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Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] Christmas Day shooting incident suspect given $50,000 bond, curfew BY ADRIENNE SARVIS other customer. [email protected] The altercation escalated outside, he said, and the co-defendant, who is Release conditions for one suspect still at large, pulled out a weapon and in a nonfatal Christmas Day shooting shot the 20-year-old victim in the at a Broad Street convenience store lower body. Benjamin and the other include a $50,000 surety bond, ankle suspect then fled the area. monitor and curfew, according to a Ken Bell, public information officer magistrate judge. for the sheriff's office, said the victim Faquanta Benjamin, 17, was joined is in serious but non-life-threatening in the courtroom at Sumter-Lee Re- condition. His sister said he lost feel- gional Detention Center by his par- ing in one of his legs, he said. ADRIENNE SARVIS / THE SUMTER ITEM ents during a first appearance hear- DuBose told the judge Benjamin Faquanta Benjamin listens to judge Fred Gordon while signing papers during his first ing on Thursday afternoon. The vic- turned himself in to authorities on appearance hearing at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center on Thursday. tim's sister was also present and stood Wednesday. on the opposite side of the courtroom He said the sheriff's office requests Surveillance footage at the El from the defendant's parents. that Benjamin's bond be set at $50,000, Cheapo convenience store on Before the hearing started, judge with the condition that he be required Broad Street shows the co-de- Fred Gordon allowed Benjamin's fa- to wear a GPS monitoring device fendant, and shooting suspect, ther to speak about his son. upon release and have no contact in Wednesday’s shooting inci- "He's a good kid," he said. with the victim and his family. dent. He was in the wrong place at the Gordon said he would not deny wrong time, Benjamin's father said. Benjamin bond and agreed to the He said his son, a Lakewood High sheriff's office's request adding a cur- PHOTO PROVIDED School student participating in few from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. JROTC, plans to go into the military After hearing the conditions of his when he finishes school. bond, Benjamin asked if he could be "I'm sorry for what happened," the released that day. Gordon said it father said. would be up to his parents. Sgt. Wayne DuBose with Sumter Bell said Benjamin's case should be County Sheriff's Office said according a lesson for other youths that their to the investigation so far, it appears actions could result in serious charg- Benjamin and a co-defendant walked es. into the El Cheapo at 4756 Broad St. The sheriff's office is still looking and had a verbal altercation with an- for the second suspect.

Quote of Experts: Best after-Christmas sales include winter gear, the week Video games make the list BY BRUCE MILLS “I know it’s a great [email protected] sacrifice for you to be Christmas may be over, but with gift cards ever growing in popularity as a gift item across the U.S., many away from your consumers say the week between Christmas and New Year’s is “the families, but I want time to shop for me.” What products have the best buys you to know that this week that consumers should be looking for? every American Retail industry experts from a tele- vision network and a leading compar- family is eternally ison-shopping website weighed in re- cently on what products shoppers grateful to you, and can get the most bang for their buck for this week. we’re holding you WINTER CLOTHING/ACCESSORIES Retailers are generally trying to close in our hearts, clear out their winter gear this week to get in their spring apparel with the BRUCE MILLS / THE SUMTER ITEM thoughts and start of the new year, according to A customer looks through a rack of camouflage items that were priced 40 percent off on Today Show financial editor Jean Thursday at Simpson Hardware & Sports. prayers. We love Chatzky. “You are going to get really, really at clearance prices now to try to is the day to buy it,” Chatzky said. what you do and good deals now on coats, hats, gloves clean out the store and get ready for Simpsons was selling its holiday and scarfs,” Chatzky said Wednesday. spring and summer clothing that will decorations on Thursday for 60 per- love your work. She said department stores may be be coming in soon. cent off. offering sales of up to 50 percent off. HOLIDAY DECORATIONS VIDEO GAMES AND ELECTRONICS Amazing people.” Julie Ramhold with shopping web- site DealNews, agreed. Most people know that right after If you have any video gamers in the Locally, Amy Ohl of Simpson Hard- Christmas has always been consid- family, deals should also be ripe this PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ware & Sports, 40 W. Wesmark Blvd., ered the best time of year to stock up week, according to Chatzky and Ram- said the retailer has a large group of on wrapping paper and other holiday hold from DealNews. Shoppers can Wishing U.S. troops stationed winter wear at 25 to 40 percent off items. expect some video games to be up to this week. Certain camouflage items Chatzky of the Today Show said 75 percent off. around the country and the at Simpson — such as jackets, pull- shoppers can find decorations this “Even games that were published world a Merry Christmas on overs and overalls — are 40 percent week for 70 to 80 percent off. in October, November and December off this week. “If you want one of those big inflat- are going to be on sale,” Chatzky Tuesday. Ohl said Simpson runs many items able things to put on your lawn, today said.

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A healthy mind can help you have a healthy body he way we think about some- shows that the sys- The mind is so much more than ting plenty of sleep and avoiding thing can positively or nega- tems within the body just the brain. It is the emotions, smoke, alcohol and processed foods. tively affect how healthy our are interconnected thoughts, beliefs and attitudes that The thoughts you have eventually Tbody is. Also, how we treat and that no one sys- influence our actions and reactions show in your actions and can even our physical body, including what we tem works as a sin- that directly impact our physical present themselves in the physical eat and how much we exercise, can gle entity. well-being. Because all the systems body. Practice by shifting from nega- affect how we think. Research shows In medicine, it of the body share a common chemi- tive thoughts and emotions to more that there is a complex connection used to be that the cal language and are in constant positive ones. Be mindful of your between our mind and body, suggest- mind and body was communication, it is necessary that body as it moves, and pay attention ing that the journey to better health Missy treated as a whole. we use a holistic approach to im- to how your body feels when you eat should be a multi-system approach Corrigan During the 17th cen- prove our health. certain foods or are exposed to cer- which can be supported positively or tury, the mind and In order to be healthy, the body tain situations. Coping skills to man- negatively by lifestyle choices. body began to be treated separately, needs to be in a constant state of bal- age stress can also break through For example, when you are sick, it no longer considering the emotional ance. General healthy living practic- the barriers to better health, helping doesn’t just impact your immune impact that surgery or medications es are a good way to achieve this you work with your mind and body. system. It impacts your entire body had on one’s mental well-being. In with your mind and body. Every part and your mind, the way you think, the 20th century, the importance of of your body functions better togeth- Missy Corrigan is executive of com- act and feel. It influences your diges- the mind body connection re- er when you practice consistent munity health for Sumter Family tive system, endocrine and respirato- emerged with many therapies and healthy habits such as eating fruits YMCA. She can be reached at mcorri- ry system as well as your nervous practices like yoga, dance, tai chi and vegetables, exercising regularly, [email protected] or (803) 773- system and circulatory system. This and qigong. maintaining a healthy weight, get- 1404. 2019 New Year’s resolution: Give your eyes a rest from tech BY BUSINESS WIRE An emerging and serious itchy eyes (25 percent); With the new year on the screens at the proper angles side effect of extended use headache (21 percent), wa- horizon, now is a good time and distances. The top of CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — of digital devices can be dig- tery or dry eyes (20 percent); to resolve to make some your computer monitor It’s the time of year when ital eye strain. and blurred or double vision simple adjustments to re- should sit just below eye many Americans resolve to Signs can include head- (19 percent). duce eye strain: level at about an arm’s eat better, get more exercise aches, eye fatigue, burning, • Women reported a high- • Every 20 minutes, shift length away from your face. or save more money. But a stinging, redness, watering, er incidence rate of each of your eyes to look at an ob- • Ensure your prescription new resolution in this digi- blurred vision or even pain these side effects than men. ject at least 20 feet away for is up to date, especially if tal-crazed culture should be in the neck and shoulders • Twenty-seven percent of at least 20 seconds. This 20- you wear corrective lenses. to give your eyes a break after extended time on de- respondents expect their use 20-20 rule will help relax the If it’s been longer than a from too much screen time. vices. of digital devices to increase eyes by focusing on non-dig- year since your last eye A recent poll by employee While respondents to the or dramatically increase in ital objects in the distance, exam, consider making an benefits company Unum Unum poll are experiencing the coming five years. according to Dr. Chris Wro- appointment with your eye found that 40 percent of U.S. eye strain, they don’t antici- • Younger workers expect ten, an optometrist and doctor. adults are spending more pate their use of devices to to see the biggest increase partner at Bond-Wroten Eye • Make your vision health than 12 hours a day on vari- decrease much in the com- in their device use, with 31 Clinic. a priority. 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BY ERIC TUCKER The money mule cases are an off- accounts controlled by criminals. AND MICHAEL BALSAMO ‘When we approach them shoot of more generic frauds encoun- In one example, the FBI says, a Associated Press tered by the FBI, including schemes fraudster posing as an Army captain and talk to them and that dupe people into thinking they've stationed overseas recruited a man WASHINGTON — The email caught won the lottery and can claim their he met online to be a money mule, the executive at a small company by explain to them what prizes by wiring an advance payment, saying he was making arrangements surprise one morning in 2016. The or that trick the unsuspecting into to travel home and needed the man's company's owner, or so he thought, they’ve been doing, a lot of believing a relative has been arrested help receiving and sending some was requesting a money transfer to and needs urgent bail money or that funds. The FBI says $10,000 was wired pay for supplies from a new vendor. times, the horror is there. a supposed paramour they've met on- into the man's account. He was then It wasn't until that night when the line requires cash. In cases like the instructed to withdraw it in small in- executive, hours after the money had It’s all walks of life, all Connecticut one, fraudsters assume crements and send it to a woman in been transferred and still puzzled by identities of executives and scam em- Texas. the out-of-the-blue demand, texted the educational levels. Anyone ployees into wiring cash. The mules are sometimes witting owner to make sure he'd heard the re- That's what happened in 2016 at conspirators. Other times, they're el- quest correctly. Beacon Systems, a Texas company derly, lonely or just confused. The The befuddled reply was disheart- can fall victim to this.’ where a new employee received ones the FBI concludes are merely ening: "I just saw your message about emails from someone she thought unwitting are given stern warnings a wire transfer today. What is that STEVEN D’ANTUONO was the chief executive officer in- but generally avoid prosecution. about?" structing her to transfer nearly "When we approach them and talk It was all part of a fraud scam that An FBI section chief specializing in $100,000 for a vendor-related pay- to them and explain to them what targeted companies, schools and non- financial crimes ment. they've been doing, a lot of times, the profits in Connecticut and elsewhere Several weeks later, Kerry Wil- horror is there,” said Steven in the United States and that resulted liams, the CEO whose identity was D'Antuono, an FBI section chief spe- this month in a 45-month prison sen- money laundering schemes that impersonated, was on her way to the cializing in financial crimes. "It's all tence for one of the culprits. The case cause huge economic losses and show airport when the FBI contacted her walks of life, all educational levels. is part of a seemingly endless cycle of no signs of stopping. and explained how the company had Anyone can fall victim to this." money laundering schemes that law "They trial and error this stuff, and been victimized as part of a much In the Connecticut case, the execu- enforcement officials say they're they see what works and they see broader swindle. A dual Nigerian-U.S. tive recounted those horrors in a let- scrambling to slow through a combi- what doesn't," FBI supervisory spe- citizen was ultimately sentenced to ter to the judge before the sentencing nation of prosecution and public cial agent James Abbott said in an in- four years in prison in connection of one of the defendants earlier this awareness. terview. "It's a much higher success with the scheme. year. Beyond the run-of-the-mill plots, of- rate when you have a lot of money "It makes you kind of paranoid," The executive, whose name and ficials say, is a particularly concern- using somebody else's account going Williams said, describing how the ex- company are redacted in the letter, ing trend involving "money mules" — through there instead of trying to perience also made the SAP consult- described feeling initially apprehen- people who, unwittingly or not, use cross the border with a physical ing firm more vigilant. "Even to this sive about the money transfer in- their own bank accounts to move transportation of cash." day, we're overly cautious about ev- structions and advising the company money for criminals for purposes The FBI and international law en- erything. I think you kind of go to owner that it was a "lot of money for they think are legitimate or even forcement agencies have stepped up that extreme." supplies." noble. efforts against the fraud and say As for money mules, they're per- That night, he described the inter- The "mule" concept has attracted they're building bigger cases than be- suaded, sometimes with the incentive actions to his wife, who asked if he renewed attention with this month's fore. Europol said this month it had of keeping a cut of the funds, into al- was really certain the emails were le- release of Clint Eastwood's "The identified 1,504 money mules, arrest- lowing money transfers into their gitimate. He suddenly wasn't so sure, Mule," a real-life tale of an elderly ing 168, in a continent-wide bust. The own bank accounts at the direction of realizing for the first time he may horticulturist who smuggled cocaine FBI in June announced the arrests of a fraudster they may mistake for an have been duped. for a Mexican cartel. But the modern- 74 people, including 29 in Nigeria, for online friend or romantic partner, a "Because of crimes like these," he day mules of most concern to the FBI schemes targeting businesses and the military officer overseas or an em- wrote, "our society is losing much of are people who get themselves entan- elderly, and has launched a publicity ployer. They're then instructed to the trust and openness that we once gled in complicated, international campaign called "Don't Be a Mule." transfer those funds elsewhere, into experienced." A lot changes in 100 years, but God is always stable

ne hundred years ago, roads in a buggy would result in a The first Russian flew in space Will they think the idea of a cell- Jan. 2, 1919, my Dad was fast delivery. April 12, 1961. Daddy would die 15 phone is quaint since everyone is In his short 42 years, my father days later, before the first American now implanted at birth with techno- born. saw electricity come to the ranch, as would ever go into space. He missed logical uplinks? Will they be amazed O well as the first indoor bathroom. A the Beatles, color TV, Vietnam, the that we had relative peace for 60 Think about it. Woodrow Wilson telephone line was put in about that mini-skirt, the moon landing, Disney years, until a massive three-way war was still president. The War to End same time, a party line where your World, Watergate, Reaganomics, between China, Russia and India All Wars was over. Though automo- neighbors could eavesdrop on your Gulf Wars I and II, “I did not have broke out and engulfed every other biles were becoming wide- conversations. sex with that woman,” home com- nation? spread, his parents still The family switched from puters, 9-11, smartphones, Google I think about my dad being drove a horse and buggy to horses and buggies to Model T and Netflix. The heart attack that dropped into 2019 and coming to see church. There was a muddy Fords and then to Model A killed him would probably be averted me preach. What would he think wagon trail that went to Fords. They stopped driving now by a catheterization and a few about the contemporary music, the Wauchula one way and to cattle to Punta Gorda or Fort stents. lights, me not wearing a tie on Sun- Avon Park the other. Myers to ship and instead A hundred years is not that long day? My father’s father was a began to haul cattle in trucks really, not in the long span of time. Then I think about my grandchil- rancher, a farmer, a citrus to the local market. The fence How could so much happen so fast? dren and wonder if they will go to grower and a preacher. He Clay law was passed, and everyone Then I think about my own life. I church at all? Will all church turn either drove his buggy to Smith had to fence their cattle in. The came along just as the space age into an online experience? Or will his country churches or Wauchula to Avon Park road began and TV shifted from black and Christian faith dwindle to just a few took the train from Avon was moved north and paved. It white to color. On the 100th anniver- folks who stay faithful to Jesus? Park. There was no electricity in his no longer took a couple of hours to sary of my birth, will my grandchil- Solomon, the wisest man who ever house (and wouldn’t be until my Dad get to town; now they could reach dren (hope I have some by then) be lived, said, “Remember your creator was an adult). There was no tractor. town in about 15 minutes. amazed that we had to drive our own in the days of your youth, before the There were no fences, only open My father saw another World War, cars? Will they be shocked that we evil days come…” This is not just a range. You round up cattle and sort- and then a police action in Korea. did not have in-home robots to clean, verse for people under 30. It tells us ed them out in the pens, or you roped The Atomic Age began when he was cook and do laundry? Will they be to live each day mindful of God. a calf and branded it in the pasture. 26. Television made it to the ranch in surprised that one great-grandfather Change is constant. God is stable. No It took a lot of saddle time to be a the 1950s. died of cancer, since they have been matter what the future holds, there cattleman in those days. In his 42 years, my father would be an vaccinated at birth to prevent it? is a God who holds us. When you Somehow, I never discovered if my All-State Football Player, All-Around Will my grandchildren even under- know you are in his hand, you are father was born at home or if he was State Rodeo Champion, producer and stand what it means to “go to the ready for whatever comes. born in town. I imagine he was born announcer of rodeos, a Sunday School store” since a drone from Amazon Clay Smith is the lead pastor of Alice at home. Ten miles of bumpy dirt teacher and a friend to many. Target Mart makes daily deliveries? Drive Baptist Church in Sumter.

gram will also feature infor- supper at 8 p.m. Julie, Karen * Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019 — The CHURCH NEWS mation from Operation Get and Friends will provide Lord’s Supper will be ob- Smart, which is a crime pre- music beginning at 9 p.m. served at 10:30 a.m. Allen Chapel AME Church, 471 * Monday, Dec. 31 — Watch vention public awareness * Friday-Sunday, Jan. 25-27, program sponsored by the Lynam Road, announces: night services at 10:30 p.m. Pine Grove AME Church, 41 Pine 2019 — Men’s conference in South Carolina Department of Black Mountain, North Caroli- * Sunday — Missionary fifth Corrections. Grove Road, Rembert, an- Sunday worship at 10 a.m. nounces: na. Deadline to sign up is Jan. Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets 20. Call Tommy Evans at (803) * Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 — at Bethesda Church of God, * Monday, Dec. 31 — Watch 983-2088. Women’s Missionary Society 2730 Broad St., announces: Mount Sinai AME Church, 5895 Night service at 8 p.m. featur- family and friends day at 10 Mt. Sinai Church Road, Lynch- ing singing, praise and testi- * Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019 — burg, announces: a.m. Knitting Hearts will meet monies. Refreshments will be Refreshing Springs Kingdom Out- from 10 a.m. to noon. Author * Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019 — Gos- served. reach Ministries, meets at Col- and pastor Dr. Peter Wyns, pel fest at 3 p.m. featuring ony Square, 741 Bultman Community Church of Praise, the Singing Cousins and the Drive, Suite 21, announces: 562 S. Pike Road, announces: founder and director of Chris- Pinewood Baptist Church, 10 E. tian’s for Messiah Ministries, Mt. Sinai male choir. * Saturday — Prayer break- * Monday, Dec. 31 — Watch Fulton St., Pinewood, an- will speak. This will be a * Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 — Dr. nounces: fast at 10 .m. with Minister Night service at 10 p.m. Apos- morning of worship and spe- Martin Luther King Jr. Day Irene Jamison. tle Dorothy Maple will speak. * Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019 — Chris- cial music. Admission is free. celebration during 10 a.m. * Sunday — Worship and the A love offering will be re- worship. tian singer/songwriter Kira Shcherbakova will be in con- word at 5 p.m. with Elder Wil- Faith Missionary Baptist Church ceived. Knitting Hearts is a * Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019 — Lay lie Richardson. community-wide, multicultur- cert at 6:30 p.m. Born in Kiev, No. 1, 115 Laurel St., announc- organization’s annual pro- Ukraine, Kira moved to the * Monday, Dec. 31 — New es: al women’s ministry. Visit gram during 10 a.m. worship. knittingheartsministry.word- United States with her family Year’s Eve service and holy * Sunday — Sumter Baptist press.com. when she was 10. A love of- communion at 10:30 p.m. M&E fifth Sunday service will Mount Zion Missionary Baptist fering will be received. Re- be held at 1260 Green Hill freshments and a chance to Church, 325 Fulton St., an- St. James United Methodist Church Road, Alcolu. Love Covenant Church, 245 Os- nounces: meet the family will follow wego Road, announces: the concert. Church, 720 Broad St., an- * Monday, Dec. 31 — Joint nounces: * Monday, Dec. 31 — Praise * Nursery provided for all Grace Full Gospel Church, 1540 Watch Night service with * Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 — The Bradham Blvd., announces: and worship at 10 p.m. Apos- Salem Missionary Baptist events. Call (803) 452-5373 or tle Tommy Frederick will visit www.pinewoodbaptist. 10th anniversary of the male * Monday, Dec. 31 — Watch Church at 10 p.m. Pastor Car- speak. org. chorus will be celebrated at 4 Night service at 9 p.m. The trell W. Woods, of Salem MBC, p.m. Rev. Caleb Howell will speak. will speak. Forever Redeemed will pro- Mount Pisgah AME Church, 217 Providence Baptist Church, 2445 vide music. W. Bartlette St., announces: Old Manning Road, announc- Triumph Ministries, 3632 Broad New Testament Lighthouse St. Ext., announces: * Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 — Com- Church, 1114 Boulevard Road, es: * Monday, Dec. 31 — Vision High Hills Missionary Baptist munity-wide youth program announces: * Sunday — Only morning ser- at 6 p.m. The Rev. Abraham vices will be held. There will for Next at 9 p.m. The Cross- Church, 6750 Meeting House * Monday, Dec. 31 — Watch over at 10:30 p.m. Road, Dalzell, announces: Temoney will speak. The pro- Night service will begin with be no evening services. THE SUMTER ITEM LOCAL FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018 | A5

had been stolen, and the drug, while Stephen Wayne Stinnette, 31, of Pine- Avins is Stinnette’s mother, Dennis TOP 10 FROM PAGE A1 packaged like the previously sold hero- wood Road in Sumter, has been charged confirmed. in, was found to be cocaine during a lab- with murder and was arrested on Fri- All four are being held in Sumter-Lee Brandon Leroid Cummings, 27, is oratory analysis. day, May 4, in Richland County, Sumter Regional Detention Center without guilty of possession with intent to dis- Cummings faces enhanced penalty on County Sheriff Anthony Dennis said at bond until they appear in the next gen- tribute, distribution of heroin and crack the drug charge in light of prior state a news conference at the department’s eral court session, which is scheduled in cocaine and conspiracy to use/carry/ convictions for possession with intent to headquarters on Monday afternoon. Sumter for June 8. possess a firearm during a drug traf- distribute marijuana, two counts of pos- Dennis called the incident “one of the A fifth suspect, Anthony Dustin Dill, ficking crime, and Brandon Christopher session of crack cocaine and second of- most profoundly senseless killings since 32, of Bell Road in Mayesville, is on the Craft, 30, is guilty of being a felon in fense of possession of a schedule I/ I’ve been the sheriff in Sumter.” run and also faces accessory after the possession of a firearm and conspiracy schedule II controlled substance. Jerry Lamars Johnson, 31, of Pioneer fact charges, Dennis said. to use/carry/possess a firearm during a Each man faces a maximum of 20 Drive in Sumter, was reported missing Dill is thought to be armed and dan- drug trafficking crime, according to years of imprisonment, a fine of April 24. A fisherman in Orangeburg gerous. He is described as 5 feet 10 inch- United States Attorney Beth Drake. $250,000 and a term of supervised re- County found a body in the water at es and 140 pounds with brown hair and Chief U.S. District Judge Terry L. lease of not more than three years on Lake Marion on April 25. Two days blue eyes. Wooten, of Columbia, accepted the the conspiracy to use/carry/possess a later, Dennis said, the body was identi- A motive for the supposed shooting, guilty pleas and will impose the men’s firearm during a drug trafficking crime fied as that of Johnson, and the death which is thought to have occurred in a sentences after he has reviewed the pre- charge. was ruled a homicide by Sumter County wooded area in Sumter County, has not sentence reports, which will be pre- Cummings also faces a maximum of Coroner Robbie Baker. yet surfaced, Dennis said. Stinnette and pared by the U.S. Probation Office. 30 years, a fine of $2 million and a term Johnson’s body was found with multi- Johnson did know each other. Cummings was charged after he dis- of supervised release of at least six ple gunshots, Dennis said. Scurry, Stinnette and Dill have previ- tributed crack cocaine and “four bag- years for the drug charge. “What was especially horrific was the ous criminal charges, Dennis said. gies of heroin to a confidential infor- Craft faces a maximum of 10 years, a fact that his body was buried twice and No one involved in the incident is in a mant and undercover officer in ex- fine of $250,000 and not more than three moved in Sumter County before being known gang, he said, and there is no in- change for $400” on May 17, 2017, ac- years of supervised release for the felon found in Lake Marion in Orangeburg dication it was a hate crime. cording to evidence presented in court in possession charge. County,” Dennis said. “To get to that lo- Additional charges or arrests are not during the guilty plea hearing. cation, the killers would have had to being ruled out. The transaction, which occurred in 8. BODY FOUND IN LAKE transport his body through three coun- Third Judicial Circuit Solicitor Ernest Sumter, was recorded on audio and MARION WAS BURIED TWICE ties.” “Chip” Finney III said charges his office video. BEFORE IN SUMTER, OFFICIALS Dennis said the investigation, which will pursue will depend on the final in- On May 25, 2017, Cummings made ar- SAY remains ongoing, indicates there were vestigation. rangements to sell a firearm and heroin others present when Johnson was shot He thanked all the involved sheriff’s to the confidential informant in ex- Tuesday, May 8 and that the body was moved from its offices, which included those from Sum- change for $800. first and second graves because one or ter, Clarendon, Orangeburg and Rich- When Cummings arrived to meet the BY KAYLA ROBINS more of the suspects thought someone land counties, for their work on the person and an undercover officer, he [email protected] revealed the location. case. was accompanied by Craft, U.S. Attor- Three others — Kimberly McFaddin “Most of the people don’t understand ney’s documents show. Cummings sold Four people have been charged and McLeod, 36, of Bay Blossom Avenue in the amount of hours that goes into a the informant what he said was heroin. one remains at large in connection with Sumter, Andrew Thomas Scurry, 36, of case like this to make this family feel a Craft produced a Taurus .38-caliber re- the shooting death and multiple burials U.S. 15 South in Sumter and Lisa Avins, little better about the loss of their loved volver from a bag hidden in his waist- of a 31-year-old Sumter man whose 57, of Pinewood Road in Sumter — have one,” Finney said. band and gave it to the informant. body was found in Lake Marion in been charged with accessory after the AnChurch investigation revealed the firearm April. Directoryfact. SEE TOP 10, PAGE A6

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put and discus for the track Looking at the other grieving allegedly shot by Jackson dur- and weapons charges for a 2016 TOP 10 FROM PAGE A5 team. family through tearful eyes, ing a brief struggle with one of carjacking case in Richland “Our thoughts, prayers and Jackson’s mother stopped in the other suspects, according to County — and said he was on 7. 17-YEAR-OLD deepest sympathies are with front of the judges’ bench. Tonyia McGirt, public informa- probation when Goodman was CRESTWOOD HIGH Joshua’s family,” she said. “I don’t know what hap- tion officer for Sumter Police shot. FOOTBALL, BASEBALL “The loss of a student, team- pened,” she said. “I’m so Department. If convicted of all four charg- PLAYER FATALLY SHOT mate, classmate and friend has sorry.” Goodman was found in the es, Jackson faces up to 60 years a significant impact on both Goodman’s mother cried as parking lot of an apartment in prison — a mandatory 30- NEAR DOWNTOWN our students and staff. Joshua she leaned on the shoulder of complex on Peach Street about year sentence for murder; a Tuesday, April 17 was an important part of the Goodman’s father. 1:45 p.m. on Sunday and was maximum of 20 years for at- Crestwood High School family, The tears continued as Jack- later pronounced dead at Pal- tempted armed robbery; five BY KAYLA ROBINS and he will be greatly missed.” son’s mother left the courtroom metto Health Tuomey. years for possession of a weap- [email protected] 6. ‘I’M SORRY TO THE with her husband by her side. Jackson, who turned himself on during a violent crime; and She could be heard making an in to authorities without inci- five years for criminal conspir- A 17-year-old high school stu- FAMILY’: PARENTS OF emotion-filled plea for forgive- dent on Wednesday evening, is acy — if he is not sentenced to dent-athlete in Sumter County SLAIN STUDENT, ness even in the lobby. charged with murder, attempt- life for murder. was fatally shot Sunday after- SUSPECT DEVASTATED Both families found them- ed armed robbery, possession He is scheduled to go before a noon outside an apartment AT HEARING selves in the courtroom at of a weapon during a violent circuit judge for a bond hearing complex on Peach Street. Sumter-Lee Regional Detention crime and criminal conspiracy. in general sessions court at 8:30 Joshua Goodman, of Schellin Friday, April 20 Center after Goodman, a Crest- “Because of the nature of a.m. on June 8 at Sumter Coun- Drive, Dalzell, was found with a wood High School student, was these crimes, bond is denied on ty Judicial Center. gunshot wound about 1:45 p.m. BY ADRIENNE SARVIS killed during a planned meet- all counts,” Magistrate Judge Though Jackson did not April 15 by the complex off [email protected] ing to purchase marijuana Larry Blanding said after a show much emotion during the Broad Street near downtown from Jackson and four other Sumter police investigator de- hearing, he tried to verbally ex- Sumter, according to Sumter Though only one person died individuals. However, Jackson scribed the shooting incident. press remorse to Goodman’s County Coroner Robbie Baker. during a shooting on Sunday, and his co-defendants reported- The investigator also men- family after the proceedings. Next of kin have been notified, the lives of six young people ly plotted to rob Goodman. tioned Jackson’s criminal his- “I just want to say I’m sorry and an autopsy will be sched- will likely be cut short, leaving The high school junior was tory — which includes a guilty to the family,” he said before he uled in Newberry. multiple families grieving. plea to strong armed robbery was cut off by Blanding. Goodman, who was found in The first appearance hearing the parking lot, was transport- for Jaelon Jackson, 21, who is ed to Palmetto Health Tuomey accused of fatally shooting where he later died, according 17-year-old Joshua Goodman to a news release from Sumter during an attempted armed Police Department. robbery on Sunday, ended with Goodman was a junior at the families of both the victim EVERY DAY Crestwood High School, ac- and defendant shedding tears FACTORY OUTLET cording to Shelly Galloway, Thursday. spokeswoman for Sumter “I’m so sorry,” Jackson’s • Bed Linens • Comforters • Bath Towels, Washcloths • Rug Sets School District. He played de- mother said to Goodman’s • Bathroom Accessories, Shower Curtains • Linens • Kitchen Towels, fensive end on the varsity foot- mother, father and aunt, her ball team, outfield and catcher voice cracking, as she left the Dishcloths • Kitchen Rugs • Curtains • Valances • Area & Throw Rugs for the baseball team and shot courtroom. Comfort Sets Wash Cloths Queen Only 6 pk. $3.00 $30.00 8 pk. $4.00 12 pk. $6.00 Michael & Calistro Wishing you a Quilted Bed Spreads Assorted Styles Merry Christmas Queen $30.00 ea. Mattress Pads Twin $10.00 & Happy New Year Bath ‘N Box Full $12.00 Assorted Styles Queen $15.00 $15.00 per box King $18.00

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MANNING — The gauntlet has been tossed. Now, who will accept the chal- lenge? Desk Sgt. Linda Martin-Smith received a Hometown Heroes and The Inv. Holmes 2018 Outstanding Service Award. N. Smith Jr. Foundation Inc. have issued a challenge to all law enforcement agencies PHOTOS PROVIDED and fire departments in Clarendon County Clarendon County Sheriff Tim Kimberly Hill, the victim’s advocate to determine which badge will win the Baxley, right, named Deputy Joseph for CCSO, received a 2018 Outstand- “2018 Battle of the Badges Blood Drive.” Brancato as the 2018 Deputy of the ing Service Award. Manning United Methodist Church, 17 E. Year on Dec. 20. Rigby St., will be the site of the challenge. Today from 1 to 6 p.m., deputies, policemen and firefighters have been asked to step up and give the gift of life by donating blood 5 honored for outstanding to the American Red Cross. Friends and family members are also being encouraged to make a donation of contributions by Clarendon blood in honor of the badge of their choice. Not only will donors help choose the winner of the challenge, but they will also County Sheriff’s Office be helping individuals in need of lifesaving Deputy First Class Annett Smith received blood. BY SHARRON HALEY beyond the call of duty.” the 2018 Distinguished Achievement “We’re all about helping our communi- Special to The Sumter Item “I couldn’t ask for a better Award. ties,” said Tonia Mallett-Smith, executive staff,” Baxley added. “They do director of The Holmes N. Smith Jr. Foun- an outstanding job for the resi- dation Inc. “This is one way we can all step MANNING — Five members dents of Clarendon County.” forward.” of the Clarendon County Sher- • Deputy Joseph Brancato According to the American Red Cross: iff’s Office were honored on was recognized as the CCSO • Every two seconds someone in the Dec. 20 for their outstanding 2018 Deputy of the Year. United States is in need of blood;. contributions to CCSO and to • Desk Sgt. Linda Martin- • One donation has the potential of sav- their communities. Smith was awarded a CCSO ing up to three lives; More than 70 employees of 2018 Outstanding Service • Approximately 36,000 units of red blood Clarendon County Sheriff’s Of- Award. cells are needed every day; fice attended the office’s annual • Victim’s Advocate Kimberly • Nearly 7,000 units of platelets and Christmas party on Dec. 20 Hill received a CCSO 2018 Out- 10,000 units of plasma are needed daily; where the awards were present- standing Service Award. • One single-car accident victim can re- ed by Clarendon County Sheriff • Deputy First Class Annett quire as much as 100 pints of blood; Tim Baxley. Smith received the CCSO 2018 • Red blood cells must be used within 42 “We’ve had a great year at the Distinguished Achievement days or less, while platelets must be used Clarendon County Sheriff’s Of- Award. within five days; and fice,” Baxley said. “Everybody • Constable Lawrence Ham- Clarendon County Constable Lawrence • Blood transfusions are vital for patients deserved an award but these in- mett received the CCSO 2018 Hammett was awarded the 2018 Apprecia- with sickle cell disease as well as some dividuals stood out above and Appreciation Award. tion Award. forms of cancer.

