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VOL. 100 | NO. 365 | $1.00 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 An Edition Of The Sun Those we lost in in 2019 By MARC VALERO SunTrust midtown branch on The mother of two and her biological children and four STAFF WRITER Jan. 23 shocked the com- husband would have cele- step-children. Watson, 65, Office closing munity with the loss of the brated their 35th wedding had just gotten married SEBRING — A number of five woman who were killed anniversary in February. earlier in the month before well-known people within that day: four employees — Lopez, 55, was remembered her death. early Highlands County died in Debra Cook, Marisol Lopez for her dedication to work. It was a day of sadness 2019, but all have impacted (Rosao-Carmona), Jessica She was the mother of two and disbelief that many The Highlands News-Sun will close Highlands County in a pos- Eileen Noreen Montague, children. Montague, 31, was Highlands County residents its office at noon today and will be itive way, making it a better and Ana Pinon-Williams — the mother of 10 children — still remember as though it closed Wednesday, Jan. 1 in obser- place to live and inspiring and a customer, Cynthia Lee three biological children and was yesterday. Each of these vance of New Year’s Day. The office citizens to continue the work Watson. seven step-children. Pinon- ladies were remembered will reopen at 8 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 2. that they started. Cook, 54, moved to Williams, 38, was the mother The mass shooting at the Sebring in December 2014. of seven children — three LOST | 5A Victim identified in ”Festival of Lights” Avon Park murder Deputies still seeking tips

By PHIL ATTINGER STAFF WRITER

AVON PARK — Highlands County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of the victim in Sunday’s murder. Van Derkel O’Bryan Clayton, 29, was killed on South Avenue A in Avon Park. The Sheriff’s Office has not released additional information about the circum- stances of the homicide, including the time of the shooting, citing that it is an active investigation. According to records kept by the Highlands News-Sun, Clayton’s death is the 11th in the county this year caused by gun shot. One person was airlifted to a trauma center after being shot Aug. 25 in the same neighborhood. That shooting taking place near Hal McRae Boulevard and South Delaney Avenue. The shooting victim survived. Anyone with information on Sunday’s shooting is asked to call 863-402-7200 or email [email protected]. Tipsters might also remain anonymous and be eligible for an award by calling Heartland Crime Stoppers at 1-800-226- TIPS or making a report at www.heart- landcrimestoppers.com. SHARON WEATHERHEAD/CORRESPONDENT Sebring Mayor John Shoop, left, and Rabbi Moshe Lazaro welcome guests attending Sunday evening’s menorah lighting ceremony at Sadie Former deputy Kahn Park. Sadie Kahn Park site for menorah lighting ceremony arrested again By SHARON WEATHERHEAD CORRESPONDENT on meth charges SEBRING — A menorah lighting ceremony celebrating Chanukkah was held on Sunday evening, Dec. 29th, at Sadie Kahn Park in downtown Sebring. Woman charged The ceremony was led by Rabbi Moshe Lazaro of the Chabad Jewish Center in in same case Lakeland. Chanukkah is an alternate spelling By PHIL ATTINGER of Hanukkah and refers to the same STAFF WRITER Jewish holiday. In 2019, Chanukkah began at sunset on Sunday, Dec. 22, AVON PARK — A 57-year- and ended at nightfall on Monday, old former Highlands Dec. 30. It is the eight-day wintertime County deputy sheriff ‘festival of lights,’ celebrated with a and a 31-year-old woman nightly menorah lighting and special were each charged Friday blessings. on methamphetamine The Hebrew word Chanukkah possession. means ‘dedication’ and celebrates the James Edward Casey re-dedication of the Holy Temple. In of Avon Park, who retired the 2nd century BC, the holy land was CASEY from the Highlands County ruled by the Seleucids. They tried to Sheriff’s Office as a ser- force the people of Israel to accept geant in 2013 after more their culture and beliefs. than 27 years of service, is A group of Jews, led by Judah the being held in the Highlands Maccabee, defeated them and re- County Jail without bond. claimed the Holy Temple. When they Under Parker V. State went to light the temple’s menorah of Florida, his bond was (candelabrum) they only found rescinded for September enough oil to keep it lit for one day. charges of domestic battery Miraculously, that small amount of oil HOWELL by strangulation, possession lasted for eight days. of a controlled substance The heart of the festival is the night- without a prescription, possession of ly menorah lighting. There are nine methamphetamine with intent to sell, flames, one of which is the Shamash possession of cocaine with intent to sell, (attendant) that is always used to possession of heroin with intent to sell, light the others. Special blessings and drug possession with intent to sell and prayers are recited and traditional possession of drug equipment. songs are sung. His new charges are possession of both Rabbi Moshe Lazaro and Mayor SHARON WEATHERHEAD/CORRESPONDENT methamphetamine and drug equipment. John Shoop each said a few works Also arrested was Jessica Nicole Howell of welcome to guests attending the Rabbi Moshe Lazaro lights the Chanukkah Menorah on Sunday evening. of Avon Park on charges of possession celebration. my family should be honored here. with Mr. Sebring. He welcomed us as of methamphetamine, of a controlled Friends and families gathered in Ken Treister designed and painted the friends and also offered a lot where substance without a prescription and of Sadie Kahn Park, which is on North mural. He also designed the benches, the Jewish community could build drug equipment. Ridgewood in downtown Sebring. the lights, the bamboo sculpture a synagogue. My father built it off of It all happened at 2:41 p.m. Friday at a There is a huge mural of Michael and and even the ground covering,” said Pine Street in 1925.” traffic stop at Locke Street and North Hart Sadie Kahn, created by artist Ken Marvin Kahn, son of Michael and The original storefront where Kahn’s Avenue in Avon Park, arrest reports said. Treister, honoring their contributions Sadie. Department Store was located still in the Jewish community. “My father opened Kahn’s METH | 5A “My good friend, Bob Hummel, said Department Store in 1922 and met LIGHTS | 5A

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5 THINGS That Will Make You Boat, pickup catch fire at Lake Sebring SMARTER By PHIL ATTINGER property from certain 1. Nicknamed “sea bill) changes color during STAFF WRITER destruction.” parrots” – and sometimes the year. In winter, the A Highlands County “clowns of the sea“ – beak has a dull grey color, SEBRING — A boat Fire Rescue crew out of Atlantic puffi ns have but in spring it blooms and the pickup truck West Sebring Volunteer black and white feathers with an outrageous or- pulling it caught fi re early Fire Department Station and a large parrot-like ange. It’s thought that the Monday morning at the 9 got the call at 1:19 a.m. beak. They are small sea- bright color helps puffi ns public boat ramp on Lake Monday. Firefi ghters birds measuring around assess potential mates. Sebring. got the fi re out without COURTESY PHOTO/PETER HARRISON 25cm in length. 4. Puffi ns are carnivores Peter Harrison, who damage to a nearby fence 2. Puffi ns spend most and live off small fi sh lives next to the boat A pickup truck sits burned out and covered in fl ame retardant or residence, but both the of their lives out at sea, such as herring, hake and ramp, said he was cov- after a fi re in a fi shing boat damaged both the boat and the truck and boat were lost. resting on the waves sand eels. ered in ash while spraying truck early Monday morning at the Lake Sebring public boat There were no injuries when not swimming. 5. Puffi ns are fab fl yers, water from his garden ramp. Highlands County Fire Rescue offi cials reported no and the cause is under Their range spans the fl apping their wings up to hose on his backyard injuries in the incident. The Florida Division of the State Fire investigation by the eastern coast of Canada 400 times a minute and fence to protect it, and his Marshal has the cause under investigation. Division of the State Fire and the United States speeding through the air boat, from the fl ames. Marshal. refused to leave. I wasn’t Harrison also thanked to the western coast of at up to 88km an hour. “I credit the police de- Fire Rescue Battalion thinking of being in so West Sebring fi refi ghters Europe. — National Geographic partment with forcing me Chief 1 also responded to much danger,” he told the for their rapid response 3. A puffi n’s beak (or Kids to safety. The boats were the fi re. Highlands News-Sun. and “for saving my full of gas on desk, but I Lawsuit against Welfare call results in county goes to mediation concealed weapons charges By MARC VALERO against the county in By PHIL ATTINGER Dec. seen driving a white two spent casings. STAFF WRITER 22, on Volkswagen Passat and Under the driver’s STAFF WRITER excess of $15,000, accord- ing to the complaint fi led request was allegedly staying at seat, reports said, they AVON PARK — A wel- SEBRING — A lawsuit by attorney David Henry from the Budget Inn. found a .357-caliber fare check on an alleged claiming poor county of Morgan & Morgan, Hardee Local deputies found revolver, within reach suicidal man resulted maintenance of a road Tampa. County him asleep in the driver’s of where he was sitting. in concealed weapons shoulder as a factor in a Highlands County Sheriff’s seat of the VW, parked It had two live rounds charges when deputies single-vehicle accident is fi led a motion to dismiss Office, in front of Budget Inn, and three spent casings, allegedly found him with scheduled for mediation. stating the plaintiff failed after reports said. reports said, and was not guns. According to the com- to satisfy the pre-suit MARINELARENA the man They announced secured in a holster or Merced Aaron plaint fi led Oct. 31, 2018, written notice require- CHAVIRA had their presence and, case. Marinelarena Chavira, Frank Vega, a Highlands ment, in accordance with allegedly reports said, gave him Deputies did a 41, stands charged with County resident, was Florida Statutes. made suicidal state- commands at gunpoint background check on two counts of carrying driving his personal The county’s response ments on Dec 21 during to get out of the car. Marinelarena Chavira a concealed firearm motor vehicle, on Feb. to the plaintiff’s amended a domestic disturbance Once he was out and and questioned him. after Highlands County 8, 2015, eastbound on complaint states the call in their area. handcuffed, reports said, Information regarding sheriff’s deputies found Kenilworth Boulevard in county had no notice nor Marinelarena Chavira deputies searched him those portions of the him in his car in front of Sebring. He was in the knowledge of any alleged was reported to have and the car. arrest were redacted Reed’s Motel/Budget Inn process of negotiating a defect in the premises. been intoxicated and, In his right front from reports. at 102 U.S. 27 S. in Avon curve in the road in an The county also claims allegedly, in possession pocket, they found a However, reports said Park. area with no lighting, the condition complained of a handgun and two Derringer .22-caliber the process was started Local deputies were when his vehicle left the of by the plaintiff is so long guns. mini-revolver, contain- to issue a risk-protection dispatched to that loca- roadway. commonly expected on He was also last ing three live rounds and order against him. tion at 1:29 p.m. Sunday, The roadway had such premises that there a poorly maintained is no legal duty to warn of shoulder, which featured said condition. a steep drop from the The county stated the level of the paved surface negligence of unknown Millions in deed transfers recorded to the roadway shoulder, third parties contributed Multiple lots in Sun ‘N Lake sold to developer which created a hazard to the condition that to Vega, according to the caused damages or By PHIL ATTINGER $1.94 million for the sales, either en masse or opposed the density complaint. injuries to the plaintiff. STAFF WRITER HarborFreight building at individually. This most change that such a Vega was unable to The county gave notice 515 U.S. 27 N. in Sebring, recent sale to a Lakeland- development would have return to the roadway as on June 25, 2019 of a SEBRING — Highlands sold from National Retail based developer could required in the midst of his motor vehicle caught settlement proposal to County has seen large Properties to Brown result in a housing de- estate zoning, with parcel the edge of the road and the plaintiff, which was real estate transactions Noltemeyer Phoenix velopment, if the lots are sizes of 10 acres. spun counter clockwise, not accepted. this month, both in Place LLC of Louisville, contiguous to each other. Currently, Sun ‘N Lake causing it to overturn A mediation session geographic area and in Kentucky. Heritage Investments of does not have estate onto its left side off the has been scheduled for dollar amounts. That building sits at the Polk II, in the summer of zoning. It is a golf course roadway, the complaint March 4 at the Sebring of- The Clerk of Courts corner of U.S. 27 and Mall 2017, applied for and was community with sin- states. Vega suffered inju- fi ce of Accurate Reporting Offi ce has recorded a sale Ring Road, just south of denied a request to build gle-family home enclaves ries from the incident and Service, Inc. with K.C. on Dec. 16 of 27 parcels Vicki Drive. The business 94 homes on the rural and multi-family dwell- aggravated a previously Bouchillon serving as in the Sun ‘N Lake Special itself remains open. Crystal Beach Road in ing units — including existing condition. mediator. Improvement District to As for the parcels in Sun Eagle Lake, just south of condominiums, duplexes Vega seeks a judgment Heritage Investments of ‘N Lake, the Highlands Winter Haven. or Fairway Pines at Sun Polk II LLC for a total of County Government has It was reported in local ‘N Lake, an assisted living $238,500. been working to get fore- press at the time that facility on Sun ‘N Lake SEX OFFENDER BLOTTER It also recorded closed parcels back onto the Polk County Board Boulevard. a sale on Dec. 17 of the tax rolls through deed of County Commission The following people on Dec. 13 for failing to were arrested on felony register as required by charges related to sexual law for a sex offender. POLICE BLOTTER offense violations and He was originally found booked into the Highlands guilty of two counts of The following people charges and booked into were arrested on felony methamphetamine posses- County Jail from July 23 criminal sexual conduct, were arrested on felony the Highlands County jail charges and booked into sion and drug equipment through July 30. Non- in Calhoun County, charges and booked into on Dec. 25: the Highlands County jail possession. arrest sexual offender Michigan in 1999. Reed the Highlands County jail Adam Atkins, 23, on Dec. 26: Frank Christopher registrants are also listed was also found guilty in on Dec. 23: Sebring, on charges of Ervin J. Bass, 41, Sebring, Coffman, 33, Avon Park, for the same time frame. June of 2019 for failure to Dori Anne Burke, 26, battery and obstructing charged with probation charged with probation Roger Wayne Reed, 70, register as required by law Avon Park, charged with justice. violation. violation. of 2508 El Dorado Ave. in for a sex offender. probation violation. James Thomas Cox, 35, Chance James Lewis Earl Futch, 51, Avon Park, was arrested The following people Sebring, on charges of Hollingsworth, 21, Sebring, Avon Park, on charges of were arrested on felony drug equipment posses- on three charges of proba- tampering with a witness charges and booked into sion, methamphetamine tion violation. (non-felony investigation), the Highlands County jail possession and battery. Bobby Lee Mathis, 21, violation of condition of on Dec. 24: James Corey McKinney, Sebring, on charges of mar- pre-trial release, contempt LOOKING FOR Christopher Andrew 32, Avon Park, on charges ijuana possession and drug of court and unlawful use Cassel, 28, Sebring, on of drug equipment posses- equipment possession. of a two-way communica- SOMETHING? charges of larceny and sion and drug possession. The following people tions device. burglary. Edward Allen Turner, were arrested on felony Deshawn Layton Find it in the CLASSIFIEDS! John Anthony McBean, 56, Sebring, charged with charges and booked into Graham, 22, Lake Placid, 35, Sebring, on two charges possession of a fi rearm or the Highlands County jail on charges of operating of failure to appear. ammunition by Florida on Dec. 27: a motor vehicle without The following people convicted felon. James Edward Casey, a valid license and fi ve were arrested on felony The following people 57, on charges of charges of DUI.

