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Armstrong will be stripped of titles Anti-doping office acts against the seven-time Tour de France champ. By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer
AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday night it will strip Lance Armstrong of his unprecedented seven Tour de France titles after he declared he was finished fighting the drug charges that threaten his legacy as one of the greatest cyclists of all time. Travis Tygart, USAArmstrong DA’s chief executive, said Armstrong would also be hit with a lifetime ban today. Still to be heard from was the sport’s governing body, the International Cycling Union, which had backed Armstrong’s legal challenge to USADA’s authority. Armstrong, who retired last year, declined to enter USADA’s arbitration process — his last option — because he said he was weary of fighting accusations that have dogged him for years. He has consistently pointed to the hundreds of drug tests that he has passed as proof of his innocence during his extraordinary run of Tour titles stretching from19992005. “There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, ‘Enough is enough.’ For me, that time is now,” Armstrong said in a statement sent See ARMSTRONG, Page 2A
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Bids and dreams at county auction Taxing bodies stand to gain $854,000 By JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES jandes@timesleader.com
Justin Wock, of Lake Road Enterprises, purchased the former Dominic’s on the Lake restaurant at Harveys Lake for $220,000 during Thursday’s back-tax auction.
processed, she will shovel out the debris and complete most of the repairs herself. If all goes as planned, she’ll turn a profit renting out both sides of the unit. The prior owner paid $72,000 for the property in 2005, and it’s assessed at $88,000. “I guess I made out good,” she said. “If you don’t take chances, you won’t know.” A total 109 of 260 properties sold, generating $854,533 in revenue that will be returned to taxing bodies, according to Northeast Revenue Service LLC, the county’s tax claim operator. Bids started at under $1,000 for most properties
WILKES-BARRE – Larksville resident Jennifer Malak came to Thursday’s Luzerne County backtax auction hoping to buy an Edwardsville doubleblock she’s been eyeing. The Hillside Avenue structure is solid but likely needs a new roof and other repairs, so she limited herself to $10,000. Malak fidgeted in her folding chair in the packed courthouse rotunda because her chosen property was one of many that prompted bidding wars. The other interested parties dropped off when she offered the winning bid of $4,800. Once the deed and other legal paperwork are See AUCTION, Page 14A
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Candidate said he spent long time contemplating issue before changing his opinion. By ANDREW M. SEDER aseder@timesleader.com
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ilkes University residence hall assistant Ike Egbuchulam, right, of Mountain Lakes, N.J., helps move in new students Thursday morning at the school’s campus in Wilkes-Barre. Across the city, at King’s College, Michelle Oliva, above, a student volunteer with the admissions office, pushes a cart full of an incoming freshman’s items into Holy Cross Hall. The scene played out at colleges throughout the region on Thursday. Most area universities will start classes on Monday and some of them, including Wilkes and Misericordia University in Dallas Township, are seeing a record or near record numbers of freshmen this semester.
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mit to (the movie) I stand the chance to lose, but also gain something that is successful.” WILKES-BARRE – Wyoming Valley Ruane is one of several investors from business owner Mary Ruane knew from the Luzerne and Monroe counties in the motime she saw the trailer for the movie vie, a film by Paul Borghese that stars “GOAT” that it would be a success. actors William DeMeo, Armand Assante, It wasn’t long after that Ruane, who owns Century Security Service and Master Ice-T, Ja Rule and several others who have Travel in Wilkes-Barre, decided to invest in appeared in the mob movie “Goodfellas” and “The Sopranos” HBO TV series. the movie, due out in early 2013. The movie focuses on main character “I was completely sold,” Ruane said. “This is something I’ve never done before. I felt if I threw my hat in the ring to comSee MOVIE, Page 14A
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Like President Barack Obama, Matt Cartwright’s views on gay marriage evolved this year. And now the Democratic congressional candidate from Moosic says he supports the right of gay people to marry, though he does not believe religious leaders Cartwright should be required to perform the ceremonies. The Catholic father of three said he comes from a generation where sexual preferences and gender issues were not discussed, and until he became a political candidate, he never really thought hard about the question of gay marriage. In a meeting at The Times Leader in July, Cartwright said he did not share the president’s recently announced support for See CARTWRIGHT, Page 14A
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CHICAGO — Mike O’Malley is 55; wife Sharon is 53. So what? So they’re on opposite sides of the age cutoff in Mitt Romney’s Medicare plan, and that could create a bumpy transition for the suburban Chicago couple and others like them. It would be the difference between being in the traditional program for the elderly and a less certain future. As the issue rises in importance in the presidential campaign, it’s leading to inevitable comparisons for couples and siblings who are just a few years apart — and sometimes perhaps See MEDICARE, Page 14A
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a parking lot at 218 Roosevelt St. and found Keyes fighting on the ground with another man, DICKSON CITY – Four state Quamaine Cannon. Both men troopers were injured Thursday were placed under arrest upon police arrival, according to evening as they attempted to police. arrest a drug suspect outside Sgt. Shawn Brown of the the Applebee’s restaurant in Edwardsville Police DepartDickson City, state police at ment said he saw Keyes pull a Dunmore reported. plastic baggie containing a According to state police: The troopers from the Troop green vegetable matter from his pocket and drop it on the R Vice Unit were conducting a ground. The vegetable matter buy bust operation at about 6:10 p.m. in the Viewmont Mall tested positive for the presence of marijuana, police said. parking lot in front of the resKeyes was arraigned Thurstaurant. The 26-year-old male suspect was inside his 2011 Jeep day before District Judge Paul Liberty as the troopers boxed in Roberts, Kingston, on misdemeanor charges of possession the vehicle in a parking stall of marijuana and possession of and tried to remove him from drug paraphernalia and a sumthe vehicle. The suspect accelmary charge of disorderly conerated forward and backward, duct, engaging in fighting. He striking the four troopers, who was released on unsecured bail. were around the vehicle trying A preliminary hearing has to remove the suspect. The been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on vehicle also struck a state police cruiser and another parked Wednesday. vehicle. The suspect was reBUTLER TWP. – Police moved and a physical altercaarrested Daniel Lee Tiboni, 28, tion ensued. of Drums, and charged him The four troopers and the with making terroristic threats, suspect, who were not identisimple assault and harassment fied, were taken to CMC and after an alleged domestic disMoses Taylor hospitals for pute at Avalanche Lane at 12:36 treatment. a.m. Thursday. Tiboni was arraigned ThursHANOVER TWP. – Eric day at Luzerne County Central Fritz, owner of the Sans Souci Court, Wilkes-Barre, before Parkway Carwash, reported someone damaged a cash meter District Judge Andrew Barilla. box valued at $2,000 sometime He was remanded to Luzerne County Correctional Facility overnight Tuesday into after he was unable to post Wednesday. $5,000 percentage bail. • Catherine Jones of Main A preliminary hearing has Road reported Wednesday that been scheduled for 9 a.m. Monsomeone stole an HP Touch day before District Judge DaPad computer from her home. According to police, Jones said niel O’Donnell, Sugarloaf Township. there were no signs of forced entry into the home. PLAINS TWP. – John Coffay reported at 6 p.m. Wednesday HAZLETON – Police are that someone entered his propsearching for a man who erty at 18 Hilldale Ave. and took robbed the Uni-Mart at 285 S. the copper piping and a water Church St. at knifepoint on meter from the basement. Wednesday. The basement was flooded Police said a white male and the Plains Fire Department wearing a bandanna over his assisted in pumping the water face entered the store at approximately 10:07 p.m., showed out, police said. a knife and demanded money FOSTER TWP. – State police from the clerk. He then fled on charged Robert Walter Pena mountain bike with an undergast, 23, of Foster Township, determined amount of cash. with two misdemeanor counts Police said the man was of corruption of minors and two wearing a white T-shirt, black misdemeanor counts of tattooor dark-colored shorts, brown ing a minor before District shoes and a dark-green camouflage baseball cap. Anyone with Judge Gerald Feissner, Freeland, on Tuesday. information about the robbery State police allege Penderis asked to contact the Hazleton Police Department at 459-4940. gast gave tattoos to a 15-yearold and a 16-year-old without permission from their parents WILKES-BARRE TWP. – State police said Arthur Milton on Aug. 4. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Robins, 58, of Tobyhanna, had Sept. 19 at 8 a.m. before Judge to be extricated from his vehiGerald Feissner. cle after it rolled over on the Interstate 81 off-ramp at exit HANOVER TWP. – Police 168, Highland Park Boulevard said they charged Peter F. at 10:40 a.m. Thursday. McCoy Sr., 28, of Wilkes-Barre, State police said Robins lost with drug and traffic charges control of the Chevrolet Astro after a traffic stop at the HanovMinivan around a turn and er Village Apartment Complex rolled the vehicle into a grass at 2:20 a.m. Sunday. median. He was taken to GeisPolice said they stopped inger Wyoming Valley Medical McCoy after he allegedly drove Center for treatment of unthe wrong way as he entered known injuries, state police the complex, and during the said. stop he threw a clear plastic State police said they are bag containing a small amount continuing to investigate the of suspected marijuana. crash. He was arraigned Tuesday before District Judge Joseph EDWARDSVILLE – Police said they charged James Chris- Halesey, Hanover Township, and charged with possession of topher Keyes, 19, of Bronx, a small amount of marijuana, N.Y., with possession of maripossession of drug paraphernajuana and fighting after an lia, driving with a suspended alleged fight on Roosevelt license and summary traffic Street on Thursday morning. Police said they responded to charges.
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to The Associated Press. “I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999,” he said. “The toll this has taken on my family and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today - finished with this nonsense.” USADA reacted quickly and treated Armstrong’s decision as an admission of guilt, hanging the label of drug cheat on an athlete who was a hero to thousands for overcoming life-threatening testicular cancer and for his foundation’s support for cancer research.
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Police search a Can-Am Commander XT all-terrain vehicle that was apparently stolen Thursday night from Two Jacks Cycle & Powersports in Wilkes-Barre. The vehicle was found abandoned in the middle of Parkview Circle after being driven through a fence at the dealership.
hicle appeared to be one of the dealership’s demonstration units. It sells for around $15,000 new, Davis said. He said it did not appear as if anything else was stolen from the dealership. A key was left in the ignition of the vehicle. Davis told police it is “very uncommon” for him to leave the keys in an ATV. Davis said the business is equipped with alarms that sounded when the yard was entered as well as several surveillance cameras. The incident was captured by the business’ surveillance cam-
eras, Davis said, but the video footage did not have adequate definition for him or police to identify the person who removed the ATV. Davis said the vehicle theft was a first for his business, but that crime has increased in the area recently. He said the streetlights on Parkview Circle have not worked for several months, which has made the situation worse. “This has become a very tough neighborhood,” Davis said. “I think the police need a little more help down here.”
“It is a sad day for all of us who love sport and athletes,” Tygart said. “It’s a heartbreaking example of win at all costs overtaking the fair and safe option. There’s no success in cheating to win.” Tygart said the agency can strip the Tour titles, though Armstrong disputed that as he insisted his decision is not an admission of drug use, but a refusal to enter an arbitration process he believes is unfair. “USADA cannot assert control of a professional international sport and attempt to strip my seven Tour de France titles,” he said. “I know who won those seven Tours, my teammates know who won those seven Tours, and everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours.” USADA maintains that Armstrong has used banned sub-
stances as far back as 1996, including the blood-booster EPO and steroids as well as blood transfusions — all to boost his performance. Included in USADA’s evidence were emails written by Armstrong’s former U.S. Postal Service teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after a positive drug test. Landis’ emails to a USA Cycling official detailed allegations of a complex doping program on the team. USADA also said it had 10 former Armstrong teammates ready to testify against him. Other than suggesting they include Landis and Tyler Hamilton, both of whom have admitted to doping offenses, the agency has refused to say who they are or specifically what they would say.
Video of Curiosity landing online The Associated Press
PASADENA, Calif. — Viewers can now relive the drama of the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars with a new NASA video detailing the final moments of touchdown. The space agency on Thursday posted the video on its website embedded with audio from mission control. It starts with the heat shield falling away. The ground grows larger in view as Curiosity is lowered by cables inside an ancient Martian crater. “Touchdown confirmed” is heard followed by cheers. Curiosity is the first spacecraft to record a landing on another planet. The six-wheel rover arrived on Aug. 5 to begin a twoyear mission to examine whether the Martian environment was hospitable for microbial life. NASA previously released a
By TOM HUNTINGTON Times Leader Correspondent
NESCOPECK – Council acted Thursday night to increase its police force to five officers by voting 6-0 to retain Donald Morgan of McAdoo and John J. Stoker of Berwick on a part-time basis. Under the terms of a current
collective bargaining agreement, Paul Nye, chairman of the police committee, said Morgan and Stoker will be scheduled to work a maximum of 28 hours per month, at a probationary rate of $14.25 per hour. Morgan is currently employed by the Weatherly Police Department but will be available to work nights and weekends. The same situation prevails with Stoker, who is employed at the Berwick Hospital but also formerly served as an officer in Catawissa. Responding to a question, Nye
said there is no movement at this time to hire a police chief. Mike Eyer remains as the officer-incharge. Earlier this year, council approved a settlement with former Chief James Desidoro, changing his status from discharged to laid off and providing him with a payout of $6,500, plus five paid vacation days. The settlement was approved by council, Desidoro and the Teamsters Union. In other matters: • Councilman Richard Powlus reported state Rep. Karen Bo-
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Nescopeck hires 2 new part-time officers, bring force to total of 5 No move is made to hire a police chief. Mike Eyer is still the officer-in-charge.
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WILKES-BARRE – Someone attempted to steal a large all-terrain vehicle from Two Jacks Cycle & Powersports on Coal Street, driving the vehicle through a chain link fence before abandoning it on Parkview Circle behind the dealership shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday. Police searched the area around the Sherman Hills Apartment Complex and detained the driver of a silver Pontiac on Parkview Circle for more than an hour as they reviewed footage captured by the dealership’s surveillance cameras, but did not make any arrests. Tire tracks led from inside the dealership property to a section of the barbed-wire-topped fence surrounding the yard where vehicles are stored, which had pulled away from the fence posts and hung loosely, and towards Parkview Circle. A thick metal wire had snared around three of the tires of the stolen ATV, a camouflage two-seat Can-Am Commander XT. Bill Davis, owner of Two Jacks Cycle & Powersports, said the ve-
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well, the need to make application by Oct. 31 for grant money from the federal Housing and Urban Development agency for street improvement work. • Nye clarified the borough is not looking to regionalize its police services, but rather is considering a regional agreement on mutual aid. He said this matter pertains to a letter sent to the borough by Robert Kishbaugh, Salem Township police chief, which was discussed at the Aug.14 meeting.
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LOCAL Claim against parents miffs Toohil Opponent Ransom Young says state rep’s mom and dad have bad tax record.
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he Misericordia University community dedicated Michael and T Tina MacDowell Hall, the newest
building on campus, on Thursday to acknowledge the leadership and accomplishments of the president and the first lady. “To put our name on this lovely new residence hall and classroom building is more than an honor – it is the nicest gift we have ever received,” President MacDowell said. “However, it is hardly ours’ alone. If all the names of everyone who has worked so hard and strived to make Misericordia what it is today were placed on the façade of this building, it would need to be 12 stories high,” he added. MacDowell announced in April they will retire June 30, 2013 after serving 15 years. The Board of Trustees expressed its gratitude for the couple’s leadership by naming the new building in their honor.
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Freshman state Rep. Tarah Toohil’s opponent in the November election has launched an attack on the tax payment record of Toohil’s parents, accusing them of “blatant disregard of for their community.” Ransom Young, a Democratic Butler Township supervisor challenging Toohil in the 116th District, based the attack on a tax sale notice published in The Times Leader on Friday. It listed two parcels of vacant land owned
by Toohil’s parents, Peter and Barbara Toohil, as eligible for tax sale on Sept. 20. Young published the accusation in a press release sent to The Times Leader and on his campaign Facebook page. According to county records, the properties in question are parcels of vacant land on either side of Peter and Barbara Toohil’s home on Old Turnpike Road, where Tarah Toohil also lives. Both parcels have since been removed from the tax sale list after the delinquent 2010 property taxes were paid. Toohil, R-Butler Township, rebutted the accusation, calling it “an all new low in politics” and accusing Young of “attack(ing) my mother and my father, private ci-
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tizens, for political gain.” She accused Young of defaming her parents and said her residence was never on the delinquent list. Luzerne County records show no delinquent taxes are owed on Peter and Barbara Toohil’s home. “I demand that Mr. Young cease and desist from telling lies about my parents,” Toohil said in a statement. “A public apology to my mother and father is in order.
My mother and father are good peopleandtheyarenotpartofthe public eye.” The tax sale notice published Friday reported the Tax Bureau’s total claim on the properties, including 2012 taxes and recording fees, as $5,623 for one property and $5,015 for the other. Luzerne County records, current as of Tuesday, show Peter and Barbara Toohil paid $577 to clear the 2010 taxes for one property on Aug. 14, after the county Tax Claim Bureau had submitted its tax sale notice to The Times Leader for publication. They paid $730 to clear their 2010 taxes on the second parcel on Tuesday, after the advertisement had appeared in the newspaper. The Toohils still owed $1,630
Low oxygen kills hundreds of fish in Dallas Township pond
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Run/walk honors Kase
The Kingston/Forty Fort Firefighters Charitable Association will be hosting a 5k run and walk this Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Kingston Recreation Center, Third Avenue. The event is being held in memory of Kingston assistant fire chief Fred Kase, who passed away in 2011 from lung cancer. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. The registration fee is $20. Money will go to the charitable association to fund community projects as well as a Luzerne County Community College scholarship in Kase’s name. WILKES-BARRE
Donnini UNICO leader
David M. Donnini of Redondo Beach, Calif., was sworn in as UNICO National’s President for the 201213 fiscal year by outgoing President Glenn Pettinato of Carbondale. The convention was held at the Marco Island Marriott in Marco Island, Fla. A native of the Wyoming Valley, Donnini joined the Donnini Wilkes-Barre chapter of UNICO in 2001 and held numerous offices and was active in committee work within the chapter including treasurer and 1st vice president. In 2005 he relocated to Redondo Beach and joined the Los Angeles Chapter of UNICO. A businessman, Donnini owned and operated Donnini Entertainment, owned and operated tanning salons in Pennsylvania, and is a Realtor. UNICO members work to support charitable, educational, scientific and literary projects while promoting Italian heritage and combating negative stereotyping. HARRISBURG
Farm acres protected
The Pennsylvania Agricultural Land Preservation Board on Thursday announced the protection of an additional 2,358 acres on 27 farms from development through the state’s farmland preservation program. Among the farms protected was the Elizabeth and Marvin Shaffer farm, a 74.24-acre crop farm in Black Creek Township. The Shaffers were paid $256,128, or $3,450 per acre, for placing their farm into easement. Board spokesman Will Nichols said the figure is the difference between the land’s value as farmland and its development value.
ononepropertyand$1,484onthe other in delinquent 2011 taxes as of the close of the business day Wednesday,buttheparcelsareno longer eligible for tax sale because they cannot be posted for sale until they have been in delinquency for two years. After he was informed of the payments, Young stood by his earlier accusation. “When you’re an adult living with your parents you step up and help out your parents in a time of need,” he said. “… I have nothing to gain by them not paying their taxes. The only thing I have to gain as a township supervisor is having more money for the township and the school district having more money to pay their expenses.”
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Wilkes-Barre police await extradition of Sean Flavin. By EDWARD LEWIS elewis@timesleader.com
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A fish kill was discovered in a pond along Hildebrandt Road in Dallas Township on Wednesday. Approximately 200 bluegill, bullhead catfish and largemouth bass were found floating in the unnamed, privately owned pond by area residents. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and Department of Environmental Protection investigated the fish kill and found it had natural causes and was not related to the nearby construction of a natural gas pipeline. DEP said it determined the fish kill was caused by low dissolved-oxygen levels. Fish and Boat Commission Waterways Conservation Officer John Cummings said low oxygen levels are not uncommon for this season.
District drops Scarantino-linked program Hazleton Area’s boss says the training system didn’t produce the expected results. By MARK GUYDISH mguydish@timesleader.com
HAZLE TWP. – Hazleton Area School District dropped a training program provided by Step by Step Learning, a company recently linked loosely to former Pittston Area Superintendent Ross Scarantino. Hazleton Area Superintendent Francis Antonelli confirmed Thursday that the contract was not renewed, and said it was because the program was not providing expected results. “With money being very scarce, we have to make decisions about program effectiveness vs. cost effectiveness,” Antonelli said, “and this just didn’t add up for us.” Administrators at several school districts have said Scarantino has called them on behalf of Step by Step Learning, though his relationship with the company is unclear.
Wilkes-Barre Area recently used about half of a $623,733 literacy grant to contract with Step by Step, but Superintendent Jeff Namey said that, while Scarantino made an initial call suggesting the district consider the company, he was not involved in discussions with the company or the decision to contract with it. Scarantino pleaded guilty to federal charges he accepted money from a contractor in exchange for helping the contractor land district work. He served 13 months in prison and is currently on two years supervised release. His plea led to the loss of his state pension and a substantial retirement payout he could have received from the district. Antonelli said Scarantino never contacted him or the district. Nor would he need to. The district used federal stimulus money to contract with Step by Step Learning in 2009, under a prior administration, Antonelli said. When the stimulus money ran out, the district used federal money provided under Title I, a program aimed to aid disadvantaged students struggling with reading and literacy. “To date, the program has cost us
$3.25 million,” Antonelli said. Not renewing the contract will save the district $234,000. Step by Step Learning specializes in providing extensive training to teachers and administrators on how to improve literacy outcomes for early grades, focusing on pre-kindergarten through second grade. The goal is to catch and correct problems early, reducing the need for remediation and special education services later. Antonelli said the district is not discontinuing the effort, but he believes enough teachers have been trained, and any additional training can be obtained from the Luzerne Intermediate Unit, a Kingston-based, state-formed agency providing a variety of services to area districts. “We’re not abandoning this approach,” he said. “We just believe we can do it at no additional cost.” Step by Step Learning is a limited liability corporation based in Whitehall, and is not affiliated with Step by Step Inc., a local nonprofit that provides services for children and adults with developmental disabilities and mental illness.
