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An angel appears to the shepherds at one of many nativity scenes on display at the St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church drive-through nativity Sunday in Angola.

The live attraction features a three-scene Christmas story including live carolers along a 500-luminary lit route.

Many area schools delayed today FREMONT — Many area school districts, including at least three serving Steuben County, declared school delays Sunday evening for today.

Fremont Community Schools, Hamilton Community Schools and Prairie Heights Schools all had declared two-hour delays as of 8:45 p.m. Sunday.

Temperatures this morning were forecast Sunday to be in the low single digits throughout the area. Many back roads and side streets are still covered with snow from Saturday’s storm.

Some areas received 8 inches or more of snow SOUTH BEND (AP) — The snowstorm that moved through Indiana left some areas of the state under 8 inches or more of snow, while snow continues to fall in northern Indiana.

The National Weather Service says the heaviest snowfall was reported in northeast Indiana, with the community of Hudson in Steuben County receiving 9.5 inches of snow. The community of Leesburg in Kosciusko County received 8.2 inches and in northwest Indiana, Hobart received 8 inches.

Mishawaka, near South Bend, and Columbia City received 7.9 inches, while Milford and Wakarusa each received 7.8 inches and Angola and Auburn received 7.5 inches. Fort Wayne received 7.1 inches.

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Mandela buried in green, rolling hills of South Africa QUNU, South Africa (AP) — His flag-draped casket resting on a carpet of animal skins, Nelson Mandela was laid to rest Sunday in the green, rolling hills of the eastern hamlet where he began his extraordinary journey — one that led him from prison to the presidency, a global symbol of endurance and reconciliation in the fight against South Africa’s racist rule.

Artillery boomed and military aircraft roared through a cloud-studded sky, as the simple and the celebrated gathered to pay their final respects in Mandela’s native village of Qunu at a state funeral that blended ancient tribal rituals with a display of the might of the new, integrated South Africa.

“Yours was truly a long walk to freedom and now you have achieved the ultimate

freedom in the bosom of your maker,” Brig. Gen. Monwabisi Jamangile, chaplain-general of the South African military, said as Mandela’s casket was lowered into the ground at the family gravesite.

“Rest in peace.”

“I realized that the old man is no more, no more with us,” said Bayanda Nyengule, head of a local museum about Mandela, his voice cracking as he described the burial attended by several hundred mourners after a larger funeral ceremony during which some 4,500 people, including heads of state, royalty and celebrities, paid their last respects.

The burial ended a 10-day mourning period that began with Mandela’s death on Dec. 5 at 95, and included a Johannesburg memorial attended by nearly 100 world leaders and three days during which tens of thousands

of South Africans of all races and backgrounds filed past Mandela’s casket in the capital, Pretoria.

For South Africans, it was also a time for reflection about the racial integration they achieved when Mandela presided over the end of apartheid, and the economic inequality and other challenges that have yet to be overcome and seem certain to test his legacy’s endurance.

The burial site marked a return to Mandela’s humble roots, but the funeral trappings were elaborate. South African honor guards from the army, navy and air force, including both black and white officers, marched in formation along a winding dirt road.

In contrast to the military pomp, some speakers evoked the traditions of the Xhosa tribe, to

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GARRETT — Despite the cold, two men stand outside the Garrett Historical Society for a brief moment. Leaning on the railing, they watch a train roll through town.

Another man walks up the steps and joins them. With the train finally gone, they meander inside to their ultimate hobby: model trains.

The men are a part of the Garrett Model Railroad Club and meet every Thursday to discuss trains and the business of the track.

John Mohre, the historian at the Garrett Historical Society, started the group in 1991.

“I’m a train buff,” Mohre said.

The group dug a basement into the Garrett Historical Museum

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with enough space to lay six miles of scale track. The track has two levels and is loosely based on a route that runs from Chicago to Baltimore.

“All the major railways are represented,” said Karl Mavis, the club’s president.

Mohre credits Mavis with bringing the club to the 21st century. A few years ago, Mavis oversaw the installation of the club’s new digital command control system.

The new system allows the locomotives on the same electronic

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track to be controlled individually.

Each of the trains has a chip inside that makes the sound of the actual train.

The technology in the prototypes is advanced enough that

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BLOOMINGTON (AP) — The owner of a western Indiana animal refuge fined $69,000 by the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration for safety violations discovered after a tiger mauled a woman at the center says he is contesting some of the agency’s findings.

Exotic Feline Rescue Center owner Joe Taft tells The Herald-Times it would costs millions of dollars to replace the fences or make them higher as IOSHA officials want. He says he has received increased donations, but not enough to pay for the required changes.

The members of the Garrett Model Railroad Club meet at the Garrett Historical Museum

Baby steps WASHINGTON (AP) — People hoping for a government that works better can’t decide whether to cheer or lament a bipartisan budget bill that legislative leaders call a breakthrough even as they acknowledge it does little.

In an era of low expectations, House passage of the bill marks a rare cease-fire that should avoid a repeat of this fall’s government shutdown and flirtation with default.

Yet it comes nowhere near the more ambitious efforts to address long-term spending and debt.

Such comprehensive plans repeatedly collapsed in recent years despite secret White House talks, blue-ribbon panels, a congressional “supercommittee” and other devices and tactics.

Several Washington insiders warn against assuming the new budget deal will lead to progress on immigration and other stalemated issues.

“The president calls it a good first step, but to what?” said Bob Bixby of the bipartisan Concord Coalition, which advocates far-reaching budget reforms. “My fear is that it may be the end of the search for the larger grand bargain rather than the beginning. It has that feel.”

“Grand bargain” refers to a bipartisan accord that would start to slow the long-term cost projections of Social Security and Medicare while raising tax revenues to lower the deficit, among other things.

The bill that passed the House on Thursday, and awaits Senate action, is a tiny step forward, Bixby said. “But you can’t get that excited if your kid brings home a D because it wasn’t an F,” he said.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a chief architect of the budget deal, said the agreement helps “bring some respect to the word ‘compromise.’”

Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who represented Republicans in negotiating the deal, expressed hope that “the country is not going to see these shutdowns and Congress is going to get back to the business of paying the bills and prioritizing spending.”

Both Murray and Ryan were interviewed on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Some lawmakers see the glass half full. They hope the budget deal will cool partisan passions in 2014 and beyond.

“Maybe it’s something we can build on,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. “Success begets success, and trust builds trust.”

One possible area of renewed effort is a proposed immigration

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Richmond spends $5 million on upgrade RICHMOND (AP) — The city of Richmond has spent $5 million in federal grant dollars to purchase homes and properties and then rebuild, renovate and sell homes to residents. The result, officials say, has been a subtle shift toward home ownership in Vaile, a working-class neighborhood southeast of downtown.

“We feel it’s been very successful,” Tony Foster, city director of metropolitan development, told the Paladium Item. “The goal is to reinvigorate this neighborhood, and we feel we are on the way to doing that.”

Officials said of the 25 properties recently acquired by the city, 10 have been sold, five are for sale, eight have been transferred to the Richmond Housing Authority, one is a vacant lot the city owns and one is being prepared for new construction this year.

Vaile was selected in 2011 because the neighborhood led the city in bank home foreclosures in 2010.

That was a requirement of the program.

The eight transferred to the housing authority for use as rental apartments satisfied a requirement that 25 percent of the federal dollars be spent on housing for residents who earn 50 percent or less of the area’s median income.

“This will benefit those citizens, but this was not targeted as a low-income housing project,” Foster said. “This program is to revitalize a tipping neighborhood, a neighborhood on the verge of becoming a blighted area.”

As part of the program, the city tore down two homes, built 10 and rehabbed 14 others. One property is a green space.

The city also used its own funds to buy two properties where the existing homes were demolished to serve as green space for newly constructed homes.

City officials bought 17 properties at a Wayne County commissioners sale, bought five from banks, two from owners and one from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

The project also weathered a series of burglaries of new construction or rehabbed homes during the first four months of 2012.

Thieves stole washing machines, dryers, stoves, refrigerators and microwaves during nine break-ins.

But officials forged on.

In the end, they sold houses that ranged in price from $59,000 to $82,000. The average cost of construction of the new houses was $165,000 to $170,000. Grant dollars made up the difference and paid administrative costs to satisfy federal regulations.

Money from the sale of houses goes back into the program to buy and renovate additional homes.

The key to the program, said Sharon Palmer, city community development specialist, “is that we took nine vacant lots and put houses on them.”

“Those homeowners will be paying Indiana property taxes,” she said. “That’s what the program is all about. This neighborhood needed a cash infusion.”

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Timing a question for Pence 2nd-year agenda INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike Pence may find more problems pushing a broad second-year legislative agenda during the General Assembly’s upcoming “short session” than he had during his first meeting with the Legislature earlier this year.

The governor detailed a plan earlier this month to expand the number and power of charter schools, eliminate the personal

property tax, establish preschool vouchers and spend $400 million on new road projects and other items he says will improve Indiana’s economy.

But he and his team are likely to run into time and space constraints.

The General Assembly formally holds two-year long sessions, like Congress, but breaks it into two general working sessions: a “long session” of roughly four

months, when the budget is written, and a “short session” typically reserved for policy items outside the budgeting process.

And while it might not be a part of any formal agenda, Republican legislative leaders have decided they will take up a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, civil unions and employer benefits for same-sex couples.

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Chairman Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville, has already warned Pence that the cost of his education agenda may force the Senate to delay action until 2015. And the House’s budget leader, Rep. Tim Brown, R-Crawfordsville, has cautioned that he will not re-open the budget — a move that would be necessary to find money for Pence’s new programs, but would also open the way for other interests to press

lawmakers for funding.

Pence dismissed concerns that his 2014 plan may be too broad in an hour-long meeting with reporters last week.

“I’m getting the sense it does seem more robust to some. If you’ll permit me, it doesn’t seem more robust to me,” he said. “Our Roadmap for Indiana for included some 50 policy proposals that advance on our six goals.”

Observing a hovering hawk from the north My older daughter, a niece and a nephew and I were out for a drive, cruising country roads, watching for birds of course, and we spotted a hawk flying over an open field.

It was a large hawk, as big as a red-tailed hawk we judged, maybe a little OUTDOOR even bigger. But NOTES it wasn’t flying like a red-tail.

Neil Case It was hovering like a hummingbird probing a flower or sipping at a hummingbird feeder.

Red-tailed hawks will hover occasionally but never very long. This bird stayed in the same place in the sky like a kite on a string. The driver slowed the car, then stopped at the side of the road and each of us focused our binoculars on the bird as it continued to hover, to beat its wings but remain in the same place in the sky.

A red-tailed hawk looks light-colored underneath.

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on the upper breast. Its wing feathers are tipped with black, and its tail is reddish or rusty-brown with a narrow white band at the end.

This hawk was a combination of black, brown and white. It was black or dark brown on the breast and belly. It had a broad black band toward the end of the tail. It was dark on the leading half of each wing from its breast to the bend of wing, black at the bend, white where it wasn’t black, and the tips of the wing feathers were black. When its wings were at the bottom of the down stroke and we could see it back, it had a large white patch just above the tail, a white rump like a northern harrier.

We recognized it easily, a rough-legged hawk, a winter visitor to Indiana and to the rest of the northern half of the U.S. Except Alaska; rough-legged hawks nest across the northern half of Canada and in Alaska.

I’ve seen rough-legged hawks before in Indiana, in other states including Alaska and in Canada. I see one, sometimes more, most winters but not all. There have been years when I haven’t seen any. And there have been a few years when

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Rough-legged hawks like to hover over land, using beating wings.

I saw many. When I have, I’ve assumed and sometimes read a report that confirmed my assumption, that those were years the lemming population crashed and prey in the north was scarce.

Those years have also been ones when I looked for and sometimes saw other feathered northern predators.

Snowy owls, for example,

and goshawks. I’ve looked for great gray owls, too, but have never seen one. One winter, when I lived in New York State, I saw a white gyrfalcon.

Rough-legged hawks are noted for hovering.

In the newest edition of the Peterson Field Guide to the Birds, it states the rough-legged hawk “often

hovers on beating wings.”

Other authors of bird books, Kaufman, Sibley, Stokes and others, also noted the hovering of rough-legged hawks.

These are birds of open country, often treeless country. With few or no trees to perch in and watch for prey on the ground below like red-tailed hawks do, to search one spot of ground for a time they have to hover.

While I’ve seen rough-legged hawks hover before, I’ve never seen one hover like this one did, or as long. It hung in one spot for a minute, a minute and a half, then it dropped straight down, still beating its wings, then stopped its descent and hovered for another minute or so, dropped again, stopped its descent and hovered again, maybe 10 feet above the ground.

“Next it will drop to the ground, “I said.

But it didn’t. Without changing the way it was beating its wings that we could see, the hawk flew up and away, leaving us stopped by the side of the road staring out across an open field.

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State officials in talks with Newlywed man killed on highway Boeing on Indiana plant MUNSTER (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence says state economic development officials have talked to Boeing Co. about building its planned airplane manufacturing and assembly facility in Indiana.

“We have had contact with them and discussions, but I won’t comment further on those,” Pence told The Times of Munster. “I will tell you, every opportunity that we are given to tell Indiana’s story and make the case for Indiana — we do.”

Boeing Co., which is based in Chicago, began soliciting bids last month for a site to build its new 777X airplane and hopes to make a final decision on a site early next year.

Fifteen states are 15 states competing for the $10 billion facility that could employ up to 8,500 workers

by 2024.

State Rep. Ed Soliday, R-Valparaiso, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said Indiana would be a logical selection because, according to documents obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Boeing wants to build the facility next to an airport with a 9,000-foot runway, have highway and road access for parts deliveries and a direct rail connection on a dedicated spur line. A nearby port capable of handling regular and oversized containers also is “desired.”

Soliday said northwest Indiana meets all the road, rail, port and airport connections Boeing is seeking and the state has a strong manufacturing workforce, and Purdue University is well known for its aeronautics programs.

Soliday, a pilot and former United Airlines executive, said the soon-to-be completed 8,900-foot runway at Gary-Chicago International Airport, which is already home to Boeing’s Midwest corporate jet fleet, “is as good as 9,000.”

Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Fort Wayne all have airport runways exceeding 9,000 feet.

Katelyn Hancock, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Economic Development Corp., the state’s commerce agency, said it has worked to show Boeing how Indiana would fit into the company’s long-term plans.

Other states that are seeking to land the project include Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Washington state, Alabama, California, Pennsylvania and Kansas.

Ethanol plant to reopen SOUTH BEND (AP) — Work has begun to update equipment at a northern Indiana ethanol plant that was the state’s first large-scale facility when it opened in 1984 and appeared headed to the scrap heap a year ago.

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nearby driveway and Nikki Knight waited inside while he went out to help Linda Darlington, 42, of Crown Point. They were standing by the side of the road when they were struck by one vehicle, and then two more, the Lake County sheriff’s office said.

Nikki Knight, a registered nurse, said when she got to the wreck, neither Knight nor Darlington had pulses. They were pronounced dead at the scene early Sunday.

“I went from a being a newlywed to a widow in less than 48 hours — the highest high to the lowest low,” Nikki Knight said. “It’s a blur.”

Police said all drivers involved in the crash remained at the scene. No charges have been filed.

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CHICAGO (AP) — A man married less than seven hours was killed along with a stranded motorist he stopped to help in the snow when they were struck by several vehicles, authorities say.

The man was on the way back from his wedding reception to a hotel when the accident happened.

William “Riley” Knight, 49, of Crown Point, was driving with his wife, Nikki, about 11:45 p.m. Saturday when they saw a woman who had slid off the road in the snow near Crown Point.

“He said, ‘We’ve got to stop, it’s late and they need help,’” Nikki Knight told the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday.

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Briefs • Reminder issued on new state voting forms in 2014 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Secretary of State Connie Lawson is reminding Indiana residents the state has new voter registration forms and will no longer accept the old forms starting Jan. 1.

