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Vol. 157 No. 10

Classifi ed .............................................. B7-B8Life .................................................................A3Obituaries .....................................................A4Opinion ........................................................ B5Sports.................................................... B1-B3Weather........................................................A6TV/Comics .................................................. B6

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Scam seeks money to help grandchild

LAGRANGE — LaGrange County Sheriff Terry Martin is warning local residents of a telephone scam that is making the rounds in northeast Indiana.

Martin said Friday that citizens report the scam involves receiving a phone call from someone claiming to be child or grandchild who is in jail and needs bail money.

The person on the phone asks the potential victim to get a money gram at Walmart or Western Union and send it to an address.

“This is not legit,” Martin said. “If you receive a call like this, verify who you are talking to by asking personal questions that your relative would know (siblings, address, phone number, etc.). Also, if possible, obtain a name and call-back number of the person calling. Do not send money to someone that you do not know. If you receive a phone call like this, please contact the LaGrange County Sheriff’s Department at 463-7491.

A DeKalb County resident also reported a similar scam in which the caller posed as a grandchild who had been in a wreck and needed money.

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The General Education Development exam (GED), introduced in 1942, has been replaced by the Indiana High School Equivalency Diploma.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

Out with the old

MIKE MARTURELLO

This vacant Wendy’s restaurant is the site of a possible public parking and restroom facility. Angola is working on a federal grant to buy and

raze the building in order to develop a visitor-friendly facility as well as make other improve-ments between the Public Square and the site.

BY JENNIFER [email protected]

ANGOLA — The Angola Common Council designated Mayor Dick Hickman as the purchasing agent for the site of the old Wendy’s restaurant, 206 N. Wayne St.

The designation came at Thursday’s rescheduled council meeting.

The city is waiting for a determination on a $583,000 federal grant toward $729,000 in pedestrian improvements, public restrooms and parking project at the site just north of the Public Square.

The city is interested in buying the four-parcel site for the project, along with making sidewalk improvements north from the Public Square on North Wayne Street.

The project was listed in the Downtown 20/20 plan fi ve years ago as a desired public restroom/travel center and parking facility.

The former Wendy’s restaurant has sat vacant since 2002 at the corner of East Gilmore and North Wayne streets. If the city was to buy the site, it would would tear down the existing building to build a restroom and travel center with

public parking for the downtown.In designating Hickman as

the city’s purchasing agent for the property, two appraisals by licensed brokers would be required to determine the fair market value. Those appraisals would then be forwarded to the council. Hickman would then be authorized to purchase the property for no more than the average of the two appraisals.

The offi cial Steuben County tax website says the property — four lots — has a total value of $243,400.

Angola makes movement on possible downtown restrooms

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jamie Boe and her three children have been stuck inside their suburban Indianapolis home with cabin fever, because fi rst the snow and then subzero temperatures forced the school district to cancel classes.

Five days after their community of Noblesville was buried in nearly a foot of snow, and with temperatures rebounding into the 40s, the Boe children still weren’t back in school Friday. And the two-week holiday break that had stretched to three was wearing thin.

“I personally have probably been less patient with all of my kids,” Boe said. “My kids love school, and they have been begging to go back.”

Poorly plowed roads still clogged with snow and ice are to blame for the extended break, along with snowbanks so high they are obscuring bus stops and making it hard for buses to navigate their routes.

The situation is frustrating parents and school officials, who must decide how to compensate for the lost days in the face of the state’s 180-school-day

School closing a week out of the norm

DENNIS NARTKER

IMPACT Institute in Kendallville provides instruction and testing for the new Indiana High School Equivalency Diploma that has replaced the General Education Develop-ment exam that’s been in place since 1942.

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

Weak jobs report puzzles economists

AP

In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, fi le photo, Luis Mendez, 23, left, and Maurice Mike, 23, wait in line at a job fair held by the Miami Marlins, at Marlins Park in Miami. Employers added a scant 74,000 jobs in December after averaging 214,000 in the previous four months.

GED has been replaced with new program

SEE PROJECT, PAGE A6

SEE TEST, PAGE A6

SEE SCHOOL’S OUT, PAGE A6

SEE JOBS, PAGE A6

Brothers rescued from grain bin

GRABILL (AP) — Firefi ghters rescued two brothers who became stuck while working inside a grain bin at their family’s northeastern Indiana farm.

Fort Wayne assistant fi re chief Ron Privett said a 17-year-old was buried up to his neck Thursday evening and crews needed several hours to free him. His 21-year-old brother was buried to his knees and was quickly freed.

Neighbor Howard Dager told WANE-TV the two had been working with

their father all day hauling grain. Fire offi cials say the brothers were trying to free up some of the grain in the bin, which was about three-quarters full.

South Shore rail line has fewer riders

CHESTERTON (AP) — Ridership dropped slightly last year on northern Indiana’s South Shore commuter railroad, marking its sixth consecutive annual decline.

South Shore offi cials are blaming the drop partly on fewer riders going to festivals and other entertain-ment in Chicago and slow job growth in downtown Chicago, which is the primary destination for most of its passengers.

The line, which is Indiana’s only major mass transit system between cities, boarded 3.61 million passengers in 2013 between

South Bend and Chicago, down 1.7 percent from 2012.

School district must continue bus service

MUNCIE (AP) — The Indiana Department of Education has denied the Muncie Community Schools’ request to end student bus service amid a budget crunch.

The Star Press and WRTV-TV report the department on Friday denied a waiver that would have allowed the district to stop bus service after the current school year. Indiana law requires a district to provide three-year notice before ending bus service. The district applied for a waiver in June.

Voters in November rejected a property tax increase that would have provided $3.3 million for bus service.

Concord schools look at referendum

ELKHART — The board of Concord Community Schools will consider a referendum in its Monday meeting, news reports stated.

The Elkhart Truth reports Concord becomes the third school district in Elkhart County to seek answers for funding shortages with a referendum, after Goshen and Elkhart.

A referendum means that the school corpora-tion will ask the property owners in the school district to pay higher taxes in order to support school projects.

Town debates allowing hogwash

BRYANT — A Jay County town is considering whether to allow a hogwash downtown, our news partner, NewsChannel 15, reports.

Many residents, mostly those opposed to the idea, thought the town council would make a decision at its Thursday meeting, WANE-TV reports. However, members said more information is needed before a decision can be made.

A hogwash is a truck and trailer wash for trucks that haul pigs.

Two arrested by Steuben authoritiesANGOLA — The following people were booked into

the Steuben County Jail following arrests made by law enforcement offi cers on Thursday and Friday.

• Jakeb R. Alexander, 26, Angola, arrested at the jail for misdemeanor operating while intoxicated.

