FROM STAFF REPORTS Local schools received their annual report cards from the state Friday. Some school leaders could look at their high grades as holiday presents just before Christmas Break. But other superintendents questioned the accuracy of the grades, which are based heavily on ISTEP+ tests that were plagued by technical problems last spring. “I consider them to have no value, no validity whatsoever,” Jeffrey Stephens, superintendent of DeKalb Eastern schools, said Friday about the new grades. “When you have such a technical screw-up that occurred last spring and you try to use that grade, there’s no validity in that entire test.” Hamilton Community Schools superintendent Jon Willman said data attached to the school grades by the state is frustrating and largely unhelpful. Superintendents at Lakeland, Westview and East Noble districts also questioned the validity of the grades, issued Friday by the Indiana Department of Education. The state bases the annual grades on test scores in language arts and math. High school grades factor in graduation rates and scores for college and career readiness. DeKalb Central Superintendent Sherry Grate took a positive view of the A’s earned by five of the district’s six schools. Only DeKalb Middle School, with a D, did not earn a top grade. “We are extremely proud of our district!” Grate said in a written response to the grades. “We have worked diligently as a school district to strive to achieve our vision of becoming Indiana’s highest-performing school district,” Grate added. “Our schools have demonstrated tremendous progress over the past four years on the state’s standardized testing measures. We recognize the significance of these ratings, however, also understand that this is one way in which we can determine the progress being made by our students and our schools.” Garrett-Keyser-Butler schools showed improvement at Garrett High School, which earned an A, and J.E. Ober Elementary School, with a B. “These increases have been a result of the hard work by our students, staff, and parents,” said Tonya Weaver, Garrett’s director of administration and innovation. She also responded to Garrett Middle School’s grade, which dropped from A to D in one year. “It is interesting to note that the formula’s design enables a few students to impact a school’s letter grade dramatically,” Weaver said. “Even with this being said, instructional strategies have been put into place to bring our middle school back to the A status. Our School leaders react to new grades FROM STAFF REPORTS INDIANAPOLIS — The four counties of northeast Indiana saw their labor force numbers grow in November as the unemployment rate rose, said a report released Friday by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. The statewide unemploy- ment rate declined in November, the DWD said, dropping 0.2 percentage points to 7.3 percent, lower than all neighboring states. “Today’s job numbers are welcome news to every Hoosier and are a testament to the hard-working people of our state and the businesses that power Indiana’s economy every day,” said Gov. Mike Pence. “The continued downward trend in unemployment and the signif- icant growth in private-sector jobs demonstrate that Indiana’s economy is strong and growing stronger every day.” DeKalb, Noble and Steuben counties saw the number of people employed in those counties rise for the month, but those numbers were offset by the labor force increases. DeKalb County’s unemploy- ment rate rose from an October figure of 6.7 percent to 6.9 percent. The report showed 18,916 DeKalb County residents had jobs in November, an increase of 225 from October. But the county’s labor force grew by 291 people to a total of 20,321. Noble County’s unemployment rose 0.4 percentage points from October to 7.2 percent. Steuben County saw a similar rise. Unemployment rate rises despite job growth BY JENNIFER DECKER [email protected] BRUSHY PRAIRIE — Kim Harris thought she won a poinsettia in a Prairie Heights Schools’ staff Christmas breakfast lottery Friday, but instead, she ended up with the best gift ever. A Prairie Heights High School math teacher, Harris won a rigged lottery, as Superinten- dent Alan Middleton drew her name. Because of that, Harris had the chance to sit on Santa’s lap in front of all her colleagues. Only she didn’t know who had donned the red Santa suit and beard. As Harris sat on Santa’s lap telling him what she wanted for Christmas, she said, “Peace on earth, goodwill to men. I have a long list.” Topping the list with a gift she already had received, Harris told Santa, “My son is safely on U.S. soil from Afghanistan.” Index • Classifieds................................. B6-B8 Life..................................................... A3 Obituaries......................................... A4 Opinion ............................................. A5 Sports......................................... B1-B3 Weather............................................ A7 TV/Comics ....................................... B5 The Star 118 W. Ninth St. Auburn, IN 46706 Auburn: (260) 925-2611 Fax: (260) 925-2625 Classifieds: (toll free) (877) 791-7877 Circulation: (toll free) (800) 717-4679 Info • Vol. 101 No. 350 GOOD MORNING LOOK FOR VIDEO Check out the latest KPC Media Group videos kpcnews.com Weather Cloudy and rainy today. High 41. Low tonight 33. Rainy again Sunday. High 43. Low 22. Page A7 SATURDAY December 21, 2013 Basketball Scoreboard Norwell 62 DeKalb 50 Garrett 91 Leo 82 Lakeland ppd. Eastside Fairfield 52 Hamilton 32 Columbia City 61 East Noble 51 Auburn, Indiana kpcnews.com 75 cents The Serving DeKalb County since 1871 Star Fairview Missionary Church Phone: 260-665-8402 •www.fairview-missionary.org 525 E 200 N, Angola, IN (1 mile east of Meijer and Menards) Traditional Christmas Eve Service December 24 6 PM Christmas Sunday Services Sun., Dec. 22 9 AM & 10:30 AM Coming Sunday Nativity Scenes See a couple remarkable manger scenes, living and handmade, in our area. Sunday’s C1. Unemployment rates In percentages COUNTY NOV. OCT. NOV. 2013 2013 2012 DeKalb 6.9 6.7 8.6 LaGrange 6.4 5.9 7.7 Noble 7.2 6.8 9.1 Steuben 7.3 6.9 8.7 Allen 6.9 6.7 7.8 Elkhart 7.6 7.4 9.2 Indiana* 7.3 7.5 8.4 U.S.* 7.0 7.3 7.8 *seasonally adjusted SOURCE: INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SURPRISE See the moment at kpcnews.com Video of Spc. Ethan Harris surprising his mother, as well as interviews with Ethan and his parents, Kim and John Harris, is online at kpcnews.com. Scan the QR code to watch it on your tablet or smartphone. CHRISTMAS Home for the Holidays “This tops the list and couldn’t be a better Christmas.” Kim Harris, Prairie Heights High School math teacher, surprised by her son’s early arrival home from Afghanistan SEE SOLDIER, PAGE A7 Soldier in Santa suit shocks mother High water could make travel difficult FORT WAYNE — The Indiana Department of Transportation is warning drivers to be on the lookout for high water and slick conditions this weekend, due to changing weather patterns in the forecast. Today, significant snowfall from the past week is melting because of the above-freezing temperatures. Heavy rain expected through the weekend will increase the potential for high water on roadways. “If you come across a flooded roadway, turn around,” said INDOT spokeswoman Mary Foster. “Never drive through standing water. According to the National Weather Service, most flooding deaths occur in automobiles. Six inches of standing water is enough to stall a car and a foot of water will float many vehicles. Temperatures are predicted to fall Sunday night and into Monday, increasing the chance for freezing on the roadways. PHOTOS BY PATRICK REDMOND U.S. Army Spc. Ethan Harris gave his mother, Kim Harris, a Prairie Heights High School math teacher, quite the Christmas present Friday in coming home early from an Afghanistan tour. Ethan removes his Santa beard at a Christmas breakfast for Prairie Heights Schools’ staff, much to his mother’s tearful surprise. Once he removed his Santa suit, Ethan gave his mother a big hug. SCHOOL Grade Grade NAME 2013 2012 DeKalb Eastern Eastside Jr-Sr High C B Butler Elem C B Riverdale Elem A A DeKalb Central Waterloo Elem A D DeKalb High A B DeKalb Middle D C Watson Elem A C McK-Harr Elem A B Country Mdw Elem A A SCHOOL Grade Grade NAME 2013 2012 Garrett-Keyser-Butler Garrett High A B J E Ober Elem B C Garrett Middle D A Hamilton Hamilton Jr-Sr High C C Hamilton Elem C C Private Schools Lakewood Park A A Saint Joseph A A Saint Mary Elem B A Northeast Indiana School Grades • SEE GRADES, PAGE A7
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FROM STAFF REPORTSLocal schools received their
annual report cards from the state Friday.
Some school leaders could look at their high grades as holiday presents just before Christmas Break.
But other superintendents questioned the accuracy of the grades, which are based heavily on ISTEP+ tests that were plagued by technical problems last spring.
“I consider them to have no value, no validity whatsoever,” Jeffrey Stephens, superintendent of DeKalb Eastern schools, said Friday about the new grades. “When you have such a technical screw-up that occurred last spring and you try to use that grade, there’s no validity in that entire test.”
Hamilton Community Schools superintendent Jon Willman said data attached to the school grades by the state is frustrating and largely unhelpful.
Superintendents at Lakeland, Westview and East Noble districts
also questioned the validity of the grades, issued Friday by the Indiana Department of Education. The state bases the annual grades on test scores in language arts and math. High school grades factor in graduation rates and scores for college and career readiness.
DeKalb Central Superintendent Sherry Grate took a positive view of the A’s earned by fi ve of the district’s six schools. Only DeKalb Middle School, with a D, did not earn a top grade.
“We are extremely proud of our district!” Grate said in a written response to the grades.
“We have worked diligently as a school district to strive to achieve our vision of becoming Indiana’s highest-performing school district,” Grate added. “Our schools have demonstrated tremendous progress over the past four years on the state’s standardized testing measures. We recognize the signifi cance of these ratings, however, also understand that this is one way in which we can determine the progress being
made by our students and our schools.”
Garrett-Keyser-Butler schools showed improvement at Garrett High School, which earned an A, and J.E. Ober Elementary School, with a B.
“These increases have been a result of the hard work by our students, staff, and parents,” said Tonya Weaver, Garrett’s director of administration and innovation.
She also responded to Garrett Middle School’s grade, which dropped from A to D in one year.
“It is interesting to note that the formula’s design enables a few students to impact a school’s letter grade dramatically,” Weaver said. “Even with this being said, instructional strategies have been put into place to bring our middle school back to the A status. Our
School leaders react to new grades
FROM STAFF REPORTSINDIANAPOLIS — The four
counties of northeast Indiana saw their labor force numbers grow in November as the unemployment rate rose, said a report released Friday by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
The statewide unemploy-ment rate declined in November, the DWD said, dropping 0.2 percentage points to 7.3 percent, lower than all neighboring states.
“Today’s job numbers are welcome news to every Hoosier
and are a testament to the hard-working people of our state and the businesses that power Indiana’s economy every day,” said Gov. Mike Pence. “The continued downward trend in unemployment and the signif-icant growth in private-sector jobs demonstrate that Indiana’s economy is strong and growing stronger every day.”
DeKalb, Noble and Steuben counties saw the number of people employed in those counties rise for the month, but those numbers were
offset by the labor force increases.DeKalb County’s unemploy-
ment rate rose from an October fi gure of 6.7 percent to 6.9 percent.
The report showed 18,916 DeKalb County residents had jobs in November, an increase of 225 from October. But the county’s labor force grew by 291 people to a total of 20,321.
Noble County’s unemployment rose 0.4 percentage points from October to 7.2 percent. Steuben County saw a similar rise.
Unemployment rate rises despite job growth
BY JENNIFER [email protected]
BRUSHY PRAIRIE — Kim Harris thought she won a poinsettia in a Prairie Heights Schools’ staff Christmas breakfast lottery Friday, but instead, she ended up with the best gift ever.
A Prairie Heights High School math teacher, Harris won a rigged lottery, as Superinten-dent Alan Middleton drew her name. Because of that, Harris had the chance to sit on Santa’s lap in front of all her colleagues. Only she didn’t know who had donned the red Santa suit and beard.
As Harris sat on Santa’s lap telling him what she wanted for Christmas, she said, “Peace on earth, goodwill to men. I have a long list.”
Topping the list with a gift she already had received, Harris told Santa, “My son is safely on U.S. soil from Afghanistan.”
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Classifi eds ................................. B6-B8Life ..................................................... A3Obituaries ......................................... A4Opinion ............................................. A5Sports......................................... B1-B3Weather............................................ A7TV/Comics .......................................B5
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SATURDAYDecember 21, 2013
Basketball ScoreboardNorwell 62DeKalb 50
Garrett 91Leo 82
Lakeland ppd.Eastside
Fairfi eld 52Hamilton 32
Columbia City 61East Noble 51
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TraditionalChristmas Eve Service
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Unemployment ratesIn percentages
COUNTY NOV. OCT. NOV. 2013 2013 2012DeKalb 6.9 6.7 8.6LaGrange 6.4 5.9 7.7Noble 7.2 6.8 9.1Steuben 7.3 6.9 8.7Allen 6.9 6.7 7.8Elkhart 7.6 7.4 9.2Indiana* 7.3 7.5 8.4U.S.* 7.0 7.3 7.8*seasonally adjusted
SOURCE: INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
SURPRISE
See the moment at kpcnews.comVideo of Spc. Ethan Harris surprising his mother, as well as interviews with Ethan and his parents, Kim and John Harris, is online at kpcnews.com. Scan the QR code to watch it on your tablet or smartphone.
CHRISTMAS
Home for the Holidays
“This tops the list and couldn’t be a better Christmas.” Kim Harris, Prairie Heights High School math teacher, surprised by her son’s early arrival home from Afghanistan
SEE SOLDIER, PAGE A7
Soldier in Santa suit shocks mother
High water could make travel diffi cult
FORT WAYNE — The Indiana Department of Transportation is warning drivers to be on the lookout for high water and slick conditions this weekend, due to changing weather patterns in the forecast.
Today, signifi cant snowfall from the past week is melting because of the above-freezing temperatures. Heavy rain expected through the weekend will increase the potential for high water on roadways.
“If you come across a fl ooded roadway, turn around,” said INDOT spokeswoman Mary Foster. “Never drive through standing water. According to the National Weather Service, most fl ooding deaths occur in automobiles. Six inches of standing water is enough to stall a car and a foot of water will fl oat many vehicles.
Temperatures are predicted to fall Sunday night and into Monday, increasing the chance for freezing on the roadways.
PHOTOS BY PATRICK REDMOND
U.S. Army Spc. Ethan Harris gave his mother, Kim Harris, a Prairie Heights High School math teacher, quite the Christmas present Friday in coming home early from an Afghanistan tour. Ethan removes his Santa beard at a Christmas breakfast for Prairie Heights Schools’ staff, much to his mother’s tearful surprise. Once he removed his Santa suit, Ethan gave his mother a big hug.
SCHOOL Grade GradeNAME 2013 2012DeKalb EasternEastside Jr-Sr High C BButler Elem C BRiverdale Elem A ADeKalb CentralWaterloo Elem A DDeKalb High A BDeKalb Middle D CWatson Elem A CMcK-Harr Elem A BCountry Mdw Elem A A
SCHOOL Grade GradeNAME 2013 2012Garrett-Keyser-ButlerGarrett High A BJ E Ober Elem B CGarrett Middle D AHamiltonHamilton Jr-Sr High C CHamilton Elem C CPrivate SchoolsLakewood Park A ASaint Joseph A ASaint Mary Elem B A
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FORT WAYNE — Four Fort Wayne businesses are part of an “Employers for Freedom” group launched by a statewide campaign to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages and civil unions in Indiana.
