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Upfront Rep.: circus uses approved methods

Rides to circus
to watch set up
available
Advantage Limo is offer-
ing free rides Friday morn-
ing to watch the Carson
& Barnes Circus set up.
The first pickup will be at
7:45 a.m. in Jefferson High
School parking lot. The bus
will run a continuous loop
between there and the circus
location until 10:30 a.m.
Children 12 and under must
be accompanied by an adult.
The shuttle service is for
the safety of everyone watch- associated with People for
ing and to keep cars out of the the Ethical Treatment of
way during the unloading pro- Animals. It shows elephants
cess. Watch the animals being being struck several times by
unloaded and the elephants
helping set up the huge tent.
This five-ring circus is one
of the largest in the world.
The circus is sponsored
by the Delphos Canal
Commission and Museum
of Postal History.
Staff reports
Elephant training made
national headlines last year
as a lawsuit was filed against
Ringling Bros. went to trial.
The use of “bullhooks,”
chains and other “guides” took
center stage. Many believe
trainers treat elephants abu-
sively and have documented
many questionable examples
in videos currently posted on
YouTube.
One of the videos in
question was shot in 1999
by an undercover worker
a trainer with the Carson and
Barnes Circus, which will
perform two shows Friday
near Delphos.
Carson and Barnes
Marketing Director Malcom
Knopf insists the video is
fake; that it was spliced
together and overdubbed.
“The video is contrived;
it’s 11 years old. We had a
PETA person undercover in
our training facility who took
snippets of video, dubbed in
voice and sound and that’s
what you see on the Internet,”
he said.
A PETA representative
denies the tape was altered.
Knopf describes the train-
found our inoculation records clean enclosures and those
“We’re talking about an 8,000-pound
weren’t quite up to snuff.
They say ‘revise that and
kinds of things,” he said.
On Aug. 30, 2007, an
animal that stands 13-feet high. We the next time I’m here, I
want to see this, that and the
inspector cited Carson and
Barnes for failure to cor-
use what’s approved by the Animal other thing.’ We’ve been in rect a previously identified
Welfare Act — it’s like a stick; it’s business for 75 years and
you don’t stay in business
violation of failing to have
valid tuberculosis test results
called a bullhook but it’s not really a that long by treating animals for elephants. The inspector
hook. It’s more like a ball peen ham- improperly,” he said.
David Sacks is the Legal
noted as follows:
“On both ‘Bunny’ and
mer but it doesn’t penetrate the skin. Public Affairs Director of the ‘Minnie,’ two of the three
We use it to get an elephant to go where USDA’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service. He
trunk wash samples were
found to be contaminated.
we want him to go. We might poke a said his agency has approxi- Because of the contamina-
little bit. The skin is very thick and we mately 100 inspectors who
cover 9,500 facilities each
tion, proper testing could not
be performed.”
don’t pierce the skin. This is accepted year. He stresses that when Carson and Barnes was
by all the animal control people.” violations are found, they are
documented and the agent
also cited for failure to han-
dle animals in a manner that
looks to make sure the issue ensures minimal risk of harm
— Malcom Knopf, has been fixed at the next to the animals and the pub-
Carson and Barnes Marketing Director unannounced inspection. They lic. The elephants were left
do not observe training and do unattended and there was a
not police training methods. gap in the safety barrier. The
ing methods used by Carson it to get an elephant to go “They inspect, on aver- inspector indicated “it would
and Barnes; where we want him to go. age once a year but they can have been very possible for a
“Training is mostly see- We might poke a little bit. go as often as they want. member of the public to enter
ing what they do and giv- The skin is very thick and we When they go, they are look- the area and endanger both
ing verbal commands. If they don’t pierce the skin. This is ing to make sure the facil- himself or herself and/or the
have tusks, we might tug accepted by all the animal ity provides humane care animals.”
on the tusks. We’re talking control people.” for the regulated animals. Sacks said confirming
about an 8,000-pound ani- The circus industry is reg- What we measure every- violations prior to the pre-
mal that stands 13-feet high. ulated by the United States thing up against is the regu- vious three years requires
We use what’s approved by Department of Agriculture. lations associated with the a Freedom of Information
the Animal Welfare Act — Knopf said his circus is Animal Welfare Act. That’s Act Request from the
it’s like a stick; it’s called a inspected on a regular basis minimal care standards for Federal Communications
bullhook but it’s not really and the violations are not proper medical care, proper Commission. However,
a hook. It’s more like a ball headline news. diet, space in their enclo- inspection reports as far back
peen hammer but it doesn’t “They make regular sures, protection from the as August 2007 are posted at
penetrate the skin. We use inspections and maybe they elements and temperatures, the APHIS Web site.

Crouch
Canal Days
Toast tickets
on sale now
“Shake, Rattle and Rock” down its toll-free telephone
is the theme for Canal
Days Toast to the city and
you are invited to attend a
rocking evening that will
highlight Elvis imperson-
ator Richard Crouch. He
will perform many oldie-
but-goodie Elvis songs
that will make participants
believe he’s the real thing.
The Toast is set Sept.
16, with the evening’s
registration beginning at
5 p.m. The program will
begin at 6 p.m. and the
entertainment at 7p.m.
Keynote speakers this year
are past owners of the Chew that believe they
Chew Restaurant, Harold
and Carolyn Gallmeier. They did not mail it back or have
will share their 50’s experi-
ences and bring attendees
back in time when poodle
skirts and crew cuts were
the norm and the price of a
gallon of gas was 12 cents.
To compliment the 50’s
music hometown restaurants Bureau Director Robert M.
will share their “Taste” of
the city. Wine and hors
d’ourvers will be plentiful.
Tickets for The Toast
are $25 a person or $200
for a table of 8 and can be
purchased at the Delphos
Chamber before Sept. 9.
Reservations must be
made in advance and there
Two days left to ensure
inclusion in 2010 Census
The U.S. Census Bureau
reminded the nation today
that on Friday, it will shut
assistance line. More than
130,000 inter-
views have been
completed via
the toll-free line.
Friday is the last
day for callers
who feel they
may have been
overlooked in the
census to com-
plete their 2010
questionnaire
quickly over the
phone.
“I urge residents
did not receive a form, who
not been contacted by a cen-
sus enumerator to call 1-866-
872-6868 to ensure they are
included in the 2010 Census,
making this the best count
of the American population
to date,” said U.S. Census
Groves.
For more than three months,
individuals who believed
they weren’t included in the
census were invited to call
the toll-free assistance lines
(open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and
available in English, Spanish,
Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese
and Russian) to provide their
information.
Friday is the last day to
take an interview over the toll
free line to leave enough time
for Census Bureau
professionals to
process the data
and ensure that res-
idents are counted
in the right place
and prepare the
state population
counts by the stat-
utory deadline of
Dec. 31.
About the 2010
Census
The 2010
Census is a count
of everyone living in the
United States and is mandat-
ed by the U.S. Constitution.
Census data are used to
apportion congressional seats
to states, to distribute more
than $400 billion in feder-
al funds to tribal, state and
local governments each year
and to make decisions about
what community services to
provide. The 2010 Census
form is one of the shortest
in U.S. history, consisting of
10 questions, taking about 10
minutes to complete. Strict
confidentiality laws protect
the respondents and the infor-
mation they provide.

Gulf cleanup will change

will be limited seating for this
event so please respond early.
Grand Prize Drawing
once oil stops for good
Nancy Spencer photo
tickets for Canal Days are
also on sale. Tickets are $25 Anita Aldrich of First Federal Bank stands near one of the drop-off cans for school
each and pay out 42 places. supplies for the Community Unity “School Supplies on Us” program.

