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Obama rejects calls for shift in ISIS fight BY JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent ANTALYA, Turkey — President Obama on Monday firmly rejected calls for a shift in U.S. strategy against the Islamic State after the Paris at-

tacks, saying Republicans who want to send ground troops into the volatile region are “talking as if they’re tough” but fail to understand the potentially grave consequences. “Folks want to pop off and

have opinions about what they think they would do,” Obama said in a news conference wrapping up a two-day summit of world leaders in Turkey. “If they think that somehow their advisers are better than the chairman of

my Joint Chiefs of Staff and the folks who are actually on the ground, I want to meet them. And we can have that debate.” In a stinging rebuke, the president condemned Republicans who have suggested

U.S. assistance to refugees fleeing the Middle East should focus on Christians, not Muslims. GOP presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz have made such suggestions,

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Marchers in the Walk Against Domestic Violence are seen on the Sumter County Courthouse steps Saturday morning after the walk which was organized by the Sumter High School International Baccalaureate program. The group collected household items for and donated money to the Sumter YWCA.

SHS students host 9th walk against domestic violence BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Sumter High School’s International Baccalaureate program hosted its ninth Walk Against Domestic Violence on Saturday to raise awareness about an issue that has put South Carolina at the top of one of the most unfortunate lists. Before the walk began, the IB program students presented YWCA, an

Walkers in Sumter High School’s International Baccalaureate program’s Walk Against Domestic Violence fill Main Street on Saturday morning as they walk to raise awareness on the subject. The proceeds from the walk were donated to the Sumter YWCA.

organization that provides support services to victims of domestic violence, with a check for $300. Susan Hilton, the IB creativity activity service supervisor, said the students raised the money by selling shirts they created for the event and cause. She said the walk was started by a former SHS student, 2008 graduate

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National radio host, author to speak at Wilson Hall BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Eric Metaxas, national radio host and author of four New York Times bestselling books, will be the featured speaker at the sixth-annual Wilson Hall Mission Series on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the school’s Nash Student Center, 520 Wilson Hall Road. The event is free to the public, and

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doors will open at 6 p.m. Metaxas is the author of the No. 1 bestseller, “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, METAXAS Spy,” also named “Book of the Year” by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, selling more than a million copies in 19 languages. The book tells the story of

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and author in Nazi Germany who worked to dismantle Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich from the inside. Metaxas discusses Bonhoeffer’s decision to leave the United States to return to Hitler’s Germany to oppose the Nazi regime. The book also portrays his involvement in Operation Valkyrie, which was a failed plot to assassinate Hitler, and Op-

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eration 7, the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland. Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and executed in 1945. “Wilson Hall is interested in bringing Christian faithbased speakers who will impact the Sumter community,” said Fred Moulton, school headmaster. “Metaxas brings a message of depth that older students and

adults would appreciate.” Metaxas was the main speaker at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. Moulton described him as a “really intelligent man with a quick wit.” Metaxas is the author of the 2014 book “Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life,” which ranked No.

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Fire hydrant flow tests Wednesday, Thursday The City of Sumter will be performing fire hydrant flow tests on Boulevard Road, East Liberty Street, Hauser Street, Brooklyn Street, Levi Street and Kendrick Street between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Water customers in the surrounding area may experience temporary discolored water. Direct any questions or concerns to the City of Sumter Public Services Department at (803) 436-2558.

Sanitation collection not affected by holiday The City of Sumter announces that all sanitation collection services for business and residential customers will not be affected by the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Customers are advised to put roll carts, recycling and trash out on their normal scheduled day. Direct any questions or concerns to the City of Sumter Public Services Department at (803) 436-2558.

Teens arrested after break-ins FROM STAFF REPORTS A 17-year-old and two juveniles face multiple charges after being linked to break-ins and theft of items, including a firearm, from unlocked vehicles. Tyshawn Bell, 17, of 25 Cuttino Road, Apt. 1, a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were arrested for their roles in vehicle break-ins in the Alice Drive area on Saturday, according to Tonyia M. McGirt, spokeswoman for Sumter Police Department. Officers were called to a West Liberty Street business about 7:45 a.m. Saturday after police were notified of someone sleeping in a car near the

business. Bell and the two other teens fled from the vehicle when officers arrived but were apprehended. A handgun found on the front seat of the vehicle was reported stolen from a car in a nearby neighborhood, McGirt said. The charges facing the three teens include carrying of a pistol, possession of a pistol by a person under BELL the age of 18 and multiple counts of auto breaking and entering. Bell is being held at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center pending bond. The two juveniles, whose

names are not being released because of their ages, were taken to a state Department of Juvenile Justice facility in Columbia. McGirt said an investigation is continuing. An overwhelming majority of auto break-ins in the city during the past two years involved vehicles left unlocked, McGirt said. Residents should lock their vehicles when they exit, no matter where they are or how quickly they plan to return, she said. Anyone with information or who may have been a victim of a vehicle break-in should call police at (803) 436-2700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.

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From left are S.C. Probation, Parole and Pardon Services Regional Director Schwann Hopkins, Sumter County Agent-in-Charge Sharon Holland, Sumter County Agent Stacy McCray and S.C. PPPS Director Jerry Adger. PHOTO PROVIDED

Sumter PPPS office receives honor Sumter County Probation, Parole and Pardon Services recently received the Office of Excellence Award from South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services for its hard work and commitment to assisting offenders. Agent-in-Charge Sharon Holland said the department is humbled to have received the award, which it also received in 2006. According to a news release, the Sumter office received a letter of support from Executive Director Glenn Peagler of Sumter Behavioral Health Services. In his letter, Peagler said the local office is a great partner to BHS and constantly examines innovative and efficient ways to provide effective services to clients. Also, Sumter County Agent Stacy McCray, a victim services coordinator, was named 2015 Agent of the Year. “I’m glad to see that her hard work has been recognized,” Holland said about McCray, who has been with the office for 10 years.

Wilson Hall seventh-grade student Trenton Flemming uses a fanner basket to separate rice during a recent class trip to Hampton Plantation State Park. In conjunction with their S.C. history class taught by Alan Moore, the seventh-grade students visited the park located on the banks of Santee River outside of McClellanville.

28 community leaders will be ‘Principal for the Day’ Sumter Police Chief Russell F. Roark III served as Principal for the Day at Kingsbury Elementary School last year. Roark will be Principal for the Day at Millwood Elementary School on Tuesday, along with leaders from the region who will serve at the district’s 28 schools. Check out a list of participants online at theitem.com.

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Ever wondered what it’s like to be principal of a school? Twenty-eight leaders in various fields from the Sumter community and surrounding region will participate in the fourthannual Principal for the Day program today. Principal for the Day is a nationwide program. “The program offers a unique hands-on opportunity to appreciate our strengths and challenges and gives our schools the opportunity to forge relationships with community leaders,” said Shelly Galloway, spokeswoman for Sumter School District. The program’s purpose is to experience half a day in a school from the principal’s perspective, she said. The program is sponsored by businesses and individuals in the community. Participants shadow principals of the 28 schools for a half day. Participants will meet for lunch at noon at Lakewood High School, where they will receive a token of appreciation and share thoughts from their experience, Galloway said.

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Man, 24, arrested on intimidation charges Sumter County Sheriff’s Office has arrested William Ard, 24, of 3010 Ithica Drive, on charges that he intimidated court officials, jurors or witnesses. According to a news release, Ard reportedly contacted another individual to make contact with a witness in a crime for which ARD he and a co-defendant were charged. Ard and three other men were charged in September with first-degree assault and battery for their alleged involvement in assaulting a 20-year-old man at a residence in the 7000 block of Connector Road in Pinewood, beating him about the head and body. Ard is being held at SumterLee Regional Detention Center pending a bond hearing. The suspect was originally released from custody for the September charge on a $25,000 surety bond.

Clarendon man has been missing since Oct. 28 Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man missing since Oct. 28, who may have been spotted in the Columbia area. Albert Cantey Jr., 42, of 1054 Ithica St., Manning, was last seen wearing black pants and a light tan sweater near Nelson and Red Hill roads in Manning. CANTEY Video recordings show that Cantey withdrew all of his money at two SAFE Federal Credit Union locations in Manning and Sumter on Oct. 30, said Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett. Garrett said that about a week later, Cantey was apparently spotted by someone in Columbia, who had contacted his family in Clarendon County. That information was not verified, however. Garrett said he does not think there is foul play. Cantey does not have a vehicle, and it is unknown how he is traveling, he said. Cantey is about 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs about 140 pounds, has black hair and has brown eyes. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact Clarendon County Sheriff’s Office at (803) 435-4414 or 911.

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Gov. Nikki Haley, right, and Maj. Gen. Bob Livingston view flood damage from a helicopter on Oct. 6 in Columbia.

Haley announces flood relief fund COLUMBIA (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley called on people across the nation Monday to contribute to the One SC relief fund to rebuild homes after last month’s historic flooding, saying it can do what the government can’t. “While the debris has gone off the roads, if you took a right-hand turn into any of the neighborhoods ... all over the state, you will see devastation,” Haley said in announcing the fund’s creation. “If you are blessed and did not have damage to your home. If you are blessed and you had insurance. ... Pay it forward.” The early October storm that dumped 2 feet of rain in some parts of the state destroyed or damaged more than 38,000 homes. By definition, homes don’t have even “minor damage” unless at least a foot of water was inside, according to the South Carolina Emergency Management Division. Haley said all donations to One SC will go toward supplies for rebuilding efforts, because her nonprofit — the Original Six Foundation — is covering administrative costs. Priority for distributions will start with the elderly and those living in poverty, she said.

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Governor says she supports giving refuge to persecuted COLUMBIA (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley says she’s re-evaluating international refugee programs in light of the terrorist attacks in Paris but continues to support allowing the persecuted to come to South Carolina. State Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler is among Republican legislators calling on Haley to end her support. Peeler said South Carolina can’t take any chances on an “oops The Federal Emergency Management Agency has identified 5,000 needy families who are over age 65 and live on less than $20,000 annually — with about 1,200 of those having immediate need, said retired Army Col. Kevin Shwedo, whom Haley appointed last month to coordinate relief efforts

moment” in vetting asylum seekers. But Haley says as long as nothing’s changed in who’s being resettled in the state, neither will her stance. She says no Syrians have been brought to South Carolina. She says refugees being brought from other nations have been persecuted for being Christians, for their political views or because they were interpreters for American military personnel. between government agencies and nonprofits. “There’s a small pool right now who are the most vulnerable that the volunteer organizations are focusing on,” Shwedo said. But “they can’t do anything without contributions coming from this organization.”

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Paris back at work after weekend of terror BY JILL LAWLESS The Associated Press

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A woman prays in front of a floral tribute near the Bataclan concert hall Monday for victims of terrorist attacks in Paris. France is urging its European partners to move swiftly to boost intelligence sharing, fight arms trafficking and terror financing and strengthen border security after the Paris attacks.

Recent deadly attacks The attacks around Paris are one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Europe’s recent history. Some other terror attacks in Western Europe:

PARIS — After a weekend of horror, Paris returned to the routines of the work week Monday with determination, defiance — and worry. Rush-hour subway trains were full, shops were open, and office workers lined up for sandwiches or ate lunch on café terraces. But this is also now a city dotted with makeshift shrines: carpets of flowers and candles, photos of lost loved ones and handwritten notes near the spots where gunmen and suicide bombers killed 129 people enjoying a fall Friday evening in the city. Parisians stopped by throughout the day to honor the dead, many vowing that their city would remain its incomparable self — the sensual, tolerant, life-loving metropolis of the world’s imagination. “I am afraid, but not enough to stay at home, not moving,” said Stephanie Cohen, a bank employee from suburban Paris. Others worried that the attacks would change Paris forever. “I was there (in New York) when 9/11 happened, and to tell you the truth it did change my life,” said Gary Berrios, a student originally from New York. “It changed everyone’s life. We don’t see the world the same way anymore.” At the Place de la Republique in the heart of the city, a monument to France stood surrounded by flowers, candles and notes. Handwritten cards had been left in French and English, Polish and Vietnamese — a reminder that Paris is a city that the world has taken to its heart. “Love will conquer,” said more than one sign — a vow, or maybe a wish, from the City of Love. Outside the Bataclan theater, where 89 people died when attackers gunned down young concertgoers, a banner vowed: “Freedom is an indestructible monument.” There and outside the bars

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and restaurants where dozens more died, residents paused to lay flowers, light candles or simply stand quietly. Even as the bustle of everyday life reasserted itself, Paris was a city of thousands of silent prayers — and, with emotions running close to the surface, hundreds of heated arguments. Near the Bataclan, Parisians of all ages and races argued Monday about the role of reli-

gion and the limits of tolerance. “Muslim killers!” yelled one man, who was largely ignored. An imam from a Paris mosque arrived to pay his respects, saying Muslims, too, are among the victims of the Islamic State group. A man cycled by, pulling a baby grand piano. When he stopped to play John Lennon’s “Imagine,” the arguments broke up.