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Adult Ed classes begin Jan. 10 formation, call Clarendon County Cham- Briefs MANNING — The Clarendon County ber of Commerce at (803) 435-4405. Library announces holiday hours Adult Education program will resume its spring semester for returning students on Lions Club breakfast is Feb. 2 MANNING — Harvin Clarendon Coun- Jan. 10. Registration for new students will ty Library will be closed for the New be held at 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. for new stu- MANNING — The Manning Lions Year’s Day holiday on Jan. 1 and reopen dents. Registration includes placement Club will hold its Pancake Breakfast CLARENDON on Jan. 2. If you would like additional in- testing and day one of our orientation from 7 to 10 a.m. on Feb. 2 at Manning formation, call (803) 435-8633. process. Please be prepared to stay for at Restaurant. For more information, call HALL least two hours. For more information, (803) 472-0054. Library hosts January storytime call F.E. DuBose Center/Clarendon Coun- ty Technical College at (803) 473-2531. E-Waste recycling is on Feb. 9 MANNING — Harvin Clarendon Coun- ty Library offers preschool storytime for Bass tournament will be Jan. 26 MANNING — The next Electronic E- children under 5 years old at 10:30 a.m. Waste Recycling event and “Shred-with- (803) 485-3550 each Wednesday beginning in January. SUMMERTON — The American Bass Us” will be held 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 9 Follow us on For more information, call the library at Anglers Tournament will be held on Jan. in Clarendon County Administration (803) 435-8633. 26 at John C. Land Landing. For more in- Building’s parking lot. Call (803) 433-4004. CLARENDONHALL.ORG We pay top dollar for this holiday.

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CLASSIFIEDS 56&4DAY 11AM LEGAL Notice of Sale Notice of Sale Notice of Sale Notice of Sale Notice of Sale County of Clarendon, State of South plat and measuring thereon 149.48 the North by lands now or formerly Carolina, containing .75 acre, NOTICES feet; on the Southeast by Lot Inabinet and measuring thereon 98 John J. Hearn VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS according to a plat thereof made by Number 48 on said plat and feet; on the East by lands now or Attorney for Plaintiff AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF David A. Nesbitt, RLS, dated July 16, measuring 99.7 feet; on the formerly of Fannie A. Walker and P.O. Box 100200 RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR 1999, recorded in the Office of the Summons & Southwest by the right or way of measuring thereon 135 feet; on the Columbia, SC 29202-3200 ENCUMBRANCES. Clerk of Court for Clarendon County Notice Major Drive and measuring thereon South by the right of way of (803) 744-4444 in Deed Book A-384 at Page 81. 87.7 feet; on the West by the right of Elizabeth Street of the Town of 013263-10659 TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in Reference to said plat shall be had way of Major Drive and measuring Summerton and measuring thereon Website: www.rtt-law.com certified funds is required. The Summons and Notice Publication pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the thereon 62.3 feet on a curve; on the 98 feet, more or less; on the West by (see link to Resources/Foreclosure deposit will be applied towards the Family Court of Sumter, Code of Laws of South Carolina, Northwest by the right of way of lands of the Estate of Fisher and Sales) purchase price unless the bidder South Carolina 1976, as amended. Also includes a Major Drive and measuring thereon measuring thereon 135 feet, more or defaults, in which case the deposit Third Judicial Circuit mobile/manufactured home, a 2000 43.2 feet. less. NOTICE OF SALE will be forfeited. If the successful FLEE Mobile Home VIN# Derivation: Book 966; Page 14. BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore bidder fails, or refuses, to make the STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, For a more particular description of GAFLX54AB84759HS12 This being granted in the case of: Nationstar required deposit, or comply with his SUMTER, COUNTY said lot, reference may be had to a the same property conveyed unto 5 Walker St, Mortgage LLC d/b/a Champion bid within 20 days, then the property plat made by R. G. Mathis Land Dwayne Player by deed of Jane G. Mortgage Company vs. Anne E. will be resold at his risk. No Case# 2018-DR-43-00610 Summerton, SC 29148 Surveying, dated 12 October 1998, Floyd dated August 20, 1999 and Moore aka Anne Elizabeth Moore, personal or deficiency judgment SCDSS 078-14-01-035-00 recorded in the Office of the Clerk of recorded August 25, 1999 in Deed individually; Anne E. Moore aka being demanded, the bidding will (Plaintiff) Court for Clarendon County in Plat Book A-384 at Page 80 in the Office of Anne Elizabeth Moore, as Personal not remain open after the date of VS. SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, Book S-49 at Page 379. the Clerk of Court for Clarendon Representative of the Estate of sale, but compliance with the bid Katelynn E. Barrett CLARENDON COUNTY AD County. Thereafter, Dwayne Player Robert Lee Moore aka Robert L. may be made immediately. The Patrick Herb VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS Said premises having been conveyed conveyed the subject property unto Moore; The United States of America successful bidder will be required to (Defendants) AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF to Douglas R. Vincent and Catherine Dwayne Player and Rhonda M. acting by and through its agency the pay interest on the amount of the bid IN THE INTEREST OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR A. Vincent by deed of Bonham K. Player by deed dated October 21, Secretary of Housing and Urban from date of sale to date of Minor Child Born on October 16, ENCUMBRANCES. Gardner, dated 15 October 1998, 1999 and recorded October 22, 1999 Development; , C/A No. compliance with the bid at the rate 2016 recorded in the Office of the Clerk of in Deed Book A-389 at Page 4 in the 2014CP1400471, The following of 1.61% per annum. For complete TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in Court for Clarendon County in Deed aforementioned Clerk of Court's property will be sold on January 7, terms of sale, see Judgment of TO DEFENDANTS: certified funds is required. The Book A-358 at Page 297. Office. TMS No. 278-00-02-033-01 2019, at 11:00 AM at the Clarendon Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Katelynn E. Barrett deposit will be applied towards the Property Address: 1674 River Bend County Courthouse to the highest Clarendon County Clerk of Court at Patrick Herb purchase price unless the bidder Said lot being designated as Lane, Turbeville, SC 29162 TERMS bidder C/A #2014CP1400471. Clarendon County Tax map Parcel OF SALE: The successful bidder, defaults, in which case the deposit YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED will be forfeited. If the successful Number 170-13-05-005-00. other than the plaintiff, will deposit All that piece, parcel or lot of land NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is And required to answer the bidder fails, or refuses, to make the with the Special Referee at lying, being and situate in School not a warranty deed. Interested complaint In the above referenced required deposit, or comply with his TMS #: 170-13-05-005-00 conclusion of the bidding, five per District No. 1, County of Clarendon, bidders should satisfy themselves as concerning the minor child above bid within 20 days, then the property cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or State of South Carolina designated to the quality of title to be conveyed and that you have failed to contact will be resold at his risk. No SUBJECT TO CLARENDON equivalent, as evidence of good faith, as Lot No. 6 as shown on a by obtaining an independent title the agency in regards to your personal or deficiency judgment COUNTY TAXES same to be applied to purchase price subdivision plat of Gin Pond Shores search prior to the foreclosure sale whereabouts in this action, the being demanded, the bidding will in case of compliance, but to be Subdivision made by Floyd, date. original of which has been filed in TERMS OF SALE: The successful forfeited and applied first to costs not remain open after the date of Coleman, Askins and Kellahan, the Office of the Clerk of Court for sale, but compliance with the bid bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will and then to plaintiff's debt in the Surveyors, dated June 26, 1978 and Joseph King Coffey James C. Campbell, Sumter County, may be made immediately. The deposit with the Master In Equity at case of noncompliance. Should the recorded in Plat Book 14, at page 386 Master in Equity for on May 18, 2018 a copy of which will successful bidder will be required to conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) successful bidder fail or refuse to of the records of Clarendon County Clarendon County be delivered to you upon request; of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as make the required deposit at time of pay interest on the amount of the bid and having the following bounds and and to serve a copy of your answer to from date of sale to date of evidence of good faith, the same to bid or comply with the other terms of measurements according to said John J. Hearn the complaint upon the undersigned compliance with the bid at the rate be applied to purchase price in case the bid within thirty (30) days, then plat: On the North by Lot No. 7 and Attorney for Plaintiff attorney for the Plaintiff at Steven B. of 3.5% per annum. For complete of compliance, but to be forfeited the Special Referee may resell the measuring thereon 249.98 feet; on P.O. Box 100200 Suchomski, 105 N. Magnolia Street, terms of sale, see Judgment of and applied first to costs and then to property on the same terms and the East by lands of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29202-3200 Sumter, SC 29150 within thirty (30) Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Plaintiff's debt in the case of conditions (at the risk of the said Public Service Authority and (803) 744-4444 days following the date of service Clarendon County Clerk of Court at noncompliance. Should the last and defaulting bidder). Should the measuring thereon 100 feet; on the 021007-00089 upon you, exclusive of the day of C/A #2018CP1400140. highest bidder fail or refuse to make Plaintiff, or one of its South by Lot No. 5 and measuring Website: www.rtt-law.com such service; and if you fail to the required deposit at the time of representatives, fail to be present at thereon 249.96 feet and on the West (see link to Resources/Foreclosure answer the Complaint within the NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is the bid or comply with the other the time of sale, the property is by McCoy Drive and measuring Sales) statutory time allotted, the Plaintiff terms or the bid within twenty (20) automatically withdrawn from said not a warranty deed. Interested thereon 100 feet. in this action will apply to the Court days, then the Master In Equity may sale and sold at the next available bidders should satisfy themselves as for the relief demanded in said resell the property on the same sales day upon the terms and to the quality of title to be conveyed For a more particular description of Complaint. A hearing has been terms and conditions on some conditions as set forth in the by obtaining an independent title said lot reference is hereby made to scheduled for January 10, 2019 at subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or search prior to the foreclosure sale a plat referred to above. 2:00 p.m. the former highest bidder). any Supplemental Order. The date. successful bidder will be required to Derivation: Book A618 at Page 119 S. C. DEPARTMENT OF Should the Plaintiff, or one of its pay for documentary stamps on the Ricci Land Welch 1401 McCoy Dr, SOCIAL SERVICES representatives, fail to be present at Deed and interest on the balance of Special Referee Summerton, SC 29148 Steven B. Suchomski, Esquire for Clarendon County the time of sale, the property is the bid from the date of sale to the This includes a 1996, Horton mobile P.O. Box 68 automatically withdrawn from said date of compliance with the bid at home with VIN# H116116GL&R. Sumter, SC 29151 sale and sold at the next available the rate of 7.5000%. THIS SALE IS (803) 773-5531 Ext 214 sales day upon the terms and SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, 103-14-05-005 conditions as set forth in the COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, Notice of Sale RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND any Supplemental Order. CLARENDON COUNTY AD OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. NOTICE OF SALE No personal or deficiency judgment No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of not remain open after the date of IN THE COURT OF sale, but compliance with the bid place my COMMON PLEAS sale, but compliance with the bid PETS may be made immediately. may be made immediately. NOTICE: CASE NO. The foreclosure deed is not a 2018-CP-14-00221 NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is warranty deed. Interested bidders Puppies not a warranty deed. Interested should satisfy themselves as to the STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA bidders should satisfy themselves as quality of title to be conveyed by AD COUNTY OF CLARENDON to the quality of title to be conveyed obtaining an independent title by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure for sale... New Penn Financial, LLC d/b/a search well before the foreclosure sale date. W. T. Geddings, Jr. Special Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing sale date. Referee Clarendon County Riley Plaintiff, Pope & Laney, LLC Post Office Box -vs- The successful bidder will be 11412 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) Douglas R. Vincent, Catherine A. required to pay interest on the 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff Vincent and Wells Fargo Bank, amount of the bid from the date of National Association fka First Union sale to date of compliance with the NOTICE OF SALE National Bank, a National Banking bid at the rate of 7.00% per annum. Association, BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Defendant(s) Joseph K. Coffey granted in the case of: Wells Fargo Master In Equity Bank, NA vs. Sheril D. Adams; , C/A BY VIRTUE of a judgment for Clarendon County No. 2018CP1400140, The following heretofore granted in the case of property will be sold on January 7, New Penn Financial, LLC d/b/a Theodore von Keller, Esquire 2019, at 11:00 AM at the Clarendon Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing vs. B. Lindsay Crawford, III, Esquire County Courthouse to the highest Douglas R. Vincent, Catherine A. Sara Hutchins bidder Vincent and Wells Fargo Bank, Columbia, South Carolina National Association fka First Union Attorney for Plaintiff All that certain piece, parcel or lot of National Bank, a National Banking Email: [email protected] land, together with any Association, I, Joseph K. Coffey improvements thereon, lying, being Master In Equity for Clarendon NOTICE OF SALE 2018-CP-14-00354 and situate on the North side of County, will sell on January 7, 2019, BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Elizabeth Street in the Town of at 11:00 am, at the Clarendon County granted in the case of: Vanderbilt Summerton, County of Clarendon, ORDER YOUR CLASSIFIED AD ONLINE 24/7. Courthouse, 3 West Keitt St, Mortgage and Finance, Inc. against State of South Carolina. Said Manning, SC 29102, to the highest Dwayne Player, Rhonda M. Player premises bounding and measuring in WWW.THEITEM.COM bidder: a/k/a Rhonda E. Player, and LVNV approximate distanced as follows: on Funding, LLC, I, the undersigned All that certain piece, parcel or lot of Special Referee for Clarendon land, lying, being and situate in the County, will sell on January 7, 2019, County of Clarendon, State of South at 11:00 a.m. at the Clarendon County Carolina, being designated as Lot Courthouse in Manning, South Number 43, Green Acres Carolina, to the highest bidder, the Subdivision, on the plat hereinafter following described property, to-wit: referred to, and bounding and All that certain piece, parcel or lot of measuring as follows: On the land, lying, being and situate in Northeast by Lot Number 42 on said School District Number 3 of the

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COMMENTARY Fertility rate in U.S. is headed to all-time low n 1957, 4.3 million ba- debt service costs due to bies were born in the student loans.” Number United States. In 2017, two is “decreasing young I60 years later, the num- adult homeownership” due ber was 3,853,472. That’s an to higher prices and — here 11 percent decline, in a na- it is again — “student tion whose population has loans.” Number three is nearly doubled over those “increasing years spent ac- six decades. And though tively enrolled in educa- there are a few days left in tional institutions, which 2018, the number for this tends to reduce birth rates year is sure to be lower. dramatically.” That’s the dominant find- Government efforts to en- ing from the thorough — courage higher education and alarming — report have backfired for many in- “Declining Fertility in tended beneficiaries. Non- America” by Lyman Stone graduates still have debt. of the American Enterprise Graduates with politically Institute and the Institute correct degrees can’t find for Family Studies. jobs. College costs have COMMENTARY In recent years, demo- been inflated by adminis- graphic journalists have fo- trative bloat and country cused on slivers of the pop- club campuses. “(T)he en- I was arrested for having nunchucks in ulation — the increasing tire educational complex is percentages of Hispanics presently structured in and Asians, the decline in such a way as to discourage births to teenage family formation N.Y. I’m glad the law was overturned. mothers, low birth for young adults,” rates in high-cost Stone says. ASHINGTON — myself on the head, I would be dropped and my coastal metropoli- The result is “de- I was arrested wouldn’t knock myself out. arrest record expunged. tan areas. Stone layed marriage.” for having nun- One day I was riding on Until then, I was a “juvenile looks at the larger This “changed mar- Wchucks in New the subway going to a offender.” I passed the time picture, that of ital composition ex- York. I’m glad the law was friend’s house, quietly hold- without incident and never total population, plains the vast ma- overturned. ing my nunchucks, when a picked up a pair of nun- and finds that “the jority of changes in When news broke last police officer approached chucks again. specter of low fer- Michael American fertility week that a federal judge me. “Do you know those are I have often wondered tility, and ultimate- Barone over the past 10 or had ruled a New York law illegal?” he asked. No, I told what would have happened ly of declining pop- 20 years,” Stone banning possession of nun- him, I didn’t. It hadn’t even to a kid whose mother could ulation, has come to Ameri- writes. And though he chucks unconstitutional, I occurred to me that pos- not afford a decent lawyer. ca.” doesn’t mention it, the in- felt vindicated. You see, as a sessing a pair of the foam- It was absurd that a teenag- That’s a different picture creasing number of non- teenager growing up in New covered nunchucks could be er could have had his life from that of a decade ago. college whites who never York City in the 1980s, I was against the law. But it ruined, and be stuck with a Then American birthrates marry surely explains arrested and thrown in jail turned out that New York criminal record, simply be- hovered around, and some- some of the rest. for illegal possession of state in 1974 had enacted a cause he wanted to be like times just over, replace- What are policymakers nunchucks. complete ban on the posses- Bruce Lee. ment level. That was a doing to respond to this Really. sion of nunchucks by pri- I always knew my arrest vivid contrast with sub- abrupt demographic chal- During vate citizens. was a travesty. Now three stantially below-replace- lenge? Approximately noth- high school, The police officer told me decades later, the law under ment-level birthrates in ing. Stone notes that the I got into to get off with him at the which I was arrested has most of Europe and Japan. Congressional Budget Of- Bruce Lee next stop. He pushed me been declared unconstitu- Those birthrates were fice, the Social Security Ad- martial-arts against a wall, handcuffed tional. Citing the Supreme buoyed upward by immi- ministration and Medi- movies. me, threw me in a squad Court’s decision in District grant mothers, after a care’s actuaries have not Long before car and took me to the New of Columbia v. Heller, quarter century of mass “even published stress-test Marc Thiessen Mayor Rudy York Transit Police station which applied the Second migration from Latin scenarios of long-term fer- Giuliani on Columbus Circle, where Amendment to the states, America, especially Mexi- tility at 1.5 or 1.6” — just turned I was put into a cell with a U.S. District Judge Pamela co. But Mexican migration below the current 1.7 — “an Times Square into a family bunch of drunks and Chen, who was nominated fell toward zero in the 2007- incredible collective failure friendly theme park, there booked on charges of a by President Obama, ruled 09 recession, and births to of foresight by almost all was a movie theater on Class A misdemeanor, that “the possession and immigrants in the U.S. the economic bodies whose Broadway that showed non- “criminal possession of a use of nunchaku is protect- sharply declined, too. job it is to anticipate this stop kung-fu fare. Over weapon in the fourth de- ed by the Second Amend- Some Americans, includ- kind of problem.” summer break, I would go gree.” ment” and that the sections ing many Donald Trump House Speaker Paul to see Lee movies such as I used my one call to of the New York law ban- fans, find that good news. It Ryan, the one politician “Game of Death,” “Fist of phone my mother — a doc- ning them are “an unconsti- suggests that a lower per- who has worked strenuous- Fury” and “Enter the Drag- tor who worked treating tutional restriction on the centage of babies are born ly to address such problems on,” Lee’s last film before heroin addicts in the South right to bear arms ... and to mothers in disadvan- and at one point got all his his death from cerebral Bronx. She came down to are, therefore, void.” taged households. Republican colleagues to go edema at age 32 in 1973. The the station and berated the The suit was filed by a And just about everyone, along with entitlement re- highlight of every Lee arresting officer in her lawyer named James Malo- as Stone notes, takes the form, has just delivered his movie, for me, was when he thick Polish accent, offering ney, who, like me, had been continuing sharp decline in farewell speech. House Re- picked up a pair of nun- to take him to Central Park arrested for possessing births to teenage mothers publicans will be in the mi- chucks — two short sticks and point him to all the nunchucks. He has been as good news, too, consider- nority next month, and connected by a steel swivel drug dealers selling heroin fighting this fight since his ing that such children have with no appetite for taking chain — and began swing- there. arrest in 2000. Eighteen tended to suffer negative up the issue again, espe- ing them around his body, Why didn’t he do some- years later, he and I have outcomes. cially since President Don- taking out dozens of enemy thing about them, rather been vindicated. Americans But the negative out- ald Trump has promised to fighters. than harassing a harmless have a constitutional right comes of increasing infer- leave entitlements entirely After the movie let out teenager? She had to spend to keep and bear nun- tility and eventual popula- in place and no significant one afternoon, I went to a thousands of dollars to hire chucks. Not just the foam tion decline have even number of Democratic of- martial-arts store across a lawyer, who told us that kind, but the real thing. greater implications. To put ficeholders seeks to give up the street from the theater the charges were serious I have the feeling that, it bluntly: Who is going to what they consider one of and bought myself a pair of and that I could face jail somewhere up there, Bruce pay for Social Security and their party’s chief political nunchucks. Unlike the time. We went to court, and Lee is smiling. Medicare when there are advantages. hardwood pair Lee used, I he cut a deal to have the fewer working-age adults It’s quite a contrast with bought a soft pair made of prosecution deferred. I Follow Marc A. Thiessen on paying taxes for every old- the late 1990s, when Ameri- light plywood and covered stood before a judge who Twitter, @marcthiessen. ster receiving benefits? can fertility was higher and in bright yellow foam so told me if I did not commit Welfare states assume an Bill Clinton and Newt Gin- that when I swung them another crime in the next © 2018, Washington Post expanding population, and grich were working on enti- around and accidentally hit 12 months, the charges Writers Group America’s potential parents tlement reform until the don’t seem to be providing Monica Lewinsky scandal one anymore. Why? broke. Stone rules out one Just another reminder EDITORIAL PAGE POLICIES cause: Surveys show that that history is not always a women want more children story of progress. EDITORIALS represent the views of the owners of this the newspaper. They should be no more than 350 words than they’re having. That newspaper. and sent via e-mail to [email protected], dropped off was probably not the case, Michael Barone is a senior at The Sumter Item office, 36 W. Liberty St. or mailed to or less so, when America’s political analyst for the COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY are the personal fertility rate dropped this Washington Examiner, resi- opinion of the writer whose byline appears. Columns The Sumter Item, P.O. Box 1677, Sumter, S.C. 29151, low in the middle 1970s. dent fellow at the American from readers should be typed, double-spaced and no along with the full name of the writer, plus an address The culprit this time is Enterprise Institute and more than 850 words. Send them to The Sumter Item, and telephone number for verification purposes only. something that scarcely ex- longtime co-author of The Opinion Pages, P.O. 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NEW YEAR’S HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Forecasts and graphics provided by WEATHER AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 BANKS — Wells Fargo will close at 4 p.m. on Monday and will reopenNew onYear’s Wednesday, Holiday Jan.Schedule: 2, 2019. Fri- All otherday, area Dec. banks 28, 2018 and credit unions will be closed on AccuWeather® ve-day forecast for Sumter Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. GOVERNMENT — The following will be closed on Tues- TODAY TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY day, Jan. 1, 2019: federal government offices, South Caro- lina state government offices, U.S. Postal Service, City of Sumter offices, Sumter County offices, City of Manning offices, Clarendon County offices, Lee County offices; and Warmer with rain Early rain; cloudy, Partly sunny and Cooler with periods Warmer; a little Rain and drizzle City of Bishopville offices. and a t-storm mild warm of rain morning rain possible SCHOOLS — The following will be closed through Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, with students returning on 73° 56° 69° / 51° 59° / 51° 73° / 63° 71° / 50° Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019: Wilson Hall, Sumter School Dis- Chance of rain: 65% Chance of rain: 65% Chance of rain: 10% Chance of rain: 70% Chance of rain: 55% Chance of rain: 30% trict, Robert E. Lee Academy, Thomas Sumter Academy, S 10-20 mph SW 4-8 mph WNW 3-6 mph ENE 6-12 mph SSW 6-12 mph W 8-16 mph St. Anne and St. Jude Catholic School, Laurence Man- ning Academy and Clarendon Hall. Gaff ney Lee County Public Schools will be closed through 64/47 Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. A work day will be observed on Spartanburg Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, with students returning Monday, Jan. TODAY’S Greenville 63/47 7, 2019. SOUTH 65/47 Clarendon School Districts 1, 2 and 3 will be closed Florence through Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. Students will return on Mon- CAROLINA Bishopville 73/60 day, Jan. 7, 2019. WEATHER 72/57 Sumter Christian School will be closed through Mon- Temperatures shown on map are Columbia Sumter day, Jan. 7, 2019. Students will return on Tuesday, Jan. 8, today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 74/54 73/56 2019. Myrtle Beach UTILITIES — Black River Electric Coop. and FTC will be IN THE MOUNTAINS Manning closed on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. 74/61 68/59 Today: Rain and a thunderstorm. Winds Aiken OTHER — The Sumter County Library will be closed southwest 4-8 mph. 71/54 Monday, Dec. 31, and Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Saturday: Partly sunny and mild. Winds Clemson Extension Service will be closed on Tuesday, east-northeast 3-6 mph. Jan. 1, 2019. The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce will be ON THE COAST Charleston closed through Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Today: Periods of rain and a thunderstorm. 72/61 The Harvin Clarendon County Library will be closed on High 68 to 72. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Saturday: Mostly cloudy with a shower; The Sumter Item will be closed on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. humid in southern parts. High 67 to 71. The Sumter Item will not publish on New Year’s Day.

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SUMTER SPCA PETS OF THE WEEK FAR LEFT: Taffy is a neutered and housebroken 1-year-old American short hair. He is greatTaffy withLeo children, ishas playful, a sweet other loves personality cats to and be evengiven and dogs. hugs he Taffyloves is a playful, affectionate, activeto play and friendly boy. He loves to be petted and given hugs and kisses. He would make a wonderful new addition to any family. LEFT: Leo is a neutered and housebroken 7-month-old shepherd / collie mix. He is great with older children and other dogs. Leo is gentle, affection- ate, active and friendly. He loves to play and has a very sweet personality.

The Sumter SPCA is located at 1140 S. Guignard Drive, (803) 773-9292, and is open 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Visit the website at www.sumterscspca.com.

