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Twin Falls schools budget sees boost

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TWIN FALLS — It’s one of the biggest decisions a school board makes all year: setting a budget. Twin Falls school trustees voted 4-0 Monday night to approve a $59.6 million general fund budget for 2017-18. Trustee Liyah Babayan was absent for the agenda item. The budget for the Twin Falls School District, which has hundreds of employees and about 9,300 students, outlines likely revenue, as well as expenses in key areas such as teacher salaries and benefits, supplies and materials, and purchased services. “Significant events” impacting the budget include “probable reductions in all federal programs and completion of the major construction phase for the district,” according to a letter from fiscal affairs director Bob Seaman to school trustees. “We’re tight in the general fund,” Seaman said Monday night. Board chairman Bernie Jansen said the Twin Falls School District isn’t alone in talking about funding for federal programs. “A lot of people are going to be talking about budget cuts in the next several months,” he said. There weren’t any public comments during Monday night’s two budget hearings, one about the current year’s amended budget and one about next fiscal year’s budget. Please see SCHOOLS, Page A3

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DECLO — A series of night closures will detour traffic on I-84 near the Declo interchange. Detours of I-84 will begin at about 10 p.m. Thursday and last about six hours. Two additional nighttime detours are tentatively scheduled for June 22 and 29. Drivers should check 511.idaho. gov for updated dates and times of subsequent closures and detour information. The detours are because of a series of concrete pours on the eastbound Snake River bridge at milepost 216. During nighttime closures, traffic will be detoured between the Heyburn Interchange, exit 211, and the Declo Interchange, exit 216. Westbound traffic will be detoured off I-84 at exit 216, south to Declo on Idaho 77, west to Burley on Idaho 81, and return to I-84 through Heyburn. Eastbound traffic will leave I-84 at exit 211, detour north on Idaho 24 to Rupert, then go east and south on Idaho 25 to I-84. The $17.88-million project replaces the two I-84 bridges crossing the Snake River. Bridge construction started in 2015. The westbound bridge completed and opened to traffic in 2016. All work is expected to be complete by the end of August.

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Records keeper Paula Stewart works within her tight office space May 19 at the Twin Falls County Criminal Justice Facility in Twin Falls. Stewart works in a mobile unit that was installed as a ‘temporary solution’ more than a decade ago.

Budget time County officials work on tougher DUI program NATHAN BROWN

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TWIN FALLS — The new fiscal years starts Oct. 1, and city and county officials in Twin Falls and throughout the state are busy planning budgets. On Monday Twin Falls County commissioners began meeting with the county’s department heads to discuss 2018 budget requests, and will continue to hold such meetings for the rest of the week. That evening, the City Council discussed its budget, about a month ahead of when City Manager Travis Rothweiler plans to present then with his draft proposal. Much of

that discussion was focused on employee hiring and pay and whether to use any of the city’s “foregone balance,” or money that the city was legally allowed to collect in property taxes in previous years but didn’t. Monday morning, county commissioners met with representatives of the sheriff’s department and the county’s Treatment and Recovery Clinic. One new program that came up is a proposed “24/7 Sobriety Program.” This was first tried in South Dakota in 2005 and has been implemented in a few other states since then. Idaho’s Legislature authorized it here in 2014. It allows a judge to order a person who is charged with or has been convicted of a drug or alcohol-related crime to submit either to a breathalyzer test twice a day or drug tests multi-

Golf course, winery collaborate in new Filer restaurant HEATHER KENNISON

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FILER — The owner of Pebble Ponds Golf Course has opened a venue for drinking locally made wines. After Blu left in December to move to Twin Falls, Chad Brown searched for another restaurant to take its place. “We didn’t really find anybody that was the right fit,” he said. So he approached Holesinsky Winery to discuss the possibility of a collaboration between the

Rail Nine will host a grand opening and wine release party 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at Pebble Ponds Golf Course, 4035 N. 2300 E. businesses. As a result, the Rail Nine restaurant opened about two months ago — with a grand opening planned for Saturday.

If you do one thing: Snake River Canyon Kennel Club of Idaho will hold its annual All Breed Dog Show and Obedience Trials from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer. Free for spectators. M 1

ple times a week, and it can be required as part of a sentence or used as an alternative to other drunken driving penalties such as license suspension or an ignition interlock. People who fail the breathalyzer would be thrown into jail for a short period, and authorities could issue a warrant for someone who doesn’t show up for their test. The state Attorney General’s office, which runs the program, wants to launch it in Twin Falls County likely later this year, Commissioner Terry Kramer said. “If it’s run to fruition, I think it would be very, very useful,” Commissioner Don Hall said, adding that the frequent testing and immediate consequences for a violation would help people to stay sober.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions, facing fresh questions about his Russian contacts during the election campaign and his role in the firing of James Comey, will be interrogated in a public hearing by former Senate colleagues on Tuesday. The appearance before the Senate intelligence committee comes one week after former FBI Director Comey cryptically told lawmakers the bureau had expected Sessions to recuse himself weeks before he did from an investigation into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russia during the 2016 election. Sessions, a close campaign adviser to Donald Trump and the first senator to endorse him, stepped aside from the investigation in early March after acknowledging he had spoken twice in the months before the election with the Russian ambassador to the United States. He said under oath at his January confirmation hearing that he had not met with Russians during the campaign. Since then, lawmakers have raised questions about a possible third meeting at a Washington hotel, though the Justice Department has said that did not happen. Sessions on Saturday said he would appear before the intelligence committee, which has been doing its own investigation into Russian contacts with the Trump campaign. There had been some question as to whether the hearing would be open to the public, but the Justice Department said Monday he requested it be so because he “believes it is important for the American people to hear the truth directly from him.” The committee shortly after said the hearing would be open. The hearing will bring sharp questioning for Sessions and likely some uncomfortable moments from the Trump administration. Sessions is likely to be asked about his conversations with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and whether there were more encounters that should have been made public. And he can expect questions about his involvement in Comey’s May 9 firing, the circumstances surrounding his decision to recuse himself from the FBI’s investigation, and whether any of his actions — such as interviewing candidates for the FBI director position or meeting with Trump about Comey — violated his recusal pledge.

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes slipped again Monday as technology companies, which were near record highs last week, suffered a second day of sharp losses. Investors are changing course and selling some of the best-performing stocks of the year while buying companies that have struggled. Technology companies have surged in recent months, and on Monday almost all of the losses came from the big companies that have led the way recently: Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Stocks fell hard in early trading, but gradually recovered part of their losses as the day went on. Julian Emanuel, an equity strategist for UBS, thinks technology stocks may fall a lot further and wind up 10 percent lower than they were last week. He said the technology companies should continue to do well, but the stocks have done so much better than the rest of the market in recent months that they are due for a downturn. “Any time that you have that degree of extreme sector outperformance, two things happen: the overall market tends to get a bit more volatile, and the leading group tends to underperform the laggards,” he said. Investors took a new look at some groups of companies that haven’t done that well in 2017, including energy, telecommunications and real estate companies. Some of the best-performing stocks fell, including consumer-focused companies, health care companies, utilities and basic materials makers. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index dipped 2.38 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,429.39. The Dow Jones industrial average, which closed at a record high Friday, lost 36.30 points, or 0.2 percent, to 21,235.67. The Nasdaq composite dropped 32.45 points, or 0.5 percent, to 6,175.46. The Russell 2000 index of small-company stocks slid 2.50 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,419.21. Apple shed $3.66, or 2.5 percent, to $145.32 while Alphabet lost $8.31 to $961.81. Facebook fell $1.16 to $148.44 while Microsoft sank 54 cents to $69.78. Other 2017 top performers like Activision Blizzard, Netflix and Skyworks Solutions also tumbled.

A DAY ON WALL STREET June 12, 2017

Dow Jones industrials

21,000

-36.30

20,000

20,500

21,235.67

Pct. change from previous: -0.17%

High 21,277.08

19,500

Low 21,186.15

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6,400 6,200 6,000 5,800 5,600 5,400 5,200

Nasdaq composite -32.46 6,175.46

Pct. change from previous: -0.52%

High 6,183.81 Low 6,110.67

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OF LOCAL INTEREST StandardSTOCKS & AlliantEg s 1.22500 22 41.17 -.09 +8.7 Lee Ent ... 4 1.75 Poor’s

2,400 2,350-39.7 -.05 +.60 2,300+42.3 -.97 +10.7 2,250+3.7 -1.07 +.45 2,200+2.9

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GRAINS REPORT Valley Beans

Prices are net to growers, 100 pounds, U.S. No. 1 beans, less Idaho bean tax and storage charges. Prices subject to change without notice. Producers desiring more recent price information should contact dealers. Other Idaho bean prices are collected by Bean Market News, U.S. Department of Agriculture pintos, not established pinks, not established small reds, not established garbanzos, $36.50 Quotes current May 31.

Valley Grains

Prices for wheat per bushel mixed grain, oats, corn and beans per hundredweight. Prices subject to change without notice. Wheat, ask (bushel) New barley, $5.00 (cwt) corn, $7.20 (cwt) oats, $5.35 (cwt). Prices are given by Rangen’s in Buhl. Prices current May 24. Corn, $7.85 (cwt) barley, $5.90 (cwt) wheat, $3.45 (bushel). Prices quoted by JD Heiskell. Prices current May 24.

Cheese

Barrels $1.4150 NC Blocks $1.63 NC Prices current June 12.

STREAMFLOWS Average daily flows Snake River at Heise 21,893 cfs Snake River at Blackfoot 17,795 cfs Snake River at American Falls 18,734 cfs Snake River at Minidoka 14,671 cfs Snake River at Milner 5,927 cfs Little Wood River near Carey 786 cfs  Jackson Lake is 92 percent full.  Palisades Reservoir is 81 percent full.  American Falls Reservoir is 99 percent full.  Upper Snake River system is at 92 percent capacity. As of June 11.

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: Where are some of the oldest restaurants in the area? A: “The Depot Grill will be celebrating 100 years as a restaurant this year,” said Don Olson of Soran Restaurants. “I would have to believe it’s the oldest still operating restaurant in this area.” The Depot KIMBERLY Grill has WILLIAMS- been a famBRACKETT ily owned and operated restaurant in Twin Falls since 1917, and the Soran family has owned the restaurant since 1957. “We are probably going to start sometime around the end of July and we will run specials for 100 days for 100 years,” Steve Soran said. “The building was actually built in 1910 and it was the Blue Lake Spring Water Mineral Bottling Company

and then it became a gas station,” he said. “The gas station operator started selling sandwiches around 1917. But it evolved from the bottling company. From the bottling company that was a place called Depot Service. And I’m not really sure what year the Depot Service name changes to the Depot Grill. I think it was sometime in the early 40s. It was the Depot Service for years and years. My family purchased in 1957. And we have been here ever since. It’s an old building, and it’s been remodeled at least 15 times. So it doesn’t look like it used to. We’ve been serving food at the same location.” The celebration will run through mid-November. “We picked the November anniversary date because that was the date that my father and his brother purchased it,” Soran said. “So that seems like as good a day as any to call it our birthday.”

The family restaurant, 545 Shoshone St. S., is open 24 hours a day Monday through Saturday, and until 9 p.m. on Sundays. The Depot Grill also offers catering for weddings and other events, picnic service, and carry out. Soran’s Turf Club, a banquet facility has operated since 1962. Gloria Rasmussen, a waitress at the Manhattan Café in Shoshone said “it has been open since about 1890.” Shoshone was founded in 1882 during the construction of the Oregon Short Line. The Rancher’s Café at the Twin Falls Livestock Commission Company was opened in 1936. The Oxbow Café in Bliss originally opened around 1951 and has been opened and closed off and on. Maxie’s Pizza and Pasta has been making homemade fire stone pizza and traditional pasta since 1956. Norm’s has been family owned and oper-

ated by Tom and Vicki Collins for 42 years, serving breakfast and brunch. The Collins bought Norm’s in 1975. Norm’s Café was listed in the 1968 Twin Falls telephone directory. The Mint Bar and Café in Hailey and the Pioneer Saloon in Ketchum have operated at least since 1968 according to a Twin Falls telephone directory. Franchises such as Arctic Circle, A&W, and Dairy Queen have been operating since 1968 according to a Twin Falls telephone directory, the earliest directory found at the Idaho State Archives in Boise. The earliest Twin Falls telephone directory at the Twin Falls Public Library is 1936. Have a question? Just ask and we’ll find an answer for you. Email your question to Kimberly Williams Brackett at timesnewscuriousmind@ gmail.com with “Curious Mind” in the subject line.

Otter appoints information security director BOISE (AP) — Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has appointed the state’s first information security director to enforce statewide cybersecurity policies. Otter announced Monday that he had appointed

44-year-old Jeffrey Weak, a veteran U.S. Air Force information technology and cybersecurity office, to the position. The appointment follows an executive order Otter signed in January imple-

menting recommendations from a Cybersecurity Task Force the Republican governor created in 2015. The task force, led by Lt. Gov. Brad Little, recommended appointing a director of information security to lead

efforts to detect, identify and thwart cyberattacks against the state The Idaho Legislature has already allocated $180,000 to the position. Weak will take over his new role Aug. 1.

Casino industry aims to repeal sports betting ban REGINA GARCIA CANO

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LAS VEGAS — The casino industry’s largest lobbying group in the U.S. is ramping up its efforts to repeal a 25-year-old federal law that bans sports betting in most states. The American Gaming Association on Monday announced the creation of a coalition involving organizations of attorneys general and police, policymakers and others to advocate for the repeal of the ban that the industry says has fueled the $150 billion illegal sports betting market. “The American Gaming Association believes a perfect storm is aligning and now is the time to repeal a failing law,” Geoff Freeman, the association’s president and CEO, said during the announcement. He cited a recent survey commis-

sioned by the organization that found there is strong bipartisan support nationwide for legal sports betting, as well as Oxford Economics research showing that legalizing sports betting in the U.S. could support more than 150,000 jobs. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 bans sports betting in every state except Delaware, Montana, Nevada and Oregon. Legal sports gambling is allowed in those states because they had approved some form of wagering before the federal law went into effect. Congress gave New Jersey a one-time opportunity to become the fifth state before the ban was enacted, but the state failed to pass a sports betting law in the required time window. The state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear argu-

ments in favor of legalizing sports betting and expects a decision by the end of the month. The survey commissioned by the association found that 57 percent of independents, 58 of Republicans and 52 of Democrats support ending the ban. Freeman said the group has hosted sessions with members of Congress to show the technology from European companies specialized in data integrity that that wasn’t available when the ban was enacted. “They are tracking ... how much is being bet, who is betting it, where the bet is taking place, what is the betting history of these individuals, what games are they betting on, who’s playing in those games, who’s coaching those games, who are the trainers in those games, who are the

officials in those games,” Freeman said. “All of that input goes into these algorithms that they built so that it is very easy for them to identify when there is an anomaly.” The association has also met with the players unions of the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB. The executive directors of those unions have met multiple times over the past several months to discuss the challenges that legalized sports betting could create for players, including potentially being put under pressure for any fixing of matches. NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah said the executive directors have discussed the issue of legalized sports betting multiple times, with the conversations centering on “protecting the integrity of our respective sports.”

Anger management but no jail in body-slam saga BOBBY CAINA CALVAN AND AMY BETH HANSON

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HELENA, Mont. — Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte avoided jail time after pleading guilty Monday to an election-eve assault on a reporter that turned the race for Montana’s lone U.S. House seat into a fullfledged political spectacle. The Republican tech entrepreneur instead will serve 40 hours of community service and attend 20 hours of anger management classes for throwing Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs to the ground at Gianforte’s campaign headquarters in Bozeman on May 24. For all the national attention the audiotaped assault brought to the race in its waning hours, the judge, prosecutors and the new congressman’s attorneys maintained Monday he was treated like any other firsttime misdemeanor offender. There was one notable exception, however: Gallatin County Justice of the Peace Rick West said he would al-

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Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte, center, sits alongside William Mercer, left, and Todd Whipple Monday during his court hearing in Bozeman, Mont. low prosecutors and the defense several weeks to argue over his order that the rookie politician be fingerprinted, photographed and booked like other defendants. West ordered Gianforte to pay $385 in fines and court costs in addition to his 180day suspended jail sentence, meaning he will be under court supervision until late November and will be able to petition to have the conviction removed from his record.

Gianforte is expected to travel to Washington within the next few weeks to be sworn in by House Speaker Paul Ryan. Audio posted by Jacobs shortly after the attack recorded sounds of a scuffle, followed by Gianforte yelling for the reporter to “get the hell out of here.” Jacobs tweeted that Gianforte had “body slammed” him and broke his glasses while he tried to question him. During Monday’s hearing,

the judge tried to extract details of the confrontation from Gianforte. “I knowingly made physical contact with Mr. Ben Jacobs that was insulting or provoking in nature and although it was not my intent to hurt him, I understand Ben was injured in this contact,” Gianforte said. “I grabbed for his wrist. A scuffle ensued, and he was injured,” he said. “In the scuffle we fell on the floor, and I understand his elbow was injured.” A Fox News reporter who witnessed the attack said Gianforte, completely unprovoked, pushed Jacobs to the ground and punched him. Despite the confrontation, Gianforte was elected by 6 percentage points over Democrat Rob Quist to serve the remainder of the term vacated by Ryan Zinke, who resigned to become Interior Department secretary. The vast majority of ballots were cast by mail well beforehand.