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Belgian jihadi ID’d as mastermind of attacks BRUSSELS (AP) — Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels’ most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d’Uccle, Abdelhamid Abaaoud morphed into Belgium’s most notorious jihadi, a zealot so devoted to the cause of holy war that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria. The child of Moroccan immigrants who grew up in the Belgian capital’s scruffy and multiethnic Molenbeek-SaintJean neighborhood, the fugitive, in his late 20s, was identified by French authorities on Monday as the presumed mastermind of the attacks Friday in Paris that killed 129 people and injured hundreds. What’s more, one French official with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that Abaaoud is thought to have links to earlier terror attacks that were thwarted: one against a Parisbound high-speed train that was foiled by three young Americans in August and the other against a church in the French capital’s suburbs. The official wasn’t authorized to make public comments on the subject and spoke on condition of anonymity. “All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow,” Abaaoud said in a video made public in 2014. “I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them.” Belgian authorities suspect him of also helping organize and finance a terror cell in the eastern city of Verviers that was broken up in an armed police raid Jan. 15, in which two of his presumed accomplices were killed. The following month, Abaaoud was quoted by the Islamic State group’s Englishlanguage magazine, Dabiq, as saying that he had secretly returned to Belgium to lead the terror cell and then escaped to Syria in the aftermath of the

a combatant who’s ready to climb the ranks.” French authorities didn’t immediately disclose the nature of the Belgian jihadi’s purported connection to a pair of foiled terrorism incidents earlier this year in France. On Aug. 21, a heavily armed passenger who boarded an Amsterdam-to-Paris Thalys high-speed train at Brussels opened fire in a train car before being overpowered by three Americans, two of them off-duty members of the U.S. armed forces. French media reported the gunman in the aborted attack, Ayoub El Khazzani, 25, from Morocco, may have had ties to groups being investigated by counter-terrorism officials in Belgium. Belgian authorities launched an investigation into his possible accomplices. El Khazzani has been jailed in France on various charges including attempted murder in connection with terrorism and participation in a terror conTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS spiracy. Abdelhamid Abaaoud is seen in Islamic State’s English-language magazine Dabiq. Abaaoud, the child of On April 19, French authoriMoroccan immigrants who grew up in the Belgian capital’s Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighborhood, was ties said they thwarted a plot identified by French authorities Monday as the presumed mastermind of the terror attacks Friday in Paris to attack a church in the Paris that killed more than a hundred people and injured hundreds more. suburb of Villejuif after the alleged perpetrator apparently shot himself in the leg and acter but that he detected raid despite having his picture Abaaoud’s image became called police. some signs the Belgian was broadcast across the news. grimmer after independent Arriving officers traced the “I was even stopped by an journalists Etienne Huver and moving into a leadership role. blood to the car of Sid Ahmed “On the one hand I’m surofficer who contemplated me Guillaume Lhotellier, visiting Ghlam, in which they found prised,” Huver said of so as to compare me to the pic- the Turkish-Syrian frontier, an arsenal of weapons and inture, but he let me go, as he obtained photos and video last Abaaoud’s prominence. “On dications he was planning to the other hand, I saw that did not see the resemblance!” year of Abaaoud’s exploits storm a church later in the there were beginnings of Abaaoud boasted. across Syria. The material inday. something. You can see that There was no official comcluded footage of him and his French authorities have said ment from the Belgian federal friends loading a pickup truck he’s giving orders. You can feel a charismatic guy who’s going the plot was masterminded and a makeshift trailer with a prosecutor’s office about from Syria. up in the world ... You can see Abaaoud’s reported role in the mound of bloodied corpses. Before driving off, a grinParis attacks. Belgian police ning Abaaoud tells the camduring the weekend anera: “Before we towed jet skis, nounced the arrest of three suspects in Molenbeek, his old motorcycles, quad bikes, big trailers filled with gifts for vaneighborhood, and were carcation in Morocco. Now, thank rying out numerous searches God, following God’s path, there Monday. The hardscrabble area in the we’re towing apostates, infiwest of Brussels has long been dels who are fighting us.” Huver told The Associated considered a focal point of IsPress on Monday the video lamic radicalism and recruitwas too fragmentary to say ment of foreign fighters to go much about Abaaoud’s charto Iraq and Syria.

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Rare TB case shows difficulty treating children BY LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON — When a 2-year-old returned sick from a visit to India, U.S. doctors suspected tuberculosis even though standard tests said no. It would take three months to confirm she had an extreme form of the disease — a saga that highlights the desperate need for better ways to fight TB in youngsters in countries that can’t afford such creative care. Doctors at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center reported how they successfully treated one of the few tots ever diagnosed in the U.S. with the worst kind — extensively drug-resistant TB, or XDRTB, that’s impervious to a list of medicines. “This was so difficult, even when we had all these resources,” said Hopkins pediatric TB specialist Dr. Sanjay Jain, who co-authored the report published

Monday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The child now is 5 and healthy, but Jain calls the case “a wake-up call to the realities of TB.” Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that usually strikes the lungs, spreading through coughs and sneezes. A recent World Health Organization report says TB sickened nearly 10 million people worldwide in 2014, including 1 million children. That’s double earlier child estimates, reflecting some countries’ better counts. Many experts suspect the toll is still higher because children in hard-hit countries can die undiagnosed. The Hopkins patient, who wasn’t identified, returned from a threemonth family trip to India with a high fever. A battery of tests yielded no diagnosis, and no relatives were sick. But X-rays and CT scans found clues, a spot on her lung and some enlarged lymph nodes.

To diagnose adults, doctors check their sputum for TB germs. Children, especially younger than 5, don’t harbor nearly as much bacteria — and tots tend to swallow rather than cough out the mucus, Jain explained. Suspicious doctors threaded a tube into the girl’s stomach for samples, so a lab could try to grow and identify any bacteria lurking in them. Meanwhile, the child was prescribed four standard TB drugs. Her fever broke, and she gained weight — changes that in many TB-stricken countries would signal successful treatment. But X-rays showed persistent lung inflammation. And after a month, workers finally detected slowgrowing TB germs in one of those lab samples, something to use for more complex testing. Confirmation that she had the scary XDR-TB came 12 weeks after the girl’s initial exam, Jain said. Three of the

four drugs she was taking didn’t work. Her fever roared back, and lung tissue began dying. Doctors switched her to five different, riskier, medications — but had no fast way to monitor if they were working. So Jain tried something experimental, stemming from his research on using special low-radiation CT scans to track infections. A scan showed her lungs were starting to clear weeks into the new therapy. She was declared in remission after 18 months of treatment and continues to be healthy. Drug-resistant strains of TB are on the rise, especially in India, China and Africa. The hardest-to-treat XDR form is very rare in the U.S., where patients are isolated from the public while being treated to prevent the strain’s spread. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts 74 XDR-TB cases since 1993, two in children under 5.

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A worker guides a conveyor as it loads coal Nov. 3 into a trailer truck at a mine near Ordos in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Demand for coal is leveling off, but it will remain a key energy source for decades.

Coal not going away any time soon despite renewables push BY LOUISE WATT The Associated Press BEIJING — Coal: Can’t live with it and can’t live without it — at least not yet. It is the biggest source of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that negotiators around the world hope to limit in an agreement to be thrashed out in Paris this month. Demand for coal is leveling off, but it will remain a key energy source for decades, no matter how many billions of dollars of investment go into cleaner energy such as wind and solar. Too much of the world depends on it now for heating and power generation for us to suddenly live without it. There are vast parts of the developing world that will continue to see growth in demand for electricity, driven by sales of TVs, refrigerators and the construction of highways and malls as incomes increase, said Xizhou Zhou, the China chief for energy consultants IHS Energy. “The cheapest way to provide electricity in many of

these places is still coalbased,” Zhou said. This underlines the challenge facing negotiators who will convene in Paris on Nov. 30 to agree on how to limit emissions of fossil fuels. Scientists say coal, oil and gas emissions, including carbon dioxide and methane, are key drivers of rising temperatures that could lead to intense droughts or flooding of island nations. Abundant and cheap, coal emits not only soot, but also double the greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy of natural gas. In recent years, slowing economic growth, gains in energy efficiency and advances in renewable energy production have dampened demand for coal in key markets. Stricter air emissions regulations in Europe, the production of shale gas in the U.S. and the restructuring of the Chinese economy away from heavily polluting industries are all weighing down on demand. An analysis released Monday by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis suggests coal con-

sumption peaked globally in 2013 and is set to decline a further 2 to 4 percent in 2015 because of declining consumption by China and other big coal consumers. The institute said China’s coal consumption had fallen 5.7 percent from January to September. In the U.S., domestic consumption was down 11 percent, and coal’s share of the electricity market has fallen to 35 percent, from 50 percent a decade ago. Record-low U.S. gas prices, record expansion of renewable energy and a decoupling of electricity demand from economic growth are “permanently eroding” coal demand in the U.S., the Cleveland, Ohio-based IEEFA said. Still, coal provides more than 40 percent of the world’s electricity and 29 percent of its energy supply, second only to oil at 31 percent, according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency. The agency projects coal consumption to continue growing somewhat in coming years, largely owing to increased coal demand in India and Southeast Asia.

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New produce safety rules aim to prevent illness BY MARY CLARE JALONICK The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration wants you to eat your fruits and vegetables. It also wants the produce to be safe. Long-awaited rules issued by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday are designed to help prevent large-scale, deadly outbreaks of foodborne illness like those linked to fresh spinach, cantaloupes, cucumbers and other foods in the last decade. That means making sure workers are trained to wash their hands, irrigation water is monitored for harmful bacteria and animals do not leave droppings in fields. The rules will phase in during the next several years and give the FDA sweeping new oversight over how food is grown on farms. The majority of farmers and food manufacturers already follow good safety practices, but the rules are intended to give greater focus on prevention in a system that has been largely reactive after large outbreaks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 48 million people — or 1 in 6 people in the United States — are sickened each year from foodborne diseases, and an estimated 3,000 people die. The Obama administration has said it doesn’t want people to eat fewer fruits and vegetables because of safety concerns. “The rules will help better protect consumers from foodborne illness and strengthen their confidence that modern preventive practices are in place, no matter where in the world the food is produced,” said Michael Taylor, the FDA deputy commissioner for foods. The FDA also released rules Friday that will require importers to be more accountable for the safety of food they bring into the U.S. market. Taylor said both rules could help prevent illnesses such as an ongoing outbreak of salmonella linked to cucumber imported from Mexico. In that outbreak, four people have died, and more than 700 people have fallen ill. There have been many other outbreaks linked to produce in recent years. In 2006, E. coli in fresh spinach was linked to several deaths. The CDC later issued a report saying the cause may have been contaminated irrigation water. A 2011 outbreak of listeria linked to cantaloupes killed 33 people. In a recent outbreak of cyclospora illnesses linked to imported Mexican cilantro, American investigators found toilet paper and human feces in the fields where it was grown. The rules are new territory for the Food and Drug Administration, which has never before had such broad authority to oversee how food is grown on farms. The agency has haggled about how to write the rules since Congress approved them in 2010, trying to find a balance between food safety and regulating farms with safety measures already in place. The FDA originally proposed the produce rules in

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Workers clean inside a Chipotle restaurant Nov. 9 in Seattle. Health officials in Washington and Oregon said more than three dozen people have gotten sick with E. coli in an outbreak linked to Chipotle restaurants in the two states. The Food and Drug Administration issued new produce safety rules Friday after large foodborne illness outbreaks in the last decade, including deadly outbreaks linked to fresh spinach, cantaloupes and cucumbers. An operator of a fruit and vegetable stand near Denver holds a cantaloupe in September 2011. AP FILE PHOTO

