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Poet-led town hall on race well-attended Meeting brings together diverse community voices

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com Wednesday night’s town meeting was titled “Poets Respond to Race,” and they did, not just through their

poetry, but also by enabling about 100 local residents, social activists and civic leaders to engage in a civil dialogue on the topic. The dining room at SerenFINNEY dipity Café was filled with what appeared to be an equal number of black and white participants, there to talk with a panel comprised of Mayor Joseph T. McElveen, Third Circuit Solicitor Ernest Finney III and Sumter Coun-

ty Sheriff Anthony Dennis.

Among the audience were Sumter City Council members, Downtown Manager Howie Owens, Sumter Police Chief Russell Roark and several other local officials.

Hosted by poet and Morris College professor Len Lawson, the meeting began with readings by poets Al Black and Michele Reese; then Lawson asked each panelist to respond to the killings of Walter Scott in North Charleston and the nine members of the Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston.

Those present spoke of Sumter’s positive attributes as well as the negatives, while also suggesting ways to make things better.

Starting the discussion, McElveen said while it “troubles me (to wonder) would we respond as a community like Charleston ... locally, I think things are very positive. We’re working together like never before, and the progress we’re making is remarkable.”

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Demetric Nelson is seen as he was taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies earlier this year.

Sumter man sentenced to 25 years

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Demetric Nelson, the 27-yearold Sumter man charged with armed robbery and kidnapping back in April, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to those charges on Wednesday.

Sumter County Sheriff’s office arrested Nelson earlier this year after he forced his way into a house on the 1800 block of River Birch Drive, stole the victim’s jar of money and forced the victim to drive her car to an abandoned house on Manning Avenue, according to information provided by 3rd Circuit Solicitor Ernest “Chip” Finney, III. While stopped on Manning Avenue, Nelson forced the 53-year-old victim to get into the trunk at gunpoint.

According to reports from law enforcement, Nelson was unable to operate the stick shift vehicle and the victim was able to flag down a passing Sumter police car after exiting the trunk using the emergency latch.

Nelson was arrested after fleeing the scene on foot.

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Investigator Derron Solomon of Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, right, signals to the State Law Enforcement Division search helicopter above that a home burglary suspect, later identified as 21-year-old Jerry Michael Washington, had been taken into custody after a lengthy manhunt near Eagle Road.

Home surveillance equipment helps nab suspects

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com Three men were taken into custody by Sumter County Sheriff’s Office after an apparent home burglary that led to a traffic stop and manhunt in a wooded area near Shaw Air Force Base on Thursday afternoon.

According to a news re-

lease from the sheriff’s office, the owner of the residence, located in the 2200 block of King’s MounF. MCBRIDE tain Road, provided investigators with information captured by home surveillance equipment regarding the al-

leged suspects and their vehicle shortly before 11:30 a.m.

Four black males were deWASHINGTON picted in the residence by the surveillance equipment, according to earlier reports from the sheriff’s office.

A patrol deputy later stopped a vehicle matching the description of the one seen D. MCBRIDE at the site of the burglary along Broad Street Extension. The vehicle

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St. Mark 4 Bridges Missionary Baptist Church choir earns Steve Harvey award

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com In a ceremony Valarie Sanders compared to the Oscars program, St. Mark 4 Bridges Missionary Baptist Church received the Steve Harvey Neighborhood Award as top choir in the nation last weekend in Atlanta.

The awards are sponsored by AARP and were established by Harvey and executive producer Rushion McDonald.

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Interestingly, the award is not for the choir’s musical abilities, but for “their contributions as well as excellence within their own neighborhood,” according to the Neighborhood Awards website, which goes on to explain that the awards honor local businesses, community leaders, churches and high schools.

In fact, there are 12 non-traditional awards in these diverse categories: Best High School Coach, Best Nail Salon, Best School Teacher, Best Car

Wash Detail Shop, Best Church Choir, Best Soul Food Place, Best Barber Shop, Best High School, Best Barbecue Place, Best Beauty Salon, Best Church and Best Community Leader.

In order to win the award, Sanders said, “You have to be nominated to be considered for the award. We were nominated four years in a row, this year by WWDM radio; this is our first win.”

The choir at “The Mark,” as the

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church is affectionately known, has received other awards, the most recent a Legacy of the Year Award presented in April by Rep. David Weeks, D-Sumter.

WWDM and affiliates promoted the choir, Sanders said, and it was voted to the top four in the nation by the public.

“We also had to submit a bio, telling what we’ve done to contribute to

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Walmart hiring 100

Board approves reconstruction China Palace restaurant moves ahead with renovation plans

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com

FROM STAFF REPORTS The first Walmart Neighborhood Market in Sumter is scheduled to open this fall, and the new store will hire about 95 associates, both full-time and part-time, according to a statement released by Walmart Media Relations on Thursday.

A temporary hiring center has opened at 699-B Bultman Drive. The majority of new associates will begin work in October to help prepare the store for its grand opening, according to the news release.

Applications will be accepted Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. Interested applicants may also apply online at http://careers.walmart. com.

Walmart will offer jobs to any eligible U.S. veterans honorably discharged from active duty, since the Veterans Welcome Home Commitment launched on Memorial Day 2013. Interested veterans may find out more at http:// walmartcareerswithamission. com.

In Thursday’s edition of The Sumter Item, it was incorrectly reported that Sumter City and County Board of Zoning Appeals voted to defer action on requests for multiple variances regarding the reconstruction of China Palace restaurant at 459 Broad St. until September.

The article was written after the board voted on the matter but before the meeting had adjourned.

Before the end of its meeting on Wednesday, the board voted to reconsider the requests for variances regarding the restaurant because unforeseen things that occurred during the demolition process. The requests were later approved after further discussion by the board.

Albert Yip, owner of China Palace, wanted to have the inside and roof of the restaurant renovated and planned to leave the exterior walls of the building standing during the demolition and construction process.

By leaving the exterior walls in place, the building would not need to follow modern development standards, which would require the entire building to be relocated on the lot.

However, during the demolition process one of the exterior walls of the building fell down as the roof was being removed, and the remaining three walls were left leaning, said Sebastian Fuller, demolition contractor of Humble Concrete Masonry in Columbia.

After an inspection, Fuller discovered the remaining walls did not have adequate support and made the deci-

sion to bring down the walls for the safety pedestrians and cars in the area.

Planning Director George McGregor said the new building would have to meet new standards since the original structure had been demolished. Board member James Price commented that development standards can be so restrictive that a long-standing, small business building can be left in a poor state because the owner is unable to afford the improvements.

“It would be highly unreasonable to inhibit the improvement of a longstanding business,” Price said during later discussions.

Price later made a motion to approve the variances based on exceptional circumstances during the demolition. He said rebuilding the restaurant would bring positive aesthetic, safety and commercial benefits to the area.

Honoring Purple Heart veterans

4 teens arrested in break-ins

Sumter Mayor Joseph McElveen, first row center, talks with Purple Heart recipients after signing a proclamation honoring the group recently. The George L. Mabry Jr. Chapter 817, Military Order of the Purple Heart members include, sitting, left to right, Don Kellum and Commander Jamie C. O’Neal; back row, from the left, James Jones, Johnny Williams, Ronald Harvin, Willie Washington and Dave Nesbitt.

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Sumter Police Department arrested four teens ranging in ages from 13 to 16 Saturday in connection to multiple vehicular break-ins that took place between Friday and the time they were arrested.

According to a news release from the police department, the arrests were made after law enforcement found items reported stolen inside the suspects vehicles, which included multiple firearms, money, sunglasses, electronic devices and food. The suspects targeted unlocked vehicles in the Timberline Meadows, Landmark, Hunters Crossing and Southern Hills subdivisions, according to reports.

Law enforcement ordered the teens to pull over after officers observed a vehicle they thought was driving suspiciously through a subdivision under construction.

All four individuals are charged with 14 counts of breaking and entering an automobile and one count of malicious injury to personal property, possession of burglary tools, unlawful carrying of a pistol and unlawful possession of a handgun. Two of the teens were on probation for prior vehicle break-ins and should have been wearing monitoring devices, the report states.

Busy lineup of Chamber events ahead

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com The deadline to register for the Sumter Chamber of Commerce’s Air Force Association dinner on Tuesday is today, but procrastinators still have plenty of events on the upcoming Chamber of Commerce calendar to make this a memorable fall, said Vice President of Operations Nicole Milligan.

Tuesday’s dinner at Sunset Country Club will feature Maj. Gen. Mark Kelly, who assumed command of the Ninth Air Force Air Combat Command at Shaw Air Force Base on July 31.

Milligan said attendees will also hear from the presenting sponsor, Beverly Gagne of SAFE Federal Credit Union, as well as from the association and the chamber.

Cost is $35 for dinner and cocktails, she said. Registration is still being accepted at www.sumterchamber.com

through today, Milligan said.

As temperatures begin to cool down, be sure to practice your putting for the Rubo-the Green golf tournament Friday, Sept. 18, at Sunset Golf Course, Milligan said.

The tournament is open to the public, and the $100-perplayer fee includes tee prizes, lunch, golf, beverages and admission to the after-party for the player and a guest.

The after-party will include music by The Footnotes and it is open to all chamber members, even if they do not participate in the tournament.

“We will be playing a modified Texas Scramble format,” Milligan said. “We are also letting folks register as a team if they wish.”

There will be a prize for the overall winning team, and remaining prizes will be drawn from the field.

The Military Appreciation Picnic will be Friday, Sept.

25. The event is free and open to all active duty mili-

tary personnel. It will be held at Hangar 1200 on Shaw, Milligan said.

“The military appreciation picnic is great,” she said.

“We get such support from the community and our sponsors. Everyone wants to give back to the folks at Shaw.”

Milligan said an army of volunteers use eight industrial-sized grills to begin preparing the picnic that morning.

Base and community leaders come out and help serve the food, she said, and sponsors also come out and set up vendor tables.

The fifth-annual Porches of Sumter event resented by Hurricane Builders will be Thursday, Oct. 1.

The event is open to the public, and tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door, Milligan said.The popular event is based at Memorial Park, Milligan said, and is hosted throughout the Historic District on the porches

of individual homes.

“We greatly appreciate the homeowners that have embraced this event and the support of the Heart of Sumter Neighborhood Association as well,” she said. “Last year, we had 13 homes participate, and we sold just over 300 tickets. This year, we hope to be bigger and better, and we will again have the Front Porch Junkies (band).”

Each home will have food to sample, she said, as well as beverages.

“Participants walk the neighborhood from home to home checking all the goodies while visiting with the homeowners, socializing with friends and enjoying the great neighborhood and its lovely homes,” Milligan said.

For more information or to register for these events, visit the Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce website at www.sumterchamber. com or call (803) 775-1231.

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Central Carolina Technical College pins 54 new nurses Central Carolina Technical College pinned 54 new nurses during two ceremonies held Aug. 5 at Sumter Opera House. The 41 students who earned their associate degree in nursing are seen at left. In alphabetical order, they are: Craig W. Anderson, Jordan T. Atkinson, Elijah S. Bausum, Sarah R. Bitsky, Scot B. Bozio, Jennifer J. Branham, James R. Britt, Jr., Grace Alexandria Brunson, Zachary Tyler Buckner, Davatri Sharmaine Butler, Kristin A. Carter, Chloe D. Christmas, Adrienne Nikole Cobb, Julia C. Coward, Felicia Shant’e Cox, Share.el J. Daley, Lisa Maria Dowdy, Alice Renee’ Gibson, Zachary T. Haithcock, Gaffney Hall, Hannah S. Hancock, Carolyn B. Hodge, Jamie Solaine Jones, Stephanie K. Kline, Brittany L. Matz, April N. McCallister, Amber Shaye McElveen Beville, Cameron L. Neal, Larin J. Noland, Kelly Eckford Orton, Jasmine S. Powell, Quintestusa A. Raymor, Amanda Blake Rhodus, Allison E. Ross, Dylan M. Ross, Dennis Seruya, Jr., Casey V. Simmons, Jessalyn S. Taylor, Ellisa M. Valencia, Meghan K. Wachter, and Laqurandra S Wider.

Twelve of the 13 who received their diploma in practical nursing are seen at left. In alphabetical order, they are: Raveen Cermone Bracey, Sherry Elizabeth Capers, Mayce Chandler, Stephen Taylor Crouch, Myra Renee Dukes, Angela T. Ferguson, LuQuiwa M. Goings, Lydia Jackson, Sheila Tayra Johnson, Jessica D. King, Grace Elaine McClellan, Erica McLeod and Chery Len Vrankovich.

The diploma in practical nursing program is designed to provide a sound educational background to those individuals interested in providing direct patient care. The practical nurse functions under the direction of a registered nurse, licensed physician or licensed dentist.

The associate degree in nursing program at Central Carolina Technical College prepares graduates to take the National Council Licensing Examination for Registered Nurses and is approved by the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Board of Nursing. The program is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing.

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Gulf eats away at Louisiana coast

BY CAIN BURDEAU The Associated Press DELACROIX, La. — Rocky Morales is watching his small Louisiana town of Delacroix slowly melt into the water.

The woods where he played hide-and-seek as a boy are gone. It’s all water and mud back there now. So, too, is the nearby marsh where townsfolk once trapped for muskrat, otter and mink.

Many of the fishermen who once lived here — his friends and relatives — have disappeared as well, fleeing behind the intricate levee system protecting New Orleans out of fear that one more hurricane will be all it takes to send the rest of Delacroix into the sea.

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A DECADE LATER Ten years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast — killing more than 1,830 people and causing more than $150 billion in damage in the nation’s costliest disaster — New Orleans has been fortified by a new $14.5 billion flood protection system. But outside the iconic city, efforts have lagged to protect small towns and villages losing land every year to erosion. And as that land buffer disappears, New Orleans itself becomes more vulnerable.

In the past century, more than 1,880 square miles of Louisiana land has turned into open water — an area nearly the size of Delaware.

And the loss continues unabated, with an estimated 17 square miles disappearing on average each year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Cemeteries are disappearing into the Gulf. Entire barrier island chains, Andrew Jackson-era brick forts, Jean Lafitte’s pirate colony, lighthouses, bridges, roads, schools and entire towns have been washed away.

“We’re losing the cultural fabric of south Louisiana,” said Jessica Schexnayder, a researcher with the Louisiana State University Sea Grant program. “It’s not just whether the land will disappear; it’s about when it’s going to be gone.”

Hurricanes speed up that disappearance, and Morales, one of the few remaining fisherman to still call Delacroix home, knows that another Katrina could be the end of his town.

“It will run us all inside the

Rocky Morales and Suzanne Guidroz stand outside their home, rebuilt after the previous one was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, in Delacroix, Louisiana, on Aug. 5. Hurricanes speed up the disappearance of land, and Morales, one of the few remaining fisherman to still call Delacroix home, knows that another Katrina could be the end of his town. protection levees,” the 51-yearold crabber and shrimper said from his perch on his 16-foothigh front porch crawling with marsh bugs and ants.

Pairs of white rubber shrimp boots were hung to dry at the front door.

