Liberty gets complete effort in coming from behind to beat Emmaus, 42-33

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When a team scores six touchdowns and racks up 417 yards of offense the way Liberty did on Friday night, it can be easy to forget about the defense and special teams.

But make no mistake, the Hurricanes wouldn't have posted a 42-33 Eastern Pennsylvania Conference win over Emmaus without those units delivering.

While the offense certainly had enough big moments to delight a sizable Homecoming crowd at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium, the defense shut out the Green Hornets in the fourth quarter.

And a punt that rolled to a stop on the Emmaus 3 led to the pivotal turnover and subsequent clinching score as Liberty reached the halfway mark of the regular season at 3-2 and in the hunt for a postseason berth.

"We've got to give effort all the time and if we do, we can play pretty good football," Hurricanes coach John Truby said. "We got down tonight, but we kept playing."

Emmaus, which had two guys rush for more than 100 yards in Wyl Miller and Andy Davidson, seemed unstoppable at times.

And when Miller got loose for a 66-yard TD run on the Green Hornets' first play from scrimmage in the second half, it created a 27-14 deficit for Liberty.

However, Liberty gamely fought back and gained the upper hand in the back-and-forth battle thanks in large part to its defense, which got stops on four of Emmaus's final five possessions.

The key stop came after Michael Lehman's punt rolled dead on the Emmaus 3 with 4:25 left and the Hurricanes protecting a 35-33 lead.

The Liberty defense swarmed on Davidson, popped the ball loose and Justin Soimes recovered. Two plays later, senior Ryan Lawrence had his third rushing TD of the night and the Hurricanes were on their way to a bounce back win after a disappointing 56-20 loss to Whitehall last week.

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Libertarian pizza delivery driver Sean Haugh could decide U.S. Senate election

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RALEIGH - The man who might determine the outcome of North Carolina's U.S. Senate race this year makes his living delivering pizza, conducts most of his campaigning via YouTube videos and is considering whether to become a driver for Uber, the taxi-like car service.

Political experts and polls say Libertarian Sean Haugh of Durham isn't likely to win, although he says he can.

But the polls say Haugh appears to be pulling some voters who otherwise would pick lawyer and former bank executive Kay Hagan, the incumbent Democrat, and many more voters from the Republican candidate, state House speaker and former business executive Thom Tillis.

In the face of the tens of millions of dollars being spent by the mainline campaigns and their outside supporters and detractors to flood North Carolina's airwaves, computer screens and mailboxes, low budget may be a generous term to describe the Haugh campaign.

Haugh, whose name rhymes with "saw," estimates he has spent $7,000. "I'll be surprised if I get over ($10,000)," he said.

Social media outlets - Facebook, Twitter and, especially, YouTube - have been Haugh's primary tools to reach out to the voters.

He has made 30 videos since March in the basement rec room of campaign manager Rachel Mills' home. Next to a poker table covered with Hot Wheels tracks, and a few feet from an overflowing toy box (Mills has two young children whose nap times affect the shooting schedule), Haugh sits at a bar and talks to the camera. He has a craft beer close at hand, opens with a friendly "howdy" and quickly outlines his positions.

The video titles include "Stop the War on Drugs," "Delete the NSA," "Term Limits for Reporters" and "Pollution is a Crime."

The channel has about 235 subscribers. The viewership runs from 125 on the most recent missive, posted Monday, to 13,850 for his opening statement, issued six months ago.

Haugh's campaign page on Facebook has about 1,125 likes. On Twitter, he has about 400 followers.

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Cliff Jumping at Las Grietas, Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands – Video

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Advancing Solutions in Medicare and Medicaid to Create Greater Value – Video

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India: Graft in health care impoverishes millions

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NEW DELHI (AP) Digamber Rawat rarely emerges from the tiny windowless room he shares with his parents because a mysterious illness has wasted away the strength in his legs. His family can't afford private health care, but they must pay for it anyway, even when they go to free government hospitals for help.

Rawat said that at a government hospital in central Delhi, a doctor ordered X-rays and scans that could have been performed in-house. "But when we would go to the hospital lab for the tests, they would give us the name of a private clinic and say, 'Go get it done there and then we will look at it,'" he said.

In this Sept. 23, 2014 photo, Indians stand in a queue to get themselves registered to be examined by a doctor at a government hospital in Allahabad, India. India has a network of free government hospitals and around 37,000 primary health care centers across the country, but they are crowded, badly equipped and inadequately staffed. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh) (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)

Tests at the hospital lab would have been 1,500 rupees ($25). At a private clinic, they cost more than $130. Rawat's parents make a combined 15,000 rupees ($245) per month, barely enough to feed the family and buy medicine for their 21-year-old son.

"They knew we were poor, but they just didn't care," said Rawat's mother, Bhavna Devi, wiping tears with her threadbare sari.

Rawat's story is played out across India, where hundreds of millions of poor people without any kind of health insurance are forced to seek medical treatment at private clinics because of poor services and corruption at government hospitals. Those clinics are widely accused of ordering unnecessary tests to run up costs.

Government officials, health experts and many physicians agree that India's $74 billion health care industry is preying on poor people, thanks to a cozy nexus among unethical doctors, hospitals and diagnostic laboratories.

Health care costs push some 39 million people into poverty every year in India, according to a 2011 study in the Lancet medical journal.

India has a network of free government hospitals and around 37,000 primary health care centers across the country, but they are crowded, badly equipped and inadequately staffed. Yet patients who turn to expensive private clinics may be subjected to unnecessary medical tests, scans or even surgery, with the referring doctor getting a commission for the work.

Dr. David Berger, an Australian who worked as a volunteer physician in a small hospital in India, created an uproar when he described the practice of referrals and kickbacks in an article published in the British Medical Journal in May. He wrote that when doctors accept kickbacks, it "poisons their integrity and destroys any chance of a trusting relationship with their patients."

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