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WASHINGTON (AP) — As if voters don’t have enough to be angry about this election year, the gov-ernment is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year with-out an increase in their monthly benefits.

It would mark only the second year without an increase since automatic adjustments for inflation were adopted in 1975. The first year was this year.

“If you’re the ruling party, this is not the sort of thing you want to have happen-ing two weeks before an election,” said Andrew Biggs, a former deputy commissioner at the Social Security Administration and now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

“It’s not the congressional Democrats’ fault, but that’s the way politics works,” Biggs said. “A lot of people will feel hostile about it.”

The cost-of-living adjust-ments, or COLAs, are auto-matically set each year by an inflation measure that was adopted by Congress back in the 1970s. Based on inflation so far this year, the trustees who oversee Social Security project there will be no COLA for 2011.

The projection will be made official on Friday, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases inflation estimates for September. The timing couldn’t be worse for Democrats as they approach an election in which they are in dan-ger of losing their House majority, and possibly their Senate majority as well.

This past Friday, the same bureau delivered another painful blow to Democrats: The U.S. lost 95,000 jobs in September and unemploy-ment remained stubbornly stuck at 9.6 percent.

Democrats have been working hard to make Social Security an election-year issue, running politi-

No boost for Social Security checks in 2011

The Social Security Administration is expected to announce on Friday that retirees and disabled Americans will see no increase in benefits for 2011, the second straight year without an increase.

A look at who gets ben-efits:

Total beneficiaries58.7 million Social Security recipi-

ents53.5 million Supplemental Security

Income recipients7.9 million People who get both

Social Security and SSI2.7 million Average monthly Social

Security payment$1,072 Average monthly SSI

payment$499 Social Security is the

primary source of income for 64 percent of recipients.

One-third of recipients rely on Social Security for at least 90 percent of their income.

Early retirement age62 Full retirement age66, rising to 67 for people

born after 1959

Source: Social Security Administration

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"I think I’ve acted responsibly, and I think I have managed the affairs of this state responsibly during a very, very difficult period of time economically."

Gov. Ted Strickland ★ Democrat

"We need to reduce taxes, and we need to reduce the size of government. If we think that raising taxes is going to get us out of this ditch, we’re dead wrong."

John Kasich ★ Republican

By MARC KOVACDix Capital Bureau

COLUMBUS — The race for gov-ernor pits a Republican who wants to decrease the size of government, increase access to job training pro-grams and cut citizens’ tax burdens against a Democratic incumbent who says he’s already done those things.

One wants to privatize the Ohio Department of Development, replac-ing the public agency with a nonprofit board of handpicked executives. The other says that move would lead to conflicts of interest and state-issued bonuses to private individuals.

And then there’s the $8 billion ques-tion — that is, how exactly will the state’s next chief executive deal with

a looming budget hole, the result of using federal stimulus and other one-time monies to maintain agency work and services over the current bien-nium.

Neither Gov. Ted Strickland nor his challenger, John Kasich, are offering many specifics on their plans for han-dling that issue.

But the two have spent recent months trying to convince voters to rely on their past actions in elected office as a gauge for how they will tackle budget shortfalls and policy issues as Ohio attempts to rebound from a national recession that stalled business invest-ments and job growth.

“I’ve dealt with extremely difficult circumstances, and I have made very

Rivals bring diverse approaches to race

This is the first of a five-part look at the top state races. Today’s article features the race for Ohio governor. Tuesday’s article focuses on the can-didates for state attorney general.

By BETHANY [email protected]

It’s been nearly a year since the four-lane portion of U.S. 24 opened between Defiance and Fort Wayne and so far offi-cials have been pleasantly surprised by the relatively few number of accidents that have occurred, particularly at at-grade crossings.

“It’s not really a problem right now,” said Sgt. Jeff Hauenstein with the Van Wert post of the Ohio Highway Patrol, which handles U.S. 24 crashes in Paulding County.

“We’ve had our share of injury crashes,”

he admitted. “But we expected that we would have a lot more.”

While he couldn’t recall the exact num-ber of crashes the post has handled over the last year, Hauenstein said only in just the last few months have they dealt with more injury accidents on the new por-tion of U.S. 24. In the last month, the post handled its first fatal accident.

Of the crashes that have occurred at at-grade crossings, Hauenstein said nearly all have been the result of drivers not being cautious enough when approaching the highway.

Risks on new U.S. 24 are highest at road crossings

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PAULDING — The future of the county’s operating fund is in the hands of Paulding County voters.

Countywide, there will be a 2-mill, five-year additional levy for current expenses on the November ballot. If passed, a portion of the money would be earmarked for the county soil and water conservation district and the remainder would be allo-cated to the general fund.

Commissioners said the levy money is needed.

“We’re still faced with our fixed costs (such as insurance, heating and electric) that continue to rise,” said Commissioner Tony Zartman. “Revenue is stagnant or in slight decline. Without additional revenue, we will not be able to sustain the level of service we are at currently.”

The levy will generate approxi-mately $613,268 annually and cost the owner of a home valued at $100,000 approximately $70 per year, according to the county audi-tor’s office.

The 2-mill figure is less than the levy sought by the county in 2009. In November 2009, voters defeated

a 4-mill levy, five-year for operat-ing expenses by a margin of 4,416-1,918.

Commissioner Tony Burkley said the commissioners decided to seek a smaller levy amount for several reasons.

“Things (financially) have stabi-lized, where before they were spi-raling downward at a rapid pace,” he said. “That’s a sign of improve-ment.”

Zartman also said that more rev-enue is expected to be generated from wind farms that will be built in the Paulding County. That helped reduce the millage of the operating

Paulding County proposes leaner levyTwo-mill proposal is half of 2009 request

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■ A2 NATION & WORLD The Crescent-News • Monday, October 11, 2010

LAS VEGAS — Churches, banquet halls and other wedding venues across the country were extra busy Sunday as couples seeking a perfect 10 rushed to tie the knot on a once-in-a-century milestone: Oct. 10, 2010.

In Las Vegas — long a destination for weddings — one marriage license bureau extended its Sunday hours from 6 p.m. to midnight to accommodate the rush. Hotels and churches in New Hampshire’s Seacoast area were booked long before Oct. 10.

Wedding-related businesses said the day was perhaps the most sought-after wedding date since July 7, 2007, when the lucky 07-07-07 marked the calendar. Some 10-10-10 couples even chose to take their vows at 10 a.m.

One pastor in Nevada took the rush airborne by plan-ning to join 30 couples at various venues Sunday and aboard a helicopter through the buzz of a headset.

“This is kind of a neat way to spend my retirement years. It keeps me in good health and keeps my mind alert,” Rev. Jim Hamilton of Henderson’s Sunrise Community Church told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Gov’t won’t appeal decision: The U.S. govern-ment announced Sunday it would prosecute the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to face a civilian trial with-out its star witness because appealing a judge’s ruling excluding him could cause significant delay and incon-venience other witnesses and victims. Besides, the government said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, there was enough evidence without the star witness to convict Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani of conspir-ing in 1998 to blow up two U.S. embassies in Africa, killing 224 people, including a dozen Americans. The decision by the government not to appeal clears the way for the trial to resume Tuesday, when opening statements are expected to begin after a jury is chosen from a pool of about 65 potential jurors in Manhattan.

Police question parents: Zahra Clare Baker, a hear-ing-impaired North Carolina girl with a prosthetic leg, disappeared over the weekend, and police were ques-tioning the 10-year-old’s parents as they collected sur-veillance video from businesses near the family’s home and used dogs to search the neighborhood. The girl’s

stepmother was arrested on about a dozen charges unrelated to the disap-pearance of Zahra Clare Baker, who was reported missing by her parents, Elisa and Adam Baker, on Saturday afternoon in Hickory in western North Carolina. Zahra’s step-mother said she last saw

her daughter sleeping at 2:30 a.m. Saturday. She was reported missing about 12 hours later, police said. Zahra uses hearing aids in both ears, but she doesn’t have her hearing aids with her, police said.

Gates welcomes friendly relations: Defense Secretary Robert Gates gently chided Vietnam for its blemished human rights record Monday but marveled at the friendly ties the U.S. has built with Vietnam a genera-tion after the Vietnam War. Gates addressed a university audience in Hanoi, not far from the lake where Sen. John McCain famously crashed his war plane and became one of the best-known prisoners of war. The defense secretary is in Vietnam to attend an Asian security min-isters meeting Tuesday as well as to meet with delegates from some of the small nations that want U.S. support to counter the growth of China as a regional power. The room was full of students born after the war and reared on Vietnam’s blend of communism and capitalism.

Has been in talks with Taliban: Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed his government has been in informal talks with the Taliban on securing peace in war-weary Afghanistan “for quite some time” — the latest in a series of high-level acknowledgments of contacts with the insurgent group. The comments came as Taliban fighters ambushed a military supply convoy in the east Monday and fought with Afghan forces in the south. Unofficial discussions have been held with Taliban representatives over an extended period, Karzai told CNN’s “Larry King Live” in an interview to be broadcast today. “We have been talking to the Taliban as countryman to countryman,” Karzai said. “Not as a regular official contact with the Taliban with a fixed address, but rather unofficial personal contacts have been going on for quite some time.”

To emerge as heroes: A torrent of emotions awaits the 33 miners when they finally rejoin the outside world. As trying as it has been for them to survive underground for more than two months, their gold and copper mine is familiar territory. Once out of the shaft, they’ll face challenges so bewildering, no amount of coaching can fully prepare them. They’ll be celebrated at first, embraced by their families and pursued by more than 750 journalists who have converged on the mine, competing for interviews and images to feed to a world intensely curious to hear their survival story. They’ve been invited to visit presidential palaces, take all-expense paid vacations and appear on countless TV shows. Contracts for book and movie deals are pend-ing, along with job offers. More money than they could dream of is already awaiting their signature.

Will pay sludge damages: The owners of the met-als plant whose reservoir burst, flooding several towns in western Hungary with caustic red sludge, expressed their condolences Sunday to the families of the seven people killed, as well as to those injured — and said they were sorry for not having done so sooner. MAL Rt., which owns the alumina plant in Ajka, also said it was willing to pay compensation “in proportion to its responsibility” for the damage caused by the deluge. But the trouble may not be over. With the northwest corner of the storage pool still showing a hole 50 meters wide where the mix of mud and water broke through last week, officials said the col-lapse of at least one of the breached walls was inevitable. That, they said, would probably unleash a new deluge of toxic matter that could ooze a half-mile to the north, wreaking further havoc.

UN experts urge release: Four UN human rights experts have called on China to immediately release Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo. The independent UN-appointed investigators say Liu is “a courageous human rights defender who has continuously and peace-fully advocated for greater respect for human rights” in China. In a statement today they called on China to release Liu and “all persons detained for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression.”

From wire reports

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Vegas wedding chapels busy as couples tie the knot on symmetrical date 10-10-10

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two Americans and a British-Cypriot econ-omist won the 2010 Nobel economics prize today for developing a theory that helps explain why many people can remain unemployed despite a large number of job vacancies.

Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides were hon-ored with the $1.5 million prize for their analysis of the the obstacles that prevent buyers and sellers from effi-ciently pairing up in markets.

Diamond analyzed the foundations of so-called search markets, while Mortensen and Pissarides expanded the theory and applied it to the labor market.

Since searching for jobs takes time and resources, it creates frictions in the job market, helping explain why there are both job vacancies and unemployment simultaneously, the academy said.

“The laureates’ models help us understand the ways in which unem-ployment, job vacancies and wages are affected by regulation and eco-nomic policy,” the citation said.

Diamond, 70, is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an authority on Social Security,

pensions and taxation.President Barack Obama has nomi-

nated Diamond to become a member of the Federal Reserve. However, the Senate failed to approve his nomina-tion before lawmakers left to cam-paign for the midterm congressional elections.

Diamond told a Senate committee during his nomination hearing in July that a central theme of his research has been how the economy deals with risks that affect both individuals, and the entire economy.

“In all my central research areas, I have thought about and written about the risks in the economy and how markets and government can combine to make the economy func-tion better for individuals,” he said in that hearing.

Mortensen, 71, is an economics pro-fessor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.

Mortensen was informed that he had won the prize before a lecture, university spokesman Anders Correll said.

Pissarides, a 62-year-old professor at the London School of Economics,

said he received the news with “a mixture of surprise and happiness, general satisfaction.

“This is prize is so great you don’t believe that you will get it even after you’ve got it,” he said, in a live tele-phone conference with the academy in Stockholm.

The economics prize is not among the original awards established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will, but was created in 1968 by the Swedish central bank in his memory.

The economics jury was the last of the Nobel committees to announce 2010 winners.

Last week, British professor Robert Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his fertility research that led to the first test tube baby. Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won the physics prize for groundbreaking experiments with graphene, the stron-gest and thinnest material known to mankind.

The chemistry award went to Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for design-ing techniques to bind together car-bon atoms.

Americans, Brit-Cypriot share award

Nobel economics prize

WASHINGTON (AP) — The jobs crisis has brought an unwelcome discovery for many unemployed Americans: Job openings in their old fields exist. Yet they no longer qualify for them.

They’re running into a trend that took root during the recession. Companies became more productive by doing more with fewer workers. Some asked staffers to take on a broader array of duties — duties that used to be spread among multiple jobs. Now, someone who hopes to get those jobs must meet the new requirements.

As a result, some database adminis-trators now have to manage network security.

Accountants must do financial anal-ysis to find ways to cut costs.

Factory assembly workers need to program computers to run machin-ery.

The broader responsibilities mean it’s harder to fill many of the jobs that are open these days. It helps explain why many companies complain they can’t find qualified people for cer-tain jobs, even with 4.6 unemployed Americans, on average, competing for each opening. By contrast, only 1.8 people, on average, were vying for each job opening before the recession.

The total number of job openings does remain historically low: 3.2 mil-lion, down from 4.4 million before the recession. But the number of open-ings has surged 37 percent in the past year. And yet the unemployment rate has actually risen during that time. Companies still aren’t finding it easy to fill job vacancies.

Take Bayer MaterialScience, a unit of Bayer. When the company sought earlier this year to hire a new health, safety and environment director for one of its plants, it wanted candidates with a wider range of abilities than before. In particular, it needed some-one skilled not just in managing health and safety but also in guiding employ-ees to adapt to workplace changes.

Joe Bozada, chief of staff for Bayer’s CEO, said the company initially inter-viewed 30 candidates. Then it did final interviews with seven. But none had the additional experience the com-pany now wanted. Ultimately, Bozada said, the company chose one of its own employees it had already trained.

That shift, across multiple indus-tries, has caught the eye of David Altig, research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Workers aren’t just being asked to increase their output, Altig says. They’re being asked to broaden it, too.

A company might have had three back-office jobs before the recession, Altig said. Only one of those jobs might have required computer skills. Now, he said, “one person is doing all three of those jobs — and every job you fill has to have computer skills.”

The trend is magnifying the obstacles facing the unemployed. Economists have long worried that millions of people who have lost jobs in depressed areas like construction don’t qualify for work in growing sectors like health care. But it turns out that some of the jobless no longer

even qualify for their old positions.Frustrated in their efforts to find

qualified applicants among the job-less, employers are turning to those who are already employed.

“They’re hiring a known quantity that already has this specific experience on their resume,” said Cathy Farley, a managing director at Accenture. “It is slowing some of the re-hiring from the ranks of the unemployed.”

Only 49 percent of people laid off from 2007 through 2009 were re-employed by January 2010, according to a Labor Department survey. It’s the lowest such proportion since the survey began in 1984.

And more than 40 percent of the nearly 15 million unemployed Americans have been out of work for six months or longer. That’s near the record high set during the recession.

Some of the unfortunate ones are information technology workers. One reason is that tech companies are increasingly combining business ana-lyst and systems analyst positions.

Suppose a company wants a new software application. A business ana-lyst would seek the least expensive approach and then propose the techni-cal requirements. Separately, a systems analyst would build the technology.

But now, employers want “those two skill sets in one human being,” said Harry Griendling, chief execu-tive of DoubleStar Inc., a staffing firm outside Philadelphia.

The trend reflects the push that com-panies made during the recession to control costs, squeeze more output from their staffs and become more pro-ductive. Productivity measures output per hour worked. Economy-wide, it soared 3.5 percent last year. It was the best performance in six years.

And it means workers are bearing heavier burdens. In manufacturing, employees increasingly must be able to run the computerized machinery that dominates most assembly lines. They also have to carry out addition-al tasks, such as inspecting finished products, notes Mark Tomlinson,

executive director of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Manufacturers advertised nearly 200,000 jobs at the end of August, a jump of about 40 percent from a year ago, according to government data. Yet hiring by manufacturers has risen less than 6 percent over that time — evidence that they are having a hard time finding qualified workers.

“There are jobs available, but the worker just has to have more skills than before,” Tomlinson said.

Bob Brown, 49, has felt the demand for broader skills firsthand. After working for 30 years in manufactur-ing, including 20 as a plant supervi-sor, Brown was laid off in July 2009.

He spent a year looking for a new job. His efforts yielded only three calls from employers in the first four months.

But once things began to pick up, Brown noticed something else: The plant manager jobs he used to have, and that he was aiming for again, all required certifications in productiv-ity-boosting management practices.

So Brown paid for courses at a com-munity college to learn a management strategy known as “six sigma.” It’s an approach to cutting waste and rais-ing efficiency popularized by General Electric. The courses allowed him to obtain his certification. In August, he was hired by an electrical product assembly plant near Williamsport, Pa.

“That’s the way the industry’s going,” Brown said. “Everybody wanted certifications.”

Human resource specialists say employers who increasingly need multi-skilled employees aren’t will-ing to settle for less. They’d rather wait and hold jobs vacant.

HR specialists even have a nickname for the highly sought but elusive job candidate whose skills and experi-ences precisely match an employer’s needs: the “purple squirrel.”

“There are lots of requests for pur-ple squirrels nowadays,” said Joe Yesulaitis, chief executive of Aavalar Consulting, an IT staffing firm.

Old jobs now require more skills

Unemployed discover

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In this photo taken on Oct. 6, Joe Bozada, chief-of-staff of Bayer Corp., is seen at the corporate offices in Pittsburgh. Bozada had a hard time fill-ing a job because Bayer is demanding more skills in available positions. Employers are combining job duties and skills that used to be spread across several jobs into fewer positions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House adviser questioned the need Sunday for a blanket stoppage of all home foreclosures, even as pres-sure grows on the Obama administra-tion to do something about mounting evidence that banks have used inac-curate documents to evict homeown-ers.

“It is a serious problem,” said David Axelrod, who contended that

the flawed paperwork is hurting the nation’s housing market as well as lending institutions. But he added, “I’m not sure about a national mora-torium because there are in fact valid foreclosures that probably should go forward” because their documents are accurate.

Axelrod said the administration is pressing lenders to accelerate their reviews of foreclosures to determine

which ones have flawed documenta-tion.

“Our hope is this moves rapidly and that this gets unwound very, very quickly,” he said.

With the reeling economy already the top issue on voters’ minds, the doubts raised over foreclosures and evictions are becoming a political issue with the approach of Nov. 2 elections.

White House doubts need to halt all foreclosures

The Crescent-News • Monday, October 11, 2010 PEOPLE & PLACES ■ A3

• POLICE REPORTS

State PatrolThursday, 10:24 p.m., on Williams

County Road D, west of Williams County Road 12.50 in Center Township, a vehicle driven by Katie Kerr, 18, 12849 Williams County Road F, Bryan, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was light.

Friday, 6:15 a.m., on Ohio 2 in Williams County’s Pulaski Township, a vehicle driven by Daniel Hernandez, 34, 231 Marshall St., Wauseon, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was light.

Friday, 3:58 p.m., on Domersville Road, north of Elliott Road in Defiance County’s Richland Township, a vehi-cle driven by Wendy Rex, 40, 320 E. Elm St., Sherwood, struck the rear of a vehicle driven by Lisa Rodriguez, 31, 636 Summit St. Damage to both vehicles was light. Rex was cited for assured clear distance.

Friday, 5:25 p.m., on U.S. 127 in Williams County’s Pulaski Township, a westbound vehicle driven by Nathan Schnipke, 19, 117

1/2 Main St., exited

the left side of the road, struck a ditch, drove through a cornfield and caught on fire. Schnipke was trans-ported by Williams County EMS to Community Hospitals and Wellness Center, Bryan, where he was treated and released. Damage to the vehicle was heavy.

Friday, 8:20 p.m., on Williams County Road F in St. Joseph Township, a vehicle driven by Alan Thiel, 48, 05295 Ohio 34, Edon, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was light.

Friday, 11:15 p.m., on Ohio 18 in Defiance County’s Mark Township, a vehicle driven by Catherine Farber, 35, 534 Degler Road, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was heavy.

Friday, 11:40 p.m., on Stever Road, north of Ohio 15 in Defiance County’s Tiffin Township, a vehicle driven by Alex Stanton, 57, 08015 Stever Road, struck two deer. Damage to the vehicle was light.

Saturday, 7 a.m., on Openlander Road, north of Huber Road in Defiance County’s Farmer Township, a vehicle driven by Paul Hammon, 21, 10607 Wonderly Road, Mark Center, was northbound on Openlander Road, lost control of his vehicle on a curve and struck a sign. Damage to the vehicle was heavy.

Saturday, 5:15 p.m., on Williams County Road 20, south of Williams County Road M.90 in Brady Township, a four-wheeler driven by Cody Livensparger, 18, 10242 Williams County Road 19.50, West Unity, was northbound in a field on County Road 20 when he crossed a driveway and lost control of the vehicle which over-turned. Livensparger was transported by a friend to Community Hospitals and Wellness Center, Bryan, where he was treated and released. Damage to the vehicle was light.

Saturday, 7:43 p.m., on Ohio 66 in Defiance County’s Tiffin Township, a vehicle driven by Jody Gerig, 53, 423 Dame St., Pettisville, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was light.

Saturday, 8:05 p.m., on Defiance Williams County Line Road, east of Christy Road in Defiance County’s Tiffin Township, a vehicle driven by Joey Bodenbender, 20, 01263 Ohio 66, Stryker, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was moderate.

Saturday, 8:12 p.m., on Williams County Road 3, north of U.S. 20 in Northwest Township, a vehicle driven by Susan Machaterre, 53, Toledo, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was moderate.

Saturday, 9 p.m., on Beerbower Road, west of Wonderly Road in Defiance County’s Farmer Township, a vehicle driven by Susan Oskey, 58, 09440 Beerbower Road, Edgerton, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was light.

Sunday, 3:45 a.m., on U.S. 24 in Defiance County’s Richland Township, a vehicle driven by Jeanette Griffith, 25, 151 W. Rosewood Ave., struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was

moderate.

Sunday, 1:50 p.m., at Williams County Road 12 and Williams County Road J, in Superior Township, a vehicle driven by Lawrence Bell, 20, 112 Emerson Drive, West Unity, was southbound on County Road 12 and failed to stop at stop sign and struck an eastbound vehicle driven by Erin Elting, 16, 501 Oxford Drive, Bryan. Elting’s vehicle exited the right side of the road and overturned multi-ple times. Elting and her passenger Cassandra Lawson, 15, Bryan, were transported by Williams County EMS to Community Hospitals and Wellness Center, Bryan, where they were both treated and released. Damage was heavy to Elting’s vehicle and moder-ate to Bell’s. Bell was cited for failure to yield.

Sunday, 7:45 p.m., on U.S. 6 in Williams County’s Center Township, an eastbound vehicle driven by Zachary Wood, 18, Garrett, Ind., struck a deer. The deer landed in the westbound lane and was struck by a vehicle driven by Michele Gurwell, 41, Bryan. Damage was moder-ate to Wood’s vehicle and light to Gurwell’s.

Defiance Police Saturday, 6:03 p.m., at Division

Street and Holgate Avenue, a vehicle driven by Amie Brown, 30, 524 Euclid St., struck the rear of a vehicle driven by Gary Carnahan, 63, 601 W. High St. Damage to both vehicles was light. Brown was cited for assured clear distance.

Saturday, 6:04 p.m., at Elliott Road and North Clinton Street, a vehicle driven by Sonja Michaelis, 24, C-917 Henry County Road 10A, Hamler, lost a right front wheel. Damage to the vehicle was heavy.

