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THURSDAY January 16, 2014

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Weather Snow showers, 1-2 inches possible. High in the lower 30s. Tonight’s low 20. Page A8 Serving Noble & LaGrange Counties

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GOOD MORNING Councilman signs up to try for re-election ALBION — One more Republican candidate signed up seeking re-election to the Noble County Council Wednesday, the Noble County Clerk’s office said. Councilman Tom Janes is seeking re-election to his District 1 seat on the council. District 1 includes Elkhart, Washington, Sparta and Perry townships. Candidates have until noon Feb. 7 to file for re-election. The four district seats on the Noble County Council are up for re-election. Other positions to be voted on in the May 6 primary election include 3rd District U.S. representative, 82nd District state representative, Superior Court II judge, prosecuting attorney, sheriff, county auditor, county assessor, and the District 1 seat on the Noble County Board of Commissioners. Township trustees are to be voted on, as are two seats on the Albion Town Council and one seat each on the Albion and Cromwell town councils.

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Prairie Heights improves to A after B year before FROM STAFF REPORTS

INDIANAPOLIS — One local school corporation earned an A, and one showed improvement in quality grades released Wednesday by the Indiana Department of Education. The grades apply to entire school districts. They are being issued four weeks after the state released grades for individual schools in December. The Prairie Heights school district improved to an A for 2013 after earning a B in 2012. The Lakeland school corporation dropped to a C

grade for 2013 after earning a B in 2012. Five other local school districts in Noble and LaGrange counties received the same grades for 2013 as for 2012. Earning B’s for the second year in a row are Westview and East Noble. Earning C’s for two consecutive years are Central Noble, West Noble and Smith-Green school districts. Like many of his counterparts, West Noble Superintendent Dr. Dennis VanDuyne is not a big fan of the state’s grading system. “Although the stated reason

for issuing school grades was to have a clear and transparent way to rate schools that everyone can understand, the product certainly fails to achieve that,” he said Wednesday. But there’s no doubt there is room for improvement at West Noble, he added. “We need to do better and are working hard at it. Reaching goals is hard enough in a business or manufacturing facility. It is all the more difficult when you add the complexities of human nature, language, social and environmental obstacles,” VanDuyne

The following grades for local school corporations were released by the Indiana Department of Education on Wednesday after individual school grades were released last month. The grades are based on a 4-point scoring system, with 4 being the highest possible grade, much like a grade point average. School corp.

2013 2013 2012 2012 grade points grade points DeKalb Eastern C 2.92 C 2.90 G-K-B* C 2.85 B 3.39 DeKalb Central B 3.44 C 2.88 Prairie Heights A 3.63 B 3.09 Westview B 3.31 B 3.29 Lakeland C 2.40 B 3.04 Central Noble C 2.28 C 2.29 East Noble B 3.16 B 3.19 West Noble C 2.49 C 2.68 Fremont A 3.65 A 3.78 Hamilton C 2.50 C 2.70 MSD of Steuben B 3.12 C 2.86 Smith-Green C 2.72 C 2.88 * Garrett-Keyser-Butler SOURCE: INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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House passes budget Stutzman votes in favor of plan

Town hall meeting to address drugs KENDALLVILLE — City police will host a town hall meeting on drug awareness Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in City Hall. The public is invited to learn about drug abuse and how to help police in combating the problem. Last November, police held a similar town hall meeting before a City Council meeting. Time ran out before police could respond to all the questions from the public, said Police Chief Rob Wiley. He announced the drug abuse discussion would continue at a future town hall meeting. Noble County Prosecutor Steve Clouse, a police meth recovery technician, a Kendallville Police Department detective, a representative from Drug Free Noble County and Mayor Suzanne Handshoe have been invited to the meeting.

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Middle School, a 2 1/2-inch water line behind the ceiling in the front entrance burst, flooding the entrance hallway, administration offices and gym floor with water. “A cast fitting just split,” said Leitch. School maintenance employees repaired the pipe. Kendallville firefighters and other city employees responded to the scene and helped squeegee water. A contractor, Protech, helped with the cleanup. Leitch publicly thanked city employees for their help in getting the water out of the building. • Jan. 13 — A heating system blower motor seized up and overheated, causing a minor fire in a classroom on the third floor of the middle school building. Kendallville firefighters were

WASHINGTON (AP) — Party leaders pushed a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill for this year through the House on Wednesday, shunning the turmoil of recent budget clashes with a compromise financing everything from airports to war costs and brimming with victories and concessions for both parties. The huge bill furnishes the fine print — 1,582 pages of it — for the bipartisan pact approved in December Stutzman that set overall spending levels for the next couple of years. With that decision behind them, the measure sailed through the House with no suspense and little dissent — fueled additionally by lawmakers’ desire to avoid an election-year replay of last fall’s widely unpopular 16-day federal shutdown. Approving the legislation “is showing the American people we actually are capable of working in a bipartisan manner,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. He praised the bill for holding down spending and said passage would be “the responsible thing to do. It’s the thoughtful thing to do.” The measure was approved by a one-sided 359-67 roll call, with virtually all opposition coming from Republicans. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., of Howe, voted in favor of the bill. “While this bill isn’t perfect, it cuts discretionary spending

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Fixing the problem Water Department employee Darin Metzger installs a clamp over a break in a 6-inch water line about 10 feet under South Main Street in Kendallville Wednesday afternoon. The 800 block of South

Main Street between Lisle and Henry streets was closed to traffic for about four hours. The repair did not disrupt water service.

EN has rough start to 2014 BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com

KENDALLVILLE — Burst water pipes, a fire caused by an overheated motor in a heating unit and rodents chewing electrical wires to cause backflow in a well have plagued East Noble schools this month. East Noble business manager Brian Leitch reviewed the problems for East Noble school board members Wednesday night. Claims for damages have been submitted to the school corporation’s insurance carrier for all of the incidents, repairs have been made and cleanup of flooded areas in some cases has been completed. Leitch gave this rundown of what happened: • Jan. 3 — A 1-inch water line in the East Noble High School

building’s maintenance area burst, causing the boiler providing heat to shut down. School corporation maintenance employees located the problem and, with the help of a contractor, Combustion Mechanical, repairs were made and cleanup done. Students and staff were not in school. “The temperature in the building went down to the low 60s,” said Leitch. • Jan. 8 — Two 3/4-inch water lines froze and burst behind the ceiling in the lobby area of the high school gym and Cole Auditorium, causing water damage to the ceiling, trophy cases and 20 light fixtures. A custodian found the problem and alerted Leitch and maintenance employees. Leitch estimated the damage at $13,000 to $15,000. • Jan. 10 — At East Noble

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Report on Benghazi points out mistakes WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the deadly assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, laying blame on the State Department, the intelligence community — even the late Ambassador Chris Stevens — for failing to communicate and heed warnings of terrorist activity in the area. The highly critical report also says the U.S. military was not positioned to aid the Americans in need, though the head of Africa Command had offered military security teams that Stevens — who

was killed in the attack — had rejected weeks before the attack. It also said that in the aftermath of the attacks, U.S. analysts confused policymakers by blaming the violence on protests without enough supporting intelligence. The 2012 Benghazi attacks have dogged the Obama administration, because then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice initially blamed the violence on mob protests over an anti-Islamic film. Al-Qaida-linked militant groups were later blamed for the attacks, first when militants overran the temporary U.S. mission on Sept. SEE REPORT, PAGE A8

This 2012 file photo shows a Libyan man investigating the inside of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the deadly assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday.

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Legislators react to State of the State message INDIANAPOLIS — State legislators from northeast Indiana are reacting to Tuesday night’s State of the State address by Gov. Mike Pence. Pence asked lawmakers to support his plans to phase out the state’s business personal property tax, expand charter schools, launch a new scholarship program allowing low-income children to attend preschool and create a tax credit to promote adoption, The Associated Press reported. Issuing comments about the speech are Sen. Kruse Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn; Rep. Ben Smaltz, R-Auburn; Sen. Sue Glick, R-LaGrange; Rep. David Ober, R-Albion; and Rep. Dennis Zent, R-Angola.

“The governor emphasized job creation, which is a direct result of Indiana’s fiscal responsibility and low-tax policies. In 2013, one in eight jobs created in the U.S. were generated by an Indiana employer. This is remarkable, and I look forward to working with our governor to further strengthen Indiana’s economy.”

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Kruse “I enjoyed the governor’s speech. He laid out his platform of ideas and addressed the issues that are facing Indiana and the General Assembly this year.

“Tonight I had the opportunity to reflect on the legislative accomplishments of 2013 and hear Gov. Pence’s goals for 2014 as he gave his second State of the State address. Gov. Pence’s remarks align well Smaltz with my beliefs regarding the needs of Hoosiers and the goals for this legislative session. “Like our governor, I believe we must continue work that will attract employers to our state and protect Hoosier taxpayers. We took a big step last year with creating the Indiana Career

Council, which is helping equip Hoosiers for our growing workforce, and this session we will focus on creating the best business climate for job growth. I am working on multiple bills to address issues in these areas, and I am excited for a session that continues Indiana’s progress and benefits Hoosier families.” Smaltz represents all of DeKalb County, the Hamilton area of Steuben County and a portion of northern Allen County.

Glick “Governor Pence made clear that Indiana must do more to continue our tradition of pro-growth policies. I agree with this idea, and I applaud his efforts so far to set Indiana on the right track. “However, with Glick our state’s current revenue forecast, we must be mindful of the balance between lowering taxes and being fiscally responsible. As various proposals on the business personal

property tax move through the General Assembly, I welcome further discussion on this issue and look forward to reaching a conclusion that benefits all Hoosiers.”

Ober “Indiana has established itself as a pro-business and tax-friendly leader with conservative principles keeping our state on the right path. In the governor’s address, he reinforced his Ober commitment to maintaining our position at the forefront of economic growth and prosperity. “Last session, the General Assembly passed legislation that created the Indiana Career Council. This initiative has helped put Hoosiers back to work by equipping them with the skills necessary to thrive in today’s global marketplace. We will continue working with the governor on our shared vision of creating jobs and improving

workforce development.” Ober represents all of Noble County, the Wolcottville area in LaGrange County and portions of Allen, Elkhart and Whitley counties.

Zent “Governor Pence laid out critical agenda points that will impact policy discussions during the 2014 session. With so many common goals, we should be able to work side-by-side to serve Hoosiers and better Indiana. “I am pleased Zent that the governor shares our goal of making job creation a top priority. We share a commitment in addressing Indiana’s skills gap by better equipping Hoosiers with the skills they need to fill jobs that are available right now and in the future. Preparing our workforce for the needs of today’s job market is a great first step towards helping folks in our community return to work.” Zent represents most of LaGrange and Steuben counties.

Reluctant Avilla council raises sewer rates 53% BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com

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Main Street Business Association donates The Kendallville Main Street Business Association recently donated to KPC Media Group’s Newspapers in Education program. The donation represents proceeds from the association’s activities including last summer’s Trunk Treasures

and Farmers Market. Main Street Business Association representatives Kathy Smith and Don Gura make the presentation to Lea Edsall, Newspapers in Education coordinator; and Terry Housholder, KPC Media Group publisher and CEO.

Police Blotter • Injury crash shuts down U.S. 33 KIMMELL — A rollover crash briefly shut down U.S. 33 Tuesday, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said. Cory A. Fender, 33, of Ligonier was southbound on U.S.. 33 near C.R. 650W at about 9:30 a.m. when he hit ice on the road and lost control of his 2005 Kia Sorento. The Kia left the road and rolled over. Fender complained of back pain after the crash. Noble County EMS took him to Parkview Regional Medical Center at Fort Wayne. Police had to briefly close U.S. 33 to let the EMS unit leave the crash scene. Damage was estimated at $10,001-$25,000.

Six booked into Noble County Jail ALBION — Six people were booked into the Noble County Jail Tuesday and Wednesday, the county sheriff’s department said. • Matthew Ottis Becker, 42, of Kendallville was booked on a body attachment writ. • Damien Joseph DeCamp, 19, of Kendallville was booked on a warrant for alleged possession of alcohol by a minor. • Derek Ryan Moore, 18, of LaGrange was booked on a warrant for alleged theft.

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• Ricky Lee Payton, 32, of Turkey Lake was booked on a warrant as an alleged habitual traffic law violator. • Garry Louis Strowmatt Jr., 40, of Pleasant Lake was booked on a body attachment writ. • Whittney Devon Tackett, 22, of Kendallville was charged with conversion.

Whiskey taken in burglary ALBION — Whiskey was stolen from a residence in the 4500 block of West “E” Drive, Albion, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said. Someone broke a lock on a door into the residence. The burglary was reported Tuesday at 8:40 a.m.

Lye bottle ‘lifted’ AVILLA — Someone stole a bottle of lye in a shoplifting incident at a store in the 500 block of East Albion Street, Avilla, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said. The shoplifting was reported Tuesday at 2:32 p.m.

Vehicles collide WOLCOTTVILLE — Two cars collided Monday, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said. Adriana L. Guzman, 23, of Fort Wayne tried to pass a 2007 Dodge Caliber on C.R. 1200N near C.R. 75W at 10:12 a.m. as the Caliber’s driver, Craig C.

Chivers, 70, of Albion was turning left with his turn signal on. The 2008 Saturn Aura Guzman drove was struck by the Dodge. No injuries were reported. Damage was estimated at $5,001$10,000.

FREMONT — Head Start in Steuben and LaGrange counties is accepting applications for fall enrollment for children ages 3-5. Children must be age 3 by Feb. 1, 2014, to be eligible.

said. “It affects every taxpayer in our community. You have to do it because it’s right for the future of the town.” Even with the smallest increase proposed, the council may have had to increase the rates in a year or two anyway, according to Council President Paul Shepherd. Town Manager Bill Ley said the utility was losing nearly $7,000 per month, an amount that was rapidly eating into cash reserves. The council first discussed a rate study done by H.J. Umbaugh & Associates in November. It also discussed the matter in December.

Redevelopment Commission boosts facade grant fund BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com

KENDALLVILLE — More money will be available this year for the Redevelopment Commission’s successful facade matching grant program. Commissioners voted Four booked into unanimously Wednesday LaGrange jail morning to increase the LAGRANGE — Local program’s budget from $85,000 to $90,000 for 2014. police arrested four people The $90,000 sum includes from Monday through $16,000 carried over from Tuesday, according to 2013. LaGrange County Jail Commissioner Jim Cook records. recommended the additional • Jerry Little, 39, of the $5,000 to cover increased 300 block of Oak, Angola, costs in materials applicants was arrested Tuesday by LaGrange County police on may need for projects and a warrant charging him with to continue to encourage failure to appear for court on downtown business and an original charge of driving building owners to make while never having received improvements to their properties. a license. If one of the goals of the • Donovan Heath, 19, program is to improve the of the 300 block of North aesthetics of the downtown Third Street, Elkhart, business district, the program was arrested Tuesday by LaGrange County police on has been a success, said a warrant charging him with Cook. Since the program started theft. in 2009, the commission • Jeanne Rosie, 72, of the 3700 block of West C.R. 400N, Shipshewana, was arrested Tuesday by LaGrange County police on BY BOB BRALEY a charge of operating while bbraley@kpcmedia.com intoxicated. ALBION — The Noble • Evan Anson, 27, of County Council voted 4-2 the 500 block of South Wednesday to approve a C.R. 800W, Andrews, $20,000 additional appropriwas arrested Monday by LaGrange County police on ation to cover the cost of a consultant for the Noble charges of operating while intoxicated and neglect of a County Assessor’s Office. Bill Schnepf of Angola dependent. has been contracted as an appraiser for appeals only, along with some consultant work, county attorney Dennis Graft said. His duties will not entail anything regarding Centers are located reassessment. in Fremont, Angola and The work will cost no LaGrange. The program more than $31,200. Assessor runs four days a week, Kim Miller had $11,200 Monday through Thursday, beginning in September and in her budget for the work, but needed the additional running through May. For an application, call appropriation to cover the balance. 495-4775 or 800-551Councilmen Mike Toles 9819.

