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Follow KU volleyball in the Final Four By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

n this town, everyone knows what to do when the Kansas University men’s basketball team makes the Final Four, a regular occurrence. This week another team of Jayhawks joins that elite club: The KU women’s volleyball team will play in its first-ever Final Four Thursday night in

Omaha, Neb., after upsetting No. 1 seed USC in a late-night thriller Saturday in San Diego. Since the volleyball team’s feat is unprecedented, we thought you could use some tips on how to follow the team for the big match: Please see VOLLEYBALL, page 2A l Nebraska fans snatch up

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By Rochelle Valverde

Twitter: @RochelleVerde

The Lawrence school board has decided on an outside firm to use in its search for a new superintendent, with many of the board members citing the firm’s process for involving the community as a main factor in their choice. “We’ll be hearing from parents and community members and students SCHOOLS and teachers,” said school board President Vanessa Sanburn. “There’s a whole wide array of groups that will help inform us as to what it is we should be looking for.” After a general consensus that the board would hire a firm as opposed to doing the search in-house, board members voted to hire McPherson & Jacobson, of Omaha, Neb., to conduct the search for the next superintendent for an amount not to exceed $25,000. Current Lawrence Superintendent Rick Doll announced Nov. 23 that he will resign effective June 30, 2016. Doll, 61, has accepted a full-time position as associate professor and executive director of the Kansas Educational Leadership Institute at Kansas State University. Please see SEARCH, page 2A

Case of mom who fled U.S. grows more Inquiry ongoing on KU prof who used n-word in class complicated Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo

AS THE SUN SETS, A COMBINATION OF LIGHTS from street lamps, cars and holiday decorations illuminate Massachusetts Street on Friday.

Heard on the Hill

ansas University’s investigation of a professor who said the n-word in class remains ongoing — though regardless of outcome the instructor won’t be teaching next semester. Andrea Quenette, assistant professor of communication studies, has been on paid administrative leave since Nov. 20, shortly after KU’s Office of Institutional Opportusshepherd@ljworld.com nity and Access opened its investigation into racial discrimination complaints according to KU spokesagainst her. Quenette’s man Joe Monaco. He said IOA case remains open, KU policy calls for the

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university to complete violated. If so, they will discrimination complaint then notify me of the cominvestigations within 60 plaints within seven days days. and then I will be interQuenette said viewed,” Quenette she is now working said. with an attorney. Quenette, now She said an IOA inin her third year vestigator told her as a tenure-track that a total of six assistant professor, complaints were will not have any filed and that the classes this spring office aimed to inbecause she was terview all students Quenette previously schedbefore the end of uled for a researchthe semester. intensive semester with “After interviewing all no teaching obligations, of the students they then Monaco said. make a determination as to Please see PROF, page 2A whether any policies were

By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon

Kansas City, Kan. — A federal magistrate judge ordered Samantha Elmer, who recently fled to Europe with her two young daughters, released from federal custody Monday during a detention hearing in Kansas City, Kan. New evidence presented at the hearing appeared to help persuade Magistrate Judge David Waxse to release Elmer on her own recognizance, including her explanation that she fled the country with her daughters because their Elmer father had been abusive — a claim he denies. Please see CASE, page 2A

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DEATHS

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A memorial service for Jill M. Hardesty, who passed away 09/10/2015, will be held Dec. 29th from 3–5 pm in the Panorama Room, KU Natural History Museum.

Marian EloisE HEss Services for Marian E. Hess, 69, Eudora, are pending and will be announced by Rumesy-Yost Funeral Home. She died at her home. rumsey-yost.com

Rodney dennis RedfoRd Rodney D Redford, 58, Graveside Service, Wednesday, 1:30pm, Dec. 16, Memorial Park Cemetery, Lawrence, KS. Grand Lake Funeral Home,Grove, OK.

Alice MAe Torneden Shirk Funeral services for Alice Mae Shirk, 88, Lawrence, are pending at Rumsey-Yost. Alice died Sun., Dec. 13, 2015, at St. Luke’s Hospital in KCMO. rumsey-yost.com

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Other events — including a meet-and-greet with U.S. National Team players — are planned CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A throughout the weekend. For more, see the womWhat: en’s volleyball champion2015 Division I Wom- ship page at ncaa.com. en’s Volleyball ChampiBroadcast information: onship Can’t make it to Omaha? When: Thursday’s matches and KU plays Nebraska in Saturday’s championship the semifinal match — match will be broadcast aka the Final Four — at live on ESPN2. If you’re in 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Tex- Omaha with no tickets, the as and Minnesota face off KU Alumni Association at 6 p.m. Thursday. The lists Fox & Hound, 506 N. championship is at 6:30 120th St., as an official KU p.m. Saturday. watch site.

Where: CenturyLink Center, 455 N. 10th St., Omaha, Neb. (A three-hour drive from Lawrence, via Interstate 70 east and I-29 north.)

Online: The Journal-World will have full coverage online at kusports.com. On Twitter, follow @kusports, sports editor Tom Keegan @TomKeeganLJW and sportswriter Matt Tait Tickets: @mctait. The volleyball Tickets are sold out for team’s official Twitter Thursday’s match and in handle is @KUvolleyball. short supply for Saturday’s championship, ac- Meet the team: Seven of the women cording to Ticketmaster. But you may be able to on KU’s 16-member get them through unoffi- squad are 6 feet or taller. Many are from Kansas cial sources. and Texas, but they hail Fan events: from all over the United KU’s open practice States, including Puerto time is set for 2:55 p.m. to Rico. Read more about 4:25 p.m. Wednesday at head coach Ray Bechard the CenturyLink Center. and his squad on the On Thursday, the Jay- team roster at kuathlethawks’ arrival at the are- ics.com. na is anticipated between — KU and higher ed reporter 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. An Sara Shepherd can be reached at autograph session is sshepherd@ljworld.com or 832-7187. planned after the match.

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Elmer’s release from federal custody, however, was short-lived. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Oakley asked that the judge stay the order for a few hours and quickly filed a motion contesting the release order, effectively sending Elmer back to the Leavenworth Detention Center. A date to hear that motion had not been set as of Monday afternoon. Elmer, 33, of Lawrence, left the area on Oct. 26 for Europe, ahead of a child custody hearing with her ex-husband. She returned last week and voluntarily surrendered at Kansas City International Airport. She is charged with one count of taking her children out of the country with intent to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights. Even if Elmer had been released from federal custody Monday, she would have been sent to the Johnson County Corrections Department, where she has two outstanding warrants against

her for violating a child custody order and for not appearing for trial in a criminal credit card case. Her bond for those two counts is set at $100,000. The girls, both elementary-aged students, are now in the custody of their father, Justin Bush, currently of Smithville, Mo. Bush told the Lawrence Journal-World on Monday that Elmer was fabricating the allegations of abuse. “She’s been trying to build a child abuse case to keep the girls from me,” Bush said. Elmer has filed two protection from abuse orders in Cass County and Johnson County. She did not show up for the hearing in Cass County, Bush said. In Johnson County, the judge determined there was no evidence of abuse, court records show. On Monday, Elmer sat quietly during the hearing, whispering from time to time with her attorney, Tim Burdick. She was dressed in an orange jumpsuit, manacles around her wrists and ankles, her long hair pulled back. It was quickly acknowledged that Elmer’s and Bush’s child custody fight had become extremely contentious.

The first phase of McPherson & Jacobson’s five-phase search process has three steps: to determine the characteristics of the new superintendent, the timeline for the search and the advertising venues. For the first step, “stakeholders” will provide input about the characteristics they would like the new superintendent to have through online surveys and focus groups. Sanburn said the board will choose which stakeholder groups — potentially administrators, staff, teachers, students and community or business groups — it would like the consultants to meet with. That information provided by the groups will be used to create the characteristics document. “The initial creation of that characteristics document, that basically is the measuring stick used in determining how all the applicants measure up to what we’re looking for,” she explained. After applicants are selected, screened and interviewed, a final pool of candidates will be determined. The board will then select representatives from each stakeholder group to form a smaller focus group of 8 to 12 people. “(Once final candidates are known) we’ll have another opportunity for the community — smaller focus groups — to work with those candidates in order to assess how they feel about them and we’ll definitely take that into

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account when making our decision,” Sanburn said. The board’s next regularly scheduled meeting is Jan. 11, but it will call a special meeting beforehand to establish who will be in the first focus groups and when they will meet, Sanburn said. Also at the special meeting — which is tentatively planned for the first week of January — board members will likely establish a more precise timeline, said David Cunningham, director of human resources and legal services for the district. Cunningham said the district would like to post advertising for the position fairly quickly. “I would be surprised if we don’t have it posted within the month,” he said. In other business Monday, the school board: l Reviewed an update on the district’s bond construction projects. In March, 15 of the 21 projects are scheduled to be complete. The majority of projects have used capital outlay funds in addition to funds from the $92.5 million bond issue, bringing the total amount spent so far to $102.6 million. l Reviewed the district’s 2011-2015 graduation rates for all students, as well as several subgroups: low socioeconomic status, disabilities, English language learners and race/ethnicity designation. Within the five-year span, rates in all subgroups have generally improved, and overall rates have increased from 85 to 92.1 percent. At 83.9 percent, the lowest rate is for students with low socioeconomic status. l Reviewed a report on access to technology. Most students in the district use

L awrence J ournal -W orld digital textbooks for one or more subjects. The district surveyed high school students, and estimates that about 120 high school students are without access to computers or tablets outside of school. The district has begun providing a limited number of wireless access and computer devices for use after school hours. l Approved a resolution to make its third and final school bond issue. The bond issue of $20.5 million will be the final series of $92.5 million in bonds sold for the district’s renovation and construction projects at its facilities. The board will have final interest rates for the issue at its meeting on Jan. 11. l Approved an agreement to develop a facilities master plan for the district’s six secondary schools, with an emphasis on Lawrence High School. The board approved the scope of services and schedule for facility master planning provided by Gould Evans Associates, not to exceed $141,400. l Three fifth-grade students spoke to the board about a recycling program they began last month at Cordley Elementary School. Joe O’Keefe, Casey Kong and Owen Musser urged the board to add recycling bins to all classrooms and school cafeterias in the district. The board’s next regularly scheduled meeting will be Jan. 11 in the district offices, 110 McDonald Drive. That meeting will be preceded by a special meeting that is yet to be scheduled. — K-12 education reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at rvalverde@ljworld.com or 832-6314.

He said that plan was entirely unrelated to Quenette’s administrative leave and that all junior faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are offered one such research-intensive semester during their pre-tenure employment. This story rocketed into national news

quickly after I posted my report to LJWorld.com on Nov. 20. On Nov. 12, the morning after KU’s heated universitywide town hall forum on race, Quenette used the n-word to illustrate a point during a graduate-level class discussion about race, which also included conversation about retention rates at KU and the concept of systemic racism. Students — in a Twitter campaign with the hashtag

#FireAndreaQuenette and in an open letter online — condemned Quenette’s use of the nword and “active denial” of systemic racism, and demanded that she lose her job. Quenette has said she did not direct the n-word at or intend to offend anyone and that discussing race issues was within the purview of her class.

“It’s very apparent,” Oakley said. The new evidence presented during the hearing included two lengthy Missouri Department of Social Services reports and another report by a licensed psychologist. Burdick, Elmer’s attorney, said the state reports describe a pattern of years in which Bush was mentally and physically abusive, including hitting. In at least one situation, Burdick said, one of the girls was slapped in the face by her father. Bush has denied being abusive to the children. The psychologist recommended that the girls and father be separated for a while, Burdick said. Bush acknowledged he had not seen the girls for eight months prior to Elmer taking them to Europe. He told the JournalWorld Monday that he thought the break was in the girls’ best interest at the time. Also on Monday, FBI Special Agent Ashley Davis testified, laying out new details about Elmer’s trip to Europe. Elmer and the girls had gone to Chicago, where they caught a flight that eventually took them to

Austria. They then went to Italy, Davis said. After Elmer ran out of money, she contacted a TV news reporter to help her get back to the United States, Davis said. Davis testified that her supervisor and the reporter spoke with Elmer through Facebook. Eventually there were phone calls and the reporter was told she could not be included in the conversations anymore. Elmer had a few conditions that were agreed to before she would surrender. The most important one was that she would not be arrested in the presence of her children, Davis said. “Her main focus was not upsetting her children,” Davis said. Davis said she was involved in two interviews with Elmer when she was taken into custody. Davis said the FBI investigation found that Elmer had planned for the trip and knew as early as Oct. 12 that she was going. Davis said Elmer had researched countries that would not extradite her, and also countries that would provide a college education for her daughters.

After the evidence was presented Monday, Waxse went to his chambers to read the documents and consider the testimony. When he returned he said he did not consider Elmer a flight risk in part because her daughters are here. “The idea that she would turn around and leave them is far-fetched,” he said. He also said that Elmer doesn’t have a history of alcohol or substance abuse and has strong ties to the community and a history of employment. She and her current husband, Rodney Elmer, had recently been evicted from their home in Eudora. They then moved to Lawrence. Rodney Elmer was not in the courtroom Monday. Before the flight to Europe, Samantha Elmer had been charged with eight counts of credit card and identity theft in Johnson County District Court, but five of those charges have been dismissed. The day she left the country, the trial in that case was scheduled to begin.

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— This is an excerpt from Sara Shepherd’s Heard on the Hill column, which appears at LJWorld.com.

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Former Kan. governor tells advocates to brace themselves for potential legislation By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

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KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FIFTH-GRADER TEACHER CARA MCNORTON is surrounded by students of her class after she was selected as the recipient of the 2015 Dedication To Education Award, given annually by the Lawrence Schools Foundation in collaboration with Lawrence Public Schools. Watch a conversation with McNorton about winning the award at LJWorld.com/mcnortonaward.

Kennedy teacher selected as recipient of Dedication To Education Award By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

Kennedy Elementary teacher Cara McNorton was presented with the 2015 Dedication To Education Award on Monday. “I come to work for the kids,” McNorton said following the award presentation Monday. “I love spending my days with kids and watching them grow and develop and become awesome people.” The annual award is given by the Lawrence Schools Foundation in collaboration with Lawrence public schools and provides $5,000 to the recipient.

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She is the type of teacher that every principal dreams of having on their team. Cara is a teacher that challenges herself, motivates her students and inspires her peers.” — Kennedy Principal Cris Anderson The award honors someone who ensures that challenged or disadvantaged students learn. McNorton is involved in numerous programs at Kennedy as an equity leader at the school. Earlier this year, she shared the district’s first Martin Luther King Champion of Equity Award with fellow Kennedy teacher Patrick Wedel.

“(Cara McNorton) is one of those teachers that every child will remember as the one who played an important part of their life,” Kennedy Principal Cris Anderson said in a news release. “She is the type of teacher that every principal dreams of having on their team. Cara is a teacher that challenges Please see TEACHER, page 4A

Supreme Court hears death-penalty appeal By Jim Suhr Associated Press

Topeka — An attorney for the first prisoner condemned to death in Kansas in more than three decades asked the state’s highest court Monday to throw out his sentence, alleging jurors should have been removed from the case after seeing the victim’s father lunge at the defendant in court. During nearly two hours of arguments, an

appellate attorney questioned whethfor Gary Kleypas er the conduct reinsisted Larry Wilally prejudiced the liams’ foiled attack jury. on her 60-year-old “I don’t think you client should have can just assume this prompted a judge COURTS worked against your to disband that jury, client,” Rosen said. which later sentenced Kleypas, who was not Kleypas to death. brought in from prison “When this happens, to attend Monday’s hearreasonable judges grant ing, was convicted of famistrials,” attorney Meryl tally stabbing 20-year-old Carver-Allmond told the Pittsburg (Kansas) State justices. “That kind of put University student Carrie the thumb on the scale, Williams in 1996. At the and they pushed through.” time of Williams’ death, Justice Eric Rosen Kleypas was on parole

from a 1977 Missouri murder conviction for which he served 15 years in prison. After the Kansas Supreme Court in 2001 overturned Kleypas’ death sentence, another jury restored it in 2008. Kansas’ high court last month upheld a death sentence for the first time since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1994. That court’s past decisions overturning nine death Please see APPEAL, page 4A

Kansas City, Mo. — Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius decried what she called an environment of “terror” surrounding abortion clinics, and she told abortion rights advocates to be prepared for bills to be introduced in the coming legislative sessions in Kansas and Missouri. “We just saw murders occurring in Colorado Springs, inside a Planned Parenthood facility,” Sebelius said, referring to a Nov. 27 shooting that

left three dead and many more injured. “I think that’s terror.” Sebelius was the keynote Sebelius speaker at a Planned Parenthood conference in Kansas City, Mo., marking that group’s 80th anniversary of providing services in the metropolitan area. “I think it’s very debilitating, demeaning and often frightening for women trying to access Please see SEBELIUS, page 4A

As fleet ages, city ramps up vehicle purchases

know for most of us, December is marked as the month for accumulating 5-pound cheese logs, yule logs and the multitude of other fine culinary logs. But for the city of Lawrence, December is the month for new vehicle purchases. Thus far in December — once commissioners approve a few items at their meeting today — the city will have purchased $1.75 million worth of vehicles. December has long been a month for vehicle purchases for the city. Departments either have budget money they’ve held in reserve until the end of the year, or else they have money in the 2016 budget for vehicles, and they want to make a December order so the vehicles will arrive early in the new year. But it looks like the city has stepped up

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its vehicle purchasing program this year, which wouldn’t be surprising. During the last budget sessions, city officials warned commissioners that the city’s vehicle and equipment fleet was really suffering. For years, the city has postponed making vehicle purchases in order to balance some budgets. Back in April, we reported that the average age of the Please see VEHICLE, page 4A

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Topeka — Kansas officials have sent President Barack Obama a letter protesting the possible move of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. The letter Monday said

moving terrorism suspects to northeast Kansas would jeopardize families, schools and local businesses. All six members of the state’s congressional delegation signed the letter, as did Gov. Sam Brownback, legislators and

local officials. The letter followed a town hall meeting Friday in Leavenworth sponsored by U.S. Reps. Lynn Jenkins and Mike Pompeo. Their signatures appeared first, along with Leavenworth Mayor Lisa Weakley’s.