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while some Republican governors want to ban all Syrian refugees from their states. “That’s shameful,” he said. “That’s not American. It’s not who we are.” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called Obama’s statements “excuse-laden and defensive.” Even before the Paris attacks, Obama was under pressure from allies and his own administration to show progress in the campaign against the Islamic State. The assault in the heart of Western Europe was part of a troubling pattern showing the group focusing new attention on targets outside its base in Iraq and Syria. Obama conceded that the attacks in France marked a “terrible and sickening setback” in the anti-Islamic State campaign. But he insisted his strategy of building an international coalition to launch airstrikes, while training and equipping more moderate forces on the ground, is the best approach. “The strategy that we are putting forward is the strategy that ultimately is going to work,” Obama said. “It’s going to take time.” The president has deployed more than 3,000 U.S. troops to Iraq to assist local security forces, and he recently an-

Tyler Bridges, and the IB students have continued the walk ever since. Hilton said the students are in charge of getting the parade permit and coordinating with YWCA. “I just follow up,” she said. During the walk, students held signs stating, “Stop the violence,” “Stand up and speak out,” “Love should not hurt,” and “Fear is not a substitute for respect.” Cleyardis McDonaldAmaker, YWCA domestic violence program supervisor, told the crowd of high school students and community members that domestic violence is not limited to people of a specific demographic. She said domestic violence is not just something that happens to women, nor is it a racial or socio-economic issue. “It’s a public issue,” she said. In 2014, three individuals, one from Sumter, one from Williamsburg and the other from Clarendon, were killed by their

METAXAS FROM PAGE A1 12 on the New York Times bestseller list. He has also written for the “Veggie Tales” series and is host of the “Eric Metaxas Show,” a nationally syndicated daily radio program in 120 cities. Along with his colleague, John Stonestreet, Metaxas is the voice of “BreakPoint,” a radio commentary broadcast on 1,400 radio outlets, with an audience of eight million people. In 2011, Metaxas was the recipient of the Canterbury Medal, awarded by the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom, recognizing “courage in the defense of religious liberty” and presented annually to a “leading figure who demonstrates an unyielding commitment to advancing the cause of religious liberty.” Metaxas has testified before Congress about the rise of anti-Semitism in the U.S. and abroad. In 2013, he and his wife were jointly awarded the Human Life Review’s “Great Defender of Life Award.” From Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson to Coach Herman Boone, who was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 2000 Hollywood film “Remember the Titans,” Wilson Hall Mission Series has attracted prominent speakers from various

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he sent in ground forces. “What happens when there’s a terrorist attack generated from Yemen?” Obama asked. “Do we then send more troops into there? Or Libya, perhaps? Or if there’s a terrorist network that’s operating anywhere else — in North Africa, or in Southeast Asia?” The potency of the Islamic State, along with the civil war in Syria that gave the group space to rise, dominated Obama’s two days of talks in Turkey, where leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing nations gathered at a seaside resort.

fields in the last six years. Moulton said the series started when a supporting family, which prefers to remain anonymous, wanted to make a donation for speakers to visit the school. A committee selects the

speakers and schedules them to come sometimes several years in advance, he said. “This is a big event, not only for Wilson Hall, but for everyone in the Sumter community,” Moulton said.

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From circus sword swallower to Cuban guerrilla BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH The best documentaries discover true stories that are stranger than fiction. Sometimes, they inspire feature film adaptations. I would bet some aspiring screenwriter is already working on the big screen version of “American Commandante” the subject of tonight’s “American Experience” (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings). A tale of a failure and prodigal son who becomes a hero in the strangest fashion, “Commandante” is often too weird to believe. We first meet William Morgan as a little boy in home movies his father made in the 1940s. He looks sweet enough, but boy, he was trouble. In quick succession he would run away to the circus, get kicked out of a number of schools, join the Army, go AWOL, get arrested, break out of the brig and then face federal prison. After incarceration he would return to his native Toledo, much to the shame of his respectable parents, and find work as a merchant sailor and an all-around lackey for local mobsters. When, of course, he wasn’t working as a circus sword-swallower. In the mid-1950s he would impetuously reinvent himself once again as a Cuban revolutionary. He arrived in the jungle overweight, over 30 and a compete mess. The absurdity of his position recalls Woody Allen’s 1971 comedy “Banan-

as.” But he persevered and helped teach his comrades military tactics learned in the U.S. Army. He proved himself to be a brave soldier and a leader of men. By complete chance, Morgan had attached himself to rebels in the Escambray Mountains led by the 23-yearold Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo. Fidel Castro saw them as allies, but also rivals, and would send Che Guevara to take over the group. Over the first two years of the Castro regime, Morgan would be championed as a hero of the revolution, and then volunteer to act as a double agent to draw out those who would kill and betray Castro. J. Edgar Hoover was so furious about being duped by Morgan that he had his U.S. citizenship revoked. But Morgan’s days in Cuba were numbered. He would face charges that he had turned against the revolution as it became more openly communist and allied with the Soviet Union. Morgan was arrested in late 1960 and executed via firing squad in 1961. Morgan’s story has remained obscure for decades, perhaps because the narrative is so strange and deeply embarrassing to both the United States and to the Castro regime. Nonetheless, Morgan’s tale has the ring of a fiction and fable, a fallen misfit who reinvents himself as a hero

and even a martyr. • Is Chicago the new New York? Dick Wolf, who spent years in New York employing at least two generations of local actors in his “Law & Order” franchises, is the coproducer of “Chicago Med” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14). As of the time this column was filed, the series had not been made available for review. But it’s from Dick Wolf and is a spinoff of “Chicago Fire,” so it’s safe to say we know what to expect.

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ES MOINES, Iowa — You can’t drive far in these parts without seeing Ben Carson on a billboard, looking more like a man of the cloth than of the operating room. There’s something vaguely beatific in that face and beaming smile. “Run Ben Run!” reads the text on one sign. The moviegoer’s mind can’t escape the immediate association. “Run, Forrest, Run!” the little girl cried out to her mentally challenged friend, Forrest Gump, as a group of mean boys taunted and pursued him. Perhaps this very connection penetrated the barrier reef of Trump’s self-regard when he was in Iowa reKathleen cently. ThursParker day night, in a riff expressing his puzzlement over Carson’s growing popularity, Trump insinuated that Iowans — and perhaps even some in his audience — are of limited intelligence. “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” he thundered to about 1,500 Iowans. “How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?” Trump sprinkled “crap” elsewhere in his 95-minute tirade, saying the word at least three times. He also promised to “bomb the s---” out of oil fields in Iraq and Syria. And he insisted that the crowd take his word that he knows more about the Islamic State than our generals do. “Believe me,” he said. Trump has never hesitated to insult any and everyone, including his audiences. A few months ago in South Carolina, for instance, he wasted no time taking down Sen. Lindsey Graham, who though also running for president, was polling near the bottom. Trump’s attack not only was gratuitous but reeked of pure meanness. After all, many in the audience probably put Graham in the Senate. How stupid are the people of South Carolina? Trump might as well have said. In Fort Dodge on Thursday, he launched into several of his political opponents — calling Marco Rubio “weak like a baby,” and referring to Carly Fiorina as “Carly whateverthe-hell-her-name-is” — but he saved his most toxic remarks for Carson. Trump couldn’t suggest that the retired pediatric neurosurgeon is dumb, so he turned the insult on Carson’s supporters. In this richly evangelical state, he also chose to ridicule Carson’s personal story of Christian salvation and transformation — from an angry, violence-prone youth to the calm, reserved visage hov-

ering every several miles above the Iowa landscape. Trump: “He goes into the bathroom for a couple of hours and he comes out and now he’s religious. And the people of Iowa believe him. Give me a break. ... It doesn’t happen that way. ... Don’t be fools, OK?” On a roll, Don, on a roll. Referring to recent media questions about Carson’s selfdescribed pathological temper in his youth, Trump made a comparison to child molesters, saying they are “incurable.” First, pathological means related to disease or illness — or can mean compulsive/obsessive — but it doesn’t necessarily mean incurable, as a doctor would know but perhaps a reality-star businessmogul might not. Practice what you preach, Brother Trump, and preach what you know. For comparison purposes, Trump could have picked a number of bad habits, from gambling to boozing, but he went for the most universally repulsive thing he could think of — pedophilia. Maybe his right lobe was firing on the tenuous association between pediatric (neurosurgeon) and child (molester)? Oh, but I’m stretching, aren’t I? Trying too hard to find an explanation for this meaner, nastier, angrier version of Trump when it’s all too clear. This is the true Trump. Fort Dodge was the inevitable meltdown many of us were anticipating far sooner than now. It’s hard even for a showman like Trump to fake for long what you are not. In a political campaign, as in a courtship, people try to win favor by displaying their most attractive, intelligent, talented persona. But as we all know, you can only consistently project your best self for so long. Eventually, the idealized “you” becomes worn out from the effort, and the real “you” puts on the sweats and grabs the remote. In romance, I put it at about two years. In politics, the courtship is necessarily, if disastrously, faster — speed dating for the future of humankind. Trump got tired. His courtship self was the one who insulted only his opponents and women. True Trump can’t stand anyone and wonders why he’s wasting time with all these clueless clucks who don’t have enough sense to recognize a charlatan when they see one. Thursday night in Fort Dodge, I’m betting quite a few did. Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com. © 2015, Washington Post Writers Group

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR LAW ENFORCEMENT MUST STOP PROTECTING WHITE DRUG ABUSERS Recently The Sumter Item published stories relating to illegal drug activities in the city and county of Sumter. It appears that the drug problem is becoming increasingly violent. After over 40 years, $1 trillion and 45 million arrests, the possession, use, sale and abuse of illegal drugs in America has progressed from a problem to an epidemic. In June 1971, President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs. He proclaimed, “America’s public enemy No. 1 in the United States is drug abuse.” President Nixon signed his war on drugs into law on Jan. 28, 1972. In 1980, the total U.S. prison and jail population was approximately 500,000. Today it’s more than 1.5 million. This is the highest rate of all industrialized nations. Many policy experts and authors have claimed that there are racial disparities in arrests, prosecutions, imprisonment, rehabilitation programs and other aspects of the War on Drugs. Blacks in the U.S. are almost four times as likely as whites to be arrested for possession of marijuana even though whites have higher rates of usage than blacks. White Americans are also more likely than black Americans to have used a wide variety of illegal drugs. The War on Drugs is a “total failure.” Why? Because America’s criminal justice system and many state and local law enforcement departments focus on the sellers and not the abusers. When it comes to illegal drug use “White America does the crime, Black America does the time.” Americans have a very high appetite for drugs. There is a constant increase in the demand for all types of illegal drugs. This demand is not only on our streets but on the campuses of most colleges and universities in America. The War on Drugs can be effective when our criminal justice system and law enforcement officers stop protecting white drug abusers. Drug abusers should be detained and placed into drug treatment and

rehabilitation programs. As long as America tolerates drug abuse by white Americans, the drug epidemic will escalate. Drug addiction is now a topic of discussion by GOP presidential candidates. EUGENE R. BATEN Sumter

OBAMA MUST QUIT ALLOWING SYRIAN REFUGEES INTO U.S. I have just watched our so-called commander in chief on television, concerning the bombings/shootings that happened in France. To say I am a little shocked, scared and a little p.o.’ed is an understatement. Seems he is a little timid when it comes to retaliate against his “brothers.” I would like to remind everyone that voted for him (and you know who you are) that when he was inaugurated, he swore to uphold the laws of this country, and that included fighting any threat to the United States from any source, foreign or domestic. Now, seems to me that bringing in 10,000 Syrian refugees to this country is definitely a threat. But the president thinks this goes against U.S. values. I, for one, find it funny that he uses U.S. values when all he has done is try to impress his own values. I have a novel idea for anyone who chooses to leave his or her home country and come live in the United States: If you don’t like the way America and her people live, please feel free to pack up your stuff and get the hell out and go back home. I’ll be damned if I am going to let anyone tell me how I should live or what I shouldn’t eat or that my wife can’t drive and should cover her face in public. No sir, not going to happen. And if you Democratic sheep don’t stop putting fools in the White House who want to open up our borders to known terrorists, that is exactly what is going to happen. Mr. President, your plan against ISIS is not working. More time will not help. Do not let these refugees into this country. Please do something now. DENNIS VICKERS Wedgefield

WHO REPRESENTS YOU SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1 Naomi D. Sanders 5605 Borden Road Rembert, SC 29128 (803) 499-3947 (home) DISTRICT 2 Artie Baker 3680 Bakersfield Lane Dalzell, SC 29040 803-469-3638 (home) DISTRICT 3 James Byrd Jr. 13 E. Canal St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 468-1719 (mobile) (803) 778-0796 (office) (803) 436-2108 (Fax) jbyrd@sumtercountysc.org DISTRICT 4 Charles T. Edens 760 Henderson St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 775-0044 (home) (803) 236-5759 (mobile) DISTRICT 5 Vivian Fleming-McGhaney 9770 Lynches River Road Lynchburg, SC 29080 (803) 437-2797 (home) (803) 495-3247 (office) DISTRICT 6 James T. McCain Jr. 317 W. Bartlette St. Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 773-2353 (home) (803) 607-2777 (mobile)

