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WILKES-BARRE, PA
California
looks at
Ciavarella
outcome
State bar journal article
about judge’s trial, asks
“Could it happen here?”
By SHEENA DELAZIO
sdelazio@timesleader.com
WILKES-BARRE – The feder-
al corruption trial of former
Judge Mark Ciavarella was at
the center of attention of Lu-
zerne County.
The story made local head-
lines first. Then,
the national press
and news shows
such as ABC’s
“Good Morning
America” and “20/
20” and NBC’s “To-
day” aired stories.
Now, the case is being read by
California lawyers, after the Cal-
ifornia Bar Journal published an
article about the trial in its
March edition.
The article is headlined
“Could it happen here?” and is
written by Janice M. Brickley, a
legal advisor to commissioners
at the California Commission on
Judicial Performance.
“The case, an alarming story
of judicial corruption and fail-
ures throughout the justice sys-
tem that lasted two years,
should raise a question in the
minds of Californians: Could it
happen here?” she wrote.
Brickley outlined the out-
come of the trial, including Cia-
varella’s conviction on 12 of 39
counts, including racketeering
and mail fraud, as well as the in-
dictment against Ciavarella.
The article mentions Ciavarel-
la’s co-defendant, former Judge
Michael Conahan, and implicat-
ed attorney Robert Powell.
“In addition to his Draconian
sentencing practices, Ciavarella
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for Mackenzie at Rodano’s on Sunday. Mackenzie is being treated for leukemia. For the story, see Page 3A.
Bufalino says he’ll stand up for county citizens
CLARK VAN ORDEN/THE TIMES LEADER
Mark Bufalino, a candidate for a Luzerne
County judge seat.
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The move, not yet publicly announced, rein- gets from positions in the Mediterranean Sea has
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Deadline
nears for
flood plans
All municipalities must adopt
storm water management
ordinances by April 4.
By STEVE MOCARSKY
smocarsky@timesleader.com
With an April 4 deadline fast
approaching for all Luzerne
County municipalities to adopt a
plan to prevent flooding prob-
lems and improve the watershed,
only three munici-
palities have com-
plied.
The state De-
partment of Envi-
ronmental Protec- Read a
storm water
tion has mandated manage-
that all municipal- ment ordi-
nance that
ities must adopt Hazleton
storm water man- City Council
agement ordinanc- passed last
PETE G. WILCOX/THE TIMES LEADER es within six week on
months of the first reading
county adopting a at www.ti-
mesleader-
plan, and the coun- .com.
ty did so on Oct. 4,
said county Senior
Planner Nancy Snee.
So far, Snee said, only Dallas
Township and the boroughs of
Nescopeck and Harveys Lake
Former Democratic Party head says Times Leader’s endorse- have notified her of storm water
ment board. plans being adopted. Because Lu-
voters should focus on legal experience
“I thought it was the right zerne was among those counties
as he wants to help amid scandal. time,” Bufalino said of his identified as a “high-priority” for
run for one of six open seats, flooding issues, the county re-
in response to the ongoing ceived $350,000 in funding from
By SHEENA DELAZIO corruption probe in Luzerne County. “I DEP to coordinate the project be-
sdelazio@timesleader.com thought I could do something to help.” fore funding was frozen.
WILKES-BARRE – The youngest of The former head of the Luzerne Coun- The laws will affect new con-
five boys, attorney Mark Bufalino said ty Democratic Party, he said voters struction and redevelopment.
that while growing up he always stood up should concentrate on his legal experi- For most people, that means the
for himself. ence rather than his time as chairman of construction of a new home or
Now, at 40, the Trucksville resident the Democratic Party because that was even a garage or a shed as well as
wants to stand up for the citizens of Lu- only one aspect of his life. the replacement of a roof on an
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PAGE 2A MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2011
Wyoming Seminary is Pa. Mock Trial champ
Kingston school’s team headed
to national H.S. championship
event in May in Phoenix.
Times Leader staff
HARRISBURG – The team
from Wyoming Seminary on Sat-
urday won the 28th Annual
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Statewide High School Mock
Trial Competition.
Team members are Lina Bad-
er, Leah Goldberg, Amanda Im-
midisetti, Dustin Magaziner, Lo-
gan May, Ellie McDougal, Rena-
ta O’Donnell and Caroline Rep-
pert. The teacher coaches are
Adam Carlisle and Justin Naylor.
The attorney advisors are Frank
Brier, Cathy O’Donnell and Neil
Edward James Cawley
March 27, 2011
E dward James Cawley, 59, of
Wilkes-Barre, died Sunday
morning, March 27, 2011 at the De-
partment of Veteran Affairs Medical
Center, Plains Township, following
a lengthy illness.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, on May 5,
1951, Edward was a son of the late
Harold P. and Anna (Stubbs) Caw-
ley.
He was a 1969 graduate of James
M. Coughlin High School, Wilkes-
Barre, and was a veteran of the U.S.
Navy, Vietnam Era, serving in the
Mideast from 1970 to 1972.
Edward was a member of numer-
ous religious and civic organiza-
tions in Luzerne and Lackawanna
counties. He was very active in the
Pro-Life movement in Northeastern
Pennsylvania.
He was also a Eucharistic minis-
ter, and a member of the Fraternal
Order of the Franciscan Fathers, and
was a member of the Wilkes-Barre
Barber Shop Quartet.
Edward is survived by a brother,
Harold P. Cawley; and sisters, Ellen
Liparula, and Annmarie McGraw
and husband Tim, all of Wilkes-
Barre; as well as nephews, nieces,
great-nieces, great-nephew, and
cousins.
The family would like to thank
the staff of the VA Medical Center
Andrew D. Gugliotti
March 26, 2011
A ndrew D. Gugliotti, 79, of
Wilkes-Barre, died Saturday
evening, March 26, 2011, at his
home, surrounded by his loving
family.
Born on September 29, 1931, he
was a son of the late Vincent and
Mary (Dennis) Gugliotti.
Andrew enjoyed hunting and
fishing. He was an avid bowler in
the Rush Inn League, a huge New
York Mets and New York Giants fan,
and a professional drummer for sev-
eral years, playing in the band Lefty
& Polka Chaps.
In addition to his parents, he was
preceded in death by son, Robert
Roberts; sisters Catherine Gugliot-
ti, Mary and her husband Ronald
Dierolf; and brother Joseph Gugliot-
ti.
Andrew is survived by his wife,
Stella M. Gugliotti; daughters, Emi-
ly Henry, Anna Wadas and husband
Mark, all of Wilkes-Barre; grandchil-
dren, Joshua and Allison Henry,
Shane and R.J. Farrell; great-grand-
child, Mackenzie Farrell; sisters Ro-
semary Czerpak and husband Rob-
ert, Wilkes-Barre; Connie Zuranski,
Chester M. Zielinski
March 24, 2011
C hester M. Zielinski, 86, of
Wilkes-Barre, died peacefully
Thursday afternoon, March 24,
2011, at Hospice Care of the VNA In-
patient Unit at Heritage House.
Born in Wilkes-Barre Township,
on January 15, 1925, he a son of the
late John and Eva (Borysko) Zielin-
ski.
He was a graduate of Wilkes-
Barre Township High School and
had attended Wilkes College.
Chester was a U.S. Navy veteran.
Prior to his retirement, he had been
employed with United Office Equip-
ment.
He had a great love and passion
for reading.
Chester was preceded in death by
his brothers, John, Edward, Joseph,
and Eugene; and his sisters Mary
Shepanski, and Alice Zyskowski.
Surviving are his wife of 60 years,
the former Frances Okrasinski;
daughter, Diane Lerman, and hus-
band Bruce, Monte Sereno, Calif.;
son, David Zielinski, Chicago, Ill.;
grandsons, Justin Lerman, Camp-
bell, Calif.; Griffin Lerman, New-
port Beach, Calif.; brother Walter
More Obituaries, Page 6A
O’Donnell.
Wyoming Seminary will repre-
sent Pennsylvania in the 2011 Na-
tional High School Mock Trial
Championship taking place May
5-7 in Phoenix.
Wyoming Seminary played the
role of defense and St. Joseph’s
Preparatory School, Philadel-
phia County, played the role of
plaintiff in the final round of com-
petition Saturday. Judge John E.
Jones III, U.S. District Court for
the Middle District of Pennsylva-
nia, served as presiding judge.
“It takes teamwork and strong
communication and analytical
skills to be among the top 12
teams of this statewide competi-
tion,” said Lisa M.B. Woodburn,
chairwoman of the Pennsylvania
Bar Association Young Lawyers
for their special care of Edward.
Funeral will be held at 9 a.m.
Wednesday from the Corcoran
Funeral Home Inc., 20 S. Main St.
Plains Township, with a Mass of
Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in Holy
Savior Church, East End section of
Wilkes-Barre. Interment will be
held in Saint Ignatius Cemetery,
Pringle. Friends may call from 4 to 7
p.m. Tuesday.
Memorial donations may be
made to the American Diabetes As-
sociation, Scranton Pocono High-
way, Scranton, PA 18505, to Pro-
Life, 201 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre,
PA 18702, or to the charity of one’s
choice.
Hanover Township; brother Antho-
ny and wife, Sophie, Ashley; as well
as several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services are entrusted
to the Kniffen O’Malley Funeral
Home Inc., 465 S. Main St., Wilkes-
Barre, and will be held at 10 a.m.
Wednesday. Friends may call from 5
to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral
home. Pastor Janell Wigens will be
officiating. Interment will be at
Chapel Law Memorial Park, Dallas.
Online condolences can be sent
to www.BestLifeTributes.com.
Zielinski, Iselin, N.J.; sister Jane
Stoshak, Sugar Notch; as well as
many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held
at 10 a.m. Thursday from the
Bednarski & Thomas Funeral
Home, 27 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre,
with a Mass of Christian Burial cele-
brated at 10:30 a.m. in Our Lady of
Hope Parish. Interment will be in
St. Mary’s Maternity Cemetery,
West Wyoming. Friends may call
from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the
funeral home.
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Division, which organizes and
oversees the event.
“We congratulate the students
for being among the ‘best of the
best’ in this year’s competition.
We also thank their teachers and
lawyer coaches who voluntarily
step forward to prepare the stu-
dents for competition. This
event would not be possible
without their support,” Wood-
burn said.
Co-chairpersons of the state
Mock Trial Executive Commit-
tee are Ryan Blazure of Wilkes-
Barre and Jennifer J. Walsh of
Scranton.
This year’s hypothetical trial
case is a civil action involving a
pathologist who enters into a
contract with a dying and impov-
erished elderly woman to obtain
Inventor of Super Glue dies at 94
Harry Wesley Coover Jr.
recognized potential in
adhesive after an accident.
The Associated Press
KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Harry
Wesley Coover Jr., known as the
inventor of Super Glue, has died.
He was 94.
Coover was working for Ten-
nessee Eastman Company, a divi-
sion of Eastman Kodak, when an
accident helped lead to the pop-
ular adhesive being discovered,
according to his grandson, Adam
Paul of South Carolina. An assist-
ant was distressed that some
brand new refractometer prisms
were ruined when they were
glued together by the substance.
In 1951, Coover and another re-
searcher recognized the poten-
tial for the strong adhesive, and it
was first sold in 1958, according
POLICE BLOTTER
KINGSTON – Police said
three people were involved in a
deal to sell heroin Saturday
within the boundaries of the
drug-free zone of the Chester
Street middle and elementary
schools.
George Smith and Donna
Dotter of Luzerne, and Holly
Barziloski of Kingston Township day morning.
face numerous charges and are
held in the county prison for
lack of $30,000 bail each. They
were on probation at the time of men at a Pershing Street resi-
their arrests.
Police said:
Smith, Dotter and Barziloski
conspired to deliver heroin to an noon that the contents of her
unidentified person on Warren
Avenue. Smith was given $140
to purchase heroin and along
with Dotter and Barziloski went night near the intersection of
to Warren Avenue to deliver it.
Dotter handed over six bags of
heroin.
After the sale, they were stop-
ped and taken into custody on
Chester Street. Smith had three police at Hazleton said Joseph
bags of heroin in his possession, Fetchen IV, 41, of Sugarloaf,
police said.
All three face charges of con- on Prospect Road on Friday
spiracy to deliver a controlled
substance, conspiracy to com-
mit possession with intent to
deliver a controlled substance,
possession of a controlled sub-
stance and possession of drug
paraphernalia.
Smith and Dotter also face
charges of delivery of a con-
trolled substance, possession
with intent to deliver a con-
trolled substance and criminal
use of a communications facil-
ity. Barziloski also faces a
charge of conspiracy to commit charged with theft and receiving
possession of a controlled sub-
stance.
The investigation was con-
ducted by Kingston and Ed-
wardsville police and members
of the state Office of Attorney
General Luzerne County Drug
Task Force.
WILKES-BARRE – City
police reported the following:
• Todd Shiloh, 38, of North
Empire Court, was charged with
retail theft after he left the
Sheetz gas station on Wilkes-
Barre Township Boulevard late
Friday night without paying,
police said. Police were able to
identify Shiloh from video sur-
veillance that showed his vehi-
cle and license plate.
• Terry Yarbrough, 33, of
mutated cancer cells. The case
was written by Jonathan A.
Grode of Philadelphia and Paul
W. Kaufman of Philadelphia.
Jane E. Meyer of Harrisburg ed-
ited the final version of the case.
This year, 331 teams from 285
high schools competed in the
district and regional levels of
Pennsylvania’s mock trial com-
petition -- one of the largest in the
nation. After the local competi-
tions, 12 high school teams ad-
vanced to the state mock trial
championships. All 12 teams
competed in two quarterfinal
rounds on Friday.
Through the competition,
eight-member student teams are
given the opportunity to argue
both sides of a case in an actual
courtroom before a judge.
to the Super
Glue Corp.’s
website.
Cyanoacry-
late, the chem-
ical name for
the glue, was
Coover first uncovered
in 1942 in a
search for materials to make
clear plastic gun sights for World
War II. But the compound stuck
to everything, which is why it
was rejected by researchers, the
website said.
President Barack Obama hon-
ored Coover in 2010 with the Na-
tional Medal of Science.
Coover died Saturday at his
home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was
born in Newark, Del., and re-
ceived a degree in chemistry
from Hobart College in New York
before getting a master’s degree
and Ph.D., from Cornell.
He worked his way up to vice
North Franklin Street, will be
charged with violating the
terms of a protection from
abuse order after he allegedly
contacted his former girlfriend,
Patricia Racine, 45, by tele-
phone early Sunday morning.
• Muta Duncan, 29, of North
Empire Court, will be charged
with harassment for allegedly
threatening and harassing Au-
tumn Whispell of Pittston Sun-
• A 19-year-old man Saturday
afternoon said he was choked
and sexually assaulted by two
dence.
• Ada Nin-Deperalta, 43, of
Wood Street, said Sunday after-
purse were stolen.
• Deron Isaac, 21, of Logan
Street, was charged Sunday
Anthracite and Parrish streets
for allegedly possessing a small
amount of marijuana.
SUGARLOAF TWP. – State
crashed a Chevrolet Astro van
afternoon.
Fetchen lost control of the
van, drove into a ditch and
struck a large rock, damaging
the vehicle, police said. Fetchen
wore a seatbelt and was not
injured. State police said charg-
es will be filed against Fetchen
as a result of the crash. The van
was towed from the scene.
HAZLE TWP. – A 14-year-old
male student at the Hazleton
Area Ninth Grade Center was
stolen property for allegedly
taking another student’s Apple
iPhone from her purse on March
3.
State police at Hazleton said
the teenage boy took the phone
and passed it to another student
to remove it from the school.
The phone was recovered and
returned to the 15-year-old fe-
male student from Butler Town-
ship who reported it missing.
HAZLE TWP. – A 16-year-old
student at Hazleton Area High
School reported his Apple iPod
Touch player missing. He told
state police at Hazleton that he
left it unattended in a classroom
on March 22 and when he re-
turned it was gone.
THE TIMES LEADER
Earlier Saturday, competing in
the semifinal round of competi-
tion with Wyoming Seminary
and St. Joseph’s Preparatory
School were Scranton Preparato-
ry School, Lackawanna County,
and Strath Haven High School,
Delaware County.
The Pennsylvania Cable Net-
work will air the final round of
the competition statewide on the
following dates and times: Fri-
day at 7 p.m., Saturday at 10 p.m.
and Sunday at 3 p.m.
The Pennsylvania Bar Founda-
tion, the charitable affiliate of the
Pennsylvania Bar Association, is
providing funding support for
the broadcast. Also, DVDs of the
final round will be available for
purchase from the network’s
Web site at www.pcntv.com.
president of the chemical divi-
sion for development for East-
man Kodak. Coover and the team
of chemists he worked with be-
came prolific patent holders,
achieving more than 460. The
work included polymers, organo-
phosphate chemistry, the gasifi-
cation of coal and of course, cya-
noacrylate.
Coover also had a part in early
television history, appearing
with Garry Moore for "I’ve got a
Secret." Moore, the show’s host,
and Coover were hung in the air
on bars that were stuck to metal
supports with a single drop of his
glue during a live television
broadcast.
The Industrial Research Insti-
tute, for which he served as presi-
dent in 1982, honored Coover
with a gold medal and the U.S.
Patent Office inducted him into
the National Inventors Hall of
Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2004.
HAZLE TWP. – Two clothing
drop-off boxes of F&S Used
Clothing were stolen between 9
a.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. Fri-
day, state police at Hazleton
said. The white boxes were
located in the All Phase parking
lot on state Route 309 near the
fruit stand by the Pardeesville
entrance and the KNBT parking
lot in Hazle Township.
HAZLE TWP. – State police
at Hazleton said Santo Guzman,
33, of Hazleton was arrested on
evidence of drunken driving
early Saturday morning on state
Route 309.
Guzman allegedly committed
several traffic violations and was
stopped by a state trooper. The
trooper said he determined
Guzman was under the influen-
ce of an alcoholic beverage.
Guzman was taken into custody
and taken to Hazleton General
Hospital, where he submitted to
a blood alcohol test. The in-
vestigation remains open pend-
ing the test results.
DORRANCE TWP. – Linda
Thomas of Hollow Road told
state police at Hazleton that her
residence sustained minor dam-
age from a fire set close to it
sometime between 6 p.m.
March 21 and 6 p.m. Saturday.
DORRANCE TWP. - Anthony
DiMaria said someone tried to
break into his residence on
Sunset Road between 6:30 a.m.
Thursday and 6:30 a.m. Friday.
DiMaria told state police at
Hazleton that the screen to a
rear window was cut, but the
residence was not entered. State
police said there is a suspect in
the case.
FOSTER TWP. -- Nancy Mar-
garet Cordick, 51, of Hillary
Drive, will be charged with
harassment, said state police at
Hazleton. State police allege she
sent threatening text messages
the night of March 19 that
alarmed William Stephen
French, 47, of White Haven.
HANOVER TWP. – Lois Rab-
bas told police that an object hit
her windshield, cracking it,
while she was driving east on
Ashley Street near the Hanover
Area high school on Friday
afternoon. Juveniles were seen
in the area from where the ob-
ject came, Rabbas said. The
juveniles were not located.
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QUINTO - 9-5-2-1-1
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HARRISBURG – No player
matched all five winning
numbers drawn in Sunday’s
“Pennsylvania Cash 5” game
so the jackpot will be worth
$330,000.
Lottery officials said 51
players matched four num-
bers and won $320.50 each;
1,948 players matched three
numbers and won $14 each;
and 25,724 players matched
two numbers and won $1
each.
•None of the tickets sold
for the Powerball game
Saturday evening matched
all six numbers drawn, which
were:
04-10-11-19-33
Powerball: 27
Power Play: 4
Players matching all five
numbers and the Powerball
would have won or shared
the $125 million jackpot. The
prize goes to an estimated
$153 million for Wednesday.
Tickets that match the
first five numbers, but miss
the Powerball, win
$200,000 each, and there
were twelve of those. They
were sold in: Colorado(1),
Connecticut(3), Delaware(1),
Iowa(1), Illinois(1), Louisiana
(1), Maryland(1), Missouri(1),
New York(1) and Wisconsin
(1).
There were two Power
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OBITUARIES
Bartolomei, Louis
Cawley, Edward
Evans, David
Franchelli, Joseph
Garrison, Helen
Gugliotti, Andrew
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LOCAL
Back Mountain church café offers refreshments, work experience

Serving up coffee and community

By SARA POKORNY
spokorny@timesleader.com
KINGSTON TWP. -- The staff of the Harvest
Café, in Trucksville, is more than happy to serve
you a variety of smoothies and hot and cold cof-
fee drinks.
Or maybe you’d like to venture downstairs,
where there’s a stage surrounded by a fully func-
tioning light and sound system, as well as three
screens and a computer area.
This isn’t a part of a college campus or an in-
dependent coffee house downtown. It’s the
Back Mountain Harvest Assembly’s outlet to
give back to the community, as well as its own
parish.
The BMHA celebrated the newly renovated
“We’re hoping that with this, we six months the entire facility has become a ven-
ue for worship services, church activities and an
can provide a venue for kids to aid for those involved in BMHA.
come and hang out.” “The computers downstairs are equipped
with music and video editing programs,” Chap-
Doug Chapman
man said. “We have some kids that work on
Youth pastor
such academic tracks in school, so the software
is available to them here.”
youth center during an open house on Sunday. There is also Internet access available for stu-
Youth Pastor Doug Chapman designed the dents who may not have it at home.
space with efficiency in mind. There are two televisions and one large pro-
“By design, it can facilitate a number of activ- jection screen in the garage.
ities,” he said. “Everything here is multipur- “They can be utilized for presentations,” said BILL TARUTIS/FOR THE TIMES LEADER
pose.” Chapman. “We can also have movie Back Mountain Harvest Assembly Associate Pastor Raymond
The former two-car garage was the meeting Petts addresses the congregation at the Sunday morning worship
place for the church’s youth group. In the past See CAFE, Page 8A service in their new Harvest Cafe in Trucksville.

Leniency Hazleton
Mackenzie Marx of Hanover Township A giant
picture of
is battling a form of leukemia Mackenzie
Marx is

for Kulick
displayed

Community Area
at Roda-
no’s res-
taurant

requested
during

renews
Sunday’s

on her side
benefit.

Citizens’ Voice owner’s lawyer

cites Kulick’s help in getting
retrial in defamation case.
By JERRY LYNOTT
jlynott@timesleader.com
An attorney for the owner of
The Citizens’ Voice urged lenien-
cy at the resentencing of Robert
Kulick for his assistance in the ap-
peal of a multimillion-dollar defa-
mation verdict against the news-
paper company in Luzerne Coun-
ty Court in
2006.
Kulick, 62, of
Bear Creek
Township, has
been in custody
since Novem-
ber 2009, serv-
Kulick ing a 37-month
sentence for his
guilty plea to a charge of a felon in
possession of a firearm.
An appellate court last year
ruled that the length of the im-
prisonment was improperly cal-
culated and ordered resentenc-
ing that has been scheduled for
Wednesday by U.S. District
Judge James M. Munley in Scran-
ton.
Federal prosecutors advocated
for a 30-month sentence for Kul-
ick. Defense attorneys, however,
asked that Kulick be sentenced to
time served and placed on super-
vised release to ensure he com-
pletes an alcohol abuse treat-
ment program.
Attorney J. Timothy Hinton
wrote Munley a letter Thursday
saying that The Scranton Times
would not have gotten the state
Supreme Court to order a new
trial without Kulick’s help. The
re-trial is scheduled for May 2.
“I would therefore urge the
Court, when imposing a sentence
upon Mr. Kulick, to consider his
extraordinary, voluntary and sub-
stantial assistance in uncovering
and correcting a significant mis-
carriage of justice in Luzerne
County,” wrote Hinton.
The attorney added he intends
to subpoena Kulick to testify as a
See KULICK, Page 10A
By STEVEN FONDO
Times Leader Correspondent
WILKES-BARRE -- Area peo-
ple turned out in force in Wilkes-
Barre on Sunday for a fundraiser
to benefit a 7-year-old girl re-
cently diagnosed with acute
myeloid leukemia.
Mackenzie Marx of Hanover
Township is currently at the
Children’s Hospital of Philadel-
phia undergoing her first round
of chemotherapy for the illness.
Marx family
“This fam- friend and
event organiz-
ily’s been er Amy Martin
through said more than
400 people
quite a planned to at-
lot.” tend the bene-
fit at Rodano’s
Amy Martin
Pizza on Pub-
Family friend,
supporter lic Square. At
around 4:30
p.m., a line of
people, eager to support the
cause, began to form and
stretched around the block to
South Main Street within a few
minutes.
“We posted the event on Face-
book and the response has been
unbelievable,” Martin said. “My
e-mail have been full of people
calling to express their support
for Mackenzie. The word of
mouth has spread throughout
the valley. Even people outside
the area have called to offer their
support and encouragement.”
“When I visited Mackenzie
and her family at the hospital in
Philadelphia recently, I was
struck by the enormous expense
they were incurring,” Martin
said. “I mean, just eating three
meals a day, seven days a week
at the hospital cafeteria is outra-
geously expensive. I wanted to
help.”
In 2004, Joe and Angie Marx’s
older daughter, Jenna (then 6),
was treated for a severe form of
viral encephalitis that left her
See BENEFIT, Page 10A
insurance
Current carrier objects to
Joyce Group’s bid and gets
picked up for another year.
By JIM MORRISSEY
Times Leader Correspondent
HAZLE TWP. – Hazleton Area
School Board members voted
last week to renew insurance cov-
erage for the district for a year, ef-
fective April 1, by renewing a con-
tract with its current carrier.
The board had planned to ap-
prove a $192,574 bid from the
Joyce Insurance Group of Pitt-
ston at the
Thursday night Dryfoos Group
meeting, but
Llewellyn F. complained
Dryfoos III, the process of
president of the selection was
Dryfoos Group,
Hazleton, the compromised.
district’s cur-
rent insurer, ob-
jected. Dryfoos said district Busi-
ness Manager Tony Ryba, realiz-
ing that Joyce may have not un-
derstood or realized the
specifications of coverage need-
ed by the district, and to save
money for the district, had al-
lowed the company to resubmit
its proposal. The Joyce Group bid
came in lower than the Dryfoos
offer of $198,440.
Dryfoos complained, though,
the process of selection was com-
promised. The board listened
and discussed the issue in exec-
utive session, then decided be-
cause Dryfoos Group had submit-
ted its proposal on time and met
all the specifications, it would
award that company the con-
tract.
In other business, the board
voted down a motion to appoint a
construction project manager to
be on-site full time, at a cost of
$5,000 per month, at the McA-
doo Elementary School construc-
PETE G. WILCOX PHOTOS/THE TIMES LEADER tion project. Board member
Joe Marx receives get-well wishes for his daughter Mackenzie from Sandy Kish of Hanover Town- Steve Hahn said he opposed hir-
ship during a benefit for Mackenzie, who is undergoing treatment for leukemia. ing an architect to oversee anoth-
er architect.
Carl Yorina, district director of

Group looking to raise funds for bulletproof vests for cops

Fallen Officers Remembered money for bulletproof vests.
“The Police Memorial in
was founded by 2 area sisters
Washington, D.C., holds the
in honor of their late brother. names of over 19,000 fallen offi-
cers," said Mosley. "We want to
honor their memory and bring
By STEVEN FONDO their fellow officers home safely
Times Leader Correspondent every day.”
Since Virginia Beach police of- The Laurel Run resident will
ficer Rodney Pocceschi, a Pitt- be traveling to South Carolina in
ston Area High School graduate, April along with a group of “fel-
was killed in the line of duty in low survivors” to skydive with
June 2003, his two area sisters, the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights
Jaclyn Pocceschi Mosley and Gi- as a way to raise money and
na Pocceschi Boyle, have awareness for her foundation.
worked tirelessly to honor their “I’m deathly afraid of
brother’s sacrifice and help pro- heights,” Mosley joked. “but if I
tect his fellow officers by raising can raise enough money for a
Mosley Boyle
few more vests, I’m willing to
give it a try.”
In 2003, Mosley and Boyle
started an organization called
Fallen Officers Remembered,
which provides funds to pur-
chase bulletproof vests for po-
lice officers in Northeastern
Pennsylvania.
“A decent vest costs about
$1,500,” Mosley said, “and many
smaller police departments
don’t have the funds to provide
one for each officer.”
Mosley said the sisters have
an arrangement with Wilkes-
Barre retailer Kranson’s Uni-
form to purchase the vests at
cost for $600.
In 2006, their organization be-
gan a fundraising program
called “Adopt-A-Cop,” which
seeks local sponsors to pledge
the total cost of a single vest.
”Since 2006, we’re proud to
say that our ‘Adopt-a-Cop’ pro-
gram has provided 108 bullet-
proof vests for local officers,”
Mosley said.
“Still over 70 percent of the
cops in this area are unprotect-
ed. We’re trying to change that.”
In an effort to raise awareness
the organization participates in
parades and fundraisers and
sponsors an annual scholarship
that awards $500 to a local stu-
dent majoring in criminal jus-
tice.
The sisters plan to take their
“Adopt-a-Cop’’ vest initiative to
a national audience in the near
future.
Donations can be made at
FallenOfficersRemembered.org.
operations, said hiring the man-
ager would significantly reduce
architect-driven change orders
currently being absorbed by the
district. Yorina also believed it
would prevent cost overruns and
would ultimately save the district
a substantial amount of money.
The board will review the issue.
School officials also noted se-
nior Keenan Monks, 17, won a
$25,000 scholarship in the 2011
National Intel Science Talent
search competition for a math
equation that can improve Inter-
net security and cryptography.
Keenan came in sixth in the na-
tion in the contest.
Keenan did research last sum-
mer on the equation with Univer-
sity of Wisconsin professor and
adviser Ken Ono and has been ac-
cepted at MIT and Harvard to
study mathematics.

