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Kelli DuRant, 13, displays her skills with the Hula Hoop at The Gathering social club’s dance for special-needs adults and teens on Friday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3034.
The Gathering hosts dance for residents with special needs Halloween event helps teens, adults develop friendships BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com
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Timothy English, brother of Jacobia Lane, is comforted by Jacobia’s aunt Carolyn English, third from left, while Jacobia’s sister Felicia Rhodes, far left, and Jacobia’s husband, Willie Lane, lend support. Timothy English talked Friday about the killing of his sister at the family home near Rembert.
Kelli DuRant, 13, who suffers from autism, enjoyed displaying her skills with the Hula Hoop as one of 120 people who participated in The Gathering’s dance for special-needs adults and teens on Friday. The Halloween-themed party, held at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3034, included dancing, food and various games for everyone to enjoy. The Gathering is a social club for adults and teens with special needs. The organization’s goal is to provide an opportunity for special-needs adults and teens to have fun and socialize in a safe environment, said Darlene Wilson, the organization’s co-founding DARLENE WILSON president/secretary. Co-founding president/ “The ultimate secretary of The Gathering goal is to close the gap on friendships,” Wilson said. “Many special-needs adults and teens have trouble making friends. This gives them the opportunity to build positive relationships among them.” The group’s members, who include adults and teens with special needs and their chaperones, meet for dinner at different restaurants and participate in activities such as game night, bowling, movies, dancing and socializing.
Jacobia Lane was shot while members gathered for funeral
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BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com A local family is offering forgiveness after a beloved wife, sister and friend was shot and killed in North Carolina about 12 hours before a funeral. Jacobia Lane, 37, wife and mother of two, was shot and killed on Oct. 22 by unknown individuals while staying at her brother’s house the night before her sister-in-law’s funeral in Gastonia, North Carolina. Jacobia Lane was always lov-
ing, 24 hours a day, said her husband, Willie Lane. She was very quiet and peaceful, and she loved people, he said. “I couldn’t imagine her having any enemies,” he said. She was a good mother and wife, he said. “She didn’t deserve this. But we don’t question God.” Timothy English, Jacobia Lane’s brother, said his sister had come to visit him many times during his wife’s 7-month battle with cancer. “We talked every day,” he said. Jacobia made the 2.5-hour trip
to visit even on her days off, he said. He said Jacobia Lane came to visit his family the Monday before the funeral to help around the house. He said his sister got upset with him when he offered to take her to get a massage to show how thankful he was for her help. She got mad because she wanted to cook for her brother, he said. “That’s what she did,” English said. “She took care of us.”
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Vice president, elected officials will visit Morris College today BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com
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Vice President Joe Biden will be at Morris College at 10 a.m. today for a get-out-the-vote event.
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The South Carolina Democratic Party will host Vice President Joe Biden for a get-out-the-vote event today at 10 a.m. at Morris College, 100 College St. Biden will be joined by U.S Rep. Jim Clyburn, congressional candidate Fran Person and others. Doors will open at 8 a.m. The public is asked to arrive no later than 9 a.m. The program should last for an hour to an hour and a half, said Joe Diver, campaign man-
ager for Person. He said Clyburn, Person and several local elected officials will speak. “Sumter is a very blue district, and we wanted to have a rally at that location,” Diver said. Sumter County Democratic Party Chairman Allen Bailey noted that with the vice president visiting today and presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton visiting during the primary, it will mark the first time both major party
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Wedgefield man killed in Sunday night wreck A 55-year-old Wedgefield man died during a single-vehicle wreck on Wedgefield Road about 7:10 p.m. Sunday. South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. David Jones said Titus Rembert was traveling west on Wedgefield Road in a 1999 GMC truck when the vehicle went off the right side of the road, struck a ditch and overturned. He said Rembert was wearing a seatbelt but sustained fatal injuries on scene and was entrapped in the vehicle.
Teen charged with sexual conduct with a minor Sumter Police Department charged an 18-year-old man with criminal sexual conduct with a minor on Sunday for allegedly having inappropriate contact with a girl under the age of 12 in September. According to the police department, Andrew Landrum, 18, of 2790 Pintail Drive, engaged in illegal contact with the minor while she was staying at a relative’s house between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 29. Police began investigating the allegations after school officials and the girl’s mother contacted officers after the incident. A specific date when officers were notified was not provided in the police department’s report. Landrum was being held at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center pending a $50,000 surety bond set during a hearing on Monday. His bond has since been posted.
Candy company invites former Au’some employees to reception Thursday night BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Mount Franklin Foods LLC invites all former Au’some Candy Co. employees to a reception from 6 to 7 p.m. on Thursday at its facility at Live Oak Industrial Park on U.S. 15 South. During the event, company leaders will introduce themselves and get to know members of the local workforce. Jay David, chief operating officer, said he and Mount Franklin Foods LLC Head
of Human Resources Cynthia Lackey will attend the event to speak with former Au’some employees. It’s kind of like an open house, he said. He said both Mount Franklin Foods and the former employees will have the opportunity to update their contact information for possible future contact. And although the event is not a job fair, David said he would like to get an understanding of the jobs that previously existed
with Au’some. Candy manufacturing is different from most of the industries in the area, he said. Of the people in the area who have a background in manufacturing, a small subset has experience working in food manufacturing, and an even smaller subset has experience working with candy, he said. When the candy company starts its hiring process in February, David said the individuals with experience
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Hydrant flow tests scheduled for midweek The City of Sumter will be performing fire hydrant flow tests on Pinewood Road and McCrays Mill Road from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Water customers in the surrounding area may experience temporary discolored water. Direct any questions or concerns to the City of Sumter Public Services Department at (803) 436-2558.
Bishopville City Council will meet this evening Bishopville City Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. today in the Colclough Building, 109 E. Council St., Bishopville. Council will approve minutes for the Oct. 4 meeting and discuss issues concerning property maintenance and household trash pickup after Hurricane Matthew. Reports will be heard from the administrator, police chief and committees. Public comments will be taken. Individuals who need assistance to attend this meeting can call (803) 484-5948.
working in a candy manufacturing facility will be considered first, followed by those who have experience working with food. That does not mean people who do not have experience in those two industries will be excluded, he said. David said he has received comments from former Au’some employees mentioning the great culture that existed at the facility. He said he is also excited to see life come back to the plant.
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Madilynn Robinson, 6, comes down one of the inflatable slides at Alice Drive Baptist Church’s annual Family Fall Festival on Thursday. Several thousand came out for the free celebration. There was trick-or-treating, music by DJ Howie Owens, games, multiple bounce houses, hot dogs and more at the event. Below, Bill Horne and his wife, Barbra, dressed as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, pass out candy to children attending the festival.
Commission will hold special meeting today There will be a special meeting of Sumter City-County Planning Commission at 3 p.m. today in Fourth Floor City Council Chambers, Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St., to receive information on the Joint Land Use Study that has recently been completed.
Sumter City Council will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in Council Chambers at Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St. Council will consider appointments to boards and commissions and other vacancies. Council will consider the final reading of an ordinance exempting the purchase and installation of an advanced meter-reading and metering infrastructure from the procurement ordinance. In new business, council will receive an update from Director of Veterans Affairs Valerie Brunson regarding Veterans Day activities and will receive a report regarding the Joint Land Use Study and consider a resolution adopting the study and will consider a resolution authorizing contracts for the installation of equipment related to the city’s fixed base meter-reading system project. Council members will comment on their participation in organizations and committees, hear updates from the city manager, review pending legislation and take public comments, limited to three minutes or less. Council may also go into an executive session to discuss contractual matters and appointment of boards and commissions in accordance with South Carolina law. Any official actions by council during executive session will be announced after the session. For more information, call City Clerk Linda Hammett at (803) 436-2578.
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BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com More than 20 representatives of local bicycling groups — including Sumter Chain Gang — lived up to the gang’s name Saturday but without the chains. Sumter Chain Gang members Steve Tipton and Tim Fishburne put out a call to the bike-riding club members to join with the Midlands Southern Off Road Bicycle Association to help clear debris and mark dangerous areas at Poinsett State Park. The park hosts some of the best mountain biking trails in the Midlands SORBA area. When remnants of Hurricane Matthew blew through the area in early October, it downed more than 40 trees on the trails that took down as many as five other trees at each of the 40 “markers,” as Poinsett State Park Manager Zabo McCants calls the downed tree locations. McCants closed the mountain bike trail system for safety reasons while the park crew dealt with downed trees on public roads and other areas. Tipton and Fishburne as well as park rangers walked the trails to define the markers in the weeks after the hurricane, and many of the downed trees had been cut with chainsaws. After putting out a request for volunteers on Facebook to help clear the trails, the volunteers cleared about 10 miles of trail on Saturday. Before he can reopen the trails, McCants said he needs to walk the entire system to determine the status of the downed tree markers, ensuring there are not newly downed trees while making sure the trails are safe. McCants said he hopes to have the entire northern portion of the trails open by Friday. That includes the Whippoorwill, Cowassee, Splice, Scout and Levi’s Run trails. Those trails comprise about 10.7 miles. Trails likely to remain closed include Hilltop, Knot, Laurel and Bowline trails. Trail workers on Saturday identified some trees that had blown over and were
POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES Christopher Allen Singletary, 29, of 3721½ Swann Road, was arrested Thursday and charged with domestic violence, third degree, for allegedly assaulting a woman while in the 1200 block of Narrow Paved Road in Lynchburg that same day. Charles Michael Brown, 59, of 3 Spring Lake Court, was arrested on Thursday and charged with criminal sexual conduct, second degree, for allegedly sexually assaulting a female victim while in the first block of Spring Lake Court on Oct. 18. According to a news release from Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Brown allegedly threatened to harm the victim’s family if she told anyone.
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Volunteers, from left, Pete Surette, Eli Dreher and Sean Loughrey clear a portion of the Cowassee Trail at Poinsett State Park on Saturday. The crews cut trees with handsaws, clipped overhanging hazards and raked pine needles and leaves off the trail.
Lilly Tillman,11, above, gets some accents to her unicorn costume from Taylor Bradshaw during the Bark in the Park fundraiser for Carolina Helping Paws Rescue on Saturday at Dillon Park.
suspended after falling on other trees. McCants said those trees will need to be downed before reopening the trails. He said he wants to make sure the trails are “as safe as humanly possible” before opening them. Without the volunteer work, McCants said it would have taken the park employees a longer time to get them open. He said he’s hoping another workday in November will make it possible to open the other trails. McCants said when the remnants of Matthew downed trees on Oct. 8, his crew moved people out of a camping area into an open field while his crew spent much of the time using chainsaws to keep roads to and within the park open. He said park visitors have been understanding and patient. As far as the trails, he said, “I want to get it done and get it done right.” If you want to check the status of the trails, you can call (803) 494-8177.
Shaaloon Robertson, 50, of 4455 E. Brewington Road, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with domestic violence, third degree, for allegedly hitting a female victim in the mouth with a Samsung tablet and pulling out some of her hair while in the 4400 block of East Brewington Road on Oct. 17. Charmyn Renee Edwards, 23, of 2280 Raccoon Road, Dal-
zell, was arrested on Oct. 15 and charged with domestic violence, first degree, for allegedly striking the rear of a vehicle, causing major damage, while driving at Broad Street and Eagle Road in Sumter County on Oct. 14. According to a news release from Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Edwards also reportedly side-swiped the vehicle, causing the victim
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Was $350M social experiment over lawns worth cost? SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners to rip out water-slurping lawns are now trying to answer whether the nation's biggest lawn removal experiment was all worth the cost. Around the state, water experts and water-district employees are employing satellite images, infrared aerial photos, neighborhood drive-bys and complex algorithms to gauge just how much grassy turf was removed. They also want to know whether the fortune in rebates helped turn California tastes lastingly away from emerald-green turf. "How well did it work? That's really key when we're working on historic investments," said Patrick Atwater, a project manager at the California Data Collaborative, a coalition of utilities and other water-related entities grappling with the question. Removing lawns may sound like a small, wonky step, compared to building dams. But the green turf in American yards actually stands as a worthy target for water savings, a public enemy in the eyes of many during a drought such as California's five-year-old one. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates one-third of all water used by American households goes to watering lawns and gardens. That's 9 billion gallons of water each day — enough to supply drinking water daily for nine cities the size of New York. In 2015, after a devastatingly
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City water resources specialist Randy Barron looks over a garden made to use less water outside a Lomita Heights home in Santa Rosa, California. dry winter, Gov. Jerry Brown ordered 25-percent water conservation by cities and towns. He mandated $25 million in state-government spending to help cover the costs of low-income California families in particular removing their grass, and putting less-thirsty, climate-suitable plants in their yards instead. Brown set a goal of eliminating 50 million square feet of lawn. That breaks down to less than two square miles of greenery, out of what the Public Policy Institute of California think-tank has estimated at around 1,000 square miles of watered yards statewide. But state spending proved a drop in the bucket compared to the money local water districts put into lawn rebates. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a giant water wholesaler providing
water to Los Angeles and more than two dozen other cities, counties and water districts, poured just more than $300 million into lawn rebates from 2014 on, removing five square miles of lawn. MWD doubled its rebate offer to $2 for each square feet of lawn removed, and the lawn rebates quickly became the district's most popular program ever. Workers processed as much as $10 million in rebate applications a week at peak. In July 2015 alone, Southern Californians applied for rebates to remove the equivalent of 1,665 front lawns.