WARD 5 Robert Galiano 608 Antlers Drive Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 469-0005 bgaliano@sumter-sc.com SUMTER CITY COUNCIL WARD 6 David Merchant MAYOR 26 Paisley Park Joseph T. McElveen Jr. Sumter, SC 29150 20 Buford St. (803) 773-1086 Sumter, SC 29150 dmerchant@sumter-sc.com (803) 773-0382 jmcelveen@sumter-sc.com STATE LAWMAKERS WARD 1 Thomas J. Lowery Rep. Grady Brown, 829 Legare St. D-Bishopville Sumter, SC 29150 District 50 (803) 773-9298 420 S. Main St. tlowery@sumter-sc.com Bishopville, SC 29010 (803) 484-6832 (home) WARD 2 (803) 734-2934 (Columbia) Ione Dwyer P.O. Box 1492 Rep. Joe Neal, D-Hopkins Sumter, SC 29151 District 70 (803) 481-4284 P.O. Box 5 idwyer@sumter-sc.com Hopkins, SC 29061 WARD 3 (803) 776-0353 (home) Calvin K. Hastie Sr. (803) 734-9142 (fax) 810 S. Main St. (803) 734-2804 (Columbia) Sumter, SC 29150 jn@schouse.org (803) 774-7776 chastie@sumter-sc.com Rep. Dr. Robert L. Ridgeway III, D-Clarendon WARD 4 District 64 Colleen Yates 117 N. Brooks St. cyates@sumter-sc.com Manning, SC 29102 (803) 938-3087(home) (803) 212-6929 (Columbia) DISTRICT 7 Eugene Baten P.O. Box 3193 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 773-0815 (home)

Rep. Murrell Smith Jr., R-Sumter District 67 P.O. Box 580 Sumter, SC 29151 (803) 778-2471 (business) (803) 778-1643 (fax) (803) 734-3042 (Columbia) murrellsmith@schouse.gov Rep. J. David Weeks, D-Sumter District 51 2 Marlborough Court Sumter, SC 29154 (803) 775-5856 (business) (803) 734-3102 (Columbia) Sen. Gerald Malloy, D-Darlington District 29 1216 Salem Road Hartsville, SC 29550 (843) 339-3000 (803) 212-6148 (Columbia) Sen. Kevin L. Johnson, D-Manning District 36 P.O. Box 156, Manning, 29102 (803) 435-8117 (home) (803) 212-6108 (Columbia) Sen. J. Thomas McElveen III, D-Sumter District 35 P. O. Box 57, Sumter, 29151 (803) 775-1263 (business (803) 212-6132 (Columbia)

NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Rep. Mick Mulvaney — 5th District 1207 Longworth HOB Washington, D.C. 20515 (202) 225-5501 531-A Oxford Drive Sumter, SC 29150 (803) 327-1114 Rep. Jim Clyburn — 6th District 319 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-3315 1703 Gervais St. Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 799-1100 jclyburn@hr.house.gov Sen. Lindsey Graham 290 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-5972 Midlands Regional Office 508 Hampton Street, Suite 202 Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 933-0112 (main) Sen. Tim Scott 167 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-6121 (202) 228-5143 (fax) 1301 Gervais St., Suite 825 Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 771-6112 (803) 771-6455 (fax)

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AROUND TOWN The Ebenezer Community Cen- wish to carry out, call on ter COPS Program will sponsor Wednesday evening to make arrangements for a free seminar on Wills and Do you need about Wills? pick up. Call Viola dying without a Will at information 7 p.m. Thursday today at 4580 Queen Chapel Shaw at (803) 428-3488. Road, Dalzell. Attorney Lincoln High School PreservaGlenn F. Givens will speak. tion Alumni Association’s ninth annual gala / fundraiser The Carolina Coin Club will will begin at 6:30 p.m. on meet at 7 p.m. today at 155 Friday, Nov. 27, at the LinHaynsworth St., the Parks and Recreation Department coln High School gymnasibuilding. The club meets on um, Council Street. For information and tickets, call the third Tuesday of each (803) 968-4173. month and visitors are always welcome. Call (803) Lincoln High School Preserva775-8840 for more information Alumni Association will tion. hold its fifth annual flapjack The Sumter County Educator’s fundraiser from 8 to 10 a.m. Association-Retired will meet on Saturday, Nov. 28, at Applebee’s, 2497 Broad St. at noon on Wednesday, Cost is $7 per person. Call Nov. 18, at the North HOPE Essie Richardson at (803) Center, 904 N. Main St. All 775-2999 or James Green at members are encouraged (803) 968-4173. to attend. Call Brenda Bethune at (803) 469-6588. The Town of Pinewood will hold its sixth annual ChristMile for a Meal will be held mas parade at 10 a.m. on from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5. For inforThursday, Nov. 19, at mation regarding particiWalmart Neighborhood pating in the parade, call Market, 615 Bultman Drive. Bring a non-perishable food Pinewood Town Hall at (803) 452-5878. item and join with other participants to walk a mile Clarendon School District One to raise awareness of hunwill conduct free vision, hearger in the community. All ing, speech and developmendonations to benefit local tal screenings as part of a Sumter food banks. For adchild find effort to identify ditional information, call students with special the Sumter Police Departneeds. Screenings will be ment at (803) 436-2723. held from 9 a.m. to noon at the Summerton Early ChildThe Pinedale Neighborhood hood Center, 8 South St., Association will meet at 4 Summerton, on the followp.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, ing Thursdays: Dec. 10; Jan. at the South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafayette Drive. Call 14, 2016; Feb. 11, 2016; March 10, 2016; April 14, Ferdinand Burns at (803) 2016; and May 12, 2016. Call 968-4464. Sadie Williams at (803) 485The Sumter Combat Veterans 2325, extension 116. Group will meet at 10 a.m. The Sumter Civil Air Patrol’s on Friday, Nov. 20, at the Wreaths Across America cereSouth HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafayette Drive, Sumter. All mony will be held at noon on Saturday, Dec. 12, at area veterans are invited. Sumter Cemetery. Former Lincoln High School PreservaU.S. Marine and retired tion Alumni Association will Army Reserve Master Sgt. hold a dinner fundraiser from Jackie Hughes will speak. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, After the ceremony, attendNov. 20, at the Lincoln High School cafeteria, 22 Council ees may assist in hanging the wreaths along the cemSt. Cost is $8 per plate and etery fence. For more infordinner will include turkey, mation about the WAA orstuffing, seasoned rice, ganization, contact Denise lima beans, roll, dessert Owen at owenmom@aol. and a drink. Dine in or take com or visit www.wreathout. Call James L. Green at sacrossamerica.org. (803) 968-4173. The Sumter Branch NAACP A free Thanksgiving dinner will hold its annual meeting at will be held 11 a.m. to 2 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 13, p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 26, at First Baptist Missionary at the home of Viola Shaw, 186 Green Lane, Bishopville. Church, 219 S. Washington St. Eat in or take out. If you

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): An EUGENIA LAST opportunity will come through someone you have worked with in the past. Consider negotiating a contract that will help you stabilize your financial situation. Call in favors and you’ll get the help you require. Romance is highlighted.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Emotional situations will hinder your productivity at work. Don’t share your personal problems with your peers or the information may be used against you. What you do to improve your skills will take your mind off your worries and help you advance. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Use persuasive tactics to get your way, but don’t underestimate what someone else will ask for in return. Don’t limit your chance to get ahead by promising something you can’t possibly deliver. Work on yourself instead of trying to change others. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Hang on to your cash. If you want to impress someone, use your charm and intellect to command attention. Creative input and an openness to explore new possibilities will lead to a better living arrangement. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s what you do that counts. Talks will lead to emotional mishaps if you aren’t careful. Live up to your promises and be responsible and you will avoid criticism. Spend time with the ones you love. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Good fortune will be yours if you utilize your insight and common sense to make positive changes at home and within business partnerships. How you communicate with others

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AccuWeather® ﬁve-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

TONIGHT

WEDNESDAY

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Cloudy and mild

Variable clouds; breezy, humid

Morning rain; mostly cloudy

Sun mixing with clouds; breezy

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68°

54°

77° / 64°

73° / 49°

63° / 39°

57° / 38°

Chance of rain: 5%

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ENE 7-14 mph

ENE 6-12 mph

ESE 10-20 mph

SSW 6-12 mph

N 10-20 mph

NNE 6-12 mph

TODAY’S SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER

Gaﬀney 62/51 Spartanburg 60/50

Greenville 62/51

Columbia 68/56

Temperatures shown on map are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 68/54

Aiken 67/55

ON THE COAST

Charleston 72/61

Today: Times of clouds and sun; pleasant in central parts. High 69 to 73. Wednesday: Partly sunny; rain and drizzle in southern parts. High 73 to 77.

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SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Today Hi/Lo/W 66/57/c 58/54/r 68/47/t 61/51/c 75/48/t 74/49/s 82/62/t 51/43/s 84/71/pc 58/45/pc 64/44/s 64/50/s 62/51/pc

SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest. 355.94 76.44 75.16 98.30

24-hr chg -0.11 -0.05 none -1.29

Sunrise 6:56 a.m. Moonrise 11:44 a.m.

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

0.00" 2.40" 1.50" 54.76" 32.01" 42.19"

NATIONAL CITIES City Atlanta Chicago Dallas Detroit Houston Los Angeles New Orleans New York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix San Francisco Wash., DC

Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

69° 36° 66° 41° 87° in 1958 24° in 1969

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 4 p.m. yest. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 67/52/r 61/39/r 69/47/s 67/45/r 71/46/s 78/53/s 67/54/r 58/55/c 87/71/pc 64/58/c 68/48/s 66/50/pc 64/59/c

Myrtle Beach 71/61

Manning 70/59

Today: Mostly cloudy. Winds northeast 6-12 mph. A bit of rain. Wednesday: Brief morning showers, then rain. Winds east 7-14 mph.

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

Florence 71/54

Bishopville 69/56

Flood 7 a.m. stage yest. 12 11.10 19 6.50 14 9.78 14 7.77 80 82.17 24 20.79

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Today Wed.

High 12:00 a.m. 12:36 p.m. 12:56 a.m. 1:34 p.m.

Ht. 2.8 3.2 2.9 3.2

Low 6:55 a.m. 7:48 p.m. 7:52 a.m. 8:44 p.m.

Ht. 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4

REGIONAL CITIES City Asheville Athens Augusta Beaufort Cape Hatteras Charleston Charlotte Clemson Columbia Darlington Elizabeth City Elizabethtown Fayetteville

Today Hi/Lo/W 59/50/c 66/54/c 69/56/pc 73/63/pc 71/62/pc 72/61/pc 65/53/pc 63/54/c 68/56/pc 71/54/pc 70/57/pc 73/55/pc 71/52/pc

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 63/50/r 68/52/r 75/62/sh 77/67/pc 72/66/r 78/66/c 70/62/c 66/55/r 75/63/c 76/65/c 72/63/pc 75/67/pc 76/65/c

Today City Hi/Lo/W Florence 71/54/pc Gainesville 82/69/pc Gastonia 63/52/pc Goldsboro 71/53/pc Goose Creek 72/63/pc Greensboro 68/49/pc Greenville 62/51/c Hickory 61/48/pc Hilton Head 70/66/pc Jacksonville, FL 80/68/pc La Grange 70/63/c Macon 71/61/c Marietta 65/56/c

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 76/67/pc 86/71/sh 68/61/c 74/66/pc 78/68/c 70/63/c 65/56/r 64/57/sh 74/69/r 83/70/sh 70/52/r 74/57/c 66/49/r

Today City Hi/Lo/W Marion 59/47/c Mt. Pleasant 71/64/pc Myrtle Beach 71/61/pc Orangeburg 68/59/pc Port Royal 71/65/pc Raleigh 70/51/pc Rock Hill 64/53/pc Rockingham 70/52/pc Savannah 74/64/pc Spartanburg 60/50/pc Summerville 72/62/pc Wilmington 70/57/pc Winston-Salem 68/50/pc

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 61/53/r 76/68/r 77/68/pc 75/65/c 75/68/pc 73/63/c 70/62/c 73/66/c 78/68/pc 64/57/r 77/68/c 77/67/pc 69/63/c

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will make the difference. Opportunities will result if you network. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t let someone else’s changes slow you down or give you an excuse not to finish the projects that you start. What you do to improve who you are, how you look or what you have to offer will pay off. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Make your move quickly to avoid an emotional setback. Be creative and think outside the box and you will find an unconventional way to get others on board. An interesting change at home will motivate you to succeed. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Be careful about what you promise to do. Someone will hold you to your word and judge you if you don’t live up to your claims. Move forward quietly until you have everything in place, or you will risk interference. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Problems with friends, relatives or peers can be expected. Be prepared to work alone if you want to get things done. It will be in your best interest to be secretive about your ideas until you can get all the kinks ironed out.