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his seat in the courtroom’s gallery after the jury heard the 911 recording from when his daughter’s body was found. Larry Williams lurched toward Kleypas with his arms outstretched but was tackled by a former state investigator who had been waiting to testify. Larry Williams never reached Kleypas, though the defense table was disrupted and water spilled, the Star reported. Williams was led away in handcuffs and was banished from the courtroom for the rest of the hearing but was not charged. Kristafer Ailslieger, a deputy Kansas solicitor general, called the judge’s response to the would-be attack “reasonable and rational,” noting that jurors who witnessed the altercation were properly vetted by the judge about whether they could be impartial. The judge also admonished jurors to set

aside the incident and not hold it against either side. When it comes to the need to declare a mistrial, Ailslieger argued, deference goes to the trial judge, who “is in the best position to make that determination.” Carver-Allmond also insisted that an attempt should have been made to reassemble Kleypas’ original 1997 jury for his 2008 resentencing. Ailslieger questioned whether that’s what Kleypas really would have wanted, given that the first jury already had condemned him. Carver-Allmond also pressed that Kleypas’ mental illness mitigates his culpability, and that the jury was wrongly allowed to hear of Kleypas’ 1977 Missouri murder conviction because Kleypas alleges his defense attorney was ineffective, making the conviction suspect.

health care services when people are shrieking at them and screaming at them every day,” she told reporters afterward. “As well intentioned as those protesters may be, it makes a visit to a doctor’s office very difficult.” Monday’s event had been scheduled to take place at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, but was moved to a hotel on the Country Club Plaza because of heightened security concerns in the wake of the Dec. 2 mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. “They didn’t want to put anybody at risk,” said Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. “I understand that we were not the only organization to be canceled or relocated.” Sebelius, a Democrat, served as governor from 2003 until President Barack Obama named her secretary of Health and Human Services in 2009. During her tenure, she was a strong supporter of abortion rights and received campaign support from Planned Parenthood. She also vetoed several bills passed by the Kansas Legislature that would have put more restrictions on abortions. Although abortion has long been a highly charged political issue, Sebelius said tensions have risen in the wake of allegations — vehemently denied by Planned Parenthood — that it profits from the sale of fetal tissue derived from abortions. Planned Parenthood has said it only charged fees to recover the cost of shipping tissue to research facilities. “There were three clinics in the country that had any sort of engagement around fetal tissue, and now Planned Parenthood has announced even those three clinics, there will no longer be any kind of reimbursement for expenses,” Sebelius said. She noted, “The vast, vast majority of health services performed by Planned Parenthood have nothing to do with even abortion services. They have to do with women’s health screenings and cancer screenings and access to contraception.” But Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life, a major antiabortion lobbying group, disagreed that abortion protesters are creating a violent climate around clinics.

Works Department from Laird Noller Ford: $45,118. The city received bids from two vendors. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3A Laird Noller was higher than Shawnee Mission city’s vehicle fleet in Ford’s, but fell within the recent years had risen 1 percent local preferto 9.5 years, up from ence policy. about 5.8 years in 1999. The city has a policy In June, we reported that that if a locally based the city’s recommended company comes within budget would include 1 percent of the low bid an extra $1.25 million in that the City Commisvehicle and equipment sion has the option of purchases in 2016 comtaking the bid from the pared with 2015. local bidder. The thought It looks like the ramp- process is the city and up is beginning in Dethe community receive cember. I did a few quick more benefit from shopcalculations and the city ping local than they save — thus far in Decemby the 1 percent price ber — has placed orders difference. l 14 police utility for $1.75 million worth of equipment compared interceptors — the sport with about $900,000 in utility police vehicles December 2014. that have become stanAs for what the city is dard in the Police Debuying, here’s a look: partment — from Laird l Two rear-load refuse Noller Ford: $378,559. trucks for the sanitation Laird Noller was the only division from Downing bid received. l One half-ton 4x4 Sales & Service: $230,164. extended cab truck for The city received bids the police department’s from four vendors. The investigation’s divicity took the lowest bid. l Two half-ton pickup sion from Laird Noller trucks for the Public Ford: $26,008. The city

received bids from two vendors. Laird Noller’s was the highest but was within the 1 percent local preference policy. l One Ford Transit prisoner transport van for the Police Department from Shawnee Mission Ford: $43,813. The city received bids from two vendors and took the lowest bid. l One Ford Transit standard van for the Police Department from Laird Noller Ford: $23,972. The city only received one bid. l Two 4x4 pickup trucks for the Utilities Department from Laird Noller Ford: $45,118. The city received bids from two vendors. Laird Noller’s was the highest, but fell within the 1 percent local preference policy. l Four dump trucks equipped with snow plows and salt and sand spreaders: $636,588. The city didn’t go out for bid on the project, but rather took advantage of a bid that the Kansas Department of Transportation had received for dump

truck/snow plow vehicles. l One compact SUV Ford Escape for the Planning and Development Services Department: $23,444. The city received bids from three vendors. Laird Noller’s was the No. 2 bid in terms of price, but it was within the 1 percent local preference policy. l Two F-350 and one F-450 truck from Laird Noller Ford for the Parks and Recreation Department: $114,762. Laird Noller was the only bidder on the project. l One automated, side-load refuse truck for the city’s sanitation division from Downing Sales & Service: $187,747. The city did not bid the project but rather took advantage of a bid that already was received by a regional sanitation cooperative. We’ll see what the rest of the month brings, and also what the rest of 2016 brings, in terms of new vehicle and equipment purchases. It will be interesting to see if it

henever fans approach Celtic songstress and Read more responses and add your thoughts at LJWorld.com Lawrence native Ashley Davis with album ideas, What sport or physi- more often than not she count on requests cal activity have you can going one of two ways: always wanted to Christmas or lullabies. try? With the release her Asked on Massachusetts album “The Christmas Street Sessions” this month, Davis jokes that she’s finally “checked off one of those See story, 1C boxes.” (No word yet on that lullaby album.) The result, coproduced by Irish musician John Davis Doyle, is a 13-track “culmination of David Johanning, all my Christmases,” says manager, Davis, who will perform Lawrence the entirety of “The “Snowboarding. It just Christmas Sessions” — sounds fun. I went skiplus a few selections ing once, but that was before snowboarding was from 2012’s “Songs of the Celtic Winter” — at the popular.” Lied Center this week. The shows, slated for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, have become something of a holiday tradition for Davis. It’s her fifth year performing her annual wintertime concert at the Lied Center, though this week’s By Sylas May

Nina Vyatkina, professor, Lawrence “Dancing competitions, like ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ It’s not sports, per se, but it sounds nice.”

sentences inspired a campaign that almost succeedSunayan Mullick, ed in ousting two justices graduate student, in last year’s elections and Lawrence handed Republican Gov. “Hockey. I’ve always been Sam Brownback a potent curious about it. But just issue in the final weeks of his race for re-election. friendly hockey; I don’t Three other capital caslike the violent parts.” es are before the justices. Although Carver-Allmond said Kleypas’ culpability for Williams’ death is undeniable — “We’re not arguing my client is exempt form criminal responsibility. He’s guilty.” — an attorney for the state pressed Monday that Kleypas’ sentence should be upheld. During Kleypas’ 2008 John Stark, sentencing hearing, acgraduate student, cording to a Kansas City Lawrence Star account at the time, “Surfing. But it would be Larry Williams rose from pretty hard to do it here in Kansas.”

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herself, motivates her students and inspires her peers.” McNorton has taught fifth grade at Kennedy since 2012. Previously, she taught for eight years at schools in Topeka and Council Grove, as well as in Butler and Nevada, Mo. McNorton said there are many good teachers, and she is thankful for all those who support her career. “I am just a teacher and I represent so many,” she said. “I have been so blessed to have so many good mentors and good colleagues and an amazing family to support me in this.” — K-12 education reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at rvalverde@ljworld.com or 832-6314.

takes on retro classics such as “Winter Wonderland” and Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” as well as traditional carols “Silent Night,” “O Come O Come Emmanuel” and others. Aside from Doyle’s “Merry Christmas to All and Goodnight,” there’s just one original track jhlavacek@ljworld.com on the album — Davis’ and Doyle’s slinky “Light two-gig performance, My Tree,” written in the fueled by the success of spirit of “Santa Baby!” last year’s show, is a first. and its “big band, pouty” “You want your peers in the canon of Christmas album to innuendo-laden Christsound like you and not mas songs made famous like everybody else’s by female vocalists. Christmas album, so how As of Monday, there are you as an artist going are still tickets left for to approach this differthe concerts. General-adently than others have?” mission tickets are $20, Davis says of “The and can be purchased Christmas Sessions,” at lied.ku.edu, the Lied which features Doyle Center box office at 1600 on guitar and mandola. Stewart Drive or 864“And I believe instead of 2787. trying to do something “The Christmas Sesdifferent, that if you stay sions” album is also true to yourself as an available for downartist, you’re going to be load on iTunes and for different.” purchase at Brits, 929 Drawing from the tran- Massachusetts St., and quility of John Fahey’s the Phoenix Gallery, 825 1968 instrumental Christ- Massachusetts St. mas album “The New — This is an excerpt Possibility” (a childhood from features reporter favorite of hers), Davis’ Joanna Hlavacek’s Out & About most recent offering blog, which appears regularly features her similarly on Lawrence.com. “peaceful,” pared-down

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“I don’t think it’s any different than it’s ever been, except that there’s more peaceful, prayerful protesters and sidewalk counselors than there used to be,” she said. “There are a lot more people involved on a regular basis, peacefully protesting and/or trying to give out information about alternatives to abortion.” She noted there are about 70 sites in Kansas that offer alternatives to abortion, saying: “People outside abortion clinics are often out there to hand out information about that.” Since taking office, current Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, has signed a number of bills restricting access to abortion. In 2011 he signed a bill that effectively cut off federal funding that flows through the state to Planned Parenthood clinics in Kansas by giving preference to those funds to local health clinics, a law that led to the closing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Hays. And this year, he signed a first-in-thenation law banning a procedure commonly used in second-trimester abortions known as “dilation and evacuation,” or D&E, a procedure that abortion opponents call “dismemberment abortion.” That law is now being challenged before the Kansas Court of Appeals, and a decision is expected within the next several weeks. Sebelius declined to comment on that law, or the ongoing legal challenge, but she predicted there will be more antiabortion legislation in state capitals next year. “There are battles going on across this country, trying to restrict access of women to reproductive health services, and because the president has been willing to stop regressive measures at the national level, state legislatures have become the battlefront,” she said. “Missouri and Kansas are at the heart of that. Both are states that have not yet expanded Medicaid, which hurts a lot of low-income women who would have access to health services.” Culp declined to comment on what legislation Kansans for Life will push in 2016, but she predicted more states will follow Kansas’ lead in banning D&E procedures. “Hopefully that will catch on across the country,” she said. — Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock can be reached at 354-4222 or phancock@ljworld.com.

brings a greater number of bidders. It was interesting to note the low number of bidders for some of these projects. Laird Noller was the only local car dealer that even placed a bid for any of the vehicles purchased in December. In some cases, the city is pretty committed to a particular brand of vehicle. For example, the city sees some value in having all Fords for its police car fleet because it makes training and maintenance more efficient. But why other local bidders didn’t emerge for some of the pickup truck purchases and the SUV purchase for the Planning and Development Services Department is unclear to me. But, I’m unclear about a lot of things this time of year. Don’t even get me started guessing what that last log was. — This is an excerpt from Chad Lawhorn’s “Town Talk” column, which appears each weekday at LJWorld.com.

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Inspiring team The community is cheering on the determined Kansas University volleyball team as it heads to the Final Four.

ith the Kansas University volleyball team trailing the University of Southern California 13-9 in the fifth set of Saturday night’s match, many KU fans were thinking, “Oh well, it’s been a great season even though we won’t go to the Final Four.” The Jayhawk players, however, had something else in mind. The ninth-seeded team reeled off six straight points to earn a surprise victory over the NCAA Tournament’s top seed and a trip to the tournament’s Final Four in Omaha. It is the first time a KU volleyball team has made it to the Elite Eight in the national tournament, let alone the Final Four. The element of surprise made the victory even more exciting. As the match stretched into early Sunday morning, fans who may have been about to doze off were reawakened as the team crawled back one precious point at a time until the last long volley ended in victory and a group hug in the middle of the court. The Jayhawks’ next opponent will be the University of Nebraska. Hopefully, many Kansas fans will be able to get tickets and make the trip to Omaha to cheer on this determined team. The success of the KU volleyball has been a fun and inspiring holiday gift for Kansas fans. Congratulations to the team and Coach Ray Bechard, and good luck in Omaha!

Project overdue A project to upgrade Lawrence’s Fire Station No. 1 is finally moving forward.

t’s taken longer than it should, but it’s good to see progress being made on plans to upgrade Fire Station No. 1 at Eighth and Kentucky streets. A building survey assessing the condition of the 65-year-old station was done in 2010 and was used to formulate the “Fire Station No. 1 Deferred Maintenance and Remodel Project.” For more than five years, that plan has lingered, awaiting a proposal to fund the project. Last week, the Lawrence City Commission approved a “request for qualifications” for architecture services to develop a condition report, assess space needs and work on design and construction plans to the fire station. The Douglas County Commission also will be asked to approve the request and share in the project’s cost. According to a memo from Mark Bradford, chief of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, the upgrades will impact the entire building, including the east wing, which houses the Lawrence Senior Center. The project is expected to include renovation of the entire building exterior, along with updated heating and air conditioning systems and assessment and removal of asbestos materials in the building. Significant work on the fire station’s interior also is planned. Little interior work is envisioned for the senior center, but this could be an opportunity for Douglas County Senior Services to review its space needs as its mission evolves. Fire Station No. 1 is one of the city’s busiest stations, and this renovation is long overdue. Hopefully, the project is back on track and will be completed in a timely fashion. LAWRENCE

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Leaders not making nation feel safe One reason Donald Trump can profit from his rabid fearmongering is because there’s no one out there to calm the nation down. According to a new New York Times/CBS News poll, Americans are more fearful about the likelihood of another terrorist attack than at any time since right after 9/11. A plurality of the public views the terrorist threat as the top issue facing the country. Americans need a leader they trust who can assure them that everything possible is being done to secure the country. Obviously, that

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leader should be President Obama, who meant to provide such assurances in his Oval Office address to the nation right after the San Bernardino shootings. He did not succeed. That failure helps explain why a climate of panic is fueling the most ugly election season in decades. According to the New York Times poll, 57 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama’s handling of terrorism and the threat from Islamic State, while seven in 10 say the fight against Islamic State is going badly. In other words, a rare Oval Office speech did little to calm America’s angst. But here’s an important news bulletin: Americans don’t see Donald Trump as their savior, either. Despite Trump’s rising support among Republican primary voters, the Times poll shows

that 64 percent of the broader electorate would be concerned or scared about what he would do as president. This confirms my belief that most Americans have not lost their minds. However, Obama’s inability to assuage the public’s legitimate fears creates continued openings for demagoguery in a vicious campaign season. His failure goes beyond the serious weakness in his policies for combating Islamic State. After all, Trump has no policy except to “bomb the s--out of them (Islamic State).” Nor have his GOP rivals come up with much better (Ted Cruz’s answer is to “carpetbomb them into oblivion”). What’s needed now is a leader with the FDR touch, who can reassure Americans of their strengths and of his commitment to the fight, while pulling no punches. That reassurance was sadly lacking in the Oval Office speech. Obama chose to stand professorially behind a lectern — displaying his famous cool, lawyerly demeanor — rather than emulate the warmth of Roosevelt’s “fireside” radio chats. Of course, a big part of Obama’s problem is that he is selling an incoherent plan. His speech merely tweaked a flailing Mideast policy and called for the public to be patient. “Our success won’t depend on tough talk,” the president said.

