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The recent approval of publicfunds to demolish a deteriorat-

ing railroad bridge owned byembattled tower Leo A. GlodzikIII has prompted questions onhow he acquired the bridge inthe first place and why he didnttear it down as promised.

Glodzik, 42, has become thesubject of heightened scrutinybecause he faces theft charges,a $519,204 state lien for unpaidpersonal income taxes and a civilsuit alleging insider trading inhis failed attempt to buy the OldRiver Road Bakery from Wilkes-Barre.

Glodziks alleged theft of$2,100 from a vehicle has causedWilkes-Barre officials to suspenda $50,050 annual towing con-tract with his company, LAG

Towing.According to public recordsand past and present interviews:

Glodzik bought the bridgefrom the Luzerne CountyRedevelopment Authority in2007.

The authority inherited thebridge, which was not open tovehicular traffic, as part of a rail-road acquisition, and authorityofficials said they wanted it torndown because it was deteriorat-ing and not linked to active railservice.

County engineers had iden-tified the bridge over theSusquehanna River as a poten-tial flood hazard and had beenpressing the authority to do

something about it. The spanconnects the Coxton Rail Yardsto the Harding section of Exeter

Township.

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NOXEN TWP. Authoritieson Sunday said five people werekilled in a helicopter crash ina rugged, mountainous areasometime overnight Saturdayin Wyoming County.

The Federal AviationAdministration said theRobinson 66 aircraft was flying

to Jake Arner Memorial Airportin Lehighton from the Tri CitiesAirport, Endicott, N.Y., when it

lost radar and communicationcontact Saturday night.The wreckage was located at

1:50 p.m. Sunday off an accessroad to the Mehoopany WindFarm. The names of the crashvictims were not available.

The National TransportationSafety Board will lead the inves-

tigation. The FAA also is inves-tigating.

Emergency response vehi-

cles and personnel traveled anaccess road on the wind farm toget to the crash site.

They initially staged inMehoopany, said BobbyZampetti, a pilot from

Tunkhannock, who followedthem to the scene. He said hesaw Wyoming County Coroner

Thomas Kukuchka, PennsylvanaState Police and Civil Air Patrolat the Mehoopany volunteer fi re

station.Along with media Zampettiwas kept several hundred feetfrom the vehicles.

Were standing on top ofSouth Mountain, Zampettisaid. Sky Haven Airport where

5deadincoptercrashnearNoxenWreckage found Sunday near Mehoopany Wind Farm

Aimee Dilger |The Times LeaderEmergency response personnel and vehicles Sunday afternoon traveled anaccessroadon theMehoopany Wind Farmnear Noxento getto thesitewherefive people were killed in helicopter crash in Wyoming County.

WILKES-BARRE At somepoint something has to be donewith the Irem Temple, and RickWilliams and others hope its nottorn down like the nearby HotelSterling.

Last week demolition crews

razeda good portion of therearofthe hotel. Theyre moving to the

North River Street side today tocontinue to reduce the landmarkstructure to rubble.

The hotel opened in 1898,and nine years later, the temple,designed in Moorish revivalarchi-tecture complete with four mina-rets and dome, was completed on

North Franklin Street.Like the hotel, its been vacant

for years, and architect RickWilliams fears its brick wallscould be bashed to pieces by thesteel buckets and blades of exca-vators, like those leveling thehotel.

Myconcernis it hasthe poten-tial to deteriorate, Williams said

last week. As a last resort I couldimagine an adaptive reuse.

Ideally, hed like to see itrestored to its original conditionand used as a performing artscenter. But the price tag is in thetens of millions of dollars, he said.

As a less expensive alternative,

PITTSBURGH The boomin oil and gas fracking has led tojobs, billions in royalties and prof-its, and evensome environ-mental gains.

But someexperts sayarrogance, alack of trans-

parency andpoor commu-nication on thepart of the drilling industry havehelped fuel public anger over theprocess of hydraulic fracturing, orfracking.

Its a bigissue forthe industry.I have called for greater transpar-ency. That is theonly way to havean honest conversation with thepublic, said John Hofmeister,a former Shell Oil Co. presidentand author of Why We Hate OilCompanies.

As an example, Hofmeistersaid, some industry leaders havesuggested that the fracking boomhas never caused water pollu-tion. But while the vast major-

ity of wells dont cause problems,everybody knows that somewells go bad, Hofmeister said.

Over the last five years,advances in technology have ledto a surge of drilling in states

Three decades after theywere introduced as a crime-

fighting tool, electronicanklebracelets used to trackan offenders whereaboutshave proliferated so muchthat officials are strugglingto handle an avalanche of

monitoring alerts that areoften nothing more sinisterthan a dead battery, lostsatellite contact or some-one arriving home late fromwork.

Amid all that white noise,alarms aregoing unchecked,sometimes on defendantsnow accused of new crimes.

Some agencies dont haveclear protocols on how to

handle the multitude ofalerts, or dont always fol-low them. At times, officialstook days to act, if theynoticed at all, when crimi-nals tampered with their

bracelets or broke a curfew.I think the perception is that these people arebeing watched 24 hours aday by someone in a com-mand center. Thats just not

happening, said Rob Bains,director of court servicesfor Floridas Ninth JudicialCircuit Court, which thisspring halted its monitoringprograms after two people

on thedevices were accusedin separate shootings.At least 100,000 sex

offenders, parolees and

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raises newquestionsLuzerne County

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Architect Rick Williams is hoping to preserve the old Irem Temple on North Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre entirely, but if thats not possible, hes thinkingabout leaving the facade intact and surgically demolishing the interior to create an outdoor/indoor venue.

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FORTY FORT Crowds gath-ered to examine a rare burgundy1938 SS Jaguar while a 1943,dark blue Navy war plane rumbleddown the runway Sunday duringthe European Car and AviationShow at the Wyoming ValleyAirport.

Appealing to Americas loveof automobiles and planes, theBritish Car Club of NortheasternPennsylvania and the airport com-bined forces to present a unique

opportunity to admire both.Joe Scrobola, of Valley Aviation,said Airport Day has been heldfor four years to give families anopportunity to learn about avia-tion.

Ed Ostrowsky, club president of

the British Car Club, said this isthe 11th year the group has heldthe car show, but itis the firstyearholding it withthe Wyoming ValleyAirport. Previously it has beenheld in theSouthAbingtonParkinClarks Summit. Work being doneatthe park prevented thecar showfrom being held there.

Ostrowsky said there has beena steady flow of enthusiasts fromwhen the gates opened at 9 a.m.until closing, which was well after3 p.m. Boy Scout Pack 281 ofDallas offered food and refresh-ments.

Threatening weather prohibitedsome owners from bringing theirvintage cars, but there were about100 vehicles on display.

All of these cars have charac-

ter, Joel Goldman, treasurer ofthe BCC said. There is a car foreveryone.

Vince Gatto of Hughestown,owner of the 1938 SS Jaguar,said that before World War II,the Shallow Side Car Co., known

as SS, made side cars for motor-cycles. In 1938, the companydesigned and handmade only 118SS Jaguars. After the war, therewere changes.

Becausethe warhad justended,many people thought the SSlooked too much like the Germaninsignia, he said. Eventually theSS was dropped and they becameknown as Jaguars.

Proudly giving a walk-around,Gatto pointed out the car has theoriginal registration on the frontandback,the original engineblockwith the SS embossed on the side,and the original honeycomb radia-tor.

Cruising theskies was an optionfor the more adventurous of spirit.Plane rides were available in a

Cessna, an Alaskan bush plane, a1954 T28 or a 1943 SNJ Texan.Rides cost $20 and up, dependingon the type of plane. They lastedabout 15 minutes and provided ascenicview of the Wyoming Valley.

Scrobola said that often Airport

Day provides an opportunity forthose interested in learning to flya chance to talk with pilots andtake a flight.

The Wyoming Valley RC Flyers,based out of Moon Lake, had a

dozen planes ranging from microflyers to a large plane, 1/4 scale, todemonstrate another way to enjoyflight, without leaving the ground.

FredAdams/For The Times LeaderThe British Car Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania sponsored a European CarShow held at the Wyoming Valley Airport on Sunday. A pair of Austin Healeymodel 100s from the mid 1950s can be seen.

Good show! Brit cars, planes delightWyomingValleyAirport bringslovers ofwheels, wings together.

EILEEN GODINTimes Leader Correspondent

W.Wyoming to

pursue Growing

Greener grant

W ES T W YO MING In a coop er a-tive effort with the state Department ofConservation and Natural Resources, theborough voted Tuesday to be the leadapplicant for a Growing Greener grant tohelp improve the water quality of FrancesSlocum Lake.

The gran t wi ll als o hel p fun d str eam -bank restoration and curb the erosiona nd s tor m water r u nof f in th e u p p erEighth Street area.

Council a lso v ote d to a pp ly f or th eFEMA National Flood Insurance Programrating system.

To par tic ipa te in the pro gra m, theborough must perform a series of storm

water mitigation tasks. If the boroughscores high enough on the rating system,residents will get a discount on theirflood insurance, said council presidentEileen Cipriani, pointing out that manyof these tasks already have been accom-plished.

