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Legislature passes unbalanced budget Bill passed early Monday calls on Brownback to make $92M in cuts

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Topeka — Kansas lawmakers worked into the wee hours of the

morning Monday to end the 2016 session after passing a $6.3 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, a budget that is roughly $22 million

out of balance.

That’s because current revenue forecasts show the state will not receive enough tax revenue to pay for all the spending

in the bill, and lawmakers did not raise any new revenue to cover the shortfall.

Despite sweeping millions of dollars out of the

state highway fund and delaying several major highway projects, and making significant cuts to state funding for higher education, the bill calls

on Gov. Sam Brownback to find another $92 million in additional cuts and efficiency savings in order to leave the state with an ending balance of about $70 million.

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April tax collections bring some good news

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Topeka — Kansas reported Monday that its tax collections last month were slightly better than expected, good news for Republican Gov. Sam Brownback after legislators approved a plan dumping most of the work of balancing the budget into his lap.

The Department of Revenue Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photos said the state collected $584.3 milA KANSAS UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WALKS THROUGH THE COURTYARD AREA of the latest 804 Studio house project at lion in taxes in April, when the of1200 Pennsylvania St. on Monday. The new house in East Lawrence features rooftop solar arrays and will have LEED Platinum ficial projection was $581.7 million. certification. BELOW: The courtyard is seen through the living room windows.

The surplus was $2.6 million, or 0.5 percent.

The collections were pegged to a new, more pessimistic fiscal forecast issued less than three

By Sara Shepherd • Twitter: @saramarieshep weeks ago. State officials and university economists last month edar siding milled architecture graduate stuslashed projected revenues from old railroad dents this week are putting through June 2017 by a total of trestles and counterfinishing touches on the $348 million. tops made of marble newly constructed house at The gloomier projections immefrom a 1930 Kansas City office 1200 Pennsylvania St. It’s the diately left the state with projected building serve two functions latest design-build project of shortfalls totaling more than $290 in the new Studio 804 house.

KU’s Studio 804 class. million in its current budget and The repurposed materials The two-bedroom, twothe one for the fiscal year beginlook unique, and they supbathroom house with a dening July 1. port the house’s mission of tached garage is designed to The plan approved by the sustainability.

Republican-dominated LegislaPlease see HOUSE, page 8A Kansas University ture early Monday morning gives Brownback broad discretion to cut See a photo gallery at LJWorld.com/studio804house spending in the state’s $16 billion budget for the next fiscal year but tells him that he can’t touch aid to public schools.

Still, the latest revenue report showed sales tax collections rebounding modestly after being a nlike in Topeka, there was some deficit spending that more significant is that the city source of concern for state offihave not been lateoccurred at City Hall in 2015. is projected to spend about cials, and personal income tax colnight meetings, tossing According to preliminary $890,000 more than it receives lections appeared to be stable. the legislative couch cushions numbers, Lawrence spent in revenue in 2016, according Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan for loose change, manipulanearly $220,000 more than it to the latest report. hesitated to see those develoption of voodoo dolls or other received in revenue for its genSo, what does that mean? ments as parts of a long-term trend such generally accepted state eral fund in 2015. The general How does the city spend more but acknowledged they are helpful governmental accounting fund is the main account the money than it receives? Easy. in dealing with the budget. practices going on at Lawrence city uses to fund a majority of You and I keep cash in our “It’s a good sign for the health City Hall. Nonetheless, there public services — everything freezers to use in emergencies of the economy,” Jordan said duris some interesting City Hall from police and fire service to ing an interview. “We hope that’s a Please see SPENDING, page 2A turnaround.” budget news to report: There administrative services. What’s

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KATHRYN LUCIA CARLSON Kathryn Lucia Carlson passed away peacefully on March 24, 2016 in Lawrence, KS. Please visit the following website for more information: www.midwestcremationsociety.com.

ROBERT FOSTER GREENWOOD Robert Foster Greenwood passed away on April 30, 2016 in Lawrence, KS. Mr. Greenwood was a retired accountant for Santa Fe Industries.

He is survived by his wife Patricia M. Greenwood, and his children, Pamela, Michael, Bradley, Lori, Jeffery, Diana, Robin, and Tod. He is also survived by twelve grandchildren

and five great grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at the First United Methodist Church 10th and Vermont in Lawrence, KS. Internment will occur at a later date in Osage City, KS. ¸

ARLENE EVELYN HARBAUGH Family graveside inurnment for Arlene E. Harbaugh, 77, Oskaloosa will be held at a later date. She died Sun. May 1st at LMH. For more info. go to warrenmcelwain.com.

BARBARA MEYER ABERCROMBIE A private memorial service for Barbara Meyer Abercrombie, 86, Lawrence will be held at a later date. She died April 30, 2016 at Brandon Woods at Alvamar.

Barbara was born on March 17, 1930 in Lincoln, KS the daughter of Fred and Elsie (Kistler) Meyer.

Barbara married Clemeth A. Abercrombie on November 2, 1950 in Lincoln, KS. He preceded her in death on July 23, 2004.

Upon retirement, she and her husband moved to Hot Springs, AR and returned to Lawrence in 2000.

Survivors include two sons, C.F. Abercrombie, Wilson, KS, and John Abercrombie, Goodyear, Arizona; two grandchildren, Clemeth L. Abercrombie, Calley

Vance; one great grandson, Bruce A. Vance.

She was preceded in death by two sisters, Helen Callaway and Edna Healy.

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BEVERLY KATHRYN HOWARD Beverly Kathryn Howard, a resident of Lawrence, Kansas died at Brandon Woods in Lawrence on Saturday, April 30, 2016. She was 88.

Graveside services will be held at 1:00 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at Prairie Grove Cemetery in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

Mrs. Howard was born September 4, 1927 in Burns, Kansas, the daughter of Samuel Wesley and Rose Belle Lyles Pyke.

Beverly graduated from Strong City Rural High School in 1945, the University of Kansas with a Degree in Education in 1949, and Emporia State University receiving a Master’s Degree in Librarianship.

For 34 years, Mrs. Howard taught school in Matfield Green, Kansas, Wichita, Kansas, Topeka, Kansas and Wabaunsee County, Kansas.

She served on school boards in Valley Center, Kansas and Eskridge, Kansas.

Beverly married Fred H

Howard II on December 31, 1949 in Great Bend, Kansas. He preceded her in death January 14, 2011.

She was also preceded in death by a son, Robert Crocker Howard, a sister Norma Jean Scanlan and a brother Lyle Pyke.

Survivors include two daughters, Kathryn Howard Pike of Lawrence, Kansas, Kristine Howard White, and her husband, Paul of Papillion, Nebraska, daughter­in­ law, Chris Howard, Americus, Kansas, seven grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.

Memorials may be made in her name to the Heritage Baptist Church and may be sent in care of the Warren­McElwain Mortuary.

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and for unexpectedly good deals on leftover Easter candy. Well, the city has a really big freezer. It has something called a “fund balance,” which is basically just an accumulation of unspent money from prior years.

The city’s fund balance account for its general fund was $12.9 million at the beginning of 2015.

By dipping into it a bit, the amount fell to $12.7 million at the end of the year.

But as I previously mentioned, more interesting are the current projections for 2016. The city’s finance department is projecting the city will partake in deficit spending to the tune of $891,000 in 2016. That will cause the general fund balance to drop to $11.8 million.

That is a significant drop because the city’s general fund balance would then amount to 14.8 percent of the city’s annual general fund expenditures. The city has a budget policy that says the fund balance shouldn’t fall below the 15 percent level.

The policy notes that the city relies heavily on sales tax revenue, which can be volatile, so the policy aims to ensure the city has an adequate hedge against a downturn at all times.

It will be interesting to see how city commissioners craft their 2017 budget, and whether they make any midyear adjustments in 2016.

The budget process for 2017 officially begins today with a City Hall study session on the budget.

The city will pass a 2017 budget by August.

This should be one of the more interesting budget sessions in quite some time at City Hall.

This will be the first year in the 20 some years I’ve covered City Hall that we might see a major change in budgeting philosophy.

New City Manager Tom Markus may have different ideas about how to craft budgets, different ideas on appropriate fund balances and different ideas on spending decisions.

Of course, ultimately it will be city commissioners who make the final decisions, but they pay a city manager to give them guidance on such important matters.

The issue of how much Lawrence ought to keep in reserve may be one to keep a particular eye on. There certainly have been arguments on both sides of that issue.

Some have said Lawrence has kept too much in reserve, while others have argued those reserve amounts have

helped the city keep an excellent credit rating.

Spending more than it receives in a year isn’t unheard of by the city, but it doesn’t happen frequently. I believe the last time the situation existed in the city’s general fund was 2011, and I don’t think at any point in the last decade has the city done two years in a row of deficit spending.

City Hall reporter Nikki Wentling will be covering the budget process extensively this summer, and I’ll be chiming in periodically, in between plasma runs.

In the meantime, here’s a look at some budget numbers from the city’s most recent report.

Note: All numbers for 2015 are preliminary, which means they haven’t been audited yet and may be subject to slight changes. (That’s what “preliminary” means at City Hall. I just wanted to clarify because it seems to mean something different at the Statehouse.) l In 2015, the city received $76.1 million in general fund revenue, up $2.5 million or a 3.3 percent increase. Expenses, though, increased by $3 million, or an increase of 4 percent.

In case you are wondering, inflation — as measured by the Consumer Price Index — was less than 1 percent in 2015, but City Hall leaders would point out that the type of expenses government has and a consumer has are different. In other words, governmental inflation is probably something different from consumer inflation. l Sales tax collections in the city increased by $1.3 million, or 3.7 percent, in 2015. Sales tax collections made up 47 percent of the city’s total general fund budget in 2015. l Property tax collections in the city increased by $1.3 million, or 8.3 percent, in 2015.

Property tax collections made up 22 percent of the city’s general fund budget. l Franchise fees, which are a special tax that utilities pay for the use of city right-of-ways and such, dropped significantly in 2015.

Total franchise fee revenue dropped $500,000, or 6.5 percent.

Franchise fees made up about 9 percent of the city’s general fund budget.

A mild winter caused franchise fees for natural gas to drop by about $200,000, as less gas sold means fewer franchise fees for the city. The amount of franchise fees the city collected from land-line telephones also plummeted by about $200,000. l The idea of attracting more people to Lawrence hotels through Rock Chalk Park, new

L awrence J ournal -W orld hotel construction, and other ventures does appear to be paying off.

The city’s guest tax fund collected $1.6 million in 2015, which was an increase of 45 percent compared with 2014 totals. The guest tax fund now has a $1 million fund balance.

It will be interesting to see how the city treats that new money. Will it continue to invest guest tax dollars only into tourism-related activities, or will it try to use that newfound money as a way to offset some weakness in the general fund? l One other fund that is showing some weakness is the city’s recreation fund, which runs the recreation centers, classes and other types of activities. The fund had a great year in collecting fees from users — fee revenue grew by 17 percent.

But expenses also grew. The fund spent about $110,000 more than it received in revenues in 2015. That marked at least the second year in a row that fund has had deficit spending.

The fund, however, still has about $900,000 in reserve. l The city’s water and wastewater fund — the department that runs the city water and sewer service — had a good year.

Revenues for that fund, which has benefited from higher water and sewer rates, were up 5.5 percent.

The fund received about $1.5 million more in revenue than it had in expenses in 2015. The fund has a very large fund balance of $22.3 million, in part because the water and sewer system is preparing for some major expenditures.

Remember that a new sewage treatment plant is being built south of the Wakarusa River, and the city believes it has significant work to do to upgrade other water and sewer infrastructure. l The city’s trash service also had a good year. Revenues grew by 3.4 percent, and the division had revenues that exceeded expenses by about $385,000. l The city’s golf course did not have such a good year. Revenue at the city-owned Eagle Bend Golf Course fell by about 5.5 percent in 2015.

The golf course also cut expenditures to try to match revenues, but ended up having expenses exceed revenues by about $32,000. The golf fund, though, still has about $200,000 in reserve.

Commissioners will begin discussing all things budget-related at a study session at 3 p.m. today at City Hall.

— This is an excerpt from Chad Lawhorn’s Town Talk column, which appears at LJWorld.com.

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BRIEFLY County Commission NWS to re-enact meeting canceled tornado outbreak With no items to be considered for the agenda this week, the Wednesday meeting of the Douglas Council Commission has been canceled.

The County Commission will next meet at 4 p.m. May 11 at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St.

Wichita — National Weather Service branches in Wichita and Tulsa, Okla., are re-enacting a deadly 1991 tornado outbreak on social media a week after the threat of nasty weather forced them to postpone a similar exercise.

The Wichita Eagle reports the Wichita office

will focus on conditions leading to an F5 tornado that killed 17 people and injured more than 200 in Andover, south Wichita and McConnell Air Force Base on April 26, 1991.

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ABOVE: GAIL FLEMING, OF SEATTLE, AND HER 2-YEAROLD DOG DESI work the course at the Vizsla Club of America’s 2016 National Agility Trial on Monday at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Dogs are in competition from all over the United States, and today will head to Topeka for obedience trials and more.

LEFT: Ash, a 5-year-old Vizsla belonging to owner Becky Haberbush, of Mendota, Ill., weaves his way through poles set up as part of the agility course.

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Bar owner injured in hit-and-run accident when a northbound car hit him around 4:50 p.m. on Sunday, according to The owner of a North a Kansas Highway Patrol Lawrence bar is in a Tope- crash report. The car’s drivka hospital after a er, William Willits, hit-and-run Sunday 46, of Lawrence, afternoon souththen fled the scene, west of McLouth. according to KHP. Frank Dorsey, Later Sunday owner of Frank’s evening Jefferson North Star Tavern, County Sheriff’s 508 Locust St., was deputies located riding his bicycle on Willits and arrested Wellman Road just Dorsey him on suspicion of north of 66th Street leaving the scene

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of an accident, according to the Jefferson County Jail booking log. He was released from the jail after posting a $1,000 bond.

KHP officials did not immediately return calls seeking additional information on Monday.

Dorsey was transported to Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, the report says.

A current condition report was not available from the hospital; however, a tavern employee

said he’s on the mend with “a couple broken bones and ribs.”

The driver of the car was uninjured, the report says.

Despite Dorsey’s injuries, the tavern will keep its normal operating hours of 3 p.m. to 2 a.m., the employee said.

Further information was not immediately available.

Members of Lawrence’s Economic Development Council voiced concerns Monday to major changes — prompted by the City Commission — to incentives the city provides for new developments and incoming businesses.

Brady Pollington, vice president of the Economic Development Council of Lawrence and Douglas County, prefaced a discussion with the Joint Economic Development Council by saying

incentives could be the factor that determines whether a company locates in Lawrence.

“It’s a process of elimination, not a process of selection. People like myself working on behalf of the community to attract a new company, what we’re doing is trying to not get eliminated,” Pollington said. “Sometimes — where you have two locations with the same quality workforce and real estate and the markets are ideal — which community gets the Please see INCENTIVES, page 4A

Pending school funding lawsuit weighs on local teacher negotiations

the district’s budget will look like for next school year, but more time may With only one schednot bring answers. Even uled contract negotiation with a pending Kansas session remaining, Supreme Court representatives case regarding of the Lawrence school finance, disschool district and trict administrators its teachers union suggested that the have yet to discuss union, Lawrence a key issue for both Education AssociaSCHOOLS — Public safety reporter Conrad sides: teacher pay. tion, come forward Swanson can be reached at 832-7284 Part of the delay or cswanson@ljworld.com. is uncertainty about what Please see TEACHERS, page 4A

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Baldwin City Council OKs first reading of High Street property rezoning Twitter: @ElvynJ

The Baldwin City Council on Monday narrowly approved the first reading of a rezoning of a westside property that came to it with conflicting recommendations.

No one spoke for or against the rezoning of the property at 1708 High St. at a public hearing on the matter, and the applicants were not at the meeting, but the request still generated considerable discussion because it came to the City Council with recommendations for denial and approval. The Baldwin City Planning Commission voted unanimously last month to approve the rezoning of the property from low-density residential to planned

light-industrial, while city staff recommended denial.

The property has High Street frontage, is immediately west of Hey Machinery and abuts the Baldwin Elementary School Primary Center on the north. There is a single-family home rental property to the west.

The site is owned by Raymond Crist, who along with Delana Dee Hay made the application for the rezoning.

Baldwin City codes administrator Tina Rakes told the council that staff’s recommendation for denial was based on the property being identified as a future residential growth area in the city’s comprehensive plan. Rakes said the applicants have indicated they planned to build storage units on the property.

She reminded council

BRIEFLY LHS sophomore earns perfect ACT score A Lawrence High School student has earned a perfect score on his ACT exam.

Jackson Hoy, LHS sophomore, earned an ACT Composite Score of 36, the Lawrence school district announced. Among ACT-tested U.S. high school graduates in the class of 2015, only 1,598 of 1.92 million students, or .08 percent, earned a score of 36.

Hoy is the son of Heather and Hoy Matthew Hoy, of Lawrence.

Part of Iowa Street to be closed off and on Work along Iowa Street will keep a northbound lane closed until mid June, before it’s closed again for more work in July.

The Lawrence utilities department is currently working to replace a waterline on Iowa Street between 25th and 27th streets, said Jeanette Klamm, a management analyst with the utilities department. The work, which began March 14, is estimated to be complete June 12.

In the meantime, one northbound lane of Iowa between 25th and 27th streets will remain closed.

There will also be brief lane closures on Iowa Street between 27th and 31st streets.

Several breaks to the water main in the area prompted the replacement.

The city Public Works Department has planned an overlay project along that same area starting in July.

The project will run from 24th to 29th streets.

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project could come down to the type of incentive.”

The JEDC held a special meeting Monday to review the changes proposed by city commissioners. The city’s Public Incentives Review Committee and the County Commission will provide input before the City Commission debates the changes later this month.

City Commissioners Stuart Boley, Matthew Herbert and Leslie Soden, all elected last year, campaigned that previous commissioners were overusing financial incentives. They’re proposing several changes to the policies that govern the incentives, including charging application fees for some incentives and increasing others and capping tax rebates at 50 percent over 10 years, with some room for exception. They also suggested introducing a requirement for residential

developments receiving incentives to set aside units for low-income households.

The proposed changes prompted some disagreement Monday between the Economic Development Council, members of which wanted to maintain flexibility in the policies in order to attract developments, and city and county officials.

About the 50 percent, 10-year cap on tax rebates, Pollington advised it could turn off companies from the beginning of the recruitment process. But County Administrator Craig Weinaug said the policies should fall in line with what the City Commission would approve. If they don’t, the city would put time and money into an incentive deal that was “dead on arrival.”

“Obviously the people around this table would like to see that number higher, but it sets us up for failure if the policy doesn’t reflect what the city officials are willing to do,” Weinaug said.

The council had mixed opinions about increasing

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members that proposed uses shouldn’t be part of their consideration, but all uses allowed in a planned light-industrial zoning.

Voicing the most concern about the rezoning was Councilman Dave Simmons, and his objections were based more on the Planning Commission’s process than its recommendation. The council has asked the Planning Commission in the past to provide more details of its decision-making process, which he said it again failed to do.

However, the council voted 3-2 to approve. Joining Simmons in opposition was Councilwoman Christi Darnell. With the firstapproval of the rezoning, it will next be considered for final approval at the council’s May 16 meeting.

provement plan on which council members reached consensus during a series of meetings last month. City Administrator Glenn Rodden said the CIP was meant to be a planning tool that established priorities and funding mechanisms for projects. It was not set in stone, and the City Council could add, remove or reschedule projects, he said.

What made the Baldwin City CIP noteworthy was the number of large building projects before the council, Rodden said.

Those projects are a new $2.5 million public works headquarters at the city’s Orange Street yard, a $1.8 million new police station, a $5 million community center and $500,000 in

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If we never pass the pain onto the people that are voting people into office, they’re never going to understand there’s a problem.”

with a salary proposal anyway.

“What’s your plan?” David Cunningham, director of human resources and legal services, asked LEA representatives at a negotiations meeting Monday.

“Because we have another meeting scheduled in two weeks and I guarantee you the court’s not going to make a decision in two weeks.”

In April, Gov. Sam Brownback signed a school funding bill that supporters hope will satisfy the Supreme Court, which has declared parts of the current funding system inequitable. Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for next week, and some think certain provisions are likely to be struck down. A second component of the case — whether school funding is adequate

— is still under review by the court. Regardless of those unknown outcomes, Cunningham said salary negotiations should begin.

“We may be sitting in our best position right now, and a month from now have less money than we think we do,” Cunningham said. “…My point is, I don’t know that we gain a lot by waiting.”

Union representatives agreed, and said that continuing to wait for word from the Supreme Court isn’t likely to yield results soon and they will plan to bring something to the negotiating table in two weeks.

“One way or another, I would assume by next time we’ll be able to have

some kind of an answer for what we are doing with salary,” said David Reber, lead negotiator for the union.

At Monday’s meeting, union representatives did put forth several other proposals. One addition would recoup teachers for plan time lost because of school assemblies, and another would set limits to teachers’ workloads for parent-teacher conferences. At past meetings, the union proposed longer lunches at the elementary level and a better definition of teacher workdays.