• Darnell Brabson, 21, Wolcottville, arrested at the jail on a warrant for misdemeanor possession of marijuana or hashish and possession of paraphernalia.

Orland woman jailed in Noble CountyALBION — An Orland woman was booked into the

Noble County Jail Thursday, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said.

Michele Marie Ward, 55, was booked on a warrant for a probation violation on an underlying conviction for posses-sion of cocaine or a narcotic drug.

Monday, Jan. 13• Steuben County Commissioners, Steuben Community

Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 8:30 a.m. Board of fi nance meets at 1:30 p.m. and drainage board meets at 2 p.m.

• Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County Board, library, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 4 p.m.

• Hamilton Community Schools Board, 903 S. Wayne St., Hamilton, 6:30 p.m.

• Orland Town Council, Orland Community Building, 9487 W. S.R. 120, Orland, 6:30 p.m.

• Ashley Town Council, Ashley Community Center, 500 S. Gonser Ave., Ashley, 7 p.m. Department head meeting at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 14• Steuben County Council, Steuben Community Center,

317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m.• Steuben County Sheriff’s Merit Board, sheriff’s depart-

ment, 206 E. Gale St., Angola, 4 p.m.• Helmer Regional Sewage District Board, 7620 S. C.R.

969W, Helmer, 5:30 p.m.• Clear Lake Township Advisory Board, 105 Lane 105

Long Lake, Fremont, 6 p.m.• Fremont Park Board, Fremont Public Library, 1004 W.

Toledo St., Fremont, 6 p.m.• Lake George Regional Sewer District Board, 1040

Angola Road, Coldwater, Mich., 6:30 p.m.• Angola Plan Commission, city hall, 210 N. Public

Square, Angola, 7 p.m. Rescheduled meeting.

Wednesday, Jan. 15• Steuben County Local Emergency Planning

Committee, Steuben County Courthouse Annex, 205 S. Martha St., Angola, 10 a.m.

• Steuben County Board of Health, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 7:30 p.m.

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ANGOLA — A 24-hour fi tness center has moved, refurbishing a larger, long empty building, and owners have plans to enlarge it again.

Anytime Fitness recently moved from its former North Wayne Street location to 205 W. Harcourt Road. In the process, co-owners Tyler Hartman and Jeff Halstead increased their facility’s size, moving from 3,300 square feet to 4,000 square feet. And they’re not done.

The building housed by the new co-ed Anytime Fitness facility has been vacant about three years. But the new location has been spiffed up and redeco-rated, as well. It serves members members ages 14 and up.

“We took it over Nov. 1 and in the process we signed a deal on the building,” Hartman said. “We wanted a larger location. We can add a classroom and the layout is different and we have more square footage. We added a tanning room, a larger member lobby and changing rooms that we didn’t have before.”

The duo hopes to add an additional 300 square feet of classroom and weight room space, hopefully with construction starting Feb. 1.

Hartman and Halstead are experienced in the exercise industry. Hartman formerly served as sports and wellness director and CEO of the Steuben County YMCA. He has a degree in sports management from Trine University.

Halstead is an Angola-

area businessman who formerly served as strength and conditioning and assistant basketball coach at Trine.

A nutritionist has been added to the staff, Christy Thomson. The facility also has modern equipment, certifi ed trainers and a large selection of free weights.

The facility is open 24 hours. Hartman said as a security measure, members can wear panic buttons in

case of emergency.“With it being 24 hours,

we have panic buttons that can phone 911,” Hartman said. “I can’t believe how many come at 2 or 3 a.m.”

The facility centered around versatility will offer various classes taught by the following instructors: Amy Hinkley, pilates; Jenny Dilts, step and Silver Sneakers, an exercise program for senior citizens; Viki Andersen, tone; Dawn Goslee, WERQ;

Lana Delves, zumba; Lisa Lennen, kick and fi t; and Jessica Gerrad, cross fi t.

“Classes are offered six times a week with paid membership,” Halstead said. “It’s for the health end. It’s not only working out, but eating healthy.”

“It’s not only for the physical aspect, but also the social,” Hartman said.

For more details, visit Anytime Fitness’ Facebook page or website, anytime fi tness.com.

Anytime Fitness moves to larger, renovated building

JENNIFER DECKER

Anytime Fitness, Angola, renovated and moved to a larger building on Harcourt Road that has more space. Co-owned by Tyler Hartman, left, and Jeff Halstead,

there are plans to add yet more space to the new location, possibly as soon as next month.


ANGOLA — The Angola Board of Public Works approved a dispatch agreement with the Hamilton Fire Department at Thursday’s rescheduled meeting.

Angola will now provide Hamilton with 24-hour dispatch services at no cost.

Angola operates E-911 radio dispatch for emergency services. Hamilton’s fi re department

is volunteer with no facili-ties to receive requests for emergency services.

The Angola Common Council met after the board of public works.

The council:• heard an update from

Bill Boyer, the city’s engineer, that owners of 16 of 19 parcels have reached right-of-way agreements with the city. The rights-of-way are needed for upcoming East Wendell Jacob Avenue work that will

include utilities, reconstruc-tion, widening and sewers.

• approved a $73,000 fi re protection agreement with Fremont to cover a portion of Jamestown Township. That amount is a 2 percent increase from last year.

• renewed the city’s $52,000 membership with the Steuben County Economic Development Corp. That amount is unchanged from last year.

• heard Tom Selman, water superintendent,

say the city has 522 fi re hydrants, some of which have fl ags on wire stakes for identifi cation purposes in case they’re covered by snow. He hopes to make some of the fl ags in the future, which would be more cost effective for the city than buying them.

• The next Angola Common Council meeting will be changed to Tuesday, Jan. 21, due to the federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Angola to dispatch for Hamilton

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Don’t go to Sin SaloonPsalm 1The Message (MSG)1 How well God must like you—you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon,you don’t slink along Dead-End Road,you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College.2-3 Instead you thrill to God’s Word,you chew on Scripture day and night.You’re a tree replanted in Eden,bearing fresh fruit every month,Never dropping a leaf,always in blossom.4-5 You’re not at all like the wicked,who are mere windblown dust—Without defense in court,unfi t company for innocent people.6 God charts the road you take.The road they take is Skid Row.

BY TRACEY ZIMMERMANI have committed to reading through the Psalms and

Proverbs this month. This is the very fi rst Psalm in the book of Psalms. I like the Message version because it gets right to the point in very direct wording.

“Don’t hang out at Sin Saloon.” That’s not really talking about a saloon here people; you know that I know that. We sometimes allow ourselves to be in situations where we are putting ourselves at spiritual risk. We sit and listen to gossip when we should get up and move away. We sometimes bash, while justifying our bad behavior because someone wronged us. We all have been there done that. This is sitting at Sin Saloon.

