The News Sun – December 27, 2013

FRIDAY December 27, 2013

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Weather Partly sunny, high 37, low tonight 26.

Warmer Friday, high in the low 40s.

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GOOD MORNING Wagon rides offered at Bixler Saturday KENDALLVILLE — Free horsedrawn wagon rides will be offered Saturday from 6-9 p.m. for the drive-through Christmas Community Greetings display in Bixler Lake Park.

Visitors can park and join the wagon rides at the campground display on the east side of Bixler Lake.

The display is open daily from 6-9 p.m. through Tuesday, Dec. 31.

Drivers need to use caution due to hole at railroad crossing KENDALLVILLE — City and Norfolk Southern officials are aware of a large hole in the northbound Riley Street crossing traffic lane, city engineering department administrator Scott Derby told the Board of Public Works Thursday morning.

Motorists should slow down and use caution when crossing the tracks until it can be repaired.

Norfolk Southern is responsible for the crossing and the repair, according to Derby, who has shown the hole to a track supervisor.

Just filling in hole would not resolve the problem, which lies with the subsurface material. The fill material would come out due to passing trains and vehicles.

The crossing is scheduled for reconstruction in the spring using concrete slabs like those in the Main Street crossing.

Pence aims to aid adoptive parents EVANSVILLE (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence is asking Indiana lawmakers to create a tax credit that would help parents offset the expenses of adopting a child.

Under Pence’s proposal, taxpayers benefiting from the federal adoption credit would be able to claim an additional credit on their state tax return.

The state tax credit would be tied to up to 10 percent of the amount the taxpayer claims for the federal credit.

For 2012 tax returns, the federal government offered a maximum, nonrefundable credit of $12,650, with that amount increasing to $12,970 for 2013.

The governor also wants an interim study committee to explore faith-based and community adoption programs.

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Feds sue for Miller’s employees WARSAW — The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit over what it says is a bank’s improper handling of employee funds for a northeast Indiana health care chain.

The lawsuit announced Thursday was filed in U.S. District Court to recover losses to the Miller’s Health Systems Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Miller’s Health is a Warsawbased company that manages long-term care and assisted-living

facilities, including Miller’s Merry Manor facilities in LaGrange and Garrett.

The suit alleges that PBI Bank Inc., trustee of the plan, authorized the purchase of company stock for $40 million, an amount far in excess of the fair market value of the stock. The suit also alleges that PBI Bank approved financing for the transaction at an excessive interest rate.

“Fiduciaries must act with undivided loyalty to plan

participants. When it comes to (employee stock ownership plan) purchases, they must ensure that the plan receives full value for its money,” said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Security Phyllis C. Borzi.

The suit alleges that PBI violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by imprudently and disloyally approving the purchase of stock by the plan. The suit seeks to require PBI to restore all

Shipshewana Ice Festival to begin SHIPSHEWANA — Ice Festival 2013 takes place today and Saturday in Shipshewana.

Today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., professional ice carvers will be drilling and shaving blocks of ice all over town, creating sculptures suggested by sponsors or of the carver’s choice.

Saturday at 10 a.m., ice carvers will compete for cash prizes in the Davis Mercantile parking lot, creating their own designs and sculptures.

The fifth annual Chili Cook-Off will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., also in the parking lot of Davis Mercantile. The contest is open to anyone, with no entry fee.

Trophies, cash awards and gifts will go to the top cooks. Entrants may call Jay Chupp 463-6175, to register.

A 2013 Shipshewana Ice Festival Pin will provide admission to the Chili Cook-off.

Pins will be available at many stores in Shipshewana or may be purchased at the chili tent during the event.

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Alfredo Arroyo of LaPorte creates a dragon during an ice sculpting contest at last year’s Shipshewana Ice Festival. This year’s festival opens today and continues through Saturday.

Facebook helps to nab suspect

BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com

ANGOLA — Savvy investigation by police and the victim of an alleged burglary led to the arrest of a LaGrange man, police said.

Bruce Wallace Perkins, 40, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant charging him with felony burglary and theft. Perkins He was arraigned Thursday morning

by Judge Randy Coffey, who set bail for his release at $30,000.

Perkins also is being held for failure to appear in court in two

2012 cases alleging battery and domestic battery.

Perkins is being represented by public defender Anthony Kraus, and he is scheduled to be back in court Feb. 3. A jury trial is set for March 20 in Steuben Superior Court.

An arrest warrant was filed Dec. 6 after blood samples collected at a Pleasant Lake business matched Perkins’ DNA, court documents say. Collectible coins and currency were taken from the business while it was closed Aug. 3-5.

During the initial investigation, Steuben County Sheriff’s deputies found blood on a motorcycle

parked in the building.

The owner of the business reported seeing items that appeared to belong to him on sale Aug. 23 at an Angola antique store. The Angola Police Department took the evidence from the store, and subsequent police interviews led to Perkins, police say. A photo of Perkins taken from Facebook matched the person seen on a surveillance video from the night of the burglary, court documents say.

Burglary is a Class C felony punishable by up to eight years in prison. Theft is a Class D felony, which carries up to a three-year penalty.

losses suffered by the plan, plus interest.

The Chicago Regional Office of the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration investigated a September 2007 stock purchase.

The department concluded that, as a result of the design of the transaction and the fiduciary breaches of PBI, the stock purchase was not for the primary benefit of participants and did SEE MILLER’S, PAGE A8

Obama signs bills HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a bipartisan budget deal Thursday easing spending cuts and a defense bill cracking down on sexual assault in the military, marking a modest end to a challenging year for the White House and Congress.

Obama put his signature on both hard-fought bills while vacationing in Hawaii, where the president has been laying low since Saturday as he regroups for the midterm election year ahead. The bill signing marks one of Obama’s last official acts in a year beset by a partial government shutdown, a near-default by the Treasury, a calamitous health care rollout and near-perpetual congressional gridlock.

Although the budget deal falls short of the grand bargain that Obama and congressional Republicans once aspired to, it ends the cycle of fiscal brinkmanship — for now — by preventing another shutdown for nearly two more years.

But the rare moment of comity may be short-lived. Hanging over the start of the year is a renewed fight over raising the nation’s borrowing limit, which the Treasury says must be resolved by late February or early March to avert an unprecedented U.S. default. Both sides are positioning behind customary hard-line positions, with Republicans insisting they want concessions before raising the debt limit and Obama insisting he won’t negotiate.

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Storm effects linger GARDINER, Maine (AP) — Snow fell Thursday in places still hustling to get power back on after a weekend ice storm that turned out the lights from Michigan to Maine and into Canada.

Eastern Maine and parts of the state’s interior that have been without electricity since Sunday anticipated 3 to 7 inches of snow by the time the latest system pushed off the coast Thursday night. Utilities worried that the additional weight on branches and transmission lines could cause setbacks in the around-the-clock efforts to restore power.

“We don’t think it’s going to help us much, that’s for sure,” said Susan Faloon, a spokeswoman

for Bangor Hydro Electric in Maine. “There was some concern expressed over the last couple of days about that storm coming because obviously we still have lot of stuff weighing down trees and lines.

“The system is pretty compromised out there,” she said.

“We expect we will have more outages.”

In Michigan, where about half a million homes and businesses lost power at the peak of the weekend storm, an inch or so of snow was expected. Utilities there reported 101,000 customers without power Thursday morning and said it could be Saturday before all SEE STORM, PAGE A8

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Ice from Monday’s storm still clings to branches as Ken Finnegan loads his truck with firewood Thursday in Litchfield, Maine. Many people in the town have been without power for four days.

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WN teacher grateful for support after fire

BY BOB BUTTGEN bbuttgen@kpcmedia.com

LIGONIER — A West Noble schoolteacher whose home was heavily damaged by a Christmas morning fire had a special message for her students Thursday night.

As the investgation continues into the cause of blaze at the South Main Street home of Joe and Christy Hofmeister, the family is dealing with the loss of many

of its possessions and extensive damage to their home in Ligonier.

Christy Hofmeister is a secondgrade teacher at West Noble Elementary School. The family is staying with friends and trying to salvage what they can from their home.

“I want everyone to know that my family is safe and doing good,” Christy Hofmeister said Thursday night. “I want my

students to know that I will see them on January 7 when they come back to school, and that no one in my family got hurt.

“I want to thank everyone for their prayers, words of encouragement, and things that they have given to us. I have felt so much love and we appreciate everything.

This has definitely been a tough situation, but we know that God is going to get us through this. We

are just taking one day at a time,” she added.

Firefighters were able to rescue two of the family’s pets, a lizard and hedgehog. The house has extensive smoke and water damage; almost everything in the house has soot on it from the fire. Damage to the house was contained to the rear of the home but that damage was heavy.

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Board of Works to decide on signs in right-of-way

BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com

KENDALLVILLE — The Board of Public Works and Safety, not the Board of Zoning Appeals, will review requests to place storefront signs that project into the city’s right-of-way.

The city’s zoning code states “signs may be installed on-site, providing that no portion of the sign encroaches onto any public or private right-of-way or easement.” In a memo to the Board of Works and Safety, Dave Lange, director of planning and zoning, said the Board of Zoning Appeals has no jurisdic-

tion in determining any variance approval for this type of request.

Jansen Family Dentistry, 230 S. Main St., requested a variance from the code to place a hanging sign on its refurbished front facade that projects into the public right-of-way space. Lange said the Board of Public Works should decide on the variance, since it involves a public right-of-way.

The board approved the variance Thursday morning.

Lange recommended the board use these guidelines: 8-foot minimum sign height above ground; at least 2 feet from curb;

Police Blotter • Driver injured in rollover crash CROMWELL — A Ligonier man was injured when a car rolled over Monday, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said.

Miguel A. Lopezflores, 21, was driving eastbound on Cromwell Road, approaching U.S. 33, before 6:25 p.m. when the 2005 Dodge Neon he drove left the road at a curve and rolled over. The car hit a grain wagon and warning sign.

Lopezflores suffered a laceration of his right hand and abrasions to his right forearm. He was transported to a hospital by private vehicle. Damage was estimated at $5,001$10,000.

Noble County EMS assisted at the scene, deputies said.

Two booked into Noble County Jail ALBION — Two people were booked into the Noble County Jail Tuesday and Wednesday, the county sheriff’s department said.

• Carol Lynn Craft, 55, of Avilla was booked on a warrant charging her with theft-receiving stolen property.

• Jesus Lopez-Martinez, 25, of Elkhart was charged with operating a motor vehicle while never receiving a license.

Howe man arrested AUBURN — A LaGrange County man was arrested late Tuesday night, according to DeKalb County Jail records.

Tyler Chaffins, 27, of the 900 block of West C.R. 700N, Howe, was arrested at 11:09 p.m. by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department on a charge of driving while suspended with prior conviction, a Class A misdemeanor.

Residence burglarized on Christmas Eve LIGONIER — Someone broke into a residence and stole items overnight on

Christmas Eve, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said.

Items stolen from the residence in the 5000 block of West C.R. 850N included a Bostick 20.4-volt cordless nail gun in a black plastic case valued at $250 and a Colt 1911 6-inch target soft pellet pistol. The burglary was reported Christmas Day at 8:49 a.m.

Collisions reported ALBION — Two collisions with no injuries and estimated damages of $2,501-$5,000 were reported Sunday and Tuesday, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said.

• Lance S. McParlan, 22, of Albion was northbound on U.S. 33 just south of C.R. 50W at 7:39 p.m.

Sunday when he tried to turn his 2007 Chevy Silverado left into a parking lot and struck a southbound 2003 Ford Taurus driven

by Nicholas Uecker, 49, of Churubusco. McParlan reportedly failed to see the car before the impact.

• William W. Hulwick, 84, of Kendallville was northbound on Riley Road at 11:36 a.m. Tuesday when he passed a stopped delivery truck, returned to his lane of travel, then began to turn his 2004 Ford Ranger westbound onto Wakefield Circle.

Hulwick turned the pickup in front of a 1993 Toyota Tercel driven by Anthony M. Strack, 21, of Kendallville. The car and pickup collided.

2 SUVs hit deer ALBION — Two sport-utility vehicles hit deer in accidents with no injuries and estimated damages of $2,501-$5,000 apiece, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said.

• The SUV of Stuart R. Blackburn, 42, of Kendallville ran into a deer on C.R. 450E near C.R. 800N Dec. 7 at 7:46 a.m.

• An SUV driven by Cortney E. Berry, 22, of Kendallville struck a deer on S.R. 8 near C.R. 200N Dec. 20 at 7:46 a.m.

Kendallville • no flashing lights or animated messages distracting to motorists; securely attached to building; and signs maintained by owner.

In other business, the board: • authorized Police Chief Rob Wiley to borrow $16,995 from Campbell & Fetter bank at 1.73 percent interest over one year to pay for a 2014 Ford Explorer Interceptor police vehicle. Another $10,000 for the vehicle will come from the police department’s 2013 budget.

The new vehicle will replace an

older vehicle that will become the second school resource officer’s car.

• approved a $405 sewer bill adjustment for 2914 Noble Hawk Drive after the water quality control department determined excess water usage did not enter the sanitary sewer system.

• approved a $551 sewer bill adjustment for 728 Dowling St. after the water quality control department determined water from a pipe leak did not enter the sanitary sewer system.

• accepted improvements to Hummon Drive.

• approved these purchases:

a large document scanner for $6,395 for the engineering department; a new sound recording system for the City Hall council chambers from B&H Photo for $1,350; a security door for City Hall from Kine Builders for $2,185; 540 tons of salt for streets for $33,172; a paint striper and paint for the street department for $9,570; and a Kubota RTV for Lake View Cemetery maintenance for $10,500.

• approved water quality control department superintendent Bill Forbes’ request to hire Timothy Hathaway to replace Mike Taulbee, who is retiring.

Kids bored?

Try these suggestions

BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com

CLEAR LAKE — Dick Powers and his family of four simply do not know the meaning of being bored during the two-week Christmas vacation from school.

“I hear people say ‘I’m bored,’” he said, then ticked off a list of activities he plans on doing with his wife, Jill, and their two daughters, Paige, 10 and McKenna, 8.

“We’re trying to maintain our sleep schedules,” he said, adding Steuben County has beauty others don’t realize and the key is to take advantage of it. He and his family are also looking forward to Clear Lake’s ice getting thicker.

“We’re looking at more sledding, hiking through the land conservancies,” he said.

Another special project, he said, involves his daughters and their books.

“They read a lot,” he said. “They will go through their books they read at earlier ages … and donate them.”

There are other ideas to curb cries of, “Mom, I’m bored!” Free or low-cost activities abound in the area: • Pokagon State Park, 450 Lane 100, Lake James, 833-2012, offers hiking and snowshoeing in its 1,260 acres. The park’s nature

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Pokagon State Park’s Toboggan Run had a steady flow of winter thrill seekers Thursday, as shown with this family. The toboggan run will continue to operate

center has limited hours and all types of educational activities. For details, visit in.gov/dnr/parklake.

• Pokagon’s second-annual first-day hike and campfire will be New Year’s Day at 1 p.m. Participants will meet in the Potawatomi Inn’s Lonidaw Lounge, and the walk will end at the toboggan run.

• Pokagon’s toboggan run has extended hours through Jan. 3 with rental fees. Hours will include 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Wednesday. The fees are in addition to Pokagon park admission fees.

• Geo-caching in northeast Indiana is open in Shipshewana year-round for families. Geo-caching is a family-oriented activity using a Global Positioning

with extended hours during the holiday school break. Toboggan rental fees are in addition to park admission.

Systems. For details, call 800-254-8090.

• Chain ‘O Lakes State Park, 2355 C.R. E 75S, Albion, also has a first-day hike around a 3/4-mile loop at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

• Public libraries have limited holiday hours, and most events are free events, unless otherwise noted.

• Build a snow fort.

• Stay inside and fingerpaint or do crafts.

• Read a good book.

• Hometown movie theaters offer entertainment and popcorn for affordable prices.

• Wild Winds Buffalo Preserve, 6975 N. Ray Road, Fremont, is open year-round. Call 495-0137.

• Some museums are open during the holidays in the area. Check for hours.

• YMCAs in Steuben,

DeKalb and Noble counties offers exercise programs and activities for all ages.

Check facilities and fee structures for more details.

• Make a snowman or, to be politically correct, snow person.

• Take a dip in the annual Jack Gibson Polar Bear Plunge Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Hamilton Lake Beach.

The plunge benefits the Jack Gibson Scholarship Fund.

• The next day, trek on over to Bixler Lake, Kendallville, for the annual Polar Bear Plunge. It starts with registration at 3 p.m., and 4 p.m. is the actual plunge time.

• Cruise around at night and take in the Christmas lights and decorations.

• Use your imagination and come up with your own fun.

Stutzman: ‘Volcker Rule’ would hurt community banks WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-3rd, and six other members of Congress representing Indiana districts have asked federal regulators to change a rule affecting the treatment of trust-preferred securities, which they said would hurt community banks in the state.

The group led by Stutzman said unless the provision of the “Volcker Rule” relating to trust-preferred securities is changed,

it could have an immediate, devastating impact on consumer lending and on the health of financial institutions in Indiana.

The group wrote a letter on the issue for Federal Stutzman Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other regulators they believed could help. Stutzman is

a member of the House Committee on Financial Services.

“Unless Washington’s bureaucracy reverses its course before the end of the year, Hoosier lending institutions could face nearly $60 million in losses,” Stutzman said in a prepared statement.

