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10,000 meals for Haitian children

Students pack meals for hungry

BY JAMIE H. WILSON Special to The Item Roughly 200 students and teachers at Sumter Christian School gathered in the school gym on Wednesday to help assemble packets that will provide more than 10,000 meals to hungry children in Haiti. “This is really the hands and feet part of what these kids are learning in their Bible classes,� said event coordinator and Athletic Director Jimmy Davis.

The Feed the Hunger fundraiser event held a two-fold purpose. Students, teachers and the administration solicited donations from family and friends as well as the general public to fund the service project.

Any money raised beyond the cost of the program goes toward technology upgrades in the school’s classrooms.

Principal Ron Davis said the school body has raised about $11,000 in less than a month’s time. “I’ve been very pleased with the students’ excitement,� he said. “They jumped right in.�

For nearly the entire day on Wednesday, a rotation of students, kindergarten through twelfth grade, assembled the small bags of food.

Outfitted in hair nets and plastic gloves, the students formed an assembly line to prepare the meals.

Dried vegetables, soybeans, rice and a specially formulated vitamin powder were heaped into the small plastic bags then sealed. The meals were then meticulously stacked and packed for shipping.

Junior Sarah Hutson, 17, stood at the weighing station, making sure each meal bag complied with the program’s specifics.

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BY BRADEN BUNCH bbunch@theitem.com Tuomey Healthcare System officials are trying to determine their next step after a federal jury ruled they had illegally filed Medicare claims for nearly four years.

On Wednesday, a 10-person jury ruled the local hospital had violated both Stark Law and the False Claims Act, fraudulently collecting more than 21,000 Medicare claims totaling more than $39.3 million between September 2005 and December 2009.

As a result, Tuomey faces the possibility of not only having to pay back these claims, but also hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, fees and penalties. According to the False Claims Act, a SEE TUOMEY, PAGE A10

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Deaundra Barr, 17, holds a bag to be filled by her fellow classmates at Sumter Christian School on Wednesday. About 200 students made more than 10,000 meals during the Feed the Hunger fundraiser.

“This is so much better because it’s helping people in need,� she said. “It’s a way to minister to others.�

Senior David Broughton, 18, said he thought the dual mission of the project served the school well. “As a private institution, we are looking for new and interesting ways to bring in money for the school,� he said. “We managed to bring in money while doing good.�

Jimmy Davis said the food will be distributed by missionaries in Haiti.

After returning from a recent trip to Central America, Jimmy Davis said the project was a great way for students to become familiar with the idea that there are hungry children in the world. “It was the first time I saw hunger up close,� he said. “This helps the students get close to that reality.�

BELOW: A sealed bag of food lays on the table ready to be packed.

Students at Sumter Christian School prepare meals for the school’s Feed the Hunger program on Wednesday in the school gym.

The small bags provide six meals that are packed with nutrient-rich food.

Principal Lemon seeks state’s top education seat

BY ROBERT J. BAKER bbaker@theitem.com Kelvin Lemon has accomplished much in his short time as an educator.

The 36-year-old Manning native started in the classroom in 2001 as a social studies teacher and now works on the administrative LEMON side as principal of East Clarendon Middle-High School in Turbeville.

Lemon is now setting his sights on the state’s highest education post. He announced earlier this week via Facebook that he intends to seek the Democrat- ZAIS ic nomination for state superintendent of education in 2014. “I feel like it’s going from the trenches and fighting on the front lines to going SEE LEMON, PAGE A7

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13-year-old reportedly takes pellet gun to school

City talks historic district street signs BRISTOW MARCHANT bmarchant@theitem.com

A student at Hillcrest Middle School is facing charges after reportedly bringing a pellet gun to school.

The unidentified 13-year-old was petitioned to family court Tuesday on a charge of possession of a weapon on a school ground.

The incident occurred on March 26, when administrators at Hillcrest received a tip that the boy had a gun in his book bag. The principal searched the bag and reportedly found a Crossman-brand pellet gun inside. Deputies from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office responded and turned the child over to the custody of his mother.

Sumter School District spokeswoman Shelly Galloway said the school district has a “zero-tolerance” policy on any firearms or firearm look-alikes on school grounds.

“This student will receive disciplinary action in accordance with the Sumter School District Code of Conduct,” Galloway said.

15-year-old charged with criminal sexual conduct A 15-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday over alleged conduct toward a 3-year-old child.

The unidentified teenager, whose name was not released because of his age, is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

On March 26, the juvenile reportedly exposed his genitals to the girl while at a home in the 900 block of Industrial Street, and he reportedly encouraged the young girl to perform oral sex on him.

Investigators from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office reportedly received statements from a witness to the incident and the juvenile suspect himself.

The boy was arrested and transported to the state Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia to be held pending a hearing in family court.

A proposal to put up decorative signs in one part of Sumter this week brought up problems with other street signs all across town.

Sumter City Council considered a proposal Tuesday to put up distinctive street signs in the city’s historic district but took no action when some council members raised the issue of street signs in other parts of the city.

“My neighborhood doesn’t have any street signs,” said Councilman Thomas “Bubba” Lowery, who represents the northern side of town centered between Broad Street and U.S. 378. “If we do this, I hope we would put up signs in some other places, too.”

The issue arose when the Heart of Sumter Neighborhood Association submitted a proposal to replace the existing green street signs at approximately 20 corners in the downtown area with more distinctive signs highlighting the area as a historic district.

“The signs would be black with white lettering on them,” said George McGregor with the Sumter Planning Department. “It would help establish the historic district

and also help show where it is.”

Five of the proposed signs would hang on distinctive posts along Church Street between Broad and Liberty streets, and the rest would extend five blocks west of Church along Calhoun Street and Hampton Avenue to McQueen Street. John Jackson spoke on behalf of the historic district.

“A lot of other towns do something like this, and it would be a nice distinction for the area,” Jackson said.

The city would pay for the signs at an estimated cost of $12,000. But some council members were reluctant to foot the bill for the historic district when parts of their own wards are missing street signs altogether.

“I wouldn’t be able to vote for this while my district can’t get certain things,” said Councilwoman Ione Dwyer, whose ward covers the area around South Guignard Drive and west of U.S. 15 South. Dwyer suggested the neighborhood association could solicit funds for the project from the Chamber of Commerce instead.

Councilman Calvin Hastie, whose district is situated on the southside and the east of Lafayette Drive, said he didn’t oppose the neighborhood’s request but noted several corners in his

district are also missing signs.

“A lot of them are torn down by criminals who don’t want to be found,” he said.

Hastie knows of one elderly constituent whose health care worker couldn’t find her home off South Lafayette Drive because the sign on the main road was missing. He said when he notices missing signs he reports them to the city for replacement, and City Manager Deron McCormick said the city keeps track of intersections that have “habitual problems” with signs disappearing.

Mayor Joe McElveen said some streets had been “poorly served” in this area, but the city tried to make up for it with other services. “There are some things we do in some parts of the city that we don’t do in others. There are some streets on the west side that haven’t been done in 40 years,” he said.

“I hope people think we want to serve everybody.”

Council took no action on the proposal Tuesday, but McCormick said he would look at a possible citywide sign proposal.

“We could do something throughout the city,” he said. “This historic sign would show where it is, but we could do other neighborhoods also.”

WRECK ON U.S. 15 SOUTH

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VA medical center officials in Sumter for town-hall meeting Officials with the William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Columbia are continuing their outreach to veterans through town-hall meetings at several locations across the state, including a meeting today at the Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St., from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Representatives will be present to discuss VA health care, explain VA programs and services and gain valuable feedback to help continuously improve its programs.

Leave food donations for letter carriers Saturday Letter carriers in Sumter, Lee and Clarendon counties will collect food donations while making their rounds on Saturday during the Stamp Out Hunger food drive. To donate, put nonperishable foods in a grocery bag, and leave it on or near your mailbox so letter carriers can see it easily. Food will be distributed through United Ministries of Sumter County, Christian Charities, Salvation Army and Emmanuel Soup Kitchen.

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An article that ran May 3 incorrectly listed two founders for God’s Creatures Deserve to Live. Chris Raffield is the sole founder of the no-kill, Dalzell-based animal rescue.

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Emergency personnel responded to a five-car motor vehicle wreck on U.S. 15 South on Wednesday morning. According to S.C. Highway Patrol, a 16-year-old driver in a 2008 Toyota pickup truck was in the intersection with Old Manning Road attempting to turn left.

When the light on U.S. 15 turned red, the pickup turned into the northbound lane. At that point, a 2004 GMC SUV driven by Laquanna Harvin, 25, of Mayesville, reportedly ran the light and collided with the pickup. The force of the collision drove the two cars into three other vehicles waiting at the light on Old Manning Road. Harvin was cited by Highway Patrol for disregarding a traffic light.

She and two passengers in the SUV were transported by EMS with minor injuries.

2 Crestwood students win prestigious scholarship

BY JAMIE H. WILSON Special to The Item Two Crestwood High School students are celebrating the fact that they won’t have to pay for college and other collegerelated expenses for 10 years after winning a coveted spot among the nation’s top academic scholars.

RaShon Murray, 17, and Richard Smith, 18, smiled when asked about the effort they and 11 other classmates had to exert to even be considered for the Gates Millennium Scholarship program, which is funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“It was a lot of hard work,” said RaShon. “I think I was seeing essays in my sleep.”

The hard work paid off.

In April, the two were announced as the only two students in Sumter School

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Kenny Rose, director of guidance at Crestwood High School, left, sits next to Richard Smith, center, and RaShon Murray, right. The two students recently won the Gates Millennium Scholarship, earning a full ride to college for the next 10 years.

District to receive the prestigious award this year.

“It feels too good to be true,” said Smith.

The two young men started writing in September to prepare for the January deadline. The topics ranged from personal goals to life experience.

“I tried to make my essays to the point,” said Smith.

Their reward is an allexpenses paid trip to an accredited college.

“It’s great,” said RaShon.

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“I don’t have to place the burden of college on my parents.”

Kenny Rose, director of guidance at the school, served as the boys’ adviser to the program. Rose said Sumter School District was instrumental in helping the students apply for the scholarship.

“At the top of list is scholarships and college,” Rose said. His goal is that every student leaves Sumter School District with a plan of action.

Rose added that the district made sure the applicants had access to proofreaders and editors so they could submit their best work.

“They have been very supportive,” he said.

Eligible high school students are blacks, American Indian/Alaska natives, Asians and Pacific Islanders or Hispanics. They must also have a cumulative grade point average of 3.3 (based on a 4.0 scale) and meet the criteria of eligibility of the Federal Pell Grant program.

RaShon said he plans to study public relations at the University of South Carolina in Columbia before transferring to an outof-state college for postgraduate degrees.

Smith said he plans to major in computer engineering at the University of South Carolina in Columbia before transferring to Georgia Tech.

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Tuomey earns A, Clarendon gets D in Leapfrog ratings area, and a bad grade doesn’t always reflect poor care,� she said. “It may be a matter of documentation.�

For example, an antibiotic has a time frame to be administered. If it is given two minutes outside the optimal range, that would count against the hospital. “That doesn’t change the fact it is good care,� Davis said.

Cornelia Jones, registered nurse and administration director of clinical development, questioned how the hospital did so well on other surveys such as receiving full accreditation from Det Norske Veritas Hospital Survey, which is done annually and was completed in April this year, and earning an A in DHEC’s food and sanitation survey. “We are growing every day, and we are improving services,� Jones said. “We are upward bound. Come visit.

We’ll show you around, and you can ask the staff questions. We’ll be more than happy to help.�

For January 2012 to December 2012, Premier Patient Partnership scored the “facility as the leader for our peer group in preventing readmissions, surgical site infections, injuries, urinary infections with catheters, ventilator-associated infections, pressure ulcers and central line infections,� according to information provided by Rabon. “In 20 years of health care, I’ve worked in a lot of hospitals,� Rabon said. “I’ve worked in some that had A, B, C and D on this survey, and I can tell you, we are as good if not better than most.�

Of the 2,514 general hospitals issued a Hospital Safety Score, 780 earned an “A,� 638 earned a “B,� 932 earned a “C,�

148 earned a “D� and 16 earned an “F,� according to the release. Almost 74 percent of hospitals maintained the same score, and 1.9 percent of hospitals showed a dramatic change in their Hospital Safety Score, moving two or more grade levels up or down. “It’s probably most accurate to say of those two or more grade changes, the most common was from A to C,� said Missy Danforth, senior director of Hospital Ratings at The Leapfrog Group, during a teleconference Tuesday.

Smaller steps are still important, though, said Leah Binder, Leapfrog president and CEO. “A movement between letter grades does signify a change in relative safety,� she said. “We’re making incremental progress, but we still have a very long way to go.�

For more information, visit hospitalsafetyscore.org.

Reach Jade Anderson at (803) 7741250.

BY JADE ANDERSON janderson@theitem.com One hospital in the tri-county maintained its letter grade while another improved by one increment in the latest round of The Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Score.

Tuomey Healthcare System received an A both in November 2012 and May this year, and Clarendon Memorial Hospital went from an F last year to a D this year. “As chief medical officer for Tuomey Healthcare System, I think that I can speak for the entire medical staff and administration when I say that we are very proud of achieving an ‘A’ grade from the Leapfrog Group,� said Dr. Gene Dickerson. “I firmly believe that this is a direct reflection on the professional attitudes and performance of our physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, radiology technologists, nursing assistants and all of the health provider staff at our hospital and is well deserved.�

Calculated under the guidance of the independent, national nonprofit organization’s eight-member panel, the Hospital Safety Score uses 26 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single grade representing a hospital’s overall success in keeping patients safe from infections, injuries and medical and medication errors, states Wednesday’s news release. “The Leapfrog survey, however, represents only a very small measure of the performance of hospitals and physicians, and we should always be careful when we try to interpret these grades,� Dickerson said. “There are many aspects of health care delivery that are difficult to measure, and true performance is a compilation of outcomes, patient satisfaction and processes. The efforts to improve care are never-ending, and we must not rest on our accomplishments.�

Clarendon Memorial officials share that sentiment. “We want to have the best care we can in a safe environment,� said Dr. Catherine Rabon, chief medical officer. “This survey is a tool to do that, and we appreciate that. But do we agree with Leapfrog’s score for us? No. Its methodology is skewed.�

It is particularly so for smaller, rural hospitals such as Clarendon Memorial, said Natalie Davis, registered nurse and director of quality management, who noted that the hospital was threetenths of a point from a C. “We do not have the volume to truly reflect a comprehensive grade in each

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CHARGES:

Michael Brice Bennett, 20, of 209 Hasell St., was arrested Wednesday and charged with reckless driving and failure to stop for blue lights. At 8:55 p.m., Bennett was reportedly seen riding a motorcycle on Broad Street near Wilson Hall Road, changing lanes rapidly between cars while reportedly going 80 mph.

Police initiated a traffic stop after turning right on Alice Drive, but Bennett reportedly looked back at the patrol car and turned onto Wesmark Boulevard, where he continued at approximately 55 mph and reportedly narrowly avoided colliding with a car traveling in the opposite direction. The motorcycle turned again onto Wilson Hall Road toward Broad Street, where the rider lost control and slid into the intersection with Broad and fled on foot. Bennett was located a short time later and taken into custody.

Kevin Christopher Hair, 44, of 355 Horizon Drive, was arrested Wednesday and charged with indecent exposure. About 2 p.m.

Wednesday, the loss prevention officer of a store in the 1200 block of Broad Street reportedly saw Hair fondling himself in the men’s department, while a woman and child reportedly stood nearby. Hair was stopped by police outside the store, identified by the officer and arrested.

ASSAULT:

An 18-year-old employee of a restaurant in the 1100 block of Broad Street was reportedly assaulted while cleaning tables when a customer in his late 30s reportedly fondled her rear end.

The man then left the scene.

VANDALISM:

Between 7:30 p.m. Monday and 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, a car parked in the 300 block of Bowman Drive reportedly was scratched, all four tires were flattened, its head and brake lights were broken, its passenger

side mirror was broken off and flour was poured in the gas tank.

Damage is estimated at $5,000.

At 2 a.m. Tuesday, a woman in the 1100 block of Mineral Circle reportedly watched as a woman in her 20s, whom the victim earlier had a dispute with over the victim’s boyfriend, smashed her rear windshield with a baseball bat. Damage is estimated at $200.

CAR CHASE:

Police attempted to stop an orange Ford Crown Victoria for reckless driving on Mason Road at 10:20 p.m. Monday. The car continued into a mobile home park, and the driver fled on foot after stopping the car near the intersection of Picardy Drive and Somerset Drive. Inside the car, police reportedly found 0.65 grams of marijuana.

UNWANTED CALL:

A 56-year-old woman told police she lost her wallet in the 500 block of North Guignard Drive two months ago. On Monday, she reported receiving a voicemail from a man who said he found her phone number on the ground, gave her his name and apartment number, and informed her that she was his new girlfriend.

RECOVERED PROPERTY:

At 3:06 p.m. Tuesday, a gold 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix with no tag was found abandoned in the 700 block of Omarest Road. The car had been reported stolen from Sumter County.

EMS CALLS:

On Tuesday, Sumter County Emergency Medical Services responded to 40 calls. Thirty-six were medical calls, one was a motor vehicle wreck, and three were listed as “other trauma.�

On Wednesday, Sumter County EMS responded to 27 calls.

Twenty-four were medical calls, two were motor vehicle wrecks, and one was listed to “other trauma.�

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Veteran gets back dog tag lost in World War II

BY KATIE ZEZIMA The Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. — Carol Wilkins leaned over the side of her father’s wheelchair and handed him the small red box, a heart-shaped cutout revealing its contents: a weathered, bent silver dog tag. “Oh, Daddy, look,�

Wilkins exclaimed as her 90-year-old father opened it, his eyes beaming and smile wide. “They’re back.�

Sixty-nine years after losing his dog tag on the battlefields of southern France, Willie Wilkins reclaimed it Wednesday after a trans-Atlantic effort to return it to him that started more than a decade ago in a French backyard and ended with a surprise ceremony in Newark City Hall. “I am so happy,� Carol Wilkins said. “You don’t know what joy is on my heart for what you have done for my father.�

In August 1944, Willie Wilkins was an Army corporal fighting in the Allied invasion of southern France. Amid the horrors of battle, Wilkins’ job was one of the grimmest. A quartermaster, Wilkins was responsible for removing and identifying the bodies of dead American servicemen and having them buried or transported back to the United States.

At some point during the invasion, Willie Wilkins’ silver dog tag somehow slipped off his neck. “It could have been an arm, it could have been a hip that dragged it off, because he was picking up dead bodies,�

Carol Wilkins said. “He said it was horrible.

