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Police searching for suspect Man wanted after robbery, shooting FROM STAFF REPORTS Sumter police are looking for a suspect after a man was shot during a robbery late Monday night in a local hotel room.

Officers responded to a shooting call at the Sleep Inn, 2510 Broad St., after 11:30 p.m. Monday and found a 38-year-old man in the lobby who had

been shot in his lower extremities, according to information released from Sumter Police Department.

The victim, who was renting a room at the hotel, was joined by acquaintances when one of them pulled a gun and shot him before fleeing with several items, including cash, cellphones and a handgun.

Officers are looking for Dexter “Dex” Kareen Abrams, 35, of 410 Robney Drive. Abrams is wanted for armed robbery and other possible charges.

Abrams is described as 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighs about 185 pounds and has

black hair and brown eyes.

The victim was transported to an area hospital where he was treated for non-lifethreatening injuries.

Anyone with information regarding Abrams’ whereabouts is asked to call the police departABRAMS ment at (803) 436-2700.

Information can also be given anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at (803) 436-2718 or 1-888-CRIME-SC. A cash reward may be available for information leading to an arrest.

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approved and the applicant is allowed to continue with the project.

Council approved first reading with a majority vote — councilwoman Ione Dwyer and councilman Calvin Hastie voted in opposition.

Mayor Joe McElveen said council will review any changes to the request before giving second, and final, reading so it is not guaranteed that the request will fully pass.

Council’s approved motion included that it be able to approve any site plan

t’s still September, and it’s not October in Germany either. But when it comes to Oktoberfest, that doesn’t matter at all. Oktoberfest is a such a big party, it needs a head start, and Germany got one, starting its festivities on Sept. 17.

Sumter’s Oktoberfest will take over much of Main Street this Saturday, when the area is transformed into a small German town for the seventh time.

The folk festival originated more than 200 years ago, when the very popular Crown Prince Ludwig — later King Ludwig I — married Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

On Oct. 17, 1810, five days after the wedding, Bavaria held a big festival to celebrate. Munich has been celebrating with Oktoberfest ever since, even though the time was moved to September because of its milder weather.

Now, Germans — and people around the world who want to be German in September — celebrate with German music, food, beer, dancing and traditional German dress.

At 5 p.m. Saturday, you’ll find all of those in Downtown Sumter, said co-organizer Richard Jardin, manager of Sidebar on Main, which will be serving barbecue and have its full bar open for Oktoberfest.

Hamptons will offer traditional German food, including bratwurst and schnitzel, “and this year we’re having a couple of food trucks, serving pizza and Mexican food.”

It’s not Oktoberfest without beer, and there will be a variety of German brands, including Bitburger Pilsner; Paulaner Oktoberfest, Hefe and Munich styles; and more.

Last year’s German band was a big hit, and it will be back — its full name is Die Lustigen Musikanten, which translates to The Happy Musicians. The traditional German band comprising two flugelhorns, two trumpets, four clarinets, a trombone, a baritone, a tenor horn, two tubas and drums plays German marches, polkas and waltzes, much of it straight from Germany from

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Lexie Kinder is seen with her sister, Ryane Ferrell, right, and her parents, Scott and Cristi Kinder, behind her. the children and especially Lexie,” Scott said. The couple, who already had three children, became Lexie’s foster parents in November 2008, when Lexie was 4, and adopted her in July 2010.

After six years, Lexie’s dream has come true.

On Sunday, Lexie’s art exhibit was packed with visitors long before the official start time. The walls were covered with her work, and sales seemed brisk. More than 200 people attended the opening.

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Visitors view Lexie Kinder’s “My Angels” exhibition on Sunday.

City may permit mini-storage in Sumter West

BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com During its meeting on Tuesday, Sumter City Council approved first reading of a request to amend the permitted uses in Sumter West Planned Development off of Patriot Parkway to allow mini-storage units on a portion of the property.

Four residents from the area spoke in opposition of the request during the public hearing portion of the meeting because they said they feared the storage unit would not fit the aesthetics of

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BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com Not many artists in Sumter have had the kind of solo art exhibition Lexie Kinder had Sunday.

Lexie is a homebound sixth-grader at Alice Elementary School who paints “Promise Angels.”

“Each one is a promise,” Lexie said.

They are much more than just child drawings, however; they are an expression of a special little girl with a heart of gold.

Lexie has long dreamed of having her own art show, not so she could bask in the moment but because she has also dreamed of helping foster kids find adoptive families, or “forever” homes.

A few years ago, Lexie was a foster child at Crosswell Home for Children in Sumter. Diagnosed with an incurable heart and lung condition, her chances of adoption were slim.

Sadly, the chances that any foster child who is older than a certain age, has special needs or is in a sibling group will find adoptive parents are not good.

Maybe that’s when the angels intervened.

Scott and Cristi Kinder were doing community service as part of their Bible study when they visited Crosswell.

“It drew our attention to

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Sumter City-County Planning Department Director George McGregor said department staff have suggested that landscaping be added as a buffer around the storage facility.

From the beginning, the plan for the development site was to plan commercial uses before residential uses, said Jay Davis, president of Coldwell Banker Commercial Cornerstone and representative of the applicant.

He said he will not know the designs for storage unit until the amendment is

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Gas supply should return to normal soon ply disruption,’ causing intermediate outages at the retail level,” Loomis added. “We are not in a ‘product shortAfter a leak and spill in Alabama led age’ of gas. The gas is just not in the to surging fuel prices and some gas right place at the right time, given this shortages across the South, the main supply disruption.” gas line is expected to restart today Loomis thinks by the weekend most and South Carolina officials urge monationally branded gas stations — torists not to panic. such as Shell, BP, Westoil and others A temporary bypass will begin today — will be back to normal fuel supply near Montgomery, Alabama. since these stations operate more on a The roughly 500-foot section of pipe long-term supply contract and are not that will serve as the bypass has been hindered as much during major supply completed, and Colonial Pipeline exdisruptions. pects that will allow it to restart the For the mom-and-pop stations that main gas line there, company spokesare not part of a chain and privy to man Steve Baker told The Associated long-term service contracts for its gas, Press. it will probably be next week before Colonial supplies gas to several terthey get back to normal. minals in South Carolina. Those termiAt gas stations in Sumter on Tuesnals are located in Belton, Spartanday, it was hit and miss. Some stations burg and North Augusta. were out of gas or had purchase limits, “Tomorrow’s restart of the main but others were fine on supply and had gasoline line is a key milestone,” no limits.

Baker said. “However, it will take a few Most station operators had seen an days for the fuel supply chain to fully increase in customers. At Fat Boys, a recover.” mom-and-pop on Guignard Drive, Bonnie Loomis, executive director of manager Peter Phan had noticed an the South Carolina Petroleum Council uptick in customers by Tuesday afterbased in Columbia, is in agreement. noon.

“We do anticipate that it will take a “The flow of customers is a little few days for that product to make it more today.” back up to normal at the terminals in Fat Boys was selling regular unleadthe Upstate and North Augusta,” Looed for $2.29 on Tuesday afternoon. mis said.

On Monday it was $1.95, according to “The pipeline spill has caused a ‘sup- Phan.

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tanks last Wednesday,” he said. “So, we are not low.

“I have been hearing that others are out of regular unleaded and that it’s hard to get gas.”

The Markette at 1018 S. Main St. sells the Westoil brand, and Store Manager Ivan Lopez was happy to get a fuel load in on Tuesday afternoon. Regular unleaded was $2.29 at his station on Tuesday afternoon.

“Last night we were busy,” Lopez said Tuesday. “This morning, we were hearing from a lot of customers that a lot of stations around town were out of gas.

“With the load we just got, we are good for a couple days.”

Lynchburg resident Alvonta Ruben, 27, decided he wanted to play it safe.

On Tuesday afternoon, he decided to fill up at the BP/Youngs on U.S. 15 South on the way to work at Eaton.

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Miller Road was out of the lower grade Loomis is urging the public to exergasolines on Tuesday and only had the cise normal buying patterns for gas for most expensive gas for sale at $2.59.9. A the remainder of the week. note attached to the pump tells customers “The most important thing is if conto limit purchases to $30 because of the sumers use reasonable buying habits, gas shortage. things should be fine,” Loomis said.

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Phan said his station was prepared.

“With the pipeline leak occurring The Associated Press contributed to over a week ago, I filled up our reserve this story.

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Those who don’t know Sumter County Gallery of Art assistant director and curator Cole Miller will have the chance to meet him Thursday night during a reception for his exhibition “Gardner Cole Miller: My Major Retrospective 19872016.”

Miller will be present for the 6-to-8 p.m. reception in Patriot Hall Performing Arts Center/Gallery 135, 135 Haynsworth St. Presented by Patriot Hall and Sumter County Cultural

If you’re planning to help serve more than 1,300 attendees to the Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Military Appreciation Day, you have until Thursday to volunteer.

All volunteers and sponsors will have access to Shaw Air Force Base for the event but must contact Maureen Dunton at the Chamber.

You can email Dunton at Maureen@sumterchamber.com or phone her at (803) 775-1231.

Military Appreciation Day will be Friday, Sept. 30, beginning at noon in Hangar 1200 on Shaw Air Force Base.

According to information from the Chamber, the annual picnic aims to give back to the men and women of Shaw and to let them know the community appreciates them.

Commission, the retrospective exhibition of Miller’s artworks, quilts and found objects, covering as it does almost two decades, offers an insight into his artistic philosophy.

Miller comes to the Sumter gallery from South Florida, where he has had many solo and group shows in the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach areas. His art has received several awards and is in public and private collections, including the permanent collection of the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum in Miami.

The artist describes himself as “an American-Bahamian-American artist who, as a point of departure, draws upon his experiences growing up a gay little white boy between worlds on a U.S. Navy base situated in the postcolonial Bahamas.”

In his artist statement, Miller said his artwork “explores translations of culture and interactions among peoples across time and place by interrogating the enduring aftermaths of historical circumstance, material history and the fluid instability of meaning.”

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Unemployment dips to 5.1 percent in August COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s unemployment rate continues to fall.

The Department of Employment and Workforce said on Tuesday that the August unemployment rate is 5.1 percent, down from 5.2 percent the month before and the fourth straight month the rate has declined.

The 5.1 percent rate is the lowest in at least 15 years.

Not surprisingly, back to school, education and health services saw the most new jobs in South Carolina in August.

His mediums include fibers, ceramics and mixed media.

Thursday’s opening reception features live music by After Dark and light refreshments.

The public is invited to the opening of “Gardner Cole Miller: My Major Retrospective 1987-2016” from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in Gallery 135 at Patriot Hall, 135 Haynsworth St. Admission is free.

For more information, contact Carmela Bryan, executive director of Sumter County Cultural Commission, at (803) 436-2261.

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Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Major Allen Dailey, from left, Robert Fisette, Clara Fisette and Sheriff Anthony Dennis. The Fisettes donated $1,000 to the sheriff’s office on Tuesday to buy protective vests for the deputies.

CHARLESTON (AP) — A closed hearing on suppressing evidence in Dylann Roof’s federal trial in the Charleston church shootings has concluded.

Roof’s defense attorneys want some evidence kept out of his November trial stemming from the fatal shootings of nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in June 2015.

U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel heard arguments earlier this month and a second day of the hearing concluded Tuesday.

Court documents show attorneys have until Monday to file any final motions on the issue.

The 22-year-old Roof faces hate crimes and other federal charges in the death-penalty case.

The judge earlier ruled that an open hearing could jeopardize Roof’s right to a fair trial.

Preliminary jury screening begins next week in the case. The judge has said 3,000 jurors will be summoned.

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APOLLO is an 8 year old gray tabby male American Longhair/Maine Coon mix. He is neutered and housebroken and is great with other cats. Apollo is independent at times but when he wants attention, he wants all of it. He is a very sweet, loving, mellow and laidback cat who goes crazy for cat treats!

ALICE is a 1 year old black and white female American Shorthair. She is spayed and housebroken and great with other cats and children.

Alice loves to chase anything small like bugs, laser lights and cat toys.

She is very adventurous and is the only cat at the SPCA who likes to take a stroll on the cat wheel!

ARCHIE is a 5 year old orange tabby male American Shorthair. He is front declawed, neutered and housebroken. Archie likes to “talk” to get one’s attention but is also fine being alone. He is great with children and dogs as well and loves treats and cat toys!

BELLA is an 8 year old gray tabby female American Longhair. She is spayed and housebroken and friendly and affectionate.

Bella is playful and curious and lives to be scratched, petted and given love. She is great with other cats and would make a great new family addition, as would her sister, Zoey!

BUTCH is a 1 year old orange tabby male American Shorthair. He is spayed and neutered and great with other cats and children. Butch also adores all dogs so much that sometimes he thinks he is one!

He is adventurous, active and playful and loves to be the center of one’s attention. He is a super sweet, fun and loving cat who loves to explore!

CAROLE is a 1 year old gray tabby female American Shorthair.

She is spayed and housebroken and enjoys being around other cats. Carole is also great with children and loves to be picked up and hugged. Carole is laidback at times but also playful and adventurous. She lives to be petted and cuddled and would make an excellent lap cat as well!

DAISY is a 1 year old tortie point female Siamese.

She is spayed and housebroken and is great with other cats. Daisy is a friendly and affectionate girl who also enjoys being independent. She likes attention but can also be fine alone. Daisy would make a great new friend for any family!

FERNANDO is a 1 year old gray tabby male American Shorthair. He is neutered and housebroken and is great with other cats, children and even dogs! Fernando is a very smart cat who listens to instructions and is very obedient. He is the only cat who actually goes into his bed when told.

Fernando can be both active and lazy and loves to lounge around on top of the SPCA’s cat tower and watch the goings-on below. He is a very sweet guy who will cuddle savor lots of love!

LIAM is a 3 year old gray male American Shorthair. He is neutered and housebroken and is very sweet, affectionate, gentle and loving. Liam enjoys being with other cats and would be super in a home with children.

He is playful and active and loves to play with and chase cat toys! He loves to approach people to be petted and beg for lots of love and affection!

SHAMEOUS is a 4 year old creme male Domestic Mediumhair. He is neutered and housebroken and he is super with other cats.

Shameous has a very sweet and affectionate personality and always seeks out love and attention. He adores people and would make any family a super new buddy!

TIMMY is a 1 year old gray tabby male American Shorthair.

He is neutered and housebroken and is great with other cats and children. Timmy only has three legs, but that does not slow him down or stop in the least. He is as active, playful, affectionate and friendly as any of the cats we have. Timmy adores being given lots of love and affection and also giving it back!

MR. PUSHKINS is a 3 year old black male American Shorthair. He is neutered and housebroken and would be great in a home with other cats and children. Mr. Pushkins is a laidback and lazy boy sometimes, but also curious and active. He is friendly and affectionate and adores lots of attention!

OLIVER is an 8 year old black and white male Maine Coon/Ragdoll mix. He is neutered and housebroken and is very friendly, loving and affectionate. Oliver is very laidback and lazy and enjoys just lounging around.

