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BY DAN SEWELLAssociated Press

CINCINNATI — Strong windsand snowfall knocked out powerto hundreds of Ohio homes anddisrupted post-holiday travelWednesday with parts of the statefacing potential blizzard condi-

tions.Dozens of flights at airports

from Dayton to Cleveland werecanceled or delayed by midmorn-ing, with more expected as some900 flights nationwide were can-celed. Cleveland Hopkins Inter-national Airport spokesman ToddPayne cautioned travelers tocheck with their airlines, with asmuch as 60 percent to 80 percentof the afternoon schedule uncer-tain because of worsening

weather.Early indications were that

day-after-Christmas mall trafficwould be down, too, with peopleholding off in the weather on re-turning that ugly sweater orother unwanted gifts.“I can’t feel my feet, and the ice

is hurting when it hits my face,”said Tracy Flint, a Columbus hairstylist, who was trudging across ashopping center parking lot to getto work. “But it could be worse.”

The National Weather Serviceposted blizzard warnings for aswath of Ohio from the Indianaborder stretching northeast to theLake Erie region.After an unusu-ally mild winter last year, thestorm was a reminder of how thestate can get pounded this time ofyear. Forecasters expected snowto pile up as much as 10 inches inthe Dayton region and Cincin-nati’s northwest suburbs.

BY DAVID ESPOAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — When itcomes to the nation’s budget chal-lenges, congressional leaders are

fond of saying dismissively theydon’t want to kick the can downthe road.But now, a deadline hard

ahead, even derided half-mea-sures are uncertain as PresidentBarack Obama and lawmakersstruggle to avert across-the-board tax increases and spending

cuts that comprise an economy-threatening fiscal cliff.Congressional officials said

Wednesday they knew of no sig-nificant strides toward a compro-mise over a long Christmasweekend, and no negotiationshave been set.The Senate is due in session

Thursday, although the immedi-ate agenda includes legislationsetting the rules for governmentsurveillance of suspected spiesand terrorists abroad, includingAmericans, as well as a measureproviding $60 billion for victimsof Super Storm Sandy.

Post-Christmas blizzard hits

A pair of Piqua street department plows work near the intersection of Covington Avenue and Sunset DriveonWednesday morning to keep lanes of travel open for motorists.

John Cruse uses a four-wheel-drive tractor to plow snow from in front of Unity National Bank in downtownPiqua on Wednesday morning. Cruse, who works for Easy Lawn Corporation was one of many people at-tempting to keep streets and sidewalks clear during the major snow storm dumped many inches of snowacross the area.

Many Ohioans lose power due to storm

Fiscal cliff: Kicking can down street, Washington-style

BY NATALIE KNOTHCivitas Medianknoth@tdnpublishing.com

MIAMI COUNTY —With a Level 2 snow emer-gency issued, MiamiCounty residents werewarned to drive only ifnecessary due to blowingand drifting snow andpossible iceWednesday af-ternoon. Roads were par-ticularly hazardous onInterstate 75 northbound,reported the MiamiCounty 9-1-1 DispatchCenter.Dispatch supervisor

Jack Staudt said the num-ber of accidents was fairlyminimal given the sever-ity of the storm. No in-juries were reported as oflate afternoonWednesday.“I think what helped

was the fact that peoplewere talking about thisfor the last day or two,”Staudt said. “And with theholiday yesterday I thinka lot of people were offwork today, so thereweren’t as many peopleout.”Three possible acci-

dents were reported onthe interstate near TippCity by early Wednesdayafternoon, Staudt said. Ineach instance, the driverlost control and hit thewall. Another accidentwas reported on Coving-ton-Bradford just north ofCovington, as well as anaccident on West MainStreet and another onWest Market Street inTroy.Myron Padgett of the

National Weather Servicesaid snow accumulationwas expected to reach 8 to10 inches, with the heavi-est accumulation expecteduntil the early afternoon

CountyunderLevel 2emergency

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PIQUA — Those whowere dreaming of a whiteChristmas almost gottheir wish as a brutal,blizzard dumped inchesand inches of snow anddelivered large snowdrifts to Miami County,which remained under alevel 2 snow emergencywhen this newspaperwent to print earlyWednesday evening.Even though the winter

storm built early Wednes-day morning, Piqua PoliceChief Bruce Jamison andother law enforcement of-ficials said traffic in themorning was light, but aslate morning set in it ap-peared more motoristswere hitting the snow-cov-ered pavement as windgusts whipped up drifts inrural areas.There were no major

automobile crashes bymid-afternoonWednesdayand no vehicle accidentswere reported in Piquaaside from fender benders.“It’s dangerous to travel

in the city not just be-cause of snow, but also vis-ibility,” Jamison said. “It’sdifficult to see, it’s difficultto tell where the road is.”The department contin-

ued to maintain availabil-ity for urgent calls despitethe weather and encour-aged motorists to movecars off of busy streets andnot to block snow plows.“It’s in everyone’s best

interest to let the snowplows do their jobs,” saidJamison, who cautionedresidents to concentrate

Piquaresidentscontendwith heavysnowfall

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on driving and to usecommon sense. “If you’reblocking streets and snowplows then it is only goingto take that much longerbefore your life is back tonormal.”The Piqua Police De-

partment, like other areajurisdictions, makes useof four-wheel drive vehi-cles in order handle snowand ice without interrup-tion to normal responsetimes.Jamison said his de-

partment “relies com-pletely on the four-wheelvehicles in our fleet,” ofwhich there are three.Piqua Assistant City

Manager Bill Murphysaid city officials weremonitoring the storm androadways and asked peo-ple to stay at home if theydid not need to be out onthe streets.“We are focusing on

major thoroughfares,State Route 36 andCounty Road 25-A, andsome other criticalroutes,” Murphy said.“Once the heavy snowsubsides we will have theopportunity to make afirst pass and plow sec-ondary routes.”Murphy said the city

has asked motorists todrive “only when it is nec-essary” and the city wasnot having any weather-related problems aftertons and tons of salt wasdelivered to the cityWednesday morning. Thecity has enough salt, Mur-phy added.The city issued a press

release at noon Wednes-day asking citizens tolimit driving due to the“extremely hazardousroad conditions.”Additionally, Piqua also

is asking residents andbusiness owners to limiton-street parking, espe-cially on roads that aredesignated as emergencysnow routes.“If necessary city crews

will work around theclock of keep the streets

open and safe for emer-gencies and other re-quired travel,” the pressrelease stated.Piqua Fire Chief Mike

Rindler said city snowplows or city trucks areplowing drives and routesto emergency calls for am-bulances to lessen thelikelihood of additionalslip and fall injuries.“When we can we have

a snow plow or a pick-uptruck go ahead of thesquad to help clear apath, we do,” Rindler said.“We don’t want any slipsand falls or someone get-ting hurt. It is becoming areal challenge right now.”He added: “We are an-

ticipating the worst atthis point.”In Covington things

were not much different.Due to heavy snowfall

and with blowing anddrifting snow the mayorof Covington, Mayor EdMcCord, declared a snowemergency for the entirevillage, which started atnoon and was expected tolast through 10 a.m.Thursday, according toMichael Busse, village ad-ministrator.Like Piqua and else-

where, residents areasked to remove carsfrom the roadway and tolimit travel on the road-ways to allow villagecrews to complete snowremoval operations.Meanwhile, numerous

reports of sliding cars andcars running off the roador into ditches were re-ported, even after MiamiCounty Sheriff CharlesCox declared a level 2snow emergency, whichmandates motoristsshould only be on theroad if it is crucial.At 11 a.m. Wednesday,

Miami County Commis-sioners approved the clo-sure of all Miami Countyoffices due to “inclementweather as a safety meas-ure.”Pertinent offices re-

mained open for publicsafety Wednesday.

BlizzardContinued from page 1

“This is a typical winterstorm you would see mostwinters,” said Myron Pad-gett, a forecaster inWilm-ington, in southwest Ohio.In Darke County, in

western Ohio, the sheriff ’soffice issued a Level 3snow emergency, whichbars all but emergencytraffic. Authorities saidblowing and drifting showcut visibility to near zero,and they were gettingcalls from motoristsstranded in rural areas.The AAA service re-

ported its busiestWednes-day of the year in theGreater Cincinnati region,

responding to more than300 member calls for tows,jump starts and otherhelp by early afternoon.Sheriffs in several

western Ohio counties is-sued road travel warn-ings, and authoritiesurged people to givetrucks with salt and snowplows room to work on thehighways. Several spotsalready had three to fiveinches by late morning.The snow was expected toend in the evening, withfreezing temperatures re-maining.Wright-Patterson Air

Force Base near Dayton,shut down operations be-cause of the storm.

OhioansContinued from page 1

Obama decided to cutshort his Hawaii vacationfor an overnight flight ex-pected to get him back totheWhite House in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday.After weeks of negotia-

tions, the president urgedlawmakers late last weekto scale back their ambi-tions and send him legisla-tion preventing tax cuts onall but the highest-earningAmericans and extendingjobless benefits for the long-term jobless. Longer, term,he said he still supportsdeficit cuts that were key tothe earlier talks.“Everybody’s got to give

a little bit in a sensibleway,” he said at the WhiteHouse.The House has no plans

to convene, following lastweek’s rebellion in whichconservatives torpedoedSpeaker John Boehner’slegislation to preventscheduled tax increases onmost, while letting themtake effect onmillion-dollarwage earners.“How we get there, God

only knows,” the Ohio Re-publican said of efforts toprotect the economy andtaxpayers from the tax in-creases and spending cuts.“Now is the time to show

leadership, not kick the candown the road,” SenateMa-jority Leader Harry Reid,D-Nev., said a little over aweek ago after Boehner an-nounced he would shift hisown focus from bipartisantalks to the approach thateventually was torpedoedby his own rank and file.

Fiscal cliffContinued from page 1

hours, around 3 p.m. By 2p.m., about 7.5 inches hadfallen in the Troy andPiqua areas, according tolocal reports. The snow-storm was expected toend by early eveningWednesday.Padgett advised that

motorists should “driveslowly, allow enough dis-tance between vehiclesand allow plenty of timeto reach the destination.”Miami County Engi-

neer Paul Huelskampsaid crews were plowingand laying out salt start-ing at 7:30 a.m. andwould likely be on dutytill 7 or 8 p.m. Gravel alsowas being dispersed onless-traveled roads tohelp with traction, hesaid.One snow plow broke

downWednesday, due to aproblem with the hy-draulic hose.According to Huel-

skamp, the plow wastaken to the garage for re-pairs and was expected to

be back out on the roadsby 4 p.m.Wednesday.The county had 15 dif-

ferent trucks running 15different tracks, alongwith five or six backuptrucks.City of Troy crews were

out at 7:30 a.m. to saltand plow streets, saidTom Funderburg, assis-tant director of publicservice and safety and in-terim street departmentdirector. By early after-noon, the city was plowingthe streets continuously.“With this amount of

snow, the only thing theycan really do is plow.Right now, they’ve beentandem plowing — plow-ing side by side to clearout a side of the road,”Funderburg said. “We’llmaintain the streets thebest we can given the cir-cumstances, with contin-ual crews.”The regular shift for

crews is 7 a.m. to 3:30p.m., but after-hourscrews were being assem-bled for the evening shift.

CountyContinued from page 1

James F. SchrubbPIQUA — James F.

Schrubb, 91, of Piqua, diedat 4 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 25,2 0 1 , 2at theUpperVal leyM e d -i c a lCenter.H e

w a sb o r nJuly 7,1 9 2 1 ,i nPiqua, to the late Byron J.and Gertrude (Phillippi)Schrubb. He married Alta-mae Hayman on Oct. 26,1946, in a double cere-mony with Altamae’s sis-ter Betty Jean and JosephDellinger. Jim and Alta-mae’s loving marriagewould span 66 years; andshe survives.Other survivors include

two sons, Brian James(Debbie) Schrubb of Mi-amisburg and KeithSchrubb of Piqua; twodaughters, Aileen (John)Dundon of Springfield andBarbara Cleeves of St.Marys; 12 grandchildren,Brad (Jen) Dundon,James Dundon, JohnnyDundon, Mary (Luke)Vanover, Tracy McKenna,Nathan (Abbie) Schrubb,Amanda Schrubb, Jerimie(Alisha) Schrubb, Aaron(Liz) Schrubb, Phillip(Laura) Schrubb, AllenSchrubb, Katy Scheer; and22 great-grandchildren.He was preceded in

death by a son, PatrickJoseph Schrubb; a daugh-ter, Catherine LouiseSchrubb; a brother, PaulSchrubb; and two sisters,Mary Ann Reinke andRita Cavender.Mr. Schrubb was a 1939

graduate of PiquaCatholic High School andwas a United StatesWorld

War II vet-eran hav-ing servedwith theArmy AirCorps. As a talented pho-tographer, photofinisherand phototech, he workedwith the former HammerGraphics Company beforeassuming ownership ofthe family business,Schrubb’s Camera Shopwith his brother in down-town Piqua for manyyears. He was an activemember of St. MaryCatholic Church and theVFW Post 4874 where heserved in many offices.Ad-ditionally, he was a mem-ber of the AmericanLegion Post 184, and theformer Fraternal Order ofthe Eagles 614. He en-joyed family gatherings,traveling and WesternSquare Dancing for 41years.A Mass of Christian

Burial will be celebratedat 10:30 a.m. Saturday, atSt. Mary Catholic Churchwith the Rev. Fr. ThomasL. Bolte as the Celebrant.Burial will follow at For-est Hill Cemetery wherefull military honors will beprovided by the VeteransElite Tribute Squad.Visitation will be from

4-7 p.m. Friday at theJamieson & YannucciFuneral Home where aprayer service will be con-ducted at 7 p.m. and aVFW service at 6:30 p.m.Memorial contributions

may be made to Fr.Thomas J. Grilliot Schol-arship Fund of PiquaCatholic School, 310 S.Downing St., Piqua, OH45356. Guestbook condo-lences and expressions ofsympathy, to be providedto the family, may be ex-pressed through jamieso-nandyannucci.com.