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Doctors reprogram patients’ own cells into cancer assassins Hutch’s medical director for cellular immunotherapy who treated Shefveland with a type called CAR-T cells. “We’re talking, really, patients who have no other options, and we’re seeing tumors and leukemias disappear over weeks,” added immunotherapy scientific director Dr. Stanley Riddell. But, “there’s still lots to learn.” T cells are key immune system soldiers. But cancer can be hard for them to spot, and can put the brakes on an immune attack. Today’s popular immunotherapy drugs called “checkpoint inhibitors” release one brake so nearby T cells can strike. The new cellular immunotherapy approach aims to be more potent: Give patients stronger T cells to begin with. Currently available only in studies at major cancer centers, the first CAR-T cell therapies for a few blood cancers could hit the market later this year. The Food and Drug Administration is evaluating one version developed by the University of Pennsylvania and licensed to Novartis, and another created by the National Cancer Institute and licensed to Kite Pharma. CAR-T therapy “feels very much like it’s ready for prime time” for advanced blood cancers, said Dr. Nick Haining of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who isn’t involved in the development.

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Ron Lenfield watches the fast-flowing Weber River along his property, May 31 in Oakley, Utah.

Rivers turn dangerous

Western US sees days warm and snows thaw SCOTT SMITH AND HALLIE GOLDEN

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‌YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Massive waterfalls in Yosemite National Park and rivers raging in mountains throughout the western United States are thundering with greater force than they have for years — and proving deadly as warm weather melts the deepest mountain snowpack in recent memory. Record snowfall on towering Western peaks this winter virtually eliminated California’s fiveyear drought and it is now melting rapidly. But it has contributed to at least 14 river deaths and prompted officials to close sections of rivers popular with swimmers, rafters and fishing enthusiasts. In Utah and Wyoming, some rivers gorged by heavy winter snowfall have overflown their banks, and rivers in Utah are ex-

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Jail Administrator Capt. Doug Hughes said he can run the program without any extra personnel for now, and fees paid by participants have funded it in other jurisdictions that have tried it. Commissioners are also considering replacing the “temporary” work-release annex at the jail that was put in 20 years ago with a new temporary one that would do the job until the expected construction of a new jail and court facility in the near future. The county is in the early stages of a space-needs study on the jail and courts. There are also a few other old meant-to-be-temporary annexes at the jail, for inmate housing and staff work spaces. However, the work-release annex can’t wait to be replaced during any larger reconstruction, Kramer said. “That old annex is really in bad shape,” Kramer said. “And this time, truly temporary,” Hall added. Kramer said the county could possibly picking up a surplus modular unit that is at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina now, and would also do some pricing locally to see if a basic structure can be built cheaply.

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School trustees heard a presentation in May about the preliminary budget for next year and no major changes were made since then. The new fiscal year starts July 1. The board also approved an amended budget Monday night for the current fiscal year. Director of operations Brady Dickinson, who will take over July 1 as the new superintendent, thanked Seaman for his work. “I know it’s a tremendous amount of work putting both of these budgets together,” he said. During their Monday night meeting, trustees also: Recognized Babayan for her service on the school board. She lost the May election as a write-in candidate and will be replaced by

pected to remain dangerously swollen with icy mountain runoff for several more weeks. The sheer beauty of the rivers is their draw — and represents a big danger to people who decide to beat the heat by swimming or rafting with little awareness of the risks posed by the raging water. This year’s velocity and force of the Merced River that runs through Yosemite Valley is similar to a runaway freight train, said Moose Mutlow of the Yosemite Swift Water Rescue Team. “You step out in front of it, it’s going to take you,” he said. “You’re not going to stop that, and that’s what people need to get their heads around.” Heavy storms this winter covered the central Sierra Nevada mountains with snow that remains at twice its normal level for this time of year. While officials celebrated an end to drought in much of California, the snowmelt is so dangerous that park rangers fear its impact on the crowded park that drew a re-

budget. He said he wants to add funding for about eight new positions to the city’s budget — about seven new hires, plus a police officer position that had been grant-funded but that the city now needs to absorb into its budget. Two of those are dispatchers — Rothweiler said these are the last positions that have to be made up due to downsizing the city did during the recession. Rothweiler also said he is proposing 3.5 percent raises for the city’s employees, plus a salary table adjustment. This will cost about $1.376 million, when the cost of a salary table adjustment that was done earlier this year is factored in. Councilman Chris Talkington said the raises would help keep employees who are leaving for higher-paying jobs. “This 3.5 is to kind of build up a defense and an assurance that they’re valued and we want to keep them there,” he said. Rothweiler said he was developing the budget assuming the city would raise taxes up to the legal cap of 3 percent plus the value of new construction, but without using any of the “foregone balance,” or money the city could have collected in the past but didn’t because it raised property taxes less than 3 percent in some years. Twin Falls’ foregone balance is more than $2 million, by far the highest in the Magic Valley and one of the higher in the state. Rothweiler said the average property tax bill is about 11 percent lower now than it would be had the city raised taxes by the

newcomer Todd Hubbard. She thanked fellow board members for their support and friendship. Recognized employees of the month: firstgrade teacher Pam Day and kitchen staff member Dawn Hentrup from Sawtooth Elementary School. Recognized students who’ve received awards: Canyon Ridge High School girls winning the golf state championship, Twin Falls High School winning the state baseball championship and being named 2017 spring 4A state academic champions, Twin Falls High School softball being named 2017 spring 4A state academic champions and Twin Falls High being named the 2016-17 Idaho High School Activities Association’s 4A first place “school of excellence” and Canyon Ridge High ranked fifth. Approved student handbooks for Vera. C. O’Leary and South Hills

cord five million people last year, when four people drowned. So far this year, one 50-year-old man is believed to have drowned at Yosemite after falling into the Merced River from a winding trail. His body has not been found. One of Yosemite’s deadliest days was in 2011, when three young church group visitors were swept to their deaths over the 317foot Vernal Fall. Elsewhere in California, there have been at least 11 drownings since the snowpack started melting in May. At the San Joaquin River near Fresno, 18-year-old Neng Thao drowned last month swimming in the river during a picnic with his family days before he was set to graduate as the valedictorian of his high school. And six people have died in the rugged Tule River south of Yosemite. Some drowned, but others suffered injuries suggesting their bodies were beaten to death by the river water slamming them against the riverbed.

full amount every year. The Council also discussed the possibility that the state Legislature could restrict or take away the city’s ability to collect foregone balance in the future. Talkington said the city’s large balance is evidence they are being responsible, and it could be used as an argument against any attempts to restrict them at the state level. “We are demonstrating to the public that we are frugal and responsible,” he said. Councilman Greg Lanting asked Rothweiler to show the Council what the budget would look like if the city were to take $1 million in foregone balance, saying the city had been behind on road repairs for years even before this past winter made a bigger mess of the city’s roads. A local option sales tax, which some city officials have called for, is not going to pass the current Legislature, Lanting said, so the city needs to look at other options to make up the difference as the community grows. “You can starve the horse and starve the horse and starve the horse and you’re saving money,” Lanting said. “But when the horse dies, what have you saved?” Rothweiler said he would present the Council with different versions showing the impact of taking some or all of the foregone balance. After he presents his draft budget in early July, the Council is scheduled to discuss the budget at every meeting until it passes a final budget on Aug. 28.

middle schools. Heard a facilities update report. Substantial completion of South Hills Middle School is slated for next week, Dickinson said. Furniture is set to arrive Tuesday. The grand opening is scheduled for Aug. 10. A remodeling project at Magic Valley High School is underway to add classroom space and expand the school cafeteria. Work is slated for completion by mid-to-late September, Dickinson said, but classrooms will likely be done by the time school starts in August. Awarded a $108,983 bid to Clima-Tech Corp. for an HVAC control project at Vera C. O’Leary Middle School and I.B. Perrine Elementary School. Approved contracts with private service providers: city of Twin Falls from May 23 through May 23, 2022, with the city providing an invoice for services when applicable,

‌SEATTLE — Ken Shefveland’s body was swollen with cancer, treatment after treatment failing until doctors gambled on a radical approach: They removed some of his immune cells, engineered them into cancer assassins and unleashed them into his bloodstream. Immune therapy is the hottest trend in cancer care and this is its next frontier — creating “living drugs” that grow inside the body into an army that seeks and destroys tumors. Looking in the mirror, Shefveland saw “the cancer was just melting away.” A month later doctors at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center couldn’t find any signs of lymphoma in the Vancouver, Washington, man’s body. “Today I find out I’m in full remission — how wonderful is that?” said Shefveland with a wide grin, giving his physician a quick embrace. This experimental therapy marks an entirely new way to treat cancer — if scientists can make it work, safely. Early-stage studies are stirring hope as one-time infusions of supercharged immune cells help a remarkable number of patients with intractable leukemia or lymphoma. “It shows the unbelievable power of your immune system,” said Dr. David Maloney, Fred

Utah State demonstrators protest Koch donation $50 million, the largest in school history. The other $25 million came from the Huntsman foundation. USU alum Darren Bingham says he wants people to know not everyone at the school supports the donation. USU spokesman Tim Vitale says protesters have the right to express their opinions. The Koch brothers are known for pouring hundreds of millions into backing conservatives and libertarian causes.

‌LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Protesters at Utah State University are speaking out against a $25 million donation from the billionaire Koch brothers. The Logan Herald Journal reports the group projected a massive image of the brothers on the side of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business on Friday. The picture shows the two men with the word “Sold!” above their heads. The protest comes after Utah State announced two gifts totaling

Interior head suggests reducing Bears Ears National Monument ‌WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Monday recommended that the new Bears Ears National Monument in Utah be reduced in size and said Congress should step in to designate how selected areas of the 1.3 million-acre site are managed. Zinke made the recommendation as part of an interim report to President Donald Trump on the scenic swath of southern Utah with red rock plateaus, cliffs and canyons on land considered sacred to tribes. Trump signed an executive order in April directing Zinke to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands, calling the protection efforts “a massive federal land grab” by previous administrations. Trump and other Republicans have singled out former President

for using each other’s facilities; $10,000 to Arie Bostick Success Training for an Oct. 17 paraeducator training; and $3,050 to The Math Learning Center for an Aug. 10-11 teacher training on new Bridges in Mathematics materials. Approved a resolution for a request to adjust average daily attendance due to “unusual inclement weather and flu season this year.” Approved policy and procedure revisions.

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Barack Obama’s designation of Bears Ears, calling it an unnecessary layer of federal control that hurts local economies by closing the area to new energy development. They also say it isn’t the best way to protect the land. Zinke toured Bears Ears last month on foot, horseback and helicopter and met with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and other state leaders. Herbert and other Utah Republicans oppose Obama’s December designation of the Bears Ears monument. “There is no doubt that it is dropdead gorgeous country and that it merits some degree of protection, but designating a monument ... where multiple-use management is hindered or prohibited is not the best use of the land and is not in accordance with the intention of the Antiquities Act,” Zinke said.

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BUSINESS Watch out for this job scam SOUTHERN IDAHO GAS PRICES

AAA Idaho cited the following average gas prices for regular gasoline as of Monday: Twin Falls $2.58 Burley $2.56 Fairfield $2.75 Gooding $2.59 Hailey $2.74 Jerome $2.65 Rupert $2.59 Shoshone $2.75 For more information: aaa. opisnet.com/index.aspx.

75 people with unclaimed property

etter Business Bureau is warning consumers about a work-fromhome employment scam that has claimed victims across North America. A BBB investigation revealed that scammers hijacked the names of legitimate companies in Nova Scotia, Canada. Most of the job-seekers targeted, however, have been from the United States. The scammers advertise work-from-home administrative assistant positions through Indeed.com, a pop-

ular online job site. One man reported to BBB that his mother lost $4,500 after following the “employer’s” EMILY instructions to VALLA deposit fraudulent checks and transfer funds to a different account. This is a typical tactic used in employment scams. BBB Serving Atlantic Provinces was alerted to the fraud when two legitimate construction companies in Nova Scotia

– Partners Construction and Brooks Levy Construction Ltd. – suddenly began receiving more than 1,000 inquiries on their BBB business profiles, suggesting the fake job postings are widespread. The BBB office also received phone calls and emails from across North America inquiring about the legitimacy of the companies and the posted jobs. At the time, neither company was looking for new employees. BBB posted an alert on each of the companies’ business profiles explaining

that their names are being used maliciously. BBB Scam Tracker has received more than 1,300 reports of various work-from-home employment scams. Bad guys often steal the names and logos of real companies to make their schemes look more legitimate BBB is encouraging anyone applying for a job via an online posting to use caution and to be wary of warning signs of an employment scam. Please see VALLA, Page A5

Fern Taylor of Jerome and Frank Warr of Burley have unclaimed property. It’s money in some form, and the state wants to give it back. The Idaho Treasurer’s Office provided this sampling of 75 people with unclaimed property valued at more than $100 whose last known addresses are in southern Idaho. To check for your name, visit yourmoney. idaho.gov or call 877-388-2942 or 208-332-2942.

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An employee walks through the parking lot during the Dreamland Amusements carnival in the parking lot of the Marley Station Mall in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on April 28. Macy’s Inc., the biggest U.S. department-store chain, has announced plans to close 68 underperforming stores this year, including one in Nampa.

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As if malls didn’t have enough problems, count one more: retailers looking to slash the duration of their leases. After more than a dozen bankruptcies this year contributed to thousands of store closures, visibility for the industry is so poor that retailers are pushing for lease renewals as short as a year or two — down from five to 10 years. “You’re certainly seeing the renewals geared toward the shorter term, rather than the five-year renewal,” said Andrew Graiser, head of A&G Realty Partners. Retailers are now struggling to figure out how many stores they actually need, he added, and landlords are looking at them “with a much closer eye than they did before.” Somewhere between 9,000 and 10,000 stores will close in the U.S. this year, said Garrick Brown, vice president of Americas retail research for commercial broker Cushman & Wakefield — more than twice as many as the 4,000 last year. He sees this figure rising to about 13,000 next year.

“Everyone’s trying to figure out where the bottom of the market’s going to be,” Brown said. He estimates it could occur in 2018 or early 2019. And even companies that are relatively healthy are moving to prune back hundreds of store locations, making it less obvious for property owners which tenants they may lose. Deterioration can come fast: Some retailers that were in good shape a year ago are now on the edge today after vendor and financing support dried up, Graiser said. Retail’s footprint reduction is underway for a wide swathe of the industry, cutting across formats and product categories. Macy’s Inc., the biggest U.S. department-store chain, has announced plans to close 100 underperforming stores, including 68 this year. Signet Jewelers Ltd., which owns the Kay, Zales and Jared brands, will shutter 165 to 170 stores at malls with dwindling foot traffic, while athleisure vendor Lululemon Athletica Inc. is closing 40 stores operated under its Ivivva brand. Other prominent retailers that are closing stores include

Michael Kors Holdings Ltd., J.C. Penney Co., Sears Holdings Corp., Children’s Place Inc. and Payless Inc. Further complicating the lease-length dilemma is the question of which shopping centers will still be around in a decade. Cushman & Wakefield’s Brown sees about 300 of 1,150 U.S. malls shutting down in the next five years. Perry Mandarino, senior managing director and head of corporate finance at B. Riley & Co., predicts that retail bankruptcies and restructurings will further accelerate in 2018. Some of this will be the result of a long-overdue shakeout of the surfeit of U.S. store space, but the downturn is also compounded by shifts to online shopping and consumers spending on experiences rather than physical stuff, he said. In this environment, retailers that would have automatically renewed marginally profitable stores are increasingly willing to close them if they can’t make a deal, said Ken Frieze, CEO of Gordon Brothers. His company’s services include overseeing store closures.

Landlords “have their backs against the wall, so they’ve been fighting back, hard,” he said. “What you have is a game of chicken up to the end.” They do have some leverage. Roughly a third of U.S. malls designated as A-level, or premium, are doing just fine. The high demand for those spaces is being used to drive occupancy in less desirable shopping centers via lease-agreement conditions that bind tenants to also opening stores in B- and C-level centers. This long-time strategy is growing in popularity, according to turnaround specialist Steven Agran, managing director at Carl Marks & Co. “With all this excess inventory, landlords are trying to do whatever they can to keep malls occupied,” Agran said. “The more empty spaces, the more difficult it is to attract new tenants.” Landlords are also eliminating co-tenancy clauses, which allow retailers to break leases or reduce rents if a key mall tenant — traditionally one of the department stores — shutters, Brown said. Please see MALLS, Page A5

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BOISE — The Idaho State Tax Commission offers a free tool online to help residents calculate their estimated 2017 property taxes. The tool works in 22 participating Idaho counties, including Blaine, Cassia, Gooding and Minidoka counties in south-central Idaho. Residents can visit tax.idaho. gov and find a calculator under the “Quick Picks” section of the website. The calculator will use information from their property tax assessment notice. The estimate may not include all voter-approved taxing district levies, and it doesn’t include fees such as solid waste and forest protection that may be billed on tax notices. Actual taxes will be determined in late summer after cities, counties, and other taxing districts set their budgets.

New business steps in to help buyers, sellers HEATHER KENNISON

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HEYBURN — If you’re buying and selling online, but have difficulty exchanging items in person, a new business in Heyburn can help. Drop-It! Express serves as a location for people to drop off and pick up items they bought or sold through classifieds or via Facebook, Craigslist or similar websites. The shop at 1840 Highway 30 is open 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Owners Eric and Andi Mabry opened the shop in mid-April and have also started doing consignment sales.