So, how do we bear fruit? We choose to grow where we are planted. We do not let life or what life throws at us be an excuse for bad behavior. When we do something we should not, we own it. We admit we have made a wrong turn and we confess to ourselves, the person it affected, or all involved that we shouldn’t have done what we did. We seek the Lord in all we do. We do not just talk about we really do it. We OPEN our bibles. We have friends who hold us accountable. We pray/talk to the Lord on a daily basis. This will keep us off Skid Row and out of Sin Saloon.

Passages to look up for our hearts to grow and ponder: Philippians 4:8; 1 John 1:9; Psalm 103:8-13; John 3:16; John 20:31; Psalm 84:11; James 1:17; and Psalm 139:14.

O Holy Father — We need to seek your will more clearly. We need to read your word, apply your word, and spread your word. May we do so with joy in our hearts; even during the painful times. May we seek fi rst the kingdom of heaven.

PASTOR TRACEY ZIMMERMAN serves youth at Angola United Methodist Church.

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But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”

(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fi ll all things.) And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human

cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Ephesians 4: 7 – 16; ESV

BY JOHN BOYANOWSKIHave you ever heard

the phrase of “having a fi ve-year plan?” It can apply to almost every part of life: work, retirement, marriage, relationships, and so on. When I apply for a job or even with my church I am serving, I was asked, “Where do you see yourself in fi ve years?” And I would share where I hope to be in fi ve years. But here is an aspect you never hear it applied to — our spiritual walk. Why is that?

Is it because we believe that once we accept Jesus as savior and Lord that it is all we need? Are we compla-cent in just being part of the family of God? If we are truly honest with ourselves, we would answer that we want to be in a different place than where we were fi ve years ago; even if it’s in the same establishment. Do you want to be doing the same job for the same pay fi ve years straight? In marriage, don’t you want your relationship with your spouse to grow deeper or are you content being in the same place as when you started the relationship? If we want to be in better places in life and relationships, it is only reasonable to desire a better place in our spiritual life and the relationship we strive to have with God the father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Staying in one place is not an option!

In looking at the scriptures provided, there are a great

deal of things to strive for as believers, regardless of whether or not we are called to distinct ministries like the ones listed in the text. We are not to remain as children — we are called to attain unity of faith, knowledge of the son of God (interper-sonal relationship with him), to mature manhood, and to grow up in every way to maturity in Christ. We all are called to present the gospel to others; even if that means to family members, friends and children. And if we were to remain in the same place, we would remain infants ourselves and miss out on so much more of what God wishes to provide for each of us!

There is also another reason to have a “fi ve-year plan” for our spiritual walks: it draws us closer to God. God desires to have contin-uous growth in our relation-ship with him. I think of the time in the Garden of Eden where he walked in the

garden with Adam and Eve. What a beautiful desire to have! I know I fi nd great joy walking with my beloved Marsha every chance we get; and when it is in a place where the beauty of nature shines bright, it doesn’t get any better; that is, unless the Lord is with you both!

My fi ve-year plan is this: to be a better servant of God’s, to be a better husband to my wife, a better father to my children, become a better friend and to serve my church with all that I can. It may take more than fi ve years to complete, but it is a great start!

Father God,Please don’t allow us

to be content just staying the way we are! Help us to grow closer to you and to

each other. Give us a plan to make it happen. Amen.

THE REV. JOHN BOYANOWSKI serves at Pleasant Lake United Methodist Church.

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ANGOLA — Youth motivational speaker Joel Penton will preach during the 9 and 11 a.m. services on Sunday, Jan. 19 at Angola United Methodist Church, 220 W. Maumee St.

Penton, an Ohio State University graduate who played fi ve years of football for the Buckeyes, spoke at Angola High School and Angola Middle

School in December.The praise band Attaboy

will provide the music for the special services.

Penton was a member of three Big Ten champi-onship teams, a member of a national champion-ship team, and a four-time Academic All-Big Ten selection.

In his senior year, he received the Wuerffel Trophy, also known as the

Humanitarian Heisman. The trophy is a national award that recognizes the one college football player in the entire country who best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement. After graduating from OSU, Joel turned down an opportu-nity to play in the NFL to begin a career in full-time speaking.

Wesleyan ensemble Jan. 19 in Hamilton

HAMILTON — HIS Instrument, a mixed ensemble, from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, will be singing at the Hamilton Wesleyan Church, 4001 Terry Lake Road, on Sunday, Jan. 19, starting at 10 a.m.

Members of HIS Instru-ment are Dayne Gowan, Paul Hooker, Stephen Hilson, Faith Poole, Rachel Rubadiri, Kim Tapper, and Trevor Kimball.

Concert rescheduled for Sunday

STROH — The concert at Stroh Church of God by duet Adam’s Voice originally scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 5, has been rescheduled for Sunday Jan. 12, according to the church’s pastor, Jeff Berry.

The concert was canceled due to the Jan. 5 snowstorm. It has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. Jan. 12.

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Former football star and motivational speaker Joel Penton will return to Angola next week for the 9 and 11 a.m. services at Angola United Methodist Church.

Penton speaking Jan. 19

Sunday, January 12• Manmania: Raise

the Roof: 10 a.m. National Military History Center, 5634 County Road 11A, Auburn.

• Narcotics Anonymous: 6 p.m. Narcotics Anonymous, 412 S. John St., Angola.

• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous: 6 p.m. First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola.

Monday, January 13• Story Time: 10:15 a.m.

Fremont Public Library, 1004 W. Toledo St., Fremont.

• GED Classes: 4 p.m. Steuben County Literacy Coalition, 1208 S. Wayne St., Angola. 665-3357

• Angola Rotary Meeting: 6 p.m. Elks Lodge, 2003 N. Wayne St., Angola.

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

Tuesday, January 14• ImagiKnit: 10 a.m.

Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola.

• Euchre Community Game: 12:30 p.m. Steuben County Council on Aging, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola. 665-9856

• Grief Support Group: 4:30 p.m. Cameron Woods, 701 W. Harcourt Road, Angola.

• Community Soup and Supper: 5 p.m. Faith Harvest Church, 200 Park Ave., Angola.

• ESL Instruction: 5 p.m. Vistula Headstart, 603 Townline Road, LaGrange.

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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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In this December 2013 fi le photo, a passer-by walks near an entrance to a Target retail store in Watertown, Mass. Target says that personal informa-tion — including phone numbers and email and mailing addresses — was stolen from as many as 70 million customers in its preChristmas data breach.

‘Bachelor’ starwaiting for dramalike everyone else

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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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 offi ce issued a statement that said Holder’s announcement was unsurprising, but state offi cers 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 prohib-ited 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.