Neighboring homes stand either on massive stilts that lift them two stories above ground or sit on wheels that would let them flee in the face of a new storm.

Mud flats and open water extend into the horizon.

“All that was solid land.

There weren’t all these lakes,” Morales said. “Katrina tore it all up.”

BESIDES KATRINA Loss has been a dominant theme for the past 50 years, since Hurricane Betsy clobbered New Orleans on Sept. 9, 1965, flooding many of the same places Katrina did 40 years later. During this period, scientists say a series of factors — most of them manmade — have caused the rapid loss of wetlands.

There’s sea-level rise (estimates of 3 feet or more in the next 100 years), the natural sinking of the delta (about 1 inch a year in places), ongoing damage from oil drilling (more than 10,000 miles of oil canals crisscross the coast in highway-straight lines) and repeated hurricane damage (six hurricanes, including Katrina, have ravaged Louisiana’s coast in the past decade).

Add to that: clear-cut log-

ging that wiped out the state’s abundant swamp forests at the end of the 1800s, oyster dredging that ruined a delta-wide reef world, the spaghetti-like network of gas pipelines and wetlands loss because of urban development.

WHAT TO DO “The best hope for these communities, and this includes New Orleans, is getting behind a very aggressive delta restoration program,” said Jim Tripp, a senior counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund. He sits on panels exploring multibillion-dollar plans to restore Louisiana’s coast.

Since the early 1990s, the government has spent billions on coastal works to slow land loss, but the Gulf inexorably advances.

Katrina itself caused about 190 square miles of land erosion in the space of a couple of days, the loss of an area bigger than New Orleans itself.

Since then, Louisiana has sought to ramp up efforts to save the coast by establishing new agencies focused on coastal restoration. The state also launched pilot projects to reclaim open water by pumping in mud. Under Gov. Bobby Jindal, the state developed a 50-year, $50 billion master plan to reverse land loss.

OTHER EXAMPLES Looking for a model, Louisiana has turned to the Netherlands, a low-lying nation that has protected itself from the sea with a network of dunes, dikes and floodgates.

But Richards was skeptical Louisiana could duplicate the success of the Dutch, who face a much milder sea.

“If the Dutch had to face hurricanes, they wouldn’t exist,” he said. “Their 1953 storm that flooded the entire country only generated 10-12 feet of surge.”

Katrina pushed storm surge of 28 feet and waves that reached 55 feet, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

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coast feels like it’s at a dangerous tipping point.

In community after community along the 150-mile-wide delta, the same story is told: People are leaving behind generations-old homesteads and moving behind the levees, many of them fortified since Katrina.

“You could see it changing slowly before Katrina, but nothing like this,” said Henry Martin, a 71-year-old dock and boat owner in Hopedale, a fishing town near Delacroix in St. Bernard Parish. “This is dead for sure,” he said of his bayou town, which has been largely abandoned by its residents.

He pointed to skeletal-looking tree trunks, some of them now standing in water.

“All these dead oaks used to hang over the road not that long ago,” he said.

Since Katrina, he’s been running his seafood business out of 18-wheeler trailers where he stores tools, piles of oyster sacks and paperwork.

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he drives his business out of danger.

The water also is eating away at Grand Bayou, a Louisiana Indian town reachable only by boat.

Before Katrina, some 40 families called Grand Bayou home.

“Now? Let me make sure,” said Raymond Reyes, a 71-year-old villager sitting on his shrimp boat, The Pelican.

He counted the roofs along the bayou. “About 12.”

“We’re forgotten,” he said.

“They don’t want to do nothing for us back here. They tell us we have to be behind the levees.”

Some say Louisiana can’t win its fight with the sea.

“You have got to retreat,” said Edward P. Richards, a law scholar at Louisiana State University who specializes in disasters. “Unless we face the reality of relative sea level rise and coastal land loss, we will face periodic catastrophic flooding from hurricanes until there will not be sufficient resources to rebuild.”

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BY KRISTIN J. BENDER The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Public urination has gotten so bad in San Francisco that the city has painted nine walls with a repellant paint that makes pee spray back on the offender.

It’s the latest effort to address a chronic problem in a city where the public works director calls himself Mr. Clean: Walls are coated with a clear, liquid repellant material that goes on much like paint. Hit with urine, it splashes back on a person’s shoes and pants.

Mohammed Nuru, director of San Francisco’s public works department, says offenders will need to make the mistake only once to get the idea.

“If you have to go,” he said, “go in the right place.”

Nuru got the idea from Germany where walls in Hamburg’s St. Pauli quarter are painted with the material to encourage late-night beer drinkers to find a bathroom rather than an alleyway.

Public urination has long been a problem in San Francisco, where a light pole corroded by urine recently fell on a car. The city appears to be the only one in the nation using Ultra-Ever Dry from a Florida-based company, and it’s already receiving a stream of queries about the product’s success.

“We are getting calls from all over the place: Washington, D.C., Hawaii and Oakland,” said Nuru, who Tweets under the handle @MrCleanSF. Potential offenders get fair warning about the consequences of urinating on the coated walls that sit on public and private property across the city.

Signs hanging above some walls read: “Hold it! This wall is not a public restroom. Please respect San Francisco and seek relief in an appropriate place.”

Other efforts also are underway to stop or curb public urination.

Solar-powered toilets roll through city streets several afternoons a week, attendants are manning public toilets to encourage people to use them and city crews will check thousands of light posts to make sure they won’t topple.

Public urination is a health concern, and keeping the city clean is a 24/7 battle, said Kevin Sporer, superintendent of the building repair bureau.

The new paint is paying off.

“There’s a lot less activity, and the result is noticeable,” Sporer said.

Public urination is illegal, but a fine of up to $500 passed in San Francisco in 2002 has seen little success.

On a recent weekday, resident Jon Kolb was in a public transit plaza in the Mission district, where crews recently painted a low wall with the liquid repellant paint.

Kolb said he believes the idea is a good one. He has seen people who sleep in the plaza become visibly upset when others do their business on the walls.

“People will actually get violent about it,” Kolb said.

But will the paint really be a deterrent?

“It would be to me,” he said.

The paint and the labor to apply the material have cost the city only a few hundred dollars, opposed to the $80 an hour to steam clean walls and sidewalks.

TIANJIN, China — The death toll from the fiery explosions at a warehouse of hazardous chemicals climbed Thursday to 50, and the Chinese government sent experts to the shattered and smoldering port to assess any environmental dangers from the spectacular blasts.

More than 700 people were injured and dozens were reported missing in the explosions shortly before midnight Wednesday that demolished a workers’ dormitory, tossed shipping containers as if they were toy blocks and turned a fleet of 1,000 new cars into scorched metal husks. Windows were shattered for miles around by the shockwaves.

There was no indication of what caused the disaster in one of China’s busiest ports, and authorities tried to keep a tight rein on information by keeping reporters well away from the site. Social media users complained their posts about it were deleted.

More than 1,000 firefighters were sent to the mostly industrial zone in Tianjin, a petrochemical processing hub about 75 miles east of Beijing.

Tianjin is the 10th largest port in the world by container volume, according to the World Shipping Council, and the seventh-biggest in China. It handles vast amounts of metal ore, coal, steel, cars and crude oil.

Ships carrying oil and “hazardous products” were barred from the port Thursday, the Tianjin Maritime Safety Administration said on its official microblog. It also said vessels were not allowed to enter the central port zone, which is near the blast site.

The municipal government, which gave the death toll of at least 50, said 701 people were injured, including 71 in serious condition. The Tianjin Port Group Co. said dozens of its employees were unaccounted for and a search is under way. Some migrant workers at the port may not be documented.

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Smoke billows from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality Thursday. Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed many people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port city, raising questions about whether the materials had been properly stored.

Authorities said the blasts started at the warehouse owned by Ruihai Logistics, a company that says it stores hazardous materials including flammable petrochemicals, sodium cyanide and toluene diisocyanate.

An initial explosion apparently triggered an even bigger one. The National Earthquake Bureau said the first blast was the equivalent of 3 tons of TNT and the second 21 tons. The enormous fireballs from the blasts rolled through a nearby parking lot, turning a fleet of 1,000 new cars into scorched metal husks.

Zhang Siyu, who lives several kilometers (miles) from the blast site, said she ran from her home without her shoes because she initially thought it was an earthquake.

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it was an explosion. There was the huge fireball in the sky with thick clouds. Everybody could see it,” she said.

Zhang said she could see wounded people weeping. She said she did not see anyone who had been killed, but “I could feel death.”

State media said senior management of the company had been detained and that President Xi Jinping demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the explosions.

There was no immediate sign of any toxic cloud in the air as firefighters brought the fire largely under control by morning. However, the Tianjin government suspended further firefighting to allow the team of experts to survey hazardous materials at the site, assess dangers to the environment and decide how best to proceed.

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BY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON — The octopus already is an oddball of the ocean. Now biologists have rediscovered a species of that eight-armed sea creature that’s even stranger and shares some of our social and mating habits.

With their shifting shapes, mesmerizing eyes and uncanny intelligence, octopuses “are one of the most mysterious and captivating species,” said Rich Ross, a senior biologist at California Academy of Sciences. “They’re aliens alive on our planet, and it feels like they have plans.”

For Ross and colleagues, it got stranger when they got a batch of octopuses from Central America to study. The critters just didn’t fit the loner denizen-of-the-deep profile that scientists had drawn for the rest of the 300 or so octopus species.

While most octopuses live alone, coming together for ever-so-brief and dangerous mating, couples of this species can live together to mate for a few days in the same cramped den or shell.

While other male octopuses mate

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A male Larger Pacific Striped Octopus is seen about to catch a shrimp. Biologists have rediscovered a species of octopus that shares some of our social and mating habits. from a distance to avoid being cannibalized, these octopuses mate entangled beak to beak. That style could almost be thought of as romantic, said Alvaro Roura, an octopus expert at La Trobe University in Australia, who wasn’t part of the study.

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While other females lay one batch of eggs and then die, the female of this species lives longer and produces eggs constantly, bettering the species’ chance of survival, Ross said.

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“It’s the most amazing octopus that I’ve ever gotten to work with,” Ross said.

The octopus, normally a dull chocolate brown, suddenly sports stripes and spots when it gets excited or upset, said Roy Caldwell of University of California, Berkeley. He is the lead author of a paper on the octopus with Ross and others that was published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One. The species is preliminarily called the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus, although it’s really not much bigger than a tennis ball — just bigger than a similar species.

It was found almost 40 years ago off the coast of Panama. Other scientists didn’t think it was a separate species or that it showed such distinctive behavior. So its discoverer, Arcadio Rodaniche, gave up, and the species was never formally described or named.

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TOWN HALL FROM PAGE A1 Dennis continued, noting some of Sumter’s positive characteristics.

The relationship between Sumter law enforcement and the community is good, he said. “There are millions of officers out there in this country,� he pointed out. “Only a very few are causing all the problems.�

Dennis said the sheriff’s office had been proactive in providing both body cameras and dash cams for all of the deputies.

Improving education and keeping young people in school was a major concern for the panelists and the audience.

Citing the city’s rise from ranking “16 percent below per capita income to 6 percent below (means) a potential for more jobs, potential for young people coming back. How will we use this wealth?� McElveen said, “We need to invest more money in education.�

Finney said, “I’m concerned as a law enforcement partner. What can we do to stop people from hurting other people? Not even church people are immune. Our community needs to get more involved with programs like this meeting.�

He added that, as a black man, he was always disturbed by the Confederate flag on the Statehouse grounds and was proud that all of Sumter’s legislators had voted to take it down.

Echoing McElveen’s sentiment, Finney said, “The first step toward reducing sentences and jail time is stop-

ping dropouts.�

District 6 Sumter County Councilman James T. McCain Jr. noted that “Just as many elementary children are being expelled as high schoolers, and there’s no alternative school for them. From kindergarten to grade 3, a child is learning to read; from grade 3 on up, they’re reading to learn. If they don’t learn to read ... .�

An unidentified audience member said that most problems arise from an individual’s upbringing. “It’s all about how you’ve been raised,� he said. “It’s the value system.

We’ve failed them.�

Many in the audience nodded, several declaring that “getting young people back in church and bringing them to Christ� is the answer.

Finney said, “We’ve got to get the village mentality back, get the churches, fraternities, schools, sororities involved. It’s got to start right now. We can’t expect people to come to our meetings; we’ve got to go where they are.�

Others suggested opening Sumter’s HOPE centers and school gyms on Saturdays, so young people have some place to go to engage in healthy activities.

Al Black added that “We’ve had 350 years of separation. If we think we’re going to solve this, we need to realize it’s going to take time. We need a diversity of programs. There is no one way; there’s hundreds of ways.�

Billy Shaw, former president of the

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Sumter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis responds to a question from the audience during Wednesday’s town hall meeting that addressed issues of racism in Sumter.

Sumter NAACP, said, “We run from racism. The eradication of racism has to start with children and has to start in the schools, and we need to teach our children in our homes. We talk about sex in school, but we’re scared to talk about racism. We need to talk to understand each other.�

Other suggestions from panelists and audience included McElveen’s idea for a ’Jubilee Sunday,’ when the community worships together. Sum-

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Lawson added some others: “More meetings like this; more engagement in the community for churches, fraternities and individuals.� “We have evolved,� Dennis said. “I look around Sumter now, and I see diversity, I see growth.�

Finney agreed, concluding on a positive note, “I see us as way ahead of the curve. We need to make it our business to keep it that way.�

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Detrick Simmons is the St. Mark choir director, and Roneka Jennette is worship and arts director for the church.

“We were all in disbelief when they announced we had won,” Sanders said.

“There were more than 15,000 people in the arena (Philips Arena in Atlanta).”

More than 100,000 attended the Aug. 6 through 9 event. Those attending Saturday’s awards ceremony hosted by Steve Harvey enjoyed a concert featuring Usher, Tyrese and Babyface.

Presenters included Faith Evans, Michelle Williams, Sheryl Underwood, Roland Martin and Michael Eady, among scores of celebrities.

Sanders was selected by her group to accept the award.

“I had to make an acceptance speech,” Sanders said, admitting that she was a bit scared, “but when we heard our name announced, all the fear went away.”

She said the St. Mark choir will compete for the Neighborhood Award again next year.

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A sheriff’s deputy keeps watch on Eagle Road as law enforcement searched for a burglary suspect.

MANHUNT FROM PAGE A1 vehicle, Fredderick Adante McBride, 21, and Domonique J. McBride, 20, both of 4255 Pond Loop Road, Sumter, were taken into custody. Both men matched descriptions of the burglary suspects.

More than 20 officers, including several of the agency’s K-9 units, and a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division search helicopter participated in the search for the third individual.

At about 1:30 p.m., the

was carrying three males.

As the suspected vehicle came to a stop, a man matching the description of one of the burglary suspects left the vehicle and ran into the wooded area near Eagle Road, the news release states.

At this time, additional officers were called to the scene to set up a perimeter around the wooded area and begin searching for the suspect.

The other two men in the

third suspect, later identified as 21-year-old Jerry Michael Washington of 1060 Lewis Road, Sumter, was located in a heavily wooded area near Eagle Road, approximately one mile south of the initial traffic stop, and arrested.

