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Inmate attacksguard withmakeshiftweapon atstate prisonSPRINGVILLE

(AP) — Authoritiessay an inmate con-victed of murder at-tacked acorrectional officerat an Alabamaprison.The Alabama De-

partment of Correc-tions said in a newsrelease that 27-year-old Daryl Row-ell attacked theofficer who was es-corting him to ahousing area insideSt. Clair Correc-tional Facility with amakeshift weaponaround 1 p.m.Wednesday.The officer was cut

in the attack andtreated at a localhospital. His injuriesare not life threaten-ing.

4-year-old boy dead afteraccidentallyshooting self A young boy died

Thursday in BibbCounty after author-ities say he found agun and shot him-self in the face.The shooting hap-

pened at the homeof the 4-year-old inBrierfield, said BibbCounty District At-torney MichaelJackson.

Leland Thomas Glaze, 77,Somerville

Sarah Ruth Chaffin, 83,Nauvoo

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Jones officially declaredwinner in U.S. Senate race

MONTGOMERY (AP) — Democrat DougJones’ historic victory over Republican RoyMoore was declared official Thursday as Al-abama election officials certified him thewinner of the special Senate election earlierthis month, despite claims of voter irregu-larities from his opponent.

Jones defeated Moore on Dec. 12 by about22,000 votes in a stunning victory in adeeply red state. It was the first DemocraticSenate victory in a quarter-century in Ala-bama. Moore was dogged by accusations ofsexual misconduct involving teenage girlsthat occurred decades ago.

The state’s former chief justice refused to

concede and even filed a last-ditch lawsuithours before the certification, but a judge re-jected his claims. Alabama election officialsalso found no evidence of voting irregulari-ties.

A spokesman for Jones earlier calledMoore’s lawsuit a “desperate attempt ... tosubvert the will of the people.”

“The election is over. It’s time to move on,”Sam Coleman wrote in an email.

Jones will be sworn in on Jan. 3, narrow-ing the GOP’s advantage in the U.S. Senateto 51-49. He takes over the seat previously

AP Photo/John Bazemore, File

In this Dec. 12 file photo, Democrat DougJones speaks in Birmingham. Jones was of-ficially certified as winner of the U.S. Senaterace Thursday in Montgomery.

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The Salvation Army of Walker County surpassed its 2017 Red Kettle campaign goal of$100,000 with a little more than $103,000 donated this holiday season.

Red Kettle campaigntops $100,000 goalCharity donations likely to drop

next year due to tax law / A8

By LEA RIZZODaily Mountain Eagle

The Salvation Army of Walker County has sur-passed its 2017 Red Kettle Campaigngoal of $100,000.

This year’s campaign total was$103,337, thanks to both kettle dona-tions and kettle sponsorships. Approxi-mately $20,000 of the amount wasraised in the campaign’s final threedays, according to the Walker County lo-cation’s executive director Saderia Mor-man.

“I’m pretty pumped,” she said about the

fundraiser’s success, adding that it took all thebell ringers and other volunteers working inWalker, Winston and Marion counties to help thecampaign become such a success.

Around $41,000 came from Winston and Mar-ion counties, while the rest of the amount camefrom Walker County. Morman credited the kettle

coordinators in each county for helpingmake bell ringing a good experience forvolunteers

She also thanked everyone who helpedout as volunteers and bell ringers, whichincluded “little bitty kids to senior citi-zens. We were just excited that every-body wanted to participate.“People wanted to ring [the bells] and

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One stop that’s a must in Washington, D.C., is Arlington National Cemetery,where you can witness the Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Tomb ofthe Unknown Soldier.

Aderholt: Time to planfor trips to WashingtonBy ED HOWELLDaily Mountain Eagle

U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt is urging those thinking ofcoming to Washington, D.C., in the spring and summerto start making plans now in order to have time toprocess the tours.

“While many people still have their Christmas deco-rations up, spring is just around the corner. And now isthe time to start planning your family’s trip to Wash-ington, D.C.,” Aderholt said in a release. “Our nation’scapital is an excellent choice that is filled with great his-tory, great monuments and great sites. An added bonus

Spectrumincreases

Internet speedin county

By ED HOWELLDaily Mountain Eagle

Walker County customers of Spec-trum Internet can now see an im-provement in their service.

On Wednesday, Spectrum(www.spectrum.com) confirmed in-creased download speeds for the com-pany’s internet service in theBirmingham area also include WalkerCounty customers. A spokeswoman,Jennifer Candler, said customers inJasper will be part of that action.

The company has increased thespeeds in this area from 60 Mbps to100 Mbps, which amounts to a 66 per-cent increase, according to a releasethe company issued last week.

Higher energy costs accompany bitter cold snap in U.S.PORTLAND, Maine (AP) —

Plunging temperatures acrosshalf the country on Thursdayunderscored a stark reality forlow-income Americans whorely on heating aid: Their dol-lars aren’t going to go as farthis winter because of risingenergy costs. / A3

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By MARILYNN MARCHIONEAP Chief Medical Writer

After decades of hope and highpromise, this was the year scientistsreally showed they could doctorDNA to successfully treat diseases.Gene therapies to treat cancer andeven pull off the biblical-soundingfeat of helping the blind to see wereapproved by U.S. regulators, estab-lishing gene manipulation as a newmode of medicine.

Almost 20 years ago, a teen’sdeath in a gene experiment put achill on what had been a field full ofoutsized expectations. Now, a seriesof jaw-dropping successes have re-newed hopes that some one-timefixes of DNA, the chemical code thatgoverns life, might turn out to becures.

“I am totally willing to use the ‘C’word,” said the National Institutesof Health’s director, Dr. FrancisCollins.

Gene therapy aims to treat theroot cause of a problem by deleting,adding or altering DNA, rather thanjust treating symptoms that resultfrom the genetic flaw.

The advent of gene editing — amore precise and long-lasting way todo gene therapy — may expand thenumber and types of diseases thatcan be treated. In November, Cali-fornia scientists tried editing a geneinside someone’s body for the firsttime , using a tool called zinc fingernucleases for a man with a meta-bolic disease. It’s like a cut-and-paste operation to place a new genein a specific spot. Tests of anotherediting tool called CRISPR, to genet-ically alter human cells in the lab,may start next year.

“There are a few times in our liveswhen science astonishes us. This isone of those times,” Dr. MatthewPorteus, a Stanford University geneediting expert, told a Senate paneldiscussing this technology lastmonth.

It’s a common path for trail-blaz-ing science — success initially seemswithin reach, setbacks send re-searchers back to the lab, new un-derstandings emerge over years, andstudies ultimately reveal what issafe and effective.

Here is a look at what’s beenachieved and what lies ahead.

A STRING OF FIRSTSThe year started with no gene

therapies sold in the U.S. and only acouple elsewhere. Then the Food andDrug Administration approved thefirst CAR-T cell therapies, whichalter a patient’s own blood cells toturn them into specialized cancerkillers. They’re only for certain typesof leukemia and lymphoma now, butmore are in the works for otherblood cancers.

Last week, the FDA approvedLuxturna, the first gene therapy foran inherited disease, a form of blind-ness. People with it can’t make aprotein needed by the retina, tissue

at the back of the eye that convertslight into signals to the brain, en-abling sight. The therapy injects amodified virus containing a correc-tive gene into the retina so the cellscan make the protein.

Children who received the treat-ment told what it was like to gain vi-sion.

“Oh yikes, colors. Colors are superfun,” said 13-year-old CarolineCarper of Little Rock, Arkansas.“And the sunshine is blinding.”

Gene therapies also showed somepromise against a variety of diseasesincluding hemophilia , a blood clot-ting problem; “bubble boy” disease,where a flawed immune systemleaves patients vulnerable to fatalinfections, and sickle cell disease, aserious and painful blood disordercommon among black people.

It’s not all good news, though. Thetherapies don’t work for everyone.They’re shockingly expensive. Andno one knows how long some resultswill last, though scientists say theaim is a one-time repair that gets atthe root cause.

“The whole promise ... is to curediseases. It’s based on the rationaleof fixing the problem,” not just im-proving treatment, said Dr. CarlJune, a University of Pennsylvaniascientist who pioneered CAR-T ther-apy.

A NEW FRONTIER: GENE EDITING

In mid-November, Brian Madeux,a 44-year-old Phoenix man with ametabolic disease called Hunter syn-drome, had just become the first per-son to try an experimental geneediting treatment.

“I believe in science,” he texted

The Associated Press after doctorssent viruses containing a correctivegene and an editing tool through anIV into his body.

The hope is that the gene and theediting tool would enter some of hisliver cells and insert the instructionsneeded to start making an enzymehe lacks.

It’s not known yet if it worked.Sangamo Therapeutics is testing itstherapy in several studies, and inde-pendent monitors will help decidewhen results are released.

“It’s a pretty exciting milestone,”Collins said, because it shows a wayto treat more diseases than onesthat can be addressed now by alter-ing blood cells in the lab or injectinggenes into the eye.

“You can imagine having a scala-ble approach to thousands of geneticdiseases,” he said.

WHAT’S NEXTTop of Collins’ list: muscular dys-

trophy and sickle cell.There’s been so much progress

that the NIH has modified an over-sight panel that just a few years agoreviewed every gene therapy exper-iment in the U.S. Most are consid-ered safe enough to go aheadwithout the Recombinant DNA Ad-visory Committee’s review. Thepanel hasn’t even met for a year.

When the panel was formeddecades ago, “there was a lot of con-cern that a graduate student couldtake some of this home and create amonster in his basement,” said onepanel member, Boston scientist Dr.Howard Kaufman.

Those fears have eased, he said.“There’s no monsters that have

materialized from this.”

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Leland Thomas GlazeFuneral services for Leland Thomas Glaze, 77, of

Somerville, will be held today, Dec. 29, 2017, at 2 p.m. atUnion Church of Christ. Tom Larkin will officiate.

Burial will be in Antioch Methodist Church Cemetery.Visitation will be held today, Dec. 29, 2017, from 1 until 2p.m. at Union Church of Christ.

Glaze passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, at hisresidence. He was born January 12, 1940, in JeffersonCounty to Dennis Thomas Glaze and Charlotte AliceBrogdon Glaze. He was employed as a salesman for Searsprior to his retirement.

He was preceded in death by his parents.He is survived by his wife, Barbara Glaze of Somerville;

two sons, Kevin Glaze (Beth) of Somerville and ShaneGlaze (Rebecca) of Somerville; one daughter, Mitzi Dun-away (David) of Somerville; one brother, Euel Glaze ofJasper; five sisters, Betty Faye Ryland of Jasper, PeggyWhitfield (Ronnie) of Jasper, Glynace McCurry (Larry) ofCordova, Denise Whitehurst (Franklin) of Panama City,Fla., and Eunice McKnight (Jake) of Panama City, Fla.;nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Jacob Dunaway, Caleb Dunaway,Kevin Thomas Glaze, Jeff Carter, Nick Anderson andDavid Levin.

Peck Funeral Home, Hartselle; 256-773-2541

Sarah Ruth ChaffinOctober 20, 1934 – December 27, 2017

Sarah Ruth Chaffin, 83, of Nauvoo, passed awayWednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, at Princeton Baptist MedicalCenter. She was a member of Lupton Baptist Church.

The family will receive friends Saturday, Dec. 30,2017, at 10 a.m. at Collins-Burke Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017, at 11a.m. in the Collins-Burke Chapel, with burial at WalkerMemory Gardens. Dave Saxton will officiate.

Chaffin was preceded in death by her parents, Johnnyand Virgie Burton; mother-in-law and father-in-law,Cleve and Mary Chaffin; and brother, Jack Burton.

She is survived by her husband, Glenn C. Chaffin;daughters, Margaret Scurlock (David) and Phyllis Up-tain (Dennis); sisters, Marie Kimbrell, Barbara Rolloand Patricia Phillips; special friend, Larry Swindle;granddaughter, Nikki Higginbotham (R.J); and great-grandchildren, Henslee Higginbotham, Roman Higgin-botham, Adrun Higginbotham, Lucas Higginbothamand Lauren Higginbotham.

Special thanks to Lakewood Assisted Living.

Collins-Burke Funeral Home, Jasper; 205-384-5571

In a milestone year, gene therapy finds a place in medicine

AP Photo/Bill West, File

In this Oct. 4 file photo, Dr. Albert Maguire, right, checks the eyesof Misa Kaabali, 8, at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Misawas 4-years-old when he received his gene therapy treatment. OnTuesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the therapywhich improves the vision of patients with a rare form of inheritedblindness, another major advance for the burgeoning field of geneticmedicine.

The “What’s Going On” Section willbe featured in the Daily MountainEagle, and daily on the CommunityCalendar on the DME website atwww.mountaineagle.com. Commu-nity and school events, and classand family reunions, are listed free ofcharge and run in chronologicalorder by calendar date and time. Thedeadline to place a community orschool event, class or family reunionis no later than noon each Tuesdayand Friday. To place a community orschool event, class or family reunion,in the What’s Going On section, callElane Jones at 205-221-2840, ext.246, or email information [email protected].

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ice Center at 2209Delaware Ave. in Jasperhost computer classes foradults ages 50 and upevery Tuesday and Thurs-day of each month. For

more information, cALLthe Jasper Family ServiceCenter Office at 205-387-0511, ext. 5830 or 5831.

Jasper Senior Activ-ity Center host a specialday for senior citizens eachTuesday featuring gamesand movies. For more in-formation, call 205-221-8513.

The Prospect Quiltersmeets each Tuesday from8 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. atOld Prospect UnitedMethodist Church. Anyoneinterested in learning howto quilt may attend any ofthe meetings. For more in-formation, call BettyGober at 205-384-4233 or

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VIP (Visually Im-paired People) SupportGroup of Jasper meetsthe first Tuesday of eachmonth at 10:30 a.m., inthe Community Room atthe Jasper Public Library.For more information, callGail Smith at 205-221-1514, Shelby Mote at 205-697-4063, CyndiDrummond at 205-221-9521 or John Black at 205-384-1666.