But she became discouraged by having to meet strangers in parking lots or at her home. “There was a great way to sell and a great way to buy, but the middle ground was barbaric,” she said. Drop-It! Express is one way for a safe exchange to take place, and the business has security cameras. Buyers will need to present identification, and can pay via cash, debit or credit card. Each exchange item will have COURTESY PHOTO a 25 percent charge for sellers that are non-members, or 10 Eric and Andi Mabry percent for members. Member“A couple years ago, I was sell- ships cost $10 per month, with ing stuff on Facebook right before no limit to the number of dropoff items. Drop-It! Express will Christmas,” Andi Mabry said.

even pick up sold items at a member’s house from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Consignment members will be charged $10 per month, plus a 25-percent fee. The product should arrive as pictured. Items should be placed a box that can be opened for inspection. A grand opening event takes place 5-7 p.m. Thursday with a “food truck extravaganza.” The event is in conjunction with the opening of Birthright of Mini-Cassia — an unplanned pregnancy planning nonprofit that offers free pregnancy tests. Information: Call 208-7311820 or visit dropitexpress.com.

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Northwest Farm Credit Services board members stand with the Gallup award. From left: Chairman Dave Hedlin, Derek Schafer, Julie Shiflett, Nate Riggers (of Nezperce), Duane Gray, John Helle, Greg Hirai (of Wendell), President and CEO Phil DiPofi, Karen Schott, Herb Karst, Jim Farmer, Christy Burmeister-Smith, Susan Doverspike, Shawn Walters (of Newdale) and Vice Chair Dave Nisbet.

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‌SPOKANE, Wash. — Northwest Farm Credit Services has received a 2017 Gallup Great Workplace Award, which recognize organizations for their ability to created engaged workplace cultures that drive business outcomes. “We work hard to cultivate a workplace where every employee can see they make a difference,”

president and CEO Phil DiPofi said in a statement. “This Gallup award recognizes the quality of our employees and our commitment to give them the tools and structure they need to succeed. We are blessed to have people who are 100 percent engaged in what we’re doing to improve the lives of our customers, our employees and our communities.”

Gallup provides analytics and advice to solve companies’ problems. Its research links employee engagement to performance outcomes such as profitability, turnover and employee safety incidents. All of the 37 award recipients this year showed measurable business impact as a result of an engaged work force.

Conagra recalls spaghetti, meatball products WASHINGTON ‌ (AP) — Conagra is recalling more than 700,000 pounds of spaghetti and meatball products because they were misbranded and contain milk, an allergen that wasn’t listed on the label. There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to eating the products. Among the items in the recall are: 14.75-oz. cans with “Libby’s spaghetti and meatballs made with pork, chicken and beef in tomato sauce” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19. 14.75-oz. cans with “Del Pino’s spaghetti & meatballs made with pork, chicken and beef in tomato sauce” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19.

14.75-oz. cans with “Hy-Top Spaghetti and Meatballs Made with Pork, Chicken and Beef in Tomato Sauce” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19. 14.75-oz. cans with “Food Hold Spaghetti & Meatballs Made with pork, chicken and beef in tomato sauce” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19. 14.75-oz. cans with “Essential Everyday Spaghetti with Meatballs Made With Pork, Chicken and Beef in Tomato Sauce” on the label with package code 2100701200 and Use By Date 01/02/19. 14.75-oz. cans with “Chef Boyardee Mini pasta shells & meatballs, Pasta and Meatballs made with Pork, Chicken and Beef in Tomato Sauce” on the label with

package code 2100700500 and Use By Date 12/26/18. The products, which were produced on January 5 and January 12 and shipped nationwide, include establishment number “EST. 794M” inside the USDA mark of inspection. Conagra Brands Inc. said Monday that it became aware of the problem on June 6, when an ingredient supplier said that the bread crumbs used in the recalled products potentially contained milk, which wasn’t disclosed on the label. Consumers are advised to either throw away the products or return them to the place of purchase. Anyone with questions about the recall may contact Conagra customer service at 1-866-2131245.

Verizon to house start-ups in vacant buildings AARON GREGG

The Washington Post

‌At telecommunications giant Verizon, massive buildings that used to be filled with bulky computers, copper cables and other gear are sitting vacant, as advances in fiber-optics and computers cut down on the need for equipment space. The shift has rendered more than 80 percent of the company’s real estate footprint obsolete, spurring a $2 billion sell-off in property. Then someone in Verizon’s real estate department happen to take notice of the recent boom in co-working spaces, in which start-ups, freelancers and some larger companies pay to co-locate together in castoff office space or other underused buildings. The telephone company saw a connection. The result is “Alley, powered by Verizon,” a co-working space slated to open on June 29 in Washington. The company hired local artists to bring a sense of hipness to rooms once filled with telecommunications equipment and even kept a retro feel by preserving a room full of ancient mainframe computers. Verizon is collaborating with Alley, a New York co-working space operator to run the space and share in the revenue. More than a real estate deal, Verizon executives hope to benefit from a different kind of net-

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working. “To us, the real value is what we get by bringing entrepreneurs into the building and having them meet our folks,” said John Vazquez, senior vice president and head of global real estate at Verizon. “We realize that things will be invented outside of Verizon and we want to be a part of that.” Vazquez says his team has identified 150 Verizon-owned locations along the East Coast that could be converted into co-working spaces “if the market and community is there.” The company has a request for proposals open for a co-working space in Singapore, suggesting it has global ambitions for the project. Verizon’s partner, Alley, is trying to position itself as a more exclusive option to established brands like WeWork, closely vetting potential tenants based on what they’ll bring to the community. Would-be members go through an extensive interview process that is not unlike applying for a new job or joining a fancy New York apartment building, and only about one out of 10 applicants are accepted. “We do it to protect the integrity of the community,” said Alley founder Jason Saltzman. “If you don’t want to be collaborative with the person next to you then this is probably not the place for you.” Saltzman calls it a “curated

these otherwise legitimate titles in their fake ads. If the job posting is for a wellknown brand, check the real company’s job page to see if the position is posted there. Look online; if the job comes up in other cities with the same post, it’s likely a scam. Different procedures should raise your suspicion. Watch out for onthe-spot job offers. You may be an excellent candidate for the job, but beware of offers

community” of professionals, who enjoy the amenities of a large company with the freewheeling vibe of a tech start-up. And it’s not just a place for technology companies. Sarah Ribner, whose company PiperWai sells a charcoal-based deodorant, joined one of Alley’s New York spaces at the beginning of 2017. She appreciates that she can bring dog Cloe, her Australian Shepherd, to work with her. Alley’s D.C. debut is shaping up to be a little more formal than that. The wall art in one of the conference rooms shows two converging lines pointing upward, vaguely reminiscent of Verizon’s signature “check mark.” An open space decorated with a mural will be used for regular talks given by Verizon’s business leaders and technologists. One of the firm’s first events in the space will probably be a “pitch night” attended by members of Verizon’s technology venture arm. “Yes, it’s party space, but we’re Verizon, so we like to keep it a little more professional,” said Verizon co-working lead Nick LiVigne. In the D.C. area, Verizon is stepping into a market for start-up real estate that may already be oversaturated. There are at least three other co-working spaces operated by competing companies within two blocks of Verizon’s planned space.

made without an interview. A real company will want to talk to a candidate before hiring. Don’t fall for an overpayment scam. No legitimate job would ever overpay an employee and ask for money to be wired elsewhere. This is a common trick used by scammers. And be cautious sharing personal information or any kind of pre-payment. Be careful if a company promises you great opportunities or big income as long as you pay for coaching, training, certifications or

‌TWIN FALLS — Veterans interested in starting their own businesses can attend a free conference organized by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Idaho Department of Labor. The “Business Boot Camp” takes place 11:30  a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Veterans will learn about what it takes to start a business, and how they can prepare — from creating a business plan to finding their first customer. A brown bag lunch will be available. To register, contact the SBA Boise District office at 208334-1698 or BDOEventReg@sba. gov.

Lytle Signs becomes employee-owned TWIN FALLS — An Ida‌ ho-based sign product manufacturing, service and installation company has sold into an employee ownership plan. Lytle Signs Inc. has 85 employees based in Twin Falls and Meridian. The Lytle family has owned and operated the Twin Falls sign company since 1948. “I have seen a lot of changes in the last 35 years here at Lytle Signs,” general manager Mark Crider said in a statement. “By far this is the most exciting for me. I feel that our people are ready to take on ownership and to carry on the great tradition of quality sign products. I see nothing but future growth for me and my fellow employee-owners.” Rex Lytle will continue on with his duties as president and chair-

man of the board of Lytle Signs, and Emmie Lytle will continue as a board member and corporate secretary. “I am excited to know that my family’s business and the legacy of Lytle Signs will continue on into the future for the benefit of our employees and customers,” Rex Lytle said. Information: Call Lytle Signs in Twin Falls at 208-733-1739 and Meridian at 208-388-1739 or online at lytlesigns.com.

New loans available for small businesses BOISE — Attention “nearly ‌ bankable” small businesses: A new loan fund is available through the Montana & Idaho Community Development Corp. and Capital Matrix. The new funds will increase the Montana & Idaho CDC’s lending to startups and existing businesses that don’t qualify for all or part of needed financing through a bank. Capital Matrix is a private, nonprofit corporation that is licensed and regulated by the U.S. Small Business Administration to administer the SBA 504 loan program. The Montana & Idaho CDC specializes in lending to businesses that are light on collateral or cash flow. The loans range from $1,000 to $2 million and can be used for remodeling or purchasing real estate, inventory or equipment, for example. Loan clients also receive one-on-one technical assistance in financial management and other areas of business management. For information, contact Mike Trueba at 844-728-9234 ext. 240 or miket@mtcdc.org, or visit mtcdc.org.

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Becky Ludlow joins MVRS

‌ WIN FALLS — Magic ValT ley Rehabilitation Services Inc. welcomes its newest employee, Becky Ludlow. Ludlow is an employment services specialist/ therapy tech. She is responsible for providing job maintenance and other vocational services to people with disabilities. As a therapy tech, Ludlow she teaches living skills, under the direction of a developmental specialist, to people with developmental disabilities. Ludlow was a swimming instructor for 10 years before she needed to change her career path. She took advantage of MVRS’ work placement services and transitioned from a participant to

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directories. Government agencies post jobs publicly and freely. Be wary of any offer to give you special access or guarantee you a job for a fee — if you are paying for the promise of a job, it’s probably a scam. Anyone who has applied for a position under fraudulent circumstances (whether or not they have lost money) is urged to report it to BBB Scam Tracker at bbb.org/ scamtracker.

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Agency hires social services director ‌TWIN FALLS — Heritage Health Services, a home health and hospice agency, has hired Amber Kennett as social services director. Kennett is a licensed master social worker with a master’s degree in social work from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Cincinnati. She Kennett previously did social work for a cardiac care unit, level IV NICU, Medicaid waiver services and residential treatment for teenage girls. Kennett moved to Twin Falls from Columbus, Ohio, in October.

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But the move to tie premium leases to less-desirable spaces may have unintended consequences, said Suzanne Mulvee, director of research and senior real estate strategist at consultant CoStar Group Inc. “It may be working in reverse against mall owners,” she said, since forcing retailers to open more stores may just trigger more closures going forward.

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Dorothy Marie Thorsen April 26, 1930—June 9, 2017‌

BUHL—Heaven welcomed a new angel on Friday, June 9, when our Mom and Nanny, Dorothy Thorsen, passed away at Cedar Draw Assisted Living. We will miss her every day, but can be sure she will be watching over us until we meet again. Dorothy was born in Montgomery, Minnesota to Frank and Mary (Staska) Soukup on April 26, 1930. She was the baby of the family and only daughter, sister to Frank and Richard Soukup. Dorothy attended Holy Redeemer Catholic Grade School and Montgomery High School, graduating in 1949. She was still in touch with several classmates in Minnesota at the time of her passing. Dorothy was a high school cheerleader and continued to be her grandkids’ most dedicated fan and cheerleader throughout her life. On April 29, 1950 Dorothy married Warren “Shorty” Thorsen. Daughters, Roxie, Shelly and Cori, were born to this marriage over the next decade. Dorothy and Shorty were married 42 years until his passing in 1992. Together they enjoyed golfing, fishing and bowling, but Dorothy’s greatest enjoyment came from sitting in the bleachers or along 3rd base line watching her grandchildren participate in sports. In her younger days Dorothy worked in retail at the South Town Mall in Minneapolis. In 1968 the family transferred to Buhl, Idaho with Green Giant Company and Dorothy worked as timekeeper during corn pack and pea pack for 38 years. Her employment with Green Giant/Pillsbury/Seneca brought her much enjoyment and friends she made there were a very important part of her life. She kept in touch with former co-workers, friends and family all over the country on Facebook. Dorothy was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Buhl and attended regularly until her health would no longer allow. She had a strong belief in St. Jude, the Patron Saint of Hope. She provided family and friends with St. Jude medals and frequently checked to make sure they had their medals and didn’t need another one. Dorothy is survived by her three daughters, Roxanne Benge, Macon, GA, Shelly Eguilior, Buhl, ID and Cori (Ben) Allen, Twin Falls, ID; grandchildren, Taylor (Misty) Dennis, Cypress, TX, Amber (William) Davies, Byron, GA, Adam (Alicia) Reynolds, Twin Falls, ID, Aric (Erica) Reynolds, Sergeant Bluff, IA, Breanna (George) Bassett, Macon, GA, Cassidy (Matt) Flynn, Lizella, GA, Abbe (Nik) Gumeson, Twin Falls, ID, and Landon Eguilior, Boise, ID; and great-grandchildren, Ashley, Ryan, Brayden, Brecklyn, Avri, Maddox, Andryk, Kasen, Bentley, Camden, Kennedy, Colten, George, Sellers, Harrison, Madison, Blaikley arriving in August, and Baby Reynolds to Aric and Erica arriving in December. Dorothy’s parents, brothers and husband preceded her in death. The family would like to thank Cedar Draw Assisted Living staff and Hospice Visions for their kind and loving care of our mother over the last few months. A Catholic funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday June 16, 2017 at Farmer Funeral Chapel, 130 9th Avenue North in Buhl, with burial following at West End Cemetery. Donations may be made in Dorothy’s name to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at www.stjude.org/ give or 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

Fred Jay Hainline Oct. 18, 1929—Feb. 6, 2017‌

GOODING—Fred Jay Hainline, 87, a resident of Gooding, passed away on Monday, February 6, 2017 at the Bennett Hills Care Center in Gooding. Fred was born in Twin Falls, Idaho on October 18, 1929 to Viola and Harold Hainline. He attended Filer schools and then went on to graduate from a trade school in the San Francisco Bay area. He was drafted for the Korea War and served in the Army for two years. Fred married Patricia Scheer in 1954 and they went on to have four children: Steven, Susan, Barb and Jay. Fred worked for many years as a custom farmer in the Magic Valley area of southern Idaho. In 1987 he broke his back in a farming accident. He retired after his accident and went on to enjoy his life as a full time sports fisherman; this brought him great joy! He also loved the time spent trailer camping with his wife, Patricia, friends and family. They spent their winters on the Overton arm of Lake Mead; first at Overton Beach and later at Echo Bay. Due to failing health, Fred was moved into a care facility in 2015 and resided there until his passing. Fred leaves behind his wife, Patricia; sister, Patty Adcock; his four children; six grandkids; seven great grandkids; along with many nieces, nephews and cousins. His wife Patricia resides at the Bennett Hills Care Center in Gooding. A memorial celebration of Fred’s life will be held on Friday, June 16, 2017 at 11 a.m. at Demaray Funeral Service – Gooding Chapel. Services will conclude at the chapel. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Demaray Funeral Service. Condolences, memories and photos may be shared with the family by visiting the obituary link at www.demarayfuneralservice.com.

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Newtown families upset by interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones PAT EATON-ROBB

Associated Press‌

HARTFORD, Conn. — ‌ The families of some Sandy Hook shooting victims are angered that NBC is airing an interview by Megyn Kelly with a conspiracy theorist who has claimed the massacre never happened. Nelba Marquez-Greene, whose 6-year-old daughter, Ana Grace, was among the 26 people killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, said Monday that she fears the NBC interview with “Infowars” host Alex Jones will encourage other conspiracy theorists who have harassed her and accused her of being part of a hoax. “Any time you give someone like Alex Jones a platform, their followers will

Jones Kelly double-down or increase their attack on grieving families,” Marquez-Greene said. “You can’t just put him in a box and say he’s just a character. He’s really hurting people.” The interview by Kelly, who formerly worked at Fox News, is scheduled to air Sunday, which is also Father’s Day. On Twitter, Kelly responded to criticism by noting that President Donald Trump, a Republican, has praised Jones’ show and by saying it was her job to “shine a light.” An NBC representative

had no immediate comment. The interview comes in the wake of a guilty plea last week of a Florida woman who threatened a father of one Sandy Hook victim. Lucy Richards, who had cited the hoax theory in her threats, was sentenced to five months in prison. A year ago, a New York City man was sentenced to probation after approaching a sister of slain Sandy Hook teacher Victoria Soto during a charity road race and angrily claiming the shootings never took place. Soto’s family says Matthew Mills was a follower of Jones. The family members expressed their anger with NBC and Kelly in a Facebook post. “Alex and his followers have done nothing but make our lives a living hell

Sessions

spond when he complained that he did not want to be left alone with Trump again. The Justice Department has denied that, saying Sessions stressed to Comey the need to be careful about following appropriate policies. The former FBI director also testified that he and the agency had believed Sessions was “inevitably going to recuse” for reasons he said he could not elaborate on. “We also were aware of facts that I can’t discuss in

an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a Russia-related investigation problematic,” Comey said. Sessions’ appearance before the intelligence committee is an indication of just how much the Russia investigation has shaded his tenure. White House frustrations with the Justice Department spilled into public view last week, when Trump on Twitter criticized the legal strategy in defending his proposed travel ban.