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Review: Folk cures I-95 cameras capture controversy
for colic don’t work
Most doctors believe that
children will outgrow the
crying spells.
By LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO — That nonstop
crying of a baby with colic has
some parents turning to popular
folk remedies. Unfortunately,
there’s no good evidence they
work, according to a review of 15
studies.
The results don’t surprise New
York City mom Leni Calas, 32.
She tried many treatments stud-
ied, including fennel extract, sug-
ar drops and massage, and says
nothing worked for baby Roxy,
who cried almost nonstop for six
months.
“Our daughter would wake up
and cry literally morning to night
without napping,” Calas said.
“She would just literally scream
herself purple, and then throw up
because she had been screaming
so much.”
Calas said she and her husband
couldn’t accept what doctors told
them — that there was nothing
wrong with their baby and that
she’d outgrow the crying spells.
But that’s exactly what happened.
And that’s what most doctors
believe about colic, which affects
up to roughly 20 percent of U.S.
babies, usually in the first few
months of life.
If a physical problem can be
found, the condition is usually
not considered colic. Gastric re-
flux and protein allergies are
among conditions that can cause
digestive upsets and crying spells
in babies, and are often mistaken-
ly called colic.
That may explain why some re-
medies thought to ease digestive
problems may not work in babies
with true colic, including alterna-
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amounts of their ingredients are
not always verified. Parents
should always check with their
pediatricians if they plan to give
their children an alternative treat-
ment, said Dr. Jatinder Bhatia,
head of the American Academy of
Pediatrics nutrition committee.
The study by researchers at the
University of Exeter in England
was published online Monday in
Pediatrics. The researchers ana-
lyzed results from 15 studies on
various alternative remedies,
massage and chiropractic meth-
ods advertised as effective against
colic. Overall, almost 1,000 in-
fants were involved.
Few of the studies were rigor-
ously conducted and all had “ma-
jor limitations,” the researchers
said.
“Thus, the notion that any form
of complementary and alterna-
tive medicine is effective for in-
fantile colic is currently not sup-
ported from the evidence” stud-
ied, they said.
None of the studies reported
side effects, but one involving an
herbal remedy listed vomiting,
constipation and other symp-
toms possibly related to the treat-
ment.
Although there were promising
signs with a few treatments, in-
cluding fennel extract, herbal teas
and sugar solutions, better re-
search is needed to provide con-
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The cameras have nabbed
motorists, but lawmakers
want them unplugged in S.C.
By BRUCE SMITH
Associated Press
RIDGELAND, S.C. — As In-
terstate 95 sweeps past this small
town along South Carolina’s
coastal plain, motorists encoun-
ter cameras that catch speeding
cars, the only such devices on the
open interstate for almost 2,000
miles from Canada to Miami.
The cameras have nabbed
thousands of motorists, won ac-
colades from highway safety ad-
vocates, attracted heated opposi-
tion from state lawmakers and
sparked a federal court chal-
lenge.
Ridgeland Mayor Gary Hodg-
es said the cameras in his town
about 20 miles north of the Ge-
orgia line do what they are de-
signed to do: slow people down,
reduce accidents and, most im-
portant, save lives.
But lawmakers who want to
unplug them argue the system is
just a money-maker and amounts
to unconstitutional selective law
enforcement.
"We’re absolutely shutting it
down," said state Sen. Larry
Grooms, chairman of the Senate
Transportation Committee.
Earlier this month, Ridgeland
police officer David Swinehamer
sat in a van beneath an overpass
as a radar gun in a thicket of elec-
tronic equipment outside
clocked passing vehicles: 60, 72,
73, 67.
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Carolina tags sped by going 83 —


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S.C., is deployed beside Interstate 95 in the town limits.
13 mph over the speed limit. A
camera fired and pictures of the
tag and driver appeared on a
monitor in the van. The unaware
motorist continued north, but
could expect a $133 ticket in the
mail in a couple of weeks.
"I just don’t think it’s right,"
said James Gain of Kissimmee,
Fla., one of the lawsuit plaintiffs
who got a ticket last year while
driving between his home and
Greensboro, N.C. "If you get a
ticket you should be stopped by
an officer, know you have been
stopped and have an opportunity
to state your case."
Gain paid the fine, saying it
was less expensive than driving
six hours back to Ridgeland for
court.
Motorists do get a warning. As
they enter town, a blue and white
sign says they are entering an ar-
ea with "Photo-Radar Assisted
Speed Enforcement."
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From January to July of 2010,
there were 55 crashes and four fa-
talities. From August through
the end of last month, there were
38 crashes and no deaths. And
since the cameras started operat-
ing until last month, there has
been almost a 50 percent drop in
the number of motorists driving
81 or more.
"You can’t argue with the re-
sults and the only reason you
would be upset is because you
are speeding," said Tom Crosby,
a spokesman for AAA Carolinas.
"All it’s doing is enforcing the
AP PHOTO law, and even then you have to be
doing over 80 to get a ticket."
Police use driver’s license pho-
tos or physical descriptions from
states and the District of Colum- licenses such as a driver’s hair,
bia, according to the Insurance eye color and weight to identify
Institute for Highway Safety. The the motorist. No ticket is issued
only other place with a camera if there is any question about the
on I-95 is in a Maryland work driver’s identity.
zone. Grooms, the legislator, said
The cameras have sparked since not all speeders are ticket-
controversy in other places ed, it’s selective enforcement. He
around the nation as well. added that while the system may
Last year, Arizona ended a issue a ticket, it doesn’t get vio-
two-year program with cameras lators off the road.
on Phoenix-area expressways "You are driving down the road
and other roads, in part because at 100 mph or you are driving
of perceptions they were being down the road drunk. The cam-
used to raise revenue. era takes your picture and three
But Cedar Rapids, Iowa, began weeks later you get a ticket in the
using cameras last summer on mail. There is no element of pub-
busy I-380. Police there said dur- lic safety," he said.
ing the first month of operation, Grooms said the cameras are
violations dropped 62 percent. only a money-maker for the
Hodges said since Ridgeland, town. Hodges discounts that,
working with iTraffic Safety, be- saying the town just wants to re-
came the first community in cover the cost of police and am-
South Carolina to deploy cam- bulance service for millions of
eras in August, motorists are also motorists passing through. Two-
driving slower along the 7 miles thirds of ticket money goes to the
of I-95 passing through the town state, he said.

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Wal-Mart
◆I N B R I E F Rise in Medicare premiums probably will wipe out slight increase

Social Security COLA unlikely sex-bias

case hits
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER their Social Security payments each crashed and who can’t find work because
Associated Press month. the job market is weak or they are in poor
WASHINGTON — Millions of retired When Medicare premiums rise more health.
and disabled people in the United States than Social Security payments, millions of "You just don’t have the words to say

AP PHOTO
All fired up to go skiing
Erik Knudsen leads teammate Neils
Knudsen of the Falmouth, Maine, fire
department as they compete in the
21st Annual Firefighters Fundraising
Race on Sunday at the Sunday River
ski resort in Newry, Maine. Teams of
five wearing firefighting gear carried a
50-foot hose while negotiating a giant
slalom race course.
BEERSHEBA, ISRAEL
Defense system is deployed
top court
had better brace for another year with no
increase in Social Security payments.
The government is projecting a slight
cost-of-living adjustment for Social Secu-
rity benefits next year, the first increase
since 2009. But for most beneficiaries, ris-
ing Medicare premiums threaten to wipe
out any increase in payments, leaving
them without a raise for a third straight
year.
About 45 million people — one in seven
in the country — receive both Medicare
and Social Security. By law, beneficiaries
have their Medicare Part B premiums,
which cover doctor visits, deducted from
people living on fixed incomes don’t get
raises. On the other hand, most don’t get
pay cuts, either, because a hold-harmless
provision prevents higher Part B premi-
ums from reducing Social Security pay-
ments for most people.
David Certner of AARP estimates that
as many as three-fourths of beneficiaries
will have their entire Social Security in-
crease swallowed by rising Medicare pre-
miums next year.
It’s a tough development for retirees
who lost much of their savings when the
stock market collapsed, who lost value in
their homes when the housing market
C R I S I S I N JA PA N
how much this impacts a person," said
Joyce Trebilcock, a retired legal secretary
from Belle, Mo., a small town about 100
miles west of St. Louis.
Like most U.S. retirees, Trebilcock, 65,
said Social Security is her primary source Woman makes claim vs. top
of income. She said a back injury about 15
retailer in largest job
years ago left her unable to work, so she
applied for disability benefits. Now, she discrimination lawsuit ever.
lives on a $1,262 Social Security payment
each month, with more than $500 going to
pay the mortgage. By MARK SHERMAN
"I’ve cut back on about everything I can, Associated Press
and I take the rest out of my savings," Tre- WASHINGTON — Christine
bilcock said. "Thank God I’ve got that.” Kwapnoski hasn’t done too badly
in nearly 25 years in the Wal-Mart
family, making more than $60,000
a year in a job she enjoys most
days.
But Kwapnoski says she faced
obstacles at Wal-Mart-owned
Sam’s Club stores in both Missou-
ri and Califor-
nia: Men mak- “It is the
ing more than
women and get- “biggest
ting promoted litigation

Ioutsrael deployed a cutting-edge rocket

defense system on Sunday, rolling
the latest tool in its arsenal to stop
a recent spike in attacks from the
neighboring Gaza Strip.
Israel hopes the homegrown Iron
Dome system will provide increased
security to its citizens, but officials
warned that it can’t do the job alone.
The system went into operation shortly
after an Israeli aircraft struck a group
of militants in Gaza, killing two. Israeli
said they were about to fire a rocket.
Iron Dome uses sophisticated cam-
eras and radar to track incoming rock-
ets, determine where they will land,
and intercept and destroy them far
from their targets.
BERLIN
Conservatives suffer defeat
German chancellor Angela Merkel’s
conservatives have suffered a historic
defeat in a state ballot after almost six
decades in power there, preliminary
faster.
She never threat Wal-
heard a supervi- Mart has
sor tell a man,
as she says one
ever
told her, to “doll faced.”
up” or “blow
Brad Seligman
the cobwebs California-based
off” her make- lawyer
up.
Once she got
over the fear that she might be
fired, she joined what has turned
into the largest job discrimination
lawsuit ever.
The 46-year-old single mother
of two is one of the named plain-
tiffs in a suit that will be argued at
the Supreme Court on Tuesday. At
stake is whether the suit can go
forward as a class action that
could involve 500,000 to 1.6 mil-
AP PHOTO lion women, according to varying
Earthquake and tsunami evacuees attend a yoga class Sunday at a shelter in Fukushima, Japan, as officials struggle to estimates, and potentially could
cope with the growing problems posed by the region’s damaged nuclear power plant. cost the world’s largest retailer bil-
lions of dollars.

Nuclear obstacles mount

results showed Sunday, in an election
that amounted to a referendum on the
party’s stance on nuclear power.
The opposition anti-nuclear Greens
doubled their voter share in Baden-
Wuerttemberg state and seemed poised
to win their first-ever state governor-
ship, according to preliminary results
released by the state electoral commis-
sion.
Representatives of all parties said the
elections were overshadowed by Ja-
pan’s nuclear crisis, turning them into
a popular vote on the country’s future
use of nuclear power — which a major-
ity of Germans oppose as they view it
as inherently dangerous.
WASHINGTON
Flights resume in Alaska
Alaska Airlines and its Horizon Air
affiliate said Sunday they have resolved
a computer outage that led to the can-
cellation of 150 flights a day earlier,
disrupting travel plans for more than
12,000 passengers.
The company said in a statement
that most of its flights are now oper-
ating on time, though about a dozen
have been delayed due to crew sched-
uling issues. The company recom-
mends passengers check their flight’s
status online or by calling 1-800-ALAS-
KAAIR .
Passengers are boarding the next
available flights at no charge, and in
some cases are flying with other air-
lines, the company said.
“On behalf of the 13,000 Alaska Air-
lines and Horizon Air employees, I
offer my profound apology to custom-
ers inconvenienced by this disruption,”
said Alaska Airlines President Brad
Tilden in a statement.
Reports of immense
radiation figures retracted,
but huge problems remain.
By YURI KAGEYAMA and
MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press
TOKYO — Mounting prob-
lems, including badly miscal-
culated radiation figures and
inadequate storage tanks for
huge amounts of contaminat-
ed water, stymied emergency
workers Sunday as they strug-
gled to nudge Japan’s stricken
nuclear complex back from
the edge of disaster.
Workers are attempting to
remove the radioactive water
from the tsunami-ravaged nu-
clear compound and restart
the regular cooling systems
for the dangerously hot fuel.
The day began with compa-
ny officials reporting that ra-
diation in leaking water in the
Unit 2 reactor was 10 million
times above normal, a spike
that forced employees to flee
the unit. The day ended with
officials saying the huge fig-
ure had been miscalculated
Smoke billows from Unit 3 at the stricken Fukushima Dai-
ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Japan, Sunday.
and offering apologies.
“The number is not credi-
ble,” said Tokyo Electric Pow-
er Co. spokesman Takashi
Kurita. “We are very sorry.”
A few hours later, TEPCO
Vice President Sakae Muto
said a new test had found ra-
diation levels 100,000 times
above normal — far better
than the first results, though
still very high.
But he ruled out having an
AP PHOTO
independent monitor oversee
the various checks despite
the errors.
Officials acknowledged
there was radioactive water
in all four of the Fukushima
Dai-ichi complex’s most trou-
bled reactors, and that air-
borne radiation in Unit 2 mea-
sured 1,000 millisieverts per
hour, four times the limit
deemed safe by the govern-
ment.
Those high airborne read-
ings — if accurate — would
make it very difficult for
emergency workers to get in-
side to pump out the water.
Officials say they still don’t
know where the radioactive
water is coming from, though
government spokesman Yu-
kio Edano earlier said some is
“almost certainly” seeping
from a damaged reactor core
in one of the units.
The discovery late last
week of pools of radioactive
water has been a major set-
back in the mission to get the
crucial cooling systems oper-
ating more than two weeks af-
ter a massive earthquake and
tsunami.
The magnitude-9 quake off
Japan’s northeast coast on
March 11 triggered a tsunami
that barreled onshore and dis-
abled the Fukushima plant,
complicating a humanitarian
disaster that is thought to
have killed about 18,000 peo-
ple.
A top TEPCO official ac-
knowledged it could take a
long time to clean up the
complex.
But the case’s potential impor-
tance issue goes well beyond the
Wal-Mart dispute, as evidenced by
more than two dozen briefs filed
by business interests on Wal-
Mart’s side, and civil rights, con-
sumer and union groups on the
other.
The question is crucial to the
viability of discrimination claims,
which become powerful vehicles
to force change when they are pre-
sented together, instead of indi-
vidually. Class actions increase
pressure on businesses to settle
suits because of the cost of defend-
ing them and the potential for ve-
ry large judgments.
Columbia University law pro-
fessor John Coffee said the high
court could bring a virtual end to
employment discrimination class
actions filed under Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, depend-
ing on how it decides the Wal-
Mart case.
Illustrating the value of class ac-
tions, Brad Seligman, the Califor-
nia-based lawyer who conceived
of and filed the suit 10 years ago,
said the average salary for a wom-
an at Wal-Mart was $13,000, about
$1,100 less than the average for a
man, when the case began. The
company has fought the suit every
step of the way, Seligman said, be-
cause “it is the biggest litigation
threat Wal-Mart has ever faced.”
A trial judge and the federal ap-
peals court in San Francisco, over
a fierce dissent, said the suit could
go forward.

ROME

Pope prays at memorial

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed
at the memorial to victims of a 1944
massacre that was one of the worst
atrocities by German occupiers in Italy
during World War II and denounced
what he called the “abominable” legacy
of violence unleashed during war.
The visit won Jewish praise that
Benedict had taken yet another step to
heal centuries of painful Vatican-Jewish
relations.
The German-born pontiff visited the
Ardeatine Caves on the outskirts of
Syrian army out to put down unrest
Also in the Midest, Yemen’s
president scraps offer to
step down from power.
By HUSSEIN MALLA
and ZEINA KARAM
Associated Press
LATAKIA, Syria — Syria’s ar-
my was out in force Sunday in a
port city scarred by unrest
aimed at symbols of the govern-
promising reform, and a law-
maker told The Associated
Press on Sunday that he expect-
ed Assad to soon announce that
he was lifting a nearly 50-year
state of emergency.
The timing remained un-
clear.
Syria has been rocked by
more than a week of anti-gov-
ernment demonstrations that
began in a drought-parched
southern agricultural city and
six places, leading to dozens of
deaths.
Also in the Mideast, Yemen’s
president, clinging to power
despite weeks of protests,
scrapped an offer to step down
by year’s end on Sunday, as Is-
lamic militants taking advan-
tage of the deteriorating securi-
ty took control of another
southern town.
Opponents of President Ali
Abdullah Saleh — a group that AP PHOTO

Rome to mark the anniversary of the
killings of 335 civilians in Rome.
Among those in attendance were
children and other relatives of the
victims, with some of the elderly family
members weeping at the memory of
their loss and clutching flowers.
ment, which is struggling to
put down an unprecedented na-
tionwide outbreak of protest
and dissent.
President Bashar Assad’s re-
gime has responded by both fa-
tally shooting protesters and
exploded nationwide on Fri-
day, a once-unimaginable de-
velopment for one of the Mid-
east’s most repressive govern-
ments.
Security forces have opened
fire on demonstrators in at least
started with university stu-
dents and has expanded to in-
clude defecting military com-
manders, politicians, diplo-
mats and even Saleh’s own
tribe — had immediately re-
jected his offer a week ago to
Syrian pro-Assad protesters shout slogans Sunday as they
carry pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a
sit-in in front of the Syrian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
leave by the end of this year. by both sides to negotiate a
Its formal withdrawal by the transfer of power to end the cri-
president indicates an attempt sis has failed.