Firefighter injured battling blaze at W-B house By EDWARD LEWIS elewis@timesleader.com
WILKES-BARRE – A city firefighter was injured while battling a blaze at 134 Dana St. Thursday morning that was later found to be intentionally set. Fire Chief Jay Delaney said the firefighter, whose name was not released, suffered a minor injury while “making an interior attack.” The injured firefighter was transported to a local hospital, Delaney said. Firefighters responded to the two-story house that has two apartments just be-
fore 5 a.m. Delaney said there was heavy fire on the first floor. “The crew made a good interior attack knocking the fire down quickly,” Delaney said. Occupants of a second floor apartment escaped unharmed. Delaney said no one was found on the first floor. An investigation into the cause of the fire by city fire inspector Capt. Alan Klapat determined the blaze was intentionally set, Delaney said. The case has been
turned over to city police. A “for sale” sign by McDermott and McDermott Real Estate is posted in the front yard. Luzerne County property records say Koba Bukvaidze of Blackman Street purchased the house in November 2009. Most of the windows at the house were smashed, with broken glass covering the sidewalk. Boards were placed covering the window openings during the day Thursday. No other injuries were reported. Firefighters cleared the scene at about 7 a.m.
Sean Patrick Flavin, captured in Watertown, Conn. on robbery charges in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday, had served 18 months in jail on gun theft charges in southern Florida. Flavin, 33, was charged in Connecticut on Thursday with interfering with a police officer after a nearly fivehour standoff at a farm house in Watertown. He also is being held in Connecticut as a fugitive from justice on the arrest warrant charging him with robbing a Movies 14 clerk at gunpoint on East Northampton Street on Sunday night. CitypoliceallegeFlavinwasarmed with a handgun Flavin and threatened Colin Henry as he left the ticket box office at about 10:30 p.m. Flavin demanded the money bag and told Henry not to watch him leave, according to the criminal complaint. A security camera recorded Flavin pacing in the parking garage attached to the movie theater lobby before the robbery. The search for Flavin began when city police Detective Charles Jensen got a tip from Lydia Naperkowski, who recognized Flavin from a picture that was released to the media on Monday, according to the criminal complaint. Naperkowski turned over a money bag she found under a child’s play pen in her residence. Flavin had lived in Connecticut before moving to Port Saint Lucie, Fla. in the early 2000s. An officer with the Port Saint Lucie Police Department said Thursday that Flavin has a list of offenses from 2001 to 2008, including harassment by telephone, grand theft and violating a court order. He was also a victim of an assault in 2004. Records of the Florida Department of Corrections say Flavin served 18 months of a three-year sentence imposed in January 2005 on charges of grand theft of a firearm and false information to a pawn broker. He was released in October 2006. Watertown police Lt. Mark Raimo did not return a message for information on Thursday. The Town Times newspaper on its website reported Thursday that Flavin is expected to be extradited to Wilkes-Barre in about two weeks. Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said she is waiting to hear if Flavin voluntarily agrees to be returned to Wilkes-Barre or if he fights extradition.
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Romney plan: Drill, baby, drill 2
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Candidate says move would create 3 million jobs, make U.S. energy independent. By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW DALY The Associated Press
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Restoration or ruination?
Photos made available by the Centro de estudios Borjanos show the 20th century Ecce Homo-style fresco of Christ before (top) and after amateur artist Celia Gimenez, 80, restored it in the church in the Spanish town of Borja. The incident made national news and was a trending topic Thursday with some Twitter users dubbing it Ecce Mono, meaning ‘behold the monkey’ instead of ‘behold man. ‘ DARBYTOWN, PA.
Corbett river trip protested
nvironmentalists have made some waves for Pennsylvania Gov. Tom E Corbett as he set out on a two-day
kayak tour of the upper Delaware River. The Pocono Record reported that activists opposed to gas drilling used signs and boats to confront the governor as he paddled from Darbytown on Thursday. Corbett planned to travel through Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties to promote the state’s natural resources and learn about the waterway.
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Immigrant plan opposed
An informal adviser to Republican Mitt Romney is representing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees suing the Obama administration over its plan to stop deporting many young illegal immigrants and grant them work permits. Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, filed the lawsuit on behalf of 10 ICE employees Thursday in federal court in Dallas. Kobach also is representing Hazleton in its six-year battle to force illegal immigrants out of town. The 22-page filing contends the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals plan violates federal law and forces ICE employees to break the law by not arresting certain illegal immigrants. WASHINGTON
Afghan attacks examined
American and Afghan officials are expanding the range of explanations for a surge in “insider attacks” on U.S. troops, adding on Wednesday the theory that the burden of fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan combined with the summer heat may have prompted more Afghans soldiers and police to turn their guns on their American partners this summer. Whatever the underlying reasons, the attacks are taking a toll and raising questions about the risk of American and other coalition troops working side by side with Afghan troops as advisers, mentors and trainers. The top commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, Marine Gen. John R. Allen, said Thursday that while the reasons for the killings are not fully understood, the effect of Ramadan fasting is likely among the causes. ALBANY, N.Y.
Lennon killer denied parole
John Lennon’s killer was denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before a parole board, New York corrections officials said. Mark David Chapman, 57, was denied parole by a three-member board after a hearing Wednesday, the state Department of Corrections said Thursday. The transcript of his latest hearing wasn’t immediately released. Chapman shot Lennon in December 1980 outside the Manhattan apartment building where the former Beatle lived. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. The musician, singer and songwriter was 40.
HOBBS, N.M. — Seeking to reset his economic message, Republican Mitt Romney pledged Thursday to create 3 million jobs and more than $1 trillion in revenue by ramping up offshore oil drilling and giving states more control over energy production on federal land. Romney, reviving a long-elusive goal pushed by presidents and presidential candidates for decades, said his plans would make the U.S., along with Canada and Mexico, energy independent by 2020. “This is not some pie in the
sky kind of thing,” Romney told voters in Hobbs, the heart of New Mexico’s oil and gas industry. “This is a real achievable objective.” The cornerstone of Romney’s plan is opening up more areas for offshore oil drilling, including in the mid-Atlantic, where it is currently banned. He also wants to give states the power to establish all forms of energy production on federal lands, a significant shift in current policy that could face strong opposition in Congress. His proposals make little mention of renewable sources of energy, like wind and solar, backed by President Barack Obama. Romney has deep ties to big oil and raised more than $7 million from industry executives during a campaign fundraiser in Texas earlier this week. Obama’s campaign also be-
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Mitt Romney shakes hands Thursday during a campaign event at Watson Truck and Supply in Hobbs, N.M.
gan a new push on the economy Thursday with a television advertisement featuring former President Bill Clinton. In the ad, Clinton speaks directly to the camera and says voters face a “clear choice” over which candidate will return the nation to
full employment. “We need to keep going with his plan,” Clinton says of Obama in the ad, which will run in eight battleground states. The former president also draws a connection between Obama’s policies for strength-
Some species such as monkeys using set of enclosed trails to travel throughout property
War driving people from their homes in growing numbers as safe havens dwindle.
Experts question Spanier’s defense
Ex-PSU president making national media rounds, saying he’s victim of witch hunt.
By BEN HUBBARD Associated Press
KAFAR HAMRA, Syria — Civil war has chased Fatima Ghorab and her brood of some two dozen women and children across Syria in search of safe havens that keep disappearing in the booms of artillery shells. They now shelter in an unfinished apartment in this Aleppo suburb, crowded into two rooms with a few plastic chairs and some thin “Our house mattresses. If their neighbors was full didn’t bring them bread, and our have shop was they’d none. As her daughfull. Now ters and daughwe’re 100 ters-in-law and degrees their kids tuck a simple below ze- into lunch of tomaro.” toes and cuFatima Ghorab cumbers, meat Syrian refugee canned and apricot jam, the 56year-old housewife from Damascus struggles to comprehend what has become of her life. “Before all this we were living well,” said Ghorab, whose family ran a supermarket in the capital until it and their home were torched during a government attack on rebels. “Our house was full and our shop was full. Now we’re 100 degrees below zero.” Across Syria, hundreds of thousands of people have been thrown into a life on the move by the widening fight between President Bashar Assad’s forces and rebels seeking to end his rule. About 1.2 million people are displaced inside Syria, according to the United Nations, on top of a quarter-million who have fled to neighboring countries. Many have picked up and fled multiple times, pushed from town to town by fighting. When they find a place that appears safe, they pile into half-built apartment buildings or sleep on tile floors in schools or on the dirt in olive groves. In tow, they bring shell-shocked children. For many, no place feels safe as the regime ramps up its use of attack helicopters and fighter jets, carrying out near daily airstrikes on towns and villages. While some towns are largely destroyed and empty, others are packed. One day, villagers watch refugees from elsewhere flood in. The next day, they themselves clear out. More than 17 months of violence in Syria have ravaged entire communities across this country of 22 million and killed more than 20,000, anti-regime activists say.
ening the middle class and the nation’s economic prosperity during his time in office, when the U.S. economy was thriving. Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith called Romney’s energy plan “backward.” “This isn’t a recipe for energy independence,” Smith said. “It’s just another irresponsible scheme to help line the pockets of big oil while allowing the U.S to fall behind and cede the clean energy sector to China.” Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Isaac could force a shakeup of the security plans for the GOP convention in Tampa, because about half of the expected officers come from other parts of Florida and some could be forced to stay home for the storm, authorities said. The storm is forecast to start affecting South Florida on Monday and could reach the Tampa area by Tuesday.
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
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Visitors to the Philadelphia Zoo look at a red-capped mangabey sitting in a protected path Monday. The zoo is in the process of building a trail network that will allow animals from similar habitats to travel among the exhibits.
Philly Zoo blazes trails
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PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Zoo is letting some animals take a walk on the wild side — sort of. Species like monkeys, lemurs and orangutans can now use a set of enclosed trails on the 42-acre zoo to leave the confines of their exhibits and travel throughout the property. The network of protected pathways is designed to enrich the animals’ lives by giving them the ability to explore and see and smell new things. It’s also aimed at enhancing the visitor experience, allowing zoo-goers to see creatures in unexpected places — such as in the trees. “We believe that the opportunity to travel, to explore, to choose to go toward things that are interesting, move away from things, really control their own experience ... is going to be incredibly enriching for the animals in our care,” said Andrew Baker, the zoo’s chief operating officer. Last week, the zoo opened the Great Ape Trail, which allows orangutans to roam along an overhead walkway through a tree grove. Small monkeys and lemurs have used the Treetop Trail for about a year, scampering through mesh enclosures suspended about 11 feet to 16 feet off the ground. “They get to see everything that’s hap-
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Mongoose lemurs run on a path above a walkway Monday at Philadelphia Zoo.
pening in the zoo,” general curator Kim Lengel said. “They get to travel, they can climb trees, and they really take advantage of it. And if they’re tired of it, they go back inside.” The 700-foot-long Treetop Trail snakes around the zoo’s main outdoor plaza, and visitors have been surprised and delighted to see a red-capped mangabey in their midst. Linzie Neary recently brought her 21month-old twins and 4-year-old son to the zoo and spotted a monkey using the trail. Neary described it as a more realistic experience than seeing the animals behind glass. She praised zoo officials for the initiative. “I like that they’re trying to bring us closer,” she said.
HARRISBURG — The story being told by Penn State president Graham Spanier as he defends himselfagainstaccusationsthathe covered up a sex abuse allegation runs contrary into his own reputation as a detail-oriented manager. But experts in university governance also suggest that if Spanier truly didn’t know what was going on, he showed a willful ignorance and a disturbing lack of curiosity about a scandal that stood to ruin Penn State’s reputation. Spanier In a series of interviews this week and at a Philadelphia news conference, Spanier and his lawyers have repeatedly portrayed him as somewhat on the sidelines, completely unaware that complaints about former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky were serious enough to warrant much more than passing attention. The experts acknowledge the job of president requires dealing with a continual stream of problems, but they are raising doubts that Spanier took a less than active role in investigating the scandal that engulfed two of his top lieutenants and longtime coach Joe Paterno. “You can say I didn’t know. You can say I was distracted. You can say they didn’t tell me — up to a point,” said Stephen Trachtenberg, who was president at the University of Hartford and George Washington University. “But from what we have heard about what transpired, his vice president, his director of athletics, his coaches allegedly were concealing this bad news from him for such an extensive period of time that I find the story implausible,” he said. Spanier said he had no recollection of email traffic involving a 1998 police investigation of Sandusky, triggered by a woman’s complaints that he had showered with her son. He also told The New Yorker he had little memory of a 2001 complaint about Sandusky in a team shower with a boy, and that a follow-up meeting on the topic was wedged into his schedule during a busy time. Sandusky was convicted of various criminal counts in June. Spanier has not been charged with any crimes.
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The city traffic committee approves more signage at Kidder and Laurel streets. By BILL O’BOYLE boboyle@timesleader.com
WILKES-BARRE – Even though complaining residents failed to show at Thursday’s Traffic Committee meeting, their concerns will be addressed. Assistant Police Chief Donald Crane, a member of the committee, said residents asked for stop signs at Kidder and Laurel streets to slow traffic and make the intersection safer. Crane said there are stop signs on Laurel Street, but the residents feel it should be a four-way stop. He said the residents claimed there were several accidents at the intersection, but when he checked police records, only two were re-
ported – and both were caused by motorists running the existing stop signs on Laurel Street. “Both of those accidents would not have been prevented with additional stop signs on Kidder Street,” Crane said. Crane recommended placing cross-road signs to act as advance warning of the intersection. The committee approved Crane’s suggestion. In other business, David Conahan said vehicles are speeding on Walter’s Way, which was formerly a part of Coal Street near Walter’s hardware Store. “A lot of children play in the area,” Conahan said. “It’s a safety issue. We need to do something before somebody gets hurt or killed.” The committee agreed to place new signs – “Watch Children Playing” and 25 mph speed limit.
Nancy Kogoy, representing City Heights Apartments on North Sherman Street, said that with school resuming next week she is concerned about double parking on her street between Rose Lane and Amber Lane. She said vehicles park there to wait for students getting out of school and traffic can’t get through. Fire Chief Jay Delaney, a member of the committee, said he is concerned about emergency vehicles getting through as well. He and Michael Simonson, assistant director of operations and a member of the committee, will check out the situation. In other business, the traffic committee: • Denied a request to make Bradford Street two ways between Arch Street and 24-26 Bradford St. The committee said the street is too narrow to ac-
commodate two lanes of traffic. • Approved installation of “Watch Children Playing” signs with 20 mph postings on O’Neill Avenue. • Tabled a request for a stop sign for Railroad Street and George Avenue. • Approved moving the stop sign on East Main Street in Miner Mills at North Washington Street 50 feet to allow earlier detection. • Approved returning West Linden Street to one-way at North Franklin Street near the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Traffic was allowed to travel two ways during a construction project that is now completed. • Tabled a request for a “No Parking Here to Corner” sign at West Beatty and Coon streets. Bill O’Boyle, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 829-7218.
Less federal aid is likely for W-B, city official warns The city has seen two sizeable decreases every year,” Sauer fire department and new fire ap- I N P U T S O U G H T O N paratus expected to be available C I T Y ’ S U S E O F said. reductions in recent years He and Marie McCormick, next year. FEDERAL FUNDS already. Three people from CEO and city administrator, held a public By JERRY LYNOTT jlynott@timesleader.com
WILKES-BARRE – If next year is anything like the previous few, there will be less federal money for demolition of properties, affordable housing and homeless assistance programs, the city’s director of community development warned. The cuts have been challenging for the city when it comes to deciding where to direct the available money, said Kurt Sauer, director of the Office of Community Development. “We’ve been taking significant
Former teacher facing trial for student photos By SHEENA DELAZIO sdelazio@timesleader.com
WILKES-BARRE – A former Dallas Middle School special-education teacher charged with taking inappropriate photos of female students waived his right to a formal arraignment in county court Thursday. David Shuga, Shuga 49, of Terrace Avenue, Kingston Township, waived the formal arraignment through his attorney, Frank Nocito, and entered a plea of not guilty. Shuga was charged in June with a single count of invasion of privacy after authorities alleged he used a cellphone to take pictures of “intimate parts” of female students. Shuga, free on $5,000 bail, will next be scheduled for a pre-trial conference before a county judge. Shuga submitted his resignation the same day Superintendent Frank Galicki said administrators became aware of the allegations. The Dallas School Board accepted Shuga’s resignation on June 11. According to court papers, two students reported to school staff on June 4 that they felt Shuga was taking inappropriate pictures of female students in his instruction room located in the middle school. The students believed Shuga had been taking pictures on a cellphone since December. One of the students stated she had a picture of Shuga taking a photograph of another female student under a table, the complaint says. Authorities said the picture taken by the student depicted Shuga seated in a chair and holding an open flip-style cellphone under the table with the face of the phone pointed in the opposite direction. Authorities allege in the complaint that Shuga admitted taking pictures of female students, specifically of the students’ groin and buttocks areas, according to the complaint. Shuga stated, the complaint alleges, he was sexually aroused by the pictures.
meeting to seek input on the city’s 2013 Action Plan involving funds allocated through the Community Development Block Grant, Emergency Solutions and Home Investment Partnership programs. “Most of our money does go into public improvement and street projects and public services,” Sauer said. Last year some of the federal funds went to the Osterhout Library Childhood Development program, the Victim’s Resource Center and the Commission on Economic Opportunity, he said. In addition the city purchased “jaws of life” equipment for its
Vince Kabacinski, representing Catholic Social Services, attended. Their comments and those of other people and agencies must be submitted to the city by Sept. 15. The city will then submit its application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development by Nov. 15. In between those dates the city will hold another public hearing, 30 days before it applies to HUD. The city received $1.54 million in CDBG funding last year, down from $1.75 million in 2011 and $2.09 million in 2010, according to data provided by Sauer. The money can be used to pur-
Wilkes-Barre is asking for public comment on the use of federal funds received through the Community Development Block Grant, Emergency Solutions or Home Investment Partnership programs for 2013. Contact: Kurt Sauer Bureau of Community Development 40 E. Market St. Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 570 208-4135 ksauer@wilkes-barre.pa.us
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Authorities take children from a Larksville house allegedly full of waste. By EDWARD LEWIS elewis@timesleader.com
LARKSVILLE – A father and mother were arraigned Thursday on child endangerment charges after officials alleged their house was filled with garbage. Police Chief John Edwards became ill while inspecting the house on Vine Street with the borough’s code enforcement officer and fire chief earlier this month, according to charges filed. Richard Sims, 39, and Jennifer Sims, 37, were each charged with three counts of endangering the welfare of children. They were arraigned by District Judge David Barilla in Swoyersville and released on $5,000 unsecured bail. The Simses did not return a message for comment. According to the criminal complaints: A caseworker with Luzerne County Children and Youth Services called police after conducting a welfare check on three children at the house on Aug. 14. The caseworker took custody of the children, a 17-year-old boy, a 13year-old girl and a 9-year-old girl, due to deplorable conditions in-
side the house. Edwards, Fire Chief Andrew Kachmar and Code Enforcement Officer Joe Yosh arrived at the house the next day, Aug. 15, informing Richard Sims about the report from the child caseworker. Richard Sims became upset and stated, “I screwed up,” allowing the three borough officials to inspect the house, the complaint says. Police said in the complaint there were large amounts of solid waste materials knee high with flies and other insects flying throughout the house. The smell of garbage was “intolerable and immediately” made Edwards sick, the complaint says. The police chief was unable to continue to the inspection with Kachmar and Yosh. Kachmar and Yosh told Edwards that the rest of the house “was even worse” than what was allegedly found on the first floor, according to the complaint. Yosh condemned the house after the inspection. Police said in the complaint that Children and Youth Services had previously investigated the house due to deplorable conditions in January and July in 2002 and April 2009. Preliminary hearings are scheduled on Aug. 30 before Barilla.
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ALBINA AMABILE ARGO, passed away at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center on Thursday, August 23, 2012. Funeral Services are entrusted to Graziano Funeral Home Inc., Pittston Township. Viewing hours will be held Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held from St. Joseph Marello Parish (Our Lady of Mt. Carmel R.C. Church), Pittston, Monday at 9:30 a.m. JENNIE CLARA "PENNY" (O’DELL) SANSKY, 52, of Scranton, passed away Wednesday, August 22, 2012. She was preceded in death by parents, Charles and Jennie John O’Dell; brothers, Wayne and Clarence O’Dell. She is survived by her husband of 16 years, William Sansky; son, Chuck O’Dell, and wife Bridget, and her grandson, Chase O’Dell, all of Scranton; sister, Cherri Mundy, and husband Eddie, Chester, N.Y.; brothers, James O’Dell and wife Patricia, Factoryville; Donald O’Dell and wife Diane, Mountaindale, N.Y.; uncle, Arthur O’Dell; 21 nieces and nephews; 26 great-nieces and great-nephews. Memorial services in the Thomas P. Kearney Funeral Home Inc., 517 N. Main St., Old Forge, to celebrate Penny’s life will be announced at a later date. Please visit www.kearneyfuneralhome.com to leave an online condolence.
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Valley Hospital. Born in Scranton, she was a daughter of the late John and Isabelle Shivokevich Maslar, and was a graduate of Scranton Tech. Barbara was a secretary with Quality Metal Products, Dallas, for 15 years. She was a member of St. Francis Cabrini Church, Wyoming. Barbara was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Biga. Surviving are her son, Bryan, and his wife, Beth Biga, Walnutport, Pa; daughter, Heather, and her husband, Dan Dushanko, York; grandchildren, Bryce and Ava Biga, Walnutport. She is also survived by her companion, Raymond Sharp, Dallas; brother, Robert, and his wife, Catherine Maslar, Scranton. Funeral services will be held 9 a.m. Saturday from the Richard H. Disque Funeral Home Inc., 2940 Memorial Highway, Dallas, with a Mass of Christian Burial following at 9:30 in St. Francis Cabrini Church, Wyoming. Interment will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Wyoming. Friends may call today, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Rose Marie Fronzoni July 11, 2012 ose Marie “Ro” Fronzoni of R Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Mountain Top, passed away
Wednesday, July 11, 2012, after a lengthy illness. She was a daughter of the late Samuel and Nellie Angelo. Ro is survived by her husband, Edward, with whom she celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary in April; daughter, Andrea Balavage and her husband, William; son, Edward; grandchildren, Elysia and Preston Balavage; brother, Charles Angelo; several nieces and nephews. She graduated from Plains Township High School and General Hospital School of Nursing. Prior to her retirement, Ro worked at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, John Heinz Rehabilitation Center, and the Red Cross of Northeast Pennsylvania. Ro was a compassionate person, evidenced by the abundance of donations she contributed to the St. Labre’s Indian School in Ashland, Mont., and possessed a zest for life, travel and a passion for cooking. She was active in several organizations, both in Mountain Top and in Florida, including the Mountain Top Women’s Club and the Viking Condo Association. Memorial services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Holy Family Parish in Luzerne. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Labre Indian School.