LOTTERY NUMBERS PALMETTO CASH 5 MONDAY

POWERBALL SATURDAY

MEGAMILLIONS FRIDAY

12-17-21-25-30 PowerUp: 3

14-22-37-45-66 Powerball: 5; Powerplay: 3

17-18-31-35-59 Megaball: 9; Megaplier: 5

PICK 3 MONDAY

PICK 4 MONDAY

LUCKY FOR LIFE THURSDAY

9-2-2 and 9-5-8

2-5-8-3 and 8-2-8-0

7-9-16-22-46; Lucky Ball: 7

PICTURES FROM THE PUBLIC Rich Marks took this photo of a beautiful Carolina sunset at Williams-Brice Stadium during the USC vs. Kentucky game.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t become confused by what someone says. Ask questions until you understand what’s happening. The personal changes you make will help you regain confidence. Finishing overdue projects will ease stress. Romance is encouraged. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A business trip will lead to valuable information and good connections. A partnership looks encouraging and will give you a fresh look at an old idea or plan you’ve been contemplating. Express your thoughts and people will listen.

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college Football

Heisman push? Tigers quarterback Watson chasing running backs

nascar

Dale Jr. wins as finale field set Rain-shortened race denies Logano entry By JENNA FRYER The Associated Press

The Associated Press

Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson has worked his way into the Heisman Trophy conversation as he has led the No. 1 Tigerst to a 10-0 start.

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press CLEMSON — In the year of the running back, Clemson’s Deshaun Watson is making a late push to keep the Heisman Trophy in a quarterback’s hands. The best player on the nation’s No. 1 team is just now starting to emerge as a serious Heisman contender. The sophomore is chasing star running backs such as Alabama’s Derrick Henry, LSU’s Leonard Fournette, Ohio State’s Ezekiel Elliott, Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey and Florida State’s Dalvin Cook, but he seems to be gaining ground. Around this Death Valley, though, there is no doubt about Watson’s place in the Heisman race and whether he should be in New York on Dec. 12 when the winner is revealed.

“I definitely plan on him being there and I hope he takes me with him,” Clemson tight end Jordan Leggett said Monday. Quarterbacks have won the last five Heisman trophies and 13 of the last 15. Watson checks a lot of the same boxes as recent winners. Nine of those quarterbacks played in the BCS championship game or in the case of Oregon’s Marcus Mariota last year, the College Football Playoff. Watson and the Tigers (10-0, 7-0) are three wins from going to the playoff. The easiest of those games comes Saturday at home against Wake Forest (3-7, 1-5). Dual-threat, spread-offense quarterbacks have also gotten a lot of love from Heisman voters in recent years. Think Robert Griffin III, Johnny Manziel, Tim Tebow and Mariota. Watson can also do it all, too, and his

numbers are very good. He is averaging 319 total yards per game, 15th in the nation. His passer rating of 160.3 is 14th best. He has accounted for 28 touchdowns. He has some work to do, however, to catch up to the gaudy stats put up by those recent Heisman winners. Manziel averaged 393 total yards per game. Griffin averaged 383. Tebow accounted for 55 touchdowns and became the first major college quarterback to have at least 20 rushing touchdowns and throw at least 20 touchdown passes. Mariota’s passer rating was 181.75. At least part of the reason Watson’s numbers don’t jump off the screen is the way Clemson has used its superstar, who was coming off a major knee injury. Co-offensive coordinator Jeff

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NFL

See field, Page B5

auto racing

Justin Mintz Stock-4 winner at speedway By CODY TRUETT Special to The Sumter Item

Newton, offense rolling in 9-0 start Panthers have scored at least 20 points in all games — and are celebrating By STEVE REED The Associated Press

The Panthers (9-0) have scored at least 27 points in seven straight games — and at CHARLOTTE — Cam New- least 20 points in all nine ton has plenty of reasons to games. celebrate these days — the Carolina has won 13 straight Carolina Panthers are unregular season games dating beaten and the offense is roll- back to last season and holds a ing. two-game lead in the race for And while some opponents home-field advantage in the may not be particularly fond NFC entering Sunday’s game of the fifth-year quarterback’s against the Washington Redtouchdown celebrations, New- skins. ton doesn’t particular seem to Panthers coach Ron Rivera care. attributes some of the of“I’m a firm believer if you fense’s success to how coordidon’t like me to do it then nator Mike Shula has used don’t let me in” the end zone, the fifth-year quarterback Newton said after his touchsince the latter part of last down dance Sunday in Caroli- season, including running na’s 27-10 win over the Tennes- more of the no-huddle ofsee Titans. fense. That’s been a problem for See panthers, Page B3 defenses this season.

AVONDALE, ARIZ. — NASCAR’s championship field was set Sunday at rain-soaked Phoenix International Raceway when the race was called 93 laps from the scheduled finish — denying Joey Logano and three others a chance EARNHARDT to race their way into the finale. Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race when NASCAR pulled the plug after a frustrating day of trying to get a pivotal Chase for the Sprint Cup championship elimination round completed. Rain initially delayed the start almost seven hours and turned a day race into a showcase under the lights, and Earnhardt inherited the lead when Kevin Harvick made a routine pit stop. “That’s the way this game is played. That’s the way this Chase is,” Logano said. “There’s no doubt in my mind we’re still the strongest team on the race track.” Earnhardt was eliminated from the playoffs in the second round, though, so the victory had no championship implications. Advancing into the season finale next Sunday were reigning series champion Harvick, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. They joined Jeff Gordon, who had earned his spot in the final four two weeks ago with a win at Martinsville, in the winner-take-all showdown at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

The Associated Press

Carolina quarterback Cam Newton (1) has the Panthers offense firing on all cylinders. Carolina improved to 9-0 on the season with a 27-10 victory over Tennessee on Sunday in Nashville, Tenn.

Justin Mintz made the most of his night on Saturday at Sumter Speedway, picking up a dominant win in the Stock-4 division feature as well as the $800 check. Mintz started the 15-car feature from the front row after posting the fastest qualifying time and never looked back, leading flag to flag. Banjo Duke pressured Mintz through the early stages of the feature, pulling alongside him on several occasions. However, he was unable to muster enough strength to get around him. Mintz took the checkered flag with Duke second, Ronnie Brown third, Ray Cagle Jr. fourth and Landon Jeffreys fifth. Greg Murphy was sixth with Casey Bryan seventh, Taylor Geddings eighth, Jason Hodge ninth and Bubba Albert 10th. The Late Model division also had a big feature with the winner taking home a nice $1,000 check. Duke was victorious in this race, battling it out with Gib Gibbons.

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sports

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Scoreboard

sports items

TV, RADIO 6 a.m. – College Basketball: Wisconsin-Green Bay at East Tennessee State (ESPN2). 8 a.m. – College Basketball: Stephen F. Austin at Northern Iowa (ESPN2). 10 a.m. – College Basketball: Valparaiso at Rhode Island (ESPN2). 1 p.m. – College Basketball: Alabama at Dayton (ESPN). 2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: Euro 2016 Qualifying Match – Sweden vs. Denmark (ESPN2). 2:30 p.m. – International Soccer: Euro 2016 Qualifying Match – Ukraine vs. Slovenia (FOX SPORTS 2). 3 p.m. – College Basketball: Colorado at Auburn (ESPN). 3 p.m. – International Soccer: France vs. England (FOX SPORTS 1). 5 p.m. – College Basketball: Oklahoma at Memphis (ESPN). 5 p.m. – College Basketball: DePaul at Penn State (ESPNU). 6 p.m. – College Football: Toledo at Bowling Green (ESPN2). 6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 6:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Missouri at Xavier (FOX SPORTS 1). 7 p.m. – College Football: Ball State at Ohio (ESPNU). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: St. Bonaventure at Syracuse (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 7 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Milwaukee at Washington (NBA TV). 7:30 p.m. – College Basketball: State Farms Champion Classic from Chicago – Kentucky vs. Duke (ESPN). 7:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: New York at Charlotte (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST). 7:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Minnesota at Pittsburgh (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 8:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Nebraska at Villanova (FOX SPORTS 1). 8:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Texas (San Antonio) at Creighton (FOX SPORTS 2). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Georgetown at Maryland (ESPN2). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Jacksonville at Florida State (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 9:30 p.m. – College Football: College Football Playoff Rankings (ESPN). 10 p.m. – College Basketball: State Farms Champion Classic from Chicago – Kansas vs. Michigan State (ESPN). 10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Toronto at Golden State (NBA TV).

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 9 0 0 1.000 303 169 Buffalo 5 4 0 .556 231 207 N.Y. Jets 5 4 0 .556 217 184 Miami 4 5 0 .444 191 225 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 200 227 Houston 3 5 0 .375 174 205 Jacksonville 3 6 0 .333 192 255 Tennessee 2 7 0 .222 169 214 North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 8 0 0 1.000 229 142 Pittsburgh 6 4 0 .600 236 191 Baltimore 2 7 0 .222 210 236 Cleveland 2 8 0 .200 186 277 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 7 2 0 .778 205 168 Kansas City 4 5 0 .444 224 195 Oakland 4 5 0 .444 227 241 San Diego 2 7 0 .222 210 249

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 5 5 0 .500 273 253 Washington 4 5 0 .444 205 209 Philadelphia 4 5 0 .444 212 184 Dallas 2 7 0 .222 166 214 South W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 9 0 0 1.000 255 175 Atlanta 6 3 0 .667 229 190 Tampa Bay 4 5 0 .444 191 237 New Orleans 4 6 0 .400 255 315 North W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 7 2 0 .778 198 154 Green Bay 6 3 0 .667 219 185 Chicago 4 5 0 .444 199 234 Detroit 2 7 0 .222 167 261 West W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 7 2 0 .778 302 185 St. Louis 4 5 0 .444 166 183 Seattle 4 5 0 .444 199 179 San Francisco 3 6 0 .333 126 223

Thursday’s Game

Buffalo 22, N.Y. Jets 17

Sunday’s Games

Detroit 18, Green Bay 16 Carolina 27, Tennessee 10 Chicago 37, St. Louis 13 Tampa Bay 10, Dallas 6 Washington 47, New Orleans 14 Miami 20, Philadelphia 19 Pittsburgh 30, Cleveland 9 Jacksonville 22, Baltimore 20 Minnesota 30, Oakland 14 Kansas City 29, Denver 13 New England 27, N.Y. Giants 26 Arizona 39, Seattle 32 Open: Atlanta, Indianapolis, Diego, San Francisco

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Monday’s Game

Houston at Cincinnati, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 19

Tennessee at Jacksonville, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 22

N.Y. Jets at Houston, 1 p.m. Denver at Chicago, 1 p.m. Oakland at Detroit, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. St. Louis at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Dallas at Miami, 1 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 1 p.m. Kansas City at San Diego, 4:05 p.m. San Francisco at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. Green Bay at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m. Cincinnati at Arizona, 8:30 p.m. Open: Cleveland, N.Y. Giants, New Orleans, Pittsburgh

Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 6 4 .600 — Denver 5 5 .500 1 Utah 5 5 .500 1 Minnesota 4 6 .400 2 Portland 4 7 .364 2½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 11 0 1.000 — L.A. Clippers 6 4 .600 4½ Phoenix 5 4 .556 5 Sacramento 4 7 .364 7 L.A. Lakers 2 8 .200 8½

Sunday’s Games

New York 95, New Orleans 87 Memphis 114, Minnesota 106 Charlotte 106, Portland 94 Utah 97, Atlanta 96 Boston 100, Oklahoma City 85 Sacramento 107, Toronto 101 L.A. Lakers 97, Detroit 85

Monday’s Games

Dallas at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Indiana at Chicago, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at Memphis, 8 p.m. Boston at Houston, 8 p.m. Portland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games

Milwaukee at Washington, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Cleveland at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte at New York, 7:30 p.m. Denver at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Toronto at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

NHL Standings

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 18 13 3 2 28 63 39 Ottawa 17 8 5 4 20 51 53 Tampa Bay 19 8 8 3 19 46 48 Boston 16 8 7 1 17 52 49 Detroit 17 8 8 1 17 37 42 Buffalo 17 8 8 1 17 40 46 Florida 17 7 7 3 17 48 45 Toronto 18 5 9 4 14 41 54 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 18 14 2 2 30 57 32 Washington 16 11 4 1 23 50 37 New Jersey 17 10 6 1 21 44 40 N.Y. Islanders 18 9 6 3 21 49 42 Pittsburgh 17 10 7 0 20 36 37 Philadelphia 17 6 8 3 15 33 50 Carolina 17 6 9 2 14 34 49 Columbus 18 6 12 0 12 45 62

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 18 14 4 0 28 65 47 Minnesota 16 10 3 3 23 48 43 Nashville 16 10 3 3 23 50 38 St. Louis 17 11 5 1 23 47 41 Chicago 18 10 7 1 21 49 44 Winnipeg 18 8 8 2 18 48 59 Colorado 17 7 9 1 15 49 45 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 17 11 6 0 22 43 36 Arizona 17 9 7 1 19 48 49 Vancouver 18 7 6 5 19 52 46 San Jose 17 9 8 0 18 45 43 Anaheim 17 5 8 4 14 29 45 Calgary 19 6 12 1 13 45 72 Edmonton 18 6 12 0 12 47 58 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games

Monday’s Games

Newberry Make playoffS The Newberry College football team eaned a bid to the NCAA Division II playoffs and will take on North Alabama in the first round on Saturday. This is Newberry’s third all-time NCAA playoff appearance and second in the last three seasons. The Wolves are 7-4 while North Alabama is 8-2.