The SPCA relies heavily on community support and donations. Currently, the biggest needs are for dry puppy and kitten food, wet cat food, cat litter and cleaning supplies. The following are also appreciated: Newspapers, stuffed animals, heavy duty trash bags (30 gallon or larger), dishwashing liquid, laundry detergent, bleach, paper towels, sheets and comforters, baby blankets, canned dog and cat food, dry dog food, treats, leashes and collars, disinfectant spray, all-purpose cleaner, air freshener, no scratch scrubbers, two-sided sponges for dishes, litter freshener and, of course, monetary donations are also gratefully accepted. SECTION B FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018 Call: (803) 774-1241 | E-mail: [email protected]

CLEMSON FOOTBALL COMMENTARY Notre Dame has no chance Championship form against Tigers’ No. 2 Tigers, depth, talent No. 3 Irish in es, Notre Dame is 12-0 on the season, playoff after and I know the Fight- Y ing Irish played per- haps the “toughest” schedule QB switches ever put together in the histo- ry of college football. BY STEPHEN HAWKINS Hear this, however. There is The Associated Press no chance, no way, no how Notre Dame is going to take DALLAS — Clemson and down Clemson in the Cotton Notre Dame weren’t even a Bowl in one of College Foot- month into this season when ball Playoff they made unexpected quar- semifinal terback switches while un- games on Sat- defeated with seniors who urday. had won a lot of games. Zip, zero, Neither of those senior nada. starters was even injured, Say what but the Tigers and Fighting you want Irish decided to make early about Clem- changes. Both teams are still Dennis son waltzing without a loss and now in Brunson through the the College Football Playoff. weak Atlantic Trevor Lawrence was Coast Confer- named Clemson’s new start- ence, but with the exception of er going into the Sept. 29 Syracuse, that’s exactly what game against Syracuse after it did. It was a scorched earth the true freshman had season for the Tigers against played behind Kelly Bryant ACC foes. each of the first four games. The only other real chal- That was a week after Ian lenges for Clemson came Book supplanted Brandon against Southeastern Confer- Wimbush as Notre Dame’s ence teams. The Tigers slipped No. 1 quarterback . past Texas A&M 28-26 and “I knew what my goals only led South Carolina 28-21 were and I knew I wanted to at halftime before going on to play for a championship, but a 56-35 victory. I wasn’t really sure how ev- While Syracuse gave away erything would work out,” the game to Clemson in a 27-23 Lawrence said. “I didn’t loss, the other 10 games were have a plan as far as how the beatdowns of epic proportions. season would go exactly, so I That can’t be said about the didn’t really I guess have too Irish. While Notre Dame many expectations on how THE ASSOCIATED PRESS pounded Syracuse 36-3, it held we’d get here necessarily. Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) sets to pass during team practice at AT&T Stadium in Ar- on to beat Pittsburgh 19-14, a It’s definitely been a crazy lington, Texas, on Monday. Clemson is scheduled to play Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl College team Clemson walloped 42-10 year.” Football Playoff semifinal on Saturday. in the ACC championship Bryant, who plans to fin- game. ish his college career at Mis- starter and helping lead the row this season. LSU, took over after Wim- Notre Dame beat Mid-Amer- souri, almost immediately Tigers to their third consec- Notre Dame was 3-0 when bush had gone 12-3 in his ican Conference school Ball left Clemson’s program to utive ACC title last year. Book, the junior who led a starts. State 24-16 and struggled to save his final season of eligi- Lawrence, the AP’s ACC top late comeback victory in last beat Vanderbilt 22-17 in South bility after going 16-2 as a newcomer, made it four in a season’s Citrus Bowl against SEE TIGERS, PAGE B3 Bend, Indiana. The following week South Carolina went on the road and handled Vandy 37-14. PREP BASKETBALL Every game truly is a season unto itself, but you get the pic- ture. Notre Dame just doesn’t have enough athleticism to Knights open with win in District 9 tourney hang with Clemson. The Irish defense may be BY DANNY KELLY able to slow down the Clemson [email protected] offense to a degree in the early going, but the Tigers will BISHOPVILLE — Christmastime has begin to wear Notre Dame proven to be very therapeutic for the down as the game progresses. Crestwood High School varsity boys Offensively, Notre Dame basketball team. doesn’t have enough firepower The Knights defeated Trinity-Byrnes to consistently move the ball 62-45 on Thursday in their opening against Clemson, even without game in the 22nd Annual District 9 Of- defensive tackle Dexter Law- ficials Christmas Basketball Tourna- rence on the sidelines because of ment at the Lee Central High School performance-enhancing drugs. gymnasium to improve to 2-8 on the The Irish may be able to season after starting off 0-7. break off a few big plays “When we play together and cut against the Clemson second- down on turnovers, we could be a good ary, but it won’t be nearly ball club,” CHS head coach Tony Wil- enough to keep up with the son said. “We were engaged and swing- Tiger offense. ing the ball (with passes). We had a Also, you have to take into good game plan, and overall, I’m account the experience Clem- pleased by the way we played.” son has in being in these types Crestwood picked up its first win in of games. Most of the Tigers another holiday tournament. The have played in a CFP contest, Knights defeated North Central last DANNY KELLY / THE SUMTER ITEM while none of the Notre Dame week in the Mid Carolina Holiday Crestwood junior center Elijah Foe dribbles through the Trinity-Byrnes defense during the players have. Knights’ 62-45 victory on Thursday in the District 9 Officials Christmas Basketball Tourna- SEE KNIGHTS, PAGE B2 ment at Lee Central High School in Bishopville. SEE BRUNSON, PAGE B3

USC FOOTBALL Gamecock offense grows up under McClendon

BY DANNY KELLY at Bank of America Stadium downs against 12 interceptions [email protected] in Charlotte beginning at for a 153.6 passer rating. noon. “I think I’m more knowl- The offense for the Universi- The improve- edgeable of the game,” Bent- ty of South Carolina football ment of junior ley said about how he has im- team has had its ups and quarterback proved from his sophomore downs this season. That’s part Jake Bentley season. “I think this year, (I) of the reason the Gamecocks down the stretch just learned a lot about lead- are 7-5 heading into Saturday’s has had a lot to ership and the mindset it Belk Bowl against Virginia. do with the offen- takes to win games, not get- MCCLENDON However, the unit under sive improve- ting too high or getting too first-year offensive coordina- ment. Bentley low and just staying even- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tor Bryan McClendon has will look to exploit the Cavalier keeled and being able to re- South Carolina quarterback Jake Bentley sets to pass as an Akron de- seemed to hit its stride the last defense through the air. Bent- spond to situations the same fender closes in during the Gamecocks victory over the Zips in their third of the season. It will ley has averaged 246 yards each and every time. regular-season finale. USC will face Virginia on Saturday in the Belk look to continue to do the passing in 12 games this sea- Bowl at noon in Charlotte. same against the 7-5 Cavaliers son and has thrown 27 touch- SEE USC, PAGE B3 B2 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018 SPORTS THE SUMTER ITEM

BOWL ROUNDUP Gophers run past Georgia Tech 24-10; First Responder Bowl cancelled

DETROIT — Mohamed enshrined in the bowl’s Hall sion at the 40. Ibrahim ran for career-high of Honor. TCU worked its way down 224 yards and two touch- Temple (8-5) lost for just the the field and Song was sent downs, leading Minnesota to a second time in its past eight out for the winner. Cal called 34-10 victory over Georgia games. another timeout, but this time Tech on Wednesday night in CHEEZ-IT BOWL Song stayed out and sent the the Quick Lane Bowl. kick straight through the up- TCU 10 The Golden Gophers (7-6) CAL 7 rights to end a crazy night in won three of their last four the desert. games, and Ibrahim had a lot PHOENIX — Jonathan SERVPRO FIRST RESPONDER to do with that. The redshirt Song kicked a 27-yard field BOWL CANCELLED freshman running back had goal in overtime after being 121 yards rushing in a win at replaced for a potential win- DALLAS — No. 23 Boise Wisconsin that made Minne- ning kick at the end of regula- State’s first appearance at his- sota bowl eligible and ran for tion, lifting TCU to a wild 10-7 toric Cotton Bowl Stadium 155 yards last month in a vic- victory over California in the turned into what is believed to tory over Purdue. Cheez-It Bowl on Wednesday be the first bowl game called The Yellow Jackets (7-6) did night. off because of weather. not have the speed or strength THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TCU (7-6) had a chance to The SERVPRO First Re- to slow down Ibrahim and their Minnesota running back Mohamed Ibrahim (24) breaks through the win it in regulation, sending sponder Bowl between the triple-option offense was stunt- Georgia Tech defense for a 3-yard touchdown during the second half out Song for a 44-yard field Broncos (10-3) and Boston ed in coach Paul Johnson’s fina- of the Quick Lane Bowl game Wednesday in Detroit. goal. After Cal (7-6) called a College (7-5) was canceled le. The Gophers limited Georgia timeout, the Horned Frogs because of the threat of se- Tech to 206 yards on the ground yards and two scores, and 56-27 lead by midway through switched kickers and Cole vere weather after a delay after it led the nation with 335 Duke blew past Temple 56-27 the fourth. Bunce hooked the kick wide of nearly 1½ hours Wednes- yards rushing per game. in the Independence Bowl on Jones’ five touchdown pass- left. day. INDEPENDENCE BOWL Thursday. es and 423 yards passing both TCU’s Juwuan Johnson in- The game was stopped with Duke (8-5) snapped a two- set Independence Bowl re- tercepted Chase Forrest’s BC leading 7-0 with 5:08 re- DUKE 56 TEMPLE 27 game losing streak by putting cords. So did Duke’s 56 points. pass to open overtime and maining in the first quarter. on an offensive show. The Coach David Cutcliffe won nearly returned it for a touch- The delay came not long after SHREVEPORT, La. — Dan- Blue Devils scored touch- his fourth Independence down. The Horned Frogs were AJ Dillon’s 18-yard touch- iel Jones threw for 423 yards downs on seven straight Bowl. He led Ole Miss to vic- called for sideline interfer- down run. and five touchdowns, T.J. Rah- drives, flipping a 27-14 deficit tories in Shreveport in 1998, ence on the play and had to ming caught 12 passes for 240 in the second quarter to a 1999 and 2002 and is already start their overtime posses- From wire reports

SCOREBOARD DISTRICT 9 OFFICIALS Appalachian State 45, Middle Tennessee 13 Washington 7 8 0 .467 281 335 TV, RADIO N.Y. Giants 5 10 0 .333 334 376 CHRISTMAS Tuesday, Dec. 18 South Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl TODAY W L T Pct PF PA TOURNAMENT UAB 37, Northern Illinois 13 1:30 p.m. — College Football: Music City Bowl from y-New Orleans 13 2 0 .867 490 320 BOYS Nashville, Tenn. — Purdue vs. Auburn (ESPN). Wednesday, Dec. 19 Atlanta 6 9 0 .400 380 391 3:30 p.m. — High School Basketball: Beach Ball Classic Frisco (Texas) Bowl Carolina 6 9 0 .400 343 368 Thursday Championship Quarterfinal Game from Myrtle Beach Ohio 27, San Diego State 0 Tampa Bay 5 10 0 .333 364 430 C.E. Murray 65, Timberland 61 (STADIUM). North Crestwood 62, Trinity-Byrnes 45 5:15 p.m. — College Football: Camping World Bowl from Thursday, Dec. 20 W L T Pct PF PA Gasparilla Bowl North Charleston 84, Lamar 58 Orlando, Fla. — West Virginia vs. Syracuse (ESPN). y-Chicago 11 4 0 .733 397 273 Lee Central vs Georgetown (late) 5:15 p.m. — High School Basketball: Beach Ball Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. Minnesota 8 6 1 .567 350 317 Championship Quarterfinal Game from Myrtle Beach Marshall 38, South Florida 20 Green Bay 6 8 1 .433 376 369 Friday (STADIUM). Friday, Dec. 21 Detroit 5 10 0 .333 293 360 Georgetown vs. North Charleston, 11:30 6:05 p.m. — Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, Bahamas Bowl, Nassau West a.m. WDXY-AM 1240). FIU 35, Toledo 32 W L T Pct PF PA Timberland vs. Trinity-Byrnes, 2:30 p.m. 7 p.m. — College Basketball: Illinois (Chicago) at Wright Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Boise y-L.A. Rams 12 3 0 .800 479 352 C.E. Murray vs. Crestwood, 2:30 p.m. State (ESPN2). BYU 49, Western Michigan 18 x-Seattle 9 6 0 .600 401 323 (middle school) 7 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Brooklyn at Charlotte (FOX San Francisco 4 11 0 .267 310 387 North Charleston vs. Lee Central, 4 p.m. SPORTS SOUTHEAST). Saturday, Dec. 22 Arizona 3 12 0 .200 201 398 Crestwood vs. Timberland, 5:30 p.m. 7 p.m. — College Basketball: Texas (Rio Grande Valley at Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl x-clinched playoff spot Georgetown vs. Lamar, 5:30 p.m. (middle Texas Tech (FOX SPORTSOUTH). Wake Forest 37, Memphis 34 y-clinched division school) 7 p.m. — High School Basketball: Beach Ball Classic Armed Forces Bowl Lamar vs. Lee Central, 8:30 p.m. Championship Quarterfinal Game from Myrtle Beach Fort Worth, Texas SUNDAY’S GAMES Trinity-Byrnes vs. C.E. Murray, 8:30 p.m. Army 70, Houston 14 (STADIUM). Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (middle school) Dollar General Bowl, Mobile, Ala. 8 p.m. — College Basketball: Southern at Marquette Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Saturday (FOX SPORTS 1). Troy 42, Buffalo 32 Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m. Championship Game, 7:30 p.m. (high 8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Dallas at New Orleans (NBA school) TV). Louisiana Tech 31, Hawaii 14 Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. 8:45 p.m. — High School Basketball: Beach Ball Classic Wednesday, Dec. 26 Detroit at Green Bay, 1 p.m. GIRLS Championship Quarterfinal Game from Myrtle Beach SERVPRO First Responder Bowl, Dallas N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m. (STADIUM). Boston College vs. Boise State, ccd., weather Carolina at New Orleans, 1 p.m. Thursday 9 p.m. — College Football: Alamo Bowl from San Antonio Quick Lane Bowl, Detroit Arizona at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. Blythewood 40, Lakewood 20 Lakewood 49, Newberry 39 — Washington State vs. Iowa State (ESPN). Minnesota 34, Georgia Tech 10 L.A. Chargers at Denver, 4:25 p.m. 9 p.m. — International Tennis: Hopman Cup Session 1 — Hartsville vs Blythewood, 5:30 p.m. Cheez-It Bowl, Phoenix Oakland at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. Great Britain vs. Greece (TENNIS). TCU 10, California 7, OT Lee Central vs Myrtle Beach, 7 p.m. 10:30 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Los Angeles Clippers at San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27 Philadelphia at Washington, 4:25 p.m. Friday Los Angeles Lakers (NBA TV). Hartsville vs. Lee Central, 10 a.m. Independence Bowl, Shreveport, La. Chicago at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m. 4:30 a.m. — International Tennis: Hopman Cup Session 2 Blythewood vs. Myrtle Beach, 1 p.m. — Australia vs. France (TENNIS). Duke 56, Temple 27 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 4:25 p.m. Pinstripe Bowl, New York Lee Central vs. Newberry, 4 p.m. (middle Cleveland at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m. SATURDAY Miami (7-5) vs. Wisconsin (7-5), 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) school) Indianapolis at Tennessee, 8:20 p.m. Newberry vs. Hartsville, 7 p.m. International Soccer: Italian Serie A Match Texas Bowl, Houston 6:25 a.m. — Myrtle Beach vs. Lakewood, 7 p.m. — Sampdoria vs. Juventus (ESPN2).. Baylor (6-6) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6), 9 p.m. (ESPN) (middle school) 9:55 a.m. — Interantional Soccer: English Premier Friday, Dec. 28 League Match — Wolves vs. Tottenham (NBC SPORTS Music City Bowl, Nashville, Tenn. NBA STANDINGS Saturday NETWORK). Purdue (6-6) vs. Auburn (7-5), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) EASTERN CONFERENCE Championship Game, 6 p.m. (high Noon — College Football: Belk Bowl from Charlotte — Camping World Bowl, Orlando, Fla. school) Atlantic Division South Carolina vs. Virginia (WOLO 25, WIBZ-FM 95.5, West Virginia (8-3) vs. Syracuse (9-3), 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) W L Pct GB WNKT-FM 107.5). Alamo Bowl, San Antonio Toronto 26 10 .722 — Noon — College Football: Peach Bowl from Atlanta — Iowa State (8-4) vs. Washington State (10-2), 9 p.m. Philadelphia 22 13 .629 3½ Florida vs. Michigan (ESPN). (ESPN) Noon — College Basketball: Davidson at North Carolina Boston 20 13 .606 4½ KNIGHTS (ESPN2). Saturday, Dec. 29 Brooklyn 17 19 .472 9 Noon — College Basketball: Brigham Young at Peach Bowl, Atlanta New York 9 26 .257 16½ Mississippi State (ESPNU). Florida (9-3) vs. Michigan (10-2), Noon (ESPN) Southeast Division FROM PAGE B1 Noon — College Basketball: Howard at Georgetown Belk Bowl, Charlotte, N.C. W L Pct GB (FOX SPORTS 1). South Carolina (7-5) vs. Virginia (7-5), Noon (ABC) Charlotte 16 17 .485 — 1 p.m. — College Football: Arizona Bowl from Tucson, Arizona Bowl, Tucson, Ariz. Miami 16 17 .485 — Classic Basketball Tourna- Ariz. — Arkansas State vs. Nevada (CBS SPORTS Arkansas State (8-4) vs. Nevada (7-5), 1:15 p.m. Orlando 14 19 .424 2 ment in Camden. However, NETWORK). (CBSSN) Washington 13 22 .371 4 1 p.m. — NHL Hockey: Carolina at New Jersey (FOX Cotton Bowl Classic, Arlington, Texas Atlanta 9 24 .273 7 the Knights fell to Lugoff-El- SPORTSOUTH). CFP Semifinal, Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Clemson (13-0), 4 Central Division gin in the championship 2 p.m. — College Basketball: Kentucky at Louisville p.m. (ESPN) W L Pct GB (ESPN2). Orange Bowl, Miami Gardens, Fla. Milwaukee 23 10 .697 — game. 2 p.m. — College Basketball: St. Bonaventure at CFP Semifinal, Oklahoma (12-1) vs. Alabama (13-0), 8 Indiana 23 12 .657 1 Crestwood’s game against Syracuse (ESPNU). p.m. (ESPN) Detroit 16 16 .500 6½ 2 p.m. — College Basketball: Xavier at DePaul (FOX Chicago 9 26 .257 15 Trinity-Byrnes was divided Monday, Dec. 31 Cleveland 8 27 .229 16 SPORTS 1). Military Bowl, Annapolis, Md. into two 16-minute halves in- 2 p.m. — College Basketball: Texas A&M (Corpus Christi) Cincinnati (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (6-6), Noon (ESPN) WESTERN CONFERENCE stead of four eight-minute at Oklahoma State (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST). Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas 3:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Georgia Southern at Southwest Division quarters as is normally the Stanford (8-4) vs. Pittsburgh (7-6), 2 p.m. (CBS) W L Pct GB Dayton (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). Redbox Bowl, Santa Clara, Calif. 3:30 p.m. — High School Basketball: Beach Ball Classic Houston 18 15 .545 — case in high school basket- Michigan State (7-5) vs. Oregon (8-4), 3 p.m. (FOX) San Antonio 19 16 .543 — Consolation Bracket Game from Myrtle Beach Liberty Bowl, Memphis, Tenn. ball. (STADIUM). Memphis 18 16 .529 ½ Missouri (8-4) vs. Oklahoma State (6-6), 3:45 p.m. Dallas 16 17 .485 2 Crestwood was led in scor- 4 p.m. — College Football: College Football Playoff (ESPN) Semifinal Game — Cotton Bowl from Arlington, Texas: New Orleans 15 20 .429 4 Holiday Bowl, San Diego Northwest Division ing by junior forward Isaiah Clemson vs. Notre Dame (ESPN, ESPNEWS, ESPN2, Northwestern (8-5) vs. Utah (9-4), 7 p.m. (FS1) WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7). W L Pct GB Sellers with 16. Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla. Denver 21 11 .656 — 4 p.m. — College Basketball: Butler at Florida (ESPNU). NC State (9-3) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Junior guard Nick Ford led 4 p.m. — College Basketball: Belmont at Purdue (FOX Oklahoma City 21 12 .636 ½ SPORTS 1). Tuesday, Jan. 1 Portland 19 15 .559 3 the Tigers with 12. 4 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Abilene Christian Outback Bowl, Tampa, Fla. Utah 17 18 .486 5½ at Texas Tech (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST). Mississippi State (8-4) vs. Iowa (8-4), Noon (ESPN2) Minnesota 16 18 .471 6 With 6:06 to go in the first 4 p.m. — College Basketball: Campbell at Miami (FOX Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Pacific Division half, Crestwood went on a SPORTSOUTH). Kentucky (9-3) vs. Penn State (9-3), 1 p.m. (ABC) W L Pct GB 5:15 p.m. — High School Basketball: Beach Ball Classic Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz. Golden State 23 12 .657 — 15-4 run to put the Knights Consolation Bracket Game from Myrtle Beach LSU (9-3) vs. UCF (12-0), 1 p.m. (ESPN) L.A. Lakers 20 14 .588 2½ up 35-21 at the half. (STADIUM). Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif. L.A. Clippers 20 14 .588 2½ 5:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Wisconsin at Western Washington (10-3) vs. Ohio State (12-1), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Sacramento 18 16 .529 4½ The Knights would go on a Kentucky (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). Sugar Bowl, New Orleans Phoenix 9 26 .257 14 9-4 early in the second half 6 p.m. — College Basketball: Radford at Maryland Texas (9-4) vs. Georgia (11-2), 8:45 p.m. (ESPN) (ESPNU). WEDNESDAY’S GAMES that included four layups Monday, Jan. 7 Detroit 106, Washington 95 6 p.m. — College Basketball: New Orleans at Baylor College Football Championship, Santa Clara, Calif. from Sellers to put the (FOX SPORTSOUTH). Phoenix 122, Orlando 120, OT Cotton Bowl winner vs. Orange Bowl winner, 8 p.m. Brooklyn 134, Charlotte 132, 2OT Knights up 44-27 with 13:02 to 7 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Charlotte at Washington (FOX (ESPN) SPORTS SOUTHEAST). Indiana 129, Atlanta 121 go in the game. 7 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Houston at New Orleans (NBA Saturday, Jan. 19 Toronto 106, Miami 104 TV). East-West Shrine Classic Memphis 95, Cleveland 87 Trinity-Byrnes would go on 7 p.m. — High School Basketball: Beach Ball Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. Minnesota 119, Chicago 94 a 6-2 run to cut it to 46-33 Championship Semifinal Game from Myrtle Beach East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN) Dallas 122, New Orleans 119 (STADIUM). NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, at Pasadena, Calif. San Antonio 111, Denver 103 with 11:30 to go in the game. 7:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Oregon at Boise State American vs. National, TBA (NFLN) L.A. Clippers 127, Sacramento 118 Crestwood answered with a (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 8 p.m. — College Football: College Football Playoff Saturday, Jan. 26 THURSDAY’S GAMES run of its own, a massive 14-4 Senior Bowl, At Mobile, Ala. Semifinal Game — Orange Bowl from Miami: Alabama Boston at Houston, 8 p.m. North vs. South, 2:30 p.m. (NFLN) run that included baskets vs. Oklahoma (ESPN, ESPNEWS, ESPN2, SEC NETWORK). New York at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. 8 p.m. — College Basketball: Bryant at Iowa (ESPNU). L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 10 p.m. from junior center Elijah Foe, 8 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Butler at Philadelphia at Utah, 10:30 p.m. senior guard Anthony Brad- Villanova (FOX SPORTS 2). NFL STANDINGS Portland at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. — College Basketball: St. John’s at Seton Hall ley and senior guard (FOX SPORTSOUTH). AMERICAN CONFERENCE FRIDAY’S GAMES 8:45 p.m. — High School Basketball: Beach Ball Classic East Brooklyn at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Antonieo Dukes. That made Championship Semifinal Game from Myrtle Beach W L T Pct PF PA Chicago at Washington, 7 p.m. it 60-37 with 6:05 to go in the (STADIUM). y-New England 10 5 0 .667 398 322 Detroit at Indiana, 7 p.m. 9 p.m. — International Tennis: Hopman Cup Session 3 — Miami 7 8 0 .467 302 391 Toronto at Orlando, 7 p.m. game. Germany vs. Spain; Hopman Cup Session 4 — Great Buffalo 5 10 0 .333 227 357 Atlanta at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Although Crestwood won Britain vs. Switzerland; WTA Shenzhen Early-Round N.Y. Jets 4 11 0 .267 330 403 Cleveland at Miami, 8 p.m. Matches (TENNIS). South Dallas at New Orleans, 8 p.m. big, Wilson thinks the team 10 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Golden State at Portland W L T Pct PF PA Oklahoma City at Phoenix, 9 p.m. can still improve defensively. (NBA TV). x-Houston 10 5 0 .667 382 313 San Antonio at Denver, 9 p.m. 3 a.m. — International Tennis: Hopman Cup Session 3 — Indianapolis 9 6 0 .600 400 327 L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. “We watch too much on Germany vs. Spain; Hopman Cup Session 4 — Great Tennessee 9 6 0 .600 293 270 D(efense),” he said. Britain vs. Switzerland; WTA Shenzhen Early-Round Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 242 296 SATURDAY’S GAMES Matches (TENNIS). North Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. The loss dropped Trinity- W L T Pct PF PA Charlotte at Washington, 7 p.m. Byrnes to 6-7 on the sea- COLLEGE FOOTBALL Baltimore 9 6 0 .600 363 263 Houston at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh 8 6 1 .567 412 347 Cleveland at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. son. BOWL SCORES, SCHEDULE Cleveland 7 7 1 .500 335 366 Boston at Memphis, 8 p.m. Crestwood will be back in Cincinnati 6 9 0 .400 355 439 New York at Utah, 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 West Denver at Phoenix, 9 p.m. action today at 2:30 p.m. Celebration Bowl, At Atlanta W L T Pct PF PA Golden State at Portland, 10 p.m. N.C. A&T 24, Alcorn State 22 x-Kansas City 11 4 0 .733 530 418 San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. when it takes on C.E. Murray Cure Bowl, Orlando, Fla. x-L.A. Chargers 11 4 0 .733 405 320 at the Lee Central Middle Tulane 41, Louisiana-Lafayette 24 Denver 6 9 0 .400 320 326 SUNDAY’S GAMES New Mexico Bowl, Albuquerque Oakland 4 11 0 .267 287 432 Detroit at Orlando, 3:30 p.m. School gym in its second Utah State 52, North Texas 13 Chicago at Toronto, 6 p.m. game of the tournament. The Las Vegas Bowl NATIONAL CONFERENCE Minnesota at Miami, 6 p.m. Fresno State 31, Arizona State 20 East Oklahoma City at Dallas, 7 p.m. Knights will then take on Camellia Bowl, Montgomery, Ala. W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia at Portland, 9 p.m. Timberland at 5:30 p.m. back Georgia Southern 23, Eastern Michigan 21 y-Dallas 9 6 0 .600 303 289 Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. New Orleans Bowl Philadelphia 8 7 0 .533 343 348 in the high school gym. THE SUMTER ITEM SPORTS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018 | B3

CLEMSON FOOTBALL COLLEGE FOOTBALL Wilkins leaves legacy of laughter, leadership Notre Dame getting BY RALPH D. RUSSO 1st title shot since The Associated Press DALLAS — Christian Wilkins is ‘12 loss to Alabama here to put a smile on your face, whether you like it or not. ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Notre For four seasons, Wilkins has Dame defensive captain Drue Tran- been bringing the jokes, zingers quill and leading receiver Miles and sneaky pinches on the bottom Boykin weren’t even Fighting Irish at Clemson. The 300-pound All- fans the last time they had a 12-0 regu- America defensive tackle famous- lar season. Maybe that was a good ly celebrated the Tigers’ 2016 na- thing because those current players tional championship with a split didn’t have to suffer through how that and flashed a Heisman pose after a season ended. touchdown run this season. Dur- The third-ranked Irish (12-0) are ing his acceptance speech for back in championship contention at scholar-athlete award earlier this the end of the season for the first time month, he cut up on Clemson since a lopsided loss to Alabama in the coach Dabo Swinney, recalled his national title game nearly six years time as “Kindergarten Cop” and ago. It has now been 30 years since the implored those in the crowded last of their eight AP national titles in ballroom in New York City: “Let 1988. your light shine.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “That’s something a lot of us take a Wilkins could have been in the Clemson’s Christian Wilkins (42) is tackled by Pittsburgh’s Alex Bookser (78) after re- lot of pride in, kind of bringing a new NFL by now, but instead he will covering a Pittsburgh fumble in the first half of the Atlantic Coast Conference cham- dawn to Notre Dame football in that leave Clemson with four College pionship game on Dec. 1 in Charlotte. Read the full story at www.theitem.com. tradition,” Tranquill said. Football Playoff appearances, two “To see Notre Dame on that stage in degrees, at least one national gained a lot of respect and a lot of being an old head and doing every- ‘12 and to fall short, I think, was prob- championship ring and a legacy he people’s trust just because the way thing I need to do and maximizing ably disappointing to a lot of fans, and hopes goes beyond football. I try to go about things and the my time there.” certainly provided a lot of air of a lot “I feel like I’ve slowed things way I carry myself and the way I Wilkins and the second-ranked of people who didn’t like Notre Dame down and been able to appreciate try to lead every day. Tigers face No. 3 Notre Dame in the around the country,” the senior line- all aspects of Clemson and my “It’s just cool to see how I feel like Cotton Bowl on Saturday for a spot backer said Thursday. “We’re not try- teammates and learn a lot more,” I’m still making Clemson a better in the national title game on Jan. 7 ing to be ‘12. We want to be our own Wilkins said. “And I feel like I’ve place just by me still being there and in Santa Clara, California. unique team.”