Marvin Lee FergusonVFW Post 4850/LadiesAuxiliary meets the firstTuesday of each month at6 p.m. for meal and fellow-

ship, followed by meetingsat 7 p.m. at the post homeon Viking Drive in Jasper.

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911 calls show chaos of Washingtonstate train derailment

SEATTLE (AP) — Whimpering in pain, bleeding fromhead injuries and dazed by the enormity of the crash,victims in the Amtrak train derailment south of Seattlebegged 911 dispatchers for help and said “tons of people”had been hurt.

Dozens of emergency recordings released Wednesdayby South Sound 911 Dispatch provided a vivid accountof what happened during the deadly Dec. 18 crash.

“My abdomen hurts really bad. I don’t feel good,” saida crying woman identified as Angela who was bleedingfrom her head and wailed in panic each time shecouldn’t find an answer to a dispatcher’s questions. “Idon’t know how old I am off the top of my head. I’msorry!”

Angela was in Car 5 with her 14-year-old son as thepassenger train barreled through a curve at 78 mph(126 kph) in a 30 mph zone, derailing along both sidesof the tracks and toppling some cars onto Interstate 5below.

Angela begged for help and ordered her bleeding sonto lie still because he had neck and back pain. He tooka hit to his face. They got slammed into a table. Shecouldn’t find her shoes.

“Everybody’s getting off but I’m afraid to move myson,” Angela said, adding that “tons of people are hurt!”

Authorities say it could take more than a year to un-derstand how the inaugural run of the train carrying 85passengers and crew members ended in disaster alonga new 15-mile (24-kilometer) bypass route.

Friends Jim Hamre, 61, and Zack Willhoite, 35, diedof brain and skull injuries. Benjamin Gran, 40, died ofmultiple traumatic injuries.

Another 911 caller said there were bodies everywhere.A dispatcher said there were at least 12 bodies on thetracks.

One man called seeking information about his wifeafter learning she hit her head while on the train. Hesaid he was driving to the scene, but the dispatcherurged him to avoid the area so he didn’t get stuck on theroad.

AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file

In this Dec. 18 file photo, cars from an Amtrak trainlay spilled onto Interstate 5 below alongsidesmashed vehicles as some train cars remain onthe tracks above in DuPont, Wash. Dozens of 911call recordings released by South Sound 911 Dis-patch provide a vivid account of the Dec. 18 wreckfrom survivors and witnesses.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)— Oklahoma, a state withone of the busiest deathchambers in the country inrecent decades, will enterits third year without anexecution in 2018 whileprison officials and stateattorneys fine tune its pro-cedure for putting con-demned inmates to death.

Oklahoma AttorneyGeneral Mike Hunter saidlast week he was planningto meet with top prison of-ficials and that he ex-pected more clarity on thestate’s new lethal injectionprotocols “in the next twoor three weeks.”

“We need to feel someurgency, but we also needto get it done right,”Hunter said. “I’d say bothof those things are equallyimportant.”

Republican Gov. MaryFallin said she has confi-dence in Hunter and De-partment of CorrectionsDirector Joe Allbaugh todevelop new protocols, butacknowledged the chal-lenge the state faces in ac-quiring the lethal drugs.

“The most solemn re-sponsibility for a state isthe taking of a life,” Fallinsaid in a statement Friday.“The state needs to be cer-tain that its protocols andprocedures for executionswork.”

Of the 2,817 death row

inmates awaiting execu-tion in 32 states, 47 ofthem are in Oklahoma, ac-cording to the Washington,D.C.-based Death PenaltyInformation Center. Likemany death penaltystates, Oklahoma hasstruggled in the pastdecade to obtain the lethaldrugs used in executionsas manufacturers, includ-ing many in Europe, havesaid they don’t want theirproducts used to kill peo-ple.

Fallin reiterated hersupport of the deathpenalty for those who com-mit “heinous crimes” andsaid she’s prepared for ex-ecutions to resume underher watch once the newprotocols have been ap-proved by the court.

Oklahoma put all execu-tions on hold two years agoafter several mishaps, in-cluding a botched lethalinjection in 2014 and drugmix-ups in 2015 that led toone inmate being executedwith the wrong drug andanother inmate just mo-ments away from being ledto the death chamber be-fore prison officials real-ized the same wrong drughad been delivered for hisexecution.

Since then, several topofficials connected to thebungled executions haveresigned and the state’s

multicounty grand jury de-livered a scathing reporton Oklahoma’s lethal in-jection process that ac-cused a number ofindividuals involved in theprocess of sloppy and care-less work.

Allbaugh, the state’snew prisons director, hasdeclined repeated requestsby The Associated Press todiscuss the new executionprocedures, and aspokesman for the agencysaid only that they arecontinuing to work on theprotocols.

Oklahoma law also al-lows for the use of firingsquad, electric chair or ni-trogen hypoxia to performexecutions, but Allbaughhas previously said he

doesn’t intend for Okla-homa to become the firststate to use nitrogen gas toexecute inmates.

Since executions halted,16 Oklahoma death rowinmates have exhaustedtheir federal appeals andare awaiting dates to besent to the death chamberinside the Oklahoma StatePenitentiary in McAlester.

PORTLAND, Maine(AP) — Plunging tempera-tures across half the coun-try on Thursdayunderscored a stark realityfor low-income Americanswho rely on heating aid:Their dollars aren’t goingto go as far this winter be-cause of rising energycosts.

Forecasters warned peo-ple to be wary of hypother-mia and frostbite from anarctic blast that’s grippinga large swath from theMidwest to the Northeast,where the temperature —without the wind chill fac-tored in — dipped to minus32 Thursday morning inWatertown, New York.

Even before the coldsnap, the Department ofEnergy projected thatheating costs were going totrack upward this winter,and many people are keep-ing a wary eye on their fueltanks to ensure they don’trun out.

Elizabeth Parker, 88, ofSanford, Maine, said shelives in fear of running outof fuel and remains vigi-lant in monitoring thegauge outside her trailer,just in case, especially dur-ing cold weather.

She said she is allowedto request a fuel deliverythanks to federal aid —but only when her gaugedips to one-eighth of atank.

“I couldn’t get alongwithout it,” said Parker,who lives with her 93-year-old husband, Robert, alongwith a cat, dog and fourbirds.

Prolonged, dangerouscold weather this week hassent advocates for the

homeless scrambling to getpeople off the streets andto bring in extra beds forthem. Frozen pipes anddead car batteries added tothe misery across the re-gion.

In western New Yorkand Erie, Pennsylvania,residents were still clean-ing up from massive snow-fall. Firefighters had to usea bucket loader to rescuesomeone trapped in herhome in Lorraine, NewYork.

In Ohio, a third bodywas recovered near a carthat slid off an icy roadand flipped into a canal

days earlier in Oregon,near the Lake Erie shore-line.

Despite the cold, therewas some good news for re-cipients of federal aid fromthe Low-Income Home En-ergy Assistance Program.President Donald Trumpreleased nearly $3 billion,or 90 percent, of the fund-ing in October after previ-ously trying to eliminatethe program altogether.

But projected energycost increases will effec-tively reduce the purchas-ing power by $330 million,making it imperative thatthe remaining funding be

released, said Mark Wolfe,of the National Energy As-sistance Directors’ Associ-ation.

This winter, energy costswere projected to grow by12 percent for natural gas,17 percent for home heat-ing oil, 18 percent forpropane and 8 percent forelectricity, according toU.S. Energy InformationAdministration.

But energy prices thiswinter may even be higherthan those projections. Ac-cording to Wolfe, colderweather could lead to evenhigher levels of consump-tion, and resulting prices

could push the cost of win-ter heating up to $1,800this winter for those usingheating oil, 45 percentmore than last year’s level.

“That’s a scary situationfor people who’re reallystruggling to heat theirhomes,” said BarbaraCrider, of Maine’s YorkCounty Community ActionAgency.

The cold air is lingeringwith more artic air sweep-ing into the region, reach-ing as far south as Texasand the Florida Panhandlethrough the weekend.

In northern New Eng-land, the region is experi-encing one of the longest,most intense cold snaps onrecord. In the Midwest,temperatures in Min-neapolis aren’t expected totop zero this weekend, andit will likely be in the teenswhen the ball drops duringon New Year’s Eve in NewYork City.

It was so cold officials inNew Jersey canceled aNew Year’s Day “polar bearplunge” in which swim-mers dash into the At-lantic Ocean.

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Higher energy costs accompany bitter cold snap in U.S.

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A pedestrian crosses the street as the temperature hovers in the single-digitsThursday in downtown Boston. The National Weather Service said there'sthe potential for record-breaking cold this week in New England.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Pedestrians try to keep warm by covering theirfaces while walking in Times Square in New York.Freezing temperatures and below-zero wind chillssocked much of the northern United States onWednesday, and the snow-hardened city of Erie,Pa., dug out from a record snowfall.

Once busy Oklahomadeath chamber staysquiet into third year

AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File

This 2014 file photo shows the gurney in the theexecution chamber at the Oklahoma State Peni-tentiary in McAlester, Okla. A state with one of thebusiest death chambers in the country in recentdecades, Oklahoma will enter its third year withoutan execution in 2018 while prison officials andstate attorneys work to fine tune its procedure forputting condemned inmates to death.

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confusionDEARABBY: Istartedseeing anew doc-tor sixmonthsago to betreatedfor a seri-ous med-icalcondition.I respecthis medical opinion andthe fact that many doctorstreating my conditionwould be judgmental andlack compassion. He hasoffered both. While I ap-preciate his skills as adoctor, I have started todevelop romantic feelingsfor him. I realize tellinghim would put him in anawkward position andpossibly jeopardize ourprofessional relationshipbecause of the ethical im-plications. I don’t want tomove on to another doctorbecause I value his serv-ices. How do I get over it?

— ANONYMOUSLY INLOVE

DEAR IN LOVE: Yourromantic feelings foryour doctor are not asunusual as you maythink. When a personneeds ongoing medicalcare as you do, it’s nat-ural to feel vulnerableand dependent. Whenthat happens, some-thing called “transfer-ence” can occur. Theemotions associatedwith one person —such as a parent — be-come transferred tothe doctor. If you keepthis in mind, it mayhelp you to better han-dle your emotions.

DEAR ABBY: I wasadopted at a year old byloving parents. Through alifetime of hard work,they have becomewealthy. Their generosityallowed my husband andme to buy our first homeand start married lifedebt-free. My problem is,their community andfriends, including some ofmy husband’s and myown, often feel compelledto bring the subject up. Ialways thought it wasrude to ask questionsabout other people’s fi-nances, and I don’t knowhow to respond to theirintrusive questions. I’mvery aware of our uniquesituation, and I’m ex-tremely grateful to myparents for the generositywe have received. How doI respond to friends andacquaintances when theybring up such a sensitivesubject?

— GRATEFUL IN CA

DEAR GRATEFUL:Remember this. You donot have to answerevery question that isasked of you. Whenquestions about yourhome or finances areraised, reply, “That’svery personal. My par-ents are generous, andmy husband and I aregrateful.” PERIOD!

DEAR ABBY: My hus-band and I disagree abouthow to handle taking ourchildren shopping withus. I believe that, espe-cially while our childrenare small (they are 3 and5), the adult with themshould keep them in sightat all times, or at least themajority of the time. If achild moves out of eye-sight, the adult shouldfind them within aminute. Are there guide-lines on what is appropri-ate by age ordevelopmental stage onthis issue?

— HELICOPTER MOMAND FREE RANGE DAD

DEAR HELICOPTERMOM: Your husband isan optimist, while youare a realist. Commonsense should prevail.When you take yourchildren to a publicplace, they should re-main under your oryour husband’s super-vision at all times untilthey are aware enoughthat they can’t be luredaway by a stranger,and big enough to fightoff a predator.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail VanBuren, also known as JeannePhillips, and was founded by hermother, Pauline Phillips. ContactDear Abby at www.DearAbby.com orP.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA90069.

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HOROSCOPES By Eugenia Last

CELEBRITIES BORNON THIS DAY: JudeLaw, 45; Patricia Clark-son, 58; Ted Danson, 70;Jon Voight, 79.

Happy Birthday:Don’t get down; get mov-ing. If something isn’t theway you like, look for away to make positivechanges that will encour-age you to live a betterlife.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Research, askquestions and attendmeetings or events thatwill give you a broaderview of something you’dlike to consider doingnext year.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Make plans toadvance. Whether it’s per-sonal growth you arestriving to achieve or up-grading your skills, go tothe source and meet withpeople who can shedsome light on the bestway for you to move for-ward.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Joint venturesshould be handled openlyand honestly. Do what-ever it takes to take careof unfinished business.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Any opportu-nity to socialize or to dothings with family orfriends should be taken.

LEO (July 23-Aug.22): Too much of any-thing will lead to trouble.Overspending, emotionaloutbursts or doing thingsthat worry your lovedones should be curbed.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.22): Think big and con-sider all the possibilities

that lay ahead. Expandyour awareness and con-sider how you want tolive your life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.22): People from yourpast will come back intoyour life. Be wary of any-one trying to smooth-talkyou into something youdon’t really want to pur-sue.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Let your emo-tions take over and youroptimism grow.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov.22-Dec. 21): Go over yourpersonal finances and fig-ure out exactly what youowe and the best possibleway to lower your debtand ease your stress.

CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan. 19): Open yourdoors and host a party orevent. Your hospitalitywill encourage friend-ships and opportunitiesto explore new possibili-ties.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Getting alongwith friends and relativeswill not be easy if you orsomeone else is indulgentor irresponsible. Avoidrisky situations or follow-ing someone who isn’t re-liable.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do whateveryou can to help those lessfortunate than you.

Birthday Baby: Youare opportunistic, produc-tive and determined.

To submit astrologicalquestions to the “DearEugenia” column, visitEugenialast.com, or joinEugenia on Twitter/Face-book/LinkedIn.

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By Abigail Van Buren


No price increase willbe charged for the im-proved service, which isnow available to its cus-tomers.

Candler declined onWednesday to release thenumber of customers inWalker County due toreasons of competitionwith other companies.

The company said inthe release it has also au-tomatically increasedspeeds for current resi-dential customers withnew Spectrum Internetpackages and for clientswith new Spectrum Busi-ness Internet service.