Blood everywhere. Parts.

All he knew was to pick up those bodies for the

family members of dead soldiers.�

Willie Wilkins returned to Newark and worked on the assembly line at Western Electric in nearby Kearny. He was a happy man who doted on his only daughter, but his service as a quartermaster took an enormous toll. He had a nervous breakdown and post-traumatic stress disorder and retired at age 44, Carol Wilkins said.

Willie Wilkins would sometimes talk about his war experience, especially when Carol was young, mentioning that he lost his dog tags. He and his family were convinced the small medallion would remain a tangible piece of the history of the invasion, buried somewhere in what were once the bloody battlefields of Provence.

In a backyard 4,000 miles from Newark, Anne-Marie Crespo was tilling the soil around an olive tree tucked into a corner when she found the dog tag. She was enjoying an early spring day in 2001 in Istres, France, a village about 35 miles northwest of Marseille.

Crespo hit a small piece of metal stamped with a name and numbers. She brought it inside, cleaned it and tried to straighten out the tag’s bend, only to break it slightly.

Crespo knew the tag belonged to a soldier and kept it on a bookcase shelf. She presumed the soldier died on the battlefield and held a ceremony at her home to honor Wilkins and other American war dead. “I often thought of this poor soldier dead for FRANCE + FREEDOMS,� Crespo later wrote in a handwritten

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, shakes hands with Willie Wilkins on Wednesday in Newark, N.J., after returning a box with Wilkins’ World War II dog tag, which he lost in France during the war. The U.S. Army tag was lost in 1944 and was found by Anne-Marie Crespo, a resident of Istres, France, who was digging in her garden in 2001. The event, which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, also marked the 68th anniversary of Victory in Euorpe Day, the end of World War II in Europe.

letter to Carol Wilkins, dated April 13, 2013. “WILLIE WILKINS what a pretty name, as it sounds good for us French, for me anyway.�

Crespo would often show the dog tag to visitors, proud of the “treasure� she found in the backyard but unsure how it got there.

She showed the artifact to a friend over a meal. The friend mentioned that her brother had a passion for history, so she took photographs of the dog tags and emailed them to him.

The brother, Philippe Cherbout, posted the

photos in an online history forum. He got a reply from the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., which said Wilkins joined the military on Dec. 31, 1942, in Fort Bragg, N.C. Cherbout became a man with a mission: finding Willie Wilkins.

His quest to help an American soldier was personal. Cherbout’s father was a prisoner in Germany from June 1940 until the camp was liberated in 1945. He returned to France with American troops and married Cherbout’s mother.

Cherbout sent emails to anyone he thought could help, from the

White House to media outlets. A woman from the U.S. Department of Veteran’s affairs in Minneapolis located Willie Wilkins in Newark.

Carol Wilkins thought the phone call was a prank. It was the woman from Minneapolis, asking for her father’s honorable discharge number because someone found his dog tag.

Carol Wilkins didn’t believe the woman and insisted on calling her back. The call was legitimate. “I said, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy,� she said, “They found your dog tags. You know you never had them.�

Wilkins said her fa-

ther “was just smiling.

He was so happy.�

Veteran’s affairs got in touch with the GI Go Fund, a Newark nonprofit that connects veterans with services and helps them make the transition to civilian life.

The organization brought the dog tag to New Jersey.

Dog tags are “who you are in the military.

It’s how you’re identified. This is me. This is who I am,� said Jack Fanous, executive director and co-founder of the GI Go Fund.

As rain fell outside, Willie Wilkins was honored in a ceremony under Newark City Hall’s soaring rotunda, where Mayor Cory Booker presented the Wilkinses with the dog tag on Wednesday, Victory in Europe Day. The ceremony was attended by Bertrand Lortholary, the Counsul General of France. “The people of France are very grateful for the courage it took, the incredible courage, it took for American soldiers to come fight on French ground,� he said.

Carol Wilkins plans to display the tag in a case on her father’s dresser.

Willie Wilkins has been in a rehabilitation facility and suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease and other ailments. She expects him to return to their home soon.

When asked if he ever thought he would see his dog tag again, Willie Wilkins shook his head. “I never did,� he said.

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That would require 250,000 new factory jobs per year, nearly double the current pace. Overall, the unemployment rate dropped to 7.5 percent in April, the lowest in four years of recession and ragged recovery.

The economy is growing modestly but steadily. It expanded at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter.

BY CALVIN WOODWARD The Associated Press WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Absent a magic potion or explosive economic growth, it was all but inevitable President Obama would have to break some of his campaign promises to keep others. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing that distinguished them besides their ambition, it was their incompatibility.

Cut a staggering $4 trillion from deficits while protecting big benefit programs, subsidizing more health care, plowing extra money into education and avoiding tax increases on everyone except the rich? Not on this Earth.

The postelection reality is starting to shake out now, though how it will all settle canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet be known.

To reach for his promised deficit reduction, Obama has proposed breaking his tax promise. Toward the same end, his pledge from four years earlier that he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trim cost-ofliving benefits in Social Security has given way to a proposal to do just that.

None of that might happen.

Republicans, who oppose tax increases, and Democrats, who object to curbs on entitlements, could block his path and in doing so save Obama from breaking his own promises.

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lion would surely have no hope at all.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the overarching dilemma in a catalog of campaign promises facing varying prospects during the next few years.

The following is a look at Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading promises and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening with them: DEBT:

The promise: Cut deficits by $4 trillion over a decade.

Prospects: Deals with Congress to cap spending and raise taxes on wealthier people, along with the resulting savings on interest payments on the debt, have already achieved a projected $2.6 trillion in deficit reduction for the years ahead. But the rest of the $4 trillion will be tough. To get there, he proposes a 10-year $583 billion tax increase, an additional layer of tax increases from slower indexing of tax brackets for inflation and modest curbs to federal health care programs, all helping

ready to break his Social Security pledge from the 2008 campaign. He favors a new measure of inflation that would gradually trim benefit increases in Social Security, Medicare and other programs. The change, if adopted, eventually would cut Social Security benefits $560 a year for an average 75-year-old and $136 for a 65-year-old.

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EDUCATION:

The promise: Raise the high school graduation rate from 78 percent to 90 percent by 2020 and make the country No. 1 in college graduates by that year. Cut federal money to colleges that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t control tuition costs.

Prospects: A rocky path at best. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little momentum in Congress for the spending required, his pledge to make the U.S. first in college graduates is a long shot and tuitions are climbing without the promised federal penalty.

Obama has proposed $36 billion for Pell Grants in 2013. Yet those grants now cover less than one-third of the cost of a four-year public college. In 1980, they covered 69 percent of the costs.

to produce further interest savings.

ECONOMY:

The promise: An approach to deficit reduction that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t undermine the recovery or unduly burden the middle class. Also, cut some corporate tax rates, penalize those who shift work overseas and create 1 million manufacturing jobs by 2016.

Prospects: Obama has had mixed success cutting the deficit without slowing growth. He struck a deal with Congress to avoid the â&#x20AC;&#x153;fiscal cliff,â&#x20AC;? a set of tax increases and spending cuts, in January. Businesses responded by stepping up hiring and spending.

But he and Republican leaders allowed Social Security taxes to rise, cutting take-home pay for nearly all working Americans. He wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to avoid $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that started March 1.

Manufacturing has been creating more jobs, but adding 1 million

ENTITLEMENTS:

The promise: No cuts in Social Security costof-living increases. Protect Medicare from Republican proposals to turn it into a voucherlike program.

Prospects: Obama is

The promise: Be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;fierce advocateâ&#x20AC;? for gay rights. Obama endorsed gay marriage in 2012.

Prospects: The course for gay marriage will be shaped by the Supreme Court, expected to rule on the matter in June. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allowed in 10 states and the District of Columbia; many other states seem unlikely to follow suit unless forced by Congress or the court. But cultural attitudes are changing, as did Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s views. His administration argued in favor of gay marriage rights to the court.

GUN CONTROL:

The promise: Ban assault weapons and highcapacity ammunition magazines, expand background checks and more, a postelection pledge made after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in

Newtown, Conn.

Prospects: Obama said he would â&#x20AC;&#x153;put everything Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got into this.â&#x20AC;? His everything wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough. Entrenched support for gun rights and a powerful campaign by the National Rifle Association blocked efforts to pass a single aspect of Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s package, the first attempt to significantly change the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gun laws in over two decades.

Polling found as many as 90 percent of those questioned supported expanded background checks, but even that fell short in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

HEALTH CARE:

The promise: Ensure access to affordable insurance for all and no gutting of Medicare or Medicaid.

Prospects: Obama is likely to achieve his goal of extending coverage to the uninsured. Affordability is another question. Costs are expected to go up, not down, contrary to what Obama promised in his first term.

Some Medicare cuts Obama is willing to enact would hit beneficiaries.

Well-to-do seniors and growing numbers of upper middle-class retirees could face higher monthly premiums.

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BY THOMAS J. SHEERAN Associated Press Writer CLEVELAND â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An Ohio prosecutor said Thursday he may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, saying the man accused of raping and imprisoning three women in his home forced them to suffer miscarriages.

Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty said aggravated murder charges could be filed related to pregnancies terminated by force. And Ohio law calls for the death penalty for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;most depraved criminals who commit aggravated murder during the course of a kidnapping,â&#x20AC;?

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LEMON from Page A1 to the command station where you can help the troops,â&#x20AC;? Lemon said of his decision to run for the seat, which has been held by Republican Mick Zais since January 2011.

Zais said during a visit to The Item on April 29 that while he had not made an announcement about running for re-election, he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see why he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

Lemon said Wednesday that he is disillusioned with state officialsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; treatment of rural education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I basically decided to run for the seat out of the frustration that we go through as educators, especially in smaller districts where we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have as many resources financially,â&#x20AC;?

Lemon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being in this current position as principal and seeing so many children on a daily basis, I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sometimes a disconnect between the schools and the

Castro, a 52-year-old former school bus driver, is being held on $8 million bail under a suicide watch in jail, where he is charged with rape and kidnapping for allegedly abducting three women and holding them captive in his home for a decade.

McGinty said that Castro would be charged for every single act of sexual violence, assault and other crimes committed against the women, suggesting the charges could number in the hundreds, if not thousands.

In court Thursday, authorities laid out more of their case against Castro, saying he lured the women into his car, beat them repeatedly over a decade

state department as far as knowing what K-12 education is actually like.â&#x20AC;?

A 1994 graduate of Manning High School, Lemon began his career at Manning Junior High School and accepted an administrative position as assistant principal in 2006. He moved shortly thereafter to a similar position at Manning Elementary School before being tapped by the Clarendon School District 3 board to be principal of East Clarendon Middle School in 2008.

When that school combined with the high school in 2009, Lemon assumed leadership of both schools. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to become an educator because all my role models were educators, like my mother,â&#x20AC;? Lemon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And my grandmother, even though she never taught in a classroom, was the best educator I ever knew.â&#x20AC;?

Lemon has received degrees from Claflin and South Carolina State universities. He expects to gain his doctorate in education in May 2014. He is the first candidate to an-

and used them â&#x20AC;&#x153;in whatever selfgratifying, self-serving way he saw fit,â&#x20AC;? as prosecutor Brian Murphy put it.

During his brief arraignment, Castro tried to hide his face, tucking his chin inside his collar. He appeared to close his eyes during the hearing and awkwardly signed documents while handcuffed. He did not speak or enter a plea.

Kathleen DeMetz, a public defender assigned to represent him at the hearing, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comment on his guilt or innocence or object when prosecutors recommended bail be set at $5 million.

The judge, instead, ordered Castro held on $8 million.

nounce a run against Zais in either party. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Lemon is a very conscientious young man,â&#x20AC;? said Clarendon 1 Superintendent Rose Wilder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have known him since he was a student. I watched him grow and mature throughout his career. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m surprised a bit, but I wish him well in his endeavor.â&#x20AC;?

Lemonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former boss, Clarendon 2 Superintendent John Tindal, was also surprised. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know enough about it yet to comment on the run for superintendent,â&#x20AC;?

Tindal said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I will say that I think (Lemon) has been real successful at East Clarendon and has made a difference in that school.â&#x20AC;?

State Sen. Kevin Johnson, D-Manning, agreed with Tindalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assessment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clarendon 3 is doing exceptionally well, and Mr. Lemon is part of the team that has led to the success of that district,â&#x20AC;? Johnson said.

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Lemon said he knows itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rather early to start his campaign but that â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to get my name out there.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a lot of positive response from those Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve consulted with,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met with several key politicians to receive advice.â&#x20AC;?

Probably the greatest advice so far is â&#x20AC;&#x153;not to take anything for granted,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trust anyone to get the votes for you,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to get out there and get it. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t assume that just because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m African-American, or a Democrat or an educator that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to get votes from those demographics.â&#x20AC;?

He was also told he needs â&#x20AC;&#x153;money and a message.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the message down,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Lemon is married to Tiffany Lemon. The couple have four children: Justin, 16; Kelvin Jr., 10; Azaria, 8; and Alayna, 6.

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Lemon said his five years at the school have been some of the most fulfilling of his career. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As far as the principalship, well Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the initial stages of this run for office now,â&#x20AC;?

Lemon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to see if I can gather a following. Until I gain a momentum that would push me to have to travel more, I cannot see myself leaving the school, the teachers or the students. And when that time does come, I would ask for a sabbatical. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s down the road and not even in 2013, in my opinion.â&#x20AC;?

Clarendon 3 Superintendent Connie Dennis could not be reached at her office Thursday afternoon, but she said earlier this year when Lemon was recognized by the state Association of School Administrators that he â&#x20AC;&#x153;makes all of us work hard.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;(He) is heavily involved in teaching and learning and works diligently through relationships to move his staff forward, and often beyond the comfort zone,â&#x20AC;? Dennis said.

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ASHINGTON — You know you’re in trouble when you can’t even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama’s fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New York Times that Obama’s initial statement had been unprepared, unscripted and therefore unserious.

The next day Jay Carney said precisely the opposite: “Red line” was intended and deliberate.

Which is it? Who knows?

Perhaps Obama used the term last August to Charles look KRAUTHAMMER tough, sound like a real world leader, never expecting that Syria would do something so crazy. He would have it both ways: sound decisive but never have to deliver.

Or perhaps he thought that Syria might actually use chemical weapons one day, at which point he would think of something.

So far he’s thought of nothing. Instead he’s backed himself into a corner: Be forced into a war he is firmly resolved to avoid, or lose credibility, which for a superpower on whose word relies the safety of a dozen allies is not just embarrassing but dangerous.

In his rambling news conference, Obama said that he needed certainty about the crossing of the red line to keep the “international community” behind him. This is absurd.

The “international community” is a fiction, especially in Syria. Russia, Iran and Hezbollah are calling the shots.

Nor, he averred, could he act until he could be sure of everything down to the “chain of custody” of the sarin gas.

What is this? “CSI: Damascus”? It’s a savage civil war. The antagonists don’t exactly stand down for forensic sampling.

Some countries have real red lines. Israel has no real friends on either side of this regional Sunni-Shiite conflict, but it will not permit the alteration of its strategic military balance with Hezbollah, already brimming with 60,000 rockets aimed at Israel.

Everyone in the region knows that the transfer of chemical weapons to Hezbollah or the acquisition of the Fateh-110, with the accuracy and range to hit the heart of Tel Aviv, is a red line. Hence the punishing Israeli airstrikes around Damascus on advanced weaponry making its way to Hezbollah.

The risk to Israel is less a counterattack from Damascus than from Hezbol-

lah. Bashar al-Assad doesn’t need a new front with Israel. Syria remembers not just its thorough defeat at the hands of Israel in 1967 and 1973 but also its humiliation in the skies over the Bekaa Valley in 1982 when it challenged Israeli air dominance. In a two-day dogfight, Israel shot down 60 Syrian planes and lost none.

Israel’s real concern is a Hezbollah attack. But Hezbollah has already stretched itself in by sending fighters into Syria to save Assad. And it knows that war with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be far more devastating than its 2006 war with the tepid and tentative Ehud Olmert.

Most important, Iran, Hezbollah’s master, wants to keep Hezbollah’s missile arsenal intact and in reserve for retaliation against — and thus deterrence of — a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program.

These are complicated, inherently risky calculations. But living in the midst of this cauldron, Israel has no choice. It must act.

America does have a choice. It can afford to stay out. And at this late date, it probably will.

Early in the war, before the rise of the jihadists to dominance within the Syrian opposition, intervention might have brought down Assad and produced a decent successor government friendly to the U.S. and non-belligerent to its neighbors.

Today our only hope seems to be supporting and arming Salim Idriss, the one rebel commander who speaks in moderate, tolerant tones. But he could easily turn, or could be overwhelmed by the jihadists. As they say in the Middle East, you don’t buy allies here. It’s strictly a rental.

Israel’s successful strikes around Damascus show that a Western no-fly zone would not require a massive Libyan-style campaign to take out all Syrian air defenses. Syrian helicopters and planes could be grounded more simply with attacks on runways, depots and idle combat aircraft alone, carried out, if not by fighters, by cruise missile and other standoff weaponry.

But even that may be too much for a president who has assured his country that the tide of war is receding. At this late date, supporting proxies may be the only reasonable option left. It’s perversely self-vindicating. Wait long enough, and all other options disappear. As do red lines.

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

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arkets work. But sometimes they take time.

That’s the uncomfortable lesson that proprietors of America’s colleges and universities are learning.

For many years, market forces didn’t seem to apply to them. There was a widespread societal consensus that a college education was a good economic investment.

Politicians gave lip service to the idea that everyone should go to college. No one should be stopped by a lack of money.

There was historic precedent. The G.I. Bill of Rights vastly expanded college populations and helped build prosperous post-World War II America. Putting even more through college would make us even more prosperous.

So Congress passed student loan and grant programs to make it easier for people to pay for college and university tuitions. That increased potential higher education revenues.

Surprise! Over the last three decades, tuitions rose faster than the economy grew.

For a long time, that didn’t seem to be a problem. College still seemed like a good investment during the quarter century of low-inflation economic growth from 1982 to 2007. You could pay off those loans with earnings increased by your degree.

Meanwhile colleges and universities — and not just the highly selective ones — competed for students whose test scores would improve their ratings in the U.S. News College Guide by giving “scholarships” that actually were discounts on the tuition list price.

To attract these students, the educational institutions built fancy dormitories, gymnasiums and student centers.

And they vastly increased the number of administrators, to the point where colleges and universities had more administrators than teachers.

Government helped to pro-

duce an ever-increasing demand for higher education. So higher education administrators saw no need to compete on price. Higher tuitions just gave your school more prestige.

