FEW THOUGHTS DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS I am a “come here” and not a “been here.” I have always felt pride in my adopted state.

However, with the events of the past couple of days, I could not be more proud of South Carolina and Charleston.

The members of the Mother Emmanuel Church and the people of Charleston took an ugly and racist action and reflected love and not hate; Charleston and the people have led this country and showed that the actions

of a deranged racist person did not be returned in hate but a coming together and love.

What a great action and Christian love. As I am a “come here,” my view of the battle flag on the statehouse grounds is most certainly different than those who are “been here.”

There is no reason nor justification for displaying the Confederate battle flag. It belongs in a museum.

If a flag needs to be displayed that reflects the Confederate historical events it should be the one that re-

flects the whole Confederate States flag, if they had one.

I am, however, not sure that a separate flag needs to be displayed.

If a flag is necessary, it should reflect the entire citizens of South Carolina and not one specific group.

The citizens of South Carolina have shown the world what should happen in the actions of an ugly, racist and mentally deranged person.

This coming together and love should continue by removing the battle flag.

DAVID LePAGE Sumter

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Gaffney 96/72 Spartanburg 97/73

Greenville 96/71

Columbia 99/76

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Sumter 99/74

IN THE MOUNTAINS Aiken 97/73

ON THE COAST

Charleston 95/77

Today: A thunderstorm in the afternoon.

High 90 to 95.

Saturday: A thunderstorm in the afternoon. High 87 to 91.

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Saturday: A shower and thunderstorm.

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5:36 a.m.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Uncertainty EUGENIA LAST regarding a contract, money, a legal or health matter will prevail. Don’t let your concerns stop your productivity. Use your charm, intelligence and skills to propel you toward success.

Socializing will improve your love life.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A day trip or physical activity will ease stress. Don’t let anyone put pressure on you to make a change you aren’t ready to make. Satisfy your need to learn by spending time with people who have mastered what you want to pursue.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t get angry — get moving. Make the alterations to the way you live that will make you happy. Update your resume and apply for a position that excites you. Change will do you good and will help you get ahead personally and professionally.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do something different. Don’t let the demands others put on you stand in your way. The efforts you put in will not be wasted. Live your dreams. Try to move forward instead of looking back.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t limit what you can accomplish. Be creative and initiate alternative ways to get what you want. Subtle physical improvements can be made, and favors can be called in.

Plan a romantic evening in order to impress someone special.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Someone will intentionally mislead you. Ask questions if you feel confused or have trust issues with someone you are in a partnership with. Once you assess your situation, do whatever it takes to protect your interests.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll

discover interesting information if you take part in a community event or group effort. A chance to try your hand at something new will give you the opportunity to expand your professional interests.

A proposal will be worth considering.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Jealousy is on the rise. Whether you are on the receiving or the projecting end of things, take a step back before someone’s feelings get hurt. Size up your situation and consider the ramifications. An unusual solution will satisfy everyone involved.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Make a positive move and you could experience a personal transformation. Traveling to a place you enjoy or visiting someone you care about will lead to a change in lifestyle or living arrangements.

Discuss your future plans.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With a little creative flare, you will impress your colleagues and peers.

Doing things differently will catch everyone off guard. Your enthusiasm and physical involvement will bring results.

Good fortune is heading in your direction. Enjoy the moment and the glory.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t sign contracts or agreements until you know what you want. Take a day to enjoy spending time with the people you love most. Host a party or add something stylish or entertaining to your home. Try to keep your costs within your budget.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Learn from your elders or those with more experience. Pull up your sleeves and do the physical work required to make your surroundings more conducive to your needs. Don’t give in to emotional pressure or manipulation.

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SPCA DOG OF THE WEEK Tucker, a housebroken and neutered 2-year-old blond and white retriever / spaniel mix, is available for adoption at the Sumter SPCA. He is great with other dogs, children and even cats. He is very playful, affectionate, active and friendly. Tucker would make a great new family buddy! The Sumter SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday.

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Braves’ offense lacking in loss to Nationals B4

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FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015

Call: (803) 774-1241 | E-mail: sports@theitem.com

LEGION BASEBALL

KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Dalzell-Shaw third baseman Rod Lee, right, stretches out for a throw as Sumter’s Kemper Patton slides in safely during the P-15’s 22-1 victory on Thursday at Riley Park.

Offensive outburst leads to 22-1 rout P-15’s make the most of 2nd chance against Dalzell-Shaw

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com Upon further review and after consulting the rule book, Thursday’s series finale between Sumter and Dalzell-Shaw picked up right where it left off on Wednesday before the game was washed out in the bottom of the first inning.

And the break seemed to do wonders for P-15’s starting pitcher Dawson Price – and the offense too, eventually.

After allowing three hits and a run in the first inning on Wednesday, the Sumter right-hander cruised through his final 4 1/3 innings on Thursday, allowing no runs and just one hit.

Combined with a 20-run offensive outburst over two innings , that was more than enough for a 22-1 victory over Post 175 in seven innings at Riley Park that clinched at least a share of the League III title.

Sumter improved to 14-3 overall and 13-2 in league play. Dalzell fell

P-15’S, POST 68 WILL COMPETE IN PALMETTO INVITATIONAL TOURNEY

The Sumter P-15’s and Manning-Santee Post 68 will both compete in the Palmetto Invitational American Legion baseball tournament today through Sunday, but will be in different brackets.

Sumter will play host to four games at Riley Park. The P-15’s will meet the Greenville Post 3 Generals at 7 p.m. today. They

SEE SUMTER, PAGE B3

SEE INVITATIONAL, PAGE B3

LOCAL GOLF

CLEMSON FOOTBALL

Czarnecki runs away with WSCGA Junior Championship

Battle leaving Tigers

FROM STAFF REPORTS Ashley Czarnecki was dominant on the first two days of the Women’s South Carolina Golf Association Junior Championship on Tuesday and Wednesday at Sunset Country Club. Thursday’s final round was no different.

Czarnecki shot another sub-par round of 69 to win the tournament going away by 12 strokes.

Czarnecki, who is from Greenville, finished the tournament with a 5-under par 205. She shot a 3-under 67 in the first round for a 6-stroke

lead and followed with a 69 as she pushed her advantage to nine strokes.

Czarnecki had four birdies and three bogies on Thursday. She birdied the 18th hole, giving her a sub-par score in each round.

Gracyn Burgess of Lexington was the overall runner-up with a 3-round total of 217.

She shot a final round 72 after scores of 73 and 72, respectively, the first two days.

Both Czarnecki and Burgess qualified for the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at Tulsa Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., July 20 25.

Baylee Evans won the 16-18 year-old flight while Victoria Huskey of Greenville was the runner-up.

Emily Cox of Lancaster won the 13-15 flight, posting a 65 in the final round, the lowest round of the tournament for anyone. Carly Lyvers of Greenville was the runner-up.

Czarnecki, Burgess, Evans and Huskey will represent South Carolina in the Georgia-South Carolina Challenge Matches that will be held July 25-26 at Palmetto Golf Club in Aiken based on their performances in the WSCGA Junior Championship.

BY MANDRALLIUS ROBINSON Greenville News KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Ashley Czarnecki putts on the 18th green in the final round of the WSCGA Junior Championship on Thursday at Sunset Country Club. Czarnecki won by 12 strokes, shooting a 5-under par 205.

PRO BASKETBALL

Minnesota select Towns with No. 1 pick in draft

BY BRIAN MAHONEY The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Karl-Anthony Towns, right, shakes hands with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver after Towns was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the first pick in the NBA draft on Thursday.

NEW YORK — The Minnesota Timberwolves got their man in the middle. The Lakers got a playmaking partner for Kobe Bryant.

Knicks fans just got mad.

Minnesota selected Kentucky’s Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA draft on Thursday night, the first of three straight freshmen chosen before New York chose Latvian forward Kristaps Porzingis, triggering loud, long boos from their fans inside Barclays Center.

SEE DRAFT, PAGE B4

The Associated Press Thursday At Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. First Round 1. Minnesota, Karl-Anthony Towns, c, Kentucky.

2. L.A. Lakers, D’Angelo Russell, g, Ohio State.

3. Philadelphia, Jahlil Okafor, c, Duke.

4. New York, Kristaps Porzingis, f, Sevilla (Spain).

5. Orlando, Mario Hezonja, g, Barcelona (Spain).

6. Sacramento, Willie CauleyStein, c, Kentucky.

7. Denver, Emmanuel Mudiay, g, Guangdog (China).

8. Detroit, Stanley Johnson, f, Arizona.

9. Charlotte, Frank Kaminsky, f, Wisconsin.

10. Miami, Justise Winslow, g, Duke.

One day after revealing the indefinite suspension of senior kicker Ammon Lakip, Clemson University coach Dabo Swinney announced the departure of another senior starter.

Offensive tackle Isaiah Battle will enter the National Football League Supplemental Draft, Swinney announced Thursday in a news release.

Battle started 16 BATTLE of the 27 games in which he appeared the past three seasons.

He logged 824 snaps in 2014, the most of any Clemson player.

The supplemental draft is scheduled for July, before the start of NFL training camps.

It accommodates players who missed the filing deadline for the conventional draft. The postponement can result from unexpected disciplinary or academic issues or simply a delayed decision.

“I have some family matters to address, with a child due this summer,” Battle said in the news release, “and I feel it is in my best interest to enter the NFL Supplemental Draft.”

Battle’s departure creates an opening on the edge of Clemson’s offensive line,

SEE BATTLE, PAGE B2

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SCOREBOARD

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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

TODAY

5:30 p.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour BMW International Open Second Round from Munich (GOLF).

9:30 p.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour BMW International Open Second Round from Munich (GOLF).

11 a.m. -- Professional Basketball: Spanish League Final Series Game Four from Madrid -- Barcelona vs.

Real Madrid (UNIVISION).

11:30 a.m. – LPGA Golf: NW Arkansas Championship First Round from Rogers, Ark. (GOLF).