McDowell wins playoff

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Graeme McDowell made an 8-foot par putt France, kenseth meet on the 18th hole to stay in CHARLOTTE — NASCAR the game, and then he hit a chairman Brian France met 5-iron that grazed the edge Monday with Matt Kenseth of the cup and set up a 3-foot three days after the suspend- birdie to win a 3-man playoff ed driver defiantly promised in the rain-delayed OHL to remain aggressive when Classic at Mayakoba on

Monday. That par putt on the final hole of El Camaleon Golf Club gave McDowell a 5-under 66 to finish at 18under 266. He went into the playoff with Russell Knox and Jason Bohn.

Park LPGA winner MEXICO CITY — Inbee Park won the Lorena Ochoa Invitational on Sunday, holding off Carlota Ciganda for her fifth victory of the season and 17th LPGA Tour title. The second-ranked South Korean star birdied the final two holes for a bogey-free 8-under 64 and a threestroke victory over Ciganda in cloudy conditions at treelined Club de Golf Mexico. Ciganda shot a 63. The Spaniard eagled the par-5 second hole and had eight birdies and a bogey.

Ellenberger dies ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Norm Ellenberger, the footstomping sideline showman who coached New Mexico to two Western Athletic Conference basketball titles in the 1970s, has died. He was 83. Ellenberger died Saturday night in his sleep at his cabin in Watersmeet, Michigan, said longtime friends Bob and Diana Briggs of Albuquerque. They had just talked to him the day before and he was excited about the start of practice Monday at the high school where he was helping coach the boys’ basketball team. From wire reports

Gamecocks roll past Oral Roberts 84-66

Tuesday’s Games

San Jose at Boston, 7 p.m. Dallas at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Columbus, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. Colorado at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim at Nashville, 8 p.m. New Jersey at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Golf

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OHL Classic PAR Scores

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he returns for the season finale this weekend. France met with Kenseth in Charlotte and “was pleased with the dialogue,” said NASCAR spokesman Brett Jewkes, who declined to disclose details of the discussion. He said attention was now being turned to the championship weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Kenseth was suspended two races for intentionally wrecking Joey Logano as payback for an earlier incident in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Kenseth’s action ultimately cost Logano a spot in Sunday’s title-deciding race. Kenseth was knocked out of the playoffs in part because Logano spun him while the two raced for the win at Kansas last month.

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Arizona at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Anaheim at Carolina, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Winnipeg at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

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NEW YORK — Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant was a unanimous pick as NL Rookie of the Year, and Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa was voted the AL honor. Bryant made his debut on April 17 and became an NL All-Star. The 23-year-old hit .275, leading big league rookies with 26 homers, 31 doubles and 99 RBIs as Chicago returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2008 He received all 30 firstplace votes for 150 points from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in balloting announced Monday. San Francisco third baseman Matt Duffy was second with 70 points and Pittsburgh infielder Jung Ho Kang third with 28 points. Correa, the top pick in the 2012 amateur draft, made his debut June 8 and hit .279 with 22 homers, 68 RBIs and 14 steals, helping the Astros make their first postseason appearance in a decade. The youngest position player in the major leagues, he turned 21 in September. Correa received 17 firsts and 13 seconds for 124 points. Cleveland shortstop Francisco Lindor was second with 13 firsts, 14 seconds and two thirds for 109 points, and Minnesota designated hitter Miguel Sano was third with 20 points.

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SUNDAY Clemson 78 Texas-San Antonio 45 GREENVILLE — Clemson found its shooting stroke early behind Donte Grantham and went on to a

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WOMEN (1) Connecticut 100 (7) Ohio State 56 COLUMBUS, OHIO — Breanna Stewart scored 24 points and Moriah Jefferson added 21 to lead top-ranked UConn to a 100-56 win over No. 7 Ohio State on Monday night. The Huskies (1-0) opened their season in style with a suffocating second quarter in which they outscored the Buckeyes 26-9 to take a 50-24 lead. Kia Nurse added 16 points, Morgan Tuck 15 and Gabby Williams had 10 points and

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third-down plays. “That right there from From Page B1 your quarterback, especially a talented guy like him, Scott said the plan was to that says a lot,” Scott said. be judicious with Watson As far as Scott is conas a runner and save his cerned, Watson greatest wheels for the big games. value to the Tigers doesn’t “Early in the year we necessarily show up on the weren’t as aggressive in stat sheet. running him and just knew “In my opinion of all the that he’d get a certain num- attributes that he has, ber of carries on his own, strengths that he has, I just in scrambles,” Scott think his decision-making said. “He wants to run the at the line of scrimmage ball.” and when the ball is Watson had 64 carries, snapped, is as good as I’ve including 16 against Notre ever seen and ever been Dame, in Clemson’s first around,” Scott said. “He seven games. He has 44 car- gets us out of bad looks ries in the last three games and gets us into good situaand he has gone over 100 tions.” yards rushing in each of Don’t expect Watson to the last two. start touting himself for “They wanted me to get the Heisman. He’ll let his in the feel of the game, and teammates do that and just the first few games, I would see where things go over only play a half, so there the next three weeks. was no need for me to run “It’d be an honor,” Watthe ball,” Watson said. son said. “Another step to On Saturday at Syracuse, where I want to be. Anothas Clemson was having a er goal I want to achieve. If hard time putting away the it happens, then me and my Orange, Watson went to family and coaches and Scott and asked to carry teammates are going to the ball on a couple of key enjoy it and celebrate it.”

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Arizona quarterback Carson Palmer (3) passes against the Seattle Seahawks during the Cardinals’ 39-32 victory on Sunday in Seattle. Palmer threw for 363 yards and three touchdowns.

Cardinals take NFC West lead with 39-32 win over Seahawks By TIM BOOTH The Associated Press SEATTLE — The Arizona Cardinals cast aside the notion their fast start was simply a mirage of weaker competition. By winning in Seattle, the Cardinals added validity to what they’ve already accomplished. “We thought this was an opportunity for us to come in here and show the world that we are a contender, not a pretender,” Arizona cornerback Patrick Peterson said. Led by Carson Palmer, the Cardinals took hold of the NFC West race with a 39-32 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night. Palmer rebounded from two costly fumbles in the fourth quarter that led to 12 points for Seattle, the second one scooped up and returned 22 yards for a touchdown by Bobby Wagner that gave the Seahawks a 29-25 lead. After a brilliant first half, Palmer wasn’t about to let Arizona’s opportunity to open a three-game lead in the division slip away. He led an 83yard touchdown drive, helped by a key third-down penalty on Wagner and a juggling catch by Jaron Brown that nearly became Richard Sherman’s first interception of the season. Palmer capped the drive with a 14-yard touchdown strike to Jermaine Gresham and Andre Ellington added a 48-yard TD run on Arizona’s next possession for the capper. Palmer threw for 363 yards and three touchdowns and the Cardinals won in Seattle for the second time in three years handing the Seahawks a second straight home loss. “I hope there’s another signature win, and a bunch of them, in our future,” Palmer said. “But it’s just a good win. It’s good to get this far up in this division, especially this division. But we’ve got to move on.” Realistically the Seahawks (4-5) only hope of getting back to the postseason is a wildcard berth that is wide open in

the jumbled NFC. It would take a collapse possibly worse than a year ago for the Cardinals to let Seattle back in the division race at this point. “We definitely been through some stuff since I’ve been here so I don’t see why we can’t come out of this,” Wagner said. Here’s what else to know from Arizona’s victory over Seattle:

FLAGS EVERYWHERE Seattle committed a seasonhigh 14 penalties and many of them were either crippling to the offense or defensive penalties that kept drives alive for the Cardinals. On its first two possessions, Seattle faced firstand-25 and first-and-20 because of penalties. Arizona got five first downs by penalty, none bigger than Wagner being flagged for illegal contact on third-and-10 at the Seattle 39 midway through the fourth quarter. Two plays later, Palmer hit Gresham for the go-ahead score. “(The penalties) gave them a lot more opportunities; you can’t give a team like that opportunities,” Wagner said. “They hurt us today.”

FLOYD LOVES SEATTLE Michael Floyd has a knack for big moments against the Seahawks in Seattle. Two years ago, Floyd caught a 31-yard touchdown pass with 2:13 left as Arizona handed the Seahawks their only home loss that season. Floyd was back causing headaches for Seattle again on Sunday with two touchdown receptions in the first half as the Cardinals built a 19-0 lead. Floyd got behind Sherman and tapped his toes for a 27-yard TD and later had a 35-yard catch-and-run touchdown, plowing over the pylon. “Coach just dialed up plays that I love. I know that I can take advantage of an opportunity,” Floyd said.

THIRD AND PROBLEMS Tied in with the penalty problems for Seattle was a putrid 1-of-8 effort on third

downs and an inability to keep drives going. The 13 percent on third downs was a season worst for the Seahawks and largely tied to many long third downs Seattle was forced to try and convert. Six of the third downs Seattle was unable to convert were 10 or more yards. Meanwhile, Arizona was 8 of 17 on third downs and three times converted third downs thanks to defensive penalties by the Seahawks. The Cardinals also a converted thirdand-14 in the first half on Floyd’s 27-yard touchdown.

ROCKET RETURN Seattle wide receiver and special teams standout Ricardo Lockette, who was taken off the field on a backboard two weeks ago against Dallas, was part of the pregame festivities. Lockette had surgery to stabilize his neck and will be in a brace as he recovers. Lockette was in the Seattle locker room after the game and said it was “amazing” to be back with his team even if his season is over. Asked if he expected to return to football next season, Lockette said, “I expect to be a Pro Bowler.”

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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) has stepped up his game down the stretch for the Tigers.

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points per game — fourthbest in the NFL — and is From Page B1 third in the league in rushing behind Jonathan StewRivera said Shula has al- art and Newton, who has lowed Newton to use his run for 366 yards and six abilities and the players in TDs. the offense. Shula said Monday he’s Newton has six TDs pleased with Newton’s rushing this season. growth as a game managHe celebrated his latest er, noting that the team score by doing a dance has “given more freedom” called “the dab,” which in terms of changing up drew the ire of some Tenplays at the line of scrimnessee defenders, including mage. linebacker Avery WilliamDuring the week and on son. When Williamson the nights before games came walking toward New- Newton is adding more ton in the end zone, the input into team meetings, quarterback danced some regularly suggesting plays more. he believes might work Rivera said he doesn’t against the opposition’s demind Newton dancing “as fense. long as it’s not overly out“He’s given some good landish and there is a rethoughts that you can tell spect for manners. As long he has put a lot into in reas he’s not taunting them. I gard to any little tweaks,” think he’s doing it for our Shula said. “It’s like, ‘If we fans.” do this, and they have this Said Newton: “I try to play called, can we do make my game kid-like so that?’ Sometimes things people will see that I’m en- that we don’t think about joying what I do. ... I’m not as a staff.” doing it to be disrespectful The result has been a to nobody, more so just more productive offense, doing it just to shine light particularly in the red and get people a smile and zone. having fun doing what I The Panthers have do.” scored touchdowns on 60 There is plenty to celepercent of their trips inside brate in Carolina, for sure. the opponent’s 20-yard line, While Newton’s quarter- up from 48.1 percent last back rating is 31st in the season. league — three spots be“We’re scoring touchhind Johnny Manziel — he downs instead of field has the Panthers offense on goals,” Shula said. a roll. And celebrating along Carolina is averaging 28.3 the way.