Now the higher education bubble has burst. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that that the average “tuition discount rate” offered incoming freshmen last fall by private colleges and universities has reached an alltime high of 45 percent.

At the same time, their Michael “sticker price” BARONE tuitions have increased by the smallest amount in the last dozen years. Tuitions for in-state students at public four-year colleges and universities also increased by the smallest amount during that period.

Applicants are negotiating bigger discounts than they used to. Market competition has kicked in.

What has happened is that in a recessionary and sluggish economy, potential customers have been figuring out that a college diploma may not be a good investment — particularly if it entails six-figure college loan debt that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy.

The Millennial Generation that voted so heavily for Barack Obama — 66 to 32 percent in 2008, 60 to 37 percent in 2012 — has had a hard time finding jobs, even with diplomas in hand. Especially if their degrees are in gender studies or similar fields beloved of academics.

In even worse condition are those students who never get a degree, a disproportionate number of whom are blacks and Hispanics admitted under affirmative action programs who prove unable to keep up with the pace of instruction at schools where most students enter much better prepared.

We see in higher education something like what we saw in

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housing. Government programs aimed at increasing college education and homeownership, particularly among minorities, turn out to hurt many of the intended beneficiaries.

The intentions of the people who created these programs were good. The results — well, not so much.

Home ownership is a good thing generally, but it’s not good for everybody. The young and transient, for example, are often better off renting.

Higher education is a good thing generally too, but again not for everyone. People whose talents are more artisanal than academic are often better off getting a job or vocational training than seeking a degree that guarantees them student loan debt but not a job.

College and university administrators are not used to being disciplined by market forces. For years, they thought they were above all that.

Many got into the habit of producing a product that didn’t serve their consumers’ interests well. In a prosperous and growing economy, there seems to be no penalty for doing so.

In more straitened circumstances, they are discovering that, sooner or later, markets work. Their old business model is no longer working.

Colleges and universities have been doing a good job of meeting their administrators’ needs. Now, in the new normal economy, they’re scrambling to serve society’s needs, as well.

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Corinth Missionary Baptist Church, 25 Community St., announces: * Sunday, May 26 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; PreMemorial Day worship at 11 a.m.

Allen Chapel AME Church, 471 Lynam Road, announces: * Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gospel extravaganza at 5 p.m. * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day celebration at 10 a.m.

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Bishopville Community Center, Cedar Lane, Bishopville, announces: * Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gospel singing at 6 p.m. featuring Corinthians Singers, Committed Gospel Singers, Gospel Kings and others.

Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, 774 Douglas Ave., announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day celebration at 10:30 a.m.

Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 1275 Oswego Highway, announces: * Today â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Joy night service at 7 p.m. * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day observance at 11 a.m. * Sunday, May 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Family and friends day at 11 a.m. * Sunday, May 26 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 37th anniversary celebration of soloist Clara Pringle at 4 p.m.

On the program: Gospel Tones, Majestic Gospel Singers and more.

Church of Christ, 313 Mooneyham Road, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day gospel explosion program at 4 p.m. On the program: Gospel Kings, Buck and the Heavenly Lights, Spiritual Caravans and more.

Clark United Methodist Church, 2980 U.S. 401 N., Oswego Highway, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day

Cross Road CFM / St. Peter Missionary Baptist Church, 845 Webb St., announces: * Friday-Sunday, May 17-19 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conference as follows: 7:30 p.m. Friday; 8:30 a.m.-noon Saturday; and 11 a.m. Sunday.

Dalzell United Methodist Church, 3330 Black River Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday-Friday, June 16-21 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Vacation Bible School for children age 3 to middle school. Dinner at 5:15 p.m. each day. VBS program 6-8 p.m. Call (803) 469-0160.

Edwin Boyle Santee Summer Ministry, 1098 Lemmon Ave. at Boyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Point on Wyboo (across from Camp Bob Cooper): * Beginning Sunday, May 26, interdenominational worship at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday through Sept. 1.

Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 421 S. Main St., announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Communion service. Sunday school begins at 10 a.m. followed by 11:30 a.m. worship.

Faith Deliverance Temple Church, 130 Corbett St., Mayesville, announces: * Sunday, May 26 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gospel singing at 4 p.m. for the 27th anniversary of Deacon Robert W. Smalls and the Spiritual Wisemen.

Faith No. 1 Missionary Baptist Church, 504-C2 Miller Road, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day worship at 11 a.m. Deherda Butler will speak.

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High Hills Missionary Baptist Church, 6750 Meeting House Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day celebration during 10:15 a.m. worship service. * Sunday, May 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Church anniversary celebration at 10:15 a.m. New Generation Community Choirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anniversary celebration will be held at 4 p.m.

Jehovah Jireh Outreach Ministries (A Church Beyond the Walls), 239 Main St., Summerton, announces: * Today â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Building fund program at 7:30 p.m.

Joshua Baptist Church, 5200 Live Oak Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day celebration. Church school begins at 9 a.m. followed by worship at 10 a.m. * Sunday, May 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Adult choir anniversary celebration at 5 p.m. * Sunday, June 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Usherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anniversary program during morning worship.

Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets at Bethesda Church of God, 2730 Broad St., announces: * Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Knitting Hearts Cafe 10 a.m.-noon. Speakers will be Katie and Sarah Gibson, Anne Marie Wittig McKoy, and MeLinda Campbell Welch. Channel 146 Ministry Band will provide music. Continental breakfast included. www. knittingheartsministry.org LaGree AME Church, 2920 Kolb Road, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day

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service at 11 a.m. Armonte J. Harvin and Quiesha M. Brooks will speak. * Sunday, May 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Family and friends gospel explosion at 4 p.m.

Love Covenant Church, 245 Oswego Road, announces: * Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bless the community event 9-11 a.m.

Items to be given away include clothing, household items, toys, baby items, furniture, books and more.

Macedonia Fire Baptized Holiness Church, 9788 Silver Road, Silver community, Manning, announces: * Today â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Revival at 7:30 p.m.

The Rev. Eartha Carter will speak.

Meadowbrook Church of God, corner of Boulevard and Meadowbrook roads, announces: * Today-Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Revival at 7 nightly. The Rev. Kyle Meyers will speak.

Mount Pisgah AME Church, 217 W. Bartlette St., announces: * Saturday, May 18 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gospel choirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second anniversary celebration at 5 p.m. On the program: Spiritual Voices of Manning, Antioch United Methodist Choir, Shepard Voices of Praise and others.

Mount Pleasant RMUE Church, 14076 Panola Road, Pinewood, announces: * Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; New training for service 10-11:30 a.m.

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 325 Fulton St., announces: * Sunday, May 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; YWA Ministryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anniversary worship celebration at 10:45 a.m. * Saturday-Sunday, May 25-26 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Family and friends weekend celebration as follows: 9 a.m. Saturday, stewardship workshop followed by fun and games and a cookout 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; and 10:45 a.m. Sunday, worship celebration.

New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, 3249 U.S. 15 S., announces: * Today â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Youthful praise night at 7 p.m. Call (803) 4814501.

New Fellowship Covenant Ministries, 316 W. Liberty St., announces: * Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Clothes giveaway 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

One Step Christian Ministries, 891 S.C. 34, Bishopville, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day worship at 11 a.m. The Rev. Cookie Washington Kelly will speak. * Monday-Friday, June 24-28 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Arts and crafts summer camp 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Space is limited. Call or email the Rev. Sheila B. Neal at (803) 5869924 or sbneal4@yahoo.com.

Pine Grove AME Church, 41 Pine Grove Road, Rembert, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day worship at 11 a.m. * Saturday, May 18 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 7 p.m. anniversary program of Chosen Generation Choir.

Providence Baptist Church, 2445 Old Manning Road, announces: * Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Widowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ministry yard sale 7 a.m.-noon. * Wednesday, May 15 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wylma DuBose Mission Group will meet at 10 a.m. at the home of Betty Steele. * Sunday, May 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Graduation Sunday at 11 a.m. * Monday, May 20 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Widowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s luncheon at 11 a.m.

Quinn Chapel AME Church, 2400 Queen Chapel Road, announces: * Wednesday-Friday, May 15-17 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Revival at 7 nightly.

Second Baptist Church, 323 Alfred Henry, Manning, announces: * Saturday, May 18 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mother and daughter brunch at 10 a.m.

Sheppard Ministries, 8490 Two Mile Road, Lynchburg, announces: * Friday, May 17 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gospel singing at 7 p.m. at Freedom Worship Pentecostal Holiness Church, 1490 Florence Highway, featuring Oasis and others.

Shiloh Pentecostal Holiness Church, 240 Myrtle Beach Highway, announces: * Today â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gospel concert

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Spring Hill AME Church, 4309 Bill Davis Road, Summerton, announces: * Sunday, May 26 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Church anniversary celebration at 3 p.m.

St. Mark United Methodist Church, 129 N. Main St., Mayesville, announces: * Saturday, May 18 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Family and friends day at 2 p.m.

St. Paul AME Church, 835 Plowden Mill Road, announces: * Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day celebration at 10 a.m.

Barbara Martin will speak. * Sunday, June 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Robert E. Galloway Mass Choir in concert at 4 p.m.

Sumter Baptist Missionary and Educational Association, 508 W. Liberty St, announces: * Friday, May 24 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Youth ministry explosion at 7 p.m. at Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, 155 Wall St. Taw Caw Missionary Baptist Church, 1130 Granby Lane, Summerton, announces: * Sunday, May 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Morning worship will be held at 8 a.m. only followed by Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. * Sunday, May 26 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Family and friends day.

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TUOMEY from Page A1 hospital found guilty of false claims must pay back triple the amount it received, and it can also face fines between $5,500 and $11,000 on each of the claims made.

If made to pay the maximum penalties, Tuomey could face a fine of more than $350 million.

Recent tax reports show Tuomey’s total annual income is about $202 million.

Based on a motion made by federal district attorney Norman Acker at the conclusion of the recent four-week trial, the actual financial total Tuomey faces will be submitted by the federal Department of Justice within the next two weeks. The Sumter hospital will then have up to two weeks to respond.

Tuomey also has four weeks to file an appeal of the verdict.

Brenda Chase, public information director for Tuomey, said the hospital’s administrative staff will be meeting with the board of trustees and attorneys to determine what legal direction the hospital will take next.

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Also greatly affected by the judgment is local orthopedic surgeon Dr. Michael Drakeford, who originally brought the “qui tam” lawsuit, alerting the federal government to the part-time contracts being offered to the local physicians.

Drakeford himself was offered one of these contracts but declined to sign the agreement.

In a “qui tam” lawsuit, the False Claims Act allows for the person who first brought the case to the federal government’s attention — in this case, Drakeford — to receive anywhere between 15 and 25 percent of the total damages.

Efforts to reach Drakeford on Thursday were unsuccessful, and an employee at his office said the doctor was performing surgeries at Tuomey throughout the day.

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DETROIT — Detroit may be broke, but it will soon have a first-rate motor pool, featuring 23 new ambulances and a fleet of 100 new police cars. Some city parks also are getting tender loving care. New fruit trees and shrubs have been planted, and mowing crews are beginning to make the rounds to keep the green spaces tidy.

One of the surprising things about Detroit’s descent toward insolvency — so dire that a state-appointed emergency manager recently arrived to take over — is that public services haven’t collapsed as completely as some might have expected.

But that’s not because city departments are functioning as usual. They’re not. Instead, a growing collection of volunteers, some affluent, some just average guys riding their Toros, are trying to pick up some services that local government can’t provide.

Detroit’s Department of D.I.Y. is either the most heartwarming or humiliating reflection of its distress, but the volunteers insist it shows their refusal to give up on the place where they live.

“When the system fails us, you have to become the system,” said Mitch Logan, a 48-yearold film producer who is part of a self-dubbed “Mower Gang” that mows neighborhood parks after they’ve finished their own yards.

In addition to the landscaping, a church group is boarding up vacant houses in the Brightmoor neighborhood, one of the city’s

most distressed, to keep criminals out. And several neighborhoods are now hiring security to patrol their streets, supplementing an undermanned police department.

As for the new cars, “It is unprecedented for us to help buy emergency vehicles or police cars,” said Rip Rapson, chief executive of the Kresge Foundation, which joined with Detroit’s automakers and other businesses to make the purchase.

However, “this was the kind of expenditure they could not find in their budget.”

Detroit’s problems have been a national spectacle for the last several years, the result of the region’s long economic slump and of past mismanagement that squandered city resources. By the time emergency manager Kevyn Orr took over city finances in March, local government was $327 million in the red and had gone through rounds of layoffs and cuts.

Bus service has been reduced or discontinued on about three dozen routes, leaving thousands of daily riders to find other ways around town. Libraries and recreation centers began closing extra days for employee furloughs, and trash trucks were delayed because of breakdowns.

Police manpower now numbers 2,600 officers, down from 4,000 a decade ago.

The city’s parks were in danger of becoming a particular eyesore. Until donors stepped in, the city planned to close almost half of them. Still, mowing on many is scheduled only every three weeks.

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Saturday: Sunny intervals; a shower or thunderstorm. High 79 to 85.

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

First

Florence 88/66

Manning 86/66

Sat. Hi/Lo/W 84/62/t 80/62/t 83/63/t 83/63/t 85/63/t 88/65/t 80/58/t 83/63/t 86/65/pc 78/56/t

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

Today Hi/Lo/W 83/64/pc 82/64/pc 79/70/s 88/64/s 84/62/pc 85/63/pc 82/65/pc 83/61/pc 85/68/s 84/68/s

Sat. Hi/Lo/W 78/57/t 76/55/t 79/69/pc 87/66/t 82/57/t 85/61/t 80/56/t 75/55/t 84/65/pc 79/64/t

High Ht. 10:08 a.m.....2.8 10:22 p.m.....3.4 10:48 a.m.....2.7 10:59 p.m.....3.3

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

Low Ht. 4:50 a.m.....0.1 4:44 p.m....-0.1 5:29 a.m.....0.2 5:22 p.m.....0.1

Today Hi/Lo/W 88/66/s 84/67/s 86/64/s 86/64/pc 89/66/s 87/66/s 83/65/pc 81/68/s 87/68/s 84/62/pc

Sat. Hi/Lo/W 86/64/t 83/66/pc 82/62/t 81/58/t 83/61/t 85/65/pc 79/59/t 80/68/pc 83/60/t 77/56/t

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

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BY COREY WILLIAMS The Associated Press

TUESDAY 75°

66°

Pleasant with sun mixing with clouds

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

MONDAY 72°

80°

80s 90s 100s 110s Stationary front

Cold front Showers Rain T-storms Snow Flurries

Ice

Warm front

Today Sat. Today Sat. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Albuquerque 67/50/t 73/53/c Las Vegas 88/72/s 94/72/s Anchorage 59/44/pc 60/42/r Los Angeles 75/58/pc 80/60/pc Atlanta 82/64/pc 80/59/t Miami 87/74/s 87/75/s Baltimore 84/62/t 76/54/t Minneapolis 66/42/s 55/36/pc Boston 74/59/pc 70/54/sh New Orleans 81/68/pc 79/64/r Charleston, WV 78/58/t 70/45/t New York 78/61/t 74/55/sh Charlotte 85/65/pc 80/57/t Oklahoma City 74/53/c 76/52/pc Chicago 56/42/c 63/40/pc Omaha 69/48/s 64/39/pc Cincinnati 74/53/t 68/40/pc Philadelphia 82/64/t 76/55/t Dallas 79/60/t 78/55/pc Phoenix 91/72/s 96/76/s Denver 66/43/t 70/47/pc Pittsburgh 76/58/t 66/42/t Des Moines 66/45/pc 62/37/pc St. Louis 70/53/c 68/42/pc Detroit 66/45/r 66/39/pc Salt Lake City 76/53/pc 79/55/pc Helena 73/43/pc 78/52/s San Francisco 63/50/pc 68/54/pc Honolulu 85/72/s 83/71/s Seattle 82/54/s 77/57/pc Indianapolis 66/48/t 68/39/pc Topeka 68/47/pc 70/42/pc Kansas City 66/49/pc 68/42/pc Washington, DC 83/66/t 78/56/t Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice

ARIES (March 21-April 19): some time. the last word in astrology Rethink the past before LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): you make the same Look at your financial eugenia LAST mistake again. Stand up situation and options. for your rights but don’t Protect your assets from jeopardize your position. someone who may want a Serious talks and negotiations will show your chunk of what you’ve worked so hard to strength. acquire.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll impress the SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Partnerships and people you encounter. A trip may present you relationships will blossom if you interact and with unexpected decisions, but nothing you share your thoughts. Much can be can’t handle. Your ability to take charge and accomplished at work and home if you find solutions will lead to greater collaborate and make plans for expansion. opportunities.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t be fooled GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll have a lot to by someone making idle promises. Ulterior consider financially, legally or medically. Slow motives are apparent and you don’t want to down and make your decisions based on facts, end up giving too much for what’s really being figures and whatever expert advice you can offered. obtain.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Make plans that CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your peers will look will accommodate the people in your life who up to you. Use intelligence, good memory and you love the most. Do whatever you can to sound judgment to come up with solutions build your personal assets. that will benefit everyone involved with you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Expansion at home LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do whatever you can for will allow you to develop something you want others. It’s your generosity and dedication that to pursue. Love and romance are in the stars. will put you into the spotlight. Not everyone Making special plans will bring you closer to will like what you do but know in your heart that special someone. that you did the right thing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep your life simple VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll have a wealth of and to the point. Hard work, dedication and knowledge to share with friends and family. loyalty to the people who have given you the Your experience and expertise will help you most in the past will lead to a bright future and resolve issues that have been pending for new beginnings.

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spca pet of the week Herman, a 7-week-old male American shorthair, is available for adoption at the Sumter SPCA. He is housebroken and great with other kittens. He is playful, active, affectionate and adores attention. Herman would make a great addition to any family. The SPCA currently has a large selection of kittens available for adoption. Located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, the SPCA is open 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Visit www.sumterscspca.com.

The Sumter SPCA Benefit Auction will be held Saturday, May 18, at the Elaine D. Korn Memorial Center, 1100 S. Guignard Drive. The doors will open at 6 p.m. and the auction will begin at 6:30 p.m. Live and silent auctions. Admission is $5. Items up for auction include: one week stays in an oceanfront condo; admissions to many southeastern attractions including Disney World, Riverbanks Zoo, Dollywood, Brookgreen Gardens, and more; certificates for many local restaurants and businesses; furniture; art from local artists; collectibles; antiques; and more. If you are interested in supporting the SPCA, call (803) 773-9292 for information on donating items. All proceeds benefit the Sumter SPCA.