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The Highlands News-Sun promptly $15.91 $1.19 $17.10 www.highlandsnewssun.com December 31, 2019 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | A3 NATIONAL NEWS Armed congregants kill gunman who shot 2 at Texas church THE ASSOCIATED PRESS officials, who hailed the time of the shooting on dad and the last thing I said, “We lost two great state’s gun laws that allow Sunday, authorities said. remember is him asking men today, but it could WHITE SETTLEMENT, weapons in places of Parishioner Isabel for oxygen and I was just have been a lot worse.” Texas (AP) — A gunman worship. Arreola told the Star- holding him, telling him Officials have not who killed two people More than 240 parish- Telegram that she sat I loved him and that he released the names of the during a Texas church ioners were in the West near the gunman and was going to make it,” victims or the gunman. service was fatally shot Freeway Church in the that she’d never seen him Wallace said. FBI Special Agent in within seconds by armed Fort Worth area town of before Sunday’s service. Wallace said her father Charge Matthew DeSarno ALLYSON COLE VIA AP congregants, said Texas White Settlement at the She said he appeared to was rushed to a hospital said they’re working to This photo provided by Allyson be wearing a disguise, but he did not survive. identify the gunman’s Cole shows Kaitlyn Kong at the perhaps a fake beard, “You just wonder why? motive, adding that he is First Night Raleigh celebration and that he made her How can someone so evil, “relatively transient” but in Raleigh, N.C., on Dec. 31, uncomfortable. the devil, step into the had roots in the area. 2018. Kong suffered a gunshot She said the man stood church and do this,” she DeSarno also said wound after someone fired a up, pulled a shotgun from said. the gunman had been gun into the air to celebrate his clothing, opened fire At a press conference arrested multiple times in the new year. and was quickly shot by Sunday night, Texas Lt. the past but declined to two congregants who Gov. Dan Patrick said the give details. were part of a volunteer gunman was killed within An elder at the church Police, victims security team. six seconds of opening told the New York Times “I was so surprised be- fire. Patrick hailed the that one of those killed warn against cause I did not know that state’s gun laws, including was a security guard who so many in the church a measure enacted earlier responded to the shooter, firing guns on were armed,” she said. this year that allowed calling him a dear friend. Tiffany Wallace told licensed guns in places Sunday’s shooting in Dallas TV station KXAS of worship, unless the Texas was also the second New Year’s Eve that her father, Anton facility bans them. attack on a religious By MARK GILLISPIE “Tony” Wallace, was one “Two of the parishio- gathering in the U.S. ASSOCIATED PRESS )/225,1* of the victims killed in ners who were volunteers in less than 24 hours. the attack. She said her of the security force drew On Saturday night, a Kaitlyn Kong thought father was a deacon at their weapons and took man stabbed five peo- she had been punched Family Owned 560 U.S. 27 North the church and had just out the killer immediate- ple as they celebrated hard in the abdomen Sebring, FL 33870 passed out communion ly, saving untold number Hanukkah in an Orthodox as she stood among & Operated (863) 385-4796 when the gunman of lives,” Patrick said. Jewish community north thousands of people in Since 1978 CarpetPatioBlinds.com approached him. 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adno=00026201 her friend’s shoulder, not able to speak. A4 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | December 31, 2019 www.highlandsnewssun.com WORLD NEWS Iran-backed Iraqi militia vows A TRIBUTE TO revenge to US airstrikes By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA SIR ELTON JOHN ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iranian-backed militia said Monday that the death toll A TOKYO JOE from U.S. military strikes in Iraq and Syria against its fighters has risen to 25, vowing to exact revenge for the “aggression of evil PRODUCTION American ravens.” The U.S. attack — the largest yet NASSER NASSER targeting an Iraqi state-sanctioned militia Mohammed Mohieh, the spokesman of Iraq’s — and the calls for retaliation, repre- Iranian-backed Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah sent a new escalation in the proxy war Brigades, gives an interview at his office, in FRIDAY, between the U.S. and Iran playing out in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. the Middle East that could threaten U.S. interests in the region. militias known collectively as the Popular FEBRUARY 7, 2020 The calls for revenge in Baghdad came Mobilization Forces. Many of them are a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Mark supported by Iran. 7:00 PM Esper said Washington had carried out “Our battle with America and its mer- military strikes targeting the Iranian- cenaries is now open to all possibilities,” backed Iraqi militia it had blamed for Kataeb Hezbollah said in a statement a rocket attack that killed an American around midnight Sunday. “We have no contractor in Iraq last week. alternative today other than confronta- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said tion and there is nothing that will prevent the strikes send the message that the us from responding to this crime.” U.S. will not tolerate actions by Iran that The U.S. blames the militia for a rocket jeopardize American lives. barrage Friday that killed a U.S. defense The U.S. military said “precision defen- contractor at a military compound near sive strikes” were conducted against five Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, as well as for sites of Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah a series of other attacks on bases that Brigades in Iraq and Syria. The group, house American troops in Iraq that have which is separate force from the Lebanese not been claimed by any faction. Officials militant group Hezbollah, operates under said as many as 30 rockets were fired in the umbrella of the state-sanctioned the Kirkuk attack. ANYONE WHO LOVES China convicts 3 researchers ELTON JOHN AND HIS involved in gene-edited babies MUSIC WILL LOVE THIS SHOW! By KEN MORITSUGU to Xinhua. It also said they had ASSOCIATED PRESS fabricated ethical review documents. The court said the researchers This show conforms to BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese scientist were involved in the births of three who set off an ethical debate with gene-edited babies to two women, the model of a real Elton claims that he had made the world’s confirming reports of a third baby. It John concert, including first genetically edited babies was said all three pleaded guilty during sentenced Monday to three years in the trial, which Xinhua reported replica costumes, prison because of his research, state was closed to the public because of media said. privacy concerns. state-of-the-art lighting, He Jiankui, who was convicted He, the lead researcher, shocked and a world-class show. of practicing medicine without a the scientific world when he an- license, was also fined 3 million yuan nounced in November 2018 that he ($430,000) by a court in the southern had altered the embryos of twin girls Featuring Charlie Morgan city of Shenzhen, China’s official who had been born the same month. Xinhua News Agency reported. Two He described his work in exclusive on drums who toured and other researchers involved in the interviews with The Associated Press. project received lesser sentences and The announcement sparked a global recorded with Elton John fines. debate over the ethics of gene editing. for 13 years. The verdict said the three defen- He said he had used a tool called dants had not obtained qualification CRISPR to try to disable a gene that as doctors, pursued fame and profits, allows the AIDS virus to enter a cell, deliberately violated Chinese reg- in a bid to give the girls the ability to DON’T MISS ulations on scientific research and resist the infection. The identity of the crossed an ethical line in both scien- girls has not been released, and it isn’t tific research and medicine, according clear if the experiment succeeded. THIS SHOW!

Almanac in Espoo, Finland, four of them at a crowded shopping mall, before return- Today is Tuesday, Dec. 31, the 365th ing home and taking his own life. and final day of 2019. Five years ago: In one of his final acts as Maryland governor, Democrat Today in history Martin O’Malley announced that he PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE would commute the sentences of four OR BY PHONE On Dec. 31, 1986, 97 people were death-row inmates to life in prison killed when fire broke out in the without parole. Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, One year ago: Despite some New SUNEVENTS.COM Puerto Rico. (Three hotel workers later Year’s Eve gains, stocks finished 2018 pleaded guilty in connection with the with their worst yearly showing in a 863-494-9362 blaze.) decade; the S&P 500 ended the year 6.2% lower than where it began. On this date THE GENESIS CENTER In 1775, during the Revolutionary Today’s birthdays 218 EAST BELLEVIEW STREET War, the British repulsed an attack by Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins is 82. LAKE PLACID, FL 33852 Continental Army generals Richard Actor Tim Considine (TV: “My Three Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Sons”) is 79. Actress Barbara Carrera Quebec; Montgomery was killed. is 78. Fashion designer Diane von In 1879, Thomas Edison first pub- Furstenberg is 73. Actor Tim Matheson licly demonstrated his electric incan- is 72. Rock musician Tom Hamilton descent light by illuminating some 40 (Aerosmith) is 68. Actress Bebe bulbs at his laboratory in Menlo Park, Neuwirth is 61. Actor Val Kilmer is 60. New Jersey. Rock musician Scott Ian (Anthrax) is In 1904, New York’s Times Square 56. Author Nicholas Sparks is 54. Actor saw its first New Year’s Eve celebration, Lance Reddick is 50. Pop singer Joe with an estimated 200,000 people in McIntyre is 47. Rock musician Mikko attendance. Siren (Apocalyptica) is 44. Donald In 1972, Major League baseball play- Trump Jr. is 42. Rapper PSY (Park Jae- er Roberto Clemente, 38, was killed sang) is 42. Rock musician Bob Bryar when a plane he chartered and was is 40. Rock musician Jason Sechrist traveling on to bring relief supplies (Portugal. The Man) is 40. Actor Ricky to earthquake-devastated Nicaragua Whittle is 40. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., crashed shortly after takeoff from is 40. Actor/singer Erich Bergen is Puerto Rico. 34. DJ/vocalist Drew Taggart (The In 1974, private U.S. citizens were Chainsmokers) is 30. Olympic gold allowed to buy and own gold for the medal gymnast Gabby Douglas is 24. first time in more than 40 years. In 1985, singer Rick Nelson, 45, and Bible verse six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was “But they that will be rich fall into taking the group to a New Year’s Eve temptation and a snare, and into many performance in Dallas. foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown In 1997, Michael Kennedy, the men in destruction and perdition.” — adno=00025997 39-year-old son of the late Sen. Robert 1 Timothy 6:9. F. Kennedy, was killed in a skiing acci- If you thought money was the dent on Aspen Mountain in Colorado. answer to all your problems, stop and Additional fees may apply to advertised price. Ten years ago: A lone gunman consider this truth. Set your priorities dressed in black killed five people on the things of God. All sales final. Call for special needs seating. www.highlandsnewssun.com December 31, 2019 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | A5

