Some ‘model’ She shoots, individuals she scores! Volunteers donate to educate others HEALTH, 1D Check out the Athlete of the Week SPORTS, 3B WILKES-BARRE, PA timesleader.com TuESdAy, SEPTEmBER 3, 2013 50¢ WyomingArea strike is on for today what should be the fourth day of progress, teachers will not be ranging from 1.83 percent to Teachers may school, and likely until the end returning to the classroom until 3.02 percent in each of the of the month. Sept. 30. seven years. The district offered not be back Teachers of the Wyoming Dolman said the last round of raises from 2.28 percent to 2.86 Area Education Association talks were held Thursday, and percent for five years, but not until Sept. 30 begin a strike today after more there was “some movement on for the 2011-2012 school year, than three years of failed nego- the side of the (school) board” in which a wage freeze was pro- tiations on a teachers contract — the removal of a true wage posed. STEVE MOCARSKY that expired in August 2010. freeze for the 2011-12 school The teachers have proposed [email protected] The union announced the year. But the board’s offer also a seven-year contract and the strike in July, hoping nearly eliminated percentage raises for district has proposed a six-year EXETER — The grounds two-months notice would help four of the remaining years of agreement. of Wyoming Area High School provide an impetus for moving the contract, she said. Dolman said the union hopes and JFK Elementary across the talks with the school board for- “Really, all they did was shift to meet with district negotia- street were devoid of students ward. money,” Dolman said. tors during the strike, but no Monday, which wasn’t unex- Wyoming Area Education At negotiations two weeks talks have been scheduled. Pete G. Wilcox | The Times Leader pected on Labor Day. But they Association President Melissa ago, the union proposed raises The crosswalk in front of Wyoming Area High School in Exeter had no stu- will remain that way today, on Dolman said that if there is no according to seniority steps See STRIKE |8A dents bustling through on Monday because of the Labor Day holiday. Gas spill Administration predicts support from Congress New book litigation lingers reveals Appeal filed with state’s highest court a boss’s in Tranguch case SHEENA DELAZIO [email protected] power WILKES-BARRE — Attorneys representing a man in a 12-year-old gasoline spill JERRY LYNOTT lawsuit have filed an appeal to [email protected] the state Supreme Court, ask- ing the high court to throw out Matt Birkbeck doesn’t sim- previous rulings in the case. ply drop names for effect in Attorneys Donald his new book about the late Karpowich, Sean Logsdon mob boss Russell Bufalino of and Kevin Walsh Jr. filed the Kingston. The heavyweights appeal on behalf of Franklin he writes about detonate upon Tarantino, whose family was impact when they hit the page. one of 1,000 original plaintiffs • Dunmore businessman who sued, alleging fuel leaks Louis DeNaples, who was the at the former Tranguch Tire focus of a grand jury investi- and Service Center on Church gating allegations he lied to the Street in Hazleton entered the board issuing ground and spread to the sur- casino licenses rounding area, causing resi- about his ties dents to come with down ill- AP photo to organized nesses, including cancer, and A Syrian girl holds a sign Sunday during a demonstration in Maaret al-Numan, Idlib province, northern Syria. More than 100,000 Syrians have been killed since crime, includ- causing property damage. an uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad erupted in 2011. ing Bufalino. The appeal to the high court • Jimmy seeks to overturn rulings by Hoffa, the for- Luzerne County judges to mer Teamsters Birkbeck award a judgment to the defen- union presi- dant in the case, Exxon Mobil, dent who was as well as a ruling by the state Syria tauntsWest but still prepares murdered on Superior Court to uphold orders from those rulings. Bufalino to Tarantino said the appeal to ALBERT AJI Syrian President Bashar Assad summer break Sept. 9. lions of people. prevent his the state’s high court is nec- and KARIN LAUB is getting stronger, saying it now Assad, in turn, tried to project The Arab League at an emer- confidant essary because the Superior Associated Press has evidence that the toxic gas confidence in his escalating show- gency meeting in Cairo on Sunday from testifying Court overlooked two impor- allegedly used in strikes on rebel- down with the U.S., saying in called on the