3 p.m. – Senior PGA Golf: Champions Tour U.S. Senior Open Second Round from Sacramento, Calif. (FOX SPORTS 1).

3 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Toyota-Save Mart 350 Practice from Sonoma, Calif. (FOX SPORTS 2).

4 p.m. – Women’s International Soccer: Women’s World Cup Quarterfinal Match from Montreal – Germany vs.

France (WACH 57).

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

6:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Toyota-Save Mart 350 Practice from Sonoma, Calif. (FOX SPORTS 2).

6:30 p.m. – American Legion Baseball: Greenville at Sumter (WWHM-FM 92.3, WWHM-FM 93.3, WWHM-AM 1290).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Atlanta at Pittsburgh (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: NHL Draft from Sunrise, Fla. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. – Women’s International Soccer: Women’s World Cup Quarterfinal Match from Ottawa, Ontario – China vs. United States (WACH 57).

7:30 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: Washington at Atlanta (SPORTSOUTH).

8 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Chicago Cubs at St. Louis or New York Yankees at Houston (MLB NETWORK).

9 p.m. – CFL Football: Hamilton at Calgary (ESPN2).

9 p.m. – Major League Soccer: Houston at Dallas (UNIVISION).

10 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Alan Sanchez vs. Stephen Claggett for the IBF Americas Welterweight Title, Bout and Paul Mendez vs. David Alonso Lopez in a Super Middleweight Bout and Andy Vences vs.

Santiago Guevara in a Lightweight Bout from Salinas, Calif. (FOX SPORTS 1).

10 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Diego Magdaleno vs. Jose Gonzalez in a Lightweight Bout and Gilberto Ramirez vs. Derek Edwards in a Super Middleweight Bout from Hidalgo, Texas (TRUTV).

10 p.m. – Track and Field: U.S. Outdoor Championships from Eugene, Ore. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

10 p.m. – MLL Lacrosse: New York at Florida (SPORTSOUTH).

10:35 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Dominic Wade vs. Sam Soliman in a Middleweight Bout, Erickson Lubin vs.

Eliezer Gonzalez in a Super Welterweight Bout and Jamel Herring vs.

Oscar Cortes in a Lightweight Bout from Shelton, Wash. (SHOWTIME).

Midnight – IRL Racing: IndyCar Series MAVTV 500 Pole Qualifying from Fontana, Calif. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

GOLF The Associated Press TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES

Thursday At TPC River Highlands Cromwell, Conn.

Purse: $6.4 million Yardage: 6,841; Par 70 (35-35) First Round a-denotes amateur Bubba Watson 31-31—62 Seung-Yul Noh 31-33—64 Keegan Bradley 33-31—64 Brian Stuard 31-33—64

Cleveland 8, Detroit 2 Toronto 1, Tampa Bay 0, 12 innings N.Y. Yankees 10, Philadelphia 2 Minnesota 6, Chicago White Sox 1 L.A. Angels 2, Houston 1, 13 innings Boston 5, Baltimore 1 Oakland 8, Texas 2 Kansas City 8, Seattle 2

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 1:08 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Cleveland (Kluber 3-9) at Baltimore (W.Chen 3-4), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 5-3) at Toronto (Buehrle 7-4), 7:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 3-7) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 6-7), 7:08 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 4-8) at Tampa Bay (Colome 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (May 4-5) at Milwaukee (Lohse 3-9), 8:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 6-2) at Houston (Velasquez 0-0), 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Volquez 7-4) at Oakland (Hahn 5-5), 10:05 p.m.

Seattle (T.Walker 5-6) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 4-5), 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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

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GB – 31/2 4 91/2 14

W 47 40 39 33 27

L 24 31 31 37 46

Pct .662 .563 .557 .471 .370

GB – 7 71/2 131/2 21

W 40 39 35 35 31

L 33 34 36 39 40

Pct .548 .534 .493 .473 .437

GB – 1 4 51/2 8

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Yankees 10, Philadelphia 2 Washington 2, Atlanta 1, 11 innings Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 6, Miami 1 L.A. Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Milwaukee 4, N.Y. Mets 1 Arizona 8, Colorado 7 San Francisco 6, San Diego 0 Thursday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

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

Atlanta at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Atlanta (W.Perez 4-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 4-6), 7:05 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 8-5) at Philadelphia (Harang 4-9), 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 4-4) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 2-4), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 3-4) at Miami (Nicolino 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (May 4-5) at Milwaukee (Lohse 3-9), 8:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 7-5) at St. Louis (Lackey 6-4), 8:15 p.m.

Arizona (Ray 2-2) at San Diego (T. Ross 4-7), 10:10 p.m.

Colorado (Bettis 3-2) at San Francisco (T.Hudson 5-6), 10:15 p.m.

WNBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE -8 -6 -6 -6

MLB STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

Connecticut Washington Chicago New York Indiana Atlanta

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L 1 2 3 3 5 6

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION W Tampa Bay 41 New York 39 Toronto 39 Baltimore 37 Boston 32 CENTRAL DIVISION W Kansas City 41 Minnesota 39 Detroit 37 Cleveland 33 Chicago 31 WEST DIVISION W Houston 42

37 37 33 33

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GB – 1 2 21/2 81/2

L 28 33 35 38 40

Pct .594 .542 .514 .465 .437

GB – 31/2 51/2 9 11

L 32

Pct .568

GB –

Tulsa Minnesota Phoenix Seattle Los Angeles San Antonio

W 6 5 3 2 0 0

L 1 2 3 4 5 6

Pct .857 .714 .500 .333 .000 .000

GB – 1 2 2 31/2 4 GB – 1 21/2 31/2 5 51/2

Hard times toughened UVa players for title run

BY ERIC OLSON The Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Winning, and winning big, has been the standard for the Virginia baseball program since coach Brian O’Connor took over in 2004, and no excuses were allowed when the most trying circumstances cropped up.

The Cavaliers entered the season without six everyday players and four key relief pitchers from the team that was College World Series runner-up to Vanderbilt. But with one of the nation’s top recruiting classes coming in, there was reason to believe Virginia could make another trip to Omaha.

No one, however, could have foreseen the injuries that left the Cavaliers with just 11 healthy position players in March. O’Connor went so far as to pick up a couple guys from the school’s club team to fill out the roster.

It wasn’t until the last week of the regular season, when there was doubt about the Cavaliers even

making the ACC Tournament, that Virginia was primed to make a run.

The Cavaliers wrapped up its first baseball national championship by winning a CWS finals rematch against the defending champion Commodores in three games.

The way the season unfolded, the title was nothing if not hard-earned.

“The one thing that coach O’Connor and the other coaches kept preaching to us is you’ve just got to grind through it,” senior third baseman Kenny Towns said. “We had a lot of ups and downs, but they didn’t expect less out of us.

I think going through those ups and downs, we were kind of able to become a tougher team. That showed for us in the postseason.”

This was the fourth team in seven years that O’Connor brought to the CWS and, on paper, the least likely to win it.

Statistically, Virginia was a middling team. And at 4424, the Cavaliers had the fewest wins of any champion since Southern Califor-

nia won the 1968 title with 43. Only Fresno State in 2008 won a national title with more losses (47-31).

Virginia’s injury problems started before the season. Outfielder Joe McCarthy needed back surgery in January and missed 35 games. Utility man John La Prise played four games before hip surgery ended his year. No. 1 pitcher Nathan Kirby strained a back muscle in mid-April and was out for nine weeks. There were numerous minor injuries that took a toll.

Connor Jones, a reliever last season, replaced Kirby and excelled as the Friday night starter. Brandon Waddell was steady and then, as he did last year, elevated his performances in the postseason. Waddell won two games in Omaha and pitched a CWS-leading 19 innings.

Josh Sborz, the CWS Most Outstanding Player, won three games in the CWS, pitching 13 shutout innings over four appearances. He extended his streak of innings with no earned runs to 27.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Chicago 100, Atlanta 96, OT

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Phoenix at San Antonio, late Minnesota at Seattle, late

TODAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Connecticut, 7 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

New York at Tulsa, 8 p.m.

CLEMSON FROM PAGE B1 which already had to replace guards David Beasley and Reid Webster and right tackle Kalon Davis from the team that defeated Oklahoma 40-6 in the Russell Athletic Bowl to finish 10-3 in 2014.

First-year freshman Mitch Hyatt is expected to fill the void left by Battle’s departure.

Hyatt, a native of Suwanee, Georgia, was rated the No. 2 offensive tackle in the 2015 recruiting class by ESPN. He enrolled at Clemson in January and participated in the spring practice session.

Hyatt, listed at 6-foot-6, 279 pounds, was slotted behind Battle at left tackle on the postspring depth chart.

No first-year freshman has started multiple games on the offensive line at Clemson since 2004, when Barry Richardson started seven of 11 games.

Hyatt could slide easily into the starting lineup alongside senior guard Eric Mac Lain, senior center Ryan Norton, sophomore guard Tyrone Crowder and senior tackle Joe Gore.

“This will create a great opportunity for Mitch as a true freshman,” Swinney said in the release. “We liked what we saw from Mitch in the spring, and look forward to seeing his progress in August. We have other young offensive linemen who will also have a new opportunity for playing time.”

Fellow first-year freshman Jake Fruhmorgen, a 6-foot-5,

Virginia players celebrate their 4-2 win over Vanderbilt on Wednesday at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb., that gave the Cavaliers the College World Series title. Virginia’s championship gives the Atlantic Coast Conference its first national title since 1955.

285-pound native of Tampa Bay, Florida, was listed as the backup right tackle on the postspring depth chart.

Conventionally, the left tackle spot has been emphasized because that player protects the blindside of a right-handed quarterback, like Clemson’s Deshaun Watson. Considering Gore has logged 361 snaps through his career, 361 more than Hyatt or Fruhmorgen, offensive line coach Robbie Caldwell could flip Hyatt and Gore.

Yet, Hyatt could prove in August camp that his highly touted talent could trump Gore’s experience.

Rob Rang, a senior draft analyst for CBS Sports, said the 6-7, 290-pound Battle has a chance to land a spot on an NFL roster.