As far as limits to the workday during parentteacher conferences, Cunningham expressed concern that such limits

and creating fees for incentive applications. Pollington said — and others agreed — fees were “contradictory” to the incentives process. But City Manager Tom Markus said it was a “minimum barrier” that would keep away only those who “know they’re not really eligible.”

“I think, in this community, it’s a fair thing to charge the fees knowing there’s some tension about the use of incentives to begin with,” Markus said. “I think that shows we’re responsible with our time. I’m an advocate for cost-recovery.”

There’s also a new provision that gets at the City Commission’s effort to increase affordable housing. The new policy would require any residential development receiving public assistance to offer some units for households making 80 percent of the area’s median income.

For residential developments with four to 49 units, the requirement would be 10 percent of units. Developments with 50 or more units would

have to provide at least 35 percent of them to low-income households.

The units would have to be maintained as lowincome for a minimum 15 years.

Markus, who came to Lawrence last month from his position as city manager of Iowa City, Iowa, said that city’s affordable housing requirement of 10 percent had the support of area developers.

Pollington questioned whether there was a percentage that would turn developers off a project.

“You said there was a lot of support from the development community at that 10 percent level, but what we’re seeing is 35, which has a little bit of sticker shock,” Pollington said.

Referring to all the changes, Weinaug said later, “I see all of these things as a reflection of the people we elected.”

Michael Orozco, a JEDC member, posed the question of whether the policies would create inconsistency if they were changed based on every City Commission’s

stand on them. It was “a fair observation,” Markus said, and commissioners would have to consider it in their debate.

“I think they have to acknowledge that that’s the case,” Markus said.

“You can have a majority flip in this town every two years.”

The Public Incentives Review Committee will

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improvements to City Hall.

The approved CIP would move ahead with the public works headquarters in 2017.

Its debt would be retired through charges to utility rates and not require voter approval of sales or property tax increases.

The new police station, which would be paid for through a combination of sales and property taxes, was slotted for 2018 on the current public works grounds in the 600 block of High Street once that department relocates. City voters would have to approve the sales tax increase.

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the Baldwin School district increase its mill levy to support the project. Both funding measures would require voter approval.

After casting the lone “no” vote against the CIP list, Councilman Tony Brown said his concern was the sales tax increase, which he considered too steep. l Approved the purchase of a used fire truck from the Fridley, Minn., Fire Department for $30,000. The 1995 truck with 27,000 miles can pump at 1,500-gallons-perminute, has a 500 gallon tank and can hold five firefighters in the cab. It will replace the 1981 truck, which Baldwin City Fire Chief Allen Crain said is outdated.

— County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166 or ejones@ljworld.com.

could mean that teachers wouldn’t have time to hold conferences with all parents if budget cuts cause class sizes to increase in the future.

But Reber said teachers shouldn’t continue “absorbing all of the results of what goes on in Topeka.”

“Doing it (the current) way will get the conferences done, but it’s at the expense of more work on the teacher, and we just don’t see it as a long-term solution,” he said. “If we never pass the pain onto the people that are voting people into office, they’re never going to understand there’s a problem.”

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the equity portion of the school finance case on May 10. The next meeting for teacher and district negotiators will be 5 p.m.

May 16 at district offices, 110 McDonald Drive.

— K-12 education reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at 832-6314 or rvalverde@ljworld.com.

discuss the changes from 9:30 to 11 a.m. May 17 at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. The County Commission will provide its feedback from 4 to 5 p.m. May 18 at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. — City Hall reporter Nikki Wentling can be reached at 832-7144 or nwentling@ljworld.com.

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The bill, SB 249, barely passed both chambers — 63-59 in the House and 22-18 in the Senate — and now goes to Brownback, who has indicated he will sign it. The House voted shortly after 1 a.m. after members agreed to suspend their own rule prohibiting the chamber from meeting after midnight.

In the Senate, the bill appeared to be failing at first, but leaders used a procedural move to hold the roll open for 40 minutes to give themselves time to persuade three Republicans to switch their votes from no to yes. The bill passed around 3:30 a.m.

All members of the area legislative delegation voted against the bill, including Democratic Sens.

Marci Francisco and Tom Holland, Democrat Reps.

Boog Highberger, Barbara Ballard and John Wilson, and Republican Rep. Tom Sloan.

Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka, the ranking Democrat on the Senate budget committee, said she believed the Senate shirked its constitutional duty to pass a balanced budget.

“It seems to me this is unprecedented,” Kelly said. “Adjourning with cuts still needing to be made in order to get to zero (ending balance) is unprecedented, as far as I can remember. I think it’s an abdication of our responsibility to put

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Lawmakers approve ‘step therapy’ and welfare reform bill Topeka (ap) — Kansas legislators approved a health and public welfare bill Monday that would reduce prescription drug costs within the state’s Medicaid program and make changes to eligibility for public assistance.

Senators voted 27-13 in favor of the measure early Monday after the House approved it in a 79-43 vote.

The measure will now go to Gov. Sam Brownback, who has touted welfare reform in the past.

The Kansas House initially voted 69-52 against the measure Sunday, sending it to a conference committee where

negotiators added more patient protections to the so-called step therapy provision that would require participants to try a less expensive drug before being allowed to get a more expensive one.

Republican leaders saw the measure as crucial to resolving budget issues because it would reduce the state’s costs in providing health coverage to poor and disabled residents by nearly $11 million a year.

The bill also would reduce the lifetime limit on cash assistance from 36 to 24 months, though the state can grant an extension up to 12 months. The

budget negotiators agreed to a new formula for allocating a 3 percent, or $17.7 million, cut for the state’s six universities.

The new plan takes more from larger campuses, including Kansas University and Kansas State University, while reducing cuts to Pittsburg State, Emporia State and Fort Hays State universiMore cuts for KU, ties.

K-State That change was inDuring negotiations serted at the request of between the House and Sen. Jake LaTurner, RSenate over the weekend, Pittsburg, whose district together a truly balanced budget.”

But Sen. Ty Masterson, R-Andover, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee, said the practice is not unprecedented.

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Department of Children and Families also would be required to monitor welfare recipients who repeatedly replace benefit cards. Winners of lotteries more than $5,000 would be investigated by the state to determine their eligibility for public assistance.

Each able-bodied household member receiving cash assistance would be required to work, participate in a job training program or search for work. However, mothers of newborn babies would be exempted from the work requirement for up to three months. includes Pittsburg State University, according to Senate leaders.

Kelly, who was part of the negotiating team, called it an election-year favor for LaTurner.

LaTurner confirmed that he requested the change, but said it had nothing to do with election politics.

Legislative staff said the revised allocation would increase KU’s budget cut by about $1 million, to more than $5 million both this year and next year. K-State’s cuts would also increase

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about the same amount, employees in the affected to a little more than $4 categories, but it does extend the time it will take million. to return the KPERS fund to financial stability.

KPERS payment The bill also authorizes the administration to fur- Additional cuts In addition to the cuts ther delay a $92 million payment that was due in highway funding and April 15 to the Kansas higher education, the Public Employees Retire- budget still assumes that ment System. That pay- Gov. Sam Brownback will ment covers the state’s have to make an addition“employer” share of con- al $82 million in cuts to tributions for K-12 school, the budget after lawmakcommunity college and ers have gone home. technical school employIt also assumes the adees. ministration can find yet Lawmakers first au- another $10 million in thorized a delay earlier “efficiency savings” from this year in response to recommendations in the revenue shortfalls. It is recent Alvarez and Marcurrently scheduled to be shal efficiency study. repaid, with an 8 percent And if revenues should annual interest rate, be- fall short of projections, fore Oct. 1. which were just revised But the newly revised downward in April, revenue estimates show Brownback would be the state would not be forced to make additional able to afford that pay- cuts. But the bill would ment and still fund the not allow him to cut rest of next year’s budget. funding for K-12 educaThe new bill would al- tion, which accounts for low Brownback to contin- roughly half of all general ue delaying that payment. fund spending.

But it also earmarks a Nor would he be alportion of the state’s fu- lowed to cut funding for ture tobacco settlement the Department of Educareceipts, plus any excess tion’s Parents as Teachers general fund revenues Program or domestic viothe state receives, to pay lence prevention grants. off that obligation over time.

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Broad blame Kansas legislators also share responsibility for the state’s budget fiasco.

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ansans who are blaming Gov. Sam Brownback for the state’s budget problems should save some of their outrage for state legislators who concluded their session early Monday.

Around 3:30 a.m. Monday, the Kansas Senate managed to barely pass a budget bill, which won narrow approval in the House a couple of hours earlier. The bill assumes the governor will sweep another $150 million out of the state highway fund and continue a 3 percent reduction in state university funding.

But even with those measures, spending in the budget still is about $22 million above expected revenue.

To address that issue, legislators authorized the governor to further delay a $92 million payment to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. If the governor takes that action, the state budget would balance, leaving an ending balance — at least on paper — of $70 million.

That is, of course, if revenue estimates stand up and the state doesn’t face any unexpected financial challenges.

Kansas legislators now have gone home and many are preparing to launch re-election campaigns. Apparently those who voted in favor of the budget plan thought it would be easier to explain to their constituents why they passed off many budget-cutting decisions to a governor whose public approval rating stood at 21 percent in March than to struggle with resolving the budget issues themselves.

Of particular note is the House’s failure last week to pass a bill repealing the business income tax cuts. While it’s true that the measure wouldn’t have addressed the current budget shortfall, it was a step in the right direction and would have sent a message to Brownback that legislators saw a need to address the state’s budget woes from the revenue side and not just the spending side.

The 12 Democrats and some moderate Republicans who voted against the repeal argued that the bill didn’t go far enough or that it was unlikely to pass the Senate anyway or would be vetoed

by Brownback. The weakness of those arguments may make observers wonder whether at least some of those “no” votes had a political motivation — perhaps to ensure the state’s financial situation was as bad as possible when November elections roll around.

During the 2016 session, many legislators were quick to blame the governor’s policies for the state’s financial problems.

It’s true that Brownback led the tax-cutting charge, but legislators had to approve the cuts before the governor could sign them into law. They share the responsibility not only for the state’s current situation but for figuring out how to fix it.

“Those of us who come back next year better start figuring this out,” Sen. Jeff Longbine, R-Emporia, told a Topeka reporter Monday. “And whether it’s revenue or cuts or a combination of both — but we cannot continue to play a shell game. … We cannot continue to not pay our bills.”

Longbine is right. The shell game has to end, as does the finger-pointing that is replacing true leadership on state budget issues.

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Trump foreign policy makes no sense My grandmother would have had a Yiddish word for Donald Trump’s “major” foreign policy speech last week: meshugaas. That means behavior so senseless or crazy it is almost incomprehensible.

Indeed, the Trump talk was so incoherent, so full of contradictions, that, in normal times, it would have been quickly relegated to the realm of late-night comics. But these aren’t normal times. As Trump moves within grasp of the GOP nomination, the dangers of Trumpism are no laughing matter.

For those who haven’t taken Trump’s demagoguery seriously enough until now, this speech should be a wakeup call. The idea

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As his remarks made clear, Trump views the world through the prism that defines his entire campaign — the politics of grievance: America is going down the toilet. Everyone is dumping on us.” that a man with his mindset might ever have his hand on the nuclear trigger is a very scary thought.

As his remarks made clear, Trump views the world through the prism that defines his entire campaign — the politics of grievance: America is going down the toilet. Everyone is dumping on us. Our allies don’t pay us enough and our enemies don’t respect us. We aren’t going to put up with it anymore.

The solution for everything, as he never ceases to remind us, can be found only in one venue, his own persona.

“I’m the only one — believe me. I’m the only one who knows how to fix it,” the Donald proclaimed in his speech.

But that beggars belief, not least because he lies so often and so repeatedly, providing media fact-checking sites with endless fodder. Prime among his frequent falsehoods are the constant claims

he was against George W. Bush’s Iraq war and President Barack Obama’s intervention in Libya. In reality he is on record as having supported the Iraq invasion, and pushed for U.S. intervention in Libya.

He even suggested the Libyan opposition could pay the United States with oil funds once Moammar Gadhafi fell.

So what is the Trump Doctrine to stop the world from exploiting us? From his speech, and his previous foreign policy utterings, it appears to be a variant of isolationism, sort of, maybe. Just pull back and let ‘em rot.

Trump is campaigning on the slogan of “America First” which — as has been widely noted — was the mantra of the pre-World War II, pro-Nazi isolationists who sought to keep the United States out of that war.

And, indeed, although he’s no anti-Semite, Trump makes clear he’d be willing to abandon NATO if the European allies don’t cough up more. In earlier remarks, he talked of pulling U.S. troops out of Japan and South Korea, and letting both of them go nuclear as America ceases to provide a nuclear umbrella.

He displays no comprehension of the value those alliances still provide to this country, or the dangers of American isolation in a world of new challenges.

Nor does he appear to grasp the risks of Asian nuclear proliferation (even though he notes, without further explanation, that “the power of weaponry is the single biggest problem that we have today in the world”).

Indeed, the speech is such a crazy mashup of contradictions one can’t be certain

what, if anything, Trump believes in. His aides busily whisper that he’d be more responsible when he took office. But, at this point, one must start judging Trump by what he says and how that reflects on the man.

He claims we need a longterm plan to halt radical Islam but presents none. Then he adds that he will “work very closely with Muslim allies” but talks of banning all Muslims from entering the country.

He shows a wariness of using American force abroad, and says he will only help nations “that are good to us” fight terrorism. But then he says that the Islamic State will be gone “very, very quickly, if I’m elected.” Perhaps he’s willing, as he has hinted in several interviews, to use “tactical nukes.”

Even as he threatens America’s allies, Trump says his administration will “lead a free world that is properly armed and funded beautifully.” Yet the foreign leader about whom he waxes most enthusiastic is Russia’s Vladimir Putin, an autocrat who invaded Ukraine, destabilized Europe, and backs Syrian regime bombs that are decimating civilians and hospitals in Aleppo.

Trump insists he could get a great deal from Putin (he describes almost every foreign policy move in terms of a deal) and, if not, he would walk away. What then? Declare bankruptcy in Ukraine and Syria and leave Eurasia to Putin? Does Trump have any idea who he is dealing with?

Or perhaps the deal that Trump wants with Moscow has less to do with foreign policy than business. As

Bloomberg’s Josh Rogin recently detailed, Trump has been trying for years to expand his real estate empire to Russia. His new friend Putin may be just the contact he needs.

But back to foreign policy deals — does Trump have any clue about China (or trade deals for that matter) when he suggests that we can be friends with Beijing, while bending the Chinese to our will by imposing a 45 percent trade tariff. Is he serious?

There is a lazy ignorance to the presumptive GOP nominee that makes one wonder if he really believes his own mantras and thinks he doesn’t need to learn anything from books or experts. He certainly seems to have little appreciation of the world we live in, and has yet to surround himself with those who know better.

He clearly yearns for the stability of the Cold War, but those days are long gone, and foreign policy is far more complex in a very fragmented world.

As his speech made clear, Trump’s only foreign policy strategy is to stoke American fears and to posture about quick, painless solutions, while predicting that allies will pay up and enemies quail after he is elected.

When none of this happens, he has little to offer, appearing ready to withdraw into an isolationism that would endanger the country, or to strike out blindly.

The Trump foreign policy doctrine can be summed up in one word: meshugaas.

— Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial-board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Budget courage To the editor: I read with amazement that 12 Democrats, including our own Rep. John Wilson from Lawrence, voted to continue the demented “Race to Zero” tax schemes of Gov. Brownback. Wilson’s reasoning was “...it’s not likely to go anywhere in the Senate, and certainly the governor’s not going to sign it.”

Talk about totally spineless logic!

Mr. Wilson, why on earth are you so frightened of the failed governor of the opposing party? And why are you so concerned about what the Senate may or may not do? I thought we elected you to represent the best interests of our community and of our state. If you’re not man enough to do exactly that, you need to find another job where you won’t be so scared all the time.

Kansas is dead broke. And our elected representatives, such as Wilson, don’t have to courage to address that huge and growing problem.

Richard L. Warrick, Lawrence

Graham report To the editor: For your readers’ interest, the April 29 Topeka Capital-Journal had a front page story entitled “Promoting Biblical voting” about Franklin Graham’s (son of Billy Graham) message on the south steps of the Capi-

tol. The Journal-World did cover the event with a news brief on page 5A of Saturday’s paper.

Although the brief’s author was not identified, the brief used the word “secularism” as a basis for how Christians should not vote. Simply put, Graham encouraged Christians to vote their beliefs. It is true that many were waving miniature American flags and many applauded when Graham encouraged the attendees to “put God back into the political discussion.” I don’t remember this statement per se but Graham did encouraged believers to be a part of the political process in any way that they could, advice that is good for any citizen.

Lastly, the statement that the nation’s forefathers “never intended for God to be completely removed from government” is misleading. How much is complete? Graham said that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian truths which have been systematically replaced by secularists who promote progressive agendas.

Carl Burkhead, Lawrence

ing slavery have roots that go back to the founding of the town, the university and a few local churches.

Many of KU’s chancellors have fostered a belief in the value of education and have many times expressed a sense of noblesse oblige or the responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity toward those less privileged.

This outlook does not stem from religious dogma but rather from the need for fairness to have a good society.

Our state has been tormented after the election of an ideologue who is not sensitive to the needs of the general population but instead has reduced the state corporate tax rate to zero. KU and other state universities and colleges are all threatened by this governor.

I wrote a letter to the editor here in 2010 calling for an increase in Kansas corporate income tax since we know that Koch Industries in Wichita has a gross annual income of more than $100 billion.

Faculty have been difficult to replace in many KU departments since Sam Brownback took office. Recruitment is difficult with a collapsed budget and a lack of new employment both locally and across Kansas since the 2008 recession. This governor has not helped to improve education or employment To the editor: in Kansas, and voters must turn out Stories about the history of Lawthose who support the current adminrence often begin with the founding istration. of Kansas University in 1865, only 40 Please VOTE accordingly. years after doors opened at Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia.

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Voters in Indiana will decide Tuesday whether Donald Trump moves closer to clinching or Ted Cruz hangs on.

Coming off six straight primary wins and leading many polls in Indiana, Trump predicted a win that will effectively end the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

“If we win Indiana, it’s over,” Trump said Monday during a rally in Carmel.

Cruz, like Ohio Gov. John Kasich, is trying to block Trump from a first-ballot win at the GOP convention in July.

He told Indiana voters they can alter the course of the election.

“I am in for the distance, as long as we have a viable path to victory,” Cruz said.

Trump and Cruz crisscrossed Indiana on a whirlwind final day in which Cruz confronted proTrump hecklers and argued that the New Yorker would lose the general election campaign badly

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Airline profits soar and fliers are sore Squeezed passengers and a flood of fees are fueling an uptick in customer complaints Bart Jansen @ganjansen USA TODAY

Cheap fuel prices juiced record profits for U.S. airlines last year even as customer complaints soared over cramped flights and mounting fees.

The 25 U.S. passenger airlines logged a record $25.6 billion in profits in 2015, more than three times the industry’s after-tax earnings of $7.5 billion reported in 2014, the Transportation Department said Monday.

Fuel prices averaged 35% lower in 2015 than the previous year.

The average fare of $377 in 2015 is down 3.8% from 2014 and down 19.2% from the inflationadjusted average of $467 in 2000, Transportation Department records show.

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$3.8 billion to the bottom line, and fees from reservation changes chalked up an additional $3 billion, the department said.

Among extra fees, airlines report only baggage and reservation fees to the department.

Though airlines’ financial books look robust, passengers grumble about lost bags, deceptive ticket prices, poor customer service and shrinking seats and legroom. Travelers filed 20,170 formal complaints last year, up from 15,539 in 2014, according to the department’s Air Travel Consumer Report.

Airlines have invested $1.4 billion a month in new aircraft and equipment while paying down $8 billion in debt last year and returning $10.5 billion to shareholders last year, according to Melanie Hinton, spokeswoman for Airlines for America, an industry group representing most

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Trey Bohn, executive director of the group Travelers’ Voice, said the $7 billion in baggage and reservation fees total nearly the economy of the Bahamas — and are the sources of most concern among travelers. “Depending too much on revenue from these fees is not only an operating weakness, it also suggests to travelers that the nickel and the dime are more important than improving their product,” Bohn said.

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Theplanes have more seats and less legroom to eke out more money, he said. “Everybody keeps telling us that we’re seeing all these improvements, but nobody’s seeing them. New airplanes don’t help us when ... they’re squeezing more people into them.”

U.N., reporters accuse Japan of muzzling media freedom Concerns cloud day to mark press liberties Kirk Spitzer USA TODAY

Tuesday marks World Press Freedom Day, but journalists in Japan said government pressure, weak institutional controls and a powerful state secrecy law have caused a worrisome loss in media freedom.

Three prominent journalists resigned in March amid concerns that pressure from government and conservative groups cause news organizations to avoid or TOKYO

soften reporting on controversial subjects, such as recent legislation easing constitutional restraints on Japan’s military.

The United Nations issued a blistering report last month after its independent expert spent a week in Japan interviewing journalists, educators and government officials. “The independence of the press is facing serious threats,” U.N. special rapporteur David Kaye said at a news conference April 19 in Tokyo.

