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Vol. 102 No. 10

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SATURDAYJanuary 11, 2014

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Smaltz, Kruse fi le as candidates

AUBURN — Republican Ben Smaltz has fi led for re-election as Indiana state representative for District 52.

Smaltz of Auburn fi led his declaration of candidacy with the Indiana Secretary of State Thursday. Smaltz was fi rst elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 2012.

Republican Sen. Dennis Kruse of rural Auburn fi led as a candidate for state convention delegate Friday at the DeKalb County Clerk’s offi ce. Earlier this week, Kruse fi led for re-elec-tion to the state Senate District 14 seat with the Indiana Secretary of State. Kruse has served in the state Senate since 2004 and previously served 15 years in the House.

Candidate registra-tion for the 2014 primary election began Wednesday and continues until noon Feb. 7.

AUBURN — The DeKalb Outdoor Theater Board will join with magician Kevin Heller to present the Theater of Magic on Sunday, Jan. 26, at DeKalb High School.

Shows will be at 1:30 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. in the DeKalb High School auditorium. The shows also will feature the DeKalb Dynamix, with members of DeKalb High’s School’s state champion show choir, and Miss Indiana 2014 Terrin Thomas of Auburn.

The DeKalb Outdoor Theater is preparing for its sixth season of bringing quality performances to DeKalb County during the summer months. Most of the

performances are provided at no cost or very little cost to the general public through sponsor-ships or private donations, theater offi cers said.

However, each year there is a gap between what the theater can raise and the cost to provide its entertainment. The Theater of Magic shows aim to raise the needed funds.

Tickets for the event cost $10 each. People who purchase $20 VIP passes will have preferred seating and will be invited backstage before the show to meet Heller and Miss Indiana.

Tickets may be purchased at the

Magic show to benefi t outdoor theater

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

The husband-and-wife team of Robin and Kevin Heller will present a magic show to benefi t the DeKalb Outdoor Theater.

SEE MAGIC, PAGE A6

New High School Equivalency Diploma

BY DENNIS [email protected]

KENDALLVILLE — Out with the old and in with the new.

The General Education Development exam (GED), introduced in 1942, has been replaced by the Indiana High School Equivalency Diploma.

The changeover began at the start of this month, and GED instruction providers and testing centers including IMPACT Institute, formerly Four County Vocational Cooperative, have been preparing for the new assessment.

Stephanie Ross, Impact Institute’s adult education coordinator, said the institute has been proactive since institute offi cials learned the GED would end. Instructors have attended professional develop-ment sessions about preparing students for the new test.

IMPACT Institute, a vocational cooperative based in Kendallville, offers adult education programs in northeast Indiana as well as vocational programs to students from 11 school districts in Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange and Steuben counties.

Students enrolled in GED programs who failed to complete the test by the end of 2013 must start over with the new equivalency diploma. IMPACT marketed its GED program and offered free GED classes encouraging those thinking about the GED to enroll and get tested by Dec. 31.

Enrollment is now open at IMPACT Institute for its free equivalency diploma classes. The classes have not changed, just the preparation, said Ross.

IMPACT operates testing centers in the four-county

Diplomareplaces GED

DENNIS NARTKER

IMPACT Institute in Kendallville provides instruction and testing for the new Indiana High School Equivalency Diploma that has replaced the GED.

KENDALLVILLE — The new Indiana High School Equivalency Diploma assess-ment that has replaced the GED covers fi ve subjects — reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies.

It’s intended to measure levels of achievement and preparedness for college and the workforce as outlined by Common Core State Standards.

Here is sample mathematics test question designed to test the ability to recognize and use geometric formulas to compute quantities — a skill that has a wide array of practical and business applications:

“When a spherical balloon is fi lled with air, it has a diameter of 6 inches. Which of the following gives the best estimate for the volume of air in the balloon in cubic inches? A. 63.6 B. 108 C. 113.1 D. 150.8. Examinees will have access to a scientifi c calculator and a formula sheet.

The answer is C.Here is a sample writing

test question designed to assess profi ciency in distin-guishing correctly spelled and misspelled words in the context of sophisticated sentences:

“Which of these sentences includes a misspelled word?”

A. Bobby was ecstatic about heading into the city with his friends for a baseball game this weekend.

B. He also reassured his brother that he would bring him an extraordinary souvenir from the ballpark’s gift shop.

C. The spring weather was already getting warmer but had not become miserably hot yet — perfect weather for a baseball game.

D. Bobby had promised his little brother he would take pictures of some of the star players, as well as attempt to aquire their autographs.

The answer is D. The misspelled word is “acquire.”

Try these new test questions

WASHINGTON (AP) — It came as a shock: U.S. employers added just 74,000 jobs in December, far fewer than anyone expected. This from an economy that had been adding nearly three times as many for four straight months — a key reason the Federal Reserve decided last month to slow its economic stimulus.

So what happened in December? Economists struggled for explanations: Unusually cold weather. A statistical quirk. A temporary halt in steady job growth.

Blurring the picture, a wave of Americans stopped looking for work, meaning they were no longer counted as unemployed. Their exodus cut the unemploy-ment rate from 7 percent to 6.7 percent — its lowest point in more than fi ve years.

Friday’s weak report from the Labor Department was particularly surprising because it followed a fl urry of data that had pointed to a robust economy: U.S. companies are selling record levels of goods overseas. Americans are spending more on big purchases like cars and appliances. Layoffs have dwindled. Consumer confi dence is up and debt levels are down. Builders broke ground in November on the most new homes in fi ve years.

“The disappointing jobs report fl ies in the face of most recent economic data, which are pointing to a pretty strong fourth quarter,” said Sal Guatieri, an economist at BMO Capital Markets.

Jobs reportweak

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Offi cials squabbled over media leaks and scrambled to control the publicity damage in the days after lane closings near the George Washington Bridge caused huge traffi c jams that now appear to have been politically orchestrated by members of Gov. Chris Christie’s administration, documents released Friday show.

In the documents, offi cials appointed by Christie seemed more concerned about the political fallout than the effects

of the gridlock in the town of Fort Lee during four mornings in September.

The thousands of pages were released by a New Jersey legisla-tive committee investigating the scandal that could haunt Christie’s expected run for president in 2016. The documents mostly involve the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that runs the bridge.

Lawmakers are looking into allegations that Christie loyalists deliberately created the tie-ups to

punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee for not endorsing Christie for re-election.

The documents show that the traffi c mess created tension between New York and New Jersey appointees at the Port Authority, with the New York side angrily countermanding the lane closings.

In the correspondence, Port

Authority chairman David Samson, a Christie appointee, suggested that the authority’s executive director, Patrick Foye, who was appointed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, had leaked to a reporter an internal memo ordering an end to the lane closings.

Samson called that possibility “very unfortunate for NY/NJ relations.”

On Thursday, Christie moved to contain the damage from the

Damage-control scramble followed traffi c jamsSEE DIPLOMA, PAGE A6

Lagging numberssurprise experts

Christie

SEE DAMAGE, PAGE A6

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AUBURN — The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum is planning two special events that start next week.

A fi ve-week session of holy yoga will be taught by trained instructor Randi Wells of Yes You Can Fitness of Auburn. Partici-pants will practice yoga in different museum galleries on Wednesdays, Jan. 15 through Feb. 12.

The fee is $10.50 per person for each session, and each participant should bring his or her own yoga mat.

Classes will begin at 8:45 a.m. and last approx-imately one hour. Those attending are welcome to stay after the session to tour the museum.

Local artist Emma Taylor-Metcalf will lead a “Cork and Canvas” class each month in 2014. Participants will learn to create a painting and will take it home after each class.

Seating is limited and is

fi lling fast for these events, a news release said. The fee is $35 per person per session.

The fi rst class meets Thursday, Jan. 16, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the museum.

“The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum has put together a really fun and exciting calendar of events for 2014,” said Kendra Klink, chief operating offi cer.

“This year is going to be an exciting one at the museum. Not only is staff busy updating two galleries and placing touch-screen informa-tion kiosks throughout the museum to enhance visitor experiences, but also continuing The Road Ahead Capital Campaign and celebrating the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum being open to the public for 40 years! Look for lots of great announcements, additions, and activities at the museum this year.”

Auto museum offers yoga, painting classes

BY MATT [email protected]

AUBURN — Men, this one is for you.

With a women’s build traditionally held in the spring, Northeast Indiana Habitat for Humanity realized there were no special events geared toward the men who are so critical to the philanthropic home building endeavor.

That changes this weekend.Northeast Indiana Habitat for

Humanity is partnering with the

National Military History Center to sponsor ManMania, an event catering to men, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ManMania will include two days of demonstrations, tough man contests and vendors. Ticket holders also will receive admission to the National Military History Center and the Kruse Automotive Horse Power and Carriage Museum.

There will also be enough ReStore items to fill five storage sheds. People can purchase

older but high-quality items such as furniture and doors at the event.

“The stuff is mostly pristine,” said Marianne Stanley, who is coordinating the event for Habitat.

Habitat for Humanity is raising money to build three partner family homes in 2014. Three families have completed the requirements to join the waiting list for a home, and another six families have been board-approved and are working

on their classes and sweat-equity hours.

Vendors at the event will include Sanborn’s For Your Home of Angola, Complete Nutrition of Fort Wayne, Guitar Infi rmary of Auburn and Hydrotech Building Solutions in Auburn.

Fun events at the fundraiser will include a cornhole tourna-ment, a pounding nails competi-tion as well as timed construc-tion events involving playing cards and Popsicle sticks.

“It’s geared toward what Habitat is about,” Stanley said of the competition.

Mimi’s Retreat will be holding a beer tasting event from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday.

While the event is geared toward men, Stanley said everyone is welcome.

“It’s a family-friendly event,” Stanley said.

Northeast Indiana Habitat for Humanity holds mortgages for 54 partner families in DeKalb, Noble and Steuben counties.

Habitat’s ManMania event opens today

DeKalb County Public Meetings•

Monday8:30 a.m. — DeKalb

County Council, courthouse, Auburn.

8:30 a.m. — DeKalb County Commissioners, courthouse, Auburn.

5:30 p.m. — Hamilton Community Schools board, 903 S. Wayne St., executive session to discuss before any placement decision on an individual student’s abilities, past performance, behavior and needs, to discuss school safety and security measures, plans and systems and to discuss a job performance evaluation of individual employees.

6 p.m. — Ashley Town Council meeting with department heads, Ashley Community Center, 500 S. Gonser.

6:35 p.m. — Hamilton Community Schools board, 903 S. Wayne St., organiza-tional meeting. The agenda also includes the 2014-15 school calendar. The board of fi nance will meet at 7

p.m., and an executive session will take place immediately following if needed.

7 p.m. — Ashley Town Council, Ashley Community Center, 500 S. Gonser.

7 p.m. — Hamilton Board of Zoning Appeals, 900 S. Wayne St.

7 p.m. — DeKalb Eastern school board, superintendent’s offi ce, 300 E. Washington St., Butler. The agenda includes the school calendar, organizing the board of fi nance, a report of investments and appointing a treasurer.

TuesdayNoon — Auburn

Redevelopment Commis-sion, City Hall, 210 E. Ninth St.

6 p.m. — Auburn Plan Commission, City Hall, 210 E. Ninth St.

6 p.m. — Eckhart Public Library board of trustees, meeting in Willennar Genealogy Center, 700 S. Jackson St., Auburn.

6:30 p.m. — DeKalb Central school board, administrative offi ce, C.R. 427, Waterloo, organiza-tional meeting. The agenda also includes consideration of permission to advertise for facility improvements.

6:30 p.m. — Waterloo Town Council, Waterloo-Grant Township Public Library, 300 S. Wayne St.

Wednesday5:30 p.m. — Garrett

Redevelopment Commis-sion, City Hall Council Chamber.

Thursday8:30 a.m. — DeKalb

County Drainage Board, Commissioners’ Court, second fl oor, courthouse.

Friday1 p.m. — DeKalb County

Board of Aviation Commis-sioners at the DeKalb County Airport terminal building conference room, 2710 C.R. 60, Auburn.

WATERLOO — The DeKalb Community Children’s Choir will host a free, no-obli-gation opportunity for children to try the choir at DeKalb Middle School on Thursday from 5-6:30 p.m.

The event is resched-uled from Jan. 9 due to inclement weather. It is for children with unchanged voices who are in third

grade and above. Partici-pants should enter through door 11.

Children will experi-ence a choir rehearsal, have social time with current members of the choir and enjoy a pizza break. The time together will end with an “informance” for parents at 6:20 p.m.

To participate, register

with the children’s choir at 481-0481 or at [email protected].

The DeKalb Community Children’s Choir is an ensemble of the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir. For more information on the choir, visit dekalbchoir.org or contact executive director Denice Beights at 481-0841 or [email protected].

Children’s choir invites singers

AUBURN — Judge Kevin Wallace Friday sentenced a Waterloo man to 20 days in jail for drinking and driving.

Donald Shannon, 31, of the 600 block of East Union Street pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle with an unlawful alcohol concentration, a Class C misdemeanor, during a

hearing in DeKalb Superior Court I.

Wallace sentenced Shannon to 60 days in jail, all suspended except 20 days.

He was placed on probation for one year and was fi ned $500. He must pay court costs and his driving license was suspended for 90 days.

Waterloo man sentenced

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Saturday, Jan. 11Manmania: Raise the

Roof: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Sunday. Habitat for Humanity fundraiser event for men. The two-day event features a large ReStore Garage Sale, admission to the National Military History Center and Kruse Automotive Museum, hourly demonstrations, real men contests with prizes, food and several hunting, fi shing, cycle, car and truck vendors. All active service personnel admitted free. For tickets and cost information, visit hfnei.org National Military History Center, 5634 C.R.11-A, Auburn.

Victory Bingo: 6 p.m. National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

Sunday, Jan. 12Bingo: 5 p.m. Doors

open at 3 p.m. American Legion Post 97, 1729 Sprott St., Auburn.

Monday, Jan. 13Victory Bingo: 6 p.m.

National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

Diabetes Support Group: 7 p.m. Hamilton United Methodist Church, 7780 S. Wayne St., Hamilton.

Tuesday, Jan. 14Red Cross Blood

Drive: 1 p.m. Donors may enjoy Girl Scout cookies and refreshment area. Call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit

redcrossblog.org to make an appointment. Garrett American Legion, 515 W. 5th Ave., Garrett.

Bingo: 6 p.m. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. American Legion Post 97, 1729 Sprott St., Auburn.

Melody Makers Chorus Rehearsal: 7 p.m. Garrett First Church of Christ, 213 E. King St., Garrett. 925-4448.

Hoosier Air Museum Meeting: 7 p.m. Local astronomer Donn Starkey will give a presentation on the life and death of a star. Meeting open to the public Hoosier Air Museum, 2822 C.R. 62, Auburn.

Wednesday, Jan. 15Red Cross Blood

Drive: 11 a.m. Blood drive held in the Lakewood Park Christian School gymnasium. Call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit redcrossblog.org to make an appointment. Lakewood Park Ministries, 5555 C.R. 29, Auburn.