In the supplemental draft, teams bid based on the round in which they would select the player. The player is awarded to the team with the highest bid, but that team must forfeit its pick in the equivalent round of the regular draft the following year.

“Battle’s combination of height, arm length and easy mobility will certainly intrigue the NFL,” Rang said. “He is still pretty raw, showing only average functional strength at this time, and too often bending at the waist rather than at the knees, which leaves him vulnerable to the bull rush and counters back to the inside.

SPORTS ITEMS

Watson shoots 62 to take Travelers Championship lead CROMWELL, Conn.— Bubba Watson hit to inches on the final hole for the last his nine birdies in an 8-under 62 on Thursday in the first round of the Travelers Championship.

Watson has a two-stroke lead in the event he won in 2010 for his first PGA Tour title. He has finished in the top 20 five times in eight preWATSON vious starts at TPC River Highlands.

New England native Keegan Bradley was tied for second with Jason Gore, Seung-Yul Noh, Brian Stuard and Harris English, who shot a 30 on the back nine. Eight players shot 65, and 12 more opened at 66.

Ninety-three players were under par.

WATSON TAKES EARLY LEAD AT U.S. SENIOR OPEN

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tom Watson took advantage of an early tee time to shoot a 4-under 66 and earn the clubhouse lead in the opening round of the U.S. Senior Open on Thursday.

CABRERA-BELLO, JENSEN, GAUNT SHARE OVERNIGHT LEAD IN MUNICH

MUNICH — Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello overcame two bogeys to shoot a 7-under 65 for a three-way share of the lead in the opening round of the BMW International Open on Thursday.

DEMPSEY GIVEN MINIMUM 2-YEAR SUSPENSION FROM U.S. OPEN CUP

CHICAGO — Seattle forward Clint Dempsey has been given a minimum twoyear suspension from the U.S. Open Cup and a second fine for his conduct toward a match official during a game last week.

The penalty announced Thursday by a U.S. Soccer Federation panel was in addition to a three-game league ban and fine announced last week by Major League Soccer.

The second penalty, issued by the U.S.

Open Cup Adjudication and Discipline Panel, covers up to six U.S. Open Cup matches. If the Sounders lose their initial match each year, the penalty would last through 2021.

GRIZZLIES ACQUIRE BARNES FROM HORNETS

The Memphis Grizzlies have acquired forward Matt Barnes from the Charlotte Hornets for guard Luke Ridnour, who later was sent to Oklahoma City.

The Grizzlies announced the trade Thursday and the Thunder said shortly afterward they had acquired Ridnour and a conditional 2016 second-round draft pick from Charlotte for guard Jeremy Lamb.

PRICE WINS HART, VEZINA, LINDSAY HONORS AT NHL AWARDS

LAS VEGAS — Carey Price came away from the NHL Awards show with a hat trick.

The Montreal Canadiens’ record-setting goalie claimed the Hart Trophy, the Vezina Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award at the NHL’s annual postseason bash Wednesday.

Price also shared the already-announced Jennings Trophy with Chicago goalie Corey Crawford, and his hefty haul of hardware capped one of the greatest regular seasons for a goalie in NHL history.

NFL HALL OF FAMER WARREN SAPP CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC BATTERY

LAS VEGAS — Authorities in Las Vegas have charged NFL Hall of Famer Warren Sapp with biting his girlfriend, throwing her to the ground and stepping on her head in an April incident that began at the M Resort in Henderson, Nevada.

The criminal complaint filed Thursday in Las Vegas Justice Court charges Sapp with three domestic battery misdemeanors that carry up to 18 months in jail if he’s convicted.

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Sumter secondbaseman Jacob Watcher, right, keeps his eye on a popup as teammate Javon Martin looks on during Wednesday’s portion of the P-15’s game against DalzellShaw at Riley Park. The game resumed on Thursday in a 1-1 tie, but Sumter rolled to a 22-1, 7-inning victory.

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FROM PAGE B1 to 1-13 and 1-10. The P-15’s play again tonight at 7 p.m. against Greenville at Riley Park as part of the Palmetto Invitational Legion Tournament put on by Florence Post 1. They will play a pair of games on Saturday at Riley and another on Sunday.

Dalzell left-hander Chad Jones also had early success in Thursday’s contest – working out of a first-inning jam and retiring the first eight batters he faced.

That all changed in the bottom of the fourth. Four hits combined with two walks, an error, a balk and two wild pitches spelled the end for Jones’ night and the turning point for Sumter in a 9-run frame.

Jacob Watcher and Kemper Patton had the big knocks in the inning. Patton had an RBI double and an RBI single while Jacob knocked in two with a single. Price helped his own cause by driving in a run and Javon Martin added an RBI triple. Sumter also added runs on a wild pitch and a balk.

The P-15’s did one better in fifth, plating 10 runs. The first two scored on another pair of wild pitches. Jacob Watcher, Todd Larrimer and Phillip Watcher had run-scoring doubles – with Phillip’s driving in two. Drew Talley and Courtland Howard had RBI singles and Jacob also added a 2-run

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MONDAY’S GAMES

Sumter 13, Dalzell-Shaw 0, 7 innings Manning-Santee 9, Goose Creek 8 Camden 8, Hartsville 2

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Sumter 12, Dalzell-Shaw 5 Camden 8, Hartsville 2

WEDNESDAY’S GAME

Dalzell-Shaw at Sumter, ppd. Rain

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Sumte 22, Dalzell-Shaw 1 Hartsville at Camden, 7 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Greenville at Sumter, 7 p.m.

Manning-Santee vs. Williamston (at Legion Field in Florence), 1 p.m.

Dalzell-Shaw at Lake City, 7 p.m.

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SATURDAY’S GAMES

Duplin-Sampson, N.C., at Sumter, 10 a.m.

Garner, N.C., at Sumter, 7 p.m.

Manning-Santee vs. Wilmington, N.C. (at Waccamaw High in Pawleys Island), 10 a.m.

Manning-Santee vs. Texarkana, Ark. (at Waccamaw High in Pawleys Island), 1 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Greer at Sumter, 1:30 p.m.

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Taylor Finley added an RBI on fielder’s choice in the sixth to complete the scoring for Sumter. Finley also pitched the final 1 2/3 innings.

Patton led the 17-hit attack with four base knocks. Jacob Watcher had three and drove in five while Howard, Price and River Soles had two hits apiece.

Eric Lisenby led the Jets with three of their five hits.

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INVITATIONAL FROM PAGE B1 will take on Duplin-Sampson, N.C., at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Garner, N.C., at 7 p.m.

Their final game will be on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. against Greer.

There will be two other games in Sumter on Saturday.

Greenville and Duplin-Sampson will play at 1:30 p.m. followed by Greenville and Garner at 4.

Manning will play four games as well. Post 68 will face Williamston at Legion Field in Florence today at 1 p.m. Manning will play its final three games at Waccamaw High School in Pawleys

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The other South Carolina teams are Camden, Greenwood, Horry and Murrells Inlet. The remainder of the out-of-state field includes Raleigh, N.C., Newburgh, Ind., Chillicothe, Ohio, Cary, N.C., Whiteville, N.C., Frederick, Md., Jacksonville, N.C., Danville, Ky., and Potomac Valley, W.Va.

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Fister pitches 4-hit ball as Nats beat Braves 7-0

BY HARVEY VALENTINE The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Doug Fister allowed four hits over seven innings in another superb outing by a Washington starter, and the Nationals defeated the Atlanta Braves 7-0 on Thursday for their sixth straight win.

Washington’s rotation has thrown a franchise-record 41 1-3 consecutive scoreless innings over its last six games, the longest streak in the major leagues since Cleveland starters strung together 44 1-3 shutout innings in May 2008.

And next up is Max Scherzer, who starts Friday at Philadelphia. Scherzer struck out 16 in a one-hit shutout at Milwaukee on June 14, then pitched a no-hitter against Pittsburgh last Saturday, when he had a perfect game until he hit a batter with two outs in the ninth.

Fister (3-3) made his second start since a stint on the disabled list caused by right forearm tightness. He struck out four and walked one, and Blake Treinen fin-

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Washington starting pitcher Doug Fister allowed four hits over seven innings in a 7-0 win over the Atlanta Braves on Thursday at Nationals Park in Washington. ished the Nationals’ eighth shutout with a two-hit ninth.

Washington has won eight straight games against the Braves. Every Nationals batter had at least one hit.

Braves right fielder Nick Markakis’ streak of 398 games with an error, a record for non-pitchers, ended when he bobbled Denard Span’s first-inning single.

Matt Wisler (1-1), who won his major league debut last week against the New York Mets, allowed six runs — four earned — and nine hits in four innings.

Cameron Maybin and Kelly Johnson had two hits each for Atlanta, which has scored 13 runs in its last seven games.Braves miscues played a role in each of Washington’s rallies.

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Giants hit 4 triples for 1st time since ’60 in win over Padres SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants hit four triples in a game for the first time in 55 years, including a pair by Brandon Belt in a 13-8 win over the San Diego Padres on Thursday.

Brandon Crawford and Matt Duffy also tripled for BELT San Francisco, which had not tripled four times in a game since Sept. 15, 1960, when Willie Mays hit three of them and Eddie Bressoud had one at Philadelphia’s Connie Mack Stadium.

ROCKIES 6 DIAMONDBACKS 4

DENVER — Troy Tulow-

itzki started a five-run eighth inning with his first career pinch-hit home run, and the Colorado Rockies rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 Thursday.

DODGERS 4 CUBS 0

CHICAGO — Carlos Frias threw five scoreless innings and combined with four relievers on an eight-hit shutout to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-0 win Thursday over the Chicago Cubs. to split the four-game series.

METS 2 BREWERS 0

MILWAUKEE — Jacob deGrom gave up four hits in eight innings, and the New

York Mets beat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-0 Thursday.

ORIOLES 8 RED SOX 6

BOSTON — Matt Wieters hit a two-run homer during a six-run fourth inning that carried the Baltimore Orioles over the Boston Red Sox 8-6 Thursday.