School Supplies on Us taking donations

NEW ORLEANS (AP)
— The government’s point
Forecast man for the Gulf spill plans
Partly sunny to meet with coastal parish
Friday. High officials today to talk about
in low 80s. what’s next now that the oil
See page 2. has stopped flowing.
Retired Coast Guard Adm.
Thad Allen said crews are
Index having trouble finding patch-
es of the crude that had been
Obituaries 2 washing up on beaches and
State/Local 3 coating delicate coastal wet-
Politics 4 lands since the Deepwater
Community 5 Horizon offshore drilling rig
Sports 6-7 exploded April 20, killing 11
Farm 7 people.
Classifieds 8 Though no one knows for
Television 9 sure how much oil might be
World news 10 lurking below the surface,
most of what was coming
ashore has broken up or been
sucked up by skimming boats
or burned.
“The oil that we do see is
weathered, it is sheen,” Allen
said.
Barring a calamity, the
oil won’t start flowing again
before BP PLC can perma-
nently kill the well, which
could happen as soon as mid-
August. Allen said the Coast
Guard expects oil to keep
showing up on beaches four
to six weeks after that hap-
pens.
A tally of beaches hurt
by the oil from Louisiana to
the Florida Panhandle found
they’ve been closed or slapped
with health warnings more
than 2,200 times through this
week since the spill started.
Many beaches were spared,
but the environmental group
See SPILL, page 2
BY NANCY SPENCER
The Delphos Herald
nspencer@delphosher-
ald.com
DELPHOS — Community
Unity is once again collecting
school supplies for students
at the Delphos City and St.
John’s schools.
Supplies can be dropped
off at First Federal, US and
Union banks, ALCO, Trinity
United Methodist Church, St.
John the Evangelist Church
and Parish Center.
The list includes:
FISKARS scissors,
Crayola markers (8-count
set), Crayola crayons (24-
count set), No. 2 lead pencils
(no mechanical pencils), blue
or black ink pens (no gel
pens), red pens or pencils for
grading. Yellow highlighters,
erasers, glue sticks, Elmer’s
glue (bottle), spiral notebooks
(both wide and narrow ruled),
loose notebook paper (wide
ruled), bottom pocket folders
(paper or plastic), 1-inch and
2-inch three-ring binders (no
Trappers), stretchy book cov-
ers (large/jumbo) and boxes
of Kleenex.
Cash donations will also
be accepted and used to pur-
chase items not donated to
assemble grade-level bags.
Checks can be made out to
Trinity United Methodist
Church with school supplies
in the memo line. Checks
will be collected through
the St. John’s Parish Center
and Trinity UMC office, 211
E. Third St., Delphos OH
45833.
The supplies will be dis-
tributed from 10 am. to noon
on Aug. 18 and 4:30-6:30
p.m. Aug. 19 during Supper’s
On Us at Trinity United
Methodist Church, 211 E.
Third St. on a first-come,
first-serve basis and based on
the donations received.
Parents need to bring iden-
tification that shows current
residency in the school dis-
trict. They will need a recent
bill that is printed with their
name, address and a date.
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VAN WERT COURT NEWS
The following individuals
appeared Wednesday before
Judge Charles Steele in Van
Wert County Common Pleas
Court:
Crystal r. stauffer, 32,
Decatur, Ind., was arraigned
on five counts of burglary, all
five counts were felonies of
the second degree.
Stauffer was arrested by
the Van Wert County Sheriff’s
Office as being involved with
another male subject in a
series of residential burglaries
taking place in southern Van
Wert County near the Mercer
County line. Both, Stauffer
and the male subject are fac-
ing similar charges in Mercer
County.
Stauffer was ordered held
on a $100,000 bond with a
pretrial hearing scheduled for
8 a.m. Wednesday.
nathan Wappelhorst, 28,
Van Wert, was sentence to a
12-month prison sentence on
a charge of attempt to drive
while under the influence, a
felony of the fourth degree.
This sentence is to be
served concurrently with a fel-
ony sentence that Wappelhorst
received in Paulding County.
Andrew L. sterling, 21,
Delphos, was placed on three
years of community control
on a charge of trafficking in
marijuana, a felony of the
fifth degree.
Sterling was arrested for
an offense where he allegedly
sold marijuana to an under-
cover agent in December
2009 in Delphos.
Sterling will be under
the supervision of the Van
Wert County Adult Probation
Department, must undergo a
substance abuse assessment
and complete any rehabilita-
tion programs recommended.
He was ordered to spend a 30
day jail sentence in the Van
Wert County Jail and given
credit for 27 days already
served. Sterling will have
an additional thirty days to
serve at a time to be deter-
mined by his supervision offi-
cer. Sterling’s driver’s license
was suspended for a period
of six months and he was
ordered to pay $250 as partial
reimbursement for his court
appointed attorney along with
other court costs.
Judge Steele gave Sterling
a prison sentence of eight
months but deferred the
imposition of the jail sen-
tence pending the successful
completion of the community
control program.
David W. Burris Jr., 20,
Delphos, was sentenced to
three years of community con-
trol and ordered to serve thirty
days in the Van Wert County
Jail immediately on a charge
of trafficking in marijuana, a
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marijuana to an undercover
agent working for the West
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December 2009 in Delphos.
Burris was also ordered to
spend an additional 30 days in
jail at a time to be determined
by his supervision officer,
undergo a substance abuse
assessment and complete any
rehabilitation programs rec-
ommended. Burris had his
driver’s license suspended
for six months and must pay
court costs associated with
his case.
Judge Steel gave Burris a
six-month prison sentence but
deferred the imposition of the
prison sentence pending the
successful completion of the
community control program.
Jerry r. Connode, 36,
Kenton, was sentenced to
three years of community con-
trol and ordered to spend up to
six months in the WORTH
Center in Lima on a charge
of receiving stolen property, a
felony of the fifth degree.
Connode allegedly sold
aluminum wheels and drive
shafts that had been stolen
in a breaking and entering at
a Lima auto wrecking yard,
according to a Van Wert
County Sheriff’s Department
investigation. Connode was
ordered to pay all court costs
associated with his case and
also given a twelve month
prison sentence which was
deferred pending the success-
ful completion of the commu-
nity control program.
Hailey Mosier, Van Wert,
had her personal surety bond
revoked and ordered held on
a $10,000 cash bond pend-
ing her sentencing set 9 a.m.
Sept. 22.
Mosier was also found to be
in violation of her Treatment
in Lieu of Conviction after
she tested positive for the use
of opiates (heroin).
Mosier had pleaded guilty
in May to two counts of pos-
session of drugs, felonies of
the fifth degree.
Amy Mcnabb, 27, Van
Wert, entered a guilty plea
to a charge of possession of
drugs with a specification that
she used a 1995 Olds Cutlass
at the time of the charge.
Judge Steele ordered a pre-
sentence investigation and
scheduled sentencing for 9
a.m. Sept. 29.
shane Williams, 23, Van
Wert, entered a guilty plea to
a charge of domestic violence,
a misdemeanor of the first
degree.
Judge Steele ordered a pre-
sentence investigation and
scheduled sentencing for 9
a.m. Aug. 11.
Delphos man
arrested for
parole issues
Delphos Police came into
contact with Eric Gibson,
22, of Delphos, at 10:17 a.m.
Tuesday, at which time Gibson
was taken into custody on
authority of the Adult Parole
Authority for on going issues.
Gibson was later turned over
to the Adult Parole Authority.
Man arrested
on outstanding
warrant
Delphos Police arrested
Francis Monta at 4:46 p.m.
Wednesday in the 800 block
of West Skinner Street on an
outstanding warrant issued
out of Van Wert Municipal
Court for failing to appear in
court. Monta was transported
to the Van Wert County Jail
and will appear in Van Wert
Municipal Court.
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Van Wert man
convicted of arson
fires files appeal
A Van Wert man was
found guilty of two arson
fires by a June jury trial was
given prison sentence but
remains free on a $20,000
cash bond pending the out-
come of an appeal which is
being filed.
John F. Plotts was given
what would amount to a
three-year prison sentence
for two separate fires that
took place at his home in
Van Wert in April 2009, just
two days apart; and for the
attempt at collecting insur-
ance on the fires.
A jury deliberated approx-
imately 75 minutes before
finding Plotts guilty of both
fires and insurance fraud in
both cases.
Van Wert County Common
Please Judge Charles Steele
found that the charges that
Plotts was guilty of were
allied offense and similar in
nature and must be merged
for sentencing purposes.
Judge Steele found that Plotts
would be found guilty of
aggravate arson, a felony of
the first degree in both fires.
Plotts received three years
prison for each fire with the
sentences of both fires to run
consecutive.
Plotts had been represent-
ed at the trial by an attorney
from Fostoria. Plotts then
Patrol seizes 4 kilos of
cocaine valued at
$400,000 in traffic stop
CINCINNATI – Three
suspects are facing felony
drug charges after Ohio
State Highway Patrol
troopers seized four kilos
of cocaine, valued at an
estimated $400,000, during
a traffic stop yesterday in
Warren County.
The driver of the vehicle,
Monica Martinez, 29, and
passenger Marcela Castillo,
21, both of Little Rock,
Ark., and a second passen-
ger, Leonardo Garcia, 25,
of Columbus, Ohio, were
charged with aggravated
trafficking in cocaine and
possession of cocaine, both
first-degree felonies; and
POLICE REPORTS
Items taken
from
unlocked car
Delphos Police were called
to the 400 block of East
Cleveland Street at 3:27 p.m.
Wednesday in reference to a
theft complaint.
Upon officers’ arrival, the
victim stated that an unlocked
vehicle was entered and per-
sonal items were taken from
inside.
Victim reports
ongoing fights Phone
between children harassment
Delphos Police were cases
called to the 900 block of
Lima Avenue at 9:07 p.m. investigated
Wednesday in reference to a
fight complaint.
Upon officers’ arrival,
the victim stated that there
has been an ongoing issue
between neighborhood kids
getting into arguments and
Victim reports
identity theft
Delphos Police were
contacted at 9:24 a.m.
Wednesday by a subject in
reference to an identity theft
complaint.
Upon speaking with the
victim, it was found personal
banking accounts had been
missing from the account.
The case was forwarded
to the Detective Bureau for
further investigation.
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Plotts
hired William Kluge of Lima
to represent him in the appeal
process. Kluge told the court
that after 34 years of trying
arson cases, he found you
never go to trial without an
expert being hired in your
case. He indicated that he felt
that his client had not been
properly represented.
Kluge asked that his client
remain free on bond while
the appeal is being pro-
cessed, Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney Kevin H. Taylor
objected but his objection was
overruled with Plotts remain-
ing free on a $20,000 cash
bond pending the outcome of
the appeal.
possession of criminal tools,
a fifth degree felony.
Troopers stopped a
2002 Chevy Tahoe, with
Arkansas registration, for
a marked lanes violation
on the Interstate 71, near
milepost 41, yesterday.
Troopers observed crimi-
nal indicators and a Patrol
drug-sniffing canine alerted
to the vehicle. A probable
cause search revealed four
kilos of cocaine.
The suspects were
incarcerated in the Warren
County Jail. If convicted,
they could each face up to
21 years in prison and a
$42,500 fine.
Workplace
assault reported
to police
Delphos Police were con-
tacted by a subject at 7:02
p.m. Tuesday in reference to
an assault complaint.
Upon speaking with the
subject, it was found the alter-
cation had occurred at a local
factory between employees.
The business was contacted
and were aware of the situa-
tion and were currently look-
ing into the matter.
Delphos Police were called
to the 100 block of North
Jefferson Street at 12:28 a.m.
today in reference to a tele-
phone harassment complaint.
Upon officers’ arrival,
the victim stated that several
phone calls and text mes-
sages had been received after
the alleged suspect had been
advised not to contact the vic-
tim.
Delphos Police were
called to the 300 block of
West First Street at 12:35 p.m.
Wednesday in reference to a
telephone harassment com-
plaint.
Upon officers’ arrival, the
victim stated that several tele-
phone calls had been received
by a subject after being told
not to contact the victim.
Delphos Police were called
to the 1100 block of Elida
Avenue at 8:04 p.m. Tuesday
in reference to a telephone
harassment complaint.
Upon officers’ arrival, the
victim stated they had been
receiving strange telephone
calls and were concerned
about them.
4 killed in
The Daily
plane crash
Herald
at Alaska
military base
By rACHeL D’oro
the Associated Press
ELMENDORF AIR
FORCE BASE, Alaska —
Four airmen were killed when
a cargo plane crashed during a
training run at an Alaska Air
Force base, sending a fireball
hundreds of feet into the air,
military authorities and wit-
nesses said.
Three of the men were in
the Alaska Air National Guard
and the fourth was on active
duty at Elmendorf Air Force
Base, Air Force Col. John
McMullen said today. Their
names have not been released
pending notification of rela-
tives.
“We lost four members of
our Arctic Warrior family and
it’s a loss felt across our entire
joint installation,” McMullen
said in a statement, referring
to Elmendorf and its adjacent
Army base, Fort Richardson.
The C-17 was from the
3rd Wing, based at Elmendorf
near downtown Anchorage.
The crash happened about
6:14 p.m. Wednesday during a
training demonstration for an
upcoming weekend air show,
Lt. Gen. Dana Atkins said.
Anchorage Fire Dept.
Captain Bryan Grella said his
crew was just finishing din-
ner at about 6:30 p.m. at the
downtown fire station when
something caught his eye.
“It was a big, gray plume
of smoke, and I saw a fireball
go up in it,” he said. The fire-
ball extended about 750 feet
in the air, he estimated.
spill
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National Resources Defense
Council said there was no clear
downward trend yet since the
oil was capped July 15.
In Orange Beach, Ala.,
Jack Raborn said he didn’t see
any tar balls when he went
to the shore Wednesday with
friends and family. But when
they entered the ocean, he
said, the water was tainted.
“It feels like you’ve got
diesel fuel on you. It’s sticky,”
said Raborn, 49. “I was opti-
mistic before today. I’m real-
ly disturbed by what I found
once we got in the water.”
Allen said once oil stops
for good, the Coast Guard
may start redeploying some of
the 11 million feet of boom,
811 oil skimmers and 40,000
people that have been part of
the oil spill response. Many
of the workers are fishermen
who have lost their livelihoods
because of the spill.
Crews have taken a crucial
step toward readying the relief
well they need to permanently
stop the oil, removing a plug
they had popped in to keep the
well safe ahead of Tropical
Storm Bonnie.
Allen also said Wednesday
that a temporary cap put on
the busted well two weeks ago
is holding firm. Before that, it
spewed 94 million to 184 mil-
lion gallons of oil.
Crews are taking every pre-
caution as they work toward a
permanent fix.
“We have always asked for
a backup plan for the backup
plan,” he said. “This relief
well, while it is deep, it is
something that has been done
before. Obviously the depth
is an issue here. But we are
confident we are going to get
this thing done.”
Drilling the relief well has
been a monthslong task, and
BP had used several other
techniques to stop the leak
that had never been attempted
before in mile-deep waters.
Some were utter failures and
none was totally successful
until a carefully fitted cap was
placed over the well and the
leak stopped in mid-July.
The cap has stopped the
flow but is only a temporary
measure while crews finish
the relief well that will plug
up the gusher from below.
The work had to stop last
week because of Bonnie,
which passed through in
weakened form without doing
any major damage.
Now that the plug is out,
the relief well must be flushed
out with drilling mud before
casing can be dropped in and
cemented.
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High temperature Wed-
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was recorded at .23 inch. High
a year ago today was 77, low
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is 98, set in 1916. Record low
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Briefs
More voting
by mail means
more mistakes
CLEVELAND (AP) —
Elections officials in major
Ohio counties say a surge in
people voting by mail has
been accompanied by a rise
in ballot errors that cost time
and money.
More than 6,000 voters
in the county that includes
Cleveland made mistakes
with mail-in ballots for the
May primary. Some left off
necessary signatures or infor-
mation, while nearly 100 even
forgot to include their ballot in
the envelope.
Cuyahoga County elec-
tions workers try to fix errors
so votes can be counted, and
the process can be costly.
Officials are already urging
that mail-in ballot instructions
be followed carefully for the
November election.
County elections officials
in Columbus say simpler rules
would cut down on slip-ups.
Any changes would be up to
the Ohio Legislature.
City stands by
police officer
CINCINNATI (AP) —
City officials and personnel
records give good reviews to
the veteran Cincinnati police
officer authorities say fatally
drove over a woman lying in
a park.
City parks director Willie
Carden says 53-year-old
Marty Polk was sensitive to
the needs of residents and
the parks. Polk’s latest police
evaluations have been posi-
tive overall, with high grades
for community partnerships
and decision-making.
Records also show he was
in a minor traffic accident in
1990 that caused $500 dam-
age.
Forty-eight-year-old Joann
Burton was lying under some
blankets on a grassy area at
midday Tuesday when Polk’s
cruiser ran over her. She died
at a hospital.
As the investigation con-
tinues, Polk has been placed
on paid leave, customary for
officers involved in an on-
duty death.
Town conflicted
over protecting
children
WASHINGTON C.H.,
(AP) — An Ohio community
has pulled back on banning
smoking in cars when children
are passengers.
The goal was to protect
children from secondhand
smoke.
The city council in
Washington Court House
gave tentative approval to the
proposal on a 4-2 vote July
14. But Wednesday night,
the measure was put aside
because two council members
decided to change their earlier
yes votes.
Councilman Ben Roby
says he decided to drop his
support for the ban because he
found more “public interest”
in the proposal than he ever
expected.
Before the council meet-
ing, about 10 people held a
noisy street corner protest
against the ban. They held
signs with messages including
“Say no to more government
control” and “What’s next?
Your home?”
Police: baby who
died had adult
bite marks
TROY (AP) — Police in
Ohio say an 8-month-old baby
who died from multiple inju-
ries appeared to have adult
bite marks, including one on
the leg.
A police report on the death
of Caleb Durig says officers in
Troy in western Ohio also
found blood on the floor and
the infant’s crib. They went to
the home Monday in response
to a 911 call from parents
Jason and Tara Durig, who
said the boy was not breath-
ing.
An autopsy found the baby
died from multiple blunt force
trauma. Detectives said in
their report that they found
many bruises and signs of
possible strangulation, and
that the child may have been
dead for some time.
Marriage
exploited poor
By ANDREW WELSH-
HUGGINS
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS — It was
a lucrative gig while it last-
ed. For a $17,000 fee, lead-
ers of a fraud ring arranged
sham marriages for Russian
and other Eastern European
nationals seeking permanent
residence in the U.S. Their
brides were typically young,
poor women desperate for
cash.
Dmitry Pani and fellow ring-
leader Hasan Salohutdinov
were each sentenced to pris-
on on Wednesday. Seven
co-defendants received lesser
sentences ranging from time
already served in jail to four
years probation.
While prosecutors docu-
mented 11 fake marriages,
they say Pani may have per-
petrated substantially more.
In all, 11 people were
indicted and pleaded guilty
to arranging fraudulent mar-
riages to evade immigration
laws. Two were sentenced
before Wednesday.
U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement offi-
cials say more than 800
people nationally have been
convicted in similar marriage
fraud schemes since 2006.
Pani, a native of Estonia,
started the scheme in 2007 by
recruiting Russians who were
looking to stay in the country
permanently, Dan Brown, an
assistant U.S. attorney, said in
a court filing.
Pani would arrange mar-
riages at a Columbus wedding
chapel — ceremonies from
$60 to $275, photos extra —
and advise the women who
agreed to participate how to
file immigration papers on
behalf of their new husbands,
the filing said.
U.S. District Court Judge
Algenon Marbley sentenced
Pani to a year in prison with
deportation to follow. Pani,
arrested in December, will
receive credit for time behind
bars and it’s up to the U.S.
Marshal service how he
serves the remainder of his
sentence, said his attorney,
Richard Drucker.
Salohutdinov, a native
of Uzbekistan, joined Pani
after the scheme was under
way and helped recruit other
Uzbeks to participate, Brown
said in a court filing.
Salohutdinov, who accepts
responsibility, took “desperate
steps” to remain in the U.S.
after he was stabbed while in
the Uzbek army, his attorney,
Dave Thomas, said in a July
14 court filing. Salohutdinov
Cancer patients form friendship
By JOHN JOHNSTON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
CINCINNATI (AP) —
Their friendship took root in
a medical waiting room, a
place where differences in
age, education and income
don’t matter.
It’s where Jim Davis, 78,
a retired truck driver from
Mount Healthy, met Jennifer
Fox, 39, a French and Spanish
teacher from Mason.
He wore a black cap that
says “Korea Veteran.” She
wore a T-shirt that says
“My neuro-oncologist is my
HomeBoy.”
“Both of us were kind of
saying, ’What are we doing
here?”’ Davis says.
Both have outgoing per-
sonalities, but it’s unlikely
they would have met or had
reason to carry on a conver-
sation if not for the mon-
sters inside their heads. Fate
dictated that their radiation
treatments fell within a few
minutes of each other, every
weekday, for more than a
month last summer.
So they did what strangers
in a waiting room sometimes
do: They chatted.
They learned about each
other’s very different lives.
And they became friends.
“Yeah, buddy,” Davis
says. “That we are.
“Where would this world
be without friends?”
They soon discovered
they had more in common
than the grim diagnosis of
an inoperable brain tumor.
The old veteran says both he
and the school teacher are
“stubborn as hell. She’s a
fighter, buddy. I don’t think
she knows defeat. And I don’t
think I will accept it.”
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participated in a sham wed-
ding himself in 2005, mar-
rying an Illinois woman who
was a U.S. citizen, according
to the indictment.
Thomas told Marbley
on Wednesday that
Salohutdinov’s mother has
brain cancer and asked the
judge to consider a sen-
tence that would return him
to Uzbekistan immediately.
Marbley declined and sen-
tenced Salohutdinov to
15 months in prison; he’ll
also receive credit for time
served.
“It’d be one thing if you
had tried to stay in the coun-
try to live a better life and you
married an American citizen,
but that’s not what you did,”
Marbley said. “You perpe-
trated a fraud on the federal
government, and that’s a seri-
ous offense.”
One of the Uzbeks recruited
for the scheme was Sobithon
Mirzaev, who pleaded guilty
in March to one count of
marriage fraud. He agreed to
be deported as part of his
conviction.
Mirzaev participated in the
fraud solely to stay in the
country he considered home
and to avoid returning to
Uzbekistan where opportuni-
ties were limited, his lawyer,
Andrew Sanderson, said in a
court filing last month.
The woman Mirzaev mar-
ried, LaDawna Tackett of
Columbus, received three
years of probation last month
from U.S. District Court
Judge Algenon Marbley after
pleading guilty to one count
of marriage fraud in March.
Tackett was an 18-year-
old single mother working
as an exotic dancer when she
agreed to marry Mirzaev in
2007, according to a June fil-
ing by her attorney, Richard
Cline. The marriage was never
consummated and Tackett
received only about $1,300 in
the scam, the filing said.
“This offense was born
of economic desperation,”
Cline wrote. “For LaDawna,
the crushing poverty that has
marked her entire life cannot
be overstated.”
The co-owner of Columbus
Wedding Services Chapel
said she was disappointed by
what happened. But Marge
Butler, a nondenominational
minister, said the couples
arrived with valid marriage
licenses.
“We’re not here to judge.
We’re not here to check back-
grounds or anything else,”
Butler said. “We’re here to
provide a service — that’s
it.”
Davis could easily have
bowed to defeat while grow-
ing up in poverty in Hazard
County, Ky. His parents
split up when he was young.
His father left home to fight
in World War II and “got
the hell shot out of him” on
Guadalcanal.
In 1947, when he was 15
years old, Davis joined the
Army because he was “hun-
gry. And nobody was home.
Didn’t have a home to begin
with.”
Officials discovered his
age and booted him out. But
when war erupted in Korea
a few years later, he enlist-
ed again, this time in the
Air Force, which eventually
shipped him overseas.
Sixty years later, he still
harbors memories of “fuzzy-
faced kids” going into battle;
of brutal hand-to-hand com-
bat; of guard duty in sub-
zero temperatures and bullets
whizzing past his head; of the
frozen bodies of soldiers he
retrieved while on duty as a
litter bearer.
He returned to the States
and played minor-league
baseball in the Pittsburgh
Pirates organization, but there
was little money in that. So
he became a truck driver, an
occupation that provided a
steady if modest income for
the next 35 years. During that
time he and his wife, Doris,
whom he married in 1956,
raised three daughters.
He was 55 when he suf-
fered a heart attack and had
triple-bypass surgery.
Then, in March of last
year, while sitting in “his
office” — his wife’s name
for the corner of the kitchen
where he watches TV — he
fell to the floor.
Aspen sunflowers, like the one’s pictured here, used to first bloom in mid-May, but
now are doing so in mid-April, a full month earlier. University of Maryland ecologist
David Inouye thinks that smaller snow packs in the mountains are melting earlier due to
global warming, in turn triggering early blooms.
From the Editors of E/The
Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: I’ve
noticed that wildflower
blooms in the mountains
have been coming earlier
and earlier in recent years.
Is this a sign of global
warming? And what does
this mean for the long term
survival of these hardy yet
rare plants?
— Ashley J., via e-mail
As always, it’s hard to pin
specific year-to-year weath-
er-variations and related phe-
nomena—including altered
blooming schedules for wild-
flowers—on global warming.
But longer term analysis of
seasonal flowering patterns
and other natural events do
indicate that global warming
may be playing a role in how
early wildflowers begin pop-
ping up in the high country.
University of Maryland
ecologist David Inouye has
been studying wildflowers in
the Rocky Mountains near
Crested Butte, Colorado for
four decades, and has noticed
that blooms have indeed
begun earlier over the last
decade. Aspen sunflowers,
among other charismatic high
country wildflowers, used to
first bloom in mid-May, but
are now are doing so in mid-
April, a full month earlier.
Inouye thinks that smaller
snow packs in the mountains
are melting earlier due to
global warming, in turn trig-
gering early blooms.
Smaller snow packs not
only mean fewer flowers
(since they have less water to
use in photosynthesis); they
can also stress wildflower
populations not accustomed
to exposure to late-spring
frost. According to Inouye’s
research, between 1992 and
1998 such frosts killed about
a third of the Aspen sun-
flower buds in some 30 dif-
ferent study plots; but more
recently, from 1999 through
2006, the typical mortality
rate doubled, with three-quar-
ters of all buds killed by frost
in an average year thanks to
earlier blooming.
Inouye’s worrisome con-
clusions are backed up by
experiments conducted by
fellow researcher John Harte,
who over a 15 year peri-
od used overhead heaters
in nearby wildflower study
plots to accelerate snow melt.
The results were the same:
Wildflowers bloomed early
and not as vigorously.
Several studies in Europe
have shown that some species
of wildflowers there may be
able to migrate north and to
higher elevations as the cli-
mate warms, but Inouye fears
his beloved Aspen sunflow-
ers and many other American
wildflowers may be lost for-
ever as they are not able to
migrate as quickly as needed
in order to survive widespread
surface temperature increases
and escape extinction.
Harte is also gloomy about
the prospects for Colorado’s
mountain wildflowers. He
predicts that the wildflower
fields he and Inouye have
been studying will give way
to sagebrush desert within the
next 50 years, whether or not
the governments of the world
can get a grip on greenhouse
gas emissions.
As a hedge against such
dire predictions, the nonprofit
Center for Plant Conservation
is spearheading seed collec-
tion efforts on thousands
of rare wildflower species
across the U.S. for inclu-
sion in the Colorado-based
National Center for Genetic
Resources Preservation, a
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Photos courtesy of beautifulcataya, Flickr
repository for both common
and rare “prized” American
plant seeds. The “banked”
seeds, useful if not solely for
preserving the genetic make-
up of species that may go
extinct in the wild, can also
be used for future restoration
projects on otherwise com-
promised landscapes.
Dear EarthTalk: What
are the most important
foods to buy organic?
— Rachel Klepping,
Bronxville, NY
Given the usual higher
prices of organic versus con-
ventionally-grown foods, it
can be a challenge to get the
biggest bang for our buck
while eating healthy and
avoiding the ingestion of syn-
thetic chemicals along with
our nutrients. One approach,
say some experts, is to only
buy organic when the actual
edible parts of a non-organi-
cally grown food might come
into direct contact with toxic
fertilizers and pesticides.
The nonprofit
Environmental Working
Group (EWG) reports that
consumers can reduce their
chemical exposure by some
80 percent by either avoid-
ing the most contaminated
conventionally grown fruits
and vegetables altogether, or
by eating only the organic
varieties. To help us sort
through what and what not
to buy, the group offers a
handy Shopper’s Guide to
Pesticides, which fits on a
small piece of paper that you
can keep in your pocket and
have handy on grocery trips.
You can print it out for free
from EWG’s FoodNews.org
website, or you can down-
load it as a free App for your
iPhone.
To make it easy to use,
EWG has distilled its analysis
into two lists. The first, “Dirty
Dozen: Buy These Organic,”
lists foods that when grown
conventionally contain the
largest amounts of pesticide
and fertilizer residues. These
include peaches, strawber-
ries, apples, blueberries, nec-
tarines, bell peppers, spinach,
cherries, kale/collard, greens,
potatoes, and (imported)
grapes. Consumers should
definitely spend the extra
money for organic versions
of these foods.
On the other side of the
coin, EWG’s “Clean 15” list
The Environmental Working Group’s handy “Shopper’s
Guide to Pesticides” makes it easy for consumer’s to know
which foods they should definitely buy organic (“The Dirty
Dozen”) and they can eat safely (“The Clean 15”) without
paying a premium for an organic variety.
The Herald –3
includes foods that contain
the least amount of chemical
residues when grown con-
ventionally. These include
onions, avocados, sweet corn,
pineapples, mangos, sweet
peas, asparagus, kiwi, cab-
bage, eggplant, cantaloupe,
watermelon, grapefruit, sweet
potatoes and honeydew.
It’s OK to eat convention-
ally grown varieties of these
foods.
EWG analysts developed
the “Clean 15” guide using
data from some 89,000 tests
for pesticide residues in
produce conducted between
2000 and 2008 and collect-
ed by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) and
the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).
What’s the difference, you
may ask? EWG found that by
eating five conventionally-
grown fruits and vegetables
a day from the Dirty Dozen
list, a consumer on average
ingests 10 different pesti-
cides; those who stick to the
Clean 15 list ingest less than
two.
Other foods you and your
family eat, such as meats,
cereals, breads and dairy
products, might also be
exposing you to unwanted
chemicals. According to
EWG, the direct health ben-
efits of organic meat, eggs
and milk are less clear, but
you should play it safe by
sticking with all-natural,
free-range, grass-fed meats
that are not fed antibiotics
or growth hormones, and by
choosing only organic dairy
products. Thanks to increas-
ing demand, more and more
food purveyors are putting
extra emphasis on organics.
This will ultimately result in
both lower prices and larg-
er selections. Natural foods
market aisles are already
teeming with organic choic-
es—and chances are your
local supermarket or big box
store has introduced organic
versions of many popular
items. Consequently, there
has never been a better time
to take stock of what you
are feeding yourself and your
family, and to make changes
for better health.
Send your environmental
questions to: EarthTalk®, c/o E
– The Environmental Magazine,
P.O. Box 5098, Westport, CT
06881; earthtalk@emagazine.
com.
4 — The Herald Thursday, July 29, 2010
POLITICS “Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.”
College dreams
FROM THE EDITOR for Hispanics
Most of us are upset and outraged by abuse of any kind — be
it humans or animals. WASHINGTON (AP)
Abuse of small children and animals incense us the most — More than 10 years have
because they are unable to defend themselves. passed since she gave up her
On Friday, the Carson and Barnes Circus will set up north of pursuit of a degree in comput-
town and provide two shows for our viewing pleasure. er science, but Yajahira Deaza
The circus is being brought to town as a fundraiser for still has regrets. She says she
two very worthy groups: the Delphos Canal Commission and feels incomplete.
Postal Museum of History. A fun and family-oriented event has She now works in custom-
become a platform for protesting cruelty to animals. er service for a major New
A letter to the editor in Tuesday’s paper championed circus York bank, and her experi-
animals and the “unnatural” acts they perform. No, a tiger does ence reflects the findings of an
not jump through hoops of fire in its natural habitat. Elephants Associated Press-Univision
do not parade around with performers on their trunks or backs
poll that examined the atti-
in the jungle. I understand this. But we still want to see it.
The circus representative says they don’t abuse their animals tudes of Latino adults toward
higher education. Despite
