The News Sun – January 8, 2014

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WEDNESDAYJanuary 8, 2014

Heroes In The StormOffi cers spend day off

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Plan commissionmeeting canceled

ALBION — A Noble County Plan Commis-sion meeting scheduled for Tuesday at 7 p.m. was canceled Tuesday afternoon.

All agenda items for the meeting will be moved to the regularly scheduled meeting Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. Public hearings for confi ned feeding, Unifi ed Develop-ment Ordinance maps and proposed A1 changes also will be addressed at that time.

Libraries plan toopen today at noon

KENDALLVILLE — Kendallville Public Library and Limberlost Public Library in Rome City will open today at noon.

Library programs for today have been canceled due to East Noble canceling school.

Man suffers burnsas fuel tank explodes

HOWE — An Amish man was airlifted to a Fort Wayne hospital about 8 a.m. Tuesday after he suffered second- and third-degree burns to his hands and face when a fuel tank exploded inside his workshop.

The man’s name and the address of his shop were not released. The accident occurred west of Howe along S.R. 120.

Firefi ghters closed down a section of the highway to allow Parkview’s Samaritan helicopter to land and take the man to a Fort Wayne hospital.

No additional details were available.

City may take outloan to help payfor police vehicle

KENDALLVILLE — The city may borrow nearly $17,000 to help pay for a new police vehicle.

City Council Tuesday night approved on fi rst reading a special ordinance allowing the city to borrow up to $16,995 as a two-year loan from Campbell and Fetter Bank with interest

BY DENNIS [email protected]

KENDALLVILLE — A wind chill warning expired last night and a warmup was forecast for today, but frigid temperatures, wind chills of 30 to 40 below, snow and slippery road conditions kept emergency responders busy late Monday and Tuesday.

A wind chill advisory is in effect until 9 a.m. today.

Noble County offi cials and Mayor Suzanne Handshoe lifted a Level 1 traffi c warning at noon Tuesday and declared a Watch Level that was to end at midnight. The county roads and city streets remained slick and hazardous Tuesday, covered with hard-packed snow and ice.

The public was advised to stay off the roads Tuesday night unless traveling to and from work and for emergency situations. Despite the warning, police were busy responding to minor accidents and

slide-offs.“Salting the roads doesn’t

work in these extremely low

temperatures,” said Kendallville Street Department superintendent Ryan Alwine. “Any thawing just

refreezes.”Since Saturday night, city street

Trying to dig out, stay warm

JAMES TEW

Kendallville Street Department employee Tony Perkins scoops snow into another street depart-

ment truck Tuesday to be removed from traffi c lanes on Main Street in downtown Kendallville.

Weather warming upslowly; Roads stillslippery, dangerous

BOB BRALEY

A pickup in the 100 block of Van Scoyoc Street, Avilla, was one of a number of vehicles still plowed in throughout the area Tuesday as efforts to clear streets of the snow from the storm that hit northeast Indiana Sunday advanced.

BY BOB [email protected]

ALBION — Government offi cials relaxed travel restrictions in Kendallville and on Noble County roads Tuesday.

The Noble County Board of Commissioners and Kendallville Mayor Suzanne Handshoe each authorized a reduction in the travel emergency status from Red Level 1 Warning to Orange Level 2 Watch effective at noon Tuesday, said Michael Newton, Noble County Emergency Management Agency executive director.

A Red Level 1 Warning allows only emergency vehicles to travel on county or city roads while streets are being cleared.

An Orange Level 2 Watch permits all vehicles on roads, but recommends only essential travel such as driving to and from work and travel for medical concerns.

The Orange Level 2 Watch was in place for both areas through midnight Tuesday, Newton said late Tuesday morning.

The Red Level 1 Warning prompted many people to call

Restrictions on driving eased

BY PATRICK [email protected]

LAGRANGE — Late Tuesday afternoon, LaGrange County offi cials lifted an emergency travel ban, replacing it with a watch that allows motorists to do only essential driving, such as such as going back and forth to work.

The ban had been in place since a winter storm struck the area Sunday. More than a dozen people received tickets in LaGrange County for violating the emergency travel ban.

The LaGrange County Highway Department still is struggling to open some roads in the county. Strong southwesterly winds Monday undid much of the plowing

work accomplished by road crews, blowing and drifting snow back onto roads that had just been cleared.

“That blowing snow really packs hard,” Randy Van Wagner, a foreman with the LaGrange County Highway Department, said Tuesday morning.

Offi cials at the Indiana Toll Road reported driving conditions were still quite slick Tuesday night. They advised motorists to stay off the toll road if at all possible.

Stewart Bender, the Topeka fi re chief who also serves as the county’s emergency management director, said people who drove their cars Sunday and Monday and got stuck in the snow on the road caused as much trouble for

the highway department as the snow.

“For the most part, the hardest part of this was just trying to get people to say off the roads so they (the highway department) can clear out the roads,” Bender explained. “That put police and fi re department members at risk, because at 40 below you just can’t leave people stranded out there.”

Cars presented a huge obstacle for plow drivers who reported dozens of abandoned vehicles littering county roads.

“We’ve got cars stuck all over the place,” Van Wagner said, adding that it is diffi cult to plow around cars buried in snow.

Even Tuesday’s seemingly

Wind still makes clearing roads a struggle

PATRICK REDMOND

The Farmers State Bank sign shows a temperature of 13 below zero at about 9 a.m. Tuesday.SEE WIND, PAGE A6

SEE RESTRICTIONS, PAGE A6

SEE WEATHER, PAGE A6

LONDON (AP) — A U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in the coastal marshes of eastern England during a training mission on Tuesday night, killing all four crew members aboard, offi cials said.

The helicopter crashed at about 6 p.m. local time near Salthouse on the Norfolk coast, a statement from the U.S. Air Force said.

The aircraft was based at the nearby Royal Air Force station in Lakenheath, Suffolk County, which hosts USAF units and personnel.

The helicopter, assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, was fl ying low at the time of the crash, the statement added.

In Washington, a U.S. defense offi cial said the accident killed the

four U.S. Air Force crew members aboard. The offi cial spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the crash publicly.

Local police in Norfolk County also said they believed all four crew had died. It said family members will be notifi ed before details of the victims can be released.

Emergency workers from

the fi re brigade, coast guard and police are at the scene. Police in Norfolk County said they believe there is ammunition onboard the helicopter, and the scene was cordoned off so that experts could ensure the area is safe. Apart from the crew, nobody was put in any danger, police said.

It is not yet known what caused the accident.

Four killed in crash of Air Force helicopter

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House-backed legislation to renew jobless benefi ts unexpectedly cleared an initial Senate hurdle on Tuesday, raising the prospect of a mid-winter compromise to ease the impact of the recession on the long-term unemployed.

“Let’s get it done,” President Barack Obama exhorted lawmakers at the White House shortly after the vote.

The vote was 60-37 to limit debate on the three-month legisla-tion, with a half-dozen Republi-

cans siding with the Democrats on the test vote.

At the same time, the Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said he and his rank and fi le would seek changes so the bill’s $6.4 billion cost would not add to defi cits.

Senate Democrats have so far rejected that approach, although there were signs they would eventually yield.

Shortly after the Senate vote, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued a statement

expressing views similar to McConnell’s. Almost simultane-ously, a senior Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, signaled a willingness to consider changes to offset the impact of the bill on the defi cit, calling that “the second best option.”

The vote came at the dawn of an election year in which the two parties have made it clear they intend to battle for the support of millions of voters who have suffered economically through the worst recession in decades and

the slow, plodding recovery that followed.

The political phrase is income disparity — the difference between the rich and the economically squeezed. In pocketbook terms, Democrats chose fi rst to seek an extension of long-term jobless benefi ts, to be followed by a proposal to increase the minimum wage that many Republicans also are expected to oppose.

Among the GOP proposals is a suspension in the requirement to

Jobless benefi ts renewal clears key hurdle

SEE UNEMPLOYMENT, PAGE A6

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AUBURN FIRE DEPARTMENT PHOTO

Firefi ghters suspect a gas-powered heating unit may have started a fi re that destroyed this mobile home

in northwest Auburn during a citywide power outage Monday night.

BY DAVE [email protected]

AUBURN — A raging fi re destroyed a double-wide mobile home at the west edge of Auburn during a citywide power outage Monday night.

Owner Lowell King was not home when the fi re broke out at 707 Peterson St., Auburn Fire Chief Mike VanZile said. A relative had picked up King due to the power outage.

”We’re looking at the possibility he had left a heater or gas-powered fi replace on,” VanZile said about the cause of the fi re.

No one was injured by the fi re or the efforts to control it, VanZile reported.

The home borders Interstate 69, and a passing driver called to report the fi re at 10:54 p.m. Firefi ghters arrived three minutes later to fi nd heavy fl ames and smoke.

Knee-deep snow and 15 below zero tempera-tures hampered fi refi ghting efforts. The fi re still was roaring beyond midnight, and fi refi ghters declared it under control at 12:33 a.m

In addition to the home, the fl ames destroyed two vehicles in an adjoining garage.

A neighbor who wished to remain anonymous

complained that a lack of fi re hydrants in West Edge Park added to the diffi culty in fi ghting the fi re.

“The fi re departments had to call out to other fi re departments to bring water because they kept running out. Once they gained control, they ran out of water,” the neighbor wrote in a message to KPC Media Group.

The neighbor said King, who lost his home to the fi re, is in his 80s.

Firefi ghters worked at

the fi re scene until 3 a.m. They already had been involved in a busy evening.

The fi re department spent two hours at Wesley Healthcare on the city’s east side after its backup generator failed, VanZile said. Firefi ghters assisted with manual breathing devices for several of the facility’s 15 ventilator patients and helped move six of those patients to DeKalb Health hospital next door.

The department also

responded to a couple of calls for medical assistance and reports of natural gas odors.

As a result of all the calls, water in the fi re engines was starting to freeze by the time the mobile home fi re broke out, VanZile said.

Auburn called for assistance during the fi re from the Garrett, Waterloo and Butler fi re departments. DeKalb EMS and the Auburn Police Department also assisted.

Fire during blackout destroys mobile home

AUBURN FIRE DEPARTMENT PHOTO

A garage shows damage from a fi re that broke out late Monday night in its

adjoining mobile home on Peterson Street in Auburn.

BY BOB [email protected]

KENDALLVILLE — As the new executive director of the United Way of Noble County, Dawn Modlin keeps a list of new year’s resolutions on her desk.

Modlin, who brings a long history of work with both profit and nonprofit groups, started in her new job in mid-December and wasted no time in making sure she can keep her resolutions. They include:

• increasing awareness of United Way and its work throughout all of Noble County;

• continuing to build strong community partner-ships that meet the needs of the area’s residents;

• increasing campaign donations by 20 percent;

• developing strong community volunteers and leadership; and

• improving communi-cation from the United Way office to all of its agencies, partners, donors and volunteers.

Modlin said the position at the United Way attracted her “because I have always wanted to make a positive impact on our communities in some way. I have done volunteer work through my church and through the Kendall-ville Rotary, and I owned an employee training business that attempted to focus on our industries in the area.”

Modlin already has started working with the United Way’s board of directors and its partner agencies, with the ultimate goal of making sure those agencies can better serve their patrons.

“United Way has the mission to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities together, and to help our county residents thrive. It was a natural fi t for me to join this wonderful organi-zation,” she said.

Modlin’s past experience with nonprofi ts include jobs with Youth for Christ in Fort Wayne and Camp Lutherhaven in Albion.

Her most recent job was with the Ross Medical Education Center in Fort Wayne. She also has owned her own consulting business, Training For Excellence, based out

of Kendallville.“I have seen what it

takes to efficiently manage an organization that needs to make a successful impact in the community

while doing it with a tight budget,” Modlin said. “I have also seen the importance of being out in the community

and being involved in the lives of people and the fellow agencies that can work together and make a difference.”

Chris Lautzenhizer, president of the United Way’s volunteer board of directors, said the board was impressed with Modlin’s history as both a professional and volunteer in the community.

“Dawn has great community relation-ships with Noble County businesses and individuals that will bring a renewed energy and focus to the needs of our communi-ties,” Lautzenhizer said. “She has extensive experience in budgeting, fundraising, implementing programs and creating community awareness, all of which should benefi t the agencies we support through the trust of our donors.”

Modlin’s hiring allows the United Way’s current interim director, Cheryl Pogorelc, to leave the agency in February. Her departure was pre-planned nearly a year ago. Lautzen-hizer said the board owes Pogorelc a great deal of thanks and gratitude for her hard work and dedication to the United Way over the past fi ve years.

Modlin can be reached at the United Way offi ce in Kendallville at 347-6822, or by her cell number, 318-1520.

She noted there is still time for businesses to start a payroll-deduction campaign for the United Way, or to make a donation of any time.

The UW’s website is uwnoble.org. More information is also available on its Facebook page, United Way of Noble County or on Twitter at @UnitedWayofNobl.

Dawn Modlin is new United Way director

BY DAVE [email protected]

AUBURN — A six-hour, citywide power outage created a dark, bitter-cold night for Auburn residents Monday while temperatures plunged to at least 13 below zero.

Relief fi nally came at 12:45 a.m. when utility company workers overcame a circuit fault that triggered the blackout.

“The outage was a failure on our equipment due to cold weather,” Auburn Mayor Norm Yoder said. Extreme cold hampered efforts at making repairs.

The problems began with a trip fault in the city’s transformer on South Grandstaff Drive, one of

two major substations in the city, Yoder said.

“I compare it to a ground fault, which is probably an oversimplifi cation,” said the mayor, who is a Purdue-trained engineer. Ground faults shut off power in home electric circuits.

“In normal weather, those things will reclose and adjust,” with customers noticing only a blinking of their lights, Yoder said.

When the circuit failed at 6:35 p.m. Monday, weather was anything but normal with the temperature at approximately 10 below.

Auburn’s city-owned utility connects to its electricity source from Indiana Michigan Power at two points in the city. The

fault on Grandstaff Drive triggered I&M’s system to shut off all power to the city.

Under typical circum-stances, the circuit will reopen and continue service, Yoder said. Not this time.

Working under diffi cult circumstances, crews found the problem and had Auburn’s system ready to re-energize by about 9:30 p.m., Yoder said. At that point, I&M struggled with its breakers due to the cold temperatures, he said.

The mayor summed up the situation to “an accumu-lation of circumstances that happened when you have these severe conditions.” He added, “Just like it’s hard to start a car in cold weather, it’s hard to get these things back up and running.”

When the power came back up at 12:45 a.m., crews reconnected the city in stages over a 15-minute span.

“You don’t want to charge the whole system, so you don’t get a surge,” Yoder said. “If you brought it all up at once, it could probably cause a bigger problem.”

Now, the mayor said, the city utility will investigate to learn what failed and why.

“We’ll use this as a learning experience and try to improve the reliability of the system as best we can,” he said.

“There’s a whole lot of people who I need to thank,” Yoder added. His list includes the president of Indiana Michigan Power, who was in contact with the

mayor throughout the night.“Obviously, all of the

Auburn Electric people who worked out in all that cold and under a lot of pressure,” Yoder said.

He also expressed gratitude to everyone who helped operate three warming shelters that took in approximately 50-60 people seeking relief from their dark, cold homes.

Kendallville Fire Depart-ment personnel took charge of one warming station in the DeKalb County Offi ce Building, 215 E. Ninth St.

Across the street at the Auburn City Hall council chambers, Auburn Police Department offi cers operated a shelter for disabled people who could not use the stairs at the county building.

A third warming shelter opened at DeKalb Middle School north of the city, with Auburn Police reserve offi cers in charge.

Yoder said the staff at an emergency operations center included Kendallville Fire Chief Mike Riehm and Indiana State Police offi cer Michael Crabtree, along with four local offi cials, DeKalb County Sheriff Don Lauer and his Chief Deputy Gerald Kline, Auburn Police Chief Martin McCoy and DeKalb County Homeland Security Director Roger Powers.

“It’s been a bumpy start to the new year,” Yoder said about the blizzard and power outage that have affected Auburn since Sunday. “I hope we’ve got all the bad news out of the way.”

Power outage leaves Auburn dark for 6 hours

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KENDALLVILLE — The city may borrow nearly $17,000 to help pay for a new police vehicle.

City Council Tuesday night approved on first reading a special ordinance allowing the city to borrow up to $16,995 as a two-year loan from Campbell and Fetter Bank with interest not to exceed 1.73 percent. The money will finance the remaining balance of the new police vehicle.

Last month the Board of Public Works approved the financing that includes encumbering from the 2013 police department budget.

The ordinance will be eligible for second reading at council’s Jan. 21 meeting.

Mayor Suzanne Handshoe announced the following council committee appoint-ments for 2014: Finance Committee, Councilman Jim Dazey, chairman, and Councilman Frank Walkup; Law and Ordinance Committee, Councilman Dazey, chairman, and Councilman Max Franklin; Streets & Alleys Committee, Councilman Regan Ford, chairman, and Councilman Franklin; City Buildings Committee, Councilman Ford, chairman, and Councilman Larry Davis; and Board of Public

Works and Safety, Councilman Dazey, chairman, and citizen member Mike Post.