Santa Clara Valley Water District, serving Silicon Valley, provided more than $30 million in rebates. Dozens of other water districts put a few hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars into dead-lawn bounties. Rebates ranged from 50 cents a square foot of lawn to $4 and up. Water districts revised rebate rules and amounts on the fly, after controversies erupted over golf courses and other properties that got millions of dollars each in rebates. Water boards imposed caps on rebates. Some districts dictated that homeowners put in California-suitable plants. Other water agencies faced criticism for allowing artificial turf and swathes of gravel. Now some water-district managers are nervous over political fallout if the benefits don't measure up to the rebate costs, said Chelsea Minton of OmniEarth, a Virginia-based analytics firm that is using before-and-after satellite images to help tally the effectiveness of the lawn-removal program. Privately, some worried water officials were "saying, 'Let's wait a year or two'" to study it, Minton said. Figuring out whether California's experiment made sense economically is more involved than just totaling how much turf residents have ripped out. Two key questions are whether households leave the
lawns off for a generation or two and whether each rebate helps turn Californian tastes away from lawns, independent of future rebates. At Southern California's Claremont Graduate University, assistant professor Andrew Marx is drawing on infrared imagery from airplanes, normally used by farmers, to help figure out whether the rebates are changing Californians' tastes. The state will go deeper still into the number-crunching, tallying not just water savings but spin-off savings. They range from lower energy costs for piping less water to households to reduced climatechanging pollution from lawn mowers, said Ken Frame, a project manager at California's Department of Water Resources. In Southern California's Irvine Ranch Water District, which spent $638,403 on lawn rebates since 2014, workers sent surveys and drove block to block to nail down just how many homeowners joined the lawn-less trend. Irvine's pilot study found that for every three homeowners who took the rebate, at least four others converted their lawns to less water-hungry plants. Water experts say other factors besides the rebates played a part, including news reports about turf removal programs and the governor's drought-messaging.
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Zika ravages testes of mice; study raises concern about men BY MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK — Zika virus ravages the testes of male mice, sharply reducing sperm counts and fertility, says a study that raises a new specter about its threat to people. Experiments found testes of infected mice shrank about 90 percent by weight, while their output of useful sperm fell by three-quarters on average, and often more. Now it's time to find out if Zika causes similar damage in men, experts said. "We just don't know that yet," said Michael Diamond of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, a senior author of the study. The virus is known to infect a man's reproductive system and persist in sperm and semen, "so it's in the right place," he said.
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UNICEF: 2 billion children breathe toxic air worldwide NEW DELHI (AP) — As Indians awoke Monday to smokefilled skies from a weekend of festival fireworks, New Delhi's worst season for air pollution began — with dire consequences. A new report from UNICEF says about a third of the 2 billion children in the world who are breathing toxic air live in northern India and neighboring countries, risking serious health effects including damage to their lungs, brains and other organs. Of that global total, 300 million kids are exposed to pollution levels more than six times higher than standards set by the World Health Organization, including 220 million in South Asia. For the Indian capital, the alarming numbers are hardly a surprise. New Delhi's air pollution, among the world's worst, spikes every winter because of the season's weak winds and countless garbage fires set alight to help people stay warm. Even days before the city erupted in annual fireworks celebrations for the Hindu holiday of Diwali, recorded levels of tiny, lung-clogging particulate matter known as PM 2.5
Traffic moves on a road enveloped by smoke and smog on Monday morning following Diwali festival in New Delhi, India.
brains and immune systems are still developing and vulnerable. "The impact is commensurately shocking," with 600,000 children younger than 5 across the world dying every year from air pollution-related diseases, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said in the report released Monday. "Millions more suffer from respiratory diseases that diminish their resilience and affect their physical and cognitive development.” Counting 2 billion children breathing unhealthy air — out of a total 2.26 billion world population of children — means the vast majority are being exposed to levels of pollution considered by the WHO to be unsafe. Out of that 2 billion breathing toxic air, the report puts 620 million of them in South Asia — mostly northern India. Another 520 million children are breathing toxic air in Africa, and 450 million in East Asia, mainly China, according to the report, which combined satellite images of pollution and ground data with demographic patterns to determine which populations fell into the highest risk areas.
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were considered dangerous Friday at well above 300 micrograms per cubic meter. By Monday morning, the city was recording PM 2.5 levels above 900 mcg per cubic meter — more than 90 times higher than the WHO recommendation of no more than 10 mcg per cubic meter. "My eyes are irritated, I'm coughing, and I find it difficult to breathe," said 18-year-old Delhi student Dharmendra, who uses only one name as is common in India. Because of
said Anumita Roy Chowdhury, executive director of the Centre for Science and Environment, a Delhi-based research and lobbying organization. Some local studies indicate up to a third of Delhi's children have impaired lung function and respiratory diseases like asthma, she said. "This really signals health disaster." Children face much higher health risks from air pollution than adults. Children breathe twice as quickly, taking in more air in relation to their body weight, while their
the pollution, "I don't go out so much nowadays." New Delhi residents were advised to stay indoors on Monday, with health warnings issued for the young, elderly and those with respiratory or heart conditions. Officials said the high pollution levels were made worse by the ongoing burning of spent crops in agricultural fields in the neighboring states of Punjab and Haryana. "Pollution levels every winter gallop, and we are already beginning to see the signs of it,"
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Mayor wants to stop staff from talking for town SUMMERVILLE — The mayor of Summerville is seeking to muzzle town employees, including the administrator, from speaking to the media or representing the town on issues without the council’s consent.
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LANE FROM PAGE A1 On Oct. 21, she went back to Gastonia to help prepare food for her family. English said the family was sitting in his house about 12:30 a.m. that night when unknown people fired about 30 rounds toward his home. There were about 15 children and eight adults in the house, and Jacobia Lane was the only one to be taken, he said. “It’s like she took the bullet for us all,” he said. English said his sister would forgive the people who shot her and ask that they seek help for their actions. She would forgive them, so we forgive them, he said. “We’re hoping the people will come forward and turn themselves in,” said Carolyn English, Jacobia Lane’s aunt. “We’re not mad. We just want justice and peace.” Carolyn said Jacobia Lane’s forgiving and loving nature was one of the reasons so many people attended a gathering in her niece’s memory on Friday. She was willing to help everyone, she said. She got along with everybody at work, said Natalie Shannon, who worked the same shift with Jacobia Lane at Invista, a textile manufacturing and research facility in Lugoff. Every day Jacobia Lane would always say, “Let’s get a honey bun,” she said. She was always happy, Shannon added. She was full of life, said Mattie Duren, her niece. Duren was also one of
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Melissa White, 41, was attending the event with her mother, Ellen White. “This is a wonderful event for everyone,” Ellen White said. Stefanie Reed, a caregiver who also works with the Clarendon County Disabilities and Special Needs Board and United Cerebral Palsy, was attending the event with Zeb, who has special needs. “A lot of special needs boards don’t have events outside of their organizations,” Reed said. “To have a group outside of the community host an event that is open to everyone is great.” The idea for the event came from Rosanna Crouse, who organized dances for adults and teens with special needs in Columbus, Georgia. The event in Georgia has been running for nine years and attracts about 200 attendees annually, she said.
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Senators tell Cleary to pay nearly $125K for violations COLUMBIA (AP) — Retiring Sen. Ray Cleary was ordered Monday to pay nearly $125,000 for violating state ethics laws by improperly reporting campaign expenses, donations and refunds. The Senate Ethics Committee’s 10 members publicly reprimanded their colleague and ordered him to pay a $41,900 fine. He must also return nearly $48,000 to his campaign account, reimburse the committee $27,400 and donate $7,500 to a children’s charity. Cleary, R-Murrells Inlet, said he will pay by the order’s Dec. 1 deadline. “It is what it is,” he said, insisting he “didn’t spend anything out of my account that wasn’t Senate-related.” The 68-year-old dentist said his campaign filings got out of whack after he delegated the filing of quarterly online reports amid his busy schedule, but he recognizes that was his responsibility. “Did my staff member misreport? Yeah. Was every ‘i’ dotted and ‘t’ crossed? No,” he said Monday. But “there was nothing fraudulent.” At last week’s hearing, Cleary did not dispute the findings of an attorney and accountant hired by the committee. The $27,400 to be reimbursed to the committee covers their fees. They found he violated six categories of ethics law, including underreporting donations, not reporting expenses, not properly reporting who a check was written to and reimbursing himself without proper documentation — including for “various lunches, meetings and mileage,” the order says.
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ASHINGTON — One more week, give or take. It seems nearly impossible that an election season that began approximately four years ago is nearing its end. After almost two years of speeches, rallies and raunch, this presidential campaign has become just another Kathleen sound in the Parker white noise of life. Like “Groundhog Day,” or perdition, it seemed it never would end. Ever. Now, suddenly, only days remain before we vote. Wait, no, I’m not ready! Where’s the one I want to vote for? Can it be true that either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States? For real? Is this really all we’ve got? Next, dread settles in. OMG, I have to vote. Yes, of course, you have to vote. And yet, and for whom? Anxiety is up,
meditation is in. Depression is commonplace. Disenchantment is pervasive. All congeal into a sort of cataclysmic sense that the best of times are behind us. Where, we wonder, is the individual who compels us to cheer for the good that unites us, the virtue that defines us, the strength that sustains us and the faith that tomorrow will always be better? Where is the sunny, aspirational leader who understands the frustrations of Trump supporters and the sense of leftbehindness of people on both left and right? It is sad but true that none comes to mind. More disturbing, we have to understand that great leaders may forever be in short supply given that decent people decide public service isn’t worth the total surrender of one’s autonomy and privacy. Who can blame them? Thus, our next president will be chosen not with the enthusiasm of a well-informed electorate but with the forlornness that comes of having no better option. Surely, there are many who find either Hillary Clinton or
Donald Trump satisfactory. Those who would embrace a third term of Barack Obama, or who have longed to witness a woman become president, may manage to summon a spring to their step. Those who see Trump as the answer to political gridlock, the menace of terrorism and an economy that benefits only the lucky few may be able to muster more than a slog to the ballot box. But for the countless millions in the middle who can find neither solace nor excitement in the prospect of either candidate, Election Day approaches as a sunset without the promise of a sunrise. Morning in America has become mourning in America. No wonder. Already House Republicans have promised to immediately initiate yet more investigations into whatever remains unexplored in Clinton’s life. Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, says he has enough material for at least two years’ worth of taxpayer-funded witch hunting. This was even
before the FBI announced Friday that it was investigating more emails recently retrieved from Clinton associates. Some Senate Republicans have promised to thwart any and all Supreme Court nominations from a President Clinton. This, when they ought to be holding hearings on Judge Merrick Garland, nominated by Obama in March, while there’s still time. Not only would Republicans demonstrate (for a change) that they’re serious about governance, and not just obstruction, but they’d be wise to accept a relatively moderate judge while the option remains. Clinton, meanwhile, shouldn’t presume to have a mandate if she wins. She’d owe more than a slice of her victory to Trump, who offended so many potential voters that she benefited big-league by the comparison. Rather than winning, she’d be accepting the triumph of Trump’s defeat. She also should make haste to keep her promise to be the president for all Americans and address the concerns that
caused Trump supporters to rise out of their despair and rally for a reality TV star. There’s no use repeating her campaign quip that America is already great. As for Trump, he seems to have recognized that it’s time to move to the next item on his bucket list, possibly as king of a new media empire from which he’ll come combed to judge the quick and the dead. He has already stopped majordonor fundraising, as well as ceased spending his own lucre, and he spent vital time last week at the grand opening of his new hotel here rather than go stumping in swing states. He and his cohort of family members, all poised with great big scissors to snip a red ribbon for the gawking crowd, seemed to be players in a muted celebration for the ringmaster of razzle-dazzle — presaging, perhaps, what appears likely to come. Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@ washpost.com. © 2016, Washington Post Writers Group
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS WHEN YOU GO TO THE POLLS The state of our government has come to a new low. The political folly and rhetoric being introduced into our society is leaving me to wonder where our nation is going. As a patriot, I know we will survive and that each of us is looking for what is best for us now and in the future. The presidential election is decided by electoral votes, not really the popular vote of the people. But our local and state elections are by “we the people;” therefore we must look at the candidates to make an informed decision to cast our vote for that which affects our local communities. Although this is a presidential election year, our local elections are involved also. If you live in Sumter County Council District 3, I ask that you cast your vote for our current councilman, Jimmy Byrd. He has done an outstanding job of representing us, and we really need him to continue to fight for us. JIM LANFORD Sumter
CASE OF MISSING SIGN CAPER MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOLVED Every time I read any letter to the editor from Gardner Gore in one of his usual but tired rants about Councilman Jimmy Byrd, he always goes on about how Jimmy and his “cronies” are stealing signs. Well the other day, driving down South Guignard Drive, I saw for myself the thief in action. There along with one of his cronies, I saw Mr. Gore taking up his own signs. Now perhaps it was because he realized he couldn’t just stick them anywhere he pleased or perhaps there’s a more sinister motive. Nevertheless, I think the caper of the missing signs has been solved. LEIGH EVANS
CHOOSE BYRD AT THE POLLS FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT 3 The end of this year is the beginning of newly elected officials at all levels of government. On the 8th of November, we citizens go to the polls to make our selections known of whom we think will continue leadership roles in our best interest. We are a nation of many ethnic and religious groups that live in a democratic society where we have that right. Thank God for that! Please take the time to vote! Locally, we have several running for office unopposed and will stay in their current positions. One incumbent, Councilman Jimmy Byrd, is being attacked by Gardner Gore and his ilk. I read with interest Mr. Gore’s unfounded comments, and I tell you it is far from the truth. I have known Jimmy