Marlene BoydORIENT — Marlene

Boyd, 69, of Orient, for-merly of Casstown, passedaway at1 1 : 4 0a . m .M o n -d a y ,Dec. 24,2012, atM t .CarmelW e s tHospi -tal, Columbus.Marlene was born

March 9, 1943, in Piqua,to the late William andDorothy (Shaffer)Weymer. She was marriedto Jerry D. Boyd on Aug.12, 1961, and he survives.Marlene also is sur-

vived by three daughtersand sons-in-law, Pennyand Joseph Lovett of Ori-ent, Sharon and CarlAllen of Covington andJoy and Rodd Pederzani ofAlvarado, Texas; one sis-ter-in-law, Connie Taskerof Casstown; five grand-

children and six great-grandchildren.She was preceded in

death by three brothers,William Weymer Jr.,Robert Weymer andRonald Weymer. Marlenewas a 1961 graduate ofPiqua High School. Sheenjoyed crocheting andgardening.Funeral services will be

held at 11 a.m. Saturday.Visitation will be held onehour prior to the servicefrom 10-11 a.m. atFisher-Cheney FuneralHome, Troy, with the Rev.David Ramming officiat-ing. Interment will followat Casstown Cemetery,Casstown. Memorial con-tributions may be made toMount Carmel Hos-pice/Palliative Care,Mount Carmel Founda-tion, 6150 E. Broad St.,Columbus, OH 43213.Condolences may be left

for the family atwww.fisher-cheneyfuner-alhome.com.

Joan SchellenbargBRADFORD — Joan

Schellenbarg, 82, of Brad-ford, died Sunday, Dec. 23,2012, at home.She was born Sept. 7,

1930, in Blanchester, tothe late Louis and FriedaRuscher. Joan was a grad-uate of Blanchester HighSchool, Class of 1948. Sheworked at Evenflo inPiqua for many years, wasa member of BradfordUnited Methodist Church,a past 4-H adviser, a pastsoftball coach, and was aformer Lion’s Club Citizenof the Year. Her familyand friends had a DarkeCounty Relay for LifeTeam in honor of hernamed Joan’s Kids andshe was famous for herchicken noodles, shreddedchicken and baked pies.Her grandchildren werethe loves of her life.She was preceded in

death by her parents; twobrothers, Ralph Ruscherand Richard Ruscher; sis-ter, Jeanne Ruscher; son-in-law, Tom Brandon; anddaughter-in-law, JillSchellenbarg.Joan is survived by her

loving husband of 63years, Harold Schellen-barg; one son, HaroldSchellenbarg Jr. of Or-mond Beach, Fla.; fivedaughters, Rita Brandonof Versailles, Debbie andher husband, DaveRichard, Cindy and herhusband, Davy Gantt,Trudy Schellenbarg, andTammi and her husband,David Abney, all of Brad-ford; 12 grandchildren,Abby Schellenbarg ofFlorida,Amy and her hus-

band, Joe Williamson ofFlorida, Adam and hiswife, Crystal Schellenbargof Nevada, Angela Schel-lenbarg of Florida, JoshBrandon of Maryland, JeffBrandon and his friend,Kristin of West Chester,Matt Richard and hisfriend, Alisha of Anna,Missy and her husband,Seth Ankrom ofPortsmouth, Brad Ganttand his fiancée, Bree ofBradford, Tiffany Ganttand her fiancé, Matt ofBradford, Crystal and herhusband, Dusty Yingst ofBradford, and Kristopherand his wife, ChelseaAbney of California; threestep grandchildren,Shawn and his wife, TaraBrandon of West Milton,Mindy Brandon of Daytonand Sarah and her hus-band, Greg Adkins of TippCity; six great-grandchil-dren and one on the way;eight step great-grand-children; two sisters, Eve-lyn Miller of Florida andMickey Clift of Cincinnati;and other relatives andfriends.Funeral services will be

held at 10:30 a.m. Satur-day at Stocker-FraleyFuneral Home, Brad-ford, with Pastor LanceElliot officiating. Inter-ment Harris Creek Ceme-tery, Bradford.The family will receive

friends from 4-7 p.m. Fri-day at the funeral home. Ifdesired, contributionsmay be made to Hospice ofMiami County.Condolences may be left

for the family atwww.stockerfraley.com.

David Allen UptonTROY — David Allen

Upton, 70, formerly ofWest Milton, passed awayMonday, Dec. 24, 2012, atKoester Pavilion, Troy. Hewas born Dec. 7, 1942, inDayton.He was preceded in

death by his parents, Rus-sell and Edythe (Duerr)Upton; a brother, Richard;and a grandson, A. David.He is survived by three

children, Tresa (Robert)Poeppelman of Troy,TracyDurst of Pitsburg andTimothy (Kathryn) Uptonof Oakwood; seven grand-children, Matthew Upton,Jeremy Smith, Molly SueSmith, Harley Skinner,Sophi Durst, NathanielPaul Upton, and SethAllen Upton; brother, John(Johanna) Upton of Ket-

tering; sis-ter,MarthaWells ofS p r i n g -field, Mo.; and manynieces and nephews.He proudly served his

country in the U.S.MarineCorps, was a past com-mander and life memberof the American LegionPost 487 of West Milton.Friends may call from

10-11 a.m. Monday atHale-Sarver Family Fu-neral Home, 284 N.Miami St., West Milton,followed immediately byfull military honors. Hisremains will be interredat the Dayton NationalCemetery.Online memories may

be left for the family atwww.hale-sarver.com.

COVINGTON — Services for Dennis Jack“Denny” Willoughby have been postponed to todaydue to Wednesday’s snow storm. Services will be heldat 2 p.m. today at Fields of Grace Worship Center, 326Old Troy Pike, Covington, with Chaplain Ed Ellis andPastor Phil Elmore officiating. Visitation also will befrom 12-2 p.m. today at the church.

Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home is in charge ofarrangements.

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Ex-husband of Toledowoman killed turnshimself in to policeTOLEDO (AP) — The ex-hus-

band of a Toledo woman killed onChristmas Eve has turned himselfin to police.Forty-three-year-oldRobert

Carter was charged with aggra-vated murder in his ex-wife’s deathafter surrendering at police head-quarters on Tuesday.It’s unclear whether he has an at-

torney.His ex-wife, 41-year-old Wendabi

Triplett, was shot at about 11 p.m.Monday and was pronounced deadat a local hospital a couple hourslater.

The Toledo Blade reports that thekilling brings the number of homi-cides in the metro area to 50 thisyear.

Law license reinstatedfor disciplinedOhio lawyer COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio

Supreme Court has reinstated thelaw license of a former state lawyerfired for intercepting sensitiveemails between public-safety inves-tigators and the state inspector gen-eral.

The Columbus Dispatch reports

that Joshua Engel’s law license wasreinstated after a six-month sus-pension for violating professionalconduct rules when he worked asthe Ohio Department of PublicSafety’s chief legal counsel.Engel previously pleaded guilty

to three misdemeanor counts of dis-closing confidential information. Hewas sentenced to suspended jailtime of 30 days on each count.He also agreed to cooperate with

state investigators regarding theemail interceptions and a botchedinvestigation of inmates working atthen-Gov. Ted Strickland’s resi-dence to funnel tobacco into prison.A court board had noted that

Engel’s actions didn’t benefit him orharm anyone else.

Baby Jesus stolen fromOhio nativity scene CINCINNATI (AP) — A baby

Jesus figure has been stolen from apopular live nativity scene in south-western Ohio.Police say the figure was reported

missing early Christmas morningfrom outside a funeral home in theCincinnati suburb of MountHealthy.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reportsthat police say the owner of Paul R.Young Funeral Homes reportedhearing someone laughing around 1a.m.When he went outside in the

morning to feed the animals thathelp make up the live nativityscene, Officer Joe Powell says “babyJesus was gone.”He says it’s the second time in 12

years that the figure has beenstolen.The nativity scene has been a

popular community attraction fordecades.Anyone with information is asked

to call Mount Healthy police at 513-728-3183.

Fog may be factorin fatal crash PATASKALA (AP) — Fog may

have contributed to a crashovernight that killed a 72-year-oldOhio man.Roy Rose of Pataskala in central

Ohio was standing near the passen-ger side of his car on Christmas Eveafter it got stuck in a snow em-bankment just after 7 p.m.Another car, driven by 78-year-

old Richard Runzel of Granville, hitRose’s car, causing it to spin and hitRose.Rose died soon after at a nearby

hospital.Runzel and a passenger in Rose’s

car, 73-year-old Emogene Henry ofGalloway, had minor injuries.The accident remains under in-

vestigation, but officials say thatfoggy weather could have been afactor.

BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSAP Legal Affairs Writer

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio prosecutors say they’renot giving up in their efforts to pass a law that wouldallow them to demand that criminal defendants un-dergo a trial by jury.The proposal by the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys As-

sociation, which was before lawmakers this year andin the past, is aimed at situations where defendantswaive their rights to a jury trial and demand a judgehear the case instead.Occasionally, prosecutors believe a judge will not

provide a fair hearing and they want the ability to de-mand a jury trial, said John Murphy, a lobbyist withthe prosecuting attorneys association.“The only time we run into problem is when this par-

ticular judge won’t give us a fair hearing for one reasonor another,” Murphy said. “Some judges have particu-lar views on cases we disagree with.”Several prosecutors testified before House and Sen-

ate committees this year in support of the measure,which passed in the House but died in the Senate ear-lier this month. It would apply only to serious crimes.“Prosecutors and the victims of crimes should have

the same choices as the criminals,” Portage CountyProsecutor Victor Vigluicci told the Senate JudiciaryCommittee earlier this year.“In a time when we have finally come to recognize

not only the rights of the criminally accused, but alsothe rights of the victims of their crimes, giving the vic-tims, through the State, some say in the use of a juryat trial seems only fair,” he said.Prosecutors note that more than two dozen states

allow prosecutors to request a jury trial, as does thefederal court system.The Ohio State Bar Association and numerous

judges opposed the measure.They said that while the Ohio Constitution guaran-

tees a criminal defendant the right to a jury trial, itdoesn’t require it.They also say prosecutors can already ask that

judges with a perceived bias be removed from a trial.And they say the proposal could cost taxpayers becauseof the added expense of more jury trials.“Eliminating the right to a bench trial for those who

are criminally accused would be contrary to the fairand economic administration of justice,” according to aDec. 11 letter to the judiciary committee from 34 Cuya-hoga County court judges.Judges also say the proposal makes more sense in

the federal court system where judges are appointedfor life and it’s harder to remove them from cases forbias.The proposal would also apply to death penalty

cases, where a three-judge panel sometimes is betterequipped to handle such complicated cases than a jury,which can be overwhelmed because of the nature ofcrimes in capital cases, said state public defender TimYoung.A financial analysis of the bill by the nonpartisan

Ohio Legislative Service Commission predicted only a“minimal” increase in costs to counties of giving prose-cutors the right to demand a trial by jury.

The commission concluded “there will be very fewcircumstances in which a prosecutor would want to de-mand a jury trial.”___Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter

at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus.

COLUMBUS (AP) — There havebeen some positive changes to Ohio’syouth prison system, but there alsoare pervasive problems involvinggang violence, education and med-ical care, according to an annual re-port.The report, released this month, is

written by court-appointed monitorWill Harrell, who oversees an agree-ment between the state and youthadvocates who sued over conditionsin the system.

The Columbus Dispatch reportsthat Harrell found that administra-tors have been successful in reduc-ing the number of offenders insecure confinement and spreadingservices for youthful offendersaround Ohio.But he also wrote that there are

several “ongoing deficiencies” thatmust be addressed.For example, he wrote that the In-

dian River Juvenile Correctional Fa-cility near Canton still has too manyincidents of violence.“Youth gangs still exert a power-

ful negative influence at Indian

River, and concerns remain aboutthe high rate of fights and physicalrestraints,” he wrote.He also wrote that teacher ab-

sences contributed to a number ofcanceled classes at Indian River andthe Scioto Juvenile Correctional Fa-cility in Delaware north of Colum-bus, and that some teachers aren’tgetting the job done.At Scioto, “some staff demon-

strated an inability to effectivelymaintain order, and youth in severalclassrooms slept, walked around, orengaged in conversations unrelatedto school,” the report said.The report found problems with

medical files at all four state facili-ties, and it said records aren’t alwaysaccessible to everyone trying to cre-ate treatment programs for youth.The report also said that psychi-

atric services and hours at all theprisons are inadequate, and a dis-proportionate number of black in-mates aren’t placed inmental-health units.Four years ago, the state settled a

2004 lawsuit alleging that a culture

of violence permeated the youthprisons system. The settlementcalled for continuing review of thestate’s progress in making agreed-tochanges.The state says that the agreement

should be concluded because theagency is a different organizationtoday and should be concluded.“We are carrying out our mission

of improving Ohio’s future by habil-itating youth and empowering fami-lies and communities,” youth-prisonsspokeswoman Kim Parsell said in astatement.Attorneys for youth inmates said

that the recent report found possibleviolations of inmates’ federal rightsin 44 areas.The attorneys also say that now is

not the time to end the agreementwhen possible upcoming cuts to theyouth-prisons budget could “put asevere strain on its ability to achieveconstitutional compliance.”The system once had more than

2,000 juvenile inmates; it nowhouses about 600.

BY STAN DONALDSONCleveland Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND — Eileen Beeglehas never met any of the thousandsof people she has helped to keepwarm during Cleveland’s frigid win-ters.But many of the homeless people

who have received the sleeping bagsthat she and a group of volunteershave made have plenty of apprecia-tion for her.On most Wednesday mornings

throughout the year, Beegle, 73, ofUniversity Heights, works withabout a dozen volunteers of allfaiths who come to her custom quiltbusiness. Together, they create thesleeping bags that are later distrib-uted to the homeless and poor.Beegle has operated the Gesu

Sleeping Bag Ministry for 16 years.The group makes between six andeight sleeping bags each week. Theprofessional seamstress was nomi-nated to be a Cleveland PlainDealer community hero by AnnieD’Alessandro, a business colleagueand friend.So far, Beegle’s effort has created

about 3,200 sleeping bags made ofdonated upholstery fabrics andsheets and tied together with oldneckties. Groups like the West SideCatholic Center and the LabreHomeless Ministry, a group of stu-dent volunteers from St. IgnatiusHigh School, distribute the bagsthroughout the city.Beegle said she got the idea to

create the ministry in 1996 afterreading an article in Guidepostsmagazine about a woman who

began a similar program.“I thought it was something I can

do because I make my livingsewing,” Beegle said. “I sent for in-structions and asked for advice onhow I could begin a program here.”Beegle enlisted the help of her

friend Pat Schoeffler, and the twobegan to ask people at GesuCatholic Church, where both areparishioners, to donate unused up-holstery fabrics, bed sheets, batting

materials and neckties so theycould assemble the bags. “A largepercentage of the homeless are outthere through no fault of their own,”Beegle said. “Some of them havelost jobs because of the economy,and some women have had abusivespouses.”Beegle said the sleeping bags are

also given to people who might haveshelter but go without utilities likeheat and electricity because of hardeconomic times.Schoeffler said Beegle is a tire-

less worker.“I think the world of (Eileen), and

many of the women who volunteerfeel the same way,” Schoeffler said.“She is very giving and driven.”People who have received the

sleeping bags said they are gratefulto Beegle and the groups that helpindividuals in need.David Nobleton, a 72-year-old

Army veteran, said he once used thesleeping bags at a time in his lifewhen he needed help.“They help keep people warm in

the winter who don’t have normalfacilities,” Nobleton said. “It’s a sur-vival tool. . . . I appreciate the peoplewho put them together.”Terrie Garr, the volunteer serv-

ices coordinator at the West SideCatholic Center, said contributionsto the center are a year-round ef-fort.“Eileen has been a great advocate

for people in need,” Garr said. “Be-cause of her empathy, passion andcaring, she is able to help the lessfortunate.”