Freedom Indiana announced the formation of the group, which includes six other businesses from Indianapolis and Bloomington, on Friday.
The Fort Wayne businesses that joined the “Employers for Freedom” group are: Fort Wayne Metals, Boyden & Youngblutt Advertising, Liechty Media and One Lucky Guitar/The Good Ones Clothing.
Roaches shut down two restaurants
FORT WAYNE — Two Fort Wayne restaurants have been shut down due to cockroach infesta-tions, although one has reopened, our news partner, NewsChannel 15, reports.
WANE-TV said the Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Department shut down Koto Japanese Steak House & Sushi restaurant on East Washington Center Road on Friday due to a “pest issue.”
Hibachi Grill Supreme Buffet on Coldwater Road was ordered to close Tuesday and reopened Thursday.
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Shopping with a copAuburn Police reserve offi cer Sarah Reinhold, left, helps sisters Brianna, Rayna and Gracelynn pick out toys at Auburn’s Walmart Thursday during the Auburn Police Department’s annual Shop With a Cop program. Children were given $50 apiece to spend on themselves and
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MUNCIE (AP) — Ball State University’s trustees have hired an executive search fi rm for $150,000 to help fi nd a replacement for outgoing school President Jo Ann Gora.
Gora announced in October that she planned to retire in June after 10 years leading the 18,000-student university.
Ball State trustees president Hollis Hughes of South Bend said the board is looking for someone who can build on Gora’s success and keep the school’s momentum going.
“The trustees believe that Ball State is in a great place,” Hughes said. “We’ve seen dramatic enhancements
to the university, from its academic programs to its physical plant, from its fundraising to its reputation.”
Ball State’s search contract is with Baker and Associates, Marietta, Ga., whose president, Jerry Baker, conducted the search that led to Gora’s hiring in 2004.
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480 S. Oak St. • WaterlooImmediate possession! Charming Victorian style 3 BR home. Den could also be a 4th BR. Spacious living room area with dining room and large kitchen. Your handyman will enjoy the oversized garage with workshop area! Home sits on an oversized lot. MLS#201211195.
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108 W. Walnut • Butler3 bedroom, 2 bath spacious home. Beautiful hardwood floors throughout!!! Updated bath with ceramic tile & claw foot tub. Newer roof, windows & carpet. 200 amp service, large yard & a shed. What a cheap house payment this would be!! MLS#201202684.
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310 W. Union St. • WaterlooOlder 2 story home full of possibilities! Exterior work already completed including a new furnace in 2010, newer roof, newer siding & most windows are new too! Extra room on main floor currently used as dining area but could be a den or third BR. This home also has a full unfinished basement & a 1 car attached garage. MLS#201204291.
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708 N. VAN BUREN – AUBURN3 BD home situated in an established neighborhood. Hardwood flooring and natural woodwork gives this home character. All newer stainless steel appliances stay, including washer & dryer. Enjoy the wraparound porch in front or the deck in the fenced-in backyard. Laundry area and mud room have an ample amount of storage. 8x10 shed included. $81,500.
1204 HIDEAWAY DR. – AUBURNNicely decorated home. Move right in! New flooring throughout. Split bedroom floor plan. All appliances stay. Make the patio into a 3-season room and enjoy the privacy of your backyard. $109,900.
1715 ILLINOIS ST. – FORT WAYNEThis 1,838 sq. ft. duplex contains one 2 BD, 2 BA unit and one 2 BD, 1 BA unit. This would be a good investment property. Keep as a duplex or return it to a single family home. Furnace and water heater new in 2005. $22,000.
1312 LORI LEA – AUBURN3 BD, 2 BA beautifully landscaped ranch. This 10-year-old home, located in Timber Trace, is in excellent condition. New carpet installed in 2012. Large closet in master bedroom. Enjoy your large newly fenced-in backyard from the 10x12 patio. Property is near Bridgewater Golf Course and hospital. $113,900.
1309 CULBERTSON COURT – AUBURNThis 3 BD, 2 BA home features a partial brick exterior and well-landscaped yard. The open living area includes a wood burning fireplace and sliding glass doors overlooking a back patio for summer cookouts. The MBA has a walk-in shower, and the entire home has Pella double pane windows. Other updates include a brand new roof and a two year old water heater. Well-kept, move-in ready home! $99,900.
905 ONTARIO LANE – AUBURNLarge backyard with mature trees, located in a great location in Auburn. 3 BD ranch on full unfinished basement. Basement plumbed for a bath and laundry room with lots of room left to make a playroom or family room. Bright, eat-in kitchen has laminate flooring as does the entry way. Plenty of closets in hall and bedrooms. $98,000.
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He was picked up as a stray near C.R. 42 in Butler. He is approx-imately 6 years old and weighs 40 pounds. He is friendly with people, dogs and cats.
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GARRETT — The Garrett Associate Chapter of Tri Kappa Associates gathered for their monthly meeting Dec. 2 at the home of Connie Dicke.
Hostesses Phyllis Gerstner, Johanna Byanski, Penny Smith and Connie Dicke prepared a holiday brunch for their Sisters with a theme of black, white, red and green. A silent auction was held and guests were able to bid on items that had been purchased, handmade or regifted for the annual fundraiser.
President Johanna Byanski then called the meeting to order with the Tri Kappa opening song and verse
Recording secretary Katrina Custer took attendance with 14 present including Johanna Byanski, Katrina Custer, Judy Casey, Connie Dicke, Helen Finn, Phyllis Gerstner, Suzi Higgins, Mary Ellen Johnson, Hertha Moran, Jean Ross,
Gretel Smith, Penny Smith, Cleo Talley and Helen Wappes.
Katrina read the previous month’s minutes which were approved. Treasurer Suzi Higgins gave the fi nancial report and it was also approved.
Corresponding secretary Connie Dicke reported on the article in the newspaper and thanked the sisters for their continued response to the chapter “Going Green” and that old eyeglasses would be donated.
Byanski added the club could save postage stamps from envelopes for the wounded and Habitat.
Vice president Phyllis Gerstner reported on the state scholarship and added that all the paperwork had been turned in.
Cards and Flowers chair Mary Ellen reported on birthdays, and the group sang “Happy Birthday.”
Fine arts chair Gretel Smith gave an update on the local historical theater
progress and the Garrett Museum of Art.
Phyllis suggested an additional donation to Riley Hospital, and it was approved. Johanna talked about the upcoming Tri Kappa Month in February and how to make it
more accessible for new members and to bring back the inactive ones. She also read about the balance of life with the drive to succeed.
Mary Ellen passed out black-and-white cell phone holders she made that can
hang from the neck.Johanna ended the
meeting with the closing Tri Kappa verse.
The sisters enjoyed coffee, spiced cider and cookies as the winners of the silent auction items were announced.
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Tri Kappa Associate Sisters, front from left, include Phyllis Gerstner, Hertha Moran, Helen Finn, Helen Wappes, Cleo Talley and Gretel Smith. In back are Connie Dicke, Katrina Custer,
Penny Smith, Suzi Higgins, Mary Ellen Johnson, Judy Casey, Johanna Byanski and Jean Ross. The club members gathered for their monthly meeting at the home of Connie Dicke.
TodaySanta Visits the Fire
Station: 5 p.m. A dinner of chili, soup, hot dogs will be served for a donation. Guests should bring their own cameras to take
pictures with Santa. Ashley Fire Station, 101 S. Union St., Ashley.
Bingo: 6 p.m. National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.
Sunday, Dec. 22Bingo: 5 p.m. Open
to the public. Food and drinks available. American Legion Post 97, 1729 Sprott St., Auburn. 925-3297.
Live Nativity: 5 p.m. A live nativity scene in the church parking lot with live animals. Visitors are asked to enter from Booster Street and exit on Western Avenue. Butler United
Methodist Church, 501 W. Green St., Butler.
Monday, Dec. 23Bingo: 6 p.m. National
Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.
NEW YORK (AP) — It has sparked protests outside the American embassy in New Delhi. Burnings of President Barack Obama’s photo. And angry speeches by Indian offi cials.
But the arrest — and, yes, even the strip search — of an Indian diplomat accused of visa fraud also revealed a simple and longstanding reality of the U.S. justice system: Everyone charged with a crime here is supposed to be treated the same, whether wealthy or destitute, prominent or ordinary, citizen or foreigner.
“There is a remark-able and almost charming egalitarianism in it,” said New York City defense attorney Ron Kuby. “Everybody is treated in exactly the same disrespectful, casually brutal and arrogant fashion.”
The United States is the only place where “the rich as well as the poor get to sleep
on cold fl oors and urinate in overfl owing toilets — together.”
Indian offi cials have been fuming over the way federal marshals handled Devyani Khobragade, the country’s deputy consul general in New York, calling the treatment degrading and inhumane. Yet most Americans would fi nd the procedures fairly typical for a criminal case — though certainly not pleasant.
Khobragade, who was arrested last week outside her daughter’s school, complained that she was strip-searched and held in a cell “with drug addicts” until her appearance before a judge.
She posted $250,000 bail and was released. And she insists she is not guilty of charges she submitted false documents to obtain a visa for an Indian woman who worked as her housekeeper in Manhattan.
The case stirred widespread outrage in India, where the idea of an educated, middle-class woman being strip-searched is almost unheard of, except in the most extraor-dinary crimes. The fear of public humiliation resonates strongly there, and heavy-handed treatment by the police is normally reserved for the poor.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who brought the charges, was born in India and raised here. He said the diplomat was “fully searched” by a female deputy, which is “standard practice for every defendant … in order to make sure that no prisoner keeps anything on his person that could harm anyone, including himself.”
Khobragade’s lawyer said “similarly situated individuals of her stature are routinely provided an opportunity to report to the authorities to address charges at their convenience, instead of being swept off the street like a common criminal.”
In India, the wealthy
fearing arrest often approach courts for anticipatory bail, a means of avoiding arrest. The poor cannot afford that luxury because they are not in a position to hire prominent attorneys and pay legal costs. Infl uential politicians sometimes feign illness after an arrest to get shifted to hospitals rather than prisons.
But in the United States, defendants of all types are routinely searched, photographed and fi nger-printed before going to court.
When Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at the time a contender for the French presidency, was arrested in New York in 2011 on sex-assault charges, photos of the diplomat in handcuffs walking out of a police precinct drew outrage in France, where the images would have been illegal. But they are routine in the U.S.
Nationwide, deputy marshals have discretion to do “in-custody” searches or — if deemed warranted — more intrusive strip searches, according to a U.S. Marshals Service directive obtained by The Associated Press.
Treatment of arrested diplomat was typical in US
Helen SmattANGOLA — Helen
Elizabeth Smatt, 83, died Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 at her home in Angola.
She was a retired registered nurse. She had worked at Cameron Memorial Hospital in Angola, Wesley Health Care in Auburn and at the Carlin Park Nursing Home, Angola. She had also served as the Steuben County Health Nurse.
Mrs. Smatt was a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ of Angola.
She was born Aug. 7, 1930, in Jackson, Mich., to Harry and Alta (Ostrander) Miller. She married John J. Smatt. He preceded her in death on March 24, 1976.
Surviving are two daughters and a son-in-law, Dorothy Kay Smatt of Indianapolis and Mary Ann and Phil Williams of Angola.
She was also preceded in death by her parents.
There will be no services. Her fi nal resting place will be in Lake Michigan.
Weicht Funeral Home in Angola is in charge of arrangements.
You may sign the guestbook at www.weichtfh.com.
Albertis MickemLEESBURG — Albertis
J. Mickem, 78, of Leesburg died Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, at his home
Visitation will be from 2-6 p.m. Sunday at Owen Family Funeral Home in Syracuse.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Oak Park Cemetery in Ligonier.
Memorials are to Lighthouse Café, 720 S. Main St., North Webster, IN 46555 or Knights of Columbus, 414 S. Sycamore St., Syracuse, IN 46567.
Owen Family Funeral Home in Syracuse is in charge of arrangements.
To send condolences to the family visit www.owenfamilyfuneralhome.com.
Joe StrawKENDALLVILLE — Joe
D. Straw, 72, died Friday, Jan. 20, 2013, at his home in Kendallville.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Hite Funeral Home in Kendallville.
Gladys HarshbargerFORT WAYNE —
Gladys I. Harshbarger, 92, a resident of Fort Wayne, passed away at 12:30 a.m. on Friday, December 20, 2013, at Lutheran Life Villages
Pine Valley in Fort Wayne.
Mrs. Harshbarger was born on April 1, 1921, in Eel River Township, a daughter of Charles and Lela
(Myers) Wells. She spent her formative years in Allen County, and graduated from Huntertown High School.
On October 20, 1967, she was married in Fort Wayne to Charles A. Harshbarger, and moved to her present home in 1976.
She was employed at Bowmar Instrument Corp., Fort Wayne, and retired in 1967 after 16 years.
Mrs. Harshbarger attended the North Side Missionary Church in Fort Wayne and was a member of the League for the Blind and Disabled.
The surviving relatives include her daughters, Jean (Kenneth) Malcolm of LaOtto, Caroll (Gerald) Bowker of Kendallville, and Linda Hendrickson and Lelia (David) Arnos, both of Fort Wayne; her grandchil-dren, Melinda (Greg) Brown, Samuel (Jonell) Malcolm, Scott Hendrickson, Dennis Hendrickson, Julie (Benjamin) Kelham, Philip Hendrickson, Todd (Joy) McBride and Randy Hendrickson; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Her husband preceded her in death on October 10, 1990. Also deceased are a brother, Wilson Wells; and sisters, Dorothy M. Kreischer and Fern Hoover.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Sheets & Childs Funeral Home in Churubusco with Pastors Pat Ryan and Ralph Scantlin offi ciating.
Visitation is from 2-7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home or one hour prior to the service.
Burial will be in the Eel River Cemetery, Allen County.
For those who wish, memorials are to the North Side Missionary Church or the Fort Wayne League for the Blind and Disabled.
To leave an online condolence for the family in Mrs. Harshbarger’s memory, log on to www.sheetsandchilds.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Some stores are ending the holiday shopping season the same way they began it — with round-the-clock, marathon shopping hours.
Kohl’s for the fi rst time is staying open for essentially fi ve days straight, through 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
Macy’s and Kmart are opening some of their stores for more than 100 hours in a row through Christmas Eve. And Toys R Us is staying open for 87 hours straight starting today, which is typically the second biggest shopping day of the year.
The expanded hours in the fi nal days before Christmas are reminiscent of how some retailers typically begin the season on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday. The strategy comes as stores try to recoup lost sales during a season that’s been hobbled by a number of factors.
Despite a recovery economy, many Americans have been struggling with stagnant wages and other issues. On top of that, the time period between the offi cial holiday shopping kickoff on Black Friday and the end of the season is six days shorter than a year ago. That has given Americans less time to shop.
Sales at U.S. stores rose 2 percent to $176.7 billion from Nov. 1 through last Sunday, according to ShopperTrak. That’s a slower pace than the 2.4 percent increase the Chicago store data tracker expects for the entire two-month season.
The disappointing growth pace has put more pressure
on retailers to get people into stores in the fi nal days before Christmas. A lot is at stake because they can make up to 40 percent of their revenue in November and December.