OBITUARIES LIGHTS FROM PAGE 1A Eula Doughty White, he Thomas “Ted” White lived on a farm in East (Lisa) of Long Beach, stands next to the old Liverpool, Ohio and California, Richard White Nan-ces-o-wee Hotel at worked at a Standard Oil of West Palm Beach, 139 North Ridgewood Station in East Liverpool, Florida and Ronald White Drive. Ohio and People Gas in of Jensen Beach, Florida; “Dad used to come Midland, Pennsylvania, two granddaughters, to work around 4 a.m. Ohio Bell in East Jennifer (Daniel) of He met with his friends Thomas K. White Liverpool, Northern Ohio Long Beach, California across the street at Mark’s Thomas Telephone and Inter and Vicki Grebe Café for coffee. There Kenneth County Telephone in (Brandon) of Pleasant he met Mr. Crutchfield White, 86, Sebring, Florida. He also Grove, Utah; and three and Mr. May. He became of Sebring, worked for Craven’s Parts great-grandchildren. interested in the citrus Florida, and Service and started He was preceded in groves and bought his formerly his own Tom’s Auto Parts death by his sister, Ila first orange grove in 1933. of East in Ohio and Florida. Jane Frazier. Great friendships were Liverpool, He spent four years He loved building hous- created there,” Marvin Ohio, passed in the United States Air es and remodeling them. Kahn said. away peacefully at home Force as flying crew chief He also loved traveling Since the miracle of following a lengthy staff sergeant. around the United States Chanukkah involves oil, it illness. He leaves behind his by train. is customary to eat foods The son of the late wife of 38 wonderful Tom’s wishes are to be fried in oil to celebrate. Homer E. White and years, Rose Ann Creatura cremated and no visiting Some of the holiday White; three sons, hours. favorites are latke (potato cakes) and sufganya compartment, they for methamphetamine, (donuts). METH found two used syringes reports said. Lazaro’s children SHARON WEATHERHEAD/CORRESPONDENT FROM PAGE 1A and a blue elastic band. The scale was alleged to passed out the home- The syringes field-tested have been used to weigh made donuts to the Marvin Kahn in front of the original location of Kahn’s Depart- Casey was driving a gray positive for methamphet- narcotics for sale. guests at the ceremony. ment Store on North Ridgewood Drive, not far from Sadie Kahn Ford F250 and Howell amine residue, reports When questioned Butch and Eileen Tork Park. was his passenger. said, and the band was under Miranda warn- enjoyed the tasty treat, great miracle happened candles with the help of The deputy at the stop alleged to have been used ing, Casey said he was celebrating an important there’ (which refers to his young sons, one by asked both Casey and as a tourniquet to enlarge unaware of the items event. in Jerusalem) or ‘a great one until they were all il- Howell to get out of the veins for injection. being in his truck, reports “We’re here to support miracle happened here’ luminated. He then spoke truck, and Deputy José On the driver side of said. Howell was also the people in the Jewish (if you’re actually in about the Torah readings Molina and K9 Lady did a the center console, in questioned, but her community and hope we Jerusalem). and the ideas of physical- “sniff-search” of the truck, an open-topped bin statement was redacted can always enjoy this type “Children were not ity and spirituality. and Lady alerted on the that would be beside from reports. of religious freedom,” allowed to pray during “These ideas are not truck, arrest reports said. Casey’s right leg, deputies During a strip search at Eileen said. the destruction of the only for one’s self, they Deputies then searched found a black digital the jail, deputies found The game of dreidel synagogue,” Mary need to be understood the truck. In the glove scale with residue that a bag on her that also (four-sided spinning Ann Romer explained. and the message spread also field-tested positive had heroin residue, again tops bearing the Hebrew “Playing dreidel provided to all,” Lazaro said. “This letters, nun, gimmel, hey a way to teach and learn is the maximum potential and shin) was available while they were playing a of light and is meant for anyone to play. game.” to inspire for the entire Find The Perfect The letters stand for ‘a Lazaro lit the menorah year.” Companion Florida. official who laid out the LOST Roy Henderson, whose route for U.S. 27 through FROM PAGE 1A parents were some of Florida. He also estab- the first homesteaders lished the first wayside In the CLASSIFIEDS! for their kindness and in Lake Placid, passed park in Florida and the willingness to help others. away June 14. Circa 1918, first welcome station Bill Cross passed away Henderson’s mother near the Florida-Georgia on Feb. 7. He worked for and father, Sallie and border. He was a retired AT&T for 27 years before L.L. Henderson, built chairman and president becoming president of the homestead on Lake of the former Barnett Americall Long Distance Mirror on land that Bank of Highlands Company and subse- was granted to them by County. HX3 quently the developer then-President Woodrow Thomas of the Country Club of Wilson. M. Stidham Sebring. Thelma Pyle, longtime graduated Jim Bible, longtime employee and volunteer from Lake neybe teacher at Sebring High at the Greater Sebring Placid High o lls School and district office Chamber of Commerce, School and H administrator, passed passed away June 16. She returned are Here! away Feb. 12. served three terms on the there in Keith “Toby” Stokes, Sebring City Council from 1962, after STIDHAM the founder of Toby the 1978 to 1983, with a term gradua- Clown Foundation in as the first female council tion from Lake Placid, passed away president in 1980. college, to begin his on March 22. The foun- Joseph Rey, Lake Placid band directing career. dation features a school town councilman from He directed bands in for adult clowns as well 1992-1999, passed away Florida, Georgia, Texas as younger clowns called July 21. He worked as and was involved in every Junior Joeys. a financial advisor and aspect of the University Gary Musselman, moved to Highlands of Kansas band program owner of Musselman’s County in 1990. until his retirement in Appliances, passed away Dr. Bill Jernigan, 2012. He passed away on March 31. veterinarian and owner of Oct. 1. Bert J. Harris Jr., former Sebring Animal Hospital, Bob state representative and passed away on Sept. 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HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 Timothy D. Smolarick Romona Washington VP & Publisher, D-R Media Corporate Executive Editor [email protected] [email protected] Cliff Yeazel Rob Kearley Advertising Director Corporate Circulation Director [email protected] [email protected] SUN OURR VIEW Celebrate with caution Fireworks will be displayed in large settings and in back yards tonight as we ring in the New Year. For many, it is as traditional as watching the ball drop from New York City’s Times Square or toasting Traditions and the holidays the New Year in with a sip of champagne. So, as we prepare for tonight’s celebration, think- ing about the party that is planned with family and The year 2020 is upon us and as we Alternatively, when I would be friends, we need to also think about safety, not just all prepare to ring in the new year, it with my mom for New Year’s, she for the children, but for adults alike. is interesting to think about why and would make a nice dinner and According to National Fire Protection how we celebrate this public holiday. would buy my siblings and I spar- Association, on average each year, fireworks start Of course, there are the usual kling juice so we could drink out of 18,500 fires, including 1,300 structure fires, 300 ve- reasons: it is a time to start fresh, to the fancy wine glasses similarly to hicle fires, and 16,900 outside and other fires. These make new goals and rethink your the adults. She would make specific fires cause an annual average of three deaths, 40 approach to certain things in life. foods, telling us to eat a little of civilian injuries, and $43 million in direct property GUEST COLUMN But, the celebration of the new year each because they would all bring damage. is something that actually carries Annsley Bohlman us something different in the new Thousands of children are injured by commercial a deep history that has developed year. She would make black-eyed fireworks each year. Those injuries range from throughout time and across cultures. This marks just how important the peas, collard greens, cornbread, burns, eye injuries, to even deafness. The day that we celebrate the idea of starting fresh in the new year and usually pork. She claimed they Parents, or adults, should always keep a close eye new year on is actually the first day was, even to people in this age. would bring us luck and prosperity. on children of all ages when they are around fire- of both the Gregorian and Julian Today, common celebrations of She claimed the black-eyed peas works. Firecrackers, rockets and sparklers, which all calendars. The Gregorian calendar the new year include fireworks, par- would bring us money and the pork seem harmless to adults, can be quite dangerous is the most widely used calendar ties, counting down until midnight, progress. for children who don’t know what they’re doing, or across the world, and the Julian and many other things depending These New Year’s Day traditions the small child who likes to pick things up off the calendar is an adaptation of the on where you live. I can remember are things that are specific to my ground. Roman calendar, which started the as a child being with my dad and family, and have probably been According to the Consumer Product Safety new year in March. However, it was stepmom. Their friends would practiced from family member to Commission’s (CPSC) 2015 Fireworks Annual not the Romans who began institut- come over; there would be snacks family member for some time. How Report, U.S. hospital emergency rooms treated ing the celebration of the new year. It and appetizers; we would have the else would my mother have come an estimated 11,900 people for fireworks-related was instead early Mesopotaians who New York New Year’s Countdown on up with the idea that collard greens injuries; 51% of those injuries were to the extremi- began celebrating New Year’s Day the TV, or music might be playing. bring you dollars in the new year ties and 41% were to the head. Two-thirds (65%) of around 2000 BC. The Christmas tree would still be if not the same way I did — from the injuries were burns, Children younger than 15 The new year also marked the up and there would be a cold nip my mother? These are my favorite years of age accounted for one-quarter (26%) of the inauguration for some Roman in the air. And when the ball would kinds of traditions though, ones that estimated injuries. Sparklers were the leading cause political offices. In fact, it was the finally drop, or the clock would strike feel like family. Traditions you can of fireworks injuries. More than half of the fire- highest ranking political office that midnight, we would all say “Happy see your great-great-grandmother works injuries incurred by children under 5 years of was inaugurated on New Year’s Day. New Year!” and the energy in the practicing. age were caused by sparklers. room was palpable. Don’t ever allow a child to pick up pieces of fireworks off the ground. If an eye injury occurs, don’t allow the child to YOUR VIEW touch or rub it. In fact, don’t even flush the eye out with water or attempt to put any ointment on it. More should be done to grants you “life, liberty and the president of the Ukraine, President Instead, cut out the bottom of a paper cup, place abusive priests pursuit of happiness” and the rest Zelensky, to start an investigation it around the eye, and immediately seek medical is left up to you. The “entitlement into Joe Biden to get as much dirt as attention. mentality” is destroying our nation. possible on the [former] vice-pres- I read in the Highlands News-Sun We have raised/educated our ident that would help him get If your child is burned from fireworks, remove (12/27/2019 edition) about the the clothing from the burned area and run cool children, grandchildren and now reelected. Trump involved so many Pennsylvania dioceses of the Roman great-grandchildren in Sebring/ people in this act that it was bound water over the burn. Although tempting, don’t ever Catholic Church offering $84 million use ice. Highlands County and never, like to become known to the public. to 564 clergy abuse victims. What many other families, for one mo- Notice that outside of the original And don’t forget your pets. Many of these furry abuse? How very sinful and terrible family members are terrified of the booming ment looked to the government to phone call to the Ukraine president, that these abuses ever occurred. raise/entertain/babysit our kids. he was not directly involved in this sounds of fireworks. The best thing to do is keep Young people and children looking your pets indoors to reduce the risk of stressing lit- We worked together as families to debacle. It’s just as Michael Cohen to clergy for spiritual guidance are sponsor and support activities for said under oath, Donald Trump tle Fido to the point he gets loose or hurts himself. abused! It’s important also to remember that excessive the children/youth. Now, like many leaves the dirty work to other people. Think of it, 300 predator priests other local families, our son and And, just take a look at who he got alcohol and fireworks don’t mix, just like driving molested more than 1,000 children and drinking don’t mix. now grandson are sponsors of youth to do his bidding: Mike Pompeo, and the church leaders covered it up. activities apart from government Rudy Giuliani, Mick Mulvaney, The National Council on Fireworks Safety strong- Any priest who does this should be ly recommends that anyone attending a party for support. Devin Nunes, William Barr and John jailed for a long time, removed from Miguel, you and all youth need Bolten. New Year’s Eve where consumer fireworks are being the active priesthood, have counsel- shot, should make sure that there is a designated to recall the statement by John Mike Pompeo has hopes to run ling, repent, and go through a period Kennedy, “Ask not what your country for president within the next eight shooter who has not been drinking any alcohol. of intense instruction for at least Even a small quantity of alcohol can impair one’s can do for you, but what you can do years. He took a chance to follow two years, and then be re-examined for your country.” This will probably Donald Trump into this threatening judgment and ability to properly set up and use for possible re-entrance into the fireworks safely. be a wake-up call for many youth situation involving another country priesthood. and may send them into “heart for which Trump is now being The best thing for all to do is remember the The Roman Catholic Church words of Nancy Blogin, president of the National attack” mode!! Is it time to move out impeached. Pompeo is a West Point should allow priests to marry and of “me-ville”? graduate, first in his class. He also Council on Fireworks Safety: “In the past several there would be a rapid decline in years, there have been reports of accidents where What government supports, it graduated from Harvard. Yet, he child abuse. God has put in each controls. On a national level, our takes a chance and involves himself the person that was injured had been under the in- of us sexual desires and this can fluence of alcohol and did not handle the fireworks government is anti-God, anti-home/ in this fruitless investigation. rightly be fulfilled in the marriage of marriage, anti-life, anti-US constitu- How does this happen? Did all in a responsible way. The lesson is simple: alcohol a man and woman. The Bible says and fireworks don’t mix.” tion, etc. Youth, you better be careful these men and others, I’m sure, in Genesis 2:24 “Therefore a man when you look to the government for really think that it would all turn out Also remember to not drink and drive. Keeping shall leave his father and mother and those two thoughts in mind will help all of us have the solutions to all of your problems. well? Did they really expect to reach be joined to his wife, and they shall This is exactly what anti-freedom a positive end result? Trump must a happier and safer celebration tonight as we ring become one flesh.” in the New Year. advocates and the socialist mindset really be concerned about his reelec- Anyone who abuses children want you to do. If you had studies tion if he was trying to discredit the or young people should go to jail, JOIN THE in world/U.S. history, you would former vice-president. repent before God, and go through already know this. The way this White House is CONVERSATION rehabilitation before being released Miguel, from your writings, I moving, I feel sorry for all the young Letters are welcome on virtually any subject, but we do into society. conclude you are an intelligent people who went to work there have some rules. We will not accept any Letters to the Editor Rev. Jerry McCauley young man. Continue to grow and full of pride and honor. If scandal that mention a business in a negative tone, as they have no Lake Placid become a productive citizen. Never follows scandal, they are going to means to defend themselves. Please keep Letters to the Editor forget that through the providence be forced to lawyer up because they to less than 250 words. Letters will be edited to length as well Youth should not feel so of God this county has been great might have heard a snippet of a as for grammar and spelling. All letters must be signed with entitled through freedom of religion, speech, conversation walking down the hall full name – not initials. An address and telephone number education and business enterprise. A or someone on a phone call and it must be included. The phone number and address are not for I read Miguel Arceo’s recent article fitting scripture would be, “It is more might be used in an inquiry. The publication, but must be provided. In the case of letters that are in, Viewpoint from a Teenager, and blessed to give than to received.” man is toxic. emailed, the same rules apply. wonder if this is what he is being (Acts 20:35) Wendell Willkie said,”Our way of Due to the number of letters received, we are able to run taught in school. “I have lived here Frank Parker life together in America is a strong only four letters per person per month. my entire life and there really isn’t Sebring but delicate fabric. It is made up of The Letters to the Editor section is designed as a public much to do for the average teenager. many threads. It has been woven forum for community discourse, and the opinions and state- Along with this, I had yet to see our Concerned about over many centuries by the patience ments made in letters are solely those of the individual writers. local government make the effort to and sacrifice of countless liberty The newspaper takes no responsibility for the content of these improve this.” reelection loving men and women.” Keep this letters. Young man, when did it become in mind. Please send or bring correspondence to the Highlands Impeachment! A nasty word. It the responsibility of local govern- says that the person did something Judith Eckstein News-Sun, Letters to the Editor, 321 N. Ridgewood Drive, ment to entertain , i.e. babysit you? Sebring, FL 33870, or fax to 863-385-1954. Readers may also wrong. President Donald J. Trump Sebring I was raised that this was the duty got caught trying to get the new email Letters to the Editor to [email protected]. of parents. Our/USA constitution www.highlandsnewssun.com December 31, 2019 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | A7 STATE NEWS Pastor pledges safety for Big red buoy immigrants at Miami Trump event missing for 2 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS was chosen by Trump to years beached in host about 70 Christian MIAMI (AP) — The pastors during an event pastor of a Miami mega- billed as an “’Evangelicals church that will host for Trump’ Coalition Florida President Donald Trump Launch.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS at a rally this week is Maldonado asked guaranteeing that parish- churchgoers from NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A big red ioners who entered the Venezuela and Cuba to navigation buoy that bounced along Atlantic waves U.S. illegally won’t risk raise their hands, and for two years has beached in Florida, where it’s deportation by attending. emphasized his own drawing attention. During a Sunday opposition to communist Crowds of spectators streamed to New Smyrna Spanish language ser- dictatorships, something Beach over the weekend for a close up view and vice, Pastor Guillermo Trump has also done at some pictures with the navigational marker that Maldonado told the au- EVAN VUCCI/AP FILE PHOTO public rallies in South some described as “the size of a truck,” news dience of hundreds that Florida as an appeal to outlets reported. he’s heard people asking In this Dec. 18, 2019 file photo President Donald Trump speaks Hispanic voters. during a campaign rally at Kellogg Arena, in Battle Creek, The beacon came from South Carolina and has how he could bring The pastor said the been displaced since 2017, said Petty Officer 2nd Trump to the church if Mich. The pastor of a Miami megachurch that’s hosting Trump church isn’t organizing at a rally this week is guaranteeing that parishioners who Class Ryan Dickinson, spokesman for the U.S. those attending include or financing the event, Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville. people who lack immi- entered the U.S. illegally won’t risk deportation by attending. and that anyone seeking On Sunday, Dec. 29 King Jesus International Ministry Pastor “This one was from Sector Charleston,” gration papers, given to attend the campaign Dickinson told The Daytona Beach News-Journal. the president’s hard-line Guillermo Maldonado told the audience of hundreds of mostly rally had to pre-register at Spanish-speaking parishioners that he would never do anything “We’re going to try to get it back up there.” immigration policy. DonaldJTrump.com. to endanger them. Charleston is more than 300 miles (483 kilometers) “I ask you: Do you think On Sunday, Secret north of New Smyrna Beach. I would do something feel apprehensive about a thing,” Maldonado said. Service agents were The Coast Guard plans to bring in a crane where I would endanger attending Trump’s Friday “Don’t put your race or examining bags before sometime this week to remove the buoy. Officials my people? I’m not that visit to the King Jesus your nationality over be- the services, to prepare told news outlets the move will depend on several dumb,” Maldonado told International Ministry ing a Christian. Be mature for the event. Every other factors, including the weather. parishioners. church because of his ad- ... If you want to come, do church service during the The buoy is painted bright red with the number The Miami Herald ministration’s increased it for your pastor. That’s a week, except for a New eight painted in white on multiple sides. reported Maldonado also immigration raids. way of supporting me.” Year’s Eve mass, is being Buoys are usually chained to a large piece of made an appeal to some “I don’t think the The church in West canceled, Maldonado concrete that sits on the ocean floor. It’s unclear of his congregation who president would do such Kendall south of Miami said. how the beacon got loose.