Victory Bingo: 6 p.m. National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

Thursday, Jan. 16Financial Intelligence

for Women: 5:30 p.m. Stacy Hefty, president of Hefty Wealth Partners, presents the ‘Power of a Plan,’ an opportunity to help women identify fi nancial challenges.RSVP to 925-0995 or michele@unitedwaydekalb.

org DeKalb Health Medical Arts Building, 1314 E. Seventh St., Auburn.

Inspiration Fellowship: 7 p.m. A free community meal to begin the evening. Music from Diamond in the Rough and a message from Andy Foster to follow. Cupbearer Cafe, 138 E. Seventh St., Auburn.

Friday, Jan. 17Bingo: 6 p.m. Doors

open at 4:30 p.m. American Legion Post 97, 1729 Sprott St., Auburn.

Saturday, Jan. 18Victory Bingo: 6 p.m.

National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

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If sending a photo by mail, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope to have it returned.

For information, call Kathryn at 925-2611, Ext. 26, or at [email protected]

The deadline for wedding submissions is Monday at noon prior to publication.

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Art contest for women announcedINDIANAPOLIS — A Hoosier Women Artist Contest,

sponsored by Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann, will continue in its eighth year.

Applications will be accepted through Feb. 28.Winners will have their artwork displayed in Ellsper-

mann’s offi ce for one year. The contest celebrates a variety of artistic interests including drawings, paintings and photography. Past entries have included portraits, landscapes, animals, buildings and abstracts.

Applications along with electronic copies of the artwork can be submitted online through the lieutenant governor’s website at in.gov/lg or mailed to 200 . Washington St., Room 333, Indianapolis, IN 46204.

A statehouse program and reception will be held for all winners in late March.

HELMER — The 2014 Regional Master Gardener training for Steuben, DeKalb, LaGrange and Noble counties will be held starting in February at the Helmer United Methodist Church.

The Master Gardener Program is one way that the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service puts knowledge to work and helps people grow throughout

Indiana. The Master Gardener Program helps gardeners grow by providing them with intensive training in horticultural princi-ples. Participants, in turn, share their knowledge by providing volunteer leader-ship and service to their communities.

Training sessions will begin on Thursday, Feb. 27, and continue each Thursday evening through

May 22. Training sessions will be held from 6-9 p.m. unless otherwise announced. The location for training will be the Helmer United Methodist Church on S.R. 327, about a half mile north of its junction with S.R. 4.

The fee will be $150 per person or $250 per couple sharing one set of materials, payable in full by Feb. 12. Contact the DeKalb County Extension Offi ce at

925-2562 for more details, application, and to pay the fee.

Only a limited number of candidates can be selected from each county. Candidates will be expected to attend all the class sessions, take a fi nal examination, and then complete 35 hours of approved volunteer service to receive a Master Gardener certifi cate.

Master Gardener training offered

Paws to ReadThe library’s therapy

dogs, Skylar and Dolly, will be at the library today from 2-4 p.m. Children are welcome to join the dogs and read to them.

Zumba GoldNorma Leon will lead

Zumba Gold, a low-impact version of the Latin dance program, Thursday, Jan 23, at 6:30 p.m. Space is limited and patrons are encouraged to call the library to register.

Family Movie“Percy Jackson: Sea of

Monsters,” rated PG, will be shown Thursday, Jan. 30, from 6-8 p.m. Anyone is

welcome to attend. Popcorn will be provided. Patrons should bring their own drinks.

Goodnight, GarrettGoodnight, Garrett is

scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 1. Children will be welcome to visit the library in pajamas and enjoy crafts, games, snacks, face painting, magic, storytellers and other fun.

Elementary Book ClubThe book club for

children in grades 2-5 meets every third Tuesday from 10-11 a.m. to discuss a new book each month. This month’s book is “The Night Fairy,” by Laura Schlitz.

Airman graduatesSAN ANTONIO,

Texas — Air Force Airman Jessica D. Fender graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

Fender graduated from DeKalb High School in 2009.

She is the daughter of Julie Grate of Waterloo and the granddaughter of Agnes Fender of Ashley.

Fender completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fi tness and basic warfare principles.

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Kent MahnensmithKENDALLVILLE —

Kent Mahnensmith, 66, of Palm Bay, Fla., and formerly of Kendallville, died unexpect-edly Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014.

Mr. Mahnen-smith had been a self-em-ployed building contractor in Noble County, starting out his successful business in 1975. He specialized in all areas of building commercial/residential structures. He continued working in the building industry after moving to Palm Bay in 2006.

He graduated from Carmel High School then continued his education at Indiana University and Vincennes University.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and served as a volunteer fi refi ghter.

Mr. Mahnensmith was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Kendall-ville.

He was born Oct. 1, 1947, in Fort Wayne to Glendin and Elizabeth (Stout) Mahnensmith. He married Jill Crosby on Jan. 10, 1980. She survives.

Also surviving are two sons, Clay Mahnensmith and Chase and Nicole Mahnensmith of Florida; a grandson; a brother Michael Mahnensmith of Maui, Hawaii; a niece; and two great-nieces of Auckland, New Zealand.

A son, Cole Mathew Mahnensmith, preceded him in death in 1990.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. John Lutheran Church, 301 S. Oak St., Kendallville.

Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Tuesday prior to the service at the church.

Rita KiesslingBUTLER — Rita L.

Kiessling, 78, of Butler died Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, at Parkview Regional Hospital in Fort Wayne.

She was a member of the Butler Church of Christ in Butler.

She was born on Nov. 7, 1935, to James and Sylvia (Marihugh) Miller in Defi ance, Ohio. She married Louis E. Kiessling on March 19, 1960. He died on Jan. 31, 1991.

Surviving are four sons, three daughters, a stepson, four stepdaughters, a sister, three brothers, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband Louis; a stepdaughter; two stepsons; two brothers; and four sisters.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Schaffer Funeral Home in Defi ance, with the Rev. Dale Rabineau offi ciating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday at the funeral home.

Memorials be made to a charity of the donor’s choice.

Online condolences can be given at www.Schafferfh.com.

Bonnie Ann AmermanKENDALLVILLE —

Bonnie Ann Amerman, 84, of Kendallville, died on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 at Betz Nursing Home in Auburn.

Visitation will be Sunday from 1-4 p.m, at Hite Funeral Home in Kendallville. No funeral service is scheduled.

Private burial service will be at Orange Cemetery at a later date.

Preferred memorials may be made to Noble County Humane Shelter or Dekalb Hospice.

Send a condolence to the family or view a video tribute of Bonnie by Sunday at hitefuneralhome.com.

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Larry Speakes, who spent six years as acting press secretary for President Ronald Reagan, died Friday in his native Mississippi. He was 74.

Speakes died at home in Cleveland, Miss., where he had lived the past several years, said Bolivar County Coroner Nate Brown. Brown said Speakes had Alzheimer’s disease.

“He died in his sleep and it was a natural death,” Brown said.

Speakes was buried in North Cleveland Cemetery during a private service Friday morning, a few hours after dying, said Kenny Williams of Cleveland Funeral Home.

Speakes became Reagan’s acting spokesman after Press Secretary James Brady was wounded during an assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981.

Republican Haley Barbour, who served as Mississippi governor from 2004 to 2012, was political director of the Reagan White House when Speakes worked there. He said

Friday that it wasn’t unusual to have tension between the political offi ce and the press offi ce, but he and Speakes had a good working relationship.

Barbour said that within the Reagan administration, people generally admired Speakes’ handling of the press, although Speakes could be abrupt.

“Sometimes, that meant reporters didn’t get everything they wanted, and sometimes it meant they didn’t get anything,” Barbour said Friday. “But, Larry knew who he worked for.”

Weeks after leaving his White House job in 1987, Speakes said during a speech at East Texas State University that he often thought about the day Reagan, Brady and two others were wounded when John Hinckley Jr. opened fi re.

“Shortly before the president left that day to go the Hilton Hotel to make a speech, I said to Jim, ‘Do you want to go with the president, or would you like me to go?’ And he said, ‘I

believe I’ll go,’” Speakes said. “And had it not been in that one split second, I would have been exactly

where Jim Brady was at that moment an hour or so later. … It’s not a day goes by that I don’t think about that.”

After resigning his White

House job in 1987, Speakes worked for Merrill Lynch in New York. Speakes left the Merrill Lynch job after he wrote in his memoir, “Speaking Out,” that he had fabricated quotes for President Reagan while working for him.

He returned to Washington in 1988 and worked in public relations for Northern Telecom and the U. S. Postal Service, retiring in 2008.

Speakes grew up in Merigold, Miss., and graduated from the Univer-sity of Mississippi. He worked for two Mississippi newspapers, the Oxford

Eagle and the Bolivar Commercial, before going to Washington in 1968 as press secretary for U.S. Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss.

In 1974, Speakes worked as press secretary for the special counsel to President Richard Nixon during the Watergate hearings. After Nixon resigned, Speakes became assistant press secretary for President Gerald Ford.

Speakes worked as press secretary for Ford’s vice presidential running mate, Bob Dole, during the 1976 campaign. After Democrat Jimmy Carter won the election, he moved to the Hill and Knowlton public relations fi rm in Washington. Speakes worked for Reagan’s transi-tion team after Reagan won the 1980 election, then became deputy press secretary under Brady.

Speakes is survived by a daughter, Sandy Speakes Huerta of Cleveland, Miss; sons Scott Speakes of Cleveland, Miss., and Jeremy Speakes of Clifton, Va.; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Former Reagan spokesman Larry Speakes dies at 74

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Former Philadel-phia Daily News sports-writer and columnist Bill Conlin, whose long career came to an end following multiple allegations of child abuse, has died. He was 79.

The Hall of Fame baseball writer and author died Thursday in Largo, Fla., The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News reported. Conlin’s son, Pete, confi rmed his father’s death in a text message, NJ.com said.

Conlin retired in 2011 following allegations that he had abused four children decades ago. Three other accusers later came forward. Authorities said no criminal charges would be pursued because the alleged abuse occurred so long ago.

Conlin worked at the newspaper for more than four decades, starting in 1965 and becoming the beat writer for the

Phillies the next year. He held that job for 21 years and became a columnist in 1987. He also was a commentator on ESPN’s “The Sports Reporters” and wrote two baseball-related books, the “Rutledge Book of Baseball” and “Batting Cleanup, Bill Conlin.”

He received the 2011 J.G. Taylor Spink Award presented at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., and is honored in the hall’s “Scribes and Mikemen” exhibit.

Daily News managing editor Pat McLoone acknowledged that Conlin’s career ended in disgrace but called his writing “often brilliant.”

“At a time before the Internet and sports-only TV channels, Bill Conlin’s coverage in the Daily News was the primary source of information and analysis for a generation of Phillies fans,” he said.

Conlin died in the Largo Medical Center, to which he had been admitted with multiple illnesses, including chronic obstruc-tive pulmonary disease, diabetes and a colon infection, the Daily News reported.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Target’s pre-Christmas security breach was signifi -cantly more extensive and affected millions more shoppers than the company reported last month.

The nation’s second largest discounter said Friday that hackers stole personal information — including names, phone numbers as well as email and mailing addresses — from as many as 70 million customers as part of a data breach it discovered in December.

Target Corp. disclosed last month that about 40 million credit and debit cards may have been affected by a data breach that happened between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 — just as the holiday shopping season was getting into gear.

According to new information gleaned from its investigation with the Secret Service and the Depart-ment of Justice, Target said Friday that criminals also took non-credit card related data for some 70 million shoppers who could have made purchases at Target stores outside the late Nov. to

mid-Dec. timeframe. Some overlap exists between the two data sets, the company said Friday.

“I know that it is frustrating for our guests to learn that this informa-tion was taken and we are truly sorry they are having to endure this,” said Gregg Steinhafel, Target chairman, president and CEO, in a statement.

While Target investors have been largely unmoved, the incident has shaken shoppers.

The company’s stock has traded at about $63 since news of the breach leaked on Dec. 18. It slipped just 67 cents, or 1 percent, to $62.67 in morning trading Friday.

Target revealed on Friday, however, that the breach diminished holiday sales. The company cut its forecast for fourth-quarter earnings, a key sales barometer.

The theft from Target’s databases is still the second largest data breach on record, rivalling an incident uncovered in 2007 that saw more than 90 million credit card accounts pilfered from TJX Cos. Inc.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Fans curious to fi nd out if there’s any drama this season on “The Bachelor” aren’t alone. Its latest star, Juan Pablo Galavis, says he’s interested to see what happened among the women

when he wasn’t around.

“That’s the question that I don’t know the answer (to.) I don’t get to see any of that,” said Galavis

in an interview Thursday. “It was the same on ‘The Bachelorette.’ All the guys were on good behavior in front of Desiree (Hartsock) but around the house they weren’t.”

The 32-year-old former pro soccer player competed for the affection of Hartsock last summer on “The Bachelorette.” He wasn’t chosen for a one-on-one date and had very little air time before getting sent home. Still, he made such an impression with viewers that ABC decided to make him “The Bachelor.”

NY mayor’s gaffe:Using fork, knifeto eat slice of pizza

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is dealing with a scandal of his own: pizzagate.

While eating lunch at a Staten Island pizza joint Friday, the mayor used a knife and fork to eat his slice.

That’s a no-no for most New Yorkers, who are very opinionated when it comes to pizza. Most advocate using their hands to hold the slice, folding it over and then taking a bite.

Photos of de Blasio using the knife and fork were posted to Twitter and prompted mock outrage on several blogs and social media websites.

De Blasio later explained that he eats pizza the way they do in Italy. He starts with a knife and fork, then uses his hands.

He also noted that his slice had a lot of toppings.

Midshipman won’tface charges insexual assault case

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A U.S. Naval Academy midshipman accused in a sexual assault case will not face charges, the school announced Friday, leaving just one of three original defendants in the case remaining.

A Naval Academy spokesman said charges against Midshipman Eric Graham of Eight Mile, Ala., were dismissed on a recommendation from prosecutors.

Prosecutors initially accused three men of sexually assaulting a woman, also a midshipman, in 2012 at an off-campus house in Annapolis, Md. The woman said she didn’t remember being sexually assaulted after a night of heavy drinking but heard from others she had had sex with multiple partners at a party. The men were all football players at the academy at the time of the alleged assault.

The decision to drop charges against Graham was made by U.S. Naval Academy superintendent Vice Adm. Michael Miller. At an earlier stage of the case Miller also decided not to pursue charges against Tra’ves Bush of Johnston, S.C.

Cmdr. John Schofi eld, spokesman for the Naval Academy, said prosecutors recommended Miller drop the charges against Graham “citing no reasonable grounds to believe a crime of sexual assault was committed by Midshipman Graham due to the absence of evidence.”

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation’s tobacco companies and the federal government have reached an agreement on publishing corrective statements that say the companies lied about the dangers of smoking and requires them to disclose smoking’s health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 people a day.

The agreement fi led Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., follows a 2012 ruling ordering the industry to pay for corrective statements in various advertisements. The judge in the case ordered the parties to meet to discuss how to implement the statements, including whether they would be put in inserts with cigarette packs and on websites, TV and newspaper ads.