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arold D. (Bo) Cartwright, of Bartron Road, Tunkhannock, passed away on Thursday, August 23, 2012, at the Golden Living Center, Tunkhannock. He was born in Noxen on May 28, 1937, a son of the late Moses and Eva Hopfer Cartwright. Bo was a graduate of Tunkhannock High School, Class of 1956, and was a veteran of the United States Army. He and his wife, Maggie, whom he married on February 17,1968, were the owners of Bo’s Auto Body until 1979. In 1981 he opened Stoney Mountain Garden Center and retired in 1995. They worked side by side all their married life. Bo enjoyed many wonder- daughter, Brandy Kenia, Tunkhanful winters in Marathon Grassy Key, nock, several nephews and nieces Fla., and spent a few winters in Frost and his dog Maddie. Funeral services will be held Proof, Fla. Bo was a car buff and Saturday at 11 a.m. from the started working on them in his early teens. Over the years he won numer- Russell Hill United Methodist ous awards for his antique cars. His Church with Pastor Thomas Mott last big project was the restoration officiating. Friends may call Friday of a 1957 Thunderbird, which he re- evening from 6 until 8 p.m. at the Sheldon-Kukuchka Funeral Home, built from the ground up. He was preceded in death by 73 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock. Inbrothers, James, John; half-brother, terment will be in Sunny Side CemRobert Ziegler; pet dogs Pokey, etery. In lieu of flowers, memorial conPrincess and Honey. Surviving is his wife, Marguerite tributions may be sent to the Cart(Maggie) Bush Cartwright. Also wright Fund for the Tunkhannock surviving are sister, Helen, and her Public Library, c/o The Community husband, Donald Carey, Shaver- Foundation of the Endless Mountown; mother-in-law, Blanch, tains, 260 Lake Ave., Montrose, PA Springville; brothers and sisters-in- 18801 or the Russell Hill United law Clark and Barbara Bush, South Methodist Church, c/o Janet Montrose; Mary and Al Mullen, Ar- Brown, 530 Avery Station Road, kansas; Eugene and Nancy Bush, Tunkhannock, PA 18657 or the Springville; Jo Ann Baker and Ri- Wyoming County Chorale, PO Box chard Clark, Kingsley; Alan Bush, 111, Tunkhannock, PA 18657. OnEaston; Elneda and Matt Conners, line condolences may be sent to the California; his almost-adopted family at www.sheldonkukuchkadaughter, Diane Kenia; grand- funeralhome.com.
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onna Marie Miscavage, 52, of the Parsons section of WilkesBarre, passed away early Wednesday morning, August 22, 2012, after a courageous battle with breast cancer. Born in Wilkes-Barre on February 7, 1960, she was a daughter of Regina (Daley) Yale and the late Edward James Yale. She was a graduate of Coughlin High School, Class of 1978, and was employed as a book keeper in the prothonotary’s office at the Luzerne County Courthouse. She was a member of St. Benedict’s Church in Parsons. In addition to her father, Edward, Donna was preceded in death by her father-in-law, Stanley J. Miscavage. Donna is survived by her mother, Jean, and step-father, William Young, Hunlock Creek; her loving husband of 32 years, Stephen, Wilkes-Barre; son, Brian, and his wife, Kim, Palmyra; daughter, Nicole, and her longtime companion, Mike, Wilkes-Barre; grandchildren, who were her pride and joy, Andrew Fisher, Kaeden Sanchez, Maxwell and Molly Miscavage; brothers, Edward Yale, Wyoming; Richard Yale
and his wife, Jeanie, Clarks Summit; sister, Flora Olson, Wilkes-Barre, several nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held at a later date. Arrangements have been entrusted to Bednarski & Thomas Funeral Home, 27 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Donna’s memory to the Medical Oncology Prescription Fund, 382 Pierce St., Kingston, PA 18704 or to the Luzerne County SPCA, 524 E. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18705.
Marianne Gebhardt August 22, 2012 arianne Gebhardt, 70, of Osborne Drive, Pittston, died M Wednesday morning, August 22,
2012, at home. Born in Wilkes-Barre, she was a daughter of the late Zigmond and Verna Dancoolidge Leskoski. Marianne was a member of SS. Peter and Paul Church, Plains, and was formerly employed as a waitress at Elby’s and Woolworth’s before retiring. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Gebhardt; son Charles Edward Jr.; and sister Rose Lowe. Surviving are daughters, Elizabeth Morgan, Inkerman; Debra Marcinko, Pittston; son Frederick, Plains Township; brothers, Zigmond Leskoski, Fla.; Joseph Leskoski, Wilkes-Barre; sisters Shirley Busacco, Fla.; Jean Vetrini, Plymouth; Theresa Flynn, Trucksville; and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday from Yeosock Funeral Home, 40 S. Main St., Plains Township, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. at SS. Peter & Paul Church, Plains Township. Friends may call Friday from 4 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Ann Mae Bellas August 21, 2012 nn Mae Bellas, 90, formerly of Dallas, entered into eternal rest A Tuesday, August 21, 2012, after spending 19 months as a resident of the Berwick Retirement Village Nursing Home, Berwick. Born September 16, 1921, in Hanover Township, Ann Mae was a daughter of the late Chester and Grace Mitchell Bellas. Ann Mae lived most of her life in the Lee Park section of Hanover Township before moving to the Meadows Apartments, Dallas, more than 25 years ago. She was very proud of her wartime efforts, having been employed by the United Can Company of Wilkes-Barre, where she worked making bullets during World War II. A soft-spoken, shy person, Ann Mae was happiest when she had a crochet hook in her hand. She made hundreds of beautiful afghan blankets, doilies and baby clothes. Those who were fortunate to be gifted with one of her creations felt as if they were given a work of art. Preceding her in death, in addition to her parents, were her sister Dorothy Adams and nephew Chester Adams. Surviving are her sister Evelyn
Bellas, Dallas; many nieces, nephews, great-nieces, nephews, several great-great-nieces and nephews. Private funeral services will be held at the convenience of family with interment in Hanover Green Cemetery, Hanover Township. There will be no calling hours. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Hanover Green Cemetery Association, 689 Main Road, Hanover Township, PA 18706 for the upkeep and maintenance of its chapel. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Harold C. Snowdon Funeral Home Inc., 140 N. Main St., Shavertown.
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ary Helen (Lambert) Pirillo, of Plymouth, passed away Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Plains Township, surrounded by her family to whom she devoted her life. Born in Wilkes-Barre, December 28, 1941, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Sperhoc Lambert. Mary Helen was a graduate of St. Vincent’s High School, Plymouth, Class of 1959. She was employed by Wyoming Valley West School District for 35 years until her retirement in 2009. Our Mother’s greatest comfort in life was caring for her family, whether it be her Sunday dinners or having sleep-overs with her grandchildren. Mary’s generous and compassionate nature affected all who knew her. Even through her illness she never complained or burdened her family or the medical staff who cared for her. She always greeted everyone with a smile and a kind word. What we will all miss the most is the thing she told us a million times, the words “I Love You.” Her brother, William Lambert, preceded her in death in 1963. The family she loved included her husband of 47 years, Joseph; daughters, Mary Owens and her husband, Jody, Larksville; Kathy
Kachinko and her husband, Robbie, Larksville; son, Joseph, and his wife, Kimberly (Yuhas), Plymouth; the loves of her life, grandchildren, Rebecca, Evan, Madison, Robbie and Samantha, who will forever miss their "RO-RO”; sister and brotherin-law, Nancy and Joseph Kratz, Del., numerous nephews and nieces. The funeral will be held 9 a.m. Monday, from Kielty-Moran Funeral Home Inc., 87 Washington Ave., Plymouth, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 in All Saints Parish, Willow St., Plymouth, the Rev. Robert J. Kelleher officiating. Interment will be in St Vincent’s Cemetery, Larksville. Friends may call Sunday at the funeral home from 5 until 8 p.m.
Helen Thurrell August 22, 2012 elen Czerniakowski Thurrell died August 22, 2012, after a H short bout with cancer. Her family
was by her side. Helen was born in 1935 in Plains Township. She excelled as a student and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor of science in chemistry from Misericordia College. She met her husband, Larry, while working at Hercules Powder Company in Wilmington, Del. They celebrated their 53rd anniversary in May. Helen instilled in her family a strong sense of love and determination. She was dedicated to her grandchildren and enjoyed watching them participate in their favorite activities and sports. She enjoyed playing tennis, traveling and watching the birds and wildlife in her backyard. Helen was also an avid baseball fan. Helen is preceded in death by her sister, Josephine, and two brothers, John and Thomas. She leaves behind her loving husband, Larry; son, Lars, and his wife, Janice; three daughters, Marian and her husband, Bob; Julianne Dods and her husband, Reynolds; Amy Schantz and her husband, Bob; 12 adoring grandchildren, Jason, Kara, Patrick, Elizabeth, Monica, Matthew, Margaret, Paul, Megan, An-
drew, Adam and Bennett. The family wishes to thank the caring nurses and staff at Christiana Care and Seasons Hospice for their compassion and support. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 11 a.m. on Saturday at St. Mary of the Assumption Church, 7200 Lancaster Pike, Hockessin, Del. Friends may visit with the family on Friday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Chandler Funeral Home, 7230 Lancaster Pike, Hockessin, Del. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the non-profit organization of your choice. For online condolences, please visit www.chandlerfuneralhome.com.
FUNERALS CARLE – Lynda, memorial service for Lynda and her mother, Catherine, 1 p.m. Saturday in Kingdom Hall, Hildebrant Road, Dallas. CENTINI – John, Memorial Mass 10 a.m. Saturday in Holy Savior Church, Wilkes-Barre. CHERINKA – Michael, funeral 9:30 a.m. today in Louis V. Ciuccio Funeral Home, 145 Moosic Road, Old Forge. Mass 10 a.m. at the Prince of Peace Parish-St. Mary’s Church, W. Grace and Lawrence Sts., Old Forge. CLEMM – Carl, family and friends may call 5 to 8 p.m. today in S.J. Grontkowski Funeral Home, 530 W. Main St., Plymouth. CRISPELL – Ellen, memorial service 2 p.m. Sunday in Forty Fort United Methodist Church. DAVIS – Samuel, funeral 7 p.m. today in Howard J. Snowdon Funeral Home, 1810 Sanderson Ave., Scranton. Friends may call today 3 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. DRAGON – Margaret, funeral 9 a.m. today in Nat & Gawlas Funeral Home, 89 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre. Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in Our Lady of Hope Parish, 40 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre. FRONZONI – Rose Marie, memorial services 10 a.m. Saturday in Holy Family Parish, Luzerne. FULLER – Claude, memorial service noon Saturday in Daniel K. Regan Funeral Home. Friends may call 10 a.m. until the time of service in the funeral home. GRAY – Marie, funeral 9:30 a.m. today in the E. Blake Collins Funeral Home, 159 George Ave., Wilkes-Barre. Mass of Christian Burial 10 a.m. in St. Benedict’s Church, Austin Avenue. Friends may call today 8:30 a.m. until the time of the service. HENDERSON – Robert, funeral 10 a.m. Saturday in Hugh B. Hughes & Son Inc. Funeral Home, 1044 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort. Friends may call today 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. in the funeral home. MILLER – Charles, funeral 10 a.m.
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A trip turns sour when a too-trusting driver exits a ferry in Alaska.
By KIM MURPHY Los Angeles Times
There are those who are ready to follow the GPS in their car to the ends of the Earth -- literally. A man intently following the instructions of his GPS after leaving a ferry early Thursday made a sharp right turn and drove into the harbor in Whittier, Alaska, submerging his car up to the antenna, police said. The man, who was not seriously injured, was rescued by another ferry passenger and taken by ambulance to a hospital in Anchorage. “We’re aghast, actually,” harbor master Sue Miller told the Los Angeles Times. “It’s never happened before, let’s put it that way.” Whittier, a town of about 200 year-round residents on Alaska’s scenic Prince William Sound, has a reputation for being a bit weird. A book by Alan Taylor calls it “The Strangest Town in Alaska.” Most of the residents live in a single high-rise tower built back when the U.S. Army decided the remote harbor would be a great refuge during World War II. For years, it was connected to civilization only by ferry and by a 2 1/2-mile-long tunnel through the surrounding mountains that in past years didn’t even have a road through it, merely a train track. Now, the town is a popular tourist destination by car and ferry. The driver in question, who has not been identified by authorities, arrived on the Kennicott car ferry, operated by the Alaska Marine Highway System, shortly after 6 a.m. He was accompanied by two dogs and a cat, authorities said. Apparently not wanting to get lost -- though how you could get lost in Whittier is part of the mystery -- he switched on the global positioning system navigator in his Subaru. “He had just disembarked from the ferry, and they follow the road around what we call our triangle area -- it’s a little business area right to the east of the harbor basin-and when he got back to the starting point of entering that triangle, he said the GPS said to turn right,” Miller said. “So he turned a sharp right, which took him down the launch ramp and into the harbor.” The ramp, she said, is intended to allow private boats to enter and leave the harbor. In this case, the Subaru advanced 50 feet into the water and was submerged. Another ferry passenger saw the whole thing and immediately helped the man out of the car, Miller said, and someone else broke out a back window in the car and rescued the two dogs. “The cat did not make it out,” public safety director Dave Schofield said. The Subaru was hauled out of the water and taken to Anchorage, while the man was transported by ambulance, though he wasn’t seriously injured. “He was fine,” Schofield said.
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‘Big One’ shook up emergency planning Plans that once focused on tornadoes, flooding, snow revised to include quakes. By STEVE SZKOTAK and BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press
MINERAL, Va. — When the “Big One” rocked the East Coast one year ago, the earthquake centered on this rural Virginia town cracked ceiling tiles and damaged two local school buildings so badly that they had to be shuttered for good. Now as the academic year gets under way, students are reciting a new safety mantra: Drop, cover, and hold on. Earthquake drills are now as ubiquitous as fire drills at Louisa County schools in central Virginia, where 4,600 students were attending classes when the 5.8magnitude quake struck nearby on Aug. 23, 2011. Miraculously, no one was seriously hurt. “It’s the new normal,” Superintendent Deborah D. Pettit said of the earthquake drills. “It’s become a normal part of the school
routine and safety.” One such drill was scheduled for Thursday at 1:51 p.m. EDT — the precise moment a year ago when the quake struck. The unexpected jolt cracked the Washington Monument in spots and toppled delicate masonry high atop the National Cathedral. The shaking was felt far along the densely populated Eastern seaboard from Georgia to New England. East Coast emergency response plans that once focused on hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding and snow are being revised to include quakes. Some states have enacted laws specifically related to the quake, and there is anecdotal evidence of a spike in insurance coverage for earthquake damage. The quake was centered 3 to 4 miles beneath Mineral, a town of fewer than 500 people about 50 miles northwest of Richmond. Yet it was believed to have been felt by more people than any other in U.S. history. The damage, estimated at
more than $200 million, extended far beyond rural Louisa County. Was it a once-in-a-century anomaly, or are there more quakes to come? Scientists are trying to answer that question as they pore over the data and survey the epicenter from the air. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, much of central Virginia has been labeled for decades as an area of elevated seismic hazard. But last year’s quake was the largest known to occur in that seismic zone. “Scientists would like to know if this earthquake was Virginia’s ‘Big One,’ ” said J. Wright Horton of the USGS. In New York, where skyscrapers shook and some feared it was another act of terrorism, the quake appears to have changed little. Emergency management officials said they were making minor changes to their internal planning, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has made no major policy changes.
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IN BRIEF
Alex J. Toole Alex Joseph Toole, son of Joseph and Tracy Toole, Hanover Township, celebrated his first birthday Aug. 18. Alex is a grandson of Joseph and Linda Stephanik, Hanover Township; Joseph Toole, Falls; and the late Adrienne Toole. He is a greatgrandson of Joseph Stephanik, Hanover Township.
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Logan John Price, son of John J. and Barbara Ann Price, Mountain Top, celebrated his seventh birthday Aug. 22. His brother, Jacob Michael, celebrated his fourth birthday Aug. 18. Logan and Jacob are grandsons of John and Barbara Bugdonovitch, Pringle, and the late James Price and Barbara Price, Wilkes-Barre.
General Assembly honors Hazleton attorney Attorney Pasco L. Schiavo, Hazleton, was honored by the Pennsylvania General Assembly for his 50 years of membership and dedicated service to the legal profession. Schiavo has been engaged in the fulltime practice of law in the Hazleton area since being admitted to the practice of law in 1962. He graduated from Lafayette College, Easton, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a Juris Doctor degree. He is admitted to practice before the Luzerne County Court, Pennsylvania Superior Court, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Federal Courts and United States Supreme Court. Schiavo has been listed in Who’s Who in American Law; named Pennsylvania Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters; and holds ‘AV’ highest rating for lawyers by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. He is board certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Schiavo is the past president of Luzerne County Commission on Economic Opportunity. He is a former assistant district attorney of Luzerne County, a former member of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and a former First Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve. He is a member of various regional and local civic organizations and the author of various legal articles published in American Bar Association Journal, Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly and the Pennsylvania Lawyer magazine. At the presentation of an official legislative proclamation, from left, are Pennsylvania Senator John T. Yudichak, Pennsylvania Representative Tarah C. Toohil and Schiavo.
FREELAND: MMI Preparatory School will hold Orientation Day for new students in grades six through 11 Monday . The orientation will familiarize new students with each other as well as their teachers, counselors, coaches, administration and school staff. Students will be introduced to their student mentor, a returning student who will assist them with their transition to MMI. Dress is casual. Parents are welcome to join their children for a continental breakfast at the beginning of the day and will have the opportunity to meet the MMI administration, teachers and coaches. Bus transportation will not be provided for Orientation Day. Students should arrive promptly by 8:15 a.m. Lunch will be provided, and dismissal for students is at 1 p.m. The first full day of school for all students is Tuesday. Bus transportation and lunches will be available beginning that day. For more information, call 636-1108 or visit www.mmiprep.org.
KINGSTON: Jenny-Lynn Academy, a private preschool and kindergarten, located in Kingston, will be holding an open house between 10 a.m. and noon Aug. 29. All are welcome. PITTSTON: The Pittston Memorial Library is hosting “A Taste of Greater Pittston” from 2-5 p.m. on Sept. 23 on the library grounds. A few tables are still available for any winemakers or restaurants that would like to showcase their products. To reserve a table, email Lisa Joyce, event co-chair, at lisajoyce67@hotmail.com, or call Carol Crane at 654-9565 ext. 25. Tickets are available for the event which will feature wine and food tasting and musical entertainment. Guest hosts for the event are Candace and Tom Kelly. Ticketholders will get to vote for the best red and white wines. The winners of the competition will be awarded the A Taste of Greater Pittston People’s Choice Award. All proceeds will benefit the Cosgrove Capital Campaign to raise funds to expand the library. To purchase tickets, call 654-9565 ext. 25.
Phoenix Performing Arts Centre performers support HIV/AIDS education program Phoenix Performing Arts Centre members of the spring performance of Rent recently presented a $1,000 donation to the American Red Cross of Wyoming Valley to support its HIV/AIDS education program. Last spring’s production of the rock musical benefited the performers and the American Red Cross of Wyoming Valley. The young actors learned about the prevention of HIV/AIDS and the Red Cross received the donation which will be used to continue its educational program. At the check presentation, from left, first row, are Jade Casella, Maria Salerno and Gina Pettinato. Second row: Eric Shemelewski; Sean Kennedy; Kelly Krieger; Lee LaChette, artistic director, Phoenix Performing Arts Centre; Michele Bellito-Stanford, lead prevention specialist, Wyoming Valley Red Cross Chapter; Emani Wallace; Amanda Burnside; and Victoria Kusy.
Heinz Rehab staff present stroke prevention program at senior center Allied Services Integrated Health System recently held a presentation at the Edwardsville Senior Center. Heinz Rehab Hospital staff presented seniors with information on stroke prevention and the latest treatments and techniques in stroke rehabilitation. At the center, from left, first row, are Joe Malak, Alfreda Malak and Joe Pikaitis. Second row: Jennifer Lutkowski, assistant director PT, Heinz Rehab; Tina McCarthy, physician partnership manager, Heinz Rehab; Beverly Wydra; June Sims; Cookie Norton; Mary Sisky; Sherlene Long, manager, Edwardsville Senior Center.
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OUR OPINION: GOVERNMENT
Municipality glut a taxing question
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ELL, THERE you business. Once again, some soulless have it, another classic example of conglomerate comes in and how “big govern- swallows our little, locallyment” botches everything it owned company, grinding it into mush. Hey, big business, touches. The state barged in with leave our family-owned entre“Act 32,” forcing every school preneurs alone! Wait, what’s that? Centax district and municipality in the county to use the same earned had to close its doors because income tax collector, and the of the problems it encountered? All those company that was jobs lost because hired proved utterly It sounds like the of … um … big govinept. Municipalities problem isn’t too ernment? Big found themselves much government, business? So, they waiting months for are both to blame? tax revenue they des- but that it’s too Of course, there perately needed just many governis the fact that the to keep cops on the ments. root problem beat and city hall seemed to difficuldoors open. Another ty keeping track of reason these things should be left up to local offi- how much in taxes collected cials. Bug off, bossy Harris- was supposed to go to each of the 91 – count ‘em – municipalburg! Well, except for the niggling ities and school districts infact that the company that bol- volved. But surely no one would suglixed the tax collection and disbursement – Centax/The Don gest that we might be better off Wilkinson Agency, was a varia- with a little consolidation, a tion on The Don Wilkinson tad fewer fiefdoms in the counAgency, a local company that ty, some streamlining of overhad been collecting taxes for lapping services, elimination many area municipalities for of new laws every few miles. Because if you start talking decades. Wilkinson had teamed with like that, it sounds like the Centax, which boasts 11 offices problem isn’t too much governstatewide on its website, to win ment, but that it’s too many the contract to collect all mu- governments. And anyone could see the nicipal and school district earned income taxes. So may- one is not the same as the othbe this isn’t an indictment of er. Right? big government, but of big
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Unfortunately, it’s bad times that bring everybody out.” John Bolin The Luzerne County Tax Committee President commented on the high number of committee members who showed up at a Wednesday meeting. The committee voted to replace trouble-plagued Centax/The Don Wilkinson Agency as earned income tax collector for the county’s 91 municipalities and school districts.
