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Man charged after Sunday stabbing Victim was injured during Wedgefield church service FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumter County Sheriff’s Office has one man in custody after he reportedly stabbed another man during a service at St. Paul AME Shaw Church, 1495 N. St. Pauls Church Road, Wedgefield, on Sunday morning.

According to a news release from

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the sheriff’s office, the victim, a man thought to be in his 60s, was airlifted to Palmetto Health Richland to receive treatment for his injuries that were described as severe. The LEWIS victim was listed in stable condition as of Monday afternoon, according to Ken Bell, spokesman for Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.

Billy Lewis, 65, of 5435 Byron Lane,

Wedgefield, is being questioned in the incident, according to the release.

Witnesses told officers that Lewis was sitting behind the victim during a service in the church sanctuary about 9:20 a.m. when he suddenly stood up and began stabbing the victim. A nurse was present and rendered aid until emergency medical services arrived.

The sheriff’s office has not determined a motive for the incident, and the agency is unaware of any previous

conflicts between the men.

The release indicated Lewis does have a history of mental health issues, but investigators are not aware of a history of violence.

At this time, Lewis is charged with attempted murder, although other charges could be filed later.

The church pastor has said he will make statements through Sumter County Sheriff’s Office and has asked that the media not come onto church property to report on this incident.

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BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com The owners of several dams in Sumter, Lee and Clarendon counties have received directive letters from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control informing them of changes to the condition of their dams after Hurricane Matthew.

Some of the owners had received emergency orders after the October flood in 2015.

“The directive letters were sent after we went in and inspected the dams after Hurricane Matthew,” said DHEC spokesman Robert Yannity.

According to the DHEC website, www.scdhec.gov, the letters do not indicate the dams are at immediate risk.

In Sumter County, owners of Cains Millpond Dam, Second Millpond Dam and Frierson Millpond Dam were sent the directive letters. In Lee County, McGirt’s Millpond Dam, Floyd Pond Dam, Harvey Shaw Dam and Copeland Pond Dam were the subject of the letters, and in Clarendon County, the owners of O.E. Rose Dam, Cola Plantation Dam and Stukes/ Briggs Dam and were sent the letters.

Dam owners who had received emergency orders in 2015 include the owners of Cains Millpond Dam and Second Millpond Dam in Sumter County, O.E. Rose and Cola Plantation Dam in Clarendon County and McGirt’s Millpond Dam in Lee County.

O.E. Rose in Clarendon is listed by DHEC as having received a permit to repair the dam.

The 2015 emergency orders required dam owners to lower the level of their dams, notify downstream property owners and have detailed inspections done of the dams.

Owners were also told not to undertake repairs or reconstruction of the dams without obtaining written approval from DHEC.

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Potter Laura Cardello creates a vase while Jena Stanton, 8, creates figurines during the Historic District Art Crawl on Saturday. The event featured a dozen artists in the district working on and talking about their crafts.

Artist Cardello hopes the newest downtown event will continue

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umter County Cultural Commission’s first Fall for the Arts Historic District

Art Crawl featured 12 local artists who displayed and demonstrated their art specialties at their home studios on Saturday.

Sister Lynette Moses and Brother Ronald Moses, members of Spiritual Gumbo, play for the crowd attending the opening of Fall for the Arts at Patriot Hall on Friday evening.

Amanda Cox explains her painting process to Betty Riedley during the art crawl.

Laura Cardello, who helped organize the art crawl, said the day was going very well while in the studio in the backyard of her Salem Avenue home.

There is a large concentration of artists with home studios within a four-block area in the historic district, she said.

Cardello said art is very appreciated in Sumter, which has held many amazing art exhibits, including an original Norman Rockwell piece.

This is the first year that Sumter has had an art crawl, and hopefully it will continue every year, she said.

Cardello also teaches pottery classes at the Sumter County Gallery of Art. If not for teaching, she said she would not have made various pieces requested by her young students.

When she’s not teaching pottery classes, Cardello likes to work with

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different kinds of clay to get a variety of results with her finished projects. Some of her pottery pieces include copper or horse hair, which add unique colors or patterns to her artwork.

In the work studio, not more than one foot away was Cardello’s husband, Mike Tucker the blacksmith, creating a flower door handle.

Tucker said he started practicing his craft about 20 years ago after he was introduced to the field by a friend.

After teaching himself how to work with the furnace and hot metals through the years, he now creates tools for sale, mostly knives. He even makes his own hammers.

G. Cole Miller, art gallery curator, said his studio at Patriot Hall on Haynsworth Street included older pieces, unfinished works and some unsuccessful pieces.

He said the studio allowed visitors to take a look inside his mind as well as help him figure out where he’s going as he continues in the art field.

Miller said his main interest, fiber arts, developed while watching the women on his mother’s side of the family quilt when he was growing up.

On Saturday, many of the pieces displayed in his studio incorporated quilts or some other kind of fabric

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1 dead in Interstate 95 wreck on Saturday One individual was killed and one man was injured when the 30-foot UHaul truck they were traveling in overturned multiple times on Interstate 95 near mile marker 137 about 5:15 p.m. Saturday.

According to South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Matt Southern, the passenger of the vehicle was not wearing a seatbelt and was fatally injured on scene when he was partially ejected from the vehicle.

The deceased’s name has not been released by Sumter County Coroner’s Office because next of kin had not been notified as of 3:30 p.m.

Monday.

Southern said the driver of the vehicle, the survivor, was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the incident and was partially entrapped inside the vehicle. The driver sustained minor injuries and was transported to Palmetto Health Tuomey by Sumter County Emergency Medical Services, he said.

Southern said the driver went off the right side of the road, overcorrected and overturned the vehicle.

The truck then skidded off the left side of the roadway, overturning several more times.

Lawyers say jury should visit site where cop shot black man CHARLESTON (AP) — Attorneys for a white former South Carolina police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist want the jury to visit the scene of the shooting and not be sequestered during the trial.

The requests are among a flurry of motions attorneys for Michael Slager have filed in recent days.

Jury selection begins next Monday in Slager’s murder trial.

Slager, who turns 35 next month, faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted in the April 2015 death of 50-year-old Walter Scott. Scott was shot in North Charleston as he ran from a traf-

fic stop in an incident captured on cellphone video.

Other motions ask that Scott and Slager be referred to only by their names, not by words such as “victim” or “defendant,” and that there be no mention of a $6.5 million civil settlement between the Scott family and the city.

One motion said the jurors should be allowed to visit the scene “in order to fully appreciate what happened on the date of the alleged crime.”

While the court has instructed the clerk’s office to make arrangements to house jurors in hotels during the trial, Circuit Judge Clifton Newman

said at a hearing last week he has not made a final decision on sequestering the jury.

Defense attorneys argue jury sequestration would violate Slager’s constitutional right to an impartial jury.

Attorney Andy Savage said sequestration would do nothing to address extensive pretrial publicity in a case reported in local and national news media for 18 months. The motion said jurors can resent being separated from family and friends and “direct this resentment at the defendant, in as much as the defendant is perceived as the reason for their confinement.”

Man charged with incest, criminal sexual conduct Sumter County Sheriff’s Office has arrested and charged a man for reportedly sexually assaulting a female minor.

Harry Lee Davis, 67, of 530 National St., is charged with one count of incest and four counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, second degree.

According to the warrant, between Jan. 1, 2014, DAVIS and Oct. 24, 2016, the man sexually assaulted the victim several times at a residence in the 500 block of National Street.

The juvenile, now 16, disclosed the incidents to a relative, who contacted authorities.

Davis has confessed to the crimes.

He has a bond hearing scheduled for 2 p.m. today at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center, 1250 Winkles Road.

Man wanted in Friday shooting that hurt 1 Sumter police officers responded to a shots-fired call Friday morning on Sampson Street, where they found Ellery Kennedy, 41, of Webb Avenue, lying in a driveway with two gunshot wounds. Paramedics at the scene described the wounds as being in the left arm and right thigh. He was transported to Palmetto Health Tuomey for non-life-threatening injuries, according to Sumter Police Department.

Police are looking for shooting suspect Roshawn Keith Gray, 25, of 883 Kolb Road. Gray faces charges of attempted murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime and unlawful carrying of a pistol.

Anyone with information is asked to call Sumter Police Department at (803) 436-2700 or Crime Stoppers at (803) 436-2718 or 1-888-CRIME-SC.

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Sumter Mayor Joe McElveen talks about the importance of bringing name-brand businesses to Sumter during Monday’s ribbon cutting of McAlister’s Deli on Broad Street.

McAlister’s Deli opens in Sumter FROM STAFF REPORTS A restaurant chain that started in Oxford, Mississippi, and trademarks its sweet tea opened a franchise in Sumter on Monday at 1177 Broad St. Franchise co-owner Steve Topolinski said his company had been looking to open a McAlister’s Deli in Sumter for about eight years to complement the other locations.

Topolinski’s group opened three delis in the Charleston and Myrtle Beach areas in 2008 at about the time the economy started to slump.

“Our philosophy was to stay the course and provide outstanding products, and we knew we’d come

out on top on the other side,” Topolinski said.

As the economy came back to life, so did the company’s expansion plans, he said.

The Sumter deli represents the 39th deli the company has opened in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

McAlister’s Deli specializes in sandwiches but also has an array of salads, desserts, breakfast items and even a spud bar. It calls its tea “McAlister’s Famous Sweet Tea.” Paul Robbins, chairman-elect for the board of directors of the Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce, attended the Chamber’s

ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday and had ordered the sweet tea, which he said tastes great and deserves its trademark. He said the spud bar potatoes are closer to the size of a small football, and the size of the helpings are grande.

Robbins joked that the owners may have so much traffic they will need to open a second location in Sumter.

McAlister’s launched its first deli in Oxford, home of the University of Mississippi, in 1989.

For more information about McAlister’s Deli, go to www.mcalistersdeli.com, or call the store at (803) 607-9033.

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Old mental institution attracts filmmakers and the curious A vandalized bathroom is seen inside an abandoned building at the former Mansfield Training School on Oct. 17 in Mansfield, Connecticut. Most buildings at the former mental institution, now part of the University of Connecticut’s Depot Campus, have not been maintained since the school took over the property in 1993.

BY PAT EATON-ROBB The Associated Press MANSFIELD, Conn. — They have heard the stories of floating orbs and disembodied voices, and officials at the University of Connecticut say they really shouldn’t have to tell people that the abandoned mental institution the school owns is not actually haunted.

“As far as I know, we have no confirmed ghost sightings,” said Tom Breen, a school spokesman, tongue firmly in cheek.

But that hasn’t stopped the curious from sneaking into the abandoned buildings on property covering more than 350 acres that for decades housed the Mansfield Training School, where people with mental disabilities were institutionalized.

Trespassers come out especially at the start and end of every school year and around Halloween.

The state gave the 350-acre property to UConn after the institution, which began in the 1800s as the “Connecticut School for Imbeciles” and moved to Mansfield in 1917, was closed in 1993. The university’s main campus is a few miles down the road in Storrs.