He is not too fond of dogs but would be great in a home with children!

RASCAL is a 5 year old black and white male Domestic Mediumhair. He is front-declawed, neutered and housebroken and great with other cats. Rascal is a big boy who lives for attention and enjoys a bit of loving, hugs, scratches and belly rubs. He is active and attentive and would make a great new family buddy!

SHILO is a 1 year old orange tabby and white male American Shorthair.

He is neutered and housebroken and loves to be with other cats and dogs. Shilo is an active, shy and curious cat who also has his lazy side! He loves to cuddle up in a closed space like a box and sleep the afternoon away but sometimes likes to be given attention. He would be super for a family with children, other cats and dogs!

STELLA BELLA is a 6 year old gray tabby female American Shorthair. She is front-declawed, spayed and housebroken. Stella is affectionate and friendly, but has an independent lazy side as well. She is content to sleep the afternoon away and then arise for a bit of love and affection.

Stella Bella is also great with other cats and children and even a home with dogs!

TABITHA is a 2 year old black female American Shorthair. She is spayed and housebroken and has been at the SPCA the longest of all of our pets. She is a very laidback and sweet girl who also enjoys some play time.

Tabitha loves to explore and to be with other cats. She is great with children as well. She would make a super lap cat and all around buddy for any family!

TRIXTER is a 4 year old crème and white male American Shorthair. He is neutered and housebroken and is great with other cats and children. Trixter enjoys watching people out the window and often wants his back scratched and your full attention. He is a very sweet, loving and affectionate fellow who would make a perfect addition to any family!

TRUDY is a 2 year old calico and white female American Shorthair. She is spayed and housebroken and is great with other cats and children. Trudy is adventurous and loves to chase bugs, cat toys and laser lights.

She also enjoys sitting in front of the SPCA window and watching the cars and people going by.

She would make a really great family friend and playmate!

ZOEY is a 7 year old gray tabby female American Longhair. She is spayed and housebroken and friendly and affectionate. Zoey is playful but also has her lazy side as she likes to lounge around and watch her surroundings.

She is great with other cats and would make a great new family addition, as would her sister, Bella!

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Haley asks agencies to explain surpluses COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has told all state agencies to begin giving an explanation if they have money left in their budgets at the end of the year.

Haley issued an executive order with the requirement on Monday.

The Legislature when passing this year's budget asked agencies to provide a report of all fines and fees they collect as part of their

budget and how that money is spent. The money is called the "other funds" budget.

Haley says her order builds on that requirement and on her request last month that agencies report on programs that would reduce or eliminate if their budgets were cut by 3 percent.

The governor says she wants to help agencies with long-term planning the next time the economy slows.

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German costumes add to the fun of German dancing during Oktoberfest on Sumter’s Main Street. This year’s celebration of all things German will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday in the block between West Liberty Street and Hampton Avenue. Proceeds benefit Sumter United Ministries.

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sheet music found there by a former member who lived in Germany for a while.

The band and its dancers will be dressed in German costume, lederhosen and dirndls, and the dancers will demonstrate authentic German dances, even teaching some to the crowd.

Danielle and Greg Thompson, who will likely be in costume themselves, encourage the crowd to dress German style as well.

Jardin said the Oktoberfest celebration will continue “until 10 or 11, then there will be music in the alleyway next to Hamptons restaurant. Band on Fire will play, and Hamptons will be open.”

He emphasized that while Oktoberfest is a lot of fun, the event raises a lot of money for charity, donating a large part of the proceeds.

“Last year, we were able to donate around $30,000 to (Sumter) United Ministries,” he said, adding that $25,000 was donated in 2014.

The ministries’ Executive Director Mark Champagne said, “The $30,000 is probably the largest donation we receive. Our average per person for crisis relief averages around $165, so you can see it’s a great help.”

Main Street between West Liberty Street and Hampton Avenue will be closed for Oktoberfest.

Hamptons and Sidebar on Main present Oktoberfest beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday in Downtown Sumter. Admission is $10 in advance, $15 at the gate. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Advance tickets may be purchased at the

Cyclists can start celebrating Oktoberfest at 8 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot behind Hamptons restaurant and ride the scenic countryside, choosing either the Metric Century or the 21.9-mile route. Ride staff will be positioned along the route for assistance, and there will be refreshments at the finish line, also at Hamptons. Registration is $40 if completed today, and $50 afterward. Online registration at http://oktoberfestsumter.com/bicycle-ride/ ends today at 5 p.m., but cyclists can register in person at 7 a.m. Saturday.

Fee includes the ride, a ticket to the Oktoberfest celebration and door prizes. Proceeds go to Sumter United Ministries.

Swan Lake Visitors Center, Hamptons or online at http://oktoberfestsumter. com/tickets. Call (803) 4362640 for more information or to purchase tickets.

A large Promise Angel painting being sold by silent auction had already attracted a $200 bid.

“She told me all of her angels are different,” Cristi Kinder said. “Because that’s what heaven will be like.”

Judy Ferrell and her daughter Rebecca were among the guests at the art show and like many in attendance already knew the courageous young girl.

“We’ve loved Lexie’s stuff for a long time,” Judy Ferrell said. “She has such a big heart; we’ve been hoping she would do this for a long time.”

Hugs and smiles were just about everywhere in the room, as it had become standing room only not long after the official start time.

It takes a special kind of commitment to adopt a child with special needs such as Lexie’s.

Asked why he and his wife were moved to adopt Lexie, Scott Kinder spoke of his faith.

“We are all adopted by Christ,” he said. “We are all adopted into his family.”

For more information on adoption, visit www.scheartgallery.org, or call Adoption

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Lexie Kinder shows one of her “Promise Angels” on Sunday.

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Also, council accepted a bid of approximately $114,000 from Watts & Associates of Sumter to complete the Edgewater Drive Sewer Replacement Project.

Public works does all it can on a daily basis to keep the sewer operating, said Assistant City Manager of Public Services Al Harris.

Edgewater Drive is on a repaving schedule so the plans is to have the sewer replaced beforehand, he said.

In other news, city council approved first reading of a request to amend the city zoning and development standards

ie’s “Promise Angels,” email cristikinder@gmail.com.

You can also find her art on her Facebook page called Promise Angels.

ordinance to permit a change in fall zone setbacks for cellphone towers in non-residential areas. McGregor said the towers will be reviewed by structural engineers to ensure that the structures collapse on themselves rather than fall horizontally, reducing the fall zone setback. Reducing the set back will allow cell towers to be constructed in urban areas, he said.

The applicant, Jonathan Yates with Hellman, Yates & Tisdale, said those kinds of towers are built to withstand strong winds.

He referenced cell towers that were still standing in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Yates said constructing cell towers in more urban areas will improve coverage and capacity for cellphone network providers.

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Court papers: Suspect vowed ‘bombs will be heard’ in streets NEW YORK (AP) — Championing jihad, bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami vowed to martyr himself rather than be caught after setting off explosives in New York and New Jersey, and he’d hoped in a handwritten journal that “the sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets,” authorities said Tuesday as they filed federal charges against him.

A criminal complaint in Manhattan federal court provided new chilling descriptions of the motivations that authorities said drove the Afghanborn U.S. citizen to set off explosives in New York and New Jersey, including a bomb that injured more than two dozen people when it blew up on a busy Manhattan street.

Meanwhile, more details emerged Tuesday about the Afghan-born U.S. citizen’s past, including the disclosure that the FBI had looked into him in 2014 but came up with nothing.

According to the court complaint, Rahami’s journal included a passage that said: “You (USA Government) continue your (unintelligible) slaught(er)” against the mujahideen, or holy warriors, “be it Afghanistan, Iraq, Sham (Syria), Palestine ... .”

Another portion expressed concern at the prospect of being caught before being able to carry out a suicide attack and the desire to be a martyr, the complaint said.

It added that another part included a reference, on a page that is largely unintelligible, to “pipe bombs” and a “pressure cooker bomb,” and

declared: “In the streets they plan to run a mile.”

There were also laudatory references to Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki — the American-born Muslim cleric who was killed in a 2011 drone strike and whose preaching has inspired other acts of violence — and Nidal Hasan, the former Army officer who went on a deadly shooting rampage in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, the complaint said.

Before the federal charges were filed, Rahami, 28, was already being held on $5.2 million bail, charged with the attempted murder of police officers during the shootout that led to his capture Monday outside a bar in Linden, New Jersey.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Rahami had a lawyer who could comment on the charges. He remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds to the leg, forearm and shoulder.

The court complaint also describes Rahami buying bombmaking equipment so openly that he ordered citric acid, ball bearings and electronic igniters on eBay and had them delivered to a New Jersey business where he worked until earlier this month.

Video recorded two days before the bombings and recovered from a family member’s phone shows him igniting “incendiary material in a cylindrical container,” the complaint says. The video, reviewed by the FBI, “depicts the lighting of the fuse, a loud noise and flames, followed by billowing smoke and laughter.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted a warning for pregnant women to stay out of the Wynwood neighborhood altogether, saying it was no longer a zone of active transmission. They credited aerial spraying of pesticides targeting the mosquitoes that transmit the virus.

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No new cases of Zika have been reported in Wynwood since early August.

Health officials said that during the past several weeks, mosquito control workers there have seen fewer of the insects, the main culprits in spreading the virus.

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Local officials and business leaders joined Scott at a Wynwood art gallery to try and reassure residents and tourists fearful of Zika.

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ast year’s college news was about demands for safe spaces, trigger warnings and bans on insensitivity. This year’s college news is about black student demands for segregated campus housing and other racially segregated campus spaces and programs. I totally disagree with these calls by black students. It’s a gross dereliction of duty for college administrators to cave to these demands, but I truly sympathize with the problems that many black college students face. For college administrators and leftist faculty, the actual fate of black students is not nearly so important as the good feelings they receive from a black presence on campus. Let’s examine some of the problem.

A very large percentage of Walter all incoming freshmen have Williams no business being admitted to college. According to College Board’s 2015 report, the average combined SAT score for white students was 1576 out of a possible 2400. Black student SAT scores, at 1277, were the lowest of the seven reported racial groups (http://tinyurl.com/ozpkpdk). The College Board considers an SAT score of 1550 as the benchmark that indicates a readiness for college-level work. Only 32 percent of white students scored at or above proficient in math, and just 7 percent of black students did. Fortysix percent of white test takers scored proficient in reading, and 17 percent of blacks did.

The ACT, another test used for admission to college, produced similar results. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reports, in an article titled “A Major Crisis in College Readiness for Black Students,” that 34 percent of whites who took the ACT were deemed college ready in all four areas — English, mathematics, reading and science. For blacks, it was only 6 percent (http://tinyurl.com/h6x5g8n).

These are significant differences in academic preparation between white and black students. I am sure that the differences give black students feelings of inferiority and being out of place.

Black college students across the country have demanded segregated housing and other “safe spaces” on campuses designated for students of color. Students calling for segregated spaces do so because they allege their campuses are oppressive, are discriminatory and represent institutionalized racism. For decades, colleges have purchased peace by creating whole departments of ethnic, diversity and multicultural studies. All too often, these “studies” are about propaganda and not serious education. Plus, they provide students with an opportunity to get an easy A. The most pervasive form of racial discrimination at most colleges is affirmative action. In the name of helping people from groups that have suffered past discrimination, colleges admit black students whose academic preparation differs significantly with that of their white peers. Those differences are not subtle. It should not come as a surprise that the intended beneficiaries of that “benign” discrimination feel themselves ridiculed, isolated and treated differently. As a result, students who might be successes in a less-competitive environment are turned into failures. One faculty member at a historically black college put it this way: “The way we see it, the majority schools are wasting large numbers of good students. They have black students with admissions statistics (that are) very high, tops. But these students wind up majoring in sociology or recreation or get wiped out altogether.”

The problem of black education begins long before college. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as The Nation’s Report Card, shows that nationally in 2015, only 7 percent of black 12th-graders scored proficient in math, and only 17 percent did so in reading. This suggests that the average black 12th-grader has the academic proficiency of a white eighth- or ninth-grader. Consider the following question: If one admits 1,000 randomly selected eighth- and ninth-graders to college and admits 1,000 randomly selected 12th-graders, who do you think is going to come out on top? Who would be surprised if the eighth- and ninth-graders felt inferiority, oppression and insensitivity?

The academic elite feel righteous seeing blacks on campus, even if they are severely mismatched. Black people must ask: Are we going to sacrifice our youngsters so that white liberals can feel good about themselves?

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com. © 2016 CREATORS.COM

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BY RICH LOWRY Someone dares call it treason.

Hillary Clinton used the occasion of the New York–area bombings to accuse Donald Trump of providing “aid and comfort” to ISIS. This speaks both to her desperation as polls show a tightening race and her foolish misunderstanding of what drives ISIS and other Islamic radicals.

Clinton makes it sound like ISIS fighters are disaffected members of a swing-state focus group who, as soon they hear an offensive statement from Donald Trump, prepare the next attack.

If Hillary really believes Trump is a “recruiting sergeant” for terrorists, she has a thin understanding of human motivation. It takes something very powerful to convince a young man to risk life and limb fighting for a terror group that is hunted and bombed wherever it gains a foothold. That something isn’t the ephemera of an American presidential campaign; it is religion.

ISIS is an apocalyptic cult. As Graeme Wood wrote in a widely noted essay in The Atlantic last year, “Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, ‘the Prophetic methodology,’ which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail.”

It is tempting, Wood writes, to consider jihadists “modern secular people, with modern political concerns, wearing medieval religious disguise,” when in reality ISIS is inexplicable outside of its “sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh-century legal environment, and ultimately to bringing about the apocalypse.”

‘... The best recruiting tool that ISIS has, besides its twisted religious vision, is its success on the ground.

That’s why voters should want to hear a serious plan to defeat ISIS from both Trump (whose plan is secret) and Hillary (whose plan is a nebulous version of the status quo).’

In other words, Donald Trump — or any other American politician — is besides the point.

Radical Islamists have maintained a murderous enmity to the United States across presidencies. What did Hillary’s husband do to incite Islam? Yet al Qaeda nearly sank a U.S. destroyer on his watch and hatched the Sept. 11 plot. George W. Bush insisted that Islam is a religion of peace, and Obama steadfastly refuses to use the word “Islam” in connection with the word “terrorism.” Yet there is no evidence that al Qaeda or ISIS relented in response to their carefully selected diplomatic words.

The Left has a habit of calling things it doesn’t like “recruiting tools” for terrorists. We were told that the Iraq War was a recruiting tool, even though shortly after President Obama “ended” the war, ISIS established a caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria.

We were told that Guantanamo Bay was a recruiting tool, even though the ISIS threat has grown as President Obama has moved to shut the facility down.

A few recruiting videos have indeed featured Trump. It’s hard to believe, though, that young Muslim men around the world are becoming terrorists because they take exception, for example, to Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslim travel to the United States. One video from a proISIS group earlier this year appeared to use a clip from Trump — saying Brussels is “an absolute horror show” — purely to attract media attention.