Handshoe also announced the following re-appointments for 2014: Larry Weber, Board of Zoning Appeals; Dee Slater, Kendallville Park Board; David Christianson, Tree Commission; John Cazier, Kendallville Housing Authority Board of Commissioners; Ray Scott, James Cook and Pam Riley, Redevelopment Commission; and Lisa Cordial, Plan Commission.

Council appointed Councilman Walkup to fill a vacancy on the Economic Development Advisory Committee, and re-appointed Kevin Hearn to the Redevelopment Commission.

In other business, council:

• Appointed Dazey to serve as Council Pro Tem in 2014. He will serve as president of council in the mayor’s absence.

• Heard Handshoe proclaim January as Mentoring Month in Kendallville.

• Praised the work of the code enforcement officer in 2013, and the efforts of all city employees responding to the recent snow emergen-cies.

Council moves ahead with police car loan

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Woman ejected into swimming pool

KENDALLVILLE — A Kendallville woman was ejected from a Jeep into a swimming pool at a South Main Street residence Friday.

Police were dispatched at 5:48 p.m. to the residence at 614 S. Main St., according to a Kendallville police news release.

Cassandra L. Gienger, 24, of the 600 block of South Main Street, Kendall-ville, told police Courtney G. Simpson, 17, of Avilla, was driving a 2007 Jeep Liberty when it struck her and then a retaining fence at 614 S. Main St.

A witness told police Gienger and Simpson were arguing when Simpson, apparently injured, stepped onto the Jeep and Gienger began driving erratically. The Jeep struck the fence and ejected Simpson into the swimming pool.

Simpson suffered contusions and bruises to her neck and was treated by Noble County EMS personnel.

Police estimated total damage at $2,500 to $5,000.

Vehicle leaves crash scene

KENDALLVILLE — An eastbound Mercury Grand Marquis went off Drake Road Sunday and struck a westbound vehicle that later left the scene.

Alyssa J. Kimmell, 20, of the 500 block of Bison Boulevard, Kendallville, told police she was driving the Mercury in the 400 block of Drake Road when it went off the road. She corrected the car’s path before it struck the other vehicle. The driver stopped the vehicle, which a witness described as a tan Dodge Durango, and checked on Kimmell’s condition before driving away from the scene.

Kimmell was not injured. Police estimated damage at $1,000 to $2,500.

Crash injures threeAUBURN — Three

people suffered injuries in a rollover crash Saturday northwest of Auburn, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department reported.

A front-seat passenger who was ejected from the vehicle suffered the most serious injuries. Joseph E. Sharpe, 42, of Avilla had a fractured scapula, lacerated spleen, nose fracture, four fractured ribs and possible ankle fracture

The vehicle’s driver, Lindsay N. Ransbottom, 22, of the 500 block of East King Street, Garrett, reported neck and back pain after the crash. A rear-seat passenger identi-fi ed as K. Wells, a juvenile, complained of hip pain.

DeKalb County EMS took all three vehicle

occupants to Parkview Regional Medical Center at Fort Wayne for treatment.

The crash occurred at 3:30 p.m. in the 3800 block of C.R. 19. Police said Ransbottom was driving a 2000 Dodge Durango southbound and for unknown reasons lost control. The vehicle traveled across the roadway and entered the east ditch. It rolled three times, coming to rest 180 feet from the point where it entered the ditch.

Sharpe was ejected and landed approximately 25 feet from where the vehicle came to rest in a fi eld. Police believe he was not wearing his seatbelt. Ransbottom and Wells were wearing their seatbelts.

Indiana State Police, Auburn Police, Garrett Police, the Auburn Fire Department and DeKalb EMS assisted county police at the scene.

13 booked into Noble County Jail

ALBION — Thirteen people were booked into the Noble County Jail from Friday through Sunday, the county sheriff’s department said.

• Thomas Scott Bruick Jr., 28, of Angola was booked on a failure to appear warrant on an underlying charge of theft-receiving stolen property.

• Jennifer Cowen, 26, of Avilla was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a blood-al-cohol content equal to or greater than 0.15 percent.

• Anthony Glenn Easley, 38, of Huntington was booked on a body attach-ment writ.

• Shane Ray Fike, 34, of Avilla was booked on a battery warrant.

• Douglas Wayne Haigwood, 42, of Columbia City was booked on a warrant for a probation violation on an underlying conviction for intimidation.

• Charles L. Jenkins, 55, of Princeton was charged with intimidation.

• Aaron Edward Jordan Sr., 33, of LaGrange was charged with being a habitual traffi c law violator.

• Amanda Marie Kelley, 31, of Kendallville was booked on a body attach-ment writ.

• Spencer D. Perkins, 30, of Fort Wayne was booked on a warrant for home improvement fraud.

• Pamela Sue Skaggs, 45, of Rome City was charged with battery.

• Donald J. Wells, 26, of Garrett was booked on a warrant for theft-receiving stolen property.

• Misty M. Easterday, 32, of LaGrange was booked on a body attachment writ.

• Efrain Loera-Mu-rillo, 18, of Ligonier was charged with operating a motor vehicle while never receiving a license.

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LaGrange offi ces closed, meetings postponed

LAGRANGE — Heavy snow and extreme cold have caused havoc for city

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Main break cuts Decatur water

DECATUR — A water main break late Monday limited the supply of water in the city of Decatur to the point where many residents and businesses had no water pressure, our news partner, NewsChannel 15, reports.

Adams County Emergency Management was conducting repairs and low water pressure was expected to return by 10 p.m. Tuesday, allowing for fl ushing of toilets and limited bathing.

The Decatur Daily Democrat reported all restau-rants were ordered closed for the day by the Health Depart-ment due to the possibility of contaminated water.

Ivy Tech notices draw criticism

SOUTH BEND (AP) — Ivy Tech Community College says it won’t change its notices about private Board of Trustees meetings despite criticism from the state’s public access counselor.

Access counselor Luke

Britt said in an informal opinion that Ivy Tech was using a “poor practice” by issuing notices of executive sessions stating trustees will discuss “some of or all” of many subjects.

The notices generally list the same nine topics: litigation, security systems, purchase of property, safety measures, prospective employees, alleged miscon-duct, classifi ed records, job performances and board training. The “some or all” wording in executive session notices has been used regularly since at least early 2012, the South Bend Tribune reported.

Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly reported Ivy Tech will consolidate some of its regions as it works to improve effi cien-cies and reduce costs.

In an announcement Tuesday, Ivy Tech said its East Central region, which includes campuses in Anderson, Marion, Muncie and New Castle, will be combined with its Richmond region, which includes a campus in Connersville.

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Virgil CollinsKENDALLVILLE —

Virgil Collins, age 72, of Kendallville, passed away following a long illness on Sunday, January 5, 2014 at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne,

Indiana.Mr.

Collins was born in Garrett, Kentucky, on December 2, 1941 to Edgel Collins and Goldie (Compton)

Collins. He married Blanche Cornett on December 31, 1960 in Hindman, Kentucky. Virgil retired from Walker Manufac-turing in Ligonier after nine years. He also worked for 28 years at Newnam and Lane Foundries in Kendall-ville. He attended the First Freedom Baptist Church near Corunna. When his health was good, Virgil loved to go hunting and fi shing. He also enjoyed going to church to worship and fellowship with his brothers and sisters from his church family.

Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Blanche Collins of Kendallville; three daughters, Carol and Ken Gates of Waterloo, Patricia Rowland of Albion and Barbara Deems of Avilla; four grandchildren, Melissa Osborn, Gabrielle Marzion, Kristey Deems and Cody Gates; three great-grandchildren, Emilee Jacobs, Steven Marzion and Makynlee Deems Gordon; a sister, Priscilla Hall of Plymouth, Ohio; and a half-brother, David Lee Bolen of Plymouth, Ohio.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Herman Collins in 2009.

Visitation will be Thursday, January 9, 2014 after 3 p.m. at First Freedom Baptist Church on State Road 327 south of Corunna. There will be an evening service at 6 p.m.

Funeral services will be Friday, January 10, 2014 at 11 a.m. at First Freedom Baptist Church with Pastor Ron Bell and Pastor Rick Davis conducting the service.

Burial will be in Orange Cemetery near Rome City.

Send a condolence to the family at hitefuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are entrusted to Hite Funeral Home of Kendallville.

Barbara SloneLIGONIER — Barbara

L. Slone, age 66, of Ligonier passed away on Monday, January 6, 2014 at 10:40 p.m. at IU Health-Goshen Hospital.

She was born on June 28, 1947 to French and Dorothy (Zimmerman) Lawson in Wolf Lake, Ind. On February 11, 1964 she married Carson Slone

Sr. in Brimfi eld, Ind. He survives.

Mrs. Slone was a lifetime area resident and was a supervisor with Silgan in Ligonier.

She is survived by her husband; two children, Carson (Carol) Slone Jr. and Neal Slone, both of Ligonier; four grandchildren, Brandon (Nikki) Slone, Eric (Kelly) Slone, Justin Slone and Kendra Slone; two brothers, Kenneth Lawson of Churubusco, Ind., and Fred Lawson of Sumpter, S.C.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Wayne Lawson of Manning, S.C., Roger Lawson of Ligonier and Dwight Lawson of Fort Wayne; and a sister Anna May McEnvoy.

There will be a funeral service held in Mrs. Slone’s honor on Friday January 10, 2014 at 11 a.m. at Yeager Funeral Home, 1589 Lincol-nway South, Ligonier, with Pastor Jimmy Shephard offi ciating. Burial will be in Oak Park Cemetery in Ligonier.

There will be a time of visitation from 3-7 p.m. on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions are to IU Goshen Center for Cancer Care.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at yeagerfuneralhome.com.

Alta HershbergerMIDDLEBURY — Alta

M. Hershberger, 95, of Middlebury died Monday, Jan. 6, 2013 at Miller’s Merry Manor in LaGrange.

A memorial service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, 2013 at Marion Mennonite Church, Shipsh-ewana. Burial will be in Clinton Brick Cemetery, Goshen.

Memorials may be given to Marion Mennonite Church.

Marie TreeshAUBURN — Marie

Treesh, 72, of Auburn died Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne.

Mrs. Treesh was a homemaker. She also worked for J.J. Newberry 5-10-25 Cent Store in Auburn and also various temporary jobs in the local area.

She was a veteran of the United States Army.

She was a member of the St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Auburn.

She was born Nov. 25, 1941, in Hicksville, Ohio, to Edward and Jeannette (Smith) Woodring.

She married Melvin A. Treesh on June 26, 1963, in Auburn, and he survives.

Also surviving are a son, Bruce Wayne Treesh of Waterloo; three brothers-in-law, Robert Treesh of Florida, Richard “Dick” (Joyce) Treesh of Columbia City and James (Penny) Treesh of Garrett; a sister-in-law, Marsha Smith of Albion; and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Mark Allen Treesh; three brothers and their spouses, Morris (Pat) Woodring, Don (Anne) Woodring and Jerry (Bev) Woodring; two infant brothers; and a brother-in-law, Larry Treesh.

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Feller and Clark Funeral Home, 1860 Center St., Auburn, with the Rev. Marcus J. Carlson offi ci-ating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery in Auburn.

Calling will be from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be directed to the DeKalb County Humane Shelter.

Condolences may be left at fellerandclark.com.

James TaylorLAGRANGE — James

D. Taylor, 80, died Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014 at 11:56 a.m. A memorial service will take place Saturday at 11 a.m. at Carney-Frost Funeral Home, LaGrange. Memorials are to LaGrange Hospice, American Cancer Society, or a memorial of the donor’s choice.

Harold CampbellWARSAW — Harold L.

Campbell, 84, of Warsaw, formerly of the Ligonier area, died Monday, Jan. 6, 2013 at Kosciusko Community Hospital in Warsaw.

Arrangements are pending at Owen Family Home, S.R. 13 and C.R. 500N, North Webster.

James CrowlWATERLOO — James

Edward Crowl, 59, of Waterloo passed away Monday January 6, 2014 at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort

Wayne.He

was born September 16, 1954 in Garrett to Clayton and Juanita (Krontz) Crowl. His father has passed away.

His mother survives in Waterloo.

Jim was a toolmaker for Charleston Metals in Waterloo for 37 years.

He was a 1972 graduate of DeKalb High School and earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Elemen-tary Education from Manchester College in 1976. He was a member of Waterloo United Methodist Church. Jim was a Boy Scout Troop Leader and Troop Commissioner for Troop 171 of Waterloo in the 1980s. He was a hunter and an avid buck skinner and blacksmith. He also completely enjoyed his role as Santa Claus for area children for many years.

Jim married Judy Paul on May 13, 1978 in Elkhart and she survives. Also surviving are two sons and daughters-in-law, Keith Richard and Melissa Crowl of Auburn and Kevin Ward and Kirsten Crowl of Fort Wayne; and five grandchildren, Danielle Kay Lynn Crowl, Andrew Crowl, Ethan Crowl, William Crowl and Kieran Crowl.

Services are 11 a.m. Friday, January 10, 2014 at Feller and Clark Funeral Home, 875 South Wayne Street, Waterloo, with Rev, Michael Halferty offici-ating. Calling is 2-7 p.m. Thursday and also one hour prior to the services at the funeral home from 10-11 a.m. Friday.

Memorials may be directed to DeKalb Health or Waterloo United Methodist Church.

To send condolences visit fellerandclark.com.

Steven TullisCORUNNA — Steven

M. “Albert” Tullis, 61, of Corunna, died Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. Arrangements are pending at Thomas Funeral Home, Garrett.

Kenneth ThierjungSPENCERVILLE —

Due to weather, a gathering of friends and family for Kenneth Thierjung will take place Saturday from 6-8 p.m. at Carnahan-Baidinger & Walter Funeral Home, Spencerville.

Joseph HeintzelmanLIGONIER — Joseph J.

Heintzelman, 77, of Ligonier, passed away on January 3, 2014, in Kendallville.

He was born on October 28, 1936 in Indian Village,

Ind., to Joseph and Mae Heintzelman. He married Rosalie Stanger in Ligonier in 1957. She preceded him in death in May of 1991.

He is survived by two sons, Rick (Lisa) Heintzelman of Ligonier, and Jim W. (Cynthia) Heintzelman of Downingtown, Pa.; a daughter, Vicky (Eric) Tierney of Wawaka; six grandchildren, Megan, Melissa, Alex, Lisa, Libbey and Shayne; one great-grandson, Wesley; and a brother, Harvey (Pat) Heintzelman of Ligonier

Mr. Heintzelman’s companion of 20 years, Korean Holmes, also survives. Korean’s children and grandchildren, whom Joseph loved as his own, also survive: Charlotte Louise Clark and Joyce Court; two grandchildren, Chvonne and Tefawn, and six great-grand-children, Roman, Rylea, Skyann, Nick, Kaelin and Koyashia. He leaves behind one other faithful companion, his dog, Jack.

Joseph was preceded in death by a grandson, Ryan Heintzelman, fi ve sisters and two brothers.

Mr. Heintzelman had a variety of occupations, including truck driving and working in factories in the RV and manufac-tured housing industries. After his retirement from Carriage, Inc. in Millers-burg, he returned to his roots of farming. He enjoyed hunting, fi shing and camping as well as reading western novels. He loved spending time with his grandchil-dren and watching them in their various activities and sporting events. He never knew a stranger and loved a good conversation, and recently referred to himself as a “talk-aholic”.

A time of visitation with the family will be from 4-8 p.m. on Friday, January 10, 2014, at Yeager Funeral Home, 1589 Lincolnway South, Ligonier, as well as an hour before the service on Saturday

A funeral service in his honor will be on Saturday, January 11, 2014, at 10 a.m. at the funeral home. Pastor Joey Nelson with Stone’s Hill Community Church will offi ciate. Burial will be in Oak Park Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be given to the Merry Lea Environmental Center 2388 S. 500 West, Albion, IN 46701 to encourage kids to be outdoors and develop a love of nature.

Yeager Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements. Online condolences may be sent to the family at yeagerfuneral home.com.

Sammy J. MitchellFORT WAYNE —

Sammy J. Mitchell, 48, passed away Saturday, January 4, 2014 at home in Fort Wayne.

Born in West Union, Ohio, Sammy was a self-em-ployed upholsterer for many years. She enjoyed walking in the woods with her dogs and fi shing.

Surviving are her husband Steve Mitchell; mother, Linda (Dwight) Smith of Satsuma, Fla; son, Taylor Mitchell of Fort Wayne; daughter, Kiley Mitchell of Fort Wayne; brothers, Greg (Alyia) Tudor of Fort Wayne, George (Jenna) Tudor of Jackson-ville, Fla., and Tanner Smith of Satsuma, Fla.; mother-in-law, Linda (Herb) Hart of Kendallville; and father-in-law, Stewart (Louvena) Mitchell of Kendallville.

Sammy was preceded in death by her grandparents, Joe and Georgia Brooks.

Funeral service is Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 1 p.m. at D.O. McComb and Sons Pine Valley Park Funeral Home, 1320 East Dupont Road, Fort Wayne, with calling one hour prior. Rev. Jim Kane will offi ciate. Calling also be Friday, January 10, 2014 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the family.