Twenty-three years later, about half of the 57 buildings on the property remain as they were when the last of its 1,800 residents left. UConn can’t tear them down because the property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are broken windows, holes in roofs, rusting fire escapes, trees and vines growing in and around the crumbling porches.

Graffiti messages, including

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those reading “Get Out” and “Red Water Flows,” are written in red paint on the walls of former classroom buildings, dormitories and the old night hospital.

An old theater remains, along with set backdrops still suspended above the stage, along with a projector. There is a bowling alley in one basement and wall decorations in classrooms are as they appeared decades ago.

Several people have been

caught stealing copper and other materials. Four trespassing arrests have been made so far this year, which is about the annual average, said UConn police Capt. Scott Sleeman.

“The university has gone to a lot of effort to put up fences and post signs to keep people out,” Sleeman said. “These are very old buildings, and they are not safe to be in.”

The property also has attracted both amateur and professional filmmakers. Exterior shots for a 2012 horror movie, “House of Dust,” were shot there, and the school has received several other requests from producers who like the idea of not having to recreate

an abandoned mental facility.

Another film was supposed to be shot there this year, but scheduling conflicts arose, and the project was scrapped.

As with any other part of campus, anyone can come take pictures or wander around the campus, as long as they don’t go inside the buildings, Breen said.

UConn hopes to develop the campus further and is exploring whether some public-private partnerships might be feasible.

But any changes to the prop-

erty would cost millions of dollars just in cleanup, and the school has instead been focusing its resources on infrastructure improvements on the Storrs and regional campuses, Breen said.

“These were buildings built between the world wars and they were built with asbestos and lead paint and all kinds of things that would have to be abated,” Breen said. “It just doesn’t make sense to spend our resources right now on what is essentially an annex space.”

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Cox said she is now venturing away from flowers and painting other things. She also favors using house paints as opposed to craft paints for her projects because of the increased pigmentation.

And, while some specialties in art require the hands to manipulate a medium, Nick Salcido, of West Calhoun Street, uses a computer to create most of his designs. He said he does most of his planning on paper.

Salcido’s interest in art began when he received his first comic book when he was in the fourth grade, and he was inspired to start drawing.

When he got older, he joined the U.S. Army and always carried an art pad with him.

For the military, Salcido has designed the logo for Fort Jackson Army Base’s centennial, and another logo he created is now worn as a shoulder patch by U.S. Army soldiers who are fighting against Islamic State.

Salcido, a member of the cultural commission, also teaches a comic book class at the art gallery and plans to create a comic book with his students’ work by the end of the course.

ART CRAWL FROM PAGE A1 he found and then altered using indigo and merino cotton yarn.

He said that method of making art allows him to meld his creativity and knowledge with the person who made the original fabric piece.

Miller said he enjoys working with indigo and merino cotton because the materials have rich pasts from many countries, and he is able to connect their histories with his contemporary art.

To further bridge he gap between himself and the materials, and ultimately his artwork, Miller spins his own merino wool.

One other artist who likes to put her own spin on a form of art is Amanda Cox, art education director for the gallery of art.

Determined to improve and become more familiar with painting, Cox worked on painting techniques that she learned during an art class she took a while ago.

She said part of the course incorporated the use of a 3-inchwide paint brush that she now uses for almost the entirety of her artwork.

“I like the angular shape that the brush gave,” she said. “I can’t get too focused on the details.”

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Georgia mobile home blaze caused by wood stove kills 6 TRION, Ga. (AP) — A mobile home fire in Georgia started by an improperly installed wood stove killed six people, including four children, authorities said Monday.

The blaze happened about 10:30 p.m. Sunday in Trion, said Glenn Allen, a spokesman for the state fire marshal’s office. Earlier Sunday, five people were killed in an unrelated house fire in Atlanta’s northeastern suburbs.

State investigators on Monday ruled the wood stove fire accidental.

Allen said they determined that the wood stove that was installed Sunday was placed too close to an interior wall with wood paneling, and that’s what caused the fire.

The blaze killed 29-year-old Mirion Bradley Jones and his 22-year-old wife, Demi Josephine Jones, along with their children: 5-yearold Clair McKenzie Jones, 3-year-old Lola Rosanna Jones and 3-month-old Olivia Josephina Jones, Allen said. A cousin spending the night, 5-year-old Jada Marie Kendrick, also died.

In Gwinnett County, near Atlanta, five people were killed in a fire at a two-story house, Gwinnett County Capt. Tommy Rutledge said.

The cause of that fire hasn’t been determined, but investigators said the blaze “appears to have originated in the area of the back deck,” the fire department said in a statement.

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Investigators work the scene at 1120 Airport Road near Trion, Georgia, where multiple people were killed in an overnight fire that engulfed a single-wide trailer home. State officials said the fire was caused by an improperly installed wood stove.

Civil rights hero from ’60s takes criticism as Trump backer HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — Clarence Henderson was hailed as a hero nearly 60 years ago when as a young black man he participated in a sit-in at a segregated North Carolina lunch counter.

In 2016, he is again taking a risky stand; he is supporting Donald Trump.

And he isn’t shy about it. Last month he gave the invocation at a HENDERSON Trump rally here, smiling as he shook the Republican candidate’s hand.

“Donald Trump is certainly not a politician, and politicians are a dime a dozen, but leaders are priceless,” Henderson said in an interview.

Trump is deeply unpopular in the black community. He has called on black voters to vote for him because “what the hell do you have to lose?” His support among blacks is less than the margin of error in some polls.

Henderson, 74, has been criticized for his stance, with many taking to Twitter to accuse him of abandoning the principles he fought so hard for more than half a century ago.

Henderson shrugged off the criticism, saying he isn’t paying any attention to it.

And he has gotten some support from one of his fellow activists. Jabreel Khazan was one of the first four protesters to sit down at the Woolworth’s lunch counter. And though he supports Hillary Clinton, he said he had no problem with Henderson’s choice.

“God bless him and all of those who have a second opinion,” said Khazan, whose name was Ezell Blair at the time of the protest. “We should not be a one-minded people.”

Henderson attended North Carolina A&T State University, when, as an 18-year-old, he joined the original four lunch counter protesters on the second day of their protest. He could no longer live under the official segregation known as Jim Crow, he said.

“I did it because it was the right thing to do,” he said.

Angry whites jeered at them, and he wondered if he and his fellow protesters would be brought out in handcuffs or on stretchers.

They were arrested, but their actions inspired similar protests throughout the South that led to the desegregation of lunch counters and other nonviolent protests against racist policies.

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later ended up on a more unconventional political path that he credits to his father, a lifelong Republican.

“My dad, with a third-grade education, said to me, ‘Well, son, you don’t know what the Democratic party has done as far as blacks are concerned,’” Henderson said.

He discovered the Democrats had created and enforced Jim

Crow and the Republican Party was behind the constitutional amendments that abolished slavery, granted equal protection to freed slaves and gave blacks the right to vote.

He cast his first vote for a Republican presidential candidate for George W. Bush. Henderson, who ran a financial services business for more than 25 years before retiring a decade

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GUEST COMMENTARY

Election is now over (we wish) THE POST AND COURIER

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illary Clinton has won if you believe the Redskins Rule.

But Donald Trump has won if you believe British bet-

tors.

The Redskins Rule holds that when Washington’s NFL team of that controversial nickname wins its last home game before the election, the incumbent party wins the presidential election. On Sunday, the Redskins beat the Philadelphia Eagles in their last home game before the election.

So the Democratic Party candidate will win. The die is cast.

But wait. The Redskins Rule has proven to be fallible.

It correctly predicted the outcome of every presidential election from 1940 through 2000, a truly remarkable run of 16 successes. But in 2004, it failed to predict the re-election of George W. Bush, and in 2012, it failed to predict the re-election of Barack Obama. It was, however, on the money in 2008 when Mr. Obama won his first term.

There may be an explanation for its two misses, according to the discoverer of the Redskins Rule, Elias Sports Bureau executive vice president Steven Hirdt.

It seems that Massachusetts can interfere with the Rule, perhaps because the Redskins were originally the Boston Braves football team founded in 1932.

Thus, the candidacies of John Kerry in 2004 and Mitt Romney in 2012 reversed the rule.

Because Donald Trump is not from Massachusetts, the predictive power of the Redskins Rule is theoretically unimpaired. Long live President Hillary Clinton!

Ask anyone about the upcoming presidential election, and you’ll get an earful of political opinions. But the one thing most people can agree upon is that the election will have an economic impact — whether it’s positive or negative remains to be seen.

But wait ...

Betting patterns with British bookies on the American presidential election bear a close resemblance to betting on Brexit, where the number of bets rather than the amount wagered correctly predicted the outcome of the vote.

According to London bookmaker William Hill, as reported by the London Independent, 71 percent of the money wagered with his firm favors Mrs. Clinton, but 65 percent of the bets favor Mr. Trump.

If the presidential voting here follows the pattern of Brexit voting in Britain, Mr. Trump will win a decisive victory.

Why wait for the election? Let’s hear it for President Donald Trump!

NOTABLE & QUOTABLE In “The GOP is breaking. It’s not Trump’s fault,” Zachary Karabell writes in The Washington Post, “When political parties unravel, don’t blame the candidate.”

We now have something like consensus: The rise of Donald Trump portends the end of the Republican Party as we know it. As longtime GOP operative and commentator Steve Schmidt said last week, “The Republican Party has an outstanding chance of fracturing.” Trump’s opponents, inside and outside the party, are united in the belief that he has almost single-handedly undone an institution founded on the eve of the Civil War that has lasted for more than 150 years and has immeasurably shaped the United States.

But this gives Trump too much credit — credit that he might of course welcome and relish, but too much nonetheless. Several times in American history, political parties have collapsed or radically realigned. And while prominent individuals hastened those developments, in each case it was the product of dramatic changes over the previous years. The “Trump did it” view is classic Great Man History — the idea that human events are driven by pivotal men (yes, usually men till only recently) steering society.

It’s also wrong. Previous examples of party crackups show why.

No matter what happens in November, the mighty 20th century industrial economic system that brought America such power and prosperity is giving way to something else — at best an economy of technology and services that meets the needs and wants of hundreds of millions of people at lower cost to wallets and the planet, but not immediately, not evenly and not smoothly. At worst, our best days are receding, and no amount of wall-building will stop it.

Either way, this election has ended our collective ability to pretend that we are one president or one new set of policies away from

returning to a magical, mythical past. The obsession over who causes structural change is a waste of time, because the answer is: All of us.

••• From “About Those Unthinking, Backward Catholics,” an Oct. 13 column by Charles J. Chaput, the archbishop of Philadelphia: Of course it would be wonderful for the Clinton campaign to repudiate the content of these ugly WikiLeaks emails. All of us backward-thinking Catholics who actually believe what Scripture and the Church teach would be so very grateful.

