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Auburn resident Jason Reinewald uses a snowblower to clear the driveway next to his South Indiana Avenue home Thursday afternoon following heavy snowfall.

FROM STAFF REPORTSAUBURN — Area residents

and business owners used snowplows, snowblowers, shovels and even leaf blowers to dig out Thursday after a winter storm dumped 5 to 8 inches of snow on northeast Indiana overnight.

LaGrange and Steuben counties and the northern portions of Noble and DeKalb counties received the heaviest amounts. Winds gusting to 25 mph caused drifting and blowing snow.

“Road conditions are terrible,” DeKalb County Sheriff’s Depart-ment Capt. Michael Keesler said

Thursday evening. “From 6 a.m. through 5 p.m. there have been 20 weather-related accidents. Most have been slide-offs with minimal damage.”

Adding to misery and inconve-nience were the unseasonably low temperatures. Thursday’s high in Auburn was 14 degrees, with wind chills making it feel like 2-below-zero. A slight warm up is expected over the weekend with the high for Saturday of 31. Sunday will see a high of 24.

Below-zero temperatures are forecast for Monday and Tuesday.

Snow dayWeather socks area, frigid temps are on way

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OCTAVIA LEHMAN

DeKalb Health hospital in Auburn kicked off its 50th anniversary celebrations Thursday with a gathering in the hospital’s south lobby. From left are DeKalb Health Board of Directors chairman

Robert Menzie, DeKalb Health Foundation director Anna Nixon and DeKalb Health CEO Fred Price.

BY KATHRYN BASSETTkbassett@kpcmedia.com

AUBURN — Fifty years after the opening its doors, staff and supporters of DeKalb Health hospital gathered Thursday to kick off a celebration of a half-century of service to the community.

Fred Price, DeKalb Health’s chief executive offi cer, said that while celebrating its 50th anniversary, the hospital also will “leapfrog” into the next 50 years.

“This is not just about today,” Price told those who had assembled in the hospital’s south lobby. “We’re going to take this entire year to celebrate the 50th year.”

Dubbed the “Miracle of Indiana” because of the immense community support that made its creation possible, DeKalb Memorial Hospital opened its doors on Jan. 2, 1964. Over the 50 years since, it’s seen many

accomplishments, milestones and growth, including the creation of its DeKalb Health corporate identity in 2011. It has undergone several additions and expansions, including the opening of Emergency Medical Services in 1975; the completion of the Medical Arts Center East three-story wing in 1992; the Surgical Center in 2008; and new facilities for ICU, Emergency,

DeKalb Health kicks off its 50th anniversary celebrations

OCTAVIA LEHMAN

Jim and Sara Spence of Angola welcomed their son, Jaxon Adam Spence, as the fi rst baby of 2014 at DeKalb Health hospital Wednesday morning at 8:31 a.m.

BY OCTAVIA LEHMANolehman@kpcmedia.com

AUBURN — The second child for Jim and Sara Spence of Angola came as an early surprise. Their son, not due until Jan. 21, was born on New Year’s Day, earning the title of the fi rst baby of the year at DeKalb Health hospital.

Jim said he and his wife planned to get together with family, but that all changed when Sara experienced contractions on New Year’s Eve.

The couple instead headed to DeKalb Health hospital. The next day, Sara gave birth to Jaxon Adam Spence at 8:31 a.m., weighing in at 6 pounds, 5 ounces and 19 3/4 inches long.

Despite getting caught by a train, Sara’s physician, Dr. Lindsay M. Coda, made it to the hospital in time to deliver the baby.

“I waited as much as I could until she got here,” Sara said.

County’s fi rst baby comes 3 weeks early

SEE BABY, PAGE A8

SEE DEKALB HEALTH, PAGE A8

Former Israeli offi cial Sharon turns critical

JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma for eight years, was in critical condition on Thursday, clinging to life after a decline in the functioning of various

bodily organs, his doctors said.

Dr. Zeev Rotstein, director of Tel Hashomer hospital, said Sharon’s condition had deteriorated

over the past two days and that a number of vital organs, including his kidneys, were suffering from “critical malfunction.” His family was at his bedside, he added.

“He is in critical condition and his life is defi nitely in danger,” Rotstein told reporters at the hospital, just outside Tel Aviv. “The feeling of the doctors treating him and also that of the family with him is that there is a turn for the worse.”

Winter storm bears down on northeast

BOSTON (AP) — A storm expected to bring more than a foot of snow, stiff winds and punishing cold pushed into the Northeast on Thursday, extending Christmas break for some students while posing the fi rst test for New York’s new mayor and perhaps the last challenge for Boston’s outgoing one.

Some schools in New England and New York closed well ahead of the snow, while cities mobilized plows and salt spreaders, and state offi ces sent workers home early. Some major highways were ordered closed overnight. U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,300 fl ights nationwide on Thursday in advance of the storm.

The heavy weather began rolling in just a day after New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was sworn in to lead the nation’s largest city and a few days before Boston Mayor Thomas Menino ends 20 years in offi ce.

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AUBURN — Mike Watson, the president of the Auburn Plan Commission, was elected Thursday night in a Republican caucus to fi ll the vacant 4th District seat on the Auburn City Council.

Watson beat out challenger Troy Ackerman in a single round of voting at DeKalb County Republican Party headquarters in Auburn. He fi lls the 4th District seat formerly held by councilman Dick Stahly, who resigned last month after moving out of the district.

Watson was introduced to voting precinct committee members at the caucus by Waterloo Town Marshal Jay Oberholtzer. A longtime Auburn business owner and current general manager of the local ACE Hardware, Watson has served on the Auburn Chamber of Commerce board, the Economic Development Partnership, the Kiwanis Club, the city’s downtown advisory committee and the Downtown Auburn Business Association and the DeKalb County Community Corrections board.

Watsonto fi ll council seat

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ANGOLA — Many of the motions made in the case pitting owners of a Fort Wayne strip club and the city of Angola have been denied in a ruling handed down in U.S. Federal District Court in South Bend Thursday.

Alva and Sandra Butler, Fort Wayne, and their company, BBL Inc., have sued Angola in federal court, alleging their First and 14th

Amendment rights have been violated by the city when they tried to open a strip club at the former location of Slider’s Grill and Bar, 310 W. Wendell Jacob Ave.

Judge Robert L. Miller’s ruling was handed down shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday.

“The city’s initial review is the court ruled favorably on the majority of the city’s issues and we are no doubt pleased,” said Scott Bergthold, one of the

attorneys representing the city, Thursday night.

A key decision was Miller denying a request for prelim-inary injunction that could have paved the way toward Butler opening a strip club sooner than later, if ever.

Miller ruled that BBL had not yet established a business that could have later been regulated out of existence by administrative rulings by the city, changes in zoning and the creation of a sexually

oriented business law as alleged by Butler. Miller also ruled that Butler lost certain property rights because he did work on the premises without a building permit, a matter that was greatly disputed in an Oct. 25, 2013, hearing.

What remains is the Butlers’ First Amendment claim that when the city created a new ordinance relating to sexually oriented businesses, there were not adequate alternative sites.

Butler’s claim for costs and attorney fees also remains active.

“The plaintiffs’ First Amendment claim on the suffi ciency of adequate alternative sites and claim for costs and attorney fees (via case law) survive,” Miller wrote.

Bergthold said he did not want to comment on parts of the litigation that survive. Instead, Bergthold said he and the city’s legal team

will analyze the ruling and determine how best to move forward in handling the case.

Comment from Butler’s legal team was sought Thursday night, but they were still analyzing the judge’s decision, which was 73 pages.

Butler and his company, BBL Inc., are the founders of the Showgirl strip clubs in Fort Wayne. He is the owner of Showgirl III in Fort Wayne.

City of Angola pleased with Showgirl court rulings

CHAD KLINE

Clouds of fl uffAnthony Harman watches as snow fi lls the air from his snow blower Thursday afternoon in Kendallville. As snow

fell throughout the day, many stayed busy clearing drives and sidewalks of several inches of the white stuff.

Local police arrest 3AUBURN — Local police arrested three people from

Monday through Tuesday, according to DeKalb County Jail records.

Seth A. Sponhower, 40, of the 200 block of South Ijams Street, Garrett, was arrested at 6:05 p.m. Monday by Garrett police on a warrant charging him with failure to appear for court. He was being held without bond.

Kevin Galligher, 27, of the 5800 block of C.R. 427, Auburn, was arrested at 8:22 p.m. Monday by DeKalb County police on a warrant charging him with failure to report to jail. He was being held without bond.

Derek R. Fleckenstein, 35, of the 400 block of South Walsh Street, Garrett, was arrested at 5:57 a.m. Tuesday by Auburn police on charges of battery resulting in bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor and criminal mischief, a Class B misdemeanor. He was being held without bond.

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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld the seven-year prison sentence of a Butler man convicted of possession of metham-phetamine.

Harold Evans, formerly of the 100 block of East Main Street, pleaded guilty to the Class C felony as part of a plea agreement filed in May 2013 in DeKalb Superior Court II.

According to the court of appeals decision filed Tuesday, Evans originally was charged with a more serious Class B felony, which was amended as part of the agreement. A charge of visiting a common nuisance, a Class B misdemeanor, as well as four additional criminal charges in pending matters, were dismissed as part of the agreement. Sentencing was left to the discretion of the court.

In upholding the seven-year sentence, the court of appeals noted Evans has a 39-year criminal history that began with a juvenile delinquency adjudication in 1974. Evans’ adult criminal history includes three felony convictions,

numerous misdemeanors and the dismissal of “countless” additional charges as parts of various plea agreements.

“Despite being given the grace of probation on several occasions, the record reveals that Evans has violated the terms of probation time and time again,” the court of appeals said in its ruling. “Similarly, although he has repeatedly received substantial benefit from all of his guilty pleas, Evans has failed to rehabilitate himself.”

The court also found that Evans has a long history of substance abuse and some mental health issues and has failed to properly address the problems, despite being offered counseling to do so.

“Further, the record indicates that Evans has not had gainful employ-ment in the last twelve years, and he admits that most of his current friends have, at one time or another, been in trouble with the law,” the court found. “According to a risk assessment evalua-tion, Evans is in the high risk category to reoffend. Under the circumstances, Evans’ character does not support a sentence revision.”

Court of appeals upholds Butler man’s sentence

USF launches program to serve new tech grads

FORT WAYNE (AP) — The University of Saint Francis has become the first campus in a five-state area to embark on a faculty training program aimed directly at better serving students arriving from new tech high schools, said Alan Veach, director of Regional Development at the New Tech Network in Cincin-nati.

Indiana has 29 of the country’s 134 new tech schools, edging out larger states such as California with 22 and Texas with 13, according to the New Tech Network, an organi-zation that works nation-wide to provide services and support to develop new tech programs in public schools.

The northeast corner of Indiana is bustling with new tech schools, including New Tech Wayne High School and Towles New Tech Middle

School in Fort Wayne. Others include Eagle Tech Academy in Columbia City, Lakeland’s Leading EDGE in LaGrange, Viking New Tech in Huntington, DeKalb County New Tech High School and Adams Central Jet Tech in Monroe.

Man stole, sold brain samples

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say a man stole brain samples of long-dead mental patients from the Indiana Medical History Museum that were later sold online.

Marion County court documents say 21-year-old David Charles of Indianap-olis broke into the museum several times over the past year and stole jars of preserved human tissues.

The Indianapolis Star reports police arrested Charles on Dec. 16 after investigators were tipped off by a San Diego man who became suspicious about six jars of brain tissue he bought off eBay for $600.

State auditor sworn in

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former state Rep. Suzanne Crouch has been sworn in as Indiana’s new state auditor during a ceremony at the Statehouse.

Gov. Mike Pence signed paperwork making fellow Republican Crouch the state’s chief fi nancial offi cer while former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard administered the oath of offi ce during Thursday’s ceremony. Shepard and Crouch both hail from southwestern Indiana’s Vanderburgh County.

Crouch will serve out the remainder of former Auditor Tim Berry’s term, which runs through January 2015. Berry left the job this past summer after Pence tapped him to run the Indiana Republican Party.

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AUBURN — The DeKalb County Health Department will offer flu vaccine for children and adults on Jan. 13 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. by appoint-ment only.

Children age six months through 18 years are eligible for the free vaccine if they have Medicaid/Hoosier Healthwise, no insurance, insurance that does not pay for vaccine or are an Alaskan Native or an American Indian.

On the same date and times fl u vaccine will be offered to adults by appoint-ment only. The cost for the adult fl u vaccine is $11 per shot. The eligibility require-ments listed for children do not apply for the adult vaccine.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, call the health department at 925-2220.

Statewide, some of Indiana’s hospitals are

reporting sharp increases in flu cases as the state heads into what’s typically the peak months for the illness.

The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control say Indiana is among 23 states reporting regional infl uenza outbreaks, the Evansville Courier & Press reported.

Doctors have seen a big increase in patients with flulike symptoms at St. Mary’s Convenient Care in Evansville, where physician John Honning-ford said there’s been “a marked increase” in flu cases over the past two weeks. He estimated there have been between 30 and 40 diagnosed cases of flu at the clinic within the last month.

January and February typically are the peak flu months in the U.S., although small numbers of flu cases circulate for much of the year.

Health department offering fl u vaccine

News host makesapology for jokesabout Romney baby

NEW YORK (AP) — An MSNBC host apologized to Mitt Romney’s family Tuesday after she and guests on her show joked about a Christmas picture that showed the 2012 Republican presiden-tial candidate’s adopted, African-American grandson.

Melissa Harris-Perry said her intention was to celebrate diversity, but the segment took an unexpected and offensive turn when she asked her guests to talk about a photo showing infant Kieran Romney with his grandparents and their 21 other grandchildren, all of them white.

One guest on her Sunday show, actress Pia Glenn, sang “one of these things just isn’t the same.”

Comedian Dean Obeidallah said it “sums up the diversity of the Republican party.”

Harris-Perry said she’d like to see Kieran marry Kanye West’s daughter so West and Romney would be in-laws.

Two newspaperscall for clemencyfor Snowden

LONDON (AP) — The New York Times and Guardian newspapers have called for clemency for Edward Snowden, saying that the espionage worker-turned-privacy advocate should be praised rather than punished for his disclo-sures.

The papers — both of which have played a role in publishing Snowden’s intelligence trove — suggested late Wednesday that the former National Security Agency contractor’s revelations about the United States’ world-spanning espionage program were of such public importance that they outweighed any possible wrongdoing.

“Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and fl ight,” the Times said, calling either for a plea bargain, some form of clemency, or a “substan-tially reduced punishment.”

The Guardian said it hoped “calm heads within the present (U.S.) adminis-tration are working on a strategy to allow Mr. Snowden to return to the U.S. with dignity, and the president to use his executive powers to treat him humanely and in a manner that would be a shining example about the value of whistleblowers and of free speech itself.”

But the paper also said it was hard to envision President Barack Obama giving the leaker “the pardon he deserves.”

Toronto mayorrunning again

TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has put his name on the ballot to run for another term, defying repeated calls for him to step down after admitting he smoked crack “in a drunken stupor.”

Ford was the fi rst candidate to show up at City Hall when registration opened Thursday for the city’s municipal election Oct. 27.

He promised “Ford more years,” and also called himself “the best mayor this city has ever had.”

“If you want to get personal, that’s fi ne,” Ford told reporters during a press scrum. “I’m sticking to my record, and talk is cheap. You’re going to see action like you’ve never seen before.”

He was more restrained on Twitter, tweeting a photo of himself signing up to run again and saying simply, “Just fi led my paperwork for the 2014 election. Vote on October 27th.”