All three men have all been charged with burglary, second degree, and are being held at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center awaiting bond hearings.

The incident remains under investigation and more charges and arrests are possible, the release states.

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Valarie Sanders, left, spokeswoman for St. Mark 4 Bridges Missionary Baptist Church, and Detrick Simmons, choir director, pose with the choir’s Steve Harvey Neighborhood Award. The group accepted the award in a program hosted by Steve Harvey in Atlanta last weekend. more time since we won,” Sanders said, “and then we’ll bow out.”

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BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH

SERIES NOTES

How slow is the TV schedule on a Friday night in August?

Let’s just say that this might be your night to catch a rerun from the World Armwrestling League (9 p.m., ESPN 2).

There’s also a repeat airing of the flag-raising ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba on CSPAN (8 p.m.). Yes, even CSPAN is showing reruns. It’s that kind of night.

The only network not kneedeep in repeats is Syfy: Nolan’s liberation is not without complications on “Defiance” (8 p.m., TV-14); The Killjoys turn the tables on Khlyen on “Killjoys” (9 p.m., TV-14); and the field of corporate espionage grows crowded on “Dark Matter” (10 p.m., TV-14).

Everybody else appears to have hung up a Gone Fishin’ sign. Did I mention it was midAugust?

Not that there’s anything wrong with summer repeats.

For years, CBS used the downtime to promote a show called “NCIS,” a series with a healthy audience during the year that became the most-watched repeat series of the summer.

And then it became the most watched series of all.

Which leads me to wonder about Fox. It had the breakout hit of the year in “Empire.”

Unfortunately for Fox, and fans, its first season was only a dozen episodes. And Fox never aired “Empire” in repeats.

You’d think during a summer when the network aired the illfated “Knock Knock Live,” Fox might build excitement for a second season of “Empire” with an encore helping. But it’s taken another strategy entirely.

You can still catch all 12 episodes of “Empire” on Hulu, but not on Fox. You certainly can’t say it’s been overexposed.

The second season of “Empire” begins on Sept. 23.

• As I noted earlier, the series “Animals LOL” (8 p.m., Discovery Family, TV-PG) has taken an ifyou-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em approach to YouTube’s glut of cat videos by offering a solid hour of feline frolic.

Dean Cain hosts “Masters of Illusion” (8 p.m., CW, TV-14) * Kathie Lee Gifford appears on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” (8:30 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * Chin and Danny face charges on “Hawaii Five-0” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Would-be illusionists audition on “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-PG).

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“America’s Got Talent” (8 p.m., NBC, r, TV-PG).

• Vegetarianism sets the standard on “MasterChef” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).

• A soil replacement strategy explained on “Shark Tank” (8 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG).

• Decadent Hollywood pals (James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and Danny McBride) try to survive the stages of the biblical rapture in the 2013 satire “This Is

the End” (8 p.m., FX).

• Terror at the circus unfolds with Gordon and Thompkins in the audience on “Gotham” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).

• Candid cameras capture strangers mulling ethical dilemmas on “What Would You Do?” (9 p.m., ABC).

• Dancers compete in Latin style on “America’s Ballroom Challenge” (9 p.m., PBS, r, TV-G, check local listings).

• Danny and Frank look for

evidence against an international scofflaw on “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

• A teen targets every family member between her and an inheritance on “Deadly Women” (10 p.m., ID, TV-14).

• Pete surveys designs from around the globe on “Treehouse Masters” (10 p.m., Animal Planet).

• Section 20 takes fire on all sides on “Strike Back” (10 p.m., Cinemax, TV-MA).

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Jimmy Fallon welcomes Kevin Spacey, Keegan-Michael Key and Monroe Martin on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Armie Hammer, Natasha Leggero and Big Talk are on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC, r) * Paul Rudd, Paula Pell and James Anderson visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, r) * Allison Janney, Jerry Ferrara and Paul Dano appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS, r).

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Ex-friend takes woman’s place at holiday dinners DEAR ABBY — I had a close friend from middle school into adulthood.

(I’ll call her Lacey.) We were each Dear Abby other’s maids of ABIGAIL honor and VAN BUREN best friends for years. A few years ago we had a falling out. She was going through a tough time and lashed out at me. When I tried to have a conversation with her to tell her I didn’t like how she was treating me, she told me to “have a nice life.”

Shortly after that, my youngest sister struck up a

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friendship with her and insisted that my parents invite her for Thanksgiving dinner. I told my mother I wasn’t comfortable with Lacey joining our family dinner, but Mother said it would be rude to not invite her.

I no longer join my family for holiday dinners. Is it wrong of me to not want my family to be so friendly with someone who was unkind to me? It seems odd to me that my former friend would pursue relationships with my sisters and parents, and odder still that my parents and sisters would encourage it. Is there a positive and constructive way to address this situation?

Discounted and excluded in Nevada

DEAR DISCOUNTED — It seems odd to me, too, that your parents would continue including Lacey at holiday dinners knowing how uncomfortable it would make you. Of course, you can’t dictate whom your sister(s) can be friendly with, but you should explain to your parents how her inclusion has made you feel, so they’ll understand why you are absent.

When Lacey advised you to “have a nice life,” I hope you took her up on it and have made other friends. I also hope you don’t sit around alone when the holidays roll around. Sometimes the most rewarding and loving experiences and relationships we have are with the “families” we build for ourselves.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

HOW TO PLAY: Each row, column and set of 3-by-3 boxes must contain the numbers 1 through 9 without repetition.

THE DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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The Racing Form, third edition B

oth presidential nomination contests having been scrambled by recent events — the FBI taking control of Hillary Clinton’s private email server and a raucous, roiling GOP debate — the third edition of the Racing Form is herewith rushed into print.

Legal disclaimer: This column is for betting purposes only. What follows is analysis — scrubbed, as thoroughly as a Clinton server, of advocacy. (Unless I simply can’t resist.)

Hillary Clinton: Ever since her disastrous book-launch performance, I’ve thought her both (1) a weak candidate and (2) the inevitable Democratic nominee.

No longer. She has fallen from her 95-percent barring-an-act-of-God perch. The email imbroglio has already badly damaged her credibility.

But now that she’s lost control of the server, there is potential for further, conceivably fatal, damage. It hinges largely on how successful she was in erasing the 32,000 emails she unilaterally deemed private.

Whatever happens, she will stay in the race. Clintons never quit. But if more top-secret information is found, if she did destroy work-related emails and if her numbers continue their steady decline, the party might decide it simply can’t afford to continue carrying her baggage.

Odds: 1-3.

Bernie Sanders: A less flighty, more serious Gene McCarthy. Fiery and ge-

COMMENTARY nial, Sanders is the perfect protest candidate. But can a 73-year-old dairystate Brooklynite socialist win? Of course not. If Hillary falls, Joe Biden fills the vacuum. Possibly even John Kerry. (Note to Dems: The beatified Jon Stewart is currently unemployed and at large.)

Meanwhile, over at the GOP ...

Donald Trump:Clear front-runner.

Are you waiting for him to bring himself down? He won’t.

He’s impervious to the gaffe. In fact, he has a genius for turning a gaffe into a talking point, indeed, a rallying cry.

Since the debate, his numbers have plaCharles teaued, and in some Krauthammer places declined. In New Hampshire, for example, he’s gone from the mid-20s to the high teens.

And he had a rough debate, as reflected in the Suffolk University poll in Iowa taken right afterward, in which, by 55-23, respondents felt less comfortable with him as president.

Nonetheless, his core support, somewhere around 20 percent (plus or minus a couple), remains as solid as that once commanded by Ron Paul and Ross Perot. Which means Trump will likely continue to lead until the

field whittles down to a handful, at which point 20 percent is no longer a plurality.

Teflon Don. Solid constituency, fixed ceiling. Chances of winning his party’s nomination? About the same as Sanders winning his.

Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio: Still the top tier. Walker just held his own in the debate. Bush slipped slightly, appearing somewhat passive and, amazingly, still lacking a good answer to the “brother’s war” question. But he continues steady with a serious follow-up foreign policy speech and stick-to-his-guns positions on Common Core and immigration — not easy given the current mood of the party.

Rubio had the best debate performance of the prime-time 10 — fluid, passionate, in command. And he was already No. 1 in the “who could you support” question (at 62 percent), crucial in a 17-member field.

Odds for each? Rubio 3-1. Bush and Walker 4-1.

Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina:The new second tier. And rising. Cruz had a strong debate, establishing himself as the most convincing carrier of the populist, anti-Washington meme.

Kasich was engaging and compelling as the bleeding-heart conservative and successful tough-guy governor. Not an easy trick.

Fiorina displayed raw talent that surprised everyone who didn’t know

her — and 6 million watched. Articulate, knowledgeable and relentlessly combative, she took on Clinton, Trump and Barack Obama. Being in the undercard was a stroke of luck.

She took the stage and made it her own.

Odds for the second-tier? 9-1 but with high ceilings for each.

Bonus Racing Form feature: the general election.

Conventional wisdom is that the GOP is tearing itself apart and headed south. What’s becoming clear, however, is that the Democrats are equally split ideologically — Clinton desperately moving left as Sanders’ crowds grow — and increasingly nervous about her chronic, shall we say, character problem.

Both parties limp into November 2016. Current odds? GOP: 55 percent.

And note how thin is the Democrat’s bench. After Clinton, no one, while the GOP stage sports perhaps eight to 10 impressive, plausibly presidential figures, including (for those who count such things) two Hispanics, a female former Fortune 500 CEO and an African-American brain surgeon.

And one white guy fluent in Spanish. Try engaging Bernie or Hill en español.

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com. © 2015, The Washington Post Writers Group

LETTER TO EDITOR CANADA GEESE RARE TREAT FOR SUMTER One of the most beautiful sights in Sumter is the wild Canada geese.

My wife and I listen out for their cries as they fly overhead. Early this spring we watched tiny goslings paddling after their mother in the little lake on South Wise Drive.

Probably some of these are with the large flock of geese seen on this pond this past Sunday. They love to graze the

grassy banks.

Flocks of these majestic birds are often seen on the numerous lakes in Sumter and are a rare treat for bird lovers — both Sumterites and visitors.

What was in the mind of God when he made these aweinspiring creatures?

My wife and I never cease to have a catch in our hearts every time we see them fly over in their v-formation.

LAURANCE H. KANNON Sumter

HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY? Send your letter to letters@theitem.com, drop it off at The Sumter Item office, 20 N. Magnolia St., or mail it to The Sumter Item, P.O. Box 1677, Sumter, SC 29151, along with the writer’s full name, address and telephone number (for verification purposes only). Letters that exceed 350 words will be cut accordingly in the print edition, but available in their entirety at www.theitem.com/ opinion/letters_to_editor.

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers

The State of Columbia Aug. 11

LET FBI FINISH CHECKS BEFORE GUN PURCHASES It is stomach-churning awful to imagine that the nine souls who were slaughtered at Emanuel A.M.E. Church might still be alive but for a string of errors by police trying to figure out whether the gunman could legally purchase the murder weapon — and the law that allowed it to be sold before their questions were answered.

We can never know what would have happened if the FBI had found out about Dylann Roof’s drug charge in time to deny his purchase: Perhaps he would have gotten someone else to buy a gun or perhaps he would have given up. But we do know that he’s not the only person who has been able to purchase a gun even though federal law prohibited it.

So the question shouldn’t be what would have happened if the background-check system had worked in this case, but rather what we can do to make

it work more often.

One thing we can do is insist that police be more careful in handling arrest records; the problem in this case traces to a jail officer who entered the wrong arresting agency when Mr. Roof was brought in Feb. 28 on drug charges. That led to an FBI official calling the wrong police department because of the confusing county lines and city names we have in the Midlands. Before she could get a straight answer about Mr. Roof’s criminal history, an arbitrary three-day window closed.

Many large retailers won’t sell guns until they get an OK from the FBI, but that’s their choice after three days, and the store where Mr. Roof went shopping chose to sell. Lexington Sheriff Jay Koon says he has changed his booking procedures to prevent such mistakes in the future, and the FBI is conducting an investigation to see if it needs to make any changes.

But the whole sickening mess begs the question: Does it make sense to allow a gun purchase before the FBI has determined whether the purchaser can legally buy the gun? The list of people who can’t is short: convicted felons, fugitives, illegal drug users, people convicted of domestic violence and people who are judged mental-

ly ill. And even if there is some deadline — to satisfy the paranoid types who are convinced there is a great conspiracy to strip them of their guns — does it make sense to set it at just three days?

Particularly since it apparently is not uncommon for local police to ignore FBI inquiries if they’re busy? Why not five days? Or a week? Or a month?

Columbia’s U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn has proposed federal legislation to delay the purchases until the FBI check is complete.

And here in South Carolina, Rep. Beth Bernstein plans to introduce a bill to require S.C. gun dealers to wait until the check is complete. A federal law makes sense because federal law mandates the background checks.

But since it was local officials in South Carolina who caused this monumental failure, our state should act if the Congress does not.

The Greenville News Aug. 11

REVIEW COST OF HIGH-SPEED POLICE CHASES Although much more national attention has been drawn during the past year to the death of citizens in officer-in-

volved shootings, a strong argument can be made that equally as much attention should be directed at highspeed police chases Through a comprehensive analysis of the incomplete records kept nationally, USA Today has determined that more than 11,500 people died in police chases from 1979 through 2013, and tens of thousands more were injured.

In New Jersey last month, for example, a 25-year-old man was killed by a driver chased by police for running a red light, USA Today reported. In June, a 63-year-old grandmother in Indianapolis was killed by a driver police had chased for four miles for shoplifting. And in March, a 60-year-old federal worker was killed by a driver police were chasing because his headlights were off.

In a particularly horrifying case, siblings Makiah Jackson, 3, and Michaelangelo Jackson, 6, were killed when the vehicle carrying a fleeing suspect hit them. Three other children were also injured in that incident in Detroit in late June, USA Today reported.

The Upstate has not been spared the loss of innocent life during high-speed chases by law enforcement. On Christmas night last year, 22-year-old Taylor Miller of Simpsonville died when the car in which he

was a passenger was hit by a Highway Patrol trooper who was in pursuit of another vehicle that had sped through a safety checkpoint on State 125 near Woodside Avenue.

The collision took place at the intersection of State 291 and Rutherford Road as the second trooper in pursuit of the car collided with the SUV in which Miller was a passenger. The driver of the car Miller was in was charged with felony DUI and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle. The chase took place shortly before midnight and the troopers reached speeds of 90 miles per hour.

In that case, the trooper stayed in touch with the officer on duty, and in answer to a question about traffic conditions, made the decision to continue the chase after reporting “zero traffic” in the area, according to a Greenville News story. The state Department of Public Safety vehicle-and-foot pursuit policy allows vehicle pursuits “only when the necessity of the apprehension of a suspect outweighs the risks created by the pursuit.”

Losing this many people as the result of high-speed police chases should cause every law enforcement agency to review their protocols and look for ways to discourage such chases.