The trust-preferred securities provision of the rule has been opposed strongly by the Independent Community Bankers of America and by the

American Bankers Association. The ABA threatened a court challenge to the “Volcker Rule” if it is not changed.

The groups said the trust-preferred securities provision of the rule, issued in mid-December, would require banks to divest themselves by July 2015 of collateralized debt obligations backed by the securities and recognize the impairment immediately, to comply with accounting standards.

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Authorities: Convicted murderer behind jail attack FORT WAYNE (AP) — Authorities say a man sentenced last week to the maximum sentence of 65 years in prison for murder was the inmate who assaulted and seriously injured a confinement officer at the Allen County Jail.

Sheriff’s department spokesman Jeremy Tinkel says 18-year-old Deadrian Boykins will be charged with battery to a law enforcement officer, a class C felony. He was sentenced Friday for the April slaying of 17-year-old Elijah Freeman in Fort Wayne.

Tinkel says the confinement officer, Quinton Greer, remains hospitalized in serious but stable condition following the Christmas morning attack. Tinkel says Greer has worked three years as a confinement officer.

IU professor fully recovered from London injury BLOOMINGTON (AP) — An Indiana University professor who suffered a serious brain injury in a London bus accident says she’s fully recovered from her injury.

Lisa Bingham is one of the world’s

leading experts in conflict resolution and collaborative governance. Both she and her then-boyfriend Terry Amsler suffered fractured skulls in February when a bus struck Amsler as the couple was holding hands at a London intersection.

Bingham and Amsler were placed in medically induced comas immediately after suffering their brain injuries.

But they eventually recovered and in September they married.

Bingham tells The Herald-Times the worst thing about she and her future husband’s injuries was being unconscious while their loved-ones were in distress and waking up with no memory of their relatives’ ordeal.

Fire that leveled church also melted its bell PRAIRIE CREEK, (AP) — A western Indiana congregation whose rural church was recently gutted by a fire also lost their sanctuary’s beloved nearly 160-year-old bell to the intense flames.

The Dec. 5 fire that left the Prairie Creek First Baptist Church in ruins also melted its bell, which was found in the church’s basement after the steeple that

once held it collapsed during the fire.

Pastor Kevin Dobson said the bell was a big part of the rural church, in part because many children had pulled on a rope to ring the bell over the decades.

“Lots of kids have been lifted into the air by the weight of that bell over the years,” Dobson told the TribuneStar.

The bell was cast in 1855, more than 20 years before the church was built in 1876. The church’s insurance will replace the sanctuary but won’t pay for much of the interior work or to replace he bell.

A portion of the bell that survived the fire is now stored in the home of congregation member Dan Watson. He said he isn’t sure how much the 3-foottall bell originally weighed but said what remains is still very heavy.

“I was hoping we (would) find it intact,” Watson said.

When the fire took place, construction was underway to add on to the 137-year-old church. The congregation of about 80 people now gathers at the community center in Prairie Creek.

Despite an offer from another church to use its building, they’ve decided to rebuild the church and replace the bell.

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Make regular blood donation a New Year’s resolution FORT WAYNE — With the beginning of a new year comes a fresh start. New Year’s resolutions are often made to form good habits and reach new goals. This New Year’s, the American Red Cross encourages people to resolve to help patients in need through regular blood donations.

As the winter season continues, blood donations are especially needed.

Donations typically decline this time of year, as many regular donors are impacted by inclement weather and seasonal illnesses.

There is no better resolution to make this New Year’s than to help save lives with the Red Cross.

Give the gift of life and help give patients another year with their loved ones. Make an appointment to donate blood at redcrossblood.org or 800-RED CROSS. The Red Cross has scheduled the followingblood donation opportunities: • Friday, Jan. 3, from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at Faith United Methodist Church in the Fellowship Hall, located at 411 Harding St. in Kendallville. Come to donate and get a 2-ounce brick of Dunkin Donuts coffee and a coupon for a free pound of Dunkin Donuts coffee.

• Friday, Jan. 3, from noon until 6 p.m. at the Park & Recreation Center in the gymnasium, located at 320 W. Union St. in Ligonier.

Come to donate and get a 2-ounce brick of Dunkin

Donuts coffee and a coupon for a free pound of Dunkin Donuts coffee.

• Friday, Jan. 3, from noon until 5 p.m. at Asbury United Methodist Church in the Fellowship Hall, located at 605 E. Main St. in Albion. Come to donate and get a 2-ounce brick of Dunkin Donuts coffee and a coupon for a free pound of Dunkin Donuts coffee.

• Monday, Jan. 6, from 2-5 p.m. at Lutheran Life Villages, located at 351 N. Allen Chapel Road in Kendallville.

Monday, Jan. 6, from 9:30 a.m. until noon at Community State Bank, located at 802 E. Albion St. in Avilla.

Monday, Jan. 13, from 2-6 p.m. at St. Gaspar Catholic Church, located at 10871 N. S.R. 9 in Rome City.

Simply call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients.

A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in.

Individuals who are 17 years of age (16 with parental consent in some states), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Philly has its cheese steak, New Orleans – the muffaletta and Chicago its beloved hotdog. For nearly 90 years, Louisville diners have been enjoying an open-faced turkey sandwich with Mornay sauce, cheese, bacon and tomato that goes by the name of the “Hot Brown” on menus throughout the city. The Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau is introducing the Hot Brown Hop, a compilation of the local restaurants that feature a Hot Brown or a Hot Brown inspired menu item, to highlight the local food scene and pay homage to the famous dish that originated at the Brown Hotel.

More than 40 restaurants throughout Louisville are featured on the Hot Brown Hop, including its inventor and namesake the Brown Hotel. Many are within walking distance of each other downtown, on Bardstown Road, and Frankfort Avenue. Local chefs have taken some creative liberty on the original recipe with twists including a Hot Brown Soup, Hot Brown Pizza, Hot Brown Quesadilla, Pasta and even breakfast versions complete with an egg.

“The Hot Brown is without a doubt our most popular menu item — and we serve it at breakfast, lunch and dinner. People drive for hundreds of miles for this sandwich and we hope the Hot Brown Hop will encourage even more diners to come try it.”

— Brad Walker, General Manager of the Brown Hotel.

Brochures including the entire list of locations are available at: the Brown Hotel, 335 W. Broadway – corner of 4th and Broadway; the Louisville

Today Community Table: Free Meal & Groceries: Free meal from 10:30-11:30 a.m., and Community Harvest food truck delivering at 11 a.m. Trinity Assembly of God Church, 1288 W. Union St., Ligonier. 10:30 a.m.

Euchre Community Game: Noble County Council on Aging, 111 Cedar St., Kendallville.

12:30 p.m.

Central Noble Food Pantry: Provides dry goods, health and beauty products, dairy and meat. Call Bonnie Brownell at 564-8160 for more information. Central Noble Food Pantry, 104 N. South Orange St., Albion.

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Christmas turkey A large group of young turkeys traveled through Richard Oxenger’s yard on Clear

Lake Drive Christmas day, enjoying corn he provides for wildlife.

Part of Greenwich Village gets landmark status

NEW YORK (AP) — The city’s newest historic landmark is part of a neighborhood where generations of American cultural greats staged their art, music, literature and politics — from Edgar Allan Poe and Bob Dylan to Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg.

About 250 buildings in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday after Visitors Center, 301 S. 4th a unanimous vote by the St.; Louisville Stoneware, city’s Landmarks Preser731 Brent St. and online vation Commission. Row at gotolouisville.com/ houses, small theaters, cafes hotbrownhop. and clubs that welcomed the Participants of the Hot likes of Lenny Bruce and Brown Hop are invited to Eugene O’Neill are part of share their experience via the 13-block South Village social media. Photos of Historic District adjoining customers enjoying a Hot Washington Square Park.

Brown and tagged with Commission Chairman #hotbrownhop on Facebook, Robert B. Tierney called Twitter, or Instagram the landmarking, which will will automatically be make it much more difficult entered into a contest for for developers to touch the a monthly give-away of a area, “a slam dunk.”

Hot Brown platter furnished Without landmarking,

by Louisville Stoneware. many famed spots have After a year, a grand prize disappeared, including the drawing for a weekend San Remo Cafe, which stay at the Brown Hotel billed itself as America’s will take place among all first Italian coffeehouse and entries. was a favorite hangout of About the Hot Brown: A Davis, Jack Kerouac, Dylan Hot Brown is an open-faced Thomas, William Burroughs sandwich originally created and others who made the at the Brown Hotel by chef Village “one of the most Fred K. Schmidt in 1926. important cultural and social It was created to serve as centers of the city,” the an alternative to the usual commission said. ham and egg late-night Musician and software suppers enjoyed by hungry entrepreneur Mark Fiedler, patrons at dinner dances who has lived in the in the hotel. The original neighborhood for at least creation consisted of three decades, said he was bread and thick slices of “ecstatic” over the designaroasted turkey covered in a tion. delicate Mornay sauce and “We’ve been waiting topped with criss-crossed a very, very long time for slices of bacon. Mornay this,” he said. is a Béchamel, or white The Village Gate sauce, typically made nightclub and Back Fence with shredded or grated bar are gone, but the Bitter cheese. The Brown Hotel End survived, along with serves more than 900 of the memories of Peter, Paul and eponymous dish Kentucky Mary and Woody Allen.

Derby weekend alone. A Opposite Fiedler’s apartment Louisville tradition with house is a new eight-floor worldwide appeal— the building that blocks what dish has been featured in was once his view of the Southern Living, Saveur, Empire State Building Martha Stewart Living, uptown.

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The landmark status eliminates any future possibility of New York University erecting another high-rise dormitory near Washington Square Park, which could have been done before the designation, said Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, which spearheaded the landmarking effort.

Since the 1960s, nearly 2,500 Greenwich Village structures have been landmarked. The Village has become a fashionable residential area with prices that are off limits to many people.

It’s a far cry from the 19th-century neighborhood dominated by Italian immigrants. Then came a large black community. And the mid-20th century brought a rediscovery of Greenwich Village by bohemians including Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, who led the Beat Generation.

Bruce Springsteen fondly remembers the fun he and E Street Band member Steven van Zandt had in their Village days almost a half-century ago. Springsteen played at Cafe Wha?, which survived, and the basement Gaslight Cafe, which is gone.

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What’s left now is a panoply of architectural styles — from Federal and Gothic to Italianate and neo-Greek — that represent the history of the city.

Judith Callet, a Village resident since the early 1970s, said her neighborhood is one of the last in the city “where you can still see the sky and you still have air and light.”

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Dated at Albion, Indiana, this 12th day of December, 2013.

Michelle Mawhorter (seal) Clerk of the Noble Circuit Court For Noble County, Indiana Daniel F. Diggins Atty #10530-57 Attorney for Estate Emerick, Diggins & Zabona, PC 218 South Main Street Kendallville, IN 46755 (260) 347-1050 NS,00363740,12/20,27,hspaxlp LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given the Noble County Plan Commission will hold a public hearing on the following petitions: Said public hearing will be held in the Dekko Meeting Room, Noble County Office Complex-South, 2090 N State Road 9, Albion, IN, at 7:00 p.m. on: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Simple Subdivision 259 Sturgeon, Larry & Kathleen Request from the Noble County Unified Development Ordinance for a Simple Subdivision of 2.00+/- acres leaving parent parcel at 19.132+/acres to be known as Irish Acres.

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GARRETT — Dale D. Neukom Sr., 87, of Garrett, died Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013, at Miller’s Merry Manor in Garrett.

He was born Oct. 13, 1926, in Auburn to Reno and Edith (Carnahan) Neukom and they preceded him in death.

He Mr. Neukom married Theda Krum on July 3, 1947 in Ashley and she preceded him in death on May 8, 2001.

He retired from the Pennsylvania Railroad where he worked as a truck driver for 44 years. He also served in the Army during World War II. He was a member of the Shirts and Skirts in Auburn and the Pistols and Petticoats in Fort Wayne. He also was a member of the Garrett American Legion and the Garrett United Methodist Church.

He is survived by his son, Dale Jr. (Debbie) Neukom of Garrett; daughter, Debra (Pat) Casey of Eugene, Ore.; brother, Don Neukom of Fort Wayne; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Also preceding him in death were a daughter-in-law, Deborah McCullough Neukom; half-brother, Robert Carnahan; and half-sister, Jody Hulse.

Services will be Monday at 11 a.m. at Thomas Funeral Home, 1277 C.R. 56 Garrett. Burial will follow the funeral service at Christian Union Cemetery in Garrett.

Calling will be Sunday from 3-7 p.m. at the funeral home and one hour prior to the funeral service Monday.

Memorials may be made to Garrett United Methodist Church or Church at Garrett.

Condolences may be left at thomasfuneralhome.org.

LAGRANGE — Betty Eash, 81, of LaGrange, died Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne.

Services will be Monday at 10 a.m. at Frurip-May Funeral Home, 309 W. Michigan St., LaGrange.

Burial will be in Ontario Cemetery in rural Howe.

Calling will be Sunday from 2-6 p.m. at the funeral home.

Memorials are to LaGrange County Clothes and Food Basket.

Sharon Hensley ELKHART — Sharon A. Hensley, 66, of Elkhart, died at 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, at Woodland Manor Nursing Home in Elkhart.

Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013, in the Chapel Hill Cemetery, 10776 McKinley Highway, Osceola.

Memorials are to Harbor Light Hospice, 1608 E. Day Rd., Mishawaka, IN 46545.

Arrangements are by Owen Family Funeral Home, 1001 S. Huntington St., Syracuse.

Dolores Jacob ALBION — Dolores V. Jacob, 93, of rural Albion (Bakerstown) died Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, at 4:50 a.m. at Northridge Village in Albion.

She had been in failing health for the last month.

Services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Brazzell Funeral Homes, Albion Chapel. The Rev. Jon Stoltzfus of the Rehobeth Missionary Church will officiate. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery in Albion.

Visitation will be at the funeral home Monday from 4-6 p.m. and Tuesday noon until the time of service.

Memorials are to the Rehobeth Missionary Church or World Vision.

To sign an online guest register book or leave the family a message, go to www.brazzellfuneralhome. com

Freeman Lehman SHIPSHEWANA — Freeman M. Lehman, 75, of Shipshewana, died at 11:19 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013, at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne.

Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Levi Lee Beachy residence, 2685 S. 1000 W. Shipshewana.

Burial will be in Bontrager Cemetery, Shipshewana.

Calling will be all day today at the family residence, 2870 S. 1000 W. Shipshewana.

Miller-Stewart Funeral Home, Middlebury, is handling arrangements.

Alexander Noah CHURUBUSCO — Alexander Arthur “Alex” Noah, 24, formerly of Churubusco, died Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013.

Services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Sheets & Childs Funeral Home in Churubusco. Calling will be Saturday from 2-8 p.m. at the funeral home or one hour prior to the service.

Memorials are to Lighthouse Transitional Shelter or Whitley County Literacy Council.

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Americans waited until the last minute to buy holiday gifts, but retailers weren’t prepared for the spike.

Heavy spending in the final days of the mostly lackluster season sent sales up 3.5 percent between Nov. 1 and Tuesday, according to MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, which tracks payments but doesn’t give dollar figures.

Online shopping led the uptick, with spending up 10 percent to $38. 91 billion between Nov. 2 and Sunday, research firm comScore said.

“We always have last-minute Charlies, but this year even people who normally complete shopping earlier completed shopping later,” said Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at market research firm NPD Group.

The late surge caught companies off guard.

UPS and FedEx failed to deliver some packages by Christmas due to a combination of poor weather and overloaded systems, leaving some unhappy holiday shoppers.

Justin Londagin and his wife ordered their 7-yearold son a jersey of Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks from NFL’s web site on Dec. 19. They paid $12.95 extra for two-day

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Roman Catholic church official who has been jailed for more than a year for his handling of priest sex-abuse complaints had his conviction reversed and was ordered released Thursday.

In dismissing the landmark criminal case, a three-judge appeals court panel unanimously rejected prosecutors’ arguments that Monsignor William Lynn, the first U.S. church official ever charged or convicted for the handling of clergyabuse complaints, was legally responsible for the abused child’s welfare.

“He’s been in prison 18 months for a crime he didn’t commit and couldn’t commit under the law,” said his attorney, Thomas Bergstrom.

“It’s incredible what happened to this man.”

Lynn, 62, is serving a three- to six-year prison sentence after his child-endangerment conviction last year. His lawyers will try to get him released as early as this week from the state prison in Waymart. Prosecutors promised to fight the ruling and any move to release him.

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of accused priests to try to address the clergy abuse problem. But when Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua had the list destroyed, Lynn chose to stick around — and keep quiet, she said. A copy of the list was found years later in a safe and repeatedly was discussed at trial.

Sarmina, in sentencing Lynn in July 2012, had said the church administrator had “enabled monsters in clerical garb … to destroy the souls of children,” rather than stand up to his bishop.

Lynn told the judge: “I did not intend any harm to come to (the boy). The fact is, my best was not good enough to stop that harm.”

Lynn’s supporters believe he was made a scapegoat for the church’s sins, including two cardinals who were never charged. Nonetheless, Bergstrom said his client hopes to return to ministry, and has enjoyed support of the current Philadelphia archbishop, Charles J. Chaput, who twice visited him in prison.

Lynn had left the archdiocesan hierarchy for parish work after he featured prominently in a damning 2005 grand jury report into the priestabuse scandal. Then-District Attorney Lynne Abraham concluded that too much time had passed to charge anyone criminally despite decades of abuse complaints against dozens of priests.