PAGE 6A MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2011
LOUIS J. BARTOLOMEI, 91,
Old Forge, died Sunday, March 27,
2011. He is survived by his wife, the
former Pasquina Antonini. Louis
was a son of the late Vincenzo and
Esterina Bartolomei. He was pre-
ceded in death by brothers, Albert,
Gino, and Alfred; and sisters, Anita
Gechunis, and Mary Albertelli. In
addition to his wife, Louis is sur-
vived by his son, Robert L. Bartolo-
mei, Old Forge; daughter, Linda
Yantorn, Dunmore; as well as
grandchildren, great-grandchil-
dren, nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be at 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday from the Victor M. Fer-
ri Funeral Home, 522 Fallon St.,
Old Forge, with a Mass at10 a.m. in
St. Mary’s Church at Prince of
Peace Parish, Old Forge. Inter-
ment will be at Holy Cross Ceme-
tery, Old Forge. Friends may call
from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. To leave
an online condolence, visit
www.ferrifuneralhome.com.
JOSEPH FRANCHELLI, 92, of
Plains Township, died Sunday af-
ternoon, March 27, 2011, at Geis-
inger Wyoming Valley Medical
Center, Plains Township.
Arrangements are pending
from the Corcoran Funeral Home
Inc., Plains Township.
BARBARA WEISKERGER, 75,
of West Pittston, died Sunday,
March 27, 2011, at the Wilkes-
Barre General Hospital.
Funeral arrangements are
pending from Gubbiotti Funeral
Home, 1030 Wyoming Ave., Exe-
ter.
DAVID ROY EVANS, 42, of Hun-
lock Creek, died unexpectedly,
Saturday, March 26, 2011, at
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
Funeral arrangements are
pending from the George A. Strish
Inc. Funeral Home, 105 N. Main
St., Ashley.
Joseph C.
Hurst Jr.
March 26, 2011
Joseph C. Hurst, Jr., 72, of
Wilkes-Barre, died peacefully Sat-
urday afternoon, March 26, 2011,
at Hospice Community Care, Geis-
inger South Wilkes-Barre.
He is survived by his loving
wife, the former Barbara Sharon.
Together the couple shared 48
wonderful years of marriage.
Born on July 17, 1938, in Plains
Township, he was a son of the late
Joseph Sr., and Jennie Spak Hurst.
Joseph was a graduate of Plains
High School, class of 1956.
He served proudly in the U.S.
Army Reserves.
Prior to his retirement, Joseph
worked as a truck driver for Cono-
co and Ward Trucking, Wilkes-
Barre.
Joseph was a member of St. Ma-
ry’s Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Wilkes-Barre.
He was a loving husband, broth-
er, uncle and friend, who will be
deeply missed by all who knew and
loved him.
Joseph’s family would like to ex-
tend a heartfelt thank you to Dr.
Rodrigo Erlich as well as the nurs-
es from Geisinger, Henry Cancer
Center, for the compassionate and
wonderful care they provided for
Joseph.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by his sister,
Delores Stachowski; and his niece,
Lori Stachowski.
In addition to his loving wife,
Barbara, he is survived by his
brother, Charles Hurst, and wife
Mitzi, Hanover; brothers-in-law,
Bernie Stachowski, South Caroli-
na; Joseph Sharon and wife Rita,
Pringle; sister-in-law Carole Sha-
ron, Pringle; nieces and nephews,
Charlene Hurst, Charles Hurst and
wife Tanya, Debbie Kady, Karla
Fleury and husband David, Holly
Pick and husband Damion, Joseph
Sharon and wife Gloria; and great-
nieces and great-nephews. Joseph
is also survived by his faithful com-
panion and best friend, his dog,
Kaylee.
The funeral will be held at 9
a.m. Wednesday from the
Mamary-Durkin Funeral Service
Corp., 59 Parrish St., Wilkes-
Barre, followed by a Mass of Chris-
tian Burial to be celebrated at 9:30
a.m. in St. Mary’s Church of the
Immaculate Conception, 134 S.
Washington St., Wilkes-Barre,
with Monsignor Thomas V. Ban-
ick, officiating. Interment will fol-
low in St. Hedwig’s Cemetery,
Larksville. Family and friends may
call from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the
funeral home.
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Joseph Jones
March 22, 2011
Jdiedoseph Jones, 77, of Plymouth,
and formerly of Trucksville,
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at
the Geisinger Wyoming Valley
Medical Center, Plains Township.
Joe was born and raised in
Wilkes-Barre. He was a graduate of
GAR Memorial High School,
where he played football and pur-
sued other athletic interests.
He was a Korean War veteran
serving in the U.S. Army.
Joe was employed by Wilson
Foods for most of his adult life, and
continued to work in the food in-
dustry until his retirement.
He was an avid Penn State fan,
as well as a Dallas High School
football fan. His roots in GAR High
School were always evident, as he
greatly enjoyed high school, col-
lege and professional football.
He was preceded in death by his
wife, Marie Nagle Jones; and his
daughter, Shari Jones Amann,
both of Trucksville.
Joe will forever be remembered
by his two daughters, Patrice and
Donna Jones, both of California;
his stepchildren, Patricia Nagle
Lorah and husband Robert,
Trucksville; stepson Bruce W. Na-
gle, Plymouth; stepdaughter Mau-
reen L. Nagle, Wyoming; and step-
son George R. Nagle, and wife Ma-
ria, Virginia; his treasured grand-
Helen C. Lange Garrison
March 27, 2011
H elen C. Lange Garrison, of
Tunkhannock, died early Sun-
day morning, March 27, 2011, in the
Meadowview Senior Living Center,
Montrose, Pa.
She was born in Springville, on
June 14, 1935, a daughter of the late
Arnold Lange and Anna C. Hay
Lange Oliver, and step-daughter of
John T. Oliver.
As a child, growing up, she lived
with her grandparents, the late Kate
and Louis Lange, Tunkhannock.
Helen was a member of the
Springville Baptist Church. For
many years she served as the
churches organist.
She was a 1953 graduate of Tunk-
hannock High School. Prior to her
retirement, she worked in the in the
Poultry Lab at the Department of
Agriculture, Wyoming County; as a
school bus contractor for the Tunk-
hannock Area School, where she al-
so worked as a teachers aide.
For several years Helen was ac-
tive in the Kiwanis Wyoming Coun-
ty Fair, serving as chairman of the
committee to elect the fair queen.
Helen was preceded in death by
brothers, Elwood and Robert A.
Lange.
Surviving are her husband of 53
years, Clark Garrison; son, Terry
Garrison, Tunkhannock; daughter,
Cindy Stephens, and husband Ge-
orge, Forked River, N.J.; Pam Eyer
and husband Dick, Newville, Pa.;
Kim Jennings and Dave, Spring-
ville, Pa.; Becky Williams and hus-
band James, Clayton, N.C.; grand-
children, Jeremy G., Joshua R. and
Justin M. Stephens; Ben Garrison;
Broc and Katie Jennings; and Cam-
eron and McKenzie Williams; step-
Megan M. Horst
March 26, 2011
M egan M. Horst, 14, of Wilkes-
Barre, died Saturday, March
26, 2011, at her home.
She was born in Wilkes-Barre, a
daughter of Brian and JoAnn Reese
Horst.
Megan was currently a junior at
Meyers High School.
She was preceded in death by her
grandmother, Joanne Henninger.
In addition to her parents, she is
survived by sisters, Kimberly and
husband Cornell Crawford; Jessica
and husband Branden Peterson,
both of Wilkes-Barre; Shannon
Horst, Exeter; and Kelly Horst, at
home; brothers, Brandon and Travis
Horst, at home; grandparents, Vale-
rie and Edward Reese, and George
and Sandy Horst; as well as three ne-
phews, one niece, aunts, uncles and
cousins.
Funeral services will be at 11
Wayne H. Kellow
March 26, 2011
Wayne H. Kellow, 65, of Dorrance
Township, died Saturday, March 26,
2011, at his home.
Born in Pond Hill, he was a son of
the late Henry and Dorothy Rockel
Kellow.
Wayne attended Newport Town-
ship High School and was employed
for 42 years at Wise Foods, Berwick,
until retiring.
He was a member of St. Mark’s
Lutheran Church, Pond Hill, a de-
voted family man, NASCAR enthu-
siast, and also loved to ride his mo-
torcycle and work in the garage.
Wayne is survived by his wife of
46 years, Christine (Myers) Kellow;
children Donald Kellow and wife
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children, Robert, Richard and
Jonathan Lorah; Bruce J. Nagle and
sister Blake, Bruce and Bob Kugler,
Joseph and Kevin Reese; and his 11
great-grandchildren; as well as
countless other family and friends
who were blessed to have known
him.
Family and friends are invit-
ed to attend a Memorial Ser-
vice at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the
Chapel at Mount Olivet Cemetery,
Carverton.
His family asks that flowers be
omitted, and respectfully requests
that memorial gifts may be sent to
the Simon S. Russin Funeral Home,
136 Maffett St. Plains Township, PA
18705.
sisters, Mary Ann Smith and hus-
band Herbert, Meshoppen, Pa., and
Jean Hall and companion Jim Byler,
Wilkes-Barre; step-brothers, Ray-
mond Oliver and wife Dora, Mon-
trose; David Oliver, Springville, Pa.;
Dennis Oliver and wife Connie,
Springville, Pa.; Ronald Oliver and
wife Judy, Meshoppen, Pa.; sister-
in-law, Sally Lange, Binghamton,
N.Y.; as well as numerous nieces, ne-
phews, grand-nieces and grand-ne-
phews.
Funeral services will be held at
11 a.m. Thursday from the Spring-
ville Baptist Church with the Rev.
Roger Rosenau, Pastor of the
Springville Baptist Church, and the
Rev. George Stephens, son-in-law of
Helen, presiding. Interment will be
in Sunnyside Cemetery. Friends
may call the Sheldon-Kukuchka Fu-
neral Home Inc., 73 W. Tioga St.,
Tunkhannock, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday. On line condolences
may be sent to the family at
www.sheldonkukuchkafuneral-
home.com.
a.m. Wednesday from the Kopicki
Funeral Home, 263 Zerbey Ave.,
Kingston. Interment will be in the
Oaklawn Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre.
Friends may call from 9 a.m. until
the time of service on Wednesday.
Theresa, Dorrance; Greg Kellow
and wife Lisa, Hanover Township;
and Deanne Kellow, Dorrance;
grandchildren, Julie and Josh; sis-
ter, Judy Wida, and husband Drew,
Elmira, N.Y.; and brother, Ray Kel-
low, and wife, Roxanne, Slocum.
A memorial service to honor his
life and faith will be held at 11 a.m.
Friday from the Stairville United
Methodist Church, Stairville Road,
Wapwallopen, with Pastor Scott
Ryan presiding. There will be no
calling hours.
In lieu of flowers, expressions of
sympathy may be sent to the memo-
rial fund of the church.
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Florence Rosemary Mazur
March 25, 2011
F lorence Rosemary Mazur, 84,
died Friday morning, March 25,
2011.
She was born August 26, 1926, a
daughter of the late John and Mary
Martin, Larksville.
Florence attended school in
Larksville, where she met her hus-
band, Peter. A striking couple, they
married in 1943, celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary in
1993, and remained married for a to-
tal of 67 years, always devoted to
their children and to each other.
Family and friends knew Flo-
rence as a vibrant, spirited and un-
selfish woman, and were shocked by
her sudden illness and passing.
Before leaving for the hospital,
Florence left the words ‘Think
Spring’ on the kitchen slate, looking
forward to her return home, and to
the gardening season.
An amateur astronomer, she
made the backyard her observatory
at night. Bird watching was an inter-
est, and all who knew her thorough-
ly enjoyed her feats in the kitchen.
For many years as a member of
St. John’s Russian Orthodox
Church, she enjoyed and donated
much time making pierogies, and
other foods for the church.
Florence valued cheerful friends,
and loved to laugh, long and hard.
She is survived by her husband,
John M. ‘Jack’ Spangenburg
March 25, 2011
John
(Jack) Span-
M.
genburg, 66, of
Wilkes-Barre,
died Friday
March 25,
2011, in Hos-
pice Commu-
nity Care at Geisinger South
Wilkes-Barre.
He was born in Kingston, on Au-
gust 18, 1944. His father, Second
Lieutenant Jack Bright Spangen-
burg, was killed in the line of duty
during World War II.
He was also preceded in death
by his parents, Anthony J. and
Esther McCaffery Marlino.
Jack was a graduate of Scranton
Prep High School, class of 1962,
and a graduate of the University of
Scranton, class of 1966, where he
received his degree in history. He
received two master’s degrees in
education and secondary educa-
tion from the University of Scran-
ton. Jack continued his post-gradu-
ate studies at the Indiana Universi-
ty of Pennsylvania.
Jack was a teacher in the Tra-
cey’s Landing School District,
Anne Arundel County, Md., prior
to being employed as a teacher for
34 years with the Wilkes-Barre Ar-
ea School District, where he
taught for many years at Kistler
Elementary, retiring in 2004.
Jack was a member of St. An-
drew’s Parish (St. Patrick’s
Church), and a member of St. Bo-
niface Church, prior to its closing,
where he served as an usher, aco-
lyte and Eucharistic minister.
He was also active with the
Camp St. George Committee,
where he enjoyed volunteering his
Arthur ‘Duddie’ Urban
March 26, 2011
Arthur
(Duddie) Ur-
ban, 83, of Du-
ryea, died Sat-
urday March
26, 2011, at the
Kingston Com-
mons Nursing
Facility, where
he was a patient the past two
weeks.
He was born in Duryea, on June
10, 1927, and was a son of the late
Arthur and Mary (Plisko) Urban.
Arthur was a member of the Na-
tivity of Our Lord Church, Duryea.
He was a graduate of the Duryea
High School and later attended
Bloomsburg University.
He was also a veteran of the U.S.
Marine Corps, serving in the
South Pacific during World War II.
Arthur retired as captain of securi-
ty from the FCPI Corp., Moosic.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by his two
sisters, Helen Marcin, Buffalo,
N.Y., and Joan Romaldini, Vestal,
N.Y.
Arthur is survived by cousins,
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Peter; children, Suzan Mazur, Linda
Mazur, Janet Boylan and husband
Kevin, and Peter Mazur Jr. and wife
Patricia. She has five grandchildren,
Shannon Medico, Joseph Boylan, K.
Clancy Boylan, Lauren Mazur, and
Natalie Mazur; and three great-
grandchildren, KC Medico, Quinn
Medico and Madeline Boylan.
A memorial Mass will be held at
St. John’s Russian Orthodox
Church, at the convenience of the
family.
In lieu of flowers, memorial con-
tributions may be made to the Hoyt
Library, 284 Wyoming Ave., King-
ston, PA 18704.
Arrangements are by the Andrew
Strish Funeral Home, 11 Wilson St.,
Luzerne.
time and talents. He served as an of-
ficer with the W-BEE Federal Credit
Union.
He was a member of the Wilkes-
Barre Knights of Columbus, Coun-
cil 302, and a member of the Scran-
ton Coin Collectors Club.
In addition to his parents he was
preceded in death by his grandson,
Aiden James Spangenburg.
Surviving are his wife of 43 years,
Ellen Eileen Connell Spangenburg;
sons, John Spangenburg and wife
Lynese, Boothwyn, Pa.; Mark Span-
genburg and wife Aimee, Barnes-
ville, Ohio; grandchildren, Ethan,
Tate, Ashlyn and Adalyn Spangen-
burg; sisters, Mary Marlino and hus-
band Greg Young, Boulder, Colo.;
Angela Marlino and husband Mi-
chael Schwartz, Boulder, Colo.; Sal-
ly Marlino and husband Lynn Saun-
ders, Hillsboro, Ore.; as well as nu-
merous nieces, nephews, grand-
nieces, and grand-nephews.
Funeral Services will be held at
10 a.m. Tuesday from the Nat &
Gawlas Funeral Home, 89 Park
Ave., Wilkes-Barre, with a Mass of
Christian Burial to follow at 10:30
a.m. in St. Andrew’s Parish at the
Church of St. Patrick, 316 Parrish
St., Wilkes-Barre. Interment will be
in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hanover
Township. Friends may call from 4
to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial con-
tributions may be made to Camp St.
George, c/o St. Andrew’s Parish,
316 Parrish St., Wilkes-Barre, PA
18702.
For more information or to send
an online condolence, please go to
www.natandgawlasfuneralhome-
.com.
nieces and nephews.
The family would like to thank
the Bayada Nurses, Kingston Com-
mons Nursing Facility, and Hos-
pice Community Care, Kingston,
for their compassionate care.
A Mass of Christian Burial
will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tues-
day at Sacred Heart Church, 529
Stephenson St., Duryea, with Fr.
Joseph Elston officiating. Family
and friends are asked to go directly
to the church. There will be no
procession from the funeral home
to the church. Friends may call
from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Kiesinger
Funeral Services Inc., 255 McAl-
pine St. Duryea. Interment will be
held at St. John’s Cemetery, Du-
ryea.
Online condolences may be
made to www.kiesingerfuneralser-
vices.com.
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unbearable and I d on’t m ake it easier for others around m e. I hop e you’re
allhap p y together and p lease ask G od to give m e strength to carry on and
take care of G ranny. A nd thank G od for your sister D iane for being by
m y sid e through these unbearable tim es. G one but never forgotten.
G od p lease take care ofm y boys.
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FUNERALS
BARTOLETTI – Joseph, funeral 9:30
a.m. today from the Metcalfe and
Shaver Funeral Home Inc., 504
Wyoming Ave., Wyoming. Mass of
Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St.
Joseph’s Church of St. Monica’s
Parish, Wyoming.
BINGHAM – Robert, funeral 9:15 a.m.
today from the Thomas P. Kearney
Funeral Home Inc., 517 N. Main St.,
Old Forge. 10 a.m. Mass of Christian
Burial and Committal in Divine
Mercy Church, Minooka.
ELLIS – Edward III, funeral 9 a.m.
today from Kiesinger Funeral
Services Inc., 255 McAlpine St.,
Duryea. Mass of Christian Burial at
9:30 a.m. at SS Peter & Paul
Church, Avoca.
FREY – Brett, memorial service 11
a.m. Saturday in the chapel at the
Memorial Shrine Cemetery, Carv-
erton.
GAITERI – Matthew, funeral 9:30
a.m. Tuesday from the Lehman-
Gregory Funeral Home Inc., 281
Chapel St., Swoyersville. Mass of
Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in Holy
Name/St. Mary’s Church, Shoe-
maker Street, Swoyersville. Family
and friends may call 5 to 8 p.m.
today at the funeral home where a
wake service will be conducted.
HOLOD – Daniel Sr., funeral 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday from the Sheldon-
Kukuchka Funeral Home, 73 W.
Tioga St., Tunkhannock. Mass of
Christian Burial 10 a.m. at the
Church of the Nativity B.V.M.
Friends may call 6 to 9 p.m. Tues-
day at the funeral home.
HUMMER – Richard Jr., funeral 9
a.m. today from the Mamary-
Durkin Funeral Service Corpora-
tion, 59 Parrish St., Wilkes-Barre.
Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30
a.m. in Holy Family Church, 828
Main St., Sugar Notch.
KAMINSKI – Ann, funeral 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday at the Graziano Funeral
Home Inc., Pittston Township. Mass
of Christian Burial 10 a.m. at the
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church,
Dupont. Calling hours 4 to 8 p.m.
today.
KLEYNOWSKI – Mary, funeral 9 a.m.
today from the Yeosock Funeral
Home, 40 S. Main St., Plains Town-
ship. Mass of Christian Burial at
9:30 a.m. in St. Mary Church,
Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call 8 to
9 a.m. today.
MARTZ – James, memorial service
11:30 a.m. today from the Clarke
Piatt Funeral Home Inc., 6 Sunset
Lake Road, Hunlock Creek.
MONDULICK – Margaret, funeral 11
a.m. today from the Yanaitis Funer-
al Home, 55 Stark St., Plains Town-
ship. Viewing 9 a.m. until the time
of services today.
PACZKOWSKI – Paul Jr., memorial
Mass 10 a.m. Saturday in Holy
Rosary Church, Duryea.
PETTIT- Wayne, funeral 10:30 a.m.
today in St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, Routes 118 and 415, Dallas.
ROMANOWSKI – Francis, funeral
9:30 a.m. Tuesday from the Gront-
kowski Funeral Home P.C., 51-53 W.
Green St., Nanticoke .Mass of
Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St.
Faustina Parish, St. Mary of Czes-
tochowa Church, 1030 S. Hanover
St., Nanticoke. Family and friends
may call 6 to 8 p.m. today at the
funeral home.
ROSENKO – Richard Jr., funeral 9:30
a.m. today from the Betz-Jastrem-
ski Funeral Home Inc., 568 Bennett
St., Luzerne. Mass of Christian
Burial at 10 a.m. in Holy Family
Parish, Luzerne.
SABATURA – Lucy, funeral 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday from the Harold C. Snow-
don Funeral Home Inc., 140 N. Main
St., Shavertown. Mass of Christian
Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Therese’s
Church, corner of Pioneer Avenue
and Davis Street, Shavertown.
Friends may call 5 to 7 p.m. today
at the funeral home.
SEGEDA- Joseph, funeral 9 a.m.
today from the Corcoran Funeral
Home Inc., 20 S. Main St., Plains
Township. Mass of Christian Burial
at 9:30 a.m. in SS. Peter & Paul
Church, Plains Township.
SKOVRONSKI – Clemence, funeral
9:30 a.m. today from the Gront-
kowski Funeral Home, P.C., 51-53 W.
Green St., Nanticoke. Mass of
Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St.
Faustina Parish, St. Mary of Czes-
tochowa Church, 1030 S. Hanover
St., Nanticoke.
VAOW – Harry, funeral 11 a.m. Tuesday
at the Harding-Litwin Funeral
Home, 123 W. Tioga St., Tunk-
hannock. Friends may call 2 to 4
p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the
funeral home.
VIEW – Paul, memorial Mass 9:30
a.m. Tuesday in St. Mary’s Church
of the Immaculate Conception,
South Washington Street, Wilkes-
Barre.
WEIDOW – Theresa, celebration of
life 11 a.m. Saturday at St Jude’s
Church, Mountain Top.
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Raids hit Gadhafi stronghold Sirte Pa. lawmakers consider

It’s first time coalition has
targeted Libyan leader’s
hometown as rebels move near.
By RYAN LUCAS and
HADEEL AL-SHALCHI
Associated Press
RAS LANOUF, Libya — Inter-
national air raids targeted Moam-
mar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte
for the first time Sunday night as
rebels made a high-speed advance
toward the regime stronghold, a
formidable obstacle that must be
overcome for the government op-
ponents to reach the capital Tri-
poli.
A heavy bombardment of Tri-
poli also began after nightfall,
with at least nine loud explosions
and anti-aircraft fire heard, an As-
sociated Press reporter in the city
said.
Earlier in the day, rebels re-
gained two key oil complexes
along the coastal highway that
runs from the opposition-held
eastern half of the country toward
Sirte and beyond that, to the cap-
ital. Moving quickly westward,
the advance retraced the steps of
the rebels’ first march toward the
capital. But this time, the world’s
most powerful air forces have
eased the way by pounding Gad-
hafi’s forces for the past week.
Sirte is strategically located
about halfway between the rebel-
held east and the Gadhafi-con-
trolled west along the coastal
highway. It is considered a bas-
tion of support for Gadhafi that
will be difficult for the rebels to
take and the entrances to the city
have reportedly been mined. If
the rebels could overcome it, mo-
mentum for a march on the cap-
ital would skyrocket.
After nightfall, foreign journal-
ists in Sirte reported loud explo-
sions and warplanes flying over-
heard. They said the city was
swarming with soldiers on patrol.
Libyan state television confirmed
Libyan rebels search for pro-Gadhafi forces near Al-Egila on the road to Ras Lanouf, in eastern Libya
Sunday. Libyan rebels took back the key oil town of Brega on Sunday and pushed westward.
to bolster its case for bringing the
United States into another war in
the Muslim world.
The U.N. Security Council au-
thorized the operation to protect
Libyan civilians after Gadhafi
launched attacks against anti-gov-
ernment protesters who demand-
ed that he step down after nearly
42 years in power. The airstrikes
have crippled Gadhafi’s forces, al-
lowing rebels to advance less than
two weeks after they had seemed
on the brink of defeat.
Now that the rebels have re-
gained control of two key oil
ports, they are making tentative
plans to exploit Libya’s most valu-
able natural resource. But produc-
tion is at a trickle, the foreign oil
workers and their vital expertise
have fled the country, and even
talk of a marketing deal with Qa-
tar seems murky at best.
“As they move round the coast,
inside Libya. How that will play
out in terms of public opinion and
the Gadhafi regime remains to be
seen.”
The coastal complexes at Ras
Lanouf and Brega were responsib-
le for a large chunk of Libya’s 1.5
million barrels of daily exports,
which have all but stopped since
the uprising that began Feb. 15
and was inspired by the toppling
of governments in Tunisia and
Egypt.
On the eastern approach of Ras
Lanouf, airstrikes hit three empty
tank transporters and left two
buildings that appeared to be
sleeping quarters pockmarked
with shrapnel. Like the oil port of
Brega and the city of Ajdabiya be-
fore it, Gadhafi’s troops appear to
have left in a hurry, abandoning
ammunition and disappearing
without a fight.
“There was no resistance. Gad-
AP PHOTO
NATO. They gave us big sup-
port.”
The agreement with the tiny
Gulf nation of Qatar could allow
the rebels to exploit Libya’s vast
oil reserves — most of which are
in the eastern territory they con-
trol. With no ships coming or go-
ing, Libya’s tanks are full to the
brim. Until they are emptied,
there’s nowhere to store any oil
that is pumped from the ground.
Qatar, which has conducted at
least one sortie over Libya, is the
only Arab country known to have
actively joined with the interna-
tional force.
“We trust them, so basically
they are the ones who are going to
market our oil for us,” Ali Tarhou-
ni, the rebel finance official, said
Friday. “For Qatar there’s no
words to describe what they’ve
done for the Libyan cause.”
ban on synthetic drugs
“Bath salts” have been linked at the chimneys of surrounding
homes as his assailants before he
to violent incidents and still
was subdued by a stun gun, au-
can be legally purchased. thorities alleged in court docu-
ments.
In central Pennsylvania late
The Associated Press last month, state police said a
HARRISBURG — Growing man using the drugs told police
use of powerful synthetic drugs he ran away from his vehicle be-
linked to violent episodes has cause he thought it was melting
alarmed law enforcement offi- and electricity was chasing him.
cials and medical professionals In western Pennsylvania, au-
and prompted lawmakers in thorities say the drug was reco-
Pennsylvania and elsewhere to vered from the vehicle of two
consider legislation Warren County men
to ban them. who were found
Authorities say “Bath salts” dead Thursday in
chemical com- had already the Allegheny Na-
pounds containing tional Forest. Tests
methylenedioxypy- gained notoriety are being done to
rovalerone (MDPV) in Europe when determine whether
and mephedrone they had used the
and marketed as they arrived in drug before they
“bath salts” had al- this country died of exposure.
ready gained noto- And in West Pitt-
riety in Europe
early last year. ston earlier this
when they arrived month a couple hal-
in this country early lucinating from
last year. Snorted to mimic the bath salts nearly cut their 5-year-
effects of cocaine and metham- old daughter with the knives
phetamines, they can be pur- they were using to stab "the 90
chased legally in most of the people living in the walls" of
country, most often in drug par- their apartment, police said.
aphernalia stores and on the In- The state House is planning a
ternet, officials said. final vote April 4 on a bill that
White House Drug Czar Gil would ban the sale of “bath salts”
Kerlikowske last month said the and add other synthetic narcot-
compounds can cause hallucina- ics to the list of controlled sub-
tions, extreme paranoia and de- stances. The measure started
lusions and called them “a seri- out in January as a ban on salvia
ous threat to the health and well- divinorum, a hallucinogenic
being” anyone who uses them. herb mixture, and has been
Officials in Pennsylvania say amended to include bath salts,
they are cropping up in cases of synthetic marijuana and a syn-
bizarre and disturbing behavior thetic cocaine known as “bliz-
in many areas. zard.”
For example, Easton police re- If approved, the bill would go
port getting frantic phone calls to the Senate, which has mea-
on Christmas Day from a man sures of its own.
who said he believed his home Five states have already
was surrounded by armed in- banned sales of MDPV, and New
truders. He greeted officers Jersey is among many others
armed with a sword and pointing considering such a ban.

air raids on Sirte and Tripoli.
In Washington, Defense Secre-
tary Robert Gates said he could
not offer a timetable for how long
the Libya operation could last, as
the Obama administration tried
of course, the rebels will increas-
ingly control the exit points of Li-
bya’s oil,” British Defense Secre-
tary Liam Fox told the BBC.
“That will produce a very dynam-
ic and a very different equilibrium
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Pa. appeals court rejects Thousands mourn slain Georgia officer