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SUPPORT GROUPS AA, AL-ANON, ALATEEN: AA — Monday-Friday, noon and 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 775-1852.

AA Women’s Meeting — Wednesday, 7 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 775-1852.

AA Spanish Speaking — Sunday, 4:30 p.m., 1 Warren St. (803) 775-1852.

AA “How it Works” Group — Monday and Friday, 8 p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call (803) 494-5180.

441 AA Support Group — Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 8:30 p.m., Hair Force, 2090-D S.C. 441.

AA Summerton Group — Wednesday, 8 p.m., town hall.

Manning Al-Anon Family Group — Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Behavioral Health Building, 14 Church St., Manning. Call Angie Johnson at (803) 435-8085.

C/A “Drop the Rock” Group — Thursday, 9:30 p.m., 1154 Ronda St. Call Elizabeth Owens at (803) 607-4543.

MONDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Vitiligo Support Group — second Monday of each month, 5:45-6:45 p.m., North HOPE Center, 904 N. Main St. Call Tiffany at (803) 316-6763. Find us on Facebook at Sumter Vitiligo Support.

TUESDAY MEETINGS: Sumter Connective Tissue Support Group — 1st Tuesday of Jan., March, May, July, Sept. and Nov., 7 p.m., 180 Tiller Circle. Call (803) 773-0869.

Mothers of Angels (for mothers who have lost a child) — First and third Tuesday, 6 p.m., Wise Drive Baptist Church. Call Betty at (803) 469-2616 or Carol at (803) 469-9426.

Sumter Combat Veterans Group Peer to Peer — Every Tuesday, 11 a.m., South HOPE Center, 1125 S. Lafayette Drive. Veterans helping veterans with PTSD, coping skills, claims and benefits.

Parkinson’s Support Group — Second Tuesday each month, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital cafeteria, 121 E. Cedar St., Florence. Call (843) 6613746.

Sumter Chapter Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) — Third Tuesday, 5:30-7 p.m., Birnie HOPE Center, 210 S. Purdy St. Open to all families or friends who have lost a loved one to murder in a violent way.

Multiple Sclerosis Support Group — Third Tuesday each month, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital community meeting room, 121 E. Cedar St., Flor-

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Stay busy, EUGENIA LAST take care of odd jobs and tie up loose ends. You’ll have what it takes to make a move in a direction that suits you financially and professionally. Romance and celebration will brighten your day.

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ence. Call (843) 661-3746.

Amputee Support Group — Fourth Tuesday each month, 5:30 p.m., Carolinas Rehabilitation Hospital cafeteria, 121 E. Cedar St., Florence. Call (843) 6613746.

EFMP Parent Exchange Group — Last Tuesday each month, 11 a.m.-noon, Airman and Family Readiness Center. Support to service members who have a dependent with a disability or illness. Call Dorcus Haney at (803) 895-1252/1253 or Sue Zimmerman at (803) 847-2377.

WEDNESDAY MEETINGS: Sickle Cell Support Group — last Wednesday each month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., South Sumter Resource Center, 337 Manning Ave. Call Bertha Willis at (803) 774-6181.

THURSDAY MEETINGS: TOPS S.C. No. 236 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) — Thursdays, 9 a.m., Spectrum Senior Center,1989 Durant Lane. Call Diane at (803) 775-3926 or Nancy at (803) 469-4789.

Asthma Support Group — Every 1st Thursday, 6 p.m., Clarendon County School District 3 Parenting Center, 2358 Walker Gamble Road, New Zion. Call Mary Howard at (843) 659-2102.

Alzheimer’s Support Group through S.C. Alzheimer’s Association — Every 1st Thursday, 6-8 p.m., McElveen Manor, 2065 McCrays Mill Road. Call Cheryl Fluharty at (803) 905-7720 or the Alzheimer’s Association at (800) 636-3346.

Journey of Hope (for family members of the mentally ill), Journey to Recovery (for the mentally ill) and Survivors of Suicide Support Group — Each group meets every 1st Thursday, 7 p.m., St. John United Methodist Church, 136 Poinsett Drive. Call Fred Harmon at (803) 905-5620.

FRIDAY MEETINGS: Celebrate Recovery — Every Friday, 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. program, Salt & Light Church, Miller Road (across from Food Lion). For help with struggles of alcohol, drugs, family problems, smoking, etc.

Wateree AIDS Task Force Support Group — Every third Friday, 11:30 a.m. Contact Kevin Johnson at (803) 7780303.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Emotions will flare up when dealing with people at work or at home.

Someone will put demands on you if you brag or are too generous with your time, cash or skills. Do what benefits you most.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take a closer look at your current situation and you’ll find a way to enhance and protect what you have worked so hard to develop. Your relationship with someone special can be enhanced with a little tender loving care.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Sort through facts and consider the consequences before speaking out.

Someone will give you the wrong impression if you aren’t swift to head off a misunderstanding. Ask questions if you have doubts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t evade issues in order to get your way. It’s best to be honest about what you are going to do. Avoid letting someone get in your way at an inconvenient time. Clear the air and keep moving forward.

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AccuWeather® five-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

TONIGHT

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Partly sunny and delightful

Clear

Pleasant with plenty of sun

Partly sunny

A stray afternoon thunderstorm

A couple of afternoon t-storms

92°

68°

93° / 68°

93° / 70°

93° / 72°

94° / 71°

Chance of rain: 5%

Chance of rain: 10%

Chance of rain: 5%

Chance of rain: 10%

Chance of rain: 50%

Chance of rain: 60%

ENE 7-14 mph

ENE 4-8 mph

ENE 6-12 mph

ENE 4-8 mph

E 3-6 mph

SSW 4-8 mph

TODAY’S SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER

Gaffney 87/65 Spartanburg 88/67

Greenville 86/66

Columbia 93/68

Temperatures shown on map are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

IN THE MOUNTAINS

Sumter 92/68

Aiken 91/65

ON THE COAST

Charleston 89/70

Today: Partly sunny; a thunderstorm in the area in the south. High 85 to 89.

Saturday: Partly sunny; a stray thunderstorm in southern parts. High 85 to 89.

LOCAL ALMANAC

LAKE LEVELS

SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Today Hi/Lo/W 88/69/pc 87/70/pc 97/75/s 86/69/t 98/75/s 92/70/s 95/77/pc 87/71/s 88/73/t 88/69/s 113/90/s 75/58/pc 90/71/s

SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest.

357.10 73.55 73.49 96.40

24-hr chg -0.01 -0.05 none +0.13

Sunrise 6:42 a.m.

Moonrise 6:42 a.m.

RIVER STAGES River Black River Congaree River Lynches River Saluda River Up. Santee River Wateree River

0.00" 1.37" 2.41" 25.52" 25.56" 30.75"

NATIONAL CITIES City Atlanta Chicago Dallas Detroit Houston Los Angeles New Orleans New York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix San Francisco Wash., DC

Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

92° 68° 89° 69° 102° in 1999 57° in 1979

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 4 p.m. yest.

Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date

Sat. Hi/Lo/W 88/70/t 90/71/pc 97/76/s 87/67/t 94/75/s 93/70/s 91/76/t 90/73/s 90/74/t 90/72/s 114/90/s 81/59/pc 92/74/s

Myrtle Beach 87/72

Manning 91/67

Today: Partly sunny and pleasant. Winds east-northeast 3-6 mph.

Saturday: A thunderstorm in spots. Winds light and variable.

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

Florence 91/68

Bishopville 91/67

Sunset Moonset

8:10 p.m.

8:05 p.m.

New

First

Full

Last

Aug. 14

Aug. 22

Aug. 29

Sep. 5

TIDES

Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr stage yest. chg 12 1.85 +0.15 19 2.68 -0.12 14 1.77 +0.14 14 2.52 -0.02 80 74.12 -0.09 24 5.91 +1.31

AT MYRTLE BEACH

High 9:39 a.m.

9:55 p.m.

10:21 a.m.

10:33 p.m.

Today Sat.

Ht. 3.0 3.3 3.0 3.3

Low 4:15 a.m.

4:19 p.m.

4:55 a.m.

5:01 p.m.

Ht. 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.2

REGIONAL CITIES City Asheville Athens Augusta Beaufort Cape Hatteras Charleston Charlotte Clemson Columbia Darlington Elizabeth City Elizabethtown Fayetteville

Today Hi/Lo/W 81/62/pc 88/67/pc 93/64/pc 88/72/pc 84/72/pc 89/70/pc 89/66/s 84/70/pc 93/68/pc 92/67/s 84/64/pc 88/65/s 90/65/s

Sat. Hi/Lo/W 82/63/t 90/67/s 93/66/s 89/72/pc 84/72/c 89/70/pc 89/67/s 88/69/t 94/69/s 92/67/s 85/64/pc 88/66/pc 91/66/pc

Today City Hi/Lo/W Florence 91/68/pc Gainesville 89/71/t Gastonia 89/66/s Goldsboro 88/64/s Goose Creek 90/69/pc Greensboro 87/66/s Greenville 86/66/pc Hickory 87/66/pc Hilton Head 85/75/pc Jacksonville, FL 87/70/t La Grange 93/69/pc Macon 92/66/pc Marietta 86/68/pc

Sat. Hi/Lo/W 92/67/s 87/71/t 90/66/s 89/66/pc 90/69/pc 88/67/s 87/67/t 88/66/t 86/74/pc 86/71/t 93/69/t 91/66/s 89/69/t

Today City Hi/Lo/W Marion 84/63/pc Mt. Pleasant 88/73/pc Myrtle Beach 87/72/pc Orangeburg 91/68/pc Port Royal 88/74/pc Raleigh 88/65/s Rock Hill 89/65/s Rockingham 90/65/s Savannah 88/71/pc Spartanburg 88/67/s Summerville 90/68/pc Wilmington 86/67/pc Winston-Salem 86/66/s

Sat. Hi/Lo/W 86/63/t 88/71/pc 86/72/pc 92/67/s 88/73/pc 89/65/pc 90/65/s 92/64/s 89/72/t 89/67/s 90/69/pc 85/68/c 87/66/s

Weather(W): s–sunny, pc–partly cloudy, c–cloudy, sh–showers, t–thunderstorms, r–rain, sf–snow flurries, sn–snow, i–ice

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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Support Group — 1:30 p.m. every third Saturday, 3785 Blackberry Lane, Lot 7. Call Donna Parker at (803) 481-7521.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Social networking or industry events will help bring you closer to someone you’d like to collaborate with.

Romance is in the stars, and if you mix business with pleasure, you will impress someone you love as well as those you work with.

THE SUMTER ITEM

WEATHER

SATURDAY MEETINGS:

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t let the changes that colleagues TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stay make limit what you can do or the balanced regardless of what highs direction you want to take. Focus and lows come your way. Don’t on expanding your skills to better overindulge or push yourself past a fit the changing economic trends. point that could lead to exhaustion. Let your intelligence and insight Use your head and think matters lead the way. through. A business trip will result SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): in an unexpected opportunity.

You will face opposition if you GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Change aren’t factual and precise in things up a bit at home. You’ll presenting what you want to enjoy your environment more if pursue. Change can be good, but it you improve your entertainment has to be done properly and within center or incorporate a unique and the boundaries set by those in interesting philosophy into the way authority. Romance is highlighted. you run your home or personal life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Make love a priority.

Avoid people who are inclined to CANCER (June 21-July 22): A short complain and hold you back. Don’t trip will open your eyes to new give in to the demands being possibilities. Discuss your concerns made or the expectations someone with someone you live with or are has. Set your sights on what is close to. You can improve a doable, and you will find a way to situation you face if you look for protect your position and satisfy innovative answers to existing your needs. problems. Changes will lead to benefits.

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POWERBALL WEDNESDAY

MEGAMILLIONS TUESDAY

15-17-20-23-33 PowerUp: 4

8-13-29-38-52 Powerball: 28; Powerplay: 2

3-8-29-57-68 Megaball: 8; Megaplier: 4

PICK 3 THURSDAY

PICK 4 THURSDAY

LUCKY FOR LIFE MONDAY

5-3-2 and 0-7-0

5-7-8-5 and 3-0-8-1

2-10-11-12-44; Lucky Ball: 8

SPCA DOG OF THE WEEK Mork, a 3-year-old white and blond neutered Jack Russell terrier mix, is available for adoption at the Sumter SPCA. He is extremely friendly, active and playful. He is also super with other dogs. He is sweet, affectionate and loving. Mork would make a wonderful buddy for any family.

The Sumter SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Visit the website at www.sumterscspca. com.

SECTION

B

20 days until kickoff for Gamecocks football

Call: (803) 774-1241 | E-mail: sports@theitem.com

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

PREP FOOTBALL

D.J. leads the way

SHS ready for 1st jamboree under Barnes

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dustin Johnson hits a shot on the third hole during the first round of the PGA Championship on Thursday at Whistling Straits in Haven, Wis.

S.C. native Johnson grabs 1-shot advantage at Whistling Straits

BY DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Rory McIlroy was nervous about his game. Jordan Spieth was frustrated with his putting.

Not so surprising about the opening round of the PGA Championship on Thursday was Dustin Johnson.

He was leading.

Shaking off a double dose of disappointment in the majors, Johnson breezed his way to a 6-under 66 in moderate morning conditions at Whistling Straits and wound up with a oneshot lead over David Lingmerth of Sweden. It was the fifth time in 13 rounds at the majors this year that Johnson had at least a share of

the lead.

Just never on Sunday, which he knows all too well.

“It’s only the first round,” Johnson said.

It was a big start for McIlroy, and a shaky one for Spieth. They were the main event in the first round of the final major. McIlroy has not played since the U.S. Open, out for 53 days because of an injury to his left

ankle and mildly curious whether his game would be sharp enough to compete.

Adding to the buzz was playing with Spieth, the Masters and U.S. Open champion who is closing in on McIlroy’s No. 1 ranking.

“It’s not that. It’s more just being a little bit anxious coming back and seeing how my

SEE JOHNSON, PAGE B4

Sumter High School football fans will get a chance to see the Gamecocks under a new head coach — again — for the first time today in the Sertoma Jamboree at Sumter Memorial Stadium.

Mark Barnes, who is set to become the fourth head coach in four seasons at SHS, will BARNES have Sumter facing Lake City at 7:30 p.m. in the final of three 1-half scrimmages featuring the three Sumter School District high school teams.

“The players are more excited about it than the coaches,” said Barnes, who was a head coach for 26 years in North Carolina before coming to Sumter. “It’s more like a game to the players, but to the coaches it’s still practice.

“It’s good that we get to do the game stuff, getting on and off the field, the special teams,” Barnes said. ”We need more time to do that. The players are excited about going against someone else.”

This will be Sumter’s second scrimmage. After having its first scrimmage against Blythewood rained out, SHS did get to scrimmage against Ridge View on Tuesday.

As one would expect, Barnes saw some good things and some areas that need improvement.

“There were a lot of things that we did good, and there were some things we needed to do a better job of,” he said. “One thing we definitely need to do is get more physical on both sides of the football.”

Along with Sumter and Lake City, Crestwood will scrimmage against Timmonsville beginning at 6. Lakewood will take on Marion at 6:45.