most of the reps,” sophomore wide re- The Gamecocks have been averag- yards and a score. Denson has carried USC FROM PAGE B1 ceiver Shi Smith said about filling in ing 440.2 yards per game this season, the ball 82 times for 415 yards and two for Samuel. “We got (junior wide re- 277.4 passing and 162.8 rushing. touchdowns, and has also caught four “I think that’s the biggest image ceiver) Bryan (Edwards) and (fresh- However, the Gamecocks could also passes for 25 yards. Turner has from our whole team, just being able man wide receiver) Josh (Vann) doing be without junior running back rushed 46 times for 294 yards and two to respond the right way with any sit- it.” Ty’Son Williams. The former Crest- scores, and has also caught eight uation.” Smith has 39 receptions for 597 wood standout has missed the last passes for 75 yards and two more The team will be without senior yards and four touchdowns on the sea- four games with a broken hand and is scores. wide receiver Deebo Samuel, who has son, Edwards has 52 receptions for 809 listed as questionable for the Belk On the other side, Virginia’s defense decided to skip the game to prepare yards and seven scores and Vann has Bowl. Williams has 66 carries for 319 allows 337.2 yards per game. for the National Football League draft 18 catches for 118 yards and a touch- yards and four touchdowns to go along “I think they’re (No.) 14 (17) in the and to not risk getting injured. down. with nine receptions for 152 yards. country in interceptions,” South Caro- Samuel has 908 all-purpose yards on Also producing on the offensive side If Williams can’t go, junior running lina head coach Will Muschamp said. the season and 14 total touchdowns – of the ball have been junior tight end backs Rico Dowdle, Mon Denson and “They do a great job of getting the ball 11 receiving, one passing, one on a Kiel Pollard, who has 15 receptions for A.J. Turner will have to step up in his off of you and create a lot of issues on kick return and one on a special teams 181 yards and two scores, senior tight absence. the back end with some different fumble recovery. end K.C. Crosby, who has recorded 11 Dowdle has 117 rushing attempts things they do movement-wise.” That means several other receivers receptions for 101 yards, and senior on the season for 638 yards and four Virginia has 15 interceptions on the will have to step up. tight end Jacob August, who has seven touchdowns to go along with 13 re- season as a team, and five of them be- “I’m gonna be taking a lot of reps, catches for 73 yards and a touchdown. ceptions out of the backfield for 127 long to senior safety Juan Thornhill.

passing with 24 touchdowns sive tackle Mitch Hyatt said. 197 of 280 passes (70 per- TIGERS FROM PAGE B1 and four interceptions. He “He’s always studying film, al- cent). had 600 yards and nine TDs ways studying something. It’s “We’ve just been able to “Both of us are very fortu- degree and can go play imme- before even starting a game. fun to see him mature. When open the playbook and he’s nate, couldn’t be in a better diately at another school as a Coach Dabo Swinney would he got that starting job ... he been able to make all the situation. And the season goes graduate transfer, has notified like to see Lawrence keep just took it upon himself to go throws,” said Irish leading re- by so fast,” Book said Wednes- Notre Dame that he intends to being more aggressive with work even harder.” ceiver Miles Boykin, who had day. “There’s certain times transfer after the season. his legs — he has 76 of his 144 Book has thrown for 2,468 the go-ahead 55-yard TD catch where you kind of just sit Right after Lawrence was rushing yards in the last three yards with 19 touchdowns from Book with 1:28 left in the back and realize where you named Clemson’s starter, in a games. and six interceptions for Citrus Bowl. “He’s extremely are and how fast this whole switch that could have poten- “I was pretty confident in Notre Dame, which has aver- accurate. ... Having a quarter- season has gone by, and tially created a divide among where he was mentally and aged 35 points a game in his back like that, you know he’s again, just how fortunate we the team, All-America senior obviously his ability to throw eight starts — a touchdown going to place the ball where are to both be here and play- defensive tackle Christian the football and all of that more than four games start- only you can get it. The rest is ing in such a big game.” Wilkins took the young 6-foot- stuff but we need him to get ed by Wimbush. The accu- left up to us to go and make Lawrence and Book go 6 quarterback to breakfast. more comfortable scram- rate junior has completed the play.” head-to-head Saturday in the “I just felt like it was some- bling,” Swinney said. “He’s Cotton Bowl. The winner of thing that needed to be done, sometime too confident in his the semifinal matchup be- me setting the tone, I’m be- arm.” tween second-ranked Clem- hind you, I got your back,” Before splitting reps with Season’s Greetings! son (13-0) and third-ranked Wilkins said. “If I’m a guy Bryant this season, Lawrence Notre Dame (12-0) advances to who is pretty well respected was an early enrollee at Clem- play No. 1 Alabama or No. 4 on the team and I can do this son and went through spring Oklahoma for the national for a young guy who’s going practice when five-star quar- title. to be in the lead, taking terback Hunter Johnson was L. Travis McIntosh, AAMS Charles V. Noyes, II Wimbush is still with the charge of the program, then still there before transferring Senior Vice President Vice President Irish prepping for the playoff. everybody else should follow to Northwestern. But several media reports say suit essentially.” “He works harder than any- 216 North Main Street, Suite 200, Sumter, SC 29150 ƒ (803) 774-2700 ƒ BBTScottStringfellow.com

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL COLLEGE FOOTBALL Sooners’ Murray still fighting illness, will play Saturday

BY TIM REYNOLDS candidate. The Associated Press And yes, he did expect such a scenario to play it- MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. self out. — Kyler Murray knows his “I always felt like it future plans. Lots of rest, might be, honestly,” Mur- lots of fluids and a football ray said. “It’s like nobody game on Saturday. expected any of this but From there, it’s still a me, the people that are mystery. closest to me, people that Oklahoma’s quarterback I’ve always known, who and the reigning Heisman have always watched me Trophy winner was still play whether it was foot- dealing with a cough and ball, baseball. Nobody ex- some sniffles Thursday, pected this. So now it’s two days before the fourth- kind of like, ‘What do you ranked Sooners will face do?’ But for me, I’m just top-ranked Alabama in the taking it one day at a time College Football Playoff and doing what I’ve always semifinals at done.” AP FILE PHOTO the Orange Murray has thrown for Virginia quarterback Bryce Perkins (3) tosses a pass during the first half of the Cavaliers’ game against Vir- Bowl. He in- 4,053 yards and 40 touch- ginia Tech earlier this season in Blacksburg, Virginia. Perkins wasn’t with Virginia when the Cavaliers made sists that’s his downs this season, plus run their first bowl appearance in six years last season, but he’s heard enough about it to be in tune with what lone focus for another 892 yards and 11 to push them to do differently this time around. right now, de- more scores. He missed a spite the on- media session on Wednes- MURRAY going fascina- day because he was feeling tion about ill, and clearly wasn’t 100 Virginia looking for better whether he’ll percent Thursday — but in- play football, baseball or sisted that he will play in both professionally. the Orange Bowl. “It’s never bad to have Sooners coach Lincoln bowl outcome after this year options,” Murray said. Riley, as one might expect, Murray was drafted in raves about Murray’s de- the first round earlier this velopment. BY HANK KURZ JR. anything else affect us.” would help him greatly. year by the Oakland A’s, “I felt like just with the The Associated Press The Cavaliers (7-5) will play “Just the physicality,” he who paid the outfielder a way he had played in high the Gamecocks (7-5) in Char- said of his first impressions signing bonus of about $4.7 school and what I had seen CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. lotte, North Carolina, which after watching the team from million. That was six that he would have a pretty — Bryce Perkins wasn’t with will be the first time since the Southeastern Conference months before he became a good football mind, but you Virginia when the Cavaliers 2006 that Virginia has gone to on film. “They’re big, they’re Heisman Trophy-winning could tell he understood made their first bowl appear- the postseason in back-to- strong and they’re all fast at quarterback, one who has the game,” Riley said. “He ance in six years last season, back campaigns. every spot so we have plays in guided the Sooners to a was raw when he got to us but the quarterback has heard Virginia, however, will be place to exploit some of their 12-1 record and into the in a lot of ways, but the about the disappointing trip trying to end the season on weaknesses. That’s what four-team CFP field. natural talent, both physi- and is helping them prepare a better note not only than we’ve been working on here Now he’s being men- cally and mentally, was for a different outcome. last year. It will be a chal- and I think we have a good tioned as an NFL Draft certainly there.” The Cavaliers do not want a lenge because the Cavaliers gameplan.” repeat performance in the have dropped three of their Third-year coach Bronco Belk Bowl Saturday against last four games, including a Mendenhall said the extra South Carolina. crushing 34-31 overtime loss practices have been critical to A year ago, Virginia’s Joe at Virginia Tech . The Hok- the development of the team’s Reed returned the opening ies tied the game on a fum- up-and-coming players as he Keeping KatieSumter Altman, Water Resources Beautiful Extension Agent kickoff in the Military Bowl ble recovery in the end zone tries to build the program, but Fat-free Sewers rinsing or washing them, then for a touchdown, staking the with 1:51 left in regulation. for seniors like safety Juan Like many, this is one of my throw away the paper towels Cavaliers to a 7-0 lead after They won by kicking a field Thornhill, who will be playing just 12 seconds. But the high- goal in overtime and forcing his final game, much more is favorite times of year. Holiday • Educate others about the light reel went dark after that Perkins, hobbled by an at stake in the year the lead- festivities are in full swing, there threat FOG poses to our water as the Cavaliers mustered up ankle injury, to fumble the ers have hyped a setting ‘a are cheerful decorations and our health just 175 yards of offense while ball away. new standard’ for Virginia everywhere, and there’s no Navy romped for 471 rushing “We think about it a lot,” football. shortage of tasty food! The To protect your household yards en route to a 49-7 victo- Reed said of how last season “I want to leave a founda- increase in cooking this holiday plumbing and septic tank or sewer ry. ended and finishing on a bet- tion and work really hard for season also means an increase in lines, don’t pour FOG down the “They say in the locker ter note this year. “We’ve these guys so they can have fats, oil, and grease. I don’t bring drain. According to a report from room all the time (that after) spent all this time together something to look back on this up out of concern for your the EPA, grease from restaurants, the very first play, they getting extra work in. That’s and be proud of,” he said of waste-line, but for the health of our homes, and industrial sources thought they had the game in not the outcome that we want his classmates. And Menden- sewer and stormwater systems. Did cause 47% of reported blockages. the bag and were going to so we’re doing everything we hall makes sure they are re- you know that fats, oil, and grease It’s also important to remember have a really good game and can this year to forget about minded of what happened (FOG) can be hazardous to our that our stormwater is not treated then from there it just all the past, but also to work off with Navy. local water resources if disposed of before it is released into local went downhill,” said Perkins, it as well.” “We really don’t talk too improperly? waters. If you pour something like who played in the 2017 Nation- Perkins, a dual-threat who much about it,” Thornhill cooking or motor oil down a al Junior College Athletic As- ran for 112 yards despite an said. “It’s just that coach will FOG in our storm drains and stormwater drain, you might as sociation national champion- ankle injury against Virginia remind us that ‘You don’t pipes can solidify, causing well be pouring it directly into the ship game. “We’ve just got to Tech, expects to be at 100 per- want this to happen again,’ so blockages and localized flooding. water we use for fishing, focus on a whole game, four cent, or close, for the game we need to go out here and That’s right, pouring oils down the quarters, and just keep going against the Gamecocks, and work hard so we don’t have a storm drain can cause flooding on swimming, boating, and drinking! series by series and not let has seen on film that that replay of last year.” your street and in your yard. When So enjoy the food and festivities FOG accumulates in our pipes it this holiday season, but keep the can cause foul odors, unwanted fat out of our sewers, stormwater, bacteria growth, and pollution in and waterways. Born in Sumter County, she our local waterways. If you see any illegal dumping of OBITUARIES was a daughter of the late FOG or other pollutants into Ransom and Susan E. Carter stormwater drains or waterways, MARGARET K. DAVIS Here’s how you can help: follow at Evergreen Memorial Gooden. • Never put fats, oil, or grease you can report the incident to the Margaret Kirkley Davis, 83, Park cemetery. The family will receive (FOG) down the drain or a Sumter County Stormwater widow of William Harold The family will receive friends at the home, 4240 A storm drain. Department at (803)-464-7497. Davis Jr., died on Thursday, friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today Wedgefield Road. • Instead, cool FOG down, seal Dec. 27, 2018, at her home. at Elmore Hill McCreight Fu- Funeral arrangements are it in a can or bottle, and take it Born in Sumter, she was a neral Home. incomplete and will be an- Clemson University Cooperative Extension to your nearest recycling center daughter of the late William Memorials may be made to nounced by Palmer Memorial Service offers its programs to people of all ages, Mackay Kirkley and Myrtle Westminster Presbyterian Chapel Inc. or dispose of it in you regardless of race, color, gender, religion, national household trash. origin, disability, political beliefs, sexual Pace Kirkley. Mrs. Davis was Church, 230 Alice Drive, Sum- orientation, gender identity, marital or family a member of Westminster ter, SC 29150. • Wipe pots, pans, and dishes status and is an equal opportunity employer. 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CHARLES EDWARD LESENE III family at williamsfuneral- He was preceded in death liam David Rhodes Jr.; son, Douglas and Rosa Davis. He COLUMBIA — Funeral ser- [email protected]. Visit us on by a daughter, Patricia Helen Stephen Mayes and his wife, attended public schools in Al- vices for Charles Edward the web at www.WilliamsFu- Elkovich; and a son, Edward Janice; grandsons, Richards exandria, Alabama and Au- “Smoke” Lesene III will be neralHomeInc.com. Thomas Bode. “Rick” Morse and his wife, gusta, Georgia. He received held at 1 p.m. on Graveside services will be Casey, and William David IV his welding training certifi- Saturday at St. HERBERT SANDERS held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at and his wife, Rachel; great- cate from Central Carolina James Holiness Funeral services for Her- Evergreen Memorial Park grandson, Maverick “Mav” Technical College in 2014. He Church, Sumter, bert Sanders will be held at 1 cemetery. Callaway; great-granddaugh- was employed by Porter Fab- with burial to p.m. on Saturday at Trinity The family will receive ter, Scarlet Cherie (Scout); rications as a welder and most follow at the Missionary Baptist Church, friends from 3 to 5 p.m. today two nephews; and several recently employed at Caterpil- church cemetery. 155 Wall St., at Elmore Hill McCreight Fu- great- and great-great-nieces lar. He attended Mechanics- LESENE Visitation will Sumter, with the neral Home. and nephews. ville United Methodist be held from 4 to Rev. Larry C. Memorials may be made to She was predeceased by Church. 6 p.m. today at Leevy’s Funer- Weston, pastor, the SC Leukemia & Lympho- sons, William David III and He leaves to cherish his al Home, Lower Richland and the Rev. Wil- ma Society, SC Chapter, 107 his wife, Judy Morse, Rich- memories: his mother and fa- Chapel. lie Dennis as eu- Westpark Blvd., Columbia, SC ards “Rick” Moore and Robert ther; a sister, Jacqueline D. Mr. Lesene died on Thurs- logist. 29210 or to the American Lartigue; brothers, Marion Gibson of Sumter; a brother, day, Dec. 20, 2018. SANDERS The public Heart Association, 4217 Park Lartigue Jr., Stephen Rich- George C. Mickens Jr. of Pin- may view from 1 Place Court, Glen Allen, VA ards, Elias Richard and baby eville, North Carolina; a half RONALD GREEN JR. to 7 p.m. today at Palmer Me- 23060-9979. boy Albert; sister, Lily McK- sister, Pamela R. Smith; a MANNING — Ronald Green morial Chapel, Sumter. Online condolences may be ain Moore Dorn and her son, half brother, James Ray of Jr., 35, died on Saturday, Dec. Interment is scheduled for 1 sent to www.sumterfunerals. Lt. Col. Y. Delgar “Del” Dorn Sumter; special friend, Sara 22, 2018, at his residence, 7988 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 2, com Jr.; her only niece, Avis Moore A. Bozeman of Sumter; Carli Greeleyville Highway, Man- 2019, at Fort Jackson National Elmore Hill McCreight Fu- Rupert; and also special cous- and McKenzie Krupinski of ning. Cemetery, 4170 Percival Road, neral Home & Crematory, 221 ins, Anna DuBose Lowe and Sumter, who he took as his He was born Columbia. Broad St., Sumter, is in charge Richards Dubose. daughters; Gabriella Grant of on March 21, Herbert Sanders, 85, transi- of the arrangements, (803) A private family memorial Sumter, who he took as a 1983, a son of tioned on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 775-9386. will be held at a later date. granddaughter; two nieces, Ronald Green Sr. 2018, at the Dorn VA Medical Memorial contributions Tyler J. Gibson and Azjaiah and Deloris Center in Columbia. may be made to the S.C. Pres- N. Mickens, both of Sumter; Gamble King and Born in Rembert, he was a byterian Communities Foun- one aunt, Lillarweise J. (Joe) GREEN stepson of James son of the late Hayes Sanders dation, 2817 Ashland Drive, Seymore of Sumter; two un- King. Jr. and Mettie Dais Sanders. Columbia, SC 29210-5009. cles, Wayne and Clarence Funeral servic- Herbert was a graduate of Arrangements by Palmetto Johnson, both of Sumter; two es for Mr. Green will be held Lincoln High School Class of Cremation Society. granduncles, Henry and Wes- at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Wil- 1952. After graduation, he ley Johnson, both of Brook- JIMMY WILSON liam’s Chapel Christian joined the U.S. Army and JENNIE C. MOORE RHODES lyn, New York; and a host of Church, 1072 Forest Trail, served honorably until his Jimmy “Buki” Wilson was cousins and friends. Manning, with the Rev. Wil- discharge in 1955. Afterwards, Jennie Cornelia Moore born on Aug. 5, 1969, to Barba- The family will receive rela- liam J. Frierson Sr., presiding, he moved to New York, where Rhodes, wife of William David ra Carolina and the late tives and friends from 1 to 4 the Rev. Emanuel Evans, pas- he was first employed at Rhodes Jr., died on Wednes- James Johnson Jr. He depart- p.m. today at the home, 4460 tor, eulogist, and the Rev. Northport VA Hospital in day, Dec. 26, 2018, at The Vil- ed this earthly life on Monday, Cotton Acres Road, Sumter. David Woods Jr. and Evange- Long Island and, in later lage of Summerville. Dec. 24, 2018, at Caroline Re- Homegoing celebration ser- list Evon Walters assisting. years, the New York Transit She was born on Jan. 12, gency in Florence. vices will be held at 11 a.m. on Burial will follow at the Authority, where he attained 1924, in Sumter, a daughter of He graduated from Saturday at Mechanicsville churchyard cemetery. the position of night superin- Marion Lartigue and Jennie Mayewood High School in United Methodist Church, 184 The family is receiving tendent of the NYC Subway Patterson Richards Moore of 1987. Jimmy had a very strong Lake Ashwood Road, Sumter, friends at his residence. System and remained there Dalzell. Nine days later, her work ethic, which he demon- with the Rev. Annie Sistrunk, These services have been for more than 37 years. He mother died. She was raised strated at Palmetto Health Tu- pastor, eulogist. entrusted to Samuels Funeral was married to Lucille Ow- by her maternal grandmoth- omey, K-Mart, VB Williams, The remains will be placed Home LLC of Manning. ens-Sanders. After retirement, er, Lily McKain Richards. Gold Kist and Mello Butter in the church at 10 a.m. they moved to South Carolina. She grew up in Sumter Coun- Cup. The procession will leave at RICHARD WASHINGTON They were the co-owners of ty, attending a two-teacher Jimmy leaves to cherish his 10:20 a.m. from the home. Richard Washington, 52, two businesses, the Shantel’s Dubose School. She was a precious memories: a loving Burial will be at Evergreen transitioned into eternity on B&B Inn in Sumter and the graduate of Edmunds High mother, Barbara Carolina; Memorial Park, Sumter. Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018, at Pal- Sander’s Café “N” Catering in School in Sumter in 1940, the his wife, Theresa Wilson; Services directed by the metto Health Toumey. Rembert. In his spare time, he first year of co-education, three daughters, Whittney management and staff of Wil- Born on Aug. enjoyed farming, traveling, where she was president of Wilson, Morgan Wilson and liams Funeral Home Inc., 821 20, 1966, in Sum- cruising and just seeing and the student body. She attend- Keyoshia Wilson; five broth- N. Main St., Sumter. ter County, Rich- experiencing the good life. ed Winthrop College for two ers, Rico Wilson, Lorenzo Online memorial messages ard was educated In addition to his parents, years. During World War II, (Valerie) Wilson, Ranson (Sa- may be sent to the family at in the Sumter he was preceded in death by a she was in the U.S. Cadet tosha) Floyd, James D. John- [email protected]. School District. son, Christopher D. Thomp- Nurse Corps as a student of son and Jaylen Johnson; com. However, he real- son. the Johns Hopkins Hospital three sisters, Tiffany Jeffer- Visit us on the web at www. WASHINGTON ized that his pas- Survivors include his wife, School of Nursing. For her son, Theresa Johnson and williamsfuneralhomeinc.com. sion was in mak- Lucille Owens-Sanders of the last six months there, she Serena Brown; a special aunt, ing repairs and taking on home; a daughter, Leslie joined cadet nurses from Queenie Hunter; a host of DAISY C. FLOYD projects with his hands, that’s Curry of Baldwin, New York; Johns Hopkins Hospital and nieces, nephews, other rela- DALZELL — Daisy C. how he became known for two sons, Mark Sanders of other schools at Newton tives and friends. Floyd, 81, wife of Kenneth G. being the “Jack of all Trades,” Bronx, New York, and Gerard Baker General Hospital in In addition to his father, he Floyd, died on Thursday, Dec. so he ended his secondary ed- Sanders of Los Angeles, Cali- Martinsburg, West Virginia. was preceded in death by ma- 27, 2018, at Palmetto Health ucation to join the workforce. fornia; seven grandchildren, They cared for wounded ser- ternal grandparents, Henry Tuomey. Richard championed a long Cortney, Jordan, Christian, vicemen who had come di- and Maydell McGee; a pater- Born on Aug. 13, 1937, in 23-year career with Florence Arriana, Malaysia, Shantel rectly there from field hospi- nal grandmother, Lucille Gaffney, she was a daughter Concrete in Sumter as a load and Veronica (Christopher) tals in the ETO and the Pacif- Johnson; an aunt, Rosa Cla- of the late Boyd McSwain and operator, concrete driver and Rush; one great-grandson, ic. The war was over by her von; an uncle, Marion Cla- Merry Egers. She retired from boiler watcher. He also shared Jayce Spriggs; two sisters, graduation in September of von; and a brother, Dennis the Shaw Air Force Base Base some years of employment Alma Sanders Roman of Po- 1945. She returned to South Brown. Exchange. with the City of Sumter. Rich- mona, New York, and Dr. Vir- Carolina, was married, and Public viewing will be held Survivors include her hus- ard had a power-packed per- ginia (Julian Jr.) Brown of worked for the South Caroli- from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday band of 63 years; a grand- sonality. He was known for Sumter; sister-in-law, Johnnie na State Board of Health at Job’s Mortuary. daughter, Megan D. Floyd; his smile and his infectious Womack of Fairmont, West while her husband completed Mr. Wilson will be placed in three grandsons, Kenny Zei- laughter. He had an affinity Virginia; and a host of other his college years, a veteran the church at 1 p.m. on Sun- gler, Troy Zeigler and Richard for motorcycles and high relatives and dear friends. student at University of day for viewing until the hour Floyd; and a sister, Betty speed vehicles. With his love Condolences may be made South Carolina. Her hus- of service. Kirby. for music, outdoor grilling, on his tribute page found at band’s career in engineering Funeral services will be She was preceded in death speedy cars and motorcycles, wwwPalmerMemorialChapel. took the family to Dover, Del- held at 2 p.m. on Sunday at by a daughter, Millie D. Boyce; it was destiny that led Rich- com. aware; Kinston, North Caroli- Church of Christ, 680 Sandy and a son, Kevin G. Floyd. ard to join the Thunderguard Professional services ren- na; Richmond, Virginia; Sig- Grove Road, Lamar, SC 29069 A memorial service will be Motorcycle Club. Richard’s dered by Palmer Memorial nal Mountain, Tennessee; with Minister Sylvester Mc- held at noon on Saturday in ministry was in helping those Chapel Inc. and finally to Summerville in Cray, pastor and eulogist, the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens who could not help them- 1973. They bought a house at and Elder Robert Sanders of- Funeral Home chapel. selves. Edisto Beach in 1979 and had ficiating. Interment will fol- Memorials may be made to He leaves to cherish his years of enjoyment there. low at Church of Christ the St. Jude Children’s Re- memories: four children, They moved to The Village of Cemetery. search Hospital, 501 St. Jude Syleeta Nicole Washington Summerville in 1999, joining The family will receive Place, Memphis, TN 38105- (Nicholas) of Sumter, Richard old friends and making new friends at the home, 14 Repub- 9959 or to the Shriner’s Hospi- Lee Boone of Rock Hill, For- ones. She was a member of lic St., Mayesville, SC 29104. tal for Children, 950 W. Faris rest Dominic Washington and Summerville Presbyterian Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Road, Greenville, SC 29605. Nialah Washington of Sum- KAREN HEATER BREWER Church. In all churches Main St., Sumter, is in charge Elmore-Cannon-Stephens ter; also reared in the home where she lived, she was very of arrangements. Funeral Home and Crematori- and viewed as a son, Tyrone Karen Heater Brewer died active in the Women of the Online memorials may be um of Sumter is in charge of Williams; his mother, Mattie on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, Church and taught kinder- sent to the family at jobsmor- the arrangements. Washington Boone; his fiancé, at the Medical University of garten Sunday school for [email protected] or visit us on Sandra Thomas; four grand- South Carolina. years. She was a charter the web at www.jobsmortuary. PORTIA GREEN children; seven siblings, You may go to www.bullock- board member of Help of net. BISHOPVILLE — Portia George Washington (Martha), funeralhome.com and sign the Summerville and a former Green passed away on Mon- Mary Lynn Eddy (Tony), family’s guest book. board member of the Red DARRICK LYDELL MICKENS day, Dec. 24, 2018. Booker T. Washington III The family has chosen Bull- Cross, Carolina Lowcountry Darrick Lydell Mickens, 40, Funeral services will be (Jeannie) of New Castle, Dela- ock Funeral Home for the ar- Chapter. She performed entered into eternal rest on held at 1 p.m. on Saturday at ware, Rickey Govan of New rangements. many hours of volunteer Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. St. Mark Baptist Church. In- York, Ernestine Govan, Ro- work. She was an avid reader, Born on Oct. 2, 1978, in terment will follow at the berta Govan and Roleasha an enthusiastic world travel- Sumter County, he was the church cemetery. Wilson of Columbia; and a er, enjoyed playing bridge youngest son of George Sr. Professional and courteous host of cousins, other rela- and was a supporter of USC and Lydia J. Mickens and services have been entrusted tives and friends. sports — Go Gamecocks! grandson of the late Alex and to JP Holley Funeral Home, The family is receiving rela- Surviving are husband, Wil- Mary A. Burgess Johnson and Bishopville Chapel. tives and friends at the home, 24 Logan St., Sumter. EDWARD BODE Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Edward Bode, 92, husband Union Station AME Church, of Helen Marie Sommers How Current is 945 S. Main St., Sumter, with Bode, died on Wednesday, Dec. the Rev. Donna Jackson, pas- 26, 2018, at Palmetto Health tor of Pine Hill AME Church, Tuomey. Your Will? officiating, eulogist. Born in Hoboken, New Jer- The remains will be placed sey, he was a son of the late in the church at 10 a.m. Edward and Elizabeth Spie- Have you kept your Will current? Have you had or are you undergoing The funeral procession will gelhalter Bode. Mr. Bode was major life changes that warrant a Will review or change? leave at 10:30 a.m. from the a retired supervisor with Bec- If so, Glenn Givens can help with this matter by reviewing your Will and home. ton-Dickinson. He was a U.S. Burial will be at Bradford Army veteran of World War amending your Will or creating a new Will if wanted or needed. Cemetery, Sumter. II. Call Glenn at (803) 418-0800; ext. 108 Services directed by the Surviving are his wife of GLENN F. GIVENS, ATTORNEY management and staff of Wil- Sumter; a brother, William liams Funeral Home Inc., 821 Bode of Sumter; and two Kolb, Murphy & Givens, Attorneys at Law, LLC N. Main St., Sumter. 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Summons & Summons & Notice of Sale Notice of Sale Notice of Sale BUSINESS Notice Notice and payable immediately upon Adoption of a Female child born to 7, 2019 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter to serve a copy of your answer to the In the event an agent of Plaintiff closing of the bidding, in certified SERVICES Cierra Shonta Franklin, on April 12, County Judicial Center, City of complaint upon the undersigned does not appear at the time of sale, funds or equivalent, as evidence of 2015 in Sumter County, South Sumter, State of South Carolina, to attorney for the Plaintiff at Steven B. the within property shall be good faith, same to be applied to Carolina, was filed in the Superior the highest bidder: Suchomski, 105 N. Magnolia Street, withdrawn from sale and sold at the purchase price in case of Roofing Sumter, SC 29150 within thirty (30) Court of Rockdale County, Georgia ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, next available sales date upon the compliance, but to be forfeited and days following the date of service assigned Adoption No. PARCEL, OR LOT OF LAND, terms and conditions as set forth in applied first to costs and then to upon you, exclusive of the day of 2018-AD-1015-M. Robert's Metal Roofing TOGETHER WITH THE the Judgment of Foreclosure and Plaintiff's debt in the case of such service; and if you fail to Sale or such terms as may be set non-compliance. In the event of a 35 Yrs exp. 45 yr warranty. Financing All parental rights you may have IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, IF answer the Complaint within the forth in a supplemental order. third party bidder and that any third avail. Expert installation. Long list of with respect to the minor child will ANY, LYING, SITUATE, AND statutory time allotted, the Plaintiff party bidder fails to deliver the be lost and you will neither receive BEING IN THE CITY AND COUNTY satisfied customers. 803-837-1549. in this action will apply to the Court The Honorable Howard P. King required deposit in certified nor be entitled to object to the OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH for the relief demanded in said Master In Equity (immediately collectible) funds with adoption of the child unless, within CAROLINA, BEING DESIGNATED Complaint. A hearing has been for Sumter County the Office of the Interim Master in Tree Service thirty (30) days from the date of the AS LOT #6, AS SHOWN ON THAT scheduled for January 10, 2019 at Equity, said deposit being due and last publication of this notice, you CERTAIN PLAT PREPARED BY 2:00 p.m. Brock & Scott, PLLC payable immediately upon closing of file (1) a Petition to Legitimate the PALMER & MALLARD, R. L. S., Ricky's Tree Service Tree removal, 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 the bidding on the day of sale, the child pursuant to O.C.G.A. §19-7-22; AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE stump grinding, Lic & ins, free quote, S. C. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL Columbia, SC 29210 Interim Master in Equity will re-sell (2) Notice of the filing of such OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS SERVICES Attorneys for Plaintiff the subject property at the most 803-435-2223 or cell 803-460-8747. Petition to Legitimate with the FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT Steven B. Suchomski, Esquire Phone 803-454-3540 convenient time thereafter Superior Court of Rockdale County BOOK Z-23 AT PAGE 30, AND A Notch Above Tree Care Full P.O. Box 68 Fax 803-454-3541 (including the day of sale) upon and make known such other HAVING SUCH METES AND Sumter, SC 29151 notification to counsel for Plaintiff. quality service low rates, lic./ins., free objections in writing as you may BOUNDS AS ARE SHOWN ON SAID (803) 773-5531 Ext 214 INTERIM MASTER Should the last and highest bidder est BBB accredited 983-9721 have; (3) Serve a copy of the Petition PLAT, THIS DESCRIPTION BEING fail or refuse to comply with the to Legitimate on the Petitioner IN LIEU OF METES AND BOUNDS, IN EQUITY SUMMONS balance due of the bid within 20 Newman's Tree Service Tree Ashley Simone Kirkwood who is AS PERMITTED UNDER SECTION NOTICE OF SALE days, then the Interim Master in removal, trimming, topping, view STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA seeking to adopt the child through 30-5-250 OF THE 1976 CODE OF 2018-CP-43-00382 Equity may re-sell the property on enhancement pruning, bobcat COUNTY OF CLARENDON her Attorney Harger W. Hoyt, P.C., LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AS the same terms and conditions on work stump grinding, Lic & 1229 Royal Drive, Suite D, Conyers, AMENDED. THIS PROPERTY IS BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore some subsequent Sales Day (at the insured. Call 803-316-0128 South Carolina Department of Social Georgia 30094. If you fail to respond KNOWN AS 11 CONYERS STREET. granted in the case of: JPMorgan risk of the said highest bidder). Services, and file a legitimization petition and Chase Bank, National Association vs. PLAINTIFF, give notice as required within 30 Paul R. Knorr; et al., I, the Personal or deficiency judgment vs. days from the receipt of this notice, THIS BEING THE SAME undersigned Howard P. King, being demanded, the bidding will Shameka Johnson, or if after filing the petition and PROPERTY CONVEYED TO Interim Master in Equity for Sumter remain open for a period of thirty DEFENDANT. notice you fail to prosecute the MATTHEW C. STUTZ BY DEED OF County, will sell on Monday, January MERCHANDISE (30) days after the sale date. The petition to final judgment, you lose JAMES W. ROSS, JR. DATED 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM, at the County Plaintiff may waive its right to a In the interests of: all rights to said child and the court DECEMBER 8, 2006 AND Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, deficiency judgment prior to sale, in Minor Child, DOB: 04/19/2003, shall enter an order terminating all RECORDED DECEMBER 8, 2006 IN Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest which case the bidding will not A minor child under the age of 18. such parental rights to the child and BOOK 1056 AT PAGE 1118 IN THE bidder: remain open after the date of sale, Want to Buy you may not thereafter object to the OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF but compliance with the bid may be TO: SHAMEKA JOHNSON, THE termination of said rights, or the DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, All that certain piece, parcel, or lot made immediately. Will buy furniture by piece or DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: adoption of said child. SOUTH CAROLINA. of land, together with the dwelling and improvements thereon, lying bulk, tools, trailers, lawn mowers, Purchaser to pay for documentary YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED READ CAREFULLY This Summons CURRENT ADDRESS and being situate in the Township 4 wheelers, or almost anything of stamps on Interim Master in Equity's and required to answer the requires you to be present at a OF PROPERTY: and County of Sumter, State of South Deed. The successful bidder will be value. Also old signs & lawn Complaint for Termination of formal hearing in the Superior Court Carolina, containing 0.39 acre, more 11 Conyers Street, required to pay interest on the furniture Call 803-983-5364 Parental Rights of the minor child in of Rockdale County, Georgia. or less, and being shown and Sumter, SC 29150 balance of the bid from the date of this action, the original of which has Wherefore, Plaintiff verifies that the delineated as Lot No. 2 of Winter TMS: 204-14-04-024 sale to date of compliance with the For Sale been filed in the Office of the Family above-mentioned statements for Park Subdivision on that plat prepared by D.D. Edmunds, RLS, bid at the rate of 3.875% per annum. or Trade Court for Clarendon County, on the attempts at personal service cannot The successful TERMS OF SALE: dated June 5, 1991 and recorded in 26th day of March, 2018, a copy of be made and is warranting the need bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will Plat Book 91 at page 817 in the The Plaintiff may waive any of its which will be delivered to you upon for service by publication. Said deposit with the Master In Equity, at Generac Generator for sale. records of the Register of Deeds rights, including its right to a request; and to serve a copy of your notice provided this 18th day of conclusion of the bidding, five BRAND NEW, still in the box. $700 Office for Sumter County. Aforesaid deficiency judgment, prior to sale. Answer to the Complaint upon the October 2018. Honorable Robert F. percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or OBO. Call 803-840-6743 for more plat is specifically incorporated undersigned attorney for the Mumford, Judge Rockdale County equivalent, as evidence of good faith, details. herein and reference is craved The sale shall be subject to taxes Plaintiff, W. Evan Reynolds, 120 Superior Court. same to be applied to the purchase thereto for a more complete and and assessments, existing easements West Main Street, Kingstree, South This 18th day of October, 2018. price in case of compliance, but to accurate description of the metes, and restrictions of record. Carolina 29556, within thirty (30) be forfeited and applied first to costs bounds, courses and distances of the days following the date of service Harger W. Hoyt and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the property concerned herein. This This sale is subject to all title upon you, exclusive of the day of Georgia Bar No. 373125 case of non-compliance. Should the description is made in lieu of metes matters of record and any interested such service; and if you fail to Attorney for Petitioner last and highest bidder fail to comply EMPLOYMENT and bounds as permitted by law party should consider performing an answer the Complaint within the 1229 Royal Drive, Suite D with the other terms of the bid under §30-5-250 of The Code of Laws independent title examination of the time stated, the Plaintiff will apply Conyers, Georgia 30094 within thirty (30) days, then the of South Carolina (1976), as subject property as no warranty is for judgment by default against the (770) 483-3000 Master In Equity may re-sell the amended. given. Help Wanted you for the relief demanded in the property on the same terms and Full-Time Complaint. conditions on some subsequent Sales Notice of Sale This being the same property The sale will not be held unless Day (at the risk of the said highest conveyed to Paul R. Knorr by Deed either Plaintiff's attorney or NOTICE OF FILING: bidder). No personal or deficiency Nesbitt Transportation is now of LandAmerica OneStop Inc., dated Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at Notice of Sale judgment being demanded, the the sale and either Plaintiff's hiring Class A CDL Drivers. Must be YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE September 16, 2004 and recorded C/A No: bidding shall not remain open after attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent 23 yrs old and have 2 yrs that the action entitled above has September 30, 2004 in Book 954 at the date of sale and shall be final on enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff been commenced by the Plaintiff 2018-CP-43-01158 Page 1821 in the ROD Office for experience. Home nights and week- that date, and compliance with the for this captioned matter. In the against you in the Family Court of Sumter County. ends. Also hiring diesel mechanics. BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the bid may be made immediately. alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if Clarendon County in the Third Call 843-621-0943 or 843-659-8254 Court of Common Pleas for Sumter Purchaser to pay for documentary permitted by the Court, may advise Judicial Circuit, Manning, South TMS No. 184-13-04-015 County, South Carolina, heretofore stamps on the Deed. The successful this Court directly of its authorized Carolina, by the filing of a Summons issued in the case of Security bidder will be required to pay bidding instructions. In the event a and Complaint for Termination of National Mortgage Company vs. interest on the amount of the Property address: sale is inadvertently held without Parental Rights on the 26th day of Gregory C. Witcher; Marissa E. balance of the bid from date of sale 234 Keels Road, Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's March, 2018, and is available for Witcher; I the undersigned as Master to date of compliance with the bid at bidding agent entering the RENTALS inspection in the Office of the Sumter, SC 29154 in Equity for Sumter County, will sell the rate of 4% per annum. The sale authorized bid of Plaintiff for this Family Court for Clarendon County, on January 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM, at shall be subject to taxes and TERMS OF SALE: The successful specifically captioned matter, the South Carolina. the Sumter County Judicial Center, assessments, existing easements and bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will sale shall be null and void and the Unfurnished Sumter County, South Carolina, to restrictions, easements and deposit with the Interim Master in property shall be re-advertised for NOTICE OF HEARING: Apartments the highest bidder: restrictions of record and any other Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, sale on the next available sale date. senior encumbrances. five percent (5%) of said bid is due A Termination of Parental Rights Legal Description and Property hearing will be held at the Senior Living Address: Clarendon County Family Court, 102 ALL THAT CERTAIN piece, parcel, Apartments South Mill Street, Manning, South or lot of land, together with the for those 62+ Carolina, on February 19, 2019, at dwelling and improvements thereon, (Rent based on income) 2:00 p.m. lying and being situate, in the City Shiloh-Randolph Manor and County of Sumter, State of South South Carolina Department 125 W. Bartlette. Carolina, being shown and of Social Services Going on 775-0575 delineated as Lot No. 4, in Block "B", Kingstree, South Carolina Studio/1 Bedroom on that plat prepared by Joseph R. apartments available Edwards RLS, dated March 18, 1991 and recorded in Plat Book 91 at Page EHO W. Evan Reynolds, Esquire 335 in the records of the Register of JENKINSON, JARRETT Deeds Office for Sumter County. & KELLAHAN, P.A. Mobile Home Aforesaid plat is specifically Post Office Drawer 669 incorporated herein and reference is Rentals Kingstree, SC 29556 craved thereto for a more complete Ph: (843) 355-2000 and accurate description of the Fax:(843) 355-2010 Sumter/Scenic Lake metes, bounds, course and distances ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF 2 Br/2 ba, No pets, housing of the property concerned herein. accepted. 469-6978/499-1500 betw. This description is made in lieu of vacation? AS A RESULT OF THIS HEARING, 9am-5pm metes and bounds as permitted by YOU COULD LOSE YOUR RIGHTS law under 30-5-250 of The Code of AS A PARENT. Laws of South Carolina (1976) as TRANSPORTATION amended. SUMMONS Don’t Miss A Thing! FOR PUBLICATION THIS BEING the same property IN THE FAMILY COURT conveyed unto Gregory C. Witcher OF THE and Marissa E. Witcher by virtue of a THIRD JUDICIAL Deed from Scott B. Hall and Let your carrier save your paper for you CIRCUIT Rochelle Smith dated August 9 2011 Autos For Sale 2018-DR-43-983 and recorded August 12, 2011 in Book 1158 at Page 1899 in the Office while you are on vacation! STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA 1999 Ford Cr.Vic. Very nice, 57,000 of the Register of Deeds for Sumter COUNTY OF SUMTER County, South Carolina. actual miles! $5500, CASH ONLY!! 803-972-0900 DONNA L. CORBETT, 12 Anne Park Plaintiff, vs. Sumter, SC 29150 LEGAL JOSEPH MICHAEL BLACK AND TMS# 249-08-01-007 WALTER DEWAYNE HUGGINS, TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest NOTICES at the current rate of Four and Defendants. 75/100 (4.75%) to be paid on balance Call of bid from date of sale to date of Summons & IN THE INTEREST OF: compliance. The purchaser to pay Notice DUSTIN H. for papers and stamps, and that the (DOB: 2012), successful bidder or bidders, other 803-774-1258 A MINOR CHILD than the Plaintiff therein, will, upon Summons and the acceptance of his or her bid, Notice Publication TO: JOSEPH MICHAEL BLACK, deposit with the Master in Equity for Customer Service THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED Sumter County a certified check or Family Court of Sumter, cash in the amount equal to five South Carolina YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED percent (5%) of the amount of bid on Third Judicial Circuit Dept. Hours and required to answer the said premises at the sale as evidence STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Complaint in this matter, the of good faith in bidding, and subject SUMTER, COUNTY original of which has been filed in to any resale of said premises under (Plaintiff) Mon-Fri 8am - 5pm the office of the Clerk of Court for Order of this Court; and in the event VS. Sumter County, South Carolina, on the said purchaser or purchasers fail Mary Heather Jones the 16th day of August, 2018, a copy to comply with the terms of sale Corey Connor of which will be delivered to you within Twenty (20) days, the Master John Doe upon request; to serve a copy of your in Equity shall forthwith resell the (Defendants) answer to said Complaint upon the said property, after the due notice IN THE INTEREST OF undersigned attorney for the and advertisement, and shall Minor Child Born on August 9, 2017 Plaintiff at 5 Law Range, Post Office continue to sell the same each Box 1268, Sumter, South Carolina subsequent sales day until a TO DEFENDANTS: 29151-1268, within thirty (30) days purchaser, who shall comply with Mary Heather Jones following the date of service upon the terms of sale, shall be obtained, Corey Connor you, exclusive of the day of such such sales to be made at the risk of John Doe service; if you fail to answer said the former purchaser. As a personal Complaint within the time stated, or deficiency judgment is demanded, YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED Plaintiff will apply for judgment by the bidding will remain open for a And required to answer the default against you for the relief period of thirty (30) days pursuant to complaint In the above referenced demanded in the Complaint. the S.C. Code Ann. Section 15-39-720 concerning the minor child above (1976). If the Plaintiff or the and that you have failed to contact JONES SETH & JONES, LLP Plaintiff's representative does not the agency in regards to your Richard T. Jones appear at the above-described sale, whereabouts in this action, the Attorney for Plaintiff then the sale of the property will be original of which has been filed in 5 Law Range null, void, and of no force and effect. the Office of the Clerk of Court for Post Office Box 1268 In such event, the sale will be James C. Campbell County, on July Sumter, South Carolina 29151 rescheduled for the next available 16, 2018 a copy of which will be (803) 773-8676 sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of delivered to you upon request; and its rights, including its right to a IN THE SUPERIOR deficiency judgment, prior to sale. Sold subject to taxes and COURT OF assessments, existing easements and ROCKDALE COUNTY restrictions of record. STATE OF GEORGIA Hutchens Law Firm Civil Action File P.O. Box 8237 Number Columbia, SC 29202 2018-AD-1015-M 803-726-2700