“Across a range of areas, I learned of deep and genuine concern that trends are moving sharply and alarmingly in the wrong direction. This is especial-

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s country ranked 72nd on media freedom among 180 countries.

ly acute in the context of media independence,” he said.

The following day, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders is-

sued a report ranking Japan 72nd in press freedom of 180 countries surveyed. That’s down 11 places since last year, largely on concerns about a state secrets law passed in 2013 that the report said could restrict coverage of such diverse topics as the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

The USA ranked 41 in the report, up eight places from last year. The report concluded that a major obstacle to media freedom in the USA is “the government’s war on whistle-blowers who leak information about its surveillance activities, spying and foreign operations, especially those linked to counterterrorism.”

In Turkey, a U.S. ally in the war on terrorism, police used boltcutters to take over the country’s highest-circulation newspaper in a midnight raid in March. The country ranked 151st in the report, down two places.

“In Japan today, rather than the media watching the authorities, the government watches the media,” said Shuntaro Torigoe, a former newspaper reporter and television news anchor.

World Press Freedom Day is sponsored by UNESCO (U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to highlight the importance of a free and independent media.

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‘Brexit’ confounds Britain, confuses U.S. Michael Wolff

@MichaelWolffNYC Michael@burnrate.com USA TODAY

What is an American to make of “Brexit,” the hard-to-pronounce movement in Britain to exit the European Union, which will have its dénouement in a national referendum June 23?

With some polls favoring an exit vote, President Obama, trying to exert American self interest, recently wandered into this increasingly bitter debate. In an effort to help the remain side, Obama rather casually opined that the EU works well enough for the U.S., and seemingly well enough for Britain, so why rock the boat? And he added, if Britain does secede from the EU, it shouldn’t look to the U.S. for help.

This immediately prompted controversy about his perceived condescension and for the sense that many Brits have long had that, unlike past presidents, Obama had no particular loyalty to the mother country.

Boris Johnson, the popular conservative politician, London mayor and possible future British prime minister, suggested this had to do with Obama’s Kenyan ancestry and antipathy to historic colonialism, which promptly plunged Johnson into a round of accusations of racism from the left.

Johnson also brought up the bust of Winston Churchill in the White House that had unceremoniously been shipped back to

the U.K. when Obama became president.

That in turn led to more fact checking of contradictory statements the White House had made about the disappearing bust. He had replaced it, Obama now said, after various different accounts from the White House, with a bust of Dr. Martin Luther King. Churchill, he said, had been sent back only in the interests of avoiding clutter, which rather seemed to confirm his minimal affection for Winston — and, in general, the U.S.’s waning regard for Britain.

And yet, a British exit from Europe, however marginal an issue in the U.S., could indeed upend the world order. It might presage further exits from the EU, give Russia various new and trouble-making diplomatic openings, set trade wars in motion and result in Scotland finally leaving the U.K. Or not. As likely, nothing dramatic will happen. Or, put another way, it is a curious referendum in that the Brexit side does not really know what it is voting for.

Anyway, without knowing what the vote is actually for, and not even really opposing what it’s against — the pro-Brexits have lived peaceably and prosperously in the EU — the arguments have largely played out in subtext.

Part of that subtext is immigration. Angela Merkel’s government in Germany, which the Brexit Brits regard, no doubt rightly, as the dominant force in the EU, has opened EU member states to an unprecedented level of immigration — giving most everyone in the U.K. some pause.

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London’s Mayor Boris Johnson has said President Obama’s Kenyan roots are behind a lack of loyalty to the U.K.

But since Brexit, and its implied opposition to EU immigration policies, is supported by the far right British parties, this has helped push the left and much of the establishment center right, including the Cameron government — all heretofore ambivalent about EU membership — firmly into the remain camp.

It is this establishment, the true north of the Cameron government, that most hotly and logically opposes Brexit.

That center is deeply probusiness — that mostly means pro-financial industry, which might face the most disruption from leaving the EU. It is that sort of elite, globalized banking class — remote, unaccountable, self-interested — that, as part of the subtext, the Brexits are in part standing against. In this regard, Brexit inclinations intersect with Trump and Sanders emotions.

Brexit, with its strong streak of nativism, is about a narrative or fantasy of British exceptionalism. Still, it is hard not to also interpret Brexit, in a Trumpian context, as “Make Britain great again.”

It is too an effort against the platform hegemony of modern life — what the Brexits call the fundamental sovereignty issue.

In a sense, the Brexits seek to reject Brussels as Brussels itself, in the form of increasing antimonopoly, seeks to reject the ever-greater dominance of Google.

To which Obama said fat chance. The world is as it is. So suck it up.

Wolff is an author and award-winning columnist for USA TODAY.

Clinton to bend, but not too Pumped-up Trump: ‘If far, to woo Sanders voters we win Indiana, it’s over’ She has an eye on moderates while courting progressives Heidi M. Przybyla USA TODAY

Bernie Sanders may or may not try to persuade his passionate voters to love Hillary Clinton, but she’s not waiting to find out.

In the coming weeks, Clinton plans to emphasize portions of her agenda that align with Sanders’ chief priorities — especially campaign finance changes and college affordability — while highlighting and fleshing out proposals to boost middle-class jobs and wages in a bid to energize the entire Democratic Party, according to two campaign officials who were not authorized to speak publicly about her plans.

Conventional general election strategy dating to Richard Nixon dictates that candidates play to the far ends of their respective bases during the primaries — Democrats to liberals and Republicans to conservatives — until locking down the nomination, when they pivot to issues that appeal to a broader electorate.

“There are many reasons in her case not to pursue that course of action,” said Bill Galston, a former domestic policy adviser to Bill Clinton who coauthored a road map for his 1992 victory.

“Things she’s been pushed to the left on are not unpalatable to the center,” including trade, he said. The primary campaign has “done some damage to her

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Hillary Clinton will emphasize the issues upon which she and Bernie Sanders agree, such as campaign finance.

standing with the American people, and I don’t think she’ll rebuild that by changing course,” said Galston. “She’d have a better chance to do that by holding her ground and fleshing it out, defending it, and arguing that it’s a reasonable and responsible place to be,” he said.

Polls show only a little more than a third of voters consider her “honest” and “trustworthy.”

However, Democrats are betting if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, he’ll drive moderate suburban swing voters, and possibly some Republican women, into Clinton’s column.

That means the risks that come with alienating the Democratic base may be greater than those of failing to court centrist voters.

“They may not need to move too far to the center because many of these suburban swing voters are so repelled by Trump,” said Larry Jacobs, a presidential

politics scholar at the University of Minnesota.

The Clinton campaign also believes economic populism is now mainstream in both parties. It held back a middle-class tax cut plan during the primary, believing that rolling it out in the general election will energize both moderates and progressives.

While her tax measures thus far have focused on specific tax credits, the campaign is now aiming to deliver a broader middle-class tax relief plan with a specific dollar amount, according to one aide.

Clinton telegraphed the approach in a speech a week ago after sweeping four of five Eastern primaries that all but mathematically extinguished Sanders’ hopes of clinching the nomination. She vowed to build on “a strong progressive tradition” dating to Franklin Roosevelt.

“That’s not the language that someone who’s preparing to create space in the general election would be using,” said Jacobs.

Sanders, a Vermont senator, still insists he can win the nomination through a contested convention, and polls indicate Tuesday’s Indiana primary could be close. Surveys show that as many as 40% of Sanders voters say they may not vote for Clinton in November.

By June 2008, after a tense campaign, a similar percentage of Clinton voters said they wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama, though many did in the end.

Sanders voters, who’ve cast their campaign as a new political movement, may prove more inflexible.

Ted Cruz says heckler deserves a spanking for his outburst Donovan Slack @donovanslack USA TODAY

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has made no secret of the fact that he spanks his daughter when she misbehaves. He has also suggested the American people should deliver a “spanking” to Hillary Clinton.

Now, he is prescribing the same discipline for a protester who interrupted him during a rally in Indiana on Sunday.

“Apparently there’s a young man who’s having some problems,” Cruz said as the heckler

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yelled: “You suck!”

“Thank you, son,” Cruz replied, before adding that he thinks “children should actually speak

with respect.”

“Imagine what a different world it would be if someone had told Donald Trump that years ago,” he said. “You know, in my household, when a child behaves that way, they get a spanking.”

The exchange comes as Cruz and Trump are stumping for every last vote heading into to the Republican primary in Indiana on Tuesday. Trump leads Cruz by roughly 9 percentage points, 42%-32.7%, in the RealClearPolitics average of recent Hoosier polls. A win there could help solidify Trump’s claim to the nomination, while dealing Cruz a formidable blow.

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to Democrat Hillary Clinton and take Republican candidates down with him.

“Donald Trump is deceiving you,” Cruz told a Trump supporter in Marion, Ind. “He is playing you for a chump.”

Trump backers reminded Cruz that it is mathematically impossible for him to win a majority of convention delegates on a first ballot and demanded that he drop out.

“We don’t want you,” a Trump supporter told Cruz. “Do the math.”

Trump entered the Indiana campaign after two weeks of easy wins in his home state of New York and in the nearby states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island.

Thanks to those wins, the Manhattan businessman is less than 250 delegates away from the 1,237 he needs to clinch the GOP presidential nomination. Trump leads Cruz, his nearest competitor, by more than 400 delegates, and Kasich by more than 800.

Fifty-seven delegates will be at stake in Tuesday’s Indiana primary.

Cruz and Kasich, along with various “Never Trump” political action committees, are trying to prevent the businessman from claiming the majority of delegates needed for a first-ballot win at the convention in July.

Cruz defeated Trump in the Wisconsin primary April 5, but in the weeks since, he has had trouble consolidating Trump critics behind his candidacy — and he and Kasich are running out of states.

After Tuesday’s primary in Indiana, nine states will hold delegate contests in the GOP race.

Nebraska and West Virginia will hold elections next week, followed by Oregon (May 17) and Washington (May 24). Primary season ends June 7 with contests in California, New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico and South Dakota.

Indiana has been essentially a one-on-one race between Trump and Cruz.

Kasich pulled out of the state late last month as aides to him and Cruz said the two campaigns made an agreement — part of their anti-Trump effort — in which Kasich agreed to defer to Cruz in Indiana, while Cruz would not campaign against Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico.

By the end of the week, the two

candidates downplayed the idea of a deal, saying they were simply reallocating resources.

Cruz stumped in Indiana with the backing of Gov. Mike Pence and announced last week that if he rallies past Trump, his running mate will be businesswoman and former Republican White House hopeful Carly Fiorina.

Trump toured the Hoosier State with an iconic sports figure, former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight.

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‘Opportunistic’ cleric is force 3 planets best hope behind Iraq’s current chaos yet in hunt Muqtada al-Sadr rises again, demonstrates his clout in Baghdad for life

Gregg Zoroya @greggzoroya USA TODAY

Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Muqtada al-Sadr has been an unpredictable force to reckon with — as the U.S. military and the Iraqi government have learned.

After leading a protest that stormed the Iraqi parliament, the 42-year-old Shiite cleric stands to dictate widespread changes to Iraq’s government.

Al-Sadr was able to “demonstrate that you can’t ignore him and he can pierce the corridors of power, literally,” said Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an expert on the cleric. “His objective would be to increase his own clout.”

Saturday, hundreds of al-Sadr’s followers stormed the heavily fortified Green Zone, the government center of Baghdad, and broke into parliament, sending politicians fleeing. Order was restored later that day.

The unrest raised doubts about the political stability of Iraq and occurred at a fragile moment when the government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is struggling to mount an effective counteroffensive against Islamic State forces occupying Mosul.

Al-Abadi had agreed to push for changes aimed at replacing politically connected ministers with non-partisan technocrats as a way to do away with corruption in the government.

Al-Sadr embraced these changes and demonstrated his clout in February by calling for a rally in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square that drew 100,000. Many who attended were impassioned young people angry about corruption and the chronic failure of the government to provide such basic public services as reliable electricity.

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Muqtada al-Sadr is trying to position himself as a good-government advocate, analysts say.

“He’s trying to position himself as a good-government advocate,” said Stephen Biddle, professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. “He’s very opportunistic.”

The assault on the government center was in response to parliament’s failure to enact anti-corruption laws.

Al-Sadr’s movement is the latest incarnation for a personality that has played a leading role in Iraq since 2003. For years after the U.S.-led invasion, his Mahdi Army fought bloody engagements with U.S. troops.

Al-Sadr was born into a family of Shiite scholars, the fourth son of the Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadaq al-Sadr, who was murdered along with two of his sons in 1999.

As Iraq’s prime minister struggles while fighting the Islamic State militants, al-Sadr has “become in some ways the most potent political player during this crisis,” Knights said.

U.S. backs Iraqi leader amid political unrest Jim Michaels @jimmichaels USA TODAY

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GERMANY Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Monday the United States strongly supports Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, as the Iraqi leader confronts a new round of political turmoil threatening his government.

Protesters in Iraq stormed into the parliament building over the weekend in Baghdad after pulling down barricades around the Green Zone, where much of Iraq’s government is housed. “We support him strongly because of what he stands for,” Carter said

while flying to Germany.

The protesters, mostly followers of renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, left parliament, but the chaos raised concerns about a key U.S. partner in the war against the Islamic State, also called ISIS or ISIL. “Prime Minister Abadi … has been a partner in all of the things that are important to Iraq’s future, namely a country that holds together and doesn’t spiral off into sectarianism,” Carter said.

He praised Norway’s announcement to send special operations forces to Jordan to train Syrian Arab forces who are a part of a coalition of local forces battling the Islamic State.

Social services spending can help boost health, lower costs

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Reinforces plan to have medical, social services work closely Jayne O’Donnell

SOCIAL ILLS? How states’ social services and public health spending compare to the Medicare and Medicaid spending on their residents. States with higher ratios achieve better health.

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States that spend more money on social services and public health programs relative to medical care have much healthier residents than states that don’t, a study out today by a prominent public health researcher found.

The study comes as the Obama administration prepares to fund its own research to support the idea that higher social service spending can improve health and lower health care costs.

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a long-awaited rule that will pave the way for more doctors and hospitals to work closely with social services providers to keep people healthier, such as with home visits or housing.

Health care and social services experts in West Virginia, where jobs and access to health care can be hard to come by, cite daily reminders of how improved services can save money later. Their challenge is expanding the reach of the programs they do have.

“There’s always more need than resources,” says Audrey Morris. director of the non-profit Starting Points of Morgan County here.

The study is the first to compare state spending on social services — which generally are less expensive than medical costs — with spending on Medicare and Medicaid and to residents’ health.

Many state officials, including those here, say Medicaid claims are busting their budgets and federal officials struggle to rein in Medicare spending on drugs and medical treatments.

Yale University public health professor Elizabeth Bradley, the study’s lead author, urges more efficient — not more — government spending.

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Firefighters douse the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava on Monday after a fire destroyed the New York City church Sunday. Parishioners had celebrated Easter earlier in the day, but the cathedral was empty when the fire started.

FIRE DESTROYS 160-YEAR-OLD NEW YORK CITY CHURCH

A four-alarm fire engulfed an Orthodox church in New York City on Sunday evening, the day Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter.

New York City’s fire department responded to the blaze at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava on West 25th Street and Broadway in Manhattan after the fire broke out shortly before 7 p.m., the New York Post reported.

At least 170 firefighters arrived on the scene to combat the flames. No injuries were reported, the department said.

The Cathedral of St. Sava, formerly known as Trinity Chapel, opened its doors as an Episcopal church in 1855, according to the Cathedral.

— Josh Hafner FORMER N.Y. ASSEMBLY SPEAKER TO BE SENTENCED

A once-powerful New York lawmaker is set to be sentenced Tuesday in a federal corruption case.

Prosecutors are seeking more than 14 years in prison for Sheldon Silver, a Democrat and the former Assembly speaker, who was convicted Nov. 30 on all seven federal corruption counts against him. The verdict brought down one of the biggest players in New York politics who served in the state Legislature for more than 20 years. — Joseph Spector

Our science fiction dreams of Martians may never come true, but three earth-like planets discovered orbiting a nearby star have potential life and water, astronomers announced Monday.

The sizes and temperatures of these worlds are similar to those of Earth and Venus, and hold the best promise yet for the search for life outside the solar system.

All three planets may have regions with temperatures that are within a range suitable for sustaining liquid water and life, according to the report published Monday in the British journal Nature.

The three planets orbit around an “ultracool” dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth, or some 240 trillion miles away. In astronomical terms, that’s pretty close considering our own Milky Way galaxy spans 100,000 light years.

Since the planets are outside our solar system, they are called exoplanets.

“This really is a paradigm shift with regards to the planet population and the path towards finding life in the Universe,” said Emmanuël Jehin, a co-author of the new study and an astronomer at the University of Liège in Belgium.

“So far, the existence of such ‘red worlds’ orbiting ultra-cool dwarf stars was purely theoretical, but now we have not just one lonely planet around such a faint red star but a complete system of three planets,” he said.

The group of international astronomers from MIT, NASA, the University California at San Diego, the University of Liège and other institutions made the discovery.

COLO. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST FRACKING BANS

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday against Fort Collins’ five-year fracking moratorium, a long-awaited decision that could have statewide implications for the controversial oil and gas recovery method.

The court also ruled against a voter-supported ban on hydraulic fracturing in Longmont, Colo. In the opinions, released Monday, the court called both laws “invalid and unenforceable” because state law preempts them.

— Jacy Marmaduke, Fort Collins Coloradoan ALSO...

uJoseph Micalizzi, 23, a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, was shot and killed Monday morning during a burglary at a fraternity house, the university president said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. The burglary took place around 3:30 a.m. at Tau Kappa Epsilon in Newark, NJIT President Joel Bloom said. uA Kentucky judge on Monday issued a restraining order to block removal of a Confederate monument. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Judith McDonaldBurkman issued the order against Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and Metro Government, barring them from moving or tampering with the 70-foot-tall monument near the University of Louisville.

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found that for every dollar of Medicare and Medicaid spending for residents of the average state, an additional $3 was spent on social services and public health between 2000 and 2009, the latest available.

“It’s not just that it’s moral or immoral, it’s just smart.”

Elizabeth Bradley, study lead author and Yale University public health professor

States including Colorado and Nevada had the highest ratios of social service and public health spending relative to medical costs — about $5 for every dollar of medical care — and were much healthier.

New York and Massachusetts joined traditionally poor-health states including West Virginia and Louisiana with the lowest ratios of social services to medical spending, averaging about $2.30 on social services for every medical dollar spent.

Residents also tend to have

higher rates of heart attacks, mental illness and obesity, the study showed.

Businesses, churches and others should join state and local government to better provide residents with services including transportation, nutrition support and job training, says Bradley.

“It’s not just that it’s moral or immoral, it’s just smart,” says Bradley, co-author with Lauren Taylor of The American Health Care Paradox, which helped prompt HHS’ new social services “innovation” project for Medicare.

Chance Miller, 7, and his mother Meredith Bradshaw may prove Bradley right.

Chance attends the Boys and Girls Club of America’s afterschool program downstairs from Starting Points and usually insists on staying late to do homework, eat dinner and play with friends. Bradshaw, who works at a local furniture factory, relies on Starting Points for dinner three nights a week and free fresh vegetables.

“This is the best program,” says Bradshaw, 42.

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA ALABAMA Troy: A man wanted

in Alabama and Florida on multiple charges, including murder, was captured near here, WSFATV reported.

ALASKA Bethel: Wood bison

calves have been spotted near here, marking the first time in the U.S. in years that the bison have been born in the wild. KYUK-AM reported that the newborn calves were spotted last week, months after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game released 130 wood bison into the wild. Wood bison are North America’s largest land animal and the larger cousins of plains bison.

ARIZONA Sierra Vista: A skunk that attacked a hiker in Brown Canyon was tested for rabies.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Budget

cuts of about $1 million each to libraries and for senior citizen centers will be restored with money from the state’s Rainy Day Fund, the Arkansas DemocratGazette reported.

PENNSYLVANIA Benton: Au-

HIGHLIGHT: CALIFORNIA

Solar Impulse 2 takes off from S.F. Doyle Rice USA TODAY

The solar-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 took off from the San Francisco area early Monday as it continues its aroundthe-world tour with several flights across the U.S. The plane took off at 8:03 a.m.

ET (5:03 a.m. PT) for a trip to Phoenix that was expected to last 16 hours and 23 minutes. It was to land in Phoenix around 12:30 a.m. ET (10:30 p.m. MT in Phoenix).

Swiss adventurer André Borschberg piloted the plane.

This marks the first Solar Impulse 2 flight across the North American continent; New York City is the final destination.

Last year, Borschberg and fellow Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard set out to circumnavigate the globe in the plane without using fuel or spewing polluting emissions.

The two have alternated who pilots the one-man craft.

The first leg began March 9, 2015, in Abu Dhabi. Borschberg flew 13 hours to land in Muscat, Oman.

The trip continued with several more legs across Asia before Borschberg completed the world’s longest non-stop solo flight, a four-day, 21-hour and 52-minute excursion from Japan to Hawaii.

thorities say an all-terrain vehicle went down an embankment and flipped over, killing two men.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: A 51-year-old man is facing charges for allegedly setting up video cameras in the men’s restroom at the local train station, the Providence Journal reported.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia:

The first case of travel-associated Zika virus was confirmed in the state by state health officials, The State reported. The unnamed resident recently traveled to a country where the virus is active, however the person was not contagious upon their return and poses no risk to public health.