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Three of them have been convicted while the jury deadlocked in the fourth case.

Lynn’s trial lasted several months, although a majority of the testimony involved victim testimony from earlier, uncharged priest-abuse cases, much of it graphic. Sarmina allowed the jury to hear that evidence to let prosecutors show the pattern of behavior

by Lynn and other church officials.

Bergstrom had also challenged that evidence on appeal, calling it unfair.

The Superior Court never addressed that concern or other alleged trial errors, concluding the charges themselves were flawed because Lynn was charged under an endangerment law adopted after he left his church post.

“This whole prosecution, it was absolutely founded on dishonesty,” Bergstrom said.

Prosecutors knew that the revised statute didn’t apply to Lynn, “and they went ahead anyway. … And now the Superior Court has told them (so).”

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Lynn’s attorneys have long contended the state’s child-endangerment law at the time applied only to parents and caregivers, not supervisors like Lynn. Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina had rejected their argument and allowed the case to move forward.

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said he strongly disagrees with state Superior Court panel’s 43-page opinion reversing Sarmina’s decision.

“Because we will be appealing, the conviction still stands for now, and the defendant cannot be lawfully released until the end of the process,” Williams said in a statement.

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We will enter 2014 with two big ‘unresolveds’ We live with artificial boundaries in space and time. The Danube pays no mind to borders; it runs through 10 countries, while the Amazon runs through six and the Nile through five. The 20th century arguably didn’t begin until 1914 and plausibly can be thought of having ended in 1989. Then again, the 19th century probably began shortly before noon on July 14, 1789, and ended shortly before 11 a.m. on July 28, 1914, while the 16th century may have lasted from 1450 to 1640.

Which is why it’s possible to argue that 2013 won’t end next week. It’s almost certainly going to extend into January and beyond if you stretch the definition of a year from a line of 365 days (or, every four years, 366) into an arc of events.

The struggles set in motion in this year will not be resolved

by New Year’s Eve, and the questions prompted throughout this year will not be answered by the time the Duke-Texas A&M game in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome is completed that night. They’ll press on, through the national college football championship game a week later — and beyond.

There are two predominant reasons. This is the first year of a two-year Congress and DAVID M. many of the pieces of legislation begun this year will, as a matter of course that has SHRIBMAN happened 112 times in the past, slop over to the new year. This is thoroughly unremarkable.

So, too, is the notion that larger movements in politics — the slide to the right of the Republicans and to the left of the Democrats, for example, and the tug-of-war between those who want to expand government and those who want to constrain it — do not respect the changing of the calendar.

They are the mainstreams of We have had these history and they flow on.

This year’s budget debates before. This negotiations and the series very conversation raged of short-term agreements underlined both the tensions near the start of the in our current politics and the limits of our political system. last century, and the On the surface these discusProgressives won … It sions were about this program and that, about this tax and raged during the Jimmy that entitlement, and also about Carter administration, the level of military spending.

These issues come and go and the Reaganites won. (though the tax and entitlement questions will come and go with increasing frequency as the decade wears on and demographic factors bear down), but they are proxies for a far bigger issue.

They are part of a classic confrontation between those who have an expansive view of the virtue and value of state spending and those who believe a vigorous, activist state is an intrusion on the natural order and a departure from our national character.

We have had these debates before. This very conversation raged near the start of the last century, and the Progressives won. It raged after the onset of the Great Depression, and the New Dealers won. It raged after the end of the Eisenhower years, and the New Frontier-Great Society visionaries and dreamers won. It raged again during the Jimmy Carter administration, and the Reaganites won.

These acolytes of Ronald Reagan held sway for about a generation, for in another example of how events conspire to defy the usual borders, it is quite possible to argue that Reaganite views controlled Washington, even the Carter White House, in the last two years of the Georgian’s presidency, seeped into the Bill Clinton years and prevailed through the first six years of the George W. Bush years.

Then the Reagan impulse petered out. The last years of the Bush 43 administration bore a great resemblance, if not precisely in the level of spending and in the size of the deficit then surely in the philosophy of governance, to the early years of the Obama administration. A quarter century from now you will see that historians will agree with me.

There are other great unresolveds. One is the definition of our parties, both philosophically and geographically. The Democratic Solid South has been replaced by a Republican version, and the parties no longer have conservative and liberal wings. We now have a liberal party and a conservative party.

The question remains whether a system so constituted — but surely not so designed — can long endure.

Another of the great unresolveds is whether health care is a national right to be enforced by Washington, much the way free access to the ballot box and equal protection of the laws — the one unresolved a half century ago, the other a century and a half ago — are now beyond debate.

One side believes fervently that it is, and that the march of history will lead us to a national concurrence, the way Medicare went from controversial to consensual. The other believes just as fervently that Obamacare is a dangerous departure from the American system, a restriction of freedom at odds with our history.

These two vantage points seem incompatible, but then again so did the two titanic forces — the Roosevelt insistence that the New Deal was an inevitable extension of historical forces and the conservative argument that it threatened the American character — that went to battle during the Great Depression.

It is interesting to note that as early as May 7, 1933, well before the end of his first Hundred Days, FDR was arguing that the country was facing a crisis that required a practical rather than a philosophical response. “That situation in that crisis did not call for any complicated consideration of economic panaceas or fancy plans,” he said in his second Fireside Chat. “We were faced by a condition and not a theory.”

The greatest unresolved of them all: Is our situation at the end of 2013 the result of a condition or a theory? On that rests everything else.

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Child’s promise is heartwarming Karen’s niece, Angie, overheard her husband, Dave, talking to their son, Blake, 2, “You know, one of these days I won’t be able to carry you anymore, Blakie … you’ll be too big!” Blake replied: “I carry you den, Dah-dee.” “Especially heartwarming is her note,” Karen wrote.

“Be still my heart.” — Karen Noll of Auburn Here is another story from Karen. Their grandson, who is in preschool, came home and told his mother in a frustrated tone, “Well, I didn’t get to eat lunch today.” His mother asked why and he promptly replied, “They served girl cheese sandwiches, and I couldn’t eat them.” She explained to him that they were “grilled cheese and not girl cheese!”

Fran’s grandson, Zach, who is now in his 20s, was with her at the grocery store one day long ago. They bought a scratch-off lottery ticket because he thought they were fun. Fran told him if they won, they would all go to Disney World. His eyes brightened up, so Fran told him that they had about as much of a chance of winning as they did getting hit by lightning.

She didn’t want him to get too excited. When they got home, Zach ran in the house and told everyone that, “Gam is going to win the lottery, but first she has to GRACE get struck by lightning!”

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When Fran’s children, who are now both in their early 50s, were youngsters, they would enjoy about a week every summer in Detroit going to baseball games while the Yankees were playing there. (Bill and Jeff were Yankee fans; Kim and Fran were Tiger fans.) One night after a game, they stopped on the way back to the motel for doughnuts and milk.

Jeff, who loved milk, ordered juice instead. Afterward Fran asked him why did didn’t want milk, and he told her that he didn’t know where they got their milk around there.

He hadn’t seen a cow for a hundred miles!

Dawn teaches the cubbies (ages 3 to 4) in her church’s AWANA group.

When they go downstairs for play time, they always tell the cubbies to be extra quiet when they walk pass the T and T’s because they are studying hard. One day of Dawn’s students said, “Ms. Dawn, don’t forget we have to be quiet when we walk past the volunteers!”— Dawn Keen of New Mexico

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Katelyn was at Dawn’s office because of a snow day at school. She was busy coloring a picture when her uncle arrived to pick her up. She said, “Uncle Juan, can’t you drive around the block again? I am not done with my picture yet.”

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What Others Say • Riley made healthy decision on fast food Let’s add together a few facts to understand why administrators at IU Health’s Riley Hospital for Children decided this week to sever their longtime relationship with McDonald’s.

Fact No. 1: Indiana has some of the worst rates in the nation for adult and child obesity. Fact No. 2: Hospitals have an obligation to promote healthy lifestyles, including good nutrition. Fact No. 3: Much of McDonald’s food, although admittedly popular, is loaded with calories, fat, cholesterol and salt.

Given that reality, it’s perfectly understandable why IU Health decided to close the fast-food giant’s outlet inside Riley. A similar set of facts has prompted the same decision by many other hospitals around the nation.

Still, some parents have objected to the decision, arguing that the McDonald’s at Riley has provided a welcome respite for exhausted adults and their frightened children.

The parents and patients certainly deserve to be heard. But healthy food, planned for the menu of a new cafe that will open at Riley early next year, need not be bland and boring. Or, as a Riley administrator noted, the cafe will serve more than broccoli and Brussels sprouts. The cafe can serve the same purpose — a place to rest, refuel and relax— as the McDonalds, but without the baggage of deep fryers and soda

machines.

What about providing a desperately sick child with the occasional treat? Families still can bring food into the hospital to comfort a patient with a cheeseburger or chicken nuggets. But Riley will provide healthier alternatives for patients and visitors without sending a mixed message about good nutrition.

Of all the places in our community where healthy lifestyles should be promoted, one of the nation’s great hospitals for children ought to be a leader. Riley’s administrators took the lead this week and made the right call.

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Balancing security, privacy A tough and thorough report by an independent panel of experts last week should be all the justification that President Obama needs to make critical changes in the National Security Agency’s spy programs to protect Americans’ privacy without undermining national security.

Until now, President Obama has tried to deflect criticism of the NSA secret surveillance projects that a federal judge last week labeled “nearly Orwellian.” The president has offered soothing assurances that he understands why the public is worried, but he has never committed to undertake the changes necessary to ensure a minimum level of privacy. It’s time to stop talking and start acting.

The report by a five-member panel

of intelligence and legal experts appointed by the president himself stopped short of recommending the dismantling of NSA programs designed to prevent acts of terrorism.

Nor should they have. The threat of terrorism on American soil remains very real.

But does that mean that the public has to surrender a reasonable expectation of privacy in communications, either by phone or in cyberspace? The NSA’s excesses, responding to orders from two administrations and from Congress, went far beyond what is necessary to maintain a proper balance between security and the right to be free of a smothering level of surveillance.

Among the most important is the recommendation that the data gleaned from systematically collecting the logs of every American’s phone calls — so-called metadata — should be held in private hands (phone companies or some sort of private consortium) and not by the government itself. The NSA would have to get a judge’s order to perform “link analysis” on any stored record.

The president is expected to announce next month what he intends do about the secrecy programs. He should embrace those changes that provide greater accountability and enhance the civil liberties of Americans. If there are recommendations he cannot accept, he must make a persuasive case to the public as to why.

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Mentally ill and backers fill Vermont orchestra SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Ronald Braunstein’s career as a musical conductor got off to a brilliant start. He attended The Juilliard School, performed as a guest with top orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, and won the prestigious Herbert von Karajan conducting competition in 1979.

But bipolar disorder slowed what might have been an explosive career, AP including three five-year Delta’s homegrown music, a subtle way periods when, he said, he In this Dec. 16 photograph, fourthof incorporating the Mississippi Blues grader Precious Reed, right, reacts to had trouble merely getting Trail Curriculum into their lessons the blues lyrics suggested by Heaven out of bed. of science, math, social studies and Jackson at Tunica Elementary School He met his wife, French English. in Tunica, Miss., as they explore the horn player Caroline Whiddon, when she was working as manager of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and Braunstein was hired as its music director. She had struggled with anxiety and depression.

Braunstein’s bipolar disorder was a factor in his firing from the youth TUNICA, Miss. (AP) quiet, respectful manner in rock ’n’ roll. The trail is a orchestra in 2011, they — In cotton country a the children. magnet for music aficiosaid. They responded by couple miles east of the Tunica Elementary nados, especially European Mississippi River, just off sits near a milo field just and Asian travelers seeking forming the Me2/orchestra — Me2, or “me, too,” as in a road known as the blues off of U.S. Highway 61, an off-the-beaten-path the shared struggles of its highway, fourth graders at the blues highway that experience of American musicians.

Tunica Elementary School meanders south out of culture — something other It’s billed as “the are exploring the Delta’s Memphis, Tenn., and down than theme parks and big world’s only classical homegrown music to learn through the cotton and cities. music organization for about rhythm, rhyme and soybeans fields of the flat The Blues Trail Curricchord progression.

Mississippi Delta. Tunica ulum draws on research that individuals with mental illness and the people who Their teacher is also County used to be one of was done for the highway support them,” a claim using the new Mississippi the poorest places in the markers. Mark Malone, a Whiddon said is based on Blues Trail Curriculum to United States, but about 20 music professor at William her scouring of the Internet. help the children absorb years ago the local economy Carey University, designed “I can’t find anyone online information in unexpected started to perk up with the the curriculum with help ways. arrival of casinos on the from Scott Barretta, a blues doing anything close to what we’re doing,” she Chevonne Dixon is one Mississippi River. Still, scholar at the University of said. of the first teachers in the Dixon says more than 90 Mississippi.

They’re hoping a perforstate to incorporate the blues percent of the students in The Mississippi Arts into science, math, social the school qualify for free Commission made the Blues mance as part of First Night Burlington, an annual New studies and English lessons. or reduced lunches — an Trail Curriculum available Year’s Eve arts festival in So far this school year, the indication of lingering this school year. It’s aimed Vermont’s largest city, will 9- and 10-year-olds in her poverty in a region where at fourth graders who are bring some attention to the class have written blues many of the children’s learning state history, but it 2-year-old ensemble. songs about the weather. parents and grandparents can be altered for younger Part of First Night’s They’ve composed short are unemployed or work and older students. Its mission is to make arts ditties about the travails of part-time agriculture jobs. lessons focus on six main accessible and open for being a kid. And they’ve In 2006, scholars and areas: music, meaning, participation to a broad read classic blues lyrics tourism promoters started cotton, transportation, civil to learn the challenges of working together on the rights and media. And while swath of the community, growing cotton.

Mississippi Blues Trail, a some traditional blues music Executive Director Tom Ayers said. So when Me2/ “It makes them recall series of highway markers has distinctly adult-themed orchestra applied, it was a information, especially with that provide informalyrics about drinking, perfect fit. that slow, melodic sound,” tion about people, places carousing or working for “It really goes to the said Dixon, who leads her and events significant in the man, the curriculum core of our mission,” Ayers classroom with a calm developing the hardscrabble presents age-appropriate said. demeanor that brings out a music that influenced themes.

Mississippi children learn with blues curriculum

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In this Sept. 12 photo, provided by Me2/Orchestra, Ronald Braunstein conducts a rehearsal of the orchestra in South Burlington, Vt. Bipolar disorder slowed what might have been an explosive career for Braunstein. With his wife, French horn player Caroline Whiddon, Braunstein now runs the Me2/ Orchestra, billed as “the world’s only classical music organization for individuals with mental illness and the people who support them.”

That kind of exposure is what Whiddon, the orchestra’s 44-year-old executive director, and Braunstein are looking for as they try to use the group to give the public less fear and more awareness of mental illness.

They said they took some of their inspiration from the Gay Men’s Chorus movement, which has singing groups in cities around the country. What those groups did for gay men they want to do for people struggling with mental illness.

“It’s all about removing the stigma,” Whiddon said, later adding, “They inspired people around the country to get together and support each other.”

Braunstein, 58, said he sees his own illness as a key part of his gift.

“I feel better able to hook into the grandiosity, the excitement, the profoundness and the depths, more than a person who is without bipolar,” he said. “I really do get to the highs and lows, extremely far apart.”

Braunstein said that his favorite composer is Beethoven — and that he feels a kinship with the 20th-century orchestra leader Otto Klemperer.

Both Beethoven and Klemperer are believed to have had bipolar disorder.

Just one of the manifestations of his bipolar disorder: He once got lost on his way to conducting a recent rehearsal in a room where he had worked with the group a dozen times

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But among the players in the Me2/orchestra, that was OK. Acceptance more than perfection is reason for the group’s existence. And the musicians get to play for a conductor of high stature.

At a recent rehearsal, the orchestra was preparing for concerts at Vermont’s Woodside Juvenile Detention Center and the First Night celebration on New Year’s Eve in Burlington — the latter modeled after the annual celebration in Vienna with the Radetzky March and Blue Danube Waltz.

Braunstein worked with the players on phrasing, articulation and other technical aspects. During the first hour of rehearsal, the improvements were obvious.

“You’re following me too much,” he told a timpanist he thought was not keeping up with the beat.

“Can you do the four bars in one breath?” he asked the horn players.

Double bassist Christa Mordoff, a youth counselor at the juvenile detention center, said during a rehearsal break that her interest was piqued in part by the upcoming concert at her workplace.

She said she was trying to take a realistic view of how classical music would be received at the youth detention center. “Some people are going to love it, and there are some people who are really negative no matter what,” she said.

But as he sat and waited for the rehearsal to resume, there was no negativity getting to Jake Belcher.

Belcher, 23, a violinist and math student at the University of Vermont, said he was diagnosed 18 months ago with anxiety and depression but took comfort in music.

The orchestra, he said, is “just an unspoken, nonjudgmental zone where you can relax and know you’re among good people.”

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MILLER’S: Suit hopes to remove firm as provider FROM PAGE A1

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not promote employee ownership in Miller’s Health. It alleges PBI was responsible and liable for violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The lawsuit also seeks to remove PBI as a fiduciary and service provider of the plan and to permanently

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The cause of the fire is still undetermined.