But he never explained why coalition air strikes in Syria and Iraq would work now, when they have proved inadequate so far; there is still no effective Sunni Arab fighting force on the ground to call in targets or take advantage of U.S. air power. Nor did Obama explain how sending 50, or 150, more U.S. Special Forces can remedy the lack of Sunni ground troops. (America’s Kurdish allies cannot and will not vanquish Islamic State on their own.) Moreover, the president still rejects any criticism of his refusal to help Syrian moderate fighting groups in 2012 (when they existed) or to arm Iraqi Sunni tribesmen eager to fight Islamic State. This creates a gaping hole in his policy that the public grasps. Instead, Obama and his team are betting that Vladimir Putin will endorse a U.N. peace plan, which ends the fighting in Syria, dumps President Bashar al-Assad, and unites the West, Russia, and the Syrian army to fight Islamic State. To put it kindly, this is a mirage. So yes, the president’s failed policies stoke public anxieties. Americans don’t want to send tens of thousands of troops back to the Mideast (nor would a GOP president do so), but they do want a leader who seems to know what he is doing. Yet I still believe that the source of America’s angst

goes deeper than Obama’s foreign policy mistakes. At a time of pervasive change, in both the economic and global realms, people want a leader who can convince them they’ll be safe. Right now, many Americans can’t identify that leader. GOP candidates hardly fill the bill; Trump’s opponents have been whipping up some of the same hysteria over refugees and Syria with only slightly less fevered language. Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy speech in Washington last week had a strong, compassionate tone, but she is just laying out her foreign policy program. Bernie Sanders grasps the climate of public outrage but is no foreign policy wonk. And Obama lacks the empathy to reassure the public (qualities that I believe would ameliorate some of the unease over his policies). Feeling leaderless and rudderless, even some Americans who would normally reject a demagogue may succumb to the appeal of a strongman. As I have written before, I don’t think the Donald will make it to the White House. But I fear this election season will get even uglier — especially if domestic Islamic State wannabes exacerbate the confusion at home. — Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial-board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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tives, senators and governor said, “Not in my back yard” to housing murderous Nazis in Leavenworth. To the editor: Richard Hardin, We’d like to say “Wow!” and “well done” Lawrence to the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department for the really beautiful Christmas lights on Massachusetts Street and other areas of town. They truly outdid themselves To the editor: this year and we wanted to say thank you. World leaders struggle with finding some Debbie and George Mudrock, kind of compromise to enforce carbon emisLawrence sions limits. David Reynolds’ letter (Public Forum, Dec. 11) brings out “scare tactics” to accuse them all of serious denial. However, he doesn’t offer any evidence that the vast To the editor: majority of climate scientists and concluRecent letters have compared today’s Midsions from basic physics are wrong. dle Eastern conflicts with World War II. The We can see what passes for evidence among sheer difference in scale between the two them. Vincent Muirhead’s letter in the Jourevents makes you wonder why anyone would nal-World (“Climate politics,” Dec. 8) claimed draw such parallels. But there is a Kansas conto provide some. He listed four things: (1) One nection here in the part played by the city of country with a leftist government asserted Leavenworth, both then and now, that sugthat capitalism is to blame. (2) He noted that gests the comparison rests mainly on political ice levels in Antarctic have been increasing. fantasies. I refer to an AP news item of March No mention of worldwide ice levels, which are 1998 by Carl Manning. well-known to be decreasing. (3) He reported In 1945, at various times, 14 German that one glacier in North America did not reprisoners of war were hanged at the U.S. cede between 1925 and 1966. He didn’t mention Disciplinary Barracks in Leavenworth for what happened after 1966. (4) He dragged out murdering fellow German soldiers at POW the old red herring about the 1970s’ so-called camps for ideological reasons. All of those threat of an ice age — which, in fact, is based executed were motivated by an adherence on a Newsweek article about the conclusions to Nazism no less fanatic than the beliefs of one researcher. of the remaining prisoners in Guantanamo Really, members of this group of people today. The 1998 story concerned a Leavenare like Donald Trump: There are small worth citizen who periodically visits and grains of distorted truth buried under their decorates the graves of those 14 Nazis burhype. They would be really funny if they ied near the site of their execution, not out weren’t dangerous. of sympathy with Nazism, but out of human Adrian Melott, compassion for these forgotten men who Lawrence died wretchedly for a wretched cause. Our state’s political leaders have proLetters Policy tested transferring even a few Guantanamo The Journal-World welcomes letters to the Public Forum. Letters prisoners to the federal penitentiary on the should be 250 words or less, be of public interest and avoid name-calling grounds of “security.” I mean, how many and libelous language. The Journal-World reserves the right to edit murderers, rapists, sadists, child molesters, letters, as long as viewpoints are not altered. By submitting letters, you home-grown terrorists and Neo-Nazis are grant the Journal-World a nonexclusive license to publish, copy and distribute your work, while acknowledging that you are the author of housed in the prisons in and around Leav- the work. enworth already? Aren’t they potentially a Letters must bear the name, address and telephone number of threat to security? I doubt that, in the enor- the writer. Letters may be submitted by mail to Box 888, Lawrence, KS, mous conflict of the 1940s, our representa- 66044 or by email to: letters@ljworld.com.

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 15, 1915: years “That everybody ago reads the JournalIN 1915 World want page was well known, but there was no evidence that the town dogs kept a watchful eye on the page until yesterday. Mrs. Fred Morris published in the Journal-World a notice that she would prosecute any person who took her dog ‘Blackie’ out hunting. Last night, Blackie, after the afternoon round of his usual activities on the street, which must have included the perusal of the Journal-World want page, carried home on his collar a tag with this message to his mistress: ‘Mrs. Fred Morris: I like to go hunting and I read what you said about prosecuting people about taking me out hunting. Please don’t arrest George Lake or Fred Clarke. They show me a good time and always feed me on rabbit and chicken bones afterward. They are good friends of mine. R. S. V. P. — Your faithful, “Blackie.”’” “The groups of Lawrence women who are interested in starting war relief work here were gratified by the immediate response with which they were met yesterday at the various women’s clubs where the prospective work was explained yesterday afternoon. They wish, however, to interest every woman in Lawrence. A little time devoted to this work by every individual will mean a really appreciable help from Lawrence in this time of great need.”

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Red Dog’s Dog Days, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, 1651 Naismith Drive. Adornment Holiday Art Sale and Show, 1-5 p.m., Van Go Arts, 715 New Jersey St. Lawrence Parkinsons Support Group, 2 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton Parkway. Tech Drop-In, 5-6 p.m., Meeting Room B, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Community Meal, 5-7 p.m., Stull United Methodist Church, 251 North 1600 Road. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County volunteer information, 5:15 p.m., United Way

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Temperature High/low 45°/39° Normal high/low today 40°/21° Record high today 70° in 2002 Record low today -14° in 1989

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 8 p.m. yest. 0.07 Month to date 2.03 Normal month to date 0.80 Year to date 41.79 Normal year to date 39.09

Rifftrax Live: “Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny,” 7:30 p.m., Southwind Stadium 12, 3433 Iowa St. Gamer Night, 8 p.m., Burger Stand at the Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St. Slideshow photography group, 8 p.m., Gaslight Gardens, 317 N. Second St.

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Building, 2518 Ridge Court. Lawrence City Commission meeting, 5:45 p.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Lonnie Ray’s open jam session, 6-10 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. Maker Meet-Up, 6:30 p.m., Lawrence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. Ninth St. Lawrence Huntington’s Disease Support Group, 7-9 p.m., Conference Room D South, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St. Tuesday Concert Series: Larry Carter, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.

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BERGDAHL FACES HIGHEST COURT-MARTIAL He could get life if found guilty of deserting his post Jim Michaels USA TODAY

The Army said Monday it would refer the desertion case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to the highest level of military court-martial, which can impose a harsh penalty. Bergdahl is charged with walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 before he was captured by NEWSLINE

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Taliban insurgents, who held him for nearly five years. The Army decision to hold a “general courtmartial” preserves the option to impose punishment up to life in prison if Bergdahl is found guilty. The Army rejected a recommendation from Lt. Col. Mark Visger, an Army investigating officer, that the case be heard by a “special court-martial,” which is limited in the punishments it can impose. The officer recommended that Bergdahl be spared jail time or a punitive discharge. Bergdahl’s defense attorney, Eugene Fidell, said the defense team “hoped the case would not go in this direction.”

In 2014, the Obama ad“The convening auministration exchanged thority did not follow the Bergdahl for the release advice of the preliminary of five Taliban prisoners hearing officer who heard held in Guantanamo Bay the witnesses,” Fidell in a deal that triggered said, referring to the outrage from some command that will overlawmakers. see the court-martial. Some of his platoon Bergdahl, 29, is AFP/GETTY IMAGES mates in Afghanistan said charged with desertion Bowe Bergdahl Bergdahl let his coland misbehavior before leagues down by walking off his the enemy. “They’ve decided for a lot of post, then put soldiers at risk different reasons they want to when a manhunt was launched in show that they are going to en- an effort to find him. Americans can hear Bergdahl’s force discipline,” said Phil Cave, a former military lawyer now in own account of his actions in the private practice. “They’re putting popular podcast, Serial, which has hours of interviews the solthe hammer down.”

dier conducted with filmmaker Mark Boal. Bergdahl said he initially left the post because he had concerns about his command’s leadership and wanted to bring them to the attention of top leaders. He said he quickly realized that leaving was a mistake, then concocted a plan to redeem himself by trying to stalk Taliban insurgents to get valuable intelligence. “I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing,” Bergdahl said in the interview. “Doing what I did is me saying that I am like, I don’t know, Jason Bourne,” he said.

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Fans wait for the arrival of the stars of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on Hollywood Boulevard on Monday during the worldwide premiere of the movie in Los Angeles.

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fter months of hype, excitement and staggering quantities of licensed merchandise, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is already the most anticipated movie ever. Could it also be the biggest boxoffice hit of all time? The seventh film in the sci-fi franchise blasted off for a new generation with a world premiere in Los Angeles and preview showings Thursday night. Financially, “it’s already a total win,” says Rentrak senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “Whether it becomes an iconic watershed kind of movie, that’s up to the movie.” The Force Awakens has several domestic box-office records in

its sights: opening day (the record is $91 million, set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011), opening weekend ($208.8 million, owned by Jurassic World this June) and all-time haul ( $760.5 million raked in by Avatar in 2009 and 2010). Predictions have bordered on the absurd, ranging from $150 million to $300 million in its first weekend, Dergarabedian says. The Force Awakens has a good chance of breaking opening marks, but “it’s not a foregone conclusion,” says Mike Ryan, senior writer for the entertainment site Uproxx. “Slow and steady is the norm” for December releases. The biggest to date is The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’s $84.6 million in 2012. In its favor: The Force Awakens has sold more than $50 million in presale tickets. It’s a “realistic” possibility that Force Awakens will be the

first movie to reach $3 billion worldwide, Dergarabedian says, topping the $2.79 billion and $2.19 billion earned by Avatar and 1997’s Titanic, respectively. But “it can’t just be Star Wars,” Ryan adds. “It has to be good Star Wars.” If The Force Awakens is a satisfying Star Wars episode for the masses, it could potentially muscle out Marvel’s superhero fare as the hottest thing going in pop culture, says Devin Faraci, writer and critic for film website Birth.Movies.Death. “And Star Wars fandom, already very mainstream, is going to become the defining fandom of the time,” Faraci says. More importantly, The Force Awakens could bring a whole new audience to Star Wars, Sampson says. Bringing in Daisy Ridley as the new main character Rey, it has “the opportunity to introduce Star Wars to young girls as they follow the story of a smart, resourceful young woman.”

Six months ago Wednesday, Donald Trump descended an escalator at Trump Tower and upended the 2016 presidential race. He deviated widely from his prepared remarks that day in an announcement speech that would be the first taste of a style of campaign rhetoric that leaves some outraged and others lining up behind him in support. By midsummer, he built a consistent lead in national polls that only one other candidate, Ben Carson, has come close to challenging. Despite a deluge of inflammatory statements, nothing has derailed his front-runner status in the GOP race seven weeks before the Iowa caucuses. For a look, week by week, at some of the memorable developments in Trump’s campaign, see inside NEWS.

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Amazon stops selling some hoverboards over safety Safety panel looks into reports of fires Brett Molina and Elizabeth Weise USA TODAY

Good luck finding a hoverboard to purchase on Amazon, but it’s not for the reason you might expect. Leading hoverboard maker Swagway confirmed that the online retailer requested that companies that manufacture the popular, self-balancing, motori-

Swagway is the leading maker of hoverboards. zed two-wheeled scooters prove they are safe to use. The removal of hoverboards follow growing concerns over whether the devices — arguably

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the hottest holiday gift — present serious safety issues. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating at least 11 reports of fires related to

hoverboards in 10 states in the past year, Deputy Director Patty Davis said. The commission recommends consumers not charge hoverboards before wrapping them. “You don’t want a fully charged hoverboard in a box sitting under your tree until Christmas,” she said. Counterfeit hoverboards are also a concern. U.S. Customs and Border Protection had seized 164 hoverboards with fake batteries or other counterfeit marks as of this week, the agency said. The USA’s largest airlines — American, Delta, Southwest and United — banned hoverboards

from flights because the devices use lithium-ion batteries, making them dangerous to transport. Delta said Thursday it found that the strength of the batteries often exceeds government limits for what’s allowed on planes. “These batteries can spontaneously overheat and pose a firehazard risk,” Delta said. According to Swagway, Amazon started pulling some hoverboards from its site. “We applaud Amazon for taking these steps to weed out the low-quality boards,” Swagway said. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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TRUMP 26 weeks that changed the race

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WEEK 6 ‘THE BEST WAY TO WIN IS TO WIN AS A REPUBLICAN’

After a history of past flirtations with a presidential bid, Donald Trump officially throws his hat into the ring for the GOP nomination June 16. His rambling announcement speech at Trump Tower in New York draws the most attention for his comments on Mexican immigrants: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Trump refuses to apologize to McCain the day after his “war hero” remarks. He slams the senator in an op-ed in USA TODAY: “The reality is that John McCain the politician has made America less safe, sent our brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign adventures, covered up for President Obama with the VA scandal and has spent most of his time in the Senate pushing amnesty.” He makes an appearance on MSNBC on July 24 and addresses a third-party bid: “The best way to win is to win as a Republican. I do not want to do independent at all. Now if I’m treated poorly, that’s one thing. If I’m treated well and with great respect and don’t win, I would not do that. But if I’m treated poorly, I will do it.”

WEEK 2 TRUMP DUMPED

On June 25, Spanish-language network Univision dumps Trump’s Miss Universe pageant in response to his comments on Mexican immigrants.

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Trump tries to clarify his remarks on CNN’s “State of the Union” on June 28: “I like Mexico. I love the Mexican people. I do business with the Mexican people. But you have people coming through the border that are from all over. And they’re bad. They’re really bad.” The fallout continues June 29, when NBC/Universal cuts off its business relationship with Trump. The next day, Trump sues Univision for $500 million over its decision to drop its telecast of the Miss USA pageant.

WEEK 4 BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL

On July 8 and 9, celebrity chefs José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian back out of deals to open restaurants in Trump’s new D.C. hotel. Trump takes his immigration message to Phoenix on July 11, telling the crowd, “I respect Mexico greatly as a country, but the problem we have is that their leaders are much smarter, sharper and more cunning than our leaders, and they’re killing us at the border.”

15%

9 WEEK 7 TRUMP’S SUPPORTERS STICK WITH HIM

Despite a tumultuous week after the McCain flap, Trump still sits atop the GOP field in polls released July 26. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tells NBC’s “Today” 6 show July 27 that he doesn’t see Trump running for president as an independent in 2016.

WEEK 8 ‘BLOOD COMING OUT OF HER WHEREVER’

On Aug. 6, Trump and the other nine candidates who ranked in the top 10 of polls meet at last in the Fox News debate. In the debate’s opening moments, Trump signals that he won’t rule out an independent bid. Trump’s remarks regarding women prove controversial in

WEEK 5 ‘I LIKE PEOPLE THAT WEREN’T CAPTURED’

10%

“The Huffington Post” announces its coverage of Trump will be handled by its entertainment section, not its politics team. The week is capped off with the 4 most attention-grabbing moment of the campaign so far: Trump’s comments on Sen. John McCain at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa: “He’s not a war hero — he’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”

TRUMP’S POPULARITY

USA TODAY’s Poll Tracker aggregates results of election polls: 3.2%

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the days ahead. The next night, Trump continues his withering criticism of debate moderator Megyn Kelly: “Well, I just don’t respect her as a journalist. I don’t think she’s very good. I think she’s highly overrated. … She starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions, and you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever. She was, in my opinion, she was off-base.”

WEEK 9 ‘I SAID NOTHING WRONG WHATSOEVER’

Trump declines to apologize for his comments about Kelly. He tells CNN’s “State of the Union,” “I said nothing wrong whatsoever” in one of several Sunday appearances Aug. 9.