and training methods follow the Animal Welfare Act guide-
lines. strong belief in the value of
a college diploma, Hispanics
I don’t know who is correct. I’m sure somewhere in the
middle is the truth — that’s usually how it works. more often than not fall short
of that goal.
I say go and judge for yourself. As Gary Levitt said in his
letter to the editor Wednesday, you can find anything on the The findings have broad
implications not only for edu-
Internet and many different views and “truths.” You have to
wade through them and decide for yourself how you feel about cators and parents, but for the
economy.
them and the action or inaction you will take.
For many, this will be the first time they have ever seen In the next decade, U.S.
such animals up close and personal. Giant gentle elephants will companies will have to fill
parade through the big top; camels and others will delight the millions of jobs to replace
crowd. well-trained baby boom-
Activists tell us all kinds of things we should and shouldn’t ers going into retirement. As
do. We shouldn’t raise animals for meat and all wild creatures the nation’s largest minority
should be let free to roam, etc. They would not like the fact that group, Latinos account for a
I have on leather tennis shoes today or that I am planning to growing share of the pool of
have a steak for supper. But in the end, it’s my choice. workers, yet their skills may
I don’t believe it’s cruel to raise beef cattle to provide meat not be up to par. Aware of
for our tables. I don’t think it’s terrible that pigs and chickens the challenge, some California
are raised for bacon and fryers. That is what they are for. That is State University campuses are
their purpose. And in the end, it’s my choice to eat them. reaching out to Hispanic chil-
A recent study of vendors at baseball stadiums revealed dren as early as the fourth
some are not too picky about cleanliness. Is that going to stop grade.
people from attending games and ordering that juicy hot dog or “Aspirations for higher
cheese pretzel? Probably not. education are very strong
All views should be considered and valued. among Hispanics, but there’s a
We all make choices. I think informed choices are even yawning discrepancy between
better. aspirations and actual attain-
I invite you all to attend the circus and tell me what you ment,” said Richard Fry, an
thought. E-mail me at nspencer@delphosherald.com or send education researcher at the
me a letter at Nancy Spencer, editor, 405 N. Main St., Delphos
Pew Hispanic Center.
OH 45833.
Indeed, the poll, also spon-
sored by The Nielsen Company
IT WAS NEWS THEN
and Stanford University,
found that Hispanics value
One Year Ago higher education more than
• In January 1969, the Delphos Post Office reached a his- do Americans as a whole.
torical milestone: its first woman carrier. Margaret Brown, Eighty-seven percent said a
then 42 years old with two out of six children still living at college education is extremely
home, needed a job and chose the post office in Delphos for or very important, compared
“the advantages of wages, permanent position and retirement with 78 percent of the overall
benefits.” U.S. population.
Ninety-four percent of
25 Years Ago – 1985 Latinos say they expect their
• Passersby ceased to be passersby when they came upon own children to go to col-
Thomas Bayliff’s entry in the fourth annual Delphos Area Car lege, a desire that’s slightly
Club show. They stopped and stared and oohed and aahed and stronger for girls. Seventy-
chatted with Bayliff about his 1931 silver and maroon Packard. four percent said the most
Spectators also translated their admiration into votes and made important goal for a girl right
the Packard the best of show trophy winner for the second after high school is to attend
straight year. a four-year college, compared
• Delphos Country Club held its golf championship. Winners with 71 percent for boys.
were Jerry Looser, first flight winner, Ike Bandelier, first flight Enthusiasm about higher
runner-up; Ed Wiecher, senior flight runner-up; Paul Menke, education hasn’t been matched
senior flight winner; Don Grothouse, second flight winner; by results.
Dennis Wilhelm, third flight winner, John Klausing, third flight Census figures show that
runner-up, and Doyle Bruskotter, second flight winner. only 13 percent of Hispanics
• Ron Davis was served his picnic supper by the Middle have a bachelor’s degree or
Point Firemen’s Auxiliary in the department garage on Adams higher, compared with 30 per-
Street. In addition to chicken suppers, the picnic featured music cent among Americans over-
by Dave Kill and The Good Ole Boys, games and concessions, all.
bingo and a raffle for a $1,400 satellite dish antenna system. The poll revealed some
of the roadblocks: Latinos
50 Years Ago – 1960
don’t have enough money, yet
• A local farm youth will have entries in the Junior Division
many are reluctant to borrow.
of the 1960 Ohio State Fair, Aug. 26 through Sept. 2. Richard
R. Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Thompson of Family obligations intervene.
Parents and teachers provide
Delphos, will enter two Hampshire gilts, two Hampshire boars,
six market hogs, wheat, oats and soybeans. Thompson is a only lukewarm support.
Fifty-four percent said their
past president of the Delphos chapter of the Future Farmers
own parents either did not
of America, the immediate past president of the Ohio Future
Farmers of America and is a member of the State Junior Fair expect them to go to college,
Board. or did not care either way.
After graduating high
75 Years Ago — 1935 school, Angel Vasquez of
• There was a large attendance at the annual picnic of Delphos Port Arthur, Texas, wanted
Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles held at the Henry Fischer to go to a technical school
Grove south of Delphos. A program of excellent entertainment to become a diesel mechanic.
was carried out. A concert was given by the Eagles Band in the First he wanted a six-month
afternoon. The Edwards Troupe of Paulding delighted those in break. No, said the grandfa-
attendance. A Dutch band from Wren also entertained. ther who raised him: Go to
• At the close of the “Flower Sale” held in Delphos by school immediately or get a
the American Brotherhood for the Blind, Ethel Hart, who job immediately.
had charge of headquarters, reports that Betty Norbeck was Now 23, Vasquez works
entitled to first prize, having secured $8.13. The second prize as a technician for a company
was won by Dorothy Jones, who had $3.90. The third winner, that repairs buildings dam-
Mary Alice Fethers had $2.97; the fourth prize, Emma Vero aged by water and mold. “My
Mittermaier, $2.18; the fifth prize Doris Clawson, $2.08. grandparents raised me pretty
• Impressive services for the dedication of the new Pike good, and I understand where
Mennonite Church, seven miles southeast of Delphos on Route they were coming from,” he
30-South., were held Sunday afternoon. The services were said. But “I seriously wish I
in charge of Bishop J. Shenk and Bishop B.B. King. The old would have gone to school
church was built in 1896. The new church replaces one which because I could be making
was destroyed by fire five years ago. double the money.”
Calls for Rangel to quit
could escalate if no deal
By LARRY MARGASAK
and LAURIE KELLMAN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
calls from fellow Democrats
for New York Rep. Charles
Rangel to resign could quick-
ly turn from a trickle to a
flood unless he can quickly
negotiate a plea bargain to
prevent a congressional trial
on allegations of ethical mis-
conduct.
With elections nearing,
fellow Democrats don’t relish
the spectacle of that trial.
Today is a deadline of
sorts. An ethics committee
panel of four Democrats and
four Republicans has sched-
uled a public hearing where
the charges against Rangel
would be aired in public for
the first time. The subcom-
mittee’s task is to decide
whether the charges can be
proved by clear and con-
vincing evidence. Just spell-
ing them out would be bad
enough, Democrats running
for re-election feel.
For his part, Rangel
remained noncommittal
Wednesday on whether he’s
still open to a deal to avoid
all that.
“Depends on what the
settlement is,” he said of the
lawyer-to-lawyer talks.
The House ethics com-
mittee has investigated alle-
gations of Rangel’s misuse
of his office for fundraising,
failure to disclose income,
belated payment of taxes and
Bleak economic outlook into 2011
By JEANNINE AVERSA
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
U.S. economic recovery will
remain slow deep into next
year, held back by shop-
pers reluctant to spend and
employers hesitant to hire,
according to an Associated
Press survey of leading econ-
omists.
The latest quarterly AP
Economy Survey shows
economists have turned
gloomier in the past three
months. They foresee weaker
growth and higher unemploy-
ment than they did before. As
a result, the economists think
the Federal Reserve will keep
interest rates near zero until
at least next spring.
Yet despite their expec-
tation of slower growth, a
majority of the 42 economists
surveyed believe the recov-
ery remains on track, rais-
ing hopes that the economy
can avoid falling back into a
“double-dip” recession.
The AP survey compiles
forecasts of leading private,
corporate and academic econ-
omists on a range of indica-
tors, including employment,
consumer spending and infla-
tion. Among their forecasts:
— Economic growth the
rest of this year and early
next year will weaken, to less
than 3 percent. From January
through May, the economy
Congress narrows gap in cocaine sentences
By JIM ABRAMS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — that ratio to about 18-1.
Congress on Wednesday
changed a quarter-century-
old law that has subjected
tens of thousands of blacks
to long prison terms for crack
cocaine convictions while
giving far more lenient treat-
ment to those, mainly whites,
caught with the powder form
of the drug.
The House, by voice vote,
approved a bill reducing the
disparities between mandato-
ry crack and powder cocaine
sentences, sending the mea-
sure to President Barack
Obama for his signature.
During his presidential cam-
paign, Obama said that the
wide gap in sentencing “can-
not be justified and should be
eliminated.”
The Senate passed the bill
in March.
The measure changes a
1986 law, enacted at a time
when crack cocaine use was
rampant and considered a par-
ticularly violent drug, under
which a person convicted of
crack cocaine possession gets
the same mandatory prison
term as someone with 100
— German proverb
possible help with a tax shel-
ter for a company whose chief
executive was a major donor.
“I think everyone is look-
ing forward to getting all
the facts out in the open and
people will have to react once
we know what we’re deal-
ing with,” said Rep. Mike
Quigley, D-Ill.
But how to react? Create
distance from Rangel and his
conduct, or somehow remain
noncommittal? Each option
contains political risk.
If a Democrat calls for
Rangel’s resignation, returns
his campaign donations
or just condemns his con-
duct, he risks alienating the
Congressional Black Caucus,
a key Democratic constituen-
cy, which has warned against
a rush to judgment.
But if a fellow lawmaker
remains silent, he risks being
tagged an inside-Washington
hypocrite who broke a prom-
ise to rid Congress of cor-
ruption.
The charges are the equiv-
alent of an indictment, not a
conviction. So condemning
unproven allegations against
Rangel could smack of the
very rush to judgment against
which the CBC warned. But
for vulnerable Democrats,
especially freshmen eager to
prove their ethical bona fides
to voters, couched statements
of condemnation could be
beneficial, some Democratic
lawmakers and their aides
said in interviews — under a
cloak of anonymity.
grew at roughly a 3.5 percent
pace.
— The unemployment rate
will be no lower at the end of
the year than it is now — 9.5
percent. A majority think it
will be 2015 or later before
the rate falls to a historically
normal 5 percent.
— State budget short-
falls pose a “significant” or
“severe” risk to the national
economy. The loss of tax
revenue has forced state and
local governments to cut ser-
vices and lay off workers.
The weak economy leaves
Democrats and Republicans
on Capitol Hill vulner-
able as they head into the
November midterm elections.
Democrats, who now control
both chambers, have the most
to lose. The gloomier outlook
is also a liability for President
Barack Obama.
The economists have
turned more pessimistic since
the recovery hit turbulence in
May. Europe’s debt crisis sent
tremors through Wall Street,
causing stocks to tumble and
raising doubts about the dura-
bility of the rebound.
Since then, businesses
have been slow to step up hir-
ing. Americans’ confidence
in the economy has declined,
leading shoppers to reduce
spending. And the housing
market has weakened further
with the end of a homebuyer
tax credit that had buoyed
times the same amount of
powder cocaine.
The legislation reduces
The bill also eliminates
the five-year mandatory mini-
mum for first-time possession
of crack, the first time since
the Nixon administration that
Congress has repealed a man-
datory minimum sentence.
It would not apply retroac-
tively.
“For Congress to take
a step toward saying ‘we
have made a mistake’ and
this sentence is too severe ...
is really remarkable,” said
Virginia Sloan, president of
the Constitution Project. The
group in studies of sentencing
practices has referred to crack
cocaine mandates as a “‘post-
er child’ for the injustices of
mandatory sentencing.”
Under current law, posses-
sion of five grams of crack
triggers a mandatory mini-
mum five-year prison sen-
tence. The same mandatory
sentence applies to a person
convicted of trafficking 500
grams of powder cocaine.
The proposed legislation
would apply the five-year
term to someone with 28
grams, or an ounce, of crack.
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Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala.,
a member of the Ways and
Means Committee who called
for Rangel to step down from
his committee chairmanship,
said he would not be urging
Rangel’s resignation. Still, he
said of his colleagues, “I’m
sure some will.”
Two Democrats didn’t
wait to hear the charges.
Rep. Betty Sutton of Ohio,
a second-term lawmakers
who received 65 percent of
the vote two years ago, said
Rangel “needs to resign” to
preserve the public’s trust in
Congress.
Rep. Walt Minnick of
Idaho, a freshman who got 51
percent of the vote last time,
couched his resignation call
on the charges being proven.
While the political stakes
are high for Rangel and
Democrats with tough races,
there also could be conse-
quences for ethics commit-
tee members if they leave
the perception that Rangel,
a Harlem legend, got off too
easy.
Voters could decide they
were protecting an influential
Democrat — the former chief
tax writer in the House — if
some charges were dropped
or if the resulting punishment
did not reflect serious wrong-
doing.
Rangel could face a report
criticizing his conduct, a rep-
rimand or censure by the full
House or even expulsion —
the latter very unlikely in this
case.
sales earlier this year.
Consumers aren’t leading
this rebound, as they usu-
ally do, despite ultra-low bor-
rowing costs. Their spend-
ing growth will weaken in
the second half of this year
and strengthen only slight-
ly next year, a majority of
economists said. They think
shoppers’ reluctance to spend
more money poses a “signifi-
cant” or “severe” risk to the
recovery.
“It seems like we hit an air
pocket in consumer spend-
ing,” said survey participant
Richard DeKaser, president
of Woodley Park Research.
Kasey Doshier, a graph-
ic designer in Chicago, said
the recession taught her to
rein in her spending. The key
moment came early last year,
when her employer cut her
pay 15 percent to avoid lay-
offs.
“I just lived paycheck to
paycheck and had a good
time,” said Doshier, 32. “It’s
kind of scary to think that I
am a paycheck away from
being homeless.”
Doshier’s pay has been
reinstated, but she’s still
watching her money. Dinner
and drinks with friends are
gone. Now she goes to free
street festivals and the city
pool. She explores Chicago
neighborhoods by taking
her dog on long “adventure
walks.”
Julie Stewart, president of
Families Against Mandatory
Minimums, said 28 grams is
about what the average crack
dealer might carry around.
She said politicians and the
U.S. Sentencing Commission
have for years acknowledged
the unfairness of the system,
“but no one wanted to look
soft on crime.” The legis-
lative change, she said, is
“much more about being
smart on crime.”
She cited Sentencing
Commission estimates that
almost 3,000 people a year
subjected to the mandatory
sentence would be affected
by the change. The average
sentence in these cases would
be reduced from 106 months
to 79 months.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,
the main sponsor of the bill
in the Senate with Sen. Jeff
Sessions, R-Ala., said last
year close to 1,500 people
were convicted for posses-
sion of somewhere between
five and 25 grams of crack
cocaine, subjecting them to
mandatory minimum sen-
tences.
Some 80 percent of those
convicted of crack cocaine
offenses are black.
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Wawasee tournament
The Delphos Bass Club held its sixth tournament of the year on Wawasee Saturday.
Winners are, left to right, Don Kent, first place with 5 fish weighing 11.69 lbs.; Kyle
Osting, 2nd place (5 fish weighing 11.27 lbs, — also 2nd Big Bass with a 4.01-lb. lar-
gemouth; Dave Rahrig, 3rd place (4 fish weighing 10.78 lbs.); Travis Kill, 4th place
(4 fish weighing 10.32 lbs.) and Chad Buzard, 1st Big Bass (4.18-lb. largemouth). The
next tournament will be August 7 on Hamilton Lake.
DC football adds pair of assistant coaches for 2010
DEFIANCE — Defiance
College and head coach Rob
Taylor have announced the
hiring of Chuck Ehret and
Nubis Padhye to join the
football coaching staff. Ehret
will serve as the offensive
line coach, while Padhye will
be the quarterbacks coach.
Taylor will take over the role
of offensive coordinator to
complete the makeover on the
sidelines for the Purple and
Gold.
“Chuck and Nubis are peo-
ple that fit what we are looking
for in coaches,” stated Taylor.
“They each have a very high
level of commitment to the
student-athlete, the institution
and the program.”
Ehret comes to DC after
spending the past two sea-
sons handling the offensive
line at Manchester College.
During his tenure with the
Spartans, Ehret saw the MC
ground game finish among
the top two rushing attacks
in the Heartland Collegiate
Athletic Conference during
each season, while placing
four offensive linemen on the
All-HCAC squad.
Taylor added, “Chuck has
a tremendous knowledge of
our schemes and is an excep-
tional recruiter. He brings a
strong reputation in the run
Yanks, Burnett beat Indians; A-Rod at 599
CLEVELAND (AP) —
Alex Rodriguez kept his sense
of humor and A.J. Burnett
rediscovered his wicked cur-
veball.
Rodriguez had two hits,
but not homer No. 600, to
support another sharp
outing by a resurgent
Burnett and the New
York Yankees beat
the Cleveland Indians
8-0 on Wednesday
night.
Each time
Rodriguez strode to
the plate, hundreds
of fans left their seats and
jammed a walkway between
the left-field pole and the
bleachers with hopes of catch-
ing the historic homer. They
walked away disappointed
each time.
Rodriguez didn’t come
close to getting his elusive
600th homer, though he went
2 for 5 with a run-scoring
single in the first inning off
Fausto Carmona (10-8). He
had a sixth-inning double in
which his slide knocked sec-
ond base out of the ground.
“I thought the milestone
was doubles, so I took the
base,” Rodriguez said in
explaining why he held the
bag aloft.
“It just popped out,”
A-Rod continued. “That was
good because sometimes you
can get hurt if it doesn’t.”
Burnett (9-8) earned his
third win in four starts, the
only blemish coming in a July
17 start in which he cut his
hands hitting a door out of
frustration. On Wednesday
he allowed seven hits over 6
1-3 innings as the Yankees
improved the best record in
the majors (64-36) with their
sixth win in eight games —
and AL-leading ninth shut-
out.
“I was able to throw strikes
with my curveball,” Burnett
said. “I felt good.”
Mark Teixeira had a two-
run single and Brett Gardner
Thursday, July 29, 2010
game.”
Along with his five years
of collegiate coaching, which
include stops at Taylor
University and Valparaiso
University and working camps
at the University of Notre
Dame, Ehret spent four years
as a member of the offensive
line during his playing career
at Malone University.
Ehret earned a degree in
sports management from
Malone before complet-
ing a master’s degree in
sports administration from
Valparaiso.
“I am excited about joining
the football staff at Defiance
College,” Ehret explained.
“I have always respected the
way Defiance plays the game
of football and I am look-
ing forward to coaching these
young men and being a part of
the Defiance College family.”
Padhye joins the Yellow
Jackets after serving as a
graduate assistant at Ashland
University for the past two
seasons. Padhye has also
spent time on the coaching
staffs at Westminster College
and Ohio State University,
while specializing with the
quarterbacks and wide receiv-
ers at AU and Ohio State.
“Nubis has a great back-
ground in working with quar-
two run-scoring singles as
the Yankees built a 7-0 lead.
Robinson Cano hit his 19th
homer leading off the fourth
to make it 8-0.
Most of the crowd of
22,965 left after Rodriguez
flied out to right on
a 10-pitch at-bat
against rookie Frank
Herrmann.
“He went right after
me,” Rodriguez said.
“It was a good battle
and he got the best of
me.”
Rodriguez also
flipped his bat after fanning
on a 3-2 pitch with the bases
loaded to end New York’s
three-run third.
“I’m not upset because I
had a good approach and went
deep into the count tonight,”
Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez’s sharp grounder
up the middle scored Teixeira
for a 1-0 lead. Teixeira was
on a second with a double.
Curtis Granderson had two
hits including an RBI triple
off Carmona, giving him
a .444 (16 for 36) average
against the right-hander.
Burnett struck out seven
and walked three as he contin-
ued his roller-coaster season.
The right-hander opened the
year 4-0 and had a 6-2 record
after beating the Indians on
May 30 in New York. The
33-year-old then lost five
consecutive decisions before
his recent resurgence. He has
not allowed an earned run in
seven starts — and given up
six or more in six others.
“This was the best I’ve
felt in a long while. Tempo
is important,” Burnett said.
“The ball was coming out of
my hand good. I hope to keep
this tempo for the rest of the
year.”
Burnett finally won in
Cleveland. He had been 0-4
with a 9.00 ERA in four pre-
vious starts at Progressive
Field, none of them with New
York. He threw five scoreless
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terbacks and wide receivers
at some top programs like
Ohio State, Ashland and
Westminster,” commented
Taylor. “We really believe
that he will add a tremendous
amount of character, vision,
excellence and leadership to
our staff.”
Padhye began his coaching
career as a student assistant at
OSU, where he worked with
the Buckeye wide receivers
for two years, before moving
on to Westminster College
for one season. Padhye then
accepted the graduate assis-
tant position at Ashland and
helped the Eagles reach the
NCAA Division II National
Playoffs, while coaching
a pair of All-Great Lakes
Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference wide receivers.
Padhye owns a degree in
business administration from
Ohio State and added a mas-
ter’s degree in sports market-
ing from Ashland in 2010.
“I am extremely excited
to be a part of the Defiance
College football coaching
staff for the 2010 season,”
added Padhye. “There is a tre-
mendous amount of potential
here and I am honored to have
the chance to be a part of this
program as it strives to reach
new levels.”
innings before being lifted
due to a rain delay Friday in a
7-1 win over Kansas City.
Joba Chamberlain came on
after Burnett issued a one-out
walk to Andy Marte in the
seventh. He balked Marte to
second, but got the next two
batters easily. Sergio Mitre
worked the eighth and ninth
to complete the eight-hitter.
Carmona was pounded for
seven runs and 10 hits over 2
2-3 innings.
“You know what hap-
pened,” the right-hander said.
“I gave up a bunch of base
hits.”
It was the worst start of
the season by the AL All-Star
who was looking to win four
in a row for first time since
finishing the 2007 season
with five consecutive wins.
“Fausto just didn’t have
it,” Indians manager Manny
Acta said. “That’s the wrong
lineup not to have your pitch-
es working for you. They hit
him around and put him in a
big hole.”
Rodriguez hit his 501st
homer off Carmona on Aug.
10, 2007, and followed with
two more the next night in
Cleveland — and has since
gone 9 for 45 without a
homer in his last 12 games at
Progressive Field.
NOTES: Rain delayed the start
42 minutes. ... Cleveland traded
3B Jhonny Peralta to Detroit just
before the scheduled start, get-
ting Class A LHP Giovanni Soto
in return. ... Indians RHP Kerry
Wood, out since July 11 with a
blister on his right index finger,
is scheduled to throw one inning
on a rehab assignment today
at Double-A Akron. The closer
could be activated this weekend.
... RHP Dustin Moseley will make
his first start for the Yankees
today. He is starting in place LHP
Andy Pettitte, who is on the DL
with a strained groin. Mitre made
the first spot start for Pettitte but
struggled. ... Teixeira is hitting
.368 (32 of 87) with 24 runs in
23 games in July. ... Indians OF
Trevor Crowe went 3 for 4 and
is batting .347 over his last 14
games.
High Super Senior
School Boys Champion
Champion,
McKinley, 157
Kundert, 149
4th Flight:
3rd Flight:
Hoehn, 173
Straurer, 186
Delphos Country Club names
tournament champions
The Delphos Country
Club recently held its
annual Championship Golf
Tournament. Winners
and runner-ups (these are
36-hole scores):
High School Boys: Cody
Kundert 149, Zach Weber
162
Ladies Champion-ship :
Beth Wallen-horst 167,
Abbey Martin 169
Phillips hits slam, Reds rally against Brewers
By COLIN FLY
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — There’s
a sign in the visitor’s club-
house at Miller Park warn-
ing players they can get in
trouble trying to sneak a ride
on Bernie Brewer’s slide way
out in left field.
Brandon Phillips got a rush
just by hitting it.
Phillips smacked a 450-
foot grand slam that
landed in the giant yel-
low slide before pop-
ping out and Travis
Wood earned his first
win in the majors for
the Cincinnati Reds, 10-2 over
Milwaukee on Wednesday.
“It felt like I hit a tennis
ball or a golf ball,” Phillips
said. “I think I hit every seam,
every word of ‘Major League
Baseball’ on there and the
logo. I hit every part of that
ball. It felt good, I tell you
that. It was about time.”
With the win, Cincinnati
kept the pressure on St.
Louis for first place in the
NL Central after the teams
entered play Wednesday in a
virtual tie at the top.
The Reds scored 10 unan-
swered runs, capped by
Phillips’ shot and Joey Votto’s
solo homer in the eighth, for
their 30th come-from-behind
victory of the season.
Wood (1-1), who took a
perfect game into the ninth
inning on July 10, won in
his sixth career start and the
Reds piled on the runs, scor-
ing five in the sixth off starter
Chris Narveson and reliever
Kameron Loe and five more
off Carlos Villanueva in the
eighth.
Cincinnati finished the trip
4-2 and is 26-24 away from
Great American Ball Park.
“There’s less things you
have to worry about when
TRANSACTIONS
By The Associated Press
BASEBALL
COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE
— Suspended Detroit manager Jim
Leyland one game and fined him an
undisclosed amount for his inappro-
priate and aggressive conduct during
Monday’s game against Tampa Bay.
Fined San Francisco RHP Brian Wilson
$1,000 for violating the league’s dress
code during Tuesday’s game against
Florida. Suspended Florida Marlins
minor leaguer pitcher Daniel Jennings
for 50-games after testing positive for
performance-enhancing substance in
violations of the minor League Drug
Prevention and Treatment Program.
American League
DETROIT TIGERS — Assigned
RHP Casey Fien outright to Toledo
(IL). Traded LHP Giovanni Soto to
Cleveland for INF Jhonny Peralta.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS —
Acquired C Lucas May and RHP
Elisaul Pimentel from the Los Angeles
Dodgers for OF Scott Podsednik.
Assigned May to Omaha (PCL) and
Pimentel to Burlington (NW). Recalled
RHP Bryan Bullington from Omaha
(PCL). Optioned RHP Victor Marte to
Omaha.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled
LHP Luke French from Tacoma (PCL).
Placed LHP Ryan Rowland-Smith on
the 15-day DL.
National League
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES —
Placed OF Shane Victorino on the
15-day DL. Selected the contract of
OF Domonic Brown from Lehigh Valley
(IL).
PITTSBURGH PIRATES
Promoted RHP Derek Hawkins from
— Chris Holguin on the suspended list.
Altoona (EL) to Indianapolis (IL).
Senior
Champion
Allen, 152
1st Flight:
Kramer, 157
Super Seniors: Terry
McKinley 157 Ernie Hines
157 (McKinley wins 1-hole
playoff)
Senior Championship:
Mike Allen 152, John
McDonald 155
Senior 1st Flight: Dan
Sever 159, Barry Stirn 159
(Sever wins 1-hole playoff)
4th Flight: Ross Straurer
186
you’re on the road,” Phillips
said. “When we’re on the
road, we’re all about baseball,
and that’s what we love.”
Jordan Smith, Arthur
Rhodes, Nick Masset and
Francisco Cordero combined
for four scoreless innings of
relief, allowing three hits.
Trailing 2-0, the first six
batters reached to start the
sixth for the Reds, who sent
11 men to the plate. Votto’s
RBI single chased
Narveson (8-7) and
Jonny Gomes tied the
game when he drove
in the 300th run of his
career with a double
off Loe.
Miguel Cairo followed
with a two-run double and
Ryan Hanigan’s squeeze bunt
made it 5-2. The long inning
ended Wood’s day. He scat-
tered five hits and a walk
with six strikeouts over five
innings. Wood said it felt
good to finally win, but he
also is expecting some grief
for his third-inning decision.
He walked off the mound
after only recording two outs
and had to be summoned back
to finish the frame.
“He was strutting pretty
good out there,” Reds man-
ager Dusty Baker joked.
Wood isn’t sure how he
lost track of the outs.
“Normally, I walk off
that side of the mound after
a strikeout,” Wood said. “I
just kept going. It happens. It
shouldn’t, but it did.”
In the eighth, Villanueva
loaded the bases on two sin-
gles and a walk to bring up
Phillips, who sent the ball into
the bright yellow slide in left
field that starts in the upper
deck and spirals down to the
club level for his fourth career
slam. The ball ricocheted into
the bleacher’s below, but
shots that deep are rare —
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS —
Purchased the contract of RHP Mike
MacDougal from Memphis (PCL).
Optioned RHP Fernando Salas to
Memphis.
Southern League
CAROLINA MUDCATS
Released OF Sean Danielson.
American Association
SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER
CAPTAINS — Released INF Randall
Johnson.
WICHITA WINGNUTS — Released
INF Jake Bradshaw.
Can-Am League
SUSSEX SKYHAWKS — Signed
RHP Ulysses Roque.
Frontier League
EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Traded
1B Brandon Cohen and INF Patrick
Rose to Florence for RHP Cameron
Aspaas and RHP Jacinto Gonell.
FLORENCE FREEDOM — Signed
RHP Kevin Whittaker. Signed 1B
Brandon Cohen and INF Patrick Rose
to contract extensions.
GATEWAY GRIZZLES — Sent
RHP David Goodenough to Oakland
County to complete an earlier trade.
Signed INF Tyler Rogers.
KALAMAZOO KINGS — Signed
LHP Alex Szymanski. Sent RHP
Bernard Robert to Oakland County for
RHP David Goodenough to complete
an earlier trade.
TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS
— Released LHP Jonathan Runnels.
WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS
— Signed SS Brad Jackson. Voided
the contract of SS Angel Nicolas.
United League
AMARILLO DILLAS — Placed RHP
EDINBURG ROADRUNNERS —
Signed OF Nelson Teilon.
www.delphosherald.com
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Ladies Championship
Wallenhorst, left, 167
and Martin, 169
Men’s Champion
Klein, 141
3rd Flight: Ed Hoehn
173, Don McDougall 174
2nd Flight: Darrell
VonSosson 167, Pat McGue
167 (VonSosson wins 3-hole
playoff)
1st Flight: Matt Kramer
157, Dave Schimmoeller
166
Men’s Championship:
Dillon Klein 141, Adam
Koester 142
Sammy Sosa homered off the
slide in the 2002 Home Run
Derby.
Votto followed two batters
later with another shot to left
field that made it 10-2. The
slugging first baseman is 14
of 26 with three homers, nine
runs and six RBIs in his last
six games.
Cincinnati scored 22 runs
off 32 hits in the final two
games of this series after
managing six hits in a 3-2
loss in the opener on Monday
night.
“They used their power,”
Brewers manager Ken Macha
said.
Milwaukee had been play-
ing better baseball of late, but
the Brewers trail the Reds by
nine games in the division
with the non-waiver trade
deadline looming Saturday.
Wood struck out five
consecutive batters at one
point, but trailed 2-0 on Ryan
Braun’s RBI double and run-
scoring single by Jonathan
Lucroy. It could’ve been
more, but right fielder Jay
Bruce saved two runs with
a diving grab on a soft flare
by Carlos Gomez to end the
fourth.
“Our defense wins games.
A lot of people think that
offense is the key to things,
but if you have pitching and
defense you can win a lot of
games,” Phillips said. “We
have everything. The only
team that can beat us is our-
selves.”
Notes: Reds 3B Scott Rolen
had the day off. ... Brewers 1B
Prince Fielder was ejected after
being called out on strikes to
end the eighth and slamming his
helmet. Backup catcher George
Kottaras played the ninth. ...
Brewers 3B Casey McGehee took
a hard shot to his lower right leg
when Orlando Cabrera slid into
him cleats first trying to steal third
in the fourth. ... Both teams have
a day off Thursday.
RIO GRANDE VALLEY
WHITEWINGS — Signed RHP Matt
Morris.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
—
ATLANTA HAWKS — Named
Kenny Gattison assistant coach.
HOUSTON ROCKETS — Traded
C David Anderson to Toronto for cash
and a future second-round draft pick.
LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS—Re-
signed F Rasual Butler.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
BUFFALO BILLS — Agreed to
terms with DT Torell Troup.
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Agreed
to terms with QB Jimmy Clausen on a
four-year contract. Waived LB Brett
Warren.
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed
DL Shaun Rogers, DL C.J. Mosley
and CB Coye Francies on physically-
unable-to-perform list.
HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed TE
Garrett Graham.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Signed
WR Dexter McCluster and DB Javier
Arenas.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS —
Released LB Shawn Crable. Signed
CB Devin McCourty.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS —
Signed TE Jimmy Graham. Agreed to
terms with QB Patrick Ramsey on a
one-year contract.
NEW YORK JETS — Signed QB
Mark Brunell to a two-year contract.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS —
Signed director of football operations
Kevin Colbert to a five-year contract
extension.
ST. LOUIS RAMS — Agreed to
terms with OT Rodger Saffold. Signed
TE Fendi Onobun.
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Family, friends mourn for former NBA player Wright