In the meantime, a friend describes the choice facing voters in November this way: A vulgar, boorish lout and disrespecter of women, with a serious impulse control problem; or a scheming, robotic liar with a lifelong appetite for power and an entourage riddled with antiCatholic bigots.

In a nation where “choice” is now the unofficial state religion, the menu for dinner is remarkably small.

••• In “Only Hillary Clinton Is Prepared for the Nuclear Threat,” former Georgia U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn writes, “Donald Trump is an apprentice in the nuclear world. Worse, he has no appetite for learning.”

Read it online at www.wsj.com: Several years ago I sat around a conference table in Moscow with Americans and Russians, including President Vladimir Putin. I expressed concern that neither he nor the American president would have more than a few minutes to decide whether to use nuclear weapons if warned of an attack. The two countries’ militaries, I suggested, should work together to give their presi-

dents more time to weigh the options. Mr. Putin made clear that he was fully aware of Russia’s short nuclear window. “Sen. Nunn,” he added, “at some point it becomes automatic.”

What about moral considerations? William Swing, a retired Episcopal bishop, recently offered, in a memo sent to about a dozen leaders, a powerful reminder of the importance of this year’s presidential choice: “Whoever wins will have his or her hand on the weapons that could end life, as we know it, on this planet. We are not so much voting for a president as choosing a god. When you put your hand on the nuclear trigger and become the single agent of the Earth’s destruction, that is power beyond human imagining.”

Is any human prepared or qualified to make this fateful decision for mankind? I think not. Yet this is the responsibility of the commander in chief. Temperament, composure and sound judgment are essential.

So is understanding America’s adversaries and allies and, most important, possessing the leadership qualities required to reduce the risk that such a terrible call will ever have to be made.

One candidate, Hillary Clinton, has the experience, judgment and skills to take on this awesome responsibility. For years, on the Senate Armed Services Committee and as secretary of state, she dealt with the leaders of Russia and China and America’s key allies. She understands the importance of reducing nuclear dangers and keeping nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists. She has helped make decisions about war and peace under intense pressure. Like other leaders, Mrs. Clinton has made mistakes. She has, however, learned from them, a crucial requirement for effective leadership. She knows — like Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev did — that nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CONSIDER SUPPORTING PERSON FOR CONGRESS Mick Mulvaney has enjoyed a six-year vacation in Washington, D.C., and it is time he returns home! His plan is to move into the governor’s office in two years’ time anyway. He cannot show one thing that he has accomplished for this state, and worse, he has voted against our military’s budget.

Mulvaney says he voted against a defense bill because it was a terrible bargain and that he has encouraged Republicans to freeze or reduce defense spending. How can this be good for our military fighting men and women or the

bases we house in our state?

He has absolutely turned his back on the SACK SPRATT citizens that helped to get him elected. Most recently, he refused to return calls to farmers in a time of disaster. So much for rural farm families with critical needs! He gets an “F” on response to constituents in this ward.

Fran Person has pledged to be a conservative Democrat.

He says that he will respond to requests within a 24-hour time frame. He pledges to have farmers at the top of his list. Agriculture is by far the largest industry in this state.

Fran Person will study farm programs and will always be

ready to assist rural people in need. I am a conservative, and I plan to support Fran Person.

I believe we need to look at the candidate as a person and not just blindly vote for the party.

Please remember and support our military and our farmers who are both vital to our state and our country.

Consider giving Fran Person for Congress your vote this time.

GARDNER GORE Sumter

EVANS HAS QUALITIES WE NEED FOR WARD 4 Teaching history and political science has made me

aware of the qualities we look for in a candidate. In particular, we seek someone of proven character with a desire to serve their fellow citizens. We also look at one’s education and preparation as well as a solid work history. Ideally, we look for someone who employs technology and understands the vital role it plays in good governing.

We look for someone who cares for the communities they are involved in: church, neighborhood and the greater good through membership and participation in civic and charitable organizations. The candidate is someone who honors family and is a con-

tributor who is invested in their hometown. Active and involved representation will be their main goal.

I offer that Melissa Evans has those qualities. I have known her for more than 30 years and recommend that those who live in Ward 4 support and vote for her as their new member of Sumter City Council. Melissa will bring her capabilities and enthusiasm to advocate for the citizens of Ward 4 as well as the city of Sumter.

Make your vote count. Vote for Melissa Evans for Ward 4, Sumter City Council.

KAY STOCKBRIDGE Sumter

NOV. 8 GENERAL ELECTION The Sumter Item has set a Monday, Oct. 31, deadline for submitting letters to the editor for all letters pertaining to the Nov. 8 General Election. All letters must be 350 words or less and must contain the author’s name, address and phone number. All submitted letters will run by Sunday, Nov. 6. Please email any letters to the editor to letters@theitem.com or bring them to the Sumter Item office at 20 N. Magnolia St. in Sumter. If you choose to mail a letter, remember that if it arrives after Oct. 31, it will not be used. The mailing address for letters is Letters to the Editor, The Sumter Item, P.O. Box 1677, Sumter, SC 29151.

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH “American Masters” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings) profiles and celebrates TV producer Norman Lear.

As someone who writes about TV, and sits on the receiving end of its publicity machinery, I am a firm believer that most things written about “legends” tend to be more hype than truth.

But nobody can overstate the importance of Lear’s sitcom masterpiece “All In the Family.” The history of the situation comedy, and arguably TV itself, can be divided into before and after Archie Bunker.

And while much has been made about the innovation and topicality of that comedy, as well as its spin-off hits “The Jeffersons,” “Good Times” and “Maude,” those shows rank among very rare commodities in entertainment history. They were challenging, thought-provoking, ground-breaking and controversial. But they were also popular, dominating the ratings in their time. “Family” was the No. 1 show in America from 1971 to 1976.

This “Masters” presentation, “Just Another Version of You,” includes clips from many of Lear’s series, beginning with his work on Tennessee Ernie Ford’s 1950s variety show.

It dispenses with a thirdperson narration to allow

Lear to discuss his private and professional lives, including his very difficult relationship with his traveling salesman father, a man he would see carted off to jail.

The showbiz-salute aspect of “Another Version of You” features a child actor as a young Lear, a touch that adds little to the proceedings. Colleagues on hand include George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Lena Dunham, Carl and Rob Reiner and Russell Simmons.

Clooney briefly touches on an interesting point. As revolutionary as “All in the Family” seemed at the time, it arrived in 1971, years after the music business, Broadway and Hollywood had fitfully come to grips with the social tumult of the 1960s and the changing mores of an emerging generation. A conservative, advertising-driven business, TV was very late to the party.

So it’s perhaps natural that once TV caught up to the times, the change in comedy from distractions like “The Mothers-in-Law” and “The Flying Nun” to more topical satirical fare would arrive, not in a trickle, but as a tidal wave. And Norman Lear was smart, visionary and lucky enough to ride that wave.

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Nov. 5, at Golden Corral in Join them for an evening of Sumter. Call Hattie Hampfun, dinner and dancing to a tion McLeod at (803) 495live band to solve the 1920s 3083 or Pontheola Edwards whodunit mystery. Enjoy a Wilson at (843) 260-2978. clue scavenger hunt, cash The Lincoln High School Class bar and door prizes. The atof 1964 will hold a class retire for the evening is semiunion meeting at 11 a.m. on formal / cocktail. Tickets: Monday, Nov. 7, at the South $50 per person. Call (803) Sumter Resource Center, 773-7158 to reserve and / or 337 Manning Ave. Call Franpick up your tickets. ces Woods at (803) 773-3804, PACE Scholarship Academy Lillie Wilson at (803) 775“Boot Camp 101” workshop 9088 or Bertha Willis at (803) will be held on Saturday, 775-9660.

Oct. 29, in the multi-purpose The Sumter Branch NAACP will room of Alice Drive Middle provide rides to the polls from School. Workshop time for 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Election 9th-12th grade students is Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8. Call 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost is (803) 775-9215. Drivers are $25 per person and seating also needed. is limited. Visit www.pacescholarshipacademy.com The Sumter Chapter of the Nafor more information. Registional Federation of the Blind ter online at www.eventof South Carolina will meet brite.com. at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, Looking for something safe for 125 W. Bartlette St. Transyour children to do on Hallowportation provided within een? Trunk-or-treat will be the coverage area. Contact held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 31, at the Sum- Debra Canty, chapter presiter Law Enforcement Center, dent, at (803) 775-5792 or debra.canty@frontier.com.

107 E. Hampton Ave. Donations are welcome and The Sumter Branch NAACP will can be mailed to: NFB Sumhost its 33rd Annual Freedom ter Chapter, P.O. Box 641, Fund Banquet at 7 p.m. on FriSumter, SC 29151. day, Nov. 4, at the Sumter Sumter’s Marine Corps League County Civic Center, 700 W. Detachment 1202 will celebrate Liberty St. Hilary O. Shelton, the 241st USMC Birthday with of the NAACP National Ofa dinner and cake cutting fice, will serve as keynote ceremony on Thursday, Nov. speaker.

The Shepherd’s Center’s annual 10, at the Carolina Skies Club, Shaw Air Force Base, flea market will be held from 487 Myers St. Gathering 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, time is 6 p.m. with dinner at Nov. 5, at Trinity-Lincoln 7 p.m. The cost is $25 per Center, 24 Council St. person for prime rib and the The town of Lynchburg will fixings. Call Ted Jones at hold a fall festival featuring the (803) 968-2196 or Fay Cook amazing scavenger hunt race at (803) 775-5768 before Nov. on Saturday, Nov. 5. Teams 1 for reservations and quesshould consist of two peotions.

PUBLIC AGENDA MCLEOD HEALTH CLARENDON BOARD OF TRUSTEES Today, 6 p.m., hospital board room SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL Today, 6 p.m., Sumter County Council Chambers CLARENDON SCHOOL DISTRICT 2 BOARD Today, 6:30 p.m., district office, 15 Major Drive, Manning

SUMTER CITY-COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION Wednesday, 3 p.m., fourth floor, Sumter Opera House, Council Chambers SUMTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT BOARD Thursday, 7:30 a.m., Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce boardroom, 32 E. Calhoun St.

GREATER SUMTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Wednesday, noon, chamber office

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Pump up your EUGENIA LAST energy and believe in what you are capable of doing.

Don’t be misled by a fast talker with ulterior motives. Trust your judgment and follow through with your plans. A romantic evening should be a priority.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have more control than you realize.

You’ll get what you want if you ask.

Your insight will impress someone who has something to offer.

Business trips and meetings look promising. Don’t let personal issues interfere with your work.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotional issues will unfold if you overreact. Spending is not going to solve problems and may actually contribute to your stress. Look at the big picture and consider ways to compromise or set new incentives.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t take on someone else’s responsibilities. You have far too much to lose if you don’t step up and concentrate on the things that will benefit you. Charity begins at home and you deserve to do something that makes you happy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Making alterations to your living arrangements will cause inconveniences. You will be happy with the results, but not so pleased with the process of completion.