Council s ne xt r egula r m e eting isscheduled for 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12.

CAMILLE FIOTITimes Leader Correspondent

LOS ANGELES The Wolverineslashed monsters and minions to debutatop the weekend box office.

The Fox film featuring HughJackmans sixth turn as the claw-wield-ing superhero opened with $55 millionin North America, according to studioestimates Sunday.

Last weekends top movie, WarnerBros. low-budget horror TheConjuring, slipped to second place,adding another$22.1 millionto itstake.

Despicable Me 2 was in third with$16 million. The Universal animatedsequel, with its cast of cute, yellow min-ions, has made more than $600 millionworldwide since it came out four weeksago.

The Wolverine, which is set inJapanand featuresan internationalcast,earned another $86.1 million overseas.The films opening-weektake surpassedthe $120 million it cost to make, saidChris Aronson, Foxs head of domesticdistribution.

Its a huge opening for the clawedone, he said. It played equally wellfrom Maine to Maui.

Another Fox film, the animated snail-racing tale Turbo, was in fourth placewith $13.3 million. Adam SandlersGrown Ups 2 followed with $11.5million.

Woody Allens latest, Blue Jasmine,

enjoyed a stellar opening of its own,though on a much smaller scale.Starring Cate Blanchett, the film

opened in just six theaters but still col-lected $612,767.Its one of the biggest opening per-

theater averages ever for a non-animat-ed film, said Paul Dergarabedian ofbox-office tracker Hollywood.com.

Ticket sales this weekend were upalmost 30 percent over the same week-end last summer, he said.

It was a good weekend to be a mov-iegoer because the choices just got a lotmore interesting, Dergarabedian said,

noting a mix that includes animated,independent and big-budget actionofferings.

Fruitvale Station, the Sundancewinner already generating Oscar buzz,expanded to theatersacrossthe countryand edged its way into the top 10, con-tributing to a summer box office that isup more than 10 percent over last year.

AP PhotoThis publicity image released by 20th Century Fox shows Hugh Jackman in a scene fromThe Wolverine.

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Tour bus flips over in wash amid Ariz. rain storm

DOLAN SPRINGS, Ariz. A Las

Vegas-bound tour bus carrying 33 peo-ple was swept away in northern Arizonaby floodwaters Sunday and turned onits side as it tried to cross a wash amidheavy rains.

No one was injured. The bus waspushed down the wash for an estimat-ed 300 yards before it turned on itsside around 1:50 p.m. near Kingman,Ariz., said Patrick Moore, chief of theNorthern Arizona Consolidated FireDistrict, which had firefighters at the

scene.People inside the bus, which had left

the Grand Canyon Skywalk glass bridge,climbed out the drivers side windows

and walked onto the shore.Moore didnt know the name of the

company that owned the bus. The buscompany was sending another bus topick up the tourists.

The crash happened as norther nArizona was hit with a second day ofheavy rain.

Kingman is near the Arizona-Nevadastate line and about 100 miles southeastof Las Vegas.

The area where the bus accid ent

occurred received 0.75 inches of rainin about an hour on Sunday afternoon,said Chris Stumpf, a National WeatherService forecaster in Las Vegas.

A flash flood warning was in effectwhen the accident occurred, he said,and the bus driver shouldnt have beendriving through the area at the time.

It was a really strong storm dump-ing quite a bit of rain and it causedflash flooding, Stumpf said. Theywere driving on a portion of the roadwhere they shouldnt have tried to driveacross. They should not have been driv-ing through there.

There were some swift-water rescues

of stranded motorists Saturday nightafter a storm dropped nearly 2 inchesof rain in about 90 minutes aroundKingman, Stumpf said.

The flash flood warning around theaccident scene has expired, he said, buttheres a c hance for more heavy rain andanother similar warning on Monday.

The crash happened as Norther nArizona was hit with a second day ofheavy rain.

The Arizon a Departm ent ofTransportation closed an 18-mil estretch of Interstate-40 Saturday nightbetween Flagstaff and Kingman becauseof the flash flooding.

JULIE JACOBSONAssociated Press

HARRISBURG OnHalloween night last year,rumors started flying that newcharges were being handeddown from the grand jury thathad been investigating the JerrySandusky child abuse case.

Sure enough, during a newsconference in Harrisburg thenext day, then-Attorney GeneralLinda Kelly delivered a bomb-shell in describing a conspiracyof silence in accusing three

Penn State administrators ofhiding abuse allegations againstJerry Sandusky more than adecade ago.

Facing charges for the firsttime in the Sandusky scandalwas former university president

Graham Spanier. He was accusedof lying under oath, obstructinglaw authorities trying to investi-gate, endangering the welfare ofchildren, conspiracy and failingto report abuse.

Former athletic director TimCurley and retired vice presidentGary Schultz, already indictedand awaiting trial on perjury andfailure to report abuse charges,were hit with additional chargesof obstruction, child endanger-ment and conspiracy.

The three men turned them-selves soon after for a briefarraignment in suburbanHarrisburg, and they werereleased on unsecured bailawaiting their first formal courtappearance, a preliminary hear-

ing. The defense attorneys fileda flurry of motions, such as bar-ring a key prosecution witnessfrom testifying or throwing outthe charges, to the various hier-archies of the state court system,and as a result, stalled the startof the preliminary hearing formonths.

Now, after almost nine fullmonths since the charges werebrought, Spanier, Curley andSchultz will have their firstchance to defend themselves

against the evidence that pros-ecutors from the AttorneyGenerals Office outlined in a59-page presentment. For thepublic, the hearing may or maynot reveal new information tohelp fill in the holes about what

is already known about theresponse to the Sandusky scan-dal, which led to the dismissalof beloved football coach JoePaterno.

The preliminary hearing startsat 9 a.m. today in courtroomNo. 1 in the Dauphin CountyCourthouse in Harrisburg withDistrict Judge William Wennerpresiding. The hearing couldspillover into Tuesday, and courtofficials have cleared the court-rooms schedule for Thursday if

a third day is needed.The charges are based on

emails that were discovered dur-ing the investigation and testi-mony from Penn State officialssuch as former university policechief Thomas Harmon and for-

mer general counsel CynthiaBaldwin.

Spaniers lawyers asked aDauphin County-level judge toget a look at the prosecutionsevidence before the preliminaryhearing, but the judge deniedthe request.

The lawyers also moved fora dismissal of the charges, say-ing they are based on Baldwinsunlawful testimony and some ofthe statute of limitations haveexpired.

EX-PSU officials face hearingThe three will havetheir rst chance todefend themselves inSandusky case.

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Luzerne County CouncilChairman Tim McGinley saidhes exploring a possible solu-

tion to force public discussionand approval on pay raisesand job creations.

The issue surfaced lastweek because countyController Walter Griffithgave his senior auditor a$4,000 annual raise due toan increased workload, eventhough roughly 300 non-unioncounty employees in otherdepartments have gone fiveyears without salary increases.

Griffith said he can grantthe raise without public jus-tification or council a pprovalbecause he has unspentpayroll funds in his 2013budget. Though he exercisedthe power, he said he prefers

the prior government systemprocess requiring salary boardapproval for pay increases andnew positions.

McGinley said he plans topropose the inclusion of allauthorized positions and sala-

ries in the offi-cial 2014 budgetordinance.

He believesthat would forcethe controller,county manager,district attor-ney and courtbranches torequest a budgetamendment ifthey want toincrease pay oradd positionsthat deviate from the bud-geted and authorized person-nel plan.

Budget amendments requirepublic hearings and council

approval, McGinley said. Thursday is the deadlinefor county property owners tofile an assessment appeal for

2014. Appeal forms are avail-able on the assessors sectionof the county website, www.

luzernecounty.org. The county is recouping$16,500 that can be spent ondiversity, but council mem-bers havent identified a wor-thy cause or program.

Prior commissioners hadallocated the funding to thenow-defunct county diversitycommission several years ago.Council voted Tuesday toask the Luzerne Foundation,which has been holding themoney, to return it to thecounty.

Councilwoman ElaineMaddon Curry said shebelieves the money should beset aside for its original pur-pose. Several council

members expressed concernthe administration willspend the cash on somethingelse if they dont specify a

plan in advance.County Manager Robert

Lawton said he will keep the

money separate until councilreaches a decision.Id like to assure the chair

that these funds are not partof a managers slush fund,Lawton said.

In an attempt to addresspast concerns about speakerphone meeting attendance,county Chief Solicitor C.David Pedri is now askingcouncil members if they lostphone connection beforeestablishing if their votes arecounted.

Councilwoman LindaMcClosky Houck, who attend-ed Tuesdays meeting byphone, was prepared. She toldPedri she was disconnected

for about six seconds at 8:04p.m. and immediately calledback to be reconnected. It wasduring debate about a parking

ordinance that was tabled.Pedri accepted the votes

of McClosky Houck and

also Stephen A. Urban, whoattended the beginning of themeeting by phone.

