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Apparently, Clint Bowyer was channeling Sam Kinison during Saturday’s final Cup Series practice by stringing together a line of curse words, insulting his HScott Motorsports team and telling them they needed to load up the No. 15 Chevy and go home. Stay tuned.

After missing the first eight races of the Cup Series, Tony Stewart scored a moral victory by finishing 19th at Richmond. Now Stewart needs a real victory in his next 17 starts to qualify for the Chase.

He will start at Talladega, then pass the wheel to a relief driver. Smart.

Maybe now that he’s gotten this off his chest. His one-year layover at HScott Motorsports is passing by very slowly, and during a practice at Richmond, he unloaded via team radio. “I’ve never been with such a (bleeping) unprepared (bleeping) team in my life. It’s a (bleeping) joke. No power steering. (Bleeping) put this in the truck and go home.” You know how these things are often purifying, can get everyone focused and turn things around? This isn't one of those times: Bowyer finished 33rd.

Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach News-Journal for 27 years. Reach him at ken. willis@news-jrnl.com

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KYLE BUSCH VS. CARL EDWARDS: On the last lap at Richmond, Edwards kissed Busch’s rear bumper, forcing his way past his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate for the victory

Ty Dillon, left, talks shop with his older brother Austin. If Ty can win Sunday’s race at Talladega, he could help get Tony Stewart into the Chase. GETTY IMAGES/BRIAN LAWDERMILK Some teams were purposely using only four of the five lug nuts that hold the wheels to the car. You can bet that this Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway the drivers will be asking their pit crews, “Boys, did you get all them lug nuts on all them wheels on that last pit stop?” No room for error.

Ford’s last Cup championship was way back in 2004. Even Dodge won a title since Ford’s last crown. Maybe they can group up and make a charge at Talladega.

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DID YOU KNOW? The Atlanta Motor Speedway is actually in Hampton. Chicagoland is in Joliet. Phoenix Raceway is in Avondale. So it should be no surprise that Talladega Superspeedway is actually in Lincoln. The track is, however, in Talladega County, so there’s that. Both Lincoln and Talladega are downright metropolitan compared with neighboring Eastaboga.

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People crowd the Fun Shop in Shamokin Thursday, the first day of a liquidation sale. The store is closing after nearly 80 years.

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Fun Shop liquidation sale compared to funeral and newspaper shop that became a mainstay in the community. Picture taking and appreciative comments toward employees SHAMOKIN — People were common, as were lined up for nearly a half long checkout lines. For block to enter The Fun many, waiting in line for Shop Thursday morning, the last time was comthe first day of a liquidapared to a funeral. tion sale at the nearly Karen Palko, who has 80-year-old business. lived in Coal Township At one point, the store The Fun Shop has been part of downtown most of her life and has in the basement of the Shamokin since the 1930s. patronized the store for Masonic building on Independence Street hit capac- which they sat. As one Christmas shopping, sev- decades, said the thing ity as customers crowded person left, another one eral customers were using she will miss the most is the family atmosphere. in to purchase Hallmark was allowed to enter. the opportunity to pay “I have a heavy heart cards, gifts, trinkets and Aside from taking their last respects to the Fun Shop, PAGE 6 even the shelving units on advantage of some early unique souvenir, gift, card

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SHAMOKIN — Charges of animal cruelty are pending against a 17-year-old who police said allowed his dog to maul and kill a city man’s cat Wednesday evening, an attack caught on video that has sparked outrage.

“It’s a horrendous act.

That cat didn’t deserve to die the way it did,” said Richard Wright, a Pennsylvania Humane Society police officer out of the Phoenix Rescue Group in Carlisle.

Wright, who is helping Shamokin police with their investigation, said he “literally teared up” watching the video. “It’s a

“It’s a gut-wrenching one. I’m sad for that cat and for those people.”

Richard Wright Humane officer gut-wrenching one. I’m sad for that cat and for those people.”

Shatiq Crum, of 26 S. Franklin St., Shamokin, and another male, who police said Crum refused to identify, were caught on Cat, Page 10

7 charged for drugs, one just after ‘coke’ plea

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SHAMOKIN — Police charged seven people with drug offenses Thursday, including one man who hours earlier had pleaded guilty to cocaine possession.

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II said Stormie Birster, 24, of 927 E. Sunbury St., Shamokin, sold one plastic packet of heroin and two blue packets of methamphetamine to a police informant for $80 during a controlled buy shortly before 9 p.m. Nov. 9.

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Knoebels to celebrate 90th with throwbacks Park opens on Saturday

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Visitors Thursday were unable to enter the left wing of the former Amusement Resort marked Northumberland County Prison, which was mostly affected by heat and water last year with great fanfare over new rides, but this damage in the 2015 fire, but they were permitted to peer through the bars.

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The park will kick off its 90th season Saturday with buy-one, get-one free handstamps.

Stacy Ososkie, public relations manager, said the 90th anniversary theme will continue throughout the season, with one ride priced at 90 cents each Sunday. The Grand Carousel, one of the few rides older than the park itself and a staple for visitors since it was purchased by the park’s founder, Henry Knoebels, Page 5

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Laborer Jim Slotterback prepares the Flying Tigers for opening day at Knoebels Amusement Resort. Slotterback has been with the park for 48 of the park’s 90 years of operation.

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B REAKFAST B RIEFING ALMANAC Today is Friday, April 29, the 120th day of 2016. There are 246 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On April 29, 1991, a cyclone began striking the South Asian country of Bangladesh; it ended up killing more than 138,000 people, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

On this date: In 1429, Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English.

In 1798, Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” was rehearsed in Vienna, Austria, before an invited audience.

In 1861, the Maryland House of Delegates voted 5313 against seceding from the Union. In Montgomery, Alabama, President Jefferson Davis asked the Confederate Congress for the authority to wage war.

In 1913, Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey, received a U.S. patent for a “separable fastener” — later known as the zipper.

In 1916, the Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities.

In 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau (DAH’-khow) concentration camp. Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun inside his “Fuhrerbunker” and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz (DUHR’-nihtz) president.

In 1946, 28 former Japanese officials went on trial in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death.

In 1957, the SM-1, the first military nuclear power plant, was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

In 1968, the counterculture musical “Hair” opened on Broadway following limited engagements off-Broadway.

In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

In 1983, Harold Washington was sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago.

In 1992, rioting resulting in 55 deaths erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley, California, acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

Ten years ago: Tens of thousands of protesters marched through lower Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 97.

Five years ago: Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton were married in an opulent ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey amid pomp, circumstance — and elaborate hats. President Barack Obama visited Tuscaloosa, Alabama, one of the sites of deadly tornadoes two days earlier, saying he had “never seen devastation like this.”

One year ago: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (shin-zoh ahbay) offered condolences for Americans killed in World War II in the first address by a Japanese leader to a joint meeting of Congress, but stopped short of apologizing for wartime atrocities.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie director Phillip Noyce is 66. Country musician Wayne Secrest (Confederate Railroad) is 66. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 62. Actor Leslie Jordan is 61. Actress Kate Mulgrew is 61. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is 59. Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is 58. Actress Eve Plumb is 58. Rock musician Phil King is 56. Country singer Stephanie Bentley is 53.

Actor Vincent Ventresca is 50. Singer Carnie Wilson (Wilson Phillips) is 48. Actor Paul Adelstein is 47.

Actress Uma Thurman is 46. International Tennis Hall of Famer Andre Agassi is 46. Rapper Master P is 46. Actor Darby Stanchfield is 45. Country singer James Bonamy is 44. Gospel/rhythm-and-blues singer Erica Campbell (Mary Mary) is 44. Rock musician Mike Hogan (The Cranberries) is 43. Actor Tyler Labine is 38. Actress Megan Boone is 33. Actress-model Taylor Cole is 32. Actor Zane Carney is 31. Pop singer Amy Heidemann (Karmin) is 30. Pop singer Foxes is 27.

Thought for Today: “In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.” — John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006).

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Bishop Gainer in hospital HARRISBURG — Bishop Ronald Gainer of the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg was admitted to the hospital on Friday, April 22. He was not feeling well and doctors suggested routine tests and rest, the diocese reported Thursday.

“It is expected the bishop will be discharged from the hospital in the near future. We ask that you keep the bishop in your prayers as he continues to recuperate,” the statement read.

Wishes for the bishop’s health can be made via comment on Facebook at Diocese of Harrisburg or sent to him at 4800 Union Deposit Road, Harrisburg 171113710.

Gainer was appointed the 11th bishop of Harrisburg by his Holiness Pope Francis on Jan. 24, 2014. He was installed as bishop on March 19, 2014.

Shamokin cruise planned June 18 SHAMOKIN — Organizers of Cruise Shamokin: The Miracle Mile are planning a cruise dubbed “Rock the Cruise” from 7 p.m. to midnight June 18.

Anyone is welcome to attend and no registration is required. R.A.T.L. will perform during the cruise.

B IBLE T HOUGHT “O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.” (Psalms 136:1 AKJV) Have you taken time to thank the Lord? Do it now.

(Provided by Highland Baptist Church, West Monroe, Louisiana.)

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Conflict with witness delays Victor Hare’s homicide trial

BY SARAH DESANTIS

Charles Saylor approved a request Thursday by Hare’s attorney, Kate Lincoln, for a new expert witness.

In October, an expert witSUNBURY — A conflict with an expert witness will ness was approved for Hare, with the court also approvdelay Victor W. Hare III’s ing that the state would pay trial on charges related to the expenses. But the expert the oxycodone overdose hired later discovered a death of 9-year-old Korbin conflict with the case and Rager. needed to be recused.

A trial for Hare, 60, Hare had been scheduled on multiple offenses including drug delivery resulting for jury selection May 9. in death, aggravated assault Because of the time it will take to source a new expert and involuntary manwitness, his trial will be slaughter in connection with Rager’s death during a pushed back to a date yet to be determined. sleepover at Hare’s resiBecause Hare is making dence will be pushed back this request, time will be after President Judge THE NEWS-ITEM sarah_d@newsitem.com

assessed against him and not the district attorney’s office, so he will not be eligible for release under Rule 600. He remains incarcerated in the Northumberland County Prison division at SCI-Coal Township in lieu of $1 million cash bail on all charges.

Hare also requested Saylor reset his criminal proceedings for a separate case involving a felony unlawful firearm possession charge, including issuing a new preliminary hearing, because a previous guilty plea to the charges was withdrawn in December when it was discovered his

prior record score was miscalculated.

District Attorney Tony Matulewicz said a hearing will take place on this request prior to Hare’s May 19 trial date in that case. He expects the court to rule in the commonwealth’s favor and the trial to go on as scheduled.

Point Township police said Hare provided oxycodone and alcohol to Rager.

Toxicology testing found Rager had 12 times the maximum therapeutic range of oxycodone for an adult in his system when he died Oct. 13, 2014. An autopsy ruled his death a homicide.

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Scott Heitzman, business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local union 607, right, gives Northumberland County Commissioners Kymberley Best and Sam Schiccatano a tour of the classroom facilities at the Electrical Technology Academy of Central Pennsylvania, 25 S. Fifth St., Shamokin, during a presentation to students Tuesday.

Students tour Electrical Technology Academy Students from across the region with interest in electrical apprenticeship and journeyman training took part in Tuesday’s presentation at the Electrical Technology Academy.

“Take these guys up on this; this is a great opportunity,” Schiccatano said to a room of high school seniors. “I have a trade background,” said Best, “What you’re getting here is so much more than the hourly wage that you are guaranteed and protected to have.

To be in a union means that you have job protection, and I can’t emphasize to all of you how important that is in today’s economy. If you’re union, and you’re part of that brotherhood and sisterhood, your job is safe, which means your mortgage is safe, and someday your wife and children or husband and children are safe. It’s something that you can count on.”

Kulpmont getting ready for 100th FROM THE KULPMONT 100TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE KULPMONT — As you drive through Kulpmont you will see the community getting ready. American flags are being draped from street light poles The national flags of Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland, Italy and Poland, representing the countries from which the majority of our residents emigrated, are also being displayed. You will see red, white, and blue banners announcing the celebration that will extend through the first weekend of July 2016.

So, how did we get here?

In February 2015, The Kulpmont 100 Committee was formed to develop a plan to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its incorporation as a borough of Northumberland County.

Prior to 1915, Kulpmont was a part of Mount Carmel Township and the greater Shamokin area. Although it is 141 years since our founding, it is only 100 years ago that we began operating as an independent borough; and in Kulpmont, that’s a reason to celebrate.

After a number of monthly meetings, the committee initiated a plan to raise

funds to hire marching bands and other parade elements, to secure entertainment, to pay for the banners and flags, and to defray the overall costs of this undertaking. The www.Kulpmont100.com website was launched and the group reached out to borough residents and surrounding areas in a fundraising campaign, asking for support.

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The group’s chairman, Nick Bozza, stated, “This support alone will help make the community stronger and shows their real spirit of being involved.” He thanked everyone for their contributions to the cause.

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Tracking the flow of guns used in crimes is an inexact science

BY LISA MARIE PANE ASSOCIATED PRESS SMYRNA, Ga. — Adventure Outdoors is an 80,000-square-foot store with walls lined with long guns, cases packed with handguns and aisles jammed with all the accessories an avid outdoorsman would need: coolers, clothing, ammo. At the customer service counter is a government-issued poster that warns: “Don’t lie for the other guy.”

Store founder Jay Wallace said his staff is diligent about making sure buyers are legitimate and not fronting for someone who is legally prohibited from buying a gun. But once a sale goes through, he said, it’s out of his hands.

“A firearm takes on a life of its own after it leaves. It can be bought and sold many times over,” Wallace said.

The flow of guns from one person to another, and from states with loose gun laws to those with strict ones, has long flummoxed law enforcement and gun-control advocates and is emerging again as a hot topic.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton singled out rival Bernie Sanders’ home state of Vermont, which has few gun restrictions, for supplying a disproportionate share of firearms used in crimes in New York.

(She exaggerated: in reality, many more guns flow in from states to the South.) California Gov. Jerry Brown, after the San Bernardino attack, charged that lax gun laws in Arizona and Nevada have created a weapons pipeline into California. And Chicago has long been plagued by guns traced to points as far away as Mississippi.

While the vast majority of guns used in crimes were originally sold legally, what happens to such weapons after their initial sale is difficult to track and even harder to prevent, because most criminals get their guns from friends, family or on the street.

“We have very little information about the precise course that all the guns take that are used by criminals,” said Daniel W. Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.

Bought and sold The government has essentially two snapshots of a gun: where it was purchased and where it was recovered, an incomplete picture because not every gun recovered by police is traced.

Data from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives show that guns used in crimes usually are bought in the state where the offense is committed.

Of the 7,686 firearms recovered in New York that were traced by the ATF in 2014, 1,397 were originally sold in New York. The top out-ofstate source of firearms was Virgin-

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In this April 18 photo, Jay Wallace, founder of Adventure Outdoors, poses for a portrait in Smyrna, Ga. Wallace was among a group of gun dealers once sued by then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg over allegations of allowing illegal sales of firearms. ia, where 395 firearms originated, followed closely by Georgia and Pennsylvania.

After the attacks in San Bernardino, California’s governor noted that his state has some of the country’s toughest gun laws and complained that neighboring Arizona and Nevada are “a gigantic back door through which any terrorist can walk.” The governors of Nevada and Arizona rebuked Brown and, in any event, the guns used in the attacks were bought legally in California.

I-95 pipeline Around the U.S., the data suggest three significant routes for out-ofstate guns: the “iron pipeline” that runs along Interstate 95 from the South to the Northeast; a path from Mississippi and Indiana into Chicago, which has some of the toughest gun restrictions in the nation and does not have a single gun shop within the city limits; and a channel that runs from Arizona and Nevada into California.

I-95’s accessibility — it connects more than a dozen major cities — makes it nearly impossible for law enforcement to prevent firearms from making their way northward, said John DeCarlo, a former police chief in Branford, Connecticut, who is now a professor at the University of New Haven.

“It’s the equivalent of the Old Silk Road,” he said.

Johns Hopkins’ Webster said I-95’s accessibility coupled with less strict laws in the South are the reasons the South is a key exporter of guns to the Northeast.

The gun lobby and firearms dealers say the tracing data are misleading. They say the problem is not law-abiding gun dealers or a particular state’s laws.

“The bottom-line answer is passing a law doesn’t stop bad guys from

breaking the law,” said Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America. “Bad guys are still going to get the guns — and what happens is it prevents good people from getting guns.”

Purchasing for others A decade ago, Wallace’s store was among about two dozen that found themselves in the crosshairs of a sting operation when then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York sought gun dealers he accused of turning a blind eye to “straw purchases” that allow weapons to fall into the hands of criminals in the big city. A straw buyer is someone who poses as a customer but is actually purchasing the weapon for a person who is ineligible because of a criminal conviction, mental illness or some other reason.

About a dozen guns recovered from crimes in New York over a sixyear period were originally purchased at Wallace’s store in metro Atlanta. Not one, he said, was ever fired during a crime, and only one was actually employed as a weapon, when it was used to hit somebody.

During that six-year period, his store sold 60,000 firearms, said Wallace, a member of the board of directors of the American Firearms Retailers Association. A court-ordered special master later monitored sales at Wallace’s store for several years and issued recommendations.

But no fines were ever levied or further action taken.

Wallace said customers encounter at least four employees during the purchase, each of whom asks a series of questions meant to pinpoint potential red flags while also helping customers pick out the best weapon for their needs.

“We’re at the front lines,” he said.

“You never read about it when we turn down a transaction.”

Clinton backers ‘feel the Bern’ of angry Sanders supporters even in the party their candidate hopes to lead. Some have turned their frustration on superdelegates, the party insiders whose ability to back WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy either candidate give them an outSchumacher says she just wanted to sized role in picking the nominee. do her civic duty, and so she heeded The superdelegates include public the call to become a superdelegate for officials: governors, former presiHillary Clinton. But in the year of the dents and even Sanders himself. But angry voter, not even an administrathey also include people like Schumtive assistant from Elk River, Minne- acher, volunteers who’ve generally sota, can escape the outrage. stayed behind the scenes.

“Some of the (phone and email) The Sanders campaign assures messages called me names. Some of everyone that it doesn’t condone them called Hillary names. And othharassment. ers said I was a stupid b---- and someYet Schumacher says she’s received thing bad will happen to me,” said vitriolic phone and email messages Schumacher, a Democratic commitfrom self-identified Sanders backers tee member. “It’s kind of hard to take and doesn’t quite sometimes.” understand how Bernie Sanders defied expectations things got quite so to turn his long-shot presidential bid nasty. Eight years into a real threat for the Democratic ago, she backed nomination. Now, as his path to the Clinton but said White House becomes all-but-imposshe “cheerfully” sible, some of his supporters are lash- switched to Illiing out at a system they believe was nois Sen. Barack engineered against them from the Obama. She’d do start. the same, she While Sanders decries a “rigged” said, if Sanders economy, some of his backers see won the popular signs of corruption everywhere — vote or pledged

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delegates from state primary elections.

“I got five emails on Easter Sunday.

I mean, give me a break,” she said.

Gus Bickford, the former executive director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, was taken aback by the threats that flowed into his inbox and onto his Facebook page.

“Someone put up a list of the superdelegates and a person from Rhode Island posted a response that basically said, ‘They should all be assassinated’ and then said ‘I’m only joking,’” recalled Bickford. “With the way people are talking, you never know who’s going to take something like that seriously.”

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Casualties mount from bombardment in Syria’s largest city BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes and artillery killed more than 60 people in the past 24 hours in Aleppo, including dozens at a hospital in a rebel-held neighborhood, as Syria’s largest city was turned once again into a major battleground in the civil war, officials said Thursday.

Aid agencies warn that Aleppo is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster with the collapse of a two-month cease-fire and stalled peace talks.

The intensified violence — by far the worst since the partial cease-fire began — coincides with reports of a military buildup outside Aleppo that many fear is a prelude for a government attempt to force a complete siege of the city’s neighborhoods.

Battle-hardened residents were shocked by the bloodshed. Opposition activists accused the government of carpet-bombing rebel-controlled areas, while Syrian state media said more than 1,000 mortar rounds and rockets were fired at government-held districts, killing 22 people.

Video posted online by opposition activists showed rescuers pulling bodies from shattered buildings in the rebel neighborhoods of Sukkari, Kallasa and Bustan al-Qasr.

Biden presses Iraq to not let political chaos upend gains BAGHDAD (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraq on Thursday not to let its crippling political crisis upend hard-fought gains against the Islamic State group as he returned to the country that’s come to symbolize America’s relentless struggles in the Middle East.

Biden slipped into Baghdad on an unannounced trip, his first to Iraq in nearly five years. Officials said the stop was planned before Iraq’s political system descended into turmoil, hindering U.S.-led efforts to defeat extremists who control parts of both Iraq and Syria. Sitting down with Iraq’s beleaguered leaders, he praised them for working “very, very hard” to construct a new Cabinet and touted progress wresting back territory from IS. “It’s real, it’s serious, and it’s committed,” Biden said as he met with Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri, a Sunni politician facing calls from his colleagues to resign.

Still, the anxious undertones of Biden’s brief visit were clear from the moment he stepped off a military transport plane into blistering heat after an overnight flight from Washington. White House staffers donned body armor and helmets as Biden was whisked by helicopter to the relative safety of the heavily fortified Green Zone, reminders of the dire security situation even in Iraq’s capital.

Biden’s roughly eight-hour visit came amid a wave of tense protests and demands for sweeping political reforms that have paralyzed a government already struggling to tackle a dire economic crisis and battle IS. The United States has deployed more troops and equipment in hopes of putting Iraq on a better path as President Barack Obama prepares to leave office in January.

Israel treads carefully with claim to Golan JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked a new diplomatic brushfire by declaring that the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war, is and should remain “under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.”

But following tough international criticism, Israeli officials said Netanyahu’s statements had been misconstrued and that a 1981 decision to apply Israeli law to the strategic plateau fell short of annexation.

The debate offers a window into a more nuanced Israeli perspective that, despite statements from the country’s hard-line political leadership, continues to leave the door open, just barely, to a peace deal when Syria’s civil war finally winds down.

For now, the debate is largely academic. Syria has been engulfed in civil war for nearly five years, and there is no end in sight. With Syria, and the Syrian side of the Golan, divided between Syrian troops and various rebel forces, there is nobody to talk to, even if Israel decided to open negotiations.

But the Golan remains central to any future peace deal with Syria, and its fate is a key part of a 2002 Saudi initiative that offered Israel peace with the Arab world in exchange for a full withdrawal from all territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war. While that offer is usually connected to areas sought by the Palestinians, the Golan is also considered occupied land by the international community. Past Israeli leaders, including Netanyahu himself, have held talks with Syria about control of the Golan.

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A fix for the pot law paradox KEITH HUMPHREYS

true of drugs with no approved medical use. By throwing all these diverse drugs into the same basket, As Congress and the Drug federal law both baffles the Enforcement Administrapublic and makes it very diftion weigh whether marijua- ficult for researchers to evalna should be rescheduled, uate whether tightly restrictpublic faith in the drug clas- ed drugs might have medical sification system continues applications. to erode. Debate rages Schedules II-V of the Conbetween those who emphatrolled Substances Act have size the strangeness of mari- a compelling logic. Some of juana being on the highly the medications that the restrictive Schedule I along- Food and Drug Administraside far more harmful drugs tion approves for medical like heroin, and those who use carry risks, for example emphasize how strange it of addiction or overdose. In would be to put crude plant some cases, those risks are matter on a less restrictive real but minor (e.g., cough schedule alongside well-spec- syrup) whereas for others ified FDA-approved medica- they are significant (e.g., oxytions. codone and cocaine). ReaBoth sides have a point, a sonably enough, the law paradox stemming from a imposes more controls on design quirk of the 1970 Con- the riskier drugs than the trolled Substances Act: The less risky ones. Within law takes pains to recognize Schedules II-V, the lower the that medically useful, schedule the greater the conFDA-approved drugs vary in trols; prescriptions for drugs harmfulness, but does not in Schedule II cannot be recognize that this is equally renewed, for example, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON POST

whereas those for drugs in Schedules III-V can be.

So far, so commonsensical.

But Schedule I is different: It lumps together every controlled substance that has no approved medical use, regardless of dangerousness. Distinctions between the degree of risk were ignored by the crafters of the scheduling system because they assumed that if there were no medically approved uses, there was no reason to make fine regulatory judgments concerning who is allowed to manufacture, prescribe and research a drug and who is not. Marijuana was thus lumped together with all other drugs that are not approved for medical use, including ones like heroin, which has a power to induce lethal overdose that marijuana simply doesn’t possess.

This understandably strikes many observers as odd. Yet it would be equally odd under the terms of the

Controlled Substances Act to place marijuana on Schedules II-V. Particular components of the marijuana plant provided in particular doses can be FDA-approved and scheduled. Indeed they already have been, with synthetic THC (Marinol) being the best-known example — used to treat appetite loss and chemotherapy-induced nausea. But the FDA process can’t easily evaluate a request to approve a plant that contains dozens of chemicals in widely varying amounts and comes in a range of forms, from joints of 5 percent to 20 percent THC to “dabs” of 50 percent to 70 percent. In fact, the FDA has approved very few “botanical” products of any kind, and has done so only recently. While one could accuse the FDA of being biased against herbal medicine, it does not single out the cannabis plant in this regard.

To fix the cannabis para-

dox, Congress could, of course, ignore the logic of its own law and move marijuana to another schedule. Failures in logic are nothing new in Washington, and a major one is already built into the CSA: Alcohol, a drug with clear potential to destroy lives, isn’t on any schedule at all.

Or Congress could use marijuana as an opportunity to rectify the CSA’s major design flaw: Drugs are scheduled based on their currently accepted medical use.

There is no special place for drugs that are thought to have potential for medical use, but which require more clinical trials or other research before that potential can be confirmed. Schedule I could be broken up, allowing less dangerous drugs with high medical research potential to be designated Schedule I-Research.

In regulatory processes, the subset of drugs on Schedule I-R could be treated like low-

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er schedule drugs for research purposes, making it easier to obtain the drug, speeding up study approval times, and reducing the need for research site inspections and other bureaucratic hurdles. This would make it much easier to assess whether these drugs or their sub-components could eventually be moved to a less restrictive schedule.

Despite the current gridlock in Washington, the concept of creating a Schedule I-R drew bipartisan sponsorship when it was proposed last year. Such a reform would represent a more rational and research-friendly approach to scheduling controlled substances that would deservedly have more credibility with the American public.

(Keith Humphreys is a professor of psychiatry and director of the Mental Health Policy section at Stanford University, where he researches addiction and its treatment.)

570-648-2340 E XT . 6 SOUNDOFF @ NEWSITEM . COM Oreos worldwide Oreo cookies are still made in the United States at two plants on the East Coast and one on the West Coast. Chicago’s Nabisco plant did not close down; it just won’t be making Oreos anymore. Oreos are made in 18 different countries. You need to get your information right.

Out of gas As people evaluate the promises of the presidential campaign candidates, I would like to remind you who said this: “By the end of my first term in office, we will get 1 million 150 mpg plug-in hybrids on our roads, made in America, in six years’ time. We can do that.”

Barack Obama, eight years ago.

Reasons to vote Looking at the demographic data of Northumberland County, it’s no wonder socialist Bernie Sanders did well. There’s high unemployment, cyclic welfare and over-dependence on government handouts. The Police Blotter is filled with arrests for illegal drugs, public drunkenness, DUI and shoplifting. The majority of birth announcements are out of wedlock children, the student test results in statewide mandates are dismal and urban blight is ter-

rible. Sanders blames the government for everything, and that’s why the freeloaders vote for him.

Off to Slob-tonia To the person who used the planter on the shed at the Northumberland County vo-tech as your personal ash tray on Election Day, we put your fire out.

You should be charged with arson. I trust that you were not there to vote for Trump. He would deport you to Slob-tonia.

The Donald a felon?

Did you hear the good news? Forget about Trump. He’s going to be a convicted felon by the time the election comes around in November. And he deserves to be.

He’s no Vinny You know Vinny must have got under your skin, because he didn’t write that article, I did. And my name ain’t Vinny.

A good cause I would like to thank the people who were walking around town for the good of keeping drugs out of the playground. It was about time we saw people doing something nice for a change, and they were peaceful and it was just really good. I just wish more people would have done it.

Why masculine spirituality matters To the editor: The University of San Diego, California, recently had its fifth pro-homosexual drag show called “PRIDE’s Celebration of Gender Expression: Supreme Drag Superstar V.” There was much outspoken criticism by most of the student body, but there were many supporters who praised it in the name of “inclusiveness.”

Many aspects of this show were certainly sacrilegious and contrary to basic Catholic belief. The university was once considered one of the strongest bastions of Catholic education in the Southwest. Is it really necessary to permit these types of performances on a “Catholic” campus? What students really need is a greater exposure to virtue, morals and faith.

The real issue is the question of how or why do these things happen and how can we fight against it. The answer is quite simple: a return to true spirituality on behalf of Catholic and all Christian men. Masculinity and spirituality should go together.

However, in the current state of our world of hedonism and misguided political correctness, we have lost a sense of men as prayer warriors and spiritual leaders, which accounts for

families, the battle that is distorting the dignity of both women and men.

This battle is often hidden, but the many of the problems in our culture battle is real. It is primarily spiritual, today. We may think that women are more spiritual and therefore we leave but it is progressively killing the the faith up to them. Most men would remaining Christian ethos in our society and culture, and even in our die to protect their family or run to own homes.” save someone’s life even if it meant For a renewal of virtue, marriage risking their own. But too often these and family life, and for the church same men allow the gates of their wounded by men’s absence, we souls to be broken down by temptamust sound this call to action in tion, a lack of interest, a failure to each parish. Men must prepare practice their faith. themselves for spiritual combat to We talk nostalgically of the Greatreclaim our Catholic inheritance. est Generation, which knew the But don’t try to go it alone. With felstakes for civilization when signing up to fight overseas. Yet today we need low Knights of Columbus members, an even greater generation to face the we have a ready band of brothers for this fight. Along with good often silent war being waged on our souls and the souls of our loved ones. works, seek spiritual fellowship with other men, and shoulMen, it’s time to report for duty. der-to-shoulder ask the Lord to lead For Catholic men, one of the aveus to our proper place in battle. As nues for this engagement is the Knights of Columbus. For men of dif- Pope St. Felix II taught: “Not to ferent Christian faiths and other reli- oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it; gions, there are similar organizaand indeed to neglect to confound tions. As Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix wrote in his recent pastoral evil men, when we can do it, is no letter titled “Into the Breach:” “Men, less a sin than to encourage them.”

Kenn Splitt do not hesitate to engage in the battle Mount Carmel Knights that is raging around you, the battle of Columbus Council 628 that is wounding our children and

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Back in 1942 ...

• It was fair and warm in Shamokin, which, like the rest of the country, was totally caught up in the war effort. America had been at war for just under five months. There were 165 men set to be drafted into the armed forces on this date, and more than 4,100 men between the ages of 45 and 60 were registering for non-combatant service.

• It was far enough into World War II for the first prisoner of war lists to be issued. The initial listing came from Japan. Six Pennsylvanians, all of whom had been captured during the battle for Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean, were on the list. Only one, a sailor from Jermyn, near Carbondale, was from the

hard-coal region.

• This was not a good day for the homefront in the coal region. In a coal rush near Scranton, four miners died and 34-year-old Ed Volinskie was killed when he was struck by a hoisting car in a bootleg mine near Brady.

• All 13 schools in the Coal Township School District were closed by a strike. The problem was that the school district was short of funds and had difficulty meeting payroll. The superintendent of schools, Theodore Miseberger, said the walkout was a contract violation, and that everyone would be paid in full. The argument did not sway the workers and teachers who stayed off the job.

OBITUARIES / FROM THE FRONT

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OBITUARIES Michael J. Fantanarosa KULPMONT — Michael J. Fantanarosa, 78, of Kulpmont, passed away on Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.

Mike was born in Kulpmont to the late Frank and Mary (Saint Mary) Fantanarosa.

He was a graduate of Kulpmont High School Class of 1956. He went on to graduate from Pennsylvania State University with an associate degree in engineering.

He worked for a number of years for Kennedy Van Saun and U.S. Radium, designing instrument panels used at the time in airplanes. He then returned to Kulpmont and established his own construction company, which he led for more than 35 years, specializing in masonry, excavating, snow removal and general contracting.

Civically, Mike was a 4th Degree Member of the Knights of Columbus, an active member in the local UNICO Chapter, a lifetime member of the East End Fire Company and the Elks.

He was also a past president of the Kulpmont Lions Club, where he is most noted for organizing the annual Kulpmont Halloween Parade for more than 30 years. He was a faithful and devoted member of Holy Angels Parish, Kulpmont, where he was a member of the choir and where he chaired the annual parish picnic fundraiser for a number of years. Mike was

COAL TOWNSHIP — Rose Marie Mathews, 85, of 20 S. 22nd. St., Coal Township, passed away Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.

Born Nov. 17, 1930, in Elmira, New York, she was a daughter of the late Carl and Sophie (Bilinski) Mathews.

She attended high school in Elmira, and completed her graduate studies at St. Mary’s Villa Academy, Sloatsburg, New York, with Michael J. Fantanarosa the Sister Servants of Mary also an avid golfer, piano Immaculate. and accordion player and For the past 40 years, she enjoyed boating. was a resident of the He was most known for Shamokin/Coal Township his kindness, generosity area. and positive, energetic perRose was a dedicated elesonality. He was a devoted mentary school teacher. She father and grandfather was a very active member offering support and love to of Transfiguration all the lives he touched in Ukrainian Catholic his 78 years. He will be sore- Church, Shamokin. She volly missed by all who had the unteered with the pyrohy pleasure of knowing him workers, and worked for well. many years at the annual Mike is survived by his parish festival. three children and their Survivors include nieces spouses, daughter Maria and nephews, Cynthia Fantanarosa and her husMathews, Brenda Miller band, Tim Morrow, of and Stephen Mathews and Mason, Ohio, daughter Ali- his wife, Christina, of Wincia and her husband, Peter ston Salem, North Carolina, McGowan of Bryn Mawr, and son Michael Fantanarosa and his wife, Denise, UNERAL OTICES of Mahanoy City; five grandchildren; his brother, DRILL — Florence Drill, 85, Nicholas Fantanarosa, of of Harrisburg. Mass of ChrisCoatesville, his sister, Lorettian Burial will be held 11 ta Muldowney, Murrells a.m. Monday at St. Margaret Inlet, South Carolina; and Mary Aloque Catholic Church, numerous nieces and neph2800 Paxton Church Road, ews.

Harrisburg, with a visitation at 10 a.m. A graveside service will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Monday in All Saints Cemetery, Elysburg. Online condolences may be sent to www. neillfh.com.

Gloria Ann Shepard Mount Carmel, and spent several years volunteering as a Sunday School teacher.

Gloria is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Laurence John Jr. and Tracy (Laner) Shepard; a daughter and son-in-law, Bonnie Ann (Shepard) and Robert C. Nicola; five grandchildren, Brett Michael and Brandon Lawrence Shepard, Seth Michael, Leah Marie and Sara Ann Nicola; brothers, David and wife, Lucille Shimko, Thomas and wife, Geri Shimko; sisters, Rose Marie and husband, Henry Koldash, Betty (Shimko) Eckenrode; and many nieces and nephews.

Florence Drill HARRISBURG — Florence Drill, 85, of Harrisburg, passed away Tuesday, April 26, 2016, in the Colonial Park Care Center, Harrisburg.

Born Aug. 31, 1930, in Excelsior, she was a daughter of the late Wasil and Florence (Kutzer) Wengrenovich.

She retired as a garment worker from Sunset Manufacturing, Pottstown, and Hillside Sportswear, Shamokin. She was a member of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Catholic Church, Harrisburg, and the United

Garment Workers Union.

She was an avid reader and a devout Catholic, who also enjoyed the Patriot News and loved watching “General Hospital,” CNN, Fox News, EWTN, politics and the local news on Channel 27.

She is survived by two sons, Michael Drill, of Harrisburg, and Daniel Drill, of Lebanon; her grandson, Michael Drill, and sister, Lubow Gluchowski, of Kulpmont.

Florence was preceded in death by her husband, Daniel T. Drill.

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STEPHANIE BETTICK/STAFF PHOTO Rosanne Moroneso and her husband, Andrew, of Pfafftown, North Carolina, Mary McLean, of Amelia Our Lady of Lourdes Regional elementary Island, Florida, Bruce students act out a scene from their upcoming Mathews and his wife, Conmusical, “Annie Kids.” From left are Emily nie, of Horseheads, New Baskin, as Grace Farrell; Julia Pitcavage, as York, and Kenneth Annie; and Gabriel Leffler, as Oliver Warbucks.

Mathews, of Scipio Center, The show will be performed at 7 p.m. tonight New York; an aunt, Eleanor and 2 p.m. Sunday in the school’s Lee E. Bilinski, of Wellsburg; and Korbich Memorial Gym. many close and caring friends, including the Klebon family, Tom and Betty Nicola and Gerry Bushick, who were very close and dear to Rose.

In addition to her parFROM PAGE 1 redesigned. ents, she was preceded in Ososkie said most of the Knoebel, in 1941, will be the death by two brothers, John food stands made minor first ride featured Sunday . and Stephen Mathews, and alterations to their menus.

Each winter, two horses her loving, long-time friend, One change, the addition of on the carousel are removed Joseph Klebon Sr. a Thursday wing night at and refinished. Ososkie said maintaining and mak- the Oasis, is already a hit with the park’s 150 full-time ing upgrades to existing staff members. rides throughout the park The park was abuzz with was a focal point this year.

Chowka Funeral Home, 114 these employees, as well as “We worked really hard N. Shamokin St., Shamokin. several of the 2,000 seasonal In lieu of flowers, contribu- to improve upon what we part-time employees, as finalready have in the park,” tions can be made to Transishing touches were made figuration Ukrainian Catholic she said.