Report: Problems ongoingin Ohio youth prisons

Woman makes sleepingbags for homeless

THE PLAIN DEALER, SCOTT SHAW/AP PHOTOCommunity Hero Eileen Beeglemakes sleeping bags for the home-less in Cleveland Heights, on Dec.5.

Ohio prosecutors pushmandatory jury trials

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Somedisappointment usually follows Christmas.Weall had things we had expected to get and somethings we had only hoped for.What did our votes in

November deny us this Christmas?I got hold of some letters to Santa from people who

must have felt disappointed with their gifts..The first wish was “Stop Socialism.” Well, the defini-

tion of socialism is when government owns the means ofwealth production. And since absolutely no one in thisadministration is proposing this, nor likely to ever be sostupid as to even hint at proposing it, I think that thisappeal to Santa was granted even if the writer is un-aware of it. The socialism threat, like the “death panel”threat on health care, was a fiction brought up by peoplewho really knew better but didn’t think we did.“Don’t Increase Taxes.” If the writer is not a million-

aire or billionaire this wish will be granted along with anextension of the payroll tax.This may not be the generalstatement of the campaign but a specific real saving.“Get Tough on Foreign Policy.” Here the writer had

their gift before Christmas and didn’t see it and will getmore in the next few years. They need to compare Mr.Obama to Mr. Bush. Look up other countries’ regard forhis actions and respect for this president and for whathe’s accomplished.“Get Rid of Obamacare.” I call it “ObamaCares.” Let

me explain. When mywife was in her wisen-heimer 20s and studyingfor her history degree,she asked her dad justwhy he thought Roo-sevelt was such a greatpresident.He thought fora while then answered intwo words: “He cared.”And so I call this

health care plan Oba-maCares in honor of both her father, a farm boy whoworked his way through college during the Depression tobecome a principal of a high school, and of a single-par-ent black boy who inexplicably became president andthen had the courage to put his political future on theline to give Americans a fairer health care program.I guess the main thing we voted not to get for Christ-

mas this year was a government that was run like a for-profit business. Let me explain. But first let me give youtwo definitions: democracy is a form of government, cap-italism is a form of economics. Let’s not get them mixedup in this conversation nor in any future political dia-log.We have been told that we need business people in

government so they can run it like a business. But think.Under the business model, businesses have onemain ob-ligation and it’s to their stockholders, to profit. Some willeven say that this is their only obligation, that they owenothing to their employees, their community, their envi-ronment and increasingly even their country. The cur-rent compensation system for management compoundsthis. It rewards profit in the shortest time frame, evenencouraging managers to sacrifice their company’s fu-ture for short-term profits — and sometimes even cook-ing the books to increase the impression of profits.So, if we apply this to government, what would we

have gotten? The Ryan Budget is what.For the middle class the Ryan plan would have cut ed-

ucation, training, social services, general science, infra-structure repair, federal safety and security employees,school teachers, firemen, police, veteran’s benefits andneeds, food and housing help, grants and loans for col-lege. Then increase the taxing of us hapless peons in themiddle class by reducing or even eliminating our deduc-tions on mortgages and local and state taxes. Then in-crease our payroll taxes.What we also didn’t get with the gift of the Ryan plan

was the rich keeping off-shore tax havens and tax loop-holes like those for theAmerican oil cartel.Their low taxobligations won’t have been saved — or even decreased.Our government won’t cut the short-term costs and in-crease short-term income to maximize the profits of thetrue owners of this kind of government: The investors.Those who invest in campaigns, in lobbying, in PACs,and in ad campaigns trying to convince us that big gov-ernment is our problem. Basically, what we didn’t getwas the tearing down of the New Deal.Roosevelt’s New Deal rescued the poor and expanded

the middle class in America.We did not get its destruc-tion. Next time, when people are vying for public office,how can we tell which ones are going to give us all awayto the business plan of the rich?Just ask yourself: Do they care?

Jack Robinson of Piqua is a University of Akron grad-uate who over 25 years worked his way up from the fac-tory floor to a senior materials management positionwith General Tire. After the Akron plant closed, heworked at numerous companies, most of which eitherwent broke or moved to Mexico. Contact him at piqua-jack@yahoo.com.

It’s not whom you knowthat counts; it’s whomyou’re thrust beside.The Class of 1915 at West

Point included OmarBradley, Dwight Eisen-hower, two others who be-came four-star generals,seven who won three starsand 48 who attained therank of general.On the same Silver Lake

football team at a small re-gional high school in Massachusetts inthe 1970s were Tim Murphy, now thehead football coach at Harvard, BuddyTeevens, now the head coach at Dart-mouth, and Jeff Hawkins, the director offootball operations at Oregon.Perhaps the all-time champion center

of serendipity was an old Battle Creek,Mich., sanitarium presided over by mem-bers of the Kellogg family before beingconverted during World War II into thePercy Jones Army Hospital. That’s whenthe hospital, which had once treatedMary Todd Lincoln and Sojourner Truthand went on to be ridiculed in a T. Cor-aghessan Boyle novel, became the homeof three remarkable Army men who hadsuffered grievous war wounds.On just one floor of a hospital so big it

once had 800 employees were RobertJoseph Dole of Russell, Kan., who hadbeen shattered on a hill in Italy in thelast month of the war and reckoned by al-most everyone who saw him as destinedfor an early, swift and merciful death;Philip Aloysius Hart of Bryn Mawr, Pa.,his arm seeded with shrapnel from an ar-tillery shell on Utah Beach during the D-Day invasion; and Daniel Ken Inouye ofHonolulu, shot in the stomach and hit byan exploding grenade in Italy.They had nothing in common except

for their valor and suffering — and theirinjuries, especially to their arms. Inouyewould lose his. Hart’s would alwaysbother him.Dole’s would be withered andweak for all of his days. But it isn’t the in-juries that tied them together — that iswhy this is a story worth telling now —but the way they recovered, each in hisown way, each at his own speed (Hartwould later fight in the Battle of theBulge), each with an eye to be defined notby what he had lost but by what he couldgain.In time Dole would become Senate ma-

jority leader, Republican vice presidentialnominee and GOP presidential nominee;Hart would become perhaps the most lib-eral member of the Senate and so re-spected that a sparkling new officebuilding would bear his name; and Inouyewould become a giant of the chamber,revered for his iron-strong integrity andremembered for his roles in the two sig-nature scandals of the second half of the20th century,Watergate and Iran-Contra.For Inouye, there was all that plus the

most thankless job in the Capitol, servingas defense counsel for disgraced Sen.Harrison Williams of New Jersey in the1981 Senate Abscam trial because no oneelse would take the assignment. “Dannyaccepted it and made a presentation onthe floor that was one of the best exam-ples of advocacy I’ve ever seen,” said for-mer GOP Sen.William Cohen of Maine.Inouye’s death during last week of

fraught budget negotiations underlinesthe changes in American politics sincethe time when he served with Dole, wholeft the chamber in 1996, and with Hart,who died in 1976. Indeed, at last month’s

memorial for another oftheir tribe, GOP Sen. War-ren B. Rudman of NewHampshire, Inouye and for-mer Senate Majority LeaderHoward H. Baker Jr. of Ten-nessee talked about how theold Senate differed from thenew.“Danny always tried to

work with others,” formerSen. Nancy Landon Kasse-baum of Kansas, now mar-

ried to Mr. Baker, remembered in atelephone call. “Both Howard and I andDanny himself said we need to return toa different time, when we were willing towork across the aisle, not just willing todraw lines in the sand.”The relationship tying Dole, 89, to In-

ouye, who was 88, spanned two-thirds ofa century, nearly a third of the entire his-tory of the United States.It was in April 1945, Mr. Dole remem-

bered yesterday, that he and Mr. Inouye“became members of the ‘disabled com-munity.’” He said that with the sort oflaugh hard to summon years ago, whenInouye introduced him to bridge and beathim repeatedly at it. They were injuredwithin days and miles of each other. Bothhad many miles to go.“Danny paid the price and went

through a lot,” he said in the clipped styleof the Dole vernacular — no verbal orna-ments, no flights of rhetorical excess, anart form learned on the Kansas plainsand honed in a hospital ward, where In-ouye once said that he never saw Dole ac-tually stand, and that it was possible tolook into the man’s eyes and see hurt andpain — but also steely determination.Inouye once told me: “I have seen him

smile though he was in intense pain.”In later years Dole, who could not cut

his own steak but would buy a 1987Chevrolet Celebrity with crank windows,would express boundless admiration forInouye. “Danny was exemplary,”Mr. Dolesaid. “He took it on the chin. He neverlooked back. He was very courageous.” Inthe Dole repertoire — deep feeling, fewsyllables — those last three sentencesconstitute a virtual aria.These two men were tied by so much

more than party and profession.“Both were of a nature not to make a

big point of their troubles, but each hadan enormous amount of respect and carefor the other,” said Ms.KassebaumBaker.“Danny probably more than Bob wasopen about all of this. Bob has alwaysbeen very stoic.There are some things hecares the most about that he’d probablynever talk about. This is one of them. Heand Danny understood something to-gether.”There was one other understanding,

rooted in Battle Creek. Former SenateMajority Leader GeorgeMitchell of Maineremembers talking with Inouye at theRudmanmemorial and hearing an unfor-gettable story — of how the bedriddenDole told Inouye he was going to return toKansas, go into politics and somehow getto Congress. Inouye beat him there: Hebecame Hawaii’s first House member 15months before Dole was elected.“I called him up,” Mitchell remembers

Inouye saying, “and told him, ‘I’m here —where are you?’”Mr. Dole would be there soon enough.

David M. Shribman is executive editorof the (Pittsburgh) Post-Gazette and is aveteran political columnist.

Excerpts from recent ed-itorials in newspapers inthe United States andabroad:

Dec. 23The San Diego Union-

Tribune on the GM bailout:The announcement that

the federal governmentwould sell 200 millionshares of General Motorsback to GM for $5.5 billionand then dispose of its re-maining 300million sharesby early 2014makes a vasttaxpayer loss close to a cer-tainty. If the remainingshares sell for the same$27.50 as the initial blockof 200 million shares andGM’s many headachesmake a big stock surge un-likely the hit would be$12.5 billion.Was this worth it? If you

believe the 1-million-jobs-were-saved claim, you maysay yes. But that claim isbased on the very dubiousidea that GM would havedisappeared without fed-eral intervention.The deci-sion by first PresidentGeorge W. Bush in 2008and then President BarackObama in 2009 to have thefederal government investin the automaker allowedGM to avoid the sort of nor-mal bankruptcy processthat would have helped itleverage a lower wagestructure from the UnitedAuto Workers, one thatwould have put GM on apar with most of its com-petitors.Who agrees that the

union made out very wellfrom the taxpayer bailout?Stephen Rattner, the exec-utive Obama chose to over-see the GM deal. “Weshould have asked theUAW to do a bit more. Wedid not ask any UAWmember to take a cut intheir pay,” he said.Here’s one more twist on

the outcome of the Trou-bled Asset Relief Program:Taxpayers made billionsafter the federal govern-ment was paid back withinterest by the most re-viled recipients of relief bigbanks and the AmericanInsurance Group. But notwith General Motors,whose fundamentals werebad far before the housingbubble collapsed in 2007.Keep this in mind when

you hear simplistic talkabout the “success” of theauto bailout.

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In most cases, de-clarer’s prime objective isto make his contract. Hepays very little attentionto scoring overtricks —worth only 20 or 30 pointsper trick — if doing sowould jeopardize makingthe contract.

Similarly, a defender’saim is to stop declarerfrom making the contract.He should be willing toyield an overtrick to de-clarer if, in doing so, hegives his side a chance todefeat the contract. A de-fender should be acutelyaware of the vast discrep-ancy between the value ofa game and the value ofan overtrick, and should-n’t mind risking a smallnumber of points whiletrying to avoid losing amuch larger number. Consider this deal

where West leads a club todummy’s ace and declarerreturns the queen oftrumps, losing to West’s

king. West is now at thecritical point of the play. It should be evident to

him, in view of the dia-mond position, that thereis virtually no chance tostop the contract unlessEast has the ace ofspades. West does notknow whether East hasthe ace, but he assumes it.To assume otherwisewould amount to conced-ing the contract. West therefore decides

to shift to a spade. Heknows that this playmight hand declarer anextra trick if South hasthe ace of spades, but itdoes not bother him at all.An overtrick is a mere

drop in the bucket. Theonly problem West has tosolve is which spade tolead. It is not difficult to

prove that the jack ofspades is the correct play.In the actual case, Southcannot avoid losing threespade tricks in succession,whether he covers West’sjack with the queen orplays low from dummy.But if West returns eitherthe king or the nine ofspades at trick three,South makes the contractwith proper play.

Tomorrow: Biddingquiz.