for many years, and he is my current representative on county council. I have always found him to be honest, straight forward and extremely caring about his family, his district and this community as a whole. He is industrious and works across political lines for the betterment of all. I ask you to exercise your right at the polls and join me in casting your vote for Jimmy Byrd, Sumter County Council District 3. R.C. ALTMAN
BYRD IS VITAL TO COUNCIL AND WORKS HARD FOR US I want to encourage residents of Sumter County District 3 to vote for County Councilman Jimmy Byrd. I know Jimmy to be a very hard working, honest small businessman who works just as hard for the betterment of all of our county. Jimmy has always made himself accessible to many organizations and individuals, and if you have spoken with him, you know he is intelligent and knowledgeable about the workings of our county. This has made him a vital part of Sumter County Council and our continued financial stability and ability to attract new businesses and industry that provide new good paying jobs. I have complete trust and high regards for Jimmy Byrd. CARL J. CROFT Sumter
LEADERSHIP OF MCELVEEN MATTERS TO EVERYONE IN SUMTER Sumter became our home in May 2002. I remember our first visit so vividly because of the excitement around the world-renowned Iris Festival and warm people we met during that visit. I eventually met the leader of this dynamic community, Mayor Joe McElveen, and bought into his vision for Sumter. He is passionate about Sumter and truly cares about our future. I am thankful for his leadership and excited to endorse his re-election for mayor. His vision includes revitalization of Sumter with a focus on Economic and Workforces Development and “downtown.” He often refers to similarities of Greenville when illustrating the plan for Sumter’s downtown. This vision and strategic plan along with collaboration with city, county councils and Shaw will continue to garner even more industry and higher-paying jobs for Sumter. Our city continues to experience many successes because of Mayor McElveen’s leadership. The road to success is never perfect because it is process, and leadership matters. TAMMY ADAMS KELLY Sumter
IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE, SO VOTE FOR HOLLAND FOR MAYOR Having attended both mayoral candidate fora last week, I’ve come to the conclusion it’s time for change in our local government. William “Dutch” Holland is the candidate who will revitalize our city council. A retired Air Force major general, Dutch knows a thing or two about leadership and about running big organizations. Hailing from Quaker roots in rural Carolina, Dutch joined the Air Force and rose through the ranks, ultimately retiring as commander of the 9th Air Force here at Shaw Air Force Base. Dutch Holland is a man of integrity and vision — he focuses on the future, not what we’ve done in the past. He believes in service and excellence. With a leadership style that focuses on getting out and around our community, Dutch Holland promises to reinvigorate Sumter City Council and represent all Sumter residents. He understands the privilege of representing us as well as the responsibility of representing our great city at local, state and national levels, promising to do so with the utmost pride and professionalism. When you see Dutch Holland in your neighborhood, tell him what you think, but more importantly, give him your support and your vote this Election Day. Dutch Holland is Sumter’s mayor for the future! BRYAN J. FUNKE, MD Sumter
CONTINUE TO ASSESS CANDIDATES BEFORE YOU GO TO VOTE The eighth of November is coming fast, and voters need to continue to assess candidates. Some voters may not agree that voting for local election candidates is as important, if not more important, than voting for national elections candidates. While it sounds counterintuitive that voting for the mayor or councilperson could be as or more important than voting for a United States Senator or even the president, when you think about the issues that most closely affect your day-to-day life, taxes on your property, quality of your schools, roads supporting the community, property zoning, utility availability and cost, police and fire department services, and let’s not forget local jobs, are really determined at the local level by local leaders elected by the people. Voters need to know more about the candidate personally and what they support locally than they do about what political party the candidate identifies with; they make regulations and rules that directly affect your everyday life. Voters should look the candidate in the eye, shake their hand, talk to them and ask them
questions. You should be comfortable with the fact they represent you and the community and they have a good understanding of state and federal issues. A great candidate understands they are asking to be our elected representatives as our neighbor and friend; our candidates should face the same community challenges as everyone else in the community, and they should reflect the same financial, same economic, employment and same social issues. Objective analysis requires measuring candidates for what they stand for, their character and their vision is for the City of Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina and the United States of America. Many voters vote straight down party lines, without considering the impact on their vote on electing local representatives. Personally, I do not think this practice is wise because you cannot ensure you are getting the best possible candidate at the local level; I think it translates to being a lazy voter, and it puts your right to vote into the hands of a party you may not full agree with on all principles. BILL STRICKLAND Sumter Editor’s note: Because this letter exceeded the 350-word length as stated in our Editorial Page Policies which appears regularly on this page, it can be read in its entirety under Opinion on The Sumter Item’s website, www.theitem.com.
MCELVEEN IS A CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER AND TREASURE FOR US I have been privileged to serve the public for 46 years, six years in the General Assembly and 40 years as the mayor of Charleston. During those years, I have had the opportunity to watch and work with many exemplary public servants, and there is no one I hold in higher regard than Joe McElveen, the mayor of Sumter. I watched his display of hard work and integrity as a member of the House of Representatives and have now seen his visionary and determined leadership truly enhance the City of Sumter. Joe McElveen is a tireless worker and a superb listener. His nature is inclusive. And Joe McElveen never gives up. Whatever the cause or initiative, Joe McElveen will not rest until it is done. And Joe is a wise and creative problem solver. Mayors and city council members from across our state look to Joe McElveen for inspiration and guidance. He is a treasure for the residents of Sumter and the residents of South Carolina. JOSEPH P. RILEY JR. Charleston
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AROUND TOWN The Sumter Branch NAACP will provide rides to the polls from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Election host its 33rd Annual Freedom NAACP’s 33rd Annual Freedom Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8. Call Fund Banquet at 7 p.m. on Fund Friday (803) 775-9215. Drivers are Friday, Nov.Banquet 4, at the on Sumter also needed. County Civic Center, 700 W. Liberty St. Hilary O. Shelton, The Sumter Chapter of the Naof the NAACP National Oftional Federation of the Blind fice, will serve as keynote of South Carolina will meet speaker. at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, The Shepherd’s Center’s annu125 W. Bartlette St. Transal flea market will be held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sat- portation provided within the coverage area. If you urday, Nov. 5, at Trinity-Linknow a blind person, concoln Center, 24 Council St. tact Debra Canty, chapter A fall festival featuring the president, at (803) 775-5792 Amazing Scavenger Hunt Race or debra.canty@frontier. will be held on Saturday, Nov. 5, in the town of Lynch- com. Donations are welcome and can be mailed to: burg. Teams should consist NFB Sumter Chapter, P.O. of two people and cost is Box 641, Sumter, SC 29151. $20 per team. All particiThe Sumter County Veterans pants and vendors are Association will hold its annual asked to register by Nov. 2. Veterans Day parade and proCost on the day of the race gram on Friday, Nov. 11. Bewill be $25. Fall festival will ginning at 10 a.m., the pabegin at 9:30 a.m. with the rade will start at the corner race beginning promptly at of Main and Bartlette 10:30 a.m. Call Kim Fortustreets heading north on nate at (843) 206-2390, Main, turning right onto Greta Gibson at (803) 236Calhoun Street and then 0187, Kelvin Solomon at right onto Harvin, ending at (803) 565-4173 or Sharon the Judicial Center parking Lowery-Brown at (843) 813lot. The ceremony will 4859. begin at 11 a.m. on the The Eastern High School Class front lawn of the courtof 1966 will celebrate its house. There will be numer50th golden anniversary ous vendors set up behind from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the courthouse displaying Saturday, Nov. 5, at Golden Corral in Sumter. Call Hattie various benefits and information for the veterans. Hamption McLeod at (803) The grand marshal of the 495-3083 or Pontheola Edparade will be 20th Fighter wards Wilson at (843) 260Wing Commander Col. Dan2978. iel Lasica, who will also The Little Miss and Teen Miss serve as the keynote speakSumter and Sumter County er for the program. preliminary pageant will be In honor of Veterans Day, the held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Langley Winds Chamber EnNov. 6, at Kingsbury Elesemble will provide a free conmentary School. Girls who cert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, will be 3 to 19 years of age Nov. 11, at the Sumter by July 2017 are eligible to Opera House. Visit www. compete. The pageant is SumterOperaHouse.com to open to all counties in reserve your seating. South Carolina. Winners of The Sumter Branch NAACP will the 14 age divisions will hold its biennial election from ride in the Sumter Christ10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturmas Parade and will be eliday, Nov. 12, at 741 Bultman gible to compete at state in Drive. July 2017. For information or entry forms, call (803) A Southern Belle Tea and Tast468-0251 or email janeping Gala featuring the 2nd Anprivette@gmail.com. nual Parade of Hats will be held on Nov. 12 at Ryanne’s The Lincoln High School Class Catering Hall, 154 Main St., of 1964 will hold a class reLynchburg. Tickets are $20 union meeting at 11 a.m. on per person. For details, call Monday, Nov. 7, at the Kim Fortunate at (843) 206South Sumter Resource 2390, Greta Gibson at (803) Center, 337 Manning Ave. 236-0187, Kelvin Solomon at Call Frances Woods at (803) (803) 565-4173, Sharon Low773-3804, Lillie Wilson at ery-Brown at (843) 813-4859 (803) 775-9088 or Bertha or Donna Scott at (803) 459Willis at (803) 775-9660. The Sumter Branch NAACP will 3301.
PUBLIC AGENDA SUMTER CITY-COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING Today, 3 p.m., fourth floor, City Council Chambers, Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St. SUMTER CITY COUNCIL Today, 5:30 p.m., Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A moneymaking EUGENIA LAST opportunity is within reach. Negotiate on your own behalf. Personal and professional contracts can be signed. Sharing something special with someone you love will lead to greater happiness. Physical improvements will boost your morale.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Question everything before you get involved in a joint venture or try to negotiate a deal. Someone is not going to be forthright, giving you a false impression. Trust your instincts and be willing to say “no.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotions will surface, leading to assumptions that can get you into trouble. You are best to observe and evaluate your current position in regard to friends, relatives and your peers. Don’t wear your heart on your sleeve. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t leave your responsibilities in someone else’s hands or disappointment will follow. Find a way to make your job more satisfying. Express what you want and offer alternatives that will get you closer to your goal. Let your imagination take over.
BISHOPVILLE CITY COUNCIL Today, 6:30 p.m., Colclough Building, 109 E. Council St., Bishopville TOWN OF LYNCHBURG PLANNING COMMISSION Wednesday, 4 p.m., town hall
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friendliness are all that’s required. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Change will bring good fortune. Don’t hesitate when an opportunity comes your way. Being able to act decisively will be an integral part of why and how you get ahead. Personal improvements, travel and romance are all highlighted. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Clear a space that you can use to pursue a new project. Use your ingenuity to get others to pitch in and help. Share your feelings and make your input count. If you don’t speak up, nothing will change. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Self-deception can set you back. Face facts and do whatever it takes to make things right. Make a promise or commitment that will change your life for the better. Embrace the future with openness and honesty, and opportunities will come your way. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep your money and possessions locked up. Don’t feel the need to donate or pay for someone else’s mistake. Avoid questionable schemes, and keep your mind set on what will bring you the highest returns.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Keep an open mind and show a willingness to try new things. Personal events and competitive activities will bring about positive change. Mix business with pleasure and you will entice someone to help you get ahead. Romance is encouraged.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A job opportunity, contract or settlement you are working on looks promising. Showing your diversity and ability to adapt to whatever comes your way will impress someone who can influence your future. A financial gain is heading your way.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): An emotional plea will result in positive action. Trips and meetings will lead to new opportunities and help you put an end to interference and uncertainty. Kind words coupled with compassion and
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stay calm and don’t start something you cannot finish. Your emotional situation will fluctuate, and careful maneuvering will be necessary to avoid relationship problems. Choose peace over chaos.
PICTURES FROM THE PUBLIC Amanda Hitchcock took this picture of an African Violet on her hairdresser’s counter. The plant belongs to Alexa Rowe.
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CLEMSON FOOTBALL
Winning formula
Tigers rolling with close calls
WORLD SERIES
Tomlin, Indians looking to treat fans
BY PETE IACOBELLI
BY RONALD BLUM
AP Sports Writer
AP Baseball Writer
CLEMSON — Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson isn’t dwelling on how the third-ranked Tigers pick up their wins, just as long as they continue to be successful in the end. It has been a frenetic month of midgame mistakes and last-minute rallies for the Tigers (8-0, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who pulled off their latest escape Saturday night in a 37-34 win at Florida State. Clemson has needed dramatic comebacks in three of its four October games, including in signature wins over No. 5 Louisville and the 19thranked Seminoles . In Watson’s view, the end justifies the sometimes sloppy means in the Tigers second straight 8-0 start. “Players make plays, this is what we are built for,” Watson said Monday. “We practice this every Wednesday, being down and having the opportunity to win the game.” Clemson hopes to start a more dominating run to the finish the regular season, starting with Saturday’s home game against Syracuse (4-4, 2-2). The Tigers have beaten 3-0 against the Orange since Syracuse joined the ACC. The Tigers have had their share of heart-stopping finishes so a comfortable victory would be welcomed. Clemson trailed Louisville 36-28 in the fourth quarter before Watson rallied his team for a pair of touchdown drives in the final seven minutes of the 42-36 victory Oct. 1. Two weeks later, the Tigers sweated out a missed, 33yard field goal by North Carolina State that would’ve won the game to prevail in overtime, 24-17. This time, Clemson was down 28-20 in the third quarter and 34-29 with 3:23 remaining. But Watson and the Tigers responded with an efficient, smooth 75yard TD drive ended by tight end Jordan Leggett’s 34-yard catch and run where he leaped at the end and extended the ball across the goal line before falling out of bounds. Clemson’s defense then forced two incompletions and notched two sacks after the Seminoles had advanced inside the Tigers’ 40 looking for a tying field goal. “I’m ecstatic about the way we’ve been able to finish this season,” Clemson defensive back Ryan Carter said.