Federal government agencies have previously confi rmed that same-sex couples in other states are entitled to federal benefi ts, but this is the fi rst time Holder has come out publicly and issued this kind of guidance, said Douglas NeJaime, a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine.

“Symbolically, it’s an important step that the federal government has taken,” NeJaime said.

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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 “deliber-ately deceived the American public.” Among the required statements are that smoking kills more people than murder, AIDS, suicide, drugs, car crashes and alcohol combined.

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NEW DELHI (AP) — The United States said Friday it was withdrawing a diplomat from India in hopes it would end a bitter dispute that started with the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York.

Washington’s announce-ment that it was complying with a demand from New Delhi for the expulsion of the U.S. offi cial came hours after Devyani Khobragade, India’s deputy consul general in New York, left the U.S.

Khobragade is accused of exploiting her Indian-born housekeeper and nanny, allegedly having her work more than 100 hours a week for low pay and lying about it on a visa form. Khobragade has maintained her innocence, and Indian offi cials have described her treatment as barbaric.

In an apparent compro-mise, she was indicted by a federal grand jury but also granted immunity that allowed her to leave the United States. She was on a fl ight to India on Friday, and many believed that would be enough to give both countries a way to save face.

India, however, asked the

United States on Friday to withdraw a diplomat from the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, and the State Depart-ment said it was complying, although with “deep regret.”

“We expect and hope that this will now come to closure, and the Indians will now take signifi cant steps with us to improve our relationship and return it to a more constructive place,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.

Requesting the recall of a diplomat is a serious, and fairly unusual, move that sends a message to Washington that India’s government doesn’t accept the legitimacy of the court action in New York.

Given the strategic partnership between India and the U.S. and more than $100 billion in trade, any further escalation in the case would not be in the interest of either country, analysts said.

Psaki did not identify the U.S. diplomat but said it was the individual whose expulsion was sought by India. India’s Foreign Ministry described the person as of the same rank as Khobragade and somehow involved in the case.

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PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande threatened legal action Friday over a magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with an actress, the latest breach in the French media’s practice of turning a blind eye to presidential love affairs.

Rumors have long circulated that the 59-year-old Hollande might have a lover. The magazine Closer published images Friday showing a bodyguard and a helmeted man it says is Hollande visiting the

apartment of Julie Gayet, 41, a moderately known French actress who appeared in a clip for his 2012 presidential campaign.

French media faces strict privacy laws, as well as a longtime tradition of ignoring the private lives of public fi gures. Former President Francois Mitter-rand had a daughter with his lover that the French media knew about but never revealed, until the president himself appeared publicly with his daughter coming out of a restaurant.

But the publication marked the latest incursion into the once-sacred private lives of French politicians. The tradition of keeping private lives private has been chipped away since Hollande’s predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy divorced his wife Cecilia, who was having an affair, and remarried model and singer Carla Bruni.

Bloggers, tweeters and other online sources have tapped into public curiosity and pushed the borders of French privacy.

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The city earlier approved a fi nancial commitment to the proposed $729,000 project. If the federal grant is approved, the city would be responsible for the remaining portion. That would be paid for from the city’s county economic development income tax fund receipts.

In the city’s 20/20 plan developed from surveys, public parking was listed as a concern. A separate

committee borne out of the 20/20 group dealt with parking, which an inventory revealed as ample, but public perception remains that parking is lacking in the downtown.

The convenience facility was also proposed in the city’s Stellar Community grant last year. The city was a fi nalist for the designation from state agencies, but did not receive it, which would have led to grant funding on such projects.

Should the city not

receive grant funding for construction, an alternative source of income would be needed, Hickman said. That decision would go back to council.

Angola Clerk-Treasurer Deb Twitchell said the city has budgeted for purchasing the property and building demolition from County Economic Development Income Tax revenue. How much that would be depends on appraisals and the purchase price.

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Institute for its free equiva-lency diploma classes. The classes have not changed, just the preparation, said Ross.

IMPACT operates testing centers in the four-county area, and the fi rst test is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 21 and 22 at Topeka. People may call IMPACT adult education at 343-2163 to learn about enrollment information.

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

A panel of representatives 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 Commissioner Scott B. Sanders announced Indiana would begin using the equivalency 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, and 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.

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mandate.School offi cials say it’s

uncommon for Indiana students to miss an entire week of classes due to what amounts to routine weather in some parts of the country. Longer absences can occur when schools are damaged in storms, which happened when a tornado heavily damaged a southern Indiana high school in March 2012.

But this week’s break is unusual.

“It’s very, very rare, if you count (Friday), to have fi ve days in a row where we couldn’t get to school,” Fort Wayne Community Schools spokeswoman Krista Stockman said.

Now schools in the state must decide how to handle the missed days. Indiana requires students to attend school 180 days.

Some districts schedule “fl ex days” during the year to use as makeup days in cases of weather cancel-lations. State schools that were out this week have another option: applying for a waiver from the Depart-ment of Education that would excuse them from making up Monday and Tuesday, when the polar

vortex sent temperatures plunging well below zero. The remaining days missed this week will still need to be made up.

Spokesman Daniel Altman said the Department of Education had received about 300 requests for waivers as of Friday.

The last time statewide waivers were offered was in 2007-2008, when winter storms struck, he said. It’s more common for Indiana to grant waivers on a smaller scale, such as in cases when schools have been hit by tornadoes.

Even with a waiver, some districts will have to tack on days at the end of the school year. The extended calendar could affect fi nal exams and plans for graduation.

Another snow day in Noblesville and seniors might need to come to school the Saturday before graduation, an option the district has used before, public relations director Sharon Trisler said.

And it’s only January.Indiana schools aren’t

alone in their predicament. The 6,000-student Monroe Public Schools in far southeastern Michigan also canceled classes all week, and students in Michigan

and Missouri have already used up their allotted six snow days.

Barry Martin, superin-tendent of the Monroe Public Schools, said it’s surprising to have already missed a week. He said he’s less worried about making up lost days than about getting students and teachers back in the academic swing of things after three weeks off.

Minnesota Department of Education spokesman Josh Collins said his agency doesn’t plan to adjust the state’s required number of school days for an academic year, which is 165.

Some die-hard Indiana school districts are determined not to waste a day of class. Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp., about an hour south of Indianapolis, only used four of six allotted snow days and has no plans to apply for a waiver, Superintendent John Quick said.

“How many days did our students miss last year because of bad weather?” Quick sometimes asks community groups. “It’s a trick question because the answer is zero. We didn’t miss a day, we made it all up.”

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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.

It’s unclear whether the sharp hiring slowdown might lead the Federal Reserve to rethink its plan to slow its stimulus efforts. The Fed decided last month to pare its monthly bond purchases, which have been designed to lower interest rates to spur borrowing and spending.