A drop in the bucket

Solve it

Complete thegrid so every row,column and 3 x 3box containsevery digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

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Sympathy is wearing thin forneedy, demanding friend

Jack Klugman dies in Los Angeles

BY ANTHONY MCCARTNEYAP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — JackKlugman, the prolific, craggy-facedcharacter actor and regular guywho was loved by millions as themessy one in TV’s “The Odd Couple”and the crime-fighting coroner in“Quincy, M.E.,” died Monday, a sonsaid. He was 90.Klugman, who lost his voice to

throat cancer in the 1980s andtrained himself to speak again, diedwith his wife at his side.“He had a great life and he en-

joyed every moment of it and hewould encourage others to do thesame,” son Adam Klugman said.Adam Klugman said he was

spending Christmas with hisbrother, David, and their families.Their father had been convalescingfor some time but had apparentlydied suddenly and they were notsure of the exact cause.“His sons loved him very much,”

David Klugman said. “We’ll carryon in his spirit.”Never anyone’s idea of a matinee

idol, Klugman remained a popularstar for decades simply by playingthe type of man you could imaginerunning into at a bar or riding on asubway with — gruff, but down toearth, his tie stained and a littleloose, a racing form under his arm,a cigar in hand during the dayswhen smoking was permitted.He brought a city actor ideal for

“The Odd Couple,” which ran from1970 to 1975 and was based on NeilSimon’s play about mismatchedroommates, divorced New Yorkerswho end up living together. Theshow teamed Klugman — thesloppy sports writer Oscar Madison— and Tony Randall — the fussyphotographer Felix Unger — in theroles played by Walter Matthau andArt Carney on Broadway andMatthau and Jack Lemmon in the1968 film. Klugman had alreadyhad a taste of the show when he re-placed Matthau on Broadway andhe learned to roll with the quick-thinking Randall, with whom hehad worked in 1955 on the CBS se-ries “Appointment with Adventure.”“There’s nobody better to impro-

vise with than Tony,” Klugman said.“A script might say, ‘Oscar teachesFelix football.’ There would be fourblank pages. He would provoke meinto reacting to what he did. Minewas the easy part.”They were battlers on screen, and

the best of friends in real life. WhenRandall died in 2004 at age 84,Klugman told CNN: “A world with-

out Tony Randall is a world that Icannot recognize.”In “Quincy, M.E.,” which ran from

1976 to 1983, Klugman played anidealistic, tough-minded medical ex-aminer who tussled with his boss byuncovering evidence of murder incases where others saw naturalcauses.“We had some wonderful writers,”

he said in a 1987 Associated Pressinterview. “Quincy was a muck-raker, like Upton Sinclair, whowrote about injustices. He was myideal as a youngster, my author, myhero.“Everybody said, ‘Quincy’ll never

be a hit.’ I said, ‘You guys are wrong.He’s two heroes in one, a cop and adoctor.’ A coroner has power. He cantell the police commissioner to in-vestigate a murder. I saw the op-portunity to do what I’d gotten intothe theater to do — give a message.“They were going to do cops and

robbers with ‘Quincy.’ I said, ‘Youpromised me I could do causes.’They said, ‘Nobody wants to seethat.’ I said, ‘Look at the success of“60 Minutes.” They want to see it ifyou present it as entertainment.’”For his 1987 role as 81-year-old

Nat in the Broadway production of“I’m Not Rappaport,” Klugmanwore leg weights to learn to shufflelike an elderly man. He said hewould wear them for an hour beforeeach performance, “to remember tokeep that shuffle.”“The guy is so vital emotionally,

but physically he can’t be,” Klug-man said.“We treat old people so badly.

There is nothing easy about 80.”The son of Russian Jewish immi-

grants, he was born in Philadelphiaand began his acting career in col-lege drama (Carnegie Institute ofTechnology). After serving in theArmy during World War II, he wenton to summer stock and off-Broad-way, rooming with fellow actorCharles Bronson as both looked forpaying jobs.He made his Broadway debut in

1952 in a revival of “Golden Boy.”His film credits included SidneyLumet’s “12 Angry Men” and BlakeEdwards’ “Days of Wine and Roses”and an early television highlightwas appearing with HumphreyBogart and Henry Fonda in a pro-duction of “The Petrified Forest.”His performance in the classic

1959 musical “Gypsy” brought hima Tony nomination for best featured(supporting) actor in a musical.He also appeared in several

episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” in-cluding a memorable 1963 one in

which he played a negligent fatherwhose son is seriously wounded inVietnam. His other TV shows in-cluded “The Defenders” and thesoap opera “The Greatest Gift.”In a 1987 interview in the New

York Daily News, he said, “once Idid three hourlong shows in 2½weeks. Think we’d do that now?Huh! But then it was great. I didsummer stock, played the classics.Me!”Throat cancer took away his

raspy voice for several years in the1980s. When he was back on thestage for a 1993 revival of “ThreeMen on a Horse,” The AssociatedPress review said, “His voice may bea little scratchy but his timing is asimpeccable as ever.”“The only really stupid thing I

ever did in my life was to startsmoking,” he said in 1996. Seeingpeople smoking in television andfilms, he added, “disgusts me, itmakes me so angry — kids arewatching.”In his later years, he guest-

starred on TV series including“Third Watch” and “Crossing Jor-dan” and appeared in a 2010 the-atrical film, “Camera Obscura.”Klugman’s hobby was horse rac-

ing and he eventually took up rais-ing them, too.A horse Klugman co-owned, Jack-

lin Klugman, finished third in1980’s Kentucy Derby and fourth inthat year’s Preakness Stakes.“I always loved to gamble,” he

said. “I never got close to a horse.Fate dealt me a terrible blow whenit gave me a good horse the firsttime out. I thought how easy this is.“Now I love being around them.”Klugman’s wife, actress-come-

dian Brett Somers, played his ex-wife, Blanche, in the “Odd Couple”series. The couple, who married in1953 and had two sons, Adam andDavid, had been estranged for yearsat the time of her death in 2007.In February 2008, at age 85,

Klugman married longtime girl-friend Peggy Crosby. His attorneyLarry Larson wrote in an emailthat Klugman is also survived bytwo grandchildren and that memo-rial services have not been set.In 1997, Klugman was sued by an

ex-girlfriend, Barbara Neugass,who claimed he had promised tosupport her for the rest of her life.But a jury rejected her claim.

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Biographical material in thisstory was written by former APstaffer Polly Anderson.

DEAR ABBY: How canI set healthy boundarieswith my best friend withoutfeeling guilty? I have al-ways been supportive andavailable because I sympa-thized with her difficultfamily dynamics duringchildhood and adulthood.She often talks to me abouther problems with familyand ever-changing relation-ships with men, but rarelyallows me or others toshare their points of view orpersonal concerns. Saying“no” to her is challengingunder any circumstance,and she demands that allfocus be on her in social sit-uations.I love and accept my

friend as she is, and I try togive her all the grace Ihave. I now realize that set-ting healthy boundaries isthe only way I can sustainour friendship. I know thisdynamic may put a strainon our relationship, so whydo I feel so guilty?

— TESTED INNORTHERN CALI-

FORNIA

DEAR TESTED: That’sa good question, and onethat I can’t definitively an-swer for you. It’s possiblethat like many women, youwere raised to believe thatif you assert yourself youwon’t be considered “nice.”That’s a mistake because aslong as you allow thisfriend to take advantage ofyou — and that is whatshe’s doing — the moreyour resentment will builduntil the relationship be-comes one of diminishingreturns. So tell this self-centered person as nicely aspossible that you are not atherapist, and because herproblems persist, sheshould talk to one.

DEAR ABBY: I wasshocked the other day whena friend of mine said thatmany women remain interrible marriages becauseof finances. She said thosetypes of marriages are ac-cepted worldwide, so whynot in America? She alsosaid she thinks that shameis attached if a woman ad-mits the only reason she isstaying with her husband isa monetary one.The women she was talk-

ing about are baby boomersand older. After thinkingabout it, I remember mymother and mother-in-lawsaying that money was whythey remained in theirmarriages. Is this as preva-lent as my friend stated? Ifind it sad that this could betrue. It reminds me of theTina Turner song — what’s

love got to do with it? Couldyou comment, please?

— IN IT FOR LOVE

DEAR IN IT: If you’reasking if I have statistics onthe number of women whostay married only for eco-nomic reasons, the answeris no. Most of the peoplewho write to me are un-happy, which would skewthe numbers in a negativedirection. I hope you realizethat the women you havedescribed — an older demo-graphic — were probablynot economically independ-ent when they married. Itwas common in their gen-eration to go straight fromtheir parents’ houses totheir husbands’. For manyyears I — and my motherbefore me — have urgedwomen to make sure theyare self-supporting beforethey marry, “just in case”they may have to be after-ward. Staying in a mar-riage without love is likeserving a life sentence withan incompatible cellmate.Your mother and mother-in-law have my sympathy,and so do their husbands.

DEAR ABBY: Do youever get tired of giving ad-vice to people who ask com-monsense questions, orthose who probably knowthe answer to their prob-lems if they just thought itout?

— JIM IN WEST VIR-GINIA

DEAR JIM:The answerto your question is no. I lovewhat I do and consider it anhonor to be trusted. Whilethe reply to a question maybe obvious to you, it isn’t tothe person who asks me.Common sense tends to goout the window when thereare strong emotions in-volved.

Dear Abby is written byAbigail Van Buren, alsoknown as Jeanne Phillips,and was founded by hermother, Pauline Phillips.Write Dear Abby atwww.DearAbby.com or P.O.Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA90069.

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CRAIG FUJII, FILE/AP PHOTOIn this Dec. 3, 1992, file photo, Jack Klugman, left, and Tony Randall laugh at a news conference announc-ing that they will reprise their most famous roles as Oscar Madison and Felix Unger respectively, for a one-night benefit performance of Neil Simons play, “The Odd Couple”, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Klugman, the prolific,craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV’s “The OddCouple” and the crime-fighting coroner in “Quincy, M.E.,” died Monday, a son said. He was 90.

BY DALIA NAMMARIAssociated Press

BETHLEHEM, WestBank — Thousands ofChristians from the worldover packedMangerSquarein Bethlehem Monday tocelebrate the birth of Jesusin the ancient West Banktownwhere he was born.For their Palestinian

hosts, this holiday seasonwasanespecially joyous one,with thehardships of the Is-raeli occupation that sooften clouded previousChristmas Eve celebrationseased by the United Na-tions’ recent recognition ofan independent state ofPalestine.Festivities led up to the

Midnight Mass at St.Catherine’s Church, next tothe fourth-century Churchof theNativity,built over thegrotto where tradition saysJesus was born.“From this holy place, I

invite politicians andmenofgood will to work with de-termination for peace andreconciliation that encom-passes Palestine and Israelin themidst of all the suffer-ing in theMiddleEast,” saidthe top Roman Catholiccleric in the Holy Land,Latin Patriarch FouadTwalin his annual address.“Please continue to fight fora just cause to achieve peaceand security for thepeople ofthe Holy Land.”In his pre-Christmas

homily,Twal said the road toactual freedom was stilllong, but this year’s festivi-ties were doubly joyful, cele-brating “the birth of ChristourLordand the birth of thestate of Palestine.”“The path (to statehood)

remains long, and will re-quire a united effort,” addedTwal,aPalestinian citizen ofJordan,at the patriarchate’sheadquarters in Jerusalem’sOld City.Then he set off in a pro-

cession for the West Bankcity of Bethlehem, Jesus’traditional birthplace.There, he was remindedthat life on the ground forPalestinians has notchanged since the U.N. rec-ognized their state lastmonth in the Israeli-occu-pied West Bank and eastJerusalem and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.Twal had to enter the bib-

lical town through a mas-sive metal gate in thebarrier of towering concreteslabs Israel built betweenJerusalem and Bethlehemduringawave ofPalestiniansuicide bombings in the lastdecade. The Israeli military,which controls the crossing,said it significantly eased re-strictions for the Christmasseason.Israel, backed by the

United States, opposed thestatehood bid, saying it wasa Palestinian ploy to bypassnegotiations. Talks stalledfour years ago.Hundreds of people

greeted Twal in MangerSquare, outside the Churchof Nativity. The mood wasfestive under sunny skies,with childrendressed inhol-iday finery or in Santa cos-tumes, andmarching bandsplaying in the streets.After nightfall, a packed

MangerSquare,resplendentwith strings of lights, deco-rations and a 17-meter (55-foot)Christmas tree, took ona festival atmosphere,as pil-grimsmixed with locals.A choral group from the

Baptist Church inJerusalem performed carols

on one side of the square,handing out sheets of lyricsand encouraging others tosing along with songs suchas “We Wish You A MerryChristmas.”Vendors sold balloons,cot-

ton candy and corn on thecob,bandsplayedChristmassongs and tourists packedcafes that are quiet most ofthe rest of the year.Pilgrimsfromaround theworldwan-dered the streets, singingChristmas carols and visit-ing churches.Devout Christians said it

was a moving experience tobe so close to the origins oftheir faith.“It’s a special feeling to be

here, it’s an encounter withmy soul and God,” saidJoanne Kurczewska, a pro-fessor atWarsawUniversityin Poland, who was visitingBethlehem for a second timeat Christmas.PastorAlMucciarone, 61,

from Short Hills, New Jer-sey, agreed.“We come here to cele-

brate Jesus. This is a veryimportant town. Greatthings come from smallevents. The son of God wasborn in this small village.We hope all will followJesus,” he said.Audra Kasparian, 45,

from Salt Lake City, Utah,called her visit to Bethle-hem “a life event to cherishforever. It is one of thoseevents that is great to be apart of.”Palestinian President

Mahmoud Abbas also vis-ited Bethlehem and said“peace will prevail from thebirthplace of Jesus, and wewish everyone peace andhappiness,” according to theofficial Palestinian Wafanews agency.Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu is-sued a special Christmasgreeting too, wishing Chris-tians “a year of security,prosperity and peace.”