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NOTICE OF ADOPTIONBY PUBLICATION

PRAECIPE FOR SUMMONSDEKALB CIRCUIT/SUPERIOR II

COURTCAUSE NO. 17D02-1312-AD-00034

STATE OF INDIANACOUNTY OF DEKALB, SS:

IN RE: THE MATTER OF THEADOPTION OF:

REECE MICHAEL JONESTIMOTHY WAYNE KESSLER,

PETITIONERTo: Clerk of the DeKalb Circuit/Su-

perior II CourtPetitioner Timothy Wayne Kessler,

by counsel, praecipes service bypublication and in support of saidpraecipe would show:

1. Contemporaneous herewith Peti-tioner files his Petition for Adoption.

2. The father of the child subject ofthe adoption is unknown.

3. The Affidavit of the biologicalmother offered in support of thispraecipe is attached hereto as Ex-hibit “A”.

Wherefore, Petitioner by counsel re-quests the Clerk to issue Summonsand Notice by Publication in accor-dance with Rule 4 to appear as fol-lows:

NOTICE TO UNNAMED FATHERThe unnamed putative father of the

child born to Jody Jones-Kessler on

February 17, 2000, is notified that apetition for adoption of the child wasin the office of the Clerk of DeKalbCounty Court, 100 S. Main Street,Auburn, Indiana 46706.

If the unnamed putative fatherseeks to contest the adoption of thechild, the unnamed putative fathermust file a motion to contest theadoption in accordance with IC31-19-10-1 in the above named courtwithin thirty (30) days after the dateof service of this notice. This noticemay be served by publication.

If the unnamed putative father doesnot file a motion to contest the adop-tion within thirty (30) days after serv-ice of this notice, the above namedcourt shall hear and determine thepetition for adoption. The unnamedputative father’s consent is irrevoca-bly implied and the unnamed putativefather loses the right to contest theadoption or the validity of the un-named putative father’s implied con-sent to the adoption. The unnamedputative father loses the right to es-tablish paternity of the child under IC31-14.

Nothing Jody Jones-Kessler or anyone else says to the unnamed puta-tive father of the child relieves theunnamed putative father of his obli-gations under this notice.

Under Indiana law, a putative fa-ther is a person who is named as orclaims that he may be the father of achild born out of wedlock, but whohas not been legally proven to be thechild’s father.

This notice complies with IC31-19-4-4 but does not exhaustivelyset forth the unnamed putative fa-ther’s legal obligations under the In-diana adoption statutes. A personbeing served with this notice shouldconsult the Indiana adoption statutes.

Stephen P. RothbergAttorney for Petitioner

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Expectations are rising for a stronger U.S. economy in 2014 after reports Thursday showed solid growth in manufacturing and construc-tion spending at the end of last year.

Factory activity in December stayed near a 2 ½ -year high. Americans are buying more cars and homes, increasing demand for steel, furniture and other manufactured goods. Manufacturers have boosted hiring to meet that demand and may add jobs at a healthier pace this year.

And builders stepped up spending on home construc-tion in November, despite recent increases in borrowing rates. That suggests many remain confi dent in the housing recovery.

The economy has had bursts of healthy growth since the recession ended in June 2009, only to be followed by disappointing slowdowns. But many analysts think growth is now more sustainable.

“There was strength in some important sectors of the economy at the end of last year,” Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics, said. “2014 could be the year where the recovery really starts to gain some ground.”

The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said Thursday that its index of manufacturing activity slipped to 57 in December from 57.3 the previous

month. But that’s still the second-highest reading since April 2011. And any reading above 50 signals growth.

The ISM’s measure increased for six straight months through November.

A measure of new orders rose to the highest level since April 2010. And a gauge of hiring increased to its highest level since June 2011. Indexes of produc-tion and manufacturers’ stockpiles fell.

Separately, construction spending rose 1 percent in November to a season-ally adjusted annual rate of $934.4 billion, the Commerce Department said. That’s the highest in more than four years.

Spending on home and apartment construction rose 1.9 percent to the highest level since June 2008. And commercial project spending increased 2.7 percent, led by offi ce, communication and transportation projects.

The reports add to other hopeful signs that 2014 could mark a turning point for an economy that has suffered through fi ts and starts since the recession ended.

Dales said the economy faces fewer barriers this year. Steep spending cuts or tax increases, which held back growth in 2013, are unlikely. Europe’s economy is picking up slightly after a long recession. And U.S. consumers have more money to spend, thanks to greater hiring and last year’s stock market surge.

Hopes high foreconomy afterstrong fi nish

BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion tore through a crowded commercial street Thursday in a south Beirut neighborhood that is bastion of support for the Shiite group Hezbollah, killing at least fi ve people, setting cars ablaze and sending a column of black smoke above the Beirut skyline.

The nature of the blast that hit during rush hour in the Haret Hreik neighbor-hood was not immediately clear, but a Lebanese security offi cial said it appeared to be caused by a car bomb. The offi cial spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.

If confi rmed as a

bombing, it would be the latest in a wave of attacks to hit Lebanon in recent months as the civil war in Syria increasingly spills over into its smaller neighbor. The violence has targeted both Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods, further stoking sectarian tensions that are already running high as each community in Lebanon lines up with its brethren in Syria on opposing sides of the war.

Lebanon’s offi cial National News Agency said at least fi ve people were killed and more than 50 wounded in the explosion, which left the mangled wreckage of cars in the street and blew out the windows of store fronts.

Beirut blast kills 5

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. As the Obama era nears its fi nal midterm elections, the campaign to succeed him has already begun: Prospective candidates on both

sides have been quietly courting donors, taking steps to build an organization and making scouting trips to early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The offi cial starting line, however, is likely a year away.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Democrats and Republi-cans, the early stages of the 2016 presidential contest are worlds apart.

Many Democrats already view Hillary Rodham Clinton as a quasi-incum-bent, someone who could take the reins from President Barack Obama. The former secretary of state has made no decisions about her political future but has done little to dampen enthusiasm about another presidential campaign, traveling the country making speeches and preparing to release another book.

Republicans have no clear front-runner and expect a crowded primary fi eld that could include fresh-faced candidates like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. For a party that typically backs established politicians, 2016 could be the most jumbled GOP White House campaign in a generation.

As the Obama era nears its fi nal midterm elections, the campaign to succeed him has already begun: Prospective candidates on both sides have been quietly courting donors, taking steps to build an organization and making scouting trips to early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The offi cial starting line, however, is likely a year away.

The coming year will be about building the foundations of a campaign, compiling a policy agenda and raising money for House, Senate and guberna-torial candidates who could become future allies.

And each side faces its own intra-party divisions.

Republicans are in the middle of a feud that pits establishment fi gures against tea party adherents. Democrats run the risk of souring on Obama’s brand — polls have shown a decline in his popularity since his re-election — and face a brewing split between liberals and centrists.

For Democrats, the presidential race hinges on whether Clinton runs again.

The former New York senator and fi rst lady to President Bill Clinton has dominated early polls among Democrats, with Vice President Joe Biden a distant second. There is no obvious challenger from the left, considering Massachu-setts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s vow to serve her full six-year term.

Potential candidates like Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana have visited early voting states but remain largely unknown to most voters. Some liberals might encourage former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to run again, but Clinton has the potential to unite the party.

Clinton’s movements will be closely watched

this year. She avoided most political activity in 2013 but is expected to be a top draw at Democratic fundraisers. The spring release of her memoir about her State Department years will include a national book tour, allowing her to discuss themes that might precede a presiden-tial campaign. Until she announces her decision, every word will be parsed for clues.

“It’s maybe an unprec-edented situation, with Hillary Rodham Clinton being as strong as an incumbent president running for re-election,” said Democratic strategist Tad Devine. “I really see her in a unique situation.”

If Clinton decides not to run, the Democratic primary could turn into a free-for-all.

Biden could inherit many Obama and Clinton supporters, but a Clinton-free race would open the door to candidates like O’Malley, who has assembled a record admired by many liberals, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a fundraising powerhouse, and Warren, who would be pressured by progressives to run. Other potential candidates could include New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner.

Republicans face much different terrain.

During the past half-cen-tury, the GOP has rarely nominated a candidate who has not previously run for president — the exceptions are Gerald Ford in 1976 and George W. Bush in 2000.

That could change in 2016. “More than any other time in my lifetime, things are wide open,” said Republican strategist Ron Kaufman.

Democrats, GOP takingdifferent paths to 2016

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James Avery of ‘Fresh Prince’ fame dead at 68

NEW YORK (AP) — James Avery, the bulky

character actor who laid down the law at home and on the job as the Honorable Philip Banks in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” has died.

Avery’s publicist, Cynthia Snyder, told The Associated Press that Avery died Tuesday in Glendale, Calif., following compli-cations from open heart surgery. He was 68, Snyder said.

Avery, who stood more than 6 feet tall, played the family patriarch and a wealthy attorney and judge on the popular TV comedy that launched the acting career of Will Smith as Banks’ troublemaking nephew.

The sitcom, which aired on NBC from 1990 to 1996, was set in the Banks’ mansion, where Smith’s character was sent from Philadelphia when things got tough in his own neighborhood. Fans came to know the imposing Banks as “Uncle Phil.”

Avery liked to say that the way to be an actor was to act, and he had a busy and diverse career before, during and after “Fresh Prince.” His TV credits included “Grey’s Anatomy,” ”NYPD Blue”

and “Dallas,” and among his many fi lms were “Fletch,” ”Nightfl yers” and “8 Million Ways to Die.” His voice alone brought him many jobs, notably as Shredder in the animated TV series “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

According to Snyder, he will be seen in the fi lm “Wish I Was Here,” directed by Zach Braff and scheduled to premiere later this month at the Sundance festival.

Avery grew up in Atlantic City, N.J., and served in the Navy in Vietnam in the late 1960s. After returning to the states, he settled in California and studied drama and litera-ture at the University of California at San Diego.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and stepson Kevin Waters.

School of Seven Bells co-founder Curtis dies

DALLAS (AP) — Benjamin Curtis, guitarist and co-founder of the popular indie-rock band School of Seven Bells, has died of cancer. He was 35.

Brady Brock with New York-based GoldVE Entertainment, which co-manages the band, says Curtis died Sunday evening of lymphoblastic lymphoma at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Curtis was diagnosed just under a year ago.

An Oklahoma native, Curtis lived in Dallas, where he played in bands including Tripping Daisy and Secret Machines. Brock says Secret Machines relocated to New York before Curtis went on to form School of Seven Bells with Alejandra de la Deheza.

Dorothy RobinsonBATTLE CREEK, Mich.

— Dorothy A. Robinson, 87, of Battle Creek passed away Monday, December 30, 2013, at Kairos Dwelling in Kalamazoo.

She was born on November 18, 1926, in Marshall to Howard L. and Mary A. (Cooper) DeLaney.

Dorothy graduated from Marshall High in School in 1944. She was united in marriage on June 24, 1944, to Ernest E. “Ed” Robinson, and he preceded her in death on July 2, 1993.

Dorothy worked for many years at Johnson Ceramics and Verona Ceramics.

Surviving are her sons, Dennis L. (Becky) Robinson of Grayling, and Kenneth L. (Debbie) Robinson of Richland; her daughters, Nancy J. Mercer, of Angola, Ind.; and Debra S. (Tim) Jordan, and Patricia A. (Bill) Yost, both of Battle Creek, nine grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and her brothers, Richard E. (Sandi) DeLaney of Battle Creek and Kenneth J. “Jack” (Dot) DeLaney, of Marshall.

She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, and served as Circle Chairman, president of the United Methodist Women, on the Board of Trustees, vice president of Church Women United, Four Square Sunday school class secretary, and sang in the choir. Dorothy enjoyed her church family and activities at Trinity United Methodist Church. She sang with the Valentine Singers of Burnham Brook and had also been a volunteer at Leila Hospital Auxiliary for fi ve years. During WWII she sang at Percy Jones Hospital to entertain the troops.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today, January 3, 2014, at the Richard A. Henry Funeral Home.

Interment will follow at Floral Lawn Memorial Gardens.

Memorial contributions may be given to Trinity United Methodist Church or Kairos Dwelling.

Go to www.henryfuner-alhome.org to send online condolences.

Lester TaylorFREMONT — Lester R.

Taylor, 72, of Fremont died Jan. 1, 2014, at his home.

There will be no services. Burial will be at a later date.

Memorials are to the family or to the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be sent online to www.beamsfuner-alhome.com.

Beams Funeral Home in Fremont is in charge of arrangements.

Raymond KennedyAUBURN — Raymond

L. Kennedy, 83, of Auburn passed away Tuesday, December 31, 2013, at DeKalb Health in Auburn.

He was born in Garrett on May 17, 1930, to the late Donald D. and Velma E. (Jordan) Kennedy.

Ray was an electrician at Phelps-Dodge in Fort Wayne for 40 years, then worked at Auburn Foundry before retiring in 1993. He also served as a Police Reserve Offi cer for the Auburn Police Department for almost 40 years.

He was a member of the Auburn First United Methodist Church.

Ray married Beverly E. Deetz on September 11, 1949, and she passed away February 12, 2010.

Surviving is a daughter-in-law, Sharon Kennedy of Auburn; two grandchildren, Kelly (John) Richie of Avilla and Aaron (Heather) Kennedy of Wolcottville; fi ve great-grandchildren, Allyssa Richie, Jonathon Richie, Ava Kennedy, Cole Kennedy and Ethan Hoover; three brothers and two sisters, Russell A. (Beverly) Kennedy of Garrett, Edward A. (Ginger) Kennedy of Garrett, Dale Kennedy of Garrett, Marilyn K. Miller of Garrett and Jane A. (Mike) Campbell of Albion.

Ray was preceeded in death by his parents, wife, a son Rodney Kennedy, a sister Patricia Royer and two brothers, Eugene Kennedy and Paul Kennedy.

Services are at 11 a.m. Saturday January 4, 2014, at Feller and Clark Funeral Home, 1860 Center Street, Auburn, IN with Rev. Ted Jansen offi ciating. Burial is in Fairfi eld Cemetery, Corunna.

Calling is 3 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Preferred Memorials can be directed to Auburn First United Methodist Church.

To send condolences visit www.fellerandclark.com.

Mary EashSHIPSHEWANA

— Mary Etta Eash, 78, of Shipshewana died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, at Parkview LaGrange Hospital in LaGrange.

Visitation will be all day today at the Marlin Eash residence, 0785 N. C.R. 1000W, Shipshewana.

Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday at the Mervin Wingard residence, 0635 N. C.R. 1000W, Shipshewana. Burial will be in Yoder Cemetery, Shipshewana.

Miller-Stewart Funeral Home, Middlebury, is in charge of arrangements.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court granted a law license Thursday to a man who has been living in the U.S. illegally for two decades, a ruling that advocates hope will open the door to immigrants seeking to enter other professions such as medicine, nursing and accounting.

The unanimous decision means Sergio Garcia, who attended law school and passed the state bar exam while working in a grocery store and on farms, can begin practicing law immediately.

The decision is the latest in a string of legal and legislative victories for people who are living in the country without permission. Other successes include the creation of a path to citizenship for many young people and the granting of drivers licenses in many states.

“This is a bright new day in California history and bodes well for the future,” the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles said in a statement.

The court sided with state offi cials in the case, which pitted them against the White House over a 1996 federal law that bars people who are in the U.S. illegally from receiving profes-sional licenses from government agencies or with the use of public funds, unless state lawmakers vote otherwise.

Bill Hing, a law professor at University of San Francisco, said the court made clear the only reason it granted Garcia’s petition is that California recently approved a law authorizing the state to give law licenses to immigrants living in the country illegally, a measure inspired by Garcia’s situation. The new law took effect Wednesday.

It was unclear how many people will qualify to practice law under the ruling and whether it will spread to other states. Legislatures and governors in more conservative states such as Alabama and Arizona are likely to be less receptive to the idea.

Garcia, who plans to be a personal injury attorney in his hometown of Chico, said he hoped the ruling would serve as a “beacon of hope” to others in the same situation.