“It’s make or break for the retailers,” said C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America’s Research Group, a consumer research company. “They have to make up for lost ground.”
Retailers hope the expanded hours will make last-minute shopping easier for Americans like Peter Sallese, who have either stayed out of stores so far because of money problems, inclement weather or other issues. The fi nancial executive from New York City said he’s usually
fi nished with shopping by mid-December, but with the shortened season, he fell behind.
“Basically, when I came back from Thanksgiving, there was no time,” Sallese said. “Add in the snow and the freezing weather, and you didn’t feel like shopping.”
This isn’t the fi rst year retailers have used marathon hours to lure shoppers. Toys R Us will open for from 6 a.m. today to 9 p.m. on Christmas Eve — the fourth year it’s had marathon hours at the end of the season. And this is the third year Kmart has offered round-the-clock hours: The discounter will open a little more than one tenth of its 1,100 stores until 10 p.m. on
Christmas Eve.Macy’s began testing its
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The rest of Macy’s locations will be open between 7 a.m. and 2 a.m. through Monday. And on Christmas Eve, most Macy’s stores will be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“Our customers love the option to shop late night, overnight and/or fi rst thing in the morning,” said Elina Kazan, a Macy’s spokes-woman.
Stores open for 100 hours straight
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by sales so far during the holiday shopping season, are staying open for up to 100 hours straight, starting the weekend before Christmas.
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Lions appreciate support for fruit sale
To the editor:The Hamilton Lions Club is very
thankful for the community support during our recent citrus fruit sale. This was a transition year as we changed project chair people. One of the casual-ties was that we lost some contacts
for some reason. We do know at least one of the reasons was local residents giving up their land lines! We do not have access to cell phone numbers. At this time we are working on securing a website where you will be able to sign up online. This project is in the early stages, so we are working out the details. This opportunity will be available by Oct. 1, 2014.
We are truly sorry for anyone who missed out on our delicious Florida citrus fruit this year, and we promise to do better next year!
Again, your Hamilton Lions Club thanks you for your support as we enter our 75th year of serving this great community!
Bob Howard, presidentHamilton Lions Club
TheStar kpcnews.com A5SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2013
This wasn’t a great year for liberty. A few disasters that government caused:
• Obamacare. It was supposed to “bend the cost curve” downward. The central planners had lots of time to perfect their scheme. For a
generation, the brightest left-wing wonks focused on health care policy. The result? Soviet-style consumer service comes to America.
• Government shutdown. The real disaster was the unnecessary panic over it. Zoos would shut down, and baby pandas would starve. The media made it sound like America might not survive even slightly limited government. They were happy to echo the politicians’ claim that there’s no wasteful or stupid spending to cut.
“The cupboard is bare,” said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “There’s no more cuts to make.”
Nothing to cut? Government spends $3.8 trillion a year!
Many Republicans are almost as eager to spend as Democrats, despite the difference in rhetoric between the two parties. About the only spending reduction Republicans accomplished in the past few years was the so-called sequester — which really happened by legal default because the two parties couldn’t reach an agreement. The sequester instituted cuts of about $85 billion a year, a mere sliver of that $3.8 trillion budget and a still smaller sliver of our $17 trillion debt.
Yet even those modest cuts will not happen now under the new congressional agreement. Because some Republicans were upset the sequester made small cuts to the military’s budget and were fearful another partial government shutdown might hurt their chances in upcoming elections, they gave up the modest spending discipline the sequester imposed. Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, said conservatives who want to keep the sequester are “ridiculous.”
The Republican behind the new agreement, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was once called a fanatical budget-slasher who wanted to push Granny off a cliff. People talked about him reading Ayn Rand and being a cutthroat capitalist. But now, even he abandons the meager budget cuts that were already scheduled.
I suppose Republicans feel they have no choice. They face Democrats who will cut nothing. They hope to win the Senate next election and realize that spending cuts are not particularly popular with the general public.
Americans say they want less spending. But then they fi ght for farm subsidies, fl ood insurance and “economic development” schemes. Most federal spending funds Social Security, Medicare and the military. Even citizens who sound fi scally conservative, especially elderly ones, don’t want these things cut.
• This was also the year we found out just how much the federal government spies on its own citizens. I annoyed my fellow libertarians by saying the privacy I lose to data mining seems a small price to pay for surveillance against terrorism. I posted a list of a hundred other things government does that upset me more. Some people responded by calling me a “traitor” and “LINO” (libertarian in name only).
Look, libertarians, I’m constantly angry at my government for lots of things, but I just can’t get worked up about data mining. My emails fl y through the air. For all I know, my political enemies already read them.
It is upsetting, though, that the National Security Agency snooping goes far beyond what the government fi rst claimed. President Barack Obama assured us the NSA does not read our emails or listen to our phone calls. But it turns out they sometimes do.
They say they only look for terrorists, and they won’t use the records to harass and punish their critics. But why would we trust that the same big government that spends $3.8 trillion a year, raids our homes looking for drugs and regulates almost every part of our lives won’t use its snooping powers to look into things other than terrorism?
Given the truth of Thomas Jefferson’s warning — “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground” — I fear next year will be still worse for liberty.
To make it a better year, we can’t trust such a powerful government to restrain itself. We should cut back its duties to reduce its power.
JOHN STOSSEL is host of “Stossel” on the Fox Business Network. He’s the author of “Give Me a Break” and of “Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity.” More information at johnstossel.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit creators.com.
Look back in liberty 2013
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I annoyed my fellow libertarians by saying the privacy I lose to data mining seems a small price to pay for surveillance against
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Shop by shop, coin by coin, I cross one threshold after another in my small town. If I am to promote small business shopping, then I must heed my own advice.
I love knowing the shopkeepers and enjoy sharing conversation with them all. It is not a problem if I leave my mittens, or my wallet or my purchases behind; they will be waiting for me when I return.
So on this day of shopping I fi nd myself saying, “Merry Christmas.” I don’t hesitate, yet I wonder if I am offending someone by my greeting. It is not my intention to do so. On one occasion (maybe two) I have said the newly established, “Happy Holidays,” yet that seemed so, hmmm, mercenary? To me it sounds like a cash register or a rerun of TV ads. Whereas the endearing “Merry Christmas” sounds as if cookies are in the oven baking and little girls in white petticoats are dancing around the Christmas tree. Well, maybe not that far, but you get the picture.
Must we dissect all we say and do? Do we blame or thank Charles Dickens for the perplexity of this simple greeting … or the queen of England?
Let’s take a stroll back in time to the Victorian era. This time period surpasses Norman Rockwell or even Thomas Kincaid! Do we not all long for the dresses of the Victorian age? Long skirts (which often caught fi re during cooking and were probably only washed in the spring), lovely hair caught up in a bun (a great nesting place for lice), or happy children playing with wooden hoops (what are wooden hoops anyway?). We all love to say about architecture, “Oh look, a Victorian house.” I want my own House at White Picket
Gardens to be as gracious as those, but I must say, I believe my own old house to be a hard working farmhouse at one time.
Let’s stroll back to England then to Queen Victoria (1819-1901). She certainly
has all my attention now. She married her fi rst cousin, Prince Albert, in 1840. He hailed from Bavaria, Germany. They had nine children. Prince Albert brought his German traditions to London, which the queen embraced. He brought the Christmas tree, singing of carols and even the mistletoe. The queen loved the customs, and if the queen is happy, so is all of England. These customs were soon embraced by the folks of England as well. (I mean, she was the queen!)
Later Prince Albert promoted the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the World’s Fair in London. It was there he met Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Lewis Carroll. By this time Dickens was a prominent writer, having published “Oliver Twist” and “A Christmas Carol.”
In “A Christmas Carol,” Dickens introduced us to such phrases as “Bah, humbug!” “God bless us, everyone,” and a quote from Scrooge after he woke up on Christmas morning, “A merry Christmas to everyone!” So, shall we say it is Dickens who coined the phrase? Dickens, you haunt my dreams and my waking life! Dickens
also introduced us to fi ggy pudding. I have never even tried it (unless you count the fruitcake my great aunt used to send every Christmas!).
Price Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861 leaving the queen to mourn him the rest of her long life. However, in their few years together they brought traditions to England that were brought over to the United States as well. Thank you, dear Queen and Prince.
Whatever or however you celebrate this season of the dark, the return of the light begins on this day, the solstice. On this day, as in days of yore, we sing songs, light fi res and share our cooking with one another. We celebrate the balance of who we are, as well as the earth sharing equal time with the dark and the light.
On this night I will light my Christmas tree (with a bucket brigade of water standing by as Dylan Thomas would have said) share food with friends and build a fi re to welcome back the sun.
I will greet you on the street, my friend, with a “Merry Christmas.” Do not think negatively, I am wishing you health and peace and love. I am not trying to be politi-cally correct or incorrect, just accept it as it is. I hope to receive the same from you.
And if you don’t mind, I will end with column with, “God bless us all, everyone.”
Merry Christmas!
LOU ANN HOMAN-SAYLOR lives in Angola at the White Picket Gardens where you can fi nd her gardening or writing late into the night under the light of her frayed scarlet lamp. She is a storyteller, teacher, writer, actress and a collector of front porch stories.
Can we thank Prince Albert for Christmas traditions?
LOU ANNHOMAN-SAYLOR
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Cold, hard look needed for Shell’s Arctic drilling plans
Days after Shell Oil turned in revised proposals for oil explora-tion in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management responded with 10 pages of questions to answer.
Good. Skepticism by this Department of the Interior agency is the least to be expected after Shell’s troubled launch of Alaska oil exploration and drilling plans in 2012 in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
Trouble with oil rigs and a new tug caused Shell to punt on the 2013 season, and now it is back asking to try again in 2014 in the Chukchi Sea, between Siberia and the top of Alaska, west of Barrow.
The bureau wants to know if Shell has addressed and corrected issues of noncompli-ance cited by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency. The information was missing from a
November fi ling by Shell.For an industry that failed to
manage conditions in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, with BP’s Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, there is no margin for error in Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf.
The bureau describes the conditions as extreme cold, freezing spray, snow, extended periods of low light, strong winds, dense fog, sea ice, strong currents and dangerous sea states.
Safety and environmental hazards loom large in such conditions and complicate the ability of others to respond in emergencies.
In a letter Thursday, six U.S. senators asked Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to delay future oil and gas lease sales and permit-ting in the Arctic Ocean “until a thorough re-evaluation of the environmental and safety risks associated with Arctic drilling activities can be completed.”
Proceeding cautiously, and seeking credible explanations and assurances of remedial changes, must come before any
Department of Interior consider-ation of new drilling plans.
In 2012, no oil had been spilled and no one was injured or any lives lost. Future drilling plans cannot be built on assump-tions based on past good fortune.
Seattle Times
Judge’s NSA ruling strikes a blow for privacy in America
A federal judge has taken a big step toward the conclu-sion that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone usage data is unconstitutional.
Richard Leon, of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., sharply argued in a ruling that Americans’ expectations of privacy, protected under the Fourth Amendment, probably have been violated.
The government likely will appeal, and the case could get to the Supreme Court. But it already has created an outlet for fresh public debate. Civil libertarians on the left and the
right have hailed the decision. Others are skeptical that Leon’s ruling, in a case spawned by two individuals’ lawsuits, will survive.
Referring to the spy agency’s practice as “almost Orwellian,” Leon challenged its defenders’ reliance on a 1979 Supreme Court case (Smith v. Maryland). Telephone technology in American culture has so radically changed, he noted, that the earlier case is essentially irrelevant.
Perhaps most damaging to the Obama administration’s defense of the NSA’s ability to do massive counter-terrorism data-scraping, Leon wrote that there has been an “utter lack of evidence that a terrorist attack has ever been prevented because searching the NSA database was faster than other investigative tactics.”
Americans should take comfort that the pendulum may now have a better chance of swinging toward a proper balance between national security and individual freedom.
Kansas City Star
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana farmers are being reminded that Farm Storage Facility Loans (FSFL) are available through the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA).
The Farm Service Agency offers low-interest loans to grain producers to build new or upgrade existing storage facilities and permanent drying and handling
equipment. Loan opportu-nities include, but are not limited to:
• New conventional-type cribs or bins, oxygen-limiting and other upright silo-type
structures, and fl at-type storage structures designed for whole grain storage,
• Perforated fl oors, safety equipment, quality improve-ment equipment, electrical equipment and concrete components considered essential for a fully functional storage facility,
• Remodeling existing storage facilities to increase storage capacity.
Farm storage facility loans must be approved prior to site preparation, equipment purchase or construction, and must be secured by a promissory note and security agreement.
Purdue Extension-DeKalb County will offer a risk-management course to farm women at the end of January 2014.
Annie’s Project is a six-part course designed for farm women who have a passion for business and involvement in their farms. The program strengthens the women’s
roles in farm enterprises by focusing on fi ve risks typical to agriculture: human, fi nancial, marketing, produc-tion and legal.
The six courses will take
place Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, and 25, and March 4. They will be offered from 6-9 p.m. in the basement of the DeKalb County Offi ce Building.
Our class topics will include:
• Jan. 28 — Real Colors and Web Soil Survey: Learning what your person-ality type says about you and learning what your soil says about your land.
• Feb. 4 — Record-keeping: From Paper to Computer: Covering the basics of recordkeeping from the basic farm books to more technical computer programs.
• Feb. 11 — Farm Finances, FSA, NRCS: Figuring out how your operation operates on a monetary basis along with the programs offered by
Farm Service Agency and Natural Resource Conserva-tion Service.
• Feb. 18 — Farm Financial Analysis: Breaking down what your operation spends and how to budget for operating expenses.
• Feb. 25 — Grain and Livestock Marketing/Crop Insurance: Learning about how to best market your grain and livestock and what you can do to cover your crops with insurance in case of disasters.
• March 5 — Ag Advocacy: Telling your farm’s story.
Registration costs $75 per person and includes refreshments and resource material. Registration forms are available at the DeKalb County Extension Offi ce or online at ag.purdue.edu/
counties/dekalb. Registra-tions are due by Jan. 17 to the DeKalb County Extension Offi ce, 215 E. 9th St. Auburn.
Ruth Hambleton, an Extension educator in Illinois, developed Annie’s Project in 2000 in honor of her mother, Annie Fleck. Since then, more than 150 women have completed the program in Indiana, and it has been taught in more than 34 states.
For more information, visit the Purdue Univer-sity Women in Agriculture website at extension.purdue.edu/wia/anniesproject.htm.
ELYSIA RODGERS is the agriculture and natural resources director for the Purdue University Cooper-ative Extension Service in DeKalb County.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Idaho farmer Robert Blair isn’t waiting around for federal aviation offi cials to work out rules for drones. He and a friend built their own, outfi tting it with cameras and using it to monitor his 1,500 acres.
Under 10 pounds and 5 feet long nose to tail, the aircraft is the size of a turkey and Blair uses it to get a birds-eye view of his cows and fi elds of wheat, peas, barley and alfalfa.
“It’s a great tool to collect information to make better decisions, and we’re just scratching the surface of what it can do for farmers,” said Blair, who lives in Kendrick, Idaho, roughly 275 miles north of Boise.