Lawson says the new forms will help decrease the possibility of voter registration fraud by tracking the chain of custody for voter registration applications.

She says the change is needed because in past elections that state has had fraudulent voter registration forms submitted for Jimmy Johns and Mickey Mouse.

The updated form includes a new section for individuals who collect voter registration applications to document their name, address and when they received completed applications.

Lawson says the additional information required by the new form can aid county voter registration offices identify patterns of suspicious activity or violations of election law.

Residents urged to report tornado, storm damage KOKOMO (AP) — The Indiana Department of Homeland Security and local county emergency management agencies are renewing a call for people who sustained damage to homes or businesses to report it online as the state prepares to appeal the federal government’s decision against declaring Howard County a major disaster area following November storms.

Homeland Security is urging anyone who hasn’t reported damage in any county from the Nov. 17 storm to do so. Losses can include home damage and loss of personal property.

As part of Indiana’s appeal, Homeland Security officials have requested joint preliminary damage assessments for other severely affected counties: Boone, Daviess, Fountain, Grant, and Tippecanoe. Additional assessments will take place in Howard County. The assessments begin Monday.

Two tornadoes hit Kokomo on Nov. 17.

Murder suspect not competent to stand trial, doctors say MICHIGAN CITY (AP) — Two court-appointed psychiatrists have determined a 21-year-old accused of murder in the beating death of a retired northern Indiana teacher is not competent to stand trial.

Assistant prosecutor Robert Neary tells The News-Dispatch in Michigan City the next step is a hearing Jan. 23 where attorneys could agree to the doctors’ findings or a competency hearing could be held for Ryan Phelps.

Phelps is charged with murder, felony murder and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury in the November 2012 death of Gerald Peters. Two others charged with murder are awaiting trial.

Martell Anderson recently agreed to plead guilty to felony robbery resulting in serious bodily injury in exchange for agreeing to testify against the others. He still faces up to 50 years in prison.

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City’s last shoe cobbler hanging up his tools ELKHART (AP) — When they bought their shoe repair business in 1975, Glen and Shirley Jones were taking a risk.

They would be competing against six established shops in town, and they knew nothing about fixing shoes.

How things have changed.

Thirty-eight years later, they have the only known shoe repair shop in Elkhart County. And these days, their customers swear by their work.

However, Jones’ Shoe Repair, 739 S. Main St., will close for good at the end of the month. Glen, 78, and Shirley, 72, say they’re ready to retire.

“We’ve done this many years,” Shirley told The Elkhart Truth. “We would like to enjoy a few years of not having to get up and go to work, especially in the winter time.”

They tried to retire in 2009, but as they were cleaning out the building after closing, their customers kept coming through the front door with work.

“People wouldn’t let us,”

Shirley said. “They said, ‘You’ve got to open up.’”

But the Joneses mean it this time. They’re quitting.

Really.

“We have made it definite that once we close at 3 o’clock Dec. 31, we’re locking that door, heading out the other, and we’re not taking in any more work,” Shirley said. “I guess they’ll just have to find someplace else.”

Over the years, Glen and Shirley learned plenty about fixing shoes, but also about repairing purses, coats and anything else made of leather or cloth. Asked what she enjoyed about the work, Shirley said, “Trying to make something old and broken into something wearable and useful.”

“So many of them throw away a purse or something just because the zipper might be broke,” she said. “They don’t realize it’s easily fixed.”

But when asked to reflect on their years running the shop, she and Glen talk more about the people they’ve served.

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Glendon Jones nails a heel to a shoe earlier this month in his downtown Elkhart shop. After 38 years repairing shoes Jones is closing his store.

“Our tried-and-true customers are about like family,” Shirley said.

“Through thick and thin they come to see us.”

“We’ve got the best customers in the world, right here,” Glen added. “I will miss the customers. We are people persons, no question.”

As if on cue, customer Linda Weiss walks in and hands Glen her ticket stub, which helps the Joneses find her order among many in brown paper sacks on shelves behind the front counter.

Weiss paid $8 to pick up a dog harness and cloth bag

that had been repaired.

“I’m going to miss you guys when you close,” she said.

“Hey, we’re going to miss our customers as much as they miss us,” Glen told her.

The Joneses are referring customers to the closest shoe repair shop they know of, Violi Shoes, 118 E. Mishawaka Ave., Mishawaka. That includes their orthopedic customers, who come with notes from their podiatrist detailing their specialized shoe needs. For example, a person with one leg shorter than the other needs a heel “buildup” on the shoe. In a metal box, Glen keeps a 3-inch-by5-inch index card on each orthopedic customer, listing the size of heel that belongs on each shoe.

Brian Hall, Violi Shoes owner, said he is ready for the influx of customers. Hall, who also sells new shoes, said he expects to remain open for at least eight or nine more years. He said he is the only cobbler in Mishawaka, and there are two left in South Bend.

Coast Guard wants barges to ship fracking water PITTSBURGH (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard wants to allow barges filled with fracking wastewater to ply the nation’s rivers on their way toward disposal. Many environmentalists are horrified, but industry groups say barge transport has its advantages.

Now, the wastewater is usually disposed of by truck or rail, which poses more risk for accidents than shipping by barge, according to a government report. And one barge can carry about the same amount of waste as 100 exhaust-spewing trucks.

The disagreements go to the core of the fight over shale gas drilling.

Environmentalists say the chemicals in fracking waste are a tragedy in the making, but the industry says far greater amounts of toxic chemicals are already being moved by barge, including waste from oil drilling.

In 2010, U.S. barges carried 2,000 tons of radioactive waste, almost 1.6

million tons of sulfuric acid and 315 million tons of petroleum products, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

“We expect that shale gas wastewater can be transported just as safely,” said Jennifer Carpenter, of American Waterways Operators, a trade group based in Washington, D.C. Environment America, a federation of 29 state-based groups, strongly disagrees. The group said in a statement that it gathered 29,000 comments opposed to the proposal from people around the country.

Courtney Abrams, the clean water program director for the group, urged the Coast Guard to “reject this outrageous proposal.”

Extracting natural gas trapped in shale formations requires pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into the ground to break apart rock and free

the gas. Some of that water, along with large quantities of existing underground water, returns to the surface, and it can contain high levels of salt, drilling chemicals, heavy metals and naturally occurring low-level radiation.

The Marcellus Shale formation, underlying large parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and some neighboring states, is the nation’s most productive natural gas field. Thousands of new wells have been drilled there since 2008, and hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater needs to be disposed of each year.

Some states, such as Texas and Ohio, have many underground waste disposal wells. But Pennsylvania has only a few, meaning the leftovers have to be shipped elsewhere.

The Coast Guard proposal says barge companies want to move waste from the Marcellus region “via inland

waterways to storage or reprocessing centers and final disposal sites in Ohio, Texas, and Louisiana.”

That means large quantities of waste could be shipped on major rivers such as the Ohio; one of its main tributaries, the Monongahela; and the Mississippi.

Critics say that if there were an accident, it could threaten the drinking water supply of millions of people. They also cite the uncertainty around what’s in that toxic mix. The Coast Guard is proposing to address that by requiring chemical testing of each barge load before shipment; test results would also be kept on file for two years.

A Marcellus wastewater spill wouldn’t be any different from other threats, said Jerry Schulte, the emergency response manager for the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, which has members in eight states.

Johnson County deputies wearing small cameras FRANKLIN (AP) — When the sheriff’s deputy stops a person for drunken driving or is taking a person to the jail, he’ll flip on a small portable camera to record everything that happens.

The camera is about three inches long, and Deputy Jason Wools often clips it to his uniform to record traffic stops while working the night shift. The videos he records can help him review sobriety tests, prove that a person was yelling or fighting with him or other officers or capture confessions made by people on their way to the jail.

Since his sport-utility vehicle doesn’t have an in-car camera, Wools relies on his portable camera to capture what happens when he’s out doing his job.

All of the Johnson County sheriff’s deputies can use a body camera, a small camera that can be worn and turned on to record any interaction that officer has with another person. While the county has been using in-car cameras for years to record traffic stops, the portable cameras give deputies more

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Johnson County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Wolls shows the small body camera, center of his chest, that he wears when making arrests or having motorists perform field sobriety tests in Franklin. While the county has been using in-car cameras for years to record traffic stops, the portable cameras give deputies more mobility to record events.

mobility to record events that aren’t occurring in front of their vehicle.

The sheriff’s office has been using the cameras for about two years.

Greenwood and Franklin police also are exploring whether it’s worth the cost to start equipping their officers with cameras, too.

Deputies aren’t required to use the cameras, and some do more than others.

But the cameras allow deputies to record incidents such as traffic stops, sobriety tests or domestic abuse investigations. That can help prosecutors prove their case in criminal trials or allow the sheriff to check the tape if someone files a complaint about a deputy, Sheriff Doug Cox told the Daily Journal (http://bit. ly/1fgQzmH ).

“For an administrator, I like that we’re able to see and hear. It quickly gives us an idea of who is telling the truth and who is not.

It can keep them out of trouble,” Cox said.

The cameras can be clipped to a deputy’s uniform, Cox said. The mobile cameras cost a few hundred dollars and can go anywhere an officer goes, compared to a dashboard camera that runs about $5,000 and is permanently mounted in a car. That’s why Cox has been able to

equip all 57 deputies with body cams, compared to only about 20 cars with dashboard cameras, he said.

The sheriff’s office doesn’t have a policy requiring deputies to use the camera for every interaction with a suspect, but having video can help an officer prove that a person was stumbling during a sobriety test during a traffic stop or show how a person was resisting a deputy and why he decided to use a Taser on them.

Wools is one of the deputies who uses his camera often, because he wants to be able to have that additional record to show what happened during a particular call and how he handled it, he said.

“I utilize it if I’m going to a call that seems particularly contentious or is out of the ordinary. I will use it on an OWI investigation to provide some video evidence of what I see when I’m performing the standardized field sobriety test. That not only helps me with recalling information on the details but also with the prosecution,” he said.

Mishawaka school district considering merger with neighbors MISHAWAKA (AP) — A northern Indiana school district that saw its quest to raise $28 million rejected by voters last month is being urged to consider consolidating with another school corporation.

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But School City of Mishawaka Superintendent Terry Barker says merging with Penn-Harris-Madison or South Bend schools is unlikely to happen because neither district appears amenable to absorbing

Mishawaka’s 5,000 students.

A Penn-Harris-Madison spokeswoman said officials in the 10,000student district don’t think a consolidation is in their students’ best interests.

South Bend school officials have been similarly cool to the idea.

That leaves Mishawaka with difficult choices ahead as officials try to figure out how to repair or replace aging boilers, leaking roofs

and crumbling terra cotta, Barker told parents during a meeting last week.

Barker said the board would have to make cuts to academics, athletics and staffing to keep the district afloat.

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Deaths & Funerals • Ronald Mosley KENDALLVILLE — Ronald David Mosley, 73, of Kendallville, died on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Mr. Mosley was born Mr. Mosley in Lackey, Kentucky on March 29, 1940 to D.C. Mosley and Hershey (Click) Mosley. He graduated from Prestonsburg High School in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1958 and entered the United States Navy where he honorably served his country as a radio and communication specialist for ten years during the Vietnam War. He married Geneva Bryant on December 22, 1967 in Clintwood, West Virginia. After his service in the Navy, Ron worked in communications with the Noble County Sheriff’s Department dispatch two years and later began his career with the City of Kendallville Police Department. He worked for the city for twenty three years before retiring. Ron loved spending time with his family, collecting knives and attending auctions. Ron was a member of the Bethel Christian Baptist Church and attended weekly Bible study.

He was also a member of the chess club and the American Legion Post #86 both in Kendallville.

Survivors include his wife, Geneva Mosley of Kendallville; two daughters, Carmen and Rod Howdyshell of Angola, and Jennifer Mosley of Kendallville; three grandchildren: Lauren Howdyshell, Logan Howdyshell both of Angola, and Lauryl Aleshire of Kendallville; and four brothers-in-law and their wives, Bill and Bertha Bryant of Kendallville, Keith and Susan Bryant of Kendallville, Edgar and Daisy Bryant of Martin, Kentucky, and Charles Bryant of Albion, Michigan.

He was also preceded in death by his sisters, Georgia Meyers and Dorothy Watkins; and his brothers, Mart Allen, John S. Allen, Billy Allen, Loye Thurston.

Visitation will be Tuesday, December 17, 2013 from 4:00-8:00pm at Hite Funeral Home in Kendallville.

Funeral services will be Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 11:00am at Hite Funeral Home.

Burial will be at Lake View Cemetery in Kendallville with military honors conducted by members of

the Rome City American Legion Post #381, Kendallville VFW Post #2749 honor guard teams, and active duty troops.

Preferred memorials may be made to Bethel Christian Church.

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David Harpster AUBURN — David W. Harpster, 63, died Saturday at Hospice Home in Fort Wayne.

He was born on December 16, 1949 in Auburn to Richard E. and Vivian E. (Davidson) Harpster.

He retired Mr. Harpster from United Technologies of Huntington in 2011 after 38 years of service as Manager of the HVAC Products. He was a member of the Auburn Moose and Elks.

He married Renee’ Johnson on October 14, 1978 in Butler.

Surviving are his wife, Renee’ of Auburn; a son, Chad D. Harpster of Leo; a sister-in-law, Lisa Johnson of Butler; two brothersin-law, Neil Sutton of Auburn and Eric (Deborah) Johnson of Butler; two nieces, Beth (Steve) Kelley of Auburn and Tricia Cochran of Auburn; three nephews, Mike (Heather) Sutton of Auburn, and Jared Johnson and Zach Johnson, both of Butler; and several great-nieces and -nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Susan Sutton; and his in-laws, J. Reynold and Lois Johnson.

Calling will be Wednesday from 2 to 8 at Pinnington-McComb Funeral Home, Auburn.

Funeral services will be Thursday December 19, 2013 at 12:00 PM at Pinnington –McComb Funeral Home, with Pastor Kevin Marsh officiating.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, with honorary pallbearers Jim Leslie, Dan LaTurner, Dennis Carper, and Pat Denihan.

Preferred memorials are to DeKalb County Draft Horse Association or Butler United Methodist Church.

Arrangements are by Johnson Funeral Home, Hudson. Send condolences to www.dalejohnsonfh.com

Annette Campbell STROH — Annette Campbell, 75, of LaGrange County died Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at her home near Stroh.

Calling will be

Wednesday from 4-8 p.m. at Hite Funeral Home in Kendallville.

Services will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at Helmer Independent Baptist Church, Helmer.

Burial will be at Lake Bethel Cemetery, LaGrange County.

James Kruse KENDALLVILLE — James Archie Kruse, 70, of Kendallville died Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, at the Hospice Home, Fort Wayne.

Mr. Kruse was born in Auburn on July 24, 1943 to the late William Mr. Kruse Kruse and Betty Glass Greenfield.

He graduated from Auburn High School in 1961 and entered into the U.S. Navy in August 1961, honorably serving his country until 1966.

Jim was an auto mechanic and employed with Kelley Chevrolet in Fort Wayne, where he was the assistant manager in the recreational vehicle department. Later he drove the Council on Aging Transit van in Kendallville.

Survivors include four daughters, Phyllis Myers of New Haven, Staci and Bob Starcher of McCordsville, Traci and Larry Kimes of Butler and Victoria and Shane Farnsworth of West Lafayette; nine grandchildren; two brothers, Bill and Carolyn Kruse of Auburn, and Dave and Jennifer Kruse of Florida; a sister, Margaret Emenheiser of Woodburn; and many nieces and nephews.

Services will be Tuesday at noon at Hite Funeral Home, Kendallville, with calling there at 11 a.m.

Pastor Richard Davis, chaplain from the Hospice Home in Fort Wayne, will officiate. Burial with military honors will be at Marion National Cemetery in Marion.