SPORTS FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2013

THE ITEM To contact the Sports Department, call (803) 774-1241 or e-mail sports@theitem.com

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EC not taking Latta lightly

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS jdriggers@theitem.com

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Sumter’s Daishun Randolph prepares to go airborne on a high jump attempt during the Region VI-4A meet. Randolph and several local athletes will compete in their respective state meets today and Saturday at Lower Richland High School in Hopkins.

Leaping for success Track & field athletes compete for state titles this weekend es.

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS jdriggers@theitem.com Rakeem Benjamin is used to the pressures associated with competing in a state track and field meet.

Even if they have tripled since he started.

Benjamin, the Crestwood High School senior standout, is one of a number of local athletes competing in the state finals this weekend at Lower Richland High School.

The 3A meet, which begins today and lasts through Saturday, is the third for Benjamin in his career. After qualifying for one

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Crestwood’s Rakeem Benjamin, the defending 3A 400meter hurdles state champion, will try to defend his title in the 3A state meet at Lower Richland High School as well as try to win titles in the 100 and 200 dashes as well.

event his sophomore year, Benjamin followed with two events in 2012 – bringing home the state title in the 400-meter hurdles.

This will be the year,

Youth isn’t slowing success for TSA

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER mchristopher@theitem.com Thomas Sumter Academy head softball coach Lou DeMonte had to ask former Lady Generals standout and assistant junior varsity head coach B.J. Reed when was the last time the softball program won a region title or a state championship.

To the best of Reed’s knowledge, it hadn’t been done since she was a younger player, in the days of slow pitch softball. This year’s Lady Generals team is 11-4-1, outscoring its opponents 76-15 while batting at a .409 clip and winning the SCISA Region II-2A title for what is believed to be the first fast pitch championship in school history.

“We laid out a plan and the girls performed it,” DeMonte said of the season. “We have one junior, four sophomores, two freshmen and four eighth graders. We knew we had a strong chance to compete for the region

Hammond, LMA game time set The deciding game of the SCISA 3A state playoffs semifinal series between Laurence Manning Academy and Hammond will be played today at 7 p.m. at the Orangeburg Prep field.

The best-of-3 series is tied 1-1. LMA, which is 22-5 on the season, won the opening game 3-1 on Tuesday, before 22-7 Hammond rallied with a 9-run sixth inning to beat the Swampcats 9-3 on Wednesday.

The winner of the game will face Wilson Hall in the best-of-3 state title series next week. The opening game will be played on Monday at Wilson Hall with the second SEE LMA, PAGE B4

SEE TSA, PAGE B5

however, that his plate will have three events on it. Benjamin secured a chance to defend his hurdles title, but also qualified for the 100- and 200 dash-

“I was a sprinter my ninth grade year,” Benjamin said. “I sort of moved around after that, but we lost a lot of sprinters from last year’s team, and the coaches asked if I’d be willing to compete in a couple of those events again.

“And here I am – back at state again.”

Benjamin said he thinks he’ll be able to pace himself well enough to compete at a high level in all three events.

“I think getting off to a good start (in each event) will be important,” he said. “When SEE TRACK, PAGE B5

SCISA STATE SOFTBALL TOURNAMENTS 3A at Pine Grove Sports Complex Upper Bracket Friday Game 1 -- Wilson Hall vs First Baptist, 5 p.m.

Game 2 -- Cardinal Newman vs Florence Christian, 5 p.m.

Game 3 -- Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 8 p.m.

Game 4 -- Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 8 p.m.

Saturday Game 5 -- Winner Game 3 vs. Lower Loser Game 4, 11 a.m.

Game 6 -- Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 4, 2 p.m.

Game 7 -- If necessary Lower Bracket Friday Game 1 -- Orangeburg Prep vs. Pinewood Prep, 5 p.m.

Game 2 -- Laurence Manning vs. Hammond, 5 p.m.

Game 3 -- Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 8 p.m.

Game 4 -- Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 8 p.m.

Saturday Game 5 -- Winner Game 3 vs. Upper Loser Game 4, 11 a.m.

Game 6 -- Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 4, 2 p.m.

Game 7 -- If necessary 2A Upper Bracket Friday at Oak Grove Sports Complex Game 1 -- Spartanburg Christian vs.

Calhoun, 4 p.m.

Game 2 -- Williamsburg vs. Dorchester, 4 p.m.

Game 3 -- Winner Game 1 vs. Carolina, 6:15 p.m.

Game 4 -- Winner Game 2 vs. Holly Hill, 6:15 p.m.

Game 5 -- Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 8 p.m.

Saturday at Pine Grove Sports Complex Game 6 -- Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4, 9 a.m.

Game 7 -- Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 11 a.m.

Game 8 -- Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6, 11 a.m.

Game 9 -- Winner Game 8 vs. Lower Loser Game 7, 1:15 p.m.

Game 10 -- Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 7, 3:30 p.m.

Game 11 -- If necessary

Lower Bracket Friday at Oak Grove Sports Complex Game 1 -- Robert E. Lee at Richard Winn, 4 p.m.

Game 2 -- Thomas Sumter at Pee Dee, 4 p.m.

Game 3 -- Winner Game 1 vs. Thomas Heyward, 6:15 p.m.

Game 4 -- Winner Game 2 vs. Marlboro, 6:15 p.m.

Game 5 -- Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 8 p.m.

Saturday at Pine Grove Sports Complex Game 6 -- Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4, 9 a.m.

Game 7 -- Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 9:30 a.m.

Game 8 -- Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6, 11 a.m.

Game 9 -- Winner Game 8 vs. Upper Loser Game 7, 1:15 p.m.

Game 10 -- Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 7, 3:30 p.m.

Game 11 -- If necessary 1A at Pine Grove Sports Complex Upper Bracket Friday Game 1 -- Colleton Prep vs. St. John’s Christian, 3 p.m.

Game 2 -- Jefferson Davis vs. W.W. King, 3 p.m.

Game 3 -- Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 5 p.m.

Game 4 -- Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 6:45 p.m.

Saturday Game 5 -- Winner Game 3 vs. Lower Loser Game 4, 9 a.m.

Game 6 -- Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 4, 12:30 p.m.

Game 7 -- If necessary Lower Bracket Friday Game 1 -- Laurens vs. Andrew Jackson, 3 p.m.

Game 2 -- Clarendon Hall vs. Wardlaw, 3 p.m.

Game 3 -- Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 6:45 p.m.

Game 4 -- Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 6:45 p.m.

Saturday Game 5 -- Winner Game 3 vs. Upper Loser Game 4, 9 a.m.

Game 6 -- Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 4, 12:30 p.m.

Game 7 -- If necessary

East Clarendon High School head softball coach Lisa Ard wouldn’t exactly characterize her team as relaxed entering today’s 1A lower ARD state softball championship.

“I’d say they’re determined,” Ard said.

“They’re determined to play like they have the last few games. They’re focused on the next game and what they need to do to win.”

A win would put this group of Lady Wolverines in rare company.

After suffering through a

number of setbacks in the lower state tournament in recent years, the Lady Wolverines enter today’s 5:30 p.m. contest against Latta with an undefeated mark in postseason play.

EC has been ranked as or near the best team in the state for much of the season. The 20-4 Lady Wolverines need just one win on their home field to advance to the state championship for the first time since 2002.

“We’re very excited about it,” Ard said.

“We’ve made it to the lower state finals a couple of times since I’ve been here through the losers bracket, but everything’s just fallen into SEE WOLVERINES, PAGE B4

Larson hopes to continue rise at Darlington

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press FLORENCE — Kyle Larson is grateful for the exposure he’s received as part of NASCAR’s “Next9” initiative. He is confident it won’t take long for the group of up-andcoming racers to LARSON compete for checkered flags and championships at the sport’s highest level.

Larson, 20, will con-

tinue his rookie season in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series on Friday night at Darlington Raceway. Larson won the truck race at Rockingham last month to become the first from NASCAR’s “Drive For Diversity” program to win on the circuit’s three national touring series.

Je has enjoyed getting to know some of the sport’s other rising young drivers, including 17-year-old Chase Elliott and 19-year-old Darrell SEE LARSON, PAGE B5

Barons softball ready for stronger finish in 3A state tournament

BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER mchristopher@theitem.com Wilson Hall head softball coach Teresa Alexander said her team never wanted to feel like it did after finishing last year with a 19-8 record, but ALEXANDER only making it to the SCISA 3A softball state quarterfinal round.

“Our expectations are very simple — we just want to play our best,” Alexander said. “Last year when we felt the heartbreak — that was the reason why — because we did not perform at our best.”

The team will enter today’s tournament as one of the top seeds. In Game 1 of the 3A tournament at Pine Grove Sports Complex in West Columbia, the Lady Barons will face First Baptist at 5 p.m. and then face, win or lose, either Florence Christian or Cardinal Newman at 8.

The Lady Barons have excelled this season despite the loss of University of South Carolina signee Ansley Ard. After splitting the Region II championship with Laurence Manning Academy last season and finishing in a 3-way tie with LMA and Orangeburg Prep the previous year, Wilson Hall won it outright with a 5-1 mark this season — a feat which is believed to be the first in school history since SCISA started fastpitch softball.

This year’s team, which stands at 18-6 and has only two seniors, is hoping to focus on a better finish by keeping things simple.

“We’re not going into this tournament saying we have to go win a state championship or we’re going to be disappointed and feel like our season has been a failure,” Alexander said. “Instead we want to play our best softball and hope that’s enough to get us to the SEE BARONS, PAGE B5

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SPORTS

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SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO TODAY 8 a.m. -- Formula One Racing: Spanish Grand Prix Practice from Barcelona, Spain (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

11:30 a.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 Practice from Darlington (SPEED).

1 p.m. -- College Softball: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Semifinal Game from Tallahassee, Fla. (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

1 p.m. -- PGA Golf: Players Championship Second Round from Ponte Vedra, Fla. (GOLF).

2 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 Practice from Darlington (SPEED).

3 p.m. -- College Softball: Southeastern Conference Tournament Semifinal Game from Lexignton, Ky. (ESPNU).

3:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Nationwide Series VFW/Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 Pole Qualifying from Darlington (ESPN2).

3:30 p.m. -- College Softball: Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Semifinal Game from Tallahassee, Fla. (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

5 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 Pole Qualifying from Darlington (SPEED).

5:30 p.m. -- College Softball: Southeastern Conference Tournament Semifinal Game from Lexington, Ky. (ESPNU).

6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WPUBFM 102.7, WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7 p.m. -- College Baseball: Georgia at South Carolina (SPORTSOUTH, WNKT-FM 107.5).

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

7:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Nationwide Series VFW/Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 from Darlington (ESPN2, WEGX-FM 92.9).

7:30 p.m. -- NHL Hockey: Eastern Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Five – New York Rangers at Washington (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. -- College Baseball: San Francisco at Brigham Young (BYUTV).

8 p.m. -- NHL Hockey: Western Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Six – Anaheim at Detroit (CNBC).

8 p.m. -- NBA Basketball: Eastern Conference Playoffs Semifinal Series Game Three -- Miami at Chicago (ESPN).

8 p.m. -- College Baseball: Oklahoma vs.

Oklahoma State from Tulsa, Okla. (ESPNU).

8 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: New York Yankees at Kansas City or Los Angeles Angels at Chicago White Sox (MLB NETWORK).

10 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Manuel Perez vs. Vernon Paris in a Junior Middleweight Bout from Detroit (ESPN2).

10 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Atlanta at San Francisco (FOX SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7).

10 p.m. -- NHL Hockey: Western Conference Playoffs Quarterfinal Series Game Six – St. Louis at Los Angeles (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

10:30 p.m. -- NBA Basketball: Western Conference Playoffs Semifinal Series Game Three – San Antonio at Golden State (ESPN).

MLB STANDINGS American League

By The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Baltimore 21 13 .618 – Boston 21 13 .618 – New York 19 13 .594 1 Tampa Bay 15 18 .455 51/2 Toronto 13 22 .371 81/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 19 12 .613 – Kansas City 17 13 .567 11/2 Cleveland 18 14 .563 11/2 Minnesota 15 15 .500 31/2 Chicago 14 18 .438 51/2 West Division W L Pct GB Texas 21 13 .618 – Oakland 18 18 .500 4 Seattle 16 19 .457 51/2 Los Angeles 11 22 .333 91/2 Houston 10 24 .294 11 Wednesday’s Games Seattle 2, Pittsburgh 1 Washington 3, Detroit 1 Baltimore 5, Kansas City 3 Cleveland 4, Oakland 3 Chicago White Sox 6, N.Y. Mets 3 Minnesota 15, Boston 8 Tampa Bay 10, Toronto 4 Houston 3, L.A. Angels 1 Texas 4, Milwaukee 1 N.Y. Yankees 3, Colorado 2 Thursday’s Games Cleveland 9, Oakland 2 N.Y. Yankees at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Houston, late Today’s Games Cleveland (Kluber 2-1) at Detroit (Scherzer 4-0), 7:08 p.m.

San Diego (Volquez 3-3) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 4-2), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Morrow 1-2) at Boston (Lester 4-0), 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Hammel 5-1) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 3-3), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Hanson 2-1) at Chicago White Sox (Axelrod 0-2), 8:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 1-2) at Kansas City (W.Davis 2-2), 8:10 p.m.

Texas (Ogando 3-2) at Houston (Keuchel 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Straily 1-0) at Seattle (Iwakuma 3-1), 10:10 p.m.

BC-BBN--National League Glance,0123 National League

By The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 20 13 .606 – Washington 18 15 .545 2 Philadelphia 16 19 .457 5 New York 13 17 .433 51/2 Miami 10 25 .286 11 Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 21 12 .636 – Pittsburgh 18 15 .545 3 Cincinnati 19 16 .543 3 Milwaukee 15 17 .469 51/2 Chicago 13 21 .382 81/2 West Division W L Pct GB San Francisco 20 14 .588 – Colorado 19 14 .576 1/2 Arizona 19 15 .559 1 San Diego 16 18 .471 4 Los Angeles 13 20 .394 61/2 Wednesday’s Games Atlanta 7, Cincinnati 2 Seattle 2, Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 5, Chicago Cubs 4 San Diego 1, Miami 0 San Francisco 4, Philadelphia 3, 10 innings Washington 3, Detroit 1 Chicago White Sox 6, N.Y. Mets 3 Texas 4, Milwaukee 1 N.Y. Yankees 3, Colorado 2 Arizona 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Thursday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Arizona, late Atlanta at San Francisco, late Today’s Games Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 1-4) at Washington (Detwiler 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

| Milwaukee (Gallardo 3-1) at Cincinnati (Cingrani 2-0), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 2-2) at N.Y. Mets (Marcum 0-2), 7:10 p.m.

San Diego (Volquez 3-3) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 4-2), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (Garland 3-2) at St. Louis (S.Miller 4-2), 8:15 p.m.

Philadelphia (Cloyd 0-0) at Arizona (Kennedy 1-3), 9:40 p.m.

Miami (Fernandez 1-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Magill 0-0), 10:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Hudson 4-1) at San Francisco (M.Cain 1-2), 10:15 p.m.

NHL PLAYOFFS

By The Associated Press FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Islanders 2 Wednesday, May 1: Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Islanders 0 Friday, May 3: N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 3 Sunday, May 5: Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Islanders 4, OT Tuesday, May 7: N.Y. Islanders 6, Pittsburgh 4 Thursday, May 9: N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 11: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, TBA Ottawa 3, Montreal 1 Thursday, May 2: Ottawa 4, Montreal 2 Friday, May 3: Montreal 3, Ottawa 1 Sunday, May 5: Ottawa 6, Montreal 1 Tuesday, May 7: Ottawa 3, Montreal 2, OT Thursday, May 9: Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Washington 2, N.Y. Rangers 2 Thursday, May 2: Washington 3, N.Y. Rangers 1 Saturday, May 4: Washington 1, N.Y. Rangers 0, OT Monday, May 6: N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 3 Wednesday, May 8: N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 3 Friday, May 10: N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 12: Washington at N.Y. Rangers, TBA Boston 3, Toronto 1 Wednesday, May 1: Boston 4, Toronto 1 Saturday, May 4: Toronto 4, Boston 2 Monday, May 6: Boston 5, Toronto 2 Wednesday, May 8: Boston 4, Toronto 3, OT Friday, May 10: Toronto at Boston, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 3, Minnesota 1 Tuesday, April 30: Chicago 2, Minnesota 1, OT Friday, May 3: Chicago 5, Minnesota 2 Sunday, May 5: Minnesota 3, Chicago 2, OT Tuesday, May 7 Chicago 3, Minnesota 0 Thursday, May 9: Minnesota at Chicago, 9:30 p.m.

Anaheim 3, Detroit 2 Tuesday, April 30: Anaheim 3, Detroit 1 Thursday, May 2: Detroit 5, Anaheim 4, OT Saturday, May 4: Anaheim 4, Detroit 0 Monday, May 6: Detroit 3, Anaheim 2, OT Wednesday, May 8: Anaheim 3, Detroit 2, OT Friday, May 10: Anaheim at Detroit, 8 p.m.