While Americans are abuzz about Amazon’s plans to use self-guided drones to deliver packages, most future unmanned aircraft may operate far from the nation’s large population centers.
Experts point to agricul-ture as the most promising commercial market for drones because the technology is a perfect fi t for large-scale farms and vast rural areas where privacy and safety issues are less of a concern.
Already, farmers, researchers and companies are developing unmanned aircraft systems equipped with cameras and other sensors to survey crops, monitor for disease or precision-spray pesticides and fertilizers.
Drones, also known as UAVs, are already used
overseas in agriculture, including Japan and Brazil.
And the possibilities are endless: Flying gizmos could be used to ward off birds from fi elds, pollinate trees, do snow surveys to forecast water supply, monitor irrigation, or plant and harvest crops.
The technology could revolutionize agriculture, farmers say, by boosting crop health, improving fi eld management practices, reducing costs and increasing yields.
So far, drones have been used mainly by the military. Interest is booming in fi nding other uses for them, but the possibilities are limited because of regula-tions on the use of airspace and privacy concerns.
The Federal Aviation Administration does not allow drones’ commer-cial use. Businesses and researchers can only apply for a special, experimental airworthiness certifi cate for research and development, fl ight demonstrations or crew training.
The FAA does allow public agencies — including law enforcement and other governmental agencies — to get a certifi cate of authori-zation to operate unmanned aircraft in civil airspace. About a dozen sheriff’s offi ces, police and fi re departments, as well as U.S. Customs and Border Protec-tion, have been allowed to use drones.
The move has raised concerns about privacy and government surveillance, leading to drone privacy
bills being introduced in most states this year and about a dozen states passing laws, most to limit drone surveillance by law enforce-ment.
Those concerns, in turn, have tempered interest in developing unmanned aircraft technology for police and other crime-fi ghting agencies — leading drone manufacturers and researchers to focus on agriculture instead, said Josh Brungardt, director of unmanned systems at PARADIGM, a Bend, Ore.-based drone research company.
“A small UAV fl ying over a fi eld with nothing around it doesn’t create a privacy issue,” he said. “We’re talking about an operating atmosphere that’s much more benign.”
Last year, Congress directed the FAA to grant unmanned aircraft access to U.S. skies by September 2015. The agency is in the midst of developing operational guidelines for drone use, but said the process would take longer than Congress expected.
Next year, the agency plans to propose a rule for small unmanned aircraft,
but it declined to discuss the rule. In the meantime, the FAA is also working to choose by the end of December six drone test sites across the country.
Blair’s drone, built in 2008, isn’t breaking the law, because his aircraft is essentially a model airplane — allowed by the FAA as long as it’s fl own below 400 feet above ground level, far from populated areas and no one is compensated for the fl ight.
Blair said the UAV gives him a complete, aerial view of his crops. He said he also uses it to gather
historical data on his crops — which can help validate crop loss or animal damage when applying for govern-ment programs like crop insurance.
Companies large and small are also racing to develop the technology, as are universities.
University of Oregon researchers fl ew drones this summer over potato fi elds to monitor for disease. Oregon nurseries have also partnered with researchers to test unmanned technology to count potted trees.
In Florida, farmers and researchers have used small unmanned helicop-ters equipped with infrared cameras to monitor orange trees for the deadly citrus greening, a bacterial disease that kills the trees. Greening begins at the top of the tree.
And at the University of California, Davis, profes-sors have teamed up with Yamaha Motor Corp. USA to fl y unmanned remote-con-trolled helicopters to spray vineyards and orchards.
Some farmers fear environmental groups could use the technology to spy on them — PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, recently announced plans to purchase drones to monitor factory farms.
But Blair said use of unmanned aircraft would have the opposite effect.
“We’re talking surgical agriculture, which allows us to be more environmentally friendly,” he said, “because we can be even more precise in how we apply fertilizer, water or pesticides.”
Agriculture the most promising market for drones
Farmer Robert Blair stands in front of his tractor holding an unmanned aircraft
that he built in Kendrick, Idaho.
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Annie’s Project coming to DeKalb
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INDIANAPOLIS —The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are issuing an important reminder to program participants about conservation compliance.
“Despite the expiration of many farm bill programs, the 1985 Conservation Compli-ance provisions remain intact,” said FSA State Executive Director Julia A. Wickard.
These Highly Erodible Land Conservation (HELC) and Wetland Conserva-tion Compliance (WC) provisions affect eligibility for nearly all FSA and NRCS programs. This includes loans, direct payments, conservation, and disaster programs.
“NRCS technical experts make these determinations and FSA maintains the offi cial records of USDA determinations,” noted Jane Hardisty, NRCS State Conservationist. “It is a joint USDA effort to assist Indiana landowners in protecting environmentally sensitive lands.”
Farmers who produce an agricultural commodity on fi elds where HEL is predom-inant are eligible for benefi ts unless NRCS determines that an acceptable conserva-tion system is not actively applied.
Under the Wetland Conservation Compliance (WC) Provisions, farmers are ineligible for benefi ts if they plant an agricultural commodity on a wetland
that was converted after Dec. 23, 1985 or if they convert a wetland after Nov. 28, 1990, by draining, dredging, fi lling, leveling or any other means for the purpose, or to have the effect, of making the production of an agricultural commodity possible.
It is vital that landowners and operators know their land and have a record of all NRCS technical determina-tions. If activities are planned to make crop production possible, producers should visit the FSA to review records and complete the forms to determine whether a referral to NRCS is necessary. This is especially important when new farming interests are acquired, as activities performed by prior landowners and operators can have an adverse effect on eligibility for current benefi ts. For example, the owner of a property cleared a wooded area in 2010 and then sold the land in 2012.
If the new owner plants a crop on the cleared area and it is later found to be a converted wetland, there is a potential for a loss of program benefi ts.
“When acquiring a new farm it is very important to compare the recent imagery with the actual cropping lines in the fi eld and get copies of any technical determina-tions on fi le,” said Wickard. “NRCS staff can provide technical assistance to assist landowners, but it is vital that assistance be requested and determinations are completed before the action is taken.”
Conservation compliance programs still intact
Farm Bureau weighs in on ethanol issue
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The president of Indiana Farm Bureau wants the state’s farmers to urge the federal government to scrap a proposal to reduce the amount of ethanol in the nation’s fuel supply.
Don Villwock says corn prices have dropped more than 5 percent since word of the proposed U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency rule was leaked in October.
Federal support for ethanol has been a boon to the economies of corn-growing states like Indiana. Villwock says reducing the amount of ethanol in the nation’s fuel supply would harm farmers.
USDA farm storage loans still available
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis charter school at the center of Indiana’s grade-changing scandal dropped from an “A” to an “F” in school grades released Friday.
The Christel House Academy benefi ted last year from changes to the grading formula made by former schools Superintendent Tony Bennett. But grades released for the 2012-2013 school year showed a precipitous drop for the school founded by top GOP donor Christel DeHaan.
Christel House’s ISTEP test scores fell sharply this year, which contributed to its lower grade.
This year’s school grades also used a formula
that took all the school’s grade levels into account. Bennett’s staff excluded the school’s 9th and 10th grades from the calculations last year, which helped bump Christel House’s grade from a “C” to an “A.”
A spokesman for new Superintendent Glenda Ritz could not immediately say whether use of all the grade levels contributed to the sharp drop.
Christel House Principal Carey Dahncke on Friday blamed the school’s troubles
on the administration of Indiana’s standardized test, the ISTEP. Thousands of students were kicked off the online test last spring as CTB/McGraw-Hill’s computer servers crashed.
A review commissioned by Ritz found few changes in the actual test results and, in some cases, a slight improvement in scores. But Dahncke said the disrup-tions, which he said affected about 92 percent of his students, sparked a major drop in test scores.
School at heart of scandal gets F
At that, Santa removed his beard, and Harris realized it was her son, U.S. Army Spc. Ethan Harris, who came home early from Afghanistan.
Harris, who was short on words, hugged her son and wept.
“This tops the list and couldn’t be a better Christmas,” Harris said later.
Instead of going to pick her son up from his base, he was already back, and a plan worked on for months was put in motion.
“I lied,” joked John Harris, Kim’s husband and Ethan’s father. “He’s been hiding two days. We’re glad for all the troops, but now she fi gured it out.”
Ethan’s family helped him remove his Santa suit to reveal his Army camoufl age uniform.
“We’ll do a combat Santa,” John Harris joked.
As Ethan spoke to several news media reporters present, he said he fi nished
his Afghanistan tour and was hiding at the house of his sister and brother-in-law. He said he was so excited Thursday night that he he couldn’t sleep, anticipating the joy he would bring his mother.
“I was so excited he was on U.S. soil and he was supposed to have 10 days of debriefi ng. We have a surprise party planned for Monday,” Kim Harris said. But she got perhaps the ultimate surprise of them all.
Ethan’s girlfriend, Brooke Moser, went to Fort Campbell, Ky., to bring him home.
“We got back Tuesday and stayed at his sister’s house. He was really excited for it,” Moser said.
The close-knit Prairie Heights staff and adminis-tration had worked overtime keeping the surprise a secret since at least September.
“Kim’s husband, John Harris, had the idea,” said Hailey LeMaster, a Prairie
Heights High School Spanish teacher. “The kids knew (Ethan) was in the States, but we said he had to be debriefed.”
John Harris thanked the Prairie Heights staff, especially Christine Hammel and Stacy Smith, and all involved in making the special surprise a reality.
“This is Christmas,” he said. “I have an awesome family.”
The Harrises took in all the action, sharing in the moment between Kim and her son. Other family present included sister Courtney and brother-in-law Ryan Spencer and their daughter, Rylan, and brother Dain and sister-in-law Krystal.
Ethan’s niece, Rylan, a toddler, met her uncle for the fi rst time. But perhaps her shirt said it all: “My hero wears combat boots. I call him Uncle Ethan.”
No word yet if Kim Harris also received her poinsettia, but it likely didn’t matter to her.
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DeKalb County’s two private schools, Lakewood Park Christian School in Auburn and St. Joseph School in Garrett, both repeated their A grades from 2012.
At DeKalb Eastern schools, Riverdale Elemen-tary continued the A rating it has maintained since 2010. Butler Elementary and Eastside Junior-Senior High School both dropped to C grades after B’s in 2012.
Stephens emphasized that like many pupils across Indiana, DeKalb Eastern students encountered system failures while trying to take ISTEP+ tests online.
“The only thing kids saw was failure,” Stephens said. “We had kids that were so distraught that when they saw ‘system failure,’ they thought they had failed the test. We had also kids trying to get through it so fast, to get the test done before it happened to them.
“We’ll make sure we do what we always do, make sure the kids are learning and are prepared for the 21st century,” Stephens said. “I’m not sure this test does anything for that.”
Hamilton received grades of C for both its junior-se-nior high school and elemen-tary school.
“It’s just very diffi cult to drill through the data and try to understand what it means, and that’s the frustrating thing in education right now — we have a lot of data but data isn’t useful for us to impact instruction and improve student achieve-ment,” Hamilton’s Willman said. “That’s my frustration. I believe in accountability,
but if we don’t have useful information, how can we continue to look for ways to improve?”
Willman said the district’s overall pass-fail rates were a letter grade higher and more indicative of the district’s work than the grades it was assigned. He blamed that on the state’s growth model data.
Willman explained the state takes points away for low-growth data, measuring growth of individual students against the growth of other students around the state.
The platform does nothing to help districts improve, Willman said.
“They need to compare kid-to-kid, not kid-to-some other kid, then help us utilize specifi c data for that individual student so we hit to ball and the target with that individual kid,” he said.
At DeKalb Central, Country Meadow Elemen-tary School earned an A for the third year in a row. Waterloo Elementary claimed an A after earning a D in 2012.
DeKalb High School achieved an A only three years after falling into probation status under a previous rating system. A results table issued by the state Friday lists DeKalb High’s 2010 grade as an F. Since then, the high school has progressed through C, B and A in consecutive years.
“Throughout our district we have established an instructional framework based on rigorous standards for learning, and we are consistently fi ne-tuning our instructional practices,” Grate said. “Learning is a process that requires constant monitoring and adapting to meet the needs
of diverse learners. We have put systems in place to ensure that we provide excellent learning opportuni-ties for all of our students, as well as ongoing professional development for our staff members.
“We believe that is critical to align our curric-ulum among all four elemen-tary schools and then also as students progress from middle to high school. As a district with high expecta-tions for student success, we recognize the need to continuously review curric-ulum, instructional strate-gies and the teaching and learning process to ensure our students receive the education they need and deserve,” Grate added.
“For example, while DeKalb Middle School performed at or above state averages in many subcat-egories of the ISTEP+ assessment, as well as their overall passing percentages in English/language arts and math, student perfor-mance did not demonstrate the percentage of growth expected for categories of students and the lack of growth resulted in a letter grade of a D. By being proactive, preparation began this summer to address this challenge. We are confi dent DMS will improve their growth performance,” Grate said.
She concluded, “We commend the outstanding efforts of our students and staff at DeKalb Central for their commitment to excellence. It is important to celebrate these important accomplishments. We must also remember this is one snapshot of our progress, and we must move forward on our journey for contin-uous improvement.”
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Chicago loses in SOCHICAGO (AP) — Ryan
Kesler scored the deciding goal in an eight-round shootout, and the Vancouver Canucks rallied to defeat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 on Friday.
Kesler fi red a high shot past Antti Raanta to help Vancouver end a two-game losing streak.
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OSSIAN — Norwell coach Randy Hawkins said the key to his team’s defensive effort Friday night against DeKalb was simply, “energy.”
That energetic defense clamped down against the Barons, holding them to 37 percent shooting and forcing 20 turnovers in a 62-50 win. The Knights move to 2-1 (1-0 Northeast Hoosier Conference), while DeKalb drops to 2-4 (0-1 NHC).
It was the way Norwell wanted to open its conference season, and just the opposite for a DeKalb team of youngsters still learning to play together.
“Norwell’s got some fi repower,” said Barons coach Jon Everingham. “We just had some trouble staying in there for a long stretch. But I’m proud of the guys. The effort was there. We’ll get there eventually, but tonight we weren’t there.”
For three quarters, at least. In the fi rst quarter, though, the Barons overcame offensive struggles to ultimately lead after the fi rst eight minutes, 12-11. DeKalb shot 6-for-6 from the free-throw line in the quarter.
Then the wheels fell off.
Hawkins switched to his 1-3-1 defense in the second quarter hoping to pick up the tempo, and it gave DeKalb fi ts as it struggled to adapt. The Barons scored four points in the quarter and went more than four minutes without a point.
“Our intensity picked up there in the second quarter and we really got them frustrated,” said Hawkins. “They started missing some shots and a lot of the turnovers, our energy created some
offense for us.”DeKalb had another equal
stretch of futility in the third quarter before closing out the period with much-needed baskets. Meanwhile, the Knights’ offense picked up with the post play of big man Drew Shively and they pulled
away.DeKalb’s 21-point fourth
quarter was too little, too late to realize a comeback.