Janet Yellen, who will take over as Fed chairman next month, “is probably scratching her head looking at the report,” said Sun Wong Sohn, an economics professor at the Univer-

sity of California’s Smith Business School.

Certainly many economists were. Some predicted that the job gain would be revised up in the coming months. The government adjusts each month’s jobs fi gure in the following two months as more companies respond to its survey.

Few analysts saw the sharp slowdown as the beginning of a much weaker trend.

“There is a good possibility this is just a one-shot deal that could either get revised away or made up for in next month’s release,” Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West, said in a note to clients.

Cold weather affected the report in several ways. Construction companies, which stop work during bad weather, cut 16,000 jobs, the most in 20

months. And the average workweek dipped as more people worked part time. An unusually large number of people missed work in December because of the weather, the government’s surveys found.

Michael Hanson, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, estimated that all told, the cold weather lowered hiring by about 75,000 jobs.

Several economists also highlighted statistical quirks in the report that they say are unlikely to be repeated. Mark Vitner of Wells Fargo noted that several industries reported unusually steep job losses. Accounting and bookkeeping services, for example, lost 24,700 jobs, the most in nearly 11 years.

And performing arts and spectator sports cut 11,600, the most in 2½ years. The movie industry shed 13,700 jobs.

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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 politi-cally 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 legislative committee investi-gating 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 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 appoin-tees 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. In it, Foye called the decision to close the lanes “abusive” and added, “I believe this hasty and ill-ad-vised decision violates federal law.”

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 traffi c study.

In recent weeks, there have been questions about the whether the closings were part of a legitimate study.

Christie himself said on Thursday: “I don’t know whether this was a traffi c study that then morphed into a political vendetta or a political vendetta that morphed into a traffi c study.”

The newly released documents show that there was, in fact, a traffi c study that was done, or at least a preliminary one. It was six pages and dated Sept. 12, the day before the lanes were reopened.

The documents includes study fi ndings that Baroni gave to lawmakers in a hearing last year: When the lanes were closed, the main bridge traffi c moved a bit faster, but local traffi c had major delays.

Damage control scramble followed NJ lane closings

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 investiga-tion into the circumstances 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 concentration.

The tank that leaked holds

at least 40,000 gallons, said Tom Aluise, a state Depart-ment of Environmental Protection spokesman. “We’re confi dent that no more than 5,000 gallons escaped,” he said. “A certain amount of that got into the river. Some of that was contained.”

Agency offi cials do not know how long the chemical had been leaking, Aluise said in a telephone interview. There was a breach in a concrete wall that served as a containment area to prevent spills from leaving the storage site, he said.

“Our understanding is it’s not an especially toxic material. It’s not dangerous necessarily to be around,” he said.

According to a fact sheet from Fisher Scientifi c, the chemical is harmful if swallowed — and could be so if inhaled — and causes eye and skin irritation. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, headaches, diarrhea, reddened skin, itching and rashes, according to a news release from the American Associ-ation of Poison Control Centers.

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Prairie Heights junior Jacob Heller drives to the hoop against Angola’s Robby Honer (12) during Friday’s Northeast Corner Conference

boys basketball game. The Panthers registered a 50-38 victory.

BY KEN FILLMOREkfi [email protected]

BRUSHY PRAIRIE — Angola’s girls basketball team entered the Northeast Corner Conference Tournament on the right note in the fi rst game of a Northeast Corner Conference varsity doubleheader Friday night at Prairie Heights.

Once Jacob Heller reached a milestone, so did the Panther boys.

Heller became the eighth Prairie Heights High School cager to score 1,000 career points, then the Panthers used their depth and balance to defeat the Hornets 50-38 in the nightcap.

In game one, the Angola girls gradually increased their lead over Heights before shooting 70 percent from the fl oor in the second half (14-20) to cap off a 60-46 victory.

Boys GamePrairie Heights 50, Angola 38The Panthers (7-2, 4-1 NECC)

fought off Angola down the stretch on Heller’s special night.

PH had a 6-0 spurt to start the third quarter to build a 29-16 lead. The Hornets got as close as

four points after a Craig Nofziger three-pointer with 4 minutes, 18 seconds left in the fourth. But

Heller and Kyler West led a fi nal surge for the Panthers to clinch the victory.

Heller, a junior forward, led Heights with 13 points, eight rebounds, fi ve assists and a blocked shot and now has 1,012 career points. He eased his teammates and a big crowd antici-pating the milestone by making the fi rst of two free throws at the 3:30 mark of the opening quarter for his 1,000th point and the Panthers’ fi rst point of the contest. Angola led at that point 5-1 behind fi ve points from senior Kent Kohart.

“For some reason, we played very nervous at the start,” PH coach Brett Eltzroth said. “We had a couple of turnovers. We had a couple of bad shots. We calmed down after that free throw.

“It’s a great honor for Jacob. It’s also a great team honor. It’s an honor to be his coach. I’ve been here for seven years and watched him grow and mature as a person. He’s able to keep himself grounded.”

Angola scores girls portion of doubleheader

Heights handles AHS

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Angola’s Becca Buchs looks inside during Friday’s NECC contest at Prairie Heights. The Hornets won the girls game by a 60-46 margin.

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.

Pistons 114, 76ers 104Josh Smith had 22 points in

an outstanding all-around game, Brandon Jennings made four 3-pointers in the second half and the Detroit Pistons snapped a six-game losing streak with a 114-104 comeback victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.

Five other players scored in double fi gures for the Pistons, who averaged just 88.8 points during their skid. Kyle Singler and Will Bynum each had 16 off the bench.

Thaddeus Young scored 22 points for the Sixers, who have lost three straight after reeling off four consecutive road wins. Michael Carter-Williams added 21 points and Spencer Hawes fi nished with 16 points, 10 rebounds and six assists.

West leads Pacers in win

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.

Gostkowski, Vinatieri get kicks in playoffs

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School SportsHamilton announces basketball scheduling adjustments

HAMILTON — Hamilton Junior-Senior High School athletic Jesse Webb announced basketball scheduling changes on Friday that were made because of the recent inclement weather.

The Marines’ basketball games at Westview scheduled for Friday were postponed. The girls’ varsity game will be made up right before sectionals on Feb. 3 at Westview with a 6 p.m. opening tip-off. The boys’ junior varsity-varsity doubleheader will be played on Feb. 8 starting at 6 p.m. at the Warrior Dome.

Monday’s junior high girls basketball games at Lakeland have been canceled and will not be made up. The high school boys basketball “C” team game will be played at Central Noble Monday at 6 p.m.

Middle School BasketballAngola splits with St. Charles

FORT WAYNE — Angola Middle School’s eighth-grade girls basketball won one of two games with St. Charles last Saturday. The Yellowjackets won game two 33-23 after losing the opener 23-13.