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Bruce Wayne becomes Go- (4:00) “Abducted: The Joc- “Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey” (2018) Katie “Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story” (2019) Ian Lake. A teen- “Abducted: The Mary Stauffer tham City’s Dark Knight. (PG- LIFEMOV elyn Shaker Story” (2015) Douglas. A 17-year-old girl is released by a serial killer. ager reveals that she is gay to her devout Mormon parents. Story” (2019, Drama) 13) TNT 11 a.m. NICK Loud House Loud House Loud House Loud House Loud House Loud House SpongeBob SpongeBob Most Musical Family Most Musical Family BEAUTY SHOP ››‡ (2005) A OWN Dr. Phil Dr. Phil Dr. Phil The Haves, Nots The Haves, Nots The Haves, Nots Chicago P.D. Investigating a Chicago P.D. “Home” A meth Chicago P.D. A search for a Chicago P.D. Halstead goes Chicago P.D. “Politics” Burgess Chicago P.D. “Monster” Intel- determined hairstylist competes OXY with her former boss. 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(PG) LIFE 2 After shattering the games THE DARK KNIGHT ›››› 9:30 p.m. p.m. SONG OF THE THIN MAN ››‡ forever, Katniss (Jennifer (2008) Batman battles a vicious GLADIATOR ›››‡ (2000) Un THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCK- ››› ›› (1947) Nick and Nora investi- Lawrence) fights to save a criminal known as the Joker. general fugitivo se convierte en INGJAY, PART 1 (2014) LET’S BE COPS (2014) (PG-13) TNT 1:30 p.m. Katniss fights for Peeta and a Two buddies impersonate po- gate a murder aboard a gam- friend and a nation moved by el gladiador más poderoso de bling ship. (NR) TCM 6:15 p.m. her courage in “The Hunger THE DARK KNIGHT RISES nation moved by her courage. lice officers. (R) FX 7:30 a.m. Roma. (NR) 62-WBSV 9 p.m. Games: Mockingjay, Part 2” ››› (2012) Batman faces a (PG-13) AMC 3 p.m., 2:30 a.m. TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE ››› MATILDA ››› (1996) A child on AMC. masked villain named Bane. THE GOONIES (1985) BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY Young misfits find a 17th-cen- THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCK- uses her amazing abilities (PG-13) TNT 4:40 p.m. INGJAY, PART 2 ››› (2015) ››‡ (2006) A NASCAR driver THE THIN MAN ›››› (1934) tury pirate’s treasure map. (PG) against uncaring adults. (PG) Katniss and her team attempt has a new rival. (PG-13) PAR- Nick and Nora Charles solve DIARY OF A MAD BLACK PARMT 12:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. FREE 11 a.m. WOMAN ›› (2005) A woman to assassinate President Snow. MT 8 a.m. a mystery with their dog, Asta. starts over after her husband HACKSAW RIDGE ›››‡ (NR) AMC 5:30 p.m. MIKE AND DAVE NEED WED- (NR) TCM 9:15 a.m. DING DATES ›› (2016) Par- TED 2 ›› (2015) Teddy bear leaves her. (PG-13) VH1 12:40 (2016) Medic Desmond Doss THE THIN MAN GOES HOME I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES tying brothers take two wild Ted must legally prove his per- p.m., 8 p.m. becomes a hero during World ››‡ (1944) Nick and Nora ››‡ (1955) A killer helps a women to a Hawaiian wedding. sonhood. (R) FX 3:30 p.m. War II. (R) HIST 12 p.m. Charles, sober. (NR) TCM 4:30 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX ››‡ disabled girl obtain a needed (R) FX 1:30 p.m. THAT’S DANCING! ››‡ (1985) (2012) Animated. A grumpy THE HANGOVER ››› (2009) operation. (NR) TCM 7:15 a.m. p.m. From Busby Berkeley musicals guardian of the forest fights to Three pals must find a missing NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RIS- TITANIC ›››› (1997) A ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL ››‡ to Michael Jackson performing. protect his world. (PG) FREE groom after a wild bash. (R) ›› ING (2016) A couple and woman falls for an artist aboard DRIFT (2012) Animated. their ex-neighbor clash with a (G) TCM 3 a.m. 1:05 p.m. TBS 4 p.m. Manny and friends explore a the ill-fated ship. (PG-13) CMT wild sorority. (R) FX 12:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m., 7 p.m. DREAMGIRLS ›››‡ (2006) THE HANGOVER PART III ›› new world. (PG) NICK 2 p.m. THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT! OLD SCHOOL ››‡ (2003) ›››‡ (1974) Clips from 1928- VACATION ›› Three singers learn that fame (2013) All bets are off when the IRON MAN ››› (2008) A bil- (2015) Rusty has a high price. (PG-13) BET Wolfpack hits the road. (R) FX lionaire dons an armored suit to Three men relive their wild 58 MGM musicals. (G) TCM Griswold and family take a road past by starting a fraternity. (R) 9 a.m., 9 p.m. 10:30 p.m. fight criminals. (PG-13) FREE 8 p.m. trip to Walley World. (R) TBS 7:55 p.m. PARMT 10:30 a.m. 2 p.m. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS HOLLYWOOD MY HOMETOWN THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT, ››‡ ››› ››› (2014) Two teenagers ››› (1965) Behind-the- JACK REACHER: NEVER GO THE SANDLOT (1993) PART 2 (1976) Fred WHERE THE HEART IS ›› meet and fall in love at a can- scenes film clips feature Holly- BACK ›› (2016) Jack Reacher The new boy in town falls in Astaire and Gene Kelly bridge (2000) Kind townspeople be- cer support group. (PG-13) FX wood stars in candid moments. goes on the lam to investigate with neighborhood ballplayers. clips from about 75 movies. (G) friend an abandoned teen and 10:30 a.m. (NR) TCM 5 a.m. a conspiracy. (PG-13) TNT (PG) PARMT 3 p.m., 8 p.m. TCM 10:30 p.m. her infant. (PG-13) CMT 11:30 10:30 p.m. ››› a.m., 11:30 p.m. 50 FIRST DATES ›› (2004) A THE HOUSE BUNNY ›› (2008) SET IT OFF (1996) Des- THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT! III man falls for a woman who has A sexpot teaches misfit soror- JACK THE GIANT SLAYER ›› peration drives four women to ›››‡ (1994) Clips from more WYATT EARP ››‡ (1994) Por- short-term memory loss. (PG- ity sisters about men. (PG-13) (2013) Granjero debe defender bank-robbery. (R) VH1 12:30 than 100 MGM musicals. (G) trait traces him from boy to law- 13) LIFE 8 p.m., 12:01 a.m. LIFE 10:03 p.m., 2:04 a.m. su tierra de unos temibles a.m. TCM 12:45 a.m. man. (PG-13) HIST 8 a.m. Extra! Extra! Read All About it!

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High Low High Low Ocala Daytona Beach City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 66/42 67/45 Apalachicola 62 42 s 61 47 s Bradenton DeLand Clearwater 65 53 s 66 57 s Today 2:31a 10:44a 5:13p 10:23p Wed. 3:28a 11:26a 5:50p 11:52p Beverly Leesburg 68/44 Coral Springs 79 58 c 78 64 s Hills 67/47 Daytona Beach 67 45 s 65 51 pc Clearwater 66/41 Fort Lauderdale 79 61 pc 77 67 s Today 2:20a 9:26a 3:45p 9:45p Orlando Fort Myers 77 52 pc 77 58 s Wed. 3:03a 9:59a 4:17p 10:32p Brooksville 70/49 Titusville Gainesville 66 40 s 66 44 s St. Petersburg 67/43 Jacksonville 66 39 s 66 44 s 69/51 Today 3:55a 11:39a 6:37p 11:18p Cold Warm Stationary Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Key Largo 79 68 pc 77 72 s Wed. 4:52a 12:21p 7:14p --- Kissimmee Key West 78 71 s 77 73 s U.S. Extremes (For the 48 contiguous states Monday) High ...... 84 at Immokalee, FL Low ...... -26 at Alamosa, CO Tarpon Springs 70/49 Melbourne Melbourne 70 50 s 70 57 pc Vero Beach 65/53 Plant City Haines City 70/50 Miami 81 63 pc 79 67 s Today 2:36a 9:13a 3:12p 9:54p Today Wed. Today Wed. Wed. 3:26a 10:04a 3:59p 10:40p 70/46 71/48 Naples 78 56 pc 77 62 s City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Ocala 66 42 s 67 45 pc Winter Haven Venice Albuquerque 41 22 pc 43 26 pc Kansas City 41 27 s 51 38 s Tampa Okeechobee 74 46 pc 73 52 s 70/48 Today 1:53a 10:01a 4:35p 9:40p Anchorage 36 22 sn 25 15 c Knoxville 49 33 s 50 34 s 68/52 Orlando 70 49 pc 69 53 pc Wed. 2:50a 10:43a 5:12p 11:09p Atlanta 55 38 s 57 41 pc Las Vegas 55 37 s 55 40 pc Bartow Frostproof Panama City 61 43 s 62 52 pc 70/48 Baltimore 52 33 pc 47 26 pc Los Angeles 69 48 s 66 46 s St. Petersburg 71/48 Pensacola 62 41 s 61 54 pc Birmingham 55 33 s 57 43 pc Louisville 42 31 pc 48 38 s 67/54 Avon Park Pompano Beach 79 61 pc 77 67 s Marine Boise 38 34 c 46 33 sh Memphis 51 32 s 55 44 pc Wauchula 72/47 Vero St. Augustine 64 43 pc 63 49 s Wind Speed Seas Bay/Inland Boston 48 35 r 44 33 pc Milwaukee 32 20 c 40 35 pc 71/47 Basinger Beach St. Petersburg 67 54 s 69 58 pc Sebring direction in knots in feet chop Buffalo 36 28 sn 34 29 sf Minneapolis 26 13 pc 35 29 pc 74/45 73/50 Sarasota 70 53 s 71 57 s Sarasota Myakka City 73/46 Burlington, VT 37 26 sn 37 27 sf Montgomery 60 31 s 60 44 pc Tallahassee 64 38 s 64 44 pc Cape Sable to Tarpon Springs 70/53 73/48 Charleston, WV 44 32 c 46 31 pc Nashville 49 31 s 53 41 pc Okeechobee Tampa 68 52 s 69 57 pc N 5-10 1-2 Light Charlotte 57 31 s 56 36 s New Orleans 60 45 s 63 57 c 74/46 Vero Beach 73 50 pc 72 56 s Tarpon Springs to Apalachicola Port Chicago 32 21 c 40 33 s New York City 49 34 pc 43 32 pc Venice Venus Indiantown West Palm Beach 79 59 c 77 65 s NNW 5-10 1-2 Smooth 72/53 Charlotte Cincinnati 38 28 c 44 33 s Norfolk, VA 59 41 s 54 36 pc 74/47 75/47 77/53 Cleveland 35 25 sf 39 31 pc Oklahoma City 52 29 s 54 41 pc UV Index Today Sun and Moon Columbia, SC 60 36 s 58 37 s Omaha 37 23 pc 46 29 s Sebring Winter Haven Columbus, OH 36 27 sf 40 29 pc Philadelphia 51 32 pc 44 28 pc The Sun Rise Set Concord, NH 36 25 sn 37 21 pc Phoenix 62 41 pc 61 40 pc Statistics through 1 p.m. Monday Statistics through 1 p.m. Monday Today 7:16 a.m. 5:42 p.m. Dallas 57 38 s 54 46 pc Pittsburgh 37 25 sf 38 27 c Temperatures Temperatures Wednesday 7:16 a.m. 5:42 p.m. Denver 44 25 s 47 24 pc Portland, ME 40 28 sn 40 25 pc Minutes to burn ...... 45 Des Moines 35 22 pc 46 32 pc Portland, OR 49 48 r 53 41 r High/low 78/70 High/low 77/70 The Moon Rise Set The higher the number the greater the risk. Detroit 34 26 sn 37 30 pc Providence 48 31 c 42 29 pc Normal high/low 73/47 Normal high/low 73/52 Today 11:13 a.m. 10:48 p.m. Duluth 21 10 pc 25 24 pc Raleigh 58 36 s 55 34 s Record high 88 in 1973 Record high 86 in 2015 Wednesday 11:45 a.m. 11:40 p.m. Record low 23 in 1961 Record low 23 in 1961 Pollen Index Fairbanks 3 -8 sf -3 -9 c St. Louis 43 28 s 53 40 s Precipitation (in inches) Precipitation (in inches) First Full Last New Fargo 17 12 pc 30 25 c Salt Lake City 33 26 pc 37 31 sn Hartford 45 28 c 40 26 pc San Antonio 60 44 pc 55 49 c 24 hours through 1 p.m. Mon. 0.01” 24 hours through 1 p.m. Mon. Trace Helena 41 34 c 43 33 sn San Diego 69 47 pc 66 48 s Month to date 3.88” Month to date 2.99” Honolulu 83 69 s 83 67 s San Francisco 58 46 s 59 50 pc Normal month to date 1.86” Normal month to date 2.66” Cause ...... Palm, Juniper Houston 63 43 pc 60 54 r Seattle 50 47 r 52 40 r Year to date 52.42” Year to date 53.90” Jan 2 Jan 10 Jan 17 Jan 24 Source: National Allergy Bureau Indianapolis 34 27 sn 43 34 s Washington, DC 53 36 pc 50 31 pc Normal year to date 52.09” Normal year to date 51.02” Last year to date 54.66” Last year to date 54.38” Solunar Table Air Quality Today The World Monthly Rainfall Leesburg Minor Major Minor Major Statistics through 1 p.m. Monday Today Wed. Today Wed. Month 2019 2018 Avg. Record Today 9:44a 3:33a 10:06p 3:55p City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Wed. 10:30a 4:20a 10:51p 4:41p Jan. 3.37 1.86 2.48 7.46/1948 Temperatures Amsterdam 46 31 pc 40 33 pc Mexico City 74 49 pc 73 51 pc Thu. 11:13a 5:03a 11:34p 5:24p Feb. 1.56 1.01 2.54 10.61/1998 High/low 80/72 Main pollutant ...... Ozone Baghdad 67 42 s 65 44 s Montreal 33 28 sn 33 23 c March 1.43 0.58 3.60 12.18/1960 Source: The solunar period schedule allows planning days so you Beijing 29 12 pc 35 16 s Ottawa 32 26 sn 33 22 sf Precipitation (in inches) Airnow.gov will be fishing in good territory or hunting in good cover April 2.08 4.42 2.63 7.36/1951 Berlin 45 30 pc 41 29 pc Paris 41 33 pc 42 39 pc May 1.49 7.58 2.74 12.72/1957 24 hours through 1 p.m. Mon. 0.00” during those times. Major periods begin at the times June 9.66 5.19 7.87 16.44/1992 shown and last for 1.5 to 2 hours. The minor periods are Buenos Aires 81 69 r 79 67 pc Rio de Janeiro 83 75 s 88 78 pc Weather Trivia™ shorter. July 11.89 13.13 8.25 16.45/1945 Airport Cairo 63 47 s 63 48 pc Rome 52 33 pc 56 34 pc St. John’s 30 21 c 35 30 sn Aug. 8.20 6.15 7.48 14.59/1949 Q: During a blizzard, must snow be Cancun 83 71 pc 82 73 pc Possible weather-related delays today. Check with San Juan 86 75 sh 86 75 pc Sept. 3.78 5.77 6.08 17.26/1960 falling? Weather History Dublin 49 38 pc 47 42 pc Oct. 4.66 0.64 2.58 9.43/1952 your airline for the most updated schedules. Edmonton 37 26 c 35 24 sf Sydney 97 68 pc 77 69 pc Nov. 2.79 1.14 2.11 7.81/1988 Hi/Lo Outlook Delays A snowstorm in El Paso, Texas, on Dec. Halifax 38 33 sf 38 28 pc Tokyo 62 37 pc 50 40 pc

Dec. 2.99 6.91 2.76 12.52/2002 Orlando 70/49 part cldy none cient suffi is snow blowing 31, 1982, brought the monthly total of Kiev 40 32 c 34 27 pc Toronto 35 28 sf 33 26 pc