San Jose 4, Vancouver 0 Wednesday, May 1: San Jose 3, Vancouver 1 Friday, May 3: San Jose 3, Vancouver 2, OT Sunday, May 5: San Jose 5, Vancouver 2 Tuesday, May 7: San Jose 4, Vancouver 3, OT Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2 Tuesday, April 30: St. Louis 2, Los Angeles 1, OT Thursday, May 2: St. Louis 2, Los Angeles 1 Saturday, May 4: Los Angeles 1, St. Louis 0 Monday, May 6: Los Angeles 4, St. Louis 3 Wednesday, May 8: Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2, OT Friday, May 10: St. Louis at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

GOLF The Players Championship Par Scores The Associated Press Thursday At TPC Sawgrass Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Purse: $9.5 million Yardage: 7,215; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Roberto Castro 32-31—63 -9 Zach Johnson 33-33—66 -6 Rory McIlroy 35-31—66 -6 Casey Wittenberg 33-34—67 -5 Hunter Mahan 34-33—67 -5 Steve Stricker 36-31—67 -5 Ryan Palmer 35-32—67 -5 Webb Simpson 32-35—67 -5 Tiger Woods 34-33—67 -5 Jason Bohn 31-37—68 -4 Henrik Stenson 33-35—68 -4 David Lingmerth 35-33—68 -4 Greg Chalmers 33-35—68 -4 Padraig Harrington 35-33—68 -4 Sergio Garcia 34-34—68 -4 Sang-Moon Bae 34-34—68 -4 Jason Kokrak 34-35—69 -3 Jason Day 34-35—69 -3 Ben Crane 35-34—69 -3 Kevin Streelman 37-32—69 -3 Louis Oosthuizen 35-34—69 -3 Russell Henley 33-36—69 -3 Adam Scott 35-34—69 -3 Bo Van Pelt 33-36—69 -3 Andres Romero 33-36—69 -3 Nicholas Thompson 33-36—69 -3 Kevin Chappell 36-33—69 -3 Daniel Summerhays 34-35—69 -3 Jonas Blixt 34-35—69 -3 Ben Curtis 34-35—69 -3 Lee Westwood 36-33—69 -3 K.J. Choi 34-35—69 -3 Michael Thompson 35-34—69 -3 Jeff Maggert 35-35—70 -2 William McGirt 37-33—70 -2 Cameron Tringale 36-34—70 -2 Peter Hanson 32-38—70 -2 Justin Leonard 37-33—70 -2 George McNeill 34-36—70 -2 Graeme McDowell 35-35—70 -2 Keegan Bradley 37-33—70 -2 Sean O’Hair 35-35—70 -2 John Huh 34-36—70 -2 Matt Jones 35-35—70 -2 Matt Every 36-34—70 -2 Charley Hoffman 37-33—70 -2 Seung-Yul Noh 35-35—70 -2 Davis Love III 34-36—70 -2 Carl Pettersson 35-35—70 -2 Chris Kirk 35-35—70 -2 Scott Piercy 34-36—70 -2 James Hahn 37-33—70 -2 Harris English 35-35—70 -2 Ken Duke 35-36—71 -1 Chad Campbell 34-37—71 -1 Jerry Kelly 35-36—71 -1 Scott Stallings 31-40—71 -1 Ricky Barnes 35-36—71 -1 Boo Weekley 35-36—71 -1 Charles Howell III 37-34—71 -1 Jason Dufner 39-32—71 -1 Matt Kuchar 35-36—71 -1 Brandt Snedeker 36-35—71 -1 Martin Laird 35-36—71 -1 Tim Herron 34-37—71 -1 Graham DeLaet 36-35—71 -1 Jeff Overton 37-34—71 -1 Josh Teater 36-36—72 E Brian Harman 36-36—72 E Jimmy Walker 35-37—72 E D.A. Points 35-37—72 E Tim Clark 37-35—72 E Jim Furyk 37-35—72 E Brian Gay 36-36—72 E Charlie Beljan 36-36—72 E Marc Leishman 35-37—72 E Freddie Jacobson 35-37—72 E Phil Mickelson 35-37—72 E Justin Rose 34-38—72 E OTHER: Tommy Gainey 35-40—75 +3

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Great debut for Castro; Woods solid at Players

BY DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods was nine shots out of the lead, not the best position at The Players Championship, especially since he had not even started his round. Perhaps the bigger surprise was the guy who posted the record-tying round Thursday.

Roberto Castro had only played the TPC Sawgrass in a practice round. He made a debut he won’t soon forget.

There was the 9-iron to a foot on the island-green 17th and a 4-iron WOODS to about the same tap-in range on the 18th, the hardest hole on the course. He hit a 3-iron to 3 feet for eagle, and twice hit wedge so close he didn’t even have to read the putt.

When his memorable day was over, Castro had a 9-under 63 and his name in the record book twice. He tied the course record held by Fred Couples and Greg Norman, and his threeshot lead was the largest margin after the opening round at The Players in 21 years.

Welcome to Sawgrass.

“I hit it close a lot,” said Castro, making it sound as easy as it looked.

He led over Rory McIlroy, who broke par for the first time in his fourth appearance with five birdies after the turn and conservative play off the tee on the front nine for a bogey-free 66.

Zach Johnson also had a 66 while playing in the pristine morning conditions.

Woods had to work a little harder in the afternoon. Not only did he spot Castro nine shots, Woods had never broken 70 in the opening round in his 15 previous tries.

“It was a day that I felt I had to shoot something in the 60s,” Woods said.

Roberto Castro hits from the ninth tee during the first round of The Players Championship on Thursday at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Castro finished at 9 under par 63, tying the course record.

He ran off four straight birdies around the turn. He was on the cup of his first bogey-free round at The Players until his 8-iron from 200 yards went just over the green and he flubbed his chip. The bogey gave him a 67, a strong effort considering he knew he had a lot of ground to make up before hitting his first shot.

“I’ve seen that a lot, but not at this golf course,” he said.

Vijay Singh, playing one day after he sued the PGA Tour for its handling of his doping case, was largely ignored while playing in the group behind Woods. One fan wore felt deer antlers in the bleachers behind the first tee — Singh’s case involved taking deer antler spray — but only a dozen or so people followed the 50-year-old Fijian on the back nine and it was a quiet day.

At one point, Singh let out a hearty laugh walking off the tee with Robert Garrigus and J.J. Henry. His golf wasn’t the subject of the laughter. Singh hit into the water on the last hole and made bogey for a 74, leaving him in danger of missing the cut.

So ended a first round filled with plenty of action — a record-tying score by a player hardly anyone knows, McIlroy breaking par for the first time at Sawgrass, 17 balls in the water around the island-green 17th and 33 rounds in the 60s.

Padraig Harrington followed an eagle with a double bogey. Michael Thompson made a holein-one.

But it all started with Castro, a 27-year-old who felt like he couldn’t miss.

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Cano helps Yankees to 3-1 win DENVER— CC Sabathia and five relievers held Colorado to four hits, Robinson Cano added a solo homer and the New York Yankees beat the Rockies 3-1 on Thursday in a game that was delayed more than two hours by rain.

Cano also had an infield single in the third for his 1,500th hit as the Yankees took two of three from Colorado.

A steady rain delayed the first pitch by 8 minutes. The grounds crew constantly dumped diamond dry on the infield between innings to keep the surface playable. In the fourth, another thunderstorm rumbled through the city and halted the game for 1:59.

NATIONALS TIGERS

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Luke Scott drew a bases-loaded walk with two outs in the 10th inning to give the Tampa Bay Rays a 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday night.

TWINS RED SOX

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New York’s Robinson Cano, left, forces out Colorado’s Eric Young, Jr., at second base on a ground ball hit by Dexter Fowler in the first inning of Thursday’s game in Denver. The Yankees won 3-1.

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WASHINGTON — Ryan Mattheus, Drew Storen and Rafael Soriano combined for shutout relief after Dan Haren nearly squandered a four-run lead, and the Washington Nationals beat the Detroit

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Tigers 5-4 Thursday to complete a two-game sweep of the AL champions.

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NEW YORK — Center fielder Juan Lagares robbed Andrew McCutchen of a go-ahead hit in the top of the ninth inning, then pinch-hitter Mike Baxter’s single in the bottom half sent the New York Mets over the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 Thursday

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CLEVELAND — Jason Kipnis, Nick Swisher and Mark Reynolds hit indisputable home runs and Scott Kazmir struck out 10 in six innings, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 9-2 win over Oakland on Thursday and a fourgame sweep of the Athletics.

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BOSTON — Oswaldo Arcia hit a two-run homer and the Minnesota Twins capitalized on a costly throwing error by Boston starter John Lackey to beat the struggling Red Sox 5-3 Thursday night.

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BALTIMORE — Alex Gordon and Eric Hosmer homered in a four-run fourth inning, Jeremy Guthrie pitched effectively against his former team and the Kansas City Royals defeated the Baltimore Orioles 6-2 Thursday night to avoid a three-game sweep.

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P-15’s tryouts begin Monday at Riley Park Tryouts for the American Legion Post 15 junior and senior baseball teams will begin on Monday at 5:30 p.m. at Riley Park.All players must bring their original birth certificates for review to the initial practice.

UNC, USC TO OPEN IN CHARLOTTE IN 2015

CHARLOTTE — North Carolina and South Carolina will meet to open the 2015 season in Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium.

The Charlotte Sports Foundation announced Thursday that the game will be on Sept.

5, 2015.

The Tar Heels will travel to Columbia, S.C., to face the Gamecocks in this fall’s opener on Aug. 29. That will be the first meeting between the pro-

grams since 2007, when South Carolina beat North Carolina 21-15 in Chapel Hill, N.C. SINGH SUING PGA

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.— Aside from a spectator wearing fake deer antlers, there was little public reaction at The Players Championship to the lawsuit Vijay Singh filed against the PGA Tour.

Singh sued the governing body Wednesday for exposing him to “public humiliation and ridicule” during a 12week investigation into his use of deer antler spray. The tour dropped its case last week.

UJIRI NAMED NBA’S TOP EXECUTIVE

DENVER — Even as Masai Ujiri accepted the NBA’s executive of the year trophy from

club President Josh Kroenke on Thursday, the Denver Nuggets general manager said he would have given it up gladly in exchange for a deep playoff run.

Ujiri, the first African-born GM in major American sports, built the Nuggets team that won an NBA franchise-record 57 games and went an NBAbest 38-3 at home before going down in the first round.

FEDERER LOSES TO NISHIKORI AT MADRID

MADRID— Second-ranked Roger Federer lost to Kei Nishikori 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 in the third round of the Madrid Open on Thursday, leaving Rafael Nadal as the clear title favorite.

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Parity abounds so far in NBA semifinals

BY TIM REYNOLDS The Associated Press Parity has struck the NBA playoffs, where the conference semifinals are all fit to be tied.

The four current series are all knotted at one game apiece — the first time that’s happened in the second round of the NBA playoffs since the league went to its current format more than a quarter-century ago. For favorites like Miami, New York, San Antonio and Oklahoma City, homecourt advantage has disappeared, and now it’s the underdogs who can control their own fates simply by taking care of business on their home floors.

A wild weekend is ahead, without question.

The Heat, Knicks, Spurs and Thunder are four of the league’s top five winningest road teams this season. That probably isn’t being received as great news for Chicago, Indiana, Golden State and Memphis, the lower-seeded clubs who will be hosting pivotal Game 3’s when NBA playoff action resumes on Friday and Saturday.

“Pretty cool. The NBA’s loving it,” Heat forward LeBron James said. “When it comes to the playoffs, I always continue to say no matter how many games you win or lose in the regular season, once you get to the playoffs everybody’s record is 0-0. So I think it’s great. I think it’s great for our fans, I think it’s great for the competition that every series is tied

1-1.”

After a first round with only two sweeps —

by Miami and San Antonio, the top seeds in the Eastern and Western Conferences — the tone for the second round was set pretty quickly around the league.

Miami lost Game 1 at home to a wounded and weary team from Chicago. San Antonio needed a huge comeback to beat Golden State in Game 1 of their series, then saw the Warriors simply come back and take Game 2.

The Knicks lost Game 1 to Indiana before evening up their matchup, and the Thunder are likely feeling lucky that they’re not in an 0-2 hole after Memphis had plenty of chances to take the opening game of their series.

“When you get this deep into the playoffs, they’re all good teams, they’re all very good teams more than capable of winning at home or on the road,” Golden State coach Mark Jackson said. “So I’m not surprised at all. Good coaching, good playing, you make adjustments and win games. They’ve all been great games.”

Big fourth-quarter comebacks, first by Oklahoma City and then

by Memphis, decided the outcomes of the first two games of that series, where the cumulative score right now is Grizzlies 190, Thunder 186.

The first two Spurs-Warriors games were pure theater, with San Antonio winning a doubleovertime thriller in

Bulls, Heat prepare for pivotal Game 3

BY JAY COHEN The Associated Press DEERFIELD, Ill. — It started with the flu, and turned into a hospital stay. There were terrible headaches and weakness. Just walking was a chore.

All at the worst time for Luol Deng and the Chicago Bulls.

The All-Star forward made an appearance at Chicago’s practice facility on Thursday, but it was clear from his drawn appearance and measured tone that he DENG might not be able to make it back in time to play in the Bulls’ rugged postseason series against the Miami Heat.

Looking for reinforcements for its depleted roster, Chicago is going to have to wait a while for Deng.

“I don’t know. I want to play, but I don’t know what I can do,” he said.

“I just, I haven’t done anything.”

Deng joined his teammates for the film session covering Wednesday night’s 11578 drubbing by the Heat that evened the series heading into Game 3 in Chicago on Friday night.

He also got on the court and took a few jumpers, but that was all he could handle.

“Still day to day. He’s feeling a little bit better,” coach Tom Thibodeau said. “We’ll see tomorrow.”

While Chicago was taking stock of its injuries — Kirk Hinrich had a second MRI on his injured left calf, and Derrick Rose was the “same,” according to Thibodeau — Miami was bracing for the first game of the series at the United Center. It’s the Heat’s first trip to Chicago since a 101-97 loss on March 27 snapped their 27-game winning streak.

“We know that they call it the ‘Madhouse on Madison’ for a reason,” said Miami guard Dwyane Wade, a Chicagoarea native. “The fans are very loud. At the end of the day, once that settles down, it’s the game of basketball and you have to execute your game plan. It’s going to be the little things that wins games for your team.”

The Heat did everything right in Game 2, running away from the Bulls after a surprising 93-86 loss in the series opener on Monday night. A 62-20 run was more than enough to wipe away the residue from Miami’s first playoff loss, and MVP LeBron James had only three points in the tidal wave — a scary statistic for Chicago, and there’s more.

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Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant slips and falls as Memphis’Tony Allen blocks his pass during the final seconds of Game 2 on Tuesday of their Western Conference semifinals series in Oklahoma City. The series is tied 1-1, just like the other three semifinal series.

NBA PLAYOFFS (x-if necessary) (Best-of-7) CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 1, Miami 1 Monday, May 6: Chicago 93, Miami 86 Wednesday, May 8: Miami 115, Chicago 78 Friday, May 10: Miami at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Monday, May 13: Miami at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15: Chicago at Miami, 7 p.m. x-Friday, May 17: Miami at Chicago, TBA x-Sunday, May 19: Chicago at Miami, TBA Indiana 1, New York 1 Sunday, May 5: Indiana 102, New York 95 Tuesday, May 7: New York 105, Indiana 79 Saturday, May 11: New York at Indiana, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 14: New York at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 16: Indiana at New York, 8 p.m. x-Saturday, May 18: New York at Indiana, TBA x-Monday, May 20: Indiana at New York, 8 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio 1, Golden State 1

Monday, May 6: San Antonio 129, Golden State 127, 2OT Wednesday, May 8: Golden St. 100, San Antonio 91 Friday, May 10: San Antonio at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 12: San Antonio at Golden State, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 14: Golden State at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 16: San Antonio at Golden State, TBA x-Sunday, May 19: Golden State at San Antonio, TBA Oklahoma City 1, Memphis 1 Sunday, May 5: Oklahoma City 93, Memphis 91 Tuesday, May 7: Memphis 99, Oklahoma City 93 Saturday, May 11: Oklahoma City at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Monday, May 13: Oklahoma City at Memphis, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15: Memphis at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 17: Oklahoma City at Memphis, TBA x-Sunday, May 19: Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBA

Game 1 after rallying from 16 points down late in regulation.

Road teams took Game 1’s in the East semifinals, with Indiana and Chicago both winning by seven. And the home teams imposed

their wills in Game 2 of both matchups, New York using a huge late run to beat the Pacers by 26, and the Heat outscoring the Bulls by an unbelievable 62-20 margin over a 19-minute stretch on the way to

evening that matchup with a 115-78 romp.

“Anybody can beat you on a given night and playoff basketball is no different,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. “I mean, everybody at this particular time is hungry even more. Nobody wants to go home so it becomes crazy basketball. Everybody is pumped up and ready to play.”

Then again, if you checked out how these teams fared against each other in the regular season, maybe you could have seen something as uncanny as this coming.

There wasn’t any real separation between the clubs then, either.

The Bulls and Heat split four games against one another, as did the Knicks and Pacers, and Spurs and Warriors. The only exception was Memphis beating Oklahoma City in two of the

three games they played this year — and if they met four times, there would figure to be a chance that it could have been a 2-2 split as well.

“Each team is working hard, trying to get wins,” said Memphis guard Tony Allen, who was part of Boston’s title-winning team in 2008. “They got the trophy on their mind so I believe that each series is probably going to go all the way to the end.

You look at the eight teams that are left, all the teams have a shot.”

The Heat entered the playoffs as the overwhelming favorites to win their second straight title, and they remain that way in the eyes of oddsmakers even though they’ll need to win one game in Chicago to reclaim the homecourt advantage.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra’s eyes widened a bit Thursday when told that no second round in the NBA playoffs had ever opened quite this way.

“Is that right? First time ever? Really? Wow,” Spoelstra said. “Makes for great theater. I know I’m enjoying the other games, probably like other fans are enjoying ours. It shows how much parity there is and how little margin for error with the teams that are left. ... We had always felt there was up to six or seven legitimate, titlecontending teams.”

The way things look, maybe there’s eight now.

“It looks like it’s the best eight teams in the NBA right now,” James said. “So we’ll see what happens.”

Warriors, Spurs flip-flop roles

BY ANTONIO GONZALEZ The Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — The confident aura the Golden State Warriors are giving off right now might be the only thing brighter than those yellow shirts every home fan is expected to be wearing CURRY again for Game 3 against the San Antonio Spurs on Friday night at earpiercing Oracle Arena.

Maybe for good reason, too.

The Warriors have outshot, outrebounded and outhustled the Spurs through the first

two games of their Western Conference semifinal. And if not for an unprecedented collapse in Game 1, Golden State would be returning to the Bay Area with a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series instead of being tied.

Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and the hot-shooting Warriors have shown no signs of slowing down in the playoffs. The dynamic backcourt duo has left the second-seeded Spurs searching for answers. And while there’s still a long way to go in the series, sixth-seeded Golden State is no long acting like an underdog.

“We’re in the driver’s seat right now. We control our own destiny. I feel like this is our time,” Thompson said during a light shootaround at the team’s downtown Oakland headquarters Thursday. “We put in so much work and it’s paying off. And it’s just beginning. We’ve got to stay humble.”

At the moment, they’ve sure humbled San Antonio.

The Warriors have held the lead for 95 of 106 minutes, with most of the Spurs’ slim advantages coming in the two overtimes in Game 1, when San Antonio

rallied from 16 points down in the final four minutes of regulation to a stunning victory.

Golden State has outrebounded the Spurs 105 to 93, outshot them 48.3 percent to 41.7 percent and outworked — and perhaps outcoached — San Antonio in almost every way imaginable.

“We can’t blame it on just luck,” Spurs guard Manu Ginobili said. “They did a great job, and we did a really poor job. We’ve got to give them credit.

They played much better than us, and miracles don’t happen that often.”

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Mangus, USC hoping QB Barker commits S don’t have to change personnel.I think he gives them exactly what they are looking for in the ability to keep him on the field in various places without changing personnel.”

Richard had 22 catches for 341 yards and three touchdowns last season. He had five TD catches as a sophomore.

“He’s got the whole package —,size and speed, explosiveness — everything you’re looking for in a player at that position,” Stroud said. “He has great hands, big hands. The kid’s an athlete.”