In game two, Angola never trailed. Its press generated much of its offense.

Ali Cranston led the Yellowjackets with eight points and eight rebounds. Kaitlyn Ditmars also had eight points. Angola also had six points and six steals from Regan Peppler, four points from Sarah Brandt and two each from Shelbe Clester and Paige Julian.

In game one, AMS led 10-0 at the start of the game, but attempted to fi ght back. An Emily Weiss three-pointer drew the Yellow-jackets within six at 19-13. But they could get no closer.

Brandt had six points for Angola and Julian and Cranston scored two each. Julian also grabbed seven rebounds.

Youth BasketballFree-throw contest set

ANGOLA — The local council No. 7053 contest for the 2014 Knights of Columbus Free-Throw Council Championship will be on Sunday at Trine University’s Hershey Hall for boys and girls ages 10-14 as of Jan. 1.

Registration starts at noon with competi-tion starting at 1 p.m. Participants are required to furnish proof of age and written parental consent.

For more information, call Dave Sarrazin at 833-3934 or 243-6675.

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ANGOLA — With a little over six weeks before its fi rst game of the season, Trine University’s men’s lacrosse team has a new coach.

The Angola school announced on Friday that Karl Zimmerman was named the head men’s lacrosse coach for the Thunder effective immediately.

Zimmerman will replace Vinnie Lang, who led Trine to a 32-25 record over the past four seasons. Lang will stay aboard as an assistant coach for the Thunder men, according to the staff directory on Trine’s athletic web site, trinethunder.com.

Zimmerman takes over the helm of the Thunder program after spending two seasons at the University of Detroit, where he most recently served as the team’s offensive coordinator. The Titans set program records in points, points per game, goals, assists, assists per game and faceoff win percentage during Zimmer-man’s tenure.

He becomes the fourth head coach in the history of Trine’s men’s lacrosse program. The Thunder fi nished last season 8-8 overall and third in the

Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association at 4-2. They open the regular season on Feb. 22 at John Carroll (Ohio) with opening faceoff set for 2 p.m.

“The addition of Karl Zimmerman as our head men’s lacrosse coach is a tremendous boost to an already solid program,” said Trine athletic director Matt Land. “Zimmerman’s resume and success at every stop make him a valuable leader for our program. His commitment to excellence on the fi eld and in the classroom will serve the program well moving forward.”

Zimmerman coached two players who earned Second-Team All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference honors and another two players who earned MAAC All-Rookie honors. In addition to Second-Team All-MAAC honors, midfi elder Mike Birney also earned Most Outstanding Player at the MAAC Championship under Zimmerman’s guidance.

“The primary goal for the Trine men’s lacrosse program is to develop student-athletes of character and integrity who will pursue excellence in the classroom and on the lacrosse fi eld as

preparation for becoming positive members of the school and society,” stated Zimmerman.

While at Detroit, Zimmerman was also in charge of the team’s academic performance. Detroit led the MAAC with 18 All-Academic team selections and posted a grade point average above 3.10.

Prior to Detroit, Zimmerman spent two years coaching at the high school level. He was the offensive coordinator for Fort Collins in Colorado in 2010 and assisted both the junior varsity and varsity programs at Birmingham (Mich.) Brother Rice in 2011.

A four-year letter-winner in lacrosse at Ohio Wesleyan, Zimmerman earned First-Team All North Coast Athletic Conference recognition as a freshman in 2006 and honorable mention All-Conference in 2009. He helped the Bishops to four consecutive appearances in the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Zimmerman graduated from Ohio Wesleyan with a Bachelor’s degree in physical education in 2009 and is pursuing a Master’s degree in exercise science.

Trine brings in new men’s lacrosse coach

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 Colts trailed 21-3 in the fi nal minute of the fi rst half but won the AFC championship game 38-34 on their way to a 2007 Super Bowl victory. On consecutive 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.

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.

KICKERS: Vinatieri good in clutch situationsFROM PAGE B1

JAMES FISHER

Prairie Heights junior McKenzie Kain (22) hustles downcourt with the ball

while guarded by an Angola player during Friday’s girls game.

The game was stopped for a couple of minutes as the crowd gave Heller a standing ovation, including the Angola bench. He took pictures with his father Bryce, Prairie Heights’ director of student activities, and Eltzroth. Bryce Heller was noticeably emotional while standing with Jacob in front of the scorers’ table.

Jacob enjoyed scoring his 1,000th point with a lot of his AHS friends on the other bench and in the stands.

“It’s really neat. We all played Speiss ball together. It was nice they congratu-lated me,” Heller said.

“It was a weird feeling being one point away. It’s a great feeling and a great accomplishment (to get it). It’s been one of the goals I’ve had since I was real young,” he added. “I was not worried about getting it. I just did not want to let it affect our game.”

Prairie Heights had eight different players score in taking a 23-16 lead at the half. Eleven players took the fl oor throughout the game and 10 of them scored. West added 11 points, three rebounds and two steals for the Panthers.

Angola’s senior post standout Justin Davis was limited by foul trouble and went scoreless, only making one fi eld-goal attempt. Prairie Heights’ Zach Shepard drew the assign-ment on Davis for much of the game.

“I’m proud of our team defensive effort,” Eltzroth said. “Angola is going to fi ght you for 32 minutes no matter what the score is.”

The Panthers held Angola to only 38 percent from the fl oor (13-34) while shooting 45 percent themselves (18-40). Heights also outrebounded the Hornets 32-18.

Kohart led AHS (3-5, 1-2) with 10 points. Nofziger and Aaron Lloyd each had

nine points. Lloyd also had four rebounds and three assists.

Girls GameAngola 60,

Prairie Heights 46The Hornets led 25-17 at

the half. Then Claire Grubb scored 11 of her game-high 22 points in the third quarter to help Angola extend the lead even further.

The Hornets (5-7, 5-2) led by as much as 20 in the fourth quarter. They outrebounded the bigger, stronger Panthers 22-12 in the middle two quarters after being outrebounded 14-7 in the opening stanza.

Angola coach John Berger said his team was more patient on offense and peskier on the defensive end in snapping a losing streak at fi ve games.

“We played a smarter game,” he said. “We needed more ball pressure and needed to be more aggres-sive. We had to run our offense and not settle for threes. We just had to slow down and fi nd the open girl. After halftime, we ran our offense a little bit more and made the extra pass.”

Grubb also had four

rebounds, three steals and three assists. Sophomore Abby Buchs added 12 points, eight rebounds, four assists and two blocked shots.

Berger was pleased with the productivity of his post players. Senior Alexis Scott had 10 points and four rebounds off the bench. Sophomores Kaitlyn Brandt and Hannah Siders each had six points. Brandt had eight rebounds while Siders grabbed fi ve in a reserve role.