Saturday, 7:12 p.m., at Third and Perry Streets, a vehicle driven by Daniel Delarber, 51, 10168 Dowe Road, struck a vehicle driven by Dale Bower, 46, 614 Riverside Ave. Damage to both vehicles was light.

Saturday, Brandon Bowers, 18, Hastings, Mich., was charged with underage consumption after an alleged incident at 701 N. Clinton St.

Saturday, Darnell Goings, 36, Ottawa, was charged with domestic violence after an alleged incident on Deatrick Street. He was taken to the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, rural Stryker.

Saturday, Derek Vogel, 27, 1028 Jefferson Ave., was charged with open container.

Saturday, Benjamin Hoffman, 33, 926 Asa St., was cited for driving under suspension and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle following a traf-fic stop in the city of Defiance.

Sunday, Christene Bright, 30, 214

1/2 Hopkins St., was charged

with theft after an alleged incident at Meijer.

Sunday, Nicholas Colburn, 21, 640 Ottawa Ave., and Trevor Sheehan, 33, 612 Grover Ave., were charged with disorderly conduct after an alleged incident on Deatrick Street.

Sunday, Amanda Gutierez, 23, 700 Kiser Road, was cited for driving under suspension following a traffic stop on Jackson Avenue.

Sunday, Andrew Muncy, 19, address unavailable, was arrested on a bench warrant from Defiance Municipal Court. He was transported to CCNO.

Saturday, Julie Strub, 46, Napoleon, was charged with domestic violence and criminal damaging after an alleged incident at 104 E. High St., Napoleon. Strub was transported to CCNO.

Today, Sarah Dombroff, 28, 1678 Tahoe Ridge, and Roberto Martinez, 26, 1395 Ayersville Ave., were charged with disorderly conduct after an alleged incident at 120 Clinton St.

Henry SheriffFriday, 9:53 a.m., on County

Road 13, north of County Road V in Liberty Township, a vehicle driven by Kenneth Gorsuch, 84, 1325 Shoop Ave., Wauseon, broke a trailer axel. The trailer came to rest in a ditch. Damage to the vehicle was heavy.

Friday, 4:19 p.m., on Ohio 110 in Harrison Township, a vehicle driven by Robert Emahiser, 70, 8967 Ohio 110, Napoleon, and a motorcycle driven by William Smith, 58, Toledo, collided. Smith was transported by air ambu-lance to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, where he was listed in fair condition this morning. Damage was light to Emahiser’s vehicle and heavy to Smith’s. Emahiser was cited for failure to yield.

Sunday, 8:18 p.m., on Ohio 18, west of County Road 7 in Marion Township, a vehicle driven by Jeff Brubaker, 52, 735 Edgerton St., Hamler, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was moderate.

Napoleon PoliceFriday, Tracy Wagner, 45, Defiance,

was arrested on a warrant and taken to CCNO.

Saturday, Toby Beck, 21, Archbold, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and arrested on a war-rant after an alleged incident at Front and Perry Streets.

Saturday, Karen Bailey, 34, Napoleon, was arrested on warrant from Defiance County.

Saturday, Tracey Belcher, 32, Napoleon, was arrested on a warrant from Napoleon Municipal Court.

Williams SheriffSunday, 8 p.m., on Williams County

Road 20, north of Williams County Road N.30, a vehicle driven by Don Oliphant, 71, 18880 Williams County Road 20, Alvordton, struck a deer. Damage to the vehicle was moder-

ate.

Sunday, Jason Googe, 21, Toledo, was arrested on a warrant from Williams County Common Pleas Court. He was taken to CCNO.

Highland TownshipFire — Saturday, 1:48 p.m., fire-

fighters responded to 13416 Ohio 15 for a yard fire.

DefianceFire — Sunday, 6:08 p.m., firefight-

ers responded to 816 Village Lane for a smoke detector alarm. No fire or smoke was present.

NapoleonFire — Friday, 12:37 p.m., firefight-

ers responded to U.S 6 and Township Road 03 for a car on fire.

New BavariaFire — Saturday, 6:21 p.m., fire-

fighters responded to 13-309 Henry County Road D, Pleasant Township, for a brush fire.

FloridaFire — Sunday, 3 p.m., firefighters

responded to 17-377 Henry County Road J for a grass fire.

• ON THE MARKET

Daily Grain Prices(as of 8 a.m.)

Wheat........................................6.15 Corn..........................................5.21B

eans......................................11.10

• LOTTERIES

Ohio Lottery: Midday Pick 3: 695. Midday Pick 4: 2263. Midday Ten-Oh: 3, 11, 12, 14, 22, 30, 33, 34, 35, 39, 48, 50, 53, 54, 64, 65, 71, 73, 75, 77. Pick 3: 475. Pick 4: 7320. Ten-Oh: 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 22, 25, 32, 34, 37, 49, 53, 58, 59, 73, 75, 76, 79. Michigan Lottery: Midday Daily 3: 467. Midday Daily 4: 2633. Daily 3: 715. Daily 4: 3986. Fantasy 5: 4, 17, 33, 36, 39. Keno: 2, 4, 9, 14, 16, 19, 23, 25, 27, 31, 36, 37, 40, 46, 47, 48, 55, 61, 64, 67, 75, 80.

Indiana Lottery: Saturday — Midday Daily 3: 245. Midday Daily 4: 1727. Daily 3: 386. Daily 4: 3074. Lucky 5 Midday: 2, 8, 20, 22, 27. Lucky 5: 4, 7, 14, 21, 28. Hoosier Lotto: 7, 9, 11, 15, 27, 46. Sunday — Daily 3: 693. Daily 4: 1108. Lucky 5: 11, 14, 17, 21, 24. Quick Draw: 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 22, 28, 37, 39, 42, 45, 47, 48, 49, 56, 58, 64, 67, 79.

Powerball: 2, 6, 32, 42, 49. Powerball: 35. Powerplay 3.

FOR THE RECORD

Whew! That was a whirlwind trip! Autumn color is at beauti-ful peak across northern Indiana, especially along the lakeshore. Chicago is bustling and vibrant in the fall. And, despite reports of continuing gloom and doom, peo-ple of Middle America are out and about. They are driving – good Lord, are they driv-ing – which means they are spending money on fuel and vehicle main-tenance. They are happily crowding stores and restau-rants with smiles on their faces. They are buying fresh flowers, bags of freshly picked orchard produce, artisan cheeses and pastries and wines. They are celebrating the season and being alive. Folks, the cash is flowing out there.

I know it was flying out of my hands. It was all planned. I have miserly saved up my earnings in anticipation of my trip to the Windy City. I not only wanted to have a good time experiencing the really neat stuff there, I wanted to do some Christmas shopping.

I’m pretty much a home body. However, once I make the effort to travel somewhere – watch out! I want to do and see and taste as much as I can of the local flavor. Thanks to our oldest daughter and son-in-law, I got that chance over the weekend. My itinerary was full of wonderful things.

After a raucous ride into the city (lots of inbound traffic) I bounced over the last speed hump on St. Louis Avenue. Waiting at the gate of her building, our daughter was waiting for me with a glass of red wine. Upstairs in my guest room was a lovely autumn basket filled with wonderful treats such as luxury bath products that I would never buy for myself, candles, mini-pumpkins and all tied up with festive autumn ribbons. This kid has learned some great hostess tips from her mother!

The next morning we started out at the Southport Grocery for a scrumptious breakfast. We have been there before and despite the fact that I like to try new places every time we visit, their break-fasts are just too good not to go back. Besides, they were directly across the street from one of my absolute favorite stores – in the world – that’s right – in the world. Paper Source. Their motto is “Do Something Creative Every Day.” I need not say more.

After that we hit Lazy Dog Antiques. I cannot reveal it due to Christmas confidentiality issues, but there we found the perfect kitschy gift for the middle kid. It is so cool, if I don’t blow it before the holidays that will be the Christmas miracle.

We hit a lot of chain stores. One we don’t have around here is Home Goods. It almost took a winch to get me out of there. I hauled home gifts to stash in my craft closet, making it off limits until after the holidays.

Friday night we cabbed down-town. Again, the area was teaming with young people out to enjoy the start of their weekend. Live music spilled out into the balmy night air.

We were headed for the Violet Hour. Sigh. Although the term cocktail lounge conjures up images of sleazy vinyl booths and blink-ing neon signs, this is not the case for the Violet Hour.

Even though we arrived early, we still had an hour wait until the charming, handsome bouncer allowed us to enter through what appeared to be a loading dock door. On the other side of it, only candles glowed. Opulent velvet draperies streamed from the ceil-ing and dramatic seating boasted booths and chairs with backs that soared to at least six or seven-feet high.

We ordered from a menu that listed drinks called the “Gilded Cage” and “Swingin’ on the Lawn.” I was in a lavender-hued heaven. The pumpkin pie martini I had at the Blue Line Café while we waited on our call to the Violet Hour might have helped.

It was bumper-to-bumper on the trip home, largely due to the Chicago Marathon.

I could have jogged out of the city faster than I could drive. As I left the Loop behind, I glanced in the rearview mirror and noted the mass of people running in the marathon – probably more than live in our county.

Kind of amazing.

Autumn magic

blows into the

Windy City

• HENRY COUNTY

Health board: The Henry County Board of Health will meet at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the facility at 1843 Oakwood Ave., Napoleon. Persons need-ing accommodations to attend the meeting should contact Julie McHugh.

Flu clinic: Henry County Health Department will hold a drive-through flu clinic by appointment only on Thursday at the health department at 1843 Oakwood Ave., Napoleon. This clinic is reserved for persons with mobility problems. Call 419-599-5545 to make an appointment. The cost is $20 for adults or bring a Medicare or Medicaid card. Flu shots will also be available on Friday from noon-3 p.m. at the Filling Memorial Home of Mercy, Ohio 108, Napoleon. • REGION

Support group: A breast- feeding support group for

pregnant mothers and mothers who are currently breast-feed-ing will be held on Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Maumee meet-ing room at Defiance Regional Medical Center, 1200 Ralston Ave., Defiance. Many aspects of breast-feeding will be discussed. For more information, call Robin Dundore, RN, lactation consul-tant and OB educator, at 419-783-4408.

Intercepted Letter

ResidentsPaulding County

Dear residents, Your commissioners, who

have already significantly cut county spending, have made a reasonable levy request for the November ballot.

Yours truly,Anthony Wayne Jr.

Popcorn sale

Northwest Ohio news from Crescent-News staff and wire reports

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Boy Scouts Bobby Atkins (left), 14, and Sean Eitniear, 12, of Troop 75 show off the popcorn available from area Boy Scouts.

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■ A4 The Crescent-News • Monday, October 11, 2010

OPINIONThe Crescent-News

Steve VanDemark, General ManagerDennis Van Scoder, Editor

Todd Helberg, Editorial Page Editor

There are two sides to the Jihadi Coin

As I write this, European police are searching for “hit teams” plotting attacks in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden. Why would al-Qaeda plan such strikes now? That’s like asking why dogs bark. It’s what they do.

Al-Qaeda is in the jihad business. If al-Qaeda can’t produce, other organizations will, and then they will have the edge when it comes to raising funds from Middle Eastern radicals who control enormous for-tunes thanks to infidel dependence on oil.

But factor in this, too: In recent days, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been strutting upon the world stage, addressing the United Nations, denouncing capitalism, and declaring that the atrocities of 9/11 were the work of “American intelligence” carried out in order to “reverse the declining American economy and its grip on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime.” If you think that’s insulting to Americans, imag-ine how Osama bin Laden must feel!

People forget — too many have never grasped — that there are two Jihadi camps, one Sunni, one Shia, two sides of the same coin. They are rivals, not enemies. Often they compete. Sometimes they cooperate.

In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini founded the Islamic Republic of Iran — the first modern Jihadi state. Thirty-one years ago next month, Iranian mili-tants committed an act of war against America — not their last — when they seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took the diplomats there hostage. The Carter administration’s feckless response sent a mes-sage. Khomeini summed it up: “The Americans cannot do a thing.”

Sunni radicals — not least in Saudi Arabia where Wahhabism, an especially supremacist and intolerant reading of Islam, is the state religion — were ener-gized. Maybe America is not so super a power after all. Maybe the West is exhausted and in decline. Maybe the time is ripe for global revolution, for restoring Islam to the prominence it once enjoyed, still deserves and is destined to regain. Maybe the world is ready to accept the gift of Sharia, Islamic law.

The most recent terrorist plans reportedly include “commando-style raids and hostage-taking” in European cities, the approach used by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani al-Qaeda affiliate, in Mumbai in 2008. Some intelligence analysts think these plots may have been disrupted by recent Predator drone strikes against ter-rorist planners in the remote tribal areas of northwest-ern Pakistan. But that is not certain.

Even as President Obama was escalating the fight against Jihadis in North Waziristan, he was declining to fully utilize the non-lethal tools he has available to pressure Jihadis in Tehran. In July, a bipartisan majority in Congress passed the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act in response to Iran’s rulers continuing their illicit drive for nuclear weapons, their support for terrorism abroad — includ-ing against Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan — and their brutal oppression of dissidents at home.

The next step should be aggressive enforcement. But last week, President Obama sanctioned exactly one company, a Swiss-based Iranian energy-trading firm, ignoring the many other firms helping enable Iran’s nuclear weapons development program.

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this admin-istration is continuing to disconnect the dots, to ignore the fact that a diverse collection of Jihadi regimes and organizations are waging a war against the west. To insist upon viewing this global conflict as only scat-tered “overseas contingency operations,” or only a war against al-Qaeda, makes it impossible to devise and implement an effective policy.

The top priorities of such a policy would include: preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, dis-abling the Taliban in Afghanistan, and denying Al-Qaeda safe haven in Pakistan. Terrorist planners, financiers and operatives should face relentless pres-sure. Wherever they are, they should constantly fear they will be discovered and eliminated. Iran’s rulers should be under the guns — metaphorically for the present but they need to be convinced that the days when “America cannot do a thing” are over.

Al-Qaeda and the terrorist groups it leads have a mission. Iran’s revolutionary theocrats and the ter-rorist groups they instruct have goals and a strategy to achieve them. One cannot say the same about the United States and the West.

That is a serious disability at a critical moment in history.

(Clifford May is president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism.)

The news is bad economically for the country and bad politically for the Democrats, and there may be some words they will want to avoid, such as “food stamps.” I would throw in “oil spill” and “light bulbs,” though it will take me a few paragraphs to get there.

Meanwhile, here’s a new, forebod-ing record for the United States — 41.8 million people receiving the afore-mentioned food stamps in a human catastrophe brought on by unemploy-ment rising scarily again. With an eye to November’s mid-term elec-tions, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has responded by refer-ring to Democrats as “the party of food stamps,” as opposed to the Republicans, viewed by him as “the party of paychecks.”

It’s rhetoric packed with partisan purpose, to be sure, but also some ana-lytical insightfulness. Properly devised safety nets are needed when the free market is not delivering everything it can, but a chief reason it is not performing well right now is a government scaring busi-nesses into investment of the kind where you first find a mattress and then stick your money underneath it.

The perceived threats are multiple — what might hap-pen when the Obamacare mayhem fully kicks in, if the dollar keeps collapsing, if debt keeps accumulating, if taxes go up, if no one stops the madness that assumes it’s not free exchange that is finally the source of all wealth, but the cleverness of the leftists now in power.

While that’s not all there is to it — brute politics plays a role here — a dogmatically maintained, ideological conviction about the all-knowing capacities of those who govern us has to be a major part of the reason these Democrats passed a pointless, unaffordable stimulus package (sending $250 checks to 89,000 dead people among other innovations) and gave us a new, largely unworkable entitlement program when the old ones could ruin us unaided. It is also a reason the Democrats

took off from Washington without acting on taxes soon to rise and have at us like Godzilla from the sea if Congress does not vote quickly for drowning.

For an illustrative if imperfect analogy to the handling of the recession, you can look to the unkind words directed at the president from some working for a com-mission he appointed. According to investigators asked by President Obama to examine the Gulf oil spill, he and his administrative gang first did not take the spill seriously enough or lied to the public about it and then overreacted, spending great gobs of money foolishly to impress the public instead of wisely and more selectively to solve the problem.

A better analogy — one that deals not just with incom-petence and political hijinks but also hubris — might be to the congressional enthusiasm to outlaw incandescent light bulbs at massive inconvenience to industry and three hundred million of us who constitute the public.

It was 2007, the deed was done with virtually unani-mous support from Democrats and too many tagalong Republicans, and now it’s 2010 and we’re learning the rationale — to save energy — does not stand up. A new study indicates that to get more light people will buy more of the replacement bulbs at lower-use cost, actually consuming more electricity over time. Congress did man-date improved technology, but new technology does not happen that way. If it does, I’d like Congress to mandate a cancer cure. Oh, and some replacement bulbs are said to be dangerous because of mercury inside them.

In many parts of Europe right now, the old, disproved socialist model is being abandoned, and unbelievably, some in the United States are trying to adopt the baby. We should instead adopt austerity, which the Republicans are at least preaching right now if they did not always practice it in the past.

As a November guide, just think of food stamps, the oil spill and light bulbs.

(Jay Ambrose, formerly Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard newspapers and the editor of dailies in El Paso, Texas, and Denver, is a columnist living in Colorado.)

News is bad for Dems politically

CLIFFORD

MAY

JAY

AMBROSE

You have to admit this would be a far duller election without today’s women candidates.

Really, how did we ever get along without a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Delaware running a full-scale TV ad campaign protesting she is not a witch? And, she said evolution is a myth because otherwise why wouldn’t monkeys be turning into humans right now, and it’s well known that human brains have been put into mice.

And, what about that woman from Connecticut who made $45 million on smack downs, owns a yacht named “Sexy Bitch” and wants to be a senator without actually having had any prior interest or experience in government?

How about the woman in retiree-haven Nevada who has denounced Social Security and the BP compensa-tion fund for oil spill victims? She says she’s on a mission from God to get Harry Reid out of the Senate.

Then there’s the wealthy business-woman in California who wants to be governor in a state with many Hispanics, but she claims she didn’t know for almost a decade that her beloved housekeeper was in this country illegally. When she found out, she fired her.

In a non-presidential election when the cost of cam-paigns will top $3 billion and when frustrated voters are shouting “anybody but the incumbent,” it’s possible we will get a new slate of office holders, male and female, promising to go to Washington or the state capital mainly to raise hell.

It is not at all clear, however, that there will be more women in Congress or that the women who will be elect-ed this November will be any different from the men.

USA Today talked to analysts who predict the number of women in Congress will decline for the first time in 32 years. Of 56 Democratic women and 17 Republican women in the House and 13 Democratic women and four Republican women in the Senate, a number are unlikely

to be returned to office.Even as the media excitedly chases a few women can-

didates — and former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin raises money and prestige for Tea Party women and Nancy Pelosi fights to stay on as the nation’s first female speaker of the House — the wave of anti-incumbent fever threatens to remove a lot of the current women in Congress.

The women in Congress who are likely to lose Nov. 2 are overwhelmingly Democrats who voted for currently unpopular policies such as health care reform and stimu-lus spending. The dreary economy and high unemploy-ment have convinced many voters that incumbents must go.

There is some good news for women. They did well in the primaries. And, there are a record 47 Republican and 91 Democratic women on the ballot for the House and a record six Republican and nine Democratic women run-ning for the Senate.

Some think fewer women will be elected because in a bad economy, some voters won’t risk a vote for a woman. But others think being female might be a plus in November because women politicians are new enough to be perceived as outsiders to a broken and corrupt arena.

Nobody knows what will motivate voters in November during such turbulence. This is a year when Forbesmagazine made headlines with its list of “the 100 most powerful women in the world” by stipulating that Lady Gaga is more powerful than the female speaker of the House, the female heads of homeland security, health and human services, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission, the three females on the Supreme Court and Sarah Palin.

But Lady Gaga is not considered as powerful as Michelle Obama, the female head of Kraft Foods, Oprah Winfrey, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton or the female head of PepsiCo. At least not yet.

(Scripps Howard columnist Ann McFeatters has covered the White House and national politics since 1986.)

Women add spice to elections

ANN

MCFEATTERS

In their view ...When the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, which consid-

ers itself a leading advocacy group for business in the Buckeye state, broke with tradition and endorsed John Kasich for governor, there was no question that reper-cussions would follow. ...

Gov. Ted Strickland, not surprisingly, took a dim view of the endorsement of his Republican challenger. He blamed the chamber’s decision on “a limited number of Republican-connected individuals” within the chamber, adding, “in my judgment, they do not represent the business community of Ohio.” ...

What is troubling, however, is his statement that the Ohio Chamber of Commerce “has made themselves irrelevant to any future legitimate work with me and my administration.” ...

Ted Strickland is going to need to work with Ohio’s business community if he remains governor for the next four years. And, regardless of how he feels about its actions in this election, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce will be far from “irrelevant” in his interactions with the business community.

Whether the chamber should have made a partisan endorsement is academic at this point. If there is a second Strickland administration, we hope both sides will be able to put their differences aside for the good of Ohio.

Kent-Ravenna Record-CourierKent, Ohio

The Crescent-News • Monday, October 11, 2010 REGION & STATE ■ A5

Defiance County Health Department will once again hold a mass flu immuniza-tion clinic on Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. at the Defiance High School.

The mass flu clinic allows the health department to test their emergency response mass vaccination plans. These plans are cre-ated to ensure the vaccina-tion of all county residents within a 48-96 hour time frame.

The health department will have an inside vac-cination area and an out-side vaccination area. The outside vaccination area is geared for individuals who may have some dif-ficulty walking or standing and provides the ease of receiving the flu shot while remaining in the car. The health department encour-ages everyone to wear

short sleeves to allow for easy access to the upper arm for the flu shot.

The cost of the flu shot is $20 for adults and $9 for children. Medicaid and Medicare are accepted.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) encourages every-one 6 months and older to receive the flu shot. The shot is the single best way to prevent influenza.

Influenza is a contagious respiratory illness caused by viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. The current flu shot pro-tects against three differ-ent flu viruses, including H1N1.

The flu shots provide protection for the entire flu season which can begin as early as October and con-tinue through May.

Even though an individ-ual may have received the H1N1 vaccine last year, the

health department wants to remind everyone that a new flu season has begun

and protection from the flu requires vaccinating each year.

Mass flu shots available at DHS

With flu season just around the corner, the Defiance County Health Department is planning a mass flu shot clinic. The clinic will be held at

Defiance High School on Wednesday. Getting ready for the clinic are Janice Amoroso (left) , a public health nurse, and administration chief, Janie Haver.

Anna DaltonPAULDING — Anna M. Dalton, 89,

Paulding, and formerly of Ney, Ohio, died at 8:44 a.m. Saturday, October 9, 2010, at the Gardens of Paulding, Paulding, Ohio.

She was born March 26, 1921, in Defiance County, Ohio, the daugh-ter of Nathan and Tracy (Stuckey) Rath. On November 19, 1938, she married James A. Dalton Sr., who died June 3, 2003. She was a homemaker and formerly worked at the Defiance Hospital in the housekeeping and laundry department. She was a member of the Ney Church of God and loved to quilt and do embroi-dery.

Surviving are two sons, Gerald (Kathy) Dalton of Melbourne, Fla., and Greg (Debby) Dalton, Bryan Ohio; a daughter, Mary Ann Bowman, Sherwood; and 12 grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren, 24 great-grand-children, three great-stepgrandchildren, 14 great-great-grandchildren and four great-great-stepgrandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her hus-band, James A. Dalton Sr.; her parents; a son, James A. Dalton Jr.; one grandchild; one great-great-grandchild; three broth-ers, Ora, Wade and Guy Rath; and three sisters, Helen Hahn, Mary Dunlap and Pearl Rose.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, October 14, 2010, at Hanenkrath-Clevenger-Schaffer Funeral Home, Defiance, Ohio, with Rev. Kevin King officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Memory Gardens, Defiance County. Visitation is from 2-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Preferred memorials are to Hospice the Caring Way of Defiance or the donor’s choice. Condolences may be left at www.HCSfuneralhome.com.