Tickets are $6 per person.

SERTOMA JAMBOREE TODAY

at Sumter Memorial Stadium

SCHEDULE

Crestwood vs. Timmonsville, 6 p.m.

Lakewood vs. Marion, 6:45 p.m.

Sumter vs. Lake City, 7:30 p.m.

NOTE: Tickets are $6 per person. Fans from Sumter, Marion and Timmonsville will be asked to sit on the home side and fans from Crestwood, Lakewood and Lake City will be asked to sit on the visitors’ side.

USC FOOTBALL

CLEMSON FOOTBALL

RBs Wilds, Williams up for any kind of situation

Tigers’ Norton as at home in weight room as on field

BY RICHARD BREEN Greenville News COLUMBIA — Ask University of South Carolina running backs Brandon Wilds and David Williams refuse to name their specialty, and each speaks to their lack of one.

“We’re all pretty much wellrounded,” Wilds said.

“Being able to be versatile,” Williams said.

So while both should see a lot of action during the 2015 football season, don’t expect the tandem to become a “thunder and lightning” or “Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside” combo in which one specializes in power while the other brings the speed. It’s a prospect that doesn’t bother running backs coach Everette Sands.

“It’s easier,” Sands said. “The perfect situation is two guys where I don’t have to think about what the situation is.

Both of them can run. Both have good speed. And both can do everything that I’m looking

SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO

South Carolina running backs Brandon Wilds (22) and David Williams aren’t looking to specialize this season, but instead provide the Gamecocks with a pair of backs that can come in during any situation. for out of the backfield.”

Wilds came off the bench as a freshman in 2011 to replace an injured Marcus Lattimore. He

returns for a fifth season having amassed 1,277 rushing yards in

SEE RBS, PAGE B5

BY SCOTT KEEPFER Greenville News CLEMSON — When Ryan Norton bench pressed 640 pounds a few weeks ago, causing the Clemson weight room to erupt in celebration, teammate D.J. Reader was the least-surprised guy in the room.

“I heard everybody yelling and I was like, ‘What did he do now?’”

Reader said. “He breaks a new record every week.”

So what does nearly one-third of a ton feel like?

“I had to help him just to get it off the rack and it felt like the earth was in my hands,” said teammate and roommate Eric Mac Lain. “So for him to bench press it was unbelievable. “(Strength) coach (Joey) Batson came over to him and said, ‘Congratulations — that’s the last time you’ll ever bench press at Clemson.’

So Ryan’s done. He maxed out for life.”

Not so fast, my NORTON friend.

Norton, you see, is a veritable weightlifting aficionado.

He’s the type of guy who gets just as pumped up about setting a new standard in the power clean or the squat as he does running down the hill or plowing a defensive tackle into the turf.

One gets the idea that Norton will continue to throw weights around in the future, regardless of whether he’s suiting up or not.

A senior center for the Tigers, Norton has always been a weightroom rat, dating back to his days at Mauldin High School.

“I’ve always loved lifting,” said Norton, who has 24 career starts at

SEE NORTON, PAGE B5

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

SPORTS ITEMS

Enemkpali says he’s sorry, doesn’t mention QB Smith PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Without mentioning New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith — the player he sucker punched — by name, linebacker Ikemefuna Enemkpali said he’s sorry, and never meant to hurt anyone.

As for joining his new team, the Buffalo Bills, on Thursday, Enemkpali said he’s grateful for a second chance a day after being claimed off waivers.

In making his first public comments two days after punching and breaking Smith’s jaw during an altercation in the Jets locker room, Enemkpali referred only to something that “happened,’’ spoke for just 45 seconds and declined to take any questions.

“I want to apologize to the Jets organization, the fans, my teammates and the coaches. I apologize for what happened,’’ Enemkpali said, speaking at a podium placed beneath a goalpost on one of the fields of the Bills’ training camp facility in suburban Rochester.

“It should’ve never happened. I should’ve walked away from the situation,’’ he said. “It was never my intention to hurt anybody.’’

The Jets released Enemkpali shortly after the altercation. Smith had surgery on his jaw Thursday and is projected to miss between six and 10 weeks.

NBA, REFEREES’ UNION REACH 7-YEAR DEAL NEW YORK — The NBA and the National Basketball Referees Association have reached a deal on a seven-year collective bargaining agreement.

The league and the referees’ union announced the deal Thursday. It replaces the agreement that was set to expire at the end of the upcoming season.

“The NBA takes great pride in our world-class referee program and we are pleased to extend the league’s partnership with

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Buffalo’s IK Enemkpali, released this week by the New York Jets, speaks to the media on Thursday in Pittsford, N.Y. The Bills claimed the second-year player off of waivers on Wednesday, a day after he was released by the Jets because he hit quarterback Geno Smith with a sucker punch, breaking his jaw. the NBRA for another seven years,’’ NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.

2 WOMEN HARASSED BY TEAGUE COME FORWARD MINNEAPOLIS — Two women who were sexually harassed by the University of Minnesota’s former athletic director Norwood Teague came forward Thursday, blaming Teague for details about their identities starting to spill out and calling his behavior toward them “frightening and wrong.’’

Erin Dady and Ann Aronson, both high-level administrators at the school, said in a statement issued by the university that they had intended to keep their identities confidential, but say Teague sent an email to colleagues about when the incident happened, making it easy for their identities to be discovered. Both women re-

quested privacy after stepping forward.

Teague was accused of groping the women and making lewd and inappropriate comments in text messages at an unspecified event.

ANGELS P WILSON TO HAVE SEASON-ENDING ELBOW SURGERY KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Los Angeles Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson will have season-ending surgery to remove bone spurs in his ailing left elbow, and he hopes to be ready by spring training.

Wilson went on the disabled list July 31 after experiencing elbow pain.

He was 8-8 with a 3.89 ERA in 21 starts this season.

The two-time All-Star was in the fourth year of a 5-year, $77.5 million deal. Wilson is due to make $20 million in the final season.

From wire reports

THE SUMTER ITEM

SCOREBOARD

SOFTBALL ADULT LEAGUES REGISTRATION

the Sumter Family YMCA or any Sumter County Library location to register.

For more information, call (803) 7737273 or visit www.sumtercountylibrary. com.

TODAY

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

10 a.m. -- NFL Preseason Football: Miami at Chicago (NFL NETWORK).

11 a.m. -- Youth Baseball: Little League World Series New England Regional Semifinal Game from Bristol, Conn. (ESPN).

11 a.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Practice from Brooklyn, Mich. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

11 a.m. -- International Soccer: U-15 Match -- Dallas vs. America (UNIVISION).

12:30 p.m. -- Professional Tennis: Rogers Cup Men’s and Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from Toronto and Montreal (ESPN2).

1 p.m. -- Youth Baseball: Little League World Series Midwest Regional Semifinal Game from Indianapolis (ESPN).

1 p.m. -- International Soccer: U-15 Match -- Borussia Monchengladbach vs. Atlas (UNIVISION).

1:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Practice from Brooklyn, Mich. (FOX SPORTS 1).

1:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: XFINITY Series Practice from Lexington, Ohio (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

2 p.m. -- PGA Golf: PGA Championship First Round from Kohler, Wis. (TNT).

2:30 p.m. -- International Soccer: Bundesliga Match -- Hamburg vs. Munich (FOX SPORTS 2, FOX SPORTSOUTH).

2:40 p.m. -- International Soccer: English Premier League Match -- Manchester United vs. Aston Villa (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

3 p.m. -- Youth Baseball: Little League World Series Northwest Regional Semifinal Game from San Bernardino, Calif. (ESPN).

3:55 p.m. -- International Soccer: Spanish Super Cup Match -- Barcelona vs. Athletic Bilbao (ESPNEWS).

4 p.m. -- Women’s Amateur Golf: U.S. Women’s Amateur Quarterfinal Matches from Portland, Ore. (FOX SPORTS 1).

4 p.m. -- NFL Preseason Football: New Orleans at Baltimore (NFL NETWORK).

5 p.m. -- Youth Baseball: Little League World Series Great Lakes Regional Semifinal Game from Indianapolis (ESPN).

5 p.m. -- LPGA Golf: Portland Classic Second Round from Portland, Ore. (GOLF).

5 p.m. -- NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Pole Qualifying from Brooklyn, Mich.

(NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

6 p.m. -- NPF Softball: National Pro Fastpitch Championship Semifinal Game from Hoover, Ala. (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

6 p.m. -- High School Football: Camden Shrine Club Jamboree from Camden (WPUB-FM 102.7).

6:05 p.m. -- Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXYFM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7 p.m. -- NFL Preseason Football: Carolina at Buffalo (WACH 57).

7 p.m. -- Youth Baseball: Little League World Series Mid-Atlantic Regional Semifinal Game from Bristol, Conn. (ESPN).

7 p.m. -- Professional Tennis: Rogers Cup Men’s and Women’s Quarterfinal Matches from Toronto and Montreal (ESPN2).

7 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: New York Yankees at Toronto or Seattle at Boston (MLB NETWORK).

7 p.m. -- NFL Preseason Football: Tennessee at Atlanta (NFL NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Arizona at Atlanta (FOX SPORTSOUTH, NBA TV).

7:30 p.m. -- WNBA Basketball: Minnesota at Atlanta (SPORTSOUTH).

8 p.m. -- International Soccer: Mexican League Match -- Queretaro vs. Veracruz (UNIVISION).

9 p.m. -- NPF Softball: National Pro Fastpitch Championship Semifinal Game from Hoover, Ala. (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

9 p.m. -- Youth Baseball: Little League World Series West Regional Semifinal Game from San Bernardino, Calif. (ESPN).

9 p.m. -- Professional Boxing: Antonio Tarver vs. Steve Cunningham in a Heavyweight Bout from Newark, N.J. (SPIKE).

10 p.m. -- Major League Baseball: Cincinnati at Los Angeles Dodgers or Washington at San Francisco (MLB NETWORK).

10 p.m. -- WNBA Basketball: Chicago at Seattle (NBA TV).

10 p.m. -- NFL Preseason Football: Denver at Seattle (NFL NETWORK).

11 p.m. -- Arena Football: Portland at San Jose (ESPN2).

11 p.m. -- Major League Soccer: Colorado at San Jose (UNIVISION).

1 a.m. -- International Gymnastics: P&G Championships from Indianapolis -Women’s Finals (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

1 a.m. -- NFL Preseason Football: St. Louis at Oakland (NFL NETWORK).

PREP FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGE SCHEDULE SUMTER

Today Sertoma Jamboree vs. Lake City, 7:30 p.m.

FALL REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is taking registration for its fall girls softball leagues.

Registration will run through Friday, Aug. 21. The league is open to girls ages 7-12 as of Dec. 31, 2015.

Registration fee is $45. No late registration will be taken.

For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www.sumtercountysc.org.

ROAD RACING FORREST RAY 5K

The 10th Annual Forrest Ray 5K will be held on Saturday, Sept. 19.

The race will begin at the Sumter County Library at 111 North Harvin Street. Proceeds from the race will go support the Sumter County Library.

Race day registration will begin at 7 a.m. with the race starting at 8.

The registration cost prior to the race is $20 while race day registration is $25.

Runners can visit strictlyrunning.com,

BASEBALL FALL REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is taking registration for its fall baseball leagues.

Registration will run through Wednesday. The league is open to children ages 7-14 as of April 30, 2016.

Registration fee is $45. No late registration will be taken.

For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www.sumtercountysc.org.

ETC. KICKBALL LEAGUE REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is taking registration for its kickball league.

Registration will run through Tuesday, Aug. 25.

The cost is $250 per team. There will be a maximum of six regular-season games and a double-elimination tournament.

A coaches meeting will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 6 p.m. at the recreation department at 155 Haynsworth Street.

For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www.sumtercountysc.org.

GOLF 9-HOLE SCRAMBLE

The 9-hole Scramble event hosted by The Links at Lakewood will be held every Thursday beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The cost is $25 per player and includes prizes and dinner. The cost is $12 for those attending just the dinner.

To sign up, call the pro shop at (803) 481-5700 up to 5 p.m. the day of the event.

Pct .539 .522 .496 .470 .440

GB – 2 5 8 11 1/2

Seattle 3, Baltimore 0 Houston 2, San Francisco 0 Miami 14, Boston 6 Toronto 10, Oakland 3 Tampa Bay 9, Atlanta 6 Cleveland 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Detroit 7, Kansas City 4 Chicago White Sox 3, L.A. Angels 2, 13 innings Minnesota 11, Texas 1

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Toronto 4, Oakland 2 Texas 6, Minnesota 5 N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 6-5) at Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 8-7), 4:10 p.m.

Oakland (Bassitt 1-4) at Baltimore (U. Jimenez 9-7), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Nova 4-4) at Toronto (Price 11-4), 7:07 p.m.

Seattle (Montgomery 4-4) at Boston (J. Kelly 4-6), 7:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Karns 7-5) at Texas (M.Perez 1-2), 8:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 7-12) at Minnesota (May 8-7), 8:10 p.m.

Detroit (Simon 10-6) at Houston (Keuchel 13-6), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 4-8) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 5-5), 8:10 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Seattle at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

Oakland at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.

Detroit at Houston, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Oakland at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.

Seattle at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Detroit at Houston, 2:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Texas, 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION W New York 63 Washington 58 Atlanta 51 Miami 46 Philadelphia 46 CENTRAL DIVISION W St. Louis 73 Pittsburgh 65 Chicago 65 Cincinnati 50 Milwaukee 48 WEST DIVISION W Los Angeles 64 San Francisco 60 Arizona 56 San Diego 54 Colorado 47

L 52 55 63 68 69

Pct .548 .513 .447 .404 .400

GB – 4 11 1/2 16 1/2 17

L 40 46 48 62 68

Pct .646 .586 .575 .446 .414

GB – 7 8 22 1/2 26 1/2

L 50 53 57 61 66

Pct .561 .531 .496 .470 .416

GB – 3 1/2 7 1/2 10 1/2 16 1/2

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Cincinnati 7, San Diego 3 Philadelphia 7, Arizona 6 Houston 2, San Francisco 0 Miami 14, Boston 6 Tampa Bay 9, Atlanta 6 N.Y. Mets 3, Colorado 0 Chicago Cubs 3, Milwaukee 2, 10 innings St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 2 L.A. Dodgers 3, Washington 0

THURSDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Mets 12, Colorado 3 Chicago Cubs 9, Milwaukee 2 Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Washington at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 6-5) at Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 8-7), 4:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Happ 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (B. Colon 10-11), 7:10 p.m.

Arizona (Ray 3-7) at Atlanta (Teheran 7-6), 7:35 p.m.

Philadelphia (Morgan 3-3) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 2-7), 8:10 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 8-9) at St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 4-4), 8:15 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 8-9) at Colorado (Flande 2-1), 8:40 p.m.

Cincinnati (DeSclafani 7-7) at L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 7-7), 10:10 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 11-8) at San Francisco (M.Cain 2-3), 10:15 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Arizona at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Miami at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

Washington at San Francisco, 10:05 p.m.

Today Sertoma Jamboree vs. Timmonsville, 6 p.m.