WEEK 10 ‘THE GREATEST WALL THAT YOU’VE EVER SEEN’

Trump releases his immigration plan Aug. 16: “1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border. 2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our constitutional system of government must be enforced. 3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.”

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Trump continues his attacks on Kelly on 20 Aug. 24 as she returned to her show after a vacation. Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes fires back the next day, calling on Trump to apologize. In an Iowa news confer17 15 ence Aug. 26, Trump has 16 Univision anchor Jorge Ramos booted out by security. Ramos WEEK 16 tried to ask Trump questions OUTSIDERS ON TOP about immigration, and Trump A Sept. 27 NBC News/“Wall Street 10 insisted he hadn’t called on Journal” poll has Trump and Ben Ramos yet. Carson in a virtual tie. Trump shows a more commanding lead in a USA WEEK 12 TODAY/Suffolk University Poll THE LOYALTY PLEDGE released three days later, in which The biggest news of the week the “outsider” candidates domfollowing Jeb Bush vs. Trump is inate. Trump’s signing of the GOP loyalty pledge, in which he promWEEK 17 ises to back the Republican presidential nominee if it is not ‘I’M NOT GETTING OUT — him: “I have no intention of I’M GOING TO WIN’ changing my mind. I see no In a “New York Times” interview circumstances under which I published Oct. 5, Trump says would tear up that pledge.” ratings would plummet without Leading into Labor Day weekhim. “There’d be a major collapse end, Trump botches his answers of the race, and there’d be a major to foreign policy questions durcollapse of television ratings. ... It ing a radio interview with Hugh would become a depression in Hewitt; he accuses Hewitt of television.” Amid rumors that he “gotcha” questioning. could exit the race early, Trump tells CNN, “I’m not getting out — I’m WEEK 13 going to win.”

‘LOOK AT THAT FACE!’

Trump hits the nation’s capital Sept. 9, joining fellow candidate Ted Cruz and Tea Party supporters to denounce the Iran nuclear deal. “We are led by very, very stupid people,” he tells the crowd. Later that day, “Rolling Stone” publishes an article that describes Trump mocking fellow candidate Carly Fiorina’s looks: “When the anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction to Trump’s momentum, Trump’s expression sours as the camera bores in on Fiorina. ‘Look at that face!’ he cries. ‘Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!’ ”

WEEK 14 ‘NO-WIN SITUATION’

The day after the debate Sept. 16, Trump faces a question from an audience member at a New Hampshire town hall: “We got a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. We know he’s not even an American. (Trump: “We need this question.”) But anyway. We have training camps brewing where they want to kill us. That’s my question. When can we get rid of them?” Trump, not addressing what the man said about Obama, replies: “We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things. A lot of people are saying that. A lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We’re going to be looking into that and plenty of other things.”

WEEK 15 TARGETING RUBIO

Marco Rubio becomes the latest target Sept. 23, when Trump calls the senator a “lightweight,” says he’s “overly ambitious, too young” and mocks his sweating. Rubio fires back the next day, calling Trump “touchy” and “insecure.”

WEEK 18 ‘THE WORLD TRADE CENTER CAME DOWN’

In a Bloomberg interview released Oct. 16, Trump slams George W. Bush for the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks on his watch. “I think I have a bigger heart than all of them. I think I’m much more competent than all of them. When you talk about George Bush, I mean — say what you want — the World Trade Center came down during his time.”

WEEK 19 INTERN AT FAULT

A Quinnipiac poll Oct. 22 shows Carson passing Trump in Iowa. “It’s Ben Carson’s turn in the spotlight,” says Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the poll. Hours after the release, Trump’s Twitter account retweets a tweet that riles up Iowans. “#BenCarson is now leading in the #polls in #Iowa... Too much #Monsanto in the #corn creates issues in the brain?” it said. Trump goes on to blame the retweet on a “young intern.”

WEEK 20 ‘TREMENDOUS ENERGY’

After Carson’s rise in the polls, Trump continues his attacks on the new Iowa front-runner. “Ben Carson is super low energy, right?” Trump says on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Oct. 25. “Super low energy. We need tremendous energy.” The Republican debate comes and goes Oct. 28 without fireworks between the two.

WEEK 21 RUBIO, AGAIN

Another round of Trump vs. Rubio begins Nov. 3, when Trump attacks the Florida senator on his immigration stance, missed votes in the Senate and personal finances. Trump caps off the week by hosting “Saturday Night Live,” boosting the show to its best ratings in almost four years.

WEEK 22 DRAMATIC RE-ENACTMENT

At a campaign stop Nov. 12 in Iowa, Trump re-enacts the scene of Carson attempting to stab a friend: “I have a belt. Somebody hits me with a knife, it’s going in because the belt moves 22 this way. ... It moves that way.”

WEEK 23 NATIONAL SECURITY

Amid the post-Paris attacks and escalation of the debate over Syrian refugees in the USA, Trump tells NBC News about a mandatory database to track Muslims: “I would certainly implement that. Absolutely.”

WEEK 24 ‘THOUSANDS ... WERE CHEERING’

In an appearance Nov. 22 on ABC’s “This Week,” Trump repeats his widely discredited claim about seeing television footage of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the fall of the World Trade Center on 9/11. “Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.”

WEEK 25 $5 MILLION THREAT

During a campaign stop Nov. 30 in Georgia, Trump throws out the idea that he’ll skip the next debate unless CNN gives him $5 million (which he said he’d donate to “Wounded Warriors or the vets”). Three days later — and several hours after CNN President Jeff Zucker proclaimed, “We do not pay candidates to appear at debates” — Trump changes his tune.

WEEK 26 ‘A SHUTDOWN OF MUSLIMS’

Dec. 7 brings another statement that elicits widespread condemnation: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

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Merkel vows to cap refugees in Germany

Supporters of Pu Zhiqiang hold a placard that reads, “Pu Zhiqiang, innocent” during a demonstration Monday in Beijing.

Her party, polls put pressure for limits Kim Hjelmgaard USA TODAY

Chancellor Angela Merkel promised Monday to curb the wave of refugees entering Germany, even as she defended her government’s generous welcome for 1 million asylum-seekers who have been admitted this year. “We want to and we will palpably reduce the number of refugees, because it’s in everyone’s interest,” Merkel said to a standing ovation in a speech to her Christian Democratic Union at its annual conference in Karlsruhe in southern Germany. GETTY IMAGES The German Merkel leader has been under pressure from her centerright party and other members of her coalition government to cap the influx of migrants fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Eritrea and elsewhere. Europe’s wealthiest nation has admitted far more refugees than any other country in Europe. When measured as a percentage of the population, only Sweden has taken in more. Recent polls conducted for German media show that 62% of Germans want Merkel to put a fixed limit on refugees. Merkel, who did not specify any limits on admitting future refugees, struck a defiant tone over her decision this year to open Germany’s borders to the masses who are fleeing conflict zones. “It’s part of the identity of our country to do great things,” she said. Merkel said the best way to ensure that reduction is to push a European Union strategy of equitably distributing refugees across the bloc’s 28 members. BERLIN

China puts human rights lawyer on trial Accused of ‘picking quarrels’ for social-media comments Hannah Gardner

Special for USA TODAY BEIJING An outspoken Chinese human rights lawyer went on trial Monday for comments he posted on social media that criticized the ruling Communist government. The trial of Pu Zhiqiang, who faces up to eight years in prison, is sure to have a chilling effect on other rights activists who criticize the government, which has been cracking down on dissent. Pu, 50, has been in custody for 19 months on charges of “picking quarrels,” “provoking trouble” and

FAA begins drone registry Dec. 21 Agency braces for a rise in use of devices; failure to register for $5 could result in fines or criminal penalties such as prison

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Nearly all owners of remotecontrolled aircraft across the USA will have to register hundreds of thousands of drones with the Federal Aviation Administration starting Dec. 21. The owner will have to register a name, a physical address and an email address with the FAA, the agency said Monday. The decision follows a recommendation Nov. 21 by a task force of manufacturers, retailers, pilots and hobbyists. Existing owners will have to register by Feb. 19, 2016, and new buyers will have to register before their first flight. The registry for drones weighing at least 9 ounces marks the latest balancing act for federal regulators who are trying to keep the skies safe as drones increasingly share airspace with planes. Industry groups have estimated that hundreds of thousands already have been sold, with many more on the way as holiday gifts. The registration will cost $5 for an unlimited number of aircraft and will be valid for three years. The credit-card transaction will help confirm the owner’s identity, and the fee will be refunded during the first month to encourage early registration.

Industry groups estimate that hundreds of thousands of drones already have been sold, with many more on the way as gifts.

A remotecontrolled drone such as this one would have to be registered with the FAA under new rules.

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Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang faces up to eight years in prison.

“inciting ethnic hatred” in a series of posts he made on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging service. The government is particularly sensitive to critical social media posts that could go viral. Pu denied the charges at Monday’s three-hour, closed-door hearing at Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court, according to his defense attorney. It was not clear when a verdict and sentence would be issued. Mo Shaoping, Pu’s lawyer, said in an interview after the trial that his client doesn’t deny writing the posts, but that the court had to prove intent or damage. “This is really a case of freedom of expression, in which no harm to anyone has been proven,” Mo said. As the trial was proceeding, police and security officials scuffled with his supporters, journalists

“Lawyers and civil society leaders such as Mr. Pu ... should be allowed to contribute to the building of a prosperous and stable China.” Dan Biers, deputy political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing

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and Western diplomats outside the courthouse. “Lawyers and civil society leaders such as Mr. Pu should not be subject to continuing repression, but should be allowed to contribute to the building of a prosperous and stable China,” Dan Biers, a deputy political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, said. The allegations against Pu relate to seven posts he made on Sina Weibo between 2011 and early 2014. In one, he questions whether China’s Communist government amounted to more than “secrecy, cheating, passing the buck (and) delay.” Since coming to power in late 2012, President Xi Jinping has spearheaded a crackdown on freedom of expression, civil activists and human rights lawyers. Lawyers, legal associates and family members have been detained, new laws require online political discussions to be more “positive,” and last month, party members were banned from criticizing party policy. Pu previously represented Ai Weiwei, a dissident artist who now lives in Berlin, in a tax-evasion case that was widely viewed as politically motivated.

Each aircraft must be marked with a unique number. The goal is to help authorities track down an owner if a drone collides with another aircraft, flies too high or GET YOUR MASKS ON encroaches on an airport. “My message to unmanned aircraft operators is pretty simple: It is in your best interest to register early,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said. The website for registration, www.faa.gov/uas/registration, is still being tested. The FAA receives about 100 reports per month from aircraft pilots who said they spotted drones flying near them. Hobbyists who scrutinized the records say many of the reports involve objects that aren’t drones or that involve drones following the rules. ARMEND NIMANI, AFP/GETTY IMAGES Penalties for failing to register Kosovo police wear gas masks Monday after opposition lawcould reach $27,500 in civil fines and $250,000 and three years in makers released tear gas in the Parliament building in Pristina prison for criminal penalties. Mi- to protest the country’s agreements made with Serbia. chael Whitaker, deputy adminisON 3RD ANNIVERSARY, QUIET trator of FAA, said initial efforts AUTISM, ANTIDEPRESSANTS REMEMBRANCE IN CONN. will be to get everyone signed up DURING PREGNANCY LINKED rather than to punish owners. In a new study, women who State and U.S. flags across ConCommercial drones, for purtook antidepressants in the last necticut flew at half-staff Monday poses such as aerial photography or utility inspections, already are six months of pregnancy were to honor the 20 children and six registered when operators get 87% more likely to have a child school staffers fatally shot at later diagnosed with autism. Doc- Sandy Hook Elementary in Newpermission to fly from the FAA. tors saw no increase in autism town three years ago. Dave Mathewson, executive diThe town and the school disrector of the Academy of Model rates in women who took medication for depression in the first trict were handling the anniverAeronautics, which represents 185,000 hobbyists and participat- three months of pregnancy, ac- sary in a mostly low-key manner. ed in the task force, said educa- cording to the study, published The Newtown Public School Distion programs are the way to online Monday in JAMA trict website made no mention of the anniversary Monday mornensure safety rather than a regis- Pediatrics. In the study, the overall rate of ing. The town’s website included try that will create “an unnecessary burden” on the group. “AMA autism was 0.7%; that rate rose to a brief mention of an Interfaith is disappointed with the new rule 1.2% among women who took Gathering for Prayer and Comantidepressants in the second or fort set for 7 p.m. at a local for (drone) registration,” he said. — John Bacon third trimester. — Liz Szabo church.

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CORKER EARNED MILLIONS MORE THAN FIRST REPORTED

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Sen. Bob Corker earned millions more from investments than he previously disclosed, according to documents his office filed Friday. The amended disclosures include new sources of income and higher minimum amounts for the potential value of Corker’s income and transactions. Senators are required to report assets and income only in broad ranges, but a conservative estimate compiled by The Wall Street Journal shows the Tennessee Republican earned significantly more than what he’s reported in the past. Corker apologized for what he called “filing errors.” — Mary Troyan

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uA Baltimore jury deliberated the fate of Officer William Porter, charged in connection with the April death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. Porter is charged with manslaughter, assault, misconduct and reckless endangerment. uConsumers anxious to beat the midnight Tuesday deadline to enroll on the federal insurance exchange overwhelmed call center lines Monday. Some were being asked to leave their names so they could be called back after the deadline. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said they would be able to have coverage effective Jan. 1 if they were in line before the deadline.

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA ALABAMA Huntsville: The

state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on state officials to denounce Ku Klux Klan recruiting efforts that urge people to join together to fight the “spread of Islam in our country,” AL.com reported. ALASKA Juneau: Christmas is just around the corner, and St. Vincent de Paul implored the community to participate in its annual Adopt-a-Family program, which gives presents to children whose families can’t otherwise afford them. Several families that signed up for the program had not been adopted, the Empire reported.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The state

badly lags other places in overall small-business ownership, although startup efforts are relatively brisk, according to a national analysis by the Kauffman Foundation cited by The Arizona Republic. ARKANSAS Little Rock: Ap-

peals court judges reversed and dismissed the drunken-driving conviction of Jeremy Whalen in 2012 because they said it resulted from an unconstitutional sobriety checkpoint, ArkansasOnline reported.

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President Jeff Fox told the Idaho Board of Education that more than 4,000 high school students from 32 Idaho counties are expected to take dual-credit classes this school year.

Metro Blue Line was suspended after a pedestrian was found dead under the train, the Los Angeles Times reported.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The Tribune’s Turn It Up culled the best albums from the city’s independent music scene, including Star Wars by Wilco and Jura by the MiniMekons and Robbie Fulks.

COLORADO Fort Collins: Ef-

INDIANA Indianapolis: More

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The

forts to establish a “quiet zone” in downtown Fort Collins free of blaring train horns have been derailed by federal regulators, the Coloradoan reported.

CONNECTICUT Glastonbury:

The local chamber of commerce was criticized after its annual fundraising calendar featured a young boy appearing to pose without a shirt or pants alongside nearly nude male real estate agents, the Hartford Courant reported. DELAWARE Wilmington: Lead-

ers and parents at Delaware Military Academy say a lack of capital funding is hampering their ability to grow and improve, The News Journal reported. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Two

Rivers Public Charter School filed a lawsuit against anti-abortion protesters, saying their efforts to stop construction of a Planned Parenthood next door bother students, The Washington Post reported. FLORIDA Cape Canaveral: A “topping off” ceremony last week saw a beam welded to the highest point of the new tower that will enable astronauts to board Boeing crew capsules at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41, Florida Today reported. The four astronauts NASA has selected to fly test flights by new commercial capsules — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon — signed the 15-foot-long, 650pound beam before it was hoisted into position about 200 feet up.

than 100 people attended a prayer event and Orange Walk organized by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Saturday marking the upcoming third anniversary of the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in which 26 people were killed in Newtown, Conn., The Indianapolis Star reported.

IOWA Iowa City: Police say an

estranged grandmother used a fake beard to sneak into a school cafeteria and give her grandson gifts, the Press-Citizen reported. KANSAS Hutchinson: Reno

County District Attorney Keith Schroeder says the gun that killed Kaden Nagel, 3, belonged to “a friend” of someone at the apartment where deputy Andrew Nagel was living temporarily, The Wichita Eagle reported.

KENTUCKY Franklin: A Ger-

man-owned automotive parts maker is planning to build a $193.7 million foundry and production facility in Franklin, the Bowling Green Daily News reported. The Fritz Winter North America LP facility expects to bring 343 jobs to the area.

Constitution offered gift suggestions “that say Georgia,” such as Sweet Auburn desserts, fudge from the Monastery of the Holy Spirit and Pearson Farm pecans.

HAWAII Honolulu: Law enforce-

ment officials can’t use medical marijuana, even if they have a prescription. Hawaii News Now reported that a Honolulu firefighter and an officer were given one strike after they explained their failed drug tests by presenting medical marijuana cards. IDAHO Twin Falls: About 30%

of students at the College of Southern Idaho are still in high school, The Times-News reported.

PENNSYLVANIA Canton: A bus

accident sent almost two dozen people to hospitals, but no passengers were seriously injured.