Spokesman Spicer declined to say then that Sessions enjoyed Trump’s confidence, though spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said later in the week that the president had confidence “in all of his Cabinet.” Though the Justice Department maintains that it has fully disclosed the extent of Sessions’ foreign contacts last year, lawmakers have continued to press him for answers about an April 2016 event at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, where both Sessions and Kislyak attended a foreign policy speech by Trump. Senate Democrats have raised the possibility that Sessions and Kislyak could have met there, though Justice Department officials say there were no private encounters or side meetings. Lawmakers, including Al Franken of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, have asked the FBI to investigate and to determine if Sessions committed perjury when he denied having had meetings with Russians.

“All of our wines are available there,” Holesinksy Winery Director of Business Development Eric Smallwood said. Wine can be ordered by the glass or by the bottle. Rail Nine offers lunch and dinner from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday at the clubhouse for the 9-hole golf course. The restaurant can serve wine, beer and cocktails. Its menu features sand-

wiches, salads, burgers, appetizers and a salad bar. On Friday and Saturday nights, a chef’s special will be featured with a suggested Holesinsky wine pairing. Rail Nine can also cater for events. This week, grape planting will begin in some unused green space at the golf course. “We’re kind of transforming it into this bou-

tique vineyard,” Brown said. Although it will be a while before the vines produce fruit, visitors will eventually be able to see different kinds of grapes that are used to make wines. The grand opening event takes place 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday with games and a release party for Holesinsky’s 2016 wines. Information: Call 208326-3333.

Gabriel ‘Gabe’ Kleinkopf‌

ception Catholic Church in Buhl. A Rosary Vigil at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at the church. Visitation is from 6-7 p.m. Wednesday prior to the Rosary, also at the church. (Farmer Funeral Chapel of Buhl, Idaho)

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Asked Monday if the White House thought Sessions should invoke executive privilege to avoid answering questions about his conversations with Trump, presidential spokesman Sean Spicer replied, “It depends on the scope of the questions. To get into a hypothetical at this point would be premature.” He did not explicitly endorse Sessions’ appearance, saying in response to a question, “We’re aware of it, and we’ll go from there.” Comey himself had a riveting appearance before the same Senate panel last week, with some key moments centered on Sessions. Comey said Trump told Sessions and other administration officials to leave the room before Trump asked him in February to drop a probe into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s contacts with Russia. In addition, Comey has said Sessions did not re-

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“The concept is ‘cleaner, lighter, fresher,’ and not a menu that has 60 to 70 items on it,” said Brown, the restaurant’s owner. And it makes it more convenient for Twin Falls and Filer residents wanting to try the Buhl winery’s selection a little closer to home.

for the last 4 1/2 years,” they said. “This incessant need for ratings at the cost of the emotional well-being of our family is disgusting and disappointing. You should be ashamed of yourselves for allowing this behavior.” The harassment of Marquez-Greene has included a woman asking her on social media if she had actually sold her daughter to a child trafficking ring. Another man asked to see pictures of Ana Grace’s dead body as proof the shooting happened. Marquez-Greene said Kelly should at least give Sandy Hook families equal time on her show and promote some of the charity work they’ve been doing to remember the lives of their loved ones. She said the media also need to learn to honor the families’ grief.

ANDREW HARNIK‌

Attorney General Jeff Sessions attends a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House.

SERVICES Cloyce Edwards‌

WEST MAGIC — Cloyce Edwards, service at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 13, at Parke’s Magic Valley Funeral Home, 2551 Kimberly Road, Twin Falls. A visitation will be held from 9-10 a.m..

TWIN FALLS—Gabe Kleinkopf, celebration of life, from 4 until 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, at Canyon Crest Event Center, 330 Canyon Crest Drive, Twin Falls. (Serenity FuRick D. Borges‌ JEROME—Rick D. neral Chapel) Borges, celebration of life at 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 13, Emmett Lyda‌ 2017 at the Freewill Baptist GRANTS PASS, Ore Church, 810 S Cleveland, .- Emmett Lyda, memoJerome. (Farnsworth Mor- rial graveside service at 1:30 p.m. June 15, 2017 at tuary) Hawthorne Memorial GarNancy Latham‌ dens in Grants Pass. Hull & TWIN FALLS—Nancy Hull Funeral Directors are Latham, celebration of life in charge of arrangements. service at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at Twin Falls Edith Kaster‌ LDS 6th Ward, 667 HarBUHL—Edith Kaster, rison St., in Twin Falls. funeral mass at 11 a.m. (White Mortuary “Chapel Thursday, June 15, 2017 at the Immaculate Conby the Park” )

Fernando Silva‌

TWIN FALLS—Fernando Silva, Rosary services at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 15 at Rosenau Funeral Home. Funeral mass at 10 a.m. Friday, June 16 at St Edwards Catholic Church

Donna Mauldin‌

William Scott‌

TWIN FALLS—William Scott, celebration of life at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 17, 2017 at White Mortuary, 136 4th Ave. East, Twin Falls. A gathering will follow at the Rock Creek Park.

Kathleen McKevitt‌

TWIN FALLS—Kathleen McKevitt, memorial service at 10 a.m.Saturday, June 17 at the Episcopal Church of Ascension, 371 Eastland Drive N., Twin Falls. (Serenity Funeral Chapel)

Jeanette Larson‌

TWIN FALLS—funeral services at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 17, 2017 at Farnsworth Mortuary.Visitation is from 6-8 pm, Friday, June 16, 2017 at Farnsworth Mortuary, 1343 S Lincoln Ave,

TWIN FALLS—Jeanette Larson, celebration of life at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 17 at the Rosenau Funeral Home, 2826 Addison Ave E, Twin Falls.

are pending at Farnsworth Mortuary, Jerome. James J. “Jim” May, 91, of Twin Falls passed away Sunday evening, June 11, 2017 at Ashley Manor in Twin Falls. Services are pending and will be announced by Reynolds Funeral Chapel, Twin Falls. Fernando Silva, 76, of Twin Falls passed away Sunday, June 11, 2017 at his home. Services will be

announced by Rosenau Funeral Home, Twin Falls. Sharon Davis, 79, of Jerome died June 12, 2017 at a Twin Falls hospital. Arrangements are pending at Farnsworth Mortuary, Jerome. Gale Ferrel, 60, of Jerome passed away, Thursday, June 8, 2017. Arrangements are under the direction of Rosenau Funeral Home.

DEATHS ‌Leland “Bud” Randall, 74, of Castleford, passed away June 11, 2017 at St. Luke’s Magic Valley Hospital in Twin Falls. Arrangements are under the direction of Farmer Funeral Chapel in Buhl. Jerome G. Sutton, 84, of Buhl, passed away June 10, 2017 at Bridgeview Estates in Twin Falls. Arrangements are under the direction of Farmer Funeral

Chapel in Buhl. Richard Lint, 85, of Twin Falls, Idaho passed away at his residence on June 11, 2017 with loving family at his side. Arrangements are pending under the direction of Parke’s Magic Valley Funeral Home of Twin Falls. Michael “Mike” D. Berg, 68, of Jerome, died Saturday, June 10, 2017 at his residence. Services

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TIMES-NEWS

TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017 |

OPINION

Founded 1905 | A Lee Enterprises newspaper 132 Fairfield St. W., Twin Falls, ID 83303 letters@magicvalley.com

Editorial Board

TRAVIS QUAST Publisher MATT CHRISTENSEN Editor

Quote of the day “We’re not well liked in a lot of places. When you see a BLM truck out there, I want people to think about land management and not law enforcement. I don’t want to see Smokey the Bear armed with a flak jacket.” — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke during a trip to Idaho

OTHER VIEW

Let cities, states fight Here comes the Silent Majority H opioid crisis OTHER VIEW

The following editorial appears on Bloomberg View:

esperate for more effective ways to confront the opioid crisis, cities and states are reining in doctors who prescribe too many opioid painkillers and suing drugmakers for downplaying how addictive their products are. But the epidemic has moved beyond prescription pills to illicit drugs, so it also makes sense to try an approach that’s more aggressive — and controversial: giving addicts a safe place to use drugs. Opponents argue that this policy amounts to government sanction of unlawful and destructive behavior. But such centers, which are supervised by medical personnel, save lives and money and help draw addicts into treatment, a recent cost-benefit analysis shows. Like methadone clinics and needle-exchange programs, they are one way to directly confront a grim reality. Deaths from fentanyl overdose rose more than 72 percent from 2014 to 2015, and show no signs of slowing down. The drug is 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin, and its derivative carfentanil is 100 times stronger still. Users, who may believe they are taking heroin, can die within minutes of taking the drugs. At supervised injection facilities — dozens exist outside the U.S. — nurses and other medical practitioners are on hand to administer naloxone to keep overdosing users alive. They also provide clean needles, advice about safe consumption practices, and referrals for treatment for substance abuse, mental health and other needed services. The study examined the experience of such a center in Vancouver and projected the impact of a similar center in Baltimore — a city with an extraordinarily high, and rapidly rising, overdose fatality rate. In Baltimore, the researchers concluded, a supervised injection facility could prevent six deaths a year, 108 overdose-related ambulance calls, 78 emergency room visits and 27 hospitalizations. That would amount to a savings of $7.8 million a year — much more than the $1.8 million it would cost to run the place. The city of Seattle plans to open the first safe-injection center in the U.S., though some state legislators oppose it. States and the federal government certainly have an interest in enforcing drug laws and policy. In this case, however, they should stand aside and let cities experiment responsibly. In the still-raging opioid crisis, all reasonable efforts to save lives should be given a chance to work.

‘Julius Caesar’ should go, and all of these, too

new staging of “Julius Caesar” by the Public Theater is under fire for portraying the lead character as a Trump analog. “NYC Play Appears To Depict Assassination of @POTUS,” worried FOX on Twitter. Delta Air Lines pulled its funding and Bank of America withdrew its ALEXANDRA sponsorship. PETRI This is only correct, as most of Shakespeare—and, indeed, the Western canon—was written as a mean referendum on the Trump administration and ought to be banned accordingly. “Hamlet”: NYC play erroneously suggests that a man’s son-in-law might not be fully supportive of the job he is doing in charge of a country. “As You Like It”: Woman wandering in the woods to get away from the current regime is

portrayed as some sort of hero. “Macbeth”: NYC play includes an entire dinner scene during which the man running a country is not allowed to sit down and enjoy even a single scoop of ice cream. This play also erroneously suggests some Scots can be heroes whereas they are notorious for their opposition to perfectly reasonable golf courses. “Death of a Salesman”: NYC play shows an old man who is no longer very good at his job and has placed too much confidence in his incompetent sons. “The Lion in Winter”: Same, but the man also has a much younger wife. “Becket”: Play erroneously implies that “hoping” something will happen during a private meeting could be viewed as a threat. “A Raisin in the Sun”: NYC play appears to criticize bias in housing.

Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau

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ow does a fellow grow to 6 feet 8 inches without a spine? A fair question when talking about former FBI Director James Comey. St. James of the Potomac offered during his testimony last week before a committee of U.S. senators he was intimidated by Donald Trump and Loretta Lynch. Leftist mainstream media mainly ignored the latter in its attempt to continue the battering of the president. What we now know after the hearing is what Mr. Trump claimed BILL all along. He had COLLEY no relationship with Russia before Election Day. He instructed Comey to find anyone in the Trump campaign working in collusion with Russia. And Mr. Comey followed Lynch’s instructions to downplay the “matter” of Hillary Clinton’s emails. This is the smoking gun Democrats have been seeking? Comey appears to have choreographed a performance designed to make himself an aggrieved and assaulted law enforcer. By tossing out red meat on the Clinton campaign and the former liberal Attorney General he believes his battle with Trump doesn’t look ideological. No wonder the director got canned. He’s a snake in the grass! As the hearing ended and the spinning opened it was clear reactions are based on team colors. At a Republican dinner in February the chairman of the Idaho GOP reminded us things have been worse in this country. He cited the late 1960s when cities and campuses burned. A student of history can also cite 1778, 1863, 1932 and early 1942 as being particularly dark days for the United States. The country survived earlier challenges it would seem sometimes miraculously (1778) and in 1942 because of a greater outside threat. The scars from the other two dates still linger in opposing worldviews. Statues are being toppled by dark of night to avoid demonstrations, and the debate continues over the role of government in daily life. “We’ve survived before,” is a

comfort but I’m not sure every time we flip a coin the result is heads. Unlike previous ages the expansion of the United Sates is complete and there are few opportunities to flee neighborhood disagreements. People are showing up at protests armed with bricks, brass knuckles and pistols. As the cities burned 50 years ago members of Richard Nixon’s Silent Majority watched the pictures in their living rooms. It was distant. The race riots weren’t a direct threat and the rioters were often simply demanding a slice of the pie. Many watching in silence were horrified by the flames but had empathy for the hunger. Today we’ve got one side demanding everyone else live by its dictates. Christians are ordered to bake cakes, take pictures and print T-shirts against their will and interpretation of the Almighty. Just last week Bernie Sanders upbraided an evangelical Christian at a Senate hearing. Sanders, Jewish by race but otherwise godless, is angry some Christians believe Jews and Muslims aren’t going to heaven. Dear Bernie, why are you so worried? You don’t believe in an afterlife. Since the only Christians Sanders is acquainted with are Unitarians gobbling granola in Vermont he may not know the majority of Christian churches make it clear: Jesus is God incarnate. If you don’t believe it then we aren’t worshipping the same God. Apparently this disqualifies a fellow for counting federal tax revenue! College faculty lounges believe they’ve got the only enlightened truth and Sanders allows a pass. Anyone who deviates from the snowflake faith is vilified and need not apply for work. It permeates mainstream media as well. A reporter in North Carolina covering a weekend demonstration against sharia considered the protesters evil. Liberals say it can’t happen here and we shouldn’t hurt the feelings of the Mohammedans. Meanwhile on a weekly basis there are stories of genital mutilation in Mohammedan communities across America and imams at some of the nation’s largest mosques predict sharia is coming and they pray for haste. Thirty-five years ago a

neighbor of mine launched a large brush fire. He had been attempting a small controlled burn on a windy evening when things got out of control. He told firefighters he never expected the mess he created because he had a small water tank on his back. He was knee-walking drunk that night. Are liberals sober when they make their self-congratulatory pronouncements about tolerance? How come Lefty can’t look in the mirror and see the useful idiot? Please, Winston, be nice to Mr. Hitler or you’ll make him angry. A writer at the Wall Street Journal last week told the story of a grand church in Spain. Mohammedans are demanding they be allowed to also worship under the roof. There was a building prior on the site. Invading Saracens burned it and then constructed a mosque. When the invaders were repelled some 800 years ago the Roman Church occupied the new building on old church property. Coming to a neighborhood near you! We’re told immigrants and refugees are taking our jobs because we’re lazy, stupid and drug addicted and we’re told we deserve it because we voted for Trump. I’m thinking the Silent Majority is about ready to get off the couch and come out swinging. Election Day was more than a preview. Last week a Seattle newspaper reported a city councilwoman announced at a public meeting she had no Republican friends. The crowd cheered. I’m quickly divesting liberal acquaintances. Since they plan to destroy Christianity and traditional values of self-reliance in favor of a godking along the lines of Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders or Kamala Harris then I want no part of the scheme. There are two solutions. Give them California, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as a separate nation and leave the rest of us alone. Option two is a massive Go Fund Me effort. We’ll buy the liberals one way tickets to any other country in the world. Or better yet, some place like Mars. A good place for the wigged out to launch their new civilization. Bill Colley is the host of Top Story on Newsradio 1310 AM.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Newspaper isn’t being fair to Trump What in the world is wrong with you people at the Times-News? Don’t you like anything about our president? Doesn’t he do anything good for our country? Everyday, and especially on Sundays you publish negative article after negative article. It’s like getting the

NY Times or Washington Post, in fact, it’s their articles you keep printing. We didn’t like our last president. We just sucked it up and hoped for the next election. I’m 73 years old and I have never seen the hatred and anger in people today and your paper just helps feed it. Come on, President Trump won, and half the country loves it. No matter what you keep

Mallard Fillmore by Bruce Tinsley

printing, you are not going to get us to change our opinion of him. Get over it, and start liking our country again. You probably get many letters like this complaining about your coverage of President Trump. I never see one, so that probably means I will never see this one either. Jim Wahlgren Albion

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| TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017

BURLEY/RUPERT FORECAST

Today: Mostly cloudy skies with a 50% chance of rain, high temperature of 66º, humidity of 32%. West wind 23 to 25 mph.

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Partly cloudy skies today with a 40% chance of rain, highs in the low 60s. Light winds. Expect partly cloudy skies tonight with overnight lows in the mid-30s. Northwest wind 5 mph. Today Highs low 60s

Mostly sunny skies today with a slight chance of rain, highs in the upper 60s. West northwest wind 9 to 14 mph. Expect mostly clear skies tonight.

Lewiston 70 / 48

Today Highs/Lows upper 60s/mid-40s

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Grangeville 61 / 42 McCall

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58 / 35

Caldwell 70 / 46 Boise 68 / 46

Cloudy skies today with an 80% chance of rain, highs in the mid-60s. Southwest wind 11 to 13 mph. Expect mostly clear skies tonight Salmon with lows in the mid-40s. 60 / 40

Sun Valley 60 / 36

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Rupert 62 / 44

Mountain Home 67 / 42 Twin Falls 66 / 44

Pocatello 59 / 47

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MIDDLEKAUFF Quote Of The Day

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass – it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Vivian Greene – 1904-2003, Author

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Obesity rising in nations rich and poor, especially in kids MIKE STOBBE

AP Medical Writer

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Barron Trump, second from right, son of President Donald Trump, looks back at Air Force One after arriving with the president and first lady Melania Trump at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Sunday.