ATHLETICS 6 RANGERS 3

ARLINGTON, Texas — Sonny Gray won his fifth consecutive start at Texas, Josh Reddick drove in three runs and the Oakland Athletics completed a threegame series sweep with a 6-3 victory Thursday.

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver shakes the and of Frank Kaminsky after Kaminsky was selected ninth overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the first round of the NBA draft on Thursday.

DRAFT FROM PAGE B1 The Timberwolves went for a center in their first time owning the No. 1 pick. They can add him to a young roster featuring Rookie of the Year Andrew Wiggins, who was picked first last year by Cleveland and later dealt to Minnesota in the Kevin Love trade.

The Los Angeles Lakers then took guard D’Angelo Russell of Ohio State, who was wearing a red jacket, bowtie and shoes that matched the Buckeyes’ school colors.

The 6-foot-11 Towns averaged 10.3 points and 6.7 rebounds in just 21 minutes per game, as Kentucky used a platoon system in winning its first 38 games and reaching the Final Four.

The New Jersey native said he had above 50 family and friends in attendance.

“This is home to me,” he said.

“Been able to come here and have all my closest friends and love ones come out here. It’s the most special moments in my life.”

It was Kentucky’s third No. 1 pick in the last six years, joining Anthony Davis in 2012 and John Wall in 2010. The Wildcats were hoping to have a record seven players picked and had their second player selected when Sacramento took center Willie Cauley-Stein with the sixth pick.

It was the sixth straight year a freshman was the No. 1 pick.

Russell also played just one year in college.

For weeks, Towns and Duke’s Jahlil Okafor had been considered the top two selections. But the Lakers instead decided on backcourt help with a player who can step right in and play alongside Bryant in what could be the superstar’s final season.

“Kobe’s a great dude,” Russell said. “Not knowing how much he has left in the tank is the scary thing. I’m really looking forward to him taking me under his wing if possible and feed me the most knowledge he can and use that as fire against my opponents.”

Okafor fell to the Philadelphia 76ers at No. 3, becoming the 19th lottery selection and 29th first-round pick — most in NCAA history — under coach Mike Krzyzewski. Those numbers increased when Miami drafted Justise Winslow 10th.

The Knicks ended the run of one-and-dones when they took Porzingis with the No. 4 pick.

The 19-year-old forward had been surging up draft boards but Knicks fans, who haven’t forgotten the drafting of Frederic Weis and were underwhelmed by the acquisition of Andrea Bargnani, wanted no part of him, booing lustily after his name was called by Commissioner Adam Silver.

“Lot of fans weren’t happy they drafted me,” Porzingis said. “I have to do everything in my hands to turn those booing fans into clapping fans. I was happy about it. Want to be part of this organization, the fans are harsh sometimes, that’s how it is in New York and I’m ready for it.”

OBITUARIES MICHAEL A. LOWDER Michael Alton Lowder, 52, died on May 27, 2015, in West Hollywood, California, from a complication of surgery required because of a diabetic condition.

Born in Sumter, he was a son LOWDER of the late Clayton Sr. and Doris Hyers Lowder. Following his graduation from the University of Georgia, Mike relocated to California to pursue a career in acting, directing, and modeling.

Mike is survived by his brother, Stephen McLaurin

Lowder, and his wife, Darla, of Bishopville; and his halfbrothers, Clayton Lowder Jr. and James Ansley Lowder and his wife, Kathy, of Sumter. He is also survived by 16 nieces and nephews and his partner, Robin Douglas.

He was predeceased by his half-sisters, Alice Lowder Robertson and Betty Jho Lowder Wallace.

A memorial service is planned in West Hollywood.

Memorials may be made to Alice Drive Baptist Church, 1305 Loring Mill Road, Sumter, SC 29150 or to the American Diabetes Association.

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ISIAH BROWN SR. Isiah “Son” Brown Sr., 81, widower of Leola Herring Brown, died on Saturday morning, June 20, 2015, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital in Manning.

Born on July 6, 1933, in the BROWN New Zion section of Clarendon County, he was a son of the late Jarvis and Ella McKenzie Brown.

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DWAYNE D. TATE Dwayne David Tate, age 54, died on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at his residence.

Born in Normal, Illinois, he was a son of Shirley Ann Musick Tate and the late Maj. Edward Wyatt Tate, U.S. Air Force.

TATE Dwayne was a brilliant student and was an honor graduate of the University of South Carolina. His joys in life were computers and caring for animals.

Surviving in addition to his mother, Shirley Tate of Sumter, are two brothers, Steven E. Tate of Cayce and Gregory Russell Tate of Sumter; his loyal cat, Cozy; and his mother’s longtime companion, Bill Skroch.

The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. until noon on Saturday at Bullock Funeral Home.

Services will be private.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the SPCA, 1140 S. Guignard Drive, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

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

VICKIE G. PARSON Vickie G. Parson, 55, died on Tuesday, June 22, 2015, at her residence in Sumter.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, 14 Brand St., PARSON Sumter, officiated by the Rev. Sean Erving.

The family will receive friends at the home, 1036 Huddersfield Drive, Sumter.

Surviving are her children, Kedric (LaShriee) Parson and India N. Parson, both of Albermarle, North Carolina; two sisters, Coral Lee Johnson of New York and Loretta Parson of North Carolina; one brother, Tyrone (Brenda) Parson of Charlotte, North Carolina; three grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Condolences and memorials may be sent to their tribute page found at www.PalmerMemorialChapel.com.

WILLIAM GAYLE JR. William “Rock” Gayle Jr., 93, entered into eternal rest on June 20, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Public viewing will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Palmer Memorial Chapel, 304 S. Main St., Sumter, SC 29150.

The family is requesting a private service.

His memories are cherished by his wife of 56 years, Annie L. Gayle; his children, Dorothy M. (Ronald) Ware of Charlotte, North Carolina, Francina G. (Larry) Rhodes, Melvia L. Gayle, Juanita G. (Roy) Epps, Bettie G. (Jeffrey) White and Debrah D.G. (Patrick) Levy, all of Sumter: 10 grandchildren, Rondell L. Ware, Keriyanna A. Rhodes, Bridget J. Gayle, Demetre T. Gayle, Daijah T. Epps, CMon C. White, Javaughn W. White, Elon M. White, Daquan Gayle

and Jaden A. Levy; one greatgrandchild, Micah Ware; and a host of other relatives and friends.

The family requests that condolences and memorials be made on the tribute page found at www.PalmerMemorialChapel.com.

CHARLOTTE E. RICHARDS Charlotte Edson Richards, 81, widow of retired Lt. Col. Eldon E. Richards, died on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, at Brookdale of Sumter.

Born in Susanville, California, she was a daughter of the late Raymond and Annabelle Elwood Edson. Mrs. Richards was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, the church choir, the Cornerstone Sunday School class, and was also an active member of the Women of the Church. She was retired from Jack’s Shoe Store.

Surviving are one son, Trent Edward Richards of Sumter; and a sister-in-law, Karen Edson of California.

The family extends sincere thanks to the staff of Brookdale, Dr. Al Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. William Davis.

Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery with the Rev. Stuart Mizelle officiating.

The family will receive friends at the graveside following the service.

Memorials may be made to Westminster Presbyterian Church, 230 Alice Drive, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

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

His hobbies included fishing and attending family and church functions.

He is survived by two sisters, Dorothy Epps and Harriet Richardson of Sumter; caregivers, Betty Jean Lawson, John Richardson, Linnie Singleton and Marcus Lawson, all of Sumter; his extended family, Joshua Clayton, Ray Edward McFadden, Marrie Conway and Minnie Singleton, all of Sumter; a host of nieces, nephews, relatives, other extended family members and friends.

He was preceded in death by his devoted companion, Evangelist Margaret McFadden; his parents; one brother, Louis Cook; and three sisters, Frances Gredic, Virginia Mitchell and Carrie Lawson.

Funeral services will be held at noon on Saturday at St. Paul Pentecostal Holiness Church, 129 1/2 W. Moore St., Sumter, with Elder Barrington Pierson, pastor, eulogist, assisted by Elder Waiter Hamilton, Minister Timmy Vaughn, Minister Ollie Thompson and Pastor Eugene Myers.

The family is receiving family and friends at the home of Betty Jean Lawson, 3690 Britton Brogdon Road, Sumter.

The remains will be placed in the church at 11 a.m.

The procession will leave at 11:20 a.m. from the home.

Floral bearers will be nieces and Eastern Stars.

Pallbearers will be nephews and King Solomon Lodge No. 8.

Burial will be in St. Paul Pentecostal Holiness Church Cemetery, Martin Town Road, Sumter.

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

Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

JOHN H. LOGAN MAJOR RICHARDSON Deacon Major Richardson, 81, departed this life on Sunday, June 21, 2015, at McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence.

Born on June 1, 1934, in Lee County, he was a son of the late Alexander and Alma Jenkins Richardson. He was educated in the public school system of Sumter County.

Major served in the United States Army for four years and was a member of King Solomon Masonic Lodge No. 8. At an early age, he was affiliated with St. Matthew Baptist Church. He relocated to Miami, Florida, for a number of years and returned to Sumter in 1990. He was united to his lifelong companion, the late Evangelist Margaret McFadden. After moving back to Sumter, he joined Joshua Deliverance Temple, where he served as a deacon for 20 years, Sunday school teacher, Bible study teacher and president of the choir. In 2010, he joined St. Paul Holiness Church, serving on the deacon board, male chorus, senior choir, brotherhood, and the senior citizen auxiliary. He proved himself to be a faithful member as he enjoyed following his church around Sumter and Columbia, as well as North Carolina. He was employed at Shaw Lumber Co., Korn Industries, and VB Williams. He retired from Pilgrim’s Pride in 2004.

John Henry Logan, husband of Janice Ramsey Logan, departed this life on Monday, June 22, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

He was born on Jan. 17, 1928, in Colleton County, a son of the late Joseph and Essie Rhode Logan.