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Lord’s Table Supper: Free supper offered to entire community. Serving chili, salad, chips, dessert and beverages. Mt. Pleasant Lutheran Church, 2520 N. C.R. 600 E, Kendallville. 5:30 p.m.

Celebrate Recovery Meeting: Sessions deal with addictions and relation-ship issues. Stone’s Hill Community Church, 151 W. C.R. 550 N, Ligonier. 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, January 9Food Pantry: Food

available for low-income families in need. Thursdays 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2:30-4:30 p.m. West Noble Food Pantry, 519 Gerber St., Ligonier. 10:30 a.m.

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Professional/Business Women’s Association: Dinner meeting. Guest speaker will be Julie Desper from Parkview Noble’s Physical Therapy Depart-ment. American Legion Post 86, South Main Street, Kendallville. 6:30 p.m.

Celebrate Recovery Meeting: Meets each Thursday. CrossPointe Family Church, S.R. 3 and Drake Road, Kendallville. 7 p.m.

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Beta Christmas partyLouAnne Pillers hosted the Beta Associate Chapter of Tri Kappa Christmas party Dec. 18 at her home in Kendall-ville. Pictured from left, seated, are Donna Schmidt, Dorothy Pippenger, Grace Housholder, Lori Jansen, LouAnne Pillers, Helen Haddock, Julie Carmicheal, Jean

Baker and Barb Davis. Standing, from left, are committee members Marilyn Freiburger, Bonnie Milton, Julia Nixon and Linda Leamon. As a Christmas project, the members donated pajamas for needy children.

BY MARICELA MADDEN AND NAN MALLOY

How do I evaluate child care? Do I want my child in a home or center? What do I look for in the environment and the caregiver? Is there someone who can help me fi nd what I need?

More questions than answers can surround the process of fi nding quality child care, especially for new parents. They want the best for their children, so choosing child care is one of the most important decisions parents will make in their child’s life. However, it can be a diffi cult and time consuming process fi nding child care that meets all a families’ needs and expectations. There are also many options to consider when choosing child care, for both very young children and school agers, but parents don’t always know that.

Early Childhood Alliance (ECA) can help with this all-important decision, and we’re as close as a phone call or the computer for families and child care providers in Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Noble, St. Joseph, Steuben and Whitley counties.

Early Childhood Alliance, one of nine Child Care Resource and Referral agencies across Indiana, provides a free, customized list of child care options, based on your family needs, such as hours of care, location and ages of children.

We also provide tools to help navigate that search process, such as the questions to ask and things to observe when interviewing a child care provider. ECA also offers

assistance with enhanced referrals for infants and toddlers, and children with special needs. And while health and safety issues are a parent’s fi rst concern,

we also recommend questions about other important aspects of child care, such as adult to child ratios, safe sleeping arrange-

ments, and a learning curriculum that promotes school readiness.

Another important tool in ECA’s assistance role is information on Paths to Quality and how it can help parents during a child care search. Paths to Quality is a voluntary rating and improvement tool, used across Indiana, to assist families looking for child care. Programs that choose to participate in Paths to Quality are rated, based on the quality of care they provide. The system identi-fi es four levels of quality with each level building on the previous one. At each level key components of quality are added as part of the standards being rated. To help parents identify participating programs, they should look for information on the Early Childhood Alliance provider list as well as window decals and certifi cates at each Paths to Quality site.

ECA is a key community resource in the region that helps parents explore the options and fi nd quality child care that fi ts the families’ needs. While we do not regulate or recommend specifi c child care programs, we do provide the tools parents need as they contact, visit, interview and check references of programs before enrolling their children in child care.

For information on fi nding child care programs

in your area and the tools to use, call ECA (745-2501 or 800-423-1498) or visit ECAlliance.org.

Parents may also visit childcareindiana.org.

MARICELA MADDEN is an outreach specialist, working at Early Childhood Alliance since 2007. She lives in Fort Wayne with her husband and two children. Contact her at [email protected].

NAN MALLOY is an outreach specialist with Early Childhood Alliance with more than 20 years of experience in early childhood education. Nan and her husband have four children. Contact her at [email protected].

This article fi rst appeared in Greater Fort Wayne Family magazine, a free publication of KPC Media Group. For more information visit fwfamily.com.

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Lafayette20° | 5°

Indianapolis28° | 6°

Terre Haute29° | 7°

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Sunset Thursday 5:29 p.m.

Mostly cloudy today with a possibility of fl urries. Highs will be in the upper teens. Low tonight of 8. Cloudy Thursday with a chance of light snow. Daytime highs will be in the mid-20s. Overnight low of 22 expected. Friday will be warmer with a high of 35 and a low of 31 degrees. Rain possible.

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department employees along with employees from the park department and water quality control department have worked 10- to 12-hour shifts to clear snow from Kendallville’s 80 miles of streets and alleys.

For the most part, vehicle owners cooperated with the Level 1 emergency by not parking on the snow routes so city snow plows could clear traffi c lanes, Handshoe said. Tuesday, city street department employees were expected to begin removing the plowed piles of snow blocking Main Street traffi c lanes in the downtown business district.

“I would like to thank

the cooperation with all the departments assisting the street department with plowing, and the safety personnel for their tireless efforts of dispatch, responding to calls and keeping citizens safe,” said Handshoe. She praised Brown’s BP in Kendallville for staying open and allowing city vehicles to fuel up.

Kendallville fi refi ghters were busy Tuesday helping Noble County EMS on medical runs. Firefi ghters also helped Auburn during that city’s power outage that lasted six hours Monday night.

The Kendallville Fire Department mass casualty unit and eight fi refi ghters,

including Fire Chief Mike Riehm, went to Auburn to set up an emergency generator at Wesley Health-care, which had patients on ventilators. The facility’s emergency generator had failed. “While we were on our way there, we were redirected to a warming center,” Riehm said.

The Kendallville emergency unit was redirected to a warming center at the DeKalb County government annex. About 30 Auburn residents who had no heat due to the power outage showed up during the night.

“We stayed until power returned about 1 a.m.,” Riehm said.

WEATHER: Firefi ghters help in darkened AuburnFROM PAGE A1

the Noble County Sheriff’s Department, asking what it meant, which created problems for E-911 dispatchers, according to the department’s Facebook page.

“We are receiving hundreds of calls each shift asking what this warning means. These calls are tying up our two dispatchers who are also tasked with answering 911 calls,” the Facebook page said.

The Noble County commissioners on Monday ordered all county buildings closed Tuesday.

Newton warned that roads were still treacherous, and some county roads were impassable, as of midday Tuesday.

“It’s still dangerous out there,” he said. “The

north-south roads are the worst.”

The Noble County E-911 dispatch report listed a combined total 34 of vehicle slide-offs, vehicles obstructing roadway and property damage accidents in a 24-hour period ending shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Roads in Albion and Avilla were open as of late Tuesday morning.

“Our town crews have been out working, and roads in Albion are in good shape,” said Albion town manager Beth Shellman.

“They’ve got all the roads in Avilla passable,” Avilla town manager Bill Ley said at midday Tuesday. Some roads’ openings were narrow, he said, adding, “They’re running out of places to put the snow.”

Newton praised the road crews and governments of the county’s communities for their coordinated efforts. “Everybody’s worked hard and worked together,” he said.

Commerce in the area still was recovering Tuesday.

Tom Freeman of the St. James Restaurant, Avilla, said it had been closed Monday due to the storm. It reopened Tuesday, but business was still slow in the morning and into the beginning of lunch service.

An Avilla Post Offi ce employee reported it had been open Monday, but the employee on duty had sold only four books of stamps all day. The post offi ce had only its third customer of the day at about 11 a.m. Tuesday, the employee said.

RESTRICTIONS: North-south roads in worst shapeFROM PAGE A1

moderate weather did not ensure smooth sailing for trucks plowing roads in LaGrange County. Early Tuesday afternoon, a state-owned plow became stuck in the snow on S.R. 3, just south of U.S. 20, closing that road for a few hours. A few hours after that, a county truck got stuck on a road just northeast of LaGrange.

To make matters worse, several of the trucks the county uses to plow county roads refused to start Tuesday morning in temperatures colder than

10 below zero, pulling at least three trucks out of the cleanup effort.

Several farmers stepped up to help the county, said Van Wagner, using large tractors and plows to open some portions of rural roads.

Despite more than a foot of new snow and frigid temperatures all within three days, Bender said the county experienced few emergencies. LaGrange and Howe fi re departments were called to a chimney fi re Monday and, Tuesday morning, Howe responded to a workshop fi re. Topeka

fi refi ghters responded to a fi re call at a duck farm, where a diesel generator caught fi re and caused about $20,000 damage to the generator room.

Bender said two times on Tuesday morning, he used an Indiana National Guard Highway Assistance Team to pick up people who needed medical treatment.

About 10 homes near C.R. 600E north of Cline Lake were without electrical power for about an hour while REMC crews found and fi xed a problem, Bender said.

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., voted Tuesday in favor of proceeding to legislation that would extend the emergency unemploy-ment benefi ts program created after the fi scal crisis of 2008.

“While I oppose the current version of the bill, I voted to proceed with considering the unemploy-ment insurance extension because I believe the Senate should have the opportunity to debate and improve this important legislation,” Coats said in a news release. “If Majority Leader Reid once again obstructs senators from offering amendments, I will oppose fi nal passage of this bill.”

Coats added, “The unemployment insurance benefi ts program needs to be reformed to ensure that it works better for those truly in need and connects those who are unemployed with available jobs.”

Coats votes yes,hoping for better

version of bill

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The Indiana Department of Education has granted waivers to Indiana schools for Monday and Tuesday snow days.

All northeastern Indiana

schools were closed Monday and Tuesday and have canceled classes for today.

Blowing and drifting snow continues to hinder travel on county roads.

Because of recent

extreme weather, the DOE announced that schools would not have to make up lost days for Monday or Tuesday, said Wilson. There was no word Tuesday if the waiver would be extended to today.

Schools to get snow day waiver

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CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has potentially opened a new market to gun dealers after ruling as unconstitutional Chicago ordinances that aim to reduce gun violence by banning their sale within the city’s limits.

U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang said Monday that while the government has a duty to protect its citizens, it’s also obligated to protect constitutional rights, including the right to keep and bear arms for self-de-fense. However, Chang

said he would temporarily stay the effects of his ruling, meaning the ordinances can stand while the city decides whether to appeal.

The decision is just the latest to attack what were some of the toughest gun-control laws in the nation. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Chicago’s long-standing gun ban. And last year, Illinois legislators were forced by a federal appeals court to adopt a law allowing residents to carry concealed weapons; it was the only

state that still banned the practice. The resulting law largely stripped offi cials in the city and surrounding Cook County of their authority to regulate guns, which especially irked offi cials in Chicago, where residents had to apply for concealed-carry permits through the police superin-tendent.

National Rifl e Associ-ation lobbyist Todd Vandermyde applauded Chang’s decision, saying it “shows how out of step and outrageous Chicago’s ordinances really are.”

Judge rules Chicago ban ongun sales unconstitutional

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In the Hannah Holstein basketball contest for The Herald Republican, Dorothy Anstett had the highest score for the second straight week by picking 18 games right. But rules state she can only win the weekly prize once every 30 days.

So the next contestant in the standings who won the one-eighth sheet cake from Angola’s Heavenly Breads & Sweets was Steve Anstett of Pleasant Lake. He picked 17 games right. Angola residents Norma Hammel and David Lewellyn each picked 16 games right.

In The Star contest, Skip Zellers of Auburn correctly picked 16 winners, matching Janet Zeider of Garrett. But Zellers’ tiebreaker of 98 was closest to the 110 points IPFW scored to win the $25 gift certifi cate from MJS Apparel in Garrett. Dave Cooper of Butler, and Bob Zmyslony and John Smurr of Garrett all selected 15.

Hannah ScoresCaston 57, Central Noble 53West Noble 63, Eastside 43Fairfi eld 71, Rochester 59West Noble 59, Prairie Heights 53Leo 70, Concordia 67Lowell 66, Churubusco 44Girls, Leo 47, Angola 33IPFW 65, Bowling Green 60Michigan 63, Minnesota 60Wisconsin 76, Northwestern 49Saint Francis 70, Goshen 64Trine 73, Ohio Northern 68IPFW 110, Kalamazoo 74Ohio State 84, Nebraska 53Michigan State 73, Indiana 56Illinois 75, Penn State 55Notre Dame 79, Duke 77Minnesota 82, Purdue 79Wisconsin 75, Iowa 71Michigan 74, Northwestern 51

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BRUSHY PRAIRIE — One point: That’s what separates Jacob Heller from reaching a milestone.

The Prairie Heights junior has 999 career points entering Friday’s Northeast Corner Conference boys basketball game with Angola.

It’s a key NECC contest for both teams. Prairie Heights (6-2) lost its fi rst league game on Saturday to West Noble and needs a win if the squad hopes to stay in the chase for a league title. Angola (3-4) is 1-1 in the conference.

“Angola is a very physical team and coach Bentley has done a great job,” said Prairie Heights coach Brett Eltzroth. “We’ll have to lick our wounds from the loss to West Noble and learn from it.”

The loss to West Noble ended a six-game winning streak by the Panthers that included victories over Fairfi eld, Bethany Christian, Elkhart Christian, Bronson, Churubusco and Eastside. The contest with Elkhart Christian was an overtime affair that saw Heller score 36 points in an 86-79 triumph.

“We started off with a rough loss at Garrett, then got on a little roll,” Heller said. “We want to be right there in the mix in the NECC. We just have to play well as a team for us to accomplish

our goal. With guys like Cody Bachelor, Kyler West and Austin Penick hitting their shots from the outside, it opens it up for me inside.”

Add seniors Dylan Stayner, Corey Johnson, Levi Tuckerman, Spencer Lake and Bobby Blum to the mix and it’s easy to see why Prairie Heights is off to a strong start.

A three-year starter, it’s no secret to opposing teams that Heller is Heights’ weapon. Teams have no option but to focus on him.

“He’s a good scorer and he draws a lot of attention,” Eltzroth said.

With the attention on Heller, the heroics of others have been a big key to the team’s success. And you never know who it’s going to be.

“I’m excited with this team, every night it’s someone else that steps up,” Eltzroth said.

Friday’s contest with Angola will be played at Prairie Heights and is a doubleheader, with the girls teams set to begin play at 6 p.m. and the boys to follow. It will be the fi nal game for the teams before next week’s league tournament. Prairie Heights will play at Churubusco on Jan. 15 in a quarterfi nal game.

“We’ve got to come back and

work hard for the conference tournament and we always want to be playing our best basketball at the end of the year,” Heller said.

Craig Everage is the all-time leading scorer in boys basketball at Prairie Heights with 1,146 points.

Heights’ Heller aiming for 1,000

JAMES FISHER

Prairie Heights junior Jacob Heller (22) looks inside while guarded by West Noble’s Brandon Evans during a recent Northeast Corner Conference contest. Heller is one point away from reaching 1,000 career points.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Growing up, Andrew Luck kept trying to emulate the quarterbacks he watched on Sunday afternoons, guys like Peyton Manning and Phillip Rivers.

And Tom Brady.Now, the 24-year-old franchise

quarterback is all grown up and about to face his next big test — trying to beat Brady on his home turf with a trip to the AFC champi-onship game on the line.

“I think there are so many quarterbacks that do so many great things that as a quarterback you’d like to watch all of them and say, ‘They do this so well,’ and see if you can do that,” Luck said Tuesday.

His next chance comes Saturday night when the Colts (12-5) travel to New England (12-4).

Luck has already done his part to live up to the seemingly impossible standards that came with replacing Manning in Indy. The two-time Heisman Trophy runner up spent two college seasons being called everything from the most polished college quarterback since Manning to the most promising quarterback prospect at Stanford since John Elway.

Luck just focused on playing his game and the results have been impressive.

He has thrown for more yards (8,196) in his fi rst two seasons than any quarterback in NFL history. His 22 regular-season wins rank No. 2 to Russell Wilson among all second-year quarter-backs since 1970, and with nine

career TDs rushing, he already ranks fourth on the franchise’s career list behind only Manning (17), Bert Jones (14) and John Unitas (13) — all previous MVPs

Even when it comes to measuring up to Manning, Luck has done remarkably well.

In October, he beat Manning in

their fi rst head-to-head meeting. And after rallying Indianapolis (12-5) to the second-greatest comeback in playoff history last weekend, Luck’s fi rst postseason win came four seasons sooner than Manning’s. A win over the Patriots (12-4) would give Luck

Luck, Brady in spotlight

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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck (12) celebrates after throwing a touchdown pass against the Kansas City Chiefs during the second half of an NFL wild-card playoff football game Saturday in Indianapolis.

Colts signal-caller grew up following NE QB

In 14th season, Brady still fi red up for playoffs

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady head-butted teammates before his fi rst Super Bowl.

Twelve years and four more NFL championship games later, the quarterback hasn’t lost his fi re.

He still shows it before games and after big plays by banging helmets with other New England Patriots.

“I’m pretty emotional,” Brady said Tuesday.

That should be obvious when the Patriots come back from a fi rst-round bye to face the Indianapolis Colts in an AFC divisional-round playoff game Saturday night. Especially if he has plenty of scoring plays to celebrate.