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AVILLA — It’s a road none of them said they wanted to travel, but in the end they chose the middle path. The Avilla Town Council decided unanimously to increase its sewer rate more than 50 percent at its monthly meeting held Wednesday in the Avilla Town Hall. The move was necessary, the town had been told by its financial advisors, because the sewage utility’s expenses had begun to exceed its income. The new rate approved by council will move the monthly cost for a home

using 5,000 gallons of sewage, an average amount according to advisors, from $41.61 to $63.98. The $22.37 jump translates into a 53.7 percent increase. In making the move, the town chose against proposals that would have raised the rate either $13.62 or $23.46 for 5,000 gallons. Town Councilman Bill Krock stressed that the amount paid by residents would vary depending on how much sewage they put into the system, and that for those who don’t use 5,000 gallons, there bill will be correspondingly less. “It’s a hard decision,” Councilman Phil Puckett

has awarded 43 matching grants totaling more than $246,000 with total project investments by property and business owners of more than $540,000. Last year, the commision approved 10 matching grants of more than $69,000 with total project investments of more than $173,000. Matching grants ranged from $610 to $15,000. The program helps stimulate the downtown business environment, said commission President Ray Scott. Matching grants may not exceed $15,000 for individual projects and $1,000 for architectural or engineering assistance. Facades, awnings, roofing and building envelope systems, signage, lighting and murals are examples of eligible projects. The property must be located in the downtown Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District, and the application must include three estimates of proposed work from qualified contractors. All improvements must

be completed within three months unless the RDC grants an extension. Downtown TIF revenue supports the program. Applications are available at the mayor’s office in City Hall. Commissioners discussed extending the program to properties and businesses in the Eastside TIF area and limiting the number of matching grants an applicant can receive in a year, but took no action on either issue. In other business, the commission: • re-elected Scott as president, Kevin Hearn as vice president and Robert Kirkland as treasurer. • heard city engineering department administrator Scott Derby report Norfolk Southern Railroad officials are monitoring the poor condition of the Riley Street crossing and filling a pothole in the crossing’s northbound traffic lane as often as possible. The railroad is expected to reconstruct the Riley Street and Park Avenue crossings in the spring.

Noble Council OKs funding appraisal consultant and Tom Janes voted against the appropriation Wednesday. Also Wednesday, the council unanimously: • re-elected the same officers for 2014 as it had in 2013. Councilmen Wayne Clouse and Jerry Jansen will continue as president and vice president, respectively. • made appointments to boards and committees. Toles will continue to serve on the Noble County Plan Commission, Noble County E-911 board and Drug Free Noble County. Janes again will serve as council representative to the Noble County Emergency Management Agency. Clouse will continue to serve on the Northeast Indiana Solid Waste Management District board. Jansen will

serve again on the Noble County Local Emergency Planning Committee. Councilwoman Joy LeCount will serve once more on the Noble County Convention and Visitors Bureau board and Economic Development Commission board. Councilwoman Denise Lemmon will continue as council representative to the Noble County EMS and Noble County Council on Aging. Councilman Wayne Targgart will serve another term on the Region III-A Development District board. The council also reappointed Mark Pankop to the Northeastern Center board and Mary Beth Lemmings to the Noble County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2014

Deaths & Funerals • Bessie Boyer

Warren DeLong

Dorothy Johnson

Phyllis Goins

ANGOLA — Bessie Victoria Noll Boyer was born on November 11, 1918, in Salem Township to Samuel Martin and Ida Viola Allen Noll. She spent her childhood years in Salem Center Community, going to Salem Center School and graduating in 1937. She attended the Trinity Reformed Church near the family farm. She was a member of the Orland Methodist Church and in her later years belonged to Salem Center Presbyterian Church. In 1938, she was married to Donald Maurice Boyer. This union was blessed with three daughters, Donna Mae Boots who died in 1971, Diana Marie Wilson of Parma, Mich., who died in 2005, and LouAnn Gaff; two sons, Jerald Boyer of Angola and Richard Boyer of Angola; 18 grandchildren; 40-plus great-grandchildren; and 20 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by seven brothers; her husband; and a grandson, David Scott Livengood in 1968. Her life was spent doing the most important thing to her which was taking care and doing for her family, whom she loved so very dearly. God loved the family and guided them through life. He always walked beside them in joyful times and consoling and strengthening them in trying times. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 18, 2014, at Johnson Funeral Home, Hudson, with calling at the funeral home on Friday from 4-7 p.m. Pastor Bill Hambright will officiate and burial will be in Block Cemetery. Memorials are to Salem Center Presbyterian Church. To send online condolences go to www. dalejohnsonfh.com.

ANGOLA — Warren E. “Bud” DeLong, 79, passed away Tuesday January 14, 2014, at his home in Angola. He was born February 17, 1934, in Pleasant Lake to Glenn and Daisy (Landers) Mr. DeLong DeLong. Bud was a longtime truck driver and worked at Bossell Salvage in Auburn for a number of years. He also worked for Commercial Wood Products of Hudson. He loved to hunt and fish and was involved in racing on the local oval dirt and asphalt tracks for many years. He married Suzanne Barnett on Nov. 6, 1970 in Fremont and she passed away March 14, 1991. Surviving are three sons and a daughter, Randal (Sharon L.) DeLong of Garrett, Richard (Beverly) DeLong of Butler, Rebecca DeLong of Altona and Rodney (Sharon A.) DeLong of Pierceton; eight grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and 12 siblings. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, January 18, 2014, at Feller and Clark Funeral Home, 1860 Center St., Auburn. Burial will be in Christian Union Cemetery, Garrett. Calling is Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Preferred memorials can be directed to the family. To send condolences visit www.fellerandclark. com.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Dorothy Leota Johnson of St. Simons Island passed away peacefully at the age of 100 on January 13, 2014 at Magnolia Manor. Dorothy was born September 9, 1913, in Akron, Ohio, Mrs. to British Johnson immigrant parents, James and Elizabeth Neal. She completed a nursing diploma program at Akron City Hospital in 1933, and became a registered nurse. Her nursing career spanned five decades and included hospital work, private practice and many decades of work with the American Red Cross. On May 18, 1934, Dorothy married Byron ‘‘Barney’’ T. Johnson. Barney became her life partner for an amazing 69 years. Dorothy and Barney lived in various locations including Ohio, Indiana, Jekyll Island, Ga., and St. Simons Island, Ga. Barney, a long time employee and executive at Cooper Tire and Rubber Products, died in 2003. Along the way, they had a daughter, Judy (now deceased) and son, John, who lives on St. Simons Island. Dorothy talked continuously about and now leaves five wonderful grandchildren: Todd Johnson of Indianapolis, Susie Lenhard (TJ) of Cincinnati, David Lenhard (Cheryl) of Crystal Lake, Illinois, Lynne Koehler of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and Mitch Lenhard (Tami) of Erie, Pennsylvania. She is also survived by five great-grandchildren: Julianna, Jake, Olivia, Eric and Evan. She loved golf, bridge, mahjong and her book club. She especially enjoyed being with the ladies who participated in these activities. But her favorite times were the years she spent walking 18 holes of golf with Barney in both Auburn, Indiana, and on Jekyll Island. Edo Miller Funeral Home is handling the cremation. In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to her beloved Presbyterian Church of Auburn, Ind., or to the Hospice of the Golden Isles. The family was fortunate to be able to celebrate Dorothy’s life with her at her 100th birthday party. No further memorial is planned. To send online condolences go to www. edomillerandsons.com.

NEW LEBANON, Ohio — Phyllis Lorene (Uhl) Goins of Trotwood passed away on Monday, January 13, 2014. She was born in Preble County, Ohio, on June 28, 1921, to Willard and Mabel Uhl. Phyllis married her husband, Ralph Mrs. Goins Emerson Goins, on June 30, 1944. The couple made their home in Montgomery County on the farm until building and moving to Millard Road. Phyllis was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Bob and Dick Uhl; sisters, Marlene Uhl and Margie McKee; brothers-in-law, Dick O’Dell, Clayton Goins, John Huber and Floyd Goins; and sisters-in-law, Joyce Huber and Louise Goins. She is survived by her husband, Ralph; sons, Philip (Sharyn) Goins and Ned (Doris) Goins; grandchildren, Chad (Jennifer) Goins, Heather (Brandon) Lukich, and Steven (Anna) Goins; great-grandchildren, Natalie, Audrey, Grant, Zoe, and Nora; and a sister, Sally O’Dell. Phyllis spent her life as a homemaker and mother, and helping her husband. She was also a lifelong member of Salem Lutheran Church, West Alexandria. Visitation will be held on Friday, January 17, from 1-3 p.m. at Rogers’ Funeral Home in New Lebanon. Funeral services will begin at 3 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Brian Nunnally officiating. Burial will follow at Twin Valley Cemetery at Gratis. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to VITAS Hospice or Salem Lutheran Church. To send online condolences go to www. RogersFuneralHomes.com.

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Jerry Miller MILLERSBURG — Jerry Wayne Miller, 22, of Millersburg died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, at Memorial Hospital in South Bend as a result of injuries he sustained in an auto accident on C.R. 37 just north of C.R. 38 Monday evening. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today and all day Friday at his residence, 10319 C.R. 38, Millersburg. Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Vernon Jay Miller residence, 64310 C.R. 43, Goshen. Burial will be in Southeast Clinton Cemetery, Goshen. Miller-Stewart Funeral Home, Middlebury, is in charge of arrangements.

HUNTERTOWN — Henry A. Lepper Jr., 84, of Huntertown died on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, at his residence. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. today at Our Hope Lutheran Church, 1826 Trinity St., Huntertown and from 9-10 a.m. on Friday at the church. Funeral services will be at 10:12 a.m. at the church. Burial will follow in Concordia Lutheran Cemetery. Memorials are to Our Hope Lutheran Church or Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control, 3020 Hillegas Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46818. Thomas Funeral Home in Garrett is in charge of arrangements.

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Apple to refund $32.5 million WASHINGTON (AP) — Kids gleefully snapped up virtual pet food, gems or other items while absorbed by games on their mobile devices. Parents felt the sting of sometimes hefty charges from Apple Inc. incurred by accident or without their permission. Following tens of Ramirez thousands of consumer complaints, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that Apple Inc. will pay at least $32.5 million to settle a federal case involving those in-app purchases. Apple also must change its billing practices to make it more obvious that an actual purchase is taking place during the course of the game or app. Just how could a kid buy these things without mom or dad’s knowledge and run up bills into the hundreds of dollars or more? A game-player wants to advance to a new level or buy coins, a chest of gems or treats for a virtual pet. It takes a click, and then the app asks for a password, and a parent punches it in. But, according to the FTC complaint, Apple did not make it clear that they were buying something. Parents also were not told that entering the password started a 15-minute clock

during which kids could make unlimited purchases without any further action by an adult, the agency said. A single purchase generally can range from 99 cents to $99, the commission said. One parent told the FTC that her daughter had spent $2,600 in “Tap Pet Hotel,” in which kids can build their own pet lodging. The game is free to download and play, but it takes in-app purchases for treats and coins for the pets. Others consumers reported unauthorized purchases by children totaling more than $500 in the apps “Dragon Story” and “Tiny Zoo Friends.” “You cannot charge consumers for purchases they did not authorize,” said Edith Ramirez, the commission chairman. Apple will have until Mar. 31 to come up with a billing system that ensures the company obtains consumers’ informed consent before billing them for in-app purchases. The settlement involves all apps in which minors made unauthorized purchases. It addresses the same issue raised in a class-action lawsuit that Apple resolved last year. In that case, Apple agreed to contact 28 million of its app customers to offer them a $5 store credit or a $30 cash refund if their children had spent at least that much money without parental consent.

Court upholds conviction of Michael Jackson doctor LOS ANGELES (AP) — An appellate court on Wednesday unanimously upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction of Michael Jackson’s doctor, determining there was substantial evidence of his guilt presented at trial. The ruling by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal came less than three months after former cardiologist Conrad Murray was released. He served two years in jail for causing Jackson’s 2009 death. The 68-page ruling includes lengthy recitations of the evidence against Murray, who was convicted in 2011 of giving Jackson a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol in June 2009 while the superstar was preparing for a series of comeback concerts titled “This Is It.” The six-week trial focused on Murray’s care of Jackson, including nightly doses of propofol to help the entertainer sleep. In its opinion, the appeals court determined that Superior Court Judge

Michael Pastor was within his right to impose the maximum sentence of four years. Murray’s “callous disregard for Mr. Jackson’s health and safety was shown throughout the trial from the manner in which he administered a number of dangerous drugs to Mr. Jackson without the appropriate medical equaipment, precautions or personnel in place, and to the manner in which he left Mr. Jackson unattended,” the opinion states. “The evidence demonstrated that Mr. Jackson was a vulnerable victim and that (Murray) was in a position of trust, and that (Murray) violated the trust relationship by breaching standards of professional conduct in numerous respects,” it said. The former physician was released from jail in October due to a change in California law requiring nonviolent offenders to serve their sentences in county jails and as a result of credits for good behavior.

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CINCINNATI â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Most people are aware of the potential safety hazards that come along with bitter cold temperatures and to make sure children are bundled up and seniors are checked on, but what about our animal friends? The Humane Society of the United States has several important tips to remember:

comfortably, but small enough to hold in his/ her body heat. The floor should be raised a few inches off the ground and covered with cedar shavings or straw. The house should be turned to face away from the wind, and the doorway should be covered with waterproof burlap or heavy plastic.

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Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave dogs or cats outdoors when the temperature drops. Most dogs, and all cats, are safer indoors, except when taken out for exercise. No matter what the temperature, wind chill can threaten a petâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Regardless of the season, shorthaired, very young, or old dogs and all cats should never be left outside without supervision. Short-coated dogs may feel more comfortable wearing a sweater during walks.

Warm engines in parked cars attract cats and small wildlife, who may crawl up under the hood. To avoid injuring any hidden animals, bang on your carâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hood to scare them away before starting your engine.

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Protect paws from salt The salt and other chemicals used to melt snow and ice can irritate the pads of your petâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feet. Wipe all paws with a damp towel before your pet licks them and irritates his/her mouth.

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Avoid antifreeze poisoning Antifreeze is a deadly poison, but it has a sweet taste that may attract animals and children. Wipe up spills and store antifreeze (and all household chemicals) out of reach. Coolants and antifreeze made with propylene glycol are less toxic to pets, wildlife, and family.

Keep your pets with you Probably the best prescription for winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s woes is to keep your dog or cat inside with you and your family. The happiest dogs are those who are taken out frequently for walks and exercise, but kept inside the rest of the time. In short, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to make your furry friends a top priority during the chilly weather ahead.