Christmas is the highpoint of the year in Bethle-hem, which, like the rest oftheWestBank, is strugglingto recover fromthe economichard times that followed theviolent Palestinian uprisingagainst Israel that broke outin late 2000.Tourists and pilgrims

who were scared away bythe fighting have been re-turning in larger numbers.Last year’s Christmas Evecelebration produced thehighest turnout in morethan a decade, with some100,000 visitors, includingforeign workers and ArabChristians from Israel.The Israeli TourismMin-

istry predicted a 25 percentdrop from that level thisyear, following last month’sclash between Israel andPalestinian militants inGaza, which put a chill ontourist arrivals. Foreigntourists heading to Bethle-hem must pass through Is-rael or the Israel-controlledborder crossing into theWest Bank from Jordan.Outside the town’s quaint

Manger Square, Bethlehemis a drab, sprawling townwith a dwindling Christianbase - a far cry from the pas-toral village of biblical times.About 22,000 Palestini-

ans live in Bethlehem, ac-cording to the town council,but combined with severalsurrounding communitieshas a population of some50,000 people.Overall, there are only

about 50,000 Christians inthe West Bank, less than 3percent of the population,the result of a lowerbirthrate and increased em-igration.Bethlehem’sChris-tians make up only a thirdof its residents, down from75 percent a few decadesago.Elias Joha, a 44-year-old

Christian who runs a sou-venir store, said even withthe U.N. recognition, this

year’s celebrations were sadfor him. He said most of hisfamilyhas left,and that if hehad the opportunity, hewould do the same.“These celebrations are

not even for Christians be-cause there are no Chris-tians. It is going from bad toworse from all sides ... weare not enjoying Christmasas before.”Located on the southeast-

ern outskirts of Jerusalem,Bethlehem has the highestunemployment in the WestBank, but the tourist boomof Christmas offered a briefreprieve. Officials say all 34hotels in the town are fullybooked for the Christmasseason, including 13 newones built this year.Israel turned Bethlehem

over to Palestinian civil con-trol a few days beforeChristmas in 1995, andsince then, residents havebeen celebrating theholidayregardless of their religion.Many Muslims took part incelebrationMonday as well.Christians across the re-

gionmarked the holiday.In Iraq, Christians gath-

ered for services with tightsecurity, including at Bagh-dad’s Our Lady of Salvationchurch, the scene of a brutalOctober 2010 attack thatkilled more than 50 wor-shippers and woundedscores more.Earlier this month, Car-

dinal Leonardo Sandri, whois responsible for the Vati-can’s outreach to theMiddleEast’s Catholic communi-ties, traveled to Iraq andpresided over a Mass torededicate the church fol-lowing renovations. In hishomily, he rememberedthose who were killed andexpressed hope that “thetears shed in this sacredplace become the good seedof communion and witnessand bear much fruit,” ac-cording to an account byVatican Radio.

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VATICANCITY—InhisChristmas message to theworld Tuesday, Pope Bene-dict XVI called for an end tothe slaughter in Syria andformoremeaningful negoti-ations between Israelis andPalestinians, while encour-aging more religious free-dom under China’s newleaders.Delivering the traditional

speech from the central bal-cony of St. Peter’s Basilica,Benedict also encouragedArab spring nations, espe-cially Egypt, to build justand respectful societies.The pope prayed that

China’s new leadershipmay“esteem the contribution ofthe religions, in respect foreach other” to help build a“fraternal society for thebenefit of that noble people.”Itwas a clear reference to

the Chinese government’soften harsh treatment ofCatholics loyal to the pontiffinstead of to the state-sanc-tioned church. Earlier thismonth, the Vatican refusedto accept the decision byChinese authorities to re-voke the title of a Shanghaibishop, who had been ap-pointed in a rare show ofconsensus between theHolySee and China.As the 85-year-old pontiff,

bundled up in an ermine-trimmed red cape, gingerlystepped foot on the balcony,the pilgrims, tourists andRomans below backing St.Peter’s Square erupted incheers.Less than 12 hours ear-

lier, Benedict had led a two-hour long Christmas Eveceremony in the basilica.Hesounded hoarse and lookedweary as he readhisChrist-masmessage and then holi-day greetings in 65languages.In his “Urbi et Orbi”

speech, which traditionallyreviews world events andglobal challenges, Benedictprayed that “peace springup for the people of Syria,deeply wounded and di-vided by a conflict that doesnot spare even the defense-less and reaps innocent vic-tims.”He called for easier access

to help refugees and for “di-alogue in the pursuit of a po-litical solution to theconflict.”Benedict prayed thatGod

“grant Israelis and Pales-tinians courage to end longyears of conflict and divi-sion, and to embark res-olutely on the path tonegotiation.”Israel, backed by the

United States, opposed thePalestinian statehood bid,saying it was a ploy to by-pass negotiations, some-thing the Palestinians deny.Talks stalled four years ago.SeniorPalestinian official

Saeb Erekat said that in ameeting with the pope lastweek,PalestinianPresidentMahmoud Abbas “empha-sized our total readiness toresume negotiations.” ThePalestinians have notdropped their demand thatIsrael first stop settlementactivities before returning tothe negotiating table.Hours earlier, in the an-

cient Bethlehem churchbuilt over the sitewhere tra-dition holds Jesuswas born,candles illuminated the sa-cred site and the joyoussound of prayer filled itsoverflowing halls.Overcast skies and a cold

wind in the Holy Land did-n’t dampen the spirits ofworshippers in the biblicalWest Bank town. Bellspealed and long linesformed inside the fourth-century Church of the Na-tivity complex as Christianfaithful waited to see thegrotto that is Jesus’ tradi-tional birthplace.Duncan Hardock, 24, a

writer from MacLean, Vir-ginia, traveled toBethlehemfrom the republic ofGeorgia,where he had been teachingEnglish. After passingthrough the separation bar-rier Israel built to ward off

West Bank attackers, hewalked to Bethlehem’sManger Square where thechurch stands.“I feel we got to see both

sides of Bethlehem in a re-ally short period of time,”Hardock said. “On our walkfrom the wall, we got to seethe lonesome, closed side ofBethlehem ... But the mo-mentwegot into town,we’resuddenly in the middle ofthe party.”Bethlehem lies 10 kilo-

meters (6 miles) south ofJerusalem.Entry to the cityis controlled by Israel,whichoccupied the West Bank in1967.For those who couldn’t fit

into the cavernous Bethle-hem church, a loudspeakeroutside broadcast theChristmas day service tohundreds of faithful in thesquare.Their Palestinian hosts,

whowelcome this holiday asthe high point of their city’syear, were especially joyousthis season, proud of theUnited Nations’ recognitionof an independent state ofPalestine just last month.“From this holy place, I

invite politicians andmenofgood will to work with de-termination for peace andreconciliation that encom-passes Palestine and Israelin the midst of all the suf-fering in the Middle East,”said the topRomanCatholiccleric in the Holy Land,Latin PatriarchFouadTwalin his annual address.Back at the Vatican,

Benedict offered encourage-ment to countries after theArab spring of democracyprotests. He had a specialword for Egypt, “blessed bythe childhood of Jesus.”Without citing the tumul-

tuous politics and clashes inthe region, he urged theNorth African region tobuild societies “founded onjustice and respect for thedignity of every person.”Benedict prayed for the

return of peace in Mali andharmony in Nigeria, where,he recalled “savage acts ofterrorism continue to reapvictims, particularly amongChristians.”The Vatican for decades

has been worried about thewell-being of its flock inChina, who are loyal to thepope in defiance of the com-munist’s government sup-port of an officiallysponsored church, and rela-tions between Beijing andtheHolySee are often tense.Speaking about China’s

newly installed regime lead-ers, Benedict expressedhope that “they will esteemthe contribution of the reli-gions, in respect for eachother, in such a way thatthey can help to build a fra-ternal society for the benefitof that noble people and ofthe whole world.”Acknowledging Latin

America’s predominantChristian population, heurged government leadersto carry out commitments todevelopment and to fightingorganized crime.In Britain, the royal fam-

ilywas attendingChristmasDay church services at St.MaryMagdeleneChurch onQueen Elizabeth II’ssprawling Sandringhames-tate, though there were afewnotable absences.PrinceWilliam is spending thehol-iday with his pregnant wifeKate and his in-laws in thesouthern England village ofBucklebury, while PrinceHarry is serving withBritish troops inAfghanistan.Later Tuesday, the queen

delivered her traditional,prerecorded Christmasmessage, which for the firsttime was broadcast in 3D.AtCanterbury cathedral,

Anglican leader RowanWilliams delivered his finalChristmas day sermon asarchbishop of Canterbury.He acknowledged how thechurch’s General Synod’svote against allowingwomen to become bishopshad cost credibility and saidthe faithful felt a “real senseof loss” over the decision.

Pope’s Christmas messagefocuses on Mideast, China Thousands enjoy merry

Christmas in Bethlehem

NASSER SHIYOUKHI/AP PHOTOPeople walk inside the Church of Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians tobe the birthplace of Jesus Christ, ahead of Christmas, in theWest Bank town ofBethlehem, Sunday.

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Firefighters’ killer leftchilling note, deaths at 3

DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE, JAMIE GERMANO/AP PHOTOFirefighters battle a blaze after they were let back in, Monday inWebster, N.Y. A gunman ambushed four vol-unteer firefighters responding to an intense pre-dawn house fire Monday morning outside Rochester, N.Y.,killing two and ending up dead himself, authorities said. Police used an armored vehicle to evacuate morethan 30 nearby residents.

BY GEORGE M. WALSH ANDMARY ESCHAssociated Press

WEBSTER, N.Y. — An ex-conkilled two firefighters with the samecaliber and make military-style rifleused in the Connecticut school mas-sacre after typing a note pledging toburn down his neighborhood and “dowhat I like doing best, killing people,”police said Tuesday as another body,believed to be the gunman’s missingsister, was found.William Spengler, 62, who served

17 years in prison for manslaughterin the 1980 hammer slaying of hisgrandmother, set his house afire be-fore dawn Christmas Eve before tak-ing a revolver, a shotgun and asemiautomatic rifle to a sniper posi-tion outside,Police Chief Gerald Pick-ering said.The death toll rose to three as po-

lice revealed that a body believed tobe the killer’s 67-year-old sister,Cheryl Spengler, was found in hisfire-ravaged home.Authorities say he sprayed bullets

at the first responders, killing twofirefighters and injuring two otherswho remained hospitalized Tuesdayin stable condition, awake and alertand expected to survive. He thenkilled himself as seven houses burnedon a sliver of land along Lake On-tario.Police recovered a military-style

.223-caliber semiautomatic Bush-master rifle with flash suppression,the same make and caliber weaponused in the elementary school mas-sacre in Newtown, Conn., that killed26, including 20 young children,Pick-ering said.The chief said it was believed the

firefighters were hit with shots fromthe rifle given the distance but the in-vestigation was incomplete.“He was equipped to go to war, kill

innocent people,” the chief said.The two- to three-page typewritten

rambling note left by Spengler did notreveal what set off the killer or pro-vide a motive for the shootings, Pick-ering said. He called the attack a“clear ambush on first responders.”

He declined to reveal the note’s fullcontent or saywhere it was found.Heread only one chilling line:“I still haveto get ready to see how much of theneighborhood I can burn down, anddo what I like doing best, killing peo-ple.”Pickering said it was unclear

whether the person believed to beSpengler’s sister died before or duringthe fire.“It was a raging inferno in there,”

Pickering said.A next-door neighbor said Spengler

hated his sister and they lived on op-posite sides of the house.Roger Vercruysse said Spengler

loved his mother, Arline, who died inOctober after living with her son anddaughter in the house in a neighbor-hood of seasonal and year-roundhomes across the road from alakeshore popular with recreationalboaters.As Pickering described it and as

emergency radio communications onthe scene showed, the heavily armedSpengler took a position behind asmall hill by the house as four fire-fighters arrived after 5:30 a.m. to ex-tinguish the fire: two on a fire truck;two in their own vehicles.They were immediately greeted by

bullets fromSpengler,whowore darkclothing.Volunteer firefighter and po-lice Lt.Michael Chiapperini, 43, driv-ing the truck,was killed by gunfire asthe windshield before him was shat-tered. Also killed was Tomasz Kac-zowka, 19, who worked as a 911dispatcher.Several firefighters went beneath

the truck to shield themselves as anoff-duty police officer who was pass-ing by pulled his vehicle alongside thetruck to try to shield them, authori-ties said.The first police officer who arrived

chased and exchanged shots withSpengler, recounting it later over hispolice radio.“I could see the muzzle blasts

comin’ at me. ... I fired four shots athim. I thought he went down,” the of-ficer said.At another point, he said: “I don’t

know if I hit him or not.He’s by a tree.... He was movin’ eastbound on theberm when I was firing shots.” Pick-ering portrayed him as a hero whosaved many lives.The audio posted on the website

RadioReference.com also has some-one reporting “firefighters are down”and saying “got to be rifle or shotgun—high-powered ... semi or fully auto.”Spengler had been charged with

murder in his grandmother’s deathbut pleaded guilty to a reducedcharge of manslaughter, apparentlyto spare his family a trial. After hewas freed from prison, Spengler — afelon who wasn’t allowed to possessweapons — had lived a quiet life onLake Road on a narrow peninsulawhere Irondequoit Bay meets LakeOntario.That ended when he left his burn-

ing home Monday morning, armedwith his three weapons and a lot ofammunition.“I’m not sure we’ll ever know what

was going through his mind,” Picker-ing said.___

Esch reported from Albany. Associ-ated Press writer Larry Neumeister inNew York City also contributed to thisreport.

Newtown celebratesChristmas andremembers victimsBY BROCK VERGAKIS AND STEPHENSINGERAssociated Press

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown celebratedChristmas amid piles of snow-covered teddy bears,long lines of stockings and heaps of flowers as vol-unteers manned a 24-hour candlelight vigil in mem-ory of the 20 children and six educators gunneddown at an elementary school just 11 days beforethe holiday.Well-wishers from around the country showed up

Christmas morning to hang ornaments on a seriesof memorial Christmas trees while police officersfrom around the state took extra shifts to direct traf-fic, patrol the town and give police here a break.“It’s a nice thing that they can use us this way,”

Ted Latiak, a police detective from Greenwich,Conn., said Christmas morning, as he and a fellowdetective, each working a half-day shift, came out ofa store with bagels and coffee for other officers.The expansive memorials throughout town have

become a gathering point for town residents and vis-itors alike.A steady stream of residents, some in pa-jamas, relit candles that had been extinguished inan overnight snow storm. Others took pictures,dropped off toys and fought back tears at a hugesidewalk memorial in the center of Newtown’sSandy Hook section that is filled with stuffed ani-mals, poems, flowers, posters and cards.In the morning, Newtown resident Joanne

Brunetti watched over 26 candles that had been litat midnight in honor of those slain at Sandy HookElementary School. She and her husband, Bill,signed up for a three-hour shift and erected a tent toensure that the candle flames never went outthroughout the day.“You have to do something and you don’t know

what to do, you know? You really feel very helplessin this situation,” she said. “People have been won-derful to everybody in Newtown whether you werepart of what happened or not. My thought is if wewere all this nice to each other all the time maybethings like this wouldn’t happen.”At a town hall memorial, Faith Leonard waved to

people driving by and handed out Christmas cook-ies, children’s gifts and hugs to anyone who neededit.“I guess my thought was if I could be here helping

out maybe one person would be able to spend moretime with their family or grieve in the way theyneeded to,” said Leonard, who drove to Newtownfrom Gilbert,Ariz., to volunteer on Christmas morn-ing alone. “I know they’ve been inundated with sup-port and that’s great, but it’s always nice to have apresent to open on Christmas day.”Julian Revie played “Silent Night” on a piano on

the sidewalk at the downtown memorial. Revie,from Ottawa, Canada, was in the area visiting at thetime of the shootings. He cancelled his plans to go toAustralia, found a piano online and chose to spendChristmas Eve and Christmas Day playing for thepeople of Newtown.