After a lengthy debate,county council voted lastweek to table a proposedparking policy for furtherreview.

Two council committeeswill meet Monday night at thecouncil meeting room in thecourthouse. The authorities/boards/commissions meetingwill publicly interview appli-cants for vacant seats at 6p.m. The strategic initiativescommittee will discuss priori-ties and workforce standardsat 7 p.m. or whenever theboard seat interviews con-

clude.

JenniferLearn-Andescanbe reachedby e-mail at jandes@timesleader.com

SCRANTON

ACCME accreditsScrantons TCMC

The Commonwealth Medical College

obtained full accreditation from theAccreditation Council for ContinuingMedical Education.

TCMCs accreditation statuswas upgraded from provisionalaccreditation based on a review of theContinuing Medical Education selfstudy report, evidence of performance-in-practice activities, and an accredita-tion interview in February 2013.

TCMC is one of approximately 700ACCME accredited organizationsnationwide that provide continuingmedical education for physicians andhealthcare professionals.

SCRANTON

Autopsy is set todayfor body in SUV

Authorities said an SUV and thebody it contained have been removedfrom a ledge in a ravine in LackawannaCounty, The Associated Press reported.

Officials said Saturday night that thevehicle was teetering on a ledge over-looking Roaring Brook.

On Sunday, WNEP Channel 16 Newswasreporting on its website that the manwasFrank Bonacci,24, of Dunmore, whohad been reported missing.

The Lackawanna County Coronerconfirmed the identity Sunday after-noon, the TV station reported.

Lackawanna County DistrictAttorney Andy Jarbola said an autopsyis scheduled this afternoon butdeclined further comment.

Scranton police said the vehicle wasabout one and one-half miles upstreamof a command post set up near theUniversity of Scranton tennis courts.

EASTSTROUDSBURG

Woman found deadin vehicle aer re

A woman is dead after suspiciousvehicle fire early Saturday morningnear the intersection of Route 209 andKeystone Road in Middle SmithfieldTownship.

The Marshalls Creek Fire Co.responded to the scene for a vehicleon fire in the southbound Route 209at about 1:45 a.m., Fire Chief Joe

Quaresimo said. The vehicle did notshow any exterior damage that wouldindicate it was involved in a crashbefore the start of the fire, he said.

The cause of the fire is under inves-tigation and is being treated as suspi-cious, Quaresimo said.

Monroe County Coroner Bob Allensaid the woman was pronounced deadat the scene at 2:46 a.m. Officials havenarrowed her identity to several pos-sible women, all of East Stroudsburg,but Allen said he would not be able toconfirm who she was until a forensicautopsy this morning.

Allen said he also cannot yet deter-mine whether the woman was deadbefore the fire started.

The Pocono Record

AVOCA2013 school taxesbeing collected

The 2013 school taxes have beenmailed and the tax office is open forrebate payment. Office hours areTuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. andFridays from 5 to 6 p.m.

Those paying by mail and wishinga receipt should send a self-addressedstamped envelope and the entire billto 129 Factory St., Avoca, PA 18641.For information, contact Tax CollectorTherese Wrubel at 570-457-4891.

WILKES-BARRETWP.

Epilepsy awarenessprogram meetings set

The state Department of Health,Bureau of Family Health and SpecialKids Network in conjunction with theEpilepsy Foundation of Eastern PA arehosting a series of meetings led by par-ents for families with children who aregrowing up with epilepsy and seizures.

The Local Epilepsy AwarenessProgram, or L.E.A.P., is an oppor-tunity for those community to cometogether and share talk about theneeds and gaps in services and recom-mendations for improving services.

The first meeting will be 6:30 to 8:30p.m. Wednesday at the John Heinz

Institute, 150 Mundy St., Wilkes-BarreTownship. Refreshments will be servedand reservations are suggested.

Contact Mary Loughlin at 570-592-1150 or epilepsywv@efepa org by

Seekingmorepublicinputoncountyjobs

PLAINS TWP. Peggy Dwyer mod-eled a lavender outfit on Sunday after-noon not only as an opportunity to raisemoney for Candys Place, Center forCancer Wellness, but also to take partin thepositivehealthy spiritmaking thatcenter a reality.

Dwyer, participating in the fourthannual fashion show and luncheon spon-sored byCandys Place atthe WoodlandsInn & Resort, is herself a survivor andcredits the center with fostering a spiritof hope and fellowship that makes recov-ery possible.

We are truly survivors, one day at atime,said Dwyer. I am simplyand fullyliving life.

Marie Saltz, Ashley, a breast can-cer survivor, echoes the need to fullyembrace life after being diagnosed withcancer.

Candys Place helped me to do that,

to live with hope, said Saltz. I knewthat I was no longer alone.

Model Mark DiPippa, Wilkes-Barre,said it was an honor to be able to par-ticipate in the event. DiPippa, a 25-yearsurvivor of the disease, said he viewed itas an opportunity to give back.

Early on in my recovery I made acommitment to help others sufferingfrom cancer, he said. That commit-ment has positively impacted by careerand my whole life.

Chris Ostroski, director of CandysPlace and also a survivor, emphasized

the benefits of supporting cancer vic-tims and their families. Located inForty Fort, the center has served thecommunity since its beginnings in1998. Its focus is not simply on physi-cal recovery, but on emotional andspiritual support for survivors andtheir families.

The fashion show embodies this posi-tive spirit as those battling cancer and

survivors were able to strut their stuffin a celebration of hope and victory.The 22 models each sported a color

associated with a specific type of cancer,with specific symptoms and challenges.

Although Im wearing lavender insupport of those with pancreatic can-cer, said Dwyer, we are here today tosupport those with any type of cancerand their families.

Penny Cunningham founded CandysPlace in memory of her sister CandiceVincent-Mamary, who lost her battlewith lung cancer.

Candy said she wanted something

positive to comefrom herdifficult strug-gle, said Cunningham. I know shewould have thought the fashion showwas a great opportunity to raise moneyand the spirits of those with cancer andthose who love them.

Candys Place emphasized the impor-tance of feeling attractive, being intouch with spirituality and purpose-ful relaxation. It offers programs that

include facials, massage therapy andother forms of relaxation, emphasizingevery area of a persons life in the pro-cess of recovery.

It also assists family members andcaregivers, with services and supportgroups addressing their unique needs.

Local TV news personality BrittanySweeney, guest MC for the event, saidI am so honored to be emceeing thisfashion show. Candys Place is trulyamazing.

We hope to raise over $10,000 inmemoryof Candy andin support ofthosebattling cancer, said Cunningham.

Aimee Dilger | The Times LeaderMary Lisa Lada walks the runway at the Candys Place Fashion Show held at the Woodlands in Plains Township on Sunday.

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Foreign students atWyoming Seminary get to knowAmerica

WILKES-BARRE ForGleb Titov, reading U.S. cur-rent events every morning ismore than just a daily routine.

Every day when I am wak-ing up, I take my phone andlook at the news, Titov, 17,said.

He checks the news on hisiPhone 5 every day to stay upto date with my country.

Titov is from Moscow,Russia, the same city whereEdward Snowden, the formerNSA contractor who disclosedsecrets about U.S. surveillanceprograms who is wanted by

the United States on espionagecharges, has been stuck at theairport for more than a month.

Titov said the accounts ofSnowden in the news from the

but he said he thinks it is inter-esting to compare the two.For example, American andRussian news outlets have dif-ferent opinions on the subject.

Titov is one of 40 studentsfrom around the world whostudied English as a SecondLanguage at Summer atWyoming Seminary for thepast four weeks.

Wyoming Seminarys settingin a suburban environmentgives students an opportunityto experience American lifeon the East Coast, and BaharaMohammadi said Kingston is180 degrees different thanKabul, her hometown and thelargest city in Afghanistan.

Mohammadi said the secu-rity of women in Afghanistanis the polar opposite of womenin the U.S. She said she feelssafe in Kingston and can go

she does not have back home.On the Fourth of July,

Mohammadi, along with theother ESL students, went toKirby Park to see the annualfireworks display. I made anAmerican flag with my ownhands and brought it to thepark, she said.

Although Mohammadi saidshe enjoys Kingston, she has

not disconnected herself fromher hometown.I am very active on

Facebook and I keep up withthe news she said

Geronimo Maspero, of BuenosAires, does not keep up withArgentinian news because hedoes not want to distract him-self from his studies in the U.S.

I do not even check thenews of my favorite soccerteam in Argentina, Maspero,15, said with a laugh.

While Pennsylvania is strug-gling with the constitutional-

ity of its new voter identifica-tion law, Argentina passed abill that expanded its votingrights. This October, 16-year-olds will be allowed to vote

tions for the first time.Mohammadi, Titov,Maspero and Rinko Oka of

Tokyo all said that in order tovote in Afghanistan, Russia,Argentina and Japan, an iden-tification card must be pre-sented.

Oka, 16, said she loves thenature in Kingston because

Tokyo, as a highly populousmetropolis, does not have it.

In Japan, there are a lot ofwires, so we never see blueskies, Oka said.