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Briefs • ‘Miracle on Hudson’ remembered on fifth anniversary NEW YORK (AP) — The pilots and some passengers on a plane that made an extraordinary landing on the Hudson River marked the fifth anniversary of that remarkable event on Wednesday, giving thanks to those who kept everyone on the flight alive. “I’m filled with joy and gratitude about what was able to be accomplished by so many five years ago today and the fact that all 155 passengers and crew are here today because of it,” said Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III, who gained instant fame for his calm handling of US Airways flight 1549. The flight had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport when a flock of geese disabled the engines. Sullenberger safely glided to a water landing and all 155 passengers and crew members were rescued in what became known as the “miracle on the Hudson.” Sullenberger and about a half-dozen passengers gathered at the NY Waterway ferry terminal to thank the ferry boat company, whose boats quickly got to the downed plane and rescued people. They then boarded a boat and sailed out to the area of the landing, where they raised a toast. Five years later, “it feels like yesterday, every day,” said passenger Denise Lockie, of Charlotte, N.C. “It’s a miracle and I’m just glad I’m here.” Passenger Barry Leonard, of Charlotte, said those on the plane have seen children and grandchildren born in the past five years. “It made me think about things in a different way, no doubt,” he said.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Sophia Bush is happy to be hanging with the grown-ups. She spent nine years on the CW series “One Tree Hill,” which followed a group of young people from Bush their teens into their twenties. Now the 31-year-old actress plays a cop closer to her own age on NBC’s “Chicago P.D.,” airing Wednesdays (10 p.m. EST). “Finally!” she exclaimed in a recent interview when asked about what it means to make the transition. “When you’re working on a show whose subject matter is deemed to be teen, even

Kerry brushes off criticism from Israel JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday played down criticism by Israel’s defense minister of American efforts to broker peace in the Middle East, saying he wouldn’t let “one set of comments” undermine his work. With his subdued reaction, Kerry appeared to be attempting to quickly move beyond the uproar that exploded Tuesday over the comments reportedly made by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. After harsh criticism from Washington, Yaalon issued a late-night apology. Speaking to reporters in Kuwait, Kerry said that he speaks regularly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said they were both “very committed” to moving forward on peace efforts. “We just can’t let one set of comments undermine that effort, and I don’t intend to,” Kerry said. “I will work with the willing participants who are committed to peace and committed to this process … So we will continue to work, and I will work undeterred.” He made no mention of Yaalon’s apology. Kerry has been shuttling between Israel and the Palestinians for months, and is expected back in the region in the coming weeks to deliver his ideas on a framework for peace. He has already submitted

a series of proposals for ensuring Israel’s security, drawn up by a large team of advisers headed by a retired American general, as part of a future peace deal. In comments published Tuesday by the Yediot Ahronot daily, Yaalon called Kerry “obsessive” and “messianic” and dismissed Kerry’s security plan as worthless. Yaalon is a former military chief of staff and close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Since becoming defense minister last year, a position of great influence in Israel, he has been a vocal skeptic of Kerry’s peace efforts. In his public statements, he has said Israel has “no partner” for peace and questioned the Palestinian commitment to resolving years of conflict. After the U.S. condemned the reported comments as “offensive and inappropriate,” Yaalon issued a late-night apology. “The defense minister had no intention to cause any offense to the secretary, and he apologizes if the secretary was offended by words attributed to the minister,” a statement read. Yaalon is a former military chief of staff and close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Since becoming defense minister last year, a position of great influence, he has been a vocal skeptic of Kerry’s peace efforts. Many members of Netanyahu’s

Palestinian protesters waving national and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine flags chant slogans during a

demonstration against U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the West Bank city of Ramallah Wednesday.

The Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, territories captured by Israel in 1967, for an independent state. Netanyahu wants to keep parts of the West Bank and says he will not share control of east Jerusalem, home to sensitive Muslim, Jewish and Christian religious sites. He has also insisted that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland, a condition they say would undermine the rights of Palestinian refugees and Israel’s own Arab minority. In the West Bank town

Cabinet hold similar views. Under heavy American pressure, Israel and the Palestinians resumed substantive peace talks last July for the first time in nearly five years. So far, there have been no signs of progress, and the talks have been marred by finger pointing by both sides. With an April target date for an agreement approaching, Kerry has said he will soon return with bridging proposals for a framework deal. In recent weeks, both sides appear to have hardened their positions.

of Ramallah on Wednesday, Palestinian protesters demonstrated against Kerry’s peace efforts. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior Palestinian official, complained that American proposals had largely sided with Israeli positions. He said Israel is demanding that it keep large blocs of West Bank settlements, maintain a presence in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley and retain control of airspace, water resources and telecommunications frequencies in the West Bank, and keep its control of east Jerusalem.

Blagojevich prosecutor to probe Christie case TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The federal prosecutor who helped convict former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of corruption was tapped Wednesday to investigate the apparent political payback scandal involving New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Reid Schar will advise a legislative committee investigating a plot that shut down lanes to the George Washington Bridge for four days in September, causing massive traffic jams in the town

of Fort Lee. The plot apparently was hatched as a political vendetta, possibly against the town’s Democratic mayor for not endorsing the Republican governor’s re-election. “A potential misuse of taxpayer resources for political purposes is a serious matter that requires an astute legal eye with experience in this realm to help guide the process,” said Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, a Democrat. Christie, a possible 2016 presidential candidate, has apologized and denied any knowledge of the plot’s

planning or execution. The scandal is the most serious threat to his political future so far, and four members of his circle have been fired or resigned. More subpoenas will be issued Thursday, after the Assembly formally votes to continue its investigation in the new legislative session, according to state Assemblyman John Wisniewski, who is heading a special committee leading the probe. The New Jersey Senate and U.S. attorney’s office are conducting parallel inquiries. “This started out as an

investigation into the Port Authority operations and finances and has led us in the governor’s office,” said Wisniewski, referring to the agency that runs the bridge. He said the investigation has shifted focus with the release of subpoenaed emails, mostly from private accounts. The documents show a since-fired Christie deputy unleashed the traffic shutdown with an email message, “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” “Got it,” replied the recipient, David Wildstein, a Christie associate who has

since resigned from the Port Authority. Schar, who co-chairs the white collar defense and investigations practice for the law firm Jenner & Block LLP, issued a statement Wednesday saying his firm “understands the importance of this investigation” and will “work diligently” to support the committee. Blagojevich is serving a 14-year prison term for trying to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat.

New Nigeria law leads to ‘witch hunt’ for gays LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A “witch hunt” for gay people has led to arrests in at least four of Nigeria’s 36 states, Amnesty International said Wednesday, blaming a new law criminalizing gay organizations and meetings as well as same-sex marriage. It said the law’s disregard for human rights mirrors that of the military dictators who ruled Africa’s most populous nation until 1999. Nigerian human rights defenders say they fear further persecution of gay people under the law in a notoriously corrupt country where police are known to

make arrests to extort money and blackmail victims. “With the stroke of a pen, President (Goodluck) Jonathan has essentially turned Nigeria into one of the world’s least tolerant societies,” Londonbased Amnesty International said in a statement calling for the law to be withdrawn without delay. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that 38 people had been arrested in the northern state of Bauchi since Christmas, and some have been charged in court with belonging to a gay organization. Amnesty said 10 people have been detained since

Monday in four southern states. It said police in Bauchi have confirmed they have a list of suspects of minority sexual orientation who are under surveillance that also is being used to “find out who their victims are.” “Amnesty International is calling on the authorities to stop all further arrests and put an immediate end to this witch hunt,” the statement said. Jonathan signed the law despite international condemnation. Nigeria already had a law making sodomy illegal, and no gay people have been demanding marriage in a

country where gay people can get lynched and beaten to death, or legally executed by stoning for the offense under the Islamic Shariah law that prevails in nine of the 36 states. That has led some critics to suggest the issue is being used for political reasons in a country deeply divided on religious, tribal and regional grounds that often lead to deadly clashes. Nigeria’s more than 160 million people are almost equally divided between the predominantly Muslim north and mainly Christian south, but all are united in the condemnation of homosexuality.

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Federal Reserve survey shows economic growth WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Federal Reserve survey shows economic growth remained healthy in most U.S. regions in late November and December, helped by gains in consumer spending and factory output. Nine of the Fedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 12 banking districts described growth as moderate, according to the Beige Book survey released Wednesday. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up from seven districts in October through early November. And two of those districts said growth had accelerated since the previous report. Only two districts â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Boston and Philadelphia â&#x20AC;&#x201D; said growth was modest, while Kansas City said it â&#x20AC;&#x153;held steady.â&#x20AC;? Three-quarters of the districts said shoppers spent more over the winter holidays. And all but Kansas City said manufacturing production grew. The Beige Book survey is based on anecdotal reports from businesses and will be considered along with other data when the Fed meets next Jan. 28-29. The report showed little signs of the slowdown in hiring that the government reported last week. The

Labor Department said Friday that employers added only 74,000 jobs last month, down from an average of 214,000 in the preceding four months. The Fed survey, however, said two-thirds of the districts reported increases in hiring. That may bolster the view among many economists that Decemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hiring slowdown was temporary and partly the result of bad weather. Still, weaker December job gains could lead the Fed to rethink its recent decision to pull back on some of its stimulus.

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to the lowest level since fiscal year 2009, returns to a regular-order budget process, and ensures that disabled veterans and surviving families receive the benefits theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve earned,â&#x20AC;? Stutzman said, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;this is not a permanent solution, but it does give Congress an opportunity to work on ending ObamaCareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pain, saving entitlement programs from bankruptcy, and fixing our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s broken tax code.â&#x20AC;? By its sheer size and detail, the measure had plenty for liberals and conservatives to dislike. Some Democrats said they would support it but only reluctantly, complaining that despite some increases, spending for education, health and other programs would still be too low. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With this bill, we are waste deep in manure instead of neck deep in manure. Hooray, I guess,â&#x20AC;? said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. Reflecting those mixed emotions, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., praised the measure because she said it would â&#x20AC;&#x153;get us out of this cycle of governing by crisis.â&#x20AC;? But she added that its spending for social programs was â&#x20AC;&#x153;far too low for too many people to really achieve the American dream.â&#x20AC;? The Democratic-run Senate planned to bestow final congressional approval of the legislation by the end of the week. To keep agencies functioning while Congress votes on the legislation, the Senate by a 86-14 vote gave final congressional approval to a measure financing the government through Saturday. An earlier short-term spending measure expires after midnight

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Wednesday evening. The giant bill debated Wednesday heads off an additional $20 billion in automatic cuts to the Pentagonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on top of $34 billion imposed last year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and cuts to many domestic programs as well. The reductions were being triggered by a 2011 law that forced the cuts after President Barack Obama and Congress failed to negotiate budget savings. Conservative groups like Club for Growth and Heritage Action were urging lawmakers to oppose it, but the White House urged its passage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We met compelling human needs. We certainly preserved national security,â&#x20AC;? said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, D-Md.,

chief author of the spending bill with her House counterpart, Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky. The measure provided money for Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2010 health care overhaul and his revamping of federal oversight of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial markets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though not as much as he requested. It continued age-old restrictions on federal financing of most abortions, but lacked new ones. Democrats also blocked GOP-sought curbs on the Environmental Protection Agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power to regulate utilitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; greenhouse gas emissions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funding Obamacare, and I pledged a long time ago I absolutely wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t vote for anything that has financing for Obamacare,â&#x20AC;? said Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., who said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d vote â&#x20AC;&#x153;no.â&#x20AC;?

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11, 2012, and later that same night, when militants fired mortars at the nearby CIA annex where the Americans had taken shelter. The bipartisan report may settle what has become a running political battle between Republicans, mostly in the House, who say the Obama administration has been covering up what they consider misdeed before, during and after the attack, and the administration, which says Republicans are on a political witch hunt. Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, says she hopes this will put to rest conspiracy theories about the militant attacks that night. Republican vice chairman

Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said the report shows despite a deteriorating security situation in Benghazi, the U.S. government did not do enough to prevent the attacks or to protect the diplomatic facility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The State Department should have increased its security posture more significantly in Benghazi based on the deteriorating security situation on the ground and IC threat reporting on the prior attacks against Westerners in Benghazi â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including two previous incidentsâ&#x20AC;? at the temporary diplomatic facility that year, a summary of the report states. The State Department said Wednesday that there have been dozens of reports,

hearings and briefings on the Benghazi attack and that many of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s findings are similar to those made by the independent Benghazi Accountability Review Board, which issued a report in December 2012. The Senate report does note that the State Department has created a new assistant secretary position for high threat posts to focus on such dangerous areas, but says the department should in the future react more quickly to security threats and only in rare instances use facilities that are inadequately protected. It said State should not rely on local security alone in countries where the host government cannot provide adequate protection.

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday after the final vote on a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill. The measure sailed through the House with no suspense and little dissent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; fueled additionally by lawmakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; desire to avoid an electionyear replay of last fallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s widely unpopular 16-day federal shutdown.

called to the scene at 7:23 a.m. and put out the fire using extinguishers. A teacher found the smoke and fire when opening the classroom and alerted an administrator, who pulled the fire alarm. The fire damaged the floor of the classroom and the ceiling in a second-floor classroom directly below. Leitch said the blower motors were installed in the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classrooms in the 1970s and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kick off the way new ones

do when overheating. Maintenance employees are installing breakers in all the motors that will shut down the motors when they overheat, the business manager said. During the Jan. 13 incident, teachers escorted arriving students to the nearby St. John Lutheran School gym, and other students arriving by bus were kept on buses until they were allowed into the school at about 8 a.m. East Noble Middle School Principal Andy

Deming, who attended the meeting, told trustees students behaved very well during the incident and followed safety procedures in place for such events. â&#x20AC;˘ In another incident, at Wayne Center Elementary School, a rodent chewed through wires in an electrical box, causing a backflow in one of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three wells. The backflow in the No. 1 well entered the No. 2 well, and there was no damage or loss of water. The maintenance staff replaced the wiring.

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said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we have great kids, and we love them, and we will continue to do our very best for them; helping them reach their goalsâ&#x20AC;? While the West Noble school district received the same C grade as last year, its points, equivalent to a grade-point average, slipped from 2.68 in 2012 to 2.49. East Noble Superintendent Ann Linson said she is pleased with her districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s B, but she questioned how much better the grade could have been if East Noble students had not experienced significant CTB-McGraw Hill server issues

during the ISTEP test last spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The B is the result of dedicated teachers, administrators and support staff who have committed themselves to ensuring each student receives a personalized, quality education that contributes to lifelong success,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While earning a B is good, we know we can improve.â&#x20AC;? Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, the state Board of Education changed labels for school categories based on student performance for the terms Exemplary, Commendable, Academic Progress,

Academic Watch and Academic Probation to grades A-F. Lakeland school district Superintendent Risa Herber said Wednesday that Lakelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of trustees considers the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grades an â&#x20AC;&#x153;invalid system.â&#x20AC;? Herber said if parents really want to know what going on inside their childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school, they should schedule a visit to the school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come and see what we do,â&#x20AC;? Herber said. KPC writers Dennis Nartker, Bob Buttgen and Patrick Redmond contributed to this story.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM CONF. ALL MICHIGAN ST. 5-0 16-1 MICHIGAN 4-0 12-4 WISCONSIN 3-1 16-1 IOWA 3-1 14-3 OHIO ST. 2-2 15-2 MINNESOTA 2-2 13-4 INDIANA 2-2 12-5 PURDUE 2-2 12-5 ILLINOIS 2-3 13-5 N’WESTERN 1-4 8-10 NEBRASKA 0-4 8-8 PENN ST. 0-5 9-9 WEDNESDAY’S GAMES MICHIGAN STATE 54 NW, 40 PURDUE 66, ILLINOIS 58 THURSDAY’S GAME OHIO ST. AT MINNESOTA, 9 SATURDAY’S GAMES NW AT INDIANA, 2:30 MICH. AT WISCONSIN, 6 PENN STATE AT PURDUE, 7 MICH. ST. AT ILLINOIS, 8

NECC narrows field Westview, West Noble, Prairie Heights remain BY JAMES FISHER jfisher@kpcmedia.com

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West Noble senior Drew Schermerhorn scored 20 points in a 54-40 victory over Angola.