He “can hang up a shingle and be his own company,” said Hing, who represented the state bar in the case. “Once he does that, a client can retain

him as a lawyer.”But some questions remain

unresolved, such as whether Garcia can argue cases in federal court or in other states. Federal law makes it illegal for law fi rms to hire him.

Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who wrote the opinion, said the new state law removed any barrier to Garcia’s quest for a license.

“And there is no other federal statute that purports to preclude a state from granting a license to practice law to an undocumented immigrant,” Cantil-Sakauye wrote.

The court also found that Garcia “possesses the requisite good moral character” to be admitted to the state bar.

Garcia arrived in the U.S. as a teenager to pick almonds with his father, who was a permanent legal resident. His father fi led a petition in 1994 seeking an immigration visa for his son. It was accepted in 1995, but because of the backlog of visa applica-tions from people from Mexico, Garcia has never received a visa number.

He applied for citizenship in 1994 and is still working toward that goal.

The U.S. Department of Justice argued that Garcia was barred from receiving his law license because the court’s entire budget comes from the public treasury, a violation of the federal mandate that no public money be used to grant licenses to people who are in the country without permission.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Tenney, who argued the case, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The Obama administration’s position in the case came as a surprise to some, since the White House has shielded from deportation people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, graduated from high school and kept a clean criminal record.

At a hearing in September, a majority of the state Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant to grant Garcia the license under current state and federal law, saying it prohibited them from doing so unless the Legisla-ture acted.

Garcia, 36, worked in the fi elds and at a grocery store before attending community college. He then became a paralegal, went to law school and passed the bar on his fi rst try. His effort to get licensed was supported by state bar offi cials and California’s attorney general, who argued that citizenship is not a requirement to receive a California law license.

Two other similar cases are pending in Florida and New York, and the Obama administration has made it clear it will oppose bar entry to immigrants unless each state’s Legisla-ture passes its own laws allowing it, Hing said.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris had supported Garcia’s petition, and applauded the court’s ruling.

Nick Pacilio, a spokesman for Harris, said California’s success “has hinged on the hard work and self-suffi -ciency of immigrants like Sergio.”

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In this Aug. 2013 fi le photo, Sergio Garcia speaks at The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles news conference in Los Angeles. The California Supreme Court granted a law license on Thursday, to Garcia, who is living in the United States illegally. Garcia, who graduated from law school and passed the state bar exam, can begin practicing law despite his immigration status. He arrived in the U.S. illegally 20 years ago to pick almonds with his father.

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Book club meets today at 6:30 p.m.

Reader’s Circle Book Club will meet today at 6:30 p.m. The group will discuss the month’s Christmas book selection.

“Still Alice,” by Lisa Genova will be passed out for the February discussion. Copies also are available at the upstairs circulation desk. New members are welcome.

Card making class set for Jan. 9

Patrons can make four greeting cards to take home Thursday, Jan. 9, at 6:30 p.m. All supplies will be provided and there is no cost to attend. Space is limited. Call the library at 357-5485 to make a reservation.

Paws to Read event coming Jan. 11

The library therapy dogs, Skylar and Dolly, will visit the library Saturday, Jan. 11, from 2-4 p.m. Reservations to read with the dogs are being accepted.

Zumba Gold offered Jan. 23

Norma Leon will lead a Zumba Gold session at the library Thursday, Jan. 23, at 6:30 p.m. The Zumba Gold program is a low intensity dance workout. Space is limited. Please call or stop by the library to register.

Family movie night planned Jan. 30

The new Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters will be shown on the big screen Thursday, Jan. 30, from 6-8 p.m. The movie is rated PG. Anyone is welcome to attend. Popcorn will be provided. Patrons should bring their own beverages.

Goodnight Garrett set for Feb. 1

Goodnight Garrett is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 1. Children can come to the libraries dressed in their pajamas to enjoy crafts, games, snacks, face painting, a magician, storytellers and fun.

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embodied in the DeKalb County Circuit Courtroom. Kids in the Neighborhood is an after school program of Auburn Presbyterian Church that meets weekly at the church on Tuesdays.

Saturday, Jan. 4Bingo: Doors open at 3 p.m. Games start

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

Sunday, Jan. 5Bingo: 5 p.m. Open to the public. Food

and drinks available. American Legion Post 97, 1729 Sprott St., Auburn.

Monday, Jan. 6Bingo: Doors open at 3 p.m. Early games

start at 6 p.m. National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

Auburn Lions Club: 6:15 p.m. Regular meeting Smith Farms Manor, 406 Smith Drive, Auburn.

Tuesday, Jan. 7Red Cross Blood Drive: Noon. Call

1-800-RED CROSS or visit redcrossblog.org to make an appointment. Auburn First United Methodist Church, 1203 E. Seventh St., Auburn.

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

Auburn Elks: 8 p.m. Regular meeting. Auburn Elks Lodge, 311 E. Ninth St., Auburn.

Wednesday, Jan. 8Bingo: Doors open at 3 p.m. Early games

start at 6 p.m. National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

Thursday, Jan. 9Auburn Classic Noon Lions Club:

Noon. Regular meeting. Bridgewater Country Club, 1818 Morningstar Road, Auburn.

Children’s Choir Auditions: 5 p.m. Do you have a child interested in singing? Try the DeKalb Community Children’s Choir.

Join for a free, no-obligation opportu-nity for children 3rd grade and older with unchanged voices to try the DeKalb Community Children’s Choir. An informa-tion session for parents begins at 6:20 p.m. Register with the Children’s Choir at 481-0481 or at info@dekalbchoir.org. DeKalb Middle School, 3338 C.R. 427, Waterloo.

Ashley-Hudson 2000 Lions Club: 6:30 p.m. The Ashley-Hudson 2000 Lions Club meets the second Thursday at 6:30 pm for dinner and holds a board meeting the fourth Thursday at 7 p.m. Ashley OES Hall, Morgan Street, Ashley.

Saturday, Jan. 11Bingo: Doors open at 3 p.m. Early

games start at 6 p.m. National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

Monday, Jan. 13Diabetes Support Group: 7 p.m.

Support group. Hamilton United Methodist Church, 7780 S. Wayne St., Hamilton.

Bingo: Doors open at 3 p.m. Early games start at 6 p.m. National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

Tuesday, Jan. 14Red Cross Blood Drive: 1 p.m. Donors

may enjoy Girl Scout cookies and refresh-ment area. Call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit redcrossblog.org to make an appointment. Garrett American Legion, 515 W. 5th Ave., Garrett.

Wednesday, Jan. 15Red Cross Blood Drive: 11 a.m. Blood

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

Bingo: Doors open at 3 p.m. Early games start at 6 p.m. National Military History Center, 5634 C.R. 11-A, Auburn.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Seinfeld loves cars. He’s fond of coffee. And, of course, he’s a comedian who loves to talk comedy.

But the inspiration for his online talk show, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” (wherein he and a fellow comedian crack wise while powered by a car and caffeine), was inspired by an episode of his eponymous 1990s sitcom.

In that memorable episode, Jerry’s sad-sack pal, George, decided success might await him if he lived his failed life in the opposite manner.

“That,” recalls Seinfeld in a recent interview, “gave me the idea to create a talk show that was the opposite of the typical show.

“With a typical talk show,” he explains, “you have to go to a studio. You have to tell them in advance what you’re going to talk about. You have to dress up. You have to put on makeup. It’s very, very organized.

“I thought, maybe there’s a different way than being stuck on a couch: Outside and moving is the opposite of inside and still.

“That,” he sums up, “is where it began.”

“Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” launched on the Crackle digital network in 2012, and its third season hits the road Thursday with Seinfeld joining Louis C.K. for a cup of joe after a zany ride on a clown-car-scale 1959

Fiat Jolly.“I pick you up at your

house and we literally go out for a cup of coffee.” Future ride-alongs include Patton Oswalt, Howard Stern, Tina Fey, Todd Barry and Jay Leno.

“I wanted to make a show that people would like to be on, instead of groaning and going, ‘Yeah, all right, I’ll do it,’” says Seinfeld in his offi ce in Manhattan’s famed Brill Building, where soon he will begin another editing

session to whittle the Leno episode to a tight 18 or 20 minutes from the two or three hours of recorded chitchat.

Each show is meticu-lously crafted. But that’s no surprise, considering how, at age 59 with nothing left to prove, Seinfeld continues to revise and refi ne his stand-up act. Here, too, Seinfeld is a stickler for detail, as when he huddles with an editor a few minutes later to tweak the music accompanying a shot

of the car (a 1949 Porsche 356/2) he and Leno will share.

“Do you feel like that music is a little bit of a rough transition?” he muses. “It’s a little abrupt. But you know the second phrase of that track is a little more gentle. Maybe we could start there, you know what I mean?”

Even so, the fl avor of each episode is insistently no-frills, candid and off-the-cuff.

Seinfeld says he never

prepares for a taping.“Things just occur to

me. Like asking Howard Stern to tell me how his life ends, what he’s doing in that last moment. It just occurred to me as we were driving. He seemed like a guy who’s really afraid of death. So I wanted to ask him about it.”

As for Oswalt, “he seemed very comic-book geeky, so I asked him, ‘What’s your favorite superhero?’ And he froze. That was like the worst thing I could ask him. He couldn’t commit to one comic book superhero being his favorite!”

Needless to say, Seinfeld mostly focuses on comedy with each guest. Welcome to his world.

“That’s what I NORMALLY talk about during the day,” he says, looking very Jerry at his desk clad in jeans, a gray sweater with a rakish black scarf at his throat and a pair of Nike Shox. “At least 50 percent of the waking life of every comedian is gossiping and analyzing with other comedians about comedy. Comedy is a very mysterious profession, so we’re always trying to fi gure it out.

“This show is a little bit of a valentine to a certain subset of humanity,” he goes on, winding up for a Seinfeld-esque riff that, even on the fl y with mixed metaphors and bumpy syntax, spins out humorously. “I wanted to put a few comedians into

this one petri dish — that’s what this show is — ‘cause you got to get them in the wild. If you’re going to study a species, you got to study them in the wild, otherwise the experiment is tainted! The evidence is tainted!”

In the untainted back-and-forth that results on his show, Seinfeld proves to be an excellent audience, clearly enjoying each guest’s bons mots as much as he enjoys delivering his own.

“I got really excited about the Leno episode,” he says, “with me being his friend all these years, and now having this opportunity to show the old comedy-crazy Jay. So many people think of him as a talk-show host. This captures him as a comedian.”

Fine, but how compet-itive does Seinfeld feel in the company of another comedian?

“Zero,” he declares, and fl ashes a quizzical smile: “I haven’t done well enough?! But even if I hadn’t,” he adds, growing serious, “no, I do not have that gene.”

And yet, as you watch Seinfeld matching wits with a guest, it’s not hard to imagine he’s on high alert for any fresh idea embedded in the banter that, with just the right tweaking, could end up in his act.

You bet, Seinfeld nods.“That’s my whole life,”

he says. “That’s every single second of my life.”

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launched on the Crackle digital network in 2012, and its third season cranks up this week, with Seinfeld joining Louis C.K. for a cup of joe after a zany ride on a clown-car-scale 1959 Fiat Jolly.

NEW YORK (AP) — As it returns for its much-awaited fourth season, “Downton Abbey” remains a saga about elegance, tradition and gentility — and the pressures of preserving them.

On the premiere, airing Sunday at 9 p.m. EST on PBS, Lady Mary Crawley has buckled under the weight of widowhood six months after her husband, Matthew, perished in a car crash. Inconsolable at the start of the episode, Mary (played by Michelle Dockery) dismisses their infant son as “a poor little orphan.”

Her father, Lord Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), wrestles with business pressures: the death of Matthew and the absence of a will have thrown the Downton manor, already fi nancially fragile, into further crisis.

Meanwhile, the modern world of 1922 bears down on the Downton hidebound. Just consider the encroach-ment of an electric mixer, the newest threat to the culinary status quo over which Mrs. Patmore reigns in the

kitchen.Even so, Mrs. Patmore

remains squat, high-strung yet unbending under the pressures of keeping the Downton nobility well-fed.

In a recent interview, Lesley Nicol, who plays her, recalls fi lming the series’ original episode with Mrs. Patmore “shouting at everybody and being horrible. As an actor you go, ‘Is she just a plain, nasty piece of work?’”

But Nicol says she was set straight by the series’ historical adviser, who reminded her that the character is “solely respon-sible for the food in that house. If you go to dinner at Downton, it’s got to be the best you’ve ever had. Sometimes people are harsh because they need things to be right.”

That was a key ingredient for playing Mrs. Patmore, but the recipe keeps the pressure on Nicol to look authentic doing it, because “viewers are looking for mistakes — they are!”

With a lifetime of credits that include the musical “Mamma Mia!” and the fi lms “East Is East” and its sequel, “West Is West,” Nicol must rely on her acting

chops to be convincing as a cook, because (she readily confesses) she isn’t one in real life: While her husband likes to throw dinner parties, “I’m front-of-the-house,” she explains with a laugh. “I do the talking and the pouring of the drinks.”

It’s no secret that “Downton Abbey” has dined out on startling success from almost the fi rst moment it hit the air in Britain in 2010 (three months before its U.S. debut).

It has gained a fi rm foothold in the culture, won 10 Emmys and two Golden Globes, and found a robust audience that rose to the challenge of calling it “Downton,” not “Downtown.” Last season’s fi nale drew 8.2 million U.S. viewers, most of them left shattered by Matthew’s demise as they faced the long wait to see how the “Downton” elite and underclass would cope.

In November there was a bit of good news for rabid fans with the announcement that, yes, next year there will be a fi fth season. That news freed viewers to fret about their favorite show’s fate beyond 2015: How many years will “Downton” carry

on?Just ask “Downton”

executive producer Gareth Neame. Everybody else has.

“We know there’s going to be more than fi ve,” he replies patiently, “and I know there’s going to be less than 10. I don’t know what happens between now and then.”

Neame is the managing director of London-based Carnival Films and a “Downton” executive producer who, a few years ago, put the show in motion over dinner with Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning writer of the 2001 murder mystery “Gosford Park.”

Neame was a fan of that ensemble drama, set at an English country house in the 1930s where a party of wealthy Brits and their servants convened for a shooting weekend. He proposed that Fellowes create a series with the same

social stratifi cation, politesse and melodrama. Its starting point was rolled back to the eve of World War I.

With Carnival (whose credits include such series as “Jeeves and Wooster,” ”Traffi k” and “Whitechapel”) set to produce, Neame sold “Downton” to the British commercial network ITV.

“I wanted to position the show on a very broad mainstream entertainment channel,” he says. But in the U.S., no commer-cial networks were biting (ironically, not even NBC, whose parent company owns Carnival Films). Neame found a buyer instead in public television’s “Master-piece” anthology.

But it goes without saying the series caught on far beyond that — in more than 200 countries.

“They’re crazy for it in China,” marvels Nicol,

who found out fi rsthand on a visit there: “I’ve seen me speaking Mandarin!”

“The show is everything I’d hoped for, times 100,” says Neame. But when success is multiplied, so, often, is accompanying pressure. “There’s such an insatiable demand for the show. So much is expected of it!”

Neame works closely on the story lines with Fellowes, whom he credits as “the sole writer and the creator of the show” while describing his own role as “ultimate custodian of the whole thing.

“Julian and I are making the show we want to make,” he says. “It’s our cup of tea. We make it for us, and then, hopefully, people will come along.”

But at some point in the not-too-very-distant future, those people will be forced to say goodbye. Then Lady Mary, Lord Robert, Mrs. Patmore and the rest will be consigned to viewers’ memories (and reruns, of course).

“There are only seven stories,” says Neame, citing a familiar literary thesis, “and I think the challenge with a long-running TV show is to retell those seven stories without anyone noticing. But there could come a time where we’ll be going, ‘What do we do now?’ And I don’t want to get to that place.