She also said she likes theAmerican education systembecause it gives her a chanceto speak up for the first time.In Tokyo, classrooms are

silent. Students are allowed toask questions, but discussionand debate are not allowed.

Here, teachers give us achance to share our opinions

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PIERMONT,N.Y.

2nd body foundin Hudson River

A day after a bride-to-be waspulled dead from the Hudson River,the body of her fiances best man wasfound a mile downstream Sunday, thesecond victim of a nighttime crashinvolving a speedboat and a bargenorth of New York City.

The deadly collisi on left thegroom-to-be grieving for his intendedand his best friend, while facing sur-gery for his own injuries as anotherfriend is charged with manslaughter two weeks before the weddingday.

The speedbo at c rashed Fridaynight into a barge holding equipmentfor the construction of a replacementfor the Tappan Zee.

Police said it was being piloted byJojo John, 35, of Nyack, whom theysuspect was intoxicated and who hasbeen charged with vehicular man-slaughter and vehicular assault.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN

Driver in fatal trainwreck questionedThe driver of a S panish train that

derailed at high speed was beingquestioned by a judge on Sunday asofficials tried to determine if he wasresponsible for the accident, whichkilled 79 people.

Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, 52,has been held by police on suspicionof negligent homicide. He has notbeen formally charged by a magis-trate or made any official statements.

However, minutes after the crashGarzon said that he had been goingfast and couldnt brake, a local resi-dent who rushed to the scene of theaccident said in an interview broad-cast Sunday.

The train carryin g 218 passengerin eight cars hurtled far over 50-mphspeed limit into a high-risk curve onWednesday, tumbling off the tracksand slamming into a concrete wall,with some of the cars catching fire.

INDIANAPOLIS

Church mournsdead from bus crash

An Indianapolis church mournedtheir youth pastor, his pregnant wifeand a congregation member Sundayafter the three died when their busreturning from a northern Michigancamp overturned a mile from home.

Saturdays accident devastated

members of Colonial Hills BaptistChurch, who had been anticipatinga joyful homecoming with the 37people aboard the bus. The crashkilled youth pastor Chad Phelps;his pregnant piano-teacher wife,Courtney Phelps; and chaperoneTonya Weindorf, deacon Jeff Leffewsaid.

The crash, which happenedSaturday afternoon near Interstate465, injured dozens. Seven teensremained hospitalized Sunday,including one in critical condition.Bus driver Dennis Maurer, a 68-year-old member of the congregation, toldauthorities that the brakes failed.

ROME

At least 24 deadin tour bus crash

Rescuers said Sunday that at least24 bodies have been pulled out ofthe mangled wreckage of a tour busthat plunged dozens of yards off amajor highway in southern Italy afterslamming into several cars. The buslanded in a ravine.

The Italian news agency ANSAquoted firefighters among the rescu-ers as also saying at least 11 peoplewere injured in the crash Sundaynight on the 116 autostrada nearAvellino, about 160 miles south ofRome.

Italian TV quoted people at thescene as saying about 49 people were

on the bus, which was reportedlyfilled with Italian pilgrims returningfrom an excursion elsewhere in thesouth.

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Hindu ritual followed in India

Hindudevotees carrytheir babies Sundayastheyhangfrompoleson hookspiercedthrough theirbackas part ofa ritualduringAadicelebrationsin Chennai,India.Aadi isconsidereda holy monthby Tamils andisobservedwith prayers and offeringsto HindugoddessDurga.

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JERUSALEM A divid-ed Israeli Cabinet agreedSunday to release 104 long-term Palestinian prison-ers convicted of deadlyattacks, clearing a hurdle

toward resuming Mideastpeace talks and giving U.S.Secretary of State JohnKerry his first concreteachievement after months ofshuttle diplomacy.

The U.S. said preliminarytalks would begin today.Release of the prisoners islinked to progress in thetalks, meaning many couldwell remain behind bars.

Neither side appearedupbeat, despite the possibil-ity of renewed talks. Eachhas blamed the other for thelack of success in 20 yearsof negotiations, and Kerrys

success so far has been onlyto get the parties back to thetable.

The prison er release,approved 13-7 with twoabstentions, is a key part ofthe Kerry-brokered deal.

Next, Israeli andPalestinian teams meet in

Washington on Monday, theState Department spokes-woman said, to preparefor six to nine months ofnegotiations on setting up aPalestinian state alongsideIsrael.

The State Departmen tsaid Kerry called IsraeliPrime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu and PalestinianPresident Mahmoud Abbasand invited them to sendteams to Washington.

State Department spokes-woman Jan Psaki said in astatement that talks wouldbegin Monday evening and

continue Tuesday. It saidthe talks would serve asan opportunity to developa procedural work plan forhow the parties can proceedwith the negotiations in thecoming months.

Netanyahu, seeking toovercome stiff opposition

from ultra-nationalists, toldhis Cabinet that resumingthe political process at thistime is important for Israel,noting that any deal wouldbe submitted to a nationalreferendum.

The chief Palestini annegotiator, Saeb Erekat,welcomed the vote on theprisoners as a step towardpeace, one he said is longoverdue.

Negotiators made prog-ress in previous rounds, andthe outlines of a deal haveemerged a Palestinianstate in most of the West

Ban k, Gaza and eastJerusalem, lands captured byIsrael in 1967, with borderadjustments to enable Israelto annex land with a majori-ty of nearly 600,000 settlers.

Those negotiati ons broke

down before the sides couldtackl e the m ost e xplo-sive issues, a partition ofJerusalem and the fate ofPalestinian refugees andtheir descendants, now sev-eral million people.

Israel OKs prisoner release, step to talks

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, chairs a session of thePalestinian cabinet in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

CHRISTINEARMARIO

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HIALEAH, Fla. The gun-

man who went on a shootingrampage at a South Floridaapar tm ent com pl ex wa sdescribed as a quiet man whotook his mother to doctorappointments, yet also someonewho was known for getting intofights and yelling at his mom.

The confli cting portrayals ofPedro Vargas, 42, emerged aspolice tried to piece togetherwhy he set ablaze the apart-ment he lived in with his moth-er and then killed six peoplebefore police fatally shot him.

As the eight-hour standoffunfolded, horrified residentshunkered down in their homes,at times so close to the actionthat they could feel the gunfireor hear negotiations betweenthe gunman and police, authori-ties and witnesses said Saturday.

As the rampaged windeddown, Vargas held two peoplehostage at gunpoint for up tothree hours in their apartmentuntil a SWAT team entered andkilled him, police said. Thehostages were not hurt.

Nobody seems to know whyhe acted the way he acted,said Lt. Carl Zogby, a spokes-man with the Hialeah PoliceDepartment.

Detectives were investigat-ing whether Vargas had anyongoing disputes with thebuilding manager, as some

residents believed. His motherwas not home at the time of theshootings.

He was a good son, saidEster Lazcano, who lived onthe same floor as Vargas andhis mother. Hed take her inthe morning to run errandsand to doctor appointments.

Lazcano said she was in theshower when she heard thefirst shots, and then there wereat least a dozen more. I felt theshots, she said.

Miriam Valdes, 70, was in afriends apartment two doorsdown. She said she heard offi-cers trying to convince Vargasto surrender. She said the gun-man first asked for his girl-

friend and then his mother butrefused to cooperate.Valdes said Vargas was also

known as a difficult person whosometimes got into fights andyelled at his mother.

He was a very abusive per-son, she said. He didnt haveany friends there.

Police werecalled to theaging,five-story apartment building inHialeah, a working-class suburba few miles northwest of down-town Miami, on Friday at 6:30p.m. The first calls reporteda fire, but when firefightersarrived, they heard shots andnotified police, Zogby said.

Vargas, who has no knowncriminal record, set a combustible

liquid on fire in his fourth-floorapartment. Building managerItalo Pisciotti, 79, and his wife,Camira Pisciotti, 69, saw smoke

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R IO D E JA NEIRO An estimated 3 millionpeople poured onto RiosC opa ca ban a b ea ch o nSunday for the final Massof Pope Francis historictrip to his home continent,cheering the first LatinAmerican pope in one of thebiggest turnouts for a papalMass in recent history.

Speaking from a whitestage and looking out over

the enormous crowd, Francisurged young Catholics to goout and spread their faith tothe fringes of society, evento those who seem farthestaway, most indifferent.

The church needs you,your enthusiasm, your cre-ativity and the joy that isso characteristic of you! hesaid to applause in his finalhomily of World Youth Day.

The popes trip, whichends when he takes off forRome Sunday night, washailed as a great success byclergy, pilgrims and everydayBrazilians alike. The popesnonstop agenda was followedlive on television for all sevendays. His good nature andmodesty clearly charmedthe nation that has more

Catholics than any other.This trip was a success.It was great to see the popeon his continent, in hishouse, speaking his lan-guage every day, said the

Rev. Federico Lombardi,the Vatican spokesman. Itsbeen a great experience tosee this pope being evenmore spontaneous in hisown house so comfort-able in what he was doing.