SOUTH DAKOTA Yankton: The Market at the Meridian will take place Saturday mornings from May to October, with it acting as a farmers market, the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan reported.

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Solar Impulse 2 flies over the Golden Gate Bridge upon its arrival in San Francisco on April 23. The solar-powered aircraft took off Monday morning for Phoenix.

But that flight damaged the plane’s battery. Because of the time needed to repair it and the decreasing sunlight as a result of the changing seasons, the pilots called off their attempt to complete the trip in a single year.

The late April flight from Ha-

waii to San Francisco marked the continuation of the journey.

After Solar Impulse 2’s flights across the U.S., it’s scheduled to undertake two final flights over the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea before landing back in Abu Dhabi.

TENNESSEE Chattanooga: Police arrested firefighter Steven Ratledge, 27, after they say he robbed a convenience store, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported. Ratledge, who has been a firefighter for 31⁄2 years, was placed on leave without pay following his arrest Sunday on a charge of aggravated robbery.

TEXAS Belton: Trails at the

Miller Springs Nature Center, a 260-acre nature center in Central Texas, will be reconstructed with the help of a $100,000 grant, the Temple Daily Telegram reported.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Gra-

nada Hills Charter High School won the national Academic Decathlon, besting competitors from all over the USA, the Los Angeles Times reported. It is the fifth time in the past six years that Granada Hills has claimed the title.

COLORADO Boulder: A Weld

County jury has determined that two pilots were not negligent when their planes almost collided and one crashed, killing all five people on board in Erie in 2014, the Daily Camera reported. The lawsuits claimed “bad piloting” caused the crash.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: Gov. Malloy received a Profile in Courage award from the John F. Kennedy Foundation for his willingness to accept refugees from Syria into the state, the Connecticut Post reported.

DELAWARE Georgetown: A

truck reported stolen from here was found nearly under water in Love Creek near Rehoboth Beach, The News Journal reported. No one was inside the vehicle when firefighters were called to the Boat Hole Marina.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Trans-

portation Secretary Anthony Foxx replaced three members of the Metro transit board with experienced safety professionals, The Washington Post reported.

FLORIDA Miami: Police say a

way for Riley Hospital for Children to open the Simon Skjodt Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit in July, The Indianapolis Star reported. The unit will allow for more comprehensive care for children and adolescents with mental health issues, such as anxiety, bipolar disorder and eating disorders.

IOWA Burlington: Officials are

concerned about the city’s trees after a wave of plant diseases and unusually wet weather in recent years that has loosened the soil’s grip on root systems, the Hawk Eye reported. City of Burlington crews and private tree services are busy removing trees that have succumbed to disease or fallen because of storms.

KANSAS Topeka: The new maps

for political districts aren’t due in Kansas until 2022. But officials from the U.S. Census Bureau met with the state Legislature’s research department last week to discuss the process, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.

KENTUCKY Louisville: A 121-

year-old Confederate monument on the University of Louisville campus will be removed, The Courier-Journal reported. The Confederate monument has been a point of contention on campus for at least the past two decades, prompting student protests on several occasions.

computer programmer hacked into the American Airlines accounts of travelers and stole $260,000 worth of frequent flyer miles. The Miami Herald reported that Milad Avazdavani has been jailed for a year on 19 felony counts including grand theft.

IDAHO Pocatello: The FBI is

expanding its data center facility, bringing 300 new jobs here, the Idaho State Journal reported.

Construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2017.

ILLINOIS Naperville: Work needed to make nearly two dozen city-owned properties compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act will cost $2.5 million, the Naperville Sun reported.

INDIANA Indianapolis: A

$3.8 million gift from the Samerian Foundation has paved the

Authorities are warning the public of a dangerous batch of heroin circulating here after two people died and several more overdosed.

LOUISIANA Shreveport: The

National Weather Service warned of flooding along the Red River, KSLA-TV reported. Forecasters said the river would peak at a moderate flood stage at Shreveport Tuesday. Major flood crests were predicted downriver at Coushatta on Wednesday and Grand Ecore on Thursday.

MAINE Lewiston: Police are

investigating multiple shots being fired as a party here was breaking up, the Lewiston Sun Journal reported.

MARYLAND Wheaton: A man

accused of attacking and sexually assaulting three women at the Wheaton Metro station in December 2014 has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, WUSA-TV reported. Police say Christian A. Jordan, 20, threatened the women with a BB gun to force them

NEW JERSEY Burlington

Township: Police arrested two Walmart cashiers on charges they stole several thousand dollars from their cash registers, the Courier-Post reported. Karlmichael Curry-Watson took more than $20,000 and Dontay Jones stole more than $6,000, police said. Jones was also charged with possession of drugs with intent to distribute.

MICHIGAN Liberty Township: A 61-year-old hunter was shot in the arm with a crossbow after a fellow hunter apparently mistook him for a turkey, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported. The man, who was shot early Sunday in the left arm while hunting on private land, is expected to survive, and the 51-year-old Jackson man who shot him, whose name was not released, is expected to face charges.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: State Auditor Tim Keller is calling for an audit of how New Mexico awards contracts. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that a review of how the state awards contracts will commence this summer.

MINNESOTA Hastings: State

NEW YORK Buchanan: The

trooper Paul Kingery, who rescued a bald eagle from a collision with a car on Interstate 494 nearly six weeks ago, was given the honor of setting the recovered raptor free, the Star Tribune reported.

MISSISSIPPI Moss Point: As the

city celebrates its 115th anniversary, it is also celebrating its oldest resident. Former city employee Lezra Rogers, 101, was honored by the city, The Mississippi Press reported.

MISSOURI Columbia: Chuck

Henson, an interim diversity officer at the University of Missouri, will be returning to the university’s School of Law in the fall. The Columbia Daily Tribune reported that Foley’s announcement did not say how the university plans to fill the diversity position.

Regional Detention Center, a private prison, has suspended operations due to a lack of inmates, the Billings Gazette reported.

issued a boil water advisory for several parts of the city after a power outage knocked two pumping stations offline.

Senate leadership agreed to spend $100 million to cool public school classrooms, Hawaii News Now reported. The money will be spent on ceiling fans, solar-powered vents and air conditioning, with the hottest classrooms receiving first priority.

MASSACHUSETTS Fitchburg:

MONTANA Hardin: Two Rivers

GEORGIA Atlanta: Officials

HAWAII Honolulu: House and

into unwanted sexual acts.

NEBRASKA Scottsbluff: Mark Cross, 55, has been sentenced to six months in jail for trying to take out a loan in his brother’s name to buy a vehicle for $70,592, the Scottsbluff StarHerald reported.

NEVADA North Las Vegas: Police say a shooting that wounded a man may be the result of road rage, KTNV-TV reported.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

Fisherman can now catch five times more haddock a day under new state and federal rules. Officials say the daily bag limit for recreational fishermen has increased from three to 15 fish daily.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it found an unprecedented number of deteriorating bolts at the Indian Point nuclear plant, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported. The agency said a recent review found 227 of 832 “baffleformer bolts at the plant were degraded and two were missing entirely.

NORTH CAROLINA Burlington:

Authorities in Alamance County accused 35-year-old James Bush of Mebane of exploiting his mother for $40,000, The TimesNews reported.

NORTH DAKOTA Williston: The

city’s historic Old Armory is celebrating its centennial. KFYR-TV reported that the armory’s primary purpose back in 1916 was to be the home and training facility for company E of the North Dakota National Guard, first North Dakota infantry.

OHIO Lima: Greg Stevenson drowned trying to save a boy who had fallen into a 40-degree Ottawa River, The Lima News reported. The boy, whose name wasn’t immediately available, had been walking in shallow water Sunday with other children when he was swept away as he walked out too far.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The names of 155 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in Oklahoma are being engraved on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial. The deaths date to 1872, The Oklahoman reported.

OREGON Coos County: The World reported that Bay Area Hospital had more than 100 child psychology consultations and 62 admissions in 2014. That’s an increase to the 27 consultations and six admissions the hospital experienced in 2011.

UTAH Ogden: Strong winds led to thousands in northern Utah losing power, the Standard-Examiner reported. Winds as high as 87 mph swept areas along the Wasatch Front.

VERMONT Montpelier: Ver-

mont wildlife biologists expect the statewide deer herd going into the fall will number 140,000 to 145,000, which is the highest since 2007 and the second highest since 2001, Burlington Free Press reported.

VIRGINIA Lexington: Tuition is going up at the Virginia Military Institute, the nation’s oldest state-supported military college.

Its Board of Visitors approved a tuition increase of 4% for state residents and 5.2% for out-ofstate residents.

WASHINGTON Seattle: King County health officials are distributing special cardboard boxes for babies to sleep in, KING-TV reported. The program is aimed at reducing infant deaths. They are being given to low-income parents who do not have a crib and have to share a full-size bed with their newborn.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Kanawha County’s school system plans to have about 90 fewer positions next fiscal year because of a shrinking budget, The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.

WISCONSIN Green Bay: St. John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter said of the roughly 450 people who stayed at the shelter the last six months, more than 75 were ages 18 to 25, a 40% increase from the 2014-15 shelter season, when 54 people in the 18-to-25 age bracket stayed there.

The average stay for the youngadult population was 39 days, the longest among the facility’s users, who ranged in age from 18 to 76, Green Bay Press-Gazette reported.

WYOMING Cheyenne: A pine

beetle outbreak in the Rocky Mountain states is leaving dead trees in its wake, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported. The outbreak that began in 1996 has killed thousands of mature trees.

Compiled by Tim Wendel and Jonathan Briggs, with Carolyn Cerbin, Linda Dono, Mike Gottschamer, Ben Sheffler, Mike B. Smith, Nichelle Smith and Matt Young. Design by Jennifer Herrmann.

Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.

NEWS MONEY SPORTS Halliburton bust likely to spur more oil sales LIFE AUTOS TRAVEL

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With Baker-Hughes deal called off, wave of cost cutting may be next Nathan Bomey @NathanBomey USA TODAY

The collapse of the proposed tie-up between oilfield services giants Halliburton and Baker Hughes may trigger a wave of consolidation and further cost cutting as the industry reels from low oil prices.

Baker Hughes on Monday announced plans to shed $500 million in costs after the U.S. Justice Department blocked the company’s sale to rival Halliburton on MONEYLINE

INTERNATIONAL PAPER

INTERNATIONAL PAPER MAKES $1.9B ACQUISITION Memphis-based International Paper said Monday it would acquire the pulp business of Federal Way, Wash.-based Weyerhaeuser. The deal is valued at $1.9 billion, including a $300 million tax benefit, and is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Weyerhaeuser employs about 1,900 workers in Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Canada and Poland.

antitrust concerns.

Now, some analysts are anticipating a fresh round of mergers, acquisitions and restructuring to cope with low cash flow from crude oil’s decline. Halliburton and Baker Hughes, however, are viewed as financially resilient enough to ride out the cycle.

“The initial thought was that divestitures from the deal would shape the profile of the industry with many players waiting to see how the process would shake out,” Deutsche Bank analyst Mike Urban wrote in a research note to investors. “With the deal now called off, we believe it could set off a wave of industry restructuring/consolidation.”

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barrel, to edge back to the $50-to$60 range by the second half of the year, but that would still not be enough to make many companies profitable on their own.

Baker Hughes will immediately begin cost-cutting measures.

The deal was once valued at $34 billion. Deputy Assistant Attorney General David Gelfand of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division told reporters the deal “would have harmed energy companies and would have harmed American consumers.”

Baker Hughes shares fell 2% Thursday to $47.40. Halliburton rose 2% to $42.05.

The Obama administration hailed the deal’s demise, trumpeting the growing list of mergers blocked as regulators increase scrutiny of potentially anti-competitive deals. The administration has killed more than 30 “anticompetitive mergers,” Gelfand says. Some 130 mergers have been blocked or altered through settlements such as divestitures.

AS FUNDING DRIES UP, START-UPS START TO FOCUS ON BOTTOM LINE With climate changing, most are just proud to get any backing at all

Hundreds of start-ups, many seeking funding, convened for the Collision conference.

Jon Swartz @jswartz USA TODAY

NEW ORLEANS Foursquare, which became the poster child for slashed start-up valuations when it GET SMALL-BUSINESS ADVICE raised its latest round of IN FACEBOOK CHAT ON WED. funding, is now turning the Current and aspiring smallscenario into a sales pitch. business owners, entrepreneurs “Raising $45 million is a testaand start-ups, bring your quesment to how well our company is tions to USA TODAY’s Money & growing ... only companies with Tech Facebook page Wednesreal momentum get funding,” day at noon ET. As part of USA Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck said TODAY’s “Invest in Your Success” last week at the Collision tech insmall-business week series, two vesting conference. best-selling authors — Tory JohnThrough services inson, founder of the Spark & Huscluding location-based tle small-business conference analysis of consumer series and ‘Good Morning Amer- spending, Foursquare ica’ contributor, and Steve should triple its marStrauss, USA TODAY small-busiket valuation over the ness columnist — will take your next several years, questions on a variety of topics.

Glueck predicted.

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MANUFACTURING GREW Forget market valuMORE SLOWLY IN APRIL ations, the estimate of Manufacturing activity increased how much a private company at a slower pace in April as the would be worth in a sale or IPO. weak global economy and oil When Foursquare raised its latest slump continued to weigh. An round of funding, its valuation index of factory activity fell to was marked down 60%, to $250 50.8 from 51.8 in March, the Inmillion, according to estimates stitute for Supply Management published in The Wall Street said Monday. A reading above Journal and other outlets.

50 indicates expansion; below The point is that it raised mon50 contraction. Economists exey, period. pected a milder drop to 51.4.

“Good companies will still raise money in bad environDOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVG. ments. The thing we haven’t seen is there’s a whole generation of 17,950 entrepreneurs who only have 117.52 raised money in good times and 17,900 took really for granted how easy it was,” said Saar Gur, general part17,850 4:00 p.m. ner at venture capital firm 17,891 Charles River Ventures, in a USA 17,800 TODAY podcast. “They’re about 9:30 a.m.

17,750 to get a rude awakening.”

17,774 A confluence of factors — a 17,700 nearly nonexistent tech IPO market, tightening funding and murMONDAY MARKETS murs of an impending bubble — INDEX CLOSE CHG have start-ups focusing on profits Nasdaq composite 4817.59 x 42.23 and unsure of when or if the next S&P 500 2081.43 x 16.13 cash infusion will come. And T- note, 10-year yield 1.86% x 0.04 when they do raise money, the esOil, light sweet crude $44.78 y 1.17 timated valuation is likely to Euro (dollars per euro) $1.1523 x 0.0069 Yen per dollar 106.45 y 0.28 show investors think the compaSOURCES USA TODAY RESEARCH, MARKETWATCH.COM ny is worth a lot less than they did two years ago.

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Halliburton says it will pay a $3.5 billion breakup fee to Baker Hughes.

Halliburton will pay a $3.5 billion breakup fee to Baker Hughes, which will in turn devote $1.5 billion of that to share buybacks and $1 billion to repay debt. The fee is fairly generous and could strengthen Baker Hughes, says Jim Milligan, a natural resource analyst at Olivetree Securities.

Though investors anticipated potential opposition to the tie-up when it was revealed in late November 2014, the government’s exuberant reaction to the merger’s demise underscores the risks big companies face at the altar.

“The hurdle is higher because it’s more of an active DOJ, and the Obama administration is on its way out, so obviously it wants to leave more of a footprint,” Milligan says.

JON SWARTZ, USA TODAY

JON SWARTZ, USA TODAY

“Only companies with real momentum get funding,” Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck says.

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VENTURE FUNDING, DEALS FOR START-UPS WANE Funding and deals for start-ups has steadily declined the past year, according to analysts.

No. of deals

Dollar value (in billions) $17.3 $16.7

1,085

Q1

1,218 1,173

Q2 Q3 2015

$13.7 1,021

969

Q4

Q1 2016

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$12.0 $12.1

Q2 Q3 2015

Q4

Q1 2016

Sources Thomson Reuters, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association KRIS KINKADE, USA TODAY

That was the clear message among the hundreds of earlystage companies that descended on the Collision conference.

“It is harder to raise money from the venture and IPO markets because the business models (of tech companies) are under

more scrutiny,” said Raj De Datta, CEO of BloomReach, a data science and machine learning company that raised $56 million in funding in January, in a phone interview.

Glueck, who replaced CEO Dennis Crowley at Foursquare in January, wouldn’t comment on the new valuation of the firm after its latest round of capital. He’s among scores of executives who face the same delicate dance: Raise funds as valuations are scaled back and investors more closely scrutinize profitability, burn rates and longterm business prospects.

Venture capitalists poured $12.1 billion into 969 deals for start-ups in the first quarter this year, down 11% for each category from the same quarter a year ago, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. It isn’t quite the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s or the 2008 financial crisis, but it’s beginning to feel like it, execs say.

The IPO of Dell cybersecurity division SecureWorks, the first in tech this year, was flat its first day of trading in April. Ride-sharing service Shuddle shut down last month. Gilt Groupe, a “flash sale” e-commerce company valued at $1 billion in 2011, was sold for $250 million in January to Hudson Bay, owner of Saks Fifth Avenue. Subscription firm Birchbox announced a 15% workforce reduction, or 45 jobs, in February.

Zenefits, once valued at an eyepopping $4.5 billion, slashed 250 jobs, or 17% of its workforce, also in February.

“It’s harder for mediocre startups to be funded now than, say, five or even two years ago,” added Shama Hyder, an angel investor in female-led tech companies.

“There’s not as much stupid money. Investors are savvier.”

Bitcoin creator comes forward, but few believe Australian computer whiz says he created the digital currency Brett Molina @brettmolina23 USA TODAY

Have we finally discovered the mysterious founder of cryptocurrency Bitcoin? Australian businessman and computer scientist Craig Wright claimed Monday he created the digital currency. If true, the claim would end one of the biggest mysteries in tech.

VENTURE FUNDING, DEALS FOR START-UPS WANE Funding and deals for start-ups has steadily declined the past year, according to analysts.

No. of deals 1,085

1,218 1,173

1,021

969

KAREN BLEIER, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

In a blog post published Monday, Wright said he is behind the Q1 Q2 Satoshi Q3 Q4 Q1 online alias Nakamoto, 2015 2016 the name identified with the creator of the digital currency, which Dollar value (in billions) aims to replace cash and the traditional$17.3 financial $16.7 system with $13.7

$12.0 $12.1

unique codes shared between users. Bitcoin prices have been on a roller coaster the past three years, bid up by the currency’s potential and then pummeled by the collapse of an exchange and bitcoin’s connection to criminal activity.

But the currency’s associated blockchain technology, which acts as a public ledger, has been increasingly sought after by large financial institutions.

Wright’s post is largely technical, explaining how through cryptographic keys — a key element in the technology — he can prove he is the founder.

The BBC, The Economist and

GQ were given access to Wright and reviewed evidence Wright says proves he founded Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen says he is “convinced beyond a reasonable doubt” Wright is the founder after a recent meeting in London.

Andresen says Wright used cryptographic keys only Satoshi would own.

But doubts linger. Cornell University computer science professor and cryptocurrency expert Emin Gun Sirer disputed Wright’s claims, noting he failed to provide a “free-standing signature” from Satoshi.

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AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch Matt Krantz @mattkrantz USA TODAY

The rise of the activist investor is here. Activist investors, or those that take stakes in companies with the goal of prompting management to deliver better profitability, are growing. Activist investors held $133.5 billion in stock positions as of the end of 2015, up 128% from 2004, says a report from S&P Global Market Intelligence to be released Tuesday. The number of activists firms is up 65% to 280 as of the end of 2015 from 174 in 2004.

One of the biggest criticisms of activist investors is they’re not long-term investors and just push a company to take short-term steps to improve profitablity. The criticism is somewhat deserved.

S&P Global found 40% of ac-

Facts about America’s investors who use SigFig tracking services:

tivist investors cut or completely close out their positions in just a quarter after making large commitments. Some activists stick around longer, but that’s unusual.

Carl Icahn, the largest activist investor, was invested in Apple for years until finally dumping all his shares last week. But while activists might be passing through in many cases, the concepts they often support can reap long-term benefits, S&P Global says.

Activists, and companies that adopt activist thinking, often focus on improving their return on invested capital. This is a financial measure that tells you how much profit is driven out of the money entrusted to the company by investors. Turns out companies that focus on improving ROIC tend to outperform the market over the following one-tofive-year time periods, S&P Global says.

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63.05

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6.59

-.28

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Marathon Oil (MRO) Stock lower as oil prices reverse early gain.

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+17.7

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Williams Companies (WMB) Down another day since negative note to sell.

18.81

-.58

-3.0

-26.8

Mallinckrodt (MNK) Three consecutive losses erases April’s gain.

60.71

-1.81

-2.9

-18.7

5.44

-.12

-2.2

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@kmccoynyc USA TODAY

The drug firm previously headed by Martin Shkreli was sued Monday for allegedly breaching a contract that let it sell Daraprim, the medication whose price the company marked up 5,000%, sparking nationwide criticism.