“I think the show is in very good health at the moment,” he declares. “But people should enjoy it while it’s there. It won’t be there forever.”

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By noon on Thursday, roads throughout the area were hazardous.

Shoppers had pretty much prepared for Thursday’s storm in advance, according to a grocery store manager.

“We had qite a bit of business leading up to the snow,” said Auburn Kroger Store co-manager Angie Williamson.

Along with the traditional staples of milk, bread and eggs, many shoppers were purchasing weather-related items such as snow scrapers and salt to melt snow, Williamson said.

The cold and snow didn’t deter Ryan Burtch of Kendallville and his son, Gavin, from taking to the Kendallville Golf Club hills with their sleds. “I returned

from Punta Gorda (Florida) yesterday. It was in the 70s there,” said Ryan. The golf club is a popular location for sledding during the winter.

City workers were out early Thursday clearing streets despite continued light snowfall during the day.

Kendallville police reported no major traffi c accidents or tie-ups due to the weather.

The same was true in LaGrange County, according to that county’s sheriff’s department. There were only three snow-related slide-offs and no injury accidents from 4 a.m. through 10:30 a.m. Thursday, the department said.

There were no major accidents on Noble County roads either, said Noble

County E-911 executive director Mitch Fiandt. In all, there were only three accidents and eight slide-offs between 4 p.m. Wednesday and 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

Fiandt believed the light number of accidents was due to the New Year’s Day holiday Wednesday and vacation schedules. “I think a lot of people took the day off,” he said.

Fiandt said the biggest problem was keeping up with the plowing. Between the heavy snowfall and blowing snow, it seemed as though plowed roads were fi lled in right behind the plows, he said.

The same was true in Albion, where crews had plowed four times in about 21 hours and still couldn’t

keep roads cleared, Fiandt said.

When driving in wintry conditions motorists should know their limitations, the limitations of their vehicle and be prepared for emergencies, said Sgt. Ron Galaviz, Indiana State police public information offi cer. “Make sure your vehicle has fl uids, tires are properly infl ated and you have an emergency preparedness kit with blankets, jumper cables, fi rst aid, dry clothing, water.”

Motorists should check road conditions and tell someone where they are going and by what route.

“Slow down when driving on ice and snow-covered roads,” he said. “Keep plenty of fuel in the tank.”

WEATHER: Police encourage motorists to slow down on snow, iceFROM PAGE A1

MATT GETTS

Shopping was light by 1 p.m. Thursday at the Kroger Store in Auburn. People wanting to stock up ahead of Thursday’s snowstorm did just that — buying the

essentials to ride out the inclement weather, according to a store offi cial.

MATT GETTS

Imaging, Laboratory and Respiratory which opened in 2011.

Today, DeKalb Health employs nearly 600 people and brings an annual fi nancial impact of more than $39 million to DeKalb County and northeast Indiana.

“It is incredible to experience the broad support that exists for DeKalb Health among this community, and especially in maintaining its status as an independent entity with local decision-making and focus,” said Price. “As we reach our 50th anniver-sary, we want to celebrate our rich heritage and all the things that make this organi-zation in northeast Indiana exceptional, including our passionate, engaged medical staff committed to providing patient-centric care.”

DeKalb Health has invested more than $75 million in capital expendi-tures since its opening. The hospital saw more than 91,000 visits in 2013 and provided more than 350,000 total combined inpatient and outpatient services.

DeKalb Health Founda-tion director Anna Nixon said the foundation has many exciting things in store for the hospital’s anniversary celebration. The foundation

will expand on its golf outing to include an event on the

evening before the golf is played. A large gala also is planned for October. Both events will raise funds for the hospital, she said.

DeKalb Health Board of Directors chairman Robert Menzie said he often hears the word “independent” used when talking about the hospital.

Menzie said the board is committed to keeping DeKalb Health independent.

“We owe that to the founders. We

owe that to the community. We owe that to the employees,” Menzie added.

Menzie said the hospital has outstanding physicians, nurses and employees who work every day to improve patient care. Menzie said other hospitals in the area work with DeKalb Health as partners, not adversaries.

The kick-off celebration concluded with a chorus of “Happy Birthday,” led by hospital chef Dan Albers. A selection of birthday cupcakes were shared with patients, staff, physician offi ces and visitors. In next few days, more cakes will be taken out by hospital staff making personal visits to some of the many community partners in health to thank them for their support.

DEKALB HEALTH: Hospital employs nearly 600 area peopleFROM PAGE A1

Video at kpcnews.comVideo from the 50th anniver-sary celebration kickoff is online at kpcnews.com. Scan the QR code to watch it on your tablet or smartphone.

The couple knew they were going to have a son, but kept the gender a secret from family and friends.

“They just knew him as Baby J,” Sara said.

The Spences have been married for 2 1/2 years and have a daughter, Braylee, 18 months. Jim also has a son Jakob, 10.

Jakob was excited to learn that he had a brother.

“He was estactic,” Jim said.The younger brother even

helped his stepmother came up with the idea to name his sibling Jaxon, after the character “Jax” on the popular television show, “Sons of Anarchy.”

Jaxon’s middle name, Adam, is in honor of Jim’s friend who has passed away.

While her son came earlier than expected, Sara said she was thankful for the “good staff at the hospital.”

The couple also had their daughter, Braylee, at DeKalb Health. “They did an excellent job,” Sara said.

The family received gifts from area restaurants and businesses in honor of Jaxon being the fi rst baby of the year: a basket from Ace Hardware; two $5 certifi cates from

Applebee’s; a $10 gift certifi -cate from Bob Evans; fi ve $5 gift certifi cates from Buffalo Wild Wings; a baby spoon and fork set from Carbaugh Jewelers; two complementary meals from Cracker Barrel; a $50 gift certifi cate from CVS Pharmacy; a baby blanket and Teddy Bear from Nita Webb at the DeKalb Health gift shop; a free night stay at Hampton Inn; a Dirt Devil Gator from Home Depot; a $30 gift card from Italian Grille; a $15 gift certifi cate to Katies Kloset; a dropper stopper and rattle from Legacy’s Hallmark; a $20 gift certifi cate from Little Sprouts; a $20 gift certifi cate from Mad Anthony Tap Room; two free movie passes to NCG Cinema; a vaporizer from Pharmacare; three medium pizzas from Pizza Hut; a $25 photo pack from Shockney Photography; a $20 gift card to Steak ‘n Shake; a piggy bank, stuffed animal and key chain from Three Rivers Federal Credit Union; and a $25 gift certifi -cate from Walmart.

The staff at DeKalb Health’s FamilyBirthplace spends time each year calling area businesses to donate for the prize package to the fi rst baby of the year family.

BABY: Jaxon was due Jan. 21FROM PAGE A1

Silas Johnston, 5, of Auburn helps shovel a walk on South Main Street Thursday morning in Auburn. More snow is in the forecast with the next winter blast scheduled to hit the area Saturday evening.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After a troubled rollout, President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul now faces its most personal test: How will it work as people seek care under its new mandates?

Most major pieces of the Affordable Care Act take full effect with the new year. That means people who had been denied coverage because of a pre-existing medical condition can book appointments and get prescriptions.

Caps on yearly out-of-pocket medical expenses will mean people shouldn’t have to worry about bankruptcy after treatment

for a catastrophic illness or injury. And all new insurance policies must offer a minimum level of essential benefi ts, ranging from emergency room treatment to maternity care.

The benefi ts apply to individual policies as well as those offered through employers.

The burden for implementing the law now shifts to insurance companies and health care providers.

Dr. John Venetos, a Chicago gastroenterologist, said there is “tremendous uncertainty and anxiety” among patients who have been calling his offi ce, some

of whom believe they have signed up for coverage but have not yet received insurance cards.

“They’re not sure if they have coverage. It puts the heavy work on the physician,” Venetos said. “At some point, every practice is going to make a decision about how long can they continue to see these patients for free if they are not getting paid.”

Administration offi cials said this week that 2.1 million consumers have enrolled through the federal and state-run health insurance exchanges that are a central feature of the Affordable Care Act.

Health care law takes effect

Watson touted his lifelong affi liation to the Republican Party and called himself a fi scal conservative who believes in effective and effi cient government and individual rights. He said he was attracted to the council because he enjoys the legislative process and budget work.

“I’m really pleased,” said

Watson, who unsuccess-fully ran for City Council in 2000. “This is something I have been interested in a long time. I really struggled with giving up my seat on the plan commission … but I thought it was time to step up to another level.”

Watson said he will join the council with open ears, listening to his constituents to learn the issues of the 4th

District.Watson will serve the

remainder of Stahly’s term. He said he will “hopefully” run to keep the seat in the 2015 election.

With his election to the council, Watson will be forced to vacate his seat on the city’s plan commission. Auburn Mayor Norm Yoder will now appoint a new member.

COUNCIL: Caucus votes in longtime RepublicanFROM PAGE A1

Partly sunny today with highs in the mid-teens. Low tonight of 9 degrees. Warmer Saturday with cloudy skies. Daytime highs will be in the low 30s. Nighttime low of 21. Snow expected Sunday with a high of 30 and an overnight low dropping to 8. Very cold Monday with highs in the single digits.

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Jacksonville Jaguars’ Chad Henne (7) is tackled by Indianapolis Colts’ Robert Mathis (98) and Bjoern Werner (92) on Sunday. Mathis was

honored Thursday as the inaugural winner of the NFL’s Deacon Jones Award, which goes to the league’s sacks leader.

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KENDALLVILLE — East Noble and Fremont’s wrestling teams have built upon their strong 2012-13 seasons entering the second annual Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association’s Team State Duals, which will be held Saturday at Westfi eld High School starting at 10 a.m.

Eight of the top teams in three different classes based on enroll-ment will take part in this event. The Knights and the Eagles will both be making their debuts in the IHSWCA Team State Duals.

East Noble, ranked 10th in the latest IHSWCA Class AAA team poll released on Dec. 12, will face second-seeded Evansville Mater Dei in the fi rst round. The winner of this dual will take on the winner of the Penn-Indianapolis Cathedral dual in the semifi nals.

The other half of the Class AAA draw has top-ranked Perry Meridian taking on Bloomington South and Warren Central facing Franklin. Perry Meridian won the AAA team state duals last year and is the defending Indiana High School Athletic Association team state champion.

Coach Keith Hoffar’s East Noble team is coming off a third-place fi nish at the Conners-ville Spartan Classic last weekend and was led by Garrett Pepple winning the 113-pound weight class. Nate Weimer (106), Connor Knapp (120) and Jacob Weimer (145) all reached championship matches and fi nished second.

Four of the six Knight state qualifi ers from last year are back in Pepple, Knapp, Weimer and Brandon Joest. The Eagles (19-2, 7-1 Northeast Corner Conference) are ranked second in Class A and seeded second in the eight-team Class A tournament at the team duals. They will face South Putnam in round one.

Knights, Eagles set for IHSWCA Duals

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Ohio State’s Urban Meyer has never had any issue acclimating to the biggest stages in college football. Clemson’s Dabo Swinney is sounding like someone who’s getting comfortable under the brightest lights as well.

Meyer has coached in four BCS games. He’s never lost.

Swinney has taken his team to the BCS one other time, and lost by 37 points.

Of course, come Friday night, none of that will matter. The seventh-ranked Buckeyes (12-1) and the 12th-ranked Tigers (10-2) will be squaring off in the Orange Bowl, where Meyer will aim to keep his BCS record perfect and Swinney will try to have his team, as he put it, “continue to climb the mountain.”

“When you have an opportu-nity to come to a BCS ball game and lose it, you want to get back

and have another opportunity,” Swinney said Thursday. “There’s

only six teams, I think, in the country that have been in two BCS bowls the last three years, and we’re one of them. So it’s a great opportunity for us to have a chance to win one.”

Meyer would say the same thing. His team had visions of playing in Pasadena, Calif. for the BCS national championship next week, but the loss in the Big Ten title game — the fi rst under Meyer in 25 games since he took over in Columbus — knocked the Buckeyes out of the title picture.

So instead, Ohio State headed to South Florida, where Meyer will look to add the Orange Bowl to his BCS collection that already includes two title-game wins and a Sugar Bowl victory while at Florida, and a Fiesta Bowl triumph from when he coached Utah.

Meyer, Swinney guide teams back to BCS stage

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Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer, left, and Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney pose for photographers with the Orange Bowl trophy. Ohio State will face Clemson in the Orange Bowl classic today.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jamaal Charles spent this week dissecting the Chiefs’ fi rst game against the Colts.

On Saturday, Charles and his Kansas City teammates will fi nally get a chance to show they’ve learned from all those mistakes.

“They’re going to have their best game plan and best players on the fi eld,” Charles said. “We know what’s at stake here. We have to play fast and we have to play harder than them.”

In Week 16, the Chiefs had four turnovers and Indianapolis (11-5) spent most of the game negating Charles by playing keep-away.

Nobody expects a replay this week — not Charles, not Andrew Luck, not even Andy Reid or Chuck Pagano. The two coaches understand most playoff rematches come with a surprise twist, even when the sequel is two weeks after the original.

How much can really change in 13 days?

For starters, the game will be played on Indianapolis’ climate-controlled home turf rather than the raucous, outdoor atmosphere of Arrowhead Stadium. And facing a potentially loud crowd on the road may force the Chiefs to stick with the game plan a little longer than they did in Round 1.

“I’m sure we’re going to see Jamaal,” Pagano said, referring again this week to Charles as public enemy No. 1 even after he had only 13 carries in the fi rst meeting. “If he doesn’t touch the ball 30 times I’d be shocked.”

Kansas City (11-5) could have a noticeably different look, too.

Receiver Dwayne Bowe was knocked out of the fi rst matchup with a concussion and was still sidelined last week.

Chiefs chase different result in rematch

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Robert Mathis never got to see Deacon Jones take down opposing quarterbacks in person.

He learned to appreciate Jones’ creativity over time.

The Colts Pro Bowl linebacker and newly crowned sacks champion was honored Thursday as the inaugural winner of the NFL’s Deacon Jones Award, which goes to the league’s sacks leader. Mathis will be recognized at the NFL award banquet Feb. 1.

“Deacon Jones is the creator of the sack, so to be able to win the fi rst award in his honor is an honor,” Mathis told reporters in Indianapolis. “I’m very proud that I was able to win it and I thank my

teammates, mainly the d-line, who were very instrumental in helping me get to the quarterback.”

League offi cials named the award after Jones died June 3 at age 74. Jones was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980.

Mathis has been one of the league’s top sack artists since joining the Colts as a fi fth-round draft pick in 2003. For nearly a decade, Mathis and Dwight Freeney were among the NFL’s most feared pass-rushing tandems.

But when Freeney left in free agency during the offseason, the critics contended Mathis would struggle without his longtime teammate and close friend.

Instead, Mathis used it as motivation. When asked Thursday why he has played so well over the years, Mathis responded: “The fact that I do have a chip on my shoulder every time I play. When people say you can’t do something, you want to show them that you can.”

So the 32-year-old who is in his second season as a rush linebacker delivered the best season of his career.

He broke Freneey’s franchise record for sacks in a season (16) with 19½ and became the Colts’ career sacks leader (111), surpassing Freeney’s previous mark (107½).

NFL honors Colts’ Mathis with Deacon Jones Award

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith (11) is tackled by Indianapolis Colts defensive end Cory Redding (90) during a December meeting.

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Tamba Hali also hurt his knee against Indy, while fellow linebacker Justin Houston sat out that game with a dislocated elbow. Bowe has already been cleared to play and Houston is expected to return this week, too, though Hali hasn’t practiced all week.

If Hali does play, he and Houston may force Luck to cope with even more pressure than just winning his home playoff debut.

But the bigger question for the Chiefs is whether they’ve fi xed the miscues that proved so costly against the Colts two weeks ago.