“More than 99 percentof our customers nowhave access to SpectrumInternet with startingspeeds of 100 Mbps,” saidJoe Pell, assistant vicepresident of field opera-tions for Alabama. “We’redelivering internet cus-tomers even more speed

for streaming, surfing andsocial media, all with nochange in the price oftheir Spectrum package.”

Spectrum Internetclaimed it now offers thefastest internet startingspeeds in the Birming-ham area with no datacaps, modem fees or con-tracts. A small percentageof Spectrum Internet cus-tomers will need a newmodem to receive thefaster speeds, and af-fected customers will becontacted directly withdetails on exchangingtheir modem.

Customers with legacySpectrum packages willreceive the faster speedsautomatically in 2018, ac-cording to the release.

Spectrum is the nameof the broadband servicesoffered by Charter Com-munications, the secondlargest cable operator inthe United States.

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held by Attorney General Jeff Ses-sions. The term expires in January2021.

Jones is a former U.S. attorneybest known for prosecuting two KuKlux Klansmen responsible forBirmingham’s infamous 1963church bombing.

Moore’s campaign was deeplywounded by the sexual misconductaccusations. Moore denied the accu-sations and said in the lawsuit thathe had passed a polygraph test toprove they are false.

Moore’s attorney wrote in thewide-ranging complaint that he be-lieved there were irregularities dur-ing the election, including thatvoters may have been brought in

from other states. He attached astatement from a poll worker thatshe had noticed licenses from Geor-gia and North Carolina as peoplesigned in to vote.

The complaint also noted thehigher-than-expected turnout in therace, particularly in JeffersonCounty, and said Moore’s numberswere suspiciously lower thanstraight-ticket Republican voting inabout 20 Jefferson County precincts.The complaint asked for a fraud in-vestigation and eventually a newelection.

“This is not a Republican or Demo-crat issue as election integrityshould matter to everyone,” Mooresaid in a statement Wednesday.

Alabama Secretary of State JohnMerrill said he had not found anyevidence of voter fraud, but that hisoffice will investigate any complaintMoore submits.

Rick Hasen, an election law expertand professor at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine, said Moore’s com-plaint did not raise the sort of issuesthat lead courts to overturn an elec-tion.

He said Moore’s complaint mightjust be a way for him to fundraiseand throw “red meat to his loyal sup-porters.”

Moore has sent several fundrais-ing emails to supporters asking fordonations to investigate claims ofvoter fraud.

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Washington From A1is that many of the sites inWashington do not chargean entrance fee. If it is onyour list this spring orsummer, I have some tipson making the most out ofyour trip.”

He said one major rea-son to start planning nowis to make plans for tour-ing the White House, not-ing the tours of thepresident’s house areavailable through his of-fice for free. However, henoted important detailsalso have to be kept inmind.

“Due to security, we can-not process requests thatcome to us less than 21days from your visit. Infact, we recommend re-questing tickets approxi-mately three months inadvance because they aregranted on a first come,first served basis,” Ader-holt said.

You can request ticketson Aderholt’s official web-site at https://aderholt.house.gov. You can go tothe home page and find

the link under “Services”to “D.C. tours and tickets.

Aderholt also recom-mended visiting his work-place, the U.S. Capitolbuilding.

“I also invite you to visitthe place where I work, theU.S. Capitol Building. Hisactual office is at 235 Can-non House Office Building,at 27 Independence Ave.SE. His Washington officephone number is (202)225-4876.

“Tours of the Capitolalso have no entrance feeand are available throughmy office,” he said. “Yourtour will include the Capi-tol Visitor Center, Crypt,Rotunda, Statuary Hall,and the gallery of theHouse Chamber whereyou can see lawmakers atwork.”

Aderholt also recom-mended a number of othersites to see while in Wash-ington.

“I also highly recom-mend a visit to ArlingtonNational Cemetery,” Ader-holt said. “ It is a solemn

and very touching re-minder of the sacrifices somany have made to keepour country free.

In addition, President’sWilliam Howard Taft andJohn F. Kennedy areburied at Arlington, alongwith the graves of the as-tronauts of the SpaceShuttles Challenger andColumbia.

“The different Smithson-ian museums are free, andhold some of our nation’smost treasured artifacts,from the Wright Brother’splane, to the Apollo 11crew capsule to Dorothy’sruby slippers from ‘TheWizard of Oz.’”

Aderholt also recom-mended seeing many ofthe memorials along theNational Mall, which in-clude the Washington Me-morial, the LincolnMemorial and the Jeffer-son Memorial, among oth-ers.

“At the World War II Me-morial, you might evenspot World War II veteranand former U.S. Sen. Bob

Dole,” he said. He said whatever a con-

stituent’s plans will be inWashington, he or sheshould contact his office tolet them know when theywill be in town, adding hehopes to see them soon inWashington.

Aderholt’s web page fortours and tickets allowsone to check off the govern-ment tourist sites theywant to see.

It also has a page tomore extensive informa-tion on government andnon-government touristsites in the D.C. area, in-cluding museums, historichomes, theaters, majorleague sports, public trans-portation and maps.

Editor’s Note: An additional sitenear the Capitol that is not listed onAderholt’s website is the Newseum,which is dedicated to the history ofjournalism, free expression and thefive freedoms of the First Amend-ment: religion, speech, press, as-sembly and petition. Since openingin 2008, more than 7 million havevisited the museum. More informa-tion may be found at http://www.new-seum.org.

people wanted to give. It is phenomenal. Everybodywas excited about giving,” Morman continued. “We gota lot of different stories from people telling us abouttheir memories of the Salvation Army and what theSalvation Army has done for their families. That’s al-ways great to hear.”

The money raised from the Red Kettle campaign —the Salvation Army’s largest annual fundraiser — willstay within the local communities, which is somethingMorman said a lot of people don’t realize. The fundswill go towards the Salvation Army’s angel tree, dis-aster aid and back-to-school program, among otherthings. It will also go towards the organization’s foodbank, which has served over 1,500 people since June2017 and 185 people in October alone.

Morman said that until she started looking moreclosely at the numbers that “we started to realize howback of an impact the Salvation Army has. We’ve hadhuge numbers that have been coming through.

“Our tagline is ‘doing the most good.’ That’s what westrive to and that’s what we’ll do with these dona-tions,” she concluded.

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Universities facing #MeToomovement over sexual harassment

WASHINGTON (AP) —When Celeste Kidd was agraduate student of neuro-science at the University ofRochester she says a pro-fessor supervising hermade her life unbearableby stalking her, making de-meaning comments abouther weight and talkingabout sex.

Ten years on and now aprofessor of neuroscienceat the university, Kidd istaking legal action. Shehas filed a federal lawsuitagainst the school allegingthat it mishandled its sex-ual harassment investiga-tion into the professor’sactions and then retaliatedagainst her and her col-leagues for reporting themisconduct.

“We are trying to bringtransparency to a systemthat is corrupt,” Kidd toldThe Associated Press.

Academia — like Holly-wood, the media and Con-gress — is facing its own#MeToo movement over al-legations of sexual miscon-duct. Brett Sokolow, whoheads an association ofsexual harassment investi-gators on campuses, esti-mates that the number ofreported complaints hasrisen by about 10 percentsince the accusationsagainst Hollywood mogulHarvey Weinstein surfacedin early October, spurringmore women to speak outagainst harassment in var-ious fields. The increase ismostly from women com-plaining of harassment byfaculty members who aretheir superiors.

But the Trump adminis-tration has viewed theissue of sexual harassmenton campus in a differentlight. Education SecretaryBetsy DeVos has scrappedObama-era regulations oninvestigating sexual as-sault, arguing that theywere skewed in favor of theaccuser.

New instructions allowuniversities to requirehigher standards of evi-dence when handling suchcomplaints.

A forthcoming study ofnearly 300 such cases inthe Utah Law Reviewfound that one in 10 femalegraduate students at majorresearch universities re-ports being sexually ha-rassed by a facultymember. And in more thanhalf of those cases, the al-leged perpetrator is a re-peat offender, according tothe study.

“Often schools mightturn a blind eye towardsexual harassment that

they know about or haveheard about because a pro-fessor is bringing in a biggrant or is adding to thestature of the university,”said Neena Chaudhry, sen-ior counsel at the NationalWomen’s Law Center.

Activists say youngwomen pursuing graduatestudies are especially vul-nerable to sexual miscon-duct because they dependheavily on their academicadviser to complete theirdegrees, pursue research intheir field of study and getrecommendations for fu-ture jobs. Reporting mis-conduct could endanger anacademic career. And be-sides damaging thewomen’s mental healthand well-being, sexual ha-rassment can chase someof them out of academia al-together.

“Often professors whoare advising graduate stu-dents are the students’gateway to their degree at-tainment and their careerprospects,” said AnneHedgepeth with the Amer-ican Association of Univer-sity Women. “That’s animmense amount of powerthat professors hold. It’salso an immense amountof risk that students takewhen coming forwardwhen future prospects areon the line.”

That sums up what hap-pened to Kidd, according tothe lawsuit.

Kidd says FlorianJaeger, a distinguished lin-

guistics professor at theNew York university’s cog-nitive sciences departmentwho was one of her aca-demic advisers in 2007,pressured her to rent aroom in his apartment fora year. She says he thenconstantly intruded in herprivate life, demoralizedher and talked to her aboutoral sex and other sexuallyexplicit topics.

“I begged him to stopand to just advise me pro-fessionally and he saidthat was impossible, thatwasn’t his mentorshipstyle,” Kidd said in a phoneinterview. “There weremany moments where Iwent to sleep in the laband I wondered what I haddone to deserve the hell Iwas living in every day.”

When Kidd protested,Jaeger made it understoodthat he could derail her ca-reer. “He had a lot of con-trol over my work life, hehad the ears of everybodyin the field,” she recalled.“He reminded me con-stantly that they knowhim, that he was a big shotand that I was no one.”

In the end, Kidd movedout of Jaeger’s apartmentand abandoned languageresearch so that she would-n’t have to be supervisedby Jaeger. She now studiesattention and generallearning.

Last year, two professorsat the department, inwhom Kidd eventually con-fided, filed a sexual harass-

ment complaint. The uni-versity investigated butfound the allegations un-substantiated. The profes-sors say the universitythen began a retaliationcampaign against them. InAugust, Kidd together withgroup of faculty membersfiled a complaint with theEqual Employment Oppor-tunity Commission, a fed-eral agency in charge ofworkplace discriminationissues. In December, Kiddand her colleagues filed afederal lawsuit.

The university re-sponded by placing Jaeger,now a tenured professor, onadministrative leave andcommissioning an inde-pendent investigation. Re-sults are expected in earlyJanuary.

University PresidentJoel Seligman said in astatement that the schoolis committed to creating asafe and respectful envi-ronment, but vowed to“vigorously defend” himselfand the university provostagainst some personalclaims made against themin the suit.

Jaeger did not respond toan email seeking comment.But shortly after the casewas made public this fall,he emailed his students tosay that while some of theonline comments abouthim were painful to read, “Iam glad that there is nowgenerally so much supportfor people who speak upagainst discrimination.”

AP Photo/Brett Carlsen

Professor Celeste Kidd is photographed at University of Rochester inRochester, N.Y. When Kidd was a graduate student at the University ofRochester, she says a professor supervising her made her life unbearableby stalking her, making demeaning comments about her weight and talkingabout sex. Ten years on and now a professor of neuroscience at the univer-sity, Kidd is taking legal action. She has filed a federal lawsuit against theschool alleging that it mishandled its sexual harassment investigation intothe professor’s actions and then retaliated against her and her colleaguesfor reporting the misconduct.

Drought recedes some in county, regionBy ED HOWELLDaily Mountain Eagle

The drought in Alabama and Walker County re-ceded some over the past week.

A map released by the U.S. Drought Monitor onThursday, showing the situation as of Tuesday, indi-cated that the bottom third of the county was in thelightest status, abnormally dry, while only the south-ern tip of the county had the next status, moderatedrought. The northern two-thirds of the county had nodrought.

The agency’s website indicated that “abnormallydry” is used for “areas showing dryness but not yet indrought, or for areas recovering from drought.”

The area of moderate drought receded to the south-ern ends of Lamar, Fayette and Jefferson counties, al-though most of Tuscaloosa and all of Pickens countieswere in moderate drought. Several western countiesbelow that area also were in moderate drought, as wasthe southeastern corner of the state, where thedrought expanded to Coffee County and the westernedge of Geneva County.

While areas of Winston County were abnormallydry last week, none were this week. Half of MarionCounty had no drought, while last week it was dividedbetween abnormal and moderate areas. FayetteCounty was almost all in moderate drought last week,while the top two-thirds is now abnormally dry. Jef-ferson County was almost all moderate drought lastweek, while the bottom third this week is moderateand most of the rest is abnormally dry.

The U.S. Drought Monitor noted 61 percent of thestate is at least abnormally dry, down from nearly 71percent last week, and the area that is in moderatedrought has decreased from 18 percent to nearly 17percent. The area that is not in any drought increasedfrom 29 percent to about 39 percent.

An overview noted rains brought improvements tonorthern Alabama and Georgia and South Carolina,where moderate to heavy rains brought anywherefrom 1 to 4 inches of precipitation. About 2 to 4 incheswere measured in northern Alabama.

Utah deputy recallsbreaking through frozenpond to pull out boyBy The Associated Press

NEW HARMONY,Utah — A Utah sheriff ’sdeputy said Tuesday hewas desperate and numbfrom the cold as hepunched and stomped hisway into a frozen pond onChristmas Day to pullout an 8-year-old boy whohad fallen through the icewhile chasing his dog.

With cuts on his fore-arms, WashingtonCounty sheriff ’s Sgt.Aaron Thompson said ata news conference thatrescuers believe the childwas in the 37-degreewater for about 30 min-utes until the deputy res-cued him.

“I couldn’t feel any-thing. I didn’t notice any-thing when I was doingit,” Thompson said. “Iknew that time was of theessence. I had a veryshort window to get thatchild out of the water.”