None of this is to say that Trump’s inflammatory statements are correct or wise. But the best recruiting tool that ISIS has, besides its twisted religious vision, is its success on the ground. That’s why voters should want to hear a serious plan to defeat ISIS from both Trump (whose plan is secret) and Hillary (whose plan is a nebulous version of the status quo).

We shouldn’t fool ourselves that the right choice of words or immigration policies will mitigate the threat from ISIS or similar groups. The source of their hatred is much deeper than that.

As an ISIS magazine put it, “The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam.”

Short of that, there is no choice but to fight on — and reject delusion.

Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com. © 2016 King Features Syndicate

LETTER TO THE EDITOR VOTE FOR BYRD IF YOU WANT MORE CORRUPTION IN SUMTER Jimmy Byrd is not fit to serve on Sumter County Council.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent by county, with no accounting, and went into one or more council members’ pockets. Jimmy Byrd asked to meet with our Committee for Responsible Government to explain the spending when questions were raised.

He did not know that we knew the details of how it went down and that every explanation he

gave was a lie.

When this became evident to him, he accused our distinguished county attorney, Jonathan Bryan, of giving him false information to put out.

Jimmy Byrd has opposed financial support for our schools while turning a blind eye to the corrupt spending in Sumter County.

The last time he was up for election, he put out an email asking his crony buddies to help him with getting 2,000 absentee votes.

Is this not intended voter fraud?

Prior to the primary vote, CRG placed more than 100 signs out against Byrd. These signs, most of which were attached to trees 16 feet above ground, were quickly stolen by Byrd or his cronies. Are these the type of actions you would expect from a representative of county government?

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ROBERT BILHEIMER President Committee for Responsible Government

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AROUND TOWN The Shepherd’s Center, 24 care recruitment from 4 to 7 Council St., will offer public inp.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at Edmunds High Class of 1966 to formation sessions from 11 to Weldon Auditorium, 7 Maple reunion 11:50 hold a.m. on Thursdays as St., Manning. For more inforfollows: Sept. 29, Bobbi mation, visit www.scfamiAdams, master gardener, lies.org. To apply to be a foswill give gardening tips, inter parent, call Heartfelt Carcluding butterfly gardening; ing at (888) 828-3555. and Oct. 6 and Oct. 13, The Disabled American VeterHeather Freiberg will teach a ans will meet at 7 p.m. on mandalas art class.

Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 18 Edmunds High School Class of 1966 will hold its 50th reunion on Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Sumter County Museum. Cost is $30 for singles, $60 for couples. Kent Mims and Coty Cuttino are organizing a golf outing for the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 23.

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The Heart of Sumter Neighborhood Association’s (HSNA) 10th Annual Art in the Park will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, in Historic Memorial Park with more than 50 artists who work in a variety of media.

There will be glass, pottery, fabric, mosaics and more from a wide range of local artists. There will also be food and drink vendors as well as live entertainment throughout the day. This event is free and open to the public. This year will include community corner for local non-profit organizations to present who they are. The event will also feature a children’s craft center, puppet shows, story time, crafty critters and more. Go to www.hsnasumtersc.com for more information.

Fall Family Farm Day at Old McCaskill’s Farm will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8. Old McCaskill Farm is located at 377 Cantey Lane, Rembert.

Take the whole family and enjoy live music, farm fresh concessions and good old farm fun. There will be hay rides, games, a pumpkin patch, horse rides and more.

Admission is $5 per person; children 2 and under free.

Visit www.oldmccaskillfarm. com.

The Sumter Branch NAACP will meet at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25, at Union Station AME Church, 945 S. Main St. VFW Post 10813 will have a “Wine, Cheese, Music & more” event from 5 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25, at 610 Manning Ave. Call (803) 7736700.

The South Carolina Department of Social Services will hold an informational drop-in for foster

The Disabled American Veterans will hold a pancake dinner from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 18 Hardpack Road. Cost is $6 at the door.

The Petty Bell retirees will meet at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 3, at Golden Coral.

The Sumter Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, 125 W. Bartlette St., Sumter, SC 29150. Minister Malinda Ham, member of the Clarendon County Chapter of the NFB, will speak. October is observed as “Blind Awareness” month, which will be displayed at the booth during the week of the Sumter County Fair. Transportation provided within the coverage area. If you know a blind person, contact President Debra Canty at (803) 7755792 or debra.canty@frontier.com. Donations are welcome and can be mailed to: NFB Sumter Chapter, P.O. Box 641, Sumter, SC 29151.

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Greenville 83/68

Columbia 81/71

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

Sumter 79/69

IN THE MOUNTAINS Aiken 78/68

ON THE COAST

Charleston 80/71

Today: A thunderstorm, but a little rain in northern parts. High 78 to 82.

Thursday: Partly sunny and humid with a thunderstorm. High 79 to 83.

SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

84° 72° 83° 61° 98° in 1954 46° in 1981

LAKE LEVELS

SUN AND MOON

Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

7 a.m. yest.

355.44 73.42 75.02 98.21

24-hr chg -0.05 -0.05 -0.03 -0.05

RIVER STAGES

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

0.00" 6.54" 2.62" 38.66" 28.40" 36.14"

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

NATIONAL CITIES

REGIONAL CITIES

Today City Hi/Lo/W Atlanta 89/71/s Chicago 86/67/pc Dallas 96/72/s Detroit 81/65/pc Houston 95/72/s Los Angeles 84/66/pc New Orleans 94/76/s New York 84/65/s Orlando 90/74/t Philadelphia 85/64/pc Phoenix 94/76/pc San Francisco 66/55/pc Wash., DC 86/69/pc

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

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 85/69/s 86/66/pc 96/73/s 84/66/pc 91/75/s 77/56/pc 93/77/pc 84/65/s 91/74/pc 87/64/s 92/69/s 68/54/pc 86/68/pc

Myrtle Beach 82/70

Manning 78/70

Today: A brief shower or two. Winds northnortheast 6-12 mph.

Thursday: Humid with a thunderstorm.

Winds northeast 7-14 mph.

LOCAL ALMANAC

Florence 80/70

Bishopville 78/69

Today Hi/Lo/W 79/63/pc 88/68/s 84/69/t 82/70/t 83/73/r 80/71/t 82/67/sh 88/71/c 81/71/t 79/70/r 79/72/r 81/70/r 81/70/r

Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr stage yest. chg 12 8.24 -0.37 19 2.45 -0.33 14 3.25 -0.08 14 1.65 -0.03 80 75.68 none 24 6.05 +1.20

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 77/62/t 82/66/t 83/67/pc 83/70/t 84/73/t 82/70/pc 81/67/t 83/69/t 82/70/t 82/70/t 81/71/t 82/69/t 83/69/t

City Florence Gainesville Gastonia Goldsboro Goose Creek Greensboro Greenville Hickory Hilton Head Jacksonville, FL La Grange Macon Marietta

Today Hi/Lo/W 80/70/r 90/71/t 81/68/sh 82/70/r 79/70/t 79/67/sh 83/68/sh 81/66/sh 79/72/t 88/70/t 91/69/s 91/68/t 88/69/s

Sunrise 7:09 a.m.

Moonrise 11:17 p.m.

Sunset 7:20 p.m.

Moonset 12:24 p.m.

Last

New

First

Full

Sep. 23

Sep. 30

Oct. 9

Oct. 16

TIDES AT MYRTLE BEACH

Today Thu.

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 82/70/t 90/70/pc 81/68/t 83/70/t 80/69/t 81/67/t 80/67/t 80/66/t 81/71/pc 86/70/t 88/67/pc 86/67/pc 85/67/s

High 1:02 a.m.

1:31 p.m.

2:00 a.m.

2:32 p.m.

Ht. 3.4 3.7 3.2 3.6

Low Ht. 7:50 a.m. -0.2 8:33 p.m. 0.3 8:46 a.m. 0.0 9:35 p.m. 0.5

Today City Hi/Lo/W Marion 82/64/c Mt. Pleasant 79/72/t Myrtle Beach 82/70/t Orangeburg 79/70/t Port Royal 81/71/pc Raleigh 77/68/r Rock Hill 80/69/sh Rockingham 79/68/r Savannah 84/70/pc Spartanburg 81/68/sh Summerville 79/70/t Wilmington 82/70/r Winston-Salem 79/67/sh

Thu. Hi/Lo/W 80/63/t 81/71/pc 82/70/t 80/69/pc 82/71/pc 80/68/t 80/68/t 81/68/t 83/70/t 80/67/t 80/69/t 82/69/t 79/67/t

SUMTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT BOARD Thursday, Sept. 29, 7:30 a.m., Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce boardroom, 32 E. Calhoun St.

“Where Quality Matters”

803-774-2100

FURNITURE & BEDDING

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Take on a EUGENIA LAST physical challenge that will help build your confidence and encourage you to look and feel great. A commitment can be made that will improve your financial situation. If you love someone, be sure to let him or her know.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Traveling for business or knowledge will pay off. Your ability to share your ideas and convince others to support your actions will encourage positive changes that will benefit you and those who have assisted you on your journey.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotions will surface, and arguments will take over if you aren’t careful about how you address sensitive issues. Don’t limit what you can do by saying something you’ll regret. Be diplomatic and offer fair solutions.

Choose affection over discord.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Express your thoughts and feelings, and share your ideas and plans for the future. Partnerships will make a difference, so take care of any situations that could develop into a problem. Avoid taking any impulsive actions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The information you pick up will help you get ahead. An unexpected turn of events will be to your benefit. An opportunity will come through someone you have worked with in the past. Romance will improve your day.

you. Problems with elders will require time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Search for a place or destination that will spark your imagination and encourage you to bring new ideas and vitality to the way you look, the things you do and your personal connection with someone you love.

SUMTER ANIMAL CONTROL PET OF THE WEEK

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A proposition will turn out to be a disappointment. Don’t believe everything you hear or let your emotions lead to loss. Do things that will help you, not someone who is trying to take advantage of you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotions will intensify if you have been evading issues. If you want to make changes, speak up and get approval from anyone your choices will affect. Once the coast is clear, you will feel better and be able to advance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Hang on to your cash and try not to let anyone guilt you into something that you don’t want to do. Uncertainty will set in if you start to question your beliefs or are tempted to change your standards.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Home improvements will pay off, but before you start making changes, set a budget and stick to it.

Someone will get angry if you put too much onus on helping others instead of helping out at home. A romantic gesture will help.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your intuition will guide you in matters pertaining to home and family.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep You’ll be able to judge situations your emotions hidden to avoid an altercation. If you don’t agree with fairly and offer help that is appreciated. Use your wisdom, someone, opt to do your own knowledge and expertise, and you thing. It’s important not to follow the crowd if you feel it isn’t right for will make a difference.

Jason is less than 2 years old and weighs 42 pounds. He is a small-sized boy who has the softest coat of black, brindle and white. Jason Jason is a lover and justawants be by your side. He is content to sit next to you deserves lovingtohome and look at you adoringly. Of course, if there are little people in your house and they want to play, Jason will gladly accommodate them. In kennel 30 at Sumter Animal Control, this boy needs a home where he can be loved and cherished. In return, you will be his hero. Visit Jason at 1240 Winkles Road, (803) 4362066. Be sure to check with Sumter Animal Control on Facebook if your dog is missing.

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Taking advantage

USC FOOTBALL

Knights’ Green back at QB, wins Offensive POTW award; Barons’ Meyers, LMA’s Flores, CEM’s Pack are also chosen The Associated Press

South Carolina quarterback Brandon McIlwain rushed for a pair of TDs in his first career start.

McIlwain emerges as QB at USC

By PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press

KEITH GEDAMKE/THE SUMTER ITEM

Crestwood quarterback Tylas Green (3) was selected as The Sumter Item Offensive Player of the Week. Green completed 14 of 19 passes for 345 yards and five touchdowns in the Knights’ 50-12 win over Marion.

By DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem Tylas Green was the starting quarterback for the Crestwood High School varsity football team at the beginning of the season. He lost the job for a couple of weeks before getting another opportunity in last Friday’s game against Marion.

Upon getting the chance to line up behind center again, Green more than took advantage of it. The senior lefthander completed 14 of 19 passes for 345 yards and five touchdowns and rushed for

PLAyers of the week

TYLAS GREEN

JAKE MEYERS

PHILLIP FLORES

DAVIONTA MAJOR

OFFENSIVE PLAYER

DEFENSIVE PLAYER

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

SPECIAL TEAMS

another score in the Knights’ 50-12 win.

Because of his performance, Green was selected

as The Sumter Item Offensive Player of the Week. He is joined by Wilson Hall outside linebacker Jake Meyers

as the Defensive Player of the Week, Laurence Manning Academy right tackle Phillip Flores as the Offensive Lineman of the Week and C.E. Murray’s Davionta Major as the Special Teams Player of the Week.

The quartet will be honored on Friday at the Sumter Touchdown Club’s weekly breakfast meeting at Swan Lake Visitors Center, located inside the gates of Swan Lake-Iris Gardens on Liberty Street beginning at 7:15 a.m.

See GREEN, Page B4

pro football

Houston’s Clowney ready to shine in prime time

By KRISTIE RIEKEN The Associated Press HOUSTON — Jadeveon Clowney is ready to shine in prime time.

The No. 1 pick in the 2014 draft failed to make an impact in his first two injuryplagued seasons . But now he’s healthy, playing well and ready for a national audience Thursday when the Houston Texans visit a New England Patriots team that will likely start rookie quarterback Jacoby Brissett.

It will be just the second time Clowney has played in a nationally televised game after he sat out three of Houston’s four night games in his first two years because of various injuries.

When asked if he’s ready to show what he can do, a big smile crept across his face and he let out a small laugh before gathering himself to provide an answer.

“I’m very excited,” he said.

“I’m looking forward to it.

It’s going to be big for the team.”

A win would give the Tex-

and teammates use most often to describe him is “disruptive.”

In his first two seasons, Clowney lined up as an outside linebacker in defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel’s 3-4 scheme. Since Clowney was healthy throughout training camp, it has given the Texans more freedom to use the 6-foot-5, 266-pound player in different ways, and he’s mostly played defensive end in the first two games.

Regardless of where they put him, the Texans have been impressed with Clowney’s hustle this year.

“I think he’s playing really hard,” coach Bill O’Brien The Associated Press said. “There are a few clips Houston linebacker Jadeveon Clowney is healthy, playing well and on there where he is rushing ready to show off in front of a national audience when the Texans the passer, the pass gets off visit New England on Thursday. and he’s chasing the ball carrier down. I think the guy is ans a 3-0 start for the first the strength of this team . playing with tremendous eftime since they opened the Clowney has been a key to fort and I’ll say that about all 2012 season 5-0. Houston has the unit’s early success with the guys on defense.” been helped by an improved seven tackles, including Clowney, who earned a offense led by new quarterthree for losses, a sack, five reputation as a fierce pass back Brock Osweiler and quarterback hits and a batrusher in a standout career rookie receiver Will Fuller, ted down pass. He’s doing a at South Carolina, did not but through the first two little bit of everything these See CLOWNEY, Page B3 games the defense has been days and the word coaches

COLUMBIA — Freshman Brandon McIlwain made a fast impression on his South Carolina teammates last January.