“We still haven’t been able to determine the cause,” Ligonier fire chief Jeremy Weaver said Thursday. “The investigation is continuing but so far we haven’t seen what started it.”

Weaver said his department’s investigation is

looking at all possible aspects including some type of electrical malfunction.

The family was alerted to the fire by smoke alarms at about 9 a.m. Christmas morning. They have three young boys, including a 1-month-old, and all were able to safely escape the home.

The Hofmeisters were

also aided on Christmas Day by the American Red Cross.

Red Cross volunteers David Hockley and Jan Mishler responded to the Christmas morning fire and provided the family with material and financial aid. “The Red Cross provides help to anyone suffering a fire or other type of disaster,” Hockley said Thursday.

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Miller’s Health also operated Theracare Inc., an Indiana corporation, which primarily provided physical and occupational therapy and speech-language pathology to residents in Miller’s Health facilities.

As of Sept. 30, 2012, the stock ownership plan had 2,939 participants and assets of $12.8 million.

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At the time of the stock purchase, Miller’s Health managed 31 long-term care facilities under the name of Miller’s Merry Manor and 10 assisted living facilities under the name Miller’s Senior Living.

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OBAMA: Legislation signed in private with no press FROM PAGE A1

The last vestiges of 2013’s legislative wrangling behind him, Obama’s attention turns now to major challenges and potential bright spots in the year ahead. In late January, Obama will give his fifth State of the Union address, setting his agenda for the final stretch before the 2014 midterm elections render him less able to focus Washington’s attention on his own priorities.

Obama signed the two bills and several others in private, without reporters present, after an early-morning trip to the gym at the Marine Corps base near his vacation rental in Oahu.

The product of intensive talks before lawmakers left Washington for Christmas, the budget deal alleviates the harshest effects of automatic budget cuts on the Pentagon and domestic agencies. It reduces those cuts, known as the sequester, by about one-third, restoring approximately $63 billion over two years.

A projected $85 billion in savings are located elsewhere in the deal, including increases in an airport security tax and a fee corporations pay to have pensions guaranteed by the government. Also included: a contentious provision to pare down annual cost of living increases in benefits for military retirees under age 62. Those cuts will save the government about $6.3 billion over a decade.

With lawmakers eager to leave town for the holidays and Republicans hoping to keep the focus on problems with Obama’s health care law, the deal passed with bipartisan support in both the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House — despite opposition from tea party groups that lined up to oppose it, arguing the deal would raise spending.

The comprehensive defense bill Obama signed will give military personnel a 1 percent pay raise and also covers combat pay, ships, aircraft and bases.

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But it was a year-long campaign led by the women of the Senate to address the scourge of rape and sexual assault in the military that dominated congressional debate over the military bill.

Commanders will no longer be permitted to overturn jury convictions for sexual assault, which the Pentagon estimates may have affected 26,000 members of the military last year. The law also requires a civilian review when commanders decline to prosecute, requires dishonorable discharge or dismissal for those convicted, eliminate the statute of limitations for courts-martial in rape and sexual assault cases and criminalizes retaliation against victims who report an assault.

Still, it stops short of a contentious proposal from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., to remove commanders’ authority by giving victims an independent route outside the chain of command for prosecuting attackers.

electricity is restored.

Tony Carone lost power in his Lapeer, Mich., home Sunday morning. The 52-year-old lineman for Detroit-based DTE knew there were long hours ahead.

“I was one of the casualties,” he said while taking a break from restoration work Thursday morning.

Maine reported more than 21,000 customers still out, down from a high of more than 106,000. There were more than 101,000 without power in three Canadian provinces — Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick — including 54,000 in the city of Toronto.

Day five without power was met by tired but mostly stoic Mainers.

Bob and Katrina Johnson spent Christmas Eve at a family member’s house that had no electricity. Christmas morning was at their powerless house in Pittston and that afternoon meant a trip to Katrina’s mother’s house in Gardiner, which also had no electricity.

Nonetheless, they exchanged presents and celebrated.

By Thursday, the couple had grown weary from hauling a portable generator back and forth between their home and her mother’s home to keep a freezer-load of moose meat from spoiling and run the heat long enough to keep pipes from freezing and bursting.

“You have to go with the flow and adapt, and do the best you can,” Katrina Johnson said. “You learn how to deal with it. Do you like it? No, but you deal with it.”

In hard-hit Kennebec County, where the state capital of Augusta is located, glistening trees sagged under the weight of ice. Many tree limbs had snapped, littering yards.

On one road, workers in four bucket trucks from Massachusetts’ N-Star utility company worked patiently to get a power line lifted back into place as snow fell sporadically. Paul Graham, the crew supervisor from Waltham, Mass., and a veteran of the devastating ice storm of 1998, said it could’ve been worse, even as his team worked its third consecutive 18-hour shift.

“Honestly, you got lucky,” he said. “If it was a little more ice, poles would have been broken. Things would be on the ground.

That’s my take. If there was another quarter of an inch or a half-inch of ice, people would’ve been out for a long, long, long time.

“But I’m sure no one is thinking they’re lucky, right?”

A state ferry was commandeered to transport utility crews to restore power to the 600 or so residents on the island of Islesboro, where actor John

Travolta has a home.

Bangor Hydro Electric advised residents that it will be the end of the day Friday before its more than 11,000 customers are back online.

The number has fluctuated as some get power back while others lose it.

Central Maine Power, with more than 16,000 customers still without power early Thursday, hoped to get electricity back for most by the end of the day but acknowledged that some will still be without electricity Friday. More than 100,000 were without power at the storm’s peak.

In the snow country of New York’s Tug Hill Plateau, east of Lake Ontario, 11 to 17 inches of wind-whipped lake effect snow was expected to fall by the end of the day Friday. The ice storm knocked out electricity for about 50,000 customers in northern New York; all but about 150 had power back

by Thursday.

Elsewhere, the snow shut westbound lanes on a portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike after a pileup involving 35 vehicles.

Ten people were taken to hospital with injuries from the crash.

Authorities blame last weekend’s storm for 27 deaths; 17 in the U.S. and 10 in Canada, including five who apparently died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Some still lose insurance

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A month after President Barack Obama announced people could keep insurance policies slated for cancellation under the federal health overhaul, the reversal has gotten a mixed response from insurers, state regulators and consumers.

Many consumers complained in October and November after insurers notified them that their individual policies were being canceled because they did not cover pre-existing conditions, hospitalization, prescription drugs or seven other basic benefits required under the law. In pitching the overhaul, Obama had long promised that people who liked their policies could keep them.

Then Obama announced Nov. 14 that companies could continue existing policies that don’t meet the minimum requirements if state regulators approved.

Reporting by The Associated Press shows that older policies are being allowed to continue in 36 states, either because officials allowed it after Obama’s announcement, decided not to intervene in any way or had made a decision earlier in the year to extend non-compliant policies for a period of time.

Even so, insurers were given a choice of whether to continue the policies, and some declined to do so.

In Kentucky, insurers Humana, United Healthcare and Assurant chose to extend old policies while Anthem and Bluegrass Family Health opted against it. Seven companies

in South Carolina are extending individual plans the federal law considers substandard, while six companies are extending plans in the small group market. Twenty are not participating.

In North Carolina, only Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which controls about 80 percent of the state’s market for individual and small-business policies, offered to renew plans covering 474,000 people that had been slated for cancellation. North Carolina’s insurance commissioner allowed the company to raise premiums by between 16 percent and 24 percent.

Prices on non-compliant policies are rising in other states, as well. Anthem Blue Cross in Maine plans to raise premiums by an average of 12 percent on its no-longer-canceled policies.

The Blue Cross provider in neighboring New Hampshire expects an average 7 percent increase, an amount that is in line with previous years’ premium increases. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois said it would seek undefined price changes.

Raleigh attorney Jeff Poley, 42, says he is fine with paying more for his current policy, considering what it would have cost him to switch to a new one.

He has been covered with a high-deductible health policy from Blue Cross for the past two years, which currently costs $137 a month. The plan does not cover maternity and some other benefits required under the Affordable Care Act. When he initially

received a cancellation notice, Blue Cross said the closest plan that met all of the new federal requirements would cost nearly twice as much.

But after Obama’s announcement, Blue Cross offered to extend Poley’s old plan for another year at $170 a month. His wife is covered by a policy through her law firm.

“I was glad for the one-year reprieve, but I would still like a permanent fix because I don’t need abortion coverage, I don’t need maternity coverage,” said Poley, who said he exercises vigorously about six days a week. “We as a family had made that choice, and we are two intelligent people who know better what’s good for our family than the government does.”

About 15 million Americans buy policies as individuals, according to Families USA, a nonprofit organization that backs health reform. Before Obama’s announcement, insurers sent at least 4.7 million policy cancellation notices, according to a tally by the AP. The number is likely much higher because officials in nearly 20 states said they were unable to provide information on cancellation notices or were not tracking it.

Sabrina Corlette, project director at the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University, warns that Obama’s decision last month could allow younger people with relatively few health problems to stay on bare-bones policies.

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Jona Caldwell joins a long line of job seekers outside the Ferguson Community Center in Cordova, Tenn., recently. The Labor Department reports

on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits was down 42,000 last week, the biggest drop since November 2012.

Jobless claims take big drop WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 42,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 338,000, the biggest drop since November 2012. But economists say the figures from late November and December are warped by seasonal volatility around the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s holidays.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that the less-volatile four-week average rose 4,250 to 348,000.

Claims had jumped 75,000 over the two weeks that ended Dec. 14 before plunging last week.

The Labor Department struggles to account for seasonal hiring by retailers and other businesses and for temporary layoffs of cafeteria workers and other employees at schools that close for the holidays.

Unemployment claims are a proxy for layoffs and the recent declines are consistent with a solid job market.

The economy has shown signs of improvement recently, so much so that the Federal Reserve announced Dec. 18 that it would reduce its stimulus spending on bonds by $10 billion — to $75 billion a month. The economy expanded at a 4.1

percent annual pace from July through September, the fastest rate since late 2011 and much greater than previously thought.

Hiring has been healthy the past four months. The economy added an average of 204,000 jobs every month from August through November, an improvement from earlier this year.

The unemployment rate fell in November to a five-year low of 7 percent.

Still, that remains above the 5 percent to 6 percent rate that would signal a normal job market. And long-term unemployment remains a big blot on the economy’s performance.

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This is one of the hundreds of thousands of cards, letters, banners, stuffed animals, children’s art and other items sent to Newtown, Conn., after the shooting inside Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and

six educators on Dec. 14, 2012. The town decided to keep it all, either in its original form, as an archived photo or as recycled material that officials are calling “sacred soil.”

Russia releases 14 members of Greenpeace crew ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian authorities issued exit visas to 14 of the 30 Greenpeace members on Thursday, a move that will allow them to leave the country and comes after charges were dropped against them over a protest outside an Arctic oil rig.

Greenpeace said other foreign members of the crew were expected to get their exit visas on Friday and that the first of the detained activists, Dmitri Litvinov of Sweden, boarded a train heading for Finland late Thursday.

The 30 people were arrested in September following a protest outside a Russian oil rig in the Arctic and spent two months in jail before they were granted bail in November.

Hooliganism charges against the crew were later dropped after Russia’s parliament passed an amnesty law that was seen as an attempt by the Kremlin’s to assuage the criticism of Russia’s human rights record before the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February.

Greenpeace said Anthony Perrett of Britain was the first to get the visa in his passport Thursday.

“This was the final step,” Perrett said in a statement released by the group. “I’ll be leaving for home in Wales as soon as possible now, extremely proud of what I did three months ago.

We took peaceful action to defend a part of the world that is the heartbeat of our climate.”

Syria allows food into rebel town

BEIRUT (AP) — Residents of a blockaded rebel-held town near Damascus raised the flag used by the government of President Bashar Assad in a deal that sees them accept symbolic humiliation in exchange for food, activists said on Thursday.

The deal accepted by the town of Moadamiyeh is one of a number of short-lived, local truces reached between opposition-held towns and government forces in recent months, although the terms — which also included the rebels handing over heavy weapons and expelling outsiders — are unusual.

Residents described it as a bitter pill to swallow.

For nearly a year, the sprawling community west of Damascus was shelled and starved, surrounded by government checkpoints that refused to allow through food, clean water and fuel, pressuring residents to expel anti-Assad rebels among them. At least two women and four children died of hunger-related illnesses by September, said activists.

The agreement also demanded rebels hand over their heavy weapons and that only registered residents of Moadamiyeh may remain in the town, in a condition likely to thin rebel ranks.

“There’s sadness inside us, but we raised the flag because nobody helped us, nobody extended their hands to us,” said a Moadamiyeh resident who identified only as Ahmad, fearing retribution from Syrian security forces. “We are ready to save the lives of (hungry) children. There’s no bread in Moadamiyeh. For three months, there’s been not even a grain of rice,” he said.

The Syrian national flag

of red, black and white stripes with two green stars could be seen from a distance flying over a water tanker, according to footage broadcast on a Lebanonbased news channel.

That flag is often associated with the ruling Baath party, and many rebels fighting Assad use a flag with green, white and black stripes and three red stars.

Hard-line groups use a range of Islamic banners.

Syrian legislator George Nakhleh said that after the rebels hand over their heavy weapons, residents will establish local armed groups whose job will be to protect the town. He said the army will not enter the area but will guard it from outside.

“The army will protect Moadamiyeh but inside the town the residents will protect it. They will carry weapons and set up checkpoints to prevent the entrance of strangers who came from around the world to destroy our country,” said Nakhleh in an interview with the Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV. He added that state institutions will gradually return to normal work and all gates will be opened in order for food and other stuff to enter the town so that life returns to normal.

The rebels have seized a ring of neighborhoods around the capital, a major front in the nearly 3-yearold civil war. Rebels often fire mortars at Damascus neighborhoods from the opposition strongholds, in explosions that have killed Syrian civilians and made life within the crowded capital dangerous and miserable. All of Syria’s warring parties use blockades on civilians affiliated with enemy groups to punish their rivals.

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(AP) — Hundreds of thousands of cards, letters, stuffed animals and children’s artwork from around the world flooded into Newtown in the days and weeks after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The town kept everything. Some of it was preserved in its original form. Other items were documented in photos or turned into recycled material called “sacred soil,” which officials hope can be used in the foundation of a new school or to construct a permanent memorial for the 26 victims of the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting.

“Nothing was thrown

into a landfill,” said Yolie Moreno, a resident who headed the archiving effort.

“Every single thing was saved: tags from teddy bears, paper snowflakes, everything.”

Moreno took charge of the letters, cards and artwork. Tens of thousands were sorted by state and country of origin. A group of volunteers, many of them professional photojournalists, then photographed them to create a digital record.

Norwalk-based Xerox Corp. is helping create a website where people will be able to view much of it.

The town’s library requested some of it for another website. About 5,000 pieces of correspon-

dence will be stored there in a searchable form, Moreno said.

“We read through them and picked out a sampling of the most poignant,” she said “It was important to us that people know that what they sent in was read, was appreciated.”

About 30 boxes filled with handmade items also were kept and are in storage at the town municipal center. Officials hope it can be used in a future art installation in town, Moreno said.

Many of the items are from children, such as a watercolor with the words “You don’t know how strong you are, until being STRONG is the only option you have.”

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Weekly Hannah contest winners Here are the winners of this past week’s Hannah Holstein Basketball Contest from the KPC Media Group newspapers.

From the Herald-Republican, Mike Bechdol of Angola won the latest Hannah & Heavenly Breads & Sweets Basketball Contest in a tiebreaker over Pleasant Lake residents Steve Anstett and Dorothy Anstett. All three picked 17 games right, with Bechdol’s tiebreaker of 90 the closest to Michigan State’s 92 against Texas. Bechdol wins a 1/8 sheet cake from newest contest sponsor Heavenly Breads & Sweets.

Darby Boyd of Kendallville made 17 correct picks to win the News Sun portion of the Hannah Holstein Grossman’s Restaurant Contest. Boyd called all 11 prep games correctly.

From The Star, Jr. Wood of Garrett picked 18 winners to win a $25 gift certificate from MJS Apparel in Garrett. He was two games better than runner-up Bob Zymslony of Garrett.

Scores Norwell 62, DeKalb 50 Columbia City 61, East Noble 51 Lakewood Park 62, Fremont 61 Westview 54, Angola 49 Eastside 57, Lakeland 44 West Noble 79, Central Noble 50 Fairfield 52, Hamilton 32 Garrett 91, Leo 82, OT Prairie Heights 65, Churubusco 55 Bishop Dwenger 48, DeKalb 38 Concordia 66, Lakewood Park 42 Indiana 79, Nicholls State 66 Wabash 67, Trine 65, OT IPFW 86, Eastern Illinois 65 Southern Illinois 66, Ball State 58 Michigan State 92, Texas 78 Ohio State 64, Notre Dame 61 Michigan 68, Stanford 65 Purdue 73, West Virginia 70 Indiana 90, Kennesaw State 66 KPC Standings

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TODAY BOYS BASKETBALL Carroll Shootout at Homestead DeKalb vs. Blackhawk Christian, 10 a.m.

East Noble vs. Homestead, noon East Noble vs. Marion, 4 p.m.

DeKalb vs. Hamilton Southeastern, 6 p.m.

Fremont vs. Dexter (Mich.) at Coldwater (Mich.) Holiday Hoops Tournament, 3:15 p.m.