He leaves to cherish his fond memories: his loving and devoted wife, Janice Logan; four daughters, Patricia (Glen) Grant, Carrie Logan, Johnnie Ruth Logan and Janaris (John) Lambright-Trefny; two sons, David Logan and Byron (Carmen) Lambright; 13 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, sisters, brothers-inlaw, family and friends.

John was preceded in death by one son, Henry Lee Logan; and six siblings, Holland Logan, Amanda Hayes, Hattie Middleton, Alma Logan, Lizellen Logan and Leila Logan.

Public viewing will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary.

Mr. Logan will be placed in the church at 11 a.m. on Saturday for viewing until the hour of service.

Funeral services will be held at noon on Saturday at Alive Praise & Worship Center Ministries, 342 W. Liberty St., Sumter, with Pastor James Goodman officiating.

Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park.

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JACOB MYERS III Jacob Myers III, 44, husband of Karen Reaves-Myers, departed this life on Saturday, June 20, 2015, at Carolinas Hospital System, Florence.

Born on Jan. 3, 1971, in Sumter County, he was a son of Jacob Myers Jr. and the late Hattie Mae Grant Myers.

He was educated in the public schools of Sumter County and later served his country in the United States Navy.

Jacob owned a successful mortgage business for 10 years and his own trucking company for 12 years. He was a member of Macedonia Holiness Church, where he served as a choir director.

He leaves to cherish his memory: his wife, Karen Reaves-Myers; three daughters, J’Kayla McElveen of the home, Oquana Myers of Sumter and Fonasha Myers of Shiloh; goddaughter, Kenay Dixon of Sellers; his father, Elder Jacob Myers Jr. of Sumter; two sisters, Pastor Judy Simon of Columbia and Dorothy (Ralph) Richardson of Sumter; two brothers, Jason and Stacy Myers, both of Sumter; one niece, Ebony Richardson; two nephews, Evan and Maleeke Richardson of Sumter; a host of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who loved him dearly.

Homegoing celebration will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday at Westminster Presbyterian Church USA, 9124 Plowden Mill Road, Alcolu, with the Rev. Samuel Sparks, moderator, the Rev. Herbert Shackerford, eulogist, Dr. Antonio Black, officiating, assisted by Pastor Thomas Myers, Elder LaSonya Reaves, Minister Robert Cherry and Pastor Elisha Geter.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the home of his father, 235 Gibbons St., Sumter.

A wake service will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. today at the John Wesley Williams Sr. Memorial Chapel, Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

The procession will leave at 3:20 p.m. from the home of his father.

Floral bearers and pallbearers will be 1989 Classmates of Maywood High School.

Burial will be in Barfield Cemetery, Sumter.

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

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JOSEPHINE B. DURANT Josephine Brunson Durant entered eternal rest on June 24, 2015, at Carolinas Hospital System, Florence.

The family is receiving friends at the residence, 70 Mailbox Lane, Lynchburg.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

ISAIAH SIMON Isaiah “Zell” Simon passed away on June 15, 2015, in Florence.

He was a son of Wesley Simon Sr. and the late Jessie M. Simon.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at New Zion AME Church.

The body will lie in repose one hour prior to service.

Interment will follow in the Church Memorial Garden with the Rev. Archie S. Temony.

Public viewing will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. today.

Services directed by the management and staff of New Life Funeral Services of Bishopville.

MELLERNA K. WELLS Mellerna K. Benjamin Wells, 72, departed this life on June 15, 2015, at her home in North Chicago, Illinois.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Congruity Presbyterian Church, 3750 Congruity Church Road, Sumter, officiated by the Rev. Gloria Williams. Interment will immediately follow in the church cemetery.

The public may view from 10 a.m. on Saturday until the hour service.

Surviving are her husband of 53 years, James Wells; three children; five grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her son in 2012.

Additionally, she leaves behind three sisters; two brothers; an uncle; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc. is in charge of local arrangements.

MARIE DUFFY LEE Marie Duffy Lee, 57, widow of Randy Lee Sr., died on Thursday, June 25, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Services will be announced

by Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, (803) 7759386.

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Opportunities for Life Enrichment 9:45 AM Church School (Sundays) 10:45 AM Morning Worship (Sundays) 6:00 PM Evening Worship (1st Sundays) 10:00 AM Golden Age Fellowship (3rd Wed.) 5:30 PM Prayer Service (Wed.) 6:00 PM Bible Study (Wed.) 6:00 PM Youth Ministry (Wed.) After School Care - Mon. - Fri. 2:30 - 5:30 PM (K-5th Grade)

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MASTER IN EQUITY'S SALE CASE NO. 2014-CP-43-2570

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Trustmark National Bank against Gobe D. McElveen, Jr. a/k/a Gobe Dean McElveen, Jr. and Brittany A. McElveen, I, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, July 6, 2015, at 12:00 o'clock p.m., at the Sumter County Courthouse, Sumter, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying, and being in the Township of Middleton, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot #15, Block C, Melrose Subdivision, as shown on that certain plat prepared by Thomas M. Reynolds, RLS, dated August 22, 1994, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 94 at Page 1176, and having such metes and bounds as are shown on said plat, this description being in lieu of metes and bounds, as permitted under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended.

This being the same property conveyed to Gobe Dean McElveen, Jr. and Brittany A. McElveen, as joint tenants, with the right of survivorship, and not as tenants in common by deed of Thomas Edison Pecor, Jasmine Christain Pecor, and Shakeela Nobles dated September 9, 2009 and recorded October 23, 2009 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 1131 at Page 318.

Property Address: 60 Gloria Drive Wedgefield, SC 29168 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. If the Plaintiff's representative is not in attendance at the scheduled time of the sale, the sale shall be canceled and the property sold on some subsequent sales day after due advertisement.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, the deposit shall be forfeited and the Master in Equity for Sumter County may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). As a deficiency judgment is being Waived, the bidding will not remain open thirty days after the date of sale. Purchaser shall pay for preparation of deed, documentary stamps on the deed, and recording of the deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5.50% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity

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for Sumter County GRIMSLEY LAW FIRM, LLC 1703 Laurel Street P. O Box 11682 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 233-0797 Edward L. Grimsley Benjamin E. Grimsley Attorneys for the Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2013-CP-43-01720 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Bank of America, N.A. vs. Jason R. Dolansky, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on July 6, 2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND DELINEATED AS LOT NO. 56 OF MCLAUGHLIN ESTATES, SECTION 3, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT OF LOUIS W. TISDALE, R.L.S., DATED JANUARY 3, 1995 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK 95 AT PAGE 15, AND HAVING SUCH BOUNDARIES, METES, COURSES AND DISTANCES AS ARE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS HEREBY MADE PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN 30-50-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. THIS PROPERTY IS KNOWN AS 80 ANNIE COURT, DALZELL, SC. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO JASON R. DOLANSKY BY DEED FROM CASEY SMITH AND CHARLENE V. SMITH RECORDED OCTOBER 31, 2005 IN DEED BOOK 1003 AT PAGE 1075.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 80 Annie Court, Dalzell, SC 29040 TMS: 1901503011 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.5% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

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Wesmark Plaza • 773-2262 • Mon-Sat 10-7 • www.MayosDiscountSuits.com Notice of Sale The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 15-00095 NOTICE OF SALE 2012-CP-43-933

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: CitiMortgage, Inc. against Kenneth R. James, Tracy James Houston, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on July 6, 2015, at 12:00 p.m., at County Courthouse in Sumter, South Carolina to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot #134, as shown on that certain plat prepared by Boykin and Millard, C.E's dated June 8, 1950 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-9 at Page 57. This being the same property conveyed to Kenneth R. James and Tracy James Houston by deed of Vivian Thornhill n/k/a Vivian M. Kirven as Trustee dated October 20, 2006 and recorded December 8, 2006 in Book 1056 at page 989. TMS No. 203-14-02-008 Property Address: 1230 Robert Dinkins Road, Sumter, SC 29150 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five per cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the successful bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions (at the risk of the said defaulting bidder). Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.0000%. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. The Honorable Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity Sumter County, Riley, Pope & Laney, LLC, Post Office Box 11412, Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff 1144599 6/19, 6/26, 07/03/2015 NOTICE OF SALE 2010-CP-43-951

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC against Ronald R. Richardson and Cynthia W. Richardson, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on July 6, 2015, at 12:00PM, at County Courthouse in Sumter, South Carolina to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with any improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and delineated as Lot No. 108 of Whispering Meadows Subdivision on a plat prepared for Whispering Meadows Subdivision recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 95 at Pages 3,4, and 5. This said lot has such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976. This is the same property commonly known as 3750 Delaware Drive, Sumter, South Carolina 29040. Included herewith and being permanently attached to the real estate a 1997 Bellcrest Manufactured Home, VIN/Serial No.: GBHMK50755AB, which by intention of all parties, shall constitute a part of the realty and shall pass with it.

This being the identical property conveyed to Ronald R. Richardson and Cynthia W. Richardson by deed of Manufactured Housing Outlet, Inc. dated August 27, 2008 and recorded August 29, 2008 in Deed Book 1111 at Page 2342 in the ROD Office for Sumter County, South Carolina. TMS No. 1510502009 Property Address: 3750 Delaware Drive, Dalzell, SC 29040 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five per cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance.

Should the successful bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions (at the risk of the said defaulting bidder). Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 7.0000%. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. No personal or deficiency judgment being

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demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. The Honorable Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity Sumter County, Riley, Pope & Laney, LLC, Post Office Box 11412, Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff 1142730 6/19, 6/26, 07/03/2015

COMPLETE AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE METES, BOUNDS, COURSES AND DISTANCES OF THE PROPERTY CONCERNED HEREIN. THIS DESCRIPTION IS IN LIEU OF METES AND BOUNDS, AS PERMITTED BY LAW SECTION 3 0- 5-250 OF THE 1976 CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AS AMENDED. BE ALL MEASUREMENTS A LITTLE MORE OR LESS AND ACCORDING TO SAID PLAT.