McIlwain’s impact has continued, so far, on the football field his first season.

The young quarterback led the Gamecocks (2-1, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) to a 20-15 victory over pesky East Carolina last week in his first start and will look to equal South Carolina’s victory total from last year when he opens at Kentucky (1-2, 0-1) on Saturday.

McIlwain was one of new coach Will Muschamp’s top recruits last season, turning down offers from Miami, Ohio State and Tennessee among others. He graduated high school a semester early and enrolled at South Carolina in January.

“He came in worked hard,” center Alan Knott said. “He busted his butt in the weight room. He busted his butt in the film room and that showed a big thing for us.”

McIlwain split first-team reps with returning starter Perry Orth throughout spring

See USC, Page B3

clemson FOOTBALL

Georgia Tech eager to show it’s back with Tigers in town

By PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press ATLANTA — For Georgia Tech, it’s a chance to put to rest all reminders of that dismal 2015 season.

Clemson is coming to town.

The Yellow Jackets may be unbeaten, but the level of competition — Boston College, Mercer JOHNSON and Vanderbilt — isn’t enough to lift the cloud that still lingers over this program after last year’s 3-9 debacle.

An upset over the No. 5 Tigers would certainly change that perception.

“I think we’re a little better than we were a year ago,” coach Paul Johnson said. “But this is the most talented team we’ve played — by a lot.”

Georgia Tech (3-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) is hoping the prime-time setting Thursday will rekindle the sort of atmosphere that helped produce the only highlight a season ago.

On a raucous night at Bobby Dodd Stadium, the Yellow

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The SUMTER ITEM

SCOREBOARD

SPORTS ITEMS

TV, Radio

NATIONAL LEAGUE

TODAY

The Associated Press

Los Angeles forward Nneka Ogwumike (30) earned the inaugural Associated Press WNBA Player of the Year on Tuesday.

Sparks’ Ogwumike earns AP WNBA Player of Year honor NEW YORK — Nneka Ogwumike put up career numbers this season for Los Angeles and was arguably the most consistent impact player in the league.

Her efforts earned her Associated Press WNBA Player of the Year honors on Tuesday. The award was chosen by the 14-member media panel that votes for the weekly power poll.

She averaged 19.7 points, 9.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists and shot 66.5 percent from the field, helping lead the Sparks to the second best record in the WNBA and a bye until the semifinals of the playoffs.

Los Angeles coach Brian Agler was named the coach of the year. Atanta’s Elizabeth Williams was voted the most improved player.

Connecticut’s Chiney Ogwumike earned comeback player of the year honors.

Minnesota’s Sylvia Fowles was defensive player of the year and Seattle’s Breanna Stewart won rookie of the year.

Stewart as the only rookie on the AP WNBA first team.

She was joined by Ogwumike, Tina Charles, Maya Moore and Elena Delle Donne.

Marlins 1

strong outing by Jose Fernandez, who pitched eight innings and struck out 12 for the Miami Marlins in a 1-0 victory over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night.

Fernandez (16-8) allowed three hits to outduel Washington’s Tanner Roark (15-9) who pitched seven innings and allowed one run.

Nationals 0

The Sumter High School Baseball Fall Camp will be held on Saturday at Game-

MIAMI — Giancarlo Stanton homered to back a

Yankees 5 Rays 3

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Rookie slugger Gary Sanchez hit his 17th homer in 42 games this season, a threerun shot in a four-run seventh inning that sent the New York Yankees past the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3.

The banged-up Yankees began play 4½ games behind Baltimore and Toronto for the two AL wild cards.

Indians 2 Royals 1

CLEVELAND — Pinchhitter Brandon Guyer doubled in a run with two outs in the ninth inning, helping the Cleveland Indians move closer to an AL Central title with a 2-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.

SHS baseball camp Saturday

cock Field beginning at 9 a.m.

The camp, which is open to children ages 7-14, will have registration beginning at 8 a.m. The camp will run for three hours. The registration fee is $20.

The camp will be led by Sumter’s coaching staff of head coach Brooks Shumake and assistants Joe Norris, Randy Twitty, Matt Price, Chad Hoshour, Curtis Johnson, Mike Moss, Dean Pack and Robbie Mooneyham.

For more information, contact Shumake at (803) 491-7886 or at Matthew.shumake@sumterschools.net.

PUNT, PASS & KICK COMPETITION SATURDAY St. Mark Four Bridges Missionary Baptist Church will be sponsoring a Punt, Pass & Kick competition on Saturday beginning at 4 p.m.

There will be five age groups — 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 1213, and 14-15 — in separate boys and girls divisions. Age group winners will have the opportunity to advance to other competitions.

The event is free. St. Mark Four Bridges is located at 2280 Four Bridges Road in Sumter.

For more information, call the church at (803) 494-4940 or go to stmark4b@ftc-i.net.

From staff, wire reports

AREA ROUNDUP

Sumter girls tennis edges Conway 4-2 The Sumter High School varsity girls tennis team defeated Conway 4-2 on Tuesday at the SHS courts.

The Lady Gamecocks won four of the five singles matches

Newman/Tsukalas 8-1.

2 – Ham/Davis (LMA) defeated Breland/Meyers 8-7(12-10).

3 – Graham/Robinson (LMA) defeated Weatherford/Grooms 8-0.

VARSITY GIRLS GOLF Chapin 210

of 26-24, 20-25, 15-5.

VARSITY SWIMMING WH girls 11, boys 12th; TSA boys 11th

MT. PLEASANT – The Wilson Hall girls and the 1 – Crawford (SHS) defeated Gore Thomas Sumter Academy Sumter 261 6-1, 6-0. boys both finished 11th in 2 – E. Alan (SHS) defeated Hamilton 6-2, 6-4.

CAMDEN – Sumter High their respective meets while 3 – Smutz (SHS) defeated Norris School finished third in a the WH boys were 12th in 6-2, 6-4.

4 – Hardee (CHS) defeated Shuping 3-team match on Tuesday at the 14-team Pinewood Prep 6-1, 6-4.

Invitational on Saturday.

5 – R. Alan (SHS) defeated Hernan- Camden Country Club. dez 4-6, 6-3, 10-5.

Chapin won with a 210 folOlivia Hilferty led the lowed by Camden with a 237 Lady Barons with a fifthDOUBLES 1 – Did not play. and SHS with a 261. place finish in the 200-yard 2 – Young/Stephens (CHS) defeatKaty Murry shot a 61 to individual medley in a time ed Pittman/Corrigan 6-1, 6-1. lead the Lady Gamecocks. of 2 minutes, 37.71 seconds.

Laurence Manning 5 She was also fifth in the 100 Holly Hill 4 backstroke in 1:09.09.

VARSITY VOLLEYBALL Laurence Manning AcadeThe girls 400 freestyle Lakewood 3 my’s No. 2 doubles team of relay team of Hilferty, MadiMason Ham and Eliza Davis Crestwood 0 son Smith, Grace Towery Lakewood High School de- and Angelica Agno also rallied from a 6-2 deficit to feated Crestwood 3-0 on win its match 8-7 with a scored points, finishing Tuesday at The Swamp.

12-10 tiebreaker and give eighth in a time of 4:36.66.

The Lady Knights, who LMA a 5-4 victory over Holly On the boys side, Wilson Hill Academy on Monday at lost a home match to HartsHall got points from the 200 ville 3-0 on Monday, fell to Palmetto Tennis Center. medley relay team and the 1-11 overall and 0-2 in Region 400 free relay team with Ham and Davis defeated HHA’s Madison Breland and VI-4A. ninth-place finishes.

Peyton Meyers.

The 200 medley relay team of Tyler Mahr, Jack Poag, JUNIOR VARSITY SINGLES 1 – Breland (HH) defeated Newman Ryan Wernsman and Justin 6-3, 6-0.

VOLLEYBALL Kang had a time of 2:25.92.

2 – Becker (HH) defeated Ham 6-1, 6-2.

Conway 2 The 400 free relay of Thom3 – Davis (LMA) defeated Bea Salas Kang, Steve Scholz, Mahr, ley 6-1, 6-2.

Sumter 1 4 – Meyers (HH) defeated Tsukalas and Dylan Dean had a time 6-4, 6-3.

Sumter High School fell to of 5:10.00.

5 – Graham (LMA) defeated Weatherford 6-0, 6-0.

3-8 with a 2-1 loss to Conway TSA’s Ed Lee was third in 6 – Robinson (LMA) defeated on Tuesday at the SHS gym- the 200 free in 2:01.38, and Grooms 6-1, 6-0. nasium. fourth in the 100 back in DOUBLES 1 – Becker/Salley (HH) defeated Conway won by the scores 1:02.51.

SINGLES

Camden 237

2 p.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Hertha Berlin vs.

Bayern Munich (FOX SPORTS 1).

2 p.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Augsburg vs.

Bayer Leverkusen (FOX SPORTS 2).

3 p.m. – International Hockey: World Cup of Hockey Group Stage Match from Toronto – Team North America vs. Sweden (ESPN).

3:30 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Toronto at Seattle or Houston at Oakland (MLB NETWORK).

6 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: WNBA Playoffs First-Round Elimination Game – Phoenix at Indiana (ESPNEWS).

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

6:25 p.m. – International Soccer: Futsal World Cup Round-of-16 Match from Bucaramanga, Colombia -- Brazil vs. Iran (FOX SPORTS 2).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Boston at Baltimore (ESPN).

7 p.m. – Women’s College Volleyball: Oklahoma at Kansas (ESPNU).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Atlanta at New York Mets (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST, WPUB-FM 102.7).

8 p.m. – International Hockey: World Cup of Hockey Group Stage Match from Toronto – Team Europe vs. Canada (ESPN).

8 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: WNBA Playoffs First-Round Elimination Game – Seattle at Atlanta (ESPNEWS).

8 p.m. – Women’s College Volleyball: Georgia at Kentucky (SEC NETWORK).

8:25 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Chiapas vs. Leon (UNIVISION).

9 p.m. – Women’s College Volleyball: South Carolina at Missouri (ESPNU).

10 p.m. – Major League Baseball: San Francisco at Los Angeles Dodgers (ESPN).

10:25 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Santos vs.

Monterrey (UNIVISION).

5 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour European Open First Round from Bad Griesbach, Germany (GOLF).

MLB standings

By The Associated Press

AMERICAN League East Division

Boston Toronto Baltimore New York Tampa Bay Central Division

Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Chicago Minnesota West Division

Texas Seattle Houston Oakland Los Angeles

W L Pct GB 86 64 .573 — 82 68 .547 4 82 68 .547 4 77 72 .517 8½ 64 85 .430 21½ W L Pct GB 86 63 .577 — 79 70 .530 7 77 73 .513 9½ 72 78 .480 14½ 55 95 .367 31½ W L Pct GB 89 62 .589 — 79 71 .527 9½ 79 71 .527 9½ 66 84 .440 22½ 65 85 .433 23½

Monday’s Games

Kansas City 8, Chicago White Sox 3 Boston 5, Baltimore 2 Texas 3, L.A. Angels 2 Houston 4, Oakland 2 Toronto 3, Seattle 2 Boston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Houston at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Toronto at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

Houston (McHugh 11-10) at Oakland (Mengden 2-7), 3:35 p.m.

Toronto (Sanchez 13-2) at Seattle (Hernandez 11-6), 3:40 p.m.

Boston (Buchholz 7-10) at Baltimore (Jimenez 7-11), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 16-8) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 10-14), 7:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Kennedy 11-9) at Cleveland (Kluber 17-9), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 13-4) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 11-12) at Texas (Holland 7-8), 8:05 p.m.

Detroit (Sanchez 7-13) at Minnesota (Berrios 2-7), 8:10 p.m.

National League East Division

W L Pct GB Washington 88 62 .587 — New York 80 70 .533 8 Miami 75 75 .500 13 Philadelphia 67 83 .447 21 Atlanta 59 91 .393 29 Central Division

W L Pct GB x-Chicago 95 55 .633 — 79 71 .527 16 St. Louis Pittsburgh 74 75 .497 20½ Milwaukee 68 82 .453 27 Cincinnati 63 87 .420 32 West Division

W L Pct GB Los Angeles 85 65 .567 — San Francisco 79 71 .527 6 Colorado 72 78 .480 13 Arizona 63 87 .420 22 San Diego 63 87 .420 22 x-clinched division

Monday’s Games

Atlanta 7, N.Y. Mets 3 Miami 4, Washington 3 Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati 2 St. Louis 5, Colorado 3 L.A. Dodgers 2, San Francisco 1 San Diego 3, Arizona 2

Tuesday’s Games

Chicago White Sox at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

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

Washington at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games

St. Louis (Weaver 1-3) at Colorado (Marquez 0-0), 3:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 16-8) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 10-14), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Weber 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (Colon 14-7), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 17-7) at Miami (Koehler 9-11), 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Stephenson 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Lackey 9-8), 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Kuhl 4-3) at Milwaukee (Nelson 8-14), 8:10 p.m.

Arizona (Greinke 12-7) at San Diego (Perdomo 8-9), 9:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Moore 11-11) at L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 15-9), 10:10 p.m.

Wild Card Standings

By The Associated Press

AMERICAN LEAGUE

W 82 82 79 79 79 77 77

W 80 79 79 75 74

L Pct WCGB 70 .533 — 71 .527 — 71 .527 — 75 .500 4 75 .497 4½

NFL Standings

By The Associated Press

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA New England 2 0 0 1.000 54 45 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 59 54 Miami 0 2 0 .000 34 43 Buffalo 0 2 0 .000 38 50 South

W L T Pct PF PA Houston 2 0 0 1.000 42 26 Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 32 40 Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 55 73 Jacksonville 0 2 0 .000 37 65 North

W L T Pct PF PA Pittsburgh 2 0 0 1.000 62 32 Baltimore 2 0 0 1.000 38 27 Cincinnati 1 1 0 .500 39 46 Cleveland 0 2 0 .000 30 54 West

W L T Pct PF PA Denver 2 0 0 1.000 55 40 Kansas City 1 1 0 .500 45 46 San Diego 1 1 0 .500 65 47 Oakland 1 1 0 .500 63 69 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 2 0 0 1.000 36 32 Philadelphia 2 0 0 1.000 58 24 Dallas 1 1 0 .500 46 43 Washington 0 2 0 .000 39 65 South

W L T Pct PF PA Tampa Bay 1 1 0 .500 38 64 Carolina 1 1 0 .500 66 48 Atlanta 1 1 0 .500 59 59 New Orleans 0 2 0 .000 47 51 North

W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 2 0 0 1.000 42 30 Green Bay 1 1 0 .500 41 40 Detroit 1 1 0 .500 54 51 Chicago 0 2 0 .000 28 52 West

W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 1 1 0 .500 55 46 Los Angeles 1 1 0 .500 9 31 Arizona 1 1 0 .500 61 30 1 1 0 .500 15 19 Seattle

Monday’s Game

Philadelphia 29, Chicago 14

Thursday’s Games

Houston at New England, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Miami, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Denver at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Baltimore at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

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

Los Angeles at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m.