ANGOLA — The field is down to four. Westview began its quest for a fifth-consecutive Northeast Corner Conference boys basketball tournament title with a 71-45 quarterfinal victory at Fairfield on Wednesday. Elsewhere in the NECC tournament, West Noble remained unbeaten with a 54-40 victory over Angola, Prairie Heights won 57-50 at Churubusco and Eastside defeated Fremont 62-48. Westview (5-2) will play host to a tournament semifinal against Prairie Heights (8-2) on Friday and West Noble (9-0) will travel to Eastside (5-5) for another semifinal. “Eastside is a very scary team, and you just don’t know night in and night out,” said West Noble coach Jim Best. “I look for

Eastside to play extremely hard.” Both games have a 7:30 p.m. start. The championship game is Saturday at West Noble. West Noble 54, Angola 40 West Noble limited Angola to just four points each in the opening two quarters on its way to victory. “We came in a little shell-shocked,” said Angola coach Ed Bentley. “We’re on a run here where we’re not shooting well.” Kent Kohart led Angola with 21 points, nearly all of those coming in the second half. Craig Nofziger added 12 points and Aaron Lloyd finished with eight points for the Hornets. Drew Schermerhorn led West Noble with 20 points. Waylon Richardson added seven points, with six points each from Kyler Warble and Brandon Evans. “Defensively, I thought we played really well,” Best said.

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“The intensity on defense was there all night long. This team has the mindset that they like playing defense.” Schermerhorn broke loose for nine points in the opening period as the Chargers moved to a 13-4 advantage after eight minutes of play. He added four more points in the second period as the Chargers led 22-8 at the break. Robbie Honer had all but two of Angola’s first half points. Angola was stronger offensively in the second half, but had too much of a deficit to overcome. Lloyd and Nofziger each had third period 3-pointers, but the Hornets still trailed 34-18 heading into the final period of play. “What matters is we advanced,” Best said. West Noble beat Eastside 63-43 on Jan. 3 in conference play. SEE NECC BOYS, PAGE B2

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A.J. Hammons scored 17 points to lead Purdue to a 66-58 win over Illinois on Wednesday. The Boilermakers (12-5, 2-2 Big Ten) trailed 33-29 at halftime, but they opened the second half with 10-5 run to regain the lead and held off the Illini (13-5, 2-3). The 7-foot Hammons was a force inside for Purdue. He finished with a game-high eight rebounds — the Boilermakers held a 42-31 advantage on the boards — and was a big reason why Purdue scored 30 points in the paint. Ronnie Johnson added 13 points for Purdue while Terone Johnson had 10. The loss was the third straight for the Illini. Tracy Abrams led Illinois with 13 points. Rayvonte Rice had 10 by halftime but the Boilermakers JAMES FISHER stifled the Big Ten’s leading scorer in the second half. He finished West Noble’s Paige Shearer, right, battles ence tournament girls semifinal. The Chargers with 11. for a loose ball with Angola’s Katie Lopshire registered a 51-42 victory. Rice played with a hip injury during Wednesday’s Northeast Corner Conferthat led head coach John Groce to question earlier in the week if he would be able to play at all. Illinois stayed close through the second half but, fittingly, it was a bucket from Hammons that put the “We think we have improved Boilermakers in control for good. BY JAMES FISHER jfisher@kpcmedia.com a lot throughout the season, made With 2:35 to play the Illini measurable improvement,” Marano pulled back to within a point at ANGOLA — For three seasons, said. “I don’t think it’s any secret 58-57 on a long, low-arc 3-pointer the Northeast Corner Conference Angola has a quality program. I by Jon Ekey. The low shot looked girls basketball tournament was the think defensively we were better like it might not fall, but when it sole property of the Angola Hornets. tonight.” did the crowd got loud and on its There won’t be a fourth title. The Chargers got opening feet. Angola fell 51-42 to West period triples from Peterson and But at the other end, with Noble in an NECC quarterfinal Shearer to lead 10-5 after eight Illinois playing tough defense, on Wednesday in a matchup of minutes of play. Hammons pulled down a Ronnie teams that met in the championThe Hornets would tie the Johnson miss and calmly sank the ship game a year ago. contest at 11-all two minutes into short jumper for a 60-57 edge that, “They also beat us earlier this the second period on a triple by after the strong start to the half, season and we prepared a lot,” would prove to be enough. Buchs and traditional 3-point play said West Noble senior Kelsie The final points of that from Grubb. Peterson, who led the Chargers But West Noble’s Warble began early-second half run fell into with 16 points. “Being able to the Boilermakers’ laps in spite a 7-0 run with a score inside and knock them out of it, a big team of coach Matt Painter’s efforts to Peterson later had the final four like Angola, we feel like there’s get Ronnie Johnson to slow the points of the run as the Chargers nothing stopping us.” offense down. built a 21-14 halftime lead. West Noble (9-5) moves on to “Hold up, Ronnie! Hold up!” That margin ballooned to 17 face Fremont (8-5) in a semifinal Painter shouted at the guard. points by the end of the third contest on Friday at Eastside. Johnson didn’t listen. Instead quarter, thanks to a 9-1 stretch “Fremont is a quality he quickly hit Basil Smotherman for the Chargers. Cox nailed a program,” explained West Noble as he broke under the basket for a 3-pointer during the run, with coach Dale Marano. “We beat bucket that put the Boilermakers Warble contributing five points, them earlier, but at this point that back on top, 39-38 and drew a including a traditional 3-point doesn’t mean anything.” “why not?” shrug from Painter. play. Prairie Heights (7-7) and Purdue owned the boards in With six minutes left West Fairfield (9-2) meet in the other the second half, out-rebounding Noble went up by 22 points and semifinal at Westview. The champiIllinois 23-7. onship game is set for Saturday at JAMES FISHER cruised from there. Purdue has won nine of the last “I’m a senior and we’ve come West Noble. All three games have a West Noble senior Kelsie 10 games with Illinois. so close to a championship every 6 p.m. start. Peterson brings the ball upcourt With the game Wednesday, the year,” Peterson said. “To bring it West Noble 51, Angola 42 during Wednesday’s game. Boilermakers opened a stretch of home would be just awesome.” Claire Grubb led Angola with three in seven days — including Prairie Heights 67, 17 points and Abby Buchs had Penn State at home Saturday and at Churubusco 57 15 points as the Hornets saw their they wanted it more.” Northwestern Tuesday — that give Along with Peterson’s 16 points, At Churubusco, the Panthers three-year run as NECC run come the Boilermakers a chance to bounce West Noble got eight points each avenged an earlier loss to the to an end. back from a 1-2 Big Ten start. Eagles to advance to the semifi“Claire is the only real starter that from Kaylie Warble and Kenzie After its 2-0 conference start Cox. Paige Shearer added seven nals. Heights will play Fairfield at was part of that,” explained Angola the Illini have slumped toward the Westview Friday at 6 p.m. points, with six points for Shawna coach John Berger. “We just got outworked, credit to West Noble, Young. SEE NECC GIRLS, PAGE B2 bottom of the Big Ten.

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NECC BOYS: PH wins

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On Wednesday at Churubusco, Shawna Carbone had 19 points and 16 rebounds to lead PH. Haley Kleeberg added 17 points, nine rebounds and two blocked shots. McKenzie Kain had 15 points, including three three-pointers, and three steals. Fairfield 43, Westview 29 The top two teams in the NECC squared off in Benton, and the host Falcons held the Warriors to 30 percent shooting from the field (7-23) in getting the victory. Fairfield made 9-of-12 free throws while Westview only had two free throws and made them both. Katie Yates and Jenna Kieper each had 10 points to pace Fairfield. Alexis Zook had eight points and Haley Brown added seven. Grace Hales had six points and Kristen Duff had

four for Westview. Fremont 50, Central Noble 32 A balanced attack and a solid defensive performance gave Fremont a 50-32 win. Sophomore Shae Rhonehouse led Fremont with 14 points, classmate Melissa Beer added 10 and senior Miranda White added nine. Senior Tiffany Simcox led Central Noble with 18 points. She was the only Cougar player in double figures. “Overall, I was really pleased with the game,” said Fremont coach Neal Frantz. “We’re still higher in turnovers (18) than I’d like to be, but (Central Noble) had nine offensive rebounds in the first half, and we held them to four in the second. “It was just a good team win,” Frantz added. “I like

to see that (scoring) balance instead of just one or two people scoring.” It was Fremont’s aggressive board play in the first, with rebound scores by Beer and Rhonehouse, that gave the Eagles a 10-4 lead after one. Central Noble (4-8) got a jumper in the lane by Katie Vice and a steal and score by Kennedy Forker before Fremont ended the half on an 8-2 run to lead 24-12. A lob inside to White and a three-ball by Rhonehouse early in the third extended Fremont’s lead to 29-12. In the fourth, a secondchance score by Beer made it 40-25 Eagles. The Cougars simply couldn’t get untracked, making just 11-of-42 (26 percent) of their shots. Fremont was 17-of-27 (63 percent) from the field.

Westview 71, Fairfield 55 At Benton, the Warriors won every quarter to advance to Friday’s semifinals. They will host Prairie Heights, who won a quarterfinal game at Churubusco Wednesday. Chandler Aspy has 24 points and six rebounds to lead Westview, who led 37-26 at halftime. Judah Zickafoose added 16 points and seven rebounds. Jamar Weaver had 12 points on four three-pointers and Jordyn Bontrager had 11 points and nine rebounds. Brock Goeglein had 12 points and Joe Line scored 10 for Fairfield. Prairie Heights 57, Churubusco 50 At Churubusco, Jacob Heller had 35 points and 10 rebounds to push the Panthers past the Eagles. Heller made all 17 of his free throws in the contest. The game was tied at 21 at halftime, then PH outscored Churubusco 13-7 in the third quarter. Cody Bachelor added 11 points and six rebounds for the Panthers.

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West Noble’s Brandon Evans, grabs a rebound and prepares to make an outlet pass during Wednesday’s win at Angola.

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Tony Stewart, who suffered a badly broken leg in a sprint car crash at an Iowa dirt track last August, was back at work last week in Florida. No, he wasn’t behind the wheel of his No. 14 Chevrolet. Mark Martin was on hand for testing at Daytona International Speedway as Stewart won’t be cleared to race for another four weeks. But Stewart was working — at a sponsor appearance in Jacksonville, Fla. — and at the track, meeting with fans and the media. He still walks with a noticeable limp, but he seemed in good spirits and conﬁdent that he’ll be ready to race in the Sprint Unlimited on Feb. 15 and in the Daytona 500 on Feb. 23. Stewart, who isn’t expected to be cleared to race by his doctors until Feb. 14, said he appreciated the support he’s gotten from fans during his rehabilitation. “The great thing is — our fans don’t stop just because we stopped racing,” he said, adding that the fans he met the night before in north Florida drew a good crowd of enthusiastic supporters. “It was exciting to see how excited they were of our progress. “It’s like little victories, like getting off of crutches and walking on our own again. That’s something the fans picked up on, and that was like a victory to them. It’s been pretty cool. It’s not just been a personal thing every day when I get up, it’s knowing that everybody is following what we’re doing, and when we have these little personal victories, accomplishments of getting healed back up, it’s much broader than just what’s going on with me, it’s affecting a lot more people.” Stewart said his time being laid up did give him a chance to think about things he wanted to do — a bucket list — once he got back behind the wheel of a race car. (He has been driving street cars for more than a month.) High on that list is a victory in the Daytona 500, one of the few major trophies that he hasn’t been able to win. “February here is high on that bucket list,” he said. “We haven’t won here yet. We’ve won [at Daytona], just not on the right day.” Stewart has 19 overall victories at Day-

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Tony Stewart, who should be cleared to race in a few weeks, speaks to the media at NASCAR Preseason Thunder at Daytona. tona: three in the Sprint Unlimited; two in IROC; three in the Budweiser Duel; seven in the season-opening Nationwide Series race, the Drive4COPD 300; and four in the Coke Zero 400. “The second Sunday (Daytona 500) would be nice,” he said. “That’s all that’s on the bucket list right now.” The down time also has allowed Stewart to reflect on the races he has won over the years, both in NASCAR and elsewhere. “I had a lot of spare time that I wasn’t used to, and just whether it was visitors coming and talking or telling stories, there’s a lot of things that even through the last couple weeks when I was home, seeing people that I haven’t seen for a long time and hearing stories, it’s pretty cool to finally have time a little bit to reflect back on what we’ve done in our career,” he said, adding that he doesn’t like to dwell too much on the past. “It’s like I told them at the end of every conversation, I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s just that chapter. We’re

still building chapters down the road.’ “It’s neat to talk about what we did in the past, but I’m excited to talk about what hopefully we can do in the future now.” And he said that even with his injury, he’s expecting to be in good enough shape to win the 500. “Physically, I’m not going to feel 100 percent, but I’ll be able to do my job 100 percent, so that’s the main thing,” he said. And he feels like Daytona is a good place for a comeback. “Luckily, this is a smooth race track,” he said. “It’s not rough and bumpy. If it were Dover, I would be a lot more concerned. But the hard part with here is with your throttle — with your right leg — you’re on the gas so long. “That’s the only thing we’re worried about right now, just because we just don’t know until we get in a car and actually run, and we’re not going to know that until the day before.”

The start of the 2014 Sprint Cup season means that a record-tying seventh Cup championship is within reach of six-time and defending champion Jimmie Johnson. A title this year would tie him with legends Richard Petty and the late Dale Earnhardt. Johnson said the possibility will be on his mind as the season rolls along. “I haven’t put much thought into it, but if the opportunity is there in front of us and we get deep in the Chase and have a shot at it, that reality is going to be hard to keep out of my mind,” he said. “[It’s an] amazing opportunity to have ahead of myself, and to have six company championships is something I’m extremely proud of. “If I was able to tie, I don’t know what it would mean or what that experience would feel like, but to be up there with those two legends would be top of the list. Pretty cool.”

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Two of NASCAR’s next generation of race drivers bolted to the top of the speed charts during Preseason Thunder testing at Daytona International Speedway last week. Austin Dillon, driving a Chevrolet owned by his grandfather Richard Childress and carrying the No. 3 that hasn’t been used since Dale Earnhardt’s fatal crash at Daytona in 2001, set the pace in Friday’s Sprint Cup practice session. Dillon, who also drove Chevrolets carrying the same No. 3 and in the same style of lettering in the Camping World Truck Series and in the Nationwide Series, ran a best lap of 195.109 miles per hour in a test session that was cut from two days to one because of rain. In Saturday’s opening practice for the Nationwide Series, 18-year-old Chase Elliott, driving a Chevrolet carrying the same No. 9 his father, Bill Elliott, made famous, used a drafting push from his 58-year-old father to top the Nationwide speed charts. Driving a NAPA Auto Parts-sponsored Chevrolet ﬁelded by JR Motorsports, Elliott ran a lap at 187.993 miles per hour. Bill Elliott, driving the No. 5 Chevy that Dale Earnhardt Jr. will drive at Daytona, was second fastest, at 187.974 mph. The third JR Motorsports driver, Regan Smith, was third fastest, at 187.950 mph. In Sunday’s test session, Elliott was second-fastest behind Dylan Kwasniewski, who was driving the No. 31 Chevrolet for Turner Scott Motorsports. Dillon, 23, seems to have a deep appreciation for the history of the sport and the legend of the No. 3, which also was used by Childress in his driving days. He even dresses in cowboy boots and hats, much like many a driver in the early days of the sport. “I’m honored to be in the 3,” he said. “This is special, and walking into this Cup garage is pretty cool. There are so many heroes in this garage for me, and just being in this garage is going to be pressure.” And he said he felt like he was up to the challenge of driving an iconic car in a tough Cup series.