The court must still approve the agreement and the parties are discussing whether retailers will be required to post large displays with the industry’s admissions.

The corrective statements are part of a case the government brought in 1999 under the Racketeer

Infl uenced and Corrupt Organizations. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled in that case in 2006 that the nation’s largest cigarette makers concealed the dangers of smoking for decades.

Under the agreement with the Justice Depart-ment, each of the companies must publish full-page ads in the Sunday editions of 35 newspapers and on the newspapers’ websites, as well as air prime-time TV spots on CBS, ABC or NBC fi ve times per week for a year. The companies also must publish the statements on their websites and affi x them to a certain number of cigarette packs three times per year for two years.

Each corrective ad is to be prefaced by a statement that a federal court has concluded that the defendant tobacco companies “deliberately deceived the American public.” Among the required statements are that smoking kills more people than murder, AIDS, suicide, drugs, car crashes and alcohol combined, and that “secondhand smoke kills over 38,000 Americans a year.”

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Same-sex couples Natalie Dicou, left, and Nichole Christensen, middle left, and James Goodman, middle right, and Jeffrey Gomez, right, wait in line to get a marriage license at the Salt Lake County Clerk’s Offi ce in Salt Lake City recently.

The Obama administration Friday gave federal recognition to more than 1,000 same-sex couples whose marriages were put on hold by a Supreme Court ruling Monday.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Obama administration extended federal recognition to the marriages of more than 1,000 same-sex couples in Utah that took place before the Supreme Court put those unions in the state on hold.

The action will enable the government to extend eligibility for federal benefi ts to these couples. That means gay and lesbian couples can fi le federal taxes jointly, get Social Security benefi ts for spouses and request legal immigration status for partners.

Attorney General Eric Holder said the families should not be asked to endure uncertainty regarding their benefi ts while courts decide the issue of same-sex marriage in Utah.

The decision came days after Utah offi cials said they would not recognize the marriages. The offi ce

of Gov. Gary Herbert told state agencies this week to put a freeze on proceeding with any new benefi ts for the newly married gay and lesbian couples until the courts sort out the matter.

In a statement Friday afternoon, Herbert’s office issued a statement that said Holder’s announcement was unsurprising, but state officers should comply with federal law if they’re providing federal services.

Attorney General Sean Reyes did not have an immediate comment on Holder’s announcement.

More than 1,000 gay and lesbian couples took home marriage licenses from local clerks after a federal judge overturned Utah’s same-sex marriage ban on Dec. 20. Utah voters approved the ban in 2004.

On Monday, the U.S.

Supreme Court put a halt to same-sex marriages in Utah while the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considers the long-term question of whether gay couples have a right to marry in Utah.

State agencies aren’t supposed to revoke anything already issued, such as a marriage certifi cate or a driver’s license with a new name, but they are prohibited from approving any new marriages or benefi ts. State offi cials said the validity of the marriages will ultimately be decided by the appeals court.

Holder’s declaration marked the latest chapter in the legal battle over same-sex marriage in Utah that has sent couples and state offi cials on a helter-skelter wave of emotions over the last three weeks.

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Approximately 15,000 Hoosiers took the GED annually. An estimated 500,000 Hoosier adults lack high school diplomas.

A panel of represen-tatives from the Indiana Department of Corrections, the Indiana Department of Education and the Indiana Department of Workforce Development were involved in evaluating proposals from vendors and selecting the Indiana High School Equivalency Diploma developed by CTB/McGraw-Hill, the same company that administers ISTEP testing for Indiana students.

Ivy Tech and the Indiana Association of Adult and Continuing Education provided analysis of available testing options, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development website.

In November, Indiana

Department of Workforce Development Commis-sioner Scott B. Sanders announced Indiana would begin using the equiva-lency diploma. He said the new assessment will ensure Indiana offers a high school equivalency test that matches employer demand and is accessible.

The Department of Workforce Development calls the new assessment the Indiana High School Equivalency Diploma, while CTB/McGraw-Hill refers to it as the Test Assessing Secondary Completion.

Two proposals to replace the GED were not selected. The American Council on Education, owner of the GED, with its partner Pearson Vue Testing had submitted a proposal for an updated version of its GED costing $120. Educational Testing Service, a nonprofi t organization that also administers the Graduate Record Examination, developed a high school equivalency exam called the High School Equivalency Test or HiSET.

The cost for the Indiana High School Equivalency

Diploma comprehensive assessment is $85 and $18 per subject for a retest. The seven-hour test will cover reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies. IMPACT Institute offers free prepara-tory classes.

The test is offered both in computer-based format and pencil and paper. It’s available in English and Spanish, Braille and audio versions for the visually impaired. IMPACT Institute will be able to offer the test on computers in the next program year, Ross said.

The new test is being described as more rigorous and better aligned with the skills needed for college and today’s workplaces.

Indiana and at least eight other states — New York, New Hampshire, Missouri, Iowa, Montana, Louisiana, Maine and West Virginia — severed ties with the GED test. Three states — Wyoming, New Jersey and Nevada — will offer three tests.

Ross said she is confi dent that IMPACT Institute’s adult educators are prepared for the new test.

DIPLOMA: Half a million Hoosiers lack diplomasFROM PAGE A1

scandal, fi ring his deputy chief of staff, cutting ties to one of his chief political advisers and apologizing for the traffi c jams. Two Christie appointees at the Port Authority resigned last month as the scandal unfolded.

Christie has denied any involvement in the lane closings, and the two batches of documents released on Wednesday and Friday do not implicate him.

The latest documents contain several emails from Port Authority media relations staff to higher-ups reporting on calls from reporters with questions about the closings. The agency did not respond to those calls.

It was Foye’s Sept. 13 email that ordered the lanes reopened that generated deep discussion.

Bill Baroni, the Christie-appointed deputy director who has since resigned, forwarded a copy of the angry email to Christie’s scheduling secretary.

Later that morning, Baroni emailed Foye: “I am on my way to offi ce to discuss. There can be no public discourse.”

Foye responded: “Bill that’s precisely the problem: there has been no public discourse on this.”

Baroni later authorized a statement for reporters explaining that the closings were part of a traffic study.

DAMAGE: Documents released Friday do not implicate ChristieFROM PAGE A1

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South Charleston, W. Va. residents line up, jugs in hand, to get water being passed out at the South Charleston Community Center Friday. Schools and restaurants closed, grocery stores sold out of bottled water, and state

legislators who had just started their session canceled the day’s business after a chemical spill in the Elk River in Charleston shut down much of the city and surrounding counties.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Schools and restau-rants closed, grocery stores sold out of bottled water, and state legislators who had just started their session canceled the day’s business after a chemical spill in the Elk River in Charleston shut down much of the city and surrounding counties even as the extent of the danger remained unclear.

The federal government joined the state early Friday in declaring a disaster, and the West Virginia National Guard planned to distribute bottled drinking water to emergency services agencies in the nine affected counties. In requesting the federal declaration, which makes federal resources available to the state, state offi cials

said about 300,000 people were affected.

Federal authorities are also launching an investi-gation into the circum-stances surrounding the spill and what caused it, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said in a news release Friday.

Shortly after the Thursday spill from Freedom Industries hit the river and a nearby treatment plant, a licorice-like smell enveloped parts of the city, and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin issued an order to customers of West Virginia American Water: Do not drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes with tap water.

The chemical, a foaming agent used in the coal preparation process, leaked

from a tank at Freedom Industries and overran a containment area. Freedom, a manufacturer of chemicals for the mining, steel, and cement industries, said in a news release Friday that the company is working to contain the leak to prevent further contamination. President Gary Southern also said the company still does not know how much of the chemical spilled from its operation into the river.

Offi cials say the orders were issued as a precaution, as they were still not sure exactly what hazard the spill posed to residents. It also was not immediately clear exactly how much of the chemical spilled into the river and at what concen-tration.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move that some fear could compromise care for Medicare recipients, the Obama administration is proposing to remove special protections that guarantee seniors access to a wide selection of three types of drugs.

The three classes of drugs — widely used antidepressants, antipsy-chotics and drugs that suppress the immune system to prevent the rejection of a transplanted organ — have enjoyed special “protected” status since the launch of the Medicare prescription benefi t in 2006.

That has meant that the private insurance plans that

deliver prescription benefi ts to seniors and disabled benefi ciaries must cover “all or substantially all” medica-tions in the class, allowing the broadest possible access. The plans can charge more for costlier drugs, but they can’t just close their lists of approved drugs, or formularies, to protected medications.

In a proposal published Friday in the Federal Register, the administra-tion called for removing protected status from antidepressants, antipsy-chotics, and immuno-suppressant drugs. The proposal said that status is no longer needed to guarantee access, would

save millions of dollars for taxpayers and benefi -ciaries alike, and could help deal with the problem of improperly prescribed antipsychotics drugs in nursing homes.

But advocates for patients are strongly criticizing the idea, saying it could potentially limit access to critically needed medications for millions of people.

“We are disturbed by this,” said Andrew Sperling, legislative advocacy director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “This is a key protection. It’s a corner-stone of what has made the benefi t work for people with mental illness.”

Medicare drug change proposed

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republi-can-led House voted overwhelmingly Friday to bolt new security requirements onto President Barack Obama’s health care law, with 67 Democrats breaking ranks to join with the GOP. It was the fi rst skirmish of what is certain to be a long and contentious election-year fi ght.

The vote was 291-122 with Republicans relentlessly focusing on “Obamacare,” convinced that Americans’ unease with the troubled law will translate into signifi cant election gains in November. Dozens of Democrats, nervous about their re-election chances or their campaigns for other offi ces, voted for the GOP bill.

“Americans have the right to know if the president’s health care law has put their personal information at risk, and today’s bipartisan vote refl ects that concern,” said Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Among the Democrats joining the

Republicans was Rep. Steve Israel of New York, the chairman of his party’s campaign committee dedicated to electing Democrats.

“I voted for this bill because I want to make sure confi dential information is protected. That’s just common sense,” Israel said in a statement. “This is an added consumer safeguard on top of the many consumer protections in the law that already exist.”

The bill would require the secretary of health and human services to notify an individual within two business days of any security breach involving personal data provided to the government through the health care website HealthCare.gov.

The administration opposed the measure as an unnecessary and costly burden, insisting that the government already has imposed stringent standards and Americans will be notifi ed if personal data has been compromised.

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GARRETT — The Bluffton girls basketball team had a clear game plan to stop Class 3A No. 3 Garrett Friday night: hold the ball.

The visiting Tigers did their best for nearly 2 1/2 quarters, with the Railroaders only leading by three points — 18-15 — with fi ve minutes left in the third period. But once Garrett decided to up the defensive pressure instead of sitting back, the Railroaders took control, outscoring Bluffton 29-9 in the fi nal 13 minutes to earn a decisive 47-24 victory.

Although coach Bob Lapadot’s team could be lauded for being patient defensively and not committing silly fouls when the game was still in doubt, he didn’t quite see it that way.

“That was a terrible game plan on my part,” Lapadot said. “Our kids executed my terrible game plan in the fi rst half and held them

to (15 points). In the second half, we extended the lead. We got back to playing our basketball. We were laying back, we knew they were going to ball-screen us. I don’t

know what I was thinking.”The game did hang in the

balance for much of the third quarter, as the Railroaders (13-0, 5-0 ACAC) increased their lead to

20-15 on a pair of Brandi Dawson free throws with 4:55 left in the third.

“We only had one possession in those three minutes,” Lapadot said. “I told them if they miss their shot, we’re going to have to get every rebound. They had two possessions and we had one in those three minutes. That speaks to their game plan of limiting posses-sions.”

But Garrett scored 10 straight in the fi nal 3:24 of the period — eight of those coming from sophomore Taylor Smith — to lead 30-15 entering the fourth quarter.

Bluffton’s stalling offense backfi red as the Tigers (3-9, 1-4 ACAC) only attempted four fi eld goals in the third quarter and didn’t score a single point. They went more than nine minutes without a point before scoring in the fi rst two minutes of the fourth quarter.

“We try our best to stay focused, and we talk so we keep upbeat,” said junior guard Emily Somers. “If they stall, there’s usually going to be a backdoor play coming, so we communicate with that.

Railroaders remain perfectGarrett adjusts to ‘stall ball,’ routs Bluffton

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Garrett junior Emily Somers dives for the loose ball and ends up in a tussle with Bluffton’s Lauren Brinneman (24) during Friday night’s Allen County Athletic Conference matchup. The Railroaders remain undefeated on the season after the 47-24 victory.

SEE GARRETT, PAGE B2

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Stephen Gostkowski sings on the sideline when he prepares to kick. Then he tries a fi eld goal that could win a big game for the New England Patriots.

“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head,” might be appropriate Saturday night against the Indianapolis Colts with a spot in the AFC championship game at stake.

Steady rain is expected during the divisional-round game, but Gostkowski says it’s his job to deal with all kinds of weather. Besides, the NFL scoring leader for the second straight season has a routine that helps him focus.

During the week “I’ll watch a fi ve-minute (video) cut-up of some big kicks that I’ve made to a song that I like,” he said. “Then, when I’m on the sideline, I’ll sing that song and then, in my head, I see the ball going through the uprights.”

What’s that tune? Country, rock, hip-hop?

“It’s a secret,” Gostkowski said, smiling.

On game day he also listens to mellow music to relax before taking the fi eld where 300-pound linemen charge each other and cornerbacks collide with receivers.

“I always just try to visualize myself doing well and not getting overexcited or too hyped up in the moment,” Gostkowski said. “Most of those guys are banging heads. I’m trying to like listen to Enya before the game to calm myself down.

“The worst thing you can do in situations where, for me person-ally, where the situation gets bigger, is get too excited. You have to try to slow your heart rate down, turn that nervousness and tightness into focus.”

It’s worked for him.In eight seasons since the

Patriots drafted him in the fourth

round out of Memphis in 2006, Gostkowski has made 85.6 percent of his regular-season fi eld goal attempts, fi fth best in NFL history. This season, his 92.7 percentage (38 of 41) was second best in Patriots history.

The best? The 93.9 percent (31 of 33) in 2004 of Adam Vinatieri, the kicker Gostkowski replaced.

The 18-year veteran returns to Gillette Stadium with the Colts after a regular-season in which he made 87.5 percent (35 of 40) of his attempts.

And the kicker whose fi eld goal on the last play gave the Patriots a 20-17 win over the St. Louis Rams in the 2002 Super Bowl expects the same greeting he heard in past visits with the Colts.

“They’re fanatical fans, like we have,” Vinatieri said. “I’m sure they’ll be loud and probably in a negative way to me and the rest of the team, but that’s what it’s supposed to be.”

In the only other playoff duel between the two kickers, the

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Indianapolis Colts’ Adam Vinatieri (4) kicks a 26-yard fi eld goal out of the hold of Pat McAfee (1) during a game against the Jackson-ville Jaguars on Dec. 29. With the fi eld goal, Vinatieri became the seventh NFL player to score 2,000 career points.

SEE KICKERS, PAGE B2

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — David West scored 20 points and C.J. Watson had 16, leading the Indiana Pacers to a 93-66 win over the Washington Wizards on Friday night.