CLEVELAND — Josh Tomlin looked forward to Halloween and dressing up with his daughters, 2-year-old Makenzie Jae and 1-year-old Myla Kate. “I might be daddy piggy,” he said. With Cleveland anticipating the city’s first World Series championship since 1948 — and its first title clincher at home since 1920 — the Indians’ Game 6 starter was happy to be back home ahead of his outing against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night. Chicago closed to 3-2 with Sunday’s win at Wrigley Field. The Cubs, who haven’t won it all since 1908, are trying to become the first team to overcome a 3-1 Series deficit since the 1985 Kansas City Royals and the first to do it by winning Games 6 and 7 on the road since the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates. Rather than celebrate in the cramped visitors’ clubhouse at Wrigley, the Indians are in position to party in their own digs at Progressive Field — where a makeshift shrine to Jobu, the Voodoo idol from the Cleveland clubhouse in the 1989 film “Major League,” was erected in a stall between the lockers of Mike Napoli and Jason Kipnis. “He’s just chilling over there, doing his thing,” Napoli said. Cleveland fans have missed out on being there for this year’s big events: First, the Cavaliers completed their NBA Finals comeback on the road, beating Golden State in Game 7 for the city’s first major pro sports championship in 52 years. Then, the Indians clinched the AL Central crown at Detroit, won the Division Series in Boston and the AL Championship Series at Toronto. “It’ll be ideal. We have a better situation to do it now,”
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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) watches as Christian Wilkins (42) and Wayne Gallman celebrate Gallman’s touchdown in the Tigers’ 37-34 victory over Florida State on Saturday in Tallahassee, Fla.
CAROLINA FOOTBALL
SEE WORLD SERIES, PAGE B4
JIM SKINNER 1930-1986
Skinner remembered as outstanding sportsman BY DARGAN WATTS Special to The Sumter Item
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South Carolina wide receiver Bryan Edwards (89) runs with the football during the Gamecocks’ 24-21 upset win over Tennessee on Saturday.
Mizzou make or break for Carolina
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Dennis Brunson COLUMNIST
here is no doubt the University of South Carolina’s 24-21 victory over then No. 18 Tennessee on Saturday was a big victory for the football program. There are even some saying it is a “signature victory” for first-year head coach Will Muschamp. Uh, no. While the win over the Volunteers was one the Gamecocks needed if they want to have a realistic chance of reaching goals they have set for
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Jim Skinner has passed away. He may not have been the No. 1 fan in all of motorsports, but you can bet your farm and all the animals on it that he was close to the top. Jim Skinner dedicated more than 65 years to sports in general and more than 60 years in auto racing. The Ohio native had a career in the United States Air Force, but as a sideline, whenever possible, he umpired high school baseball games and officiated track and field meets in addition to basketball and football games. He also was a scorer at auto racing events for over 50 years as well as various other tasks around various racing facilities. In later years, Skinner became interested in seeking autographs from any and all people involved in racing. He had this giant black and white checkered flag and he traveled all across the country getting certain drivers to sign it. He drove from Sumter to Elmhurst, Ill., just to get
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Jim Skinner, left, visits with NASCAR Hall of Famer Rex White. Skinner, who passed away at the age of 85 on Oct. 22, was an avid auto racing fan who worked for decades at Sumter Speedway and was also a high school official in many sports. racing Hall of Famer Fred Lorenzen to sign it. He chased down Junior Johnson at his home in North Carolina and asked him to sign his flag. Not only did Johnson sign his flag, but invited Skinner to have breakfast with him and the two became close friends. Jim was a perfectionist and he passed those traits on to his son, Bill, and daughter Meta Skinner Liuzzo. Both became scorers at Sumter Speedway and other tracks. He never met a stranger
and would give a stranger the shirt off his back if he felt it was needed. He always went out of his way to do things for everybody. My wife, Jane, was pressed into scoring duties when I was involved at Sumter Speedway and Jim was her mentor for a year and a half. On her birthday, Skinner brought a birthday cake to the scorer’s stand and it was decorated to represent a race track, complete with miniature cars. This was just a sampling of how Jim Skinner operated.
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Johnson’s win leaves 3 spots up for grabs in NASCAR playoffs BY JENNA FRYERA AP Auto Racing Writer MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Jimmie Johnson is on to NASCAR’s championship race, which means Joe Gibbs Racing won’t pull off a clean sweep of the final four. Johnson’s win Sunday at Martinsville Speedway clinched him a spot in the title-deciding Nov. 20 race at Homestead-Miami Speedway . With only three slots remaining, the jockeying for a shot at the championship could quickly turn cutthroat. JOHNSON There’s so much on the line, and only two races remaining to set the field. That means the teamwork that has worked so well for JGR this year may quickly be abandoned as every driver races with their own agenda. “We’re in a team business, but we’re also in a business to win for our sponsors and ourselves,” said JGR driver Denny Hamlin. “I think at the end, you have to do what’s best for yourself.” The crack started to show at JGR immediately after Johnson collected his ninth career victory at Martinsville. A tire problem had already dropped JGR driver Carl Edwards to last in the Chase field, but Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch had cars capable of winning. But as the JGR cars ran nose-to-tail in the closing laps, Brad Keselowski slipped past them and grabbed second-place behind Johnson. Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch are inside the top-four as the series heads to Texas Motor Speedway. But all was not well in the Gibbs camp after the race. Busch felt Hamlin finished the highest by holding up Kenseth and Busch in the waning laps. Although the teammates worked well together on restarts, Busch felt that Hamlin not getting out of the way allowed Johnson to win and Keselowski to finish second. “We work so good together that we just gave the win to (Johnson). So, JGR all the way,” Busch said. “At the end, you had the slowest Gibbs car holding up the rest of the line, and all we did was let somebody else from another organization pass us and go up there and chase down (Johnson).” Hamlin disputed Busch’s view. “I may have held those guys up for a little bit of that final run, but definitely don’t think I was holding anyone up at the end, for sure,” Hamlin said.
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6 a.m. – Professional Tennis: BNP Parisbas Masters Early-Round Matches from Paris (TENNIS). Noon – Professional Tennis: BNP Parisbas Masters Early-Round Matches from Paris (TENNIS). 3 p.m. – College Golf: East Lake Cup Match Play Semifinal Matches from Atlanta (GOLF). 3:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Champions League Match – FC Rostov vs. Atletico Madrid (ESPN2). 3:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Champions League Match – Barcelona vs. Manchester City (FOX SPORTS 1). 3:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Champions League Match – Arsenal vs. Ludogoretz Razgrad (FOX SPORTS 2). 3:30 p.m. – International Soccer: UEFA Champions League Match – Bayern Munich vs. PSV Eindhoven (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WPUB-FM 102.7, WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 7 p.m. – College Football: College Football Playoff Top 25 (ESPN). 7 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Houston at Cleveland (NBA TV) 7:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Carolina at Ottawa (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 7:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Tampa Bay at New York Islanders (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 8 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Cleveland (WACH 57). 8 p.m. – College Football: Western Michigan at Ball State (ESPN2). 8 p.m. – College Football: Bowling Green at Northern Illinois (ESPNU). 10 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Golden State at Portland (NBA TV). 10 p.m. – NHL Hockey: San Jose at Phoenix (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).
GOODY’S FAST RELIEF 500 RESULTS By The Associated Press Sunday At Martinsville Speedway Martinsville, Va. Lap length: .526 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (3) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 500 laps, 115.7 rating, 44 points. 2. (19) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 500, 105.3, 39. 3. (8) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 500, 111.6, 39. 4. (17) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 500, 129.7, 39. 5. (9) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 500, 122.1, 37. 6. (10) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 500, 100.7, 35. 7. (1) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 500, 119.1, 35. 8. (14) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 500, 92.9, 33. 9. (2) Joey Logano, Ford, 500, 104.2, 33. 10. (4) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 500, 102.7, 32. 11. (22) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 499, 79.3, 30. 12. (5) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 499, 82.1, 29. 13. (25) Greg Biffle, Ford, 499, 68.6, 28. 14. (11) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 499, 89.4, 28. 15. (16) Aric Almirola, Ford, 499, 71.7, 26. 16. (13) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 499, 81.7, 25. 17. (32) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 499, 78.8, 24. 18. (30) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 498, 58.0, 23. 19. (15) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 498, 64.8, 22. 20. (20) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 498, 76.0, 21. 21. (26) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 497, 69.7, 20. 22. (23) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 497, 65.7, 19. 23. (31) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 497, 52.5, 18. 24. (24) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 497, 53.2, 17. 25. (18) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 496, 55.5, 16. 26. (6) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 496, 55.7, 15. 27. (29) Chris Buescher, Ford, 495, 46.2, 14. 28. (28) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 495, 57.8, 13. 29. (33) Landon Cassill, Ford, 494, 46.4, 12. 30. (21) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 494, 45.4, 12. 31. (37) Dylan Lupton, Toyota, 490, 32.0, 0. 32. (27) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 489, 41.2, 9. 33. (38) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, 486, 28.5, 8. 34. (35) Brian Scott, Ford, 484, 35.8, 7. 35. (40) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 479, 32.5, 6. 36. (7) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 477, 64.0, 5. 37. (12) David Ragan, Toyota, 424, 43.1, 4. 38. (34) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 407, 31.5, 3. 39. (36) Gray Gaulding, Chevrolet, reargear, 360, 27.8, 2. 40. (39) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford, accident, 21, 24.0, 1.
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AMERICAN CONFERENCE New England Buffalo Miami N.Y. Jets Houston Tennessee Indianapolis Jacksonville Pittsburgh Cincinnati Baltimore Cleveland Denver Oakland Kansas City San Diego
East W L T Pct PF PA 7 1 0 .875 217 132 4 4 0 .500 212 172 3 4 0 .429 146 159 3 5 0 .375 150 208 South W L T Pct PF PA 5 3 0 .625 137 167 4 4 0 .500 182 183 3 5 0 .375 208 230 2 5 0 .286 139 196 North W L T Pct PF PA 4 3 0 .571 170 150 3 4 1 .438 167 189 3 4 0 .429 133 139 0 8 0 .000 158 238 West W L T Pct PF PA 6 2 0 .750 194 136 6 2 0 .750 215 203 5 2 0 .714 166 137 3 5 0 .375 225 212
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East W L T Pct PF PA 6 1 0 .857 188 130 4 3 0 .571 133 141 4 3 0 .571 179 117 4 3 1 .563 186 189 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 5 3 0 .625 262 231 Tampa Bay 3 4 0 .429 152 189 New Orleans 3 4 0 .429 201 215 Carolina 2 5 0 .286 191 196 North W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 5 1 0 .833 129 84 Green Bay 4 3 0 .571 172 156 Detroit 4 4 0 .500 183 190 Chicago 1 6 0 .143 111 169 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 4 2 1 .643 131 109 Arizona 3 4 1 .438 179 140 Los Angeles 3 4 0 .429 120 154 San Francisco 1 6 0 .143 144 219 Thursday’s Game Tennessee 36, Jacksonville 22 Sunday’s Games Cincinnati 27, Washington 27, OT Houston 20, Detroit 13 New Orleans 25, Seattle 20 N.Y. Jets 31, Cleveland 28 New England 41, Buffalo 25 Carolina 30, Arizona 20 Kansas City 30, Indianapolis 14 Oakland 30, Tampa Bay 24, OT Atlanta 33, Green Bay 32 Denver 27, San Diego 19 Dallas 29, Philadelphia 23, OT Open: Los Angeles, San Francisco, N.Y. Giants, Miami, Baltimore, Pittsburgh Monday’s Games Minnesota at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3 Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 8:25 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 Dallas at Cleveland, 1 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Miami, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m. New Orleans at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Carolina at Los Angeles, 4:05 p.m. Tennessee at San Diego, 4:25 p.m. Indianapolis at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. Denver at Oakland, 8:30 p.m. Open: Washington, Arizona, Chicago, New England, Houston, Cincinnati Monday, Nov. 7 Buffalo at Seattle, 8:30 p.m. Dallas N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Washington
There have been times this season that JGR was the most dominant organization in the garage, and as they advanced all four Toyotas into this round of eight of NASCAR’s playoffs, it became a very real possibility they would roll into the final four. Of course, the odds were against a sweep. Johnson made it official. The driver in the most trouble is clearly Edwards, who had a strong car until a tire issue sent him hard into the wall. He had to go to the garage for repairs, finished 36th and is last in the Chase standings. Edwards said Goodyear officials told him the tire problem was related to a belt failure.