OTHER OPINION: DRIVING LAWS
Time for school and bus safety
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E HATE TO lay a summer bummer on students, but in less than a week they’ll be back in school and working hard, once again, on their grades. For the rest of us, that means the return of a phenomenon we haven’t seen for a few months: School buses crawling along area roads, and the resumption of driving laws governing school zones where student pedestrians will be crossing streets with varying degrees of attentiveness. Drivers convicted of breaking the school bus stopping law face a $250 fine, five points on their driving record and a 60day license suspension. But we don’t slow to 15 mph in flashing school zones primarily because we fear the penalties, or at least we shouldn’t. We do it because no one wants to risk the well-beEDITORIAL BOARD
ing of children. Drivers, you know the deal, but here’s a reminder: You are required by law to stop your vehicle at least 10 feet from a school bus with red lights flashing and stop arm deployed, regardless of the direction from which you approach. There is one exception to that: when a school bus has stopped on the opposite side of highways clearly separated by concrete barriers or grass medians. Even so, slowing down is not a bad idea. For more information on Pennsylvania’s school bus stopping law, school bus safety tips and programs, visit the state Department of Transportation’s highway safety website, www.JustDrivePa.org, and under the Traffic Safety Information Center select the link for “School Bus Safety.” Public Opinion, Chambersburg
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he Dominican House of Hazleton Inc. was founded Aug. 20, 2005. It is a nonprofit institution dedicated to helping the Dominican and Hispanic community, and most important to promote the Hispanic culture in Hazleton and surrounding areas. This year we are celebrating our 7th anniversary as the oldest Hispanic institution in the city. We invite the public to our celebration from 5-9 p.m. Sunday at “Crystal” Barbecue and Lounge Restaurant, 44 E. Broad St., Hazleton. We have a video presentation, refreshments, music, and awards for supporters. We are preparing to move the Dominican House of Hazleton Inc. to a new place, “The House of all the Hispanics.” We will continue the free training in basic computer courses. U.S. citizen and naturalization training, English-as-a-second-language lessons and various cultural and folk workshops for children and adults. We are accepting donations of new or used items such as computers, books (for a library), tables, chairs, desks, videos (for a video library) and video player. The Dominican House of Hazleton Inc. is more than an institution; it is a center of empowerment for citizens. Time to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Victor Perez President Robert Arias General secretary and Eddy Ulerio Treasurer The Dominican House of Hazleton Inc.
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ug. 11 will go down as an unforgettable day in political history – the day that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate. Romney represents the highest form of hypocrisy. He has stated emphatically that anyone running for a high political office should have a solid background in the private sector, either as a CEO or running his or her own business. Mr. Ryan has absolutely no experience in the private sector, having worked only in government service for the last 14 to 15 years as a congressman from Wisconsin. Romney has chosen a man whose policy positions include putting an end to Social Security by privatizing it and who dramatically wants to change Medicare by issuing
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vouchers to senior citizens. (Just what we need: another coupon program!) It’s very interesting to note that the same people (right-wing conservatives and the tea partiers) who very much wanted Ryan as VP did not want Romney as their presidential nominee. Max Benjamin Kingston
tions as individuals; as a consequence they are allowed to hire their own lobbyists and provide money to politicians who they expect will support the laws and deregulations that the corporations have designed. Politicians have become so arrogant and proficient at double-talk that they no longer carry out the will of the people, but instead their benefactors -- corporations. It’s getting to the point where our democratic system is in jeopardy, citizens can no longer count on the person they voted for to represent their interests. We need to get over our individual wants and needs. We have to come together over something bigger than our own narcissistic desires. We are using up the environment. We have to stop doing that and begin to work together to renew the planet. Bill Burns Shavertown
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he Earth can’t sustain us for much longer. The way we are living is not right and we find ourselves unable to stop the environmental destruction that we are inflicting. As humans we have developed to the point where we control the future of the planet and consequently impact our own survival. We seem to lack the necessary moral or ethical consensus to move from our disastrous ecological path. Our world is very complex and we have created the notion that all individual perspectives are to be respected and not judged; everyone’s opinions are to be valued. As a result of recent Supreme Court decisions, this includes multinational corporations that we assume have the best interests of the country at heart; corporations that demolish entire mountaintops in order to access coal. Yet their goals are to make as much money as possible while creating high-paying jobs (miners). Other corporations pour millions of gallons of chemicals into the earth in order to access the natural gas below; their goal is to make as much money as possible while creating high-paying jobs (truck drivers). Other corporations drill thousands of feet below ocean floors in order to access the oil. Their goal is to make as much money as possible while creating high-paying jobs (rig workers ). In addition to possessing a great deal of money, these corporations share the ability to influence public judgment by employing marketing agencies to falsely depict these companies as our good friends. We are now expected to view corpora-
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he “dark night” in Colorado has sadly shocked Americans back into reality on how fast our society is unraveling. Tragedies such as this are on the rise and are only the tip of the iceberg. Our bad economy is not the cause for these terrible occurrences. What’s breaking down America is our disregard for morality. Consider these stories that made the headlines: • The No. 1 book on the New York Times fiction best-seller list is “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the erotic novels by E.L. James described as “mommy porn.” • Cannibalistic acts. • Sexting and sexual abuse is seemingly rampant in schools across the country as students seek approval in the wrong places from their classmates and teachers. The problem is that we are a nation no longer guided by the Ten Commandments and the moral law, but rather by the whims and edicts of socialists and liberal humanists. Humanism strives to impose on mankind a human type and style of life opposed to the hierarchical order that God established. It seeks to level society and make it as dissimilar to God as possible. While creating laws that promote and support immorality and the erosion of our constitutional rights, these humanists are slowly watering down our culture and traditional values. And if we don’t stem the tide soon, it will lead to the total evaporation of the America we once knew. Walter Camier Weatherly
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31 owners appeal to county board
An expected 1,000 will challenge their property assessments for 2013.
By JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES jandes@timesleader.com
Garry Denke went before the Luzerne County Board of Tax Assessment Appeals on Thursday with evidence that his Butler Township property is assessed too high. His appraisal pegged the market value on the house and an adjoining vacant parcel at a combined $92,900. The current assessment totals $219,700 on the parcels. Denke said the exterior is attractive, but the property needs a new structural support system because of its proximity to Nescopeck Creek. The house on Nesco Manor Road near the former Angela Park also regularly sustains basement flooding, he said. “It has the highest assessed value on Nesco Road,” Denke said. Denke was among 31 property owners who went before the appeal board Thursday and an expected 1,000 who will challenge their assessments for 2013. Sept. 4 is the deadline to file assessment appeals. County council-appointed appeal board members Neil Allen, Donald Warren and Patrick Musto jointly listened to evidence presented by property owners. A county assessment office
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A Luzerne County property owner presents documentation Thursday during an assessment appeal at the Luzerne County Courthouse annex. The three appeal board members seated together, from left, are Patrick Musto, Neil Allen and Donald Warren.
evaluator also attends each H O W T O A P P E A L hearing to point out relevant details that may be overlooked or Assessment appeal forms are available in the assessor’s office ignored by property owners. or on the county website, www.luThe board deliberates behind zernecounty.org (click on departclosed doors after each hearing ments/assessor’s office). and issue a ruling within several Property owners who don’t want to pay for an appraisal may reweeks. search the sales prices and asAppraisals are the evidence of choice, though appeal board sessments of similar properties in their neighborhood on The Times members said they will consider Leader’s free property database any documentation from prop- at www.timesleader.com (click on erty owners. the "tax assess" icon under the A Black Creek Township man most popular links on the main brought photographs Thursday page). The database allows showing past fire damage to a searches by streets. structure he purchased for granted for 2013, a county eval$10,000 in December. Though a reduction may be uator cautioned the property
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dock’s Cleaner’s property on Hazle Avenue in Wilkes-Barre for a bid of $861. Iself Allah, who is affiliated with Terrific Transport, said Continued from Page 1A the company plans to open a store because back taxes and other in the tiny building. liens were cleared at the finalLodge building for $3K stage sale. Future Horizons Inc. of New The potential for bargains attracted an unusually large York purchased the former Loyal crowd, with 289 registered bid- Order of Moose Lodge 128 at 273 Stanton St. in Wilkes-Barre for ders. The highest bid was $220,000 $3,000 after competition from for the former Dominic’s on the other bidders. Company representative Alex Lake restaurant at Harveys Lake, which was owned by Casty Realty Zbinovsky said he’d like to explore and is assessed at $599,100. The the possibility of renovating the property has racked up $40,300 in 6,500-square-foot structure for an unpaid property taxes from 2008 elderly day care center, though he stressed he must first meet with through 2011. After back-and-forth from mul- the city zoning office to discuss altiple bidders, Moorestown, N.J. lowable uses for the building. The property has been in limbo resident Justin Wock snatched up the property for $220,000. Wock is for years because the previous affiliated with Lake Road Enter- buyer in a 2008 back-tax auction prises, which is owed money for also defaulted on property taxes. “There are some issues. I an outstanding mortgage on the haven’t seen the inside yet,” said property, officials said. Wock said he doesn’t plan to go Zbinovsky. Bidders aren’t permitted to exinto the restaurant business. “I just want to flip it,” he said, amine interiors of properties unreferring to a quick turnaround re- til they assume ownership. Wyoming resident Lou Burksale. Derrick Cottle, of Terrific hardt said he’s still fixing up a Transport, bought the former Ze- single-family home he pur-
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a touch of envy. The proposal came from Romney’s running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. But Romney has largely embraced it, throwing a brighter spotlight on the question of whether and how to revamp the retiree health care program. Ryan wants to reshape Medicare for future retirees — anyone 54 and younger — while people 55 and older would get Medicare in roughly the same form as it exists today. Starting in 2023, new retirees on the younger side of the line would get a fixed amount of money from the government to pick either private health insurance or a federal plan modeled on Medicare. Ryan says that will keep the program solvent. Looking at the O’Malleys can help explain how people of slightly different ages would be affected. Under Ryan’s plan, Mike would qualify for traditional Medicare in about another decade. Nothing would change for him. “So I’m covered,” Mike O’Malley says, adding that Ryan’s proposal is “a catalyst for thought.” But Sharon, in the new pro-
gram, would have decisions to make. Whichever way she chooses, eventually she might have to pay more for health insurance than Mike, if costs grow faster than the amount the government provides. “I’m going to be the one who’s not going to have the health care,” Sharon O’Malley said. “It makes you nervous when you pay all this money into the system and it won’t be there when you need it.” Backers of Ryan’s approach say people like Sharon O’Malley should not worry. They say the plan should unleash a wave of competition that wrings waste out of the health care system and delivers quality care at affordable prices. Given the popularity of original Medicare, however, many experts think the Romney-Ryan overhaul will be a tough sell — like former President George W. Bush’s ill-fated attempt to introduce private accounts to Social Security. Indeed, even a majority of Republicans — 55 percent — prefer the idea of keeping Medicare as it is, according to a recent Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Bonnie Burns, who has spent more than 25 years counseling Medicare recipients about their benefits, says it could give rise to a new sort of family dynamic: health care envy.
W H AT ’ S N E X T • Another free-and-clear auction will be held Nov. 7 for roughly 170 properties pulled from Thursday’s sale. The county’s tax claim operator removed the properties to ensure all lien holders are properly notified. • The county also will hold a first-stage auction Sept. 20, where starting bid amounts are based on the amount of taxes owed. • Call 825-1512 or visit www.luzernecountytaxclaim.com for more information on these sales.
chased at a back-tax auction a year ago. His plans to pick up another one at Thursday’s auction fizzled when the property was pulled after a concern all lien holders weren’t properly notified. The increased popularity of back-tax auctions has boosted purchase prices of the most attractive properties, which could reduce or erase profits for buyers who must rely on outside contractors, Burkhardt said. “I can do most of the work myself, but I don’t know how long these sales will be worthwhile for people who don’t,” he said.
will be revalued when the man completes his planned renovations. A Wilkes-Barre couple presented photographs showing flooding of their two properties. Another Wilkes-Barre property owner said she purchased her West Carey Street property for $40,000 in May and said similar properties in the neighborhood have assessments in the $80,000 range. The property is assessed at $99,700. A Hollenback Township woman presented an appraisal valuing her two parcels at $88,000 in 2010. The properties are assessed at a combined $96,900. Competition for house Thursday’s sale of a Hazleton property owned by James and Michele Lee was monumental because the couple owed $170,337 in taxes from 1994 through 2011. Multiple bankruptcy filings kept the stately brick home out of tax sales until Northeast Revenue was hired by the county in 2010 and aggressively pushed for its auction listing. Several bidders battled for the property, which ultimately went to Hazle Township resident Carmen Clement for $55,000. A representative of the buyer said the property will be “fixed up and put back on the tax rolls.” A 5-acre catch basin in the Wilkes-Barre Township Commons shopping center anchored by Target was removed because of concerns an unknowing buyer or the county would end up with the liability, said Northeast Revenue owner John Rodgers. The 151 properties that didn’t sell Thursday remain in a repository, where they continue to accrue taxes that aren’t paid, unless someone submits a purchase offer accepted by taxing bodies.
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Mike and Sharon O’Malley of Chicago face different Medicare futures under Republican Mitt Romney’s proposal.
“I think it would be part and parcel of whatever other family tension is going on,” said Burns, who works with the nonprofit California Health Advocates and is based near Santa Cruz. But complexity is the biggest potential problem that Burns sees. The guaranteed benefits the new plans would have to offer haven’t been spelled out, or the rules to prevent marketing abuses, or consumers’ rights in disputes with insurers. “This would split everything wide open,” said Burns, “None of the components would be the same.” The private plans currently available through Medicare are closely regulated by the government, so “there hasn’t been a big
dispute about what is and is not covered,” said Burns. It’s not clear whether Romney-Ryan would tighten the rules, loosen them or keep them the same. And she does worry about the financing. “What do we do if we end up with a whole bunch of old people who can’t afford their premiums?” asked Burns. Mike O’Malley said he brought this up to his oldest son, who is an Obama supporter. They discussed the Ryannow Romney Medicare plan over a recent dinner. He says he told his son he was getting the bad end of the deal “because I’m going to die and you’re going to have to take care of your mother. He goes, ‘I hope you leave us a lot of money.’ ”
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Bobby Baldano, played by DeMeo, who has been released from prison. Baldano, who is connected to the mob, must decide whether he will continue a life of crime or honor his family and make them proud – with bumps in the road along the way. On Saturday at Mount Airy Casino near Mount Pocono, where a few scenes in the movie were filmed, a sneak peek will be shown at a red-carpet event that will feature several of the actors a meet and greet. “I hope the movie is a huge success,” said Darrin Gallagher, co-owner of Ashley Furniture in Wilkes-Barre Township, who also invested in the movie. “I hope it’s the next ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’ ” Both Gallagher and Ruane said they were introduced to the project through a business acquaintance, and that each of them was immediately sold on pitching in a “piece of the pie.” “I never did think I’d be involved in something like this,” Gallagher said. “Not really knowing the movie industry…I learned some things along the way. It’s been eye opening.” Gallagher said he’s spoken to DeMeo, who owns a home in the Poconos, and has been out to dinner with him. “He’s very grounded and humble. He’s just someone nice that you enjoy speaking to,” Gallagher said. While Gallagher said he came into the picture – no pun intended – late in the game, Ruane said she actually got to see some editing of the movie in June in New York. “People invest in stock and never really know what they are investing in,” Ruane said. “To actually have something tangible that everyone can see is pretty cool.” Ruane said the movie has a little bit of everything: mafia, violence, sex and a great story line. “It reminds you of (the movie) ‘Goodfellas.’ People are drawn to that,” Ruane said. “Everyone I’ve showed the trailer to liked it a lot.”
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ABOUT THE MOVIE • STORY LINE: After serving several prison sentences, Bobby Baldano is out. Craving a life of inescapable crime, but desperate to honor his family, Bobby must decide whether to make his family proud or destroy what generations of Baldanos have built before him. • TRAILER: Watch the trailer and read about the cast at: www.goat-themovie.com. • SCREENING: A limited number of tickets for the screening on Saturday are available. The event begins at 8 p.m. at Mount Airy Casino in Mount Pocono. Tickets can be purchased for $15 at http:// mountairycasino.com/play/ entertainment/ special-events/.
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CAST: William DeMeo: Movies: “Boss of Moriarty Bosses,” “Analyze That,” “Hackers” and “I am Woody”: TV: Has appeared in episodes of “The Sopranos.” Armand Assante: “American Gangster,” “Judge Dredd,” “Hoffa” and “Gotti.” Has appeared in episodes of “NCIS.” Cathy Moriarty: “Raging Bull,” “Analyze That,” “Cop Land,” “Casper” and “Bless This House.” Ice-T: has worked as a rapper; “New Jack City,” “Ricochet,” “Tank Girl” and “Law & Order SVU.” Louis Vanaria: “A Bronx Tale,” “Young at Heart”; TV: “Boardwalk Empire,” “NYPD Blue” and “Law & Order.” Al Sapienza: Well known for his role as Mikey Palmice on “The Sopranos”; has appeared in “Prison Break,” “Without a Trace,” “Law and Order,” “NCIS” and “NYPD Blue.” Tony Darrow: Played Sonny, the owner of the “Bamboo Lounge” in “Goodfellas”; mobster Larry Barese in “The Sopranos.” Vincent Pastore: “Goodfellas,” “Carlito’s Way” and “The Jerky Boys.” Played Salvatore Bonpensiero in “The Sopranos.” Kevin Youkilis: current infielder with the Chicago White Sox
D E B AT E S E T Though multiple organizations have extended offers for a debate in the 17th Congressional District, only one has been accepted by both candidates. It’s set for Oct. 17 at the PBS39 Studio in Bethlehem. Other details will be forthcoming.
gay marriage. At the time, Cartwright said his views were evolving, but, “with respect to gay marriage, I’m not there yet. I’m very old school and old-fashioned,” he said, noting he favored percent, with 22 percent strongly civil unions. “I’m not saying I’ll opposed. Cartwright said had he not run never get there.” This week, Cartwright said for Congress, he might not have reached a decision by now. he’s there. He said that as a candidate for “I’m for marriage equality,” he said in a phone conversation on Congress, he felt he needed to Thursday. “There’s no reason to make a decision. “This is a job where you have to discriminate against gay people. take positions,” he They’re not a threat said. against anybody.” “I just kept The Democratic The issue gained nominee in the 17th traction in May when thinking it District will face ReVice President Joe Biover in my publican Laureen den said he supported Cummings on Nov. 6. gay marriage. That put mind and I Cummings, of Old the spotlight on Oba- didn’t see a Forge, said her faith ma, who had been nonteaches her that gay committal to the issue. good reason marriage is wrong and A few days later he an- to discrimishe is not going to nounced his support. question her church. Cartwright said he nate against “As a Christian, I bewas not pressured to a substantial lieve the Lord says gay make the decision but it’s something he spent population of marriage, just as divorce, is wrong,” Cuma long time contem- American mings said. She said plating. citizens.” she does not support “It wasn’t any ‘ah-ha’ moment,” Cartwright Matt Cartwright gay marriage nor does Congressional she support civil said. “One thing I candidate unions, though she didn’t want to be was said if Pennsylvania rushed into (making a were to pass a law legadecision). It seemed like Vice President Biden rushed lizing either she would support the law, just not the concept. the president into it. She said gay marriage has be“I just kept thinking it over in my mind and I didn’t see a good come one of those “wedge issues reason to discriminate against a that progressives are using to disubstantial population of Ameri- vide the country, and I don’t like that.” can citizens,” he said. While he supports the premise Cartwright, 51, said while older people are reluctant to accept of gay marriage, Cartwright gay marriage, many younger, made it clear he doesn’t support more progressive people don’t any law forcing religious institusee why it shouldn’t be legalized. tions to perform a ceremony that According to The Los Angeles it found in opposition to its teachTimes, as recently as 2004, a Pew ings. “Religious freedom is of vital Research Center poll found that 60 percent of Americans were op- importance to me, and I don’t posed to allowing same-sex cou- think any church should be ples to marry, with 36 percent forced to perform a ceremony,” strongly opposed. By last month, Cartwright, an attorney, said. those opposed had shrunk to 43
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Big issue in Washington? Strasburg debate Federer, Whether or not to shut down Nationals’ ace is talk of Washington, D.C.
By JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer
WASHINGTON — Chipper Jones knows that a World Series title is something that comes along, at least in his case, just once in a very long career. He got
his with the Atlanta Braves at age 23. A year younger than Washington’s Stephen Strasburg is now. Strasburg “If I was sitting over in that clubhouse,� Jones said this week, “I would hate to squander this opportunity.�
Jones was weighing in on the great inside-the-beltway debate — the Nationals’ impending shutdown of Strasburg — that has consumed baseball and beyond as summer heads toward fall. Forget Obama vs. Romney. Or RGIII vs. Luck. If nothing else, the Washington’s plans to shut down its ace pitcher in the middle of the city’s first serious pennant race in more than a halfcentury has caused the baseball
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team to do the once-unthinkable: steal attention from politics and the Redskins. “I think it’s very wise,� said the city’s mayor, Vincent Gray, who recently gave his two cents’ worth to reporters following an announcement about flooding in the nation’s capital. “The young man has his entire career ahead of him,� the mayor added. It’s a dilemma that pits old-
timers who fondly remember the days when pitchers pitched complete games and never missed starts vs. the new-agers who talk of pitch-counts and consider six decent innings to be a quality start. It eats at Washingtonians who finally have a chance to witness baseball glory — the city’s See STRASBURG, Page 5B
Wimbledon and Olympics finalists paired on same side of bracket.