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Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel thereon, lying, being and situate in deposit with the Master in Equity for stamps on Interim Master in Equity's bidder, other than the plaintiff, will sell the same each subsequent sales make representations as to the the City of Sumter, County of Sumter, Sumter County a certified check or Deed. The successful bidder will be deposit with the Master in Equity, at day until a purchaser, who shall integrity of the title or the fair and State of South Carolina, being cash in the amount equal to five required to pay interest on the conclusion of the bidding, five comply with the terms of sale, shall market value of the property offered shown and designated as Lot No. 43 percent (5%) of the amount of bid on balance of the bid from the date of percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or be obtained, such sales to be made at for sale. Prior to bidding you may on that certain plat of "Midfield said premises at the sale as evidence sale to date of compliance with the equivalent, as evidence of good faith, the risk of the former purchaser. wish to review the current state law Subdivision" by H.S. Willson, RLS, of good faith in bidding, and subject bid at the rate of 4.625% per annum. same be applied to purchase price in Since a personal or deficiency or seek the advice of any attorney dated February 17, 1971 and to any resale of said premises under case of compliance, but to be judgment is waived, the bidding will licensed in South Carolina. recorded in the Office of the RMC Order of this Court; and in the event The Plaintiff may waive any of its forfeited and applied first to costs not remain open but compliance for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-31 the said purchaser or purchasers fail rights, including its right to a and then to plaintiff's debt in the with the bid may be made Howard P. King at page 38, said Lot No. 43 being to comply with the terms of sale deficiency judgment, prior to sale. case of non-compliance. Should the immediately. If the Plaintiff or the Interim Master in Equity more particularly shown and within Twenty (20) days, the Master last and highest bidder fail or refuse Plaintiff's representative does not for Sumter County designated in a more recent plat of in Equity shall forthwith resell the The sale shall be subject to taxes to make the required deposit at the appear at the above-described sale, H.S. Willson, RLS, dated July 30, said property, after the due notice and assessments, existing easements time of bid or comply with the other then the sale of the property will be Scott and Corley, P.A. 1986 and recorded in Plat Book 86 at and advertisement, and shall and restrictions of record. terms of the bid within twenty (20) null, void, and of no force and effect. Attorney for Plaintiff page 1110 in said RMC's office. continue to sell the same each days, then the Master in Equity may In such event, the sale will be subsequent sales day until a This sale is subject to all title re-sell the property on the same rescheduled for the next available Notice of Sale TMS Number: purchaser, who shall comply with matters of record and any interested terms and conditions on some sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of C/A No: 2270802037 the terms of sale, shall be obtained, party should consider performing an subsequent Sales Day (at risk of the its rights, including its right to a 2018-CP-43-01228 PROPERTY ADDRESS: such sales to be made at the risk of independent title examination of the said highest bidder). A personal or deficiency judgment, prior to sale. the former purchaser. Since a subject property as no warranty is deficiency judgment being expressly Sold subject to taxes and 27 Malibu St., waived by the Plaintiff, the bidding BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the personal or deficiency judgment is given. assessments, existing easements and Sumter, SC 29150 shall close after the date of sale. Court of Common Pleas for Sumter waived, the bidding will not remain restrictions of record. Purchaser to pay for documentary County, South Carolina, heretofore open but compliance with the bid The sale will not be held unless This being the same property stamps on Master in Equity's Deed. issued in the case of Lakeview Loan may be made immediately. If the either Plaintiff's attorney or Hutchens Law Firm conveyed to Rebecca Duncan by The successful bidder will be Servicing, LLC vs. Evelyn Turner; Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at P.O. Box 8237 deed of Willis Brown and Mary E. required to pay interest on the Landmark Pointe Homeowners representative does not appear at the sale and either Plaintiff's Columbia, SC 29202 Brown, dated October 10, 1989, and amount of the balance of the bid Association, I the undersigned as the above-described sale, then the attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent 803-726-2700 recorded in the Office of the from date of sale to date of Master in Equity for Sumter County, sale of the property will be null, enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff Register of Deeds for Sumter County compliance with the bid at the rate will sell on January 7, 2019 at 12:00 void, and of no force and effect. In for this captioned matter. In the INTERIM MASTER on October 10, 1989, in Deed Book such event, the sale will be alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if of 3.245% per annum. PM, at the Sumter County Judicial 495 at Page 1060. IN EQUITY Center, Sumter County, South rescheduled for the next available permitted by the Court, may advise SAVE AND EXCEPT ANY NOTICE OF SALE Carolina, to the highest bidder: sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of this Court directly of its authorized TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The its rights, including its right to a bidding instructions. In the event a RELEASES, DEEDS OF RELEASE, 2018-CP-43-01575 Master in Equity will require a OR PRIOR CONVEYANCES OF Legal Description and Property deficiency judgment, prior to sale. sale is inadvertently held without deposit of 5% of the bid amount in RECORD. SUBJECT TO BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Address: Sold subject to taxes and Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's cash or certified funds, which is to ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER COUNTY granted in the case of: Branch All that certain piece, parcel or lot of assessments, existing easements and bidding agent entering the be applied on the purchase price TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, Banking and Trust Company vs. land with the improvements thereon, restrictions of record. authorized bid of Plaintiff for this upon compliance with the bid. EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS Jerad Cockrell a/k/a Jerad R. situate, lying and being in the County specifically captioned matter, the Interest on the balance of the bid at OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR Cockrell; Stephanie Cockrell a/k/a of Sumter, State of South Carolina, Hutchens Law Firm sale shall be null and void and the 4.375% shall be paid to the day of P.O. Box 8237 property shall be re-advertised for ENCUMBRANCES. Stephanie L. Cockrell; et.al., I, the identified as Lot No. 116A of compliance. In case of undersigned Howard P. King, Landmark Point Subdivision, Phase Columbia, SC 29202 sale on the next available sale date. noncompliance within 20 days, after In the event an agent of Plaintiff Interim Master in Equity for Sumter 2 and being more fully shown on a 803-726-2700 the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be does not appear at the time of sale, County, will sell on Monday, January plat prepared by Joseph R. Edwards, Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's the within property shall be 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM, at the County PLS dated April 3, 2006 and INTERIM MASTER make representations as to the judgment debt and the property withdrawn from sale and sold at the Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, recorded in Plat Book 2006 at Page IN EQUITY integrity of the title or the fair re-advertised for sale upon the same next available sales date upon the Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest 196 in the Office of the RMC for market value of the property offered terms at the risk of the former NOTICE OF SALE terms and conditions as set forth in bidder: Sumter County. Aforesaid plat is for sale. Prior to bidding you may highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for 2018-CP-43-01667 the Judgment of Foreclosure and specifically incorporated herein and wish to review the current state law deed recording fees and deed or seek the advice of any attorney Sale or such terms as may be set All that certain piece, parcel or lot of referenced is craved thereto for a BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore stamps. licensed in South Carolina. forth in a supplemental order. land with the improvements thereon, more complete and accurate granted in the case of: Arvest if any, situate, lying and being in the description of the metes, bounds, Deficiency judgment not being Central Mortgage Company vs. County of Sumter, State of South Howard P. King The Honorable Howard P. King courses and distances of the Daulton P. Hardee; et.al., I, the demanded, the bidding will not Interim Master in Equity As Master in Equity Carolina and designated as Lot No. property concerned herein. This undersigned Howard P. King, remain open after the date of sale, for Sumter County for SUMTER County 119 of Whispering Meadows description is in lieu of the metes but compliance with the bid may be Interim Master in Equity for Sumter Subdivision on a Plat by Robert G. and bounds, as permitted by law made immediately. County, will sell on Monday, January Bell Carrington Price Mathis, RLS, dated May 2, 1994 and under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Scott and Corley, P.A. 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM, at the County & Gregg, LLC recorded in the Office of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, as Attorney for Plaintiff Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, 508 Hampton Street, Suite 301 Register of Deeds for Sumter County amended. or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest MASTER IN Columbia, SC 29201 in Plat Book PB95, pages 3,4 and 5. the day of sale, the property shall not bidder: 803-509-5078 / File # 17-41921 This said lot has such metes, This being the same property EQUITY'S SALE be sold, but shall be re-advertised Attorney for Plaintiff boundaries, courses and distances as conveyed to Evelyn Turner by Deed and sold at some convenient sales All that certain piece, parcel or lot of 2017-CP-43-01585 are shown on said plat, which are of Robert H. Rabon, Jr. dated day thereafter when Plaintiff, land, containing 0.30 acre(s), more or Notice of Sale incorporated herein in accordance September 30, 2010 and recorded Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's less, together with any and all BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore with the provisions of Section September 30, 2010 in Book 1145 at granted in the case of: C/A No: agent, is present. improvements thereon, lying, being Ocwen Loan 2018-CP-43-01589 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Page 00953, in the Office of the and situate in Providence Township, Servicing, LLC against Gloria K. Carolina, 1976. This being the same Register of Deeds for Sumter the County of Sumter, State of South Ford, et al., I, the undersigned The sale shall be subject to taxes BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the property known as 3570 Delaware County, South Carolina. Carolina, being shown and Master in Equity for SUMTER and assessments, existing easements Court of Common Pleas for Sumter Drive, Dalzell, South Carolina and delineated as Lot No. 8 of The County, will sell on January 7, 2019 and easements and restrictions of County, South Carolina, heretofore being represented as Sumter County 3582 Beacon Drive Willows Subdivision on that certain at 12:00 PM, SUMTER County record. issued in the case of Lakeview Loan Parcel No. 151-05-02-020. plat by Ben J. Makela, RLS, dated Courthouse, 215 N. Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29154 Servicing, LLC vs. Mary Beth December 3, 1998, recorded in the Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest TMS# 1850701073 Any sale pursuant to this order is Rogers, Individually and as Personal This being the same property Office of the Register of Deeds for bidder: without warranty of any kind. Representative for the Estate of conveyed to Jerad R. Cockrell and Sumter County in Plat Book 99 at TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant Michael Shane Rogers; William Stephanie Cockrell, as joint tenants at the current rate of Three and title to any third-party purchaser. All page 199. ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, with the right of survivorship, by PARCEL, LOT OR TRACT OF LAND, Rogers; Safe Federal Credit Union, I 875/1000 (3.875%) to be paid on third-party purchasers are made the undersigned as Master in Equity deed of Gainey Construction Co., Pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the CONTAINING 0.43 ACRE(S), MORE balance of bid from date of sale to parties to this action and are for Sumter County, will sell on LLC, dated April 20, 2011 and Code of Laws of South Carolina OR LESS, TOGETHER WITH ANY date of compliance. The purchaser deemed to have notice of all matters January 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM, at the recorded April 21, 2011 in Book 1153 (1976), reference to said plat(s) is AND ALL IMPROVEMENTS to pay for papers and stamps, and disclosed by the public record, Sumter County Judicial Center, at Page 2002 in the Office of the hereby craved for particulars of the THEREON, LYING, BEING AND that the successful bidder or including the status of title. See Ex Sumter County, South Carolina, to Register of Deeds for Sumter boundaries, metes, courses, and/or SITUATE IN SUMTER TOWNSHIP, bidders, other than the Plaintiff parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 the highest bidder: County. therein, will, upon the acceptance of (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. distances of the property delineated THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE his or her bid, deposit with the Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 thereon. OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING TMS No. 1510502020 SHOWN AND DELINEATED AS Legal Description and Property Master in Equity for Sumter County (Ct. App. 2008). Address: This being the same property LOT NO. 38 OF ASHLEY CREEK a certified check or cash in the All that certain piece, parcel or lot of Property address: conveyed to Daulton P. Hardee by VILLAGE SUBDIVISION ON THAT amount equal to five percent (5%) of FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC land with the improvements thereon, deed of Justin K. Hardee, dated CERTAIN PLAT BY H.S. WILLSON, 3570 Delaware Drive, the amount of bid on said premises Post Office Box 71727 if any, situate, lying and being in the December 8, 2016 and recorded RLS, DATED DECEMBER 31, 1965, Dalzell, SC 29040 at the sale as evidence of good faith North Charleston, S.C. 29415 County of Sumter, State of South December 8, 2016 in Book 1228 at AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE in bidding, and subject to any resale (843) 577-5460 Carolina, being shown and Page 1411 in the Office of the OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS TERMS OF SALE: The successful of said premises under Order of this Attorneys for Plaintiff designated as Tract "D", containing Register of Deeds for Sumter FOR Z-22 COUNTRY IN PLAT bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will Court; and in the event the said 0.54 acres, more or less, as shown on Notice of Sale County. BOOK 119. deposit with the Interim Master in purchaser or purchasers fail to that certain plat prepared for Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, comply with the terms of sale within C/A No: PURSUANT TO SECTION 30-5-250 Franklyn Brent Lyons by Michael C. five percent (5%) of said bid is due Twenty (20) days, the Master in 2017-CP-43-02514 TMS No. 186-13-01-002 Turbeville, RLS, dated August 20, and payable immediately upon Equity shall forthwith resell the said OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA (1976), 1999 and recorded in the Office of closing of the bidding, in certified property, after the due notice and BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Property address: REFERENCE TO SAID PLAT(S) IS the Register of Deeds for Sumter funds or equivalent, as evidence of advertisement, and shall continue to Court of Common Pleas for Sumter 1165 Cutleaf Drive, HEREBY CRAVED FOR County in Plat Book PB99 at Page good faith, same to be applied to sell the same each subsequent sales County, South Carolina, heretofore Sumter, SC 29150 PARTICULARS OF THE 769. This said lot has such metes, purchase price in case of day until a purchaser, who shall issued in the case of WELLS FARGO boundaries, courses and distances as compliance, but to be forfeited and comply with the terms of sale, shall BOUNDARIES, METES, COURSES, BANK, N.A., as Trustee for the TERMS OF SALE: The successful are shown on said plat, which are applied first to costs and then to be obtained, such sales to be made at AND/OR DISTANCES OF THE POOLING AND SERVICING bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will incorporated herein in accordance Plaintiff's debt in the case of the risk of the former purchaser. PROPERTY DELINEATED AGREEMENT Dated as of October 1, deposit with the Interim Master in with the provisions of Section non-compliance. In the event of a Since a personal or deficiency THEREON. 2004 Park Place Securities, Inc. Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South third party bidder and that any third judgment is waived, the bidding will Asset-Backed Pass-Through five percent (5%) of said bid is due Carolina, 1976. This being the same party bidder fails to deliver the not remain open but compliance THIS PROPERTY IS Certificates Series 2004-MHQ1 vs. and payable immediately upon property known as 4132 DuBose required deposit in certified with the bid may be made REPRESENTED AS TAX MAP Celia Thomas; I the undersigned as closing of the bidding, in certified Siding Road, Sumter, SC. (immediately collectible) funds with immediately. If the Plaintiff or the PARCEL NO. 208-02-01-004 UPON Master in Equity for Sumter County, funds or equivalent, as evidence of Represented by Auditor's map of, the Office of the Interim Master in Plaintiff's representative does not THE RECORDS OF THE SUMTER will sell on January 7, 2019 at 12:00 good faith, same to be applied to Sumter County as tax parcel no. Equity, said deposit being due and appear at the above-described sale, COUNTY AUDITOR, AND IS PM, at the Sumter County Judicial purchase price in case of 242-00-02-128. payable immediately upon closing of then the sale of the property will be KNOWN AS 2179 TANGLEWOOD Center, Sumter County, South compliance, but to be forfeited and the bidding on the day of sale, the null, void, and of no force and effect. ROAD, SUMTER, SC. Carolina, to the highest bidder: applied first to costs and then to This being the identical property Interim Master in Equity will re-sell In such event, the sale will be Plaintiff's debt in the case of THIS BEING THE IDENTICAL conveyed to Michael S. Rogers by the subject property at the most rescheduled for the next available Legal Description and Property non-compliance. In the event of a PROPERTY HERETOFORE Deed of Thomas White dated convenient time thereafter sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of Address: third party bidder and that any third CONVEYED UNTO H. CLINTON February 16, 2010 and recorded (including the day of sale) upon its rights, including its right to a All that certain piece, parcel or lot of party bidder fails to deliver the FORD AND GLORIA K. FORD, BY February 17, 2010, in Book 1135 at notification to counsel for Plaintiff. deficiency judgment, prior to sale. land, together with any required deposit in certified DEED FROM TROTTER COMPANY Page 2581, in the Office of the Should the last and highest bidder Sold subject to taxes and improvements thereon, lying and (immediately collectible) funds with RECORDED AUGUST 18, 1967 IN Register of Deeds for Sumter fail or refuse to comply with the assessments, existing easements and being and situate in the County of the Office of the Interim Master in SAID REGISTER'S OFFICE IN County, South Carolina. balance due of the bid within 20 restrictions of record. Sumter, State of South Carolina, Equity, said deposit being due and DEED BOOK W-9 AT PAGE 469. days, then the Interim Master in being shown and delineated on that payable immediately upon closing of CLINTON FORD A/K/A H. CLINTON 4132 Dubose Siding Rd Equity may re-sell the property on Hutchens Law Firm certain plat by Oliver and Campbell, the bidding on the day of sale, the FORD A/K/A H.C. FORD Sumter, SC 29153 the same terms and conditions on P.O. Box 8237 surveyors, dated August 1, 1971, and Interim Master in Equity will re-sell CONVEYED HIS RIGHT, TITLE some subsequent Sales Day (at the Columbia, SC 29202 recorded in the Office of the TMS# 242-00-02-128 the subject property at the most AND INTEREST TO GLORIA K. risk of the said highest bidder). 803-726-2700 Register of Deeds for Sumter County convenient time thereafter FORD BY DEED RECORDED TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest in Plat Book Z-30 at Page 22. No personal or deficiency judgment NOTICE OF MASTER (including the day of sale) upon AUGUST 1, 1985, SAID REGISTER'S at the current rate of Five and notification to counsel for Plaintiff. OFFICE, IN DEED BOOK 410 AT 375/1000 (5.375%) to be paid on being demanded, the bidding will This is the same property conveyed IN EQUITY SALE Should the last and highest bidder PAGE 45. ON MAY 18, 2011 GLORIA balance of bid from date of sale to not remain open after the date of to Celia Thomas by Deed of Ricky CIVIL ACTION fail or refuse to comply with the K. FORD CONVEYED THE HEREIN date of compliance. The purchaser sale, but compliance with the bid Thomas dated October 27, 2004 and NO. 2016CP4301441 balance due of the bid within 20 REFERENCED PROPERTY TO to pay for papers and stamps, and may be made immediately. recorded November 4, 2004 in Deed days, then the Interim Master in HERSELF AND HERBERT C. that the successful bidder or Book 958 at Page 1207, in the Office BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Equity may re-sell the property on FORD (A/K/A H. CLINTON FORD, bidders, other than the Plaintiff Purchaser to pay for documentary of the Register of Deeds for Sumter Court of Common Pleas for Sumter the same terms and conditions on ETC.) BY RIGHT-OF-SURVIVORSH therein, will, upon the acceptance of stamps on Interim Master in Equity's County, South Carolina. County, South Carolina, heretofore some subsequent Sales Day (at the IP DEED RECORDED IN DEED his or her bid, deposit with the Deed. The successful bidder will be issued in the case of Nationstar risk of the said highest bidder). BOOK 1154 AT PAGE 2493, SAID Master in Equity for Sumter County required to pay interest on the Mortgage LLC, against Larry T. 1725 Reynolds Road REGISTER'S OFFICE. HERBERT C. a certified check or cash in the balance of the bid from the date of Green, Individually and as Personal Pinewood, SC 29125 Personal or deficiency judgment FORD'S INTEREST PASSED TO amount equal to five percent (5%) of sale to date of compliance with the Representative for the Estate of TMS# 174-00-01-010 being demanded, the bidding will GLORIA K. FORD UPON HIS the amount of bid on said premises bid at the rate of 3.750% per annum. Rebecca Duncan, et al., the Master remain open for a period of thirty DEATH ON JUNE 26, 2012. at the sale as evidence of good faith in Equity for Sumter County, or TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest (30) days after the sale date. The in bidding, and subject to any resale The Plaintiff may waive any of its his/her agent, will sell on January 7, at the current rate of Nine and Plaintiff may waive its right to a of said premises under Order of this rights, including its right to a CURRENT ADDRESS OF deficiency judgment, prior to sale. 2019, at 12:00 P.M., at Sumter 00/100 (9.00%) to be paid on balance deficiency judgment prior to sale, in PROPERTY: Court; and in the event the said Judicial Center, 215 North Harvin of bid from date of sale to date of which case the bidding will not purchaser or purchasers fail to Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the compliance. The purchaser to pay remain open after the date of sale, 2179 Tanglewood Road, comply with the terms of sale within The sale shall be subject to taxes highest bidder: for papers and stamps, and that the but compliance with the bid may be Sumter, SC 29154 Twenty (20) days, the Master in and assessments, existing easements successful bidder or bidders, other made immediately. Parcel No. 208-02-01-004 Equity shall forthwith resell the said and restrictions of record. All that certain piece, parcel or lot of than the Plaintiff therein, will, upon property, after the due notice and land, together with improvements the acceptance of his or her bid, Purchaser to pay for documentary TERMS OF SALE: The successful advertisement, and shall continue to This sale is subject to all title