Sheriff ’s Lt. David

Crouse said the boy washospitalized in Salt LakeCity but he didn’t havedetails on his condition.

Thompson saiddeputies were hopeful.

The boy fell throughthe ice in the town of NewHarmony, north of St.George.

After arriving at thescene, Thompson, whohad served on a searchand rescue dive team,began searching an areawhere a woman reportedseeing the boy’s hand flailabout four minutes ear-lier.

The deputy stomped tobreak through the ice andwork his way deeper,pounding with his handsand fists.

“As the ice got thicker, Icouldn’t break it with myarms and my fists any-more, so I had to jump upon top of the ice, puttingmy weight on it, and thenpound on it to get it tobreak,” he said.

OPINIONFriday,Dec. 29, 2017 A6

EDITORIALS

TODAY IN HISTORY

Trump, Trump and more TrumpBetween his “American carnage” inau-

gural address in January and the eco-nomic carnage promised by his tax-cutbill passed last week, Donald Trump be-strode our editorial pages like a colossus.The trail of political and social destruc-tion he left in 2017 leaves little hope forless turmoil in 2018.

Every president dominates the news,of course, but Trump — by virtue of hisego, his need for attention, his uneasy re-lationship with truth and casual disre-gard for the institutions of Americandemocracy — dominated like no other.Even natural disasters like hurricanesand cultural tsunamis like the #MeToomovement could not escape Trump’s spe-cial touch.

Not since 1933, when Franklin D. Roo-sevelt upended government to pull thenation out of the Depression, has a pres-ident been such a force in his first year.In Trump’s case, it was not a force forgood.

His inaugural address was long onpopulist promises to halt the nation’s ex-ploitation by the rich and powerful: “Fortoo long, a small group in our nation’scapital has reaped the rewards of gov-ernment while the people have borne thecost. ... Politicians prospered, but the jobsleft and the factories closed.”

And yet politicians and the wealthyelite who fund them have prospered asnever before in Trump’s first year, theirbidding served throughout the executivebranch by the wealthiest Cabinet in his-tory. A taste for private jets cost Healthand Human Services Secretary TomPrice his job and embarrassed InteriorSecretary Ryan Zinke (who has his ownspecial flag) and Treasury SecretarySteve Mnuchin.

Until the tax-cut bill that Trumpsigned Friday, he could claim no majorlegislative accomplishments. His re-peated attempts to repeal the AffordableCare Act failed. As if to advertise his ownignorance about health care and the leg-islative process, he admitted in Febru-ary, “Nobody knew health care could beso complicated.” In May, he held a RoseGarden ceremony to celebrate the pas-sage of a House health care bill, thenturned around and called it “mean.” Thatattempt died in the GOP-controlled Sen-ate. Trump couldn’t even get his ownparty on board with his program.

On the regulatory side, Trump had amajor impact by using his executivepowers to roll back dozens of regulationsimposed by President Barack Obama.Trump withdrew from the Trans-PacificPartnership, announced plans to with-draw from the Paris Climate Accordsand demanded that the North AmericanFree Trade Agreement be renegotiated.His Federal Communications Commis-sion nuked net neutrality.

The Environmental Protection Agencyundid clean water rules and the CleanPower Plan. The Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau was recast to protectthe very banks whose abuses promptedthe 2007-2008 financial crisis. Financialadvisers received a break on puttingtheir clients’ interests first. Any decisionwhere the public’s interest conflictedwith corporate interests was decided forthe elites. Some populist.

Trump named a corporate conserva-tive justice, Neil Gorsuch, to theSupreme Court and then had secondthoughts because Gorsuch criticizedTrump’s attacks on the federal judiciary.Gorsuch wasn’t being loyal, Trump com-plained, exposing his misunderstandingof the separation of powers.

Loyalty is everything to Trump. Hesent his first press secretary, SeanSpicer, out to lie about the size of his in-augural crowd. He sent adviserKellyanne Conway out to explainSpicer’s use of “alternative facts.” Spicergot tired of taking bullets and resignedin July. Conway remains, which is morethan can be said about top advisersStephen Bannon, Reince Priebus andMichael Flynn.

Trump’s own lying was epic, so muchso that news organizations began keep-ing track — 1,628 to date, according toThe Washington Post. He invented the“fakenews” hashtag to describe anything

true but unflattering. He set up a voterintegrity commission to investigate non-existent election fraud.

Trump shocked the nation by blamingviolence “on many sides” for deadly con-frontations in Charlottesville, Va. Hesaid marchers on the KKK and neo-Naziside of the dispute included “some veryfine people.” These statements, likescores of others spoken or tweeted inhaste on major national or internationalissues, underscore how Trump is his ownworst enemy. His public approval ratingsare abysmal because of his frighteningimpulsiveness.

Trump has destroyed longtime al-liances across Europe, Canada and Aus-tralia. His tweeted insults about NorthKorea’s Kim Jong-un were childish anddangerous.

His ineffectual response to the hurri-cane victims in Puerto Rico called intoquestion Trump’s managerial skills. Hetried but failed to ban Muslim immigra-tion. He was quick to blame Islam forterrorism involving Muslim suspects butoffered no leadership whatsoever afterthe slaughter of 58 concert-goers in LasVegas in October and 26 churchgoers inSutherland Springs, Texas, in November.Those massacres were carried out nei-ther by Muslims nor immigrants, depriv-ing Trump of the crucial wedge that hetypically uses to exploit tragedy for po-litical gain.

Congress, as usual, did nothing aboutthese horrors, enabled by easy access tohigh-powered weapons and accessoriessuch as “bump stocks” that convert as-sault rifles into military-style killing ma-chines. A brief flirtation with banningbump stocks went nowhere, aided by apresident who tried his best to hide fromthe issue rather than exercise leader-ship.

Trump remains immersed in the ongo-ing investigation into Russian meddlingin the 2016 presidential election. Unableto accept the possibility that agents ofthe Russian government may havehelped him win election, Trump firedFBI Director James Comey in May andthen lied about the reason. When Attor-ney General Jeff Sessions recused him-self from the decision to hire a specialprosecutor, he was labeled “disloyal,” too.The investigation forges ahead despiteTrump’s best efforts to derail it or to as-sert, as he has on multiple occasions,that the probe is wrapping up and thathis exoneration is imminent.

Putting Sessions into the Cabinet cre-ated an open Alabama U.S. Senate seatthat a racist, homophobic ex-judgenamed Roy Moore stood ready to fill. Al-legations surfaced that Moore, then inhis 30s, had stalked teenage girls in thelate 1970s. Moore’s problems surfacedjust as the nation became immersed inscandalous reports of sexual harassmentby major political, media and entertain-ment figures. Alabama’s staunchly Re-publican electorate ultimately decidedthat despite Trump’s endorsement of theex-judge, it would be better to have a De-mocrat representing the state in theSenate than to send Moore to Washing-ton. It was the right choice for the rightreasons.

Another victim of the #MeToo move-ment is Trump himself, who for yearshas faced similar accusations of sexualharassment. Trump went so far as todeny to aides that it was his voice on thesleazy 2005 “Access Hollywood” record-ing, even though he had already apolo-gized for it. Twice.

Trump’s business conflicts of interestremain unresolved. He still won’t sharehis tax returns, even while he assertswith no foundation in fact that the GOPtax cut will hurt him financially.

It should be no surprise that Ameri-cans are turning away in droves from apresident who lies with reckless disre-gard and who stokes his massive ego byexaggerating his scant successes atevery turn.

That Trump continues to dominateheadlines should come as no surprise toanyone. Nor should his embarrassinglylow 35 percent approval ratings.

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‘Boxfish’ was my favorite book of 2017

Today is Friday, Dec.29, the 363rd day of 2017.There are two days left inthe year.

Today’s Highlight inHistory:

On Dec. 29, 1170,Thomas Becket, the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, wasslain in CanterburyCathedral by knightsloyal to King Henry II.

On this date:In 1808, the 17th presi-

dent of the United States,Andrew Johnson, wasborn in Raleigh, NorthCarolina.

In 1845, Texas was ad-mitted as the 28th state.

In 1890, the WoundedKnee massacre took placein South Dakota as an es-timated 300 Sioux Indi-ans were killed by U.S.troops sent to disarmthem.

In 1916, James Joyce’sfirst novel, “A Portrait ofthe Artist as a YoungMan,” was first publishedin book form in New Yorkafter being serialized inLondon.

In 1934, Japan formallyrenounced the Washing-ton Naval Treaty of 1922.

In 1940, during WorldWar II, Germany droppedincendiary bombs on Lon-don, setting off what cameto be known as “The Sec-ond Great Fire of Lon-don.”

In 1957, singers SteveLawrence and EydieGorme were married inLas Vegas (the marriagelasted until Gorme’sdeath in 2013).

In 1967, Hyundai MotorCo. was founded in Seoul(sohl), South Korea.

In 1972, Eastern AirLines Flight 401, a Lock-heed L-1011 Tristar,crashed into the FloridaEverglades near MiamiInternational Airport,killing 101 of the 176 peo-ple aboard.

In 1975, a bomb ex-ploded in the main termi-nal of New York’sLaGuardia Airport,killing 11 people (it’snever been determinedwho was responsible).

In 1986, former BritishPrime Minister HaroldMacmillan died in Sus-sex, England, at age 92.

In 1992, David andSharon Schoo of St.Charles, Illinois, were ar-rested at O’Hare Interna-tional Airport upon theirreturn from a Mexicanvacation for leaving their4- and 9-year-old daugh-ters at home, alone. (TheSchoos pleaded guilty tochild neglect and weresentenced to probation;the children were put upfor adoption.)

Ten years ago: Aus-tralian David Hicks,who’d fought alongsidethe Taliban inAfghanistan, was freedfrom prison in Adelaideafter completing a nine-month sentence struckunder a plea deal that fol-lowed more than fiveyears’ detention without atrial at Guantanamo. TheNew England Patriotsended their regular sea-son with a remarkable 16-0 record following a 38-35comeback victory over theNew York Giants. (NewEngland became the firstNFL team since the 1972

Dolphins to win everygame on the schedule.)

Five years ago:Maine’s same-sex mar-riage law went into effect.Shocked Indians mournedthe death of a womanwho’d been gang-rapedand beaten on a bus inNew Delhi nearly twoweeks earlier; six sus-pects were charged withmurder. (Four were latersentenced to death; onedied in prison; the sixth, ajuvenile at the time of theattack, was sentenced to amaximum of three yearsin a reform home.)

One year ago: TheUnited States struck backat Russia for hacking theU.S. presidential cam-paign with a sweeping setof punishments targetingRussia’s spy agencies anddiplomats; Moscow calledthe Obama administra-tion “losers” and threat-ened retaliation.

Today’s Birthdays:ABC newscaster Tom Jar-riel is 83. Actress BarbaraSteele is 80. Actor JonVoight is 79. Countrysinger Ed Bruce is 78.Singer Marianne Faith-full is 71. Hall of FameJockey Laffit Pincay Jr. is71. Actor Ted Danson is70. Actress PatriciaClarkson is 58. ComedianPaula Poundstone is 58.News anchor AshleighBanfield is 50. Actor JudeLaw is 45. Actor MekhiPhifer is 43. Actress Ali-son Brie is 35.

Thought for Today:“The wise man must bewise before, not after.” —Epicharmus, SicilianGreek comic poet.

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I have a confession— I judge books bytheir cover.

Without this finelyhoned system basedon snap judgments, Imight never haveread my favorite bookof 2017.

I had so many ques-tions about the titlecharacter of “LillianBoxfish Takes aWalk” the first timethat the cover popped up on Libby, anapp for library ebooks and audiobooks.

Where is she walking? Why is shealone? What does she hope to find onthis walk?

The simple explanation is that Ms.Boxfish, 85, is walking through thestreets of New York City on New Year’sEve night in 1984.

She doesn’t intend to walk over 10miles when she leaves her apartmentclad in a mink coat and wearing her sig-nature orange lipstick, which she hashad stockpiled for years.

The night offers her several opportu-nities to turn back and crawl under thecovers before the clock strikes mid-night. Turning back would be quite outof character for her, however.

Though all of her friends have eitherdied or moved away and crime is ram-pant, Boxfish stubbornly clings to thecity that looms large in all of her memo-ries.

“I love it here, this big rotten apple,”she says near the beginning of thenovel.

Author Kathleen Rooney uses theLatin phrase “Solvitur ambulando” (“Itis solved by walking”) to explore thevarious incarnations of Boxfish andNYC throughout the 20th century.

In a former life, Boxfish was the high-est paid female advertising copywriter

in the world. (Margaret Fishback, thereal woman upon whom Boxfish’s char-acter is based, also held this distinc-tion.)

The standards of the day dictatedthat her ad career end once she marriedand had a child. However, she continuedto fuel her creativity by writing books ofpoetry.

When we are introduced to her, she isa woman of moderate means livingalone in the city.

She enjoys taking daily walks andtalking to strangers.

She disapproves of TVs in bars andcutesy ad catchphrases like “Where’sthe beef?”

She is fascinated by break-dancingand rap music and undaunted bynightly news reports of murders andmuggings.

She thinks the point of living is tostay interested, which makes it all themore painful when a young man dyingof AIDS gives her the nickname NancyReagan.

He has assumed (incorrectly) becauseshe is a privileged white woman of acertain age that she is out of touch withthe times.

However, we know better once wehave walked with her through literaland personal darkness.

Like Boxfish’s son, I worried that thestreets she loved to traverse would ulti-mately be her undoing.

Every time a stranger offered her aride or a friend invited her to stay forthe evening, I silently pleaded with herto take herself out of harm’s way.

Ultimately, Lillian Boxfish’s walk isabout the art of living, not dying.

The readers who join her on her jour-ney will have a hard time forgettingher.

Jennifer Cohron is the Daily Mountain Eagle’s featureseditor.

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Copper prices continued to climb and reached their highest levels in about four years.

Banks and financial companies moved higher as interest rates re-covered from a steep drop on Wednesday.

The precious metals royalty compa-ny said operations at a mine in Can-ada have been suspended because of a lack of water.

The trucking company gave a weak fourth-quarter profit forecast and said it will take $40 million in one-time charges.