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O’Toole, who died Saturday at age 81 at the private Wellington Hospital in London after a long bout of illness, was nominated a record eight times for an Academy Award without taking home a single statue.

He was fearsomely handsome, with burning blue eyes and a penchant for hard living which long outlived his decision to give up alcohol. Broadcaster Michael Parkinson told Sky News television it was hard to be too sad about his passing.

“Peter didn’t leave much of life unlived, did he?” he said.

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“If you can’t do something willingly and joyfully, then don’t do it,” he once said. “If you give up drinking, don’t go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.”

O’Toole began his acting career as one of the most exciting young talents on the British stage. His 1955 “Hamlet,” at the Bristol Old Vic, was critically acclaimed.

Gay marriage suit still unheard 9 years later TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two same-sex couples who sued for the right to marry in conservative Oklahoma knew it would be a struggle, but they couldn’t have expected that nine years later, they would still be awaiting their day in court.

Their federal lawsuit is the longest-running active lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act, according to national gay marriage advocacy group Freedom to Marry.

Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin, a Tulsa couple together for 17 years, and another couple filed the lawsuit in November 2004, shortly after Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Although the suit was revised in 2009 to name the Tulsa County clerk as a defendant, it maintains its original claim that the women should be allowed to marry in Oklahoma.

“While some people are getting their day in court and finding justice, we are sitting here, for nine years, with our hands tied,” Bishop said.

The duration of the case strikingly contrasts the spate of lawsuits filed since the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the federal government in June to recognize legal same-sex marriages. The case that sparked that ruling — involving 83-year-old New York widow Edith Windsor — reached the high court only three years after it was filed. The case challenged an estate tax levied after Windsor’s wife died.

Yet even with that case decided, Bishop and Baldwin, who met while working at the Tulsa World newspaper, haven’t been able to get a hearing in a Tulsa court. Their fellow plaintiffs are Gay Phillips and Susan Barton, who legally married in Canada and have a civil union in Vermont.

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He was born Jan. 8, 1948, Mr. Becker to Warren Franklin and Leona Agner (Prentice) Becker.

He worked at the RISE Sheltered Workshop in Angola.

Mr. Becker was a member of the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church near Stroh since the church was built in 1997. He was a boy scout at Pleasant Lake as a young boy, and participated in the Special Olympics.

Surviving are his mother, Leona Becker of Kendallville; a sister, Phyllis Casselman of Kendallville; and a brother, Floyd Becker of Fort Wayne.

He was preceded in death by his father, Warren, in November 1992, and his brothers, Lloyd Walter Becker, James Elwood Becker and Wayne Allen Becker.

Services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church near Stroh with calling there one hour prior.

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FORT WAYNE — Norman S. Bojrab Sr., 91, of rural Fort Wayne, died Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at his home in Eel River Township.

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The following summer, I sat on our patio reading the newspaper, clutching my cup of joe and basking in the mid-morning sunlight.

A headline snapped me to attention.

There had been a terrible car accident down the coastline highway. A teenage boy had fallen asleep behind the wheel, resulting in the death of two of his passengers and serious injury to himself and another. My heart ached for all of the families, knowing how far-reaching the agony would be. I prayed for each of the families as I looked over their photos in the newspaper. My eyes kept going back to a photo of a pretty, blond girl, one whose life was taken in the accident. Soon after, I realized this girl was Mikelle, the one who had played her African drum at our summer place.

Wanting to share with her parents how meaningful the evening with Mikelle had been, I located their address and sent them a letter, along with the photos I’d taken of their daughter.

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He loved going to the hot springs, golfing and connecting with his cousins.

The pain of his absence on this trip numbed my senses.

As the sun was setting on our vacation home in British Columbia and we were clearing the dishes from our barbeque, in walked a troupe of young people toting guitars and assorted musical instruments. One young girl was smiling shyly as she walked by with her African drum.

Music has always been a big part of our family life.

My sister and I grew up singing harmonies, and my mom was a pianist. One of my sons is a guitarist.

Everyone is gifted with some sort of musicality.

The jam session began in earnest on our patio on this hot summer evening.

It took me to a place of joy, something dear when you are grieving. Wanting to capture the memories, I began to take photos.

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American Legion Post 97, 1729 Sprott St, Auburn. • Narcotics Anonymous: 6 p.m. Narcotics Anonymous, 412 S. John St., Angola. • New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous: 6 p.m. First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola. • Alanon: 6 p.m. Angola Community Church of the Nazarene, 255 N. Gerald Lett Ave., Angola. • Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting: 7:30 p.m.

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Monday, December 16 • Adult Basic Education/GED Class: 8 a.m. Auburn Presbyterian Church, 111 W. Twelfth St., Auburn. • GED Classes: 9 a.m.

Steuben County Literacy Coalition, 1208 S Wayne St, Angola. 665-3357 • Weight Watchers: 9 a.m. Angola United Methodist Church, 220 W. Maumee St., Angola. • Move It to Improve It: 10:15 a.m. Steuben County Council on Aging, 317 S Wayne St, Angola. 665-9856

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carried an identical burden and fully understood the pain. We also took comfort in each other’s perspectives. Although complete strangers, we felt deeply for each other’s loss and trusted each other with our vulnerabilities. When the weather cooperated, we walked and talked for hours through our parklands. We discovered that we had many interests in common, which prompted diverse conversations and field trips. Being with Gen gave me courage to want to live fully again.

When a friendship is forged from tragic circumstances, an unmatched bond of heart and spirit takes place. I do not believe in coincidences but rather that everything happens for a plan and a purpose.

Both Gen and I believe we were divinely appointed to meet. Despite the pain of loss and brokenness, a beautiful friendship has come from the ashes in our lives. Both of our teenagers are in heaven.

I often think back on the jam session that happened on our patio, and how I lamented that Davis didn’t have enough time here to meet someone like Mikelle.

Now a comfort washes over me when I picture them together, on the other side, while Gen and I continue to walk together, propping each other up on this side.

Something very special has come from the ache we will carry for a lifetime.

This gift of friendship keeps us moving forward. It is lifegiving, like sunshine on a rainy day.

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A part of the Northeast Quarter of Section 35, Township 37 North, Range 13 East, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the North line of said Section 35 East (assumed bearing and basis of all bearings to follow in this description), on and along the North line of said Section 35, 1315.5 feet from the Northwest corner of the Northeast Quarter of said Section 35, said point of beginning also being the Northeast corner of the "First Addition of Reddington Heights to the City of Angola"; thence South 0 degrees 10 minutes 40 seconds East, on and along the East line of said "First Addition of Reddington Heights", 175.2 feet to a concrete monument at the Southeast corner of said "First Addition of Reddington Heights"; thence East parallel to the North line of said Section 35 and also being on and along the North line of the Fourth and Fifth Additions to Reddington Heights and said North line extended, 365.22 feet to an iron stake or the centerline of Redding Road; thence North 46 degrees 09 minutes West, on and along said Road centerline, 252.90 feet to the intersection of said Road center-

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EXCEPTING THEREFROM the following: Beginning at a point on the North line of said Section 35, North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East (assumed bearing and basis of all bearings to follow in this description), on and along the North line of said Section 35, 1315.5 feet from the Northwest corner of the Northeast Quarter of said Section 35, said Point of Beginning also being at the Northeast corner of the "First Addition of Reddington Heights to the City of Angola"; thence North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East, on and along said North Section line, 100.00 feet; thence South 0 degrees 10 minutes 40 seconds East parallel to the East line of said "First Addition of Reddington Heights", 175.2 feet to an iron rod on the North line of the "Fourth Addition of Reddington Heights to the City of Angola, Indiana"; thence South 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, parallel to said North Section line and also being on and along the North line of said "Fourth Addition of Reddington Heights", 100.00 feet to a concrete monument at the Southeast corner of said "First Addition of Reddington Heights"; thence North 0 degrees 10 minutes 40 seconds West (South 0 degrees 05 minutes East recorded), on and along the East line of said "First Addition of Reddington Heights", 175.2 feet to Point of Beginning, containing 0.402 acres.

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overhaul. The Democratic-run Senate passed a version this year, but the Republican-controlled House has stalled it.

Advocates talk of a possible piecemeal House approach. But Democrats and Republicans are divided on whether millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be given a path to citizenship.

Some influential lawmakers say the budget deal doesn’t necessarily brighten prospects elsewhere.

“I don’t see that this is a clear channel for us to move to immigration,” said Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, chairman of the House Rules Committee. “I don’t think that’s what this was about.”

Sessions said he hopes the House-passed measure will stave off future budget fights “with a little more certainty, where we can aim at Obamacare, and its impact on the economy and jobs.”

Sentiments like that suggest Washington may return quickly to divisive issues, most prominently President Barack Obama’s health law, which Republicans bitterly oppose.

The budget deal eases a

harsh set of spending cuts scheduled for 2014 and 2015. But it leaves intact most of the roughly $1 trillion in automatic cuts set to hit the military, domestic agencies and Medicare providers through 2021.

Replacing the cuts would be new money from, among other things, Simpson higher airline security fees, reductions in pension benefits for working-age military retirees, and higher pension costs for employers and new federal workers hired after the end of this year.

The deal does little to dent the nation’s $17 trillion debt. It is meant instead to halt a pattern of lunging from one financial crisis to the next because of Congress’ growing inclination to resist compromise, a trend quickened by the tea party’s rise in 2009.

Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson, R-Wyo., said the budget deal is better than nothing. But “it’s a sparrow belch in the midst of a typhoon” that represents long-term fiscal challenges,

he said.

Simpson co-wrote a major deficit-reduction plan that Obama commissioned, and then largely ignored, and he remains active in the debate.

The budget bill “is progress, and we don’t object to that,” Simpson said in an interview. “But if you don’t deal with the cost of health care, and you don’t deal with the solvency of Social Security for 75 years, you are failing your country.”

That applies to Congress and the president, Simpson said.

The trust fund that supports Social Security is projected to run out of money in 2033. At that point, the retirement and disability program would collect only enough in payroll taxes to pay about 75 percent of benefits.

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid consume 44 percent of federal spending, and they are growing. Far from addressing those popular, tough-to-curtail programs, lawmakers and outside groups are proving how hard it is to achieve even tiny compromises such as the budget deal awaiting Senate action.

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which Mandela’s Thembu clan belongs.

“A great tree has fallen, he is now going home to rest with his forefathers,” said Chief Ngangomhlaba Matanzima, a representative of Mandela’s family who wore an animal skin. “We thank them for lending us such an icon.”

Another speaker, Zolani Mkiva, served for many years as Mandela’s praise singer, a traditional role in which he shouted out the leader’s attributes to audiences, prefacing Mandela’s many stations in life with the words “very important:” person, prince, patriot, politician, prisoner, philosopher, president, pensioner, patient, papa.

“The bones of our ancestors are vibrating. The waves of African oceans are reverberating,” Mkiva said.

In keeping with Xhosa traditions, Mandela’s casket was brought to Qunu Saturday draped in a lion skin, an honor bestowed on those of a high rank like Mandela, who is the son of a traditional clan chief. His body lay for the night in his family home before burial, a time when tradition dictates

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Mavis said.

The members in the club come from all over northeast Indiana: Decatur, Kendallville, Ossian, Angola and St. Joe. Other nearby train clubs are in Maumee, Ohio; Indianapolis and Elkhart, Mavis said.

They have a variety of backgrounds, too. One is former professor at Trine University. Mohre is a car salesman, and Mavis works in electronic communications.

The youngest member

of the club is Joshua Hoot, a senior at Carroll High School.

Hoot said he always has been interested in trains.

“It’s a nice hobby to break the stress,” Hoot said.

Mavis, whose family once owned a hotel in Garrett that rented rooms to trainmen, said he’s always been a train buff.

“It’s a hobby that you can lose yourself in,” Mavis said. “You can become an engineer when you can’t do the real thing.”

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when the train speeds up, the sound increases, too. Before Mavis came along, the trains were known mainly for speed. With the digital command control system, each train is like a mini computer.

“Running the track is just like running a regular railroad,” Mavis said, though only a few members have actually worked on a railroad.

The HO-scale track features a few special touches that Mavis is quick to point out to visitors. The trestle on the track was built by hand, and visible on the route, Miller’s Pickles, which “only uses the best water,” draws its supply from a swamp. Mount Monkeymore is a knock-off of Mount Rushmore.

Mavis said the club’s track is a product of the group’s imagination.

“That’s what makes it fun,” he said. “It’s all a group effort. Everyone contributes.”

The group regularly hosts open houses. Visitors can learn how the system operates and run their own trains. Sometimes, there are more than 100 visitors.

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A military honor guard escorts former South African president Nelson Mandela funeral cortege on its way to its burial site in his home village of Qunu, South Africa on Sunday.

that family elders “talk” to the body to explain to his spirit what is happening.

South African television showed Mandela’s casket at the family gravesite, but the broadcast was stopped just before the coffin was lowered into the ground at the request of the Mandela family, which often talked of how it had to share its patriarch with the nation and the world.

His body was buried around noon, “when the sun is at its highest and the shadow at its shortest,” said Cyril Ramaphosa, deputy leader of the country’s ruling party, the African National Congress.

Mandela spent 27 years as a prisoner of apartheid, then emerged to lead a delicate transition to democracy when many South Africans feared the country would sink into all-out racial conflict. He became president in the first all-race elections in 1994 and served one five-year term.

At the funeral ceremony, Mandela’s portrait looked over the assembly from behind a bank of 95 candles representing each year of his life. His casket, transported to the tent on a gun carriage and draped in the national flag, rested on a carpet of cow skins.

Mystery diner gives “Tips For Jesus” — up to $10,000 NEW YORK (AP) — The $111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a $1,000 tip and the words “god bless!” scrawled across it.

The handle tipsforjesus is stamped next to an illegible signature.

In recent weeks, similar tabs have popped up in restaurants from coast to coast and even in Mexico, with tips of as much as $10,000 — all charged to American Express.

So who’s the anonymous tipster leaving a trail of generosity across the continent?

Tips for Jesus — an Instagram account filled with photos documenting the tips — has more than 50,000 followers. The account displays photos of smiling servers holding receipts with outlandish gratuities on bills also tallied in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Phoenix and Ann Arbor, Mich. On Twitter, Tips for Jesus has nearly 3,000 followers but no tweets.

The Instagram feed comes with the tagline, “Doing the Lord’s work, one tip at a time.”

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Waiter Aruj Dhawan from Bo’s Kitchen in New York City beams over his recent $1,000 tip.

in the restaurant of the NoMad Hotel got a $7,000 tip, another at The Smith restaurant was left $3,500, and $1,000 went to Aruj Dhawan, a 25-year-old fashion marketing student and immigrant from India working at Bo’s Kitchen & Bar Room.

Dhawan served three guests who walked in one recent Saturday evening.

Their order — a bourbon, a beer, an appetizer, a pork ragout and a pork chop — amounted to $111.05, plus $1,000 for the waiter.

When they were gone, “Aruj approached me, handed me the receipt and said, ‘Is this for real?’” said general manager Benjamin Cramer.

Again, before leaving, the tipster had snapped a photo of the waiter with the check and posted it on Instagram.

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Colts overpower Houston INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Luck and Robert Mathis finally got the Colts out of their funk and back into their playoff groove Sunday.

All they have to do now is keep playing this way.

Luck threw two touchdown passes, Mathis broke the Colts’ single-season and career records for sacks by forcing a safety in the second half and the Colts rolled past Houston 25-3 in their best overall performance in two months.

“We needed it,” coach Chuck Pagano said. “We talked all week about coming back and even though we had clinched the division, we wanted to start building or gaining some momentum.”

Houston (2-12) extended its franchise-record losing streak to 12 and fell to 0-12 all-time in Indy.

The timing for the Colts’ late-season turnaround couldn’t be better.

After losing 42-28 at Cincinnati last week, the Colts (9-5) learned on the bus trip home they had clinched the AFC South title when Denver beat Tennessee.