“As a coach it’s a little bit like a farmer: Your work is never done, right?” Reid said. “There are always areas to work on, and that’s how it goes. We’re always striving to be better.”

Here are fi ve things to watch Saturday at Indianap-olis.

MOMENTUM vs. HEALTH: The Colts wanted to build momentum for the postseason. The result: They went 4-1 in December. Once the Chiefs fell out of conten-

tion in the AFC West, they tried to get healthy. Kansas City is 2-5 since the bye week, has lost two straight, hasn’t beaten a team with a winning record since Week 3 and has dropped seven in a row in the playoffs. Saturday’s result will show which coach made the right call.

GOAL TO GO: Indy achieved one of its goals by winning the AFC South to host its fi rst home playoff game in three years. It can’t achieve the next two — an AFC championship and a Super Bowl title — without protecting its home turf. The Colts understand six of the last eight Super Bowl winners played on wild-card weekend, and the last two world champs, the Giants and Ravens, were seeded No. 4. Indy has a chance to extend that streak.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: No team has been better at minimizing mistakes than Indianapolis, which had a league-low 14 turnovers and 66 penalties. This game features the AFC’s top two teams in

turnover ratio. Kansas City has forced 36 turnovers. The team that stays closest to its regular-season form is likely to be celebrating Saturday night.

WHO’S NO. 1?: Luck and Alex Smith were both No. 1 overall picks. While Luck has been incredibly successful in his two NFL seasons, Smith had to be more patient and eventu-ally became Kansas City’s solution to last season’s turnover-prone ways. Luck was the clear winner of this matchup in the last game, and if he plays that well again, the Colts should be in good shape.

LOOKING FOR PROTECTION: If there’s one equally troubling bugaboo for both teams, it’s their inability to protect the quarterback. Injuries have forced both coaches to mix and match starters along the offensive line. That could be an especially big problem this week with the likely return of Houston and with Robert Mathis, the newly crowned NFL sacks champion, playing on the same fi eld.

REMATCH: Colts to host 1st playoff game in 3 yearsFROM PAGE B1

The winner of that dual will face the winner of the fi rst-round dual between Bremen and third-seeded Churubusco.

The other side of the bracket has top seed and defending team duals Class A champion Adams Central taking on Clinton Central and fourth-seeded West Central taking on South Adams.

Fremont will be at full strength at Westfi eld. The Eagles were without injured 182-pounder Austin Maggart for the Northeast Corner Conference Super Duals on Dec. 7 at Lakeland and they suffered narrow losses to Central Noble (37-36) and West Noble (36-34). The fi rst meeting between NECC teams counts toward the conference standings and Fremont already beat the Cougars in the Bluffton Invitational on Nov. 23.

Last year’s success and anticipation for continued success play a big role in receiving an invite to participate in the IHSWCA

Team State Duals. Fremont returned three semistate qualifi ers from a team that won NECC regular season and tournament titles and fi nished second in the Westview Sectional last year: Maggart, senior Tylor Willms and sophomore Hunter Leskowyak.

“All the guys on the team are pretty excited,” Eagles coach Eric Bryan said. “The guys are eager to get some momentum heading into the postseason. I hope we can represent Fremont the best we can. It’s a privilege to be down there.

“It gives our guys a chance to wrestle in front of a larger crowd. I would not say there would be more pressure. But it is a big event and we get a chance to put Fremont back on the map,” he continued. “If the kids wrestle hard and wrestle to their abilities, good things will happen.”

Bryan said several wrestlers have emerged as leaders in their own ways, led by seniors Willms (152), Brock Baker (160),

Brad Owen (170), David Schmucker (138) and Adam Dossett (220).

“Baker has stepped up and has been an animal,” Bryan said. “Willms has shown an explosive offense. Dossett has held his own. Our underclassmen are even leading. Everybody coming back is a lot more comfort-able.

“There’s been a target placed on our back. There were a lot of questions going into the season. We’ve been put in a situation where we have to be ready to go from the fi rst whistle. We’ve maintained the fi re. We had a hiccup at the NECC duals, but we’ve bounced back strong since then.”

The Eagles repeated as Greentown Eastern Invitational champions last weekend outside of Kokomo. They won all nine of their duals and had four weight class champions in Owen at 170, Willms at 152, Schmucker at 138 and Kyle Lowe at 113. Dossett also went 9-0 largely at 220 and with one heavyweight match.

WRESTLING: Fremont claimed title at GreentownFROM PAGE B1

“It’s a chance to go compete,” Meyer said. “Whether it’s checkers or ping pong, we’re going to try to win the game. Our job every time we keep score is to win. It’s the mentality we try to create within our program. Whether it’s the Orange Bowl, whether it’s the eighth game of the season, we’re trying to win the game.”

Clemson lost the Orange Bowl two years ago to West Virginia, 70-33 — the game turning when the Tigers fumbled the ball away in the second quarter, on a play where they would have taken the lead. Instead, the fl oodgates opened.

The Tigers are 21-4 since.

“This team has more than responded,” Swinney said.

THE QB BATTLE: Tickets to the Orange Bowl aren’t inexpensive, but the shows that Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd and Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller can put on

may make the admission price seem like a bargain. Boyd has accounted for 38 touchdowns this season; Miller has scored 32 with either his arm or his feet. It’s Boyd’s fi nale; it may be Miller’s as well if he elects to go pro, as some expect he may.

BUCKEYE D: If there’s a weakness on a team that’s 24-1 in the past two seasons, it may be Ohio State’s pass defense. Each of the Buckeyes’ last four opponents have completed at least 60 percent of their passes, throwing for 1,363 yards in that stretch. And with that side of the ball dealing with some injury concerns for the Orange Bowl, it’s clearly to Clemson’s advantage.

RUN (AND) HYDE: Ohio State RB Carlos Hyde has 1,408 yards in 10 games this season, and says he’d like to cap his college career by setting the Orange Bowl record for yards in a game. Hyde has averaged 7.7 yards per carry; Clemson’s defense has yielded 3.7 per

attempt. Hyde is the fi rst running back to top 1,000 yards under Meyer, and is 116 yards away from fi fth all-time on Ohio State’s list.

WELCOME HOME: The Buckeyes and Tigers both recruit the Sunshine State heavily. Together, the teams have 13 players from the state, including six starters. Among the notables: Clemson WR Sammy Watkins (who may be playing his college fi nale), Clemson DB Jayron Kearse; Ohio State top tackler Ryan Shazier; Hyde, the Ohio State running back; and Ohio State DL Joey Bosa, who hails from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and the powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas program.

KICKERS: If the game comes down to a kick, odds are that either Clemson’s Chandler Catanzaro or Ohio State’s Drew Basil will deliver. Catanzaro has made all 56 of his extra-point tries and is 13 of 14 on fi eld-goal attempts. Basil is 74 for 75 on extra-points and 9 for 10 on fi eld goals.

ORANGE: Buckeye’s Hyde has 1,408 yards rushingFROM PAGE B1

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan State wrapped up the Rose Bowl in fi tting fashion — with brute force on defense.

Now the Spartans have only one real goal left: Can they win the national championship?

“That’s our plan,” coach Mark Dantonio said. “You have to dream big.”

The 2013 season felt like a dream for Dantonio and his team, especially the last couple months. From the moment Michigan State pounded rival Michigan in early November to emerge as serious contenders for the Big Ten title, the Spartans turned back every challenge in their own bruising style.

Go unbeaten in conference play during the regular season? Check.

Beat Ohio State in the Big Ten title game to earn a spot in their fi rst Rose Bowl since 1988? Check.

Then Michigan State edged Stanford 24-20 on Wednesday, stuffi ng the Cardinal on fourth-and-short near midfi eld in the fi nal minutes to put the game away. The Rose Bowl victory means the fourth-ranked Spartans may be ranked even higher to end the season after about a quarter-cen-tury of frustration and untapped potential.

If any team had an excuse for a bowl letdown it was Michigan State. The Spartans had already accomplished so much just by making it to the Rose Bowl — then they lost star linebacker Max

Bullough to a suspension.It was Kyler Elsworth, a

fi fth-year senior fi lling in for Bullough, who fl ung himself over the pile on that key fourth-down stop against Stanford.

“The situation with Max, when we fi rst heard of it, I wasn’t too worried because I know Kyler Elsworth,” linebacker Denicos Allen said. “Just to play with the guys I played with on defense, to play with them for a senior year and to play the way we did, it was just a journey well worth it.”

After back-to-back 11-win campaigns, Michigan State went 7-6 last season. Then the Spartans lost running back Le’Veon Bell, tight end Dion Sims and defensive lineman William Gholston early to the NFL.

At the beginning of the season, the Spartans looked like just another Big Ten team. Michigan State’s defense was ranked No. 1 in the country, and the offense improved consistently after a slow start. With major uncertainty at quarterback, it was unproven Connor Cook who eventually won the job.

Cook, a sophomore, ended up throwing for 22 touchdowns and only six interceptions.

“We’ve always believed in ourselves, no matter what the situation is,” Cook said. “Our defense, they have been doing their thing the entire year. They’ve been shutting out our opponents and then our offense has really stepped up and become a lot more

balanced in the pass game and run game.”

Cook has every reason to feel confi dent heading into next season, but Michigan State will have to replace three senior starters on the offensive line. The Spartans also lose Bullough, Allen and defensive backs Darqueze Dennard and Isaiah Lewis from that terrifi c defense.

“After this year, obviously, the expectations are sky high. I think we’ll have to realize that,” Cook said. “Guys have to step up every single year. Seniors graduate, underclassmen have to step up. I think the main thing we have to be is so hungry and realize that together we can accomplish anything.”

Dantonio said after the Rose Bowl he intends to be back at Michigan State. Defensive coordi-nator Pat Narduzzi is certainly a candidate to leave for a head coaching job, but he hasn’t done so yet.

If Michigan State’s staff does return intact, this should remain a program to be reckoned with in the Big Ten.

“People keep asking me, ‘Does the championship feel better?’ — all these different things, these levels of excitement,” Dantonio said. “It’s sort of living a dream.”

National title the next goal at Michigan State

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Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio reacts to a turnover by Stanford during the Rose Bowl on Wednesday. Michigan State won 24-20.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Capitals compressed most of their excitement into a four-minute span.

We score; you score. You score; we score. Sort of like one of those mini-games with the peewee players that are sometimes featured during intermission.

Both coaches were aggravated, to say the least, but Carolina’s Kirk Muller was in a better frame of mind about the whole thing because his team eventually won, taking a 4-3 victory in overtime Thursday night on Jeff Skinner’s third goal.

“Yeah, it’s not what coaches are wanting to see,” Muller said with a chuckle. “Tonight it just looked like just whenever someone made a mistake, it was in our nets.”

With Washington’s Dmitry Orlov out of position, Skinner decided the game when he took a pass from Ryan Murphy to cap a 3-on-1 break at 1:20 of the extra period, giving the Hurricanes their second straight win after a fi ve-game losing streak.

The goal seemed far removed from the whirlwind stretch early in the second period, when fi ve players scored goals and Alex Ovechkin missed a penalty shot — all in 3 minutes, 45 seconds.

It was a brand of don’t-leave-your-seat hockey that’s become all too familiar for the Capitals, who have a knack this season for letting up after scoring a goal.

“I know it’s exciting for the fans,” said Troy Brouwer, who scored for the Capitals during the goal cavalcade. “I know it’s a fun game to watch, but we’ve got to be able to calm it down. Whenever we score a goal — we had a couple of big goals that put us ahead there — we’ve got to be able to build off that and make sure that we’re not giving them opportuni-ties right away. It’s been a problem all year.”

Skinner’s second hat trick in less than a month gives him 19 goals for the season. Manny Malhotra also scored for the Hurricanes.

Islanders 3, Blackhawks 2, OT

Kyle Okposo scored 58

seconds into overtime to lift the Islanders to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night after they blew a two-goal lead to the Stanley Cup champions.

Casey Cizikas scored in his 100th NHL game, and Thomas Vanek added a goal for the Islanders. Defenseman Andrew MacDonald had two assists, and Evgeni Nabokov made 37 saves in the contest.

Okposo ended it with his 16th goal.

The Islanders have won three straight, building off a pair of comeback road victories against Minnesota and Boston — Chicago’s opponent in last year’s Cup fi nals.

Hurricanes win in OT

AP

Carolina Hurricanes left wing Jeff Skinner (53) celebrates his goal with Manny Malhotra (22) and Ryan Murphy (7) during the overtime period of Thursday’s NHL game against the Washington Capitals. The Hurricanes won 4-3 in overtime.

SPORTS BRIEFS•

Snow forces postponementsLEO — Two high school sporting

events scheduled for Thursday were among those postponed because of the snowstorm that hit the area.

No makeup dates have been announced for the Northeast Hoosier Conference Triple Dual at Norwell that included East Noble and DeKalb and Angola’s girls basketball games at Leo.

Angola’s wrestling dual at West Noble has been moved to Thursday and will start at 6:30 p.m.

Trine wins on New Year’s EveMOUNT VERNON, Ohio — Trine

University’s men’s basketball team closed out 2013 with a 57-47 victory over NAIA program Mount Vernon Nazarene Tuesday afternoon at Ariel Arena.

The Thunder (6-4) held the Cougars scoreless in a span of 10 minutes, 16 seconds late in the fi rst half and early in the second half. In that time frame, Trine turned a tie game into a 17-point lead. Mount Vernon Nazarene would not shrink the defi cit to single digits until the closing minutes.

Nick Tatu led the Thunder with 20 points. He went 6-of-15 from three-point range.

Will Dixon had 14 points and six rebounds for Trine. Tyler Good added 12 points, six boards, fi ve assists and three steals. Jared Holmquist had nine points and six rebounds.

Bryan Redic paced the Cougars with 11 points and seven rebounds.

Both teams shot 34 percent from the fl oor. MVN outrebounded the Thunder 40-30. Trine forced 20 Cougar turnovers while only giving the ball away 11 times.

Newell honored by MIAAROYAL OAK, Mich. — Trine

University junior forward Amy Newell was named a Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Co-Player of the Week for last week’s efforts. Newell shared the honor with Olivet senior guard Chelsea Ciba.

Newell averaged 20.5 points and seven rebounds per game as the Thunder went 1-1 in a holiday tournament at Bluffton, Ohio, Saturday and Sunday. The Three Rivers, Mich., native was named MIAA Player of the Week for the fi rst time in her Trine basketball career.

Every NFL playoff game to be streamed for 1st time

NEW YORK (AP) — Every NFL playoff game will be streamed live online for the fi rst time.

The league said Thursday that CBS and Fox would be providing live streams of their broadcasts this season. The Super Bowl and NBC’s wild-card games were available online the last two seasons.

All the games will also be streamed on smartphones through Verizon’s NFL Mobile app.

The games on CBS and NBC will be available online to any user through the networks’ websites. For the games on Fox, fans must authenticate that they’re a subscriber to a participating cable company through the Fox Sports Go app or website.

No. 4 Wisconsin cruises past Northwestern 76-49

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Freshman reserve Nigel Hayes had a career-high 19 points and No. 4 Wisconsin remained unbeaten with an easy 76-49 victory over Northwestern in their Big Ten opener Thursday night.

Hayes went 8 for 12 from the fi eld and had six rebounds while showing a nice combination of power and fi nesse. The prize recruit is averaging 15.3 points in his last three games.

Sam Dekker scored 15 points and Traevon Jackson had 10 for the Badgers (14-0, 1-0), who earned their seventh consecutive win against the Wildcats. They shot 55 percent (32 for 58) from the fi eld and enjoyed a 38-27 rebounding edge.

Northwestern (7-7, 0-1) has dropped two straight after a three-game winning streak. Alex Olah had a career-high 23 points, and Drew Crawford fi nished with 10 points on 3-for-11 shooting.