Shawna Carbone had 18 points, 12 rebounds and two steals to lead Prairie Heights (6-7, 3-5). Entering the game a 50-percent free-throw shooter, the senior made eight of her 10 free throws in the fourth quarter.

Tressa Terry had 10 points and four rebounds for the Panthers. Saige Dunafi n added nine points and four boards.

Fremont teams splitwith Churubusco

At Fremont, Churubusco earned a 57-28 rout in girls play, then Fremont lost the boys’ contest 43-40. Churubusco’s boys (1-8, 1-2) won their fi rst game of the season. Fremont fell to 1-7, 1-2.

In the girls’ game, FHS led 18-2 after one quarter and 37-9 at halftime.

Shae Rhonehouse led the Steuben County Eagles (7-5, 3-2) with 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the fl oor, four rebounds, three assists, two blocked shots and two steals. Freshman Kayla Stroop added 11 points and four rebounds.

Lexus Lyon had nine points, eight rebounds and two steals off the bench for Fremont. Miranda White had eight points, nine rebounds and two blocks. Melissa Beer chipped in with eight points, eight boards, three steals and three assists.

Montana Martin had 10 points and fi ve rebounds for Churubusco (5-8, 2-4).

HOOPS: Fremont teams see action at ’BuscoFROM PAGE B1

JAMES FISHER

Prairie Heights junior Cassten Everidge takes a pass during Friday’s game.

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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.

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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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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

BY DICK HICKMANThe year 2013 has quickly passed us by

and it is time for the information letter I like to send out each year. You can be very proud of your city employees as they have once again worked extremely hard to make our city a better place to live, work and enjoy ourselves.

This past year found us working on many different projects. One of those was another Safe Routes to School project. Our Engineering Department, headed by Bill Boyer, has been working on our next phase of this project. The project itself will be under way in 2015 and will include the sidewalks around Carlin Park School on Williams Street to Felicity Street east to the Head Start School. It will also include part of the sidewalk on the north side of Mill Street and the north side of Randolph Street from Williams Street to Clyde Street.

Wall Street was repaved with new sidewalks put in including Americans with Disabilities Act ramps. South Wayne Street also received new pavement this year.

Several wastewater projects were completed, including rehabbing the lift station at Hoosier Drive, putting in a parallel sewer interceptor west of the treatment plant and several storm water improvements including the Jackson Drain and Pine Run drainage improvements.

This will be another busy year. Our biggest project will include the next phase of our Downtown Revitalization when we tear up the old sidewalks from the mound west to the railroad tracks and install new sidewalks, lighting and green spaces. This will hopefully begin around the middle of March or fi rst of April and be fi nished by early summer. Much will depend on the weather.

We are currently working on a grant to do some work on our traffi c signals during emergency situations. If we receive this grant we will be able to install electronic devices in our traffi c signals and our emergency response vehicles that will allow the drivers in our police and fi re vehicles to change the traffi c lights when on emergency runs. This will hopefully make it safer for all when our vehicles are making emergency runs.

We are hoping to be able to purchase the old Wendy’s building that has been sitting empty for almost 10 years and change that area into another downtown parking area and install public restrooms in that area. We may not be able to do all that in 2014 but we are hoping we can at least get it started then.

The purchase of the old Angola Lumber

Yard was completed this past year. Already Freedom Academy has been using our building as an adult education learning center. The city is using these buildings for much-needed storage. The continued prospects for this kind of future activity is exciting in enhancing economic development in our area.

Many other projects including those for our water, wastewater and street improve-ments will be worked on in 2014. But there are too many projects to be all listed here.

We will continue to work on economic development in our area on a daily basis. Some exciting news for 2014 already is the upcoming opening of Hobby Lobby and Love’s Travel Plaza in our city. Both hope to open in late winter or early spring. Each store will be adding 50 or more jobs to our area.

We believe in our community and the citizens in it. Because of that we are excited about the prospects in 2014. As always we look forward to hearing from and I hope you will contact us when concerns and comments come up.

On behalf of the Angola City Employees and all the city elected offi cials I want to wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2014.

Richard Hickman, MayorCity of Angola

Angola looks forward to busy, productive 2014

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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 sto-ryteller, teacher, writer, actress and a collector of front porch stories.

Settling back into Indiana life in the nick of time

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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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To the editor:The Clothes and Food Basket of LaGrange County, as well

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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1-888-832-8060M - F •8 am - 4 pm

EMPLOYMENT

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PROPERTYMANAGER

needed in the Garrettarea for approx. 24

hours a week. We arelooking for an eager,

organized, andprofessional person.

Individual must haveexcellent customer

service & communica-tion skills, both verbaland written. Needs to

possess self-confi-dence, integrity & be

a self-starter. Shouldwork successfully with

others & capable ofmulti-tasking.

Computer experiencepreferred.

Please fax resumes to:260 724-6439by Jan. 15th

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PART TIMEMANAGER

needed atApartment Communitiesin Orland, IN; Fremont,

IN and Camden, MI31 hours a week. Musthave prior office experi-ence. Must be able to

work three nights aweek until 6 p.m.

Send resume to:Deardorf Property

ManagementPO Box 127

Corunna, IN 46730“This institution is an

equal opportunity pro-vider, and employer.

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DriverDRIVER TRAINEES!GET FEE-PAID CDL

TRAINING NOW!Learn to drive for

US XpressNew Driver’s can earn$800/wk & Benefits!NO EXPERIENCE

NEEDED!Be trained &based locally!

1-800-882-7364

EMPLOYMENT

DriversMCT LOGISTICS-

Class A-CDL Flatbeddriver wanted. Home

weekends. $1,000 perweek. 260-760-6095.

(A)

General1st & 2nd shift CNCMachine openings

Quake Manufacturingis looking for people to

setup/run CNC Ma-chines. Star/CitizenSwiss experience aplus. Hurco/Haas

experience also a plus.Great compensation,Holidays, vacation,

insurance, 401K.Email, fax, or mail

resume.paulquake@

quakemfg.comFax: 260-432-7868

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NELSON ESTATES

Start the New Yearoff at Nelson Estate

•$1,000 IN FREE RENT• REDUCED RATES $99 SECURITY DEPOSITS• Free Heat & Water• Pet Friendly • Low Deposits

CALL TARA TODAY!CALL TARA TODAY!ONLY A FEW ONLY A FEW

SPACIOUS HOMES LEFT!SPACIOUS HOMES LEFT!

CROSSWAITCROSSWAITESTATESESTATES

FREE HEAT, WATER, FREE HEAT, WATER, SEWER & TRASHSEWER & TRASHRESIDENTS PAY RESIDENTS PAY ELECTRIC ONLYELECTRIC ONLY

LOW RENTAL RATESLOW RENTAL RATESCall today to schedule Call today to schedule a Tour!a Tour!