Thursday. The workers While performing refinChurch, 303 N. Shamokin St., include third-, fourth- and ishing work on the WhipShamokin, PA. 17872. fifth-generation members SZOKE — Andrew W. Szoke, per, a maintenance crew of the Knoebel family.

96, of 909 Scott St., Kulp- sanded the exterior of the The business legacy of mont. A funeral Mass will be cars down beyond previous celebrated at 11 a.m. Satur- work, revealing antique art- the Knoebel family has led to an increased educational day at the Church of the Holy work.

Angels, 855 Scott St., Kulp“It gave inspiration,” she outreach. Brian Knoebel, a mont, with the Rev. Andrew said of the discovery. Work- fourth-generation family FANTANAROSA— Michael Stahmer as celebrant. Burial ers decided to “do somemember, speaks to business J. Fantanarosa, 78, of Kulp- will be in St. Mary’s Ceme- thing special to our classic classes at area schools on mont. Relatives, friends and tery, Kulpmont. Viewing will rides,” she said. entrepreneurship, said neighbors are invited to at- be held from 10 a.m. until the The park’s team of artists Ososkie. The park also tend a Funeral Mass to be time of Mass Saturday at the created a geometrical flour- recently hired an educationheld 11 a.m. Monday in Holy church. In lieu of flowers, meal outreach coordinator Angels Parish, 855 Scott St., morial contributions can be ish of gold reminiscent of who will work with school the art deco designs popular Kulpmont, with Father An- made to the Holy Angels Outgroups on lessons related to drew Stahmer, officiating. In- reach Meal Program. C.J. Lu- during the heyday of Coney the park’s rides, bald eagle Island, where the ride was terment will be in St. Mary’s cas Funeral Home Inc., 1053 habitat and business strucCemetery, Kulpmont. Viewing Chestnut St., Kulpmont, C.J. constructed by the W.F. ture.

Mangels Co. before eventuwill be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Lucas, supervisor, is han“There is so much you Sunday, with the Rosary be- dling arrangements. To send ally being purchased by the can learn from an amuseing recited at 8:30 p.m. in condolences to the family, go park in 1950. The design ment park,” said Ososkie. the C.J. Lucas Funeral Home to www.cjlucasfuneralhome. was hand-painted onto the “We have such a talented Inc., 1053 Chestnut St., Kulp- com. back of each car. team. We have someone mont, C.J. Lucas, supervisor.

Another classic ride, the here who can do just about ZARICK — Johanna M. Haunted Mansion, saw a There will not be a viewing on Monday morning. To send Zarick, 76, of Shenandoah major overhaul this winter everything.” condolences to the family Manor. Relatives, friends and when a team removed a In addition to the ride please visit www.cjlucasfuner- neighbors are invited to a vis- room and replaced it with operators and customer seritation to be held 5 to 8 p.m. new spooks. The additional vice employees, the park alhome.com.

Saturday, with a prayer ser- spirits fit into the theme employs numerous specialMATHEWS — Rose Ma- vice at 6 p.m. at the C.J. Lu- created when the ride was ty behind-the-scenes workrie Mathews, 85, of 20 S. cas Funeral Home Inc., 27 N. ers like artists and a master installed in 1973 — a tragic 22nd. St., Coal Township. Vine St., Mount Carmel, C.J. story of a man falling under gardener. This busy ecosysDivine Liturgy will be cele- Lucas IV, supervisor. Private tem of staff is a far cry brated at 11 a.m. Saturday Mass and burial will be held a curse when he unearths from the handful of hired relics on an archaeological in Transfiguration Ukrainian at the convenience of the help employed when the dig.

His bride-to-be, Ruth, Catholic Church, Shamokin, family. To send condolences park opened July 4, 1946. At with Rev. Mykola Ivanov as to the family, go to www.cjlu- can be seen on the left of that time, the park consistthe first room, sitting in a celebrant. Interment will fol- casfuneralhome.com. ed of just a steam-powered red dress with a corsage low in the parish cemetery, carousel, one food stand still affixed to her arm Coal Township. Viewing will while she awaits the return and the Crystal Pool. be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

“Ninety years later, we’re of her fiancé.

Saturday in the Stephen A. One of the larger changes still family owned and operated,” she said. for this season will not Ososkie said the park will OBITUARY POLICY arrive until shortly after Memorial Day. The Galleon host a 90th birthday party The News-Item’s policy regarding obituaries is as follows: will be replaced with a new July 4, with details still to ~ Wording: There are no restrictions on wording, listings of pirate ship scheduled to sail come. The park will open at noon Saturday for the searelatives and other information. Statements such as “she was a into the park in early sumson opening and operate on loving mother” are welcome. Any information deemed inapproprimer. ate will not be published.

Another major change is weekends until May 25, when it will transition to a an upgrade and expansion ~ Pricing structure: The standard charge for an obituary is daily schedule. of the park’s laser tag facili$55. An additional $1 per line charge is assessed for obituarty .

New equipment was puries beyond 12 inches in column length. Photographs, which are chased and the interior was published at one column wide by approximately 3 inches long, gutted, doubled in size and are encouraged. A flag icon can be used for veterans of armed

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Gloria Ann Shepard KULPMONT — Gloria Ann (Shimko) Shepard, 71, of Kulpmont, joined her husband in heaven April 21, 2016.

She was born Sept. 6, 1944, a daughter of Michael David and Agnes Rose (Marshalek) Shimko.

A graduate of Kulpmont High School class of 1962, she was a member of the high school’s marching band. She later went on to play with the Kulpmont Boys Band.

On Jan. 20, 1968, she married Lawrence John Shepard at St. Stanislaus Church, Shamokin. Lawrence preceded her in death on Feb. 2, 2010.

Gloria was employed as a certified nursing assistant at Grandview Nursing and Rehab Center, Danville. She took great pride in her career choice, and truly loved each of her residents.

She often volunteered for special events to ensure her residents were able to attend.

Gloria enjoyed working, camping, reading, cooking for family, and attending her grandchildren’s activities and milestones.

She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church,

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Extends a sincere thank you to all our relatives, friends, and neighbors for their love and support during our bereavement.

We are grateful for the Mass intentions, sympathy cards, prayers, memorials, flowers and food.

A special thank you is extended to Geisinger-Shamokin Area Community Hospital Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit, Dr. Wayne Miller and Staff, AREA Ambulance, Rev. Michael Hutsko, Rev. Mykola Ivanov, Stephen A. Chowka Funeral Home, All Saints Cemetery, and to all who aided us in any way.

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Drugs

Fun Shop

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for the people behind the counter. I know Cheryl (Verano, manager), and this has been her only job. I thought of them immediately,” she said. “I remember coming here as a young girl buying posters and art supplies for school projects.

I have treasured coming here.”

The store was open Thursday to “loyal customers” who received a letter from owner Chris Matus announcing the store’s closing. A friend was allowed to accompany the customer.

The special invite will last until Wednesday.

The liquidation sale could last up to 10 weeks, with the goal of selling all products in the store and even things like glass display cubes. Every item is marked with a sale price.

The exception is greeting cards, for which customers learn the discount at checkout.

Madeleine Lyash, of Mount Carmel, said the

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Shoppers look at Hallmark cards inside the Fun Shop in Shamokin Thursday, the first day of a liquidation sale. Everything is being sold inside the store, which opened nearly 80 years ago. closest store comparable to The Fun Shop is the English Garden, on Route 54 in Riverside. Customers waiting in line with Lyash said The Fun Shop was their “go-to” store.

“My family came here a lot,” she said. “It is sad to see it go.”

Matus, of Matus Enter-

prises, Wilkes-Barre, owns 17 similar Hallmark stores in eastern and central Pennsylvania, 10 of which are scheduled to close. The closest to Shamokin is the one in the Columbia Mall near Bloomsburg and one in a strip mall in Williamsport.

The Fun Shop, which became the central location

for the annual Downtown Christmas celebration in recent years, opened on West Independence Street in November 1937. In the early 1940s, the Fun Shop moved to its current location, where the YMCA bowling alleys and swimming pool were previously located.

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took office in January, invited a representative from the Save the Northumberland County Prison group and Erin Hammerstedt, a field representative from Preservation Pennsylvania, to join Sunbury Mayor David Persing, city council members and county workers in a walk-through of the prison.

The tour, led by warden Bruce Kovach allowed the group to see the 19th century building from the basement to the third floor, plus the yard, and gave access to areas untouched by the fire as well as the tower, which suffered heavy damage.

For the mayor, it was his first time in the prison. “It’s a lot bigger than I thought, a lot of history here,” he said.

“But there’s major, major money going to have to be spent to do anything with this property.”

Mike Rhoades, Sunbury code enforcement and zoning officer, said after the fire occurred, they were in the building almost every day. Thursday was the first time he was in it since the activity has slowed.

“There is a significant amount of damage to this structure,” he said, and believes it will take a large number of thought-out ideas and pre-planning “to restore or rebuild for functionality.”

Would be ‘awesome to share’ Kristine Kamp, of Save the Northumberland County Prison, left the building feeling excitement and a renewed passion to move forward with the group’s efforts to preserve the “history in Sunbury.”

Kamp said she was not shocked by the conditions because she was expecting them. She said, “It’s so many neat aspects to this, and so much history is almost frozen in time, that it would be really awesome to share it with the public and visitors who would come to Sunbury.”

Kamp was in attendance to represent the group, which was founded by Victoria Rosancrans, along with Hammerstedt, who said in an April 14 meeting that Preservation Pennsylvania would act as a financial manager and guide if needed.

Hammerstedt has toured many historical buildings, and said the prison is large and will be a big project, but condition-wise, it wasn’t anything shocking to her.

She said, “My overall impression is

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Sunbury Mayor David Persing, left, and Northumberland County Commissioner Sam Schiccatano observe the outside walls of the Northumberland County Prison during a tour on Thursday. that the structure was built to last and hold people in, so it’s not going anywhere. Obviously, I would say the finishes, the surfaces and the systems probably need a comprehensive improvement, but the structure looks good.”

Dollar value to ‘back up’ Rhoades said he would describe the prison as being in “a state of disrepair,” but could not give any specifics about future zoning until it is decided what the future occupancy of the building would be.

“We have to see if the zoning requirements are met for what they want to change it into,” he said.

“There would be some zoning approvals that would need to be completed before the construction can even commence for the rebuild.”

Sunbury building inspector John Marino said, “Whoever does take the

building and tries to change it into something should do, in their best interest, a feasibility study prior to taking the building to see if they can do it, and if they have the dollar value to back up what they do.”

Marino said variances can be obtained from the state that would exempt whoever decides to take on the project from meeting certain building codes that pertain to the accessibility of the building for those with disabilities.

‘I want a plan’ Schiccatano said he hopes now that these various entities have seen the building, they will be able to meet and “come up with the best solution on where to go forward with this.”

“I want them to go back and maybe in the very near future, have another meeting with them and see what suggestions they have on what to do with the property, and come up with some realistic numbers needed to restore or tear it down, whatever the suggestions are,” he said.

Persing said, “There’s private and there’s public people, so they can go back out and tell the public what we may or may not be able to do with this.”

He said that it would be great to have the property “forever,” but “what the city doesn’t want is this property sitting in this disarray.”

“Once everybody gets the figures and everything together, I just want to plan,” he said.

Hammerstedt said she is happy Schiccatano suggested everyone take some time to think about what they saw Thursday before reconvening.

People can now do their “homework” and put together a proposal.

“I think there’s potential, but because it’s a big project, they’re going to want to make sure they have someone with a solid plan — if not the resources — a plan to come up with resources to see it through,” she said.

The next couple of weeks will be busy for Save the Northumberland County Prison, according to Kamp.

She intends to put together a slideshow of photos she took inside the building.

“The only thing we’d really like to do is encourage more people to join our cause,” she said. “It’s going to take the entire Sunbury community to pull together to bring this beautiful historic piece to fruition.”

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possession with intent to deliver heroin, delivery of methamphetamine and possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine, all felonies.

When police attempted to serve an arrest warrant on Birster as she exited her home at around noon Thursday, she fled into her residence. Police and adult probation officers then entered her house and took her into custody. She was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge John H. Gembic III and remanded to Snyder County Prison in lieu of $100,000 cash bail.

While police were inside Birster’s home they discovered Khaalid Muhammad in possession of a plastic bag of cocaine.

Approximately two hours earlier, Muhammad had entered a guilty plea to two counts of possession with intent to deliver cocaine and one count of delivery of cocaine, all felonies. He was scheduled to be sentenced within 90 days following a prior record investigation.

Cpl. Bryan Primerano charged Muhammad with misdemeanor counts of possession of cocaine and possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia for the bag of cocaine. Muhammad was arraigned before Gembic and incarcerated in Snyder County Prison in lieu of $10,000 cash bail.

Primerano said additional charges are also pending against Birster for items located during a search by a female probation officer.

Heroin sale Primerano also filed charges Thursday against Andrew W. Britton II, 33, 125 S. Franklin St., Shamokin, for alleged controlled buys on Aug. 18 and Nov. 19.

Britton is accused of selling two packets of heroin to a police informant for $60 at 6:50 p.m. Aug. 18. He then sold a police informant six doses of Suboxone for $120 at 8:20 p.m. Nov. 19, police said.

Primerano charged Britton with felony counts of delivery of heroin, possession with intent to deliver heroin, delivery of Suboxone, possession with intent to deliver Suboxone and two counts of criminal use of a communications facility.

Britton remains incarcerated in the Northumberland County Prison in lieu of $5,000 cash bail on a felony robbery charge and a misdemeanor theft charge for a Dec. 25 incident. Police said Britton grabbed money out of the cash register from the Penn Jersey Mart on Independence Street.

Sunday incident Siko charged four people in connection with an alleged drug sale at 9:30 a.m.

Sunday in the 200 block of South Shamokin Street.

Siko said a witness reported seeing a drug deal occur at the home of Joan S. and Frank L. Pennell, 251 S. Shamokin St., involving a maroon car.

Police said they located the vehicle, which was driving erratically. The driver, SaraJane Healey, 21, of 116 S. Third St., Shamokin, was shaking very badly and had difficulty retrieving her documents, Siko said.

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Siko said Healey told him she had been visiting Frank Pennell, 53, at his home and that her mother, F. PENNELL Renee M. Healey, 58, also of 116 S. Third St. and a passenger in the vehicle, had sold pills to him.

While Renee Healey was stepping away from the vehicle, Siko noticed a red plastic container with pills in her open purse. Upon questioning, Renee Healey admitted to selling Frank Pennell two oxycodone 10 mg tablets for $20 from a prescription issued by Dr. Raymond Kraynak.

Siko said SaraJane was questioned at the police station and she told police she and her mother had been selling pills to Frank Pennell since March and that her mother sometimes gave her oxycodone pills when she needed them.

Siko said he also questioned Renee Healey, who admitted to selling the pills but could not explain a discrepancy between the number of pills in her bottle and the amount she should have had. Siko said he sorted through her pill bottle and found, in addition to the oxycodone pills she was prescribed, alprazolam (Xanax), atropine sulfate/diphenoxylate hydrochloride (Lomotil), prochlorperazine (Compazine) and dimenhydrinate (Dramamine).

Pennell admitted to purchasing the pills from Renee Healey, Siko said. Pennell told him he was in “extreme pain” and that he had been taking painkillers prescribed to his wife, Joan Pennell, 49, but they ran out.

He also told police he had taken the pills as soon as he got them, Siko said.

Renee and SaraJane Healey were each charged with felony counts of delivery of oxycodone, possession with intent to delivery oxycodone and criminal use of a communications facility and a misdemeanor count of possession of oxycodone.

Frank Pennell was charged with a felony count of criminal use of a communications facility and a misdemeanor count of possession of oxycodone. Joan Pennell was also charged with a felony count of criminal use of a communications facility for her role in arranging the sale.

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Shrek, Minions join forces

Comcast is buying DreamWorks Animation, the film studio behind Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda, for approximately $3.55 billion.

The companies announced the deal Thursday. It is expected to close by year’s end.

DreamWorks stockholders will receive $41 for each share they own. That’s a 24 percent premium to the company’s Wednesday closing price of $32.20. The companies put the deal’s value at about $3.8 billion.

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DreamWorks will become part of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes Universal Pictures and has the Minions franchise.

Once the deal closes, DreamWorks co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg will become chairman of DreamWorks New Media. He’ll also serve as a consultant to NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast.

The boards of both companies have approved the transaction.

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2nd Chinese city in a week halts trash incinerator plans BEIJING (AP) — For the second time in a week, a Chinese city has announced it would halt plans for a garbage incinerator project following angry protests by residents that underscore growing concern over threats to public health.

The government of Nanxian in the southern province of Hunan said Thursday in a public notice that it would cease all work related to the project and would not start up again without public support.

China is faced with the mounting challenge of disposing solid waste generated in ever-larger cities.

However, public distrust runs deep as people question their local governments’ ability to properly plan, build and manage trash incinerators.

When those projects move ahead, public anger is often stirred over fears they would cause air, water and soil pollution.

Without a voice inside the city hall, residents usually resort to street protests. Local governments tend to cave in to calm public sentiments and keep order, while seeking to punish those who have initiated the protests, leaving garbage disposal an unsolved problem.

Last Friday, the Haiyan county government in the eastern province of Zhejiang halted plans for a trash incinerator after rowdy street protests.

In Nanxian, hundreds took to the street on Monday and Tuesday to protest the project citing pollution concerns, overseas Chinese news sites reported.

A man who answered the phone at the propaganda office of the county government said about 200 residents had protested with some actions he described as “extreme.”

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his surname Liao as is common with Chinese bureaucrats, did not elaborate and said there had been no clash between the protesters and police and no one was injured during the demonstration.

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Premiere Shows: May 5 CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR 2D 7, 10:15, 11:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR 3D 7:30, 10:45, 11:45 KEANU (R) Fri.-Sun.: 12:20, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 Mon.-Wed.: 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 Thu.: 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 MOTHER’S DAY (PG13) Fri.-Sun.: 1:05, 4:15, 7:10, 10 Mon.-Thu.: 2:45, 5:50, 8:40 RATCHET & CLANK 2D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 4. 7 Mon.-Thu.: 2, 7 RATCHET & CLANK 3D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 1, 9:30 Mon.-Thu.: 4:30, 9:30 THE HUNTSMANWINTER’S WAR (PG-13) Fri.: 12:15, 1:15, 2:50, 3:50, 5:25, 6:30, 8, 9:20, 10:35 Sat.: 1:15, 3:50, 5:25, 6:30, 8, 9:25, 10:35 Sun.: 12:15, 1:15, 2:50, 3:50, 5:25, 6:30, 8, 9:20, 10:35 Mon.: 3, 3:40, 5:40, 8:15 Tue.and Wed.: 3, 3:40, 5:40, 6:15, 8:15, 8:50 Thu.: 3, 3:40, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 THE JUNGLE BOOK 2D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 12, 1:10, 2:30, 3:40, 5, 6:10, 7:30, 8:40, 10:05 Mon.-Wed.: 2:30, 3:30, 5:10, 6, 7:40, 8:30 Thu.: 2:30, 3:30, 5:10, 6, 7:40, 8:30, 10:10 THE JUNGLE BOOK 3D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Mon.-Thu.: 3, 5:30, 8 BARBERSHOP 3 (PG13) Fri.-Sun.: 4:10, 10:10 Mon.-Thu.: 5:05 THE BOSS (R) Fri.-Sun.: 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon.-Wed.: 2:50, 5:20, 7:45 Thu.: 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20 BATMAN VS SUPERMAN 2D Fri.-Sun.: 12:50, 6:55 Mon.-Wed.: 2, 7:30 Thu.: 2 ZOOTOPIA 2D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Mon.-Wed.: 2:15, 5, 7:25 Thu.: 2:15, 5, 7:25, 10

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Police sniper shoots man who says he has bomb at TV station BALTIMORE (AP) — A police sniper shot a man who walked into a TV station lobby wearing a full animal costume and surgical mask and displaying what appeared to be an explosive device on his chest.

Baltimore Police Department spokesman T.J. Smith said the man was alive and conscious and communicating with authorities on Thursday through a robot designed to detect explosives.

Smith says officers and paramedics cannot approach the man until they can determine he doesn’t have an explosive device or until any such device has been neutralized.

Smith said the man walked into the lobby of a Fox television affiliate and made a complaint about the government. Police say the suspect walked outside, followed by heavily armed officers.

Smith says the suspect was shot after he refused repeated demands to show his hands.

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A man wearing a full animal costume and surgical mask walks out of a TV station in Baltimore, Thursday. Baltimore police say a department sniper shot the man, who police say walked into a TV station displaying what appeared to be an explosive device on his chest.

Community Calendar F riday , A pr . 29 COAL TOWNSHIP — The Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School elementary chorus will present its ninth spring musical, “Annie, Kids,” 7 p.m. in the Lee E. Korbich Memorial gym.

MOUNT CARMEL — Miracles Happen Narcotics Anonymous meeting, 7 to 8:30 p.m., 129 W. Second St., side entrance.

COAL TOWNSHIP — Shamokin Surivors Narcotics Anonymous meeting, 8 to 9:30 p.m., St. John’s United Methodist Church hall, 1211 W. Arch St. COAL TOWNSHIP — Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary Chorus will present Annie Kids,at 7 p.m., and 2 p.m.

Sunday, May 1, in the Lourdes Gymnatorium. Donations will be accepted at the door.

Saturday, Apr. 30 MOUNT CARMEL — Bark in the Borough, event to benefit Mommy & Me Rescue. Willow Creek Plaza, 610 E. Fifth St. Noon to 4 p.m. Meet and greet the rescue dogs, vote for favorite picture in cute dog contest and check out vendors. Raffles and chances to win prizes.

SHAMOKIN — Rosalind Kane’s annual cleanup will take place at 2 p.m. Meet at Claude Kehler Community

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COAL TOWNSHIP — Restoration Ministries Church soup kitchen, 5 to 6 p.m., 525 W. Chestnut St. MOUNT CARMEL — Miracles Happen Narcotics Anonymous meeting, 7 to 8:30 p.m., 129 W. Second St., side entrance.

SHAMOKIN — Shamokin Survivors Narcotics AnonS unday , M ay 1 meeting, 8 to 9:30 M onday , M ay 2 ymous SHAMOKIN — Chess Club p.m., 525 W. Chestnut St., meets every Sunday at 5:30 ATLAS — Help for Families basement side entrance. p.m. at Wendy’s. All ages and Fighting Addictions meeting, skill levels welcome.

ELYSBURG — The EFD Community Auxiliary present Designer Purse Bingo, featuring Michael Kors, Coach, Kate Spade and 500 S. Market St., Shamokin • 570-644-2414 more. 50/50, Chinese 2 Jumbo Pizzas.............$18.99+Tax auction, raffle, food and beverages. Call Dana at Monday - Thursday 3:00 to 11:00 Friday - Saturday 11:00 to 11:00 570-809-4499 for tickets.

Sunday 3:00 to 9:00 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. SponFREE LOCAL sored by Elysburg Fire Department Auxiliary.

DELIVERY! SHAMOKIN — Spaghetti dinner to benefit ShamokinCoal Township Public Library, FUNERAL DINNERS 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., IndepenPark and bring a canned good to benefit God’s Chuck Wagon.

MOUNT CARMEL — Indoor yard sale, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church parish hall. Hot dogs, drinks, baked goods available.

MOUNT CARMEL — Miracles Happen Narcotics Anonymous meeting, 6 to 7 p.m., 129 W. Second St., side entrance.

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RATCHET & CLANK 2D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 4. 7 Mon.-Thu.: 2, 7 RATCHET & CLANK 3D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 1, 9:30 Mon.-Thu.: 4:30, 9:30 THE JUNGLE BOOK 2D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 12, 1:10, 2:30, 3:40, 5, 6:10, 7:30, 8:40, 10:05 Mon.-Wed.: 2:30, 3:30, 5:10, 6, 7:40, 8:30 Thu.: 2:30, 3:30, 5:10, 6, 7:40, 8:30, 10:10 THE JUNGLE BOOK 3D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Mon.-Thu.: 3, 5:30, 8 BARBERSHOP 3 (PG-13) Fri.-Sun.: 4:10, 10:10 Mon.-Thu.: 5:05 THE BOSS (R) Fri.-Sun.: 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon.-Wed.: 2:50, 5:20, 7:45 Thu.: 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20 BATMAN VS SUPERMAN 2D Fri.-Sun.: 12:50, 6:55 Mon.-Wed.: 2, 7:30 Thu.: 2 ZOOTOPIA 2D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Mon.-Wed.: 2:15, 5, 7:25 Thu.: 2:15, 5, 7:25, 10

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COAL TOWNSHIP — The Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School elementary chorus will present its ninth spring musical, “Annie, Kids,” at 2 p.m. in the Lee E. Korbich Memorial gym.

COAL TOWNSHIP — Shamokin Survivors Narcotics Anonymous meeting, 7 to 8:30 p.m., 1211 W. Arch St.

BARBERSHOP 3 (PG-13) Fri.-Wed.: 10:10 BATMAN VS SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE 2D (PG-13) Fri.-Wed.: 12, 3:25, 6:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR 2D Thu.: 7, 10:20, 11:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR 3D Thu.: 7:30, 10:50 CLIMATE HUSTLE (NR) Mon.: 7 CRIMINAL (R) Fri.-Wed.: 9:30 GOD’S NOT DEAD 2 (PG) Fri.-Wed.; 12:55, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 KEANU (R) Fri.-Thu.: 11, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 MOTHER’S DAY (PG-13) Fri.-Thu.: 11:25, 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 RATCHET AND CLANK 2D (PG) Fri.-Wed.: 11:45, 4:35, 7

RATCHET AND CLANK 3D (PG) Fri.-Wed.: 2:10, 9:25 THE BOSS (R) Fri.-Thu.: 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR (PG-13) Fri.-Sun.: 11:05, 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10 Mon.: 11:05, 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 6:30, 9:15, 10 Tue.and Wed.: 11:05, 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10 THE JUNGLE BOOK 2D (PG) Fri.-Wed.: 11:30, 12:15, 2, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:30, 7, 9 Thu.: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15 THE JUNGLE BOOK 3D (PG) Fri.-Wed.: 11, 1:30, 4, 7:45, 10:10 Thu.: 7:45, 10:10 ZOOTOPIA 2D (PG) Fri.-Thu.: 11:10, 1:50, 4:25, 6:45, 9:25

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Saturday, April 30 Spring Fling Band “Double Talk” 8:30 - 11:30 Hamburgers & Hotdogs

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SCHOOL LUNCH MENU May 2 - May 6 Shamokin Area Annex Breakfast

Monday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Tuesday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Wednesday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Thursday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Friday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Annex Lunch

Alternate: Not Available.

Monday - Not Available.

Tuesday - Not Available.

Wednesday - Not Available.

Thursday - Not Available.

Friday - Not Available.

Elementary Breakfast Monday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Tuesday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Wednesday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Thursday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Friday - Fruit, juice, milk.

Elementary Lunch

Monday - Not Available.

Tuesday - Not Available.

Wednesday - Not Available.

Thursday - Not Available.

Friday - Not Available.

Junior / Senior High School Breakfast Monday - Cereal w/bears, juice or fruit, milk.

Tuesday - Cereal w/bears, juice or fruit, milk.

Wednesday - Cereal w/bears, juice or fruit, milk.

Thursday - Cereal w/bears, juice or fruit, milk.

Friday - Cereal w/bears, juice or fruit, milk.

Junior / Senior High School & VoTech Lunch Monday - Not Available.

Tuesday - Not Available.

Wednesday - Not Available.

Thursday - Not Available.

Friday - Not Available.

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School

Breakfast Available Daily: Cereal, Poptart, Graham Snacks, Mini Pancakes, Waffles, French Toast Sticks, String Cheese, Gogurt, Fruit Juice or Fruit, Milk.

Alternate: Not Available.

Monday - Not Available.

Tuesday - Not Available.

Wednesday - Not Available.

Thursday - Not Available.

Friday - Not Available.

Mount Carmel Area Elementary Breakfast

Available Daily: Cereal w/toast, bagels.

Monday - Pancake sausage wrap, juice, milk.

Tuesday - Dutch waffle, juice, milk.

Wednesday - Egg & cheese on english muffin, juice, milk.

Thursday - Scrambled eggs & toast, juice, milk.

Friday - French toast sticks w/syrup, juice, milk.

Elementary Lunch

Elementary Lunch

Monday - Chicken broccoli alfredo casserole or turkey & cheese hoagie, green beans, peaches, milk.

Tuesday - Corn dog nuggets or ham & cheese melt, baked beans, applesauce, milk.

Wednesday - French toast sticks w/sausage or chicken patty on bun, tater tots, fruit, milk.

Thursday - Cheesy chicken nachos or meatball hoagie, corn, pears, milk.

Friday - Italian dunkers w/marinara or hot dog on bun, peas, pineapple, milk.

High School Breakfast

Available Daily: Bagels, breakfast bars, cereal w/toast.

Monday - French toast w/syrup or blueberry UBR w/toast, juice or fruit, milk.

Tuesday - Ham, egg & cheese sandwich or sausage & pancake wrap, juice or fruit, milk.

Wednesday - Mini cinnis or scrambled eggs w/toast, juice or fruit, milk.

Thursday - Breakfast pizza or apple frudal, juice or fruit, milk.

Friday - Dutch waffle or breakfast mini loaf w/toast, juice or fruit, milk.

High School Lunch

Monday - Chicken broccoli alfredo casserole w/roll, green beans, tropical fruit salad, milk.

Tuesday - Fish tacos w/rice, black bean & corn salsa, corn, pears, milk.

Wednesday - French toast sticks w/sausage, tater tots, juice, milk.

Thursday - Cheesy chicken nachos w/rice, salad or carrots, pineapple, milk.

Friday - Grilled cheese, tomato soup, veggies, applesauce, milk.

North Schuylkill Breakfast

Monday - Pizza or cereal, w/toast, juice or fruit, milk. HS mini chicken sandwich.

Tuesday - Pancakes w/syrup or cereal w/toast, juice or fruit, milk. HS pizza.

Wednesday - Fruit yogurt w/mini bagel or cereal w/toast, juice or fruit, milk. HS fruit smoothies.

Thursday - Scrambled eggs on english muffin or cereal w/toast, juice or fruit, milk. HS cinnamon pretzel stick.

Friday - Mini chicken sandwich or cereal w/toast, juice or fruit, milk. HS pastries.

Elementary Lunch

Monday - Nacho chips w/beef, bread, corn, pineapple, milk.

Tuesday - Chicken patty on roll, green beans, mixed fruit, milk.

Wednesday - Chicken alfredo over penne, bread, broccoli, peach cup, milk.

Thursday - Cheesesteak, baked fries, applesauce, milk.

Friday - Fish sticks w/bread, peas, mandarin oranges, milk.

Junior-Senior High School Lunch

Monday - Breaded pork chop, bread, mashed potatoes, applesauce, milk.

Tuesday - Chicken alfredo over penne, bread, broccoli, pineapple, milk.

Wednesday - Orange glazed chicken over rice, bread, peas & carrots, pineapple, milk.

Thursday - Cheesesteak, baked fries, peach cup, milk.

Friday - Mac & cheese, stewed tomatoes, peas, mixed fruit, milk.

Southern Columbia Area Breakfast

Monday - Bagelfuls, fruit or juice, milk.

Tuesday - Cereal w/graham crackers, fruit or juice, milk.

Wednesday - Honeybun, fruit or juice, milk.

Thursday - Mini french toast, fruit or juice, milk.

Friday - Cinnamon donut, fruit or juice, milk.

Lunch

Monday - Barbecue on bun, baked fries, green beans, fruit, milk.

Tuesday - Chicken poppers, seasoned noodles, carrots, tea roll, fruit, milk.

Wednesday - HS Turkey or breaded chicken w/stuffing & gravy, crunchy corn, sweet potatoes, fruit, milk. ELEM Chicken fries, sweet potatoes, corn, fruit, milk.

Thursday - Hot dog on bun, baked beans, baked fries, fruit, milk.

Friday - Baked pizza, mixed veggies, chocolate chip cookie, fruit, milk.

Columbia Montour Area Vo-Tech Lunch

Monday - Meatball hoagie w/cheese, carrots, pineapple, milk.

Tuesday - Baked ham w/buttered noodles & bread, green beans, apple, milk.

Wednesday - Popcorn chicken bowl, mashed potatoes w/gravy, corn, tropical fruit, milk.

Thursday - Tornado sub, baked beans, peaches, milk.

Friday - Pierogies w/cheese stick, broccoli, applesauce, milk.

Monday - Pierogies w/roll, pizza, or chef salad w/roll, sautéed onions, corn, sherbet, milk.

Tuesday - Turkey & cheese wraps, roast beef & cheese sandwich, or chef salad w/roll, tater tots, 5 cup salad, juice, milk.

Wednesday - Hot wings w/roll, pizza, or chef salad w/roll, italian potatoes, peaches, milk.

Thursday - Spaghetti w/meat sauce, off salad sandwich, or chef salad w/roll, green beans, apple crisp, juice, milk.

Friday - Pizza, or chef salad w/roll, scalloped potatoes, tropical fruit salad, milk.

Junior-Senior High School Breakfast

Shikellamy School District Breakfast

Available Daily: Cereal w/toast, bagels.

Monday - Pancake sausage wrap, juice, milk.

Tuesday - Dutch waffle, juice, milk.

Wednesday - Sausage, egg & cheese on english muffin, juice, milk.

Thursday - French toast sticks w/syrup, juice, milk.

Friday - Scrambled eggs & toast, juice, milk.

Monday - Juice, cereal, fruit, milk.

Tuesday - Juice, cereal, fruit, milk.

Wednesday - Juice, cereal, fruit, milk.

Thursday - Juice, cereal, fruit, milk.

Friday - Juice, cereal, fruit, milk.

Junior-Senior High School Lunch

Elementary Lunch

Line Mountain Elementary Breakfast

High School Lunch

Monday - Sweet & sour chicken over rice w/bread, oriental veggies, pineapple, milk.

Tuesday - Baked potato bar w/bread & crackers, chili, sour cream, cheese, broccoli, blueberries, milk.

Wednesday - Buffalo or plain chicken smackers w/bread, green beans, apple, milk.

Thursday - Burrito bowl, chicken or beef, black or pinto beans, cilantro lime rice, salsa, mandarin oranges, milk.

Friday - Cheesesteak, onions & peppers, peas & carrots, applesauce, milk.

Available Daily: Muffins, cereal w/toast, yogurt w/toast.

Monday - French toast w/syrup or blueberry UBR w/toast, fruit or juice, milk.

Tuesday - Ham, egg & cheese sandwich or sausage & pancake wrap, fruit or juice, milk.

Wednesday - Cinnamon roll or scrambled eggs w/toast, fruit or juice, milk.

Thursday - Breakfast pizza or apple frudal, fruit or juice, milk.

Friday - Dutch waffle or breakfast mini loaf w/toast, fruit or juice, milk.

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Monday - Not Available.

Tuesday - Not Available.

Wednesday - Not Available.

Thursday - Not Available.

Friday - Not Available.

Sandwich of the week: Not Available.

Monday - Not Available.

Tuesday - Not Available.

Wednesday - Not Available.

Thursday - Not Available.

Friday - Not Available.

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Chance of rain 50%.

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The Elysburg Community Auxiliary will be holding a Designer Purse Bingo Sunday at the Elysburg Fire Department banquet hall to offset the cost of the department purchasing a new KME engine/rescue unit.

Shown are members of the department and auxiliary holding Coach, Michael Kors and Kate Spade purses. Doors open at noon with the games starting at 2 p.m. An admission fee of $25 includes 20 games and a wine sample from Shade Mountain Winery. Past fundraisers have raised more than $10,000 for the new unit.

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surveillance video walking two pitbulls on West Willow Street. The video shows the boys walking the dogs on leashes following the cat out of frame, and then shows the pitbulls off of their leashes, chasing the cat onto a porch, where it was attacked.

The boys, in video from across the street, are seen walking up to the porch to leash the dogs. Crum is seen walking the dog off the porch with the cat still in his dog’s jaws. With the leash in his hand, he is seen allowing the dogs to shake and continue to maul the cat before releasing the animal.

Greg Orner, the cat’s owner, contacted Shamokin Patrolman William Miner Thursday, stating he wanted to prosecute those responsible, according to an incident report.

At Crum’s residence, Miner spoke with his moth-

er, Patricia Moore, who he said claimed her dogs were home all evening, and denied her son’s involvement even after being told of the video. She agreed to bring him to the police station at noon Thursday.

Crum and Moore arrived at the station at 2:15 p.m., where animal officer Rich Wright showed them two videos of the incident.

The incident report said Crum stated that he had tried to pull the pitbull off of the cat, but had difficulty because of the dog’s strength. A person can be seen in the video briefly pulling back on the leash.

Crum was informed that charges will be filed. The PA State Dog Warden was expected to visit Moore’s residence to inspect the dog involved in the incident.

Publication of a story on The News-Item’s website Thursday afternoon brought a large and vocal response.

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them in adult jail and ‘unleash, the inmates on them,’” read one post.

“Perfect example of don’t blame the pit bull, blame the owners,” wrote another reader. “They should be prosecuted and never allowed to own another dog.

No good SOBs. My heart goes out to the cat owner.”

Wright said he understands the outrage but asked that people be constructive in reaching out with information if they have it. He can be contacted at 717-226-1575 or at hspowright@gmail.com.

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Goff goes to L.A. Rams with top pick

Eagles take Carson Wentz at No. 2

BY JAY COHEN

Angeles and Philadelphia each made a big trade to get into the draft’s top two slots. It’s the secCHICAGO — Jared Goff is ond straight year two QBs were moving down the West Coast to the first names off the board and Los Angeles. Carson Wentz and the seventh time in the modern his big right arm are moving era of the draft since 1967. from North Dakota to PhiladelAfter the QBs got their hats and phia. exchanged pleasantries with It’s all about the quarterbacks Commissioner Roger Goodell, a at the top of the NFL draft. pair of Ohio State stars made the Goff went No. 1 overall to the Rams on Thursday night for their stroll to the podium. San Diego first pick since they moved to Los grabbed defensive end Joey Bosa at No. 3 with the first real wild Angeles in the offseason, and card of the night, and Dallas Wentz was the No. 2 selection by selected running back Ezekiel the Eagles after a successful Elliott with the fourth pick. career at North Dakota State in Elliott, who rushed for 1,878 the second tier of college football.