At the time, it looked as if the Colts would be locked into the No. 4 seed and would have little to play for.

But with Denver (11-3) losing Thursday night, New England (10-4) losing Sunday at Miami, Indy winning and Cincinnati playing Sunday night at Pittsburgh, the door has cracked

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Indianapolis Colts outside linebacker Bjoern Werner (92) sacks Houston Texans quarterback Case Keenum during the second half of an NFL football game in Indianapolis on Sunday.

just a bit — if the Colts win their final two games.

The problem, from November through Sunday, was that Indy had not played anywhere near well enough to string back-to-back wins together.

Over those previous six games, Indy lost three times by at least two touchdowns and was outscored 114-24 in the first halves.

Things suddenly changed

dramatically.

Luck went up-tempo right from the start and used a heavy dose of bubble screens to open things up down the field. It worked well.

He finished 19 of 32 for 180 yards with the two first-half TD passes that gave the Colts a 20-3 halftime lead.

Indy played without two starting offensive linemen, lost replacement starter Joe Reitz with a concus-

sion on the opening series and lost running back Donald Brown with a stinger later in the first half.

“We practice it,” Luck said of the decision to go no-huddle early.

“We have had some success with two-minute hurry up so it’s good to come out and do that.”

The defense forced punts and turnovers and got a safety on Mathis’ record-breaking sack. Punt returner Griff Whalen even set up a score with a 51-yard return.

But the excitement was muted.

They still settled for three field goals and Luck was picked off in the red zone when he tried to force a ball into coverage.

“We looked like a team that lost 11 in a row playing a good football team,” interim coach Wade Phillips said in his first game since Gary Kubiak was fired. “I thought we could compete with them, but we didn’t do a good job of that.”

Most of Houston’s problems were self-inflicted, again.

Case Keenum was 18 of 34 for 168 yards with two interceptions and no touchdowns.

Andre Johnson, who needed five catches for another 100-reception, caught four balls for 18 yards. Ben Tate rushed 16 times for 72 yards and was fortunate not to lose a fumble.

Houston also finished with 14 penalties, 10 in the first half.

“That was bad today,” said Keenum, whose fumble was recovered in the end zone by left SEE COLTS, PAGE B2

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Briefly • Blackhawks best L.A. CHICAGO (AP) — Jonathan Toews set up two of Chicago’s three first-period goals, and the Blackhawks cooled off Los Angeles with a 3-1 win Sunday night.

Rookie Antti Raanta made 21 saves to help Chicago bounce back from a 7-3 loss at Toronto on Saturday night. Marian Hossa had a short-handed score that snapped Los Angeles’ NHL-record streak of 18 games without allowing a first-period goal.

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CLEVELAND (AP) — Jay Cutler felt the pressure and knew he had to perform well. There was no other option.

This wasn’t the time to buckle.

Not with his teammates, his coach, and frankly, all of Chicago counting on him. Once the rust came off, Cutler came through.

Shaking off two first-half interceptions, Cutler threw three touchdown passes in his first start since Nov. 10, leading the Bears to a 38-31 win on Sunday over the Cleveland Browns.

Cutler, who missed Chicago’s previous four games with a sprained left ankle and reclaimed his starting job from Josh McCown earlier this week, threw a 4-yard TD pass to Earl Bennett with 5:41 left as the Bears (8-6) rallied in the second half and stayed in contention for an NFC playoff spot.

Cutler finished 22 of 31 for 265 yards and validated first-year coach Marc Trestman’s decision to stick with him over McCown, who had played so well while filling in for Chicago’s starter. Trestman’s choice didn’t come without controversy. There were reports of division within Chicago’s locker room, but on a brutally cold and

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Chicago Bears head coach Marc Trestman, right, and quarterback Josh McCown greet quarterback Jay Cutler (6) after Cutler’s 5-yard touchdown

blustery day in Cleveland, the Bears were united.

“The guys rallied around me,” Cutler said. “I’d be lying if I didn’t say there was (pressure) with everything on the outside and as well as Josh has played.

pass to Brandon Marshall in the second quarter of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns Sunday in Cleveland.

But this was the plan all along and no one really flinched in our building.”

Michael Bush’s 40-yard TD run with 2:17 left sealed it for the Bears, who completed a four-game sweep of the AFC North and won

their first road game since Nov. 4, when McCown led them to a win over Green Bay. Trestman had promised Cutler would keep his job once he was healthy. And after Cutler was SEE BEARS, PAGE B2

Brown was not meeting his standard AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — For a decade, Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns won more games than almost any other program in the country.

It was the inability to meet those lofty expectations over the last four years that pushed Brown to resign after 16 years, ending an era that included the national championship following the 2005 season.

“The standard is really high here,” Brown said Sunday at a campus news conference to explain his decision. “We set a standard at this place. You’d better win all of them. I understand that. … The standard is really high here and I’m proud of being part of setting that standard.”

From 2000-09, Brown’s teams averaged more than 10 wins a season, captured two Big 12 titles, won a national title and played for another. But the program dipped sharply to 5-7 in 2010, Brown’s only losing season, and the Longhorns

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Mack Brown announces that he is stepping down as head football coach at Texas on Sunday in Austin, Texas. The Longhorns have had four straight seasons with at least four losses. Texas went 8-4 this year and Brown’s final game will be the Dec. 30 Alamo Bowl against Oregon.

have lost at least four games for four consecutive years.

Brown said he knew that wasn’t good enough. It was time to find a new coach to

guide the Longhorns back among the national elite and heal a fractured fan base that had grown impatient. His final game will be the Dec.

30 Alamo Bowl against Oregon.

Brown was under contract until 2020 with a salary at more than $5 million per year. He will stay on as a special consultant to President Bill Powers, a role that his current contract stipulates would pay him up to $500,000. Details of any further compensation for Brown were not immediately available.

Texas had expected a return to championship form this season, but a 1-2 start ignited months of speculation that Brown would retire or be forced out. Texas rallied with six straight wins, then dropped two of its last three games.

A chance to win the Big 12 title was lost to Baylor in the finale.

Brown met with Powers and athletic director Steve Patterson on Friday to discuss his future. Brown said both told him he could stay, but after sleeping on it Friday night and talking

it over with his wife, he decided it was the right time to resign.

“I felt like I could stay,” Brown said. “I really felt like it wasn’t best for the university to stay.”

Powers said he was not pressured by the school’s board of regents to help push Brown out of the job.

“I was not given any direction at all from any regent,” Powers said. “This is the transition of one of the great football coaches in the country.”

Brown said he hoped he would be remembered for “bringing joy to Texas” and doing it with integrity.

Asked if he had any regrets, Brown said the only ones were the death of player Cole Pittman in 2001 and the 1999 accident with the Texas A&M bonfire that killed 12.

The search to replace Brown begins almost immediately, but Powers and Patterson gave few hints as to who may be on a list of potential candidates.

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Packers’ comeback stuns Cowboys ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Matt Flynn and the Green Bay Packers matched the biggest comeback in franchise history. Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys have a loss that might sting for a long time.

Flynn threw four touchdown passes in the second half, Eddie Lacy had the winning score on a 1-yard plunge after an interception

by Romo gave them another chance, and the Packers rallied from 23 points down at halftime to beat the Cowboys 37-36 Sunday.

Romo tossed two interceptions in the final 3 minutes, the first one giving Green Bay a chance for the go-ahead score with the Cowboys in position to run out the clock with a 36-31 lead. Lacy scored with just over 1 1-2 minutes left.

Playing on the same field where they won the 2011 Super Bowl, the Packers matched the 1982 team, which rallied past the Los Angeles Rams after trailing by 23.

The Packers (7-6-1) kept their playoff hopes alive with Aaron Rodgers possibly returning next week.

The Cowboys (7-7) blew a great chance to pull even with Philadelphia in the NFC East, remaining a game behind with two to play.

Dez Bryant, who had 153 yards receiving, had picked up a first down just before the 2-minute warning that looked as if it would Dallas help hold off a huge Green Bay rally. But Romo threw behind Miles Austin after escaping a sack and Sam Shields intercepted at midfield.

The Packers steadily moved downfield before the plunge by Lacy, who had 141 yards rushing.

Behind for the first time since the first quarter, Romo threw a ball too far in front of Cole Beasley, and Tramon Williams made a diving grab that was initially called incomplete. When the video review overturned the call, Flynn ended the game with kneel-downs.

Bryant walked off the field and into the tunnel before the game ended.

Williams had an earlier

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Green Bay running back Eddie Lacy (27) jumps over the line of scrimmage to score a touchdown during the second half of an NFL game against the Dallas

interception overturned on review with Dallas clinging to a 29-24 lead. He cradled a deflected pass in his arms, but officials reviewed that the nose of ball hit the turf.

The Cowboys went on to score when Bryant made a leaping grab over M.D. Jennings and got two feet down in the back of the end zone for a 36-24 lead.

Flynn answered with his fourth straight scoring drive to get back within five.

He finished with 299 yards passing, including secondhalf scoring tosses of 13 yards to Jordy Nelson, 3 yards to Andrew Quarless, 11 yards to James Starks and 3 yards to James Jones.

Romo threw for 358 yards to break a four-game streak where he didn’t have more than 250, but the late interceptions will only fuel the feeling his critical mistakes will keep the Cowboys from going deep in playoffs for the first time since their last Super Bowl title during the 1995 season.

Dolphins 24, Patriots 20 In Miami Gardens, Fla., Tom Brady’s latest comeback bid came up short, and the Miami Dolphins helped their playoff chances with a breakthrough victory over AFC East-leading New England.

Local Sports Brief • College Wrestling Green leads Trine in Midwest Classic INDIANAPOLIS — Mackenzie Green went 4-1 and finished third in the heavyweight class to lead Trine University’s activity in the Midwest Classic, which was held Saturday and Sunday at the University of Indianapolis’ Nicoson Hall.

The Thunder were 23rd out of 30 teams in a tournament that included competitors from NCAA Division II and Division III and the NAIA. Trine had 17.5 points and was first among Division III teams in its final competition of 2013. Division II powerhouse Newberry (S.C.), ranked fourth in the nation, took home first with 127 points.

Green defeated Division II wrestler Donnell Walker of Maryville by a 2-1 decision in the third-place match. The junior reached the semifinals with wins over wrestlers from Division II schools on Saturday. Green pinned Garrett Fosdyck of King (Tenn.) in 5 minutes, 43 seconds in his first match of the meet, then defeated Coker’s Austin Akers 7-0.

Green lost in a 5-3 decision to eventual champion Matt Wade of Newberry. Green rallied to win by fall over Upper Iowa’s Logan Hopp in 63 seconds to advance to the third-place match.

Brandon Preston earned the Thunder two points at 133 pounds with a 7-6 victory over Division II wrestler Colby Yates of Limestone.

The Thunder wrestlers return to the mats on Jan. 4 at the University of Chicago Duals. The meet is scheduled to get underway at 2 p.m.

COLTS: Fake field goal try among big plays by Indianapolis FROM PAGE B1

tackle Duane Brown after Mathis’ strip sack. “My teammates deserve better, my coaches deserve better.

Our fans deserve better.”

Luck opened the game by throwing a 14-yard TD pass to Whalen for Indy’s first opening-drive touchdown since Week 3.

After Houston’s Randy Bullock made a 49-yard field goal, Darius Butler picked off Keenum to set up Adam Vinatieri’s 37-yard kick.

Luck made it 17-3 when he faked another receiver screen, then flipped the ball on a shovel pass to Trent Richardson for a 9-yard score. And after

Butler’s second interception, Vinatieri made a 43-yard field goal and Indy led 20-3.

“We played good football today, kept the mistakes to a minimum and were just able to get after it,” Mathis said.

“A little bit of stuff here and there we can improve on, but for the most part, good football.”

Notes: Mathis, the NFL sacks leader, has 16½ this season and 108 in his career.

Longtime teammate and close friend Dwight Freeney held the Colts’ previous marks, getting 16 in 2004 and 107½ in his career. …

Houston’s 12-game losing streak is the city’s professional football record.

Cowboys Sunday in Arlington, Texas.

Lacy’s touchdown was the game-winner as the Packers came back from 23 points down to beat the Cowboys, 37-36.

A fourth-down pass from Brady was intercepted by reserve safety Michael Thomas, in his first NFL game, in the end zone with 2 seconds left, and Miami held on to win.

Miami snapped a streak of seven consecutive losses against the Patriots (10-4).

Ryan Tannehill threw for 312 yards and three touchdown passes, including a 14-yarder to Marcus Thigpen with 1:15 left that provided the winning margin.

Chiefs 56, Raiders 31 In Oakland, Calif., Jamaal Charles tied a franchise record with five touchdowns in a game and gained 215 yards from scrimmage to help the Chiefs clinch at least a wild-card spot.

Alex Smith threw five TD passes, going 17 for 20 for 287 yards to make the Chiefs the fourth team ever to make the playoffs a year after losing at least 14 games.

Kansas City (11-3) is tied for first place in the AFC West with Denver but needs help to win the division because the Broncos swept the season series.

Vikings 48, Eagles 30 In Minneapolis, Matt Cassel passed for 382 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score to lead the injury-depleted Vikings over

Philadelphia, snapping the Eagles’ five-game winning streak.

With Adrian Peterson and Toby Gerhart out, Matt Asiata rushed for the first three touchdowns of his career and Greg Jennings caught a career-high 11 passes for 163 yards for the Vikings (4-9-1). Asiata ran for 51 yards on 30 carries.

Falcons 27, Redskins 26 Desmond Trufant deflected Kirk Cousins’ pass on a potential winning 2-point conversion with 18 seconds remaining, and host Atlanta edged Washington.

The Falcons (4-10) scored 20 points off seven Washington turnovers. The Redskins (3-11) tied a team record with five lost fumbles.

Cousins passed for 381 yards and three touchdowns, but had three turnovers in his first start of the season after coach Mike Shanahan decided to bench Robert Griffin III. 49ers 33, Buccaneers 14 In Tampa, Fla., Vernon Davis caught a touchdown pass for the fifth straight game and Michael Crabtree scored his first TD since returning from injury to help San Francisco.

Seahawks 23, Giants 0 In East Rutherford, N.J., Richard Sherman had two

interceptions, Marshawn Lynch scored on a twisting, triple-effort 2-yard run, and Steven Hauschka kicked three field goals as Seattle manhandled the New York Giants for its sixth road win.

Russell Wilson toyed with New York’s defense, running for 50 yards and throwing for 206 and a touchdown before sitting out the last few minutes. Wilson has 23 wins, the most for a quarterback in his first two seasons in the Super Bowl era.

New York’s Eli Manning was picked off a careerworst five times, with Byron Maxwell also getting two.

Bills 27, Jaguars 20 In Jacksonville, Fla., EJ Manuel threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score, leading Buffalo to a victory against the banged-up Jaguars.

Panthers 30, Jets 20 In Charlotte, N.C., Cam Newton threw for 273 yards and a touchdown, Captain Munnerlyn had two sacks and returned an interception for a score and the Panthers bounced back from their most lopsided loss of the season.

With New Orleans losing 27-16 to St. Louis, the Panthers (10-4) pulled even with the Saints with the rematch set for next Sunday in Charlotte.

Rams 27, Saints 16 Drew Brees threw interceptions that led to touchdowns on New Orleans’ first two possessions and host St. Louis got big days from Zac Stacy, Robert Quinn and on special teams in the victory.

Quinn had two sacks, giving him an NFC-leading 15, and his quarterback hit on the Saints’ first snap of the game altered the flight of the ball on T.J. McDonald’s interception.

Cardinals 37, Titans 34, OT In Nashville, Tenn., Jay Feely kicked a 41-yard field goal in overtime, and Arizona edged Tennessee after blowing a 17-point lead late in the fourth quarter.

Still, the Cardinals (9-5) won their sixth in seven games. With San Francisco and Carolina winning, they remained a game back of both for a NFC wild-card berth.