RHODE ISLAND Johnston:

WPRI-TV reported that Johnston High School science teacher Greg Russo, 57, was charged with embezzlement after allegedly putting his name on checks meant for school activities. SPENCER PLATT, GETTY IMAGES

A woman jogs near the Manhattan Bridge in New York on Monday. The city saw unseasonably warm temperatures. seen plenty of cold and snow this month. Over the weekend, while drivers fumed, ski areas in California, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho welcomed a winter storm that brought 20 inches of snow to many locations, weather.com reported. Normally snowy Green Bay picked up more than an inch of rain late Sunday and Monday, causing street flooding but otherwise no widespread problems, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette. In the East, dozens more records were set across 18 states and Gloucester, Massachusetts; and Jan. 6 here. MARYLAND Salisbury: Wicomico High School unveiled the Seidel Memorial Scoreboard last week, bought by money donated by Weather Channel meteorologist and 1975 Wi-Hi graduate Mike Seidel, who credited his father for teaching him to give back to the community, The Daily Times reported. MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A group of Northeastern University faculty members are speaking out against the school’s plan to arm campus police with semiautomatic rifles, The Boston Globe reported. MICHIGAN Detroit: A year after

Detroit exited its historic bankruptcy, residents say life in the Motor City has improved and a solid majority believe the city is moving in the right direction. In a wide-ranging poll of opinions commissioned by the Free Press, Detroit residents gave high marks to Mayor Mike Duggan and an even higher approval rating to Police Chief James Craig. MINNESOTA St. Paul: Minneso-

tans have until Dec. 28 to enroll through MNsure, the state’s health insurance exchange, and have their plan take effect at the start of the new year.

MISSISSIPPI Tupelo: Polyurethane foam maker Foamcraft is expanding and will add 40 jobs here. MISSOURI Springfield: A book

checked out from a local library 37 years ago is back after the borrower deposited it into an outdoor book drop with an apology note and $6 to cover late fees, the Springfield News-Leader reported. The book, which explores whether the Bermuda Triangle exists, was due back Nov. 29, 1978, but didn’t make it back to the library until this week.

MONTANA Havre: The Montana Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a pedestrian hit by a pickup truck about 6 miles south of here, KFBB-TV reported.

GEORGIA Atlanta: The Journal-

LOUISIANA New Orleans: GQ

named Meyer the Hatter, the Crescent City’s beloved 121-year hat shop, one of “The Best Specialty Shops in the Country,” The Times-Picayune reported. MAINE Augusta: Interstate

regulators will hold hearings for fishermen throughout New England about a plan to amend some of the rules for Atlantic herring fishing. The hearings will take place on Jan. 4 in Narragansett, R.I.; Jan. 5 in Portsmouth, N.H.

OREGON Eugene: The Register-

Guard reported that a Lane County jury deliberated for less than four hours before finding Zachary Beauchamp guilty of first-degree manslaughter in the death of 17-year-old Justin Gardner.

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A freakish December heat wave has shattered more than 1,000 high temperature records in the central and eastern U.S. so far this month, and after a brief weekend cool-down, the warmth will likely return in time for Christmas. “Another big surge of warmth is in store for the week of Christmas in the eastern U.S.,” AccuWeather meteorologist Paul Pastelok said. “A number of locations in the East could be looking at highs well into the 60s to near 70 on Christmas Day.” This does not bode well for folks in the Northeast and MidAtlantic dreaming of a white Christmas, nor for ski areas. As of Monday, only 3% of the Northeast was snow-covered, compared with 81% on this date last year, according to the National Weather Service. Of the dozens of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic ski areas listed on the Ski Central website, only a handful are open. Buffalo remained snowless on Monday, marking the longest the city has gone in a snow season without receiving its first measurable snow, weather.com reported. Meanwhile, the West has

ture that will allow the Army post to clean up wastewater effluent and use it on the post, The Journal Record reported.

NEBRASKA Omaha: A 19-yearold skateboarder is recovering after being hit by a police cruiser. NEVADA Las Vegas: Police are investigating the death of a 42year-old woman who was struck by a pickup while walking across the Boulder Highway. NEW HAMPSHIRE Keene: The

Southwest Regional Planning Commission and other partners are examining the impact of the National Safe Routes to School program, which has been implemented in here and Marlborough

Monday as temperatures soared as much as 30 degrees above average. The weather this past weekend in many locations was more typical of October than December, AccuWeather meteorologist Brett Rathbun said. Some of the temperatures broke records that had been set in the 1870s and 1880s, according to AccuWeather. The warmth is primarily due to the impacts of climate troublemaker El Niño, which brings milder-than-average weather to much of the nation. and is being developed in Hinsdale. The nationwide program that encourages children to bike or walk to school.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville:

Greenville County sheriff’s deputy Harold Anthony Robinson, 32, was suspended a week without pay after an investigation concluded he was speeding when he struck moped rider Alan Craig Williams, 47, from behind, killing him in June, The Greenville News reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: City-owned snowplows are again displaying some religious symbolism, the Argus Leader reported. But last year’s debate about student-painted religious themes seems to have quieted down. TENNESSEE Nashville: The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is warning residents of a telephone scam in which a person claims to be connected to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, The Tennessean reported. TEXAS Mount Vernon: Powerful thunderstorms caused some damage and injured at least two residents last weekend. UTAH Salt Lake City: Uber launched a first-in-the-nation service, called uberSKI, in Utah, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. It offers rides in cars that have all-wheel drive and the ability to carry skis and snowboards.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: A group

of black mayors in the state are calling for a boycott of Donald Trump’s businesses after the Republican presidential candidate suggested a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., NJ.com reported.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque:

The Santa Ana Pueblo-owned Tamaya Enterprises is giving the University of New Mexico $1 million over the next 10 years for naming rights to its baseball field, which will be named Santa Ana Star Field, the Albuquerque Journal reported. NEW YORK Gardiner: A York-

town school band teacher who was arrested on child pornography charges in October was killed in an apparent hiking accident at Mohonk Preserve in Ulster County, The Journal News reported.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Wake Tech President Stephen Scott stripped off his coat and tie to test a “FitDesk,” which merges an exercise bike and desk into a healthy study machine. Two of the contraptions were installed in the new library at the Northern Wake Campus, The News & Observer reported. NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: Patients of the Sanford Medical Centers in Bismarck and here can now watch the San Diego Zoo Kids channel during their stays at the facilities. The television network features live feeds from the zoo’s animal cams and other special shows. OHIO Cincinnati: Planned

Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit Sunday to “protect abortion access” in Ohio following Attorney General Mike DeWine’s report that facilities in Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland improperly disposed of fetal remains, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. OKLAHOMA Norman: Fort Sill is moving ahead with the first water reuse project in the state. Col. Glenn Waters said construction is underway on infrastruc-

VERMONT Highgate: A pony

here was found dead in a pasture from a muzzleloader bullet wound this week, and investigators are looking into the circumstances surrounding the animal’s death, Burlington Free Press reported. VIRGINIA Richmond: Girija Dasmahapatra, a former Virginia Commonwealth University cancer researcher, falsified lab results that were reported in 11 published studies, a federal investigation found, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. WASHINGTON Everett: The

Snohomish County Sheriff’s office is investigating a shooting at a house party that left one man seriously injured, KOMO-TV reported. WEST VIRGINIA St. Albans: For community theater groups, giant productions are harder to mount with less space and tight budgets. The Alban Arts Center wanted to put on a stage production of Frank Capra’s holiday film classic It’s a Wonderful Life, but the troupe opted to put on a radio production of the play, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. WISCONSIN Oshkosh: Hundreds of people paid their respects Sunday to Michael “ML” Funk, 60, who died Dec. 5 after he was shot by police. Police said he had a gun and did not obey commands to put the weapon down, Appleton Post-Crescent reported. WYOMING Casper: The state’s

gross domestic product shrank 2.3% in the second quarter after a 6.1% drop during the first three months of the year, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.

Compiled by Tim Wendel, Nicole Gill and Jonathan Briggs, with Carolyn Cerbin, Mike Gottschamer, Ben Sheffler and Nichelle Smith. Design by Karen Taylor. Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.

NEWS MONEY SPORTS Junk bond sell-off takes ominous turn LIFE AUTOS TRAVEL USA TODAY - L awrence J ournal -W orld TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015

As market worsens, rising defaults could be bad sign for stocks Matt Krantz @mattkrantz USA TODAY

Junk bonds are starting to stink up the place as the sell-off gets worse. The iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond exchange-traded fund (HYG), which tracks the performance of the junk-bond market, fell another 1% Monday. Those losses bring the junk bond market measure down 4.1% over the past week and off a vicious 14.4% from the 52-week high

notched on Feb. 26. The rapid and worsening selloff is a growing concern for stock investors because junk bonds and stocks tend to generally move in the same direction. Mounting concerns about rising defaults by junk-rated companies — those with the lowest credit ratings — are stoking fears things could get worse before they get better. “We haven’t reached full-fledged panic, but it’s approaching,” says Marilyn Cohen of Envision Capital Management. A number of factors are putting the junk-bond market in a world of hurt and causing investors to worry, including: uRising default rates. The default rate on corporate bonds with the lowest credit ratings are

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A trader takes a breather on the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks and junk bonds tend to move in the same direction.

expected to rise to 3.3% by September 2016, up dramatically from the 2.5% default rate this past September, says Diane Vazza of Standard & Poor’s. Although a 3.3% default rate isn’t particular-

ly high, investors have grown used to super-low default rates. Just 1.6% of speculative-rated bonds defaulted in the 12 months ended in September 2014, Vazza says. “There’s a lot of nervousness right now,” Vazza says. uCommodity implosion. Much of the pain in the junk bond market has come from commodity, energy and metals issuers, Vazza says. Plummeting commodity prices have made many companies in these sectors unable to service their debt. There are 100 U.S. companies S&P says are most at risk of default. So far, 40% of those “weakest links” are in commodities, energy and metals, Vazza says. This is a major scare given about a third of the junk-bond market is

in these sectors. uBlowout of spreads. Investors are getting so nervous about junk bonds, they’re demanding higher returns. Junk bond yields are now 7.1 percentage points higher than government securities with comparable maturities — up from 5.3 percentage points a year ago, according to data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. That raises borrowing costs for these companies, which turns into somewhat of a vicious cycle. As investors demand higher yields, that intensifies the pressure on the entire market, Cohen says. Investors can only wonder how bad the junk bond sell-off will get. “If 2008 taught me something, it’s that anything is possible,” Cohen says.

MONEYLINE SHELL PLANS 2,800 JOB CUTS AS OIL ENDS FREE FALL Shell says it is cutting 2,800 jobs in a prearranged administrative move as plunging oil prices find a floor. The oil giant said in a release Monday that the job cuts, amounting to 3% of its workforce, come as the company finalizes its takeover of Britishbased BG Group. The job reductions are in addition to 7,500 job cuts previously announced. Meanwhile, oil sold on U.S. markets is about a quarter above $36 a barrel, up 1.9%. NORFOLK SOUTHERN REJECTS CANADIAN PACIFIC DEAL Rail giant Norfolk Southern said Monday that its board had unanimously rejected the latest takeover attempt by Canadian Pacific Railway. Last week, Norfolk Southern called the deal “grossly inadequate.” The rejection heightens the tension between Norfolk Southern and Canadian Pacific, which held a conference call featuring its CEO and activist investor Bill Ackman, who suggested “pride” was keeping Norfolk Southern from giving the offer consideration. NATURAL GAS PRICES PLUNGE Mild temperatures have cooled demand for natural gas, which is used to heat homes, sending the price of natural gas down nearly 5% Monday. Natural gas is used to heat more than half of U.S. households. But with temperatures unseasonably high, there’s less demand for it. Temperatures in Chicago, Detroit, New York and Washington have been as much as 25 degrees above normal in the past five days, according to AccuWeather. Shares of natural gas producers, including Chesapeake Energy, Southwestern Energy and Devon Energy Corp., sunk to multiyear lows.

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Jonathan Downey holds a Delta drone on the roof of the Airware offices in San Francisco in July. While initially raising money in 2012, Downey experienced a lot of rejections, but he persevered — careful not to overpromise what he could achieve.

AIRWARE FOUNDER PROVES HE CAN SEE PAST THE HORIZON Drone-software company takes top honors among 10 finalists in USA TODAY competition Bart Jansen USA TODAY

“There are a ton of companies promising the sun and the stars. We try to help companies understand what you’re asking for isn’t quite possible today. But here’s something we can do today.” Jonathan Downey, Airware CEO

The founder of a company navigating the future of drones amid an industry eyeing explosive growth over the next decade was named USA TODAY’s SmallBusiness Innovator of the Year. Jonathan Downey, 32, CEO of San Francisco-based Airware .com, was chosen from among 10 finalists by USA TODAY editors and last year’s winner, Porch.com CEO Matt Ehrlichman. “I really appreciate the recognition,” said Downey, whose staff has grown to nearly 90 workers and could possibly double in 2016. “It’s been a lot of hard work over the past four years, and there’s a lot left to do.” David Callaway, editor in chief of USA TODAY, said editors scoured the country looking not just for unique ideas but great timing. “Jonathan Downey’s Airware is not just an example of finding a demand to fill, but seeing the demand before it even exists,” he said. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, an industry advocacy group, projects 70,000 jobs will be created with $13.6 billion in economic activity during the first three years after the Federal Aviation Administration finalizes its regulations for drones to share the skies with passenger planes. The completion of those rules is expected in mid-2016, and in the meantime the agency has approved more than 2,000 permits for commercial purposes such as aerial photography, utilities in-

spection and agriculture monitoring. Airware has three major facets: navigation software aboard drones; software in tablets to automatically guide the aircraft and monitor it in flight; and cloud services to store and manage the information that drones gather. The company released its cloud platform in August so that, for example, a company could inspect its open-air mines and then compare the previous footage to see how much has been excavated. Or a cellphone company could check recent footage to confirm whether a piece of equipment was installed in the right position, rather than sending a crewmember back up a ladder to take a look. The advantage to using drones for these dangerous tasks is apparent from the 13 worker deaths on communications towers during 2013 and another 12 last year, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. “There are many benefits to using it,” Downey said. “It’s very easy for them to do their operations in the field, with their data then being sent back to the cloud and then sharing within the organization.” During 2014, Airware raised more than $40 million in venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, First Round Capital, Google Ventures, GE Ventures and Intel Capital. GE Ventures was the company’s first large customer, but Delta Drone in France, Altavian in Florida, Allied Drones in California and Drone America in Nevada are also using the platform. Now Airware is working under contract with Fortune 500 companies in insurance, utilities and telecommunications industries.

MORE ABOUT AIRWARE Launched: 2011 No. of employees: Nearly 90 Based: San Francisco What it does: Develops operating system, software, hardware and cloud services for commercial drones Nuggets: uSix certified pilots uLaunched Commercial Defense Fund to support development of drone technology uFounder Jonathan Downey and other Boeing team members helped develop the A160T Hummingbird, a fully autonomous, 6,500pound helicopter, which broke a record for longest endurance helicopter flight at 18.7 hours.

Downey’s father was a commercial airline pilot and his mother a recreational pilot, and Downey learned how to fly Grand Canyon tours as a summer job. After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he worked at Boeing, where he learned about manufacturing and meeting regulatory requirements. Downey said every entrepreneur must learn step by step how to persuade three or four people to join in what may seem like a crazy quest before gaining the trust of Fortune 500 companies. While initially raising money in 2012, Downey experienced a lot of rejections. But when he ran into those investors a year later and showed that Airware had produced what he promised, that built trust for future investments. The drone industry is crowded and competitive. Downey said another key is to not overpromise. “There are a ton of companies promising the sun and the stars,” Downey said. “We try to help companies understand what you’re asking for isn’t quite possible today. But here’s something we can do today, and it has value itself and it gets you a lot closer to the thing that you’re asking for.” Downey has joined the board of Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, which has 7,500 members in government, industry and academia — and Amazon and Google. Airware is also sharing the wealth to spur other developments in the industry, by making $250,000 to $1 million investments in other companies through its commercialdrone fund.com. The third recipient launching this month is Cape Productions of Redwood City, Calif., which will film professionally edited videos of skiers hitting the slopes across North America.

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AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

The Federal Reserve kicks off its two-day meeting Tuesday, and futures are pricing in a roughly 80% chance the Fed will hike interest rates for the first time since 2006. But there are two risks: 1) Fed increases rates and hints that a more aggressive rate-hike plan and pace is in the cards. 2) Fed punts and doesn’t hike rates, just as it did in October, citing international turbulence. Scenario No. 1 would suggest a less-dovish, less-friendly Fed. Translation: more coming rate hikes than investors are now positioned for. The market is pricing in a quarter-point hike Wednesday and two quarter-point moves in 2016. If Wall Street thinks four or more hikes are on the horizon

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next year, it will change the market’s investment calculus. “We worry the Fed may not be able to sound dovish enough to placate markets,” Michael Hanson of Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a report. Scenario No. 2 could create a situation where investors fear the Fed knows something the market does not — and that economic risks to the downside are greater than feared. Says Luke Bartholomew at Aberdeen Asset Management: “The Fed will have made a spectacular hash of things if they don’t hike this week.” As the Fed decision looms, markets are rocky. Last week, U.S. stocks fell nearly 4%. Adding to the angst: a meltdown in the high-yield bond market, where investors are dumping “junk” bonds tied to energy firms, where default fears are rising amid oil’s drop to seven-year lows.