12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder:

MASTER

IN EQUITY'S SALE CASE NO. 2015-CP-43-515

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Trustmark National Bank against Robert L. Pickering, II a/k/a Robert Lee Pickering, II et al., I, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, July 6, 2015, at 12:00 o'clock p.m., at the Sumter County Courthouse, Sumter, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the Township of Stateburg, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot No. 203 of Oakland North Subdivision, as shown on that certain Plat prepared by Allen-Makela Land Surveyors dated October 24, 1991 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Book 92, at Page 25. This said lot have such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976. This is the same property known as 2700 Watermark Drive, Dalzell, SC. Represented by Sumter County Parcel No. 092-13-01-010.

This being the same property conveyed to Robert L. Pickering, II and Helen M. Pickering by deed of Guardian Builders, Inc. dated August 30, 2007 and recorded August 30, 2007 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 1090 at Page 3589.

Subsequently, the property was conveyed to Robert Lee Pickering, II

by Quit Claim Deed of Helen M. Pickering dated December 10, 2008 and recorded December 12, 2008 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 1116 at Page 782.

TMS#: 092-13-01-010 Property Address: 2700 Watermark Drive Dalzell, S.C. 29040 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. If the Plaintiff's representative is not in attendance at the scheduled time of the sale, the sale shall be canceled and the property sold on some subsequent sales day after due advertisement.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, the deposit shall be forfeited and the Master in Equity for Sumter County may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). As a deficiency judgment is being Waived, the bidding will not remain open thirty days after the date of sale. Purchaser shall pay for preparation of deed, documentary stamps on the deed, and recording of the deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.125% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County GRIMSLEY LAW FIRM, LLC 1703 Laurel Street P. O Box 11682 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 233-0797 Edward L. Grimsley Benjamin E. Grimsley Attorneys for the Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2013-CP-43-01636

BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Benefit of the Certificateholders of the CWABS Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2004-3 vs.

Franklin Richardson Jr.; Lisa C. Richardson; Beneficial Mortgage Co. of South Carolina; South Carolina Department of Revenue; United States of America, acting through its agency, Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on July 6, 2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND WITH IMPROVEMENTS IF ANY SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IDENTIFIED AS LOT 194 OF MEADOWCROFT SUBDIVISION SECTION NO.6 AND BEING MORE FULLY SHOWN ON A PLAT PREPARED BY LOUIS W. TISDALE, RLS, DATED JUNE 25, 2001 AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 2001 AT PAGE 408, RECORDS OF SUMTER COUNTY. THIS PROPERTY IS KNOWN AS 3220 ASHLYNN WAY IS FURTHER IDENTIFIED AS SUMTER COUNTY TAX MAP PARCEL NO. 182-11-01-028.

AFORESAID PLAT IS SPECIFICALLY INCORPORATED HEREIN AND REFERENCE IS CRAVED THERETO FOR A MORE

THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO FRANKLIN RICHARDSON, JR. AND LISA C. RICHARDSON BY DEED OF THAT COLEMAN LIVING TRUST BY JAMES E. COLEMAN, TRUSTEE AND BETTY C. COLEMAN, TRUSTEE DATED 10/31/2003 AND RECORDED 11/3/2003 IN DEED BOOK 914 AT PAGE 1632 IN THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OFFICE OF SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 3220 Ashlynn Way, Sumter, SC 29154 TMS: 182-11-01-028 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). Deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not be closed on the day of sale but will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days as provided by law.

Plaintiff is demanding a deficiency, the Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 8.95% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances. If the United States is named as a Defendant, The sale shall be subject to the United States right of redemption pursuant to 28 U.S.C.§ 2410(c).

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 14-25113 NOTICE OF SALE BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs.

Christina L. Cummins;, C/A No. 13-CP-43-0767, The following property will be sold on July 6, 2015 at 12:00PM at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel and lot of land, with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, designated as Lot no. 47R of Hatfield Estates Subdivision, Section 1, containing 0.63 acres,, as shown on a plat by Louis W. Tisdale, PLS, dated March 29, 1999, recorded in Plat Book 2000 at Page 243 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County. This said lot has such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976. This being the property known as 2070 Truefield Drive, Sumter, SC. Represented by Sumter County Parcel No. 200-08-03-013. Derivation: Book 1092 at Page 3531 2670 Trufield Dr., Sumter, SC 29153 200-08-03-013, SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit, or comply with his bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at his risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.625% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #13-CP-43-0767.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date. Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County, John J. Hearn, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 013225-02794 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources / Foreclosures Sales) 1143843 6/19, 6/26, 07/03/2015

ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL, OR LOT OF LAND, WITH ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING, AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND BEING SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 2A, CONTAINING 0.16 ACRE, MORE OR LESS, OF TUDOR PLACE SUBDIVISION AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT PREPARED BY D.D. EDMUNDS, RLS, DATED AUGUST 28, 1991 AND RECORDED AUGUST 30, 1991 IN PLAT BOOK 91, PAGE 1139 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA; REFERENCE BEING CRAVED TO AFORESAID PLAT FOR A MORE ACCURATE AND COMPLETE DESCRIPTION THEREOF. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO DAVID L. REARDON BY DEED OF ERNEST LARRY BARNES, DATED JUNE 26, 2006 AND RECORDED JUNE 30, 2006 IN BOOK 1034, PAGE 1973 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 2175 Tudor Street, Sumter, SC 29150 TMS: 204-03-08-002 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). Deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not be closed on the day of sale but will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days as provided by law.

Plaintiff is demanding a deficiency, the Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.625% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

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In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 14-29654

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-0311

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Planet Home Lending LLC v. Erin H. Morris, and Christopher A. Morris, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on July 6, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. at the Sumter County Courthouse, 141 North Main Street, Sumter, South Carolina to the highest bidder: All that piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon situate, lying and being in Providence Township, Sumter County, State of South Carolina, and being shown and designated as Lot No. 113 on that certain plat of "McLaughlin Estates" Subdivision by Louise W. Tisdale, R.L.S., dated July 28, 2004, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 2004, at page 470. This said lot has such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976. T This being the same property conveyed to Erin H. Morris and Christopher A. Morris by deed of Milan Homes, Inc., dated May 25, 2006, and recorded May 25, 2006, in Book 1029, Page 1638.

TMS No.:

190-10-03-012

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to cost and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and

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highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master in Equity for Sumter County may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder).

For complete terms of sale, attention is drawn to the Judgment of Foreclosure and Order for Sale on file with the Clerk of Court for Sumter County.

A personal deficiency judgment being waived, bidding will not remain open. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 2.125% per annum.

Should the Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney or agent fail to appear on sales day, the property shall not be sold, but shall be readvertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when the Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney or agent is present.

Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Purchaser is responsible for the preparation and filing of their deed.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County June 10, 2015 Sumter County, South Carolina Jeffrey L. Silver S.C. Bar No. 5104 1331 Elmwood Avenue, Suite 300 Post Office Box 11656 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 (803) 252-7689 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF NOTICE OF SALE BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: BOKF, N.A. dba Bank of Oklahoma, NA vs. Barney E. Osborne a/k/a Barney E. Osborne, Jr.; Veronica A. Osborne; The South Carolina Department of Revenue;, C/A No. 15-CP-43-0139, The following property will be sold on July 6, 2015 at 12:00PM at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder: ALL that certain piece, parcel and lot of land, with the dwelling and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, designated as Lot No 35 of Pinefield, as shown in Plat Book Z-13 at Page 73, and more recently and particularly shown on a plat by Joseph R Edwards, R L S, dated January 26, 1987 recorded in Plat Book 87 at Page 106, records of Sumter County Said Lot No 35 being bounded and measuring thereon on the Northwest by Lot No. 34, said plat, and measuring thereon 164.81 feet, on the Northeast by Thelma Drive, said plat, and fronting thereon 89.85 feet, on the Southeast by Lot

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NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-00064

BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. vs. David L. Reardon; Tudor Place Homeowners Association, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on July 6, 2015 at

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No 36, said plat, and measuring thereon 165.17 feet, and on the Southwest by Lot Nos. 6 and 7, said plat, and measuring thereon 90.07 feet Be all dimensions a little more or little less and according to said plat This being the property known as 120 Thelma Drive. Derivation: Book 491; Page 1504 120 Thelma Dr, Sumter, SC 29150 204-04-01-017, SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit on the day of sale or fails or refuses to comply with the bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at the bidder's risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid after the deposit is applied from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 8.5% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #15-CP-43-0139.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date. Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County, John J. Hearn, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 013612-00004 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources / Foreclosures Sales) 1144521 6/19, 6/26, 07/03/2015

County in Plat Book 2002 at Page 290.

This is the property known as 640 Flamingo Road Sumter, South Carolina 29150 bearing Sumter Tax Map Number: 250-03-02-039. Also includes a mobile/manufactured home, a 2000 Giles, Ft. Worth, 28 x 56, Serial Number GM3113A/B.Being the same property conveyed unto Ruby M. White by deed of Charles M. Smith dated October 14, 2005 and recorded October 26, 2005 in Deed Book 1002 at Page 1893 in the ROD Office for Sumter County, South Carolina. TMS No. 250-03-02-039 Property Address: 640 Flamingo Road, Sumter, SC 29150 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five per cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance.

Should the successful bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions (at the risk of the said defaulting bidder). Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.1250%. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. The Honorable Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity Sumter County, Riley, Pope & Laney, LLC, Post Office Box 11412, Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff 1142729 6/19, 6/26, 07/03/2015

required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 30 days, then the Master in Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder).

MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2015-CP-43-00437

Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel make representations as to the integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

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BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Wells Fargo Bank, NA vs. Sheila J. Stuckey a/k/a Sheila Juanita Stuckey; , C/A No. 15-CP-43-0422, The following property will be sold on July 6, 2015, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the Township of Providence, County of Sumter State of South Carolina, designated as Lot 84 of Whispering Meadows Subdivision on a plat prepared by Robert G. Mathis, RLS, dated May 2, 1994 and recorded with the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 95, at Page 3, 4, and 5. Pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976, as amended), reference to said plat is hereby made for the metes, bounds, courses and/or distances of the property delineated thereon. This property is known as 3990 Delaware Drive, Dalzell, SC 29040 and is shown on the Auditor's Tax Map of Sumter County as Parcel 151-13-02-003.