Lightning clip Wings DETROIT (AP) — Ben Bishop made 28 saves for his sixth career shutout and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-0 on Sunday.

Tyler Johnson, J.T. Brown and Alex Killorn scored.

Petr Mrazek stopped 24 shots for Detroit, which lost its fifth in a row.

Johnson opened the scoring 3:13 into the third period, tipping in a loose puck from the front of the net for his eighth goal.

Brown scored at 9:16, beating Mrazek on a tip off Nate Thompson’s pass from the corner.

Killorn added an empty-net goal.

Detroit’s Johan Franzen went to the dressing room after taking a glove to the face from Tampa Bay’s Radko Gudas early in the second period and did not return. When Franzen got back to the bench he yelled at Gudas as he skated by the Wings’ bench and Franzen received an unsportsmanlike penalty 4:35 into the middle period. Todd Bertuzzi served the penalty.

The Red Wings’ Pavel Datsyuk hit the goal post with 6:08 remaining in the opening period. The Lightning’s Purcell hit the goal post 7:12 into the game.

Notes: An apparent goal

by Detroit’s Gustav Nyquist 2:02 into the game was waved off because it was ruled the whistle had blown.

The puck was beside Bishop in the crease. … The Red Wings recalled RW Tomas Jurco from their AHL affiliate in Grand Rapids on Sunday and he made his NHL debut. He replaced LW Justin Abdelkader in the lineup. Abdelkader is going through the NHL’s possible concussion procedure after taking a shoulder to the head from Pittsburgh’s Deryk Engelland on Saturday night. … Tampa Bay C Valtteri Filppula is a former Red Wing. He signed with the Lightning as a free agent in July. … Lightning vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman played his entire Hall of Fame career with Detroit.

Portland rallies, beats Pistons in OT AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Damian Lillard’s spinning fadeaway with one-tenth of a second left in overtime lifted the Portland Trail Blazers to a 111-109 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night.

Lillard was guarded well by Rodney Stuckey as he tried to drive to the basket, but he was able to hit a tough fadeaway from about 8 feet for the win. Detroit couldn’t get off a shot before the buzzer.

LaMarcus Aldridge scored 27 points for Portland, which rallied from a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter.

Lillard finished with 23 points.

Josh Smith scored 31 points, his most since signing with the Pistons as a free agent in the offseason.

Moments before Lillard’s winner, Rodney Stuckey tied the game for Detroit with a shot from near the free throw line. Portland, which made 21 shots from 3-point range in Saturday’s rout of Philadelphia, went 7 of 26 on Sunday.

The Blazers trailed by 13 early in the fourth, but cut the deficit to 94-92 before Smith scored on the block while being fouled by Wesley Matthews. The three-point play pushed the lead to five, but Detroit couldn’t close out the game.

Wesley Matthews finally tied it with two free throws with 30.8 seconds remaining in regulation. Detroit had the ball with 1.1 seconds left, but Kyle Singler’s inbounds pass was stolen, sending the game to overtime.

The Blazers led by 11 early in the second quarter, but Detroit rallied behind Smith and fellow big men Greg Monroe and Andre Drummond to take a 51-50 lead into halftime.

AP

Detroit Pistons guard Chauncey Billups (1) drives to the basket against Portland Trail Blazers guard Mo Williams (25) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday in Auburn Hills, Mich.

Smith is shooting under 27 percent from 3-point range this season, and the presence of Monroe and Drummond has seemed only to encourage him to shoot more from the perimeter. But he attempted only two 3s on Sunday, and the Blazers couldn’t handle him in the post for most of the night.

Smith’s old-fashioned three-point play made it 75-66 in the third, and Detroit led 84-73 heading into the final period.

Detroit outscored Portland 68-42 in the paint, but the Blazers held the Pistons to 15 points in the fourth quarter and slowly chipped away at the lead.

Nicolas Batum scored 18 points for the Blazers, who fought Detroit’s tough front line almost evenly on the boards.

Notes: The Blazers missed their first six 3-point attempts. … Smith shot 13 of 17 from the field. Drummond had 13 points and 14 rebounds.

BEARS: Chicago coach Marc Trestman felt team believed in Cutler FROM PAGE B1

cleared earlier this week to practice, Trestman kept his word and started the not-always-popular veteran, a decision that had some Bears fans questioning whether it might be better to stick with the hot McCown, who has thrown 13 TD passes and just one interception this

season.

Trestman said there was no doubt the Bears believed in Cutler.

“They played hard for him today and they had his back,” Trestman said.

“He’s a captain — an elected captain — and I’m sure he would tell you that not just the offensive guys,

but throughout our football team, they stuck together and won for each other today.”

Cutler looked shaky in the first half with the two picks, but he settled down and brought back the Bears, who fell behind 24-17 when Cleveland safety T.J. Ward returned a fumble 51 yards

for a TD. Backed up at his own 5 in front of Cleveland’s Dawg Pound section early in the fourth, Cutler drove the Bears 95 yards — with the help of two defensive penalties — and hit Alshon Jeffery with a 45-yard scoring pass to tie it with 10:59 left.

SCOREBOARD •

MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013

Prep Swimming Thursday’s results at YMCA of Steuben County, Angola Girls: Angola 130, Northrop 39 (All Angola swimmers unless otherwise mentioned) 200 medley relay — 1. Angola (S. Wilson, Simmons, Robinson, Beckwith) 2:14.56, 2. Angola (M. Clemens, McMillen, J. Stadtmiller, Stout) 2:24.2, ex. Angola (Olson, Schmidt, Stanley, McElroy) 2:41.61. 200 freestyle — 1.

Raugh 2:26.14, 2. Stout 2:44.14, 4. Schmidt 2:51.93. 200 individual medley — 1. Robinson 2:43.57, 2.

Beckwith 2:49.76, 3. J. Stadtmiller 3:01.95. 50 freestyle — 1. Simmons 27.28, 2. Stanley 33.17, 4. C. Merritt 34.79, ex. McElroy 34.02, ex. Korte 37.48, ex. Staley 39.88. 100 butterfly — 1. Watkins 1:15.73, 2. Robinson 1:10.48, 3. Beckwith 1:20.3. 100 freestyle — 1. M. Clemens 1:03.77, 2.

McMillen 1:09.69, 3. Olson 1:12.59, 6.

McElroy 1:23.43, 7. C. Merritt 1:25.26.

500 freestyle — 1. Raugh 6:43.49, 3.

Sauer 8:00.1, 5. Staley 9:12.84. 200 freestyle relay — 1. Angola (Simmons, Beckwith, M. Clemens, Robinson) 1:58.83, 2. Angola (S. Wilson, Olson, Watkins, Stout) 2:04.38, ex. Angola (C. Merritt, Sauer, J. Stadtmiller, Raugh) 2:13.54. 100 backstroke — 1. S. Wilson 1:17.94, 2. Olson 1:20.28, 3. M. Clemens 1:24.57, ex. Stanley 1:34.02, ex. Sauer 1:39.25, ex. Korte 1:46.2. 100 breaststroke — 1. Simmons 1:21.22, 2. McMillen 1:36.12. 400 freestyle relay — 1. Angola (Raugh, J. Stadtmiller, Watkins, Stout) 4:36.56, 3.

Angola (S. Wilson, C. Merritt, Stanley, McMillen) 5:10.34.

Boys: Northrop 87, Angola 74 (All Angola swimmers unless otherwise mentioned) 200 medley relay — 1. Angola (B. Weaver, C. Clemens, Bourne, Crody) 2:01.48. 200 freestyle — 1.

B. Thompson 2:22.24. 200 individual medley — 1. Burnau (N) 2:32.69, 2.

B. Weaver 2:49.78. 50 freestyle — 1.

C. Clemens 26.76, 3. Crody 27.72, 4. Ridenour 33.14. 100 butterfly — 1. Bourne 1:01.31. 100 freestyle — 1. Crody 59.41, 3. B. Thompson 1:05.85, 5. K. Stadtmiller 1:12.9.

500 freestyle — 1. Bourne 5:53.38.

200 freestyle relay — 1. Angola (B. Thompson, Crody, B. Weaver, Bourne) 1:50.47. 100 backstroke — 1. B. Weaver 1:13.06. 100 breaststroke — 1. Burnau (N) 1:12.97, 2. C. Clemens 1:16.4, 5. K. Stadtmiller 1:39.05, 6.

Ridenour 1:56.28. 400 freestyle relay — 1. Northrop (Brubaker, Kastner, Burnau, Perez) 4:23.66, 2. Angola (B. Thompson, K. Stadtmiller, Ridenour, C. Clemens) 4:45.98.

Winning hand Tri-State Duplicate Bridge Club Tuesday’s results Winners were: 1. Mike Mellinger and Grant VanHorn, 2. Chet Pinkham and Allen Pinkham, 3. Sue Dogan and Mary Booth, 4. Errol Benne and Dick Benne, and 5. Ruth Fitzgerald and Rouann Garling.

NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 10 4 0 .714 369 311 Miami 8 6 0 .571 310 296 N.Y. Jets 6 8 0 .429 246 367 Buffalo 5 9 0 .357 300 354 South W L T Pct PF PA y-Indianapolis 9 5 0 .643 338 319 Tennessee 5 9 0 .357 326 355 Jacksonville 4 10 0 .286 221 399 Houston 2 12 0 .143 253 375 North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 9 4 0 .692 334 244 Baltimore 7 6 0 .538 278 261 Pittsburgh 5 8 0 .385 291 312 Cleveland 4 10 0 .286 288 362 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Denver 11 3 0 .786 535 372 x-Kansas City 11 3 0 .786 399 255 San Diego 7 7 0 .500 343 311 Oakland 4 10 0 .286 295 393 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 8 6 0 .571 364 349 Dallas 7 7 0 .500 393 385 N.Y. Giants 5 9 0 .357 251 357 Washington 3 11 0 .214 305 434 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 10 4 0 .714 359 270 Carolina 10 4 0 .714 328 208 Tampa Bay 4 10 0 .286 258 324 Atlanta 4 10 0 .286 309 388 North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 8 6 0 .571 406 391 Detroit 7 6 0 .538 346 321 Green Bay 7 6 1 .536 353 362 Minnesota 4 9 1 .321 363 425 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Seattle 12 2 0 .857 380 205 San Fran.

10 4 0 .714 349 228 Arizona 9 5 0 .643 342 291 St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 316 324 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game San Diego 27, Denver 20 Sunday’s Games Minnesota 48, Philadelphia 30 Atlanta 27, Washington 26 San Francisco 33, Tampa Bay 14 Seattle 23, N.Y. Giants 0 Chicago 38, Cleveland 31 Indianapolis 25, Houston 3 Buffalo 27, Jacksonville 20 Miami 24, New England 20 Kansas City 56, Oakland 31 Carolina 30, N.Y. Jets 20 Arizona 37, Tennessee 34, OT St. Louis 27, New Orleans 16 Green Bay 37, Dallas 36 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, late Monday’s Game Baltimore at Detroit, 8:40 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 22 Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Denver at Houston, 1 p.m.

Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Detroit, 4:05 p.m.

Oakland at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m.

New England at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 23 Atlanta at San Francisco, 8:40 p.m.

NFL Summaries Houston 3 0 0 0— 3 Indianapolis 7 13 5 0—25 First Quarter Ind—Whalen 14 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 9:31.

Hou—FG Bullock 49, 1:46.

Second Quarter Ind—FG Vinatieri 37, 12:00.

Ind—Richardson 9 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 7:03.

Ind—FG Vinatieri 43, 1:44.

Third Quarter Ind—FG Vinatieri 40, 12:27.

Ind—Redding safety, 1:53.

A—65,470.

Team Statistics Hou Ind First downs 12 19 Total Net Yards 239 331 Rushes-yards 25-107 36-152 Passing 132 179 Punt Returns 2-11 3-67 Kickoff Returns 4-108 2-50 Interceptions Ret. 1-32 2-38 Comp-Att-Int 18-34-2 19-32-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-36 1-1 Punts 8-49.5 6-43.0 Fumbles-Lost 3-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 14-114 4-36 Time of Possession 26:49 33:11 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Houston, Tate 16-72, Karim 4-21, D.Johnson 4-12, Keenum 1-2. Indianapolis, Richardson 19-64, D.Brown 5-38, Luck 5-29, Choice 5-18, Lynch 1-3, Rogers 1-0.

PASSING—Houston, Keenum 18-34-2168. Indianapolis, Luck 19-32-1-180.

RECEIVING—Houston, Griffin 6-62, A.Johnson 4-18, Hopkins 3-52, Tate 3-20, Martin 1-13, D.Johnson 1-3.

Indianapolis, Hilton 8-78, Whalen 4-45, Richardson 4-38, Rogers 2-23, Doyle 1-(minus 4).

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Chicago 0 10 7 21—38 Cleveland 3 7 14 7—31 First Quarter Cle—FG Cundiff 35, 7:26.

Second Quarter Chi—FG Gould 23, 12:55.

Cle—Gipson 44 interception return (Cundiff kick), 8:01.

Chi—Marshall 5 pass from Cutler (Gould kick), :24.

Third Quarter Chi—Bowman 43 interception return (Gould kick), 13:48.

Cle—Baker 2 run (Cundiff kick), 8:20.

Cle—Ward 51 fumble return (Cundiff kick), 3:40.

Fourth Quarter Chi—Jeffery 45 pass from Cutler (Gould kick), 10:59.

Chi—E.Bennett 4 pass from Cutler (Gould kick), 5:41.

Chi—Bush 40 run (Gould kick), 2:17.

Cle—Gordon 43 pass from Campbell (Cundiff kick), :59.

A—71,513.

Team Statistics Chi Cle First downs 23 20 Total Net Yards 440 366 Rushes-yards 31-179 17-93 Passing 261 273 Punt Returns 1-21 0-0 Kickoff Returns 4-97 4-44 Interceptions Ret. 2-43 2-79 Comp-Att-Int 22-31-2 23-39-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-4 0-0 Punts 3-36.7 5-42.2 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 7-40 9-90 Time of Possession 34:48 25:12 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Chicago, Forte 24-127, Bush 3-44, Cutler 3-11, Jeffery 1-(minus 3). Cleveland, Baker 8-38, Gray 2-30, Campbell 1-17, Ogbonnaya 5-7, Whittaker 1-1.

PASSING—Chicago, Cutler 22-31-2265. Cleveland, Campbell 23-39-2273.

RECEIVING—Chi., Marshall 6-95, MBennett 6-71, Jeffery 5-72, E.Bennett 4-23, Forte 1-4. Cle., Ogbonnaya 5-39, Little 4-68, Baker 4-46, Gordon 3-67, Cameron 3-23, Whittaker 2-4, Barnidge 1-17, Bess 1-9.

New Orleans 0 3 0 13—16 St. Louis 14 10 3 0—27 First Quarter StL—Harkey 31 pass from Clemens (Zuerlein kick), 11:20.

StL—Kendricks 4 pass from Clemens (Zuerlein kick), 2:45.

Second Quarter StL—FG Zuerlein 31, 14:57.

NO—FG Hartley 45, 10:17.

StL—Stacy 40 run (Zuerlein kick), 4:10.

Third Quarter StL—FG Zuerlein 35, 2:42.

Fourth Quarter NO—Brees 1 run (run failed), 11:25.

NO—Colston 5 pass from Brees (Hartley kick), 3:07.

A—58,442.

Team Statistics NO StL First downs 30 17 Total Net Yards 432 302 Rushes-yards 20-61 34-144 Passing 371 158 Punt Returns 0-0 1-7 Kickoff Returns 0-0 2-53 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-5 Comp-Att-Int 39-56-2 14-20-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-22 0-0 Punts 2-53.5 4-41.8 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 8-77 4-30 Time of Possession 32:12 27:48 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—New Orleans, Sproles 7-24, Thomas 8-21, Brees 2-8, Ingram 1-5, Stills 1-3, K.Robinson 1-0. St. Louis, Stacy 28-133, Bailey 1-6, Clemens 3-5, Cunningham 2-0.