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Notice of Sale Notice of Sale Notice of Sale Notice of Sale Notice of Sale Notice of Sale matters of record and any interested craved thereto for a more complete highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for Together with all and singular the terms of the bid within twenty (20) correcting the acreage from 1.98 party should consider performing an and accurate description of the deed recording fees and deed rights, members, hereditaments and days, then the Master in Equity may acres to 1.998 acres. independent title examination of the metes, bounds, courses and stamps. appurtenances to the said premises re-sell the property on the same subject property as no warranty is distances of the property concerned belonging or in anywise incident or terms and conditions on some This being the same property given. herein. This description is in lieu of Deficiency judgment not being appertaining. subsequent Sales Day (at risk of the conveyed to Gary E. Harshman and metes and bounds, as permitted by demanded, the bidding will not said highest bidder). A personal or Zennie D. Harshman, as joint The sale will not be held unless law under Section 30-5-250 of the remain open after the date of sale, This being the same property deficiency judgment being expressly tenants with the right of either Plaintiff's attorney or 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, but compliance with the bid may be conveyed to Annette M. Brunson and waived by the Plaintiff, the bidding survivorship, by deed of Linda Gayle Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at as amended. Be all of said made immediately. Joseph H. Brunson, Jr., by Deed of shall close after the date of sale. Miles, dated March 31, 2006 and the sale and either Plaintiff's measurements, a little more or a Helen W. Murray dated June 2, 1999 Purchaser to pay for documentary recorded April 6, 2006 in Book 1023 attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent little less, and according to said plat. Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, and recorded June 4, 1999 in Book stamps on Master in Equity's Deed. at Page 799 in the Office of the enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on 742 at Page 1970 in the ROD Office The successful bidder will be Register of Deeds for Sumter for this captioned matter. In the Please note that the above the day of sale, the property shall not for Sumter County. Subsequently, required to pay interest on the County. alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if description has been modified to be sold, but shall be re-advertised Annette Monteith Brunson died amount of the balance of the bid permitted by the Court, may advise correct a minor, immaterial clerical and sold at some convenient sales intestate on or about May 23, 2009, from date of sale to date of TMS No. 2120001024 this Court directly of its authorized error in the legal regarding the date day thereafter when Plaintiff, leaving the subject property to compliance with the bid at the rate bidding instructions. In the event a of plat. Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's his/her heirs, namely Joseph of 3.81% per annum. Property address: sale is inadvertently held without agent, is present. Brunson, Jr., and Joseph H., a minor, 3200 Bethel Church Rd. Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's This being the same property as shown in Probate Estate Matter SAVE AND EXCEPT ANY Sumter, SC 29154 bidding agent entering the conveyed to Phillip T. Jackson and The sale shall be subject to taxes Number 2009-ES-43-00567, and by RELEASES, DEEDS OF RELEASE, authorized bid of Plaintiff for this Elizabeth K. Jackson by Deed of and assessments, existing easements Deed of Distribution dated March 04, OR PRIOR CONVEYANCES OF TERMS OF SALE: The successful specifically captioned matter, the Robert L. Sisson dated July 21, 2000 and easements and restrictions of RECORD. SUBJECT TO 2011, and recorded on March 04, bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will sale shall be null and void and the and filed in the Sumter County record. ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER COUNTY 2011, in the Office of the Sumter deposit with the Interim Master in property shall be re-advertised for Register of Deeds Office on July 24, TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, sale on the next available sale date. 2000 in Volume 777 at Page 1821. Any sale pursuant to this order is EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS Book 1151, at Page 265 five percent (5%) of said bid is due without warranty of any kind. OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR and payable immediately upon Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant ENCUMBRANCES. TMS No. 201-00-02-007 TMS No. 228-02-02-028 closing of the bidding, in certified make representations as to the title to any third-party purchaser. All funds or equivalent, as evidence of integrity of the title or the fair third-party purchasers are made In the event an agent of Plaintiff Property address: good faith, same to be applied to market value of the property offered parties to this action and are Property address: does not appear at the time of sale, purchase price in case of for sale. Prior to bidding you may 2035 Cory Drive, deemed to have notice of all matters 31 Mason Croft Drive, the within property shall be compliance, but to be forfeited and wish to review the current state law Sumter, S.C.29153 disclosed by the public record, Sumter, SC 29150 withdrawn from sale and sold at the applied first to costs and then to or seek the advice of any attorney including the status of title. See Ex next available sales date upon the Plaintiff's debt in the case of licensed in South Carolina. TERMS OF SALE: The successful parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 TERMS OF SALE: The successful terms and conditions as set forth in non-compliance. In the event of a bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will the Judgment of Foreclosure and third party bidder and that any third Howard P. King deposit with the Interim Master in Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 deposit with the Master in Equity, at Sale or such terms as may be set party bidder fails to deliver the Interim Master in Equity Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, (Ct. App. 2008). conclusion of the bidding, five forth in a supplemental order. required deposit in certified for Sumter County five percent (5%) of said bid is due percent (5%) of said bid is due and (immediately collectible) funds with and payable immediately upon Sumter, South Carolina payable immediately upon closing of The Honorable Howard P. King the Office of the Interim Master in Scott and Corley, P.A. closing of the bidding, in certified FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC the bidding, in cash or equivalent, as As Master in Equity Equity, said deposit being due and Attorney for Plaintiff funds or equivalent, as evidence of Post Office Box 71727 evidence of good faith, same to be for SUMTER County payable immediately upon closing of good faith, same to be applied to North Charleston, S.C. 29415 applied to purchase price in case of the bidding on the day of sale, the purchase price in case of (843) 577-5460 compliance, but to be forfeited and Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC NOTICE OF SALE Interim Master in Equity will re-sell compliance, but to be forfeited and Attorneys for Plaintiff applied first to costs and then to 508 Hampton Street, Suite 301 the subject property at the most applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of Columbia, SC 29201 BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore convenient time thereafter Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. In the event of a 803-509-5078 / File # 18-41532 granted in the case of: PennyMac NOTICE OF SALE (including the day of sale) upon non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third Attorney for Plaintiff Loan Services, LLC vs. Lloyd R. notification to counsel for Plaintiff. third party bidder and that any third BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore party bidder fails to deliver the Horton;, C/A No. 2018CP4300781, The Should the last and highest bidder party bidder fails to deliver the granted in the case of: Reverse required deposit in certified NOTICE OF SALE following property will be sold on fail or refuse to comply with the required deposit in certified Mortgage Solutions, Inc. vs. Maureen (immediately collectible) funds with January 7, 2019, at 12:00 Noon at the balance due of the bid within 20 (immediately collectible) funds with A. Cooper; The United States of the Office of the Master in Equity, BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Sumter County Courthouse to the days, then the Interim Master in the Office of the Interim Master in America acting by and through its said deposit being due and payable granted in the case of: HSBC Bank highest bidder Equity may re-sell the property on Equity, said deposit being due and agency The Department of Housing immediately upon closing of the USA, National Association as the same terms and conditions on payable immediately upon closing of and Urban Development; Mortgage bidding on the day of sale, the Trustee in trust for Citigroup All that certain piece, parcel or lot of some subsequent Sales Day (at the the bidding on the day of sale, the Electronic Registration Systems, Master in Equity will re-sell the Mortgage Loan Trust Inc., Asset land, together with any and all risk of the said highest bidder). improvements thereon, lying, being Interim Master in Equity will re-sell Inc., as nominee for Urban Financial subject property at the most Backed Pass Through Certificates the subject property at the most Group, its successors and assigns; convenient time thereafter Series 2003-HE4 vs. Jerlean T. and situate in the City and County of Personal or deficiency judgment convenient time thereafter Ditech Financial LLC; , C/A No. (including the day of sale) upon Fulwood a/k/a Jerlean Tomlin; Sumter, State of South Carolina, being demanded, the bidding will (including the day of sale) upon 2016CP4300897, The following notification to counsel for Plaintiff. Matiel Johnson; Matilda Yvette being shown and delineated as Lot remain open for a period of thirty notification to counsel for Plaintiff. property will be sold on January 7, Should the last and highest bidder Richardson, as Personal No. 118 of Williamsburg Subdivision (30) days after the sale date. The Should the last and highest bidder 2019, at 12:00 Noon at the Sumter fail or refuse to comply with the Representative of the Estate of on that certain plat by Michael C. Plaintiff may waive its right to a fail or refuse to comply with the County Courthouse to the highest balance due of the bid within 20 Annette Tomlin Ceaser a/k/a Annette Turbeville, PLS dated November 22, deficiency judgment prior to sale, in 2004, recorded in the Office of the balance due of the bid within 20 bidder days, then the Master in Equity may T. Ceasar; Any Heirs-At-Law or days, then the Interim Master in re-sell the property on the same Devisees of Annette Tomlin Ceasar which case the bidding will not Register of Deeds for Sumter County remain open after the date of sale, Equity may re-sell the property on ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECES, terms and conditions on some a/k/a Annette T. Ceasar, Deceased, in Plat Book 2005 at Page 524 but compliance with the bid may be the same terms and conditions on PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND, WITH subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of their heirs, Personal Derivation: Book 1030 at Page 1544 made immediately. some subsequent Sales Day (at the THE DWELLING AND the said highest bidder). Representatives, Administrators, risk of the said highest bidder). IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, Successors and Assigns, and all 3025 Capetown Dr, Purchaser to pay for documentary SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN Personal or deficiency judgment other persons entitled to claim Sumter, SC 29153 stamps on Interim Master in Equity's Personal or deficiency judgment THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE being demanded, the bidding will through them; all unknown persons Deed. The successful bidder will be being demanded, the bidding will OF SOUTH CAROLINA, remain open for a period of thirty with any right, title or interest in the required to pay interest on the 187-14-02-011 remain open for a period of thirty DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 231 OF (30) days after the sale date. The real estate described herein; also balance of the bid from the date of (30) days after the sale date. The HILLDALE SUBDIVISION, AND Plaintiff may waive its right to a any persons who may be in the sale to date of compliance with the SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, Plaintiff may waive its right to a SHOWN ON A PLAT BY HOHN M. deficiency judgment prior to sale, in military service of the United States bid at the rate of 8.875% per annum. SUMTER COUNTY AD VALOREM deficiency judgment prior to sale, in MAHON, DATED AUGUST 24, 1972, which case the bidding will not of America, being a class designated TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, which case the bidding will not RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK Z-33 AT remain open after the date of sale, as John Doe; and any unknown The Plaintiff may waive any of its RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND remain open after the date of sale, PAGE 7, RECORDS OF SUMTER but compliance with the bid may be minors or persons under a disability rights, including its right to a OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. but compliance with the bid may be COUNTY, SAID LOT NO. 231 BEING made immediately. being a class designated as Richard deficiency judgment, prior to sale. made immediately. BOUNDED AND MEASURING AS Roe; , C/A No. 2016CP4301543, The TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in FOLLOWS: ON THE NORTHEAST Purchaser to pay for documentary following property will be sold on The sale shall be subject to taxes certified funds is required. The Purchaser to pay for documentary BY HILLDALE DRIVE, SAID PLAT, stamps on Master in Equity's Deed. January 7, 2019, at 12:00 Noon at the and assessments, existing easements deposit will be applied towards the stamps on Interim Master in Equity's AND FRONTING THEREON 100 The successful bidder will be Sumter County Courthouse to the and restrictions of record. purchase price unless the bidder Deed. The successful bidder will be FEET; ON THE SOUTHEAST BY required to pay interest on the highest bidder defaults, in which case the deposit required to pay interest on the LOT NO. 233, SAID PLAT, AND balance of the bid from the date of This sale is subject to all title will be forfeited. If the successful balance of the bid from the date of MEASURING THEREON 150 FEET; sale to date of compliance with the All that certain piece, parcel or lot of matters of record and any interested bidder fails, or refuses, to make the sale to date of compliance with the ON THE SOUTHWEST BY LOT NO. bid at the rate of 2.000% per annum. land, containing approximately 1.0 party should consider performing an required deposit, or comply with his bid at the rate of 6.375% per annum. 230, SAID PLAT, AND MEASURING Acre, more or less, together with any independent title examination of the bid within 20 days, then the property THEREON 100 FEET; AND ON THE The Plaintiff may waive any of its and all improvements thereon, lying, subject property as no warranty is will be resold at his risk. No The Plaintiff may waive any of its NORTHWEST BY LOT NO. 229, rights, including its right to a being and situate in Concord given. personal or deficiency judgment rights, including its right to a SAID PLAT, AND MEASURING deficiency judgment, prior to sale. Township, the County of Sumter, being demanded, the bidding will deficiency judgment, prior to sale. THEREON 150 FEET, BE ALL State of South Carolina, being a The sale will not be held unless not remain open after the date of DIMENSIONS A LITTLE MORE OR The sale shall be subject to taxes portion of the property shown and either Plaintiff's attorney or sale, but compliance with the bid The sale shall be subject to taxes A LITTLE LESS AND ACCORDING and assessments, existing easements delineated as Tract "B" on that Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at may be made immediately. The and assessments, existing easements TO SAID PLAT. and restrictions of record. certain plat by R.F. McLellan, C.E., successful bidder will be required to and restrictions of record. dated September 18, 1937, recorded the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent pay interest on the amount of the bid Derivation: Book 282 at Page 493 This sale is subject to all title in the Office of the RMC for Sumter from date of sale to date of This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested County in Plat Book G-5 at Page 137; enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff compliance with the bid at the rate 2614 Hilldale Dr, for this captioned matter. In the matters of record and any interested Sumter, SC 29154 party should consider performing an and, being more particularly shown of 3.875% per annum. For complete party should consider performing an independent title examination of the and delineated on more recent plat alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if terms of sale, see Judgment of independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is by Allen-Makela, Inc., dated permitted by the Court, may advise Foreclosure and Sale filed with the subject property as no warranty is 207-09-04-012 given. December 30, 1993 and recorded in this Court directly of its authorized Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A given. the Office of the RMC for Sumter bidding instructions. In the event a #2018CP4300781. SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, The sale will not be held unless County in Plat Book 97 at Page 723. sale is inadvertently held without The sale will not be held unless SUMTER COUNTY AD VALOREM either Plaintiff's attorney or Derivation: Book 581 at Page 940 Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is either Plaintiff's attorney or TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at bidding agent entering the not a warranty deed. Interested Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND the sale and either Plaintiff's authorized bid of Plaintiff for this OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. 3365 Tobias Rd, specifically captioned matter, the bidders should satisfy themselves as the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent Aclolu, SC 29001 to the quality of title to be conveyed attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff sale shall be null and void and the by obtaining an independent title enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in for this captioned matter. In the property shall be re-advertised for search prior to the foreclosure sale for this captioned matter. In the certified funds is required. The alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if 296-00-03-017 sale on the next available sale date. date. alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if deposit will be applied towards the permitted by the Court, may advise permitted by the Court, may advise purchase price unless the bidder this Court directly of its authorized SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel Howard P. King this Court directly of its authorized defaults, in which case the deposit bidding instructions. In the event a SUMTER COUNTY AD VALOREM make representations as to the Master In Equity for bidding instructions. In the event a will be forfeited. If the successful sale is inadvertently held without TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, integrity of the title or the fair Sumter County sale is inadvertently held without bidder fails, or refuses, to make the Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND market value of the property offered Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's required deposit, or comply with his bidding agent entering the OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. for sale. Prior to bidding you may John J. Hearn bidding agent entering the bid within 20 days, then the property authorized bid of Plaintiff for this wish to review the current state law Attorney for Plaintiff authorized bid of Plaintiff for this will be resold at his risk. No specifically captioned matter, the TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in or seek the advice of any attorney P.O. Box 100200 specifically captioned matter, the personal or deficiency judgment sale shall be null and void and the certified funds is required. The licensed in South Carolina. Columbia, SC 29202-3200 sale shall be null and void and the being demanded, the bidding will property shall be re-advertised for deposit will be applied towards the (803) 744-4444 property shall be re-advertised for not remain open after the date of sale on the next available sale date. purchase price unless the bidder Howard P. King 016487-00393 sale on the next available sale date. sale, but compliance with the bid defaults, in which case the deposit Interim Master in Equity Website: www.rtt-law.com may be made immediately. The Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel will be forfeited. If the successful for Sumter County (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel successful bidder will be required to make representations as to the bidder fails, or refuses, to make the Sales) make representations as to the pay interest on the amount of the bid integrity of the title or the fair required deposit, or comply with his Scott and Corley, P.A. integrity of the title or the fair from date of sale to date of market value of the property offered bid within 20 days, then the property Attorney for Plaintiff market value of the property offered compliance with the bid at the rate will be resold at his risk. No INTERIM MASTER for sale. Prior to bidding you may NOTICE OF SALE IN EQUITY for sale. Prior to bidding you may of 5.32% per annum. For complete wish to review the current state law personal or deficiency judgment NOTICE OF SALE wish to review the current state law terms of sale, see Judgment of or seek the advice of any attorney being demanded, the bidding will or seek the advice of any attorney Foreclosure and Sale filed with the licensed in South Carolina. not remain open after the date of BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore 2018-CP-43-01529 licensed in South Carolina. Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A sale, but compliance with the bid granted in the case of: Wells Fargo #2016CP4300897. Howard P. King may be made immediately. The Bank, N.A. vs. Constance C. Lane; BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Howard P. King Interim Master in Equity successful bidder will be required to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Charlotte, granted in the case of: Nationstar Interim Master in Equity NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is for Sumter County pay interest on the amount of the bid NC);, C/A No. 2017CP4301649, The Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper vs. for Sumter County not a warranty deed. Interested from date of sale to date of following property will be sold on Elizabeth K. Jackson; Phillip T. bidders should satisfy themselves as compliance with the bid at the rate January 7, 2019, at 12:00 Noon at the Jackson; et.al., I, the undersigned Scott and Corley, P.A. Scott and Corley, P.A. to the quality of title to be conveyed Attorney for Plaintiff of 7% per annum. For complete Sumter County Courthouse to the Howard P. King, Interim Master in Attorney for Plaintiff by obtaining an independent title terms of sale, see Judgment of highest bidder Equity for Sumter County, will sell search prior to the foreclosure sale MASTER IN Foreclosure and Sale filed with the on Monday, January 7, 2019 at 12:00 date. Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A All that certain piece, parcel, or lot PM, at the County Judicial Center, NOTICE OF MASTER EQUITY'S SALE IN EQUITY SALE #2016CP4301543. of land, together with the dwelling 215 Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, Howard P. King 2018-CP-43-01072 and improvements thereon, lying to the highest bidder: CIVIL ACTION NO. Master In Equity for NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is and being situate in the City and 2017CP4300834 Sumter County BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore not a warranty deed. Interested County of Sumter, State of South That lot of land with the granted in the case of: Reverse bidders should satisfy themselves as Carolina, being shown and of the improvements thereon situate in BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE John J. Hearn Mortgage Funding, LLC against to the quality of title to be conveyed delineated as Lot No. 6 in Block "C" Providence Township School Court of Common Pleas for Sumter Attorney for Plaintiff Leroy Washington, et al., I, the by obtaining an independent title on that plat prepared by Ben J. District Two, Sumter County, South County, South Carolina, heretofore P.O. Box 100200 undersigned Master in Equity for search prior to the foreclosure sale Makela, RLS, dated January 8, 2002 Carolina, represented as Lot 5A issued in the case of Federal Columbia, SC 29202-3200 SUMTER County, will sell on date. and recorded in Plat Book 2002 at (containing 1.75 acres) on plat of National Mortgage Association (803) 744-4444 January 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM, page 13 in the records of the Joseph R. Edwards, R.L.S. dated ("Fannie Mae"), a corporation 019337-00055 SUMTER County Courthouse, 215 N. Howard P. King Register of Deeds Office for Sumter October 27, 1997 and recorded in the organized and existing under the Website: www.rtt-law.com Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to Master In Equity for County. Said Lot No. 6 consists of Sumter County RMC Office in Plat laws of the United States of America, (see link to Resources/Foreclosure the highest bidder: Sumter County 0.33 acres, more or less, being Book 97 at Page 1313. Represented against Lakennethia T. Vaughn; et Sales) bounded and measuring as follows: on the Sumter County Tax Map as al., the Master in Equity for Sumter ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, John J. Hearn On the NORTH by Lot No. 8, and 201-00-02-015. County, or his/her agent, will sell on MASTER IN EQUITY PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, Attorney for Plaintiff measuring thereon 189.68 feet; on January 7, 2019, at 12:00 P.M., at TOGETHER WITH THE P.O. Box 100200 the EAST by North Magnolia Street, Aforesaid Plat is specifically Sumter Judicial Center, 215 North NOTICE OF SALE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, 2017-CP-43-01799 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 and fronting thereon 80.11 feet; on incorporated herein and reference is Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN (803) 744-4444 the SOUTH by lands now or formerly craved thereto for a more complete the highest bidder: THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE on Ron McKnight, whereon it of a decree heretofore 013263-08958 and accurate description of the BY VIRTUE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING measures 68.96 feet, by lands now or granted in the case of: Website: www.rtt-law.com metes, bounds, courses and All that certain piece, parcel or lot of Deutsche SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS formerly of Willie Mae S. Dickerson, as (see link to Resources/Foreclosure distances of the property concerned land with the improvements thereon, Bank National Trust Company LOT # 18 OF PINEDALE whereon it measures 60.26 feet, and Trustee for the Soundview Home Sales) herein. This description is in lieu of situate, lying and being in the SUBDIVISION, AS SHOWN ON Lot No. 3, whereon it measures 59.9 Loan Trust 2007-NS1 Asset-Backed metes and bounds, as permitted by Stateburg Township, County of THAT CERTAIN PLAT OF H.S. feet; and on the WEST by Lot No. 5 Certificates, Series 2007-NS1 INTERIM MASTER law under Section 30-5-250 of the Sumter, State of South Carolina, vs. WILSON, RLS, DATES MAY 3, 1962 and a portion of Lot No. 7, and a/k/a Joseph IN EQUITY 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, represented as Lot No. 22 in the Joseph H. Brunson, Jr., AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE measuring thereon an aggregate Brunson, Jr.; Joseph H., a minor; NOTICE OF SALE as amended. Be all of said Oakland Plantation Subdivision on a OF THE ROD FOR SUMTER distance of 70.02 feet. Be all said et.al., I, the undersigned Howard P. measurements, a little more or a plat of Michael C. Turbeville, III, COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK Z-18 AND 2018-CP-43-01396 measurements a little more or a King, Interim Master in Equity for little less, and according to said plat. dated October 28, 1991 and recorded PAGE 138, REFERENCE TO WHICH little less and according to aforesaid Sumter County, will sell on of a decree heretofore in Plat Book 91 at Page 1429 in the Monday, IS CRAVED FOR THE EXACT BY VIRTUE plat. This is the property known as at the granted in the case of: Deutsche Please note that the above Office of the RMC for Sumter January 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM, METES, BOUNDARIES AND 404 N. Magnolia Street, Sumter, SC. description has been modified to County, reference to which is craved County Judicial Center, 215 Harvin DISTANCES PURSUANT TO Bank National Trust Company, as Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the Trustee for Mortgage correct a minor, immaterial clerical for the exact metes, boundaries and AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN First Franklin Derivation: Book 921 at Page 1636 error in the legal regarding the date distances pursuant to authority highest bidder: SECTION 30-5-250 OF THE CODE Loan Trust 2006-FF9, Mortgage of plat. contained in Section 30-5-250 of the OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Pass-Through Certificates, Series All that certain piece, parcel or lot of 2006-FF9 vs. Gary E. Harshman; 404 N Magnolia St, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, AS AMENDED. THIS IS THE Sumter, SC 29150 This being the same property 1976, as amended. land, together with the PROPERTY KNOWN AS 60 ALBERT Zennie D. Harshman; et.al., I, the conveyed to Phillip T. Jackson and improvements located thereon, SPEARS DRIVE, SUMTER COUNTY undersigned Howard P. King, Elizabeth K. Jackson, as tenants in TMS Number: situate, lying and being in the City of TAX MAP # 226-04-04-010. Interim Master in Equity for Sumter 249-08-02-002 common, for and during their joint Sumter, State of South Carolina, County, will sell on Monday, January 134-15-01-053 shown as Lot C on that certain plat 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM, at the County SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, lives, and upon the death of either of PROPERTY ADDRESS: THIS BEING THE IDENTICAL them, by Deed of Phillip Andy Smith prepared by Palmer & Malone, Civil PROPERTY CONVEYED TO LEROY Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, SUMTER COUNTY AD VALOREM dated July 21, 2000 and filed in the 2369 Mt. Vernon Dr., Engineers, dated January 6, 1948, WASHINGTON BY DEED DATED Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, Sumter County Register of Deeds Sumter, SC 29154 which is recorded in the Office of the AUGUST 5, 2008 AND RECORDED bidder: RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND Office on July 24, 2000 in Volume 777 Register of Deeds for Sumter IN THE OFFICE OF THE OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. at Page 1816. This being the same property County, South Carolina, according to REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR All that certain piece, parcel or lot of conveyed to Lakennethia T. Vaughn which said Lot C is bounded and SUMTER COUNTY IN BOOK 1110, land, with the improvements TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in TMS No: 201-00-02-015 and Eddie L. Milledge by deed of measures as follows: On the North PAGE 3510 ON AUGUST 14, 2008. thereon, situate, lying and being in certified funds is required. The John Robert Harris and Bernice and Northwest by Maplewood Drive the Privateer Township, County of deposit will be applied towards the Vaughn Harris, dated July 27, 2007, and measuring thereon 115.6 feet; CURRENT ADDRESS Sumter, State of South Carolina, purchase price unless the bidder Property address: and recorded in the Office of the On the East by the Strip of Land being shown and designated as a lot defaults, in which case the deposit 2581 Jerico Road Register of Deeds for Sumter County which separates Lot C from the Park OF PROPERTY: containing 1.998 acres, more or less, will be forfeited. If the successful AKA 2581 Jereco Road on August 9, 2007, in Deed Book 1089 as shown on said plat and measuring 60 Albert Spears Drive, as shown on that certain plat bidder fails, or refuses, to make the Sumter, S.C.29153 at Page 1917. thereon 61 feet; on the South and Sumter, SC 29150 prepared by Louis W. Tisdale, RLS required deposit, or comply with his Southwest by Mason Croft Drive and Parcel No. 226-04-04-010 and recorded in the Office of the bid within 20 days, then the property Also, That lot of land with the TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The measuring thereon 94.3 feet; and on Register of Deeds for Sumter County will be resold at his risk. No improvements thereon situate in Master in Equity will require a the West by Lots A and B and TERMS OF SALE: The successful in Plat Book 95 at Page 1292 and personal or deficiency judgment Providence Township School deposit of 5% of the bid amount in measuring thereon 162.7 feet, be all bidder, other than the plaintiff, will having such metes and bounds as are being demanded, the bidding will District Two, Sumter County, South cash or certified funds, which is to of said measurement a little more or deposit with the Master in Equity, at permitted under Section 30-5-250 of not remain open after the date of Carolina, represented as Lot 5B be applied on the purchase price less. As more specifically shown on a conclusion of the bidding, five the Code of Laws of South Carolina sale, but compliance with the bid (containing 2.0 acres) on plat of upon compliance with the bid. plat to be recorded. percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or (1976, as amended). This property is may be made immediately. The Joseph R. Edwards, R.L.S. dated Interest on the balance of the bid at equivalent, as evidence of good faith, known as 3200 Bethel Church Road successful bidder will be required to October 27, 1997 and recorded in the 8.375% shall be paid to the day of This conveyance is subject to all same be applied to purchase price in and is shown on the Auditor`s map pay interest on the amount of the bid Sumter County RMC Office in Plat compliance. In case of visible and recorded easements, case of compliance, but to be of Sumter as tax parcel from date of sale to date of Book 97 at Page 1313. Represented noncompliance within 20 days, after rights-of-way, restrictive covenants, forfeited and applied first to costs 212-00-01-024. compliance with the bid at the rate on the Sumter County Tax Map as the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be including those covenants as set and then to plaintiff's debt in the of 5.74% per annum. For complete 201-00-02-007. forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's forth in Deed Book Y-5, at Page 120, case of non-compliance. Should the Please note that the above terms of sale, see Judgment of judgment debt and the property Office of the Register of Deeds, last and highest bidder fail or refuse description has been modified to Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Aforesaid Plat is specifically re-advertised for sale upon the same Sumter County, South Carolina. to make the required deposit at the correct a minor, immaterial clerical Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A incorporated herein and reference is terms at the risk of the former time of bid or comply with the other error in the legal description #2017CP4301649. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018 CLASSIFIEDS THE ITEM B9