juvenile homicide cases
Defense advocates say high
court ruling should apply to
homicides by juveniles.
The Associated Press
READING — An appeals
court has rejected bids by peo-
ple convicted of homicide in
central and eastern Pennsylva-
nia to have their life sentences
overturned because they were
juveniles at the time of the
crimes.
The appeals were among the
first seeking to expand the U.S.
Supreme Court’s ruling last year
that juveniles convicted of
crimes other than homicide can-
not be sentenced to life terms.
Defense advocates contend the
ruling should also apply to hom-
icides committed by juveniles,
citing language in the ruling
saying that juveniles have limit-
ed moral culpability because
adolescent brains are less fully
developed.
The state Superior Court on
March 18 denied the appeal of a
Reading man sentenced to life
in 1992 for the death of a man in
a road-rage case when the de-
fendant was 17. The three-judge
panel also denied the appeal of a
Lancaster County man sen-
tenced to a life term in 1995 for
the death of a man in a robbery,
a crime committed when he was
16. In neither case did an attor-
ney represent the defendant.
Berks District Attorney John
T. Adams said the common-
wealth does not have a law that
would allow a juvenile to be sen-
tenced to life for crimes other
than homicide.
“The purpose of the appeals is
to equate a non-homicide case
to a homicide case,” Adams
said. “No appellate case has tak-
en that position.”
Adams said, however, that he
would support a law allowing a
case-by-case review of juveniles
serving life sentences.
Bradley Bridge of the Phila-
delphia Defenders Association,
which is tracking juvenile lifers,
said the Florida ruling opened
the door to expand the law to in-
clude homicide cases, and an-
other such case is pending for
the state Supreme Court on the
issue.
Pennsylvania has 472 inmates
serving life sentences for crimes
committed as juveniles, the
most of any state in the country.
Killing prompted days-long
manhunt for suspect who
surrendered on live TV.
The Associated Press
ATHENS, Ga. — Thousands
of people mourned a slain Geor-
gia police officer whose killing
led to a days-long manhunt for a
suspect who surrendered on live
television.
Almost 2,500 people — in-
cluding law enforcement offi-
cers from Georgia and else-
where — packed the Classic
Center theater for the funeral of
Athens-Clarke County Officer
Elmer "Buddy" Christian, the
Athens Banner-Herald reported.
Hundreds more lined the
streets as a horse-drawn hearse
took his body to Evergreen Me-
morial Park for burial. One of
Christian’s hobbies was shoeing
horses for friends and family.
Jamie Hood, 33, fatally shot
Christian on Tuesday and also
shot and seriously wounded Of-
ficer Tony Howard, police say.
Hood was taken into custody
AP PHOTO late Friday after requesting that
Melissa Christian looks on after a memorial service for her hus- a news crew document his sur-
band, officer Elmer "Buddy" Christian on Sunday, in Athens, Ga. render.
Hood had been holed up with
nine hostages at an Athens
apartment. Five exited the
apartment along with him.
Hours earlier he had released
four others.
Randy Crowe, pastor of Hull
Baptist Church, where Christian
was a member, cautioned rela-
tives, friends and co-workers
against letting anger consume
them.
As Hood was being taken into
custody late Friday, he told
WXIA-TV in a brief videotaped
interview, “I regret killing that
officer.”
When asked what he meant, a
handcuffed Hood said, “That of-
ficer. That innocent officer. I re-
gret that ...” Asked for more de-
tails, Hood said, “You know,
they killed my brother. They
were going to kill me.”
Hood was sentenced to 12
years in prison in 1997 for armed
robbery and released in 2009. In
2001, while Hood was serving
time, his 22-year-old brother,
Timothy Hood, was shot and
killed by an Athens police offi-
cer. Investigators said at the
time that Timothy Hood pulled
a gun on an officer and was shot
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but those in the surrounding com-
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community,” said Chapman.
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have as many places for the youth
to go,” he said. “We’re hoping that
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WORLD OPINION
U.S. health care reform
worth long political fight
I
T HAS BEEN a year since
the first part of President
Barack Obama’s health
care reforms became law.
Republicans have been vocal in
their criticism, but the histor-
ical import is undeniable: more
vulnerable Americans can now
afford health insurance.
If this reform is not derailed,
families will no longer have to
borrow or mortgage their
homes to pay steep hospital
bills. Children and adults with
pre-existing conditions, such
as asthma and high blood pres-
sure, will be covered, when in
the past an insurance company
could deny payment.
Before health care reforms
were enacted, a 2009 Harvard
study showed there were
44,800 excess deaths a year in
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I have no time to even think
about next year. I am engaged in
making sure the home rule
transition goes smoothly.”
Maryanne Petrilla
The head of the Luzerne County Commissioners emphasized last week
she has not decided to run against state Rep. Tarah Toohil, R-Butler
Township, as had been incorrectly reported on several political websites.
China must help Japan
W
HAT’S happening
now in neighbor-
ing Japan is both
unfamiliar and fa-
miliar to us: We are definitely
not familiar with the 10-meter
wave that a tsunami could in-
cur and we are not familiar
with the formidable power that
a nuclear plant could release in
an instant.
Yet we do instantly recog-
nize the helpless eyes, the
strong desire to live and the
longing for a little warmth.
Indeed, we have experienced
similar disasters ourselves, in
the Sichuan earthquake and in
the Zhouqu landslide.
It is always said the values
and spirit of an individual or a
nation usually are put to the
test on occasions like these. We
Yemen unrest troubling
T
HE SITUATION IN
Yemen is explosive to
say the least. While
the protests demand-
ing the ouster of President Ali
Abdullah Saleh are escalating
to a bloody struggle, the bigger
threat is that of al-Qaida capita-
lizing on the situation.
A split in the military in Ye-
men as well as defection of
high-ranking government offi-
cials has further tipped the
scale against the embattled
president. To add to Saleh’s mi-
sery, even the international
powers seem to be reviewing
their relations and support to
him. The French government
already has asked him to step
down.
A deeply divided tribal socie-
ty, Yemen is beset with sectar-
ian, tribal and ethnic conflict
Editorial Board
RICHARD L. CONNOR
Editor and Publisher
JOE BUTKIEWICZ
Vice President/Executive Editor
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Editorial
the United States because peo-
ple could not get insurance.
Obama’s measures, which
require all U.S. citizens to have
health insurance by 2014, will
give access to the 32 million
Americans who could not af-
ford it, through their employer
or independently through an
insurance company.
Obama has had a rough ride,
under fire for everything from
the economy to his handling of
unrest in the Middle East.
Amid all that he deserves ac-
claim for his remarkable re-
forms, providing every Ameri-
can with something closer to
the kind of health care Cana-
dians have long taken for
granted.
The Toronto Star
have suffered terrible losses,
but our compassion for the
lives of fellow human beings
has been awakened like never
before.
Bearing our recent history in
mind, we often view each other
with ambivalent attitudes, to
say the least. But the candles
lit, the vigils held and the tears
shed for the ordinary lives have
told a totally different, yet not
unexpected, story, which is
particularly comforting.
The Chinese government
has acted promptly in the most
appropriate manner, sending
out millions of dollars in emer-
gency aid and a rescue team to
help with Japan’s quake relief
efforts. More is on the way.
China Daily, Beijing
and crippling economic depri-
vation. Extreme poverty and
unemployment, dwindling wa-
ter resources and a repressive
and corrupt administration
provided ample ground for a re-
surgent al-Qaida to entrench it-
self. With the current situation
poised to take the country to-
ward a civil war, or at least a vio-
lent upheaval, the threat from
al-Qaida looms larger than ever.
Yemen’s geo-strategic posi-
tioning, especially in context of
its sharing borders with oil rich
Gulf states makes it particular-
ly vulnerable. It is therefore
hoped that all stakeholders
look at the broader picture and
make full efforts to maintain
stability at all costs.
Khaleej Times
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
MARK E. JONES
Editorial Page Editor
PRASHANT SHITUT
President/Wilkes-Barre Publishing Co.
MAIL BAG LETTERS FROM READERS
Taxpayer dollars wasted
by Sterling, reader says
I
read the article about the Hotel Sterling;
it is always sad to see a historically sig-
nificant building in such disrepair.
It is even more discouraging to find out
that it has taken $10 million of taxpayer
money to determine it has to be torn
down.
It is a perfect example of waste. Thank
you, CityVest.
Ron Keener
Nanticoke
W-B Twp. mayor takes
out-of-town critic to task
O
ur ever insolent, non-resident, non-
taxpayer Joe Naperkowski is bashing
Wilkes-Barre Township yet again in a
recent letter to the editor. This time the
issue is that of the former St. Joseph’ s
Church and the unanimous decision of the
Zoning Hearing Board to allow two devel-
opers the chance to convert the former
church buildings into a source of tax reve-
nue.
At the same time, these buildings will be
kept in repair so they don’t become an
eyesore for the community. Joe, why
would you propose Wilkes-Barre Township
taxpayers purchase the former church? To
renovate the church, and even the former
high school, would cost our taxpayers
millions of dollars that we don’t have.
Why should we have to raise our taxes to
purchase something, when at the same
time private investors are willing to utilize
the buildings for business purposes? Fur-
ther, as we have seen in many communi-
ties, some absentee landlord could have
purchased these buildings and turned
them into low-income housing or worse,
some type of halfway house. But of course,
Joe, you wouldn’t worry about that, you
don’t live here.
Also, you should know, since you appar-
ently believe you are an expert regarding
how our government works, that I as may-
or, or Mrs. Yuknavich as our council presi-
dent, cannot dictate what our Zoning
Hearing Board decides to do with these
issues. They act in the best interests of our
community and listen to the residents’
concerns. Can you say the same about
yourself?
Carl Kuren
Mayor, Wilkes-Barre Township
W-B Area board needs
fresh voice in stalemate
I
believe it was Albert Einstein who con-
cluded that you can’t keep doing the
same thing and expect different results.
The research must have been done in
Wilkes-Barre.
DOONESBURY
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N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 1871 1
I do not believe that there is one Wilkes-
Barre Area School Board member who
would deny that the school board’s cred-
ibility is shattered. Thirty three percent of
the prior board has admitted to criminal
acts. The board elected a president who
had been accused, and later admitted, to a
crime.
Following the resignation of the board
president, the eight remaining members
were charged with naming a replacement.
The regulations state that the board has 30
days to accomplish the appointment. If at
any time in this board’s history a cohesive
team effort was needed, it is now. It did
not happen; they split four votes to four
votes and time elapsed.
If ever fresh ideas and new blood is
needed, it is now. The two finalists, who
each garnered four votes, were a retired
school district principal and a former
school board member rejected by the vot-
ers.
Presently two of the eight members are
retired school district employees; hence we
get more of the same, with the retired
principal seeking the seat. This would
mean that 33 percent percent of the board
would be retired Wilkes-Barre Area School
District employees.
Now that would bring in new ideas and
solutions.
Richard A. Holodick
Wilkes-Barre
Writer questions cost of
sprinkler in private home
I
keep reading comments from people
who are in favor of the fire sprinkler
mandate. There are some of us who are
not in favor of this new law that went into
effect Jan. 1. I believe the decision should
be up to the homeowner.
The opinions are from firefighters, and
they reference fires in high-rises, dormito-
ries and row homes. I am 100 percent be-
hind them, requiring dwellings like these
to have sprinkler systems.
Now when it comes to a single-family
home with its own well, I am not for a
home sprinkler. It is an added expense that
should be left up to the soon-to-be new
homeowner.
I’ve heard a 1,500-square-foot home with
a sprinkler system added can increase the
cost by $6,000 or more. What they don’t
mention is that in the country, where there
K
MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2011 PAGE 9A●
are private wells, there is not enough pres-
sure to have the sprinklers work; adding
the extras needed will increase the cost
even more. Not to mention having to have
separate flood insurance from your home
owner’s insurance. If the sprinklers happen
to go off and there is no fire, then your
homeowner’s wouldn’t cover the damage.
I hope the state Senate and governor feel
the same way the House of Representa-
tives did, and they vote to repeal this law.
The sooner the better, so we can get on
with our building plans.
Rebecca Bonham
Ross Township
Why does God allow
catastrophes to happen?
A
mericans are still stunned about the
earthquake and tsunami that occurred
in Japan. Let’s pray that the Japanese
people have the spiritual strength and
courage to deal with this sad and tragic
event.
Americans naturally feel compassion for
the victims of any natural disaster. Howev-
er, most Americans really don’t understand
why tragedies such as this occur. The sci-
ence community would like us to think
that events such as this are caused by
“Mother Nature;” they leave out the fact
that God is the cause and effect of the laws
of nature.
So, why does God allow catastrophes
such as this to happen? First, we have to
understand the connection between the
effects of sin and the natural law. There is
a correlation between the moral law and
the natural laws of God, and when man
disobeys the moral law it causes disruption
and turmoil in the laws of nature.
Mankind is disregarding the fact that in
all sectors of our society immorality has
reached unprecedented proportions.
More devastating than the natural disas-
ters that recently have occurred is the
“tsunami of immorality” that continually
floods the world today. It has caused an
unprecedented amount of divorces, abor-
tions and laws that favor and promote
homosexuality.
And worse than that, there is an un-
relenting campaign of blasphemies and
ridicule against God and all things sacred.
Even our judicial laws are slowly doing
away with all references to God and reli-
gion.
Finally, in regard to the recent events in
Japan and so many other natural disasters,
one cannot fail to mention the warnings
from Our Lady of Fatima in 1917.
What is the lesson mankind needs to
learn from Japan and all of the other world-
wide catastrophes? The lesson is that the
“prodigal son” must return to the father’s
house. God is warning mankind to repent,
so it might receive his unlimited love and
forgiveness.
Walter Camier
Weatherly
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preme Court vacated the adjudi- cial Performance put policies in prosecuting authorities without commission meeting, every six mandate.”

CALIFORNIA
Continued from Page 1A
routinely deprived juveniles of
their constitutional right to
counsel,” Brickley wrote. “As a
result, the Pennsylvania Su-
cations of all juveniles who ap-
peared before Ciavarella over a
five-year period.”
Brickley spoke of the Pennsyl-
vania Interbranch Commission
on Juvenile Justice and their re-
sponse to the conduct.
But, according to Brickley, the
California Commission on Judi-
place long before the “Pennsylva-
nia scandal.”
The California commission en-
acted procedures to ensure all
complaints are properly brought
to its attention and that no com-
plaint “falls through the cracks.”
“A complaint is not closed, de-
ferred, investigated or referred to
the commission’s authorization,”
Brickley wrote. “Its policy is to
review all new complaints within
60 days of receipt.”
While the commission’s policy,
Brickley wrote, required report-
ing on these matters every six
months, in practice all deferred
matters are reported on at each
to seven weeks.
Brickley said the report made
by the Interbranch Commission
“serves as a reminder of the crit-
ical role a judicial disciplinary
system plays in maintaining pub-
lic confidence in the integrity of
the judiciary and the importance
of ensuring that it fulfills that
The California commission,
she wrote, works “diligently” to
ensure its rules and procedures
are not vulnerable to the “failures
that occurred in Pennsylvania.”
Sheena Delazio, a Times Leader
staff writer, may be reached at 829-
7235.

M A R K B U FA L I N O
Spending plan would meet state deadline and cut spending 2 percent
BUFALINO Age: 40
Education: Villanova University,

Tentative N.Y. budget reached

By MICHAEL GORMLEY
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. An-
drew Cuomo said a tentative
$132.5 billion state budget deal
he struck with legislative leaders
Sunday was nothing less than
historic for its spending cuts as
well as its timeliness.
The tentative plan would re-
duce state spending by more
than 2 percent and would deal
with a $10 billion deficit without
raising taxes or borrowing mon-
ey.
The plan stands a chance to be
finalized by legislators this
week, in time to meet the Friday
deadline, when the state fiscal
year begins.
“It’s an exceptionally big deal
when the state passes a budget
on time under these circum-
stances,” said Cuomo, who got
the majority of his priorities into
his first budget for the state. “It’s
a new day in New York.”
New York’s budget process is
being watched nationwide. The
state has the earliest budget
deadline in the nation, but, like
other states, is wrestling with
deep deficits, weak revenues and
parent-backed lobbying group,
remained critical of the propos-
als because of the overall cuts to
schools. “Nobody who cares
about students is celebrating
this budget,” he said.
New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg also did not like the
latest agreement, saying that
even with the restoration of
some funding, the budget passes
along new costs to the city that it
can’t absorb.
Also in the plan, 3,700 prison
beds would be eliminated; $22
million would be restored to pro-
posed cuts for prescriptions for
the elderly; and New York City
senior centers will be funded.
Cuomo’s plan to lay off 9,800
state workers remained uncer-
tain.
The governor said the budget
would set New York on a new
course after decades of over-
spending and overtaxing that
has driven residents out of state
for better opportunities.
The Legislature still must pass
the budget bills. In past years,
AP PHOTO tentative deals have fallen apart
Speaker Sheldon Silver, left, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate after lawmakers, lobbyists and
Majority Leader Dean Skelos reached a budget deal Sunday. reporters pick apart deals struck
Continued from Page 1A
“I have experience in the cour-
troom,” Bufalino said. “No pun
intended, that’s the bench-
mark.”
He spoke of his 15 years expe-
rience as a lawyer, arguing civil
and criminal trials, handling civ-
il matters and municipal law and
being certified by the state Su-
preme Court to try death-penal-
ty homicide cases.
“I’m not running for a posi-
tion,” Bufalino said. “I’m run-
ning to go to work.”
If elected, he said, he would be
able to assist in the courts’ hand-
ling of a high number of criminal
cases, and find a better way for
them to get expedited on time.
“I think I can be of great assist-
ance in getting though the back-
log,” Bufalino said.
He said he is also a firm believ-
er in the Central Court system,
which handles arraignments
and preliminary hearings, and
reinstituting it in Wilkes-Barre
to handle cases more effectively.
“As a judge, you’re the goalie
who kicks the ball back into
play,” Bufalino said. “When you
see good judges, that’s what they
do.”
A clear portion of Luzerne
County does not have fair access
to legal assistance, Bufalino
B.A. liberal arts; Dickinson School
of Law
Law experience: Private practice
attorney with Elliot, Greenleaf &
Dean, Wilkes-Barre; former solic-
itor for Wyoming Borough; solic-
itor for West Pittston and Pittston
city zoning board.
Community affiliations: Volun-
teer at Back Mountain Free Legal
Clinic
Family: single; son of Charles and
Loretta (Kanorr) Bufalino
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said, adding it’s primarily be-
cause of financial reasons.
He said he volunteers about
once a month at the Back Moun-
tain Free Legal Clinic, where
people who cannot afford legal
assistance can show up and get
help.
“We stay as long as we are
needed,” he said of himself and
other attorneys who volunteer
at the clinic.
Bufalino said he intends to
spend approximately $100,000
on his campaign, and will accept
contributions from anyone, in-
cluding attorneys.

unprecedented protests from ad-
vocates for the poor and middle
class.
In his first three months in of-
fice, Cuomo did what his father,
three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo,
couldn’t do to win a fourth term.
Ultimately, it cost Mario Cuomo
his office in 1994 to Republican
Gov. George Pataki, who ran on a
fiscal conservative platform. Pa-
taki was the last New York gover-
nor to cut spending.
Legislative leaders Sunday
praised their progress and the re-
sults.
“New York state is now func-
tioning well, in a bipartisan
way,” said Senate Majority Lead-
er Dean Skelos, a Nassau County
Republican who with the Demo-
cratic governor killed the As-
sembly’s “millionaire’s tax” for
the year.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver called the budget “ground-
ed in reality ... a fiscally respon-
sible budget that protects the
most vulnerable among us.”
“This is a sober budget, un-
questionably,” Silver said. “Gov-
ernment had to tighten its belt.”
Among the details released
Sunday was the restoration of
$272 million in school aid from
Cuomo’s proposed $1.5 billion
cut to schools. The restored
funding would benefit schools,
including New York City
schools, schools for the deaf and
blind, and summer schools for
special education students.
Also is the plan is the restora-
tion of $86 million to the State
University of New York, City
University of New York and their
community colleges.
Billy Easton of the Alliance for
Quality Education, a union- and
in closed-door negotiations.
In a surprise move, Cuomo
lopped off $170 million from the
court system budget, bringing
cuts to the Office of Court Ad-
ministration close to a10 percent
reduction he calls for in his exec-
utive branch. State Bar Associ-
ation President Stephen Young-
er said he hoped that won’t force
courtrooms to close.
The move broke decorum in
Albany where the executive
branch rarely touches the legisla-
tive or judicial budgets as a nod
to adhering to the constitutional
separation of powers.
LIBYA
Continued from Page 1A
cient naval firepower off Libya’s
coast, and it coincides with NA-
TO’s decision Sunday to take
over command and control of the
entire Libya operation. Aided by
international air power, Libyan
rebels were reported to have
made important gains by captur-
ing two oil complexes along the
coast.
The shrinking of the naval
presence adds substance to Oba-
ma’s expected reassurance to the
American people that after kick-
lustrating that it’s possible for the
U.S. military to partner with oth-
ers without always being the
leader.
Gates said the no-fly zone and
efforts to protect civilians from
attack by pro-Gadhafi forces will
have to be sustained “for some
period of time.”
Among other hard questions
for Obama is whether the Libyan
intervention should serve as a
model for U.S. policy toward oth-
er Arab countries where revolts
against authoritarian govern-
ments are gaining ground, in-
cluding Syria and Yemen, and
where civilians are at risk of vio-
lent reprisals.

KULICK
Continued from Page 3A
witness in the retrial.
Kulick came forward two
Joseph sued The Scranton
Times L.P. and others, including
reporter Ed Lewis, who has
since joined The Times Leader,
claiming the stories wrongly
tied him to a money-laundering
investigation involving D’Elia.
12 of 39 charges arising from his
alleged participation in a $2.8
million kickback scheme related
to the construction of two juve-
nile detention centers and the
placement of youths in the facil-
ities.
Jerry Lynott, a Times Leader staff
writer, can be contacted at 829-7237.
ing off the Libyan mission, the
U.S. is now handing off to partner
countries in Europe and else-
where the bulk of the responsib-
ility for suppressing Gadhafi’s
forces.
NATO’s governing body, meet-
Clinton declined to say if the
U.S. might be willing to enter
other such conflicts. She said it
was too early to talk of getting in-
volved in Syria, where security
forces have opened fire on protes-
ters amid nationwide unrest. Un-

years ago with information
about alleged case fixing in coun-
ty court.
He provided a sworn state-
ment about discussions between
former Judge Michael T. Cona-
han and reputed mobster Wil-
liam D’Elia of Hughestown. Kul-
ick said D’Elia indicated there
would be a positive outcome for
businessman Thomas A. Joseph,
who filed the defamation suit.
D’Elia and Joseph had a business
relationship.
After a non-jury trial, former
Judge Mark A. Ciavarella award-
ed Joseph $3.5 million for a se-
ries of articles that ran in the Ci-
tizens’ Voice in 2001.
Conahan and Ciavarella have
since been charged in the ongo-
ing public corruption probe in
the county.
Last July, Conahan pleaded
guilty in federal court to racke-
teering conspiracy.
In February, a jury in federal
court found Ciavarella guilty of
BENEFIT
Continued from Page 3A
physically and cognitively
impaired.
“This family’s been
through quite a lot,” Martin
said. “I’m happy so many peo-
ple want to help them.”
Acute myeloid leukemia
generally effects older adults,
Martin said. “But if children
are diagnosed in time, the
treatment is very successful.
The downside is the chemo-
therapy is very aggressive
with difficult side-effects.
We’re praying for the best.”
Proceeds from the event
will go to pay for expenses
not covered by the Marx’s in-
surance.
Donations for Mackenzie
can be mailed to: Joe Marx,
181 Fieldstone Way, Moun-
tain Top, PA 18707.
ing in Brussels, accepted a plan
for the transfer of command.
That is expected to mean that
U.S. Army Gen. Carter Ham, who
has been the top commander of
the Libya operation, will switch
to a support role.
Obama administration officials
claimed progress in Libya, but
lawmakers in both parties voiced
skepticism over the length, scope
and costs of the mission.
Obama is trying to address
those issues in a speech that’s ex-
pected to provide his fullest ex-
planation of the U.S. role in Libya
like Gadhafi, Syrian President
Bashar Assad is a “different lead-
er” and many members of Con-
gress who have visited the coun-
try “believe he’s a reformer,” Clin-
ton said.
Clinton and Gates insisted the
objective in Libya was limited to
protecting civilians, even as they
hoped the pressure of concerted
international penalties and isola-
tion might strip away Gadhafi’s
remaining loyalists and cause his
government to crumble.
“One should not underesti-
mate the possibility of the regime

FLOOD
Continued from Page 1A
existing house or installing a
new driveway with an imperme-
able surface.
Currently, downspouts that
collect rain water from gutters
lining roofs direct the water to
storm sewers in most cities and
boroughs.
Many municipalities have
sewer systems that co-mingle
storm water with sewage, add-
ing to the pollution of streams
and eventually the Susquehanna
River and Chesapeake Bay be-
cause treatment plants are over-
whelmed with water during
heavy storms and untreated
overflow is discharged directly
into waterways.
Under the new laws, anyone
who puts a new roof on a house
must disconnect the down-
spouts from the public sewer sys-
tem and redirect the water flow
in a way that will prevent flood-
ing into neighbors’ basements
and oversaturation of the ground
as well.
That could mean directing the
water to a rain barrel collection
system or a rain garden in which
tion runs in the $2,000 to $3,000
range depending on the amount
of piping and gravel necessary.
“With those kinds of things,
there has to be a feel-good end re-
sult because the cost gets expen-
sive,” said Arnold, who prefers
rain barrel systems because the
water can be used later to wash
the car or water the lawn.
Arnold said the construction
industry is adapting to new envi-
ronmental mandates and noted
that a new type of macadam that
absorbs water has been devel-
oped for roads and driveways in
new developments, although it
is more expensive than tradition-
al macadam.
SUBMITTED PHOTO “As an industry, we’ve realized
An example of a rain barrel collection system for storm water we have to adapt. Building has
provided by the state Department of Environmental Protection. really become a science,” he
said.
water is absorbed and slowly dis- plan before adopting one be- A member of the board of di-
sipated. cause, while the laws will benefit rectors of the Pennsylvania
Homeowners or builders the environment and protect Builders Association and a mem-
would have to apply for a permit neighboring properties and ber of the Luzerne County Farm-
for the new construction or rede- those downstream, they could land Preservation Board, Arnold
velopment from the municipal- add significantly to the cost of said striking a balance between
ity and have a storm water man- building projects in an already environmental protection and
agement plan for the project ap- stressed industry. the pocketbooks of consumers
proved before the work could be- Rick Arnold, owner of R.T. Ar- should be the goal.
gin. nold Building Contractor in
A local builder believes munic- Mountain Top, said rain barrel Steve Mocarsky, a Times Leader
ipal officials should take their systems could cost upwards of staff writer, may be reached at
time and carefully consider any $500 and rain garden construc- 970-7311.
and what lies ahead.
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.,
questioned whether it made
sense to be involved at all. “I
don’t believe we should be en-
gaged in Libyan civil war,” Lugar
said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“I believe the Libyans are going
to have to work that out. The fact
is that we don’t have particular
ties with anybody in the Libyan
picture.”
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the
Senate Armed Services Commit-
tee chairman, was broadly sup-
portive of the president’s steps so
far. “It is a flyover which is suc-
ceeding. It has set Gadhafi back.
He’s on his heels now,” Levin said
on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Still, Levin said it was unclear
how long the air campaign will
have to last if Gadhafi clings to
power.
Gates, an early skeptic of estab-
lishing a no-fly zone, told ABC’s
“This Week” that for practical
purposes, the establishment of
the zone is complete and can now
be sustained “with a lot less effort
than what it took to set it up.”
In advance of Obama’s speech
at 7:30 p.m. EDT today, Gates
and Clinton stressed the adminis-
tration’s message that the U.S.
role in the mission will shrink, il-
itself cracking,” Gates said.
Asked if the Libyan conflict
posed a threat to the United
States, Gates said it was “not a vi-
tal national interest” but he in-
sisted the situation nevertheless
demanded U.S. involvement.
With tenuous democratic transi-
tions under way in the neighbor-
ing countries of Tunisia and —
more important to the U.S. —
Egypt, allowing the entire region
to be destabilized was a danger-
ous option.
Citing military gains against
Libya over the past week, Gates
said Pentagon officials are now
planning the start of a force re-
duction. He was not specific, but
he appeared to refer to moving
some of the dozens of American
ships or aircraft — or both — out
of the immediate area.
“We will begin diminishing the
level of our engagement, the level
of resources we have involved in
this,” he said, adding that as long
as there is a no-fly zone, “we will
continue to have a presence.” He
gave as examples U.S. surveil-
lance and reconnaissance aircraft
that support the no-fly zone.
Even as naval firepower was re-
duced, Pentagon officials said
they were considering adding air
power.
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NCAA TOURNAMENT AHL

Penguins
capture
VCU
71
KANSAS
61
KENTUCKY
76
UNC
69 East title

SOUTHERN ACCENTS
Lerg’s overtime goal gives
WBS the division and
team-record 52nd victory.

By TOM VENESKY
tvenesky@timesleader.com
HERSHEY – Things dragged

First Four to Final Four: Storied Wildcat program out during Sunday’s matchup be-
tween the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
Penguins and

Rams stun Jayhawks ends 13-year drought Hershey Bears.

And it benefit-
ed the Penguins.
With the
scored tied 2-2 in
overtime and
the Bears on a
power play, win- 3
PENGUINS
ger Bryan Lerg
made an incredi-
ble
move
toe-drag
around
2
BEARS
Hershey forward
Keith Aucoin
and roofed a shot
over goaltender
Braden Holtby
for the 3-2 win.
It was a dra-
matic finish to a game that gave
the Penguins the East Division ti-
tle and the franchise single-sea-
son record for wins with 52. The
Penguins are now 52-20-0-1 on the
season.
“It’s an honor to be on a team
like this,” Lerg said. “To achieve a
goal like this is awesome. But
we’re not going to back off the
pedal. We want to get as many

See PENS, Page 3B

OPINION
PHIL SHERIDAN

Phillies mix
anticipation
and anxiety
YOUR
BREATH isn’t
quite as bated.
AP PHOTO Anticipation
Virginia Commonwealth’s Darius Theus, right, pulls on teammate Brandon Rozzell’s shirt as Troy Daniels celebrates after winning the Southwest regional has yielded
final against Kansas Sunday in San Antonio. VCU won 71-61. ground to trepi-
dation.

VCU latest Kentucky The week

they are scheduled to come
north, the Phillies’ fortunes

Cinderella earns date seem to be headed due south.