By ADRIAN SAINZ
The Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Relatives and friends
of Lorenzen Wright gathered Wednesday and
grieved for the former NBA player who has
been missing for 10 days, as police investi-
gated the discovery of a man’s body outside
of Memphis.
Wright’s uncle, Curtis Wright, told The
Associated Press that police called the play-
er’s father, Herb Wright, Wednesday after-
noon with the news he had died.
Sgt. Alyssa Macon-Moore of the Memphis
Police Department wrote in an e-mail to the
AP that police were investigating the death
of an unidentified man beside a wooded area
about 15 miles south of downtown Memphis.
Asked if the man was Wright, she wrote
they could not confirm the victim’s identity
Wednesday night.
The family issued a statement through a
cousin of Lorenzen Wright, Camella Logan:
“Lorenzen’s family has come together to
mourn his loss and honor his legacy. We
appreciate your thoughts, prayers and con-
dolences as they are comforting at this very
difficult time. Additionally, we ask that you
please respect our privacy as we try to cope
with his sudden loss.”
Wright’s mother, Deborah Marion, arrived
at the scene Wednesday night with a handful
of family members. She crossed the crime
scene tape and tried to talk to police when she
was told to move back. She sat in a TV van
before returning to the tape. Two officers then
let her through.
The distraught Marion then started run-
ning down the road toward the crime scene
before being stopped by an officer. She
spoke with officers, then walked back past
reporters without speaking and went straight
to a van.
The 34-year-old Wright was last seen July
18 when he was expected to fly out of town.
His family filed a missing person report July
22.
Wright played 13 years in the NBA for
the Los Angeles Clippers, Atlanta Hawks,
Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings and
most recently the Cleveland Cavaliers with
17 games in the 2008-09 season. Wright left
the University of Memphis early for the NBA,
and the Clippers made him a lottery pick with
the No. 7 selection overall.
He averaged 8 points and 6.4 rebounds in
778 career games.
By nightfall, nearly 200 people had visited
the road blocked off by police while TV news
helicopters showed investigators scouring the
grounds for evidence. Police brought in a
mobile command center that further blocked
off the scene.
Former NBA star Penny Hardaway, who
played at Memphis two years before Wright,
said he heard the news from a friend and went
to the scene near where the body was found.
“I cried. The emotions hit me immediately.
It’s just sad because we lost a good person and
a brother,” Hardaway said.
Elliot Perry, another friend and former
Memphis player, also was at the scene. Wendy
Wilson, who once worked as Wright’s per-
sonal assistant, also was there and said Wright
often used the road police had cordoned off as
a shortcut to his mother’s house.
“He was a good person. He did not deserve
to die this way. God is not pleased with this,”
Wilson said.
Memphis Grizzlies majority owner Michael
Heisley issued a statement late Wednesday
saying, “We are deeply saddened by the tragic
death of Lorenzen Wright. We lost a member
of the Grizzlies family. Lorenzen delighted
fans on the court with his passion and off the
court with his generosity in a Memphis com-
munity that watched him grow throughout his
playing career ...”