Wednesday vs. Buford, 6 p.m.

LAKEWOOD

Today Sertoma Jamboree vs. Marion, 6:45 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Arizona at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

Miami at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Washington at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

WILSON HALL

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its adult softball leagues.

Registration will run through Tuesday, Aug. 25. There will be leagues for men’s corporate, men’s open, women’s open, men’s church, women’s church and co-ed.

The cost is $250 per team. There will be a maximum of six regular-season games and a double-elimination tournament.

A coaches meeting will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 6 p.m. at the recreation department at 155 Haynsworth Street.

For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 436-2248 or visit www.sumtercountysc.org.

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Houston Los Angeles Texas Seattle Oakland

Today Orangeburg Prep Jamboree vs. Grey Collegiate, 5:30 p.m.

MANNING

Today Marlboro County Jamboree vs. Cheraw, 6 p.m.

Wednesday vs. Lake Marion, 6 p.m.

NFL PRESEASON

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SCHEDULE

Today Orangeburg Prep Jamboree vs. Whale Branch, 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

New Orleans at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.

Green Bay at New England, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Washington at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Dallas at San Diego, 10 p.m.

THOMAS SUMTER

Today at Williamsburg Jamboree in Kingstree vs. Holly Hill, TBA Friday, Aug. 21 at Pee Dee, TBA

TODAY’S GAMES

ROBERT E. LEE

Carolina at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Tennessee at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.

Denver at Seattle, 10 p.m.

St. Louis at Oakland, 10 p.m.

EAST CLARENDON

Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

San Francisco at Houston, 8 p.m.

Kansas City at Arizona, 9 p.m.

LEE CENTRAL

Today Camden Jamboree vs. Andrew Jackson High, 6 p.m.

Today Florence Christian Jamboree vs. Dillon Christian, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Saturday Chesterfield County Jamboree vs. Pageland Central, 6 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 21 At Hemingway Sportsarama Vs. Carvers Bay, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Indianapolis at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

WNBA STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

SCOTT’S BRANCH

Today Willie Jeffries Classic in Orangeburg vs. TBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE New York Indiana Washington Chicago Connecticut Atlanta

CLARENDON HALL

Today at Carolina Academy, 5:30 p.m.

MLB STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

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GB – 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

W L x-Minnesota 17 6 Phoenix 15 8 Tulsa 10 14 Los Angeles 7 16 San Antonio 7 17 Seattle 6 18 x-clinched playoff spot

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GB – 2 1/2 2 1/2 2 1/2 3 1/2 7 1/2

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WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Connecticut 80, Tulsa 74 Phoenix 83, Seattle 66

TODAY’S GAMES

New York at Connecticut, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Seattle, 10 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAME

Tulsa at New York, 7 p.m.

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Iwakuma’s gem ends AL no-hitter drought

BY TIM BOOTH The Associated Press SEATTLE — After years of waiting, the drought finally ended thanks to the Seattle Mariners’ Hisashi Iwakuma.

No, not Iwakuma becoming just the second Japanese pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball — as important an accomplishment as that was — joining Hideo Nomo in exclusive company when he shut down the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday.

That ended the run of 12 straight no-hitters — 11 individual and one combined _ thrown by National League pitchers. Almost three years to the day that teammate Felix Hernandez threw a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Iwakuma finally ended the drought for the American League.

It’s a rare stat and in many ways likely just an odd coincidence. But it also highlights the difficulty of pitching in the American League, where there simply are no free outs thanks to the designated hitter.

“I think the outs are tougher. Look, the lineups are deeper. The DH’s in the American League, the DH’s are animals,’’ Seattle manager Lloyd McClendon said. “Those are tough outs. There really are no easy outs in the American League.’’

Four of the last five no-hitters in American League ballparks have come at Safeco Field. Prior to Hernandez’s perfect game, six Seattle pitchers combined on a nohitter in June 2012 against the Los Angeles Dodgers and unknown Phillip Humber threw a perfect game for the Chicago White Sox against the Mar-

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Seattle starting pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma, center, is hugged by first baseman Logan Morrison, right, after the final out of his no-hitter against Baltimore on Wednesday in Seattle. iners that April.

The only other AL park to see a no-hitter since 2011: Angels Stadium, where Jered Weaver threw his no-hitter in May 2012, less than two weeks after Humber’s perfect game.

The NL streak was the longest streak of no-hitters in one league since the inception of the AL in 1901.

“There’s an obvious number one reason. That reason and probably just coincidence,’’ Texas manager Jeff Banister said Thursday. “I’ve got to believe that an oddsmaker would say that it’s a little more challenging in our

league. They are still pretty special, no matter what the circumstance or situation is.

That’s why we celebrate them so much.’’

Iwakuma was as unlikely a candidate as any to throw the fourth no-hitter of this season. He spent 2 1/2 months on the disabled list after straining a muscle in his back and side in late April, another in a series of injuries that has made his career in the majors go in fits and starts.

He had pitched more than eight innings only twice in his career before Wednesday and had never pitched a complete

MLB ROUNDUP

Buehrle, Goins power Blue Jays past A’s 4-2 for 11th straight win TORONTO — The surging Toronto Blue Jays won their 11th straight game Thursday, beating the Oakland Athletics 4-2 behind Mark Buehrle’s arm and Ryan Goins’ bat.

The AL East leaders, who also won 11 in a row in June, became the first team to post a pair of winning streaks of at least 11 since Cleveland in 1954. Toronto finished off a 3-game sweep and hosts the second-place Yankees in a 3-game set beginning tonight.

Buehrle (13-5) won his fourth straight decision and improved to 8-1 in 14 starts since May 29. He allowed two runs and seven hits in 7-plus innings.

Goins hit a 3-run homer during a 4-run second against Jesse Chavez (6-12). Chavez moved up a day to start in place of AL ERA leader Sonny Gray, who was scratched because of back spasms.

RANGERS 6 TWINS 5

MINNEAPOLIS — Mitch Moreland drove in four runs on a career-high four hits, including a 2-run homer to help Texas avoid a sweep at Minnesota and rally past the Twins for a 6-5 victory.

Elvis Andrus hit the goahead sacrifice fly in the eighth inning against Casey Fien (2-5) after Adrian Beltre and Moreland started the frame with singles.

Twins starter Ervin Santana squandered a 4-0 lead, thanks to the towering 2-run shot by Moreland in the fourth and a 2-run, go-ahead double by the first baseman in the fifth. Prince Fielder’s RBI single came right before that.

Keone Kela (6-5) got four outs for the victory.

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NEW YORK — Curtis Granderson and Kelly Johnson each homered and drove in three runs, powering the New York Mets to a 12-3 rout of Colorado that completed a

game. McClendon would have picked Hernandez — obviously — and young right-hander Taijuan Walker as more likely candidates on his staff to throw a no-hitter.

“I said about three weeks ago the ‘Bear’ was back and he’s only getting better,’’ McClendon said. “It’s nice to see because I think this is probably the longest stretch I’ve had him where he’s been truly healthy and the ball is coming out and the velocity is back. He can work down in the zone, he can elevate the fastball. That’s what makes him special.’’

game. He came close earlier this month against Minnesota, throwing 8 2-3 innings before being lifted in a game that went to extra innings.

“I couldn’t help my team at all and that’s all I had in mind, to come back and give it all I’ve got every start and make up for the lost time I’ve had the first half and do anything to contribute for the team,’’ Iwakuma said through an interpreter.

Iwakuma is the 17th pitcher since 1914 to have his first career complete game be a nohitter and the first since Humber’s unlikely perfect

MLB keeps search firm to help prepare operations candidates

BY JAY COHEN The Associated Press CHICAGO — Major League Baseball wants to help the top contenders for openings in baseball operations, especially women and minorities.

MLB announced Thursday it had retained a search firm to assist candidates who reach the interview process. It also said it had instructed Korn Ferry to provide special emphasis to help for some of the most underrepresented groups in the baseball hierarchy.

There has never been a female general manager in the sport, and there are very few women and minorities on that side of the organizational structure.

While MLB has had a minority interview require-

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Toronto starting pitcher Mark Buehrle throws during the Blue Jays’ 4-2 victory over Oakland on Thursday in Toronto. It was the Jays’ 11th straight victory.

4-game sweep.

Noah Syndergaard recovered nicely from a rocky start for his latest win at Citi Field, where the Mets have won 10 straight against Colorado.

With their seventh consecutive home win and 11th in 13 games overall, the NL East leaders (63-52) moved 11 games over .500 for the first time since 2010.

Johnson broke a 3-all tie with a 2-out RBI double in the third inning. Granderson hit his 20th homer in the fourth, a 2-run shot off struggling rookie Eddie Butler (3-10).

Syndergaard (7-6) went seven innings and improved to 7-1 at Citi Field.

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CHICAGO — Kyle Schwarber hit two homers and drove in four runs, Jon Lester won his fourth straight decision and the Chicago Cubs beat Milwaukee 9-2.

Schwarber, Dexter Fowler and Anthony Rizzo each hom-

ered in the fifth inning as Chicago won for the 13th time in 14 games. The Cubs’ 7-game winning streak is their longest since 2011.

Lester (8-8) struck out 10 in six innings.

ment for key openings in baseball operations for several years, Commissioner Rob Manfred said the league thinks the search firm “might be able to improve the effectiveness of the rule by making minority candidates who get an interview more effective in that interview process.’’

“These interviews are detailed activities,’’ Manfred said. “It’s not just how you present yourself in the interview, and you know that’s a skill that can be refined. But it’s also substantive packages of material that demonstrate your ability to evaluate personnel, depending on what the job is, or manage, and we think we can help diverse candidates who get interviews make their best possible presentation and hopefully help them get hired.’’

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LATE WEDNESDAY RAYS 9 BRAVES 6 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Curt Casali capped a 6-run seventh inning with a 2-run homer and Tampa Bay rallied for a 9-6 victory over Atlanta on Wednesday.

Casali had just one hit in 26 at-bats since consecutive 2-homer games against Detroit on July 27-28.

Pedro Ciriaco homered for the first time in more than two years and tied a career high with four RBI for the Braves, who have lost 14 of 20.

The Rays scored five times off reliever Matt Marksberry (0-1) in the decisive seventh.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

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Day finishes near top of major leaderboard again TEE TIMES

By The Associated Press At Whistling Straits Sheboygan, Wis. Purse: $10 million Yardage: 7,501; Par: 72 Today

SECOND ROUND

First hole 7:45 a.m. -- George McNeill, United States; Charles Frost, United States; Emiliano Grillo, Argentina.

7:55 a.m. -- Chris Wood, England; Brett Jones, United States; Sean O’Hair, United States.

8:05 a.m. -- George Coetzee, South Africa; Ben Martin, United States; Soren Kjeldsen, Denmark.

8:15 a.m. -- Rich Beem, United States; Shaun Micheel, United States; Y.E. Yang, South Korea.

8:25 a.m. -- Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Spain; Steve Bowditch, Australia; Daniel Berger, United States.

8:35 a.m. -- Camilo Villegas, Colombia; Kiradech Alphibarnrat, Thailand; Pablo Larrazabal, Spain.

8:45 a.m. -- Cameron Smith, Australia; Shawn Stefani, United States; Hiroshi Iwata, Japan.

8:55 a.m. -- Kevin Streelman, United States; Sang-Moon Bae, South Korea; David Lingmerth, Sweden.

9:05 a.m. -- Troy Merritt, United States; Alexander Levy, France; Russell Knox, Scotland.

9:15 a.m. -- Tim Clark, South Africa; Billy Horschel, United States; Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain.

9:25 a.m. -- Eddie Pepperell, England; Sean Dougherty, United States; Kevin Na, United States.

9:35 a.m. -- Marc Leishman, Australia; Ben Polland, United States; Kevin Kisner, United States.

9:45 a.m. -- Scott Piercy, United States; Alan Morin, United States; Andy Sullivan, England.

1 p.m. -- Pat Perez, United States; Brian Gaffney, United States; David Hearn, Canada.

1:10 p.m. -- Hideki Matsuyama, Japan; Johan Kok, United States; Brendan Steele, United States.

1:20 p .m. -- Matt Dobyns, United States; Colin Montgomerie, Scotland; John Daly, United States.

1:30 p.m. -- Victor Dubuisson, France; Matt Kuchar, United States; Charl Schwartzel, South Africa.

1:40 p.m. -- Sergio Garcia, Spain; Bill Haas, United States; Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa.

1:50 p.m. -- Justin Rose, England; Brandt Snedeker, United States; Geoff Ogilvy, Australia.

2 p.m. -- Bubba Watson, United States; Paul Casey, England; Jim Furyk, United States.

2:10 p.m. -- Hunter Mahan, United States; Lee Westwood, England; Ernie Els, South Africa.

2:20 p.m. -- Jason Day, Australia; Dustin Johnson, United States; Rickie Fowler, United States.

2:30 p.m. -- Tiger Woods, United States; Martin Kaymer, Germany; Keegan Bradley, United States.

2:40 p.m. -- Gary Woodland, United States; Francesco Molinari, Italy; Marc Warren, Scotland.

2:50 p.m. -- Brent Snyder, United States; Tyrrell Hatton, England; Brendon Todd, United States.

3 p.m. -- Jeff Olson, United States; Fabian Gomez, Argentina; Martin Laird, Scotland.

10th hole 7:45 a.m. -- Bob Sowards, United States; Koumei Oda, Japan; Alex Cejka, Germany.

7:55 a.m. -- Ryan Kennedy, United States; Kevin Chappell, United States; Brendon de Jonge, Zimbabwe.

8:05 a.m. -- Davis Love III, United States; Darren Clarke, Northern Ireland; Steve Stricker, United States.

8:15 a.m. -- Jimmy Walker, United States; Tommy Fleetwood, England; Justin Thomas, United States.

8:25 a.m. -- Webb Simpson, United States; Bernd Wiesberger, Austria; Shane Lowry, Ireland.

8:35 a.m. -- Nick Watney, United States; Ian Poulter, England; Joost Luiten, The Netherlands.

8:45 a.m. -- Luke Donald, England; Graeme McDowell, Northern Ireland; Patrick Reed, United States.

8:55 a.m. -- Adam Scott, Australia; Henrik Stenson, Sweden; Brooks Koepka, United States.

9:05 a.m. -- Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland; Jordan Spieth, United States; Zach Johnson, United States.

9:15 a.m. -- Jason Dufner, United States; Phil Mickelson, United States; Padraig Harrington, Ireland.

9:25 a.m. -- Cameron Tringale, United States; Danny Willett, England; John Senden, Australia.

9:35 a.m. -- Jason Bohn, United States; Marcel Siem, Germany; Omar Uresti, United States.

9:45 a.m. -- Richie Ramsay, Scotland; Dan Venezio, United States; Nick Taylor, Canada.

1 p.m. -- Ryan Helminen, United States; Rory Sabbatini, South Africa; Chesson Hadley, United States.

1:10 p.m. -- David Howell, England; Grant Sturgeon, United States; Boo Weekley, United States.

1:20 p .m. -- Charles Howell III, United States; Austin Peters, United States; Thomas Bjorn, Denmark.