There was little doubt about the yards last season, made quite a position of the top picks after Los fashion statement when he AP Sports Writer

showed off his midsection while walking the red carpet before the draft. But his dress shirt under his blue suit was in place by the time he was drafted by the Cowboys.

Florida State cornerback Jalen Ramsey went No. 5 to Jacksonville, and Baltimore selected Notre Dame offensive tackle Ronnie Stanley with the sixth pick.

The 6-foot-4 Goff started every game during his three seasons at California and set school records with 977 completions, 12,220 yards passing and 96 touchdown passes.

The Rams traded with Tennessee to get the pick.

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California’s Jared Goff poses for photos after being selected by the Los Angeles Rams as the first pick in the first round of the 2016 NFL football draft, Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Chicago.

Fiamoncini wins javelin title at Penn Relays of Maci Mazzatesta, Munson, Varano and Little placed 15th in their heat PHILADELPHIA — with a time of 4:34.51.

Mount Carmel Area junior Southern’s 4 x 400 team Maura Fiamoncini added of Gabby Delbo, Madison another laurel to her grow- Klock, Anna Manley and ing list of accomplishments Morgan Cole was 12th in its Thursday, topping a field of heat with a time of 4:34.41.

21 throwers to win the high Shamokin Area high school girls javelin champi- jumper Chris Petraskie is onship at the Penn Relays. scheduled to compete in the Fiamoncini, the second high school boys event Satseed, led the competition urday morning. from her first throw and Postponements went to throw 150 feet, 11 Events postponed Thursinches on her final of six day, with makeup dates if throws. Second place went to Kutztown Area’s Jocelen available: Baseball: Line Mountain Ruth, at 140 feet, 9 inches. at East Juniata; Pine Grove Throwers from PennsylvaArea at North Schuylkill, nia, New Jersey, Connecticut and Jamaica competed. today, 4:30 p.m.

Softball: Jersey Shore at Fiamoncini, last year’s PIAA Class AA silver med- Shamokin, May 2; Pottsville at Lourdes Regional; Newalist in the event, placed port at Line Mountain; Pine fifth at the Penn Relays in Grove Area at North 2015.

Schuylkill, May 10.

Jim Thorpe’s Autumn Cope finished 10th (123-0) and Tamaqua’s Morgan From Wednesday Boyle 11th (120-5).

Baseball Mount Carmel girls also competed in two relays, and Danville 18, Southern Southern Columbia’s girls Columbia 11 (6 in one. Mount Carmel’s 4 x innings) 100 relay team of Olivia CATAWISSA R.R. — DanLubinski, Nicole Varano, ville scored 10 runs in the Madison Munson and BaiLARRY DEKLINSKI/STAFF PHOTO top of the sixth inning, ley Little finished 323rd of Mount Carmel’s Maura Fiamoncini throws the javelin during a track meet after Southern took an 11-8 370 finishing teams with a

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time of 55.75 seconds. The Red Tornadoes’ 4 x 400 team

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Tuesday at the Silver Bowl. The Mount Carmel junior won the high school girls javelin competition at the annual Penn Relays in Philadelphia

Rupp’s hit lifts Phils over Nats for sweep WASHINGTON (AP) — So much for the Washington Nationals’ hot start.

Cameron Rupp hit a tiebreaking, two-run double off Jonathan Papelbon in a three-run ninth inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Nationals 3-0 Thursday to complete a three-game sweep.

Philadelphia has won six of seven and at 12-10 moved two games over .500. The Phillies swept a series in Washington for the first time since May 2009.

“It’s always sweet, especially sweeping these guys in your division,” Rupp said. “A lot of people write us off saying we don’t want to win. That’s not true. We come out here and play.”

Aaron Nola, Dalier Hinojosa, Elvis Araujo (1-0) and Jeanmar Gomez combined on a four-hitter and extended Washington’s scoreless streak to 22 innings.

“The pitching has been the reason why we’re even able to win games,” manager Pete Mackanin said.

Odubel Herrera singled off Felipe Rivero (0-1) opening the ninth and took third on Freddy Galvis’ double.

Maikel Franco was walked intentionally, and Papelbon came in to strike out pinch-hitter Darin Ruf. Rupp hit a drive to deep right that landed over a backpedaling Bryce

sary of his major league debut. The NL MVP struck out against Araujo with two outs and the bases loaded in the eighth.

Nola, 0-1 with a 7.80 ERA in three prior starts versus Washington, gave up two hits and struck out seven in seven innings.

HINOJOSA DAY TO DAY Mackanin said X-rays were negative on RHP Dalier Hinojosa, who took a line drive off his pitching hand in the eighth inning. “We’re just going to go day to day and see how swollen it gets,” Mackanin said.

PITCHING TO HARPER Harper walked five times in the first two games of the series, but Nola challenged him with two outs Philadelphia Phillies’ Odubel Herrera, right, reacts with Freddy and a runner on third in the sixth, Galvis (13) at home after they both scored on a double by getting a groundout. “I mean we Cameron Rupp during the ninth inning against the Washington can’t walk the guy every time,” Nationals, Thursday in Washington. The Phillies won 3-0.

Mackanin said. “Somebody’s got to Harper at the warning track. for his seventh save in seven chanc- be able to get him out, and it’s noth“I’m looking for a pitch up and es — his third in three days — geting to nothing, middle of the game. hit the ball in the air,” Rupp said. ting Jayson Werth to ground into a I want to give our pitcher credit to “Keep the ball off the ground.” game-ending double play. get good hitters out.”

David Lough’s run-scoring single “If somebody told me we’d start BAKER ON HARPER’S ANNIboosted the lead off 14-7, I’d be very, very happy,” VERSARY “I saw myself working my way Nationals manager Dusty Baker out of that situation,” Papelbon “When he got here he was over said. “We kind of spoiled everysaid. “I really did. I felt real confibody by starting the way we did, so matched a little bit in the begindent getting out of that situation ning, which is usual, and then he we’ll get it back together.” and picking us up there, bases loadIn a game delayed by 36 minutes PHILLIES, Page 12 ed, no outs.” at the start because of rain, Harper Gomez pitched a one-hit ninth went 1 for 4 on the fourth anniverNICK WEISS/AP PHOTO

NCAA scraps ban on satellite camps

BY ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors scrapped a proposed ban on satellite camps Thursday, rebuffing a request from powerhouse conferences in the South and clearing the way for coaches to hold and work at clinics far from their campuses this summer.

The decision won’t end the debate that centered on whether the camps are just another recruiting tool: The board also asked the Division I Council to conduct a broad assessment of the entire college football recruiting model in coming months, and that could bring modifications to how the camps are run and who can take part.

The council approved a ban three weeks ago prohibiting Bowl Subdivision coaches from holding or working at camps and clinics away from their schools.

The camps had drawn a high profile after Jim Harbaugh and his Michigan staff held camps in the South last summer and he was among the first to praise the board’s decision.

“Good news,” Harbaugh said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “It’s good for prospective student-athletes, fans, coaches and competition.”

The Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference sponsored the proposal that created the ban, but there was an outcry from coaches who contend satellite camps provide opportunities for un-recruited athletes to be noticed by high-profile coaches and possibly receive scholarships.

“While we are disappointed with the NCAA governance process result, we respect the Board of Directors’ decision and are confident SEC football programs will continue to be highly effective in their recruiting efforts,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said.

The SEC had warned it would lift its ban on satellite camp participation without an NCAA-wide prohibition. The SEC and ACC both said their coaches will now be allowed to participate in the camps.

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Numidia set for busy racing weekend With April drawing to a close this weekend, plenty of racing action is on tap throughout the racing area.

In drag racing action, Numidia Dragway hosts a three-day weekend of quarter-mile action, beginning tonight with street legal drags, NHRA Summit Series points race and the Bob Mackey Memorial Street Series event Saturday and NHRA Summit Series points races on Sunday at the Columbia County facility.

Ford fans have plenty of options this weekend as Beaver Springs Dragway hosts its 4th Annual FE Ford Reunion this weekend, while Maple Grove Raceway presents the 16th Annual NMRA Ford Motorsports Nationals, today through Sunday.

Both events are favorites of the blue oval gang, and offer plenty of racing action.

Local drag racers fared well over the past weekend. Brandon Cox scored the Street class victory, while fellow Elysburg driver,

IN THE PITS Jason Vought was a semifinalist at Numidia, and Joey Krushinskie took the Super Pro crown at Beaver Springs Dragway.

Following last weekend’s Four Wide Nationals at KAMINSKI zMAX Dragway outside of Charlotte, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads to Houston, for the sixth of 24 events on the 2016 slate, presenting the 29th Annual Springnationals at Royal Purple Raceway.

Brittany Force collected her second consecutive Top Fuel win, while Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car), Jason Line (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (P/S Bike) were winners.

Fox Sports1 will offer one hour of qualifying tonight at 8 p.m., one hour of qualifying action Saturday evening at 10 and three

hours of eliminations coverage at 5 p.m. on Sunday. Doug Kalitta (Top Fuel), Ron Capps (Funny Car) and Erica Enders (Pro Stock) were 2015 Springnationals winners.

Big Diamond Speedway offers a four division show tonight, with the 358 modifieds, sportsman, roadrunners and street stocks in action at the Minersville oval. New Jersey drivers Ryan Godown (mods) and Brandon Grosso (sportsman) lead the early season point standings in their respective divisions, while Andrew Fayash III is the roadrunner leader....Williams Grove Speedway welcomes the United Racing Club (URC) sprint car series to the track tonight, joining the 410 sprint cars for an early season, open wheel doubleheader....Plenty of racing action is scattered across the map tomorrow, as Lincoln Speedway presents the Sterner Memorial for the 410 sprint cars, along with the 358 sprint cars and All American

Outlaw stocks....Port Royal Speedway hosts the 410 sprint cars, late models and 305 sprints....Grandview Speedway hosts the NASCAR modifieds, sportsman and limited late models.

Frank Cozze scored the modified win last Saturday night at the Bechtelsville oval. The veteran driver is 60 years old....Susquehanna Speedway hosts Kid’s Night tonight, along with a four division show of winged super sportsman, ARDC Midgets, extreme stocks and road warriors....On the paved side of racing, Mahoning Valley Speedway hosts their six division show of modifieds, late models, street stocks, dirt mods, pro 4 cylinders and hobby stocks. The American Three Quarter Midget Racing Association (ATQMRA) and small car enduro are also part of the action at the Lehighton area oval....Hagerstown Speedway is off this weekend, following last week’s Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series event, won by Greg

Satterlee....Woodhull Raceway, just west of Watkins Glen kicks off the 2016 season at their 1/3 mile clay oval, with a six division show if modifieds, crate sportsman, limited late models, street stocks, mini stocks, front wheel drive and warriors.....Sunday action finds Five Mile Point Speedway hosting the Patriot Sprint Tour Series along with the crate sportsman, street stocks, IMCA mods, factory stocks and 600cc mods, starting at 5 p.m.....Lastly, Fred Rahmer Promotions kicks off the first “Party at the Path” event of 2016, with the 410 sprint cars and 600cc micro sprints at Path Valley Speedway, in Spring Run. Rahmer and Company have always added plenty of activities for the fans, and a pre-race truck and tractor pull will start off the action on Sunday afternoon.

Joe Kaminski covers area auto racing for The NewsItem.

Eagles claim quarterback Carson Wentz

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Tupac’s “California Love” took over the speakers at the downtown Chicago theater when Goff went No. 1.

“It’s a good spot for me and for my family to come watch games,” Goff said.

“Very excited to get down there and get to work.”

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two seasons and didn’t face big-time competition.

Bradford did not report PHILADELPHIA — for voluntary workouts this From Fargo to Philly, Carweek and agent Tom Conson Wentz is the latest quar- don has requested a trade.

Wentz led the Bison to terback the Eagles hope Bradford’s contract their fifth consecutive FCS will deliver the franchise’s includes $22 million guarchampionship in January. first Super Bowl. anteed. The Eagles also He passed for 1,651 yards The Eagles selected the signed Chase Daniel to a $21 and 17 touchdowns during North Dakota State quarter- million, three-year deal to his senior year that was back with the No. 2 overall be the backup. Daniel’s deal shortened by a broken right pick in the NFL draft on includes $12 million guarwrist.

Thursday night after tradanteed. ing up twice to get the pick Philadelphia acquired If Philadelphia trades from Cleveland. the No. 2 selection in a trade Bradford, another team A potential franchise with Cleveland last Wedneswould only pay him $7 milquarterback was Philadelday. lion this season. The Eagles phia’s goal when it moved would incur an $11 million It’s the first openLARRY DEKLINSKI/STAFF PHOTO from No. 13 to No. 8 to No. 2 salary-cap hit for Bradford’s ing-round quarterback for AREA Services bowling team was recently crowned champions of the 2015to get in position to select signing bonus. the Eagles since they Wentz is the first quartergrabbed Donovan McNabb 2016 Tuesday Night League held at the Loyal Order of Moose Lodge 1149, Jared Goff or Wentz despite Shamokin. Team members are, from left, Ray Koshinskie, Tom Kondisko, signing Sam Bradford to a back from North Dakota with the No. 2 pick in the $36 million, two-year conTerri Snyder, Sonny Myers, Judy Snyder, Glenn Snyder and David Friday.

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1999 draft. tract in March.

He’s the first quarterback The 6-foot-5 Wentz led the chosen by the Eagles in the Bison to their fifth consecu- first round since 1999, when tive FCS title last season.

Andy Reid took Donovan He passed for 1,651 yards McNabb at No. 2 overall. and 17 touchdowns during McNabb led Philadelphia to FROM PAGE 11 five NFC championship coach like Harbaugh draw- thoughtful and comprehen- his senior year that was ing attention in SEC counsive approach to addressing shortened by a wrist injury. games and one Super Bowl marily an activity best Wentz only started his final appearance. try with his Florida camps football recruiting.” focused in high schools helped put the issue on the during thePennsylvanians. established Earlier this week,Every WashBenefits Older Pennsylvanians. Every Day. Benefits Older Every Day. Benefits Older Pennsylvanians. Every Day. Benefits Older Pennsylvanians.

Day. front burner for the NCAA. ington State coach Mike recruiting calendar, which has provided opportunities Leach said he had hoped The Big Ten and Pac-12 for football prospective stu- had expected the camp the camps would be allowed dent-athletes from all across issue to be dealt with as and give athletes a chance 8-2 the country to obtain broad part of a comprehensive to be seen by more coaches. national access and expooverhaul of recruiting, but “The only reason that sure but with appropriate the SEC and ACC comthey could possibly be 6-4-1 guidance from high school pelled the council to act on against satellite camps is coaches, teachers and advis- the camps alone. The Big for some selfish motivation ers,” Sankey said.

Ten turned out to be the of locking other schools out 7-9-9-7 The board also directed only Power Five conference of the opportunity to see the council to take a deeper in the D-I Council to oppose their players,” he said. “If look at FBS recruiting, with the ban when the vote was we’re going to be a national 0-7-0initial recommendations taken April 8. sport, recruiting and 0-2 due by Sept. 1. recruiting opportunity The Big 12 and Pac-12 “The Board of Directors need to be on a national 1-8-17joined the SEC and ACC in is interested in a holistic scale as well.”

19-37 voting for the ban, even review of the football Council Chairman Jim though a significant numrecruiting environment, 10-16-17ber of coaches within those Phillips, a board member and camps are a piece of and athletic director at 22-47-48 conferences favored satelthat puzzle,” said Chairman AFTERNOON lite camps. Pac-12 Commis- Northwestern, said the Harris Pastides, president board’s directives will give sioner Larry Scott later AFTERNOON AFTERNOON AFTERNOON of the University of South said the conference’s repre- the council an opportunity Carolina. “We share the PHOTO COURTESY OF ANA DITCHEY to look at recruiting in a sentative did not vote the council’s interest in Mount Carmel’s Maura Fiamoncini stands on the league’s position in backing more thorough way. improving the camp envi0-9 podium after placing first at the Penn Relays in the ban.

“It’s clear that the memronment, and we support Philadelphia Thursday. bership has differing views “We are pleased with the council’s efforts to creon this subject,” Phillips today’s decision by the ate a model that emphasizes 2-8-5 the scholastic environment NCAA Board to rescind the said. “This review will provide an opportunity to idenban on satellite camps and as an appropriate place for tify the most effective ways ask the Division I Council recruiting future stu0-8-4-7 prospective student-athletes to review the situation dent-athletes.” can have their academic more broadly,” Scott said RBIs, run, sacrifice; Travis Webb, 2-forFROM PAGE 11 Opponents of the camps and athletic credentials 4, home run, 2 RBIs, 3 runs; FausThursday. “This is the outlead with eight runs in naught, 2-for-4, RBI, run, stolen base; say they are simply recruit- come our conference pre3-8-2evaluated by schools across Colton Riley, 2-for-5, 3 RBIs, 2 runs; the bottom of the fifth ing events held outside the 2-6 Strausser, 2-for-3, run, stolen base; ferred, and we now look for- the country.” inning. official recruiting calendar ward to working with the Kozick, 2-for-3, 2 runs; Marty Klena, 1-for-4, 2 runs.

Liam Weaver had three 2-16-19- and the sight of a Big Ten council to develop a more Southern Columbia: Young, 4-for-4, hits, and Travis Webb add3 RBIs, run, 2 stolen bases; Marks, 23-29 ed two, including a two-run 2-for-4, RBI, run; Jared Torres, 1-for-4, double, 2 RBIs, run; Steve ToczyTonight’s estimated jackpot homer in the sixth. lousky, 2-for-3, 2 runs, 2 stolen basCam Young was 4-for-4 for the MegaMillions drawing es; Jacob Potter, 2-for-3, double, RBI, 2 runs, stolen base. with three runs batted in is $118 million. for Southern (1-10). Blake Mount Carmel 3, FROM PAGE 11 opener against Cleveland.

Anthony Rendon from his Marks, Jacob Potter and Bloomsburg 1 Nationals: Stephen Strasstarting lineup, using Matt figured it out. He figured Steve Toczylousky all had burg (3-0, 2.17), the top pick den Dekker in center and it out in a hurry,” Baker BLOOMSBURG — Bret two hits each. said. “He actually figured it Stephen Drew at third. Ren- in the 2009 amateur draft, is Danville ....................... 010 70(10) -- 18-17-3 Williams pitched a comdon pinch hit in the eighth. to start Friday at St. Louis Southern .......................... 030 080 -- 11-11-5 out quicker than Barry plete game, striking out 16 against Mike Leake (0-2, Shane Kozick, Alex Robenolt (5), for Mount Carmel, and also Bonds did.”

UP NEXT Braeden Fausnaught (5) and Joe 5.64), taken by Cincinnati Strausser. Tyler Tomaschik, Andrew hit a two-run home run.

TRAINER’S ROOM Phillies: Adam Morgan with the eighth pick that Haupt (4), Blake Marks (6), Dustin Tyler Thompson also had WE BUY CARS (0-0) is likely to be called up June.

Nationals: Baker rested Chaundy (6) and Cam Young. two hits.

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Rested Sharks face Predators in 2nd round series after winning the first two games in AnaAP Sports Writer heim. They lost three straight following that SAN JOSE, Calif. — before rallying for two wins Since the San Jose Sharks to take the series in seven last played a game, the games with a 2-1 victory Nashville Predators fell Wednesday night. behind Anaheim in their They took a little time to first-round series with a celebrate in Anaheim Game 5 loss and then before taking the short responded with two flight to the Bay Area on straight wins to eliminate Thursday. They won’t even the Ducks.

While the Predators have have time for a full practice before Game 1 begins. played three grueling “It’s going to turn around games and taken two long quick, so we’ve got to realflights, the Sharks have been resting and practicing ize that we’re moving on for six days and are eager to and we’ve still got a lot of work left to do,” defensemget back on the ice when an Shea Weber said. “It’s a their second-round series opens against Nashville on step. We’ve got a lot of work left to do. Enjoy it for a couFriday night. ple of minutes and start to “I don’t think we have to get ramped back up,” coach focus on San Jose.”

That extra time off hasn’t Peter DeBoer said Thursalways benefited the day. “I’m guessing that I’m Sharks, who have lost their probably going to have to calm them down a little bit. past four playoff series after having at least five They’re ready to go. days off between rounds.

They’ve got some pent up Here are some other energy here after four or things to watch in the secfive days sitting around watching, and they want to ond-round series: IN THE NETS: After Pekplay. I don’t think our enerka Rinne allowed 11 goals in gy is going to be an issue. I three straight losses to Anathink it’s just going to be getting that composure and heim that put Nashville in a 3-2 hole, there were some working smart.”

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said. “Their power play is really good.”

The Predators had less success in the first round with just one power-play goal on 26 chances against the Ducks for a leagueworst 3.8 percent conversion rate in the first round.

ROAD-ICE ADVANTAGE: Opening the series at home is not exactly an advantage for the Sharks, who won a league-high 28 road games in the regular season and swept all three games in Los Angeles in the first round. The Predators also proved they can play well away from home, winCHRIS CARLSON/AP PHOTO ning three of four in AnaNashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne blocks a shot during Game 7 heim, including the Game 7 clincher. against the Anaheim Ducks in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday.

GOOD LUCK CHARM: thing coach Peter Laviolette 11 goals in five games to Los go along with 48 assists.

Nashville forward Craig stuck with Rinne. He Angeles.

SPECIAL TEAMS: The Smith played a key role in stopped 62 of 64 shots in the HIGH-SCORING D: Led Sharks rely heavily on their the opening round, getting final two games, once again by 61 points from Roman power play, with an experia goal and an assist in the looking like a three-time Josi and 51 more from enced five-man top unit Game 2 win. Smith then got Vezina Trophy finalist.

Weber, the Predators got anchored by Burns, Joe hurt early in Game 3 and “He’s a goalie that can more offense from their Thornton and Joe Pavelski. also missed the two losses steal games,” Sharks fordefense than almost any San Jose ranked third in that followed. He returned ward Logan Couture said. team in the NHL, tying Cal- the NHL with a 22.5 percent to play the final two games “He’s proven that over his gary with a league-best 203 success rate in the regular and the Predators were 4-0 career.” points from the blue line in season and added five goals in the first round when he San Jose’s Martin Jones the regular season. The on 21 chances (23.8 percent) was healthy. has much less of a pedigree Sharks were next on the list against the Kings.

AP Hockey Writer Greg in his first year as a starter. with 179 points from their “Their top players are Beacham in Anaheim But he outplayed his former defense led by All-Star some of the top players in contributed to this stablemate Jonathan Quick Brent Burns, who led all the league, and really danreport. in the first round, allowing defensemen with 27 goals to gerous individuals,” Rinne

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CALENDAR Shamokin-Coal Township Juvenile Sports Association The Shamokin-Coal Township Youth Football League (Shamokin White Team & Shamokin Grey Team) will hold cheerleader and player registrations (grades K thru 7th) on Saturday, May 14th from noon to 4:00 pm at the Claude Kehler Community Park (Third & Arch Streets in Shamokin).

Registration fee only $5.00. Any questions call (570) 259-8423.

Mt. Carmel Jr. Baseball meeting There will be a meeting of the Mt. Carmel Area Jr. Baseball League on Sunday, April 24th at 6:00 pm at the Anthracite Fire Co. in Mt. Carmel.

Final plans for the league opening will be made. Teams are required to turn in fundraiser money, player contracts, rosters, and clearance papers at this meeting.

Umpires needed Anyone interested in umpiring in the Mt. Camel Jr. Baseball League should contact League Umpire-in-Chief Phil Rosko at (570) 339-3392, or (570) 716-1176.

Slugfest on the Island 10U Tournament A 10U baseball tournament is being held Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29 at the Island Park Complex in Schuylkill Haven. Teams can register for a charge of $300, with three games being guaranteed. For more information, contact Dan Quick at (570) 875-7712.

SCHEDULE Friday, April 29 Baseball Bloomsburg at Shamokin, 4:30 p.m.

Hughesville at Mount Carmel, 4:30 p.m.

Softball Southern Columbia at Bloomsburg, TBD Track and Field Southern Columbia at Pine Grove Invitational, 3 p.m.

Saturday, April 30 Softball Williams Valley at Shamokin, 11 a.m.

Shikellamy at Line Mountain, TBD MMI Prep at Lourdes Regional, 11 a.m.

Track and Field Shamokin at Lock Haven University Invitational, 10 a.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Minnesota Twins OF Reynaldo Rodriguez (Rochester-IL) 80 games, without pay, following a positive test for metabolites of Stanozolol, a performance-enhancing substance in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed RHP David Robertson on the bereavement list. Recalled INF Carlos Sanchez from Charlotte (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Placed RHP Shane Greene on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 25.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed RHP Huston Street on the 15-day DL. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Placed C Miguel Montero on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 25. Selected the contract of C Tim Federowicz from Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Layne Somsen to Louisville (IL). Activated RF Jay Bruce from the paternity list.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Selected the contract of INF Hernan Perez from Colorado Springs (PCL). Transferred RHP Matt Garza from the 15- to the 60-day DL. Placed 2B Scooter Gennett on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 25.

American Association SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed RHPs Graham Johnson and Jason Townsend.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed RHP Lee Sosa.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed C Bryan DeLaRosa. Released RHP Chad Robinson.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed LHP Ryan Bollinger. Released OF Craig Hertler.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed RHP Keith Patton and C T. J. Wharton.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed LHP Brett Zawacki to a contract extension.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed RHP Braulio Ortiz, OF Chris Pagliarulo and LHP David Stagg.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed RHP Preston Jamison, C James Keller and OF Fernelys Sanchez.

FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived DB Damarr Aultman, WRs Tyler Davis and Robert Herron and DT Robert Thomas II. Released LB Terrell Manning.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed DE Tavaris Barnes and TE Brandon Williams.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DE Adrain Hubbard and DB Arthur Williams. Released DB Troy Stoudermire, WRs Jhomo Gordon and Spencer Davis and DLs Chase Vaughn and Leon Mackey.

HOCKEY National Hockey League TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Announced a six-year affiliation extension with Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Released Ds Ryan Rehill and Colton White and F Blake Speers from their ATOs. SAN DIEGO GULLS — Announced Ds Marcus Pettersson and Shea Theodore, RW Nick Sorensen and C Chris Wagner have been assigned to the team by Anaheim (NHL). Signed D Jacob Larsson to an ATO. COLLEGE CALIFORNIA — Named Tim O’Toole men’s assistant basketball coach.

CHATTANOOGA — Signed women’s basketball coach Jim Foster to a one-year contract extension and men’s basketball coach Matt McCall to a two-year contract extension.

IDAHO — Announced it will drop to the Football Championship Subdivision beginning in 2018 and will join the Big Sky Conference, pending approval from the Idaho State Board of Education.

LOYOLA NO — Named Nick Dodson men’s and women’s cross country/track and field coach.

TEXAS — Named Jamie Carey women’s assistant basketball coach.

TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY — Named Kenya Crandell men’s assistant basketball coach.

UTICA — Named Sean Coffey men’s basketball coach.

ON THIS DATE April 29 1901 — His Eminence, ridden by Jimmy Winkfield, wins the Kentucky Derby by 1 1/2 lengths over Sannazarro in the only Derby ever raced in April.

1961 — ABC’s “Wide World of Sports,” debuts.

1970 — Los Angeles Lakers guard Jerry West hits a 60-foot desperation shot at the buzzer to tie Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks. The Knicks outscore the Lakers 9-6 in the overtime for a 111-108 win.

1985 — Tony Tubbs captures the WBA heavyweight title with a unanimous 15-round decision over Greg Page in Buffalo, N.Y. 1986 — Roger Clemens set a major league record by striking out 20 batters as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Seattle Mariners 3-1.

1988 — The Baltimore Orioles end their 21-game losing streak by winning their first game of the season, 9-0 over the Chicago White Sox. 1990 — Pat Riley becomes the winningest coach in NBA playoff history as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Houston Rockets 104-100. Riley’s 100th victory put him ahead of Red Auerbach.

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Ducks dug too many holes to crawl from ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Anaheim Ducks began the season by falling far behind in the standings.

They fell behind again in the first round of the playoffs.

It happened one last time in Game 7.

The Ducks rallied splendidly all season long, but finally ran out of comebacks in their final loss to Nashville. A talented team spent too much time scrambling out of trouble, and the current core might be out of chances.

Anaheim captain Ryan Getzlaf recognized the pattern in the aftermath of the Ducks’ 2-1 home loss to the Predators on Wednesday night.

“We were playing catchup the whole game, the whole series and all year,” Getzlaf said. “It came back to bite us here at the end.”

Until the final flop, there was much to like about the Ducks’ fifth season under coach Bruce Boudreau.

They won their fourth consecutive Pacific Division title with a spectacular second half of the season, going 34-10-5 after the holiday break in their third straight 100-point performance. They had the NHL’s best power play and its best penalty kill, while goalies Frederik Andersen and John Gibson won the franchise’s first Jennings Trophy behind the league’s stingiest defense.

But NHL success is conventionally defined by the postseason, and the Ducks

again came up wanting in a seven-game series.

Anaheim’s season ended in a Game 7 on home ice for the fourth consecutive year, erasing most of the good feelings from four months of progress.

“I thought we were going to win this, for sure,” said forward Andrew Cogliano, one of four Ducks to play in all four Game 7 defeats. “I thought we had the guys to push us through. I thought we had a great mindset. It didn’t feel like years before at all, and I thought we played that way. We just couldn’t put it in.”

General manager Bob Murray showed remarkable patience when he didn’t fire his coaching staff or make big trades after the Ducks’ 1-7-2 start. He was rewarded with a spectacular second half by his team.

But after the earliest end to Anaheim’s season since 2013, Murray’s patience will be tested even more.

By most measures, Boudreau is among the world’s top hockey coaches. He has won eight division titles in nine seasons with Washington and Anaheim, never allowing his teams to finish anywhere but first place while coaching a full season. The Ducks lead the NHL in regular-season points over the past four seasons, which all ended with division banners.

But even Boudreau realizes the weight of his postseason struggles on his reputation, no matter how much they deserve to fall on

the players. The Ducks have won just three playoff rounds in four postseasons under Boudreau, twice taking the eventual Stanley Cup champion to seven games before falling at home.

“I just come to work every day until I’m told not to come to work,” Boudreau said. “The playoffs are a tough thing. There are 16 really good teams, and especially in the West, any of those eight teams that made it were good enough to win it.”

Boudreau’s biggest problem was that the Ducks’ best skaters didn’t get results against Nashville.

Corey Perry and Jakob Silfverberg were held without a goal in the seven-game series. Getzlaf and Ryan Kesler couldn’t coax any even-strength goals out of their lines in the final two games.

But those four veterans are all signed to long-term contracts, so if Murray is determined to make big changes, moving Boudreau would be much easier than breaking up Anaheim’s core.

The Ducks’ toughest personnel decisions could concern their restricted free agents, who comprise an impressive group of talent: Andersen, forwards Rickard Rakell and Brandon Pirri, and defensemen Hampus Lindholm and Sami Vatanen. Anaheim also could lose valuable midseason acquisitions David Perron and Jamie

Raiders owner wooing Vegas

BY TIM DAHLBERG AP Sports Writer

LAS VEGAS — Mark Davis was beaming as he posed with fans behind a black and silver “Las Vegas Raiders” banner. He made a few jokes before delivering a $500 million commitment to a new stadium in the city for his team.

Then the owner of the Raiders got serious about the prospects of getting fellow NFL owners to allow him to move from Oakland to a city the league has long shunned because it has legal sports betting.

“Let’s give them an offer they can’t refuse,” Davis said. “They’re going to approve it based on that.”

Little more than an idea a few months ago, the possibility of the Raiders moving to Las Vegas inched a bit closer to reality Thursday when Davis appeared before a stadium commission to not only pledge to move the Raiders to the city, but put $500 million into the $1.4 billion facility that would house the team.

He talked about building on the legacy of his father, the late Al Davis, and finally giving the team a new stadium to match those of the richer teams in the league. He insisted he wasn’t trying to use Las Vegas as a bargaining chip, and spoke of a “lifetime” commitment to the city.

“We need a home. We need a stadium,” Davis said. “That’s what Las Vegas is going to provide us and it’s going to be a great marriage.”

At times during the meeting of the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee, it looked like the marriage had already begun. There were few pointed questions from committee members, and at one point Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman was gushing in her love and support for the team.

It all made for good theater, and created even more momentum for billionaire casino operator Sheldon Adelson’s plan to land the team. NFL owners in the past have expressed interest and made commitments to move to other cities, but Davis was attaching a $500 million investment along with his plan.

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Man indicted in fatal shooting of ex-Saint Smith

BY JANET MCCONNAUGHEY AND KEVIN MCGILL Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — A business owner and semiprofessional football player was indicted Thursday on a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of retired New Orleans Saints’ defensive end Will Smith.

Cardell Hayes was also indicted on a charge of attempted second-degree murder because police say he wounded Smith’s wife in the shooting. Hayes and Smith got into an argument after Hayes’s Hummer hit Smith’s Mercedes SUV from behind on April 9, police said. Smith’s wife was in the passenger seat at the time.

Hayes’ defense lawyer John Fuller has said Hayes was not the aggressor and that a witness saw a gun in Smith’s possession. Police say a loaded gun was found in Smith’s vehicle.

A lawyer for Smith’s family, Peter Thomson, insists Smith never brandished or carried it. Thomson has described Hayes as

“enraged” during the altercation and portrayed his clients as the victims.

Smith was shot seven times in the back and once along his side, the coroner said. His wife, Racquel, was shot twice in the legs but survived.

Hayes was also indicted on charges of aggravated assault and aggravated damage to property. He has pleaded not guilty and his bond has been set at $1.75 million.

Smith was heralded as a leader on the Saints team that rebounded with the hurricane-stricken city and won the Super Bowl after the 2009 season. He stayed in the area after his 2012 retirement and was active with various charities in his adopted city.

The indictment was handed down during a preliminary hearing on whether police had enough evidence to keep Hayes in jail, where he has been since the shooting. With the indictment, prosecutors will likely be able to keep some evidence closer to the vest rather than presenting it during a preliminary hearing.

(Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)

An April 10, 2016, file photo provided by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office shows Cardell Hayes. Prosecutors will have to present witnesses against Hayes, who accused of killing retired New Orleans Saints player Will Smith, at a hearing Thursday, April 28, unless a grand jury indicts him first. Police say Cardell Hayes shot the star defensive end and Smith’s wife late April 9, killing Smith and hitting Racquel Smith in both legs.

During the preliminary hearing, Fuller accused prosecutors of trying to “jam an indictment down our throats” by trying to take Hayes to a grand jury proceeding when they knew that Fuller and his co-counsel would be in court on other matters.

After the hearing, Fuller

said he had represented thousands of people and participated in hundreds of preliminary hearings.

“This is the only one where someone was indicted in the middle of a preliminary hearing,” he said.

Dane Ciolino, a criminal law professor at Loyola Uni-

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New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith appears before an NFL football game against the New York Giants in East Rutherford, N.J. , in 2012.

Prosecutors will have to present witnesses against the man accused of killing retired New Orleans Saints player Will Smith at a hearing Thursday, April 28, 2016 unless a grand jury indicts him first. versity-New Orleans, said in an email: “It is most unusual but not unprecedented.”

Fuller said he asked prosecutors last week to let Hayes speak to a grand jury and got a hand-delivered response two days ago setting his appearance at 9 a.m. Thursday — a time

that he said prosecutors knew he couldn’t be with Hayes.

Hayes owns a tow truck company and last year played in a semiprofessional league. His attorney has repeatedly pointed out that Hayes stayed at the scene of the shooting until police arrived.

Tilden: A tennis hero, but with a morals clause Germantown club wrestles with star’s legacy

BY KRISTEN DE GROOT Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — In the 1920s and 1930s, Bill Tilden was to tennis what Babe Ruth was to baseball.

Honoring him with a historical marker should be an ace — if not for questions about his conduct with teenage boys.

Tilden’s athletic accomplishments are hard to overstate. He became the first American to win Wimbledon in 1920, won seven U.S. championships, triumphed at Wimbledon twice more and maintained his prowess on the court for decades. The Associated Press voted him the greatest player of the first half of the century in 1950, and he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1959.

A group is pushing for a historical marker at Philadelphia’s Germantown Cricket Club, his home court. But his mixed legacy has raised roadblocks, especially in a state where the sex abuse scandal involving another sports figure, Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky, still reverberates.

The panel that approves historical markers voted down Tilden’s nomination in March, 4-1.

“Tilden’s accomplishments in tennis are unquestioned,” the panel wrote.

But his criminal history led them to deny approval.

“The climate about this type of sexual misconduct is too fresh in the minds of Pennsylvanians,” Karen Galle, coordinator of the state’s historical marker program, told the AP. Tilden was arrested in Beverly Hills, California, in November 1946, after a 14-year-old boy was caught

driving the star’s car erratically. Officers pulled them over, and when the teen exited the car, police said, his pants zipper was down.

Police charged Tilden with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and he served seven months in jail. He was arrested again in 1949 on allegations that he violated probation by being in the company of another teen boy, and that he groped a third teen. He served 10 months at a prison farm.

In his heyday, “Big Bill” Tilden’s dominance on the court was featured regularly in magazines, newspapers and newsreels. Born to a wealthy Philadelphia family, he was friends with Hollywood elite like Charlie Chaplin and Errol Flynn, was a guest of the Duke of York at Buckingham Palace and played at the White House at the invitation of President Warren Harding.

He’s credited with urging children of all economic backgrounds to learn tennis, once a sport only for the wealthy. Modern players still value his manuals on how to play.

A character based on him even appears in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.” Lolita takes lessons from an aging, gay tennis legend named Ned Litam (an anagram of sorts for Tilden) who surrounds himself with a “harem of ball boys.”

