TUESDAY December 10, 2013
Speakers Strong Page A2 DeKalb holds own in high-powered field
Year Of The Manager Page B1 La Russa, Cox, Torre headed to Hall
Weather Partly cloudy early, then sunny and breezy, high 26. Low tonight 12. Chance of snow Wednesday. Page A8
GOOD MORNING Avilla hunter falls from tree stand WATERLOO — An Avilla man was injured when he fell from an elevated tree stand Sunday, Indiana Conservation Officers said. Victor Hernandez, 50, was hunting deer in the 2800 block of C.R. 27 early Sunday morning when he fell approximately 17 feet to the ground. Hernandez sustained a back injury and an internal injury from the fall, officers said. Hernandez was transported privately to DeKalb Health hospital at Auburn and then by ambulance to Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, where he is being treated for his injuries. Indiana Conservation Officers say hunters always should wear a properly fastened and secured safety harness when climbing into, hunting from and climbing down from an elevated tree stand and always use a haul rope or line to haul equipment into and down from a tree stand.
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Seven charged in drug warrants Arrest warrants on drug charges were issued for seven people Dec. 3, following a yearlong investigation by members of the IMAGE Drug Task Force, the task force said Monday. Six of the suspects have been arrested, and police are asking for information to help them find the seventh person named in the warrants. Police made these arrests: Zhonn Bowser, 30, of the 100 block of South Hamsher Street, Garrett, on a charge of dealing a Schedule I, II, or III substance, a Class B felony. Bowser was
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served with his arrest warrants while serving a sentence at the DeKalb County Jail on unrelated charges. Jesse Damron, 23, of the 100 block of Walnut Street, Butler, on
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two counts of dealing a Schedule I, II or III substance within 1,000 feet of a school or park, a Class A felony. Damron was arrested on Dec. 3 by Butler Police and is being held at the DeKalb County
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Jail on $20,000 bond for each count. Brandon Damron, 20, of the 1000 block of South Wayne Street, Waterloo, on a charge of SEE DRUG WARRANTS, PAGE A8
Saving GM costly Final stock sale shows net loss of $10.5 million
Congress renews ban on plastic guns WASHINGTON (AP) — Narrowly beating a midnight deadline, Congress voted Monday to renew an expiring ban on plastic firearms that can evade airport detection machines. But Republicans blocked an effort to toughen the restrictions — the latest defeat for gun-control forces in the year since the grade school massacre in Newtown, Conn. By voice vote, the Senate gave final congressional approval to a 10-year extension of the prohibition against guns that can slip past metal detectors and X-ray machines. The House voted last week for an identical decade-long renewal of the ban, and the measure now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. Obama, traveling to Africa for ceremonies honoring the late South African president Nelson Mandela, was expected to sign the bill before midnight using an auto pen, a White House official said.
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Great gingerbread These entries won prizes in the Gingerbread Festival, Sunday at Middaugh Hall in Auburn. First-place winners in their age groups of the gingerbread house contest are, from left: Madeline Steck, 10; Mackenzie Clark, 6; and Hannah Garrison, 7, all of Auburn. The winning edible house was entered by Jessica Freeman, 10, of Auburn, who was not present for the awards. The event was sponsored by the Downtown Auburn Business Association and the DeKalb Fair Association.
Obama to speak at funeral WASHINGTON (AP) — The comparisons are perhaps inevitable. President Barack Obama and former South African leader Nelson Mandela each served as their nation’s first black president, living symbols of struggles to overcome deep-seated racial tensions. Each was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But as Obama prepares to honor Mandela at a memorial service today in South Africa, people close to the U.S. president
say he is well-aware that his rapid rise through America’s political ranks pales in comparison to Mandela’s 27 years in prison fighting against a repressive government that brutally enforced laws that enshrined racial discrimination. “Like so many around the globe, I cannot fully imagine my own life without the example that Nelson Mandela set, and so long as I live, I will do what I can to learn from him,” Obama said in
somber remarks after Mandela died last week at the age of 95. In the days following Mandela’s death, Obama began crafting the 20-minute speech he will deliver during today’s service in Johannesburg, where tens of thousands of South Africans and dozens of foreign dignitaries are expected to pack a sports stadium. Obama is expected to speak of Mandela’s influence on South Africa and on his own life.
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government ended up losing $10.5 billion on the General Motors bailout, but it says the alternative would have been far worse. The Treasury Department sold its final shares of the Detroit auto giant on Monday, recovering $39 billion of the $49.5 billion it spent to save the dying automaker at the height of the financial crisis five years ago. Without the bailout, the country would have lost more than 1 million jobs, and the economy could have slipped from recession into a depression, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said on a conference call with reporters. “The economic stakes were high, and President Obama understood that inaction was not an option,” Lew said. “His decision to commit additional support to GM while requiring them to fundamentally restructure their business was tough but it was right.” The government received 912 million GM shares, or a 60.8 percent stake, in exchange for the bailout in 2008 and 2009. It began selling shares once GM went public again in November of 2010, and the pace picked up this year as the stock rose more than 40 percent. Last month, the governSEE SAVING GM, PAGE A8
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DeKalb foundation awards local grants BY KATHRYN BASSETT kbassett@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — The DeKalb Area Rural Transit program has received an early Christmas gift — a $5,000 grant from Community Foundation DeKalb County’s Community Grantmaking Fund. The agency is one of many area agencies and organizations to receive grants totaling $61,777 from the foundation and DeKalb’s VOICE. Grant recipients were recognized with a reception at Rieke Park Lodge Monday afternoon. “If it were not for entities such as the Community Foundation of DeKalb County, agencies and organizations such as ours would not be able to provide the same level of care and services,” said Meg Zenk, executive director of the DeKalb County Council on Aging, which operates DART.
“The foundation is truly a partner, and we applaud them for their ongoing leadership and assistance. Thousands of folks in DeKalb County and beyond are blessed by their help,” Zenk said. DART aims to provide affordable public transportation to everyone throughout DeKalb County. This year the program will serve about 1,000 DeKalb County residents of all ages, Zenk said. Other grants awarded through the Community Grantmaking Fund were: • Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, $5,000 for furnishings and tools for its new Collection Conservation Center, • Butler Early Education Center, $1,227 for tuition scholarships for families; • Children First Center, $4,000 for a Redirecting Children’s SEE FOUNDATION, PAGE A8
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DeKalb Area Rural Transit transportation specialist Roxann Shireman meets DART driver Tim Oberholzer at the Heimach Senior Center in Auburn after the completion of one of his routes. DART has received a $5,000 grant from the Community Foundation DeKalb County. This year DART will serve about 1,000 DeKalb County residents of all ages.