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WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION W L Pct GB San Antonio 4 0 1.000 — Houston 2 1 .667 1½ Memphis 2 1 .667 1 New Orleans 0 3 .000 3½ Dallas 0 3 .000 3½ NORTHWEST DIVISION W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 3 0 1.000 — Portland 2 1 .667 ½ Denver 1 1 .500 1 Utah 1 2 .333 2 Minnesota 0 2 .000 2 PACIFIC DIVISION W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 2 0 1.000 — Sacramento 2 1 .667 ½ Golden State 2 1 .667 ½ L.A. Lakers 1 2 .333 1½ Phoenix 0 3 .000 2½ Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers 88, Utah 75 Detroit 98, Milwaukee 83 Golden State 106, Phoenix 100 San Antonio 106, Miami 99 Oklahoma City 113, L.A. Lakers 96 Houston 93, Dallas 92 Memphis 112, Washington 103, OT Monday’s Games Chicago at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Denver at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Houston at Cleveland, 6 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Indiana, 7 p.m. Orlando at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. New York at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Milwaukee at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Utah at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Golden State at Portland, 10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Toronto at Washington, 7 p.m. Detroit at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Houston at New York, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Boston, 8 p.m. New Orleans at Memphis, 8 p.m. Dallas at Utah, 9 p.m. Portland at Phoenix, 10 p.m. Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games Sacramento at Orlando, 7 p.m. Boston at Cleveland, 8 p.m. Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Indiana at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
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EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 9 8 0 1 17 31 14 Detroit 10 6 4 0 12 28 24 Ottawa 8 5 3 0 10 25 25 Tampa Bay 9 5 4 0 10 27 29 Florida 9 4 4 1 9 25 23 Boston 8 4 4 0 8 18 23 Buffalo 8 3 3 2 8 20 21 Toronto 9 2 4 3 7 26 35 METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 9 6 2 1 13 25 27 N.Y. Rangers 9 6 3 0 12 35 22 Washington 8 5 2 1 11 22 17 New Jersey 8 4 2 2 10 18 16 Philadelphia 10 4 5 1 9 36 38 N.Y. Islanders 9 4 5 0 8 27 25 Columbus 7 3 3 1 7 18 17 Carolina 8 2 4 2 6 24 30
WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 9 6 2 1 13 32 19 St. Louis 9 5 2 2 12 22 21 Chicago 9 5 3 1 11 31 27 Colorado 7 4 3 0 8 19 19 Winnipeg 9 4 5 0 8 22 26 Dallas 8 3 4 1 7 18 26 Nashville 8 2 5 1 5 19 28 PACIFIC DIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 9 7 2 0 14 29 19 San Jose 9 6 3 0 12 23 21 Vancouver 9 4 4 1 9 17 24 Calgary 10 4 5 1 9 31 35 Los Angeles 9 4 5 0 8 20 26 Anaheim 9 3 4 2 8 21 23 Arizona 8 2 6 0 4 24 33 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games Buffalo 3, Winnipeg 1
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THE AP TOP 25 The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 29, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (60) 8-0 1524 1 2. Michigan (1) 8-0 1435 2 3. Clemson 8-0 1401 3 4. Washington 8-0 1369 4 5. Louisville 7-1 1262 5 6. Ohio St. 7-1 1207 6 7. Texas A&M 7-1 1150 9 8. Wisconsin 6-2 1122 11 9. Nebraska 7-1 951 7 10. Florida 6-1 929 14 11. Auburn 6-2 927 15 12. Oklahoma 6-2 835 16 13. Baylor 6-1 693 8 14. West Virginia 6-1 620 10 15. LSU 5-2 586 19 16. Utah 7-2 506 17 17. W. Michigan 8-0 481 20 18. North Carolina 6-2 423 21 19. Florida St. 5-3 409 12 20. Penn St. 6-2 390 24 21. Colorado 6-2 375 23 22. Oklahoma St. 6-2 355 NR 23. Virginia Tech 6-2 345 25 24. Boise St. 7-1 203 13 25. Washington St. 6-2 139 NR Others receiving votes: Houston 65, Southern Cal 40, San Diego St. 21, Troy 20, Tennessee 17, South Florida 10, Arkansas 7, Wyoming 5, Tulsa 3. The Amway Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 29, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Alabama (63) 8-0 1599 1 2. Michigan 8-0 1492 2 3. Clemson (1) 8-0 1488 3 4. Washington 8-0 1434 4 5. Louisville 7-1 1322 5 6. Ohio State 7-1 1269 8 7. Texas A&M 7-1 1207 10 8. Wisconsin 6-2 1147 11 9. Florida 6-1 1039 12 10. Nebraska 7-1 963 t6 11. Oklahoma 6-2 907 15 12. Auburn 6-2 896 17 13. Baylor 6-1 810 t6 14. LSU 5-2 652 19 15. West Virginia 6-1 642 9 16. Utah 7-2 523 16 17. North Carolina 6-2 500 20 18. Western Michigan 8-0 448 21 19. Florida State 5-3 432 14 20. Colorado 6-2 394 23 21. Virginia Tech 6-2 335 25 22. Oklahoma State 6-2 298 NR 23. Penn State 6-2 296 NR 24. Boise State 7-1 266 13 25. Washington State 6-2 146 NR Others receiving votes: Houston 111; Tennessee 38; San Diego State 36; South Florida 34; Southern California 28; Arkansas 10; Troy 7; Navy 6; Middle Tennessee 5; Wyoming 5; Appalachian State 4; Northwestern 3; Tulsa 3; Minnesota 2; Louisiana Tech 1; Mississippi 1; Pittsburgh 1.
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FROM PAGE B1 themselves, the home game coming up against Missouri on Saturday is the one that will define the season. One might even say it would be a “signature victory.” Yes, Mizzou is just 2-6 on the season and has struggled under first-year head coach Barry Odom. However, the win over Tennessee will pretty much be all for naught if USC isn’t able to follow with a win over the Tigers. Carolina is now 4-4 and needs two more victories to become bowl-eligible. After Missouri, South Carolina goes on the road against No. 10 Florida and is at home against Football Championship Subdivision school Western Carolina before heading to the Upstate to take on No. 3 Clemson. Now this isn’t to say the Gamecocks don’t have a chance against either Florida or Clemson, but it isn’t too difficult to see the easiest road to six wins goes through Mizzou and WCU. The victory over Tennessee was needed for Saturday’s game to be truly meaningful. What makes the game against Missouri so interesting is to see how USC handles the small modicum of success it has now enjoyed. This will be the first time Carolina faces a Southeastern Conference foe this season as a favorite. It didn’t handle success very well in its first two victories. After beating Vanderbilt to start the season, it laid a first-half egg against Mississippi State. Then after defeating East Carolina, the offense struggled in a loss to Kentucky. While the victory over Tennessee certainly showed South Carolina has made progress, beating Missouri will show the progress has gone to the next level. The Gamecocks should come out confident, but certainly not cocky. Just as the game against the Vols went down to the wire like most have the last several years, it’s pretty much been the same way against Missouri. Saturday should be interesting.
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“Of course, I wish it weren’t always this close.” Leggett ended with five catches for 122 yards, setting a single-game school record for receiving yards. He was named the ACC receiver of the week. Leggett’s teammate, guard Tyrone Crowder, was the league’s offense player of the year as he helped Clemson’s offense gain 511 yards on Florida State. Clemson’s closing stretch features four opponents who’ll all be heavy underdogs at pulling off the upset. Syracuse hung with the Tigers a year ago at the Carrier Dome before falling 37-27. Orange coach Dino Babers said the Tigers are a differentlevel opponent for his team. “There are a lot of guys that are going to be millionaires on both sides of the football, offensively and defensively, playing for them,” he said. After Syracuse comes Pitt, who Clemson faces Nov. 11 at home. The schools have not met since the Gator Bowl after the 1977 season. Clemson finishes ACC play at Wake Forest, which has not beaten the Tigers since 2008. If Clemson is still undefeated then, it concludes the year with South Carolina, which has lost the past two rivalry games and won’t be anyone’s pick to spoil a second-straight perfect season. Co-offensive coordinator Jeff Scott said last week that former Baylor coaching great and past American Football Coaches Association president Grant Teaff stopped by to visit the Tigers staff. Teaff told them he’d watched several games and that the team’s apparent belief in ultimate success during dire circumstances is a characteristic championship teams typically develop. “We haven’t won a championship yet and we’ve got things to clean up,” Scott said. “Ultimately, our goal is to win games and I think our guys have bought into that.”
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Carolina quarterback Cam Newton (1) leaps to avoid the tackle of Arizona’s Kevin Minter in the Panthers’ 30-20 victory on Sunday.
Rivera discussing ways to protect Newton BY STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE — Panthers coach Ron Rivera said he’s involved in ongoing discussions with the NFL and the Players Association about ways to make sure league MVP Cam Newton is given the same protection in the pocket as other smaller quarterbacks. Newton blasted NFL officiating following Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals after taking a shot to his lower right leg from defensive tackle Calais Campbell as he was releasing the ball. Campbell was not flagged for the hit and the Panthers settled for a short field goal rather than an automatic first down. Newton said after the game, “I could have torn my ACL.” “I would like to see our quarterback get those calls,” a calm, but stern Rivera said Monday. Newton said Sunday that officials aren’t doing enough to protect him and he “doesn’t feel safe” on the field, which is taking the fun out of the game for him. Rivera stood behind his quarterback on Monday, saying Newton’s comments are “correct” and he supports him 100 percent. Rivera reiterated what he said in September after his QB took four helmet-to-helmet hits in a loss to the Den-
ver Broncos — that Newton doesn’t get the calls because of his 6-foot-5, 245-pound frame. “When (smaller quarterbacks) get hit, they roll around on the ground. When he gets hit, he absorbs them — and it doesn’t look as bad,” Rivera said. “... It’s about making sure he is getting the equal treatment he deserves as a quarterback in the pocket.” Rivera was criticized for not being more vocal on the sideline and during postgame press conferences about the hits Newton has absorbed. Former NFL coach Tony Dungy said on NBC’s Football Night in America on Sunday that “Cam should not have to be the one saying this. His head coach, his owner and everybody in the organization should be saying this.” Rivera said he doesn’t get upset on the sideline because he knows game officials have a difficult job to do and he appreciates “meaningful conversations” rather than engaging in a shouting match. But Rivera said he has been constantly working behind the scenes with the NFL and the Players Association on resolving the issue. He and general manager Dave Gettleman had another conversation with the league office on Monday morning. “This is something I
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work on every week, quite frankly,” Rivera said. “I don’t talk about it because it’s between me and the league and this team. This is something that has become public because of Cam’s statements.” Rivera suggested the NFL needs to add an eighth referee to help monitor hits on the quarterback. He said using replay would be a good option for reviewing questionable hits. That is something he’s expected to raise in the NFL competition committee meeting next spring. In the meantime, Rivera said he’s confident the league and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will do everything they can to protect Newton this season. “The league is looking into these things — and not just for Cam but for all quarterbacks,” Rivera said. Newton suggested after the game that he would like to talk personally to Goodell about his concerns. That could happen. “The commissioner often speaks to current and for-
mer players throughout the year,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in an email. Newton’s comments were a hot topic on sports TV shows. ESPN football analyst and former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb said Monday that he agrees “wholeheartedly” with Newton’s comments. “I have been in that situation,” McNabb said Monday on ESPN. “When you are behind the line of scrimmage, you are a passer. When I am looking to throw the ball down the field and I get earholed or if I get hit low, the referee has to throw the flag. Cam is absolutely right — if Tom Brady gets hit low then they are going to throw a flag.” Newton said Sunday that he’s tired of officials telling him they missed a call. “Enough is enough,” Newton said Sunday. “I don’t know what I have to do. ... I don’t think there is a person that can go through what I go through and still keep their head.”
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Sister-in-law’s demands put damper on holiday DEAR ABBY — My brother and his wife have been married 3 1/2 years and have an 18-month-old daughter. Dear Abby My sister-inABIGAIL law, "Barb," is either VAN BUREN very rude or passive-aggressive to our mother in emails and when she thinks no one is around. At Christmas, Barb sends out an email detailing what we are and are not allowed to buy for their daughter. If we can't do exactly what she wants, she threatens to cancel Christmas. This includes asking her permission before
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we buy any toys. Barb tells my mom that because her mother doesn't have much money, Mom can't spend more than her mother does. So, because my family has a little more money, we are being punished. Barb is extremely demeaning and hurtful to us. I can't understand why my brother allows it. My husband and I are sick and tired of her acting this way, and the way she treats my mother is cruel. I'm tempted to confront her about how she has ruined Christmas for my parents. She basically doesn't allow us to have feelings, and I can't believe we are standing for it. Help! Holiday hostage DEAR HOSTAGE — Your sister-
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Public Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell to satisfy the lien of owner at public sale by competitive bidding on November 18, 2016 personal and/or business property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools and other household / business items located at the properties listed. The sale will begin at 2:00 pm at 1143 N. Guignard Drive, Sumter, SC 29153. The personal goods stored therein by below named occupant(s); 1143 N.Guignard Dr, Sumter, SC 29150 307 - Mccray, Sheila 329 - Smith, Jason 455 - Porter, Kayla 465 - Rucker, Naomi 708 - Britton, Blair 1277 Camden Hwy, Sumter, SC 29153 B016 - Fleming, James C019 - Durant, Santana D013 - Roundtree, Jomika D017 - Sheppard, Wynn E015 - Mack, Devin E060 - Ransom, Tywan F053 - Alston, Sandra G032 - Sanders, Julie J010 - Dixon, Nicholas 3785 Broad St, Sumter, SC 29154 0108 - Martin, Delshaun 0151 - Brown, Patrice 0249 - Williams, Lorenzo 0403 - Demmons, Dante 0545 - Gaige, William Purchase must be made with cash only and paid for at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to adjournment.