Betty BarnesLYONS — Betty Maxine Barnes, 84,

Lyons, died Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010, after a short battle with cancer. Handling arrange-ments is Barnes Funeral Chapel, Delta. Condolences can be posted on the Comments section, located at the bottom of each online obituary listing at www.crescent-news.com

Fall fest


The annual Payne Fall Fest was held on Saturday at the Payne Community Park. Helping Melanie Dunham, 5, of

Payne with some decorative fall face painting is Michele Anders, of Grover Hill.


The recent nice weather has allowed for improvements to continue on the Defiance County Fairground grandstands. Working on reinforcing rods are Tom Herman (left) and Aaron Williams, both of DC Engineering and Development of Loudon.

Fair improvements

Rebekah Meller, a member of the Pettisville FFA, poses with her project that earned her a nod as a national finalist in FFA’s Agriscience Student Scholarship and Recognition Pregram.

INDIANAPOLIS — The National FFA organization recently named Rebekah Meller a national finalist in the Agriscience Student Scholarship and Recognition Program.

Meller, a member of the Pettisville FFA Chapter and the daughter of Gene Jr. and Donna Meller, will receive a $1,000 scholarship and com-pete for national honors at the 83rd National FFA Convention, Oct. 20-23, in Indianapolis.

Eligible FFA members are selected on the basis of research

projects involving agriscience skills, using applications and new technologies learned in their high school agriculture classes. Students apply these lessons to their supervised agri-cultural experience programs (SAE). They also are evaluated on their academic achievement, as well as their involvement in school and community activi-ties.

Meller is one of eight national finalists that will present their agriscience project design, development and results to a

panel of judges as part of the national finals.

Meller has conducted research for the past five years. She started her ag science research her freshman year. Her proj-ect was “The Effect of Allium Sativum and Antibiotics on Bacteria.” During her sopho-more year she expanded on that study. The next three years she also studied the growth of escherichia coli, the natu-ral microbiota found in ground beef and the survival of probi-otics.

Meller is named FFA national finalist

AREA DEATHS

ARCHBOLD — Health and safety profession-als from throughout the region will be gathering near Archbold on Saturday for the second annual “Community Health Day” at Sauder Village.

This one-day event is a unique opportunity for vis-itors to enjoy a fun-filled day at Ohio’s largest liv-ing-history destination while also learning valu-able information on how to lead a healthy and safe lifestyle.

“We are pleased to have so many community and health organizations join-ing us for this special event again this year,” said Kim Krieger, PR/media rela-tions. “From disaster pre-paredness, farm safety and hospice care to blood pres-sure, blood sugar and spi-nal screenings — visitors will have the opportunity to gather important infor-mation from a variety of health and safety profes-sionals.”

While visiting the village, visitors will be able to visit fire department rescue vehi-cles, learn about train safety, disaster preparedness and CPR. Local agencies will share information about farm safety, Alzheimer’s, hospice/home healthcare and healthy eating, as well as the latest flu informa-tion.

Blood sugar screenings, blood pressure checks and spinal screenings will be available for visitors and there will be information shared about local food options available from farmers here in northwest Ohio. The Fulton County police departments and sheriff’s office will also be providing child safety “passports” throughout the day.

Many local agencies are helping to make this event possible includ-ing Fulton County Health Center, Ohio Farm Bureau, Fulton County Health Department, Community Health Professionals and Fulton County fire & res-cue, police departments and sheriff’s office.

Other local partners include Fulton County Chapter of the American Red Cross, Operation Lifesaver, Fulton County Emergency Medical Services, DeTray Chiropractic, Fulton County Emergency Management Agency, Eating Local Foods Network and Alzheimer’s Association of Northwest Ohio.

In addition to the health and safety related activities planned for this day, visitors can also spend time visiting the many historic homes, craft shops and community buildings throughout the village.

New this year, visitors can also enjoy Fall Family Fun Night on Saturday and Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. By reservation only, visitors can enjoy an early evening train ride to the Sauder Barn in Pioneer Settlement to explore a straw maze, decorate a pumpkin to take home and then re-board the train to hear some favorite pioneer stories.

Program cost is $10 for adults, $6 for students, and children ages 3 and under are free.

Historic Sauder Village is open Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and each Sunday afternoon from noon-4 p.m.

Annual ‘Health Day’ set Saturday

Sauder Village

Toxic algae

CELINA (AP) — The toxic blue-green algae choking Ohio’s largest inland lake is part of a much wider farm pollu-tion problem that a state official says must be addressed.

The Columbus Dispatch reported Sunday that nitrogen and phospho-rous in manure and commercial fertilizers wash off farmland and into streams and lakes including Grand Lake St. Mary’s and Lake Erie.

Researchers say the fer-tilizers feed large blooms of toxic algae in western Lake Erie, The Dispatch reported in the first seg-ment of a three-part series.

The poisonous algae has led state officials to warn people to avoid direct contact with the water in the 13,500-acre Grand Lake St. Marys in western Ohio.

Farm pollution, includ-ing manure, herbicides and pesticides, affects waterways from Lake Erie to the Ohio River and nationwide from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, the newspaper said.

“It’s a problem we can no longer ignore,” said Robert Boggs, director of

the Ohio Department of Agriculture. “We have to be very aggressive and assertive in our way of handling it.”

No state or federal laws limit how much manure, fertilizers or pesticides can wash off Ohio farms during storms, the news-paper said.

In Mercer County, where Grand Lake St. Marys is located, the number of cows, hogs and chickens has more than doubled in 20 years and the 9.7 million ani-mals produce more than 1.6 million tons of manure each year, according to The Dispatch’s analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics.

Much of that manure is spread on crop fields and some is washed into streams, many of which feed Grand Lake St. Marys.

Sean Logan, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, says it’s much more difficult to track farm pollution than to trace water pollu-tion to a factory.

“Could you imag-ine trying to determine which farm and which field is contributing what percentage to the prob-lem?” he said.

Official: pollution hurting area lakes

Bethany Rayle/C-N Photo

Dalton

Henry County

LIBERTY CENTER — Firefighters from Liberty-Washington Township and Napoleon fire departments battled a fire at a grain silo in Liberty Center on Sunday

The fire broke out just after 5 p.m. at the Gerald Grain Center, 105 W. North St.

A firefighter with the Napoleon fire

department said crews had to empty the silo, believed to be filled with corn, while battling the blaze.

No details have been received on the cause of the fire or how much damage it sustained.

Crews cleared the scene at 8:40 p.m.

Grain silo fire in Liberty Center

■ A6 REGION & STATE The Crescent-News • Monday, October 11, 2010

COLUMBUS (AP) — Republicans seeking gover-norships in Ohio and Iowa have proposed putting cor-porate executives rather than government in charge of lur-ing business to their states, a setup that’s had controversy in other places.

Nearly identical propos-als by former U.S. Rep John Kasich of Ohio and former Gov. Terry Branstad in Iowa call for scrapping the state agency that’s in charge of economic development in favor of a panel of business leaders overseen by the gov-ernor.

While some states laud successes from the approach, such semiprivate economic development boards have

been criticized in sever-al states for awarding big bonuses to executives, exag-gerating job numbers, favor-ing businesses with a vote on projects and keeping information from the public.

Earlier this year, the tax authority overseen by the nonprofit Michigan Economic Development Corp. came under fire for lacking adequate account-ability after it awarded $9.1 million in tax credits to convicted embezzler Richard A. Short while he was on parole. In Indiana, Democratic House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer has called for reforming the Indiana Economic Development Corp. after an Indianapolis TV station found abandoned factories and idle cornfields where the corporation said it had created new jobs.

In an election laser-focused on the economy, Kasich and Branstad argue that a body that capitalizes on the expe-rience of business leaders and cuts red tape can do better at producing jobs than a government agency. Both say they can combat prob-lems encountered elsewhere through the rules they write

for the panels.Kasich, a former Lehman

Brothers managing direc-tor, said there would be “no more bureaucrats, no more bungling, no more tripping over one another.” He advo-cates keeping the amounts of bonuses secret if it means luring good talent.

The government-run eco-nomic development depart-ments Branstad and Kasich targeted for closure have had their share of contro-versy.

Mismanagement in the Iowa Department of Economic Development’s film promotion office led to five state employees losing their jobs after allegations of sloppy bookkeeping, abuse and fraud. Ohio’s depart-ment has gone through a series of development direc-tors, including one who stepped aside after a report that he owed $150,000 in federal and state taxes.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, the Democrat incumbent, recently acknowledged that Ohio’s development depart-ment could have moved more quickly to keep busi-nesses in the state, though he defended its performance in a tough economy.

Jeff Finkle, president of the International Economic Development Council, said there’s little evidence that a business-led nonprofit is superior to a government-run development depart-ment.

“There is this belief that these private sector guys all have this expansive Rolodex and they’ll be able to pick up the phone and all their friends are going to start making investments in the state,” said Finkle, who worked in the Republican administrations of President Ronald Reagan and Ohio Gov. James Rhodes.

“In fact, it’s not that sim-ple.”

John L. Krauss, director of the Indiana University Public Policy Institute, believes Indiana’s semipri-vate development board — put in place by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels — is the best approach despite its recent troubles. He said some of the undelivered job promises were a result of the economic downturn.

“Everyone realizes you have to put your best foot

forward, you have to show off the state, you have to entertain prospective busi-nesses, you have to put up collateral,” Krauss said. “But taxpayers are saying, ‘Don’t spend money, period’ — so a not-for-profit allows you to attract private contributions that will help government market Indiana in a way it doesn’t have available with tax dollars.”

Other states also have encountered challenges.

In 2000, the two-year-old Wyoming Business Council came under fire for giving free plane rides to spouses of its staff and sizable bonuses to its executives, including $30,000 to its then-CEO John Reardon, based on exag-gerated estimates of the job growth it had achieved. The money came from donations from private companies.

A 2006 investigation by the St. Petersburg Times found that about a fifth of the orga-nizations that had joined the board of Enterprise Florida Inc. in its first decade of exis-tence had landed as much as $43.8 million in state-autho-rized incentives. That was in addition to other govern-ment perks such as local property tax breaks, federal grants, free land and county building fee waivers, the newspaper found.

Representatives of both the Wyoming and Florida nonprofits acknowledge past problems. But they say the positives of their sys-tems have outweighed the negatives.

“Essentially, that was just early growing pains organi-zationally for the (Wyoming) Business Council,” said spokesman Scott Balyo. “I don’t think it had anything to do with the economic development effectiveness of the organization.”

He said the council has created 6,200 jobs and assist-ed many hundreds of busi-nesses and communities with economic development efforts.

The program, Balyo said, has become a model for other states during the past decade.

Arizona replaced its Commerce Department with a semiprivate panel of busi-ness leaders just last month, and California joins Ohio and Iowa in considering the option.

Kasich suggests scrapping economic boards

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Senior and Junior class officers have been chosen for Fairview High for the 2010-11 school year. Officers are: junior secretary/treasurer Sydney Vance (left), senior vice president Beau Samples (center) and senior president Jocelin Zeedyk. Missing from the photo are: junior president Samantha Rhodes and junior vice president Abbigail Schwarzbek.

Class officers

Class officers for Fairview High School’s freshman and sophomore classes have been chosen for the 2010-11 school year. Officers are, from left: sopho-more president Lydia Hall, freshman president Gracie Grinnell, freshman secretary/treasurer Kristine Culler and sophomore vice president Haley Rhodes. Missing from the photo are freshman vice president Rose Mansel-Pleydell and sophomore secretary/treasurer Jacob Daniel.

Fairview leaders

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A Republican can-didate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Ohio has dressed up in a German SS uniform and participated in Nazi reenact-ments.

The Atlantic reported that Rich Iott — a Tea Party favorite in northwest Ohio — has taken part in the re-enactments for several years.

Iott is running against Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who was first elected in

1982, in Ohio’s 9th District.The Democrats’ House campaign arm

says Iott’s participation in the reenact-ments — and the fact that Republicans embrace Iott — sends a chilling message to Americans.

Iott says he didn’t mean to disrespect anyone who has served in the military. He says he’s been involved with historical reenactments from different eras since he graduated from college.

Re-enactment puts candidate on hot seat

Race for governor

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■ A8 WEATHER/NEWS The Crescent-News • Monday, October 11, 2010

cal ads and holding press conferences to accuse Republicans of plotting to privatize the national retirement program.

This week’s announcement about Social Security benefits raises more immediate concerns for older Americans whose sav-ings and home values still haven’t recov-ered from the financial collapse: Many haven’t had a raise since January 2009, and they won’t be getting one until at least January 2012.

“While people aren’t getting COLAs they certainly feel like they’re falling further and further behind, particularly in this economy,” said David Certner, AARP’s legislative policy director. “People are very reliant on Social Security as a major por-tion of their income and, quite frankly, they have counted on the COLA over the years.”

Social Security was the primary source of income for 64 percent of retirees who got benefits in 2008, according to the Social Security Administration. A third relied on Social Security for at least 90 percent of their income.

A little more than 58.7 million people receive Social Security or Supplemental Security Income.

The average Social Security benefit is about $1,072 a month.

Social Security recipients got a one-time bonus payment of $250 in the spring of 2009 as part of the government’s mas-sive economic recovery package. President Barack Obama lobbied for another one last fall when it became clear seniors wouldn’t get an increase in monthly benefit pay-ments in 2010.

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difficult decisions,” Strickland said of his time in office. “I think I’ve acted responsibly, and I think I have managed the affairs of this state responsibly during a very, very difficult period of time economically. Going forward, I will continue to exercise the same kind of good judgment and prior-ity setting that I have in the past four years.”

“I’ve written 13 budgets — I was budget committee chairman, and I spent 10 years of my life try-ing to balance the federal budget, “ Kasich said of his background in Congress. “... I went through every single program of the fed-eral government. If it worked, we made it better. If it didn’t work, we got rid of it. If we could com-bine it, we combined it.

He added, “We had a $3 trillion 10-year projected deficit (when I started). When I left in 2000 after laying down the balanced budget act, which I was the chief architect of, we had a $5 trillion surplus.”

Strickland and Kasich are the two major party candidates on the ballot. Others running in the gubernatorial election are Dennis Spisak (Green Party), Ken Matesz (Libertarian) and David Sargent (write-in candidate).

‘Flat-out wrong’Strickland is quick to point out

the accomplishments of his first term.

He pushed for education reform, signing into law an evi-dence-based model that propo-nents believe will provide the resources schools need without relying on ever-increasing prop-erty taxes.

He worked with lawmakers to finalize law changes to make the state more attractive for emerging advanced and renewable ener-gy industries, including a recent solar project in southeastern Ohio projected to create hundreds of jobs.

He spearheaded an expansion of the homestead tax exemption to cover more senior and disabled homeowners.

And he’s mostly continued the tax reform timetable implement-

ed under the prior Republican administration.

Strickland also says he’s reduced the size and scope of government, cutting the state’s work force by about 5,000 employees and elimi-nating more than 200 business regulations.

“Some of my agencies are oper-ating with about 70 percent of what they had available to them in prior budgets,” he said.

Strickland also points to dif-ficult decisions he has made to ensure a balanced state bud-get. He asked for and accepted federal stimulus funding. He attempted a plan to place lot-tery-controlled slot machines at horse racing tracks, only to have the move blocked by a court chal-lenge. With the backing of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and other business groups (the same ones that are now backing his opponent), Strickland froze the final year of a phased-in income tax reduction.

Kasich has been critical of some of those actions, saying the lat-ter amounted to a tax increase at a time when state government should be cutting such costs to its citizens and businesses.

The governor has called such characterizations of his decisions as “simply inaccurate” and “not grounded in fact.”

“Mr. Kasich says a lot of things that I disagree with, obviously,” Strickland said. “... I think he’s talking irresponsibly. He says he doesn’t want federal assistance. He says he’s going to begin reduc-ing the state income tax. He says he’s going to immediately elimi-nate the estate tax. And he has signed a pledge that he will never support any increased revenue. ... I just think Mr. Kasich is flat-out wrong.”

‘Dead wrong’Kasich declined when asked to

respond to Strickland’s critique of his ideas, focusing his com-ments instead on several policy proposals he plans to implement if elected in November.

Those initiatives include:— Revamping Ohio’s regula-

tory environment: “Between the paperwork and contradictory directions from people inside the

government, it’s become very, very difficult in Ohio for small businesses to be successful,” he said. “... We need to protect health and safety, but it should not be inconsistent with econom-ic growth and job creation.”

— Controlling workers com-pensation costs: “They gyrate and skyrocket, and they are unpre-dictable,” he said. “That system needs to be stabilized.”

— Widening the reach of Ohio’s job training programs: “If there’s a state where we need to train people, it’s in Ohio.”

— Spinning off the existing Ohio Department of Development into a nonprofit controlled by a board of individuals appointed by the governor. Kasich believes the board would be able to respond more quickly and effectively when companies are considering expanding or relocating in the state.

(Strickland rejects that idea: “A CEO’s primary fiduciary obliga-tion is to their investors, not to the people of Ohio or the state of Ohio,” he said. “So I don’t know how a CEO could really function without having a serious con-flict of interest. What if there’s a company that wants to come in and set up a competing operation against one of the individuals that’s on that board?”)

No new taxes?But the centerpiece of Kasich’s

campaign is his pledge to reduce Ohio’s tax rates, including the eventual elimination of the income and estate taxes.

Neither will be accomplished overnight, instead requiring care-ful consideration and — first and foremost — cuts.

“We need to reduce taxes, and we need to reduce the size of government,” Kasich said, add-ing later, “If we think that raising taxes is going to get us out of this ditch, we’re dead wrong.”

Strickland and Kasich appear to agree that raising taxes now would have a devastating effect on households and businesses.

But Strickland is leaving that option on the table going into the next budget cycle.

“You never know what may happen,” the governor said. “... I think raising taxes under the cir-

cumstances could have the effect of depressing the recovery or even resulting in what’s referred to as a double dip.”

But he added, “I’m obligated constitutionally to maintain a bal-anced budget. And I certainly, as governor, will meet that obliga-tion, as I have in the past.”

In recent days, Kasich repeated his no tax pledge.

“We’re driving people out,” he said of the need to reduce taxes quickly. But he added, “All things in its time. You can’t just kill taxes without downsizing. ... This is a goal and it’s a process. You don’t just slash things. ... It is a consistent effort — lower over-head, lower taxes, generate more revenue.”

No answers (yet)The next governor, whether a

re-elected Strickland or newly elected Kasich, will have to deal with a purported $8 billion gap in the next state budget.

Both televised debates between the two candidates included ques-tions seeking specifics on how they would fill that hole, and Statehouse reporters have asked repeatedly for answers to similar questions.

Neither candidate, however, will say what they plan to do.

“You don’t release it chapter by chapter,” Kasich said. “The gov-ernor’s budget person can’t even tell you how far we’re in the hole. So until I know the revenues, I can’t give you some partial pic-ture of what I’m going to do.”

“I don’t know that it’s going to be $8 billion,” Strickland of the budget gap. “But it’s going to be a huge challenge.”

Kasich has mentioned cost-cut-ting in the state’s Medicaid spend-ing, determining the real value of state-owned assets and push-ing more shared services among schools and local governments as a partial means of dealing with budget issues.

“How many superintendents do we need in one county?” he asked. “How many principals, assistant principals, curriculum advisers, outreach community people.... ? We need to share.”

The governor already has called for additional federal funding for the next biennium. That would

fill part of the shortfall.“I will continue, as I have, to

advocate for additional federal resources until the effects of this recession lift,” Strickland said. “I think that’s reasonable (though) I don’t think that the state of Ohio or any other state should expect (federal stimulus) on an ongoing basis.”

And without federal help? “It will require massive, mas-sive reductions in state govern-ment — in the state government that I contend has already been reduced,” Strickland said. “... The fat has been squeezed out of this budget. Now, is it possible to further cut? Absolutely, you can always cut more. Is it possible to cut while continuing to provide the services that the people of this state expect from their state gov-ernment? I don’t think so.”

Strickland also said he has taken steps to pinpoint ways to reduce spending in the areas that account for much of the budget: Medicaid, education and prisons.

He’s asked outside groups to study the state’s Medicaid, K-12 and justice system policies to find cost savings. The chancellor of higher education is heading a comparable study of the state’s university system.

Strickland and Kasich agree on the need for prison sentencing reform, an issue that has stalled in the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate.

“We want to make sure that people are confined,” Kasich said. “... We have to take a look at that. It’s common sense. ... But you don’t want to over-confine somebody that costs the taxpayer a fortune when we could have them in a better setting where we’re safe.”

“I can tell you, we have too many people in prison, it’s costing us too much money,” Strickland said. “It’s an irrational system we have in place. (Nonviolent offenders are) staying for nine months, and we’re training them how to be a better criminal, quite frankly.”

Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau Chief. E-mail him at

[email protected] or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.

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“They’ve almost all been failure to yield crashes,” he said, adding that one crash was alcohol-related.

To safely cross at-grade crossings, officials recommend that motorists slow down as they approach the intersection, stopping clear of pass-ing traffic.

Rather than trying to cross both lanes of traffic at once drivers should stop at the highway medi-an before they cross completely. Before entering the intersection, Hauenstein said drivers need to be aware of any traffic that is turning at the intersection as well.

Motorists also need to be alert when turning onto the highway.

“They need to wait until traffic has cleared before turning onto the highway,” said Hauenstein. “Then they need to make an attempt to get up to speed quickly but safely.”

Hauenstein added that semis often turn their four-way flashers to alert other motorists that they are getting up to speed after turn-ing onto the highway.

As the colder weather approach-es and road conditions become slicker, officials typically expect to handle more crashes. However, Hauenstein said that wasn’t the case last winter.

“We thought we were going to have a hard winter last year,” said Hauenstein. “I don’t know if it was the asphalt they put down or what, but it wasn’t really an issue.”

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levy.“We thought that it would

be responsible to taxpayers to ask for that amount with the wind farms offsetting the dif-ference,” he said, adding that wind farm money will begin to be collected in 2013-2014.

Money collected from the levy would be used to run the departments and services the county offers to its residents.

“The levy (result) will be an indicator if the public is sat-isfied by the current services provided or it they are not,” said Burkley. “This is really a way to affect how the county is run.”

Officials said if the levy pass-es, they cannot guarantee that the courthouse would return to being open five days a week. The courthouse has been closed on Fridays as a cost-cutting measure since July 2009.

“We will evaluate it at that time, looking at the estimated revenue for 2011,” Zartman said. “We have to look at rev-enue across the board to see if that would be feasible.”

What is definite is that addi-tional cuts may be necessary if the levy fails.

“It would be nice if voters pass (this levy) because we sure need the funds,” Commissioner Ed Straley said.

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Lee Eowney of Badger Daylighting does hydro-vac excavation on a section of TransCanada’s ANR Pipeline high pressure natural gas pipe in a field in rural Paulding County, immediately south of Defiance County, on Friday. The pipe was nearly struck by a landowner doing tile repair work. The iron C channel bridging to carry clay tile over the pipeline was hit by an excavator. Before digging, individuals are required by Ohio law to call 811 to check for all underground utilities in the area of a dig site. In addition, a TransCanada technician must be present for all excavation activity on ANR right of ways. These actions are to insure pipeline integrity and safety for all.