Leo at Angola, 6 p.m.

Prairie Heights at Eastside, 6 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Northridge Bankers Classic Columbia City vs.

Hamilton, 9:30 a.m.

East Noble vs. NorthWood, 11 a.m.

Andrean vs. Hamilton, 1 p.m.

South Bend Adams vs. East Noble, 2:30 p.m.

Fremont vs. Carleton Airport (Mich.) at Coldwater Holiday Hoops Tournament, 1:30 p.m.

WRESTLING East Noble, DeKalb at Connersville Invitational, 9 a.m.

Fremont, Westview at Greentown Eastern Invitational, 9 a.m.

Prairie Heights, Garrett at Mishawaka Al Smith Invitational, 10 a.m.

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Colts finding ways to win INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Colts keep giving mixed signals.

They are beating some of the best teams in the NFL, knocking off four of the league’s six clubs with four or fewer losses — two of them on the road.

Yet Indy is ranked in the bottom half of the league in five of the six major offensive and defensive categories.

So how good is this Indianapolis team?

“I think that remains to be seen,” tight end Coby Fleener said.

The Colts (10-5) host Jacksonville (4-11) on Sunday to wrap up the regular season. Then come the playoffs and a test of Indianapolis’ prowess.

The Colts went to San Francisco and beat the 49ers in Week 3 and two weeks later handed Seattle its first loss. The Colts also gave Denver its first defeat in Peyton Manning’s hyped-up return to Indianapolis.

“We play pretty much all of the elite teams,” T.Y. Hilton said.

“We pretty much showcase what we have. When the playoffs start, everybody has a clean slate, 0-0, and it goes by who’s the better team that day.”

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Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Dunta Robinson (21) tries to push Indianapolis Colts wide receiver T.Y. Hilton (13) out of bounds during the first half Sunday.

Indy came out of its bye week with inconsistent play.

The Colts went to Houston, fell behind big, and came back late to beat the Texans. Then they got embarrassed in a 38-8 loss at home to St. Louis before they slipped past Tennessee on the road, 30-27, and lost big in Arizona, 40-11.

Still, the Colts haven’t lost consecutive games since Andrew

Luck was drafted. And last week’s 23-7 victory at Kansas City gave Indy its first back-to-back wins since the Colts beat the Broncos and Texans.

Maybe they’ve figured it out now.

“We were just having problems starting fast back then,” Hilton said.

“Team started jumping on us, and we dug ourselves too deep of a hole

to come back. Right now we’re playing good in all three phases and we’re only going to get better.”

The Colts rank 19th in the league in yards allowed per game and No. 24 in yards per play. But coach Chuck Pagano says this is the type of defense that could lead Indianapolis to a championship.

“Playing with a ton of confidence right now,” he said.

“They’re having fun. There’s certain plays that are being made out there that are sparking this defense and this team.”

The Colts may not be putting up many yards a game — they’re No. 17 with 339.3 — and they may have struggled converting on third down (22 percent), but something seems to be working lately.

“It’s hard to put a finger on it specifically what’s changed,” Griff Whalen said. “I’m not sure what that would be. But just kind of offensively, I feel like cohesively we’re getting better just at executing our plays, kind of simplifying our game plan, running plays that we know. And that allows everybody to individually know what they need to do and execute it on the field and feel more comfortable with it.”

Spotlight burns on Cutler Rodgers LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — There will be no shortage of eyes on Jay Cutler this week, even with Aaron Rodgers returning to the field.

The season comes down to a playoffs-or-bust finale for the NFC North title when the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers meet at Soldier Field on Sunday, and the quarterbacks will be in the spotlight.

Rodgers will be behind center for the Packers for the first time since he injured his collarbone in a loss to Chicago on Nov. 4. Cutler will get his share of attention, too.

Cutler has an expiring contract, a bad history against Green Bay and at least a few fans in Chicago who would just as soon see Josh McCown starting. Cutler insisted he’s not looking for vindication.

“This isn’t a personal game for anybody in that locker room,” he said. “It’s all of us together.”

Maybe. But no matter how much Cutler tries to make it about the team, to a large degree this one is still about him.

Even as his fifth season in Chicago winds down, big questions remain about his demeanor, his leadership and his ability to perform in big situations.

The fact that his contract is up just adds another wrinkle to the story.

General manager Phil Emery has expressed his support for Cutler, but exactly how the negotiations play out remains to be seen.

Emery has said he would prefer to work out a multiyear deal rather than have Cutler play under the franchise tag next season,

back to start Bears game

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers has been cleared to return from a left collarbone injury, just in time to start Sunday for the Packers against the Chicago Bears in a game to decide the NFC North title.

With no advance warning and little fanfare, the franchise quarterback received the long-awaited good news at the same time as the rest of his teammates Thursday.

AP “This is a fun day for me, but I Chicago Bears’ Jay Cutler, left, walks the sidelines with head coach think the focus needs to be on this Marc Trestman during the second half of an NFL football game game and the opportunity we have against the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday. to win the division,” Rodgers said.

Soon enough. But the spotlight won at Lambeau Field this year, it assuming they retain him. for now is squarely on the return of was with McCown filling in.

But could a bad game by the one of the NFL’s most irreplaceCutler sat out that game with quarterback this week affect his able players. value? And if he leads the Bears to a groin injury and suffered a high Green Bay (7-7-1) is 2-5-1 since a victory, same question. For now, ankle sprain against Detroit the Rodgers went down during the first following week, forcing him to Cutler’s future is a bit murky. series of a 27-20 loss Nov. 4 to miss four more games.

“I haven’t really thought about Chicago. The Packers have managed When he returned at Cleveland to hang on, with a shot to win a third it,” Cutler said. “Not going to think on Dec. 15, he shook off some about it. I’ve got enough on my straight division title with a victory early rust to lead the Bears to plate thinking about Green Bay.” Sunday at Soldier Field. a 38-31 victory. But he got And if that conjures up a few “I’ll start with the announcesacked five times last week while bad memories for him, it easy to ment that we’re preparing for the the defense got rolled over by see why.

Chicago Bears with Aaron Rodgers Cutler is 1-8 against the Packers, Philadelphia in a 54-11 loss that as our starting quarterback,” coach prevented Chicago from locking including a loss with Denver in Mike McCarthy told reporters up the division.

2007 and in the NFC title game Thursday after practice.

Now, it comes down to one at Soldier Field three years ago.

Win and Green Bay returns He has 17 interceptions, nine final game and one big moment for to Lambeau Field the following Cutler against a team that’s given touchdowns and a 59.9 rating in weekend to host a wild-card team him fits. those games, and when the Bears in the first round of the playoffs.

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TODAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL Military Bowl, Marshall vs. Maryland, at Annapolis, Md., ESPN, 2:30 p.m.

Texas Bowl, Syracuse vs. Minnesota, at Houston, ESPN, 6 p.m.

Fight Hunger Bowl, BYU vs. Washington, at San Francisco, ESPN, 9:30 p.m.

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Lafayette at Seton Hall, FS1, 8 p.m.

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KPC Media Group All-Area Football Team The KPC Media Group All-Area Football Team will be featured in Sunday’s edition. Front row, from left: Dylan Belcher of Angola; Zach Shepard and Dylan Stayner of Prairie Heights; Brock Baker and Nate Beatty of Fremont, Kadis Renier and P.J. Dean of Eastside and Steve Stonebraker of Central Noble. Middle row: Evan Garretson, Wyatt Petty, Marco Olivares and William Kelly of Lakeland; Carlos Medina

of West Noble; and Bo Davis and Noah Follett of Garrett. Back row: Player of the Year Brandon Mable, Sid Napier, Grey Fox, Reece Hobson, Nathan Wible, Connor Holcomb, Keaton Osborn, Walker Boyles, Jacob Peterson, Dylan Jordan of and Coach of the Year Luke Amstutz of East Noble. Not pictured is Austin Bauer of Angola.

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Cherish the holiday break I hope everybody’s Christmas was wonderful and full of blessings, even for the alleged KPC Media sports know-it-alls.

Soccer was the gift that kept on giving for the new guy Phil Friend. Racing is the gift that kept on giving for James Fisher. Hope that young man can find a little time for Tony Stewart and the Rumble in Fort Wayne this weekend.

As for Ken Fillmore, I can only think of a hug.

The Tigers can’t get to the World Series. The Lions are not going to the playoffs after their late-season collapse. Red Wings keep losing shootout after shootout. The Pistons tease him so by beating the Heat and the Pacers only to lose to the Kobe-less Lakers twice and the Bobcats. The football team at his alma mater Central Michigan won six games and still was not invited to play in a bowl game.

I just wish for fellowship during the holidays. It’s

so easy to get caught up in ourselves and our busy lifestyles. Something out there speeds us up like a pressing defensive basketball team. It’s good to take a break occasionally.

Cherish the time off PICKIN’ with family THE PREPS and friends and make it the latest best holiday Hannah Holstein season ever.

They have a way of trumping each other.

But there is a little bit of that regular madness going on in local sports, and it is pretty much in a nice small 2-day package. Plenty of basketball and wrestling on the docket. Some matchups are rivalries. Some come in the form of holiday tournaments. A couple events are makeups from

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Friend’s Fillmore’s Fisher’s Follies Fumbles Flops 1. DeKalb 1. Blackhawk 1. DeKalb 2. Angola 2. Angola 2. Leo 3. Homestead 3. Homestead 3. Homestead 4. Ham. SE 4. Ham. SE 4. Ham. SE 5. Eastside 5. Eastside 5. PH 6. Marion 6. Marion 6. Marion 7. Dexter 7. Dexter 7. Dexter 8. Westview 8. Westview 8. Westview 9. Jimtown 9. Jimtown 9. Jimtown 10. OSU 10. OSU 10. OSU 11. Michigan 11. Michigan 11. Michigan 12. MSU 12. MSU 12. MSU 13. Wisc.

13. Wisc.

13. Wisc.

14. Illinois 14. Illinois 14. Illinois 15. IPFW 15. EKU 15. IPFW 16. ND 16. ND 16. ND 17. Valpo 17. Valpo 17. Valpo 18. JMU 18. Ball State 18. JMU 19. Pacers 19. Pacers 19. Pacers 20. Mavericks 20. Mavericks 20. Bulls

the snowstorm a couple of weeks back. All in all, there will be a lot of exposure to great competition that will make area teams better.

That all makes for a lot of intrigue.

Enjoy the games and happy new year!

1. DeKalb over Blackhawk. Barons roll.

2. Leo over Angola.

Could go down to the wire 3. Homestead over East Noble. Tough sledding for Knights.

4. Hamilton Southeastern over DeKalb. Barons face big challenge in this one.

5. Prairie Heights over Eastside. By the whiskers on Santa’s chin.

6. Marion over East Noble. Tough home schedule.

7. Fremont over Dexter, Mich. Eagles prevail.

8. Westview over Lakeland. LaGrange County showdown does to Warriors.

9. Jimtown over Central Noble. Jimmies play a tough schedule.

10. Ohio State over Louisiana-Monroe.

11. Michigan over Holy Cross.

12. Michigan State over New Orleans.

13. Wisconsin over Prairie View A&M. 14. Illinois over Illinois-Chicago.

15. IPFW over Eastern Kentucky.

16. Notre Dame over Canisius.

17. Valparaiso over Eastern Tennessee State.

18. James Madison over Ball State 19. Pacers over Nets.

20. Bulls over Mavericks.

Kelly, Notre Dame prepare with interim coordinators NEW YORK (AP) — The goal for Mike Denbrock and Kerry Cooks as interim coordinators for No. 25 Notre Dame was to make the Fighting Irish players feel as if nothing had changed as they prepared for the Pinstripe Bowl against Rutgers.

Denbrock was elevated by coach Brian Kelly to interim offensive coordinator when Chuck Martin left Notre Dame to become the head coach at Miami, Ohio, earlier this month.

Cooks went from co-defensive coordinator to the top guy on that side of the ball when Bob Diaco left to take over at Connecticut.

Denbrock said Thursday during Pinstripe Bowl media day at Yankee Stadium that his job was to stay focused on the short-term.

“I didn’t ever think of it in terms of beyond getting ready for this football game and doing whatever needed to be done to make sure the players had the best opportunity they could have for success,” he said.

The Fighting Irish went 8-4 the season after playing in the BCS national championship game, including victories against No. 16 Arizona State and No. 4 Michigan State.

The biggest change the past few weeks for Denbrock, who was outside receivers coach and passing game coordinator, was

having the final say in the plan the offensive staff presented to Kelly.

“I took one step to the left or to the right or whichever direction you’d call it,” he said. “The offensive staff has been unbelievable … It’s as good a job of coaching and getting these guys ready to play in football game as any I’ve been around.”

Denbrock worked at Grand Valley State under Kelly and has been at Notre Dame since 2010.

“The weeks of preparation have been great,” quarterback Tommy Rees said. “Smoother than you probably anticipate when you lose your coordinator, but coach Kelly has a ton of experience and coach Denbrock has a ton of experience so it’s been a pretty smooth transition.”

Cooks said the only change on the defensive side was a slight shift in approach that was more in line with his personality.

“Just a little bit more of, not relaxation, but of allowing those guys to be themselves, and not putting them in such tight quarters,” he said. “That’s a little bit of a change.”

Rutgers has also prepared for the Pinstripe Bowl while dealing with staff turnover, but for different reasons. Coach Kyle Flood fired defensive coordinator Dave Cohen and two other

AP

Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly will have interim offensive and defensive coordinators for his team’s bowl game against Rutgers.

offensive assistants after finishing 6-6. Special teams coordinator Joe Rossi has been coaching the defense.

“Coaching defense is like riding a bike,” said Rossi, who has also worked with the Scarlet Knights’ safeties.

“You just get on it and go.”

Notre Dame’s offense is essentially Kelly’s and he hired Martin, who also worked with him at Grand Valley, because he wanted someone he could trust to be an extension of himself.

Denbrock goes way back with Kelly — they were graduate assistants together at Grand Valley State in

1987 and was his offensive coordinator at the Division II powerhouse for four years. Denbrock seems like a good fit to fill Martin’s role permanently.

Denbrock’s message to the players about dealing with the departures of Martin and Diaco has been the same as Kelly’s “Change is difficult at times but we’ve got other people in place that are going to step into roles and make things as ordinary, if you will, as possible so there’s not a lot of change on your end of things,” he said.

Bowling

Local Sports Briefs • Madison Campbell with

EN still on top of bowling standings ANGOLA — The East Noble girls stayed undefeated in the Northeast Indiana High School Bowling Conference by beating Garrett 16-4 in match points at the Angola Bowl. Melinda Smith lead East Noble with a 372 series while Natalie Johnston had 356 series for Garrett.

DeKalb beat Eastside 16-4 in match points, led by Makayla Lilly with a 382 series. Briana Marques posted a 421 series for Eastside.

The East Noble girls lead the conference at 8-0 with DeKalb in second at 6-2.

In boys competition, Lakeland beat Cornerstone 18-2 in match points.

Lakeland was led by

a 364 series while Trevor Bonar had a 327 series for Cornerstone.

Central Noble beat East Noble 17-3 in match points.

Emily Maneke led Central Noble with a 331 series and Caleb Henschen led East Noble with a 364. Because of illness, East Noble could only field four bowlers.

Eastside beat Garrett 15.5-3.5 in match points. Matt David had a 401 series for Eastside while Dayton Sweet posted a 395 series for Garrett.

Angola defeated DeKalb 16-4 in match points. Zach Wall rolled a 471 series for Angola and Dallas Bumgardner had a 489 series for DeKalb.

Eastside and Angola lead the boys conference standings with 7-1 records.

The next conference match is Jan. 6 at Butler.

MSU LB Bullough out for Rose Bowl EAST LANSING, Mich.

(AP) — Michigan State has suspended senior linebacker Max Bullough for violating team rules, making him ineligible to play in the Rose Bowl.

In a news release sent early Thursday, Spartans coach Mark Dantonio said Bullough had been suspended for the rest of the season. He did not say what rules the two-time team captain violated.

“It is extremely disappointing for all parties involved,” Dantonio said.

The No. 4 Spartans will play No. 5 Stanford in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 in Pasadena, Calif. It is Michigan State’s seventh straight bowl game and first appearance in the Rose Bowl in 26 seasons.

Bullough, from Traverse City, had 76 tackles and 9.5 tackles for loss this season, earning him third-team All-America honors and first-team All-Big Ten honors.

He has 299 career tackles and made 40 consecutive starts.

Authorities in the

Traverse City area had no reports of legal issues involving Bullough, the Traverse City RecordEagle said. The Associated Press left phone and email messages for police and prosecutors Thursday night.

In 2011, Bullough and then-senior tight end Brian Linthicum were arrested after a disturbance at a bar in Aspen, Colo. Bullough, then 19, was charged with a being a minor in possession of alcohol and got nine months’ probation, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Playing for Michigan State has been a family affair. Max Bullough’s grandfather, Hank Bullough, played for Michigan State in the early 1950s, and his father Shane followed in the mid-1980s. Two of Max Bullough’s uncles were Spartans and his younger brother Riley is a redshirt freshman.

“Max will forever remain a Spartan and valued member in this team’s achievements,” Dantonio said in the statement.

Hawks top Cavs CLEVELAND (AP) — Jeff Teague scored a career-high 34 points, including a 20-foot jumper at the buzzer in the second overtime, to give the Atlanta Hawks a 127-125 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night.