Indiana (29-7) used an 11-3 run in the third quarter to create separation from Washington. Two fi eld goals from West capped off the swing, which put the Pacers up 56-40.

Trying for their fi rst four-game win streak on the road since February 2008, the Wizards (16-18) stumbled at the foul line. They fi nished 9 of 23 on free throws, hitting just fi ve of their fi rst 14.

Washington lost to the Pacers for the 11th time in 12 tries and haven’t won at Indiana since April 18, 2007.

Indiana remains the NBA’s best home team at 17-1 at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse, including seven in a row.

Paul George of the Pacers and John Wall of Wizards each opened 1 of 8 from the fi eld. George fi nished with eight points on 2-of-14 shooting and Wall had 13 points.

Wall’s struggles in Indiana continued. He shot four 4 of 15 from the fi eld Friday and is 8 for 29 in his past two games here.

Washington was led by Bradley Beal with 17 points.

The Pacers outrebounded Washington 61-41. They were led by George, who had 14 rebounds, and Lance Stephenson, who had 10.

Watson entered with about nine minutes remaining in the second quarter to score fi ve quick points. His 3-pointer pushed Indiana’s lead to 31-26 with 6:32 left in the quarter.

Nene came off the bench in the fi rst half for Washington to tally eight points and four rebounds. He fi nished with 12 points.

Watson again provided a spark for Indiana in the second half. He scored 11 of his 16 in the fourth quarter and fi nished 6 of 6 from the fi eld.

West leads Pacers past Wizards

DENVER (AP) — Philip Rivers likes to say the San Diego Chargers have been in playoff mode since last month, scrapping just to squeak into the postseason party.

Wesley Woodyard would like him to know the Denver Broncos have been in the pressure cooker ever since their playoff pratfall a year ago when they lost at home in double-overtime to underdog Baltimore.

“Absolutely. We have been waiting for this moment for a long time,” Woodyard said.

Since the fi rst-round bye was introduced in 1978, 16 other teams have opened the playoffs at home a year after losing a divisional home game to a wild-card winner.

Only one of those teams, the 1987 Chicago Bears, lost again.

Nine of those reached the Super Bowl and fi ve of them won it: the ‘83 Raiders, ‘88 49ers, ‘90 Giants, ‘97 Broncos and the ‘06 Colts — led by current Denver quarterback Peyton Manning.

The ‘96 Broncos lost to Jacksonville 30-27, then whipped the Jaguars 42-17 the following year on their way to winning their fi rst of two straight Super Bowls behind Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway, the front offi ce boss who lured Manning to Denver last year.

Manning’s 2005 Colts were upset by Pittsburgh, but he led them to the championship the following season.

He’s out to repeat that feat beginning Sunday, when the top-seeded Broncos (13-3) host the Chargers (10-7) at Sports Authority Field on the anniversary of Denver’s 38-35 loss to the Ravens.

“This is why you have

the offseason work, this is why you meet as often as you do in April, May and June. It’s for opportunities like this,” said Manning, who set a slew of records this season as the Broncos became the highest-scoring team in the Super Bowl era.

RIVERS OWNS DENVER: Manning is 14-3 at home since joining the Broncos two years ago, but Rivers is no slouch in Denver, where he’s 6-2. And he’d be 7-1 if not for Ed Hochuli’s blown call on a last-minute Denver fumble in 2008.

He won here a month ago, when the Chargers handed the Broncos their only home loss, 27-20.

“I don’t know that I’m necessarily comfortable there,” Rivers said. “It’s a great place to play and it’s a tough place to play. It’s an awesome place to play.

It’s as fi rst class as it comes from the atmosphere in the stadium and the fans and the whole deal. It’s NFL football at its best.”

WIND WARNING: While it’s expected to be 44 degrees at kickoff, swirling winds could wreak havoc on Manning and Rivers, who combined to throw for 9,925 yards this season.

The National Weather Service predicted winds of 15-25 mph with gusts up to 35.

Denver offensive coordi-nator Adam Gase says wind worries him more than cold.

“I know if it’s a windy condition game, I might think we should run the ball more,” Gase said recently. “… Any time you get a condition of wind, that’s when I see that it’s hard for the passing, because you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Broncos back one year after playoff pratfall

Colts trailed 21-3 in the fi nal minute of the fi rst half but won the AFC champi-onship game 38-34 on their way to a 2007 Super Bowl victory. On consec-utive fourth-quarter series, Gostkowski, then Vinatieri then Gostkowski again made fi eld goals that left the Patriots ahead 34-31. Then Joseph Addai ran 3 yards for the winning touchdown with 1:00 left.

“There’s a lot of fun things about this sport,” said Vinatieri, who also won three Super Bowls with New England, “but trying to hoist that trophy at the end is what we all play for.”

He has been a clutch kicker with 24 winning fi eld

goals in the last minute of a regular-season or playoff game.

“He’s a special guy,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. “He was here in ‘96, the year I came in (as an assistant coach) and was very consistent, depend-able, tough-minded, good technique player. It doesn’t look like it’s changed.”

Gostkowski has had far fewer clutch opportunities in 10 fewer seasons, connecting on six winning fi eld goals in the fi nal four minutes with three coming this season.

He admires Vinatieri’s long-term success, but can he envision sticking around that long himself?

“I don’t know, man,” Gostkowski said. “I’m just

trying to make it to the next game.”

For now, it’s all about Saturday night.

Both teams have been in plenty of close games this season. The Patriots (12-4) are 8-4 when the margin was seven points or fewer. The Colts (12-5) were 6-1 in games decided by six or fewer. The latest came last Saturday in a 45-44 wild-card win over the Kansas City Chiefs, who led by 28 early in the third quarter.

And two of last weekend’s four playoff games were won with fi eld goals on the last play.

So the spotlight could be on Gostkowski or Vinatieri late in a game that will keep alive one team’s Super Bowl hopes.

“If I feel nervous and tight and anxious before the game, I feel like if I can turn that into focus then I’ll have a good day,” Gostkowski said. “It’s the days I show up and I just feel like it’s any other day are the days I get most worried. If I can turn that anxiousness into focus then I feel pretty confi dent.”

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“It was a pretty good feeling to hold them scoreless and we did a good job defending. We had a few good runs. Drue Bodey had a lot of steals and helped us pick up our tempo, and helped everyone else make baskets.”

Following a basket by Bodey and two Dawson buckets, Garrett led 36-18 and the upset bid was foiled. Garrett would fi nish the game on a 9-2 run capped off by a Bodey 3-pointer to provide the fi nal margin.

Dawson led Garrett with 20 points and eight rebounds. Dawson entered the game 25 points shy of breaking the school record for career points, but was in foul trouble most of the game. She picked up her third foul with 4:34 left in the fi rst half, and was whistled for her fourth with 4:15 left in the third. Dawson sat until the end of the quarter in both instances. She’s now fi ve points shy of surpassing the mark of 1,243 points set by Kelly Surfus.

“For the fi rst time all year, the build-up of this whole thing got to her a little bit,” Lapadot said. “That and the limited possessions really got to her mind. But she’s tough, young kid with a lot of pressure, and a lot of special people here. Five points (away), now she can relax, play our game and we’ll celebrate when the (next) game’s over and go back to our normal routine.”

Dawson also had fi ve steals.

Smith picked up the slack, chipping in 14 points, fi ve rebounds and two blocks. Bodey was also in double fi gures with 11 points and also had fi ve steals.

“Taylor and Drue really stepped up for us,” Lapadot

said. “That second half was pretty good.”

Bluffton shot 33 percent from the fi eld (9 of 27). Erin McKinley led the Tigers with seven points.

Garrett remains undefeated at 13-0 and should maintain its lofty state ranking heading into next week’s Allen County Athletic Conference Tournament.

“We’re not holding our heads high over everyone, but we’re still focused,” Somers said. “It’s a good feeling, but we don’t take it to an extent where we get cocky and everything.”

Garrett JV 30, Bluffton 14

Garrett defeated Bluffton in the junior varsity game, 30-14. Kallie Knott led the Railroaders with 10 points. Sloane Robinson had six points, Megan Newby,

Bailey Sutton and Ally Gottfried had four points each, and Tori Baver had two points.

GARRETT: Dawson fi ve points from school recordFROM PAGE B1

PHIL FRIEND

Garrett sophomore Taylor Smith shoots the ball over Bluffton’s Caitlin Krider (41) and Lauren Stauffer (22) in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s game. Smith had 14 points, fi ve rebounds and two blocks in the Garrett victory.

Garrett 47, Bluffton 24GarrettPlayers fg-fga ft-fta tp rb as stSomers g 1-8 0-0 2 3 1 1Smith f 4-7 6-8 14 5 1 0DePew g 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0Dawson f 8-11 4-4 20 8 2 5Wisel g 0-7 0-0 0 3 2 1Bodey 5-8 0-0 11 0 1 5Stafford 0-0 0-1 0 3 0 0Newby 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 1Totals 18-44 10-13 47 22 7 12BlufftonPlayers fg-fga ft-fta tp rb as stStauffer g 1-6 1-1 3 1 1 1Brinneman g 1-1 0-0 2 2 0 0Steffen f 2-4 0-0 4 5 0 1McKinley f 2-9 2-3 7 2 4 0Vandentop g 1-2 0-0 3 2 0 0Krider 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0Smith 1-4 1-1 3 3 0 0Mock 1-1 0-0 2 0 0 0Mechling 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0Totals 9-27 4-5 24 16 6 2Bluffton 7 8 0 9 — 24Garrett 10 8 12 17 — 47Three-point shooting — Bluffton 2-7 (McKinley 1-3, Vandentop 1-1, Smith 0-3), Garrett 1-11 (Bodey 1-3, DePew 0-1, Dawson 0-2, Wisel 0-5). Team rebounds — Bluffton 4, Garrett 6. Total fouls — Bluffton 10, Garrett 13. Turnovers — Bluffton 20, Garrett 5. Blocks — Smith 2, Dawson, Brinneman.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESSAlabama hired former

Southern California coach Lane Kiffi n on Friday as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

Kiffi n returns to the Southeastern Confer-ence after head coaching stints with the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, Alabama rival Tennessee and the Trojans. He replaces Doug Nussmeier, who left Alabama for Michigan.

“He is an outstanding and creative offensive coach who has great experience both at the college and NFL level,” coach Nick Saban said in a statement. “He has a very good understanding

of the game and I have always been impressed with what I saw in the games he called. He coaches with a great deal of passion and enthusiasm, and also does an excellent job as a teacher.”

Kiffi n spent a week in Tuscaloosa, Ala., last month exchanging ideas with Saban and his staff and observing Alabama’s offense. Now, he’s the splashiest hire of Saban’s tenure at Alabama, which has won three national titles in the past fi ve seasons.

The 38-year-old Kiffi n was 28-15 in three-plus seasons with USC. He was

fi red fi ve games into last season from one of college football’s marquee jobs.

Kiffi n spent six seasons (2001-06) at USC under Pete Carroll as an assistant, including the fi nal two as offensive coordinator. He also called plays during his time as a head coach. He spent the 2009 season at Tennessee, going 7-6 before leaving to replace Carroll.

“We want to thank the University of Alabama and Coach Saban for this tremendous opportunity, and we feel humbled and honored to be a part of the Crimson Tide family,” Kiffi n said in a statement.

Kiffi n hired as Alabama OCMILWAUKEE (AP) —

Carlos Boozer had 19 points and 13 rebounds in his fi rst game back from a right knee injury, Mike Dunleavy Jr. added 18 points and the Chicago Bulls beat the Milwaukee Bucks 81-72 on

Friday night.Taj Gibson added 12

points at the Bradley Center, where a healthy sprinkling of Bulls fans wearing red celebrated the team’s fourth straight win.

They almost watched

Chicago waste a 15-point lead. The Bucks opened the fourth quarter with a 7-0 run to get to within three. A long jumper from Ersan Ilyasova (14 points) got the Bucks to 71-70 with 5:42 left.

Bulls defeat Bucks, 81-72

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (18) throws before an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders in Oakland, Calif., on Dec. 29.

SPORTS BRIEFS•

Death overshadows sixth stage of Dakar Rally

SALTA, Argentina (AP) — The death of a racer overshadowed Friday’s sixth leg of the Dakar Rally, as the race claimed the life of Belgian motorcyclist Eric Palante.

Palante’s body was found after he failed to fi nish Thursday’s fi fth stage.

Nani Roma of Spain kept the overall lead in cars despite fi nishing sixth in the stage, and fellow Spaniard Marc Coma stayed on top in bikes after taking second on the stage from Tucuman to Salta in northern Argentina.

Roma, driving a Mini, has a large lead of 30 minutes, 30 seconds over Orlando Terranova of Argentina, and 40:54 ahead of 11-time winner Stephane Peterhansel.

Coma leads fellow Spaniard Joan Barreda Bort by 42:17 and is an hour ahead of Alain Duclos of France.

Organizers said they went out looking for the 50-year-old Palante after he failed to fi nish the fi fth stage, which most riders completed on Thursday, and found his body along the route.

The cause of death was being investi-gated, and offi cials offered few details.

Police said two people following the race died on Thursday when their vehicle overturned in rough terrain in northern Argentina.

The Dakar began Sunday in Rosario, Argentina, and ends Jan. 18 in Valapariso, Chile. This is the sixth straight year it has been held in South America.

Saturday in a rest day.

Eastern Illinois hires Dameron as head coach

CHARLESTON, Ill. (AP) — Eastern Illinois University has hired Louisiana Tech defensive coordinator Kim Dameron as its new head football coach.

EIU says Friday that Dameron will take over for Dino Babers, who became head coach at Bowling Green after leading the Panthers to the Football Championship Subdivision quarterfi nals.

Dameron has never been a head coach. He spent last season at Louisiana Tech after working as Cornell’s defensive coordinator in 2012. He’s also been a coordinator or secondary coach at schools such as Ole Miss since 1986. He was EIU’s defensive coordinator in 2000 after spending 1999 coaching at Toronto in the CFL.

Louisiana Tech’s defense was ranked 69th in the country last season and gave up 408.3 yards and 26.3 points a game.