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Austin Dillon’s No. 3 Chevrolet ran a best lap of 195.109 mph during Preseason Thunder testing at Daytona. “I feel like we’ve taken our time coming up through the Truck Series, the Nationwide Series and done what we needed to do to get experience,” he said. “I’m thankful for my grandfather, my dad and everybody at RCR for letting me take the time. Not everybody has the opportunity to grow and to get experience, so that’s one great thing. “I feel now we’re going in the Cup Series prepared. We have a great team with a lot of experience. I feel like we’re ready for a good Cup season.” Another big story from Preseason Thunder was the news that Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s crew chief, Steve Letarte, would be leaving the pit box at the end of 2014 to take a job as a commentator for NBC, which is returning to NASCAR in 2015. Earnhardt said that while he was stunned by the idea initially, he’s gotten used to it by now and does not look on 2014 as a lame-duck season for Letarte as a crew chief. “I had a pretty good understanding what his decision was

going to be when I left Homestead [last November],” he said. “I’ve had time to really wrap my brain around it. It was hard because we are such good friends, and I really do enjoy working with him a lot. But at the same time, I’m happy for him because it gives him the opportunity to spend time with his family. It’s something that’s really important to him.” Earnhardt also said he feels good about his team’s upcoming season. “I know that [Letarte] is really good at separating things and keeping things compartmentalized,” he said. “I know that we’re going to be fine as far as how we’ll compete this year and how we might move through the process of the season. I expect us to do nothing less than improve on what we’ve been doing and steadily keep moving toward our goals. “But it’s definitely going to be emotional and difficult at times, just because we really enjoy working together. Steve is a great crew chief that’s going to get us a good opportunity to try to win some races.” For Letarte, the bottom line in his decision is that NBC offered him a job that will allow him to not only remain in the company of his garage-area friends, but also spend more time with his family back at home. “When it comes down to it, probably the No. 1 thing is I have an 8- and a 10-year-old child, and I know the commitment it takes to be a top-level crew chief,” he said. “I don’t know firsthand the commitment that it takes to be great on television, but I don’t think it’s quite the same time commitment and travel commitment. “I’ve always said, I don’t think I’ve ever hidden it from anyone, that my family has always been my No. 1 priority, and it comes down to if I’m going to be unsuccessful in anything I do, being a father shouldn’t be on the list, so I’m going to put that one first.” Team owner Rick Hendrick said in a statement that he’s not going to work on finding a new crew chief for Earnhardt until later this year.

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Boys Basketball Standings Northeast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Homestead 2 0 9 3 New Haven 2 0 6 2 Norwell 2 0 7 3 Columbia City 2 0 6 5 Carroll 0 2 7 4 Bellmont 0 2 4 5 DeKalb 0 2 3 9 East Noble 0 2 0 9 Wednesday’s Game Norwell 75, FW Wayne 67 Friday’s Games Carroll at New Haven DeKalb at East Noble Homestead at Columbia City Norwell at Bellmont Saturday’s game Homestead at Bishop Dwenger Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L West Noble 4 0 9 0 Westview 3 0 5 2 Prairie Heights 4 1 8 2 Fairfield 3 1 6 4 Angola 1 2 3 6 Fremont 1 2 3 8 Eastside 1 3 6 5 Hamilton 1 2 4 5 Lakeland 1 4 2 6 Churubusco 1 2 1 9 Central Noble 0 3 1 9 Tuesday’s Games NECC Tournament — 1st round Eastside 65, Central Noble 52 Fremont 59, Hamilton 35 Fairfield 60, Lakeland 58 Wednesday’s Games NECC Tournament — Quarterfinals Eastside 62, Fremont 48 West Noble 54, Angola 40 Westview 71, Fairfield 55 Prairie Heights 57, Churubusco 50 Thursday’s Games NECC Tournament Consolation games TBA Friday’s Games NECC Tournament — Semifinals West Noble at Eastside Prairie Heights at Westview Saturday’s Games NECC Tournament — Championship TBA vs. TBA at West Noble Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Garrett 2 1 7 2 Bluffton 2 1 5 5 Leo 2 1 6 4 Adams Central 2 1 5 4 Woodlan 2 1 5 4 Heritage 2 1 3 5 South Adams 0 3 2 9 Southern Wells 0 3 1 7 Tuesday’s Games ACAC Tournament — 1st round Bluffton 55, Heritage 50, OT Woodlan 83, Leo 76 Adams Central 61, Southern Wells 49 Garrett 66, South Adams 56 Thursday’s Games ACAC Tournament — Semifinals at F.W. Memorial Coliseum Bluffton vs. Woodlan Adams Central vs. Garrett Saturday, Jan. 18 ACAC Tournament Championship game at F.W. Memorial Coliseum between semifinal winners

Girls Basketball Standings Northeast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Homestead 4 0 13 1 DeKalb 4 0 10 4 East Noble 3 1 10 4 Norwell 2 2 9 3 Columbia City 2 2 10 5 New Haven 1 3 6 8 Carroll 0 4 4 11 Bellmont 0 4 0 14 Tuesday’s Games Northridge 53, DeKalb 29 Homestead 63, Snider 62 Wednesday’s Games Carroll 47, Warsaw 44 Thursday’s Games FW North Side at Bellmont Whitko at Norwell Saturday’s Games Bellmont at Norwell Columbia City at Homestead East Noble at DeKalb New Haven at Carroll Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Fairfield 6 0 10 2 Westview 6 0 10 3 West Noble 6 2 9 5 Angola 5 2 5 8 Fremont 3 2 9 5 Churubusco 3 4 6 9 Prairie Heights 3 5 7 7 Lakeland 3 5 5 10 Central Noble 1 5 4 8 Hamilton 0 5 2 7 Eastside 0 6 2 11 Tuesday’s Games NECC Tournament — 1st round Central Noble 42, Eastside 29 Fremont 58, Hamilton 26 Fairfield 53, Lakeland 31 Wednesday’s Games NECC Tournament — Quarterfinals West Noble 51, Angola 42 Fairfield 43, Westview 29 At Eastside, Fremont 50, C. Noble 33 Prairie Heights 67, Churubusco 57 Thursday’s Games NECC Tournament Consolation games TBA Friday’s Games NECC Tournament — Semifinals At Eastside, Fremont vs. West Noble At Westview, Fairfield vs. Prairie Heights Saturday’s Games NECC Tournament — Championship TBA vs. TBA at West Noble Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Garrett 5 0 15 0 Heritage 4 1 11 4 Leo 3 1 12 1 Woodlan 2 2 8 4 South Adams 2 3 11 4 Southern Wells 2 3 7 7 Bluffton 1 4 3 10 Adams Central 0 5 3 10 Tuesday’s Games ACAC Tournament — 1st round Heritage 50, Bluffton 43 Leo 47, Woodlan 39 Southern Wells 58, Adams Central 21 Garrett 53, South Adams 41 Wednesday’s Games

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Indiana High School Scores BOYS BASKETBALL Hammond Gavit 83, Hammond Science and Tech 47 Indpls Cathedral 45, Carmel 41 Indpls Chatard 69, Indy Northwest 64 Indpls Manual 73, Indy Washington 67 Mishawaka 54, Elkhart Memorial 49 Mishawaka Marian 53, Jimtown 31 Norwell 75, Ft. Wayne Wayne 67 Sullivan 54, Brown Co. 36 Tipton 58, Delphi 52 Marion County Tournament Quarterfinal Franklin Central 51, Decatur Ctrl. 46 Indpls N. Central 60, Southport 52 Indy Park Tudor 56, Lawr. North 51 Warren Central 46, Indpls Pike 45 Northeast Corner Conf. Tournament Quarterfinal Eastside 62, Fremont 48 Prairie Hts. 57, Churubusco 50 W. Noble 54, Angola 40 Westview 71, Fairfield 55 GIRLS BASKETBALL Anderson 73, Carmel 62 Blackford 52, Muncie Burris 37 Bloomington North 81, Terre Haute South 49 Brownsburg 56, McCutcheon 48 Carroll (Ft. Wayne) 47, Warsaw 44 Cass 67, N. Miami 51 Christel House Academy 43, Indiana Math and Science Academy 24 FW South 52, Ft. Wayne Northrop 24 Greenfield 60, Knightstown 47 Indpls Howe 47, Indpls Metro 22 Indpls Roncalli 72, Greenwood 45 Lake Central 68, Gary West 60 Maconaquah 49, Pioneer 42 Mooresville 57, Warren Central 28 Muncie Central 61, Marion 44 N. Harrison 66, Austin 61 Noblesville 48, Fishers 46 Peru 53, Manchester 48 Tri-West 60, Speedway 47 Western 61, Hamilton Hts. 43 Allen County Conference Tournament Semifinal Garrett 49, Southern Wells 30 Leo 43, Heritage 35 Delaware County Tournament Semifinal Delta 62, Cowan 24 Yorktown 52, Daleville 21 Northeast Corner Conf. Tournament Quarterfinal Fairfield 43, Westview 29 Fremont 50, Central Noble 33 Prairie Hts. 67, Churubusco 57 W. Noble 51, Angola 42

Men’s College Basketball EAST American U. 65, Lehigh 63 Boston U. 66, Colgate 58 Delaware 76, William & Mary 71 Holy Cross 78, Army 75 La Salle 72, Rhode Island 62 Mass.-Lowell 70, Albany (NY) 66, OT Navy 62, Bucknell 61 New Hampshire 56, UMBC 42 Rutgers 85, UCF 75 Saint Joseph’s 84, Duquesne 75 Stony Brook 67, Binghamton 47 SOUTH Asbury 89, Indiana-East 79 Charleston Sthrn. 95, Presbyterian 58 Clemson 56, Virginia Tech 49 Coastal Carolina 81, UNC Asheville 78 Gardner-Webb 56, Winthrop 51 High Point 83, Longwood 75 Hofstra 69, UNC Wilmington 64 Maryland 74, Notre Dame 66 Milligan 77, Montreat 76 Northeastern 56, James Madison 52 Tenn. Wesleyan 83, Point (Ga.) 72 Tennessee 78, Auburn 67 UMass 88, George Mason 87 Union (Ky.) 88, Reinhardt 77 VMI 101, Radford 88 MIDWEST Akron 59, Miami (Ohio) 52 Albion 67, Hope 49 Bowling Green 67, Cent. Michigan 57 Calvin 78, Adrian 54 Concordia (MI) 72, UM-Dearborn 54 Cornerstone 84, N’western Ohio 79 Davenport 101, Marygrove 69 Indiana St. 70, Missouri St. 55 Madonna 78, Indiana Tech 73 Michigan St. 54, Northwestern 40 Toledo 67, Buffalo 65 Valparaiso 78, Detroit 70 Xavier 80, Georgetown 67 SOUTHWEST E. New Mexico 82, Texas A&M-Kingsville 78 SMU 71, South Florida 54

Men’s College Summaries PURDUE 66, ILLINOIS 58 PURDUE (12-5) Smotherman 3-6 0-0 6, Hammons 7-12 3-4 17, T. Johnson 4-10 2-2 10, R. Johnson 4-6 4-4 13, Davis 0-1 0-0 0, Carter 0-3 0-0 0, Scott 0-4 0-0 0, Stephens 3-10 0-0 9, Simpson 3-5 1-2 7, Peck 2-5 0-0 4, Carroll 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-62 10-12 66. ILLINOIS (13-5) Ekey 2-5 0-1 6, Egwu 0-7 0-0 0, Bertrand 4-5 3-6 11, Abrams 5-13 2-2 13, Rice 3-9 4-7 11, Tate 0-2 2-2 2, Hill 3-5 0-0 7, Morgan 0-0 0-0 0, Nunn 3-6 0-0 8. Totals 20-52 11-18 58. Halftime—Illinois 33-29. 3-Point Goals—Purdue 4-19 (Stephens 3-7, R. Johnson 1-2, T. Johnson 0-1, Hammons 0-1, Simpson 0-1, Scott 0-1, Smotherman 0-1, Peck 0-2, Carter 0-3), Illinois 7-21 (Nunn 2-3, Ekey 2-5, Hill 1-2, Abrams 1-3, Rice 1-4, Tate 0-1, Egwu 0-3). Rebounds—Purdue 42 (Hammons 8), Illinois 28 (Rice 7). Assists—Purdue 9 (Stephens 3), Illinois 7 (Abrams 5). Total Fouls—Purdue 17, Illinois 14. A—15,007. No. 4 MICHIGAN ST. 54, NORTHWESTERN 40 MICHIGAN ST. (16-1) Costello 2-2 0-0 4, Valentine 0-5 1-2 1, Appling 3-10 5-7 11, Harris 5-13 4-5 14, Trice 3-7 0-0 7, Gauna 3-5 2-4 8, Dawson 3-5 0-2 6, Ellis III 0-1 0-0 0, Kaminski 1-2 0-0 3, Schilling 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 20-52 12-20 54. NORTHWESTERN (8-10) Crawford 1-8 4-5 6, Abrahamson 1-3 1-2 4, Lumpkin 1-3 0-0 3, Olah 2-5 0-0 4, Cobb 3-12 0-0 8, Demps 4-13 4-5 12, Taphorn 1-2 0-0 3, Cerina 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 13-46 9-12 40. Halftime—Michigan St. 26-22. 3-Point

Goals—Michigan St. 2-16 (Trice 1-2, Kaminski 1-2, Ellis III 0-1, Valentine 0-2, Appling 0-3, Harris 0-6), Northwestern 5-23 (Cobb 2-8, Abrahamson 1-2, Lumpkin 1-2, Taphorn 1-2, Olah 0-1, Demps 0-4, Crawford 0-4). Rebounds—Michigan St. 39 (Dawson 11), Northwestern 35 (Cobb 7). Assists—Michigan St. 13 (Appling 4), Northwestern 7 (Cobb, Demps, Lumpkin 2). Total Fouls—Michigan St. 16, Northwestern 15. A—8,117.