This conveyance is made subject to any and all existing reservations, easements, right-of-way, zoning ordinances, and restrictive or protective covenants that may appear of record or on the premises.

Derivation: Book 1025; Page 1399

3990 Delaware Drive, Dalzell, SC 29040-8985 This includes a 2005, Fleetwood mobile home with VIN# GAFL475A&B76065CY11.

151-13-02-003 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit on the day of sale or fails or refuses to comply with the bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at the bidder's risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid after the deposit is applied from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5.125% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #15-CP-43-0422.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County John J. Hearn, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 013263-06374 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales) NOTICE OF SALE 2014-CP-43-2061

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. against Ruby M. White and The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on July 6, 2015, at 12:00PM, at County Courthouse in Sumter, South Carolina to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, containing 0.27 acre, more or less, together with any and all improvements thereon, lying, being and situate in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and delineated as Lot No. 5 of Falcon Crest, Section No. 1, subdivision on that certain subdivision plat by Allen-Makela Land Surveyors, Inc., dated March 5, 2002 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for FFMLT Trust 2006-FF4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-FF4 vs. Larisa Gutierrez, et al., I, the undersigned Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, July 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM, at the County Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Stateburg Township, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and delineated as Lot 12, Block D of Oakland Plantation, Section 3, as shown on that certain plat of Belter & Associates, Inc., dated March 1, 1977 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-39 at Page 178, and having such boundaries, metes, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, reference to which is hereby made pursuant to the authority contained in Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, (1976, as amended). This property is known as 5651 Longview Road and is shown on the Auditor`s map of Sumter County as tax parcel 134-09-01-010.

This being the same property conveyed to Larisa Gutierrez by Deed of Matthew J. Brougher dated December 14, 2005 and recorded December 21, 2005 in Book 1010 at Page 643 in the ROD Office for Sumter County.

TMS No. 1340901010 Property address: 5651 Longview Drive, Sumter, SC 29154 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the

Personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days after the sale date. The Plaintiff may waive its right to a deficiency judgment prior to sale, in which case the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity's Deed.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.625% per annum.

The Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

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FIRST AMENDED NOTICE OF MASTER IN EQUITY SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2014-CP-43-01628

This being the same property conveyed to Robert M. & Wanda I. McIntosh by deed of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, dated February 1, 1977, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County on February 11, 1977, in Deed Book F-10 at Page 405.

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Master in Equity will require a deposit of 5% of the bid amount in cash or certified funds, which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid.

Interest on the balance of the bid at 5.004% shall be paid to the day of compliance.

In case of noncompliance within 20 days, after the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for deed recording fees and deed stamps.

Deficiency judgment not being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on the day of sale, the property shall not be sold, but shall be re-advertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent, is present.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record.

Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC Post Office Box 71727 North Charleston, South Carolina 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorneys for Plaintiff

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BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, against Ivan Sanders, et al., the Master In Equity for Sumter County, or his agent will sell on July 6, 2015 at 12 P.M., at Sumter County Courthouse: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, shown on a plat of Palmer & Malone, C.E.`s dated April 18, 1949 and recorded in Plat Book Z-8 at page 102 in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County. Said lot being bounded on the North by West Liberty Street a distance of 162.7 feet; on the East by South Salem Avenue a distance of 41.04 feet; on the South by property now or formerly of Lucille Kennon a distance of 162.5 feet; and on the West by lands now or formerly of O.C. Deschamps a distance of 39.2 feet. Less any portion of said property taken by the State Highway Department for the widening of Liberty Street. This being the property known as 402 West Liberty Street. TMS No.: 228-14-05-003 This being the same property conveyed to Ivan Sanders by Deed by David Sanders, recorded August 25, 2005 in vol. 994 at page 1198 in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County.

ALSO: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land located in the City and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina being the western one-half (1/2) of a lot with improvements thereon as shown on a plat prepared

by Palmer & Malone, C.E.`s dated April 18, 1949 and recorded in Plat Book Z-8 at page 120 in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County and being shown on a more recent plat prepared by Joseph R. Edwards, RLS dated October 29, 1985 and recorded in Plat Book 85 at page 1145 in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County. According to the more recent plat this property has the following boundaries and measurements, to wit: on the North by a concrete walk that runs adjacent to West Liberty Street whereon it measures 81.3 feet; on the East by property of Sanders

being the eastern one-half (1/2) of said lot whereon it measures 40.14 feet; on the South by property of Sims W. Scott whereon it measures 81.17 feet; and on the West by Liberty Street Office Complex whereon it measures 39.14 feet. This being the property known as 406 West Liberty Street. TMC No.: 228-14-05-038 This being the same property conveyed to Ivan Sanders by deed of Patricia A. Sanders, recorded October 14, 2005 in vol. 1001 at page 1317 in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County.

TMS#: 228-14-05-003 Property Address: 402 & 406 W. Liberty St., Sumter, SC 29150 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Master In Equity will require a deposit of 5% of the bid amount in cash or certified funds, which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid.

Interest on the balance of the bid at 2.00% shall be paid to the day of compliance.

In case of non-compliance within twenty (20) days after the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be forfeited and applied to the Plaintiff's judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for deed recording fees and deed stamps.

Deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will remain open thirty (30) days after sale.

The Plaintiff may withdraw its demand for a deficiency judgment at any time prior to sale.

Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on the day of the sale, the property shall not be sold, but shall be re-advertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent is present.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record.

Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Richard Booth

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF MASTER IN EQUITY SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 15-CP-43-0858

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of CitiFinancial Servicing LLC, against Ronald Allan McIntosh, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Wanda I. McIntosh; et al., the Master in Equity for Sumter County, or his/her agent, will sell on July 6, 2015, at 12:00 P.M., at Sumter Judicial Center, 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Township of Privateer, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, the same being designated as .87 acres carved from the lands of W H. Dukes as shown on a map made by H. S. Wilson. R. L. S., dated May 28, 1965, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County in Plat Book 04 at Page 219, and also shown on a plat prepared for Claude J. Lowder by Ferrell J. Prosser, R. L. S., dated August 20, 1970, to be recorded, and having the following boundaries and measurements: bounded on the north by property of S. A. Harvin, whereon it measures three hundred forty (340 feet); on the southeast by property now or formerly of W. H. Dukes, whereon it measures two hundred ninety and 477/1000 (290.477 feet); and on the southwest by S. C. Highway S-43-251, whereon it measures two hundred seventy three and four-tenths (273.4 feet).

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FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015 Notice of Sale Master in Equity for Sumter County Counsel for Foreclosing Plaintiff: Brian A. Calub The Hunoval Law Firm, PLLC 501 Minuet Lane, #104A Charlotte, NC 28217 Phone: (704) 626-4383

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2014-CP-43-01322 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Selene Finance, LP vs. Darlena Monique Grant; Marlene Monita Grant; First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc. s/b/m to Sumter National Bank; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles; Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on July 6, 2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, CONTAINING 0.39 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, TOGETHER WITH THAT CERTAIN 1993 FLEETWOOD MOBILE HOME, MODEL: GAFL, S E R I A L N U M B E R GAFLP05A&B20612CH, SITUATE THEREON, AND WITH ANY AND ALL IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, LYING, BEING AND SITUATE IN PROVIDENCE TOWNSHIP, COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND DELINEATED AS LOT 59 OF SHAWSIDE ESTATE SUBDIVISION ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT BY EDMUNDS LAND SURVEYORS, INC., DATED FEBRUARY 23, 1999 AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 99 AT PAGE 166 IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR SUMTER COUNTY. PURSUANT TO SECTION 30-5-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA (1976), REFERENCE TO SAID PLAT IS HEREBY CRAVED FOR PARTICULARS AND BOUNDARIES, METES, AND/OR DISTANCES OF THE PROPERTY DELINEATED THEREON. THIS IS THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 2940 SHAWSIDE DRIVE DALZELL SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO DARLENA M. GRANT AND MARLENE M. GRANT BY DEED OF CHARLES SMITH DATED AUGUST 18, 2005 AND RECORDED AUGUST 31, 2005 IN THE OFFICE OF THE ROD FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA IN DEED BOOK 995 AT PAGE 781.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 2940 Shawside Drive, Dalzell, SC 29040 TMS: 152-00-02-092 (lot) and 400-00-27-352 (MH) TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.5% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 12-23798

MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2015-CP-43-00425

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association vs.

Glen A. Patmore and Yvonne Smith-Patmore, I, the undersigned Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, July 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM, at the County Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that Lot of Land with improvements thereon situate in Sumter County, South Carolina, represented as Lot 23, Containing 1.00 Acre and Lot 24 Containing 1.10 Acres on that Plat prepared for Tripp Davis and Stephen Dinkins by Nesbitt Surveying Company, Inc., dated December 2, 1999 and recorded July 25, 2000 in Plat Book 2000 at Page 510. Referenced is hereby craved to said plat more a fuller description thereof.

ALSO: A 2001 Fleetwood S-Hill Manufactured Housing Unit, Serial #GAFL134AB73987-SH12.

The Mobile Home located on the subject property has been permanently de titled according to the laws of the State of South Carolina by virtue of that certain Manufactured Home Affidavit for Retirement of Title Certificate, dated May 16, 2006 and recorded May 31, 2006 in Book 1030 at Page 886 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County.

This being the same property conveyed to Glen Patmore and Yvonne Smith-Patmore by Deed of ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., dated February 1, 2006 and recorded February 27, 2006 in Book 1018 at Page 388 in the ROD Office for Sumter County.