Teague’s fall-away jumper over Tristan Thompson bounced off the rim five times before falling through the net to give Atlanta the victory.

Teague fell to the floor after

shooting the ball and was mobbed by his teammates.

Teague’s 3-pointer with 4.9 seconds left tied the game at 108-all in the first overtime.

Kyrie Irving led Cleveland with 40 points, including 12 in the second OT. Hawks center Al Horford, who scored two baskets late in regulation to tie the game, suffered an apparent shoulder injury in the first OT and didn’t return.

Conner leads Pitt over BG Gardner out for Wolverines

DETROIT (AP) — James Conner rushed for 229 yards — breaking a Pittsburgh bowl record held by Tony Dorsett — and Chris Blewitt kicked a tiebreaking field goal with 1:17 remaining, lifting the Panthers to a 30-27 win over Bowling Green on Thursday night in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.

Conner also played a handful of snaps on the defensive line, and fellow

freshman Tyler Boyd gave Pitt (7-6) a boost with eight catches for 173 yards. Boyd also scored on a punt return in the first half.

Bowling Green (10-4) tied it at 17 when BooBoo Gates took the secondhalf kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown.

Dorsett rushed for 202 yards in Pitt’s win over Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 1977. The school’s

receiving record for a bowl came the next season. In a Gator Bowl win over Clemson, Gordon Jones had 163 yards receiving.

Both marks fell Thursday.

The 6-foot-2 Conner rushed for 165 yards in the second half, helping Pitt overcome the loss of quarterback Tom Savage, who didn’t play after halftime because of a rib injury.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.

(AP) — Shane Morris sat out most of his senior season in high school and spent a good portion of his first in college watching games from the sideline.

After two years of mostly idling, the big-armed quarterback will be thrust into a spotlight unlike any he’s seen before: as Michigan’s starter against Kansas State in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl on Saturday.

“Just getting back to football after sitting out has been crazy and now to start in a bowl game is pretty amazing,” Morris said Thursday.

Morris spent his first season in Ann Arbor as Devin Gardner’s backup, getting mop-up duty in three games.

Gardner sustained a turf toe injury in Michigan’s regular-season finale against Ohio State and suffered a setback last week, showing up in the desert wearing a protective boot.

Michigan coach Brady Hoke said Gardner would have to practice by Wednesday to play in the

bowl game and wasn’t able to go, opening the door for Morris.

“Obviously, we recruited him at Michigan to be the quarterback at Michigan,” Hoke said. “This is a great opportunity. We have a lot of faith in how he goes about his business getting ready to play.”

As a senior at De La Salle High School in Warren, Mich., Morris was limited to four games after a bout of mononucleosis sent him to the hospital for a week.

Despite his limited action as a senior, Morris was considered one of the nation’s best pro-style quarterbacks and drew interest from some of the top programs around the country.

There was little doubt where he’d go.

Morris grew up in Michigan, came from a family of Wolverines fans and has baby pictures of himself in Michigan’s maize and blue.

“It’s been my dream since I was a little kid to start as quarterback for the University of Michigan,”

Morris said. “It’s a huge bowl game. I’m excited.”

Morris won’t go into the game completely cold.

He attempted nine passes during the regular season but was able to learn by watching Gardner, a versatile quarterback who’s thrown for over 4,000 yards and 32 touchdowns in 21 games as a starter the past two seasons.

With Gardner ailing, Hoke had Morris work with the first-team offense during the bowl practices, giving him extra preparation time for his first college start.

“Everything has been great with him,” Michigan receiver Jeremy Gallon said.

“He’s been connecting with the receivers, the running backs, building a stronger chemistry with the O-line.

There’s nothing new about him. I feel like he’s been here forever.”

With Morris under center, Michigan will have a different look on offense.

Gardner was a mobile quarterback who could make things happen with his legs as much as his arm.

SCOREBOARD •

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2013

Boys Basketball Standings Northeast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Homestead 1 0 5 1 New Haven 1 0 3 1 Columbia City 1 0 3 2 Norwell 1 0 2 1 Carroll 0 1 2 3 DeKalb 0 1 2 5 Bellmont 0 1 1 4 East Noble 0 1 0 4 Friday’s Games Norwell at Bluffton Huntington North vs. Carroll at Columbia City Mooresville at Columbia City Carroll vs. Indianapolis Scecina at Columbia City Munster at Columbia City Fort Wayne Blackhawk vs. DeKalb at Homestead East Noble at Homestead Hamilton Southeastern vs. FW Blackhawk at Homestead Marion vs. East Noble at Homestead DeKalb vs. Hamilton SE at Homestead Marion at Homestead New Haven vs. South Bend Adams at Noblesville Tournament Saturday’s games Bellmont at Adams Central Columbia City, East Noble, DeKalb, Homestead, Carroll at Carroll Shootout Guerin Catholic vs. New Haven at Noblesville Tournament Larence North vs. New Haven at Noblesville Tournament Thursday, Jan. 2 Heritage at Bellmont Greenfield-Central vs. Norwell at Richmond Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Prairie Heights 2 0 5 1 Westview 2 0 3 2 West Noble 1 0 5 0 Eastside 1 0 4 2 Fairfield 2 1 3 2 Angola 1 1 3 3 Fremont 1 1 1 4 Hamilton 1 2 4 4 Lakeland 1 2 2 3 Churubusco 0 2 0 4 Central Noble 0 3 0 5 Friday’s Games Heritage at Churubusco Leo at Angola Prairie Heights at Eastside Fremont vs. Decter at Coldwater, Mi. Saturday’s Games Jimtown at Central Noble Lakeland at Westview Fremont at Coldwater Tournament Thursday, Jan. 2 Churubusco vs. Lowell at Caston Tournament Central Noble at Caston Friday, Jan. 3 Eastside at West Noble Fairfield at Rochester Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Garrett 2 0 6 1 Bluffton 2 0 4 2 Leo 1 1 3 3 Adams Central 1 1 3 3 Woodlan 1 1 3 3 Heritage 1 1 1 3 South Adams 0 2 2 4 Southern Wells 0 2 0 5 Friday’s Games Heritage at Churubusco Leo at Angola Norwell at Bluffton Wayne Trace at Woodlan Saturday’s Games Bellmont at Adams Central South Adams at Union Thursday, Jan. 2 Heritage at Bellmont Friday, Jan. 3 Bluffton at Winchester Daleville at Southern Wells Saturday, Jan. 4 Leo at FW Concordia South Adams at Bellmont

Girls Basketball Standings Northeast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Homestead 3 0 9 0 East Noble 3 0 8 1 DeKalb 2 0 8 2 Norwell 1 2 6 2 Columbia City 1 2 7 4 New Haven 1 2 6 5 Carroll 0 3 2 8 Bellmont 0 3 0 11 Friday’s Games Carroll at Ben Davis Carroll vs. Warren Central at Ben Davis Rushville at Homestead Columbia City vs. Hamilton at Northridge NorthWood vs. East Noble at Northridge Columbia City at Northridge South Bend Adams vs. East Noble at Northridge Saturday’s Games Norwell at Garrett East Noble vs. Highland at Northridge Andrean vs. Columbia City at Northridge Northwestern vs. Bellmont at Frankfort DeKalb vs. John Glenn at Goshen New Haven vs. Indianapolis Ritter at Guerin Catholic Friday, Jan. 3 Kokomo at Carroll Saturday, Jan. 4 Norwell vs. Wawasee at Plymouth Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Fairfield 5 0 7 1 Westview 5 0 9 2 West Noble 5 1 7 4 Angola 4 2 4 6 Lakeland 3 3 5 7 Churubusco 2 3 5 6 Fremont 2 4 5 4 Prairie Heights 2 4 5 6 Central Noble 1 5 3 7 Hamilton 0 4 2 5 Eastside 0 5 1 8 Friday’s Games Fremont vs. Carlton Airport at Coldwater, Mi. Columbia City vs. Hamilton at Northridge Andrean vs. Hamilton at Northridge Saturday’s Games Lakeland at Westview West Noble at Prairie Heights Fremont at Coldwater Tournament Hamilton at Northridge Tournament Seton Catholic vs. Eastside at South Adams Thursday, Jan. 2 Angola at Leo Central Noble at LaVille Friday, Jan. 3 Churubusco at Heritage Saturday, Jan. 4 Fairfield at NorthWood Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Garrett 4 0 11 0 Leo 3 1 9 1 Heritage 3 1 8 3 Woodlan 2 2 7 3 Southern Wells 2 2 5 5 South Adams 1 3 8 3 Bluffton 1 3 3 8 Adams Central 0 4 2 8 Saturday’s Games Norwell at Garrett FW Blackhawk at South Adams Thursday, Jan. 2 Angola at Leo Friday, Jan. 3 Churubusco at Heritage Muncie South at Adams Central Saturday, Jan. 4 Southern Wells at Randolph Southern

Prep Boys Basketball Scores Bismarck-Henning Tournament Pool Play N. Vermillion 60, Champaign Judah Christian, Ill. 52 N. Vermillion 60, Danville Schlarman, Ill. 41 Gibson County Classic Pool Play Castle 80, Wood Memorial 43 Ev. Reitz 89, Gibson Southern 43 Mt. Carmel, Ill. 71, S. Central (Harrison) 54 Princeton 73, Lawrenceville, Ill. 39 Highland Tournament Pool Play Griffith 76, S. Bend Clay 43 Highland 65, Hammond Clark 26

Lloyd Memorial Tournament Boone Co., Ky. 69, S. Dearborn 34 McKee Munk Tournament First Round Crothersville 68, Oldenburg 65 Henryville 42, Madison Shawe 30 Consolation Oldenburg 65, Madison Shawe 52 Championship Crothersville 46, Henryville 32 Summit Conference Tournament First Round Ft. Wayne Dwenger 55, Ft. Wayne Concordia 53 Ft. Wayne North 85, Ft. Wayne Luers 44 Ft. Wayne Snider 88, Ft. Wayne South 50 Ft. Wayne Wayne 55, Ft. Wayne Northrop 47 Vincennes Lincoln Tournament Pool Play Indpls Chatard 63, University 45 Indpls Howe 93, Tecumseh 57 N. Knox 53, Ev. Day 46 Vincennes 67, Vincennes Rivet 52 Wabash Valley Classic First Round Casey-Westfield, Ill. 71, Monrovia 38 Northview 52, Linton 50 Owen Valley 54, W. Vigo 48 Robinson, Ill. 44, Rockville 42 S. Vermillion 43, Riverton Parke 40 Sullivan 74, Turkey Run 25 Terre Haute North 61, Shakamak 44 Terre Haute South 78, Marshall, Ill. 39

Prep Girls Basketball Scores Bismarck-Henning Tournament Pool Play Sidell (Jamaica)-Salt Fork, Ill. 29, N. Vermillion 23 Fairfield Community Tournament Pool Play N. Posey 52, Carmi White County, Ill. 30 Gibson County Classic Pool Play Gibson Southern 69, Ev. Reitz 37 Mt. Carmel, Ill. 75, S. Central (Harrison) 44 Princeton 78, Lawrenceville, Ill. 26 Wood Memorial 57, Linton 15 South Bend Washington Tournament Pool Play Oregon-Davis 61, Penn 52 S. Bend Washington 56, New Prairie 41 Summit Conference Tournament First Round Ft. Wayne Concordia 64, Ft. Wayne Wayne 48 Ft. Wayne Luers 68, Ft. Wayne Dwenger 37 Ft. Wayne Snider 42, Ft. Wayne Northrop 40, OT Ft. Wayne South 57, Ft. Wayne North 37 Whitefield Academy Christmas Classic North Oldham, Ky. 64, Rock Creek Academy 24

NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-New England11 4 0 .733 410 318 Miami 8 7 0 .533 310 315 N.Y. Jets 7 8 0 .467 270 380 Buffalo 6 9 0 .400 319 354 South W L T Pct PF PA y-Indianapolis 10 5 0 .667 361 326 Tennessee 6 9 0 .400 346 371 Jacksonville 4 11 0 .267 237 419 Houston 2 13 0 .133 266 412 North W L T Pct PF PA y-Cincinnati 10 5 0 .667 396 288 Baltimore 8 7 0 .533 303 318 Pittsburgh 7 8 0 .467 359 363 Cleveland 4 11 0 .267 301 386 West W L T Pct PF PA y-Denver 12 3 0 .800 572 385 x-Kansas City 11 4 0 .733 406 278 San Diego 8 7 0 .533 369 324 Oakland 4 11 0 .267 308 419 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 9 6 0 .600 418 360 Dallas 8 7 0 .533 417 408 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 274 377 Washington 3 12 0 .200 328 458 South W L T Pct PF PA x-Carolina 11 4 0 .733 345 221 New Orleans 10 5 0 .667 372 287 Atlanta 4 11 0 .267 333 422 Tampa Bay 4 11 0 .267 271 347 North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 8 7 0 .533 417 445 Green Bay 7 7 1 .500 384 400 Detroit 7 8 0 .467 382 362 Minnesota 4 10 1 .300 377 467 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Seattle 12 3 0 .800 390 222 x-S. Francisco11 4 0 .733 383 252 Arizona 10 5 0 .667 359 301 St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 339 337 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Sunday’s Games St. Louis 23, Tampa Bay 13 Indianapolis 23, Kansas City 7 Denver 37, Houston 13 Buffalo 19, Miami 0 Carolina 17, New Orleans 13 Dallas 24, Washington 23 N.Y. Jets 24, Cleveland 13 Cincinnati 42, Minnesota 14 Tennessee 20, Jacksonville 16 Arizona 17, Seattle 10 N.Y. Giants 23, Detroit 20, OT San Diego 26, Oakland 13 Pittsburgh 38, Green Bay 31 New England 41, Baltimore 7 Philadelphia 54, Chicago 11 Monday’s Game San Francisco 34, Atlanta 24 Sunday, Dec. 29 Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

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

Denver at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m.

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

Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Boston 37 25 10 2 52 106 77 Tampa Bay 37 23 11 3 49 106 87 Montreal 38 22 13 3 47 96 84 Detroit 39 17 13 9 43 99 108 Toronto 39 18 16 5 41 106 113 Ottawa 39 15 17 7 37 111 126 Florida 38 14 19 5 33 88 123 Buffalo 37 10 24 3 23 66 105 Metropolitan Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 39 27 11 1 55 121 88 Washington 37 19 14 4 42 117 112 Philadelphia 37 17 16 4 38 93 104 N.Y. Rangers38 18 18 2 38 88 102 New Jersey 38 15 16 7 37 92 99 Columbus 37 16 17 4 36 101 106 Carolina 37 14 15 8 36 86 105 N.Y. Islanders3811 20 7 29 96 129 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Chicago 39 26 7 6 58 145 107 St. Louis 36 24 7 5 53 128 85 Colorado 36 23 10 3 49 106 88 Minnesota 39 20 14 5 45 88 96 Dallas 36 18 12 6 42 106 107 Winnipeg 39 16 18 5 37 103 116 Nashville 37 16 17 4 36 85 109 Pacific Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Anaheim 39 27 7 5 59 127 98 Los Angeles 38 25 9 4 54 106 76 San Jose 37 23 8 6 52 121 94 Vancouver 39 22 11 6 50 106 93 Phoenix 36 19 10 7 45 111 110 Calgary 37 14 17 6 34 95 118 Edmonton 39 12 24 3 27 101 135 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled Thursday’s Games No games scheduled Friday’s Games Ottawa at Boston, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Columbus at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 9 p.m.

San Jose at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Boston at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Edmonton, 10 p.m.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 11 15 .423 — Boston 12 17 .414 ½ New York 9 19 .321 3 Brooklyn 9 19 .321 3 Philadelphia 8 20 .286 4 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 22 6 .786 — Atlanta 16 13 .552 6½ Charlotte 14 15 .483 8½ Washington 12 13 .480 8½ Orlando 8 20 .286 14 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 23 5 .821 — Detroit 14 16 .467 10 Chicago 11 16 .407 11½ Cleveland 10 18 .357 13 Milwaukee 6 22 .214 17 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 22 7 .759 — Houston 20 11 .645 3 Dallas 16 12 .571 5½ New Orleans 12 14 .462 8½ Memphis 12 16 .429 9½ Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 23 5 .821 — Oklahoma City 23 5 .821 — Denver 14 13 .519 8½ Minnesota 13 15 .464 10 Utah 8 23 .258 16½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 20 10 .667 — Phoenix 17 10 .630 1½ Golden State 17 13 .567 3 L.A. Lakers 13 16 .448 6½ Sacramento 8 19 .296 10½ Wednesday’s Games Chicago 95, Brooklyn 78 Oklahoma City 123, New York 94 Miami 101, L.A. Lakers 95 Houston 111, San Antonio 98 Golden State 105, L.A. Clippers 103 Thursday’s Games Atlanta 127, Cleveland 125,2OT Houston 100, Memphis 92 San Antonio at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Detroit at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Denver at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Utah, 9 p.m.

Miami at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Phoenix at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Cleveland at Boston, 1 p.m.

Brooklyn at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Houston, 8 p.m.