Women’s College Basketball EAST American U. 70, Lehigh 61 Army 70, Holy Cross 57 Brooklyn 61, Hunter 55 Buffalo 51, Toledo 46 Colgate 81, Boston U. 64 Duquesne 67, UMass 52 Harvard 75, NJIT 56 Lafayette 65, Loyola (Md.) 53 Mount St. Vincent 87, Mount St. Mary (NY) 55 Navy 94, Bucknell 92, 2OT New Hampshire 60, UMBC 47 Providence 70, Georgetown 61 St. Bonaventure 58, La Salle 35 St. John’s 58, Butler 55 St. Joseph’s (LI) 83, Old Westbury 77, OT Stony Brook 48, Binghamton 45 Susquehanna 65, Goucher 50 Villanova 55, Penn 54 Wentworth Tech 51, W. New England 46 SOUTH Berry 59, Agnes Scott 46 Bridgewater (Va.) 58, Shenandoah 56 Carson-Newman 105, Brevard 82 E. Mennonite 55, Va. Wesleyan 36 East Carolina 69, Tulane 65 FIU 96, FAU 88 Fordham 76, VCU 73 Lees-McRae 84, Barton 72 Lenoir-Rhyne 56, Newberry 50 Limestone 55, King (Tenn.) 49 Lincoln Memorial 76, Tusculum 66 Louisiana-Lafayette 65, South Alabama 60 Louisville 75, UCF 56 Middle Tennessee 69, UTEP 58 Milligan 83, Montreat 66 Old Dominion 92, Southern Miss. 82 Richmond 67, George Mason 64, OT Spalding 60, Greenville 52 Tenn. Wesleyan 59, Point (Ga.) 46 Transylvania 101, Earlham 66 Union (Ky.) 54, Reinhardt 48 W. Kentucky 65, UALR 39 Young Harris 68, Columbus St. 63 MIDWEST Alverno 70, Lakeland 51 Augsburg 51, Carleton 48 Bethel (Minn.) 68, St. Catherine 53 Bowling Green 72, Ball St. 61 Cardinal Stritch 76, St. Francis (Ill.) 71 Cent. Michigan 65, N. Illinois 60 Concordia (Mich.) 75, Michigan-Dearborn 71, OT Concordia (Moor.) 69, St. Benedict 63 Cornerstone 61, N’western Ohio 48 Creighton 79, Xavier 50 Davenport 87, Marygrove 57 Doane 82, Nebraska Wesleyan 30 E. Michigan 83, W. Michigan 77 Hope 74, Kalamazoo 55 Indiana Tech 94, Madonna 93 Miami (Ohio) 79, Akron 76 Michigan 65, Purdue 49 Oakland 88, Valparaiso 55 Ohio 76, Kent St. 59 Olivet 67, Albion 51 Siena Heights 73, Aquinas 69 St. Ambrose 90, Viterbo 52 St. Mary’s (Minn.) 79, Hamline 70 St. Olaf 65, Macalester 58 St. Thomas (Minn.) 79, Gustavus 52 St. Xavier 92, Illinois Tech 42 West Virginia 73, Iowa St. 59 Wis. Lutheran 81, Concordia (Ill.) 43 Wis.-LaCrosse 59, Wis.-Stout 45 Wis.-Oshkosh 75, Wis.-Stevens Pt. 68, OT Wis.-Superior 59, Wis.-Eau Claire 47 Wis.-Whitewater 72, Wis.-Platteville 60 Wisconsin 65, Indiana 60 SOUTHWEST E. New Mexico 66, Texas A&M-Kingsville 57 North Texas 63, Marshall 50 Rice 82, Louisiana Tech 68 Texas 70, Kansas 58 Texas St. 68, Texas-Arlington 60 UAB 76, Tulsa 65 UTSA 61, Charlotte 60 FAR WEST Boise St. 67, Nevada 64 Colorado St. 88, Utah St. 78

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 19 18 .514 Brooklyn 15 22 .405 New York 15 23 .395 Boston 14 26 .350 Philadelphia 13 25 .342 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 27 11 .711 Atlanta 20 18 .526 Washington 18 19 .486 Charlotte 16 24 .400 Orlando 10 29 .256 Central Division W L Pct Indiana 30 7 .811 Chicago 18 19 .486 Detroit 16 22 .421 Cleveland 14 24 .368 Milwaukee 7 31 .184 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 31 8 .795 Houston 26 14 .650 Dallas 23 16 .590 Memphis 19 19 .500 New Orleans 15 23 .395 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 28 9 .757 Oklahoma City 28 10 .737 Denver 19 18 .514 Minnesota 18 20 .474 Utah 13 27 .325 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 26 13 .667 Golden State 25 14 .641 Phoenix 21 16 .568 Sacramento 14 23 .378 L.A. Lakers 14 24 .368 Tuesday’s Games Indiana 116, Sacramento 92 Charlotte 108, New York 98 Memphis 90, Oklahoma City 87 Cleveland 120, L.A. Lakers 118 Wednesday’s Games Chicago 128, Orlando 125,3OT Philadelphia 95, Charlotte 92 Washington 114, Miami 97

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Boston 88, Toronto 83 Sacramento 111, Minnesota 108 Memphis 82, Milwaukee 77 Houston 103, New Orleans 100 San Antonio 109, Utah 105 L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, late Cleveland at Portland, late Denver at Golden State, late Dallas at L.A. Clippers, late Thursday’s Games Brooklyn vs. Atlanta at London, England, 3 p.m. New York at Indiana, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Houston, 9:30 p.m. Friday’s Games Charlotte at Orlando, 7 p.m. Miami at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Chicago at Washington, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at New York, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Toronto, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Memphis, 8 p.m. Portland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Dallas at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Cleveland at Denver, 9 p.m. Golden State at Okla. City, 9:30 p.m.

NBA Bulls Summary CHICAGO (128) Dunleavy 3-11 2-2 11, Boozer 11-17 1-1 23, Noah 9-16 8-10 26, Hinrich 3-11 0-0 7, Butler 6-17 7-8 21, Gibson 3-10 0-0 6, Augustin 7-18 2-2 19, Snell 6-12 0-0 15, Mohammed 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 48-113 20-23 128. ORLANDO (125) Harkless 1-1 2-2 4, Harris 10-16 1-2 22, Davis 7-18 2-3 17, Nelson 13-30 2-2 31, Oladipo 15-24 4-5 35, Moore 1-2 0-0 2, Nicholson 1-4 0-0 2, Price 0-3 0-0 0, O’Quinn 5-6 2-2 12. Totals 53-104 13-16 125. Chi. 26 20 27 28 10 89—128 Orl. 20 29 31 21 10 86—125 3-Point Goals—Chicago 12-33 (Snell 3-7, Dunleavy 3-7, Augustin 3-8, Butler 2-9, Hinrich 1-2), Orlando 6-26 (Nelson 3-13, Davis 1-3, Harris 1-3, Oladipo 1-4, Nicholson 0-1, Price 0-2). Fouled Out—Harris. Rebounds— Chicago 64 (Noah 19), Orlando 58 (Harris 16). Assists—Chicago 31 (Augustin 9), Orlando 24 (Nelson 10). Total Fouls—Chicago 22, Orlando 28. A—16,489 (18,500).

NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 29 15 2 60 132 102 Tampa Bay 28 15 4 60 136 113 Montreal 26 16 5 57 118 111 Toronto 24 20 5 53 136 149 Detroit 20 16 10 50 118 127 Ottawa 21 18 8 50 134 146 Florida 18 21 7 43 109 141 Buffalo 13 27 6 32 83 129 Metropolitan Division W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 34 12 2 70 156 115 Philadelphia 24 19 4 52 125 132 Washington 22 17 8 52 140 141 N.Y. Rangers 24 21 3 51 119 126 New Jersey 20 18 10 50 112 118 Columbus 22 20 4 48 129 131 Carolina 19 18 9 47 111 130 N.Y. Islanders 18 23 7 43 132 156 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 30 8 11 71 177 135 St. Louis 32 8 5 69 163 100 Colorado 29 12 5 63 135 117 Minnesota 25 19 5 55 118 122 Dallas 21 18 7 49 132 141 Nashville 20 21 7 47 113 143 Winnipeg 20 23 5 45 133 146 Pacific Division W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 35 8 5 75 161 119 San Jose 29 12 6 64 150 117 Los Angeles 28 14 5 61 120 96 Vancouver 24 14 9 57 123 115 Phoenix 21 16 9 51 135 143 Calgary 16 25 6 38 105 148 Edmonton 15 29 5 35 128 174 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Tuesday’s Games San Jose 2, Washington 1, SO Toronto 4, Boston 3 Tampa Bay 2, N.Y. Rangers 1 Philadelphia 4, Buffalo 3 New Jersey 4, Montreal 1 Florida 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 Colorado 3, Chicago 2, OT St. Louis 2, Phoenix 1 Nashville 4, Calgary 2 Ottawa 3, Minnesota 0 Dallas 5, Edmonton 2 Wednesday’s Games Toronto 4, Buffalo 3, SO Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3 Vancouver at Anaheim, late Thursday’s Games Detroit at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Nashville at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Montreal at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. San Jose at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Edmonton at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Boston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. New Jersey at Colorado, 9 p.m. Winnipeg at Calgary, 9 p.m. Vancouver at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Friday’s Games Washington at Columbus, 7 p.m. Anaheim at Chicago, 8 p.m.

NFL Playoffs Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 4 Indianapolis 45, Kansas City 44 New Orleans 26, Philadelphia 24 Sunday, Jan. 5 San Diego 27, Cincinnati 10 San Francisco 23, Green Bay 20 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 11 Seattle 23, New Orleans 15 New England 43, Indianapolis 22 Sunday, Jan. 12 San Francisco 23, Carolina 10 Denver 24, San Diego 17 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 19 New England at Denver, 3 p.m. (CBS) San Francisco at Seattle, 6:30 p.m. (FOX) Pro Bowl, at Honolulu Sunday, Jan. 26 TBD, 7:30 p.m. (NBC) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 2 At East Rutherford, N.J. AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6:30 p.m. (FOX)

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DeFrancesco manager, Steve Webber pitching coach, Leon Roberts hitting coach, Jeff Murphy catching coach to Oklahoma City (PCL); Keith Bodie manager, Gary Ruby pitching coach, Tim Garland hitting coach and Tom Lawless infield coach to Corpus Christi (TL); Rodney Linares manager, Don Alexander pitching coach, Darryl Robinson hitting coach and Mark Bailey catching coach to Lancaster (Cal); Omar Lopez manager, Dave Borkowski pitching coach, Joel Chimelis hitting coach and Vince Coleman outfield/ baserunning coach to Quad City (MW); Ed Romero manager, Chris Holt pitching coach and Russ Steinhorn hitting coach to Tri-City (NYP); Josh Bonifay manager, Josh Miller pitching coach and Cesar Cedeno hitting coach to Greeneville (Sally); Marty Malloy manager, Hector Mercado pitching coach, Ramon Vasquez hitting coach and Gordy MacKenzie coach (GCL). SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with OF Michael Saunders on a one-year contract. Named Rich Donnelly manager, Jaime Navarro pitching coach and Cory Snyder hitting coach of Tacoma (PCL); James Horner manager, Lance Painter pitching coach and Roy Howell hitting coach of Jackson (SL); Eddie Menchaca manager, Andrew Lorraine pitching coach, Max Venable hitting coach and Cory Ritter performance coach of High Desert (Cal); Chris Prieto manager and Taylor Nakamura performance coach of Clinton (MWL); and Dan Wilson minor league catching coordinator. TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with LHP Neal Cotts on a one-year contract. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Signed LHP Zach Duke to a minor league contract. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Announced a four-year working agreement with Harrisburg (EL). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS — Assigned G Rajon Rondo to Maine (NBADL). CHICAGO BULLS — Recalled G Marquis Teague from Iowa (NBADL). GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Sent G Toney Douglas to Miami, who sent C Joel Anthony, a 2015 first-round draft pick, a 2016 second-round draft pick and cash considerations to Boston. Boston sent Gs Jordan Crawford and MarShon Brooks to Golden State. PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Recalled G Lorenzo Brown from Delaware (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHINS — Named Bill Lazor offensive coordinator. NEW YORK GIANTS — Fired tight ends coach Michael Pope and running backs coach Jerald Ingram. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Promoted tight ends coach Sean McVay to offensive coordinator. Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS — Re-signed FB Rob Cote. HAMILTON TIGER-CATS — Signed LB/DB Rico Murray to a contract extension and DL Craig Marshall and RB Tavoy Moore. MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Re-signed LB Marc-Olivier Brouillette to a three-year contract. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DB Gabe Loper and LB Kenny Tate. GOLF LPGA — Named Mike Trager chairman of the board of directors. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION — F Jamie Langenbrunner announced his retirement. EDMONTON OILERS — Traded G Devan Dubnyk to Nashville for F Matt Hendricks. LOS ANGELES KINGS — Assigned F Tyler Toffoli to Manchester (AHL). Traded G Ben Scrivens to Edmonton for a 2014 third-round draft pick. Recalleed G Martin Jones from Manchester. MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned D Matt Grassi from Hamilton (AHL) to Wheeling (ECHL). NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Loaned F Ryan Strome to Bridgeport (AHL). NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned G Scott Stajcer from Hartford (AHL) to Florida (ECHL) and G Jason Missiaen from Hartford to Greenville (ECHL). OTTAWA SENATORS — Reassigned F Jean-Gabriel Pageau to Binghamton (AHL). American Hockey League ADIRONDACK PHANTOMS — Loaned G Carsen Chubak to Reading (ECHL). BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Released F Peter Boyd from his professional tryout contract. MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Signed G Hannu Toivonen to a professional tryout contract. ECHL READING ROYALS — Traded G Josh Watson to Idaho for future considerations. SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Loaned G Jeff Jakaitis to Providence (AHL). WEIGHTLIFTING U.S. ANTI-DOPING AGENCY — Suspended Sarah Robles of the United States two years for testing positive for a banned substance. SOCCER Major League Soccer PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed MF Cristian Maidana. PORTLAND TIMBERS — Signed F Gaston Fernandez and D Norberto Paparatto. Loaned F Jose Valencia to Olimpo de Bahia Blanca (Argentina-Primera Division). Signed D Bryan Gallego as a homegrown player. SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Signed F Tristan Brown. Traded Ds Patrick Ianni, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado and the 13th overall pick in the 2014 draft to Chicago for D Jalil Anibaba, the eighth overall pick in the 2014 draft and a conditional 2015 third-round draft pick. COLLEGE FORDHAM — Named Jessica Clinton women’s soccer coach. NEW JERSEY CITY — Named Lorenzo Samin men’s assistant volleyball coach. OHIO STATE — Named Larry Johnson assistant head coach and defensive line coach. SETON HALL — Announced men’s basketball C Chier Ajou will transfer from Northwestern.

Many worthwhile walks to gyms this week The walk across the fields to our other favorite barns will be much more enjoyable than they were last week. To leave home for a stroll last week was just sheer crazy. An old bovine with a nice coat has her limits. Also, we have some places to go that will actually be open for business. Thank goodness. And business will pick up later this week with semifinals and finals basketball action from the Northeast Corner Conference and the Allen County Athletic Conference tournaments. Both Garrett cage squads could leave the ACAC on a very good note at the Fort Wayne Memorial Coliseum. There are plenty of solid teams in the NECC. Some of them won’t even get to Friday’s night semifinals. That’s too bad.