Wisconsin improved to 14-0 for the fi rst time since the Badgers won each of their 15 games in the 1911-12 and 1913-14 seasons. It was their 11th straight win in a Big Ten opener.

Boys Basketball StandingsNortheast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LHomestead 1 0 7 3New Haven 1 0 5 2Columbia City 1 0 4 5Norwell 1 0 3 1Carroll 0 1 6 3DeKalb 0 1 3 8Bellmont 0 1 2 4East Noble 0 1 0 8Thursday, Jan. 2Heritage at Bellmont, 7:45 p.m.Greenfi eld-Central vs. Norwell at Richmond, 6 p.m.Friday, Jan. 3 Heritage at Bellmont, 7:45 p.m. Norwell vs. Fox Creek Christian (Ky.) or Jefferonsville at Richmond, noon or 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4Norwell vs. TBA at Richmond, TBAColumbia City at Wawasee, 7:30 p.m.South Adams at Bellmont, 7:45 p.m.Van Wert (Ohio) at Carroll, 7:45 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 7East Noble at Westview, 7:30 p.m.New Haven at Fort Wayne Snider, 7:30 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 8Fort Wayne Dwenger at Carroll, 7:45 p.m.

Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LPrairie Heights 3 0 6 1Westview 3 0 4 2West Noble 1 0 5 0Eastside 1 1 4 3Fairfi eld 2 1 3 2Angola 1 1 3 4Fremont 1 1 1 6Hamilton 1 2 4 4Lakeland 1 3 2 4Churubusco 0 2 0 5Central Noble 0 3 0 6Friday, Jan. 3Eastside at West Noble, 7:30 p.m.Caston ShootoutChurubusco vs. Lowell, 2 p.m.Central Noble at Caston, 8 p.m.Northwood TournamentFairfi eld at Rochester, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 4West Noble at Prairie Heights, 7:30 p.m.Caston ShootoutChurubusco vs. Northfi eld or Rensse-laer Central, 11:30 a.m. or 1 p.m.Central Noble vs. Kankakee Valley or Oregon-Davis, 11:30 a.m. or 1 p.m.Northwood TournamentFairfi eld vs. Tippecanoe Valley or Northwood, 6 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 7East Noble at Westview, 7:30 p.m.Lakeland at Sturgis, 7:45 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 8Churubusco at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m.

Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LGarrett 2 0 6 1Bluffton 2 0 4 3Leo 1 1 4 3Adams Central 1 1 3 4Woodlan 1 1 3 3Heritage 1 1 2 3South Adams 0 2 2 5Southern Wells 0 2 0 5Thursday, Jan. 2Heritage at Bellmont, 7:45 p.m.Friday, Jan. 3Bluffton at Winchester, 7:30 p.m.Daleville at Southern Wells, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 4Leo at FW Concordia, 7:30 p.m.South Adams at Bellmont, 7:45. p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7 Cowan at Southern Wells, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8 Churubusco at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m. Eastbrook at Heritage, 7:30 p.m.

Boys Prep Basketball ScoresBarr-Reeve 50, Orleans 40Indpls Pike 60, Pendleton Hts. 56Bob Wettig TournamentFirst RoundBedford N. Lawrence 50, E. Central 49Columbus North 78, Tindley 27Ft. Wayne North 85, Indpls Metro 60Jefffersonville 118, Fox Creek Christian 46Jennings Co. 54, Connersville 49Norwell 81, Greenfi eld 50Richmond 86, Rock Creek Academy 38POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCEL-LATIONSEdinburgh vs. Seymour, ppd. to Jan 16.Heritage vs. Bellmont, ppd.Lapel vs. Indpls Park Tudor, ppd.Plymouth vs. Penn, ppd.S. Putnam vs. S. Vermillion, ppd.Caston ShootoutFirst RoundCaston vs. Central Noble, ppd. to Jan 3.Lowell vs. Churubusco, ppd. to Jan 3.Oregon-Davis vs. Kankakee Valley, ppd. to Jan 3.Rensselaer vs. Northfi eld, ppd. to Jan 3.

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

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

Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W LGarrett 4 0 12 0Leo 3 1 9 1Heritage 3 1 8 3Woodlan 2 2 7 3Southern Wells 2 2 5 5South Adams 1 3 8 3Bluffton 1 3 3 8Adams Central 0 4 2 8Thursday, Jan. 2Angola at Leo, ppd.Friday, Jan. 3Churubusco at Heritage, 7:30 p.m.Muncie South at Adams Central, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 4Southern Wells at Randolph Southern, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7 Antwert (Ohio) at Woodlan, 7:30 p.m. Bluffton at Northfi eld, 7:30 p.m. Heritage at Fort Wayne Dwenger, 7:30 p.m.

Lakewood Park at Adams Central, 7:30 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 8Leo at Norwell, 7:30 p.m.

Girls Prep Basketball ScoresBrownstown 54, Eastern (Pekin) 46Castle 55, Boonville 28Dubois 45, Crawford Co. 36Springs Valley 68, Perry Central 60Vincennes Rivet 50, Mt. Vernon (Posey) 49Washington 51, N. Daviess 26POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCEL-LATIONSAnderson vs. Noblesville, ppd. to Jan 3.Angola vs. Leo, ppd. to Jan 4.Culver vs. Oregon-Davis, ppd.Eastbrook vs. Frankton, ppd.Indpls Roncalli vs. Lawrence North, ppd. to Jan 3.Kokomo vs. Huntington North, ppd.LaVille vs. Central Noble, ppd.Oldenburg vs. Morristown, ppd.Randolph Southern vs. Union City, ppd.S. Dearborn vs. Rushville, ppd.S. Vermillion vs. S. Putnam, ppd.Shenandoah vs. Union Co., ppd.Sullivan vs. Brown Co., ppd.Union (Modoc) vs. Hagerstown, ppd. to Jan 3.

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

NHL StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 41 27 12 2 56 120 88Tampa Bay 40 24 12 4 52 114 95Montreal 41 23 14 4 50 103 94Toronto 42 21 16 5 47 118 120Detroit 42 18 14 10 46 109 120Ottawa 43 18 18 7 43 122 138Florida 41 15 20 6 36 96 130Buffalo 41 11 26 4 26 72 117Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 42 29 12 1 59 131 96Washington 41 20 15 6 46 125 123Philadelphia 40 20 16 4 44 105 111New Jersey 41 17 16 8 42 97 103N.Y. Rangers 41 20 19 2 42 96 109Carolina 41 16 16 9 41 100 121Columbus 40 17 19 4 38 109 117N.Y. Islanders 42 14 21 7 35 110 140WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 43 28 7 8 64 160 118St. Louis 40 28 7 5 61 144 93Colorado 39 24 11 4 52 114 100Dallas 39 20 12 7 47 115 113Minnesota 43 21 17 5 47 101 110Winnipeg 43 19 19 5 43 117 125Nashville 41 18 18 5 41 97 122Pacifi c Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 42 29 8 5 63 137 106San Jose 40 25 9 6 56 131 104Los Angeles 42 25 13 4 54 110 88Vancouver 42 23 12 7 53 113 101Phoenix 39 20 10 9 49 120 120Calgary 40 14 20 6 34 96 126Edmonton 42 13 24 5 31 109 143NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.Wednesday’s GamesToronto 3, Detroit 2, SOTampa Bay 4, Vancouver 2Thursday’s GamesBoston 3, Nashville 2, OTN.Y. Islanders 3, Chicago 2, OTCarolina 4, Washington 3, OTOttawa 4, Winnipeg 3St. Louis 5, Los Angeles 0Minnesota 4, Buffalo 1Montreal at Dallas, latePhiladelphia at Colorado, lateColumbus at Phoenix, lateEdmonton at San Jose, lateFriday’s GamesChicago at New Jersey, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Tampa Bay at Calgary, 9 p.m.Edmonton at Anaheim, 10 p.m.Saturday’s GamesWinnipeg at Boston, 1 p.m.San Jose at Colorado, 3 p.m.New Jersey at Buffalo, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 7 p.m.Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m.Nashville at Florida, 7 p.m.Carolina at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.Columbus at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Detroit at Dallas, 8 p.m.Washington at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Philadelphia at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

ECHL StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAWheeling 29 14 10 0 5 33 78 82Reading 26 15 10 1 0 31 74 66Elmira 28 9 16 1 2 21 67 93North Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GACincinnati 29 18 9 1 1 38 100 80Evansville 28 16 7 2 3 37 100 92Kalamazoo 28 15 11 0 2 32 78 72Fort Wayne 28 12 11 1 4 29 85 94Toledo 28 9 16 3 0 21 80 107South Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAS. Carolina 31 23 5 1 2 49 99 60Florida 30 19 9 1 1 40 107 83Orlando 30 16 12 1 1 34 80 81Greenville 30 14 14 1 1 30 76 77Gwinnett 31 10 19 0 2 22 68 96WESTERN CONFERENCEMountain Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAColorado 30 17 8 3 2 39 99 83Alaska 28 18 9 1 0 37 89 54Idaho 30 16 10 2 2 36 96 87Utah 28 11 14 1 2 25 61 73Pacifi c Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GAOntario 30 21 5 1 3 46 89 70Stockton 30 16 10 0 4 36 103 94S. Francisco 31 11 16 3 1 26 75 110Bakersfi eld 28 12 15 0 1 25 71 86Las Vegas 29 8 18 3 0 19 67 102NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.Thursday’s GamesSouth Carolina 4, Gwinnett 1Utah 3, Orlando 2, OTFriday’s GamesElmira at Wheeling, 7 p.m.Florida at Greenville, 7 p.m.Gwinnett at South Carolina, 7 p.m.Reading at Toledo, 7:15 p.m.Utah at Orlando, 7:30 p.m.Cincinnati at Kalamazoo, 7:30 p.m.Fort Wayne at Evansville, 8:15 p.m.Bakersfi eld at Colorado, 9:05 p.m.Ontario at Las Vegas, 10:05 p.m.San Francisco at Stockton, 10:30 p.m.Idaho at Alaska, 11:15 p.m.Saturday’s GamesGreenville at South Carolina, 7 p.m.Florida at Gwinnett, 7:05 p.m.Wheeling at Elmira, 7:05 p.m.Toledo at Kalamazoo, 7:30 p.m.Evansville at Fort Wayne, 7:35 p.m.Reading at Cincinnati, 7:35 p.m.Bakersfi eld at Colorado, 9:05 p.m.Ontario at Las Vegas, 10:05 p.m.Stockton at San Francisco, 10:30 p.m.Idaho at Alaska, 11:15 p.m.Sunday’s GamesUtah at Orlando, 1 p.m.

Kalamazoo at Fort Wayne, 5:05 p.m.San Francisco at Ontario, 6 p.m.

NBA StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 15 15 .500 —Boston 13 19 .406 3Brooklyn 11 21 .344 5Philadelphia 10 21 .323 5½New York 9 21 .300 6Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 24 8 .750 —Atlanta 18 14 .563 6Washington 14 15 .483 8½Charlotte 14 19 .424 10½Orlando 10 22 .313 14Central Division W L Pct GBIndiana 25 6 .806 —Detroit 14 19 .424 12Chicago 13 18 .419 12Cleveland 11 21 .344 14½Milwaukee 7 24 .226 18WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBSan Antonio 25 7 .781 —Houston 21 13 .618 5Dallas 19 13 .594 6New Orleans 14 16 .467 10Memphis 13 17 .433 11Northwest Division W L Pct GBPortland 25 7 .781 —Oklahoma City 25 7 .781 —Minnesota 16 16 .500 9Denver 14 17 .452 10½Utah 10 24 .294 16Pacifi c Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 22 12 .647 —Phoenix 19 11 .633 1Golden State 21 13 .618 1L.A. Lakers 13 19 .406 8Sacramento 10 20 .333 10Wednesday’s GamesDallas 87, Washington 78Toronto 95, Indiana 82Minnesota 124, New Orleans 112Philadelphia 114, Denver 102L.A. Clippers 112, Charlotte 85Thursday’s GamesCleveland 87, Orlando 81, OTGolden State 123, Miami 114Chicago 94, Boston 82Brooklyn 95, Oklahoma City 93New York at San Antonio, lateMemphis at Phoenix, lateMilwaukee at Utah, lateCharlotte at Portland, latePhiladelphia at Sacramento, lateFriday’s GamesToronto at Washington, 7 p.m.New Orleans at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Golden State at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.New York at Houston, 8 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Memphis at Denver, 9 p.m.Utah at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.Saturday’s GamesMiami at Orlando, 7 p.m.New Orleans at Indiana, 7 p.m.Cleveland at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m.Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 8 p.m.L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Milwaukee at Phoenix, 9 p.m.Philadelphia at Portland, 10 p.m.Charlotte at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

NBADL StandingsCentral Division W L Pct GBRio Grande Valley 12 2 .857 —Sioux Falls 11 4 .733 1½Iowa 10 4 .714 2Texas 9 4 .692 2½Austin 6 6 .500 5Tulsa 2 13 .133 10½West Division W L Pct GBIdaho 9 5 .643 —Santa Cruz 9 6 .600 ½Reno 7 7 .500 2Bakersfi eld 7 8 .467 2½Los Angeles 5 7 .417 3East Division W L Pct GBCanton 9 4 .692 —Maine 7 6 .538 2Fort Wayne 6 7 .462 3Springfi eld 3 10 .231 6Delaware 3 12 .200 7Erie 1 11 .083 7½Wednesday’s GamesNo games scheduledThursday’s GamesMaine 105, Tulsa 96Iowa 104, Sioux Falls 94Los Angeles at Reno, lateCanton at Bakersfi eld, lateFriday’s GamesTulsa at Springfi eld, 7 p.m.Erie at Delaware, 7 p.m.Iowa at Fort Wayne, 7:30 p.m.Texas at Austin, 8:30 p.m.Rio Grande Valley at Idaho, 9 p.m.Reno at Santa Cruz, 10 p.m.Saturday’s GamesSpringfi eld at Maine, 7 p.m.Texas at Austin, 8:30 p.m.Rio Grande Valley at Idaho, 9 p.m.Bakersfi eld at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.Canton at Santa Cruz, 10 p.m.