Strasburg first felt tightness ‘couple days ago’ Holmgren hobbling, but
By HOWARD FENDRICH
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Most
of his teammates already
were out on the field for bat-
ting practice when Stephen
Strasburg wandered into the
home clubhouse at Nationals
Park on Wednesday.
Shut down for at least two
days — and perhaps three or
four — because of a stiff pitch-
ing shoulder, Strasburg did not
need to hurry to put on his
uniform. Backup catcher Wil
Nieves, whose locker is next
to Strasburg’s, turned to the
rookie sensation and asked,
“How you doing, man? You
all right?”
Strasburg’s answer — the
one the Washington Nationals
and their fans care so much
about — was inaudible. About
two hours later, though, stand-
ing against a cinderblock wall
in the hallway outside that
clubhouse, the prized right-
hander spoke to reporters
for the first time since being
scratched Tuesday, shortly
before what was supposed to
be the 10th major league start
of his much-hyped career.
Strasburg said he first
sensed tightness in his pitching
shoulder “a couple days ago,”
and he chalked it up to “kind
of hitting the wall a little bit.”
He said he felt “a lot bet-
ter” and his range of motion is
“starting to come back.”
Washington general man-
ager Mike Rizzo and trainer
Lee Kuntz said Strasburg did
not indicate he had a prob-
lem before Tuesday, when his
pregame bullpen session was
stopped about a half-dozen
throws in.
“I wasn’t really scared,
because it’s kind of something
that I’ve had happen to me
before,” Strasburg said, refer-
ring to feeling stiffness in his
right shoulder while in college
at San Diego State. “It wasn’t
on just one pitch, so that’s
obviously a big thing.”
He took anti-inflammato-
ry medicine Wednesday and
underwent treatment that
Kuntz said included “stretch-
ing, strengthening ... using
heat, using ice.” But the No.
1 overall pick in the 2009
amateur draft did not toss a
ball. Instead, during batting
practice, Strasburg stood in
the right-field grass, chatting
with pitching coach Steve
McCatty.
It’s not exactly clear when
he will next throw a baseball,
much less pitch in a game; his
next scheduled start would be
Sunday.
“We don’t have an update
whether he’s going to pitch
Sunday or when he’ll pitch
again, if not Sunday,” manager
Jim Riggleman said. “We’re
just really going to give it
another day or two before we
do anything.”
The Nationals have been
quite careful in the way they
have brought along Strasburg
since giving him a record
$15.1 million contract right
before the deadline for getting
deals done.
Even though Strasburg
was dominant at times dur-
ing spring training, he was
moved to minor league camp
in Florida, then began the sea-
son at Double-A Harrisburg.
The righty was promoted to
Triple-A Syracuse in early
May, before making his highly
anticipated major league debut
June 8 — and, somehow, sur-
passing expectations by strik-
ing out 14 batters in a 5-2
victory over the Pittsburgh
Pirates.
He left that game after
seven innings, part of a pat-
tern of being eased into the
rigors of the major leagues.
The Nationals have said they
would end Strasburg’s sea-
son when he reaches 160
innings, even if that cap were
to come in late August or early
September.
He’s been by far the bright-
est spot in another last-place
season for the Nationals in
2010, going 5-2 with a 2.32
ERA, 75 strikeouts and 15
walks in 54 1-3 innings.
So far in 2010, he’s thrown
109 2-3 innings total, includ-
ing in the minors, which
essentially matches his count
in his final college season at
San Diego State: 109 innings.
“I’m just at the point in the
season where I’m kind of going
down uncharted territory,”
Strasburg said Wednesday.
Asked to describe when he
feels a problem in his shoul-
der — the official team diag-
nosis was “inflammation” —
Strasburg said: “After I throw
the ball, when I finish.”
excited by team’s outlook
BEREA (AP) — Mike
Holmgren is excited about the
Cleveland Browns — even if
he is starting his first season as
team president with his right
leg in a cast.
“I’m as excited as I have
ever been,” Holmgren said
Wednesday.
He entered the
media room with his
right leg propped up
on a cart with wheels
that enabled him to
move around.
“Don’t ask,” said
Holmgren, who had surgery
on his right foot to correct a
condition that had been “bug-
ging” him for a few years. As
he recovers, he will violate
one of the rules he had during
training camp over 17 seasons
as a pro coach: Nobody sits.
Holmgren won’t be content
to sit and watch another 5-11
season as the Browns endured
in 2009, either. He’s already
made significant roster chang-
es since joining the organiza-
tion in December — though
embattled coach Eric Mangini
son when the Browns traded
Brady Quinn and released
Derek Anderson.
“The quarterback play
should me more consistent,”
Holmgren said. “That alone
means this season should be
better.
“This team needed leader-
ship there as much as
anything.”
Delhomme, a
12-year veteran, had
some productive sea-
sons before a poor 2009
campaign with the
Carolina Panthers. Holmgren
pointed out that Delhomme is
“only” 35 years old, drawing
a comparison to an even older
quarterback.
“I had another quarter-
back,” Holmgren said. “He’s
46 and still playing.”
Brett Favre, now actually
41, led the Holmgren-coached
Green Bay Packers to victory
in the Super Bowl in 1997.
Holmgren thinks No. 1
draft choice cornerback Joe
Haden could be signed by the
time camp opens Saturday.