TMS No. 093-00-02-041 (Lot 23) and 093-00-02-042 (Lot 24) Property address: 2750 and 2740 Ben Sanders Road, Dalzell, SC 29040

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TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 30 days, then the Master in Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder).

withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

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judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 2.0002% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

Personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days after the sale date. The Plaintiff may waive its right to a deficiency judgment prior to sale, in which case the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity's Deed.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 7.000% per annum.

The Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel make representations as to the integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2014-CP-43-01807 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: U.S. Bank National Association vs.

Michael James-Robert Driggers, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of James Thomas Driggers, Jr.; Ashley Melissa Driggers Lundsford; South Carolina Department of Revenue, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on July 6, 2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND BEING SHOWN AND DELINEATED AS LOT NO. 7 OF WHITE PINES SUBDIVISION ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT PREPARED BY MICHAEL C. TURBEVILLE, III, RLS DATED MARCH 6, 2006 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK PB2006 AT PAGE 146. THIS SAID LOT HAS SUCH METES, BOUNDARIES, COURSES AND DISTANCES AS ARE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, WHICH ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 30-5-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976.

THIS BEING THE IDENTICAL PROPERTY CONVEYED TO JAMES T. DRIGGERS, JR. BY DEED OF MARK A. TAYLOR DATED FEBRUARY 16, 2012 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN BOOK 1167, PAGE 1981 ON FEBRUARY 28, 2012.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 130 White Pine Court, Sumter, SC 29154 TMS: 227-16-03-032 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 3.75% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 14-16168

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County in the case of Porter's of Sumter, Inc., Plaintiff, vs. Vernond Davis, Defendant, under Case No. 2011-CP-43-139 the undersigned Master in Equity, for Sumter County, or his designated representative, will offer for sale at public outcry at 12:00P.M. on July 6, 2015, at the Sumter County Courthouse, Room 1A, 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC, the following described real property, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the Township of Mayesville, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, containing 1.00 acre, more or less, and being shown and delineated on that plat prepared by Joseph R. Edwards, PLS, dated March 19, 2002 and recorded in Plat Book 2002, at page 340 in the records of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County. Aforesaid plat is specifically incorporated herein and reference is craved thereto for a more complete and accurate description of the metes, bounds, courses and distances of the property concerned herein. This description is made in lieu of metes and bounds as permitted by law under ยง 30-5-250 of The Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976, as amended). This property is known as 4465 Daffodil Lane, Gable, South Carolina and is designated as Sumter County Tax Map Parcel No.: 314-00-01-020.

TERMS OF SALE: For Cash: the purchaser shall be required to deposit the sum of five (5%) percent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent) as earnest money and as evidence of good faith. If the Plaintiff is the successful bidder at the sale, the Plaintiff may, after paying the costs of the sale, apply the debt due upon its Mortgage against its bid in lieu of cash. Should the person making the highest bid at the sale fail to comply with the terms of his bid by depositing the said five (5%) percent in cash, then the property shall be sold at the risk of such bidder on the same sales date or some subsequent date as the Master in Equity, or his designated representative, may find convenient and advantageous. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the terms of his bid within thirty (30) days of the final acceptance of his bid, then the Master in Equity, or his designated representative, shall re-advertise and resell the property on the same terms on a subsequent date at the risk of such bidder. The purchaser to apply for documentary stamps on deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the interest rates contained in the Order.

Note: As a Deficiency Judgment was granted, the bidding shall remain open for a period of thirty (30) days after the date of the sale as provided by law in such cases and compliance with the bid shall be made within thirty (30) days after the second sale.

Plaintiff reserves the right to waive deficiency prior to the sale.

Note: If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's representative does not appear at the scheduled sale of the above-referenced property, then the sale of the property will be null, void and of no force and effect. In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day.

Note: This sale is also made subject to all Sumter County taxes and existing easements and restrictions of record.

RICHARD L. BOOTH Sumter County Master in Equity Thomas E. Player, Jr. Player & McMillan, LLC Post Office Box 3690 Sumter, South Carolina 29151 803.775.2306 Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF MASTER IN EQUITY SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2014-CP-43-2477

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of Freedom Mortgage Corporation, against Megan E. Goodell, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, or his agent, will sell on July 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM, at Sumter County Courthouse, 141 Main Street, Sumter, SC, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the City of Sumter, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina designated as Lot No. 31 on that certain plat of Wilson Park Subdivision and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-12, page 82 and having been re-surveyed by Julian B. Allen, RLS, and recorded in Plat Book Z-34, page 113 of aforesaid records. This said lot has such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250 of the

Derivation: This being the identical property conveyed to Megan Elizabeth Cordova by deed of William Richard Gaboda and Gwendolyn M. Gaboda dated March 14, 2008 and recorded March 20, 2008 in Book 1102, page 2391; subsequently, Megan E. Goodell fka Megan Elizabeth Cordova conveyed said property to Megan E. Goodell by Quit Claim Deed dated July 13, 2011 and recorded July 25, 2011 in Book 1157,page 2565 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County South Carolina.

TMS Number: 248-090-3065 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 203 Lemmon Street, Sumter, SC 29150 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Master in Equity will require a deposit of 5% of the bid amount in cash or certified funds, which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid.

Interest on the balance of the bid at 4.49000% shall be paid to the day of compliance.

In case of noncompliance within 20 days, after the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for deed recording fees and deed stamps. Deficiency judgment not being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on the day of sale, the property shall not be sold, but shall be re-advertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent, is present. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record. Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina The Hunoval Law Firm, PLLC 501 Minuet Lane, Suite 104-A Charlotte, NC 28217 (704) 334-7114 Attorneys for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2014-CP-43-00841 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for New Century Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2005-D, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates vs. Wayne Patrick Brunson; Pamela Denise Brunson; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.; Republic Finance, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on July 6, 2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND DELINEATED AS LOT NO. 81 OF PIONEER POINT SUBDIVISION, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT OF JULIAN B. ALLEN, R.L.S., DATED MARCH 15, 1988 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK 88 AT PAGE 238, AND HAVING SUCH BOUNDARIES, METES, COURSES, AND DISTANCES AS ARE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS HEREBY MADE PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN 30-5-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. THIS PROPERTY IS KNOWN AS 65 PLANTERS DRIVE, SUMTER, SC. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO WAYNE P. BRUNSON AND PAMELA D. BRUNSON BY DEED FROM JOHNNIE WILSON AND ROSALINDE WILSON DATED NOVEMBER 29, 2005 AND RECORDED NOVEMBER 30, 2005, IN BOOK 1007 AT PAGE 1005, IN THE OFFICE OF THE ROD FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 65 Planters Drive, Sumter, SC 29154 TMS: 184-14-02-015 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). No personal or deficiency

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 14-07346

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: The Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York as Successor in interest to JP Morgan Chase Bank NA as Trustee for the Asset Backed Funding Corporation Loan Asset Backed Certificate Series 2003-WF1 vs. Jonathan Gregg, Sr.; Agnes N. Gregg; Cutler & Associates, Inc.; , C/A No. 09-CP-43-0420, The following property will be sold on July 6, 2015, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder ALL that certain pieces, parcel or lots of land with any improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot Nos. 424 and 425 on that certain plat of Joseph R. Edwards, RLS, dated October 20, 1997, filed for recorded in the Office of the Register of Mesne Conveyance (RMC) for Sumter County in Plat Book 97 at Page 1284. Said Lot Nos. 424 and 425 having such shapes, metes, courses, distances, boundaries and measurements as will more fully appear by reference to the aforesaid plat.

Derivation: Book 688 at Page 1449.

236 Murphy Street, Sumter, SC 29150 251-02-03-050, 251-02-03-051 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit, or comply with his bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at his risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 8.625% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #09-CP-43-0420.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County John J. Hearn Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 011784-09450 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales) NOTICE OF SALE BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee for the holders of the First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF10 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-FF10 vs. Lance E. Jones; The United States of America acting by and through its agency the Internal Revenue Service; The South Carolina Department of Revenue; Colorado Capital Investments, Inc. assignee of Washington Mutual Bank; Brian K. Cornwell;, C/A No. 14-CP-43-1929, The following property will be sold on July 6, 2015 at 12:00PM at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the Township of Sumter, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina and being shown and delineated as 2.0 acres on that certain plat by Joseph R. Edwards, PLS, dated March 24, 2006 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 2006, at Page 193. Pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, (1976, as amended) reference to said plat is hereby craved for the metes, bounds, courses and/or distances of the property delineated thereon.

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This being the property known as 2975 Lens Heavens Road, Sumter, South Carolina and is shown on the maps for Sumter County as tax map parcel 184-00-02-023(P). Derivation: Book 1024 at Page 1093 2975 Lens Heavins Rd, Sumter, SC 29154 Subject to a right of redemption 120 day from date of sale afforded the United States of America pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. ยง2410(c). 1840002035, SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit, or comply with his bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at his risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 7.175% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #14-CP-43-1929. Subject to a right of redemption 120 day from date of sale afforded the United States of America pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. ยง2410(c). NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed.

Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date. Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County, John J. Hearn, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 011847-03615 Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources / Foreclosures Sales) 1144364 6/19, 6/26, 07/03/2015

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: PHH Mortgage Corporation vs. James E. Childre, Sr.; Alana Timms; Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of James E. Childre, Jr., Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; Kim Childre Tuck, as Personal Representative of the Estate of James E. Childre, Jr.; Kim Childre Tuck, Individually; USAA Federal Savings Bank;, C/A No. 13-CP-43-1505, The following property will be sold on July 6, 2015, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter County Courthouse to the highest bidder: All that parcel of land in City of Sumter, Sumter County, State of South Carolina, as more fully described in Deed Book 1091, Page 3314, ID# 205-04-04-008, being known and designated as Lot 33, Palmetto Park, filed in Plat Book Z15, Page 22, recorded September 5, 1957.

Derivation: Book 1091 at Page 3314 420 Robbins Ave, Sumter, SC 29150 205-04-04-008 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit on the day of sale or fails or refuses to comply with the bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at the bidder's risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid after the deposit is applied from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 3.75% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A #13-CP-43-1505.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County John J. Hearn, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 011227-01225 FN Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales)

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