Repair work

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Nashville 83 56 t 82 51 pcNew Orleans 84 65 t 84 64 pcNew York 64 50 r 66 52 pcOrlando 88 64 pc 87 64 sPhiladelphia 70 50 sh 67 47 pcPhoenix 93 69 s 97 70 sRaleigh 87 59 pc 78 57 pcSt. Louis 82 59 pc 73 46 pcSan Diego 76 62 s 78 63 sSeattle 60 45 pc 64 44 pcTampa 85 68 pc 87 68 sWashington 80 54 t 70 52 pc

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Bowling Grn 68 42 pc 68 45 pcCanton, OH 67 40 pc 65 46 pcCharleston, WV 82 47 pc 75 52 pcCleveland, OH 64 45 pc 63 46 pcDayton, OH 78 50 pc 74 46 pcIndianapolis, IN 80 56 pc 76 44 pcLima, OH 73 47 pc 72 44 pcMarion, OH 72 43 pc 69 43 pcMiddletown, OH 80 47 pc 74 44 pcNewark, OH 76 42 pc 70 44 pcPittsburgh, PA 68 43 pc 63 44 pcSandusky, OH 62 47 pc 62 45 pcSpringfield, OH 76 48 pc 74 42 pc

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airport through yesterday)High yesterday .................................. 87Low yesterday ................................... 53Mean yesterday ................................. 70Lowest wind chill ............................... 53Record high .......................... 87 in 2010Record low ........................... 29 in 1993Normal high ....................................... 66Normal low ........................................ 44

PrecipitationYesterday ...................................... 0.00"Month to date ................................ 0.22"(above/below normal -0.59)Year to date ................................. 27.70"(above/below normal -1.28)

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Yesterday ............................................ 0Season to date ................................ 154

Last season to date ........................ 209Normal season to date ................... 206

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Sunrise Tuesday .................... 7:46 a.m.Sunset Tuesday ..................... 7:02 p.m.Moonrise Tuesday .................. 1:20 p.m.Moonset Tuesday ................. 10:34 p.m.

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Monterrey94/66

La Paz93/64

Chihuahua76/42

Los Angeles86/62

Washington80/54

New York64/50

Miami87/74

Atlanta87/58

Detroit66/45

Houston88/60

Chicago73/53

Minneapolis70/43

El Paso82/53

Denver62/36

Billings64/36

San Francisco82/54

Seattle60/45

Iqaluit39/30

Whitehorse40/32 Yellowknife

37/27

Churchill50/32

St. John's52/39

Halifax56/40

Saskatoon56/32

Toronto55/38

Montreal52/36

Winnipeg59/39

Calgary60/33

Vancouver58/46

Monterrey94/66

La Paz93/64

Chihuahua76/42

Los Angeles86/62

Washington80/54

New York64/50

Miami87/74

Atlanta87/58

Detroit66/45

Houston88/60

Chicago73/53

Minneapolis70/43

El Paso82/53

Denver62/36

Billings64/36

San Francisco82/54

Seattle60/45

Iqaluit39/30

Whitehorse40/32 Yellowknife

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Churchill50/32

St. John's52/39

Halifax56/40

Saskatoon56/32

Toronto55/38

Montreal52/36

Winnipeg59/39

Calgary60/33

Vancouver58/46

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Toledo51/68

Cleveland52/64

Columbus

Caldwell50/74

57/76

Cambridge/Byesville50/72

Kent-Ravenna51/64

Alliance53/67

Defiance51/73

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Louisville58/84

Adrian49/68

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Wheeling55/70

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Wind from the south at 6-12 knotstonight. Wave heights 2 feet or less.Partly cloudy.

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New No. 1: Ohio State takes over top spot in college football

polls after Alabama falls at South Carolina. | B2

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Volleyball: Sectional draws held on Sunday; Defiance and

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AP Photo

Cincinnati Reds’ center fielder Drew Stubbs (6) leaps at the fence but can’t catch a solo home run by Philadelphia Phillies’ Chase Utley in the fifth inning.

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San Francisco Giants’ Freddy Sanchez (left photo) reacts after scor-ing the go-ahead run on a Buster Posey ground ball that Atlanta Braves’ second baseman Brooks Conrad booted in the ninth inning of Game 3 of the NLDS. Conrad (right photo) commited three errors in the game.

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Keith Beard (top) and Jordan Gonzales battle dur-ing Krucial Kombat on Saturday at the former Papa Primos.

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Cleveland Browns’ quarterback Jake Delhomme (17) walks off the field after losing to the Atlanta Falcons. Delhomme threw two interceptions after replacing injured starter Seneca Wallace.

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Detroit Lions’ cornerback Alphonso Smith (27) cel-ebrates his interception for a touchdown during the fourth quarter against the St. Louis Rams at Ford Field.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Kroy Biermann needed oxygen.

Knocking the air out of the Cleveland Browns left him winded.

Atlanta’s defensive end leaped to tip a pass, caught the deflection with a head-first dive, rolled on the ground, alertly jumped to his feet and outran a few Cleveland players for a spectacular touchdown in the fourth quarter, giving the Falcons a 20-10 win over the battered Browns on Sunday.

The play was rough, rugged and rowdy — like Biermann.

“Kroy is from Montana,” Falcons coach Mike Smith said. “He has probably rode a few wild broncos and bulls and been thrown off and landed on his feet.

It was just a super athletic play.”

With the Falcons up 13-10, Biermann sniffed out a screen pass as he pres-sured Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme on third-and-7. Biermann jumped to bat Delhomme’s pass high in the air and then hustled to snare it, catch-ing the ball just above the turf like a seasoned wide receiver.

Knowing he had not been touched and could still run, Biermann hopped up and rumbled 31 yards, dragging a final defender into the end zone to make it 20-10 with 4:01 left.

“That was the trifecta right there,” an impressed Falcons running back Michael Turner said. “A tremendous play. You

Falcons flatten Browns, 20-10

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ATLANTA (AP) — How do the Atlanta Braves bounce back from this?

How does Brooks Conrad get over this?

Three errors by the 30-year-old sec-ond baseman — a bobbled grounder, a dropped pop fly, a grounder right through the legs in the ninth inning that allowed in the winning run — left the Braves on the verge of elimi-nation in the NL division series.

San Francisco, which was on the ropes itself after giving up Eric Hinske’s two-run homer in the eighth, bounced back in its final at-bat with two runs for a 3-2 vic-tory Sunday, the most gut-wrench-ing game yet in a series that has been tight and tense all the way.

“I’ve never experienced that range of emotions on a baseball field,” Braves outfielder Matt Diaz said.

The Giants are up 2-1 in the best-of-five series and can wrap it up today.

Conrad might have to watch that one from the bench. Asked wheth-er he would put the shell-shocked infielder back in the lineup, manager Bobby Cox would only say, “I’ll have to sleep on it.”

The Braves could go with Troy Glaus at third, a position he’s hardly

Conrad’s errors cost Braves

DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Lions moved a step closer toward putting their miserable past behind them, winning for the first time this season and by their largest margin in 15 years.

Stefan Logan’s 105-yard kickoff return broke a tie in the second quarter and Detroit rolled to a 44-6 rout of the St. Louis Rams on Sunday.

“It feels good to get this one so we can move on,” center Dominic Raiola said.

Detroit (1-4) hadn’t won since Nov. 22, 2009, when Matthew Stafford threw five touchdown passes against Cleveland after getting briefly knocked out of the game.

The Lions, who had the NFL’s first 0-16 season two years ago, had won just three of their previous 44 games. They had a shot to win three of their first four games — losing by five, three and two points — after their 14 losses last season were by at least a TD and several were very lopsided.

“Our players under-stood how close we were,” second-year coach Jim Schwartz said. “But you need validation.”

The Lions won by more than a touchdown for the first time since Nov.

4, 2007, when they beat Denver 44-7.

The Rams (2-3) lost standout receiver Mark Clayton with an injured right knee in the first quar-ter and that limited rookie Sam Bradford’s passing options.

Clayton, whose injury appears serious, fell to the ground while running a pattern and stayed down until he was carted off the field.

“It doesn’t look good,” St. Louis coach Steve Spagnuolo said.

Bradford, coming off his best game, had one of his worst. He was 23 of 45 for 215 yards with two inter-ceptions, one that was bat-ted into the air and caught by Ndamukong Suh and one directly to Alphonso Smith, who returned it for the final score.

“There are going to be a lot of things that we have to find on the film and fix because we have to make sure this never happens again,” said Bradford, who was drafted this year No. 1 overall just ahead of Suh. “I don’t think I’ve ever been part of a loss like this.”

Playing again in place of last year’s No. 1 pick Matthew Stafford, Shaun Hill threw for 227 yards and connected with Calvin Johnson, Brandon

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Phillies manager Charlie Manuel pointed to the 1995 Atlanta Braves, whose rota-tion included Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz. Reds skipper Dusty Baker went back to the ‘70s, when the Baltimore Orioles had Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar and Pat Dobson.

There will be plenty of time for comparisons now. Cole Hamels and the rest of Philadelphia’s stellar start-ers are headed for the NL championship series.

Hamels struck out nine in a five-hitter, Chase Utley homered and the Phillies beat the Reds 2-0 on Sunday night to finish off the fran-chise’s first playoff sweep.

“This moment here is just another stepping stone to trying to win another World Series,” Hamels said.

Philadelphia, attempting to become the first NL team in 66 years to win three straight pennants, will host San Francisco or Atlanta in the NLCS opener on Saturday. The Giants beat the Braves 3-2 Sunday to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five division series.

Roy Halladay got the Phillies off to a scintillating start with the second no-hitter in postseason history, and Hamels finished off the Reds with a masterful per-formance of his own.

With Roy Oswalt also rested and ready to go for the next round, look out.

“For everybody here the ultimate goal is to get to the World Series,” Halladay said. “This is the first step. We’re all looking to get to the end.”

The Reds, making their first postseason appearance in 15 years, committed six errors in the last two games of the series after finish-ing second in the NL with a club-record .988 fielding percentage during the regu-lar season.

The NL’s top offense man-aged only 11 hits in three games — the fewest for a team in a postseason series, according to STATS LLC. The previous low was 13 by Texas against the New York Yankees in 1998.

“I mean, they really pitched,” Baker said. “They’re a very good team. We kept ‘em in the ballpark,

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Rough, rugged and rowdy

By KEVIN [email protected]

Judging by the raucous sellout crowd on hand to witness “Krucial Kombat” on Saturday night at the site of the former Papa Primo’s, Mixed Martial Arts has officially and undoubt-edly made its impact on the Defiance area.

Those in attendance were treated to eight ama-teur bouts of non-stop MMA action featuring a mix of promising young talent from local schools as well as the Ft. Wayne

area. Participating on the fight card were combatants from Pil-Sung Academy of Martial Arts (Defiance), BOLD MMA (Archbold), Malice MMA (Paulding), Wauseon MMA and Dragons’ Den (Ft. Wayne).

The Mixed Martial Arts production - the first of its kind in Defiance - was presented in conjunction by S&S Events of Cortland and Matt Andrist, owner and martial arts instructor at Pil-Sung.

“If you missed this event in Defiance, then I don’t

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CINCYFrom Page B1so to speak, kept the runs down. We just didn’t push across enough runs.”

Hamels got Joey Votto to ground into a double play after Brandon Phillips’ leadoff single in the ninth, then struck out Scott Rolen to end the game. The lanky left-hander threw 119 pitches in his first postsea-son complete game, 82 for strikes.

After Rolen struck out for the eighth time in the series, the celebration was on. Well, sort of.

It all looked very routine — Manuel’s team has prac-ticed this a lot over the past couple of years, including a victory over Tampa Bay in the 2008 World Series.

“We don’t want to get too carried away,” Hamels said. “We’re just going to move on and play the best baseball we can.”

Utley, greeted with loud boos and chants of

“Cheater! Cheater!” before each at-bat, connected against Johnny Cueto in the fifth, giving the Phillies a 2-0 lead. It was his 10th career postseason homer, moving him past teammate Jayson Werth and into first place on the club’s career list.

Ut ley s tar ted Philadelphia’s winning rally in Game 2 when he was hit by a pitch from hard-throwing reliever Aroldis Chapman in the seventh inning. The All-Star second baseman acknowl-edged after the game he wasn’t sure if the ball hit him, and a record crowd of 44,599 at Great American Ball Park made it clear what it thought of the play.

Umpires reviewed Utley’s drive to right-center to see if a fan interfered with the ball, but the replays were conclusive and the call was quickly upheld.

No cheating here. Just another timely drive for the NL East champs.

NFL

CINCINNATI (AP) — Josh Freeman had no time-outs to use and a packed stadium screaming for him to make another inexperi-enced mistake that would decide the game.

Uh-uh, not this time.These baby Bucs are

growing up.Freeman led Tampa Bay

to a signature win Sunday, directing two scoring drives in the closing minutes for a 24-21 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. Connor Barth’s 31-yard field goal with 1 second left secured a major breakthrough for the upstart Buccaneers.

At 3-1, they’ve matched their victory total for all last season, when they dropped their first seven under first-year coach Raheem Morris. They were on the verge again Sunday against a Cincinnati team that seemed to have one well in hand.

“It took us 15 weeks to win this many last year,” said Freeman, who started as a rookie in that dread-ful season. “We’re a young team, but we feel we have the opportunity to win every game. And it’s not who’s leading the longest, it’s who’s leading at the end.”

The Bengals (2-3) were, until Carson Palmer’s interceptions turned it around.

And now, the defending AFC North champions are in a lot of trouble.

“We’re a 2-3 team, and it’s not a good team,” safe-ty Chris Crocker said. “We gave it away.”

The Bengals were ahead 21-14 and in position to close it out with 2:28 to go. Palmer tried to get the ball to Terrell Owens on a third-and-13 play from midfield, but Aqib Talib wrestled it away.

Freeman, who missed two plays in the first half after getting dazed by a hit, showed poise with no timeouts left and 63,888 fans screaming for him to give it away. He scrambled 9 yards for a first down, threw a 15-yard pass to Mike Williams, then per-fectly lofted a pass to Williams in the end zone. Williams out-jumped Johnathan Joseph for the tying touchdown with 1:26 to go.

“I’ve got all the confi-dence in that guy to make the play one-on-one,” said Freeman, who finished 20 of 33 for 280 yards with an interception. “You get only so many opportunities to atone for the mistakes you make. Today was a great example of that.”

Freeman’s best throw was yet to come.

Palmer drove the Bengals to midfield and tried to connect with Ochocinco.

The ball slipped off his fin-gertips and went directly to Sabby Piscitelli, who returned it to the 34-yard line with 14 seconds to go.

Freeman’s next throw was his best. He made a perfect pass to Micheal Spurlock at the 13-yard line. Spurlock got the toes of both feet down while falling out of bounds — the call was upheld on review setting up Barth’s winning kick.

Cardinals 30, Saints 20

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Drew Brees

threw three interceptions against

Arizona and the Cardinals capitalized

with undrafted rookie Max Hall making

his first start at quarterback.

Hall completed 17 of 27 passes for

168 yards, but had some luck and a

lot of help from his defense. Hall fum-

bled twice, but both times teammates

recovered, with one ending in a 2-yard

TD run by tackle Levi Brown.

Kerry Rhodes returned Ladell Betts’

fumble 27 yards for a score and,

with 10 seconds to play, Dominique

Rodgers-Cromartie returned an inter-

ception 28 yards for the clinching TD.

Brees came into the game with just

two interceptions and a league-best

74 percent completion rate. He threw

for 279 yards and two TDs, but the

three picks did not help.

Colts 19, Chiefs 9

INDIANAPOLIS — Peyton Manning

missed out on a 300-yard game, did

not throw a touchdown pass and

seemed out of sync, but the Colts got

a late touchdown run from Mike Hart.

Manning led the Colts to field goals

by Adam Vinatieri of 20, 24, 47 and

42 yards before Hart, replacing the

injured Joseph Addai, scored from 11

yards out with 4:02 left. Ryan Succop

had field goals of 45, 35, and 43 yards

for the Chiefs.

Kansas City’s loss marks the first

time since 1970 that the NFL has no

4-0 teams.

Titans 34, Cowboys 27

ARLINGTON, Texas — Chris

Johnson scored a pair of 1-yard TDs

in the fourth quarter to lift Tennessee

over mistake-prone Dallas, a team

that had high hopes of becoming the

first host team to play in the Super

Bowl.

The Cowboys (1-3) fell behind 17-3

with penalties and errors on defense.

Dallas managed to tie it at 17 and 20,

then a tipped pass that was intercept-

ed set up Johnson’s first touchdown of

the final period.

Tony Romo tied it again at 27 on

a touchdown throw to Jason Witten,

then offensive lineman Marc Colombo

was penalized 15 yards for celebrat-

ing. Dallas kicked off from farther

back and Tennessee’s Marc Mariani

returned it to the 11. A penalty on the

tackle moved the ball to the 5, setting

up Johnson’s next TD.

Eagles 27, 49ers 24

SAN FRANCISCO — Kevin Kolb

passed for 253 yards while capably

filling in for injured Michael Vick, and

Quintin Mikell returned Alex Smith’s

fumble 52 yards for a TD early in the

fourth quarter.

LeSean McCoy rushed for a score

and Trevard Lindley made a last-

minute interception for the Eagles

(3-2), who forced five turnovers and

survived San Francisco’s late rally

and left the 49ers (0-5) with their worst

start in 31 years.

Smith passed for 309 yards, but

also committed three turnovers. He

received thunderous boos from the

Candlestick Park crowd and an appar-

ent tongue-lashing from coach Mike

Singletary before leading two fourth-

quarter TD drives.

Ravens 31, Broncos 17

BALTIMORE — The Ravens (4-1)

moved a half-game ahead of the idle

Steelers atop the AFC North after Ray

Rice ran for 133 yards and two TDs

and the best pass defense prevailed

over the best passing offense.

Although Kyle Orton threw for 314

yards — his fourth straight game with

300-plus yards — and had two TD

passes to Brandon Lloyd, the Broncos

(2-3) fell behind 17-0 with 9:21 left

in the second quarter and were hurt

by a lost fumble and 10 penalties for

90 yards.

Orton completed 23 of 38 passes,

but had little help from his running

game, which generated 39 yards on

13 rushes. The Ravens’ Joe Flacco,

meanwhile, was 14 of 25 for 196

yards and ran for a score.

Redskins 16, Packers 13, OT

LANDOVER, Md. — Washington’s

fate came down to the final snap for

the fourth time in five weeks, and this

time Graham Gano came through

with a 33-yard field goal 6:54 into

overtime.

The win left both teams with 3-2

records but different outlooks — the

Redskins are sky-high since they won

all of four games last season; the

Packers have lost two of their last

three and quarterback Aaron Rodgers

— 27 of 46 for 293 yards — has a

concussion.

The Redskins have had two games

go to OT and two that ended on

passes thrown into the end zone by

the opposing team at the end of

regulation.

Donovan McNabb (26 of 49 for 357

yards) was sacked five times and the

Redskins allowed 427 yards but over-

came a 10-point deficit in the fourth

quarter. McNabb threw a 48-yard TD

pass to Anthony Armstrong, and Gano

tied it with a 45-yard field goal with

1:07 remaining. The Packers had a

chance to win it, but Mason Crosby

hit the left upright from 53 yards with

1 second left.

Raiders 35, Chargers 27

OAKLAND, Callif. — Oakland

snapped a 13-game losing streak

against San Diego with some big

plays down the stretch.

Michael Bush ran 3 yards for

the go-ahead touchdown with 3:39

remaining and Tyvon Branch returned

a fumble by Philip Rivers 64 yards for

a score.

It was Oakland’s first win over San

Diego (2-3) since September 2003,

the second-longest active streak to

Buffalo’s 14-game losing streak to

New England. The Raiders (2-3)

blocked two punts, one for a touch-

down and the other for a safety.

Giants 34, Texans 10

HOUSTON — Eli Manning threw

two of his three touchdown passes

to Hakeem Nicks and the Giants held

Houston to a franchise-low 24 yards

rushing. Nicks finished with career

highs of 12 catches and 130 yards.

Manning was 27 of 42 for 297 yards,

and threw his third TD pass to Steve

Smith.

Osi Umenyiora sacked Matt Schaub

twice and also forced a fumble for the

Giants (3-2), who limited NFL rushing

leader Arian Foster to 25 yards on 11

carries.

Linebacker Brian Cushing made

four solo tackles in his season debut

for Houston (3-2). Cushing was sus-

pended the first four games for vio-

lating the NFL’s policy on banned

substances.

Bears 23, Panthers 6

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Forte

ran for 166 yards and two TDs, Julius

Peppers had an acrobatic interception

against his former team and Chicago

(4-1) won despite four interceptions

from backup Todd Collins.

Forte scored both his TDs in the

first quarter, during which Peppers

silenced a booing crowd in his first

game back to Carolina with a diving

interception to set up a field goal.

With Jay Cutler sidelined because

of a concussion, Collins threw for just

32 yards before being benched for

Caleb Hanie.

The Panthers had 147 total yards

with rookie Jimmy Clausen at quar-

terback.

Jaguars 36, Bills 26

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — David

Garrard shook off an interception and

lost fumble with three TD passes

— two to TE Marcedes Lewis — to

rally Jacksonville (3-2).

Mike Sims-Walker’s 7-yard touch-

down put the Jaguars ahead for good,

27-20 late in the third quarter.

Lewis scored on 1- and 27-yard

receptions to give him five TDs on

the season, breaking the Jaguars’

franchise record for scores by a tight

end. Josh Scobee made all five field-

goal attempts.

The Bills squandered 10-0 and 13-

3 leads, and are 0-5 for the fifth time

in club history, the first since 1985.

Buffalo has allowed 30 points in four

straight games.

Last second FG sinks Bengals

AP Photo

Washington Redskins’ linebacker Rocky McIntosh (52) reaches for Green Bay Packers’ wide receiver Donald

Driver during the second half of their game in Landover, Md. on Sunday. The Redskins won 16-13 in overtime.

College football

NEW YORK (AP) — Hit the reset button on the col-lege football season.

There’s a new No. 1 team in Ohio State and uncer-tainty at the top of the rankings for the first time all season, after Alabama’s 19-game winning streak ended at South Carolina.

The Southeastern Conference, which has won the last four national cham-pionships, has some catch-ing up to do in the 2010 title chase. The Buckeyes and No. 2 Oregon have a couple of BCS busters in No. 3 Boise State and No. 4 TCU on their tails. And for the first time in about a decade, Nebraska is a legitimate national cham-pionship contender.

The Buckeyes moved up one spot in The Associated Press poll after preseason No. 1 Alabama lost for the first time since the 2009 Sugar Bowl. The Crimson Tide fell 35-21 on Saturday.

Ohio State received 34 first-place votes and Oregon (15), Boise State (eight), TCU (one) and No. 6 Oklahoma (two) also got first-place votes from the media panel Sunday.

Auburn is the highest

ranked SEC team at No. 7. An SEC team, either Florida or Alabama, had held the top spot in the last 29 AP polls, dating to Nov. 2, 2008. The last time the highest ranked SEC team was this far away from No. 1 was Oct. 22, 2006, when Auburn was ranked sev-enth.

The Crimson Tide slipped to No. 8 — and second in the state — while LSU was No. 9 and South Carolina moved up nine spots to 10th after the program’s first win against a top-ranked team.

The last time Ohio State was No. 1 was the final reg-ular-season poll of 2007.

That season ended with LSU beating the Buckeyes in the BCS championship game to become the first national title winner with two losses. That type of mayhem is a long way away, but the potential for BCS controversy is high, unlike last season, when Florida, Alabama and Texas moved into the top three spots in late September until the SEC title game.

Late Saturday

Top 25

No. 4 Boise State 57, Toledo 14

BOISE, Idaho — Jeremy Avery ran for

three touchdowns, Kellen Moore passed

for three more and the defense forced four

turnovers.

Moore and the rest of the offense were

clicking from the start, scoring on five of their

first seven possessions to put the game out

of reach early. Boise State (5-0) has now

won 19 straight games, the nation’s longest

winning streak after top-ranked Alabama

was upset by No. 19 South Carolina.

Moore was efficient as usual, connecting

on 16 of 22 passes for 267 yards, including

a 51-yard touchdown to Titus Young. Avery

scored twice on 5-yard runs and another on

a 12-yard reverse.

Toledo (3-3) had just 278 total yards

in losing for the first time on the road this

season.

No. 8 Auburn 37, Kentucky 34

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Cam Newton drove

Auburn into position for Wes Byrum’s 24-

yard field goal as time expired.

Newton ran for a career-high 198 yards

and four touchdowns and deftly guided the

Tigers (6-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference)

88 yards in the final 7:22 after the Wildcats

tied it at 34.

Oregon State 29, No. 9 Arizona 27

TUCSON, Ariz. — Oregon State’s Ryan

Katz threw for 393 yards and two touch-

downs, and sneaked across for another

score. The sophomore from Santa Monica,

Calif., completed 30 of 42 against an Arizona

defense that had been ranked No. 2 nation-

ally, giving up 230.8 yards per game.