Richard becomes the fifth commitment for Clemson’s ‘14 class.

USC has offered rising junior wide receiver Dexter Neal (6-foot-3-inches, 195 pounds) of Stone Mountain, Ga., and Neal said he plans on committing to the Gamecocks at some point. After getting his offer, Neal took to his Twitter page and wrote about his plans: “I’m sure that I’m commiting to USC, but after my junior year will be the time,” Neal wrote.

Neal is close friends with Gamecock running back Mike Davis, who also played at Stephenson High School, and with current Gamecock commitment defensive end Bryson Allen-Williams. Neal also has offers from North Carolina, Vandyt, Virginia Tech and Cincinnati.

TE Kalan Ritchie of Goose Creek High committed to USC last week. Ritchie picked the Gamecocks over Clemson and North Carolina State. He also held offers from VT and Connecticut.

“He’s a hell of a tight end as a blocker,” Goose Creek head coach Chuck Reedy said.

“We’re trying to develop him as a receiver.”

Ritchie has made several trips to USC and sees a fit for himself in the Gamecock offense. “I love their offense,” Ritchie said. “I like how they get some of their younger tight ends in.” Ritchie is USC’s third commitment for the ‘14 class.

RB Nick Chubb of Cedartown, Ga., has set May 28 as his announcement date. He’s choosing between USC, Georgia and Auburn.

OL Orlando Brown Jr. of Suwanee, Ga., committed to Tennessee last week. USC and Clemson were among his offers.

DE Da’Shawn Hand of Woodbridge, Va., visited Auburn over the weekend. His head coach is a former Auburn player. He has been to USC, VT, Michigan, UNC and Alabama.

Clemson coaches dropped by to see WR Demarre Kitt of Tyrone, Ga., last week. Kitt has Clemson in his final three along with Ohio State and Tennessee.

He will announce his decision on June 10.

Clemson was the first to offer defensive lineman Jeremy Patterson of Jessup, Ga., and that has the Tigers sitting in good shape at this point.

“He has a high interest in them,” Wayne County head coach Jody Groom said. “They offered last summer. Clemson

WOLVERINES from Page B1 place for us this year.”

A big part of that has come in the form of starting pitcher Kaitlin Alexander, a University of South Carolina Sumter signee. The EC senior righthander has been nothing short of dominant in the postseason – allowing just one run through five starts.

“She’s one of five seniors on the team and they’ve been through these types of game before,” Ard said. “I’d say maturity is probably the reason.

She’s also really controlled the circle since that loss we had against Laurence Manning (Academy). She pitched

well, and she’s carried that on since then. She’s gotten big strikeouts when we needed them.”

Alexander has also kept the other teams from producing big hits, much as she did in the first game against the Lady Vikings. Alexander has only allowed six extra-base hits all year – one home run and five doubles. The rest have been singles.

She struck out eight in the opener against Latta and scattered six hits. The only run came off of a sacrifice bunt.

All three phases of the

is in good shape. Florida State is in good shape. We have a player at Florida State. And Florida is in good shape as well. Those three have been on him longer than the rest.”

Clemson recruiter Brent Venables visited on the first day he could go out. FSU, Florida, Mississippi State, Vandy, UNC and NCSU also have been in.

Patterson visited UGA and FSU this spring. Groom said Patterson wants to decide during his season because he’s planning to graduate early.He’ll take some official visits before deciding. Last season, Patterson had 37 tackles with five QB sacks.

DL Peyton Newell of Hawatha, Kan., has had USC as one of his favorites for months and he was expecting Gamecock recruiter Mangus to visit him at his school this week.

Newell is up to 34 offers with Syracuse and Southern California the most recent. He plans to narrow his list at the beginning of summer.

“South Carolina will definitely be on that list,” Newell said.

“They are very good at the recruiting process. Me and Coach Mangus have developed a good relationship.”

He added that Southern Cal, UGA, Nebraska and Kansas also are high up on his list.

Newell plans to take some more visits this summer, but is not sure where.

And he’s moved his timetable for his decision up from late November to before his season.

He does not Phil have an indiKORNBLUT vidual leader.

The sole offer for DL KJ Ford of Bluffton High is NCSU, but he continues to hear from Clemson, USC, FSU, Louisville, Central Florida and Western Carolina. Clemson was by last week and was to return this week for practice. USC also planned to check out his practice this week. He also expects FSU, UGA, Louisville and UCF among others to attend some of his practices. Clemson and USC are two other camps he plans to attend.

DL Harold Landry of Fayetteville, N.C., committed to Boston College several weeks ago. His other offers include USC, Clemson, NCSU, Duke, Miami, GT, Ole Miss, East Carolina, Appalachian State and The Citadel. He visited Clemson and USC prior to his commitment. Landry said he is strong is his commitment, but has not ruled out the possibility of visiting others schools, including return trips to Clemson and USC. TE RJ Tyler of Wagener-Salley High has an offer from App State and is hearing from Clemson, The Citadel, Furman, Georgia Southern and NCSU among others. Clemson, Furman and The Citadel have visited him this spring. Tyler will attend camps at USC, The Citadel, Furman and NCSU. LB Raekwon McMillan of Hinesville, Ga., plans to narrow his list to a top five this summer

and announce a decision at the Under Armour Game in January of ‘14. Coaches from Clemson, Alabama and Ohio State have been by to see him this spring. Clemson’s Venables has the Tigers very much in the mix. “He’s one of the coaches I talk to all the time,” McMillan said of Venables. “He’s telling me that if I came, there would be a great chance to play a lot at mike linebacker. He’s really aggressive and likes to send his linebackers on blitzes and get to the quarterback.”

McMillan’s only visit this spring was to UGA for the spring game. He will visit more places this summer and then come out with a top five.

“Clemson is in pretty good shape,” he said. McMillan said he talks the most with Clemson, Ohio State and Alabama.

DB DJ Smith of Marietta, Ga., has offers from Clemson, USC, UGA, Tennessee, Ohio State, Michigan, UNC, Arkansas, Vandy, Ole Miss, Nebraska, UK, Florida, Michigan State and Indiana among others. He plans to visit the Tigers and Gamecocks over the summer.

USC assistant coach Grady Brown visited with Smith last week. Both schools are strong with Smith. Other schools to visit Smith have been Ohio State and GT. Offensive lineman Nolan Kelleher of Wando High in Mt. Pleasant picked up an offer from Wake Forest last week, bringing his total to 15. His other offers include UNC, NCSU, UGA, Tennessee, FSU, GT, VT, UK, ECU, UConn, Duke, West Virginia, South Florida and UCF. He is hearing from Clemson, Stanford, Arkansas and Alabama among others.

Should Clemson offer, he would return for a visit and strongly consider the Tigers.

USC has told Kelleher it has filled up at his position. Kelleher does not have any favorites.

Defensvie back John Battle of Hallandale, Fla., has offers from USC, UNC, WF, UK, Louisville, Vandy, USF, Louisiana State, Tennessee, FSU, Marshall, Rutgers and Northwestern among others. Battle has not yet visited USC, but plans to this summer. Battle cited the defense and the success of USC DBs in the National Football League as the reasons for his interest in the Gamecocks. He has already visited FSU and USF and enjoyed both trips.

Other than USC, Battle would like to visit Tennessee, UK, Louisville and several schools in the state of North Carolina this summer. He plans to narrow his list to six prior to his senior season.

Defensive end Jesse Aniebonam of Olney, Md., has not narrowed his list to a top group, but when he does, Clemson and USC stand a very good chance of being on that list. Aniebonam said last week he remains very interested in both, and both are “on top of my list” though he’s not naming any favorites right now. Neither school has been by this spring, but he’s expecting Clemson’s Venables to visit soon. He has

been in touch with Venables and USC recruiter Mangus.

Tennessee, Ohio State, VT, NC and Stanford have been through. Aniebonam visited Maryland and VT this spring and will visit USC and Clemson this summer. He’s also looking at possible visits to Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama, GT and NC. He plans to make a decision before the season.

DB Dominique Brown of Ocala, Fla., has offers from USC, FIU and Middle Tennessee. He is hearing from Florida, FSU, LSU, Auburn, Duke and UNC among others. Brown named USC, LSU and FSU as his favorites. He has not spoken with anyone from the USC coaching staff recently, but continues to receive mail from the Gamecocks. His most recent contact has come from Missouri. This summer he plans to attend camps at FSU, Florida and UNC among others.

DL Zeek Rodney of South Pointe High in Rock Hill added offers from BC, Louisiana-Lafayette, Marshall and App State to his offers from South Carolina State and Charlotte. Rodney is expecting several schools to come by during spring practice, including Kansas State and UCLA. He wants to attend several camps over the summer, but has only a Clemson camp scheduled right now.

Basketball News: Donte Grantham, a 6-7 player from Martinsburg, W.Va., made an official visit to Clemson last Thursday through Saturday. His mother joined him on the visit.

He’s also considering Miami, WVU, Maryland, Penn State and Xavier. Grantham is also considering going to prep school.

Sidy Mohamed Djitte, a 6-10 player from Senegal, made an official visit to Memphis last week. He has visited Clemson and Cincinnati. Djitte attends school in Fayetteville, N.C. He plans to sit down with his host family this weekend, go over the pros and cons of each school and then come to a decision.

Point guard Jaylen Shaw of Hartsville High was officially announced as the eighth member of the ’13 USC recruiting class by by USC head coach Frank Martin.

“We’re excited about Jaylen Shaw,” Martin said in a release.

“The young man is an ultimate competitor. He’s proven that he’s a winner by getting backto-back state championships.

We are excited about the athleticism and skill that he brings to our team.”

Shaw averaged 24 points and eight assists per game last season. He was named the most valuable player of the Carolinas All Star Classic after scoring 24 points and dishing out eight assists.

Will Adams, a 5-10 player from Johnson City, Tenn., signed with Presbyterian. He’s the fourth signee for the Blue Hose.

Kyle Buffkin, a 6-10 player from Fork Union Prep in Virginia, signed with Coastal Carolina.

game have been in sync for EC this postseason. Ard was very pleased with how the defense has played thus far and the offense has been getting contributions from a number of different sources.

“We get big hits from anywhere in the lineup,” Ard said.

“It seems like when one person has an off night, the girl right behind her picks her up.

That gives a team a lot of confidence when you have that going for you. You never get too far down because you always think the next person will come through.”

Maggie Baird and Jordan Evans had RBI hits for the Lady Wolverines in the first game against Latta. Kayleigh

Hunter broke the game open with a 2-run double in the seventh. Grayson Smith also had two hits for EC. In the winners bracket game against Johnsonville, Alexander went 3-for-3 with two RBI while Jessica Welch and Gracen Watts were each 2-for-2. Leslie Altman provided the big blow with a grand slam, and also recorded a double and drove in six runs in a 10-0, 5-inning victory.

It will likely not be as easy offensively this time around.

Latta starter Anna Rogers has struck out 34 batters in her last two games as the 14-12 Lady Vikings have battled their way back to another lower state final.

She struck out seven the first time against EC, but allowed three earned runs on seven hits with four walks.

“We know she’s a good pitcher and now both teams have seen each other once,” Ard said. “It’s just going to come down staying consistent in what we do and playing consistently in all three phases of the game.”

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outh Carolina quarterbacks coach GA Mangus, who handles all of the QB recruiting for the Gamecocks, has a pretty good track record of landing his top targets. In fact, he’s been pretty much perfect over his years in Columbia.

That record will be tested this today though when Drew Barker of Hebron, Ky., makes his announcement. Barker is choosing between USC, Kentucky and Tennessee, though he said on Sunday at an Elite 11 Regional Camp in Chicago that Notre Dame is close to offering and would become a late factor with an offer.

Mangus was one of the first to offer Barker, and he’s the only quarterback he’s been recruiting for the 2014 class. Barker has said nothing but good things about Mangus and USC over the months and has always had the Gamecocks high on his list. However, first-year Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops has made Barker an absolute priority, something that was not the case when Joker Phillips was head coach.

According to a story in Saturday’s Lexington (Ky.) HeraldLeader, the Wildcat coaching staff sent Barker over 100 handwritten cards and letters on two different days, one last month and one this month. Barker has made multiple visits to UK, including spending a weekend there for the spring game. And the Wildcat coaches are selling him on the idea of staying home and becoming the local hero much like Tim Couch, Jared Lorenzen and Andre Woodson.

“When I was down in Lexington they made that a big point,” Barker told the Lexington paper. “They had a video that showed all those guys from Kentucky who’d been quarterback, and then my highlight clips were in there with them. I liked that.”

If he’s going down, Mangus is not going down without a fight. He had a very good visit with Barker in late April and he planned to make one more visit this week. At 3:30 p.m. today, Barker will become either the toast of the Bluegrass State or just the latest major talent from the commonwealth to decide to play where football rules.

Tight end Milan Richard of Savannah, Ga., will have a chance to do something his famous uncle, Herschel Walker, never did: score a touchdown inside Clemson’s Death Valley.

Richard committed to Clemson on Wednesday after narrowing his list to Clemson, USCa, Vanderbilt and Mississippi. Richard visited Clemson for the USC game last November and had the Tigers high up on his list from that point on.

“He and his family have done a very good job from Day 1 evaluating everything associated with somewhere and at the end of the day he just felt like it was the best fit,” said Richard’s head coach Mark Stroud. “They use a guy doing various things and he’s a guy that can play in there and give them a situation where they

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“It’s really cool to see a group of young guys coming up,” Larson said.

“Because the past six to eight years, there really hasn’t been many young drivers getting opportunities. Now, it seems like those doors are starting to open more.”

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Benjamin said he’s been working a lot on his block work this season and his technique for the hurdles.

“My starts haven’t been as strong this year, so that’s something I’ve been working on,” he said. “Hopefully I can come home with three wins.”

Otis Jones will represent Lakewood High School in 3A competition in the 800-meter run along with the Gators’ 4x100 relay team.

Manning High School’s 4x100 girls relay team also made it and Sapphire Frierson qualified

Larson’s victory at “The Rock” made the opening even wider. He’d largely been known by NASCAR fans for his accidents and near misses. He went airborne into the catch fence in a frightening crash at the end of the Nationwide event at Daytona. More than two dozen fans were injured in the accident.

Then in April, Larson came close to hitting an air-dryer truck at Texas Motor Speedway.

Larson has struggled to find consistency on the track. He finished second at Bristol in his second start this season, yet has placed 32nd at Texas and 38th at Talladega last week.

as an individual in the triple jump for the Lady Monarchs.

While the state meet might be old hat to Benjamin, it will be a welcome first-time experience for Sumter High senior Daishaun Randolph, who tied for second at the 4A qualifier in the high jump.

“Going to state means a lot,” Randolph said.

“This is only my second year high jumping, so I’ve come a long way and I’ve been able to see the progress I made.”

Randolph is one of several members of his family who have found success in the sport, he said.

“I wanted to see if it kind of ran in the family, and I guess it does,” he added.

Randolph and four other top competitors had nearly identical jumps in the 4A qualifier, something that has given him a lot of confi-

dence heading into his first state meet, he said.

“I’d like to win, obviously, but I’d also like to set a new school record of seven feet,” Randolph said. “I think the form that I use allows me to try to reach goals like that.”

Along with Randolph, Sumter will send the girls 4x100 relay team.

Kadejuha Kennedy, a member of that team, will also compete in the long jump and triple jump events. Ars’Breana Tyler will also compete in the triple jump and Dae’Shondra Stephens qualified in the discus.

Ky’Jon Tyler will compete in the long jump for the Gamecocks, Devontaye Edwards in the shot put event and Antonio Locklin will run in the 400 dash.

Rounding out the local qualifiers is Scott’s Branch, which will send its 4x400 relay team to compete in the 1A meet.

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TSA’s next task comes in the form of the 2A state tournament, which begins today at Oak Grove Sports Complex in Lexington. The Generals will face Pee Dee Academy at 4 p.m. with the winner facing Marlboro County at 6:15 p.m. The loser will play at 8 p.m. against the loser of Robert E. Lee Academy and Richard Winn.

“We definitely have a chance to do very well or even win,” Coach DeMonte said of his team’s chances to win the tournament. “I think there are a lot of evenly matched teams on any given day in this tournament and on any given day you could come out on top.

“I believe they’re peaking, I believe they’re ready and now we’ll have to see what they do,” he said. “I really believe it’s going to come down to if we can relax, put the bat on the ball, then we can win.”

DeMonte said eighth-graders Victoria Bundy, Logan Morris, Ashton Rogers and Lauren Jones all have

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But the confidence in his team doesn’t stop there. In fact, the TSA head coach believes the team will get better as each year passes.

“We’ve developed a very strong JV team to come in behind us, which we believe will be even stronger, and the year after that, in 2015 will probably be our strongest year,” he explained.

“We’re looking forward to a really solid program and the girls did an outstanding job this year. We asked them not make the exceptional play but make the play that needs to be made.”

In addition to sweeping their region, the Lady Generals picked up four victories over 3A foes. The team opened with a 6-2 victory at Hammond, later swept Region II-3A champion Wilson Hall by scores of 7-4 and 9-3 and also defeated Florence Christian 9-2.

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The one constant this season has been the Lady Barons’ consistency throughout the lineup. Led offensively by senior Jordain Edmondson in batting average and on-base percentage, the team has only made one major lineup change to the batting order.

“We’ve gotten consistent offense from Jordain, Haley Hawkins and Betsy Cunningham, but Hannah Jordan, who was our No. 9 batter for first half of the season, has come along and is now the leadoff batter,” Alexander said.

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And people in the (Nos.) 5-9 spots are getting the job done too.”

Sophomore Holly Scott leads the pitching staff while freshman Olivia Maklary also sees action in the circle. Another positive change has been the defensive switch of senior Emma Catoe going from first base to left field.

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ANITA GIBBONS ARDIS CAMDEN — Funeral services for Anita Gibbons Ardis, 97, formerly of Summerton, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John’s United Methodist Church, Lugoff. Burial will be at 3 p.m. at Evergreen Cemetery ARDIS in Summerton. The Rev. John Mims will officiate.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Powers Funeral Home, Lugoff.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. John’s United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 218, Lugoff, SC 29078.

Mrs. Ardis, widow of Leon T. Ardis, passed away Thursday, May 9, 2013.

Born in Clarendon County, she was a daughter of the late William Stull and Kizzie Robinson Gibbons.

Mrs. Ardis was a member of Horse Branch Freewill Baptist Church. She also attended Summerton Baptist Church and, more recently, St. John’s United Methodist Church. She enjoyed sewing, gardening, and caring for her family.