New York City-based Turing Pharmaceuticals neglected to provide and certify accurate pricing data for the drug and failed to assume responsibility for Medicaid rebate liability linked to the

medication’s sales, the federal lawsuit filed in New York by Impax Laboratories charged.

Impax, a California company that sold its Daraprim sale rights to Turing in August, also charged that Turing violated the agreement that it would “use best efforts not to do any act (that) endangers, destroys or similarly affects the value of the goodwill” of Impax’s corporate name.

Turing did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on the allegations. Daraprim is used to treat toxoplasmosis, a potentially life-threatening illness that afflicts those

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with AIDS, cancer or other conditions that weaken the immune system.

Turing’s 2015 price hike on the decades-old drug last year MARK WILSON under Shkreli’s Ex-Turing leadership CEO Martin raised the perShkreli pill cost from $13.50 to $750.

The price increase generated complaints from patients, health industry experts and presidential candidates. It also prompted

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Summer lag, October ugliness are key factors

Q: Why do some investors sell in May? Matt Krantz

mkrantz@usatoday.com USA TODAY

A: Wall Street has more old saws than a woodshed. Many of these clichés are statistical coincidences some investors take quite seriously, even though there’s not really a reason for them.

“Sell in May and go ahead,” is one of the more popular adages some investors like to talk about. The theory is that stocks tend to post their biggest gains from November to April and then lag between May and October. Some investors figure it’s prudent to pack it up in April and stay out of the market — potentially missing some October ugliness — and then getting back in November.

Historically, this has worked on average. The average gain by the Standard & Poor’s 500 between May and October is just 0.7%, while stocks rose 5.9% on average between November and April, Sam Stovall of S&P Global Market Intelligence says.

Some suggest the market becomes inefficient during the summer as traders head for the beach. But there’s little evidence of this being the case largely because it’s a global phenomenon.

Emerging nation indexes, which contain many nations below the equator where May through October is winter, also show the same pattern. It’s more likely a temporary slowdown in capital inflows.

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scrutiny of Turing by two congressional panels examining how drug price hikes affect patients.

Shkreli resigned from Turing in December, one day after he was arrested and pleaded not guilty to unrelated charges of securities fraud. The embattled pharmaceutical entrepreneur, who had defended the Daraprim price hike, invoked his constitutional right not to testify and incriminate himself when he appeared under subpoena for a February hearing by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

But a May 27, 2015, Shkreli me-

mo obtained by the House panel showed he wrote “$1bn here we come,” as Turing moved to acquire the Daraprim sale rights.

Impax’s lawsuit said the company “had no forewarning” of Turing’s price hike and would receive “no financial remuneration” linked to the increase.

“It nonetheless found itself subject to significant liability due to Turing’s actions,” Impax’s lawsuit alleged.

“Turing retains the profits from its stunning price increase and at the same time refuses to provide complete and timely information to Impax.”

USA TODAY - L awrence J ournal -W orld TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016

LIFELINE CAUGHT IN THE ACT Toby Keith performed a tribute to Merle Haggard at the American Country Countdown Awards on Sunday. Haggard died April 6, his 79th birthday. Matthew McConaughey introduced Keith.

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BARBARA NITKE, NBC

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want ‘Castle’ back

38%

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STYLE STAR Jane Fonda cut a stylish figure at the Season 2 premiere of her Netflix show ‘Grace and Frankie’ on Sunday in Los Angeles.

She paired an open-shoulder blouse with flowing green pants and accentuated the look with cobalt shoes.

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THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES “Once again, it’s the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts so, as promised, I shall apologise for a death. This year: Remus Lupin.

Arthur lived, so Lupin had to die.

I’m sorry. I didn’t enjoy doing it.

The only time my editor ever saw me cry was over the fate of Teddy.” — J.K. Rowling on her decision to kill a fan favorite in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’

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want ‘The Mysteries of Laura’ back If top pick Castle returns, it will be without co-star Stana Katic (with Nathan Fillion).

RICHARD CARTWRIGHT, ABC

DON’T HASSLE WITH ‘CASTLE’: IT’S A FAVE ‘Laura,’ ‘X-Files,’ ‘Last Man Standing’ also are top draws Gary Levin @garymlevin USA TODAY

TV fans want to keep their Castle.

ABC’s drama about the novelist-turned-detective was the overwhelming favorite among voters in USA TODAY’s 19th annual Save Our Shows poll, which lets readers weigh in on which of 26 network series “on the bubble” between renewal and cancellation should come back for another season. Fifty-five percent voted to keep the series around for a ninth season, a far greater show of support than for the No. 2 pick, NBC’s The Mysteries of Laura, which 38% want back.

There’s good news and bad news about Castle: Though many readers praised the chemistry between series stars Nathan Fillion

and Stana Katic, news surfaced in mid-April that ABC opted not to renew Katic’s contract. But the network probably would not have taken that step if it were planning to cancel the series outright.

Other top picks to return were Fox’s The X-Files (which would skip a season), ABC’s Tim Allen comedy Last Man Standing, and perennial bubble series Nashville, which has promised to bring in new producers if the

show is renewed.

The weakest support went to Fox’s animated comedy Bordertown (a meager 2%) and NBC’s Undateable, along with CBS’s Rush Hour, which had just premiered when the survey went live. And which shows do viewers most actively want killed? ABC sitcom Dr. Ken topped that list with 36%.

The romantic Castle had more female fans (60% wanted it back, compared

34% want ‘Nashville’ to return

MARK LEVINE, ABC

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37%

of fliers would endure a four-hour or longer layover to save $200.

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with 52% of men), but it was tops among both genders. Women also favored Laura (42%) and Nashville (40%), while men leaned toward X-Files (42%) and CBS’s Limitless (39%).

Other shows generating chatter from small fan bases included ABC’s American Crime and Fox’s low-rated Rob Lowe comedy The Grinder, which will most likely duel with the John Stamos-led Grandfathered for renewal.

“The Grinder has become our family’s absolute favorite comedy this year,” says Don Reece, 54, of Oklahoma City. “The cast interactions are perfect, the snappy dialogue is hilarious. Lowe and Savage are in their sweet spots and they are great! Please don’t take our Grinder away!”

We’ll find out in two weeks, when the networks announce next season’s lineups in New York.

‘Person of Interest’ is back for a last lap Jayme Deerwester and Lorena Blas

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You’re being watched — again.

But not for much longer.

Person of Interest returns for its fifth and final season Tuesday on CBS (10 ET/PT), with twiceweekly episodes due Mondays and Tuesdays for its shortened 13-episode run.

And judging by the first two installments — “Blue Screen of Death” and ““Situation Normal, All (Messed) Up” — things aren’t exactly looking up for The Machine or its defenders, who use the special computer’s ability to predict (and help prevent) crimes. They appear to be losing the battle against an artificial intelligence known as Samaritan that wants to destroy them.

As last season ended, “our guys were sort of up against it with the machine’s source code compressed into a briefcase,” executive producer Greg Plageman says. “And so they’re headed out into a blaze of glory, it looked like.

We thought there’s really no way we could cheat that moment. We

JOHN PAUL FILO, CBS

Harold Finch (Michael Emerson) and John Reese (Jim Caviezel) find themselves in a monumental struggle to save The Machine. sort of had to pick up right where we left off. The band has been dispersed. The Machine is down.

They’re now living in a Samaritan world.”

All five members of the Machine’s squad are back: The brains (Michael Emerson’s computer programmer Harold Finch and Amy Acker’s hacker, Root), the muscle (Jim Caviezel’s Reese and Sarah Shahi’s Shaw, both former CIA operatives) and their in-

side man at the NYPD, Fusco (Kevin Chapman).

Emerson, who plays the crimefighting supercomputer’s architect, calls Season 5 “an intersection between Harold Finch’s growing realization of the humanity of what he’s created and his growing realization that something desperate has to happen if Samaritan is to be stopped.”

It’s worth noting how comput-

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“A show that is always a little bit ahead of technology and some of these ethical issues that we’re going to be grappling with as a society — that sticks with people,” Plageman says.

Emerson says the show’s prescient premise has resonated: “I think more about it, and on a darker note than I ever would’ve before the show.”

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For mothers of infants, tasks as simple as going to the grocery store can be complicated, time-consuming and exhausting. That’s one reason the Hy-Vee on Clinton Parkway is opening a Mother’s Room.

The room’s primary purpose is for nursing mothers, equipped with a gliding rocker and changing station, but there is also a play area for other small children.

The store will host a ribbon cutting for the room, near the family restroom and pharmacy, at 10 a.m. Friday at Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway. Light refreshments will be served between 10 and 11 a.m.

Representatives from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the LawrenceDouglas County Health Department, LiveWell Lawrence and Mother’s Milk of Kansas are expected to attend.

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Being overweight or obese affects more than two-thirds of the American population.

With those numbers growing, it is more important than ever to think seriously about working to get and keep your weight within a healthy range.

Being overweight or obese increases the risk for many chronic diseases including cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, joint disorders, sleep apnea and even several cancers. Studies show that losing even just 5 percent to 10 percent of one’s weight can result in positive changes to health including lowered blood pressure, improved cholesterol profile, decreased blood sugar and less joint pain.

For many, losing weight is an overwhelming process that they have tried many times over. The traditional weight loss approach of being lectured about all the reasons to lose weight and then possibly being admonished regularly to just eat less and exercise more usually does not result in significant or long lasting change. Crash diets, restricted or limited food choices, dietary supplements and group weigh-ins are other weight loss strategies that generally do not result in long-term weight loss for most people and may even cause harm.

Recent research has shown that one of the most important factors in any successful lifestyle behavior change, including weight loss, is social support. A study in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity found that small groups of people engaged in a similar goal — in the case of the study, weight loss — were much more effective at achieving it than those in larger groups or individuals trying on their own. This is thought to be due to the cohesiveness and collaboration Please see FRIENDS, page 2C

Healthy tips for moms

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With Mother’s Day fast approaching, Lawrence’s TherapyWorks, 1311 Wakarusa Drive, offers the following wellness tips to mothers of all ages: l Stretch: It decreases your risk of injuries.

Hold stretches for 30 seconds for best results. l Strength training keeps your bones healthy, even if you just use everyday objects as weights. l Balance can be lost, but it can also be gained through practice.

If you have a fear of falling, consult your doctor or come in for a free screening. l Please switch hips occasionally when carrying baby.

TherapyWorks is offering a free seminar, “Women’s Health: How to Get that Road Back,” at 7 p.m. May 17 with Dr. Malati Harris of Lawrence Family Medicine & Obstetrics.

For more information, visit therapyworks.org or call 749-1300.

And this time, your gut bacteria will thank you the journal Science.

In other words, when it Los Angeles Times comes to the makeup of your gut microbiome, you are cientists have some what you eat — and drink. great news for those “In total we found 60 who love coffee, tea dietary factors that influence and wine: Drinking diversity,” Dr. Alexandra any of these beverZhernakova, a researcher at ages is associated with a the University of Groningen healthier and more diverse in the Netherlands and the community of microbes first author of the study, said living in the gut. in a statement. “But there is The opposite is true for good correlation between consuming sugary drinks diversity and health: Greater and whole milk, as well as diversity is better.” for eating a lot of carboYour microbiome is the hydrates and indulging in community of mostly benfrequent snacks, research- eficial bacteria, fungi and ers reported last week in viruses that live on and in

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your body. These microscopic organisms earn their keep by helping you process food and regulating your immune system.

Experts believe that the makeup of a person’s microbial community can also play a role in mood disorders, obesity, and other diseases including irritable bowel syndrome.

But the study of the microbiome is relatively new, and scientists are still working out exactly what a healthy microbiome looks like.

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that can result from the acceptance and support of a small group.

Studies also show that individuals who are active participants in their weight-loss programs and are invested in developing their own goals and action plans are more likely to follow through and achieve the results they desire. Coaching rather than counseling or lecturing helps individuals find their own motivation and strength to achieve their goals.

For this approach to work, individuals must already have self-knowledge of what needs to change for them. The issue of weight loss is ideal because almost everyone already knows that high-calorie foods and sedentary habits need to be altered in order to lose weight.

Coaching can help guide and support the individual as he or she works toward identifying the goals to promote weight loss that are achievable for them.

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Zhernakova and her colleagues helped fill in that picture by analyzing the microbes inside the guts of more than 1,100 people.

They identified 126 factors that were correlated with changes in the makeup of an individual’s microbial community.

These include 60 related to diet, 12 associated with diseases, 19 linked with drugs and four tied to smoking.

“To our knowledge, this is the first study to systematically assess such a broad range of host and environmental factors in relation to gut microbiome and at such a large scale,” said Jingyuan Fu, a systems geneticist at the University of Groningen who worked with Zhernakova.

The researchers analyzed stool samples of 1,135 Dutch participants in the Lifelines-DEEP study. The participants collected their own stool samples at home and then immediately put them in the freezer.

No more than a few days later, the samples were transported to labs at the university, where they remained frozen until they were processed by researchers. This ensured that none of the bacteria had a chance to grow or change from the time the sample was collected.

Also, it guaranteed that all samples were treated the same way.

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Lawrence Memorial Hospital is launching a small group weight management program to be called “Why Weight?

Weight Management Small Group Instruction and Coaching.” The program will be held for six weeks at the LMH Performance and Wellness Center at Sports Pavilion Lawrence on Mondays, May 9 through June 20, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. There will be no meeting on Memorial Day. There is a fee for this program, and registration can be achieved at lmh.org/events or by calling LMH Connect Care

at 505-5800.

The group will be facilitated by Registered Nurse and Certified Wellness Coach Aynsley Anderson Sosinski, MA, RN, and Registered and Licensed Dietitian Patty Metzler, MPH, of Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Plans are to have a short instructional component to each session such as how to determine one’s daily calorie needs or the latest brain research on willpower. The majority of each session will be spent on personal goal exploration and action plan development in a positive and

“In situations where samples are sent by post at room temperature, the time of the delivery for every sample is different,” she said. “That situation can lead to the growth of bacteria during transportation and adds additional ‘noise’ to the findings.”

After analyzing the samples and comparing them with other data collected in the LifelinesDEEP study, the scientists found that consuming fruits, vegetables and yogurt positively influenced microbial diversity in the gut. So did drinking tea, wine, coffee and buttermilk.

On the flip side, sugary sodas and savory snacks were associated with lower levels of diversity. So was having irritable bowel syndrome and smoking during pregnancy.

Women tend to have more microbial diversity than men, and older people have greater microbial diversity than younger people, the researchers found.

The study does not address exactly why certain foods and behaviors influence the mix of microbes that populate a person’s gut. However, the researchers report that people who eat a lot of yogurt and buttermilk had higher levels of the bacteria that are used in the making of those foods in their guts.

In a related study, researchers combed through thousands of human fecal samples to create a catalog of the microorganisms that

colonize the human digestive system. They identified species of microorganisms from at least 664 different genera in the guts of close to 4,000 adults from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands.

When they expanded their collection of stool samples to include a small number of people from Papua New Guinea, Peru and Tanzania, the researchers detected a core group of 14 genera of microbes that were just about universally present.

These 14 genera were common to 95 percent of the humans sampled, and the species within these groups accounted for about 72 percent of their total gut microbiome. The main difference between individual people was the relative abundance of microbes from these core groups, including species from the Ruminococcaceae family and from the genera Bacteroides and Prevotella.

The researchers found several links between the diversity of gut flora and various aspects of biological function. For instance, people who reported looser stools were more likely to have a rich garden of microflora than those whose stools were harder and dryer.

The researchers also found significant associations between people’s genus abundance and their hip circumference, history of taking the antibiotic amoxicillin, uric

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acid concentrations (a factor in gout) and their preference for eating dark chocolate.

More than any single factor, the use of a wide range of drugs influenced microbiome variation among the people in this study. The clearest patterns emerged in those who had a recent history of taking antibiotics, osmotic laxatives, medications for inflammatory bowel disease, benzodiazepines, antidepressants, antihistamines or hormones used for birth control or to alleviate symptoms of menopause.

But contrary to some expectations, the data did not show that the abundance of microbes in the adult gut was influenced by whether the person was born in a vaginal delivery or by C-section.

Nor did researchers find any evidence that those who were breast-fed as babies had more diverse microbiomes when they grew up.

Still, both studies underscore that a healthy microbiome is a key component of a healthy body, even if scientists are still working to understand exactly how each influences the other.

The day may come when patients routinely provide doctors with stool samples to help better understand their health, Fu said.

“It is becoming more and more clear that the gut microbiome serves as a sort of fingerprint that captures all kinds of signals about host health,” she said.

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Dear Annie: In three years, I will be away at college. I am concerned because Mom has a boyfriend with a major anger problem, and he throws tantrums and gets abusive.

Mom has been in this relationship for a few years, and I’m afraid when I leave he will do some serious damage and I won’t be there to protect her. She has been going to therapy, but it doesn’t seem to be helping. I love my mother and want the best for her. How can I convince her to get away from this man?

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they deserve to be treated poorly. It’s good that Mom is getting therapy. She obviously needs it, and we hope it will help her find a way out. We know you are worried about her, but you are not responsible for her choices. If you witness this man being physically abusive or if he should come after you, call the police immediately. You also can contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline (the-

‘Janis’ tells deeper story of the legend It would be easy to dismiss Amy Berg’s Janis Joplin documentary “Janis: Little Girl Blue” on “American Masters” (7 p.m., PBS, TV14, check local listings) as just another baby boomer-centric glance back at the 1960s rock scene. But that would miss the point.

“Blue” includes both familiar and completely unseen footage of Joplin’s life. We have her welldocumented “Monterey Pop” performance. But it’s also filled with snapshots of her childhood, interviews with her surviving siblings and musical colleagues as well as heartbreaking letters to her parents, straight-laced folks from Port Arthur, Texas.

“Janis” manages to strip away much of the legend built up around Joplin and her milieu, and shows the era from the point of view of a rather naive, audacious and insecure young woman. In her letters, she describes her arrival in the Haight-Ashbury scene in a rather matter-of-fact manner, like a prodigal daughter still seeking the approval of her parents. It’s like Dorothy writing home from Oz. While clearly set in a particular period, the film’s subject is enduring. How does a strong yet vulnerable, strident yet insecure woman survive in a society obsessed with looks, status, deportment and popularity?

The woman that emerges in “Janis” is the classic high school outcast, an ungainly girl teased and ostracized for her looks, attitudes and strong opinions. She’s shown as a freak in search of fellow travelers and a place to call home. She eventually finds them in the form of the San Francisco music scene and Big Brother and the Holding Company, before floundering and quickly flaming out when she strives to become a “star” on her own.

As one friend observes, her quest for celebrity, popularity and acceptance was deeply rooted in her girlhood insecurities. At the same time, her letters detail a strong streak of ambition.

To some, she ended up “playing” the Janis Joplin who people had come to accept. It wasn’t an enduring role.

The outpouring of grief for David Bowie last January, and more recently Prince, often centered around people who saw them as beacons, or at least kindred spirits, whose very existence, never mind celebrity, helped the mourner “survive high school.”

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Dear Annie: Something unacceptable is happening with two casual friends. The man’s wife is in a nursing home with dementia. The woman’s husband is in a nursing home after a debilitating stroke. They are “dating.”

The man has no children and is fairly low-key with his activities. The woman, however, is like a lovesick puppy. Her children are teenagers, and they seem uncomfortable with the situation. I know she is lonely, and I feel sorry for her, but frankly, I am embarrassed to be her friend. Another friend tried to talk to her about this, but she

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For Tuesday, May 3: This year you often find yourself on center stage. You will meet a lot of people, especially when you are in the mood to network and socialize. Other times, you are highly introspective and love your quiet, solitary time. If you are single, note what mood you are in when you meet someone. You will date a lot this year. If you are attached, your sweetie might see you as being unusually moody and could become impatient with you at times.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) +++ Your dream life might be a greater source of innovation than you realize. Tonight: In your element.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++++ You might find that you tend to be best in a group situation in the morning. Tonight: Early to bed.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ++++ You could be in the center of a lot of action. Focus on what works for you. Tonight: Respond to a friend’s request.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ You still might be in the process of making up your mind about an important matter. Tonight: Others will follow your lead.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ You could be negotiating with someone to get him or her to agree to your terms. Tonight: Put on

is too “in love” to listen to reason. I know I should MMOB, and I am, but what is your opinion? — Momma Do-Rite Dear Momma: As long as husbands and wives are taking care of their nursing-home spouses and visiting often, we have no objection to their spending an evening out with a friend. We concur, however, that it is inappropriate for this couple to flaunt a love affair, especially since there are children involved. However, you are a “casual friend,” so you need to keep out of it.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ Defer to others who want you to think that they know better than you. Tonight: A quiet dinner.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++++ You could be quite busy completing certain details in the morning. Schedule some meetings. Tonight: Play it easy.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ++++ Use your imagination when making a decision. You’ll come up with unusual ideas. Tonight: Know when to call it a night.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ You might want to try something very different. You’ll enjoy the sense of letting go. Tonight: Express your spirited side.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) +++++ Schedule an impromptu meeting. Someone may persuade you to approach a matter differently. Tonight: Happy to head home.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ Be aware of the financial implications involved with continuing as you have been.

Tonight: Welcome a networking opportunity.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ++++ It might be difficult to switch gears midday, but you will.

