CMYK Al-Qaida: Smile! You’re One Year Later on the Click page Bin Laden dead a year, Cherry Blossom Festival, Saudi but his network still active Interest Club, Israel flag- raising TWO 8” X 12” FINE ART PRINTS W/ FREE $ NEWS, 9A CLICK, 1C SHIPPING FOR ONLY 49 ( A $200 VALUE! ) The Times Leader752042 WILKES-BARRE, PA timesleader.com MONDAY,APRIL 30,2012 50¢ SPORTS SHOWCASE Stadium might look ‘brand new’ An architect unveils the plan for the “new” PNC baseball field, featuring a viewing area in the outfield and less seating. By TOM ROBINSON For the Times Leader SCRANTON – The field, lower INSIDE: Suit could bring Luzerne bowl and a few other items will County half of $14.6 million, 12A remain, but when PNC Field reo- pens in 2013, it will look like a dif- look brand new. ferent stadium. “Approximately 85 percent of “This is a stadium re-creation,” the existing facility is going to be architect Craig J. Schmitt said demolished and replaced with a SUBMITTED ILLUSTRATION during his presentation at a pub- new facility that is a smaller, This is an architect’s rendering of the entrance to the rebuilt PNC Field, home of the Scranton/ NBA PLAYOFFS lic hearing regarding the sale of more-intimate venue than what Wilkes-Barre Yankees. It’s scheduled to open in April, 2013. the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yan- exists today.” LAKERS 103 kees and the related stadium pro- Creating an open-air feel is preliminary work to prepare for funds became available when turn, agreed to lease the stadium NUGGETS 88 ject. “This is not a new stadium, among the extensive changes in a demolition that may start next Lackawanna County sold the for 30 years. but when we are done, for all in- $43-million reconstruction pro- week. franchise to SWB Yankees LLC tents and purposes, it is going to ject that began Friday with some The project was on hold until Thursday. SWB Yankees LLC, in SeeSTADIUM, Page 12A SPURS 106 JAZZ 91 IMMIGRATION HAWKS 83 THE FINAL DAY TO BLOSSOM CELTICS 74 NHL PLAYOFFS U.S. faces FLYERS 4 DEVILS 3 acostly COYOTES 5 PREDATORS 3 challenge EX-CRESTWOOD By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER STAR NFL BOUND [email protected] Former Crestwood foot- Charged with selling $100 worth of co- ball standout Kyle Bogu- caine in 1995, Cheikh Diop of Forty Fort mil is getting a chance at thought he got a good deal when Luzerne the NFL. County prosecutors agreed to recommend Bogumil, asentence of probation in exchange for his a6- guilty plea to the drug charge. foot-6, He didn’t know it then, but more than a decade later that decision would cost him 310- nearly three years of his freedom. pound Diop, a native of the Republic of Sene- guard AIMEE DILGER PHOTOS/THE TIMES LEADER gal, entered the plea and served four years who of probation. He continued to work and played at the University of tarting with polka and ending with country, music raise a family in Luzerne County until Rhode Island, signed as filled Kirby Park Sunday on the second and final March 19, 2008. an undrafted free agent day of the Cherry Blossom Festival. That’s when agents from the Immigra- with the Miami Dolphins S tion and Customs Enforcement agency In above photo, Dr. Philip Simon conducts the shortly after the comple- Wilkes University Civic Band under the pavilion as it per- knocked at his door and Diop learned, for tion of the NFL Draft on forms “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” At right, the first time, that the 13-year-old drug Saturday night. 1B John Shemo plugs in and turns up his amplifier during an conviction subjected him to deportation from the United States.It would be the afternoon performance by Mother Nature’s Sons. In photo start of a convoluted, four-year odyssey below, those not swinging to the music take to the flying through the federal, state and immigration INSIDE swings on a perfect day for the festival. court systems that continues today. Diop was taken to the York County pris- ANEWS: Local 3A Nation & World 5A on, where he spent the next 2 years and 11 Editorials 11A months in administrative detention. His “sentence” was not for the drug charge it- BSPORTS: self, but a consequence of his efforts to Scoreboard 2B fight deportation to his native country. CCLICK: 1C His case recently resulted in a prece- Birthdays 3C dent-setting ruling by the Third Circuit Television 4C Court of Appeals that will require the gov- Crossword/Horoscope 5C ernment to provide bail hearings for immi- Comics 6C grants subject to mandatory detention. DCLASSIFIED: 1D The ruling was hailed as a victory by the American Civil Liberties