Look for activities you can do that will bring you closer to someone you love.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Emotions will escalate and are best directed into projects that make you feel good and help you prepare for whatever happens next. Take your time to mull things

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WEATHER

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AccuWeather® five-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

TONIGHT

WEDNESDAY

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E 3-6 mph

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Gaffney 67/38 Spartanburg 68/41

Greenville 71/44

Columbia 73/43

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

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 71/44

Aiken 72/40

ON THE COAST

Charleston 74/51

Today: Mostly sunny and beautiful. High 69 to 75.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny and pleasant.

High 71 to 77.

SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

79° 49° 72° 48° 88° in 2001 31° in 1987

LAKE LEVELS Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

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354.81 75.02 74.99 98.26

24-hr chg -0.02 -0.08 -0.14 +0.09

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0.00" 5.43" 2.79" 44.55" 51.47" 40.16"

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

NATIONAL CITIES

REGIONAL CITIES

Today City Hi/Lo/W Atlanta 76/52/s Chicago 55/43/c Dallas 83/65/c Detroit 53/37/pc Houston 84/61/pc Los Angeles 75/61/pc New Orleans 84/66/pc New York 52/38/s Orlando 83/66/pc Philadelphia 57/36/s Phoenix 91/70/s San Francisco 70/57/r Wash., DC 60/42/s

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

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 75/59/pc 53/44/r 86/65/pc 48/44/r 85/62/pc 78/63/s 85/70/pc 50/39/s 85/68/pc 54/41/s 95/71/s 71/56/pc 57/46/s

Myrtle Beach 71/51

Manning 71/42

Today: Mostly sunny and not as warm.

Winds east 4-8 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny and pleasant.

Winds southeast 3-6 mph.

LOCAL ALMANAC

Florence 70/44

Bishopville 69/41

Today Hi/Lo/W 70/40/s 76/45/s 76/43/s 75/53/s 64/53/s 74/51/s 70/42/s 74/46/s 73/43/s 69/41/s 64/44/s 67/41/s 67/43/s

Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr stage yest. chg 12 9.62 -0.35 19 2.38 -0.16 14 5.72 -0.41 14 1.62 -0.01 80 75.57 none 24 5.11 +0.03

Wed. Hi/Lo/W 67/48/pc 75/52/pc 78/52/s 77/59/s 65/55/s 77/57/s 70/50/pc 73/54/pc 75/53/s 71/50/s 62/46/s 69/48/s 70/50/s

Today City Hi/Lo/W Florence 70/44/s Gainesville 82/61/pc Gastonia 69/39/s Goldsboro 67/43/s Goose Creek 74/47/s Greensboro 67/42/s Greenville 71/44/s Hickory 68/42/s Hilton Head 73/54/s Jacksonville, FL 80/62/pc La Grange 80/51/s Macon 82/47/s Marietta 75/49/s

Sunrise 7:35 a.m.

Moonrise 2:53 a.m.

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4:06 p.m.

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City Marion Mt. Pleasant Myrtle Beach Orangeburg Port Royal Raleigh Rock Hill Rockingham Savannah Spartanburg Summerville Wilmington Winston-Salem

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Problems at home can be rectified if you take a practical approach and offer incentives that will motivate everyone to get along with each other. Stay calm and try not to overreact.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ll gain support by offering practical solutions with a unique twist. Your insight into what’s going on at home and at work will put you in a key position to get what you want.

Persuasive tactics will pay off.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotional matters will surface, making you reconsider your options. Learn from past mistakes and do whatever is necessary to keep the peace. An emotional discussion will help solve a problem.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep pressing forward with determination and intensity. A financial opportunity looks promising, but joint ventures do not. Don’t let love dictate how you spend your money. Invest in yourself and in products that will help you excel.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t let mixed emotions or someone using manipulation stop you from getting things done. Promote your skills and look for new ways to bring in extra cash. You can rely on your past experiences to help you make the right choice now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your emotions will tip the scale if you let what others do interfere with your well-being. Use your intelligence to reach your goals and do your best to coordinate and concur with people who can help you advance.

Carol and Sterling Boyd recently spent three weeks in China, where they traveled all over the country. Mr. Boyd took this photo while visiting the panda breeding and research center at Chengdu.

HAVE YOU TAKEN PICTURES OF INTERESTING, EXCITING, BEAUTIFUL OR HISTORICAL PLACES? Would you like to share those images with your fellow Sumter Item readers? E-mail your hi-resolution jpegs to sandra@theitem.com, or mail to Sandra Holbert c/o The Sumter Item, P.O. Box 1677, Sumter, SC 29150. Include clearly printed or typed name of photographer and photo details. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your photo. Amateur photographers only please. Photos of poor reproduction quality may not publish. With the exception of pictures that are of a timely nature, submitted photos will publish in the order in which they are received.

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WORLD SERIES

PRO BASKETBALL

Matchup for the ages

Lovable losers Cubs, Indians Series foes

The Associated Press

Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell, left, and Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Corey Kluber, right, helped lead their respective teams to the World Series. It begins today in Cleveland.

By RONALD BLUM The Associated Press CLEVELAND — The last time the Cleveland Indians won the World Series, Dewey led Truman in the polls. The Chicago Cubs’ last title was 13 days after the first Ford Model T car was completed.

Lovable losers known for decades of defeat meet in this year’s championship, a combined 174 seasons of futility facing off starting Tuesday night at Progressive Field.

Cleveland’s last title was in 1948, when 16 teams from

the East Coast to St. Louis competed in a just-integrated sport. The Cubs are trying to win for the first time since 1908, a dead ball-era matchup at a time home runs were rarities along with telephones.

No player is alive from the last championship Cubs or even the last to make a Series appearance — Tuesday marks the 25,948th day since the Cubs’ Game 7 loss to Detroit in 1945. One player remains from the 1948 Indians, 95-year-old Eddie Robinson.

“It seems like it’s just for-

ever,” Robinson said Monday from his home in Fort Worth, Texas. “When we got home from Boston, there was a monumental parade.

It just looked like everybody in Cleveland came out on Euclid Avenue.”

One team’s fans will let loose with the celebration of a lifetime. But while history weighs on the supporters, Cubs manager Joe Maddon focuses his players with a now-centered battle cry of “Win the Inning!”

“Air conditioning is popular right now. So is color TV,” he said. “You’ve just

got to change with the times.”

Both teams worked out under cloudy skies as the new 59-by-221-foot scoreboard behind the left-field seats — the largest in the major leagues — trumpeted the Sisyphean matchup.

While the Cubs play in Wrigley Field, the 102-yearold brick-and-ivy jewel on Chicago’s North Side, the Indians are in a 22-year-old throwback-style ballpark originally called Jacobs Field.

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CLEMSON FOOTBALL

Tigers’ Gallman says hit by N.C. State’s Wright was ‘dirty’

By PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press CLEMSON — Clemson running back Wayne Gallman said Monday that the hit by North Carolina State defensive back Dravious Wright that knocked him out of the game on Oct. 15 was “dirty” and he wanted a teammate to retaliate.

Gallman said after he watched a replay of the hit that he had hoped his teammates would have hurt Wright. Gallman went through concussion protocol during the team’s bye week and expects to practice Monday and to play Saturday when the third-ranked Tigers take on No. 12 Florida State.

“I wanted somebody to hurt him that was in the game if they could,” Gallman said. “I wasn’t able to be in it.”

Gallman did not remember anything after Wright’s firstquarter hit until he was in the trainer’s room several minutes later. When he saw a replay, Gallman was certain the Wolfpack defensive back’s hit — which looked like a helmet-to-helmet blow although no penalty was assessed — was intentional.

NBA poised for season unlike any before

By BRIAN MAHONEY The Associated Press The story lines are as long as a Stephen Curry 3-pointer.

With a superteam in the West, a megastar in the Midwest, superstars all around the league, its global popularity at an all-time high, more revenue than ever and labor peace looming, this season has the potential to be like no other the league has Durant ever had. Yes, rivaling the Celtics’ run in the 1960s, possibly topping Magic-Bird rivalry of the ‘80s and Michael Jordan’s run of the ‘90s.

LeBron James James is holding the title in Cleveland and Kevin Durant has settled in Golden State, so the NBA Finals could be headed for the same destination again next June.

But what a journey it should be getting there.

“I think there is a somewhat an inevitability of this Cleveland-Warriors meeting in the finals again, which can sometimes make you overlook how enjoyable the regular season can be if you love basketball,” ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy said. “So I think they’ll meet in the finals again, but that doesn’t make the regular season uninteresting to me.”

A summer spending spree created new contenders and enticing questions for a global audience that will begin being answered Tuesday when the new season opens in the places the last one ended.

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CAROLINA FOOTBALL

No. 18 Vols won’t have Kamara for USC game

By STEVE MEGARGEE The Associated Press

The Associated Press

North Carolina State’s Dravious Wright (8) lays on the ground after delivering a hit that gave Clemson’s Wayne Gallman (9) a concussion on Oct. 15. Gallaman expects to play against FSU on Saturday.

“You saw him lead with his head,” Gallman said of Wright. “He came with his head.”

Running backs coach Tony Elliott said Monday the hit on Gallman was difficult to judge at full speed and only

after viewing it slowed down “you see there may be opportunity for a penalty.

“But in live speed, everything happens fast, you see two guys with a tough collision like that, I understand that it’s always going to be

questioned,” Eilliott continued.

Gallman said Clemson sent video of the hit to the ACC offices and the school was told the hit was legal.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee won’t have the services of running back Alvin Kamara this week as it attempts to begin a third consecutive late-season surge.

Volunteers coach Butch Jones said Monday that an injury would prevent Kamara from playing Saturday at South Carolina (3-4, 1-4 SEC). Jones didn’t say what Kamara’s injury was but expects the junior to return in the next couple of weeks.

“As of right now, he does not need surgery and we’re anticipating him being back here in the next week or two,” Jones said. “That’s very, very encouraging for us.”

Kamara, one of four team captains, has rushed for 313 yards and three touchdowns on 64 carries this season. Kamara also has 22 receptions for 260 yards and three touchdowns, and he’s averaging 10.2 yards per punt return on 18 attempts.

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SCOREBOARD TV, RADIO

TODAY

7 a.m. – Professional Tennis: WTA Finals Matches, ATP Basel Matches and ATP Vienna Matches (TENNIS).

11 a.m. – Professional Golf: Venetian Macau Open Third Round (GOLF).

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

7:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Carolina at Detroit (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Buffalo at Philadelphia (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

8 p.m. – Major League Baseball: World Serie Game One – Chicago Cubs at Cleveland (WACH 57).

8 p.m. – College Football: College Football Playoff Top 25 (ESPN).

8 p.m. – NBA Basketball: New York at Cleveland (TNT).

9:55 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Queretaro vs. Toluca (UNIVISION).