PASSING—NO, Brees 39-56-2-393.

St. Louis, Clemens 14-20-0-158.

RECEIVING—NO, Colston 8-92, Sproles 8-38, Thomas 7-62, Moore 6-78, Stills 4-47, Ingram 2-39, Graham 2-25, Watson 2-12. St. Louis, Pettis 4-41, Harkey 3-29, Bailey 2-26, Kendricks 2-13, Givens 1-31, Stacy 1-10, Cook 1-8.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—New Orleans, Hartley 36 (BK), 26 (WL).

Green Bay 3 0 14 20—37 Dallas 13 13 3 7—36 First Quarter Dal—FG Bailey 47, 10:56.

GB—FG Crosby 57, 7:40.

Dal—FG Bailey 23, 4:52.

Dal—Witten 25 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), :28.

Second Quarter Dal—FG Bailey 43, 5:54.

Dal—FG Bailey 50, 3:45.

Dal—Murray 1 run (Bailey kick), :24.

Third Quarter GB—Nelson 13 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), 13:08.

Dal—FG Bailey 50, 6:33.

GB—Quarless 3 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), 1:09.

Fourth Quarter GB—Starks 11 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), 12:47.

Dal—Bryant 5 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 7:55.

GB—J.Jones 3 pass from Flynn (Crosby kick), 4:17.

GB—Lacy 1 run (pass failed), 1:31.

A—91,054.

Team Statistics GB Dal First downs 26 27 Total Net Yards 433 466 Rushes-yards 27-150 18-134 Passing 283 332 Punt Returns 1-26 1-7 Kickoff Returns 0-0 2-46 Interceptions Ret. 2-(-5) 1-21 Comp-Att-Int 26-39-1 29-48-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-16 3-26 Punts 4-49.3 2-51.5 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 7-59 7-79 Time of Possession 28:20 31:40 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Green Bay, Lacy 21-141, Starks 3-12, Flynn 3-(minus 3). Dallas, Murray 18-134.

PASSING—Green Bay, Flynn 26-39-1299. Dallas, Romo 29-48-2-358.

RECEIVING—Green Bay, Boykin 6-83, Quarless 6-66, Nelson 5-61, Lacy 4-30, J.Jones 3-49, Starks 1-11, Kuhn 1-(minus 1). Dallas, Bryant 11-153, Witten 4-71, Williams 4-46, Murray 4-19, Beasley 3-19, Austin 2-35, Escobar 1-15.

Arizona 7 3 10 14 3 —37 Tennessee 10 0 7 17 0 —34 First Quarter Ten—FG Bironas 45, 9:34.

Ari—Mendenhall 1 run (Feely kick), 4:30.

Ten—C.Johnson 25 pass from Fitzpatrick (Bironas kick), :00.

Second Quarter Ari—FG Feely 25, 7:21.

Third Quarter Ari—FG Feely 47, 13:32.

Ten—Walker 1 pass from Fitzpatrick (Bironas kick), 6:16.

Ari—Ballard 6 pass from Palmer (Feely kick), 2:14.

Fourth Quarter Ari—Mendenhall 1 run (Feely kick), 6:50.

Ari—Cason 20 interception return (Feely kick), 6:13.

Ten—Preston 10 pass from Fitzpatrick (Bironas kick), 3:12.

Ten—FG Bironas 24, :47.

Ten—Preston 8 pass from Fitzpatrick (Bironas kick), :10.

Overtime Ari—FG Feely 41, 10:18.

A—69,143.

Team Statistics Ari Ten First downs 24 32 Total Net Yards 360 460 Rushes-yards 36-145 19-66 Passing 215 394 Punt Returns 0-0 2-18 Kickoff Returns 3-72 7-140 Interceptions Ret. 2-36 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 20-30-0 36-58-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-16 3-8 Punts 4-53.0 3-48.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 3-1 Penalties-Yards 9-69 3-16 Time of Possession 30:58 33:44 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Arizona, Ellington 10-71, Mendenhall 21-69, S.Taylor 3-6, Palmer 2-(minus 1). Tennessee, C.Johnson 13-40, Fitzpatrick 3-22, Greene 3-4.

PASSING—Arizona, Palmer 20-30-0231. Tenn., Fitzpatrick 36-58-2-402.

RECEIVING—Arizona, Fitzgerald 6-49, Ellington 4-87, Ballard 3-13, Floyd 2-33, Roberts 2-15, Golden 1-16, Dray 1-9, Mendenhall 1-9. Tennessee, Wright 12-150, Walker 8-53, N.Washington 7-92, C.Johnson 3-51, Britt 3-29, Preston 3-27.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Tennessee, Bironas 50 (SH).

Kansas City 21 14 14 7—56 Oakland 3 14 14 0—31 First Quarter KC—Charles 49 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 14:38.

Oak—FG Janikowski 34, 11:05.

KC—Charles 39 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 7:27.

KC—Berry 47 interception return (Succop kick), 5:07.

Second Quarter Oak—Jennings 1 run (Janikowski kick), 14:40.

KC—Charles 1 run (Succop kick), 8:59.

KC—Charles 16 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 5:42.

Oak—Jennings 1 run (Janikowski kick), 3:00.

Third Quarter Oak—Holmes 6 pass from McGloin (Janikowski kick), 12:01.

Oak—Rivera 14 pass from McGloin (Janikowski kick), 4:56.

KC—Charles 71 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 3:34.

KC—McGrath 6 pass from A.Smith (Succop kick), 1:20.

Fourth Quarter KC—Davis 17 run (Succop kick), 8:19.

A—49,571.

Team Statistics KC Oak First downs 19 26 Total Net Yards 384 461 Rushes-yards 24-78 33-130 Passing 306 331 Punt Returns 1-9 1-6 Kickoff Returns 4-107 5-130 Interceptions Ret. 5-119 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 20-25-0 20-41-5 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-12 0-0 Punts 4-49.5 1-48.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-2 Penalties-Yards 8-91 10-90 Time of Possession 25:53 34:07 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—KC, Davis 9-34, Charles 8-20, A.Smith 4-17, Jenkins 1-5, Gray 1-3, Daniel 1-(minus 1). Oakland, Jennings 23-91, Pryor 3-19, Reece 5-18, Olawale 1-2, McGloin 1-0.

PASSING—Kansas City, A.Smith 17-20-0-287, Daniel 3-5-0-31.

Oakland, McGloin 18-36-4-297, Reece 1-1-0-22, Pryor 1-4-1-12.

RECEIVING—KC, Charles 8-195, Bowe 3-24, Avery 2-33, McGrath 2-14, Davis 2-8, Gray 1-18, Sherman 1-15, Hall 1-11. Oakland, Streater 4-59, Holmes 4-58, Rivera 3-30, Jennings 3-12, Reece 2-52, D.Moore 2-46, Jones 1-52, Chekwa 1-22.

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 11 14 .440 Toronto 9 13 .409

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Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Utah at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Orlando at Chicago, 8 p.m.

San Ant. at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Portland at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Denver, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden St., 10:30 p.m.

NBADL Standings Central Division W L Pct GB Rio Grande Valley 9 1 .900 — Iowa 6 2 .750 2 Sioux Falls 6 2 .750 2 Texas 6 2 .750 2 Austin 3 5 .375 5 Tulsa 1 9 .100 8 West Division W L Pct GB Idaho 8 0 1.000 — Santa Cruz 7 3 .700 2 Reno 3 6 .333 5½ Los Angeles 2 5 .286 5½ Bakersfield 3 8 .273 6½ East Division W L Pct GB Canton 8 1 .889 — Maine 5 2 .714 2 Fort Wayne 2 5 .286 5 Delaware 2 8 .200 6½ Springfield 1 6 .143 6 Erie 0 7 .000 7 Saturday’s Games Maine 102, Springfield 95 Canton 106, Erie 104 Idaho 98, Fort Wayne 94 Iowa 136, Delaware 113 Sioux Falls 100, Tulsa 94 Texas 106, Austin 97 Los Angeles 124, Santa Cruz 118 Reno 105, Bakersfield 98 Sunday’s Games Reno 103, Bakersfield 96 Fort Wayne 108, Delaware 100 Santa Cruz 108, Los Angeles 105 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Los Angeles at Santa Cruz, 10:30 p.m.

Men’s College Basketball EAST Boston College 67, Philadelphia 50 Fairfield 64, Northeastern 60 Hartford 84, Sacred Heart 72 Hofstra 72, CCSU 67 Howard 64, Delaware St. 62, OT Norfolk St. 86, Boston U. 82, OT Quinnipiac 80, Vermont 67 Stony Brook 67, New Hampshire 48 Susquehanna 66, Wilkes 53 Syracuse 68, St. John’s 63 Villanova 73, La Salle 52 Virginia Union 81, Virginia St. 69 SOUTH Bowling Green 67, Morehead St. 61 Drexel 72, Davidson 58 Lindsey Wilson 72, Philander Smith 59 Manhattan 77, UNC Wilmington 72 Marist 69, Coll. of Charleston 62 N. Kentucky 87, Chattanooga 71 Tennessee St. 108, Fisk 85 UAB 84, Georgia Southern 62 UNC Asheville 73, SC-Upstate 63 MIDWEST DePaul 77, Chicago St. 70, OT Kansas St. 72, Troy 43 Miami (Ohio) 59, Wright St. 56 Missouri 66, W. Michigan 60 SOUTHWEST Stephen F. Austin 87, North Texas 53 TCU 57, Texas-Pan American 48 Tennessee Tech 79, Lamar 74 Texas Tech 79, Cent. Arkansas 57 FAR WEST Cal St.-Fullerton 87, Tex. Southern 80 Denver 64, Wyoming 61 Montana St. 72, Portland 69 Oregon St. 98, Md.-Eastern Shore 66 Seattle 66, Pacific Lutheran 38 UC Irvine 70, E. Washington 61 UC Santa Barbara 72, San Diego 61 Washington St. 78, Pepperdine 61

Women’s College Basketball EAST Bos. College 65, New Hampshire 40 Drexel 53, Prairie View 45 Fordham 57, Illinois St. 32 James Madison 64, St. John’s 51 Northeastern 81, Maine 55 Penn St. 66, Texas A&M 58 Pittsburgh 63, Old Dominion 49 Princeton 84, Delaware 80, OT

Quinnipiac 74, Albany (NY) 53 Rutgers 71, Sacred Heart 51 Toledo 64, St. Bonaventure 62 Vanderbilt 65, Hartford 56 Villanova 83, La Salle 47 SOUTH Auburn 92, Florida A&M 55 Bethune-Cookman 57, Jacksonville 49 Furman 79, Coastal Carolina 72 Georgia 91, Kennesaw St. 32 Kentucky 73, ETSU 56 Miami 63, Coppin St. 58 Savannah St. 79, Longwood 55 Tennessee St. 92, Martin Methodist 61 VCU 76, Cleveland St. 75 Virginia Tech 65, SC-Upstate 61 W. Kentucky 83, Jackson St. 48 MIDWEST Butler 53, N. Kentucky 47 Cincinnati 64, Ohio St. 49 Dayton 87, Washington St. 76 E. Michigan 104, Detroit 96 Indiana 51, IUPUI 45 Kansas St. 73, UC Santa Barbara 64 Marquette 71, Milwaukee 52 Michigan St. 80, Oakland 62 Missouri St. 87, Lamar 60 Purdue 71, Kansas 68 S. Dakota St. 87, Cent. Michigan 82 UMKC 80, Texas Southern 79, OT Wichita St. 63, Green Bay 58 Wright St. 79, Xavier 54 SOUTHWEST Baylor 100, Houston Baptist 57 LSU 58, UALR 51 Oklahoma 105, Md.-Eastern Shore 46 Stephen F. Austin 92, Grambling St. 55 TCU 73, Texas-Pan American 47 Texas 109, Sam Houston St. 48 Texas St. 70, Houston 63 UTEP 87, SE Louisiana 65 FAR WEST Arizona 65, Texas Tech 56 California 70, CS Bakersfield 51 Hawaii 81, Pacific 70 N. Colorado 75, North Texas 69 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 88, UC Davis 71 UCLA 56, San Diego St. 55 Washington 83, Montana St. 60

NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Boston 33 22 9 2 46 92 70 Montreal 35 20 12 3 43 88 75 Tampa Bay 33 19 11 3 41 90 80 Detroit 35 15 11 9 39 89 94 Toronto 34 17 14 3 37 97 99 Ottawa 34 13 15 6 32 96 111 Florida 34 12 17 5 29 78 109 Buffalo 33 7 23 3 17 55 96 Metropolitan Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 34 23 10 1 47 105 74 Washington 33 18 12 3 39 105 97 Carolina 34 14 13 7 35 79 94 NY Rangrs 34 16 17 1 33 76 91 Columbus 33 14 15 4 32 85 92 Philadelphia 33 14 15 4 32 76 91 New Jersey 34 13 15 6 32 78 85 NY Islandrs 34 9 19 6 24 83 118 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Chicago 36 24 7 5 53 135 101 St. Louis 31 22 6 3 47 110 73 Colorado 31 21 9 1 43 88 73 Minnesota 35 19 11 5 43 81 81 Dallas 31 15 11 5 35 90 93 Nashville 33 16 14 3 35 77 92 Winnipeg 34 14 15 5 33 90 100 Pacific Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Anaheim 35 23 7 5 51 111 89 Los Ang. 34 22 8 4 48 94 68 San Jose 33 20 7 6 46 108 82 Vancouver 35 20 10 5 45 98 83 Phoenix 32 18 9 5 41 104 100 Calgary 33 13 15 5 31 86 106 Edmonton 35 11 21 3 25 93 120 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Minnesota 2, Colorado 1, SO Calgary 2, Buffalo 1, OT Los Angeles 5, Ottawa 2 Dallas 6, Winnipeg 4 Toronto 7, Chicago 3 Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 1 New Jersey 3, Tampa Bay 0 Montreal 1, N.Y. Islanders 0, OT St. Louis 4, Columbus 3, OT Nashville 3, San Jose 2 Carolina 3, Phoenix 1 Vancouver 6, Boston 2 Sunday’s Games Washington 5, Philadelphia 4, SO N.Y. Rangers 4, Calgary 3, SO Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 0 Florida 2, Montreal 1 Chicago 3, Los Angeles 1 Anaheim 3, Edmonton 2 Monday’s Games Toronto at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Columbus, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Calgary at Boston, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Florida at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Colorado at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

ECHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOLSL Pts GF GA Wheeling 24 13 6 0 5 31 70 63 Reading 20 10 9 1 0 21 51 55 Elmira 22 911 0 2 20 56 65 North Division GP W LOLSL Pts GF GA Cincinnati 23 14 8 0 1 29 72 61 Evansville 22 12 7 0 3 27 68 74 Kalamazoo 21 11 8 0 2 24 61 56 Fort Wayne 22 10 8 1 3 24 70 73 Toledo 21 711 3 0 17 62 79 South Division GP W LOLSL Pts GF GA Florida 26 18 6 1 1 38 96 65 SCarolina 24 17 4 1 2 37 78 50 Orlando 26 1510 0 1 31 70 69 Greenville 24 913 1 1 20 49 62 Gwinnett 24 715 0 2 16 53 74 WESTERN CONFERENCE Mountain Division GP W LOLSL Pts GF GA Colorado 25 15 6 3 1 34 80 65 Idaho 24 13 7 2 2 30 81 72 Alaska 22 14 7 1 0 29 71 42 Utah 21 7 11 1 2 17 43 53 Pacific Division GP W LOL SLPts GF GA Ontario 23 16 3 1 3 36 70 52 Stockton 24 13 8 0 3 29 80 75 San Fran 25 9 13 2 1 21 52 81 Las Vegas 23 8 13 2 0 18 56 78 Bakersfield 22 7 14 0 1 15 52 77

Irish men claim NCAA soccer title CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Confetti rained down, the Notre Dame fight song “Victory March” blasted over the loudspeakers and everyone on the Fighting Irish’s soccer team ran to one side of the field to celebrate.