Nearly the entire 2.5 milecrescent of Copacabanasbroad beach overflowedwith flag-waving faithful,some of them taking an earlymorning dip in the Atlanticand others tossing T-shirts,flags and soccer jerseys intothe pontiffs open-sidedcar as he drove by. Francis

worked the crowd, kissingbabies, taking a sip of matetea handed up to him andcatching gifts on the fly.

Even the normally stern-faced Vatican bodyguards

let smiles slip as they joggedalongside Francis car,caught up in the enthusiasmof the crowd.

The numbers clearly over-whelmed the areas servic-es: The stench of garbageand human waste hung inRios humid air, and thebeach and adjoining chicAtlantic Avenue lookedlike an improvised refugeecamp plunked down in themiddle of one of the mostbeautiful cities in the world.Copacabanas famous mosa-ic sidewalks were strewn

with trampled cardboard,plastic bags, empty waterbottles and cookie wrappersas trash collectors in orangeuniforms tried to restoreorder.

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Nuns wade in the Copacabana beach water, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pope Francis wrapped up a historic trip to his home continent Sunday with aMass on the Copacabana beachfront that drew a reported 3 million people.

HAMZAHENDAWI

Associated Press

CAIRO Deadly clashesbroke out during funerals ofslain supporters of Egyptsousted Islamist presidentSunday, as the supremel ea de r o f t he Mu sl imBrotherhood urged his fol-

lowers to stand fast aftermore than 80 of them werekilled in weekend violence.

Setting the stage for moreconfrontation, the military-installed interim presidentgave the prime minister thepower to grant the militarythe right to arrest civiliansin what government offi-cials said could be a preludeto a major crackdown onMohammed Morsis sup-porters or Islamic militantswho have stepped up attacksagainst security forces inthe Sinai Peninsula.

The extent of the blood -shed has dashed hopes ofreconciliation between the

countrys two camps, sharp-ly divided over the July 3military coup that removedEgypts first freely electedpr id nt f ll ing pr t t

Islamists staunchly rejectthe new leadership andinsist the only possible solu-tion to the crisis is to rein-state Morsi. Meanwhile, theinterim leadership is push-ing ahead with a fast-tracktransition plan to return toa democratically elected gov-ernment by early next year.

Egypts interior minis-ter, who is in charge of thepolice, also pledged to dealdecisively with any attemptsto destabilize the country,a thinly veiled warning toMorsi supporters occupy-ing two squares in Cairo ina monthlong stand-off withsecurity forces.

The internati onal com-munity, meanwhile, urgedrestraint.

U.S. Secretary of StateJohn Kerry issued a strong-ly worded statement onSaturday, saying he toldEgyptian authorities it isessential they respect theright to peaceful protest. He

called on all sides to entera meaningful political dia-logue to help their coun-try take a step back from thebrink

took place before dawnon Saturday when policeand armed men in civilianclothes opened fire on hissupporters as they soughtto expand their sit-in campby moving onto a nearbymain b oulevard.

Khaled el-Khateeb, head

of the Health Ministrysemergency and intensivecare depar tm ent, sai dSunday the death toll fromth i l n t d t 80

toll at 83 after the facil-ity received 11 more bodiesSunday afternoon. The offi-cial spoke on condition ofanonymity because he wasnot authorized to brief themedia.

Authorities conceded thatthe vast majority of those

killed in Cairo were dem-onstrators, but the InteriorMinistry said some police-men also were wounded asth milit r b k d dmin

New clashes deadly as Morsi backers defant

AP photo

A supporter of Egypts ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a plac-ard depicting the former leader during a protest near Cairo Universityin Giza, Egypt.

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Police: $53 million in jewels stolen in CannesPARIS A staggering

40 million euro ($53 mil-lion) worth of diamondsandother jewels wasstolenSunday from the CarltonIntercontinental Hotel inCannes, in one of Europesbiggest jewelry heists inrecent years, police said.One expert noted thecrime follows recent jailescapes by members of thenotorious Pink Pantherjewel thief gang.

The hotel in the swel-tering French Riviera washosting a temporary jew-elry exhibit over the sum-mer from the prestigiousLeviev diamond house,which is owned by Israelibillionaire Lev Leviev.

A police spokesmansaid the theft took placearound noon, but he couldnot confirm local media

reports that the robberwas a single gunman whostuffed a suitcase withthe gems before making aswift exit. The spokesmanspoke on condition of ano-nymity because he was notauthorized to discuss thematter on the record.

The luxury Carltonhotel is situated on theexclusive Promenade dela Croisette that stretchesa mile and a half alongthe French Riviera, and isthronged by the rich andfamous throughout theyear. The hotels positionprovides not only a beauti-ful view of the sea but also

an easy getaway for poten-tial jewel thieves along thelong stretch of road.

Its a h uge th eft .Anytime you talk abouta heist with many mil-lions of dollars it turnsheads and feeds the imagi-nation, said JonathanSazonoff, U.S. editor fort he Museum Securit yNetwork website and anauthority on high-valuecrime.

He said the likelihoodof recovering the stolendiamonds and jewels isslim, because the thievescan easily sell them on.The fear is, if youre

dealing with high-quality

minerals, its hard to getthem back, Sazonoff said.They can be broken upand so they can be easilysmuggled and sold.

The valuable gems weresupposed to be on publicdisplay until the end ofAugust. It was not imme-diately clear how manypieces were stolen.

Several police officerswere placed in front of theCarlton exhibition room near a Cartier diamondboutique to prevent thedozens of journalists andphotographers from get-ting a look at the scene ofthe crime.

Hotel officials would notcomment, and attempts toget comments from Levievor his company were notimmediately successful.

Europe has been struckby several brazen jewelrythefts in recent years,

s ome of w hi ch h av einvolved tens of millionsof dollars in treasure.

On Feb. 18 in Belgium,about $50 million worth ofdiamonds were stolen. Inthat heist,robberstargetedstones from the global dia-mond center of Antwerpthat had been loaded ona plane headed to Zurich.Authorities have sincedetained dozens of peopleand recovered much of theitems stolen in that opera-tion.

Fi ve yea rs a go , i nDecember 2008, armedrobbers wearing womenswigs and clothing made

off with diamond rings,gem-studded bracelets andother jewelry said thento be worth $108 millionfrom a Harry Winston bou-tique in Paris.

Also in 2008 inFebruary of that year ina scene reminiscent of themovie The Italian Job,masked thieves drilled atunnel into a Damiani jew-elry company showroomin Milan, Italy. They tiedup the staff with plasticcable and sticky tape, thenmade off with gold, dia-monds and rubies worthsome $20 million. Therobbers had been digging

for several weeks from a

building under construc-tion next door.

Cannes appears to be afavorite target this year in May it was struckby other two highly publi-cized jewelry heists duringthe Cannes Film Festival.

In the first theft, rob-bers stole about $1 millionworth of jewels after rip-ping a safe from the wallof a hotel room. In thesecond, thieves outsmart-ed 80 security guards inan exclusive hotel andgrabbed a De Grisogononecklace that creators saidis worth 2 million euros($2.6 million).

S az on of f s ai d i t i snormal for robbers togravitate to a place likeCannes, whose glimmer-ing harbor and glamorousfilm festival attract theworlds rich and famous.Why do thieves target

Cannes? It s simple On the Cote dAzur, itswhere the monied peopleflow, he said.

Sazonoff also said policewould likely probe whetherSundays heist is linkedto recent jail escapes byalleged members of the PinkPanther jewel thief gang.

On Thursday, gang member Milan Poparicescaped his Swiss prisonafter accomplices rammeda gate and overpoweredguards with bursts fromtheir AK-47s, police said.

Po lice say t he Pin kPanther networks mem-bers are prime suspects in

a series of daring thefts.

According to Interpol, thegroup has targeted luxurywatch and jewelry storesin Europe, the MiddleEast, Asia and the UnitedStates, netting more than330 million euros ($285million) since 1999.

Poparic is the thirdme mbe r o f t he Pi nkPanthers to escape froma Swiss prison in as manymonths, according to Vaud

police.

The brazen drama ofit is their style The pos-sibility of the reemergenceof the Pink Panther gang isvery troubling and takenseriously by law enforce-ment worldwide, Sazonoffsaid. The theft of highvalue diamonds is exactlywhat they do, so its not agreat leap to assume theyare on the warpath again.They are a crime wave

waiting to happen.

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Jewels and diamonds worth around $53 million were stolen Sunday from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes in one of Europesbiggest jewelry heists in recent years, police there said.

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reach beyond the partyswhite, aging core must domore than retool campaignstrategy and tactics, sayyoung GOP leaders press-ing elected officials to offerconcrete policies to coun-ter Democratic initiatives.

Its very easy to justsay no, and there aretimes where its appropri-ate to say no, said JasonWeingartner of New York,the newly elected chairmanof the Young RepublicanNational Federation. Butthere are times where youneed to lead and presentideas on the issues of theday.