Estate Notice Sumter County
Estate Notice Sumter County
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES
Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.
Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.
Estate:/Mary Ellen Moses #2016ES4300576
Estate:/Louise Kind #2016ES4300580
Personal Representative Marvin Moses 2881 Broad St. Ext. Sumter, SC 29150
Personal Representative Tyrone Kind 8332 Run Away Bay Apt. O Charlotte, NC 28212
Estate:/Davis L. Reams, Jr. #2016ES4300554 Personal Representative Davis L. Reames III 727 Dove Street Sumter, SC 29150
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES Persons having claim against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of Sumter County Courthouse, N. Main Street, Sumter, SC, 29150, on or before the date that is eight months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (unless previously barred by operation of Section 62-3-803), or such persons shall be forever barred as to heir claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and the address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the amount claimed and the date when due, and a description of any security as to the claim.
Estate:/Rosanna
Fulwood Goodman #2016ES4300545
Estate:/Earnestine Gathers #2016ES4300548 Personal Representative Johnnie Gathers, Jr. 2860 Wedgefield Rd. Sumter, SC 29154
Estate:/William H. Stevenson, Jr. #2016ES4300575
Estate:/Hattie B. Golden #2016ES4300596 Personal Representative Jacqueline L. Golden 950 Nathaniel Street Sumter, SC 29150
Estate:/Mary L Thompson #2016ES4300570 Personal Representative Barbara J Tate 111 Linda Loop Jacksonville, NC 28546
Estate:/Vernon T. Huggins #2016ES4300550 Personal Representative Debbie P. Huggins 3430 Tucker Street Dalzell, SC 29040
Estate:/George R. Bartlette #2016ES4300587 Personal Representative Betty Bartlette Morris 3800 Nazarene Church Rd. Sumter, SC 29154
Estate:/Josephine
Brunson Frierson #2016ES4300538
Personal Representative Willene Wilkerson and Dorothy Howard C/O Kharimah R. Dessow Attorney at Law PO Box 1507 Sumter, SC 29151
Estate:/Linda Resto #2016ES4300592 Personal Representative Damian Thomas Williams 100 Mews Court Lexington, SC 29072
Estate:/Robert Jerry Bailey #2016ES4300578 Personal Representative Jean Carolyn Bailey 2865 Southgate Dr. Sumter, SC 29154
Personal Representative Joseph S. Sublette, Jr. C/O J. Cabot Seth Attorney at Law PO Box 1268 Sumter, SC 29151
Estate:/Thomas Hightower #2016ES4300543
Personal Representative Willie Moore, Jr 2345 Walter Conyers Ln. Sumter, SC 29154
Estate:/William Henry Woods #2016ES4300560 Personal Representative Betty L. Woods 1415 Malone Drive Sumter, SC 29154
Personal Representative Wendy Jayroe 4480 Questria Dr. Sumter, SC 29154
Personal Representative Linda R. Myers 3760 Winfield Dr. Sumter, SC 29153
Estate:/Andrew W Muller #2016ES4300571 Personal Representative Shelby R Muller C/O Kenneth R Young Jr Attorney at Law 23 W Calhoun St Sumter, SC 29150
Personal Representative Teresa A. Ingram 2960 Hermitage Drive Sumter, SC 29150
Estate:/Annie Gist #2016ES4300549 Personal Representative Eddie Gist 19 Arkansas Drive Sumter, SC 29153
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Estate:/Eli Coleman Baldwin Jr #2016ES4300588 Personal Representative Marilyn Joyce Baldwin 315 West Hampton Ave. Sumter, SC 29150
Estate:/Rozine Beard #2016ES4300539 Personal Representative Linda Johnston 3503 Landmark Drive Sumter, SC 29154
Estate:/James Wesley Lewis #2016ES4300573
Personal Representative Linda E. Rains C/O Paul V. Degenhart Attorney at Law 2131 Park Street Columbia, SC 29201
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Estate:/Helen Parker #2016ES4300599 Personal Representative Betty P. Morgan C/O Glenn Givens Attorney at Law 107 N. Main Street Sumter, SC 29150
Homes for Sale
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Estate:/Susan Jackson #2016ES4300593 Personal Representative Vernon Lee Nelson 2451 Stamey Livestock Rd. Dalzell, SC 29040
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Estate:/Samuel Edister Hulon, Jr. #2016ES4300558
Estate:/Whitley Lee Stokes #2016ES4300595
Lost & Found
Estate:/Robert S. Becher #2016ES4300553
Estate:/Pamela L. Matthews #2016ES4300598
Eleanor Lee 1505 Norwood Road Ollanta, SC 29114
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Estate:/George W. Ross #2016ES4300582
Personal Representative Cindel Shriver 3915 Gibbs Dairy Rd. Sumter, SC 29154
Personal Representative
Announcements
Estate:/Nina A. Croft Barkely #2016ES4300561
Personal Representative Judith Lewis 1085 Willcroft Dr. Sumter, SC 29154
Estate:/Jimmy L. Lee #2016ES4300579
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Estate:/Charlotte C. Lewis #2016ES4300574
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Personal Representative Will Henry Goodman 217 Maple Street Sumter, SC 29150
Estate:/Joseph S. Sublette #2016ES4300590
Harkey Chiropractic is hiring a medical assistant, approx. 30hrs a week. Apply in person 8am-10am November 10th. Bring resume, 429 N. Main St.
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Personal Representative Belinda Ann Parks 11714 Glen Abbey Ct. Waldorf, MD 20602
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Estate Notice Sumter County
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Personal Representative Leland E. Brown Jr. 213 Ivy Park Lane Lexington, SC 29072
Estate:/Alberta
Medical Help Wanted
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Estate:/Sara K. Coker Brown #2016ES4300597
Personal Representative David M. Stevenson C/O William A.W. Buxton Attorney at Law P O Box 3220 Sumter, SC 29151
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Email case puts heat on FBI chief Comey faces scathing political storm for Clinton inquiry so close to election
Kevin Johnson USA TODAY
In just four days, the man with the unassailable standing as director of the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency, has become the target of unrelenting rebuke by the people who once celebrated James Comey’s appointment three years ago to lead the FBI. Perhaps most damaging so far was the criticism leveled by nearly 100 former Justice Depart-
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ment officials who characterized the director’s decision to notify Congress of a new review of emails that could be related to the previously closed Hillary Clinton inquiry as nothing short of “astonishing” so close to a presidential election. “We cannot recall a prior instance where a senior Justice Department official — Republican or Democrat — has, on the eve of a major election, issued a public statement where the mere disclosure of information may impact the election’s outcome,’’ the for-
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FBI Director James Comey
mer officials, including former attorney general Eric Holder, wrote. The scathing public evaluation of Comey’s decision, which also defied long-standing Justice Department policy not to take actions in advance of an election that might appear to interfere with its outcome, threatens to cast a permanent shadow on the remaining seven years of the director’s term, some current and former government officials said. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee who has been one of Comey’s most vocal advocates, expressed deep concerns that the FBI’s institutional integrity hung in the balance. “I have great personal respect for Director Comey, and I sincerely believe that he is a man of integrity, independence, and good intentions, but I have grave concerns that the credibility of the FBI could be damaged in immeasurable ways,” Cummings said.
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IS IT OVER YET? DONALD TRUMP BY JEFF KOWALSKY, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
USA SNAPSHOTS©
Clinton leads with donors
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by just over
108,000 documented donors nationwide. NOTE 475,235 donors for Clinton, 366,928 for Trump SOURCE Federal Election Commission via RentHop.com as of Oct. 27 MICHAEL B. SMITH AND VERONICA BRAVO, USA TODAY
HILLARY CLINTON, BY ANDREW HARNIK, AP
After more than 500 days of the presidential campaign, many Americans have just had enough USA TODAY Network If all you wanted to do was kick back in Fort Myers, Fla., and watch game four of the World Series, good luck. Twenty-two minutes into the pre-game show, a Donald Trump ad promised to lower health care costs. Twelve minutes later, a Hillary Clinton spot showed Trump mocking a disabled reporter. And then, deep into the game, another Clinton ad likened Trump to famous bullies from movies such as Back to the Future and The Karate Kid. Americans have had it. It might seem funny — and heaven knows comedians and political cartoonists have had a field day with it — but election exhaustion is real. It appears to have shown up in everything from psychiatrists’ couches to
the Dow Jones Industrial Average. A Pew Research Center survey found that about six-in-ten Americans felt exhausted by the amount of election coverage — and that was way back in early summer, before Donald Trump’s “Access Hollywood” tape and Anthony Weiner’s sexting further complicated things. The singer Sheryl Crow started a Change.org petition to shorten the election cycle. “By the time Americans go to the polls on November 8th, this Presidential campaign will have run over 600 days, kicking off with Ted Cruz’s announcement in March of 2015,” the petition says. More than 55,000 people have signed on, and stars Bette Midler and Courteney Cox have tweeted their support. STORY v STORY CONTINUES ON 2B CONTINUES ON C2
CAMPAIGNING COMPARED The campaign season in the U.S. is much longer than in most countries. National election campaigns, by length in days: U.S. 2016
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U.S. 2016
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(1st caucus2)
Mexico (by law)
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U.K. 2015
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Canada 2015 Japan (by law)
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1 – From date when first candidate enters race 2 – From date when first caucus takes place SOURCE NPR FRANK POMPA, USA TODAY
17 killed as Chicago sees deadliest weekend of the year City’s murder rate is skyrocketing Aamer Madhani @AamerISmad USA TODAY
At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 others were injured in shootings since Friday in the nation’s third-largest city, marking the deadliest weekend in what has been the city’s most violent year in more than a decade. There’s already been more than 600 homicides in Chicago
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this year. The city is tallying murders at a rate not seen since the late 1990s in the midst of violence fueled by the crack cocaine epidemic. Police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have blamed the current spike in street violence on increased gang activity and gun laws that they say aren’t strong enough to deter convicted felons from carrying and using weapons. The vast majority of the murders have occurred in predominantly African-American neighborhoods on the city’s South and West sides. “These violent gun offenders are clearly giving us the message
that they just don’t care about the rest of the city of Chicago,” Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters Monday. “To be quite frank, I’m sick of it, and I know the people in the communities are tired of it. That’s why we have to do a better job of holding those individuals accountable.” Among the victims of the weekend violence were 17-yearold twins Edward and Edwin Bryant who were killed early Sunday in an apparent drive-by shooting in the city’s Old Town neighborhood. Johnson said the shooting was possibly gang-related. The brothers were not documented
ASHLEE REZIN, AP
Chicago police investigate a shooting at a birthday party that left a man dead and a woman injured on Aug. 7.
gang members but were with others who did have gang affiliations. No one was in custody for the double homicide, but police have video footage of the incident that they hope will lead detectives to assailants. The violent stretch marks the deadliest weekend Chicago has seen since the 2014 Independence Day weekend, when 16 were killed and 66 were wounded. The city also saw 13 killed in shootings over Father’s Day weekend and Labor Day weekend this year. Chicago has recorded at least 2,800 shooting incidents through Oct. 16, according to police department data.
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Election of former general ends lengthy leaderless impasse Oren Dorell @orendorell USA TODAY
Lebanon’s lawmakers elected Michel Aoun, an lran-backed politician and former general, as president Monday, ending more than two years the country has gone without a leader. Aoun, 81, is an ally of Hezbollah, the Shiite militia and political party backed by Iran that has helped Syrian President Bashar Assad survive a five-year civil war on Lebanon’s border. The vote for Aoun, by 83 of parliament’s 127 members, shows Iran-backed political factions shouldered past those aligned with Saudi Arabia, replacing Syria as Lebanon’s chief foreign power broker. Aoun’s “victory now is a victory for Hezbollah and that alliance, and certainly a kind of black eye for Saudi Arabia,” said Paul Salem, vice president for policy and research at the Middle East Institute, a think tank in Washington. Saad Hariri, a pro-Western and Saudi-oriented politician, formally endorsed Aoun last week after failing to garner enough support for the presidency. In return, Aoun is expected to appoint Hariri prime minister. “It’s a power-sharing system,” Salem said. “In a way, the status quo will continue.” U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby congratulated Lebanon on the election results. “This is a moment of opportunity, as Lebanon emerges from years of political impasse, to restore government functions and build a more stable and prosperous future for all Lebanese citizens,” he said in a statement. Asked later about Aoun’s support from Hezbollah, which the State Department has designated a terrorist organization, Kirby said, “Let’ see what decisions he makes, what kind of leadership he exudes as president.” The U.S. routinely assesses its foreign assistance programs “and we will do that with Lebanon go-
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Supporters of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement celebrate Monday after the election of their leader, Michel Aoun.