After his convictions, Tilden’s Germantown membership was revoked, and his portrait was removed.

When Robert Couch became club historian in the 1980s, there was no trace of Tilden.

“Everything you see in this club, I got on eBay,” he said.

Blackie Sherrod, longtime sports writer, dead at 96 DALLAS (AP) — Blackie Sherrod, the longtime Texas sportswriter and mentor to some of the nation’s top writers, has died at his Dallas home. He was 96.

Wife Joyce Sherrod told The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/1N3TQLi) her husband died Thursday afternoon after a week in hospice care.

Sherrod was Texas Sportswriter of the Year a record 16 times and a Red Smith Award winner for lifetime achievement in sports writing.

After World War II service as a Navy tail gunner, Sherrod was sports editor at the now-defunct Fort Worth Press where he cultivated the nascent talents of authors Dan Jenkins and Edwin “Bud” Shrake. He took his popular column to the now-defunct Dallas Times-Herald in 1958 and The Dallas Morning News in 1985 before retiring in 2003.

Tilden died of a heart attack in 1953 at 60. The only public reference to him in Philadelphia is at Ivy Hill Cemetery, with a marker reading “William T. Tilden 2nd. 1893-1953.”

As years passed, the club began to embrace Tilden’s memory. His portrait reappeared, and the catering service now offers a “Tilden Dinner Buffet Package.”

A group of Philadelphians worked on the historical marker application for more than a year, compiling letters from tennis clubs, historians, former Wimbledon winners and newspaper clippings.

“He’s the most forgotten of America’s athletes,” said Allen Hornblum, a member of the marker effort who’s working on a Tilden biography.

Vic Seixas, who won Wimbledon in 1953 and at 92 is the oldest living Grand Slam singles champion, submitted a letter.

“He was undoubtedly the greatest tennis player of his time, if not all time,” said Seixas, speaking by phone from Mill Valley, California.

The group plans to reapply later this year.

Sports writer Frank Deford, whose articles about Tilden for Sports Illustrated later became a biography, said that the state’s rejection is short-sighted and that a Tilden memorial is long overdue.

“Should those two arrests outweigh everything he did as a tennis player?” said Deford, speaking by phone from Key West, Florida. “It just seems like a certain amount of charity and forgiveness would play into this.”

Tilden retains his place

in the Tennis Hall of Fame.

In April, the hall took an unprecedented step in expelling Grand Slam doubles champion Bob Hewitt, who was convicted in South Africa last year of rape and sexual assault.

Tilden wouldn’t be the only subject of a Pennsylvania historical marker with a criminal background.

Joseph Huston’s marker highlights his work as architect of the state Capitol but doesn’t mention his conviction for accepting bribes for work on the building.

But crime involving children “is a touchy subject that people want to stay away from,” said Jaime Schultz, a sports historian at Penn State. “It’s especially hard in the state of Pennsylvania.”

Sandusky was Penn State’s defensive football coach for decades under Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno. He was convicted in 2012 of the sexual abuse of 10 boys. He was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison but maintains his innocence and has filed an appeal.

The scandal led to firings, fines, lawsuits, the suspension of the football program and Paterno’s wins being vacated for a time. Penn State also removed a statue of Paterno in 2012. The school’s president said it would be a “recurring wound” to victims of sexual abuse, even though Paterno hadn’t committed any crime.

But what the public is willing to forgive changes, Schultz said.

“Memorials are so complicated,” she said. “It’s about so much more than the individual.”

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Allen Hornblum, left, and Robert Couch pose for a photograph at the gate of the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia. Hornblum and Couch are seeking to have a historic marker placed at the entrance of the club to honor tennis player Bill Tilden. “He’s the most forgotten of America’s athletes,” said Allen Hornblum, a member of the marker effort who’s working on a Tilden biography.

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FILE - In this April 1930 file photo, Bill Tilden trains on Rot Weiss grounds at Grunewald near Berlin, Germany. A group is pushing for a historical marker touting the accomplishments of tennis great Bill Tilden at Philadelphia’s Germantown Cricket Club, but hit a roadblock over questions about the star’s conduct with teenage boys.

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Admitted hypochondriac seeks cure for fear of death

Dear Abby: I’m a hypochondriac. I am currently waiting on the biopsy results for a mole I had removed. Right now I’m worried and miserable. I feel guilty for what I’m putting my husband through. I want to get therapy, but doing that feels like admitting I’m too weak to handle my problems myself. My husband thinks he’s a bad husband because he can’t help me.

This isn’t the first time I have worked myself up over a medical condition I may or may not have, and it won’t be the last. How can I deal with my fear of dying from something horrible without damaging my relationship with my husband? Can hypochondria be cured? It’s starting to take over my life. ­— Hypochondriac In The South Dear Hypochondriac: It’s a wise person who seeks help for a problem that’s ruining the quality of his or her life. You should definitely discuss your fear of dying with a licensed mental health professional. To do that isn’t “weak” ­— it’s the opposite.

Dear Abby: My son is getting married in the fall and we’re all looking forward to the celebration. There’s just one problem. My daughter will be in the wedding and the bridesmaids’ dresses are strapless. She will look beautiful in the dress, but she adopted a “hippy lifestyle” a year ago and stopped shaving her armpits.

The bride-to-be asked me how to approach her to request that she remove her armpit hair on the day of the wedding. Is there a tactful way to approach this without offending my daughter and possibly causing bad feelings between her and the bride? ­— Unsure In New Jersey Dear Unsure: I would discourage you

from doing that. Although every bride wants her wedding to be “perfect,” there’s a point at which she must realize there are some things she can’t control. An example of where that boundary should be drawn would be at her bridesmaids’ armpits. During a formal wedding ceremony, bridesmaids usually keep their arms down, so unless your daughter’s “pit hair” is so long she can braid it, it should not distract attention from the bride.

P.S. If hairy armpits in the wedding pictures concern her, they can be Photoshopped off.

Dear Abby: My parents built a two-bedroom apartment onto their house for my brother and his wife when they were struggling financially.

They decided to move out of state, so my single sister is now in the apartment.

It has been a year, and my brother and his wife are now expecting.

They have moved back to the area because they want to raise the baby near family, and want the apartment back. Of course, my sister doesn’t want to give it back. I feel she shouldn’t have to.

I agree with my sister that my brother gave it up. But my brother feels my single sister doesn’t need a two-bedroom apartment. On that point I agree with him. My husband, my parents and I are in the middle.

What do you think should be done?

-- Squabbling Siblings Dear “Squab”: Get out of the middle by stepping away. The apartment belongs to your parents, and it is up to them to decide who gets to use it. The rule of etiquette in a situation like this is: Mouth shut! (The more you involve yourself, the more one of your siblings is sure to resent you.)

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Your Horoscope

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR A baby born today has a Sun in Taurus and a Moon in Capricorn until 4:47 a.m., when the Moon enters the sign Aquarius.

Happy Birthday For Friday, April 29, 2016.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) Meetings might be more important than you realize. A situation could affect your finances, and you’ll want to be an active participant guiding the situation. You will tend to come out A-OK financially.

Tonight: Push comes to shove with a child or loved one. 4 stars.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You become more and more aware of someone eyeing your participation in a matter involving other people. Venus moves into your sign, making you unusually desirable. You will notice that others keep coming to you for advice. You know what works for you. Tonight: All smiles. 3 stars.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You could be questioning what to do next. You have a lot of issues to deal with that have been bothering you. You also might suddenly find that as you start to clear out a hassle, someone says something that hurts your feelings! Maybe you should postpone the plans for a while. Tonight: Play out a fun idea that has been on the back burner.

4 stars.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) One-on-one relating takes you to a new level of understanding. You could be wondering why someone you need to deal with is acting strange. This behavior is only a phase. Be explicit in what you say.

Use caution with anyone you meet today. Tonight: Closeness works. 4 stars.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Defer to others, as they might need to dominate. At the same time, you can see how much they really have to offer or know. Your attitude brings kudos; others let you know how much they appreciate your confidence. Enjoy a compliment or two. Tonight: A force to be dealt with until the wee hours.

4 stars.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Try not to fuss as much, even if you wish you had more free time to enjoy your life. Focus on one task at a time, and you might even surprise yourself with how much you

get done. News from a distance seems more alluring than you thought possible. Tonight: Tiptoe around a family member or roommate. 3 stars.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You have a way about you that draws many people. You seem to exude what others desire most, although it could be different from person to person. Allow your creativity to bubble up, and apply it to those finishing touches on a project, a sensitive conversation and/or while shopping for a special item. Tonight: Go bohemian. 5 stars.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might have a problem on the personal front when dealing with another person’s demands. The issue could range from a difference of opinion over a real estate deal to a squabble with your cat. You know how to mend bridges. You just might have to do that! Tonight: Make it an early night. 3 stars.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Choose your words with care, not so much because you could make a faux pas, but more because those around you might be more touchy than you thought possible.

Preventing misunderstandings and disagreements might be a necessity. Tonight: Join a loved one at a favorite place. 4 stars.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Be aware of the costs of continuing as you have. You could be overly tired as you try to figure out what might be best to do under the circumstances. Adjust plans involving a child or loved one. What you do is not as important as being together.

Tonight: You don’t need to go far.

3 stars.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’ll know you are on target if you just note the reactions of those around you. In a meeting, you are likely to get an agreement. You seem to naturally do the right thing, except with a roommate or your significant other. This person wants more time with you! Tonight: Whatever your heart desires. 5 stars.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You continue to be a little withdrawn and perhaps overly tired.

Just play it low-key, which you probably will succeed at doing - that is, until someone says something or just makes you laugh and you beam once more. Still, be somewhat exclusive in your choice of company. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. 3 stars.

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REAL ESTATE & AUTO SPECIAL MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

In-column Ad Placement Deadlines Monday ...........Friday at 4 p.m.

Tuesday ........... Monday at 4 p.m.

Wednesday .....Tuesday at 4 p.m.

Thursday.........Wednesday at 4 p.m.

BID NOTICE Mount Carmel Area School District

Friday ..............Thursday at 4 p.m.

Saturday .........Friday at 2 p.m.

Sunday ............Friday at 4 p.m.

ESTATE NOTICE

IN RE: ESTATE OF DORA M. FURMAN. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN The Mount Carmel Area School that Letters Testamentary have District is seeking sealed marked been granted in the ESTATE OF bids to provide yearbooks for the DORA M. FURMAN, late of the city of Northumberland, County 2016-17 school term. of Northumberland and CommonTrim Size: 8 ½ X 11 wealth of Pennsylvania. All perCopies: 250 sons indebted to said estate are Pages: 140 (all-color) Page Submission: Books must be requested to make immediate designed using an online pro- payment, and those having claims or demands against the esgram.

Paper: 80# gloss or matte, or 100# tate of the decedent shall present them without delay to the undergloss or matte.

Binding: Smyth Sewn, square- signed Executor or his Attorney. backed.

Questions should be directed to WILLIAM W. FURMAN, JR. a/k/a Trish Stockalis at 570-339-1500 or WILLIAM WEBSTER FURMAN 721 Edison Avenue by email at Lewisburg, PA 17837 stockalist@mca.k12.pa.us.

Sealed bids should be mailed or delivered to Corrina Lesko, Busi- or ness Office Manager, Mount Carmel Area School District, 600 ANTONIO D. MICHETTI, ESQUIRE West Fifth Street, Mount Carmel, DIEHL, DIEHL, MICHETTI & PA 17851 no later than 2:00 p.m. MICHETTI 1070 Market Street Friday, May 6, 2016.

The School Board reserves the Sunbury, PA 17801 right to reject any or all bids, or any item or part or parts of any bid; to waive technicalities for the best interest of the School Dis- FOUND: SET OF KEYS FOR A trict, and to consider the compe- TOYOTA. Along Rt. 487 in Elystency and responsibilities of the burg. Can be claimed at the bidder in awarding the contract.

Ralpho Township Police Dept.

LOST DOG Female mediumsized hound mix (resembles a Rottie), not wearing collar.

Springfield area of Coal Twp. Please Call 570-847-0622.

Donna James Board President

I5 days 5 lines

Custodial 2ND SHIFT CUSTODIAN Full-time position. 2nd shift during school year/1st shift during summer. Must be self-motivated and have ability to perform custodial and minor maintenance duties.

Salary $9.00 per hour plus shift differential and benefits. Submit application, resume, references, copies of Act 34/114/151 clearances to: Tresa Britch, Board Secretary Southern Columbia Area SD 800 Southern Drive Catawissa, PA 17820 Application deadline 5/11/16

Classifieds WORK! Sell Your Vehicle in the Classifieds Call 570-644-6397

Classifieds WORK! PART TIME LICENSED LPN with Mental Health Experience for a Children's Partial Hospitalization Program Send Resume to: Safety Net, Inc. 100 N. Vine St. Mt. Carmel, PA 17851 EOE

LOST EARRING in Mount Carmel on Sat. April 23rd, gold Restaurant tone drop with 2 loops & rhineHELP WANTED stone ball. Call 570-339-1186.

Kitchen help, diswasher, waitress.

Experience necessary.

Call to Apply: 570-492-2141 FOR SALE 4 GRAVE PLOTS Harry's Grill Northumberland Memorial Cemetery, 14 N. Market St. Stonington. Call 570-975-7373.

Shamokin, PA 17872

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The Housing Authority of the City of Shamokin is accepting applications for a part-time/temporary grounds keeper for our Family Housing Projects at Raspberry Hill, Spruce and Harrison Streets.

Applications will be accepted until May 18, 2016 at the Administrative Offices 1 East Independence Street Shamokin, PA 17872 The Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer Classifieds in Print & Online at www.newsitem.com

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MT. CARMEL ½ DOUBLE Good Condition. 2 ½ Bedrooms, 1 bath . Appliances and air conditioners included. Large yard with deck. Call: 570-259-5519

KULPMONT- Lg. ½ DOUBLE 3 BR, 2 full baths, Eat-in kitchen, appliances included. Lg. LR, many upgrades, fenced yard, detached garage. BONUS ROOM $56,500.

570-373-5937 or 949-887-2675

NEWER CABIN on 6 acres of land in western Union County, 717 Hoffman Lane near boy scout camp. Shower, toilet, sink, kitchen. Penns Creek just 200 yards. $95,000. 717-355-9279.

MOUNT CARMEL 220 E. Ave. 2 bedrm, oil hot water heat. Appraised $38,000; Asking $13,000. MUST SELL. No Rent to Own. Call 570-933-0740.

Sell Your Unwanted Items Call 570-644-6397 Need A New Job? Search the Classifieds!

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Standard Journal Will Have An Opening on May 1, 2016 for a

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PUBLIC AUCTION

New and Old Military and Industrial Supplies Route 61, Kulpmont, PA 17834 (Former Pabs Supply - between Kulpmont and Mt. Carmel) Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 9:00 am

AUTO PARTS

New Old Stock Auto Parts & Military Surplus inc.: Hub Caps; Hydraulic Hoses & Fillings; Hydraulic Cylinder; Springs inc. Jeep; Track Adjusters; Battery Cables; Weaver Camber Correction Kit; Grease Fittings & Hoses; Hose Clamps; Tire Chains & Cross Links; Drive Belts; Bearings; Bushings & More.

TOOLS AND SUPPLIES

Toledo 1250 lb. Scale; Carolina Hoist; New Industrial 3/4hp Band Saw; Beam Scale; Roller Conveyer & Conveyer Belting; Pneumatic Gauges & Regulators; Grinding Wheels & Grind Stones; Spanner Wrenches; Sockets – SAE & Metric 3/8” to 4 3/4”; Taps – Up to 2 1/2”; Electrical Gauges & Meters for amps and frequencies; Pulleys, Pliars & Pry Bars; Reamer; Hammers; Lg. Drill Bits; Saw Blades; Clevis Pins; Ax Handles; Pipes & Fittings (Steel & Stainless, up to 3”) Pipe Nipples, Unions, Connectors & Elbows; Electrical Boxes – Square D & Hoffman; Circuit Breakers & Fuses; Plastic Tubing; Plumbing Items; Sprockets; Welding Rods; Military Grade Grease; Metal Shims, Caster Wheels & More.

HARDWARE

Metal Doors; Heavy-Duty Stackable Parts Bins; Solid 8” Glass Blocks; Plexiglass Sheets; Hardware inc. Nuts, Bolts, Washers up to 1 2/4”; Bolts of all sizes & types (Steel, Aluminum, Stainless); Clovis Pins; Lug Nuts; Cable & Conduit Clamps & More.

Please note: The sale listing and photos may change as items are being added daily.

To view photos visit our website: www.raymauctions.com or www.auctionzip.com Terms: Cash or Approved PA check Credit Cards Accepted

COAL TOWNSHIP- WEST END ½ Double, 3 BR, LR, updated kitchen & bath. Off-street parking for 2. Move in ready. Call for details: 570-648-3467

Items Totalling Not More Than $250 Ads Run 10 Days For Only $5

MANAGEMENT NEEDED Experience Preferred.

Immediate Openings. Earn over $10.00 / Hour.

Apply in person at Domino's Pizza, Anthra Plaza

This is a great opportunity for local sports writers. Manage your own dept. and pages. Candidates must be well versed in a number of high school sports and have the ability to write game stories and boxscores. Photography experience is a plus. Weekend work will be expected. Past experience is a plus, but not required. Will train the right candidate.

Full Time Benefit Package Including: Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Dental, Vision, Short & Long Term Disability, Paid Vacation, Personal Days & Holidays.

$5.00

Merchandise For Sale

Place Your Classified Ad Today!

Phone 570-644-6397 Fax 570-644-0892

570-644-6397

Items under $250

Sudoku is a numbers-logic puzzle. When finished, all nine rows across, all nine columns down and all nine 3-by-3 boxes must be filled in and contain all nine numbers, 1 thorugh 9, with no repeats. Sudoku is printed daily in the classified section, with a new puzzle and answer to the prior day’s puzzle. Exceptions are Mondays, when the new puzzle is printed along with the answers from the prior Saturday. On Sundays, the Sudoku puzzle is found on one page in the classified section and that day’s answer on a following classified page.

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THE NEWS-ITEM, SHAMOKIN, PA COAL TWP.1254 W. Walnut St. 3 Bedroom, 2 full baths, Corner lot. Owner will finance. No down payment. $505/month. Call 570-644-0232, leave message.

MOUNT CARMEL 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Single Ranch, 1 car garage. All appliances included.$119,000.

Call: 570-933-4464 MT. CARMEL RENT TO OWN Gorgeous 4 Bedroom home.

Fenced in yard, central air, large deck. No appliances, new kitchen Call: 570-274-7213

UNFURNISHED

UNFURNISHED

COAL TOWNSHIP 1st and 2nd Floor 2 Bedroom Apartments. Water, Sewer, Trash & Heat Included. $525/mo.

Call 570-809-9385

COAL TOWNSHIP Raised Ranch. 3 BR, 1.5 baths. No Pets. Hud considered. Off-street parking/2 vehicles.$570/mo., 1st , last + Sec. Dep. 570-644-0821

COAL TWP 2 BR, washer/dryer hookup, parking, lg. Patio, total elec.

Fridge & stove, garbage, sewer incl. $500 1st, $500 last + $250 Sec. Non Smoking. 570-648-4262

MOUNT CARMEL 2 Bedroom, 2 bath, Single Ranch.

1 car garage. All appliances included. $950/mo.

Call: 570-933-4464

Coal Twp. THARPTOWN. Spacious 2nd fl, 2 BR, attic. Heat, water, sewer, laundry hookup incl.

NO PETS! Background check, ref.

Req. $525/mo + Sec. Dep. Call: 570-648-8869

MOUNT CARMEL Recently remodeled, 3 BR home for rent. Nice location. $475/mo Tenant pays utilities. Pet Friendly.

570-875-7646

ELYSBURG nd OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND. Spacious 1 bedroom 2 floor apt.

Off street parking.

NO PETS. Best selection of affordable rentals. Full/partial weeks. Call for $550/mo. + utilities.

Call 570-259-0171.

FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Resort Services. 1-800-638MT. CARMEL 2102.

1 South Oak St., Online reservations: 2 Bedrm. Apt. $625/mo., incl. www.holidayoc.com heat, hot water & garbage.

Call 570-495-6255

MODERN 4 UNIT APARTMENT BUILDING. Each has 2 Bedrooms, Private Parking. Coal Township.

Call 570-648-4262.

2 VERY NICE ROOMS, in large beautiful downtown Shamokin home. Near everything, all util. Incl., share kitchen, bath, laundry. $345/mo. Call: 570-259-1831 SHAMOKIN ROOM FOR RENT Large, furnished room. All utilities included. $85/weekly. Monthly rates available. 570-875-9217 SHAMOKIN, Lg. Furnished Rm. gr.fl., kitchen privileges, all utilities, TV, washer/dryer. HUD & section 8 accepted. 2 BR apts. also avail. Call/text: 412-7127038 or 201-424-1635

SHAMOKIN 1 Bedroom Apartments $350/month. + Security. Water, sewer, trash included. NO PETS! Call: 570-246-9079 SHAMOKIN 1 Bedroom, 3rd Floor Apt. $365/mo. Sewage only. No Smoking, No Pets. Private off-street parking. 570-797-1500 Place Your Classified Ad Today!

Phone 570-644-6397 Fax 570-644-0892 SHAMOKIN 2 Bedroom Apt. Water, heat, garbage, sewer, electric included.

No Pets! $625/mo + Sec. Dep. Call: 570-648-4897 SHAMOKIN Clean, 1 or 2 Bedroom Apts. Includes water, sewer & trash. No Pets. $450/mo. 570-394-2470

UNFURNISHED

FURNISHED

MOUNT CARMEL 50 North Maple Street 1 Bedroom + space for office.

Also 2 Bedroom.

Call 570-932-0864.

COAL TOWNSHIP 2 Plus Bedrooms, Half Double.

Call John 570-850-4759 Realtor Owned.

UNFURNISHED

KULPMONT ½ Dbl., 2 bedrm. home. Remodeled, oil heat, yard, off street parking. Sec. Dep. + all utilities req.

Avail. June 1st. Call 570-898-9209.

COAL TOWNSHIP 1 Bedroom Apartment.

Third Floor.

Call John 570-850-4759.

Realtor Owned.

SHAMOKIN 3 Bedroom house. Non-smoking.

No pets. Cheap heat. HUD approved. $475/month.

Call: 570-797-1500

COAL TOWNSHIP 2 Bedroom. Gas Heat. HUD approved. Non Smoking. No Pets.

Call : 570-797-1500

SHAMOKIN 3 Bedroom, 1/2 Double $575/month + Security Deposit Call: 570-765-0497

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ADMINISTRATION

2 PM - 10 PM SIGN ON BONUS AVAILABLE Apply Online At: www.jdkmgt.com Apply In Person To: Mt. Carmel Senior Living Community 2616 Locust Gap Highway Mt. Carmel, Pa 17851 Or email resume to: swetzel@jdkmgt.com E.O.E.

MT. CARMEL MOVING SALE 48 South Maple St. Fri. April 29 8 am to ??

Household Items and Large Appliances Available.

4 FREE KITTENS TO A GOOD HOME. Calico in color and litter box trained. Raised around kids and dogs. Call 570-490-1370

PAXINOS MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE 2874 Irish Valley Road (About 1 mile past Clark's Grove Church) Sat. April 30 • 8 am to 2 pm Collectibles. Something for everyone!

2001 HONDA CIVIC SEDAN 2 wheel drive, in very good condition, 113,000 miles, 1 owner. $3,000.00. Call 570-898-5077.

FORD F-800, SINGLE AXLE, Dump Truck with air brakes.

Good for general hauling. Mechanically sound/garage kept. If interested call: 570-648-1268 Classifieds in Print & Online at www.newsitem.com

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Sell Your Vehicle in the Classifieds Call 570-644-6397

Mt. Carmel. Nice small home, 3 BR, attic, basement, side/back yard. Appliances, sewer included.

Tenant must pay utilities. Very reasonable. Call: 570-339-5959 SHAMOKIN/COAL TWP. 3 BR home for rent. Recently remodeled.

Nice location. $475/mo.+ utilities. Pet Friendly Call: 570-875-7646

COAL SALES & DELIVERY Atlas Anthracite Coal Corp.

3 PIECE LIVING ROOM SET Matching sofa, love seat & chair Good Condition. $175 Call: 570-373-3457

325 Mulberry St. Atlas, PA 17851 Residential & Commercial Coal Sales Anthracite

SOFA & CHAIR, $150; Kennedy Rocker, $30; End tables, $25/each; and other items.

All in good condition.

Call: 570-648-4828

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PAINTING

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TAN SECTIONAL WITH RECLINER. $250 OBO. CALL: 570-850-8943

Painting & Construction, Inc.

• Painting • Plumbing • Electrical • Tile • Drywall

"Advertise Your Yard Sale or Garage Sale Here!"

570-975-9982 PA #097206 AUTO INSPECTION

SEWER & DRAIN

COAL TOWNSHIP ESTATE SALE 2 Bedroom Sets. Various odd & ends. Call for information & address. 570-415-5739 ELYSBURG/CLEVELAND TWP. YARD SALE 97 Jefferson Road Saturday, April 30 • 8am – 12 pm Baby items, Newborn to 2T clothing and much more!

Call Today and Reserve This Space For Your Business!

570-644-6397 Ext. #4

LOAN

FT position with competitive salary and benefits.

April 16TH - 23RD

Duties include; loan creation on bank system, personal contact with customers, attorneys, title companies, and insurance companies, payment processing, filing, report generation and numerous other duties related to the lending function.

VISIT US AT THE BRIDGE IN SELINSGROVE APRIL 16TH AND REGISTER TO WIN SOME AMAZING PRIZES • 32” FLATSCREEN TV • AN X-BOX ONE • 20 ADDITIONAL PRIZES!

Must be able to work in a fast paced environment and have the ability to multitask. Lending background and knowledge of Laser Pro documentation system a plus. EOE Send resume to: UNB Bank, Attn: Chief Credit Officer, P.O. Box 367, Mount Carmel, Pa. 17851-0367 No phone calls please

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STK #162216 20” CHROME WHEELS, 5.7 HEMI V8, BODY COLOR FRONT FASCIA, SAT RADIO, 8 SPEED TRANSMISSION, BRILLIANT CRYSTAL BLACK

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STK #164411 STOW-N-GO, POWER WINDOWS AND LOCKS, SUNSCREEN GLASS, 3 ZONE FRONT AND REAR AC

STK #161312 BRIGHT WHITE, 18” BRONZE WHEELS, SUNROOF, 6.5” TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY, BACK-UP CAM

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3.6L V6 Cyl, Auto

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13’ Toyota Highlander

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Stk# HJ693A

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Sunbury Motors is not responsible for typographical errors

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ing his pit bull to maul and kill a city’s man’s cat Wednesday.

Patrolman William Miner filed the charges Friday afternoon in a written alle-

gation with Northumberland County Juvenile Court Services against Shatiq Crum, of 26 S. Franklin St. Police are still attempting to identify the second teen

who was with Crum when the deadly attack occurred in the 100 block of West Willow Street.

Crum and the other male are accused of allowing

their two pit bulls to kill a cat owned by Greg Orner.

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D&A chief due at opioid forum

BY SARAH DESANTIS

COAL TOWNSHIP — The state’s drug and alcohol secretary will take part in a public forum to discuss the heroin and opioid abuse epidemic next month at Shamokin Area Middle/High School.

Gary Tennis, a nationally recognized expert TENNIS in drug and alcohol abuse, will attend the forum from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 19. The forum is sponsored by state Sen. John R. Gordner (R-27), state Reps.

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MANDATA — A nonprofit organization that proclaims it is “dedicated to promoting the musical development of all Pennsylvanians” is saying tough luck to students with music teachers unable or unwilling to participate in extracurricular festivals.

A policy by the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) decrees a school’s ensemble director — instrumental or vocal — must be the chaperone escorting students to its district, regional or state festivals.

At Line Mountain School District, which employs only two music teachers, the policy posed a problem when both teachers had conflicts or did not wish to participate in PMEA vocal festivals during the 2015-16 school year.

Dillan Brown and Rebecca Masser, students at Line Mountain High School, qualified for the PMEA district chorus festival. Bradley Skelton, who oversees the district’s extracurricular activities as dean of students and athletic director, said music teacher Dana Brown is a PMEA member but was tied up overseeing the high school band and musical. Choral teacher Diane Rompallo has elected to not join PMEA. Superintendent David M. Campbell emphasized that

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Evelyn Moore, 2, demonstrates a drum for her father, Jesse Moore, with some help from Anne Lawrence, of the Susquehanna University Music Preparatory Program, Friday evening. The music program was one of 19 vendors at the Child Abuse Prevention Celebration, which is held each year by Northumberland County Children and Youth Services as a way of sharing information on area youth programs.

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3 charged in alleged sale of bath salts

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SHAMOKIN — A Coal Township couple is charged services that prevent child Northumberland County,

BY SARAH DESANTIS but Northumberland with selling bath salts to a County Children and abuse and if there is child Children and Youth hosted police informant Thursday.

THE NEWS-ITEM Youth Supervisor Carla abuse, we want to make a Child Abuse Prevention sarah_d@newsitem.com Cpl. Bryan Primerano, Clark hopes the topic sure it doesn’t happen Celebration Friday evewho filed the charges, said remains on residents’ again,” she said. ning at Otterbein MethodSUNBURY — Child Jason Joseph Ruskuski, 36, minds throughout the year.

To get the word out ist Church, Sunbury. abuse prevention month and his wife, Samantha Prevention, Page 6 “We want people to use about services available in may be coming to a close, Ruskuski, 26, both of 918 W. PMEA, Page 6 Wood St., Coal Township, sold an eighth of an ounce of bath salts to the informant for $200 out of their vehicle at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday in Shamokin.

Primerano said when police questioned the Ruskuskis, they told police they had not sold bath salts, but instead had purchased Epsom slats, repackaged them as bath salts Street that resulted in injuries.

BY NEWS-ITEM STAFF and sold them to unsuspectReams faces charges of possesing customers who believed TREVORTON — Angel Dawn sion with intent to use drug parathey were buying the drug.

Reams, 26, of 600 W. Coal St., Trev- phernalia, driving under the The Ruskuskis were each orton, has been charged by Troop- influence of a controlled subcharged with felony counts er Nicholas Bressler of state stance, driving under the influof delivery of bath salts, police at Stonington with multiple ence of a combination of drugs, criminal conspiracy and offenses including driving under recklessly endangering another LARRY DEKLINSKI/STAFF PHOTO criminal use of a communithe influence of a controlled subperson, failing to drive in a single Police said the woman driving the Ford F-150 (at right) was under cations facility. They were stance involving an April 6 sevlane, driving at an unsafe speed, Bath salts, PAGE 6 the influence when she crashed April 6 in Trevorton. en-vehicle accident on Shamokin Pileup, Page 6

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SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2016

B REAKFAST B RIEFING ALMANAC Today is Saturday, April 30, the 121st day of 2016.

There are 245 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oath of office in New York as the first president of the United States.

On this date: In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.

In 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.

In 1900, engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a train wreck near Vaughan, Mississippi, after staying at the controls in a successful effort to save the passengers.

In 1939, the New York World’s Fair officially opened with a ceremony that included an address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1945, as Soviet troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

In 1956, former Vice President Alben W. Barkley, 78, collapsed and died while delivering a speech at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

In 1958, the American Association of Retired Persons (later simply AARP) was founded in Washington, D.C., by Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus.

In 1968, New York City police forcibly removed student demonstrators occupying five buildings at Columbia University.

In 1973, President Richard Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean, who was actually fired.

In 1975, the Vietnam War ended as the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

In 1988, Gen. Manuel Noriega, waving a machete, vowed at a rally to keep fighting U.S. efforts to oust him as Panama’s military ruler.

In 1990, hostage Frank Reed was released by his captives in Lebanon; he was the second American to be released in eight days.

Ten years ago: Thousands of people joined celebrities and lawmakers at a rally on the National Mall in Washington, urging the Bush administration and Congress to help end genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.

Five years ago: A Libyan official said Moammar Gadhafi had escaped a NATO missile strike in Tripoli that killed one of his sons and three young grandchildren. In Moscow, Japan’s Miki Ando defeated Olympic champion Kim Yu-na of South Korea at the world figure skating championships originally scheduled for Japan, which had been devastated by an earthquake and tsunami.

One year ago: Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont formally entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination with a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Cloris Leachman is 90.

Singer Willie Nelson is 83. Actor Burt Young is 76.

Singer Bobby Vee is 73. Movie director Allan Arkush is 68. Actor Perry King is 68. Singer-musician Wayne Kramer is 68. Singer Merrill Osmond is 63. Movie director Jane Campion is 62. Movie director Lars von Trier is 60. Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is 57. Actor Paul Gross is 57. Basketball Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas is 55. Country musician Robert Reynolds is 54. Actor Adrian Pasdar is 51. Rock singer J.R. Richards (Dishwalla) is 49. Rapper Turbo B (Snap) is 49. Rock musician Clark Vogeler is 47.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Chris “Choc” Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 45. Rock musician Chris Henderson (3 Doors Down) is 45. Country singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson is 45. Actress Lisa Dean Ryan is 44. Rhythmand-blues singer Akon is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees) is 43. Actor Johnny Galecki is 41. Singer-musician Cole Deggs (Cole Deggs and the Lonesome) is 40. Actor Sam Heughan (TV: “Outlander”) is 36. Actor Kunal Nayyar is 35. Rapper Lloyd Banks is 34. Actress Kirsten Dunst is 34.

Country singer Tyler Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) is 32.

Actress Dianna Agron is 30.

Thought for Today: “There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.” — Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (1922-2000).

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Work on Sunbury bridge next week SUNBURY — A bridge rehabilitation project on the Route 61 Veterans Memorial Bridge between the City of Sunbury in Northumberland County and Shamokin Dam Borough in Snyder County, begins Monday, May 2.

The project includes deck repairs, the installation of new expansion dams, the application of an epoxy overlay and delineation.

Work will be between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until the project’s completion in early August. There will be lane closures during the project.

Expect slow-moving traffic.

HRI Inc., of State College is the prime contractor on this $1.5 million project.

Motorists should be alert and drive with caution through the work zone.

National Day of Prayer program KULPMONT — Christians of all denominations are invited to the gazebo at 1100 Chestnut St. at 12:15 p.m.

Thursday for a National Day of Prayer service. The gathering is being organized by Holy Angels Church.

BIBLE THOUGHT “The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him.” (Nahum 1:7 AKJV) Run to the Lord not from Him in times of trouble. He can help you. Turn to Him now. (Provided by Highland Baptist Church, West Monroe, Louisiana.)

T H E N E W S -I T E M E P O L L R E S U LT S Friday’s question: Are

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Police: Inmates got contraband in balloons from visiting females COAL TOWNSHIP — Three inmates at the State Correctional Institution at Coal Township have been charged by Trooper Kevin Kearney of state police at Stonington with possessing contraband.

Three female visitors accused of smuggling contraband to the prisoners also were charged.

Howard Earl Newton III, 31, is charged with two felonies of possessing a controlled substance and contra-

band. He is accused of swallowing four to six balloons filled with marijuana and a halllucinogenic drug known as PCP on March 6. He also possessed tobacco, police said.

The balloons and tobacco were given to Newton by his sister, Twana Newton.

Two other inmates, Earnest Franklin, 41, and Lionel Guerrero, 34, were charged with a felony of possessing contraband relating to Feb. 28 incidents.

Franklin is accused of possessing marijuana in seven balloons smuggled into the prison by Brenda Vega, while Guerrero allegedly possessed marijuana in three balloons smuggled into the prison by Cynthia Morales.

Franklin and Guerrero swallowed the balloons.

Kearney said Twana Newton, Vega and Morales were previously charged with contraband-related offenses.

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New code officer

Mount Carmel Mayor Philip “Bing” Cimino, left, shakes hands with the borough’s new code officer, Joe Jones, of Mount Carmel. Jones was hired at a special meeting Thursday for the full-time role, which pays $13.50 per hour.

He will also receive a $5,000 stipend in exchange for opting out of the borough’s insurance plan. Borough Council President Robert Shirmer said Jones was selected from a pool of five applicants for his more than 20 years of experience working in the Sunbury Police Department, which included code enforcement.

Driver of Jeep hit by train ‘serious’ UPPER AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP — Three people suffered injuries Thursday when a sport utility vehicle they were riding in collided with a Norfolk Southern train on Spruce Hollow Road.

Trooper James Nestico of state police at Stonington reported Kenneth Robert Grodski, 44, of Shamokin, was driving a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee toward Nikomas Campground at 11 a.m. when he failed

to stop and look at a posted railroad crossing. Nestico said the Jeep was struck by an oncoming train traveling at approximately 30 mph. The Jeep was pushed over an embankment.

Grodski suffered bruised or broken ribs while his two passengers, Brandi Wyne Hughes, 25, and Troy Allen Eckhart, 47, both of Shamokin, suffered minor injuries. Hughes was sitting in the front seat; Eckhart was a back-

seat passenger.

Grodski was listed Friday afternoon in serious condition at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville. Hughes was discharged Thursday, while Eckhart was released Friday.

Nestico said occupants were not wearing seat belts and air bags did not deploy.. The Jeep suffered disabling damage.

Train personnel escaped injury.

POLICE BLOTTER Crash COAL TOWNSHIP — Coal Township police reported a crash occurred at 1:01 a.m.

Friday in the 1300 block of Chemung Street.

Police said George F. Weaver III, 24, of 1741 W. Mulberry St., Coal Township, was traveling east on Chemung in his 2016 Jeep Renegade when he failed to negotiate a curve and his vehicle traveled onto the sidewalk and struck a stone wall, causing damage to the wall, police said.

Weaver’s vehicle continued along the wall for approximately 50 feet and then came back onto the road and struck a 1997 Chevrolet that was legally parked on the south side of the street, police said.

The Chevrolet sustained minor damage to the rear bumper and Weaver’s vehicle sustained moderate damage and was towed. Police said charges are pending.