College Football FBS Bowl Games

Saturday, Dec. 21New Mexico BowlColorado State 48, Washington State 45Las Vegas BowlSouthern Cal 45, Fresno State 20Famous Idaho Potato BowlSan Diego State 49, Buffalo 24New Orleans BowlLouisiana-Lafayette 24, Tulane 21Monday, Dec. 23Beef ‘O’ Brady’s BowlEast Carolina 37, Ohio 20Tuesday, Dec. 24Hawaii BowlOregon State 38, Boise State 23Thursday, Dec. 26Little Caesars Pizza BowlPittsburgh 30, Bowling Green 27Poinsettia BowlUtah State 21, Northern Illinois 14Friday, Dec. 27Military BowlMarshall 31, Maryland 20Texas BowlSyracuse 21, Minnesota 17Fight Hunger BowlWashington 31, BYU 16Saturday, Dec. 28Pinstripe BowlNotre Dame 29, Rutgers 16Belk BowlNorth Carolina 39, Cincinnati 17Russell Athletic BowlLouisville 36, Miami 9Buffalo Wild Wings BowlKansas State 31, Michigan 14Monday, Dec. 30Armed Forces BowlNavy 24, Middle Tennessee 6Music City BowlMississippi 25, Georgia Tech 17Alamo BowlOregon 30, Texas 7Holiday BowlTexas Tech 37, Arizona State 23Tuesday, Dec. 31AdvoCare V100 BowlArizona 42, Boston College 19Sun BowlUCLA 42, Virginia Tech 12Liberty BowlMississippi State 44, Rice 7Chick-fi l-A BowlTexas A&M 52, Duke 48Wednesday, Jan. 1Heart of Dallas BowlNorth Texas 36, UNLV 14Gator BowlNebraska 24, Georgia 19Capital One BowlSouth Carolina 34, Wisconsin 24Outback BowlLSU 21, Iowa 14Rose BowlMichigan State 24, Stanford 20Fiesta BowlUCF 52, Baylor 42Thursday, Jan. 2Sugar BowlAlabama vs. Oklahoma, lateFriday, Jan. 3Orange BowlOhio State (12-1) vs. Clemson (10-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN)Cotton BowlMissouri (11-2) vs. Oklahoma State (10-2), 7:30 p.m. (FOX)Saturday, Jan. 4BBVA Compass BowlVanderbilt (8-4) vs. Houston (8-4), 1

p.m. (ESPN)Sunday, Jan. 5GoDaddy.com BowlArkansas State (7-5) vs. Ball State (10-2), 9 p.m. (ESPN)Monday, Jan. 6BCS National ChampionshipFlorida State (13-0) vs. Auburn (12-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)Saturday, Jan. 18East-West Shrine ClassicEast vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN)Saturday, Jan. 25Senior BowlSouth vs. North, 4 p.m. (NFLN)

Men’s Top 25 Basketball Schedule

Friday’s GameNo. 9 Baylor vs. Savannah State, 8 p.m.Saturday’s GamesNo. 1 Arizona vs. Washington, 2 p.m.No. 2 Syracuse vs. Miami, 2 p.m.No. 3 Ohio State vs. Nebraska, NoonNo. 5 Michigan State at Indiana, 2 p.m.No. 6 Oklahoma State at Kansas State, 4 p.m.No. 7 Duke at Notre Dame, 4 p.m.No. 12 Florida vs. Richmond, 3 p.m.No. 13 Iowa State at Texas Tech, 1:30 p.m.No. 14 Louisville at Rutgers, 6 p.m.No. 17 UConn at SMU, 2 p.m.No. 18 Memphis vs. Cincinnati, NoonNo. 23 UMass vs. Miami (Ohio), 7 p.m.No. 24 Gonzaga vs. Pacifi c, 8 p.m.No. 25 Missouri vs. Long Beach State, 5 p.m.Sunday’s GamesNo. 4 Wisconsin vs. No. 22 Iowa, 8 p.m.No. 8 Wichita State vs. Northern Iowa, 2 p.m.No. 10 Oregon at No. 20 Colorado, 5 p.m.No. 11 Villanova vs. Providence, 7 p.m.No. 16 Kansas vs. No. 21 San Diego State, 4:30 p.m.No. 19 North Carolina at Wake Forest, 8 p.m.

Women’s Top 25 Basketball Schedule

Friday’s GamesNo. 4 Stanford vs. Oregon, 9 p.m.No. 12 Colorado at Southern Cal, 11 p.m.No. 23 California vs. Oregon State, 11 p.m.No. 24 Arizona State at Washington State, 10 p.m.Saturday’s GamesNo. 1 UConn at Memphis, 3 p.m.No. 7 Louisville vs. Cincinnati, 2 p.m.No. 11 Oklahoma State vs. West Virginia, 7 p.m.Sunday’s GamesNo. 2 Notre Dame vs. Clemson, 2 p.m.No. 3 Duke at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m.No. 4 Stanford vs. Oregon State, 5 p.m.No. 5 Tennessee at No. 19 Georgia, 4 p.m.No. 6 Kentucky vs. Florida, 3 p.m.No. 8 Maryland at No. 10 North Carolina, 3 p.m.No. 9 Baylor vs. Kansas, 4 p.m.No. 12 Colorado at UCLA, 10:30 p.m.No. 13 South Carolina vs. Vanderbilt, 1 p.m.No. 14 Iowa State at No. 25 Oklahoma, 2 p.m.No. 15 Penn State at No. 22 Iowa, 3 p.m.No. 16 LSU at Tulane, 3 p.m.No. 20 Syracuse at N.C. State, 2 p.m.No. 23 California vs. Oregon, 3 p.m.No. 24 Arizona State at Washington, 5 p.m.

Orange Bowl WinnersJan. 1, 2013 — Florida State 31, Northern Illinois 10Jan. 4, 2012 — West Virginia 70, Clemson 33Jan. 3, 2011 — Stanford 40, Virginia Tech 12Jan. 5, 2010 — Iowa 24, Georgia Tech 14Jan. 1, 2009 — Virginia Tech 20, Cincinnati 7Jan. 3, 2008 — Kansas 24, Virginia Tech 21Jan. 2, 2007 — Louisville 24, Wake Forest 13Jan. 4, 2006 — Penn State 26, Florida State 23, 3OTJan. 1, 2005 — Southern Cal 55, Oklahoma 19Jan. 1, 2004 — Miami 16, Florida State 14Jan. 2, 2003 — Southern Cal 38, Iowa 17Jan. 2, 2002 — Florida 56, Maryland 23Jan. 3, 2001 — Oklahoma 13, Florida State 2Jan. 1, 2000 — Michigan 35, Alabama 34, OTJan. 2, 1999 — Florida 31, Syracuse 10Jan. 2, 1998 — Nebraska 42, Tennessee 17Dec. 31, 1996 — Nebraska 41, Virginia Tech 21Jan. 1, 1996 — Florida State 31, Notre Dame 26Jan. 1, 1995 — Nebraska 24, Miami 17Jan. 1, 1994 — Florida State 18, Nebraska 16Jan. 1, 1993 — Florida State 27, Nebraska 14Jan. 1, 1992 — Miami 22, Nebraska 0Jan. 1, 1991 — Colorado 10, Notre Dame 9Jan. 1, 1990 — Notre Dame 21, Colorado 6Jan. 2, 1989 — Miami 23, Nebraska 3Jan. 1, 1988 — Miami 20, Oklahoma 14Jan. 1, 1987 — Oklahoma 42, Arkansas 8Jan. 1, 1986 — Oklahoma 25, Penn State 10Jan. 1, 1985 — Washington 28, Oklahoma 17Jan. 2, 1984 — Miami 31, Nebraska 30Jan. 1, 1983 — Nebraska 21, LSU 20Jan. 1, 1982 — Clemson 22, Nebraska 15Jan. 1, 1981 — Oklahoma 18, Florida State 17Jan. 1, 1980 — Oklahoma 24, Florida State 7Jan. 1, 1979 — Oklahoma 31, Nebraska 24Jan. 2, 1978 — Arkansas 31, Oklahoma 6Jan. 1, 1977 — Ohio State 27, Colorado 10Jan. 1, 1976 — Oklahoma 14, Michigan 6Jan. 1, 1975 — Notre Dame 13, Alabama 11Jan. 1, 1974 — Penn State 16, LSU 9Jan. 1, 1973 — Nebraska 40, Notre Dame 6Jan. 1, 1972 — Nebraska 38, Alabama 6Jan. 1, 1971 — Nebraska 17, LSU 12Jan. 1, 1970 — Penn State 10, Missouri 3Jan. 1, 1969 — Penn State 15, Kansas 14Jan. 1, 1968 — Oklahoma 26, Tennessee 24Jan. 2, 1967 — Florida 27, Georgia Tech 12Jan. 1, 1966 — Alabama 39, Nebraska 28Jan. 1, 1965 — Texas 21, Alabama 17Jan. 1, 1964 — Nebraska 13, Auburn 7Jan. 1, 1963 — Alabama 17, Oklahoma 0Jan. 1, 1962 — LSU 25, Colorado 7Jan. 2, 1961 — Missouri 21, Navy 14Jan. 1, 1960 — Georgia 14, Missouri 0Jan. 1, 1959 — Oklahoma 21, Syracuse 6Jan. 1, 1958 — Oklahoma 48, Duke 21Jan. 1, 1957 — Colorado 27, Clemson 21Jan. 2, 1956 — Oklahoma 20, Maryland 6Jan. 1, 1955 — Duke 34, Nebraska 7Jan. 1, 1954 — Oklahoma 7, Maryland 0Jan. 1, 1953 — Alabama 61, Syracuse 6Jan. 1, 1952 — Georgia Tech 17, Baylor 14Jan. 1, 1951 — Clemson 15, Miami 14Jan. 2, 1950 — Santa Clara 21, Kentucky 13Jan. 1, 1949 — Texas 41, Georgia 28Jan. 1, 1948 — Georgia Tech 20, Kansas 14Jan. 1, 1947 — Rice 8, Tennessee 0Jan. 1, 1946 — Miami 13, Holy Cross 6Jan. 1, 1945 — Tulsa 26, Georgia Tech 12Jan. 1, 1944 — LSU 19, Texas A&M 14Jan. 1, 1943 — Alabama 37, Boston College 21

Jan. 1, 1942 — Georgia 40, TCU 26Jan. 1, 1941 — Mississippi State 14, Georgetown 7Jan. 1, 1940 — Georgia Tech 21, Missouri 7Jan. 2, 1939 — Tennessee 17, Oklahoma 0Jan. 1, 1938 — Auburn 6, Michigan State 0Jan. 1, 1937 — Duquesne 13, Missis-sippi State 12Jan. 1, 1936 — Catholic U. 20, Missis-sippi 19Jan. 1, 1935 — Bucknell 26, Miami 0

Cotton Bowl WinnersJan. 4, 2013 — Texas A&M 41, Oklahoma 13Jan. 6, 2012 — Arkansas 29, Kansas St. 16Jan. 7, 2011 — LSU 41, Texas A&M 24Jan. 2, 2010 — Mississippi 21, Oklahoma St. 7Jan. 2, 2009 — Mississippi 47, Texas Tech 34Jan. 1, 2008 — Missouri 38, Arkansas 7Jan. 1, 2007 — Auburn 17, Nebraska 14Jan. 2, 2006 — Alabama 13, Texas Tech 10Jan. 1, 2005 — Tennessee 38, Texas A&M 7Jan. 2, 2004 — Mississippi 31, Oklahoma St. 28Jan. 1, 2003 — Texas 35, LSU 20Jan. 1, 2002 — Oklahoma 10, Arkansas 3Jan. 1, 2001 — Kansas St. 35, Tennessee 21Jan. 1, 2000 — Arkansas 27, Texas 6Jan. 1, 1999 — Texas 38, Mississippi St. 11Jan. 1, 1998 — UCLA 29, Texas A&M 23Jan. 1, 1997 — Brigham Young 19, Kansas St. 15Jan. 1, 1996 — Colorado 38, Oregon 6Jan. 2, 1995 — Southern Cal 55, Texas Tech 14Jan. 1, 1994 — Notre Dame 24, Texas A&M 21Jan. 1, 1993 — Notre Dame 28, Texas A&M 3Jan. 1, 1992 — Florida St. 10, Texas A&M 2Jan. 1, 1991 — Miami 46, Texas 3Jan. 1, 1990 — Tennessee 31, Arkansas 27Jan. 2, 1989 — UCLA 17, Arkansas 3Jan. 1, 1988 — Texas A&M 35, Notre Dame 10Jan. 1, 1987 — Ohio St. 28, Texas A&M 12Jan. 1, 1986 — Texas A&M 36, Auburn 16Jan. 1, 1985 — Boston College 45, Houston 28Jan. 2, 1984 — Georgia 10, Texas 9Jan. 1, 1983 — Southern Methodist 7, Pittsburgh 3Jan. 1, 1982 — Texas 14, Alabama 12Jan. 1, 1981 — Alabama 30, Baylor 2Jan. 1, 1980 — Houston 17, Nebraska 14Jan. 1, 1979 — Notre Dame 35, Houston 34Jan. 2, 1978 — Notre Dame 38, Texas 10Jan. 1, 1977 — Houston 30, Maryland 21Jan. 1, 1976 — Arkansas 31, Georgia 10Jan. 1, 1975 — Penn St. 41, Baylor 20Jan. 1, 1974 — Nebraska 19, Texas 3Jan. 1, 1973 — Texas 17, Alabama 13Jan. 1, 1972 — Penn St. 30, Texas 6Jan. 1, 1971 — Notre Dame 24, Texas 11Jan. 1, 1970 — Texas 21, Notre Dame 17Jan. 1, 1969 — Texas 36, Tennessee 13Jan. 1, 1968 — Texas A&M 20, Alabama 16Jan. 2, 1967 — Georgia 24, Southern Methodist 9Dec. 31, 1966 — LSU 14, Arkansas 7Jan. 1, 1966 — Arkansas 10, Nebraska 7Jan. 1, 1964 — Texas 28, Navy 6Jan. 1, 1963 — LSU 13, Texas 0Jan. 1, 1962 — Texas 12, Mississippi 7Jan. 2, 1961 — Duke 7, Arkansas 6Jan. 1, 1960 — Syracuse 23, Texas 14Jan. 1, 1959 — Air Force 0, Texas Christian 0Jan. 1, 1958 — Navy 20, Rice 7Jan. 1, 1957 — Texas Christian 28, Syracuse 27Jan. 2, 1956 — Mississippi 14, Texas Christian 13Jan. 1, 1955 — Georgia Tech 14, Arkansas 6Jan. 1, 1954 — Rice 28, Alabama 6Jan. 1, 1953 — Texas 16, Tennessee 0Jan. 1, 1952 — Kentucky 20, Texas Christian 7Jan. 1, 1951 — Tennessee 20, Texas 14Jan. 2, 1950 — Rice 27, North Carolina 13Jan. 1, 1949 — Southern Methodist 21, Oregon 13Jan. 1, 1948 — Penn St. 13, Southern Methodist 13Jan. 1, 1947 — Arkansas 0, LSU 0Jan. 1, 1946 — Texas 40, Missouri 27Jan. 1, 1945 — Oklahoma St. 34, Texas Christian 0Jan. 1, 1944 — Randolph Field, Texas 7Jan. 1, 1943 — Texas 14, Georgia Tech 7Jan. 1, 1942 — Alabama 29, Texas A&M 21Jan. 1, 1941 — Texas A&M 13, Fordham 12Jan. 1, 1940 — Clemson 6, Boston College 3Jan. 2, 1939 — St. Mary’s (Cal.) 20, Texas Tech 13Jan. 1, 1938 — Rice 28, Colorado 14Jan. 1, 1937 — Texas Christian 16, Marquette 6

TransactionsBASEBALLCan-Am LeagueNEW JERSEY JACKALS — Traded RHP Jorge Vasquez to Amarillo (AA) for OF Chris Valencia.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueARIZONA CARDINALS — Re-signed C Philip Blake, WR Dan Buckner, LB Kenny Demens, C Tom Draheim, TE Darren Fells, RB Robert Hughes, S Orhian Johnson, DT Anthony McCloud, and LB Kenny Rowe to reserve/future contracts.CHICAGO BEARS — Signed QB Jay Cutler to a seven-year contract, and G Matt Slauson and CB Tim Jennings to four-year contracts.CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed RB Jamaine Cook and DB Brandon Hughes to reserve/future contracts.HOUSTON TEXANS — Named Bill O’Brien coach.Pro Football Hall of FamePFHOF — Named David Baker president and executive director.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCOLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Activated F Nathan Horton, G Sergei Bobrovsky and D Dalton Prout from the injured list. Reassigned F Jonathan Marchessault, D Tim Erixon and G Mike McKenna to Springfi eld (AHL).DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Colton Sceviour from Texas (AHL).MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled G Darcy Kuemper from Iowa (AHL). Activated D Clayton Stoner from the injured reserve list. Placed F Zenon Konopka on waivers.American Hockey LeagueAHL — Suspended Bridgeport D Marc Cantin three games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a Dec. 31 game at Portland.ECHLECHL — Announced the earlier indefi nite suspension of Utah’s Kris Hogg will ammount to 14 games. Hogg was suspended on Dec. 24 for his actions in a Dec. 21 game at Alaska and will miss 11 more games. Fined Wheeling’s Ryley Miller an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Dec. 31 game against Reading.SOCCERMajor League SoccerFC DALLAS — Re-signed D Zach Loyd.COLLEGEOREGON STATE — Announced junior WR Brandin Cooks will enter the NFL draft.PENN STATE — Named Larry Johnson interim football coach.