Natural gas companies continued to rise as cold weather boosted the price of natural gas.

Stocks wrung out modest gains during another quiet session on Wall Street Thursday. Banks and other financial stocks accounted for much of the market’s gains. Natural gas prices jumped nearly 7 percent as temperatures dropped across much of the U.S.

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U.S. stocks close higher in lighttrading; a new high for DowBy ALEX VEIGAAP Business Writer

U.S. stock indexes wrung out a modestgain during another quiet session on WallStreet Thursday, nudging the Dow Jonesindustrial average to a new high ahead ofthe final trading day of 2017.

Financial stocks accounted for much ofthe market’s gains. The sector benefitedfrom rising bond yields, which help banksbecause it enables them to charge higherinterest rates on loans.

Some energy stocks got a boost fromnatural gas prices, which jumped nearly7 percent as temperatures droppedacross much of the U.S. Crude oil pricesalso closed higher.

Consumer-goods makers lagged thebroad rally, which gave the market itssecond higher finish in a row. The stockmarket seldom declines this time of year,noted John Serrapere, director of re-search at Arrow Funds.

“It’s a light, light, light calendar,” Ser-rapere said. “Normally between Christ-mas and New Year’s you get a positive,muted upslope in the markets.”

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose4.92 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,687.54.The Dow gained 63.21 points, or 0.3 per-cent, to 24,837.51. The 30-company aver-age has closed at a record high 71 timesthis year.

The Nasdaq added 10.82 points, or 0.2percent, to 6,950.16. The Russell 2000index of smaller-company stocks pickedup 4.99 points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,548.93,matching its most recent all-time highset early last week.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq, meanwhile,are hovering just below their all-timehighs. All the indexes are on track to endthe 2017 with double-digit gains.

Bond prices fell as yields recovered par-tially from a big drop a day earlier. The

yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.43percent from 2.41 percent late Wednes-day.

That helped lift shares in banks andother financial companies. NorthernTrust added $1.64, or 1.7 percent, to$100.32.

The price of natural gas rose sharply asan arctic blast gripped a large swath fromthe Midwest to the Northeast, sendingtemperatures plummeting. It climbed 18cents, or 6.7 percent, to $2.91 per 1,000cubic feet.

The increase gave some energy compa-nies a boost. Chesapeake Energy was thebiggest gainer in the S&P 500 index,climbing 16 cents, or 4.1 percent, to $4.04.Range Resources rose 65 cents, or 3.8 per-cent, to $17.61.

Netflix also contributed to the market’sgains Thursday. The video-streamingservice picked up $6.47, or 3.5 percent, to$192.71.

Several packaged food, beverage andother consumer-goods makers declined.Monster Beverage slid $1.31, or 2 per-cent, to $62.92.

Traders also sold off shares in compa-nies that delivered unimpressive resultsor outlooks.

Calumet Specialty Products Partnerstumbled 9 percent after the oil and sol-vents processor reported disappointingthird-quarter results. The stock gave up80 cents to $8.05.

Benchmark U.S. crude rose 20 cents tosettle at $59.84 per barrel on the NewYork Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude,which is used to price international oils,gained 28 cents to $66.72 per barrel inLondon.

In other energy futures trading, whole-sale gasoline was little changed at $1.79a gallon.

Heating oil inched up a penny to $2.05

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IAmerican flags fly in front of the New York Stock Exchange. World stockmarkets were mixed Thursday in quiet post-Christmas holiday trading.Strong economic data from Asia and the U.S. boosted investor confidencein some markets.

’Obamacare’ sign-up tally dips slightly to 8.7MWASHINGTON (AP) —

More than 8.7 million peo-ple signed up for coveragenext year under theObama-era health carelaw, the government re-ported Thursday, as theprogram that PresidentDonald Trump has repeat-edly pronounced “a disas-ter” exceeded expectations.

The final tally for the 39HealthCare.gov statesshowed about 80,000 fewersign-ups than an initialcount provided last week,before the Christmas holi-day. A spokesman for theCenters for Medicare andMedicaid Services said theslight dip was due to latecancellations.

Still, HealthCare.gov en-rollment reached nearly 95percent of last year’s level,outperforming projectionsin a show of consumer de-

mand, despite a shortenedsign-up season and bigcuts in the ad budget.

Ahead of open enroll-ment, analysts had pre-dicted somewhere around1 million to 2 million fewerpeople would sign up forsubsidized private cover-age through the AffordableCare Act.

But the latest numbersindicate that new cus-tomers kept showing up asthe Dec. 15 enrollmentdeadline closed. More than66,000 new customerswere added since the pre-Christmas enrollment re-port.

The dip in enrollmentappears to be due to re-turning customers drop-ping out. There were about145,000 fewer of thosesince the pre-Christmasreport.

Some of those dropoutsare likely to be peoplewhose current plans werecancelled for next year,and who were reassignedto coverage that theydidn’t like.

A complete nationaltally may not be availableuntil March, as states run-ning their own health in-surance markets arecontinuing to sign up con-sumers. In California andNew York, enrollment sea-son ends Jan. 31.

While Trump says he’llstill try to repeal and re-place “Obamacare,”prospects in Congress ap-pear dim with Republicanslosing a Senate seat in Al-abama. A bipartisan bill toshore up the health law’smarkets is also pending,but faces an uncertain out-look.

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Often at odds, Trump, GOPrelish tax win, court picks

WASHINGTON (AP) —Donald Trump’s unpre-dictable, pugnacious ap-proach to the presidencyoften worked against himas Republicans navigateda tumultuous but ulti-mately productive year inCongress.

Trump’s major accom-plishments, confirmationof conservative SupremeCourt Justice Neil Gor-such and a major tax cut,actually came with rela-tively little drama. But Re-publicans often struggledto stay on the rails, partic-ularly with a big pratfallon health care and re-peated struggles to accom-plish the very basics ofgoverning.

Several shutdown dead-lines came and went, and adefault on the govern-ment’s debt was averted,thanks to a momentaryrapprochement with topDemocrats, House Minor-ity Leader Nancy Pelosiand Sen. Chuck Schumer.But a promised solution tothe plight of young immi-grants brought to thecountry illegally as infantsor children was delayed,while a routine reautho-rization of a program pro-viding health care to 9million low-income kidsstalled as well.

Often it seemed as ifTrump were more inter-ested in picking fights onTwitter than the nuts andbolts of legislating.

A catchall spending dealin May got relatively littleattention for what it ac-complished, overshadowedby Trump’s threat to shutthe government down if hedidn’t get a better deal thenext time. But there wasno next time — and about$1.2 trillion in unfinishedagency budgets got puntedinto the new year.

Still, there was no short-age of drama this year onCapitol Hill. Trump dis-played a penchant for pick-

ing fights with fellow Re-publicans: Arizona’s twosenators John McCain andJeff Flake; Tennessee’sBob Corker and MajorityLeader Mitch McConnellof Kentucky.

Onetime Republican ri-vals such as Sens. TedCruz of Texas and LindseyGraham of South Carolinacame firmly into Trump’sfold — even as Corker andFlake, both facing poten-tially difficult primaryraces, announced their re-tirements.

Several mass shootingsaround the country andthe near-assassination ofHouse GOP Whip SteveScalise of Louisiana failedto dislodge legislation onbackground checks or so-called bump stocks, thoughScalise made an emotionalreturn to the Capitol in thefall. McCain was diag-nosed with a deadly formof brain cancer — and soonafter cast a decisive vote

against the Senate’shealth care bill.

The nation’s debate onsexual misconduct sweptover the Capitol as well,forcing the resignations ofRep. John Conyers, D-Mich. and Sen. AlFranken, D-Minn. Severalother lawmakers an-nounced premature retire-ments and the somnolentEthics Committeelaunched a handful of in-vestigations, too.

Retirements, often evi-dence that lawmakersthink a wave election maybe looming, came inbunches, with more likelyafter lawmakers spendtime with their familiesover the holidays.

Democrats eyed the dis-tricts of GOP Reps. IleanaRos-Lehtinen of Florida,Frank Lobiondo of NewJersey, Dave Trott ofMichigan, and CharlieDent of Pennsylvania aspotential pickups.

Then there was the Ala-bama special election tofill the seat of AttorneyGeneral Jeff Sessions.

Establishment Republi-cans such as McConnellswung forcefully behindappointed Sen. LutherStrange, but firebrand con-servative Roy Moore stilltook the nomination. Then,after several women saidhe’d molested or datedthem as teenagers morethan four decades ago,Moore lost the long-heldGOP seat to DemocratDoug Jones.

That evoked parallels tothe 2010 Senate win of Re-publican Scott Brown inMassachusetts, which pre-saged the 2010 tidal wave,that time against Democ-rats.

The longstanding goal ofrepealing “Obamacare”consumed Republicans formonths. The effortsqueaked through theHouse — after being leftfor dead at least once — ina process that exposed fis-sures in GOP ranks andwhipped Democrats andtheir political base into afrenzy. But in the Senate,it was clear from the startthat the “repeal and re-place” push faced a slog,and afterward it seemedas if several moderate Re-publicans simply didn’twant to get to “yes.”

After the GOP’s healthcare debacle, failure wasn’tan option on taxes.

The effort was far morefocused and organized —and it paid off. SenateGOP leaders largelypassed off the measure toworker bees such as PatToomey, R-Pa., Tim Scott,R-S.C., and Rob Portman,R-Ohio, while in theHouse, Speaker PaulRyan, R-Wis., remainedsingularly devoted to it,along with Ways andMeans Committee Chair-man Kevin Brady, R-Texas.

Charity donations likely todrop next year due to tax law

WASHINGTON (AP) — In this season of giving,charity seems to be getting an extra jolt because nextyear the popular tax deduction for donations will losea lot of its punch.

Traditionally generous Americans may have less in-centive to give to charitable causes next year becauseof the newly minted tax law. The changes that willmake it less advantageous for many people to donateto charity in 2018 may be sparking a year-end streamof fattened contributions in anticipation, charity ex-ecutives and experts say.

Starting next year, the millions of relatively smalldonations from moderate-income people to main-stream charities could be sharply reduced, they say.That means charity could become less of a middle-class enterprise and a more exclusive domain of thewealthy, who tend to give to arts and cultural institu-tions, research facilities and universities. Their use ofthe charitable tax deduction is less likely to be af-fected by the new law.

The sweeping Republican tax overhaul, deliveredby the GOP-dominated Congress and signed into lawby President Donald Trump, doesn’t eliminate or evenreduce the deduction for donations to charitable, reli-gious and other nonprofit organizations. Charitablegiving should be encouraged with a tax incentive, con-gressional Republicans crafting the plan said earlyon, and the cherished deduction — though costingsome $41.5 billion a year in lost federal revenue —wasn’t struck even as other longstanding deductionsfell or were scaled back.

But it might as well have been, charity experts andadvocates say.

A central pillar of the massive tax law doubles thestandard deduction used by two-thirds of Americans,to $12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for marriedcouples. That means many taxpayers who now item-ize deductions will find it’s no longer beneficial forthem do so. They’ll find that the deductions they nor-mally take, including for charitable giving, don’t addup to as much as the new standard amount.

The result: some estimates project that as few as 10percent of taxpayers will continue to itemize deduc-tions on their returns, down from the current one-third.

Mark Moran/The Citizens' Voice via AP

In this Nov. 22 file photo, a patron donatesmoney in a Salvation Army red kettle in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. In this season of giving, charity seemsto be getting an extra jolt because the populartax deduction for charitable donations will lose alot of its punch.

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File

In this Dec. 20 file photo, President Donald Trumpsurrounded by members of congress and support-ers as he speaks during an event on the SouthLawn of the White House in Washington, to ac-knowledge the final passage of tax overhaul leg-islation by Congress. Trump’s unpredictable,pugnacious approach to the presidency oftenworked against him as Republicans navigated atumultuous but ultimately productive year in Con-gress.

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FORD, N.J. (AP) —The New York Gi-ants have hired for-mer CarolinaPanthers executiveDave Gettleman astheir general man-ager.The Giants (2-13)

announced the hir-ing of the 66-year-old Gettleman onThursday andplanned to introducehim at a news con-ference Friday.Gettleman has a

history with the Gi-ants. He spent 15seasons with thefranchise before be-coming Carolina’sgeneral managerfrom 2013-2016, aspan in which thePanthers played inthe Super Bowl afterthe 2015 season. Hewas fired after thefollowing season.Gettleman replaces

Jerry Reese, whoheld the job for 11seasons before hewas dismissed onDec. 4 along withcoach Ben McAdoo.

College FootballBelk Bowl

Wake Forest vs. TexasA&M, noon, ESPN

Sun Bowl NC State vs. Arizona

St., 2 p.m., CBSMusic City Bowl

N’western vs. Kentucky,3:30 p.m., ESPN

Arizona BowlN. Mexico St. vs. UtahSt., 4:30 p.m., CBSSN

Cotton BowlUSC vs. Ohio State,

7:40 p.m., ESPN

College BasketballLouisville at Kentucky,

noon, CBSCleve. St. at Mich. St.,

5 p.m., BTNW. Virginia at OK State,

6 p.m., ESPNUKansas at Texas, 8 p.m., ESPN2

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By STEVE MEGARGEEAP Sports Writer

Southeastern Conference men’s bas-ketball coaches love to talk about howtheir league is more balanced than itsnational reputationsuggests.

Early returns backup their statementsand indicate therewill be a wide-openrace for the SEC titleas league play beginsSaturday.

“The league is as good as it has beenin a number of years,” Georgia coachMark Fox said.

It’s definitely less predictable.Traditional powers Kentucky and

Florida haven’t looked invincible duringnonconference play, while the rest of theleague has stepped up its performance.

The Top 25 doesn’t necessarily showthe SEC has gotten much better. Onlythree teams are ranked: No. 5 TexasA&M, No. 16 Kentucky and No. 19 Ten-nessee.

But the RPI gives the league more re-

spect. The RPI has four SEC teams inthe top 20: Texas A&M (7th), Tennessee(9th), Arkansas (14th) and Missouri(17th). Other SEC teams in the top 40include Auburn (28th), Alabama (31st),Kentucky (36th) and South Carolina(40th).