INSIDE: MLB Roundup, Page 3B
P E N N S TAT E F O O T B A L L
Follow the leader
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer
The GAR standout plans to enroll in college in January to get a head start. By JOHN ERZAR jerzar@timesleader.com
GAR football standout Shakir Soto got a jump on the rest of the 2013 recruiting class by verbally committing to the University of Pittsburgh in April. He’ll get another jump in a few months. Soto plans on leaving GAR and enrolling at Pitt for the spring semester, which starts Jan. 7. By doing so, the 6-foot-4, 255-pound defensive lineman will get to participate in offseason workouts at Pitt and be eligible to Soto play in the spring game. “Scott Orndoff, one of the commitments from Pitt, he’s doing it too,� Soto said. “He told me about it and one of the coaches said, ‘Yeah, you should do it.’ I looked into it, and being out there and having an extra semester of school and an extra semester of football, I’ll be ahead of everyone else.� Soto made his verbal commitment to Pitt on April 21, becoming the third high school player to say he’ll join new coach Paul Chryst. Orndoff, a tight end from Seton LaSalle High School near Pittsburgh, was the first to commit. “It’s like basically redshirting without redshirting,� Soto said. “I’ll be able to play in the spring game and have the college experience.� Soto was named to the Pennsylvania Sports Writers Class 2A all-state team, Wyoming Valley Conference Coaches Association Small School all-star team and The Times Leader All-WVC team as a junior. He was listed at 230 last season, but has worked diligently in the weight room. GAR and Pitt worked out a cooperative agreement where Soto will be a dual-enrolled student. He’ll return to WilkesBarre and graduate from GAR in June. “Shakir is one of those kids who listened, absorbed things and has done everything right inside the classroom, outside the classroom and on the football field,� GAR coach Paul Wiedlich Jr. said. “The most important thing was the classroom where he took the right classes. He’s a See SOTO, Page 5B
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Penn State quarterback Matt McGloin, center, listens to coach Bill O’Brien, second from left, during a practice on Tuesday. McGloin, a Scranton native, will be the opening-game starter for the first time when the Nittany Lions host Ohio on Sept 1.
McGloin more confident than ever as QB
By DEREK LEVARSE dlevarse@timesleader.com
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That familiar anxious feeling, the one that hits every August, is back. For Matt McGloin, it’s stronger than ever. It’s not just that he’ll be back on the football field next week for a live game – his first since Thanksgiving weekend – but that it will represent a turn of the page at Penn State. “I’m more excited for Sept. 1 than any start I’ve had before,� said McGloin, who will start in the Nittany Lions’ opener that day against Ohio. “Being the game one starter is different from what I’ve had
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tions. On a personal level, the Scranton native is eager to see how far he has come under the tutelage of O’Brien and new position coach Charlie Fisher. “I’m definitely light years ahead of where I was (at this time last year),� McGloin said. “Not just as a quarterback, but as a leader.� “He’s always been a confident guy. He has that strong inner confidence,� starting guard John Urschel said. “But yes, the biggest thing now is how much leader
in the past. ‌ I’ve been getting anxious and trying to stay focused. But you can’t help but think about what that’s going to be like running out of that tunnel Sept.1.� McGloin has made 10 starts at quarterback for the Lions, but this will be his first in a season opener. And this one happens to be the first game with Bill O’Brien leading the program following a nightmarish nine months of scandal and sanc- See MCGLOIN, Page 5B
NEW YORK — Though no player would admit to looking so far ahead, Novak Djokovic may have been the biggest winner when the U.S. Open bracket was set Thursday. The defending champion and No. 2 seed can reach his third straight final at Flushing Meadows without having to face either Roger Federer or Andy Murray. Those two, meanwhile, wound up on the same side of the draw and could meet in the semifinals for a rematch of their recent finals at Wimbledon and the London Olympics. “It’s a question of luck,� Djokovic said when asked about the only true drama in the unveiling of Thursday’s bracket — whether third-seeded Murray would end up on his or top-seeded Federer’s side of the draw. “You try to focus on what’s in your hands, what’s in your power. Thinking about the semifinal at this moment, I don’t think it’s the best thing.� In the women’s bracket, thirdseeded Maria Sharapova drew a possible semifinal matchup against top-seeded Victoria Azarenka and fourth-seeded Serena Williams could play No. 2 Agnieszka Radwanska in the semifinals. Rafael Nadal, ranked third, is out of this year’s tournament with a knee injury, marking the first time since 2008 that the quartet of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray haven’t been seeded 1 through 4 in some order at the U.S. Open. Taking the fourth seed this year is David Ferrer, who has never made a Grand Slam final, and could face Djokovic in the semifinals. Of the 16 semifinal spots over the last four Grand Slam tournaments, 14 have been occupied by one of the big four. Only Ferrer, at the French Open, and Jo WilfriedTsonga, at Wimbledon, have managed to break the stranglehold. Djokovic has an 8-5 record against Ferrer, including a See OPEN, Page 5B
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California squad uses long ball to advance to U.S. title contest
By GENARO C. ARMAS AP Sports Writer
ter Texas’ Jordan Cardenas went deep in the third. The 12-year-old Marzo greeted Cardenas with a high-five with his glove hand as Cardenas jogged down the thirdbase line. Earlier Thursday, Aguadulce, Panama edged Nuevo Laredo, Mexico 2-1 to advance to the international final against Japan. California didn’t have quite as difficult a time against Texas, the game ending in the bottom of the fifth due to Little AP PHOTO League’s 10-run rule. The Petaluma boys managed just two Petaluma, Calif., players celebrate after a grand slam by Hance Smith in the first
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Hance Smith hit two homers, including a first-inning grand slam, to lead Petaluma, Calif., to an 11-1 five-inning victory over San Antonio on Thursday night and a berth in the U.S. championship game in the Little League World Series. California will play Goodlettsville, Tenn., on Saturday. Starter Danny Marzo, already a California hero for hitting a game-ending homer this week, came up big on the mound with 11 strikeouts in five innings. He was gracious on the mound, too, af- See SERIES, Page 5B
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BULLETIN BOARD CAMPS/CLINICS Maximum Impact will be having an advanced hitting clinic for all ages Saturday, Aug. 25 from 3:30-5 p.m. Space is limited. The price is $10 for an hour and a half. Call 822-1134 to register. Maximum Impact is having an Advanced Softball Hitting Clinic on Sunday, August 26, from 1:30 p.m. -3 p.m. The cost is $10 per player. Call 822-1134 to sign up. Misericordia baseball is hosting a summer exposure camp for those interested in playing college baseball Aug. 26. The camp will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., and will feature the first organized baseball activity on the new Tambur Field. For details and registration form, visit athletics.misericordia.edu. REGISTRATIONS/TRYOUTS Impact Panthers is establishing a U16 fast-pitch softball team for the 2012-2013 season. Tryouts will be Aug. 25-26 at Abington Rec. Fields on Winola Road, Clarks Summit. Registration is at 12:30 p.m., tryouts begin at 1 p.m. Pre-register at impactpanthers16u@yahoo.com. Lackawanna Lightning Softball is establishing a U14 fast-pitch softball travel team. Tryouts will be held Saturday, Aug. 25 (registration is at 10 a.m., tryouts start at 10:30 a.m.). Tryouts will be at Sherwood Park, Dunmore. To register or for more information, contact Wally Peck at 430-4748 or Dino Darbenzio at 650-5159 or via e-mail at ddarbenz@yahoo.com. Wyoming Valley Flames will be holding tryouts for girls fast-pitch softball. 10U& 12U age group tryouts will be on Aug. 25 at 10 a.m. 16U age group tryouts will be on Aug. 23 at 6 p.m., and Aug 25 at 11 a.m. All tryouts will be at the Ashley softball field on Conyngham St. If you are unable to make these dates or for more information, call Pat at 466-9644, Hank at 328-2643, Bernie at 239-3627, or Bob at 574-5075. UPCOMING EVENTS/OTHER Berwick High School basketball team will be sponsoring a golf tournament at the Berwick Golf Club Saturday September 8th. The event will start at 1:00 p.m. and the format will be a 4-person scramble. Information can be found at www.berwickdawgs.com or you can contact Coach Jason Kingery 394-7115 or Coach Bobby Calarco at 854-0196. Good Life Golf Classic will be held August 31 at Sand Springs Country Club. Proceeds from the tournament will go to benefit families of children with muscular dystrophy. Registration is at 8 a.m. the day of the tournament and is $80 per person or $320 per team.Register online at crlgoodlife.org or call 480-658-7534 Crestwood Football Kick Off Tailgate Party will be on Thursday, August 30 at 6:00 p.m. at the high school football field. Admission will be $6.00. Come out and support the 2012 football team, the cheer leading squad, and the high school marching band. Greater Pittston Friendly Sons of St. Patrick will host its annual Black Shamrock Open Aug. 26 at Blue Ridge Trail Golf Course. The format of the tournament is captain and crew and the entry fee is
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4 p.m. NBCSN — U.S. Pro Challenge, stage 5, Breckenridge to Colorado Springs, Colo.
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9:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Johnnie Walker Championship, second round, at Perthshire, Scotland 2 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, The Barclays, second round, at Farmingdale, N.Y. 6:30 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Boeing Classic, first round, at Snoqualmie, Wash. 1:30 a.m. TGC — LPGA, Canadian Women’s Open, second round, at Coquitlam, British Columbia (delayed tape)
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2:10 p.m. WGN — Colorado at Chicago Cubs 7 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, St. Louis at Cincinnati or L.A. Angels at Detroit CSN – Washington at Philadelphia ROOT – Milwaukee at Pittsburgh SNY – Houston at N.Y. Mets YES – N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland
$75 per golfer. The event will kick off with a 1:30 p.m. shotgun start. If interested, call president Jimmy Clancy at 881-4176 or any active member of the G.P. Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. Registration should be completed as soon as possible. Jenkins Township Little League will be having its Family Picnic on Saturday, August 25 beginning at 4 p.m. Cost is $15 for parents and non-players. Players are free. Contact your manager to register. There will be a monthly meeting held on Monday, August 13 at 6 p.m. at the field house to discuss the upcoming picnic and fall ball. All managers and interested parents are urged to attend. Kingston Forty Fort Little League is accepting nominations for all board positions for the 2013 season. Visit www.eteamz.com/kbsi for a complete list of open positions. A letter of interest must be mailed to PO Box 1292, Kingston, or emailed to bbordow@msn.com no later than Sept. 7. For more information, call 714-4035. Knights of Columbus Council 302 of Wilkes-Barre is hosting its annual charities golf tournament Aug. 25 at Sand Springs Country Club. For more information, call Joe Licosky at 239-0133 or Jerry Nash at 262-8983. Lehman Golf Club will host a Nine & Dine Tournament on Friday August 31, with tee times beginning at 5pm. Tee times are available by calling the pro shop at 675-1686. Mickey Gorham Golf Tournament will be held on Sunday, Aug. 26 at Wilkes-Barre Municipal Golf Course. Captain-and-crew format with shotgun start at 1 p.m. Registration is $80 per golfer ($85 day of tournament) which includes green fees, cart, and dinner. E-mail registration to coach_hanson@hotmail.com or call 881-7259. Solomon Junior High School, in conjunction with the American Heart Association of NEPA, will host a play day field hockey event held at Solomon/Plains Jr. High School August 25. All field hockey teams from schools are invited and encouraged to come and participate. The public is invited. For more information, call Brian Fischer at 270-0618. South Wilkes-Barre Little League will hold field day and closing ceremonies Saturday Aug. 25 at 5 p.m. Players should wear their team shirts and hats. Wyoming Area Soccer will hold "Meet the Warriors" night Sunday, Aug. 26. This event includes the varsity boys and girls teams and the junior high team. It will be held in the Wyoming Area Secondary Center cafeteria at noon. The parents association is asking junior varsity players to bring a bottle of soda, girls varsity to bring a bag of chips or pretzels, and boys varsity to bring a dessert. Wyoming Valley West Aquatic Teams are holding their second annual golf tournament on Sunday, Aug. 26, 1 p.m. at Four Seasons Golf Course. Entries of either a golfer or a foursome, donors and hole sponsors can be forwarded to golf chairman Dawn Holena at 417-8716. Bulletin Board items will not be accepted over the telephone. Items may be faxed to 831-7319, emailed to tlsports@timesleader.com or dropped off at the Times Leader or mailed to Times Leader, c/o Sports, 15 N, Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711-0250.
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P O C O N O D O W N S Friday's Entries Post Time:6:30 PM First 7500CLCD $6,000 Trot 1. Linebriated (Ty Buter) 3-1 2. Shelly Ross (Ma Kakaley) 4-1 3. O-Georgie (An McCarthy) 8-1 4. Jobo Da’shabra (Ro Bath) 9-2 5. Chiselled (An Napolitano) 7-2 6. Cross Island King (Gr Wasiluk) 12-1 7. Mr Hobbs (Mi Simons) 5-1 8. Grace N Charlie (Ma Romano) 10-1 Second nw2PMLt FM $11,000 Pace 1. Margarita Monday (Jo Pavia Jr) 6-1 2. Dragon’s Jojo (Ge Napolitano Jr) 5-2 3. Shelikesitherway (An Napolitano) 12-1 4. Terror In Motion (Er Carlson) 5-1 5. Co-Op Hanover (Br Simpson) 3-1 6. Aint Got A Home (An McCarthy) 4-1 7. Day Traker (Ma Kakaley) 10-1 8. Steppin Hanover (Th Jackson) 15-1 9. Feds Express (Mi Simons) 20-1 Third nw2PMLtFM $11,000 Trot 1. Homepage (Er Carlson) 10-1 2. Marion Melody (To Schadel) 12-1 3. Allusive (Mi Simons) 4-1 4. Angevine (Th Jackson) 8-1 5. Chocoholic (Ma Romano) 9-2 6. Pilgrims Elan (An McCarthy) 7-2 7. Paris Kentucky (Ty Buter) 3-1 8. My Love Bi (Ma Kakaley) 5-1 Fourth nw4PMLt FM $14,000 Pace 1. Patient And True (An McCarthy) 10-1 2. Pure Diamond (Ty Buter) 5-2 3. Tip N Go (Th Jackson) 12-1 4. Fair Voltage (An Napolitano) 4-1 5. Keystone Chianti (Jo Pavia Jr) 20-1 6. Nightly Terror (Br Simpson) 6-1 7. Marymac Is A Whack (Ma Kakaley) 5-1 8. How ’Bout A Smooch (Ge Napolitano Jr) 3-1 9. Little Native Girl (Er Carlson) 15-1 Fifth nw2PMLtFM $11,000 Trot 1. By A Nose Hanover (To Schadel) 5-1 2. Katie Done Did It (Ge Napolitano Jr) 3-1 3. Touch Of Charm (An McCarthy) 10-1 4. Hope And Love (Ty Buter) 7-2 5. Sassy Syrinx (Jo Pavia Jr) 2-1 6. Mystical Shyann (Ma Kakaley) 6-1 7. Margarita Bi (Jo Mc Keon Jr) 12-1
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Ninth nw3PMCLCD $9,000 Pace 1. Mark’s Quik Pulse (Ma Romano) 20-1 2. Manofleisuresuit (Th Jackson) 4-1 3. Bungleinthejungle (Ma Kakaley) 10-1 4. Woop D Do Bazzle (Ty Buter) 8-1 5. Pangali (Er Carlson) 6-1 6. Matt’s Delivery (An McCarthy) 9-2 7. Jw Racer (Ge Napolitano Jr) 3-1 8. Bestest Hanover (To Schadel) 15-1 9. Majority Rules (Jo Pavia Jr) 7-2 Tenth nw4PMLt CG $14,000 Pace 1. Station Threeohsix (Jo Pavia Jr) 7-2 2. Savvy Savannah (Er Carlson) 4-1 3. Hawaii And Sun (Th Jackson) 9-2 4. Misty’s Delight (Da Ingraham) 6-1 5. I’m Just Cruisin’ (Ma Kakaley) 3-1 6. Rock Three Times (Br Simpson) 15-1 7. Who Dat Love (Mi Simons) 10-1 8. He’s Unbelievable (An McCarthy) 20-1 9. El Bravo (Ge Napolitano Jr) 8-1 Eleventh M 5000CL $4,500 Pace 1. Bond Blue Chip (Er Carlson) 9-2 2. Real Shark (Mi Simons) 8-1 3. American Village (An Napolitano) 4-1 4. Prairie Ganache (Ma Kakaley) 10-1 5. How Sweet Thou Art (Jo Pavia Jr) 7-2 6. Rosa Blast (Br Brocklehurst) 15-1 7. Rm Mornin Sunshine (Ty Buter) 3-1 8. Bathing Beauty (Br Simpson) 6-1 9. Mac Martini (Ma Romano) 20-1 Twelfth nw1PM 2yrF $9,500 Trot 1. Reveille (Jo Mc Keon Jr) 8-1 2. Marion Mayflower (Ma Kakaley) 4-1 3. Casanostra (Ch Norris) 6-1 4. Matriarch Hanover (Th Jackson) 7-2 5. Tim Lizzie (Er Carlson) 15-1 6. Love Me Two Times (An McCarthy) 5-2 7. Dixie Glide (Da Ingraham) 5-1 8. Broadway Angel (Mi Simons) 12-1 9. Sound And Fury (Br Simpson) 20-1 Thirteenth nw4000L5 $9,000 Pace 1. Lies Lies Lies (Mi Simons) 6-1 2. Monet C C (Da Ingraham) 4-1 3. Stormin Rustler (Ge Napolitano Jr) 5-2 4. Major Najor (An Napolitano) 10-1 5. Jimmie Hanover (Ty Buter) 3-1 6. Deestruction (Er Carlson) 12-1 7. Tobins Fortune (Ma Kakaley) 5-1 8. Fine Fine Fine (An McCarthy) 20-1 9. Successfully Rich (Br Simpson) 15-1 Fourteenth nw4000L5 $9,000 Trot 1. Truth In Action (Er Carlson) 4-1 2. Sephora De Vie (Ma Romano) 7-2 3. Celebrity Legacy (Da Ingraham) 12-1 4. Money Man K (Jo Pavia Jr) 3-1 5. Hellogottagobuhbye (An McCarthy) 9-2 6. Chancey Hall (Ge Napolitano Jr) 10-1 7. Dreaming Of Amy (Ma Kakaley) 8-1 8. D Lee More (Br Simpson) 5-1
H.S. FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGES (7 p.m. unless noted; subject to change) Athens at Northwest GAR vs. Dallas, at Lake-Lehman H.S., 4 p.m. Hanover Area at Honesdale Hazleton Area at Bangor Lackawanna Trail at Crestwood, 6 p.m. Lake-Lehman at Riverside Meyers at Mid Valley Pittston Area at Dunmore Scranton at Coughlin Western Wayne at Tunkhannock, 5:30 p.m. Wyoming Area at Valley View Wyoming Valley West at Wallenpaupack H.S. GOLF Meyers at Wyoming Area Wyoming Seminary at Holy Redeemer Nanticoke at Lake-Lehman Hanover Area at MMI Prep
SATURDAY, AUG. 25 H.S. FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGE Holy Redeemer at Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech, 10 a.m. WOMEN'S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL Penn Tech at LCCC, noon
H A R N E S S R A C I N G Wednesday's Results At Pocono Downs
First - $11,000 Trot 1:55.4 7-Sleek N Wow (Mi Simons) 5.40 4.20 3.60 4-Gimme The Loot (Al Spano) 4.40 2.80 1-Keystone Activator (Ho Parker) 6.80 EXACTA (7-4) $48.40 TRIFECTA (7-4-1) $324.60 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $81.15 SUPERFECTA (7-4-1-5) $2,379.80 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $118.99 Second - $9,500 Pace 1:55.2 5-Ideal Portrait (An McCarthy) 7.60 5.40 3.00 8-Fun Filly (Ho Parker) 5.00 3.60 1-Senorita Bella (Ty Buter) 2.60 EXACTA (5-8) $38.20 TRIFECTA (5-8-1) $83.40 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $20.85 SUPERFECTA (5-8-1-3) $198.80 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $9.94 DAILY DOUBLE (7-5) $37.00 Third - $14,000 Trot 1:56.2 5-Celebrity Lovin (Br Simpson) 42.60 22.80 7.20 4-Loose Deuce (Da Ingraham) 11.40 4.80 3-Keystone Tempo (To Schadel) 3.00 EXACTA (5-4) $467.80 TRIFECTA (5-4-3) $1,345.80 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $336.45 SUPERFECTA (5-4-3-7) $6,863.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $343.17 Fourth - $9,500 Pace 1:56.1 5-O Narutac Rockette (An McCarthy) 6.00 2.60 2.40 3-La D Da Hanover (Ma Kakaley) 2.60 2.10 2-Daisyofadeal (Br Simpson) 7.40 EXACTA (5-3) $16.80 TRIFECTA (5-3-2) $298.00 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $74.50 SUPERFECTA (5-3-2-1) $955.80 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $47.79 Fifth - $11,000 Trot 1:56.2 9-Fortythirdst Tim (Er Carlson) 35.20 16.40 4.40 7-Symphantab (Da Ingraham) 8.20 5.60 2-Clete Hanover (Mi Simons) 3.80 EXACTA (9-7) $238.60 TRIFECTA (9-7-2) $1,407.00 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $351.75 SUPERFECTA (9-7-2-4) $11,523.80 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $576.19 PICK 3 (5-5-ALL) $79.00 PICK 3 (ALL-5-9) $79.00 Sixth - $9,000 Pace 1:54.0 2-Jack’s Magic Jewel (Br Simpson) 3.20 2.40 2.10 9-Stratus (Ge Napolitano Jr) 3.80 2.80 6-My Immortal (Ma Kakaley) 4.20 EXACTA (2-9) $18.40 TRIFECTA (2-9-6) $121.00 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $30.25 SUPERFECTA (2-9-6-3) $417.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $20.87 Seventh - $13,000 Trot 1:54.4 6-Nice Dream (An Napolitano) 13.40 5.80 3.20 8-Nf Quotable (Th Jackson) 5.20 3.00 4-Habanero (Ty Buter) 2.20 EXACTA (6-8) $65.80 TRIFECTA (6-8-4) $371.00