Boys Basketball StandingsNortheast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LHomestead 1 0 8 3New Haven 1 0 5 2Norwell 1 0 5 3Columbia City 1 0 5 5Carroll 0 1 7 3Bellmont 0 1 4 4DeKalb 0 1 3 8East Noble 0 1 0 8Tuesday’s GameNew Haven at Fort Wayne Snider, ppd.Saturday’s GamesBellmont at Columbia CityCarroll at NorwellEast Noble at HomesteadNew Haven at DeKalbWednesday’s GameNorwell at FW Wayne

Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LWest Noble 4 0 8 0Westview 3 0 4 2Prairie Heights 4 1 7 2Fairfi eld 2 1 4 3Angola 1 2 3 5Fremont 1 2 1 7Eastside 1 2 4 4Hamilton 1 2 4 4Lakeland 1 4 2 5Churubusco 1 2 1 8Central Noble 0 3 1 8Friday’s GamesPrairie Heights 50, Angola 38Churubusco 43, Fremont 40Hamilton at Westview, ppd.West Noble 72, Lakeland 55Saturday’s GamesEastside at Fairfi eldFremont at Reading (Mich.)Tuesday’s GamesNECC Tournament — 1st roundCentral Noble at EastsideHamilton at FremontLakeland at Fairfi eldWednesday’s GamesNECC Tournament — Quarterfi nalsHamilton-Fremont winner at Central Noble-Eastside winnerWest Noble at AngolaWestview at Lakeland-Fairfi eld winnerPrairie Heights at ChurubuscoThursday’s GamesNECC TournamentConsolation games TBA

Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LGarrett 2 0 6 1Bluffton 2 0 4 4Leo 1 1 5 3Adams Central 1 1 3 4Woodlan 1 1 3 4Heritage 1 1 2 4South Adams 0 2 2 7Southern Wells 0 2 1 5Wednesday’s Game Eastbrook at Heritage, ppd.Saturday’s GamesGarrett at Adams CentralSouth Adams at LeoSouthern Wells at HeritageWoodlan at BlufftonTuesday’s GamesACAC Tournament — 1st roundHeritage at BlufftonLeo at WoodlanSouthern Wells at Adams CentralSouth Adams at GarrettThursday’s GamesACAC Tournament — Semifi nalsat F.W. Memorial ColiseumHeritage-Bluffton winner vs. Leo-Woodlan winnerSW-AC winner vs. South Adams-Gar-rett winnerSaturday, Jan. 18ACAC TournamentChampionship game at F.W. Memorial Coliseum between semifi nal winners

Boys Basketball Area Leaders

SCORINGName, Team PPGJustin McCoy, Garrett 25.7Jacob Heller, Prairie Heights 22.4Drew Schermerhorn, W. Noble 18.6Casey Rote, Hamilton 17.8Phil Miller, West Noble 17.0Cole Hartman, DeKalb 16.9P.J. Dean, Eastside 15.4Chandler Mynhier, Lakeland 13.8Aaron Kelley, Hamilton 13.3Addison Stephens, Hamilton 12.8Cody Bachelor, Prairie Heights 12.9Brandon Nichols, East Noble 12.0Brock Noe, Central Noble 11.5Brandon Evans, West Noble 11.3Jared Gerke, Lakewood Park 10.8Houston Pattee, East Noble 10.4Kyler west, Prairie Heights 10.3Kordell Kessler, Garrett 10.0Hunter Yoder, Lakewood Park 9.8Kadis Renier, Eastside 9.8

REBOUNDSName, Team RPGCasey Rote, Hamilton 10.0Justin McCoy, Garrett 8.6Hunter Yoder, Lakewood Park 6.8Colton Rose, Hamilton 6.7Jacob Heller, Prairie Heights 6.6Addison Stephens, Hamilton 6.6Jared Gerke, Lakewood Park 6.2Houston Pattee, East Noble 5.9Phil Miller, West Noble 5.8Kyler Warble, West Noble 5.7Karsten Cooper, Garrett 5.3Zack Robinson, Central Noble 5.1Chandler Mynhier, Lakeland 5.0

ASSISTSName, Team APGJacob Heller, Prairie Heights 4.9Daine Johnson, Hamilton 3.3Hunter Yoder, Lakewood Park 3.2Karsten Cooper, Garrett 2.9Jared Gerke, Lakewood Park 2.6Aaron Kelley, Hamilton 2.4Justin McCoy, Garrett 2.4Phil Miller, West Noble 2.4Jared Estep, Garrett 2.3Brandon Moser, West Noble 2.3Kyler West, Prairie Heights 2.3Nathan Wible, East Noble 2.3Dahlton Daub, DeKalb 2.2Brandon Evans, West Noble 2.0Colton Rose, Hamilton 2.0Joel Cochard, Central Noble 2.0Drew Schermerhorn, West Noble 2.0

STEALSName, Team SPGJared Gerke, Lakewood Park 3.8Brandon Evans, West Noble 2.3Hunter Yoder, Lakewood Park 2.2Drew Schermerhorn, West Noble 2.0Daine Johnson, Hamilton 2.0Colton Rose, Hamilton 2.0Justin McCoy, Garrett 2.0Dustin Cunningham, Lakeland 1.8Dahlton Daub, DeKalb 1.8Brandon Moser, West Noble 1.7Colton Rose, Hamilton 1.7Karsten Cooper, Garrett 1.6

BLOCKSName, Team BPGPhil Miller, West Noble 2.6Matt Singleton, Garrett 1.4Casey Rote, Hamilton 1.3Drew Schermerhorn, West Noble 1.1Waylon Richardson, West Noble 1.0Colton Rose, Hamilton 1.0Hunter Yoder, Lakewood Park 1.0

FIELD GOAL SHOOTING (2 made FG/game)Name, Team FG-FGA Pct.Schermerhorn, W. Noble 39-69 57Heller, Prairie Heights 53-95 56Richardson, West Noble 19-34 56Robinson, Central Noble 31-58 53Evans, West Noble 27-51 53Miller, West Noble 26-49 53Cooper, Garrett 23-43 53McCoy, Central Noble 22-43 51Yoder, Lakewood Park 17-34 50Bachelor, Prairie Heights 33-68 49Moore, DeKalb 21-44 48Gardner, Lakewood Park 14-29 48Johnson, Lakewood Park 10-21 48Betts, Lakeland 17-36 47B. Gerke, Lakewood Park 14-30 47Nichols, East Noble 30-65 46Hartman, DeKalb 61-136 45Stephens, Hamilton 36-80 45Oakley, Lakeland 17-38 45Singleton, Garrett 19-43 44

FREE THROW SHOOTING(1 made FT/game)Name, Team FT-FTA Pct.Hartman, DeKalb 40-43 93Gardner, Lakewood Park 10-11 91Richardson, West Noble 18-20 90

Moser, West Noble 8-9 89Schermerhorn, W. Noble 42-50 84Evans, West Noble 14-17 82Betts, Lakeland 9-11 82Smith, Central Noble 9-11 82Bachelor, Prairie Heights 23-29 79Sharp, EN 15-19 79Singleton, Garrett 14-18 78Mynhier, Lakeland 24-31 77Chrisman, DeKalb 13-17 77Daub, DeKalb 31-41 76Williams, EN 12-16 75Shepard, Prairie Heights 12-16 75Olivares, Lakeland 9-12 75Donaldson, Lakewood Park 6-8 75Andrews, Central Noble 14-19 74Miller, West Noble 24-33 73

Three-Point Shooting(1 made 3PT/game)Name, Team 3PTM-3PTA Pct.Miller, West Noble 9-12 75Schermerhorn, W. Noble 10-19 53Heller, Prairie Heights 16-31 52Nichols, East Noble 30-63 48Kelley, Hamilton 13-27 48Betts, Lakeland 12-27 44Bachelor, Prairie Heights 14-33 42Yoder, Lakewood Park 5-12 42Noe, Central Noble 14-39 36Evans, West Noble 11-30 37McCoy, Garrett 15-46 33Kessler, Garrett 12-37 33Thompson, East Noble 8-25 32Mann, Lakewood Park 7-26 27Donaldson, Lakewood P. 6-24 25

Boys Prep Basketball ScoresArgos 64, Bethany Christian 39Bloomington North 72, Bloomington South 66Borden 48, New Washington 32Caston 48, W. Central 30Charlestown 49, Seymour 44Churubusco 43, Fremont 40Clarksville 41, Providence 32Columbus East 67, Franklin Co. 49Columbus North 83, Lawrence Central 75Concord 58, Goshen 37Corydon 65, Floyd Central 34E. Central 58, Rushville 50Eastern Hancock 69, Muncie Burris 39Elkhart Memorial 60, Plymouth 46Ev. Bosse 77, Ev. Central 60Ev. Harrison 64, Ev. North 56Ev. Mater Dei 60, Washington 40Ev. Memorial 61, Castle 57Fishers 63, Westfi eld 51Frankfort 69, Lebanon 59Ft. Wayne Concordia 68, Ft. Wayne South 51Ft. Wayne Luers 70, Ft. Wayne Dwenger 69Ft. Wayne North 75, Ft. Wayne Wayne 52Ft. Wayne Snider 67, Ft. Wayne Northrop 40Greensburg 69, Shelbyville 43Guerin Catholic 55, Indpls Chatard 35Hamilton Southeastern 91, Lafayette Harrison 57Heritage Hills 50, Gibson Southern 34Indpls Park Tudor 91, Heritage Christian 56Indpls Ritter 73, Monrovia 69Indpls Roncalli 83, Beech Grove 52Jasper 63, Vincennes 60, OTLafayette Catholic 47, Delphi 23Lake Central 65, LaPorte 46Lanesville 75, S. Central (Harrison) 55LaVille 63, Bremen 44Madison 76, Scottsburg 54Manchester 70, N. Miami 39Michigan City Marquette 67, Hammond Noll 61, OTMishawaka Marian 62, S. Bend Riley 56Mt. Vernon (Fortville) 60, Greenfi eld 32N. Daviess 49, Loogootee 45N. Decatur 59, Hauser 57New Albany 67, Jeffersonville 56New Palestine 56, Delta 50Northridge 58, Warsaw 56NorthWood 52, Wawasee 44Oldenburg 45, Madison Shawe 32Orleans 67, Salem 40Paoli 57, Mitchell 50Penn 86, S. Bend St. Joseph’s 72Pike Central 52, Wood Memorial 39Prairie Hts. 50, Angola 38Princeton 75, Boonville 55Rochester 60, Whitko 38S. Bend Adams 78, Elkhart Central 62S. Bend Washington 81, S. Bend Clay 68S. Knox 52, Dubois 50Seeger 63, Fountain Central 55Speedway 66, Decatur Central 61Tecumseh 54, Southridge 50Twin Lakes 49, Tri-County 39Valparaiso 46, Portage 25Vincennes Rivet 44, N. Knox 42W. Noble 72, Lakeland 55Wapahani 51, New Castle 46Washington Catholic 62, Shoals 45Zionsville 44, Lafayette Jeff 38

Girls Basketball StandingsNortheast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LHomestead 4 0 11 1East Noble 3 1 10 4DeKalb 3 0 9 3Norwell 2 2 9 3Columbia City 1 2 9 5New Haven 1 2 6 7Carroll 0 4 3 11Bellmont 0 3 0 13Wednesday’s GameAngola at East Noble, ppd.Friday’s GamesHomestead 76, East Noble 33Norwell 53, Carroll 50Saturday’s GamesCarmel at HomesteadNew Haven at DeKalbTuesday’s GamesDeKalb at NorthridgeHomestead at SniderWawasee at Columbia CityWednesday, Jan. 15Warsaw at CarrollThursday, Jan. 16FW North Side at BellmontWhitko at Norwell

Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LWestview 6 0 10 2Fairfi eld 5 0 7 2West Noble 6 2 8 5Angola 5 2 5 7Fremont 3 2 7 5Prairie Heights 3 5 6 7Lakeland 3 5 5 9Churubusco 2 4 5 8Central Noble 1 5 3 7Hamilton 0 4 2 5Eastside 0 5 2 9Wednesday, Jan. 8Angola at East Noble, ppd.Friday, Jan. 10Angola 60, Prairie Heights 46Fremont 57, Churubusco 28Fairfi eld at Eastside, ppd.West Noble 56, Lakeland 40Hamilton at Westview, ppd.Saturday, Jan. 11Hamilton at ChurubuscoTuesday’s GamesNECC Tournament — 1st roundCentral Noble at EastsideHamilton at FremontLakeland at Fairfi eldWednesday’s GamesNECC Tournament — Quarterfi nalsHamilton-Fremont winner vs. Central Noble-Eastside winner at Central Noble-Eastside boys winnerWest Noble at AngolaWestview vs. Lakeland-Fairfi eld winner at Lakeland-Fairfi eld boys winnerPrairie Heights at ChurubuscoThursday’s GamesNECC TournamentConsolation games TBA

Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LGarrett 5 0 13 0Leo 3 1 10 1Heritage 4 1 10 3Woodlan 2 2 7 3Southern Wells 2 2 6 5South Adams 1 3 10 3Bluffton 1 4 3 9Adams Central 0 5 3 9Friday’s GamesGarrett 47, Bluffton 24Heritage 41, Adams Central 38Leo at Woodlan, ppd.South Adams at Southern Wells, ppd.Tuesday’s GamesACAC Tournament — 1st roundHeritage at BlufftonLeo at WoodlanSouthern Wells at Adams CentralSouth Adams at Garrett

Wednesday’s GamesACAC Tournament — Semifi nalsat F.W. Memorial ColiseumHeritage-Bluffton winner vs. Leo-Woodlan winnerSW-AC winner vs. South Adams-Gar-rett winnerSaturday, Jan. 18ACAC TournamentChampionship game at F.W. Memorial Coliseum between semifi nal winners

Girls Basketball Area LeadersSCORINGName, Team PPGBrandi Dawson, Garrett 23.2Kelsie Peterson, West Noble 20.2Shae Rhonehouse, Fremont 18.4Shawna Carbone, Prairie Heights 17.5Grace Hales, Westview 16.2Baylee Rinehart, DeKalb 15.8Maddy Minehart, Eastside 15.6Tiffany Simcox, West Noble 14.4Tressa Terry, Prairie Heights 14.3Claire Grubb, Angola 13.6Abi Thompson, Lakeland 13.5Hayley Martin, DeKalb 12.3Maria McCoy, Westview 12.1Kaitlin Wisel, Garrett 11.7Brooke Yoder, Westview 11.6Miranda White, Fremont 11.0Kavan Edwards, East Noble 10.7Khrystyna Thompson, Lake. Park 10.5Kourtney Edwards, East Noble 10.0Kerri Schrock, East Noble 9.2Skylar Ostrowski, DeKalb 9.0Ashtin Kaminer, Lakeland 8.3Rachel Ehmke, DeKalb 8.2Taylor Smith, Garrett 8.0

ReboundsName, Team RPGShawna Carbone, Prairie Heights 13.3Brandi Dawson, Garrett 12.9Hayley Martin, DeKalb 12.3Maddy Minehart, Eastside 11.6Maria McCoy, Westview 10.3Shae Rhonehouse, Fremont 9.8Miranda White, Fremont 9.5Haley Kleeberg, Prairie Heights 7.9Kourtney Edwards, East Noble 7.5Leah Ward, Eastside 7.5Kaylie Warble, West Noble 7.1Kendall Kelley, DeKalb 7.0Emma Dusseau, Lakeland 6.7Grace Hales, Westview 6.6Abi Thompson, Lakeland 6.6Kavan Edwards, East Noble 6.4Kristen Duff, Westview 6.2Kenzie Cox, West Noble 5.8Taylor Smith, Garrett 5.8Tiffany Simcox, West Noble 5.4Rachel Ehmke, DeKalb 5.2Baylee Rinehart, DeKalb 5.1

AssistsName, Team APGKerri Schrock, East Noble 4.5Sydney Byrkett, Westview 4.3Grace Hales, Westview 4.3Shae Rhonehouse, Fremont 3.8Riley Hochstetler, Westview 3.4Tressa Terry, Prairie Heights 3.4Kelsie Peterson, West Noble 3.3Kaitlin Wisel, Garrett 3.1Brandi Dawson, Garrett 3.0Baylee Rinehart, DeKalb 2.8Abby Buchs, Angola 2.7Brooke Leins, DeKalb 2.6Claire Grubb, Angola 2.5Miranda White, Fremont 2.4Ashtin Kaminer, Lakeland 2.2Hayley Martin, DeKalb 2.0