“It was such a mood of respectful silence,” saidRevie, who planned to leave the piano behind. “Butyesterday being Christmas Eve and today beingChristmas Day, I thought now it’s time for someChristmas carols for the children.”Many town residents attended Christmas Eve

services Monday evening and spent the morning athome with their families. Others attended churchservices in search of a new beginning.At St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church,

which eight of the child victims of the massacre at-tended, the pastor told parishioners that “today isthe day we begin everything all over again.”Recalling the events at Sandy Hook Elementary

School on Dec. 14, the Rev. Robert Weiss said: “Themoment the first responder broke through the doorswe knew good always overcomes evil.”“We know Christmas in a way we never ever

thought we would know it,” he said. “We need a lit-tle Christmas and we’ve been given it.”Police have yet to offer a theory about a possible

motive for gunman Adam Lanza’s rampage on Dec.14. The 20-year-old Newtown man, who lived athome, killed his motherin her bed before carryingout the massacre at theelementary school, thenkilling himself.Most businesses were

closed for the holiday andthe heavy traffic near me-morials that has beenever present since theshootings largely disap-peared for the day. Still, asteady stream of out-of-state vehicles passed by,with many passengerstaking pictures of the me-morials from their cars.Some stopped to get outand contribute to them.Philadelphia resident

Ed Sison brought his wifeand 9-year-old son toNewtown on Tuesdaywhile they were on theirway to see family in Mas-sachusetts. They deco-rated memorial treeswith ornaments andbeads, among otherthings.“It’s an event that just

touches us all. We have ayoung son and you knowwe all feel the pain,” hesaid.

SPENGLER

Wis. man’s Little Free Library copied worldwideBY STEVEKARNOWSKIAssociated Press

HUDSON, Wis. — Itstarted as a simple tributeto his mother, a teacher andbibliophile. Todd Bol put upa miniature version of aone-room schoolhouse on apost outsidehis home in thiswestern Wisconsin city,filled it with books and in-vited his neighbors to bor-row them.They loved it, and began

dropping by so often that hislawn became a gatheringspot.Then a friend inMadi-son put out some similarboxes and got the same re-action. More home-craftedlibraries began popping uparoundWisconsin’s capital.Three years later, the

whimsical boxes are a globalsensation. They number inthe thousands and havespread to at least 36 coun-tries, in a testimonial to thepower of a good idea, the

simple allure of a book andthe wildfire of the internet.“It’s weird to be an inter-

national phenomenon,” saidBol, a former internationalbusiness consultant whofinds himself at the head ofwhat has become the LittleFreeLibraries organization.The book-sharing boxes arebeing adopted by a growing

number of groups as a wayof promoting literacy ininner cities andunderdevel-oped countries.Bol, his Madison friend

Rick Brooks, and helpersrun the project froma funkyworkshopwith aweatheredwood facade in an otherwisenondescript concrete indus-trial building outside Hud-

son, a riverside communityof 12,000 about 20 mileseast of downtown St. Paul,Minn. They build woodenbook boxes in a variety ofstyles, ranging frombasic toa miniature British-stylephone booth,and offer themfor sale on the group’s web-site, which also offers plansfor building your own. Sizes

vary.The essential traits arethat they are eye-catchingand protect the books fromthe weather.Each little library invites

passersby to “take a book,return a book.”Educators in particular

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U.S. holiday retail sales growth weakest since 2008BY DANIEL WAGNERAP Business Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) —U.S. holiday retail salesthis year grew at the weak-est pace since 2008, whenthe nationwas in a deep re-cession. In 2012, the shop-ping season was disruptedby bad weather and con-sumers’ rising uncertaintyabout the economy.A report that tracks

spending on popular holi-day goods, the MasterCardAdvisors SpendingPulse,said Tuesday that sales inthe two months beforeChristmas increased 0.7percent, compared withlast year. Many analystshad expected holiday salesto grow 3 to 4 percent.In 2008, sales declined

by between 2 percent and 4percent as the financial cri-sis that crested that falldragged the economy intorecession. Last year, bycontrast, retail sales in No-vember and December rosebetween 4 percent and 5percent, according to Shop-perTrak, a separate mar-ket research firm. A 4percent increase is consid-ered a healthy season.Shoppers were buffeted

this year by a string ofevents thatmade them lesslikely to spend: SuperstormSandy and other badweather, the distraction ofthe presidential electionand grief about the mas-sacre of schoolchildren inNewtown, Conn. The num-bers also show how Wash-ington’s current budgetimpasse is trickling downto Main Street and unset-tling consumers. If Ameri-cans remain reluctant tospend, analysts say, eco-nomic growth could falternext year.In the end, even steep

last-minute discountsweren’t enough to get peo-ple into stores, said Mar-shal Cohen, chief researchanalyst at the market re-

search firm NPD Inc.“A lot of the Christmas

spirit was left behind wayback in Black Friday week-end,” Cohen said, referringto the traditional retailrush the day after Thanks-giving. “We had one reasonafter another for con-sumers to say, ‘I’m going tostick to my list and not gobeyond it.’”Holiday sales are a cru-

cial indicator of the econ-omy’s strength. Novemberand December account forup to 40 percent of annualsales for many retailers. Ifthose sales don’t material-ize, stores are forced tooffer steeper discounts.That’s a boon for shoppers,but it cuts into stores’ prof-its.Last-minute shoppers

like Kris Betzold, ofCarmel, Ind., embraceddiscounts that were avail-able before Christmas.“We went out yesterday,

and I noticed that the saleswere even better now thanthey were at Thanksgiv-

ing,” said Betzold Mondaywhile shopping at an up-scale mall in Indianapolis.Betzold, who said the slug-gish economy promptedher and her husband to bemore frugal this year, notedthat she saved about $25on a Kindle Fire she foundat Best Buy.Spending by consumers

accounts for 70 percent ofoverall economic activity, sothe eight-week period en-compassed by the Spend-ingPulse data is seen as acritical time not just for re-tailers but for manufactur-ers, wholesalers andcompanies at every otherpoint along the supplychain.The SpendingPulse data

include sales by retailers inkey holiday spending cate-gories such as electronics,clothing, jewelry, luxurygoods, furniture and otherhome goods between Oct.28 and Dec. 24. They in-clude sales across all pay-ment methods, includingcards, cash and checks.

It’s the first major snap-shot of retail sales duringthe holiday season throughChristmas Eve. A clearerpicture will emerge nextweek as retailers likeMacy’s and Target reportrevenue from stores openfor at least a year. Thatsales measure is widelywatched in the retail in-dustry because it excludesrevenue from stores thatrecently opened or closed,which can be volatile.Despite the weak num-

bers out Tuesday, retailersstill have some time tomake up lost ground. Thefinal week of December ac-counts for about 15 percentof the month’s sales, saidMichael McNamara, vicepresident for research andanalysis at MasterCardAdvisors SpendingPulse.As stores offer steeper dis-counts to clear some oftheir unsold inventory, theymay be able to soften someof the grim results reflectedin Tuesday’s data.Still, this season’s weak

sales could have repercus-sions for 2013, he said. Re-tailers will make fewerorders to restock theirshelves, and discounts willhurt their profitability.Wholesalers, in turn, willbuy fewer goods, and or-ders to factories for con-sumer goods will likelydrop in the comingmonths.In the run-up to Christ-

mas, analysts blamed theweather and worries aboutthe “fiscal cliff” for puttinga damper on shopping. Su-perstorm Sandy batteredthe Northeast and mid-At-lantic states in late Octo-ber. Many in the New Yorkregion were left withoutpower, and people fartherinland were buried underfeet of snow. According toMcNamara, the Northeastand mid-Atlantic accountfor 24 percent of U.S. retailsales.

Buying picked up in thesecond half of November asretailers offered more dis-counts and shoppers way-

laid by the storm finallymade it into malls, he said.But as the weather

calmed, the threat of the“fiscal cliff” picked up. InDecember, lawmakers re-mained unable to reach adeal that would preventtax increases and govern-ment spending cuts set totake effect at the beginningof 2013. If the cuts and taxhikes kick in and stay inplace for months, manyeconomists expect the na-tion could fall back into re-cession.The news media dis-

cussed this possibilitymoreintensely as Decemberwore on, making Ameri-cans increasingly aware ofthe economic troubles theymight face ifWashington isunable to resolve the im-passe. Sales never fully re-covered, Cohen said.The results were weak-

est in areas affected bySandy and a more recentwinter storm in the Mid-west. Sales declined by 3.9percent in themid-Atlanticand 1.4 percent in theNortheast compared withlast year.They rose 0.9 per-cent in the north centralpart of the country.The West and South

posted gains of between 2percent and 3 percent, stillweaker than the 3 percentto 4 percent increases ex-pected by many retail ana-lysts.Online sales, typically a

bright spot, grew only 8.4percent from Oct. 28through Saturday, accord-ing to SpendingPulse.That’s a dramatic slow-down from the online salesgrowth of 15 to 17 percentseen in the prior 18-monthperiod, according to thedata service.Online sales did enjoy a

modest boost after the re-cent snowstorm that hitthe Midwest, McNamarasaid. Online sales make upabout 10 percent of totalholiday business.

CHRIS CARLSON/AP PHOTOIn this Dec. 20 photo, aholiday shoppers re-flected in a ornamenthanding from a largeChristmas tree at Fash-ion Island shopping cen-ter in Newport Beach,Calif. U.S. holiday retailsales this year are theweakest since 2008, aftera shopping season dis-rupted by storms and ris-ing uncertainty amongconsumers. A report outTuesday that tracksspending, called Master-Card Advisors Spending-Pulse, says holiday salesincreased 0.7 percent.Analysts had expectedsales to grow 3 to 4 per-cent.

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just trying to win whenprized rookies TrentRichardson and BrandonWeeden were injured inthe second half of the 34-12 loss."What do we do, just

stop playing?" Shurmursaid Monday. "So you justrun the ball and get out ofthere, warm up the buses?Is that what? We're tryingto do what we can to movethe football. At that time itwas a three-score game.Typically that meansthrow it."Facing a defense that

knew he had to pass,backup Colt McCoy wassacked four times duringhis brief relief appearancefor Weeden."I was just trying to not

get knocked out," saidMcCoy, whose 2011 seasonended when he sustaineda concussion in Pitts-burgh. He hadn't thrown a

pass since then in a regu-lar-season game until awobbly Weeden went outSunday."We were pretty far be-

hind at that point when Igot in, so I assumed wewould start throwing,"McCoy said. "It took a cou-ple series getting used tothe pocket — hadn't hadany reps, hadn't sat backthere in a while — so get-

ting a feel for how thoseguys were playing, Imaybe missed a couplethrows early."A couple times I just

threw the ball in the dirtto let those guys (team-mates) rest. We werethrowing the ball downthe field and those guyswere tired."Shurmur said he was

unaware of McCoy's com-ments. He did know aboutkick returner Josh Cribbs'profane postgame tweet tofans and did not approve."That's not acceptable,"

Shurmur said. "I don't likethat and he shouldn't dothat. I think he's remorse-ful. But he shouldn't bereading tweets after agame. Emotions are rawwhen you don't win. It isimportant we use goodjudgment."Bitter fans have ques-

tioned Shurmur's deci-sions all year. Their latestoutburst came after Wee-den was hurt on a third-quarter sack andRichardson went downwhen McCoy rolled up onthe back of his leg afterbeing hit on Cleveland'ssecond-to-last offensiveplay."We don't want to get

anybody hurt," Shurmur."Anybody on the field isexposed to injury."Shurmur remains hope-

ful Weeden and Richard-son can play in Pittsburghon Sunday."I wouldn't rule them

out yet," he said. "We'restill evaluating those in-juries. In the case of Trent,

it involved his ankle. TheX-rays didn't show abreak. He was actually feeling

better today. Brandon, itwas his right shoulder. Atthis point it's a sprain."I think it's important if

guys are physically able toplay, they play. That's thecompetitive nature of thisgame."Richardson has set

Browns rookie rushingrecords of 950 yards and11 touchdowns. ThoughWeeden has 17 intercep-tions to 14 touchdownpasses, his 3,385 yards are10th in team history.The Browns (5-10) prob-

ably need a good gamefrom both of their ailingfirst-round draft picks tobeat the Steelers (7-8) andavoid going 5-11 for thethird time in four years. Avictory would put themtwo games ahead of Shur-mur's first season inCleveland a year ago —but might not be enoughto guarantee him a thirdchance.New owner Jimmy

Haslam and CEO JoeBanner have said onlythat they are evaluatingall aspects of the organi-zation. Sweeping changesare expected after Cleve-land's 12th losing seasonin 14 years.Having so many in-

juries hasn't helped. Still,Shurmur expects hisyoung replacements tobattle."Those are excuses,"

Shurmur said of utilizingsecond- and third-

stringers. "The next guyup has to play well."Shurmur believes rook-

ies getting thrown into thefray has helped the youngBrowns become more com-petitive. He termed the loss in

Denver disappointing butnot discouraging, and seesprogress."I feel like we're much

improved," Shurmur said."I believe we're a betterfootball team, more readyto make the next jumpthan we were last year."