Crash UPPER AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP — A 16-year-old boy was cited with failing to stay in his lane after he failed to negotiate the curve of the Hamilton underpass, located on Route 61 east of Sunbury,

and traveled into the oncoming lane.

Police said the minor was driving a 2010 GMC Acadia when he lost control and side-swiped a 2005 Pontiac Montana driven by Colleen F. Hoffman, 45, of Shamokin, then struck head-on a 2009 Jeep Compass driven by John J. Bartol, 33, of Marion Heights.

Passengers in the minor’s vehicle included Shirley I. Camacho, 40, of Sunbury; and Ruben T. Medina, 28, of Milton.

No injuries were reported.

DUI charges COAL TOWNSHIP — Jay Larue Willis Jr., 49, of P.O. Box 97, Selinsgrove, was charged by Trooper Nicholas Bressler of state police at

Stonington with two counts of driving under the influence of alcohol, failing to drive in a single lane, speeding, careless driving and failing to wear a seat belt.

The charges relate to a traffic stop shortly before 2 a.m. April 9 on Route 61 near Burger King.

Police said Willis had a blood-alcohol content of .173 percent.

her low beams and failing to wear a seat belt.

The charges relate to a traffic stop at 1:40 a.m.

March 28 at Independence and Shamokin streets.

DUI

STONINGTON — Trooper Jared Mowen of state police at Stonington charged James Paul Garman, 77, of 4580 State Route 890, Sunbury, with driving under the influDUI ence of alcohol, driving on the wrong side of the road, SHAMOKIN — Alexis careless driving and failing to Samuel Santiago, 24, of activate his hazard lamps.

3122 Acorn Lane, East Police said the charges Stroudsburg, was charged by Trooper Michael App of state were filed in connection with police at Stonington with two a traffic stop at about 9:45 p.m. April 6 at the interseccounts of driving under the influence of marijuana, failing tion of Route 61 and Captain to drive in a single lane, care- Bloom Road near Northumberland Memorial Park. less driving, failing to use

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Sixteen military members were given administrative punishments that could stall or end careers, but no one faces a court martial. A senior defense official said one of the disciplined was a two-star general.

The AC-130 gunship, bristling with side-firing cannons and guns, fired on the hospital in the northern city of Kunduz for 30 minutes before the mistake was realized and the attack was halted, Gen. Joseph Votel told a news conference as he released the Pentagon’s final report on the incident. The intended target was an Afghan intelligence agency building about 450 yards away.

No one involved knew the targeted compound was a hospital, Votel said, but investigators concluded the U.S. ground and air commanders should have known.

Votel expressed “deepest condolences” to those injured and to the families of those killed and said the U.S. government made “gesture of sympathy” payments of $3,000 to each injured person and $6,000 to each family of the killed.

Rising violence kills more than 200 in a week in Syria DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian army and rebels unleashed deadly new attacks on each other Friday in Aleppo, with insurgents shelling a mosque during weekly prayers and government airstrikes hitting opposition neighborhoods in escalating bloodshed the U.N. decried as a “monstrous disregard for civilian lives by all parties.”

More than 200 people have been killed in eight days of mounting violence in and around the contested northern city, including 15 at the Malla Khan mosque hit by rebel rockets and another 10 from the government warplanes and helicopters, officials said.

The surge in fighting has caused the collapse of a twomonth cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia. It also has raised fears of an all-out government assault on Aleppo and warnings of a humanitarian disaster in the 5-year-old civil war.

In rebel-held neighborhoods, medical facilities, bakeries and a water station have been pounded by a government bombardment, residents say. Electricity is down to a few hours a week. A single road out of Aleppo is the only supply line for the insurgent-controlled districts, where an estimated 250,000 people remain. If forces loyal to President Bashar Assad take the road, there could be major shortages of food and medicines.

San Francisco chief releases racist texts, orders training SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s police chief said Friday that he has ordered that all officers finish an anti-harassment class within the next month amid a racist texting scandal that has rocked the department already dogged by fatal shootings of unarmed minority suspects.

Flanked by religious and minority community leaders at a San Francisco press conference, Chief Greg Suhr also released more transcripts of racist and homophobic text messages first made available to The Associated Press along with inflammatory and inappropriate images found on former officers’ cellphones.

It’s the second texting scandal since 2014 in a department that is attempting to diversify its officers to reflect the San Francisco culture and population. The department of 2,100 was led by an Asian-American woman and a black man before Suhr took over five years ago.

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Republicans beginning to make peace with Trump as nominee Some GOP lawmakers still cringe at the thought

BY ERICA WERNER AP CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON — They thought it was impossible. Some still fear it. Others can barely believe it. But leading Republicans are beginning to accept the idea that Donald Trump will be their party’s presidential nominee.

In the wake of the businessman’s commanding wins in five Eastern states this week, a growing number of national Republicans and GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill say Trump has taken on an indisputable air of inevitability. Some argue they should get behind him now and abandon the “Never Trump” efforts still nursed by some establishment Republicans.

Embracing Trump, these Republicans say, may be the GOP’s only hope of blocking Democrat Hillary Clinton in November.

“Donald Trump is going to be our nominee,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrote on Facebook this week. “The Republican leaders in Washington did not choose him, but the Republican voters across America did choose him. The voters have spoken.”

“Republicans now need to come together,” Scott wrote, warning that continued opposition to Trump “will be nothing more than a contribution to the Clinton campaign.”

On Capitol Hill, support for Trump has also gotten markedly easier to find.

“I don’t understand. I mean, it’s not ‘Never Trump.’ It’s ‘Never Hillary.’

Never, never, never Hillary. Come on.

Wake up and smell the coffee,” said Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, who earlier this week cast his ballot for Trump, along with all members of his large family and 57 percent of Republican primary voters in his state.

“I’ve never seen a party attack one of its own candidates with this aggressiveness,” Kelly said of GOP establishment figures who oppose Trump, blaming it on an elitist Washington attitude out of touch with voters.

Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, a respected senior member of the Senate, previously endorsed Jeb Bush and then Sen. Marco Rubio and said he doesn’t intend to endorse Trump. But Hatch said of Trump, “It looks to me like he’s going to win, and if he does, I’m going to do everything in my power to help him.”

Some leading Republicans have forecast that a Trump candidacy could spell electoral disaster, help Democrats win back control of the

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott gestures as he speaks during a luncheon at the Republican National Committee Spring Meeting in Hollywood, Florida, April 21.

Senate and even cost safe Republican seats in the House. They point to Trump’s disparaging comments about women and minorities that have contributed to high unfavorability ratings.

Endorsements Hatch, along with others, disagreed.

“I think he could be great if he’ll get serious about being president, and I think he will,” Hatch said. “When he gets hit with reality that this is the toughest job in the world, he’s a clever, smart guy who I think will want to be remembered for doing good things, so I have a feeling he can make that transition.”

On Thursday, Trump picked up endorsements from two House committee chairmen: Reps. Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania, who chairs the Transportation Committee, and Jeff Miller of Florida, who chairs Veterans Affairs. He talked foreign policy in a phone call with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who heads the Foreign Relations Committee. Corker later was full of compliments about Trump, though he said he had no plans to endorse him.

To be sure, not all are on board.

Some in the GOP continue to cringe at the thought of vulnerable Senate Republicans and candidates getting linked to Trump’s provocative stances or attempting to distance themselves from them.

“My feeling about Donald Trump is, I don’t think that that’s our best foot forward at all,” said Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, an outspoken Trump critic. “And I can’t imagine being forced to take some of those positions that he’s taken. A ban on Muslims, build a wall and make the Mexicans pay for it, you name it.”

It remains uncertain whether Trump will amass the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination ahead of the Republican convention in Cleveland in July. If he does not, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz hopes to make a play to win the nomination as balloting progresses. Ohio Gov. John Kasich also remains in the race. Next week’s primary in Indiana, where polling suggests a close race, could be crucial in determining whether either Cruz or Kasich can continue to argue they have a path forward.

Roger Villere, longtime Louisiana state GOP chief and one of the national party’s vice chairmen, said a “clear supermajority” at the Republican National Committee spring meeting earlier this month in South Florida were warming to the idea of Trump as standard-bearer.

“There were a lot of them who Trump wasn’t their first choice, but when we got in closed rooms and everybody started talking, the general consensus was that he’s going to be our nominee, and we will rally around him,” Villere said Friday. “I wouldn’t say it was even reluctance.

TV pundit who claimed CIA ties pleads guilty to fraud

BY MATTHEW BARAKAT wording in his plea agreement walks a fine line. He ASSOCIATED PRESS ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former cable news pundit Wayne Simmons admits he’s a fraud. And he admits he’s a felon. But despite all evidence to the contrary, he remains adamant that he was a CIA man.

Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, struck an unusual plea agreement Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. He admitted defrauding the government out of $78,000 by lying about his credentials to obtain jobs as a government contractor.

He also admitted cheating a private citizen out of nearly $100,000 by claiming he could invest her money in real estate.

But when it comes to his claims about the CIA, the

admits that “there are no records or any other evidence that the defendant had ever been employed by or worked with the CIA.” And in his plea agreement, he acknowledges that continuing to claim a CIA career could result in an increased sentence because he would not get credit for acceptance of responsibility.

Still, Simmons made clear during and after Friday’s hearing that he’s sticking to his story about a life in the CIA, where he claimed a 27-year career as an “Outside Paramilitary Special Operations” officer, according to court records.

Asked after the hearing why the CIA would then be leaving him out to dry, his attorney, Bill Cum-

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mings, interjected and said, “That’s what they do.”

Cummings said there have been similar cases where the CIA has refused to acknowledge an officer’s work because it didn’t want that work to be exposed.

Simmons said after Friday’s hearing that he has been left to fend for himself on the allegation because “my wingman disappeared.”

Cummings cut off more detailed questions about why, if Simmons’ work was so sensitive, he touted his CIA career on cable news.

Meanwhile, the CIA’s director of public affairs, Dean Boyd, was unequivocal about Simmons: “Mr. Simmons never worked at CIA and we’re glad to see justice served in this case,” he said.

The case against Cummings has nothing to do

with his work as a pundit, but it proved an embarrassment for Fox News, where he appeared frequently. In a 2009 Fox News clip, he calls House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi “a pathological liar” in a segment about CIA interrogation techniques.

Fox has said Simmons was never a paid contributor.

The federal charges

included allegations that Simmons defrauded the government when he obtained employment with two contractors, BAE Systems and Drop Test International, by lying about his resume. Among other things, he failed to disclose a felony record and a bankruptcy filing.

The government says he also lied about the CIA career and his security clearances.

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This week proved primary system is broken Believe it or not, the Republican Party significantly reformed its primary election system this year to avoid pitfalls that arose in 2012. It authorized fewer debates, altered some delegate rules and moved up the convention date. Now, with Donald Trump adding more wins Tuesday, party leaders probably are wishing for the good old days of 2012.

One certain result of the campaign, unless Trump further defies expectations and actually wins the presidency, is that the Republican Party’s 2020 selection process will be altered substantially to forestall the rise of another Trump-like candidate.

But Republicans are not alone. The entire primary process raises the question of whether this is the best way available to select nominees for the world’s most powerful office. And the fundamental problem is that a nomination does not arise from a process, but a series of processes that often are ill-suited to the purpose. The parties need to work on a cohesive, national nominating process with rules that come within hailing distance of democracy.

Consider Pennsylvania. Trump crushed Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, but is guaranteed only 17 of 71 candidates. While forming an alliance with Kasich to try to keep Trump from getting enough delegates for a first-ballot nomination at the convention, Cruz is conducting a highly sophisticated second campaign aimed only at delegates. If he eventually gets the nomination, the primaries will have had little to do with it.

For the sake of tradition, both parties continue to give undue influence to small states. In practice, that often enables marginal candidates to gain momentum by playing to the fringes. The first four primary/caucus states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — have a combined population of about 12 million.

That’s slightly less than Pennsylvania’s population and about a third that of California, where the primary is scheduled June 7.

The parties could resolve many of the problems of the current mish-mash — massive costs, undue influence of small states, Byzantine rules for delegate commitments, incessant “reality” shows posing as debates, and candidates catering to the fringe — by agreeing to a series of five or six big regional primaries on a relatively tight schedule.

Today’s primaries and caucuses partially of the result of trying to democratize the nominating process by wresting it from the hands of party bosses and power brokers. That’s to the good, but the effort is far from complete. Party leaders should work on a far more coherent, logical, democratic system for 2020.

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Cruz-Fiorina: Good idea, but too late to help in nomination

BY DR. TERRY MADONNA AND MICHAEL YOUNG

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It was a good job by all the firefighters at the fire at Mount Carmel on Tuesday. It was also nice to see the new borough manager Sam (Scicchitano) leading by example, and watching him pull hose, and police pull hose, and even citizens were helping the fire company because they were short-handed. It’s nice to see a manager lead by example and others helping where they can. Good job.

Who’s the superintendent when Mr. Stellar is teaching music? Because you can’t do both. You’re either a music teacher or a superintendent. Editor’s note: So here’s an educator who wouldn’t have to be doing more work, but chooses to do so because he loves the job, and yet somebody finds fault instead of appreciating it. Go figure.

Choose Hillary I think if Trump becomes president, it’s going to mess the whole world up. I think people should vote for Hillary. I don’t think it’s going to work out for Trump.

Minimal thoughts One cannot complain about those who require government support and at the same time work against increasing the minimum wage. If one works every day, one should earn enough money to take care of one’s self. You can’t have it both ways.

Selling fear This is for the Trump people: Easier to sell fear to morons than to explain facts and convince people of reality. Wake up.

It was Ronnie That darn Obama. He’s given full amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants, banned assault weapons and secretly armed Iran. Haha. Just kidding. That was Reagan.

Sinking Being an ignoramus has made him popular. Why are our standards of acceptable behavior so low?

At it again The IRS scammers are at it again.

If you get a phone call that they’re going to investigate you, just hang up on them. It’s all nonsense.

Greetings Junkyard, junkyard. That’s a beauty there on Sunbury and Shamokin streets coming into Shamokin.

At a loss

or ordered an immediate tear-down.

How about the houses on Sunbury Street in Shamokin? Do you think our mayor will do that and have them tore down or will they just stand there like an eyesore on the main thoroughfare?

Fire cause You know why you’re having so many fires in this area? People are buying these house for $5,000 or $10,000 and putting new carpet in but the electrical wiring is a disaster. We should have a state inspector checks these houses for code. Editor’s note: There are certainly some situations where the wiring is bad, but the cause of the last two major local fires were arson and heat lamps.

Party of freeloaders The Democratic Party is changing.

Instead of being recognized as the donkey or jackass, they’ve now taken the stance of Freddie the Freeloader.

In defense?

Interesting that Mr. Wright isn’t concerned about the large number of small birds, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks and other small animals that are ripped apart by cats. Cats are very destructive towards other animals.

Cats are born killers and dogs are naturally their enemy. Maybe if the cat wasn’t outside the dogs wouldn’t have attacked it. Editor’s note: First, this isn’t a case of nature alone; the dogs Eyesores were allowed to pursue and kill this cat.

I see that the houses burned up in Secondly, Mr. Wright’s job involves the Mount Carmel on Tuesday and the may- interaction of humans and animals; As a taxpayer of the Line Mountain School District, I see once again the school board has chosen to sell a property at a loss. This is property number three that we’ve chosen to sell at a lost. I cannot understand these actions. What I’m further disturbed by is that the residents don’t do anything.

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No obituaries were reported for this edition of The News-Item Funeral Notices MATHEWS — Rose Marie Mathews, 85, of 20 S. 22nd.

St., Coal Township. Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday at Transfiguration Ukrainian Catholic Church, Shamokin, with Rev. Mykola Ivanov as celebrant. Interment will follow in the parish cemetery, Coal Township. Viewing will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Stephen A. Chowka Funeral Home, 114 N. Shamokin St., Shamokin. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Transfiguration Ukrainian Catholic Church, 303 N. Shamokin St., Shamokin 17872.

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Drug dealers use ‘Steph Curry’ likeness to market heroin PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia drug dealers looking to market their heroin as top of the line are stamping packets with the likeness of Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry.

Regional transit police chief Thomas Nestel tweeted a picture of several packets featuring Curry’s face and name. His caption read, “Thinking Steph Curry wouldn’t be happy that he is this week’s brand for heroin in Philly.”

Philadelphia is known for having the most potent heroin in the country.

Nestel says he noticed the Curry heroin-branding this week after an officer stopped a man with the packets.

Nestel says the approach is “definitely unique” for Philadelphia. He says he hasn’t seen drug dealers taking the names of other athletes or celebrities to promote their wares.

One-time Rendell aide pleading guilty in campaign cash sting HARRISBURG (AP) — A onetime chief of staff to former Gov. Ed Rendell is agreeing to plead guilty to wire fraud for pocketing thousands of dollars from a fake company set up by the FBI to investigate public corruption in Pennsylvania.

A federal plea deal filed Friday in Harrisburg calls for attorney John H. Estey to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud.

The crime occurred in 2011, several years after Estey had left the Rendell administration and while he was a lobbyist and consultant.

The government says he took $20,000 from a fake company called the Undercover Corp. to make campaign contributions to state lawmakers in a way that would hide the company’s role in the donations. State law bans campaign donations from corporations.

The government says Estey donated $7,000 and pocketed the rest.

Defense lawyer Ronald Levine says Estey is sorry for his actions.

Fed jury finds company not at fault for ‘exploding’ body wax SCRANTON (AP) — A federal court jury says a New York company isn’t responsible for burns a northeastern Pennsylvania woman claims were caused by a bottle of exploding body wax.

Kelsey Ouelette sued in 2014, two years after she says she was badly burned by the Sally Hansen’s Love for Spa Body Wax Hair Removal Kit burned her.

The (Scranton) Times-Tribune reports a jury sided with Coty US LLC, a New York City company that made the body wax.

Ouelette, who was 17 at the time, claims the bottle of wax erupted and exploded after she heated it in her microwave oven for 40 seconds, as directed.

An expert for the company testified it was scientifically impossible for the wax to have become hot enough to explode that fast.

The verdict was returned Wednesday.

Defense expert: Dorm woman died of nosebleed, not assault LANCASTER (AP) — A defense expert says a college freshman who died in her Pennsylvania dorm room last year wasn’t beaten or strangled, but died from a “massive nosebleed” caused by a previous fracture of her eye socket.

The testimony of Dr. C. Peter Speth came Thursday and was to continue Friday in the Lancaster County trial of Gregorio Orrostieta.

His defense attorney previously told jurors that Orrostieta didn’t mean to kill Millersville University student Karlie Hall, and merely pushed her during a drunken argument in February 2015.

Dr. Wayne Ross, a pathologist called by county prosecutors, says the 18-year-old woman was beaten and strangled.

But Speth says the nosebleed caused blood in Hall’s lungs, which killed her. He says bruising was caused by blood clots settling in her body, not being beaten or strangled.

Lawyer: Hole in wall burglary was ‘crime of stupidity’ EASTON (AP) — An eastern Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to what his attorney called a “crime of stupidity”: burglarizing a neighbor’s home by cutting a hole that linked his basement to the neighbor’s.

Public defender Anthony Rybak told a Northampton County judge he didn’t see how anyone could think he’d get away with such a crime.

The (Allentown) Morning Call says that’s why 22-yearold Sammy Paul Buskirk pleaded guilty Thursday to burglary, telling the judge he’s a heroin addict.

Buskirk acknowledged sawing through his wall on Dec. 4 to create a hole to get into the neighbor’s home where he stole $200 worth of quarters.

The judge sentenced Buskirk to three months in jail followed by five years of probation, which will include longterm inpatient drug treatment.

April 30, 2016 Happy Birthday Joe Fatz

Today is filled with memories with happiness and tears Of birthday celebrations we've Shared throughout the years.

Your birthday is not forgotten And your memory, lives on We celebrate the life you had Even though you're gone.

And though we'll always miss you The endless joy you brought Warms our hearts with gratitude And fills our every thought.

We feel that you are with us In everything we do So we'll celebrate your birthday But we'll spend it missing you.

Loved and Missed by Wife, Anna Mae and Children Bob, Joey, Mary & Patty and their families

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Huge fireball in gas explosion burns homes, fleeing man

BY KEITH SRAKOCIC ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENSBURG — A natural gas pipeline exploded in a towering, roaring fireball Friday, destroying a home several hundred yards away, damaging at least three others and creating waves of intense heat that burned a fleeing homeowner as he ran down a road, authorities said.

“It looked like you were looking down into hell,” said Forbes Road Volunteer Fire Chief Bob Rosatti.

The fire and heat seared scores of acres of woodlands around the pipeline in Salem Township, about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh, turning tall trees into blackened poles, melting the siding off one property, and causing wet pavement to steam. People miles away reported hearing a huge whooshing sound and feeling the ground rumble.

A quarter-mile evacuation zone was established, affecting about a dozen homes, said state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman John Poister.

The pipeline was shut off and the fire brought under control within an hour, but residual gas burned for several hours before the fire was completely out by early afternoon, officials said.

The man who was burned lived in the house closest to the fire. It was destroyed.

“He told us that he heard a loud noise and compared it to a tornado. All he saw was fire and started running up the roadway and a passerby picked him up,”

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A burned out house is surrounded by charred ground and trees following a natural gas explosion at a pipeline complex on Friday in Salem Township, about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Rosatti said.

“The heat was so intense that it was burning him as he was running,” he said.

He was conscious and talking to rescue workers when he was taken to the hospital, officials said.

The pipeline is owned by Texas Eastern Transmission, a unit of Houston-based Spectra Energy Corp. What caused the fire to erupt was under investigation.

Spectra Energy said the 30-inch diameter section of pipeline where the fire occurred had been built in 1981 and that “no areas of concern” were found during an inline inspection in 2012.

“Our first concern is for the safety of the community and our employees, and we are cooperating and coordinating with state and local authorities in our response,” the company

said in a statement.

The pipeline is one of four parallel lines owned

by Texas Eastern that run through the rural tract that Pete Rugh, 84, has called home his entire life.

“It scared the heck out of me. I heard this terrible roar. It shook to beat the devil,” Rugh said.

“The noise was so great I couldn’t hear anybody on the phone,” he said. “The room where I was sitting turned orange. I thought the fire was closer to me than it was, so I grabbed my keys, got in my vehicle and got out of there.”

The company did not immediately provide any other details.

Lorrie Sherman-Miller, who lives 5 miles from the site, and said she’s used to hearing a “rumble” from the rushing sound of gas when crews perform maintenance.

“But the sound this morning was magnified 1,000 times,” Sherman-Miller said.

Sherman-Miller drove toward the site because she knows some people who live in the area and parked at a gas station about a quarter mile from the fire to see it.

“As I drove to the site, the closer I got, the hotter it became. The sky and the flames were terrifying,” she said. “When I pulled in to the BP it was so hot that I couldn’t leave my window down. Steam was coming off the parking lot and the roads,” which were damp from earlier rains.

A hazardous materials division of the U.S. Department of Transportation will take over the investigation because the pipeline crosses several states, Poister said.

Local organizations bolstered by grant funding

BY SARAH DESANTIS

were going to do this,” she said. “We wouldn’t have been able to do it without the grant.”

The summer reading program will Five local organizations were be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays among 57 recipients of the bi-annual beginning July 13. For five weeks the community grants from Williams, library will host educational groups, which awarded a total of $381,000 this magicians, singers and naturalists. spring.

On the sixth week participants are The grants, which total up to invited to a party where they receive $10,000 per applicant, are awarded by prizes and play games.

Williams to eligible organizations in “Our programs are geared to stucommunities where the proposed dents of all ages and even preschool Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project kids can come,” said Gardy. “It’s just a would be constructed and operated. good time for everybody.”

The Shamokin-Coal Township PubThe Mount Carmel Borough Police lic Library will use $2,000 in grant Department received $5,000 to funding for its summer reading proimprove radio interoperability. gram.

Police Chief Todd Owens said the Thais Gardy, library director, said money will be used to purchase portashe was relieved to hear Williams ble radios that can communicate with awarded the library the grant because Schuylkill County, which recently she was unsure if the library would transitioned to a closed-channel syshave the summer reading program tem. due to declining funding.

“We do a fair amount of mutual aid “We were really pleased that we with Butler Township and Ashland,” received the grant because our fundsaid Owens. “This will allow us to ing resources aren’t so generous this have direct communication with the year, so we were wondering how we officers in those departments and in THE NEWS-ITEM sarah_d@newsitem.com

the rest of Schuylkill County.”

Owens said he hopes to purchase a portable radio for each of the department’s three squad cars. The radios cost around $5,500 each, and he has a few other grant applications circulating in an attempt to cover the rest of the tab.

“At the very least we’ll be able to acquire one radio,” he said.

Three fire companies were awarded $5,000 each to replace or upgrade gear.

The Anthracite Fire Co. Association, Mount Carmel, will use its money for a fire suppression hose; Forest Hills Fire Co., Coal Township, will replace turnout gear; and the Independence Fire Association, Shamokin, will purchase pager, radio and protective gear.

This is the the third grant award cycle since the program was initiated in 2015. Since then, Williams has announced total awards of more than $1.09 million across the entire Atlantic Sunrise project area, including nearly $80,000 in Northumberland County. Applications for the fall disbursement are being accepted until Sept. 1.

Missing Milton man sought by family

BY THE NEWS-ITEM Martin B. Golder, 62, of Milton, who has family and friends living in the Shamokin area, has been missing since Sunday. He was last seen in the Williamsport area. He is 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 148 pounds and was last seen wearing blue jeans, a blue shirt, camouflage moccasins and a camouflage hat. He has a 2002 Tracker with a leather tire cover, a Penn State magnet on the back and an Irish beaded bracelet hanging from the rear view mirror. Golder has been reported missing by family members to Milton police. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is urged to call Milton Borough Police Department at 570-7428757.

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High demand for foster parents Attack SUNBURY — Northumberland County is experiencing a high demand for foster parents, especially those willing to care for teenagers, according to the program’s coordinator.

Meghan Weaver said the county currently has approximately 170 chil-

dren in foster care, which is the highest amount she can remember.

“There’s been a big, big need,” she said.

Weaver said the program prefers to keep children in their home communities and the biggest demand is in the Shamokin-Mount Carmel area.

To help get the word out about foster parenting, a recruitment event will be held May 27 at Walmart Supercenter, Selinsgrove. Weaver said anyone interested in helping a child by providing a foster home is welcome to call her office anytime at 570-988-4237.

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Nineteen vendors turned up for the event, bringing with them games and activities to draw in children so they could have a chance to share information with parents.

A booth hosted by Anne Lawrence, of the Susquehanna University Music Preparatory Program, featuring percussion instruments, was especially popular. While children banged out a rhythm on an African drum, Lawrence shook a rain stick — and shared information on early childhood music classes held Thursday evenings at Zion Lutheran Church, Sunbury. The classes welcome children from all of Northumberland County.

“We do a lot of exploring with sounds and families singing,” she said.

County Judge Hugh A. Jones was among the attendees. He said since taking over as the dependency judge, which manages the majority of cases involving children, he has learned a lot about the complex system of ensuring each child is given the best life.

“I have a new appreciation of what Northumberland County Children and Youth do,” he said.

Clark said Children and Youth works to keep families together whenever possible, and connecting

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detained at Central Counties Youth Center in Bellefonte.

The incident was captured on a surveillance camera.

Chief of Police Darwin Tobias III said he didn’t know if the pit bulls were still with their owners’ families. He said efforts are being made by State Dog Warden Mark Rusinsko and Pennsylvania Humane Society Police Officer Richard Wright of the Phoenix Rescue Group in Carlisle to find a rescue shelter for the pit bulls. Wright did not return a call seeking comment Friday evening.

The cat killing has sparked outrage in the community.

“It’s a horrendous act.

That cat didn’t deserve to die the way it did,” he previously stated.

Wright, who is helping Shamokin police with their investigation, said he “literally teared up” watching the video. “It’s a gut-wrenching one. I’m sad for that cat and for those people.”

Crum and the other male were caught on surveillance video walking two pit

bulls on West Willow Street.

The video shows the boys walking the dogs on leashes following the cat out of the frame, and then shows the pit bulls off their leashes, chasing the cat onto a porch, where it was attacked.

The boys, in video from across the street, are seen walking up to the porch to leash the dogs. Crum is seen walking the dog off the porch with the cat still in his dog’s jaws. With the leash in his hand, he is seen allowing the dogs to shake and continue to maul the cat before releasing the animal.

Crum told Miner he tried to pull one of the pit bulls off the cat, but had difficulty because of the dog’s strength. Police said a person can be seen in the video briefly pulling back on the leash.

Orner contacted Miner Thursday morning and told the officer he wanted to prosecute both males who were with the pit bulls.

Anyone with more information about the attack is urged to call police at 570648-5708 or Wright at 717226-1575 or hspowright@ gmail.com.

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When police pulled over arraigned before MagisteriCoral Rearden, 4, of Sunbury, works on a stamping project at a booth run al District Judge John H. the Ruskuski’s vehicle, two

by Parent to Parent Connections of Northumberland County at the Child Gembic III Friday morning additional passengers were in the vehicle. One of the Abuse Prevention Celebration Friday evening. and committed to Snyder passengers, Casey Bailey, County Prison in lieu of 20, of 350 Lasalle St., Ber$10,000 cash bail.

Samantha Ruskuski was wick, was found in possession of a marijuana smokmunity Hospital, Bayada, also charged with a misdecaregivers with programs ship, Parent to Parent ing pipe in her purse, police meanor count of possession WIC Program, the Child Connections of Norcan give them the tools Advocacy Center, Central of drug paraphernalia after said. they need is an important thumberland County, Bailey was charged with Susquehanna Opportuni- she admitted a marijuana Headstart of Northumpreventative measure. a misdemeanor count of smoking bowl found in the ties — Community berland County, Aetna Vendors participating possession with intent to vehicle belong to her and Better Health, Girl Scout Action, Susquehanna in Friday’s celebration use drug paraphernalia. she used it to ingest mariUniversity Music PrepaTroop #62948, Northumwere Transitions, the berland County Behavior ratory Progra, CTC — Priestly Library, the Shikellamy Pride Youth Degenstein Library, Penn Services/Intellectual Coalition an the CommuState Cooperative Exten- Development Services, nity Clinic.

Otterbein Methodist sion, Northumberland FROM PAGE 1 denying at the scene that Church, Sunbury ComCounty Youth Leadershe had used any drugs pricareless driving, reckless or to the accident, Reams driving and failing to wear admitted injecting heroin at a seat belt. one point, but didn’t recall State police reported how long before the crash it Reams was found with FROM PAGE 1 Masser was quoted. “This demic currently ravaging forum will be Deb Beck, hypodermic needles, empty was. is what this forum is about our communities, I hope executive director of the Police said alprazolam Northumberland County blue waxine baggies of herand I encourage people to the auditorium is filled to Drug and Alcohol Service and morphine were found Coroner James Kelley. oin and a silver spoon in attend.” capacity.”

Providers Organization of in Reams’ blood system.

“I am pleased that we her purse. After initially Culver encourages parhave been able to arrange a Pennsylvania (DASPOP).

DASPOP is a statewide coa- ents, students, caretakers, top-tier panel for this teachers and “all communilition of drug and alcohol important discussion on ty members” to take part. abuse prevention, educadrug abuse,” Gordner was Following the presentation and treatment providquoted in a press release. “I tions, the public is invited ers. Beck, a Northumberhope the public can attend land County native, has led to participate in an open and help us identify the question/answer and comthe group since the 1980s. community effort that Mount Carmel Police Chief ment session. Local and needs to be in place to halt county officials are also Todd Owens, a member of this epidemic.” invited to participate. Kelthe Northumberland-MonTennis is the former ley will act as moderator. tour Drug Task Force, will chairman of the National “This open forum will represent law enforcement, Alliance on Model Drug and a representative of the give the public the opportuLaws and serves on the board of the National Asso- Pennsylvania Medical Soci- nity to not only hear, but also ask questions of ciation of State Alcohol and ety will discuss medical experts in drug abuse and issues.

Drug Abuse Directors. He Trade the Clutter for Cash When You addiction, lawmakers and “Education and awarehas served as the state’s Sell Your Stuff in the Classifieds!

Drug and Alcohol Secretary ness are two of the tools we the local drug task force,” need to help teach our kids Kelley was quoted.

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PMEA “I was notified it was a one-time deal,” he said about the co-op arrangement.

Skelton said the district asked if any no teacher is forced to oversee any extramember of the administration — includcurricular activity, for which teachers ing himself, high school Principal Jeffrey receive extra pay as if it’s a part-time job.

Roadcap and Campbell — could pay the He noted that the district could hire more music teachers, but there still would be no membership fee and escort Masser to the festival but was told no. guarantee any teacher would take up the “We want to do this, and we want our task. kids to do this,” he said. “We’re willing to Skelton said he initially looked at finding a chaperone for Brown and Masser like go on a Sunday or Saturday and drive them ourselves.” it was a sport without a coach. He said for Abigail Young, PMEA executive director, PIAA sports, he can hire a member of the community to coach, or co-op with another said PMEA is a private nonprofit organization concerned with teachers. district that has an active program.

“We’re for school music teachers. We are First, he hired a Susquehanna Universihere for the teachers,” she said in a phone ty senior majoring in music education to interview. “If (teachers) want to not sponrehearse with the students. The student was willing to attend the festival as the dis- sor students, that’s their choice.”

When asked if students should be left out trict’s representative — and the district of a festival because a teacher was unwillwas willing to pay the student’s membering or unable to take them, Young said she ship fee — but Skelton said he was told by PMEA that because the student had not yet had no comment. She then declined to give her last name and said, “You may not quote graduated and did not officially have her me,” before hanging up. teaching license, she could not be a memSkelton said Dana Brown chaperoned ber of PMEA. Masser to the regional festival, and he was Skelton then co-opted with Shikellamy grateful to her because the district had no School District to have his students join with theirs and attend the festival together. other choice.

“We’re a small school,” he said.

He was given permission to do this by With few alternatives for competitive PMEA, and said if it worked out well he vocal competition available in the region, hoped to continue it in the future.

Skelton said he will attempt to work But when Masser qualified for the regional festival, Skelton was then told she around PMEA’s rules. He said the district was contemplating hiring a retired PMEA would need a PMEA member from her member to attend the festivals, but was not home district to take her or she would be certain this would be permitted under the barred from attending. rules.

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Exxon’s profit plunges

Exxon Mobil recorded its weakest quarter in more than 16 years as lower oil prices pushed its profit down 63 percent.

Revenue fell 28 percent, and the oil giant lost money in its exploration and production business despite a 2 percent increase in production. It made more money, however, in chemicals.

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Exxon sees smallest profit in 16 years, Chevron posts loss

BY DAVID KOENIG AP BUSINESS WRITER

DALLAS — Motorists are saving billions on cheaper gasoline, but the long slump in oil prices is taking a heavy toll on companies that find and produce crude.

Exxon Mobil posted its smallest quarterly profit in more than 16 years Friday, while Chevron lost $725 million, its worst showing since 2002, and raised the number of jobs it expects to cut this year from 7,000 to 8,000. Other oil companies are expected to report weak earnings in the next few days.

Oil prices have tumbled from their 2014 highs of over $100 a barrel, bottoming out at under $30 in mid-February, because of a worldwide glut. Giant companies like Exxon and major petroleum-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia have continued to pump more from the ground despite the slide in prices.

Forecasters expect U.S. shale producers to cut production, however, which could ease the glut, and prices have been recovering over the past three months. Benchmark U.S. crude is trading at close to $46. Exxon and Chevron stock have gained ground.

“Investors are really focused on where things are heading, and that is higher oil prices,” said Bri-

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Gas prices are displayed at a Chevron gas station in Sacramento, California, Feb. 8. an Youngberg, an analyst with Edward Jones.

Youngberg said companies will aim to avoid the boom-and-bust cycle of the last few years by turning up output more slowly this time — and maybe not until prices are in the $50s.

It might take two years or longer, he said, but eventually prices will be high enough to lead U.S. shale operators to boost production.

Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company, made a profit of $1.81 billion in the first quarter, down 63 percent from $4.94 billion a year ago. It was Exxon’s smallest quarterly profit since a $1.5 billion gain in the third quarter of 1999, according to FactSet figures.

The company lost money in its vaunted exploration and production business despite pumping

slightly more oil and gas than a year ago. Profit fell by nearly half in its refining and marketing division. Only the smaller chemicals division made more money than last year.

Revenue at Irving, Texas-based Exxon tumbled 28 percent to $48.71 billion.

Chevron Corp. recorded its second straight losing quarter. Its $725 million loss was a sharp contrast from the first quarter of last year, when it made $2.57 billion. Revenue plunged 32 percent to $23.55 billion.

Chevron CEO John Watson said the company is controlling spending, focusing more on shorter-term projects, and completing key projects under construction to boost revenue. Exxon, too, is cutting capital spending — by 33 percent in the first quarter, compared with a year ago.

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The major U.S. stock indexes closed lower Friday for the second day in a row. The skid helped pull them deeper into the red for the week and nearly wiped out this month’s gains by the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index.

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Exxon earned $1.81 billion in the first quarter, its smallest quarterly profit since the third quarter of 1999. On a per-share basis, the company earned 43 cents per share, beating Wall Street expectations. Revenue fell to $48.71 billion but topped forecasts.

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RELIGION

A8 SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2016 Faith Bible

Church Schedules Anglican Church of SS Philip and James The Anglican Church of SS Philip and James, 80 Chestnut St., Kulpmont (former Trakks restaurant).

Rector — The Rev. Richard A. Hazzard.

Sunday services — 9 a.m., with Holy Communion.

Participants — Kryistin Kinnaman, acolyte; Charles Kinnaman, psalmist; Linda Riley and Caroline Hazzard, lectors; Oliver Fesniak, director of music.

To contact the rectory, call 570-590-3941 or 570-3393990.

Ash Grove UMC Ash Grove United Methodist Church, 198 Lilac Road, off Route 61, Paxinos Pastor — The Rev. Bonnie Yeager.