His mood would be quite different if NFL sacks leader Robert Mathis keeps getting close enough to tackle him or hurry his passes.

“He’s a great player and been a great player for a long time,” Brady said. “He’s having one of the best years of his career.”

So what can Brady do if he sees the 11-year veteran bearing down on him?

Step up in the pocket? Throw quickly? Duck?

“I can’t really run away from him,” Brady said with his usual jab at his lack of speed, “so that option’s out the door.”

There’s no doubt he’ll have his eyes trained on the linebacker who lines up in different places on different plays.

“You have to understand where

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Roy Hibbert scored 22 points and Danny Granger matched his season high with 13 to help Indiana hold off Toronto 86-79 Tuesday night.

The Pacers (28-6) won their third straight, retaining the NBA’s best record by holding the Raptors to a season low in points.

Toronto (16-17) has lost two straight on the road — at Miami and Indiana — after winning four straight. The Raptors were led by DeMar DeRozan with 28 and Patrick Patterson with 20 against a Pacers team that looked more

like itself after losing north of the border last week.

Indiana had a 40-26 scoring advantage in the paint and limited the Raptors to 37 percent shooting from the fi eld. And instead of struggling in the second half, the Pacers pulled away.

They closed the fi rst half on an 8-3 spurt to take a 44-36 lead they extended to 17 in the third. Toronto couldn’t get closer than six the rest of the way.

Not all went smoothly for the Pacers.

All-Star Paul George got into early foul trouble and never

really got going. And the Pacers’ usually solid outside shooters were just 1 of 11 from 3-point range. But Indiana turned the tables on Toronto with an old combination.

The Pacers had a 53-36 rebounding edge, and fi lled the gaps with a balanced offense. Lance Stephenson fell just short of his fourth triple double of the season, fi nishing with 13 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. George and George Hill each added 11.

But Toronto fought valiantly, jumping to an 11-4 lead and quickly cut an eight-point second quarter defi cit to 32-31 with a 7-0 spurt.

Pacers win third straight, 86-79AMES, Iowa (AP) — DeAndre

Kane had a season-high 30 points with nine assists, eight rebounds and fi ve steals as No. 9 Iowa State rolled past No. 7 Baylor 87-72 on Tuesday night, setting a school record with its 14th straight win.

Melvin Ejim added 18 points for the Cyclones (14-0, 2-0 Big 12). They outscored Baylor 47-34 in the second half and rolled to a surprisingly decisive win.

Kane had 17 points in the fi rst half, helping his struggling teammates take a two-point lead.

No. 9 ISU tops No. 7 Baylor

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(AP) — Curt Miller fi gured it was going to be a long rebuilding project when he took over Indiana last season. Maybe it won’t take as long as the veteran coach thought.

The undefeated Hoosiers earned their fi rst Top 25 ranking in nearly 21 years Monday when they entered the poll at No. 22.

“We’re ahead of schedule,” Miller said in a phone interview. “Last year we think we overachieved at 11-19. Coming into this year we were predicted to fi nish 12th in the conference because we graduated our three leading scorers. To do what we’ve done already in year two is great, but our long journey is far from being over.”

There wasn’t much celebration of the ranking on campus as Indiana (14-0) was closed for the storm that was blasting the Midwest. Being in the Top 25 is something expected in the basketball crazed state — on the men’s side that is. The men’s program has been ranked for a total of 175 weeks since the women’s only previous appearance in the poll.

Earning the fi rst ranking since more than half his players were born is a great accomplishment for Miller’s team.

“We’re really excited now,” he said. “We are just in the baby steps of rebuilding this program where it needs to be. We’re off to a good start and there is great chemistry in the locker room.”

Miller’s has seven freshmen on his roster, including three who start. Larryn Brooks leads the way averaging 18.8 points and has been stellar in her rookie season. The fi rst-year players are accounting for 73 percent of the offense — tops by far

among BCS teams according to STATS.

While the fi rst-years are putting up the points, Miller credits a changing culture as a big reason for the success. The Hoosiers fi nished last in the Big Ten in Miller’s fi rst season and the second-year coach said that cliques hampered team chemistry last year.

“We have a great locker room dynamic,” Miller said. “The seniors have a sense of urgency and they needed the freshman class to help them. The freshmen needed the seniors to teach them how to be a college player.”

The togetherness is evident in Indiana’s play in close games and on the road. The Hoosiers are 6-0 on the road — the most wins since the 2008-09 season. The six road games also ties for the most among BCS schools according to STATS. The Hoosiers have also won six games by seven points or less.

“I’m really proud of our effort on the road,” Miller said. “It’s really helped us bond as a group.”

Miller and his team will have a little extra time to savor their fi rst ranking since 1993.

Indiana was supposed to play at Purdue on Monday night but the game was postponed because of the severe weather hitting the area. No immediate makeup date was announced, meaning the Hoosiers’ fi rst game as a ranked team will be at home on Saturday against Ohio State.

“It’s up to the conference, we’ve given a few of our preferential dates,” Miller said of making the game up. “Our bye dates don’t match up so someone’s going to have a week of one-day preps. Some program is going to be crunched hard.”

IU women ranked for fi rst time in 21 yearsATLANTA (AP) —

There were a lot of guys who threw harder than Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine.

No one knew more about pitching.

Mad Dog and Glav were stalwarts in the Atlanta Braves rotation, a potent 1-2 punch for an entire decade on a team that made the playoffs year after year. Now, they have a chance to come together again for the highest honor of their careers — membership in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Maddux and Glavine are both eligible for the fi rst time, with the inductees to be announced Wednesday. They hope to join their former manager, Bobby Cox, who was picked for the Hall last month in a separate vote.

“They’re the guys that got me this far, that’s for sure,” Cox said. “I’ve got my fi ngers crossed for both of them.”

While Maddux is likely a shoe-in, having won 355 games and four Cy Young awards during his career, Glavine might have a tougher time getting in the fi rst time around despite 305 victories.

At some point both should have their names etched at Cooperstown. The only eligible 300-game winner not in the Hall is Roger Clemens, who was passed over in 2012 because

of doping allegations and fi gures to be left off plenty of ballots this year, as well.

Maddux and Glavine never had Clemens’ type of dominating stuff. Instead, they relied on pinpoint control and changing speeds to keep hitters off balance.

Laid back and always up for a vulgar joke away from the fi eld, Maddux was a fi erce competitor — hence, the nickname — who would often scream obscenities when a pitch didn’t go exactly where he wanted. He approached his craft like an artist, aware that a subtle stroke could wind up being the mark of genius.

Maddux spent untold hours working on his mechanics in the bullpen, constantly seeking the perfect windup, the perfect delivery, the perfect follow-through.

“If you do everything mechanically correct, it’s impossible for the ball not to go where you want it,” he once said. “It really is. It’s just like a golf swing. If you make the absolute perfect golf swing, the ball is going to go where you’re aiming it. Pitching is no different.”

Maddux won four straight NL Cy Young awards from 1992-95 — Randy Johnson is the only

other pitcher to capture four in a row — and produced two of the greatest years ever at the end of that run.

During the strike-short-ened 1994 season, Maddux went 16-6 with a career-best 1.56 ERA, which is even more impressive compared to the cumulative NL ERA of 4.21 (the 2.65 differen-tial was the highest ever recorded). The following year he led the Braves to a World Series championship by going 19-2 with a 1.63 ERA even while hitters continued to put up infl ated offensive stats (the NL had a 4.18 cumulative ERA) during the Steroids Era.

AP

Former Atlanta Braves teammates Greg Maddux, left, and Tom Glavine, right, may be enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the same class.

the same total of playoff wins over Brady than Manning — one. But that’s not what motivates Luck.

“He studies so much tape and prepares himself so well that he’s able to identify and see things, even if it was a year ago,” coach Chuck Pagano said. “He’s got that, probably what Tom has and what Peyton has and all the great ones have, is the ability to identify and see things and put things behind him and move on.”

That ability to move on is perhaps the reason Luck is still playing in January.

Last week, after throwing interceptions on consecutive passes, Luck managed to shake off the bad throws.

Down 38-10 early in the third quarter, he steadily moved the Colts back into contention and when he hooked up with T.Y. Hilton on a 64-yard TD pass with 4:21 to go, Indy suddenly had a 45-44 lead. The defense held off Kansas City’s last-gasp drive, giving Luck the chance to savor his historic comeback by taking a knee three straight times.

Things are bound to be

much tougher this time around as the Colts and Patriots renew what has been one of the NFL’s fi ercest rivalries over the last decade.

Brady won his fi rst six starts against the Colts, a span that included two playoff games. Manning answered by winning fi ve of the next six, including the 2006 AFC championship game when he rallied Indy from an 18-point defi cit. Brady and the Patriots have won the last three, including last year’s forgettable 59-24 rout in frosty New England when Luck was picked off three times and lost a fumble. It was so bad Pagano said he wanted to “burn” the tape.

To Luck, Saturday’s game is all about advancing in the playoffs against a team and quarterback that have played their best football when it matters most.

“He has defi nitely set the standard for success,” Luck said of Brady. “The way he handles himself, watching from afar, the competitive nature and basically all the right things he does. Yeah, I guess he is a barometer and he is the standard.”

LUCK: Praises Patriots QB for setting a ‘standard for success’ FROM PAGE B1

he’s at. He really has a sense of urgency,” Brady said.

And a knack for stripping the ball while sacking the quarterback.

“That’s why he’s one of the best players in the league, because he makes those types of plays happen,” Brady said. “He makes them on a regular basis. It’s not a fl uke when he does it.”

Mathis led the NFL with 19 1-2 sacks and forced eight fumbles. His strip-sack of Kansas City’s Alex Smith led to a Colts touchdown in their 45-44 wild-card win over the Chiefs last Saturday.

The Colts overcame a 28-point, third-quarter defi cit to win that. The Patriots overcame a 24-point halftime defi cit against the Denver Broncos for a 34-31 regular-season overtime win.

“It was a great game, a great team win,” Brady said of Indianapolis’ victory. “Once you get some momentum going on your side, it’s pretty remarkable to be able to do that.”

Another big lead Saturday night likely won’t be safe until the very late stages, not with Brady and Andrew Luck leading their offenses.

“We’ve been in a lot of close games, they’ve been in a lot of close games,” Brady said. “They fi nd a way to win them. That’s how they got to this point.”

The Colts are 6-1, including the playoffs, in games decided by six points or fewer. The Patriots are 8-4 in games decided by seven or fewer.

Brady downplays the meeting with Luck, who has a chance to match Brady’s accomplishment of winning

a Super Bowl in his second season.

The chance to keep the youngster from upstaging the all-time great doesn’t provide extra motivation.

“My motivation is pretty simple,” Brady said. “I just try to win. That’s what I try to do and try to be part of the reason why we’re successful.”

The Patriots practiced indoors Tuesday with the outside temperature in the low teens. Brady said he had a cold.

“A little bit, but I’ll live,” he said. “Hopefully not on the injury report. I’ll try to talk my way out of that one.”

Brady wants to be around for it all — the practices, the games, the celebrations. So he’s treating this week with his usual intensity.

“I think he’s just trying to relay that to everyone else,”

Patriots defensive end Rob Ninkovich said. “You do your work now. You put in the time now. You study the tape and you practice hard now, so when the games come you’ve already done it three times in the week. So you go out there and just play and have fun.”

In his 14th NFL season, the enthusiasm of the MVP of the 2002 Super Bowl persists.

“It’s incredible to play in this,” he said. “These are the moments you dream about, to be in the NFL playoffs and you have a chance with eight other teams to be the last team standing.

“It’s why we work hard. It’s why every guy puts a lot out there. You sacrifi ce a lot of things. A lot of people would die to be in our positions. I don’t think you take those things for granted.”

BRADY: Patriots are 8-4 in games decided by seven points or fewerFROM PAGE B1

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher says winning the national championship was the culmination of a four-year process that began when he replaced Bobby Bowden as the head of the program in 2010. The next challenge is to sustain that success.

Fisher now fi nds himself in Bowden’s old shoes where titles will be expected from a passionate fan base. Florida State beat Auburn 34-31 Monday night to win its fi rst crown since 1999.

“You’ve got to go back to ground zero and you can’t worry about expectations,” Fisher said Tuesday. “That’s the thing, once expectations get so high, is to not let complacency set in.”

“It’s human nature, you take winning for granted. You take success for granted,” he said.

A quick glance at the roster shows why Florida State (14-0) will enter 2014 as the favorite. The Seminoles return Heisman quarterback Jameis Winston for his sophomore season and lose just three senior offensive starters. Florida State must replace four senior defensive starters and Fisher said he thinks there are up to three underclassmen who have decisions to make about a

possible move to the NFL.“The future is bright,”

freshman cornerback Jalen Ramsey said. “We know what it takes now. We know how it feels. We don’t be disappointed next year from not being here.

“We want to make this thing a dynasty. Florida State is back to where it should always be.”

That senior class was Fisher’s fi rst as head coach and was the cornerstone of the new foundation. The 2011 class, however, was widely considered the No. 1 recruiting class in the country and one of the best in school history. Then

there’s the 2012 class that includes Winston, another handful of starters and more young talent that had to wait their turn.

This was not an old team that will need to replace starters all over the fi eld.

“I don’t care how talented you are,” Fisher maintained. “This team has to go back, get its own identity, get its own leadership and develop that, and that’s going to be our challenge now. It’s how hungry can you stay to be able to do it over and over again, and that’s going to be the challenge and our mindset and that’s going to

be my temperament going in, to be able to set that stage so we can do that and stay on top and be very competitive at the top.”

“That’s our nature as humans, it’s not too grind, it’s not to push. That’s why there is only one champion at the end,” he said.

Fisher did get a chance to savor the moment late after the game, surrounded by friends and family in his hotel room. He sat half asleep in a chair, exhausted, and nursed a pulled hamstring he sustained running down the sideline and chasing an offi cial after Auburn wasn’t called for a horse collar tackle at the end of a catch-and-run by Rashad Green late in the game.

“You feel like you want to sleep for about a week after these seasons,” Fisher said. “We’ll get back tomorrow and give the staff a day or so and then we’ll get back recruiting and we got to get going.

“It’s time for another one,” he said.

Twenty years after Florida State won its fi rst national championship under Bowden, the Seminoles won the third in school history with his successor. The Seminoles broke a string of seven consecutive national champions from the SEC.

FSU focuses on sustaining success

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Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher reacts after winning the NCAA BCS National Championship over Auburn Monday.

(AP) — Lindsey Vonn will miss the Sochi Olympics because of a right knee injury, leaving the Winter Games without one of its biggest stars.

The 29-year-old from Vail, Colo., announced her decision Tuesday, exactly one month before the opening ceremony in Russia.

Her personal publicist, Lewis Kay, said in a statement that Vonn “will have surgery shortly.”

In a posting on Facebook,

Vonn said she is “devastated” to miss the Olympics, “but the reality has sunk in that my knee is just too unstable to compete at this level.”

She took home two medals from the 2010 Vancouver Games, including becoming the fi rst American woman to win an Olympic gold in the downhill. Vonn is also a four-time overall World Cup champion, the most recognized name in Alpine skiing — and, as it happens, the girlfriend of Tiger Woods.

Skier Vonn to miss Sochi Olympics

Maddux, Glavine hope to enter Hall of Fame together

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Weather causes more postponements for area teams

Here’s an update on the latest postpone-ments and cancellations from the KPC Media Group coverage area.

The four-team Northeast Hoosier Conference wrestling meet at Norwell featuring DeKalb and East Noble has been rescheduled for 5:45 p.m. Monday.

Lakeland’s boy/girl basketball double-header at Sturgis (Mich.) that was resched-uled for today has now been rescheduled again for Saturday, Feb. 8. The girls game will start at 6 p.m. followed by the boys game.

Tuesday’s Lakewood Park Christian at Adams Central girls basketball clash is postponed with no make-up date scheduled as of yet.

Tonight’s West Noble at Tippecanoe Valley girls basketball game has already been postponed and rescheduled for Jan. 22 with a 6:15 p.m. junior varsity start.

Eastside at Antwerp (Ohio) wrestling was also postponed on Tuesday, with no reschedule date announced.

The Angola at West Noble wrestling match for Tuesday was rescheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Ball State receiver Snead declares for NFL draft

MUNCIE (AP) — Ball State receiver Willie Snead is giving up his fi nal year of eligibility to enter the NFL draft.

The junior made the announcement Tuesday. Last season, Snead had 106 receptions for 1,516 and 15 touchdowns — all single-season school records. He also was a fi rst-team all-Mid-American Confer-ence selection and was a semifi nalist for the Biletnikoff Award.

Coach Pete Lembo said the school is working with Snead on a plan to earn his degree.

Snead fi nished his career ranked on the on the school’s career list in receptions (223), yards receiving (2,991) and TD receptions (26) while setting the school record for 100-yard games (13).

AP source: Gruden to meet with Redskins today

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jay Gruden will interview with the Washington Redskins today, said a person familiar with the team’s coaching search, making the Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator the sixth known candidate to meet with general manager Bruce Allen.