NOTES:WR MohamedMassaquoi, who missedSunday's game with aknee injury, was placed oninjured reserve. TheBrowns also promoted QBThad Lewis from the prac-tice squad. He could serveas McCoy's backup if Wee-den sits against the Steel-ers. Massaquoi had 17catches for 245 yards andmade five starts. His con-tract expires in March andthis may have been theformer second-roundpick's final season inCleveland. ... DB SheldonBrown sustained a con-cussion when hit by Bron-cos WR Brandon Stokley,who was penalized for anillegal hit. Shurmur didn'tthink Stokley was inten-tionally trying to hurtBrown, but that thepenalty was warranted. ...Shurmur thinks OL JohnGreco (thumb), "will beOK." ... Cribbs called outfans only a few days afterthanking them for votingfor him for the Pro Bowl.

Pat Shurmur had his decision-making questioned again Sunday in a loss to Denver.AP PHOTO

Shurmur remains defiantWeeden, Richardson hurt late in Broncos loss

MIAMI (AP) — RyanFreel, a former MajorLeague Baseball playerk n o w nfor hisfearlessplay butw h o s ec a r e e rwas cuts h o r ta f t e re i g h tseasonsby a se-ries of head and other in-juries, was found deadSaturday in Jacksonville,Fla., according to theJacksonville Sheriff's Of-fice.Freel, who was 36, died

of what appeared to be aself-inflicted shotgunwound, sheriff's officespokesman ShannonHartley wrote in an emailSunday. The medical ex-aminer will make thefinal determination of thecause of death."RIP Ryan Freel!! Great

teammate, great guy,nloved his family!" formerCincinnati Reds team-mate Sean Casey tweeted."Such a sad day todaywith his passing!Awfulnews!Prayers are with hisfamily!"The speedy Freel spent

six of his eight big leagueseasons with the Reds andfinished his career in 2009with a .268 average and143 steals."Really hurt by his

passing!" Reds secondbaseman BrandonPhillips said on Twitter."You'll never will be for-gotten."Freel drew attention in

2006 when he was quotedby the Dayton Daily Newsas saying he had an imag-inary friend, Farney. "He'sa little guy who lives inmy head who talks to meand I talk to him," Freelwas quoted as saying."Everybody thinks I talkto myself, so I tell 'em I'mtalking to Farney."The Jacksonville native

thrilled fans with his all-out style, yet it took a tollon his career. During hisplaying days, he once esti-mated he had sustainedup to 10 concussions.Freel missed 30 games in2007 after a collision witha teammate caused a con-cussion.Freel showed no fear as

he ran into walls, hurtledinto the seats and crashedinto other players tryingto make catches. His jar-ring, diving grabs oftenmade the highlight reels,and he was praised bythose he played with andagainst for always havinga dirt-stained uniform.Selected by the Toronto

Blue Jays in the 10thround of the 1995 ama-teur draft out of Tallahas-see Community College,Freel made his big leaguedebut in April 2001 withthe Blue Jays after secondbaseman Homer Bush in-jured a thumb.Freel appeared in just

nine major league gamesthat season, became a freeagent and spent all of2002 at Tampa Bay'sTriple-A farm team. Hesigned a minor leaguedeal with the Reds thatNovember and made itback to the majors the fol-lowing April.He stayed with the

Reds through 2008, whena torn tendon in his righthamstring caused him tomiss the final 103 gamesof the season. He wastraded to Baltimore atthat December's wintermeetings.

Former Redfound deadFreel playedfor eight years

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Vick likely tostart SundayPHILADELPHIA (AP) —

Eagles rookie quarterbackNick Foles has a brokenright hand, and coachAndy Reid said MichaelVick will likely start againstthe New York Giants inSunday's season finale.Reid said Monday that

Foles broke his throwinghand in the second quarterof a 27-20 loss to Wash-ington, but returned to thegame after X-rays at thestadium were negative.Vick hasn't played since

suffering a concussionduring a loss to the Cow-boys on Nov. 11. He wasrecently cleared to return."There's a pretty good

chance Michael will be thestarter," Reid said. "That'swhat we're looking at rightnow. That's the directionI'm going as we speakright now."The Eagles (4-11) went

1-5 with the 23-year-oldFoles as the starter."I banged it up a little in

the first half," he said. "Itdidn't affect my throwing atall."Reid added because it's

a non-displaced fracture,Foles should be 100 per-cent in about three weeks."He was in quite a little

bit of pain," Reid said.

BEREA AP) — TheCleveland Browns aredown to their third-stringquarterback.With both Brandon

Weeden and Colt McCoymissing practice Wednes-day due to right shoulderinjuries, Thad Lewis tookfirst-team snaps in prac-tice. Elevated from thepractice squad on Monday,Lewis could make hisNFL debut in Pittsburghon Sunday.The Browns also signed

free agent quarterbackJosh Johnson, who spentfour seasons in TampaBay.Johnson replaced safety

Usama Young on the ros-ter as the Browns look forprotection at quarterback,where starter Weedenwent out with a sprained

right shoulder in Cleve-land's 34-12 loss in Den-ver on Sunday.Coach Pat Shurmur

said Wednesday thatMcCoy also has a soreright shoulder. NeitherWeeden nor McCoy prac-ticed. Rookie runningback Trent Richardsonalso missed practice be-cause of a sprained leftankle."The injuries to Bran-

don and Trent are not asserious as you might havethought," Shumur said."We'll see how they comeback. If they are healthy,they will play. If theycan't, I have no problemruling them out."Shurmur also did not

rule out McCoy.When the Browns (5-10)

play the Steelers (7-8),they will be looking fortheir first series sweepagainst their rivals since

1988.They could be doing it

with Lewis in command.The 25-year-old was on St.Louis' practice squad in2010 when Shurmur wasan assistant with theRams. The Brownsclaimed him on waivers inSeptember 2011, but hehas yet to take a snap in aregular-season game.Shurmur said he has

confidence in Lewis, whoplayed quite a bit in exhi-bition games this pastsummer. He added thatJohnson is familiar withthe Browns' West Coast of-fense, but would needtime to learn the play-book.McCoy was hurt some-

time after replacing Wee-den in the second halfagainst the Broncos. Hewas sacked four times inhis limited appearance,but Shurmur said he did-

n't know if it was one par-ticular play that causedthe problem."Colt came in and told

us he was sore," Shumursaid. "He's gettingtreated."Young sustained a

thumb injury that likelywill require surgery. Hejoins a battered defensivebackfield that is alreadymissing T.J. Ward with aknee injury. CornerbackSheldon Brown sustaineda concussion in Denver.The club also signed de-fensive back JordanMabin to the practicesquad.Johnson played in 26

games for the Buccaneersafter being a fifth-roundchoice in 2008. He startedfive games and threw forfive touchdowns and 10interceptions overall. Hewas in San Francisco'scamp this summer.

Browns down to third stringWeeden, McCoymiss practice

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College Football FBS Bowl GlanceSubject to ChangeAll Times EST

Saturday, Dec. 15New Mexico BowlAt AlbuquerqueArizona 49, Nevada 48Famous Idaho Potato BowlAt Boise, IdahoUtah State 41, Toledo 15

Thursday, Dec. 20Poinsettia BowlAt San DiegoBYU 23, San Diego State 6

Friday, Dec. 21Beef 'O' Brady's BowlAt St. Petersburg, Fla.UCF 38, Ball State 17

Saturday, Dec. 22New Orleans BowlLouisiana-Lafayette 43, East Carolina 34MAACO BowlLas VegasBoise State 28, Washington 26

Monday, Dec. 24Hawaii BowlAt HonoluluSMU 43, Fresno State 10

Wednesday, Dec. 26Little Caesars Pizza BowlAt DetroitCentral Michigan (6-6) vs. Western Kentucky

(7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Thursday, Dec. 27Military BowlAtWashingtonBowling Green (8-4) vs. San Jose State (10-2),

3 p.m. (ESPN)Belk BowlAt Charlotte, N.C.Duke (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 6:30 p.m.

(ESPN)Holiday BowlAt San DiegoBaylor (7-5) vs. UCLA (9-4), 9:45 p.m. (ESPN)

Friday, Dec. 28Independence BowlAt Shreveport, La.Louisiana-Monroe (8-4) vs. Ohio (8-4), 2 p.m.

(ESPN)Russell Athletic BowlAt Orlando, Fla.Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Rutgers (9-3), 5:30 p.m.

(ESPN)Meineke Car Care BowlAt HoustonMinnesota (6-6) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 9 p.m.

(ESPN)

Saturday, Dec. 29Armed Forces BowlAt FortWorth,TexasRice (6-6) vs. Air Force (6-6), 11:45 a.m.

(ESPN)Fight Hunger BowlAt San FranciscoArizona State (7-5) vs. Navy (8-4), 4 p.m.

(ESPN2)Pinstripe BowlAt NewYorkSyracuse (7-5) vs.West Virginia (7-5), 3:15 p.m.

(ESPN)Alamo BowlAt San AntonioTexas (8-4) vs. Orgeon State (9-3), 6:45 p.m.

(ESPN)BuffaloWildWings BowlAt Tempe, Ariz.Michigan State (6-6) vs. TCU (7-5), 10:15 p.m.

(ESPN)

Monday, Dec. 31Music City BowlAt Nashville,Tenn.Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. N.C. State (7-5), Noon

(ESPN)Sun BowlAt El Paso,TexasGeorgia Tech (6-7) vs. Southern Cal (7-5), 2

p.m. (CBS)Liberty BowlAt Memphis,Tenn.Iowa State (6-6) vs. Tulsa (10-3), 3:30 p.m.

(ESPN)Chick-fil-A BowlAt AtlantaLSU (10-2) vs. Clemson (10-2), 7:30 p.m.

(ESPN)

Tuesday, Jan. 1Heart of Dallas BowlAt DallasPurdue (6-6) vs. Oklahoma State (7-5), Noon

(ESPNU)Gator BowlAt Jacksonville, Fla.Mississippi State (8-4) vs. Northwestern (9-3),

Noon (ESPN2)Capital One BowlAt Orlando, Fla.Georgia (11-2) vs. Nebraska (10-3), 1 p.m.

(ABC)Outback BowlAt Tampa, Fla.South Carolina (10-2) vs.Michigan (8-4), 1 p.m.

(ESPN)Rose BowlAt Pasadena, Calif.Stanford (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (8-5), 5 p.m.

(ESPN)Orange BowlAt MiamiNorthern Illinois (12-1) vs. Florida State (11-2),

8:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Wednesday, Jan. 2Sugar Bowl

At New OrleansFlorida (11-1) vs. Louisville (10-2), 8:30 p.m.

(ESPN)

Thursday, Jan. 3Fiesta BowlAt Glendale, Ariz.Kansas State (11-1) vs. Oregon (11-1), 8:30

p.m. (ESPN)

Friday, Jan. 4Cotton BowlAt Arlington,TexasTexas A&M (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (10-2), 8 p.m.

(FOX)

Saturday, Jan. 5BBVA Compass BowlAt Birmingham, Ala.Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Mississippi (6-6), 1 p.m.

(ESPN)

Sunday, Jan. 6GoDaddy.com BowlAt Mobile, Ala.Kent State (11-2) vs. Arkansas State (9-3), 9

p.m. (ESPN)

Monday, Jan. 7BCS National ChampionshipAt MiamiNotre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama (12-1), 8:30

p.m. (ESPN)

Saturday, Jan. 19RAYCOM College Football All-Star ClassicAt Montgomery, Ala.Stars vs. Stripes, 3 p.m. (CBSSN)East-West Shrine ClassicAt St. Petersburg, Fla.East vs.West, 4 p.m. (NFLN)

Saturday, Jan. 26Senior BowlAt Mobile, Ala.North vs. South, TBA (NFLN)

Bowl Glance

HONOLULU (AP) — Mar-gus Hunt knew he had eighthours to fill on the flight overthe Pacific Ocean, so he askedthe SMU staff to put togetherfilm of Fresno State for him tostudy. He hit the Bulldogs likea tidal wave Monday night inthe Hawaii Bowl.The 6-foot-8 defensive end

raced around right tackle toblindside Derek Carr and forcea fumble. Hunt smashed intorunning back Robbie Rouse ona delayed handoff and forcedanother fumble. On a three-man rush, he sacked Carr inthe end zone for a safety.It was an inspiring perform-

ance by the senior from Esto-nia, and it set the tone for theMustangs' 43-10 win."That was a lot of fun," Hunt

said. "We knew from the get-goit was going to be a Mondaynight football game, the onlygame in the nation.We wantedto show our skills and makesome plays. To me personally ...this is where it all started. It'sgood to end on this note."The Mustangs (7-6) also re-

turned two interceptions fortouchdowns, giving them eightfor the season to tie the NCAArecord set last year by South-ern Miss. Hayden Greenbauerpicked off Carr and returned it83 yards with 1:14 left, thefinal blow to a miserable nightfor the Bulldogs (9-4).SMU had seven sacks, more

than double the most FresnoState had given up in a gameall year.Garrett Gilbert was effective

with his arm and his legs, run-ning for a 17-yard touchdownfor the first score of the gameand throwing a perfect strike to

Darius Johnson for a 21-yardscore to answer the Bulldogs'only touchdown. He rushed for98 yards on 18 carries andthrew for 212 yards.But this game was decided

by the Mustangs' defense, withHunt leading the way. He wasvoted the game's MVP."We tried some slide protec-

tions to 92 (Hunt). You know,they beat us," Fresno Statecoach Tim DeRuyter said. "Wetried going empty to spreadthings out and get it out quick,we tried to max protect. Every-thing we tried didn't work."Fresno State, the Mountain

West Conference champion,has lost its last four bowlgames.SMU, which went 25 years

without a bowl after its NCAAdeath penalty, now has playedin a school-record four straightbowls, winning three of them.Hunt was a mystery when thatrun started in 2009, a goldmedalist in the shot put anddiscus in Beijing at the 2006Junior World Championshipswho came to SMU for track andfield and turned to footballwhen it was his only hope ofscholarship money.SMU coach June Jones has a

knack for taking a chance onathletes from other sports, andhe liked what he saw, from the82-inch wing span to the 4.7speed in the 40."It's not hard for me to see a

world-class athlete who canrun like that, has strength likethat, has an arm length likethat," Jones said. "The firstscrimmage we had ... the onlything I didn't know was if hewas going to be tough enough.The first play we ran a trap

and hit him real hard, and hewanted to fight. I said, 'OK, wemay have a player here.'"His best football is ahead of

him," Jones said. "I was reallyexcited, on a national stage, forhim to have that kind of agame."The Bulldogs turned in a

dud.Fresno State, which had av-

eraged just over 47 points in itslast five games, was shut out inthe first half for the first timein two years. Carr was too busyrunning for his life to get theBulldogs into any kind of offen-sive rhythm. And when theBulldogs finally scored with10:21 left in the third quarter,Gilbert led the Mustangs on a75-yard drive that he finishedwith a pinpoint pass to John-son in the corner for a touch-down."That drive there put the

game away in essence," Gilbertsaid. "For us to respond likethat and put six points on thatboard was big."It allowed Jones to walk out

of Aloha Stadium with yet an-other win.He was the coach at Hawaii

for eight years, leaving after itsunbeaten regular season in2007. Jones now has won 10straight games in Aloha Sta-dium, dating to a December2006 loss to Oregon State."I just want to say 'Aloha' to

the seniors," Jones said duringthe trophy presentation. "Wesaid we were going to do it andwe did it."Without hardly breaking a

sweat.The 10 points matched the

fewest Fresno State has scoredthis year, dating to its 20-10

loss to Boise State. Carr was33-of-54 passing for 362 yards,but most of that came late inthe game when the Bulldogswere trying to catch up.He was overwhelmed by the