Oregon State (3-2, 2-0) lost standout

receiver James Rodgers to a knee injury in

the second quarter. He was in street clothes

on crutches in the second half after seven

catches for 102 yards, including a 33-yarder

for the Beavers’ first score.

No. 10 Utah 68, Iowa State 27

AMES, Iowa — Jordan Wynn threw for

325 yards and two touchdowns and Shaky

Smithson threw a TD pass and caught

another one for Utah.

Eddie Wide added three touchdowns for

the Utes (5-0, 2-0 MWC), who scored 31

unanswered points in the second quarter

and racked up their most points since beat-

ing Wyoming 69-14 in 1983.

No. 12 LSU 33, No. 14 Florida 29

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jarrett Lee tossed

a 3-yard touchdown pass to Terrence Tolliver

with 6 seconds left after LSU kept its final

drive alive with a successful fake field goal,

and the Tigers pulled out another wild vic-

tory.

With 35 seconds remaining, LSU (6-0,

4-0) lined up for a game-tying, 52-yard

field goal, but holder Drew Alleman threw a

no-look pitch over his head to place-kicker

Josh Jasper.

No. 23 Florida State 45, No. 13 Miami 17

MIAMI — Jermaine Thomas scored

a career-high three touchdowns, Chris

Thompson rushed for 158 yards and Florida

State ran out to a huge lead on the way to

beating Miami.

Thomas had touchdown runs of 1 and 6

yards, plus caught a 17-yard scoring pass

from Christian Ponder — all in the game’s

first 21 minutes for the Seminoles (5-1, 3-0

Atlantic Coast Conference).

Jacory Harris was 19 of 47 for 225 yards

for Miami (3-2, 1-1), plus ran for a score.

Damien Berry ran for 101 yards and a

touchdown.

No. 16 Stanford 37, USC 35

STANFORD, Calif. — Nate Whitaker

made up for a missed extra point by kicking

a 30-yard field goal on the final play to give

Stanford a second consecutive victory over

Southern California.

Whitaker missed his earlier kick after

Stanford’s fifth touchdown and that was the

difference in the game before Andrew Luck

calmly drove the Cardinal (5-2, 2-1 Pac-10)

down the field to set up the first game-win-

ning kick of Whitaker’s career.

No. 21 Nevada 35, San Jose State 13

RENO, Nev. — Vai Taua ran for 196 yards

and three touchdowns and Colin Kaepernick

passed for 273 yards, rushed for 91 and

scored twice to keep Nevada undefeated.

Nevada defensive end Dontay Moch had

five tackles for losses to become the WAC’s

all-time career leader with 52.

No. 24 Missouri 26, Colorado 0

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Blaine Gabbert threw

two touchdown passes before leaving with a

hip pointer after three quarters and Missouri

made several big plays.

The Tigers (5-0, 1-0 Big 12) had four

sacks and an interception in their fifth

straight victory over Colorado (3-2, 0-1) by

a total score of 203-40. This one came just

a few days after the 20th anniversary of the

infamous Fifth Down game in 1990, which

helped the Buffaloes win their only national

championship.

Ohio State back to No. 1 in AP poll

ERRORSFrom Page B1played this season, and move Omar Infante to sec-ond base, where Conrad has been playing. Or they could go with little-used rookie Diory Hernandez at second. Conrad sure sounded in no shape to go back out there after tying a postseason record for errors in a game.

“I wish I could just dig a hole,” he said, “and sleep in it.”

Everyone felt for Conrad, even the team that benefited from all his miscues.

Just listen to Buster Posey, who hit the hard grounder that resulted in Conrad’s third error: “I thought he would make the play. I wouldn’t wish that on any-body.”

While the Giants celebrat-ed their win in the visiting clubhouse, senior adviser for baseball operations Tony Siegle worried about the guy on the home side.

“How is Conrad?” Siegle asked a reporter. “I feel so bad for him over here.”

Conrad’s teammates tried to console him, remember-ing that he was a valuable contributor off the bench this season, his first full year in the big leagues. His biggest hit came in May, when he hit a pinch-hit grand slam that capped a seven-run ninth and gave the Braves a 10-9 victory over Cincinnati.

Rays 5, Rangers 2

ARLINGTON, Texas — David Price

and the Tampa Bay Rays worked hard

all season to earn home-field advan-

tage in the AL playoffs.

This time, they need to make use of

it if they want to keep playing.

Tampa Bay forced a deciding Game

5 in the division series against the

Texas Rangers with a 5-2 victory

Sunday. The Rays avoided elimination

twice on the road after losing the first

two at Tropicana Field, setting up the

chance for an improbable comeback.

“I feel a little better than 50-50 going

home at this point,” said Evan Longoria,

who homered and had two doubles in

Game 4. “We’ve really battled to get

back to even.”

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can’t get better than that. I didn’t critique his tech-nique. I was too busy cheer-ing.”

Following his first career interception as a pro and the only one he could remember since junior high, the 6-foot-3, 260-pound Biermann, a fifth-round pick in 2008, was mobbed by his excited teammates as he laid breathless in the end zone.

Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan threw a 45-yard TD pass to Roddy White as the Falcons (4-1) won their fourth straight since a sea-son-opening overtime loss in Pittsburgh. Turner rushed for 140 yards, including a season-long 55-yarder, and White added 101 yards on five catches.

The Browns (1-4) are bruised all over.

They lost quarterback Seneca Wallace just before halftime with an ankle injury. Wallace made his fourth straight start for Delhomme, who had been out since Week 1 with a severely sprained right ankle. Wallace will under-go further tests, but he was limping around in the locker room afterward and could be sidelined several weeks.

“With me hobbling out there a little bit, that’s blood in the water for those guys,”

Delhomme said. “No one’s coming to save us.”

Browns coach Eric Mangini will wait to see the extent of Wallace’s injury before making any decisions on signing another quarterback. The only other QB currently on Cleveland’s roster is rookie Colt McCoy.

Cleveland’s offense didn’t have many options. Running back Peyton Hillis was slowed after pulling a quadriceps muscle in prac-tice Thursday. He wasn’t himself from the outset and Hillis was held to 28 yards on 10 carries. He ran for more than 100 yards in Cleveland’s previous two games.

“I was nicked up the whole time,” said Hillis, who did contribute a 19-yard TD reception. “I went out there and I knew I wasn’t 100 percent, but I knew that my teammates needed me.”

Delhomme had little mobility, making him a sit-ting duck against one of the league’s better pass rushes. He finished 13 of 23 for 97 yards and two intercep-tions. Wallace went 11 of 15 for 139 yards before being forced out.

Wallace got hurt when he was sacked by Falcons defensive end John Abraham, who beat Pro Bowl left tackle Joe Thomas on an outside rush.

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ettigrew and Nate Burleson for touchdowns. Hill has started since Stafford sepa-rated his right shoulder in Week 1.

“Even though we don’t have Matt, we have some-body who can hold down the fort,” said Burleson, who was flagged for punt-ing the football into the stands after his TD.

The Lions got off to a good start because a risky move backfired for St. Louis, which started game with a failed onside kick.

“Maybe the biggest play that gets overlooked was the opening kickoff,” Schwartz said.

Logan’s return was easy to notice.

He went from the middle of his end zone and raced to the other — breaking one tackle along the way — for a 10-3 lead to make his mom

and dad, who has kidney failure, two of the happiest people at Ford Field.

At least one kickoff has been returned for a score in the first five weeks of a season for the first time since at least 1950, includ-ing AFL games before the 1970 merger, according to STATS.

Logan’s TD tied the lon-gest in franchise history and helped the Lions outscore St. Louis 21-3 in the second quarter.

Steven Jackson did his part for the Rams, running for 114 yards on 25 carries, but he didn’t have much help without Clayton on the field. Clayton started the game among NFC lead-ers in receptions and yards.

“Everyone has seen what he’s done for this offense in the first four games, and it is going to be tough to replace him,” Bradford said. “We just need someone to step up.”

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know what to say because it was breathtaking,” stated an enthusiastic Deserae Brady, co-founder and spokesper-son for S&S Events. “I’m listening to folks as they’re walking out, and they don’t even have a voice from cheering for these young men. It was awesome.”

While each Pil-Sung fight-er gave the packed house much to cheer about, Jordan Gonzales, Gary Allen and Travis Hussey each brought home thrilling victories to their academy. Much to the delight of the hometown crowd, Gonzales and Allen finished their amateur debuts in the win column.

“I’m proud of all my guys, and all of the fighters handled themselves well,” praised Pil-Sung MMA trainer Dave Morris. “There were some good matchups tonight. We didn’t win all of them, but that’s all right. Nobody quit … every one of them fought hard.”

In a scrappy 135-pound battle, Gonzales made his MMA debut against Keith Beard of BOLD, who came out intent on giving the Pil-Sung amateur all he could handle. With Beard fight-ing for ground control with a choke hold, Gonzales quickly turned the tide, reversing his position to turn a possible submission into an arm bar on Beard.

Then tightening the pres-sure, Gonzales forced Beard to tap out at 1:54 into the opening round, giving Pil-Sung its first win of the eve-ning, and Gonzales the first of his amateur career.

“(Beard) had a deep choke in, but I told myself I wasn’t going to tap,” Gonzales explained. “So I just fought out of it, scrambled around a little bit and eventually caught the arm bar.”

“You’ve got a lot of nerves, but you’ve got to learn to control them,” he added of his first-time experience in the cage. “If you go in there anxious, you’re just going to tire yourself out. You’ve got to be calm in there like it’s an everyday thing and just remember your train-ing.”

Allen left nobody doubt-ing his desire to make a good first impression, scor-ing TKO over Wauseon’s Kyle Thurwell at 2:01 of the first round in what proved to be a slugfest.

“That was so much fun, there are no words that can describe it,” exclaimed the excitable Pil-Sung student. “I’ve never had that feeling before in my life. I came out with all of my friends and family here … it was awesome.”

The former Defiance College wide receiver came out determined to give the capacity crowd a dose of stand-up fighting, which he did until the referee stopped the bout with Allen delivering some ground-and-pound to a defenseless Thurwell.

“(Thurwell) was going to stand up, and I went in on him,” Allen commented. “I faked a punch and he dropped his hands, and I got him right on the chin. He just laid down and I waited for the ref to stop it.

“I looked right over at my mom, dad, brother and sister and gave them the hands-up,” he continued. “My mom didn’t want to watch the fight, but she came to support. Just to see everybody standing up and getting loud for me was an unreal experience. I cannot wait to get back in there.”

Hussey improved his

amateur record to 2-0 after locking a bleeding Dan Reinhart into a first-round triangle submission at 2:13 into the round.

“It was awesome, to be in front of the hometown like that was sweet,” he said. “I’ve had some big wres-tling matches in my life, but the hype about (MMA) is a lot better. Having the crowd behind you really helps out. It makes you keep working, especially when you know you’re close to that submis-sion and the crowd goes nuts.”

The elusive Hussey relied heavily on his wrestling skills, as Reinhart nearly had the Defiance fighter locked into a guillotine choke. However, after already proving his mettle through several reversals, Hussey used leverage for a devastating slam to the cage floor, causing a gash to open on Reinhart’s head.

On his back in the guard position, it was just a mat-ter of time before Hussey found his opportunity to end the fight. As Reinhart tapped out, a blood-cov-ered and jubilant Hussey relished in the victory.

“I slammed him pretty good and busted his head wide open,” said the Pil-Sung fighter. “He got in a few good punches, but he was so wide open he went right into my guard and I locked it up.”

In the final match of the night, BOLD’s Gabe Garcia delivered a stunning knockout to Pil-Sung’s 205-pounder Shane Beauprez at 2:33 of the first round after weathering an arsenal of punches in both fighters’ MMA debut.

“He caught me with a lot of good shots that really snapped my head back,” admitted Garcia. “But I stuck with the game plan, and I caught him on the button and KO’ed him … it felt nice. There’s plenty more for me, plenty more.”

Beauprez appeared to have the slugfest well in hand until a timeout was called to replace Garcia’s mouthpiece. As the fight resumed, a looping, yet very solid shot from Garcia caught Beauprez flush, dropping him to the mat instantly.

“I have no idea what hap-pened out there, I don’t remember anything,” admitted Beauprez. “But I couldn’t ask for a better fan base and better friends, they really supported me through all of this. My wife’s been a great support and allows me the time to train.

“Just the friend and fam-ily support is wonderful,” he added. “It makes you feel like you can conquer anything just by doing what you love to do.”

In other fights, DeAndre Billingsly (Dragon’s Den) defeated Josh Meade (Pil-Sung), Cory Petersen (BOLD) got by Louis Wiggins (Wauseon), Brandon Davis (Malice) defeated Nathan Ekstrand (BOLD) and Jake Reinhart (Dragon’s Den) was victori-ous over Pil-Sung’s Jordan Follet.

“I want to personally thank all the fight clubs that came out here, S&S Events and the Defiance Police Department for maintain-ing order,” praised Brady. “Everything was peace-ful, and that’s what I care about. This was a peaceful and professional event, and we’re looking forward to doing it again.”

By THOMAS [email protected]

On Saturday Defiance and Napoleon will meet in a regular-season volleyball match. It could be a pre-view of things to come.

The two rivals are in the same bracket follow-ing Sunday’s Division II Liberty Center Sectional draw. Defiance (5-13) meets Maumee (5-14) in first-night action on Oct. 19 fol-lowing the opener between No. 2 seeded Napoleon (13-6) and Toledo Rogers (5-7).

Those two winners col-lde on Oct. 23.

“We have a very young team,” pointed out Defiance mentor Brooke Buti. “We’ve had a lot of our freshmen really step and make a lot of improve-ments throughout the sea-son. They’ve meshed with our team”

DHS and Napoleon will play on Saturday in a tri-match with Bryan.

“I’m excited to see Napoleon this weekend,” said Buti. “I know they have a really good team this year. They have a very good setter and their out-side hitter Megan Zachrich is one of their biggest peo-ple.

“We want to take one game at a time, but if we do make it to the second game, it would be nice to take what we learned about Napoleon this Saturday into that game.”

In Division III, Evergreen and Archbold were the top two seeds at the Archbold Sectional.

Evergreen took a bye and meets either Liberty Center or Delta while Archbold elected to face Swanton in the Oct. 19 opener with Tinora awaiting the winner in an Oct. 23 match.

“I am really expect-ing us to do well,” stated Evergreen coach Kelsey Hicks. “It really depends on our seniors stepping up and our leadership. I think everyone’s skills have found the right place on our team and everyone can hopefully continue to do

their jobs. That’s what has gotten us to where we are now.”

But Hicks knows it won’t be easy in a sectional that features five of six teams with winniing records.

“I knew going into the draw that this was going to be a very competitive sectional,” said Hicks. “I think that’s a testament to our league.”

Despite an impressive 13-6 record, Paulding failed to land a seed and well meet Coldwater on Oct. 19 with that winner going against second-seeded Lima Central Catholic.

“One of the things that we did this year was to get the girls in the summer league as well as the Spiketacular to help get us exposed to some of the top-edged teams,” noted Paulding coach Todd Harmon. “We wanted to build their expe-rience level. We wanted to build our identity around defense. Jessica Farr has been doing an outstand-ing job up front for us this year.

“But we need to build some consistency. Our left backs have done a terrific job picking up the hard hits and we’re working on tightening up our coverage on the tips. I don’t think there’s a team out there that we can’t compete well against, we just need to work on not making errors on our part.”

Fairview opens with Fort Recovery in the Oct. 19 first game with the survi-vor taking on top-seeded Parkway, the 13th ranked team in the state.

Also in Division III, Patrick Henry was the sec-ond seed at Liberty-Benton and will face either the hosts or Fostoria on Oct. 23.

In Division IV, Edon and Antwerp were seeded one-two at Bryan while Pettisville claimed the first seed at Pettisville.

GMC squads took sec-ond seeds, Wayne Trace at Lincolnview and Ayersville at Miller City. The Pilots will face the host Wildcats in their first tournament

match on Oct. 23.“I think it is going to be

tough going to Miller City,” said Ayersville head coach Julie Gustwiller. “They’re going to have a definite home-court advantage. My girls usually come out ready to play, though.”

Lack of height is a big concern for the Gustwiller.

“In the game of volley-ball, if you do not have

height, you have to have team play,” said Gustwiller. “I knew coming into this season that I had a great group of girls, very talent-ed girls in all areas, but it’s that height that hurts us. So we try to overcome that lack by passing well, play-ing good defense and step-ping up all other aspects of our game.”

River rivals in the same bracket Division II

At Liberty Center

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Napoleon (13-6) vs. Toledo Rogers (5-7), 6:15 p.m.

Maumee (5-14) vs. Defiance (5-13), 20 min. after game 1

Wednesday, Oct. 20

Eastwood (15-4) vs. Toledo Scott, 6:15 p.m.

Wauseon (7-13) vs. Bryan (5-13), 20 min. after game 1

Saturday, Oct. 23

Napoleon-Toledo Rogers winner vs. Maumee-Defiance winner, 3 p.m.

Eastwood-Toledo Scott winner vs. Wauseon-Bryan winner, 5 p.m.

Seeds: Eastwood (1), Napoleon (2).Winners advance to Liberty-Benton

District.

At Lima Senior

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Celina (15-5) vs. Van Wert (3-15), 6:15 p.m.

Lima Bath (10-10) vs. Elida (7-3), 8 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 20

St. Marys (12-8) vs. Wapakoneta (11-7), 6:15 p.m.

Ottawa-Glandorf (15-4) vs. Lima Shawnee (5-14), 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Celina-Van Wert winner vs. Lima Bath-Elida winner, 2 p.m.

St. Marys-Wapakoneta winner vs. Ottawa-Glandorf-Lima Shawnee winner, 4 p.m.

Seeds: Celina (1), Ottawa-Glandorf (2).Winners advance to Liberty-Benton

District.

Division III

At Archbold

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Archbold (15-6) vs. Swanton (6-13), 6:15 p.m.

Liberty Center (11-9) vs. Delta (10-9), 20 min. after game 1

Saturday, Oct. 23

Tinora (14-6) vs. Archbold-Swanton win-ner, 3 p.m.

Evergreen (15-2) vs. Liberty Center-Delta winner, 20 min. after game 1

Seeds: Evergreen (1), Archbold (2).Winners advance to Kalida District.

At Van Wert

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Fort Recovery vs. Fairview (5-14), 6:15 p.m.

Coldwater vs. Paulding (13-6), 20 mins. after game 1

Saturday, Oct. 23

Parkway vs. Fort Recovery-Fairview win-ner, 3 p.m.

LCC vs. Coldwater-Paulding winner, 20 mins. after game 1

Seeds: Parkway (1), LCC (2).Winners advance to Kalida District.

At Liberty-Benton

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Elmwood (5-16) vs. Otsego (7-12), 6:15 p.m.

Liberty-Benton (13-5) vs. Fostoria (8-

12), 8 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 23

Lakota (15-2) vs. Elmwood-Otsego win-ner, 3 p.m.

Patrick Henry (13-5) Liberty-Benton-Fostoria winner, 5 p.m.

Seeds: Lakota (1), Patrick Henry (2).Winners advance to Perrysburg district.

Division IV

At Bryan

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Hicksville (7-11) vs. Montpelier (1-13), 6 p.m.

Edgerton (7-13) vs. North Central (2-9), 20 min. after game 1

Saturday, Oct. 23

Edon (16-2) vs. Hicksville-Montpelier win-ner, 3 p.m.

Antwerp (15-3) vs. Edgerton-North Central winner, 20 min. after game 1

Seeds: Edon (1), Antwerp (2).Winners advance to Paulding District.

At Pettisville

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Stryker (11-8) vs. Fayette (2-17), 7 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 23

Pettisville (17-2) vs. Hilltop (6-14), 3 p.m.Toledo Christian (15-3) vs. Stryker-

Fayette winner, 20 min. after game 1Seeds: Pettisville (1), Toledo Christian

(2).Winners advance to Paulding District.

At Miller City

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Holgate (4-13) vs. Continental (0-18), 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Leipsic (12-7) vs. Holgate-Continental winner, 3 p.m.

Ayersville (10-8) vs. Miller City (7-12), 5 p.m.

Seeds: Leipsic (1), Ayersville (2).Winners advance to Kalida District.

At Lincolnview

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Delphos Jefferson (9-7) vs. Delphos St. John’s (8-11), 6:15 p.m.

Ottoville (8-10) vs. Lincolnview (8-10), 20 min. after game 1

Saturday, Oct. 23

Crestview (17-3) vs. Delphos Jefferson-Delphos St. John’s winner, 3 p.m.

Wayne Trace (12-7) vs. Ottoville-Lincolnview winner, 20 min. after game 1

Seeds: Crestview (1), Wayne Trace (2).Winners advance to Coldwater District.

At Pandora-Gilboa

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Kalida (8-10) vs. Bluffton, 6:15 p.m.Temple Christian vs. Columbus Grove

(7-12), 8 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 23

Pandora-Gilboa (18-0) vs. Temple Christian-Columbus Grove winner, 3 p.m.

Cory-Rawson vs. Kalida-Bluffton winner, 5 p.m.

Seeds: Pandora-Gilboa (1), Cory-Rawson (2).

Winners advance to Lima Senior District.

VOLLEYBALL SECTIONALS

By CHIP [email protected]

The second season means a chance at redemption for many teams. That’s the case for some area boys soccer teams which are ready to compete in sectional action starting on Saturday.

One team looking to make some noise in the post-season is Defiance, which faces Bryan on Oct. 19 in its Division II section-al opener at Continental.

“We got a pretty good draw,” explained Defiance head coach Carlos Lopez. “I think people still respect us because we’re playing some good soccer right now.

“We always play pretty well against Bryan. We’ve been going back and forth with them the past few years in sectionals.”

The winner moves on to place either Otsego or sec-ond-seeded Napoleon on Saturday, Oct. 23. Otsego and Napoleon meet this Saturday at 3 p.m.

“The kids have been wanting to get a chance to play Napoleon again,” Lopez said. “That would be a challenge, but if it

happened we’re looking forward to a rematch.

“The sectional will be a challenge. We’ve had a lot of close games this year and hopefully our best is ahead.”

Lima Bath was the top seed at the Continental Sectional.

In Division III, the host Wildcats of Kalida were the top seed with Archbold the first opponent for Kalida. The teams will meet on Monday, Oct. 18.

Ottoville was seeded second and meets either Miller City or O-G, which play Oct. 18 in its sectional opener which is slated for Oct. 21.

“It’s a tough one for us,” noted Archbold head coach Sean Stewart. “Our team is just now getting healthy and we’re starting to click. Now I’m not saying we’re a better team then Kalida, but I think we have as good of a shot as anybody.

“It’s not an easy section-al. Any team that comes out of the sectional is a good team and I think we’re right there. We just have to focus on one game at a time.”

DHS-Napoleon rematch is possible

Division II

At Continental

Saturday, Oct. 16

Van Wert vs. Wauseon, 1 p.m.

Otsego vs. Napoleon, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Defiance vs. Bryan, 5 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 21

Lima Bath vs. Van Wert-Wauseon win-ner, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Otsego-Napoleon winner vs. Defiance-Bryan winner, 3 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 27

Oct. 21 winner vs. Oct. 23 winner, 5 p.m.

Seeds: Lima Bath (1), Napoleon (2).

Winners advance to Wapakoneta District.

At Lima Shawnee

Monday, Oct. 18

Upper Sandusky (12-1-1) vs. Kenton (1-13), 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Wapakoneta (8-4-2) vs. St. Marys (9-5-1), 5 p.m.

Celina (10-4-1) vs. Elida (7-3-4), 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Lima Shawnee (12-0-2) vs. Upper Sandusky-Kenton winner, 2 p.m.

Wapakoneta-St. Marys winner vs. Celina-Elida winner, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 27

Oct. 19 winners meet, 5 p.m.

Seeds: Lima Shawnee (1), Celina (2).

Winners advance to Wapakoneta District.

Division III

At Kalida

Monday, Oct. 18

Ottawa-Glandorf (6-4-4) vs. Miller City (7-6-2), 6 p.m.

Archbold (8-4-1) vs. Kalida (11-0-3), 8 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 21

Ottoville (12-1) vs. Ottawa-Glandorf-Miller City winner, 6 p.m.