Weingartner and otherunder-40 activists at arecent national youngRepublican gathering inMobile said their partymust follow an all-of-the-above approach. Theirassessment goes beyondthe more general prescrip-tions that many partyleaders, including ReincePriebus, the RepublicanNationa l C ommi tteechairman, have offeredsince November, whenRepublicans lost the popu-lar vote for the fifth timein the past six presidentialelections.

The latest loss was due in

large measure to PresidentBarack Obamas advantageover Republican nomineeMitt Romney among young-er and nonwhite voters.

For the most part ,Priebus has avoided policyrecommendations for elect-ed Republicans and saysthe Republican platform,a political document thatssupposed to reflect the corevalues of the party, isnt theproblem.

Weingartner and manyof his colleagues agreewith Priebus on the plat-form, and they praise theGrowth and OpportunityProject that Priebus out-lined in March.

But the youngRepublicans ideasare moreexplicit than the chair-mans blueprint and standin contrast to a hyperparti-san Congress where manyRepublicans tailor theiractions to please primaryvoters who loathe coopera-tion with Democrats.

Weingartner said HouseRepublicans, who wontpass the Democratic-ledSenates version of an immi-gration overhaul, shouldpass their own version thatat least streamlines andexpands legal slots for for-

eign students and workers.For now, he said, thatwould sidestep Republicanswho demand border secu-rity and Democrats whodemand a citizenship pathfor immigrants already inthe country illegally.

On health care,Weingartner said thatbesides regularly votingto repeal Obamas law, theGOP should emphasize itsown ideas such as buyinginsurance across statelines,while better explaining theAffordable Care Acts costshift onto younger, healthyindividuals.

On same-sex marriage

and abortion, young GOPleaders say Republicansshould tolerate a range ofviews, even while main-taining a socially conserva-tive identity. Some of theseactivists say their partymust tread lightly after theSupreme Court recentlythrew out the most power-fulpartof theVotingRightsAct, the law that becamea major turning point inblack Americans strugglefor equal rights and politi-cal power.

We dont have to loseour principles, saidAngel Garcia, who leadsthe Young Republicans in

Chicago, Obamas home-town. But we have to havea conversation on all theseissues so we dont leaveD t t j t

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Signs of declining economic security widespreadSurvey fndsincreasinghopelessnessamong whites

as economy lags.HOPEYEN

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WASHINGTON Four outof five U.S. adults strugglewith joblessness, near pov-erty or reliance on welfare forat least parts of their lives,a sign of deteriorating eco-nomic security and an elusiveAmerican dream.

Survey data exclusive toThe Associated Press pointsto an increasingly globalizedU.S. economy, the wideninggap between rich and poorand loss of good-paying manu-

facturing jobs as reasons forthe trend.The findings come as

President Barack Obama triesto renew his administrationsemphasis on the economy, say-ing in recent speeches that hishighest priority is to rebuildladders of opportunity andreverse income inequality.

Hardship is particularly onthe rise among whites, basedon several mea sures. Pessimismamong that racial group abouttheir families economic futureshas climbed to the highest pointsince at least 1987. In the mostrecent AP-GfK poll, 63 percentof whites called the economypoor.

I think its going to getworse, said Irene Salyers,52, of Buchanan County,Va., a declining coal regionin Appalachia. Married anddivorced three times, Salyersnow helps run a fruit and vege-table stand with her boyfriend,but it doesnt generate muchincome. They live mostly offgovernment disability checks.

If you do try to go applyfor a job, theyre not hiringpeople, and theyre not payingthat much to even go to work,she said. Children, she said,have nothing better to dothan to get on drugs.

While racial and ethnicminorities are more likely to

live in poverty, race dispari-ties in the poverty rate havenarrowed substantially sincethe 1970s, census data show.Economic insecurity amongwhites also is more pervasivethan is shown in governmentdata, engulfing more than 76

percent of white adults bythe time they turn 60, accord-ing to a new economic gaugebeing published next year bythe Oxford U niversity Press.

The gauge defines econom -ic insecurity as experiencingunemployment at some point

in their working lives, or ayear or more of reliance ongovernment aid such as foodstamps or income below 150percent of the poverty line.Measured across all races, therisk of economic insecurityrises to 79 percent.

Its time that Americacomes to understand thatmany of the nations biggestdisparities, from educationand life expectancy to pov-erty, are increasingly due toeconomic class position,said William Julius Wilson, aHarvard professor who spe-cializes in race and poverty.

He noted that despite con-tinuing economic difficulties,

minorities have more opti-mism about the future afterObamas election, while strug-gling whites do not.

There is the real possi-bility that white alienationwill increase if steps are nottaken to highlight and addressinequality on a broad front,Wilson said.

Invisible poorSometimes termed the

invisible poor by demogra-phers, lower-income whitesare generally dispersed insuburbs as well as small ruraltowns, where more than 60percent of the poor are white.Concentrated in Appalachia inthe East, they are also numer-

ous in the industrial Midwestand spread across Americasheartland, from Missouri,Arkansas and Oklahoma upthrough the Great Plains.

More than 19 million whitesfall below the poverty line of$23,021 for a family of four,accounting for more than 41percent of the nations desti-tute, nearly double the num-ber of poor blacks.

Still, while census figuresprovide an official measure ofpoverty, theyre only a tempo-rary snapshot. The numbersdont capture the makeup ofthose who cycle in and out ofpoverty at different points intheir lives. They may be sub-

urbanites, for example, or theworking poor or the laid off.In 2011 that snapshot

showed 12.6 percent of adultsin their prime working-ageyears of 25-60 lived in pov-erty. But measured in termsof a persons lifetime risk, a

much higher number 4 in10 adults falls into povertyfor at least a year of their lives.

The risks of poverty alsohave been increasing in recentdecades, particularly amongpeople ages 35-55, coincidingwith widening income inequal-

ity. For instance, people ages35-45 had a 17 percent risk ofencountering poverty duringthe 1969-1989 timeperiod; thatrisk increased to 23 percentduring the 1989-2009 period.For those ages 45-55, the riskof poverty jumped from 11.8percent to 17.7 percent.

By race, nonwhites still havea higher risk of being econom-ically insecure, at 90 percent.But compared with the officialpoverty rate, some of the big-gest jumps under the newermeasure are among whites,with more than 76 percentenduring periods of jobless-ness, life on welfare or near-poverty.

By 2030, based on the cur-rent trend of widening incomeinequality, close to 85 percentof all working-age adults in theU.S. will experience bouts ofeconomic insecurity.

Poverty is no longer an

issue of them, its an issue ofus, says Mark Rank, a profes-sor at Washington Universityin St. Louis who calculated thenumbers. Only when povertyis thought of as a mainstreamevent, rather than a fringeexperience that just affects

blacks and Hispanics, can wereally begin to build broadersupport for programs that liftpeople in need.

Ranks analysis is supple-mented with figures providedby Tom Hirschl, a professorat Cornell University; JohnIceland, a sociology professorat Penn State University; theUniversityof New HampshiresCarsey Institute; the CensusBureau; and the PopulationReference Bureau.

Among the findings:For the first time since

1975, the number of whitesingle-mother households whowere living in poverty withchildren surpassed or equaled

black ones in the past decade,spurred by job losses andfaster rates of out-of-wedlockbirths among whites. Whitesingle-mother families in pov-erty stood at nearly 1.5 millionin 2011, comparable to the

number for blacks. Hispanicsingle-mother families in pov-erty trailed at 1.2 million.

The share of children liv-ing in high-poverty neighbor-hoods those with povertyrates of 30 percent or more has increased to 1 in 10,

putting them at higher risk ofteen pregnancy or droppingout of school. Non-Hispanicwhites accounted for 17 per-cent of the child populationin such neighborhoods, upfrom 13 percent in 2000, eventhough the overall proportionof white children in the U.S.has been declining.

The share of black childrenin high-poverty neighborhoodsdropped sharply, from 43 per-cent to 37 percent, while theshare of Latino children tickedhigher, from 38 to 39 percent.

Working class gloomyGoing back to the 1980s,

nev er h av e w hi tes beenso pessimistic about their

futures, according to theGeneral Social Survey, whichis conducted by NORC at theUniversity of Chicago. Just 45percent say their family willhave a good chance of improv-ing their economic position

based on the way things are inAmerica.

The divide is especi ally evi-dent among those whites whoself-identify as working class:49 percent say they thinktheir children will do betterthan them, compared with 67

percent of non-whites whoconsider themselves workingclass.

In November, Obama wonthe votes of just 36 percentof those noncollege whites,the worst performance of anyDemocratic nominee amongthat group since 1984.

Some Democratic analystshave urged renewed effortsto bring working-class whitesinto the political fold, callingthem a potential decisiveswing voter group if minorityand youth turnout level off infuture elections.

They dont trust big gov-ernment, but it doesnt meanthey want no government,

says Republican pollster EdGoeas, who agrees that work-ing-class whites will remainan important electoral group.They feel that politicians aregiving attention to other peo-ple and not them.

AP photo

Renee Adams, left, with her mother Irene Salyers and son Joseph, 4, at their produce stand in Council, Va.Four out of five U.S. adults struggle with joblessness,near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and a vanishing American Dream.