The person spoke to The Associ-ated Press on Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the team does not confi rm interviews in advance.

Gruden is a popular name among the fi ve NFL teams without a head coach. He interviewed Tuesday with the Tennessee Titans and has drawn interest from at least two other teams.

Allen has already met with Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, Dallas Cowboys special teams coach Rich Bisaccia, Carolina Panthers defensive coordinator Sean McDermott, Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell and New York Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell.

The Redskins have reached out to at least 11 candidates in the search to replace Mike Shanahan, who was fi red last week after a 3-13 season. They’ve been attempting to set up an interview with Vanderbilt coach James Franklin as well as fi ve other NFL assistants: Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman and defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, and San Diego Chargers offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt.

Ireland out as Dolphins’ GM after six seasons

MIAMI (AP) — Jeff Ireland is out after six seasons as general manager of the Miami Dolphins, who have failed to reach the playoffs the past fi ve years.

In a brief announcement Tuesday, owner Stephen Ross said he and Ireland mutually agreed to part ways. Ireland had been unpopular with fans for several years, and a late-season collapse by the team last month left his job in jeopardy.

The Dolphins, who fi nished 8-8, said they would conduct an immediate search for a replacement to lead football operations.

Still to be determined is Ireland’s role in a locker-room bullying scandal that drew national scrutiny. The NFL has yet to release a report on its investigation into the case.

Big Ten suspends Iowa’s McCaffery for one game

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Big Ten has suspended Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery for one game and fi ned Iowa $10,000 for his outburst during Sunday’s loss at Wisconsin.

McCaffery received back-to-back technical fouls and was ejected for arguing with offi cials midway through the second half. The Big Ten says in a release on Tuesday that McCaffery’s actions violated the league’s sportsmanship policy.

McCaffery will sit out Thursday’s home game against Northwestern. Assistant coach Kirk Speraw will take his place.

McCaffery apologized for the second time in as many days Tuesday, saying he regrets his actions and accepts the league’s decision.

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 8Saturday, Jan. 4Norwell 68, Floyd Central 46Jennings County 76, Norwell 65Carroll 59, Van Wert (Ohio) 54Columbia City 57, Wawasee 28Bellmont 56, South Adams 55Tuesday, Jan. 7New Haven at Fort Wayne Snider, ppdWednesday, Jan. 8East Noble at Westview, 7:30 p.m.Bishop Dwenger at Carroll, 7:45 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Bellmont at Columbia City, 7:45 p.m.Carroll at Norwell, 7:45 p.m.East Noble at Homestead, 7:45 p.m.New Haven at DeKalb, 7:45 p.m.

Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LWest Noble 3 0 7 0Westview 3 0 4 2Prairie Heights 3 1 6 2Fairfi eld 2 1 4 3Angola 1 1 3 4Fremont 1 1 1 6Eastside 1 2 4 4Hamilton 1 2 4 4Lakeland 1 3 2 4Churubusco 0 2 0 8Central Noble 0 3 1 8Saturday, Jan. 4West Noble 59, Prairie Heights 53Caston ShootoutRensselaer Central 51, Churubusco 47Oregon-Davis 51, Churubusco 50Central Noble 48, Oregon-Davis 44Rensselaer Ctrl. 56, Central Noble 47Winning Edge Holiday TournamentNorthWood 54, Fairfi eld 37Wednesday, Jan. 8Churubusco at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m.East Noble at Westview, 7:30 p.m.Lakeland at Sturgis (Mich.), ppd, rescheduled for Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 9Central Noble at Garrett, 7:30 p.m.Friday, Jan. 10Angola at Prairie Heights, 7:30 p.m.Churubusco at Fremont, 7:30 p.m.Hamilton at Westview, 7:30 p.m.West Noble at Lakeland, 7:45 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Eastside at Fairfi eld, 7:30 p.m.Fremont at Reading (Mich.), 7:30 p.m.

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 5Saturday, Jan. 4Leo 70, Concordia 67Bellmont 56, South Adams 55Tuesday, Jan. 7 Cowan at Southern Wells, ppd.Wednesday, Jan. 8 Churubusco at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m. Eastbrook at Heritage, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9Central Noble at Garrett, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Garrett at Adams Central, 7:30 p.mSouth Adams at Leo, 7:30 p.m.Southern Wells at Heritage, 7:30 p.m.Woodlan at Bluffton, 7:30 p.m.

Girls Basketball StandingsNortheast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LHomestead 3 0 10 1East Noble 3 0 10 3DeKalb 3 0 9 3Norwell 1 2 8 3Columbia City 1 2 9 5New Haven 1 2 6 7Carroll 0 3 3 10Bellmont 0 3 0 13Saturday, Jan. 4Plymouth ShootoutNorwell 48, Plymouth 39Norwell 71, Wawasee 30Wednesday, Jan. 8Angola at East Noble, 6:15 p.m.Leo at Norwell, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 9Eastside at DeKalb, 7:45 p.m.Friday, Jan. 10Columbia City at Bellmont, 7:45 p.m.DeKalb at New Haven, 7:45 p.m.Homestead at East Noble, 7:45 p.m.Norwell at Carroll, 7:45 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Carmel at Homestead, 2:30 p.m.

Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LWestview 6 0 10 2Fairfi eld 5 0 7 2West Noble 5 2 7 5Angola 4 2 4 7Fremont 2 2 6 5Prairie Heights 3 4 6 6Lakeland 3 4 5 8Churubusco 2 3 5 7Central Noble 1 5 3 7Hamilton 0 4 2 5Eastside 0 5 2 9Saturday, Jan. 4Leo 47, Angola 33NorthWood 44, Fairfi eld 32Monday, Jan. 6Manchester at Central Noble, ppd.Tuesday, Jan. 7Fairfi eld at Jimtown, ppd.Prairie Heights at Bronson (Mich.), ppd.West Noble at Tippecanoe Valley, ppd, rescheduled for Jan. 22, 7:45 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 8Lakeland at Sturgis (Mich.), ppd, rescheduled for Feb. 8, 6 p.m.Angola at East Noble, 6:15 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 9Hamilton at Westview, 7:30 p.m.Eastside at DeKalb, 7:45 p.m.Friday, Jan. 10Angola at Prairie Heights, 6 p.m.Churubusco at Fremont, 6 p.m.Fairfi eld at Eastside, 7:30 p.m.West Noble at Lakeland, 6 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 11Hamilton at Churubusco, 7:30 p.m.

Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LGarrett 4 0 12 0Leo 3 1 10 1Heritage 3 1 9 3Woodlan 2 2 7 3Southern Wells 2 2 6 5South Adams 1 3 10 3Bluffton 1 3 3 8Adams Central 0 4 3 8Saturday, Jan. 4Leo 47, Angola 33Southern Wells 62, Randolph Southern 22Tuesday, Jan. 7 Antwerp (Ohio) at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m. Bluffton at Northfi eld, ppd, resched-uled for Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m.Heritage at Bishop Dwenger, ppdLakewood Park at Adams Central, ppdWednesday, Jan. 8Leo at Norwell, 7:30 p.m.Friday, Jan. 10Bluffton at Garrett, 7:30 p.m.Heritage at Adams Central, 7:30 p.m.Leo at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m.South Adams at Southern Wells, 7:30 p.m.

Prep Boys Basketball ScoresPOSTPONEMENTS AND CANCEL-LATIONSBethany Christian vs. Bremen, ppd. to Jan 9.Clinton Christian vs. Horizon Christian, ppd.Covington vs. Benton Central, ppd.Cowan vs. Southern Wells, ppd.Crown Point vs. Hammond Gavit, ppd. to Feb 4.Delphi vs. Tipton, ppd. to Jan 15.E. Noble vs. Westview, susp.Eastern (Pekin) vs. Austin, ppd.Ev. Memorial vs. Boonville, ppd.Ft. Wayne South vs. Ft. Wayne Northrop, ppd.Gary 21st Century vs. Hammond, ppd.

Gary Roosevelt vs. Calumet, ppd.Hanover Central vs. Griffi th, ppd.Indpls Cathedral vs. Indpls Northwest, ppd.Jimtown vs. Argos, ppd.Lakeland vs. Sturgis, Mich., ppd. to Jan 8.Lowell vs. Hebron, ppd.Mt. Carmel, Ill. vs. Ev. Central, ppd.N. Decatur vs. Edinburgh, ppd.New Buffalo, Mich. vs. Westville, ppd.New Haven vs. Ft. Wayne Snider, ppd.NorthWood vs. Fairfi eld, ppd. to Jan 27.Providence vs. Madison, ppd. to Feb 15.Tri-Central vs. Northwestern, ppd.Wapahani vs. Muncie Central, ppd. to Feb 15.Western Boone vs. N. Putnam, ppd. to Feb 1.Wheeler vs. Hammond Noll, ppd.Winamac vs. LaVille, ppd. to Feb 4.Greene County TournamentFirst RoundLinton vs. White River Valley, ppd. to Jan 8.N. Central (Farmersburg) vs. Eastern (Greene), ppd. to Jan 8.Hendricks County TournamentFirst RoundAvon vs. Tri-West, ppd. to Jan 9.Cascade vs. Danville, ppd. to Jan 9.

Prep Girls Basketball ScoresPOSTPONEMENTS AND CANCEL-LATIONSBarr-Reeve vs. S. Knox, ppd.Bethesda Christian vs. Indiana Deaf, ppd. to Jan 11.Bluffton vs. Northfi eld, ppd.Boone Grove vs. River Forest, ppd.Boonville vs. Tecumseh, ppd.Bowman Academy vs. Elkhart Memorial, ppd. to Jan 21.Calumet vs. Munster, ppd.Charlestown vs. Rock Creek Academy, ppd.Chesterton vs. Hammond Clark, ppd.Christian Academy vs. Trinity Lutheran, ppd.Clinton Prairie vs. Frankfort, ppd. to Jan 20.Connersville vs. Greenfi eld, ppd.Covenant Christian vs. Indpls Scecina, ppd.Crawford Co. vs. Clarksville, ppd. to Feb 1.Delphi vs. Clinton Central, ppd.Delta vs. Eastbrook, ppd.E. Central vs. Jennings Co., ppd. to Jan 9.Eastside vs. DeKalb, ppd. to Jan 9.Fairfi eld vs. Jimtown, ppd.Forest Park vs. Dubois, ppd. to Jan 10.Frontier vs. W. Central, ppd. to Jan 25.Ft. Wayne South vs. Ft. Wayne Northrop, ppd.Greencastle vs. Northview, ppd.Griffi th vs. Portage, ppd.Hammond Morton vs. Crown Point, ppd.Heritage Christian vs. Lawrence Central, ppd. to Jan 11.Huntington North vs. Ft. Wayne North, ppd.Indpls Brebeuf vs. Lebanon, ppd. to Jan 13.Indpls Marshall vs. Indpls Broad Ripple, ppd.Indpls Perry Meridian vs. New Palestine, ppd. to Jan 9.Indpls Ritter vs. Ft. Wayne Canterbury, ppd.Jay Co. vs. Muncie South, ppd.Kouts vs. Knox, ppd.Lakeland vs. Sturgis, Mich., ppd. to Jan 8.Lakewood Park vs. Adams Central, ppd.Madison vs. Brownstown, ppd.McCutcheon vs. Lafayette Jeff, ppd.Morgan Twp. vs. Valparaiso, ppd. to Feb 6.N. Daviess vs. Orleans, ppd.N. Vermillion vs. Terre Haute South, ppd.New Washington vs. Scottsburg, ppd.Oak Hill vs. Cass, ppd.Perry Central vs. Paoli, ppd. to Jan 9.Rochester vs. N. Judson, ppd.Rushville vs. Franklin Co., ppd.S. Bend Clay vs. Concord, ppd. to Jan 21.S. Central (Harrison) vs. Lanesville, ppd. to Jan 8.Southport vs. Bloomington North, ppd. to Jan 9.Southwestern (Shelby) vs. Eastern Hancock, ppd. to Jan 28.Springs Valley vs. Wood Memorial, ppd.Tipton vs. Sheridan, ppd. to Jan 11.Tri-Central vs. Indianapolis Homeschool, ppd.University vs. Indpls Metro, ppd.W. Noble vs. Tippecanoe Valley, ppd. to Jan 22.Westfi eld vs. Western Boone, ppd. to Jan 9.Wheeler vs. Hobart, ppd.Whiting vs. Lake Station, ppd. to Jan 8.Winamac vs. Tri-County, ppd. to Jan 18.Ripley County TournamentFirst RoundJac-Cen-Del vs. S. Ripley, ppd. to Jan 10.Batesville vs. Milan, ppd. to Jan 10.

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 16 17 .485 —Brooklyn 13 21 .382 3½Boston 13 21 .382 3½New York 12 22 .353 4½Philadelphia 12 23 .343 5Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 27 8 .771 —Atlanta 18 17 .514 9Washington 15 17 .469 10½Charlotte 15 21 .417 12½Orlando 10 24 .294 16½Central Division W L Pct GBIndiana 28 6 .824 —Chicago 15 18 .455 12½Detroit 14 21 .400 14½Cleveland 12 23 .343 16½Milwaukee 7 27 .206 21WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBSan Antonio 26 8 .765 —Houston 22 13 .629 4½Dallas 19 15 .559 7New Orleans 15 18 .455 10½Memphis 15 18 .455 10½Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 27 7 .794 —Portland 26 8 .765 1Minnesota 17 17 .500 10Denver 16 17 .485 10½Utah 11 25 .306 17Pacifi c Division W L Pct GBGolden State 24 13 .649 —L.A. Clippers 24 13 .649 —Phoenix 20 13 .606 2L.A. Lakers 14 20 .412 8½Sacramento 10 22 .313 11½Monday’s GamesMinnesota 126, Philadelphia 95Brooklyn 91, Atlanta 86L.A. Clippers 101, Orlando 81Tuesday’s GamesIndiana 86, Toronto 79Cleveland 111, Philadelphia 93Washington 97, Charlotte 83Miami 107, New Orleans 88New York 89, Detroit 85Chicago 92, Phoenix 87Golden State 101, Milwaukee 80San Antonio at Memphis, lateL.A. Lakers at Dallas, lateBoston at Denver, lateOklahoma City at Utah, latePortland at Sacramento, lateWednesday’s GamesDallas at San Antonio, 7 p.m.Detroit at Toronto, 7 p.m.Golden State at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.Indiana at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Houston, 8 p.m.Washington at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Phoenix at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m.Orlando at Portland, 10 p.m.Boston at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.Thursday’s GamesMiami at New York, 8 p.m.Oklahoma City at Denver, 10:30 p.m.

National Hockey LeagueEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 42 28 12 2 58 124 89Montreal 44 25 14 5 55 114 103Tampa Bay 42 25 13 4 54 119 100

Detroit 43 19 14 10 48 114 121Toronto 44 21 18 5 47 122 132Ottawa 44 19 18 7 45 126 141Florida 43 16 21 6 38 102 136Buffalo 42 12 26 4 28 74 118Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 44 31 12 1 63 142 103Philadelphia 43 22 17 4 48 114 118Washington 42 20 16 6 46 128 128Carolina 43 18 16 9 45 105 124N.Y. Rangers 44 21 20 3 45 108 119New Jersey 44 17 18 9 43 103 113Columbus 43 19 20 4 42 117 126N.Y. Islanders 45 16 22 7 39 124 149WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 45 29 7 9 67 167 124St. Louis 41 29 7 5 63 150 95Colorado 42 26 12 4 56 123 108Minnesota 44 22 17 5 49 106 113Dallas 42 20 15 7 47 123 131Winnipeg 45 19 21 5 43 123 135Nashville 43 18 19 6 42 102 129Pacifi c Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 44 31 8 5 67 146 111San Jose 43 27 10 6 60 142 111Los Angeles 43 26 13 4 56 113 89Vancouver 44 23 13 8 54 117 108Phoenix 41 20 12 9 49 123 127Calgary 42 15 21 6 36 100 131Edmonton 45 14 26 5 33 117 156NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.Monday’s GamesColumbus 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, SON.Y. Islanders 7, Dallas 3Montreal 2, Florida 1Calgary 4, Colorado 3Tuesday’s GamesN.Y. Islanders 5, Toronto 3Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 2, OTCarolina at Buffalo, ppd., inclement weatherSan Jose at Nashville, lateTampa Bay at Winnipeg, lateCalgary at Phoenix, lateSt. Louis at Edmonton, latePittsburgh at Vancouver, lateBoston at Anaheim, lateMinnesota at Los Angeles, lateWednesday’s GamesMontreal at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Chicago, 8 p.m.Ottawa at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.Thursday’s GamesFlorida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Dallas at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Toronto at Carolina, 7 p.m.Washington at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.Anaheim at Nashville, 8 p.m.St. Louis at Calgary, 9 p.m.Minnesota at Phoenix, 9 p.m.Boston at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Detroit at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