Continental (8-4-2) vs. Archbold-Kalida winner, 8 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 25


Seeds: Kalida (1), Ottoville (2).

Winners advance to Wapakoneta

District.

At Lima Senior

Monday, Oct. 18

Fort Jennings (5-4-6) vs. Spencerville

(1-13), 5 p.m.

New Knoxville (3-10-1) vs. LCC (7-5-2),

7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Temple Christian (10-2-2) vs. Fort

Jennings-Spencerville winner, 6 p.m.

Liberty-Benton (8-3-2) vs. New Knoxville-

LCC winner, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 27


Seeds: Temple Christian (1), Liberty-

Benton (2).

Winners advance to Wapakoneta

District.

At Ottawa Hills

Monday, Oct. 18

Pettisville vs. Toledo Christian, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Maumee Valley vs. Swanton, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Ottawa Hills (10-2-1) vs. Pettisville-Toledo

Christian winner, 4 p.m.

Cardinal Stritch (11-3) vs. Maumee

Valley-Swanton winner, 6 p.m.

Seeds: Ottawa Hills (1), Cardinal Strich

(2).

Winners advance to Bowling Green

District.

At Bluffton

Monday, Oct. 18

Ada vs. Liberty Center, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Pandora-Gilboa vs. Cory-Rawson, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Bluffton vs. Ada-Liberty Center winner,

3 p.m.

Riverdale vs. Pandora-Gilboa - Cory-

Rawson winner, 7 p.m.

Seeds: Riverdale (1), Bluffton (2).

Winners advance to Bowling Green

District.

BOYS SOCCER SECTIONAL

Division I

At Findlay

Monday, Oct. 18

Wapakoneta (5-9) vs. Defiance (4-8-2), 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Lima Shawnee (6-5-4) vs. Lima Senior (0-13-1), 5 p.m.

Findlay (6-8-1) vs. Fremont Ross (4-8), 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Celina (10-2) vs. Wapakoneta-Defiance winner, 5 p.m.

Lima Shawnee-Lima Senior winner vs. Findlay-Fremont Ross winner, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 27

Oct. 23 winners meet, 7 p.m.Seeds: Celina (1), Lima Shawnee (2).Winners advance to Madison District.

Division II

At Otsego

Monday, Oct. 18

Wauseon vs. Rossford, 3:30 p.m.Swanton vs. Otsego, 30 min after

game 1Tuesday, Oct. 19

Archbold vs. Toledo Christian, 4:45 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 20

Eastwood vs. Delta, 4:45 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 21

Liberty Center vs. Wauseon-Rossford winner, 4:45 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Swanton-Otsego winner vs. Archbold-Toledo Christian winner, 2 p.m.

Eastwood-Delta winner vs. Oct. 21 winner, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 27

Oct. 23 winners meet, 4:45 p.m.Seeds: Archbold (1), Wauseon (2).Winners advance to Lake District.

At Ottawa-Glandorf

Monday, Oct. 18

Van Buren (10-2-1) vs. Miller City (8-5-1), 5 p.m.

Ottawa-Glandorf (10-3-1) vs. Napoleon (4-8-2), 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Liberty-Benton (8-5-2) vs. Kalida (8-5-1), 5 p.m.

Cory-Rawson (1-10-1) vs. Bryan (10-2-3), 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 21

Van Buren-Miller City winner vs. Ottawa-Glandorf-Napoleon winner, 5 p.m.

Liberty-Benton-Kalida winner vs. Cory-Rawson-Bryan winner, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 26


Seeds: Bryan (1), Ottawa-Glandorf

(2).

Winners advance to Findlay District.

At Ottoville

Monday, Oct. 18

Crestview (4-9-1) vs. Coldwater (3-8),

5:15 p.m.

Ottoville (9-2-2) vs. Delphos Jefferson

(0-13-1), 7:15 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Continental (7-5-2) vs. Bluffton (3-10-

2), 5:15 p.m.

Van Wert (0-12-2) vs. Fort Jennings

(8-4-1), 7:15 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 20

Delphos St. John’s (11-2-2) vs.

Crestview-Coldwater winner, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 23

Oct. 20 winner vs. Ottoville-Delphos

Jefferson winner, 2 p.m.

Continental-Bluffton winner vs. Van

Wert-Fort Jennings winner, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 26


Seeds: Delphos St. John’s (1),

Ottoville (2).

Winners advance to Elida District.

GIRLS SOCCER SECTIONALS

By JASON [email protected]

Archbold and Bryan earned top seeds on Sunday as area girls soccer teams were involved in tourna-ment draws.

Archbold is the one seed at Otsego in Division II sec-tional action with Wauseon seeded second. Meanwhile, Bryan was seed first with sectional host O-G the num-ber two seed.

In Division I at Findlay, Defiance will take on Wapakoneta on Oct. 18 with the winner moving on to face top-seeded Celina on Oct. 23.

“It’s going to be a tough tournament, It always

is in the WBL,” stated Defiance head coach Jessica Schroeder, whose team is in a seven-team sectional featuring four Western Buckeye League teams and three Greater Buckeye Conference squads.

“We got the option on who we wanted to play first and we felt we played well against Wapakoneta this year so we went with them.”

Archbold opens with Toledo Christian on Oct. 19 at the Otsego Sectional while Wauseon plays Rossford on Oct. 18 with that survivor taking on Liberty Center on Oct. 21.

Bryan meets Cory-Rawson on Oct. 19 in opening action

at O-G while Napoleon takes on second-seeded O-G on Oct. 18.

The only other site involv-ing area teams is Ottoville where Delphos St. John’s was the top seed and Ottoville the second seed.

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FONTANA, Calif. — Tony Stewart fig-ured the only way to work his way back from a big hole to start the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship was to chip away.

He took one small step last week by finishing fourth at Kansas and took a huge one at a place where he had never won before.

Stewart vaulted five spots in the Chase standings by pulling away from points leader Jimmie Johnson on a late restart on Sunday to win at Auto Club Speedway for the first time in 19 career starts.

Stewart’s still 107 points back in the Chase, but it’s a lot better than where he was just a day before.

Five of the first six spots on the grid were nabbed by non-Chasers and only Matt Kenseth (third) and Greg Biffle (sev-enth) were in the top 10.

Sam Hornish Jr. finished 15th.

• GOLF

Tiger to drop: Lee Westwood is set to replace Tiger Woods at the top of the rankings Oct. 31 after saying Sunday he does not expect to play again until November because of an ankle injury.

The Englishman will climb to No. 1 if he does not return before the end of the month and Woods follows through with his intention not to play again until the HSBC Champions on Nov. 4-7.

Slocum by one: Heath Slocum’s 60-foot birdie putt from behind the 16th green banged against the pin and dis-appeared into the cup for an unlikely birdie, sending him to a 2-under 68 and a one-shot victory over Bill Haas in the inaugural McGladrey Classic.

Slocum won for the fourth time in his career, and should move just outside the top 50 in the world. Slocum earned $720,000, which moved him to No. 29 on the PGA Tour money list with one tour-nament left on his schedule.

Wins in playoff: Mark O’Meara won the Senior Players Championship for his first individual victory on the Champions Tour, beating Michael Allen with a 4-foot par putt on the first hole of a playoff.

Three straight: PGA champion Martin Kaymer won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship to become the first PGA European Tour player in 21 years to win in three straight starts.

Hull rallies: Australia’s Katherine Hull rallied to win the Navistar LPGA Classic on Sunday for her second career LPGA Tour victory, pulling ahead with a birdie on the par-5 17th and finishing with a par for a 5-under 67 and a one-stroke victory over Brittany Lincicome.

• DEFIANCE COLLEGE

DC defeated: A two-match win streak and a stretch of five victories in the last six showings came to a stop for the Defiance College volleyball team on Sunday with three-set losses to Mount St. Joseph and Thomas More.

The Jackets opened the day with a 25-22, 25-20, 25-9 loss to the Mount in a clash with Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference implications.

Sara Porter led the way for Defiance with nine kills and eight digs while Chelsea Ludeman had six kills and Heather Bradshaw 13 digs.

DC (9-13, 2-2 HCAC) then fell 25-11, 25-16, 25-22 to Thomas More (18-7) on the MSJ court. Kelsey Ferguson had 12 assists and seven digs while Porter turned in seven kills and Ludeman five kills, four digs and three blocks.

Jackets finish eighth: The 2010 cam-paign came to an end on Sunday for the Defiance College women’s golf team as the Jackets placed eighth at the HCAC Championship hosted by Anderson University.

DC carded an 803 to end in eighth place despite carding its lowest final score at the event in three years. Sarah Westfall concluded her strong freshman season with a 187 for a top-25 finish. Phoenix Golnick (194), Kelly Beard (205) and Taylor Tuttle (217) rounded out the DC top finishes.

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Brazil does it again: Brazil’s experi-ence carried it to a third consecutive men’s volleyball world title Sunday with a 3-0 shutout of Cuba, the youngest team in the tournament.

The 25-22, 25-14, 25-22 victory solidi-fied Brazil’s status as the top-ranked team in the sport, following its victories in 2002 and 2006. The South Americans also won the Olympic tournament in 2004, then took silver behind the United States in Beijing two years ago.

Captures story: The jockey who rode Secretariat says the film about the equine star “pretty well” captures the story of what happened during the horse’s famed run to the 1973 Triple Crown.

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• AREA SCENE

Local ScheduleToday

Boys SoccerSwanton at Otsego

Girls Soccer

St. Marys at Fort Jennings

Volleyball

Ayersville at EdgertonBryan at FairviewDelphos Jefferson at Wayne TraceAnthony Wayne at EvergreenDelta at PettisvilleMiller City at Patrick HenryMontpelier at EdonWauseon at PauldingFayette at MonclovaKalida at Columbus GroveLiberty-Benton at Pandora-GilboaVanlue at Leipsic

Softball tourneyMen’s Softball

FAYETTE — Blackies defeated Varsity Club of Archbold 26-25 in the championship game of the H.E. Rudy Men’s Softball Fall Classic. Master Batters of Fayette were third.

Leading hitters for Blackies (65-21) were: Tom Bobsean 20-25, 6 home runs; Keith Kline 15-21, 3 home runs; John Roeslar 16-23, 7 home runs; Ryan Lukasik 16-23, 1 home run.

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Pepsi MAX 400Sunday

At Auto Club SpeedwayFontana, Calif.

Lap length: 2 miles(Start position in parentheses)1. (22) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 200

laps, 119 rating, 190 points, $262,598.2. (13) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 200,

124.4, 175, $175,475.3. (8) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,

200, 125.8, 170, $176,203.4. (5) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 200,

106.2, 160, $151,665.5. (14) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet,

200, 99.2, 155, $137,604.6. (11) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 200,

128.1, 160, $109,050.7. (21) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet,

200, 99, 146, $129,501.8. (34) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 200,

95, 142, $108,525.9. (17) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 200,

106, 143, $129,951.10. (23) David Reutimann, Toyota,

200, 89.1, 134, $121,931.11. (10) Joey Logano, Toyota, 200,

85.6, 130, $122,415.12. (19) Regan Smith, Chevrolet,

200, 77.7, 132, $91,850.13. (2) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 200, 86.7,

124, $92,000.14. (4) Juan Pablo Montoya,

Chevrolet, 200, 77, 126, $117,656.15. (37) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge,

200, 59.3, 118, $91,925.16. (9) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,

200, 74, 120, $89,025.17. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet,

200, 72.3, 117, $130,804.18. (6) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 200,

80.5, 109, $78,750.19. (30) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 200,

72.9, 106, $115,601.20. (32) David Gilliland, Ford, 200,

51.9, 108, $98,935.21. (38) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 200,

67.3, 100, $119,873.22. (24) Paul Menard, Ford, 200,

74.1, 102, $84,475.23. (15) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 200,

63.1, 94, $111,915.24. (29) Scott Speed, Toyota, 200,

59.3, 91, $93,798.25. (12) Casey Mears, Toyota, 200,

57.5, 88, $75,300.26. (25) Brad Keselowski, Dodge,

200, 55, 85, $101,985.27. (27) Reed Sorenson, Toyota,

200, 53.7, 82, $112,973.28. (40) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 200,

40.2, 84, $74,475.29. (39) Dave Blaney, Ford, 200,

39.7, 76, $90,448.30. (3) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 200,

99.3, 78, $119,101.31. (41) Kevin Conway, Toyota, 197,

30.3, 70, $88,498.32. (18) David Ragan, Ford, acci-

dent, 193, 60.5, 67, $79,125.33. (26) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota,

193, 45, 64, $93,098.34. (20) Carl Edwards, Ford, 187,

58.5, 61, $106,848.35. (16) Kyle Busch, Toyota, engine,

155, 82.3, 63, $119,031.36. (42) Andy Lally, Chevrolet, elec-

trical, 76, 35.6, 55, $70,650.37. (35) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, fuel

pump, 69, 35, 52, $70,575.38. (43) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet,

transmission, 56, 30.2, 49, $70,525.39. (28) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet,

rear gear, 55, 36.2, 46, $70,475.40. (36) Landon Cassill, Toyota,

transmission, 43, 29.1, 43, $70,425.41. (7) Greg Biffle, Ford, engine, 40,

63.1, 40, $78,650.42. (31) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, trans-

mission, 33, 31.1, 37, $70,315.43. (33) Jason Leffler, Toyota, electri-

cal, 23, 31.7, 34, $69,893.Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 131.953 mph.

Time of Race: 3 hours, 1 minute, 53 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.466 seconds.Caution Flags: 9 for 36 laps.Lead Changes: 23 among 14 driv-

ers.Lap Leaders: J.McMurray 1-14;

M.Kenseth 15-36; J.Johnson 37-38; M.Kenseth 39-45; J.Gordon 46; J.Johnson 47-54; D.Earnhardt Jr. 55-57; Ky.Busch 58-61; J.Johnson 62-73; M.Martin 74-96; D.Gilliland 97; M.Martin 98-115; J.Gordon 116-125; C.Bowyer 126-137; T.Kvapil 138; C.Bowyer 139-148; T.Stewart 149-155; C.Bowyer 156; J.Montoya 157-159; T.Stewart 160-167; C.Bowyer 168-184; P.Menard 185-187; R.Smith 188; T.Stewart 189-200.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): M.Martin, 2 times for 41 laps; C.Bowyer, 4 times for 40 laps; M.Kenseth, 2 times for 29 laps; T.Stewart, 3 times for 27 laps; J.Johnson, 3 times for 22 laps; J.McMurray, 1 time for 14 laps; J.Gordon, 2 times for 11 laps; Ky.Busch, 1 time for 4 laps; J.Montoya, 1 time for 3 laps; D.Earnhardt Jr., 1 time for 3 laps; P.Menard, 1 time for 3 laps; R.Smith, 1 time for 1 lap; D.Gilliland, 1 time for 1 lap; T.Kvapil, 1 time for 1 lap.

Top 12 in Points: 1. J.Johnson, 5,673; 2. D.Hamlin, 5,637; 3. K.Harvick, 5,619; 4. J.Gordon, 5,588; 5. T.Stewart, 5,566; 6. Ku.Busch, 5,533; 7. C.Edwards, 5,511; 8. J.Burton, 5,496; 9. Ky.Busch, 5,486; 10. G.Biffle, 5,458; 11. M.Kenseth, 5,432; 12. C.Bowyer, 5,426.

• BASEBALL

Postseason glanceDIVISION SERIESAmerican League

Tampa Bay vs. TexasSunday, Oct. 10

Tampa Bay 5, Texas 2, series tied 2-2

Tuesday, Oct. 12Texas (Cl.Lee 12-9) at Tampa Bay

(Price 19-6), 8:07 p.m.Minnesota vs. New York

Saturday, Oct. 9New York 6, Minnesota 1, New York

wins series 3-0National League

Philadelphia vs. CincinnatiSunday, Oct. 10

Philadelphia 2, Cincinnati 0, Philadelphia wins series 3-0

San Francisco vs. AtlantaSunday, Oct. 10

San Francisco 3, Atlanta 2, San Francisco leads series 2-1

Monday, Oct. 11San Francisco (Bumgarner 7-6) at

Atlanta (D.Lowe 16-12), 7:37 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 13

Atlanta (undecided) at San Francisco (Lincecum 16-10), 8:07 p.m., if neces-sary

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIESAmerican League

Friday, Oct. 15New York at Tampa Bay-Texas win-

nerNational LeagueSaturday, Oct. 16

San Francisco-Atlanta winner at Philadelphia

Box scorePhiladelphia Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h biVictorn cf 5 0 1 0 Stubbs cf 4 0 1 0Polanc 3b 4 1 1 0 BPhllps 2b 4 0 1 0Utley 2b 4 1 1 1 Votto 1b 4 0 0 0Hward 1b 4 0 2 0 Rolen 3b 4 0 1 0Werth rf 4 0 0 0 Gomes lf 3 0 0 0Rollins ss 3 0 1 0 RHrndz c 3 0 1 0Ibanez lf 4 0 0 0 Arroyo pr 0 0 0 0C.Ruiz c 4 0 2 0 Bray p 0 0 0 0Hamels p 3 0 0 0 Masset p 0 0 0 0 Chpmn p 0 0 0 0 Bruce rf 3 0 1 0 OCarer ss 3 0 0 0 Cueto p 1 0 0 0 Cairo ph 1 0 0 0 HBaily p 0 0 0 0 Hanign c 1 0 0 0Totals 35 2 8 1 Totals 31 0 5 0

Philadelphia 100 010 000 — 2Cincinnati 000 000 000 — 0

E-Polanco (1), Rolen (2), O.Cabrera (1). DP-Philadelphia 1, Cincinnati 1. LOB-Philadelphia 8, Cincinnati 4. 2B-C.Ruiz (1), R.Hernandez (1). HR-Utley (1). S-Hamels.

IP H R ER BB SO

PhiladelphiaHamels W,1-0 9 5 0 0 0 9CincinnatiCueto L,0-1 5 5 2 1 1 2H.Bailey 2 2 0 0 0 2Bray

1/3 0 0 0 0 1

Masset 2/3 0 0 0 0 1

Chapman 1 1 0 0 0 0

San Francisco Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h biATorrs cf 4 0 1 0 OInfant 3b 4 0 0 0FSnchz 2b 4 1 1 0 Heywrd rf 4 0 0 0A.Huff 1b 5 0 2 1 D.Lee 1b 3 0 0 0BrWlsn p 0 0 0 0 McCnn c 4 0 1 0Posey c 4 0 2 0 D.Ross pr 0 0 0 0Burrell lf 2 0 0 0 M.Diaz lf 3 0 0 0Schrhlt rf 2 0 1 0 McLoth cf 1 0 0 0Uribe ss 4 0 0 0 AlGnzlz ss 3 1 1 0Fontent 3b 4 1 1 0 Conrad 2b 3 0 0 0C.Ross lf 4 0 0 0 Ankiel cf 2 0 0 0JSnchz p 3 0 0 0 Glaus ph 0 0 0 0Romo p 0 0 0 0 Hinske ph 1 1 1 2Ishikaw 1b 0 1 0 0 Kimrel p 0 0 0 0 MDunn p 0 0 0 0 Moylan p 0 0 0 0 Frnswr p 0 0 0 0 THudsn p 2 0 1 0 Venters p 0 0 0 0 MeCarr lf 1 0 0 0Totals 36 3 8 1 Totals 31 2 4 2San Francisco 010 000 002 — 3Atlanta 000 000 020 — 2

E-Conrad 3 (4). DP-Atlanta 1. LOB-San Francisco 11, Atlanta 3. 3B-Fontenot (1). HR-Hinske (1). SB-A.Torres (1). CS-A.Torres (1).

IP H R ER BB SO

San FranciscoJ.Sanchez 7

1/3 2 1 1 1

11

Romo W,1-0 2/3 1 1 1 0 0

Br.Wilson S,1-2 1 1 0 0 0 1Atlanta

T.Hudson 7 4 1 0 4 5Venters 1 2 0 0 0 3Kimbrel L,0-1

2/3 1 2 1 1 1

M.Dunn BS,1-1 0 1 0 0 0 0Moylan 0 0 0 0 0 0Farnsworth

1/3 0 0 0 0 1

M.Dunn pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.

Moylan pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.

Tampa Bay Texas ab r h bi ab r h biJaso c 5 0 1 0 Andrus ss 5 0 2 0Zobrist 2b 5 1 2 0 MYong 3b 4 0 1 0Crwfrd lf 4 0 0 0 JHmltn cf 2 0 0 0Longori 3b 4 2 3 2 Guerrr dh 4 0 1 0C.Pena 1b 4 2 2 1 N.Cruz rf 4 1 1 1Joyce rf 4 0 1 0 Kinsler 2b 3 1 1 0DJhnsn dh 4 0 0 0 DvMrp lf 4 0 0 0BUpton cf 4 0 2 1 BMolin c 3 0 1 0Brignc ss 2 0 0 0 Borbon ph 1 0 0 0Bartlett ss 2 0 1 0 Morlnd 1b 4 0 1 1Totals 38 5 12 4 Totals 34 2 8 2

Tampa Bay 010 220 000 — 5Texas 000 002 000 — 2

E-Kinsler (2), Andrus (2). DP-Tampa Bay 1, Texas 2. LOB-Tampa Bay 6, Texas 8. 2B-Longoria 2 (2), C.Pena (1), B.Upton (2), Andrus (1), Moreland (2). 3B-C.Pena (1). HR-Longoria (1), N.Cruz (3). SB-Joyce (1), B.Upton (1).

IP H R ER BB SO

Tampa BayW.Davis W,1-0 5 7 2 2 3 7Choate

1/3 0 0 0 0 0

Balfour 1 2/3 1 0 0 0

0

Benoit H,1 1 0 0 0 0 1R.Soriano S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 0TexasTom.Hunter L,0-1 4 6 3 2 0 7D.Holland 4 5 2 2 0 4O’Day 1 1 0 0 0 1

W.Davis pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.

PB-Jaso, B.Molina.

• FOOTBALL

NFL StandingsNational Football League

AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PA

N.Y. Jets 3 1 0 .750 106 61New England 3 1 0 .750 131 96Miami 2 2 0 .500 66 92Buffalo 0 5 0 .000 87 161

South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 3 2 0 .600 118 136Jacksonville 3 2 0 .600 107 137Tennessee 3 2 0 .600 132 95Indianapolis 3 2 0 .600 136 101

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 4 1 0 .800 92 72Pittsburgh 3 1 0 .750 86 50Cincinnati 2 3 0 .400 100 102Cleveland 1 4 0 .200 78 97

West W L T Pct PF PAKansas City 3 1 0 .750 77 57Oakland 2 3 0 .400 111 134Denver 2 3 0 .400 104 116San Diego 2 3 0 .400 140 106

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PA

Washington 3 2 0 .600 89 92N.Y. Giants 3 2 0 .600 106 98Philadelphia 3 2 0 .600 122 103Dallas 1 3 0 .250 81 87

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 4 1 0 .800 113 70Tampa Bay 3 1 0 .750 74 80New Orleans 3 2 0 .600 99 102Carolina 0 5 0 .000 52 110

North W L T Pct PF PA

Chicago 4 1 0 .800 92 74Green Bay 3 2 0 .600 119 89Minnesota 1 2 0 .333 43 38Detroit 1 4 0 .200 126 112

West W L T Pct PF PA

Arizona 3 2 0 .600 88 138Seattle 2 2 0 .500 75 77St. Louis 2 3 0 .400 83 96San Francisco 0 5 0 .000 76 130

Sunday’s GamesDetroit 44, St. Louis 6Baltimore 31, Denver 17N.Y. Giants 34, Houston 10Washington 16, Green Bay 13, OTChicago 23, Carolina 6Atlanta 20, Cleveland 10Jacksonville 36, Buffalo 26Tampa Bay 24, Cincinnati 21Indianapolis 19, Kansas City 9Arizona 30, New Orleans 20Tennessee 34, Dallas 27Oakland 35, San Diego 27Philadelphia 27, San Francisco 24

Monday’s GameMinnesota at N.Y. Jets, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 17Seattle at Chicago, 1 p.m.Miami at Green Bay, 1 p.m.Kansas City at Houston, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.San Diego at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Detroit at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.Baltimore at New England, 1 p.m.Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Denver, 4:05 p.m.Oakland at San Francisco, 4:05

p.m.Dallas at Minnesota, 4:15 p.m.Indianapolis at Washington, 8:20

p.m.Monday, Oct. 18

Tennessee at Jacksonville, 8:30 p.m.