Breakfast social — 9 a.m. All are welcome.

Morning worship — 10 a.m.

Church is handicapped accessible.

Sermon — “Who will wipe away their tears?”

Participants -— Peter Kerstetter, organist; Jack Epler, greeter; Ruth Heffner, acolyte; Jimmy and Porter Kramer, ushers; Jack Epler, reader.

Activities — Sunday, trustee meeting, 9:15 a.m.; Wednesday, Bible study, 1 p.m., topic is “Heaven.” Saturday, Northwest Tools for Ministry.

Assumption BVM Assumption BVM Ukrainian Catholic Church, Paxton Street, Centralia.

Pastor — The Very Rev. Archpriest Michael Hutsko.

Confessions — Sunday, 10:30 a.m.

Divine Liturgy — Sunday, 11 a.m.

Augusta Baptist Augusta Baptist Church, 1371 Boyles Run Road, Sunbury.

Pastor — Robert S. Commerford.

Sunday school — 9 a.m.

Morning worship — 10:15 a.m.

Evening service — 6:30 p.m.

Activities — Sunday, youth group, 6 p.m., kids club, 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday, Bible study and prayer meeting, 6:30 p.m.; fourth Thursday of the month, L.I.F.E. for seniors age 55 and up, noon.

Augustaville Wesleyan Augustaville Wesleyan Church, 2556 State Route 890, Paxinos.

Pastor — Greg Clendaniel.

Sunday school — 9:30 a.m.

Worship service — 10:30 a.m.

Evening service — 6 p.m.

Activities — Wednesday, adult Bible study, children’s ministry and youth Bible bowl, 7 p.m.

Bethany Bible Bethany Bible Fellowship Church, 654 Wilburton Road, across from Mount Carmel Estates.

Sunday school — 9:30 a.m.

Morning worship — 10:45 a.m.

Evening service in fellowship hall — 6 p.m.

Activities — Wednesday, children and youth programs and adult prayer and Bible study, 7 p.m.

Bethany EC Bethany EC Church, 1238 Market St., Ashland.

Pastor — J.R. Martinez.

Sunday school — 9:15 a.m. (adults and children).

Worship service — 10:30 a.m.

Activities — Wednesday, weekly Bible study, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Bethel Union Bethel Union Chapel, West Cameron Township.

Pastor — Dave Butler.

Sunday school — 9:30 a.m., all ages.

Morning worship — 10:30 a.m.

Special music — Faith Leiser.

Nursery and junior church -— 10:30 a.m.

Evening worship — 6 p.m.

Youth group — 6 p.m.

Activities — Tuesday, prayer worship, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Bible study, 6 p.m., King’s Kids, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Mother’s Day banquet.

Calvary Bible Calvary Bible Fellowship Church, 35 S. Second St., Shamokin.

Pastor — Ferd Madara.

Morning worship service — Building Fund Sunday. 10:35 a.m., praise team; message by Pastor Madara. Communion.

Sunday school — 9:30 a.m.

Evening service — 6 p.m.

Activities — Sunday, AWANA,

5:45, youth group, 5:45; Monday, men’s Bible study in fellowship hall, 7 p.m.; ladies’ Bible study in mission house, 7 p.m.

Church of the Nazarene Church of the Nazarene, Route 901, Lavelle.

Pastor — Jeremy Smallwood.

Sunday school classes for all ages — 9:30 a.m.

Worship service — 10:45 a.m.

Clark’s Grove UMC Clark’s Grove United Methodist Church, Irish Valley Road, Paxinos. Handicapped accessible.

Pastor — Billy Frick.

Sunday school for all ages — 9 a.m.

Worship services — 8 and 10:10 a.m.

Activities — Wednesday, prayer and Bible study, 7 p.m.; fourth Sunday, youth service, 6 p.m.

Divine Redeemer Divine Redeemer Church, West Avenue and Poplar Street, Mount Carmel.

Pastor — The Very Rev. Martin O. Moran III. Weekday Masses — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 7:30 a.m., Saturday, 8 a.m. No Mass Thursday.

Weekend Masses — Saturday, 4 p.m. (Sunday obligation); Sunday, 8 and 10:30 a.m.

Confession — Saturday, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; after morning novena Wednesday.

Novenas — Monday, Miraculous Medal novena after morning Mass; Wednesday, St. Jude Thaddeus novena after morning Mass; Saturday, St. Francis novena after morning Mass.

Elysburg Alliance Elysburg Alliance Church, 113 W. Alpha Ave., Elysburg.

Pastor — The Rev. Andrew Knisely.

Service — 8 and 10:30 a.m., with a message from Pastor Knisely.

Sunday school for all ages — 9:15 a.m.

Activities — Sunday, AWANA for children age 3 to fifth grade, 6 to 7:30 p.m., junior high youth for sixth to 12th grades, 6:15 to 7:15 p.m.; Wednesday, prayer ministry, 7 to 8 p.m.

Elysburg Presbyterian Elysburg Presbyterian Church, 320 W. Valley Ave. (Route 487), Elysburg.

Pastor — Matthew Young.

Sunday school for all ages — 9 a.m. Church Family Sunday.

Worship service — 10:30 a.m., with nursery provided.

Reading from the Holy Scripture — Joshua 5:13-6:27.

Message — “Jericho,” by Pastor Young.

Musicians — Eileen Reigel, pianist; Debbie Cecco, organist.

Activities — Tuesday, youth group — bonfire, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, couples group, 6 p.m., choir practice, 6:30 p.m., bell choir practice, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Daniel Plan meeting, 4 p.m., potluck dinner, Cinco de Mayo theme, 6 p.m.; Friday, Breakfast with Jesus Bible study, 8:30 a.m.; Saturday, discipleship essentials BYOB, 8 a.m.

Elysburg UMC Elysburg United Methodist Church, 171 W. Center St., Elysburg.

Pastor — The Rev. Michelle Beissel.

Worship — 8:30 a.m. with Holy Eucharist.

Participants — David Manney, head usher; Homer and Charlene Woodring, greeters; Marissa LeVan, acolyte; Jen Myers, scripture reader; Sue Manney and Arlene Gutekunst, shepherding; Olivia Bodner, organist.

Activities — Sunday, confirmation, 2 p.m., No Children’s Sunday School; Tuesday, adult Sunday school, 9:30 a.m., Elysburg Rotary using church, 6 to 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, prayer circle; noon; Thursday, Elysburg Food Pantry, 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Sunday school isn’t just for Sundays anymore. Adult Sunday school will now be meeting at 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays. We will be doing different book studies, discussion groups, etc. We hope you will consider joining us for the Tuesday morning Sunday school.

Emmanuel UMC Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 328 Center St., Coal Township.

Lay supply pastor — Bonnie Alleman.

Sunday school — 8:30 to 9:15 a.m.

Worship — 9:30 a.m., with children’s Sunday school.

Activities — Tuesday and Thursday, exercise class, 6:30 p.m.; second Sunday of the month, movie night, 5 p.m.

Faith Bible Church, Burnside.

Pastor — Perry Ross.

Pianist — Robert Witmer III. Sunday school — 9:30 a.m.

Worship service — 10:30 a.m.

Evening service — 7 p.m.

Activities — Wednesday, Kids Club, Bible study and prayer, 7 p.m.

Faith Community Church Pastor — Dale Hill, 570-7515101.

Sunday worship — 10:30 a.m.

First Baptist, Shamokin First Baptist Church, 10 E. Lincoln St., Shamokin.

Pastor — The Rev. Samuel Derr.

Church school — 9:45 a.m.

Morning worship — 10:45 a.m.

Organist — Judith Pensyl.

Evening service -— 6 p.m.

Organist — Judith Pensyl.

Activities -— Wednesday, Bible study, prayer, praise and testimony, 7 p.m.

First Baptist, Trevorton First Baptist Church of Trevorton, 510 S. Ninth St., Trevorton.

Pastor — David H. Troyer.

Sunday morning — 10:40 a.m. Children’s church for third grade and under.

Sunday school — 9:30 a.m.

Classes for all ages.

Evening service — 6 p.m.

Wednesday Bible study/ prayer meeting — 7 p.m.

Activities — Sunday, weekly choir practice, 7 p.m.; Thursday, visitation, 6:30 p.m.; May 1 and 8, Sunday school worship presented by Child Evangelism Fellowship, 9:30 a.m.; May 7, Mother/Daughter Banquet, 5:30 p.m.; May 15, guest speaker, the Rev. Duane Tupper; May 17, ladies’ outing to Heiser’s Diner and Hobby Lobby in Lebanon; June 12 and 19, guest speaker, the Rev. Bruce Busch.

First Presbyterian First Presbyterian Church, Sunbury and Liberty streets, Shamokin.

Worship — 10:30 a.m.

Guest speaker — Lisa Kraus.

Participants — Carole Oxenrider and David Boyer, ushers/ greeters; Noriene Ladd, organist; Mary Anne Stump, assistant organist; Terry Persing and Wendy Wary, Sunday school; William Persing Sr., sexton; Wendy Wary, secretary; William Milbrand, choir director; Andrew Ladd, acolyte.

First UMC, Mount Carmel First United Methodist Church, 46 N. Hickory St., Mount Carmel.

Pastor — The Rev. Barbara Welsh.

Sermon title — “Because GOD Said So, Gentiles.”

Worship service — 9:30 a.m.

Sunday school — 10:30 a.m.

Participants — Sharon Styer, organist; Bret Getty, sound technician; Betty and Audrey, greeters; Jim Weissinger, head usher; Sherry Brosius, liturgist; Katie Moncavage, acolyte; Jim and Sherry, counting team; Pastor Barb, children’s time.

Activities — Friday, AA meeting at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

First UMC, Shamokin First United Methodist Church, Sunbury Street, Shamokin.

Pastor — Zachary Hopple.

Adult and children’s Sunday school — 9:15 a.m.

Worship service — 10:30 a.m.

Participants — Barbara Moyer, liturgist; Doris Bamford and Marge Dunkin, greeters.

Bible study, Monday, 6 p.m. in the parlor.

Every first Thursday will be craft night.

God’s Missionary God’s Missionary Church in the Valley, 768 Bear Valley Ave., Shamokin.

Pastor — The Rev. Howard R. McKenzie.

Sunday school — 9:45 a.m.

Sunday worship and children’s church — 10:45 a.m.

Evening service — 6 p.m.

Activities — Thursday, prayer meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Good News Bible Good News Bible Church, 221 Main St., Locustdale.

Sunday worship — 3 p.m.

Activities — Wednesday, prayer gathering and Bible study, 6:30 p.m.

Blessings to You, a free food and clothing ministry, is run by the church.

Good Shepherd Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 35 N. Ninth St., Ashland.

Pastor — The Rev. Dana Heckman-Beil.

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Worship service — 9 a.m.

Grace Chapel Grace Chapel, 126 Airport Road, Shamokin.

Pastor — Alan Langelli.

Sunday Bible fellowship groups for all ages — 9:30 a.m.

Sunday morning worship — 10:30 a.m.

Nursery child care is provided for all Sunday services.

Evening worship — 6:30 p.m.

Young couples/young adults class, youth group and Discovery Station — 6:30 p.m.

Activities — May 7, Mother’s Day banquet; May 10, business meeting, ladies’ fellowship; May 12, Men’s prayer breakfast; May 15, guest speaker, AWANA; May 21, computer tech meeting; May 29, Missions Sunday. Small group Bible studies, Monday through Thursday, Call the church for more information.

Grace Evangelical Grace Evangelical Independent Church, Locustdale.

Pastor — The Rev. Rose Marquardt.

Sunday school — 9:45 a.m.

Worship service — 11 a.m.

Children’s Sunday school — 11 a.m.

Grace Lutheran, Shamokin Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, 10 S. Seventh St., Shamokin.

Pastor — The Rev. David M. Byerly.

Service of the word and sacrament — 10:15 a.m.

Participants — Charlene and Guy Pell, worship assistants; Tyler Keiser, acolyte/crucifer; Sarah Karpinski and Theresa Snyder, communion bearers; Cindy Williams, Pam Blusius and Judith Shade, altar care; Judith Shade, greeter; David Kopitsky, driver; Adam Swift Jr., Lamar Grow, Terry Keefer, Nick Keiser, Ron Polastre and Bruce Romanic, ushers; Walter Boyer, organist; Charlene Pell, choir director and cantor.

Activities — Sunday, Tulpehocken Conference Spring Assembly, fellowship hall, 1 p.m.; Monday, hymn committee, Pastor Byerly’s office, 1:30 p.m., Girl Scouts in fellowship hall, 5 p.m., table tennis in fellowship hall, 6:30 p.m.; Thursday, Shamokin Area Ministerium, 10 a.m., Sunday School on Thursday, fellowship hall, 6 p.m.

Grace Lutheran, Mount Carmel Grace Lutheran Church, 146 W. Avenue, Mount Carmel.

Interim pastor — The Rev. Alfred Bashore.

Service with Holy Communion — 10:45 a.m.

The Sixth Sunday of Easter.

Guest speaker — Kevin Snyder.

Participants — Linda Rubendall, organist; Kenneth Kautter, lector; Joseph Melichercik, president; Thomas Pivarnik and William Snyder, ushers.

Services for the month of April will be held at St. Matthew’s (Slovak) Lutheran Church, 301 W. Avenue, Mount Carmel.

Note — Next Sunday, May 8, services will be held at Grace Lutheran Church, 146 W. Avenue, and the celebrant will be Bishop Robert L. Driesen, There will be light refreshments immediately after services to honor Bishop Driesen’s retirement later this year. Hope to see many there to meet and greet Bishop Driesen.

Grace UCC Grace United Church of Christ, Third and Market streets, Mount Carmel.

Pastor — The Rev. Joan A.

Brown.

Morning worship — 9 a.m.

Sunday school — 9 a.m.

Participants — Bryan Lapinski, organist; Logan Wills, acolyte; Rich Mauray and Ray Rothermel, ushers.

Activities — May 2, confirmation class, 4:30 p.m. in the parsonage; fundraising committee meeting, 6 p.m.; consistory meeting, 7 p.m.; May 14, Oak Street Festival; June, yard sale; July 30, bus trip to Sight and Sound.

Harvest Worship Harvest Worship Ministries, 2079 Upper Road, West Cameron Township, 570-850-4280, harvestworshipministries.com.

Pastor — Sandy Wary.

Sunday school — 9:30 a.m.

Worship service — 10:30 a.m.

Hidden Valley Hidden Valley Community Church, 162 Hidden Valley Lane, Mifflinburg. A non-denominational Bible church.

Pastor — Gary L. Owens.

Pastor Gary can be reached by calling the office at 570-9661330, or by cell at 570-4863967.

Himmel’s Church Himmel’s Church, 107 Covered Bridge Road, Dornsife.

Pastor — Jane H. Compton.

Sunday school — 9 a.m.

Worship service — 10:15 a.m., with communion the first Sunday of every month.

Holy Angels Holy Angels Church, 855 Scott St., Kulpmont.

Pastor — The Rev. Andrew Stahmer.

Masses of obligation — Saturday, 5:30 p.m.; Sunday, 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Confessions — Saturday, 4 to 5 p.m.

Weekday Masses — Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, 8 a.m.; Wednesday 7 a.m.; Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

Activities — Sunday, First Holy Communion at 10:30 a.m.

Mass; Tuesday, bingo in Holy Angels Activity Center, doors open 4:30 p.m., game begins at 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Holy Angels outreach meal, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Vigil Mass of the Ascension, 7 p.m.; Thursday, Masses of Obligation for the Ascension of the Lord, 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Holy Trinity Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 150 E. Lincoln St., Shamokin.

Clergy — The Rev. Sarah L. Weedon.

Sunday worship — Holy Eucharist, 10:30 a.m.

Participants — Frank Zaretski, lector; Esther Bashore, intercessor; Susan Zaner, greeter; Iris Kleman, counter.

Activities — Wednesday, Holy Eucharist and healing, 10 a.m.

Hope Community Hope Community Church, a nondenominational Bible church, 551 W. Fourth St., Mount Carmel.

Pastor — Dan Renno.

Christian education for all ages — 9 a.m.

Fellowship time — 9:45 a.m.

Praise and worship service — 10:15 a.m.

Irish Valley UMC Irish Valley United Methodist Church, 2026 Irish Valley Road, Paxinos.

Pastor — Beverly Petrovich.

Adult Sunday school — 9:45 a.m.

Worship service — 11 a.m.

Communion — First Sunday of every month.

Kulpmont UMC Kulpmont First United Methodist Church, 3 Spruce St.,

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Pastor — Beverly Petrovich.

Worship service — 9:30 a.m.

Children have Sunday school during worship service The church no longer has Angel’s Table.

Living Power Living Power Ministries, 45 E. Fourth St., Mount Carmel.

Pastor/teacher — Walt Kriskie.

Pre-service prayer — 10 a.m.

Praise and worship — 10:30 a.m., followed by celebration service.

Sunday evening service — 6 p.m.

Activities — Wednesday, midweek Bible study, 7 p.m., refreshments served.

Miller’s Crossroads Miller’s Crossroads UMC, 1929 Plum Creek Road, Stonington, Sunbury RR 4.

Pastor — Michelle Beissel.

Sunday school — 9 a.m.

Worship service — 10:15 a.m.

Participants — Betsy Bradigan, organist.

Ministry of the Water and Spirit Ministry of the Water and Spirit Church, 915 High Road, Helfenstein.

Pastor — James Bowers.

Sunday services — 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Mother Cabrini Mother Cabrini Church, North Shamokin Street, Shamokin.

Pastor — The Rev. Martin Kobos.

Parochial vicar — The Rev. Adam Ziolkowski.

Sunday Masses — Saturday, 4 p.m.; Sunday, 7, 9 and 11 a.m.

Confessions — Daily, 7:30 to 7:50 a.m.; Saturday, 3 to 3:45 p.m.

Activities — Sunday, religious education program classes for five through seventh, 10 a.m. to noon in the church hall.

Students must meet in church hall no later than 8:45 a.m. to attend the 9 a.m. Mass.

Classes follow immediately in the church hall; Monday, first communion practice for parish second graders, 6 p.m., in the

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Evening Service-6:00 p.m.

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Church Schedules church. One parent of each child should be in attendance and remain until practice is over. Bingo in the church hall at 6:15 p.m.; Tuesday, choir practice, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, First Holy Communion group photo and individuals at 6 p.m. in the church. All parish second graders to be dressed in communion attire for photos.

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New Life Church

New Life Church of God, 129 W. Second St., Mount Carmel.

Interim pastor — The Rev. John D. Ashbaugh.

Sunday school — 9:30 a.m.

Worship church — 10:30 a.m.

Junior church and nursery available. Handicapped accessible, wheelchair available.

Activities — Prayer room open Mountainside mornings; prayer, fellowship and Mountainside Assembly of God, 1900 Trevorton Road, Coal coffee, Saturdays, 9 a.m.

Township.

Oak Grove UMC Pastor — The Rev. Richard H. Oak Grove United Methodist Earl.

Church, Marley Road, Overlook.

Coffee and breakfast snacks Pastor — The Rev. Zachary for all — 9 a.m.

Hopple.

LIFEQuest Sunday school Worship — 9 a.m. classes for all ages — 9:30 Sunday school for all ages — a.m., with nursery available.

10:35 a.m.

Morning worship — 10:30 Activities — Monday, Bible a.m., nursery and children’s study, 6 p.m., First United Methchurch. odist Church.

Youth night — 5 p.m. every Out Reach, first Friday of the other Sunday. month.

Activities — Wednesday, Our Lady of Hope adult prayer and Bible study; Royal Rangers, ages 5 to 18; Our Lady of Hope Parish, girls’ ministry, 6:30 p.m. Coffee Chestnut and First streets, Coal served.

Township.

Monthly activities — First SunPastor — The Rev. Steven G. day, communion and children’s Frenier, OFM Conv. sermon, during 10:30 a.m. serDaily Masses — Monday vice; second Tuesday, Women of through Friday, 7 a.m., Holy SpirPurpose meeting, 7 p.m. it Chapel.

Weekend Masses — SaturMount Zion day, 4 p.m.; Sunday, 7 and 11 Mount Zion Welsh Congrega- a.m. tional United Church of Christ, Sacrament of reconciliation Grant and Church streets, — Saturday, 3 to 3:45 p.m.

Shamokin.

Our Lady of Pastor — Gerald Lloyd Jr. Worship service — 10:30 a.m.

Mount Carmel Scripture — Acts 16: 9-15, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, John 14:23-29.

47 S. Market St., Mount CarSermon — “Come Over to mel.

Help Us.” Pastor — The Rev. Francis J. Organist — Philip Maue.

Karwacki.

Sacrament of Holy CommuDeacon — The Rev. Mr. Marnion will be celebrated the first tin McCarthy.

Sunday of every month.

Weekday Masses — 8 a.m.

Monday through Saturday.

If you want to do something, you can always find reasons for doing it. If you don’t want to do the same thing, you can find reasons for not doing it.

Church attendance is purely a personal decision. However, those who opt out missed two examples of why true lessons of faith are not always found in sermons or homilies.

During one Mass, a young boy was with a relative who was also participating as a lector. He sat alone in the front pew while the relative rendered the readings. At least, he sat alone briefly. The pastor left his seat of honor on the altar and sat in the pew (another seat of honor) with the little boy until the youngster’s relative was done with the readings.

Not too many weeks later, there was another homily that was not spoken but lived. This time, a family that had just lost a loved one was occupying the same front pew. You could tell it was a very emotional time for the widow and the others.

Near the end of the Mass, the priest said reassuring words about the woman’s husband. But a moment or two later, he did something even kinder. Before he processed down the center aisle, he stopped at the front pew and gently kissed the forehead of the widow.

Love of others that blooms from the love of God can be shown in church or out. Homilies or sermons lived and not just preached can be seen in church and out by those who share Christ’s compassion and concern for others.

If you don’t want to do that, you can always find reasons.

However, if you do want to share that love, you really only need one reason — God. +++ God’s love is the reason for faith, hope and charity.

Weekend Masses — Saturday, 4 p.m.; Sunday, 8:30 and 11 a.m.

Holy days of obligation — 6:30 p.m. on the eve, 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. on the holy day.

Confessions — Daily 7:30 to 7:55 a.m. including Saturday or any time by appointment; Saturday, 3 to 3:50 p.m.

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church, 599 W. Center St., Elysburg.

Pastor — The Rev. Joseph Scanlin.

Masses — Weekdays, 8 a.m.; Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, 8 and 10:30 a.m.

Peifer’s Evangelical Confessions — Saturday, 4 to Peifer’s Evangelical Congrega- 4:30 p.m. tional Church, Mandata Road, Restoration Ministries Herndon.

Restoration Ministries Church, Pastor — Bradley D. Hatter.

525 W. Chestnut St., Shamokin.

Sunday school — 9 a.m.

Pastor — Paul K. Eby. Worship — 10:30 a.m.

Pre-service prayer — 9 a.m.

Sunday school — 9:30 a.m. for all ages, JoAnne Long, superintendent.

Sunday worship service — 10:30 a.m. Pastor Paul will speak. The worship team will lead praise and worship. Special prayer will be available. Nursery care will also be available.

Children’s church — 11:15 a.m. for ages 4 through 11, directed by Shirley Cintron.

Student Life Ministry youth service — 6:30 p.m. for all teens ages 12 to 18.

Activities — Monday, soup kitchen, 5 to 6 p.m.; Tuesday, cross training youth disciple class, dinner at 3 p.m., class taught by Fran Jones from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, Soul Seekers group for ages 18 and older, 7 p.m.

St. John Lutheran St. John Lutheran, 29 High Road, Danville.

Pastor — The Rev. Martha Sue Moll.

Sunday school — 9:15 a.m.

Worship service — 10:30 a.m.

Participants — Alice Roshon, acolyte; Pat Burlone, lector; David Bird and Pat Burlone, ushers; volunteers, communion assistants; volunteers, altar care.

St. John’s UCC St. John’s United Church of Christ, 117 N. Eighth St., Shamokin.

Minister — Pastor Rose E. Shepley.

Sixth Sunday of Easter Coffee and fellowship time — 9 a.m. in parlor.

Sunday school — 9:15 a.m.

Worship service — 10 a.m. in sanctuary.

Participants — Susan Haas, lay reader; Brittany Bendas, acolyte; Sherry Romanoskie, children’s message; The adult choir, ministry of music; Maxine Howerter Harvey, pianist; Geof Levan, guitarist/soloist; Margaret Morris, organist/choir director.

Activities — Tuesday, Cub

Scouts/Wolf Den, Bear Den, Webeloes 1 and 2, at 5:30 p.m.; Boy Scout Troop, 6:30 p.m.; Thursday, Bible study, 6 p.m., adult choir rehearsal, 7 p.m., Lark Chapel.

St. John’s UMC St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1211 W. Arch St., Coal Township.

Pastor — The Rev. Karyn Fisher.

Worship and children’s church — 9 a.m.

This week -- Emma Myers, Ian Anderson and Cierra Adams, liturgists; Special music by St. John’s “The Kool Kids.” Sacrament of Holy Communion.

Sunday school and confirmation class — 10:30 a.m.

Youth group Bowling Night at the Coal Bowl — 5:30 p.m.

Activities — Sunday, Shamokin Survivors NA meeting, 7 p.m.; Monday, Disciple 1 bible study; Tuesday, men’s group, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Northumberland County early intervention play group, 10 to 11:30 a.m., Bible study, Gospel of Luke, 6:30 p.m.; Thursday, Shamokin Survivors NA meeting, 7 p.m.; Friday, Shamokin Survivors NA meeting, 8 p.m; Saturday, choir practice, 8 a.m.: Trinity UMC, 9 to 3 p.m., “Book and Breakfast” women’s group at the church, 1218 W. Arch St., 9:15 a.m.

Coming events — Sunday, tools for ministry — Ono UMC, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; May 15, confirmation Sunday; June 5, district conference; June 16 through 18, annual conference

St. Charles Borromeo R.C. Church St. Charles Borromeo Church, 11th and Walnut streets, Ashland.

Due to the death of the Rev. John Bambrick, there will be no daily Masses until further notice.

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FROM PAGE 9 Pastor — The Rev. Steven G. Sunday.

Religious education classes Susan Klinger, director of reli- Frenier, OFM Conv.

Weekend Mass — Sunday, 9 — 6 to 7:15 p.m. Monday. gious education.

Celebration of the Holy Eucha- a.m.

St. Peter’s UCC Weekday Mass — 8 a.m. rist — Saturday, St. Charles BorWednesday.

St. Peter’s United Church of romeo, 4 p.m.; Sacrament of reconciliation — Christ, Paxinos.

Sunday, St. Vincent de Paul, Pastor — Paul T. Gurba.

8:30 a.m., St. Charles Borro- Wednesday after morning Mass or during the day.

Morning worship — 8:30 a.m. meo, 11 a.m.

Sermon title — “Dealing with Rosary prayed before all MassSt. Paul Lutheran Increased Opposition and Opes.

St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran St. Ann’s Chapel, open Mon- Church, 4663 Upper Road, Gow- pression.”

Verse of the day — Psalms day to Saturday for prayer. Mon- en City.

146:7a “(God) Which executed day and Tuesday, 6 a.m. to 6 Pastor — The Rev. David M. judgment for the oppressed: p.m.; Wednesday, Thursday, Fri- Byerly. which giveth food to the hungry.” day, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Saturday Service of word and sacrafrom 8 a.m. to after vigil Mass. ment — 8:15 a.m.

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St. Mark Lutheran

St. Mark Lutheran, 225 N. Market St., Elysburg.

Worship service — 9 a.m.

Pastor — The Rev. Martha Sue Moll.

Activities — Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Senior Action Center is open; Wednesday, 7 p.m. AA meeting; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Boy Scouts meet.

St. Matthew Lutheran St. Matthew (Slovak) Lutheran Church, 301 W. Avenue, Mount Carmel.

Interim pastor — The Rev. Alfred Bashore.

Service with Holy Communion — 10:45 a.m.

The Sixth Sunday of Easter.

Guest speaker — Kevin Snyder.

Services for the month of April will be held at St. Matthew’s (Slovak) Lutheran Church, 301 W. Avenue, Mount Carmel.

Next Sunday, May 8, services will be held at Grace Lutheran Church and the celebrant will be Bishop Robert L. Driesen. There will be light refreshments immediately af ter the service to honor Bishop Driesen’s retirement later this year. He has done an awful lot for the Upper Susquehanna Synod. Hope to see you there.

St. Michael Orthodox

Activities —Sunday, Tulpehocken Conference Spring Assembly, Grace Church, fellowship hall, 1 p.m.; Thursday, Shamokin Area Ministerium, 10 a.m.; Sunday School on Thursday, Grace Church, fellowship hall, 6 p.m.; Saturday, May , Gowen City community yard sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

St. Paul’s Reformed St. Paul’s Reformed United Church of Christ, Gowen City.

Pastor — Jerry Schlegel.

Worship time — 9 a.m. Communion.

Scripture — Romans 11: 3336.

Message — “A Question of Faith.”

St. Pauline Visintainer St. Pauline Visintainer Center, 1150 Chestnut St., Box 115, Kulpmont.

“Chapel of the Crucified.”

Eucharistic adoration — Friday, noon to midnight, and Saturday, 6 to 7 p.m.

St. Pauline Visintainer Center, open Sunday by appointment only.

St. Peter’s Lutheran St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Aristes.

Interim pastor — The Rev. Alfred Bashore.

Service and sacrament of Holy Communion — 9 a.m.

St. Michael’s Orthodox Church, SS Peter and Paul 131 N. Willow St., Mount Carmel.

SS Peter and Paul Ukrainian Pastor — The Rev. John Ed- Catholic Church, Avenue and ward.

Beech Street, Mount Carmel.

Divine Liturgy — 9 a.m.

Pastor — The Very Rev. Archpriest Michael Hutsko.

St. Patrick Confessions — Saturday, 3:15 St. Patrick Church, 331 W. p.m., and Sunday, 8:15 a.m.

Shamokin St., Trevorton.

Weekday Divine Liturgies — 8

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Fourth and Maple streets, Mount Carmel.

Celebrant — The Rev. Sarah L. Weedon.

Saturday Holy Eucharist and healing at 5 p.m. every week (second Saturday worship held at Center for Ministry, 45 W. Fourth St.) Sunday Holy Eucharist — 8:30 a.m.

Saturday Holy Eucharist— 5 p.m. every week. The second Saturday at Center for Ministry, 45 W. Fourth St. Second Saturday suppers — 5 p.m. at the Center for Ministry, 45 W. Fourth St. The suppers are free and all are welcome with option to participate in worship during meal.

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the third Saturday of the month.

True Grace Opening devotion followed by True Grace Bible Ministry, 950 fun, food and fellowship. Every W. Arch St., Coal Township.

Wednesday through May 25, Pastor/teacher — Michael Kidz Club and teen ministry, 6 to Marcheskie.

Salvation Army 7:30 p.m., with a meal at 5:30 Sunday school — 9:30 a.m.

Christian Enrichment Center, p.m. for children, teens and famSunday service — 10:30 a.m., 1300 W. Spruce St., Coal Town- ily. with children’s study time. ship.

rant. Donations are now being accepted for Chinese auction on June 4. Donations will be accepted until May 29.

Commanding officer — Maj. Shamokin Seventh Day Adventist Tina Streck.

Holiness meeting (worship) — Shamokin Seventh Day Adven9:30 a.m. tist Church, 7 E. Sunbury St., Sunday school — 10:45 a.m. Shamokin (former Jewish synagogue), 570-648-7770.

Seibert Evangelical Pastor — John Peters.

Seibert Evangelical CongregaSaturday sabbath school — tional Church, Route 147, Hern- 9:30 a.m., with classes for childon. dren and adults.

Pastor — Bradley D. Hatter.

Saturday worship — 11 a.m.

Worship — 9 a.m.

Tuesday, Bible studies, 5 p.m.

Sunday school — 10:15 a.m.

Seventh Street

Seventh Street Primitive Methodist Church, 34 N. Seventh St., Shamokin.

Pastor — The Rev. David Wildoner.

Sunday school — 10 a.m.

Morning worship and children’s church — 11 a.m.

Message — “The Kingdom is Like a Banquet.”

A nursery is available for children up to age 5. Children’s church is available for children over 5 with a focus on lessons from the Bible.

Activities — Manna for the Many for May is condiments, mayo, mustard, ketchup and such; medicine bottles, keep bringing in the medicine bottles for the Mission Project; check Salem UCC our new church page on FaceSalem United Church of Christ, book, created by Jennifer Brud1300 W. Pine St., Coal Town- nicki; May 10 to 12, conference meeting at Sandy Cove, Maryship.

Minister — The Rev. Jean Eck- land. rod.

Shamokin Alliance Morning worship — 10 a.m.

Shamokin Christian and MisSpecial ministries for the month of May is Phoebe Minis- sionary Alliance Church, Second and Arch streets, Shamokin. tries.

Pastor — Samuel Bellavia.

Next Sunday is Manna for Sunday school — 9:45 a.m. the Many. Members are asked to donate non-perishable food Classes available for all ages.

Worship services — 8:30 and items to help support the local 10:50 a.m. food bank.

Wednesday ministries — 6 This Sunday is Pennies for Sergio. Members are asked to to 7:30 p.m. Age range is four donate pennies to help support years to high school senior.

Sunday evening service — 6 our sponsor child in Guatemala.

Activities — May 11, Senior p.m.

Offered are small groups and Day. Will leave church at 10:30 a.m. to go to Watson Inn in Wat- cottage prayer meetings for sontown; May 18, blood drive in adults. Contact church at 570the church, 1 to 6 p.m., council 644-1718 for information.

Activities — Today is 1845 meeting in the council room, 7 p.m.; May 25, prayer breakfast, Connections, a young adult 10 a.m., Timbercreek Restau- ministry. It will continue to meet

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Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Susquehanna Valley, 265 Point Township Drive, Northumberland.

Sunday service — 10:30 a.m.

Passover Worship leader — Rev. Ann Evans.

Worship associate — Jean Lumpkin.

Musician — Dee Casteel.

Stonington Baptist

United Presbyterian

Stonington Baptist Church, Hosta Road, Paxinos.

Pastor — The Rev. J. Douglas Hallman.

Sunday school — 9 a.m.

Morning worship — 10 a.m.

Evening service — 6 p.m.

Activities — Wednesday, AWANA clubs for children in kindergarten through sixth grade and Word of Life clubs for grades 7 to 12, 6:30 p.m., prayer service, 7 p.m.

United Presbyterian Church, 100 E. Fifth St., Mount Carmel.

Minister — The Rev. Ted Plott.

Worship service — 11 a.m.

Message — “Four Results of Grace.”

Scripture — Galatians 1: 18-24.

Victory Bible Church

Victory Bible Church, Snydertown Highway, three miles from Elysburg.

Pastor — Kevin Kline.

Worship — 10 a.m., with SunTrevorton UMC day school for youth at the same Trevorton United Methodist time.

Church, Shamokin Street, TrevEvening worship — 7 p.m. orton.

Wilburton UMC Pastor — The Rev. Al Schell Jr. Wilburton United Methodist Sunday school — 9:30 a.m.

Worship service — 10:45 Church, Wilburton.

Pastor — Rose M. Marquardt. a.m.

Worship service — 8:45 a.m.

Nancy Korenkiewicz, pianist, Children’s Sunday school — organist and choir director.

Activities — Thursdays, Bible 10 a.m. study taught by Roxanne Klinger, Zion Primitive 7 p.m.

Methodist Church

Trinity Evangelical

33 N. Market St., Mount CarTrinity Evangelical Congrega- mel. tional Church, 28 W. Arch St., Pastor — The Rev. Neal E. Shamokin.

Smith.

Pastor — The Rev. Brian C. Worship service — 11 a.m.

Betsworth.

Zion UMC Worship service — 10:45 Zion United Methodist Church, a.m., Antioch Place.

Activities — Wednesday, Aristes.

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Penn State men big winners at Penn Relays into the anchor leg — and there were some outstanding teams today. But Brannon just had a PHILADELPHIA — Brannon great finish like he always does Kidder led Penn State to the dis- and brought home the victory tance medley relay championfor Penn State.” ship at the Penn Relays on FriGeorgetown came in second day, breaking away from the at 9:36.32 and host Penn finpack with a blistering anchor ished third in 9:37.25. Oregon, leg. the 2014 and 2015 winner in the Kidder ran the closing event, didn’t bring its men’s 1,600-meter leg in 4 minutes, team to Penn Relays this year.

0.77 seconds as the Nittany Kidder and Creese were both Lions finished in 9:35.51. part of the Nittany Lions’ last Robby Creese opened with a distance medley relay title in 2:57.03 in the 1,200, Alex Shisler 2013, making Friday’s win to ran the 400 in 47.77 and Isaiah bookend their college career Harris clocked in at 1:49.96 in even more gratifying. the 800 for Penn State. It was “I got a little spoiled winning the sixth overall men’s distance one my freshman year,” Kidder medley relay title for the Nitta- said. “It makes you realize how ny Lions. special it is to get the wheel.

“They executed the race plan They all mean something differto perfection,” Penn State coach ent.”

John Gondak said. “It’s always In the other marquee a little bit nerve-racking when long-distance race on Day 2 of every team is still there going

BY DAVE ZEITLIN Associated Press

the three-day meet at Franklin Field, Villanova used a big kick from Siofra Cleirigh Buttner to win the women’s 6,000 relay in 17:44.29.

Buttner, the only sophomore on a relay team with freshmen Bella Burda, Sammy Bockoven and Nicole Hutchinson, ran her anchor leg in 4:24.3 to edge Oregon, Georgetown and Indiana in a dramatic four-team race.

“All I told the freshmen was to somehow put Siofra in the race and I knew she could get it done,” Villanova coach Gina Procaccio said. “I told (Siofra), ‘Just remember you can outkick anyone. Just remember that.’ It’s nice that it went to plan.”

The win was Villanova’s sixth Penn Relays championship in the last three years as the Wildcats bounced back from a thirdplace finish in the distance

medley relay Thursday.