College Bowl ScheduleSaturday, Dec. 28Pinstripe Bowl, at New YorkNotre Dame 29, Rutgers 16Belk Bowl, at Charlotte, N.C.North Carolina 39, Cincinnati 17Russell Athletic BowlAt Orlando, Fla.Louisville 36, Miami 9Buffalo Wild Wings BowlAt Tempe, Ariz.Kansas State 31, Michigan 14Monday, Dec. 30Armed Forces BowlAt Fort Worth, TexasNavy 24, Middle Tennessee 6Music City Bowl, at Nashville, Tenn.Mississippi 25, Georgia Tech 17Alamo Bowl, at San AntonioOregon 30, Texas 7Holiday Bowl, at San DiegoTexas Tech 37, Arizona State 23Tuesday, Dec. 31AdvoCare V100 BowlAt Shreveport, La.Arizona 42, Boston College 19Sun Bowl, at El Paso, TexasUCLA 42, Virginia Tech 12Liberty Bowl, at Memphis, Tenn.Mississippi State 44, Rice 7Chick-fi l-A Bowl, at AtlantaTexas A&M 52, Duke 48Wednesday, Jan. 1Heart of Dallas BowlNorth Texas 36, UNLV 14Gator Bowl, at Jacksonville, Fla.Nebraska 24, Georgia 19Capital One BowlAt Orlando, Fla.South Carolina 34, Wisconsin 24Outback Bowl, at Tampa, Fla.LSU 21, Iowa 14Rose Bowl, at Pasadena, Calif.Michigan State 24, Stanford 20Fiesta Bowl, at Glendale, Ariz.UCF 52, Baylor 42Thursday, Jan. 2Sugar Bowl, at New OrleansOklahoma 45, Alabama 31Friday, Jan. 3Cotton Bowl, at Arlington, TexasMissouri 41, Oklahoma State 31Orange Bowl, at MiamiClemson 40, Ohio State 35Saturday, Jan. 4BBVA Compass BowlAt Birmingham, Ala.Vanderbilt 41, Houston 24Sunday, Jan. 5GoDaddy.com BowlAt Mobile, Ala.Arkansas State 23, Ball State 20Monday, Jan. 6BCS National ChampionshipAt Pasadena, Calif.Florida State 34, Auburn 31Saturday, Jan. 18East-West Shrine ClassicAt St. Petersburg, Fla.East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN)NFLPA Collegiate BowlAt Los AngelesAmerican vs. National, 6 p.m. (ESPN2)Saturday, Jan. 25Senior BowlAt Mobile, Ala.South vs. North, 4 p.m. (NFLN)

NFL Playoff GlanceWild-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)

Men’s College Basketball Top 25 Schedule

Wednesday’s GamesNo. 4 Wisconsin vs. No. 23 Illinois, 9 p.m.No. 6 Wichita State vs. Illinois State, 8 p.m.No. 8 Villanova at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.No. 10 Florida vs. South Carolina, 7 p.m.No. 11 Oklahoma State vs. Texas, 9 p.m.No. 13 San Diego State vs. Boise State, 11:05 p.m.No. 14 Kentucky vs. Mississippi State, 8 p.m.No. 15 Colorado vs. Washington State at Spokane (Wash.) Arena, 9 p.m.No. 18 Kansas at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.No. 19 UMass vs. Saint Joseph’s, 7 p.m.No. 21 Missouri vs. Georgia, 8 p.m.Thursday’s GamesNo. 1 Arizona at UCLA, 9 p.m.No. 12 Louisville vs. No. 24 Memphis, 7 p.m.No. 17 Oregon vs. California, 11 p.m.No. 20 Iowa vs. Northwestern, 9 p.m.No. 22 Gonzaga at Portland, 11 p.m.Friday’s GamesNo games scheduledSaturday’s GamesNo. 2 Syracuse vs. North Carolina, Noon

No. 5 Michigan State vs. Minnesota, 2:15 p.m.No. 6 Wichita State at Missouri State, 8 p.m.No. 7 Baylor vs. TCU, 1:30 p.m.No. 8 Villanova vs. St. John’s at Madison Square Garden, 1 p.m.No. 9 Iowa State at Oklahoma, NoonNo. 10 Florida at Arkansas, 1 p.m.No. 11 Oklahoma State at West Virginia, 4 p.m.No. 14 Kentucky at Vanderbilt, 3:30 p.m.No. 16 Duke at Clemson, 2 p.m.No. 18 Kansas vs. No. 25 Kansas State, 2 p.m.No. 19 UMass vs. St. Bonaventure, 12:30 p.m.No. 21 Missouri at Auburn, 2 p.m.No. 24 Memphis at Temple, 3 p.m.

Men’s College Basketball Box Scores

No. 16 DUKE 79, GEORGIA TECH 57GEORGIA TECH (9-6)Morris 2-3 0-2 5, Holsey 1-3 0-0 2, Miller 7-11 0-1 14, Georges-Hunt 8-12 0-1 18, Golden 4-11 0-0 8, Poole, Jr. 0-2 0-2 0, Poole 0-2 0-0 0, Bolden 2-4 0-0 5, Stephens 2-5 0-0 5, Heyward 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-53 0-6 57.DUKE (12-3)Parker 4-12 4-4 12, Hood 8-12 6-6 27, Jefferson 2-3 2-3 6, Cook 4-10 4-4 13, Sulaimon 4-7 1-2 11, Thornton 0-0 0-0 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Hairston 0-0 0-0 0, Dawkins 2-7 5-6 10, Plumlee 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-51 22-25 79.Halftime—Duke 34-33. 3-Point Goals—Georgia Tech 5-16 (Georges-Hunt 2-4, Bolden 1-1, Morris 1-1, Stephens 1-4, Golden 0-2, Poole, Jr. 0-2, Poole 0-2), Duke 9-20 (Hood 5-7, Sulaimon 2-2, Cook 1-4, Dawkins 1-5, Parker 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Georgia Tech 25 (Miller 8), Duke 33 (Jefferson 10). Assists—Georgia Tech 11 (Golden 4), Duke 12 (Cook 5). Total Fouls—Georgia Tech 17, Duke 14. A—9,314.

No. 9 IOWA ST. 87, No. 7 BAYLOR 72BAYLOR (12-2)O’Neale 2-5 0-0 5, Chery 3-14 0-0 8, Franklin 5-11 1-1 15, Austin 5-8 0-0 10, Jefferson 3-7 1-2 7, Gathers 1-3 1-2 3, Heslip 5-10 1-3 15, Wainright 0-0 0-0 0, Prince 4-8 1-2 9. Totals 28-66 5-10 72.IOWA ST. (14-0)Ejim 8-14 0-2 18, Thomas 1-3 0-0 3, Hogue 3-4 2-2 8, Niang 4-10 1-1 9, Kane 11-18 6-9 30, Dorsey-Walker 0-0 0-0 0, Morris 5-8 0-0 13, Long 2-5 0-0 6, Gibson 0-0 0-1 0, Edozie 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-62 9-15 87.Halftime—Iowa St. 40-38. 3-Point Goals—Baylor 11-25 (Heslip 4-6, Franklin 4-8, Chery 2-6, O’Neale 1-2, Austin 0-1, Prince 0-1, Jefferson 0-1), Iowa St. 10-25 (Morris 3-4, Kane 2-4, Ejim 2-5, Long 2-5, Thomas 1-3, Hogue 0-1, Niang 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Baylor 40 (Austin 12), Iowa St. 31 (Hogue 10). Assists—Baylor 13 (Chery 5), Iowa St. 23 (Kane 9). Total Fouls—Baylor 17, Iowa St. 13. Technical—Ejim. A—14,383.

Women’s Basketball Top 25 Schedule

Wednesday’s GamesNo. 7 Baylor at West Virginia, 7 p.m.No. 11 Iowa State vs. Texas Tech, 8 p.m.No. 15 Oklahoma State at Kansas State, 8 p.m.No. 24 San Diego at Portland, 10 p.m.Thursday’s GamesNo. 2 Notre Dame vs. Boston College, 7 p.m.No. 3 Duke at Syracuse, 7 p.m.No. 6 Maryland vs. Wake Forest, 7 p.m.No. 8 Tennessee vs. Mississippi, 7 p.m.No. 9 Kentucky at No. 10 South Carolina, 7 p.m.No. 12 LSU vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m.No. 13 North Carolina vs. No. 20 N.C. State, 6 p.m.No. 14 Penn State at Illinois, 9 p.m.No. 16 Nebraska at Michigan State, 7 p.m.No. 18 Florida State at Miami, 7 p.m.No. 21 Purdue at Northwestern, 8 p.m.No. 25 Georgia at Missouri, 8 p.m.Friday’s GamesNo. 4 Stanford at Utah, 8 p.m.No. 17 Colorado vs. No. 19 California, 10 p.m.No. 23 Arizona State vs. Southern Cal, 8 p.m.Saturday’s GamesNo. 1 UConn vs. Temple, NoonNo. 7 Baylor vs. TCU, 8 p.m.No. 11 Iowa State vs. No. 15 Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.No. 22 Indiana vs. Ohio State, 4:30 p.m.No. 24 San Diego at Gonzaga, 5 p.m.

College FootballFinal AP Top 25 PollThe Top 25 teams in fi nal college football poll, with fi rst-place votes in parentheses, fi nal records, total points based on 25 points for a fi rst-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:

Record Pts Pv1. Florida St. (60) 14-0 1,500 12. Auburn 12-2 1,428 23. Michigan St. 13-1 1,385 44. South Carolina 11-2 1,247 85. Missouri 12-2 1,236 96. Oklahoma 11-2 1,205 117. Alabama 11-2 1,114 38. Clemson 11-2 1,078 129. Oregon 11-2 974 1010. UCF 12-1 959 1511. Stanford 11-3 936 512. Ohio St. 12-2 816 713. Baylor 11-2 778 614. LSU 10-3 717 1415. Louisville 12-1 693 1816. UCLA 10-3 632 1717. Oklahoma St. 10-3 598 1318. Texas A&M 9-4 459 2019. Southern Cal 10-4 299 NR20. Arizona St. 10-4 258 1621. Notre Dame 9-4 256 2522. Wisconsin 9-4 245 1923. Duke 10-4 190 2224. Vanderbilt 9-4 117 NR25. Washington 9-4 109 NROthers receiving votes: Nebraska 107, Fresno St. 54, N. Illinois 22, N. Dakota St. 17, Texas Tech 14, Georgia 13, Iowa 13, Mississippi 10, Kansas St. 8, Arizona 5, Navy 3, East Carolina 2, Utah St. 2, Mississippi St. 1.

BCS National ChampionshipNo. 1 FLORIDA ST. 34, No. 2 AUBURN 31Auburn 7 14 0 10--31Florida St. 3 7 3 21--34First QuarterFSU—FG Aguayo 35, 9:53.Aub—Mason 12 pass from Marshall (Parkey kick), 3:07.Second QuarterAub—Ray 50 pass from Marshall (Parkey kick), 13:48.Aub—Marshall 4 run (Parkey kick), 5:01.FSU—Freeman 3 run (Aguayo kick), 1:28.Third QuarterFSU—FG Aguayo 41, 6:05.Fourth QuarterFSU—Abram 11 pass from Winston (Aguayo kick), 10:55.Aub—FG Parkey 22, 4:42.FSU—Whitfi eld 100 kickoff return (Aguayo kick), 4:31.Aub—Mason 37 run (Parkey kick), 1:19.FSU—Benjamin 2 pass from Winston (Aguayo kick), :13.A—94,208.Team Statistics Aub FSUFirst downs 25 19Rushes-yards 53-232 31-148Passing 217 237Comp-Att-Int 14-27-1 20-35-0Return Yards 36 4Punts-Avg. 6-43.2 6-42.8Fumbles-Lost 2-0 2-1Penalties-Yards 5-38 8-60Time of Possession 33:41 26:19INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Auburn, Mason 34-195, Marshall 16-45, Artis-Payne 1-1, Grant 1-(minus 3), Louis 1-(minus 6). Florida St., Freeman 11-73, Winston 11-26, K.Williams 5-25, Wilder Jr. 3-21, Abram 1-3.PASSING—Auburn, Marshall 14-27-1-217. Florida St., Winston 20-35-0-237.RECEIVING—Auburn, Coates 4-61, Bray 3-4, Louis 2-28, Uzomah 2-8,

Ray 1-50, Mason 1-42, M.Davis 1-26, Marshall 0-(minus 2). Florida St., Greene 9-147, Benjamin 4-54, Freeman 3-21, Shaw 2-4, Abram 1-11, K.Williams 1-0.

ECHLEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAWheeling 31 15 10 1 5 36 84 88Reading 28 15 12 1 0 31 79 77Elmira 30 10 16 2 2 24 73 99North Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GACincinnati 31 20 9 1 1 42 108 83Evansville 30 17 7 3 3 40 104 96Kalamazoo 30 16 11 1 2 35 85 77F. Wayne 30 13 11 2 4 32 89 98Toledo 30 10 17 3 0 23 88 116South Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAS. Car. 33 24 6 1 2 51 102 64Florida 32 20 10 1 1 42 111 93Orlando 32 18 12 1 1 38 90 89Greenville 32 14 15 2 1 31 78 83Gwinnett 33 12 19 0 2 26 80 97WESTERN CONFERENCEMountain Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAColorado 32 18 9 3 2 41 103 87Alaska 30 19 9 1 1 40 96 61Idaho 32 17 11 2 2 38 103 94Utah 30 11 15 2 2 26 69 83Pacifi c Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAOntario 33 24 5 1 3 52 101 78Stockton 32 17 11 0 4 38 110 98S. Fran. 34 12 17 4 1 29 81 120Bakersf. 30 13 16 0 1 27 75 90Las Veg. 31 8 20 3 0 19 73 111NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.Monday’s GamesNo games scheduledTuesday’s GamesGwinnett at South Carolina, lateToledo at Evansville, ppd., Inclement weatherLas Vegas at Utah, lateWednesday’s GamesKalamazoo at Fort Wayne, 7 p.m.Wheeling at Reading, 7:05 p.m.Las Vegas at Utah, 9:05 p.m.Thursday’s GamesCincinnati at Wheeling, 7 p.m.Evansville at Greenville, ppd., Inclement weatherAlaska at San Francisco, 10:30 p.m.

TransactionsBASEBALLAmerican LeagueKANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with C Ramon Hernandez on a minor league contract.OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jesse Chavez on a one-year contract.TAMPA BAY RAYS — Designated OF Jerry Sands for assignment. Claimed LHP Pedro Figueroa off waivers from Oakland.National LeagueLOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with OFs Shakir Albert and Julio Lugo, Cs Hendrik Clementina and Gersel Pitre and RHP Misja Harcksen.PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with INF Robert Andino on a minor league contract.SAN DIEGO PADRES — Assigned RHP Adys Portillo outright to San Antonio (TL).WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Named Valerie J. Camillo chief revenue and marketing offi cer.American AssociationKANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed INF Matt Padgett and RHP Josh Hildebrand.ST. PAUL SAINTS — Released INF Dan Kaczrowski.SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Traded INF Anthony Kaskadden to Fargo-Moorhead for C Todd Jennings.SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released RHP Chris Allen. Signed RHP John Brebbia.BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationCHICAGO BULLS — Waived C Andrew Bynum.LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Waived F Shawne Williams.OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Sent F Ryan Gomes to Boston and cash considerations to Memphis, who sent conditional second-round draft picks in 2014 and 2017 to Oklahoma City and G Jerryd Bayless to Boston. Boston sent G Courtney Lee and a 2016 second-round draft pick to Memphis.PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Waived C Daniel Orton.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed TEs Brett Brackett and Andre Hardy and G Christian Johnson to reserve/future contracts.GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed OT Aaron Adams, CB Antonio Dennard, C Garth Gerhart, WR Alex Gillett, RB Orwin Smith, LB Chase Thomas, G Andrew Tiller and T Jeremy Vujnovich.MIAMI DOLHINS — Fired Jeff Ireland general manager.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed LB Ja’Gared Davis from the practice squad and WR Reggie Dunn to the practice squad.NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed TE Daniel Fells, WR Preston Parker, LB Spencer Adkins, OL Troy Kropog and PK/P Brandon McManus.WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed WR David Gettis, P Robert Malone, RB Davin Meggett, LB Gabe Miller, CB Ryan Mouton, TE Richard Quinn, OL Tevita Stevens and DB Peyton Thompson to reserve/future contracts.Canadian Football LeagueCALGARY STAMPEDERS — Signed QB Adrian McPherson.MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Signed DB Ed Gainey to a three-year contract.WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Named Pat Tracey special teams coordinator and Markus Howell wide receivers coach.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueLOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled F Tanner Pearson from Manchester (AHL).MINNESOTA WILD — Loaned D Matt Dumba to Portland (WHL).MONTREAL CANADIENS — Reassigned G Robert Mayer to Hamilton (AHL).American Hockey LeagueBRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Released F Philip-Michael Devos from a professional tryout contract.HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Assigned G Mike Condon and D Drew Schiestel to Wheeling (ECHL).PEORIA RIVERMEN — Assigned D Nick Wheeler and F Phil Bushbacher to Cincinnati (ECHL). Agreed to terms with F Jeremiah Ketts on an SPHL three-game tryout.WORCESTER SHARKS — Signed F Yanni Gourde to a professional tryout agreement and F Tyler Gron on a two-way AHL/ECHL contract. Loaned Fs Riley Brace and Sebastian Stalberg to San Francisco (ECHL).ECHLIDAHO STEELHEADS — Traded D James Isaacs to Greenville for future considerations. Signed D Matt Walters.SOCCERMajor League SoccerLA GALAXY — Acquired F Samuel on loan from Fluminese (Brazil-Serie A).PORTLAND TIMBERS — Re-signed F Frederic Piquionne.North American Soccer LeagueNEW YORK COSMOS — Signed M Danny Szetela to a contract extension.COLLEGEBIG TEN CONFERENCE — Suspended Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffrey one game and fi ned the school $10,000 for his violating the conference’s sportsman-ship policy during Sunday’s game.AUBURN — Announced OT Greg Robinson will enter the NFL draft.HOFSTRA — Agreed to terms with men’s lacrosse coach Seth Tierney on a multiyear contract extension.MISSOURI — Announced RB Henry Josey will enter the NFL draft.NORTHWESTERN — Announced men’s basketball C Chier Ajou is transferring.OKLAHOMA CITY — Named Kyle Steele volleyball coach.