“The difference is our league’s playinga better non-league schedule,” Ten-nessee coach Rick Barnes said. “Top tobottom, there’s no question our leagueis playing a much more demanding non-conference schedule. Like we’ve all said,we’ve got to win some of those games.We’ve done that this year probablymore so than any year since I’ve been inthe league.”

The SEC is hoping to follow up itsbreakthrough in last season’s NCAATournament by getting more teams in-vited this year.

This league hasn’t sent as many assix teams to the NCAA Tournament ina single year since 2008. The SECearned five NCAA Tournament bids lastyear, with South Carolina making itsfirst Final Four appearance while Ken-tucky and Florida reached regional fi-

SEC basketball takingstep forward this season

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Sumiton Christian’s Isaiah Wright (4) goes to the basket as Curry’s CalebWoodard (25) defends during their game in the Sumiton Holiday Classic on Thurs-day. Sumiton Christian won 70-58. The Eagles play Oak Grove at 7:30 p.m. today.

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Kentucky head coach John Calipari communicateswith his players in a game against UCLA on Satur-day. Along with Kentucky, Texas A&M and Ten-nessee are ranked in the top 25.

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Eaglestoo muchfor CurryBy JOHNATHAN BENTLEY and W. BRIAN HALEEagle Sports

SUMITON — Sumiton Christian used a torridfirst quarter to jump out to a double-digit leadand Curry never recovered asthe Eagles earned a 74-58 vic-tory over the Yellow Jackets inthe nightcap of the SumitonHoliday Classic on Thursday.

Sumiton Christian led by asmany as 20 points in the sec-ond half and had four playersscore in double figures.

Next up for the host team isa game against Oak Grove setfor 7:30 p.m. tonight. Other opening day winnerswere Lindsay Lane and Thorsby — who will meetin today’s other semifinal game at 6 p.m.

Against Curry, seven different players scoredpoints in the first quarter for the Eagles (9-3).Isaiah Wright led the way with five points, Jud-son Laird and Blaine Sharpston each added fourand both Will Short and Josh Marshall knockeddown 3-pointers as Sumiton Christian built a 23-12 lead going into the second quarter.

Short added two more 3-pointers in the secondquarter and J.C. Sheffield put in four points forthe Eagles, who led 37-27 at the half. SumitonChristian opened the third quarter with a 10-0run to push the lead to 20 points at 47-27. Wrightended the run with a pair of free throws. Currycut the lead back to 10 points at 51-41 with 2:20left in the third quarter, thanks to seven straightpoints from Jakob Hicks.

The Eagles countered with an 8-0 spurt to endthe quarter. Brown converted a 3-point play,Laird made a 3-pointer and Ethan Morgan addeda basket. Sumiton Christian led 59-41 going intothe final quarter.

For the Eagles, Laird led the offense with 16points, Wright added 15, Short put in 12 andSharpston had 11 points.

Curry’s John Moon led all scorers with 16points. The Yellow Jackets (4-8) play Falkville at4:30 p.m. in the consolation bracket.

———Thorsby 86, Oakman 84

Thorsby scored 32 points in the fourth quarterto make up a six-point deficit and earn an 86-84

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Bowl Glance2017-18 Bowl Glance

By The Associated PressSaturday, Dec. 16Celebration Bowl

At AtlantaNorth Carolina A&T 21, Gram-

bling State 14New Orleans Bowl

Troy 50, North Texas 30Cure Bowl

Orlando, Fla.Georgia State 27, Western

Kentucky 17Las Vegas Bowl

Boise State 38, Oregon 28New Mexico Bowl

AlbuquerqueMarshall 31, Colorado State 28

Camellia BowlMontgomery

Middle Tennessee 35,Arkansas State 30

———Tuesday, Dec. 19

Boca Raton (Fla.) BowlFAU 50, Akron 3

———Wednesday, Dec. 20Frisco (Texas) Bowl

Louisiana Tech 51, SMU 10———

Thursday, Dec. 21Gasparilla Bowl

At St. Petersburg, Fla.Temple 28, FIU 3

———Friday, Dec. 22Bahamas Bowl

NassauOhio 41, UAB 6

Famous Idaho Potato BowlBoise

Wyoming 37, Central Michigan14

———Saturday, Dec. 23Birmingham Bowl

South Florida 38, Texas Tech34

Armed Forces BowlFort Worth, Texas

Army 42, San Diego State 35———

Dollar General BowlMobile

Appalachian State 34. Toledo 0———

Sunday, Dec. 24Hawaii Bowl

HonoluluFresno State 33, Houston 27

———Tuesday, Dec. 26

Heart of Dallas BowlUtah 30, West Virginia 14

Quick Lane BowlDetroit

Duke 36, Northern Illinois 14———

Cactus BowlPhoenix

Kansas State 35, UCLA 17———

Wednesday, Dec. 27Independence Bowl

Shreveport, La.Florida State 42, Southern Mis-

sissippi 13Pinstripe Bowl

Bronx, N.Y.Iowa 27, Boston College 20

Foster Farms BowlSanta Clara, Calif.

Purdue 38, Arizona 35Texas Bowl

HoustonTexas 33, Missouri 16

———Thursday, Dec. 28

Military Bowl

Annapolis, Md.Navy 49, Virginia 7

Camping World BowlOrlando, Fla.

Oklahoma State 30, VirginiaTech 21

Alamo BowlSan Antonio

TCU 39, Stanford 37Holiday Bowl

San DiegoMichigan State 42, Washington

State 17———

Friday, Dec. 29Belk Bowl

Charlotte, N.C.Wake Forest (7-5) vs. Texas

A&M (7-5), 1 p.m. (ESPN)Sun Bowl

El Paso, TexasNC State (8-4) vs. Arizona

State (7-5), 3 p.m. (CBS)Music City BowlNashville, Tenn.

Kentucky (7-5) vs. Northwest-ern (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Arizona BowlTucson, Ariz.

New Mexico State (6-6) vs.Utah State (6-6), 5:30 p.m.(CBSSN)

Cotton Bowl ClassicArlington, Texas

Southern Cal (11-2) vs. OhioState (11-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)

———Saturday, Dec. 30TaxSlayer Bowl

Jacksonville, Fla.Louisville (8-4) vs. Mississippi

State (8-4), Noon (ESPN)Liberty Bowl

Memphis, Tenn.Iowa State (7-5) vs. Memphis

(10-2), 12:30 p.m. (ABC)

Fiesta BowlGlendale, Ariz.

Washington (10-2) vs. PennState (10-2), 4 p.m. (ESPN)

Orange BowlMiami Gardens, Fla.

Wisconsin (12-1) vs. Miami (10-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

———Monday, Jan. 1Outback Bowl

Tampa, Fla.Michigan (8-4) vs. South Car-

olina (8-4), Noon (ESPN2)Peach Bowl

AtlantaUCF (12-0) vs. Auburn (10-3),

12:30 p.m. (ESPN)Citrus Bowl

Orlando, Fla.Notre Dame (9-3) vs. LSU (9-

3), 1 p.m. (ABC)Rose Bowl (CFP Semifinal)

Pasadena, Calif.Oklahoma (12-1) vs. Georgia

(12-1), 5:10 p.m. (ESPN)Sugar Bowl (CFP Semifinal)

New OrleansClemson (12-1) vs. Alabama

(11-1), 8:45 p.m. (ESPN)———

Monday, Jan. 8College Football Championship

AtlantaRose Bowl winner vs. Sugar

Bowl winner, 8 p.m. (ESPN)———

Saturday, Jan. 20East-West Shrine Classic

At St. Petersburg, Fla.East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN)

NFLPA Collegiate BowlAt Carson, Calif.

American vs. National, 4 p.m.(FS1)

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Ex-Auburn RB Lester arrestedon child pornography charge

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A former AuburnUniversity football player has been arrested on achild pornography charge in Georgia.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that 32-year-old Brad Lester remained jailed Wednesdayin Gwinnett County following his arrest last week.

Lester played running back for Auburn between2004 and 2008, scoring 20 career touchdowns.

Jail records show Lester was jailed last Thursdayon charges of unlawful eavesdropping or surveil-lance and distribution of child pornography.

Arrest warrants obtained by the newspaper sayLester is accused of using his cellphone to surrep-titiously record a boy in a bathroom stall at a restau-rant on Nov. 6.

The newspaper says an attorney for Lester de-clined to comment.

Nebraska QB Tanner Lee tweetshe’s declaring for NFL draft

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska quarterbackTanner Lee is forfeiting his final year of eligibilityand will enter the NFL draft.

Lee tweeted Thursday “after weeks of prayer andconsideration with my family, I’ve decided to enterthe NFL draft and pursue an opportunity that I feelis the best for myself and my family at this time.”

Lee thanked teammates and fans along with for-mer coach Mike Riley. Riley was fired after the reg-ular season, and Scott Frost was named headcoach Dec. 2. Lee said the Cornhuskers are in“great hands” with Frost.

Lee transferred from Tulane and was theHuskers’ starter in 2017.

He completed 57.5 percent of his passes for3,143 yards, with 23 touchdowns and 16 intercep-tions.

COLLEGE BOWL GAMES

TCU tops Stanford in thrillerThe Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO — Kenny Hillpassed for two touchdowns, ran foranother and even caught one as No.13 TCU rallied from a big earlydeficit to beat 15th-ranked Stanford39-37 in the Alamo Bowl on Thurs-day night.

Cole Bunce’s 33-yard field goalwith just over 3 minutes to play wonit for the Horned Frogs (11-3), whotrailed 21-3 before storming back be-hind big plays from Hill and a 76-yard punt return from DesmonWhite. TCU rallied from 31 down into beat Oregon in the 2015 AlamoBowl.

Stanford (9-5) running back BryceLove, a Heisman Trophy finalist,rushed for 145 yards and had a 69-yard touchdown run in the thirdquarter. K.J. Costello had threetouchdown passes to J.J. Arcega-Whiteside, the last one giving Stan-ford a 37-36 lead.

Hill then drove TCU to Bunce’sgame winner. The Horned Frogs de-fense sealed it with an interceptionby Innis Gaines with 2:01 left.

———CAMPING WORLD BOWLNo. 17 Oklahoma State 30,

No. 22 Virginia Tech 22At Orlando, Fla., Mason Rudolph

threw for 351 yards and a pair oftouchdowns, and James Washingtonbecame No. 17 Oklahoma State’s ca-reer receiving yards leader in a 30-22 victory over No. 22 Virginia Techin the Camping World Bowl.

Washington caught five passes for126 yards, giving him 4,472 for hiscareer and passing Rashaun Woodsfor the school mark. Justice Hill ranfor 120 yards and another score forthe Cowboys (10-3), who have won10 games in each of the last threeseasons — another Oklahoma Statefirst.

Josh Jackson ran for two scoresand threw for another for the Hokies

(9-4), including a rush that got Vir-ginia Tech within 27-21 with 5:40 re-maining.

———HOLIDAY BOWL

No. 18 Michigan State 42No. 21 Washington State 17

At San Diego, Brian Lewerkethrew for 213 yards and three touch-downs, and LJ Scott ran for 110yards and two scores for No. 18Michigan State, which took advan-tage of Luke Falk’s absence to routNo. 21 Washington State 42-17 inthe Holiday Bowl on Thursdaynight.

Lewerke also rushed for 73 yardsfor Michigan State (10-3), which re-bounded from a dismal 3-9 recordlast year to reach double digits inwins for the eighth time in programhistory.

———MILITARY BOWL

Navy 49, Virginia 7At Annapolis, Md., backup quar-

terback Zach Abey scored five touch-downs, Malcolm Perry ran for 114yards and two scores and Navy beatVirginia in a surprisingly lopsidedMilitary Bowl.

After Virginia’s Joe Reed took theopening kickoff 98 yards for a touch-down, the Midshipmen (7-6) got twoTDs apiece from quarterbacks Perryand Abey in taking a 28-7 halftimelead. Perry left in the third quarterwith a foot injury, leaving Abey toscore on runs of 5 and 20 yards tomake it 42-7 in a game Navy en-tered as a 1½-point favorite.

nals.Kentucky has won at least a share

of the SEC’s last three regular-sea-son titles and was the favorite againthis season according to a preseasonpoll of the league’s media.

That same poll had Florida finish-ing second.

Yet Florida has struggled to an 8-4 start after being ranked as high asfifth while Kentucky lost its twohighest-profile games againstKansas and UCLA this season. Inthe meantime, Texas A&M, Auburnand Mississippi State have just oneloss each and Tennessee has deliv-ered some quality nonconferencewins after being picked to finish13th out of 14 teams .

So nobody knows what to expectin league competition.

“There’s a lot up at the top thereand it could go a variety of ways,”Vanderbilt coach Bryce Drew said.“Texas A&M is playing at a reallyhigh level. Kentucky keeps gettingbetter, and as the season goesthey’re going to keep getting better,and they’re playing really well. Ten-nessee is off to a great start, and

there are a lot of teams that will bepositioned for that top spot. AndFlorida has been a top 10 team.”

———Here’s a look at the SEC heading

into conference play.SURGING AGGIES: Texas A&M

has overcome adversity to earn a No.5 ranking that matches its highestspot ever in the Top 25. RobertWilliams missed two games with aconcussion, Admon Gilder has beenout with a knee injury and D.J. Hoggwill miss the Aggies’ first two SECgames as he completes a three-gamesuspension.

TEAMS ON THE RISE: Ten-nessee returned to the Top 25 thismonth for the first time since De-cember 2010. Auburn has won ninestraight and is off to its fastest startsince 1999-2000. After finishing lastin the SEC three straight years, Mis-souri has raced to a 10-3 start undernew coach Cuonzo Martin.

REGROUPING GAMECOCKS:South Carolina replaced the nucleusof its Final Four team, including2016-17 SEC scoring leader Sindar-ius Thornwell. The Gamecocks are 9-

3 but lost to Illinois State, Templeand Clemson . The Gamecocks willneed to come on strong in conferenceplay to return to the NCAA Tourna-ment.