San Diego at Indianapolis, 4:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 4:25 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m.

Chicago at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, sept. 26

Atlanta at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 29

Miami at Cincinnati, 8:25 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games

Baltimore Toronto Detroit Houston Seattle New York Kansas City

New York San Francisco St. Louis Miami Pittsburgh

L Pct WCGB 68 .547 — 68 .547 — 70 .530 2½ 71 .527 3 71 .527 3 72 .517 4½ 73 .513 5

Sunday, Oct. 2

Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 9:30 a.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m.

Seattle at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at New England, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Washington, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Denver at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m.

Los Angeles at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

New Orleans at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.

Dallas at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 3

N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.

WNBA FINAL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE

x-New York x-Chicago x-Atlanta x-Indiana Connecticut Washington

W L Pct GB 21 13 .618 — 18 16 .529 3 17 17 .500 4 17 17 .500 4 14 20 .412 7 13 21 .382 8

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB x-Minnesota 28 6 .824 — x-Los Angeles 26 8 .765 2 x-Phoenix 16 18 .471 12 x-Seattle 16 18 .471 12 Dallas 11 23 .324 17 San Antonio 7 27 .206 21 x-clinched playoff spot END REGULAR SEASON

WNBA Playoffs First Round Winner advances Wednesday Phoenix at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

Second Round Winner advances Saturday New York vs. TBD, 7 p.m.

Sunday Chicago vs. TBD, TBA Third Round (Best-of-5) Los Angeles vs. TBD Minnesota vs. TBD Finals (Best-of-5)

Transactions

By The Associated Press

BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated LHP T.J. House for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Adam Plutko from Columbus (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated OF Aaron Hicks from the 15-day DL. National League MIAMI MARLINS — Reinstated LHP Wei-Yin Chen from the 15-day DL. Reinstated RHP Bryan Morris from the 60-day DL and designated him for assignment.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Selected the contract of C Josmil Pinto from Colorado Springs (PCL).

FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Terminated the contract of DL John Hughes III. Waived LB Scooby Wright III. Signed OL Austin Reiter from Washington’s practice squad and QB Charlie Whitehurst.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Agreed to terms with C Ryan Strome on a twoyear contract. Named Claude Loiselle hockey operations consultant.

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Clemson wide receiver Deon Cain (8) pulls in a pass for a touchdown past South Carolina State’s Devondre Powell during the Tigers’ 59-0 win ion Saturday n Clemson. The No. 5 Tigers will be looking for their first win against Georgia Tech in Atlanta since 2003 on Thursday.

CLEMSON

what we’ve got.”

The Yellow Jackets rank From Page B1 among the top teams in the

By The Associated Press country in points allowed, surThursday Jackets shocked mighty Florirendering just 10.3 per game.

No. 5 Clemson at Georgia Tech, 7:30 p.m. da State 22-16 when Lance But Clemson poses a challenge Austin returned a blocked at every spot on the field, from Friday No. 24 Utah vs. Southern Cal, 9 field goal for a 78-yard touchWatson at quarterback to p.m. down as time ran out.

Wayne Gallman at running Saturday It was one of the most memback to a host of speedy reNo. 1 Alabama vs. Kent State, orable plays of the year. ceivers.

Noon No. 3 Louisville at Marshall, 8 It was also Georgia Tech’s Georgia Tech certainly got a p.m. lone ACC victory. taste of that last season in No. 4 Michigan vs. Penn State, 3:30 p.m.

“We always have, for night Clemson, when the Tigers No. 6 Houston at Texas State, 7 games in general, a really built a 33-10 halftime lead on p.m.

No. 7 Stanford at UCLA, 8 p.m. good atmosphere,” Johnson the way to a 43-24 romp.

No. 8 Michigan State vs. No. 11 said. “Hopefully we’ll have a “We were not a very good Wisconsin, Noon No. 9 Washington at Arizona, good crowd on Thursday night football team a year ago and 10:30 p.m. and it will be fun for guys to they were,” Johnson said. “I No. 10 Texas A&M vs. No. 17 Arkansas at Arlington, Texas, 8 p.m. go out and play.” felt sorry for our quarterback No. 12 Georgia at No. 23 MissisThe players are eager to (Justin Thomas). It looked like sippi, Noon No. 13 Florida State at South Florshow — for a national TV auhe was the only guy who knew ida, Noon dience, no less — that these what was going on.”

No. 14 Tennessee vs. No. 19 Florida, 3:30 p.m.

Yellow Jackets are more like Thomas is back for his seNo. 16 Baylor vs. Oklahoma State, the 2014 team, which claimed a nior year, leading an offense 7:30 p.m.

No. 18 LSU at Auburn, 6 p.m. spot in the ACC title game and that is short on plays — averNo. 20 Nebraska at Northwestwon the Orange Bowl. aging about 61 per game — but ern, 7:30 p.m.

“There’s going to be so looks to control the clock and much yelling and enthusiasm tempo with its run-oriented everywhere you turn,” was little more than a glorified option scheme. That will be defensive end KeShun Freepractice . vital going against Clemson, man promised. “If we can Another lackluster outing which tried to maximize its focus in and make plays and could put a huge dent in their weapons by getting off as do what we’ve got to do, we’ll championship hopes — espemany plays as possible out of be very satisfied with the outcially with No. 3 Louisville , a hurry-up spread. come.” the hottest team in the counJohnson believes his offense Coming into its ACC opener, try, visiting Death Valley next could be as good as the one he Clemson (3-0) is the defending week for what suddenly looks had two years ago. conference champion and exlike a September playoff game.

“I think we’ve got the same pected to challenge again for a “All eyes are going to be on kind of skill position guys,” he national title. But the Tigers us,” said quarterback Deshaun said. “Our offensive line haven’t looked all that impres- Watson, who sustained a serishould be as good or better. sive, struggling to beat Auburn ous knee injury at Georgia It’s more athletic. And we’ve and Troy before blowing out Tech two years ago. “We’ve got the same quarterback.”

South Carolina State in what just got to go out and show Now, bring on Clemson.

CLOWNEY

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have a sack as a rookie but finished with 4½ last year. His first two seasons were full of disappointment for both him and the team as he played just four games in 2014 before having microfracture surgery, and missed three games and Houston’s wild-card playoff loss to Kansas City last season due to a variety of other ailments.

As he started to pile up more injuries than sacks, criticism that he wasn’t living up to his draft status continued to grow.

Clowney heard it all, but said he chose to ignore it. He knows that the injuries couldn’t be helped and believes there’s only one way to quiet his detractors.

“I’m not saying nothing,” he said. “I’m just going to keep letting my game speak and just keep getting better and better week by week.”

Clowney’s improvement has added another dimension to a pass rush led by last year’s NFL Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt and one that also features Whitney Mercilus, who had two sacks in Houston’s opener. Watt is excited about the possibilities for this defense full of playmakers.

“You never know where the play is going to come from, it could be a linebacker, it could be a (defensive back), it could be a guy up front getting a sack,” he said. “It’s a lot of fun when you play like that. I think it makes it difficult for

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other teams and that’s the goal.”

As Clowney continues to progress, Watt is slowly returning to form after missing all of training camp and the preseason after July surgery

to repair a herniated disk in his back. He started to feel good on the field again last week after struggling in Houston’s opener. And it showed as he finished with 1 ½ sacks and recovered a fumble.

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with media, although the coach said the possibility of From Page B1 that changing is “day to day.” and summer workouts. The Co-offensive coordinator 6-foot, 205-pound McIlwain and quarterbacks Kurt looked lost two weeks ago Roper also has not spoken at Vanderbilt, with Orth to reporters since the seagetting the call in the secson began. ond half and rallying the “Right now I just think Gamecocks from a 10-point (McIlwain) has a lot on his deficit to a 13-10 victory. plate. He needs to worry The next week, it was about being the quarterMcIlwain’s turn to attempt back at South Carolina,” to lead the Gamecocks out Muschamp said. “That’s of a 24-0 hole at Mississippi the most important thing, State. While South Carolina along with him playing well did not win, McIlwain led for his teammates.” the team on two touchdown McIlwain’s teammates drives in the 27-14 defeat are excited about what the and earned the chance to young quarterback brings start against East Carolina. to the offense.

McIlwain played solidly South Carolina tight end and without mistakes, com- K.C. Crosby said McIlpleting 16 of 28 passes for wain’s accuracy and strong 195 yards and zero intercep- throws were evident in the tions. He had scoring runs spring and throughout of 9 and 10 yards as South summer drills. Each series Carolina took a 14-0 lead McIlwain seems to gain a and held on against the Pibetter grasp of the Gamerates, who had entered with cocks attack. wins in six of their previ“That’s just Brandon. ous games with Power Five He’s going to make sure he schools. takes authority of the situKnott, a junior, said McIl- ation and take his next wain has commanded the game to the next level,” offense so far with his poise Crosby said and leadership.

Kentucky coach Mark “I think he’s handled it Stoops sees South Carolina tremendously well and I improving the more McIlthink he’s got a big future wain plays., in front of him,” Knott said.

“I can tell they’re gaining McIlwain has his misa little confidence and contakes to clean up, Mustinuity in what they’re champ said. The coach, doing with him and some though, is pleased with Mc- of the problems that he Ilwain’s throws and his presents and some of his knowledge of the offense. strengths,” Stoops said.

“It is no different than “They’re going to get nothany other player or posiing but better offensively.” ton,” Muschamp said. “Just Crosby believes McIlcontinue taking the reps, wain’s running skills and taking the coaching and ability to lead a fast-paced doing the things you need offense will lead to good to do to be successful.” things for the Gamecocks.

Part of that process, for The Gamecocks tight end Muschamp, is keeping Mcsaid, “We’re not where we Ilwain’s head focused on want to be, but we’re makthe field. Muschamp does ing steps to where we need not permit freshmen to talk to be.”

The Associated Press

South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp, right, talks with quarterback Brandon McIlwain during the first half of the Gamecocks’ 20-15 win over East Carolina on Saturday.

But he has a message those who think he’s back to full strength.

“I say partially,” he said.

“I’m still working on some things and I think it may be some things that only I see.

But there are definitely some things that I want to continue to improve upon. But I have to admit it did feel good on Sunday to ... have some glimpses of my old self back. So I just want to continue that.”

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USC among final three for Georgia WR Terrell Wide receiver Chad Terrell of Dallas, Ga., has a final three for his football recruiting of the University of South Carolina, Oregon and North Carolina State. Oregon replaces Mississippi from his previous top three.

Terrell took an official visit to Oregon earlier this month.

As for a visit to USC, Terrell said, “Yes, but it will not be any time soon.”

Terrell visited USC for its prospect gathering in late July and after that visit he called USC favorite.

“It’s a win-win school for me that has both football and academics,” Terrell said, pointing out his interest in USC’s International Business School. s a junior, Terrell had 51 catches for 826 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Defensive end Matthew Butler of Garner, N.C., is not revealing his official visit dates until the week of each visit.

This past weekend he went to Penn State. He also has been officially to Duke.

USC will also get a visit for one of its early games in October. He also will visit Tennessee and NCSU. Butler said he’s hearing regularly from USC recruiter Lance Thompson, but he does not have a favorite at this point from the five schools he’s considering.

Defensive back Yusuf Corker of Stockbridge, Ga., has a small list of schools he’s talking with and USC is one of them. Corker said defensive coordinator and secondary coach Travaris Robinson is in touch regularly and the two have discussed when Corker will come in for a game.

Corker said he’s also talking with Tennessee and Michigan State, and he will take an official visit to Michigan State for the Michigan game on Oct. 29.

He said he likely won’t spend an official visit with USC and Tennessee because he wants to save them for places too far to drive. He’s also looking at Stanford and PSU for other official visits. Corker will announce his decision on his birthday, Dec. 26. He said there is no favorite.

USC offered 2017 offensive lineman Jerry Drake Jr. of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He also has offers from North Carolina, Alabama, Auburn, Pittsburgh, Mississippi State and others.

Gunner Britton, an ’18 OL of Conway High School and ‘18 DE Xavier Thomas of Wilson High in Florence were at USC on Saturday for the East Carolina game. Also at the game was ‘18 defensive lineman Rick Sandidge of Concord, N.C., and he told TheBigSpur that USC and North Carolina are his current top two.

Another top North Carolina prospect visiting USC on Saturday was ‘18 DE KJ Henry of

GREEN

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Players are selected by The Sumter Item sports department based on nominations from the local high school coaches.

Brent Thompson, the firstyear head coach of The Citadel, will be the guest speaker.

Green, who threw 22 touchdown passes last season, was expected to be a staple at QB, but head coach Roosevelt Nelson decided to go with Anthony Bradley at quarterback after the Knights’ blowout loss to Sumter in the second game of the season.

“There were certain things I expected from Tylas, both on the field and off the field,” Nelson said. “We sat him down, but he worked hard at it during the time he wasn’t starting and worked at it. He gave himself a chance to get back at quarterback.”

“I’m not going to lie, it messed with me when it first happened,” said Green, who played some in the defensive backfield during his QB hiatus. “It’s made me better with my character though to do what I need to do for the team.

It made me a better person.”

When Green got on the field

Clemmons.

CLEMSON Clemson ‘17 linebacker target Deon Singleton of Paramus, N.J., suffered a torn Phil anterior cruciate Kornblut ligament in a rerecruiting cent game and is out for the rest of the season.

DB Xavier McKinney of Roswell, Ga., revealed his official visits list as Clemson, Florida, Ohio State, Georgia and Alabama. No dates have been assigned.

Willie Brantley, an ‘18 DB/ WR from Conway High visited Clemson on Saturday. Clemson likes him as a WR. Also visiting on Saturday was ‘19 WR Xyre Wilson of Loganville, Ga. He also visited in August.

Others who were supposed to visit were ‘18 tight end Trey Ross of Randleman, N.C., and ‘18 DE Elijah Brown of Charlotte.

CJ Smith, an ‘18 DB from West Palm Beach, Fla., favors Clemson. He has not yet been offered by the Tigers. He has offers UF, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisville, Louisiana State, Michigan, Nebraska, UNC, Ohio State and others.

Keiondre Jones, a ‘19 OL from Hoganville, Ga., was offered by Clemson as was ‘20 WR Michael Robertson Jr. of Hoganville.

cept Clemson, which is a QB/ athlete offer.

Joyner was at USC on Saturday. He also plans to take in games this season at Clemson, NCSU, UF and Auburn.

OTHERS DB Latheron Rogers-Anderson of Ridge View High in Columbia and formerly of Lake View High, committed to ECU. Raiqwon O’Neal, an ‘18 DL from Conway, was at UNC on Saturday.