Total 53.90 54.38 51.12 73.28/1959

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS same season. twisted angles to best after the game when Winston, who led the Winston’s off-target stay he said Winston does “so With one last bad throw league in picks and was in Tampa: The last pass much good and so much to close out the season, second with 33 touch- he threw during his five outright terrible.” Jameis Winston became downs, also became the years with the Bucs was In case you missed it, part of his own one-man eighth player to surpass the same as the first — an here’s the rest of the best club. 5,000 yards passing in a interception returned (and worst) from the last Winston threw a pick- season. But more than for a touchdown. Next, day of the 2019 regular six on the first play of the yardage, his year will the team has to decide if season: overtime Sunday to send be remembered for wild the 25-year-old, who was ANOTHER CLUB: Tampa Bay to a 28-22 loss inconsistency that ended picked first in the 2015 Christian McCaffrey to the Atlanta Falcons, in the Bucs missing the draft, is the quarterback became only the third and with that throw, also playoffs for the fifth year of the future or if it’s time player to hit 1,000 yards become the first NFL of his five-year stay in to part ways. rushing and receiving in JASON BEHNKEN/AP PHOTO quarterback to toss at Tampa. Coach Bruce Arians Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston (3) fires a least 30 touchdowns and Among the more might have summed it up JOIN | 2B pass against the Atlanta Falcons. 30 interceptions in the LOCAL SPORTS BRIEFS Sebring Senior Softball Signups SEBRING — Sebring Senior Softball signups are currently taking place. There are leagues for players 50 and over and a league for those 70 and over. Games will be played at the Highlands County Sports Complex in Sebring, which is at 216 Sheriffs Tower Road, behind the Sebring train station. The season will begin on Jan. 9 and continue through March 26. Games are played Tuesday and Thursday, with the 70s league playing at 9:45 a.m. and the 50s league hitting the field at noon. A draft will determine which team players will be on. Practice is taking place now on Tuesday and Thursday, starting at 9 a.m. For more information on the 70s league, call John Kloet at 863-414-2926 and for the 50s league coll 863-840-4291 or 256-504-1710. Junior Tennis After School Tennis Lessons After school tennis lesson are being offered at the Thakkar Tennis Center TED S. WARREN/AP PHOTO located at the Country Club of Sebring. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo drops back to pass against the Seattle Seahawks. Lessons begin Jan. 6 and run through Jan. 30. Ages 4 thru 18 and beginners are welcome. USPTA certified tennis profes- sional, Horace Watkis is the instructor. The sessions go for 4 weeks with 1 NFL playoff pairings set class per week. Tiny Tots (ages 4-6) are Tuesdays from 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. with a cost of $37. Future Champs (ages 6-12) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS that rested several starters, including have a choice of any day of the week quarterback Deshaun Watson. with a start time of 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. with NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Brady and “I think it’s great when you can a cost of $45. Pre-Tournament Academy the New England Patriots will be play- determine whether you get to con- is held Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to ing in the postseason a week earlier tinue to play football,” Titans coach 5:30 p.m. with a cost of $60. High School than usual this year. Mike Vrabel said. “There was some Team Level is held Thurdays from 4 p.m. The defending Super Bowl champs great effort, but we’re going to have to to 5:30 p.m. open the playoffs during wild-card improve and play better. Everything For more information please contact weekend for the first time since 2009 gets harder from here on out.” Coach Horace Watkis at his office at 863- after they lost 27-24 to Miami on The last time New England played 386-4282 or his cell 863-414-2164 or by Sunday and Patrick Mahomes and on wild-card weekend, it lost at home email at [email protected] the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Los to the Ravens. The Patriots have never Angeles Chargers 31-21 to earn a first- made it to the Super Bowl with Brady round bye. and coach Bill Belichick while playing American Veterans Golf “We didn’t play the way we’re in the opening round. Scramble capable of playing and it ended up “We’ve got to move forward and get American Veterans, Post 21 Golf costing us,” Brady said. “Just too many ready to go or the end of our season Scramble will be held at Golf Hammock bad mistakes.” will be next week if we don’t turn the Country Club on Saturday, Jan. 11. The The Patriots (12-4) are the No. 3 page and play good football, way shotgun start will be at 8:30 a.m. There overall seed in the AFC and will have better than today,” McCourty said. BRIAN BLANCO/AP PHOTO will be three flights consisting of 36 to fix things in a hurry as they host “Nobody feels sorry for the Patriots foursomes. Tennessee (9-7) next Saturday night. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees not getting a first-round bye in the The cost is $60 per person that in- “We’ve got a game next week, we’ve (9) passes against the Carolina Panthers. playoffs.” cludes 1 mulligan, door prizes, closest got to get ready to go,” Patriots safety Meanwhile, the Chiefs (12-4) are the in the wild-card round next Sunday at to the pin and longest drive contests Devin McCourty said. “Nobody should No. 2 seed and will be able to watch Philadelphia. in the men and women divisions. feel sorry for us, we shouldn’t feel the opening round, along with the “It’s a good step in the right direc- Refreshments will be available during sorry for ourselves. Our goal is to play top-seeded Baltimore Ravens (14-2). tion,” Garoppolo said. “We’ve got a play. Lunch to follow at the American in the playoffs. 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All three teams had a chance or questions please contact Paul Morris Jimmy Garoppolo and the NFC West said. “The main thing is we get work at the playoffs, but Tennessee had at 863-446-2064. champion 49ers (13-3) held on and the easiest path by needing to win done, but we rest up and get ready for sent Russell Wilson and the Seahawks — and got it against a Texans squad PLAYOFF | 2B (11-5) on the road to open the playoffs BRIEFS | 2B Alamo Bowl a chance for Utah, Texas to shake disappointment

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Playoff before they fired reminder of what could consensus All-America blanks in a crushing loss have been, and a chance defensive end Bradlee SAN ANTONIO — to Oregon in the Pac-12 to bounce into 2020 with Anae, who anchors For all of its festive championship game. renewed expectations of the nation’s No. 1 rush atmosphere, from San And Texas? The season where they hope to be defense and has 29 1/2 Antonio’s River Walk to after quarterback Sam next season. career sacks. tonight’s New Year’s Eve Ehlinger declared “We’re Beating a big-game Utah coach Kyle kickoff, the Alamo Bowl baaack!” following a program like Texas, even Whittingham is 11-2 in boils down to degrees of rousing Sugar Bowl when the Longhorns bowl games. He remind- disappointment. victory over Georgia, the weren’t as good as ed his team that a win As in which team, Longhorns (7-5) expected expected, could be a big could mean the Utes end No. 12 Utah or Texas, to contend for the Big 12 boost for Utah heading the season ranked in the can better shake off its title. That disappeared by into next season. top 10. disappointment over not late October as they sunk “We have one more “It’s something getting to play some- to their 10th consecutive shot as a group of seniors we’ve talked about,” where else. season of four losses or here to leave the program Whittingham said. “That TONY AVELAR/AP PHOTO The Utes (11-2, No. more. better than we found it, would mean a lot to our Utah running back Zack Moss (2) stiff-arms Oregon cornerback 11, CFP) had a shot at For both programs, and so we’re fired up and Thomas Graham Jr. (4) during the first half of the Pac-12 Confer- the College Football Tuesday night is a stark ready to go,” said Utah’s ALAMO | 2B ence championship game. B2 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | December 31, 2019 www.highlandsnewssun.com

starter (the Jags finished JOIN 6-10) and could provide FROM PAGE 1B stability at quarterback if Jacksonville is willing to the same season. It puts give up on Foles and his the Panthers tailback in $88 million contract (No the company of Roger sure thing). Craig and Marshall FREDDIE FIRED: They Faulk. But Carolina lost were the preseason’s 42-10 to the Saints and most-hyped team and finished the season at the regular-season’s most 5-11. The Panthers lost disappointing team. Cam Newton to an injury And now, the Cleveland this season and also fired Browns are in search of coach Ron Rivera in the their sixth coach since middle of the campaign. 2013. Not long after the McCaffrey didn’t dance Browns fell 33-23 to terri- around the realities his ble Cincinnati to finish at team faces despite his 6-10, they booted Freddie personal success. “We Kitchens as head coach. would love to get this Kitchens’ hiring was thing fixed and fixed viewed as a surprise by quick,” he said. many and he was widely NOT YOUR DAD’S NICK WASS/AP PHOTO cast as over-matched — RUNNING TEAM: The and potentially the big- Ravens broke a 41-year- Baltimore Ravens defensive back Chuck Clark, left, brings down Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Vance McDonald. gest problem on a team old record and became their division but lost to can be. As it turns out, over the Steelers. the season. The sixth- with a talent-filled roster the NFL’s most prolific Houston in the playoffs, Robert Griffin III runs the MINSHEW MANIA: round draft pick, who headlined by quarterback single-season rushing of- have virtually nothing in offense pretty well, too. It’s back. Gardner first got the starting job Baker Mayfield. The next fense. They finished with common. With QB Lamar With RG III playing for Minshew gave Jaguars after Nick Foles broke his coach will be tasked with 3,296 yards on the ground Jackson running the Jackson, who was on the fans something to look collarbone in the season taking all that talent and this season, breaking the read-option out of a mod- bench Sunday because forward to over the long opener, overcame some ending the NFL’s longest mark previously held ified shotgun formation, the Ravens had already winter. He threw for mid-season struggles to playoff drought, which by the 1978 Patriots. Of Baltimore is redefining sealed the top seed in the three touchdowns in finish the season with reached 17 years this course, the Ravens and what an NFL offense AFC, Baltimore ran for Jacksonville’s 38-20 win 3,125 yards and 19 touch- season. the ‘78 Patriots, who won 223 yards in a 28-10 win over Indianapolis to close downs. He went 6-6 as a