FANTASTIC FRESHMEN: TheSEC’s freshman class suffered amajor blow with the loss of heraldedMissouri forward Michael Porter Jr.,who has played just one game due toa back injury that is expected toknock him out for the rest of the sea-son. But plenty of other freshmenhave made a major impact in theleague. The SEC’s leading scorer isAlabama newcomer Collin Sexton .LSU’s Tremont Waters and Ken-tucky’s Kevin Knox and HamidouDiallo are each averaging over 15points.

ADVERSITY FOR VANDY:After making the NCAA Tourna-ment last year, Vanderbilt (5-7) istrying to avoid just its second losingseason in the last 15 years. TheCommodores do have a bright futureafter signing two of the nation’s top13 Class of 2018 prospects in for-ward Simisola Shittu and guardDarius Garland.

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win over Oakman in their first-round tournamentgame on Thursday at Sumiton Christian.

Oakman led through the first three quarters.The Wildcats were up 22-16 after the first quarter,

42-33 at the half and 60-54 after three quarters.Oakman will play Westminster Christian-Oak

Mountain at 3 p.m. today in their consolation bracketgame while Thorsby advances to play Lindsay Laneat 6 p.m. in the semifinals.

Skylar Hice led the Wildcats (3-5) with 24 points onThursday, Peyton Hill and Christian Hubbard eachhad 17 and Denzell Chatman added 14.

Christian Fortner had 38 points for Thorsby (5-2).———

FSB ShootoutCentral-Clay 63, No. 2 Cordova 59

The second-ranked Cordova Blue Devils fell to theCentral Clay County Volunteers 63-59 on Thursdayat Gadsden State in day two of the FSB Shootout.

Isaac Chatman led with 26 points and Jayce Will-ingham had 15 points.

Cordova led 18-14 at the end of the first period andheld a 30-27 lead at halftime. The Blue Devilsoutscored the Volunteers 13-12 in the third period fora 43-39 advantage, but Central Clay clinched the 63-59 victory.

The Blue Devils (11-4) play defending state cham-pion South Atlanta (Georgia) today at 5 p.m. at Gads-den State.

———West Point Christmas Tournament

Meek 70, West Point 51Meek stormed back from a nine-point halftime

deficit to stun West Point 70-51 in the semifinals ofthe West Point Christmas Tournament on Thursday.

Meek will play for the tournament championshipagainst either Corner or Brewer at 7:45 p.m. today.

The Tigers trailed by nine points at the half, butoutscored the Warriors 44-16 in the second half toearn the blowout victory.

Meek (11-3) trailed 16-6 after the first quarter and35-26 at the half. The Tigers connected on five 3-pointers in the third quarter, scoring 23 points to takea 49-44 lead into the final period.

For Meek, Caleb Aaron had 15 points, Peyton Keyadded 11, John Mark Abercrombie had 10 and bothJacob Woodard and Kevin Chino added nine.

———Tharptown Invitational

Varsity GirlsCarbon Hill 69, Brilliant 43

Carbon Hill split its first two games of the Tharp-town Invitational, losing to Rogers in the opener onWednesday and following with a win over Brillianton Thursday.

Against Brilliant, the Bulldogs earned a 69-43 win. Molly Kate Atkins had 25 points in the game, in-

cluding 18 in the third quarter, along with five assistsand five steals.

Carbon Hill (8-7) led 25-13 at the half and 55-33after three quarters.

Cagejia Hosey added 13 points and seven reboundsfor the Bulldogs, Makindle McGough had 10 points,Abby Martin added six points, Alayna Ivie and RickiJill Burrough each added four and Lacey Evans had12 rebounds.

Carbon Hill opened the tournament with a 61-20loss to Rogers. Evans had 10 points and six reboundsin the game.

The Bulldogs face Oakman (6-8) at 1 p.m. today inthe fifth-place game.

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TCU wide receiver Jalen Reagorscores on a 93-yard touchdownreception against Stanford dur-ing the second half Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Alawyer accused of helpingpharmaceutical entrepre-neur Martin Shkreli coverup financial fraud was con-victed Wednesday, a resulta prosecutor said shouldsend a “powerful message”through the legal profes-sion.

After an 11-week trial,Evan Greebel was con-victed by a federal jury inBrooklyn of conspiring tocommit securities fraudand wire fraud. His lawyer,Reed Brodsky, said theywere “shocked by the ver-dict.”

“We will continue tofight for justice for EvanGreebel and his family,”Brodsky said by email.

U.S. Attorney Bridget M.Rohde said Greebel helpedShkreli steal millions ofdollars and cover upShkreli’s fraud while thehedge fund manager waschief executive ofRetrophin Inc., a biophar-maceutical company.

“Today’s verdict sends apowerful message thatthis office, together withour law enforcement part-ners, will hold lawyers ac-countable when they usetheir legal expertise to fa-cilitate the commission ofcrimes,” Rohde said in a re-lease.

Greebel was Retrophin’soutside counsel from 2011to 2014, when prosecutorssay he conspired withShkreli to misappropriateRetrophin’s assets to payoff defrauded investors.They said he also con-spired with Shkreli be-tween 2012 and 2014 todefraud investors and po-tential investors inRetrophin by trying to ille-gally control the price andtrading volume ofRetrophin’s stock.

Greebel, who lives insuburban Scarsdale, tookdeliberate actions to help

Shkreli defraud investors,FBI assistant director-in-charge William F. Sweeneysaid.

“While it’s become in-creasingly more evidentthat Greebel exploited hisknowledge of the law in hisefforts to break the law,today we finally see justiceserved in a case that’sspent no shortage of itstime in the spotlight,” saidSweeney, the head of NewYork’s FBI office.

Shkreli, dubbed PharmaBro, is perhaps best knownfor boosting the price of alife-saving drug and fortrolling his critics on socialmedia. He was convicted inAugust in an unrelated se-curities fraud scheme in-volving two hedge fundshe ran and is incarceratedwhile awaiting sentencing.

He had brashly pre-dicted in livestreamedrants that he would neversee the inside of a prisonbecause of sentencingguidelines and that even if

he did get prison time itwould be just a fewmonths at a minimum-se-curity “Club Fed.”

His online rantingsabout Hillary Clintonprompted a judge to re-voke his bail and put himin a fortress-like federal

jail that houses terrorismand mob suspects, theMetropolitan DetentionCenter, where his lawyersaid in September he wasin with the general popula-tion and was “doing rea-sonably well under verydifficult circumstances.”

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Officials: Ex-Miss Americas to help find new leadersATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

(AP) — Trashed by emailssent by pageant officials,former Miss Americas willhelp choose the new lead-ers of the Miss AmericaOrganization.

The group told The Asso-ciated Press Wednesdaynight that it is enlistingthe help of former MissAmericas and state direc-tors to recommend thenext generation of leadersfor the pageant.

In emails that were pub-lished last week by theHuffington Post, pageantofficials ridiculed the ap-pearance, intellect and sexlives of former Miss Amer-icas. The emails includedone that used a vulgarterm for female genitaliato refer to past Miss Amer-ica winners, one thatwished that a particularformer Miss America haddied and others that spec-ulated about how manysex partners former Miss

America Mallory Haganhas had.

The ensuing uproar ledto the group’s executive di-

rector, Sam Haskell; itspresident, Josh Randle;board chairwoman LynnWeidner, and one otherboard member to resign.

Dan Meyers, the group’sinterim board chairman,said former Miss Americasand state directors willrecommend members for asearch committee that willdetermine the organiza-tion’s leadership structure,and choose individuals tofill those roles.

“The board wanted tohave a process that wasunprecedented in terms ofopenness, transparencyand inclusion,” he said.“Given the turbulent na-ture of leadership transi-tions, asking all thestakeholders to be a part ofthis process was the bestway.”

Former Miss Americasand state directors collec-tively will name four peo-ple to the searchcommittee, and the board

will name a former statetitle holder to the panel.

These five individualsand two board members“will begin their exhaus-tive search in a matter ofdays,” a statement fromthe board read.

The committee will con-sider what form thegroup’s leadership shouldtake: whether it needs anexecutive director, a presi-dent and a CEO. It alsowill search for individualsto fill whatever leadershippositions it decides thegroup should have. Thereare currently two vacan-cies on the 14-memberboard, and there will be atleast two more when theresignations of Randle andWeidner become effectivein a matter of weeks.

The organization hopesto have the nominations inhand by Jan. 3. The groupswere being notified of theboard’s decision lateWednesday night.

The emails already costthe pageant its televisionproduction partner andraised questions about thefuture of the nationally tel-evised broadcast from At-lantic City’s BoardwalkHall the week after LaborDay each year. Dick ClarkProductions told the APlast Thursday that it cutties with the Miss AmericaOrganization over theemails, calling them “ap-palling.”

Meyers said the grouphas spoken with ABC, thetelevision network sched-uled to broadcast the Sep-tember 2018 pageant, aswell as with pageant spon-sors. None has ended itsrelationship with the MissAmerica Organization, hesaid.

Independent messagessent by the AP over thepast two days seekingcomment from ABC andpageant sponsors havegone unanswered.

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In this Jan. 2013 file photo, Miss New York MalloryHytes Hagan reacts as she is crowned Miss Amer-ica 2013 in Las Vegas. Trashed by emails sent bypageant officials, former Miss Americas will helpchoose the new leaders of the Miss America Or-ganization.

NATION IN BRIEFVanity Fair: Video mockingHillary Clinton 'missed the mark'LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vanity Fair is trying to

defuse criticism of a video mocking Hillary Clintonand her presidential aspirations. In a statement Wednesday, the magazine said

the online video was an attempt at humor that re-grettably “missed the mark.” Posted last weekend, the video shows editors of

Vanity Fair’s Hive website offering toasts and NewYear’s resolutions to Clinton.Among the suggestions: that Clinton take up knit-

ting, volunteer work or any hobby that would keepher from running again for president.The backlash included a tweet from actress Patri-

cia Arquette with her own proposal — stop tellingwomen what they should or can do.

Police: Suspect wearing ‘Trust Me’ T-shirt steals carFALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A suspect wearing

a T-shirt emblazoned with “Trust Me” allegedlystole a car with an accomplice in Fairfax County,Virginia. The Washington Post reports that the twosuspects from Falls Church were arrested by po-lice in the stolen car not long after the unlockedHonda Civic was taken as it warmed up.Police say they also found several forged checks

during the arrests.The newspaper says Wilmer Lara Garcia has

been charged with auto theft and two counts offorgery.

Free bird: Officer rescues snowyowl from prison barbed wireHUNTINGDON, Pa. (AP) — A resourceful Penn-

sylvania wildlife conservation officer has helped toengineer a daring prison escape.A snowy owl that had become trapped in barbed

wire in a perimeter fence at the Smithfield prisonin Huntingdon was rescued on Christmas Day.Pennsylvania Game Commission officer Amanda

Isett used a crate, a net and an Army blanket tocoax the bird out.The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the owl es-

caped with only some minor skin tears and a fewmissing feathers. The owl is being treated at Cen-tre Wildlife Care in Port Matilda, near Penn StateUniversity.

Special delivery: Family has second Christmas Eve babySTONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — For one suburban

New York family, Christmas Eve is turning into atradition of very special deliveries.Newsday says Stony Brook residents Jacki and

Josh Grossman had their second son on Sunday,four years after their first son arrived.Baby Elliott and older brother Oliver were deliv-

ered at Stony Brook University Hospital by Dr. PhilSchoenfeld. The doctor has worked ChristmasEve at the hospital for the past 17 years.

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Putin: St. Petersburg explosion was terror attackMOSCOW (AP) — The

explosion at a supermar-ket in Russia’s second-largest city was a terrorattack, President VladimirPutin said Thursday,adding that he has orderedsecurity agencies to killterror suspects on the spotif they resist arrest.

Officials said 13 peoplewere injured Wednesdaywhen an improvised explo-sive device went off at astorage area for customers’bags at the supermarketin St. Petersburg. Investi-gators said the device con-tained 200 grams (7ounces) of explosives andwas rigged with shrapnelto cause more damage.

While Russian law en-forcement agenciesstopped short of immedi-ately describing the blastas a terror attack, Putindid not mince wordsThursday at a Kremlinawards ceremony for Russ-ian troops who fought inSyria.

“You know that yester-day a terror attack wasconducted in St. Peters-burg,” Putin said. He wenton to note that another at-

tack was thwarted re-cently, a reference to an al-leged series of bombings in

St. Petersburg that a CIAtip helped prevent, accord-ing to the Kremlin.

Putin said he told thechief of Russia’s main do-mestic security agency, the

FSB, that agents who en-counter resistance fromterror suspects should “liq-uidate bandits on thespot.”

No one has claimed re-sponsibility for the super-market bomb. Eight of theinjured remained hospital-ized.

Putin’s spokesman,Dmitry Peskov, would notoffer any specifics on whatled Putin to declare the at-tack an act of terrorism.The shrapnel that waspart of the explosive deviceproved the explosion “wasa terror attack anyway.”

Storage boxes at allPerekrestok supermarketsin St. Petersburg were re-moved following the at-tack. Other chains saidthey would tighten secu-rity measures.

Earlier this month,Putin telephoned Presi-dent Donald Trump tothank him for what theKremlin described as aCIA tip that preventedmore bombings in St. Pe-tersburg, Putin’s home-town.

The Federal SecurityService said seven sus-

pects linked to the IslamicState group were arrestedin connection to the al-leged plot. The Kremlinsaid the suspects hadplanned to bomb KazanCathedral and othercrowded sites.

In April, a suicide bomb-ing in St. Petersburg’s sub-way left 16 people deadand wounded more than50.

Russian authoritiesidentified the bomber as a22-year old Kyrgyz-bornRussian national.

During his remarks atthe Kremlin awards cere-mony, Putin said Russia’s2-year military campaignin Syria helped eliminatemilitants who threatenedRussia.

He has previously saidthat over 4,000 citizensfrom Russia and some5,000 people from otherex-Soviet nations havejoined the Islamic Stategroup in Syria and Iraq.

“What would have hap-pened if those hundreds,thousands ... had comeback to us, trained, armedand well-prepared?” Putinsaid.

AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky

People walk past the scene of an explosion at a supermarket in St. Peters-burg, Russia, Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin says Wednesday'sexplosion at a supermarket in the country's second-largest city was a terroristattack, at least 13 people were injured.

Israel passes law that critics sayis meant to shield Prime Minister

Islamic State kills 41 in attack on Afghan cultural centerKABUL, Afghanistan

(AP) — An Islamic Statesuicide bomber struck aShiite cultural center inKabul on Thursday, killingat least 41 people and un-derscoring the extremistgroup’s growing reach inAfghanistan even as itsself-styled caliphate inIraq and Syria has beendismantled.

The attack may havetargeted the pro-IranAfghan Voice news agencyhoused in the two-storybuilding. The Sunni ex-tremists of IS view ShiiteMuslims as apostates andhave repeatedly attackedAfghanistan’s Shiite mi-nority and targets linkedto neighboring Iran.

The attack woundedmore than 80 people, manyof whom suffered severe

burns.Local Shiite leader

Abdul Hussain Ramazan-

dada said the bomberslipped into an academicseminar at the center and

blew himself up among theparticipants.

More bombs went offjust outside the center aspeople fled.

The IS-linked Aamaqnews agency said fourbombs were used in the as-sault, one strapped to thesuicide attacker. It said thecenter was funded by Iranand used to propagate Shi-ite beliefs.

Ali Reza Ahmadi, a jour-nalist with Afghan Voice,said he leaped from thewindow of his second-flooroffice after the first bombwent off and saw flamespouring from the base-ment.

“I jumped from the rooftoward the basement,yelling at people to getwater to put out the fire,”he said.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament haspassed legislation curbing a police practice of recom-mending indictments in high-profile cases beforecharges are pressed.

The bill was pushed by Benjamin Netanyahu’sparty as he faces corruption allegations, and criticssaid it was designed to shield the long-ruling primeminister.

The so-called “recommendations bill” passed earlyThursday after days of filibustering. It stops policefrom recommending to prosecutors whether to indictsuspects upon completing their investigations. It alsoaims to stop leaks to the media from the investiga-tions themselves. Much of the details of police inves-tigations of Netanyahu that have been publishedstem from such leaks.

Critics say the law muzzles police and other insti-tutions. Some opponents, including an oppositionparty and an activist group, said they plan to chal-lenge the law in court. An initial version was watereddown after an uproar and the law as passed does notapply to current investigations, including those con-cerning Netanyahu.

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog called it “an imme-diate and explicit threat” to law enforcement.

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Security personnel arrive outside the site of a sui-cide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. Au-thorities say an attack took place on a Shiitecultural center in the Afghan capital killing 41.

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DRIVERS-SOUTHERN Wood TruckingNow Accepting Applications forTruck Drivers. 3yrs. experiencerequired, Class-A CDL. Mustpass DOT Drug Screen andPhysical. Must have acceptableMVR. Benefits include BC/BSHealth and Dental, 401K andLife. Drivers are home everynight. Applications can be re-ceived from the Security Guardat Jasper Lumber Company2700 Hwy. 78 W, Jasper AL35501. NO Calls Please. EOE

FULL TIME position availablefor CDL/Hazmat Truck Driver.Benefits available. Apply in per-son @ Boren Explosives Co., lo-cated on Hwy 269, Parrish. Paybased on experience. No phonecalls please.

JASPER LUMBER Co., Inc.now accepting applications forGeneral Labor, positions arefull-time and would require over-time. Competitive wages,BC/BS medical and dental, life,401k. Applications may be re-ceived from the guard at2700 Hwy 78 W, Jasper AL.NO Phone Calls please. EOE

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LPN/RN NEEDED in the Residential Program atThe Arc of Walker County.Full-time position is available.Candidates must have a currentnursing license with the State ofAlabama, current Alabama dri-ver’s license, and an insurabledriving record. This position pro-vides direct care and medicalneeds in a Residential settingfor persons with intellectual anddevelopmental disabilities.Hiring Bonus within 90 days.Qualified persons may apply atThe Arc of Walker County745 Russell Dairy RoadJasper, AL 35503 or fax aresume to 205-387-0567E.O.E. & Drug Free Workplace.

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150 LegalsIN THE CIRCUIT COURTOF WALKER COUNTY

ALABAMACHILDERS, ROGER JOE &STAR CHILDERSPlaintiffsV.CLARK TIFFANY LEEDefendantCASE NO:DR-2017-900374.00

ORDERNOTICE OF CUSTODY

ACTIONTiffany Lee Clark, the mother ofthe minor child, NSSA, born Au-gust 4, 2007, is placed on noticethat Star Childers and RogerJoe Childers have filed for cus-tody of the minor child. The Par-ent must answer the Plaintiff'spetition within 30 days after thelast publication of this notice ora default judgement may be en-tered against her.

Done this 8th day of Decem-ber, 2017./s/ Gregory M. WilliamsCircuit Judge*Dec. 15, 22, 29, 2017;*Jan. 5, 2018

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

Default having been made in thepayment of the indebtednesssecured by that certain mort-gage executed on November12, 2008 by James Shawn Wil-son and Charlotte M Wilson, amarried couple, originally infavor of West Alabama Bank &Trust, and recorded in DMLBook 2156 at Page 377 on No-vember 12, 2008, in the Officeof the Judge of Probate ofWalker County, Alabama, andsecured indebtedness havingbeen transferred or assigned toMidFirst Bank as reflected by in-strument recorded in DML Book2154, Page 435; DML Book2154, Page 553 and of thesame Office. Shapiro and Ingle,L.L.P., as counsel for Mortgagee

150 Legalsor Transferee and under and byvirtue of power of sale containedin the said mortgage will, onJanuary 25, 2018, sell at publicoutcry to the highest bidder infront of the main entrance of theWalker County, Alabama, Court-house in the City of Jasper, dur-ing the legal hours of sale, thefollowing real estate situated inWalker County, Alabama, to wit:

LOT 3 IN BLOCK 3 IN THEAPPLING ADDITION TO THETOWN OF PARRISH, ALA-BAMA. ALSO, LOT 4 & 6 INBLOCK 3 IN THE TOWN OFPARRISH, ALABAMA, AC-CORDING TO THE WB AP-PLING ADDITION TO THETOWN OF PARRISH, ALA-BAMA, WALKER COUNTY.

For informational purposesonly, the property address is: 44Second Ave, Parrish, AL 35580.

Any property address pro-vided is not part of the legaldescription of the propertysold herein and in the eventof any discrepancy, the legaldescription referenced hereinshall control.

This sale is made for the pur-pose of paying the indebtednesssecured by said mortgage, aswell as the expenses of foreclo-sure. Furthermore, the propertyto be offered pursuant to this no-tice of sale is being offered forsale, transfer and conveyanceAS IS, WHERE IS. Neither themortgagee, nor the officers, di-rectors, attorneys, employees,agents or authorized represen-tative of the mortgagee makeany representation or warrantyrelating to the title or any physi-cal, environmental, health orsafety conditions existing in, on,at or relating to the property of-fered for sale. Any and all re-sponsibilities or liabilities arisingout of or in any way relating toany such condition, includingthose suggested by Code of Ala.(1975) § 35-4-271, expresslyare disclaimed. This sale is sub-ject to all prior liens and encum-brances and unpaid taxes andassessments including anytransfer tax associated with theforeclosure. The successful bid-der must tender a non-refund-able deposit of Five ThousandDollars and no/100 ($5,000.00)in certified or cash funds at thetime and place of the sale. Thebalance of the purchase pricemust be paid in certified fundsby close of business on the nextbusiness day thereafter at theLaw Office of Shapiro and Ingle,LLP at the address indicatedbelow. Shapiro and Ingle, LLPreserves the right to award thebid to the next highest bidder, orto reschedule the sale, shouldthe highest bidder fail to timelytender the total amount due.

Alabama law gives some per-sons who have an interest inproperty the right to redeem theproperty under certain circum-stances. Programs may alsoexist that help persons avoid ordelay the foreclosure process.An attorney should be consultedto help you understand theserights and programs as a part ofthe foreclosure process.MidFirst Bank, and itssuccessors and assignsMortgagee or TransfereeSHAPIRO AND INGLE, LLP10130 Perimeter Parkway,Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216704-333-8107/ 17-014675Attorneys for Mortgageeor Transferee*Dec. 22, 29, 2017;*Jan. 5, 2018

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP)— The curator of the U.S.Naval Academy Museumwasn’t exactly sure whatwould be found: records in-dicated five display boxeslong used to exhibit cap-tured British flags fromthe War of 1812 actuallyconcealed more bannersunderneath.

But not until all 61 ban-ners were painstakinglyremoved in December for aconservation effort did cu-rator Charles Swift, who isalso the museum’s manag-ing director, actually seewhat was hidden. And hewas gratified to learn thatconservationists had un-covered dozens of otherflags — many captured bythe Navy in other conflictsof the 19th century.

The 46 newly discoveredflags — including bannersfrom battles in Asia andfrom the Spanish-Ameri-can War — had originallybeen put on display in1913. But seven yearslater, they were covered upby the 15 flags from theWar of 1812 — and sealedup for nearly a century.

No one alive had seenthe flags long hidden fromview.

“More importantly thanjust seeing them was see-ing the colors,” said Swift.“It is what struck me im-

mediately. It was sort ofdark, but you could see thecolors — the vibrant colors— of them having not beenin light for 100 years, andso it was exciting.”

The flags, covered by theothers in boxes with largeplate-glass lids, speak toan earlier era of U.S. inter-vention overseas. They in-clude one taken from aChinese pirate fort offMacau dating to 1854 andanother captured in Koreain 1871, according to Swift.There were even somereplicas of RevolutionaryWar-era flags among them.

He said no one had at-tempted to open the boxesfor so long until it cametime for needed conserva-tion.

“It was mostly the recog-nition that after 100 years,these things really neededto be taken down, becausehanging like this placesstresses on the flags,” saidSwift. “It can tear them.They can be damaged. So,they’re getting a well-de-served vacation.”

In 1849, then-PresidentJames K. Polk designatedthe academy in Annapolis,Maryland, as the reposi-tory of flags captured inbattle by the Navy. Themuseum is now home toabout 800 flags andtrusted with their conser-

vation, Swift said. About250 of them are trophyflags seized in battle. Themuseum also houses sea-faring instruments, navaluniforms, medals, photo-graphs, art and items re-calling past navalexpeditions and explo-rations.

“We are ultimately stew-ards of these objects thattell important stories,”said Swift, whose museumboasts more than 100,000visitors a year.

Amelia Fowler, a well-known flag preserver whorestored the original Star-Spangled Banner in 1914,was contracted in 1912 toconserve the academy’scollection of trophy flags.She worked with dozens ofother women in the mu-seum’s Mahan Hall, usinga patented stitchingmethod to help preservethe fabric. All told, theystitched up enough flags tocover two football fields,Swift said.

Camille Myers Breeze isworking on a new conser-vation process for the flagsas director of an independ-ent conservation studio,Museum Textile Services,based in Massachusetts.She said Fowler’s work hasenabled her crew to handlethe flags without risk ofdamage.

“For us to conserve a col-lection of flags like thisthat’s historical — not onlyfor its use, but for how itwas preserved and how it

has been installed here for100 years for Naval Acad-emy students and visitorsto appreciate and learnfrom,” she said. “It’s reallyour favorite kind of proj-ect.”

Swift said funding forthe conservation, about$40,000, came from theU.S. Naval History andHeritage Command, whichis tasked with preservingartifacts, documents andother items of that mili-tary branch.


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NEW YORK (AP) — A ferry carrying more than twodozen people hit a sandbar and got stuck for hoursWednesday, spurring an evacuation on a frigid night inthe waters off New York City.

No injuries were reported in the second stranding ina month for the city’s newly-expanded ferry service.

The city-sponsored, privately run ferry left the Rock-away peninsula in Queens with 27 people aboard at 5:15p.m., bound for lower Manhattan on a 20-degreeevening. About 10 minutes into the trip, “we just cameto a screeching halt,” passenger Jake Nicholson said.

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2017 CHEVY TAHOE T4763 • Premier Trim Pkg. • Power Sunroof • Rear Seat Entertainment • 22” Chrome Wheels • Loaded! Loaded! Loaded!

Was $69,613 NOW $62,524 Was $69,613 Was $69,613

NOW $62,524 NOW $62,524 Save $7,089

2017 CHEVY SUBURBAN • LT Trim Pkg. • Quad Bucket Seats • Power Sunroof • Navigation

• Rear Seat Entertainment • Luxury Package • 20” Polished Wheels


T4771

2017 CHEVY TRAVERSE • LT Trim Pkg. • Quad Bucket Seats


T4749

2017 CHEVY TRAVERSE T4593 • LS Trim Pkg. • 18” Aluminum Wheels • Bluetooth for Phone • Power Windows & Door

Locks • Rear Vision

Camera

Was $33,903 NOW $29,997 Was $33,903 Was $33,903

NOW $29,997 NOW $29,997 Save $3,906

2017 CHEVY COLORADO CREW CAB T4725 • LT Trim Pkg. • Locking Rear Differential • 200HP 4.3L V6 Engine • Automatic Transmission • Front Fog Lamps • LT Convenience Pkg. • 18” Aluminum Wheels

Was $33,868 NOW $30,572 Was $33,868 Was $33,868

NOW $30,572 NOW $30,572 Save $3,296

2017 CHEVY TRAX T4544 • LS Trim Pkg. • Automatic Transmission • Rear Vission Camera

Was $22,403 NOW $18,497 Was $22,403 Was $22,403

NOW $18,497 NOW $18,497 Save $3,906

2017 GMC ACADIA G2866 • SLT Trim Pkg. • Navigation • Rear Seat Entertainment • Side Blind Zone Alert • Front & Rear Park Assist • Forward Collision Alert • Much, Much, More!

Was $46,668 NOW $39,962 Was $46,668 Was $46,668

NOW $39,962 NOW $39,962 Save $6,706

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T4760 • Trailering Pkg.

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Red Kettle campaign tops $100,000 goal - Daily Mountain Eagle

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