For the first time in the school’s proud athletic history, Notre Dame was on top of the men’s college soccer world.

Led by goals from Andrew O’Malley and Leon Brown, and another big game from College Cup co-Most Outstanding Player Harrison Shipp, Notre Dame won its first men’s soccer title with a 2-1 victory over Maryland on Sunday at PPL Park. The Fighting Irish finished the season 17-1-6.

“We’re all smiling big smiles,” said 68-year-old coach Bobby Clark, who won his first title in

27 years coaching at Dartmouth, Stanford and Notre Dame.

Patrick Mullins, the nation’s leading scorer, scored for Maryland (17-4-5). The Terrapins were trying to win their fourth national championship and third under coach Sasho Cirovski.

“They are worthy winners and I’m genuinely happy for Bobby for all he’s done for college soccer,” Cirovski said. “I hope he enjoys this one. At Maryland, we shoot for the stars every year. We aim high. And when you aim that high and when you don’t reach it, you still end up at the moon, which is higher than most people.”

Shipp, a finalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy as the nation’s best player, set up O’Malley’s winning goal with a perfectly placed free kick in the 60th minute. O’Malley leaped for

Shipp’s kick and directed a header past goalkeeper Zack Steffen’s outstretched arms.

Coming into Sunday’s title game, O’Malley, a senior defender, had scored just twice in his collegiate career — and, according to Clark, he missed a couple of chances throughout the season.

But he didn’t miss when it counted.

“The goal itself was really put on a silver platter for me,” O’Malley said. “It would have been tough for me to screw it up, I suppose. Harry just played a beautiful ball and all I needed to do was redirect it to the back post.”

O’Malley, from nearby West Chester, said it was extra special to score the championship-deciding goal in front of many of

his family and friends, who made the short commute to watch him play at PPL Park.

“I kind of jokingly said after the game — but I’m a little bit serious —that people think I’m good now,” O’Malley said. “So, hopefully, I’ll just ride that.”

Brown tied it at 1 in the 40th minute with a tough-angle shot.

He entered the game as a reserve when Vince Cicciarelli was forced to leave when he broke his collarbone in the 10th minute.

Luke Mishu and Nick Besler were both credited with assists after Besler flicked on a long Mishu throw-in right to the foot of Brown, who slid a tough-angle shot past Steffen.

Mullins, Maryland’s own Hermann Trophy finalist, opened the scoring for the Terrapins in the 35th minute.

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SPORTS BRIEFS • Purdue women top Kansas LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Courtney Moses scored a game-high 21 points and No. 18 Purdue held on to defeat Kansas 71-68 Sunday.

Moses hit a jumper to give Purdue (7-2) a 68-66 lead with 1:04 remaining. Kansas (5-5) answered with an Asia Boyd layup to tie it with 36 seconds to play.

Purdue’s Whitney Bays was fouled by Chelsea Gardner at the 12-second mark.

Bays made one of two free throws, putting the Boilermakers ahead 69-68.

After both teams called timeouts, Boyd missed what would have been the go-ahead layup with two seconds left. KK Houser grabbed the rebound and was fouled by Boyd. Houser made both free throws to end the game.

Houser scored 14 points with eight assists. Bays added 12 points and grabbed a team-best seven rebounds.

Gardner and Boyd each scored 17 points to lead the Jayhawks.

No. 24 Tigers get past Broncos COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Jabari Brown scored 15 points while Jordan Clarkson and Earnest Ross both added 12 to help No. 24 Missouri defeat Western Michigan 66-60 on Sunday.

Missouri (10-0) looked rusty at times after an eight-day break for final exams and clung to a 47-45 lead with 10:46 remaining.

Tony Criswell’s jumper two minutes later capped a 9-0 run as the Tigers pulled away.

Missouri stretched its NCAA-best homecourt winning streak to 25 games and has won 80 straight games against nonconference opponents at Mizzou Arena dating to the 2005-06 opener.

St. Louis native David Brown led Western Michigan (5-4) with 18 points and Shayne Whittington added 16 points and 10 rebounds.

Missouri scored 80 points against West Virginia and then-No. 18 UCLA in its previous two games, but struggled to maintain that momentum into Sunday.

The Tigers made 50 percent of their shots (23 of 46), but only scored two points during a seven-minute stretch in the first half before Clarkson hit one of two free throws with 3:47 before the break.

Missouri also committed nine turnovers and yielded five offensive rebounds in the first half to Western Michigan, which trailed 31-22 after 20 minutes despite shooting 9 of 34.

Florida QB Murphy to transfer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Another quarterback is leaving Florida after the program’s first losing season since 1979.

Tyler Murphy, who started six games and may have gotten a shot at the job in 2014, announced Sunday he’s leaving to play his senior year elsewhere.

Murphy joins freshman Max Staver as quarterbacks who have left the program after Florida coach Will Muschamp fired offensive coordinator Brent Pease and offensive line coach Tim Davis.

The departures leave the Gators with just two scholarship quarterbacks: injured starter Jeff Driskel and freshman Skyler Mornhinweg. Highly touted recruit Will Grier is expected to enroll in January.

Murphy, who graduated Saturday and can play right away at another school, completed 60.5 percent of his passes for 1,216 yards, with six touchdowns and five interceptions. He also was sacked 22 times.

Army fires grid coach Ellerson

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Army fired coach Rich Ellerson on Sunday after five seasons at West Point and no victories against Navy.

Army athletic director Boo Corrigan said in a statement released by the school that Ellerson was notified that he would not be retained about 24 hours after the Black Knights (3-9) finished the season with a 34-7 loss to Navy.

“Rich Ellerson has represented West Point and the Army football program extremely well since taking over as our head coach five years ago,” Corrigan said.

“Unfortunately, our team has not experienced the level of success on the football field that we expect, and we feel it is necessary to make a change in the leadership at this time.”

The 60-year-old Ellerson went 20-41 at the U.S. Military Academy and couldn’t snap the Black Knights’ losing streak against their most important rival. The Midshipmen have won 12 straight in the series, the longest streak by either side.

Corrigan said deputy athletic director Col. Joe DeAntona will assume day-to-day operations of the football program until a new coach is hired.

Sacramento downs Rockets SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Rudy Gay walked off the court to a standing ovation in the final minutes, receiving high-fives from coaches and teammates — and a hug from DeMarcus Cousins.

Nobody might be more thankful than Sacramento’s center for the added help.

Gay scored 26 points in his first home game since coming over in a trade from Toronto, leading the Kings past the Houston Rockets 106-91 on Sunday night.

“It makes the game so much easier,” Cousins said. “It’s not such a heavy load on me and Isaiah (Thomas) every night, just having another go-to guy.”

With Gay leading the way, Sacramento outshot Houston 48.1 to 41.3 percent and finally showed some signs of defense.

Cousins collected 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Thomas had 19 points.

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Stutzman uniquely qualified to offer ACA assistance Reporting by KPC Media Group’s Matt Getts has provided a look at how the Affordable Care Act is impacting people in northeast Indiana.

We have seen how people who are in the business of providing Stutzman said he health encourages Hoosiers insurance the impacted by the ACA to under ACA have share their stories and been working through the suggestions. confusion and pitfalls of the federal website and trying to provide information to people who are going to have to procure insurance as required.

We have seen how people have worked through the maze of information now able to be found through the federal health care website, healthcare.gov. Like examples that have been provided from across the United States, some people in northeast Indiana have found the ACA to be a godsend when it comes to getting health insurance. Others have had their insurance dropped, with the possibility of buying it again at higher prices.

One of the difficulties has been being able to talk with other human beings about the ACA and how it might impact you. For a variety of reasons, getting such information in Indiana has been difficult.

Today U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-3rd, will hold what he describes as an “Obamacare listening session and open house” from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at his office in the E. Ross Adair Federal Building, 1300 S. Harrison St., Suite 3105, in downtown Fort Wayne.

Stutzman said he encourages Hoosiers impacted by the ACA to share their stories and suggestions.

We hope the session provides people with facts and assistance about the ACA and does not turn into a rally that is purely anti-President Obama.

As a federal official, Stutzman and his staff are uniquely qualified to provide guidance to his constituents.

People often look to their members of Congress and their staffs for assistance with any number of federal programs.

We would hope that this will be the goal of Stutzman’s event on Monday in Fort Wayne.

People need help. The law kicks into full gear for individuals soon and they need help.

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Letters to The Editor • Trust in Jesus Christ to receive a new heart To the editor: Jesus Christ said in Matthew 19: 4-5, “He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’… and the two shall become one flesh.”

I just read where Illinois has become the 16th state to officially legalize homosexual marriage.

Massachusetts was the first state in 2005. These actions are contrary to what Jesus said.

God’s original creation was a beautiful place, full of joy and without sin. God created Adam and Eve in a perfect paradise.

But, Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden fruit.

This is where sin had its awful beginning. The world was no longer perfect, but a sin-cursed world. We all are descendants of Adam and Eve. The Bible says, for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). We are all

born with certain sinful tendencies such as adultery, lying, stealing, murder, homosexuality, etc.

But even in this cursed world, there’s hope.

Motivated by love, God became a man through a virgin birth 2,000 years ago. Only God could be the Savior. Only Jesus Christ has the required credentials, not anyone else. Jesus then died on the cross to take our punishment, and rose from the dead. He paid the penalty for our sins in full. All we have to do is confess and turn from sin and trust in Jesus Christ, and God will forgive our sins and grant eternal life with him in heaven. God loves us and included everyone in His plan for salvation. (John 3:16) (Rom. 5:8) The Bible says that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus Christ, Matt. 28:18. Without the authority of Jesus Christ, man is simply left to compare ideas. If we remove His authority, then everyone has

When I was in school, it was always referred to as the annual Christmas program. What is wrong with the populace of our country? Heaven help you if you tell someone to have a Merry Christmas anymore. This happy holidays brouhaha has to stop.

This time of year is to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior. Let kids be kids so they can await Santa Claus to pay them a visit. If happy holidays is supposed to prevent someone Ken Blinco from being offended, what about Shipshewana the 224 million Christians who believe that this time of year is sacred? It shouldn’t stop anyone Happy holidays anyone from wishing their fellow brouhaha has to stop man to have a Merry Christmas.

So this man will NOT take the To the editor: easy way out.

Last week I was driving to In conclusion, to KPC Media, work like I always do every day. and the many newspaper readers But this time I saw something in DeKalb County, have a blessed rather disheartening. As I Christmas and a Happy New passed an elementary school, Year. God Bless. they announced their “winter Zachary Michlow program.” I was instantly Auburn sickened.

a right to do what is right in his own eyes.

So, instead of living a sinful lifestyle on what feels good and seems natural we need to trust in Jesus Christ to receive a new heart with new desires pleasing to God. Hebrews 13:8 says that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. The birth of Jesus Christ on Christmas day has and will always bring hope to a sinful world.

My word, time to get out the soap As moms would say: Get out the soap. causing more to let a few bad words rip.

Our Buckeye friends across the state line Indiana ranked as being occasionally apparently like to fling naughty profane. words, cussing one out of every Who here doesn’t fit into that 150 conversations. category? It’s fun to let an occasional That’s according to published four-letter word fly, that is where reports. there’s a time and place.

Marchex Institute analyzed Even though there’s always a phone call data to businesses better word choice, the no-nos slip customers when informed they from the tongue. Stub a toe. Budge are being recorded, such as banks a frozen car door. Bounce a check. or insurance. In those 600,000 Develop a huge nose zit. Bang your JENNIFER funny bone. phone calls in a 12-month period, Ohio came out as the top swearing *$#%* indeed.

DECKER state. That was followed by Psychology Today said people Maryland, New Jersey, Louisiana swear for social bonding, expression, and Illinois. psychological health, pain relief, States known best for cleaning power, nonviolent retribution and up their mouths are Washington, Massachu- humor. setts, Arizona, Texas and Virginia.

Hubpages lists 101 great words and Men were most likely to swear — 66 phrases to replace swearing with: son of a percent of all those calls, with longer ones motherless goat, corn nuts, eat slugs and

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cheese whiz, to name a few. Add balderdash and flapdoodle.

On the other hand, to swear politely (if there’s such a thing), another online source said use such word choices as gobbledygook, hockey puck, my word, rice cakes, sheesh, huggy, gadzooks or blangdang.

Maybe some of those words should be used by folks over in Cheese Head land in Wisconsin, which was found to be the rudest state, based on please and thank you and politeness. That was followed

by Massachusetts, our Hoosier land and Tennessee.

The most courteous states? South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Louisiana and Georgia. %&*$#? I swear. Geez.

JENNIFER DECKER is a reporter at The Herald Republican in Angola. She can be reached at jdecker@kpcmedia.com.

Better communication will aid GOP strategy WASHINGTON — Make a woman laugh, Marilyn Monroe supposedly said, and you can make her do anything.

Judging from the women who fell for him, Woody Allen learned this early. Alas, he is the least likely role model for Republican males, who seem to have misinterpreted the meaning of the aphorism.

To clarify: The idea is to make a girl laugh by engaging your wit, not to make her laugh at you.

As Republican leaders recently began tutoring their male candidates on “How to Talk to a Lady” (my title), it was tempting to imagine what wisdom was being imparted. A few ideas: “Whatever you do, do not mention the V-word.”

“Steer clear of ‘legitimate rape.’

All rape is illegitimate. Whatever.”

“No matter what, avoid voicing thoughts such as, ‘This gal is probably not a candidate for Lululemon yoga pants.’”

I was unable to secure confirmation on any of the above despite investigative emails. The absence of transparency, of course, leads to rampant speculation. And, alas, mockery. Even though well-intended

and much-needed, the idea that men should get coaching on how to talk to women so as not to offend them is sort of 1950s prep school-ish, as have been some of the suggestions directed their way.

“You have to connect with women on an KATHLEEN emotional level,” said Mark Jacobs, PARKER Republican Senate candidate from Iowa, when a television interviewer asked him what the biggest difference is between men and women. “And with a wife of 25 years and an 18-year-old daughter, I’ve had a lot of coaching on that,” Jacobs continued.

There you go! See how simple?

In more speculation: “Madam Senator, I know it must be really hard to juggle your duties here with all the hormonal activity of a seasoned woman such as yourself — and I say that with great compassion because, you know, I

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have a wife, too. Hoo-boy, do I ever!

Just kidding. Sorry, Freudian boxers!

Heh-heh-heh. Hey, I thought they said you gals like to laugh?!”

All kidding aside, the real reason for these tutoring sessions is to ensure that incumbent Republicans, especially those who face female opponents, don’t commit any unforced errors on issues important to women. In recent years, women have been stampeding the other way like a herd of Gallimimus evading a T. rex or, in this case, a T. Akin, as in Todd, the former Missouri congressman who helpfully defined “legitimate rape.”

If I may: Gentlemen, one should connect with women emotionally in the privacy of one’s own home. At work, you can talk to a woman just as you talk to a guy, assuming you’re communicating about work-related issues. If you are confused about this, you should assume the fetal curl in the privacy of your therapist’s office.

The truth is, Democrats have engaged in such training, too.

Notably, Joe Biden was coached about how to deal with Sarah Palin during the 2008 vice presidential debate: gently, kindly and without

The Republican Party is not anti-woman despite exhaustive messaging from the left.

Yes, they are pro-life, but this is hardly a ridiculous position.

• condescension or even a tiny hint of bullying. Biden performed admirably, flashing his million-buck smile without betraying his certain interior bafflement.

Further to truth, except for the occasional nitwit, the Republican Party is not anti-woman despite exhaustive messaging from the left. Yes, they are pro-life, but this is hardly a ridiculous position.

Unfortunately, as a society, we’ve stopped thinking about life beyond that which pertains immediately and pleasurably to our own gratification.