SummariesAtlanta 0 6 7 7 — 20Cleveland 0 7 3 0 — 10

Second QuarterAtl-FG Bryant 24, 14:49.Cle-Hillis 19 pass from Wallace

(Dawson kick), 12:19.Atl-FG Bryant 30, 5:00.

Third QuarterCle-FG Dawson 19, 9:57.Atl-White 45 pass from Ryan (Bryant

kick), 7:57.Fourth Quarter

Atl-Biermann 41 interception return (Bryant kick), 4:01.

A-65,290.

Atl Cle

First downs 17 18Total Net Yards 338 269Rushes-yards 31-165 20-48Passing 173 221Punt Returns 1-8 1-3Kickoff Returns 3-66 5-79Interceptions Ret. 2-41 0-0Comp-Att-Int 16-28-0 25-39-2Sacked-Yards Lost 2-14 3-25Punts 4-43.3 5-46.8Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-1Penalties-Yards 6-60 7-58Time of Possession 30:06 29:54

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING-Atlanta, Turner 19-140,

Snelling 6-18, Ryan 5-5, Mughelli 1-2. Cleveland, Hillis 10-28, Cribbs 2-11, Harrison 6-6, Vickers 1-3, Delhomme 1-0.

PASSING-Atlanta, Ryan 16-28-0-187. Cleveland, Wallace 11-15-0-139, Delhomme 13-23-2-97, Cribbs 1-1-0-10.

RECEIVING-Atlanta, White 5-101, Gonzalez 5-41, Douglas 2-17, Snelling 2-2, Peelle 1-15, Palmer 1-11. Cleveland, Massaquoi 5-55, Stuckey 5-54, Watson 5-45, Hillis 4-49, Royal 2-13, Vickers 1-10, Cribbs 1-8, Moore 1-7, Robiskie 1-5.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-Atlanta, Bryant 30 (BK).

Tampa Bay 0 7 7 10 — 24Cincinnati 7 3 3 8 — 21

First Quarter

Cin-Owens 43 pass from C.Palmer (Nugent kick), 4:09.

Second QuarterTB-Grimm 11 interception return

(Barth kick), 14:32.Cin-FG Nugent 31, :33.

Third QuarterTB-Graham 1 run (Barth kick), 5:28.Cin-FG Nugent 35, 1:29.

Fourth Quarter

Cin-Gresham 1 pass from C.Palmer (Benson run), 12:12.

TB-M.Williams 20 pass from Freeman (Barth kick), 1:26.

TB-FG Barth 31, :01.A-63,888.

TB Cin


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING-Tampa Bay, Graham 3-

65, C.Williams 11-33, Freeman 3-20, Huggins 1-4, Blount 4-3. Cincinnati, Benson 23-144, Scott 2-4, C.Palmer 1-3, Leonard 2-(minus 2).

PASSING-Tampa Bay, Freeman 20-33-1-280, Johnson 2-2-0-4. Cincinnati, C.Palmer 21-36-3-209.

RECEIVING-Tampa Bay, M.Williams 7-99, Winslow 6-75, Stroughter 3-39, Spurlock 3-35, Benn 2-25, Gilmore 1-11. Cincinnati, Owens 7-102, Caldwell 4-33, Gresham 4-24, Ochocinco 3-20, Benson 2-19, Leonard 1-11.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-None.

St. Louis 3 3 0 0 — 6Detroit 3 21 7 13 — 44

First QuarterDet-FG Hanson 30, 13:44.StL-FG Jo.Brown 28, :00.

Second QuarterDet-Logan 105 kickoff return (Hanson

kick), 14:46.DetC.Johnson 1 pass from Sh.Hill

(Hanson kick), 6:14.StL-FG Jo.Brown 28, 1:37.Det-Pettigrew 3 pass from Sh.Hill

(Hanson kick), :10.Third Quarter

Det-Burleson 26 pass from Sh.Hill (Hanson kick), 10:54.

Fourth QuarterDet-FG Hanson 48, 11:18.Det-FG Hanson 47, 7:50.Det-A.Smith 42 interception return

(Hanson kick), 7:06.A-55,714.

StL Det


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING-St. Louis, Jackson 25-

114, Darby 3-14. Detroit, Best 18-67, K.Smith 3-16, Sh.Hill 2-9, Stanton 3-(minus 3).

PASSING-St. Louis, Bradford 23-45-2-215. Detroit, Sh.Hill 21-32-0-227, Stanton 1-1-0-11, Best 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING-St. Louis, Amendola 12-95, Fells 3-32, B.Gibson 2-34, Gilyard 2-22, Jackson 1-12, Robinson 1-11, Clayton 1-6, Darby 1-3. Detroit, Burleson 4-56, C.Johnson 4-54, Scheffler 4-41, Best 4-37, Pettigrew 4-26, K.Smith 1-17, Felton 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-None.

High School faredCOLUMBUS (AP) — How the top

teams in the weekly Associated Press state football poll fared:

DIVISION I1. Cle. Glenville (7-0) beat Cle.

Lincoln W. 46-0.2. Cin. Colerain (7-0) beat Hamilton

17-14.3. Hilliard Davidson (7-0) beat

Worthington Kilbourne 57-6.4. Lakewood St. Edward (7-0) beat

Cols. DeSales 62-0.5. Middletown (7-0) beat Mason 69-

44.6. Pickerington Cent. (6-0) beat

Groveport-Madison 45-7.7. Centerville (6-1) lost to Clayton

Northmont 24-21, 2OT.8. Solon (7-0) beat Brunswick 27-0.9. Youngs. Austintown-Fitch (7-0)

beat N. Can. Hoover 42-12.10. Cin. Moeller (6-1) beat Cin. Elder

26-20.DIVISION II

1. Cols. Marion-Franklin (7-0) beat Cols. West 60-24.

2. Cin. Turpin (7-0) beat Wilmington 27-20.

3. Avon (7-0) beat Oberlin Firelands 59-14.

4. Maple Hts. (7-0) beat E. Cle. Shaw 34-0.

5. New Albany (7-0) beat Cols. Franklin Hts. 55-14.

6. Mentor Lake Cath. (6-1) beat Chardon NDCL 38-0.

7. Tol. Cent. Cath. (7-0) beat Tol. St. Francis 10-7.

8. Warren Howland (7-0) beat Poland Seminary 20-18.

9. Copley (7-0) beat Wadsworth 35-21.

10. Cin. Winton Woods (6-1) beat Loveland 47-13.

DIVISION III1. Steubenville (6-1) lost to Massillon

Washington 28-7.2. Clyde (7-0) beat Sandusky St.

Mary 35-0.3. Napoleon (6-1) lost to Lima Sr.

27-20, 2OT.4. Alliance Marlington (7-0) beat

Alliance 34-14.5. Thornville Sheridan (7-0) beat

Philo 56-6.6. Cols. Watterson (5-1) beat Lorain

Admiral King 63-0.7. Cols. DeSales (4-3) lost to

Lakewood St. Edward 62-0.8. St. Bernard Roger Bacon (5-2) lost

to Cin. McNicholas 21-14.9. Youngs. Mooney (4-2) beat Cle.

Benedictine 42-7.10. Eaton (7-0) beat Bellbrook 41-7.

DIVISION IV1. Elyria Cath. (6-1) lost to Parma

Padua 41-23.2. Clarksville Clinton-Massie (7-0)

beat Greenfield McClain 63-7.3. Akr. Manchester (7-0) beat

Wooster Triway 34-22.4. Middletown Fenwick (7-0) beat

Day. Chaminade-Julienne 31-27, OT.5. Kettering Alter (6-1) beat Day.

Carroll 35-14.6. Genoa Area (7-0) beat Gibsonburg

75-12.7. Kenton (6-1) beat Celina 58-14.8. Ironton (5-2) lost to Jackson 26-

19, 3OT.9. St. Clairsville (6-1) lost to

Richmond Edison 34-28, 3OT.10. Plain City Jonathan Alder (6-1)

beat Washington C.H. 59-19.DIVISION V

1. Youngs. Ursuline (7-0) beat Cols. St. Charles 49-20.

2. Kirtland (7-0) beat Middlefield Cardinal 42-0.

3. Hamler Patrick Henry (7-0) beat Bryan 36-14.

4. Richwood N. Union (7-0) beat Marion Elgin 35-0.

5. Fredericktown (7-0) beat Howard E. Knox 41-12.

6. Archbold (7-0) beat Delta 28-17.

7. Collins Western Reserve (7-0) beat Norwalk St. Paul 42-21.

8. Cuyahoga Hts. (6-1) beat Richmond Hts. 34-6.

9. Minford (5-2) lost to Portsmouth W. 24-21.

10. W. Lafayette Ridgewood (7-0) beat Bowerston Conotton Valley 53-9.

DIVISION VI1. Delphos St. John’s (7-0) beat

Coldwater 14-0.2. Maria Stein Marion Local (7-0)

beat Rockford Parkway 55-0.3. Bucyrus Wynford (7-0) beat N.

Robinson Col. Crawford 27-20.4. Mogadore (7-0) beat Streetsboro

21-14.5. Shadyside (7-0) beat Bellaire St.

John 61-6.6. Ada (7-0) beat Convoy Crestview

63-7.7. McComb (7-0) beat Cory-Rawson

53-0.8. Berlin Center Western Reserve

(7-0) beat Wellsville 49-20.9. Covington (7-0) beat New Paris

National Trail 54-21.10. Newark Cath. (6-1) beat Cols.

Bexley 27-7.

USA Today Top 25The USA Today Top 25 football

coaches poll, with first-place votes in

parentheses, records through Oct. 9,

total points based on 25 points for first

place through one point for 25th, and

previous ranking:

Record Pts Pvs

1. Ohio State (49) 6-0 1455 2

2. Oregon (6) 6-0 1388 3

3. Boise State (1) 5-0 1335 4

4. Nebraska (2) 5-0 1272 6

5. TCU (1) 6-0 1213 5

6. Oklahoma 5-0 1193 7

7. Auburn 6-0 1060 8

8. Alabama 5-1 1029 1

9. LSU 6-0 1021 9

10. Utah 5-0 940 10

11. Michigan State 6-0 838 16

12. South Carolina 4-1 835 20

13. Arkansas 4-1 780 13

14. Iowa 4-1 710 15

15. Stanford 5-1 618 18

16. Wisconsin 5-1 542 19

17. Florida State 5-1 496 24

18. Oklahoma State 5-0 478 21

19. Missouri 5-0 434 22

20. Arizona 4-1 367 11

21. Nevada 6-0 329 23

22. Florida 4-2 242 12

23. Air Force 5-1 151 —

24. Michigan 5-1 137 17

25. West Virginia 4-1 88 —

Others receiving votes: Miami 66,

N.C. State 41, Texas 31, Oregon State

30, Virginia Tech 24, Northwestern 23,

Mississippi State 7, Maryland 2.

AP Top 25The Top 25 teams in The Associated

Press college football poll, with first-

place votes in parentheses, records

through Oct. 9, total points based on 25

points for a first-place vote through one

point for a 25th-place vote, and previ-

ous ranking:

Record Pts Pv

1. Ohio St. (34) 6-0 1,453 2

2. Oregon (15) 6-0 1,427 3

3. Boise St. (8) 5-0 1,395 4

4. TCU (1) 6-0 1,304 5

5. Nebraska 5-0 1,236 7

6. Oklahoma (2) 5-0 1,225 6

7. Auburn 6-0 1,104 8

8. Alabama 5-1 1,021 1

9. LSU 6-0 999 12

10. South Carolina 4-1 978 19

11. Utah 5-0 926 10

12. Arkansas 4-1 813 11

13. Michigan St. 6-0 806 17

14. Stanford 5-1 732 16

15. Iowa 4-1 648 15

16. Florida St. 5-1 547 23

17. Arizona 4-1 472 9

18. Wisconsin 5-1 410 20

19. Nevada 6-0 376 21

20. Oklahoma St. 5-0 348 22

21. Missouri 5-0 298 24

22. Florida 4-2 209 14

23. Air Force 5-1 187 25

24. Oregon St. 3-2 186 —

25. West Virginia 4-1 141 —

Others receiving votes: Michigan

137, Miami 63, N.C. State 31, Virginia

Tech 17, Northwestern 5, Texas 5,

Kansas St. 1.

Big Ten StandingsBIG TEN CONFERENCE

Conference All Games

W L PF PA W L PF PA

Michigan St. 2 0 68 41 6 0 215 110

Ohio St. 2 0 62 23 6 0 259 81

Iowa 1 0 24 3 4 1 168 51

Purdue 1 0 20 17 3 2 107 105

Michigan 1 1 59 69 5 1 224 161

Northwestern 1 1 46 48 5 1 166 110

Wisconsin 1 1 65 57 5 1 223 114

Illinois 1 1 46 37 3 2 122 85

Indiana 0 2 45 80 3 2 169 138

Penn St. 0 2 16 57 3 3 109 108

Minnesota 0 2 51 70 1 5 157 194

Saturday, Oct. 16

Arkansas St. at Indiana, Noon

Minnesota at Purdue, Noon

Illinois at Michigan St., Noon

Iowa at Michigan, 3:30 p.m.

Ohio St. at Wisconsin, 7 p.m.

MAC StandingsMID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East

Conference All

Games

W L PF PA W L PF PA

Miami (Ohio) 2 0 55 42 3 3 114 182

Buffalo 1 0 28 26 2 3 96 129

Ohio 2 1 92 62 3 3 155 139

Temple 1 1 30 41 4 2 146 141

Kent St. 1 1 49 44 2 3 103 104

Bowling Green 0 2 51 77 1 5 163 233

Akron 0 2 31 78 0 6 101 227

West

Conference All Games

W L PF PA W L PF PA

N. Illinois 2 0 81 31 4 2 170 126

Toledo 2 0 57 37 3 3 119 175

W. Michigan 1 1 69 53 2 3 145 138

Ball St. 1 1 47 62 2 4 110 168

Cent. Michigan 1 2 79 58 2 4 158 133

E. Michigan 0 3 52 110 0 6 105 266

Saturday, Oct. 16

Miami (Ohio) at Cent. Michigan, Noon

E. Michigan at Ball St., 1 p.m.

Bowling Green at Temple, 1 p.m.

Akron at Ohio, 2 p.m.

W. Michigan at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m.

Buffalo at N. Illinois, 3:30 p.m.

Kent St. at Toledo, 7 p.m.

TV SPORTS

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7:30 p.m. San Francisco Giants at Atlanta Braves TBS

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8:30 p.m. Minnesota Vikings at New York Jets ESPN

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8 p.m. Texas Rangers at Tampa Bay Rays TBS

Hockey

7:30 p.m. Colorado Avalanche at Detroit Red Wings VS.

Soccer

8 p.m. Colombia at U.S. ESPN2

COLUMBUS (AP) — What’s brewing with the 2010 Ohio State Buckeyes ...

BUCKEYES BUZZ: In the wake of Alabama’s loss at South Carolina, Ohio State climbed to No. 1 in The Associated Press weekly media poll on Sunday.

Here’s what the Buckeyes had to say about being on top of the rankings:

OL Bryant Browning: “It’s a good feeling. Now we just have to work to have the chance to stay No. 1 the rest of the season. We will keep focused on each game and hope we’re still up there in January.”

DL Cameron Heyward: “The No. 1 ranking just means that, more than ever, we’re in control of our own destiny.”

LB Ross Homan: “It’s a good feeling to be No. 1, but it really doesn’t change how we work. We still have to work hard every day and try to get better. We’ve just got a bigger target on us now.”

QB Terrelle Pryor: “I love it for the Ohio State students and fans, but it’s a big responsibility and opportunity for us. How we react to being No. 1, and how we stay determined in our focus and in our work habits, will tell us how long we will stay there.”

LB Brian Rolle: “It’s good to be No. 1, but if we don’t play like it every week, then all the hype will be for naught.”

RB Brandon Saine: “Maybe the polls have changed, but I don’t feel much dif-ference in our team than I felt last week. We still have to take it one game at a time and remain true to our goals.”

WR Dane Sanzenbacher: “The top ranking is obviously a challenge we welcome, but we all know how much more important it is to be No. 1 at the end of the season.”

NO RUNNING: Pryor had his great-est passing day ever against Indiana. And, perhaps proving something to a lot of skeptics, he didn’t have to run even once to do it.

Pryor completed 24 of 30 passes for a career-high 334 yards and three touchdowns in Saturday’s 38-10 win over overmatched Indiana. The most intriguing stat was this, however: He didn’t have a single running play.

A week after Pryor had strained a left thigh muscle, coach Jim Tressel said things worked out just as planned.

“We don’t do a whole bunch of designed, called quarterback runs,” Tressel said after the game. “We think

that he’s naturally going to get some

step-ups and so forth. (But) we didn’t

really have that need.”

Tressel said Pryor could have run but

the way the game played out it wasn’t

necessary.

Pryor agreed.

“I felt good. There was just a tiny bit

of pain,” he said. “I really didn’t want to

run the ball. ... I wasn’t very comfortable

running the ball today.”

GOING TO THE CHAPPELL: Indiana

QB Ben Chappell came in averaging 29

completions and 343 passing yards

a game, with 12 TD throws and just

one interception. Against the Buckeyes

he had 16 completions for 106 yards,

didn’t throw a touchdown pass and was

intercepted twice.

“We knew coming into today he was

a slinger,” DE Cameron Heyward said.

“He has been killing teams going down

the field. I feel like the backfield did

really well today to stop him. We knew

if we got him rattled early we could get

him to make mistakes and knock him

off his game.”

TAILBACKS BACK: Tressel joked

that he tried to get the tailbacks a lot of

work so he wouldn’t have to answer any

more questions about why he had gone

away from letting them run with it.

But a nagging question remains:

Where’s Brandon Saine? He caught

four passes for 84 yards, including a

60-yard touchdown. But he never got a

single carry. Dan Herron had 12 (for 68

net yards and two scores), Carlos Hyde

had nine, Jaamal Berry five and Jordan

Hall one. Yet Saine, who has been listed

as the No. 1 (or 1a) TB for the past year

and a half, didn’t run it once.

Think Tressel will face that question

on Tuesday?

WRONG NUMBER: Tressel was pre-

sented a large “100” by AD Gene Smith

that appeared to be the same shape

and style as the numbers you’d find on

a birthday cake.

A reporter asked Tressel if he could

see himself replacing the numeral 1

with a 2 or 3.

“Probably not,” the coach said.

He added that he wouldn’t mind

just adding a 1 to the other end with a

victory at Wisconsin (7:15 p.m., ESPN)

on Saturday.

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PUBLIC AUCTIONToy Tractors - Lionel-

TonkaSat., October 23 at 10amLocation: FASHION BUG

S. Shannon St.Van Wert, OH

Over 400 Lots - First ClassPlease refer to

STRALEYREALTY.COMfor complete listing and

over 50 pictures

Prime Ohio Farmland408+ Acres (8 tracts)

Thurs., Oct. 28 6 pmHenry Co., Harrison Twp.,

Napoleon, OHProductive, tillable land.

Potential commercial sites.Auction location:

VFW # 82181008 N. Perry St.

Napoleon, OH. 43545Sellers: Marcella M. & Lyle

Brink TrustOffered by: Schrader Real

Estate & Auction Co.www.schraderauction.com

455 AuctionCalendar

For Sale: Angus Hiefersand Cows

PH (419) 596-3489

Saturday, October 16Personal Property: 10 am

Real Estate: 11 am20509 Schick Rd.,

Defiance, Ohio3BR 1.5 story house withbasement, garage, LR, DR.Wooded lot byTiffin River

Household: LOTS offurniture! Appliances,

Collectibles, Misc.Garage: Mowers, tillers,

power tools, shoptools,bikes, more!

Owners: Joseph C. SilerEstate

Consignment: (Mr./Mrs.Mike Hamminga -- sells

last) furniture, collectibles,mowers, power tools, shoptools, model trains & farmtoys, shotgun, '86 Honda

Shadow MotorcycleSale Conducted by:Sam Switzer Realty

419-782-4116

260 Horses /Livestock

WILHELM ORCHARDSCo. Rd. Y between

SR 108 & 109

Fresh CiderOpen Daily 10~7

Absolute AuctionMon. October 25 4:30 pm

403 W. Brown Rd.,Montpelier, OH

1698 sq. ft. homeOwner: Donna Florentine

Auctioneer: Darren L.Bok/Douglas E. Walton

ucwaltonrealtyandauction.com

Seed wheat cleaned &treated. 80 bushel. BobShininger 419-438-0712

230 Farm Products/ Produce

Ford series 811 tractor,heavy duty front endloader. 419-438-0245

NEW KB 387 WAGON13T gear, lights, ladder, mixers

tires ~ $6,600.00† Farmer Center Equipment

† 419-658-2515

Public AuctionSat., October 23 10 am

28394 Ayersville Rd.Defiance, OH 43512

ANTIQUES &COLLECTIBLES:

Lots of furniture, crocks,granite ware, farm imple-ments, tools, Civil WarField Hospital Wooden

Litter, SO MUCH MORE!Owners:

Melvin & Barbra PorterAuctioneer:Dan Limber,CAIwww.dlimberauctions.com

Bobcat, New Holland,L445, 5' bucket, 30hp gas,

runs good, $2500.(419) 658-4053

IH 496 24ft disc w/5 bardrag (like new). $11,000.

Bob Shininger419-4358-0712

NEW KB 397 WAGONDivider box, 13T gear, lights,

ladder,††mixers tires $7,200.00†Farmer Center Equipment

419-658-2515

Large AuctionRandy A. Ball Estate

Sat., Oct. 30 - 9 AM3 Real Estate Parcels

plus Sports Memorabilia,Collectables, Household,

Tools, Related

Entire Auction will be heldat Gorrell Bros. Auction

Facility - 1201 N. WilliamsSt., Paulding, OH

Call 419-399-4066 or visitwww.gorrellbros-pauding.com

for more information

NEW KB 1160 GRAIN CARTRoll tarp, new 24.5x32 tires

$18,200.†Farmer Center Equipment

419-658-2515

225 FarmEquipment

455 AuctionCalendar

Inside storage for boats,pontoons, RV, etc. Call

(419) 783-7289

Lawn MaintenanceMowing, trimming, spray-ing, fertilizing and fall clean

up. (419) 658-2685

Wood Mouldings: Hickory& Maple, misc. trim pieces.Crowns, baseboard & cas-ings. Various widths &lengths. 419-497-3225

1035 Storage

Fall Yard Clean Up-Hedges, gutters, leaves,odd jobs. 419-551-4851

845 HomeImprovement

865 Lawn &Gardening

N.W. SEPTIC SERVICEHaving septic, sewer, or

water line problems?Call 419-658-2400 orCell# 419-615-5981

Stamm LandscapeTrimming, mulch, leafclean-up. Call Kevin @

419-388-1778

American GeneralConstruction, post build-

ings 30X40X8 $7900,40X60X12 $14,900,50X80X14 $22,900,60X96X16, $34,900.

29 Guage Metal.~ 260-223-0548 ~

1010 SepticSystems

Thoz-GuyzLandscaping, tree & shrub

trimming. Misc. outdoorwork. 419-438-3601

B&C Construction LLCNew Roofs & ReRoofs

419-782-3748 •419-769-0033

860 LandscapingAce Builders

Amish crew wants any typework. Pole Buildings,

Garages, Re-roofs, or RoomAdditions. FREE estimates!

260.625.2327

1000 Roofing &Spouting

720 Construction

B & C Construction LLCRoofing, Drywall, Kitchen's& Bath. Custom Remodel-

ing. 419-769-0033419-782-3748

Fry Painting: Quality work,Reasonable Rates. FREEEstimates. (419) 395-2614

Affordable house clean-ing. $8-$15/hr. Call for

appt. (419) 789-2314

925 Painting845 HomeImprovement

695 Cleaning

Lawn Mower rotary manualin like new condition. $25

419-899-4234

Free cat and kittens. 2 catsand 3 kittens. Litter boxtrained. 419-789-2419.