1:30 p.m. -- Byeong Hun An, South Korea; Russell Henley, United States; Robert Streb, United States.

1:40 p.m. -- James Morrison, England; Ryan Palmer, United States; Charley Hoffman, United States.

1:50 p.m. -- Stephen Gallacher, Scotland; Ryan Moore, United States; Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand.

2 p.m. -- Vijay Singh, Fiji; David Toms, United States; Mark Brooks, United States.

2:10 p.m. -- James Hahn, United States; Jamie Donaldson, Wales; Harris English, United States.

2:20 p.m. -- Ross Fisher, England; J.B. Holmes, United States; Mikko Ilonen, Finland.

2:30 p.m. -- Tony Finau, United States; Branden Grace, South Africa; Danny Lee, New Zealand.

2:40 p.m. -- Steve Young, United States; Morgan Hoffmann, United States; Anirban Lahiri, India.

2:50 p.m. -- Brian Cairns, United States; Matt Every, United States; Matt Jones, Australia.

3 p.m. -- Adam Rainaud, United States; Brian Harman, United States; J.J. Henry, United States.

4 p.m. -- Michael Putnam, United States; Marcus Fraser, Australia; Steve Marino, United States.

BY GENARO C. ARMAS The Associated Press SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — A couple bad wedge shots certainly weren’t going to bother Jason Day at the PGA Championship. He’s been through worse.

The Australian put himself in contention at a major once again Thursday, shooting a 4-under 68 to finish two shots behind first-round leader Dustin Johnson.

“Can’t really panic too much. Plenty of golf left,’’ Day said.

Along with Rickie Fowler and Johnson, who happened to be in his threesome Thursday, Day is on that short list of players who could be considered “best to not win a major.’’

Day finished fourth this year at the British Open, leaving a birdie putt short on the 72nd hole at St. Andrews that would have put him in a playoff.

He finished ninth at the U.S. Open, though that was a mammoth effort, considering he collapsed in the second round because of vertigo and almost walked off the course three times the next day.

He was two PGA Tour victories this season, winning at Torrey Pines in San Diego in February and the Canadian Open last month at Glen Abbey — a week after the British Open.

On Thursday, he started on the back nine and started his way up the leaderboard with birdies on Nos. 14 and 16.

Day had an eagle and birdie to briefly get to 5 under on his second nine, before giving a shot back with a bogey on No. 6. There, he was 98 yards from the pin, in the fairway, but overcooked the shot into the rough behind the green.

Earlier, he missed the green from close range on the par-5 11th and settled for

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Jason Day hits a tee shot on the 17th hole during the first round of the PGA Championship on Thursday at Whistling Straits in Haven, Wis. par on a hole where many players made birdies.

“Yeah, I missed two greens with a wedge today in my hand,’’ Day said. “It’s just — I don’t know what it is.’’

But it’s way too early to get frustrated, and Day knows that.

He is a regular at the top of these leaderboards, with a total of nine top-10 major finishes. His first came on this course five years ago.

In the lead-up to the opening round, Day said he wouldn’t trade all the close calls for one win and a bunch

of also-ran finishes. He’s confident that if he keeps giving himself chances, he’ll break through soon.

Doesn’t hurt to be spending the first two days — at least — keeping an eye on Johnson, who has also been coming close a lot lately.

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PAR SCORES The Associated Press Thursday At Whistling Straits, Straits Course Sheboygan, Wis. Purse: $10 million Yardage: 7,501; Par 72 (36-36) First Round Dustin Johnson 34-32—66 David Lingmerth 36-31—67 Russell Henley 36-32—68 Matt Kuchar 32-36—68 Harris English 33-35—68 J.B. Holmes 35-33—68 Jason Day 34-34—68 Danny Lee 35-33—68 Matt Jones 33-35—68 Scott Piercy 34-34—68 Brendan Steele 34-35—69 Thomas Bjorn 33-36—69 James Morrison 34-35—69 Justin Rose 34-35—69 Hideki Matsuyama 38-32—70 Charles Howell III 35-35—70 Robert Streb 35-35—70 Paul Casey 35-35—70 Martin Kaymer 36-34—70 Anirban Lahiri 33-37—70 Emiliano Grillo 34-36—70 Y.E. Yang 35-35—70 Marcel Siem 36-34—70 Rory Sabbatini 35-36—71 Brian Gaffney 35-36—71 Brandt Snedeker 36-35—71 Ernie Els 36-35—71 Tony Finau 37-34—71 Branden Grace 34-37—71 Francesco Molinari 36-35—71 George McNeill 35-36—71 Steve Stricker 35-36—71 Webb Simpson 37-34—71 Sangmoon Bae 37-34—71 Rory McIlroy 36-35—71 Jordan Spieth 36-35—71 Jason Dufner 38-33—71 John Senden 36-35—71 Sergio Garcia 37-35—72 Louis Oosthuizen 37-35—72 Bubba Watson 36-36—72 Hunter Mahan 37-35—72 Lee Westwood 37-35—72 Mikko Ilonen 35-37—72 Morgan Hoffmann 35-37—72 Marc Warren 38-34—72 Brendon de Jonge 36-36—72

JOHNSON FROM PAGE B1 game is going to react whenever I’m put under a little bit of pressure and have a card in my hand and have to really score,” McIlroy said. “Once I got those first couple of holes out of the way, I felt like I settled into the round really nicely.”

Three birdies on the par 5s, and one big par save with his feet in the water, carried him to a 71.

Spieth doesn’t usually go 11 holes without making a putt of any length, and frustrations were starting wear on him until he chipped in

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from behind the 12th green for birdie which steadied him enough to match McIlroy with a 71.

Considering they played in a strong wind and tough afternoon conditions, it was a reasonable start.

It certainly was for Johnson.

He took three putts from 12 feet on the final hole at the U.S. Open to shockingly go from a chance to win to a runner-up finish behind Spieth. He had the 36-hole lead at St. Andrews until he disappeared on the weekend.

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club in a bunker and lost out on a spot in the playoff because of the two-shot penalty.

It was like none of that ever happened.

He birdied the first two holes. He hit 4-iron to 30 feet and made eagle on No. 16. He added a trio of birdies on the front nine.

“Today was pretty easy, I would have to say,” Johnson said. “But I was swinging well and I was hitting the shots where I was looking. So anytime you’re doing that, it makes things a lot easier on you. The ball was going where I was looking. I was controlling it. In this wind it’s tough to do, but I did a

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great job of controlling the golf ball today.”

The one par McIlroy made on the par 5s was as big as his three birdies.

He pulled his third shot on the par-5 fifth hole into the water, and a double bogey looked likely. But his ball was sitting up in the water, so McIlroy rolled up his pant leg, splashed it out to 7 feet and saved par.

Tiger Woods might be one day away from the end of his season. Woods opened with a 75 and was in danger of missing the cut. In the four majors this year, he is 18over par in the opening round with a scoring average of 76.

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BY TIM BOOTH The Associated Press SEATTLE — If this offseason for the Seattle Seahawks is about getting past what happened at the end of their Super Bowl loss to New England, then another step comes tonight.

It may just be preseason, but the Seahawks will finally get on the field in their exhibition opener against WILSON Denver.

Don’t expect to see much of Russell Wilson, although he’s likely to throw his first pass since Malcolm Butler’s goal-line interception in the final seconds that preserved the Patriots’ 28-24 victory.

And don’t expect to see Peyton Manning other than as a spectator on the sideline.

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Carolina head coach Ron Rivera, left, said he will be paying particularly close attention to the play of the Panthers’ wide receivers and right defensive end in tonight’s preseason opener at Buffalo.

Rivera to focus on WRs, right DE in today’s preseason opener

BY STEVE REED The Associated Press SPARTANBURG — Ron Rivera said he’ll be paying particularly close attention to his team’s wide receivers and defensive ends when the Panthers open the preseason tonight at Buffalo.

Carolina is deeper than it has ever been at wide receiver in Rivera’s five seasons, which has made for good competition at training camp and tough decisions ahead.

Kelvin Benjamin, Devin Funchess, Jerricho Cotchery and Ted Ginn Jr. appear to be locks to make the roster, but there’s a crowd behind them fighting for roster spots including Corey “Philly’’ Brown, Brenton Bersin, Mike

Brown, Jarrett Boykin and Damiere Byrd.

“We’ve got five or six or seven guys right now that are battling,’’ Rivera said.

“We really haven’t projected anybody as clear-cut, top five or six. But we’ve got a group of guys that are showing every day.

They flash constantly.’’

Rivera is also anxious for someone to step up and win the team’s vacant starting right defensive end spot opposite Charles Johnson.

Frank Alexander, who missed 14 games last season serving a suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy, appears to be the leading candidate. However, 2014 second-round draft pick Kony Ealy, Wes Horton, and pass-rush specialist

NORTON FROM PAGE B1 Clemson and is a Rimington Award candidate. “And bench press is one of my favorite things to do.

“I never really competed (in competitive weightlifting) in high school, but I spent a lot of time in the weight room. I came to Clemson benching like 365.”

Norton has since increased his bench press to 500 pounds, but is able to do considerably more via what is known as a “two-board” bench press — literally having two boards placed

RBS FROM PAGE B1 his USC career but feels little nostalgia toward his last goaround.

“It’s a little bit past that stage,” he said. “I’ve been here since (Steven) Garcia was here.”

Williams gained 256 yards as a freshman in 2014 and is ready to assume a larger role with Mike Davis having departed for the NFL. “Now I know what to expect, and I’m trying to get better mentally,” he said. “My summer went great. I got bigger, stronger and faster.”

Both are big by tailback standards — Wilds is 6-foot-2 and 216 pounds, Williams 6-1, 214. Both have breakaway speed and can catch the ball.

Coach Steve Spurrier had kind words for several USC running backs.

“They’re all very healthy right now — Brandon Wilds, David Williams — and those young guys are looking pretty good — Mon Denson and A.J. Turner,” he said. “And a couple of the walk-on players — Darius Paulk and Rod Talley — are very good players also.”

Mario Addison figure into the mix and Rivera is hoping some young players step up and make noise.

CAM’S BLINDSIDE Michael Oher was brought in to replace Byron Bell as left tackle, even though he struggled last season with Tennessee. Oher, who got a twoyear, $7 million deal, is viewed as a stopgap for the Panthers until they can draft a top-notch offensive tackle or sign one. But it’s vital that he does a good job protecting Carolina’s $103 million investment in quarterback Cam Newton.

Newton will play about a quarter against the Bills.

NORMAN’S RISE Defensive backs coach Steve Wilks has said Josh

on your chest during the lift.

This method more closely mimics the type of “punch” and hand-to-hand combat necessary for O-linemen, Norton said, so it’s not without application.

“The difference is you’re not hitting your chest,” Norton said. “On a regular bench press, the bar sinks down into your stomach and you have to pop it out. When you bench with a board, you can sink it into the board a little bit, then pop it out.”

Another difference? While most lifters can press about 80 pounds more

Paulk and Talley’s performances as runners and special teams performers recently earned them full scholarships. Denson and Turner, meanwhile, are receiving tutelage from the veterans, which is something new for Williams.

“It’s kind of weird,” he said.

“Sometimes the freshmen go out on the field and you’ve got to tell them the play and they’re looking back at you and I’m not paying attention and I’ve got to hurry up and run out there and tell them the play. That helps me because I’m going over the plays mentally and learning the signals.”

Sands agrees.

“The best way to learn something is to teach somebody else,” he said.

Wilds, Williams and senior tailback Shon Carson become particularly important when the Gamecocks split into groups and practice on two fields simultaneously.

“I can’t be with everybody at the same time,” Sands said. “Some of those guys have to rely on them and ask them what’s going on. I think that definitely helps them

Norman has what it takes to be a star cornerback in the NFL. Entering a contract year, Norman has had a very solid camp, although he garnered most of his attention for getting into a scrap with Newton at camp. Norman is expected to be paired against wide receiver Sammy Watkins, a good first test.

RED ZONE SUCCESS Carolina was one of the worst teams in the league last season in the red zone and has struggled some with that in training camp.

The Panthers need to find more ways to score touchdowns rather than settle for Graham Gano field goals. Expect to see more lob passes to Benjamin in the end zone.

using the two-board method than they can the regular method, Norton can go about 140 pounds better.

Norton is a big guy but at 6-foot-3, 285 pounds, he’s far from the most imposing of Clemson’s behemoths.

In fact, his bar-bending achievements have earned him the affectionate nickname “Ant-Man” – a nod to the miniature hero with superhuman strength.

“It’s so impressive for a guy who might not look like he can bench 600 pounds,” Mac Lain said. “So he’s AntMan – at least that’s what we’ve been

understand the whole picture.”

Carson said he likes the two-field practices.

“The running backs aren’t just sitting around and watching,” he said. “I’ve been here five years and I know the playbook like the back of my hand, so I can help them out.”

Talley redshirted in 2014 after transferring from Gardner-Webb University. He said it took him about a semester to learn the playbook and he no longer has to ask for help.

“At this point, I’m answering questions,” he said. “It was like a different language at first, but now everything’s clicking.”

Wilds said it’s fun being part of a large, talented group of backs.

“They all bring something different to the table and they all come from different parts of the world but come together as one,” he said.

The Gamecocks may need to lean on their running backs while young receivers and quarterbacks gain experience, so their versatility and depth could be critical for USC’s success in 2015.

Both the Seahawks and Broncos have issues on the offensive line that’ll begin to shake out today. The Broncos are working in an offensive line that includes three players with zero NFL starts: rookies Ty Sambrailo and Max Garcia and Matt Paradis, who was on the practice squad all last season. The right tackle is veteran Ryan Harris and the stalwart of the line is Louis Vasquez, who returns to his natural position at right guard after serving as the team’s right tackle down the stretch last year. Manning has four newcomers and five players in new spots.

LEGION OF WHOM? Earl Thomas is still recovering. Kam Chancellor is holding out. And Richard Sherman is now dealing with a minor hip flexor injury. There won’t be many familiar faces in Seattle’s secondary for the preseason opener. Safety will be an area to watch with Dion Bailey and DeShawn Shead getting time at strong safety, and Steven Terrell starting at free safety.

KICK THINGS OFF The Broncos’ biggest question mark is at kicker, where neither Connor Barth nor Brandon McManus have grabbed hold of the competition. But coach Gary Kubiak doesn’t want to keep three kickers — including punter Britton Colquitt. Barth is accurate on field goals but struggles on kickoffs, while McManus is great on kickoffs but spotty on field goals.

calling since the movie came out.

“He’s just a strong, explosive athlete, a monster. I don’t how his joints hold the weight, I really don’t.”

Strong joints notwithstanding, much of Norton’s weightlifting success has to do with his mental approach. He attacks the weights like many of his cohorts would an all-youcan-eat food bar.

“I get so jacked up for it,” Norton said. “I’m like a crazy guy. I love to put chalk on my hands and go down and punch the floor.”