StealsName, Team SPGKelsie Peterson, West Noble 5.8Hannah Priskorn, Lakewood Park 3.9Abi Thompson, Lakeland 3.0Shawna Carbone, Prairie Heights 2.8Brandi Dawson, Garrett 2.7Kerri Schrock, East Noble 2.7Emma Dusseau, Lakewood Park 2.6Jessica Mafera, Lakewood Park 2.6Rebecca Levitz, Lakeland 2.5Shae Rhonehouse, Fremont 2.5Shawna Young, West Noble 2.5Natalie Mafera, Lakewood Park 2.3Grace Hales, Westview 2.2Claire Grubb, Angola 2.1Becca Schermerhorn, West Noble 2.1Emily Somers, Garrett 2.1Riley Hochstetler, Westview 2.0Tressa Terry, Prairie Heights 2.0

BlocksName, Team BPGMaddy Minehart, Eastside 3.5Grace Hales, Westview 2.4Maria McCoy, Westview 2.0Miranda White, Fremont 1.8Brandi Dawson, Garrett 1.7Haley Kleeberg, Prairie Heights 1.3Cierra Helmke, Fremont 1.0Kaylie Warble, West Noble 1.0

Field-Goal Shooting(2 made FGs/game)Name, Team FG-FGA Pct.Smith, Garrett 40-61 66Ostrowski, DeKalb 45-74 60Duff, Westview 38-71 54Ko. Edwards, East Noble 49-92 53Van Gessel, Central Noble 17-32 53Martin, DeKalb 33-63 52Dawson, Garrett 108-211 51Minehart, Eastside 62-123 50Ka. Edwards, East Noble 56-112 50White, Fremont 51-102 50Fisher, West Noble 28-56 50Beer, Fremont 34-69 49Rhonehouse, Fremont 73-152 48Hales, Westview 70-149 47Simcox, Central Noble 58-127 46Wilson, East Noble 29-63 46Carbone, Prairie Heights 76-171 44Terry, Prairie Heights 44-100 44Sowle, Lakewood Park 33-75 44Yoder, Westview 53-123 43Grubb, Angola 52-121 43McCoy, Westview 49-113 43

Free throw shooting(1 made FT/game)Name, Team ft-fta Pct.Thompson, Lakewood Park 15-18 83Forker, Central Noble 10-12 83Hales, Westview 46-56 82Van Gessel, Central Noble 10-13 77Wolfe, East Noble 13-17 76Thompson, Lakeland 73-99 74Terry, Prairie Heights 26-35 74Allen, East Noble 23-31 74Peterson, West Noble 70-96 73Mccoy, Westview 47-65 72Young, West Noble 18-25 72Wilson, East Noble 30-42 71Wisel, Garrett 28-40 70Rhonehouse, Fremont 55-81 68Dawson, Garrett 51-75 68Schrock, East Noble 48-71 68Ward, Eastside 17-25 68Buchs, Angola 20-30 67Kaminer, Lakeland 26-40 65Stroop, Fremont 11-17 65

Three-point shooting(1 made 3PT/game)Name, Team 3PTM-3PTA PctYoder, Westview 26-60 43Wisel, Garrett 22-60 37Lopshire, Angola 14-40 35Buchs, Angola 18-53 34Thompson, Lakewood Park 26-81 32Ehmke, DeKalb 27-83 32Grubb, Angola 16-50 32Terry, Prairie Heights 15-47 32Rinehart, DeKalb 28-92 30Peterson, West Noble 20-75 27

Girls Prep Basketball ScoresAngola 60, Prairie Hts. 46Carroll (Flora) 68, Clinton Central 56Connersville 44, Greenfi eld 43Crown Point 64, Michigan City 50Eastern Hancock 57, N. Decatur 45Fremont 57, Churubusco 28Ft. Wayne Concordia 64, Ft. Wayne South 60, 2OTFt. Wayne Luers 73, Ft. Wayne Dwenger 54Ft. Wayne Snider 55, Ft. Wayne Northrop 51Ft. Wayne Wayne 68, Ft. Wayne North 34Garrett 47, Bluffton 24Glenn 54, Triton 40Greensburg 54, Franklin Co. 32Greenwood 55, Whiteland 37Hamilton Southeastern 56, Warren Central 41Heritage 41, Adams Central 38Highland 59, Hobart 55Homestead 76, E. Noble 33Indian Creek 65, Edinburgh 42Indpls Cathedral 47, Lawrence Central 37Indpls Roncalli 90, Beech Grove 34LaPorte 61, Lake Central 57Lawrence North 59, Bedford N. Lawrence 49Lebanon 69, Frankfort 48Lowell 54, Andrean 49

Martinsville 57, Decatur Central 54Merrillville 70, Chesterton 43Mishawaka Marian 68, S. Bend Riley 21Mooresville 44, Franklin 25Norwell 53, Carroll (Ft. Wayne) 50Oldenburg 42, Madison Shawe 14Providence 51, Clarksville 25W. Central 36, Caston 33, OTW. Noble 56, Lakeland 40Washington Twp. 38, LaCrosse 25

NFL PlayoffsWild-card PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 4Indianapolis 45, Kansas City 44New Orleans 26, Philadelphia 24Sunday, Jan. 5San Diego 27, Cincinnati 10San Francisco 23, Green Bay 20Divisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 11New Orleans at Seattle, 4:35 p.m. (FOX)Indianpolis at New England, 8:15 p.m. (CBS)Sunday, Jan. 12San Francisco at Carolina, 1:05 p.m. (FOX)San Diego at Denver, 4:40 p.m. (CBS)Conference ChampionshipsSunday, Jan. 19AFC, 3 p.m. (CBS)NFC, 6:30 p.m. (FOX)Pro BowlSunday, Jan. 26At HonoluluTBD, 7:30 p.m. (NBC)Super BowlSunday, Feb. 2At East Rutherford, N.J.AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6:30 p.m. (FOX)

2013 NFL All-Pro Team Voting

NEW YORK (AP) — Results of The Associated Press 2013 NFL All-Pro balloting selected by a national panel of 50 media members:OFFENSEQuarterbackPeyton Manning, Denver, 50.x-Running BacksLeSean McCoy, Philadelphia, 48; Jamaal Charles, Kansas City, 47; Adrian Peterson, Minnesota, 1; Eddie Lacy, Green Bay, 1.y-FullbackMike Tolbert, Carolina, 31; Marcel Reece, Oakland, 8; Anthony Sherman, Kansas City, 5; Bruce Miller, San Francisco, 4; John Kuhn, Green Bay, 1.Tight EndJimmy Graham, New Orleans, 49; Vernon Davis, San Francisco, 1.Wide ReceiversCalvin Johnson, Detroit, 42; Josh Gordon, Cleveland, 28; A.J. Green, Cincinnati, 12; Demaryius Thomas, Denver, 6; Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh, 6; Brandon Marshall, Chicago, 5; Alshon Jeffery, Chicago, 1.TacklesJoe Thomas, Cleveland, 28; Jason Peters, Philadelphia, 25; Joe Staley, San Francisco, 16; Tyron Smith, Dallas, 14; Zach Strief, New Orleans, 4; Orlando Franklin, Denver, 3; Jordan Gross, Carolina, 2; Gosder Cherilus, Indianapolis, 1; Andrew Whitworth, Cincinnati, 1; Jermaine Bushrod, Chicago, 1; Demar Dotson, Tampa Bay, 1; Trent Williams, Washington, 1; Branden Albert, Kansas City, 1; Jake Long, St. Louis, 1; Phil Loadholt, Minnesota, 1.GuardsLouis Vasquez, Denver, 22; Evan Mathis, Philadelphia, 18; Jahri Evans, New Orleans, 14; Josh Sitton, Green Bay, 13; Mike Iupati, San Francisco, 12; Logan Mankins, New England, 12; Larry Warford, Detroit, 3; Marshal Yanda, Baltimore, 3; Andrew Whitworth, Cincinnati, 1; Andy Levitre, Tennessee, 1.CenterRyan Kalil, Carolina, 26; Alex Mack, Cleveland, 9; Jason Kelce, Philadel-phia, 4; Max Unger, Seattle, 4; Manny Ramirez, Denver, 2; John Sullivan, Minnesota, 2; Mike Pouncey, Miami, 1; Dominic Raiola, Detroit, 1; Nick Hardwick, San Diego, 1.PlacekickerJustin Tucker, Baltimore, 38; Matt Prater, Denver, 7; Stephen Gostkowski, New England, 3; Steven Hauschka, Seattle, 1; Phil Dawson, San Francisco, 1.Kick ReturnerCordarrelle Patterson, Minnesota, 36; Dexter McCluster, Kansas City, 8; Dwayne Harris, Dallas, 2; Devin Hester, Chicago, 2; Trindon Holliday, Denver, 1; Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh, 1.DEFENSEEndsRobert Quinn, St. Louis, 46; J.J. Watt, Houston, 28; Greg Hardy, Carolina, 14; Mario Williams, Buffalo, 5; Muhammad Wilkerson, New York Jets, 1; Cameron Jordan, New Orleans, 1; Carlos Dunlap, Cincinnati, 1; Charles Johnson, Carolina, 1; Kyle Williams, Buffalo, 1; Chandler Jones, New England, 1.TacklesGerald McCoy, Tampa Bay, 28; Ndamukong Suh, Detroit, 19; Dontari Poe, Kansas City, 13; Justin Smith, San Francisco, 8; Jurrell Casey, Tennessee, 8; Muhammad Wilkerson, New York Jets, 8; Kyle Williams, Buffalo, 6; J.J. Watt, Houston, 3; Jason Hatcher, Dallas, 3; Sheldon Richardson, New York Jets, 2; Brandon Mebane, Seattle, 1; Marcell Dareus, Buffalo, 1.Outside LinebackersRobert Mathis, Indianapolis, 49; Lavonte David, Tampa Bay, 22; Tamba Hali, Kansas City, 10; Ahmad Brooks, San Francisco, 5; Vontaze Burfi ct, Cincinnati, 4; Justin Houston, Kansas City, 4; Terrell Suggs, Baltimore, 3; John Abraham, Arizona, 2; Thomas Davis, Carolina, 1.Inside LinebackerLuke Kuechly, Carolina, 45; NaVorro Bowman, San Francisco, 39; Vontaze Burfi ct, Cincinnati, 7; Karlos Dansby, Arizona, 4; Patrick Willis, San Francisco, 2; Derrick Johnson, Kansas City, 2; Thomas Davis, Carolina, 1.CornerbacksRichard Sherman, Seattle, 48; Patrick Peterson, Arizona, 28; Aqib Talib, New England, 8; Alterraun Verner, Tennessee, 6; Joe Haden, Cleveland, 6; Brent Grimes, Miami, 4.SafetiesEarl Thomas, Seattle, 47; Eric Berry, Kansas City, 32; Eric Weddle, San Diego, 10; Jairus Byrd, Buffalo, 2; T.J. Ward, Cleveland, 2; Devin McCourty, New England, 2; Antrel Rolle, New York Giants, 2; Kam Chancellor, Seattle, 2; Tyrann Mathieu, Arizona, 1.PunterJohnny Hekker, St. Louis, 23; Brandon Fields, Miami, 20; Shane Lechler, Houston, 3; Jon Ryan, Seattle, 2; Brian Anger, Jacksonville, 1; Andy Lee, San Francisco, 1.

NBA StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 17 17 .500 —Brooklyn 14 21 .400 3½New York 13 22 .371 4½Boston 13 23 .361 5Philadelphia 12 24 .333 6Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 27 9 .750 —Atlanta 20 17 .541 7½Washington 16 18 .471 10Charlotte 15 22 .405 12½Orlando 10 25 .286 16½Central Division W L Pct GBIndiana 29 7 .806 —Chicago 15 18 .455 12½Detroit 15 22 .405 14½Cleveland 12 23 .343 16½Milwaukee 7 27 .206 21WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBSan Antonio 28 8 .778 —Houston 23 14 .622 5½Dallas 21 16 .568 7½Memphis 16 19 .457 11½New Orleans 15 20 .429 12½Northwest Division W L Pct GBPortland 27 9 .750 —Oklahoma City 27 9 .750 —Denver 18 17 .514 8½

Minnesota 18 18 .500 9Utah 12 25 .324 15½Pacifi c Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 25 13 .658 —Golden State 24 14 .632 1Phoenix 21 14 .600 2½L.A. Lakers 14 22 .389 10Sacramento 11 22 .333 11½Thursday’s GamesNew York 102, Miami 92Denver 101, Oklahoma City 88Friday’s GamesIndiana 93, Washington 66Detroit 114, Philadelphia 104Atlanta 83, Houston 80Minnesota 119, Charlotte 92Memphis 104, Phoenix 99Dallas 107, New Orleans 90Brooklyn 104, Miami 95,2OTChicago 81, Milwaukee 72Cleveland 113, Utah 102Orlando at Sacramento, lateBoston at Golden State, lateL.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, lateSaturday’s GamesHouston at Washington, 7 p.m.Brooklyn at Toronto, 7 p.m.New York at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.Phoenix at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Charlotte at Chicago, 8 p.m.Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.New Orleans at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Orlando at Denver, 9 p.m.Boston at Portland, 10 p.m.Sunday’s GamesCleveland at Sacramento, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Memphis, 6 p.m.Minnesota at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

NHL StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 44 28 14 2 58 128 98Tampa Bay 44 26 14 4 56 126 106Montreal 45 25 15 5 55 115 106Detroit 44 19 15 10 48 115 125Toronto 46 21 20 5 47 125 141Ottawa 45 19 18 8 46 129 145Florida 44 17 21 6 40 104 137Buffalo 43 12 26 5 29 75 120Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 45 32 12 1 65 147 107Philadelphia 44 23 17 4 50 117 119Washington 44 22 16 6 50 135 133N.Y. Rangers 46 23 20 3 49 114 123Carolina 45 19 17 9 47 111 128New Jersey 45 18 18 9 45 104 113Columbus 44 20 20 4 44 120 126N.Y. Islanders 45 16 22 7 39 124 149WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASt. Louis 43 31 7 5 67 160 97Chicago 46 29 8 9 67 169 127Colorado 43 27 12 4 58 127 111Minnesota 46 24 17 5 53 112 115Dallas 44 20 17 7 47 125 135Nashville 45 19 20 6 44 108 135Winnipeg 46 19 22 5 43 125 139Pacifi c Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 46 33 8 5 71 155 116San Jose 45 28 11 6 62 148 115Los Angeles 45 27 13 5 59 118 93Vancouver 45 23 13 9 55 121 113Phoenix 43 21 13 9 51 130 131Calgary 44 15 23 6 36 100 142Edmonton 46 14 27 5 33 119 161NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.Thursday’s GamesFlorida 2, Buffalo 1, SONew Jersey 1, Dallas 0Carolina 6, Toronto 1Washington 4, Tampa Bay 3Anaheim 4, Nashville 3St. Louis 5, Calgary 0Minnesota 4, Phoenix 1Los Angeles 4, Boston 2San Jose 4, Detroit 1Friday’s GamesN.Y. Rangers 3, Dallas 2Washington 3, Toronto 2Columbus 3, Carolina 0N.Y. Islanders at Colorado, latePittsburgh at Edmonton, lateSt. Louis at Vancouver, lateSaturday’s GamesTampa Bay at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.Chicago at Montreal, 7 p.m.Florida at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Ottawa at Nashville, 7 p.m.Columbus at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.Colorado at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Anaheim at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Pittsburgh at Calgary, 10 p.m.Detroit at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Boston at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.Sunday’s GamesBuffalo at Washington, 3 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Dallas, 6 p.m.New Jersey at Toronto, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Chicago, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Nashville, 7 p.m.Detroit at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Big Ten Standings Conf. All Games W L W LWisconsin 3 0 16 0Michigan St. 3 0 14 1Michigan 3 0 11 4Ohio St. 2 1 15 1Illinois 2 1 13 3Iowa 2 1 13 3Minnesota 2 1 13 3Indiana 0 2 10 5Purdue 0 2 10 5Penn St. 0 3 9 7Nebraska 0 3 8 7Northwestern 0 3 7 9Wednesday’s GamesMinnesota 68, Penn St. 65Wisconsin 95, Illinois 70Thursday’s GamesIowa 93, Northwestern 67Michigan 71, Nebraska 70Friday’s GamesNo games scheduledSaturday’s GamesIndiana at Penn St., NoonMinnesota at Michigan St., 2:15 p.m.Sunday’s GamesNebraska at Purdue, NoonIowa at Ohio St., 1:30 p.m.Illinois at Northwestern, 7:30 p.m.