Melania Trump, son Barron move into the White House DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The first family is together again under the same roof: the White House. After nearly five months of living apart, President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, announced Sunday that she and the couple’s young son have finally moved into the executive mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Mother and son broke with tradition by living at Trump Tower in New York since the inauguration so that Barron, now 11, could finish the school year uninterrupted; the president lived and worked at the White House. “Looking forward to the memories we’ll make in our new home! #Movingday,” the first lady tweeted Sunday evening after she and Barron arrived at the White House with Trump. The tweet accompanied a photo of the Washington Monument as seen from the White House Red Room. The president spent the weekend at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and had said on several occasions that his wife and son would move to the White House after the school year. Trump celebrates his 71st birthday on Wednesday and got his gift a few days early. Mrs. Trump said last month that Barron will attend a private school in Maryland in the fall, an announcement that answered one of the lingering questions surrounding the Trump family’s unusual living arrangement. It also pointed toward a coming move to the White House. One remaining question had to do with a move-in date, and Mrs. Trump answered it Sunday. Her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, confirmed the move by email and on Twitter. “It’s official! @FLOTUS & Barron have made the move to DC! #WelcomeHome,” Grisham tweeted. Barron will enter the sixth grade

at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, in the fall. Trump has four older children — Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany — among his two ex-wives. Ivanka Trump has taken a White House job as an adviser to her father. Melania Trump stayed largely out of sight during her husband’s presidential campaign and was an absent first lady at the outset of the administration, staying in New York and focusing on Barron. But she has slowly been raising her profile at the White House, including joining the president when foreign leaders and their spouses visit, co-hosting the annual Easter Egg Roll and holding some solo events. She recently accompanied the president on his first foreign trip, a nine-day journey through Saudi Arabia, Israel, Italy and Belgium that marked her first extended turn as first lady in the public spotlight. Now that’s she’s at the White House full time, pressure will build for her to be seen more and to do more. She said during the campaign that she would work on the issue of cyberbullying as first lady, but she has made no further announcements about the subject. She also has shown an interest in military veterans and empowering women and girls. “I do think once she’s in D.C. there’ll be more pressure for her to be working on something that’s her own, that’s helping some segment of the population because that’s what first ladies are supposed to do,” said Jean Harris, professor of political science and women’s studies at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. First ladies are also seen as calming influences on presidents. In the case of President Trump, many will be anxious to see whether Mrs. Trump’s daily presence will have a positive influence on Trump’s behavior and mood, including his often angry tweet storms. The first lady has said she wishes he would give up tweeting.

NEW YORK — The global obesity problem now affects 1 in 10 people in the world, it is rising in countries rich and poor, and in many countries it is increasing faster in children than adults, according to a new study. The researchers estimated more than 107 million children and 603 million adults are obese. The research found obesity has tripled in children and young adults in countries like China, Brazil and Indonesia. Those numbers are particularly troubling because it means more young people are on track to become obese adults and develop problems like diabetes, heart disease and a range of cancers, some experts said. The study was led by a team at the University of Washington in Seattle. It was published online Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at a food science and policy meeting in Stockholm. Researchers reported on 195 countries, although data was incomplete or nonexistent for many of them. They made assumptions and used mathematical modeling to fill in gaps. Despite the limitations, “this is the best picture that’s out there for global obesity,” said Edward Gregg, a diabetes expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pre-

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Obese patients wash their plates after lunch at the Aimin Fat Reduction Hospital in Tianjin, China, in July 2008. The hospital uses a combination of diet, exercise and traditional Chinese acupuncture to treat rising obesity rates. vention. He wrote an editorial that accompanied the study. Some of the findings:  Obesity rates doubled in 73 countries between 1980 and 2015. Countries where obesity did not increase significantly included Afghanistan, Bulgaria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Worldwide, about 5 percent of children and 12 percent of adults were obese in 2015. In the U.S. about 17 percent of children and 38 percent of adults are obese, according to earlier CDC estimates.

 Among the 20 largest countries, the United States had the highest level of obesity among children and young adults. Bangladesh had the lowest.  Egypt had the highest rate of obese adults. Vietnam had the lowest.  But the United States had the largest number of obese adults in 2015, with 79 million. China came in second with 57 million obese adults — even though China has more than four times as many people as the U.S.

Sweet sizzlin’ beans! Fancy names may boost healthy dining LINDSEY TANNER

AP Medical Writer

CHICAGO — Researchers tried a big serving of food psychology and a dollop of trickery to get diners to eat their vegetables. And it worked. Veggies given names like “zesty ginger-turmeric sweet potatoes” and “twisted citrus-glazed carrots” were more popular than those prepared exactly the same way but with plainer, more healthful-sounding labels. Diners more often said “no thanks” when the food had labels like “low-fat,” ‘’reduced-sodium” or “sugar-free.” More diners chose the fancy-named items, and selected larger portions of them too in the experiment last fall at a Stanford University cafeteria. “While it may seem like a good idea to emphasize the healthiness of vegetables, doing so may actually backfire,” said lead author Bradley Turnwald, a graduate student in psychology.

RICHARD DREW

This photo shows roasted carrot hummus with crudite and pita chips at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York. Other research has shown that people tend to think of healthful sounding food as less tasty, so the aim was to make it sound as good as more indulgent, fattening fare. Researchers from Stanford’s psychology department tested the idea as a way to improve eating habits and make a dent in the growing obesity epidemic . “This novel, low-cost intervention could easily be implemented

in cafeterias, restaurants, and consumer products to increase selection of healthier options,” they said. The results were published Monday JAMA Internal Medicine. The study was done over 46 days last fall. Lunchtime vegetable offerings were given different labels on different days. For example, on one day diners could choose “dynamite chili and tangy lime-seasoned beets.” On other days the same item was labeled “lighter-choice beets with no added sugar,” ‘’high antioxidant beets,” or simply “beets.” Almost one-third of the nearly 28,000 diners chose a vegetable offering during the study. The tasty-sounding offering was the most popular, selected by about 220 diners on average on days it was offered, compared with about 175 diners who chose the simple-label vegetable. The healthy-sounding labels were the least popular.

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Magic Valley sends 17 to NHSFR

Cruz helps Mariners cruise

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Nelson Cruz has 4 RBIs in Seattle’s 14-3 win over Twins

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‌ OCATELLO — The Magic ValP ley will be well-represented at the 69th annual National High School Finals Rodeo. Last week, 17 local contestants qualified for the NHSFR thanks to top-four performances at the state rodeo finals at the Bannock County Event Center in Pocatello. In the timed events, the two top cowgirls in District V, Delaney Kunau from Declo and Jett Parke from Gooding, qualified for the trip to Wyoming. Kunau, the district’s allaround winner, will compete in breakaway, and reserve winner Parke will vie in breakaway and also goats. The reserve cowboy in District V, Brayden Roe from Wendell, will partner with Breck Ward from Richfield in team roping, and the two will also compete in tie down. Roe was the tiedown state champion. Joining Roe and Ward in tie down will be the District VI top cowboy, Britton Bedke from Oakley. Another District V pair, Chancy Bott from Paul and Trevor Scott from Filer, will participate in team roping. District VI will be represented by Jace Tolle from Burley in steer wrestling, and Filer’s Brinn Bowman is the lone area qualifier in pole bending. Rough stock qualifiers include District VI’s Beau Southern from Raft River in bareback and Heston Curtis from Filer and District V’s Audie Zimmers from Dietrich in saddle bronc. Jacee Lancaster from Jerome and Breyana Miller-Dubray from Eureka, NV. will represent District V in girl’s cutting, and District VI’s Tate Cranney from Oakley will be the boys sole cutting participant from the area. District VI’s Cooper Champneys from Kimberly is the state champion in rifle shooting and also will be entered in trap shooting. District V state champion Moira Taber from Shoshone will compete in the Queen contest. Neither district qualified any competitors in barrels, bulls or reined cow horse. The NHSFR will be held from July 16 to July 22 at the CAMPLEX Event Facility in Gillette, Wyoming. The event features approximately 1,500 contestants from across the United States, Canada and Australia. The cowboys and cowgirls will be competing for national titles, assorted prizes and their share of thousands of dollars in college scholarships. Rodeo performances are twice each day. The top 20 contestants in each event advance to a final round of competition to determine who will be the national champion and walk away with the championship buckles. Boys events at the NHSFR include bareback riding, bull riding, saddle bronc riding, tiedown roping, steer wrestling, team roping and cutting. Girl’s events include breakaway roping, barrel racing, pole bending, goat tying, cutting, team roping, and the NHSRA Queen contest. Boys and girls compete together in team roping, trap shooting and rifle shooting but are separate in all other events. National qualifiers‌

Bareback riding: 1. Colton Clemens, 64 points; 2. Jake Kesl, 51.5; 3. Wyatt Neal, 44; 4. Beau Southern, 37.5 Barrel racing: 1. Brook Layne, 52 points; 2. Maddie Hall, 41; 3. Jessi Jane Portenier, 40.5; 4. Josie Jensen, 37 Breakaway: 1. Lexi Simper, 55 points; 2. Jett Parke, 39; 3. Delaney Kunau, 35; 4. Sydney Ricks, 35 Bull riding: 1. Coby Johnson, 53 points; 2. Wes Ireland, 40.5; 3. Tristen Hutchings, 33; 4. Pete Bradshaw, 31 Boys cutting: 1. Tyler Nicholson, 64 points; 2. Casey Budge, 49.25; 3. Tate Cranney, 44.25; 4. Hagen Wallace 42.5 Girls cutting: 1. Zayle Davis, 62.5 points; 2. Corrie Finney, 60; 3. Jacee Lancaster, 52.5; 4. Breyana Miller-Dubray, 40.5 Goat tying: 1. Lindsey Pulsipher, 65 points; 2. Jimi Lloyd, 48.5; 3. Ember Casperson, 40.5; 4. Jett Parke, 30.5 Pole bending: 1. Shelbie Allen, 60 points; 2. Lori Ayers 55.5; 3. Brinn Bowman, 37; 4. Mikayla Searle, 36.5 Reined cow horse: 1. Daxon Buttars, 56.5 points; 2. Zayle Davis, 54.5; 3. Cassidee Wood, 48; Kyler Erickson, 42.5 Rifle shooting: 1. Cooper Champneys, 316 score; 2. Wyatt Warren, 274; 3. Payt Goodey, 273; 4. Jimi Lloyd, 263 Saddle bronc: 1. Kade Bruno, 53.5 points; 2. Cody Weeks, 52.5; 3. Heston Curtis, 42; 4. Audie Zimmers, 37.5 Steer wrestling: 1. Hazen Smith, 53.5 points; 2. Colton Clemens, 42; 3. Dalton Clevenger, 37.5; 4. Jace Tolle, 36.5 Team roping: 1. Brayden Roe and Breck Ward, 52 points; 2. Tanner Lewis, and Hagen Wallace, 46.5; 3. Chancy Bott and Trevor Scott, 34.5; 4. Daxon Buttars and Michael Kunzler 31.5 Tie down roping: 1. Brayden Roe, 55 points; 2. Trae Smith, 43.5; 3. Britton Bedke, 33; 4. Breck Ward, 31.5 M Trap shooting: 1. Tyler Orchard, 99 score; 2. Justin Partain, 98; 1 3. Cooper Champneys, 95; 4. Payt Goodey, 89

DAVE CAMPBELL

AP Sports Writer‌

BEN MARGOT, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, bottom, reacts under forward Kevin Durant (35) and forward Draymond Green during the second half of Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Oakland, Calif., Monday.

Warriors exact revenge on Cavs Durant scores 39, wins first title JANIE MCCAULEY

AP Sports Writer‌

‌OAKLAND, Calif. — Kevin Durant capped his spectacular first season with the Warriors by bringing home that coveted NBA championship he joined Golden State last July so determined to get, scoring 39 points in a fast-and-furious, Finals-clinching 129-120 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night. Stephen Curry added 34 points, 10 assists and six rebounds as Golden State closed out its second title in three years after squandering a 3-1 lead a year ago to the Cavs to miss a repeat. That stung ever since, and even Durant understood, because he gave up the same lead to the Warriors

a round earlier with Oklahoma City. “We learned from everything we’ve been through,” Curry said during the trophy celebration. “Our perspective, being blessed to play on this stage three years in a row, it’s for these fans, for our organization, for these families. To be back here, bring ol’ Larry back home, I’m just excited to do something special. I’m ready to do it again.” James, who in 2012 with Miami beat the Thunder in Durant’s only other Finals, wound up with 41 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists. Kyrie Irving followed up his 40-point gem in Friday’s Game 4 with 26 points but shot 9 for 22. This time, King James gave way to KD, who was the NBA Finals MVP 10 years after being picked second in the NBA draft behind Greg Oden. “It’s just a great group of

guys, great community, great arena, great fans,” Durant said. “I’m just so happy to be a part of it. I can’t wait to celebrate with my teammates in the locker room.” Durant drove left, right and down the middle, knocked down 3-pointers, dished and dunked. He knocked down a 17foot fadeaway over James early in the fourth quarter, then assisted on a 3-pointer by Andre Iguodala the next time down as the Warriors pulled away. Iguodala, the 2015 Finals MVP, came up big again with his 2017 postseason-best 20 points off the bench and stingy defense on James in a testy, tightly called finale to this trilogy Finals that everyone had stamped on the calendar from the moment Durant departed Oklahoma City to join Curry and Co. Please see WARRIORS, Page B3

MINNEAPOLIS — Nelson ‌ Cruz drove in four runs, Mitch Haniger had four hits, and the Seattle Mariners started a series against Minnesota with a football score for the second time in a week to beat the Twins 14-3 on Monday night. Danny Valencia and Mike Zunino hit back-to-back home runs in the eighth inning, the fifth such feat for the Mariners this season. Yovani Gallardo (3-6) sailed through six innings with the excess support, allowing three runs and seven hits. Twins rookie Adalberto Mejia (1-2) struggled from the start, allowing nine hits and nine runs and leaving with two outs in the fourth inning. The first two batters in the lineup, Ben Gamel and Haniger, reached base and eventually scored all three times they faced Mejia. Cruz just missed a homer for the seventh straight game at Target Field, settling for an RBI double off the wall against Twins backup catcher Chris Gimenez in the mop-up ninth inning following a replay review that reversed the original call. Gimenez made his fifth appearance of the year to relieve a beleaguered bullpen. That’s because the Twins, despite their perch in first place in the AL Central, have allowed 10-plus runs an astounding 10 times already this season. That’s two games in a row, too, following a 13-8 loss at San Francisco on Sunday afternoon. They lost 12-3 in Seattle to the Mariners just six days ago. Zunino and Carlos Ruiz were the previous pair to hit consecutive homers for the Mariners, also against the Twins last week during a 6-5 comeback victory. Brian Dozier had three hits and Joe Mauer drove in two runs for the Twins, who lost their fifth straight home game. KING FELIX Mariners right-hander Felix Hernandez will get at least one more rehab start with Triple-A Tacoma, after a successful turn on Sunday. “We want to get him up to 80, 85 pitches so when he comes back we feel good about running him out to 100,” manager Scott Servais said. “I’m really excited he threw the ball much better and kind of got his rhythm going out there on the mound.”

Taillon, Pirates beat Rockies Taillon underwent cancer surgery JOHN PERROTTO

Associated Press‌

PITTSBURGH — Jameson ‌ Taillon walked off the mound for the final time Monday night, sat in the dugout and felt fortunate to have pitched once again in the major leagues. Taillon worked five scoreless innings in his return from treatments for testicular cancer and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Colorado Rockies 7-2. “I Just got to step back and enjoy the moment and realize that I was back,” Taillon said. “It was special to see all my teammates. The Pirates, the coaches, the medical staff, management, the players, everyone was with me every step. It was special.” Taillon (3-1) allowed five hits, walked two and struck out five. The 25-year-old had surgery May 8, four days after losing to the Reds at Cincinnati, then made three rehab starts in the minor leagues. “He pitched well,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “His

command wasn’t anything close to what we’ve seen in the past. He went out there and he pitched. It was fun to watch. He had to roll up his sleeves and go to work.” Josh Harrison hit a two-run home run, his eighth, in the first inning off Kyle Freeland (7-4). Harrison, David Freese and Jose Osuna each had two hits for the Pirates. Freeland, a rookie, lost for the first time in seven road starts by giving up five runs (four earned) and nine hits in 5 2/3 innings. Freeland failed to pitch the past the sixth inning for just the second time in his last 10 starts and allowed a home run in a sixth consecutive outing. “The sinker is my bread-andbutter pitch, especially against right-handed hitters, and they figured out the movement on it pretty quickly and barreled them up,” Freeland said. The NL West-leading Rockies dropped their second straight game following a seven-game winning streak. Pittsburgh won its third straight. Freese hit an RBI double and scored on Andrew McCutchen’s single in the third, extending the

GENE J. PUSKAR, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌

Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Jameson Taillon delivers in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in Pittsburgh, Monday. Pirates’ lead to 4-0. The Rockies got their first run in the sixth when Trevor Story broke an 0-for-15 skid with an RBI single, but the Pirates countered with a run in the sixth and two in the seventh to break the game open at 7-1. Colorado’s Nolan Arenado had three hits, and DJ LeMahieu and Pat Valaika added two each.