8 gig USB Flash Drive Justextra one. $15 Great Priceand small 419-439-1289

335 Free Bees 335 Free Bees

$75 LIMIT

Thrift Sale ArchboldUnited Methodist ChurchThurs. October 14 • 9-5

Fri. October 15 • 9-4Bag Day Friday • 12-4401 Ditto St • Archbold

Corner of Walnutand Ditto Sts.

one blockWest of Defiance St.

250 Garage SalesFulton County

00150 AD10670097 374.4PROMOTIONS

- Classifieds

04100 AD11710248 180CENTURY

21 STRAIT REALTY

410 Home / Condo For Sale

3 BR, 1 BA, nice, no pets,$500/$500. Call (419)

783-7289

3 rooms & bath ready nownear Chief. Free heat,water & laundry use.

$425/$425. 419-784-3007or 419-439-3482

Country 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, at-tached 2 car garage. Avail-able now. (419) 594-2869

Why pay more?2 Bedroom

Perfect • 419-784-3378

1987 Olds Cutlass cruiserwagon, $1000. Buy as is.

Call (419) 782-2762

3 BR in country, PauldingSchool District, $500/$500.

Call 419-594-3206 or419-594-2485

Lexington/Rosewood1 bedroom $395, Includeswater, sewage, trash & ca-

ble. (419) 784-4698

91 Buick Century, runsgood, looks good, $950.

(419) 393-2112

River setting, 2 BR & ap-pliances. Realtor owned.

$440. 419-783-7224

2 bedroom in KettenringHills, Lakefront with

fireplace & some utilitiesincluded. Call Chris 419-

782-7846 or 419-438-2398

House for rent $650mo.Call (513) 293-0935

98 Cavalier, auto, clean &sharp, new tires, CD player

$1750. (419) 393-2112

Large 3 Bedroom,1 1/2 baths with garage.New Updates. $550/$550

419-439-0692

99 Chevy Prism/ToyotaCorolla, very dependable,35mpg, $1350. 393-2112

3 BR, 2 BA modern ranchwith attached garage.

Tinora Schools. Call Bill orPatt Sigg for details.

419-576-6929

2006 Arctic Cat M6 EFI,many extras, only 240 mi.$4850 obo. 419-576-6853

550 Snowmobiles

2002 BMW 330 Ciconvertible, blue,108,000

mi., very good condition,

$11,900. 419-393-2017

1103 Harrison Ave. Def.2 BR, 1 BA, $500mo.

Deposit required call or text419-439-3537

1999 9200 International51" high rise sleeper, N14

Cummins, wet system. Call419-274-8390 8am-5pm

500 Automobiles

543 Semi Trucks

2/3 bedroom home, Fair-view Schools or lease/ op-tion to buy. 419-633-7550

Chelsea Village2 Bedroom Apartment

Available nowAlso acceptingapplications for:

3 Bedroom TownhouseAvailable soon

419-784-5773701 Village Lane

villagelaneapartments.com

91 Chevy truck, 4cyl.,$1500. 103 S. Canal, Flor-

ida, OH. (419) 438-7513

496 Wanted to Rent

460 ApartmentRentals

Welcome Home!!!Now Leasing Beautiful New

3 & 4 bedroom homes!Ottawa Ave. Defiance

Rents starting at just $629per month. Washer/dryerhook-up, 2 car attached

garage, and appliances areincluded! Pets Welcomeup to 25 lbs. with pet de-

posit. Income limits apply.Contact the rental officetoday at 419-782-0997.

92 GMC 1/2 Ton, runs per-fect, very nice condition,$1650. (419) 393-2112

Mesa, AZ-2 bedroom mo-bile home in retirement

community. Available Jan.& Feb.'11. $1200mo.Call 419-265-9602

93 Ford F150, runs great,looks good, $950. (419)

393-2112

2 BR, in Malinta, w/d hookup, fenced in back yard,

$425/$425. 419-966-4902

Mobile Home ParkOpportunity! Seller saysSELL! Great location! Call

Beth Sigg at NW RealEstate at (419) 784-0593.

480 VacationRentals

97 Ford F150 4WD, ext.cab, looks & runs good,$2950. (419) 393-2112

4 BR, 1 BA, no pets,no smoking, references,

deposit rent $575.Call (419) 784-3475

All remodeled office spacein Defiance on busy

E. 2nd Street. Affordable,vacant! Call NW Real

Estate (419) 784-0615.

1999 Dodge Dakota SLT,extended cab, power doors& windows, clean. $3495.

(419) 784-6303

435 CommProperty - Sale

475 Home / CondoRentals

Seller dumping duplex!Price dropped by 15K! 3BR per side, positive cashflow. Call NW Real Estatefor details. 419-784-0615

1999 Chevy Blazer, white,4dr., 4X4, leather, goodcondition.419-399-2665

Defiance 4 bedroom.Roommate wanted

250/month 419-913-3451

540 Trucks / SUVs

2.5 Acre lot-FairviewSchools, $11,900, $1000down, $129mo.; 5 Acre lotw/new septic, well, drive-

way, $31,900, $1000 down,$345mo. 828-884-6627

2 bedroom, 1 bathTINORA SCHOOLS,

Mobile home on 2.5 acres.Lot has established trees,

great place for futurebuilding. $42,000.

419-497-2145

Roommate wanted 300.00a month 1/3 of utilities.

Country living 1 yr lease nopets close to Defiance

419-438-7229

425 Land Sale /Rent

1974 Airstream TravelTrailer, 27' overlander.

Awning, new tires, fair con-dition, $2500 OBO. 419-

782-2720 or 419-576-7011

Check out...http://cn.ohiohomefinder.com

Over 1500 listingsin NW Ohio!

Nice, 2004 Rialta MotorHome, gas, 20mpg,63,000 miles, asking

$38,000. (419) 395-1197

ROOM to rent in Pauldinghome. Includes all utilities,long distance phone, and

more. $295/mo. + security.Call Terry (419) 399-2242

Opportunity of a Lifetime!24 unit mobile home parkwith expansion approved.15 acres. Bank authorizessale at $149,000. Call fordetails (941) 356-5308

410 Home / CondoFor Sale

470 Room Rentals

In Spring Meadows 2BR,2BA, front kitchen, C/A,appliances stay,shed.

Call (419) 439-3770

2007 Jayco 314BHDS,31' bunkhouse travel trailerwith 2 slide outs, fiberglassexterior, queen bed in front,

very nice, $16,000. Call(419) 783-7648

2 bedroom, appliances in-cluded, washer/dryer hook

up. $425. 419-784-9777

415 Mobile HomeFor Sale

535 RVs &Campers

Top Cash Paid forSilver & Gold Coins& Scrap Gold (class

rings, earrings,rings etc.)

Pack Rats Pawn Shop

1938 E. 2nd St., Defiance419-782-7287(pb.100460.000)

2/3 BR in Defiance, base-ment, w/d hook up, gar-age w/storage, fenced inback yard. $500mo. 419-576-7946 leave message.

2 BR condo in Napoleon,NEW windows, carpet, allappliances included, C/A.

419-266-0759 /419-445-3500

Polaris ATV 500 4X4, lowhours, excellent condition,

54" snow blade New,$3600 OBO. 419-258-2767

Old magazines, books,comics, stamps, coins,

old toys, antiques,estates. (419) 399-3353

Wanted lawn sweeper, pulltype if possible, will paycash. (419) 592-0339

8306 ST RT 15 North 2Bedroom Country down-

stairs appliances & W/Dhookup. Rent $425. 419-

784-2400 or 419-789-1066

2000 Harley DavidsonFLHPI, immaculate

condition, $15,000.419-494-4176

.

WE BUYScrap Cars & Trucks

Haul Free. 419-784-2500

1408 Pinehurst, DefianceOhio 2 bedroom. 1 bath.

Call 419-769-0865

530 Motorcycles /ATVs

Wanted acorns alreadypick up. Call for more

info (419) 658-2186

475 Home / CondoRentals

465 Duplex Rentals

355 Wanted to Buy

FOR SALECountry Home in

Henry CountyOn 2/3 AcreArchbold School

District 3 BR, 2 Baths,Full Basement, New

carpet, flooring, paintedwalls, ceilings. Appli-

ances included.Central Air, Front and

back decks $99,500Call 419-758-3164 or

419-966-0304

Winterizing Jet Skis& Outboards $34.95

Inboards/Outboards $64.95Pontoon trailer rental.

Sherry Sales & Service9917 RD 171 Oakwood,

OH (419) 594-3305

2 female Chihuahua pup-pies, 6 wks old, very petite,$200 Firm. (419) 789-1438

Full blooded Shih Tzu,good with kids, 1 1/2yr. old,

female. 419-439-1976

520 Boats3 Bedroom 2 bath home on

Lake Christy Meadows,Tinora Schools, asking

$130,000. 419-438-2583

Poodle pups, tiny, little toycuties, shots, guarantee,Adorable! 419-266-3448

Cane Corso Mastiff, Pug,Chihuahua, Cockalier,

Puggles Town & Co. Pets1858 E. Second St.

Defiance ~ 419-782-7389

Spacious 3 BR, 2 BA,detached garage.

Call (419) 784-6130

300 Pets / Supplies

Black 120 Base accor-dion, good condition, $200.

Call (419) 782-3096GOOD USED TIRES

For Sale• Most Sizes, also start-ers and alternators We buycars not running, top price

INDOOR AUTOMART(419) 784-2500

Duplex 2 rental units inNapoleon, $1000 rental

income, $109,000.419-966-0357

Black Halloween puppies.Also some like Casperthe Friendly Ghost. Allsweet as Pumpkin Pie.

Garwick's the Pet People.

419-795-5711

510 Auto Parts /Accessories

410 Home / CondoFor Sale

300 Pets / Supplies290 MusicalInstruments

00150 AD10670189 144PROMOTIONS

- Classifieds

PUBLIC AUCTIONToy Tractors - Lionel-

TonkaSat., October 23 at 10amLocation: FASHION BUG

S. Shannon St.Van Wert, OH

Over 400 Lots - First ClassPlease refer to

STRALEYREALTY.COMfor complete listing and

over 50 pictures

Prime Ohio Farmland408+ Acres (8 tracts)

Thurs., Oct. 28 6 pmHenry Co., Harrison Twp.,

Napoleon, OHProductive, tillable land.

Potential commercial sites.Auction location:

VFW # 82181008 N. Perry St.

Napoleon, OH. 43545Sellers: Marcella M. & Lyle

Brink TrustOffered by: Schrader Real

Estate & Auction Co.www.schraderauction.com

455 AuctionCalendar

For Sale: Angus Hiefersand Cows

PH (419) 596-3489

Saturday, October 16Personal Property: 10 am

Real Estate: 11 am20509 Schick Rd.,

Defiance, Ohio3BR 1.5 story house withbasement, garage, LR, DR.Wooded lot byTiffin River

Household: LOTS offurniture! Appliances,

Collectibles, Misc.Garage: Mowers, tillers,

power tools, shoptools,bikes, more!

Owners: Joseph C. SilerEstate

Consignment: (Mr./Mrs.Mike Hamminga -- sells

last) furniture, collectibles,mowers, power tools, shoptools, model trains & farmtoys, shotgun, '86 Honda

Shadow MotorcycleSale Conducted by:Sam Switzer Realty

419-782-4116

260 Horses /Livestock

WILHELM ORCHARDSCo. Rd. Y between

SR 108 & 109

Fresh CiderOpen Daily 10~7

Absolute AuctionMon. October 25 4:30 pm

403 W. Brown Rd.,Montpelier, OH

1698 sq. ft. homeOwner: Donna Florentine

Auctioneer: Darren L.Bok/Douglas E. Walton

ucwaltonrealtyandauction.com

Seed wheat cleaned &treated. 80 bushel. BobShininger 419-438-0712

230 Farm Products/ Produce

Ford series 811 tractor,heavy duty front endloader. 419-438-0245

NEW KB 387 WAGON13T gear, lights, ladder, mixers

tires ~ $6,600.00† Farmer Center Equipment

† 419-658-2515

Public AuctionSat., October 23 10 am

28394 Ayersville Rd.Defiance, OH 43512

ANTIQUES &COLLECTIBLES:

Lots of furniture, crocks,granite ware, farm imple-ments, tools, Civil WarField Hospital Wooden

Litter, SO MUCH MORE!Owners:

Melvin & Barbra PorterAuctioneer:Dan Limber,CAIwww.dlimberauctions.com

Bobcat, New Holland,L445, 5' bucket, 30hp gas,

runs good, $2500.(419) 658-4053

IH 496 24ft disc w/5 bardrag (like new). $11,000.

Bob Shininger419-4358-0712

NEW KB 397 WAGONDivider box, 13T gear, lights,

ladder,††mixers tires $7,200.00†Farmer Center Equipment

419-658-2515

Large AuctionRandy A. Ball Estate

Sat., Oct. 30 - 9 AM3 Real Estate Parcels

plus Sports Memorabilia,Collectables, Household,

Tools, Related

Entire Auction will be heldat Gorrell Bros. Auction

Facility - 1201 N. WilliamsSt., Paulding, OH

Call 419-399-4066 or visitwww.gorrellbros-pauding.com

for more informationg p gg p

NEW KB 1160 GRAIN CARTRoll tarp, new 24.5x32 tires

$18,200.†Farmer Center Equipment

419-658-2515

225 FarmEquipment

455 AuctionCalendar

Inside storage for boats,pontoons, RV, etc. Call

(419) 783-7289

Lawn MaintenanceMowing, trimming, spray-ing, fertilizing and fall clean

up. (419) 658-2685

Wood Mouldings: Hickory& Maple, misc. trim pieces.Crowns, baseboard & cas-ings. Various widths &lengths. 419-497-3225

1035 Storage

Fall Yard Clean Up-Hedges, gutters, leaves,odd jobs. 419-551-4851

845 HomeImprovement

865 Lawn &Gardening

N.W. SEPTIC SERVICEHaving septic, sewer, or

water line problems?Call 419-658-2400 orCell# 419-615-5981

Stamm LandscapeTrimming, mulch, leafclean-up. Call Kevin @

419-388-1778

American GeneralConstruction, post build-

ings 30X40X8 $7900,40X60X12 $14,900,50X80X14 $22,900,60X96X16, $34,900.

29 Guage Metal.~ 260-223-0548 ~

gg

1010 SepticSystems

Thoz-GuyzLandscaping, tree & shrub

yy

trimming. Misc. outdoorwork. 419-438-3601

B&C Construction LLCNew Roofs & ReRoofs

419-782-3748 •419-769-0033

860 LandscapingAce Builders

Amish crew wants any typework. Pole Buildings,

Garages, Re-roofs, or RoomAdditions. FREE estimates!

260.625.2327

1000 Roofing &Spouting

720 Construction

B & C Construction LLCRoofing, Drywall, Kitchen's& Bath. Custom Remodel-

ing. 419-769-0033419-782-3748

g

Fry Painting: Quality work,Reasonable Rates. FREEEstimates. (419) 395-2614

Affordable house clean-ing. $8-$15/hr. Call for

appt. (419) 789-2314

925 Painting845 HomeImprovement

695 Cleaning

Thrift Sale ArchboldUnited Methodist ChurchThurs. October 14 • 9-5

Fri. October 15 • 9-4Bag Day Friday • 12-4401 Ditto St • Archbold

Corner of Walnutand Ditto Sts.

one blockWest of Defiance St.

250 Garage SalesFulton County

Lawn Mower rotary manualin like new condition. $25

419-899-4234

Free cat and kittens. 2 catsand 3 kittens. Litter boxtrained. 419-789-2419.

8 gig USB Flash Drive Justextra one. $15 Great Priceand small 419-439-1289

335 Free Bees 335 Free Bees

$$75 LIMITLIMIT

■ B6

The Crescent-News • Monday, October 11, 2010 TV/ENTERTAINMENT ■ B7

Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture

by Mark Feldstein

President Richard Nixon and investigative reporter Jack Anderson had more in common than the intense hatred that each burned for the other.

Both were raised in the West by stern fathers in fundamentalist religions — Nixon, a Quaker; Anderson, a Mormon. Both found their life’s work in the East and reached the top in Washington. And both believed the ends jus-tified the means.

That Nixon could be a petty, vulgar politician who felt unbound by the law is already well docu-mented.

But Anderson, too, could be ethically crooked — he traded favorable treatment for money and favors, for example, and paid off a source who stole classified documents — a revelation that wipes the sheen off the self-righteous Pulitzer Prize winner.

Poisoning the Press:

Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture argues persuasively that the personal ugliness in politics and media today has its roots in their feud. Author Mark Feldstein, a George Washington University professor, provides a highly read-able account of how these Washington power brokers hissed and clawed at each other in the 1960s and ’70s.

No one took a greater pounding than Nixon in Anderson’s influential “Washington Merry-Go-Round” column. Anderson had a hand in exposing political scandals from Nixon’s earliest years in public office to the presi-dency-ending Watergate affair.

Feldstein discovered that deception as well as black-mail, bribery and even wiretaps were also in the muckraker’s toolbox.

Still, the Constitution demands more of the president. The dialogue between Nixon and his advisers as they plotted personal attacks against their enemies, their words culled from previously

unreported Oval Office recordings, rivals that of waterfront bosses from a crime movie.

Anderson emerged vic-torious in the battle with Nixon. While the ex-presi-dent spent his remaining years trying to restore his reputation, the journalist busied himself with mon-eymaking schemes that only tarnished his stand-ing.

Hubris could cloud his journalistic morals, but Anderson, who died in 2005, probably would have appreciated Feldstein’s unsparing account of a powerful but at times abusive Washington insti-tution — in this case, Jack Anderson himself.

— By DOUGLASS K. DANIELAssociated Press

It’s Nixon vs. Anderson in ‘Poisoning the Press’

SHANGHAI (AP) — A musician who lost both arms in a childhood acci-dent and plays the piano with his toes has won “China’s Got Talent,” per-forming his version of James Blunt’s wistful love song “You’re Beautiful” to a packed audience at the Shanghai Stadium.

All three judges on the show Sunday praised 23-year-old Liu Wei for his determination, urging him to keep on pursuing his dreams, and the Beijing native said he would try, quipping, “At least I have a pair of perfect legs.”

For winning the Chinese version of the show that helped make Britain’s Susan Boyle a singing star, Liu will be invited to play as a guest performer with Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. He also has the chance for a performing contract.

Liu’s arms were ampu-tated after he suffered an electrical shock while play-ing hide-and-seek when he was 10. At age 18, he decided to pursue a career in music, using his feet to play the piano, much as he uses them to navigate on the computer, eat, dress and brush his teeth.

“China’s Got Talent,” a

weekly program shown on local channel Dragon TV, has helped draw attention to the hopes and challenges of disabled and otherwise disadvantaged Chinese. It featured scores of acts, including a 7-year-old standup comedian, Zhang Fengxi, who won second place.

The program, which began in July, is part of British recording executive Simon

Cowell’s “Got Talent” fran-chise, which now has ver-sions broadcasting in more than 30 countries.

Armless pianist wins ‘China’s Got Talent’

Burke

SOLOMON BURKE DIESAMSTERDAM (AP) — Solomon Burke become one of the

greatest soul singers of the 1960s, renowned as among music’s premier vocalists. Burke, 70, died early Sunday of natural causes at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, his family said in a statement on the singer’s website. The family did not elaborate on the cause of death. Schiphol Airport police spokesman Robert van Kapel con-firmed that Burke died on a plane at Schiphol. He arrived early Sunday on a flight from Los Angeles and had been scheduled to perform a sellout show on Tuesday in a church converted into a concert hall in Amsterdam with local band De Dijk.

Cake Boss 9 p.m. • TLCUshered in by a daylong

marathon of previous episodes, the hit reality series resumes season three with a special three-part story arc (concluding next week) that finds Buddy Valastro and his entire fam-ily visiting Italy to attend a cousin’s wedding and visit the parents’ hometowns.

— TV Data

ON TVIN FOCUSLOS ANGELES (AP)

— Movie fans have book-marked the Facebook drama “The Social Network” as their weekend favorite as the film took in $15.5 million to remain the No. 1 film for a second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

PEOPLENEWS

Eminem says he cusses on stage, but not at home

DETROIT (AP) — Eminem says he’s a family man who believes in checking his profanity at the door.

The Michigan rapper known for his gritty lyrics tells CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” he’s a different person at home with his daughters. Eminem is raising biological daughter Hailie, adopted daughter Alaina and his ex-wife’s daughter Whitney.

Eminem says in an interview for broadcast Sunday evening that he doesn’t use profanity around the house and questions what kind of a parent cusses in front of children.

But Eminem says it isn’t his job to shield young fans from the language in his lyrics. He says it’s up to their par-ents to act like parents.

The singer whose legal name is Marshall Mathers has won nine Grammys and an Oscar.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck joins ‘Good Morning America’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elisabeth Hasselbeck is taking some time to appear on more than just “The View.”

ABC announced Thursday that Hasselbeck is join-ing “Good Morning America” as a contribu-tor, covering “hot-but-ton family, lifestyle and child-rearing issues.” The network said her first report, looking at the growing trend of parents and kids get-ting tattoos together, will air Monday. She said she was “thrilled” to explore issues facing par-ents and children.

Hasselbeck joined “The View” as a co-host in 2003.

Jay Leno drops by Palin hometown to visit troops

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Late night talk show host Jay Leno dropped by Sarah Palin’s hometown to help open an Air Force Reserve recruiting office.

The host of “The Tonight Show” was in Alaska to perform a show Saturday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

He also helped cut a ribbon for the opening of an Air Force Reserve recruiting office in Wasilla, the home of Palin, the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential nominee.

KTUU-TV reports Leno shook hands with fans and inspected several vehi-cles driven to the event, including a small truck rebuilt to resemble a giant Radio Flyer red wagon.

Michael Caine: I asked doctor to end dad’s life

LONDON (AP) — Actor Michael Caine has claimed he hastened his ter-minally ill father’s death by asking a doctor to give a fatal overdose.

In a transcript of an radio interview widely published in British media before being broadcast Saturday, Caine said he could not bear to see his father in pain.

Caine, 77, told Classic FM the doctor initially refused but told the actor to return to the hospital at midnight.

“I came back at midnight and my father died at five past 12. So he’d done it.” Caine said.

Caine’s father Maurice Micklewhite died at the age of 56 in 1955 after suffering from liver cancer.

Caine’s publicist did not imme-diate return an e-mail seeking comment.

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Today’s birthday (10/11/10). If you obsess over person-al issues, you lose power in the social or career arena. Overcome this tendency by detailing work priorities and sharing the list with fam-ily members. That way they’ll know what’s on your plate and understand your moods bet-ter.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easi-est day, 0 the most challeng-ing.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Combine romance with work today by including your partner in social events involving clients and co-workers. Use creativity to make it really fun.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Your many talents take you in different directions now. Follow the tra-ditional wisdom as far as it will take you. Then be willing to branch out.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Work closely with children and elders to pro-duce better results. You share talents you may not know about. Listen and learn from each other.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- A friend or asso-ciate brings a gift to a social event at your place, sparking the interests and talents of all guests. Let others play first.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Work and play interweave in an unusual way today. Time away from a prob-lem often allows a solution to emerge. Other imaginations provide the missing key.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Shop for supplies early in the day, so everyone has what they need to get their work done. Capture imagination with the right tools.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Even if you have to work today, make time for recreational activities. You don’t need to push that stone uphill all day. Hand it off to someone.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Allow your thinking to wander now. Blurred focus is just what you need, as you apply artistic tal-ents. Use a light touch and broad stroke.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- When issues impinge on your core values, pay attention. You don’t want to give up something important to your philosophy. Others suggest solutions.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- The more you work within your sphere of comfort, the more you accom-plish. Associates see broader possibilities.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- You need to clarify a philosophical point if the group’s to move forward. You may call in an expert to clarify specific details and con-cerns.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- No one knew what you’d say today, not even yourself. The big sur-prise is that everyone agrees and wonders why they didn’t think of it themselves.

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