10 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Anaheim at San Jose (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

10:30 p.m. – NBA Basketball: San Antonio at Golden State (TNT).

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Sumter High School’s Raymond Johnson and Khalil Moore and Manning’s Jabril Wilson have been selected in the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl North-South All-Star Football.

Johnson, a defensive end, Moore, an offensive lineman and Wilson, a linebacker, will all play for the South squad.

The head coach of the

South squad is former Sumter head coach and current irmo head coach Reggie Kennedy.

One of his assistants is Beaufort head coach Mark Clifford, the former Sumter High assistant.

The game will be played on Saturday, Dec. 10, beginning at 12:30 p.m. at Dough Shaw Memorial Stadium in Mytle Beach.

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Logano wins Talladega TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — When an engine failure knocked title favorite Martin Truex Jr. from NASCAR’s playoffs, the rest of the top contenders got a little bit of breathing room.

Then Brad Keselowski suffered the same cruel elimination when his engine failed Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway.

Logano There was suddenly a wide-open competition to earn the final transfer spots into the third round of the Chase, and Denny Hamlin and Austin Dillon raced a tense final two laps in overtime to fill the bracket. With

each pushing for every last point, it was Hamlin who advanced into the round of eight on a tiebreaker over Dillon.

Joey Logano won at Talladega Superspeedway, and Hamlin edged Kurt Busch by .006 seconds for third place and the one point he needed to tie Dillon in the standings.

Dillon was ninth, but lost the right to move into the next round based on average finish over the last three races.

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FCS Coaches Poll

SPARTANBURG — The top 25 teams in the Coaches Football Championship Subdivision poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 23, points and previous ranking:

Rec. Pts Pvs 1. S.H. State (23) 7-0 646 1 2. Jacksonville State (2) 6-1 620 2 3. E. Washington (1) 6-1 585 3 4. North Dakota State 6-1 574 4 5. James Madison 6-1 533 5 6. Richmond 7-1 507 7 7. The Citadel 7-0 503 6 8. Chattanooga 7-1 457 8 9. Charleston Southern 4-2 439 9 10. South Dakota State 5-2 433 11 11. North Carolina A&T 6-1 355 14 12. North Dakota 6-2 327 16 13. Villanova 6-2 296 17 14. Youngstown State 5-2 282 12 15. Western Illinois 5-2 276 13 16. Montana 5-2 272 10 17. Cal Poly 5-2 242 t18 18. Central Arkansas 6-1 241 t18 19. Samford 6-1 208 20 20. Stony Brook 5-2 148 22 21. Grambling State 5-1 138 21 22. Eastern Illinois 5-3 95 15 23. Harvard 5-1 74 23 24. Lehigh 6-2 41 NR 25. South Dakota 4-3 34 NR Others receiving votes: Tennessee State 26, New Hampshire, Liberty 13, Northern Iowa 12, Weber State 9, Wofford 9, Central Connecticut State 8, Northern Arizona 6, North Carolina Central 4, Sacred Heart 4) Albany 3, Fordham 3, San Diego 3, South Carolina State 2, Penn 1.

STATS FCS Poll

The top 25 teams in the STATS Football Championship Subdivision poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 23, points and previous rank:

Record Pts Pvs 1. S.H. State (120) 7-0 3990 1 2. E. Washington (18) 6-1 3680 3 4. N.D. State (6) 6-1 3579 4 5. Citadel (3) 7-0 3341 5 6. Richmond 7-1 3186 6 7. South Dakota State 5-2 3153 7 8. James Madison 6-1 3037 8 9. Charleston Southern 4-2 2714 9 10. Chattanooga 7-1 2678 11 11. Villanova 6-2 2046 16 12. North Carolina A&T 6-1 2038 14 13. Western Illinois 5-2 1814 12 14. Cal Poly 5-2 1716 17 15. Youngstown State 5-2 1645 13 16. Montana 5-2 1582 10 17. North Dakota 6-2 1515 19 18. Coastal Carolina 5-2 1426 17 19. C. Arkansas 6-1 1372 20 20. Samford 6-1 1094 21 21. Grambling State 5-1 722 22 22. Stony Brook 5-2 692 24 23. Eastern Illinois 5-3 528 15 24. Harvard 5-1 260 NR 25. Tennessee State 5-2 236 25 Others: Sacred Heart 198, Lehigh 174, New Hampshire 170, Weber State 117, UNI 106, South Dakota 102, Albany 52, Fordham 40, Montana State 27, North Carolina Central 21, Maine 20, Northern Arizona 17, Penn 15, San Diego 15, Wofford 13, Liberty 8, Illinois State 7, Southeastern Louisiana 7, Wagner 6, Saint Francis U 3, UT Martin 1, McNeese 1, Kennesaw State 1.

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I love everything about fall! The cooler temperatures, the multi-color leaves, the smell of pumpkin spice, and the sound of….wedding bells? Okay, maybe wedding bells don’t totally fit with the popular fall picture I was painting, but all of my friends seem to be getting married this fall. By mid-November, I will have attended three weddings in just over 4 weeks! All of those wedding gifts and travel expenses have got me thinking about money. More specifically, how to save it! And with the holidays fast approaching, I know everybody is looking for ways to save money. Often a tight budget means sacrificing something, but when it comes to your yard, you don’t have to sacrifice the health of your plants in order to save a few bucks. So here are a few backyard practices that will improve the health of your yard, your local watershed, and your wallet!

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Over-fertilizing is bad for your plants, your wallet, and our water quality.

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The third-ranked Tigers (7-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) visit the Seminoles (5-2, 2-2) in an ACC showdown. Swinney said last Wednesday he expected Gallman to face Florida State.

Gallman’s absence against the Wolfpack was apparent.

The Tigers finished with 117 yards rushing, their lowest total this season in a 24-17 overtime victory .

Gallman said he felt like himself this week after missing workouts to recover from the concussion. He had never gone through that before in his football career, but is confident about his status for Saturday.

“As far as Florida State, I’m playing,” he said.

Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher also expects Gallman to play.

When Gallman is playing well, combined with quarterback Deshaun Watson’s leadership, Fisher said it makes Clemson’s offense hard to stop.

“It makes a big difference, it really does,” Fisher said Monday.

Gallman said he went through some drills with his helmet and trainers watching to see if the effort caused headaches or led to other ill effects.

“I passed everything,” Gallman said.

The incident remains fuzzy for Gallman, who remembers catching the ball from quarterback Deshaun Watson, then making a move forward.

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Led by Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo, the Cubs led the major leagues with 103 wins during the regular season, then beat San Francisco and Los Angeles in the playoffs. But since the playoffs expanded in 1995, only four teams with the best regular-season record won the title: the 1998 and 2009 New York Yankees, and the 2007 and 2013 Boston Red Sox. “I promise you, our guys are going to be in the present tense,” Maddon said. “I think we all have a tremendous amount of respect for history and what’s happened before us or not happened before us.

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OBITUARIES JAMES D. SKINNER James Douglas Skinner, age 85, beloved husband of the late Ruby Neese Skinner, died on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, at his residence.

Born in Washington Court House, Ohio, he was a son of the late William SKINNER Henry Skinner and Lelah Lininger Skinner.

Upon graduating high school, Mr. Skinner joined the United States Air Force. He retired from the Air Force as a master sergeant after 20 years of service. Jim served 14 of his 20 years at Shaw Air Force Base and chose Sumter as his place of retirement. After his military career, Jim went to work with Merritt Veterinary Supply Co., where he worked for another 20 years. Jim was an avid racing fan and worked at the Sumter Speedway for 51 years. He was also a member of the Junior Bowling Hall of Fame. Jim loved his family and will be remembered as a loving father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend.

He will be dearly missed by all who knew him.

Surviving are one son, William “Bill” Skinner and his wife, Gerri, of Jacksonville, Florida; one daughter, Meta S. Liuzzo and her husband, Gary, of Lexington; two grandchildren, Derek Liuzzo and Stephanie Drayton; 13 step-grandchildren; and four step-great-grandchildren.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Skinner was predeceased by one brother, Roger Skinner; one sister, Jennie Margaret Baptiste; and one half-sister, Bonnibel Lane.

A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday at Bullock Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Aaron Reed officiating. The entombment will take place at Evergreen Memorial Park Mausoleum with full military honors.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday at Bullock Funeral Home.

You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family’s guest book.

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MICKEY E. MARINKO KINGSLAND, Georgia — Mickey E. Marinko, of Kingsland, died on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, at Hospice of Golden Isles. He was 63.

He was born on Feb. 20, 1953, in Florence. He was a graduate MARINKO of The Citadel in

Charleston and was a lifelong Citadel Bulldogs fan.

Mickey worked as a shipwright at both Charleston Naval Shipyard and Trident Refit Facility, Kings Bay, Georgia. He was a union steward who dedicated himself to representing and defending the interests of his fellow employees. He served as a proud member of the NRA and The Elks Lodge. A unique soul, Mickey was very funny and didn’t have a mean bone in his body. He will be greatly missed.

A lifelong bachelor, Mickey is survived by his brother, John A. Marinko and his wife, Kathy; his niece, Jennifer Marinko Clayton and husband, Alan, of Summerfield, North Carolina; and many good friends.

A celebration of life announcement will be upcoming.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Mickey’s name to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

CLAIRE J. MOISE Claire Jenkins Moise, 81, widow of Albert DeLeon Moise, died on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, at National Healthcare Center.

Born in Walterboro, she was a daughter of the late Samuel Arthur Jenkins and Mary Nell Epps Jenkins.

Mrs. Moise was a member of First Presbyterian Church and a former librarian at Furman High School.

Surviving are two sons, Coles Dwight (Susanne) and Arthur Dwight (Jennifer), both of Sumter; two stepsons, Chris Moise (Allison) of Franklin, Tennessee, and Greg Moise (Laura) of Columbia; one stepdaughter, Debbie Moise of Columbia; five grandchildren, Kelly Dwight Hodo (Scott), Katherine Dwight, Richard Dwight, Carter Dwight and Jenkins Dwight; one greatgrandson, Luke Hodo; and her devoted caregiver and sitter, Mary Mellette.

Graveside services will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday at Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery with the Rev. Dan Barber officiating.

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

The family would like to extend many thanks to the beloved nursing staff at National Healthcare Center for the excellent care they provided Mrs. Moise over the years. It was comforting to the family to know that she was cared for with love and dignity.

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“There are a lot of chargedup players in this league,” Silver said. “There are a lot of teams, young teams in the development cycle, where I think they would even say realistically they’re unlikely to win the championship this season, but they’re on the road to winning a championship.”

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Runette White-Webb, 90, widow of Cartell Webb, departed this life on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

She was born on April 15, 1926, in Clarendon County, a daughter of the late Alonzo and Elizabeth McCoy White.

The family will receive friends at the home, 840 Illery Road, Sumter, SC 29153.

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

Paul Ham, 58, died on Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, at Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia.