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Saad Hariri is expected to be reappointed prime minister. ing forward,” Kirby said. Aoun’s election drew immediate praise from a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei. The adviser, Ali Akbar Velayati, described the choice as a victory for Iran and its allies in Lebanon, because the Lebanese president is “a very significant ring in the chain of the Islamic resistance,” according to Iran’s governmentowned Tasnim News Agency. Aoun, in his first speech after becoming president, pledged to fight corruption and protect Lebanon from the fires raging around it, referring to the Syrian civil war, according to the Associated
Press. He also promised to liberate contested territory under “Israeli occupation,” according to Hezbollah’s Al Manar-TV, apparently referring to territory Israel considers part of the Golan Heights conquered from Syria in 1967. Lebanon has been without a head of state since May 2014, when then-president Michel Suleiman’s six-year term expired. Since then, 45 sessions to elect a new leader have failed because of political infighting, the AP reported. Aoun, a French- and American-trained former military officer, is known affectionately in Lebanon as “The General.” He led the Lebanese Army during a years-long civil war against Syrian troops and Iranian-backed Hezbollah in the late 1980s. Aoun and his supporters lost, and he was forced into exile in 1991. A constant critic of Hezbollah and Syria’s then-president Hafez Assad, Aoun returned to Lebanon in 2005 after the assassination of then-prime minister Rafiq Hariri. U.N. investigators blamed the murder on Hezbollah and Syria, which occupied Lebanon at the time. Syria was subsequently forced by international pressure to withdraw from the country. But Aoun later reconciled with Hezbollah and visited Tehran.
U.S. elections to others makes ours look like a triathlon comThere are even Web browser pared to light workouts. extensions that will block elecMany people are exhausted from tion news. One is called, simply, trying, for so long, to be on their Remove All Politics from Face- best behavior to avoid inadvertentbook. And there’s I Haven’t Got ly inciting political arguments, says Time for the ’Paign. Rockville, Md.-based psychologist Another, called Social Fixer, can Mary Alvord. “There is a lot of tipbe used to filter out many things on toeing around,” she says. And we are tiptoeing at home, social media, and developer Matt Kruse says the political filter is the work, kids’ soccer games, social most popular among his 300,000 events and more. “The story has permeated evusers right now. “I expect political fatigue to last for quite some time,” ery aspect of our life,” says Vaile he says. “One of the key features is Wright, a clinical psychologist that I update the filters in the and director of research and spebackground, so as new political cial projects at the American Psyterms come up in the news, users chological Association. “You can’t don’t have to do anything to con- get away from it.” Nearly half of workers said tinue having them filtered.” The ugliness of the campaign they were more likely to discuss certainly gets part of the blame politics in the workplace this for ramping up anxiety and fa- election season than in the past, tigue — an American Psycholog- according to an American Psyical Association survey says more chological Association survey taken in August. About a than half of adults say quarter witnessed or the election is a signifi- “I expect overheard their cocant source of stress — political workers arguing about but the very length of it politics and about 1 in has also turned people fatigue to 10 have gotten into an off. It’s like Christmas last for argument themselves. decorations going up at quite some Like those folks in Walmart in mid-July. time.” Fort Myers last weekAnd it seems endless, Kruse, end, people in swing always tripping ahead: Matt developer of the Nearly half of likely political filter “Social states are being inundated with political ads, Florida voters say Sen. Fixer” which amplifies the exMarco Rubio’s re-election campaign is more about set- haustion factor, Wright says. “It ting up another presidential bid in wears you out,” she says. Some people even believe it 2020 than serving the state, according to a Bloomberg poll. Even has worn out the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Aver28% who support him say that. One downward-cycle result: age is basically just where it was While more people just throw up two years ago. When asked if the their hands, only the most com- market’s flat performance was the mitted are still yelling, and yelling result of investor election exhausever more loudly to reach those tion or the campaign zapping enwho are turned off, thus turning ergy out of the market or a sign off more people who really just investors want the slugfest to be want to watch two long-time los- over, Gary Kaltbaum, president of ers playing joyfully in the World Kaltbaum Capital Management, Series. “People who are highly shot back this email: “Yes. Yes. partisan are more likely to be in- And Yes. Very tired.” And Donald Luskin, chief interested in politics and they’re less likely to be tired of it,” says vestment officer at TrendMacro, Tom Hollihan, political commu- a financial research firm, zapped nications professor at the Univer- out a recent report to clients tisity of Southern California. tled, “Let’s Talk About Something “People who are not so politically Other than the Election.” How ’bout those Indians? engaged, I’m sure they’re exhausted by the conversation, and they’re not actively seeking infor- USA TODAY Network reporters Laura Petrecca, Adam Shell, David Dorsey, mation at this point.” Ruger Yu and Karina Shedrofsky conIt doesn’t have to be this way. A tributed to this article. chart comparing the length of
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The congressman’s statement is extraordinary given that this summer he was lauding the director for, in part, Comey’s defense of his decision not to recommend criminal charges against Clinton and others over their handling of classified information. “I don’t know whether your family is watching this,” Cummings told Comey during an appearance before the House panel in July, “but I hope that they are as proud of you as I am.” Yet the gusting political forces inextricably linked to the email inquiry and Comey’s role in it, some suggest, thrusts him into a potentially untenable position, especially if Clinton wins. “If you are President-elect Clinton, how do you put this behind you, particularly if this whole matter is still pending when you take office?” said Ron Hosko, a former assistant FBI director and head of the bureau’s criminal division who supports Comey. “How can you have an effective relationship if every time you are in the same room together this shadow looms? “This is a fraught, perilous path that he’s on,” Hosko said. “I think he had to go into this with eyes wide open; I don’t think he took this lightly.” Aides have said that Comey considered counsel from senior executives and the top investigators assigned to the concluded Clinton email inquiry before making the decision. The bulk of the newly discovered material, more than 600,000 emails, however, weighed heavily on the director who had told a congressional panel in September that no substantial information
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Hillary Clinton campaigns Monday in Cleveland. had come to light to warrant a new review. The risk of that information leaking, either before or after the election, was viewed to be more potentially damaging to government institutions than to acknowledge its existence last Friday. The potentially new emails, linked to top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, were found in early Octo-
“This is a fraught, perilous path that he’s on. I don’t think he took this lightly.” Ron Hosko, a former assistant FBI director
ber during a search of a laptop she shared with her estranged husband, former New York congressman Anthony Weiner. The former lawmaker is the subject of separate FBI inquiry into his sexually charged communications with a 15-year-old girl. Federal investigators have since obtained a warrant to search through the Abedin emails to determine if they have any
bearing on the previous Clinton inquiry. It is unclear whether the review can be completed by Election Day next Tuesday, a process that has reunited many of the investigators who worked on the initial Clinton inquiry. While the new review involves a voluminous number of communications, an official familiar with the matter said authorities have not totally foreclosed the possibility that the task can be completed before Election Day. In letters to congressional leaders Monday, the Justice Department pledged that the review would be completed as “expeditiously as possible.” But some, including one former top Justice Department official, said that the management of the Clinton email investigation has been fraught since July, when Attorney General Loretta Lynch agreed to accept Comey’s recommendation on the case’s outcome. That decision followed the disclosure of Lynch’s impromptu meeting with former president Bill Clinton aboard her Justice Department aircraft while both were on the tarmac of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Lynch has said the email case was not discussed during the meeting, but the appearance of a possible conflict prompted the decision to cede authority in the case to Comey. Lynch later signed off on Comey’s recommendation after his July announcement in which he also described the former secretary of State’s conduct as “extremely careless.” Last week, Lynch recommended against Comey’s notification to Congress regarding the newly discovered emails, but the FBI director, an official familiar with the matter said, felt compelled to act to correct previous congressional testimony indicating that no other information in the Clinton case was being reviewed. The former top Justice Department official, who asked not be identified because of his close relationship with some of the key players involved, said Lynch’s original decision to defer to Comey forced him to do something out of character for an FBI director: essentially, make a prosecutorial judgment, a decision that should rest with the attorney general or deputy attorney general.
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HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY LADY GAGA A round of ‘Applause’ for Lady Gaga, please. The singer scored her fourth No. 1 debut this week with ‘Joanne,’ which clinched the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart with 201,000 album MATT COWAN units sold. ‘Joanne’s critically acclaimed debut makes Gaga the first woman with four No. 1 albums in the 2010s, passing Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Each of them has three. THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES “Every day, as I get older, I appreciate women more and more. When you’re between the ages of 15 and 19, maybe you see women as competition, as opposed to lifesavers and people that hold your hand and have experienced pretty much everything that you have.” — Adele to ‘Vanity Fair’ on the power of female friendships
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Gibson, Garfield march on with ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Director unveils his first project 10 years after controversy Bryan Alexander @BryAlexand USA TODAY
Andrew Garfield has an entirely unexpected reason why he thinks Mel Gibson is a great director. The guy is one heck of an onset chiropractor, Garfield explains, sitting next to his Hacksaw Ridge director in a suite at the Four Seasons. Gibson’s healing hands were a shockingly pleasant surprise to Garfield as he recuperated between scenes during the arduous shoot. “(Gibson) was like, ‘Sit down.’ So I sat. And he was like, ‘Just totally go limp.’ I was like, ‘Wait, what do you mean — wwwahhhhh?’ ” says Garfield, showing how Gibson manipulated his neck. “But he restarted the blood flow in my brain. ... He was amazing..” “It’s total trust,” Gibson says. The two needed complete trust for Hacksaw Ridge (in theaters nationwide Friday) based on the true story of Desmond Doss, the World World II Army medic who refused to carry a gun but singlehandedly saved 75 men in the LOS ANGELES
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Mel Gibson and Andrew Garfield turn a page with Ridge. bloody Battle of Okinawa. The film stakes are high. For Gibson, 60, Hacksaw Ridge represents his Hollywood return, the first time the Oscar-winning director has stepped behind the camera since 2006’s Apocalypto — after a public fall that began with his infamous drunken-driving arrest in Malibu, during which he hurled anti-Semitic slurs. Gibson realizes his actions created a public rift from which he may only now be recovering. He says being characterized as a bigot was unfair. “None of my actions bear that sort of reputation, before or since.
So it’s a pity, after 30 or 40 years of doing something, you get judged on one night. And then you spend the next 10 years suffering the scourges of perception,” Gibson says. “But it’s my fault for having (allowed) that perception. I fed the bullet to the gun.” As far as Gibson is concerned, it’s time to turn the page. “People are tired of petty grudges about nothing. About somebody having a nervous breakdown (after) double tequilas in the back of a police car,” says Gibson, now sober. “Regrettable. I’ve made my apologies, I’ve done my bit. Moved along.
“I’ve worked on myself a lot,” Gibson adds. “I’m a different person than I was back then. But the thing that remains the same is I think I could always tell a story.” Garfield, 33, says storytelling is the reason he sought out Gibson. The actor, too, has much riding on Hacksaw, along with his starring role in Martin Scorsese’s Silence (out Dec. 23 in New York and Los Angeles) — continuing his dramatic turn after two bigscreen outings as Spider-Man. “After the Spider-Man experience, I wrote a list of directors I would hold out for like a stubborn child. One was Martin Scorsese and one happened to be Mel,” Garfield says. “It’s insane this happened the way it did.” Both Gibson and Garfield are in the mix for best director and actor, and the “crowd-pleasing movie” could be a candidate for best picture, says Steve Pond, awards columnist for the TheWrap.com. The filmmakers received their first review when Hacksaw made its world premiere at September’s Venice Film Festival: a 10-minute standing ovation. “It wasn’t 10 minutes, it was 9 minutes and 45 seconds,” Gibson jokes before getting serious. “Jesus, I couldn’t have been more gratified to have that response. It shows I am on the right track.”
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It’s impossible not to root for Shelby Richmond, the broken, goodhearted young woman at the center of Alice Hoffman’s poignant new novel, BOOK Faithful (Simon & REVIEW Schuster, 272 pp., eeeE out of four). As the widely beloved author of more than 25 novels, Hoffman exercises characteristic strengths — a wide cast of quirky, believable characters, sly humor and a clear love for the American teenager — in the story of how Shelby, having survived a tragic car accident that puts her high school best friend into an irreversible coma, decides to allow herself to live. But first, Shelby suffers: in the small Long Island community where everyone whispers about her; in the psychiatric hospital
passion, but all she wants is to be left alone.” Fleeing to Manhattan with her drug-dealer-turned-pharmacystudent boyfriend, Shelby ignores her agonized mother’s concerns and takes a menial job at a pet shop. And it’s here that Faithful takes off, filling anguished Shelby’s life with animals she can’t help but rescue and love, and a sassy older co-worker named Maravelle who quickly becomes a best friend. Each new chapter jumps forward in time, showing us Shelby’s enlarged world and her tentative steps toward life, which often turn out to be mistakes. Yet even when Shelby where she is brutally DEBORAH makes you wince — hurts a abused; and in her own FEINGOLD loved one, sleeps with the mind, filled with guilt Author wrong person, stands up to and remorse. Alice a violent bully — her snarky Why can’t she be dead, Hoffman charm and well-hidden and beautiful Helene, kindness draw you in. The breathing only because of a machine, be the survivor? novel’s big question asks how she Shelby’s self-hatred isolates her will come to terms with the from everyone in town: “They part she has played in Helene’s cluck at the skinny, bald girl in big tragedy, and Hoffman acutely boots. They think she wants com- renders both the day-by-day and
year-by-year elements of her struggle. A deep truth this story reveals is that finding closure after great loss is not a one-time deal; life grows around such wounds in small increments over time. A few plot points push the novel toward a cloying winsomeness — too many animal rescues, too much Chinese food delivery — but the high stakes of Shelby’s recovery cut through with redeeming sharpness. And while Hoffman is known for including elements of magic realism, here the repeated comparisons of Shelby’s story to a dark fairy tale can seem forced, unnecessary. By the end of Faithful, readers are completely on Shelby’s side as she makes a bold move toward her future. Before that happens, she needs to go home, and her brief interaction with Helene’s aging father, out raking his yard, is one of the novel’s finest. You’ll remember that scene, and Shelby’s courage, long after finishing the book. Emily Gray Tedrowe is the author of Blue Stars.