Mid-American Conference Standings

East Conf. All Games W L W LOhio 1 0 11 3Akron 1 0 9 5Buffalo 1 0 7 4Miami (Ohio) 1 0 5 7Kent St. 0 1 9 5Bowling Green 0 1 6 8WestE. Michigan 1 0 9 5W. Michigan 1 0 8 5Toledo 0 1 12 2Cent. Michigan 0 1 7 6N. Illinois 0 1 6 7Ball St. 0 1 3 9Saturday’s GamesE. Michigan at Buffalo, 2 p.m.W. Michigan at Miami (Ohio), 3 p.m.Cent. Michigan at Toledo, 6 p.m.Ball St. at Kent St., 7 p.m.Sunday’s GamesN. Illinois at Bowling Green, 4:30 p.m.Akron at Ohio, 6 p.m.

Summit League Standings Conf. All Games W L W LIPFW 1 0 13 5S. Dakota St 1 0 9 7Nebraska-Omaha 0 0 10 4Denver 0 0 7 8W.Illinois 0 0 6 9S. Dakota 0 0 4 9N. Dakota St 0 1 11 5IUPUI 0 1 5 13Saturday’s GamesN. Dakota St. at IUPUI, 2 p.m.Denver at South Dakota, 5 p.m.S. Dakota St. at IPFW, 7 p.m.Nebraska-Omaha at W. Illinois, 8 p.m.Sunday’s GamesNo games scheduled

TransactionsBASEBALLAmerican LeagueKANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with C Brett Hayes on a one-year contract.NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with LHP Matt Thornton on a two-year contract. Designated OF Vernon Wells for assignment.National LeagueNEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Joel Carreno and Miguel Socolovich.

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KOUTS (AP) — Crown Point residents Rigo and Claudia Garcia sat stranded Sunday night along a rural stretch of Ind. 8 just outside of Kouts, watching a snow drift climb higher along their SUV, when

they spotted lights in the distance.

As the lights slowly neared over the next 45 minutes, the couple was surprised to see a large tractor digging its way through the snow toward them and other vehicles scattered across the road and in nearby ditches.

The tractor’s driver, who reached the stranded motorists during the county’s state of emergency when other emergency offi cials could not, turned out to be nearby farmer and business owner Chris Birky.

“I called my wife and said, ‘You better start cleaning. We are going to have people over,’” Birky told The Times.

After helping each of the occupied vehicles to his driveway through a path he had cleared in the highway,

the Birky family welcomed the strangers into their home, where they remained Monday afternoon while waiting for highways to reopen.

“This family is unbeliev-able,” Rigo Garcia said.

Not only have the stranded motorists been treated to movies and entertainment from the family’s children, but they have also been served homemade meals, provided dry clothing and a comfort-able place to sleep.

Birky, who owns a catering company, Piggies & Cream restaurants in Kouts and North Judson, and Birky’s Country Market and Bakery in Kouts, said he just felt moved to help after noticing the blinking car lights on the highway in front of his house.

“You just got to do what God tells you to do,” he

said.Birky said it took him

three hours to clear the path to the stranded motorists and to help pull their vehicles into position to reach the safety of his driveway.

Rigo, who was on his way home from his nursing job in Winamac when the fi erce winter storm brought a scary halt to his commute, said the story of his rescue became even more inspiring when he learned Birky had been unable to get the tractor started before Sunday night and has not been able to get it started since.

The six stranded motorists planned to stay put until a plow fi nally makes it down the stretch of Ind. 8 between U.S. 421 and Ind. 49.

“The last thing we want to do is leave in this,” Rigo said.

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Creating a transition plan to make sure a farm or ranch continues as a productive agricultural business and understanding and managing

farm fi nances for a secure future are just some of the challenges faced by farm and ranch women today.

Women engage in a wide variety of jobs on

farms in northeast Indiana and across the country.

In DeKalb County alone, 107 women are primary farm operators according to the 2007 Census of Agricul-ture. Women farm owner/operators are on the rise, with a 50 percent increase from 2002 to 2007 in DeKalb County. This is a trend occurring nationally, with more women owning farm businesses or becoming more highly involved in decision-making.

Purdue University Cooper-ative Extension of DeKalb County plans to engage farm women in discussions of farm business and risk manage-ment beginning Tuesday, Jan. 28, through Annie’s Project.

“The goal of Annie’s Project is to empower women to take active leadership roles in their farming operations,” said Marsha Laux, Iowa Annie’s Project state coordi-nator and Extension value added agriculture program coordinator with Iowa State University. “All agricultural endeavors require careful planning and the use of the proper tools and strategies to help manage risk and to help

ensure business success.”Annie’s Project standard

courses introduce women to all fi ve areas of agricul-tural risk: fi nancial, human resources, legal, production and marketing. Farm and ranch women can learn how personality types infl uence family and employee communication.

They also can learn basic marketing techniques to improve grain and livestock profi tability, how the right insurance can protect the family and the farm or ranch, how to access USDA resources, recordkeeping, and more. This course is taught over six weekly three-hour sessions.

Annie’s Project, an agricultural risk manage-ment education program for women, has successfully reached more than 8,000 farmers and ranchers in 30 states. Annie’s Project, created in 2003 by Ruth Hambleton, University of Illinois Extension, curric-ulum is designed to empower women farmers in managing information systems used in critical decision-making processes and to build local networks.

Annie’s Project will run from 6-9 p.m. at the County Offi ce Building, 215 E. 9th St., Auburn. Those with questions or who are interested in registering should contact me at 925-2562 or [email protected] or visit ag.purdue.edu/counties/dekalb. The course costs $75 per person. The deadline for registration is Jan. 20.

Annie’s Project set to start Jan. 28

WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills. Maybe not immediately, they say, but over time if the poor wind up in doctors’ offi ces or hospitals as a result.

Among the health risks of hunger are spiked rates of diabetes and developmental problems for young children down the road.

The doctors’ lobbying effort comes as Congress is working on a compro-mise farm bill that’s certain to include food stamp cuts. Republicans want

heftier reductions than do Democrats in yet another partisan battle over the government’s role in helping poor Americans.

Food stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, feed 1 in 7 Americans and cost almost $80 billion a year, twice what it cost fi ve years ago. Conservatives say the program spiraled out of control as the economy struggled and the costs are not sustainable. They say the neediest people will not go hungry.

The health and fi nancial risks of hunger have not

played a major role in the debate. But the medical community says cutting food aid could backfi re through higher Medicaid and Medicare costs.

“If you’re interested in saving health care costs, the dumbest thing you can do is cut nutrition,” said Dr. Deborah Frank of Boston Medical Center, who founded the Children’s HealthWatch pediatric research institute.

“People don’t make the hunger-health connection.”

A study published this week helps illustrate that link. Food banks report longer lines at the end of the

month as families exhaust their grocery budgets, and California researchers found that more poor people with a dangerous diabetes compli-cation are hospitalized then, too.

The researchers analyzed eight years of California hospital records to fi nd cases of hypoglycemia, when blood sugar plummets, and link them to patients’ ZIP codes.

Among patients from low-income neighbor-hoods, hospitalizations were 27 percent higher in the last week of the month compared with the fi rst, when most states send out

government checks and food stamps, said lead researcher Dr. Hilary Seligman of the University of California, San Francisco. But hospitaliza-tions didn’t increase among diabetics from higher-in-come areas, she reported Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs.

Seligman couldn’t prove that running low on food was to blame. But she called it the most logical culprit and said the cost of treating hypoglycemia even without a hospitalization could provide months of food stamp benefi ts.

“The cost trade-offs are sort of ridiculous,” Seligman

said.She is working on

a project with Feeding America, a network of food banks, to try to improve health by providing extra, diabetes-appropriate foods, including fresh produce and whole-grain cereals and pastas, for diabetics at a few food banks in California, Texas and Ohio.

Last year, research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts estimated that a cut of $2 billion a year in food stamps could trigger in an increase of $15 billion in medical costs for diabetes over the next decade.

Doctors warn of dangers in cuts to food stamp program

LAFAYETTE (AP) — At Chuck and Brian Shelby’s farm outside Lafayette, auto-steer combines equipped with the latest in GPS technology are used to harvest 9,200 acres of corn and soybeans.

The father-son duo invested in hands-free technology to increase their farm’s effi ciency and improve profi tability. Self-steering takes the guesswork out of guiding huge machines, reducing row overlaps and cutting the time it takes to farm large tracts of land.

“You go through the fi eld and it drives perfectly,” Brian Shelby told the Journal & Courier as he sat in his combine on a recent fall day, keeping an eye on the controls. He estimates that auto-steer has saved thousands of dollars in fuel and labor costs.

Meanwhile, half a world away in Africa, pests and invasive weeds make growing crops in the arid soil an iffy proposition. Poorly equipped sorghum farmers in Ethiopia struggle to control a parasitic weed called Striga, while producers in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Niger battle weevils that attack their cowpea cash crops.

“The same people that are expected to feed society are hungry themselves,” said Gebisa Ejeta, a distin-guished Purdue University professor who is from Ethiopia.

The Shelby farm is a world apart from Ethiopia or Burkina Faso — in distance and technology. But Purdue researchers are trying to change that by

employing the latest in crop research and technology in the developing world.

Ejeta and colleagues engaged in disciplines across Purdue are hoping to accelerate developments in agriculture technology, envisioning a time when high-tech practices, such as the ones the Shelbys employ, will one day help struggling producers in developing countries combat chronic hunger.

“The contrast around the world is such that we’ve got huge equipment that we operate here that is sophisticated … and then the world where I come from, where people still farm with their hands and a hoe and there isn’t any mechanical advantage,” said Ejeta, who won a

World Food Prize for his work controlling Striga.

“Someday the aspiration we all have is these things would be scalable from the smallest level to the highest level. The reality is we’re too far apart at the moment.”

Feeding the world is a challenge Purdue is tackling head-on. In September the West Lafayette research institu-tion announced a $20 million investment into plant sciences research with hopes of advancing work in areas such as molecular agriculture and automated fi eld phenotyping.

“The challenge is huge,” Ejeta said. “There really isn’t any alternative way of overcoming this problem we have other

than advancing science and technology and innovation in the practice of agricul-ture and farming.”

America’s farmers are entering a new era in precision agriculture.

Yield predictions are more accurate. GPS technology is better than ever at performing soil analysis and fi eld planning. Researchers are experi-menting with drones and robots to capture high-res-olution images and other data about farms — even to perform tasks autono-mously.

Technological advances being tested in Purdue laboratories and in Indiana research fi elds are paving the way for better techniques that can be used on farms near and far.

Purdue work helps feed the world

Farmer comes to aid of stranded motorists

ELYSIA RODGERS is the agriculture and natural resources director for the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service in DeKalb County.

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his family’s 9,200 acres near Romney, saving thousands of dollars in fuel and labor costs.

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FORT WAYNE —Tradexpos presents the 25th anniversary of the Fort Wayne Farm Show at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, starting Tuesday and continuing through Thursday.

When Jack Thill started the Fort Wayne Farm Show, he envisioned a trade show where the farm community could come together with agri-business leaders to learn and compare the latest

equipment and products in this ever-changing market-place.

Now in its 25th year Thill’s “vision” has grown to become one of the nation’s most respected farm shows, attracting qualifi ed attendees from many states.

The more than 300 exhibitors present the latest farm technology the industry has to offer along with the area’s largest variety of farm machinery

equipment in one location. Northeastern Indiana

Soil and Water Conserva-tion Districts and Purdue Cooperative Extension present daily educational seminars.

Parkview Health Systems will offer free CPR classes each day of the show.

Hours Tuesday are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Thursday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission but there is charge for parking.

Farm show starts Tuesday

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President Barack Obama says income inequality is “dangerous … the defi ning challenge of our time.” The pope is upset that capitalism causes inequality. Progressives, facing the failures of Obamacare, are eager to change the subject to America’s “wealth gap.”

It’s true that today, the richest 1 percent of Americans own a third of America’s wealth.

One percent owns 35 percent!But I say, so what?

Progressives in the media claim that the rich get richer at the expense of the poor.

But that’s a lie.Hollywood sells the

greedy-evil-capitalists-cheat-the-poor message with movies like Martin Scorsese’s new fi lm, “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which portrays stock sellers as sex-crazed criminals. Years before, Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” created a creepy fi nancier,

Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, who smugly gloated, “It’s a zero-sum game. Somebody wins; somebody loses.”

This is how the left sees the market: a zero-sum game. If someone makes money, he took it from everyone else. The more the rich have, the less others have. It’s as if the economy is a pie that’s already on the table, waiting to be carved. The bigger the piece the rich take, the less that’s left for everyone else. The economy is just a fi ght over who gets how much.

But this is absurd. Bill Gates took a huge slice of pie, but he didn’t take it from me. By starting Microsoft, he baked millions of new pies. He made the rest of the world richer, too. Entrepreneurs create things.

Over the past few decades, the difference in wealth between the rich and poor has grown. This makes people uncomfortable. But why is it a problem if the poor didn’t get poorer?

Progressives claim they did. Some cite government data that show middle class incomes remaining relatively stagnant. But this data is misleading, too. It leaves out all government handouts, like rent subsidies and food stamps. It leaves out benefi ts like company-funded health insurance and pensions, which make up increasing portions of people’s pay.