United Nations and about a Mafia/ Bufalino tant facts. DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria on held areas was the nerve agent comments carried by state media the international community to CIA plot to kill Former Judge Joseph Musto Sunday derided President Barack sarin. Sunday that Syria is “capable of take “deterrent” measures under Fidel Castro. in 2009 denied a motion for Obama’s decision to hold off on The administration predicted confronting any external aggres- international law to stop the “I knew who Bufalino was. summary judgment while a punitive military strikes, but also Sunday it will obtain congressio- sion.” Syrian regime’s crimes, but could I didn’t know how powerful county jury in September took precautions by reportedly nal backing for limited strikes. From the sidelines, others not agree on whether to back U.S. he was,” Birkbeck, 52, said 2010 found a few plaintiffs in moving some troops and military After days of edging closer to mil- exhorted the U.S. either to get military action. in a recent interview about the case would not receive any equipment to civilian areas. itary action against Syria, Obama involved or stay out of the bru- Arab foreign ministers at the the Oct. 1 release of “The money, but ruled that Exxon The Obama administration suddenly announced Saturday he tal two-and-a-half-year-old con- meeting in their closing state- Quiet Don: The Untold Story countered that its case for mili- would first seek approval from flict that has claimed more than of Mafia Kingpin Russell See gAS |8A tary action against the regime of Congress, which gets back from 100,000 lives and displaced mil- See SYRIA |8A Bufalino.” The Pocono-based writer and former reporter for The Endurance swim- Morning Call in Allentown mer Diana Nyad was reporting on the licensing Nyad’s persistence pays off is greeted by a of Mount Airy Casino Resort crowd Monday near Mount Pocono and said as she walks he drew a parallel to DeNaples JENNIFER KAY The 64-year-old Nyad swam give up. Two is, you’re never onto the beach and Bufalino on how they had in KeyWest, Fla., Associated Press up to the beach just before too old to chase your dream. the protection from people in 2 p.m. EDT, about 53 hours Three is, it looks like a soli- becoming the high places in politics and law first person to KEY WEST, Fla. — Looking after she began her journey in tary sport, but it is a team,” swim from Cuba enforcement. dazed and sunburned, U.S. Havana on Saturday. As she she said on the beach. to Florida with- He relied on documents and endurance swimmer Diana approached, spectators waded “I have to say, I’m a little out the help of a files and contacts and sourc- Nyad walked onto the shore into waist-high water and sur- bit out of it right now,” Nyad shark cage. es, including remnants of the Monday, becoming the first rounded her, taking pictures said. She gestured toward her Russell Bufalino Crime Family, person to swim from Cuba to and cheering her on. swollen lips, and simply said to piece together the story. Florida without the help of a “I have three messages. shark cage. One is, we should never, ever See SWIM |8A AP photo See BOOK |8A NEWS: Local 3A Editorial 7A CLASSIFIED: 1C TV/movies 4d INSIDE Nation & World 4A Weather 8A HEALTH: 1D Puzzles 5d Obituaries 6A SPORTS: 1B Birthdays 3d Comics 6d 6 0 9 8 1 5 1 0 0 1 1 PAGE 2A Tuesday, September 3, 2013 NEWS www.timesleader.com THE TIMES LEADER Maroon 5,Clarkson heat up holidayweekend DETAILS BRAD PATTON was not available at press time, or “My Life Would Suck Without Times Leader Correspondent but unofficial estimates had the Yo u” began, thousands of moth- crowd as large as 20,000. ers stood on chairs next to their LOTTERY SCRANTON — Pop music Online sources estimate the daughters as both generations superstars Maroon 5 and Kelly capacity for the large amphithe- sang along with Clarkson. MIDDAY DRAWING Clarkson threw a Labor Day ater at 18,000, but who knows The now 31-year-old singer DAILY NUMBER - 4-0-2 weekend bash in Scranton on just how many people can be used her voice to better effect BIG 4 - 6-1-4-4 Sunday, and more than 18,000 of squeezed onto the lawn, especial- on a string of ballads, soaring their closest friends showed up ly if chairs are not allowed (and through versions of “Breakaway,” QUINTO - 0-6-2-2-8 to party. they weren’t on Sunday)? “Because of Yo u” and a stripped- TREASURE HUNT Most of the large crowd on The show got underway at 7 down solo version of “Don’t Yo u 07-10-18-20-25 Sunday was made up of young p.m.