BASKETBALL

Devontae Shuler, a 6-foot-3inch player from Oak Hill Academy in Virginia who is from Irmo, made his official to USC over the weekend. He will go to Oklahoma State this weekend and to Ole Miss on Oct. 1. He is also considering Miami and Southern California.

Also visiting USC this weekend officially was 6-10 Nick Claxton of Greenville Legacy Charter. He also has visited Florida State and is scheduled to visit UGA, Baylor and NCSU. Jason Cudd, a 7-1 center from Socastee High in Myrtle Beach, committed to USC last week, a day after completing his official visit. Cudd also considered offers from ECU and Tulane.

Cudd said after his visit that he liked everything he saw around the school and the program and felt he would be an CLEMSON AND USC excellent fit in USC head coach Dakereon Joyner, an ‘18 Frank Martin’s scheme. quarterback from Fort “They showed me how they Dorchester High in North use their big men and the style Charleston, is well down the of play that they play,” Cudd road in his recruiting, and he said. “I think it would be a has set his announcement for great fit. They throw the ball Father’s Day in the summer of inside a lot. They run the of‘17. He’s working off a short fense through the big man.” list of USC, Clemson, TennesCudd is a developing big see, UNC, UGA, UF, Alabama, man who averaged 12 points NCSU and Auburn though he and eight rebounds per game actually has a pretty firm top last season. He’s working on five in mind that he does not his game around the rim and want to reveal yet. He did say in developing big man moves, USC and Clemson are in the but he really likes to play like five with three out-of-state a small forward. programs. He doesn’t have a “He’s a really good outside favorite at this time. shooter,” said Socastee head He said USC has told him in coach Derrick Hilton. “He’s acno uncertain terms he is a QB tive and runs the floor. He’s a target. Clemson has told him kid who wants to get better he would get a full shot at QB, and we’re trying to get him but would move him if it stronger. He’s not bad close to doesn’t work out. the rim, but he’s not overly “Coach (USC offensive coor- athletic. We’ve got to get him dinator and QB coach Kurt) more active, but he has a presRoper constantly reminds me ence.” they like how I throw the ball Cudd is the first commitand he likes my ball placement for USC’s ‘17 class. ment,” Joyner said. “I feel like Ibrahim Doumbia, a 6-8 namy fundamentals are pretty tive of Mali who attends high solid, but I always have room school in Miami, made an offifor improvement and I feel like cial visit to UF over the weekI’m getting better in some end. He made an official visit areas.” to USC earlier in the month.

Joyner said his NCSU re“It went good, the visit went cruiter plans to watch him in good, it was very good. It was a his next home game and USC good experience,” Doumbia will be down on Oct. 21. said of USC. “The academics Joyner said every school that’s (stood out). They have a good offered has done so for QB ex- business school and that’s

against Marion, he saw the Swamp Foxes crowding the box to stop the run with his wide receivers in man-to-man coverage.

“My offensive line did a great job, giving me plenty of time,” said Green, who will guide 3-2 Crestwood in a road contest on Friday against Lamar. “Then I need to give me wide receivers – Julius Pearson, Joshua Simon and Tyrese Felder — for making the catches. When I saw them in man coverage, I knew I just needed to get the ball to them.”

“Tylas did a great job of taking what the defense gave him,” Nelson said.

Myers had 14 tackles in Wilson Hall’s 16-10 victory over Cardinal Newman. Six of those tackles were solo stops and eight were assists. He was in one quarterback sack and one tackle for a loss.

Myers said his action began to pick up in the second half.

“In the first half, they (Cardinal Newman) were passing a lot,” Myers said. “They began to run the ball more in the second half, more to the outside.

That gave more opportunities to me and the other guys on the outside.”

After giving up 38 points in a shutout loss to Porter-Gaud in

the second game of the season, the Barons pitched a shutout of their own in a win over Orangeburg Prep before allowing just the 10 against Cardinal Newman. Myers said the loss to P-G provided some added motivation.

“Giving up 38 points was a big letdown for us,” said Myers, whose 3-1 team will play host to Thomas Sumter Academy on Friday. “We knew we were better than that, that we’re capable of beating any team in SCISA. That was a big learning experience for our defense.”

Flores graded out at 94 percent and had four knockdown blocks in Laurence Manning’s 57-14 over Heathwood Hall.

The Swampcats had success both running and throwing the football.

“We were executing at a high level,” Flores said. “We just executed our game plan, doing what we had done in practice all week. We pretty much executed our plays. We work really well together as a group.”

Major, a defensive tackle and defensive end, blocked two punts in C.E. Murray’s 43-0 victory over Creek Bridge. He also had a good night defensively with six tackles, two TFLs and two sacks.

what I want to study for college. And I think the coaches are really good, too. They tell me that they have a good program for guys like me, too. I’m just happy about it.”

Doumbia said USC talked with him about playing inside and outside. He said he averaged 18 points per game last season and can play on the perimeter. He’s also hearing from Virginia Tech and a little bit from Tennessee. He’s not yet sure if he’ll sign early.

Clemson’s competition for 6-9 Ejike Obinna of Ashburn, Va., was reduced by one after Oklahoma filled his spot on its roster, so he has cut the Sooners from his list and canceled his official visit there. Obinna has visited Clemson and UF and will visit Vanderbilt this weekend. He is also considering VT. After his first two visits, Obinna said it’s hard to distinguish much difference between the Tigers and the Gators.

“They were both great,” Obinna said. “Clemson tells me how important I am to them and stuff. They stay in touch. We talk almost every day. You couldn’t ask for more (from Clemson). Everything is under control. I’ve had a relationship with (Clemson assistant) Coach (Mike) Winiecki for a long time. I couldn’t ask for more (on the visit). It was close to perfect. We felt like home.”

Obinna is still not claiming a favorite and will wait until after his visits to decide on one. He hopes to sign in November.

Josh Carlton, a 6-9 player from Winterville, N.C., and Dematha Catholic in Hyattsville, Md., committed to Connecticut. Clemson also was an offer and he had planned to take an official visit with the Tigers.

Zion Williamson, a 6-7 ‘18 standout from Spartanburg Day, is not only considered the state’s top prospect for his class, but some basketball pundits have dubbed him the best player nationally in the ‘18 class. Thus far, coaches from Clemson, USC, UNC, Duke, UK, Western Kentucky, UCLA and Tennessee have been in to see him.

He has Clemson ties in that his father, former Mayewood High standout Lee Anderson, played for the Tigers from 1975-78 before completing his career at Columbus State.

It’s all been a whirlwind for Williamson, who actually grew up in Florence before moving to Spartanburg a couple of years ago. He’s doing his best to keep it all in focus.

“I’m honored that people are taking the time to recognize me as the No. 1 player out of the whole country in 2018,” Williamson said. “How am I handling it? It’s not a problem because I really enjoy it. I see

it as most kids don’t have the possibilities that I have, so I’m always enjoying it and never complain.”

Williamson said coaches are attracted to him because of his overall basketball skills and his versatility on the court.

“They love me because I’m a basketball player,” he said. “I can play multiple positions, positions 1 through 4. That’s what they love most about me, my versatility.

“My strengths are attacking the basket really well, posting up smaller defenders and shooting the short and midrange jumper.”

Last season, he averaged 28 points, 12 rebounds and three blocked shots per game. Williamson wants to cut his list down next summer, and he wants to sign in November of ‘17. He considers the Tigers and USC as legitimate possibilities.

“They fit in really well with me because they are in-state and whenever they talk to me it’s always a family vibe” he said. “That’s what I love the most.”

Williamson last visited Clemson and USC in June. He does plan to get to both this fall for games.

“South Carolina, I love their style of play and I love the way Coach Martin coaches his players; he preaches defense,” Williamson said. “What he tells me is I need to really think hard about South Carolina because if I do have the opportunity to go pro, I won’t be able to play in South Carolina.

My only chance to play in South Carolina is in college.

“Clemson, Coach Brownell said joining Clemson is a life thing. They are always going to look out for their players, and they always preach about family and what they can do for my future.”

Of course, it’s great to have the attention of the schools in your backyard, but in Williamson’s case, he’s got the blueblood programs of college basketball knocking on his door, and when Kansas, UNC, Duke, UCLA and UK come calling, you have to take notice.

“College is college to me,” Williamson said. “I’m going to pick the school that gives me that family vibe and they tell me that if I come to this school it’s a life thing and what they can do for my future academically and athletically.”

Clyde Trapp, a 6-4 player from Lower Richland High in Hopkins, was offered by UGA and Georgia Tech, according to PhenomHoopReport. USC’s Martin met with him last week, according to former USC captain Carey Rich.

The Clemson women landed a commitment from 6-3 Tylar Bennett of Detroit, according to women’s basketball scout Bret McCormick.

Prep Schedule TODAY

Varsity Cross Country Lakewood in Body Shop Invitational (at Lexington High), 5:30 p.m.

Middle School Football Hillcrest at Alice Drive, 5 p.m.

Bates at Furman, 5 p.m.

Manning at Chestnut Oaks, 5 p.m.

Ebenezer at Mayewood, 5 p.m.

Kingstree at East Clarendon, 5:30 p.m.

Scott’s Branch at C.E. Murray, 6 p.m.

Varsity Girls Tennis Robert E. Lee at Pee Dee, 3:30 p.m.

Junior Varsity Tennis Wilson Hall at Hammond, 4:15 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Carolina, 4 p.m.

Pee Dee at Robert E. Lee, 3:30 p.m.

Varsity Volleyball Bowman at Scott’s Branch, 6 p.m.

Varsity and JV Volleyball Fairfield Central at Lakewood, 5:30 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Carolina Academy, 4 p.m.

Palmetto Christian at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m.

THURSDAY

Junior Varsity Football Lamar at Crestwood, 6 p.m.

Wade Hampton (Hampton) at Lakewood, 6:30 p.m.

Lee Central at Chesterfield, TBA Wilson Hall at Laurence Manning, 7 p.m.

B Team Football Sumter at Fort Dorchester, 6 p.m.

Wilson Hall at Laurence Manning, 5 p.m.

Middle School Football Thomas Sumter at The King’s Academy, 6 p.m.

Robert E. Lee at Carolina Academy, 6 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at St. John’s Christian, 6:30 p.m.

Varsity Girls Tennis Sumter at South Florence, 5 p.m.

Manning at Hanahan, 4:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at Green SeaFloyds, 5 p.m.

Varsity and JV Girls Tennis Wilson Hall at Laurence Manning, 4 p.m.

Varsity Volleyball Darlington at Crestwood, 6 p.m.

Lee Central at Chesterfield, 6 p.m.

Varsity and JV Volleyball Sumter at South Florence, 5:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at Green SeaFloyds, 4:30 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Wilson Hall, 4 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at St. John’s Christian, 4 p.m.

Middle School Volleyball Hillcrest at Alice Drive, 5 p.m.

Chestnut Oaks at Bates, 5 p.m.

Furman at Ebenezer, 5 p.m.

FRIDAY

Varsity Football Crestwood at Lamar, 7:30 p.m.

Lakewood at Wade Hampton (Hampton), 7:30 p.m.

Manning at May River, 7:30 p.m.

Chesterfield at Lee Central, 7:30 p.m.

Scott’s Branch at Timmonsville, 7:30 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at Wilson Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Robert E. Lee at Carolina Academy, 7:30 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Richard Winn, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

Varsity Cross Country Sumter in Pee Dee Classic (at Freedom Florence), 9 a.m.

Varsity Swimming Sumter at North Myrtle Beach, TBA Wilson Hall at First Baptist, TBA Varsity Volleyball Sumter in Eastside Invitational, TBA Robert E. Lee in North Central Tournament, TBA Middle School Volleyball Alice Drive at Mayewood, 10 a.m.

Ebenezer at Bates, 10 a.m.

Chestnut Oaks at Furman, 10 a.m.

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Wentz, defense play big roles in Eagles’ 2-0 start

By ROB MAADDI The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — A 2-0 start in Philadelphia has people comparing Carson Wentz to Peyton Manning and Doug Pederson to Vince Lombardi.

Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz deserves some credit, too.

Wentz has certainly exceeded expectations . He’s the first rookie quarterback in NFL history to win his first two starts and not commit a turnover.

Pederson has pushed all the right buttons, showing strong leadership and excellent playcalling.

Meanwhile, Schwartz has taken a defense that ranked among the worst each of the past three seasons and turned it into a stingy unit. They’re ranked fourth in yards allowed and have allowed the second-fewest points (that includes a punt return for a TD).

“I like the way it’s coming together,” middle linebacker Jordan Hicks said after Monday night’s 29-15 win at Chicago.

“We’re playing stout, pretty strong and aggressive. That’s what this defense is. I’m excited. The sky is the limit with this defense. We have a lot to improve and it’s a long season, but we’ve started out pretty well.”

Schwartz, a former head coach in Detroit, returned to coaching after sit-

standing. He has a 94.1 rating, three TDs and a completion rate of 60.6 percent.

Wentz already has won more games in two starts than Joe Montana (0-1) and Troy Aikman (0-11) did their rookie seasons. Manning went 3-13 with the Colts in 1998. John Elway (4-6), Terry Bradshaw (3-5), Fran Tarkenton (2-8) and Johnny Unitas (3-4) also had losing years as rookies.

But the Eagles beat the hapless Browns (0-2) and the Bears (0-2). They have a tougher road ahead, starting with a home game against Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers (2-0) on Sunday.

Big Ben, by the way, was 13-0 his rookie season in 2004 and led the Steelers to the AFC championship game.

Asked if Wentz reminds him of RoThe Associated Press ethlisberger, Pederson said: “Little bit, Philadelphia quarterback Carson Wentz, the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL draft, has a little bit. Carson has the ability to ex94.1 rating and three touchdown passes for the Eagles, who are off to a 2-0 start. tend plays with his legs. Ben is big, strong, physical in the pocket, hard to ting out the 2015 season. He brought an plays . The secondary overcame the ab- bring down and continues to have aggressive, 4-3 scheme and is maximiz- sence of injured cornerback Leodis great vision down the field. ing the talent he has.

McKelvin and shut down Jay Cutler “I think that’s one thing with CarBrandon Graham and Connor Barand the Bears. son’s strength is he continues to have win moved to defensive end after play“We’re playing well together, having that vision down the field when things ing linebacker in former coordinator fun and everybody is chipping in,” said begin to break down.

Billy Davis’ 3-4 system. Fletcher Cox Graham, who had one sack and two “So, yeah, there are a lot of similariand Bennie Logan are getting a strong tackles for losses. ties there. The fact that they’re both push up the middle. Linebackers Hicks Wentz, the No. 2 overall pick, gets very good throwers outside the pocket and Nigel Bradham have made big most of the praise and he’s been outis a tribute to both of them.”

OBITUARIES ANNETTE ELLIS MUSPRATT CAMDEN — Annette Marie Ellis Muspratt, beloved wife of Anthony E. Muspratt, died on Sept. 17, 2016, at Southwinds Assisted Living, Lugoff.