The Rockies went 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position and stranded 10 runners. “That was uncharacteristic for us because we’ve swinging the bats well lately,” Colorado manager Bud Black said. “Sometimes, you just have games like this.” Please see TAILLON, Page B3

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SPORTS GLANCE‌

Burley Boys Basketball Camp‌‌ Burley will host a boys basketball camp from June 12-14 at Burley High School. The camp for players aged 5th-8th grade will run from 8-11 a.m., and the camp for players aged K-4th grade will run from 1-3:30 p.m. each day. Cost is $65 per camper. Registration and check-in will begin at 7 a.m. on June 12.

7th Annual Canyon Ridge Pole Vault Camp‌‌ Canyon Ridge will host its seventh annual pole vault camp from June 12-14 at Canyon Ridge High School from 6-8:30 p.m. The camp is for athletes aged 6-12th grade, and athletes of any skill level are welcome. The cost is $75 ($25 per day). Returning campers receive a $25 discount. Canyon Ridge will also host open pit days on May 31 and June 7 at Canyon Ridge High School from 6-8 p.m. The cost is $10 per session, and a free open pit if the athlete attempts the pole vault camp. For more information, contact Leah Holloway at 208-420-6069.

Jerome Recreation District Golf/Tennis Lessons‌‌ The Jerome Recreation District will be hosting tennis lessons and golf lessons in June. Tennis lessons will be held June 12-June 16 from 10 a.m.-noon, led by Jerome High School tennis coach Nicole Waitley. Cost is $30 for players in district, and $40 for players out of district. Participants will need their own tennis racket, a can of tennis balls, and a water bottle. Adult and youth golf lessons will be held June 20-22 at 93 Golf Ranch, with instruction given by golf pros. Instruction for players ages 6-11 will be held from 8:15-about 9:15 am or 9:30 a.m.10:30 a.m., ages 12-17 are 10:45-11:45 a.m., and adults are 5:30-6:45 p.m. or 7-8:15 p.m. There is a 10-person limit per group. Cost for youth is $25 for golfers in district or $35 for golfers out of district. For adults, cost is $35 for golfers in district or $45 for golfers out of district. Registration for tennis lessons can be done by phone call at 208-324-3380 with a Visa or MasterCard, and registration for golf lessons can be done by phone call at 208-324-3389 with a Visa or Mastercard. Registration for either can also be done in person at JRD located at 2032 South Lincoln, or online at jeromerecreationdistrict. com.

Pleasant Valley Golf Course Junior Golf Camp‌‌ Pleasant Valley Golf Course (5 miles south of Kimberly) will host a junior golf camp beginning the week of June 16. The camp is for youth aged 5 – 16, and all skill levels welcome. The camp includes six weeks of instruction on the driving range, putting green, chipping green, and play time on the course. The last day will feature a mini tournament and a barbecue. Cost is $60 and space is limited. For more information, call 208-423-5800.

Buhl Fun Run‌‌ Buhl will host a family friendly fun run on July 4. The events include a 5K walk, a 5K run and a 10 K run, and the proceeds go toward scholarships for Key Club students. Prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers in each event of each age group. Registration starts at 7 a.m. at the Jones Furniture Store on Main Street and 11th Avenue North, and the races begin at 8 a.m. For pre-registration and more information, visit magicvalleytiming.com or contact Steve Kaatz at 208-534-8576. Submit your sports news to sports@magicvalley. com.‌

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Arena rebuilds US confidence RONALD BLUM

AP Sports Writer‌

‌ EXICO CITY — Bruce Arena has managed M the tricky task of establishing a sense of calm along with urgency within the U.S. soccer team. It’s quite a contrast to the frustration and futility at the end of Jurgen Klinsmann’s coaching reign last November. Of course, climbing from last to third in the final round of World Cup qualifying has eased pressure immensely. “We haven’t lost yet this year since Bruce has had the team,” U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati said Tuesday, a day after a 1-1 draw with Mexico at Azteca Stadium. “So whatever has gotten us there, whatever occasion or bonding that’s led to a change, that’s a positive, and certainly Bruce has to receive a lot of credit.”

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Twins draft California prep shortstop No. 1 DENNIS WASZAK JR.

AP Sports Writer‌

SECAUCUS, N.J. — The ‌ Minnesota Twins think they’ve got their shortstop of the future in the speedy and slick-fielding Royce Lewis. The California high school star was taken with the No. 1 pick in the Major League Baseball draft Monday night. It was the third time the Twins were up first — the last time was 2001, when they grabbed hometown high school catcher Joe Mauer with the top choice. “My body just went numb,” Lewis said during an interview with MLB Network. “It was an unbelievable feeling.” Lewis played both shortstop and outfield in high school. But the Twins, who lead the AL Central after going 59-103 last year, classified him as a shortstop when Commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement at MLB Network studios. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound Lewis hit .377 with four homers and 25 stolen bases for JSerra Catholic High School, establishing himself as a top prospect with excellent speed and a solid bat. “He’s got that ‘it’ factor that a No. 1 pick needs to survive and move forward and have success at the end of the journey,” said Mike Radcliff, the Twins’ vice president for player personnel. “He checked all the boxes for us.” The 18-year-old Lewis was a standout on USA Baseball’s gold medal-winning Under-18 team at the Pan American Championships last year and was selected as this year’s National High School Coaches Association’s high school senior baseball athlete of the year. “We know he’s going to be a leader the second he steps on the field,” Twins chief baseball officer Derek Falvey said. “We’ll let the baseball play take care of itself.” With the second pick, Cincinnati took California high school right-hander Hunter Greene, one of the top twoway talents in a draft stocked with them.

ALLEN J. SCHABEN, LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA AP‌

This May 20, 2016 photo shows JSerra Catholic High School third baseman Royce Lewis preparing to throw to first base during an opening round Division 1 baseball playoff game in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Greene, chosen as a pitcher, also played shortstop at Notre Dame High School, but a fastball that can reach 100 mph has the Reds projecting him as a future ace. Greene, featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated this season, was the first of four prospects in attendance at the draft site to be selected. He was asked to give a scouting report on himself as a pitcher. “Man, I’m a monster,” he said, chuckling. “I’m different on the field than I am off the field. I’m just going to go out there and compete and challenge and pound the zone and go after guys like I know I can and like everybody else knows I can.” And while the Reds drafted him as a pitcher, Greene sounded as though he still might have designs on playing the infield, too. “I don’t even know yet,” he said, wearing a Cincinnati cap and jersey. “I still love doing both and I think the ballclub is excited for getting two play-

San Francisco 13, Minnesota 8 Texas 5, Washington 1 Arizona 11, Milwaukee 1 ‌American League L.A. Dodgers 9, Cincinnati 7 Kansas City 8, San Diego 3 ‌East Division ‌Monday’s Games W L Pct GB‌ Atlanta 11, Washington 10 New York 37 23 .617 — Pittsburgh 7, Colorado 2 Boston 35 28 .556 3½ Tampa Bay 34 32 .515 6 Boston 6, Philadelphia 5, 11 innings Baltimore 31 31 .500 7 N.Y. Mets 6, Chicago Cubs 1 Toronto 31 32 .492 7½ Cincinnati at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. ‌Tuesday’s Games ‌Central Division Milwaukee (Nelson 4-3) at St. Louis (Lynn 4-3), W L Pct GB‌ 12:15 p.m., 1st game Minnesota 32 28 .533 — Atlanta (Dickey 4-4) at Washington (Ross 3-2), Cleveland 31 29 .517 1 5:05 p.m. Detroit 30 32 .484 3 Colorado (Chatwood 6-7) at Pittsburgh (Cole Kansas City 28 34 .452 5 3-6), 5:05 p.m. Chicago 27 35 .435 6 Arizona (Greinke 8-3) at Detroit (Farmer 2-0), ‌West Division 5:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Lester 3-4) at N.Y. Mets (Wheeler W L Pct GB‌ Houston 44 21 .677 — 3-3), 5:10 p.m. Los Angeles 33 33 .500 11½ L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 8-2) at Cleveland Seattle 32 33 .492 12 (Bauer 5-5), 5:10 p.m. Texas 31 32 .492 12 Oakland (Cotton 3-6) at Miami (Urena 4-2), Oakland 27 36 .429 16 5:10 p.m. ‌Sunday’s Games Philadelphia (Lively 1-1) at Boston (Price 1-1), N.Y. Yankees 14, Baltimore 3 5:10 p.m. Cleveland 4, Chicago White Sox 2 Milwaukee (Espino 0-0) at St. Louis (Gonzales Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 4 0-0), 6:15 p.m., 2nd game L.A. Angels 12, Houston 6 Cincinnati (Feldman 5-4) at San Diego (Richard San Francisco 13, Minnesota 8 4-7), 8:10 p.m. Texas 5, Washington 1 Kansas City (Vargas 8-3) at San Francisco Toronto 4, Seattle 0 (Blach 4-3), 8:15 p.m. Kansas City 8, San Diego 3 ‌Wednesday’s Games Detroit 8, Boston 3 Oakland at Miami, 10:10 a.m. ‌Monday’s Games Cincinnati at San Diego, 1:40 p.m. Boston 6, Philadelphia 5, 11 innings Kansas City at San Francisco, 1:45 p.m. Chicago White Sox 10, Baltimore 7 Atlanta at Washington, 2:05 p.m. Seattle 14, Minnesota 3 Boston at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. Texas 6, Houston 1 Colorado at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, 8:07 p.m. Arizona at Detroit, 5:10 p.m. ‌Tuesday’s Games Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Faria 1-0) at Toronto (Estrada L.A. Dodgers at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m. 4-4), 5:07 p.m. Milwaukee at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m. Arizona (Greinke 8-3) at Detroit (Farmer 2-0), 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 8-2) at Cleveland (Bauer 5-5), 5:10 p.m. ‌PGA Tour Oakland (Cotton 3-6) at Miami (Urena 4-2), ‌Through June 11 5:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Lively 1-1) at Boston (Price 1-1), ‌FedExCup Season Points 5:10 p.m. Baltimore (Asher 2-4) at Chicago White Sox 1, Dustin Johnson, 2,269.650. 2, Justin Thomas, 1,977.373. 3, Hideki Matsuyama, 1,875.380. (Holland 4-6), 6:10 p.m. Seattle (Bergman 3-3) at Minnesota (Gibson 4, Jon Rahm, 1,707.826. 5, Jordan Spieth, 1,458.546. 6, Kevin Kisner , 1,451.500. 7, Pat 3-4), 6:10 p.m. Texas (Martinez 1-3) at Houston (Peacock 3-1), Perez, 1,425.591. 8, Rickie Fowler, 1,319.196. 9, Adam Hadwin, 1,235.650. 10, Daniel Berger, 6:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 7-2) at L.A. Angels 1,150.368. (Ramirez 6-4), 8:07 p.m. ‌Scoring Average Kansas City (Vargas 8-3) at San Francisco 1, Sergio Garcia, 69.304. 2, Jordan Spieth, (Blach 4-3), 8:15 p.m. 69.411. 3, Rickie Fowler, 69.419. 4 , Justin ‌Wednesday’s Games Thomas, 69.681. 5, Francesco Molinari, 69.682. Oakland at Miami, 10:10 a.m. 6, Dustin Johnson, 69.743. 7, Jon Rahm, 69.767. Kansas City at San Francisco, 1:45 p.m. 8, Marc Leishman, 69.825. 9, Justin Rose, Boston at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. 69.827. 10, Adam Scott, 69.926. Tampa Bay at Toronto, 5:07 p.m. ‌Driving Distance Arizona at Detroit, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m. 1, Dustin Johnson, 312.1. 2, Luke List, 311.4. 3, Baltimore at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. Brandon Hagy, 310.0. 4, Andrew Loupe, 309.6. Seattle at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. 5, Brooks Koepka, 307.6. 6, Ryan Brehm, 307.1. Texas at Houston, 6:10 p.m. 7, Kevin Tway, 306.4. 8, Tony Finau, 306.0. 9, N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, 8:07 p.m. Grayson Murray, 305.9. 10, Trey Mullinax, 305.4. ‌National League

BASEBALL

GOLF

‌East Division

‌Driving Accuracy Percentage

1, Steve Stricker, 72.85%. 2, Francesco Molinari, W L Pct GB‌ Washington 38 25 .603 — 71.71%. 3, Brian Stuard, 71.21%. 4, Jim Furyk, New York 29 33 .468 8½ 70.46%. 5, William McGirt, 70.27%. 6, Boo Atlanta 28 35 .444 10 Weekley, 70.23%. 7, Ryan Armour, 69.81%. 8, Miami 27 35 .435 10½ Soren Kjeldsen, 69.74%. 9, Graeme McDowell, Philadelphia 21 41 .339 16½ 69.61%. 10, Chez Reavie, 69.43%.

‌Central Division

‌Greens in Regulation Percentage

W L Pct GB‌ 1, Dustin Johnson, 72.53%. 2, Kyle Stanley, Milwaukee 33 31 .516 — 71.95%. 3, Lucas Glover, 70.98%. 4, Jordan Chicago 31 32 .492 1½ Spieth, 70.90%. 5, Jim Herman, 70.81%. 6, St. Louis 29 32 .475 2½ Cincinnati 29 33 .468 3 Tony Finau, 70.75%. 7, Sergio Garcia and Paul Pittsburgh 29 35 .453 4 Casey, 70.68%. 9, Billy Horschel, 70.59%. 10,

‌West Division

Hideki Matsuyama, 70.41%.

‌Total Driving

W L Pct GB‌ Colorado 41 25 .621 — 1, Rickie Fowler, 58. 2, Sergio Garcia, 64. 3, Los Angeles 39 25 .609 1 Kyle Stanley, 70. 4, Lucas Glover, 80. 5, Bubba Arizona 39 26 .600 1½ Watson, 82. 6, Graham DeLaet, 90. 7, Keegan San Francisco 26 39 .400 14½ Bradley, 94. 8, Shane Lowry, 96. 9, Brendan San Diego 24 40 .375 16 Steele, 97. 10, Russell Henley, 99.

‌Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets 2, Atlanta 1 Pittsburgh 3, Miami 1 St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 5 Chicago Cubs 7, Colorado 5

‌SG-Putting 1, Tyrrell Hatton, 1.075. 2, Michael Thompson, .911. 3, Luke Donald, .865. 4, Rafa Cabrera Bello, .861. 5, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano, .817. 6,

ers for one. So I think they’re pretty pumped up for that, so we’ll see how it works out.” Falvey said the Twins’ choice came down to the waning minutes and the decision to pass on Greene was “really tough.” “We felt Royce separated himself from those other guys just a bit, and we feel like he’s somebody that we’ll build around for the future,” Falvey said. At No. 3, San Diego selected North Carolina prep left-hander MacKenzie Gore, marking the first time since 1990 that the top three picks were all high school players. Louisville two-way star Brendan McKay was drafted fourth overall by Tampa Bay as a first baseman. McKay had teams considering whether they should draft him as a pitcher, hitter — or both. The Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year is hitting .343 with 17 homers and 56 RBIs for the College World Series-bound Cardinals. He’s also 10-3 with 2.34 ERA and

Steve Wheatcroft, .779. 7, Rickie Fowler, .728. 8, Graeme McDowell, .725. 9, Charl Schwartzel, .635. 10, 2 tied with .626.

140 strikeouts and 33 walks in 104 innings on the mound. “It’s just awesome, getting to swing it every day, play every day,” McKay said in an interview with MLB Network. “It’s going to be fun to be involved, and being on the field a lot.” Atlanta selected Vanderbilt right-hander Kyle Wright — who grew up a Braves fan — with the No. 5 pick, looking to augment a large stable of touted arms already in the team’s farm system. After North Carolina high school outfielder Austin Beck went sixth to Oakland, a pair of University of Virginia teammates were picked with the next two selections: first baseman Pavin Smith to Arizona and outfielder Adam Haseley to Philadelphia. The University of North Carolina also had a pair of first-rounders: right-hander J.B. Bukauskas went 15th to Houston and shortstop Logan Warmoth 22nd to Toronto. UC Irvine second baseman Keston Hiura was the ninth pick. The Los Angeles Angels rounded out the top 10 by taking Kentucky high school outfielder Jordon Adell, the second player in attendance to be selected. “I can’t wait to get out to LA,” Adell said. “They’re getting the full package, I believe.” At No. 13, Miami took New Mexico high school lefty Trevor Rogers, who was also at the draft site and is the cousin of former Marlins outfielder Cody Ross. “Cody would have taken him 1/1 I think,” Marlins vice president of scouting Stan Meek said. “He loves him. He says he’s a great kid, a hard worker and the kind of person we want in our system.” In a touching moment that drew a standing ovation from the former major leaguers serving as team representatives, 11-year-old Yankees fan Landis Sims — born without hands or feet — announced his favorite team’s first-round selection: South Carolina righthander Clarke Schmidt at No. 16 overall.

(3), $555,720. 8, Tom Lehman, (8), $554,723. 9, Stephen Ames, (9), $540,872. 10, Kenny Perry, (10), $481,905.

‌Birdie Average

‌Scoring Average

1, Justin Thomas, 4.78. 2, Jordan Spieth, 4.74. 3, Rickie Fowler, 4.45. 4, Hideki Matsuyama, 4.43. 5, Jon Rahm, 4.30. 6, Justin Rose, 4.28. 7, Anirban Lahiri, 4.20. 8, Phil Mickelson and Scott Piercy, 4.18. 10, 2 tied with 4.14.