“We’re hot,” quarter- The NFC South PLAYOFF back Aaron Rodgers said. champions will be the FROM PAGE 1B “But you’ve got to start all No. 3 seed and will host over in the playoffs and Minnesota (10-6) in the whoever we might play.” it’s all great football teams wild-card round next Kansas City’s victory now, so the margin of Sunday. also locked Houston into error is even smaller.” Injury-ravaged the No. 4 seed, and the Rodgers and the Philadelphia (9-7) won Texans (10-6) will host the Packers (13-3) lost out the NFC East with a Buffalo Bills (10-6) next on home-field advantage 34-17 win over the New Saturday. with San Francisco’s win, York Giants, eliminating Despite resting sev- but have the No. 2 seed in Dallas with the victory. eral starters, including the conference. The Eagles, with their quarterback Lamar “The NFC is wide second division title in Jackson, running back open,” Rodgers said. three years, will host the Mark Ingram, guard New Orleans routed Seahawks. Marshal Yanda and safety Carolina 42-10 to finish “This team, when it’s Earl Thomas, Baltimore 13-3 in the regular sea- crunch time this time cruised past Pittsburgh son, but Drew Brees and of year, we get it done,” 28-10 to ride into the Co. then had to wait for Eagles defensive tackle playoffs on a 12-game the result of the 49ers-Se- Tim Jernigan said after winning streak. ahawks game to see what his team finished the “It’s the best team in DUANE BURLESON/AP PHOTO their playoff path would schedule with a four- football in the regular Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers throws during the first half of an NFL football be. game winning streak. season this year, but that game against the Detroit Lions. doesn’t count for any- LOTTERY NUMBERS thing in the next season,” we have to obviously go team.” NFC playoffs with a 23-20 coach John Harbaugh to work this week and Green Bay earned a victory at Detroit, the POWERBALL JACKPOT TRIPLE PLAY said. “In the next season, become a better football first-round bye in the Packers’ fifth straight win. 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Louisiana Tech 14, Miami (Fla.) 0 at Carolina -168 Montreal +158 West Virginia 67, Ohio St. 59 Carolina 39 23 14 2 48 133 111 PRO FOOTBALL Quick Lane Bowl, Detroit Tampa Bay -175 at Buffalo +163 Sunday’s Games Wichita St. 84, Abilene Christian 66 N.Y. Rangers 38 19 15 4 42 124 125 Pittsburgh 34, Eastern Michigan 30 at Columbus Off Florida Off Oklahoma City 98, Toronto 97 SOUTHWEST Columbus 39 17 14 8 42 101 111 NFL San Jose -160 at Detroit +150 Memphis 117, Charlotte 104 Oklahoma St. 82, SE Louisiana 31 New Jersey 38 13 19 6 32 99 136 All times Eastern Dec. 27 at Colorado -175 Winnipeg +163 New Orleans 127, Houston 112 Sam Houston St. 75, Rice 61 AMERICAN CONFERENCE Military Bowl, Annapolis, Md. St. Louis -115 at Arizona +105 Denver 120, Sacramento 115 Texas Tech 73, CS Bakersfield 58 WESTERN CONFERENCE EAST W L T PCT. PF PA North Carolina 55, Temple 13 Philadelphia -117 at Los Angeles +107 L.A. Lakers 108, Dallas 95 FAR WEST CENTRAL GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-New England 12 4 0 .750 420 225 Pinstripe Bowl, New York at Edmonton -143 NY Rangers +133 Monday’s Games Colorado 99, Iona 54 St. Louis 40 26 8 6 58 127 104 x-Buffalo 10 6 0 .625 314 259 Michigan State 27, Wake Forest 21 Atlanta at Orlando, late Harvard 71, California 63 Colorado 39 23 12 4 50 140 112 N.Y. Jets 7 9 0 .438 276 359 Texas Bowl, Houston COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWLS Miami at Washington, late Hawaii 91, Maine 51 Dallas 40 22 14 4 48 107 101 Miami 5 11 0 .313 306 494 Texas A&M 24, Oklahoma State 21 FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Brooklyn at Minnesota, late Kansas 72, Stanford 56 Winnipeg 39 21 15 3 45 118 116 SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA Holiday Bowl, San Diego LSU 3 5½ 70 Clemson Milwaukee at Chicago, late N. Dakota St. 66, Denver 55 Minnesota 40 19 16 5 43 125 133 y-Houston 10 6 0 .625 378 385 Iowa 49, Southern California 24 Arizona State 3 4 53½ Florida State Detroit at Utah, late New Mexico 74, UC Davis 69 Nashville 38 18 14 6 42 132 127 x-Tennessee 9 7 0 .563 402 331 Cheez-It Bowl, Phoenix Navy +2½ 3 53½ Kansas St. Phoenix at Portland, late New Mexico St. 104, N. New Mexico 30 Chicago 40 17 17 6 40 113 129 Indianapolis 7 9 0 .438 361 373 Air Force 31, Washington State 21 Wyoming 7 7 48 Georgia Today’s Games Oregon 98, Alabama St. 59 PACIFIC GP W L OT Pts GF GA Jacksonville 6 10 0 .375 300 397 State Boston at Charlotte, 3 p.m. Oregon St. 83, North Dakota 66 Vegas 42 21 15 6 48 129 123 NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA Dec. 28 Utah 6 7 55 Texas Philadelphia at Indiana, 3 p.m. San Diego 93, Whittier 67 Vancouver 40 21 15 4 46 132 119 y-Baltimore 14 2 0 .875 531 282 Camping World Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Virginia Tech 3 2½ 46½ Kentucky L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 5 p.m. Santa Clara 92, Alcorn St. 57 Arizona 41 21 16 4 46 115 107 Pittsburgh 8 8 0 .500 289 303 Notre Dame 33, Iowa State 9 Alabama 8½ 7 58 Michigan Cleveland at Toronto, 7 p.m. Southern Calif. 71, Florida Gulf Coast 58 Calgary 41 20 16 5 45 111 122 Cleveland 6 10 0 .375 335 393 Cotton Bowl Classic Auburn 9½ 7 54 Minnesota Denver at Houston, 7 p.m. Washington St. 65, Ark.-Pine Bluff 50 Edmonton 41 20 17 4 44 118 129 Cincinnati 2 14 0 .125 279 420 Arlington, Texas Wisconsin 1 3 51½ Oregon Golden State at San Antonio, 7 p.m. Anaheim 39 16 18 5 37 101 119 WEST W L T PCT. PF PA Penn State 53, Memphis 39 Georgia 7½ 5 41½ Baylor Dallas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. MONDAY’S GAMES San Jose 40 17 20 3 37 109 137 y-Kansas City 12 4 0 .750 451 308 Peach Bowl, Atlanta Cincinnati 6½ 7 54½ Boston Coll. Wednesday’s Games EAST Los Angeles 41 16 21 4 36 104 129 Denver 7 9 0 .438 282 316 CFP Semifinal Tennessee Pk 2½ 52½ Indiana Orlando at Washington, 6 p.m. Hofstra 75, Towson 67 2 points for a win, 1 point for overtime loss. Oakland 7 9 0 .438 313 419 Louisiana State 63, Oklahoma 28 Ohio 6 8 58½ Nevada Portland at New York, 7:30 p.m. New Hampshire 70, Dartmouth 56 L.A. Chargers 5 11 0 .313 337 345 Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz. Tulane 7 7 56½ South. Miss. Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Pittsburgh 87, Canisius 79 Sunday’s Games CFP Semifinal La.-Lafayette 13 14 54½ Miami (OH) Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. UMBC 89, Penn St.-York 57 St. Louis 4, Winnipeg 1 NATIONAL CONFERENCE Clemson 29, Ohio State 23 Washington Adventist at Delaware St., late Chicago 3, Columbus 2, SO EAST W L T PCT. PF PA NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Xavier at Villanova, late New Jersey 4, Ottawa 3, OT y-Philadelphia 9 7 0 .563 385 354 Monday’s Games Wild-Card Round COLLEGE BASKETBALL Albany (NY) at Columbia, late N.Y. Islanders 3, Minnesota 1 Dallas 8 8 0 .500 434 321 SERVPRO First Responder Bowl, Dallas Saturday Caldwell at Rutgers, late Tampa Bay 2, Detroit 1 N.Y. Giants 4 12 0 .250 341 451 Western Kentucky 23, Western Michigan 20 FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG MEN’S BASKETBALL Coll. of Charleston at Delaware, late Boston 3, Buffalo 2 Washington 3 13 0 .188 266 435 Music City Bowl, Nashville, Tenn. at Houston 4 2½ 43 Buffalo Coppin St. at Fordham, late Florida 6, Montreal 5 Louisville 38, Mississippi State 28 at New England 4½ 4 43½ Tennessee THE AP MEN’S TOP 25 POLL St. Bonaventure at Buffalo, late Dallas 4, Arizona 2 SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ Redbox Bowl, Santa Clara, Calif. Sunday UNC-Wilmington at Drexel, late Philadelphia 1, Anaheim 1, OT y-New Orleans 13 3 0 .813 458 341 college basketball poll, with first-place Illinois (6-6) vs. California (7-5), late FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG SOUTH Vancouver 5, Calgary 2 Atlanta 7 9 0 .438 381 399 votes in parentheses, records through Dec. Tampa Bay 7 9 0 .438 458 449 Orange Bowl, Miami Gardens, Fla. at New Orleans 7 8 49 Minnesota Stetson 63, South Carolina 56 Monday’s Game Florida (10-2) vs. Virginia (9-4), late Seattle +2 2 46 at Phila. 29, total points based on 25 points for a Austin Peay at Georgia, late Ottawa at Pittsburgh, late Carolina 5 11 0 .313 340 470 first-place vote through one point for a Updated odds available at Pregame.com Green Bay at N. Kentucky, late Today’s Games NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: y-Green Bay 13 3 0 .813 376 313 FIRST RESPONDER BOWL Mid-Atlantic Christian at NC Central, late Boston at New Jersey, 1 p.m. RECORD PTS. LWR Middle Georgia State at Georgia St., late N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 1 p.m. x-Minnesota 10 6 0 .625 407 303 WESTERN KENTUCKY 23, 1. Gonzaga (63) 13-1 1,621 1 Chicago 8 8 0 .500 280 298 WESTERN MICHIGAN 20 TRANSACTIONS Northeastern at James Madison, late Anaheim at Vegas, 3 p.m. 2. Duke (1) 11-1 1,516 4 Penn at Howard, late Toronto at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Detroit 3 12 1 .219 341 423 W. KENTUCKY 0 10 0 13 — 23 3. Kansas (1) 10-2 1,497 5 WEST W L T PCT. PF PA W. MICHIGAN 3 7 7 3 — 20 SC State at Jacksonville, late Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 7 p.m. BASEBALL 4. Oregon 11-2 1,361 6 William & Mary at Elon, late Montreal at Carolina, 7 p.m. y-San Francisco 13 3 0 .813 479 310 First Quarter American League 5. Ohio State 11-2 1,277 2 Yale at North Carolina, late Florida at Columbus, 7 p.m. x-Seattle 11 5 0 .688 405 398 WMC—FG Kapps 30, 4:17. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms 6. Baylor 9-1 1,267 7 Davidson at Vanderbilt, late San Jose at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Rams 9 7 0 .563 394 364 Second Quarter with LHP Dallas Keuchel on a three-year 7. Louisville 11-2 1,196 3 Kent St. at Mississippi St., late Winnipeg at Colorado, 8 p.m. Arizona 5 10 1 .344 361 442 WKY—Pearson 17 pass from Storey contract. 8. Auburn 12-0 1,159 8 Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss., late St. Louis at Arizona, 9 p.m. x-clinched playoff berth; y-clinched division (Munson kick), 10:54. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Designated INF 9. Memphis 11-1 1,055 9 Tulane at Memphis, late Chicago at Calgary, 9 p.m. WKY—FG Munson 26, 2:22. Richard Ureña for assignment. Agreed to 10. Villanova 9-2 970 10 MIDWEST N.Y. Rangers at Edmonton, 9 p.m. WEEK 17 WMC—Ali 88 interception return (Kapps terms with INF Travis Shaw on a one-year 11. Butler 12-1 883 12 E. Michigan 88, Concordia (Mich.) 53 Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 9 p.m. Sunday’s Games kick), :59. contract. 12. Michigan 10-3 880 11 Miami (Ohio) 119, Wilberforce 52 Wednesday’s Game Chicago 21, Minnesota 19 Third Quarter National League 13. San Diego State 13-0 780 15 Cleveland St. at IUPUI, late Nashville at Dallas, 2 p.m. Atlanta 28, Tampa Bay 22, OT WMC—Bussell 6 pass from Wassink (Kapps ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Signed OF 14. Michigan State 10-3 747 14 Milwaukee at Wright St., late Thursday’s Games Miami 27, New England 24 kick), 8:18. Kole Calhoun to a two-year contract. 15. Maryland 11-2 720 13 Green Bay 23, Detroit 20 Fourth Quarter North Florida at Dayton, late Columbus at Boston, 7 p.m. 16. West Virginia 11-1 719 22 UMass at Akron, late Edmonton at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Cincinnati 33, Cleveland 23 WKY—L.Jackson 5 pass from Storey BASKETBALL 17. Kentucky 9-3 674 19 Kansas City 31, L.A. Chargers 21 (Munson kick), 10:40. Youngstown St. at Ill.-Chicago, late Tampa Bay at Montreal, 7 p.m. National Basketball Association 18. Florida State 11-2 531 17 N.Y. Jets 13, Buffalo 6 Chicago St. at Missouri, late New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. WMC—FG Kapps 20, 4:58. NBA — Fined Golden State Warriors F 19. Virginia 10-2 506 16 New Orleans 42, Carolina 10 Loyola of Chicago at Valparaiso, late San Jose at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. WKY—FG Munson 31, 1:36. Marquese Chriss $35,000 for shoving Dallas 20. Dayton 10-2 483 18 Denver 16, Oakland 15 S. Illinois at Indiana St., late Florida at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. WKY—FG Munson 52, :00. Mavericks Guard Luka Doncic to the floor. 21. Penn State 11-2 312 20 Tennessee 35, Houston 14 Seton Hall at DePaul, late Toronto at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. A—13,164. ATLANTA HAWKS — Transferred F Charlie 22. Texas Tech 9-3 175 23 Dallas 47, Washington 16 SOUTHWEST Anaheim at Arizona, 9 p.m. WKY WMC Brown Jr. from College Park (NBAGL). 23. Iowa 10-3 137 25 Jacksonville 38, Indianapolis 20 First downs 28 19 Baylor 83, Jackson State 57 N.Y. Rangers at Calgary, 9 p.m. 24. Wichita State 11-1 135 — Huston-Tillotson at Prairie View, late St. Louis at Colorado, 9:30 p.m. Philadelphia 34, N.Y. Giants 17 Rushes-yards 28-123 31-114 25. Arizona 10-3 113 24 Baltimore 28, Pittsburgh 10 Passing 358 193 FOOTBALL Rio Grande at Oklahoma, late Chicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m. National Football League Others receiving votes: Colorado 74, Xavier L.A. Rams 31, Arizona 24 Comp-Att-Int 35-52-2 19-36-1 High Point at Texas, late Philadelphia at Vegas, 10 p.m. ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed CBs Sojourn 58, DePaul 47, Washington 40, Northern San Francisco 26, Seattle 21 Return Yards 69 112 Texas Southern at Texas A&M, late Shelton and Duke Thomas, WRs Johnnie Iowa 32, Utah State 30, Saint Mary’s Punts-Avg. 3-41.0 5-46.4 George Mason at TCU, late AHL Dixon and A.J. Richardson, OL Sam Jones, (California) 28, Marquette 27, Arkansas 19, Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 FAR WEST All times Eastern LATE SUNDAY DL Lyndon Johnson and P Ryan Winslow to Purdue 12, Creighton 10, Georgetown 10, Penalties-Yards 4-56 6-64 Detroit at Gonzaga, late EASTERN CONFERENCE 49ERS 26, SEAHAWKS 21 reserve/futures contracts. Indiana 5, Houston 4, St. John’s 3, Virginia Time of Possession 32:01 27:59 Harvard at San Francisco, late ATLANTIC GP W L OL SOL PTS GF GA SAN FRANCISCO 10 3 6 7 —26 CHICAGO BEARS — Signed OL Dino Boyd, Tech 3, Brigham Young 2, Eastern Tennessee INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Idaho at Weber St., late Hartford 33 18 8 2 5 43 91 87 SEATTLE 0 0 7 14 —21 DB Xavier Crawford, WR Reggie Davis, DB 2, Seton Hall 2, Florida 1, Stanford 1, Yale 1. RUSHING—W. Kentucky, G.Walker 15-93, N. Arizona at Montana St., late Providence 35 20 12 1 2 43 114 90 First Quarter Stephen Denmark, WR Thomas Ives, OL Storey 13-30. W. Michigan, Bellamy 18-60, Sacramento St. at Montana, late Hershey 33 18 10 2 3 41 90 87 SF—FG Gould 47, 7:35. Sam Mustipher, TE Dax Raymond, LB James USA TODAY TOP 25 POLL Wassink 6-26, Tucker 5-24, Tyler 2-4. E. Washington at Idaho St., late WB/Scranton 33 17 12 3 1 38 86 94 SF—Samuel 30 run (Gould kick), :24. Vaughters and WR Alex Wesley to reserve/ The top 25 teams in the USA Today men’s PASSING—W. Kentucky, Storey 35-51-2-358, S. Utah at Portland St., late Springfield 35 17 16 2 0 36102 98 Second Quarter futures contracts. college basketball poll, with first-place (Team) 0-1-0-0. W. Michigan, Wassink Charlotte 32 16 13 3 0 35 94 87 SF—FG Gould 30, 5:44. CINCINATI BENGALS — Claimed CB Tony votes in parentheses, records through 19-36-1-193. SCHEDULE Bridgeport 34 13 16 4 1 31 78 108 Third Quarter Brown off waivers from Green Bay. Signed Dec. 29, points based on 25 points for a RECEIVING—W. Kentucky, L.Jackson 17-148, All times Eastern Lehigh Valley 33 12 16 1 4 29 75 94 Sea—Lockett 14 pass from R.Wilson (Myers TE Moritz Böhringer and WR DaMarkus first-place vote through one point for a Simon 6-105, Pearson 5-32, G.Walker 4-40, TODAY’S GAMES NORTH GP W L OL SOL PTS GF GA kick), 5:46. Lodge to reserve/future contracts. 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: SF—Mostert 2 run (pass failed), 3:25. Jernighan 2-12, Sloan 1-21. W. Michigan, EAST Rochester 31 20 7 2 2 44 99 71 CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DT Brandin RECORD PTS. LWR George Washington at Vermont, 2 p.m. Utica 33 19 10 2 2 42 121 102 Fourth Quarter S.Moore 4-68, Bussell 4-51, Ricci 4-20, 1. Gonzaga (30) 13-1 798 1 Bryant, CB Donnie Lewis Jr., WR J’Mon Georgetown at Providence, 5:30 p.m. Toronto 31 19 9 2 1 41107 92 Sea—Lynch 1 run (Myers kick), 9:55. Crooms 2-24, Mixon 2-9, Tucker 1-11, Tyler 2. Duke (1) 11-1 753 3 Moore, DE Trevon Young, LBs Jermaine Butler at St. John’s, 7:30 p.m. Belleville 32 19 12 1 0 39 119 106 SF—Mostert 13 run (Gould kick), 5:51. 1-8, Bellamy 1-2. 3. Kansas (1) 10-2 730 5 Grace and Montrel Meander and Gs SOUTH Laval 34 16 14 3 1 36 97 102 Sea—Metcalf 14 pass from R.Wilson (Myers MISSED FIELD GOALS—W. Kentucky, 4. Baylor 9-1 639 6 Malcolm Pridgeon and Willie Wright to Georgia Tech at Florida St., noon Syracuse 32 16 13 2 1 35 102 108 kick), 3:36. Munson 29. 5. Ohio State 11-2 621 2 reserve/futures contracts. Temple at UCF, 2 p.m. Cleveland 32 14 15 1 2 31 87 89 A—69,162. DETROIT LIONS — WR Victor Bolden, WR 6. Oregon 11-2 619 7 Today’s Games Miami at Clemson, 4 p.m. Binghamton 32 11 17 4 0 26 80 107 SF SEA Jonathan Duhart, LS James Fisher, P Jack 7. Auburn 12-0 578 8 Belk Bowl, Charlotte, N.C. Boston College at Duke, 6 p.m. First downs 18 27 Fox, S A.J. Howard, WR Tom Kennedy, 8. Louisville 11-2 570 4 Kentucky (7-5) vs. Virginia Tech (8-4), noon MIDWEST WESTERN CONFERENCE Total Net Yards 398 348 T Matt Nelson, DT Olive Sagapolu, LB 9. Villanova 9-2 507 9 (ESPN) Hartford at Bowling Green, noon CENTRAL GP W L OL SOL PTS GF GA Rushes-yards 24-128 30-125 Christian Sam, G Casey Tucker and P Matt 10. Butler 12-1 489 11 Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas N. Iowa at Illinois St., 3 p.m. Milwaukee 34 24 5 3 2 53117 75 Passing 270 223 Wile to reserve/futures contracts. 11. Memphis 11-1 461 10 Florida State (6-6) vs. Arizona State (7-5), 2 Evansville at Missouri St., 5 p.m. Iowa 33 17 12 2 2 38 96 99 Punt Returns 2-6 1-16 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed TE Mo 12. San Diego State 13-0 382 14 p.m. (CBS) Drake at Bradley, 7 p.m. Rockford 31 17 13 0 1 35 89 94 Kickoff Returns 1-0 1-17 Alie-Cox, K Chase McLaughlin and WR Zach 13. Michigan 10-3 357 15 Liberty Bowl, Memphis, Tenn. Florida A&M at Iowa St., 7 p.m. Chicago 34 15 16 2 1 33 84 100 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Pascal to one-year contract extensions. 14. Kentucky 9-3 348 19 Kansas State (8-4) vs. Navy (10-2), 3:45 p.m. Rider at Wisconsin, 7 p.m. San Antonio 34 12 13 5 4 33 97 102 Comp-Att-Int 18-22-0 25-40-0 Signed RBs Bruce Anderson III and Darius 15. Maryland 11-2 341 12 (ESPN) FAR WEST Manitoba 34 16 18 0 0 32 98 109 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-15 1-10 Jackson; TEs Ian Bunting, Xavier Grimble 16. Michigan State 10-3 316 16 Arizona Bowl, Tucson, Ariz. Morgan St. at CS Northridge, 3 p.m. Grand Rapids 33 13 16 2 2 30 95 114 Punts 2-47.0 3-50.0 and Matt Lengel; G Chaz Green; DE Gerri 17. West Virginia 11-1 311 23 Wyoming (7-5) vs. Georgia State (7-5), 4:30 UC Riverside at Air Force, 4 p.m. Texas 33 13 16 2 2 30 93 112 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-0 Green; WR Malik Henry; CBs Picasso Nelson 18. Dayton 10-2 291 18 p.m. (CBSSN) PACIFIC GP W L OL SOL PTS GF GA Penalties-Yards 8-57 5-29 Jr. , Lafayette Pitts and Jackson Porter; OTs 19. Virginia 10-2 280 13 Alamo Bowl, San Antonio WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Tucson 30 23 7 0 0 46113 74 Time of Possession 27:04 32:56 Cedrick Lang, Andrew Donnal and Travis 20. Florida State 11-2 244 17 Texas (7-5) vs. Utah (11-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Stockton 29 18 6 2 3 41 118 92 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Vornkahl to reserve/future contracts. 21. Penn State 11-2 125 21 THE AP WOMEN’S TOP 25 POLL The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ Colorado 30 17 10 2 1 37 101 88 RUSHING—San Francisco, Mostert 10-57, MIAMI DOLPHINS — Fired offensive 22. Texas Tech 9-3 112 22 Wednesday’s Games women’s college basketball poll, with first- Ontario 32 14 14 3 1 32 83 117 Samuel 2-33, Breida 4-16, Coleman 5-11, coordinator Chad OCitrus Bowl, Orlando, Fla. place votes in parentheses, records through Bakersfield 29 12 13 3 1 28 88 107 Kittle 1-7, Garoppolo 2-4. Seattle, Homer coach Dave DeGuglielmo and safeties coach 24. Arizona 10-3 74 24 Michigan (9-3) vs. Alabama (10-2), 1 p.m. Dec. 29, total points based on 25 points for San Diego 27 12 12 2 1 27 87 84 10-62, Lynch 12-34, Wilson 8-29. Tony Oden. 25. Iowa 10-3 62 26 (ABC) a first-place vote through one point for a San Jose 28 10 16 0 2 22 94 106 PASSING—San Francisco, Garoppolo 18-22- NEW YORK GIANTS — Fired coach Pat Others receiving votes: Washington 38, Outback Bowl, Tampa, Fla. 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: 2 points for a win, 1 for OT or SO loss 0-285. Seattle, Wilson 25-40-0-233. Shurmur. Utah State 38, Xavier 34, Northern Iowa 28, Minnesota (10-2) vs. Auburn (9-3), 1 p.m. RECORD PTS. LWR RECEIVING—San Francisco, Kittle 7-86, OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed G Richie Marquette 27, Colorado 27, Saint Mary’s (ESPN) 1. Connecticut (19) 10-0 722 1 Sunday’s Games Samuel 5-102, Sanders 3-25, Juszczyk 1-49, Incognito to a two-year contract extension. (California)21, Purdue 20, Creighton 15, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif. 2. Oregon (5) 10-1 703 2 Manitoba 3, Rockford 2 Mostert 1-16, Coleman 1-7. Seattle, Metcalf Signed DE Ade Aruna, DB Jordan Brown, DE DePaul 14, Arkansas 14, Seton Hall 13, Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (10-3), 5 p.m. 3. Oregon St. (5) 12-0 680 3 Hershey 3, Lehigh Valley 0 6-81, Lockett 6-51, Homer 5-30, Hollister Kendall Donnerson, OL Kyle Kalis, C Erik North Carolina 7, Houston 6, Virginia (ESPN) 4. South Carolina (1) 12-1 661 4 Milwaukee 3, Chicago 2 4-25, Moore 2-30, Ursua 1-11, Swoopes 1-5. Magnuson and WR Anthony Ratliff-Williams Commonwealth 3, Florida 3, Liberty 2. Sugar Bowl, New Orleans 5. Stanford 11-1 622 5 Colorado 4, Tucson 1 MISSED FIELD GOALS—None. to reserve/future contracts. Georgia (11-2) vs. Baylor (11-2), 8:45 p.m. 6. Baylor 9-1 614 6 Bakersfield 7, San Jose 5 WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Fired coach (ESPN) THE AP TOP 25 7. Louisville 12-1 576 7 Monday’s Game NFL PLAYOFFS Bruce Allen. Signed P Tress Way to a multi- RESULTS / SCHEDULE 8. Florida State 13-0 560 8 Charlotte 3, Cleveland 1 SCHEDULE year contract extension. Signed T Paul Thursday’s Games All times Eastern 9. North Carolina State 12-0 503 9 Today’s Games All times Eastern Adams, DE Ryan Bee, WR Emanuel Hall, DE Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Sunday’s Games 10. UCLA 12-0 497 10 Laval at Belleville, 3 p.m. WILD-CARD ROUND Cameron Malveaux and WR Jordan Veasy to Cincinnati (10-3) vs. Boston College (6-6), 3 No. 22 West Virginia 67, No. 2 Ohio State 59 11. Texas A&M 12-1 445 11 Texas at Iowa, 3 p.m. Saturday’s Games reserve/future contracts. No. 5 Kansas 72, Stanford 56 Buffalo at Houston, 4:35 p.m. (ESPN/ABC) p.m. (ESPN) 12. Maryland 10-2 406 12 Cleveland at Toronto, 3 p.m. No. 6 Oregon 98, Alabama State 59 Tennessee at New England, 8:15 p.m. (CBS) Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla. 13. Kentucky 11-1 376 13 Springfield at WB/Scranton, 3:05 p.m. HOCKEY No. 8 Auburn 86, Lipscomb 59 Sunday, Jan. 5 Indiana (8-4) vs. Tennessee (7-5), 7 p.m. 14. Indiana 11-2 344 14 Bridgeport at Hartford, 5 p.m. National Hockey League No. 11 Michigan 86, UMass Lowell 60 Minnesota at New Orleans, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) (ESPN) 15. Mississippi State 12-2 341 15 Rockford at Manitoba, 5 p.m. ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled RW Daniel No. 13 Maryland 84, Bryant 70 Seattle at Philadelphia, 4:40 p.m. (NBC) 16. DePaul 11-2 291 16 Rochester at Utica, 5 p.m. Friday’s Games Sprong from San Diego (AHL). No. 14 Michigan State 95, W. Michigan 62 17. Gonzaga 12-1 274 17 Chicago at Grand Rapids, 6 p.m. BUFFALO SABRES — Signed LW Dalton No. 16 Virginia 65, Navy 56 DIVISIONAL ROUND Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Boise 18. Arizona 12-0 265 18 Syracuse at Binghamton, 6:05 p.m. Ohio (6-6) vs. Nevada (7-5), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Smith. No. 20 Penn State 90, Cornell 59 19. West Virginia 9-1 207 19 Ontario at Bakersfield, 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11 DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned G Calvin No. 23 Texas Tech 73, CS Bakersfield 58 Philadelphia, Seattle or Minnesota at San 20. Arkansas 12-1 162 20 San Jose at Stockton, 8 p.m. Pickard to Grand Rapids (AHL). No. 25 Iowa 93, Kennesaw State 51 Francisco, 4:35 p.m. (NBC) Saturday’s Game 21. Missouri State 9-2 116 21 San Diego at Tucson, 8:05 p.m. NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Signed D Nikita Monday’s Games Houston, Buffalo or Tennessee at Baltimore, Armed Forces Bowl, Fort Worth, Texas 22. Tennessee 10-2 98 22 Okhotyuk to a three-year, entry-level No. 1 Gonzaga vs. Detroit, late 8:15 p.m (CBS) Southern Miss (7-5) vs. Tulane (6-6), 11:30 23. Miami 9-3 62 24 ECHL a.m. (ESPN) contract. No. 6 Baylor 83, Jackson State 57 24. Minnesota 11-1 50 — All times Eastern Sunday, Jan. 12 TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned F No. 9 Memphis vs. Tulane, late New England, Houston or Buffalo at Kansas 25. Texas 8-4 46 25 EASTERN CONFERENCE Mathieu Joseph to Syracuse (AHL). No. 10 Villanova vs. Xavier, late City, 3:05 p.m. (CBS) Monday, Jan. 6 Others receiving votes: South Dakota 40, NORTH GP W L OL SOL PTS GF GA No. 20 Dayton vs. North Florida, late New Orleans, Philadelphia or Seattle at Lendingtree Bowl, Mobile, Ala. Michigan 26, Rutgers 24, Princeton 10, Newfoundland 30 20 10 0 0 40122 103 Today’s Games Green Bay, 6:40 p.m. (FOX) Miami (Ohio) (8-5) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette SOCCER Colorado 9, Northwestern 7, Louisiana State Reading 31 17 10 4 0 38 108 105 (10-3), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Major League Soccer No. 2 Duke vs. Boston College, 6 p.m. 5, Kansas 4, Arizona St. 1, Michigan State 1, Brampton 31 18 12 1 0 37118 98 DALLAS — Sent M Pablo Aránguiz to No. 11 Butler at St. John’s, 7:30 p.m. CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Nebraska 1, Texas Tech 1. Maine 28 16 11 0 1 33 90 95 Universidad de Chile (Primera División- No. 18 Florida State vs. Georgia Tech, noon Sunday, Jan. 19 Monday, Jan. 13 Adirondack 34 12 14 3 5 32102 121 Chile) on a one-year loan. AFC: 3:05 p.m. (CBS) College Football Championship THE AP TOP 25 Worcester 29 10 18 1 0 21 82 108 INTER MIAMI — Named Diego Alonso coach. NFC: 6:40 p.m. (FOX) At New Orleans RESULTS RESULTS / SCHEDULE SOUTH GP W L OL SOL PTS GF GA Louisiana State (14-0) vs. Clemson (14-0), 8 ORLANDO CITY — Signed D Antônio Carlos SUNDAY’S GAMES All times Eastern South Carolina 29 23 2 3 1 50104 62 on a one-year loan from Palmeiras (Série EAST PRO BOWL p.m. (ESPN) Sunday’s Games Florida 31 19 8 2 2 42110 80 A-Brazil) Binghamton 98, Hartwick 45 Sunday, Jan. 26 at Orlando, Fla. No. 3 Oregon State 69, CS Bakersfield 50 Greenville 32 15 16 0 1 31 103 116 Boston U. 69, Merrimack 67 AFC vs. NFC, 3 p.m. (ESPN) FCS PLAYOFFS No. 7 Louisville 62, Syracuse 58 Orlando 31 13 13 4 1 31 81 85 Central Conn. St. 89, Connecticut College 55 Championship No. 8 Florida State 86, Virginia Tech 62 Atlanta 29 13 16 0 0 26 95 113 Lafayette 67, Sacred Heart 66 SUPER BOWL Saturday, Jan. 11 PRO BASKETBALL No. 9 N.C. State 72, Boston College 54 Norfolk 32 10 19 3 0 23 83 116 Marshall 83, Duquesne 61 Sunday, Feb. 2 at Miami Gardens, Fla. At Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas No. 10 UCLA 83, Southern California 59 Jacksonville 29 9 16 4 0 22 75 100 Maryland 84, Bryant 70 AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6:30 North Dakota State (15-0) vs. James Madison No. 11 Texas A&M 85, Texas A&M-Corpus NBA Penn St. 90, Cornell 59 p.m. (Fox) (14-1), noon All times Eastern Christi 48 WESTERN CONFERENCE Princeton 71, Lehigh 62 EASTERN CONFERENCE No. 15 Mississippi State 89, Little Rock 50 CENTRAL GP W L OLSOL PTS GF GA Siena 74, Holy Cross 62 ATLANTIC DIVISION W L PCT GB No. 16 DePaul 89, Marquette 71 Cincinnati 31 19 8 4 0 42 98 81 Stony Brook 81, Norfolk St. 65 Boston 22 8 .733 — No. 17 Gonzaga 62, Portland 57 Toledo 29 17 9 3 0 37110 88 COLLEGE FOOTBALL ODDS UConn 69, NJIT 47 Philadelphia 23 12 .657 1½ No. 18 Arizona 58, Arizona State 53 Fort Wayne 31 15 11 5 0 35115 112 SOUTH Toronto 22 11 .667 1½ No. 20 Arkansas 96, Tennessee Martin 46 Wheeling 30 14 12 4 0 32 92 101 BOWL RESULTS / SCHEDULE PREGAME.COM LINE Alabama 90, Richmond 78 Brooklyn 16 15 .516 6½ No. 22 Tennessee 88, Howard 38 Indy 30 14 15 1 0 29 93 87 All times Eastern NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Auburn 86, Lipscomb 59 New York 9 24 .273 14½ No. 24 Miami (Fla.) 59, Wake Forest 56 Kalamazoo 29 12 14 3 0 27 93 116 Dec. 20 Today Chattanooga 72, Cumberland 42 SOUTHEAST DIVISION W L PCT GB No. 25 Texas 91, Northwestern State 49 MOUNTAIN GP W L OL SOL PTS GF GA Bahamas Bowl, Nassau FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG ETSU 117, Mars Hill 48 Miami 24 8 .750 — Monday’s Game Allen 33 23 5 4 1 51 126 98 Buffalo 31, Charlotte 9 Boston 6½ 208½ at Charlotte LSU 74, Liberty 57 Orlando 14 18 .438 10 No. 6 Baylor vs. Morehead State, late Idaho 33 18 10 3 2 41 92 90 Frisco (Texas) Bowl at Indiana 1 211 Philadelphia Mississippi 80, Tennessee Tech 63 Charlotte 13 22 .371 12½ Today’s Games Rapid City 31 17 11 3 0 37 93 95 Kent State 51, Utah State 41 LA Clippers 7 221 at Sacramento NC State 72, Appalachian St. 60 Washington 9 22 .290 14½ No. 12 Maryland at Northwestern, 5 p.m. Utah 30 16 9 4 1 37105 84 at San Antonio 9 220 Golden State Northwestern St. 101, Champion Christian 61 Atlanta 6 27 .182 18½ No. 14 Indiana at Rutgers, 3 p.m. Wichita 34 14 15 5 0 33 97 126 Dec. 21 at Toronto Off Off Cleveland Presbyterian 81, Kentucky Christian 56 CENTRAL DIVISION W L PCT GB No. 19 West Virginia vs. Cornell, 2 p.m. Tulsa 33 13 17 2 1 29 105 112 Celebration Bowl, At Atlanta at Houston Off Off Denver Radford 90, Central Penn College 45 Milwaukee 29 5 .853 — No. 21 Missouri State vs. William Jewell, Kansas City 30 13 15 2 0 28 99 99 North Carolina A&T 64, Alcorn State 44 at Oklahoma City Off Off Dallas Rhode Island 89, Middle Tennessee 62 Indiana 21 12 .636 7½ 2 p.m. 2 points for a win, 1 for OT or SO loss New Mexico Bowl, Albuquerque SC-Upstate 91, VMI 82 Chicago 13 20 .394 15½ No. 24 Minnesota vs. Ohio State, 5 p.m. San Diego State 48, Central Michigan 11 COLLEGE BASKETBALL South Florida 60, FAU 58 Detroit 12 21 .364 16½ Sunday’s Games Cure Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Today UCSB 85, Louisiana-Lafayette 77 Cleveland 10 22 .313 18 Reading 3, Brampton 2 Liberty 23, Georgia Southern 16 FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG UT Martin 92, Mount St. Joseph 72 Atlanta 4, Greenville 1 Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl at Florida State 12½ Georgia Tech VCU 85, Loyola (Md.) 51 PRO HOCKEY WESTERN CONFERENCE Wheeling 3, Indy 2, OT Florida Atlantic 52, Southern Methodist 28 Temple 1 at UCF Virginia 65, Navy 56 SOUTHWEST DIVISION W L PCT GB Kalamazoo 5, Fort Wayne 4 Camellia Bowl, Montgomery, Ala. Northern Iowa 5 at Illinois State Virginia Tech 92, Md.-Eastern Shore 37 NHL Houston 22 11 .667 — Toledo 6, Cincinnati 3 Arkansas State 34, Florida International 26 at Clemson 4 Miami (Fla.) MIDWEST All times Eastern Dallas 21 11 .656 ½ Monday’s Games Las Vegas Bowl at Air Force 4½ UC Riverside Arkansas 71, Indiana 64 EASTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio 13 18 .419 8 Worcester at Newfoundland, late Washington 38, Boise State 7 at Missouri State 6 Evansville Campbell 63, Ohio 55 ATLANTIC GP W L OT PT GF GA Memphis 13 21 .382 9½ Adirondack at Brampton, late New Orleans Bowl at Providence Pk Georgetown Hartford 67, Northwestern 66 Boston 40 24 7 9 57 136 102 New Orleans 11 23 .324 11½ Kansas City at Wichita, late Appalachian State 31, Alabama Birmingham 17 at Duke 23½ Boston College Illinois 95, NC A&T 64 Toronto 40 21 14 5 47 142 131 NORTHWEST DIVISION W L PCT GB Tulsa at Utah, late at Bradley 4 Drake Iowa 93, Kennesaw St. 51 Florida 38 20 13 5 45 138 130 Denver 23 9 .719 — Today’s Games Dec. 23 at Wisconsin 13 Rider Kansas St. 69, Tulsa 67 Tampa Bay 37 20 13 4 44 131 116 Utah 20 12 .625 3 Worcester at Newfoundland, 2:30 p.m. Gasparilla Bowl, At Tampa, Fla. Butler 5½ at St. John’s Michigan 86, Mass.-Lowell 60 Montreal 39 18 15 6 42 130 128 Oklahoma City 17 15 .531 6 Maine at Reading, 4 p.m. UCF 48, Marshall 25 Michigan State 95, Western Michigan 62 Buffalo 40 17 16 7 41 117 125 Portland 14 19 .424 9½ Brampton at Adirondack, 5 p.m. NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Nebraska 73, Texas A&M-CC 52 Ottawa 39 16 18 5 37 109 127 Minnesota 11 20 .355 11½ Greenville at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. Dec. 24 Today Nebraska-Omaha 81, S. Dakota St. 78 Detroit 40 9 28 3 21 87 157 PACIFIC DIVISION W L PCT GB Indy at Kalamazoo, 6 p.m. Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Notre Dame 82, Alabama A&M 56 METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA L.A. Lakers 26 7 .788 — Norfolk at Wheeling, 6:05 p.m. Hawaii 38, Brigham Young University 34 at Calgary -185 Chicago +170 SE Missouri 74, Missouri Baptist 59 Washington 40 27 8 5 59 143 118 L.A. Clippers 23 11 .676 3½ Toledo at Fort Wayne, 7:35 p.m. at Washington -172 NY Islanders +160 SIU-Edwardsville 96, Lindenwood Belleville 48 N.Y. Islanders 37 24 10 3 51 110 97 Phoenix 12 20 .375 13½ Idaho at Allen, 8:05 p.m. Dec. 26 Boston -179 at New Jersey +167 Saint Louis 77, Bethune-Cookman 67 Pittsburgh 38 23 11 4 50 131 102 Sacramento 12 21 .364 14 Wichita at Kansas City, 8:05 p.m. Independence Bowl, Shreveport, La. at Vegas -208 Anaheim +188 W. Illinois 82, South Dakota 75 Philadelphia 39 21 12 5 49 124 113 Toronto -126 at Minnesota +116 Golden State 9 25 .265 17½ B4 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | December 31, 2019 www.highlandsnewssun.com Sports quirks in 2019: Golf balls, oddballs, watches, pants