Surviving are her daughter, Sylvia Stone (George) of Camden; sister, Foye Ouzts (Earle) of West Columbia; several loving nephews and nieces; and caregivers, Isabelle Butler and Clarkie Seward.

She was predeceased by her husband and brothers, Alton Gibbons and Kenneth Gibbons.

Sign the online register at www.powersfuneralhome.net.

JANET L. GOFF WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Memorial services for Janet Louise Lord Goff were held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Gibson Park, 241 Gibson Road, Lexington.

Ms. Goff was born Nov. 2, 1967, to Linda L. Gaymon and the late Harold L. Lord. She passed away Saturday, May 4, 2013, at the Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Winston-Salem.

Ms. Goff is survived by her three children, J. Codee Goff of Cayce, and Coree D. Goff and Courtnee D. Goff, both of Lexington; one grandchild, Auden A. Goff (Coree); two sisters, Teresa L. Lane of Atlanta and Tasha N. Acosta of Tucson, Ariz.; one brother, Christopher A. Gaymon of Colorado Springs, Colo.; stepmother, Gloria J. Lord; one stepbrother, James M. Miller of Tucson; and one step-sister, Patricha F. Miller of Stone Mountain, Ga. She is further survived by nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends.

She was a loving mother, daughter, and great friend to many.

She will be greatly missed and never forgotten.

BEAUFORT POQUE Jr. Beaufort Poque Jr., 80, husband of Patricia Jean Buckner Poque, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at his residence in Sumter.

Born in Sumter

County, he was a son of the late Beaufort Poque Sr. and Katie BlackwellPoque.

The family will receive friends at the residence, 485 Mallard Drive (Idlewild), Sumter.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced

by Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc. of Sumter.

DAVID CONYERS Sr. David Conyers Sr., husband of Mattie Anderson Conyers, entered eternal rest on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at his home.

He was born Feb. 24, 1942, in Clarendon County, a son of the late Ezekeil and Eva Williams Conyers.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 380 Corn Road, Sumter.

Funeral plans will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

TYREES S. MELLETTE Tyrees Stukes Mellette, age 45, daughter of the late Freddie and Patricia Quick Stukes and wife of Kelvin L. Mellette, departed this life on Sunday, May 5, 2013, in Charleston.

She is survived by her husband, Kevin Mellette; two daughters, Tinika Y. Stukes and Monique Chatman; two sons, Tyrell Stukes and Nyquan Samuel; five grandchildren; two sisters, Tywanna Alexander and Adrienne Branch; two brothers, Freddie Knox and Chrishond Zigular; four aunts; three uncles; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held at noon Saturday at the First Church of God by Faith, 609 Atlantic Ave., Sumter, with Elder James Lucas, pastor, and Bishop Jeffery Johnson, eulogist.

Interment will follow in Stukes Cemetery.

A public viewing will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. today at the mortuary.

Online messages of sympathy can be made at www.whitesmortuary.net.

Services have been entrusted to Whites Mortuary LLC of Sumter, (803) 774-8200.

JOSEPHINE F. CORNWALLROBERTS Josephine Fiannaca Cornwall-Roberts, age 92, beloved wife of 12 years to William Roberts, died on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

Born in Sicily, Italy, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Jacqueline Graziano Fiannaca. Mrs. CornwallRoberts enjoyed spending time with her family and cooking. She loved to play the piano. She was a flight instructor in the United States Navy during World War II, and her most famous student was Tyrone Power. She was a member of the American Legion and the St. Jude Catholic Church.

Surviving in addition to her husband are one son, George Cornwall and his wife, Cathy, and one daughter, Reverie Kelley and her husband, Ron, all of Sumter; two brothers, Jack Fiannaca and his wife, Jean, of Rochester, N.Y., and Sam Fiannaca and his wife, Lena, of Arizona; three grandchil-

dren, Patrick Ritto and his wife, Marti, Patricia Szoke and her husband, Kevin, and Christopher J. Cornwall; and two great-grandchildren, Emma and Clara Ritto.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. CornwallRoberts was preceded in death by a son, Ross Ritto; a brother, Joseph Fiannaca; and a sister, Theresa Capurso.

A funeral service will be held at noon Saturday at St. Jude Catholic Church with the Rev. Charles Donovan, C.S.s.R. officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery with military honors.

Active pallbearers will be family members.

The family will receive friends on Saturday one hour prior to the service from 11 a.m. to noon at St. Jude Catholic Church.

Memorials may be made to Agape Hospice, 13 Caldwell St., 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.

LATRES D. GEE Latres Deshanna Gee, 36, died Thursday, May 9, 2013, at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence.

She was a daughter of Calvin Shuler and Debra Gee Profit and stepdaughter of George Profit.

The family is receiving friends at the home, 3539 Savannah Grove Road, Effingham.

Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced by Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter.

JIPPIE HOLLIDAY Jippie Holliday, husband of Lucinda Fordham Holliday, entered eternal rest on Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

He was born in the Panola community of Clarendon County, to the late Adam and Harmion Louise Gaymon Holliday. He was educated in the public schools of Clarendon County. A life member of Mt. Pleasant UME Church, he was superintendent of the Sunday school, pastor steward, trustee, choir member, class leader, and the father of the church. He was a member of the Black River Medical Board. He was instrumental in getting people registered to vote.

He was employed as a furniture maker with George Pacific before he retired.

Survivors are his wife, Lucinda Fordham Holliday; three sons, Adam (A.J.) Holliday of Titusville, Fla., John (Laurie) Holliday of Marietta, Ga., and Robert Holliday of Bronx, N.Y.; three daughters, Susan (Matthew) Jordan of Manhattan, N.Y., Ellanora Capers of Philadelphia, Pa., and Cynthia Lynn Holliday of Hartsville; a grandson raised in the home, Gregory (Lawreen) Holliday of Pinewood; 16 grandchildren; 21 greatgrandchildren; five

great-great-grandchildren; a host of other relatives and friends.

Viewing will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. today at the funeral home with wake from 6 to 7 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant UME Church.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at New Hope UME Church with Bishop Leroy T. James, pastor, Pastor Mary L. Brailsford, eulogist, Elder James O. Robinson, the Rev. Barry Gadsden and the Rev. Rufus Gaymon.

Burial will follow in Mt. Pleasant Church cemetery.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 1555 Fulton Road, Pinewood.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

WILLIE SMITH Willie “Bootlee” Smith entered eternal rest on May 5, 2013, at the Lexington Medical Center, West Columbia.

Visitations will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. today at the mortuary.

Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Bishopville, with the pastor, Dr. Jerome Douglas, officiating. Burial will follow in St. John Cemetery, Bishopville. Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville, is in charge of arrangements.

THOMASINA W. HUNTER Thomasina Wright Hunter, 93, died on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at Riverview Health and Rehabilitation Center, Detroit, Mich.

Born March 15, 1920, in Rembert, she was a daughter of the late Deacon Thomas Boston “TB” Wright and Dr. Marion Woodard Wright McLester.

She is survived by her daughter, Beverly Ann Hunter; her sister, Dr. Margaret W. Davis; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the John Wesley Williams Sr. Memorial Chapel, Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter, with Pastor Thomasina M. Portis, eulogist, the Rev. Melvin Mack presiding, assisted by Pastor Stanley Jones.

The family will receive friends and relatives at the home of her sister, Dr. Margaret W. Davis, 301 Stark St., Sumter.

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

The funeral procession will leave at 10:45 a.m. from the home of her sister.

Floral bearers will be family and friends.

Pallbearers will be Renard Jefferson, Hampton Woodard Wright Jr., Veranander Portis, Vernard Portis, James Spann, Michael Wright and James Spann.

Interment will be in the Rafting Creek Baptist Churchyard cemetery, 3860 S.C. 261

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

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

MARY B. CARTER Mary Boykin Carter, 78, widow of George A. Carter, died Thursday, May 9, 2013, at her home.

Born in Lee County, she was a daughter of the late Woodrow H. and Julia Kennington Holloman. Mrs. Carter was a member of Concord Baptist Church and was a retired employee of Glenn Manufacturing Co. She was also the widow of Harvey B. Boykin Sr. and Samuel A. Windham.

Surviving are three sons, Harvey Brig Boykin Jr. and wife, Sandra, of Camden, James Fraser Boykin and wife, Marsha, and Robert Lawrence Boykin and wife, Mary, all of Sumter; two brothers, Woodrow J. Holloman of Goldsboro, N.C., and George Ray Holloman of Sylva, N.C.; one sister, Vivian H. Turner of Matthews, N.C.; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and one great-greatgrandchild.

She was preceded in death by one grandchild, Kimberley Lumley.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Concord Baptist Church with the Rev. Eugene Mosier officiating. Burial will be in Piedmont Cemetery in Bishopville.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the senior adult Sunday school class.

The family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Concord Baptist Church.

Memorials may be made to Concord Baptist Church, 1885 Myrtle Beach Highway, Sumter, SC 29153 or to Hospice Care of South Carolina, 110 Dillon Drive, Spartanburg, SC 29307.

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.

MAXIE WOODBERRY Maxie “Woody” Woodberry, 54, passed

peacefully from this life on the evening of May 7, 2013, at McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence, after a gradual decline in health. He was surrounded and supported by his loving family and friends during the last days of his life.

He was born in South Carolina to WC Marion Davis of Marion and Annie Mae Caldwell of Columbia.

Maxie was a member of Mullins High School Class of 1976. Maxie married Julia Woodberry, and they both currently resided in Sumter. Maxie was a dedicated member of Timmonsville Church of Christ, Timmonsville, as well as a former member of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church and Canty Memorial Church of God in Christ in Sumter.

He is survived by six children, LeeAnn Pendergrass, Sharonda (Gregory), Shameka Evans, Tammy (James) Gibson, Stacey (Renea) Wells and Elenia Green; eight siblings, Jerome (Rose) Woodberry, Terry (LaToya) Caldwell, Helena (Michael) Moody, Veronica (Stephen) Bethea, Linda (Christopher) Davis, Willie (Lisa) Davis and Renea Davis; four sisters-in-law, Lou B. Williams, Mary (McKenzie) Riley, Geraldine (Mack) McAlister and Ruth (Silaney) Hazelton; a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, extended family and friends.

He was preceded in death by one brother, Michael Anthony Woodberry.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Timmonsville Church of Christ, 1674 Darlington St., Timmonsville, with Minister Aaron Chapman II, pastor, eulogist.

The family will receive friends at the home, 2315 U.S. 15 South, Sumter.

The remains will be placed in the church at 1:30 p.m.

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

Floral bearers and pallbearers will be family and friends.

Burial will be in the Timmonsville Church of Christ Cemetery, Timmonsville.

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

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

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

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Participating vendors include Angelic’s, Sterling House, Sumter Valley Health and Rehab, Reliable Medical Equipment and others.

A Lynchburg Parish Youth Group flapjack fundraiser will be held 8-10 a.m.

Saturday, May 11, at Applebee’s, 2497 Broad St. Tickets are $6 each and can be purchased by calling Terwarner Colclough at (803) 840-8563.

The 2013 National Police Week Golf Tournament will be held Monday, May 13, at Sunset Country Club. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start at 9 a.m.

Format is four-person Captain’s Choice and entry fee is $200 per team, which includes post tournament cookout. Tournament is limited to 30 teams.

Beverages will be available for purchase at event. Optional contests and raffles will be offered and Mulligan packages available. Call Lt. Florence at (803) 4362723. All proceeds will go to Sumter Crime Stoppers.

A public meeting to discuss sidewalk improvements to meet ADA requirements from Bartlette Street to Bee Street will be held 5-7 p.m.

Tuesday, May 14, at City Centre, 25 N. Main St. Call Allan Yu at (803) 774-1612.

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

Tuesday, May 14, at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, 125 W. Bartlette St. Betty Spencer, of Words of Inspirations, will speak. The spotlight will shine on the chapter’s oldest member, Belle Mosley, on her 96th birthday.

Transportation provided within the mileage radius. Contact Debra Canty at (803) 775-5792 or at DebraCanC2@frontier.com.

The Sumter County Education Association Retired will have a special called meeting at noon Wednesday, May 15, at the North HOPE Center. Call Brenda Bethune at (803) 4696588.

The National Association for Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) will offer two hours of continuing education 10 a.m.-noon Thursday, May 16, at Sunset Country Club. Regular meeting will follow at noon. Call Tammy Kelly at (803) 7738322.

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH There are 8 million people in the Naked City, but when it comes to some police procedurals, it’s all in the family. What dead petty officers are to “NCIS,” assaults on family and friends are to “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14). This police drama and family saga ends another season, assured of renewal. In tonight’s finale, the death of a family friend unites the Reagans to seek justice and vengeance, perhaps in that order.

“Blue Bloods” isn’t the only show to put a nearly absurd focus on the intimate. Few seasons of “24” concluded without some treachery in the president’s family, or even in his marriage.

Where would “Homeland” and “The Americans” be without family and marital intrigue? But on “Blue Bloods,” the New York police commissioner (Tom Selleck) spends so much time forming a blue wall around his own home that you have to suspect some New Yorkers feel unprotected.

“Vegas” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) also concludes tonight, ending its first season and perhaps its last. I rarely get into the

prediction business, but I thought the combination of Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis would make this cowboys ‘n’ Mafia period piece a hit. CBS was quick to pick the show up for a full season, but then thought better of it, cutting the number of episodes and then pulling it from Tuesday nights and exiling it to Fridays.

One of my major beefs with “Vegas” was the decision to try to do historical set design on the cheap. Unlike “Mad Men” or “Magic City,” which have lush art direction, “Vegas” was half-hearted. And sorry, you can’t set a show in Las Vegas casinos in 1960 and not have everybody smoke.

Another more-thanprobable goner wrapping up tonight is “Touch” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14). This numerological head-scratcher, starring Kiefer Sutherland, just never added up.

“Kitchen Nightmares” (8 p.m., Fox, TV14) ends its season with a visit to a bakery in Scottsdale, Ariz. But the Gordon Ramsay franchise really knows no season; his series “MasterChef” returns on May 22.

Contestants previously eliminated return to lend a hand or make mischief on the secondseason finale of “Fashion Star” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).

• “Bob Saget: That’s What I’m Talkin’ About” (10 p.m., Showtime, TV-MA) features the star of “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” regaling an audience with raunchy jokes and stories about his father, the man who helped shape his sense of humor and appreciation for the “filthy.”

Few comedians have straddled the line between TV-G and TV-MA as successfully, or for as long, as Saget.

• Why is the Military Channel showing three episodes of “Biblical Mysteries Explained” (8 p.m., TV-G; 9 p.m., TVPG; and 10 p.m., TV-G)?

Tonight’s Other Highlights • Featured employees from past episodes discuss their roles on “Undercover Boss” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-PG).

• On two helpings of “Shark Tank” (ABC, TVPG): tell it to the Marines (8 p.m., r); a new variation on bicycling (9 p.m.).

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• Al-Rahim pays Leonardo a visit on “Da Vinci’s Demons” (9 p.m., Starz, TV-MA).

• Guns, gold mining, grizzly wrestling and other not-so-random acts of male overcompensation loom large on “Wild West Alaska” (10 p.m., Discovery, TV-14).

• A woman ignores advice about romance with a co-worker on “Dates From Hell” (10 p.m., ID, TV-14).

• During a podcast interview, Denis Leary questions Marc’s manhood on “Maron” (10 p.m., IFC, TV-14).

Cult Choice A womanizing trumpet player (Jack Benny) for a radio orchestra dreams that he’s been sent by heaven to herald the apocalypse in the strange 1945 musical comedy “The Horn Blows at Midnight” (9:30 p.m., TCM), a spectacular box-office bomb for the popular Benny and director Raoul Walsh.

Series Notes A funny thing happens on the way to the altar on “Nikita” (8 p.m., CW, TV-14) * “Dateline NBC” (9

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Late Night Ryan Lochte, James Davis, Fortune Feimster and Ryan Stout appear on “Chelsea Lately” (11 p.m., E!, r) * Chris Pine, Tom Dreesen and She & Him appear on “Late Show With David Letterman” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jay Leno welcomes Aaron Eckhart, Sherri Shepherd and 98 Degrees on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Mel Brooks visits “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC, r) * LL Cool J, Alyson Hannigan and Benedict Cumberbatch chat on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” (12:35 a.m., NBC). © 2013, United Feature Syndicate

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BID SOLICITATION Sumter School District will be receiving sealed bids on floor wax and stripper at the Maintenance Department. You may pick up specifications at Sumter School District Maintenance Department, 1345 Wilson Hall Rd., Sumter, SC. Sealed bids will be opened in the Maintenance Department on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at 9:00 a.m.

Summons & Notice SUMMONS IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL ACTION NO.: 2013-CP-43-559 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER First Citizens Company, Inc.,

Bank

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Plaintiff, v.

Unknown Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Dorothy B. Lemon, her 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/or Jane Doe, Defendants.

TO THE NAMED:

DEFENDANTS

ABOVE

CLASSIFIED ADS Plaintiff, which Motion is based upon the original Note and Mortgage identified in the Complaint therein and attached hereto as well as any applicable laws, statutes or regulations.

NOTICE TO PERSONS UNKNOWN, MINORS, INCAPACITATED, UNBORN AND UNDER ANY OTHER DISABILITY And to any thereof that may be residents or non-residents of South Carolina, and to the natural, general, testamentary or other guardians thereof, and to the persons with whom they reside or by whom they may be employed, if any there be, and to all other Defendants whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained.

TAKE NOTICE that the following documents were filed with the Office of the Clerk of Court for Georgetown County: 1. Civil Action Coversheet, Certificate of Exemption from ADR, Notice Required by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Notice of Lis Pendens, Summons and Complaint Filed on: April 1, 2013; 2. Order for Publication Filed on: April 10, 2013; 3. Motion and Affidavit Filed on: April 10, 2013; 4. Affidavit for Service by Publication Filed on: April 10, 2013; 5. Petition for Order Nisi Appointing Guardian ad Litem and Attorney Filed on: April 10, 2013; and 6. Order Appointing Guardian Ad Litem Nisi and Attorney Filed on: April 10, 2013; The appointment of Katherine Keaton as Guardian ad Litem and attorney became absolute twenty (20) days after the service of the Summons.

SCOTT B. UMSTEAD, P. A.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff's attorney, Scott B. Umstead, 4226 Mayfair Street, Suite 100, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 29577, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Mortgagee immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of South Carolina Code ' 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the mortgage identified in the Complaint is hereby perfected and Plaintiff hereby gives further notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery of the same to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default forward.