Everingham said Norwell’s ability to prevent it from setting an offense or running one could be blamed on the Barons’ failure to space out, and also their youth. The Knights collapsed on openings and ran into passing lanes throughout the game, offering few clean looks at the basket.
“Right now, offensively, we’re progressing but it’s not quite at the rate we would have hoped,” said Everingham.
Offensively, 6-foot-6 sophomore Will Chrisman shined for DeKalb, scoring 14 points and pulling down 11 rebounds in his fi rst conference game. Chrisman, the tallest player on the fl oor, excelled in the post. Everingham called the performance “pretty impressive.”
Cole Hartman scored 14 for the Barons, as well, many off athletic drives to the basket. Dahlton Daub added 10 points for DeKalb.
Norwell was led by Shively’s game-high 19 points. Austin Hayden added 10 points for the Knights.
“Energy,” said Hawkins. “We talked about the energy, playing physical, and I liked the energy we brought to the game.”
Hawkins said his thought process in switching to the 1-3-1
Norwell’s ‘energy’ too much for DHS
Hartman Chrisman
BY PHIL [email protected]
GARRETT — Late in the third quarter of Friday’s Allen County Athletic Conference showdown between Leo and Garrett, the visiting Lions led by 11 points and appeared to be in complete control of the contest — thanks in part to relentless pressure on both sides of the court. A sportswriter could’ve written, “Game Over” in his notebook, or even tweeted it, and not many would’ve disagreed with the statement.
But the Railroaders had other ideas. They dug deep and chipped away at the defi cit in the fi nal nine-plus minutes, which set up a buzzer-beating putback by Garrett senior Matt Singleton at the end of regulation to tie the game. The home squad wrestled victory from the jaws of defeat in the extra session, closing the game out at the free throw line en route to a 91-82 overtime victory.
“We knew they’d keep shooting,” said Garrett head coach John Bodey. “We told the kids that they’re not going to quit taking 3s.
They made their run, now we’ve got to make our run. It goes to show the character of our kids. Even though they had turnovers, they stayed composed and made plays when they had to. We didn’t lose it mentally, and that’s maturity on their part.”
Junior Justin McCoy and sophomore Kordell Kessler were instrumental in the Railroader (5-1) victory. McCoy fi nished with a double-double of 34 points and 12 rebounds, with 20 of McCoy’s points coming in the fourth quarter
Big Train rolls in OTINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Paul
George had 24 points and nine rebounds and Lance Stephenson added 16 points, leading the Indiana Pacers to a 114-81 rout of the Houston Rockets on Friday night.
The Pacers ended their only two-game losing streak of the season and maintained their grip on the Eastern Conference’s best record (21-5) with their most lopsided win of the season.
Dwight Howard fi nished with 19 points, 12 rebounds and fi ve blocks for the Rockets. James Harden, the NBA’s No. 6 scorer, was held in check most of the night by George, fi nishing with 12 points on 3-of-14 shooting.
Former Indiana All-Star Danny Granger received a standing ovation when he made his season debut late in the fi rst quarter and fans chanted his name when he made his fi rst basket, a 3-pointer, early in the fourth.
After Indiana took a 12-11 lead, it never trailed again. The Pacers extended their lead to double digits in the second quarter, to 26 in the third and 36 in the fourth.
The featured attraction — Howard vs. Roy Hibbert — was almost as one-sided on the stat sheet as the game was on the scoreboard. Hibbert fi nished with nine points and six rebounds.
Pacers snap losing skid
BLOOMINGTON (AP) — A young Indiana team is learning to play at a breakneck pace.
The Hoosiers are enduring their fair share of growing pains along the way.
Yogi Ferrell scored 16 points and had a season-high eight assists, and Indiana overcame mistakes and sloppy play in a 79-66 win over Nicholls State on Friday night.
“What was important was to build on our style we need to keep establishing,” Hoosiers coach Tom Crean said. “We wanted to bring tempo. Anytime you have that situation it’s not going to be as smooth.”
The Hoosiers got caught up in
Notre Dame’s favored pace in a 79-72 setback at the Crossroads Classic. They were determined not to let that happen again, speeding up the game with intense pressure and early offense.
Ferrell, an emerging star at point guard, was in the middle of it all, leading Indiana’s defense at the point of attack, facilitating and hitting 5 of 7 shots, including 3 of 5 from 3-point range. Crean didn’t mind that Ferrell was charged with four of the Hoosiers’ season-high 20 turnovers.
“He was fl ying up the court, moving the ball, attacking,” Crean said. “We need to keep it going. That’s what he’s capable of. Yogi
Hoosiers edge past Nicholls State
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Nicholls State’s Dantrell Thomas (1) dives after a loose ball knocked away from Indiana’s Devin Davis (15) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday in Bloomington.
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Garrett sophomore Kordell Kessler tries to create separation as he’s guarded by Leo’s Connor VanOoyen during Friday night’s Allen County Athletic Conference game. Kessler scored 24 points in the Railroaders’ 91-82 overtime victory.
Garrett rallies to top Leo in ACAC opener
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Boys BasketballMarines fall to Falcons
HAMILTON — Hamilton lost to Fairfi eld 52-32 in a Northeast Corner Conference game Friday night.
The Falcons (3-1, 2-1 NECC) won every quarter en route to the road win. They led 27-17 at the half.
Marine senior guard Aaron Kelley left the game injured and on a stretcher late in the third quarter. Hamilton athletic director Jesse Webb updated on Twitter that Kelley just suffered a stinger.
Joe Line had 16 points and fi ve rebounds and John Stack had 10 points and four boards for Fairfi eld. The Falcons made 8-of-20 three-point shots.
Casey Rote had 15 points and eight rebounds for the Marines (4-3, 1-1). Addison Stephens had 11 points and seven boards. Colton Rose had four points and seven rebounds.
Fairfi eld won the J.V. game 46-12. Jack Hill had four points for the Marines.
Middle School Boys BasketballLocomotives swept by Yellow Jackets
GARRETT — Garrett’s eighth-grade boys basket-ball team lost to Angola Thursday night, 31-30. Micah Malcolm scored 10 points to lead the Locomo-
tives. Also scoring for GMS were Hayden Greene with eight points, Carter Back with fi ve points, Cameron Smith and Cole Kelham with three points each, and Jacob Bevis with one point.
Garrett’s seventh-grade team lost to the Yellow Jackets, 39-9. This was the second time playing Angola and the boys played hard to close the gap on the fi nal score from the fi rst meeting. The team played inspired defense in the second half with an overall good team effort.
Middle School Girls BasketballWoodside takes two from DeKalb
WATERLOO — DeKalb’s eighth-grade girls basketball team fell to Woodside Thursday night, 35-28. The Patriots led in the fi rst half, but couldn’t quite get the momentum back in the second half. Leigha Brown led the Patriots with 22 points. Cassie Shipe, Alexis Waligora and Lexy Stuckey all added two points.
DeKalb’s seventh-grade team lost to Woodside, 47-9. The Patriots could not get past the tough Woodside defense. Scoring for the Patriots were Hannah McAfee with four points, Brooke-destinee Lockwood with three points, and Elisea Callison and Bethany Kelley with one point each.
WrestlingDBWC elementary registration begins
WATERLOO — DeKalb Central Elementary Wrestling 2014, presented by the DeKalb Baron Wrestling Club, will begin practice Jan. 6, from 6-7:30 p.m. in the DeKalb High School wrestling room. Other practice dates are Jan. 13, Jan. 22, Jan. 29, Feb. 3, Feb. 10, Feb. 17, Feb. 24, March 3, March 10, March 17, March 24 and March 31.
Club cost is $80 for gold level and $60 for silver level. All wrestlers will receive a T-shirt, and Gold Level members will receive membership to the Indiana State Wrestling Associa-tion.
You can either register at the fi rst practice or return a registration form to any DeKalb Central elementary school offi ce or the DeKalb High School main offi ce (Door 1).
For more information, contact Jason Hunter at (260) 385-6351.
Girls Basketball Garrett-South Adams varsity-only tonight
GARRETT — Tonight’s girls’ basketball game at Garrett between the Class 3A No. 7 Railroaders and South Adams will be a varsity-only contest, starting at 7:30 p.m.
and overtime.And Kessler — after
a tough shooting night Wednesday against Bellmont — responded like a veteran instead of an underclassmen, making 9 of 15 fi eld goals (including 4 of 6 from 3-point land) to fi nish with 24 points. Kessler scored seven in the fourth quarter to help the Railroaders get back into the contest.
“Everybody knows about Justin McCoy, but they better learn about Kordell Kessler,” Bodey said. “I always said Justin is one of the best shooters in the area and Kordell is, too. Kordell made some big shots during that stretch when we came back from 11 points down.”
Garrett began its comeback by going on an 8-1 run to in the fi nal 1:04 of the third quarter to cut the defi cit to 54-50, thanks to a Kessler 3-pointer and free throws, and buckets by Singleton and McCoy.
The Railroaders still trailed by as many as six points with four minutes left, but used a 9-2 run to take the lead at 68-67 with 2:11 to go in regulation following a pair of McCoy free throws. Leo wrestled the lead back and the Lions’ Tyler Beer went to the free-throw line with 7 seconds left and his team up one point. He made the second of two free throws to set up Garrett’s fi nal possession.
McCoy dribbled up the right sideline and got inside the circle, putting up a tough
runner with a couple seconds to go. Singleton outleaped a Leo player for the rebound, and put the ball into the net just as the horn sounded to tie the game at 74 and force overtime.
“I kind of anticipated it but I was lucky,” Singleton said. “I knew I had to get it off in time but I also knew it had to be a good shot. It was a great shot by Justin, and I just got the rebound and put it back up and it went in. Adrenaline just took over.”
Said Bodey, “They kept their poise and the guys did not quit until the horn sounded.”
Leo lead early in overtime, but Garrett took the lead for good on a McCoy basket with 2:09 left. Shortly thereafter, Kessler hit a lay-up to put Garrett up 82-79, and the Railroaders closed it out at the free-throw line, making 7 of 8 attempts in the fi nal 45.6 seconds.
“It was a great team effort. Everyone contrib-uted in some way,” said Singleton, who fouled out in overtime. “We just had to play defense as a team and make sure we stopped them from penetrating the lane.”
Singleton and Karsten Cooper were also in double fi gures with 11 and 10 points, respectively. Kessler nearly had a double-double himself, grabbing eight rebounds.
Garrett fi nished the night 27 of 64 from the fi eld (42 percent) and 7 of 10 from 3-point land (70 percent). The Railroaders picked up
the win despite 25 turnovers.Leo, never shy about
hoisting the 3-pointer, hit 12 of 33 attempts on the night. David Hardin led the Lions with 22 points, making six 3-pointers. Beer scored 18 points, Dylan Barrow had 18 points and Adam Davison had 13 points.
Leo and Woodlan were the presumptive favorites in the ACAC this year, and Garrett already beat both, putting the Railroaders in the driver’s seat for the regular season title in their fi nal year in the conference. But Bodey doesn’t want to think that far ahead.
“There’s nobody on our schedule we can’t beat. But if we’re not right, they can beat us,” Bodey said. “We aren’t that good. There’s a lot of tough teams in the conference.”
GARRETT: Four reach double fi gures for RailroadersFROM PAGE B1 Garrett 91, Leo 82 (OT)
LeoPlayers fg-fga ft-fta tp rb as stHardin 6-16 4-6 22 5 3 5Davison 3-6 4-4 13 2 0 0Beer 5-9 8-14 18 3 4 4Fields 2-5 0-0 4 3 0 5Barrow 8-20 1-2 18 8 1 1Eldridge 2-4 0-2 5 2 0 1Klopfenstein 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0VanOoyen 1-3 0-0 2 3 0 0Herran 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0Totals 27-64 16-26 82 27 8 16Garrett fg-fga ft-fta tp rb as stK. Cooper 3-6 4-4 10 4 2 1Estep 0-0 2-2 2 1 2 2Kessler 9-15 2-6 24 8 1 0McCoy 11-24 9-12 34 12 2 0Singleton 3-8 5-5 11 5 0 0Reneau 2-3 3-6 7 0 2 1M. Cooper 0-1 0-0 0 0 2 1Rosati 1-3 1-2 3 4 1 0Benson 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0Totals 29-60 26-37 91 34 12 5Leo 15 22 16 21 8 — 82Garrett 19 17 14 24 17 — 91Three-point shooting — Leo 12-33 (Hardin 6-13, Davison 3-6, Barrow 1-9, Eldridge 1-2, Beer 0-1, VanOoyen 0-1, Herran 0-1), Garrett 7-10 (Kessler 4-6, McCoy 3-4). Team rebounds — Leo 4, Garrett 10. Total fouls — Leo 28, Garrett 23. Fouled out — K. Cooper, Singleton, Hardin, Beer, Fields, Eldridge. Turnovers — Leo 19, Garrett 25. Blocks — Singleton, Reneau 2, Hardin , Barrow 3.
had an outstanding game at both ends.”
Will Sheehey and Jeremy Hollowell added 14 points apiece for the Hoosiers (9-3), who bounced back from the disappointing loss to Notre Dame by putting the Colonels away with two notable runs.
Dantrell Thomas scored 15 of his 24 points in the fi rst half for the Colonels (3-6), who got as close as 12 points
in the second half but were 4-of-16 from 3-point range.
Coach J.P. Piper said Indiana’s blinding speed caused trouble from the outset.
“Until you see it in person, it’s hard to have your team understand it,” Piper said. “I was really pleased with our effort to defend. I did not want to get into an up-and-down game with these guys. I thought we’d give up 150 points.”
For much of the night, the
Hoosiers struggled to pull away from a heavy underdog. They eventually improved to 8-0 at home by repeatedly earning trips to the line against a smaller opponent. The Colonels came in allowing opponents 36 free throw attempts a game. The Hoosiers made 26 in 35 attempts.
“We wanted to exploit that,” Crean said. “Our guys did a good job of recognizing that they were packing the middle of the fl oor.”
HOOSIERS: IU stays perfect at home with 8-0 markFROM PAGE B1
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Evan Turner hit the winning basket at the buzzer and scored 29 points to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 121-120, overtime win over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night.
Paul Pierce hit a 3-pointer with 16.9 seconds left in OT to give the Nets the short-lived lead.
Turner, sensational all game, drove past a pair of defenders and tossed up the last-gasp shot. The ball bounced three times around the rim before it dropped through the net. After a brief review, the bucket stood, Turner was mobbed by his teammates and the Sixers snapped a seven-game losing streak.
Thaddeus Young scored 25 points for the Sixers, and Michael Carter-Williams had 15 points and 10 assists.
Alan Anderson had a season-high 26 points for the Nets, Pierce scored 24 with 10 rebounds, and Deron Williams had 17 points and 14 assists.
Bobcats 116, Pistons 106Kemba Walker scored
34 points and Al Jefferson led a fourth-quarter rally that carried Charlotte past Detroit after trailing by as many as 20.
Charlotte was down 14
after three quarters before dominating the fourth. Jefferson scored 13 points during a decisive 16-3 run.
Brandon Jennings had 26 points for Detroit, which rallied from a 21-point defi cit to beat Boston on Wednesday but blew a big lead two nights later.