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wish to review the current state law NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is bidding shall be concluded and the NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is or seek the advice of any attorney not a warranty deed. Interested sale closed on the regular scheduled not a warranty deed. Interested licensed in South Carolina. bidders should satisfy themselves as date of sale. recorded simultaneously herewith in bidders should satisfy themselves as or about March 23, 2009, leaving the to the quality of title to be conveyed the Office of the Register of Deeds to the quality of title to be conveyed subject property to her heirs, namely Howard P. King by obtaining an independent title Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, for Sumter County. TMS# by obtaining an independent title Lamont Wilson and Tara Anderson. Interim Master in Equity search prior to the foreclosure sale or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on 134-07-02-027. search prior to the foreclosure sale for Sumter County date. the day of sale, the property shall not date. TMS No. 2280403016 be sold, but shall be re-advertised TERMS OF SALE: For Cash: the Scott and Corley, P.A. Howard P. King and sold at some convenient sales purchaser shall be required to Howard P. King Property address: Attorney for Plaintiff Master In Equity for day thereafter when Plaintiff, deposit the sum of five (5%) percent Master In Equity for Sumter County Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's of the amount of bid (in cash or 10 E Charlotte Ave, NOTICE OF SALE equivalent) as earnest money and as Sumter County Sumter, SC 29150 agent, is present. John J. Hearn evidence of good faith. If the John J. Hearn BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Attorney for Plaintiff Plaintiff is the successful bidder at TERMS OF SALE: The successful The sale shall be subject to taxes Attorney for Plaintiff granted in the case of: Wells Fargo the sale, the Plaintiff may, after bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will P.O. Box 100200 and assessments, existing easements P.O. Box 100200 Bank, NA vs. Inetta Deshoni Lowery; paying the costs of the sale, apply the deposit with the Interim Master in Columbia, SC 29202-3200 and easements and restrictions of Columbia, SC 29202-3200 South Carolina Department of debt due upon its Mortgage against Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, (803) 744-4444 record, and to the right of the United (803) 744-4444 Revenue;, C/A No. 2018CP4301342, its bid in lieu of cash. Should the five percent (5%) of said bid is due 013263-10861 States of America to redeem the 013263-10107 The following property will be sold person making the highest bid at the and payable immediately upon Website: www.rtt-law.com property within 120 days from the Website: www.rtt-law.com on January 7, 2019, at 12:00 Noon at sale fail to comply with the terms of closing of the bidding, in certified (see link to Resources date of the foreclosure sale pursuant (see link to Resources/Foreclosure the Sumter County Courthouse to the his bid by depositing the said five funds or equivalent, as evidence of /Foreclosure Sales) to Sec. 2410(c), Title 28, United Sales) highest bidder States Code. (5%) percent in cash, then the good faith, same to be applied to property shall be sold at the risk of purchase price in case of NOTICE OF MASTER INTERIM MASTER All that certain piece, parcel or lot of IN EQUITY SALE Any sale pursuant to this order is such bidder on the same sales date compliance, but to be forfeited and land, together with the or some subsequent date as the IN EQUITY applied first to costs and then to CIVIL ACTION NO. without warranty of any kind. NOTICE OF SALE improvements thereon, if any, Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant Master in Equity may find Plaintiff's debt in the case of situate, lying and being in the County 2018CP4301363 convenient and advantageous. 2018-CP-43-01395 non-compliance. In the event of a title to any third-party purchaser. All of Sumter, State of South Carolina, third-party purchasers are made Should the last and highest bidder third party bidder and that any third being shown and delineated as Lot BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the fail to comply with the terms of his BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore parties to this action and are party bidder fails to deliver the 37, on a plat of Mayfield Subdivision Court of Common Pleas for Sumter bid within thirty (30) days of the final granted in the case of: Specialized deemed to have notice of all matters required deposit in certified prepared by D.D. Edmunds, RLS County, South Carolina, heretofore acceptance of his bid, then the Loan Servicing LLC vs. Lamont disclosed by the public record, (immediately collectible) funds with dated December 17, 2003 and issued in the case of The Huntington Master in Equity or her designated Watson, individually, and as Legal including the status of title. See Ex the Office of the Interim Master in recorded in the Office of the ROD for National Bank, against Tamara S. representative shall re-advertise and Heir or Devisee of the Estate of parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 Equity, said deposit being due and Sumter County in Plat Book 2004 at Wise; et al., the Master in Equity for resell the property on the same Sheila Ruffin a/k/a Sheila Ann (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. payable immediately upon closing of page 48. Most recently shown on a Sumter County, or his/her agent, will terms on a subsequent date at the Correa Ruffin a/k/a Sheila Ann Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 the bidding on the day of sale, the survey prepared for Inetta Deshoni sell on January 7, 2019, at 12:00 P.M., risk of such bidder. The purchaser to Ruffin, Deceased; Tara Anderson, (Ct. App. 2008). Interim Master in Equity will re-sell Lowery by Cox and Dinkins dated at Sumter Judicial Center, 215 North pay for documentary stamps on individually, and as Legal Heir or the subject property at the most 12/24/08 to be recorded herewith in Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to deed. The successful bidder will be Devisee of the Estate of Sheila Sumter, South Carolina convenient time thereafter book PB 2009 at page 0014, in the the highest bidder: required to pay interest on the Ruffin a/k/a Sheila Ann Correa FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC (including the day of sale) upon RMC Office for Sumter County. amount of the bid from date of sale Ruffin a/k/a Sheila Ann Ruffin, Post Office Box 71727 notification to counsel for Plaintiff. Reference being made to said latter All that certain piece, parcel or lot of to date of compliance with the bid at Deceased; Any Heirs-at-Law or North Charleston, S.C. 29415 Should the last and highest bidder plat which is incorporated herein by land, with the improvements the interest rates contained in the Devisees of the Estate of Sheila (843) 577-5460 fail or refuse to comply with the reference for a more complete and thereon, situate, lying and being in Order. Ruffin a/k/a Sheila Ann Correa Attorneys for Plaintiff balance due of the bid within 20 accurate description; all the City and County of Sumter, State Ruffin a/k/a Sheila Ann Ruffin, days, then the Interim Master in measurements being a little more or of South Carolina, being more Note: As a Deficiency Judgment was Deceased, their heirs or devisees, NOTICE OF SALE Equity may re-sell the property on less. particularly shown and delineated as granted, the bidding shall remain successors and assigns, and all other BY VIRTUE OF DECREE of the the same terms and conditions on Lot 9, in the Avondale Subdivision as open for a period of thirty (30) days persons entitled to claim through Court of Common Pleas for Sumter some subsequent Sales Day (at the Aforesaid plat is specifically shown on that certain plat of Louis after the date of the sale as provided them; all unknown persons with any County in the case of Arthur State risk of the said highest bidder). incorporated herein and reference is W. Tisdale, RLS dated May 17, 2005 by law in such cases and compliance right, title or interest in the real Bank, Plaintiff, vs. Angela F. craved thereto for a more complete and recorded in the office of the with the bid shall be made within estate described herein; also any Higgins, Wallace D. Higgins, and No personal or deficiency judgment and accurate description of the ROD for Sumter County in Plat Book thirty (30) days after the second sale. persons who may be in the military International Fidelity Insurance being demanded, the bidding will metes, bounds, courses and PB2005 at page 283. The said Plaintiff reserves the right to waive service of the United States of Company, under Case No. not remain open after the date of distances of the property concerned tract/lot(s) has/have such boundaries, deficiency prior to the sale. America, being a class designated as 2018-CP-43-00725, I, the undersigned, sale, but compliance with the bid herein. This description is in lieu of meters, courses and distances as are John Doe; and any unknown minors as Master in Equity for Sumter may be made immediately. metes and bounds, as permitted by shown on said plat which are Note: If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's or persons under a disability being a County, will offer for sale separately law under Section 30-5-250 of the incorporated herein in accordance representative does not appear at class designated as Richard Roe, I, as public outcry at 12:00 P.M., on Purchaser to pay for documentary 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, with the provision of Section the scheduled sale of the the undersigned Howard P. King, Monday, January 7, 2019, at the stamps on Interim Master in Equity's As Amended. Be all measurements a 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of SC, above-referenced property, then the Interim Master in Equity for Sumter Sumter County Courthouse, 215 Deed. The successful bidder will be little more or a little less and 1976. This property is more generally sale of the property will be null, void County, will sell on Monday, January North Harvin Street Main Street, required to pay interest on the according to said plat. known as 23 Creekfield Drive. and of no force and effect. In such 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM, at the County Sumter, SC, the following described balance of the bid from the date of event, the sale will be rescheduled Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, real property, to-wit: sale to date of compliance with the This conveyance is made subject to TMS Number: for the next available sales day. Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bid at the rate of 6.875% per annum. any and all existing reservations, Note: This sale is also made subject bidder: 183-05-01-002 All that certain piece, parcel or tract easements, right-of-way, zoning PROPERTY ADDRESS: of land, with any improvements to all Sumter County taxes and The Plaintiff may waive any of its ordinances, and restrictive or existing easements and restrictions All that certain piece, parcel and/or 23 Creekfield Road, thereon, situate, lying and being in rights, including its right to a protective covenants that may of record. lot of land, together with the Sumter, SC 29154 the County of Sumter, State of South deficiency judgment, prior to sale. appear of record or on the premises. improvements thereon, if any, Carolina, being shown and situate, lying and being in the City This being the same property delineated as Tract 2, containing Stanley H. McGuffin, Esq. The sale shall be subject to taxes Derivation: Book 1117 at Page 1811 Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. and County of Sumter, State of South conveyed to Tamara S. Wise by deed 4.51 acres, more or less, on a plat of and assessments, existing easements PO Box 11889 Carolina, being shown and of Betty R. Dagley, dated May 18, division of a 22-acre tract, prepared and restrictions of record. Columbia, SC 29211-1889 designated as Lot containing 0.32 1265 Monterey Drive, 2005, and recorded in the Office of by Joseph R. Edwards, R.L.S., dated acre, as shown on that certain plat This sale is subject to all title Sumter, SC 29154-1596 the Register of Deeds for Sumter September 14, 1989 and recorded in prepared by Allen-Makela Land matters of record and any interested County on June 3, 2005, in Deed Plat Book 89 at page 979 in the Office Surveyors, Inc. RLS, dated party should consider performing an 15509-02-004 Book 983 at Page 630. of the Register of Deeds for Sumter December 11, 1997, and recorded in independent title examination of the County; and having such shapes, the Office of the Register of Deeds subject property as no warranty is SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The courses, distances, metes and for Sumter County in Plat Book 97 at given. SUMTER COUNTY AD VALOREM Master in Equity will require a bounds as shown upon said plat, all page 1485, and having such metes TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, deposit of 5% of the bid amount in measurements being a little more or and bounds as are shown on said The sale will not be held unless RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND cash or certified funds, which is to less, to which reference is hereby plat, this description being in lieu of either Plaintiff's attorney or OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. be applied on the purchase price craved as often as necessary for a metes and bounds, as permitted Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at upon compliance with the bid. more complete and accurate under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 the sale and either Plaintiff's TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in Interest on the balance of the bid at description. This being the same Code of Laws of South Carolina. This attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent certified funds is required. The 3.50% shall be paid to the day of property conveyed to Wallace D. is the property known as 10 East enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff deposit will be applied towards the compliance. In case of Higgins by deed of distribution in Charlotte Avenue, Sumter, SC. for this captioned matter. In the purchase price unless the bidder noncompliance within 20 days, after the Estate of Wilhelmina Shirley Represented by Sumter County alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if defaults, in which case the deposit the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be Baldwin McAllister, Sumter County Parcel No. 228-04-03-016. permitted by the Court, may advise will be forfeited. If the successful forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's Probate file #2010-ES-43-00359 this Court directly of its authorized bidder fails, or refuses, to make the judgment debt and the property (Wallace D. Higgins as Personal Please note that the above bidding instructions. In the event a required deposit, or comply with his re-advertised for sale upon the same Representative), dated and recorded description has been modified to sale is inadvertently held without bid within 20 days, then the property terms at the risk of the former March 28, 2012 in Record Book 1168 correct a minor, immaterial clerical Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's will be resold at his risk. No highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for at page 3871 in the Office of the error in the legal description to bidding agent entering the personal or deficiency judgment deed recording fees and deed Register of Deeds for Sumter correct the surveyor reference from authorized bid of Plaintiff for this being demanded, the bidding will stamps. County. Wilhelmina Baldwin Allen-Makela to Allen-Makela Land specifically captioned matter, the not remain open after the date of McAllister received title by partition Surveyors, Inc. sale shall be null and void and the sale, but compliance with the bid Deficiency judgment being deeds of Roosevelt Baldwin, John property shall be re-advertised for may be made immediately. The demanded, the bidding will remain Baldwin, Catherine B. Stephens, This being the same property sale on the next available sale date. successful bidder will be required to open thirty (30) days after the sale. Olivia S. Potts, Debra Ann Williams, conveyed to Sheila Ruffin by deed of pay interest on the amount of the bid The Plaintiff may withdraw its Paul Baldwin, Wilhelmina Baldwin Federal National Mortgage Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel from date of sale to date of demand for a deficiency judgment McAllister, and Minnie B. Long, all Association, dated August 15, 2007 make representations as to the compliance with the bid at the rate anytime prior to sale. recorded February 15, 1993 in and recorded August 17, 2007 in integrity of the title or the fair of 3.875% per annum. For complete Record Book 564 at pages 1082 Book 1090 at Page 189 in the Office market value of the property offered terms of sale, see Judgment of Plaintiff reserves the right to waive through 1104. This being the same of the Register of Deeds for Sumter for sale. Prior to bidding you may Foreclosure and Sale filed with the its request for a Deficiency property conveyed to Wallace D. County. Subsequently, Sheila Ruffin Sumter County Clerk of Court at C/A Judgment by written notice to the Higgins & Angela F. Higgins as a/k/a Sheila Ann Correa Ruffin a/k/a #2018CP4301342. Court at any time prior to the sale of JTROS by deed of Wallace D. Sheila Ann Ruffin diedTHE intestate on NEWS YOUthe Real Property, in which case Higgins,WANT. dated January 23, 2017 and HOWEVER YOU WANT IT.

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Russia’s new strategic weapon has rendered any missile defenses useless at a small fraction of their cost, offi- cials said Thursday. The Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle flies 27 times faster than the speed of sound and is GETTY IMAGES impossible to intercept, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Russian state television. The new weapon “essentially makes missile defenses Use among young people near ‘epidemic,’ experts say useless,” he said. Jayne O'Donnell Vatican tribunal hands down USA TODAY first money-laundering verdict ndrea “Nick” Tattanelli quit vaping in August. ❚ “Oh man,” The Vatican’s criminal tribunal has ❚ convicted an Italian builder of using the 39-year-old Kansas City man says. “It was hell.” The his accounts in the Vatican bank to mortgage banker was depressed for three days. He felt a Andrea Malissa Jonathan launder money, and it sentenced him Tattanelli Barbosa Winickoff to 2½ years in prison. The Vatican void in his life. ❚ “it’s delicious. It’s too attractive,” he says. press office said the Dec. 17 decision, A ical director at CleanSlate Outpatient “You don’t make something you can vape in a watermelon flavor and announced Thursday, marked the first Addiction Medicine in Orlando. “This is time the Vatican court had handed think people aren’t going to do it all the time.” new, and I say, ‘Why aren’t we thinking down a money-laundering verdict of traditional means of quitting?” since the city state criminalized the Dr. Jonathan Winickoff’s patients in- offense in 2010. Vaping did help Tattantelli stop addiction specialists are questioning clude middle and high school students. Italian police had placed Angelo smoking, a habit since he was 17. That’s whether it’s the best way to stop smok- The withdrawal from nicotine is so diffi- Proietti under house arrest in 2016 as ostensibly the purpose of e-cigarettes: ing. cult, the Boston pediatrician says, that part of an investigation into the sus- To help smokers quit. So for that he’s Dr. Malissa Barbosa has her doubts. most don’t even try to stop. pected fraudulent bankruptcy of his thankful. “The thing is, the studies aren’t fully About 3.6 million middle and high construction firm. But it can be so hard for users to available around vaping and I’m very From staff and wire reports wean themselves off vaping that some conservative,” says Barbosa, area med- seeSee V VAPING,APING, Page Page C2 2B

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John Bacon and Doyle Rice 15-30 mph with gusts 35 to 50 mph were federal government, uses that name. 53% USA TODAY anticipated in parts of the region. In Kansas, Gov. Jeff Colyer declared a “We’re seeing reports of whiteout state of emergency. He urged travelers The storm system that forced a can- conditions, very poor travel condi- to pay attention to weather alerts and cellation of a college football game in tions,” AccuWeather meteorologist avoid “placing themselves in harm’s Texas because of unrelenting lightning MIke Doll told USA TODAY. “Winds will way as the storm moves through.” drove blizzard conditions through parts remain gusty, so we will see blowing The South wasn’t being entirely of the north-central U.S. on Thursday and drifting even after the flakes stop spared. Lightning and the threat of se- of Americans say holiday and threatened travel chaos from Min- falling tonight.” vere weather forced cancellation of the decorations should be nesota to Kansas and east to New Eng- Already, 10 inches of snow was re- First Responder Bowl in Dallas on taken down before the first land. ported in Silver Bay, Minnesota, the Wednesday night. of the year. Blizzard warnings were in effect for highest total so far, according to the Na- Almost 30 million people were under parts of Kansas, Nebraska, North Dako- tional Weather Service. flood watches in the Southeast. The ta, South Dakota and Minnesota as of Although the Weather Channel has weather service said that widespread SOURCE The Home Depot survey of 1,000 adults by Wakefield Research late Thursday. Some areas braced for up named the storm Winter Storm Eboni, rainfall will spread from the Lower Mis- MIKE B. SMITH, JANET LOEHRKE/USA TODAY to 18 inches snow. Sustained winds of no other private weather group, or the sissippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic. C2 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018 · THE SUMTER ITEM

plans last month to tighten tobacco en- To date, Barbosa says, only one of her withdrawal symptoms in his young pa- Vaping forcement, ban menthol cigarettes and patients has quit vaping. tients. Winickoff, a pediatrician at Mas- many flavored small cigars, and restrict Elvijs Arnicans, 25, posted recently sachusetts General Hospital for Chil- continuedContinued from from Page Page C1 1B sales of sweet-flavored electronic ciga- on WhyQuit.com’s Facebook forum that dren, directs translational research at rette liquid. he wished he knew how hard it was go- the American Academy of Pediatrics’ school students use electronic ciga- The moves have raised ing to be when he stopped vaping two Richmond Center for Excellence, which rettes, according to the most recent fed- the ire of vaping advo- weeks ago. focuses on tobacco control. eral data. Federal regulators now de- cates, who say they will At his peak, the Dublin, Ireland, man “They have an inability to concen- scribe youth vaping as an “epidemic.” hamper the ability of says, he was vaping about 24 milligrams trate and a pervasive desire to use the Nearly 21 percent of high school sen- adult smokers to use vap- of nicotine a day – the equivalent of two substance,” says Winickoff. iors say they vaped a nicotine product ing to quit their cancer- cigarettes. He got that down to about 12 Winickoff points to the capture of the within the past 30 days, according to the Kevin Kee causing addictions. mg, and then to 6 mg, before he stopped youth vape market by JUUL, a leading National Institute for Drug Abuse, up Kevin Kee, 22, quit completely. e-cigarette manufacturer, and the in- from 11 percent a year ago. smoking and then vaping Arnicans, an electrical apprentice in vestment in JUUL Labs by Altria, for- The increase, reported this month in a year ago. He says vaping was a harder a factory, started smoking at 13. He says merly known as Philip Morris. the annual Monitoring the Future sur- habit to break. it took him about a year of trying to fi- “It’s almost as if JUUL Corp. had been vey on drug use among adolescents, “There are many moments when I nally quit. planning this from the beginning, be- was the largest for any substance in the want to take a drag or a puff, especially He started vaping in high school, cause it’s Big Tobacco’s dream scenar- report’s 43-year history. at the end of the day,” the Reston, Vir- where he did it throughout class, and io,” says Winickoff. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams ginia, man says. “It was weird when I through classes for his apprenticeship. JUUL Labs spokeswoman Victoria last week called on states to consider stopped because I had gotten accus- Quitting was horrible, he tells USA Davis rejects the claim. adopting new price policies that could tomed to vaping as a part of my life.” TODAY. “JUUL is intended for current adult include taxes, along with indoor vape- Barbosa says she sometimes helps “I feel like my brain gets turned down smokers only. We cannot be more em- free policies to curb use by adolescents. patients use vaping to “step down” from and only works at about 20 percent ca- phatic on this point: no young person or Food and Drug Administration Com- a minimal level of nicotine to none – but pability,” he says. non-nicotine user should ever try JU- missioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb announced always with “a note of caution.” Winickoff describes more troubling UL,” she wrote in an email.

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House, Senate check in, check out – no progress

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WASHINGTON – A partial govern- ment shutdown continued into Friday amid no signs that Congress and the White House were any closer to ending their standoff. The Senate returned to work for the first time since Saturday but quickly adjourned after scheduling no votes, signaling that little, if any, progress has The Bunker Hill Monument in Boston been made toward resolving the budget is closed this week during the partial impasse that shut down a quarter of the shutdown of the federal government. federal government. STEVEN SENNE/AP The House also returned to work President Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at the White House Thurs- Thursday but was in a session lasting day after the president visited troops overseas. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GETTY IMAGES less than a minute before adjourning American communities, and re-open until Monday at 10 a.m. Like the Senate, the government. The Democrats de- the House did not hold any votes. The cided to go home,” she said in a state- office of House Majority Whip Steve ment. Trump back home, Scalise, R-La., sent a statement advis- “The only rational conclusion is ing lawmakers that no votes were ex- that the Democrat party is openly pected in the House this week. choosing to keep our government Leaders of both chambers promised closed to protect illegal immigrants back on the attack to give members 24 hours’ notice before rather than the American people,” they must return to Washington for Sanders said. “The President does not Democrats unmoved by votes. want the government to remain shut President Donald Trump showed no down, but he will not sign a proposal demands for border wall “Do the Dems realize sign of backing down from his demand that does not first prioritize our coun- that most of the people for funding for a wall along the nation’s ty’s safety and security.” David Jackson and John Fritze southern border. Drew Hammill, a spokesman for USA TODAY not getting paid are “Whatever it takes,” Trump said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Wednesday when asked how long the D-Calif., disputed Sanders’ char- WASHINGTON – Returning to the Democrats?” shutdown could last. acterization of Democrats as obstruc- White House on Thursday after a Trump tweet The president followed that up tionists. whirlwind trip to Iraq, President Don- Thursday afternoon with tweets criti- “Democrats have offered Republi- ald Trump attacked Democrats over Leader Nancy Pelosi of California ac- cizing the “Democrats OBSTRUCTION cans three options to re-open govern- the border wall funding dispute that cused Trump of using “scare tactics” to of the desperately needed wall.” ment that all include funding for has closed parts of the government. build support for his proposed wall, His tweet referred to Democrats strong, sensible, and effective border “Have the Democrats finally real- which she joked had been reduced from blocking “350 great people wanting & security – but not the President’s ized that we desperately need Border a giant, cement structure “to, I think, a expecting to come into Government,” immoral, ineffective and expensive Security and a Wall on the Southern beaded curtain.” presumably a reference to presidential wall,” he said in a statement. “With the Border,” Trump tweeted early in the In his tweet, Trump asked, “Do the nominees the Republican-led Senate House Majority, Democrats will act morning on the sixth day of the partial Dems realize that most of the people not has yet to confirm. swiftly to end the Trump Shutdown, government shutdown. getting paid are Democrats?” Around the time the House and Sen- and will fight for a strategic, robust Democrats contend that a wall Trump’s trip to visit American troops ate held their brief sessions, White national security policy, including along the U.S.-Mexican border is un- in Iraq was his first visit to a combat House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders strong and smart border security, and necessary and would be ineffective in zone as president. admonished Democrats for leaving strong support for our servicemem- stopping illegal crossings. In a tweet after his return to the White town, though Republicans, too, were not bers and veterans.” The impasse rendered Congress House, Trump – who also stopped at a in Washington. Pelosi is expected to become speak- unable to pass a bill to keep govern- military base in Germany – praised the “The President and his team stayed er after Democrats take control of the ment agencies funded. troops: “One thing is certain, we have in- in Washington over Christmas hoping to House of Representatives in January. In an interview with USA TODAY credible people representing our Coun- negotiate a deal that would stop the Contributing: Eliza Collins, John last weekend, House Democratic try – people that know how to win!” dangerous crisis on the border, protect Fritze THE SUMTER ITEM · FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018 | C3 NEWS

around the globe.” Consumer groups, trade unions and Trade deal others countered that giving drugmak- ers a minimum 10-year monopoly stifles competition and discourages other could delay companies from developing cheaper generic drugs or biosimilars, which are complex, almost identical copies of an original prescription drug manufac- arrival of tured by another company. “Biosimilars are so important be- cause these are the affordable versions generic drugs of some of the most expensive drugs in the world,” said Jeff Francer, general counsel of the Association for Accessi- Bigger drugmakers would ble Medicines, which advocates for im- proved access to medicine. get 10 years’ exclusivity In the USA, consumer groups and ge- neric-drug makers have pushed Con- Michael Collins GETTY IMAGES gress for years to lower the market ex- USA TODAY clusivity period to seven years. The minimum 10-year requirement in the trade deal “would lock us in in the Unit- WASHINGTON – Makers of expen- gress’ hands, preventing us from enact- der the trade deal. ed States and handcuff Congress from sive brand-name drugs scored a victory ing essential reforms needed to lower Pharmaceutical companies argued using a tool that could bring prices when the United States’ new trade deal prescription drug prices,” said Rep. Jan that the 12 years of market exclusivity down,” Francer said. with Canada and Mexico included lan- Schakowsky, D-Ill., one of the lawmak- granted under U.S. law strikes the right “Folks who are invested in prescrip- guage preventing generic copies of their ers demanding that provisions benefit- balance between the need to get effec- tion drug affordability should demand prescription medicines from hitting ing large pharmaceutical firms be tive new drugs to the market while pro- that the 10 years in the treaty either be shelves for at least a decade. stricken. tecting manufacturers’ risk removed or brought down to a number The protections granted to pharma- Under U.S. law, pharma- and investment in develop- like seven,” he said. ceutical companies could complicate ceutical makers are given 12 ing them. Other groups that raised concerns efforts to win congressional approval of years of market protection “Folks who are “When the U.S. and oth- about the minimum requirement in the the trade agreement in Congress. for their drugs, which es- er countries protect inno- trade deal include AARP, the American Consumer groups and some lawmak- sentially provides them invested in vation, it leads to the dis- Federation of Teachers, the AFL-CIO ers fear the market restrictions would with a limited monopoly prescription covery of more new medi- and the American College of Physicians. delay efforts to get cheaper medicines against competition from cines, better health out- Several Democrats in Congress, in- to those who need them most. manufacturers of generic drug comes and increased cluding Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth “This trade agreement, if left in its medicines. Canada grants affordability competition,” said Jay Tay- Warren, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and current form, will keep drug prices high drugmakers eight years of lor, vice president of inter- Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, also sounded in the United States to the detriment of market protection, and should demand national advocacy for the the alarm. our nation’s patients, job creators, Mexico provides five. Pharmaceutical Research “The senator has long opposed big workers and taxpayers,” nearly three The U.S.-Mexico-Cana- that the 10 and Manufacturers of pharma’s role in writing our drug policy, dozen organizations wrote in a letter to da Agreement, a trade deal years in the America, or PhRMA. including our trade agreements, to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Light- reached among the three “There needs to be a bal- boost their bottom line at the expense of hizer in November. countries in September af- treaty either ance between encouraging American families,” Brown spokes- On Capitol Hill, the pharmaceutical ter months of negotiations, be removed or competition and incenti- woman Jennifer Donohue said. “And he language is under close scrutiny as Con- would provide drugmakers vizing innovation – and we will take advantage of any opportunity, gress prepares to take up the trade with a minimum of 10 years brought think the (new trade deal) whether through domestic legislation agreement next year. House Democrats, of market exclusivity. That is a positive step in the right or our trade agreements, to lower the who will return to the majority in Janu- will mean a longer wait down...” direction toward ensuring cost of drugs for American consumers.” ary, are likely to demand changes to the time for residents of Cana- Jeff Francer, the balance abroad for the bio- Schakowsky said the trade deal will deal if it is to win approval. The drug da and Mexico before ge- Association for Accessible pharmaceutical sector,” keep drug prices high and inaccessible Medicines provision is among those sections tar- neric drugs will be avail- Taylor said. for too many Americans. geted for revision. able. “Implementing strong intellectual “We must eliminate big pharma pro- If approved as it is, the trade deal In the USA, the time frame won’t property standards in our trade agree- visions that will increase pharmaceuti- “would not only raise drug prices in change since the 12 years enshrined in ments will help us pave the way for new cal profits at the expense of patients,” Canada and Mexico but would tie Con- law exceeds the minimum required un- treatments and cures for patients she said. Some blame US policies for crisis on the border Intervention, potential cuts in aid are cited