“I didn’t have a doubt in my mind that we could get this done today,” said Buttner, who made her move with about 200 meters left. “I watched every other girl give it their all, give their heart and guts to each leg, and I knew I wasn’t going to give that up.”

Oregon won the women’s 400 relay title, with the Ducks’ foursome of Danielle Barbian, Deajah Stevens, Hannah Cunliffe and Ariana Washington finishing in 43.44 seconds. Tennessee was second at 43.72 and Auburn came in third at 44.83. Texas A& M, which had won the previous seven titles, was not at the meet.

“This is just a really fun meet,” said Washington, Oregon’s anchor. “We came here to win and just to have fun, and that’s what we did.”

In the shuttle hurdles cham-

pionships, Houston won the men’s title in 56.78 and Florida State took the women’s title in 55.15. In the sprint medley championships, Florida won the men’s title in 3:16.87 and Oregon captured its second straight women’s title in 3:46.40.

In the field events, Florida State’s Kellion Knibb won the women’s discus with a throw of 192 feet, 1 inch. Penn State’s Jon Yohman won the shot put title at 60-10½. It was the fourth time in five years a Penn State athlete has won the event, with Darrell Hill winning the previous two.

Chadron State’s Damarcus Simpson won the men’s long jump at 25-10¼, Vanderbilt’s Simone Charley took the women’s triple jump at 42-8 and Lehigh’s Courtney Avery won the women’s high jump at 5-10.

Let’s get rid of ‘war rooms’

BY PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer

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Shamokin Area’s RJ Gurba fouls a pitch off Friday during a game against Bloomsburg at Shamokin.

Ahhh, we’re once again at that time of the year when self-important men who’ve never served in the military gather to divvy up a group of younger men who happen to be very good at the game of football.

For some reason, these high-level decisions take place within the confines of a “war room” — even though the only thing that conjures up any thought of actual combat is Laremy Tunsil’s “gas” mask (wink, wink).

Enough with this gibberish.

The NFL draft isn’t held in the middle of Afghanistan — you know, a place that knows a thing or two about actual warfare — so let’s stop using military terms to describe the

extremely safe, secure rooms (complete with catered meals) where general managers and their minions decide which college players have the best chance of helping their teams win more games next season.

While we’re at it, here’s a few more entries we’d like to eradicate from the sports dictionary: ___ ALL WAR-RELATED TERMS: Like the aforementioned room, most of these can be traced to football’s obsession with turning military tactics into gridiron terminology. We’re pretty sure that linemen aren’t doing their blocking in deep holes designed to keep them out of the line of fire, but they’re nevertheless known for working “in the trenches.” A quarterback is the WAR, Page 12

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Wolfe went the distance for Shamokin, throwing all seven COAL TOWNSHIP — Despite outinnings with 125 pitches and allowscoring the Panthers 5-2 from the ing nine hits, five earned runs while third inning on, the Indians fell 8-5 striking out 10 and walking three.

Friday after allowing three runs Bloomsburg’s Evan Long got the win each in the first and second innings. for the Panthers, pitching five As the Shamokin bats struggled to innings and allowing just one find a groove early on, starting pitchearned run on seven hits with three er Jake Wolfe got off to a slow start strikeouts and one walk. Tyson as well, giving up six hits and two Thrush pitched two innings in relief walks in before the third inning to earn the save, giving up just one began. hit while striking out three and The Indians battled back, in large walking one. part with a three run fifth inning to Shamokin’s Tom Campbell lead come within two runs of the lead, his team in offensive production, but failed to score in the sixth and managing two hits over three at bats seventh innings, bringing the team’s and knocking in two runs. RJ Gurba overall record to 8-6.

was the only other Indian to get two hits during the game.

Both team’s defenses had three errors, and the Indians never managed an extra base hit throughout the game.

Bloomsburg 330 010 1 — 8 9 3 Shamokin 001 130 0 — 5 8 3 Batting (AB-R-H-RBI) BLOOMSBURG (8) — Birrane 4-1-1-0, Malatesta 3-1-1-1, Thrush 4-1-1-0, Long 4-3-2-1, Kashner 4-01-1, Deeter 4-0-1-1, Diehl 1-0-0-0, Zola 2-0-1-1, Foust 2-1-0-0, Lee 3-1-1-0.

SHAMOKIN (5) — Rachau 4-0-1-1, Gurba 3-1-2-0, Wolfe 3-1-1-0, Haupt 3-2-0-0, Carpenter 3-0-0-0, Campbell 3-0-2-2, Hoover 3-0-1-1, Fenix 3-1-1-0, Pietkiewicz 3-0-0-0.

Pitching (IP-H-R-ER-SO-BB) Bloomsburg — Long (W) 5.0-7-5-1-3-1, Thrush (SV) 2.0-1-0-0-3-1 Shamokin — Wolfe (L) 7.0-9-8-5-10-3

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Mississippi’s Laremy Tunsil poses for photos with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell after being selected by the Miami Dolphins as the 13th pick in the first round of the 2016 NFL football draft, Thursday, in Chicago.

Ole Miss is Round 1’s biggest loser

BY JIM LITKE

the start of the draft, a video of Tunsil wearing a gas mask with a bong attached CHICAGO — We won’t and smoking something, know who won Round 1 of presumably marijuana, driver to help Stewart avoid

BY JENNA FRYER the 2016 NFL draft for a sea- was released on his own hurting his back again.

AP Auto Racing Writer son or two.

Twitter account, which he But all the talk Friday But we already know the subsequently claimed had TALLADEGA, Ala. — It’s was about his fine, which biggest loser. been an action-packed week wasn’t lifted even after been hacked.

That would be Ole Miss for Tony Stewart following NASCAR heeded to conStrange as that seemed — and coach Hugh Freeze, his return to a race car and it likely caused Tunsil cerns. who began Thursday ready to drop a half-dozen spots or after a back injury sideStewart said he still to celebrate three players lined him the first eight rac- doesn’t understand what he more — it was only his being selected in that first es of the season. warm-up act. Not quite two said to warrant the penalty. round, then ended it by Upon his return, he was hours later, his Instagram “You hate to have to pay practically inviting NCAA promptly fined $35,000 by account — which he also $35,000 to get someone’s investigators already snoop- said was hacked — served NASCAR for criticizing the attention, but apparently ing around campus to open up screen shots of text messeries about safety surthat’s what it took,” Stewart a satellite office there. rounding lug nuts. He then said. “I’ve got questions, sages purportedly between At the center of that top- Tunsil and an assistant athran his first race since too, that I’d like to have sy-turvy evening was Lare- letic director at Ole Miss in November, then participat- answers to. I’m still wondermy Tunsil, a 6-foot-5, ed in the final tire test of which the player asked for ing why I’m paying a $35,000 310-pound left tackle with a help paying rent and his his career over two days fine for something that got checkered past and an this week at Indianapolis mother’s utility bills.

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If you guessed those NASCAR driver Tony Stewart, signs autographs uncertain future as the 13th NASCAR last season Now he’s scheduled for a stopped policing how many before heading to his car before practice for pick of the Miami Dolmight be a violation of phins. As he was waiting in NCAA rules, you’re right. short weekend at Talladega lug nuts teams were using Sunday’s NASCAR auto race at Talladega the green room with other Superspeedway, where Ty Tunsil, who sat out the first STEWART, Page 12 Superspeedway, Friday, in Talladega, Ala. top prospects just ahead of Dillon will be his relief LOSER, Page 12

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seven games of his junior season after the NCAA ruled he received improper benefits — including the use of three loaner cars over a six-month period — probably knew that, too. And keep in mind that Ole Miss has already self-reported a handful of violations and been under scrutiny by NCAA gumshoes long enough for Freeze to liken the process to “a four-year colonoscopy.”

So when Tunsil was asked in his post-draft press conference about whether he took money at Ole Miss, his first response was “Nah, I wouldn’t say that.” But less than a minute later, when the question was asked a second time — “Was it an exchange between you and your coach, for money?”

— Tunsil replied, “I’d have to say yeah.”

Then came a follow-up question about the NCAA, but before Tunsil could answer, a woman from the NFL’s PR department slid between Tunsil and the microphone, curtly announced, “He has no more comments,” and shuttled the player out of the room and into another behind closed doors.

There, Tunsil was apparently given a different set of marching orders from representatives of his agent, Jimmy Sexton, who also happens to be the agent for Freeze, as well as newly minted Miami Dolphins coach Adam Gase. Talk about coincidence.

Ole Miss teammate Robert Nkemdiche called Tunsil’s drop “heartbreaking,” and he should know. A top-flight defensive tackle, Nkemdiche, like Tunsil, slipped a few rungs down the draft ladder TIM ZYLA/STAFF PHOTO and likely cost himself millions as well. He, too, Shamokin Area first baseman Tom Campbell catches the ball on a pickoff attempt Friday during a had a slip-up in his recent past — according to a game against Bloomsburg at Shamokin. police report, he fell15 feet out of hotel window while admittedly drunk last December, and a small amount of marijuana was found in his room.

But the Cardinals have drafted players with character issues before — safety Tyrann Mathieu — and it worked out well. And let’s not forget, the Dolphins employed Richie Incognito not that long ago.

For all the issues football players bring with them from team to team, Tunsil’s purported pot use and even his admission of under-the-table payments didn’t scare NFL franchises off that much.

Or as Lions general manager Bob Quinn said as the draft drama unfolded, “If we took players off the board because they smoked pot in college or marijuana, half the board would be gone.”

Instead, they’ll be well-paid professionals, at least for a while, whether they pan out long-term or not.

At the moment, whatever other labels you apply to players like Tunsil and Nkemdiche, be prepared to add “bargain” to the mix.

Back at Ole Miss, though, depending on what NCAA investigators turn up, the folks may come up with some other names that can’t be reprinted here.

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Stewart

Shamokin Area pitcher Jake Wolfe begins to slide as he fields an infield hit from a Bloomsburg batter Friday at Shamokin.

“I hope this doesn’t discourage drivers for standing up for what and it evolved into many crews using less than the standard five. It they believe and what they think is right for everybody.” led to a rash of loose wheels, and The fine caught the attention of several drivers and crew chiefs the Sprint Cup Drivers Council, were critical of the safety aspects.

But it wasn’t until Stewart spoke which said it would pay Stewart’s up that NASCAR snapped to atten- fine. Stewart is one of the nine drivers on the council, but didn’t tion. He was the only one fined. learn the other On Monday of thisEvery week, Benefits Older Pennsylvanians.

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He said he didn’t want them to lug nuts.

“The crazy part was I wasn’t the pay his fine, and it was decided the money they pledged would instead first person that brought it up, I go to Autism Delaware. was down the food chain of guys “We did it collectively as a group that had already discussed it and and that’s something I’m really talked about it,” he said. “I talked proud of with this Driver Council, about it and got my hand slapped. is how the drivers are united about Obviously, it was the way that I everything we’re doing,” Stewart talked about it, which I’m still trying to figure out exactly what I said said. “This was the first time that or what the word or the phrase was something had happened where somebody in the Council got a penthat got me in trouble. When it comes to something like that that is alty for speaking an opinion. For them to show that kind of support a safety issue, fine or not, I think and show we’re all one unit, that’s you’ve got to speak your mind and something you don’t normally see you’ve got to be honest about it.

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Stewart only plans to race Sunday until the first caution, and then he’ll give his seat up to Dillon.

Stewart crashed an all-terrain vehicle the week before the season opened and ruptured a vertebra that caused him to miss the first eight races of his final season in NASCAR. He’s retiring at the end of the year.

Dillon shared the No. 14 Chevrolet with Brian Vickers while Stewart was sidelined, and Stewart will drive Sunday with Dillon’s seat to make it a seamless driver change.

“I can’t thank Stewart-Haas and their organization enough for giving me the opportunity to fill in this year,” Dillon said. “Not only has it helped me with my career and getting better as race car driver, but it’s helped me show people that I can get the job done.

“I feel like I’m ready to be in the (Cup) series full-time as a driver, mentally and physically.”

NASCAR has already said that if

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with a star — and it’s on his helmet, not his collar. While we’re at it, those like Romo are capable of throwing long passes, not bombs. And the goal is to get to the other side of the 50-yard line, not enemy territory.

A TRADITION LIKE NO OTHER: Augusta National has relished this moniker for its annual golf tournament, but outside of concession stands that sell pimento cheese sandwiches and the awarding of garish attire to the winner, the Masters actually seems a lot like most golf tournaments. They play 18 holes. Par is 72. They have tee boxes and fairways and sand traps.

And the guy who shoots the lowest score wins.

A tradition like every other.

PHYSICALLY GIFTED: This term is generally applied to African-American and other minority athletes, supposedly as a compliment when it’s really more of a racial slight. The flip side of this, of course, is the white athlete who gets pegged as a “hard worker.” These stereotypes diminish athletes of every color. Guess what? Anyone who makes it as a professional athlete probably has some genetic gifts the rest of us are lacking, but the major reason they got where they are is because of their obsessive work ethic.

famous line from the 1989 film “Field of Dreams” became the standard pitch for every city that wanted to build a new stadium or arena to lure a pro sports team. Instead of ghostly baseball players emerging from the cornfield, all the taxpayers got was hefty bills for subsidizing billionaire owners. Besides, this came from an era when we romanticized baseball as some sort of metaphor for life. Until the minimum wage is raised to $507,500 a year, let’s send that silly notion — and this saying — back to the cornfield.

TALK ABOUT: A plea to my journalism colleagues out there: Please, please retire this lazy starting point to seemingly every so-called question uttered in locker rooms and postgame news conferences. May we return to asking actual questions instead of needlessly reiterating that we want answers in the form of spoken language.

FRESH TIRES: Apparently, the tires used in NASCAR come from a bakery. Otherwise, why would they say the good ol’ boys are heading to the pits to get a “fresh” set of rubber? Fresh is a loaf of bread right out of the oven. The tires that are changed to in the middle of a race are new.

STUDENT-ATHLETE: There’s never been a

Dillon wins on Sunday, it would count toward Stewart’s attempt to qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

Dillon didn’t care if Stewart would be credited with the win.

“First of all, it would mean I won a Sprint Cup race,” he said. “On top of that, to be able to get Tony a step closer to be locked into the Chase would be really cool. If it all comes together and we do win the race, I’m sure it will be a heck of a party and everybody is going to be happy.”

Stewart wasn’t so sure he agreed with NASCAR’s ruling, even though he needs a win and has to climb into the top-30 in points to make it into the Chase.

“I don’t think I will feel good about it if I were to get a spot that way,” Stewart said. “I know I wouldn’t feel good about it. I think for me to make the Chase, it needs to be because I ran the whole race and won the race. Not started it and somebody else won it for me.”

bigger abuse of the English language than this one, shoved down our throats in hopes of justifying how we’ve allowed our institutions of higher learning to be co-opted into professional franchises (only with the added benefit of not having to actually pay the players). Those who run these money machines like to tell us it’s all about the kids. Yeah, right.

BASKETBALL RING: And finally, we give you the latest misguided attempt to blend the worlds of politics and sports. While stumping in Indiana, presidential candidate Ted Cruz decided that the best way to appeal to voters in that basketball-crazed state was to re-enact a scene from the movie “Hoosiers.” And then he went and called the basket a “ring.” Cruz might’ve seen a boxing match held in a ring, or put a ring on his wife’s hand when he asked her to marry him. But rest assured, no one has ever shot at a basketball ring.

We don’t even need a war room to figure that out. ___ Paul Newberry is a national writer for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry@ ap.org or at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 .

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Suspended Marlin Dee Gordon says he unknowingly took PEDs

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majors in hits and stolen bases last year. He batted .333, became an All-Star for the second time MIAMI — Reigning NL batting and won a Gold Glove at second champion Dee Gordon of the base.

Miami Marlins says he unknowThe big season helped him earn ingly took the performance-ena $50 million, five-year contract he hancing drugs that led to his signed in January.

80-game suspension, but he’ll He and Marlins manager Don accept the penalty.

Mattingly were together with the The announcement of the susDodgers for four years, but the pension by Major League Base5-foot-11, 170-pound Gordon didn’t ball came shortly after the Marbecome a regular in Los Angeles lins’ victory at Los Angeles on until 2014. Gordon was traded to Thursday night. MLB said GorMiami in a seven-player deal in don tested positive for exogenous December 2014, and Mattingly testosterone and clostebol. became the Marlins’ manager “Though I did not do so knowthis season. ingly, I have been informed that “Dee is always a guy we felt test results showed I ingested could play, but at that point he something that contained prohibwas 145 pounds soaking wet,” ited substances,” Gordon said in a Mattingly said during spring statement released Friday by the training. “Now he has turned into players union. “The hardest part a man. He has put some physical about this is feeling that I have let strength on him, and he’s a differdown my teammates, the organient player.” zation, and the fans. I have been The suspension came only careful to avoid products that months after steroids-tainted could contain something banned home run king Barry Bonds

by MLB and the 20-plus tests that joined the Marlins as their hitting I have taken and passed throughcoach. out my career prove this.

Mattingly said the Marlins will “I made a mistake and I accept continue to support Gordon. the consequences.”

“I feel like Dee’s one of my kids, The 28-year-old Gordon led the AP Sports Writer

to be honest with you, because I’ve known him so long,” Mattingly said.

Initial reaction around the majors was mixed. Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist said the bigger the star, the more upsetting the news of a drug suspension.

“People are going to keep trying to find a way around just the hard work and everything that goes into this game,” Zobrist said before the Cubs’ game Friday against Atlanta. “It’s just the nature of man, I believe. People are always going to try and find a way to cheat the system.”

Shortly before the penalty was announced, Gordon hit an RBI single in the seventh inning and scored after forcing a balk as the Marlins rallied for a 5-3 win and a four-game sweep over Los Angeles.

Gordon became the seventh player to be suspended this year under the MLB drug plan. Last week, Toronto slugger Chris Colabello was penalized 80 games after testing positive for a PED. Colabello said he surprised to learn he had tested positive for an anabolic steroid.

“The last two guys seem like

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In this Feb. 19, 2016 file photo, Miami Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon leans against a fence during spring training baseball practice in Jupiter, Fla. they didn’t know,” Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward said. “It’s scary world in that sense. You’ve got to be really careful.”

Miami president David Samson said the Marlins “completely support the drug prevention program in every way.”

“Dee Gordon is a very important part of our team, and we all love him and support him,” Samson said. “That said, I don’t like or

condone what he did.

“He will be back 80 games from now, and he will be welcomed back to this organization,” he added. “But in the interim period, we expect him, and we are positive that he will do everything that’s necessary to make it up to his fans, to his teammates and to this organization.”

Gordon is the son of former All-Star pitcher Tom Gordon.

Ole Miss to investigate Tunsil’s comments on receiving cash

BY DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer

Laremy Tunsil said enough about Mississippi at the NFL draft for the university to launch an investigation into his time at the school. Now, the former Rebel offensive lineman only wants to talk about his new team, the Miami Dolphins.

That leaves Ole Miss in a difficult positon.

Tunsil said at the draft Thursday night in Chicago that he accepted money from a member of the football staff while playing at the school.

His comments prompted the university to issue a statement Friday saying it is “aware of the reports from the NFL Draft regarding Laremy Tunsil and potential NCAA violations during his time at Ole Miss” and “will aggressively investigate and fully cooperate with the NCAA and the SEC.” After Tunsil was selected 13th overall by the Dolphins, he initially denied taking money while at Ole Miss.

The question arose after a post on his Instagram showed an alleged text message exchange between the

offensive lineman and an Ole Miss football staff member that included Tunsil’s request for money for bills.

When Tunsil was pressed about whether he took money, he said, “I’d have to say yeah.”

Tunsil made no attempt to clarify his draft-night comments during Friday’s introductory news conference with the Dolphins. The news conference was delayed more than hour because Tunsil said he had an allergic reaction, possibly to something he ate.

When asked directly about the text messages to the Ole Miss staff member, Tunsil said, “I’m here to talk about the Miami Dolphins.”

If there’s no help from Tunsil regarding potential NCAA violations — and he’s under no obligation to talk to the governing body since his college career is over — Ole Miss will be charged with investigating the matter on its own.

Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork told The Associated Press in a text message that the school couldn’t comment further because it was “working on getting answers to all of this.”

Ole Miss is already under

a current NCAA investigation and received a Notice of Allegations from the governing body in January regarding violations in football, women’s basketball and track and field.

The university has not disclosed the violations the NCAA said it has committed, but Tunsil was suspended seven games last season after the NCAA ruled he received several illegal benefits, including the use of three loaner cars.

With Tunsil acknowledging taking money while at Ole Miss, it’s unclear how the NCAA will handle the new information. The NCAA could delay the current case while it and Ole Miss conduct investigations, or it could start a new case against the university.

NCAA spokeswoman Emily James said Friday morning in an email response to the AP that the NCAA does not “comment on current, pending or potential investigations.”

The current case recently received a 30-day extension and a response from Ole Miss is due in late May. North Carolina’s current NCAA case tied to its long-running academic fraud scandal was delayed eight months when the

LYNNE SLADKY/AP PHOTO

Former University of Mississippi offensive lineman Laremy Tunsil, center, holds a jersey during a news conference, as Miami Dolphins NFL head football coach Adam Gase, left, and Miami Dolphins Executive Vice President for Football Operations Mike Tannenbaum, right look on Friday, in Davie, Fla. school reported additional information for the NCAA to review.

Tunsil became the story of the draft after he said his social media accounts were hacked and incidents of his troubled past became public minutes before the first round began, including a video of him smoking from a gas mask-bong contraption.

Tunsil said Thursday that he believes both of the social media accounts were

hacked, but it’s unclear if that was actually the case.

Jason Pack, spokesman for the FBI in Mississippi, said “the FBI is not currently involved in the matter and has not heard from anyone involved in the incident.”

The 6-foot-5, 310-pound Tunsil, who started at left tackle for the Rebels over the past three seasons, helped Ole Miss win 10 games last year, including the Sugar Bowl.

Tunsil’s troubles cast a dark cloud over a historic night for Ole Miss; it was the first time the school had three players selected in the first round of the draft.

After Tunsil was drafted, receiver Laquon Treadwell was selected by the Minnesota Vikings with the 23rd overall pick and defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche went to the Arizona Cardinals at No. 29.

Durant-Leonard matchup highlights Thunder vs. Spurs

BY CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two years ago, the Thunder’s Kevin Durant tweeted that Kawhi Leonard was a good player who got a lot of help from the San Antonio Spurs’ system.

Durant recognizes the Leonard Oklahoma City is about to square off against is much more. In fact, Durant is so impressed that he checks how Leonard performs each game.

“He’s grown so much,” Durant said. “He’s probably the best in the league at shooting the midrange (jumper) off the dribble. He posts up, dribbles, can shoot the three, catch and shoot. Their team, their system, their continuity and how they move allows him to get free a lot of times and utilizes his game.”

Durant respect for Leonard has also grown over the years.

After Leonard was named Finals MVP in 2014, Durant said on Twitter he would take Indi-

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ana’s Paul George over Leonard, and that Leonard was “doing work like this because of the system.”

Durant later clarified, saying he meant no disrespect to Leonard, he simply liked George better. Last month, Durant, unprompted, said Leonard is not a “system player.”

On Saturday, Durant and Leonard will renew acquaintances in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals in San Antonio.

Their individual matchup will be worth keeping an eye on.

Durant is a four-time scoring champion who averaged 28.2 points and a career-high 8.2 rebounds per game this season.

Leonard is the two-time reigning defensive player of the year who was a first-time All-Star this season and led the Spurs in scoring.

Leonard knows his job will be difficult because of Durant’s versatility.

“Being able to do everything on the floor, shoot, get in the paint, post, create shots for his team-

mates,” Leonard said of Durant’s skills. “Just active the whole game.”

Leonard has also become more of an offensive threat. His scoring average has increased from 12.8 points per game in 2013-14, to 16.5 last season, to 21.2 this season. He shot a career-high 44.3 percent from 3-point range on a careerhigh 291 attempts this season. ___ Some things to watch in the Thunder-Spurs series: ALDRIDGE EFFECT: LaMarcus Aldridge has gotten comfortable in San Antonio after being acquired in the offseason. He averaged 18.0 points and 8.5 rebounds per game this season while allowing Tim Duncan to rest a bit more. “You’ve got to play both ends of the floor a little differently because he’s an All-Star player,” Durant said. “He’s a guy that can shoot over any shoulder, he can shoot from range, he can roll to the rim, so it’s a different dynamic when you play a guy like that, and that’s when you’ve got to

be locked in and ready for anything.”

TEXAS-SIZED THREAT: Russell Westbrook had 18 triple-doubles in the regular season, then averaged 26.0 points, 11.2 assists and 7.2 rebounds per game in the first round of the playoffs against Dallas. In 12 career playoff games against the Spurs he averages 22.5 points, 7.3 assists and 5.8 rebounds per game. “He’s got a lot of energy, he’s super aggressive and obviously one of the best point guards in the league,” Spurs guard Tony Parker said. “It’s just fun to play against him. He brings a lot of excitement to the game.

It’s always a great matchup.”

THEY HAVE HISTORY: The Thunder beat the Spurs 4-2 in the Western Conference Finals in 2011-12, then lost to Miami in the NBA Finals. The Spurs beat the Thunder 4-2 in the 2013-14 Western Conference Finals, and San Antonio beat Miami for the NBA title. “We’ve had some battles,” Durant said. “And there were a few battles where the Finals was

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on the line. Each team really respects each other and definitely wants to compete.”

COACHING MATCHUP: Gregg Popovich is a five-time NBA champion and the league’s most successful active coach. Oklahoma City’s Billy Donovan just won the first playoff series of his career in his first year in the league. Donovan doesn’t look at it as a one-on-one matchup, but he said he learns every time he studies Popovich’s teams. “You watch San Antonio and Pop’s teams play, there’s a lot of respect and admiration for the way their team plays,” Donovan said.

OFFENSE vs. DEFENSE: Oklahoma City scored 112.0 points per game on 47.6 percent shooting against Dallas in the first round and shot better than 50 percent in each of the final three games. San Antonio held Memphis to 81 points per game on 39.4 percent shooting in a first-round sweep.

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Where have the multi-sport high school athletes gone?

BY KURT VOIGT

anomaly in a world obsessed with sport speAP Sports Writer cialization, where acadeFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. mies charge tens of — Harrison Heffley thousands of dollars in played nearly every annual tuition to help sport that caught his youngsters get better at interest during junior football, basketball, sochigh and high school, cer and more. More from his dominant trade skilled athletes have a of baseball to basketball, better shot at landing a football and even golf. scholarship, the thinkOver the years, the ing goes, and most agree senior from nearby Rog- the multi-sport high ers has seen and felt school athlete is becompressure from coaches ing a thing of the past. for athletes to take part It’s trend that has in year-round, sincome under particular gle-sport training just to scrutiny over the last earn playing time at the year. varsity level. He has Notables such as Ohio watched friends and State’s Urban Meyer, opponents train outside golfer Jordan Spieth, school and hit the road members of the U.S. with their travel teams, national women’s soccer chewing up weekends team and baseball Hall for months at a time. of Famer John Smoltz The hard-throwing are among those who left-handed pitcher have publicly criticized wasn’t immune from year-round specializathis kind of effort, tion, primarily for its either, scheduling basealleged role in injuries, ball workouts each week but for other reasons, while playing other too, including pressure sports and often throwand burnout. ing late into the night at After working at a his school’s indoor facil- high school with 600 stuity. dents in Las Vegas, LarLuckily for Heffley, the ry Chavez was taken message he received aback when he became from his father has the athletic director at always been to have fun 2,400-student Cleveland and play as many sports High in Rio Rancho, as he could.

New Mexico. There, he “Doing this and not saw volleyball teams doing the 50-games-awith 12-14 freshmen summer thing as a kid dwindle to as few as definitely helped me not three by the time the burn out,” said Heffley, girls were seniors, and who has signed to play soccer players so tired baseball at Arkansas of the year-round next season. “I can tell approach that they when I play with some decided as seniors not to other people that my play or try something love for the sport is fresh else. and still growing.”

To curb the trend Heffley seems like an

tion. Executive director Jack Roberts said he is hoping the task force shows that the issue of specialization is nothing short of a “public health crisis.”

“If that’s the case, then we have to adopt policies and procedures that intend to reduce those pressures and protect young people,” Roberts said, aiming to do so by distinguishing the goals of school sports from those of their clubsport cousins.

“We have to define what success means in school sports,” he said.

“It might be different in all other levels by all other sponsors, and we’ve got to keep beating that drum to at least try to neutralize all those other messages that parents and kids and coaches are getting.”

The notion that specialization is a health crisis has drawn the biggest headlines. Last summer, Smoltz became the first pitcher to enter the baseball Hall of Fame following Tommy John surgery. In his speech, he said youngsters were “maxing out too hard, too early” and should simply “be athletic and play other sports.”

Research assessing whether sports specialization leads to more injuries is not common , but Tim McGuine and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation earlier this year published research suggest-

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toward specialization, Chavez implemented an incentive-based program for multi-sport athletes.

Beginning in 2014, freshman and sophomores who participated in multiple sports received T-shirts marking their achievement. Juniors earned a multi-sport patch for their letter jackets, while seniors received a watch.

The program cost the school $3,000 to $4,000, and Chavez said it’s been met with enthusiastic support from students.

“I just feel that with kids, they only have one chance in high school, they only have three or four years of high school experience,” Chavez said. “And by them being forced, by either high school coaches, parents or club coaches, to specialize so early, I think it’s hindering their development, and I think that’s why there’s such a high rate of burnout for our kids.”

Despite the program’s success, this year’s multiple-sport participants at Cleveland High give a glimpse of what many believe is a national trend. While 85 freshmen boys and girls are enrolled in the multisport program, the number dips to 62 sophomores, 45 juniors and only 27 seniors.

The Michigan High School Athletic Association has created a task force charged with coming up with practical methods of increasing multi-sport participa-

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TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Recalled RHP Michael Fulmer from Toledo (IL). Placed RHP Shane Greene on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 25.

National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Signed hitting coach Jeff Branson, coach Brad Fischer, bench coach Dave Jauss, first base coach Nick Leyva, assistant hitting coach Jeff Livesey, bullpen coach Euclides Rojas, pitching coach Ray Searage, third base coach Rick Sofield and bullpen catcher Heberto Andrade to contract extensions through the 2017 season.

American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Signed C Matt M. Koch.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed INF Tyler Urps.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Released LHP Jhonathan Ramos.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Activated LHP Jack Snodgrass. Placed RHP John Brownell on the inactive list.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed OF Kalian Sams.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Released TE Jacob Maxwell and LB A.J. Tarpley.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled F Pontus Aberg from Milwaukee (AHL).

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived WR Andre Davis, LB Darius Eubanks, G Antoine Everett, S Gerod Holliman, DT Derrick Lott, S Kimario McFadden, LB Jermauria Rasco and CB C.J. Roberts.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Washington F Tom Wilson $2,403.67 for kneeing Pittsburgh F Conor Sheary during an April 28 game.

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Fired coach Bruce Boudreau.

BUFFALO SABRES — Re-signed F Johan Larsson to a one-year contract.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Luke Johnson on a three-year contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned G Jake Paterson to Grand Rapids Griffins from Toledo (ECHL). Recalled D Joel Chouinard from Toledo. Signed F A.J. Jenks to a professional tryout.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Announced F Mike Pereira was returned to the team by Utica (AHL).

RUGBY USA RUGBY — Announced the resignation of chief executive officer Nigel Melville effective June 30, to become director of professional rugby for the Rugby Football Union.

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Acquired D Aurelien Collin from Orlando City for a conditional 2017 fourth-round draft pick.

COLLEGE HAMPDEN-SYDNEY — Announced the retirement of lacrosse coach Ray Rostan after the season.

HOFSTRA — Signed men’s basketball coach Joe Mihalich to a contract extension through the 2020-21 season.

IOWA — Named Broderick Binns director of player development and Tyler Barnes director of recruiting.

IOWA STATE — Announced men’s basketball G Naz Mitrou-Long was granted a hardship waiver by the Big 12, making him eligible to play as expected in 2016-17.

TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY — Named Caleb Villarreal special assistant to the men’s basketball coach.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

W L Pct GB Washington 14 7 .667 — New York 13 7 .650 ½ Philadelphia 12 10 .545 2½ Miami 10 11 .476 4 Atlanta 5 18 .217 10 Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 17 5 .773 — Pittsburgh 13 9 .591 4 St. Louis 12 10 .545 5 Cincinnati 9 13 .409 8 Milwaukee 8 13 .381 8½ West Division

W L Pct GB Los Angeles 12 11 .522 — San Francisco 12 11 .522 — Arizona 12 12 .500 ½ Colorado 9 12 .429 2 San Diego 7 15 .318 4½ ___ Thursday’s Games Chicago Cubs 7, Milwaukee 2 Pittsburgh at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Philadelphia 3, Washington 0 Atlanta 5, Boston 3 Arizona 3, St. Louis 0 Miami 5, L.A. Dodgers 3 Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 6, Atlanta 1 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Miami at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Washington (Ross 2-0) at St. Louis (Garcia 1-1), 2:15 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Lackey 3-1), 2:20 p.m.

San Francisco (Cain 0-2) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 2-0), 4:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Simon 0-2) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 1-1), 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 1-0) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

Miami (Chen 1-1) at Milwaukee (Anderson 1-2), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (Rusin 1-0) at Arizona (Greinke 2-2), 8:10 p.m.

San Diego (Rea 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Stripling 0-1), 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

Miami at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 2:35 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division

W L Pct GB Baltimore 13 8 .619 — Boston 12 10 .545 1½ Tampa Bay 10 11 .476 3 Toronto 10 13 .435 4 New York 8 12 .400 4½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 16 7 .696 — Kansas City 12 9 .571 3 Cleveland 10 9 .526 4 Detroit 11 10 .524 4 Minnesota 7 15 .318 8½ West Division

W L Pct GB Texas 12 10 .545 — Seattle 11 10 .524 ½ Los Angeles 11 11 .500 1 Oakland 11 12 .478 1½ Houston 7 15 .318 5 ___¢ Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto 0 Baltimore 3, Tampa Bay 1 Boston 9, Atlanta 4 Detroit 9, Oakland 4 Texas 3, N.Y. Yankees 2 Cleveland 6, Minnesota 5 L.A. Angels 4, Kansas City 2 Houston 7, Seattle 4 Thursday’s Games Detroit 7, Oakland 3 Baltimore 10, Chicago White Sox 2 Atlanta 5, Boston 3 Friday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-2) at Baltimore (Wright 1-2), 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 1-3) at Philadelphia (Morgan 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 1-0) at Boston (Owens 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Sanchez 1-1) at Tampa Bay (Smyly 1-2), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Santiago 2-0) at Texas (Lewis 1-0), 8:05 p.m.

Detroit (Fulmer 0-0) at Minnesota (Hughes 1-3), 8:10 p.m.

Houston (Fiers 2-1) at Oakland (Manaea 0-0), 10:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Medlen 1-1) at Seattle (Hernandez 1-2), 10:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Houston at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

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ing there is a link.

According to the preliminary findings , highly specialized athletes were more likely to report a history of knee or hip injuries blamed on overuse while participating in a single sport for more than eight months per year appeared to be an important factor in increased injury risk.

The study tracked the participation patterns of and injuries suffered by more than 1,000 athletes at 27 high schools across Wisconsin and it covered club sports as well as school sports.

The early results found the greatest instances of specialization in sports such as soccer, volleyball and basketball, and that female athletes (39 percent) were more likely to specialize than their male counterparts (25 percent).

But it was the injury data that surprised McGuine, with 49 percent of specialized athletes suffering an injury compared to only 23 percent of multi-sport athletes.

The numbers weren’t all that different for athletes who specialized but thought they were lessening their risk by limiting the number of games they played. In those “low-volume kids,” as McGuine called them, 46 percent of the specialized athletes suffered injuries compared to 20 percent of low-volume multi-sport athletes Even the “high-volume” multi-sport ath-

letes, some who played near or more than 100 games per year, reported 15 percent less cases of injuries than their low-volume specialized counterparts.

“Specialization is the biggest predictor of a previous lower-extremity injury in these high school kids,” said McGuine, who presented his findings in January at a meeting of the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine Society with members of the National Federation of State High School Associations in attendance.

The specialization study isn’t the only one being followed by McGuine, who is also tracking the effectiveness of head gear in reducing concussions among high school soccer players.

However, it’s one he hopes to expand in the future, giving parents, coaches and athletes a better frame of reference when deciding whether to specialize at a young age. McGuine knows the issue well, having watched his three kids each choose to take part in multiple sports throughout high school, where things have become hyper competitive. “(Specialization) is not about getting a college scholarship anymore,” McGuine said. “It’s about just getting playing time at their high school with their peers now. That’s the way we’ve made it, and it’s a real shame.”

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE All Times EDT SECOND ROUND EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Islanders 1, Tampa Bay 0 Wednesday, April 27: N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 3 Saturday, April 30: NY Islanders at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3: Tampa Bay at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 6: Tampa Bay at NY Islanders, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, May 8: NY Islanders at Tampa Bay, TBA x-Tuesday, May 10: Tampa Bay at NY Islanders, TBA x-Thursday, May 12: NY Islanders at Tampa Bay, TBA Washington 1, Pittsburgh 0 Thursday, April 28: Washington 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT Saturday, April 30: Pittsburgh at Washington, 8 p.m.

Monday, May 2: Washington at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4: Washington at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m. x-Saturday, May 7: Pittsburgh at Washington, TBA x-Tuesday, May 10: Washington at Pittsburgh, TBA x-Thursday, May 12: Pittsburgh at

Washington, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas vs. St. Louis Friday, April 29: St. Louis at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 1: St. Louis at Dallas, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3: Dallas at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 5: Dallas at St. Louis, 8 p.m. x-Saturday, May 7: St. Louis at Dallas, TBA x-Monday, May 9: Dallas at St. Louis, TBA x-Wednesday, May 11: St. Louis at Dallas, TBA San Jose vs. Nashville Friday, April 29: Nashville at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 1: Nashville at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 3: San Jose at Nashville, 9 p.m.