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Tenet Healthcare (THC) Hospital chain shares fall as Fed rate hike looms.

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Newell Rubbermaid (NWL) Dips as agrees to buy rival Jarden.

42.15

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The biotechnology company, fo- $2.5 cused on the development of therapies for kidney disease, got Food and Drug Administration clearance to start clinical trials for its $1.0 Nov. 16 acute kidney injury treatment.

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Prev. .6566 1.3734 6.4547 .9097 120.77 17.3816

6 mo. ago .6430 1.2325 6.2105 .8882 123.46 15.4081

Yr. ago .6367 1.1568 6.1874 .8031 118.75 14.7182

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%Chg. -1.9% -0.7% -1.8% -1.3% -0.2%

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Apple shares fell hard again Monday — dipping below $110 for the first time since October — marking the stock’s latest failure and a new push toward its lows. Shares of Apple on Monday traded as low as $109.79 Monday before recovering to close down 0.6% at $112.48 as concerns mount over slipping smartphones sales as the market matures. Shares of the gadget maker have been disappointing despite investors’ high hopes its gadgets would

HOW IT COMPARES Apple’s shares are lagging amid a big tech-stock rally: Company YTD % change Netflix 140.9% Amazon 108.1% Alphabet 40.5% Facebook 31.6% Microsoft 16.8% Apple 0.2% SOURCES S&P CAPITAL IQ, USA TODAY

ing it. More than $123 billion in market value has been erased since shares hit their high at $134.54 on April 28. Apple is

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So far, following the pack hasn’t paid off in 2015 Q: Who are the ‘Dogs of the Dow’? Matt Krantz

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Investors looking for an easy way to pick a pet stock often target the “Dogs of the Dow.” The strategy isn’t working so well this year, however. The Dogs of the Dow are the 10 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average that ended the year with the highest dividend yield. A stock’s dividend yield is the dividend paid over the past year divided by the stock price. Followers of the Dogs of the Dow buy these stocks at the start of a new year. Dog investors figure that when a stock’s dividend yield is among the highest in the Dow, it’s a compelling value, either because of the dividend or the fact the shares are depressed. Because these are among the most established companies around, investors figure the Dogs’ stock prices are temporarily down in the dumps and will eventually come back. The strategy — which appeals to buyand-hold investors who want to try to beat the market — has paid off in four of the past five years as the Dogs of the Dow have outperformed the Dow, says Bespoke Investment Group. But this year — so far — the dogs aren’t barking. Including Caterpillar’s 28% decline, the average dog is down 4.7% this year, which underperformed the average 1.2% loss by Dow stocks. So sometimes dogs are just dogs.

As phone sales lag, Apple stock sours: $123B vanishes be hot sellers during the holidays. The latest concern to hit Apple shares came Monday after Morgan Stanley cut its outlook for Apple smartphone sales. Morgan Stanley now sees smartphone shipments falling 6% in the current fiscal year. Most of Apple’s revenue comes from smartphones. The failures for the stock are piling up, including: uFailure to retake its high — even amid a massive tech-stock rally. Apple bulls have been talking about the company being worth $1 trillion for years. But lately the company has been destroying more wealth than creat-

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Newell Rubbermaid is buying Jarden in a cash-and-stock deal worth $50 Price: $42.15 about $13.2 billion that will comChg: -$3.13 bine brands such as Paper Mate, % chg: -6.9% Day’s high/low: Sharpie, Elmer’s, Rubbermaid and $40 Graco. Nov. 16 $43.55/$40.12

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worth $627 billion. uFailure to join the techstock rally. The fact Apple’s shares are struggling is even more noticeable given there’s a monster rally raging in shares of most giant tech companies. uFailure to diversify. New products such as the Apple Watch — now in its first holiday season — and Apple Pay have failed to rekindle the excitement for the stock. Apple’s smartphone business is still the source of 66% of Apple’s revenue, says Trefis, which is higher than what it was in 2011 (48%). Investors will have to wait a few weeks to see how

the December quarter looks. But Trefis estimates the smartphone will still be 66% of Apple’s revenue in 2017. uFailure to pull out of the correction. Shares of Apple are down more than 15% from their recent high — putting them squarely in correction territory, broadly defined as a 10% drop from a recent high. The broad Standard & Poor’s 500 isn’t going great but is down only 5% from its high — evading a correction. If the shares drop to $107.63, the stock would be back into a 20% bear market. That’s only $4.85 a share away.

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LIFELINE HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY ADELE FANS The British singer has announced she’ll kick off her North American tour in July 2016 in St. Paul, Minn., and wrap things up in Mexico City in November. It’s Adele’s first tour on this side of the Atlantic since 2011.

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AWARD TRACKER CRITICS’ CHOICE NOMS ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is taking award season by storm: The thriller scored 13 Critics’ Choice Awards nominations, including best picture, best director and best actress for Charlize Theron. Critical favorites ‘Carol,’ ‘The Martian’ and ‘The Revenant’ are close behind with nine noms each.

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT Britian’s Prince Harry stopped by the Mildmay HIV hospital in London Monday, where he cut the cake during the official opening of its new facilities. Harry’s mom, Princess Diana, was a supporter of the hospital.

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Fans collectively freaked out when they saw Han Solo mosey back onto the Millennium Falcon in the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and pronounce “Chewie, we’re home” to his erstwhile best pal. So did the cast of the new movie (in theaters Friday), says co-star Daisy Ridley (as Rey), who is with John Boyega (Finn) the new face of the franchise. “Everything felt special when we were doing it, especially on the Falcon with him.” Even Ford, 73, gruffly acknowledges that he felt comfortable back on the starship where he spent three movies, beginning with 1977’s original Star Wars. At home, though? He won’t go quite that far. “I don’t have that bone in my body, that nostalgia.” When the Star Wars faithful reconnect with Solo in Force Awakens, they’ll find a guy who has “many more rings in the trunk of this tree,” Ford says. The wisecracking cynic who once told Luke Skywalker that “hokey religions and ancient weapons are no NEW

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VISIT LIFE.USATODAY.COM match for a good blaster at your side” has been changed by the reality of Jedi and the Dark Side. “You hope for a character who’s cynical and detached to find some more truth in his life,” says Ford, adding that his job as the galaxy’s resident rogue isn’t the same, either. “I need to change, because otherwise I’m denying the reality of my life. I don’t want to pretend to be 35 years old,” the actor adds, brandishing a smirk as familiar as his blaster. Just as he did nearly 40 years ago, Ford brings a signature quality to Solo, an indescribable “Spencer Tracy-ism,” Force Awakens screenwriter Lawrence

Kasdan says. “He cannot do wrong. He’s so amazing in this movie. He’s very comfortable, very authoritative, supportive of the younger people — he’s a real old-time movie star.” Ford confirms that he thought Han Solo should have died in the original trilogy — but not because he was tired of the character or didn’t want to play him again. “I felt the character could add real emotional gravitas if he were to sacrifice himself as the eternal cynic and the ironic one,” Ford says. “Wouldn’t it be great if he actually sacrificed himself in service of some noble pursuit? That’s the kind of death I was talking about.” He’s glad the Rebel hero is back and so are his legion of fans. However, his passion isn’t worshiping all things Han but instead “finding ways to be useful to the other actors (and) the camera crew. That’s the fun of it for me, which is a completely different thing than the customer or fan experience,” Ford says. “People ask me, ‘Yeah, but don’t you …?’ and I say, ‘Hey, man, does the bus driver want to go for a bus ride on his holiday?’ Not so much. But he loves being the bus driver.”

Harrison Ford’s cynical Han Solo has changed in the nearly 40 years since the original Star Wars.

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Few writers have captured the grief and suffering of combat veterans making the transition from war to home better than journalist Joe Klein. His 1984 book, Payback, traced the lives of five Marines as they struggled to adapt after Vietnam. Now, with Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home, he follows the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan as they fight through guilt, injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. Much has changed between Vietnam and America’s two latest wars. Veterans now have behind them the bulk of public opinion, which Vietnam vets could not count on. But the percentage of Americans who join the military is much smaller than before, leaving fewer people to relate to the demands of service. Much of the veterans’ lot remains the same, however. None BOOK REVIEW RAY LOCKER

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1. “CORE PERFORMANCE ESSENTIALS: The Revolutionary Nutrition and Exercise Plan Adapted for Everyday Use,” by Mark Verstegen, is geared toward beginners and those who haven’t exercised in a while. 2. The Giant Sedona has handlebars that rise up, letting riders sit a little more upright, which can be less intimidating than a more aggressive, forward cycling position. 3. Ad Astra Running, at 16 E. Eighth St., has shoes to fit most any runner or walker. A durable, comfortable pair of running shoes can be one of the most economical pieces of exercise equipment you can buy. 4. The Dagger Zydeco is short and lightweight, which makes it a top choice for beginning kayakers. 5. The NRS Imperial 4 inflatable stand-up paddleboard packs down to the size of a large suitcase, comes with a pump and inflates to its full length of 10.5 feet.

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veryone has to start somewhere. And there’s no time like the holidays to give your loved ones the tools and encouragement they need to start a new activity they’ve always wanted to try but never had the chance. Here are a few ideas for getting the ball rolling (or the kayak floating) for someone who wants to get active.

The basics: Working out Starting a workout routine can be a challenge. It can be an intimidating experience for some would-be exercisers. The International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association reported this month that 73 million Americans used a health club from October 2014 to March 2015. That’s the largest number recorded since 1987, when IHRSA began tracking health club usage in the United States. And that’s a lot of competition for the chest press machine. One way to overcome the intimidation factor may be to gain a little know-how before stepping foot in the gym. Adam Rolf, a physical therapist and athletic trainer with Lawrence Memorial Hospital’s Therapy Services, recommends reading up on exercise for people who are being discharged from physical therapy. “I would recommend a book by Mark Verstegen,” Rolf said. “I really enjoy his book from a couple years back called ‘Core Performance Essentials.’” The book’s full title, “Core Performance Essentials: The Revolutionary Nutrition and Exercise Plan Adapted for Everyday

Use,” sheds light on Rolf’s recommendation. The content is geared toward beginners and anyone who hasn’t exercised in a while. It breaks down fitness essentials into routines that take only 30 minutes and require no special equipment. But even workouts developed by an expert should be approached with care, Rolf said. If the gift recipient hasn’t exercised at all or in a while, “the first thing we as health care providers recommend is making sure your body is safe for exercise by consulting with a physician.” So get that physical, then start getting physical. Gift: Book, “Core Performance Essentials,” by Mark Verstegen Where: Bookstores, Amazon.com Price: Varies; an electronic version for Kindle is $13.99

Like riding a bike You don’t have to be training for the Tour de France to enjoy a spin on a bicycle. While exercisers can ride a (stationary) bike indoors, turning the pedals in the great outdoors may be more satisfying for the person on your list. And getting someone started on a durable, comfortable bicycle doesn’t have to cost thousands of dollars. Jackson Schlotterback, sales associate at Cycle Works, 2121 Kasold Drive, says the store specializes in getting riders started on a quality beginner bike. The store features Giant bicycles, and it has mountain, comfort and city bike models that all start around $359. A new or returning rider might appreciate the positioning of a comfort bike. The Giant Sedona has handlebars that rise up, letting riders sit a little more upright, as well as a

wider saddle and a suspension seat post. “It’s good for paved trails or even commuting,” Schlotterback said. “And sitting up taller is less intimidating.” A helmet is strongly encouraged, and basic models start at $40. Riding at dusk or early in the morning might also necessitate a light on the front and rear of the bike, per Kansas statutes. And for the optimist who hopes to outgrow a beginner-model bike, “We do take trade-ins (at Cycle Works), so if they do get more serious, we would help them out with a nicer bike,” Schlotterback said. Gift: Comfort bike, Giant Sedona; helmet Where: Cycle Works, 2121 Kasold Drive Price: $359; $40+ (tax not included)

One foot in front of the other One of the easiest exercises to outfit for is running. “It’s one of the most cost-effective sports to get into,” said Grant Catloth of Ad Astra Running. “What you need to buy for running, you need to buy for every other sport.” When it comes to running, two things — shoes and support in, well, delicate areas — can make or break a runner’s experience with the sport, Catloth says. The right fit makes for an enjoyable experience, and that will help someone who wants to run come back for more. Rather than buying a pair of shoes or a sports bra for someone, Catloth recommends getting a gift card and having the would-be runner come in for a shoe fitting. “We take people through a gait analysis, we watch them walk barefoot to look Please see GIFTS, page 2C

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Women who have had false-positive results on mammograms may face a greater risk of future breast cancer, according to a new study led by a UNC-Chapel Hill researcher. The findings were published last week in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, which is a journal of the

American Association of Cancer Research. The study analyzed 2.2 million mammograms from 1.3 million U.S. women who ranged in age from 40 to 74. It found that women with a false-positive result who were referred for further imaging had a 39 percent greater chance of developing breast cancer within 10 years, compared with women who had a true negative mam-

mogram. For women who were told to get biopsies after false-positive readings, the increased risk was 76 percent during the subsequent 10-year period. In the United States, 67 percent of women over 40 undergo screening mammography every year or two. If a radiologist spots suspicious tissue, a patient will be referred for further imaging or a biopsy, depending on

the level of concern. False-positive readings on mammograms are fairly common, said the study’s lead researcher, Louise Henderson, assistant professor of radiology at the UNC School of Medicine and researcher at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Ten percent to 16 percent of mammograms generate a false-positive result. If screened every

year or two, about half of women can expect a false-positive result across 10 mammograms, Henderson said. “For women, we recognize that any increase in risk is worrisome for them, but we don’t want women to be overtly concerned, because the absolute risk is actually fairly small,” Henderson said. Please see RISK, page 2C

Dear Dr. Wes and Gabe: I read your book on ADHD and it was really helpful. You suggest using technology to help teens and young adults organize themselves to learn, but our experience is the opposite. If we give our middle-school son a computer or tablet, he doesn’t do his work. He gets online or plays a game. We have to stand over him to be sure he’s on task. This year our son’s school started using a more tech-focused classroom. So far this has turned out just as badly. Wes: I was such an early tech adopter that a 1981 model of my first computer is now in the Smithsonian. My daughter began using her own personal iPad in middle school the first week they came out and it saved her academic career in much the way Gabe describes below. Yet my thinking on this has evolved since the book came out, and I began hearing the same concern you’ve expressed. So here’s my revised position: Technology is super useful for everyone it’s super useful for. Everyone else needs to find the organizational and educational system that works best for him or her. So in this regard, I think we’ll soon realize that schools have taken the technology fad a bridge too far — or maybe several bridges. Just as we all have preferred learning styles (auditory, visual, tactile), we all have preferred ways of interacting with content. Some kids are engrossed with the interactive style of online learning. Others hate it. And by “hate,” I mean they cringe and get angry when I bring up any tech-related learning system. I almost can’t believe that all teens, raised on video games, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube, aren’t jumping at the every chance to carry that over into the classroom. But far more kids than you’d expect feel exactly as you do. My wife, a Kansas Teacher of the Year finalist, began incorporating more technology in her classroom this fall. Shortly thereafter, she held a class discussion with her seventh-graders about how schools and culture have changed since her students’ parents were in school. One girl lamented this increase in technology noting, “I want a teacher to teach me, not a computer.” Please see TECH, page 2C

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She said women should talk to their physicians if they have a false-positive result and also consider other risk factors they may have. There are many risk factors for breast cancer, and some, such as genetic mutations, are strong predictors. Other risks include a woman’s age and the density of her breasts. While women with more dense breasts face a higher risk of breast cancer in general, density did not affect the relationship between false-positive mammograms and subsequent cancer diagnoses for most women. Breast density can affect the readability of mammograms. Henderson said the study’s findings suggest that radiologists who read mammograms may notice abnormalities that, while not cancerous, may be markers for future cancer. The study did not include an analysis of the locations of tumors compared to initial problems spotted on mammograms.