Deirdre Shesgreen USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – As thousands of migrants seek asylum at the U.S.-Mex- ican border, the Trump administration said it’s committed to promoting “a saf- er and more prosperous Central Amer- ica” as a way to stem the tide of people fleeing poverty, violence and corruption in their home countries. That pledge – issued last week in a State Department strategy toward Cen- tral America – may ring hollow in places such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Nic- aragua. President Donald Trump has threat- ened to cut assistance to those coun- tries, not increase it, citing their govern- ments’ inability to curb the desperate outflow of migrants. Trump wants to end a decades-old humanitarian immi- gration program, which would force tens of thousands of documented Cen- tral American immigrants to return to their countries. Long before Trump took office, the United States had a checkered history of Central American migrants climb the border fence between Mexico and the USA last month, near El Chaparral border involvement in Central America – and crossing in Tijuana, Mexico. PEDRO PARDO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES some say American foreign policy in the region caused the instability and in- equality at the root of the current crisis. orned governments there, and basically, many.” She cited a confluence of other cocaine and other drugs smuggled to “The current debate … is almost to- we have been supporting the elites dynamics – from the birth of the MS-13 the USA, a top drug-consuming country. tally about what to do about immigrants who protect U.S. business interests,” gang in Los Angeles to the precipitous “It’s an incredibly corrupting influ- when they get here,” said Jeff Faux, a Faux said. drop in world coffee prices – that have ence,” Quintana said. distinguished fellow at the Economic American intervention has left Cen- come together to spark the migration Central American governments have Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tral American governments weak and crisis. pleaded with the administration over tank. “But the 800-pound gorilla that’s fragile, he said, while empowering Ana Rosa Quintana, a Latin America the past year to continue the Temporary missing from the table is what we have oligarchs and drug cartels, which fuel policy analyst with the conservative Protected Status program, a humanitar- been doing there that brings them here, the corruption and gang violence that Heritage Foundation, said, “There really ian initiative created in 1990 to help im- that drives them here.” drives residents to flee. is no way to draw a line from (American migrants from countries that suffered From the perspective of Faux and Others argue it’s overly simplistic, or intervention in Central America) to war or major natural disasters. others, the answer goes back decades. even flat wrong, to blame the United what we’re seeing now.” Administration officials argue that There was the CIA’s covert operation to States for the problems in Central “It’s been nearly 30 years since the TPS has been wrongly extended for overthrow Guatemala’s democratically America. end of their civil wars,” she said, yet the years and that conditions in those coun- elected president in 1954. And Ameri- “Of course, yes, the U.S.’s direct inter- governments remain “incredibly weak tries are suitable for thousands of their ca’s intervention in El Salvador’s civil vention and U.S. policies have absolute- and ineffective.” They have failed to de- residents to return home. The war in the 1980s. And the Obama ly destabilized” Guatemala, El Salvador velop into strong democracies – and administration tried to end TPS, but in administration’s refusal in 2009 to and other Central American countries, failed to create safe societies for their October, a federal judge put a temporary label the ouster of Honduras’ president creating long-term problems in the re- people. halt to the plans. a military coup – even though soldiers gion, said Stephanie Leutert, director of Quintana said the drug trade has Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans, 57,000 dragged him out of bed in the middle the Mexico Security Initiative at the been a major driver of the instability Hondurans and more than 2,500 Nica- of the night and sent him into exile. University of Texas-Austin. and violence. Guatemala, El Salvador raguans may be forced to return to their “We’ve sent troops there, we’ve sub- But, she said, “it’s one factor of and Honduras are all shipment hubs for countries if TPS ends. C4 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018 TELEVISION THE SUMTER ITEM

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(DVS) looks for a missing NSA agent. Navy weaponry designer is attacked. interrogates his father. (DVS) on the mole emerges. “Tidings We Bring” (6:00) ›› “Sleeping With the Enemy” ›› “Enough” (2002, Suspense) Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis. A woman takes her daughter (:33) “Killer Mom” (2017, Suspense) Karen Cliche. A mother (12:01) ›› LIFE 50 145 (1991) Julia Roberts. and flees her abusive husband. will do anything to get her daughter’s inheritance. “Enough” (2002) MSNBC 36 92 Hardball With Chris Matthews (N) All In With Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word The 11th Hour With Brian Williams (N) Rachel Maddow NICK 16 210 Double Dare (N) Cousins for Life SpongeBob SpongeBob ›› “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” (2005) Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt. Friends Friends Friends PARMT 64 153 (6:00) › “Dirty Grandpa” (2016) Robert De Niro. ›› “The Hangover Part II” (2011, Comedy) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis. ›› “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” (6:04) ›› “Need for Speed” (2014, Action) Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Z Nation “The End of Everything” Our Van Helsing “Birth Ritual” (Season Finale) Z Nation “The End of Everything” Our Futurama “30 Per- SYFY 58 152 Poots. A street-car racer wants revenge on a treacherous rival. (DVS) heroes break into Altura. Julius fights the Sisterhood. (N) heroes break into Altura. cent Iron Chef” Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers ››› “Captain America: Civil War” (2016, Action) Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson. Captain America clashes ELEAGUE Rocket League 2018: Grand ›› “National Secu- TBS 24 156 (DVS) (DVS) with Iron Man. (DVS) Final. (N Same-day Tape) rity” (2003) (6:00) ››› “The Barkleys of Broadway” ››› “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964) The Beatles. Paul’s grandfa- (:45) ›› “Jailhouse Rock” (1957, Musical) Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler. Strumming ››› “Tommy” (1975, Musical) Roger TCM 49 186 (1949, Musical) Fred Astaire. ther accompanies the Beatles to London. ex-convict gets agent, turns rock ’n’ roll star. (DVS) Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed. TLC 43 157 Four Weddings 90 Day Fiancé “Extended: Episode 10” (N) 90 Day Fiancé (N) My Addiction My Addiction 90 Day Fiancé 90 Day Fiancé Bones A murder suspect has ties to › “Blended” (2014, Romance-Comedy) Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale. Two single-parent ›› “Kindergarten Cop” (1990, Comedy) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann TNT 23 158 Booth. (DVS) families are stuck together at a resort. (DVS) Miller. A two-fisted L.A. cop poses as a kindergarten teacher. TRUTV 38 129 Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Adam Ruins Adam Ruins Impractical Jokers TV LAND 55 161 M*A*S*H (:36) M*A*S*H (:12) Everybody Loves Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Two and Half Men Two and Half Men King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens Law & Order: Special Victims Unit A Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Self- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Carisi Modern Family (:31) Modern Fami- (12:01) Modern USA 25 132 young couple is murdered. ish” A 2-year-old girl goes missing. Teens attack a transgender peer. looks for a rapist at a shelter. “Schooled” ly “Snip” Family WE 68 166 Criminal Minds “The Pact” Love After Lockup Love After Lockup (N) Extreme Love (Series Premiere) (N) Love After Lockup Extreme Love WGNA 8 172 ››› “Full Metal Jacket” (1987, War) Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio. ››› “Full Metal Jacket” (1987, War) Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio. Married ... With Has 2018 been the year of too much television?

BY KEVIN McDONOUGH mystery series eventually brothers’ film (“The Ballad of How do you sum up a year canceled by AMC. June was Buster Scruggs”) from the in television? the month “Roseanne” was movie theaters, and HBO I knew 2018 was off to a abruptly revived and renamed adapted the international bumpy start when Fox de- “The Conners,” and Kevin best-seller “My Brilliant buted “LA to Vegas” on Jan. Costner saddled up for “Yel- Friend.” All in November. 2, an early candidate for worst lowstone” on Paramount. Syfy kicked off December new show of the year. But HBO launched “Sharp Ob- with the space epic “Nightfly- January also brought us FX’s jects” in July, a demanding se- ers” from “Game of Thrones” “The Assassination of Gianni ries so harrowing that its star author George R.R. Martin, Versace: American Crime (Amy Adams) admitted she and Netflix premiered Story,” one of the year’s best. could not endure a second “Roma,” the movie, TV and We knew the year was going season. July also saw the streaming event of 2018. to be weird when Omarosa debut of the underrated “Cas- Can you have TOO much showed up on CBS’s “Big tle Rock” on Hulu. television? This was certainly Brother” in February. AMC offered “The Big a year that put that question March brought the return Lebowski”-esque enigma to the test. of FX’s experimental and “Lodge 49” in August, and compelling satire “Atlanta.” USA returned that month LEWIS JACOBS / NBC “Trust” also debuted on FX, a with the superior “The Sin- CULT CHOICE Parisa Fitz Henley stars as Fiji in the “Yass, Queen!” episode of “Mid- gorgeous series from director ner.” The 1964 musical “A Hard night, Texas,” airing at 8 p.m. today on NBC. Danny Boyle, easily among September, a month for Day’s Night” (8 p.m., TCM) the year’s finest, even if it did broadcast debuts, saw NBC never mentions the word Centennial Celebration at Tan- LATE NIGHT rattle on for an episode or two return to the “Lost” formula “Beatles.” glewood” (9 p.m., PBS, check Melissa McCarthy and Phoe- too long. with “Manifest” and ABC local listings), a symphonic be Robinson are on “The Late March saw the return of mine “This Is Us” weepiness tribute to the great conductor Show With Stephen Colbert” ABC’s “Roseanne.” As I pre- with “A Million Little TONIGHT’S OTHER and composer, who would (11:35 p.m., CBS, r) * Jimmy dicted, “Roseanne” was scut- Things.” HIGHLIGHTS have turned 100 in August. Fallon welcomes Dolly Parton tled by Roseanne, canceled by “Last Man Standing” and • CBS repeats “Garth: Live at • A journalist gets too close and Nick Kroll on “The Tonight ABC in May. “Murphy Brown” returned in Notre Dame!” (8 p.m., TV-PG). to a case on “Blue Bloods” (10 Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC, r) * In April, HBO showcased Al September, but only one is left • Residents resist witches on p.m., CBS, r, TV-14). Ellen DeGeneres, Pete Holmes Pacino as “Paterno,” aired “Standing.” Amazon’s always “Midnight, Texas” (8 p.m., NBC, and Cole Swindell are on “Elvis: The Searcher” and the surprising “Forever” put a TV-14). “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., second season of “Westworld” wry spin on the hereafter. • Vanessa’s mother de- SERIES NOTES ABC, r) * Howie Mandel, Dani- over the course of two week- Netflix’s “Bojack Horseman” scends on “Last Man Standing” Good intentions on “Fresh elle Macdonald and Mehdi ends. Over on Hulu, “The returned for a superior fifth (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-PG). Off the Boat” (8 p.m., ABC, r, Hasan are on “Late Night With Handmaid’s Tale” returned season. It deserves to be con- • Screen envy on “The Cool TV-PG) * Aspiring illusionists Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, for a second harrowing sea- sidered television’s best come- Kids” (8:30 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14). audition on “Penn & Teller: Fool r) * Maya Rudolph, Nick Kroll son, one no longer tethered to dy. • Elizabeth Stanton and Us” (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-PG) * and Rufus Wainwright are on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 “Mad Men” creator Mat- James Maslow host “Popstar’s New Year’s Eve tensions on “The Late, Late Show With James novel. thew Weiner returned with Best of 2018” (9 p.m., CW, TV- “Speechless” (8:30 p.m., ABC, r, Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS, r). Starz debuted “Vida” in the hit-and-miss anthology PG). TV-PG) * Chinese is on the May, a compelling tale of “The Romanoffs” in October, • “Great Performances” pre- menu on “Hell’s Kitchen” (9 Copyright 2018 class, identity and family. and “Mad Men” star Kiernan mieres the “Leonard Bernstein p.m., Fox, r, TV-14). United Feature Syndicate Showtime imported Benedict Shipka arrived as the title Cumberbatch and the minise- character in the deeply creepy ries based on the “Patrick “Chilling Adventures of Sa- Melrose” novels, and “The brina” on Netflix. That Americans” finally came in streaming service also im- from the cold. ported the huge British hit FX continued to dominate “Bodyguard,” a series that with “Pose,” launching in disturbed Americans with the June. Passionate as well as de- notion of a beefy protector liberately overwrought and calling his assignment (and 2018-19 angry, “Pose” commanded lover) “Mum.” (and deserved) one’s atten- Julia Roberts made her TV tion. “Dietland” also debuted debut on Amazon’s “Home- in June, a sad and quirky coming”; Netflix stole a Coen Church News Submissions MakeM your announcements for spespecial speakers or services on the FFriday Religion page — for free!

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Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! Mickey’s 90th Spectacular: Celebrating Mickey Mouse’s birthday. The Alec Baldwin Show “Regina King; ABC Columbia Wipeout “Totally, Totally Inappropriate” WOLO 9 5 12 “Spa Getaway” Gloria Allred” Regina King; Gloria Allred. News at 11 (N) Unbalanced Beams; Spinner. (N) Secrets of Scotland Yard: Trailblazing Father Brown “The Wrath of Baron Sam- The Doctor Blake Mysteries “Measure The Forsyte Saga Irene and Bosinney Austin City Limits “Iggy Pop” Detroit Bluegrass Under- WRJA ; 11 14 techniques. di” Priest wants to win back a woman. Twice” A retired carpenter is murdered. fall in love. native Iggy Pop performs. ground “Sweet Lizzy Project” (5:30) ›› “For Fox Winter Preview 9-1-1 “Haunted” The responders get The Resident “The Germ” Bell chooses a WACH FOX News Panthers Huddle Hell’s Kitchen “Hot Potato” The chefs Ring of Honor WACH Y 6 6 Keeps” (1988) Special spooked on Halloween. (DVS) new medical device firm. (DVS) at 10 With Ron Rivera must use potatoes. (DVS) Wrestling

Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Saving Hope “Narrow Margin” Alex en- Leverage “The Scheherazade Job” The The Listener “Rogues’ Gallery” Toby’s Dateline Dateline WKTC Ø 4 22 Mike returns home Mandy and Eve have counters a trapped teenager. (DVS) team tries to rob a Boston vault. telepathy acts as surveillance. after a road trip. a secret. CABLE CHANNELS (5:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 12.09.17” To Be Announced Live PD “Live PD -- 11.11.17” Riding along with law enforcement. To Be Announced A&E 46 130 Riding along with law enforcement. (4:30) ››› “Cast ›› “Road House” (1989, Action) Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott. A legendary bouncer agrees to The Walking Dead “First Time Again” Rick (:01) The Walking Dead “JSS” A new (12:02) The Walking AMC 48 180 Away” tame a notorious gin mill. and the others struggle. problem arises. Dead ANPL 41 100 Pit Bulls and Parolees “Our Gift” Pit Bulls and Parolees “Down Below” Pit Bulls and Parolees Pit Bulls and Parolees Pit Bulls and Parolees Pit Bulls-Parole (5:31) ››› “Training Day” (2001) Den- (:05) › “Obsessed” (2009, Suspense) Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter. A stalker threatens a married (:25) ››› “Training Day” (2001, Crime Drama) Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, BET 61 162 zel Washington, Ethan Hawke. man’s idyllic life. Scott Glenn. A rookie cop meets a corrupt Los Angeles narcotics officer. (6:34) ››› “The School of Rock” (2003, Comedy) Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike (:14) › “A Madea Christmas” (2013, Comedy) Tyler Perry, Kathy Najimy, Chad Michael Murray. Madea (:22) › “A Madea Christmas” (2013) BRAVO 47 181 White. An unemployed guitarist poses as a teacher. dishes out her own brand of Christmas spirit. Tyler Perry, Kathy Najimy. CNBC 35 84 Undercover Boss Undercover Boss “Shoppers World” Undercover Boss Undercover Boss “Sky Zone” Undercover Boss: Celebrity Edition Undercover CNN 3 80 CNN Newsroom (N) CNN Newsroom (N) The Nineties “The One About TV” A wide range of television shows. The Nineties “Isn’t It Ironic?” The Nineties (6:50) South Park (:25) South Park South Park “More South Park “Over South Park South Park “Tegridy South Park (:35) South Park (:05) South Park (:35) South Park (12:05) South Park COM 57 136 “Sarcastaball” “The Cissy” Crap” Logging” Farms” “Bloody Mary” “C... Magic” “D-Yikes” Raven’s Home Raven’s Home Raven’s Home Raven’s Home Raven’s Home Raven’s Home Coop & Cami Ask Coop & Cami Ask Coop & Cami Ask Andi Mack Bizaardvark DISN 18 200 the World the World the World DSC 42 103 Moonshiners: Art of the ’Shine Moonshiners: Art of the ’Shine Border Live Moonshiners: Art of the ’Shine Moonshiners ESPN 26 35 Cotton Bowl Bowl Game Capital One Orange Bowl Oklahoma vs Alabama. (N) (Live) Bowl Game SportsCenter ESPN2 27 39 Cotton Bowl Football Pregame Capital One Orange Bowl (N) (Live) Football Postgame SportsCenter (N) FOOD 40 109 Kids Baking Championship Kids Baking Championship Kids Baking Championship Kids Baking Championship Kids Baking Championship Kids Baking FOXN 37 90 Life, Liberty & Levin Watters’ World (N) Justice With Judge Jeanine (N) The Greg Gutfeld Show (N) Watters’ World Justice Judge (:10) ›››› “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) Voices of Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson. (:15) ››› “Tangled” (2010, Children’s) Voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy. Animated. A (:25) ›› “Alice in Wonderland” (2010) FREE 20 131 Animated. A maiden trades places with her captive father. bandit provides Rapunzel’s ticket out of her prison tower. Johnny Depp. FSS 21 47 Hawks Pregame NBA Basketball Cleveland Cavaliers at Atlanta Hawks. From State Farm Arena in Atlanta. (N) (Live) Hawks Postgame Hawks 4th Quarter NBA Basketball Cleveland Cavaliers at Atlanta Hawks. (6:00) “Reunited at Christmas” (2018) “A Midnight Kiss” (2018, Romance) Adelaide Kane, Carlos PenaVega, Jason Cer- 2019 Winterfest “A Shoe Addict’s Christmas” (2018, Romance) Candace Cameron Bure, Luke HALL 52 183 Beverley Breuer, Candus Churchill. mak. Premiere. Party planners land an enormous job. Preview Show MacFarlane. Noelle meets the ghosts of past, present and future. HGTV 39 112 Fixer Upper Love It or List It Love It or List It “Design Intervention” Love It or List It “Second Time Selling” Log Cabin Living Log Cabin Living Love It or List It HIST 45 110 American Pickers “Time Warp” American Pickers “Frank’s Big Day” (:02) American Pickers “Frank’s Folly” (:05) American Pickers (DVS) (:05) American Pickers American Pickers Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Fin’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit A Law & Order: Special Victims Unit A Law & Order: Spe- ION 13 18 Terrorists threaten victim’s fiance. “Pretend” A teenage boy is killed. son may be linked to a murder. woman with multiple personalities. video-game player goes missing. cial Victims Unit (6:00) “Her Boyfriend’s Secret” (2018) “Killer Vacation” (2018, Suspense) Alexa Havins, Jacob Young. Premiere. A preg- (:03) “Seduced by My Neighbor” (2018, Suspense) Andrea Bogart, Trevor St. John, (12:01) “Killer LIFE 50 145 Kelly Sullivan, Mark Famiglietti. nant woman’s relaxing getaway turns menacing. Sierra McCormick. A neighborhood watchman stalks a single mom. Vacation” (2018) MSNBC 36 92 Hardball With Chris Matthews All In With Chris Hayes The Rachel Maddow Show The Last Word The 11th Hour With Brian Williams The Beat With NICK 16 210 The Loud House The Loud House Henry Danger Henry Danger SpongeBob SpongeBob Friends Friends Friends (:35) Friends (12:10) Friends PARMT 64 153 (6:32) ››› “Dumb & Dumber” (1994) Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels. › “The Waterboy” (1998, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates. (:01) ››› “Wedding Crashers” (2005) Owen Wilson. (5:30) ›› “The Fast and the Furious” (7:55) ›› “2 Fast 2 Furious” (2003, Action) Paul Walker, Tyrese. Premiere. Two (:10) ›› “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” (2006, Action) Lucas Black, Zachery Ty Bryan, Bow SYFY 58 152 (2001) Vin Diesel. (DVS) friends and a U.S. customs agent try to nail a criminal. Wow. An American street racer takes on a Japanese champion. (DVS) (6:00) ›› “National Security” (2003) The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Full Frontal With ››› “Love Actually” (2003) Hugh Grant, TBS 24 156 Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn. Theory Theory Theory Theory Theory Theory Samantha Bee Laura Linney. (DVS) (6:15) ››› “Ride the High Country” ››› “The Young in Heart” (1938, Comedy) Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. An ››› “Keeper of the Flame” (1942, Drama) Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, ›››› “Double TCM 49 186 (1962) Randolph Scott. elderly woman reforms a family of connivers. Richard Whorf. A deceased hero is revealed to have been a fascist. Indemnity” (1944) TLC 43 157 Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes, Dress (5:45) ››› “Pete’s Dragon” (2016) ››› “The Jungle Book” (2016, Children’s) Neel Sethi, Voice of Bill Murray. Young (:15) ›› “Alice Through the Looking Glass” (2016, Fantasy) Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway. Live action/ TNT 23 158 Bryce Dallas Howard. (DVS) Mowgli meets an array of animals in the jungle. (DVS) animated. Alice travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter’s family. (DVS) TRUTV 38 129 Impractical Jokers Inside Carbonaro Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Comedy Knockout Comedy Knockout Impractical Jokers TV LAND 55 161 Two and Half Men Two and Half Men Two and Half Men Two and Half Men Two and Half Men Two and Half Men Two and Half Men Two and Half Men King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens NCIS “Death From Above” Bomb materials NCIS “The Numerical Limit” Gibbs must (8:54) NCIS “Fallout” Gibbs’ friend is lost (9:55) NCIS “Date With Destiny” Sloane Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family USA 25 132 are found on the roof. protect a girl from a gang. at sea. (DVS) thinks her torturer is alive. “New Year’s Eve” “Party Crasher” “Fulgencio” WE 68 166 Criminal Minds J.J. meets a colleague. Criminal Minds Thwarting a stalker. Criminal Minds “Tabula Rasa” Criminal Minds “Lo-Fi” Criminal Minds Terrorist bombing. Criminal Minds WGNA 8 172 Blue Bloods “In the Box” Blue Bloods “Occupational Hazards” Blue Bloods “Bad Company” Blue Bloods Blue Bloods “Payback” Bones MacFarlane’s entertaining ‘Orville’ returns Sunday

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH like the word “video,” “Ameri- the Indianapolis Colts in “Sun- “The Orville” (8 p.m. Sunday, ca’s Funniest” is a relic of an day Night Football” (8:20 p.m., Fox, TV-14) sails into its second analog era, having debuted in NBC). season with the crew trying to 1989. It’s as old as “The Simp- • Emily finds a new target on save a dying planet, and Bortus sons,” celebrated on Fox last “Counterpart” (9 p.m., Starz, TV- (Peter Macon) developing an Sunday with a repeat of its MA). unhealthy fixation on the very first episode. • Staten Island authorities ship’s simulation chamber. Network television has spent chase Ray on “Ray Donovan” (9 Creator and star Seth Mac- much of the past year in the p.m., Showtime, TV-MA). Farlane appears to have found wayback machine. “Roseanne” • On the run on the series fi- his touch with this series. was a huge success for ABC nale of “Escape From Dannemo- Faithful readers of this column until it blew up in its face. ra” (10 p.m., Showtime, TV-MA). know my indifference and dis- CBS’s new “Murphy Brown” dain for “Family Guy” and never found much of an audi- MacFarlane’s other cartoons, ence, and viewer enthusiasm SUNDAY SERIES efforts that continually sacri- for NBC’s “Will & Grace” re- On two episodes of “The fice character on the altar of boot has faded. Fox, on the Neighborhood” (CBS, r, TV-PG), the gag and offer little more other hand, has had a modest MICHAEL BECKER / FOX new neighbors (8:30 p.m.), bad than pop culture satire both Friday night success with the From left, Adrianne Palicki stars as Kelly Grayson, Seth MacFarlane as plumbing (9 p.m.) * Three ways easy and obvious. reincarnation of the Tim Allen Ed Mercer and Peter Macon as Bortus in the season two premiere of of looking at the same scene on With “The Orville,” MacFar- vehicle “Last Man Standing,” “The Orville,” airing at 8 p.m. Sunday on FOX. “Family Guy” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV- lane has used his celebrity to which airs, incidentally, 14) * Miles gets the cold shoul- produce thoughtful entertain- against an update of “Mac- der on “God Friended Me” (9:30 ment, unafraid to use pulpy, Gyver.” fused, the rest of the industry • Ryan Seacrest hosts the p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) * A famil- sometimes goofy stories to ex- Two network hits hearkened has never been so busy. But is first night of the “iHeartRadio iar situation on “Rel” (9:30 p.m., plore topical content, questions back to the familiar. NBC’s proliferation a sign of dyna- Music Festival” (8 p.m., CW, r, Fox, r, TV-14) * An heiress is of culture versus morality, con- “Manifest” invited compari- mism? Or nervousness? Cancer TV-PG). held hostage on “S.W.A.T.” (10:30 formity and the mob mentality sons to “Lost,” and CBS’s is a form of growth too. • Brianna copes with tragedy p.m., CBS, r, TV-14). of social media. “FBI” offered viewers a slightly According to a report on on “Outlander” (8 p.m., Starz, When “The Orville” first ar- amped-up variation on the “peak TV” released annually TV-MA). Copyright 2018 rived, some snarky critics dis- Dick Wolf formula that dates by FX, there were 495 original • The Tennessee Titans host United Feature Syndicate missed it as MacFarlane’s co- back to “Law & Order” from scripted streaming, cable and splay ego trip. But he’s clearly 1990. broadcast series released in trying to use his technical toy- You can’t blame networks for 2018. Every year, that number box to emulate “Star Trek” cre- playing it safe when their cor- is dismissed as unsustainable. ator Gene Roddenberry’s ef- porate fates seem so uncertain. And every year it grows larger. forts to infuse television with Fox will be folded into Disney. There are “Stranger Things” big ideas. And there’s nothing Leslie Moonves, the face of to come. wrong with that. CBS and a fairly arrogant Speaking of thoughtful, topi- pitchman of its ratings success, cal television, Syfy returns to has left in considerable dis- SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS its tradition of ringing in the grace. In September, just as • A party planner has to or- new year with the 23rd “Twi- new shows (including “Mani- ganize a New Year’s Eve bash light Zone” marathon, begin- fest”) were being launched, for a tech tycoon on very short ning Sunday night at 11 p.m. NBC Entertainment Chairman notice in the 2018 romance “A WE BUY AMMO! For a complete schedule of epi- Bob Greenblatt suddenly re- Midnight Kiss” (8 p.m., Hall- We will buy ammo you do not sodes, go to syfy.com. signed, and Disney-ABC TV mark, TV-G). want in your house. Created and hosted by Rod President Ben Sherwood an- • An expectant girlfriend Serling, “The Twilight Zone” nounced he wouldn’t be around jumps at the chance to accom- We will dispose debuted in 1959. So the “dimen- to see how things worked out pany her lover to a posh resort, of old ammo. sion as vast as space and as with the company’s merger only to find his ex also there timeless as infinity” will turn with Fox. with murder on her mind, in 60 this year. Viewers have to wonder: If the 2018 shocker “Killer Vaca- A new, or newer, version of highly paid executives aren’t tion” (8 p.m., Lifetime, TV-14). “The Twilight Zone” will sticking around to see how net- • Reeling from the death of a stream on CBS All Access in work efforts pan out, why friend and colleague, a mother 2019, helmed by Jordan Peele should we? worries when her daughter (“Key & Peele”). The number of cord cutters makes a friend who seems Television, a medium born in continues to grow, and most more cruel than kind in the Ri e • Pistol the late 1940s, is always reboot- new TVs are “smart,” enabling 2018 shocker “Psycho Prom • Shotgun Shells ing and reinventing itself. Not viewers to stream Netflix, Am- Queen” (10 p.m., Lifetime Mov- bad for a 70-year-old. azon and Hulu without buying ies Network, TV-14). Thank You For You can’t blame networks for extra equipment. feeling a tug of nostalgia as the Whenever people ask about Voting Us #1 year comes to a close. 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