What is ridiculous is Republicans’ incompetence in communicating their case. My advice would be to stop trying. Paul Ryan is

pro-life, but you don’t hear him yakking about it.

The GOP is not helped by such characters as Rush Limbaugh, whom the White House brilliantly tagged as leader of the party and who may be the single greatest obstacle to attracting women. His latest insult among many was advice to women concerned with sexual harassment: “Please ask your breasts to stop staring at my eyes.”

Are you laughing yet, ladies?

Didn’t think so.

Rather than tutor men about how to talk to women, Republicans might do better to recruit some of their own smartest women to public service. The boys might discover that women, rather than looking for a man to handle things, just want to get stuff done. One does fear, however, that once these freshly counseled gents witness intelligent, conservative women committing government, they might swoon from the shock of revelation and, you know, try to connect emotionally.

KATHLEEN PARKER is a syndicated columnist with Tribune Media Services.

She can be reached at kathleenparker@ washpost.com

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Briefs • Hearings set for newlyweds in Craigslist death HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Separate preliminary hearings are slated next week for the Pennsylvania newlyweds police say fatally stabbed a stranger they lured through Craigslist because they wanted to kill somebody together.

Twenty-two-year-old Elytte Barbour and 18-yearold Miranda Barbour, of Selinsgrove in central Pennsylvania, are scheduled to appear Friday at the Northumberland County Courthouse. They are charged with criminal homicide and other offenses in the apparently random killing of 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara, of Port Trevorton, in Sunbury on Nov. 11.

Edward Greco is the Northumberland County chief public defender who is representing Miranda Barbour. He says she is expected to plead not guilty.

The husband is being represented by a different court-appointed lawyer, who didn’t return several phone messages seeking comment.

They are being held without bail.

Air France flight grounded by terror threat CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A Paris-bound flight was rescheduled for Sunday after Venezuela grounded an Air France plane that French intelligence authorities said terrorists might have been planning to blow up.

Venezuela and French officials on Sunday did not provide information about the search of the aircraft, or offer details about the earlier tip that a terrorist group was possibly planning to plant an explosive device on the plane and detonate it in midair.

Venezuelan Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres had told state TV late Saturday that more than 60 technicians, bomb experts and a canine team would perform an exhaustive search of the aircraft before the flight could be reprogrammed. Hours after the flight’s scheduled departure at 7:25 p.m.

Saturday it was unclear when the results of the search would be announced.

The precise nature of the bomb threat was not known, but Rodriguez Torres said that French authorities passed along information from a credible source that a terrorist group was seeking to place a bomb aboard an unspecified flight from Caracas to Paris.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Undaunted hobbits trumped princess power at the multiplex.

Per studio estimates Sunday, Warner Bros.

“Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” featuring Bell Kristin Bell, was No. 1 at the weekend box office with $73.7 million, besting last weekend’s No. 1 film, Disney’s animated fable “Frozen.”

Melting down to the No. 2 position, “Frozen” earned $22.2 in its third weekend, bringing its impressive overall domestic ticket total to nearly $164.4 million.

Internationally, the Disney hit gained $31.5 million.

Lionsgate’s holidaythemed “Tyler Perry’s a Madea Christmas” came in third place with $16.2 million.

Another Lionsgate film, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” earned $13.2 million for the fourth place slot. To date “Catching Fire” has grossed $739.9 million, surpassing the worldwide box office total for “The Hunger Games,” which brought in $691 million.

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Colorado governor visits shooting victim CENTENNIAL, Colo.

(AP) — Colorado’s governor asked the nation Sunday for prayers for the 17-yearold girl who was critically wounded by a classmate at her suburban Denver high school.

Gov. John Hickenlooper also credited security procedures adopted after the 1999 massacre at nearby Columbine High School for helping put a quick end to the Arapahoe High School shooting by Karl Pierson, an 18-year-old student who shot Claire Davis at point-blank

range before killing himself.

“We all have to keep Claire in our thoughts and prayers,” he told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Davis is hospitalized at Littleton Adventist Hospital.

Hickenlooper told The Associated Press that Davis’ parents “are remarkable people. I feel so directly their suffering. … They raised this beautiful young woman who had her whole life ahead of her.”

About 500 classmates held a candlelight vigil Saturday for Davis, who was

sitting with a friend near the school library when she was shot in the head. Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson has said investigators think she was shot at random by Pierson, who had gone into the school looking for a teacher with whom he had a dispute.

Pierson may have been nursing a grudge against the teacher — a librarian and head of the school debate team — since September.

Pierson was on the team and had been disciplined by the librarian for reasons yet to

be disclosed, the sheriff said.

He said Pierson threatened that teacher in September and came to the school Friday intending to harm him and inflict numerous other casualties.

Pierson excelled at speech and debate and was passionate about the team, friends said. They described him as a smart student who apparently didn’t shirk from confrontations in class.

“He’s a funny kid. He’s smart. He’s in the Eagle Scouts, a very intelligent kid.

Did not like being wrong,”

said August Clary, who was a friend of Pierson. “If you’re arguing with him, it’s going to be, that’s a feat if you win an argument against him.”

“He would not be afraid to tell someone how he feels,” said Zach Runberg, 18, a senior in Pierson’s English class.

Pierson legally bought a shotgun on Dec. 6 at a local store, and he purchased ammunition the morning of the shootings. He managed to ignite a Molotov cocktail inside the school library.

Neighbor of Ohio girl found dead in trash arrested SMITHVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A neighbor was arrested Sunday in the killing of a 9-year-old Ohio girl whose body was found in a trash bin near her home after authorities and residents conducted a frantic search for the missing child.

Jerrod Metsker, 24, was arrested at his home on a murder charge about 12 hours after deputies found the body of Reann Murphy near her home at a mobile park in Smithville, about 30 miles southwest of Akron, Wayne County Sheriff Travis Hutchinson said at a news conference.

It was not immediately clear whether Metsker had an attorney. His first court appearance is scheduled Monday morning.

Metsker was arrested at his home after he ignored knocks on his front door and deputies obtained a key from a family member, Hutchinson said.

Reann was last seen Saturday night playing outdoors at the park. Officers, firefighters and neighbors joined in the search for Reann,

going door-to-door and combing area properties.

Hutchinson wouldn’t say how Reann was killed or offer a motive. He described Metsker as a family friend and neighbor.

“All she did was love people,” Reann’s father, Richard Murphy, told The Daily Record in Wooster. He said that he wanted the “worst for the guy” who killed his daughter and declined to comment further.

A woman who answered the phone at a number listed for Murphy hung up on The Associated Press.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family,” Wayne County Prosecutor Dan Lutz said at the news conference.

“It’s a horrific incident to take place at any time, especially during the holidays.”

Marilyn Briggs, who lives in a house next to the mobile home park where Reann lived, said she didn’t know the little girl or her family but was shaken by the killing.

“It sickens me and I’m so sad for the family, and this close to Christmas,” she said.

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Whole lotta Santas Santacon participants lineup outside a lower eastside bar on Saturday in New York. Thousands of red-suited revelers spread out through the city’s bars and snowy streets amid criticism that the annual event has become too rowdy.

Kerry visits Vietnam U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, visits the village of Kien Vang along the Mekong River Delta on Sunday. Along the winding muddy waters of the Mekong

Delta where he once patrolled for communist insurgents on a naval gunboat, Secretary of State Kerry turned his sights Sunday on a new enemy: climate change.

Study: Many trains don’t use widely available auto brakes NEW YORK (AP) — After a speeding Metro-North Railroad commuter train barreled into a curve and derailed in New York City on Dec. 1, safety advocates said similar deadly accidents might soon be avoided. Railroads across the country are preparing to deploy high-tech control systems that will let computers automatically slow trains that are moving too fast or headed for a collision.

Yet there is already low-tech equipment, widely available since the Great Depression, that could have prevented the crash, and every Metro-North train already has it.

For many years, the trains have been outfitted with control systems that will sound an alarm if an engineer exceeds a designated speed or blows through a red light, then robotically slam on the brakes if the driver doesn’t respond.

Historically, though, the system has been used on Metro-North mainly to keep

trains from colliding, not to enforce speed limits on curves, hills or bridges.

That meant that no alarm sounded when engineer William Rockefeller failed to slow as he approached a tight curve in the Bronx.

Federal investigators said the train was moving at 82 mph, well above the curve’s 30 mph speed limit. Four people died in the wreck.

Rockefeller said he became dazed or nodded at the controls, according to federal investigators, his lawyer and a union official.

A week after the derailment, Metro-North adjusted its signaling system so trains approaching the bend too fast will trigger the alarm and automatic braking system.

Similar upgrades are planned over the next few months to enforce speed limits at eight other curves and bridges in Metro-North’s 384-mile system.

The relatively quick fix for the deadly section of track raises a question: Why wasn’t it done sooner?

The simplest answer

seems to be that on most U.S. rail systems, engineers have been seen as capable of handling routine speed adjustments on curves and bridges without mechanical backup.

“We operated trains for 30 years and 11 months without a fatality,” said Marjorie Anders, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees Metro-North operations.

She added, though, that since the accident, the agency was rethinking its safety operations from top to bottom. Anders said the MTA hasn’t yet calculated the cost of installing the safety equipment.

Accidents involving engineers rounding curves too quickly aren’t common, but they can be catastrophic.

Last July, 79 people died in Spain when a passenger train hit a curve at 121 mph.

The Spanish rail system had sophisticated automatic braking systems, similar to the new “positive train control” systems being deployed in the U.S.

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government aircraft dropped barrels packed with explosives on opposition-held areas of the contested northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, leveling buildings, incinerating cars and killing at least 37 people including 16 children, activists said.

Aleppo has been a major front in the Syrian civil war since rebels launched an offensive on the city in mid-2012. Nearly a year and a half of fighting has destroyed much of the city, while also cutting it up into rebel-held and government-controlled areas.

On Sunday, government helicopters pounded the opposition neighborhoods of Haidariya, Ard al-Hamra, Sukhour, Marjeh and at least two others with barrel bombs, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Observatory director Rami Abdurrahman

said Syrian air force jets were also flying sorties over the same districts.

The government frequently uses barrel bombs, which contain hundreds of pounds of explosives and cause massive damage on impact.

The Aleppo Media Center activist group said government aircraft dropped at least 25 barrel bombs on the city Sunday.

One amateur video provided by the AMC showed the aftermath of a strike on a roundabout in Haidariya where an informal station for transport vans was located. In the video, residents investigate the smoldering wreckage of at least three vehicles destroyed in the bombing. Sirens wail in the background.

Another amateur video posted online showed the aftermath of a strike on Sukhour. The footage

shows a crowd gathered in a narrow street littered with shattered masonry and other rubble from a house that appeared to have been hit by the airstrike.

The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting.

The Observatory, which monitors the conflict through a network of activists on the ground, also said the number people killed in the town of Adra northeast of Damascus after an al-Qaida-linked rebel faction attacked on Wednesday has risen to 32.

Abdurrahman said the dead are primarily members the Alawite sect, as well as a few Druse and Shiite Muslims.

The killings point at the dark sectarian overtones the conflict has taken on since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began with largely peaceful protests in March 2011.

Northeast also hit Children killed in Syria with snowstorms HARTFORD, Conn.

(AP) — A weekend storm that dumped a foot or more of snow in parts of the Northeast made ski area operators and snow removal workers happy, but travelers were forced to deal with slippery roads and flight cancellations Sunday.

Molly Taaffe, 23, was on the slopes at Loon Mountain in Lincoln, N.H., by 8 a.m. for her 10th day of skiing this season. She said it was her best outing yet.

“There’s nothing like powder,” she said. “It’s incredible. It’s really busy, everyone’s so excited. You don’t get a lot of days like this on the East Coast, so when you do everyone’s psyched.”

Snowfall in the region ranged from 2 to 8 inches in Connecticut and Rhode

Island to almost 11 inches in northern Massachusetts and nearly 17 inches on Maine’s southern coast, according to the National Weather Service.

“We term it a kind of low-end nor’easter,” said Bill Simpson, a meteorologist for the Weather Service.

“It’s a pretty typical winter storm.”

Some Christmas shoppers saw the storm as an opportunity to avoid crowds Sunday morning.

“It is slippery and no one is out,” said Bruce Long of Boston, who was shopping in Newton, Mass., just west of Boston “They’re warning people that if you have to get out, do it now because later it’s going to get cold. This is all going to turn to ice and it will be a mess.”

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Widower should reach out to others at holidays DEAR ABBY: Christmas is coming, and I dread it. I have only my brother, his wife and their kids. I’m on Social Security disability and I barely make it each month.

They buy me gifts, but I feel embarrassed to accept them because I can’t buy anything for them. It makes me feel small.

Even though I have nothing to offer my nieces, my brother and sister-in-law persuade me to go anyway.

They are financially much better off than I am.

I lost my wife a year ago.

I see everyone else having someone in their lives and I feel alone. There’s just me and my dog now. The holidays hurt. What can I do? — MISERABLE IN MASSACHUSETTS DEAR MISERABLE: You have something to give to your relatives. It’s the gift of your PRESENCE. If you have a talent, share it with them.

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As flabbergasted as I was, I have a theory: Men today ARE different from those of the past, and my guess it’s because the pierced and tattooed gals today speak and act like sailors, therefore ruining it for the rest of us. Am I right? — PUZZLED IN FLORIDA DEAR PUZZLED: No. You need to speak up! The RULES OF DATING have changed over the last decades.

Many women expect — and prefer — to pay for their own meal and drinks on a first date. It has nothing to do with whether they are tattooed or use four-letter words. They like their independence, and sometimes earn more than their dates do.

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On this date Dec. 16: • In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.

• In 1811, the first New Madrid earthquakes struck the central Mississippi Valley with an estimated magnitude of 7.7.

In 1944, the World War II Battle of the Bulge began as German forces launched a surprise attack against Allied forces in Belgium.

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Over time, the monocytes grow and make granules inside themselves. They’re now called macrophages.

• The inflammatory cycle continues. Unfortunately, inflammation doesn’t eliminate the cholesterol. If anything, it makes the plaque bigger.

Macrophages stay in the artery wall, feeding on LDL and becoming engorged with cholesterol. At this point they are called “foam cells.” If these fat-stuffed foam cells could walk, they would waddle.

When the foam cells die, they spill their cholesterol and the inflammatory substances they are making right back into the plaque.

• Fibrous caps form and rupture. The artery attempts to seal off each plaque of atherosclerosis by covering it with a

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DEAR DOCTOR K: Can you explain how high cholesterol causes a heart attack or stroke?

DEAR READER: Cholesterol is a type of fat that travels in the bloodstream. Our bodies need some cholesterol to survive. But high levels of cholesterol in the blood — particularly low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, or “bad” cholesterol — increase your risk of cardiovascular disease.

Let’s look at the cascade of events that begins with high cholesterol and ends with a heart attack or stroke.

• LDL cholesterol enters the artery (blood vessel) wall. When there’s too much LDL cholesterol in your bloodstream, some of it sticks to your artery walls and penetrates into them.

These form what are called “fatty streaks.” Even young adults in good health develop fatty streaks. They don’t do any harm until and unless they

Because this is your first Christmas without your wife, it’s no wonder you feel alone.

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fibrous material. Eventually, what is called a “fibrous cap” forms over the area. This cap keeps the cholesterol inside the plaque.

However, the inflammation inside the plaque can eat away at the fibrous cap, weakening it. If and when the cap weakens a lot, it suddenly ruptures.

Cholesterol and the inflammatory substances inside the plaque spill out into the central channel of the artery. This can cause a blood clot to form.

When that happens, the plaque and the clot, together, can suddenly block the flow of blood through the artery. If the blockage is severe enough to rob a part of the heart muscle of the blood it needs, that part of the heart dies. That’s a heart attack. A similar process in the brain causes a stroke.

DR. KOMAROFF is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. His website is AskDoctorK.com.

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