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I’ve heard that sentiment echoed over and over. Your concern is one of many reasons why. Gabe: It’s a simple fact that our world is becoming more wired. Classrooms five years from now are going to look even more different than they do today, and for good reason. Devices such as iPads make teaching and learning so much more efficient and organized than conventional methods. I personally experienced this when I started using an iPad this final

Henderson and her colleagues analyzed data from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium from 1994 to 2009. The data came from seven registries in the United States, including the Carolina Mammography Registry, which draws information from mammography centers across North Carolina. The researchers tracked women in the study for 10 years. During the period, 48,735 women were diagnosed with breast cancer. Understanding the data around mammograms may in the future help scientists design optimal prevention and screening techniques for individuals. “Our ultimate goal is to hopefully take information like this and use it in things like risk-prediction models to help women get a sense of, ‘What does it really mean for me?’” Henderson said. The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute. Other researchers participating were from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Vermont, the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle and the University of California, San Francisco.

year of high school. As someone who is naturally challenged when it comes to organization, not worrying about finding and handing in any more crumpled papers was a godsend. I love it. It is foolish, however, to assume that iPads are purely advantageous. Like anything else, they have drawbacks as well. A plethora of apps, games and websites are easily accessible from any device connected to Wi-Fi and there’s no incentive for any young adult to not download and use them, even during class. The risk of getting caught is relatively low — just tap the home key twice and you’re clear — and the reward (floating

News of traumatic events such as the recent mass shooting in California can be extremely unsettling. In this digital age, we have access to national crises as they unfold, and when that information is troubling and violent, the Department of Health and Human Services says it tests our resilience. Some people are left feeling sad, scared and even helpless. Mayo Clinic oncologist Dr. Edward Creagan cares for patients with advanced cancer and specializes in helping people cope with tragedy and tough news. He says there are ways to help people deal with the onslaught of negative information. “The first step is to

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at how their foot is dispersing weight, then measure for length and width. That’s a starting point,” Catloth said. “We’d love to have old shoes, too, so we can look at them — the more worn, the better.” J. Jenkins with Ad Astra leads a training program called Run Walk Lawrence, and as the name implies, it uses a mixture of running and walking to get people started. “The emphasis is on staying injury free and building a base in a fun and supportive atmosphere,” Jenkins said. On Jan. 2 and 3, he has programs starting for 5K, 10K and half marathon. “The 5K program is targeted at people totally new to running,” he said. Interested participants can sign up at active.com and receive a shoe discount at Ad Astra when they sign up. Gift: Running shoes; foundation garments Price: $120; $35-$50 Where: Ad Astra Running,

away from this boring lecture) is high. I know from personal experience that it is the rare student with an iPad who hasn’t used distracting apps during class. It won’t solve the problem completely, but you might want to be sure your child doesn’t have unfettered access to an iTunes account on any tablet used at school. Another method is to impose punishment for using distraction-causing apps before homework. Yet it remains hard to regulate what a child does on his or her iPad without restricting it completely. While these distractions hurt more than they help, the tech

“... When we get isolated we start to ruminate and may begin to exaggerate the risks and fears we face every day.”

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situation in schools isn’t all doom and gloom. To be an efficient, organized student, I prefer having these devices to not having them. Without mine, I wouldn’t have been able to coordinate multiple projects, write several essays at a time and generate more than a few newspaper columns.

longer boat if you’re willing to put the money into it,” he said. Stand-up paddleboards have been very popular, Parton said, but one of the drawbacks to a paddleboard is transportation: A roof rack is typically needed to take the 9to 12-foot boards to the water, and buying a rack and a board can be prohibitive — racks can run about $500. One way around that is an inflatable paddleboard, such as the NRS Imperial 4. The board packs down to the size of a large suitcase, comes with a pump and inflates to its full length of 10.5 feet. Kayaks and paddleboards don’t come with a paddle, because those are determined by the size of the paddler and angle of stroke; they range in price from $50 to hundreds of dollars for a custom paddle. And a life jacket is required to be in the vessel, but the paddler doesn’t have to be wearing it. Gift: Kayak; paddleboard Price: $449; $1,100-$1,300 Where: Sunflower Outdoor and Bike, 804 Massachusetts St.

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for anything, he won’t be able to afford it. There’s no guarantee he’d take advantage of even a free referral, but we are tired of hearing him carrying on about the life that, after all, he chose for himself. Do you know of any free resources that could rescue someone who’s always been clueless about money? — Ray’s Friends Dear Friends: You undoubtedly know that, even with outside assistance, Ray might

Trump’s tantrums keep rolling Republican presidential candidates gather for a debate (8 p.m., CNN) that will probably be overshadowed by the latest tantrum and outrage from the former host of NBC’s “Apprentice.” Many have found Donald Trump’s utterances disturbing, tiresome, frightening and a threat to the reputation of the Republican Party, not to mention the nation. Can any of this be terribly surprising, given this candidate’s reality television background? I am a firm believer that some of the most b o r i n g sentences ever written include the words, “I told you so.” But readers of this column may recall that I have done just that. On numerous occasions. Over the space of nearly five years. In a column that appeared on April 9, 2011, I suggested that NBC and its many sponsors were playing with fire by continuing to associate with the host of “The Celebrity Apprentice” due to his “odious” comments about the president’s birth certificate and “Muslim” connections. As I pointed out at the time, such crude and racist “birther” talk even made Glenn Beck uncomfortable. And at the time, Beck was known for alienating corporate sponsors with his extremist remarks. On Dec. 19, 2012, I wondered aloud in this column about NBC’s continuing association with a man who had called for “revolution” in a tweet because his chosen candidate had lost that year’s presidential election. I gently suggested that NBC and his “Apprentice” sponsors would be wise to distance themselves from his casual calls for violent sedition. Two years later, on Dec. 14, 2014, I again chided NBC for “rewarding” its “Celebrity Apprentice” host for his consistent ugliness. As we all know, the network finally disassociated itself from the man in 2015, only to re-invite him back to host “Saturday Night Live” in early November. That series’ creator/producer, Lorne Michaels, may see his reputation forever tarnished by this stunt. It’s a sad capstone to a 40-year career to be seen playing patty cake with a thug. It’s almost besides the point to remark that the show was dismally unfunny. The great risk of writing “I told you so,” is to broadcast the fact that nobody is really listening — least of all the arrogant network executives and corporate enablers of this dangerous creep. But I would rather be an unheeded Cassandra than a silent witness to a demagogue’s rise. This probably won’t be the last column on this subject. Tonight’s other highlights O Movie-themed holiday specials include “Toy Story That Time Forgot” (7 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) and “Shrek the Halls” (7:30 p.m., ABC, TV-PG).

not change his ways. It would require an entirely new mindset, and that takes effort that he seems unwilling to make. You can look into Debtors Anonymous at debtorsanonymous. org, or get information on local credit counseling through the Federal Trade Commission at consumer.ftc.gov. Dear Annie: I am responding to the letter from “W.,” whose neighbor constantly complains about the noise from her townhouse, even though she’s not doing anything noisy. The neighbors living in the condo below me used to phone and yell at me for practically any noise. They complained about the way I walked in my home even though I went barefoot most of the time to assuage them. They went to bed at 8:30 p.m. and ex-

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For Tuesday, Dec. 15: This year you will gain through communication. You will broaden your immediate circle of friends, and this expansion will serve you well. If you are single, you will meet someone through work or a friend. If you are attached, keep your significant other in the loop, or else he or she will feel left out. 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) ++++ Enjoy those around you. People seem unpredictable but full of fun. Tonight: Out till the wee hours. Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++ You are on top of your game. Take the lead in an important project. Tonight: Some latenight shopping. Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++++ Reach out to someone at a distance. Your ingenuity proves to be a solution-finder. Tonight: Expect to be greeted warmly. Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ One-on-one relating will prove quite effective. Your creativity bubbles up. Tonight: Throw yourself into the moment. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ Defer to others, and be direct in how you deal with them. Try to be as productive as possible. Tonight: Go along with a friend’s ideas. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

pected me to shut down then, as well. They spoke to an attorney who told them I wasn’t breaking any noise ordinances, but they still called incessantly to complain and were sometimes verbally abusive. So I spoke to my own lawyer. He suggested that I ignore them, but I told him I was being harassed, bullied and verbally abused and that I was not going to put up with it. The lawyer and I resolved it by presenting them with his business card and informing them that any future complaints were to be directed to him. If they complained directly to me, it would lead to a lawsuit for harassment. — N.C. — Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

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++++ You understand a lot more than you might want others to know. Rein in any impulsive desires you have right now. Tonight: Take a break from your routine. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) +++++ You might be a lot more forceful than you realize. Usually you are quite dynamic, but not necessarily right now. Tonight: Wrap up holiday errands. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) +++ You might not be aware that you’re sitting on some anger. Tonight: Order in. Make it easy. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) +++++ Don’t hold back as much as you have been. Enjoy your immediate circle of friends. Tonight: Meet a friend and buy a new item or two. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) +++ Tap into your financial knowledge. Your intuition will tell you what way to go. Tonight: Treat yourself now. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) +++++ A surprising event or invitation could be quite fun to be involved with. You like unpredictability. Tonight: As you like it. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) +++ Know that you need to say less and be a good listener. Stay in touch with your feelings. Tonight: Not to be found.

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Kansas University’s basketball players — including the handful or so who attended KU’s home volleyball matches throughout the 2015 season — did not view tape of their just-completed win over Oregon State on their 45-minute bus ride from Sprint Center to Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday night. They were tuned into the Jayhawks’ five-set Elite Eight volleyball victory over USC, being shown live on ESPN2. “We were all watching it on the way home,” KU assistant coach Kurtis Townsend said of the victory that assured KU a spot in the Final Four and semifinal match against Nebraska at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Omaha, Nebraska. “I heard the guys cheering in the back every time we got a point. They are fans and really like volleyball,” Townsend added on Monday’s “Hawk Talk” radio show. Perhaps the most interested TV viewer of all was KU director of basketball operations Brennan Bechard, son of 18th-year B. Bechard KU volleyball coach Ray Bechard. “We watched the first game on the bus, got home in the middle of the second set,” Bechard said. “I watched it with my wife (Danielle) at home.” There were many highs and lows. “We were really excited after the first two games (KU jumped to a 2-0 lead), getting more and more nervous as it went on. It wasn’t looking very good at the end of that fifth set, but it definitely was fun to watch at the end,” Brennan Bechard said. The Jayhawks battled back from deficits of 4-0 and 13-9 in the final set, scoring the final six points to prevail, 15-13. “I was kind of in shock. Those last six points, I was staring blankly at the screen not knowing if they could pull it off. That last point ... I was kind of just jumping around the living room,” Brennan said. It’s the first Final Four in Jayhawk volleyball history. “I’m obviously very excited, after all these years and how he’s kind of built the program step by step,” Brennan said of his dad. “Finally getting to the biggest stage, I couldn’t be more proud.” A native of Grinnell, Ray Bechard grew up as a huge KU sports fan and still attends as many KU hoops games as he can. Brennan Bechard played for KU from 2007-09. “Obviously, this has been his dream school,” Brennan said of Ray. “He wanted to take this program to the highest level. Getting to the Final Four, he’s done that. I’m so happy for him and my mom (Pam) as well, who has been with him the whole way and has invested almost as much in it as he has. I’m ecstatic for those two and everyone in the program.” The volleyball team (302) has had just two five-set Please see HOOPS, page 8D

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One of the standout athletes featured in the “Faces in the Crowd” portion of the Nov. 16 edition of Sports Illustrated is standing out from the crowd more and more all the time these days. Ainise Havili, sophomore setter on the Final Fourbound Kansas University volleyball team, was pictured next to text that in part read, “had 37 assists and a .625 hitting percentage to power a 3-0 sweep of Oklahoma, opening the season with a programrecord 19 straight victories before falling to Texas.” If Havili plays as well at the Final Four in Omaha, Nebraska, as she did at last weekend’s West Regional in San Diego, she could graduate all the way to the cover of Sports Illustrated. Banking in equal parts on precision and deception, Havili consistently put the ball in the right hands at the right time and place, setting up teammates for punishing kills. She was an easy choice for MVP honors after leading Kansas to victories against Loyola Marymount in four sets and USC in five, a match that featured a dramatic comeback in the fifth set, when Kansas scored the final six points. Showing timing as sharp as when setting up teammates, Havili broke the opposition’s spirit with soft shots over the net that dropped to open spots on the floor.

Nebraska fans snatch up Omaha Final Four tickets By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

In the hours that followed the Kansas University volleyball team’s thrilling and somewhat improbable victory over top-seeded USC in the NCAA Tournament regional final last weekend in San Diego, hundreds of overjoyed KU fans began making plans to road trip to Omaha, Nebraska, this week to watch their Jayhawks compete in the program’s first Final Four. Don’t count on any such plans being easy. Because this year’s Final Four is in Nebraska, a mere 59 miles away from the campus of the University of Nebraska — the event’s No. 4 seed and KU’s Thursday opponent — thousands of Cornhusker fans scooped up tickets long before KU even knew it would be playing. Nebraska’s victory over Washington last weekend The most memorable shot of her remarkably efficient weekend came when she executed what is known as a “back dump.” She went up with both hands, as if ready to set for a teammate, and used a back-handed shot to dump the ball over the net and onto the floor.

was the first of the four regional finals. That gave Husker fans a jump-start on the ordering process, and, according to sources familiar with Final Four ticket sales, the event sold out sometime last week. There’s more. According to KU associate athletic director Jim Marchiony, the NCAA only reserved 200 tickets per school for the event. After KU took care of the ticket needs of the families of the athletes and coaching staff, that left roughly 100 tickets for KU to sell to donors and seasonticket holders. “There are people who have ordered through us who we will not be able to accommodate,” Marchiony said. “It’s certainly disappointing.” The issue, according to Marchiony, is not that thousands of fired-up Nebraska Please see TICKETS, page 3D

She gave credit for that trick shot to assistant coach Todd Chamberlain. “He’s been trying to get me to do that the entire season,” Havili said. “It matters a lot that you keep your right hand up and be sneaky about Please see HAVILI, page 3D

Disappointed from a loss last week, Lawrence High girls basketball players were determined to make up for it Monday in their home opener. The Lions, wearing new home white uniforms, were dominant defensively and passed the ball around on offense, cruising to a 5024 rout over Topeka West at LHS, which included a running clock in the fourth quarter. In the locker room, the Lions celebrated by blasting the song “All I Do Is Win” by DJ Khaled. With three games this week, it was exactly the way the Lions wanted to respond after losing, 70-51, to Shawnee Heights on Friday, trailing by as many as 30 points. “We did not play well Friday,” LHS coach Jeff Dickson said, “so to come out and play better team basketball — move the ball, run our offense and do a better job offensively — it feels good to have that kind of turn-around.” The Lions (2-2) jumped to a 16-1 lead in the first quarter, using missed shots to create offense. Freshman Chisom Ajekwu, junior Skylar Drum and senior Gracie Reinsch all scored on putbacks in the period before Drum, sophomore E’lease Stafford and senior Alexis Boyd hit shots in the final minute. Lawrence had nine scorers in the contest, led by Stafford, who finished with a game-high 12 points. Ajekwu added eight points and four rebounds. “That was one of our main focuses today — sharing the ball and getting everybody touches,” junior guard Olivia Lemus said. The Lions shot 40 percent from the floor (23-of57) and grabbed 16 offensive rebounds. On defense, the Lions suffocated the Chargers (0-3) with their defensive pressure on the perimeter, jumping passing lanes to snag steals. Lemus, Boyd and Stafford grabbed three steals apiece. “We’ve been turning over the ball a lot, then we just wanted to make other teams do it, instead of us,” Lemus said. “We just flipped the script on them.” The Lions had a 10-0 run Please see LIONS, page 8D

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Giants forge tie atop East Miami Gardens, Fla. (ap) — With the score tied in the fourth quarter, Odell Beckham Jr. somehow slipped behind the secondary. That turned out to be the winning margin for the New York Giants. Beckham’s 84-yard touchdown reception put the Giants ahead to stay with 11 minutes to go, and they forged a three-way tie atop the NFC East by beating the Miami Dolphins 31-24 on Monday night. New York’s Eli Manning went 27-for-31 for 337 yards and four scores. His passer rating of 151.5 was his highest since 2009. The Giants (6-7) broke a three-game losing streak and are tied with Washington and Eagles for the lead in their woeful division. The Dolphins (5-8) were mathematically eliminated from the playoff race, extending their postseason drought to a franchise-record seven consecutive years. The Dolphins topped 20 points for the first time since October, but couldn’t keep up with Beckham, who had seven catches for 166 yards and two scores. The 100-yard game was his sixth in a row, a Giants record. With the score 24-all, Beckham took advantage of broken coverage to score the go-ahead touchdown. Jamar Taylor and seldom-used safety Shamiel Gary were the closest defenders, but Manning hit Beckham in stride at midfield and he sprinted to the end zone for his 12th touchdown this year. Beckham outplayed his close friend and former LSU teammate, Miami’s Jarvis Landry, who made 11 catches for 99 yards but was flagged for a costly personal foul penalty with his team trailing in the fourth quarter. Beckham made a 45-yard reception to set up a touchdown and had a five-yard scoring catch. The latter pass was initially ruled incomplete because Beckham was out of bounds, but the decision was overturned by a replay review that made the score 24-all. His final catch, a diving grab on third down at midfield, sealed the victory with less than two minutes left. Manning led a touchdown drive in the final two minutes of the first half covering 80 yards, including 45 on a long pass to Beckham, to make it 17-all. The receiver on the fiveyard pass for the tie: Will Tye. Miami’s Ryan Tannehill threw for 236 yards and burned a blitz by throwing deep to Kenny Stills for a 47-yard score that put Miami ahead 24-17.