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS to his comment. “I just on being an “inclusive said car. It’s not as if I said brand,” dropped its long- Sometimes the general apartment.” time “midget” division in managers and player RICH MAN, POOR favor of age designations. personnel directors on MAN: The scoreboard … New York Jets cor- Mount Olympus look clock was not enough for nerback Janoris Jenkins down on some lucky soul Odell Beckham Jr. In the called a fan a “retard” and declare: This is your Cleveland Browns’ opener on Twitter, insisting the moment. against Tennessee, the expression was part of his Consider Dale Cohen, star receiver played while “culture.” Two days later, a 62-year-old shift worker wearing a watch that re- he was part of another at a plastics company tails for a cool $250,000. A culture —- unemployed. and a golfer from Findlay, day later, the league took WAITER, HATER: An Ohio. He made two holes- issue with his accessoriz- English Premier League in-one in the same round. ing, citing a policy “pro- goalkeeper was cleared of The Courier newspaper hibiting hard objects.” wrongdoing but cited for reports he used an 8-iron Beckham’s watch would “lamentable” ignorance both times on a rainy, more than pay the rent by supposedly giving a windy day. The odds of for Chicago Cubs minor Nazi salute during a team two aces in the same leaguer Trevor Clifton. dinner. Wayne Hennessey round are estimated at He lived this season in a contended he does not 67 million to 1. 104-square-foot home he even know what a Nazi “I hit the lottery but MANU FERNANDEZ/AP PHOTO and his father built from a salute is, and he was didn’t get paid,” he said. $200 camper bought on- merely extending his “That’s OK. I’ll take it.” Australia’s Rohan Dennis competes on his way to win the men’s elite individual time trial event, at the road cycling World Championships in Harrogate, England. line. But it’s got a couch, a arm to get the attention Then again, the fridge and a mattress, and of a waiter. … Australian executives on Mount until his Blue Bombers it’s quiet. “I just like to be rugby star Israel Folau Olympus are a fickle won the championship. on my own,” he told The certainly knew what he bunch. Houston Astros Mind you, this team is Des Moines Register. was doing. His contract shortstop Carlos Correa from Winnipeg. Chris FRENCH PROJECTION: was terminated after was having a massage in Matthew withstood the Clearly, the Seine his Instagram post in his home and wound up prospect of frost bite for wouldn’t do. Organizers of which he consigned with a fractured rib. The nearly two decades. His the 2024 Paris Olympics to hell “homosexuals, massage New England team finally won it all hope to hold the surfing adulterers, liars, forni- Patriots owner Robert this season, and his wife competition more than cators, thieves, atheists, Kraft was having in a is pleased. “Now,” he told 9,000 miles away in Tahiti. idolaters.” The governing Florida shopping mall CTV News, “if we need The French also want body of Australian rugby also didn’t work out so to go somewhere where breakdancing on the condemned Folau for well, although his ribs pants are required, we Olympic roster, looking to his anti-gay remarks but remained intact. can actually go there.” entice a younger audi- offered no opinion on Sports in 2019 took us ANDREW MEDICHINI/AP PHOTO There were other ence. Is breakdancing a drunks and fornicators. to unexpected venues: scrums and scrambles: “sport”? It sure is, says Maybe the most The Vatican formed a Members of the Vatican Athletics sports team run for the FROM RUSSIA, WITH top breakdancer Mounir eye-opening news came track team, complete with media in front of St. Peter’s basilica, at the Vatican. The Vatican SHOVE: It’s not easy Biba. “I defy Cristiano out of the University of nuns and Swiss Guards, launched the official track team, complete with Swiss Guards, being a referee, especially Ronaldo to do just one of Virginia. Tony Bennett, although Scripture priests and nuns. in Russia. The soccer my movements,” he said. coach of the NCAA reminds that the race enriching and icily Roger Federer has club Akhmat Grozny WORD(IM)PERFECT: basketball champions, is not to the swift; the satisfying. been the gold standard used its public address Words were a most declined a pay raise. He world’s No. 1 bridge At the Tour de France, in tennis. Now this is system to insult the dangerous game in told the school to give the player was suspended for world time trial champi- more than metaphor. His referee with an expletive, 2019. Baseball traded money to his staff and failing a drug test; and a on Rohan Dennis simply face is to be minted on drawing cheers from the its “disabled list” for the other departments. He French basketball player vanished during the first Swiss currency. He will be crowd. … The coach of “injured list,” saying it said he has more than in China was fined not for stage in the Pyrenees. featured on one side of a the hockey team Amur doesn’t want to support enough money. It was taking a knee during the Afterward, near his team 20 franc silver coin hitting Khabarovsk was furious the “misconception that as if he were speaking in Chinese anthem but for bus, he didn’t want to a one-handed backhand. over a penalty-kick call people with disabilities tongues. Athletic director not casting his eyes on talk about it. Said team In 2001, a Canadian and threatened to set fire are injured and therefore Carla Williams said this the flag. director Gorazd Stangelj: Football League fan to the referee’s car. Coach are not able to participate “just does not happen in By turns, it was a year “We are also confused.” vowed to wear only shorts Alexander Gulyavtsev was or compete.” … Canadian our industry.” that could be baffling, puzzled by the response hockey authorities, intent Book plans to return to quarterback Irish in 2020