The summer of the aces has

to join party with UConn

By PAUL J. WEBER
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Move over, But-
ler. Virginia Commonwealth is crash-
ing the Final Four.
Two weeks ago, the 11th-seeded
Rams so doubted they would get a
NCAA tournament invite that they
watched Cartoon Network and went
out for burgers instead of watching the
selection show. Now, all of America
will be watching them in the Final
Four.
The 11th-seeded Rams are heading
to Houston, and final No.1seed Kansas
is heading home after the biggest
March upset in years.
VCU stunned the Jayhawks 71-61 on
Sunday, becoming just the third 11th
seed to make the Final Four. The Jay-
hawks had been the last top seed stand-
ing, but what looked like an easy path
to the final weekend ended in a stun-
ning collapse.
Eighth-seeded Butler, you’re pro-
moted to a favorite next week. VCU is
the trendy underdog pick this year.
See VCU, Page 4B
Game 1: Butler vs. Virginia Commonwealth University, 6:09 p.m.
By WILL GRAVES
AP Sports Writer
NEWARK, N.J. — Kentucky spent
13 straight springs watching other
schools play in the Final Four, a desti-
nation college basketball’s winningest
program considers its birthright.
At most places, that’s hardly a
drought.
In the Bluegrass, it’s a lifetime.
Now coach John Calipari and the
Wildcats — finally — are two wins
away from another national title.
Brandon Knight scored 22 points
and fourth-seeded Kentucky advanced
to the Final Four for the first time since
their 1998 national title with a 76-69
win over second-seeded North Caroli-
na on Sunday in the East Regional fi-
nal.
The Wildcats (29-8) will play Con-
necticut in Houston on Saturday night
after turning back a late surge by the
Tar Heels (27-10), who erased an 11-
point deficit before running out of gas
in the final two minutes.
AP PHOTO DeAndre Liggins added 12 points
Kentucky’s Josh Harrellson celebrates after Kentucky’s 76-69 win over
North Carolina in the East regional final Sunday in Newark, N.J. See KENTUCKY, Page 4B
T H E F I N A L F O U R : H O U S T O N , T E X A S , S AT U R D AY
Game 2: Kentucky vs. Connecticut, 8:49 p.m.
TV Coverage: CBS
been preceded, maybe preemp-
ted, by the spring of the aches.
Chase Utley’s knee, Brad
Lidge’s shoulder, Placido Po-
lanco’s elbow. When that line
drive dropped Roy Oswalt last
week, it knocked all of Philadel-
phia down. What a pain in the
neck.
The red pinstriped angel on
your left shoulder keeps whis-
pering: “Relax. It’s a long sea-
son. This team knows how to
win. By October, when Roy and
Roy and Cliff and Cole are
lined up to pitch the first four
games of the World Series, this
will all seem like a vague mem-
ory.”
The road-gray devil on your
MRI-bound right shoulder has
the weight of too much Phillies
history on his side: “You fool!
Getting your hopes up! You
should know better. Expect the
worst and you won’t get your
heart broken again.”
The angel is right, of course.
The baseball season is long
enough that Utley could return
and win the most valuable
player award, that Lidge could
be hugging Carlos Ruiz after
getting the final out of another
championship season. Other
than their uniforms, the Phillies
of the past five years bear no
See SHERIDAN, Page 5B
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W E E K ’ S L O C A L B O X I N G Kansas 77, Richmond 57

Virginia Commonwealth 72, Florida State 71, OT
BULLETIN BOARD tryouts from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on
C A L E N D A R Fight Schedule
Regional Championship
AMERICA’S April 9 and April 10 on Field 2 of
Sunday, March 27
CAMPS/CLINICS the Freedom Park softball complex
LINE
National TV in parentheses
Monday, March 28 April 1
Virginia Commonwealth 71, Kansas 61
WEST REGIONAL in Drums. In the event of inclement
At Berlin, Bejamin Simon vs. Sam Soliman, 12, IBF
H.S. BOYS VOLLEYBALL
middleweight eliminator; Alexander Petkovic vs. Second Round PIAA football officiating classes will weather, the Saturday tryout will
(5:45 p.m.)
Berwick at Crestwood Raymond Ochieng, 12, heavyweights. Thursday, March 17 By ROXY ROXBOROUGH begin soon. If interested in becom- be held inside the Butler Township
Dallas at Hazleton Area At Mashantucket, Conn. (ESPN2), Henry Lundy vs. At The McKale Center
Wyoming Area at North Pocono Patrick Lopez, 12, lightweights; Vladine Biosse vs. Tucson, Ariz. ing a PIAA football official, call Jay Community Center, which is locat-
Yasin Rashid, 10, junior middleweights. Temple 66, Penn State 64 NBA ed adjacent to the softball com-
Nanticoke at Meyers
San Diego State 68, Northern Colorado 50 Rowan at 655-4411.
Abington Heights at Coughlin April 2
H.S. GIRLS SOCCER At Gdynia, Poland, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk vs. Fran- At The Verizon Center Favorite Points Underdog plex. Should the Sunday tryout be
(4:15 p.m.) cisco Palacios, 12, for Wlodarczyk’s WBC cruiser- Washington BOBCATS 1.5 Bucks GOLF postponed by the weather, a new
Dallas at Holy Redeemer weight title. Connecticut 81, Bucknell 52
Berwick at Coughlin At Le Cannet, France, Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam vs. Cincinnati 78, Missouri 63 Celtics 3 PACERS tryout date will be scheduled.
Hazleton Area at Wyoming Valley West Giovanni Lorenzo, 12, for the interim WBA World Friday, March 18 Nanticoke Hackers Golf League will Several openings remain for the
Magic 1 KNICKS
Nanticoke at Delaware Valley middleweight title. At The BOK Center
At Halle, Germany, Marco Huck vs. Ran Nakash, BULLS 10 76ers play at Blue Ridge Golf Course on 2011 squad. For more information,
COLLEGE BASBEALL 12, for Huck’s WBO cruiserweight title; Robert He-
Tulsa, Okla.
King’s at Wilkes, 1 p.m. lenius vs. Samuel Peter, 12, for the WBO-WNA In-
Texas 85, Oakland, Mich. 81 SPURS 4.5 Blazers April 17. Anyone wishing to register contact Coach Dinko at 436.7742
Arizona 77, Memphis 75
COLLEGE MENS TENNIS ter-Continental heavyweight titles.
At Time Warner Cable Arena JAZZ 9 Wizards to play call Tom at 814-5451. or dinkoa@misericordia.edu.
Baptist Bible at King’s, 4 p.m. At London, Jurgen Brahmer vs. Nathan Cleverly,
12, for Brahmer’s WBO light heavyweight title. Charlotte, N.C. College Basketball
COLLEGE WOMENS LACROSSE Michigan 75, Tennessee 45
Cedar Crest at Wilkes, 4 p.m. At Panama City, Panama, Luis Concepcion vs. Her-
Duke 87, Hampton 45 Favorite Points Underdog MEETINGS The Pace Setter Athletic Club will
nan Marquez, 12, for Concepcion’s WBA World fly-
Tuesday, March 29 weight title. Third Round
Saturday NCAA Tournament sponsor and operate a series of
At Mexicali, Mexico, Giovani Segura vs. Ivan Calde- Saturday, March 19 South Valley Girls Softball will meet
H.S. TRACK ron, 12, for Segura’s WBO junior flyweight titles; Ri- At The Verizon Center
Final Four basketball leagues throughout the
(4:15 p.m.) cardo Castillo vs. Joksan Hernandez, 10, junior Washington
Houston, TX 7 p.m. today at Time Out Pizza in months of April, May, June, July
Wyoming Area at GAR
Lake-Lehman at Holy Redeemer
lightweights. Connecticut 69, Cincinnati 58 Butler 2.5 Virginia Comm Nanticoke. and August. The leagues will
April 8 At The McKale Center
Meyers at Nanticoke
At Hyogo, Japan, Hozumi Hasegawa vs. Johnny Tucson, Ariz.
Connecticut 2 Kentucky Valley Regional Girls Softball include both girls and boys divi-
Northwest at Hanover Area
H.S. BOYS TENNIS
Gonzalez, 12, for Hasegawa’s WBC featherweight San Diego State 71, Temple 64, 2OT CBI Tournament League will hold a mandatory sions. The grade levels will feature
title; Toshiaki Nishioka vs. Mauricio Munoz, 12, for Sunday, March 20
(4:15 p.m.)
Nishioka’s WBC junior featherweight title; Takahiro Creighton 4.5 Oregon coaches meeting at 7 p.m. Friday 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th teams;
Meyers at Crestwood At Time Warner Cable Arena
GAR at Coughlin Ao vs. Humberto Gutierrez, 12, for Ao’s WBC junior
Charlotte, N.C. NIT Tournament in the Butler Township Community Parish teams, community teams,
Hazleton Area at Wyoming Valley West lightweight title.
Holy Redeemer at Wyoming Seminary At Montreal (ESPN2), David Lemieux vs. Marco Duke 73, Michigan 71 Wichita St 2.5 Washington St Center. On the agenda: The Skills school teams, as well as clubs
At The BOK Center
MMI at Wyoming Area Antonio Rubio, 12, WBC middleweight title elimina- Showcase and Draft, new coaching
Pittston Area at Tunkhannock tor. Tulsa, Okla. Alabama 2 Colorado Wednes- organized by individual sponsors
April 9 Arizona 70, Texas 69 day assignments, updated 7U and 10U
Dallas at Berwick
At The Honda Center are welcome. Individual players
H.S. BOYS VOLLEYBALL At Magdeburg, Germany, Robert Stieglitz vs. Dimi- College Insider Tournament division rules, the Tim Martin
(5:45 p.m.) tri Sartison, 12, for Stieglitz’s WBO super middle- Anaheim, Calif. may be placed on a team (numbers
Lake-Lehman at Delaware Valley weight title. Regional Semifinals IONA 9.5 Santa Clara Memorial Scholarship and the May
permitting).Interested parties
Tunkhannock at Hanover Area At Newark, N.J., Tomasz Adamek vs. Kevin Thursday, March 24 NHL 7 Opening Day. More than 100 new
Holy Redeemer at Wyoming Valley West McBride, 12, heavyweights; Siarhei Liakhovich vs. Connecticut 74, San Diego State 67 contact Pace Setter A.C. at 347-
Pittston Area at West Side Tech Johnnie White, 10, heavyweights. Arizona 93, Duke 77 Favorite Odds Underdog players have signed up for the
H.S. GIRLS SOCCER At MGM Grand, Las Vegas (PPV), Marcos Maidana Regional Championship softball league, which will now 7018 or pacesetterbasketball@veri-
RED WINGS -130/ Blackhawks
(4:15 p.m.) vs. Erik Morales, 10 lightweights; Robert Guerrero Saturday, March 26 +110 count close to 300 total players zon.net
Honesdale at Wyoming Seminary vs. Michael Katsidis, 12, for the interim WBA World- Connecticut 65, Arizona 63
Hanover Area at Pittston Area WBO lightweight titles; Paulie Malignaggi vs. Jose and a minimum of 21 teams playing
Cotto, 10, welterweights; Danny Garcia vs. Nate FINAL FOUR DUCKS -240/ Avalanche
Meyers at Tunkhannock
GAR at Wyoming Area Campbell, 10, junior welterweights. At Reliant Stadium +200 in the four age divisions of 7U, 10U,
Houston
COLLEGE BASEBALL April 15
National Semifinals
13U and 18U.,For more information,
Baptist Bible at King’s, 4 p.m. At Temecula, Calif. (ESPN2), Ivan Popoca vs. Rus- Home teams in capital letters. contact VRGSL media officer John Bulletin Board items will not be
Wilkes at Scranton, 3:30 p.m. lan Provodnikov, 10, junior welterweights; Ji-Hoon Saturday, April 2
COLLEGE SOFTBALL Kim vs. Marvin Quintero, 10, lightweights. Butler (27-9) vs. Virginia Commonwealth (28-11), McGran at 570.401.9544. accepted over the telephone. Items
York at Misericordia, 3 p.m. April 16 6:09 p.m.
At Manchester, England (HBO), Amir Khan vs. Paul Kentucky (29-8) vs. Connecticut (30-9), 40 minutes may be faxed to 831-7319, emailed to
COLLEGE MENS TENNIS Baylor 82, West Virginia 68
King’s at Keystone, 3 p.m. McCloskey, 12, for Khan’s WBA World light welter- after first game (24-9), 9:45 p.m. REGISTRATIONS/TRYOUTS tlsports@timesleader.com or dropped
COLLEGE WOMENS TENNIS weight title. National Championship At Intrust Bank Arena
At Mashantucket, Conn. (HBO), Andre Berto vs. Monday, April 4 off at the Times Leader or mailed to
Albright at King’s, 3:30 p.m. Wichita, Kan.
COLLEGE WOMENS LACROSSE Victor Ortiz, 12, for Berto’s WBC welterweight title. Semifinal winners Wisconsin-Green Bay 65, Michigan State 56 Valley Regional Girls Softball Times Leader, c/o Sports, 15 N, Main
Misericordia at Lebanon Valley, TBA At Bayamon, Puerto Rico (SHO), Juan Manuel Lo- At Auburn Arena
pez vs. Orlando Salido, 12, for Lopez’s WBO feath- League’s 12U travel team will hold St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711-0250.
Wednesday, March 30 erweight title; Roman Martinez vs. Luis Cruz, 10, su- NCAA Women Auburn, Ala.
per featherweights. Georgia 61, Florida State 59
H.S. BOYS VOLLEYBALL National Championship Tournament Glance At CenturyTel Center
(5:45 p.m.) April 17 All Times EDT
At Jakarta, Indonesia, Chris John vs. Daud Yordan, Shreveport, La.
Crestwood at Dallas PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL Texas A&M 70, Rutgers 48 Connecticut........... 74 38 28 2 6 84 203 201 Chad Campbell (17), $13,860...72-75-72-72—291
Berwick at Wyoming Area 12, for John’s WBA Super World featherweight title. First Round Regional Semifinals Worcester.............. 74 34 28 4 8 80 201 230 Vaughn Taylor (17), $13,860.....70-68-76-77—291
Hazleton Area at Nanticoke April 19 Saturday, March 19 Providence............ 73 33 34 3 3 72 190 236 Erik Compton (0), $13,500 ........75-67-80-70—292
North Pocono at Abington Heights At Pakchong, Thailand, Kwanthai Sithmorseng vs. At American Airlines Center
At Bryce Jordan Center Springfield ............. 74 31 38 2 3 67 212 239 Bill Lunde (14), $13,500.............73-70-76-73—292
H.S. TRACK Muhammad Rachman, 12, for Sithmorseng’s WBA Dallas Bridgeport ............. 72 25 36 4 7 61 194 243
University Park, Pa. Robert Garrigus (14), $13,500..71-75-73-73—292
(4:15 p.m.) World minimumweight title. Sunday, March 27 East Division
Penn State 75, vs. Dayton 66 Texas A&M 79, Georgia 38 D.A. Points (14), $13,500 ..........73-71-72-76—292
Wyoming Valley West at Berwick April 23 DePaul 56, Navy 43 GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Carl Pettersson (11), $13,140...75-73-75-70—293
Dallas at Pittston Area At Los Angeles (SHO), Joseph Agbeko vs. Abner Baylor 86, Wisconsin-Green Bay 76 x-Penguins .......... 73 52 20 0 1 105 233 165
At Cameron Indoor Stadium Chris Couch (11), $13,140 ........70-71-71-81—293
Tunkhannock at Crestwood Mares, 12, for Agbeko’s IBF bantamweight title; Regional Championship x-Hershey ............. 75 43 24 3 5 94 239 198 Robert Damron (8), $12,780 .....73-72-73-76—294
Hazleton Area at Coughlin Yonnhy Perez vs. Vic Darchinyan, 12, bantam- Durham, N.C. Tuesday, March 29 Charlotte ............... 75 41 25 2 7 91 247 226
Marist 74, Iowa State 64 Billy Hurley III (0), $12,780 ........71-75-72-76—294
H.S. GIRLS SOCCER weights. Texas A&M (30-5) vs. Baylor (34-2), 9 p.m. Norfolk................... 72 37 21 8 6 88 236 198 Arjun Atwal (8), $12,780 ............72-72-72-78—294
(4:15 p.m. unless noted) April 29 Duke 90, Tennessee-Martin 45 FINAL FOUR Binghamton .......... 74 40 27 3 4 87 239 203
Sunday, March 20 Albany.................... 72 30 37 1 4 65 194 248 Hunter Haas (8), $12,780 ..........70-73-73-78—294
Coughlin at Dallas At Las Vegas (ESPN2), Victor Cayo vs. Tim Cole- At at Conseco Fieldhouse Stephen Ames (4), $12,360.......75-69-76-75—295
Holy Redeemer at Crestwood, 7 p.m. man, 12, IBF junior welterweight eliminator. At Harry A. Gampel Pavilion Syracuse............... 72 29 36 3 4 65 186 225
Indianapolis Adirondack ........... 72 26 36 4 6 62 168 227 Jason Dufner (4), $12,360.........70-70-78-77—295
Delaware Valley at Hazleton Area April 30 Storrs, Conn. Rocco Mediate (4), $12,360 ......70-72-75-78—295
Wyoming Valley West at Lake-Lehman, 6:30 p.m. National Semifinals WESTERN CONFERENCE
At Mannheim, Germany, Wladimir Klitschko vs. De- Connecticut 75, Hartford 39 Colt Knost (2), $12,120 ..............75-73-72-76—296
COLLEGE MENS LACROSSE Purdue 53, Kansas State 45 Sunday, April 3 North Division
reck Chisora, 12, for Klitschko’s WBO-IBO heavy- Philadelphia champion vs. Dayton champion, TBA
(4 p.m.) weight titles. At Comcast Center GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA
Lycoming at King’s At Buenos Aires, Luis Lazarte vs. Ulises Solis, 12, College Park, Md.
Spokane champion vs. Dallas champion, TBA Lake Erie ............... 73 40 25 3 5 88 205 189 Nationwide
Lebanon Valley at Misericordia for Lazarte’s IBF junior flyweight title; Roberto Bo- National Championship Manitoba................ 73 40 27 1 5 86 202 186
Maryland 70, St. Francis, Pa. 48 Chitimacha Louisiana Open Scores
COLLEGE WOMENS LACROSSE lonti vs. Isidro Prieto, 10, heavyweights. Georgetown 65, Princeton 49 Tuesday, April 5 Hamilton ................ 72 37 26 2 7 83 201 182
King’s at Lycoming, 4 p.m. Semifinal winners, TBA Toronto .................. 74 35 28 1 10 81 209 202 Sunday
At Panama City, Panama, Rafael Concepcion, vs. Second Round Grand Rapids........ 74 35 29 2 8 80 220 234
COLLEGE MENS TENNIS Hugo Ruiz, 12, for the interim WBA World bantam- At Le Triomphe Country Club
Monday, March 21 Abbotsford ............ 71 34 27 4 6 78 171 192
Messiah at King’s, 3:30 p.m. weight title. NBA Broussard, La.
At Bryce Jordan Center Rochester.............. 72 30 35 4 3 67 194 232
COLLEGE WOMENS TENNIS Purse: $500,000
University Park, Pa. At A Glance West Division
(3:30 p.m.) Yardage: 7,006; Par: 71
Messiah at King’s B A S K E T B A L L DePaul 75, Penn State 73
At Cameron Indoor Stadium
All Times EDT GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA
Houston ................. 76 44 26 1 5 94 223 198 Final Round
Wilkes at PSU Berks EASTERN CONFERENCE Milwaukee ............. 72 39 19 6 8 92 202 176 (a-amateur)
COLLEGE SOFTBALL Durham, N.C.
Manhattanville at King’s, 3 p.m. NCAA Men Duke 71, Marist 66
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Texas ..................... 73 39 24 4 6 88 204 193
Peoria .................... 74 38 29 2 5 83 203 202
Brett Wetterich, $90,000 ............67-65-70-69—271
a-Andres Echavarria...................69-66-70-67—272
COLLEGE BASEBALL National Championship Tournament Glance Tuesday, March 22 y-Boston ....................... 51 21 .708 — Chicago ................. 74 37 28 3 6 83 241 237 Bubba Dickerson, $54,000 ........69-68-67-69—273
Misericordia at Moravian, 3:30 p.m. All Times EDT At Harry A. Gampel Pavilion Philadelphia ................. 37 36 .507 141⁄2 Oklahoma City...... 75 36 28 2 9 83 224 226 John Kimbell, $26,000 ...............71-71-71-61—274
Storrs, Conn. New York ...................... 35 38 .479 161⁄2 San Antonio .......... 72 38 29 3 2 81 212 219 Carl Paulson, $26,000................66-72-69-67—274
Thursday, March 31 FIRST ROUND
Connecticut 64, Purdue 40 New Jersey .................. 23 49 .319 28 Rockford................ 73 32 32 4 5 73 191 225 Rich Barcelo, $26,000 ................65-71-68-70—274
At UD Arena Toronto ......................... 20 53 .274 311⁄2 x-Clinched Playoff Berth
H.S. BOYS TENNIS At Comcast Center Danny Lee, $17,375 ...................69-68-73-65—275
Dayton, Ohio NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point Steve Wheatcroft, $17,375 ........73-68-67-67—275
(4:15 p.m.) College Park, Md. Southeast Division
Tuesday, March 15 Georgetown 79, Maryland 57 W L Pct GB for an overtime or shootout loss. Chris Nallen, $14,000.................71-69-71-65—276
Berwick at MMI
Pittston Area at Holy Redeemer UNC Asheville 81, Arkansas-Little Rock 77, OT x-Miami ......................... 51 22 .699 — Sunday's Games Fran Quinn, $14,000...................67-69-73-67—276
Clemson 70, UAB 52 Regional Semifinals
Tunkhannock at Hazleton Area x-Orlando ...................... 47 26 .644 4 Manitoba 2, Abbotsford 1 Michael Putnam, $14,000 ..........71-68-70-67—276
Wednesday, March 16 At The Liacouras Center Binghamton 4, Springfield 1
Wyoming Area at GAR x-Atlanta........................ 42 32 .568 91⁄2 Charles Warren, $14,000 ..........69-66-69-72—276
Texas-San Antonio 70, Alabama State 61 Philadelphia Charlotte ....................... 30 42 .417 201⁄2 Worcester 3, Adirondack 1
Wyoming Seminary at Meyers Ryan Armour, $9,214 .................71-70-72-64—277
Wyoming Valley West at Dallas Virginia Commonwealth 59, Southern Cal 46 Sunday, March 27 Washington .................. 17 54 .239 33 Syracuse at Bridgeport, ppd., unsafe ice conditions
Connecticut 68, Georgetown 63 Scott Dunlap, $9,214..................73-69-70-65—277
Coughlin at Crestwood EAST REGIONAL Rockford 3, Chicago 2 Jon Mills, $9,214 .........................69-70-72-66—277
Duke 70, DePaul 63 Central Division Providence 4, Connecticut 2
H.S. BOYS VOLLEYBALL Second Round W L Pct GB Darron Stiles, $9,214..................72-66-71-68—277
Regional Championship Penguins 3, Hershey 2, OT
(5:45 p.m.) Thursday, March 17 y-Chicago ..................... 53 19 .736 — Charlotte 8, Norfolk 2 James Nitties, $9,214.................72-68-69-68—277
Meyers at Lake-Lehman At St. Pete Times Forum Tuesday, March 29 Indiana .......................... 32 42 .432 22 Julian Etulain, $9,214 .................74-67-68-68—277
Connecticut (35-1) vs. Duke (32-3), 7 p.m. Hamilton 3, Peoria 1
Coughlin at Tunkhannock Tampa, Fla. Milwaukee..................... 29 43 .403 24 Houston 5, Oklahoma City 4 Jay Williamson, $9,214 ..............70-69-69-69—277
Delaware Valley at Holy Redeemer West Virginia 84, Clemson 76 DAYTON REGIONAL Detroit ........................... 26 47 .356 271⁄2 Ron Whittaker, $6,060 ...............69-68-73-68—278
San Antonio at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.
Hanover Area at Pittston Area Kentucky 59, Princeton 57 First Round Cleveland...................... 14 58 .194 39 Richard H. Lee, $6,060 ..............71-69-70-68—278
West Side Tech at Wyoming Valley West Monday's Games
Friday, March 18 Saturday, March 19 WESTERN CONFERENCE Syracuse at Bridgeport, 1 p.m. Travis Hampshire, $6,060..........74-68-68-68—278
H.S. GIRLS SOCCER At Thompson-Boling Arena Southwest Division Scott Gardiner, $6,060 ...............66-75-68-69—278
(4:15 p.m.) At Time Warner Cable Arena
Knoxville, Tenn. W L Pct GB Luke List, $6,060.........................71-69-67-71—278
Pittston Area at Honesdale Charlotte, N.C. Sunday's Penguins box Brenden Pappas, $3,938...........69-72-74-64—279
North Carolina 102, Long Island University 87 Tennessee 99, Stetson 34 x-San Antonio .............. 57 16 .781 — Penguins 3, Hershey 2, o.t.
Wyoming Seminary at North Pocono Marquette 68, Texas 65 x-Dallas......................... 51 21 .708 51⁄2 Craig Bowden, $3,938................71-71-72-65—279
Wyoming Area at Meyers Washington 68, Georgia 65 Penguins .............................................. 1 1 0 1 — 3 Camilo Benedetti, $3,938 ..........72-70-71-66—279
At Quicken Loans Arena At St. John Arena New Orleans ................ 42 31 .575 15
Tunkhannock at MMI Memphis ....................... 41 33 .554 161⁄2 Hershey ................................................ 0 1 1 0 — 2 Tim Wilkinson, $3,938................68-73-71-67—279
COLLEGE GOLF Cleveland Columbus, Ohio First Period ± Scoring – 1. WBS, Andrew Hutchin-
Georgia Tech 69, Bowling Green 58 Houston ........................ 38 35 .521 19 Craig Barlow, $3,938 ..................72-70-70-67—279
King’s at Moravian Spring Invitational, 12:30 p.m. George Mason 61, Villanova 57 son 6 (Sterling, Craig) power play 5:00. Penalties – Elliot Gealy, $3,938 ....................70-68-72-69—279
Ohio State 75, Texas-San Antonio 46 Ohio State 80, UCF 69 Northwest Division HER, Perreault (tripping) 4:56; WBS, Veilleux
COLLEGE SOFTBALL W L Pct GB Doug LaBelle II, $3,938 .............73-67-69-70—279
(3 p.m.) Marquette 66, Xavier 55 At Huntsman Center (cross-checking) 6:30; WBS, bench – served by Ken Duke, $3,938 .......................69-71-69-70—279
Syracuse 77, Indiana State 60 Salt Lake City x-Oklahoma City.......... 47 24 .662 — Petersen (too many men) 9:39; WBS, Wallace
King’s at Ithaca Denver .......................... 44 29 .603 4 Will Strickler, $2,900...................70-72-72-66—280
Wilkes at Lebanon Valley Third Round Temple 63, Arizona State 45 (goaltender interference) 19:53. Michael Letzig, $2,900 ...............72-70-71-67—280
Notre Dame 67, Utah 54 Portland......................... 42 30 .583 51⁄2 Second Period ± Scoring – 2. HER, Francois Bou-
COLLEGE MENS TENNIS Saturday, March 19 Utah............................... 36 38 .486 121⁄2 Doug Barron, $2,900 ..................74-66-72-68—280
PSU Berks at Wilkes, 3:30 p.m. At St. Pete Times Forum Sunday, March 20 chard 10 (Perreault, Willsie) 9:56. 3. WBS, Ben David Lingmerth, $2,900............68-72-71-69—280
Minnesota..................... 17 57 .230 311⁄2 Street 12 (Sterling, Lerg) power play 12:52. Penal-
Tampa, Fla. At John Paul Jones Arena James Hahn, $2,900 ..................73-69-68-70—280
Friday, April 1 Kentucky 71, West Virginia 63 Charlottesville, Va. Pacific Division ties – HER, Collins (holding) 4:11; HER, Orlov Tommy Biershenk, $2,900 ........69-70-69-72—280
Miami 80, Gardner-Webb 62 W L Pct GB (slashing) 12:15; WBS, Boulerice ( holding) 15:06;
H.S. BASEBALL Sunday, March 20 y-L.A. Lakers................ 52 20 .722 — Dodge Kemmer, $2,900.............74-68-66-72—280
Oklahoma 86, James Madison 72 HER, Kugryshev (holding) 18:13. Miguel Angel Carballo, $2,350..72-69-73-67—281
(4:15 p.m.) At Time Warner Cable Arena Phoenix......................... 36 35 .507 151⁄2 Third Period ± Scoring – 4. HER, Keith Aucoin 17
Dallas at Wyoming Valley West Second Round Golden State ................ 31 42 .425 211⁄2 Mathew Goggin, $2,350 .............70-72-71-68—281
Charlotte, N.C. (Perreault, Orlov) shorthanded 18:19. Penalties –
Tunkhannock at Wyoming Area North Carolina 86, Washington 83 Monday, March 21 L.A. Clippers................. 29 45 .392 24 WBS, Veilleux (fighting) 6:07; HER, Carroll (fight- Bob Heintz, $2,350 .....................67-75-70-69—281
Crestwood at Coughlin At Thompson-Boling Arena Sacramento.................. 20 52 .278 32 ing) 6:07; HER, Willsie (tripping) 10:35; WBS, Sill Garth Mulroy, $2,350..................69-68-72-72—281
Nanticoke at Holy Redeemer At Quicken Loans Arena Chris Baryla, $1,988 ...................68-71-76-67—282
Cleveland Knoxville, Tenn. x-clinched playoff spot (tripping) 15:35; HER, Kane (elbowing) 17:14.
Pittston Area at Hazleton Area Tennessee 79, Marquette 70 y-clinched division Overtime ± Scoring 5. WBS, Bryan Lerg 13 (Strait) John Merrick, $1,988..................74-68-73-67—282
H.S. SOFTBALL Ohio State 98, George Mason 66 Andrew Buckle, $1,988 ..............68-70-75-69—282
Marquette 66, Syracuse 62 At St. John Arena Sunday's Games shorthanded 3:17. Penalties – HER, Pinizzotto (trip-
(4:15 p.m.) ping) :29; WBS, Sterling (roughing) 2:22. Kyle Thompson, $1,988 .............71-69-71-71—282
At The Prudential Center Columbus, Ohio Sacramento 114, Philadelphia 111, OT Brian Rowell, $1,754 ..................69-71-74-69—283
Dallas at Wyoming Valley West Memphis 111, San Antonio 104 Shots on goal ± Penguins – 9-14-7-4-34; Hershey
Tunkhannock at Wyoming Area Newark, N.J. Ohio State 67, Georgia Tech 60 Matthew Giles, $1,754................67-72-74-70—283
Atlanta 99, Cleveland 83 – 13-4-9-0-26
Crestwood at Coughlin Regional Semifinals At Huntsman Center Power-play Opportunities ± Penguins – 2 of 7; Andrew Svoboda, $1,754 ..........73-66-74-70—283
Salt Lake City Miami 125, Houston 119
Nanticoke at Holy Redeemer Friday, March 25 Boston 85, Minnesota 82 Hershey – 0 of 6 Jonas Hedin, $1,754 ..................70-69-73-71—283
Pittston Area at Hazleton Area North Carolina 81, Marquette 63 Notre Dame 77, Temple 64 Goaltenders ± Penguins – John Curry 20-13-0 (24 Nicholas Thompson, $1,754 .....69-68-74-72—283
Portland at Oklahoma City, late
COLLEGE BASEBALL Kentucky 62, Ohio State 60 Tuesday, March 22 Washington at Golden State, late saves – 26 shots); Hershey – Braden Holtby 14-9-2 Briny Baird, $1,754 .....................70-72-69-72—283
(3:30 p.m.) Regional Championship At John Paul Jones Arena New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, late (31-34) Nick Flanagan, $1,754................70-70-69-74—283
King’s at Misericordia Sunday, March 27 Charlottesville, Va. Dallas at Phoenix, late Starters ± Penguins – G John Curry, D Corey Pot- Jerod Turner, $1,575..................72-70-73-69—284
DeSales at Wilkes Kentucky 76, North Carolina 69 Oklahoma 88, Miami 83 Today's Games ter, D Andrew Hutchinson, LW Tim Wallce, C Ryan Rob Oppenheim, $1,575............70-70-74-70—284
COLLEGE MENS TENNIS Regional Semifinals Milwaukee at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Craig, RW Brett Sterling; Hershey – G Braden Holt- Scott Brown, $1,575 ...................70-68-74-72—284
SOUTHEAST REGIONAL by, D Patrick McNeill, D Sean Collins, LW Boyd
Cabrini at King’s, 4 p.m. At University of Dayton Arena Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m. Kevin Chappell, $1,575..............69-69-72-74—284
Second Round Kane, C Ketih Aucoin, RW Andrew Gordon John Riegger, $1,575 .................69-70-70-75—284
Thursday, March 17 Dayton, Ohio Orlando at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Three Stars ± 1. WBS, Bryan Lerg (game-winning Stephen Gangluff, $1,575..........71-68-69-76—284
W H AT ’ S O N T V At The Verizon Center Saturday, March 26 Philadelphia at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Portland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. goal, assist) 2. WBS, Andrew Hutchinson (goal) 3. Martin Flores, $1,575 .................71-67-68-78—284
Washington Tennessee 85, Ohio State 75 HER, Mathieu Perreault (two assists) J.J. Killeen, $1,463 .....................70-70-74-71—285
Notre Dame 78, Oklahoma 53 Washington at Utah, 9 p.m.
Butler 60, Old Dominion 58 Referee – Chris Cozzan, Tim Mayer. Linesmen –
NHL Pittsburgh 74, UNC Asheville 51 Regional Championship Scott Pomento, Matt MacPherson
Matt McQuillan, $1,463...............70-66-76-73—285
Michael Arnaud, $1,413 .............70-69-76-71—286
7:30 p.m. At St. Pete Times Forum Monday, March 28 Major Manning, $1,413 ..............71-68-71-76—286
VERSUS — Chicago at Detroit Tampa, Fla. Tennessee (34-2) vs. Notre Dame (29-7), 7 p.m. H O C K E Y Manuel Villegas, $1,363.............71-71-77-68—287
Florida 79, UC Santa Barbara 51 SPOKANE REGIONAL Michael Thompson, $1,363 .......67-73-76-71—287
PREP BASKETBALL UCLA 78, Michigan State 76 First Round G O L F Brian Bateman, $1,313................70-69-74-75—288
7:30 p.m. At The Pepsi Center Saturday, March 19
NHL Aaron Watkins, $1,313 ...............66-71-72-79—288
Jason Schultz, $1,263................73-66-78-72—289
ESPN2 — Exhibition, Powerade Jamfest slamdunk
competition, at Chicago
Denver At Maples Pavilion At A Glance PGA Jeff Quinney, $1,263 ..................69-73-72-75—289
BYU 74, Wofford 66 Stanford, Calif. All Times EDT
Gonzaga 86, St. John’s 71 Arnold Palmer Invitational Scores Jeff Klauk, $1,213 .......................71-70-79-70—290
WOMEN'S COLLEGE At The McKale Center
St. John’s 55, Texas Tech 50
Stanford 86, UC Davis 59
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Sunday Mark Anderson, $1,213..............71-69-75-75—290
Atlantic Division
BASKETBALL Tucson, Ariz. At The Pit GP W L OT Pts GF GA
At Bay Hill Club & Lodge Will MacKenzie, $1,175 .............72-70-73-76—291
David Branshaw, $1,150 ............76-66-72-79—293
7 p.m. Wisconsin 72, Belmont 58 Albuquerque, N.M. x-Philadelphia............. 74 45 19 10 100 237 198 Orlando, Fla.
ESPN — NCAA Division I tournament, regional fi- Kansas State 73, Utah State 68 North Carolina 82, Fresno State 68 x-Pittsburgh ................ 76 45 23 8 98 218 183 Purse: $6 million
nal, Tennessee vs. Notre Dame, at Dayton, Ohio Third Round Kentucky 66, Hampton 62, OT N.Y. Rangers .............. 76 41 30 5 87 218 181 Yardage: 7,419; Par: 72 PGA European
Saturday, March 19 At McCarthey Athletic Center New Jersey ................. 75 34 36 5 73 155 189 Final Round
9 p.m. N.Y. Islanders ............. 76 29 35 12 70 210 241 Adalucian Open Scores
ESPN — NCAA Division I tournament, regional fi- At The Verizon Center Spokane, Wash. Martin Laird (500), $1,080,000 .70-65-70-75—280 Sunday
nal, Gonzaga vs. Stanford, at Spokane, Wash. Washington Gonzaga 92, Iowa 86 Northeast Division Steve Marino (300), $648,000 ..71-67-71-72—281
UCLA 55, Montana 47 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Justin Rose (145), $312,000 .....72-72-70-68—282 At Parador de Malaga Golf Club
Butler 71, Pittsburgh 70
Sunday, March 20 Boston.......................... 74 41 23 10 92 224 177 Marc Leishman (145), Malaga, Spain
At St. Pete Times Forum
T R A N S A C T I O N S Tampa, Fla. At Cintas Center
Montreal....................... 76 40 29 7 87 200 196
Buffalo.......................... 75 38 28 9 85 222 210
$312,000 ......................................73-72-66-71—282 Purse: $1.42 million
Florida 73, UCLA 65 Cincinnati David Toms (145), $312,000.....74-67-69-72—282 Yardage: 6,817;Par: 70
Toronto ........................ 76 34 32 10 78 201 232
Louisville 81, Vanderbilt 62 K.J. Choi (95), $208,500 ............72-64-76-71—283 Final
BASEBALL At The Pepsi Center
Xavier 72, South Dakota State 56
Ottawa .......................... 76 29 37 10 68 175 233
Spencer Levin (95), $208,500...66-70-71-76—283 Paul Lawrie, Scotland .................66-67-65-70—268
Denver Southeast Division
American League BYU 89, Gonzaga 67 Second Round Sergio Garcia (85), $186,000....73-68-73-70—284 Johan Edfors, Sweden ...............65-71-65-68—269
GP W L OT Pts GF GA Mark Wilson (75), $162,000 ......74-72-70-69—285 Felipe Aguilar, Chile ...................67-69-66-68—270
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned OF Lorenzo At The McKale Center Monday, March 21 x-Washington.............. 76 44 22 10 98 205 182 Fredrik Jacobson (75), Jeppe Huldahl, Denmark ...........66-66-72-67—271
Cain to Omaha (PCL). Tucson, Ariz. At Maples Pavilion Tampa Bay................... 75 40 24 11 91 223 228
Carolina ....................... 75 35 30 10 80 211 224 $162,000 ......................................71-71-73-70—285 Raphael Jacquelin, France........68-69-65-69—271
MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned RHP Jim Hoey, Wisconsin 70, Kansas State 65 Stanford, Calif. Mark Foster, England .................67-67-65-72—271
RHP Anthony Slama and INF Luke Hughes to Stanford 75, St. John’s 49 Atlanta .......................... 75 32 31 12 76 210 246 Jim Furyk (75), $162,000...........74-69-71-71—285
At New Orleans Arena Florida .......................... 76 29 36 11 69 185 209 Edoardo Molinari (0), $94,800 ..72-75-72-67—286 Christian Nilsson, Sweden.........68-69-67-68—272
Rochester (IL). Regional Semifinals At The Pit Florian Fritsch, Germany............66-68-69-70—273
WESTERN CONFERENCE Aaron Baddeley (54), $94,800 ..76-69-72-69—286
OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned RHP Joey Thursday, March 24 Albuquerque, N.M. Ian Poulter (54), $94,800 ...........71-71-73-71—286 Hennie Otto, South Africa ..........68-68-67-70—273
Devine to Sacramento (PCL). North Carolina 86, Kentucky 74 Central Division
Florida 83, BYU 74, OT D.J. Trahan (54), $94,800..........72-71-72-71—286 Jose Manuel Lara, Spain ...........67-70-65-71—273
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned C Jose Lobaton to Butler 61, Wisconsin 54 At McCarthey Athletic Center GP W L OT Pts GF GA Scott Jamieson, Scotland ..........69-70-67-68—274
Detroit .......................... 75 44 22 9 97 242 213 Stewart Cink (54), $94,800........76-71-68-71—286
Durham (IL). Traded INF Joe Inglett to Houston for Regional Championship Spokane, Wash. Rod Pampling (54), $94,800 .....73-72-70-71—286 Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Spain .....70-69-67-68—274
a player to be named or cash considerations. Nashville ...................... 76 41 25 10 92 202 179
Saturday, March 26 Gonzaga 89, UCLA 75 Chicago........................ 74 40 26 8 88 239 204 J.J. Henry (54), $94,800 ............75-70-69-72—286 Rikard Karlberg, Sweden...........65-67-72-70—274
National League Butler 74, Florida 71, OT Tuesday, March 22 St. Louis....................... 75 34 32 9 77 212 219 Heath Slocum (54), $94,800......75-70-68-73—286 Richard Finch, England..............70-66-68-70—274
ATLANTA BRAVES — Reassigned RHP Kenshin SOUTHWEST REGIONAL At Cintas Center Columbus .................... 75 33 31 11 77 200 230 Brian Davis (54), $94,800 ..........70-72-71-73—286 Mathew Nixon, England..............72-67-65-70—274
Kawakami, RHP Rodrigo Lopez, C J.C. Boscan, Second Round Cincinnati Northwest Division Kyle Stanley (54), $94,800 ........74-73-66-73—286 David Howell, England ...............74-65-65-70—274
INF Ed Lucas and OF Wilkin Rodriguez to their mi- Louisville 85, Xavier 75 Ryan Moore (54), $94,800.........74-67-71-74—286 Kenneth Ferrie, England ............70-69-60-75—274
Thursday, March 17 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pablo Larrazabal, Spain.............69-69-69-68—275
nor league camp. Placed RHP Kris Medlen on the Regional Semifinals y-Vancouver................ 76 50 17 9 109 247 175 Trevor Immelman (54),
At The Pepsi Center Joost Luiten, Netherlands ..........69-69-68-69—275
15-day DL. Released RHP Scott Proctor. Placed At Veterans Memorial Arena Calgary ........................ 77 38 28 11 87 235 226 $94,800 ........................................72-71-68-75—286
Denver Minnesota ................... 75 35 32 8 78 188 213 Tiger Woods (45), $48,600........73-68-74-72—287 Alexandre Kaleka, France..........69-70-66-70—275
OF Joe Mather on outright waivers. Morehead State 62, Louisville 61 Spokane, Wash. Colorado...................... 74 28 38 8 64 207 262 Brian Gay (45), $48,600 .............75-68-71-73—287 Tetsuji Hiratsuka, Japan .............66-67-71-71—275
CHICAGO CUBS — Granted RHP Carlos Silva his Richmond 69, Vanderbilt 66 Saturday, March 26 Edmonton.................... 75 23 41 11 57 180 249 Phil Mickelson (45), $48,600.....70-75-69-73—287 Maarten Lafeber, Netherlands ..67-65-71-72—275
unconditional release. Friday, March 18 Gonzaga 76, Louisville 69 Alvaro Velasco, Spain ................69-68-71-68—276
CINCINNATI REDS — Reassigned LHP Dontrelle Pacific Division Charlie Wi (45), $48,600 ............73-74-66-74—287
At The United Center Stanford 72, North Carolina 65 John Senden (45), $48,600.......71-72-68-76—287 Jason Knutzon, United States ...69-70-69-68—276
Willis and OF Jeremy Hermida to their minor league GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago Monday, March 28 San Jose ...................... 76 44 23 9 97 224 199 Bubba Watson (45), $48,600.....70-71-68-78—287 Anthony Wall, England ...............67-68-72-69—276
camp. Notre Dame 69, Akron 56 Regional Championship Jamie Donaldson, Wales ...........70-67-70-69—276
Phoenix........................ 77 41 25 11 93 219 212 Johnson Wagner (38), $34,875 74-72-73-69—288
COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned RHP Matt Da- Florida State 57, Texas A&M 50 Gonzaga (31-4) vs. Stanford (32-2), 9 p.m. Los Angeles ................ 75 43 26 6 92 207 181 Alexander Noren, Sweden.........70-68-69-69—276
ley, RHP Greg Reynolds, C Jordan Pacheco and Kevin Na (38), $34,875 ..............74-73-72-69—288
Purdue 65, St. Peter’s 43 DALLAS REGIONAL Anaheim ...................... 75 42 28 5 89 214 217 Tom Gillis (38), $34,875.............73-70-73-72—288 Shiv Kapur, India.........................69-68-69-70—276
INF Eric Young Jr. to their minor league camp. Virginia Commonwealth 74, Georgetown 56 Dallas ........................... 74 38 26 10 86 208 210 Bo Van Pelt (38), $34,875..........74-70-72-72—288 Jamie Elson, England.................65-68-72-71—276
First Round
Reassigned RHP John Maine, LHP Rex Brothers At The BOK Center NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime Sam Saunders (0), $34,875.......74-73-69-72—288 Michael Jonzon, Sweden...........68-71-66-71—276
and LHP Eric Stults to their minor league camp. Sunday, March 20 loss.
Tulsa, Okla. Nick O’Hern (38), $34,875.........73-70-72-73—288 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet, France...69-69-66-72—276
HOUSTON ASTROS — Returned RHP Lance At Ferrell Center x-clinched playoff spot
Kansas 72, Boston University 53 Dicky Pride (38), $34,875 ..........77-66-71-74—288
Pendleton to the N.Y. Yankees, who assigned him Illinois 73, UNLV 62 Waco, Texas y-clinched division

