BRIEFS 
YMCA hoop results YMCA basketball results from Saturday, Jan. 13 Biddyball Division The Timken Tarheels (MVP A.J. Blanton) played the Blakely Funeral Home Blue Devils (MVP Alyssa Flynn) The Ace Hardware Yellow Jackets (MVP Mark Lyons) played the Elks Club Gamecocks (MVP Torien Olgesby)
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Eli Lilly’s 4Q profit drops 
For the three months ended Dec. 31, net income plunged to $132.3 million, or 12 cents per share, from $700.6 million, or 64 cents per share, a year ago.
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Former NASCAR champ Parsons dies 
He is remembered for his warm nature.
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Benny Parsons, NASCAR champion in 1973, dies at 65 
UNDATED Vancouver’s Greg Biffle believes that without help from Benny Parsons, he never would have reached NASCAR’s highest level. Parsons was remembered yesterday in every corner of the NASCAR garage for his generous nature, lovable personality and overwhelming popularity.
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Genentech shares jump on 4Q results 
The stock gained $3.31, or 4 percent, to reach $87.12 on the New York Stock Exchange in midday trading. Shares have traded between $75.58 and $90.75 over the last 52 weeks.
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Genentech’s 4th-Qtr Net Gains on Eye, Cancer Drugs (Update3) 
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) — Genentech Inc., the world’s second- biggest biotechnology company, said fourth-quarter profit climbed 75 percent, helped by surging sales of a new medicine for vision loss and expanded use of the Avastin cancer drug.
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