50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $92.75 SUPERFECTA (6-8-4-5) $3,801.80 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $190.09 Scratched: Home Towne Jeff Eighth - $6,000 Pace 1:54.1 9-Little Red Dress (Ge Napolitano Jr) 5.40 5.20 4.00 7-Peteantnart (An Napolitano) 31.00 19.60 8-Hokie Spirit (Er Carlson) 19.60 EXACTA (9-7) $155.60 TRIFECTA (9-7-8) $2,702.80 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $675.70 SUPERFECTA (9-7-8-3) $17,930.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $896.52 Ninth - $13,000 Trot 1:54.1 7-Rapid Strategy (Ma Kakaley) 5.60 4.80 2.40 8-Four Starz Robro (Mi Simons) 9.00 4.40 3-Hoboken Sonny (Br Simpson) 2.40 EXACTA (7-8) $66.80 TRIFECTA (7-8-3) $316.60 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $79.15 SUPERFECTA (7-8-3-5) $898.60 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $44.93 PICK 4 (2-6-9-7 (4 Out of 4)) $209.80 Tenth - $14,000 Pace 1:52.1 1-Riverdancer (Ge Napolitano Jr) 4.20 2.60 2.20 6-Medoland Santorini (An McCarthy) 7.00 5.80 4-Smokin N Grinin (Jo Pavia Jr) 4.20 EXACTA (1-6) $39.80 TRIFECTA (1-6-4) $217.60 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $54.40 SUPERFECTA (1-6-4-7) $652.00 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $32.60 Eleventh - $14,000 Trot 1:54.3 8-In Your Room (Mi Simons) 8.80 5.40 3.60 7-All Munky Business (Er Carlson) 4.20 2.80 2-Pilgrims Power (An McCarthy) 2.60 EXACTA (8-7) $62.80 TRIFECTA (8-7-2) $182.40 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $45.60 SUPERFECTA (8-7-2-9) $1,685.00 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $84.25 Twelfth - $8,500 Pace 1:52.4 5-Hally (Ma Romano) 6.00 3.60 2.80 2-Highly Thought Of (Br Simpson) 16.40 6.20 3-Noartographsplease (Ty Buter) 2.60 EXACTA (5-2) $66.00 TRIFECTA (5-2-3) $215.80 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $53.95 SUPERFECTA (5-2-3-6) $1,656.40 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $82.82 PICK 3 (1-8-5) $146.00 Thirteenth - $11,000 Pace 1:50.2 7-B N Bad (Jo Pavia Jr) 3.80 2.60 2.40 3-Spartan Justice (An Napolitano) 3.20 3.00 5-Andy Baran (Da Ingraham) 10.00 EXACTA (7-3) $12.40 TRIFECTA (7-3-5) $125.00 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $31.25 SUPERFECTA (7-3-5-6) $423.20 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $21.16 Scratched: Waylon Hanover Fourteenth - $11,000 Pace 1:53.0 3-Penny Pincher (Ge Napolitano Jr) 7.00 3.40 3.20 1-So Easy Baby (Ma Kakaley) 4.00 4.00 4-Franciegirl (An McCarthy) 4.60 EXACTA (3-1) $58.20 TRIFECTA (3-1-4) $187.00 50 CENT TRIFECTA (50 Cent) $46.75 SUPERFECTA (3-1-4-2) $416.80 10 CENT SUPERFECTA (10 Cent) $20.84 LATE DOUBLE (7-3) $17.40 Scratched: Elodie Total Handle-$339,319
F O O T B A L L NFL Preseason Scores and Schedule Thursday's Games Green Bay 27, Cincinnati 13 Baltimore 48, Jacksonville 17 Arizona at Tennessee, late Friday's Games New England at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 7:30 p.m. San Diego at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Seattle at Kansas City, 8 p.m. Chicago at N.Y. Giants, 8 p.m. Saturday's Games Indianapolis at Washington, 4 p.m. Detroit at Oakland, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m. St. Louis at Dallas, 8 p.m. Sunday's Games San Francisco at Denver, 4 p.m. Carolina at N.Y. Jets, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29 Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m. New England at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m. Miami at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Sixth nw5PMCLCD $13,000 Pace 1. Western Dog (Ma Romano) 12-1 2. Patient Major (An Napolitano) 4-1 3. No Foreign Xchange (Mi Simons) 5-2 4. Terryang Fra (Th Jackson) 20-1 5. I O One (Ma Kakaley) 15-1 6. Ulysses Blue Chip (Er Carlson) 3-1 7. Little Nicky B (Ty Buter) 5-1 8. Tommy Ray Cmj (Ge Napolitano Jr) 6-1 9. General Mack (An McCarthy) 10-1 Seventh nw1PM 2yrF $9,500 Trot 1. To The Good Life (Th Haughton) 10-1 2. Chrissy O (Er Carlson) 4-1 3. Mckenzie’s Star (Ty Buter) 6-1 4. Fancy Fern Yankee (Ma Kakaley) 5-2 5. Oh Oh It’s Lindy (To Schadel) 20-1 6. Can’t Get Over You (Ch Norris) 15-1 7. Ivory Queen (Ji Takter Jr.) 3-1 8. Ninety Five Janet (An McCarthy) 5-1 9. Themida (Br Simpson) 12-1 Eighth nw9000L5 $13,000 Pace 1. Midas Blue Chip (Ty Buter) 3-1 2. Mickey Hanover (Ge Napolitano Jr) 5-2 3. Little Gold Ring (An McCarthy) 10-1 4. Rick’s Sign (Er Carlson) 5-1 5. J J Gladiator (An Napolitano) 4-1 6. My Boogie Shoes (Jo Pavia Jr) 20-1 7. Mattox’s Spencer (Mi Simons) 6-1 8. The Bad Deputy (Ed Sager) 15-1 9. Windsong Gorgeous (Ma Kakaley) 12-1
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Drug testing a hot topic once again in the Bay Area By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer
OAKLAND, Calif. — Athletics pitcher Brandon McCarthy becomes uneasy each time he is called to the bathroom for a random drug test, even though he’s confident he’s completely clean. McCarthy can’t help but be slightly paranoid when it comes to performance-enhancing drugs, scared that one mistake could land him a suspension and alter his career path — if not end it altogether. “You just live in fear,” McCarthy said. “When we go in for a pee
test, you’re legitimately nervous knowing you’re 100 percent clean. It’s probably being overly worried, but it is still a concern, ‘What happens if I test positive?’ Again, what happens if someone sabotaged you? There’s a lot of extreme hypotheticals you can throw out there but they do play into your mind any time you talk about losing a career or a year.” McCarthy and his Oakland teammates talked in depth about Major League Baseball’s drug testing program in the aftermath of pitcher Bartolo Colon’s 50game suspension for testosterone Wednesday, the second such
penalty for a prominent Bay Area player in the span of a week. AllStar game MVP Melky Cabrera of the NL West-leading San Francisco Giants was banned Aug. 15 after he, too, tested positive for testosterone. “It’s kind of, how dumb do you have to be?” Chicago White Sox slugger Adam Dunn said. “You guys see how many times the drug test guys are here. I feel like they’re here at least once a homestand. I don’t want to call you stupid, but you kind of look yourself in the mirror and it’s pretty dumb.” Atlanta star Chipper Jones
agrees. “It’s always surprising, especially nowadays. If you are going to try something, you’re basically playing Russian roulette. They’re going to get you at some point. It’s always surprising to still see guys trying to get away with it. It’s unfortunate,” he said Thursday. With performance-enhancing drugs suddenly making bigger headlines than pennant races as September nears, some are calling for even stiffer punishments. Whoa, says McCarthy. “Until there’s actually more dialogue, plus the sensationalism
with it, I don’t think you can go to more,” he said. “People this last week have talked about lifetime bans right away, year bans, it’s not that I’d be opposed to that but I think you’d have to change the rules of the game — 50 games, for where we are right now, feels like it’s enough. “I think you’re starting to see guys lose seasons, lose credibility. It now becomes its own thing. As opposed to a few years ago, there was enough floating around it just felt like it was rolling. Now, you hope there’s more of a stigma attached to it — not just the 50 games or losing pay
STANDINGS/STATS
MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP
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New York...................................... Tampa Bay ................................... Baltimore ...................................... Boston .......................................... Toronto .........................................
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Chicago ........................................ Detroit ........................................... Kansas City.................................. Cleveland ..................................... Minnesota ....................................
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Texas ............................................. Oakland.......................................... Los Angeles .................................. Seattle ............................................
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The Cincinnati Reds’ Zack Cozart (2) celebrates with teammate Miguel Cairo after scoring on a Todd Frazier ground ball in the first inning of a game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday in Philadelphia. At press time, the Phillies had just defeated the Reds, 4-3.
Rockies complete sweep of Mets The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Jim Tracy wants his Colorado Rockies pitchers to take it to the limit. And his 75-pitch boundary for starters seems to be working of late. Tyler Chatwood combined with four relievers in a 1-0 victory over the New York Mets on Thursday, completing a four-game sweep and giving the last-place Rockies a five-game winning streak that tied their season high. “What we just did today is not easy to do. It’s not easy to do — sweep a four-game series on the road,” Tracy said. Ever since the Rockies went to a four-man rotation in June, their starters have been on tight limits. The Colorado manager has kept the restraints in place even as the Rockies have gone back to a quintet of starters. Chatwood was pulled after allowing three hits over three innings. He needed 65 pitches to get nine outs. “I was getting close to the 75 pitches, so they made the decision,” Chatwood said. “You always want to be economical. I think that’s your job as a starting pitcher, to go as deep as you can in a game. And I think that 75 pitches kind of makes you go right after the guy.” No Rockies starter has reached 100 pitches since Jeremy Guthrie threw 102 against Oakland on June 12, according to STATS LLC. Forget about complete games — they’ve gone the way of the Dodo bird in Colorado. The Rockies haven’t had one since Jhoulys Chacin in a 2-1 loss at Cincinnati on Aug. 11 last year. Tracy still was raving about Chacin’s six-inning, 73-pitch effort in Tuesday’s 6-2 victory. “Fifty-one of the 73 were strikes,” he said. “In my opinion, that’s quality major league pitching. When you throw 80 pitches or you throw 75 pitches in three innings, or 78 pitches in three innings, and someone’s going to sit here from what I’ve experienced in over 36 years and tell me that that’s quality major league pitching, I’ll strongly disagree with whoever is uttering it to me. I want our guys to understand what quality major league pitching is all about.” On the other side, New
York’s Collin McHugh pitched two-hit ball over seven scoreless innings in a dazzling big league debut. After he left, the Rockies quickly went ahead against Bobby Parnell (2-3) as Jordany Valdespin misplayed Tyler Colvin’s leadoff drive in the eighth into a game-changing triple. Colvin hit Parnell’s second pitch to straightaway center, where the rookie Valdespin took two steps in, then realized he had misjudged the drive. He backpedaled a half-dozen steps and tried for a leaping, backhand grab, but the ball sailed over his glove. “I knew I hit it well, and I knew it had pretty good backspin on it,” Colvin said. “It was going to be decided on how he read it, and he took a couple steps in. Chris Nelson fouled off a pair of 0-2 pitches, then singled to center past the drawn-in infield. Brooklyn native Adam Ottovino and Rex Brothers (8-2) followed Chatwood with two innings each, and Willie Harris escaped a runner-on-second situation in the eighth. Matt Belisle got his first save since June 22, 2010, against Boston following some ninthinning drama. Pinch-hitter Justin Turner singled leading off and was sacrificed to second by Valdespin. Daniel Murphy flied to center and David Wright flied to right. Phillies 4, Reds 3
PHILADELPHIA — John Mayberry Jr. hit an RBI single in the bottom of the 11th inning to lift the Philadelphia Phillies to a victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Todd Frazier drove in all three runs for the NL Centralleading Reds, who were seeking their first series win in Philadelphia since 2006. The Phillies tied it in the eighth on Jimmy Rollins’ sacrifice fly and won it on Mayberry’s hit to split the fourgame set and take over sole possession of third place in the NL East for the first time since April. Cardinals 13, Astros 5
ST. LOUIS — David Freese’s three-run homer snapped the Cardinals’ seven-game long-ball drought and St. Louis beat the Houston Astros to complete a
three-game sweep. Freese and Matt Holliday each had four RBIs and Allen Craig had three hits and three RBIs. The Cardinals shrugged aside a 4-0, fourth-inning deficit and sent Houston to its seventh straight loss. The Astros are 0-4 while getting outscored 32-8 since interim manager Tony DeFrancesco replaced Brad Mills as leader of the stripped-down roster. Houston has won just seven of its last 50 overall.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Tigers 3, Blue Jays 2
DETROIT — Alex Avila’s RBI single with two outs in the 11th gave the Detroit Tigers a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, one inning after center fielder Austin Jackson kept the game tied with a spectacular catch. The Blue Jays had a runner on second in the 10th when Anthony Gose lifted what looked like a sure hit to the gap in right-center. But Jackson raced over and made a diving catch. Rays 5, Athletics 0
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Alex Cobb pitched a four-hitter for his first major league shutout and the surging Tampa Bay Rays beat the Oakland Athletics to pull within 21⁄2 games of the first-place New York Yankees in the AL East. Matt Joyce hit a two-run double in a five-run fifth inning against Tyson Ross, hastily called up from the minors to pitch in place of suspended Oakland starter Bartolo Colon. Angels 14, Red Sox 13
BOSTON — Kendrys Morales led off Los Angeles’ tworun 10th inning with a solo homer, and the Angels completed a three-game sweep of Boston by outlasting the Red Sox. The Red Sox wasted a 6-0 lead then rallied from deficits of 8-7 in the sixth and 12-11 in the ninth. But closer Alfredo Aceves struggled after Boston was one out away from victory in the ninth. Aceves (2-8) gave up five runs and six hits in one inning, and the Red Sox lost for the 11th time in 15 games. Ernesto Frieri (2-0) got the win after giving up a tying solo homer in the ninth to Cody Ross, his 19th of the season, and an RBI single in the 10th to Dustin Pedroia, who drove in five runs.
W 72 67 65 61
Washington.................................. Atlanta........................................... Philadelphia ................................. New York...................................... Miami ............................................
W 77 71 58 57 57
Cincinnati...................................... St. Louis ....................................... Pittsburgh..................................... Milwaukee .................................... Chicago ........................................ Houston ........................................
W 76 68 67 57 47 39
San Francisco .............................. Los Angeles ................................. Arizona ......................................... San Diego..................................... Colorado.......................................
W 69 67 64 56 50
All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division L Pct GB WCGB 52 .581 — — — 55 .560 21⁄2 57 .540 5 — 66 .472 131⁄2 81⁄2 68 .452 16 11 Central Division L Pct GB WCGB 55 .553 — — 57 .540 11⁄2 — 68 .447 13 111⁄2 70 .435 141⁄2 13 72 .415 17 151⁄2 West Division L Pct GB WCGB 51 .585 — — 57 .540 51⁄2 — 60 .520 8 21⁄2 64 .488 12 61⁄2 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division L Pct GB WCGB 47 .621 — — 53 .573 6 — 67 .464 191⁄2 101⁄2 68 .456 201⁄2 111⁄2 69 .452 21 12 Central Division L Pct GB WCGB 50 .603 — — 56 .548 7 — 57 .540 8 1 66 .463 171⁄2 101⁄2 76 .382 271⁄2 201⁄2 1 1 86 .312 36 ⁄2 29 ⁄2 West Division L Pct GB WCGB 55 .556 — — 58 .536 21⁄2 11⁄2 61 .512 51⁄2 41⁄2 70 .444 14 13 171⁄2 73 .407 181⁄2
AMERICAN LEAGUE Wednesday's Games Tampa Bay 5, Kansas City 3 Oakland 5, Minnesota 1 Seattle 3, Cleveland 1 Detroit 3, Toronto 2 L.A. Angels 7, Boston 3 Texas 12, Baltimore 3 Chicago White Sox 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Thursday's Games Detroit 3, Toronto 2, 11 innings L.A. Angels 14, Boston 13, 10 innings Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 0 Minnesota at Texas, (n) Friday's Games L.A. Angels (Greinke 1-2) at Detroit (Porcello 9-8), 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 12-3) at Cleveland (Kluber 0-2), 7:05 p.m. Toronto (Villanueva 6-3) at Baltimore (Britton 2-1), 7:05 p.m. Kansas City (B.Chen 9-10) at Boston (Lester 7-10), 7:10 p.m. Oakland (J.Parker 8-7) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 10-7), 7:10 p.m. Minnesota (Deduno 4-1) at Texas (M.Harrison 14-7), 8:05 p.m. Seattle (Vargas 13-8) at Chicago White Sox (Peavy 9-9), 8:10 p.m. Saturday's Games Oakland at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m. Minnesota at Texas, 4:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Detroit, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Toronto at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m. Sunday's Games L.A. Angels at Detroit, 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m. Kansas City at Boston, 1:35 p.m. Toronto at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m. Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m. Minnesota at Texas, 3:05 p.m .
N A T I O N A L L E A G U E Rockies 1, Mets 0 Colorado
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Cardinals 13, Astros 5 Houston
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but basically falling out of favor.” McCarthy is open to rethinking his stance if there’s an increase in positive tests in the near future. Every player receives a urine and blood test upon reporting to spring training, and all players are selected for additional urine tests on a randomly selected date. The latest labor deal says there will be an additional 1,400 random tests from 2012-16, including up to 200 during the 2012-13 offseason, 225 during the 2013-14 offseason and up to 250 for remaining offseasons.
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Str L-3 W-2 L-1 L-4 L-5
Home 39-24 35-28 32-29 29-37 31-30
Away 33-28 35-27 35-28 30-29 25-38
L10 6-4 6-4 6-4 1-9 2-8
Str W-3 W-3 L-1 L-8 L-2
Home 35-26 37-25 26-33 30-29 24-37
Away 33-29 30-32 29-35 24-41 27-35
L10 5-5 6-4 5-5 9-1
Str W-1 L-1 W-3 W-8
Home 38-23 39-27 33-29 33-30
Away 34-28 28-30 32-31 28-34
L10 6-4 5-5 5-5 2-8 5-5
Str L-1 W-1 W-1 L-5 L-2
Home 36-24 36-29 28-35 28-34 29-31
Away 41-23 35-24 30-32 29-34 28-38
L10 6-4 6-4 3-7 5-5 3-7 1-9
Str L-1 W-3 L-3 W-3 L-4 L-7
Home 41-22 40-26 37-23 38-28 30-28 27-35
Away 35-28 28-30 30-34 19-38 17-48 12-51
L10 7-3 5-5 6-4 5-5 8-2
Str W-3 L-3 W-2 W-4 W-5
Home 35-26 33-28 33-28 31-32 26-39
Away 34-29 34-30 31-33 25-38 24-34
NATIONAL LEAGUE Wednesday's Games Milwaukee 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Arizona 3, Miami 2, 1st game San Diego 4, Pittsburgh 2 Atlanta 5, Washington 1 Cincinnati 3, Philadelphia 2 Colorado 5, N.Y. Mets 2 St. Louis 4, Houston 2 Arizona 3, Miami 0, 2nd game San Francisco 8, L.A. Dodgers 4 Thursday's Games Colorado 1, N.Y. Mets 0 St. Louis 13, Houston 5 Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 3, 11 innings Atlanta at San Francisco, (n) Friday's Games Colorado (D.Pomeranz 1-7) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 8-11), 2:20 p.m. Milwaukee (Fiers 6-6) at Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 8-12), 7:05 p.m. Washington (E.Jackson 7-8) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 6-9), 7:05 p.m. Houston (Lyles 2-10) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 10-6), 7:10 p.m. St. Louis (Lynn 13-5) at Cincinnati (Latos 10-3), 7:10 p.m. San Diego (Stults 3-2) at Arizona (Corbin 5-4), 9:40 p.m. Miami (Eovaldi 4-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 10-9), 10:10 p.m. Atlanta (Sheets 4-3) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 10-7), 10:15 p.m. Saturday's Games Colorado at Chicago Cubs, 1:05 p.m. Houston at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m. Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. St. Louis at Cincinnati, 4:05 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. San Diego at Arizona, 8:10 p.m. Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m. Sunday's Games Houston at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m. St. Louis at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m. Colorado at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m. San Diego at Arizona, 4:10 p.m. Atlanta at San Francisco, 8:05 p.m.
4 1 1 0 1 R.Cruz ...................... 2⁄3 St. Louis Westbrook W,13-9.. 5 7 5 5 2 1 Browning H,4........... 1⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 Mujica H,20.............. 12⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 Salas......................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 Rzepczynski ............ 1 2 0 0 0 1 Keuchel pitched to 3 batters in the 5th. HBP—by Westbrook (S.Moore, Bogusevic). Umpires—Home, D.J. Reyburn;First, Phil Cuzzi;Second, Manny Gonzalez;Third, Gerry Davis. T—3:20. A—30,343 (43,975).
Phillies 4, Reds 3 Cincinnati
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Melky Mesa delivers with HR in 11th The Associated Press
BUFFALO – Melky Mesa led off the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees 11th inning with his sixth homer of the season, taking Buffalo Bisons pitcher C.J. Nitkowski over the wall in right center field for the winning run as the Yankees downed the Bisons 4-3 in 11 innings. The win, the eighth straight for the Yankees, is the team’s longest winning streak since SWB won eight straight from August 18-27, 2010. Fred Lewis led off the game for the Bisons with a double off the wall in left-center for a two-base hit on the first pitch of the game thrown by starter Mike O’Connor. Brad Emaus followed up the double with a single to center field, scoring Lewis for a 1-0 Bisons lead. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre tied the game at 1-1 in the top of the third inning on the first of the three RBIs of the night by Corban Joseph. Chris Dickerson doubled to the gap in right center off Bisons starter Armando Rodriguez and came home on Joseph’s RBI single to right, tying te game up. Buffalo scored the next two runs off O’Connor by picking up a single run in the fourth inning and another single run in the sixth. Tampa Bay 5. 2B—Drew (1), Joyce (14), Scott (15). SB—Donaldson (2), R.Roberts (3). SF—R.Roberts. IP H R ER BB SO Oakland T.Ross L,2-9............ 6 9 5 5 2 6 Blevins...................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 Neshek ..................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 Tampa Bay Cobb W,8-8 ............. 9 4 0 0 2 8 T.Ross pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.