to their minor league camp.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed RHP LaTroy
Hawkins on the 15-day DL.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned RHP Scott
Mathieson and LHP Mike Zagurski to their minor
league camp.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Traded OF Nyjer
Morgan to Milwaukee for INF Cutter Dykstra and
cash considerations.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed F Cam At-
kinson to a three-year contract.
ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned F T.J. Hensick, F
Adam Cracknell and D Ian Cole to Peoria (AHL).
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned F Blair
Jones to Norfolk (AHL).
◆ BUILDING TRUST
West Virginia 79, Houston 73 Rickie Fowler (38), $34,875 ......69-71-70-78—288
Third Round Sunday's Games Robert Allenby (29), $23,400 ....79-69-71-70—289
Baylor 66, Prairie View 30 Pittsburgh 2, Florida 1, SO
Saturday, March 19 Scott Verplank (29), $23,400.....76-69-72-72—289
At Intrust Bank Arena Atlanta 5, Ottawa 4, SO
At The Pepsi Center William McGirt (29), $23,400.....73-68-75-73—289
Wichita, Kan. Vancouver 4, Columbus 1 Brendan Steele (29), $23,400 ...76-70-71-72—289
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Richmond 65, Morehead State 48
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Regional Semifinals
Tuesday, March 22 GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA
x-Portland.............. 71 43 20 6 2 94 256 212
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NBA ROUNDUP
Big 3 leads Heat to win vs. Rockets
The Associated Press
MIAMI — LeBron James had 33
points and 10 rebounds, Chris Bosh
added 31 points and 12 rebounds, and
Dwyane Wade shook off a bruised
tailbone to finish with 30 points and 11
boards as the Miami Heat beat the
Houston Rockets 125-119 on Sunday for
their eighth win in nine games.
It was the first time since February
1961, when Oscar Robertson, Jack
Twyman and Wayne Embry — Hall of
Famers all — did it for the Cincinnati
Royals in a loss to the Philadelphia
Warriors, that three teammates had 30
points and 10 rebounds in a non-over-
time.
Kevin Martin scored 29 points, Luis
Scola added 28 and Kyle Lowry — who
tweaked an ankle late — had 25 points,
nine assists and seven rebounds for the
Rockets. Chase Budinger scored 16 for
Houston, which had a five-game win-
ning streak snapped.
Grizzlies 111, Spurs 104
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tony Allen and
Zach Randolph had 23 points apiece,
and Memphis sent San Antonio to its
third straight loss.
Randolph also grabbed 11 rebounds
for Memphis, which currently holds
the eighth and final playoff spot in the
Western Conference. If the Grizzlies
earn the No. 8 seed, they will likely
face the NBA-leading Spurs in the
opening round of the playoffs.
O.J. Mayo added 17 points for Mem-
phis, Mike Conley had 12 and Marc
Gasol 11.
George Hill matched his career high
with 30 points on 9-of-12 shooting for
the Spurs.
Tony Parker had 20 points and six
assists, and Richard Jefferson scored 13
for the Spurs, who played the bulk of
the second half without leading scorer
Manu Ginobili (left quad contusion).
Celtics 85, Timberwolves 82
MINNEAPOLIS — Paul Pierce had
23 points and seven rebounds, and
Boston nearly gave away another huge
lead in a victory over Minnesota.
Kevin Garnett had 13 points, 13
rebounds and thousands of fans who
turned out to cheer for the former face
of the Timberwolves franchise. The
Celtics led by 25 early in the second
quarter, but trailed by two midway
through the fourth before Pierce lifted
NHL ROUNDUP
Boston defeats Philadelphia to clinch a playoff spot
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Brad Mar-
chand picked a perfect time to snap
his scoring slump.
Marchand’s power-play goal with
3:43 left in regulation lifted the Bos-
ton Bruins to a 2-1 victory over the
Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday night.
Nathan Horton also scored to help
the Northeast Division-leading Bruins
clinch a playoff spot. Marchand’s goal
was his 20th and first in 13 games.
“There’s been pressure on him to
get the 20th and a great way to get it
is a game winner,” said Mark Recchi,
who assisted on the goal.
The Eastern Conference-leading
Flyers had been unbeaten in regu-
lation in their previous nine games.
They are two points ahead of Wash-
ington and Pittsburgh for the top
spot.
Kris Versteeg scored for Philadel-
phia.
The two teams could be headed for
a playoff rematch. Last spring, the
PENS
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wins as we can and take it into the play-
offs.”
On the season the Penguins are 7-1
against Hershey and a perfect 4-0 on the
road. Sunday’s win was a result of stellar
special teams that yielded the Penguins
two power-play goals and Lerg’s short-
handed tally in overtime.
The Penguins power play needed only
four seconds on its first man advantage
to get on the board when Andrew Hutch-
inson connected in the first period to
make it 1-0.
The Bears evened things up in the sec-
ond period with a goal from Francois
Bouchard, but the Penguins regained the
lead three minutes later thanks to Ben
Street.
Lerg skated the puck along the wall
and dished a pass into the slot for Brett
Sterling, who fanned on the shot. The
puck carried out to Street who was post-
The Houston Rockets’ Kevin Martin, right, drives to the basket as the Miami
Heat’s Chris Bosh defends during the fourth quarter of an NBA game in Miami
on Sunday. The Heat won 125-119.
them to the victory.
Hawks 99, Cavaliers 83
CLEVELAND — Marvin Williams
scored a season-high 31 points and Al
Horford added 20, leading Atlanta over
Cleveland.
Atlanta played without leading
scorer Joe Johnson, but never trailed.
Johnson, who averages 18.5 points,
sprained his right thumb Saturday, but
Flyers become the third NHL team in
history to overcome a 3-0 series def-
icit when they beat the Bruins to
advance to the conference finals.
“It’s going to be very interesting,”
Marchand said. “Every game deter-
mines who we’re going to play. It’s
going to be exciting watching every
game because it could determine the
outcome of where we’re at in the
playoffs.”
With Flyers captain Mike Richards
in the penalty box for high-sticking,
Marchand stuffed a rebound off a
slap shot by Dennis Seidenberg past
Brian Boucher.
“We were patient and disciplined,”
said Tim Thomas, who made 27
saves for the Bruins. “They took the
penalty at the end and we capital-
ized.”
Canucks 4, Blue Jackets
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Chris Hig-
gins had a two goals and an assist
and the Vancouver Canucks beat the
ed in the right faceoff circle, and he bur-
ied a shot into an open net to make it 2-1.
The goal was Street’s second in two
games and gave him 12 on the season.
“I was trying to be in an area where if it
went to Sterling I could get a rebound or
Lerg could come all the way across,”
Street said. “I didn’t even have to move.
It came right to my wheelhouse.”
The Penguins looked like they would
hold onto the lead, withstanding several
Hershey chances in the third period.
Hutchinson broke up a Hershey two-on-
one shorthanded chance when he slid to
take away the pass midway through the
period. Minutes later, John Curry made
a nice glove save on a Brian Willsie shot
to preserve the 2-1 lead.
The biggest test came with five min-
utes remaining when Zach Sill was whis-
tled for tripping, giving Hershey its fifth
power play of the night.
The Penguins penalty kill continued
to play strong as Robert Bortuzzo and
Brian Strait punished the Bears down
low, limiting Hershey to one shot.
“Five minutes left, a one-goal game –
➛ S P O R T S MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2011 PAGE 3B
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the Hawks didn’t need him to defeat
the Cavaliers, who have the worst
record in the NBA.
Williams took advantage of his in-
creased playing time by shooting 9 of
14 from the field, including three 3-
pointers, and 8 of 9 from the foul line in
43 minutes. Josh Smith scored 13
points and had a season-high 18 re-
bounds.
Baron Davis, who is expected to
Columbus Blue Jackets to reach 50
victories for the first time in their
40-year history.
Canucks backup Cory Schneider
made 39 saves to improve to 15-3-2
and help the NHL-leading Canucks
run their road winning streak to
eight, matching the franchise record
set in early 2004.
Christian Ehrhoff and Henrik Sedin
also scored for Vancouver. Mason
Raymond added three assists and
Ryan Kesler had two. The Canucks
have won 10 of 11 overall and seven
in a row against Columbus.
R.J. Umberger scored for Columbus
with just under 10 minutes remaining
to spoil Schneider’s shutout bid.
Penguins 2, Panthers 1
PITTSBURGH — Alex Kovalev
and James Neal scored in the shoo-
tout, Marc-Andre Fleury had 37 saves
and Pittsburgh won its fourth consec-
utive shootout, beating Florida.
Ben Lovejoy scored in regulation
we knew we wanted to make them un-
comfortable and make plays under pres-
sure,” Strait said. “I don’t think they were
expecting us to come that hard.”
But less than a minute after Hershey’s
power play expired and the Penguins
were given one of their own, Bears cen-
ter Keith Aucoin connected on a shot
through Curry’s legs to even things up
2-2 and force overtime.
The Penguins weren’t worried.
“It didn’t take all the wind out of our
sails,” Lerg said. “We kept to it and we
found a way to win.”
Thanks to Lerg’s toe-drag goal that be-
gan when Strait cleared the puck out of
the Penguins end.
“I was anticipating that a little bit, and
it squirted through,” Lerg said. “I was
hearing the bench yell ‘Go, go, go.’ I
knew it was a forward (Aucoin) so that’s
why I tried to make the move and put it
on net. If it was a defenseman maybe I
would’ve shot it through his pads for a re-
bound.”
Lerg said the goal – his 13th of the sea-
son – was one of the biggest of his career.
move into Cleveland’s starting lineup
soon, came off the bench and scored 19
points. Ramon Sessions added 13
points for the Cavaliers, who have lost
nine of 11.
Kings 114, 76ers 111
PHILADELPHIA — Marcus Thorn-
ton scored 32 points and former Phila-
delphia center Samuel Dalembert
made two free throws in the closing
seconds of overtime for Sacramento.
Beno Udrih made a big 3-pointer in
the closing minutes, too, and the Kings
won their third straight.
Jason Thompson added 15 points
and Dalembert finished with 13.
The Sixers were led by Jrue Holi-
day’s 28 points and Jodie Meeks added
22. Philadelphia missed a chance
against one of the NBA’s worst teams
to make up ground on fifth-place Atlan-
ta.
Thunder 99, Trail Blazers 90
OKLAHOMA CITY — Russell West-
brook hit three 3-pointers down the
stretch, including the clincher with 21
seconds left, and the Oklahoma City
Thunder overcame a 40-point night by
Gerald Wallace to beat the Portland
Trail Blazers and clinch their second
straight playoff berth.
Westbrook’s 3 from the left wing
gave the Thunder a 97-90 lead and,
after Wallace missed a jumper with 16
seconds remaining, the Thunder could
finally breathe easy. They are now 3-0
against Portland, with the previous two
victories coming by a combined three
points.
Wallace was unguardable at times in
the second half as he carried the Trail
Blazers back from a 14-point halftime
deficit. His total, on 16-of-28 shooting,
was a season high and just two points
shy of his career best.
Westbrook scored 28.
Warriors 114, Wizards 104
OAKLAND, Calif. — Monta Ellis had
37 points and 13 assists, leading the
Golden State Warriors past the road-
weary Washington Wizards.
Ellis played the entire game and
added seven rebounds, and David Lee
had a season-high 33 points to help the
Warriors to their second straight victo-
ry. Ellis was three rebounds short of his
first career triple-double entering the
fourth quarter and never came closer.
for the Penguins, two points behind
Philadelphia in the race for the Atlan-
tic Division and Eastern Conference
leads. The Penguins, tied with Wash-
ington for second in the conference
with 98 points, have won six of seven
and are 9-2-2 in their past 13.
Fleury set a team record for time
elapsed between goals allowed (150
minutes, 14 seconds). He also stop-
ped Mike Santorelli and Niclas Berg-
fors in the shootout.
Ryan Carter scored for Florida.
The Panthers have lost five straight.
Thrashers 5, Senators 4
ATLANTA — Andrew Ladd scored
the deciding shootout goal and Blake
Wheeler and Ben Maxwell each had
a goal and an assist for Atlanta, nine
behind eighth-place Buffalo for the
final Eastern Conference playoff spot.
Bryan Little and Mark Stuart also
scored for the Thrashers. Marek Sva-
tos had two goals and Chris Neil and
Erik Condra also scored for Ottawa.
“It was one of the ones that felt the best.
It was important for the team,” he said.
Now that the division is clinched, the
Penguins will set their sights on claim-
ing home ice advantage through the
playoffs.
That and continuing to build on the re-
cord season.
“We’d like to try to see if we can get a
big home ice advantage in the playoffs,”
said head coach John Hynes of the team’s
next seven games. “Now it’s about pre-
paring mentally, physically and emotion-
ally to be ready for the playoffs.”
NOTES: Sunday’s win was the100th of
Curry’s AHL career. “It’s amazing,” he
said. “I can’t believe I won that many
games. It has to do with a lot of good play-
ers, a lot of time and a lot of good coach-
ing.”
Of the record-setting 52nd win, Curry
said, “It’s great to be a part of that. That’s
a great season. We fought hard for a lot of
these wins and that’s been our identity as
a team.”
Curry is now 3-0 against Hershey this
season.
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PRO GOLF
AP
Martin Laird, of Scotland, celebrates
after sinking a putt on the 18th green
to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational
golf tournament at Bay Hill in Orlando,
Fla., Sunday.
Laird rallies
for victory
at Bay Hill
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Martin Laird
went from a shocking collapse to
become an unlikely winner Sunday at
Bay Hill.
In the toughest final round on the
PGA Tour this year, Laird rallied from
a three-shot deficit with four holes to
play with two birdies and two remark-
able pars to close with a 3-over 75
and win the Arnold Palmer Invitation-
al by one shot over hard-luck Steve
Marino.
The 28-year-old Scot became the
first European to win at Bay Hill in its
33-year history.
He just never imagined it would
play out like this.
Laird’s two-shot lead was gone at
the turn, and when he pulled a bunker
shot into the water on No. 11 to make
double bogey, he already was 5-over
par for his round and fading quickly.
But a day of survival for everyone
else turned into a revival for Laird.
After a bogey on the par-3 14th to
fall three shots behind Marino, Laird
holed a 20-foot birdie putt on the
15th, an 18-foot birdie putt on the
16th, saved par from behind the 17th
green and two-putted from just inside
90 feet on the final hole.
It was the highest score in the final
round by a Bay Hill champion, and it
took Laird’s best golf to do that on a
course that at times made it feel like
the U.S. Open had moved to late
March.
No one in the last three groups
broke par, and those six players were
a combined 19-over par.
Laird needed some help from Mari-
no, who played beautifully until the
last four holes. Marino took bogey
from a plugged lie in the bunker short
of the 15th green, then made double
bogey from a plugged lie in the sand
short of the 17th hole. He went from a
one-shot lead to a two-shot deficit
when Laird birdied the 16th in the
group behind.
Sandra Gal wins Kia Classic
INDUSTRY, Calif. — Sandra Gal
won the Kia Classic on Sunday to
become the second German winner in
LPGA Tour history, beating second-
ranked Jiyai Shin with a 2-foot birdie
putt on the final hole.
The 25-year-old Gal, a former Uni-
versity of Florida player, made the
winning putt after Shin’s 5-foot birdie
attempt caught the right edge and
spun out.
Gal closed with a 2-under 71 to
finish at 16-under 276 on the Industry
Hills Golf Club course at Pacific
Palms. She set up the winning birdie
with a wedge shot on the par-5 18th.
Tina Fischer is the only other Ger-
many champion. She won the 2001
Asahi Ryokuken International.
LOCAL COLLEGES
Misericordia loses opener
CENTER VALLEY – The Misericor-
dia University baseball team lost to De-
Sales 7-3 in its Freedom Conference
opener Sunday.
Ken Durling had pair of RBI-doubles
and Andrew Tressa had two hits and
scored twice.
Nate Newman added a solo home run
for the Cougars, who lost despite leading
3-2 in the sixth inning.
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Butler wants to shed Cinderella role with title