And it leaves out the innovation that makes life better for both the rich and poor. Even poor people today have access to cars, food, health care, entertainment and technology that rich people lusted for a few decades ago. Ninety percent of Americans living “below the poverty line” have smart phones, cable TV and cars. Seventy percent own two cars.

But hold on, says the left. Even if the poor reap some benefi ts from capitalism, it’s just not “fair” that rich people have so much more. I suppose this is true. But what exactly is “fair?”

Is it fair that models are so good-looking? Why is it fair that some men are so much bigger than I, so no one will pay me to play pro sports? It’s hardly fair that I was born in America, a country that offers me far greater opportunities than most other countries would. We Americans should be thankful that life is not fair!

Freedom isn’t fair, if fair means equal. When people are free, some will be more successful than others. Some people are smarter or just luckier. Globalization and free-market capitalism multiply the effect of smarts and luck, allowing some people to get much richer than others. So what? Inequality may seem unfair, but the alternative — government-forced equality — is worse. It leaves everyone poor.

Opportunity is much more important than equality, and there is still income mobility in America. People born poor don’t necessarily stay poor.

Pew research shows 58 percent of the kids born to the poorest fi fth of families rose to a higher income group. Six percent rose all the way from the bottom fi fth to the top fi fth.

Sixty-one percent of kids born to the richest fi fth of families fell from that group, and 9 percent fell all the way to the bottom.

Opportunity requires allowing people to take risks and make changes. We won’t always like the outcomes. But over the long haul, we’re still better off if people are free to strive and fail, or maybe — reap big rewards.

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.

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It is dark when we drive onto the ferry in the morning. There are only four cars heading to the mainland. The air is chilly, but the captain has a pot of coffee brewing on the enclosed deck. We leave the car and go up to drink the coffee and watch as we pull away from Ocracoke. Soon the lighthouse is a speck and the waters of the Pamlico Sound rock the ferry ever so gently. The sun comes up as seagulls and other water birds follow beside us.

The ride is just two hours, and soon we are heading to the airport in New Bern. It is once again time to leave my second home and return to Indiana. Philip and I say farewell, and for a split second I waiver in my decision. No, I say to myself, I must return … family, work, responsibilities, community. I watch him leave until I can no longer see him, and then straighten my shoulders and prepare for my fl ight.

I am early but check in anyway. It is good to be rid of my bag. I fi nd a seat and pull out my book. Soon it is fi nished, and I am about to start another when I receive a text from Delta telling me my fl ight is delayed. It is strange because I am sitting by the Delta counter and can see the board right in front of me. It does not say delayed. I take a stroll over to the counter and ask them about the delay. Indeed there is a delay so I go back over to my seat. I pull out my tickets and realize that with the delay I may not make the fl ight from Atlanta to Fort Wayne. I am now in

a panic. Talk of the storm begins to fi ll the airport and I need to get home tonight or I won’t make it. The TV in the corner

continues to show weather maps and speaks of the “polar vortex.” I go back over to the counter.

The Delta folks behind the counter are kind, but honest. “You won’t make your fl ight,” they tell me. They insist I take the fl ight to Atlanta where they will put me up. I feel bewildered. I am thinking I will be there until Wednesday, and it is just Saturday. “I have to get home,” I tell them. They nod.

It is fi nally time to board and I leave New Bern. I watch the landscape change

and I settle back into the seat that I share with a young mother and her baby. By the time we land in Atlanta everyone knows my situation. We land at 6:50 and my Fort Wayne fl ight leaves at 7:12. I am ushered off the plane fi rst and scramble into the airport. The woman at the counter says, “Are you the Fort Wayne passenger?” I nod and she points to the gate across the way. “The coffee pot broke. Hurry, I think you can make it.”

Who would guess in the Atlanta airport that my fl ight would be one gate over?

The door is about to be shut when they see me coming. I show my ticket and hurry through the door. I make it to the plane as the fl ight attendant is about to shut the cabin door. There is no time to fi nd my seat so I take the one in front, and we leave. The fl ight attendant and I chat about the situation. “You were so lucky,” he says, “we had to get a new coffee pot or we would have been gone.”

It is dark, but I can begin to see fi elds of white from the air. We arrive on time in Fort Wayne, and I receive my usual greeting and the cookie. I wait for my bag, knowing it can’t possibly be there, but it is.

I walk outside and someone is there asking if I need a ride to my car. I am numb with gratefulness. We fi nd the Jeep, and he shovels me out from the previous storm and makes sure the Jeep starts. He tosses my bag in the back as I hand him a 10 dollar bill.

Home is waiting and the polar vortex has yet to come. Sleep is deep in my old house, and I am awakened by the sound of Larry’s snow blower in the morning. I put on the kettle and settle back into my Indiana life.

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 col-lector of front porch stories.

Settling back into Indiana life in the nick of time

LOU ANN

HOMAN-

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Dear readers,I want to sincerely apologize

for the (pick one) racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, ethnic, vulgar, prurient, misinformed, false and/or insulting remark in last week’s column. I was completely at fault, the buck stops with me and even though I was (pick one) heavily medicated, drunk, having a bipolar episode, stressed out, taking meth, addicted to painkillers, on steroids, butt-dialing, sexting, autocorrected, unintentionally plagiarizing, smoking crack, going through a painful divorce and/or hearing voices, there is simply no excuse for that kind of hurtful statement.

I blame no one but myself, even though several of my highly paid (pick one) Jewish, black, Arab, Native American, Asian, female, Polish and/or LGBT editors could have asked for a rewrite at any time, and none of them did. Not that they should be blamed for my mistakes and besides, now is not the time to play the blame game. There will be time enough for that in the months and years ahead, say, 10 or 20 years from now.

It was not my intention to cause pain or to insult any group, especially (pick one)

voters, readers, members of Congress, congregants,

lobbyists, the elderly, women, the LGBT community, liberals, conservatives, independents, libertar-ians, college students, parents, newlyweds and/or middle-age white men. Who knew there were so many of you?

You can stop with the Twittering and Facebooking already — I’m sorry, I get it, I take it all back. Unlike some people, I take full responsibility for my (pick one) inappro-priate, insensitive, thoughtless, cruel, uninformed, ignorant and/or demeaning comments, but that doesn’t mean I should be punished. After all, I’ve said I’m sorry; what more do you want? You want me to punish myself, too? You guys are so strict.

OK, to show how sincerely sorry I am, I plan to make a deposit in the “but he’s really a good guy who simply made one little mistake” bank. That’s

right: I’m making a donation to the charity most beloved by those I have offended. How does $50 million sound? It sounds good, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, I don’t have $50 million. But I do have $50, and except for one little word, it sounds almost the same — and we all agreed it sounded good. After all, it’s the thought that counts.

While I have apologized via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Vine, LinkedIn, Tumblr and a few other social networks, I know that that will never make up for the hurt I have caused. I know because of all the swearing and name-calling in your posts about me. Most of your tweets were far ruder than what I’m apologizing for. I made a mistake, but that doesn’t make me an evil person like Miley Cyrus, does it?

Whoops! I’m getting bombed for calling Miley Cyrus evil. Did I say Miley Cyrus? I meant Dennis Rodman or Mayor Robert Ford. Whoa — now I’m hearing from Dennis Rodman and Robert Ford fans. Who knew they had fans? Those people should be apologizing for liking those guys.

Well, this is interesting.

My fi rst apology got 50,000 new “Likes” on Facebook. I’m thinking that if I said something offensive every day for a year, I could end up with a million followers in no time.

Whoops! It seems in my original apology I may have accidentally offended (pick one) voters, readers, members of Congress, congregants, lobbyists, the elderly, women, the LGBT community, liberals, conservatives, independents, libertarians, college students, parents, newlyweds and/or middle-aged white men, so let me say right here and now that no offense was meant. I was completely at fault, the buck stops with me and even though I was (pick one) heavily medicated, drunk, having a bipolar episode, stressed out, taking meth, addicted to painkillers, on steroids, butt-di-aling, sexting, autocorrected, unintentionally plagiarizing, smoking crack, going through a painful divorce and/or hearing voices, there is simply no excuse for that kind of hurtful statement.

Repeat as necessary.

JIM MULLEN is a syndicated col-umnist with Newspaper Enterprise Association. He can be contacted at JimMullenBooks.com.

Please accept my sincerest generic apologies

JIM

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Protect young football players from concussions

The life-altering damages caused by concussions to National Football League players have received much attention in recent months, and appropriately so. The NFL for too many years ignored its responsibilities to better protect players.

However, tens of thousands of concussions and other brain injuries occur each year to football players at the college, high school and even peewee levels of the sport across America.

Parents, coaches and school offi cials need to be more involved in fi nding ways to prevent concus-sions. Coaches, along with trainers, must be aggressive in making sure players do not

take part in games until they have recovered from possible concussions.

Baseline concussion testing should be required for all players at the high school and college levels because individ-uals react differently to brain injuries. The National Federa-tion of High Schools and the National Collegiate Athletic Association should put together more comprehensive concus-sion education programs.

One barrier to progress: Players, parents and coaches sometimes don’t recognize concussions when they occur. Or, players want to or are told to “play through” head injuries.

That kind of destructive attitude can lead to permanently harming the health of a young football player. Get rid of the macho posturing in the sport, and take injuries to the brain more seriously.

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DEAR DOCTOR K: What is a virus? And what makes viral illnesses so diffi cult to treat?

DEAR READER: Viruses are a very simple kind of germ. Th ey are smaller and simpler than other common germs, such as bacteria and fungi. Th ey cause illnesses ranging from mild — like the common cold — to potentially fatal. Th is includes diseases such as smallpox, infl uenza, Ebola and HIV.

When viruses infect our cells, they take over a cell’s “machinery.” Th e cell can’t carry out its normal life-sustaining tasks. Instead, the host cell becomes a virus-manufacturing plant, making viral parts that reassemble into whole viruses and infect other cells. Finally, the host cell dies.

You ask why viral infections can be so diffi cult to treat. Not all are. And there are diff erent reasons why some are, indeed, hard to treat.

Many common viral infections get attacked and

eliminated by our immune system. For many of these infections, like those that cause the common cold, we don’t actually have (or need) anti-viral

drugs.Other

common infections can be eradicated by the immune system in some people, but not in others. In that latter group, anti-viral drugs can assist the immune system in winning the war and eradicating the virus. Th e viruses

that cause hepatitis B and C are examples.

Still other viral infections have tricks that make it

impossible (currently) to eliminate them. Neither our immune systems nor anti-viral drugs can get rid of them, and they remain with us for the rest of our lives. Sometimes they remain “asleep” in our bodies, causing no damage. Other times they periodically awaken and cause symptoms; a cold sore caused by a herpes virus is an example. Anti-viral medicines sometimes can keep them dormant, or make them go back to sleep.

Another reason that some viral illnesses are hard to treat is that sometimes it’s not the virus that makes us sick; it’s our immune system. Our immune system is like an army: When it attacks a virus, it uses lots of artillery. Unfortunately, that artillery can also damage our own tissues. Th e symptoms from many viral infections are the “collateral damage” done to us by our own immune systems.

Finally, viruses reproduce so rapidly that they have plenty

of opportunity to change their genetic stripes with each new generation. Th is allows them to develop resistance to whatever drugs or vaccines we throw at them.

Who is winning the war, we or our viruses? Over the past century we have eliminated or greatly reduced many viral illnesses through developing vaccines and anti-viral drugs. On the other hand, completely new viral infections have emerged, such as HIV. And the remark-able growth in global travel has made it easier for viral infections to spread.

So I’m not sure if we’re winning the war. But I am sure of one thing: Without medical research, we would have little chance of winning. And in my opinion, we’re not spending enough on research.

DR. KOMAROFF is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. His website is AskDoctorK.com.

Some viruses resistant to anti-viral drugs

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are a young couple, married almost two years. He recently told me he isn’t happy with me anymore and that he may want to leave. He won’t tell me why. He says he doesn’t know why. It was a complete shock to me. He refuses to seek marriage counseling and has dealt with a lot of depres-sion for which he won’t seek help, either. We have a child, and I am now pregnant again. It hasn’t changed his thoughts about leaving. What should I do for myself and our children? What can I do to help my husband change his mind? I’m still deeply in love with him. — CONFUSED IN SOUTH CAROLINA DEAR CONFUSED: I can only imagine how painful this must be for you. Because your husband won’t

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A tense calm has settled over the city, although sporadic street fi ghting rattled Ramadi and surrounding areas in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, a vast desert region west of Baghdad that was once a major battle-ground for U.S. troops.

The extremist militants, emboldened by fellow fi ghters’ gains in the civil war in neighboring Syria, have tried to position themselves as the champions of Iraqi Sunnis angry at the Shiite-led government over what they see as efforts to marginalize them.

Violence spiked after the Dec. 28 arrest of a Sunni lawmaker sought on terrorism charges and the government’s dismantling of a year-old Sunni protest camp in Ramadi, the provin-cial capital, and Iraqi police were forced to retreat from the city centers as black masked gunmen overtook Fallujah and parts of Ramadi last week, burning down police stations and posting guards outside strategic areas.

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(AP) — South Sudanese troops on Friday retook the capital of an oil-producing state from rebels loyal to the country’s former vice president, a military spokesman said.

Government troops retook Bentiu, the capital of Unity state, after a 2 ½-hour battle, Col. Philip Aguer said.

Aguer said the forces loyal to the former vice president, Riek Machar, had “destroyed” the town. Rebels looted the bank, stole food and set the market on fi re, Aguer said.

Doctors Without Borders, which is also known as MSF, said its facilities in Bentiu were also looted.

“It is unacceptable that one of the only humani-tarian organizations still providing assistance to the population in Bentiu has been looted,” MSF General Director Arjan Hehenkamp said.

The loss of Bentiu weakens Machar at the negotiating table in Ethiopia, where mediators are trying to defuse a political confl ict that broke out Dec. 15 and descended into ethnic attacks and military battles.

Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese have been displaced in the nearly monthlong confl ict. The U.N. has said only that more than 1,000 people are believed to have been

killed. But Casie Copeland, South Sudan analyst for the International Crisis Group, said Friday she believes nearly 10,000 have died.

Most of those killed, she said, are combatants who died in major battles: in the capital, Juba, and in Bor, the capital of Jonglei state. In all, fi ghting has been seen in 30 locations, said Copeland, who said her estimate is a compilation of fi gures from the U.N., aid workers, the internally displaced, govern-ment offi cials and combat-ants.

Aguer said troops will soon retake Bor, which rebels still control.

Talks in Ethiopia haven’t made much progress. Machar’s side insists that 11 political prisoners held by the government of President Salva Kiir must be released. The U.S. has also called for the release of those prisoners so they can take part in the negotiations.

On Friday, the U.N. Security Council released a statement calling for Kiir’s government to release the political detainees to promote the talks, and for both sides — “Mr. Machar in particular” — to declare a cease-fi re and begin broader peace negotiations.

The Security Council also “strongly discour-aged external intervention that would exacerbate the military and political tensions.”

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Shakir Waheib, left, a senior member of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), stands next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq’s Anbar Province. With al-Qaida linked fi ghters

and allied tribal gunmen camped on the outskirts, a tentative calm took hold over Fallujah on Friday and residents started to return to the besieged city west of Baghdad.

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