1, Fred Couples, 67.57. 2, Bernhard Langer, 68.06. 3, Scott McCarron, 68.77. 4, Miguel Angel Jimenez, 68.84. 5, Kevin Sutherland, 68.90. 6, Tom Lehman, 69.48. 7, Stephen Ames, 69.52. 8, Billy Andrade, 69.59. 9, Jerry Kelly, 69.68. 10, 2 tied with 69.74.

‌Eagles 1, Martin Laird, 84.0. 2, Justin Thomas, 90.0. 3, Jason Dufner and Brooks Koepka, 96.0. 5, Jason Day, 102.0. 6, Wesley Bryan, 102.6. 7, Hideki Matsuyama, 103.5. 8, Ryan Brehm, 106.0. 9, Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose, 108.0.

‌Sand Save Percentage 1, Rickie Fowler, 72.37%. 2, Luke Donald, 71.83%. 3, Jason Day, 66.67%. 4, Gary Woodland, 66.18%. 5, Adam Hadwin, 65.85%. 6, Webb Simpson, 64.29%. 7, Tim Wilkinson, 64.18%. 8, Jimmy Walker, 63.29%. 9, Seung-Yul Noh, 62.39%. 10, Charl Schwartzel, 62.30%.

‌All-Around Ranking 1, Rickie Fowler, 197. 2, Hideki Matsuyama, 226. 3, Jon Rahm, 265. 4, Justin Rose, 274. 5, Kyle Stanley, 314. 6, Patrick Cantlay, 315. 7, Tony Finau, 326. 8, Jordan Spieth, 331. 9, Marc Leishman, 336. 10, Sergio Garcia, 340.

‌LPGA Tour

‌Through June 11

‌Driving Distance 1, Tommy Armour III, 301.3. 2, Kenny Perry, 301.2. 3, John Daly, 300.6. 4, Brandt Jobe, 298.1. 5, Scott Parel, 296.4. 6, Scott McCarron, 295.9. 7, Tim Petrovic and Doug Garwood, 292.0. 9, Fred Couples, 291.6. 10, Miguel Angel Jimenez, 291.0.

‌Driving Accuracy Percentage 1, Colin Montgomerie, 85.44%. 2, Fred Funk, 85.03%. 3, Hale Irwin, 84.42%. 4, Olin Browne, 79.41%. 5, Rocco Mediate, 78.97%. 6, David Toms and Joe Durant, 78.34%. 8, Jeff Maggert, 78.01%. 9, Bart Bryant, 78.00%. 10, Jerry Kelly, 77.62%.

‌Greens in Regulation Percentage 1, Bernhard Langer, 78.81%. 2, Tom Lehman, 78.65%. 3, Scott Dunlap and Kevin Sutherland, 77.56%. 5, Fred Couples, 76.98%. 6, Brandt Jobe, 76.67%. 7, Colin Montgomerie, 75.56%. 8, Joe Durant, 74.90%. 9, Marco Dawson, 74.77%. 10, Jeff Sluman, 74.49%.

‌Scoring

‌Total Driving

1, Lexi Thompson, 69.0790. 2, In Gee Chun, 69.1390. 3, So Yeon Ryu, 69.2110. 4, Inbee Park, 69.2900. 5, Sung Hyun Park, 69.3140. 6, Ariya Jutanugarn, 69.3540. 7, Mirim Lee, 69.5000. 8, Stacy Lewis, 69.5130. 9, Anna Nordqvist, 69.6470. 10, Shanshan Feng, 69.7100.

1, Miguel Angel Jimenez, 24. 2, Kenny Perry, 31. 3, Joe Durant, 40. 4, Jerry Kelly, 42. 5, Jeff Maggert and David Toms, 44. 7, Ian Woosnam, 45. 8, Rod Spittle, 49. 9, Fred Couples, 50. 10, Colin Montgomerie, 51.

‌Driving Distance 1, Joanna Klatten, 278.1. 2, Lexi Thompson, 275.9. 3, Maude-Aimee Leblanc, 275.7. 4, Brittany Lincicome, 274.5. 5, Sung Hyun Park, 274.4. 6, Jessica Korda, 273.8. 7, Angel Yin, 272.3. 8, Cydney Clanton, 272.1. 9, Suzann Pettersen, 271.1. 10, Sadena Parks, 268.5.

‌Greens in Regulation 1, So Yeon Ryu, .789. 2, Lexi Thompson, .784. 3, Ha Na Jang, .780. 4, Anna Nordqvist, .771. 5, Sei Young Kim, .769. 6, In Gee Chun, .764. 7, Caroline Masson, .761. 8, Mirim Lee, .758. 9, Inbee Park, .754. 10, Austin Ernst, .754.

‌Putts per GIR 1, Inbee Park, 1.71. 2, Jessica Korda, 1.71. 3, Hyo Joo Kim, 1.72. 4, Stacy Lewis, 1.73. 5, Cristie Kerr, 1.74. 6, Stephanie Meadow1.74. 7, Ariya Jutanugarn, 1.74. 8, In Gee Chun, 1.75. 9, Amy Yang, 1.75. 10, Catriona Matthew and Lydia Ko, 1.75.

‌Birdies 1, Ariya Jutanugarn, 214. 2, Brooke M.Henderson, 187. 3, Moriya Jutanugarn and Lexi Thompson, 182. 5, Austin Ernst, 179. 6, Sarah Jane Smith and Lizette Salas, 171. 8, Amy Yang, 168. 9, Chella Choi, 167. 10, Stacy Lewis, 166.

‌Eagles 1, Brittany Lincicome, 7. 2, Stacy Lewis, So Yeon Ryu, Alison Lee and Nicole Broch Larsen, 6. 6, Gerina Piller, Nelly Korda and Jessica Korda, 5. 9, 16 tied with 4.

‌Sand Save Percentage 1, Lexi Thompson, .759. 2, Ai Miyazato, .714. 3, Ayako Uehara, .680. 4, Amelia Lewis, .677. 5, Morgan Pressel, .676. 6, Jennifer Song and Demi Runas, .625. 8, Charley Hull, .615. 9, Ariya Jutanugarn, .609. 10, Mina Harigae and Yani Tseng, .600.

‌Rounds Under Par 1, Ariya Jutanugarn, .813. 2, Inbee Park, .806. 3, In Gee Chun, .806. 4, Moriya Jutanugarn, .800. 5, Jessica Korda, .794. 6, Minjee Lee, .769. 7, Anna Nordqvist and Suzann Pettersen, .765. 9, So Yeon Ryu and Lexi Thompson, .763.

‌PGA Tour Champions ‌Through June 11

‌Charles Schwab Cup Money List 1, Bernhard Langer, (10), $1,769,651. 2, Scott McCarron, (11), $924,351. 3, Miguel Angel Jimenez, (9), $760,544. 4, Kevin Sutherland, (10), $744,367. 5, Fred Couples, (6), $631,233. 6, Brandt Jobe, (9), $556,978. 7, Vijay Singh,

‌Putting Average 1, Fred Couples, 1.649. 2, Scott Verplank, 1.679. 3, Bernhard Langer, 1.684. 4, Gene Sauers and Scott Parel, 1.703. 6, Scott Hoch, 1.704. 7, Scott McCarron, 1.708. 8, Tim Petrovic, 1.710. 9, Stephen Ames, 1.712. 10, Jose Maria Olazabal, 1.714.

‌Birdie Average 1, Fred Couples, 5.50. 2, Bernhard Langer, 5.35. 3, Scott McCarron, 5.00. 4, Miguel Angel Jimenez, 4.72. 5, Scott Parel, 4.66. 6, David Toms, 4.55. 7, Billy Andrade, 4.48. 8, Fran Quinn, 4.41. 9, 3 tied with 4.38.

‌Eagles 1, Fred Couples, 50.4. 2, Scott McCarron, 50.7. 3, Kevin Sutherland, 74.6. 4, Miguel Angel Jimenez, 75.0. 5, Gene Sauers and Bob Tway, 87.0. 7, Scott Verplank, 94.5. 8, Kenny Perry, 100.8. 9, Tom Lehman and Rocco Mediate, 103.5.

‌Sand Save Percentage 1, Brad Faxon, 70.00%. 2, Marco Dawson, 69.23%. 3, Bernhard Langer and Tom Pernice Jr., 67.74%. 5, Mark Brooks, 66.67%. 6, Lee Janzen, 65.12%. 7, John Daly, 64.00%. 8, Tommy Armour III, 63.64%. 9, Kirk Triplett, 63.33%. 10, Tom Kite, 62.07%.

‌All-Around Ranking 1, Bernhard Langer, 87. 2, Miguel Angel Jimenez, 116. 3, Fred Couples, 122. 4, Scott McCarron, 126. 5, Kevin Sutherland, 129. 6, Lee Janzen, 155. 7, Stephen Ames, 159. 8, Gene Sauers, 161. 9, Kenny Perry, 162. 10, Tom Lehman, 177.

AUTO RACING ‌NASCAR XFINITY Schedule-Winners

Feb. 25 — PowerShares QQQ 300 (Ryan Reed) March 4 — Rinnai 250 (Kyle Busch) March 11 — Boyd Gaming 300 (Joey Logano) March 18 — DC Solar 200 (Justin Allgaier) March 25 — Service King 300 (Kyle Larson) April 8 — My Bariatric Solutions 300 (Erik Jones) April 22 — Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 (Erik Jones) April 29 — ToyotaCare 250 (Kyle Larson) May 6 — Sparks Energy 300 (Aric Almirola) May 27 — Hisense 4k TV 300 (Ryan Blaney) June 3 — OneMain Financial 200 (Kyle Larson) June 10 — Pocono Green 250 (Brad Keselowski) June 17 — Michigan 250, Brooklyn, Mich. June 24 — American Ethanol E15 250, Newton, Iowa

June 30 — Subway Firecracker 250, Daytona Beach, Fla. July 7 — Alsco 300, Sparta, Ky. July 15 — New Hampshire 200, Loudon, N.H. July 22 — Indianapolis 250, Speedway, Ind. July 29 — US Cellular 250, Newton, Iowa Aug. 5 — Zippo 200 at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. Aug. 12 — Mid-Ohio 200, Lexington, Ohio Aug. 18 — Food City 300, Bristol, Tenn. Aug. 27 — Johnsonville 180, Elkhart Lake, Wis. Sept. 2 — Sport Clips VFW 200, Darlington, S.C. Sept. 8 — Virginia529 College Savings 250, Richmond, Va. Sept. 16 — Chicagoland 300, Joliet, Ill. Sept. 23 — VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300, Sparta, Ky. Sept. 30 — Drive Sober 200, Dover, Del. Oct. 6 — Drive for the Cure 300, Concord, N.C. Oct. 21 — Kansas Lottery 300, Kansas City, Kan. Nov. 4 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 300, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 11 — Ticket Galaxy 200, Avondale, Ariz. Nov. 18 — Ford EcoBoost 300, Homestead, Fla.

‌NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Schedule-Winners

Feb. 19 — x-Advance Auto Parts Clash (Joey Logano) Feb. 23 — x-Can-Am Duel at Daytona 1 (Chase Elliott) Feb. 23 — x-Can-Am Duel at Daytona 2 (Denny Hamlin) Feb. 26 — Daytona 500 (Kurt Busch) March 5 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (Brad Keselowski) March 12 — Kobalt 400 (Martin Truex Jr) March 19 — Camping World 500 (Ryan Newman) March 26 — Auto Club 400 (Kyle Larson) April 2 — STP 500 (Brad Keselowski) April 9 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 (Jimmie Johnson) April 24 — Food City 500 (Jimmie Johnson) April 30 — Toyota Owners 400 (Joey Logano) May 7 — Geico 500 (Ricky Stenhouse Jr) May 13 — Go Bowling 400 (Martin Truex Jr) May 20 — x-Monster Energy Open (Daniel Suarez) May 20 — x-Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race (Kyle Busch) May 28 — Coca-Cola 600 (Austin Dillon) June 4 — AAA 400 Drive for Autism (Jimmie Johnson) June 11 — Pocono Green 400 (Ryan Blaney) June 18 — FireKeepers Casino 400, Brooklyn, Mich. June 25 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. July 1 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. July 8 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky. July 16 — New Hampshire 301, Loudon, N.H. July 23 — Brickyard 400, Speedway, Ind. July 30 — Pennsylvania 400, Long Pond, Pa. Aug. 6 — Watkins Glen 355, Watkins Glen, N.Y. Aug. 13 — Pure Michigan 400, Brooklyn, Mich. Aug. 19 — Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. Sept. 3 — Bojangles’ Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. Sept. 9 — Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond, Va. Sept. 17 — Tale of the Turtles 400, Joliet, Ill. Sept. 24 — New England 300, Loudon, N.H. Oct. 1 — Delaware 400, Dover, Del. Oct. 8 — Bank of America 500, Concord, N.C. Oct. 15 — Alabama 500, Talladega, Ala. Oct. 22 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 29 — Goody’s Fast Relief 500, Martinsville, Va. Nov. 5 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 12 — Can-Am 500, Avondale, Ariz. Nov. 19 — Ford Ecoboost 400, Homestead, Fla. x-non-points race

BASKETBALL ‌NBA Playoffs ‌FINALS (‌ Best-of-7; x-if necessary) ‌Golden State 4, Cleveland 1 Thursday, June 1: Golden State 113, Cleveland 91 Sunday, June 4: Golden State 132, Cleveland 113 Wednesday, June 7: Golden State 118, Cleveland 113 Friday, June 9: Cleveland 137, Golden State 116 Monday, June 12: Golden State 129, Cleveland M 1 120

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Death, intrigue shadow Erin Hills course EDDIE PELLS

AP National Writer‌

‌The man who first imagined the grassy Wisconsin cattle farm as a potential piece of the U.S. Open’s hallowed history will see that vision come to life this week. Steve Trattner will be watching on TV from his prison cell, 40 miles away from Trattner Erin Hills. Trattner, 55, is the onetime software programmer whose passion for golf led him to call a Milwaukee-area millionaire businessman, Bob Lang. He persuaded Lang to look at the farm on what’s known as the Kettle Moraine, a land formation in east-central Wisconsin shaped thousands of years ago by buried glacial ice. Lang, who had long dreamed of building a golf course, fell in love

with the location and bought the territory, but would go on to lose millions in developing and eventually being forced to sell the 11-year-old layout. Through all that, Lang and Trattner fulfilled their mission of building a course to host a U.S. Open. And the existence of Erin Hills puts to rest the notion that a major championship course needs decades’ worth of golf stories to enjoy a rich history. “It was as close to an obsession as there can be for him,” Trattner’s attorney, Lew Wasserman, said of his client’s devotion to the golf course. “It was his life.” But only seven months before Lang — cash strapped and in need of revenue — rushed the course to open to the public in 2006, Trattner pleaded no contest to first-degree reckless homicide for killing his wife, Sin Lam. He is serving a 35-year prison sentence. Trattner is currently appeal-

ing his plea , arguing he was not properly represented in his earlier hearings. Wasserman argues much of the evidence was mishandled or omitted. The attorney says he finds it “sadly ironic” that at the time of his sentencing, Trattner, who worked part-time as Erin Hills project manager with a salary of $2,000 a month, was “portrayed as being this kind of bum who was puttering around with this land near Holy Hill.” “If you’re a judge, sitting up there with this guy sitting in front of you, and you see his wife who was supposedly strangled to death for no reason, you’re not going to care about some golf course that nobody knows about,” Wasserman said. According to the criminal complaint and other court documents along with testimony from authorities: Trattner told police he was in

the couple’s kitchen on the night of Jan. 3, 2006, when Lam told him she wanted a divorce. Trattner grabbed his wife by the shoulders, and she hit him on his chest. He threw her against the cabinets, banged her head on the floor 10 to 20 times and punched her face. He “used his hands around her throat until she stopped moving,” the complaint says. Trattner covered Lam’s body with a blanket and left her lying on the floor. Trattner went to bed, and woke up the next day to get the couple’s two children ready for school. Not until that afternoon did he call the police. Trattner told police he placed sleeping pills next to his wife’s head to make it look as if she had committed suicide. Wasserman said Trattner’s attorney at the time failed to include many of the details of the crime scene to the sentencing

judge. Wasserman describes a disintegrating marriage between Trattner and Lam, and escalating tension at home that turned into a physical altercation. Wasserman said there’s evidence that Lam had reached for a butcher block filled with knives before Trattner strangled her. “Is this a case of perfect self-defense? Maybe not,” Wasserman said. “But that’s not the issue. We’re not dealing with a jury’s verdict. We’re dealing with whether he was properly advised to enter a plea for first-degree reckless homicide.” The Waupaun Correctional Facility at which Trattner is incarcerated denied The Associated Press a phone interview with the inmate, citing “concerns about the impact on the victim’s family.” But in previous interviews, Trattner has said he’ll be watching as much of the U.S. Open as he can.

Penguins in historic company WILL GRAVES

AP Sports Writer‌

PITTSBURGH — The salary ‌ cap was a passion project for Mario Lemieux, the owner, when the NHL wrestled with it during the 2004-05 lockout even though he knows it would have been something Mario Lemieux, the player, would have fought to the bitter end. “We couldn’t compete with the (New York) Rangers and LA and the big markets and Chicago and Detroit,” the Pittsburgh Penguins Hall of Famer-turned-chairman recalled. So Lemieux pushed for the cap during the NHL’s lost winter, well aware the ripple effects would include a rise in league parity at the potential expense of the dynasties that have been a part of the league since it started awarding the Stanley Cup nearly a century ago. MATT SLOCUM, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌

Ryan Blaney celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Pocono 400 auto race, Sunday in Long Pond, Pa.