In the alternative, the Plaintiff will move a Judge of this Circuit Court on the tenth (10th) day after service hereof, or as soon as counsel for Plaintiff may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and/or profits, if any, compelling payments of all such funds covered by the mortgage and/or by status and/or by common law directly to the undersigned attorneys for the

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/s/Scott B. Umstead Scott B. Umstead 4226 Mayfair Street, Suite 100 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29577 Phone: (843) 913-4610 Attorney for the Plaintiff

NOTICE OF HEARING IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 2013-CP-43-19 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER First Citizens Company, Inc.,

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Plaintiff, v.

Estate of Dorothy B. Lemon, John Doe and Jane Doe, who are fictitious names, representing all of the unknown heirs of Dorothy B. Lemon, and Richard Roe and Mary Roe, who are fictitious names, representing all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, estate, interest or lien upon the subject real estate, Defendants.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED: DATE: June 11, 2013 TIME:

10:00 A.M.

PLACE: The Office of the Honorable Richard L. Booth Bryan Law Firm 17 E. Calhoun Street Sumter SC 29150 DESCRIPTION: Hearing

Foreclosure

Executed this 8th day of May, 2013.

S. Nelson Weston, Jr. Charles J. Webb Richardson, Plowden & Robinson, PA Post Office Drawer 7788 Columbia, South Carolina 29202 (803) 771-4400 Attorneys for First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc.

Notice of Public Hearing he Town of Pinewood will hold a public Hearing for Ordinance #4 to Raise Revenue and adopt a Budget for the Town of Pinewood, SC, for the iscal year ending June 30, 2014. he meeting will be May 24, 2013 at 6:30 P.M. at the Pinewood Town Hall, 16 Clark Street, Pinewood, S.C. Ordinance #4 will be available to the public at the Pinewood Town Hall during regular oice hours.

Total Revenues for 2012-2013 General Account - $180,295.00 Water Account - $149,700.00 Total Expenditures for 2012-2013 General Account - $180,295.00 Water Account - $149,700.00 Proposed Budget for 2013-2014 Revenues for 2013-2014 General Account - $171,795.00 Water Account - $149,700.00 Expenditures for 2012-2013 General Account - $171,795.00 Water Account - $149,700.00

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Bonnie R. (Frankie) Boone Nov. 8, 1948 - May 6, 2012 Mom, it's been a year since you went home to be with the Lord.

We thank you for the love you showed toward your children and grandchildren. We thank you for never giving up and always pushing and encouraging us to do better. We love and will forever miss you. Love your Sons, Daughters, & Grandchildren

BUSINESS SERVICES Brick Work DEMOLITION, BRICKWORK, CONCRETE, CARPENTRY, JUNK & DEBRIS REMOVAL 803-607-1192 Mrs. Earline Canty was born May 10, 1913 in Clarendon County the township of Summerton, South Carolina to the late Josphine and Jake Dow. She is the eldest of three children. Earline married to the late Henry Canty Sr. After living in the Northern parts of the United States for a number of years she returned home for the past 55 years. In her journey of life she had 9 children, 32 grandchildren, 50 great grandchildren, 31 greatgreat grandchildren and 1 greatgreat-great grandchild. Her family also includes nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends.

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Announcements

Home Improvements TW Painting, carpentry & all household needs.

Call 803-460-7629.

Vinyl Siding & Home Improvement by David Brown. Vinyl replacement windows & seamless gutters. 803-236-9296 Hodge Roofing Solutions, LLC, Lic.& Bonded. Free Estimates.

Also do Vinyl Siding & Seamless Gutters. 803-840-4542 Professional Remodelers Home maintenance,ceramic tile, roofing, siding & windows doors, etc. Lic. & Ins. (Office) 803-692-4084 or (Cell) 803-459-4773

Lawn Service Clary's Lawn Service. Lawn maint., Debris removal, and other handy services. Call 803-406-3514 Daniel's Lawn Care â&#x20AC;˘Tree removal/trim â&#x20AC;˘Clean-up jobs â&#x20AC;˘Mowing â&#x20AC;˘Pinestraw Mulch 803-968-4185 Happy Birthday Kim Davis Posey AKA "Honey Boo Boo" Love, Pat, Cameron, Quinn

Newman's Lawn & Tree Service Mowing, hedge trimming, Spring clean-up, pinestraw, mulch bedding, tree removal. 803-316-0128

MOTHERS DAY BASKET $10 & UP! Call CJS 774-7823 633 Bultman Dr. 12:30-5 (ONLY)

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Roofing Mill Creek Roofing Specializing in Metal & Shingled roofing. Attention to quality and detail. 10 yrs warranty on labor.

28+ yrs in roofing experience.

Lic and insured. Free est.

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Tree Service A Notch Above Tree Care Full quality service low rates, lic./ins., free est BBB accredited 983-9721 Tree Doctor Call us for an appt. Free est. 7 days/week. Prune trees, remove trees, grind stumps, proper limbing & treatment. 803-773-8402.

Mr. Thomas Stuckey Jr. Sunrise 8-8-54 Sunset 5-10-11

We miss you more than words can say. Your Family, Daddy, Bernard, Ronnie, & Joann

EXTENDED WAREHOUSE SALE!

PETS & ANIMALS Pets Full blooded Chihuahua pups. 8 weeks Shots/dewormed (3) f, (1) m. $200., 495-8896, 406-9295

MERCHANDISE Want to Buy Wanted Appliances: Washers, Dryers, Stoves & Refrig. Working or not. 803-968-4907

Farm Products Strawberries Richburg Farms HWY 261, Manning, SC 8am-6:30pm M-Sat (803)473-4844

Concrete Beautify your home w/decorative concrete, cool seal pools, stain, stamping porches patios.

494-5442/ 968-4665

NEWMAN'S TREE SERVICE Tree removal , trimming & stump grinding. Lic & Ins.

803-316-0128

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For Sale or Trade Porcelain Doll collection, Antique coffee tea cart, Sofa table, Electric organ with stand, Cedar chest, China cabinet, Treadmill.

Call 803-968-2223 (3) EZ-GO Golf Cart, 95-97-09.

Call 803-236-2605 Honor your Mom with fresh strawberries from Stafford's Farm. Hours 8 am - 6 pm. U-pic & We pic. 469-3191 Homedic Vibrating, Therapeutic recliner with heat, Black - Good condition. $50.00, Call 803-481-7499 Expert Tech, New & used heat pumps & A/C. Will install/repair, warranty; Compressor & labor $600. Call 803-968-9549 or 843-992-2364 Washers, Dryers, Refrigerators, Stoves. Also new Gas stoves.

Guaranteed. 803-464-5439 Utility Trailer 6x10 with drive on tailgate. Asking $900 OBRO. Call 803-236-2605

Utility Buildings Assorted Steel Buildings Value discounts as much as 30% Erection info available.

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EMPLOYMENT Help Wanted Full-Time The SC Army National Guard wants High School Juniors, Seniors, Grads and GED holders, and Prior Service! Ask about college tuition. Receive paid technical training and more while serving your Country and Community on a part-time basis. Call now for this great opportunity!

SFC Jeffrey Hudson 803-427-3104 SSG Lorraine Lordy 803-360-1979 Ashley Furniture Homestore of Sumter has an immediate opening for a Warehouses Position. Heavy lifting is required. All applicants must have reliable transportation; a VALID SC Driver's License, and provide a CLEAR 5 YEAR DMV report with their application in order to be considered for an interview.

All interviews are by appointment only. Call 803-469-7280 Desk Clerk second shift, Apply in person Santee Best Western Plus.

Window Tinter needed with 2 yrs. exp. req. Kenny's Car Care, 294 Broad St. Sumter. Salary Neg.

MATCHING Bath Towels $4 Each Hand Towels $1.25 each Washcloths 50¢ each

MICROFIBER DRYING MATS $1 Each

While Supplies Last.

Help Wanted Full-Time

BOOTH RENTERS NEEDED New upscale salon is seeking licensed Cosmetologist & Barbers. Call 468-1960 or 678-7661.

Drivers needed Local runs, home nightly. Must have CDL with tanker and hazmat endorsements, Twic card. Clean 10 yr MVR, 2 yrs driving experience and be 25 yrs of age. Call 803-473-6553.

High School Science Teacher position at local private school.

Please send resume along with letter of interest to: 41 N. Mill St., Manning, SC 29102

Help Wanted Part-Time Wanted Church Musician pianist or keyboardist. call 843-647-9103 Deliver Phone Books Work Your Own Hours, Have Insured Vehicle, Must be at Least 18 yrs old, Valid DL. No Experience Necessary.

1-800-518-1333 x 224 www.deliverthephonebook.com

Trucking Opportunities Driver Trainees Needed Now! Learn to drive for US Xpress! Earn $800 per week!

No experience needed! CDL Trained and Job-Ready in 15 days! 1-888-263-7364

Truck Driver needed for a well est. manufacturing company. CDL & clean 10 yr MVR req. Delivery is local & surrounding areas, no overnight, no HazMat. Mail resume to: P-315 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151

Medical Help Wanted Ortho Assistant needed for busy orthodontic practice. Please send resume to: Sumterorthoresume@yahoo.com.

Hiring Medical Administrative and Medical Assistant staff. Fax resume to 803-403-8483

Work Wanted Does your Home need attention? Any/All jobs. Electrical, Plumbing, Carpentry, Yard Professional Work. Non-professional prices. 803-565-0480 House Cleaning: Would you like a reliable and honest person to help you with your house cleaning? Call Cora at 938-5194. Have Personal References Vintage Toy Repair Call Mark C. Smith @ 803-464-0153 for Free Estimate.

Sewing Machine Repairs over 30 yrs. exp. Will come to your location. Call Mark C. Smith 803-464-0153 MOTHERS DAY BASKET $10 & UP! Call CJS 774-7823 633 Bultman Dr. 12:30-5 (ONLY)

RENTALS Want to Rent A 58 year old single Christian grandfather is looking for a Garage Apt., Cottage, or Small Apt. to rent in Sumter. Call Steve at 803-491-5646.

Reg $2.00 each

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Oakland Plantation Apts.

5501 Edgehill Rd 499-2157 2 Br apts. available. Applications accepted Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8am - 4:30pm.

Montreat St: off Miller Rd. 2BR /1BA, appliances, new flooring. No pets. $350/mo + dep. Call 803-316-8105 Shiloh-Randolph Manor Apts. 1 BR apts. avail. for Elderly 62 yrs. or older. Call (803) 775-0575 or apply in person. Corner of Bartlette & Washington. Immediate Openings Rent based on income. EHO.

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Norman Williams and Associates, Inc. 344 West Liberty Street No Fees To Applicants.

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2Br/1Ba with appl. Shaw area $450 Mo. 1/2 acre with garage for a Singlewide $150/mo. 464-7381

Ocean Lakes 2BR/2BA C/H/A Sleeps 8, near ocean, Call 803-773-2438

2BR/1.5BA, duplex Ceiling fans, carpet/tile flrs, wht kit, stove/fridge, laundry rm, carport, shed, big yard, $600/mo + dep. No Pets.

803-481-8286 lv msg.

CUTE! 3BR/1.5BA Great starter home or looking to down size.

Conveniently located to everything downtown. Newly re-roofed & extra additions, Fenced yard $55,000. Call 803-481-2888.

Vacation Rentals Santee, Garden City Beach Michelle Hodge, 803-491-4914

Office Rentals 800 sq ft office at Independent's Hall across from Kmart. $550/mo. utilities included. Call Sam Carraway 803 983-7330.

501 & 503 Church St Sumter 2BR1BA HOMES $375/mo. + $375/dep.each Ref. req call 803-783-4683

Commercial Rentals

Mobile Home Rentals

Guignard Storage: 57 Neal St. Personal storage units.

No deposits. Call 803-491-4914

Scenic Lake 2BR1BA & 3BR2BA. No pets. Call between 9am - 5pm: (803) 499-1500.

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

RV parking avail. Call 494-8350

STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015

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469-2595

Price Good Through 5-5-13

Yard Sale Corner Garage, Yard & Estate Sales

MERCHANDISE Garage, Yard & Estate Sales Will buy furniture by piece or bulk, tools, trailers, lawn mowers, 4 wheelers, etc or almost anything of value Call 983-5364 Panda's Closet 1961 McCrays Mill Rd. Special 50% off Shoes & Purses. 803-968-6550

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Price Good Through 5-5-13

Palmetto Exchange Thirft Store is having a Moving Sale. All clothes and shoes 50% off. 493 N. Guignard Dr.

3110 Bear Track Circle (kelsam farms 5 mi. past Walmart 521) Sat 8-12 Kids clothes, toys, rugs, drapes, king sz sheets, linens, Kit. items, convection oven, microwave, floor humidifier, dish sets, baked goods, hot dogs & sodas

McLaughlin Ford would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Adele Carter for being named Salesperson of the Month. Adele says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come by and see me for the best vehicle purchase experience.â&#x20AC;?

For Sale, 4Bed/2Bath, Land, $325/mo.

803-494-5090

1290 Kings Pointe 3BR/1.5BA , $700/mo + dep. No pets.

803-518-3316

866 Whatley St Huge Yard Sale Sat 7-? table/chairs, bike, baby and adlt clothes, baby swing, bouncer, Hshld items , what knots, & lots more

Some of the following current job openings are Direct Hire and some are Temp to Hire.

3BR/2BA DW Private Lot, Water/Sewer, Trash, lawn care incl. $550/mo. 494-8350

Resort Rentals

2287 Dartmouth Dr. (Off Alice Dr. Ext), Sat. 7-1. Books, hshld items, home decor, Old Avon bottles, sofa, tables, exercise glider, and more.

For details on these and additional jobs, both permanent and temporary, please visit our website......

Taking applications for clean affordable homes. Nice quiet areas, 2 Br1Ba $350 Mo. No pets.

3Br2ba $425-$450 Mo. Shaw Area Call 840-5734

Unfurnished Homes

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218 Church St. Sat. 8am. Lots of everything. Something for everyone.

Sumter County Flea Mkt Hwy 378 E. 803-495-2281 500 tables. Sat. $8 free return Sun. Car Wash, Yard Sale, Barbeque, Fish & Chicken Dinners 1109 N Main St.(under bypass) Sat 8-?

1851 W. Oakland Ave. Fri/Sat. 8AM. Furn., tools, clothes, new/used misc items.

1615 Hartwell Dr (Off Jefferson Rd) Fri 8-? Sat 8-12 Multi Family toys, boys clothes nb-3T , Long Guns, Camo, Nascar YARD SALE: Team Z Cruizers is teaming up with Relay for Life to help Fight Cancer!!!!

Sat. 7am-1pm. 29 Earle St. Refreshment and Relay for Life items for sale. All proceeds to benefit the American Cancer Society Moving Sale 747 Henderson St. Sat 7-12. Furn for all rooms, wooden playset, patio/pool furn, hshld, kids clothes, dirt bike, toys and more.

Yard Sale: Furn., Hshld items.

2286 Steadman Rd. Summerton.

Sat. 5/11, 7AM Until (NO EARLY BIRDS).

78 Hoyt Heights: Thurs & Fri 9-6 Hshld items, Children, Men & women clothing, Misc 380 W Wesmark Blvd.. Saturday 7am - 11am. blinds, bath fixt., rugs, bed , fan , man cave stuff MOTHERS DAY BASKET $10 & UP- CJS @ The Market Sumter County Flea Market B13, B14, & B15, 8-12PM Sat. Only

117 N Purdy St Sat 7-11 clothes, linens, Hshld, scrubs, kitchen items, furn, quilts, 3655 Nazarene Church Rd Sat 8-12 children clothes, baby items, furn.,& more CASH PAID for yard sale and any other items of value. Call 840-0420 Providence Bapt. Church, 2445 Old Manning Rd. Widow's Yard Sale to raise money for bus fund.

Sat 7-12. Something for everyone.

320 Planters Dr - kids & adult clothes, household & all occasion items, Fri/Sat 7am - 12pm.

2357 Addison St. Sat. May 11th, 7-noon. Misc household items.

LARGE GARAGE SALE 1st & 3rd Weekend Tables $1 & Up FLEA MARKET BY SHAW AFB

Open every wkend. 905-4242

Sumter County Civic Center Indoor Garage Sale.

700 W. Liberty St. Saturday, May 18, 2013 8 am - 1 pm.

Free admission.

For booth space call 436-2271

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Homes for Sale

3600 Dallas: Dalzell, 3BR, 2BA. Big Lot. Big storage & workshop. 1/2 ac lot. Financing Available. 775-4391, 464-5960

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C/H/A. Garage, workshop & shed. Commercial lot facing LaFayette.

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775-4391/ 464-5960

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1102 Manning Rd. 3BR/1BA, C /H/A renovated.

Hardwood floors. Fenced Backyard. Easy Financing. 775-4391, 464-5960

Manufactured Housing Ren. 1387 Raccoon Rd. (Lee Cty) 3BR/1.5BA. C/H/A 1,200sqft, also has approx 2,200sqft, 4rm bldg. 1-4.5 acres avail. Fin avail.

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1785 Titanic Ct. Custom Built Quality Home in Beach Forest. Property overlooks pond & community clubhouse/pool. 3BR w/maple hardwood floors, 3 full BA w/ceramic tile. Solid maple 42" kitchen cabinetry w/Charleston Style concrete countertops.

Oversize 2 car garage. All appliances and large covered hot tub spa unit included with purchase. Asking $235,000. Call 803-968-1187 Details & photos @ www.forsalebyowner.com /23945649

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Iris Winds MHP,Sumter Immediate occupancy. 3BR MH. $25,900.

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803-460-9444, 800-996-9540, 803-775-6816 FOR SALE IN MANNING:1465 Herod $350/mo. 1356 Herod Dr. $350/mo.

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803-460-3787

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Campers / RV's/ Motorhomes

Autos For Sale

2000 Dutchman Popup Camper $1,000 OBRO. Call 803-983-7191

MUST SEE! 2005 Kia Sorento EX, 4WD, Loaded, 168k, very well maintained, Blk w/ Grey interior.

Books at $5,800, will accept best offer. 803-968-3468

TRANSPORTATION

A Guaranteed Credit Approval AUTO LOANS

1966 Ford Mustang , poor cdtn 910-215-0474 or 803 229-0503

We will arrange financing even if you have been turned down before.

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

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Miscellaneous

Autos For Sale

Price Is Right Auto Sales 3210 Broad St, 803-494-4275 2003 Ford Expedition XLT, Black/Tan Ext, Leather Int, TV, PW/PL, 3rd row, 130k miles. $4,800 OBO. 803-464-3526

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

GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE 2009 CHEVY COLORADO

$17 995

GOODWIN AUTOMALL #30"% 45 r 46.5&3 4$

469-2595

Price Good Through 5-5-13

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