Union and other SeeIMMIGRANTS, Page 9A WEATHER Ava Swiderski. need to take advantage of the “Great American Grump Out” pe.) The movie opens Friday. Partly sunny, p.m. rain. THINGS this Wednesday. Put your inner grouch on hold for one day High 65. Low 30. and (gasp) try to be nice to your fellow humans. Who knows? >> FIESTA!: It’s a really lucky coincidence that “Cinco de Details, Page 6B You just might end up liking the “smiling” thing. Mayo” is on May 5th, because if it was on any other day, the YOU NEED name wouldn’t quite fit. Originally held in Mexico to observe >> ASSEMBLE: OK, so you’ve seen “The Hulk.” the 1862 Battle of Puebla, it has evolved in the United States You’ve seen “Iron Man.” And “Thor,” and “Captain into a celebration of Mexican heritage. Mexican-Americans TO KNOW America.” And you must have been thinking, note the day with traditional Mexican food and music. Amer- 5 “Wouldn’t it be great to have all these superhe- ican college students note the day by drinking beer with a THIS WEEK roes in one movie?” Well, Hollywood was lime in it. listening, and just for you they >> TAKE OFF, EH?: With the Hershey Bears dispatched made “The Avengers.” >> AND THEY’RE OFF: For back down 81 South, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins get Throw in Hawkeye horse racing fans, heaven isn’t a to take off to the Great White North for the next playoff and Black Widow and ballfield in Iowa, it’s a racetrack in opponent. Wayyyy north. The Pens will open their second- you have six, count Louisville, Kentucky. Heaven (aka round series against St. John’s in the Canadian Maritime ‘em, SIX, spandex- Churchill Downs) is going to be a Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Game 1starts at 6 wearing crime fighters busy place this Saturday with the p.m. Tuesday. Too far to travel, eh? Just wait. The team will to battle the evil demi- 138th running of the Kentucky Derby. be back on home ice next Saturday and Sunday. god Loki and his From “Aristides” in 1875 to “Animal minions. (Well, tech- Kingdom” last year, the winner of the >> YOU DARN KIDS!: Are you a grump? Do you live in a nically five heroes wear derby is immortalized in equine history. garbage can? Do you own a collection of Wiffle balls the spandex, since the Hulk Who will win this year’s event? Will it be neighborhood kids were brazen enough to hit into your yard? wears ripped pants from “Sabercat?” “Dullahan?” “Creative 6 09815 10011 Do you eat lemons each morning to “get your game face on?” Chalmer’s Big and Tall Shop- Cause?” Or, the horsily-named “Daddy If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then you may Nose Best?”NBC’s coverage begins at 5p.m. K PAGE 2A MONDAY, APRIL 30,2012 ➛ timesleader.com THE TIMES LEADER www.timesleader.com Microchips, scanner aid tracers of lost pets DETAILS LOTTERY APennsylvania town returns township about $4,000 last Williams Township and about he said. “Pets are a part of the fam- MIDDAY DRAWING lost dogs to owners and year to feed and shelter lost $300 for pit bulls. Such microchips won’t be ily,” Keller said. “Any time a pets. Supervisors voted 4-0 last mandatory, but Palmer said pet goes into a veterinary hos- DAILY NUMBER – 1-9-2 saves on housing them. “It’s becoming a problem week, with member Ann-Marie pet owners will be encouraged pital, we scan them. We have with dogs, especially, that are Panella not present, to spend to get them, and the township had a lot of nice success stories BIG 4 – 1-3-8-2 found in the city by the police up to $500 on a hand-held scan- will promote the use of chips where we could bring them QUINTO – 8-9-2-5-0 The Associated Press department and brought to the ner after the chief proposed through its website and news- back to their owners.” EASTON— One eastern shelter, which is full and over- the idea. letter. With more people already TREASURE HUNT Pennsylvania township hoping flowing and becoming more Palmer said that when he Candace Keller, business getting microchips implanted 02-03-04-06-21 to reduce the cost of housing and more of a problem,” Palm- was police chief in Easton, the manager at Wright Veterinary in their pets, the scanner will lost pets has decided to buy a er said during a supervisors’ city was paying about $43,000 Medical Center in Bethlehem benefit the township and pet NIGHTLY DRAWING hand-held scanner that can meeting last week, according annually to pay animal shelter Township, said more than 50 owners, Supervisor Chairman read microchips increasingly to The (Easton) Express- fees and its animal control offi- pet owners have had the David Colver said.