260-668-4415260-668-4415199 Northcrest Road199 Northcrest Road

Angola, IN 46703Angola, IN 46703PETS WELCOME!PETS WELCOME!

Restrictions apply.Restrictions apply.www.mrdapartments.comwww.mrdapartments.com

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A New ApartmentHome Awaits You at

GRISWOLD ESTATES

*Restrictions Apply

$400 FREE RENT!

(260) 333-5457900 Griswold Ct., Auburn, IN 46706

[email protected]

DEPOSITS STARTING AT

$99FREE HEAT!

AngolaONE BR APTS.

$425/mo., Free Heat.260-316-5659

Auburn $99 First Month -2BR-VERY NICE!

SENIORS 50+ $450No Smokers/ No Pets

(260) 925-9525

Avilla1 & 2 BR APTS$450-$550/ per

month. Call260-897-3188

Kendallville1 BR Apt Downtown$425 (260)341-3221

KendallvilleARVADA HILLS

Large 1 BR Apt.+ Gar.$525 + Util.,

Dep. Req. No Pets. 897-2154 / 318-2030

HOMESFOR RENT

KendallvilleIn country, 3BR, 2BA.

Lease, dept. + util.260 579-3551

MOBILE HOMESFOR RENT

Barton LakeLakewood Mobile

Home Court2008 Liberty 16 x 80,2 BR, 2 BA, $575/mo.

No Pets.260 833-1081

Dekalb & Noble Co. For Sale or Rent$400-$600/ mo.(260)925-1716

Hamilton Lake

2 BR,Newly remodeled,Nice! One block to

lake, others available.$550/mo.

(260) 488-3163

Wolcottville 2 & 3 BR from $100/wkalso LaOtto location.

574-202-2181

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All real estateadvertising inthis newspaperis subject to theFair Housing

Act which makes it illegal toadvertise "any preferencelimitation or discriminationbased on race, color, relig-ion, sex, handicap, familialstatus, or national origin, oran intention, to make anysuch preference, limitationor discrimination." Familialstatus includes children un-der the age of 18 living withparents or legal custodians;pregnant women and peo-ple securing custody of chil-dren under 18. This news-paper will not knowingly ac-cept any advertising for realestate which is in violationof the law. Our readers arehereby informed that alldwellings advertised in thisnewspaper are available onan equal opportunity basis.To complain of discrimina-tion call HUD Toll-free at1-800-669-9777. Thetoll-free telephone numberfor the hearing impaired is1-800-927-9275.

USDA 100% HOMELOANS--Not just 1st

time buyers! Low rates!Buy any home any-where. Academy

Mortgage Corporation,11119 Lima Road,

Fort Wayne, IN 46818.Call Nick Staker:

260-494-1111NLMS-146802. Somerestrictions may apply.Largest Independent

Mortgage Banker.Indiana Corp StateLicense-10966 Corp

NMLS-3113 LOLicense-14894. EqualHousing Lender. (A)

LAKE PROPERTYFOR SALE

AUCTION 3 BR, 2 BA on 100'

WATERFRONT HOMEBIG BARBEE LAKE CHAIN

Jan.18 @11am NO RESERVE260-580-3400AU11000012

OPEN HOUSE~Jan.13, 5-6:30pm

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WhirlpoolWasher and

Dryer, Electricrange,18 c.f.

refer, 36" tube TV,and a tread mill,

all work well.All items are$60 a piece.Call Mike at

260-333-6178.

FURNITURE

Brand NEW in plastic!QUEEN

PILLOWTOPMATTRESS SETCan deliver, $125.

(260) 493-0805

WANTED TO BUY

TIMBER WANTEDAll species of hardwood. Pay before

starting. Walnut needed.

260 349-2685

Call 1-800-717-4679today to begin home delivery!

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Humane Society ofNoble County, Inc.1305 Sherman St.

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$ WANTED $Junk Cars! Highest

prices pd. Freepickup. 260-705-7610

705-7630

SETSER TRANSPORTAND TOWINGUSED TIRES

Cash for Junk Cars!701 Krueger St.,

K’ville. 260-318-5555

ATTENTION:Paying up to $1000 forscrap cars. Used tires4 sale also. 318-2571

IVAN’S TOWINGJunk Auto Buyerup to $1000.00(260) 238-4787

CARS

1 & Only Place To Callto get rid of that junk

car, truck or van!! Cashon the spot! Free tow-

ing. Call 260-745-8888.(A)

Guaranteed Top DollarFor Junk Cars, Trucks& Vans. Call Jack @

260-466-8689

Indiana Auto Auction,Inc.--Huge Repo SaleJan. 16th. Over 100

repossessed units forsale. Cash only. $500

deposit per personrequired. Register

8am-9:30am. All vehi-cles sold AS IS! 4425

W. Washington CenterRoad, Fort Wayne. (A)

WE BUILD POLEBARNS AND--Ga-

rages. We also re-roofand re-side old barns,garages and houses.Call 260-632-5983 or

260-255-7463. (A)

TRUCKS

2001 ChevySilverado 1500Extended Cab.255,000 miles.

Runs good, nicework truck. Droveeveryday. Maroon.

$3,200318-0723

Kendallville

MERCHANDISEUNDER $50

1 Twill Insulated Cover-all by Wrangler. Size

large, like new, $30.00.(260) 235-0222

1 Twill InsulatedHooded Jacket,

size large. $10.00.(260) 235-0222

17 VCR Tapes &2 DVD’s. All for pre-school age. $20.00.

(260) 347-4293, Leavemessage if no answer

2013 Net gear WirelessRouter WNR1000

Wireless N. $30.00.(260) 349-8050

DirecTV Universal Re-mote control & userguide. New, $10.00.

(260) 349-8050

Formula 1 Wii racinggame in case with

instruction booklet.Excellent cond. $45.00.

(260) 349-8050

KRUPS CAFE DUOMOCoffee & Expresso

machine. $49.00. Gen-tly used, works fine!

Can provide pixs.(517)607-9263

Logitech speed forcewireless wheel for Wii.

Full featured racingwheel: provides realisticdriving exp. No batter-ies necessary, $45.00.

(260) 349-8050

Samsung 19” LCD TVMonitor. Excellent cond.Model 940MV. $50.00.

(260) 349-8050

Snapper LE 17” Snow-blower. Great cond.$50.00. Call or text,

(574) 535-3124

Speaker for carJabra Cruiser 2 handsfree -20.00 2-xtreme-

Mac incharge duo,chargers for iPhone &

iPod. In original boxes.$20.00 for both(260) 336-0924

Two Bar StoolsSwivel, padded neutralcolor. Excellent cond.

$50.00. (260) 637-2281

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