Differences small between D.C. student loan billsBoth chambers would link

the interest rate to the

10-year note plus an added

percentage.PHILIP ELLIOTT

AssociatedPress

WASHINGTON The House is set togo along with a bipartisan Senate compro-mise that would link collegestudents inter-est rates to the financial markets and offerborrowers lower rates this fall.

The Senate bill hews closely to one theHouse alreadyhas passed,and leadersfromboth parties and in both chambers expectthose differences wont stand in the wayof quick resolution, perhaps as early asWednesday.

House approval would send the measureto President Barack Obama, who has saidhe would sign it into law right away.

But critics note that if the economyimproves, as expected, rates could climbhigher.

If the Republican-led House consentsto the Senates tinkering with the Housesearlier proposal, and Obama signs the leg-islation before students start returning tocampus, families would see better deals onsome federal loans this year than they didin 2012. Undergraduates could borrow atrates as low as 3.4 percent for subsidizedStafford loans and 6.8 percent on unsubsi-dized Stafford loans last year, while gradu-ate students and parents borrowed at 7.9percent last year.

Those3.4 percentrates doubledon July1because Congress did not act. Lawmakersfrom both parties said the rate increasewas unacceptable and worked on variousproposals to extend rates, overhaul rates

and even remake the entire program beforeclasses start this fall.Both chambers would link the interest

rate to the 10-year Treasury note plus anadded percentage based on thetypeof loan

But under the Senate bill, once a studentor parent takes a loan for the school yearthe rate would not change. The Housebill would make the interest rate variable,meaning it could change every year until

the loan is repaid.A lookat whattheHouse andSenatebillswould mean for students and their parents:

UNDERGRADUATES:Senate: Undergraduates who take sub-

sidized and unsubsidized Stafford loanswould pay the 10-year Treasury note, plusan additional 2.05 percent. That would putthe interest rate at about 3.9 percent thisfall. Rates would be capped at 8.25 percent.

House: Under the House bill, undergrad-uates who take subsidized and unsubsi-dized Stafford loans would pay the 10-year

Treasury note, plus an additional 2.5 per-cent. That would translate to an interestrate of about 4.3 percent interest rates forloans taken this fall. Rates would be cappedat 8.5 percent.

GRADUATE STUDENTS:Senate: Graduate studentswould borrow

at the interest rate of the 10-year Treasurynotes plus an additional 3.6 percent. Thatwould bring 5.4 percent interest rates forborrowers this fall. Rates would be cappedat 9.5 percent.

House: Graduate students and parentswould borrow at the 10-year Treasurynote plus an additional 4.5 percent.Under this formula, graduate studentloans this fall would carry a 6.3 percentinterest rate. Rates would be capped at10.5 percent.

PARENTS AND SOME GRADUATESTUDENTS:

Senate: Parents and some graduate stu-dents would borrowat the10-year Treasurynote plus an additional 4.6 percent. Thatworks out to a 6.4 percent interest rate forfall term. Rates would be capped at 10.5percent.

House: Graduate students and parentswould borrow at the 10-year Treasurynote plus an additional 4.5 percent. Thatwould bring about 6.3 percent interestrates for borrowers this fall Rates would

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FuneralsInTelICaTO - Teresa, funeral9 a.m.Wednesdayat theNat& Gawlas FuneralHome,89ParkAve.,Wilkes-Barre. MassofChristianBurial9:30 a.m..in St.Andrews Parish,316 ParrishSt.,Wilkes-Barre.Friendsmay call6to 8 p.m.Tuesdayat thefuneralhome.

KnOrr - Honey, funeral 11 a.m.Tuesday at Harold C.SnowdonFuneralHome Inc.,140N. MainSt.,Shavertown. Friendsmay call4 to7 p.m.today and10 a.m.untiltime of serviceTuesdayatthefuneralhome.

KurIlla - Michael,memorialMass11 a.m.Tuesdayin St.ElizabethAnn Seton Parish,116Hughes St., Swoyersville.Thoseattendingthe funeral service areaskedto assembledirectly at

thechurchon Tuesday morning,astherewill beno procession tothechurch.Friendsmay call5 to7 p.m.todayat theWroblewskiFuneralHome,Inc.,1442

lasKOWsKI - Loretta, funeral9 a.m. todayat KiesingerFuneralServicesInc.,255 McAlpineSt.,Duryea.Mass of ChristianBurial9:30 a.m. atQueenof theApostles Church,HawthorneStreet,Avoca.

lenIVY - FrankJr.,funeral10 a.m.todayat theSheldon-KukuchkaFuneral HomeInc.73 W.Tioga St.,Tunkhannock.

MIall - Rita,funeral 11 a.m.Tuesday in theEpiscopalChurchof Ss.Clement& Peter,165HanoverSt.,Wilkes-Barre.Friendsmay callfrom10to 11 a.m.at thechurch.

sHOrTZ - Winifred,memorialservice noonSaturday at theHarold C.SnowdonHome forFuneralsInc., 420 WyomingAve.,

Kingston. Friendsare invitedtovisitwith thefamilyfrom10 a.m.until timeof service.Thefamilywelcomesformerstudentsof Mrs.Shortzto thememorialserviceand/orto

tosaya fewwordsaboutMrs.Shortzwill beinvitedto doso.Interment will bemadeinDenison Cemetery, Swoyersville,ina private ceremonyat a dateto be determinedby thefamily.Memorialcontributionsmay bemadeto theLuzerneCountyS.P.C.A.,524 E.Main St.,Wilkes-Barre,PA 18702,the LuzerneCounty Historical Society, 49S. Franklin St.,Wilkes-Barre, PA18702,or theWyoming SeminaryLower School,1560 WyomingAve.,Forty Fort,PA 18704.

suTTer - Mary, memorialservice10 a.m.Wednesdayat theGrontkowskiFuneralHomeP.C.,51-53 W.GreenSt.,Nanticoke.Friends maycall9 a.m.until timeof service.

YuHas - Lydia,funeral11 a.m.today at theBernardJ. PiontekFuneral HomeInc.,204 MainSt.,Duryea.

aQuIlIna - Rose, funeral today10 a.m.withMassin St.Maryofthe AssumptionChurch, WestGrace at Lawrencestreets,OldForge.Thoseplanningto attendshould proceed directlyto thechurch.

BurKe - Helen, funeral 9 a.m.Tuesday at theBernardJ. PiontekFuneralHome Inc.,204Main St.,Duryea.Mass of Christian Burial9:30 a.m. in HolyRosaryChurch,

Duryea.Friends maycall 5 to8 p.m.todayat thefuneralhome.

DaVIs - Thomas,funeral8:45 a.m.today at theCorcoranFuneralHome Inc., 20 S.Main St.,Plains.Mass of ChristianBurial9:30 a.m. in St.AloysiusChurch,Wilkes-Barre.

eVereTT - MaryGlenn,funeral11 a.m. todayat Davis-DinelliFuneralHome,170 E.Broad St.,Nanticoke.

alFIe J. angelIJuly 27, 2013

Alfie J. Angeli, 96, of PlainsTownship, entered into eternalrest on Saturday at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.

Born on April 27,1917, inSpringfield, Ill., he was one offive siblings to the late Josephand Elizabeth Borocci Angeli.When Alfie was an infant hisfamily returned to the Keystonesection of Plains. He attendedlocal school and was a graduateof Plains Memorial High School,

class of 1936. During his yearsat Plains, he was an outstandingwrestler and football athlete. Hewas known as Little Italy. In1993, Alfie was inducted into thePlains Athlete Hall of Fame forhis football skills.

He continued onto highereducation at Bloomsburg State

Teachers College. He choose toreturn home after a year, andworked for the PennsylvaniaDepartment of Highways as asupervisor untilthe UnitedStatesentered in the Second WorldWar.

Alfie joined the Army andquickly rose through the ranksfrom private to staff sergeant.He was platoon leader of 32 menof Company A 328th InfantryRegiment under the commandof General Patton. Alfie was in

charge of a light mortar squadthat saw combat in the Ardennes,Central Europe and theRhineland. Alfie received medalsfor his leadership and bravery butreceived a bronze star for savinga fellow wounded soldiers lifewhile under heavy fire.

At the end of the war, Alfiereturned home to the Plainsarea and become involved withlocal politics. He ran for com-missioner of Plains and won theelection. During this time he wasemployed as a meat cutter forseveral area supermarkets untilhe found his home at SunshineMarket. Alfie was employed bythe Sunshine for 15 years untilhis retirement at the age of 68.

Alfie was a loving husbandof 46 years to his late wife, the

former Emma Desimone, whopassed on July 30, 2001. He wasa caring father to his son, Robert,and daughter-in-law Joan; daugh-ter, Arlene, and a wonderfulgrandfather to Gerard and Joelle;a loving brother to his sister IdaRiccetti; and a thoughtful uncleto his nieces and nephews.

Alfie was preceded in death byhis parents, wife and his brothersArmond, Cleo, Joseph, and sisterHilda Poli.