Denver at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Miami at Portland, 10 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

ECHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OL SLPts GF GA Wheeling 26 14 7 0 5 33 76 71 Reading 22 12 9 1 0 25 58 57 Elmira 24 9 12 1 2 21 60 75 North Division GP W L OL SLPts GF GA Cincinnati 26 16 8 1 1 34 83 67 Evansville 25 14 7 1 3 32 83 83 Kalamazoo 24 13 9 0 2 28 66 60 F. Wayne 24 10 9 1 4 25 72 80 Toledo 24 8 13 3 0 19 68 89 South Division GP W L OL SLPts GF GA S. Carolina 27 19 5 1 2 41 87 57 Florida 28 18 8 1 1 38101 77 Orlando 27 15 11 0 1 31 72 72 Greenville 27 12 13 1 1 26 64 69 Gwinnett 27 8 17 0 2 18 60 83 WESTERN CONFERENCE Mountain Division GP W L OL SLPts GF GA Colorado 28 17 6 3 2 39 95 76 Alaska 25 17 7 1 0 35 84 47 Idaho 27 14 9 2 2 32 87 81 Utah 24 7 14 1 2 17 48 66 Pacific Division GP W L OL SLPts GF GA Ontario 27 19 4 1 3 42 82 65 Stockton 27 14 9 0 4 32 89 82 S. Fran.

28 10 15 2 1 23 63 96 Las Vegas 24 8 13 3 0 19 60 83 Bakersfield 25 9 15 0 1 19 61 83 NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Thursday’s Games Gwinnett 3, South Carolina 2 Reading at Elmira, late Las Vegas at Bakersfield, late Friday’s Games Wheeling at Gwinnett, 6:05 p.m.

South Carolina at Greenville, 7 p.m.

Kalamazoo at Reading, 7:05 p.m.

Toledo at Fort Wayne, 8:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Evansville, 8:15 p.m.

Utah at Colorado, 9:05 p.m.

Idaho at Las Vegas, 10:05 p.m.

Stockton at San Francisco, 10:30 p.m.

Ontario at Alaska, 11:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Elmira at Greenville, 7 p.m.

Wheeling at South Carolina, 7 p.m.

Florida at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Kalamazoo at Reading, 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Toledo, 7:15 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Evansville, 8:15 p.m.

Colorado at Utah, 9:05 p.m.

Idaho at Las Vegas, 10:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Stockton, 10:30 p.m.

Ontario at Alaska, 11:15 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Elmira at Greenville, 3 p.m.

Gwinnett at Fort Wayne, 5:05 p.m.

Idaho at Bakersfield, 7 p.m.

San Francisco at Stockton, 7 p.m.

College Football Bowl Glance Saturday, Dec. 21 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Colorado State 48, Washington State 45 Las Vegas Bowl Southern Cal 45, Fresno State 20 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho San Diego State 49, Buffalo 24 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 24, Tulane 21 Monday, Dec. 23 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. East Carolina 37, Ohio 20 Tuesday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Oregon State 38, Boise State 23 Thursday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Pittsburgh 30, Bowling Green 27 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Utah State (8-5), late Friday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Annapolis, Md. Marshall (9-4) vs. Maryland (7-5), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl At Houston Minnesota (8-4) vs. Syracuse (6-6), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco BYU (8-4) vs. Washington (8-4), 9:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 28 Pinstripe Bowl At New York Notre Dame (8-4) vs. Rutgers (6-6), Noon (ESPN)

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Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Cincinnati (9-3) vs. North Carolina (6-6), 3:20 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Miami (9-3) vs. Louisville (11-1), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN) Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Kansas State (7-5) vs. Michigan (7-5), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Navy (8-4), 11:45 a.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (7-5), 3:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Oregon (10-2) vs. Texas (8-4), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Arizona State (10-3) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 31 AdvoCare V100 Bowl At Shreveport, La. Arizona (7-5) vs. Boston College (7-5), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Virginia Tech (8-4) vs. UCLA (9-3), 2 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Rice (9-3) vs. Mississippi State (6-6), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Texas A&M (8-4) vs. Duke (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl At Dallas UNLV (7-5) vs. North Texas (8-4), Noon (ESPNU) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Nebraska (8-4) vs. Georgia (8-4), Noon (ESPN2) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Wisconsin (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2), 1 p.m. (ABC) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Iowa (8-4) vs. LSU (9-3), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Stanford (11-2) vs. Michigan State (12-1), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Baylor (11-1) vs. UCF (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Alabama (11-1) vs. Oklahoma (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 3 Orange Bowl At Miami Ohio State (12-1) vs. Clemson (10-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Missouri (11-2) vs. Oklahoma State (10-2), 7:30 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 4 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. Houston (8-4), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 5 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (7-5) vs. Ball State (10-2), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 6 BCS National Championship At Pasadena, Calif.

Florida State (13-0) vs. Auburn (12-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 18 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 25 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. South vs. North, 4 p.m. (NFLN)

College Football Summaries PITTSBURGH 30, BOWLING GREEN 27 Pittsburgh 7 10 3 10—30 Bowling Green3 7 10 7—27 First Quarter BG—FG Tate 28, 4:26.

Pitt—Conner 15 run (Blewitt kick), :58.

Second Quarter Pitt—FG Blewitt 25, 8:29.

Pitt—Boyd 54 punt return (Blewitt kick), 6:43.

BG—Bayer 29 pass from Johnson (Tate kick), 1:28.

Third Quarter BG—Gates 94 kickoff return (Tate kick), 14:49.

BG—FG Tate 46, 9:52.

Pitt—FG Blewitt 28, 5:59.

Fourth Quarter Pitt—Voytik 5 run (Blewitt kick), 9:31.

BG—Burbrink 15 pass from Johnson (Tate kick), 4:42.

Pitt—FG Blewitt 39, 1:17.

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Team Statistics Pitt BG First downs 21 18 Rushes-yards 39-255 34-10 Passing 232 279 Comp-Att-Int 13-22-0 21-33-0 Return Yards 69 0 Punts-Avg. 4-41.0 5-54.6 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 4-50 4-36 Time of Possession 28:50 31:10 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Pittsburgh, Conner 26-229, Voytik 2-24, Parrish 1-2, Bennett 5-2, Savage 4-0, Team 1-(minus 2). Bowling Green, Tra. Greene 18-39, Coppet 5-2, Johnson 11-(minus 31).

PASSING—Pittsburgh, Savage 8-13-0124, Voytik 5-9-0-108. Bowling Green, Johnson 20-32-0-272, H.Jackson 1-1-0-7.

RECEIVING—Pittsburgh, Boyd 8-173, Holtz 2-21, Garner 1-20, Wuestner 1-13, Bennett 1-5. Bowling Green, Joplin 6-86, H.Jackson 5-78, Bayer 3-57, Burbrink 3-44, Moore 2-12, Tra. Greene 2-10, Johnson 0-(minus 8).

Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Winners Dec. 26, 2013—Pittsburgh 30, Bowling Green 27 Dec. 26, 2012—Central Michigan 24, Western Kentucky 21 Dec. 27, 2011—Purdue 37, Western Michigan 32 Dec. 26, 2010—Florida International 34, Toledo 32 Dec. 26, 2009—Marshall 21, Ohio 17 Dec. 26, 2008—Florida Atlantic 24, Central Michigan 21 Dec. 26, 2007—Purdue 51, Central Michigan 48 Dec. 26, 2006—Central Michigan 31, Middle Tennessee 14 Dec. 26, 2005—Memphis 38, Akron 31 Dec. 27, 2004—Connecticut 39, Toledo 10 Dec. 26, 2003—Bowling Green 28, Northwestern 24 Dec. 26, 2002—Boston College 51, Toledo 25 Dec. 29, 2001—Toledo 23, Cincinnati 16 Dec. 27, 2000—Marshall 25, Cincinnati 14 Dec. 27, 1999—Marshall 21, Brigham Young 3 Dec. 23, 1998—Marshall 48, Louisville 29 Dec. 26, 1997—Mississippi 34, Marshall 31 Note: Motor City Bowl (1997-2008).

AP Male Athlete of the Year 2013 -- LeBron James, basketball 2012 -- Michael Phelps, swimming 2011 -- Aaron Rodgers, football 2010 -- Drew Brees, football 2009 -- Jimmie Johnson, auto racing 2008 -- Michael Phelps, swimming 2007 -- Tom Brady, football 2006 -- Tiger Woods, golf-x 2005 -- Lance Armstrong, cycling 2004 -- Lance Armstrong, cycling 2003 -- Lance Armstrong, cycling 2002 -- Lance Armstrong, cycling 2001 -- Barry Bonds, baseball 2000 -- Tiger Woods, golf 1999 -- Tiger Woods, golf 1998 -- Mark McGwire, baseball 1997 -- Tiger Woods, golf

1996 -- Michael Johnson, track and field 1995 -- Cal Ripken, baseball 1994 -- George Foreman, boxing 1993 -- Michael Jordan, basketball 1992 -- Michael Jordan, basketball 1991 -- Michael Jordan, basketball 1990 -- Joe Montana, football 1989 -- Joe Montana, football 1988 -- Orel Hershiser, baseball 1987 -- Ben Johnson, track and field 1986 -- Larry Bird, basketball 1985 -- Dwight Gooden, baseball 1984 -- Carl Lewis, track and field 1983 -- Carl Lewis, track and field 1982 -- Wayne Gretzky, hockey 1981 -- John McEnroe, tennis-x 1980 -- U.S. Olympic Hockey Team 1979 -- Willie Stargell, baseball 1978 -- Ron Guidry, baseball 1977 -- Steve Cauthen, horse racing 1976 -- Bruce Jenner, decathlon 1975 -- Fred Lynn, baseball 1974 -- Muhammad Ali, boxing 1973 -- O.J. Simpson, football 1972 -- Mark Spitz, swimming 1971 -- Lee Trevino, golf 1970 -- George Blanda, football 1969 -- Tom Seaver, baseball 1968 -- Denny McLain, baseball 1967 -- Carl Yastrzemski, baseball 1966 -- Frank Robinson, baseball 1965 -- Sandy Koufax, baseball 1964 -- Don Schollander, swimming 1963 -- Sandy Koufax, baseball 1962 -- Maury Wills, baseball 1961 -- Roger Maris, baseball 1960 -- Rafer Johnson, track 1959 -- Ingemar Johansson, boxing 1958 -- Herb Elliott, track 1957 -- Ted Williams, baseball 1956 -- Mickey Mantle, baseball 1955 -- Hopalong Cassady, football 1954 -- Willie Mays, baseball 1953 -- Ben Hogan, golf 1952 -- Bob Mathias, track-football 1951 -- Dick Kazmaier, football 1950 -- Jim Konstanty, baseball 1949 -- Leon Hart, football 1948 -- Lou Boudreau, baseball 1947 -- Johnny Lujack, football 1946 -- Glenn Davis, football 1945 -- Byron Nelson, golf-x 1944 -- Byron Nelson, golf 1943 -- Gunder Haegg, track 1942 -- Frank Sinkwich, football 1941 -- Joe DiMaggio, baseball 1940 -- Tom Harmon, football 1939 -- Nile Kinnick, football 1938 -- Don Budge, tennis 1937 -- Don Budge, tennis 1936 -- Jesse Owens, track-x 1935 -- Joe Louis, boxing 1934 -- Dizzy Dean, baseball 1933 -- Carl Hubbell, baseball 1932 -- Gene Sarazen, golf 1931 -- Pepper Martin, baseball x-both male and female winners were from the same sport

College Basketball Top 25 Schedule Friday’s Games No. 3 Ohio State vs. Louisiana-Monroe, 7 p.m.

No. 19 North Carolina vs. Northern Kentucky, 7 p.m.

No. 20 San Diego State vs. Saint Katherine, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games No. 2 Syracuse vs. No. 8 Villanova, 2 p.m.

No. 4 Wisconsin vs. Prairie View, 2 p.m.

No. 5 Michigan State vs. New Orleans, 4:15 p.m.

No. 6 Louisville at No. 18 Kentucky, 4 p.m.

No. 9 Duke vs. Eastern Michigan, 2 p.m.

No. 15 UConn vs. Eastern Washington at Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport, Conn., 1 p.m.

No. 17 Memphis vs. Jackson State, Noon No. 21 Colorado vs. Georgia, 10 p.m.

No. 23 UMass vs. Providence, 6 p.m.

No. 24 Gonzaga vs. Santa Clara, 8 p.m.

No. 25 Missouri at N.C. State, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games No. 10 Wichita State vs. Davidson, 3 p.m.

No. 12 Oregon vs. Morgan State, 3 p.m.

No. 13 Florida vs. Savannah State, 3 p.m.

Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Golden State F Draymond Green $15,000 for failing to leave the court in a timely manner upon his ejection during a Dec. 25 game against the Los Angeles Clippers.

CHICAGO BULLS — Assigned G Marquis Teague to Iowa (NBADL).

DETROIT PISTONS — Assigned G Tony Mitchell and G Peyton Siva to Fort Wayne (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Buffalo WR Roberts Woods $15,000 for punching Miami S Reshad Jones during a Dec. 22 game.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed WR Chris Williams from New Orleans’ practice squad. Waived DT Christian Tupou.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DL Brian Sanford. Signed WR Conner Vernon to the practice squad. Released RB Jamaine Cook from the practice squad.

DETROIT LIONS — Placed TE Dorin Dickerson on injured reserve. Signed TE Matt Veldman from the practice squad.

Claimed WR Micheal Spurlock off waivers from Dallas. Signed WR Carlin Isles to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed DT Jeris Pendleton and CB Sheldon Price from the practice squad. Signed C Thomas Austin, DE Jake McDonough and RB Tauren Poole to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released CB Marquice Cole.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed RW Oliver Bjorkstrand to a three-year, entry-level contract.

WINNIPEG JETS — Recalled D Julian Melchiori from St. John’s (AHL). Placed D Grant Clitsome on the injured reserve list, retroactive to Dec. 17.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Lake Erie D Mikael Tam one game for a charging incident in a Dec. 20 game at Rochester.

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Signed D Sam Klassen to a professional tryout agreement.

MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Recalled G Mathias Niederberger from Ontario (ECHL). Released G Aaron Dell from his professional tryout agreement.

ECHL UTAH GRIZZLIES — Announced G Aaron Dell was returned to the team from Manchester (AHL).

COLLEGE FLORIDA — Named Kurt Roper offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

MICHIGAN STATE — Suspended senior LB Max Bullough for violating team rules, making him ineligible to play in the Rose Bowl.

NBA Summaries Atlanta 127, Cleveland 125, 2OT ATLANTA (127) Carroll 3-7 1-2 8, Millsap 9-17 0-0 20, Horford 11-17 2-2 25, Teague 14-24 5-7 34, Korver 7-15 2-2 20, Brand 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 3-9 1-2 7, Mack 3-9 3-4 10, Schroder 0-0 0-0 0, Scott 0-2 0-0 0, Ayon 0-1 0-0 0, Antic 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 51-103 14-19 127.

CLEVELAND (125) Clark 1-4 0-0 3, Thompson 8-13 6-8 22, Bynum 2-3 0-0 4, Irving 17-33 3-4 40, Miles 4-7 0-0 10, Waiters 9-14 1-2 20, Jack 2-5 5-8 9, Varejao 4-7 0-0 8, Dellavedova 2-6 4-4 9, Bennett 0-1 0-0 0, Zeller 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 49-94 19-26 125.

Atlanta 26 24 26 19 13 19--127 Cleveland 27 21 24 23 13 17--125 3-Point Goals--Atlanta 11-34 (Korver 4-12, Millsap 2-4, Horford 1-1, Antic 1-1, Carroll 1-3, Mack 1-3, Teague 1-4, Scott 0-2, Williams 0-4), Cleveland 8-21 (Irving 3-8, Miles 2-3, Clark 1-1, Waiters 1-3, Dellavedova 1-4, Jack 0-1, Varejao 0-1). Fouled Out--None. Rebounds-Atlanta 56 (Millsap 11), Cleveland 53 (Varejao 17). Assists--Atlanta 33 (Teague 14), Cleveland 22 (Irving 9).

Total Fouls--Atlanta 24, Cleveland 19.

Technicals--Cleveland defensive three second. A--18,682 (20,562).

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SPORTS BRIEFS • James wins Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James of the Miami Heat is The Associated Press’ 2013 Male Athlete of the Year, becoming the third basketball player to capture the award in its 83-year history.

James received 31 of the 96 votes cast in a polling of news organizations. Peyton Manning got 20 votes to finish second; Jimmie Johnson was third with seven. In all, 15 other athletes received at least one vote.

James joins Michael Jordan and Larry Bird as NBA players to win the award.

Jordan won in 1991, 1992 and 1993. Bird won in 1986.

James led the Heat to their second straight NBA championship in 2013, winning his fourth MVP award and second NBA Finals MVP along the way.

Jaguars without pair of defensive starters versus Colts JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars will be without two starters on defense for Sunday’s season finale at Indianapolis.

Linebacker Geno Hayes (knee) will miss his second straight game. Cornerback Dwayne Gratz (ankle) will also be out.

Jaguars coach Gus Bradley says Hayes needs arthroscopic surgery on his knee.

That leaves the Jaguars with just one starting linebacker in Paul Pozluszny, after Russell Allen was placed on injured reverse Dec. 18.

Gratz was hurt Sunday against the Tennessee Titans.

Starting left tackle Cameron Bradfield also injured his ankle in that game. But Bradley says he did well in Thursday’s practice, and the coach feels good about Bradfield’s chances of playing Sunday.

Bobby Bowden’s grandson killed in car crash WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say former Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden’s grandson was one of two men killed when their car flipped into a small ditch off a central Florida road.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that 23-year-old Taylor Jeffrey Bowden and 25-year-old Rafael Fernandes De Aguiar Valim, who had been driving, both died in the Thursday crash in Winter Haven. Sheriff’s office public information officer Carrie Eleazer confirmed Bowden’s relation to the famous football coach.