AL
By The Associated Press
Rays 3, Tigers 2
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — James
Shields gave up two runs over 6 2-3
innings, and Matt Joyce hit a tiebreaking
RBI double for Tampa Bay.
Shields (9-9) allowed nine hits, one
walk and had seven strikeouts one day
after teammate Matt Garza threw the
Rays’ first no-hitter. Tampa Bay went up
3-2 when Joyce had a broken-bat run-
scoring double during the sixth.
Carlos Pena put the Rays ahead 2-0
on a two-run homer in the first.
Detroit’s Justin Verlander (12-6)
allowed three runs and five hits in his
second complete game of the season.
Red Sox 4, Angels 2
ANAHEIM, Calif. — John Lackey
pitched into the eighth inning to win in
his return to Angel Stadium, and Jed
Lowrie’s two-run double in the seventh
that put Boston ahead.
Darnell McDonald and Marco
Scutaro scored Boston’s first two runs on
a two-out drive by Lowrie in just his sixth
game of the season after missing nearly
four months with mononucleosis.
Lackey (10-5) gave up seven hits
and left after Bobby Abreu’s homer on
his 124th pitch.
Jonathan Papelbon finished for his
24th save.
MLB CAPSULES
White Sox 11, Mariners 0
CHICAGO — Alexei Ramirez,
Andruw Jones and Paul Konerko hom-
ered for Chicago.
Ramirez finished with three hits and
three RBIs and Jones drove in three runs
for the White Sox, who led 8-0 after three
innings. A.J. Pierzynski hit a two-out,
two-run single in Chicago’s four-run first
against Ryan Rowland-Smith (1-10).
Ramirez, who singled in a run in the
first, is 8 for 12 with five RBIs in his last
three games, including six hits in con-
secutive games against Seattle.
The Mariners have lost 18 of their
last 24 games and are 6-18 in July. They
were shut out for the seventh time and
are last in the majors in several offensive
categories.
Twins 11, Royals 2
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Danny
Valencia drove in three runs, and Carl
Pavano won his eighth straight deci-
sion as Minnesota completed the worst
three-game pitching span in Kansas City
history.
In their last three games, the Royals
have been beaten 12-6 by the Yankees
and 19-1 and 11-2 by the Twins, snap-
ping the team record of 40 runs allowed
in three consecutive games. The 53 hits
they have given up is the team record for
three consecutive games.
Joe Mauer, Michael Cuddyer and
12, 1999, against Detroit. Lee didn’t walk
a batter and has issued only seven walks
in 17 starts this season.
Oakland advanced a runner to third
with two outs in the 10th, but Neftali
Feliz (2-2) struck out pinch-hitter Cliff
Pennington.
The A’s only run against Lee was
unearned in the sixth.
NL
Nationals 3, Braves 0
WASHINGTON — With Stephen
Strasburg suddenly scratched, reliever
Miguel Batista was pressed into making
his first start in nearly two years.
The 39-year-old journeyman allowed
three singles in five scoreless innings,
and two throwing errors hurt Atlanta
starter Tommy Hanson as the last-place
Nationals beat the NL East-leading
Braves 3-0 on Tuesday night.
Batista (1-2) hadn’t started a major
league game since Aug. 25, 2008, for
Seattle. Strasburg, who was supposed
to be making the 10th appearance of
his much-hyped career, had problems
warming up.
Batista struck out six and walked
one. The relievers completed the shutout
with Matt Capps throwing a perfect ninth
for his 25th save.
Phillies 9, Diamondbacks 5
PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Howard
hit a tiebreaking two-run homer, and
season-worst six runs.
Jeff Francoeur hit a three-run homer
and Jose Reyes added a two-run shot,
while Jonathon Niese (7-4) and the Mets
handed the NL Central leaders their
fourth loss in five games.
Carlos Beltran doubled to set up a
run in the second, walked and scored on
Francoeur’s homer in the fourth, then hit
an RBI single off Wainwright in the fifth
that made it 6-1.
Astros 6, Cubs 1
HOUSTON — Brett Myers pitched
a complete game and Lance Berkman
hit his first grand slam for Houston since
2008.
It is the 10th career complete game
for Myers (8-6) and his first since May.
He allowed four hits and struck out a
career high-tying 12 batters.
Berkman’s fifth career grand slam
came in Houston’s six-run seventh inning
with the team leading 2-0.
Myers extended his club record for
consecutive starts of at least six innings
to begin a season to 21.
He didn’t allow a run until rookie Tyler
Colvin hit a solo homer to in the ninth. It
was his 16th homer of the season.
Pirates 4, Rockies 2
DENVER — Zach Duke threw six
solid innings to help Pittsburgh snap a
four-game losing streak. Colorado lost
reliever Huston Street to a freak injury
remains.
Holmgren expressed con-
fidence that Mangini, in his
second year in Cleveland, will
show progress to impatient
fans. He also vowed to try and
stay out of the way, though
he’s not completely sure of
not getting the urge to prowl
the sidelines himself.
“Will it be difficult for me?”
Holmgren said. “We’ll see. I
suspect I’ll be a little antsy.
“Just flip the situation.
When I was coach, I didn’t
like it (being second-guessed
by management).
“If I thought (Mangini)
couldn’t do it, I wouldn’t have
come here in this role. We
have some new talent and Eric
is going to put it together.”
Among many new play-
ers are quarterbacks Jake
Delhomme and Seneca
Wallace, added in the offsea-
“I’m not discouraged,”
Holmgren said of negotiations.
“We’re making progress.”
Holmgren believes that as
soon as one NFL team signs a
top pick, others will get deals
done, too.
“We need a domino, and
then it starts to happen,” he
said.
Holmgren’s theory of
things falling into place could
apply to second-year receiver
Brian Robiskie, who caught
only seven passes as a rookie.
Holmgren believes the strug-
gles of Quinn and Anderson
to find consistency hindered
Robiskie’s development.
“Receivers like to catch
the football, but rookies often
find it is a different world,”
Holmgren said. “Then in the
second year — bang. They
get it. It happens all the time.
Brian can be like that.”