Down 89-75, the Bobcats scored the fi rst nine points of the fourth quarter to get back in the game. Jefferson scored 15 of his 24 points in the fourth.
Charlotte scored 72 points in the second half and outscored the Pistons 41-17 in the fi nal quarter.
Heat 122, Kings 103Chris Bosh scored 25
points, Dwyane Wade added 20 and Miami put up a season high for points in rolling past Sacramento.
LeBron James had 18 points, eight assists and six rebounds while sitting out the fourth quarter for Miami, which has won four straight overall and 18 of its last 19 against the Kings.
Ray Allen added 18 and Mario Chalmers scored 16 for the Heat, who shot 61 percent.
DeMarcus Cousins led Sacramento with 27 points
and eight rebounds in 32 minutes. Ben McLemore scored 20 and Rudy Gay added 14 for Sacramento, which has now dropped the fi rst three games of its four-game trip.Cavaliers 114, Bucks 111,
OTKyrie Irving made four
free throws in the fi nal 21.5 seconds of overtime and fi nished with 39 points while battling a fl u bug, leading Cleveland over short-handed Milwaukee.
Irving played despite being ill the past two days and missing practice Thursday. The All-Star guard played 43 minutes and carried the Cavs to their fi fth win in six home games.
Earl Clark made a 3-pointer as the shot clock expired with 44 seconds left, and Jarrett Jack added 17 points for the Cavs.
With Milwaukee down by three, O.J. Mayo missed two 3-pointers in the last 10 seconds.
Mayo had 20 points, John Henson 18 and Brandon Knight added 17 and a career-high 14 rebounds as the Bucks lost their fi fth straight.
Hawks 118, Jazz 85Lou Williams scored 25
points and Atlanta continued its offensive upswing in
Philadelphia goes to OT
SPORTS BRIEFS•
Notre Dame to play at Fenway Park in 2014
SOUTH BEND (AP) — Notre Dame won’t play a Big Ten opponent in 2015, the fi rst time that’s happened in more than 100 years, but the Fighting Irish will play a home game against Boston College at Fenway Park.
Athletic director Jack Swarbrick released schedules for the next three seasons on Friday, saying a goal was to follow the model Jesse Harper started back in 1913 when he scheduled games at Army, Penn State and Texas and helped give the Fighting Irish a national following.
The Irish play Purdue at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis next season, Syracuse at MetLife Stadium in East Ruther-ford, N.J., in 2014 and 2016, Navy at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., next season and Army in San Antonio in 2016.
They open the 2015 season at home against Texas and open at the Longhorns in 2016.
Chien-Ming Wang among 10 agreeing with Reds
CINCINNATI (AP) — Pitcher Chien-Ming Wang was among 10 players who agreed to minor league contracts with the Cincinnati Reds and will report to big league spring training camp.
A 19-game winner with the New York Yankees in both 2006 and 2007, Wang spent most of this year at Triple-A for the Yankees and Blue Jays. The 33-year-old right-hander was 1-2 with a 7.67 ERA in six starts with Toronto.
Also agreeing to deals Friday were right-hander Jose Diaz; left-hander Lee Hyde; catchers Corky Miller, Rossmel Perez and Max Ramirez; infi elders Argenis Diaz, Reynaldo Navarro and Kristopher Negron; and outfi elder Jason Bourgeois.
Financing plan for new Red Wings arena approved
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit City Council has approved a fi nancing plan for a new Detroit Red Wings hockey arena and entertainment complex just outside downtown.
The council also on Friday extended the boundaries of a Downtown Development Authority district to include land where the project could be constructed.
Boys Basketball StandingsNortheast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LHomestead 1 0 4 1New Haven 1 0 3 1Carroll 0 1 2 3Columbia City 1 0 3 2Norwell 1 0 2 1DeKalb 0 1 2 4Bellmont 0 1 1 4East Noble 0 1 0 4Monday’s GameDeKalb 46, Goshen 33Tuesday’s GamesSnider 74, East Noble 35Bishop Dwenger 64, Norwell 59 (OT)Wednesday, Dec. 18Garrett 45, Bellmont 42Friday, Dec. 20Norwell 62, DeKalb 50Columbia City 61, East Noble 51New Haven 58, Bellmont 32Homestead 52, Carroll 48Saturday, Dec. 21DeKalb at Bishop DwengerMonday, Dec. 23Leo at Homestead
Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LPrairie Heights 2 0 5 1Angola 1 1 3 2Hamilton 1 1 4 3Westview 2 0 3 2Fairfi eld 2 1 3 1Lakeland 1 1 2 2West Noble 1 0 5 0Eastside 0 0 3 2Churubusco 0 2 0 4Fremont 0 1 0 4Central Noble 0 3 0 5Tuesday’s GamesHamilton 48, Central Noble 46Eastside 68, Lakewood Park 59Prairie Heights 64, Bronson, Mich. 30Wednesday’s GameConcord 67, Lakeland 55Thursday, Dec. 19Lakewood Park 62, Fremont 61Friday, Dec. 20Westview 54, Angola 49Fairfi eld 52, Hamilton 32Eastside at Lakeland, ppd.Prairie Heights 65, Churubusco 55West Noble 79, Central Noble 50Saturday, Dec. 21Fairfi eld at GoshenMonday, Dec. 23Angola at Garrett
Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LGarrett 2 0 5 1Bluffton 2 0 4 1Leo 1 1 2 2Adams Central 1 1 3 3South Adams 0 2 2 4Woodlan 1 1 2 3Heritage 1 1 1 3Southern Wells 0 2 0 5Tuesday’s GameNorthfi eld 71, Southern Wells 38Wednesday’s GameGarrett 45, Bellmont 42Friday, Dec. 20Garrett 91, Leo 82Woodlan 54, Adams Central 50Bluffton 59, Southern Wells 32Heritage 60, South Adams 43Saturday, Dec. 21Snider at BlufftonManchester at LeoParkway, Ohio at South AdamsMonday, Dec. 23Angola at GarrettLeo at Homestead
Boys Prep ScoresBarr-Reeve 70, Shoals 19Beech Grove 82, Lapel 69Bloomington South 76, Owen Valley 45Bluffton 59, Southern Wells 32Brownsburg 59, Avon 51Brownstown 71, N. Harrison 43Cannelton 52, Bloomington Lighthouse 47Carmel 64, Fishers 45Center Grove 65, Whiteland 49Clinton Prairie 55, Delphi 47Columbia City 61, E. Noble 51Corydon 78, Scottsburg 44Cowan 57, Tri 51Crawfordsville 37, N. Montgomery 30Crothersville 65, Madison Shawe 48Danville 54, Lebanon 45, 2OTEdinburgh 57, Hauser 56Ev. Bosse 52, Washington 46Fountain Central 60, Attica 55Ft. Wayne North 58, Ft. Wayne Northrop 51Greensburg 76, Jennings Co. 52Hamilton Hts. 55, Western 44Hamilton Southeastern 64, Zionsville 51Heritage 60, S. Adams 43Homestead 52, Carroll (Ft. Wayne) 48Indpls Brebeuf 65, Indpls Roncalli 59Indpls Pike 72, Lawrence Central 69, OTIndpls Scecina 57, Speedway 39Indpls Shortridge 69, Liberty Christian 62Jac-Cen-Del 59, Southwestern (Jefferson) 30Jasper 76, Boonville 49Jay Co. 41, Muncie South 33Knightstown 50, Eastern Hancock 31Kouts 79, Westville 59Lanesville 81, Henryville 48LaPorte 54, Glenn 50Linton 66, Shakamak 55Madison 69, Bedford N. Lawrence 61Marion 75, Kokomo 51Martinsville 69, Indian Creek 42McCutcheon 82, Lafayette Harrison 51Michigan City 68, Elkhart Central 54Milan 65, Oldenburg 56Mississinewa 63, Madison-Grant 50Mitchell 61, N. Knox 39Monroe Central 67, Union (Modoc) 60, OTMonrovia 79, Cloverdale 39Mooresville 74, Terre Haute North 44N. Daviess 62, Wood Memorial 54N. Putnam 50, Cascade 48N. Vermillion 59, Georgetown-Ridge Farm/Chrisman, Ill. 42New Albany 65, Seymour 40New Haven 58, Bellmont 32New Palestine 54, Westfi eld 39Noblesville 63, Lafayette Jeff 33Northridge 53, Goshen 33Northview 51, Edgewood 38Northwestern 65, Maconaquah 39Norwell 62, DeKalb 50Paoli 60, Austin 50Penn 84, S. Bend Clay 47Peru 62, Eastern (Greentown) 38Pike Central 69, Vincennes Rivet 58Prairie Hts. 65, Churubusco 55Providence 34, Charlestown 25Richmond 74, Huntington North 51Rochester 47, N. Miami 39Rossville 74, Carroll (Flora) 73, OTRushville 59, Lawrenceburg 47S. Bend Adams 75, S. Bend St. Joseph’s 71S. Bend Riley 39, Mishawaka 26Seeger 75, Clinton Central 65Shelbyville 66, Mt. Vernon (Fortville) 54Southport 69, Bloomington North 55Sullivan 77, N. Central (Farmersburg) 26Switzerland Co. 59, S. Ripley 58Terre Haute South 74, W. Vigo 46Tippecanoe Valley 59, Whitko 40Tipton 54, Lafayette Catholic 51Union Co. 72, Winchester 64Vincennes 52, Princeton 48, OTW. Central 54, Frontier 47W. Lafayette 55, Benton Central 31W. Noble 79, Central Noble 50Wabash 49, Northfi eld 42Warren Central 49, Indpls Ben Davis 35Warsaw 67, Wawasee 49Western Boone 71, Southmont 36Westview 54, Angola 49Woodlan 54, Adams Central 50Yorktown 57, Greenfi eld 56, OT
Girls Basketball StandingsNortheast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LHomestead 2 0 8 0East Noble 2 0 7 1DeKalb 2 0 6 2Norwell 1 1 6 1Columbia City 1 1 7 2New Haven 0 2 5 5Carroll 0 2 2 7Bellmont 0 2 0 9Tuesday’s GamesDeKalb 70, Lakeland 33East Noble 60, Snider 45Blackhawk Christian 49, Bellmont 43, OT
Carroll 46, Northrop 36Homestead 76, FW South Side 63Columbia City 38, Warsaw 24Wednesday, Dec. 18New Haven 49, Adams Central 32Norwell 56, Huntington North 44Saturday, Dec. 21East Noble at Columbia CityCarroll at HomesteadNew Haven at BellmontNorwell at DeKalb
Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LFairfi eld 4 0 6 1Westview 5 0 9 2West Noble 4 1 6 4Angola 4 2 4 6Fremont 2 4 5 4Prairie Heights 2 3 5 5Lakeland 2 3 4 7Churubusco 1 3 4 6Central Noble 1 4 3 6Hamilton 0 3 2 4Eastside 0 4 1 7Tuesday’s GamesWestview 51, Angola 46DeKalb 70, Lakeland 33Garrett 44, Fremont 25Central Noble 55, Hamilton 38Eastside 52, Lakewood Park 47Thursday, Dec. 19Westview 64, Fremont 45Whitko 64, West Noble 62Saturday, Dec. 21Hamilton at Fairfi eldCentral Noble at West NobleLakeland at EastsidePrairie Heights at Churubusco
Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LGarrett 3 0 10 0Southern Wells 2 1 4 4Leo 2 1 8 1Woodlan 2 1 7 2Heritage 2 1 7 3South Adams 1 2 8 2Bluffton 0 3 2 8Adams Central 0 3 1 7Monday’s GameSouth Adams 69, Wes-Del 18Tuesday’s GamesGarrett 44, Fremont 25Leo 52, FW North Side 45Concordia 52, Heritage 27Southwood 44, Bluffton 33Bishop Dwenger 60, Woodlan 50Wednesday, Dec. 18New Haven 49, Adams Central 32Thursday, Dec. 19Heritage 75, Lakewood Park 33South Adams 63, Daleville 36Saturday, Dec. 21South Adams at GarrettAdams Central at BlufftonSouthern Wells at LeoWoodlan at Heritage
Girls Prep ScoresBloomington Lighthouse 49, Cannelton 38Cambridge City 34, Union City 30Cascade 66, N. Putnam 36Crawfordsville 54, N. Montgomery 30E. Central 55, S. Dearborn 44Eastern Hancock 60, Knightstown 48Edgewood 41, Northview 30Ft. Wayne Canterbury 74, Ft. Wayne Blackhawk 33Ft. Wayne Northrop 53, Ft. Wayne North 17Ft. Wayne Snider 55, Ft. Wayne Wayne 43Greenwood 55, Franklin 54Indpls N. Central 58, Carmel 46Indpls Roncalli 61, Indpls Brebeuf 36Indpls Shortridge 61, Liberty Christian 27Lake Central 61, Crown Point 39Lawrence North 80, Warren Central 28Lebanon 70, Danville 62Martinsville 42, Plainfi eld 29McCutcheon 40, Lafayette Harrison 27Monrovia 79, Cloverdale 39Oak Hill 53, Frankton 36Richmond 71, Huntington North 48Riverton Parke 38, S. Vermillion 29S. Bend Washington 55, Mishawaka Marian 42Southwestern (Shelby) 73, Indpls Lutheran 37Tindley 60, Seton Catholic 54Western Boone 72, Southmont 43
Big Ten Standings Conf. All Games W L W LWisconsin 0 0 12 0Ohio St. 0 0 11 0Michigan St. 0 0 9 1Iowa 0 0 10 2Illinois 0 0 9 2Minnesota 0 0 9 2Purdue 0 0 9 3Indiana 0 0 9 3Nebraska 0 0 7 3Penn St. 0 0 8 4Michigan 0 0 6 4Northwestern 0 0 6 5Wednesday’s GamesOhio St. 76, Delaware 64Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduledFriday’s GamesIndiana 79, Nicholls St. 66Nebraska-Omaha at Minnesota, lateSaturday’s GamesMichigan St. at Texas, 4 p.m.Illinois vs. Missouri at Scottrade Center, 5:30 p.m.Notre Dame vs. Ohio St. at Madison Square Garden, 7:30 p.m.Stanford vs. Michigan at Barclays Center, 8:30 p.m.The Citadel at Nebraska, 8:30 p.m.Sunday’s GamesKennesaw St. at Indiana, NoonPurdue at West Virginia, 1 p.m.Brown at Northwestern, 2 p.m.Mount St. Mary’s at Penn St., 2 p.m.Ark.-Pine Bluff at Iowa, 2 p.m.