Draws can be as brutal as a rough shooting night. Life is not fair. It’s like that when the KPC Media Group sports dweebs go up against me in our picks contest for office bragging rights. They have no chance and these awesome picks PICKIN’ will assure you that they will be THE PREPS looking up at me. Enjoy the Hannah Holstein hoops, which also includes the East Noble-DeKalb rivalry games and both Trine University teams. The Thunder women host one of the top teams in the Michigan Intercol-

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Fillmore’s Fumbles 1. DeKalb 2. Canterbury 3. Westview 4. Fairfield 5. Leo 6. Garrett 7. Homestead 8. New Haven 9. Dwenger 10. Canterbury 11. Trine 12. — 13. Minnesota 14. Purdue 15. Wis. 16. Mich. St. 17. Indiana 18. Iowa 19. N. Dame 20. Pacers

Fisher’s Flops 1. DeKalb 2. Canterbury 3. WN 4. Fairfield 5. Heritage 6. Garrett 7. Homestead 8. NH 9. Dwenger 10. Canterbury 11. Trine 12. — 13. Ohio St. 14. Purdue 15. Wisconsin 16. MSU 17. Indiana 18. Iowa 19. N. Dame 20. Pacers

Friend’s Follies 1. DeKalb 2. LPC 3. Fairfield 4. Fairfield 5. Leo 6. Garrett 7. Homestead 8. New Haven 9. Homestead 10. Canterbury 11. Trine 12. — 13. Ohio St. 14. Purdue 15. Wisconsin 16. Mich. St. 17. Indiana 18. Iowa 19. N. Dame 20. Pacers

legiate Athletic Association in Olivet Saturday afternoon. 1. DeKalb over East Noble. Barons get much-needed victory. 2. Lakewood Park over Canterbury. This will be a nail-biter. 3. West Noble boys 4. Westview girls 5. Garrett boys

6. Garrett girls 7. Homestead over Columbia City. Spartans too good. 8. New Haven over Carroll. NHC’s closest affair this week. 9. Homestead over Bishop Dwenger. Saints ain’t got a chance. 10. Canterbury over Howe School 11. Trine over Alma 12. Scratch. Game was already played 13. Ohio State over Minnesota 14. Purdue over Penn State 15. Wisconsin over Michigan 16. Michigan State over Illinois 17. Indiana over Northwestern 18. Iowa over Minnesota 19. Notre Dame over Virginia Tech 20. Pacers over Clippers

SPORTS BRIEFS • Zimmer to lead Vikings MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mike Zimmer is finally a head coach in the NFL. The Minnesota Vikings think now is the time for the veteran defensive coordinator. The Vikings have hired Zimmer for their top coaching job, according to a person with knowledge of the process who spoke Wednesday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Zimmer’s contract had not been completed and the team had not announced the hiring. News of the decision emerged early in the day, but the Vikings held off on publicizing it at all. Their silence was strange, considering a report by ESPN that they had already requested and received permission from Cleveland to interview offensive coordinator Norv Turner for the same position in Minnesota. The top headline on the team website touted an area winner in the annual NFL Punt, Pass & Kick contest. That doesn’t mean the Vikings weren’t delighted about the ninth head coach in their 54-year history. Tight end Kyle Rudolph, center John Sullivan and defensive end Brian Robison were among the players who expressed excitement about the former Bengals assistant via their Twitter accounts. For the Bengals, the news was bittersweet. Zimmer, who has been an NFL defensive coordinator for the last 14 seasons, spent six of those with Cincinnati. The Bengals were third in the league in yards allowed and fifth in points against this season, though they lost in the first round of the playoffs for the third straight year. Zimmer replaces Leslie Frazier, another former Bengals defensive coordinator who was fired Dec. 30 after the team finished 5-10-1 this season. General manager Rick Spielman interviewed at least seven candidates. He and Vikings owners Zygi Wilf and Mark Wilf settled on the one who was widely considered around the league to be the most overdue for a head coaching job. Zimmer has interviewed for several vacancies in recent years, including this month with Tennessee.

Kershaw, Dodgers make a deal LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pitcher Clayton Kershaw agreed Wednesday to a $215 million, seven-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press, a deal that makes the two-time Cy Young Award winner baseball’s first player with a $30 million average salary. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not yet been announced. Kershaw receives the most lucrative deal for a pitcher, breaking the mark of $180 million set by Justin Verlander last March for his seven-year contract with Detroit. Kershaw would have been eligible for free agency after the upcoming season if the new deal hadn’t been reached. He was eligible for salary arbitration, and those figures were set to be exchanged on Friday. He was coming off a two-year, $20 million deal that included $200,000 in bonuses in 2012, a $500,000 escalator to his 2013 base salary, and $300,000 in bonuses last year. General manager Ned Colletti said last week that both sides had been negotiating. “It’s our desire to sign him here for a very long time,” Colletti said. The average salary of $30.7 million tops the previous high of $27.5 million, set by the New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez as part of a 10-year agreement December 2007. While Roger Clemens had a contract with a listed salary of $28 million with the Yankees in 2007, he joined the team in June and actually made $17.4 million. The Dodgers had baseball’s secondhighest payroll at the end of the regular season last fall — more than $236 million.

McAulay to referee Super Bowl NEW YORK (AP) — Terry McAulay will be the referee at the Super Bowl, marking the third time he has worked the NFL title game. The rest of his seven-man crew on Feb. 2 will be umpire Carl Paganelli, head linesman Jim Mello, line judge Tom Symonette, field judge Scott Steenson, side judge Dave Wyant and back judge Steve Freeman. McAulay is in his 16th season as an NFL official. He started in 1998 as a side judge and became a refereee in 2001. He worked the Super Bowl in 2005, won by New England over Philadelphia, as well as Pittsburgh’s win over Arizona in the 2009 game. Paganelli has worked three previous Super Bowls, including McAulay’s first one. Steenson will be in his second title game.

MLBPA: Alex Rodriguez sought ‘extraordinary remedies’ NEW YORK (AP) — A Major League Baseball Players Association lawyer says Alex Rodriguez wanted the union to pursue “extraordinary remedies” outside of arbitration to stop attempts to discipline the New York Yankees third baseman. Attorney Daniel Engelstein made the comment Wednesday as he urged that two Rodriguez lawsuits in Manhattan federal court be combined into a single case. The court did not immediately decide. Engelstein said Rodriguez accused the MLBPA of acting arbitrarily “by not complying with Mr. Rodriguez’s demands that the union pursue extraordinary remedies outside of the arbitration process to ‘stand up’ to MLB and to stop it from acting in a manner Mr. Rodriguez characterized as improper.”

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Make your voice heard about DNR proposals special antlerless deer The Indiana Department shotgun season, which runs of Natural Resources is giving interested individuals from Dec. 26 until the first until Feb. 28 to comment on Sunday in January. This rule will proposed changes to make hunters Division of Fish and safer but should Wildlife rules for be addressed next year. instead by simply Some are great abolishing the ideas, some are long late deer gun overdue and some season since only are simple window politicians and dressing. Here is bureaucrats want my take on many OUTDOORS it anyway. of the rules being proposed. WITH DON Thankfully, there are no The first offer additional deer establishes a trapping season Don Mulligan seasons in this proposal. There for the newly are, however, introduced river some noteworthy otter in designated ideas being counties. It would floated. include bag limits One would modify the and a check-in requirement. boundaries of the urban I trust the biologists on deer zones, but doesn’t this one to know if their specify where or how. numbers are sufficient to That makes me nervous. remove some from the Some boundaries are population and I support already too big and have the season enthusiastically. There should be a quota and ruined deer hunting in not just bag limits, however. places that didn’t need to be decimated. Porter In fact, I think there County in Northwest should also be a limited Indiana is a good trapping or hunting season example. on the newly re-established I also do not bobcat. There certainly are some places where a limited understand the reason behind the proposal to number of them could be allow youth to kill deer harvested without hurting beyond the antlerless limit the breeding population. established by biologists I also support the in counties with an “A” proposal to make the designation. Either there firearms portion of the fall are enough deer in those turkey season the same places to kill antlerless length in northern counties deer or there aren’t. as it is in the south. The deer population I do not, however, doesn’t care who pulls the like the second part of trigger. the turkey rules proposal. Another proposal It would require hunter restricts the release of orange be worn by turkey swine. It is shocking this hunters when season was not already a rule. coincides with the new

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Perhaps the most important proposals involve some of Indiana’s upland birds. The first suspends ruffed grouse season statewide. Welcome to the party, IDNR. Conservationists and concerned hunters have been calling for this for a decade. It may be too little, too late, but it won’t hurt to try and save what is left of them. The proposals also decrease the limit of quail, but only on DNR owned or managed properties. I am a solid buyer on this move, but think it needs to acknowledge the decline of quail statewide and not just on public ground. Like the grouse rule, the rule should apply to private land as well. There are several rules proposed for our fisheries as well. One rule increases the size limit for muskies on three lakes from 36 to 44 inches. That is a great move that will be applauded by muskie fishermen on Webster and Kiser lakes. Many of us would love to see a couple muskie lakes simply designated as strict catch and release, but we will take what we can get. Another rule establishes a 16-inch size limit for walleyes north of S.R. 26 versus the old 14-inch standard. It is good to see the DNR micromanage the fishery a little more, but a slot limit would have been more productive. When there is a simple size limit, most of the fish eventually fall a half-inch below it, regard-

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Mulligan likes new size limits on northern walleyes but thinks slot limits

less of the number. A slot only allows fish from 16 to 22 inches, for example, to be harvested. The result of a slot system is more trophy fish to catch and release. In other states, slots also leave more breeding female walleyes to replenish the fishery. It has been long debated if walleyes reproduce in any Indiana waters, or whether every Hoosier walleye is a stocked fish. I am a fan of the new

are a better idea on some waterways.

25-fish limit for sunfish statewide. It will limit the decimation of them in the spring when they are on the beds and most vulnerable to selfish anglers who take more than their share. The new catfish rules are spectacular and long overdue. Most importantly, the new rules “allow not more than one flathead and one blue catfish to be taken per day that is 35 inches or longer in lakes and streams statewide.”

This slows the overharvest of big, old catfish in the Ohio River and other places by commercial fishermen and pay lakes. A few individuals have been fighting the IDNR for years to make this happen. To see the entire list of rules proposals, go to in.gov/dnr/fishwild/7373. htm. DON MULLIGAN writes Outdoors with Don for this newspaper. He can be reached at outdoor swithdon@aol.com.

Initiative aims to get everyone involved in conservation Dear EarthTalk: What is the Obama administration’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative and what does it hope to accomplish? — Doug St. James, New York, NY President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum in April 2010 establishing the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to promote and support innovative community-level efforts to conserve outdoor spaces and reconnect Americans to the outdoors. The memorandum calls for collaboration among the Departments of Interior and Agriculture as well as the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House’s own Council on Environmental Quality in leading the initiative. Eight other federal agencies play a supporting role — and literally thousands of other partners from state, local and tribal governments,

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non-profits and the private sector are involved as well. Getting young people, especially city kids, into the outdoors to experience our country’s unique natural heritage is a top priority of America’s Great Outdoors. Before pursuing any specific strategies, initiative leaders solicited feedback from everyday Americans as to what mattered most to them regarding conservation and access to the outdoors. Some 105,000 written comments and many more spoken ones from “listening sessions” held coast to coast streamed in and were crucial to the development of programs. Public feedback continues to shape the initiative’s agenda. Some of the programs that fall under the umbrella of America’s Great Outdoors include: the Veterans Fire Corps, which employs veterans in forest fire management; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s program providing technical training and work opportunities for underserved youth in habitat restoration and fisheries monitoring; and the establishment of a new network of “water trails” coast to coast to increase everyone’s access to the outdoors. America’s Great Outdoors was in the news recently when Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the launch of 21st Century Conservation Service Corps as part of the program. “21CSC,” as Jewell calls it, aims to be a modern incarnation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) that President Franklin Roosevelt used to help put Americans back to work during the Great Depression. Jewell envisions a 100,000 person strong “CCC 2.0” that

will provide opportunities for thousands of young Americans — 6.7 million of whom are currently unemployed or not in school — and veterans transitioning back to civilian life to serve their country, feel proud of what they are accomplishing and improve their own lives and the lives of others around them. Part of what makes America’s Great Outdoors unique is that partners from every sector of American society — not just the federal government — are encouraged to help. 21CSC is partially funded by a $1 million dollar donation from clothing retailer American Eagle Outfitters, and Jewell is in search of another $19 million from other private sector partners to turn the program into a potent force for reducing youth and veteran unemployment while giving our endangered lands and waterways some much-needed attention. Environmentalists may be disappointed that the Obama administration hasn’t been able to muscle through mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cuts and put sustainability concerns at the forefront of the policymaking process, but getting unprecedented numbers of Americans involved in conservation projects that protect the nation’s treasured natural heritage is a worthy conservation legacy in its own right. The program is sure to positively impact generations of Americans for decades to come. EARTHTALK is written and

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Stiffer penalties for abhorrent crimes The term “home invasion” is especially distasteful because of the heinous crimes it can entail. One’s home is supposed to be safe, secure and protective — a refuge from the often mean world around us. A home invasion changes that balance, corrupts that safety zone, violates that privacy, destroys that trust. Home invasion can — and often does — involve violence, sexual attack, robbery and intimidation. It can end in terrible injury, death, rape, inhumanity and The premise is that other deviate conduct. Its victims are never the same again. when criminals resort to Such home invasions have firearms in committing happened sporadically in the Wabash Valley, and they have any crime, they deserve been occurring disturbingly frequently in our capital city more punishment. and its suburbs. Most recently, a mother and her daughter were beaten to death in their home in Westfield, just north of Indianapolis near Carmel. Not long before that, another mother and her daughter were beaten, robbed and sexually assaulted in one of Indianapolis’ better neighborhoods. In both cases, men suspected of having committed those egregious crimes have been apprehended and charged. The popular sentiment is that, if found guilty, those men should be severely punished for the pain, suffering and inhumane indignity they perpetrated on their victims. Among the hundreds of proposed laws that will be introduced in the 2014 Indiana General Assembly … is a bill that would significantly increase the penalty when firearms are used to commit violent crimes. The premise is that when criminals resort to firearms in committing any crime, they deserve more punishment. The proponent is State Sen. Jim Merritt, a Republican from Indianapolis with more than 20 years in the state Senate, who is reflecting his constituents’ fears about home invasions — fears, he has said, that lead some to answer a knock at the door with a locked-and-loaded firearm, as is a homeowner’s right. Under current law, Indiana courts can add five years to a sentence for someone who used a firearm while committing a crime. That’s too little and too indefinite for Merritt. He will be pushing a bill that, if passed, would extend that additional sentence from five years to a 20-year minimum. He also wants to change can to must — to make the additional 20 years mandatory. That would, of course, extend well beyond home invasions to other instances of violent crime such as murder, robbery, abduction and injury. But the recent home invasion offenses so well illustrate the need. They so offend all decent people’s sensitivities that the point is made clear that our courts need a stronger penalty, which we can only hope would be a stronger deterrent to indecent people who would so devalue human life that they would commit such crimes. We hope Merritt’s bill gets approval from both houses of the legislature and an enthusiastic signature from Gov. Mike Pence so that its provisions can begin to give more muscle to laws against acts we all abhor.