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Mathis fi nished the regular season with 65 tackles, matched his career high with eight forced fumbles — two of which led to safeties — and helped lead the Colts to their fi rst AFC South title without Peyton Manning.

Indy (11-5) will host Kansas City (11-5) on Saturday afternoon in a wild-card game.

Mathis, who was the sacks leader most of the season, even came up with two sacks in the regular-season fi nale to move past St. Louis’ Robert Quinn and join Freeney as the only Colts players to win a sacks title. Freeney took that honor in 2004.

MATHIS: Big game ahead for IndianapolisFROM PAGE B1

Certainly, the Indiana Legislature should be aware of the recently released research report that warns that the state’s new sentencing guidelines will increase rather than decrease the state’s prison population.

At the same time, lawmakers should not take the conclusions of the report by an Atlanta consulting fi rm as absolute gospel, and keep in mind the overall intent of the law is to make criminal sentencing more appropriate and fair, rather than sending a huge number of people down a road that too often

leads to a life of crime.As pointed out by state Rep. Matt Pierce,

D-Bloomington, who worked several years helping to draft the state’s new criminal code and sentencing guidelines, the law doesn’t go into effect until July. And lawmakers went into the process with the understanding that it would need fi ne tuning, he says.

The redesigned code calls for charging and sentencing reductions for many non-violent crimes, a lot of them involving low-level drug activity, keeping violators out of the state prison system and thus permitting them the chance to eventually regain their place in the community. That’s a chance that quite often is lost forever once a violator has spent hard time in prison, something the old charging and sentencing system commanded.

Such violators would routinely be sentenced not to the state prison system but to supervised community alternatives, with a goal to change the direction of a life, not simply to mete out punishment.

At the same time, the practice of awarding inmates in the state prison system “good time,” a reduction in time served by half from the sentence handed down by the courts for inmates who remain on good behavior while incarcerated, would be toughened. Under the new law, sentences can be reduced by only 25 percent and some sentences for serious, violent felonies will be increased.

The latest report, which was presented last month to legislators, predicts that despite reductions in charging and sentencing for non-violent offenders, the state’s prison population will continue to rise, largely because of the tougher “good time” rules and longer sentences for violent offenders.

Pierce believes the report takes a worst case perspective. We hope he’s right, not as much because we’d all be paying more one way or the other to create more state prison space but because under the old law, society was too sharply divided into the criminal class and the rest of us. And that division is almost forced on us by the labels applied to those who’ve served time in prison and by the embittering and hardening experience of prison life itself.

We are not interested in coddling criminals. But we must recognize that few of us are born criminals — that it takes a lot of effort on society’s part as well as on the individual’s to turn somebody into a hard-case villain. Strict monitoring and intense follow-through for a lesser offense has the potential to redirect someone just starting down that path. That’s what is supposed to happen within a local context, with a plan built around intensive substance abuse and alcohol programs and careful monitoring of progress.

Monroe County already has a program that intervenes in such cases — the Monroe County Drug Treatment Court that’s been in place for more than a decade. The court process, with includes intense treatment and monitoring of participants, has cut in half the rate of recidi-vism for those who have gone through it versus similar defendants who have not.

Even if in the short term, prison populations were to increase because most recently convicted violent criminals get longer sentences and get less good time off with this new law, fewer might end up on that track in the long term.

All this is said with this caveat, and it’s a big one: None of it will work unless those intense intervention programs at the local level get adequate funding from the state. That’s the next and biggest hurdle for our state legislators to jump. If they fail, the plan will certainly fail. This is not an unfunded mandate that any county government could afford.

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In chatting with her niece about bedtime stories, Sherry asked Jessica, 4, about her favorite Bible story. She said, “It’s the story of Noah and the Ark, with all the animals; like mice, elephants and snakes.” Sherry asked, “Aren’t elephants afraid of mice, and what if a snake tried to eat the mice? How do you think Noah handled those problems?” Jessica thought for a few seconds, then her face beamed as she answered, “Noah must have put the mice on TOP of the elephant.” — Sherry Griffi n of Canada

The grandparents were visiting with Cohen, 5. At supper (while Mom was tending to the wash), Cohen’s dad got him to tell about how he had been punished that afternoon. Cohen said, “I was running in the house, and my daddy spunk me.” Daddy Geron explained that he had told Cohen not to run in the house, so the spanking was deserved. Later, Mommy Lydia tried to get Cohen to tell the story again, since she had missed it earlier. Cohen said, “I believe that’s already been discussed.” — Susan Meadors (grandmother of Cohen) of Georgetown, Kentucky

Dawn’s cousin’s daughter Anna came out of her room on a recent Saturday wearing a striped shirt and a skirt with polka dots. Her mom told her, “Wow, you don’t match

at all.” Anna said. “That’s because I have adventures using my clothes!” — Dawn Keen of New Mexico

Dawson, 5, and his older brother, Caleb, were wrestling. Dawson yelled, “Nine plus nine is 18. Help me!” Dawson later explained, “My teacher said math facts will get you out of trouble.” — Quinn Ward of Noble County

Dawson likes a girl in his class. When his father asked him why he likes her, Dawson said,

“because she’s highly intelligent, never says no and is helpful.”

Jennifer, who works at a daycare, overheard Cindy, 4, tell another child that her dad sometimes says life isn’t fair. Jennifer told her that her dad is pretty smart. Cindy replied, “My dad IS smart because he works at work.” — Jennifer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Thank you to everyone who contributes stories. If you have a story to share please don’t put it off … call 347-0738 or email me. (I welcome photos by email, too.) My new email address is ghousholder@kpcmedia.com. You can also mail stories to me at 816 Mott St., Kendallville, IN 46755, but please don’t mail me any photos (only use email for photos). Thank you in advance!

GRACE HOUSHOLDER is a columnist and editorial writer for this newspaper. Contact her at ghoush older@kpcmedia.com.

Little girl fi gures out possible plan for Noah

WASHINGTON — America’s capacity for optimism and hope has been boundless through much of our short history.

The tangible returns of hard work; the ordered liberty sustained through community consent; and opportu-nity honed over time to apply equally to all men and women — these were the currency of what we called the American Dream.

Essential to these achievements was courage. The Founding Fathers were above all courageous as they challenged a king, fought and died for freedom, and created a country from scratch with little more than mettle and intellectual vigor.

If this isn’t exceptional, then we have lost the meaning of words.

As we begin yet another new year, it is less easy to summon the dream. Instead of hope, a word that brought us a new president, we have entered an era of envy and doubt — envy for those who have more, and doubt that we can ever dig ourselves out of debilitating debt. What happens when even our debtors no longer want our dollars anymore, as China recently declared? A country that no longer wants our money likely doesn’t want our debt, either.

Depending on whose prognostications one believes,

we are either rebounding, by dribs and drabs, or perched on the precipice of economic

ruin. Let’s fi gure we’re somewhere in between, which falls short of inspiring. What is certain is that our economic standing in the world is damaged, our credit and credibility are weak and business confi dence is still in limbo.

Do weak economies and moral decay go hand in hand? We certainly seem poised to fi nd out.

From Miley Cyrus’ naked cavorting on a wrecking ball — well, one can at least admire her metaphoric succulence — to Anthony Weiner’s Twitter projections of His Very Own Self, we have lost all sense of decorum, that voluntary commitment to behavior that combines a willingness to consider others fi rst (at minimum keeping our clothes on), enforced through the exercise of self-restraint.

Note the term self-restraint. No one’s arguing for a new Puritanism, heaven forbid, but a pivot toward responsible adulthood would be helpful in re-creating a culture that doesn’t pinch our faces with revulsion. How do we expect children to navigate through this tawdry muck to become the sort of people most of us would like to know?

Part of the problem is our

sense of helplessness before the overwhelming power of technology, which has erased the physical boundaries of community. With so many liberated ids running around, it’s hard to fi nd a safe place to grow children. Figure it out we must. Does shame have a place in the American Dream? Why aren’t irresponsible parenting and behavior as abhorrent to society as, say, smoking?

I suppose what I’m lamenting is the loss of our national imperative to do and be better. Where once we fashioned ourselves according to best behaviors, we now accommo-date ourselves to the least. Take a look around a mall, if you can bear to enter. Valium recommended.

So, yep, we’re a mess, but, in the spirit of American optimism, not doomed. To preserve the dream, two resolutions come to mind: Denounce envy and resurrect the community standard.

Envy is the core emotion driving the current debate about income inequality and the notion that the poor are poor because the rich are rich. Nonsense. The economy is not, in fact, a pie. When one gets a bigger slice, others do not ipso facto get a smaller one. Instead of redistrib-uting wealth to spread misery around, the goal should be to make the poor richer, which means jobs, education and tax/regulation relief for employers.

Fundamental to all else is allegiance to community standards — the tacit agreement

among adults that our communi-ties be as physically secure and psychologically safe as possible for the well-being of children, who someday soon will be in charge. For guidance, the correct answer to nearly any question is another question: What is best for children?

Perhaps I am naive, but cynicism isn’t allowed today. And besides, I am in good company when I propose that America’s strength and well-being come from her goodness. Our lack of attention to our goodness, combined with our craving for instant gratifi ca-tion and near-toxic stimulation, has led us far afi eld from our Founders’ intentions. Don’t worry, my angel wings are in sorry shape.

We may have been created with a universal yearning for freedom, but we have learned through experience that freedom is earned rather than bestowed. To keep it, one must be vigilant.

All it takes is courage.

KATHLEEN PARKER is a syndicated columnist with Tribune Media Services. She can be reached at kathleenparker@washpost.com.

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DEAR DOCTOR K: My son suff ers from occasional nosebleeds. What’s the best way to stop a nosebleed?

DEAR READER: Many people suff er from nosebleeds. I tend to get them this time of year when the air is cold and dry, as it irritates the normally warm, moist surfaces inside the nose.

Most nosebleeds occur when a blood vessel in the nose’s soft cartilage leaks. If your son is like most people, his nosebleeds probably stop quickly. Sometimes, though, if the nosebleed is more severe, he may need medical attention.

A recent research study looked at treatment options for serious nosebleeds. It found that simpler and gentler options work just as well as more invasive eff orts. Th ey also have fewer negative side eff ects and cost less.

More invasive options include using electricity or heat to burn a bleeding blood vessel, surgery to tie off the bleeding blood vessel, or injecting a plug of

material into the artery to block its fl ow.

My colleague Dr. Mary Pickett at Harvard Medical School has reviewed medical studies of nosebleed treatments. She tells me that a low-tech option — a good,

strong pinch in the right place — will oft en do the trick. Specifi cally, she recommends the following technique to treat a

nosebleed at home:• Nod your head

forward. Th is prevents the fl ow of blood from going down the back of your throat.

• Place your thumb on one side of your nose and your forefi nger on the other side, up near the bridge. Slowly slide them down to the sudden “drop-off ” where the bones give way to cartilage.

• Pinch your thumb and forefi nger together, and hold.

• Pinch with enough pressure to press both sides of your nose fi rmly against the septum — the cartilage in the middle of your nose. Th e tissue on either side of the nose puts pressure on the bleeding blood vessel, which is usually on the septum.

• If the bleeding slows or stops, you are pinching in the right place. If not, start over, and pinch lower or

higher.• Hold the pinch for a

minimum of fi ve minutes before you release. You may need to repeat this again for another fi ve-minute session.

One fi nal thought, prompted by a patient I saw not long ago. Th e patient was in his mid-40s and had never had nosebleeds in the past. But he had suff ered from three of them in the past week, and they didn’t always stop with the technique I’ve just recommended. I diagnosed a blood condition (low platelets) that, fortunately, was treated and cured. Th is is rare, and blood tests are rarely necessary in people with nosebleeds. But even common problems can sometimes have more serious causes.

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

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DEAR ABBY: I am a 27-year-old mom who has always been overweight. I have tried all sorts of diets and programs, and have lost a few pounds and then gained it all back and more. My boss has off ered to pay for me to have weight loss surgery. It is something I have always wanted, but could never aff ord. My family is behind me and supports my decision to have it done. My concern is that once others in my offi ce learn it was paid for by the boss, I’ll be treated diff erently. I’m concerned about possible catty comments. Th ey are gossips, and I hate being the center of attention in situations like that. Th e truth is bound to come out, so how can I comment on the gift I’ve been given? — SO GRATEFUL IN TEXAS DEAR SO GRATEFUL: You have a generous and empathetic boss who

obviously cares about you. Unless one of you reveals that she paid for your surgery, “the truth” is NOT bound to

come out. How your operation is paid for is nobody’s business. DEAR ABBY: My father recently told me his girlfriend is pregnant with twins. She is in her 40s and he is in his 50s.

She already has two kids who are quite a handful. Th ey both have low-paying jobs and I don’t think they can handle two more children. My father now is asking me to move in with him to help out. I’m afraid this is a

huge risk. If I tell him what my concerns are, I am sure he’ll think I’m heartless and stop talking to me. I don’t know what to do. Dad might not even be around to see those kids graduate from high school. What can I do? — TROUBLED SON IN COLORADO DEAR TROUBLED SON: Unless you’re willing to give up your freedom I don’t recommend doing what your father is proposing. He should not expect you to assume child care or fi nancial responsibility because his birth control method failed. Th at privilege rightfully belongs to him and his girlfriend. Tell your father no.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of female Marines in boot camp can’t do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement, part of the process of equalizing physical standards to integrate women into combat jobs.

The delay rekindled sharp debate in the military on the question of whether women have the physical strength for some military jobs, as service branches move toward opening thousands of combat roles to them in 2016.

Although no new timetable has been set on the delayed physical requirement, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos wants training offi cials to “continue to gather data and ensure that female Marines are provided with the best opportunity to succeed,” Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine spokes-woman, said Thursday.

Starting with the new year, all female Marines were supposed to be able to do at least three pullups on their annual physical fi tness test and eight for a perfect score. The requirement was tested in 2013 on female recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., but only 45 percent of women met the minimum, Krebs said.

The Marines had hoped to institute the pullups on the belief that pullups require the muscular strength necessary to perform common military tasks such as scaling a wall, climbing up a rope or lifting and carrying heavy munitions.

Offi cials felt there wasn’t a medical risk to putting the new standard into effect as planned across the service, but that the risk of losing recruits and hurting retention of women already in the service was unaccept-ably high, she said.

Because the change is being put off, women will be able to choose which test of upper-body strength they

will be graded on in their annual physical fi tness test. Their choices:

—Pullups, with three the minimum. Three is also the minimum for male Marines, but they need 20 for a perfect rating.

—A fl exed-arm hang. The minimum is for 15 seconds; women get a perfect score if they last for 70 seconds. Men don’t do the hang in their test.

Offi cials said training for pullups can change a person’s strength, while training for the fl ex-arm hang does little to adapt muscular strength needed for military tasks

The delay on the standard could be another wrinkle in the plan to begin allowing women to serve in jobs previously closed to them such as infantry, armor and artillery units.

The military services are working to fi gure out how to move women into newly opened jobs and have been devising updated physical standards, training, education and other

programs for thousands of jobs they must open Jan. 1, 2016, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman. They must open as many jobs to women as possible; if they decide to

keep some closed, they must explain why.

Military brass has said repeatedly that physical standards won’t be lowered to accommodate female applicants. Success for women in training for the

upcoming openings has come in fi ts and starts.

In fall 2012, only two female Marines volunteered for the 13-week infantry offi cers training course at Quantico, Va., and both failed to complete it.

Women struggle to meet Marines’ fi tness standards

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Female recruits listen to an instructor at the Marine Corps Training Depot on Parris Island, S.C., recently. More than half of female Marines in boot camp

can’t do three pull-ups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year. So the Corps is delaying the requirement.

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