She was born on July 10, 1935, in Sumter, to the late Fletcher King and Marie Taylor Ellis. She was a graduate of Edmunds High School, Sumter, and attended the University of South Carolina. She retired from Cogsdill Tool Products after 23 years of service. Her interests included NASA events, astronomy, and ham radio qualifying with a technician class license call sign KG4GQA. She was a member of the Camden Community Band and loved playing the piano. Above all these interests, she was a loving mother and wife. She enjoyed going to church, attending St. Mary Madalene Anglican Church, Camden.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her brother, Lewis Reid Ellis of Sumter.

She is survived by her husband, Anthony E. Muspratt of Camden; her son, Raymond Lee Price III of Lexington; nieces, Marie Ellis Grogan and Emilie Ellis (David W.) Goldman, both of Sumter; numerous great-nieces and great-nephews; and cousins, Frank Morton Hunt II and George Ellis Hunt of Lake Wales, Florida. Her United Kingdom family includes: stepson, Philip Muspratt; stepdaughter, Gail (Graham) Bolger; step-granddaughter, Katy (Richard) Sanders; stepgreat-grandson, Ethan Sanders; stepson, Peter Muspratt; three grandchildren, Liam, Rory and Mica; brother-inlaw, John (Teresa) Muspratt; and sister-in-law, Carol Reger.

Many thanks to the staffs of Compassionate Care Hospice and Southwinds Assisted Care for the kindnesses and care shown during her illness over this tenuous period of her life.

Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Powers Funeral Home, 832 Ridgeway Road, Lugoff, SC 29078.

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday at St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church, 914 Market St., Camden, SC 29020. Interment will follow at Quaker Cemetery, 713 Meeting St., Camden, SC 29020.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Mary Magdalene Church.

Sign the online register at www.powersfuneralhome.net.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the residence, 1147 Camilla St., Manning.

Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced by Fleming & DeLaine Funeral Home & Chapel.

ANDREW W. MULLER DALZELL — Andrew W. “Andy” Muller, age 88, beloved husband of Shelby Udakin Muller, died on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, in Myrtle Beach.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of the late John Henry Muller Sr. and Eleanor McKay Muller.

Mr. Muller retired from the United States Air Force after 20 years of service as a technical sergeant. He was the owner of Muller’s Cleaning Service and Coin Laundry. He was a member and past master of Hillcrest Masonic Lodge 397 AF&M, Jamil Color Guard, and charter member of the Jamil Temple, MRMA and USC Sumter Business Partnership. He was a USC Sumter Scholarship Donor and past member of Sumter School District Board. He was also a life member of both the Scottish and York Rite Bodies.

Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, James A. “Jim” Muller of Dalzell; one daughter, Teresa I. Miller of Roswell, Georgia; and three stepchildren, John J. “Jack” McFadden Jr. of Broomall, Pennsylvania, Karen A. Bevec of Malvern, Pennsylvania, and Daniel P. McFadden of Newport News, Virginia.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Harry Muller and John Muller; and one sister, Jean Kelso.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday at the Bullock Funeral Home Chapel with Masonic Rites. Interment will be held at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at Bullock Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the Jamil Shrine Temple, 206 Jamil Road, Columbia, SC 29210.

You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family’s guest book.

The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.

WILLIE MCBRIDE Willie McBride, 89, entered eternal rest on Tuesday, Sept.

20, 2016, at Blue Ridge Nursing Home.

Born on April 17, 1927, in Sumter, he was a son of the late Charlie and Alice Amos McBride.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 12 W. William St. Funeral plans will be announced by Community Funeral Home of Sumter.

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HENRY LEE THOMPSON On Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, Henry Lee Thompson, husband of Annie Mae Weathers Thompson, exchanged time for eternity at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on Jan. 1, 1938, in Manning, he was a son of the late Joe Jr. and Rebecca Wells Thompson.

Annie received her formal education in the public schools of Sumter County. Annie graduated from Manchester High School in 1961. At an early age, she began her Christian journey at Rock Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Manning, where she served on the usher board and remained a faithful member until her passing.

Annie worked at Exide Battery Co. in Sumter for 28 years.

Annie was employed at Walters Residential Care Facility since Jan. 1, 2002, as assistant administrator. Annie was united in holy matrimony on June 20, 1962, to her husband, Eddie Gist Sr. She was a loving and caring wife, mother and grandmother to her two wonderful children, three grandchildren and her loving son-in-law, whom she loved dearly.

Precious memories will be cherished by her son, Eddie Gist Jr. of the home; her daughter, Angenetta (Pastor Ervin) McLeod of Decatur, Georgia; grandchildren, Isaiah, Deja and Zaria of Decatur; one sister-in-law, Rosa Lee Davis of Sumter; one brother, Johnnie Lee Walters of Sumter; and a host of relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by one brother, Willie Walters, and one sister, Ella Jane Harvin.

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday at Rock HILL Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Leon Winn, pastor, officiating, and Bishop George R. Mitchell, eulogist, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Otis Butler Jr., the Rev. M.G. Walters and Pastor Ervin McLeod.

The body will lie in repose from noon until the hour of service.

Interment will follow in the churchyard cemetery.

The funeral cortege will leave at 12:20 p.m. from the home, 19 Arkansas Drive, Sumter.

Sumter Funeral Service Inc. is in charge of arrangements.

ANNIE LOU GIST Annie Lou Gist was born on Jan. 15, 1942, in Sumter County, a daughter of the late Nicodemus and Elease Walters.

She departed this earthly life on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, at her home.

Robert Steven Becher, age 75, died on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, at McElveen Manor.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Bullock Funeral Home.

WILLIAM DAVID HERRING COLUMBUS, Ohio — William David Herring, age 86, died on Sept. 19, 2016.

Bill was the only son of the late Vester and Agnes Butler Herring.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Jean Powell Herring; his three sons, David (Linda Smith Herring), Keith (Un Kyong Yun Herring) and Chris (Laura Cowhard Herring); grandsons, Ryan Christopher (Shannen), Kyle Christopher, Michael Taylor and William Collins; and granddaughter, Jeana Lynn. Bill is also survived by one of his two sisters, Dorothy Herring McClung of Myrtle Beach; nieces, Linda Carney Brazell, Jan Carney Flaherty, Judy Carney Smith, Tina McClung Cook and Sandra McClung Sansbury.

He was preceded in death by his oldest sister, Lois Herring Carney.

Bill was born on Aug. 17, 1930, in Sumter. He grew up in Sumter and was active in the YMCA, Boy Scouts and the Royal Ambassadors. He graduated from Edmunds High School in 1948 and was in the first class in South Carolina to complete 12 years of school. While at Edmunds High, Bill was a class officer; a member of the dramatics club; Block S Club; Hi-Y Club: a charter member of the Rajah Club; and captain in the school military battalion. He played three years of football and two years of basketball, winning four school letters. His basketball team won the South Carolina State Championship in 1948. He was also a lifeguard at Second Mill, a popular swimming lake in Sumter. Bill graduated from Furman University in 1952 with a bachelor of arts in education and a minor in biology. While at Furman, Bill was a member of the Blue Key National Honor Society; the Furman Block F Club; and treasurer of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. He was a member of the university gymnastics team, member of the track team and a football letterman. Bill also participated as an athlete on many intramural teams and was named to numerous allstar teams. He was a member of the Furman Presidents Club, the Paladin Club, the Furman Football Players Association and a former class agent.

Bill coached and taught at Clarkton High School in Clarkton, North Carolina, from 1952 to 1958. He taught biology, history, health and physical education. He was athletic director and coach of the football, basketball and baseball teams. His sixyear football record was 40 wins, 11 losses and one tie. In 1958, the school won the Class A State Football Championship with an 11 and 0 record. In six years, Bill’s teams won 12 champion-

ships, seven in football, two in basketball and three in baseball.

In 1958, Bill joined Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. in Hickory, North Carolina, as a field claims man. He was with Nationwide for 33 years and served as a safety specialist, regional safety manager, commercial sales manager, account manager, business insurance training manager, director of marketing training, director of marketing manpower, regional sales manager, and sales management development associate. He won numerous sales management awards, including president’s club and drummers society. He was a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU); Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), and Registered Health Underwriter (RHU).

Bill was a member of the Hickory, North Carolina, Junior Chamber of Commerce; the Clarkton, North Carolina, Lions Club; the Hickory Civitan Club; the Orlando, Florida, Toastmasters Club; the American Society of Training and Development; the Columbus Ohio Sales Executives Club; the Holiday Lakes Security Patrol; the Helen Ellis Hospital Volunteer Association; and the Pinellas County Sheriff Advisory Board.

He was a longtime member of Northwest United Methodist Church in Columbus, where he faithfully served on the administrative board, the finance committee and the missions committee.

Bill retired in 1991 and enjoyed traveling and spending time at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, and Tarpon Springs, Florida. His great loves in life were his God, his family and his vocation. He had a passion for work and achieving. He also enjoyed many years of keeping in touch with best friends in Sumter, at Furman University, and Clarkton.

He was especially indebted to his good friend from Clarkton, Maurice Rivenbark. “Mo” played halfback on the Clarkton state championship football team in 1957 and had been a steadfast and loyal friend since that time. Bill was an avid Ohio State football fan and was a member of the Ohio State Presidents Club.

Family will receive friends on Saturday at Northwest United Methodist Church 5200 Riverside Drive, Columbus, OH 43220 from 10:30 a.m. until the time of his memorial service at 11:30 a.m. A reception will follow. Pastor Mebane McMahon will officiate.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Bill’s name to a charity of your choice.

Visit www.schoedinger.com to share a favorite memory of Bill.

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Art in Memorial Park

A variety of metal and wooden items, all made

by Bryan DuRant of Shudwe Farms, will be available at Art in the Park on Saturday.

Around 39 artists and crafters will offer their creations for sale at Memorial Park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Lori Windham’s artwork at the 2015 Art in the Park is shown. Windham will be back Saturday with even more items for sale.

Wide variety fills natural setting

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com

take advantage of cooler weather and the proximity to the holidays, when early shopArt in the Park will look a lot different this pers are looking for gifts for family and year. The once intimate outdoor celebration of friends — or themselves. local artists and artisans will grow to fill the Sumter artists include Meghan White with whole of Memorial Park on Saturday, organiz- fine art and mixed media, Lynda Parker’s ers said.

Broadstone Manor with reimagined antiques, Always sponsored by the Heart of Sumter twig furniture, Shudwe Farms’ Bryan DuRant Neighborhood Association, the event will for with handcrafted metal and wood items and the first time be organized and coordinated by Billy Taylor with handcrafted woodwork and a committee from the HSNA and will include birdhouses, among many others. expanded entertainment at a bandstand near New to Art in the Park is the daylong enterthe tennis courts; a dozen non-profit commutainment at the bandstand brought in just for nity organizations on the Park Avenue side; the event. Music, dance and martial arts will and next to it a children’s craft area with face headline there, and the Shaw Salseros will painting, coloring, a puppet show, Glitter demonstrate salsa dancing, while in the ChilGlam “tattoos” and more. dren’s Center, author and illustrator Annette McGruff the Crime Dog, Sumter law enAsbill will host story time, the Pilot Club of forcement and firefighters with a firetruck are Sumter will present a puppet show, and break among the many community groups who will dancer Flipsty will perform. There will also entertain children and provide safety and be plenty of crafts in the center. health information in the center.

Klopfleisch said the HSNA applied for and Food and beverages will be available for received several grants to fund the event. purchase in the Community Corner, where HSNA president Sylvia Lawler will in the the Friends of the Sumter County Library gazebo during Art in the Park with brochures, will offer homemade brownies, the Shaw Offi- maps of the event and information on the ascers’ Spouses Club will have barbecue and sociation. bottled water, and nine other organizations Winn said, “It doesn’t matter where you are will sell more food items. in the park, there’s going to be so much going About 50 artists and crafters will offer their on, you’ll come upon something to do.” creations from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at several locaMemorial Park is a “fur-friendly” park, tions throughout the park, said Cleo KlopKlopfleisch said, so pets on leashes are alfleisch, Annette Doyle and Stephen Winn of lowed. the Art in the Park committee. Event attend“We’re excited to bring so many people into ees will be able to purchase everything from the neighborhood,” she said, ‘including such a fine art and handmade jewelry to furniture, great group of diverse artists and crafters.” clothing and fiber arts.

Memorial Park is in the heart of Sumter’s New to the event is a raffle of items from historical district and is bounded by Hampeach artist. ton, Park and Salem avenues and West Cal“We’ve asked each artist to donate one houn Street. Admission to Saturday’s Art in item,” Klopfleisch said, “and the proceeds will the Park is free, and free parking is available benefit Willow Drive Elementary School, Palat Curtis and Crofts law firm and Grace Bapmetto Health Tuomey Hospice and the Shaw tist Church on Calhoun Street. HSNA volunOfficers’ Spouses’ Club.” teers with golf carts will be available for atThe roster of artists and crafters includes tendees who need assistance getting from several from Sumter, while many are from these areas to Memorial Park. Handicap parkneighboring and outside areas, she said, ing will be available on Park Avenue. which increases the number and genres of The 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Art in the Park will go items to choose from. The event is timed to on “rain or shine,” the committee said.

Entertainment 1. Kasino Club 2. Freed School of Performing Arts 3. Shaw Salseros 4. Martial Arts Center of Education - Fire Dragons Children’s Craft Center 5. Safe Kids Sumter County, Bright Colors - Prevention of Injury 6. Palmetto Project Children’s Health SC, Coloring Tent 7. Rembert Area Community Coalition, Bead Center 8. Sumter Fire Department, Color Safety 9. Sumter Police Department & Sumter County Sheriff’s Office - McGruff the Crime Dog 10. Puppet Show, Sumter Pilot Club 11. Story Time /Annette Asbill 12. Orbit Entertainment Frank Flipsty, Break Dancing 13. Red Cross, Face Painting (Faye’s Art) 14. Spouses of Shaw, Glitter Glam Tattoos 15. American Heritage Girls Troop SC 3005, Crafty Critters Community Corner / Food and Beverage 16. The Alston Wilkes Society 17. Choose Life 18. Friends of the Sumter County Library 19. *Willow Drive Elementary School 20. *Shaw Officers’ Spouses’ Club 21. *Palmetto Health Tuomey Hospice 22. Red Cross / BI LO 23. Rembert Area Community Coalition 24. Pilot Club Sumter 25. Carolina Helping Paws 26. Sumter County Active Lifestyles 27. Red White and Babies * Beneficiaries of proceeds from Art in the Park Art and Craft Vendors Alice Christman /Handmade Blankets Angels n’ Stars / Primitive Home Décor Barb Angel Lady / Handmade Angels Brianna Burgess / Paintings Broadstone Manor / Porch palaces, Pallet Art, Reimagined Antiques and Twig Furniture Carasmatic Creations / Painted Cookies Carolina Helping Paws / Crochet Blankets & Leashes Cork and Canvas / Canvas Paintings Crafts by Judith & Nana / Crafts, Oven Puller & Pictures Crafty Creations / Jewelry, Baskets and Art Prints Creative Shellie Designs / Artwork, Framed Digital & Handmade Jewelry Design by Kelley / Trendy Home Décor Don McLeod / Wood Bowls and Fish Fays Art / Pebble Boxes Jeweled Vases Glassy Gifts / Stained Glass & Fused Glass Gypsy Chicks Jewelry / Leather Cuffs Made from Recycled Materials Handcrafted Military Vehicles / Wood Military Replicas Heirloom Child / Ornaments, Quilts and Fabric Story Books Kim’s Creations / Stained Glass items, Stepping Stones, & Wind Chimes Liv N Lucy / Crocheted Items, Blankets, Hats and Boot Cuffs Lori’s Art Work / Canvas and Glass Meghan White / Fine Art and Mixed Media Melley’s Tonight/ Party Favors Michaels Wood Crafts / Mantle Clock, Cutting Boards, Wine Bottle Holders Millennium Studios / Studio Art & Paintings Pine Needle Basket / Handmade Pine Needle Baskets Old America / Handcrafted Furniture Sew Simple Creations / Quilts and Baby Accessories Shuckasoapo / Soaps & Body Scrubs Shudwe Farm Woods / Custom Jewelry, Knives and Copper Sculptures Souths Treasures / Chair Seat Repair Caning, Rush & Split Reed Sumter County Active Lifestyles / Wreaths Susan’s Living Art/ Air Plant Stand Globes Pendants, More Sweet Lina’s / Handmade Jewelry and Gifts Taylor’s Wood Works / Bird Houses Ten52 / Earrings & Accessories, Hand Painted Mugs /Glasses Treasured Memories / Original Prints and Photography Trinket Teko / Handmade Jewelry

Mystery plant is coffee substitute, waterfowl meal

BY JOHN NELSON Curator, USC Herbarium You could call this the “spiny, green, ping-pong ball plant” if you wanted, and why not?