National Football LeagueAMERICAN CONFERENCEEast W L T Pct PF PANew England 10 4 0 .714 369 311Miami 8 6 0 .571 310 296N.Y. Jets 6 8 0 .429 246 367Buffalo 5 9 0 .357 300 354South W L T Pct PF PAy-Indianapolis 9 5 0 .643 338 319Tennessee 5 9 0 .357 326 355Jacksonville 4 10 0 .286 221 399Houston 2 12 0 .143 253 375North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 9 5 0 .643 354 274Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 296 277Pittsburgh 6 8 0 .429 321 332Cleveland 4 10 0 .286 288 362West W L T Pct PF PAx-Denver 11 3 0 .786 535 372x-Kansas City 11 3 0 .786 399 255San Diego 7 7 0 .500 343 311Oakland 4 10 0 .286 295 393NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 8 6 0 .571 364 349Dallas 7 7 0 .500 393 385N.Y. Giants 5 9 0 .357 251 357Washington 3 11 0 .214 305 434South W L T Pct PF PANew Orleans 10 4 0 .714 359 270Carolina 10 4 0 .714 328 208Tampa Bay 4 10 0 .286 258 324Atlanta 4 10 0 .286 309 388North W L T Pct PF PAChicago 8 6 0 .571 406 391Green Bay 7 6 1 .536 353 362Detroit 7 7 0 .500 362 339Minnesota 4 9 1 .321 363 425West W L T Pct PF PAx-Seattle 12 2 0 .857 380 205San Francisco 10 4 0 .714 349 228Arizona 9 5 0 .643 342 291St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 316 324x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched divisionThursday’s GameSan Diego 27, Denver 20Sunday’s GamesMinnesota 48, Philadelphia 30Atlanta 27, Washington 26San Francisco 33, Tampa Bay 14Seattle 23, N.Y. Giants 0Chicago 38, Cleveland 31Indianapolis 25, Houston 3Buffalo 27, Jacksonville 20Miami 24, New England 20Kansas City 56, Oakland 31Carolina 30, N.Y. Jets 20
Arizona 37, Tennessee 34, OTSt. Louis 27, New Orleans 16Green Bay 37, Dallas 36Pittsburgh 30, Cincinnati 20Monday’s GameBaltimore 18, Detroit 16Sunday, Dec. 22Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Denver at Houston, 1 p.m.Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Carolina, 1 p.m.Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m.Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Minnesota at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Arizona at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Detroit, 4:05 p.m.Oakland at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.Pittsburgh at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m.New England at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m.Chicago at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m.Monday, Dec. 23Atlanta at San Francisco, 8:40 p.m.
NBA StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBBoston 12 15 .444 —Toronto 9 14 .391 1Brooklyn 9 17 .346 2½New York 8 17 .320 3Philadelphia 8 19 .296 4Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 20 6 .769 —Atlanta 15 12 .556 5½Charlotte 13 14 .481 7½Washington 11 13 .458 8Orlando 8 18 .308 12Central Division W L Pct GBIndiana 20 5 .800 —Detroit 13 15 .464 8½Cleveland 10 15 .400 10Chicago 9 16 .360 11Milwaukee 5 21 .192 15½WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBSan Antonio 21 5 .808 —Houston 17 9 .654 4Dallas 15 10 .600 5½New Orleans 11 13 .458 9Memphis 10 15 .400 10½Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 21 4 .840 —Portland 22 5 .815 —Denver 14 10 .583 6½Minnesota 13 13 .500 8½Utah 7 22 .241 16Pacifi c Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 18 9 .667 —Phoenix 14 10 .583 2½Golden State 14 13 .519 4L.A. Lakers 12 13 .480 5Sacramento 7 18 .280 10Thursday’s GamesOklahoma City 107, Chicago 95San Antonio 104, Golden State 102Friday’s GamesPhiladelphia 121, Brooklyn 120, OTCleveland 114, Milwaukee 111, OTMiami 122, Sacramento 103Atlanta 118, Utah 85Charlotte 116, Detroit 106Houston at Indiana, lateToronto at Dallas, latePhoenix at Denver, lateMinnesota at L.A. Lakers, lateSaturday’s GamesMemphis at New York, 12 p.m.Washington at Boston, 1 p.m.Sacramento at Orlando, 7 p.m.Houston at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Utah at Charlotte, 7:30 p.m.Cleveland at Chicago, 8 p.m.Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 9 p.m.New Orleans at Portland, 10 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.Denver at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.Sunday’s GamesBoston at Indiana, 6 p.m.Toronto at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.
NHL StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 35 23 10 2 48 96 74Tampa Bay 35 21 11 3 45 97 84Montreal 37 21 13 3 45 92 81Detroit 37 16 12 9 41 94 101Toronto 37 18 16 3 39 101 106Ottawa 37 14 17 6 34 103 122Florida 36 14 17 5 33 85 112Buffalo 35 9 23 3 21 63 100Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 37 26 10 1 53 117 80Washington 35 19 13 3 41 111 104Philadelphia 35 16 15 4 36 86 97Carolina 35 14 14 7 35 81 98New Jersey 36 14 15 7 35 85 90N.Y. Rangers 36 16 18 2 34 82 100Columbus 35 14 17 4 32 91 100N.Y. Islanders 36 10 19 7 27 90 124WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 37 25 7 5 55 138 102St. Louis 34 23 7 4 50 119 81Colorado 34 23 10 1 47 100 80Minnesota 37 20 12 5 45 86 88Dallas 34 17 12 5 39 99 102Nashville 35 16 16 3 35 80 99Winnipeg 36 15 16 5 35 95 106Pacifi c Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 37 25 7 5 55 119 93Los Angeles 36 24 8 4 52 101 69San Jose 35 21 8 6 48 113 88Vancouver 37 20 11 6 46 101 90Phoenix 34 18 10 6 42 106 105Calgary 35 13 16 6 32 88 111Edmonton 37 11 23 3 25 95 127NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.Thursday’s GamesToronto 2, Phoenix 1, SOBuffalo 4, Boston 2Philadelphia 5, Columbus 4Pittsburgh 5, Minnesota 2Florida 4, Ottawa 2Detroit 3, Calgary 2, OTTampa Bay 4, Nashville 2St. Louis 5, Montreal 1Dallas 4, Vancouver 1Colorado 4, Edmonton 2Los Angeles 4, San Jose 1Friday’s GamesAnaheim 3, New Jersey 2, OTN.Y. Islanders 5, N.Y. Rangers 3Washington 4, Carolina 2Vancouver 3, Chicago 2Winnipeg 5, Florida 2Saturday’s GamesCalgary at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.Phoenix at Ottawa, 2 p.m.Colorado at Los Angeles, 4 p.m.New Jersey at Washington, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Columbus, 7 p.m.Montreal at Nashville, 7 p.m.Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m.Detroit at Toronto, 7 p.m.Carolina at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.Anaheim at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.St. Louis at Edmonton, 10 p.m.Dallas at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.Sunday’s GamesMinnesota at N.Y. Rangers, 7:30 p.m.Winnipeg at Vancouver, 8 p.m.
FBS Bowl GamesSaturday, Dec. 21New Mexico BowlWashington State (6-6) vs. Colorado State (7-6), 2 p.m. (ESPN)Las Vegas BowlFresno State (11-1) vs. Southern Cal (9-4), 3:30 p.m. (ABC)Famous Idaho Potato BowlBuffalo (8-4) vs. San Diego State (7-5), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)New Orleans BowlTulane (7-5) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (8-4), 9 p.m. (ESPN)Monday, Dec. 23Beef ‘O’ Brady’s BowlOhio (7-5) vs. East Carolina (9-3), 2 p.m. (ESPN)Tuesday, Dec. 24Hawaii BowlOregon State (6-6) vs. Boise State (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)Thursday, Dec. 26Little Caesars Pizza BowlBowling Green (10-3) vs. Pittsburgh (6-6), 6 p.m. (ESPN)Poinsettia BowlNorthern Illinois (12-1) vs. Utah State (8-5), 9:30 p.m. (ESPN)Friday, Dec. 27Military Bowl
Marshall (9-4) vs. Maryland (7-5), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)Texas BowlMinnesota (8-4) vs. Syracuse (6-6), 6 p.m. (ESPN)Fight Hunger BowlBYU (8-4) vs. Washington (8-4), 9:30 p.m. (ESPN)Saturday, Dec. 28Pinstripe BowlNotre Dame (8-4) vs. Rutgers (6-6), Noon (ESPN)Belk BowlCincinnati (9-3) vs. North Carolina (6-6), 3:20 p.m. (ESPN)Russell Athletic BowlMiami (9-3) vs. Louisville (11-1), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN)Buffalo Wild Wings BowlKansas State (7-5) vs. Michigan (7-5), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN)Monday, Dec. 30Armed Forces BowlMiddle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Navy (8-4), 11:45 a.m. (ESPN)Music City BowlMississippi (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (7-5), 3:15 p.m. (ESPN)Alamo BowlOregon (10-2) vs. Texas (8-4), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN)Holiday BowlArizona State (10-3) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN)Tuesday, Dec. 31AdvoCare V100 BowlArizona (7-5) vs. Boston College (7-5), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN)Sun BowlVirginia Tech (8-4) vs. UCLA (9-3), 2 p.m. (CBS)Liberty BowlRice (9-3) vs. Mississippi State (6-6), 4 p.m. (ESPN)Chick-fi l-A BowlTexas A&M (8-4) vs. Duke (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)Wednesday, Jan. 1Heart of Dallas BowlUNLV (7-5) vs. North Texas (8-4), Noon (ESPNU)Gator BowlNebraska (8-4) vs. Georgia (8-4), Noon (ESPN2)Capital One BowlWisconsin (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2), 1 p.m. (ABC)Outback BowlIowa (8-4) vs. LSU (9-3), 1 p.m. (ESPN)Rose BowlStanford (11-2) vs. Michigan State (12-1), 5 p.m. (ESPN)Fiesta BowlBaylor (11-1) vs. UCF (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)Thursday, Jan. 2Sugar BowlAlabama (11-1) vs. Oklahoma (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)Friday, Jan. 3Orange BowlOhio State (12-1) vs. Clemson (10-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN)Cotton BowlMissouri (11-2) vs. Oklahoma State (10-2), 7:30 p.m. (FOX)Saturday, Jan. 4BBVA Compass BowlVanderbilt (8-4) vs. Houston (8-4), 1 p.m. (ESPN)Sunday, Jan. 5GoDaddy.com BowlArkansas State (7-5) vs. Ball State (10-2), 9 p.m. (ESPN)Monday, Jan. 6BCS National ChampionshipFlorida State (13-0) vs. Auburn (12-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)Saturday, Jan. 18East-West Shrine ClassicEast vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN)Saturday, Jan. 25Senior BowlSouth vs. North, 4 p.m. (NFLN)
Mens College Basketball Schedule
Saturday, Dec. 21EASTCoastal Carolina at CCSU, 1 p.m.Duquesne at Mass.-Lowell, 2 p.m.Fordham at Monmouth (NJ), 2 p.m.Holy Cross at NJIT, 2 p.m.Maine at Providence, 2 p.m.Youngstown St. at St. John’s, 2 p.m.UMBC at George Washington, 2:30 p.m.Saint Joseph’s at Loyola (Md.), 3 p.m.Buffalo vs. Manhattan at the Barclays Center, 3 p.m.Fairleigh Dickinson at Columbia, 4 p.m.Longwood at Dartmouth, 4 p.m.Vermont at Harvard, 4 p.m.Cal Poly at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.Rider at Villanova, 4 p.m.Lamar at Canisius, 4:15 p.m.St. Bonaventure at Niagara, 5 p.m.Temple vs. LIU Brooklyn at the Barclays Center, 5:30 p.m.Quinnipiac at Lehigh, 7 p.m.Ohio St. vs. Notre Dame at Madison Square Garden, 7:30 p.m.Michigan vs. Stanford at the Barclays Center, 8 p.m.Bryant at Delaware, 9:30 p.m.SOUTHBelmont at Kentucky, NoonNavy at N. Kentucky, NoonEast Carolina at NC State, NoonHiwassee at Gardner-Webb, 1 p.m.Boston U. at Maryland, 1 p.m.Milligan at Appalachian St., 2 p.m.Johnson & Wales (NC) at Campbell, 2 p.m.UMass vs. Florida St. at the BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla., 2 p.m.W. Carolina at Georgia, 2 p.m.Wilmington (Del.) at Md.-Eastern Shore, 2 p.m.Old Dominion at UNC Wilmington, 2 p.m.Murray St. at W. Kentucky, 2 p.m.UNC Greensboro at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.Wofford at Winthrop, 2 p.m.Kent St. at Coll. of Charleston, 3 p.m.Hampton vs. James Madison at Richmond (Va.) Coliseum, 3 p.m.Austin Peay at ETSU, 4 p.m.Lyon at Grambling St., 4 p.m.Alabama St. at Tulane, 4 p.m.Rio Grande at UCF, 4 p.m.Georgia Tech at Vanderbilt, 4 p.m.N. Iowa at Virginia, 4 p.m.Fresno St. vs. Florida at the BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla., 4:30 p.m.UAB at LSU, 5 p.m.Davidson at North Carolina, 5 p.m.SE Louisiana at UT-Martin, 5 p.m.VCU vs. Virginia Tech at Richmond (Va.) Coliseum, 5:30 p.m.Louisville at FIU, 6 p.m.Milwaukee vs. Northeastern at Devlin Fieldhouse, New Orleans, 6 p.m.Southeastern (Fla.) vs. Valparaiso at CFE Arena, Orlando, Fla., 6:30 p.m.Xavier at Alabama, 7 p.m.SC-Upstate at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Arkansas St. at Marshall, 7 p.m.Bethune-Cookman at North Florida, 7 p.m.SE Missouri at Memphis, 8 p.m.Miami (Ohio) at Tennessee St., 8 p.m.MIDWESTGeorgetown at Kansas, NoonE. Michigan at Oakland, 1 p.m.Middle Tennessee at Cincinnati, 2 p.m.Fairfi eld at Green Bay, 2 p.m.E. Illinois at IPFW, 2 p.m.Cleveland St. at Toledo, 2 p.m.Prairie View at W. Michigan, 2 p.m.Butler at Evansville, 3:05 p.m.Ball St. at S. Illinois, 3:05 p.m.Gonzaga at Kansas St., 3:30 p.m.IUPUI at Indiana St., 3:35 p.m.NC A&T at Saint Louis, 4 p.m.S. Dakota St. at North Dakota, 5 p.m.Illinois vs. Missouri at Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 5:30 p.m.UMKC at Wright St., 7 p.m.Towson at N. Dakota St., 8 p.m.Alabama A&M at Missouri St., 8:05 p.m.The Citadel at Nebraska, 8:30 p.m.SOUTHWESTTulsa at TCU, NoonCharleston Southern at Cent. Arkansas, 1 p.m.CS Bakersfi eld at Texas-Arlington, 2 p.m.Wayland Baptist at North Texas, 4 p.m.Michigan St. at Texas, 4 p.m.Rice vs. Houston at the Toyota Center, 4:30 p.m.Texas-Tyler at Texas St., 5:30 p.m.Dallas Baptist at Oral Roberts, 7 p.m.Elmhurst at Stephen F. Austin, 7 p.m.Oklahoma at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.South Alabama at Arkansas, 8 p.m.FAR WESTMontana St.-Billings at Long Beach St., 3 p.m.Westminster (Utah) at San Jose St.,
3 p.m.UC Irvine at Denver, 4 p.m.Houston Baptist at Pepperdine, 4 p.m.S. Utah at San Diego, 5 p.m.Air Force at UC Davis, 5:30 p.m.Sacramento St. at Cal St.-Fullerton, 6:05 p.m.Texas Tech at Arizona St., 6:30 p.m.W. Illinois vs. UC Santa Barbara at Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, Logan, Utah, 7:30 p.m.Pacifi c vs. Bradley at South Point Arena, Las Vegas, 8:30 p.m.UTEP at Washington St., 8:30 p.m.La Sierra at Loyola Marymount, 9 p.m.Marquette vs. New Mexico at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, 9 p.m.N. New Mexico at New Mexico St., 9 p.m.McNeese St. at San Diego St., 10 p.m.Troy at Utah St., 10:05 p.m.BYU at Oregon, 10:30 p.m.Princeton vs. Portland at South Point Arena, Las Vegas, 11 p.m.Oklahoma St. vs. Colorado at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, 11:30 p.m.TOURNAMENTSBVI Tropical ShootoutAt Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin IslandsThird Place, 6 p.m.Championship, 8 p.m.