He was a son of the late Willie Joe Ham and Lydia McFadden Ham. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at the Hayes F. & LaNelle J. Samuels Sr. Memorial Chapel, Manning, with the Rev. Samuel Sparks officiating.

The family is receiving friends at the home of his sister, Abby Ham, 6186 Old Manning Road, New Zion.

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

ELBERT S. THROCKMORTON Retired U.S. Army Col. Elbert Satterlee Throckmorton, age 92, beloved husband of Norajane Rumph Throckmorton, was promoted to glory on Friday, Oct. 21, 2016.

Born and raised in Moberly, Missouri, he was a son of the late Charles Elbert and Virgie Satterlee Throckmorton. He received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York and matriculated with the Class of 1946. He achieved the rank of colonel as his final rank in the United States Army. He was stationed in various places during his career: South Korea for part of the Korean Conflict in the 1950s; White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico; Cheyenne Mountain as a command director; and his last station of Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, where he, along with a group of others, worked in prototype for the Patriot Missile. During his career with the U.S. Army, he enjoyed many hobbies, most notably that of trap shooting. In 1963, at a gun club in Cortez, Colorado, he became the first man to shoot 100 straight from 27 yards during the handicap round in the Amateur Trap Association. He attended the Mayesville Presbyterian Church.

He is survived by his wife, Norajane Rumph Throckmorton of Sumter; a daughter, Helen Leigh Throckmorton of Sumter; a brother-in-law, Scott Winfield Rumph Jr. of Sumter; his sister, Ellyn Throckmorton Brothers of Columbia, Missouri; three nieces; three nephews; and grandnieces and grandnephews.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Katherine Throckmorton Donohue.

A private burial will take place in the Ft. Jackson National Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mayesville Presbyterian Church, Good Samaritan Fund, P.O. Box 141, Mayesville, SC 29104.

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JAMES LOVELY BISHOPVILLE — James Lovely, 69, passed on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, at his residence in Bishopville.

Born in Lee County, he was a son of the late Hosea and Rosa Marshall Lovely.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of his sister, Patricia Harry, 519 Gum St., Bishopville.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Square Deal Funeral Home, Bishopville.

TASHA D. BENJAMIN BISHOPVILLE — Tasha Denice Benjamin, 42, passed on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, at Carolinas Hospital System, Florence.

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, she was a daughter of the late Gerald Edward and Calestine Benjamin Roberson.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 415 Cousar St., Apartment 2A, Bishopville.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Square Deal Funeral Home, Bishopville.

LOUISE C. BROWN Louise Carter Brown, 78, departed this life on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on May 12, 1938, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late David Carter Sr. and Viola Wright Carter. She was educated in the public school system of South Carolina. She attended Clarks United Methodist Church at an early age and later joined Unionville AME Church,

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where she met her husband, the late Robert Brown Jr. She was employed at Mr. and Mrs. Peoples for a few years and then with Tuomey Hospital.

Louise retired from Gold Kist (Campbell Soup) after 25 years of service.

She leaves to cherish her memories: two daughters, Elaine Brown and Emma Marie B. Anderson (Roosevelt Whiting Jr.) of Sumter; two sons, Laverne (Lisa G.) Brown of Sumter and Bennie (Jackie) Johnson of Florida; three sisters, Mary Sue Peterson and Mary K. (Richard) Johnson, both of Sumter, and Elizabeth (Ferdinand) Cooper of Fayetteville, North Carolina; four brothers, Lindsay (Janie Mae) Carter Sr., David Carter Jr. (Carrie Williams) of Queens, New York, and Nathan Carter and Joseph (Sammie Lee) Carter Sr., both of Sumter; four sisters-in-law; 12 grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Homegoing celebration will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Unionville AME Church, 1330 Swimming Pen Road, St. Charles, with the Rev. Alvin E. Webb, pastor, eulogist.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 3065 Lowder Road, Sumter.

The remains will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. for viewing until time of services.

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

Floral bearers will be members of the Women’s Missionary Society.

Pallbearers will be grandsons.

Burial will be in Unionville AME Churchyard cemetery.

These services have been entrusted to the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

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

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JACOBIA E. LANE Jacobia English Lane, 39, wife of Willie Lane, died on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2016, in Gastonia, North Carolina.

Born on July 11, 1977, in Kershaw County, she was a daughter of Emma Sanders English and the late James English.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of her mother, 6620 Daniel Taylor Lane, Rembert, and at 7125 Saxton Road, Rembert.

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In key Fla. county, trouble with the base Clinton, Trump both see state as critical to winning Alexandra Glorioso and Amy Bennett Williams USA TODAY Network TAMPA Becky McCaughey steps into the humid Florida afternoon, a trash-bound box in one hand, a leash in the other.

The 53-year-old homemaker lives in a quietly unassuming west Tampa neighborhood, which conservative blogger Ed Morrissey calls “the most generic place” he’s ever been, for its suburban gated communities and national chain strip malls. In election lingo, McCaughey’s neighborhood is known as precinct 519.

McCaughey and her nearly 840,000 fellow Hillsborough

County voters are critical in the Nov. 8 presidential election. The race for the White House will be decided by voters like McCaughey, who lives in a county that has picked the winner in 19 of the past 20 presidential elections, says Steve Schale, President Obama’s 2008 Florida campaign director.

Precinct 519 is the quintessential swing precinct in the heart of the key swing region of the nation’s most important swing state. Case in point: After choosing Obama in 2012, the precinct’s voters veered hard right and elected his arch-critic Republican Rick Scott for governor in 2014.

In both races, each candidate won the precinct by less than 2% of the vote.

8 counties that count in 2016

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After voting for the GOP in the last two presidential elections, Becky McCaughey isn't sure who she's voting for.

The USA TODAY Network spent time in eight counties in eight states, exploring the key electoral themes that could decide this fall’s election. Each week, we featured a different one.

The series has looked at Waukesha County in Wisconsin, Chester County in Pennsylvania, Wayne County in Michigan, Maricopa COunty in Arizona, Union County in Iowa, Larimer County in Colorado and Clark County in Ohio. Today’s final installment: Hillsborough County in Florida.

If Hillsborough is any measure, things aren’t looking good for Republican nominee Donald Trump. A Sept. 22 poll by St. Pete Polls, a Florida-only polling firm, had Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leading Trump in Hillsborough by 48% to 42% among 1,902 likely voters surveyed, with a 2.2-point margin of error.

“I was a Democrat for many years,” McCaughey says, as bulldog Josie Mae snuffles at her feet.

“Now I’m a Republican. I wanted to vote in the primary for John McCain, so that’s why I switched, and then I never changed back.”

But after choosing GOP candidates in the past two presidential contests, McCaughey can’t say with any certainty what she’ll do next.

She sighs. “I’m 50/50 at this

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Grant DePorter, who insists destiny and numerology will propel the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series title in 108 years, pointed his phone at the scoreboard behind the left-field wall at Wrigley Field, started recording and put his theory to test.

It was was Oct. 7, Game 1 of the National League Division Series between the Cubs and the San Francisco Giants. Javier Baez, the

Cubs’ second baseman, was at the plate facing Johnny Cueto, the Giants’ starting pitcher.

DePorter’s video showed Cueto’s pitch count — 107 at that point — just moments after DePorter predicted that Baez would hit a home run on pitch 108.

Baez then blasted the 3-2 pitch over the left-field wall to propel the Cubs to a 1-0 victory, jumpstart the team’s postseason run and help cement DePorter’s soothsayer status.

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Grant DePorter, CEO of Harry Caray’s Restaurant Group, says the Cubs’ 108-year World Series title drought is about to end.

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As South Florida waits for long-delayed federal and state money to trickle in, the private

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people in Chicago became believers,” DePorter, CEO of Harry Caray’s Restaurant Group that is named after the legendary Cubs announcer, said Monday while sharing the video he said supports his claim that 108 is a magic number signaling the end of the Cubs’ 108-year World Series title drought. “I knew this was going to happen.”

All but shouting his claims on a bullhorn, DePorter said he is just as convinced the Cubs are 108 outs away from winning the World Series (Do the math: 27 outs per game multiplied by four victories needed to win it all).

More than four weeks before the Cubs clinched a spot in the World Series, which will start Tuesday in Cleveland against the Indians, DePorter posted online a list of supposed evidence linking the Cubs and 108 that includes: uThere are 108 stitches on baseballs made by Spalding sporting goods. A.G. Spalding was the Cubs’ first manager (1876-77) and

owner of the sporting goods company. His baseballs were used by the National League from the mid-1870s until 1977. Plus, Spalding’s office was at 108 W. Madison in Chicago. uThe movies Taking Care of Business and Back to the Future, Part II, both of which feature the Cubs winning the World Series, are each 108 minutes long. uThe Ricketts family, the Cubs’ owners, made its fortune through TD Ameritrade, a finance company with headquarters located in Omaha at 108th Avenue.

DePorter said his research started in about 1987 when he was looking for old newspapers for the Harry Caray restaurants.

He found a collection that included every paper from the five major Chicago dailies in 1908, according to DePorter, who said he set out to crack the code of the Cubs’ World Series drought.

One of the discoveries, he said, involved a curse put on the Cubs by the team’s then-owner, Charles Murphy. Cubs players re-

fused to let Murphy join them at a celebratory dinner after they won the 1908 World Series and Murphy was forced out after the 1913 season, according to DePorter, who said Murphy and the number 13 are prominent in the Cubs’ World Series drought. He cited these examples: uIn 1945, William Sianis and his infamous billy goat, named Murphy, that were denied entry into Wrigley Field are pictured standing next to turnstile No. 13. uIn 1984, the Cubs were one victory away from reaching the World Series after winning the first two games of the National League Championship Series against the San Diego Padres. The best-of-five series then shifted to San Diego, where the Cubs lost three in a row — at Jack Murphy Stadium. uIn 2015, the Cubs got swept in the NLCS by the Mets, whose second baseman homered in each of the four games. His name: Daniel Murphy.

DePorter collected the research in a book called Hoodoo,

which was published in 2008 and focused largely on the power of 8.

But after the Cubs lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers at the end of the 2008 season, DePorter said, he continued his research and uncovered the significance of 108, which he learned carries significance in astronomy, spirituality and religion.

any group endeavor.”

He said 1 and 8 in 108 are forceful numbers that support the 9.

“Considering that the 9 is carried by these forceful numbers is a very good omen,” he said. “I would say that taken together these numbers definitely point to a past dilemma being resolved, an

“I think at that point a lot of people in Chicago became believers. I knew this was going to happen.”

Grant DePorter, on the Cubs’ Javier Baez hitting a playoff home run Oct. 7 on the opposing pitcher’s 108th pitch of the game and the significance of the number in the team’s World Series run

Numerologist Hans Decoz looked at DePorter’s research and noted something else.

“The number 108 adds to 9, which has to do with completion,” Decoz said by email. “It is the number of finality — it’s over and done. It is also a global number — meaning it has a far reach.