Mustangs' defensive front, par-ticularly Hunt, who had twosacks, two forced fumbles andthree tackles behind the line ofscrimmage."When you go three-and-out,

it feels like there's no rhythmat all," Carr said.After a dull, scoreless open-

ing quarter, Gilbert shook offone tackle and scored on a 17-yard run.The defense took overfrom there.Hunt blew past right tackle

Alex Fifita and blindsided Carr,dropping him flat as the ballcame loose and was scooped upby Aaron Davis, who returnedit 23 yards to the Fresno State16 until he fumbled it out ofbounds. SMU had to settle fora field goal. On the next series,Carr scrambled backward andcouldn't escape an 18-yard sackto the 6, and then Hunt sackedhim in the end zone for a safety.Hunt wasn't finished. On

second-and-7 from the 33, Carrgave it to Robbie Rouse on a de-layed handoff, right about thetime Hunt showed up to dis-rupt the play and cause an-other fumble that Taylor Reedrecovered. That drive wentbackward, and Chase Hoverconnected from 48 yards.Jones' only concern was hav-

ing to settle for field goals, fear-ing that might come back tohaunt the Mustangs givenFresno State's explosive offen-sive. Not to worry. The SMUdefense dominated to the verylast score.

SMU’s Zach Line runs away from Fresno State’s Derron Smith Monday at the Hawaii Bowl.AP PHOTO

Bulldogs hit by SMU tidal waveFresno State crushed by Mustangs 43-10 in Hawaii Bowl

Boise State’s Shane Williams-Rodes is chased bykicker Travis Coons Saturday.

AP PHOTO

No place likeLas Vegas BowlLAS VEGAS (AP) — The last two

times Boise State played in the LasVegas Bowl, there were other placesthe Broncos wanted to be. Not so onSaturday, when the smallest playeron the team came up big in a 28-26victory over Washington.After two straight blowouts in the

Las Vegas Bowl, the Broncos had towork hard for a win sealed by a 27-yard field goal by 5-foot-5 MichaelFrisina with 1:16 left. It left themfeeling good about a game and a sea-son when, unlike the last two years,there was hardly any talk aboutBoise State being in a BCS game."The most satisfying thing about

this season was each week you'd seeus get just a little bit better," BoiseState coach Chris Petersen said."These guys, they don't go throughthe motions. They have a chip ontheir shoulder."The win capped another strong

year for the No. 20 Broncos (11-2),who had to overcome a 205-yard

rushing game by Bishop Sankeyagainst their normally stingy de-fense. Sankey also had 74 yards re-ceiving, giving him 279 ofWashington's 447 yards from scrim-mage.But it was Frisina who came up

with the biggest game of his careerin his final game. He kicked threefield goals, including the first gamewinner he could ever recall booting."It's every kicker's dream to win a

big game with a field goal," Frisinasaid. "For this one to come on thelast game of my career, you couldn'task for anything more.'Washington (7-6) had taken the

lead for the first time on a 38-yardfield goal by Travis Coons with 4:09left when No. 20 Boise State got abig kickoff return by freshmanShane Williams-Rhodes to theWashington 42. Joe Southwickguided the team to the 12 before

Boise State edges Washington

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Frisina hit the winningkick."I was just focused on

what I had to do," Frisinasaid. "I'm there as the in-surance guy, I guess you'dsay."Boise State sealed the

win when Jeremy Ioaneintercepted Keith Price'spass as the Huskiesneared midfield."To their credit they

found a way to win thegame in the end," saidWashington coach SteveSarkisian. "Our inabilityto finish is pretty blaring."Sankey, who was third

on the depth list when fallpractice began, rushed 30times and caught sixpasses in the biggest gameof his career. He scoredone touchdown and wasthe MVP of the game, de-spite being on the losingside."There's a lot of mixed

emotions going on,"Sankey said. "The MVPdoesn't mean so muchwhen you come out aloser."Frisina was only 12 for

17 on field goals cominginto the game, but kickedthree of them, including a34-yarder to open thescoring that was his firstfield goal over 30 yards forthe year.Southwick, meanwhile,

had another efficientgame, completing 26 of 38passes for 264 yards andtwo touchdowns for aBoise State team thatstruggled offensivelythrough much of the sea-son before improving overits last three games."All year I knew I could

play at this level," he said."It's just a lot of work, a lotof moving parts to put thepuzzle together. The lastthree games it's reallyshowed. We've just beenexecuting at a high levelin the offense."Southwick, a junior who

took over from the depart-ing Kellen Moore, also ran

for 39 yards and had apunt that pinned Wash-ington by its goal line inthe fourth quarter.Boise State, which

outscored Utah and Ari-zona State 82-24 in its twoprevious Las Vegas Bowlwins, looked headed for athird straight blowoutwhen Holden Huff scoredon a 34-yard pass with5:25 left in the secondquarter for an 18-3 lead.But Sankey scored on a26-yard run on Washing-ton's next possession, andPrice scrambled for an-other score with 3 secondsleft to make it 18-17 athalftime.The teams traded long

drives in the third quarter,with Boise going 74 yardsin 15 plays to open thesecond half, and Washing-ton responding with a 75yard, 12 play drive. TheHuskies went for a 2-pointconversion that wouldhave tied it, but the passwas incompleteSankey kept Washing-

ton in the game almost byhimself in the first half,scoring the first touch-down for the Huskies andgaining huge chunks ofyardage against the nor-mally stingy Bronco de-fense.Of the 238 yards Wash-

ington gained in the half,Sankey had 178 of them.He ran 16 times for 130yards and stretched outtwo short passes for an-other 48 yards.Boise State was playing

without starting defensiveend Demarcus Lawrence,the team's sack leader.Lawrence was sent homeThursday for violating un-specified team rules, hissecond suspension of theseason.The two teams had met

only once before, but theywon't have to wait long tomeet again.They will playin the opener of Washing-ton's new stadium nextAugust.

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It's been quite a fewweeks surrounding theCincinnati Bearcats' foot-ball program.After completing a

strong 9-3 season, theBearcats found them-selves in a state of limbo.And it had absolutely

nothing to do with whatbowl they'd play in be-cause since they didn'twin the Big East outright,the Bearcats kind of had afeeling it would be a tripto the Belk Bowl in Char-lotte since the BowlChampionship Series bidfor the conference went toLouisville because of itsranking in the final poll.The limbo was created

by now former head coachButch Jones.It seemed like every

coaching opening thatpopped up during late No-vember and early Decem-ber, he was linked to. Atfirst, it appeared as if he'dbe heading to Colorado.He later turned that jobdown and eventually ac-cepted the head job atTennessee on Dec. 7.The Bearcats' adminis-

tration didn't sit aroundand sulk after losing thehighly successful Jones,who replaced Brian Kelly,who left to take the NotreDame job three seasonsago. Cincinnati hiredhighly successful coachTommy Tubberville awayfromTexas Tech on Dec. 8.If the coaching search

wasn't enough, theBearcats — and basicallyall of the membership ofthe Big East — find them-selves in a state of limbobecause of the continualconference realignment.

All of the basketball-onlymembers of the Big Easthave voted to dissolve theleague, while Rutgers isheaded to the Big Ten,which join Pitt and Syra-cuse, who are heading tothe ACC next season andWest Virginia, whichbolted the Big East for theBig 12 in June.Now, as the bowl games

have began to take the at-tention off of the coachingsearches and conferences,the Bearcats have achance to focus strictly ontheir upcoming challenge,which is a date with theDuke Blue Devils in theBelk Bowl.The Bearcats and Blue

Devils will meet on Thurs-day at Bank of AmericaStadium in Charlotte withkickoff slated for 6:30 p.m.This week's game will bethe first-ever meeting be-tween the two schools.Cincinnati is the only

school in a FBSAutomaticQualifier conference tohave won at least a pieceof its conference title infour of five years.Included was the piece

of the pie the Bearcatswon last season, but theywere dispatched to theAutoZone Liberty Bowl inMemphis because, simi-larly to this season, theBearcats missed out onthe BCS berth, which wasclaimed by WVU.As they'll try to do this

week, too, the Bearcatsput that disappointmentbehind them and man-aged to win the bowl gameagainst Vanderbilt, 31-24.A win this week would

be UC’s fifth win in sixbowl appearances.

Bearcats dealwith changeFace Duke in Belk Bowl

NEW ORLEANS (AP)— Whether TerranceBroadway was throwing,running, or throwing onthe run, he gave East Car-olina fits and justifiedLouisiana-Lafayette coachMark Hudspeth's decisionto let his sophomore quar-terback finish the seasonas his starter.Broadway passed for

316 yards and ran for 108,helping Louisiana-Lafayette repeat as win-ners of the New OrleansBowl with a 43-34 victoryagainst East Carolina onSaturday.The performance

capped a 2012 campaignwhich opened with Broad-way backing up seniorBlaine Gautier, who brokea bone in his throwinghand in late September."Terrance comes in and

just has a phenomenalseason," Hudspeth said,describing the difficult de-cision not to give Gautier,the New Orleans BowlMVP a year ago, his jobback when he was healthyagain late in the season."We really had hit ourstride and the best thingabout Blaine is he under-stood."Broadway had to sit out

last season after transfer-ring from Houston, andsaw this year's New Or-leans Bowl as his first realchance to add some kindof championship to hisname after coming upshort as a high schoolstandout in Baton Rouge,La."My main goal was to

get our team a big win inthis bowl game and just toget that monkey off myback that I didn't have a

ring from high school andlast year," Broadway said."I was very focused onthat."Alonzo Harris rushed

for 120 yards, includingtouchdowns of 6 and 68yards for the Ragin' Ca-juns (9-4), who brieflysquandered a three-touch-down lead before movingback in front for good onBroadway's 14-yard scor-ing pass to Javone Lawsonlate in the third quarter."Nothing fazes our

team," said Broadway,who also ran for a 12-yardscore. "Everybody on ourteam responds to adver-sity well. So when theycame back on us and madea game out of it, our teamis still upbeat and sayingwe're going to win thisgame."And they did, with

Brett Baer adding his sec-ond and third field goalsin the fourth quarter toseal the victory.Shane Carden passed

for 278 yards and twotouchdowns for East Car-olina (8-5) but was inter-cepted in Cajuns territoryby Jemarlous Moten inthe fourth quarter as ECUdrove for a potential tyingor go-ahead score."They did a good job of

changing, I guess, the cov-erage throughout thegame," Carden said ofULL. "But I think our of-fense could execute a lotbetter. It was nothing re-ally they were doing. Itwas a lot of us just not ex-ecuting routine plays."The Pirates' Reggie Bul-

lock rushed for 104 yardsand two touchdowns."The game plan was

fine. We just needed the

execution of the calls.We've always played hard.That was not a problem,"East Carolina coach Ruf-fin McNeill said. "We hada chance there late in thegame. ... I was proud of ourguys."Carden's touchdowns

went to Justin Hardy for19 yards and Danny Web-ster for 16 yards. Hardyfinished with five catchesfor 59 yards. East Car-olina's Andrew Boden-heimer had five catchesfor a team-high 65 yards,but could not secure a cru-cial fourth-down pass inthe final minutes as de-fensive back T.J. Worthyripped the ball away inECU territory.That allowed the Ca-

juns to run the clock downto 15 seconds before set-ting up Baer's final fieldgoal from 40-yards out.Jamal Robinson had six

catches for 116 yards forULL, including a 39-yarder that was Broad-way's longest completion.Lawson finished with fourcatches for 71 yards.The Cajuns carried a

37-31 lead into the fourthquarter after Lawson jug-gled but secured the ballfor a sprawling, rolling TDcatch.The point-after kick

failed, however, and EastCarolina made it 37-34 onWarren Harvey's 26-yardfield goal.Broadway's intercep-

tion on a tipped pass gaveEast Carolina the ball onthe Cajuns 39, but Motenstepped in front of Car-den's long pass over themiddle to help preservethe slim lead.Red-clad Ragin' Cajuns

fans made up the bulk of arecord New Orleans Bowlcrowd of 48,828, and theywere celebrating early.Broadway's scoring run,

his ninth rushing TD ofthe season, gave ULL a 7-0 lead and Harry Peoples'10-yard scoring made it14-0.ECU didn't get a first

down until early in thesecond quarter, when Car-den converted on third-and-long with JabrilSolomon for a 45-yardgain.That set up Bullock'sfirst touchdown from 5yards out to make it 14-7.Harris' two scores had

the Cajuns seemingly incommand at 28-7, butECU responded with twotouchdowns in a span of13 seconds to make it aone-score game.First came Hardy's

leaping, outstretched grabin the back of the endzone.Then Darryl Surgent

fumbled a kickoff return,giving ECU the ball on theCajuns 16. Carden foundWebster over the middlefor a score on the nextplay.Louisiana-Lafayette

was able to regain somemomentum in the final 37seconds of the first half,driving 47 yards on fiveplays to set up Baer's 50-yard field goal, which wasthe same distance and di-rection as his game-win-ner at the end of lastyear's New Orleans Bowl.The Pirates tied it in

the third quarter on Har-vey's 45-yard field goaland Bullock's 13-yardscoring run, capping adrive that included a con-verted fourth-and-3.

‘Broadway’ perormanceLouisiana-Lafayette quarterback steals show in New Orleans

East Carolina’s Justin Hardy makes a touchdown catch as MelvinWhite tries to jar the ball loose.AP PHOTO