Thursday, May 5: San Jose at Nashville, 9 p.m. x-Saturday, May 7: Nashville at San Jose, TBA x-Monday, May 9: San Jose at Nashville , TBA x-Thursday, May 12: Nashville at San Jose, TBA

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION All Times EDT (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) FIRST ROUND EASTERN CONFERENCE Toronto 3, Indiana 2 Saturday, April 16: Indiana 100, Toronto 90 Monday, April 18: Toronto 98, Indiana 87 Thursday, April 21: Toronto 101, Indiana 85 Saturday, April 23: Indiana 100, Toronto 83 Tuesday, April 26: Toronto 102, Indiana 99 Friday, April 29: Toronto at Indiana, 7:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 1: Indiana at Toronto, TBA Charlotte 3, Miami 2 Sunday, April 17: Miami 123, Charlotte 91 Wednesday, April 20: Miami 115, Charlotte 103 Saturday, April 23: Charlotte 96, Miami 80 Monday, April 25: Charlotte 89, Miami 85 Wednesday, April 27: Charlotte 90, Miami 88 Friday, April 29: Miami at Charlotte, 8 p.m. x-Sunday, May 1: Charlotte at Miami, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland 3, L.A. Clippers 2 Sunday, April 17: L.A. Clippers 115, Portland 95 Wednesday, April 20: L.A. Clippers 102, Portland 81 Saturday, April 23: Portland 96, L.A. Clippers 88 Monday, April 25: Portland 98, L.A.

Clippers 84 Wednesday, April 27: Portland 108, L.A. Clippers 98 Friday, April 29: L.A. Clippers at Portland, 10:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 1: Portland at L.A. Clippers, TBA CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland vs. Atlanta Monday, May 2: Atlanta at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4: Atlanta at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Friday, May 6: Cleveland at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 8: Cleveland at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 10: Atlanta at Cleveland, TBA x-Thursday, May 12: Cleveland at Atlanta, TBA x-Sunday, May 15: Atlanta at Cleveland, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Oklahoma City vs. San Antonio Saturday, April 30: Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, May 2: Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m.

Friday, May 6: San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 8: San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 10: Oklahoma City at San Antonio, TBA x-Thursday, May 12: San Antonio at Oklahoma City, TBA x-Sunday, May 15: Oklahoma City at San Antonio, TBA Remainder of schedule, TBA

ON THIS DAY April 30 1922 — Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitches a 2-0 perfect game against the Detroit Tigers.

1961 — Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hits four home runs in a 14-4 victory over the Braves in Milwaukee.

1971 — The Milwaukee Bucks become the second team to register a four-game sweep in the NBA championship, beating the Baltimore Bullets 118-106.

1975 — Larry O’Brien is named the NBA’s third commissioner, following J. Walter Kennedy (1963-75) and Maurice Podoloff (1946-63).

O’Brien holds the position until 1984.

1976 — Muhammad Ali wins a unanimous 15-round decision over Jimmy Young in Landover, Md., to retain his world heavyweight title.

1992 — The Red Wings and Canucks become the ninth and 10th teams in NHL history to rebound from 3-1 deficits to win playoff series.

Detroit beats the Minnesota North Stars 5-2 in the Norris Division, while Vancouver defeats the Winnipeg Jets 5-0 in the Smythe Division.

1993 — Monica Seles, the top-ranked women’s player, is stabbed in the back during a changeover at the Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany. Guenter Parche, 38, reaches over a

courtside railing and sticks a knife into the back of Seles. She has an inch-deep slit between her shoulder blades and missed the remainder of the 1993 season.

2002 — Texas Rangers shortstop Alex Rodriguez becomes the second-youngest player to reach 250 homers during a 10-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

2005 — James Toney outpoints John Ruiz to win the WBA heavyweight title in New York.

Toney, a former champion at three other weights, wins his third heavyweight bout, becoming the third one-time middleweight champion to take boxing’s top crown.

2009 — Derrick Rose scores 28 points and blocks Rajon Rondo’s potential winner as Chicago held on for a 128-127 triple-overtime victory over Boston to force Game 7. Ray Allen scores a career playoff-high 51 points for the Celtics, while tying the NBA playoff record with nine 3-pointers.

2010 — Tiger Woods matches the worst ninehole score of his PGA Tour career and winds up with a 7-over 79 to miss the cut at the Quail Hollow Championship. Woods finishes at 9-over 153, the highest 36-hole total of his career. It’s the sixth time in his 14-year career he misses a cut.

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Petraskie wins 300 hurdles at Pine Grove Invitational 12th annual Pine Grove Invitational At Cardinal Stadium, Pine Grove High School Friday’s results Team key: Hamburg (Ham), Hazleton (Haz), Jim Thorpe (JT), Juniata (Jun), Mahanoy Area (Mah), Millersburg (Mil), Minersville (Min), MMI (MMI), Nativity (Nat), North Schuylkill (NS), Panther Valley (PV), Pine Grove (PG), Schuylkill Haven (SH), Shamokin (Sham), Susquenita (Sus), Southern Columbia (SC), Tamaqua (Tam), Upper Dauphin (UD), Weatherly (Wea) BOYS 100 – 1. Shollenberger (PG) 11.69, 2. Sanon (JT) 11.79, 3.

Bluius (SC) 11.89, 4. Geissinger (JT) 11.96, 5. Brennan (Mil) 12.00, 6. Pritiskutch (Min) 12.15 200 – 1. O’Toole (JT) 23.73, 2.

Brennan (Mil) 23.83, 3. Zerby (Mil) 24.14, 4. Blusius (SC) 24.22, 5. Lehman (Jun) 24.33 400 – 1. Neumayer (Sus) 52.70, 2. O’Toole (JT) 52.82, 3.

Parson (Jun) 52.83, 4. Nortavage (Tam) 53.35, 5. Shollenberger (PG) 53.47, 6. Rivera (PV) 53.86 800 – 1. J. Hinkle (Wea) 2:03.93, 2. Scheib (Mil) 2:04.58, 3. Saxon (JT) 2:05.49, 4. Clemson (Tam) 2:05.96, 5. Pothering (SH) 2:06.22, 6. Simmons

(JT) 2:07.31 1,600 – 1. Bucior (JT) 4:28.14*, 2. Scheib (Mil) 4:28.87, 3. C. McCormick (NS) 4:34.38, 4. Miller (UD) 4:36.15, 5. Boyce (Ham) 4:39.97, 6.

Knoebel (SC) 4:43.65 3,200 – 1. C. McCormick (NS) 10:12.79, 2. Miller (UD) 10:17.29, 3. Reilly (Min) 10:31.50, 4. Conrad (Ham) 10:31.58, 5. Hayle (Ham) 10:31.73, 6. Roseberry (NS) 10:42.73 110 HH – 1. Galarza (Ham) 16.47, 2. Werley (Ham) 16.49, 3.

Rodriguez (PV) 16.79, 4.

Layden (JT) 17.02, 5. Reiter (PG) 17.53, 6. Fetterman (SC) 17.55 300 IH – 1. Petraskie (Sham) 41.59, 2. Gownley (NS) 42.12, 3. Galarza (Ham) 42.35, 4. Reiter (PG) 43.30, 5. Werley (Ham) 43.54, 6. Capobianco (PV) 43.58 400 relay – 1. Millersburg (Zerby, Johnston, Paul, Brennan) 45.75, 2. Hamburg 45.80, 3. Jim Thorpe 45.97, 4.

Susquenita 46.17, 5. North Schuylkill 46.39, 6. Juniata 46.78 1,600 relay – 1. Jim Thorpe (Simmons, Saxon, Bucior, O’Toole) 3:33.56, 2. Hamburg 3:35.24, 3. Panther Valley 3:47.52, 4. Susquenita 3:49.68, 5. Juniata 3:49.73, 6. Pine Grove 3:51.52 3,200 relay – 1. Jim Thorpe

(Simmons, Simmonds, Saxon, Bucior) 8:35.30, 2. Tamaqua 8:43.09, 3. Hamburg 8:45.70, 4. Mahanoy Area 8:56.29, 5. North Schuylkill 8:59.34, 6. Shamokin 9:02.20 High jump – 1. White (Jun) 6-6*, 2. Petraskie (Sham) 6-4, 3.

Matlock (Nat) 5-8, 4. Shatalsky (Nat) 5-6, 5. Yedsena (Mah) 5-6, 6. Henz (Sham) 5-4 Long jump – 1. White (Jun) 20-8.25, 2. Brennan (Mil) 20-5.25, 3. Brecht (SC) 19-1, 4.

Davis (PV) 18-10.25, 5. Yedsena (Mah) 18-6.5, 6. McAllister (Ham) 18-5.5 Triple jump – 1. White (Jun) 42-0.75, 2. Taylor (Min) 41-10, 3. Brecht (SC) 40-2, 4.

Elo (PG) 40-1, 5. Crum (UD) 38-5.5, 6. St Hill (JT) 37-2 Shot put – 1. Fritz (SH) 50-5.5, 2. Rhoades (Ham) 44-0, 3. Jefferson (JT) 42-6, 4. Smith (Ham) 42-5, 5. Anczarski (NS) 42-1, 6. Fink (Min) 41-6 Discus – 1. Anczarski (NS) 146-5, 2. Zimmerman (UD) 122-6, 3. Antalosky (NS) 121-4, 4. Hunsicker (PV) 117-3, 5.

Smith (Ham) 116-9, 6. Fritz (SH) 115-7 Javelin – 1. Gownely (NS) 146-9, 2. Martinez (Tam) 14210, 3. Tarantelli (NS) 141-3, 4.

Neumayer (Sus) 140-11, 5.

Smith (Ham) 140-4, 6. Wilbert (Mil) 137-2 Team standings: 1. Jim Thorpe 84, 2. Hamburg 73, 3.

North Schuylkill 63, 4. Millersburg 51, 5. Juniata 41, t6.

Tamaqua and Southern Columbia 24, 8. Pine Grove 23, t9. Panther Valley, Susquenita and Upper Dauphin 22, 12. Shamokin 20, 13.

Minersville 16, 14. Schuylkill Haven 13, t15. Weatherly and Nativity 10, 17 Mahanoy Area 8 GIRLS 100 – 1. Malave (PG) 13.22, 2.

Zoscin (Wea) 13.35, 3. Zimerofsky (Nat) 13.55, 4. Burns (Jun) 13.56, 5. Czaplicki (UD) 13.64, 6. Wech (Haz) 13.86 200 – 1. Malave (PG) 27.10, 2.

Reed (Haz) 28.00, 3. Zimerofsky (Nat) 28.05, 4. Burns (Jun) 28.26, 5. Bullock (JT) 28.79, 6.

McDermott (PV) 28.82 400 – 1. Lally (PG) 1:01.13*, 2. Reed (Haz) 1:02.61, 3. Frantz (Tam) 1:03.29, 4. Hackenberg (UD) 1:04.21, 5. Babinsky (Mah) 1:04.92, 6. Purcell (Min) 1:05.08 800 – 1. M. Shimko (Tam) 2:21.43*, 2. M. Principe (JT) 2:27.53, 3. Delbo (SC) 2:30.78, 4.

Spicher (Mil) 2:32.37, 5.

Stanek (Tam) 2:32.95, 6. Pataki (Haz) 2:34.85 1,600 – 1. Maue (Tam) 5:36.88, 2. Spicher (Mil) 5:41.72, 3. Cole (SC) 5:46.78, 4.

DeAngelo (NS) 5:51.06, 5.

Everdale (Haz) 5:53.73, 6. Pirie (Mil) 5:55.04 3,200 – 1. Everdale (Haz)

12:15.23, 2. Carroll (Tam) 12:20.22, 3. Scopelliti (SC) 12:20.52, 4. Kaylene Raczka (Min) 12:26. 42, 5. Wasserleben (Tam) 12:29.78, 6. Roomania (SC) 13:01.95 100 H – 1. Frew (PG) 15.77, 2. Forrest (Ham) 16.67, 3. Lord (Nat) 16.83, 4. Walshaw-Wertz (UD) 16.95, 5. Rhoades (Mah) 17.46, 6. Noll (SC) 17.75 300 IH – 1. Frew (PG) 46.17*, 2. Lally (PG) 47.01, 3.

Walshaw-Wertz (UD) 49.59, 4.

Beiler (Haz) 50.47, 5. Rhoades (Mah) 51.13, 6. Holl (SC) 51.24 400 relay – 1. Hazleton (Ruggeriro, Beiler, Jennings, Wech) 54.15, 2. Mahanoy Area 54.21, 3. Millersburg 54.48, 4.

Tamaqua 54.49, 5. Upper Dauphin 54.67, 6. Juniata 54.68 1,600 relay – 1. Pine Grove (Malave, Readinger, Frew, Lally) 4:10.95*, 2. Tamaqua 4:11.03, 3. Hazleton 4:24.76, 4.

Millersburg 4:27.00, 5. Jim Thorpe 4:27.50, 6. Minersville 4:34.77 3,200 relay – 1. Tamaqua (Frantz, LaBar, Stanek, M. Shimko) 10:03.58, 2. Hazleton 10:29.59, 3. Southern Columbia 10:33.16, 4. Minersville 10:37.58, 5. Jim Thorpe 10:41.72, 6. Juniata 10:42.86ff High jump – 1. Pfeil (Haz) 5-0, 2. Hargenrader (Sus) 5-0, 3. Sheaffer (Jun) 4-10, 4.

Llewellyn (Haz) 4-8, 5. K. Bernardyn (Mah) 4-8, 6. Adamski

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Nicasio struck out eight in TRAINER’S ROOM seven scoreless innings, Reds: 2B Brandon PhilJosh Harrison hit his first lips returned to the lineup home run in nearly a year and went 0 for 4 following a and Matt Joyce connected two-game absence that as a pinch-hitter to lead the stemmed from sustaining Pirates to a 4-1 victory over both a bruised left shin and the Cincinnati Reds on Fri- bruised left ring finger in day night, extending Pittsthe same at-bat Monday burgh’s winning streak to night against the Mets at five games.

New York. . RHP Anthony Nicasio (3-2) allowed DeSclafani (strained three hits and one walk in oblique) made his second sending the Reds to their and possibly last rehab fifth straight loss. Signed as start Friday night, pitching a free agent in the offseafive scoreless innings for son, Nicasio has won all low Class A Dayton while three home starts with a allowing three hits with 1.89 ERA while losing both three strikeouts and one road starts with a 6.75 ERA. walk. . RHP Jon Moscot Harrison hit his first (sore left shoulder), who felt home run since May 15, a pain in his non-throwing span of 379 at-bats, into the arm in his previous outing bleachers in right field with Wednesday against the two outs in the fourth to Mets, is on course to start raise the Pirates’ lead to 2-0. Tuesday against San FranAn inning earlier, David cisco.

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Hughes (strained left lat Joyce sliced a two-run muscle) rejoined the team home run off the foul pole Friday and could be activatin left, his third, in the seved from the 15-day DL Satenth inning to make it 4-0. urday. He pitched four times The Reds scored their on a rehab assignment at run on Tucker Barnhart’s Triple-A Indianapolis and RBI double with two outs in allowed five runs and seven the ninth. Mark Melancon hits in six innings with five relieved Arquimedes strikeouts and two walks.

Caminero and got Scott DADDY BRUCE Schebler to hit a game-endReds RF Jay Bruce ing fly out for his sixth save. returned to the team after Starling Marte and Jordy missing three games while Mercer had two hits each on the paternity list. His for the Pirates. wife Hannah gave birth to Dan Straily (0-1) worked the couple’s first child Monsix innings in the longest of day, a son named Carter three outings since the Reds John. moved him from the bullBruce doubled in his first pen into the rotation. He at-bat in the first inning and gave up two runs and five finished 1 for 4. hits while striking out five COACHING CONand walking three.

TRACTS Joey Votto had two hits The Pirates gave their for the Reds, who have gone coaches new contracts 4-13 since taking two of through the 2017 season.

(SC) 4-8 Long jump – 1. Gnall (Mah) 15-9, 2. Baddick (Tam) 14-10.25, 3. Pfeil (Haz) 14-9.5, 4.

Roadarmel (SC) 14-8.75, 5.

Shertzer (Jun) 14-8, 6. Burd (SC) 14-5.5 Triple jump – 1. Frew (PG) 35-7.75, 2. Walshaw-Wertz (UD) 33-3.25, 3. Shertzer (Jun) 32-6, 4. Hargenrader (Sus) 32-4.5, 5. Gnall (Mah) 31-5, 6.

Clark (Jun) 31-2.5 Shot put – 1. Merkel (Haz) 33-11, 2. Pedersen (Tam) 33-6.5, 3. B. Cope (JT) 32-10.5, 4. A. Cope (JT) 30-3.5, 5.

Strausser (Nat) 29-6.5, 6. Roadarmel (SC) 29-3 Discus – 1. Green (NS) 1116, 2. Pedersen (Tam) 106-1, 3.

McGuire (UD) 103-9, 4. Sanders (Nat) 92-9, 5. Merkel (Haz) 91-7, 6. Siegfried (Sus) 91-2 Javelin – 1. Boyle (Tam) 123-6, 2. A. Cope (JT) 122-7, 3.

Merkel (Haz) 122-4, 4. Bonin (Haz) 119-2, 5. B. Cope (JT) 155-1, 6. Strausser (Nat) 101-5 Team standings: 1. Hazleton 100, 2. Tamaqua 94, 3.

Pine Grove 78, t4. Southern Columbia and Jim Thorpe 34, 6. Upper Dauphin 32, 7. Mahanoy Area 28, t8. Juniata and Nativity 25, 10. Millersburg 23, 11. North Schuylkill 14, 13.

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Dear Abby

Couple’s difference in age causes worry DEAR ABBY: I’m 17 and dating this older guy. Everyone is afraid that one day I’ll just disappear, but he isn’t like that. I know him from when I was younger, and my dad and his dad were really close. People just don’t trust me, even though I have told them nothing but the full truth from the start. I’m happy. What should I do? -MISUNDERSTOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS DEAR MISUNDERSTOOD: It might help if you ask this young man to talk to your parents about his interest in you. If he is nice, respectful and employed or in school, they may be less suspicious about his intentions.

DEAR ABBY: Two years ago we lost a very close friend of mine, not to death but to a relationship. “Ben” is the most genuine, caring and loving person you could ever meet. He and my sister dated for what seemed like forever, but unfortunately it didn’t work out. We were all devastated. Still, after their relationship ended, he was around because he had become like a member of our family. Ben finally met a great woman he cared for. We were all happy he had found someone and maybe he’d finally be the great dad we knew he could be. Our family loved his new girlfriend, and welcomed her to all gatherings as she was an extension of him. Six months to a year into their relationship, we learned that Ben failed to mention to her that he and my sister had been an item for many years (engaged at one point). When she found out, she demanded that he stop talking to us. We even had a “goodbye” dinner with him. Ben is now married to his then-girlfriend. I miss him dearly and think about him

every week as he was that important to me. He attended all birthdays, graduations, etc., and he has now missed many of them. I always thought he would be the “uncle” my children never had. Would it be selfish or unfair to him if I approached his wife about letting us back into his life? -- MISS HIM DEARLY

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DEAR MISS HIM: I don’t think it would be selfish or unfair to Ben, but depending upon the level of his wife’s insecurity, it may be unsuccessful.

Ben should have been honest with her from the beginning about his connection to your family. That the information was withheld from her may be why she reacted the way she did.

DEAR ABBY: My cousin was hard up and needed a place to stay because where she was wasn’t a good place for her. I told her she could stay with us, there was no need for her to pay rent because everything was already covered, and to just help with groceries. Well, she has been here a while now and she not only hasn’t pitched in, but also helps herself to our car since she doesn’t have one. You tend to have the best advice. Please tell me what to do, because I’m not sure.

-- FAMILY FIRST? IN INDIANA DEAR F.F.: Have a talk with your cousin and repeat the agreement you had with her before she moved in. Then tell her that if she doesn’t start living up to it, she will have to make other living arrangements. P.S. If you don’t want her using your car, don’t let her have the keys.

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Your Horoscope

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) ***** Your focus is on friendship, even if you only have eyes for a romantic attachment. You will be reinforcing a new or old relationship with a solid friendship. Your sixth sense tells you what to do. To others, you seem to act impulsively. How little they understand! Tonight: Going for what you want.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) **** Be aware of someone who has his or her eye on you. This person probably isn’t making a harsh judgment, but you never know. What might be an excellent characteristic for one person could be undesirable for someone else. Tonight: The ring leader.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ***** Reach out for someone at a distance. You will see someone make an effort to capture your attention.

You could be overthinking a problem, but a sudden resolution could occur. A friend plays an instrumental role in your day. Tonight: Allow others to entertain you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) **** A partner seems to open up far more than in the recent past. Lately, he or she could have seemed closed down, for the most part. Suddenly a smile and openness seem to come over this person. Grab the opportunity. Adapt your plans. Tonight: Togetherness works.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ***** As long as you can get over the “me” quality so frequently associated with you, you could experience a very special day with a loved one who has an interesting way of expressing his or her thoughts. You often delight in this person’s originality. This person makes you smile when you see his or her uniqueness. Tonight: Go along with the program.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) *** Pace yourself. You seem to have a lot of ground to cover, and quickly at that. Your expectations might be abundant. You might feel disappointed as a result. You could wonder why a partner or loved one is so reactive. You are relatively highstrung at this point. Tonight: Go for a massage first.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) **** Sometimes when you try to keep a conversation going, you might feel as if you are talking to yourself, especially with one person in particular. Why would you be surprised at having this reaction? Perhaps you might try the icy-cold reception this person frequently gives you on him or her more often. Perhaps you will understand his or her behavior better. Tonight: Hang out.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) **** Pressure builds around your personal and/or domestic life. How you deal with this matter reflects your true essence. You could talk with this person until you are blue in the face. Let him or her share what is happening in his or her own time. Tonight: A quiet dinner for two.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) *** You are likely to say what you are thinking, and you could draw quite an undesirable reaction as well. Is that what you really want?

Try dipping into your diplomatic tendencies and pick and choose your words with care. Tonight: Hang out with a loved one and/or friends.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) *** Check where you are financially before saying yes to an expensive item. Otherwise you might find yourself in a bind before you know it. Someone has a way of dropping surprises on you, surprises that cost a lot. Try to stay on a moderate course. Tonight: Your treat.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ***** You beam and draw in much more of what you want. You might wonder what would really make you happy. Right now you have an opportunity to explore different opportunities and choices.

Try not to overthink this issue. Rather, go out and experience various facets of life. Tonight: All smiles.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) **** Take your time understanding what is motivating another person right now. You could be overly tired and worn out. You could wonder when enough is enough. The time is now to slow down and get some extra rest. You need it. A phone call might work with an older relative rather than a visit. Tonight: Not to be found.

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Thu.: 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 MOTHER’S DAY (PG- 13) Fri.-Sun.: 1:05, 4:15, 7:10, 10 Mon.-Thu.: 2:45, 5:50, 8:40 RATCHET & CLANK 2D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 4. 7 Mon.Thu.: 2, 7 RATCHET & CLANK 3D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 1, 9:30 Mon.Thu.: 4:30, 9:30 THE HUNTSMAN — WINTER’S WAR (PG-13) Fri.: 12:15, 1:15, 2:50, 3:50, 5:25, 6:30, 8, 9:20, 10:35 Sat.: 1:15, 3:50, 5:25, 6:30, 8, 9:25, 10:35 Sun.: 12:15, 1:15, 2:50, 3:50, 5:25, 6:30, 8, 9:20, 10:35 Mon.: 3, 3:40, 5:40, 8:15 Tue.and Wed.: 3, 3:40, 5:40, 6:15, 8:15, 8:50 Thu.: 3, 3:40, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 THE JUNGLE BOOK 2D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 12, 1:10, 2:30, 3:40, 5, 6:10, 7:30, 8:40, 10:05 Mon.-Wed.:2:30,3:30, 5:10, 6, 7:40, 8:30 Thu.: 2:30, 3:30, 5:10, 6, 7:40, 8:30, 10:10 THE JUNGLE BOOK 3D (PG) Fri.-Sun.: 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Mon.-Thu.: 3, 5:30, 8 BARBERSHOP 3 (PG- 13) Fri.-Sun.: 4:10, 10:10 Mon.Thu.: 5:05 THE BOSS (R) Fri.-Sun.: 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon.-Wed.: 2:50, 5:20, 7:45 Thu.: 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20 BATMAN VS SUPERMAN 2D Fri.-Sun.: 12:50, 6:55 Mon.-Wed.: 2, 7:30 Thu.: 2 ZOOTOPIA 2D (PG) Fri.Sun.: 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Mon.-Wed.: 2:15, 5, 7:25 Thu.: 2:15, 5, 7:25, 10 carmike.com

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MOUNT CARMEL — Indoor yard sale, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Our Lady of Mount Car- mel Church parish hall. Hot dogs, drinks, baked goods available.

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COAL TOWNSHIP — The Our Lady of Lourdes Region- al School elementary chorus will present its ninth spring musical, “Annie, Kids,” at 2 p.m. in the Lee E. Korbich Memorial gym.

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BY RYAN NAKASHIMA AP BUSINESS WRITER

LOS ANGELES — Virtual reality, oddly enough, isn’t immune to the problems that arise in practical reality. Just ask would-be fans of the Oculus Rift headset, many — possibly most — of whom are still waiting for their $600 gadgets more than four weeks after they started shipping .

The delay, naturally, has sparked online grousing and even some data-based activism, including the creation of a crowdsourced spreadsheet for tracking who received their prized VR gear and when. Some longtime supporters of Oculus have declared themselves alienated by the company’s inability to deliver; others have defected to rival VR systems, or are at least considering it.

Christian Cantrell, a software engineer and science-fiction author in Sterling, Virginia, put in his pre-order roughly 15 minutes after Oculus started accepting them in January — and is still waiting. It’s been a “bummer,” he says, because he passed up buying a rival headset, the HTC Vive, hoping to be part of a VR “renaissance” with Rift.

“I’ve been kind of like an Oculus believer,” he says.

“But if they bump it again, I might just order a Vive.”

It’s too soon to say how the delays will affect Oculus, much less the overall acceptance of VR, a technology that submerges users in realistic artificial worlds. (Early VR “experiences” consist primarily of video games .) In other contexts, big companies like Apple have managed to weather shortages and shipping delays for products such as the Apple Watch and its new iPhone SE. But some find the Rift delays intolerable, especially given that Oculus is no fledgling startup, but part of Facebook — the social network bought it two years ago for $2 billion. “There’s an element of inexcusable incompetence going on,” says J.P. Gownder, a Forrester Research analyst, who placed his preorder in the

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Christian Cantrell, a 42-year-old software engineer and science fiction author, with his high-end computer and tripod set-up that his Oculus Rift camera will go with, at his home in Sterling, Virginia, April 22. Cantrell pre-ordered the device, which is shown on the computer monitor, and is still waiting for it. days before others, giving jumping into the field soon. the impression Kickstarter Meanwhile, the Rift is backers would get theirs losing some of its first-movfirst. er appeal. Some games It didn’t happen. Unhaporiginally designed to be py customers gathered on Oculus exclusives have now Reddit to complain and to been hacked to work on the figure out where they stood HTC Vive, which launched in line; one poster cataabout a week after the Rift, logued the frustration on a but hasn’t experienced crowdsourced spreadsheet. shipping delays. Customers While not necessarily repwho bought Rift games resentative of the entire before receiving their headOculus customer base, that set can now get digital keys so they can play the games ‘Unexpected component data shows that of the 131 early Kickstarter backers in real reality, on a regular shortage’ who submitted responses, PC. Oculus, which has only 28 report receiving a Bill Ellis, a 30-year-old blamed the delays on an unit. Of 1,399 pre-order cus- computer engineer in “unexpected component tomers, just 165 say they got Houston, has been playing shortage,” declined to com- a Rift. with his Vive since it ment on specifics. It told the The virtual reality boom arrived April 5, and may AP in a statement it has is just getting going, and not keep the Rift after it moved to address the short- the competition is growing. arrives. His plan, he says, age and expects deliveries Sony will release its Playwas always to buy both, to accelerate in coming Station VR headset later and sell the one that didn’t weeks. By way of apology, this year. Google is expectlive up to expectations: Oculus said it will offer free ed to expand on its primi“The one that hasn’t shown shipping to customers who tive Cardboard viewer, and up is the one that hasn’t ordered before April 1. recent Apple acquisitions lived up to my expectations Few have been as disapsuggest that it may also be so far.” pointed as some of the company’s earliest supporters.

Back in January, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey announced that 5,600 of the company’s first Kickstarter Doors open @ 2:00 pm backers would be eligible for a free headset. He then Bingo starts @ 4:00 pm tweeted on the eve of first For more information or for Hall Rental deliveries that the gifts Early Bird 3:00 pm call 570-339-2430 or 570-590-2816 would “start arriving” two

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Knowledge of the internet/teleas basic labor on the sewage phony is helpful. Two years of recollection system. Full job dePersons with questions regarding lated experience preferred. scription and application forms the acceptance of recyclables are available Tuesday through should contact the Transfer Office Apply online at secv.com Thursday from 9 AM to 3 PM at at 570-500-6007. or submit resume by 5/18/16 to: The Municipal Authority OfService Electrice fice, 206 S. Market St., Suite 2, Cablevision, Inc. Elysburg, PA 17824 Attention: Megan Leavy Application deadline is 3662 Point Township Dr. FOUND: SET OF KEYS FOR A May 17 at 3:00 PM EOE Northumberland, PA 17857 TOYOTA. Along Rt. 487 in Elysor megan.leavy@secv.com burg. Can be claimed at the E.O.E. Ralpho Township Police Dept.

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MOUNT CARMEL 50 North Maple Street 1 Bedroom + space for office.

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SHAMOKIN Clean, 1 or 2 Bedroom Apts. Includes water, sewer & trash. No Pets. $450/mo. 570-394-2470

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COAL TWP 2 BR, washer/dryer hookup, parking, lg. Patio, total elec.

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ELYSBURG Spacious 2 bedroom 2nd floor apt. Avail. June 1st. Call 570-898-9209.

Off street parking. NO PETS. SHAMOKIN $550/mo. + utilities.

3 Bedroom house. Non-smoking.

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No pets. Cheap heat. HUD approved. $475/month.

MT. CARMEL Call: 570-797-1500 1 South Oak St., 2 Bedrm. Apt. $625/mo., incl. heat, hot water & garbage.

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SHAMOKIN ROOM FOR RENT Large, furnished room. All utilities included. $85/weekly. Monthly rates available. 570-875-9217 SHAMOKIN, Lg. Furnished Rm. gr.fl., kitchen privileges, all utilities, TV, washer/dryer. HUD & section 8 accepted. 2 BR apts. also avail. Call/text: 412-7127038 or 201-424-1635

COAL TOWNSHIP ESTATE SALE 2 Bedroom Sets. Various odd & ends. Call for information & address. 570-415-5739

REFRIGIDAIRE BLACK SIDE

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ELYSBURG/CLEVELAND TWP. YARD SALE 97 Jefferson Road Saturday, April 30 • 8am – 12 pm Baby items, Newborn to 2T clothing and much more!

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3 PIECE LIVING ROOM SET Matching sofa, love seat & chair Good Condition. $175 Call: 570-373-3457

MOUNT CARMEL Recently remodeled, 3 BR home for rent. Nice location. $475/mo Tenant pays utilities. Pet Friendly.

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SOFA & CHAIR, $150; Kennedy Rocker, $30; End tables, $25/each; and other items.

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Mt. Carmel. Nice small home, 3 BR, attic, basement, side/back yard. Appliances, sewer included.

Tenant must pay utilities. Very reasonable. Call: 570-339-5959

TAN FLOWERED COUCH, LOVE SEAT & RECLINER, $350. CALL: 570-933-0615

SHAMOKIN Spacious 3 Bedroom . Hardwood floors. Cheap gas heat. Non Smoking, No Pets.

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TAN SECTIONAL WITH RECLINER. $250 OBO. CALL: 570-850-8943

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FULL TIME SPORTS EDITOR This is a great opportunity for local sports writers. Manage your own dept. and pages. Candidates must be well versed in a number of high school sports and have the ability to write game stories and boxscores. Photography experience is a plus. Weekend work will be expected. Past experience is a plus, but not required. Will train the right candidate.

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PAXINOS MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE 2874 Irish Valley Road (About 1 mile past Clark's Grove Church) Sat. April 30 • 8 am to 2 pm Collectibles. Something for everyone!

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2001 HONDA CIVIC SEDAN 2 wheel drive, in very good condition, 113,000 miles, 1 owner. $3,000.00. Call 570-898-5077.

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MODERN 4 UNIT APARTMENT BUILDING. Each has 2 Bedrooms, Private Parking. Coal Township.

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2 VERY NICE ROOMS, in large beautiful downtown Shamokin home. Near everything, all util. Incl., share kitchen, bath, laundry. $345/mo. Call: 570-259-1831

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Mon

Tue

Wed

4/30

5/1

5/2

5/3

5/4

64/45

58/48

Cloudy. High 64F. Winds light and variable.

62/42

Cloudy with rain. Highs in the upper 50s and lows in the upper 40s.

67/47

Rain. Highs in the low 60s and lows in the low 40s.

66/47

Plenty of sun.

Highs in the upper 60s and lows in the upper 40s.

Morning showers. Highs in the mid 60s and lows in the upper 40s.

Sunrise: 6:05 AM

Sunrise: 6:03 AM

Sunrise: 6:02 AM

Sunrise: 6:01 AM

Sunrise: 6:00 AM

Sunset: 8:02 PM

Sunset: 8:03 PM

Sunset: 8:04 PM

Sunset: 8:05 PM

Sunset: 8:06 PM

Pennsylvania at a Glance ✪ Erie 47/39

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Scranton 54/40

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Pittsburgh 61/45

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Harrisburg 53/45

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Philadelphia 52/45

Area Cities City Allentown Altoona Bedford Bloomsburg Bradford Chambersburg Du Bois Erie Harrisburg Huntingdon Johnstown Lancaster Latrobe Lehighton Lewistown

Hi 52 52 58 51 51 57 50 47 53 54 60 50 61 53 53

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43 Cloudy 41 Cloudy 44 Cloudy 43 Cloudy 39 Cloudy 44 Cloudy 41 Cloudy 39 Sunny 45 Cloudy 42 Cloudy 45 Cloudy 42 Cloudy 46 Cloudy 41 Cloudy 41 Cloudy

City Meadville New Castle Oil City Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Saint Marys Scranton State College Towanda Uniontown Warren Wilkes-Barre Williamsport York

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63 M Cloudy 43 P Cloudy 43 M Cloudy 66 Sct T-Storms 32 Snow Showers 72 T-Storms 53 Sunny

City Miami Minneapolis New York Phoenix San Francisco Seattle Saint Louis

Hi 46 53 53 52 61 50 50 54 49 51 64 50 55 51 54

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37 Cloudy 40 Cloudy 40 Cloudy 45 Cloudy 45 Cloudy 43 Cloudy 40 Cloudy 40 Showers 42 Foggy 39 Rain 46 Cloudy 38 M Cloudy 41 Cloudy 43 Few Showers 44 Cloudy

National Cities City Atlanta Boston Chicago Dallas Denver Houston Los Angeles

Hi 88 52 48 82 37 87 69

Hi 86 57 57 80 61 60 70

Lo Cond.

73 M Clear 41 M Sunny 47 Cloudy 62 Sunny 53 M Sun/Wind 47 M Cloudy 57 Cloudy

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8th annual Paws For Pets program under way at Weis SUNBURY — Weis Markets today announced the launch of its eighth annual Paws for Pets program, a company-wide initiative that collects monetary donations, pet food, and supplies for local animal shelters and rescue organizations throughout the month of May. “May is National Pet Month and Paws for Pets is one of our most popular programs,” said Brian Holt, Vice President of Advertising and Marketing for Weis Markets. “Each year, our customers make generous donations to help improve the lives of homeless pets.

This year, their donations will help more than a hundred local animal shelters in the markets we serve.”

During the month-long program, customers can give $1, $3 or $5 donations at the register, purchase specially designed Paws for Pets reusable shopping bags for $2 a bag, or give online at WeisMarkets.com.

All contributions will go to

local animal shelters in the For more information on store’s community.

Paws for Pets, visit WeisWeis customers can also Markets.com/pawsforpets. contribute to Paws For Pets while they shop by purchasing the following items on shelters’ wish lists before placing them in a specially marked collection cart near checkout: · Dog, cat, puppy and kitten food, as well as food and water bowls · Kitty litter · Collars, harnesses and leashes · Toys and treats · Pet shampoos, nail clippers, pet brushes, combs · Dishwashing liquid, bleach, mops and brooms, towels/washcloths and powder-free latex gloves Since 2008, Weis Markets has generated more than $1 million in donations for local animal shelters through its Paw For Pets program. Select stores are also planning to host animal adoptathons throughout the month, helping to connect shoppers with new furrever friends.

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Anglican Church to mark first anniversary on Sunday KULPMONT — The Anglican Church of St. Philip and St. James will celebrate its first anniversary on Sunday.

One year ago on May 1, the diocesan bishop, the Right Rev. John Gaines, called the Rev. Richard Hazzard, recently retired form his former church, and stated his interest in establishing an Anglican Church in this area.

Both agreed that an Anglican presence was desirable, so the bishop issued a charter for a new parish. He named it St. Philip and St. James, because it was established on May 1,

which is the feast day of those two apostles.

The church meets at 9 a.m. Sunday mornings at the former Trakks Restaurant, 80 Chestnut St., the last building on the north side of Chestnut, at the east end of town. The meeting space has been donated for church use by the generosity of Steve Delbo, the owner of Delta Motors.

The church worships as Anglicans have for hundreds of years, and has not changed any doctrine to conform to the whims of society with its redefining or moral values.

The church has been

grateful for the support of the Most Rev. Peter Goodrich, the arch bishop of the denomination.

This Sunday, the congregation will celebrate the anniversary with a cookout after church at the home of Ron and Linda Riley.

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