Adrian Beltre added an RBI double
in the eighth, and Scutaro scored on
a throwing error in the ninth. Scutaro
had three hits, McDonald had two in a
last-minute start, and Lowrie had two
doubles.
Blue Jays 8, Orioles 2
TORONTO — Jose Bautista hit two
home runs, giving him a major league-
leading 30, and Ricky Romero pitched
7 2-3 strong innings in Toronto’s 11th
straight win over Baltimore.
It was the fifth multihomer game of
the season for Bautista, who has con-
nected in three straight and leads the AL
with 10 in July.
Bautista hit a three-run drive off
Kevin Millwood in the first inning and
added a two-run shot off Alfredo Simon
in the eighth.
Romero (8-7) retired 12 of the first
13 batters he faced and didn’t allow a
run until the eighth. He gave up two runs,
walked one and struck out eight.
Millwood (2-10) allowed six runs, five
earned, and 10 hits in 5 1-3 innings.
J.J. Hardy all had two RBIs for the Twins,
who totaled 19 hits one night after get-
ting 20.
Valencia had two singles and a dou-
ble in his first three at-bats against Bruce
Chen (5-5). He had an RBI single in the
eighth, making him 4 for 5.
Pavano (13-6) gave up one run
and five hits in five innings. Chen was
charged with six runs and 11 hits as
the Royals lost for the 12th time in 15
games.
Rangers 3, Athletics 1, 10 inn.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Nelson Cruz
hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the
10th to lift Texas.
Rangers starter Cliff Lee struck out a
career-high 13 and scattered five hits in
a nine-inning no-decision.
With the game tied at 1, Josh
Hamilton drew a one-out walk off Michael
Wertz (2-2) and Cruz followed with his
homer.
Lee, who remains stuck on 99 career
victories, had the most strikeouts for the
Rangers since Aaron Sele’s 13 on Aug.
Jayson Werth and Cody Ransom also
connected for Philadelphia in its season-
high sixth straight win.
The two-time NL champion Phillies
moved within 3 1/2 games of East-
leading Atlanta, cutting the deficit in half
over the last five days. They have won
nine straight at home, their longest since
winning 16 straight at Veterans Stadium
in 1991.
David Herndon (1-2) allowed two
runs — one earned — in one inning to
record his first major league victory.
Mark Reynolds hit his 24th homer for
the Diamondbacks.
It may have been a costly win for
Philadelphia. Center fielder Shane
Victorino left in the seventh with a left
oblique strain. He’ll be examined by a
team physician on Wednesday.
Mets 8, Cardinals 2
NEW YORK — Shut out four times
during a 2-9 road trip, New York came
home and ended Adam Wainwright’s
career-best scoreless streak at 26
innings. Wainwright (14-6) allowed a
before the game.
The Rockies returned home from
a 2-9 road trip and lost their seventh
straight game.
Street bruised the right side of his
abdomen when he was hit by a line
drive as he warmed up in right field dur-
ing batting practice. Street was taken
off the field by ambulance, examined
at a local hospital and sent home to
rest. His availability will be on a day-
to-day basis.
Duke (5-9) gave up three hits and
struck out four.
Duke gave up homers to Brad
Hawpe and Clint Barmes in the fifth.
Dodgers 2, Padres 0
SAN DIEGO — Pinch-hitter Andre
Ethier delivered a two-run single with
two outs in the seventh off Jon Garland
to give Los Angeles the win over the NL
West-leading San Diego.
Ethier didn’t start in right field due to
a stomach bug but manager Joe Torre
had him bat for Chad Billingsley with
bases loaded and the score tied 0-0.
SPORTS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
OLYMPICS
BEIJING — China will not tolerate
age falsification and has enforced strin-
gent checks on its 70-athlete delega-
tion to the inaugural Youth Olympics
in Singapore next month, a top sports
official was quoted as saying.
China has long been accused of
athlete age falsification. Earlier this
year, its women’s gymnastics team
from the 2000 Sydney Olympics was
stripped of its bronze medal after an
investigation found Dong Fangxiao was
14 at the time. Gymnasts must turn
16 in an Olympic year in order to
compete.
The delegation going to Singapore
will be “very clean and transparent,” Cai
Zhenhua, vice president of the State
General Administration of Sport, told
the China Daily newspaper.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
OKLAHOMA CITY — Bob
Fenimore, a two-time All-American who
became the top pick in the 1947 NFL
draft, died in Stillwater after a fight with
cancer. He was 84.
Fenimore was a star on offense
and defense for Oklahoma A&M in
the 1940s, highlighted by his 1945
season when he led the nation in total
offense and rushing, finished third in
the Heisman Trophy voting and led the
Aggies to a perfect 9-0 season.
That season, which ended with a
33-13 win against Saint Mary’s (Calif.)
in the Sugar Bowl, remains the only
undefeated season in the history of the
school now known as Oklahoma State.
Fenimore was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame in 1972.

Manure Science Review
set in Putnam County
The Putnam County
Extension office and Putnam
SWCD will host the 2010
Manure Science Review to
take place on Thursday, August
19th in Putnam County start-
ing with educational sessions
in the Continental American
Legion Hall at 9:00 a.m. The
morning topics and speakers at
the Legion Hall include:
• “Lake Erie Phosphorus
(P) Task Force,” Kevin Elder,
Livestock Environmental
Permitting Program, Ohio
Department of Agriculture
(ODA).
• “Lake Erie EQIP
(Environmental Quality
Incentives Program),” Mark
Scarpitti, Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS),
USDA.
• “Control Structures for
Managing Nutrients,” Larry
Brown, Ohio Agricultural
Research and Development
Center (OARDC) and OSU
Extension.
• “Nitrification Inhibitors,”
Robert Mullen, OARDC and
OSU Extension.
• “Manure Plot Study
Results,” Glen Arnold, OSU
Extension, and Albert Maag,
Putnam Soil and Water
Conservation District.
The afternoon portion of
the Manure Science Review
will take place from 1:30-4
p.m. at the farm of Howard
and Lois Weller northwest of
Continental. This will involve
shallow tillage demonstrations,
smoking a field tile, viewing
working tile control structures,
side dressing corn with manure
demonstrations and viewing a
cover crop demonstration site.
Cover crops include various
radishes varieties, cereal rye,
oats, cow peas, winter peas and
AC Greenfix.
Weather permitting, the
afternoon sessions will be
repeated Thursday evening
beginning at 6:30 p.m. for any-
one unable to attend the day
program (no CCA or CLM
credits for the evening pro-
gram). There is no cost to
attend the evening program.
The program is especially
designed for livestock and
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Please! 85 years
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Difficult sister-in-law Tomorrow’s HI AND LOIS

challenges compassion Horoscope

By Bernice Bede Osol
Dear Annie: My daugh- We turn our radio on Friday, July 30, 2010
ter, “Betty,” is having a when we’re in the backyard, Endeavors in which you have a
terrible problem with her but never so loud that it dis- say about how they are handled are
sister-in-law, “Linda” (her turbs the neighbors. We have likely to be quite beneficial for you
in the year ahead. Don’t waste your
husband’s sister). Linda is asked them to turn it down, time with any involvement in which
very manipulative, thinks and they have, but why do another is calling the shots without
she’s never wrong and can be we have to be the ones to input from you.
downright hateful. Recently, control the volume? -- Miss- LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - You’re
Linda’s husband was given a ing Splashes and Laughter not likely to have much patience with
very bad diagnosis, and she Dear Missing: Your others, so take care that you don’t re-
spond in an unseemly manner should
BLONDIE
used this situation as an op- neighbors will crank up the someone challenge your ideas or po-
portunity to verbally attack music until someone objects. sition. Keep your cool.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -
Betty. She brought up things Since they already know it This is not likely to be one of your
that were resolved years ago bothers you, that is incon- better days financially. It will be bad
enough if you lose money because of
and wouldn’t shut up until siderate and rude, but there someone else, but it’ll be just plain
my daughter agreed with her you have it. If you want the dumb to get yourself in trouble.
on everything. volume lowered, LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Al-
though you usually are an optimistic
Linda also was you’ll have to ask. person, every once in a while your
angry that Betty Be grateful they outlook can be a bit on the dark side.
and her kids went comply. Too many If you get up on the wrong side of the
bed, this might be the case.
to our family re- neighbors do not. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -
union and men- Dear Annie: Avoid getting in way over your head
due to trying to do more than your
tioned having fun Here’s a news
on her Facebook flash for “Stiffed in
time or talents permit. Everything
has its limitations, so schedule your BEETLE BAILEY
page. She yelled Iowa,” who object- agenda carefully and wisely.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
at Betty, who took ed that her parents 21) - Before accepting a social invita-
the abuse since are only leaving tion, you had better make certain the
group doesn’t include someone you’d
she felt sorry for the kids half their have a difficult time being around.
her. The very next Annie’s Mailbox estate instead of all You would end up being miserable in
day, Linda called of it. that situation.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
my daughter and acted like She is entitled to exactly - There are times when you can see
nothing happened. zero of her parents’ money, nothing but the dark side of things.
Don’t misuse your imagination by
Here’s the kicker: Betty now or after their demise. If worrying about things that are not
recently had medical trou- they are so kind, loving and likely to happen.
bles of her own that were generous as to believe she AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -
Rather than ask what might be wrong
quite similar to the ones deserves anything, it will be with something that is important to
Linda’s husband is having. a gift, not an entitlement. you, look for an accurate assessment.
The compassion she feels is Some children are for- Others may think they have to come SNUFFY SMITH
up with something bad, even if they
real. She genuinely wants to tunate enough to have par- don’t see anything.
help in any way, but unless ents who can afford to leave PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -
This can be a precarious day for you
she bows and scrapes to Lin- an inheritance. For others, when it comes to your financial af-
da, her help is refused. What the inheritance comes from fairs if you handle your assets poorly.
kind of wife refuses support knowing they were loved un- Be especially diligent about keeping
your purchasing from getting out of
for her husband? conditionally and that their hand.
We understand that Linda parents left a legacy of good ARIES (March 21-April 19) - It
might be impossible for you to move
is hurting, afraid and maybe deeds and kindness. You can forward with your plans because of
insecure. Her world is out of outlive your wealth, but de- someone who is fearful that what you
control, and she is jealous of cency and love stay with us do might subvert his/her schemes,
and is thusly trying to stop you first.
anyone who is living a “nor- forever. -- Never Got a Cent TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
mal” life. But how much in Omaha - Not attending to your duties or re-
does one have to take? She’s sponsibilities in a timely fashion will
always been ornery and now Annie’s Mailbox is writ-
put you so far behind that it will be HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
impossible for you to get caught up.
has a good excuse to be even ten by Kathy Mitchell and It’s bad enough that life does this to
us, don’t you do it to yourself.
more so. I want to help my Marcy Sugar, longtime GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -
daughter. What is the best editors of the Ann Landers Don’t try to manage things for others
way to deal with this situa- column. Please e-mail your when you can’t even do anything for
yourself. Getting yourself in trouble
tion? -- Repercussions for questions to anniesmail- is sufficient; don’t put someone else
Caring box@comcast.net, or write in the same pickle.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) -
Dear Caring: Linda’s to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Goals can be achieved, but not with-
personality is not going Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. out a struggle. If you find it necessary
to change, no matter how Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los to take care of something significant,
be prepared to put forth a great deal
helpful or sympathetic your Angeles, CA 90045. of fortitude and determination.
daughter is. Betty’s husband Copyright 2010, United Feature Syndicate,
might be able to get through
to his sister, suggesting she BORN LOSER
speak to her husband’s doctor
about coping with her stress
levels. But even so, it may
not be enough. Betty needs
to accept Linda as she is and
respond as if the negativity
doesn’t exist. That means ig-
noring her barbs, pretending
to be oblivious, changing the
subject and smiling sympa-
thetically while saying, “You
must be so frazzled. I’m so
sorry.” Repeat as needed. FRANK & ERNEST
Dear Annie: Over the
past several years, surround-
ing neighbors have installed
lovely swimming pools.
But instead of the sounds of
splashing, we hear their radi-
os blasting. Sometimes they
leave the music on when they
go back inside and don’t re-
turn for hours.

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Immigration ruling sends message to states

By BOB CHRISTIE
The Associated Press
PHOENIX — States that had been watch-
ing Arizona’s immigration law in hopes of
copying it received a rude awakening when
a judge put most of the measure on hold and
agreed with the Obama administration’s core
argument that immigration enforcement is the
role of the federal government.
The ruling marked a repudiation of the
Arizona law as U.S. District Judge Susan
Bolton indicated that the government has a
good chance at succeeding in its argument
that federal immigration law trumps state law.
It was an important first-round victory for the
government in a fight that may not be settled
until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in.
But opponents of the law said the ruling
sends a strong message to other states hop-
ing to replicate the law. “Surely it’s going to
make states pause and consider how they’re
drafting legislation and how it fits in a consti-
tutional framework,” Dennis Burke, the U.S.
Attorney for Arizona, told the Associated
Press. “The proponents of this went into
court saying there was no question that this
was constitutional, and now you have a fed-
eral judge who’s said ’hold on, there’s major
issues with this bill.”’
He added: “So this idea that this is going
to be a blueprint for other states is seriously
in doubt. The blueprint is constitutionally
flawed.”
Gov. Jan Brewer called Wednesday’s deci-
sion “a bump in the road” and vowed to
appeal.
Her spokesman Paul Senseman said the
state would ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in San Francisco on Thurdsay to lift
Bolton’s preliminary injunction and to expe-
dite its consideration of the state’s appeal.
The key sponsor of Arizona’s law,
Republican Rep. Russell Pearce, said the
judge was wrong and predicted that the state
would ultimately win the case.
In her temporary injunction, Bolton
delayed the most contentious provisions of
the law, including a section that required
officers to check a person’s immigration
status while enforcing other laws. She also
barred enforcement of parts requiring immi-
grants to carry their papers and banned illegal
immigrants from soliciting employment in
public places — a move aimed at day laborers
that congregate in large numbers in parking
lots across Arizona. The judge also blocked
officers from making warrantless arrests of
suspected illegal immigrants.
“Requiring Arizona law enforcement offi-
cials and agencies to determine the immigra-
tion status of every person who is arrested
burdens lawfully present aliens because their
liberty will be restricted while their status is
checked,” said Bolton, a Clinton appointee
who was assigned the seven lawsuits filed
against Arizona over the law.
Other provisions that were less contentious
were allowed to take effect this morning,
including a section that bars cities in Arizona
from disregarding federal immigration laws.
The 11th-hour ruling came just as police
were preparing to begin enforcement of a
law that has drawn international attention and
revived the national immigration debate in a
year when Democrats are struggling to hold
on to seats in Congress.
The ruling was anxiously awaited in the
U.S. and beyond. About 100 protesters in
Mexico City who had gathered in front of the
U.S. Embassy broke into applause when they
learned of the ruling. They had been monitor-
ing the news on a laptop computer. Mariana
Rivera, a 36-year-old from Zacatecas, Mexico,
who is living in Phoenix on a work permit,
said she heard the news live on a Spanish-
language news program.
“I was waiting to hear because we’re all
very worried about everything that’s hap-
pening,” said Rivera, who phoned friends
and family with the news. “Even those with
papers, we don’t go out at night at certain
times there’s so much fear (of police). You
can’t just sit back and relax.”
More demonstrators opposed to the
law planned to gather on today, with the
Los Angeles-based National Day Laborer
Organizing Network and the immigrant-rights
group Puente saying they would march from
the state Capitol at dawn.
Demonstrations also are planned for out-
side Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s
office, said activist Salvador Reza.
Lawmakers or candidates in as many as 18
states say they want to push similar measures
when their legislative sessions start up again
in 2011. Some lawmakers pushing the legis-
lation said they would not be daunted by the
ruling and plan to push ahead in response to
what they believe is a scourge that needs to
be tackled.
Arizona is the nation’s epicenter of ille-
gal immigration, with more than 400,000
undocumented residents. The state’s border
with Mexico is awash with smugglers and
drugs that funnel narcotics and immigrants
throughout the U.S., and the influx of illegal
migrants drains vast sums of money from
hospitals, education and other services.