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UConn stays No. 1; USC picks up vote By DOUG FEINBERG The Associated Press

first place ballots with the Gamecocks garnering the other top vote. The top of The Associated “Everyone knows UConn is Press women’s basketball poll still going to be the team to remained the same on Monday beat. But the Huskies haven’t with UConn still No. 1 with played a game yet, and South South Carolina holding on at Carolina beating an Ohio State No. 2 and picking up a first team that’s good enough to be place vote. a Final Four contender is imThe Huskies opened their pressive enough to warrant a season on Monday as they vis- No. 1 vote, at least for now,” ited No. 7 Ohio State. The said Seth Soffian, who writes Buckeyes lost to No. 2 South for The News-Press. Carolina on Friday and California came away with dropped one spot in the Top 25. two wins and a Top 25 ranking Ohio State is believed to be the in the process. first program to begin the seaCal entered the poll at No. 21 son playing the top two teams after beating then-No. 8 Louisin the country. North Carolina ville 75-71. The Cardinals fell State was the last team to play eight spots to 16th. the top two teams in the poll Lindsay Gottlieb wanted to during the season, losing to challenge her young talented both Duke and North Carolina California early, so she took a in January 2007 according to trip across country to face STATS. Louisville. Notre Dame, Tennessee and “This group is really fun to Baylor followed the Gamecocks coach since they are so to round out the first five. young,” Gottlieb said. “We had UConn did lose one of its to earn this one since we

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Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (31) 0-0 799 1 2. S. Carolina (1) 2-0 760 2 3. Notre Dame 1-0 716 3 4. Tennessee 1-0 713 4 5. Baylor 1-0 676 5 6. Florida St. 0-0 583 7 7. Ohio St. 0-1 571 6 8. Maryland 1-0 562 9 9. Oregon St. 1-0 544 10 10. Mississippi St. 1-0 497 11 11. Texas 1-0 481 12 12. Texas A&M 2-0 417 13 13. Kentucky 2-0 373 18 14. Duke 2-0 366 14 15. Stanford 2-0 348 16 16. Louisville 0-1 344 8 17. Oklahoma 1-0 265 17 18. Arizona St. 0-1 250 15 19. South Florida 2-0 225 20 20. Northwestern 1-0 211 19 21. California 2-0 168 — 22. George Wash. 1-0 161 21 23. Michigan St. 1-0 61 24 24. Chattanooga 2-0 57 25 25. Syracuse 1-0 55 23

Record Pts Pv 1. Clemson (34) 10-0 1,496 1 2. Ohio St. (23) 10-0 1,460 2 3. Alabama (4) 9-1 1,424 3 4. Oklahoma St. 10-0 1,301 5 5. Notre Dame 9-1 1,286 6 6. Iowa 10-0 1,216 8 7. Oklahoma 9-1 1,182 12 8. Florida 9-1 1,055 11 9. Michigan St. 9-1 1,008 14 10. Baylor 8-1 946 4 11. TCU 9-1 857 13 12. N. Carolina 9-1 791 17 13. Houston 10-0 790 16 14. Michigan 8-2 738 15 15. Stanford 8-2 668 7 16. Florida St. 8-2 559 19 17. LSU 7-2 549 9 18. Utah 8-2 514 10 19. Navy 8-1 465 22 20. N’western 8-2 397 24 21. Wisconsin 8-2 338 23 22. So. Cal 7-3 201 NR 23. Oregon 7-3 170 NR 24. Wash. St. 7-3 167 NR 25. Mississippi 7-3 44 NR

Others receiving votes: DePaul 43, Princeton 41, Florida Gulf Coast 40, Rutgers 31, Iowa 10, Arkansas 7, North Carolina 6, W. Kentucky 6, UCLA 5, Missouri 3, Dayton 2, Green Bay 1, Miami 1, Oregon 1.

Others receiving votes: Toledo 39, Arkansas 35, Memphis 32, Mississippi St. 25, UCLA 18, Pittsburgh 15, Temple 13, Georgia 8, Texas A&M 8, Bowling Green 4, W. Kentucky 4, Air Force 1, Arkansas St. 1.

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“One of my best moves was scheduling the Austin Peay game to get some of our jitters out,” she said. “Taking a young team into a tournament like atmosphere, I was really pleased how our players reacted to that environment.” Here are some other tidbits from the poll:

ALMOST DID IT UNLV almost pulled off the rare feat of playing the top two teams in the poll to start the season. The Lady Rebels beat No. 3 Immaculata and topranked Delta State to begin the 1976-77 season — the first year of the poll. Wayland Baptist was No. 2 to start that year.

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North Carolina dropped out of the Top 25 after losing its first two games by a combined three points. It’s the first time in the history of the program that the Tar Heels have lost the first two games of the season.

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Logano finished a frustrating third and was denied a From Page B1 chance to race Earnhardt and Harvick on a restart because Eliminated Sunday were Lo- of the rain. gano and his teammate Brad “You don’t know if there’s Keselowski, as well as Carl Ed- another restart if we’re going wards and Kurt Busch. All to win,” Logano said. “You just could have earned a spot in the want a chance. It’s no one’s finale with a victory at Phoefault. It’s not NASCAR’s fault. nix, but the weather ruined What are they supposed to do their shot to race their way when it’s pouring out?” into the championship. Also left wondering what “I don’t think it matters might have been: Edwards, what’s fair, it matters what en- who missed advancing by just tertains the fans and if the fans five points, and Kurt Busch, are happy then that’s what it’s who had one of the strongest all about,” said Keselowski. cars at Phoenix. Kurt Busch But the fans were likely left had to win the race to advance, unsatisfied after the anti-cliand he might have had a shot mactic ending. had it gone to completion. It was a bitter defeat for He was penalized minutes Team Penske, which nearly into the race for jumping the locked both drivers into the fi- start — he grabbed the lead nale. Logano, the Daytona 500 from pole-sitter Johnson — but winner who swept all three fell to last in the field when he races of the second round of made his pass-through on pit the Chase, was headed to the road. But he still climbed to win at Martinsville until he seventh and might have been was intentionally wrecked by able to challenge teammate Matt Kenseth and Keselowski Harvick for the win. nearly won last week at Texas “I don’t even think it was a but was chased down in the penalty,” Kurt Busch said after closing laps by Jimmie Johnthe race ended. “It’s not even a son. call in my mind.”

Meanwhile, Earnhardt had no guilt in celebrating the win. He was eliminated from the Chase after the second round when a caution prevented him from racing Logano to the checkered flag at Talladega. “A lot of guys would love to see this race continue and have an opportunity to race to the Chase,” said Earnhardt. “If I had four or six inches at Talladega, we would be going there to Homestead to race for a championship, too. It works out for some and some it doesn’t.” Earnhardt ended Harvick’s streak of four consecutive wins at Phoenix, but the champion was the class of the field. He led 143 of the 219 laps and had just pitted when a wreck brought out the caution. “It’s kind of bittersweet,” Harvick said. “Just caution came out at the wrong time. I feel like I don’t want to be greedy and be disappointed with how it went today when you look at the big picture. “You always want to win when you have a car like we did today, but I’ll take it again next week.”

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Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 Results The Associated Press Sunday At Phoenix International Raceway Avondale, Ariz. Lap length: 1 miles (Start position in parentheses)

1. (3) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 219 laps, 125.7 rating, 47 points, $213,465. 2. (8) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 219, 144.7, 44, $230,380. 3. (14) Joey Logano, Ford, 219, 120, 41, $176,588. 4. (10) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 219, 111.3, 41, $164,166. 5. (1) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 219, 107.8, 40, $168,836. 6. (11) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 219, 103.3, 39, $147,276. 7. (2) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 219, 93.7, 37, $110,715. 8. (13) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 219, 98.4, 36, $105,940. 9. (18) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 219, 91.3, 36, $134,881. 10. (17) Aric Almirola, Ford, 219, 83.7, 34, $134,126. 11. (22) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 219, 81.2, 33, $121,790. 12. (4) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 219, 110.1, 32, $94,065. 13. (15) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 219, 90.4, 31, $94,340. 14. (5) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 219, 98.9, 30, $111,360. 15. (12) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 218, 83.2, 29, $113,981. 16. (21) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 218, 66.4, 28, $91,440. 17. (25) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 218, 63.7, 27, $108,798. 18. (29) David Ragan, Toyota, 218, 62.8, 27, $109,404. 19. (7) Erik Jones, Toyota, 218, 83.1, 0, $118,826. 20. (16) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 218, 79, 24, $119,076. 21. (6) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 218, 85.8, 23, $109,298. 22. (24) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 218, 66.8, 22, $105,273. 23. (27) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 218, 64, 21, $115,048. 24. (23) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 218, 58.7, 20, $109,598. 25. (20) Greg Biffle, Ford, 218, 67.3, 19, $111,548. 26. (9) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 217, 69.8, 18, $95,190. 27. (31) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 217, 55.5, 17, $107,354. 28. (30) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 217, 52.3, 16, $93,048. 29. (33) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 216, 44.7, 0, $76,765. 30. (34) David Gilliland, Ford, 216, 45.5, 14, $98,687. 31. (28) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 215, 45.6, 13, $105,360. 32. (36) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 215, 42.2, 12, $76,340. 33. (38) Cole Whitt, Ford, 215, 36, 11, $76,215. 34. (26) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 215, 46.8, 10, $120,665. 35. (32) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 215, 38.2, 0, $75,965. 36. (40) Brett Moffitt, Ford, 215, 36, 8, $75,810. 37. (41) Ryan Preece, Ford, 214, 29.5, 7, $75,666. 38. (35) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 214, 44.8, 6, $69,202. 39. (37) Jeb Burton, Toyota, 213, 30.8, 5, $65,130. 40. (42) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, 211, 27.8, 0, $61,130. 41. (19) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, accident, 194, 57, 3, $65,130. 42. (39) Joey Gase, Ford, accident, 161, 27.3, 0, $53,130. 43. (43) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 127, 23.3, 0, $49,630.

OBITUARIES WILLIAM H. DAVIS JR.

William Harold Davis Jr., 78, husband of Margaret Kirkley Davis, died on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, at his home. Born in Sumter, he was a son of the late William Harold Sr. and Annie Laurie Davis. Mr. Davis was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church and the former co-owner and founder of DAVIS William’s Sporting Goods. He was also an ambassador of Pure Fishing and a former employee of Simpson’s Hardware. He was a member of the Cain’s Mill Club. Surviving are his wife of Sumter; one daughter, Diane Setzer (Lynn) of Sumter; three grandchildren, Jayson William Setzer (Lauren), Jamie Setzer Atkinson (Marty) and Andrew Neil Setzer (Rachel); and three great-grandchildren, Reese, Connor, and Naomi Atkinson. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Westminster Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Stuart Mizelle officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and other times at the home. Memorials may be made to Westminster Presbyterian Church, 230 Alice Drive, Sumter, SC 29150. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 7759386.

of Arlington, Virginia, Sally S. Dempsey (B. Todd) of Centreville, Virginia, and Amy E. Shaffer (Kevin Weiss) of San Jose, California; and nine grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 23, in the chapel of Stephens Funeral Home. Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, is in charge of arrangements, (803) 435-2179. www.stephensfuneralhome.org

TERRALYNN W. BRUNSON Terralynn White Brunson, wife of Sammy L. Brunson, passed away on Nov. 11, 2015, in Hamden, Connecticut. She was a daughter of Willis and Sadie Roman White of Sumter; the mother of three adult children; and the sister of one brother and three sisters. Homegoing services will be held at 11 a.m. today. The viewing will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. at St. Paul Union American Methodist Episcopal (UAME), 1267 Chapel St., New Haven, Connecticut. Services are entrusted to Howard K. Hill Funeral Service, 1287 Chapel St., New Haven. Courtesy announcement of Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sumter.