It’s a number that represents one for all and all for one. It is therefore one of the best numbers for

obstacle overcome, a negative energy removed or neutralized.”

DePorter, who said he has been flooded by Cubs fans submitting evidence of 108 being linked to the team’s success, scarcely considers the significance of 9. Never mind the fact nine also happens to be the number of baseball players in a lineup.

“I’m sticking with 108,” he said.

“I think it’s destiny at this point.”

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point. And my husband? I think he is, too.”

Hillsborough County is a miniature model of the United States (though not that miniature at 1,266 square miles, which is bigger than Rhode Island).

It’s multicultural, multiracial and multi-political, with Democratic blue in the urban centers and Republican red on the outskirts, shot through with a fierce independent streak.

Hillsborough’s population of 1.3 million people is divided into three nearly equal political parts: 39% Democrat, 32% Republican and 29% independent or no party affiliation. The county, the fourth-largest in the state, has one of the highest percentages of voters not choosing a party among Florida’s 67 counties.

McCaughey came from Colorado, where there’s a Democratic governor and a divided Legislature. By way of Interstate 75, Tampa and much of Florida’s west coast also have a strong Midwestern influence, characterized by voters with a penchant for crossing party lines in state races, Schale says.

McCaughey, like many voters here, looks past party and weighs the good and bad of Clinton and Trump.

“What really concerns me about Trump — and I know he’s kind of loud and whatever — is that he doesn’t have the political experience of Hillary,” McCaughey says.

Still, Clinton’s policies trouble McCaughey, especially support for the Affordable Care Act and gun restrictions that could threaten the Second Amendment.

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Hillsborough County, Fla., has picked the winner in 19 of the past 20 presidential elections.

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“Since college, she’s been a social activist,” McCaughey says.

The choice likely will come down to the final days in this county, where the outcome is never guaranteed for either party.

Morrissey calls Hillsborough “Everytown America” in his book, Going Red, which looks at the west Florida county and six other battleground counties in the nation: Hamilton, Ohio; Wake, N.C.; Prince William, Va.; Jefferson, Colo.; Hillsborough, N.H.; and Brown County, Wis. All the counties represent large areas in their states, serve as bellwethers, and voted for George W. Bush in 2004 and Obama in 2008 and 2012.

“These are states that Republicans need to win. These are counties in those states that they have to compete in to win. And winning each of these seven counties is reflective of how well they are competing nationally,” says Morrissey. “(Hillsborough) is really where the battleground is in Florida.”

Ana Cruz, former head of the Florida Democratic Party and a 43-year-old fourth-generation descendant of Cuban cigar-makers, says Hillsborough is “a microcosm of what this battleground state of Florida represents.”

“Also, what our entire country looks like … urban areas … suburban areas and also rural areas.

Also gender, and our demographics as it relates to Hispanic, black and Anglo voters,” she says, raising her voice to be heard over the lunchtime bustle at the West Tampa Sandwich Shop. “That diversity in geography and diversity in demographics makes Hillsborough County such a purple county.”

The county’s population, like its registered voters, includes a diverse mix of residents, with 51% white, 27% Hispanic and nearly 18% black.

Michele Shenefield, 40, snuggles up to her husband on the couch in the posh Hyde Park Buddy Brew coffee house in South Tampa, where 30-somethings in workout clothes grab coffees from baristas with tattoos and multicolored hair. Shenefield represents Clinton’s vulnerabilities in this swing county.

A white accountant from tiny Apollo Beach, Shenefield says she’s been a lifelong Democrat like the rest of her family. She voted for Obama in 2012 but will likely vote Trump in this election.

Clinton is struggling with her base here, polling at 73% among

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLA., AT A GLANCE

2012 turnout:

61%

of voting-age citizens.

Est. 2015 population LUKE FRANKE, NAPLES DAILY NEWS

“People here tend to be rather pragmatic, rather practical, somewhat less partisan, which is a good thing as opposed to being rigid ideologues.”

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn

1,349,050 Non-Hispanic white

51% Latino

27% African-American

17.7% Asian

4.1% HISTORY Has voted the same way as state of Florida in past 13 presidential elections.

Education (Bachelor’s degree)

29.8% 29% (National avg.)

Poverty rate

16.8% 14.8% (National avg.)

Unemployment rate

5% (2015 avg.)

RICARDO ROLON, THE NEWS-PRESS

Ana Cruz, former head of the Florida Democratic Party, says Hillsborough County is “a microcosm of what this battleground state of Florida represents.”

Democrats in Hillsborough, which is almost 10 points lower than her statewide polls and more than 10 points lower than national polls.

Although Clinton is beating Trump in every age category in the county, she has the narrowest lead among voters ages 30 to 50 at just 2 points. In addition, white voters are the only demographic Trump leads in the county: 50% to Clinton’s 39%.

Trump’s low ratings among minorities mean he has to excel with white voters.

Although Shenefield never considered switching her party to independent, she is pretty divided in her political values. She supports universal health care, one of Obama’s legacies, but believes the U.S. has an immigration problem.

Median household income $ 50,122 $ 54,482 (National avg.)

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Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn says Shenefield’s attitude is common among his constituents, who defy political ideology and make elections difficult to predict.

“People here tend to be rather pragmatic, rather practical, somewhat less partisan, which is a good thing as opposed to being rigid ideologues,” Buckhorn says.

“People here are capable on any given year of voting D or voting R, depending on the candidate.

And so I think this is a good test bed, if you will, for what’s going to happen in a couple of weeks.”

Shenefield doesn’t like either candidate, but she’s leaning toward Trump because she believes he “surrounds himself with highly intelligent people.” And she doesn’t have a high opinion of Clinton’s advisers.

“I don’t want to use the word cronies but I don’t know of a better term,” she says. Of Clinton: “I just don’t believe a word she says.”

Farther into South Tampa’s peninsula, historic Bayshore Boulevard sweeps for almost five elegantly balustraded miles along Hillsborough Bay’s west flank, lined with sleek offices and historic mansions. This is where Hillsborough’s educated elite live — people like Jonathan Sobin, a 65-year-old clinical psychologist.

Sobin is a registered independent who will be voting for Clinton. He often breaks for Democrats, saying, “I don’t relate to the pro-gun, anti-abortion people at all.”

A fiscal conservative and social liberal, Sobin voted for Obama in 2008 and Republican Mitt Romney in 2012. Romney won collegeeducated voters like Sobin statewide and nationwide, according to exit surveys of voters. But Clinton has reversed the trend, polling several points ahead of Trump with educated voters in both state and national polls.

Sobin likely would have voted for Clinton no matter who the Republican candidate was, he says. But given her opponent, his choice is a “no brainer.”

Still, he says, the negative campaigning has dampened his enthusiasm for Clinton.

“I don’t think people are terribly enthusiastic for Hillary. And my own enthusiasm was diminished, sort of by this whole process over the last year,” he says. “I sort of started to be persuaded a little bit about her being not on top of her game so much.”

About 73% of Hillsborough’s registered voters turned out for the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.

In Hillsborough, Clinton is polling most strongly among African Americans at 76%. But that’s still several points below her state and national numbers, where she easily clears 80% among black voters.

In 2004, John Kerry pulled more than 85% of the black vote in both Florida and nationally, even though he lost by 5 points in Florida and by 31,444 votes in Hillsborough. Obama won in 2008 and 2012 with historic support from minorities and young people, a large part of the Democratic base. In both elections, he received more than 90% of the black vote in Florida and nationally.

Glorioso reports for Naples (Fla.) Daily News; Williams reports for The (Fort Myers, Fla.) News-Press

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HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY DRAKE FANS On the eve of his 30th birthday, Drake revealed he had a gift for fans. The ‘Views’ artist announced he would release an album called ‘More Life: The DENISE TRUSCELLO, WIREIMAGE Playlist’ in December. He also teased four tracks from ‘More Life’: ‘Two Birds, One Stone’; ‘Sneakin’; ‘Wanna Know (Remix)’ and ‘Fake Love.’

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Meryl Streep kept it casual-chic in a navy tunic and cropped, floral pants as she hit a press conference in Tokyo on Monday for ‘Florence Foster Jenkins.’ The biopic, which stars Streep as the notoriously off-key soprano, opens at the Tokyo International Film Festival on Tuesday.

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Bill Murray arrives at his seat before the 19th annual Mark Twain Award for American Humor program at the Kennedy Center.

Punch lines, praise for Twain honoree Murray Former SNL star is the toast of D.C. as fellow actors rib and revere him

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Out of a star-studded lineup of top actors, comedians and musicians in attendance at the Kennedy Center to toast Bill Murray, it was Miley Cyrus who generated the most attention from the honoree.

After Cyrus botched her performance of a variation of the classic My Way at Sunday night’s salute to Murray, who received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the actor stood from his seat in the balcony and declared, “We’re safe now. How ’bout those pipes? Do it again! Do it again!”

“This is live entertainment!” shouted Murray, 66, as the audience roared with laughter. “This is happening now in Washington, D.C. — the 51st state! If it had statehood, that wouldn’t have happened!”

And so Cyrus gave it a second shot, nailing the lyrics and cleaning things up for the version that will broadcast Friday on PBS as Bill Murray: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize (check local listings).

While Cyrus garnered laughs for her expletive-filled snafu, the evening was filled with many touching moments.

A bearded David Letterman

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showed up to honor Murray, who was a guest on his late-night shows 44 times. They became good friends, and Letterman spoke of how in 2003 he received a package at his office containing a handmade Irish christening gown. Earlier, he had mentioned to Murray that his son, Harry, was to be christened that weekend. “That Saturday, my son, in Bill Murray’s christening gown, was christened at St. Ignatius in Manhattan, and we have this memory, we have this gift, we have this gesture for the rest of our lives,” Letterman said.

Emma Stone, who co-starred alongside Murray in Aloha, noted that he “brings a kind of generosity and caring” to everything around him.

Murray’s former Saturday Night Live co-star Jane Curtin

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Emma Stone, left, and Sigourney Weaver each reminisced of co-starring with Bill Murray, for better or worse.

noted that “he went from brilliant sketch actor to brilliant film actor.”

And, of course, there were plenty of jokes at Murray’s expense.

“I worked with Bill on two Ghostbusters movies and we did this love scene. ... Where the hell is my prize?” joked Sigourney Weaver.

Steve Martin, appearing via video, said, “As a previous recipient of the Mark Twain Prize, I’d like to say to you, ‘Welcome to the club,’ and to the Kennedy Center, ‘Really?’ ” “I think you and I are about as close as two people can be, considering that one of them is you,” Martin added.

Finally, Murray took to the stage to accept a bronzed bust of the late, great satirist — which he promptly handed to a member of the audience with instructions to “pass it around.”

Murray, the fifth of nine children, paid tribute to his older brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, who supported the family after their father died. He also helped his younger brother get his start in improvisational theater.

“My brother had more guts than anyone I ever knew, and the only reason I’m here tonight is because of the guts of my brother Brian,” Murray said. “He’s been waiting a long time to hear that.”