Alfieenjoyedlivinglife. Hewas

a lifelong bowler. He received aring for bowling a 299, an almostperfect game.He continued bowl-ing up to the age of 92.

Throughout his life, Alfieappreciated going hunting withhis son and nephews, and golfingon the local courses. He achieveda hole in one at the Hollenbackcourse in his retirement years.

He was the oldest member ofthe Italian Club, Hudson, andwas a current member of thePerugia Club, Keystone. Alfieenjoyed his time playing cardsand socializing with his friends.He was also a past member ofSacred Heart Church, Plains,until the churchs closure, and acurrent member of Ss. Peter &

Paul Church, Plains.The family would like to thank

the members of the Perugia Clubfor all the care and concern thatthey extended to Alfie in his lateryears to ensure he was still ableto enjoy their camaraderie atthe club. Also a thank you to Dr.Glasso,Dr.Menio, Dr.Ridillaandthe staffon theeighth floorof theWilkes-Barre General Hospital,for their kindness and empathythat they have shown recentlyand over the years for his care.

Mr. Angelis viewingwill be held 5 to 8 p.m.today from the YanaitisFuneral Home Inc., 55

Stark St., Plains. Family andfriendsare askedto gather at9:30a.m. Tuesday in Ss. Peter & PaulChurch, 13 Hudson Road, Plains.

The Mass of Christian Burial willbe celebrated by the Rev. JosephGreskiewicz. Interment will fol-low at Sacred Heart Cemetery,Plains, with military honors pro-vided by the U.S. Army.

In lieu of flowers, the familyasks that donations be made toa charity of their choice in lovingmemory of Alfie.

Words of condolence anddirections to the funeral home,and church can be accessed atwww.yanaitisfuneralhome.com.

lOuIs WeleBOB, sr.July 27, 2013

Louis Welebob Sr., 99, ofMountain Top, entered intoeternal rest on Saturday eveningat Smith Healthcare, Mountain

Top, following a brief illness, sur-rounded by his loving family.

Born Feb. 14, 1914, in Wilkes-Barre Township, he was a son ofthe late Paul and Mary Welebob.

Louis attended Wilkes-BarreTownship schools. He and hislate wife, Elizabeth, ownedand operated Louies Market in

Laurel Run Borough for 25 years.Due to the Laurel Run Minefire, he and his family relocatedto Mountain Top. Louis workedfor WW Davis as a painter.Upon retiring, he worked part-time at Friedman Express andMcDonalds in Mountain Top.He retired again at age 86 to carefor his late wife.

Louis was the oldest liv-ing member of the Laurel RunPrimitive Methodist Church,where he served on the TrusteeBoard and was head offertorysteward for many years. He wasalso a member of the PaintersUnion.

Louis will be best remem-bered for his love of people,especially when he was able togreet them at his market and at

McDonalds. Louis loved doingodd jobs around his house andhe loved gardening. He was anespecially proud grandfather andgreat-grandfather to his threegrandchildren and seven great-grandchildren that he cherishedthe most.

He was preceded in death,in addition to his parents, byhis wife of 64 years, Elizabeth;brothers Walter, Joseph, Chester,Stanley and Matthew, and hissisters Marion, Helen, Sally,Frances, Sophie and Jean.

Surviving are his son, LouisWelebob Jr., and his wife,Jeannine; and his daughter,MarionJean,all of MountainTop;grandchildren, Louis Welebob IIIand his wife, Maggie, Middleton,Wis.; Carolee Welebob, Hatfield,Pa., and Lorilee Rozitski andher husband, Scott, Mountain

Top; great-grandchildren, LouisJoseph, Emily and TheresaWelebob; Joshua and CarlyLowe; Kyle and Caden Rozitski;brothers Leo, Maryland, andPaul, California; several niecesand nephews.

The funeral service will beheld at 11 a.m. Wednesdayfrom McCune Funeral Home,Mountain Top, with the Rev

DavidElick officiating.Intermentwill follow in Albert Cemetery,Mountain Top. Relatives andfriends are invited to call from 3to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeralhome.

In lieu of flowers, the fam-ily asks that memorial donationsbe made to the Laurel Run PMChurch, 3835 Laurel Run Road,Laurel Run, PA 18706. The fam-ily would also like to thank theentire staff at Smith Health Carefor the terrific care of and com-passion for Louis and his family.

WIllarD DYsOnJuly 27, 2013

Willard Dyson, of SpringvilleTownship, died Saturday eve-

ning at his home.He was born in the old farm

house at Shadowbrook Farm onMay 23, 1931, the son of the late

Thomas M. and Altha HowellDyson Fleeger. When he was 10,he went to live with his grand-parents Arthur and Cora Howell,who were operating a farm northof Springville. Willard graduatedfrom Dimock-Springville JointHigh School in 1949. He mar-ried Phyllis Button, May 2, 1952,the first couple to be married atthe Osterhout Bible Church inOsterhout, Wyoming County.

They had five children, Larinda,Melia, Kevin, Trina and Lowell.

Over the years, Willardworked at several jobs, includingdelivering milk for Louden HillFarms, delivered feed for GLF

(Agway), foreman at AldovenDairy, Nationwide Insuranceagent, car salesman, school busdriver trainer and CDL exam-iner, and his favorite, schoolbus driver. He started drivingschool bus in January 1956 tothe Springville School for oneyear before they moved to theElk Lake School District, wherehe drove until 2005.

Willard and Phyllis divorcedand he married Susan StevensBennett in 1990.

Surviving are his wife, Susan;children, Larinda Kaufer, MeliaDavis, Kevin Dyson, TrinaStrickland and Lowell Dyson;stepdaughter, Vicky Bennett;grandchildren, Dr. Seth, Adamand Aaron Kaufer; Jarad Dyson;Michael Teachout; Justin and

Jason Davis; Scott and BradStrickland; Whitney Searchand Brent Dyson; seven great-

grandchildren; son-in law, JohnDavis; daughters-in law, Lyndaand Gloria Dyson; a brother andsister-in-law, Robert and JanetFleeger, S cranton; special auntand uncle, Alice and GilbertBishop of Springville; nieces,nephews and cousins.

Willard was precededin death

by his parents, Thomas DysonSr. and Alfred and Altha Fleeger,and grandparents, Arthur andCora Howell; a brother, ThomasDyson Jr., and several aunts anduncles.

Funeral service will be at3 p.m. Thursday from theHarding-Litwin Funeral Home,123 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock,with the Rev. Rick Rosenkransof the Silver Lake PresbyterianChurch officiating. Intermentwill be private and at the conve-nience of the family at SunnysideCemetery. Friends may callfrom 1 p.m. until service timeat the funeral home. Donationscan be made to the SpringvilleVolunteer Fire Co., 3866 SR 29,Springville, PA 18844 or a char-ity of the donors choice. For

directions or to send an onlinecondolence, please visit www.aplitwinfuneralhomes.com.

VIrgInIa DOlManJuly 26, 2013

Virginia Dolman, 83, ofDupont, passed away peacefully

at home on Friday after a lengthyillness.

She was born in Scranton,Dec. 6, 1929, and was the daugh-ter of the late Anthony and Rose(Bambico)Feanoof Italy. Virginia,who worked in the local garmentindustry, wasa member of theFullGospel Chapel in Avoca and wasactive in the church, devoted toher family and beloved by all whoknew her.

In addition to her parents,she was preceded in death by 10brother and sisters.

Virginia is survived by her lov-ing husband, John Dolman, withwhom she recently celebrated a65th wedding anniversary on July10.Sheis alsosurvivedby herchil-dren, Barbara Dolman,of Dupont;Patricia Belles and her husband,

Kevin, of Shickshinny, and GaleTetlak and her husband, Stephen,of Bradenton Fla.; grandchildren,Joseph Angrisano and his wife,Billie; Sarah Tompkins and herhusband, Duane, and AmandaTetlak and her fianc, Michael

Fay; great-grandchildren, AedenTompkins and Julia Angrisano; asister, Margaret Collins; and sev-eral nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be heldat 10:30 a.m. Wednesday fromKiesinger Funeral Services Inc,.255 McAlpine St., Duryea, withservices at 11 a.m. in the MoosicAssembly Of God Church, 3rd

St., Moosic, with the Rev. DavidOBrien officiating. Friends maycall5 to 8 p.m.Tuesday. Intermentwill be in the Marcy Cemetery,Duryea. Online condolences maybe made to www.kiesingerfuner-alservices.com.

BernaDIne M.sTaCK

July 27, 2013

Bernadine M. Stack, 87,formerly of Lee Park Towers,Hanover Township, died peace-fully Saturday evening at LittleFlower Manor with her lovingfamily at her bedside.

B ernadine was born inHobbie, a daughter of the lateJohn and Mary Clair ZipayWayda on Aug. 26, 1925. Sheattended the Swoyersville HighSchool and had been employedbyLeslie FayManufacturers andthe John Heinz RehabilitationHospital. She was a longtimemember of St. Francis Church,Miners Mills.

She was a devoted wife,mother and grandmother andgreat-grandmother who carednot o