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The landscape was stark, dominated by blinding sunlight ricocheting off snow piles blown into frozen waves as far as the eye could see. Trees dotted the horizon,

naked of leaves. Homes buttoned up and snowed in, smoke puffi ng from chimneys.

It was Norman Rockwell’s version of a frozen Indiana hell.

Outside the confi nes of their SUV late Monday morning, two DeKalb County deputies, Adam Friedel and Ben Rice, worked to shovel their own vehicle out of a snowbank on C.R. 12. Somewhere on that roadway, a vehicle had

been stranded for hours.Friedel and Rice were trying to get to it.But C.R. 12 was no longer a road. It

was a snowy minefi eld. If it had been plowed, it didn’t show it. The wind had heaped snow in piles more than 2 feet deep. The edge of the road became the beginning of a fi eld, and the fi eld had become the road.

In their efforts to get to the stranded vehicle, the sheriff’s department’s four-wheel drive SUV, which hadn’t had its wheels on actual pavement for miles, slid just enough off the road to get stuck.

Outside, the wind did not just howl, it screamed bitterly, ripping through layer after layer of clothing. The tempera-ture was 13 below zero. The wind chill made it feel at least 20 degrees colder than that.

In less than fi ve minutes, any exposed fl esh started to freeze solid. The tempera-ture did not take your breath away, it froze it in place.

A passerby in a heavy-duty truck with a snow blade eventually came to the rescue, minutes before a county plow arrived to assist. Friedel and Rice got to the stranded woman in her buried truck. They took her to her house.

The two deputies moved on to search for the next stranded motorist.

Friedel and Rice are not simply deputies. Both are detectives.

Each has an unmarked, depart-ment-issue squad compact car, the kind of car that can’t get out of a driveway with more than a foot of fresh snow on the ground.

They could have taken the day off. Instead, they chose to secure one of the department’s four-wheel drive vehicles and spend eight hours navigating roads that sloped and slid like rapids. Monday, Rice, Friedel and their law-enforcement brethren were more search-and-rescue than serve and protect.

Friedel drove the entire shift. Rice complained from the passenger seat about Friedel’s driving. Friedel complained about Rice’s complaining.

When it came time for one of them to go out into the dangerous cold, they raced to be the one to have to do it so the other could stay warm in the car.

Friedel drove with the aggressiveness of Dale Sr. at Talladega. His one mantra: keep the SUV moving forward. To stop, no matter how perilous the traction, meant not to get started again.

A dozen or more times he gunned it when the only sane course of action seemed to be to stop and become yet another frozen obstacle waiting for assistance. A dozen or more times he kept the SUV lunging forward, like a deer bursting through a creek.

Except for the one time he got stuck (Rice reminded him of this constantly), Friedel was magic behind the wheel.

Tuesday, they were going to be out again. Friedel would drive. Rice would complain.

And they would put the needs of the community ahead of their own safety and comfort.

MATT GETTS writes an occasional column for this newspaper. He can be reached via email at [email protected].

Navigating snowy minefi elds

When it is absolutelybelow-zerobone-chilling freezing some people do silly things just for fun.On Facebook Monday I saw photos

of Kendallville teens cavorting in backyard snow — in bathing suits. Little did I know that as I viewed those photos, Omar, our 16-year-old AFS YES exchange student from Palestine, was responding to a similar challenge. He posted on Facebook a video of himself plunging into snow, bare chested.

This craziness was in response to a “snow challenge” that began

with a picture on Instagram that said “snow challenge,” Omar said.

“You put the amount of likes you want to get and if you get that many likes you have to do it,” Omar explained. He asked for 40 likes and then he did it.

He said he knows about a dozen other kids in the area who also dove into the snow Monday. Some of them asked for 100 likes, he said.

His dad, mom and older sister in Palestine, who are on Facebook almost as much as Omar, probably saw Omar dive into the snow bare-chested before I did.

For almost a week, Omar had been quite ill with the fl u, and of course we and his family were concerned. His recovery had been slow. Following Omar’s dive into the snow I said something like this: “Omar, you got better sooner than I thought you would. I thought your day of recovery would be the fi rst day that there was no possibility of me asking you to shovel. But I was wrong. You’re healthy now. So let’s get out there and shovel!”

He was enthusiastic and up for the challenge! We made enough progress on the deck, sidewalk and driveway to impress Terry when he got home.

Snow-wise, Kendallville is barely keeping up with Ramallah, Omar’s hometown in Palestine. In December when we had 8 inches of snow, Ramallah had 23 inches of

snow. Omar showed us incredible photos of buried cars and snow sculptures from a land that most of us think of as warm, year ’round.

A few days after Palestine’s historic snowfall, Omar’s younger brother posted a photo on Facebook of a snowman he had made … wearing Omar’s hat!

Kids of all ages do crazy things in ridiculously cold weather. My friends Cathy Linsenmayer and Antonio Lauriola, who have a home on Sylvan Lake, threw up steaming hot water to create fantastic cloud formations. Their son, Daniel, is an engineering student at Rose-Hulman.

“We saw some Rose-Hulman students try this, and thought it would be a fun break from shoveling snow,” Cathy said. “All it involves is boiling water and tossing it into

the sub-zero air. The resulting vapor/ice cloud was so impressive, that we actually did it three times!” And then they did it again with blue food coloring added for dramatic effect.

Another crazy “just because” thing is grilling in sub-zero temperatures. Mike Marturello, editor of The Herald Republican, lives on Snow Lake in Steuben County. Monday night, “Just so I could say I did,” he grilled burgers outdoors on his deck. In response to my query, he said by the time he got them into the house, they were still warm enough to melt the cheese that he put on them.

GRACE HOUSHOLDER is a columnist and edito-rial writer for this newspaper. Contact her at [email protected].

Record cold heats up crazy winter fun

As we are exiting the season of “peace on earth — goodwill towards men” and entering yet another legislative and political season, it seems appropriate to examine why contemporary political discourse has become so divisive and shrill.

Of course, when has political discussion been unifying and open-minded? Fair enough, but it certainly seems that political discussion has become more mean-spirited today than it was in previous decades. Although I offer no solution beyond a general saccharine resolution that we should all be nicer to one another, I think there are at least three sources of today’s extreme acrimony.

First, there has been a glacial but important change in the proper role of passion in public discourse. James Madison, Adam Smith and Jane Austen all thought “passions” — or in modern parlance, emotions — were an essential part of human nature. They also believed public displays of passions ought to be restrained. Self-command was a cardinal virtue. It obliged individuals to mute their own feelings in public.

By the 1960s these traditional restraints on displays of public emotions seemed excessive and repressive. To be genuine in the expression of one’s feelings became a virtue. Today being “passionate” about a cause is something we admire — especially

if we agree with the cause. Is it any surprise that we prefer political commentators who are strident compared with those who are

more circumspect?Second, the communications

revolution of the past 20 years has led to increased segmentation in the media. The old media monopoly has been replaced with more diversity in news sources. This revolution can’t be turned back and it has many positive attributes. A by-product of media segmentation, however, is that we live in a media “bubble” of our own making. Progressives get their news from MSNBC and the Huffi ngton Post while conservatives get theirs from FOX and the Drudge Report, and never the twain meet. We pick news sources that re-enforce

and infl ame our own ideological biases. This goes well with the modern desire to be entertained: It is so much more fun to be entertained than to have to think through a serious argument.

Finally, the narcissism of my genera-tion — the baby boomers — has become a permanent feature of our culture. An “it’s all about me” attitude extends beyond materialistic selfi shness. It also fuels intellectual and moral arrogance. The “I’m always right, I never lie and I am a morally superior creature” posture comes naturally to the self-absorbed person. A logical extension of this view is that those who disagree with me must be liars as well as my intellectual and moral inferiors.

I confess I have sinned on all three margins. More important, however, both sides of the political divide are guilty of these sins in equal proportion. Both left and right generally applaud their own purveyors of vitriol as heroic and thought-provoking commentators while condemning the other side’s as hateful demagogues. Both left and right stay in their own media bubble. Both left and right are convinced of their own intrinsic intellectual and moral superi-ority while impugning the motives of their political opponents.

As stated at the outset, there is no obvious remedy. In an upcoming column I will share an insight that I think offers a respectful way of characterizing the differ-ences between political groups.

CECIL BOHANON, PH.D., an adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, is a professor of economics at Ball State University. © Copyright Cecil Bohanon; distributed with permis-sion to member newspapers; all rights reserved.

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They could have taken the day off. Instead, they chose to secure one of the depart-

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In Tuesday’s below zero temperatures Antonio Lauriola threw up steaming hot water to create fantastic cloud formations on the shores of Sylvan Lake in Noble County. He did it three times … and then again with blue food coloring added for dramatic effect.

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‘Transformers’director walks outon Samsung show

LAS VEGAS (AP) — “Transformers” director

Michael Bay says he’s embarrassed that he walked off the stage during a presen-tation of Samsung’s new curved

ultra-high-defi nition televi-sion.

Video of the cringe-worthy incident at the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas circulated on social media sites late Monday and early Tuesday. In a statement posted online and confi rmed by Bay’s production company, Bay says: “I guess live shows aren’t my thing.”

The video shows Bay start to speak, then stop when the presenter speaks. Bay resumes speaking, then stops again, saying the teleprompter isn’t working correctly.

Bay and the presenter then attempt to talk off-the-cuff about the 105-inch TV, but the fl ustered director apologizes and abruptly leaves the stage.

Velveeta shortagemay hit duringfootball playoffs

NEW YORK (AP) — Playoff parties may have one fewer dip option this year.

Kraft Foods says some customers may not be able to fi nd Velveeta cheese over the next few weeks. A representative for the company, Jody Moore, didn’t give any reasons for the apparent shortage, saying only that they happen from time to time given the “nature of manufacturing.”

She noted that the lack of availability is more notice-able because of the seasonal demand during the NFL playoffs. The company has been airing TV commercials featuring a recipe for a chili con queso dip made with Velveeta.

Moore says it should be a short-term situation and that Kraft hasn’t yet heard from any customers who are having problem fi nding the products. She did not say whether the company experienced a similar shortage last year.

The trade publica-tion Ad Age reported the issue Tuesday, quoting an employee at a Brooklyn-area grocery store who didn’t expect shipments again until February due to “a plant issue.”

British airportreopens afterbomb scare

LONDON (AP) — Offi cials say Scotland’s Edinburgh airport is reopening after a closure of several hours following the discovery of a suspicious package.

The airport terminal was evacuated and a police cordon was thrown up Tuesday after the discovery of the “suspicious bag” at 1:50 p.m.

Explosive disposal experts were sent to the scene and several outbound fl ights were canceled, while inbound fl ights were diverted to Glasgow Airport, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) away.

Airport chief executive Gordon Dewar told the BBC that the package had been determined not to be a threat.

Scotland experienced an airport attack in in June 2007, when two men attempted to crash a blazing Jeep loaded with explosives into Glasgow Airport. The car’s path was blocked and the explosives failed to detonate.

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NEW YORK (AP) — American oil companies have not been allowed to export crude for 40 years, but the industry wants to change that, even though the U.S. still consumes far more oil than it produces.

A surprising surge in domestic production of light, sweet crude — a particular type of oil that foreign refi ners covet — has triggered growing calls to lift the restrictions, which were put in place after the Arab oil embargo of 1973.

But the idea is touching a nerve that remains raw four decades after oil shortages crippled the economy and led to the law that banned crude exports without a special license.

“For 40 years, energy policy has been shaped by that experience of the 1970s,” says Daniel Yergin, energy historian, author and vice chairman of the research and analysis fi rm IHS. “But we are in a different world. Neither our logistics nor our thinking has caught up with the dramatic changes in North America.”

Skeptics worry that lifting the restrictions would lead to higher gasoline prices and decreased energy security. Economists and analysts argue that it would have little or no effect on prices, largely because the U.S. already exports record amounts of gasoline and diesel, which are not restricted.

Some experts say allowing crude exports could actually improve energy security by encour-aging more domestic production.

Major oil companies such as Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips, along with the American Petroleum Institute, an oil and gas lobbying group, are the biggest proponents of ending the ban.

On Tuesday, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski released a paper on energy exports describing the nation’s export laws as “antiquated” and urging President Barack Obama and the Senate to allow crude exports. Late last year, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz suggested at an industry gathering that it may be time to revisit export laws.

But easing the restric-tions will be politically diffi cult, especially in an election year. In a recent letter to Obama, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez made an argument that is likely to resonate with voters: “Crude oil that is produced in the U.S. should be used to lower prices here at home, not sent to the other side of the world.”

Environmental groups have worries, too, mainly that by allowing U.S. companies to export crude to get higher prices, producers will be encouraged to use expensive, environmentally damaging techniques to obtain the oil.

American oilcompanies wantexport ban lifted

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Passengers unload their luggage after arriving at Union Station in Chicago Tuesday after their Amtrak train from Los Angeles became stuck in snow drifts.

The severe weather forced hundreds of Amtrak passengers to spend the night on board three trains stranded due to the snow in northern Illinois.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Amtrak train slowed to a crawl as it hammered through snowdrifts in an empty stretch of Illinois countryside, delivering thuds and jolts to passen-gers, until it lurched into a mound big enough to grind its 8,000-horsepower engine to a halt.

About 90 miles short of their Chicago destina-tion, passengers sheltered inside the train overnight, reading books, watching movies on computers and taking what amusement they could from a conductor who cracked jokes over the intercom. Food ran low and some tempers boiled over, but staff kept the heat on, entertained children and even escorted small groups of people outside for smoke

breaks.“You hear those horror

stories about the cars that stop in the snow and they freeze to death. I thought, ‘Oh God, this is going to happen, we’re going to be in blankets,” said passenger Chris Smith.

They weren’t alone. Across huge swaths of the country, the polar vortex froze travel. Motorists, airline passengers and commuters were left fi ghting to stay in motion and, when that failed, fi ghting to stave off boredom and cold. Airlines again canceled several thousand fl ights Tuesday, as the extreme cold slowed everything from baggage-handling to refueling. On the roads, powerful winds pushing the snow into desert-like dunes

forced authorities to shut major highways, including a 75-mile stretch of Interstate 81 north of Syracuse, N.Y., to the Canadian border.

The snow-bound train stuck near the tiny village of Arlington in north-central Illinois was one of three Amtrak trains carrying a total of 500 passengers that got stuck in the state overnight. Amtrak offi cials eventually got them to safety, then bused them to their destinations. A fourth train, carrying 150 people from Washington, D.C., to Chicago came to a halt in Indianapolis because of blowing snow.

Smith’s train began its journey in warm Los Angeles, passing the Grand Canyon and carving through wheat fi elds.

Train passengers stranded

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the Supreme Court, technology can be regarded as a necessary evil, and sometimes not even necessary.

When the justices have something to say to each other in writing, they never do it by email. Their courthouse didn’t even have a photocopying machine until 1969, a few years after “Xerox” had become a verb.

So as the legal fi ght over the NSA’s high-tech collection of telephone records moves through the court system, possibly en route to the Supreme Court, some justices already are on record as saying they should be wary about taking on major questions of technology and privacy.

As Justice Elena Kagan understated last summer, “The justices are not necessarily the most techno-logically sophisticated people.”

The wariness shows up in rulings, too. When the court in 2010 upheld a police department’s warrant-less search of an offi cer’s personal, sometimes sexually explicit messages on a government-owned pager, Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested caution. He wrote, “The judiciary risks error by elaborating too fully on the Fourth Amendment implications of emerging technology before its role in society has become clear.”

Clear or not, the implica-tions of technology are increasingly relevant. Constitutional protection against the prying eyes of government, without a judge’s prior approval, is embodied in the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon of Washington ruled that the NSA’s phone-records

collection program probably fails that Fourth Amendment test and is unconstitutional. Leon called the program “Orwellian” in scale.

The Obama adminis-tration has defended the program as an important tool in the fi ght against terrorism and is expected to appeal the ruling. Compli-cating matters, 11 days after Leon’s ruling, U.S. District Judge William Pauley III of New York declared the NSA program legal in dismissing a lawsuit fi led by the American Civil Liberties Union. In addition, legislation in Congress and possible administration changes could alter NSA surveillance and affect the court cases.