KATHRYN W. MITCHELL Kathryn Workman Mitchell, 78, widow of Abraham Mitchell, died on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, at KershawHealth Medical Center at Camden. Born on April 19, 1937, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Jessie and Lucille Dinkins Workman. The family is receiving friends at 4570 Easy St., Rembert. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

LYNN O. SPANN Lynn O. Spann, 63, husband of Madolyn Jones Spann, died on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in VELMA SHAFFER Atlanta. FLORIDA — Velma Loretta Born in Sumter County, he McMillen Shaffer, 83, died was a son of the late Eugene peacefully on Monday, Oct. 26, Sr. and Kathryn Joyner 2015, at the home of her son in Spann. Longwood, Florida. The family will receive Born in 1932 in Morganfriends after Wednesday at town, West Virginia, she was 1132 Florence Highway, Summarried to the late Loran ter. Shaffer. She was a member of Funeral arrangements are the Wyboo community in Man- incomplete and will be anning since 1998. She grew up nounced by Palmer Memorial in Morgantown, married in Chapel Inc. 1953, and moved to northern Virginia in 1958. She was a lov- CARRIE C. WELLS Carrie C. Wells, 62, wife of ing wife and mother and will Joseph Wells, died on Saturbe dearly missed. She loved day, Nov. 14, 2015, at McLeod gardening, playing bridge, Regional Medical Center, Florshopping and eating out with ence. her friends and family. She Born on Feb. 25, 1953, in worked at several insurance Sumter County, she was a agencies in northern Virginia daughter of Jessie Mae Ceasar before retiring. She loved to Peterson. watch sports and was a reguThe family is receiving lar participant in football friends at the family home, 10 pools and March madness Hugh Road, Mayesville. brackets. Funeral arrangements are She is survived by a son, Miincomplete and will be anchael R. Shaffer (Ann) of nounced by Williams Funeral Longwood; three daughters, Home Inc. Suzanne M. Spicer (William)

ALTON CARRAWAY

BISHOPVILLE — Alton “Al” Carraway, 69, died on Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, at his home in Bishopville. Services will be announced by Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, (803) 7759386.

other relatives and friends. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. today in the chapel of Community Funeral Home with Pastor Nate Brock. The family is receiving visitors at the home of his mother, 14 W. Bartlette St., Apartment 303, Sumter. Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com. Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

DANNY MCCRAY Danny McCray, 49, departed this earthly life on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, at his home. GEORGE G. BARKLEY Born on July 6, 1966, in SumSUMMERTON — George ter County, he was a son of the Grant Barkley, 78, husband of late Murray and Azalee McDorothy Maria Weimer BarkFadden McCray. He attended ley, died on Sunday, Nov. 15, the public schools of Sumter 2015, at Clarendon Memorial County and was a graduate of Hospital. Sumter High School. He was Born Feb. 3, 1937, in Mt. employed at Palmetto Pigeon Pleasant, Pennsylvania, he Plant for 14 years. was a son of the late George He leaves to cherish his Theodore and Elizabeth memories: his paternal grandDaisy Gunder Barkley. He mother, Francis McLeod of was a U.S. Air Force veteran Sumter; two brothers, Richof the Korean War and he ard McCray (Charlina LaCoswas stationed at Naha Air ta) of Bushkill, Pennsylvania, Force Base in Okinawa, and Jarvis McCray of Sumter; Japan. He retired as a mefour children, Precious chanical engineer for ChamLaCosta of Newark, New Jerbersburg Engineering in sey, Latorya Hilton, Santana Pennsylvania. He was presiHilton and Danny Williams, dent of the Happy Seniors all of Sumter; three aunts, Golf League and he was a Mary Alice Champagne and member and elder of SumSara Lewis, both of Newark, merton Presbyterian Church. and Rosa Lee McCray of WiHe is survived by his wife of sacky; eight grandchildren; Summerton; two sons, Gary five nieces; two nephews; a Barkley (Beth) of Woodbridge, special friend, Evelyn SamuVirginia, and Robert Barkley els of Sumter; a host of other (Pat) of Chambersburg, Penn- relatives and friends. sylvania; a daughter, Barbara Funeral services will be held Barkley Garich (Matthew) of at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday at DeLand, Florida; five grandJohn Wesley Williams Sr. Mechildren, Jessica Lorance morial Chapel, Williams Fu(Cody) of Nipomo, California, neral Home Inc., 821 N. Main Justin Barkley (Beth) of BelSt., Sumter, with Minister leville, Illinois, Jonathan Jake Sanders III officiating, Garich of Tempe, Arizona, eulogist. Ryan Garich of DeLand and The family is receiving Molly Barkley of Woodbridge; friends at the home, 221 E. and a number of nieces and Moore St., Sumter. nephews. The procession will leave at A memorial service will be noon from the home. held at 11 a.m. on Friday at Floral bearers and pallbearSummerton Presbyterian ers will be friends of the famiChurch with the Rev. Garland ly. Hart officiating. Burial will be in New CoveThe family will receive nant Presbyterian Church friends immediately following Cemetery, Martintown Road, the memorial service. Sumter. In lieu of flowers, memorials Online memorial messages may be made to Summerton may be sent to the family at Presbyterian Church, 16 S. williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. Cantey St., Summerton, SC com. 29148. Visit us on the web at www. Stephens Funeral Home & williamsfuneralhomeinc.com Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Services directed by the Manning, is in charge of arstaff and management of Wilrangements, (803) 435-2179. liams Funeral Home Inc., 821 www.stephensfuneralhome.org N. Main St., Sumter.

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JAMES L. ROGERS

Ricky “Slick Rick” Scott, 53, entered eternal rest on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. He was born on Sept. 14, 1952, in Sumter County, a son of Rachel McBride Scott and the late Willie Scott Sr. Survivors are his daughter, Kenyetta Scott; mother, Rachel McBride Scott; siblings, Linda Scott, Cynthia (Barrett) Simmons, Willie (Evelin) Scott, Jimmie Lee Scott and Tommy Lee (Angela) Scott; a host of

James L. Rogers, 81, died on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Born on April 9, 1934, in Marion County, he was a son of Susan Rogers. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

FRANCES E. WEATHERLY TOWNVILLE — Frances “Fran” Elizabeth Weatherly, 37, wife of Warren Boulware,

died on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, at her home. Born in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Whitney Weatherly and Susan Wilson Nabors. She was a 1996 graduate of Furman High School. Fran worked in numerous manufacturing facilities throughout South Carolina, until medically retiring three years ago. She also lived in Spokane, Washington, for one year. She attended several local churches in her youth and never wavered in her faith and belief. Survivors include her husband of 17 years; brother, Whitney Weatherly; stepfather, Sammy Nabors; two stepbrothers, Kacey Nabors and Justin Nabors; three uncles, Ronald Wilson, Arnold Wilson and Gene Wilson; and numerous other aunts, uncles and cousins. Her dogs, Sookie and Sugar, along with Terra the cat, were a comfort to her during her illness. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Donald and Frances Brunson Wilson. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday in the Brunson Cemetery with the Rev. Dr. Barry Eller officiating. Honorary pallbearers will be Sammy Nabors, Arnold Wilson, Ronald Wilson and Gene Wilson. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Brunson Cemetery Association, c/o Patsy Watts, 200 McGinnis Store Road, Sumter, SC 29153. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

BEULAH H. DUKES MANNING — Beulah Hilton Dukes, 92, widow of Priestly Dukes Sr., died on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning. She was born on Dec. 12, 1922, in Manning. The family is receiving friends at her home, 2456 Jordan Church Road, Manning. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home.

CECIL J. DOWNING Cecil J. Downing, age 74, beloved husband of Marian Janet Stocks Downing, passed away peacefully on Nov. 15, 2015, at home. A “Celebration of Life” service will be held at 2 p.m. on Dec. 6 at the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel. You may sign the family’s guest book at www.bullockfuneralhome.com The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements.

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention. To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Rogers Townsend and Thomas, PC. Rogers Townsend and Thomas, PC represents the Plaintiff in this action. Our law firm does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice. You must submit any requests for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date you are served with this Notice. IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, THE FORECLOSURE ACTION MAY PROCEED. Rogers Townsend and Thomas, PC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Robert P. Davis (SC Bar #74030) Andrew W. Montgomery (SC Bar #79893) H. Guyton Murrell

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(SC Bar # 064134) John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635) Kevin T. Brown (SC Bar # 064236) Nikole Haltiwanger (SC Bar # 70491) Jason D. Wyman (SC Bar # 100271) 220 Executive Center Drive Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29210 (803) 744-4444 A-4549326 11/10/2015, 11/17/2015, 11/24/2015

service of this Summons upon you. If you fail to do so, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Anne Bell Fant, made absolute. Columbia, South Carolina September 4, 2015

LIS PENDENS IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Deficiency Judgment Waived DOCKET NO. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER

SUMMONS IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 15-CP-43-01692 (013263-07145) Deficiency Judgment Waived STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, v. Debra Arbuckle Peebles; Donald Arbuckle, II; Drew Arbuckle; Any Heir-at-law or Devisees of Mary Ellen M. Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Moore Arbuckle, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in the real estate described herein; also including any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; Defendant(s). TO THE DEFENDANT(S): Any unknown Heir-at-law or Devisees of Mary Ellen M. Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Moore Arbuckle, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in the real estate described herein; also including any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 312 Lesesne Court, Sumter, South Carolina 29150-4048, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 228-01-01-040, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 220 Executive Center Drive, Suite 109, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 29202-3200, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem within thirty (30) days after the

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, v. Debra Arbuckle Peebles; Donald Arbuckle, II; Drew Arbuckle; Any Heir-at-law or Devisees of Mary Ellen M. Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Moore Arbuckle, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in the real estate described herein; also including any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; Defendant(s). (013263-07145) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Mary E. Arbuckle to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Southern Trust Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns dated March 26, 2010, and recorded in the Office of the RMC/ROD for Sumter County on April 1, 2010, in Mortgage Book 1137 at Page 2147. Subsequently, this Mortgage was assigned unto Wells Fargo Bank, NA by assignment dated December 22, 2014 and recorded January 2, 2015 in Book 1207 at Page 4828. The premises covered and affected by the said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, described as follows: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with all improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, and being shown and designated as Lot 117 in Palmetto Park Subdivision on a plat of said subdivision recorded in the Office of the Sumter County Register of Deeds Office in Plat Book Z-19, at page 29. Reference being made to said plat pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, (1976, as Amended) for the metes, bounds, courses, and/or distances of the property delineated thereon. This being the same property conveyed to Donald E. Arbuckle and Mary Ellen M. Arbuckle, as tenants in common with an indestructible right of survivorship, by deed of Walter W. Rowland, dated October 12, 1965 and recorded October 15, 1965 in Book K9 at Page 1222. Subsequently, Donald E. Arbuckle died testate on June 7, 2002, vesting his interest in the subject property in the surviving tenant, Mary Ellen M. Arbuckle; also conveyed to Mary E. Arbuckle by Deed of Distribution dated May 22, 2003 and recorded May 22, 2003 in Book 890 at Page 292. Subsequently, Mary Ellen Moore Arbuckle died on or about October 4, 2014, leaving her interest in the subject property to her heirs, namely, Debra Arbuckle Peebles, Donald Arbuckle, II, and Drew Arbuckle.

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Summons & Notice

312 Lesesne Court Sumter, SC 29150-4048 TMS# 228-01-01-040

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Deficiency Judgment Waived DOCKET NO. 15-CP-43-01692

FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall forthwith be served upon the said Defendant(s) Any unknown Heir-at-law or Devisees of Mary Ellen M. Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Moore Arbuckle, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in the real estate described herein; also including any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe by publication thereof in the The Item, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.

NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANTS: Any unknown Heir-at-law or Devisees of Mary Ellen M. Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Moore Arbuckle, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in the real estate described herein; also including any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Sumter County, South Carolina on July 21, 2015. Columbia, South Carolina September 4, 2015

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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, v. Debra Arbuckle Peebles; Donald Arbuckle, II; Drew Arbuckle; Any Heir-at-law or Devisees of Mary Ellen M. Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Arbuckle a/k/a Mary Ellen Moore Arbuckle, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in the real estate described herein; also including any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; Defendant(s). (013263-07145)

James C Campbell Clerk of Court for Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina September 18 , 2015

Estate Notice Sumter County

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.

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It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the appointment of Anne Bell Fant as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability, it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Anne Bell Fant, be and hereby is appointed Guardian Ad Litem Nisi on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons under a disability, all of whom may have or may claim to have some interest in or claim to the real property commonly known as 312 Lesesne Court, Sumter, South Carolina 29150-4048; that Anne Bell Fant is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendant(s), unless the said Defendant(s), or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians Ad Litem for the said Defendant(s), and it is

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