Bulldogs are the only 2010
Final Four team returning to
basketball’s biggest stage.
By MICHAEL MAROT
AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS — Butler’s
Ronald Nored stayed right on
message early Sunday morning.
He doesn’t want any more
talk about how a small-school
team won over college basket-
ball fans with another improb-
able Final Four run. Nope. This
time it’s win or bust in Houston.
“This year we’re going to get
the real call from President Oba-
ma and not the runner-up call,”
Nored told hundreds of Butler
fans after beating Florida to ad-
vance to their second consecu-
tive Final Four.
Admittedly, the Alabama na-
tive was playing to the crowd.
Still, the sentiment stands.
Yes, Nored appreciated last
year’s conciliatory message from
President Obama, reveled in
playing the role of America’s
tournament darlings and loved
being on college basketball’s big-
gest stage. But he and the Bull-
dogs came home empty-handed,
their run ending inches short of
upsetting Duke in the national
title game.
That’s not good enough for
them — then or now.
“I think it’s about believing,
and we want them to believe,”
Stevens said. “You know people
say ’This is unbelievable.’ But
when you know these guys, it’s
not unbelievable. It’s believa-
ble.”
The Bulldogs are turning
skeptics into believers with each
succeeding win.
After Gordon Hayward left
early for the NBA, most analysts
didn’t think Butler could get
back. They also pointed to four
Butler losses in five games in
the middle of the Horizon
League schedule as proof that
there would be no sequel.
They were wrong.
Butler closed the season on a
seven-game winning streak to
clinch a share of a fifth consec-
utive regular-season title. The
Bulldogs then won two more
games in the conference tour-
ney to clinch the conference’s
automatic bid, ending any de-
bate.
At the tournament, Butler
beat Old Dominion with a sec-
ond-round buzzer-beater and
top-seeded Pittsburgh in a
wacky foul-filled finish to reach
the regionals for the third time
in five years. They survived a
late charge from Wisconsin to
become the only 2010 Final
Four team to make the regional
finals and rallied Saturday from
an 11-point deficit in the final 91⁄2
minutes to beat second-seeded
Florida 74-71 in overtime.
It’s the first time an Indiana
school has reached back-to-back
Final Fours, and Butler, like the
Milan Miracle team that served
as the catalyst for the movie
“Hoosiers,” now has a second
chance to finish the mission.
“It shows how far we’ve
come,” senior forward Matt Ho-
ward said. “If you had told me AP PHOTO
on that day, that we lost to Blue II, the official mascot of Butler University, waits for the team
Youngstown State, that we to arrive at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis Sunday. Butler de-
would be here, I never would feated Florida Saturday to advance to the Final Four. The mascot
have thought this was possible.” will be making the trip to the Final Four in Houston.

VCU Adversity
catches up
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“Once again we felt like no-

body really thought we could win
going into this game,” said VCU

coach Shaka Smart, the budding
star of the tournament. “Our
guys have done a phenomenal job
of putting all the doubters aside,
all the people that didn’t believe
in us, and going out to do their
job.”
VCU guard Joey Rodriguez
counted one of Kansas’ vaunted
Morris twins — Marcus or Mar-
kieff — as one of those many
doubters. During a pregame cap-
tains meeting with officials, Ro-
driguez said one of the brothers
offered him some parting words:
“The run ends here.”
“We’ll see,” Rodriguez shot
back.
The Jayhawks saw all right.
VCU players, hoisting their
Southwest regional champion
trophy, poured into the tempora-
ry bleachers where VCU’s widely
outnumbered fans sat in an Ala-
modome that was otherwise col-
ored in Kansas blue and white.
VCU had sold out its allotment
of 1,000 tickets in San Antonio af-
ter advancing farther than any
Rams team in school history. The
weekend before in Chicago, VCU
with UNC
After overcoming obstacles
throughout the season, Tar
Heels can’t conquer one more.
By TOM CANAVAN
AP Sports Writer
NEWARK, N.J. — The roller-
coaster season for North Caroli-
na had one more wild ride and
one more comeback, and it came
up just short.
If there was a word that was re-
peated over and over in the Tar
Heels’ locker room after their 76-
69 loss to Kentucky in the East re-
gional finals on Sunday it was dis-
appointment.
A third trip to the Final Four in
four years was there for the tak-
ing for North Carolina (29-8) af-
ter fighting back from an 11-point
second-half deficit to tie the
AP PHOTO game 67-67, and the Wildcats
Kansas’ Elijah Marcus Morris reacts in the locker room after losing 71-61 to Virginia Commonwealth at the Southwest regional took it away from them.
final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament on Sunday in San Antonio. “Right now this is probably go-
ing to hurt for a week, maybe a

Easiest path leads to roadblock

had so many leftovers that Pur-
due fans scooped them up.
Jamie Skeen led VCU with 26
points, and as the final seconds
ticked down, heaved the ball
from the free throw line into the
stands behind the opposite back-
board. His teammates on the
bench, who spent the final min-
utes with locked arms to hold
each other back, finally spilled
out onto the court, grinning ear
to ear.
Kansas players walked slowly
off the court. Several, including
Markieff Morris, cried.
“Probably the best game they
played ever,” Markieff said.
“Probably the best game ever as a
school tonight. We let them. We
let them beat us.”
Smart was guided from one in-
terview to another wearing the
cut-down net around his neck.
The cheers for VCU were only in-
terrupted for guard Brandon Roz-
zell, who stood at midcourt as the
crown serenaded him with an im-
promptu “Happy Birthday.”
The celebration even carried to
other arenas. In Newark, N.J.,
where Kentucky was playing
North Carolina, the crowd erupt-
ed when the public address an-
nouncer broadcast the final score
from Texas.
“Anything is possible,” he told
the arena.
By JAIME ARON
AP Sports Writer
SAN ANTONIO — They missed short
shots and long ones. Even free throws were
far from gimmes.
Just like that, Kansas followed the lead of
all the other No. 1 seeds and bowed out of
the NCAA tournament before the Final
Four — only the Jayhawks are stuck with
the added agony of stumbling while staring
down the easiest path to a national cham-
pionship that any team ever faced.
Kansas actually didn’t even come close
against No. 11 Virginia Commonwealth, get-
ting behind early and hardly threatening on
the way to a 71-61 loss in the finals of the
Southwest regional on Sunday.
“We’re crushed,” coach Bill Self said. “We
tried real hard and just came up empty
against a team that was better than us to-
day.”
The Jayhawks walked off the court blank-
faced, hands on hips, occasionally peeking
at the wild celebration around them. Mar-
cus Morris tried holding off the tears, but
had to pull his jersey over his face by the
time he reached the edge of the court.
He probably didn’t want to see the stat
sheet, either. Kansas made only 35.5 per-
cent of its shots and 9.5 percent of 3-point-
ers, both season lows. The Jayhawks hit 15
of 28 free throws (53.6 percent), narrowly
better than their season-low.
“We’re crushed. We tried real
hard and just came up empty
against a team that was better
than us today.”
Bill Self
Kansas coach
“Probably the best game they played ever,
probably the best game ever as a school,”
Markieff Morris said. “We let them beat us.
We missed a lot of shots we normally make.
We missed a lot of free throws that we nor-
mally make.”
A victory would’ve sent Kansas into a Fi-
nal Four matchup against eighth-seeded
Butler, then no better than a No. 2 seed in
the finals. Had the Jayhawks won it all, they
would’ve shattered the record for the high-
est sum of seeds faced by the champion.
But instead of strolling into Houston next
weekend as the heavy favorites, Kansas be-
came the third No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 11,
joining Connecticut in 2006 and Kentucky
in 1986.
The difference in this upset: the Huskies
lost in overtime and the Wildcats in the final
seconds, while the Jayhawks were
drummed. Their last lead was 10-9. They
were down by a season-high 14 at halftime
and trailed by 16 before rallying to within
two, yet never got nearly that close again.
“Seeds are so overrated,” Self said. “It’s
about matchups. Their players could play
for us any day.”
Kansas reached the regional finals on an
11-game winning streak. In the tournament,
the Jayhawks hadn’t trailed by more than
two points and won by at least 14, in victo-
ries over teams seeded 16th, ninth and 12th.
As much as they claimed they would re-
spect VCU as much as a Duke or North Car-
olina, the Big 12 champions still knew they
were facing the fourth-place finisher from
the Colonial Athletic Association. The lack
of respect may have oozed out during a pre-
game meeting of team captains, when — ac-
cording to VCU’s Joey Rodriguez and two of
his teammates — one of the Morris twins
said, “The run ends here.”
The soft road and perhaps a bit of over-
confidence may have conspired against the
Jayhawks (35-3).
Kansas opened strong and had the major-
ity of the crowd on its side. But once a few
things went right for VCU, everything went
its way. The Jayhawks allowed spurts of 11-0
and 10-2. Along the way, the Morris twins
each missed a pair of free throws, typical of
the sloppiness that also included turnovers
and missed shots, some that never
should’ve been taken.
A 17-4 rally early in the second half made
things interesting, but Kansas couldn’t sus-
tain its surge.
couple of weeks,” said Tyler Zell-
er, who tied the game with two
free throws with 3:18 to play. “Af-
ter that we’ll go back and look at
what we did and take what we did
well and learn from that and take
it and use it as a life experience.”
The Tar Heels’ final game was
much like the rest of their season.
The young and talented kids
from Chapel Hill fell behind early,
overcame adversity and put
themselves in a position to suc-
ceed.
Kentucky made the plays in the
closing minutes though, and it
wasn’t surprising it was a couple
of 3-pointers that did in North
Carolina (27-10).
The Tar Heels came into the
game intent on stopping the
Wildcats’ dribble penetration
and that allowed Kentucky to
spot up for 3-pointers. They hit a
dozen, and the last two were kill-
ers.
Brandon Knight, who hit
game-winning shots against Prin-
ceton and Ohio State, nailed a 3-
pointer with 2:51 to play to put
the Wildcats ahead 70-69.
After Zeller’s tip-in got the Tar
Heels within a point with 1:52 to
go, Knight missed the front end
of a1-and-1to give North Carolina
a chance to take the lead.
Freshman point guard Kendall
Marshall, whose insertion into
the starting lineup in early Janu-
ary sent the Tar Heels on a 17-2
run, saw an opening down the
lane with just over a minute to
play and went for the basket.
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for Kentucky, including a 3-
pointer from the corner with 37
seconds remaining to help lift
the Wildcats.
“We got Kentucky back,” se-
nior center Josh Harrellson said.
“A lot of people doubted us. A lot
of people really didn’t think we’d
be the team we are. We really
pulled it together as a team, and
we’re back now.”
A season after falling a game
AP PHOTO short of the Final Four behind a
Kentucky’s Josh Harrellson cuts down part of the net after the roster filled with future NBA
the Wildcats 76-69 victory over North Carolina in the East re- stars, the Wildcats are heading to
gional final Sunday. the national semifinals for the
14th time behind the heady play
of Knight and Harrellson’s emo-
tional leadership.
Harrellson again held his own
against North Carolina’s bigger,
more heralded front line, scoring
12 points and grabbing eight re-
bounds.
Tyler Zeller led North Caroli-
na with 21 points and nine re-
bounds and Harrison Barnes
added 18 points, but the Tar
Heels fell behind early and strug-
gled to keep the hot-shooting
Wildcats in check.
Harrellson gave teammate
Eloy Vargas a bear hug shortly af-
ter the buzzer sounded then
gleefully cut down the nets while
the Tar Heels trudged slowly off
the floor.
It’s a scene the program has
been waiting for years to cele-
brate, a mission that began in
earnest when the program lured
John Calipari away from Mem-
phis in 2009.
He promised he wasn’t “the
grand poobah” the day he signed
his eight-year, $31.65 million
contract, but there’s little doubt
who rules the Bluegrass now.
Calipari joins Rick Pitino as
the only men’s coaches to lead
three different programs to the
Final Four. Calipari’s previous
visits at Massachusetts in 1996
and Memphis in 2008 were va-
cated by the NCAA for rules vio-
lations, but Calipari was not
found liable in either instance.
going to give Carolina the lead,
but Deandre Liggins came out of
nowhere and blocked the shot.
“It was a good play by him,
maybe I could have done some-
thing better on that play,” Mar-
shall said. “Maybe I could have
put my body in front of him or I
should have waited for a better
shot or given it to Harrison
(Barnes) because he was hot. But
it’s a letdown to know you took a
bad shot and had it blocked and
then on the other end your man
hits a 3.”
That was the clincher for Ken-
tucky. After the block, Liggins
sprinted down the court and took
a pass from Darius Miller for a
wide-open 3-pointer that put
Kentucky ahead 73-69 with 37
seconds to go.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Halladay sharp
in final tune-up
By The Associated Press
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Roy
Halladay tuned up for his start
on opening day with three
scoreless innings and had a
two-run single as the Philadel-
phia Phillies beat the Atlanta
Braves 6-1 on Sunday.
The NL Cy Young Award
winner will face the Houston
Astros on Friday in Philadel-
phia. On Sunday, he allowed
two hits, walked none and
struck out three while lowering
his spring ERA to 0.42. Nate
McLouth had a double in the
first inning and Martin Prado a
single in the third.
Raul Ibanez and Ryan Howard
homered for the Phillies. Ibanez
hit his fourth of the spring
against Braves starter Kenshin
Kawakami and Howard
smashed his fifth with a runner
on off reliever Cristhian Marti-
nez.
Pirates 5, Rays 4
BRADENTON, Fla. — David
Price had his final prep work for
opening day, pitching four in-
nings in Tampa Bay’s loss to
Pittsburgh.
Price, who will get the ball
Friday night in Baltimore, gave
up one run and five hits. The
2010 AL Cy Young Award run-
ner-up walked one and struck
out three.
Paul Maholm, the No. 2 pitch-
er in the Pirates’ rotation,
worked five innings and yielded
three runs on five hits. The
left-hander walked one and
struck out five.
Kelly Shoppach, Ben Zobrist
and John Jaso homered for the
Rays.
Jose Tabata hit his first of thedoubled his Grapefruit League
spring for the Pirates.
Marlins 6, Nationals 4
VIERA, Fla. — Chris Coghlan assured of a spot in the bullpen,
hit a bases-loaded triple in the
seventh inning to lead Florida
over Washington.
Trailing 3-1 in the seventh, the winner Adam Wainwright
Marlins rallied for five runs off forced the Cardinals to adjust
reliever Brian Broderick.
Coughlan finished with two
hits, was hit by a pitch and
scored twice. Marlins starter
Adalberto Mendez pitched 3 2-3 Tillman made a final bid to earn
innings, allowing one run and
two hits with four walks.
Tigers 8, Astros 4
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Miguel
Cabrera was a triple shy of the
cycle and drove in four runs,
helping Detroit beat Houston.
Brad Penny, who will start the Bergesen, who is recovering
Tigers’ second game of the
regular season Saturday at New line drive on the forearm on
York, gave up two runs in six
innings.
Cabrera connected for his
fourth homer of spring training. third.
Wandy Rodriguez threw 90
pitches in three innings for
Houston. He allowed six hits,
four walks and five runs. Carlos Pavano had his worst start of
Lee hit a two-run homer off
Detroit reliever Daniel Schle-
reth.
SHERIDAN
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resemblance to their bumbling
forefathers.
Ah, but the devil has been
calling the shots in this sports
town for decades. It is unde-
niable that Phillies champion-
ships are once-in-a-generation
events — if your generation is
lucky, that is. Surely the glory
and joy of 2008 will cost us
years of misery and pain. Is it
not inevitable that your “World
F. Champions” T turns into a
hair shirt?
Most of us dwell between the week?
extremes, where reason rules
and perspective is possible.
From here, there is legitimate
concern. Injuries are always the general manager Ruben Amaro
X factor. No matter how talent-
ed or well-constructed a team, it withstand one hole — that left
can fall apart if key players get by the departure of right fielder
hurt.
Utley, the second baseman
and irreplaceable element in
this team’s chemical makeup,
and Lidge, the only proven
closer in the entire organization, Utley in the all-important No. 3
Nats trade
Morgan to Brewers
VIERA, Fla. — The
Washington Nationals traded
hot-tempered outfielder Nyjer
Morgan to the Milwaukee
Brewers on Sunday for minor
league infielder Cutter Dykstra
and cash.
Dykstra is the son of former
major leaguer Lenny Dykstra.
The trade came two days after
Milwaukee sent outfielder Chris
Dickerson to the New York
Yankees for pitcher Sergio
Mitre.
Morgan stole 34 bases last
year during a season in which
he drew a pair of weeklong
suspensions from Major
League Baseball. He appealed
those penalties and eventually
sat out for eight games.
Last week, he was restrained
by a Nationals coach as
Washington scrapped with St.
Louis. Morgan appeared to
have upset the Cardinals by
running into Albert Pujols as
the star first baseman handled
a tailing throw.
Morgan became expendable
once it became clear that Rick
Ankiel and Jerry Hairston Jr.
would platoon in center field.
Ankiel will start for Washington
on opening day.
Cardinals 3, Mets 1
JUPITER, Fla. — Kyle
McClellan’s spring training
performance went a long way
toward reassuring the St. Louis
coaching staff that making him
the No. 5 starter was the right
choice.
In his final outing of the
spring, McClellan allowed one
run and three hits over six in-
nings against New York. The
lone run he allowed actually
total to two earned runs in 23
innings.
McClellan came to camp
where he’s been slotted the past
three seasons. But a season-
ending elbow injury to 20-game
their pitching plans.
Orioles (ss) 4, Red Sox 3
SARASOTA, Fla. — Chris
a spot in the Baltimore rotation,
allowing three runs over 5 2-3
innings.
Employing an overhauled
delivery, Tillman gave up six
hits and walked four. The right-
hander is dueling for the third
spot in the rotation against Brad
nicely after being struck by a
Friday.
J.D. Drew homered for the
Red Sox, a two-run drive in the
Twins 7, Yankees 6
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Carl
spring training against his for-
mer team, giving up five runs
and 11 hits in six innings for
are key players. They are going
to be on the disabled list when
this most eagerly awaited sea-
son finally opens Friday at Citi-
zens Bank Park. Polanco, the
reliable third baseman, will be
in the lineup, but his surgically
repaired elbow will be watched
closely.
Meanwhile, the general sense
of impending doom was height-
ened by the line drive that felled
Oswalt and the outfield collision
that bloodied center fielder
Shane Victorino. It appears both
of those players will be fine, but
still — how many grim dis-
patches from Clearwater were
we supposed to process in one
The Utley situation is the
unspotted iceberg capable of
sinking the fine ship built by
Jr. The hull was designed to
Jayson Werth — but not a sec-
ond one of this size. Manager
Charlie Manuel’s challenge was
to replace Werth’s production
from the No. 5 spot. Replacing
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Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay throws to first base in
the third inning of a spring training baseball game against the
Atlanta Braves on Sunday in Kissimmee, Fla. Philadelphia won
6-1. Halladay threw for three scoreless innings.
Minnesota.
Pavano, slated to start on
opening day for the Twins, took
a 0.95 ERA into Sunday’s game.
He gave up a solo homer to
Robinson Cano in the first in-
ning. Four of the runs against
Pavano were earned.
Blue Jays 9, Orioles (ss) 5
DUNEDIN, Fla. — Toronto’s
Rajai Davis went 5 for 5 and
scored three times, and Yunel
Escobar hit a two-run double
and a two-run homer.
Ricky Romero, Toronto’s
opening day starter, gave up five
runs in 5 1-3 innings. Jeremy
Guthrie, the Orioles’ No. 1 start-
er, was tagged for four runs on
12 hits in five innings.
Rangers 5, Mariners 4
PEORIA, Ariz. — Michael
Young hit a broken-bat single to
center field in the top of the
10th inning to give Texas its
go-ahead run. Young had three
hits and three RBIs.
Chone Figgins hit a two-run
homer and Ryan Langerhans
had an RBI single off Rangers
starter Colby Lewis.
Reds 9, Diamondbacks 6
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Bran-
don Phillips hit a three-run
homer and Cincinnati roughed
up Aaron Heilman.
Heilman, competing with
Armando Galarraga for the final
spot in the Arizona rotation,
allowed eight runs and eight
hits in two innings. Phillips’
homer was his first of spring
training.
Rockies (ss) 6, Cubs 4
MESA, Ariz. — Ryan Demp-
ster allowed three runs and five
hits over four shaky innings in
his final start before opening
day and Tyler Colvin hit a grand
slam for Chicago.
Clay Mortensen, expected to
open the season in the minors
for the Rockies, worked five
shutout innings and gave up
three hits.
Rockies 5, Athletics 2
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Ubal-
do Jimenez pitched six shutout
innings in his final start before
opening day and the Colorado
Rockies beat the Oakland Ath-
letics.
hole was not on the to-do list
until that nagging pain in his
knee refused to go away on its
own.
The irony in all this is that the
Phillies’ best hope for surviving
the injuries could also prove to
be their undoing.
That’s right. The Four Aces.
The superb rotation — Roy
Halladay, Cliff Lee, Oswalt, Cole
Hamels, and Joe Blanton —
gives the Phillies an edge at the
start of nearly every game they
will play. That is a remarkable
thing, and it could paper over a
lot of problems.
But the December acquisition
of Lee, which started the civic
countdown to the most antici-
pated opening day in history,
had another consequence. His
contract meant the Phillies were
committed to paying their five
starters some $65 million in
2011. Throw in Lidge’s $11.5
million and that’s $76.5 million
for half the pitching staff. That’s
more than the total payroll of 10
major-league clubs this year
before Ryan Howard, Utley, and
Jimmy Rollins get a dime.
And they will get plenty of
R T S MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2011 PAGE 5B
AP PHOTO
Jimenez gave up four hits,
struck out three and walked
none. Four of his five spring
starts were scoreless — he also
threw six shutout innings in a
minor league game.
Jimenez will start Friday at
home against Arizona.
Angels 9, Padres 2
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mark
Trumbo homered and drove in
four runs, Peter Bourjos tripled
and drove in three and the Los
Angeles Angels sent Dan Haren
into the regular season on a
positive note with a win over
the San Diego Padres.
Haren, the No. 2 pitcher in
the rotation behind Jered Weav-
er, held the Padres to one run
and three hits in five innings.
Indians 6, Dodgers 1
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Fausto
Carmona wrapped up an excel-
lent spring by pitching the Cle-
veland Indians past the Los
Angeles Dodgers in his final
tuneup for opening day.
Carmona did not allow an
earned run in five crisp innings,
giving up five hits and one walk
while striking out three. The
right-hander, set to start Friday
against the Chicago White Sox,
went 5-2 with a 3.72 ERA this
spring to lead the majors in
wins.
Royals 7, Giants 4
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Wilson
Betemit hit a three-run homer,
Alex Gordon added a two-run
shot and the Kansas City Royals
beat the San Francisco Giants.
Betemit homered in the
fourth off Jonathan Sanchez,
who gave up five runs on six
hits and a walk in 5 1-3 innings.
Gordon’s fifth home run came in
the eighth off Ramon Ramirez
after Kila Ka’aihue walked.
White Sox 2, Brewers 1
PHOENIX — Mark Buehrle
allowed two hits in five innings
in his final spring start and the
Chicago White Sox beat the
Milwaukee Brewers.
Buehrle, who will make his
ninth opening day start for the
White Sox on Friday in Cleve-
land, gave up a double to Erick
Almonte in the second and
Jeremy Reed’s leadoff single in
the fourth.
dimes. The Phillies’ total payroll
is pushing $160 million. They
are, as Amaro put it last week,
“tapped out.”
Given the importance of
pitching — as demonstrated so
dramatically in the National
League Championship Series
loss to San Francisco — Ama-
ro’s quest to build the best rota-
tion in baseball made perfect
sense.
Given the cost, however, that
rotation might just handcuff the
GM, preventing the kind of
aggressive moves he might want
to make to fill those suddenly
worrisome holes in his lineup.
Did Amaro paint himself into
a corner with guys who paint
the corners?
It is a fascinating position to
be in, one that has introduced
anxiety and suspense into a
season that looked like a joy-
ride. Once we awaited opening
day with bated breath. Now
we’re just holding our breath,
trying to ignore the devil on our
shoulder.
Phil Sheridan is a columnist for the
The Philadelphia Inquirer.
CMYK
NCAA WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT
Connecticut rallies
to beat Georgetown
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — George-
town knows all about Maya
Moore and Connecticut’s rich
and Tennessee’s from 1996-98.
UConn will have to beat
Duke in the championship
game on Tuesday night to
postseason history, and the advance to the Final Four for
Hoyas were determined to the fourth straight year. The
rock the bracket with one of Huskies routed the Blue Devils
the NCAA tournament’s big- 87-51 on Jan. 31.
gest upsets ever.
Backed into a corner, Moore Philadelphia Regional
Duke 70, DePaul 63
got some help from fellow
senior Lorin Dixon and the PHILADELPHIA — Karima
Huskies responded. Christmas had 23 points and
Moore had 23 points and 14 nine rebounds, and Jasmine
rebounds, leading Connecticut Thomas scored 19 points to
to a 68-63 victory after the help the Blue Devils reach the
Hoyas led by seven in the regional final for a second
second half of their regional straight year.
semifinal Sunday. Duke (32-3) will play top-
“Me and Maya decided we seeded Connecticut on Tues-
didn’t want our careers to end day night.
here today,” Dixon said. Chelsea Gray scored 16
“That’s just a great feeling. I points for the Blue Devils, who
think everyone wanted to raced to a 15-point lead and
continue the tournament.” had to hold on after the big
While Moore put up the advantage nearly evaporated
numbers, Dixon was the cata- late in the second half.
lyst for the game-changing run.
Connecticut trailed 53-46 Dallas Regional
Texas A&M 79, Georgia 38
with 9:36 left, but responded
with a 16-2 run sparked by the DALLAS — Danielle Adams
5-foot-4 guard. had 23 points and 14 rebounds
“Today was a great reflection and Texas A&M built a 31-
of what she’s been doing for point halftime lead to earn a
the last month for every single spot in the regional final.
day,” UConn coach Geno Au- The Aggies will face either
riemma said of Dixon, who top-seeded Baylor or Wiscon-
finished with four points, four sin-Green Bay in the final.
assists and four steals. Texas A&M (30-5) led 13-0
Bria Hartley got the spurt and was up 27-2 with just un-
started with a 3-pointer and der 10 minutes to play in the
Dixon followed with a layup off first half. The Aggies stifled
a steal. She then had another the Lady Bulldogs into a 1-
steal and fed Hartley for an for-14 start from the field.
easy lay-in that tied it at 53 The win gives Texas A&M
with 7:12 left. its first 30-win season and puts
Moore then scored four the Aggies in the regional final
straight and, after Alexa for the second time and first
Roche’s basket, Hartley capped since 2008.
the run with a 3-pointer that
Baylor 86,
made it 62-55 with 4:03 left.
Wisconsin-Green Bay 76
Monica McNutt’s 3-pointer
got Georgetown within four DALLAS — Brittney Griner
with 1:41 remaining, but Moore scored 40 points and combined
answered with a long jumper with Odyssey Sims in the
from the corner to seal the game-clinching run as top-
win. seeded Baylor defeated feisty
“My players aren’t in these Wisconsin-Green Bay to ad-
situations very often and it’s vance to the regional cham-
good to be tested,” Auriemma pionship.
said. “It’s easy to be a winner The Lady Bears (34-2) led
when you’re winning. You find only 52-49 before Griner made
out a lot about yourself when a short baseline shot over two
you have to go and win. We defenders with just over 13
found out a lot about us to- minutes left. Sims then hit
day.” consecutive 3-pointers and
Hartley added 17 points for ended the spurt with a steal
UConn (35-1), which is now and breakaway layup. Griner
three victories away from a and Sims combined for all the
third straight national cham- points in a 14-0 spurt.
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I N DYC A R NASCAR