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Kahne seeks much-needed win at Michigan Driver likely needs a victory in 1 of last 4 races to make Chase

BY NASCAR WIRE SERVICE After wrecking out of the race for the second straight week at Watkins Glen and falling off the 16-driver Chase Grid last Sunday, Kasey Kahne knows what he has to do to make NASCAR’s playoffs — the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. “At this rate we’re going to need to win,” Kahne said.

“That’s the only way we’ll go into the Chase. We’ve got to get a little better. I need to get a little better.”

Kahne has four races left to get that win, starting with Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400 at

Michigan International Speedway.

The No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports driver claims one victoKAHNE ry at Michigan in June of 2006 and believes he can adapt well to the high-drag track-specific rule package that will be used there this weekend.

“There were times at Indianapolis when we were really quick with that package,” Kahne said. “I know they’re working hard to bring a little less drag and more downforce there for us, all four of us (at Hendrick Motorsports). So hopefully we can run good at Michigan and maybe get a win there.”

Kahne finds himself in a similar position to where he was last year prior to the

Chase. Too low in points to qualify without a victory, Kahne won the second-tolast race of the season at Atlanta to punch his ticket into NASCAR’s postseason.

While Michigan is not Kahne’s best track historically, he has proven he can win at a variety of loops, with victories at 11 different venues including short and intermediate tracks and road courses.

“The main thing is that all of the equipment we get at Hendrick Motorsports is good enough to win every weekend,” Kahne said. “We need to get on the ball here and do that, and I don’t see any better weekend to do that than the next one.”

and William C. “Chuck” McIntosh and Joseph K. “Joey” McIntosh, both of Sumter; five great-grandchildren; 12 step-great-grandchildren; and four step-great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a stepdaughter, Linda McIntosh Fagnant.

A funeral service will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday in the chapel of Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home, 515 Miller Road, Sumter, with the Rev. Dr. Clay Smith officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery.

Grandchildren will serve as pallbearers.

Honorary pallbearers will be the Brotherhood Sunday School Class, American Legion Post 15, Disabled American Veterans of Chapter 67 and the U.S. Navy Seabees Veterans Island I. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service from 3 to 4 p.m. on Sunday at ElmoreCannon-Stephens Funeral Home, 515 Miller Road, Sumter, and at other times at the home of his stepson and daughter-in-law, Billy and Bobbie McIntosh, 340 S.C. 261 S., Wedgefield.

Memorials may be made to Alice Drive Baptist Church Building Fund, 1305 Loring Mill Road, Sumter, SC 29150.

Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, is in charge of arrangements, (803) 435-2179. www.stephensfuneralhome.org

Funeral service for Mr. Livingston will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Prayer House Mission Church with Pastor Eartha B. Carter and the Rev. Harvey Sutton will serve as eulogist. Burial will follow in Summerton Funeral Home Cemetery.

The remains will be placed in the church at noon until the hour of the service.

Viewing will be held from noon until 6 p.m. today.

Online condolences may given at www.summertonfuneralhome.com.

The family will receive friends at 1340 Pittman Drive, Summerton.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Summerton Funeral Home LLC, Summerton, (803) 485-3755.

BUESCHER HOPES TO KEEP UP ROAD COURSE SUCCESS Chris Buescher continues to

prove he can turn left and right.

The 22-year-old Texan finished third last weekend at Watkins Glen, highest among NASCAR XFINITY Series regulars, to extend his standings lead to 24 points over both defending champion Chase Elliott and Ty Dillon. Buescher also outpaced road course ace Boris Said, as well as NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stalwarts Paul Menard and Kyle Larson.

Buescher gets to run another road course on Saturday in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course -- a place where he earned his first career victory last season and is the defending race winner.

“Mid-Ohio is a track that we have been looking forward to all year,” Buescher said.

“There is a little extra pressure coming off of last year’s win, but we have really good notes and I know we will have a fast Zest Mustang. We have good momentum leaving the Glen and we just need to keep that rolling into the next few months.”

Buescher’s third-place finish at Watkins Glen was his first top-10 showing in five races. Despite his struggles, Elliott has failed to gain major ground on him.

He is prepared for another charge from Elliott and thirdplace Ty Dillon (-24 points), noting the intensity will gravitate down the stretch run.

“A lot of drama is what it sums up too,” Buescher said.

“It’s gonna be wild. Points racing has a way of bringing out the emotion in everybody.”

(Sunbeam). She was a member of Lemira Presbyterian Church and the Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include three daughters, Donna Berry (Lawrence) of Bishopville and Beth Collins (Randy) and Ginny Miller (Ken), both of Sumter; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a brother, James F. Wilson (Patsy) of Sumter; and a sister, Catherine E. Hughes of Tennessee.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday in the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Dan Rowton officiating. Burial will be in the Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home of Ginny and Ken Miller, 205 Old Manning Road.

Memorials may be made to Lemira Presbyterian Church Youth Program, P.O. Box 1333, Sumter, SC 29154.

The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to the staff of Caris Hospice and NHC Healthcare for all of their care and compassion.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

his personal Savior. He attended the public schools of Sumter County. He devoted most of his life to being a farm worker with the Watts farm for more than 30 years and helping others around the Mayesville community.

“Butter,” as he was affectionately called, touched the lives of many through his beautiful musical voice.

He leaves to cherish his memories: one daughter, Kimberly Lowery (Rodney Sr.) Burgess; one brother, Richard (Shirley) Lowery; two sisters, Rose (Bobby Sr.) Oatman and Cynthia Lowery; five grandchildren; two aunts, Margaret Rubin and Martha Wheeler; four uncles, Liberty, Charlie, James and Leonard Wheeler; three special friends, Georgiann Moses, Roger Idlett and Eddie Rubin; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday at New Life Apostolic Church, 508 N. Main St., Sumter, with Elder Ricky Finklea, pastor, eulogist.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the family home, 12 Yeadon St., Sumter.

The remains will be placed in the church at noon.

The funeral procession will leave at 12:30 p.m. from the home.

Floral bearers and pallbearers will be friends of the family.

Burial will be in Mayesville Cemetery, Mayesville.

Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. com.

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OBITUARIES TIMOTHY R. BUTLER Timothy R. Butler died on June 18, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

He was born on July 6, 1957.

Memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Church of God

By Faith, 1071 BUTLER Loss Brook Road, Davis Station, with the pastor, Elder Thomas Davis, officiating.

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WILLIAM C. WHITAS William Charles Whitas, 88, husband of the late Sallie Johnson McIntosh Whitas, died on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born on Dec. 15, 1926, in Plainsville, PennsylvaWHITAS nia, he was a son of the late William John and Theresa Himm Whitas. He was a member of Alice Drive Baptist Church and the Brotherhood Sunday School Class.

He was a lifetime member and past vice commander of the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 67 of Manning. He was also a lifetime member of American Legion Post 15 of Sumter and a lifetime member of the U.S. Navy Seabees Veterans Island I of Manning.

Mr. Whitas served in the Asiatic Pacific during World War II with the U.S. Navy Seabees. He was on Okinawa when the war ended. He was then assigned to the USS Alcor and sailed to Japan as part of the U.S. Naval Occupational Forces. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, which later became the U.S. Air Force, and was assigned to Tachicawa, Japan, with the Far East Command. His duties sent him throughout the region and he remained there during the entire Korean War. He served in Labrador, North Africa and England. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was TDY from Shaw Air Force Base to MacDill Air Force Base to maintain the aircraft for flying over Cuba. He served a tour in Vietnam at Ton-Son Nhut Air Force Base in Saigon. He retired as a master sergeant with 22 years of service. After retiring, he worked for 15 years as a federal civil service base supply foreman at MacDill Air Force Base.

He is survived by two sons, William J. Whitas (Maria) of Tampa, Florida, and Ronald J. Whitas (Roni) of Panama City, Florida; a daughter, Cheryl Whitas Detroy (Marx) of Panama City; a stepson, William F. “Billy” McIntosh Jr. (Bobbie) of Sumter; a step-son-inlaw, Bob Fagnant of Sumter; two sisters, Dorothy Whitas West and Gracie Whitas Mahosky, both of Tampa, Florida; a grandson, Eric E. Camp of Panama City, Florida; a granddaughter, Amy Whitas Smith of Panama City; four step-grandsons, John M. Macklen Sr. and Steven D. Macklen, both of Lexington,

ROOSEVELT LIVINGSTON Roosevelt “Three Cent” Livingston, 51, died on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning.

Born on July 15, 1964, in Tampa, Florida, he was a son of William Livingston and the late Mary Livingston.

JAMES H. FOWLES JR. James Henry Fowles Jr., 78, of Eastover, died on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, in a Florence hospital, after an illness.

Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date.

IDELLA P. DUPREE AIKEN — Idella Parker Dupree, 70, died on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, at her residence, 1001 Frances St., Aiken.

She was born on March 26, 1945, in Manning, a daughter of the late Preston and Amanda Louis Brunson Parker.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

OZLEEN GALLOWAY Margaret Ozleen Galloway, 86, widow of Gary Galloway, died on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, at NHC Healthcare in Sumter.

Born in Mint Hill, North Carolina, she was a daughter of the late James William Wilson and Eugenia Mae Stewart Wilson. She retired from Palmetto Baking Co.

EDDIE LEE LOWERY JR. Eddie Lee Lowery Jr., 59, departed this earthly life on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, at his home.

Born on June 12, 1956, in Lee County, he was a son of the late Willie Sr. and Mary Lee Wheeler Lowery. Eddie began his glorious life at an early age at Galilee Baptist Church, Mayesville, where he accepted Jesus Christ as

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4K Teacher/Caregiver needed in a Christian childcare & pre-school (ages 6wks-5 yrs).Min AA in Early childhood Dev/ED . E.C.D. 101 BS Exp preferred. Prior Exp with 4K First Steps program highly preferred.

Contact: Director Mary Miles at 803-469-9575 or email : thegloryofgodacademy@yahoo.com Trainees No experience needed. Train as you go. Good starting pay. Great chance to enter a career position. Apply in person between the hours of 9:30-11:00AM daily.

Lenders Loans 304 Broad St. Sumter SC

Full time CMA needed for busy family practice. Monday - Friday, hours vary, benefits available. Must supply references. Experience preferred but not required. Must be willing to learn and able to multi-task.

Send resume to: P-423 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151

Homes for Sale

In Memory

771 Pitts Rd. 3 BR, 2 Bath, 1 car garage, lg lot, fenced in yard, sprinkler system w// well. 968-4424

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RECREATION

In loving Memory of John Henry Hunter"Boochie" Dec 18,1946-Aug 14,2014 Love your Wife, Maggie & Children

Hunting / Fishing Iron Clay peas. Bin run. 50lb bags $25 803-473-6406.

RENTALS

TRANSPORTATION

Rooms for Rent Large rooms for rent . No deposit, No lease. Call 803-565-7924.

Unfurnished Apartments Rent: 3BR 3BA 321 Sunset Dr Manning $800 Mo +$800 Dep. Call 803-473-0939

Palmetto Farm Supply

Autos For Sale

OPEN MONDAY - SATURDAY 8AM - 6PM

Back to School Specials Small cars start at $1900 $$$ Price is Right Auto Sales 3210 Broad St 803-494-4275

Senior Living Apartments for those 62+ (Rent based on income) Shiloh-Randolph Manor 125 W. Bartlette.

775-0575 Studio/1 Bedroom apartments available EHO

3 br, 3 ba Tudor Place. Available July 15th. $875 + deposit, credit report required. Call 494-3353, 934-0926 or 468-0060

2BR 1BA Furnished MH Near Industrial Park. No Pets $400 month + deposit. Background check.

481-2836 before 8 pm.

4025 E. Brewington Rd. 3 Br, 2 Ba, DWMH, $500mo. + $500 dep.

Includes water.

NO section 8. Call 803-934-6191 or 803-938-3174.

2 BR 1 BA Small mobile home, $375 month + $375 deposit. Call 803-795-6494

Houses & Mobile Homes for rent. 2, 3 & 4 bedrooms. Section 8 OK. Call 773-8022.

Business Rentals Hair salon building for rent. 2 work stations. $400 dep. + $400 mo.

Elec. incl. Call 803-795-7920

REAL ESTATE Homes for Sale

852 Bay Blossom Ave. Sat. 8 -12.

Tools, clothes, shoes, TV & misc.

For sale by owner. Very nice 3 br 3 ba in Tudor Place. Call 469-9381 or 406-3914 for appointment.

30 Mesquite Cove (Beach Forest)Sat 7-? Leather sofa & lv seat, baby furniture, misc

2BR 1BA SW on Rental Lot for sale $4800. All appliances incl.

803-464-5757 Financing available

PER BAG

Lost & Found

2003 BMW 330ci ConvertibleSilver with blk leather int., 5 spd auto trans, w/ sport pkg. Good Condition. $8000.00. Call 803-478-6584 2006 Chrysler Seabring $2500 OBO Call 803-236-7085 2014 Nissan Versa. 3,700 mi's. 4dr.

Price $11,900 firm. Call 481-2894 or 406-1020.

Sumter County/City Animal Control 1240 Winkles Rd. 803-436-2066 or 436-2755.

Mon - Fri, 8:30am - 4:30pm Found: E. Charlotte: Pitt mix/ brindle.

David Court: Terrier/gray & black.

Peach Orchard: Mix / White & brown.

Omarest: Pitt mix / brown & white.

774-1234

Let the

shopping begin!

LEGAL NOTICES

Scenic Lake MHP 2 Br, 1 Ba, No pets. Call between 9 am - 5 pm 499-1500.

2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015

599

$

803-775-1204

Mobile Home Rentals

STATEBURG COURTYARD

50 LB. BAG

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HOUSE FOR RENT 4525 Patriot Parkway 2BR/1BA, LR, dining room, C/H/A, gas stove. 303-520-8756

4 BR 2.5 BA. 2 car garage. Close to Shaw & town. Call 972-3110 or 803-565-0056 $1275.

DEER CORN

ne STOP SHOPPING You can find everything you need

LIMIT 20 BAGS PER DAY

Unfurnished Homes

For Rent Derwent Dr., Sumter 3BR 1BA, near Shaw AFB. $720 month.

Call 803-464-1918 or 803-968-0939

Happy "102nd" Birthday Angeline B. Loney May God continue to bless you.

With Love The Bolden & Loney Families

Summons & Notice SUMMONS IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-00538 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER State Farm Company,

Fire

and

Casualty

Plaintiff, v.

Janice Dennis, Harvey Skinner, Davante Wilson, Mikel Dajour Logan, Patricia Vaughn, Brandy Vaughn, Alva Vaughn, Ashley McKnight and Michael Logan, Jr., Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANT HEREIN: MICHAEL LOGAN, JR. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Amended Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the undersigned attorneys at their offices, 935 Broad Street, P. O. Drawer 39, Camden, SC 29020, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF DuBOSE-ROBINSON, PC Jonathan M. Robinson, Esquire J. Kennedy DuBose, Jr., Esquire John K. DuBose, III, Esquire H. Thomas Morgan, Jr. L. Shawn Sullivan P.O. Drawer 39 (935 Broad St.) Camden, SC 29021-0039 (803) 432-1992 - telephone (803) 432-0784 - facsimile

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

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THE GAMECOCK SHRINE CLUB

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