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You know the last few pages of a thriller, where the cops wrap up the loose ends and make their arrests? If you’ve ever wished that section BOOK lasted 200 pages, the REVIEW book for you is The Whistler (Doubleday, 374 pp., eegE out of four) by John Grisham.

Grisham has become an institution. For more than 25 years now he’s been our guide to the byways and backwaters of our legal system, superb in particular at ferreting out its vulnerabilities and dramatizing their abuses in gripping style. He excels at describing injustice and corruption.

(It’s fitting that he’s ended up on the board of The Innocence Project, a charity that seeks to exonerate the wrongfully convicted.)

The flaws that accompany these strengths, from stilted dia-

plaints about judges. These complaints are often small — alcoholism, minor bribes. This one, though, might be huge. A disbarred lawyer, skulking around the docks, claims to have a bead on the most corrupt judge in American history.

It turns out he’s right. She’s on the take. We learn this early, and also who’s paying her (it’s a secretive coastal crime organization made up of several cousins), and why they’re doing it (graft at a Native American casino). We learn who their victims are; among others, there’s an innocent man on death row, staring hard at the needle.

These are the ingredilogue to wisp-thin ents of a good thriller. characters to a They’re just presented in sense of humor dads mystifying order. Grishave been perfecting BILLY HUNT ham’s last big narrative around grills for a century, are so familiar Author John flashpoint comes about a third of the way into the they’re nearly Grisham. book, and from there, it’s comforting.

The Whistler sets up in typical only a matter of tying bows on Grisham style: At an obscure gov- the plotline. Without any tension, inoffensive but also ernment agency, Florida’s Board it’s of Judicial Conduct, an agent gets uninteresting.

The central character, Lacy, is a a tip. The BJC is a team of six, tasked with investigating com- complete cipher. The writing is …

by John Grisham. (“And now that we’re on the subject, how’s your sex life?” a co-worker asks her.)

Everyone who seems to have done the bad stuff did the bad stuff, in exactly the order you would have guessed.

The best moments in The Whistler delineate the exact particulars of the illegal operation at the casino, shedding light on the fascinating set of laws that govern the gambling operations of Florida tribes.

Grisham’s legal knowledge is impressive, and his ability to convey it unparalleled in popular fiction.

But that’s not enough to sustain a novel without suspense.

This author has always been strongest when writing about protagonists whose own lives are in a state of doubt and danger, rather than about those conducting straight-up investigations.

Thrillers, by classical definition, rather than mysteries. That seems especially true in this mystery, a forgettable moment in a great career.

Charles Finch’s new mystery, The Inheritance, will be published on Nov. 1.

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MONEY MONEYLINE ROCKWELL COLLINS BUYS B/E AEROSPACE FOR $6.4B Aviation tech company Rockwell Collins will acquire aircraft interior manufacturer B/E Aerospace for $6.4 billion. The deal, expected to close in spring, gives B/E Aerospace shareholders $34.10 per share in cash and $27.90 in shares of Rockwell Collins common stock, a 22.5% premium to B/E Aerospace’s close Friday.

TD AMERITRADE TO ACQUIRE SCOTTRADE FOR $4B TD Ameritrade reached a deal to acquire rival brokerage firm Scottrade for a mix of cash and stock the companies said was worth $4 billion. The agreement involves multiple transactions in which TD Ameritrade will first acquire Scottrade Bank for $1.3 billion, then acquire Scottrade Financial Services for $2.7 billion.

GANNETT TO REDUCE STAFF ABOUT 2% TO CUT COSTS Gannett, which owns USA TODAY and more than 100 local news properties, said Monday it is reducing its workforce by “about 2%” to help manage costs in a difficult environment for print and digital advertising. The reductions will affect workers across the company, including at its headquarters in McLean, Va.

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“Put it this way: There’s very limited competition for Apple at the top end of the market.

Samsung literally exploded.”

BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis

Jon Swartz @jswartz USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO Samsung Note 7’s losses might be Apple iPhone 7’s gain.

That’s promising news for the Cupertino, Calif., company as it gets set to announce quarterly earnings Tuesday. Apple repeatedly has been hit with year-overyear declines in smartphone sales, due to a mix of market saturation and the quality of its iPhone 6s.

But analysts are expecting the travails of Samsung’s overheating phablet-sized smartphone, dropped unceremoniously after two recalls that could cost the company more than $5 billion, could inadvertently end a fallow stretch for iPhone.

That would represent a major turnaround for Apple’s franchise product, whose sales have declined the past two quarters and are expected to drop again when the company announces its fourth-quarter results Tuesday.

Analysts expect 44 million iPhone shipments in the fourth quarter, 4 million fewer than a year ago.

More important, corrosive iPhone sales could end a streak of 14 consecutive years of revenue growth at Apple.

The company — which has reported two consecutive quarters of revenue declines — is projected to rack up $215.7 billion in annual sales when it reports Tuesday, down 8% from $233.7 billion in fiscal year 2015, according to analysts’ estimates.

“Samsung’s issues are a positive for Apple,” says Angelo Zino, an equity analyst at CFRA Research (formerly S&P Global Market Intelligence).

He’s confident Apple can cleave an additional 1% of the smartphone market worldwide — the equivalent of 14 million to 15 million iPhone sales — because of Samsung’s woes.

Zino predicts iPhone will account for 62% of the company’s revenue in the September quarter.

Although unit shipments amounted to a 6% drop year over year — 45 million vs. 48 million — it’s up 11% from the previous quarter.

“Put it this way: There’s very limited competition for Apple at the top end of the market,” BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis says.

“Samsung literally exploded.”

Samsung’s troubles have benefited Apple shares significantly: Shares for the company rose nearly 1% Monday to $117.65, near a 52-week high.

Apple has not released sales figures for iPhone 7, though Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster and other analysts maintain the smartphone’s inventory remains “constrained.”

Gillis says Apple will benefit in its September quarter this year because it had an extra week. Apple is also expected to unveil new Macs on Thursday.

With worldwide smartphone sales flat at 343.3 million in the second quarter, according to IDC,

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Samsung’s Galaxy S7 edge is the latest smartphone to reportedly overheat, joining the now-discontinued Galaxy Note 7.

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Gillis contends Apple is “now competing with Apple.”

When Note 7 debuted in August to strong sales (2.5 million) and sparkling reviews, it seemed iPhone was in for a fight.

The 5.7-inch Note 7, announced several weeks before iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, seemed poised to take a bite out of what some called a middling Apple offering.

But the Note 7’s success was shortlived: Reports soon surfaced of the device overheating and, in several cases, catching fire when charged. A recall soon ensued.

And now it seems Apple could make hay.

Brand experts such as Matthew Quint of Columbia Business School say the stain of the Note 7 could impact the South Korean electronics giant for several product cycles and slightly undercut its leadership globally as a smartphone maker.

“Samsung is fortunate in that this didn’t happen to its much more popular S (smartphone) series,” Quint says.

“It can recover, but it won’t be easy.”

And if Samsung recovers, it faces the daunting challenge of Apple’s 10-year anniversary version of iPhone, which many analysts predict could be a blockbuster product in fall 2017.

“It could increase Apple’s smartphone shipments 10% to 15%, year over year,” Zino says.

“And that’s a conservative forecast.”

AT&T, TW stocks fall as groups slam merger It’s unusual for shares of an acquisition target to decline Kevin McCoy @kmccoynyc USA TODAY

AT&T’s $85.4 billion deal to acquire Time Warner is likely to face some of the toughest regulatory scrutiny in recent U.S. history of mergers and acquisitions.

Opposition and calls for Washington regulatory review surfaced soon after the deal was announced to combine AT&T’s broad communications reach with Time Warner’s array of premium entertainment and media content.

Time Warner’s shares fell 3.1% Monday to close at $86.74, below the $107.50 offered by AT&T, reflecting Wall Street’s concern about a deal winning regulatory approval. It’s unusual for the shares of an acquisition target to fall after a deal is announced.

AT&T shares slipped 1.7% to close at $36.86.

AT&T and Time Warner say the deal represents the next step in a broad convergence of media and communications and would let consumers get premium content, such as the popular HBO network, however they want it.

However, Robert Weissman,

president of non-partisan government watchdog Public Citizen, on Monday urged regulators to “slam down the phone in disgust” when they get AT&T’s phone call seeking approval of the merger.

“It aims to concentrate far too much market, communications and political power in one corporation, threatening to impede the free flow of information, undermine the integrity of the Internet, raise consumer prices and further corrupt our politics,” Weissman said. “This is not a proposal that can be fixed with tweaks, divestitures or conduct agreements.

Antitrust authorities should reject this merger proposal out of hand.”

Laura MacCleery, vice president of policy and mobilization for non-profit organization Consumer Reports, said the deal represents a red flag because it seems similar to cable TV and communications giant Comcast’s 2011 takeover of NBCUniversal.

That transaction drew criticism from consumer advocates on grounds that the combined company would be free to charge competitors higher prices for access to its programming — costs that would ultimately be passed on to consumers.

“The argument that ‘bigger is better’ rarely rings true for consumers,” MacCleery said of the AT&T-Time Warner deal. “This combined company would have

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AT&T shares slipped 1.7% to close at $36.86 on Monday, while Time Warner’s shares fell 3.1% to close at $86.74.

“This is not a proposal that can be fixed with tweaks. ...

Antitrust authorities should reject this merger proposal out of hand.”

Robert Weissman, Public Citizen

enormous power and influence over what we watch and read, how we get it and how much we pay for it. We are going to keep digging deep into this deal and press regulators to make sure consumers don’t get slammed.”

Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Judi-

ciary Committee’s antitrust panel, signaled plans for a hearing on the proposed corporate tie-up.

“We have carefully examined consolidation in the cable and video content industries to ensure that it does not harm consumers,” they said in a written statement. “An acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T would potentially raise significant antitrust issues, which the subcommittee would carefully examine.”

Although the Department of Justice declined to comment on the transaction, the agency typically reviews most major mergers and acquisitions that have broad impact on the U.S. business landscape and consumers.

This year alone, the agency

filed antitrust lawsuits in an effort to block two large health insurance mergers: Anthem’s $48 billion acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s $37 billion takeover of Humana. Additionally, oil field services giants Halliburton and Baker Hughes scrapped a proposed $28 billion merger in May after the Justice Department filed a separate lawsuit to block that deal.

The AT&T-Time Warner deal also generated skepticism in and around the White House race.

In a Saturday campaign speech in Gettysburg, Pa., Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said, if elected, his administration would not approve such a deal “because it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.”

Senior Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro separately said the GOP candidate would “break up the new media conglomerate oligopolies that have gained enormous control over our information, intrude into our personal lives and, in this election, are attempting to unduly influence America’s political process.”

Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, told reporters Sunday that Clinton advocates close regulatory review of the deal. “We think that marketplace competition is a good and healthy thing for consumers,” Fallon said.