Men’s Top 25 Basketball Schedule
Saturday’s GamesNo. 3 Ohio State vs. Notre Dame at Madison Square Garden, 7:30 p.m.No. 5 Michigan State at Texas, 4 p.m.No. 6 Louisville at Florida International, 6 p.m.No. 7 Oklahoma State vs. No. 20 Colorado at Las Vegas, 11:30 p.m.No. 8 Villanova vs. Rider, 4 p.m.No. 13 Oregon vs. BYU, 10:30 p.m.No. 14 North Carolina vs. Davidson, 5 p.m.No. 15 Memphis vs. Southeast Missouri State, 8 p.m.No. 16 Florida vs. Fresno State at the BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla., 4:30 p.m.No. 18 Kansas vs. Georgetown, NoonNo. 19 Kentucky vs. Belmont, NoonNo. 21 Gonzaga at Kansas State, 3:30 p.m.No. 22 UMass vs. Florida State at the BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla., 2 p.m.No. 23 Missouri vs. Illinois at Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 5:30 p.m.No. 24 San Diego State vs. McNeese State, 10 p.m.Sunday’s GamesNo. 10 UConn at Washington, 3:30 p.m.No. 11 Wichita State vs. North Carolina Central, 8 p.m.No. 12 Baylor vs. Southern U., 5 p.m.No. 17 Iowa State vs. George Mason at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 5:30 p.m.No. 25 Iowa vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 2 p.m.
Women’s Top 25 Basketball Schedule
Saturday’s GamesNo. 3 Tennessee at No. 6 Stanford, 4:30 p.m.No. 7 Louisville vs. No. 11 Colorado, 1 p.m.No. 13 Oklahoma State at Georgia Tech, 5 p.m.No. 14 North Carolina vs. High Point, 1 p.m.No. 16 Georgia at Rutgers, 2 p.m.No. 19 Nebraska vs. South Dakota, 3:30 p.m.No. 20 Oklahoma at Marist, 7 p.m.No. 22 Iowa vs. Drake, 5 p.m.No. 23 Syracuse vs. Saint Joseph’s, 1 p.m.No. 25 Gonzaga at Washington State, 2:30 p.m.Sunday’s GamesNo. 1 UConn vs. No. 21 California at Madison Square Garden, 1:30 p.m.No. 2 Duke at No. 5 Kentucky, 3 p.m.No. 4 Notre Dame vs. Central Michigan, 2 p.m.No. 10 South Carolina vs. South Carolina State, 1 p.m.No. 17 Penn State vs. Alcorn State, 11 a.m.No. 18 Purdue vs. Bowling Green, Noon
ATP World TourFinals Rankings1, Rafael Nadal, Spain, 13030. 2, Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 12110. 3, David Ferrer, Spain, 5800. 4, Andy Murray, Britain, 5790. 5, Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, 5255. 6, Roger Federer, Switzerland, 4205. 7, Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 4180. 8, Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland, 3730. 9, Richard Gasquet, France, 3300. 10, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, 3065.
WTA TennisRanking1, Serena Williams, 13260. 2, Victoria Azarenka, 8046. 3, Li Na, 6045. 4, Maria Sharapova, 5891. 5, Agnieszka Radwanska, 5875. 6, Petra Kvitova, 4775. 7, Sara Errani, 4435. 8, Jelena Jankovic, 4170. 9, Angelique Kerber, 3965. 10, Caroline Wozniacki, 3520.
NASCAR Sprint CupFinal Standings1, Jimmie Johnson, 2,419. 2, Matt Kenseth, 2,400. 3, Kevin Harvick, 2,385. 4, Kyle Busch, 2,364. 5, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2,363. 6, Jeff Gordon, 2,337. 7, Clint Bowyer, 2,336. 8, Joey Logano, 2,323. 9, Greg Biffl e, 2,321. 10, Kurt Busch, 2,309.
IndyCarsFinal Standings1, Scott Dixon, 577. 2, Helio Castro-neves, 550. 3, Simon Pagenaud, 508. 4, Will Power, 498. 5, Marco Andretti, 484. 6, Justin Wilson, 472. 7, Ryan Hunter-Reay, 469. 8, James Hinchcliffe, 449. 9, Charlie Kimball, 427. 10, Dario Franchitti, 418.
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DEAR DOCTOR K: My lower back has been giving me trouble. Could you describe some exercises to strengthen it?
DEAR READER: If misery loves company, you’ll be glad to hear that there are many people who have back problems. One large survey conducted by the government found that about one out of every four adults had suff ered from back pain lasting at least a whole day in the previous three months.
Th e good news is that an exercise program designed to stretch and strengthen your back and core muscles can help you heal from back pain and help prevent a repeat episode.
Both strengthening exercises and stretching are essential. Th e bones of your spine (the vertebrae) hold you upright. Th ey are stacked on top of each other like a roll of dimes. Th at stack is
like a column, but the bones in that stack stay on top of each other only because the muscles attached to those bones keep them in proper
position.When
those muscles are weak, changes in the position of the bones can cause pain. Nerves that run between the bones can be pinched, and ligaments that attach the bones to each other can become strained.
Stretching is important
because sometimes the pain comes from the muscles themselves. As we get older, our muscles tend to stiff en
up more. When a stiff muscle is suddenly asked to work, it can cause pain. If the muscle is gently stretched, it becomes more ready to work. Supple, well-stretched muscles are less prone to injury. Stretch gently, without bouncing. If you aren’t used to stretching, start by holding a stretch for a short time. Gradually build up to roughly 30-second stretches.
It’s not just your back muscles that need strength-ening and stretching; other muscles also are important in keeping your back straight. Specifi cally, a stretching and strengthening regimen should target your back, abdominal and buttock muscles. Together, these muscles help maintain an upright posture and support the back during walking, standing and sitting.
Th e muscles of the upper legs also need to be strong and fl exible. When they are weak and tight, they
can strain the supporting structures of the back.
If you were exercising before your back pain and had to slow down or stop because of it, don’t resume exercising at the same level as before the episode. If you try to pick up where you left off , you might hurt your back again. Gradually build back up to where you were before.
I advise working with an expert to develop a suitable exercise program. Ask your doctor to recommend a physiatrist (a doctor who specializes in physical medicine), a physical therapist or a reputable personal trainer. Th e right exercise program will help you build strong, fl exible muscles that will be less prone to injury.
DR. KOMAROFF is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. His website is AskDoctorK.com.
Strengthening, stretching can help back pain
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DEAR ABBY: My younger sister “Lainie” is 14. She has had a smartphone for about a year. While I don’t belong to any social media sites, Lainie is a social media junkie. She never goes anywhere without her phone. Sometimes she’ll have her phone in one hand and her tablet in the other, taking turns when one or the other begins to bore her. It’s almost impossible to interact with her because her face is buried in the virtual world just about every hour of the day and night. I miss the way things used to be before she got that smartphone. What are your thoughts on this topic? — GADGET GIRL’S SISTER DEAR SISTER: It’s common for teens to spend a lot of time on their phones and computers. But when they become withdrawn and secretive, it is time for a parental intervention.
If your folks are equally concerned about your sister’s behavior, they should step in, fi nd out what’s going
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Passengers walk inside Terminal 3 at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Friday. A stew of foul weather, ranging from freezing rain and snow
in the Midwest to thunderstorms and possible tornadoes in the South, is arriving just in time for one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Holiday travelers in the Midwest and parts East and South were keeping a leery eye Friday on a band of foul weather stretching across the nation’s midsection that was threatening to mar the opening weekend of one of the year’s busiest travel periods.
Forecasters were predicting a stew of foul weekend weather, from freezing rain and snow in the north to torrential rain in the Ohio Valley and Appalachia and possibly even tornadoes in the South.
The worst of the storm wasn’t expected to hit Midwest population centers until Saturday, and although few fl ights had been cancelled as of midday Friday, the weather was taking a toll on air travel: FlightStats.com reported more than 1,900 U.S. delays, with the most at Chicago’s O’Hare, Denver International, and the three big New York-area airports.
The foul weather could cause headaches for the estimated 94.5 million Americans planning to travel by road or air during this holiday season, which runs from Saturday through New Year’s Day. Concerns were similar a month ago, when a winter storm hit just as people were traveling for Thanksgiving.
Tom Griffi th, a fi nancial planner from suburban Little Rock, Ark., moved up his departure time for a two-day road trip to Cincinnati so he could get ahead of bad weather.
“The TV said severe weather would impact southeast Arkansas up to Memphis in the afternoon. My plan is to be past Memphis before noon,” Griffi th said Friday. “I guess my biggest concern would be the wind with the semis on the interstates.”
While much of the East awoke to unusually warm
temperatures on Friday, New England appeared to be next in the storm front’s crosshairs, creating pre-Christmas travel worries from Chicago and Detroit to Boston and New York.
Temperatures that hovered in the 60s in some parts of the Midwest on Thursday plummeted overnight, and freezing rain Friday morning snarled traffi c and forced some school closures in Michigan and Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Depart-ment of Transportation said Interstate 90/94 was ice-covered from Tomah and Mauston. The state was bracing for signifi cant snow, sleet and ice.
The National Weather
Service issued a fl ash fl ood watch from Arkansas northeastward through parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, with up to 4 inches of rain projected. With falling temperatures, some of that could be freezing rain by Saturday night in the St. Louis area, weather service meteorolo-gist Jon Carney said.
Forecasters said thunder-storms would likely develop in the South. The area that was most in peril stretched from central and northeastern Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and southeast Missouri, where 80 mph wind gusts and fl ash fl ooding were possible.
By Sunday night, the
storm systems will be hammering the East Coast. Some New England and mid-Atlantic states could see rare winter thunderstorms.
Tom Kines, an AccuWeather meteorologist, said the unsettled weather comes as a cold front in the northern U.S. clashes with unusually warm and humid air coming up from the South. He said that warm air will lead to record or near-re-cord highs in many places over the next day or two.
The warm air, though, will bring plenty of trouble to some areas.
“I think there’s a high likelihood there will be severe storms with hail and damaging wind” in parts of the South, Kines said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a solid 4.1 percent annual rate from July through September, the fastest pace since late 2011 and signifi cantly higher than previously thought. Much of the upward revision came from stronger consumer spending.
The Commerce Depart-ment’s fi nal look at growth in the summer was up from a previous estimate of 3.6 percent. Four-fi fths of the revision in the report released Friday came from stronger consumer spending, mainly in the area of health care.
The 4.1 percent annual growth rate in the third quarter, as measured by the gross domestic product, came after the economy had expanded at a 2.5 percent rate in the second quarter. Much of the acceleration refl ected a buildup in business stockpiles.
On Friday, President Barack Obama pointed to the upward revision to GDP growth as one of several signs of improvement in the economy. They include four straight months of solid job growth and a drop in the unemployment rate to its lowest point in fi ve years.
“What it adds up to is we head into next year with an economy that’s stronger than it was when we started the year,” Obama said at a White House news confer-ence. “I fi rmly believe that 2014 can be a breakthrough year for America.”
The GDP report also gave a boost to Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average was up about 80 points in late afternoon trading.
Economists still expect growth to slow a bit in the current October-De-cember quarter. In part, that’s because two-fi fths of the third-quarter gain in GDP came from a buildup in business stockpiles. That gain isn’t likely to be repeated in the fourth quarter. Many analysts think growth will slow to an annual rate between 2.5 percent and 3 percent this quarter before picking up next year.
The third-quarter increase in GDP —the economy’s total output of goods and services — was the best performance since a 4.9 percent increase in the fi nal three months of 2011.
Still, analysts expect that for the year, the GDP will expand only around 1.7 percent, down from the 2.8 percent growth of 2012. Much of that drop-off occurred because consumer spending was depressed by higher taxes that took effect last January and the govern-ment’s across-the-board spending cuts. The Congres-sional Budget Offi ce has estimated those two factors shaved 1.5 percentage points from growth in 2013.
But the drag from the government is expected to lessen in 2014. Many analysts are looking for growth to hit 2.5 percent or better in 2014.
Outside the volatility caused by changes in stockpiles, many analysts say the economy has begun to improve in the current quarter. Steady hiring has lowered the unemployment rate to a fi ve-year low of 7 percent. And much of the November data so far have been upbeat.
Economy growsat fastest ratesince late 2011
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Adoptable AnimalsDOGS
• Marley-4 yr old femaleboxer mix
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•Bently-10 yr oldmaleChihuahua
•Jane- 1 yr old femaleblack lab
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pitt bull•Zulu- 1 yr oldfemalelab mix
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1985 LongabergerApple basket. Good
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1987 Huge Map ofAuburn Businesses.
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(260) 837-4775
1997 LongabergerChristmas Basket. Pro-tector, liner, wood lid.
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1999 NIB BarbieNascar Official #94
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36” RCA Home TheatreTwin Turner PIP. (TVGuide plus +) with
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Auburn Rubber Corp.News Publication. Pub-
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Bauman-HarnishRubber Co. Zippo
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(260) 668-6060
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Chicago Bears Watch$25.00
(260) 318-1091
Dallas Cowboys Quilt.Machine made, $50.00.
(260) 587-9552
Danberry Mint PorcelainKewpie Doll, in box.
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chestnut color.$50/OBO
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HP Photosmart C5180All-in-one printer scan-
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(260) 587-9552
Kitchen Table Woodwith green legs, $15.00.
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L Shaped tan SecretaryDesk with chair. $25.00.
(260) 347-2349
Ladies Full LengthBlack Leather Coat(Outbrook) Small.
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Lexmark Pro 715 Fax,Copier, Printer.
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Longaberger 1998Christmas Basket, pro-tector, liner, wood lid.
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New England QuiltMachine made, $50.00
(260) 587-9552
New Packer PulloverXL, $40.00.
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New! Holiday Party
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NIB 1976 Cher DollLong Pink Dress,
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NIB Indiana JonesCharacter Doll “Raidersof the Lost Ark”, $40.00.
(260) 333-0420
Packer Coat$30.00
(260) 318-1091
Pittsburgh SteelersQuilt. Machine made,
$50.00. (260) 587-9552
Snow Skis with Poles$15.00
(260) 837-4775
Songs of Faith & Com-fort by Annie Johnson
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Steel Toe BootsWorx by Red Wing, size
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(260) 894-1692
The Ignito BookMonthly Publication
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(260) 868-2547
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