Blaney breakthrough a vintage NASCAR victory JENNA FRYER

AP Auto Racing Writer‌

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NA‌ SCAR’s newest winner arrived home in North Carolina to coolers filled by Dale Earnhardt Jr. with ice cold beer. He partied until 4 a.m. and finally went to sleep after Dale, Ricky, Danica, Bubba and all the rest went home. Back up at 9 Monday morning, Ryan Blaney watched a replay of Sunday’s win at Pocono Raceway . It was then that Blaney, just 23 years old, really appreciated the significance of driving the iconic No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford to victory lane. “It sunk in last night with my guys. It was a lot of fun to have them over to celebrate,” Blaney told The Associated Press. “Some moments last night I was just like, ‘Man, this is so cool to win for the Wood Brothers.’ Especially when I rewatched the race today.” It was the 99th career victory for the Wood Brothers, one of NASCAR’s oldest and most storied teams. The team has won at least one race in each of the last six decades, but it had not been to victory lane since Trevor Bayne’s upset in the 2011 Daytona 500. Blaney, who became the third first-time Cup Series winner in the last five races this season, is only the 18th driver to take the Wood Brothers to victory lane.

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BETTIS KNOWS Rockies right-hander Chad Bettis is also recovering from testicular cancer. He spoke with Taillon on the phone last month and plans to visit with him before the threegame series ends Wednesday night. “I guess it was meant to be for me to be here to see his first start

It was an old-school win, too, Blaney had to drive most of the race with zero radio communication with his crew. “I was saying we should just unplug my microphone more so I’m not complaining as much throughout the race,” Blaney said. “They could hear the mic key, they just couldn’t hear me. I could say it put you in your own head a little bit more if you’re not talking as much. I would still key the radio and I actually forgot the radio was broken after the last pit stop. “I was trying to talk, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we still can’t hear you.’ I completely forgot it was still broken.” Blaney is a third-generation racer, the son of NASCAR driver Dave Blaney (the guy who was leading the Daytona 500 in 2012 when Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into the jet dryer, starting a lengthy delay for fire), and grandson of dirt track star Lou Blaney. He wears hats that tout the Alabama 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, and retro T-shirts that support his appreciation for Bill Elliott and the Hall of Famers who raced long before he was born. It was no surprise to see Blaney in a vintage Wood Brothers shirt in the party pictures posted early Monday by some of NASCAR’s biggest stars. For fans who long for the old-

back,” Bettis said. “It’s a very positive step forward for him and I’m very happy.” Bettis is also upbeat about his recovery. He rejoined the Rockies last week after his final round of chemotherapy in Phoenix and is currently throwing off flat ground from 120 feet.

school driver who appreciates the past and even finds a way to represent it a bit, Blaney is your guy. The team has never really had the reason to sell merchandise, but one of the first calls the team received Monday was from an artist wondering what the Wood Brothers might need for Blaney retail items. Prior to his Pocono victory, the team had reached out with little success on getting more Blaney merchandise made. “I feel like I’ve always been that way (a throwback),” Blaney said Monday. “I enjoy the history of the sport, and driving for the Wood Brothers has made that come out more.” Although Blaney may remind you of a young Neil Bonnett, Buddy Baker or David Pearson, he is very much part of the rapid changing of the guard in NASCAR. With 12 races remaining before the playoff field is set, Blaney, Austin Dillon, Kyle Larson and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. are in because of their victories this season. Still winless? Former series champions Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, all of Joe Gibbs Racing, and Earnhardt Jr. Blaney is part of a wave of young drivers who are proving themselves worthy replacements for yesterday’s stars. Jeff Gordon is in his second year of retirement, Tony Stewart called it quits last

year and Earnhardt will hang it up at the end of this season. Others will follow, since many drivers have enough money today to call it a career long before they turn 50. This has opened the door for the Blaneys of the sport, who are landing new fans for the way they conduct themselves on and off the track. In a touching moment on Sunday, Brad Keselowski went to victory lane and was given the Fox Sports microphone to conduct Blaney’s winning interview. It was a reverse from a day earlier, when Blaney was asking the questions following Keselowski’s win in the Xfinity Series race. But there was deeper meaning to that moment. Keselowski gave Blaney his first big break — in 2012, when Blaney was 18 and he gradually earned Truck Series starts with Keselowski’s team. Keselowski got Blaney hooked up with Roger Penske, and Penske has Blaney stashed with the Wood Brothers until he can figure out what to do with him. So Keselowski is a de facto teammate, and Blaney’s first boss in NASCAR. “I wouldn’t be here without Brad, to be honest with you,” Blaney said. “I started driving his trucks then and led to the Penske deal, led to the Wood Brothers deal, and I would be nothing if it weren’t for him and taking a chance on me.”

napolis to open a roster spot for round pick for signing left fielder Taillon, who was activated from Ian Desmond as a free agent. the disabled list. Gosselin has hit .135 in 24 games during two stints UP NEXT with Pittsburgh this season. Rockies RHP Tyler Chatwood (6-7, 4.37 ERA) starts Tuesday FEELING A DRAFT night against RHP Gerrit Cole (3The Pirates selected right- 6, 4.83). Chatwood has won both hander Shane Baz from Concordia his starts in June, allowing two Lutheran High School in Tomball, runs in 14 innings. Cole is 1-3 with Texas with their first-round pick, a 10.73 ERA in his past four starts, BACK TO INDY The Pirates optioned infielder 12th overall, in the amateur draft. giving up 23 runs and 39 hits in 19 Phil Gosselin to Triple-A India- The Rockies forfeited their first- 1/3 innings.

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The Warriors won in 2015 before the Cavs made their historic comeback last year. Then it was Golden State’s time again, with Durant as the prized addition. Durant shot 14 for 20 and Curry — the two-time reigning MVP who took a backseat as the new big star got acclimated — finished off a brilliant postseason. Not to mention a healthy one after his 2016 injuries. Draymond Green stayed on the court in a game that featured three technicals on one play 3:08 before halftime. David West fought for the ball with Irving, then they got tangled up and Tristan Thompson entered the fray and he and West went at each other face-to-face. West, Thompson and J.R. Smith received techs after a replay review. Green had sat out this very game a year ago, suspended because of flagrant foul point accumulation after he swiped at James’ groin in Game 4. He had 10 points, 12 rebounds and five assists in the clincher. With a much-improved bench led by Iguodala, JaVale McGee, Shaun Livingston and West, that “Strength In Numbers” slogan that has become such a staple the past two seasons shined all season long, from Durant’s 19-game absence late in the regular season with a left knee injury to assistant coach Mike Brown stepping in for 11 postseason games to lead the way while Steve Kerr was ailing. On Monday, Golden State used a 27-4 second-quarter run to take charge — just after it appeared Durant should have been called for a third foul on a basket by James — and got to celebrate right at home in Oakland surrounded by a deafening home crowd waving yellow rally towels and holding up phones to shoot video and photos as the final minute of the clock ticked away. The buzzer sounded and gold confetti began to fall. The Warriors became the first Bay Area team to capture a championship at home since the A’s finished the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the 1974 World Series. A year ago, these Warriors fell short after a record-setting season that included a 24-0 start and 73 victories at the end to break the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ wins.

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis declared Monday that he was “shocked” upon his return to the Pentagon by the poor state of the U.S. military’s readiness for combat. He put most of the blame on Congress for its inability to approve budgets on time or repeal a law that strictly limits defense spending. Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, Mattis said Congress has “sidelined itself from its active constitutional oversight role” by failing to deliver a steady stream of funding to pay for new weapons and other critical gear.

Theresa May takes blame for losses LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May sought Monday to rally lawmakers from her Conservative Party behind her leadership amid doubts over her ability to remain in power following last week’s disastrous election result. May, who is trying to wrap up an arrangement with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party that would allow her to lead a government with a majority of votes in the House of Commons, moved to demonstrate that she understands the frustration within her own ranks following the election. Britain’s Press Association, quoting two unnamed sources from the meeting, said May told lawmakers at a closed-door session that she admitted she was the one who “got us into this mess” and vowed that she would be the one who will “get us out of it.” BRIEFLY CITIZENSHIP: A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of an unusual 1940’s-era immigration law that treats fathers and mothers differently when it comes to conferring citizenship on children born outside the U.S. The law applied to children born abroad to one parent who is an American and one who isn’t, making it harder for children of unwed American fathers to gain citizenship themselves. DEBT LIMIT: The Trump administration has a backup plan to keep the government from defaulting on its financial obligations even if Congress misses an August deadline to raise the debt limit, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told a congressional panel Monday. Mnuchin said he is “comfortable” the Treasury Department can meet the government’s financial obligations through the start of September.

Jurors talk for four hours Seven men, five women to resume deliberations today MARYCLAIRE DALE AND MICHAEL R. SISAK

Associated Press‌

‌NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The jury at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial deliberated without reaching a verdict Monday over whether he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago in a case that already has helped demolish the 79-year-old comedian’s good-guy image. A conviction could send Cosby to prison for the rest of his life, completing the stunning latelife downfall of one of the most beloved stars in show business. Jurors got the case around 5:30 p.m. and met for about four hours before knocking off late Monday night, with deliberations set to resume this morning.

HIGHEST PAID: The magazine says the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy brought in $130 million from June 1, 2016, to June 1, 2017. Forbes says Diddy’s Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour, a stake in Ciroc vodka and the $70 million sale of one-third of his Sean John clothing line all contributed to his earnings. No. 2 on the list is Beyonce, with $105 million in earnings. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling brought in $95 million. Rapper Drake and Portuguese soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo round out the top five. EARTHQUAKE: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 badly damaged scores of homes Monday on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos, killing one woman and injuring at least 10 people. It was also felt in western Turkey, including in Istanbul, and on neighboring islands. Lesbos mayor Spyros Galinos and the fire service said the woman was found dead in the southern village of Vrisa that was worst-hit by the quake, which had its epicenter under the sea. — Associated Press

ting them in a position where you can do what you want with them is not romantic. It’s criminal,” District Attorney Kevin Steele said. Before asking to go back to their hotel Monday night, jurors wanted to see a portion of Cosby’s decade-old testimony from a civil suit filed against him by Constand. They told the judge they wanted the “full context” of Cosby’s testimony about the pills he gave to Constand, which he had described to her as “friends.” “I have three friends for you to make you relax,” Cosby said he told Constand, according to a deposition transcript reread to the jury Monday night. After the prosecution took five days to outline its side, the defense case consisted of just one witness, a detective, and six minutes of testimony earlier in the day. Cosby did not take the stand. Legal experts said testifying would have been a risky move that

could have opened the TV star to withering cross-examination about some of the 60 or so other women who have accused him of drugging or molesting them. He is charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, each one punishable by up to 10 years behind bars. Cosby’s wife of 53 years, Camille, was in the courtroom for the first time in the trial. She was stoic during the defense argument but left when it was the prosecution’s turn. She sat in the front row, across the aisle from Constand, who didn’t react to McMonagle’s two-hour closing but smiled at the end of it. Constand, 44, testified last week that Cosby gave her three blue pills and then penetrated her with his fingers against her will as she lay paralyzed and half-conscious. She denied they had a romantic relationship and said she had rebuffed previous advances from him.

Attorneys general sue Trump over business ties

RUSSIA

BRIAN WITTE

Associated Press‌

ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO, ASSOCIATED PRESS‌

A young protestor shouts out as he is blocked Monday during a demonstration in downtown Moscow. Tens of thousands of protesters held anti-corruption rallies Monday across Russia in a new show of defiance against the Kremlin.

Thousands rally in new challenge to Kremlin Protesters march against corruption in over 100 cities, towns NATALIYA VASILYEVA AND JIM HEINTZ

NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING: Church bells tolled 49 times, a giant rainbow flag hung from a county government building and the names of the victims of the Pulse nightclub attack were read aloud at various ceremonies Monday as people in Orlando and beyond remembered the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. At 2:02 a.m., survivors, victims’ families, club employees and local officials gathered for a private service at the gay club at the exact time Omar Mateen opened fire a year ago and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

The fast-moving case went to the jury of seven men and five women on Day 6 of the trial after closing arguments gave differing portrayals of what happened between Cosby and Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia estate. Defense attorney Brian McMonagle told the jury that Cosby and Constand were lovers who had enjoyed secret “romantic interludes,” insisting the 2004 encounter was consenCosby sual. McMonagle said that while the comedian had been unfaithful to his wife, he didn’t commit a crime. Prosecutors countered by saying “fancy lawyering” can’t save Cosby from his own words — namely, his admission about groping Constand after giving her pills he knew could put her to sleep. “Drugging somebody and put-

Associated Press‌

‌MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of protesters held anti-corruption rallies across Russia on Monday in a new show of defiance by an opposition that the Kremlin had once dismissed as ineffectual and marginalized. More than a thousand were arrested — including opposition leader and protest organizer Alexei Navalny, who was seized outside his Moscow residence while heading to the rally in the city center and sentenced to 30 days in jail several hours later. The Moscow protest was the most prominent in a string of more than 100 rallies in cities and towns stretching through all 11 of Russia’s time zones — from the Pacific to the European enclave of Kaliningrad — with many denouncing President Vladimir Putin. Thousands of angry demonstrators thronged to Tverskaya Street, a main avenue in the

capital, chanting “Down with the czar” and singing the Russian national anthem. The protests coincided with Russia Day, a national holiday that this year brought out historical re-enactors, some of them dressed in medieval costumes. At one point, the Moscow demonstration featured an unlikely scene of about 5,000 protesters rallying next to an enclosure with geese, a medieval catapult and bearded men in homemade tunics and carrying wooden shields. The re-enactors watched the rally before riot police broke up the crowd and randomly seized the protesters. Over 800 people were arrested in Moscow, while in St. Petersburg, about 500 were forced into police buses at an unsanctioned rally that drew up to 10,000 people. Navalny was taken to court Monday evening and sentenced to 30 days in jail shortly after midnight for repeated violations of the law on public gatherings. “The scope of the rallies was amazing, and so many people came out,” Navalny told reporters shortly before he was sentenced, point to protest rallies held in

towns which have not seen any public show of discontent for decades. Three 16-year-old girls brought sheets of paper to the Moscow protest and sat on the pavement to write the articles of the Russian Constitution on them; a nearby group of teenagers climbed atop of a tent with posters saying, “Corruption kills the future.” Other protesters scaled a scaffold and hung a sign saying, “Only revolution will defeat corruption.” Ivan Sukhoruchenkov, 19, attended anyway with four university classmates to protest what he described as “stagnation of the political system.” “Change is always good,” Sukhoruchenkov said, adding that he and his friends were concerned about corruption — Navalny’s rallying cry — that “manifests itself in all areas: from traffic police to university professors.” Navalny had called the anti-corruption demonstrations, and they drew crowds of several dozen to the 10,000 in St. Petersburg. Some of the rallies were sanctioned by authorities and peaceful, but police cracked down brutally on others.

‌WASHINGTON — The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia filed a federal lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump, alleging he violated the Constitution by retaining ties to his sprawling global business empire and by accepting foreign payments while in office. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh joined District counterpart Karl Racine at a news conference in announcing the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in neighboring Maryland. Much of the case is focused on allegations that Trump’s real estate and business holdings violate a little-known emoluments clause of the Constitution. The provision bars the president and other government employees from accepting foreign gifts and payments without congressional approval. “The president’s conflicts of interest threaten our democracy,” Frosh said. “We cannot treat the president’s ongoing violations of the Constitution and his disregard of the rights of the American people as the new acceptable status quo.” Trump’s unique status as both president and the financial beneficiary of his global business empire raised questions about the emoluments clause of the Constitution even before he took office. Trump and his attorneys argue the clause does not cover fair-value transactions, such as hotel room payments and real estate sales. The Trump Hotel in the nation’s capital affects business in the Washington area and is part of the reason the lawsuit was filed, the two Democratic officials explained. They also said their action was non-partisan, and other state attorneys general, including Republicans, were welcome to join the suit. It seeks an injunction to stop what the two alleged are the president’s constitutional violations. The lawsuit also focuses on the fact that Trump chose to retain ownership of his company when he became president.

Appeals court keeps travel ban block in place GENE JOHNSON AND SUDHIN THANAWALA

Associated Press‌

‌SEATTLE — Another U.S. appeals court stomped on President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban Monday, saying the administration violated federal immigration law and failed to provide a valid reason for keeping people from six mostly Muslim nations from coming to the country. The decision by a unanimous three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals helps keep the travel ban blocked and deals

Trump a second big legal defeat on the policy in less than three weeks. The administration has appealed another ruling against the ban to the Supreme Court, which is likely to consider the cases in tandem. The White House said it is confident the high court will uphold Trump’s executive order. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia last month cited the president’s campaign statements calling for a “total and complete shutdown” on Muslims entering the U.S. as evidence that the 90-day ban was unconstitutionally “steeped in animus

and directed at a single religious group,” rather than necessary for national security. The 9th Circuit, which heard arguments in Seattle last month in Hawaii’s challenge to the ban, found no need to analyze Trump’s campaign statements. It ruled based on immigration law, not the Constitution. Judges Michael Hawkins, Ronald Gould and Richard Paez — all appointed by President Bill Clinton — said the travel ban violated immigration law by discriminating against people based on their nationality when it comes to issu-

ing visas and by failing to demonstrate that their entry would hurt American interests. The president’s order did not tie citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen to terrorist organizations or identify them as contributors to “active conflict,” the court said. The judges pointed to a June 5 tweet by Trump saying the order was aimed at “dangerous countries.” That helped demonstrate that he was not assessing whether the roughly 180 million citizens of the six countries had ties to terrorism, they said.

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