It is actually a very common, perennial aquatic species found throughout most of eastern North America, although absent in southern Florida, often forming stands along pond and stream edges and along spring runs.

Clumps, which may be thick, come up from slender rhizomes. Its leaves tend to be long and bright green. When growing in deep water or at times of recent heavy stream flows, the leaves are slender and ribbon-like, swaying gracefully in the current.

The plants bloom in the spring and summer, when a flowering stalk emerges from the clump. These stalks, somewhat zigzagged, may be 2-3 feet tall at maturity. The flowers are quite small and essentially inconspicuous, but they are arranged in compact heads, or globes, or “balls,” at different points along the stalk. Female flowers form the lowest heads, sometimes up to 5 or 6 in a sequence. Several dozen flowers will be crowded into

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This week’s mystery plant in the cat-tail family has small blooms in spring and summer, but they are difficult to see because of the ball-like clumps, from which the blossoms appear. each head. Each flower is dark green, and bears a number of small curious bracts — not exactly petals — at its

apex. There is one elongated pistil emerging from the flower’s ovary, and as these ovaries mature with time, the bases of the pistils become hardened and spine-like. The overall effect then is a dense, round head that is somewhat prickly. The male flowers, even smaller than the female flowers, are also compacted into heads, and these are smaller than the female heads.

These are strung out on the stalk above and beyond the female heads below. If you use your imagination, you might find a bit of similarity between this species and our common cat-tail, and indeed, botanists place both in the same plant family.

In the early autumn, the female heads fully ripen, eventually shattering during the winter and releasing the mature, one-seeded fruits (still with the spine-like attachment). Waterfowl like to eat these fruits, and they’ve also been used by humans as a sort of wild grain, and even a coffee substitute. The plants are quite charming, and they make good additions to a pool or bog garden.

There is a little problem, though.

Here in the Southeast, our Mystery Plant is a true native species, and as

such, would be great for home gardening. However, in the recent past, a very similar species, but exotic and weedy, has been offered on the market. If you are interested in buying these plants at a gardening center, make sure that you are not buying the species called Sparganium erectum (oops, I’m giving away part of the answer now!). It’s hard to tell these two species apart, so you might want to consult with the friendly botanists at your local herbarium.

In any case, please remember never to discard aquatic plants that you have been growing into a nearby creek or pond: The potential for spreading invasive species is too high.

Answer: “American bur-reed,” Sparganium americanum John Nelson is the curator of the A.C. Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina, in the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia SC 29208. As a public service, the Herbarium offers free plant identifications. For more information, visit www.herbarium.org or call (803)777-8196, or email nelson@sc.edu.

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Sutherland returns to TV with ‘Designated Survivor’

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Kiefer Sutherland’s back! A hyper-charged blow-em-up of the apocalyptic variety, “Designated Survivor” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) isn’t “24.” But it will have to do.

Sutherland plays Tom Kirkman, the underappreciated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He’s passionate about poor people, wears glasses and likes to sport his old college sweatshirt. He may become the most prominent Cornell man on TV since Andy Bernard from “The Office.”

He’s so low on the totem pole he gets the assignment to be the “designated survivor” during the president’s State of the Union address, the guy kept back at the White House as a kind of grim insurance policy just in case of a terrible incident.

One big kaboom later, Kirkman has to assume the office of president and take on generals and spy agency hotshots who don’t quite think he’s up to the job.

Much like “24,” “Designated Survivor” moves the action between thriller stuff and intimate family drama. Natascha McElhone plays Tom’s loving, supportive and gorgeous wife.

Kal Penn, who left “House” to work in the real Obama White House, plays a reluctant speechwriter.

• “Lethal Weapon” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14) wins no points for originality. But it has something the DOA CBS reboot of “Rush Hour” never had: breezy chemistry between the leads.

Clayne Crawford (“Rectify”) is Martin Riggs, the griefstricken Navy SEAL-turneddetective who doesn’t seem to care if he lives or dies. Damon Wayans (“In Living Color”) portrays the 50-year-old Roger Murtaugh, a heart-attack survivor with a beautiful wife and three kids, including a surprise newborn who is the light of his life.

Their partnership doesn’t please their boss, Capt. Avery (Kevin Rahm, “Mad Men”).

But they seem to get results, chiefly by driving like maniacs and engaging in furious gunplay in every other scene.

Some viewers may balk at the depiction of Riggs as a veteran who talks about suicide eagerly and often. Not even

Wayans’ natural effervescence can distract us from that.

• “Speechless” (8:30 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) has a sweet enough story to stand on its own, but it can’t help going over the top. Minnie Driver stars as Maya DiMeo, manically driven to find the best school and setting for J.J. (Micah Fowler), her son with cerebral palsy. This involves moving the family from town to town, finally arriving in a posh California city way out of their price range that features a rich liberal high school that welcomes J.J. as part of its desperate efforts to “diversify.”

Every character is arch and needlessly exaggerated. Chief among them is Driver, who plays the “pushy” mother to the hilt and unbelievably so.

“Speechless” will get a lot of attention about being a show about a family supporting a son and a sibling with special needs. But it’s very much the Disney version.

TONIGHT’S SEASON PREMIERES • A generational divide on “Survivor” (8 p.m., CBS, TVPG).

• Breakfast clubbing on “The Goldbergs” (8 p.m., ABC, TVPG).

• A lost boy offers clues to a terror attack on “Law & Order: SVU” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

• Up on the roof on “Empire” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

• A trip to New York on “Modern Family” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

• A theme park product placement on “black-ish” (9:30 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

• An arsonist has links to the force on “Chicago P.D.” (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

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Kiefer Sutherland, left, stars as Tom Kirkman and Natascha McElhone stars as Alex Kirkman in “Designated Survivor,” premiering at 10 p.m. today on ABC. • Vengeance and bloodshed on “Gomorrah” (10 p.m., Sundance, TV-MA).

• Gretchen helps Jimmy deal with grief on “You’re the Worst” (10 p.m., FXX, TV-MA).

SERIES NOTES A rogue agent may be an arms dealer on “Blindspot” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-14) * Illusionists audition on “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-PG) * On

• “Big Brother” (9:30 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) concludes.

• “American Horror Story” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA) continues.

• An old friend confides in Elliot on the season finale of “Mr. Robot” (10 p.m., USA, TV14).

LATE NIGHT Wendy Williams is booked on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (11 p.m., Comedy Central) * Eric Andre and Catfish and the Bottlemen appear on “Conan” (11 p.m., TBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Kelly

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Chile Cheeseburgers Steamed in Beer

Addictive burger emerges from college concoction

BY SARA MOULTON The Associated Press The ancestor of this recipe was a beloved burger on the menu of a bar where I was a cook back in my college days.

Working on a flattop grill (the same surface used in diners to cook hash browns), we'd top the burger with a special mix of veggies, top the veggies with a slice of American cheese, douse the whole concoction with beer, then cover it with a dome lid and steam the burger until the cheese melted.

It was addictive — and I don't even like beer.

This recipe repurposes that burger with fresher ingredients and sharp cheddar. I call for ground chuck because it's not too lean. The higher percentage of fat makes the burger juicier and more flavorful. Whenever you add fat to a recipe, it's just going to taste better.

The poblanos are roasted for three reasons: to soften the chili's texture, to make it easier to remove the tough peel, and to develop a slight char taste. I recommend roasting them under the broiler, but if you have gas burners, you can place them right on top of a burner and

CHILE CHEESEBURGERS STEAMED IN BEER Start to finish: 1 hour (40 active) Servings: 6 1 large poblano (about 4 ounces) or one 4.5 ounce can chilies 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided plus extra oil for oiling the chile 2 cups sliced onion salt and black pepper 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1 1/2 tablespoons minced chipotle in adobo 1 1/2 pounds ground chuck, divided into 6 patties (shape them so that all of them will fit into one large skillet without touching) 6 ounces sliced cheddar cheese 1/2 cup beer 6 toasted buns Preheat the broiler. Lightly oil the chile on all sides and set it on a shelf about 4 inches from the heat source. Using tongs, turn the poblano often, until the skin is blackened on all sides, about 10 to 15 minutes.

Transfer the chile to a bowl, cover tightly with plastic wrap, and set it aside until it is cool enough to handle. When the chile is cool, peel and seed it and cut it into thin strips; put it back in the bowl.

In a large skillet cook the onion in 1 tablespoon of the oil, over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until

char them over a low flame. If you want to skip this step to save time, you can swap in canned chilies instead.

These burgers need to be cooked on a burner on top of the stove — not on a grill.

That's so the juices that accumulate in the bottom of the skillet can be deglazed with beer and turned into a "sauce" (more like drippings) to pour onto the burger at the end. If you're a beer lover, choose a robust brand, which will amp up the burger's flavor.

I can't pretend that this is a low-cal dish, but I do think it's a justifiable (and delicious) end-of-summer indulgence.

the onion is golden brown, about 8 to 10 minutes.

Add the cooked onion to the bowl with the chile and add salt and pepper to taste. Wipe out the skillet and set it aside.

In a small bowl stir together the mayonnaise, garlic and chipotle.

In the skillet, heat the remaining oil over medium high heat. Season the burgers on both sides with salt and pepper and add them to the skillet. Reduce the heat to medium and cook them for 2 minutes a side.

Transfer the burgers to a plate and pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the fat from the pan. Return the burgers to the pan and top each burger with one-sixth of the chile mixture, followed by a slice of cheese.

Pour the beer into the pan on top of the burgers and cover the pan with a lid. Reduce the heat to a simmer and let the burgers steam for 2 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the burgers are cooked to the desired degree of doneness (you can nick and peek inside one).

While the burgers are cooking, spread chipotle mayonnaise onto the bottom and top of each bun.

Transfer the cooked cheeseburgers to the bottom half of the buns. Turn up the heat in the skillet and boil the liquid until it is thickened. Spoon some of the reduced cooking liquid over each burger. Top with the remaining bun half.

Nutrition information per serving: 558 calories; 317 calories from fat; 35 g fat (11 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 96 mg cholesterol; 828 mg sodium; 27 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 5 g sugar; 34 g protein.

Football and ribs make perfect combination SUBMITTED BY BROOKDALE SUMTER With the season for football-watching parties here, this recipe for Anchorubbed Grilled Barbecue

Ribs with a Hint of Spice comes from Brookdale Sumter dining services director Marsha Jones.

Brookdale Sumter is an assisted living community at 1180 Wilson Hall Road.

ANCHO-RUBBED GRILLED BARBECUE RIBS WITH A DELICATE HINT OF SPICE Serves 10 Ingredients 5 lbs. pork spare ribs 4 1/2 tablespoons sugar, brown light 3/4 cup paprika, ground 1 tablespoon garlic, powder 2 1/4 teaspoons pepper, black ground 1 3/4 tablespoons onion powder Ingredients 1/2 cup vinegar, apple cider 1 cup water 2 cups ketchup 5 1/2 tablespoons sugar, granulated 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1/2 tablespoon black pepper, ground 1/2 tablespoon onion powder 1/2 tablespoon mustard, ground 10 sprigs basil, fresh In a bowl, combine and mix brown sugar, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder and black pepper. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Using the spice mixture, rub and completely cover the ribs. Place the ribs on a pan and completely cover them with foil. Cook ribs for approximately 1.5 hours.

For the barbecue sauce, bring the water, ketchup, vinegar, sugar, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, pepper, onion powder and mustard to a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat to mediumlow; simmer, stirring until thickened, about 30 minutes.

Remove the ribs from the oven. Let them rest for about 5 minutes. Discard the foil and place on a grill or broiler. Because the ribs are cooked, char will take place quickly, monitor closely during this stage.

As the ribs continue to cook on the grill, baste them with the barbcue sauce. Use a pastry brush during this process making sure the ribs are coated evenly on both sides. Continue to turn the ribs during the grilling process.

Place the ribs on a cutting board and cut into desired portion size. Remember to keep the bones on each portion as this is one part of serving ribs.

Serve the ribs immediately to avoid temperature loss. The ribs should be drizzled with barbecue sauce and extra sauce served on the side as a condiment.

Keep your brats hot and flavorful with a beer bath

BY FAMILY FEATURES Bratwursts are a backyard barbecue staple, and a brat hot tub is the perfect solution to feeding a large group. The tub keeps the brats hot and full of flavor until your guests are ready to snag one. To add some variety to your gathering, you can even create multiple tubs, each designated for a different brat flavor.

This recipe shows how easy and deli-

cious this trick can be, especially when you start with a burst of flavor from a favorite like Johnsonville's Firecracker Bratwurst, Hatch Green Chile or Jalapeno Cheddar.

BRAT HOT TUB Prep time: 30 minutes Servings: 6 1 large (11-by-9-inch-by-2 3/8-inch) aluminum

foil baking pan 2-3 cans (12 ounces) beer 2 tablespoons butter 1 medium yellow or white onion, sliced 6 Johnsonville Brats, plus additional (optional) Heat grill to 150 F. Place baking pan directly on grill. Pour in beer and add butter and onion slices.

Grill brats until juicy and golden-brown, approximately 20-25 minutes, turning occasionally over low flame.

Serve immediately, placing any remaining brats into steaming hot tub to keep warm.

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