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‘Hit It Hard’ profiles unconventional pro golfer “Grip it and rip it!” The “30 for 30” (8 p.m., ESPN) documentary “Hit It Hard” strikes a gold mine with its profile of professional golfer John Daly, an Arkansas good-ol’-boy and overnight sensation who careened through every sports movie story arc known to man. For the uninitiated, Daly was a slightly overweight guy with a goofy white-blond hairdo who wasn’t even supposed to play the PGA Championship at Crooked Stick in 1991. The sporting world watched slack-jawed as he went on to dominate the tournament with booming drives and a gung-ho philosophy that won him the adoration of fans. Overnight, he broadened professional golf’s appeal from the country club to the WalMart parking lot. And he grew a mullet, to boot! Daly, now 50, appears in interviews wearing a red, white and blue jacket that might have been made from upholstery left over from the Bicentennial. In interviews new and archival, Daly embraces life and battles his demons with the deranged gusto of a John C. Reilly character. Make that a John C. Reilly character in a Will Ferrell movie. A man who barreled through marriages, rehab and on-camera meltdowns, Daly redeemed himself and won international fame with an epic victory at the British Open in St. Andrews in 1995, revealing a massive talent beneath the distracting surface of dysfunction and self-destruction. And you can never unsee that jacket! Highly recommended. • The HBO drama “Westworld” has done a remarkable thing. It asks characters, and by extension, viewers, to actually empathize with “victims” of their virtual electronic fantasies. Set in a far off future, it speaks to a present day when millions of gamers enjoy the raping and pillaging strategies of “Grand Theft Auto” and so many other distractions. “Your Brain On Video Games” (9 p.m., Science, TV-PG) discusses current studies about the effects of long-term immersion in the violent world
of video games. Do they desensitize players, or offer a healthy substitute for actual asocial behavior? And what is the difference between an obsession with a virtual realm and an addiction? • “American Experience” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) presents “The Battle of Chosin,” one of the most celebrated chapters in the history of the Marine Corps, when 12,000 men of the First Marine Division, along with a few thousand Army soldiers, fought off a surprise onslaught by a massive force of Chinese soldiers in grim winter conditions. • Dan Rather hosts “The Rise of Trump Nation” (9 p.m., AXS), a look at the current campaign and the historical and cultural trends that brought American politics to its current state.
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TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • A glance back at performances to date on “The Voice” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG). • If required, the Cubs and Indians meet in Game 6 of the World Series (8 p.m., Fox). • “The Contenders: 16 for 16” (8 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) concludes with a glance at the campaigns of Barack Obama and George W. Bush. • Kate goes on a job interview on “This Is Us” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14). • A lost garment on “Atlanta” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA).
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SERIES NOTES A matter for immigration on “NCIS” (8 p.m., CBS, TV14) * Sue needs relationship advice on “The Middle” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-14) * Caitlin can’t cope on “The Flash” (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG) * Pictures don’t lie on “American Housewife” (8:30 p.m., ABC, TV-14) * A smug expert profiles juries on “Bull” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * The Dole-Clinton election is decided on “Fresh Off the Boat” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-14) * Time enough to make amends on “No Tomorrow” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14) * Eileen’s new job on “The Real O’Neals” (9:30 p.m., ABC, TV14) * A newly minted Navy SEAL expires on “NCIS: New Orleans” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * An acid spill must be han-
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Kipnis said. “It would be nice to actually do one in front of the home crowds.” The baseball season spills into an unusual month for the fifth time, with Rocktober parties replaced by two teams hoping for a November to remember. Jake Arrieta, who pitched no-hit ball into the sixth inning to win Game 2, starts on five days’ rest for the Cubs against Tomlin, who will have had three days off since throwing 58 pitches in his Game 3 no-decision. If the Cubs force Game 7, Kyle Hendricks would pitch on regular rest for Chicago against Corey Kluber, who would make another start on short rest and try to become the first pitcher to win three starts in one Series since Detroit’s Mickey Lolich in 1968. Chicago delayed its charter flight to Cleveland until Monday night. In the Wrigley Field clubhouse, a message said: “Halloween costumes are encouraged on the plane.” “We wanted them to have the opportunity to be with their kids today during the Halloween moment,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. “After that game last night, believe me, man, I was in no mood to get up and travel today. I think it actually is working out pretty well. We’re going to get in at a really good hour, grab stuff to eat and go to bed.” With the switch to the American League ballpark, the designated hitter is back: Carlos Santana for the Indians and Kyle Schwarber for the Cubs. Schwarber was out from April 7 until the Series opener after tearing knee ligaments. He has not been given medical clearance to play the field, so he was limited to one pinch-hitting appearance at home. He is 3 for 8 in the Series with a double, two
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Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman and catcher Willson Contreras celebrate after beating Cleveland 3-2 in Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday. Game 6 is today in Cleveland.
WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox CLEVELAND 3, CHICAGO 2 Oct. 25: Cleveland 6, Chicago 0 Oct. 26: Chicago 5, Cleveland 1 Oct. 28: Cleveland 1, Chicago 0 Oct. 29: Cleveland 7, Chicago 2 Sunday: Chicago 3, Cleveland 2 Tuesday: Chicago (Arrieta 18-8) at Cleveland (Tomlin 6-9), 8:08 p.m. x-Wednesday: Chicago at Cleveland, 8:08 p.m.
walks and two RBIs. “When I managed in the American League, I always thought it was somewhat of a disadvantage going to the National League, subtracting one offensive player, and probably even more pronounced for different teams that have really profound, legitimate DHs,” Maddon said. “But for right now, at this moment in time, the fact that Kyle cannot play defense but can still play offense and run the bases, it does work out well for us.” At Wrigley, Santana made
two starts in left field, a position he had not played since 2012, and one at first base. “It helps keeping the body warm, and I like being out there in the field,” he said. “Being a designated hitter is a bit more complicated. I try to gather advice on how to do it better. I always ask David Ortiz, and he’s giving me good pointers, but there’s still room to improve.” Both teams were among the big leagues’ best at home this year. Chicago led with a 57-24 record, and Cleveland was tied for second with 53 victories in its own ballpark. ‘’When you’re on the road, one, it’s kind of you against the world, which is OK,” Indians manager Terry Francona said. “But the biggest thing of all is when you’re the home team, you hit last, so you get to use your bullpen differently, and that’s a huge advantage.”
Duke is in a familiar place to open the college basketball season. The Blue Devils are the runaway choice for No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 on Monday. It is the eighth time Duke has held the preseason No. 1 ranking. North Carolina has the most preseason No. 1s with nine and UCLA also has eight. The Blue Devils, who return three starters from last season’s team and have what is considered one of the top recruiting classes in the nation, received 58 of the 65 first-place votes from the national media panel. Kentucky, which had two No. 1 votes, is second, while Kansas is third. Defending national champion Villanova had four first-place votes and was fourth while Oregon, which had the other No. 1 vote, is fifth.
TITANS’ JOHNSON RETIRES NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Andre Johnson called Tennessee coach Mike Mularkey, asking if they could talk Monday morning. After 14 NFL seasons, the man with more catches than anyone else currently playing had made up his mind. Time to retire. A seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver, Johnson spent the first 12 seasons of his career with the Houston Texans who made him the No. 3 overall pick in the 2003 draft out of Miami. Tennessee had been his third team in as many seasons after Johnson spent 2015 with another AFC South team, the Indianapolis Colts.
JONES SPEAKS TO NFL AOBUT ELLIOTT ARLINGTON, Texas — Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has acknowledged speaking with the NFL’s special coun-
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The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ preseason 2016-17 college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, final 2015-16 records, total points based on 25 points for a firstplace vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last year’s final ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Duke (58) 25-11 1612 19 2. Kentucky (2) 27-9 1479 10 3. Kansas 33-5 1476 1 4. Villanova (4) 35-5 1465 6 5. Oregon (1) 31-7 1343 5 6. North Carolina 33-7 1314 3 7. Xavier 28-6 1167 9 8. Virginia 29-8 1149 4 9. Wisconsin 22-13 1135 — 10. Arizona 25-9 1004 17 11. Indiana 27-8 917 14 12. Michigan St. 29-6 903 2 13. Louisville 23-8 755 16 14. Gonzaga 28-8 699 — 15. Purdue 26-9 672 12 16. UCLA 15-17 540 — 17. Saint Mary’s 29-6 512 — 18. UConn 25-11 504 — 19. Syracuse 23-14 464 — 20. West Virginia 26-9 360 8 21. Texas 20-13 250 — 22. Creighton 20-15 231 — 23. Rode Island 17-15 199 — 24. Iowa St. 23-12 168 22 25. Maryland 27-9 144 18 Others receiving votes: Cincinnati 110, Dayton 98, Florida St. 88, California 74, San Diego St. 48, Miami 35, NC State 29, Butler 21, Wichita St. 21, Florida 18, Virginia Tech 18, Ohio St. 18, Mississippi St. 14, Texas A&M 14, Oklahoma 11, Colorado 10, Michigan 8, Monmouth (NJ) 7, Notre Dame 6, Washington 5, Seton Hall 5, Princeton 2, Ohio 1, Harvard 1, Vanderbilt 1.
sel for domestic violence investigations, and rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott said he was interviewed by the league this season about an abuse claim made against him. Elliott said after Sunday night’s 29-23 overtime victory over Philadelphia that he was interviewed once by league investigators about six weeks ago. He characterized there being “an ongoing investigation” but said he didn’t really know what was going on. Prosecutors in Ohio declined to press charges over the summer in a domestic violence case involving the fourth overall draft pick.
OBITUARIES RONALD L. SIMS
SUMMERTON — Ronald Lonnie Sims, 60, died on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Born on Jan. 21, 1956, in Manning, he was a son of the late Clarence Lonnie and Bertie Lee Richburg Sims. Graveside services will be held on Wednesday in Forreston Cemetery with the Rev. Tim Williams officiating. The family will have a visitation from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the home of his sister, Margie Lowder, 209 Dinkins St., Manning. Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, is in charge of arrangements, (803) 435-2179. www.stephensfuneralhome.org
SUSIE MAE PORTER Susie Mae Porter, 73, longtime companion of Freddie Gaymon, departed this life on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. She was born on Nov. 11, 1942, in Sumter County, a daughter of the late Jimmie Lee and Bertha Nathaniel Brown. The family will receive friends at the home of her daughter, 1039 Wellington Road, Sumter, SC 29153. Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements.
WILLIAM D. KOLB William “Bill” Dean Kolb, 73, widower of Janette McIntosh Kolb, died on Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Born on Aug. 26, 1943, in Sumter, he was a son of the late John Epps Sr. and Hattie Dean Kolb. Mr. Kolb was owner and operator of Bill’s Body Shop. Survivors include two sons, Johnny Kolb (Missy Davis) of Sumter and Bobby Kolb (Tanya) of Manning; one daughter, Kelly Geddings (Dwayne) of Sumter; 10 grandchildren, Brianna and Bubba Kolb of Sumter, the
Rev. Geordan Geddings of Birmingham, Alabama, Kolby Geddings of Sumter, John Michael Kolb of Gray, Georgia, Bailey, Raegan and Logan Kolb, and Austin and Caitlyn Wimberly, all of Manning; and two great-grandchildren, Bennett Kolb of Sumter and Kannon Kolb of Gray. Mr. Kolb was preceded in death by a son, Mike Kolb; a sister, Betty Hanzlik; a brother, John Kolb Jr.; and a granddaughter, Wendy Kolb. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday in the chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with the Rev. S. Paul Howell and the Rev. Geordan Geddings officiating. Burial will follow in Sumter Cemetery. Nephews will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and at other times at 2729 Browning Ridge Drive. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29210. The family would like to thank Palmetto Health Tuomey’s Oncology staff, Dr. Clowney and Dr. Kellogg for their kindness, care and compassion. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com. Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.
ly on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. Manning arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, (803) 435-2179. www. stephensfuneralhome.org
den Oaks Drive, Wedgefield, SC 29168. Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., Sumter, is in charge of arrangements.
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Robert Steven Watcher, age 57, died on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Bullock Funeral Home.
Evelyn Vera Thompson Cato, age 84, beloved wife of the late Roy Charles Cato, died on Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Bullock Funeral Home.
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Titus Rembert Sr., 55, husband of Roberta H. Rembert, departed this life on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. He was born on Nov. 13, 1960, in Sumter, a son of the late Charles Gaymon and Mary Rembert. The family will receive friends at the home, 1620 Hid-
Annette Baker Sigmon, 76, widow of Russell M. Sigmon Jr., died on Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at a local nursing facility. Born in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Alpheus Joseph and Annie Lee Coulter Baker. She attended Smithville Pentecostal Church.
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Survivors include her daughter, Rhonda G. Sigmon of Sumter; two sisters, Lois Rogers and Juanita Davis (Junior), both of Sumter; two brothers, Francis “Buddy” Baker (Barbara) and Jimmy Baker (Donna), both of Sumter; and a number of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Wilbur Baker, Jack Baker and Dallas Baker Sr.; and two sisters, Helen Hodge and Mary Louise Clark. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday at the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ronnie Morris officiating. Burial will be in Sumter Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home of Jimmy and Donna Baker, 225 Pinecrest Drive. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.
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