Still, many people expect the Supreme Court will have the fi nal word on the program, especially if other appellate judges agree with Leon.

Among those who think the Supreme Court will

weigh in is Justice Antonin Scalia, who addressed the topic in July in a question-and-answer session with a technology group. He didn’t sound happy about the prospect of such a ruling. Scalia said the elected branches of government are better situated to balance security needs and privacy protections.

But he said that the Supreme Court took that power for itself in 1960s-era expansions of privacy rights, including prohibi-tions on wiretapping without a judge’s approval.

“The consequence of that is that whether the NSA can do the stuff it’s been doing … which used to be a question for the people … will now be resolved by the branch of government that knows the least about the issues in question, the branch that knows the least about the extent of the threat against which the wiretap-

ping is directed,” he said. Scalia repeatedly used the term “wiretap” in his comments, but indicated later that he was speaking more generally about NSA surveillance, including the collection of phone records.

Supreme Court shying away from tech issues

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and the rest of the court may be reluctant to take on cases dealing with technology and privacy.

NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co., already beset by costly legal woes, will pay over $2.5 billion for ignoring obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme, authorities said Tuesday.

The bank will pay $1.7 billion to settle criminal charges and a $350 million civil penalty for what the Treasury Department called “critical and widespread defi ciencies” in its programs to prevent money laundering and other suspicious activity.

It also will pay $543 million to settle other victim claims, according to settlements announced by Irving H. Picard, the trustee recovering money for thousands of Madoff’s victims.

George Venizelos, head

of the FBI’s New York offi ce, said the company failed to carry out its legal obligations while Madoff “built his massive house of cards.”

“It took until after the arrest of Madoff, one of the worst crooks this offi ce has ever seen, for JPMorgan to alert authorities to what the world already knew,” he said.

JPMorgan, the primary bank through which Madoff operated since 1986, withdrew about $300 million of its own money from Madoff feeder funds in 2008, soon after the bank’s London desk circulated a memo describing JPMorgan’s inability to validate Madoff’s trading activity or custody of assets and his “odd choice” of a one-man accounting fi rm, the government said.

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KARYOUT, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians on Tuesday chased and grabbed more than a dozen Israeli settlers who witnesses said had attacked Palestinian farmers near a West Bank village.

The settlers were held for about two hours at a house under construction before being handed over to the Israeli military. During the standoff, the settlers huddled near a wall of the house, several bleeding from the head, and one was lying on the ground.

By the time Israeli soldiers arrived, the crowd surrounding the settlers had grown to about 200 people, an AP photographer said. People kicked and spit at the settlers as they were led away by soldiers.

Human rights groups have reported an increase in attacks by militant settlers on Palestin-ians and their property in the West Bank in recent years. However, Tuesday’s incident appeared to mark the fi rst time settlers were captured and held by Palestinians.

The Israeli military said it had received word of a stone-throwing clash between settlers and Palestinian farmers and that it later evacuated 11 settlers with light and moderate injuries from the building.

The incident began at about 10:30 a.m. near the West Bank village of Qusra,

southeast of the city of Nablus, said Ziad Odeh, the Muslim prayer leader in Qusra and a member of the village council.

He said about 25 to 30 settlers, many of them masked, attacked Qusra farmers in an olive grove with sticks and stones, injuring a Palestinian boy in the head. A clash ensued, farmers called for reinforce-ments and about 100 youths

arrived from the village, Odeh said.

The settlers ran away and the villagers gave chase, said Odeh and another witness, village resident Abdel Hakim Wadi.

They said several of the settlers sought cover in the building under construction, located on the edge of the village of Karyout, about four kilometers (2.5 miles) from Qusra.

Villagers grabbed them however and turned the building into a holding area where they also put other settlers they chased down in the area, Odeh said.

Some of the settlers were tied up, and most had signs of beating injuries, according to an AP photog-rapher at the scene.

Odeh said the beatings stopped after the settlers were seized.

Israeli settlers detained, injured

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Injured Israeli settlers are detained by Palestinian villagers in a building under construction near the West Bank village of Qusra, southeast of the city of Nablus, Tuesday. Palestinians held more

than a dozen Israeli settlers for about two hours Tuesday in retaliation for the latest in a string of settler attacks on villages in the area, witnesses said.

VAIL, Colo. (AP) — One person was killed and three others were injured Tuesday in an avalanche in the backcountry near Vail.

The slide happened at around 11:30 a.m. in East Vail Chutes, an area between Vail Mountain and Vail Pass, Eagle County sheriff’s spokes-woman Jessie Mosher said. The three survivors were

expected to recover from their injuries.

The death is the fi fth in the Rocky Mountain region and the second in Colorado in the last two weeks.

The avalanche danger where the latest deadly slide occurred is rated as considerable at or above the tree line for two main reasons. New snow over the weekend was pushed

into slabs by wind, and those more cohesive layers of snow are resting on top of the relatively weak early season snowfall, said Spencer Logan of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. The combination of a weak base layer under cohesive slabs tends to create slides that break in very wide pieces.

Such dangerous conditions are possible each winter, but last year they didn’t develop until late January because signifi cant snowfall didn’t develop until later in the season, Logan said.

East Vail Chutes has had a series of slides in the last few weeks, including one that trapped a skier.

One dies, three hurt in avalanche

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is confronted with a recent burst of strength by al-Qaida that is chipping away at the remains of Mideast stability, testing his hands-off approach to confl icts in Iraq and Syria at the same time he pushes to keep thousands of U.S. forces in Afghani-stan.

Al-Qaida-backed fi ghters have fought hard against other rebel groups in Syria, in a sideshow to the battle to unseat President Bashar Assad. Across the border in Iraq, they led a surprisingly strong campaign to take two of the cities that U.S. forces suffered heavy losses to protect.

This invigorated front highlights the tension between two of Obama’s top foreign policy tenets: to end American involvement in Mideast wars and to eradicate insurgent extrem-ists — specifi cally al-Qaida. It also raises questions about the future U.S. role in the region if militants overtake American gains made during more than a decade of war.

In Afghanistan, Obama already has decided to continue the fi ght against extremists, as long as Afghan President Hamid Karzai signs off on a joint security agreement. Obama seeks to leave as many as 10,000 troops there beyond December, extending what already has become the longest U.S. war. But offi cials say he would be willing to withdraw completely at the end of this year if the security agreement cannot be fi nalized.

That would mirror the U.S. exit from Iraq, the other unpopular war Obama inherited. A spike in sectarian violence followed the U.S. withdrawal at

the end of 2011, and now followed by the recent, alarming takeover of Ramadi and Fallujah by an al-Qaida affi liate known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Marina Ottaway, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, said the extremists taking hold in Iraq are a spillover from the confl ict in neighboring Syria and have been bolstered by Obama’s reluctance to arm the more moderate rebels fi ghting Assad.

“There is no doubt that the U.S. policy helped create a vacuum in which the only effective forces were the radical forces,” Ottaway said Tuesday.

Syria’s bloody civil war had not yet begun when the U.S. was making plans to withdraw from Iraq. But White House offi cials contend that keeping American troops in Iraq would have done little to stop the current violence.

“There was sectarian confl ict, violent sectarian confl ict, in Iraq when there were 150,000 U.S. troops on the ground there,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said. “So the idea that this would not be happening if there were 10,000 troops in Iraq I think bears scrutiny.”

Still, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, a former top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said al-Qaida and other insurgents are seeking to take advantage of sectarian tensions across much of the Mideast.

“This is not just about Iraq,” Odierno told reporters Tuesday. “It’s something that we have to be cognizant of as we look across the Middle East: What’s going on in Syria, what’s going on in Lebanon, what’s going on inside of Iraq.”

Obama’s Mideastpolicies strained

NEW YORK (AP) — Scores of retired New York City police offi cers, fi refi ghters and prison guards were charged Tuesday with faking psychi-atric problems to get federal disability benefi ts — with some falsely claiming their conditions arose after the Sept. 11 attacks, prosecutors said.

Four ringleaders coached the former workers on how to falsely describe symptoms of depression and other mental health problems that allowed them to get payouts as high as $500,000, said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. The ringleaders made tens of thousands in dollars in secret kickbacks, Vance said.

Among the retirees arrested were 72 city police offi cers, eight fi refi ghters, fi ve corrections offi cers and one Nassau County Police Department offi cer.

Investigators said the scam stretched back more than two decades, with

the ex-offi cers and other workers collecting years’ worth of benefi ts for citing mental health problems so severe that they couldn’t work at all. The workers were coached on how to portray their problems, reporting that they were so psychologically damaged that they couldn’t take care of themselves, prosecutors said.

Many of the offi cers legitimately had physical disabilities that would have entitled them to state disability pensions, but would not have entitled them to federal Social Security disability insurance, which requires a complete inability to work. Internal Affairs Chief Charles Campisi said many of the offi cers exaggerated their psychological trauma to gain the Social Security benefi ts. Most claimed post-traumatic stress disorder and many said it was because of the Sept. 11 attacks, he said. The NYPD has no information

that they weren’t actually working after the terrorist attack, just that they overstated the effect, he said.

One of the defendants who said he couldn’t work taught martial arts. Another former police offi cer who claimed he couldn’t leave the house worked at a cannoli stand at a street festival. Another claimed depression so crippling that it kept him house-bound but was photographed aboard a Sea-Doo watercraft.

Many said they could not use a computer but had Facebook pages, Twitter handles and YouTube channels, prosecutors said.

“The brazenness is shocking,” Vance said.

More than 100 defendants were charged with crimes including grand larceny. Arraign-ments in the sweeping case began late Tuesday morning, with several of the defendants pleading not guilty and being released without bail.

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BEIRUT (AP) — The fi rst batch of the most dangerous chemicals in Syria’s arsenal was loaded onto a Danish ship and taken out of the country Tuesday under tight security, an important milestone in the interna-tional operation to rid President Bashar Assad of the weapons by midyear.

The operation at Syria’s port of Latakia took place against the backdrop of a widening civil war and escalating infi ghting between a chaotic mix of

Syrian rebel brigades and an al-Qaida linked militant group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

With the rebel-on-rebel fi ghting now in its fi fth day, the shadowy leader of another faction affi liated with al-Qaida pleaded with his comrades to stop the spreading clashes, warning it threatened to upend gains made against Syrian govern-ment forces.

The chemicals were supposed to have been removed from Syria by Dec. 31, but poor

security, bad weather and other factors meant the deadline was missed by a week.

The raw materials — precursor chemicals for poison gas — were moved to the government-held port of Latakia from two sites in Syria and loaded onto the Danish cargo ship, which then set sail, said Sigrid Kaag, the Dutch diplomat coordinating the joint mission by the U.N. and Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

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DEAR DOCTOR K: After smoking for more than 15 years, I fi nally quit eight months ago. But I still miss my cigarettes. I recently heard about electronic cigarettes. Are they safe?

DEAR READER: I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, from my patients. Like you, my patients want to know if they’re a safe alternative to cigarettes.

The truth is that nobody knows if e-cigarettes are safe. That’s because e-cigarette makers have not submitted their products for FDA approval, which would require proof of safety and effective-ness. Ads claim e-cigarettes help people stop smoking, but I’m not aware of any strong evidence to back this up.

For readers who’ve never seen one, e-cigarettes look like regular cigarettes or cigars. Others look more like pens. They all are built around

a battery-operated heating element, a cartridge that contains nicotine and other chemicals, and an atomizer that converts the chemicals into an inhalable vapor.

E-cigarettes vaporize a solution of nicotine dissolved in water and propylene glycol. That’s a fl uid that helps nicotine dissolve.

Why would anyone smoke an e-cigarette? Regular cigarettes contain nicotine — the substance

that smokers become addicted to. They also contain tars that can cause cancer. Proponents say that an e-cigarette gives a person the feeling of smoking

without the risks.E-cigarette smokers inhale

nicotine, water and propylene glycol. The nicotine stems the craving that drives some ex-smokers back to regular cigarettes. But e-cigarette smokers don’t inhale tar, carbon monoxide, or the thousands of other substances in tobacco smoke. So while an e-cigarette smoker does remain with a nicotine addiction, he or she doesn’t have to worry about getting cancer.

Or so the proponents of e-cigarettes say.

But don’t be fooled. There are still many reasons to worry about e-cigarettes. First, the dose of nicotine delivered with each puff may vary substan-tially. Nicotine is a stimulant and very high levels can irritate heart rhythm. Granted, there is no strong evidence that e-cigarettes can cause dangerous heart rhythms — but that is because there are no large, high-quality studies of

the safety of e-cigarettes.Second, e-cigarettes still

contain an array of chemicals. These include diethylene glycol, a highly toxic substance; formaldehyde, a powerful carcinogen; and at least four other chemicals suspected of being harmful to humans. There is no proof that e-cigarettes increase the risk of cancer the way real cigarettes surely do, but again, that’s because there are no good, long-term studies of safety.

Third, e-cigarettes are designed to simulate the smoking experience. By doing so, they might tempt ex-smokers into resuming the habit. They could also be a gateway into cigarette smoking for young people who are not yet hooked. Until we have scientifi c studies, it’s buyer beware.

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

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DEAR ABBY: When my daughter was 20, she met a guy who one minute showered her with roses and the next would beat her up. She stayed with him thinking she could change him, and became pregnant. On her 21st birthday, she tried to get away from him. He chased her up the road and went to punch her in the stomach. When she turned to avoid the blow, it landed, hitting the baby in the head and killed the child. Abby, once a beater, always a beater. I hope all women in abusive relation-ships will see this letter. My daughter is fi ne now, married and expecting. I pray for the women and girls out there who are going through what she once had to. — PENNSYLVANIA MOM DEAR PENNSYL-VANIA MOM: I’m glad you wrote, because your

letter reminds me that it has been some time since I printed the warning signs of

an abuser. Here they are: (1) PUSHES FOR QUICK INVOLVE-MENT: Comes on strong. An abuser pressures the new partner for an exclusive commit-ment almost immediately. (2)

JEALOUS: Excessively possessive; calls constantly or visits unexpectedly. (3) CONTROLLING: If you are late, interrogates you intensively about whom you talked to and where you were.

(4) UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS: Expects you to be the perfect mate and meet his or her every need. (5) ISOLATION: Tries to isolate you from family and friends; accuses people who are your supporters of “causing trouble.” (6) BLAMES OTHERS FOR PROBLEMS OR MISTAKES: It’s always someone else’s fault if something goes wrong. (7) MAKES OTHERS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OR HER FEELINGS: The abuser says, “You make me angry” instead of “I am angry.” (8) HYPERSENSI-TIVITY: Is easily insulted, claiming hurt feelings when he or she is really mad. Readers, if you feel you are at risk, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or thehotline.org.

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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

STORAGE

Corner 200 Storage$16 & up.

Open 7 days a week.Owner on premises

260-833-2856

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HOMES FOR SALE

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)

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GARAGE SALES

LaGrange9120 E 400 S

Jan. 9 - 11 • 8 - 5MOVING SALE

HEATED POLE BLDG.Construction supplies

& tools, riding lawnmower, household

goods. Too much tomention.

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FURNITURE

Brand NEW in plastic!QUEEN

PILLOWTOPMATTRESS SETCan deliver, $125.

(260) 493-0805

SPORTING GOODS

GUN SHOW!!Alexandria, IN - January

11th & 12th, MadisonCounty Fairgrounds,

512 E. 4th St., Sat. 9-5,Sun. 9-3

For information call765-993-8942

Buy! Sell! Trade!

WANTED TO BUY

TIMBER WANTEDAll species of hardwood. Pay before

starting. Walnut needed.

260 349-2685

PETS/ANIMALS

AKC Toy Poodle Pups,2 white males, 1 parti

black & white, 1 apricotfemale $200. & up.

Home raised.260-997-6906

FREE: Lab mixPuppies, black males &females. 260 351-2921

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AUTOMOTIVE/SERVICES

$ 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

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)

Indiana Auto Auction,Inc.--Huge Repo Sale

Jan. 9th. Over 100repossessed units forsale. Cash only. $500

deposit per personrequired. Register

8am-9:30am to bid.No public entry after9:30am. All vehiclessold AS IS! 4425 W.Washington Center

Road, Fort Wayne. (A)

MERCHANDISEUNDER $50

2 Guitar Stands$15.00 buys them both.

Cash only(260) 357-3753

9 cu ft. working Ken-more Upright Freezer

$25.00. (260) 316-5911

DeKalb-SteubenCounty Plat Book, 1976& 1944 Center Chatter.

$10.00. Call or text,(260) 463-6300

Electric Heated twinmattress pad. Only

used last winter.$20.00. Fremont,(260) 495-0244

Mirage Yearbooks(Lakeland High School)

1969, 72, 74, 76.$20.00. Call or text,

(260) 463-6300

Never Used White Lacewedding picture album

$45.00. (260) 242-7540

Snowblower YardmanSnowbird 3 h.p. 20”,

$50.00 obo(260) 833-0607

The Ivy Yearbooks (La-Grange/Parkside

School 1967, 68, 69,70, 71. $25.00. Call ortext, (260) 463-6300

Tony Little Gazelle workout machine. Like new,$50.00. (260) 318-0701

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