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — One Notre Dame offensive standout is planning to return to school. It remains to be seen if another will join him. Quarterback Ian Book posted on his Instagram and Twitter accounts that he plans to be back for the 2020 season. Book posted a signed picture taken ADAM HUNGER/AP PHOTO from Notre Dame’s win over Boston College with captions, “See you in 2020” PHELAN M. EBENHACK/AP PHOTO Atlanta Braves pitcher Dallas Keuchel delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against and “Go Irish.” It also listed his location the New York Mets in New York. The Chicago White Sox and left-hander Dallas Keuchel have Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book (12) throws agreed to a $55 million, three-year deal. as Dublin, Ireland, the site of Notre a pass during the first half of the Camping Dame’s season-opening game against World Bowl. Navy on Aug. 29 and included a hash tag “#BeatNavy.” his 2016 freshman year. White Sox finalize $55.5 million, Book, who passed for 247 yards and So does running back Tony Jones Jr., a touchdown in a Camping World Bowl who rushed for 135 yards against Iowa 3-year deal with Keuchel win over Iowa State on Saturday, has a State on 11 carries, including an 84-yard redshirt season remaining after sitting out touchdown run in the third quarter. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS week to a $12 million, right-hander Michael one-year deal. Kopech is also expected CHICAGO — The The White Sox also to return following Browns request to Chicago White Sox and brought back slugger Jose Tommy John surgery. former AL Cy Young Abreu on a $50 million, Chicago is hoping Award winner Dallas three-year deal, ac- to challenge in the AL Keuchel finalized a quired outfielder Nomar Central behind a young interview McDaniels, Roman $55.5 million, three-year Mazara from the Texas core of hitters, including contract on Monday. Rangers and added lefty Yoan Moncada, Tim THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Keuchel will earn starter Gio Gonzalez on Anderson and Eloy $18 million in salary each a $5 million, one-year Jimenez. Top prospect BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns of the next three seasons. contract that includes a Nick Madrigal might also have asked permission to speak with The White Sox hold a 2021 option. be ready to get significant New England offensive coordinator $20 million option for Keuchel and Gonzalez time at second base. The Josh McDaniels and Baltimore offensive 2023 with a $1.5 million will join a rotation led by White Sox were 72-89 last coordinator Greg Roman about their head buyout. All-Star Lucas Giolito that season, well behind the coaching vacancy, a person familiar with The 31-year-old left- also includes Reynaldo 101-win Minnesota Twins the requests told The Associated Press on hander won the AL Cy Lopez and Dylan Cease. and 93-win Cleveland Monday. Young Award with the Promising young Indians. Cleveland fired Freddie Kitchens Houston Astros in 2015 on Sunday night following a loss in ELISE AMENDOLA/AP PHOTO but struggled to find 4 GREAT VENUES!EN ES Cincinnati that concluded a disappoint- New England Patriots offensive coordinator work last offseason as a ing 6-10 season. The Browns almost free agent. He signed a Proudly Josh McDaniels walks on the field as the team Serving immediately reached out to inquire about warms up before an NFL football game against roughly $13 million, one- McDaniels and Roman, said the person year deal with the Atlanta Highlands the Buffalo Bills. County who spoke on condition of anonymity Braves in June and went because the teams are not confirming the about the Cleveland opening. “We have a 8-8 with a 3.75 ERA for Pinecrest Golf Club - Specials! Browns’ interest. lot of work to do. That’s where my focus the NL East champions. AFTER Per league rules, the Browns can not will be. That’s where it’s at now and it’ll The long-bearded ANYTIME GOLF! 4-SOME SPECIAL TWILIGHT GOLF 2:00 PM! interview McDaniels until after New stay there. That’s the best thing for our veteran joins catcher $ 00 $ 00 $ 00 England’s wild-card game against the team. It’s the best thing for me.” Yasmani Grandal 32 Incl. tax. 140 Incl. tax. 22 Incl. tax. Tennessee Titans on Saturday. They can McDaniels and Roman both have Ohio and slugger Edwin After 2pm EXPIRES 1/31/2020 EXPIRES 1/31/2020 EXPIRES 1/31/2020 speak this week to Roman because the roots. McDaniels has been linked to pre- Encarnación as major Ravens have a bye. vious coaching searches in Cleveland. He additions to the White Sox GOLF AFTER 12PM 9 HOLES GOLF “I’m 100% fully invested in getting interviewed for the Browns’ job in 2014. this offseason. Grandal $ 00 $ 00 $ 00 ready for Tennessee and trying to put McDaniels would seem to fit the profile 18 Incl. tax. signed a $73 million, 39 Incl. tax. 32 Incl. tax. our best performance of the season out Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam four-year contract with After 2pm ONLY there on Saturday night,” McDaniels said are looking for in their latest attempt to adno=00026203 EXPIRES 1/31/2020 EXPIRES 1/31/2020 EXPIRES 1/31/2020 Chicago last month, and 2250 South Little Lake Bonnet Rd. • Avon Park Monday on a conference call when asked find the right coach. Encarnación agreed last Tee Time Hotline: 863-453-7555 www.highlandsnewssun.com December 31, 2019 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | B5

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DEAR DR. ROACH: Blockage of the Are you aware of ducts causes the possibility of ductal dilation pancreatitis re- behind the ob- sulting from long- struction. For the term vitamin D2 subset in whom supplementation? the pancreatic I was diagnosed ducts get blocked, with IPMN with DR. ROACH IPMN can also BABY BLUES By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott chronic pancrea- Advice Columnist cause inflam- titis after being mation of the on 50,000 IU of pancreas, called vitamin D2 once a week for pancreatitis. nine months. I had mild upper Scientists observed that vi- left quadrant pain, which I tamin D levels — D2 and D3, am told is quite unusual for the usual kind we supplement pancreatic cysts. After doing — are low in people with any some research, I decided to kind of pancreatitis, but vita- decrease and then stop the D2. min D treatment often made As I did, cyst sizes and tumor the pancreatitis worse. This markers both decreased. In seeming paradox was resolved addition, the pain resolved. I when it was further found that was fortunate enough to detect the inflammatory cells in the CRANKSHAFT By Tom Batiuk & Chuck Ayers the connection, but have not inflamed pancreas were mak- had any interest from medical ing the active form of vitamin practitioners about looking D (1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D), into the possible link here. and high levels of this active — J.D. D vitamin were increasing ANSWER: This is a complex calcium levels. The increase issue, and it starts with your made pancreatitis worse. The IPMN, which stands for "intra- low levels of circulating vita- ductal papillary mucinous neo- min D2 and D3 are part of the plasms" of the pancreas. These body's response to the elevated are tumors of the pancreas 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D. Vita- that are at risk for becoming min D supplementation is thus cancerous. not usually done in pancreati- The size is the biggest predic- tis since it can make it worse. tor of malignancy, so your DEAR DR. ROACH: I have just SHOE By Gary Brookins & Susie MacNelly doctors are likely monitor- been diagnosed with a Baker's ing the size of your tumors. cyst behind my knee but Those less than 2 cm in size received little information are at low risk for malignancy. about it. Can you please tell me "Malignant" and "cancerous" causes and cures? — D.O. are synonymous terms, but ANSWER: A Baker's cyst is a the boundary between benign common problem. It is a fluid tumors and malignant ones is collection behind the knee. In not as sharp a line as we used adults, these are usually due to think. to increased joint fluid (from These cystic tumors are filled arthritis, a meniscal tear or with mucin and can block trauma) communicating with the main pancreatic duct or a the back of the knee through a REX MORGAN By Terry Beatty side pancreatic duct, through one-way valve. which the pancreatic enzymes They are treated by addressing that help to digest food flow the underlying problem; for into the small intestine. In- instance, anti-inflammatories sulin is also produced by the and moderate exercise for pancreas, but it is transported arthritis. In addition, an injec- to the body through the splenic tion of an anti-inflammatory vein into the liver rather than into joint space is usually suc- the ducts into the intestine. cessful in relieving symptoms. It's time to pay off those holiday credit card bills MARY WORTH By Karen Moy and June Brigman

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