Another US sailor’s body It’s just a wedding, but town abuzz Jury begins weighing
recovered in Afghanistan
RHINEBECK, N.Y. (AP) — Never mind that the details
about Chelsea Clinton’s wedding are being guarded like state
secrets. The postcard-pretty town of Rhinebeck is ready for its
‘Blago’ corruption case
By AMIR SHAH and military officials, who spoke close-up. By DON BABWIN spectator’s section, “Say a
DEB RIECHMANN on condition of anonymity The former first daughter and her parents have not even and MICHAEL TARM prayer.” One elderly specta-
The Associated Press because of the sensitivity of confirmed that her wedding is being held in Rhinebeck. Still, The Associated Press tor walked over and hugged
the case. The school was signs congratulating her hang in shop windows, residents are him, also handing him a piece
KABUL, Afghanistan — A headquartered in Kabul and talking to TV crews and officials are bracing for crowds. CHICAGO — Rod of candy.
second U.S. Navy sailor who had classrooms outside the Clinton, 30, will wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky Blagojevich’s fate was in the He and his co-defendant
went missing in a dangerous capital, but they were never on Saturday, and this little Hudson Valley town of upscale hands of jurors Wednesday as brother, Robert Blagojevich,
part of eastern Afghanistan assigned anywhere near boutiques and pricey homes north of New York City is expect- they began deciding whether have rarely been seen speak-
was found dead and his body where McNeley’s body was ing an influx of A-List guests, reporters and rubber-neckers. the impeached Illinois gov- ing to each other during the
recovered, a senior U.S. mili- recovered, officials said. It’s all but certain that the couple will wed Saturday evening ernor tried to sell an appoint- trial. But they stood shoulder
tary official and Afghan offi- The chief of police of at Astor Courts, a secluded estate along the Hudson River built ment to President Barack to shoulder in front of Zagel
cials said today. Logar province, Gen. Mustafa as a Beaux Arts style playground for John Jacob Astor IV more Obama’s former Senate seat to say they both wanted to be
The family of Petty Officer Mosseini, said coalition troops than a century ago. The estate features the sort of command- and schemed to use his politi- exempt from having to come
3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a removed Newlove’s body ing view that once inspired Hudson River School painters, as cal power for personal gain. to court each time jurors have
25-year-old from the Seattle about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. well as 50 acres of buffer space to shield the party from prying Jurors, weighing evi- a question for the judge. The
area, had been notified of An anti-terrorism official in eyes. dence against the second judge granted it.
his death, the U.S. military Logar province, who spoke The spot is a bit more than an hour north of Bill and Hillary Illinois governor in a row to During the trial, prosecu-
official said on condition of on condition of anonymity Rodham Clinton’s home in suburban Chappaqua and about 90 be charged with corruption, tors portrayed Blagojevich
anonymity, because he was because he was not autho- miles north of New York City. received lengthy instructions as a greedy, smart political
not authorized to disclose the rized to speak about the case, The Clintons — and the Mezvinskys — have been Sphinxes from the judge on how their
information. also said coalition forces had schemer determined to use
when it comes to wedding details. The cone of silence appears deliberations should be con-
Newlove and Petty Officer recovered a body. his power to enrich himself
also to cover contractors, who are as reluctant to talk about ducted. Prosecutors loaded
2nd Class Justin McNeley Mosseini said he believed their dealings with the Clintons as characters in Harry Potter two carts of exhibits they throughout his administration,
went missing last Friday in the body washed downstream books are about uttering Voldemort’s name. introduced at the trial that a and who saw the opportunity
Logar province. NATO recov- after rains Tuesday night. The agent at the front desk of the Beekman Arms, which marshal would wheel into the to appoint Obama’s successor
ered the body of McNeley — He noted in the past sev- reportedly will put up wedding guests, politely said Wednesday jury room. as the chance of a lifetime to
a 30-year-old father of two eral days, the Taliban were he could not comment on anything related to the weekend. The “I’m not expecting” a get a lucrative and well-pay-
from Wheatridge, Colorado being pressured by coalition story was the same at nearby Clinton Vineyards — unrelated speedy verdict, Judge James ing job in the administration.
— in the area Sunday. forces in the area. to the former president — which has in the past bottled special B. Zagel said before jurors By contrast, Blagojevich’s
Taliban spokesman “The security was being “Victory White” wines for the Clintons during their political entered the courtroom. own attorney characterized
Zabiullah Mujahid told The tightened,” Mosseini said. campaigns. After jurors left to begin him as an insecure bumbler
Associated Press in Kabul on “Searches continued from The silence has hardly stopped the media. The gossip web- their work, Blagojevich who talked too much and had
today that two days ago the both air and the ground. site TMZ reported that the couple’s wedding playlist includes appeared relaxed. He cupped terrible judgment about who
Taliban left the “body of a Militants were moving into Abba’s “Dancing Queen.” Wedding planners not involved in his hand over his mouth to trust — but never did any-
dead American soldier for the Pakistan.” the ceremony have quoted cost estimates as high as $5 mil- and said to someone in the thing to enrich himself.
U.S. forces” to recover. The Mohammad Rahim Amin, lion. Two Norwegian journalists were arrested last week for
Taliban said McNeley was the local government chief trespassing at Astor Courts. Bear attack kills 1, injures 2
killed in a firefight and insur- in Baraki Barak district, also On Wednesday, locals shared the sidewalks with camera
gents had captured Newlove. said coalition forces recov- crews conducting interviews. People were generally support- By MATTHEW the 1980s.
Mujahid offered no explana- ered a body about 5:30 p.m. ive, whether it was merchants expecting a boost in business or BROWN But in the pitch-black wil-
tion for Newlove’s death. and flew it by helicopter to a residents caught up in the buzz. The Associated Press derness, the Wilhelms had
NATO officials have not coalition base in Logar prov- only sounds to go on: The
offered an explanation as to ince, about 40 miles (60 kilo- Foreclosure activity up across COOKE CITY, Mont. yells from the teenager and
— When he heard the first his sister, the Canadian wom-
why the two service members meters) away.
were in such a dangerous part “The coalition told our most US metro areas scream in a campground out- an’s screaming of “No!” as
of eastern Afghanistan. criminal police director of By ALEX VEIGA first half of the year climbed side Yellowstone National she was attacked, the snort-
The sailors were instruc- the district that the body The Associated Press 8 percent versus the same Park, Don Wilhelm thought ing and huffing noises from
tors at a counterinsurgency belonged to the foreign sol- period last year, but dropped it was just teenagers, maybe a the bear as it sniffed around
school for Afghan security dier they were looking for,” LOS ANGELES — 5 percent from the last six domestic dispute in the mid- thickly forested campground.
forces, according to senior Amin said. Households across a majority months of 2009, RealtyTrac dlle of the night. And then, finally, quiet.
of large U.S. cities received said in a report issued earlier The wildlife biologist After a quick parental
Mother Nature helping firefighters more foreclosure warnings in
the first six months of this
this month.
In all, about 1.7 million
from Texas tried to go back
to sleep, stifling thoughts that
back-and-forth over whether
to shield their 9- and 12-year-
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON year than in the first half of homeowners received a a beast might be lurking out- old sons with their bodies
The Associated Press 2009, new data shows. foreclosure-related warning side his family’s tent. or make a break for it, the
The trend is the latest sign between January and June. Minutes later, another Wilhelms took advantage of
TEHACHAPI, Calif. — Cooler temperatures and calmer that the nation’s foreclosure That translates to one in 78 scream — this one coming
winds helped firefighters in their battle against the most crisis is worsening as hom- the silence and darted to their
U.S. homes. from the next campsite over,
destructive of two big wildfires that have burned homes and eowners battling high unem- SUV.
More than 1 million where a bear had torn through
forced hundreds of people to evacuate mountain communities ployment, slow job growth American households are They drove around the
on the edge of the Mojave Desert and in the southern Sierra and an uneven rebound in a tent and sunk its teeth into campground, honking their
likely to lose their homes to
Nevada. home prices continue to fall foreclosure this year, the firm the arm of the middle-aged horns and yelling out the win-
A 1,436-acre blaze that chased residents from the Old West behind on their mortgage said. Canadian woman inside. dows to alert other campers.
Ranch community about 10 miles south of Tehachapi was payments. The latest data included “First she said, “No!’ Then Along the way, the met with a
25 percent contained Wednesday. If the weather continued In all, 154 out of 206 met- one bright spot: Nine of the we heard her say, ’It’s a bear! truck leaving the campground
to cooperate, officials expected to have it fully contained by ropolitan areas with at least top 10, hardest-hit metropoli- I’ve been attacked by a bear!” with the second victim — a
Friday, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection 200,000 residents posted an tan areas saw their foreclo- said Wilhelm’s wife, Paige. teenager who apparently tried
spokesman John Buchanan said. annual increase in foreclosure sure rates drop from a year By that point, the bear in vain to fight off the bear by
The firefighting command revised the number of destroyed activity between January and ago. That could suggest fore- already had ripped into punching it in the nose.
structures down to 25, and Kern County Fire Department June, foreclosure listing firm closure trends in those cities, another tent a few campsites “It was like a nightmare,
Battalion Chief Dean Boller said most were homes. Another RealtyTrac Inc. said today. including Las Vegas, Cape away, chomping into the couldn’t possibly happen,”
150 homes in the loosely connected community remained The firm tracks notices Coral, Fla., and Modesto, leg of a teenager who had Paige Wilhelm said later.
threatened. for defaults, scheduled home Calif., may have peaked. been sleeping with his fam- Added Don Wilhelm: “Words
The area is usually so gusty that wind farms line ridges, but auctions and home reposses- Still, those areas continue ily. Wilhelm later would find cannot describe what it’s like
Wednesday afternoon the weather was cooperating with the sions — warnings that can to see foreclosure rates that out that a solo camper at the to hear someone attacked by
784 firefighters on the lines, producing only light breezes. lead up to a home eventually are as much as five times other end of the heavily occu- a bear.”
Part of the fire in the eastern foothills of the Tehachapi being lost to foreclosure. higher than the national aver- pied Soda Butte Campground Wildlife officials still
Mountains, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, was sending The latest figures show age. had been killed in a rampage were attempting to capture
up a large plume of smoke, while other areas only smoldered. the threat of foreclosures is The top 10 metropolitan Wednesday that one wild- the bear — or bears — late
About 40 miles to the north, a fire that began Monday in spreading well beyond the areas with the highest fore- life officials described as the Wednesday evening, with
Sequoia National Forest grew to 15,982 acres, or about 24 top tier of metropolitan areas closure rates has remained most brazen bear attack in five baited traps set up at the
square miles, and was 12 percent surrounded after burning located in California, Florida, fairly unchanged over the
the Yellowstone area since scene of the maulings.
eight homes and six outbuildings in the area of Kernville, a Nevada and Arizona, which past 12 months.
launching point for mountain adventuring. have borne the brunt of the The Las Vegas-Paradise,
About 1,200 homes and structures scattered in the fire area fallout from the housing cri- Nev., metropolitan area topped
were considered threatened, but Bureau of Land Management sis. the list with one in every 15
information officer Michelle Puckett said that did not mean Those states saw housing homes receiving a foreclo-
they were in immediate danger. values surge during the hous- sure warning in the first half
ing boom years. When the of the year — five times the
The fire in Old West Ranch broke out Tuesday and carved
boom ended, values collapsed national average. But foreclo-
a path of destruction. At one site, a house had collapsed upon and foreclosures soared. sure filings declined nearly
itself. At another property, only a singed wooden bannister was The Miami-Fort 9 percent versus the first six Answers to Wednesday’s questions:
left standing. Lauderdale-Pompano Beach months of 2009. An animal named Louise has helped West German
Years of drought in the Tehachapi area, along with tree dis- metropolitan area in Florida Rounding out the rest of police sniff out narcotics, explosives and other con-
eases and bugs among the foothills’ pine and chaparral, have received more foreclosure- the top 10 metros with the traband. She is a wild boar.
turned the area into a “tinderbox,” said county fire Battalion related warnings in the first highest foreclosure rate in the What get nutria fur from an aquatic cat-sized
Chief David Goodell. half of this year than any first half of 2010 were Cape rodent with orange teeth called the coypu.
Meanwhile, firefighters made progress against the larg- other, the firm said. Coral-Fort Myers; Modesto; Today’s questions:
est of more than 150 lighting-sparked fires in northeastern Florida accounted for nine Merced, Calif.; Riverside- What two elements comprise almost 100 percent
California. The 250-acre blaze east of Straylor Lake in the of the top 20 metro areas with San Bernardino-Ontario, of the matter in the universe?
Lassen National Forest was fully contained, said Daniel the highest foreclosure rates. Calif.; Stockton, Calif.; In what direction does the jet stream flow?
Berlant, a spokesman with the California Department of The latest data echo Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Answers in Friday’s Herald.
Forestry and Fire Protection. broader, national foreclosure Ariz.; Orlando-Kissimmee, Today’s words:
An additional 187 fires were burning in other remote parts trends. Fla.; Vallejo-Fairfield, Calif.; Hippomaniac: a lover of horses
of Lassen County and in Plumas, Siskiyou, Shasta and Modoc The number of households and Miami-Fort Lauderdale- Simous: having a snub nose
counties. Most were less than an acre and were contained. facing foreclosure in the Pompano Beach, Fla.