A third man — 22-year-old Robert Lewis Edwards — was rescued by crews who heard him cry for help. He spent hours in water up to his neck and was being treated for hypothermia.

The details of the crash are being investigated, but the sheriff’s office reports that alcohol appears to be a factor.

NBA: Clippers’ Griffin should not have been ejected NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA said Thursday that its referees made a mistake when they ejected Los Angeles forward Blake Griffin in the Clippers’ 105-103 loss at Golden State on Wednesday night.

Griffin was ejected for his second technical with 10:43 remaining after scuffling with Andrew Bogut, following Warriors forward Draymond Green to the showers after they got into it at the end of the third.

Rod Thorn, the NBA’s president of basketball operations, said: “After a league review of the Clippers-Warriors game, we have come to the conclusion that Blake Griffin should not have been ejected from the game.

A common foul should have been called on Griffin for initially attempting to dislodge the Warriors’ Andrew Bogut and a technical foul should have been assessed to Bogut for grabbing Griffin by the shirt and wrestling with him.”

Gamecocks’ Clowney pulled over again for speeding COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney has been pulled over again for going at least 25 mph over the speed limit.

Columbia Police say Clowney was stopped around 10:30 a.m. Thursday going 84 mph in a 55 mph zone on Interstate 26 near Interstate 126, about 5 miles from the Gamecocks’ campus.

The traffic stop happened about an hour before the Gamecocks flew to Florida for the Jan. 1 Capital One Bowl against Wisconsin.

It’s Clowney’s second ticket in three weeks. On Dec. 7, state troopers say Clowney was going 110 mph in a 70 mph zone.

Asomugha plans to retire ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Former All-Pro cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha will retire after 11 years in the NFL. The Raiders said Asomugha will announce his retirement officially at a news conference at team headquarters Friday.

Asomugha had his greatest success in the NFL with the Raiders after being drafted in the first round out of California in 2003. He earned three Pro Bowl selections in eight seasons in Oakland and was a first-team All-Pro in 2008 and 2010.

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Neighbor concerned man is selling drugs DEAR ABBY: I live in a fairly well-to-do neighborhood on a cul-de-sac. There has been an increase in the traffic on my street, and I suspect it’s because a neighbor’s adult son has been selling drugs. Most of the cars are driven by young people who park for five to 10 minutes at the most, and all of them walk around to the back of the house.

Hypodermic needles have been found in the street.

Should I talk to the police and risk alienating my neighbors, or should I keep quiet because I have no definite proof? I don’t think the parents would believe me if I told them; they seem to think their child can do no wrong.

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DEAR DOCTOR K: I was recently diagnosed with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Can you tell me about my treatment options?

DEAR READER: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disabling illness that affects the brain and spinal cord and worsens over time. MS damages nerve cells and a substance that is wrapped around the nerve cells, called myelin. A nerve cell functions like a copper wire — it transmits electrical signals. Myelin is like the insulation surrounding a wire. It helps the electrical signal get transmitted down the nerve cell. When myelin is damaged, that transmission is interrupted.

MS is an autoimmune disease: The damage comes from an activated immune system. Immune system cells and possibly immune system chemicals called antibodies attack the myelin. The

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are most often used for MS relapses. They shorten the length of relapses and may speed up recovery from an attack.

• Interferons are a type of protein. They reduce the frequency of relapses, and they may slow the worsening of symptoms.

• Glatiramer acetate blocks cells that damage myelin. The drug may also reduce the frequency of relapses.

• Monoclonal antibodies block immune cells from entering the brain and spinal cord. This may prevent damage. Rarely, these drugs can provoke a potentially fatal brain disease.

Your doctor may also prescribe medications to treat specific symptoms.

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

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Honoring war dead trouble for Japan’s Abe

Healthcare tactics key for GOP hopefuls ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans who want to regain control of the Senate will first have to do battle among themselves in 2014 primary elections, due largely to differences over how to proceed against the law they deride as “Obamacare.”

In a number of Senate primary campaigns, conservatives are arguing over the best way to oppose President Barack Obama’s health care law. The outcome of those campaigns could affect the battle over which party controls the Senate.

In intraparty skirmishes from Georgia to Nebraska, the GOP’s most strident candidates and activists are insisting on a no-holdsbarred approach. They accuse fellow Republicans — including several incumbent senators — of being too soft in their opposition to the Affordable Care Act and to the president in general.

The struggle will help determine just how conservative the Senate Republican caucus will be during Obama’s final two years. And it could influence which party controls the chamber, with Democrats hoping that the most uncompromising Republican standard-bearers will emerge from the primaries and fare as poorly in general elections as their counterparts did in several 2012 Senate races. Republicans need to gain six seats to retake the majority in the Senate.

Republican Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia, who

wants to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss, stepped into the dispute recently when he seemed to scold much of his party during an interview on a conservative talk radio show.

“A lot of conservatives say, ‘Nah, just step back and let this thing fall to pieces on its own,” Kingston said.

“Well, I don’t think that’s always the responsible thing to do.”

Rep. Paul Broun, one of Kingston’s rivals in a crowded primary field, pounced immediately, declaring in an Internet ad, “I don’t want to fix Obamacare, I want to get rid of it.” Conservative commentators hammered Kingston with headlines like “Kingston has surrendered on Obamacare.”

In Tennessee, state Rep. Joe Carr blasted Sen. Lamar Alexander for serving as a key GOP negotiator in the deal to end the partial government shutdown that resulted from House Republicans’ efforts to deny funding for the health care law. Alexander subsequently described himself as a “conservative problem solver,” a characterization that Carr says “typifies how out of touch he is.”

Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin is using a similar line of attack in trying to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, as is Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel in his primary challenge to Sen. Thad Cochran. Carr, Bevin and McDaniel all say they’d be more like freshmen Sens.

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In this 2010 file photo, Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., speaks to people demonstrating against the health care bill on the U.S. Capitol steps a day before Congress voted on it. Republicans see the 2014 midterm elections as a chance to capitalize on voter frustration with the problem-plagued health care overhaul, but the GOP first must

settle a slate of Senate primaries where conservatives are arguing over the best way to oppose President Barack Obama’s signature law. Kingston, who wants to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss, stepped into the rift recently when he seemed to scold much of his party during an interview on a conservative talk radio show.

Colonel Rob Maness notes that Cassidy, as a state senator and a physician in the state’s public hospital system, pushed health care policies similar to those in the Affordable Care Act. “He has to defend his entire record, regardless of how he’s voted in Washington,” said Maness, a GOP candidate who hopes to unseat Landrieu with tea party support.

Midland University President Ben Sasse, one of several Republicans running in Nebraska for retiring Sen.

Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas, tea party favorites who pushed the defunding strategy and vexed their longer-serving colleagues.

In Nebraska and Louisiana, Republican candidates who say they oppose the health care law have had to defend their past positions on health care.

National Republicans settled on Rep. Bill Cassidy as their best shot to beat Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. But retired Air Force

Mike Johanns’ seat, says he opposes the health care law but has had to explain previous speeches and writings in which he was less absolute, at one point calling the act “an important first step” in overhauling American health care.

“This goes right to the bigger fight between the ideologues and the pragmatists,” said Republican strategist Todd Rehm of Georgia, who isn’t affiliated with any of the eight GOP candidates for Chambliss’ seat.

Egypt cracking down on Muslim Brotherhood CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s security authorities launched a sweep of arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members on Thursday and warned that holding a leadership post in the group could now be grounds for the death penalty after it was officially declared a terrorist organization, stepping up the government’s confrontation with its top political nemesis.

The announcement came as a bomb exploded in a busy intersection in Cairo Thursday morning, hitting a bus and wounding five people. Though small, the blast raised fears that

a campaign of violence by Islamic militants that for months has targeted police and the military could turn to civilians in retaliation for the stepped up crackdown.

The terrorist labeling of the Brotherhood — an unprecedented step even during past decades when the group was banned — takes to a new level the government’s moves to crush the group, which rode on elections to dominate Egypt’s politics the past three years until the military removed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July

after massive protests against him.

The Brotherhood vowed to “qualitatively” escalate its protests against the new military-backed interim government, whose authority it rejects. The group has struggled to bring numbers into the streets in past months under a crackdown that has already killed hundreds of its members and put thousands more in prison, including Morsi and other top leaders — and there was little sign of any protests on Thursday.

The moves — all playing out before the

backdrop of increasing violence by al-Qaida-inspired militants —raise the potential for greater turmoil as the country nears a key Jan. 14-15 referendum on a revised constitution, a milestone in the post-Morsi political transition. The government is pushing for overwhelming passage of the new document, while the Brotherhood vows to stop it with protests.

Ahmed Imam, spokesman for the Strong Egypt Party founded by ex-Brotherhood member Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, warned that the terrorism label “leaves the

Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters only one choice, which is violence.”

Both sides are showing “a great deal of stupidity,” he said, blaming the Brotherhood for failing to firmly distance itself from militant violence and the government for closing doors to reconciliation.

Speaking to military graduates Thursday, military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the man who removed Morsi and is now Egypt’s most powerful figure, vowed the country will “stand steadfast in confronting terrorism.”

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TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid his respects at a shrine honoring Japan’s war dead in an unexpected visit Thursday that drew sharp rebukes from China and South Korea, who warned that the move celebrates his country’s militaristic past and could further sour relations.

On his first anniversary of taking office, Abe spent about 15 minutes at the Yasukuni shrine in central Tokyo. “I prayed to pay respect for the war dead who sacrificed their precious lives and hoped that they rest in peace,” he told waiting reporters afterward.

Japanese politicians’ visits to Yasukuni have long caused friction with China and both Koreas, because the 2.5 million war dead enshrined there include 14 class A war criminals from World War II — national leaders who were either executed or died in prison or during their trials.

Japan colonized Korea and occupied parts of China, often brutally, before and during World War II. It was the first visit to the Shinto-style war shrine by a sitting Japanese prime minister since Junichiro Koizumi went in 2006 to mark the end of World War II. Abe previously visited Yasukuni while out of office.

Abe, a nationalist who advocates revising Japan’s pacifist constitution, has always wanted to visit Yasukuni as prime minister, but he still surprised some analysts, who thought he might take a pragmatic approach to leadership that focused on reviving the economy and trying to avoid alienating neighbors.

The United States expressed disappointment “that Japan’s leadership has taken an action that will exacerbate tensions with Japan’s neighbors.”

TV cameras followed Abe inside the shrine property, but were not allowed in the inner shrine.

The prime minister was dressed formally in black jacket with tails.

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ARRIVING NOW! FEATURED CAR OF THE WEEK

2001 Ford Focus SE Wagon

1999 Honda Accord EX

Local Trade, Automatic, Air, Power Windows & Locks, Tilt, Cruise, Alloys

Local Trade, Great Condition, Sunroof, 4 Cylinder, Auto, Air, All Power

$

4,995

$

4,995

2010 DODGE AVENGER SXT One-Owner, Auto, Air, All Power, Side Airbags, Warranty, 56,000 Miles

10,995

$

2009 CHEVROLET IMPALA LS

1998 Toyota 4Runner Limited 4x4

2002 Ford Taurus SES

Local Trade, One-Owner, V6, Sunroof, Leather, Automatic, All Power

One-Owner, 24V DOHC V6, Sunroof, Leather, Power Seat, Spoiler

$

5,995

$

One-Owner, Auto, Air, All Power, Factory Warranty, 39,000 Miles

10,995

$

6,995

2008 Pontiac Grand Prix

2006 Ford Fusion SE

1999 GMC Suburban 1500 SLE 4x4

2010 Mitsubishi Galant FE

2007 Chevrolet HHR LT

2005 Ford Five Hundred SEL AWD

“3800” V6, Power Seat, Automatic, Air, All Power, Alloy Wheels

Local Trade, Power Seat, Automatic, Air, All Power, Alloy Wheels

3rd Seat, 5.7L V8, Power Seat, Running Boards, Tow Package, 78,000 Miles

Automatic, Air, All Power, Side Airbags, Alloys, Warranty, 57,000 Miles

One-Owner, Power Seat, Automatic, Air, All Power, 58,000 Miles

One-Owner, Power Seats, Alloy Wheels, ALL Power Options, 65,000 Miles

8,995

$

$

8,995

$

8,995

9,995

$

2002 Lexus IS 300 Sedan

2009 Pontiac G6 Sedan

2007 Buick Lucerne CX

2007 Chevrolet Malibu LS

One-Owner, Sunroof, Leather, Heated Seats, Automatic, Side Airbags

One-Owner, V6, Auto, Air, All Power, Spoiler, Alloys, 39,000 Miles

“3800” V6, Power Seat, Trac. Control, Side Airbags, Alloys, 69,000 Miles

One-Owner, Auto, Air, Trac. Control, Side Airbags, ABS, 19,000 Miles

$

9,995

$

10,995

$

10,995

$

10,995

$

9,995

$

9,995

2007 Chrysler Town & Country Touring

2012 Ford Fiesta SE Hatchback

Power Sliders & Liftgate, Full Stow ‘N Go, Power Seat, Alloy Wheels

5 Speed, Heated Seats, “Sync”, All Power, Cruise, Warranty, 12,000 Miles

10,995

$

$

11,995

FEATURED CAR OF THE WEEK 2006 Hummer H3 4x4

2010 Chevrolet Malibu LS

2010 Dodge Grand Caravan SE

2008 Saturn Aura XE

Local Trade, Sunroof, Heated Leather, Chrome Wheels, Tow Package

One-Owner, Automatic, Air, All Power, Factory Warranty, 45,000 Miles

One-Owner, Full Stow ‘N Go, Quad Buckets, All Power, Warranty

V6, Sunroof, Leather, Heated Seats, Alloys, All Power, 62,000 Miles

11,995

$

$

12,995

$

12,995

$

12,995

2012 LINCOLN MKZ ULTIMATE AWD 2006 Nissan Titan XE Ext. Cab

2005 Lincoln Navigator Ultimate 4x4

Local Trade, 5.6L V8, Automatic, Air, Tilt, Cruise, CD, 41,000 Miles

DVD Player, Navigation, Power Liftgate, Sunroof, Heated/Cooled Leather

12,995

$

$

Navigation, Rear Camera, Sunroof, Heated/Cooled Leather, 24,000 Miles

$

12,995

23,995

2013 Chrysler 200 Touring

2012 Ford Fusion SE

Power Seat, Auto, Air, All Power, Alloy Wheels, Warranty, 10,000 Miles

One-Owner, Power Seat, Alloy Wheels, Factory Warranty, 27,000 Miles

$

14,995

14,995

$

2008 Lincoln MKZ

2012 Chevrolet Malibu 2LT

2011 Ford Fusion SEL

2005 Chevrolet Colorado LS Crew Cab 4x4

2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Z71 Crew Cab 4x4

2011 Ford Escape Hybrid 4x4

Leather Seats, Heated and Cooled Seats, All Power Features, 53,000 Miles

Sunroof, Heated Leather, Remote Start, Chrome Wheels, Warranty

Back-Up Camera, BLIS, Sunroof, Heated Leather, Warranty, 32,000 Miles

One-Owner, 3.5L 5 Cylinder, Auto, Air, All Power, Alloys, 58,000 Miles

5.3L V8, Power Seat, Running Boards, Tow Package, “Bose” Audio

30 MPG, Power Seat, All Power Options, ALloys, Warranty, 66,000 Miles

$

14,995

$

15,995

$

15,995

15,995

$

15,995

$

$

16,995

2013 Ford Fusion S

2009 Ford Edge Limited

2012 Lincoln MKZ

2013 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ

2010 Dodge Ram 1500 ST Crew Cab 4x4

2013 Mazda 6s Grand Touring

Local Trade, Automatic, Air, All Power, Sync, Warranty, 2,000 Miles

One-Owner, Panoramic Roof, Heated Leather, Power Liftgate, Chromes

One-Owner/Off-Lease, Sunroof, Heated & Cooled Leather, 28,000 Miles

Rear Camera, Sunroof, Heated Leather, Factory Warranty, 21,000 Miles

One-Owner, V8, Auto, Air, All Power, Factory Warranty, 49,000 Miles

V6, Navigation, Rear Camera, Sunroof, Leather, Bose Audio, 10,000 Miles

18,995

$

18,995

$

$

19,995

$

20,995

FEATURED SUV OF THE WEEK 2013 Ford F-150 XLT Crew Cab 4x4

2013 Ford Taurus SHO AWD

V8, 7350 GVWR Package, All Power, Factory Warranty, 15,000 Miles

EcoBoost V6, Navigation, Sunroof, Heated/Cooled Leather, 33,000 Miles

29,995

$

12,995

$

21,995

29,995

2007 DODGE NITRO SXT 4X4

$

20,995

FEATURED SUV OF THE WEEK

$

Local Trade, V6, Auto, Chrome Steps, Stability Control, 50,000 Miles

$

2007 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO 4X4 2013 Ram 1500 SLT Quad Cab 4x4

2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT Crew Cab 4x4

Big Horn Edition, Hemi V8, Power Seat, 20” Chromes, 16,000 Miles

5.3L V8, Automatic, Air, All Power, Factory Warranty, 17,000 Miles

$

29,995

$

Sunroof, Power Seat, Stability Control, Side Airbags, 54,000 Miles

30,995

$

14,995

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