Angels 14, Red Sox 13 Los Angeles
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Tigers 3, Blue Jays 2 Toronto
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Saints like choice of new interim leader By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer
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Clinton Portis cries while announcing his retirement from the Washington Redskins during a news conference at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va., Thursday. REDSKINS
Portis officially retires ASHBURN, Va. — There was no “Southeast Jerome” or “Bro Sweets.” Clinton Portis has a new title for himself: “soccer dad.” Portis formally announced his retirement Thursday, frequently shedding tears as he spoke uninterrupted for some 25 minutes about his life and nine-year NFL career with the Denver Broncos and Washington Redskins. The 30-year-old Portis last played for the Redskins in 2010, and his announcement was timed to coincide with his induction into a list of the franchise’s all-time greats. He set Washington’s single-season rushing record in 2005, the same year he wore costumes on a near-weekly basis during the team’s playoff drive. Portis said the costumes were “fun to do” and helped his teammates get through a special season.
METAIRIE, La. — Saints offensive linemen Zach Strief and Jahri Evans tried — and failed — to think of a time when offensive line coach Aaron Kromer lost his temper and ripped into his charges during a game. They’ve seen Kromer agitated by letdowns or mental lapses in practice, of course. But as far as they could recall, the man who will become the figurehead of New Orleans’ coaching staff during the opening six games of the regular season has always responded to in-game adversity more rationally than emotionally. “He’s certainly a very calm sideline presence on game day, which players love,” said Strief, the Saints’ starting right tackle. “The last thing you want, when you’re in the heat of it and you’re trying to do as well as you can, is to have someone come and tell you you
didn’t. “I don’t need someone to tell me when I got beat ... and (Kromer) is very good at saying, ‘What happened? What did he do? What can you do differentKromer ly?’ He talks through things and he allows you to kind of figure it out, and it keeps us a lot more consistent and level headed,” Strief continued. “I think he’ll bring a lot of that to the sideline.” Kromer won’t formally take over for assistant head coach Joe Vitt on a dayto-day basis until Vitt’s bounty-related suspension kicks in at the start of Week 1 of the regular season. However, the Saints have directed Kromer to get used to the role of head coach during the final two preseason games, which are this Saturday night against Houston and next Thursday night at Tennessee.
Vitt took on head coaching duties when Sean Payton’s season-long suspension began in mid-April. Vitt is expected to resume those duties when he returns, which won’t be until Week 8 because the Saints have a bye in Week 6. Kromer was a candidate to fill two head coaching vacancies last offseason. He was lined up to interview with St. Louis before the Rams hired Jeff Fisher. He also interviewed with Indianapolis, which hired Chuck Pagano. While Kromer said he maintains aspirations to be an NFL head coach, he does not view his temporary assignment with New Orleans as an audition. “I’m going to hold this thing over until Joe Vitt gets back. I’m going to hold the fort,” Kromer said. “It’s important that Drew Brees feels this is Sean Payton’s program. This is the way we do things. This is the way we did it in 2009 to win the Super Bowl. This is the way
we did it in 2011 to win 14 football games. This is the formula that we have followed to have success. ... I’m a fill-in for the fill-in.” While Kromer was widely expected to be Vitt’s fill-in, the Saints did not announce that until Wednesday night. There were several qualified candidates on staff, but in the end, Kromer seemed to make the most sense because he is close to Payton, and because appointing him allows offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael Jr. and new defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo to keep their focus narrowed more on game planning and play calling for their units. “We had a bunch of great candidates,” Brees said. “Really, there was no wrong choice. There was a bunch of right choices.” Kromer came to New Orleans in 2008 following stints in Oakland and Tampa Bay.
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Holmes ‘confident’ he can play this week FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets might be getting their No. 1 wide receiver back sooner than expected. Santonio Holmes is “confident” he could return this weekend from a few injuries that sidelined him for the Jets’ first two preseason games. He says his bruised ribs, tightness in his back and hamstring issue — all on his left side — are “clearing up.” Holmes, wearing a red no-contact jersey Thursday for the third straight day, ran some routes with the firstteam offense. He says while playing Sunday would be an important part of the offense progressing, he doesn’t think he and quarterback Mark Sanchez have lost any of their chemistry. He adds: “I think Mark just misses smiling at me on the field.” PANTHERS
Smith out with injured foot CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Panthers’ five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Steve Smith was held out of practice again Thursday with an infection in his left foot. Smith wasn’t present at practice as Carolina worked with simulated crowd noise in preparation for Sunday night’s preseason game at the New York Jets. Panthers coach Ron Rivera says Smith is being treated with antibiotics and he’ll wait until Friday to make a determination on whether or not Smith will play this week. Rivera says if there’s any doubt at all about Smith’s foot that he’ll hold him out. Rivera says he doesn’t know — nor does he want to know — what caused the infection, saying “the least I know, the better off (I am).” COLTS
Irsay: Team is working on ‘serious’ trade INDIANAPOLIS — Colts owner Jim Irsay says his team is seriously contemplating a trade — a deal that could possibly include a high draft pick. On Thursday, Irsay wrote on Twitter that “serious” trade winds are blowing though he also noted that often times these deals fall through. Later, he Tweeted that new Colts general manager Ryan Grigson isn’t afraid to roll the dice and that the owner was willing to open his checkbook. Those two posts followed an earlier one that read simply: “TRADE WINDS BLOWING” Irsay has not provided any indication of who the Colts might be trying to get, though their two biggest areas of need are cornerback and offensive line. Grison and coach Chuck Pagano have repeatedly said they will do anything they can to improve the team. -- The Associated Press
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Baltimore Ravens running back Vonta Leach, right, reacts alongside teammate Billy Bajema after Leach scored a touchdown in the second half of an NFL preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Baltimore Thursday.
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BALTIMORE — Joe Flacco completed 27 of 36 passes for 266 yards and two touchdowns before leaving early in the third quarter, and the Baltimore Ravens cruised to a 48-17 preseason victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday night. Flacco connected with nine receivers, most notably second-year wideout Torrey Smith, who finished with eight catches for 103 yards. Anquan Boldin caught a 5-yard TD pass and Vonta Leach scored on an 8-yard reception. Baltimore finished with 571 yards total offense and had five drives of at least 80 yards. The 48 points were the most ever scored by the Ravens in a preseason game. With support from a defense that kept Jacksonville quarterback Blaine Gabbert in check, the Ravens (No. 5 in the AP Pro32) built a 20-3 lead before Flacco took a seat. After opening the preseason with wins over the New York Giants and New Orleans, Jacksonville (No. 31) took a step back against the Ravens. Gabbert went 11 for 21 for 117 yards over three quarters, and Rashad Jennings, starting in place of holdout Maurice Jones-Drew, gained 57 yards on 13 carries. Jacksonville cornerback Rashean Mathis played for the first time this summer following knee surgery, but Jaguars cornerback Aaron Ross was forced from the game with an ankle injury and tight end Zach Miller left in the second quarter with an injured leg. Against the Giants and Saints, Gabbert drove the Jaguars (2-1) to a touchdown on their opening possession. In this one, Jacksonville started on its own 5 after a Ravens punt and made only one first down — on a 16-yard completion to first-round draft pick Justin Blackmon — before kicking the ball away. Ray Rice began the subsequent drive with a 28-yard run, but the march stalled inside the 10 before rookie Justin Tucker kicked a 33-yard field goal. It was an unfulfilling score for the Ravens (2-1), who were intent upon improving their inability to get touchdowns when inside the 20. That shortcoming would be resolved in Baltimore’s third drive. Flacco went 8 for 9 for 87 yards and made it 10-0 with a touchdown throw to Boldin. The march started with a 16-yard pass to Smith, who came up limping but returned later in the series and caught a key third-down pass. Smith missed last week’s game with a sprained ankle.
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Marvin Jones (82) catches a touchdown pass against Green Bay Packers cornerback Casey Hayward during the second half of an NFL preseason game Thursday in Cincinnati.
E X H I B I T I O N R O U N D U P Packers 27, Bengals 13 CINCINNATI — Aaron Rodgers led Green Bay to a big first half Thursday night, running for 52 yards and two touchdowns for a preseason victory. The MVP quarterback got the Packers (No. 1 in the AP Pro32) moving at full speed. He went 12 of 22 for 154 yards while leading the Packers to 245 yards and a 17-6 halftime lead. He also scrambled six times, scoring on runs of 12 and 5 yards. Running back Cedric Benson made his Packers debut against his former team and ran six times for 38 yards. Titans 32, Cardinals 27 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jake Locker threw for 134 yards and two touchdowns in his home debut as Tennessee’s starting quarterback, and the Titans beat the Arizona Cardinals. Locker threw for 124 yards and both TDs in giving Tennessee a 17-10 halftime lead and finished 11 of 20 for 134 yards with a 109.2 passer rating. He got plenty of help as the Titans (No. 21 in the AP Pro32) got another strong showing on defense.
Hall of Fame running back Steve Van Buren dies PHILADELPHIA — Steve Van Buren, the Hall of Fame running back who led the Philadelphia Eagles to NFL titles in 1948 and 1949, has died. He was 91. The Eagles said Van Buren died Thursday in Lancaster, Pa., of pneumonia. The former LSU star, nicknamed “Wham-Bam” for his quick and punishing running style, joined the Eagles in 1944 as a first-round pick. He led the NFL in rushing four times and finished his eight-year career with 5,860 yards rushing and 77 TDs. The five-time All-Pro player was selected to the NFL’s 75th Anniversary Team in 1994, and was the first Eagles player elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “On the field and off, as a player, a leader and a man, Steve Van Buren embodied the finest characteristics of our city and our sport,” said Jeffrey Lurie, the Eagles’ chairman and CEO. “He was a friend and an inspiration to generations of fans, and the model of what an Eagle should be.”
End Kamerion Wimbley had two sacks, linebacker Colin McCarthy returned one of his two interceptions 31 yards for a TD and the Titans (2-1) forced five turnovers overall. Returner Marc Mariani broke his left leg.
NEW YORK — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says possibly using replacement referees for regular-season games is worthwhile to ensure long-term improvements to officiating. The league and the NFL Referees Association have yet to reach an agreement, and Goodell acknowledged Thursday that time was running out to make the regular officials available for the openers. “We’re anxious to get a deal done, but it has to get done that it’s going to help us for the long term,” Goodell said at a fantasy football event in Times Square. “It’s not a short-term issue.” Officials probably need a week to 10 days to prepare for the season, Goodell said, and the first game is Sept. 5, 13 days away. The first full Sunday of games is Sept. 9. “These officials have been trained,” Goodell said of the replacement refs who have been calling preseason games. “We’ve been working with them. We think they’ll do a very credible job.” While the NFL and officials disagree on some financial matters, Goodell also characterized the differences as “philosophical.” The NFL’s proposal includes making some refs full-time — currently all game officials work part-time with outside jobs — and adding more crews. Increasing the pool of officials would allow the league to replace individual officials or entire crews that are not performing well, Goodell said. “Then it’s based on performance, which is what fans all want, players all want, coaches all want,” he said. The replacement officials have been closely scrutinized during the preseason, with any error quickly pointed out by media and fans. Goodell said he wasn’t concerned that teams and fans would question the credibility of results if that inevitable first disputed call of the season takes place while replacement officials are on the field. “We have controversial calls. Officiating is an imperfect science,” he said. “They’re not going to be correct all the time, but we have systems in place to try to help. We have instant replay, as an example, to try to help correct those mistakes. ... “It’s like any game. We get calls every Monday from fans, from coaches, from teams upset about a particular call. That happens. And it will happen going forward regardless of who’s on the field.”
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said sophomore Everett Golson will start at quarterback in the opener Sept. 1 against Navy in Dublin. Golson edged junior Andrew Hendrix for the position. “After a lot of practice, lots of film, lots of evaluation, he won the job,” Kelly said Thursday. “Andrew did a
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WILKES-BARRE – Malcolm Lumia was 2-over par with a 35 at Hollenback Golf Course in Wyoming Seminary’s 150-184 defeat of Meyers Thursday afternoon in a WVC golf match. Andrew Golden helped to pace Seminary with a 36. Dan Conrad led Meyers with a 37.
(at Hollenback Golf Course, par 33) WS – Malcolm Lumia 35, Andrew Golden 36, Jon Zirnheld 39, Frank Henry 40 MEY – Dan Conrad 37, Will Amesbury 48, C.J. Czafran 49, Lee Falzone 50
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Berwick 4, GAR 1
Erica Robbins fought back after dropping the second set to pull out a win at No. 3 singles as Berwick won three of four matches contested.
SINGLES ± 1. Casey Bacher (B) d. Edoukou Aka-Evouae 6-1, 6-2; 2. Julia Fonte (B) d. Raquel Sosa, 6-0, 6-1; 3. Erica Robbins (B) d. Lateia Iveaurive 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. DOUBLES -- 1. Diana Lopez/Vaness Castillo (GAR) d. Whitley Colver/Dalice Hess, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4; 2. Berwick won by forfeit.
MMI Prep 3, Wyo. Valley West 2
Gabriella Lobitz and Gabby Becker each pulled out straightset victories, and MMI Prep earned a forfeit at No. 2 doubles for a 3-2 win over Wyoming Valley West.
SINGLES ± 1. Gabriella Lobitz (MMI) d. Christa Talpash, 7-5, 6-2; 2. Gabby Becker (MMI) d. Devin Ryman, 7-5, 6-3; 3. Laura Monto (WVW) d. Claire Sheen, 6-1, 6-2. DOUBLES -- 1. Emily Coslett/Gillian Pajor (WVW) d. Kelsy Donaldson/Katie McGuire, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; 2. Soprina Guarneri/Haylee Kirschner (MMI) won by forfeit.
Crestwood 5, Hazleton Area 0
Crestwood got 6-0, 6-0 shutouts from Brittany Stanton and the doubles’ team of Melanie and Jenn Snyder to improve to 2-0 on the young season with a win against Hazleton Area.
SINGLES ± 1. Kristi Bowman (CR) d. Erika Grula, 6-2, 6-4; 2. Brittany Stanton (CR) d. Alexa Austin, 6-0, 6-0; 3. Melanie Kobela (CR) d. Mira Wise, 6-1 6-0. DOUBLES -- 1. Melanie Snyder/Jenn Snyder (CR) d. Iqra Majmood/Daisy Cabral, 6-0, 6-0; 2. Claire McCallick/Alexandra Kintz (CR) d. Brooke Malore/Grazia Devita, 6-1, 6-2
Dallas 5, Hanover Area 0
Dallas got strong play in singles and used identical 6-1, 6-2 scores in the doubles’ matches en route to a victory over Hanover Area.
SINGLES ± 1. Dana Yu (D) d. Emily Rinehimer, 6-2, 6-2; 2. Bridget Boyle (D) d. Elise House, 6-0, 6-4; 3. Grace Schaub (D) d. Kati McManus, 6-0, 6-3. DOUBLES -- 1. Cara Pricher/Haley Wilcox (D) d. Gabrielly Keating/Lauren Richmond, 6-1, 6-2; 2. Courtney Sickle/Alyssa Belskis (D) d. Analiese Reisinger/Carmen Cesari, 6-1, 6-2.
Seminary 5, Pittston Area 0
Wyoming Seminary dropped just two games in all five matches contested in a win over Pittston Area. SINGLES ± 1. Nathalie Joanlanne (WS) d. Miranda Warunek, 6-0, 6-0; 2. Anita Ghosh (WS) d. Mikhaela Moher, 6-1, 6-0; 3. Madison Nardone (WS) d. Elaina Menichelli, 6-0, 6-1. DOUBLES -- 1. Jacqui Meuser/Alaina Schucraft (WS) d. Kari Stahl/Sara Swartz, 6-0, 6-0; 2. Alex Cuddy/Megan Coulter (WS) d. Nicole Walters/Kristen Capitano, 6-0, 6-1.
Holy Redeemer 5, Coughlin 0
Fallyn Boich, Nellie Chmil and Megan McGraw swept the singles’ portion of the match as Holy Redeemer shut out Coughlin. SINGLES -- 1. Fallyn Boich (HR) d. Becca Elmy 6-3, 6-0; 2. Nellie Chmil (HR) d. Dana Schneider, 6-0, 6-0; 3. Megan McGraw (HR) d. Mykela Paurariu, 6-1, 6-4. DOUBLES -- 1. Beth Chmil/Tricia Harenza (HR) d. Julia DeMellier/Danielle Adcock, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; 2. Leanne Tabit/Emily Kabalka (HR) d. Alia Sod/Courtney Hafner 6-0, 6-0.
Wyo. Area 3, Tunkhannock 2
Valerie Bott and Kierstin Grillo picked up wins in singles, and Wyoming Area’s No. 2 doubles’ squad of Sam Williams/ Maddie Ambruso picked up the deciding third point in a victory over Tunkhannock. SINGLES ± 1. Valerie Bott (W) d. Marlena Chesner, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; 2. Kierstin Grillo (W) d. Jen Grasso, 6-2, 6-4; 3. Becky Mills (T) d. Anna Thomas, 6-3, 6-2. DOUBLES -- 1. Morgan Drungel/Prutha Patel (T) d. Julia Gober/Julia Banis, 6-3, 6-2; Sam Williams/Maddie Ambruso (W) d. Jill Patton/Haley Puterbaugh, 6-2, 6-4
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Petaluma, Calif.’s Bradley Smith, center right, reacts after California defeated San Antonio in the Little League World Series Thursday in South Williamsport. California won 11-1.
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hits off Texas pitching in the decisive six-run first — but both balls landed over the outfield fence. California loaded the bases on three walks. A wild pitch brought home the first run, and the bases were loaded again after Austin Paretti reached first on a dropped third strike. Smith then hit a 2-2 pitch that just cleared the wall in left-center 225 feet away. “Petaluma! Petaluma!” shouted California’s fans. Two pitches later, Quinton Gago went deep, too, and left no doubt about his shot. It easily cleared the wall in left and landed amongst fans perched on the grassy hill beyond the outfield. It was such an impressive shot that even Smith stopped to admire the blast from the dugout, his eyes widening as the ball carried under the night sky. But Smith wasn’t done himself. Another homer to left in the third earned the 13-year-old slugger another set of pats on the helmet from happy teammates who greeted him at the plate. Marzo allowed just two hits and a walk, and retired the last
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last World Series championship came in 1924 — but don’t want to see the franchise risk the health of its prime jewel. It gnaws at the win-now mindset players are taught to embrace, asking them to instead think of a future that may or may not come pass. “Everybody knows he wants to pitch. He’s a competitor,” said Jones, now 40 and in his final major league season. “He’s not in it in a 162-game regular season for nothing. He wants that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow just like everybody else. I see both sides. I get it, but as baseball players we want to hunt it down and kill it — right now. And they have a chance to slay the dragon, and I’m sure 24 other guys over there feel much the same way.” Strasburg is 15-5 with a 2.85 ERA and leads the National League with 183 strikeouts. He has won four straight starts and looked unhittable at times in his last outing, a 10-strikeout, raininterrupted performance against the Braves on Tuesday. But this is his first full season since undergoing elbow ligament replacement surgery — the famous Tommy John procedure — and the Nationals have
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seven batters he faced. California has a chance to avenge its only loss in South Williamsport — a 9-6 defeat to the Tennessee crew from Goodlettsville on Sunday. Texas was eliminated. In the early game, 12-year-old Edisson Gonzalez had 11 strikeouts and James Gonzalez provided the offense with a two-run homer in the first to lift Panama. Another rematch is on tap in the international final. Tokyo beat Panama 4-1 on Wednesday night. Mexico starter Ramon Ballina struck out 12 on Thursday, but allowed James Gonzalez’s big blast. Panama manager Luis Gonzalez is also a proud uncle after his 12-year-old nephew hit the homer. “It was a difficult game, but our pitcher did his job,” Luis Gonzalez said through a translator. “One pitch decided the game.” Mexico scored in the fifth on Marcelo Perez’s RBI single, and had the tying run at second with two outs in the sixth. But Edisson Gonzalez got a strikeout to end the game. “I was not nervous in the beginning of the game,” he said, “but in the last inning when the first batter got on, I got nervous. (James’) home run helped because I’m not having a good tournament at the plate and we
needed it to win the game.” After the teams exchanged handshakes at the plate, Edisson Gonzalez joined several teammates to exchange high-fives one more time with Mexico’s disappointed players. He tapped counterpart Ballina, 13, on the shoulder, as the Mexico starter walked back to his dugout to offer kind words and an embrace. Looking as cool and confident as a big-league ace, Edisson Gonzalez consistently worked ahead of the count and didn’t allow a runner to get past first until Eduardo Abrego doubled to left in the fifth. “Yes we can! Yes we can,” Mexico’s vocal fans yelled in Spanish in trying to urge a comeback. Perez followed with his solid RBI single to center, but Gonzalez got two strikeouts to end that inning. Renowned earlier in the tournament for their power, Mexico hitters struggled at the plate until the final innings. The loss eliminated Mexico. After beating Curacao on Tuesday, Mexico lost its second game without manager Fernando Rios, who was suspended two games after failing to have all his players take a turn at bat in a 4-3 win earlier this week over Taiwan. Mexico’s acting manager elected not to speak with reporters after the game.
made it clear since the start of spring training that they will limit his load, just as they did last year when TJ-comeback teammate Jordan Zimmermann was shut down after passing 160 innings on Aug. 28. Zimmermann’s innings limit was noncontroversial because the Nationals weren’t a playoff team a year ago, unlike this year’s team that awoke Thursday with a six-game NL East lead after taking two of three from the Braves. It’s safe to say Zimmermann, for example, was never fodder for an appearance by the former mayor of New York on “Meet the Press.” “Let him pitch,” Rudy Giuliani told the Sunday morning news show this week when asked about Strasburg, in a video posted online. “I wouldn’t give up maybe home-field advantage in the playoffs. The guy’s a big strong guy, the operation seems to have worked. A lot of guys for 100 years have been pitching until the end of the season.” Yep. Everybody has an opinion. And manager Davey Johnson has heard them all. “It’s really easy for the bloggers and the tweeters and all those people to say ‘Why don’t you do this?’ or ‘We can do that. Get him out of the bullpen’ and blah, blah, blah, blah,” Johnson said. “I’ve heard it all, and I said, it’s a good thing you guys aren’t managing, and I’m the one that’s
managing. You do what’s best for the player. Always. No. 1.” There’s only one person whose opinion truly matters, and that’s general manager Mike Rizzo, and he’s managed to be both definitive and ambiguous. Rizzo said the Nationals, using the best medical advice available, will shut down Strasburg at some point, but the GM won’t divulge a timetable or a targeted number of innings, essentially saying he’ll know Strasburg’s done when he sees it. “We’ve got a plan in place,” Rizzo said. “And we’re adhering to it.” Johnson offered the biggest clue yet about the plan on Wednesday, saying that he’ll need to replace Strasburg in the rotation for the final two or three starts of the regular season. That would give the right-hander perhaps five more starts, ending his season around Sept. 19 in the neighborhood of 170-180 innings. Rizzo has dismissed many popular alternatives that would keep Strasburg pitching into the playoffs, including a six-man rotation, skipped starts, a bullpen stint or an early shutdown followed by a restart in October. Those alternatives, for various reasons, wouldn’t significantly cut down on the wear-and-tear on Strasburg’s arm because of the extra throwing he’d have to do when he’s not pitching.
FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGES TODAY (7 p.m. unless noted) Athens at Northwest GAR vs. Dallas, at Lake-Lehman H.S. Hanover Area at Honesdale Hazleton Area at Bangor Lackawanna Trail at Crestwood, 6 p.m. Lake-Lehman at Riverside Meyers at Mid Valley
bright kid. I think he’s in the top 20 of his class. That’s why he is where he’s at.” Soto plans to have his signing ceremony at Heights Elementary, where he started as a student. No date has been set. “I want to inspire kids to do what I did,” said Soto, who also holds a part-time job at a fast you can do the same thing I did. food restaurant. “Not to follow- There’s no excuse not to.” ing in my footsteps, technically, As for GAR, his last day there but to follow in my path. That will be Dec. 23. “It’s a tough decision, but it’s a even if you’re from around here,
Pittston Area at Dunmore Scranton at Coughlin Western Wayne at Tunkhannock, 5:30 p.m. Wyoming Area at Valley View Wyoming Valley West at Wallenpaupack SATURDAY Holy Redeemer at ColumbiaMontour Vo-Tech, 10 a.m.
decision that I have to make to make my life better,” Soto said. “I’m going to miss GAR, I’m going to miss the people, friends and family.”
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he’s been. He’s really stepped up this year and is taking control of this offense.” Penn State will certainly need that, especially with the transfers of two top playmakers in Silas Redd and Justin Brown. As far as his brand-new receiving corps, McGloin praised sophomore Allen Robinson as the team’s new top target while also mentioning Shawney Kersey and Alex Kenney as dependable wideouts. Discussing newcomers, McGloin said he expects Eugene Lewis, a fellow District 2 product, and Trevor Williams to see the field as true freshmen. But next Saturday’s game will be about more than just football. An offseason of unprecedented chaos has left players, alumni and fans alike with raw emotions from the Jerry Sandusky
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straight-set win in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open this year. Top-seeded Federer is 8-9 against third-seeded Murray and the two have split their last two matches, both on Centre Court at the All England Club; Federer won the Wimbledon final and Murray took the gold-medal match at the London Olympics. The potential men’s quarterfinals are Federer vs. No. 6 Tomas Berdych, who upset him in the 2010 Wimbledon quarterfinals; Djokovic vs. 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, seeded seventh; Murray vs. No. 5 Tsonga; Ferrer vs. No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic. Sharapova completed the career Grand Slam at the French Open earlier this year, while Williams has 14 Grand Slam titles and is coming off wins at Wimbledon and the Olympics. Azarenka has one Grand Slam title — in Australia this year — while Radwanska’s best finish in a major was her three-set loss to Williams in this year’s Wimbledon final. Williams’ older sister Venus, who is ranked 47th this week and not seeded, plays American wildcard entry Bethanie MattekSands in the first round and could face sixth-seeded Angelique Kerber in the second. Venus Williams, the 2000 and 2001 champion, pulled out of last year’s U.S. Open hours before she was scheduled to play in the second round, revealing that she had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Four-time major champion Kim Clijsters will begin what she says will be the last tournament of her career against American wild-card recipient Victoria Duval. Clijsters, a 29-year-old Belgian who is seeded 23rd, might face the defending champion,
great job, made great improvements. I’m really pleased with the progress of both those young men. It was a tough decision. If things go the way we’re planning it, he’ll play the whole game.” Also, starting cornerback Lo Wood had surgery Wednesday to repair a ruptured left Achilles tendon, and is expected to miss the season. He was injured in practice Monday. scandal and the fallout that continues to develop. Acting athletic director Dave Joyner said Thursday that the blue ribbons announced for the uniforms this season to support child abuse awareness will appear on the backs of the players’ helmets. That, along with names debuting on the jerseys will be a stark reminder of how different things are now for the Lions. The players are hopeful that the season can help the Penn State community come together. “There’s a lot of better people who could represent Penn state, but we’ve been blessed to be in a position to represent the university,” Urschel said. “We need to make the most of it and do the best we can to show the outside world how great a place Penn State is.” “We know it can’t heal everything,” senior Mike Zordich said of the football season. “But we know it can help.” seventh-seeded Sam Stosur, in the fourth round. Clijsters won the U.S. Open the last three times she entered the hard-court tournament, in 2005, 2009 and 2010. She missed it last year because of a stomach muscle injury. Stosur, meanwhile, has struggled since defeating Serena Williams in the final last year for her first Grand Slam title. She lost in the first round of the Australian Open and the Olympics and the second round of Wimbledon. Her only big run in a major this year came at the French Open, where she fell in a mistake-filled, three-set semifinal to Sara Errani. “It’s been a year of a few ups and downs, but a lot of players go through that,” Stosur said. “In the last few weeks, being on hard court, I feel a lot better and a lot more comfortable on this surface. It’s conditions that suits my game, so I’m glad to be back here.” No American man hasn won the U.S. Open since Andy Roddick in 2003. There are four seeded U.S. men trying to halt that streak: No. 9 John Isner, No. 23 Mardy Fish, No. 27 Sam Querrey and Roddick, who is seeded 20th. Roddick won a hard-court tournament in Atlanta in July, but has since fallen to Djokovic in the second round of the Olympics, then to 38th-ranked Jeremy Chardy in the first round in Cincinnati. James Blake and Ryan Harrison are among the unseeded Americans in the draw. Roddick could face del Potro in the fourth round, while Isner is in the same quarter of the draw as Ferrer. Federer, who has a record 17 Grand Slam titles, opens against another American, Donald Young, who is 2-20 this year. Djokovic’s first match is against 69th-ranked Paolo Lorenzi of Italy. Serena Williams opens against another American, Coco Vandeweghe, the 2008 girls champion.
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Padraig Harrington found a way to take some of the attention away from Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy on Thursday. He made six birdies on the tough back nine of Bethpage Black and opened the FedEx Cup playoffs with a 7-under 64 for a one-shot lead at The Barclays. And that surely got the attention of Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal. Harrington has to rely on a captain’s pick to make his seventh straight European team, and that looks to be unlikely. Not only has the three-time major champion gone four years without winning against a strong field, he and Olazabal are not the best of friends after a dispute at the Seve Trophy
from nine years ago. The Irishman had the toughest time Thursday after he got off the difficult Black course. There were so many questions about the Ryder Cup, his chances of making the team and what he has to do to impress Olazabal, that at one point Harrington adopted the American way. “The only answer I can give at this stage is I’m pleading the Fifth Amendment on that one,” Harrington said. “I honestly don’t know what to say. I don’t want to go in there and try too desperately to beg for a pick, or I don’t want to go in there and give excuses for anything. I’ll just leave it be what it is. I’m just going to play golf.” That part was superb on a calm day that became increasingly warm.
It took Harrington a few holes to realize that he was back at Bethpage Black, but not at the U.S. Open. The greens were soft. The rough was deep, but not terribly dense. The pressure was not quite the same. And par wasn’t going to cut it. He came to life on the back nine with four straight birdies to cap off his 64, giving him a one-shot lead over Nick Watney and Brian Harman among the early starters. The hotter it became, the crustier the greens were, and it was unlikely anyone would catch him. JOHNNIE WALKER CHAMPIONSHIP GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Nicolas Colsaerts shot a 3under 69 in the Johnnie Walker Championship, leaving the
Ryder Cup hopeful two shots behind the first-round leaders in the final event in the points races for the 10 automatic spots on the European team. The big-hitting Belgian made five birdies — including four in five holes on Nos. 14-18 — to share eighth place. He must finish first or second be assured of an automatic position in the matches next month against the United States at Medinah in Illinois. Australia’s Brett Rumford and Norwegian playing partner Knut Borsheim shot 67 on Gleneagles Hotel’s PGA Centenary Course, the Jack Nicklausdesigned layout that will be the site of the 2014 Ryder Cup. Five players, including Ryder Cup qualifiers Paul Lawrie of Scotland and Francesco Molinari of Italy were a stroke back.
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Rodriguez extends Vuelta lead with 6th leg win JACA, Spain — Overall leader Joaquin Rodriguez extended his advantage over Christopher Froome and Alberto Contador by surging ahead on the closing climb to win Thursday’s sixth stage of the Spanish Vuelta. The Spanish cyclist stuck with Froome before coming around the last corner ahead of his Sky rival to secure a 5-second victory under a scorching sun. Katusha rider Rodriguez needed 4 hours, 15 minutes, 56 seconds to win the 109-mile stage and extend his overall lead on Froome to 10 seconds. “I went for it today, I didn’t think anyone could surprise me,” said Rodriguez, who has an overall time of 22:04:32. “Froome didn’t think he could shake me, he was struggling. He practically helped me to the finish.” Contador, the 2008 champion, was 36 seconds behind in third. Colombian rider Rigoberto Uran finished in the same time as Contador to sit fourth overall, 42 seconds behind Rodriguez. Contador, who missed the Tour de France because of a doping ban, became weary at the end.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Germany’s Jens Voigt won the rainy fourth stage of the USA Pro Challenge with a long solo effort Thursday, and American Tejay Van Garderen regained his tiebreaker edge for the overall lead. Voigt, at 40 the oldest rider in the race, completed the 97.2-mile road race from Aspen in 3 hours, 54 minutes to win by nearly 3 minutes. The RadioShack-Nissan rider has 88th career pro victories. Van Garderen, the BMC rider who grew up in Bozeman, Mont., and lives in Boulder, Colo., finished third in the stage — just behind German’s Andreas Kloden of RadioShack-Nissan — and regained the race lead from Christian Vande Velde. Vande Velde, the Garmin-Sharp rider from Lemont, Ill., and van Garderen have a 6-second lead over Russia’s Ivan Rovny. Vande Velde was sixth in the stage. “It’s nice to have the (leader’s) jersey, but I attacked more looking for seconds,” said van Garderen, the top American in the Tour de France with a fifth-place overall finish. “So it’s too bad I wasn’t able to get time. But the jersey is always nice to have.” Voigt, who will turn age 41 next month, moved into a solo race lead early in the stage as the field began the climb to Independence Pass (elevation 12,500 feet). He rode alone in the lead for nearly four hours and for all but the first four miles of the stage. The seven-day race continues Friday with a 117.9-mile stage 5 from Breckenridge to Colorado Springs road race. The largely downhill stage will begin with a 10-mile opening climb to Hoosier Pass at 11,500 feet. A few other small climbs will test the field but the long downhill finished will likely mean a sprint finish. The 683-mile race will end Sunday with a short individual time trial in Denver.
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Mattress firm to hire 50
E. S. Kluft & Co., maker and distributor of Aireloom and Kluft brand mattresses, announced Thursday it has signed a long-term lease for nearly 99,000 square feet of new production space from Mericle Commercial Real Estate Services in a 410,000-square-foot building in Humboldt Industrial Park, Hazle Township. The company said it has begun to recruit 50 new employees and expects to start production in mid October. Kluft expects to double the number of jobs during the initial term of its lease. Terms were not disclosed. Kluft is moving operations from the former Park Place mattress facility in Denver, Pa.
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer
BEIJING — China’s manufacturing activity fell to a nine-month low in August, a survey showed Thursday, stepping up pressure on Beijing for more interest rate cuts and stimulus measures to revive growth in the world’s second-largest economy. HSBC Corp. said a preliminary version of its monthly purchasing managers’ index fell to 47.8 from July’s 49.3 on a 100-point scale where numbers below 50 indicate a contraction. It said one component, new export orders, fell at its fastest rate in three years. The report adds to signs China’s economic recovery is taking longer and will be weaker than initially forecast due in part to unexpectedly weak demand in key U.S. and European export markets. “To achieve the stated policy goal of stabilizing growth and the jobs market, Beijing must step up policy easing to lift infrastructure investment in the coming months,” said HSBC economist Hongbin Qu in a statement with the report. Beijing has cut rates twice since June 1 and is pumping money into the economy through higher spending on public works construction. But authorities are moving cautiously after China’s huge stimulus in response to the 2008 crisis fueled inflation and a wasteful building boom. Growth fell to a three-year low of 7.6 percent in the quarter ending June 30 and analysts who previously expected a rebound as early as the start of this year have pushed back their timeframe for recovery to the fourth quarter or early 2013. The Communist Party’s growth target this year is 7.5 percent, above the low single-digit levels of the United States, Europe and Japan but painful for Chinese companies that are used to high growth. Companies in industries such as retailing and shipbuilding say sales are down as much as 50 percent from a year earlier. Exporters have been hit by the slump in global demand for Chinese goods, which pushed thousands of small producers into bankruptcy. Analysts expect at least one more interest rate cut this year and other steps to expand lending. “We believe there is a clear need for and significant likelihood of further loosening measures from the government,” said Goldman Sachs economists Yu Song and Yin Zhang in a report.
Local foreclosures slip
The percentage of residential mortgages in foreclosure in the Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre area fell between May and June, but was higher than the state and national averages, according to a report by real estate industry analyst firm CoreLogic. The 3.67 percent local rate was the lowest since February, but above the 3.09 percent rate in June 2011. In June, the 90-day delinquency rate was 6.77 percent, slightly higher than in May but otherwise below most recent months. Both the foreclosure and delinquency rates had risen in the past few months after lagging national figures.
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Sales of new homes in the United States rose 3.6 percent in July to match a two-year high reached in May, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 372,000. New home sales have jumped 25 percent in the past 12 months but remain well at about half the annual pace that economists consider healthy.
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Four companies marketing the Ab Circle Pro exercise device have agreed to pay as much as $25 million in refunds to customers to settle federal regulators’ charges of deceptive advertising. The Federal Trade Commission says it was deceptive to promise that people could lose 10 pounds in two weeks by using the abdominal exercise device for only three minutes a day. The TV infomercials touted the fiberglass disk with handlebars and knee rests selling for $200 to $250.
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Local business and political figures watch as Robert Maximowicz, branch manager of the U.S. Small Business Administration, officially opens the agency’s Wilkes-Barre office Thursday in the Stegmaier building.
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ILKES-BARRE – The grand opening of the U.S. Small Business Administration branch office couldn’t have come at a better time for state Sen. John Yudichak. The Democrat from Plymouth Township along with other elected officials, representatives of the area’s federal lawmakers, bankers and economic development officials welcomed the federal agency to its fourth-floor office in the Stegmaier building on North WilkesBarre Boulevard and urged it to get to work getting people back to work. The agency took over the office of former U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Nanticoke, almost a year ago, but furnished it only recently. The SBA had a local office during the recovery from Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972. It assisted with the flood recovery from Tropical Storm Lee last year, bring-
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“You’re going to help us grow the economy and I hope we can celebrate next year and say we are no longer the highest unemployment rate in the state,” he said. David Dickson, district director of the SBA for 40 counties in eastern Pennsylvania, accepted the welcome and offered the agency’s support. The local office has an able manager in Robert Maximowicz, a Pringle native, Dickson added. “The U.S. Small Business Administration, we actually try to help people get financing,” Dickson said. “We help people get counseling through our resource partners. We help people get government contracts. We help people learn how to export. We do all sorts of different services.” HepointedtothesuccessofSeanKelly and Jody McGrail, owners of Sonic restaurants in Wilkes-Barre, Hazle Township and Scranton. The business owners worked with the SBA on getting started and growing.
SMALL BUSINESS RESOURCE What: The U.S. Small Business Administration branch office Where: 7 N. Wilkes-Barre Blvd., Suite 4M Stegmaier building Who: Robert Maximowicz, branch office manager
ing more than $25 million in funding to Northeastern Pennsylvania, Yudichak said. “You’re going to be a critical part of another important recovery effort,” Yudichak said. “In the last two years Northeastern Pennsylvania has led the state with the highest unemployment rate. That’s simply unacceptable. It’s gotta change.” The latest data from the state Department of Labor and Industry reported an unemployment rate of 9.3 percent for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre region in June.
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LOS ANGELES -- The worst drought in decades has destroyed more than half the U.S. corn crop, pushing prices to record levels and squeezing livestock owners as they struggle to feed their herds. To cope, one Kentucky cattle farmer has turned to a child-tested way to fatten his 1,400 cows: candy. “It’s so hard to make any money when corn is eight or nine dollars a
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nia Cattlemen’s Association feed committee, said Smith’s candy strategy is “awfully creative” but unusual. “There are people that feed vegetables and potatoes and stuff like that ... to offset the high price of grains, but I’ve never heard of that,” said Cameron. Smith, whose cows got a star turn on the local news, said he is baffled by the attention. The candy was just temporary, he said, because workers are harvesting his farm’s corn, some of which will end up as feed.
bushel,” said Nick Smith, co-owner of United Livestock Commodities in Mayfield, Ky. The chocolate and other sweet stuff was rejected by retailers. It makes up 5 percent to 8 percent of the cattle’s feed ration, Smith said. The rest includes roughage and distillers grain, an ethanol byproduct. The candy’s high caloric content is fattening up the cows nicely, Smith said. Paul Cameron, who heads a Califor-
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NATIONAL FORECAST Very sunny, very warm
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Showers
Mostly sunny
Sunny, cooler
Mostly sunny
82° 63°
80° 63°
75° 55°
75° 55°
Syracuse 86/59
Today’s high/ Tonight’s low
Wilkes-Barre 86/60 New York City 89/70 Reading 89/63
Harrisburg 87/62
Atlantic City 86/70
Cooling Degree Days*
Yesterday Month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date
84/59 79/59 95 in 1936 44 in 1973 7 172 740 658 488
*Index of fuel consumption, how far the day’s mean temperature was above 65 degrees.
Yesterday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date
Sun and Moon
Sunrise 6:22a 6:23a Moonrise Today 2:18p Tomorrow 3:20p Today Tomorrow
Brandywine Valley
Highs: 86-89. Lows: 68-71. Skies will be mostly sunny today and partly cloudy overnight.
Philadelphia 89/70
Precipitation
The Finger Lakes
Highs: 82-87. Lows: 53-64. Sunny to partly cloudy and warm today. Partly cloudy overnight.
Delmarva/Ocean City
Highs: 81-86. Lows: 65-70. Look for partly sunny skies today. Clouds will increase overnight.
0.00” 2.84” 2.58” 21.95” 24.20” Sunset 7:48p 7:47p Moonset none 12:03a
Susquehanna Wilkes-Barre Towanda Lehigh Bethlehem Delaware Port Jervis First
Stage 0.38 0.23
Full
3.07
Chg. Fld. Stg -0.17 22.0 -0.02 21.0 0.75
16.0
2.46 -0.04
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Weather Central, LP For more weather information go to:
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88/68
86/59
88/70
77/64
87/69
93/77
92/72
90/77 57/48
90/80
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Yesterday
Anchorage Atlanta Baltimore Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis
59/50/.42 86/70/.00 86/64/.00 86/66/.00 83/57/.00 84/64/.00 91/64/.03 85/56/.00 91/71/.00 82/63/.00 85/59/.00 85/74/.00 88/74/.07 87/61/.00 84/68/.00 73/66/.00 91/80/.00 88/66/.00 85/70/.00
City
Yesterday
Amsterdam Baghdad Beijing Berlin Buenos Aires Dublin Frankfurt Hong Kong Jerusalem London
70/57/.00 108/77/.00 84/57/.00 75/54/.00 81/73/.00 64/55/.00 79/54/.00 91/79/.00 86/66/.02 72/55/.00
Today Tomorrow 57/48/c 87/69/pc 87/67/pc 82/64/s 85/64/pc 86/62/pc 93/74/pc 83/65/pc 93/77/pc 86/59/t 85/68/pc 88/74/s 90/77/t 90/65/pc 96/81/pc 77/64/pc 90/80/pc 88/69/pc 88/69/pc
ALMANAC Recorded at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Int’l Airport River Levels, from 12 p.m. yesterday.
89/70
93/74 60/53
The Jersey Shore
Poughkeepsie 87/60
88/69 85/68
Highs: 82-88. Lows: 57-60. Mostly sunny and warm today. Clear to partly cloudy overnight. Highs: 83-87. Lows: 68-72. Expect abundant sunshine today and mostly clear skies overnight.
Pottsville 86/59
State College 86/58
88/49
The Poconos
Albany 87/60
Towanda 85/57 Scranton 85/60
70/52
TODAY’S SUMMARY
Binghamton 83/60
Yesterday Average Record High Record Low
82° 60°
80° 60°
REGIONAL FORECAST
Temperatures
Partly sunny, shower
Sun, warm, shower
NATIONAL FORECAST: Showers and thunderstorms will develop along a strong cold front advancing into the Northern Plains today. Expect scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms from the Four Corners into portions of the Central Plains, as well. Thunderstorms should also affect much of Texas and Louisiana, in addition to parts of the Southeast.
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Today Tomorrow 86/69/t 93/67/pc 89/74/pc 86/69/pc 86/72/t 85/67/t 92/73/pc 99/83/pc 88/61/pc 75/54/pc 96/68/pc 90/65/s 95/77/pc 74/67/pc 66/55/pc 70/52/pc 92/76/pc 94/72/pc 88/68/pc
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Today Tomorrow 72/51/t 80/57/s 64/51/c 79/64/c 80/61/pc 106/78/s 91/71/s 85/77/t 89/74/pc 77/61/pc
73/56/t 86/64/pc 68/55/c 74/53/pc 80/65/s 106/77/s 90/70/s 85/79/t 88/76/t 77/62/sh
Sunny skies and light winds will support afternoon temperatures in the mid to upper 80s today. This will occur sometime between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. The hottest temperature on record for August is 102 set way back in 1918. Slightly cooler air will move in over the weekend along with more cloudiness, but I see only the slight chance for a shower each afternoon. Still, there is no significant rainfall in sight through the middle of next week. By then the weakened remains of Isaac may still be down around Lousiana or Arkansas. Eventually some of the rain could reach by next weekend. -Tom Clark
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sn-snow, sf-snow flurries, i-ice.
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