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No-win proposition with marriage amendment Social engineering can be a messy business, as Republicans in the Indiana Legislature are discovering. On Monday, a hearing will be conducted on a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Or rather, it bans same-sex marriage. Momentum against HJR3, the amendment banning gay marriage, has been building. The state’s leading (and high-tech) industries, Cummins Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co, have come out against it, plus most of the state’s universities and the mayors of major cities. That includes Republicans and Democrats. The amendment has become almost an embarrassment for the state and the Republican Party, as well it should. It’s also spurred much confusion. How else to explain why Republicans introduced a “companion” bill to the amendment, HB1153, that states the amendment is not intended to deny employer health benefits to same-sex couples or circumvent local ordinances that forbid discrimination. Huh? Any fifth-grader knows that legislative bodies enact laws and the courts interpret them. HB1153 is an attempt to usurp the power of the courts by defining what the amendment really means. The Republicans want it both ways in this marriage business. They want to dictate their own version of what they believe is morally right, but also appear to cater to business interests, individual freedom and be a party of less intrusive government. They fail on all accounts with the marriage amendment. Business must hire and retain the best and brightest workers, and some of them will be gay or lesbian. Good luck trying to get those workers to relocate or stay in a state that enshrines discrimination and hate in its constitution. No doubt there are some within the Republican ranks who would like this marriage amendment to go away. It’s divisive and it detracts from real issues the legislature needs to address, such as education, the economy, health and infrastructure. That sentiment is opposed by those who want Hoosier voters to decide the issue. Should HJR3 pass the legislature again, it will go to the voters this November. But on the path to election day, Hoosiers can expect an unrelenting blitz of advertisements pro and con, and many of them catering to fear mongering and the spread of disinformation. Republicans in the Statehouse need to face the fact this amendment will yield no winners, but it will extract a steep price. The Star Press, Muncie

Voice Of The People • East Noble Middle School principal thanks people who helped with broken water pipe To the editor: On Jan. 10 the East Noble Middle School had an old water pipe burst from the severe winter weather. The water pipe broke near the main Riley Street entrance and water very quickly ran into the new office area, down the main hallway and into the gymnasium. The gymnasium alone had nearly an inch of water throughout the gym floor. Luckily, school had been canceled and there were no students in the school at the time of the water leak. I would like to thank all of the volunteers that morning who quickly responded and helped with the situation. Within minutes of the flood beginning, the office staff quickly began to get items off the floor in the office, maintenance staff

had the water turned off and began cleaning, and volunteers were on their way to the building. We had volunteers from the Kendallville Police Department, parks department, fire department and high school maintenance staff helping with the cleanup. Along with middle school maintenance and office staff, we had nearly 20 people armed with brooms, squeegees and any other item to help move the water out the doors. Without the help of the volunteers the building would have sustained even further damage. In addition to our clean up volunteers, I would also like to thank Donna Wolf and the YMCA for allowing our basketball teams to practice there while our floor was being repaired. It is great to work at a school with such great community support and willingness to help with whatever is needed. Andrew Deming Principal, East Noble Middle School

Rooftop thieves armed with aluminum foil Retailers, watch out for thieves armed with aluminum foil climbing on your roofs. They’re not making repairs or following ET and phoning home. The FBI is circulating this warning. It never ceases to amaze me how clever thieves can be when it comes to finding ways to steal money or merchandise. This is a new one. According to the FBI, thieves have used a convoluted scheme to steal electronics and cigarettes from gas stations and other stores in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. INSIDE Here’s how the scheme COMMENT works. First, someone climbs onto the roof of a store and uses aluminum foil to block the Dennis Nartker satellite antenna that the store uses to reserve data from credit card companies to authorize sales. With the signal blocked, stores can’t validate credit and debit card transactions. Bandits enter the store, load up with electronics or cigarettes and pay with stolen credit cards. Retailers often permit sales even if the link with the credit card company is down, figuring the transactions will go through once the connection is back up. The thieves are long gone by the time a store realizes its satellite receiver has been wrapped up like a plate of leftover meatloaf. When sales are finally sent to the processor, they’re denied because the card was stolen, leaving the store on the hook for the losses. Two people were arrested in West Virginia in October trying to pull off the scheme. The pair were linked to more than 600 stolen cards and had more than $10,000 worth of cigarettes and electronics in one of their vehicles. The FBI recommends retailers consider installing extra physical measures such as

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closed circuit TVs to keep thieves away from their antennas. Retailers can also climb onto the roofs and inspect their satellite antennas before approving big-ticket sales.

IRS and ID thieves While on the subject of federal government agencies, how about the billions of dollars in Internal Revenue Service refunds lost to ID thieves? The IRS issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds in 2012 to people using stolen identities, with some of the money going to addresses in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Ireland, according to an inspector general’s report released in November. The IRS sent a total of 655 tax refunds to a single address in Lithuania and 343 refunds went to a lone address in Shanghai. In the U.S., more fraudulent refunds went to Miami than any other city. Other top destinations were Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and Houston. Thieves often steal Social Security numbers from people who don’t have to file tax returns, including the young, the old and people who have died. They use Social Security numbers to file fraudulent tax returns before the legitimate taxpayer files. The IRS, which takes pride in issuing quick refunds, often sends them out before employers are required to file forms documenting wages, according to the report. In 2012 the IRS issued 1.1 million refunds to people using stolen Social Security numbers. Those refunds totaled $3.6 billion. Ho. Hum. Was anyone upset about this revelation? Did you see the story on the network TV news or the front pages of newspapers? Have we become immune to the haphazard way our federal government operates? DENNIS NARTKER is a reporter for The News Sun. He can be reached at dnartker@kpcmedia.com.

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Take boyfriend on get-away weekend DEAR ABBY: I have been seeing a guy, “Karl,” for eight months now, and we have never had sex. After two or three months, I brought up the subject. He said he was stressed because he had just lost his job. He also said there is never any privacy at his place because he has roommates/tenants. I offered to go to my place, but he said that with my son there, it’s the same issue. Karl says he’s very attracted to me, but doesn’t want our “time” together to be ruined by his current money problems. I told him I understood and I have waited. I also explained that it makes me feel insecure and unwanted. He now has a job, but we still haven’t had sex. He has, in the interim, told me he loves me and wants to marry me. I constantly worry that there’s someone

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Easy to find the milk that’s right for you little fat). I put 1 percent dairy milk on my morning cereal. To my taste, 1 percent is plenty creamy, but skim milk just isn’t creamy enough. In fact, after years of using 1 percent milk, when I’m traveling and the only option in a restaurant is 2 percent or whole (3 percent) milk, that milk tastes too creamy. These ASK days there DOCTOR K. is a variety of nondairy, fortified milk Dr. Anthony beverages on the shelves of grocery Komaroff most stores — and plenty of my friends and patients swear by them. Here’s a guide to help you choose the milk that’s best for you:

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else and wonder what’s wrong with me. I love Karl, too, but I don’t know what to do. Please help. — LOVE, BUT NO SEX IN NEW JERSEY DEAR LOVE, BUT: Is there any intimacy AT ALL in your relationship with DEAR Karl? Is he ABBY affectionate? Is there any physical Jeanne Phillips response when he holds and kisses you? If the answer is no, your boyfriend may have a physical or emotional problem, be asexual or gay. Before agreeing to marry him, I recommend you schedule some time alone

lactose-, soy- and gluten-free. The unsweetened versions are also lower in calories than other milks. However, they provide much less protein than dairy and soy milks. • Coconut milk. One cup of a coconut-milk beverage has the same number of calories as a cup of skim milk. But coconut milk is much higher in fat, especially saturated fat. • Grain and seed milks. Rice, oat and quinoa milks are examples of grain and seed milks. They have higher total carbohydrate and sugar contents. The rarer seed milks, such as hemp, sunflower and sesame seed, have the highest fat content of all the alternatives. On my website, AskDoctorK.com, I’ve put a table showing how the various milks compare in nutritional value. DR. KOMAROFF is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. His website is:AskDoctorK.com.

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Shooter warned some students Helmet camera shows rescuers saw girl at crash ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — The 12-year-old boy who opened fire in a New Mexico middle school gym warned some students away just before the attack, State Police Chief Pete Kassetas said Wednesday. Kassetas said the attack at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell was planned in advance. But he said it appeared the boy’s victims — an 11-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl — were chosen randomly. During a Wednesday press briefing, Kassetas declined to speculate on a motive or say when charges would be filed. But he said the boy got the sawed-off shotgun from his family’s home and had three rounds of ammunition. “All three rounds were expended during the incident,” Kassetas said. “There was no indication that he had any ammunition other than what was loaded in the gun.” Officials said Wednesday the 11-year-old boy who was shot in the face and neck remains in critical condition at University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. The 13-year-old girl is in satisfactory condition with injuries to the right shoulder. Kassetas said investigators worked through the night executing search warrants at the school, and determined from those searches that the attack was planned. They examined the boy’s locker and the duffel bag the seventh-grader used to transport the 20-gauge pump shotgun to school. Kassetas said the handle of the gun was sawed off

Troy Tucker, center of Roswell, N.M., holds his daughters Emily Tucker, left, age 10, and Hannah Tucker, right, age 12, during a community prayer vigil for the victims of the Berrendo Middle School shooting in Roswell Tuesday.

so it had “more of a pistol grip.” The police chief added authorities had some indication that the boy verbally warned “select students” about the attack as he arrived at the school. He didn’t elaborate. When the shots first rang out in the school’s gym, some students started laughing, assuming it was just another drill. It wasn’t. But those emergency exercises that students and teachers have undergone regularly for the past two years were being credited Wednesday with the quick disarming of the suspect.

Officials and witnesses say a 12-yearold boy drew a shotgun from a band-instrument case and shot two classmates at his Roswell school before a teacher talked him into dropping the weapon.

The whole thing was over in 10 seconds, police say, thanks to John Masterson, an eighth-grade social studies teacher who stepped in and talked the boy into dropping his weapon. Masterson then held the boy until authorities arrived. “He stood there and allowed the gun to be pointed right at him so there would be no more young kids hurt,” Gov. Susana Martinez told 1,500 or so people at a prayer vigil late Tuesday. Others teachers scurried to lock kids in classrooms while students in the gym where the shooting took

place dove under bleachers and took cover, said Andrea Leon, a 13-year-old eighth grader at the school. Leon says she was walking toward the gym, where students gather before class, when she heard the gun shots. She said she knew they were real, “but some people were laughing because they thought it was fake.” “I guess they had been through many drills,” she said. Roswell Superintendent Tom Burris said the staff and students had participated in active shooter training and responded appropriately.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Video from a firefighter’s helmet camera following the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco shows rescuers were aware there was someone on the ground outside the plane, before she was fatally run over by a fire truck. CBS News first aired parts of the footage showing the chaotic aftermath of the July 6 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport on Tuesday night. CBS said it obtained it from a person close to the family of the girl who was killed, 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan. Fifteen minutes after the driver of a fire truck was alerted to where she was, the video shows that same truck running over her, according to CBS, though footage of her being run over was not aired in CBS News’s broadcast. The helmet camera shows another truck driving over her minutes after that, according to CBS News. The San Mateo County Coroner has confirmed that Yuan was killed by a fire truck. The San Francisco Chronicle first reported on the video’s content. It’s still unknown how Yuan got out of the plane. Interviews for an ongoing National Traffic Safety Board investigation found Yuan was covered

An Asiana Airlines 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan, was alive, but later run over and killed by a fire truck after a crash landing in San Francisco last July.

with foam and struck twice. “At least five firefighters knew of her presence before she was covered in foam, nobody examined her, nobody touched her, nobody protected her, moved her or did anything to take her out of harm’s way and then they abandoned her there,” said Anthony Tarricone, an attorney for Yuan’s family. San Francisco fire spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said on Wednesday she could not comment on the video because of the pending litigation.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014 STARTING AT 6:30 PM IMPROVEMENTS: 2 bedroom condominium with 980 square feet, living room, large kitchen with appliances, full bath, utility and oversized one-car garage TERMS: 10% non-refundable down the day of the auction and the balance in cash at ﬁnal closing within 30 days. Buyer to pay 2013 taxes due in 2014. The annual taxes are approximately $1500 per year with no exemptions. (Comparable taxes on units with exemptions are approximately $350 per year). Possession 30 days after ﬁnal closing. INSPECTION: Contact Strawser Auctions for an appointment to view this property – 260854-2859. AGENCY: Strawser Auctions staff members are exclusive agents of the seller. DISCLAIMER: This property is being sold in “AS IS” condition. Prospective bidders are responsible for making their own inspections of the property with regards to condition, environmental, zoning, permits and any and all other inspections and approvals as may be necessary. All sizes and dimensions are approximate.

SCOTT EHLERS & CHRISTINE HOWARD, OWNERS Auction Conducted By: 200 North Main Street, Wolcottville, IN 46795 Office: (260) 854-2859 • Fax: (260) 854-3979 Auctioneer: Michael G. Strawser, AU01036470 & AC30700060 Auctioneer: Ron Levitz, Lic#AU19600009 Web site: www.strawserauctions.com E-mail: info@strawserauctions.com Member of the National Indiana • Michigan • Pennsylvania Auctioneers Association

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Ice Auger $30.00 (260) 347-1149

Jeff Gordon #24 Nascar Blanket. Blue & yellow. 53" l x 45” w. Not slept on. Excellent cond. $20.00 cash (260) 553-4171

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Whirlpool Washer and Dryer, Electric range,18 c.f. refer, 36" tube TV, and a tread mill, all work well. All items are $60 a piece. Call Mike at 260-333-6178.

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Large Bag misc. stuffed animals. Some pound puppies. 21 total. $10.00. (260) 316-2266 Little Tykes Baby Swing/Crib set. Plastic, good shape. $10.00. (260) 316-2266 Masonic Presentation Bible $45.00 cash only (260) 357-3753 New Toddler Bed frame, takes crib mattress 51”x27”, $30.00. (260) 587-3872 Pedal type exerciser; strengthens arms & legs $25.00 Auburn 260 925-0896 Sears Tank Progressive/Power Head Sweeper. Like new. $50.00. (260) 347-0951

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2001 Chevy Silverado 1500 Extended Cab. 255,000 miles. Runs good, nice work truck. Drove everyday. Maroon. $3,200 318-0723 Kendallville

MERCHANDISE UNDER $50 10 Knit making books $20.00 for all (260) 495-7001

Steam Buggy Steam Cleaner. Bought new, used little w/attachments. $30.00. (260) 687-0592 Tan Chair $10.00 (260) 854-3748 Trolling Rod & Reel Heavy duty Herters brand in like new cond. Fresh or salt water. $50.00. (260) 665-1029 Used White Baby Crib mattress barely used. Great for grandparents. U-haul. $50.00. (260) 624-5102

2 Vintage Liz Claiborne Purses. 1 black, 1 tan. $10.00. (260) 316-2266

White Baby Bed Mattress with cover. Not slept on. Very good cond. 52”x27”, $35.00 cash. (260) 553-4171

36” RCA Home Theatre Twin Turner, Picture in Picture, TV Plus Guide with remote. Stereo. Works perfect. $20.00. (260) 281-2263

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78 Records Old music, $50.00. (260) 347-0951 Antique Baby Rocking Crib. Missing bottom. Can send pic. $10.00. (260) 316-2266 Better Chef Panini Grill Contact grill New, $10.00 (260) 347-2569 Big Bag of misc. dolls. 15 total. 2 Cabbage Patch. Good shape! $15.00. (260) 316-2266 Bissell Bagless Upright Sweeper. Like new. $50.00. (260) 347-0951 Black Metal Day Bed Twin x-mattress. $35.00. Waterloo, (260) 316-1475 Black Metal Foot Stool (Ottoman) with black padded top. Nice cond. $20.00 cash (260) 553-4171

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Bowling Balls 16# Mens Brunswick Hammer & 14# Womens Manhatten Rubber. Like new. Incl. bags. Both $50.00. (260) 665-1029 Case of Music CD’s from the 90’s. $50.00. (260) 347-0951 Cedar Chest $25.00 (260) 854-3748

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Computer Chair with foot stool. Black leather, high back, 5 roller, like new, $50.00. (260) 665-1029

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Deep Fryer Presto Pro 5 qt. stainless. Retails for over $100. Used twice, like new, $45.00. (260) 665-1029 Del Sol Cold Beverage Dispenser with iron stand. Holds 1.5 gallons. New, $15.00. (260) 347-2569

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