Franchitti
dominates
Harvick wins Auto Club 400
Childress driver overtakes

Indy race
The two-time defending series
champion leads all but six
laps as series starts season.
By MARK LONG
AP Sports Writer
Dario Franchitti, of Scotland,
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Da- waves to fans after winning the
rio Franchitti is still the one to IndyCar Honda Grand Prix of
beat in IndyCar. St. Petersburg auto race Sun-
The two-time defending series day in St. Petersburg, Fla.
champion was perfect in Sun-
day’s season opener, leading 94 of
100 laps on the scenic, 1.8-mile
street course and beating Will
Power to the finish line by more
than seven seconds. It was Fran-
chitti’s first victory and fifth top-
five finish in six starts in the Hon-
da Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
“He’s like clockwork,” Power
said. “He never makes mistakes.”
Franchitti didn’t make any Sun-
day, and there were plenty of op-
portunities for them. Just ask He-
lio Castroneves, Scott Dixon,
Danica Patrick or Marco Andret-
ti.
Franchitti grabbed the lead
early on and was hardly chal-
lenged the rest of the way.
“Sunday has a bit of motivation
for this year and maybe that an-
swers the question of how badly I
still want to win races and cham-
pionships and all that stuff,” Fran-
chitti said. “When you have a day
like today, with the way the team
was just like clockwork — pit
stops, the car was great and
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jakes crashed during a warmup
session, five cars — all of them
from the sport’s top three teams
— found trouble in the first turn.
Penske teammates Castro-
neves and Ryan Briscoe were in-
volved, as were two-time series
champion Dixon and Andretti
Autosport teammates Mike Con-
way and Marco Andretti.
Andretti drove into Dixon from
behind, running over his rear
wheel and sending Andretti for a
wild ride. He flipped and landed
upside down. Andretti escaped
without injury, walked toward his
pit, paused to watch a huge re-
play board, then cited three-time
Indy 500 champion Castroneves
for the melee.
“Helio just drove it in on all of
us,” Andretti said. “He missed his
braking point by a decent chunk.
It’s unfortunate.”
Castroneves accepted blame,
saying he locked up his brakes.
“I feel terrible for the team, but
Johnson on the final turn
after starting in 24th.
By JOHN MARSHALL
AP Sports Writer
FONTANA, Calif. — Kevin
Harvick isn’t one of those driv-
ers who jumps out front and
stays there all the way to the
checkers.
He’s more of a lingerer and
closer, someone who’s able to
stay close to the front then make
his move at just the right time.
Harvick was at his pass-at-the-
end best on Sunday, overtaking
California king Jimmie Johnson
on the final turn at Auto Club
Speedway to win after trailing
the entire race.
“I wish we could just go out
there and wear ’em out one day,
just not have to worry about
waiting until the last lap,” Har-
vick said. “It does kind of seem
we wait until the last moments
to really get going. It’s probably
somewhat of a bad habit I have,
but I guess it worked out.”
Kyle Busch had the dominant
car most of the day and led a
race-high 151 laps, including off
a restart with nine laps left.
Johnson, a five-time winner
Fontana, had the late burst,
chasing down Busch for the lead
with two laps left.
Harvick, as he always seems
to, nailed the finish.
He had a rough start to the
season, finishing 42nd at Dayto-
na after a blown engine and
Kevin Harvick celebrates after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series’ race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., on Sunday.
run,” said Richard Childress,
owner of Harvick’s No. 29 car. “I
knew if they didn’t get too far
out in front of us, we’d have a
shot. All we needed was to get
him side-by-side and start rac-
ing. That gave Kevin a chance to
AP PHOTO
each took four tires.
Busch had a rough start to his
Sprint Cup weekend, forced to a
backup car after sliding into the
wall on his first practice lap on
Friday, but still managed to qual-
ify eighth.
A U T O C L U B
4 0 0 R E S U LT S
Sunday
At Auto Club Speedway
Fontana, Calif.
Lap length: 2 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (24) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 200 laps, 112.7 rat-
ing, 47 points, $331,961.
2. (16) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 200, 110.4, 43,
$240,786.
3. (8) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200, 143.4, 43, $214,816.
4. (11) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 200, 104, 40, $172,111.
5. (9) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 200, 107.9, 40,
$159,950.
6. (18) Carl Edwards, Ford, 200, 94.2, 38, $149,591.
7. (17) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 200, 109.6, 38,
$144,108.
8. (19) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 200, 111.8, 36,
$128,464.
9. (22) Kasey Kahne, Toyota, 200, 79.4, 35,
$124,408.
10. (1) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 200, 96.3,
35, $144,583.
11. (32) Greg Biffle, Ford, 200, 85.5, 33, $108,675.
12. (30) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 200, 82, 32,
$101,325.
13. (5) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 200, 117.3, 32,
$134,083.
14. (20) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 200, 72.3, 30,
$127,911.
15. (7) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 200, 90.8, 29,
$99,550.
16. (15) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 200, 80.7, 28,
$89,475.
17. (23) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 200, 66.1, 27,
$134,900.
18. (29) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 200, 77.1, 26,
$125,111.
19. (14) David Reutimann, Toyota, 200, 73.3, 25,
$115,283.
20. (10) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 200, 80.6, 24,
$95,175.
21. (26) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 200, 85, 24,
$93,975.
22. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 200, 70.4, 22, $94,300.
23. (12) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 200, 66.2, 21,
$120,739.
24. (28) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 200, 57, 0,
$100,458.
25. (3) Joey Logano, Toyota, 200, 64.5, 19,
$91,750.
26. (21) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 199, 55.4, 18,
$104,658.
27. (4) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 199, 55.4, 17,
$108,145.
28. (13) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 198, 55.7, 16,
$111,091.
29. (25) Casey Mears, Toyota, 198, 46.6, 15,
$81,900.
30. (27) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 198, 50.1, 0, $88,650.
31. (37) David Gilliland, Ford, 198, 41.5, 13, $90,108.
32. (38) Andy Lally, Chevrolet, 198, 36.5, 12,
$86,750.
33. (39) Ken Schrader, Ford, 197, 32.7, 11, $87,522.
34. (35) Robby Gordon, Dodge, 197, 42.2, 10,
$76,825.
35. (36) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 196, 33.1, 0, $76,600.
36. (42) Tony Raines, Ford, 190, 28, 8, $76,450.
37. (31) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, engine, 188, 35.9,
7, $76,225.
38. (34) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, accident, 182,
47.5, 6, $102,320.
39. (2) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, engine, 105, 78.7, 6,
$123,880.
40. (41) Todd Bodine, Toyota, transmission, 50,
27.3, 0, $75,675.
41. (43) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, electrical, 47, 40.6, 4,

didn’t make any mistakes — they
are few and far between so you
have to enjoy them when they
happen.”
Tony Kanaan, the 2004 series
champion who joined his new
you’ve got to move on,” Castro-
neves said.
The race was flagged several
more times on restarts, all of
them coming under the sport’s
new rules. In previous years, the
hadn’t been able to pull it togeth-
er since despite having fast cars.
His best finish was a fourth at
Phoenix.
Harvick didn’t have a particu-
catch them and he made the
right move going into 3.”
Unlike Saturday’s Nationwide
race, which featured lead chang-
es seemingly every other lap,
Busch took his first lead on
Lap 22 and lost it a few times on
green-flag pit stops, but was
back out front within a few laps,
pulling away on each of the four
$75,505.
42. (40) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, transmission, 39,
29.1, 0, $75,415.
43. (33) Michael McDowell, Toyota, electrical, 32,
32.4, 1, $75,769.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner: 150.849 mph.
Time of Race: 2 hours, 39 minutes, 6 seconds.
Margin of Victory: 0.144 seconds.
Caution Flags: 4 for 16 laps.

team Monday, held off Simona de
Silvestro over the final few laps
for third. De Silvestro enjoyed
her best finish in 18 career starts.
Patrick was 12th, a disappoint-
ing start to her seventh IndyCar
season. Patrick, who drove four
races in NASCAR’s second-tier
series before resuming her full-
time IndyCar gig, was penalized
one spot on the final lap for mak-
series used single-file restarts.
But this season, IndyCar
switched to double-file restarts
similar to those in NASCAR.
Drivers thought those dicey
situations would be attractive to
fans and figured they also would
cause attrition. They were right
on both accounts. Fans cheered
the first-turn frenzy and several
cars sustained damage on res-
larly strong qualifying session at
Fontana, either, to start 24th and
wasn’t exactly ripping through
the field once the race started.
What he did do was gradually
work his way to the front, pull-
ing up behind Johnson after get-
ting past Busch.
Taking advantage of a small
gap to the outside, Harvick
made his move on Johnson go-
this one had drivers camped out
front for long stretches before
the final flourish.
Part of it was the lack of cau-
tions, the opening 75 laps com-
ing under green to set a track re-
cord. Overnight rain, which lin-
gered as mist until a couple
hours before the race, also
played a role. Drivers who were
able to get the setup right were
restarts.
He just didn’t have enough left
after the leaders stayed out on
the last caution, spoiling his
chance to pull off the NASCAR
weekend sweep two weeks in a
row.
“It’s real unfortunate and dis-
appointing and frustrating all in
one that we weren’t able to seal
the deal today,” Busch said. “You
Lead Changes: 18 among 10 drivers.
Lap Leaders: J.Montoya 1-6; D.Hamlin 7-21; Ky-
.Busch 22-31; J.Montoya 32; C.Bowyer 33; J.John-
son 34; J.Yeley 35-36; Ky.Busch 37-66; M.Truex Jr.
67; T.Stewart 68-69; Ky.Busch 70-76; T.Stewart
77-79; R.Newman 80-87; T.Stewart 88-91; Ky-
.Busch 92-137; T.Stewart 138-139; Ky.Busch
140-197; J.Johnson 198-199; K.Harvick 200.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led):
Ky.Busch, 5 times for 151 laps; D.Hamlin, 1 time for
15 laps; T.Stewart, 4 times for 11 laps; R.Newman, 1
time for 8 laps; J.Montoya, 2 times for 7 laps;
J.Johnson, 2 times for 3 laps; J.Yeley, 1 time for 2
laps; K.Harvick, 1 time for 1 lap; C.Bowyer, 1 time for
1 lap; M.Truex Jr., 1 time for 1 lap.
Top 12 in Points: 1. C.Edwards, 187; 2. R.Newman,
178; 3. Ku.Busch, 177; 4. Ky.Busch, 176; 5. J.John-
son, 173; 6. T.Stewart, 170; 7. P.Menard, 164; 8.
J.Montoya, 161; 9. K.Harvick, 157; 10. M.Kenseth,
157; 11. K.Kahne, 157; 12. D.Earnhardt Jr., 156.

ing “avoidable contact” with JR
Hildebrand.
Patrick bumped Hildebrand
from behind, turning him
around. That was nothing com-
pared to the early chaos. There
were four full-course cautions in
the first 14 laps.
A few hours after teammates
Sebastien Bourdais and James
tarts.
Andretti questioned the deci-
sion.
“That’s what happens when
you try to imitate NASCAR,” he
said. “Our cars have too much
power to start right nose-to-tail,
you know. It creates disasters. It’s
good for the fans; it’s not good for
me today.”
ing into Turn 3, then completed
it coming around Turn 4. Ahead
going down the last straightway,
he finished off his becoming-a-
trademark finish to take the
checkers for the 15th time in his
career.
“I really felt good when they
had that restart because I knew
his car was really fast on the long
able to get out front and stay
there while everyone else tinker-
ed.
Mostly, that meant Busch.
He swept the Nationwide and
Sprint Cup races last week at
Bristol, then opened with a Na-
tionwide win at Auto Club, us-
ing a late two-tire pit stop to beat
Carl Edwards and Harvick, who
ask a little bit more from your
race car at the last moments and
it just doesn’t have anything left
to give. We were just a sitting
duck waiting for those guys to
go around us.”
Johnson looked as if he were
going to notch his fourth win in
six starts at California. He start-
ed 16th and worked his way to-
NASCAR Driver Rating Formula
A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.
The formula combines the following categories:
Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running
Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under
Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Fin-
ish.
ward the front, tracking Busch
down for the late pass after los-
ing a race off the line to him on
the final restart.

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NATIONAL FORECAST: Showers and thunderstorms are again expected across the southeastern por-

37°
tions of the country today. A few strong storms are possible across the northern stretches of Florida.
TODAY TUESDAY
Mostly
WEDNESDAY
Slim
Elsewhere across the country, rain and snow will continue in portions of the Rockies, the
chance of Intermountain West and the Pacific Northwest.
Sunny sunny

15°
rain & snow
45° 46°
18° 26°

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 55/43

44/25
Partly Chance Cloudy, Partly 36/20
35/23
sunny with of rain with sunny 42/29 Clear skies con-
an a.m. and
sprinkle snow sprinkles tinue to domi-
38/24
47° 48° 50° 50° 60/48
46/29 nate our weath-
30° 30° 32° er, as two large
28° 53/33
45/35
areas of high
REGIONAL FORECAST TODAY’S SUMMARY 62/53
57/43 pressure are cre-
ating a blockade
The Poconos 62/54

Syracuse Highs: 31-41. Lows: 16-21. Partly cloudy 82/49 across the
Today’s high/ northeastern
33/23 skies today into tonight.
Tonight’s low
Albany 75/63 corner of the US.
37/23 35/26 83/69 89/72 The only prob-
lem is, tempera-
Binghamton The Jersey Shore 45/32 tures will remain
31/18 Highs: 41-46. Lows: 24-30. Partly cloudy
skies today into tonight.
a solid 10 to 20
City Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Towanda degrees below
37/18
Poughkeepsie
Anchorage 33/19/.00 35/26/c 40/31/rs Myrtle Beach 61/43/1.05 49/38/sh 61/53/pc average for this
Scranton Atlanta 58/48/1.93 57/43/sh 68/54/pc Nashville 46/35/.00 56/38/c 58/44/t time of year. Our
44/22
37/21 The Finger Lakes Baltimore 47/30/.00 45/28/pc 47/34/pc New Orleans 84/71/.00 80/65/t 81/67/t
next weather
Wilkes-Barre Highs: 31-36. Lows: 17-23. Skies will be Boston 44/27/.00 40/30/pc 44/31/pc Norfolk 41/36/.15 42/34/pc 49/40/pc
37/21 Buffalo 28/16/.00 31/21/pc 34/26/pc Oklahoma City 41/35/.00 55/47/c 55/40/t maker arrives
partly cloudy today and tonight.
Charlotte 43/39/.02 49/35/sh 61/46/pc Omaha 40/27/.00 40/32/c 36/29/sn late in the day,
Pottsville New York City Chicago 34/26/.00 38/24/pc 41/30/pc Orlando 91/60/.00 84/67/t 84/66/t Wednesday. It
State College 40/21 42/29 Cleveland 32/24/.00 33/19/pc 37/28/pc Phoenix 74/54/.00 82/59/s 86/60/s will have to be
38/20 Brandywine Valley Dallas 50/46/.00 62/54/c 66/47/t Pittsburgh 39/23/.00 38/18/pc 41/27/pc another perfect
Reading Denver 57/32/.00 53/33/sh 55/34/pc Portland, Ore. 49/43/.14 53/43/c 53/42/sh
Harrisburg 42/23 Highs: 44-45. Lows: 26-28. Skies will be storm setup to
44/25 partly cloudy today and tonight. Detroit 38/17/.00 35/23/s 42/26/pc St. Louis 43/28/.00 47/32/pc 41/32/sn
Honolulu 80/71/.01 83/69/sh 84/70/s Salt Lake City 47/31/.30 48/30/rs 51/36/c
get any snowfall
Philadelphia out of this. There
44/28 Houston 85/66/.00 75/63/c 80/60/t San Antonio 77/65/.00 74/64/c 79/55/c
Indianapolis 42/24/.00 44/26/pc 47/32/c San Diego 65/57/.00 63/53/pc 66/53/pc is a slight
Atlantic City Delmarva/Ocean City Las Vegas 69/47/.00 74/53/pc 73/57/pc San Francisco 57/45/.00 60/46/pc 61/50/pc chance for a
44/30 Highs: 41-46. Lows: 26-34. Partly cloudy Los Angeles 61/54/.09 62/53/pc 66/55/pc Seattle 50/39/.17 55/43/sh 55/45/sh minor accumula-
skies are expected today into tonight. Miami 87/71/.00 89/72/t 88/73/t Tampa 84/57/.00 80/68/t 82/68/t tion, but it's still
Milwaukee 32/25/.00 35/25/pc 39/27/pc Tucson 75/47/.00 81/51/s 83/52/s too soon to talk
Minneapolis 33/16/.00 36/20/pc 39/26/c Washington, DC 46/30/.02 46/29/pc 49/35/pc
numbers. Suffice
ALMANAC Recorded at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Int’l Airport WORLD CITIES it to say, some
Temperatures Precipitation River Levels, from 12 p.m. yesterday. City Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Yesterday Today Tomorrow areas could be
Yesterday 34/20 Yesterday 0.00” Susquehanna Stage Chg. Fld. Stg Forecasts, graphs dealt another
Average 51/32 Month to date 5.11” Wilkes-Barre 8.46 -1.26 22.0 and data ©2011 Amsterdam 52/32/.00 50/34/pc 52/39/pc Mexico City 82/55/.00 79/48/t 77/48/t
Baghdad 79/48/.00 80/57/s 82/55/pc Montreal 28/14/.00 29/21/sf 39/21/pc round of winter-
Record High 80 in 1921 Normal month to date 2.29” Towanda 5.13 -0.72 21.0 Weather Central, LP
Record Low 15 in 2001 Year to date 10.42” Beijing 64/45/.00 59/37/s 70/37/s Moscow 30/10/.00 37/21/c 36/7/sn like weather
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Yesterday 38 Sun and Moon Delaware information go to: Buenos Aires 72/45/.00 74/50/s 72/59/s Rio de Janeiro 91/77/.00 93/76/pc 84/72/t the deeper into
Month to date 778 Sunrise Sunset Port Jervis 5.03 -0.42 18.0 www.timesleader.com Dublin 50/36/.00 53/40/c 55/34/sh Riyadh 77/59/.00 82/59/s 86/61/pc spring we go, the
Year to date 5466 Today 6:54a 7:24p Frankfurt 59/41/.00 54/35/pc 61/36/pc Rome 63/45/.00 63/48/sh 63/43/sh harder it is for
New First Full Last National Weather Service Hong Kong 63/57/.03 66/59/pc 72/59/c San Juan 88/74/.00 83/69/pc 84/70/pc
Last year to date 5148 Tomorrow 6:52a 7:25p any snow to
Normal year to date 5361 Moonrise Moonset 607-729-1597 Jerusalem 72/45/.00 65/42/s 72/45/s Tokyo 52/39/.00 53/37/pc 57/41/pc
London 59/45/.00 53/42/sh 59/41/pc Warsaw 43/21/.00 44/29/sh 50/34/sh stick.
*Index of fuel consumption, how far the day’s Today 3:48a 2:00p
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