Move forward. Tonight: Do some shopping.

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19 Seaweed, e.g.

20 Similarities in series of events 23 Sales rep’s advantages 24 Needing darning 25 Stylish 29 Dr. Leary’s turn-on 30 Gossip, slangily 34 Gold-related 35 Brownish tone 37 Prefix with “natal” 38 Where many items are assembled 41 Sleep cycle letters 42 Campaign verb 43 Sweet filling, in ads 44 “Pronto!”

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Sticking with it

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The official website write-up on Saturday’s Ballislife.com All-America game referred to future Kansas University forward Mitch Lightfoot as a “rugged and serious-minded player.”

The 6-foot-8, 219-pound state of Arizona Gatorade Player of the Year, who scored 32 points in Team Elite’s 152-134 victory over Team Future at Long Beach (Calif.) City College, certainly made an impression with his no-nonsense attitude during the week of the game.

Here’s an example.

“We had practice Thursday and Friday. Those were basically pick-up (games),” Lightfoot, a senior at Gilbert (Ariz.) Christian, said.

“Afterward, I initiated some competitive drills — two dribbles, face-up from the top of the key, things like that.”

Yes, you read it right. The high school senior, ranked No. 67 nationally by ESPN. com, organized drills in an otherwise low-key all-star environment.

“I was playing with Yoeli Childs (6-7, 220), who is going to BYU, Dewan Huell (6-10, 205, Miami), the kid going to Texas (6-10, 230 James Banks). Every time I get a chance to do something like that, I feel I want to take advantage of it,” Lightfoot said of working out with elite bigs.

“The pick-up was fun and all, but I really wanted to do something where I was going to get better by being out there. I felt those were some fun drills that helped me get better,” he added.

Lightfoot, who scored 27 points in the second half, didn’t necessarily like the way the game became a dunkfest late, with breakaway after breakaway. At least his team won the dunkfest, though.

“I was trying to help my guys crank it up. Some of ’em did. Some of ’em didn’t.

It is what it is,” Lightfoot said. “I can’t control them.

All I can control is what I do. It’s hard to have a competitive spirit (in all-star games) because you are letting people get layups — not me, obviously. We (team) were letting a couple people have layups and dunks.

That’s not how I play.”

How does he play and prepare? Like the official website writer said — in a serious fashion.

“Six days a week lifting with a strength trainer after school — Saturday mornings lifting, trying to get my body right so when I get out there (KU) I can perform,” Lightfoot said. “Once you see the benefits, it (lifting) gets addicting. Lifting, eating right. One thing I did realize from the all-star game is that I felt stronger, better controlling my body, being able to move players out of the way, elevate quicker. Coaches who watched the game were telling me I looked a lot better.”

Asked if his 32-point allstar outing, which followed a senior year in which he averaged 22.6 ppg, showed he’s a “scorer,” Lightfoot said ...

“Honestly I don’t want to be known as a scorer. I want to be known as someone

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LAWRENCE HIGH SOPHOMORE CURTIS WESLEY MAKES A CATCH DURING A LAWRENCE LACROSSE PRACTICE at Langston Hughes Elementary School. Members of the team, made up of players from Free State and LHS, say they enjoy the sport because it’s something different.

Local athletes get hooked on lacrosse

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Lawrence High senior Cole Strauss unlocks his car door at 7:45 a.m. and slams shut that same door in that same driveway at about 7:15 p.m., five days a week.

In between, Strauss attends classes at LHS, drives to Olathe to participate in lacrosse practice or a game, and drives back to Lawrence, where he showers, eats and hits the books in the 8 o’clock hour.

That’s a busy schedule for a teenager, but Strauss wouldn’t have it any other way. He happily would drive farther than that if necessary to play the sport he picked up as a second-grader in Logan, Utah.

Strauss said his “passion for lacrosse” makes the drive an easy one.

He was in fourth grade when the family moved from Utah.

“When we first moved here, my dad and I looked for a lacrosse team and didn’t

PHOENIX FEATHERS ON A HELMET SIGNIFY goals, ground balls won, takeaways and assists made. find anything,” Strauss said.

“We thought about trying to get a team started here, but it didn’t work out.”

He said his father heard about a club closer to Kansas City, so Cole played for the Blue Valley Spartans through eighth grade. He is in his fourth year playing for a team made up primarily of students from Olathe high

schools. It competes in the Lacrosse Association of Kansas City.

Strauss’ academic and lacrosse scholarships will cover most of the cost of attending Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo. Strauss doesn’t play for a Lawrence club, but his reputation is well known by those who do.

“I knew of Cole Strauss, but I never met the guy until I got burned real bad by some middie (midfielder) on defense, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s Cole Strauss right there.’ He’s good. He’s small, and he’s shifty,” Charlie Bermel said.

A sophomore at Free State High, Bermel is small and shifty as well. He plays for the Lawrence All City Lacrosse Club, which is in its third year and slowly growing in popularity.

Lacrosse is played with netted sticks and a rubber ball, eight inches in circumference and weighing five-plus ounces, fired into a goal. Ten players on each side compete on a fielder slightly larger than a football field. The goalie’s stick has the widest head, and a defender’s stick is longer than that used by midfielders, who do most of the scoring. Originally called Stickball, the sport’s roots can be traced to eastern Woodlands Native Americans. Far more Please see LACROSSE, page 3D

Jayhawks in NFL little affected by draft

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Another NFL Draft has come and gone, and, not so surprisingly, no Jayhawks were selected in this year’s seven-round draft.

That’s a far cry from a year ago, when three former Kansas University players — Ben Heeney, JaCorey Shepherd and Dexter McDonald — were drafted in the seven rounds.

As is the case just about every year, a handful of former Jayhawks who finished their college careers in 2015 were signed as undrafted free agents following the draft, so there is the possibility that the number of JayPlease see HOOPS, page 3D hawks in the NFL could go

up by the time August rolls around.

But going the free-agent route makes all of those guys long shots to stick, so the better way to examine this year’s draft is through the lens of what the teams with Jayhawks did that might impact the former KU players already in the NFL. The good news on that front is the answer, in just about every case, is not much.

Here’s a quick look. n Denver Broncos — The Broncos did pick up a pair of defensive backs in this year’s draft, but both were safeties, and neither will threaten the status of starting cornerbacks Chris Harris and Aqib Talib. Let’s face it: If the Broncos had

drafted a corner, even that would not have threatened Harris and Talib, the former KU teammates who have become two of the top corners in the league and, in many eyes, the top cornerback duo in the NFL. n Oakland Raiders — The Raiders added two defensive ends and an outside linebacker, but none of those players should impact Heeney, who had a stellar rookie season playing inside and in the heart of the Oakland defense. The talk out of Oakland both immediately after the 2015 season and Joe Mahoney/ AP Photo in the offseason sure made it sound a lot like the Raid- DENVER WIDE RECEIVER DEMARYIUS THOMAS ers were thrilled with what IS TACKLED by Oakland inside linebacker Ben Heeney (51) during the first half of a game Dec. Please see NFL, page 3D 13, 2015, in Denver.

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AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE SOUTH Chiefs exercise option on Fisher Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs have exercised their fifth-year option on left tackle Eric Fisher, which means the former No. 1 overall draft pick is scheduled to make $11.9 million during the 2017 season.

The Chiefs had until Monday to decide on the option, which becomes fully guaranteed next March.

Chiefs general manager John Dorsey has said he would like to sign Fisher to a long-term deal, and the decision to pick up the pricey option may simply be part of the negotiation process.

Fisher had a disappointing first two seasons in the NFL, and some were quick to label the Central Michigan product a bust.

But the 6-foot-7, 305-pound lineman appeared to break through last season, even shutting down Texans star pass-rusher J.J. Watt during their playoff game.

“I see myself on a steady incline,” Fisher said during a recent interview. “I’m looking to pick up where I left off, continue to grow and stay on a steady rise throughout my career. If I can do that 10 more years, however many more years, I’m looking forward to it.”

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Stuard takes soggy Zurich Avondale, La. — Brian Stuard made steady golf pay off on a waterlogged course in the haunting cypress swamps outside New Orleans.

The 33-year-old Stuard birdied the final hole of a largely unspectacular final round to sneak into a three-way playoff on Monday, then beat Jamie Lovemark on the second extra hole to capture his maiden PGA Tour triumph at the Zurich Classic.

Stuard never bogeyed a hole throughout the tournament on the long (7,425-yard), par-72 TPC Louisiana course, which was drenched with more than 41⁄2 inches of rain during the tournament. Weather delays on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday not only forced a Monday finish but also led officials to shorten the tournament to 54 holes.

Lovemark, Stuard and Byeong-Hun An entered the playoff at 15 under par.

Former Kansas University golfer Gary Woodland shot a final-round 70 and finished in a tie for 20th at 8-under 208. He pocketed $64,909.

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Thunder 98, Spurs 97 San Antonio — Russell Westbrook had 29 points and 10 assists, and Oklahoma City held on to beat San Antonio on Monday night, evening the series at one game apiece when BOXING the Spurs failed to score on a sequence in the final secMayweather-Pacquiao wild onds.

Part II? Maybe Kevin Durant added 28 points as the Thunder handed Las Vegas — They met a the Spurs just their second year ago this week in a fight that home loss of the season, rewas the richest ever, even if it bounding from a 32-point beatdisappointed most of the millions ing in Game 1. who watched it.

San Antonio coach Gregg Now there are rumblings, Popovich complained to offihowever slight, that Floyd cials after the game that Dion Mayweather Jr. and Manny Waiters went over the allotted Pacquiao might be persuaded to five seconds to inbound the do it again. ball on Oklahoma City’s final “I would say there is a possibilpossession. Replays showed ity a rematch happens, yes,” proWaiters elbowed Manu Ginomoter Bob Arum said Monday. bili to get the space needed to “How big a possibility that is, I pass the ball to Durant, who can’t really measure.” was immediately stripped by Both fighters are technically Danny Green. retired, and Pacquiao is in the Patty Mills missed an open middle of a campaign for Senate three-pointer, LaMarcus Alin the Philippines that, if he wins, dridge lost the ball after grabwould make it difficult for him to bing the airball, and Kawhi fight again.

Leonard was unable to gather the ball before the buzzer sounded.

COLLEGES Aldridge had 41 points, but Illinois looking the Spurs shot 43 percent as a team after shooting 61 percent for new mascot in the series opener.

Urbana, Ill. — The UniverCITY (98) sity of Illinois’ interim chancellor OKLAHOMA Durant 11-19 5-5 28, Ibaka 5-10 0-0 12, Adams says the campus will begin the 5-6 2-2 12, Roberson 0-1 0-2 0, Westbrook 11-25 29, Waiters 1-5 0-0 3, Morrow 1-3 0-0 2, process of picking a new mascot. 6-8 Kanter 4-7 4-4 12, Payne 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 38-79 Interim Chancellor Barbara 17-21 98.

SAN ANTONIO (97) Wilson told the Academic Sen7-18 0-2 14, Aldridge 15-21 10-10 ate on Monday that she will form 41,Leonard Duncan 1-8 0-0 2, Green 3-11 0-0 9, Parker a committee to design a process 3-9 1-1 7, Anderson 0-0 0-0 , Ginobili 5-8 0-0 11, West 3-8 0-0 6, Mills 2-9 0-0 5, Diaw 1-2 0-0 and set a timeline. Wilson’s 2, Marjanovic 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-94 11-13 97. decision follows a recommenOklahoma City 29 27 21 21—98 San Antonio 21 32 23 21—97 dation from a Student Senate 3-Point Goals-Oklahoma City 5-19 (Ibaka committee urging the campus to 2-5, Durant 1-2, Waiters 1-2, Westbrook 1-6, Roberson 0-1, Morrow 0-1, Kanter 0-1, Payne consider a new mascot.

0-1), San Antonio 6-23 (Green 3-8, Aldridge According to The News1-1, Ginobili 1-2, Mills 1-6, Diaw 0-1, Parker 0-2, Leonard 0-3). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsGazette in Champaign, a new Oklahoma City 56 (Adams 17), San Antonio mascot would not mean chang45 (Duncan 9). Assists-Oklahoma City 16 (Westbrook 10), San Antonio 19 (Parker 6). ing the Fighting Illini nickname Total Fouls-Oklahoma City 18, San Antonio for the school’s sports teams.

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SAN ANTONIO’S KAWHI LEONARD (2) PASSES under pressure from Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant, left, and Andre Roberson during the first half of the Thunder’s 98-97 victory on Monday in San Antonio.

How former Jayhawks fared Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Did not play (coach’s decision) Kirk Hinrich, Atlanta Did not play (coach’s decision) Sasha Kaun, Cleveland Did not play (inactive)

Cavaliers 104, Hawks 93 Cleveland — LeBron James scored 25 points, Kyrie Irving added 21, and Cleveland withstood a strong comeback by Atlanta to maintain its chokehold on the Hawks in the opening game of their second-round Eastern Conference series.

James converted a critical three-point play with 2:09 left for the Cavs, who fell behind in the fourth after leading by 18.

Cleveland swept Atlanta in last year’s Eastern Conference finals and has won eight straight over the Hawks. Cleveland also improved to 9-0 against Atlanta in the postseason.

Dennis Schroder scored a playoff career-high 27 and rallied the Hawks before they crumbled in the closing minutes.

PLAYOFFS GLANCE Sunday, May 1 Miami 106, Charlotte 73, Miami wins series 4-3 Golden State 118, Portland 106, Golden State leads series 1-0 Toronto 89, Indiana 84, Toronto wins series 4-3 Monday, May 2 Cleveland 104, Atlanta 93, Cleveland leads series 1-0 Oklahoma City 98, San Antonio 97, series tied 1-1 Today’s Games Miami at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Portland at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4 Atlanta at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 5 Miami at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 6 Cleveland at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m.

ATLANTA (93) Bazemore 6-14 1-2 16, Millsap 6-19 5-8 17, Horford 4-13 0-1 10, Korver 0-1 3-3 3, Teague 2-9 3-4 8, Sefolosha 1-3 0-0 2, Scott 3-3 0-0 7, Schroder 10-20 2-2 27, Hardaway 0-4 0-0 0, Muscala 0-0 0-0 0, Patterson 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 33-87 16-21 93.

CLEVELAND (104) James 11-21 1-1 25, Love 4-17 6-7 17, Thompson 3-6 2-4 8, Smith 4-8 0-2 12, Irving 8-18 2-2 21, Shumpert 1-2 0-0 2, Dellavedova 0-2 1-2 1, Frye 2-5 3-3 8, Jefferson 3-3 0-0 8, Mozgov 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, D. Jones 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 37-83 15-21 104.

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who does whatever it takes for the team to win, whether it’s playing defense, taking charges, helping others get better,” he said.

Off the court, Lightfoot spent part of his senior year volunteering for an assisted-living facility and served as a Santa Clara County DA via AP mentor for students at FORMER KANSAS UNIVERSITY an elementary charter and NFL football player school.

Dana Stubblefield “We just got done going to an underprivileged school and helping kids, organize field days and stuff like that,” Lightfoot said. “I know we have a bunch of volunteer stuff at KU. I’m looking forward to that.”

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San Jose, Calif. — Prosecutors say they have charged former San Francisco 49er and Kansas University player Dana Stubblefield with the rape of a “developmentally delayed” woman.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office says the 45-year-old Stubblefield was charged Monday with sexually assaulting the woman last year at his Morgan Hill home.

Prosecutors say Stubblefield, who starred at Kansas under coach Glen Mason and was the MVP of the 1992 Aloha Bowl, contacted the then-31year-old woman on a baby sitting website and arranged an interview for April 9, 2015, when he assaulted her.

They say that after the assault the woman immediately went to the Morgan Hill Police Department and reported the rape.

Prosecutors say Stubblefield faces five felony counts and a “substantial prison sentence.”

Bail for Stubblefield is set at $250,000. His arraignment is scheduled to take place within 24 hours.

they had in Heeney and that his role would only increase from here on out. This draft definitely indicates that. The Raiders also stayed away from the cornerback position, good news for Dexter McDonald. n Philadelphia Eagles — I’ve heard nothing but good things about JaCorey Shepherd’s recovery from a torn ACL last preseason as well as the Eagles’ feelings on him as a big part of their future.

The Eagles’ draft certainly would lend support to that claim. Philly did add a pair of DBs in the sixth and seventh rounds, and one of them, Blake Countess of Auburn, seems to have some steal-type potential. But even at that, Countess seems more like a true cover corner, and the Eagles were looking at Shepherd as more of a nickel back. All in all, in could have been worse for Shepherd and he has to be feeling good that the franchise did not feel as if it needed to use a high pick on a player in the secondary. n San Diego Chargers — No safeties in the draft for the Chargers is excellent news for former KU standout Darrell Stuckey, who not only has entrenched himself as a key part of the Chargers’ special teams — he earned a

A person who said he “loved” his senior year of high school, Lightfoot could conceivably be in contention for valedictorian of his class.

“I don’t think so,” he said with a laugh. “At my school we have some geniuses. My GPA, 3.83 (out of 4) ... it’s hard to compete with people that are getting 4.4s and 4.5s,” he said. “It’s going to be hard to say goodbye to everybody (when he leaves for KU a day or two after June 2 graduation), but at the time it will be fun to see where they (classmates) all end up (in life).”

Of his future at KU, he said: “(I’m) living a dream. I got my foot in the door. Once my foot is in the door, anything is possible. I’m going to work my butt off.”

Pro Bowl nod for that role two years ago — but also may be in line for more time in the secondary now that standout Eric Weddle, who mentored Stuckey, is no longer with the team. n Tampa Bay Buccaneers — The Bucs added two cornerbacks but no safeties, which should inspire former Jayhawk Bradley McDougald to release a sigh of relief.

McDougald has been rock-solid for Tampa during his years with the franchise and continues to improve each season.

He’s still young but now trending toward veteran status and seems to be a big part of their defense.

There are, of course, a handful of other former Jayhawks still trying to hang around with this team or that team, but as for the players who have carved out key roles in pro football, this draft did not seem to hurt any of them.

One quick note about Tanner Hawkinson, who was drafted by Cincinnati and then spent time in Philly before getting picked up by Jacksonville. I saw Hawkinson before this year’s spring game, and he said he was not completely sure what his future held.

There’s no doubt that he could still make a roster, but his time in the NFL might have come to an end, and he might have been a victim of not catching on in quite the right situation.

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BRIEFLY Freeman voted into Hall of Fame Former Lawrence High football coach Bill Freeman will be inducted into the second class of the Greater Kansas City Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Freeman, who died in December, led the Lions to five state football championships. He went 242-81-3 in his 36-year coaching career, posting a 134-38 record at LHS. He was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.

Along with Freeman, former Baldwin High coach Merle Venable will be inducted in this year’s class.

Venable, who died in 2012, coached at Baldwin from

1966-85, winning seven straight league titles and a state championship in ’81.

The Hall of Fame class will be honored during halftime of the GKCFCA All-Star game on June 16 at Blue Springs (Mo.) High.

Last year, former LHS coaches Al Woolard and Dick Purdy were inducted into the inaugural GKCFCA Hall of Fame class.

Rockhurst downs LHS baseball, 4-1 Kansas City, Mo. — Lawrence High’s baseball team was held to two hits and lost, 4-1, to Kansas City (Mo.) Rockhurst on Monday The Lions scored their only run in the fourth

inning against Rockhurst starter Douglas Horn when sophomore Andrew Stewart drew a walk, advanced on a single from senior Brad Kincaid and scored on an error.

Rockhurst (18-8) responded with three runs in the bottom half of the inning, including a tworun home run from Max Hewlett.

“Five hard contacts (at the plate) isn’t going to beat KC Rockhurst any day,” LHS coach Brad Stoll said.

The Lions (8-8) will travel to Shawnee Mission Northwest at 4:30 p.m. today at 3&2 Field.

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popular on the East Coast, it has a way of hooking athletes who give it a try.

“The physicality of it,” Bermel said when asked what it is that draws him to the sport. “I like how you can play a sport where you can get chippy and hit people, but there’s also a lot of finesse, a lot of thinking, a lot of technique to it, catching and passing.”

Cooper Catlin, also a sophomore at Free State, said he was at Rock Chalk Park playing basketball with friends and saw his friend, Brett Carey, playing lacrosse with Britt Mitchell, coach of the club.

“I asked if I could try it,” Catlin said. “I tried it, and I’ve loved it ever since.”

Catlin said he enjoys lacrosse more than he did baseball.

“It’s a fast-paced field sport, and you have to be really physical to play it,” Catlin said. “It’s very physically demanding, with not a lot of stops. It’s sub on the fly, like hockey. It’s really quick, and it doesn’t stop like baseball.”

Catlin called lacrosse, “Hockey on land.”

Ben Ozonoff, Free State High senior, plans to attend Kansas University and play for the school’s club team. You might have seen Ozonoff

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FREE STATE SOPHOMORE HARRISON HUGHES, LEFT, gets some defensive pointers from coach Britt Mitchell, 32, who has played lacrosse since he was 4, as the team practices at Langston Hughes Elementary School. twirling a stick and firing a ball against a brick wall. He was neither taking out his frustrations nor mad at the wall. He simply was practicing his craft.

“I play wall ball every day,” Ozonoff said.

So does Strauss, who also fires shots into a net in the back yard. Nobody counts how many of those he makes, but he has made a team-high 32 that have counted in 14 games.

“I see kids walking around Lawrence High with sticks, and I’ve seen kids up at Holcom (Park) using the outdoor racquetball court (for practicing lacrosse),” Strauss said. “It’s bigger in Kansas City than it is here, but I think it’s getting bigger here. I see kids out playing a lot. It’s good to see.”

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“I’ve played football, soccer, baseball, basketball and track,” said Mitchell, who coaches 24 players against JV teams from the Kansas City area. “No other sport has the same camaraderie as lacrosse.

These guys are all buddies. They all hang out, and most of these guys didn’t even know each other before we started.”

Mitchell said he does not envision lacrosse becoming an official high school sport any sooner than eight years from now.

“We’re way behind,” Mitchell said. “We’re just not big enough yet. One day, though.”

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Punchless Royals fall, 2-0 SCOREBOARD Kansas City, Mo. (ap) — There are ample reasons for Ned Yost to be concerned about the Royals’ struggling offense, from three recent shutouts to the prolonged slumps of stars such as Alex Gordon and Lorenzo Cain.

But the fact he has won a World Series with those same guys puts their manager at ease.

“We’re not firing on all cylinders,” Yost conceded after the latest flop, a 2-0 loss to the Washington Nationals on Monday night in which Kansas City could only muster five hits.

“We’ve got guys that are struggling right now,” he continued, “guys that are proven players, guys that have tremendous track records, and they’re going to break out of it real soon.”

It can’t happen soon enough. The Royals have lost six of their last seven games.

Gio Gonzalez (2-1) scattered four hits and a pair of walks over six innings in his latest smooth start for Washington before Sammy Solis, Shawn Kelley and Oliver Perez got the game to Jonathan Papelbon.

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NATIONALS PITCHER GIO GONZALEZ DELIVERS in the first inning of a 2-0 victory over the Royals on Monday in Kansas City, Mo. The Nationals’ closer breezed through a perfect ninth to wrap up their fourth straight win.

Edinson Volquez (3-2) needed 29 pitches just to navigate the first inning for Kansas City, when the Nationals scored both their runs. But he wound up giving his scuffling club a chance, striking out seven while allowing just seven hits and a walk over 72⁄3 innings.

“We’re still the same.

We know we’re going to put it together sooner or later,” Volquez said.

“We’re not worried about

what happens in April or May. We know what kind of team we have.”

In the first inning, it looked as if the Nationals would continue the misery Volquez experienced his last time out against the Angels, when he allowed eight runs on a career-high 12 hits in five innings.

Michael Taylor worked a leadoff walk and Anthony Rendon followed with a single. Ryan Zimmerman drove in the first run with a double, and Daniel Murphy’s run-scoring groundout made it 2-0.

Volquez eventually set-

Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Taylor cf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .184 Rendon 3b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .240 Harper rf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .271 Zimmerman 1b 4 0 2 1 0 1 .234 Murphy 2b 4 0 3 1 0 0 .382 Werth lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .203 Drew dh 3 0 0 0 0 2 .111 a-Heisey ph-dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .261 Lobaton c 3 0 1 0 1 0 .182 Espinosa ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .192 Totals 34 2 9 2 2 10 Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Escobar ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .234 Cain cf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .231 Hosmer 1b 2 0 1 0 2 1 .337 Morales dh 4 0 1 0 0 1 .217 Gordon lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .205 S.Perez c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .241 Infante 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .256 Colon 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .188 Orlando rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .273 Totals 31 0 5 0 2 5 Washington 200 000 000—2 9 0 Kansas City 000 000 000—0 5 0 a-struck out for Drew in the 9th.

LOB-Washington 7, Kansas City 8.

2B-Zimmerman 2 (5), Murphy (9), Escobar (3).

RBIs-Zimmerman (8), Murphy (13). SB-Taylor (4).

CS-Harper (2), Cain (2).

Runners left in scoring position-Washington 5 (Werth 2, Rendon, Espinosa 2); Kansas City 2 (S.Perez, Morales). RISP-Washington 2 for 11; Kansas City 0 for 5.

Runners moved up-Murphy, Taylor, Werth. GIDPTaylor.

DP-Kansas City 1 (Escobar, Hosmer).

Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gonzalez W, 2-1 6 4 0 0 2 1 102 1.15 Solis H, 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 2.46 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 6 0.00 Kelley H, 2 O.Perez H, 4 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 7 2.70 Papelbon S, 9-10 1 0 0 0 0 1 17 2.38 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Volquez L, 3-2 72⁄3 7 2 2 1 7 114 3.13 Duffy 11⁄3 2 0 0 1 3 23 3.38 Inherited runners-scored-O.Perez 1-0. HBPGonzalez (Gordon).

Umpires-Home, Manny Gonzalez; First, Fieldin Culbreth; Second, CB Bucknor; Third, Jim Reynolds.

T-3:09. A-32,394 (37,903).

straight before Murphy’s single in the fourth. But by that point, Gonzalez was doing such a good job that even a two-run lead seemed insurmountable.

Hammel, Cubs cruise, 7-2 National League Cubs 7, Pirates 2 Pittsburgh — Jason Hammel raised his record to 4-0, and Anthony Rizzo hit two doubles as the Cubs beat Pittsburgh on Monday night.

Hammel’s ERA rose to 1.24 after entering the game with a National League-leading 0.75 mark.

He gave up two runs and five hits in five-plus innings with three strikeouts and one walk.

His streak of five straight starts of allowing one run or fewer ended.

Rizzo hit an RBI double and scored in the third inning as the Cubs went ahead 2-1, then doubled again during a four-run fifth that pushed the lead to 6-1.

The Cubs improved to 18-6, tops in the major leagues, and avoided losing consecutive games for the first time this season while winning for the fifth time in six games.

Chicago Pittsburgh ab r h bi

ab r h bi Fowler cf 4 1 2 0 Jaso 1b 4 0 0 0 L Stlla 3b 5 0 0 0 McCtchn cf 4 1 1 2 Bryant lf 3 1 1 0 Freese 3b 3 0 1 0 Rizzo 1b 5 2 2 1 Lbstein p 0 0 0 0 Zobrist 2b-rf 3 1 1 2 Joyce ph 1 0 0 0 Russell ss 4 1 1 0 Cminero p 0 0 0 0 Szczur rf 2 1 1 0 S.Marte lf 3 0 1 0 J.Baez 2b 2 0 2 0 Crvelli c 3 0 0 0 D.Ross c 4 0 1 2 G.Plnco rf 4 0 1 0 Hammel p 3 0 0 0 Hrrison 2b 4 0 0 0 Warren p 0 0 0 0 Mercer ss 3 1 3 0 Soler ph 1 0 0 0 G.Cole p 1 0 0 0 Grimm p 0 0 0 0 Schugel p 0 0 0 0 Strop p 0 0 0 0 J.Rgers ph-3b 2 0 0 0 Richard ph 1 0 0 0 T.Wood p 0 0 0 0 Totals 37 7 11 5 Totals 32 2 7 2 Chicago 002 040 100—7 010 000—2 Pittsburgh 100 E-Harrison (5), G.Cole (2). DP-Chicago 1. LOBChicago 11, Pittsburgh 7. 2B-Fowler (11), Bryant (7), Rizzo 2 (4), G.Polanco (10). HR-McCutchen (6).

SB-Fowler 2 (5), Russell (1). CS-Szczur (1), S.Marte (2). SF-Zobrist (2).

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Hammel W,4-0 5 5 2 2 1 3 Warren 1 0 0 0 1 1 Grimm 1 1 0 0 0 2 Strop 1 1 0 0 0 1 Wood 1 0 0 0 1 2 Pittsburgh Cole L,2-3 42⁄3 6 6 5 4 6 1⁄3 Schugel 1 0 0 0 1 Lobstein 3 3 1 1 0 1 Caminero 1 1 0 0 1 1 Hammel pitched to 1 batter in the 6th HBP-by Cole (Russell), by Hammel (Marte), by Lobstein (Zobrist). WP-Lobstein.

T-3:18. A-18,376 (38,362).

Mets 4, Braves 1 New York — David Wright, Yoenis Cespedes and Lucas Duda hit home runs in the first inning as New York teed off, sending Bartolo Colon and the Mets over Atlanta for their ninth win in 10 games.

The Mets’ homer barrage came in a span of 16 pitches. The Braves have hit just five homers all season, by far the fewest in the majors for the team with the worst record in the big leagues.

Atlanta New York

ab r h bi ab r h bi Mrkakis rf 4 0 1 0 Grndrsn rf 4 0 1 0 D.Cstro 3b 4 0 1 0 D.Wrght 3b 3 1 2 1 F.Frman 1b 4 0 1 0 Cnforto lf 4 1 1 0 Ad.Grca lf 4 1 2 0 Cspedes cf 4 1 1 2 Przynsk c 4 0 1 0 Duda 1b 3 1 1 1 Brignac 2b 4 0 0 0 N.Wlker 2b 3 0 0 0 Aybar ss 4 0 2 1 A.Cbrra ss 4 0 2 0 Fltynwc p 1 0 0 0 Plwecki c 2 0 0 0 B.Nrris p 0 0 0 0 B.Colon p 3 0 0 0 C.d’Arn ph 1 0 1 0 Familia p 0 0 0 0 O’Flhrt p 0 0 0 0 A.Ogndo p 0 0 0 0 K.Jhnsn ph 1 0 0 0 M.Smith cf 3 0 0 0 Totals 34 1 9 1 Totals 30 4 8 4 Atlanta 000 000 001—1 New York 400 000 00x—4 DP-Atlanta 2, New York 1. LOB-Atlanta 7, New York 7. 2B-F.Freeman (4), Ad.Garcia (2), Pierzynski (2), Granderson (5), A.Cabrera (6). HR-D.Wright (3), Cespedes (8), Duda (5). SB-N.Walker (1).

S-Foltynewicz (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta Foltynewicz L,0-1 32⁄3 8 4 4 1 4 Norris 21⁄3 0 0 0 2 0 O’Flaherty 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 2⁄3 Ogando 0 0 0 1 0 New York Colon W,2-1 8 7 0 0 0 7 Familia 1 2 1 1 0 1 T-2:31. A-23,847 (41,922).

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ab r h bi Odor 2b 4 0 0 0 Sunders lf 3 0 1 1 Mazara rf 4 1 2 1 Dnldson 3b 4 0 1 0 Beltre 3b 4 0 0 0 Butista rf 4 0 0 0 Fielder 1b 4 0 1 0 Encrncn dh 2 0 0 0 Alberto 1b 0 0 0 0 Tlwtzki ss 4 0 0 0 Desmond lf 3 0 0 0 Smoak 1b 3 0 2 0 Mreland dh 4 0 1 0 Barney pr 0 0 0 0 Andrus ss 4 0 0 0 Goins 2b 4 0 0 0 Ncholas c 2 1 1 1 Pillar cf 4 1 3 0 DShelds cf 3 0 2 0 Thole c 2 0 0 0 Carrera ph 1 0 0 0 Ru.Mrtn c 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 2 7 2 Totals 32 1 7 1 Texas 001 000 010—2 000 000—1 Toronto 001 DP-Texas 2, Toronto 2. LOB-Texas 7, Toronto 8.

2B-Fielder (4), Pillar (6). HR-Mazara (3), Nicholas (2).

IP H R ER BB SO Texas Griffin 6 3 1 1 2 9 Barnette W,1-1 1 2 0 0 0 1 Dyson H,8 1 1 0 0 2 0 Tolleson S,9-10 1 1 0 0 0 0 Toronto Dickey 61⁄3 6 1 1 3 3 Floyd L,0-2 11⁄3 1 1 1 0 2 1⁄3 Cecil 0 0 0 0 0 Storen 1 0 0 0 0 1 HBP-by Floyd (Desmond). WP-Barnette.

PB-Thole.

T-2:44. A-25,323 (49,282).

Giants 9, Reds 6 Cincinnati — Cincinnati roughed up Johnny Cueto in his return to Great American Ball Park, but San Francisco rallied against the Reds’ historically bad bullpen, riding Brandon Crawford’s three-run homer to a victory.

Joey Votto hit a threerun homer as the Reds piled up six runs in the third inning off Cueto, who got a warm welcome from his former teammates and fans before the game. It was Cueto’s worst showing since he gave up eight runs during Kansas City’s 11-8 loss at Toronto in the AL Championship Series last season.

Twins 6, Astros 2 Houston — Brian Dozier broke out of a slump with three hits, and Minnesota snapped Dallas Keuchel’s 17-game home winning streak with a victory over Houston.

San Francisco Cincinnati

ab r h bi ab r h bi Span cf 5 0 1 1 B.Hmltn cf 4 1 1 1 Matt.Df 3b 4 0 0 0 D Jesus ss 3 1 2 0 Posey c 4 1 2 0 Votto 1b 4 1 1 3 Pence rf 4 2 1 0 Phllips 2b 4 1 1 0 Belt 1b 4 2 3 1 Bruce rf 4 1 1 1 Wllmson lf 2 1 0 0 Suarez 3b 3 0 0 0 G.Blnco ph-lf 2 1 1 1 Schbler lf 4 0 1 1 B.Crwfr ss 5 1 2 4 Brnhart c 4 1 1 0 Tmlnson 2b 5 1 2 0 Fnnegan p 1 0 0 0 Cueto p 2 0 1 2 Duvall ph 1 0 0 0 Gllspie ph 1 0 1 0 J..Rmrz p 0 0 0 0 Ja.Lpez p 0 0 0 0 Hayes p 0 0 0 0 Mazzaro p 1 0 0 0 Hoover p 0 0 0 0 Osich p 0 0 0 0 Pacheco ph 1 0 0 0 Brown ph 1 0 0 0 Casilla p 0 0 0 0 Totals 40 9 14 9 Totals 33 6 8 6 San Francisco 030 000 501—9 Cincinnati 006 000 000—6 DP-San Francisco 1, Cincinnati 1. LOB-San Francisco 9, Cincinnati 3. 2B-Pence (4), B.Hamilton (6). 3B-Belt (2), Bruce (2). HR-B.Crawford (3), Votto (3). SB-Tomlinson (2), Schebler (1). S-Finnegan (1).

IP H R ER BB SO San Francisco Cueto 5 7 6 6 2 8 2⁄3 Lopez 0 0 0 0 1 2⁄3 Mazzaro W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 Osich H,4 12⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Casilla S,5-7 1 0 0 0 0 2 Cincinnati Finnegan 6 6 3 3 3 4 Ramirez L,0-2 H,1 1⁄3 4 4 4 0 1 Hayes BS,1 12⁄3 3 2 2 1 2 Hoover 1 1 0 0 0 0 Hayes pitched to 2 batters in the 9th HBP-by Finnegan (Williamson).

T-3:17. A-13,829 (42,319).

American League Rangers 2, Blue Jays 1 Toronto — Nomar Mazara hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning, and Texas beat Toronto for its fifth win in six games.

Minnesota Houston ab r h bi

ab r h bi Da.Sntn cf 5 0 0 0 Altuve 2b 5 0 1 0 Dozier 2b 5 2 3 0 Sprnger rf 3 1 1 1 Mauer 1b 3 0 0 0 Correa ss 2 0 0 0 Sano rf 3 2 1 0 Col.Rsm cf 4 0 0 0 Park dh 3 1 2 2 Gattis dh 3 0 0 0 Edu.Esc ss 4 0 1 1 Tucker lf 4 1 1 1 E.Rsrio lf 3 0 0 1 Ma.Gnzl 1b-3b 4 0 0 0 J.Mrphy c 1 0 0 0 Vlbuena 3b 1 0 0 0 K.Szuki c 2 0 0 0 White ph-1b 1 0 0 0 E.Nunez 3b 3 1 1 2 J.Cstro c 4 0 2 0 Totals 32 6 8 6 Totals 31 2 5 2 Minnesota 000 321 000—6 010 000—2 Houston 010 DP-Minnesota 1, Houston 2. LOB-Minnesota 5, Houston 8. 2B-Dozier (6), Altuve (12). 3B-Park (1). HR-E.Nunez (1), Springer (5), Tucker (3). SF-E. Rosario (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Minnesota Berrios W,1-1 51⁄3 3 2 2 5 8 Abad 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 1⁄3 Fien 1 0 0 0 0 Pressly 1 0 0 0 0 2 Jepsen 1 1 0 0 1 0 Houston Keuchel L,2-4 41⁄3 7 5 5 5 3 Fields 12⁄3 1 1 1 0 1 Feliz 2 0 0 0 0 4 Giles 1 0 0 0 0 2 T-3:08. A-18,243 (42,060).

Mariners 4, Athletics 3 Oakland, Calif. — Robinson Cano had three hits and scored twice, Kyle Seager hit a tiebreaking double in the sixth inning, and Seattle beat Oakland.

Seattle Oakland ab r h bi

ab r h bi Aoki lf 4 1 2 0 Burns cf 4 0 0 0 S.Smith rf 5 0 0 0 Crisp dh 4 0 0 0 Cano 2b 4 2 3 0 Reddick rf 4 1 1 0 N.Cruz dh 4 0 3 0 K.Davis lf 4 2 2 3 Lind 1b 4 0 1 1 Vogt c 4 0 3 0 K.Sager 3b 4 1 1 1 Ldndorf pr 0 0 0 0 Innetta c 4 0 1 1 Coghlan 2b 3 0 0 0 K.Marte ss 4 0 1 0 Canha 3b 3 0 0 0 L.Mrtin cf 3 0 0 0 Lowrie ph 1 0 0 0 Alonso 1b 3 0 0 0 Semien ss 2 0 0 0 Totals 36 4 12 3 Totals 32 3 6 3 Seattle 000 102 100—4 000 200—3 Oakland 010 E-Vogt (2). DP-Seattle 2, Oakland 2. LOB-Seattle 7, Oakland 4. 2B-Aoki (4), Cano (4), K.Seager (5), Vogt (7). HR-K.Davis 2 (5). SB-Aoki (2), Ladendorf (1). S-L.Martin (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Seattle Karns W,3-1 6 6 3 3 1 5 1⁄3 Nuno H,4 0 0 0 0 0 2 Vincent H,4 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Peralta H,5 1 0 0 0 0 1 Cishek S,7-7 1 0 0 0 1 3 Oakland Graveman L,1-3 61⁄3 10 4 4 1 6 1⁄3 Rzepczynski 1 0 0 0 0 1⁄3 Dull 0 0 0 0 0 Doolittle 1 0 0 0 0 1 Rodriguez 1 1 0 0 0 0 WP-Cishek.

T-2:45. A-10,535 (37,090).

East Division

W L Pct GB Boston 15 10 .600 — Baltimore 14 10 .583 ½ Tampa Bay 11 13 .458 3½ Toronto 12 15 .444 4 New York 8 15 .348 6 Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 18 8 .692 — Detroit 14 10 .583 3 Kansas City 13 12 .520 4½ Cleveland 10 12 .455 6 Minnesota 8 18 .308 10 West Division

W L Pct GB Texas 15 11 .577 — Seattle 14 11 .560 ½ Oakland 13 14 .481 2½ Los Angeles 12 14 .462 3 Houston 8 18 .308 7 Monday’s Games Texas 2, Toronto 1 Milwaukee 8, L.A. Angels 5 Minnesota 6, Houston 2 Washington 2, Kansas City 0 Seattle 4, Oakland 3 Today’s Games Detroit (Verlander 2-2) at Cleveland (Tomlin 3-0), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Severino 0-3) at Baltimore (Tillman 2-1), 6:05 p.m.

Texas (Perez 1-2) at Toronto (Estrada 1-2), 6:07 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 1-2) at Tampa Bay (Moore 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Wright 2-2) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 3-1), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Tropeano 1-0) at Milwaukee (Guerra 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Meyer 0-0) at Houston (McHugh 2-3), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Roark 2-2) at Kansas City (Young 1-4), 7:15 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 0-3) at Oakland (Gray 3-2), 9:05 p.m.

tled down, retiring nine National League

MAJOR-LEAGUE ROUNDUP

The Associated Press

American League

Interleague Brewers 8, Angels 5 Milwaukee — Jimmy Nelson pitched seven strong innings and drove in the go-ahead run to lead Milwaukee past Los Angeles.

Nelson (4-2) retired 15 of 16 batters before giving up a solo home run to Mike Trout in the sixth.

He allowed two runs and four hits over seven innings.

Los Angeles Milwaukee

ab r h bi ab r h bi Y.Escbr 3b 5 1 1 0 Presley rf 4 1 0 0 Ortega lf 3 1 1 0 Villar ss 3 0 1 2 Trout cf 5 2 4 3 Braun lf 3 1 3 1 Pujols 1b 4 1 2 1 R.Flres lf 1 0 0 0 Calhoun rf 4 0 1 0 Lucroy c 4 0 2 2 A.Smmns ss 3 0 0 0 Carter 1b 4 0 1 0 Bdrsian p 0 0 0 0 Nwnhuis cf 4 1 1 0 Cron ph 1 0 1 1 A.Hill 3b 3 2 1 0 Achter p 0 0 0 0 Y.Rvera 2b 4 2 2 1 Choi ph 1 0 0 0 Nelson p 3 1 2 1 Ge.Soto c 3 0 1 0 Blazek p 0 0 0 0 Weaver p 2 0 0 0 Walsh ph 1 0 1 0 Mahle p 0 0 0 0 Jffress p 0 0 0 0 Pnnngtn ss 2 0 0 0 Gvtella 2b 4 0 0 0 Totals 37 5 11 5 Totals 34 8 14 7 Los Angeles 100 001 021—5 Milwaukee 000 044 00x—8 E-Ortega (1). DP-Los Angeles 1. LOB-Los Angeles 10, Milwaukee 7. 2B-Y.Escobar (8), Pujols (2), Villar (7), Braun (5), Lucroy (5). HR-Trout (6). SB-Trout (2), Villar (7). CS-Presley (1). S-Ortega (1), Villar (2).

IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles Weaver L,3-1 5 11 7 7 1 3 1⁄3 Mahle 1 1 1 1 1 Bedrosian 12⁄3 1 0 0 0 5 Achter 1 1 0 0 1 0 Milwaukee Nelson W,4-2 7 4 2 2 3 6 Blazek 1 4 2 2 0 0 Jeffress 1 3 1 1 1 1 Weaver pitched to 3 batters in the 6th WP-Mahle.

T-3:30. A-21,352 (41,900).

East Division

W L Pct GB Washington 18 7 .720 — New York 16 8 .667 1½ Philadelphia 15 11 .577 3½ Miami 12 12 .500 5½ Atlanta 6 19 .240 12 Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 18 6 .750 — Pittsburgh 15 11 .577 4 St. Louis 13 13 .500 6 Milwaukee 10 15 .400 8½ Cincinnati 10 16 .385 9 West Division

W L Pct GB San Francisco 14 13 .519 — Los Angeles 13 13 .500 ½ Colorado 12 12 .500 ½ Arizona 12 15 .444 2 San Diego 9 16 .360 4 Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 7, Pittsburgh 2 N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 1 San Francisco 9, Cincinnati 6 Milwaukee 8, L.A. Angels 5 St. Louis 10, Philadelphia 3 Washington 2, Kansas City 0 Colorado at San Diego, (n) Today’s Games Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 5-0) at Pittsburgh (Niese 3-0), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (Corbin 1-3) at Miami (Nicolino 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Wisler 0-2) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 2-3), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 1-2) at Tampa Bay (Moore 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 3-1) at Cincinnati (Moscot 0-2), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Tropeano 1-0) at Milwaukee (Guerra 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Nola 1-2) at St. Louis (Wacha 2-1), 7:15 p.m.

Washington (Roark 2-2) at Kansas City (Young 1-4), 7:15 p.m.

Colorado (Butler 0-0) at San Diego (Cashner 1-2), 9:10 p.m.

Big 12

(Through Sunday)

Big 12

W L Texas Tech 14 4 Oklahoma State 12 6 TCU 11 7 Texas 9 9 West Virginia 8 9 Oklahoma 7 11 Kansas 5 9 Baylor 6 12 Kansas State 5 10

Overall W L T 34 13 28 15 30 12 20 24 23 19 21 22 1 19 24 1 20 24 21 23

Sunflower League

(Through Monday)

League

W L

Overall W L

Lawrence SM East SM Northwest Olathe South Free State Leavenworth Olathe Northwest Olathe East SM West SM South Olathe North SM North

8 11 11 12 12 9 8 5 10 3 5 2

6 6 6 6 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 0

2 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 8

Cardinals 10, Phillies 3 St. Louis — Adam Wainwright pitched six Big 12 innings and hit a three- (Through Sunday) Big 12 run home run — the first

W L of five for St. Louis — as Oklahoma 12 1 13 4 the Cardinals snapped a Baylor Texas 7 7 four-game losing streak.

Kansas 5 7 Matt Adams, rook- Texas Tech 6 9 State 4 9 ie Aledmys Diaz and Oklahoma Iowa State 1 11 Randal Grichuk added solo homers, and Kol- Sunflower League ten Wong hit a two-run (Through Monday)

League homer to help St. Louis W L overcome a 3-0 deficit Olathe Northwest 8 0 South 7 1 and avoid its first five- Olathe Olathe North 7 1 5 1 game slide since losing Olathe East Free State 5 2 seven straight from July Lawrence 4 3 26-31, 2013.

SM North 3 5 Philadelphia St. Louis

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2B-Ruiz (3), Burriss (1), Piscotty (7), Wainwright (1).

HR-M.Adams (3), A.Diaz (5), Wong (1), Wainwright (1), Grichuk (4). SF-Franco (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Philadelphia Hellickson L,2-2 51⁄3 7 6 6 4 5 Oberholtzer 22⁄3 7 4 4 0 2 St. Louis Wainwright W,2-3 6 5 3 3 1 4 Oh H,4 1 0 0 0 0 0 Siegrist 1 1 0 0 0 1 Maness 1 2 0 0 0 1 WP-Siegrist.

T-3:01. A-40,438 (43,975).

SM West SM Northwest SM East SM South Leavenworth

NHL Playoffs

2 2 0 0 0

4 5 6 6 9

8 3 6 4 3 5 9 10 5 11 11 14

Overall W L 41 7 43 12 33 14 28 18 23 29 25 22 19 29

Overall W L 15 0 14 1 11 3 10 2 7 8 6 8 4 10 4 9 6 7 0 13 0 13 0 13

SECOND ROUND Saturday, April 30 Tampa Bay 4, NY Islanders 1, series tied 1-1 Pittsburgh 2, Washington 1 Sunday, May 1 St. Louis 4, Dallas 3, OT, series tied 1-1 San Jose 3, Nashville 2, San Jose leads series 2-0 Monday, May 2 Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2, Pittsburgh leads series 2-1 Today’s Games Tampa Bay at NY Islanders, 6 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 4 Washington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 5 Dallas at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m.

San Jose at Nashville, 8 p.m.

MLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA Montreal 4 3 2 14 13 11 Philadelphia 4 3 1 13 11 8 Toronto FC 3 3 2 11 9 7 Orlando City 2 2 4 10 15 13 D.C. United 2 3 4 10 11 11 NYC FC 2 3 4 10 13 15 New England 1 2 7 10 11 16 New York 3 6 0 9 12 17 Columbus 2 4 2 8 7 10 Chicago 1 2 4 7 7 8 WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA Colorado 5 2 2 17 12 8 Real Salt Lake 5 1 2 17 14 12 FC Dallas 5 3 2 17 15 17 Los Angeles 4 1 3 15 18 8 San Jose 4 2 3 15 12 11 Sporting KC 4 4 2 14 11 10 Portland 3 3 3 12 14 16 Vancouver 3 5 2 11 12 15 Seattle 3 4 1 10 8 10 Houston 1 5 2 5 14 16 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Friday’s Game New York at Orlando City, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Portland at Vancouver, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 6:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at Toronto FC, 6:30 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 8 p.m.

San Jose at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s Games New England at Los Angeles, 2:30 p.m.

New York City FC at D.C. United, 6:30 p.m.

Zurich Classic

Monday At TPC Louisiana Avondale, La. Purse: $7 million Yardage: 7,341; Par: 72 Final (x-won on second hole of playoff) x-Brian Stuard (500), $1,260,000

64-68-69—201 Byeong-Hun An, $616,000

68-68-65—201 Jamie Lovemark (245), $616,000

67-66-68—201 Bobby Wyatt, $336,000

67-71-64—202 Jason Day (100), $255,500

69-68-66—203 Chris Kirk (100), $255,500

71-67-65—203 Jhonattan Vegas (100), $255,500

64-69-70—203 Patton Kizzire (80), $203,000

67-70-68—205 Bryce Molder (80), $203,000

71-67-67—205 Harold Varner III (80), $203,000

69-67-69—205 Stuart Appleby (63), $154,000

69-70-67—206 Charley Hoffman (63), $154,000

67-73-66—206 Charles Howell III (63), $154,000

67-69-70—206 Scott Stallings (63), $154,000

72-68-66—206 Thomas Aiken (54), $112,000

68-69-70—207 Chad Collins (54), $112,000

72-64-71—207 Andres Gonzales (54), $112,000

69-71-67—207 Spencer Levin (54), $112,000

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70-72-70—212 Angel Cabrera (4), $14,350

69-73-71—213 Ken Duke (4), $14,350

67-75-71—213 J.J. Henry (4), $14,350

67-73-73—213 Si Woo Kim (4), $14,350

70-72-71—213 Ben Martin (4), $14,350

70-71-72—213

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(First published in the described real estate: Lawrence Daily JournalLot 72, in CIMARRON World April 19, 2016) HILLS NO. 5, an addition to the City of Lawrence, in IN THE DISTRICT COURT Douglas County, Kansas, OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, according to the recorded KANSAS plat thereof, commonly known as 1805 Hampton, Carrington Mortgage Lawrence, KS 66046 (the Services, LLC “Property”) PLAINTIFF VS. Cheston R. Eisenhour a/k/a Cheston Ray Eisenhour; Kimberly Eisenhour a/k/a Kimberly Ann Eisenhour; John Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Cameron Kay Eisenhour, DEFENDANTS

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Case No. 16CV147 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

You are notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, praying to foreclose a real estate mortgage on the following

#126-Sharilyn Wells #515-Niquita Davis #322-Chris Smith

Leslie Farrell Underwood Petitioner, Pro Se Leslie Farrell Underwood 1005 Stonecreek Dr Buyers are required to Lawrence, KS 66049 register at 8:30am at Dale 785-331-6162 ________ Willey Automotive. $100.00 refundable buyer’s cash (First published in the deposit required.

Lawrence Daily Journal_______ World on May 3, 2016)

(First published in the and all those defendants Lawrence Daily who have not otherwise Journal-World May 3, 2016) been served are required to plead to the Petition on IN THE 7th JUDICIAL or before the 30th day of DISTRICT May, 2016, in the District DISTRICT COURT OF Court of Douglas DOUGLAS COUNTY, County,Kansas. If you fail KANSAS to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due IN THE MATTER OF THE course upon the Petition.

PETITION OF Leslie Farrell Underwood NOTICE Present Name Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 To Change Her Name To: U.S.C. §1692c(b), no inforLeslie Elliott Underwood mation concerning the colNew Name lection of this debt may be given without the prior Case No. 2016CV168 consent of the consumer Div. No. 1 given directly to the debt collector or the express PURSUANT TO K.S.A. permission of a court of CHAPTER 60 competent jurisdiction.

The debt collector is atNOTICE OF HEARING tempting to collect a debt and any information ob- THE STATE OF KANSAS TO tained will be used for that ALL WHO ARE OR MAY BE purpose.

CONCERNED: You are hereby notified Prepared By: that Leslie Farrell UnderSouthLaw, P.C. wood, filed a Petition in Kristen G. Stroehmann the above court on the (KS #10551) 21st day of April, 2016, re13160 Foster, Suite 100 questing a judgment and Overland Park, KS order changing her name 66213-2660 from Leslie Farrell Under(913) 663-7600 wood to Leslie Elliott Un(913) 663-7899 (Fax) derwood.

Attorneys for Plaintiff (115286) The Petition will be heard _______ in Douglas County District Court, 111 E 11th St, Law(First published in the rence, KS on the 31st day Lawrence Daily Journal- of May 2016, at 4:00 p.m.

World April 30, 2016) If you have any objection to the requested name A-1 Storage Sale change, you are required 2900 Iowa Lawrence KS to file a responsive pleadThe contents of the follow- ing on or before May 31st, ing units will be sold at 2016 in this court or apPublic Auction: Saturday, pear at the hearing and object to the requested May 7th, 2016. name change. If you fail to act, judgement and order #543-Nicholas Eiberger will be entered upon the #327-Ruby Thomas Petition as requested by #145-Joe Mendez Petitioner. #513-Carolyn Wilson

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT SRMOF II 2012-1 Trust Plaintiff, vs.

Janell A. Hoffman, et al.

Defendants, Case No.16CV89 Court No. 3 Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60 NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the South entrance of Law Enforcement Building, Douglas County, Kansas, on May 26, 2016 at the time of 10:00 AM, the following real estate: LOT 23, BLOCK 3, IN FIRETREE ESTATES PHASE 4, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF BALDWIN CITY, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. PARCEL # 023-178-33-0-10-03-023.00-0, Commonly known as 1016 Kathys Ct, Baldwin City, KS 66006 (“the Property”) MS157889 to satisfy the judgment in

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649 AREA JOB OPENINGS! BRANDON WOODS ..................................... 10 OPENINGS

LAWRENCE PRESBYTERIAN MANOR ................. 5 OPENINGS

CLO ........................................................ 12 OPENINGS

MISCELLANEOUS ....................................... 66 OPENINGS

FEDEX ..................................................... 65 OPENINGS

MV TRANSPORTATION ................................. 20 OPENINGS

KU: FACULTY/ACADEMIC/LECTURERS ............ 93 OPENINGS

THE SHELTER, INC ..................................... 10 OPENINGS

KU: STAFF ................................................ 79 OPENINGS

USA800, INC. .......................................... 150 OPENINGS

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Community Living Opportunities, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping adults and children with developmental disabilities is currently hiring Direct Support Professionals (DSP’s).

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IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

Qualifications Must be at least 18 years of age Must be able to load, unload and sort packages, as well as perform other related duties All interested candidates must attend a sort observation at our facility prior to applying for the position.

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To schedule a sort observation, go to www.WatchASort.com 8000 Cole Parkway, Shawnee, KS 66227 • 913.441.7580 FedEx Ground is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer (Minorities/Females/Disability/Veterans) committed to a diverse workforce.

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Ground

Targeted Case Manager

SALES REPRESENTATIVE Home Oxygen 2 U, a division of Lincare, located in Lawrence, KS seeks a Sales Representative to join our team! This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with referral sources in the medical community and educating them on the use and application of medical equipment. The ideal candidate will have excellent human relation skills, be detail oriented and organized. Previous experience selling in the home health care field is preferred but we are willing to train the right individual. Please send your resume to:

Sara Chavez schavez4@lincare.com EOE, M/F/H, Drug Free Workplace

COF Training Services, Inc, a non-profit organization providing services and supports to disabled individuals, is seeking a full-time Targeted Case Manager.

Applicants should have an interest in working with individuals with disabilities. A Bachelor’s degree from a four year college/ university is preferred; high school diploma/ GED required. One year of work experience with individuals with MR/DD is required along with a valid Kansas driver’s license and a good driving record. Knowledge of Excel and Microsoft Word software is also required. Must be able to work flexible schedules. Some travel is required. COF offers competitive wages and excellent benefits to include medical, dental and life insurance, paid time off and KPERS. Apply at 1516 N Davis Ave, Ottawa, KS 66067 Applications for this position accepted through May 6, 2016.

Drug free workplace. Pre-employment and random drug/alcohol testing is required. Equal Opportunity Employer

DriversTransportation Class A & B Drivers Qualified drivers.

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Pay based on yrs of exp plus Monthly bonus.

Excellent benefits.

Apply:

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SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Bill: Working at the fire department was the perfect job!

Ted: Why’d ya leave?!

Bill: Got fired.

Farm & Ranch Vineyard Farm Worker Oskaloosa Aubrey Vineyards has a job opening working in the vineyard. You will be training, pruning, putting out bird netting, harvesting the grapes, & assisting with bottling.

This is a good opportunity to become familiar with the wine industry.

The right person will pay attention to instructions & detail, will be able to work outdoors in adverse weather, & will be able to work by themselves.

This job is part time. If you are interested in applying, please send by email your resume, high school and/or college grade point averages and your salary requirements to jobs@aubreyvineyards.com

General Movers need Now

If you have a blend of technical and communication abilities, this could be your chance to join our team. We’re a national leader in home healthcare products and services and need an individual to deliver medical equipment to respiratory care patients. You must be able to handle necessary paperwork, plan delivery routing, and work as needed on weekends or evenings, in addition to regular work week. You must be at least 21 years old, have a minimum of 1 year of experience with good interpersonal and technical skills, and possess a valid driver’s license and good driving record.

Must have or be able to obtain a Commercial Drivers License, and be DOT qualified or DOT certifiable.

Interview TIP #6

Be Smart JUST DON’T Bring pets Eat in our office Bring children Swear Lie Get angry Try to bribe us Be a pain (We’ve seen it all!)

DO!

For consideration please contact Sara Chavez at 800-444-4559, or schavez4@lincare.com EOE, M/F/H, Drug Free Workplace

Follow directions Be polite Turn off phone Decisions Determine Destiny

Hiring now for summer season. Start now or May 15th. Apply now $11-$15 per hour depending on qualifications. Must be dependable, hard working, work well with others, Able to lift 100 pounds. Apply in person only. Must be 18 years of age and pass background check. Professional Moving and Storage 3620 Thomas Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046

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Landscape Supervisor/ Horticulturist

Drive for the Lawrence Transit System.

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Career opportunities.

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Hotel-Restaurant

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Retail Violin Sales & Shop Management Beautiful Music Violin Shop is seeking a motivated and organized person with knowledge and experience in orchestral family instruments and environments.

Preferred candidates will be active in the music community.

Experience in excel and computer savvy is a must.

Candidates will be comfortable multitasking and working with clients. Resumes can be sent to BeautifulMusicVNShop@yahoo. com.

Please call 785-856-8755 with further questions.

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Cook 1st shift Cook.

5:30 am – 2:00 pm, M-F. Hallmark Production Facility – Lawrence, KS To apply visit www.hallmark.com/caree rs and search “cook”.

Hallmark Cards, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Ag Equipment & Farm Tools / Supplies Often featured by our local Auctioneers!

Check our Auction Calendar for upcoming auctions and the

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Auction Calendar **PAWN SHOP AUCTION** Saturday, May 7, 6 PM 4795 Frisbie Rd Shawnee, KS Preview items at NOON Great selection of recreational items from hunting, laptops, game systems, tools, coins, & much more!

Metro Pawn Inc 913.596.1200 metropawnks.com Lindsay Auction Svc. 913.441.1557 lindsaysauctions.com ANTIQUES, FURNITURE & COLLECTIBLES!!

2 DAY PUBLIC AUCTION SATURDAY, May 7 @ 10 AM & SUN., MAY 8, @ 1 PM Gardner, KS Fairgrounds FURNITURE (MANY ANTIQUE PIECES), COLLECTIBLE, GLASSWARE, TOOLS & MISC. EDGECOMB AUCTIONS

Auction Calendar

Furniture

ESTATE AUCTION: Sat., May 7th, 9:30 A.M. 5001 S.E. Dupont Rd. Berryton, KS ATV, Zero Turn Mower, Trailers, Wood Working Equip.& Tools, Collectibles, Household, Misc.

Seller: Mrs. Dallas (Linda) Burton Condition & Quality Is Outstanding On Everything!

Auctioneers: Mark Elston & Jason Flory (785-594-0505)(785-218-7851) (785-979-2183) Online for pictures:

Black Futon Great Condition $30, 785-841-3332

AUCTION SAME DAY AT TWO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS FRIDAY, MAY 13, 10AM & 11:30 AM Formerly dba Stratus Specialty Vehicles Inc. AUCTION 1: 133409 MT. OLIVET RD KCMO AUCTION2: 12600 N. WOODLAND KCMO View web for details: www.lindsayauctions.com 913.441.1557 ONLINE AUCTION DOWNSIZING ESTATE Preview dates: Wed.,4/27, 9-6 pm, & Mon., 5/2, 9-4pm (also by appointment) Monticello Auction Center 4795 Frisbie Rd. Shawnee KS 66226 Cadillac, Boat, JD mower, furniture, bikes, & more!

Bidding closes May 3 SEE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS www.lindsayauctions.com LINDSAY AUCTION & REALTY SERVICE INC. 913.441.1557

Indoor or Outdoor Beautiful Cocktail Table with sculptural iron base, granite top. $50 785-841-3332

Hikers Backpack. Quality hikers fully padded backpack. Cushioned comfort straps,waist,back. Large capacity. $20 785-842-4641

ESTATE SALE Saturday, May 14th 9am-4pm Sunday, May 15th 10am-2pm 1013 Moundridge Dr. Lawrence, KS Great Estate with Many Hidden Vintage Treasures www.MidwestAuctionHub.com 785-218-3761

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Solid Florida Pipe Furniture White plastic patio table, 57” x 35” w/ 2 plastic chairs.

Asking $ 20.

785-691-6667

Health & Beauty READ IT BEFORE YOU NEED IT!

Davidson, 16ft Aluminium, w/ 200lb load capacity.

Type III duty rating.

Asking $45

785-842-2928

PIANOS • H.L. Phillips upright $650 • Cable Nelson or Lester Spinet - $500 • Gulbranson Spinet - $450 Prices include tuning & delivery

785-832-9906

PETS Pets

60% OFF* at the

Baby & Children Items 1950’s Doll House with furniture $40, 785-841-3332

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Townhomes

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3 BR w/2 or 2.5 BA

Large 4 bdrm, 2.5 bath home with fenced yard in SW Lawrence. Min. 2 pets w/deposit. $1,800/mo.

Available 6-5-2016.

Call 785-766-7116

Apartments Unfurnished

Tonganoxie, KS. A MUST SEE!! One owner non-smokers & pet free.

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1, 2 & 3 BR units Some with W/D, Water & Trash Paid, Small Pet, Income Restrictions Apply

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