SUMMARY N.Y. Giants 3 14 7 7—31 Miami 7 10 7 0—24 First Quarter NYG-FG Brown 35, 11:09. Mia-Miller 14 run (Franks kick), 5:41. Second Quarter NYG-Randle 6 pass from Manning (Brown kick), 13:00. Mia-Miller 38 run (Franks kick), 10:10. Mia-FG Franks 36, 1:52. NYG-Tye 5 pass from Manning (Brown kick), :44. Third Quarter Mia-Stills 47 pass from Tannehill (Franks kick), 9:37. NYG-Beckham Jr. 6 pass from Manning (Brown kick), 5:01. Fourth Quarter NYG-Beckham Jr. 84 pass from Manning (Brown kick), 11:13. A-65,408. NYG Mia First downs 25 16 Total Net Yards 429 363 Rushes-yards 32-92 22-128 Passing 337 235 Punt Returns 2-35 2-30 Kickoff Returns 1-22 4-109 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 27-31-0 25-41-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 1-1 Punts 4-45.0 6-46.7 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 3-25 12-123 Time of Possession 30:31 29:29 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-N.Y. Giants, Jennings 22-81, Darkwa 3-10, Williams 3-3, Vereen 1-0, Manning 3-(minus 2). Miami, Miller 12-89, Tannehill 4-24, Ajayi 5-15, Landry 1-0. PASSING-N.Y. Giants, Manning 27-31-0-337. Miami, Tannehill 25-41-0-236. RECEIVING-N.Y. Giants, Beckham Jr. 7-166, Randle 5-58, D.Harris 5-41, Tye 5-30, Jennings 2-21, Vereen 1-10, Darkwa 1-6, Nicks 1-5. Miami, Landry 11-99, Cameron 3-35, Sims 3-14, Stills 2-49, Parker 2-16, Jennings 2-12, D.Williams 2-11. MISSED FIELD GOALS-N.Y. Giants, Brown 48 (WR).

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Giants sign Cueto to six-year, $130 million deal San Francisco — The San Francisco Giants’ upgraded rotation is taking shape, with the 2014 World Series champions agreeing Monday with Johnny Cueto on a $130 million, six-year contract. Cueto is set to join a rotation led by lefthander Madison Bumgarner and new addition righty Jeff Samardzija, who was introduced Friday after formalizing his $90 million, fiveyear contract — one week after the team lost out to the Diamondbacks on Zack Greinke. Cueto’s deal was pending a physical, the team said, and contains a team option for 2022. He is likely to be introduced later this week at AT&T Park. Under the agreement, Cueto can opt out after the 2017 season and become a free agent

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it. More credit to my hitters for pulling blocks to the sides of the court. It makes it a lot easier for me. I’m not going to dump it over a 6-3 middle like USC has.” Nobody looked happier than Chamberlain. “I was probably as shocked as anybody that she went after it, but she’s got kind of a knack for the timing, and she’s got the ability to make almost any play,” Chamberlain said. “She can throw with either hand in either direction. And she’s got some gusto behind her, so she’s not afraid to take that risk in the moment.” Outstanding hitters overpower defenses. Talented setters deceive them, frustrate them into thinking they were somehow cheated, unfairly made to look the fool. “She’s pretty sneaky,” Chamberlain said. “She’ll put a kill over the net for us, or she’ll feed a quick ball to Janae (Hall), or set a back-row attack, or reverse the flow back to (Kelsie) Payne. She makes it very, very difficult to read where she’ll be setting the ball, and it makes it very difficult for the blockers to guess where it’s going to go.” In a manner that never

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fans were the first to lay down their credit cards to purchase tickets for the matches that will take place at Omaha’s CenturyLink Center. The issue lies in the planning. “I think it’s unfortunate that the NCAA did not reserve more than 200 tickets per team for an event played in a 17,000seat arena,” Marchiony said. “But in the NCAA’s defense, this is the same procedure it has followed in the past, and I don’t believe the NCAA volleyball championships are ever sold out.” In an effort to find a solution that would benefit as many KU fans as possible, Marchiony said KU had been in contact with the NCAA multiple times

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY’S MADISON RIGDON, AINISE HAVILI (11) AND MAGGIE ANDERSON (19) COME TOGETHER to celebrate a point during the Jayhawks’ NCAA Tournament victory over Furman on Dec. 3 at Horejsi Center. comes off as scripted, Havili is quick to credit coaches and teammates for her achievements. The daughter of Tongan natives, Havili said, “It’s a modest culture based on humbleness and respect. I try to implement that in whatever I’m doing. It’s really important to my parents that I always show that I’m humble and grateful for every opportunity that I’m given.” Nobody can accuse her

of the Sports Illustrated appearance inflating her ego. “I saw a picture of it, but I never got a copy of it,” Havili said last week. “My sister (former Murray State setter Lia Havili) bought, like, 20 copies, so I can grab one.” Ainise, parents Mele and Moses Havili, and, according to Mele’s estimate, 38 other relatives were in San Diego. They came from San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Fort

during the past couple of days, with the latest contact coming late Monday morning. “We’ve been trying to get more since Madison Rigdon’s final kill (that beat USC on Saturday night),” Marchiony said. “But they can’t take tickets back. The bottom line is that the NCAA did not save us any more than 200 tickets. I would advise people who are looking for tickets to go to the secondary market.” A quick check of Internet ticket brokers Monday afternoon revealed that tickets for the Thursday-Saturday championship event were going for anywhere from $212 for the upper corners to $765 for lowerlevel center court. Fans willing to roll the dice certainly could make the trip anyway and hope to secure tickets from fans of the losing team in

Thursday’s 6 p.m. match or, should KU win, from disappointed Cornhusker fans not interested in attending Saturday’s title match. Marchiony said tickets for the entire weekend — both semifinals Thursday and Saturday’s championship match — were sold in a three-game package. On Monday, the NCAA made available a limited amount of Saturday-only tickets via TicketMaster, but those, like the others, sold out quickly. No. 9 overall seed Kansas (30-2) will play No. 4 seed Nebraska (30-4) at 8:30 p.m. Thursday. The winner will advance to the national title match Saturday against the winner of the showdown between No. 2 Minnesota (30-4) and No. 3 Texas (29-2). l If you go: related

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Worth, all wearing black T-shirts featuring the Jayhawk mascot holding a Tongan flag. How many SI copies were purchased by Mele, from whom Ainise inherits her dry sense of humor? “I got one. My niece got 10,” Mele said. “I just got one. I’m a bad mom, huh?” How ’bout that back dump? “I actually didn’t see it,” Mele said. “I was too

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on a KU-TCU match in Forth Worth, told Kuhn a setter from a smaller club would be trying out for the renowned TAV Club, for which Sariego coaches. Kuhn said she flew back to Dallas to see Havili’s first practice. “It was a no-brainer,” Kuhn said of the to-thatpoint underexposed prospect. “I came back from that match and sat down with coach B (head coach Ray Bechard), and they came in for a visit later that month.” Kuhn noted that in her first major tournament with TAV, Havili led the team to the 17U national title and earned MVP honors. Of her recruitment, handled mostly by Kuhn, Havili said, “It took awhile for me to commit, and then Coach B said, ‘All right, we need a decision.’ I was, like, ‘Well, it’s a pretty cool place, so I’ll come here, I guess.’” Her final two schools: Kansas and University of San Diego, the very campus from which Havili would lead the Jayhawks into the Final Four inside lively 5,100-capacity Jenny Craig Pavilion. Now it’s on to CenturyLink Center in Omaha to face Nebraska with most of the 17,000-strong crowd rooting for the Cornhuskers. If Havili looks nervous, remember two things: 1. Looks sometimes deceive; 2. Great setters expertly practice deception.

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nervous. I was at one of those moments where I just couldn’t watch. Everyone around me told me, but I didn’t see it. I’m a bad mom. I don’t handle stress too well.” As do all good parents, Mele and Moses left the decision on where to go to college to their daughter. Assistant coach Laura “Bird” Kuhn initiated the recruitment after L.J. Sariego, who was working as color commentator

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Spurs 118, Jazz 81 San Antonio — Kawhi Leonard had 22 points, and San Antonio never trailed in a victory over Utah on Monday night. San Antonio is 21-5, the second-best start in franchise history, on the strength of a 13-0 home record. LaMarcus Aldridge and Tony Parker added 18 points each for the Spurs. UTAH (81) Hayward 1-5 2-2 4, Lyles 1-3 0-0 2, Favors 6-14 4-6 16, Neto 5-7 0-0 12, Hood 2-8 0-0 4, Burke 4-9 1-1 10, Burks 2-9 4-4 8, Booker 2-4 0-0 4, Withey 3-5 3-4 9, Ingles 2-6 0-0 4, Millsap 2-5 0-0 4, Johnson 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 32-79 14-17 81. SAN ANTONIO (118) Leonard 7-10 6-6 22, Aldridge 6-10 6-6 18, Duncan 2-2 1-1 5, Parker 7-9 3-3 18, Green 2-5 0-0 4, Ginobili 1-4 2-2 4, Mills 4-6 0-0 11, Diaw 2-3 0-0 4, Simmons 3-12 0-0 7, West 2-6 4-5 8, Bonner 4-5 0-0 10, Anderson 2-3 2-2 6, Butler 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 42-75 25-27 118. Utah 15 21 22 23 — 81 San Antonio 29 30 39 20—118 Three-Point Goals-Utah 3-11 (Neto 2-2, Burke 1-3, Johnson 0-1, Hood 0-2, Ingles 0-3), San Antonio 9-21 (Mills 3-4, Bonner 2-3, Leonard 2-3, Parker 1-2, Simmons 1-4, Ginobili 0-2, Green 0-3). Rebounds-Utah 35 (Booker 7), San Antonio 50 (Aldridge 8). Assists-Utah 18 (Ingles 4), San Antonio 24 (Parker, Green 5). Total Fouls-Utah 23, San Antonio 17. Technicals-San Antonio defensive three second. A-18,418 (18,797).

Pacers 106, Raptors 90 Indianapolis — Jordan Hill had 20 points and 13 rebounds, Monta Ellis had 18 points, and Indiana beat the Raptors to end Toronto’s four-game winning streak. C.J. Miles added 17 points for the Pacers, who have won two of three. Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan each scored 20 points for the Raptors. Toronto lost for the first time after winning four straight. TORONTO (90) Ross 4-11 0-0 10, Scola 2-7 0-0 4, Biyombo 1-3 7-8 9, Lowry 7-14 4-4 20, DeRozan 7-18 4-5 20, Joseph 0-6 3-4 3, Patterson 3-6 0-0 9, Johnson 2-5 4-4 8, Nogueira 0-0 0-0 0, Powell 2-5 0-1 5, Bennett 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 29-79 22-26 90. INDIANA (106) Miles 6-7 0-0 17, George 5-13 2-2 16, Mahinmi 1-5 0-0 2, G.Hill 3-6 0-0 6, Ellis 7-15 3-3 18, Allen 3-6 2-2 8, Stuckey 5-9 0-0 10, J.Hill 8-16 4-5 20, Budinger 1-6 3-4 5, Robinson III 1-1 0-0 2, S.Hill 0-1 0-0 0, Young 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 41-86 14-16 106. Toronto 28 13 23 26 — 90 Indiana 27 25 21 33—106 Three-Point Goals-Toronto 10-28 (Patterson 3-6, DeRozan 2-4, Lowry 2-5, Ross 2-6, Powell 1-2, Joseph 0-1, Bennett 0-2, Johnson 0-2), Indiana 10-22 (Miles 5-5, George 4-8, Ellis 1-4, G.Hill 0-1, S.Hill 0-1, Budinger 0-3). Rebounds-Toronto 51 (Biyombo 13), Indiana 50 (J.Hill 13). Assists-Toronto 10 (Lowry 4), Indiana 14 (Allen 4). Total Fouls-Toronto 21, Indiana 21. Technicals-Lowry. Flagrant Fouls-G. Hill. A-16,598 (18,165).

Magic 105, Nets 82 New York — Nikola Vucevic scored 18 points, Elfrid Payton had 17, and Orlando beat the Nets for its first victory in Brooklyn. Tobias Harris had 15 points and nine rebounds for the Magic, who had dropped all six games here since the Nets moved for the 201213 season. They had little trouble in this one, going ahead just before halftime and gradually extending their lead. ORLANDO (105) Harris 7-11 0-1 15, Frye 4-6 0-0 11, Vucevic 8-13 2-2 18, Payton 6-11 4-6 17, Fournier 1-6 0-0 3, Gordon 1-3 2-3 4, Nicholson 6-9 1-2 15, Oladipo 2-3 5-6 10, Hezonja 4-5 0-0 8, Smith 2-7 0-0 4, Dedmon 0-1 0-0 0, Napier 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 41-76 14-20 105. BROOKLYN (82) Johnson 2-8 0-0 6, Young 5-11 0-0 10, Lopez 4-15 3-4 11, Jack 5-9 4-5 15, Bogdanovic 4-8 0-0 10, Bargnani 5-8 2-3 12, Ellington 3-8 3-3 11, Larkin 1-5 0-0 2, Brown 1-2 1-1 3, Reed 1-4 0-0 2, Karasev 0-0 0-0 0, Sloan 0-0 0-0 0, Robinson 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 31-80 13-16 82. Orlando 25 27 31 22—105 Brooklyn 25 20 24 13 — 82 Three-Point Goals-Orlando 9-21 (Frye 3-5, Nicholson 2-5, Payton 1-1, Oladipo 1-2, Fournier 1-4, Harris 1-4), Brooklyn 7-19 (Ellington 2-4, Johnson 2-4, Bogdanovic 2-5, Jack 1-3, Brown 0-1, Larkin 0-1, Young 0-1). ReboundsOrlando 49 (Harris 9), Brooklyn 44 (Young 11). Assists-Orlando 24 (Frye, Payton 5), Brooklyn 23 (Jack 7). Total Fouls-Orlando 18, Brooklyn 19. Technicals-Orlando Coach Skiles, Vucevic. A-12,946 (17,732).

Heat 100, Hawks 88 Atlanta — Chris Bosh scored 24 points, Gerald Green had 20, and Miami handed slumping Atlanta another home loss. Goran Dragic added 12 points despite having part of a tooth knocked out in the third quarter. After getting the bleeding stopped, he returned to finish the game.

How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, L.A. Clippers Did not play, (coach’s decision) Cliff Alexander, Portland Did not play, (coach’s decision) Darrell Arthur, Denver Did not play, (knee injury) Mario Chalmers, Memphis Min: 19. Pts: 12. Reb: 1. Ast: 1. Joel Embiid, Philadelphia Did not play, inactive Drew Gooden, Washington Did not play, (calf injury) Kirk Hinrich, Chicago Min: 13. Pts: 3. Reb: 0. Ast: 0. Marcus Morris, Detroit Min: 42. Pts: 6. Reb: 4. Ast: 2. Markieff Morris, Phoenix Did not play, (coach’s decision) Kelly Oubre, Washington Min: 17. Pts: 8. Reb: 4. Ast: 1. Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Min: 11. Pts: 2. Reb: 1. Ast: 0. Thomas Robinson, Brooklyn Min: 4. Pts: 0. Reb: 2. Ast: 0. Jeff Withey, Utah Min: 20. Pts: 9. Reb: 5. Ast: 0. MIAMI (100) Deng 7-12 3-3 18, Bosh 8-14 4-4 24, Whiteside 4-11 0-2 8, Dragic 6-14 0-0 12, Wade 3-16 1-1 7, Winslow 0-2 0-0 0, Green 9-14 1-1 20, Udrih 3-5 2-2 9, Haslem 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 40-89 13-15 100. ATLANTA (88) Bazemore 11-18 3-3 28, Millsap 6-12 6-6 18, Horford 6-12 0-0 13, Teague 2-12 2-2 7, Korver 2-12 0-0 5, Muscala 0-1 0-0 0, Sefolosha 0-3 0-0 0, Schroder 4-10 3-4 13, Splitter 1-2 0-0 2, Patterson 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 33-84 14-15 88. Miami 22 25 27 26—100 Atlanta 20 18 23 27 — 88 Three-Point Goals-Miami 7-16 (Bosh 4-6, Udrih 1-1, Deng 1-2, Green 1-2, Wade 0-1, Winslow 0-2, Dragic 0-2), Atlanta 8-33 (Bazemore 3-7, Schroder 2-5, Teague 1-3, Horford 1-5, Korver 1-8, Millsap 0-2, Sefolosha 0-3). Rebounds-Miami 60 (Whiteside 13), Atlanta 43 (Millsap 9). Assists-Miami 26 (Dragic 8), Atlanta 25 (Schroder 7). Total Fouls-Miami 16, Atlanta 21. Technicals-Atlanta defensive three second. A-15,039 (18,729).

WASHINGTON (95) Porter 1-8 0-0 2, Dudley 6-10 0-2 14, Gortat 4-11 2-4 10, Wall 2-11 0-0 6, Temple 2-5 2-2 6, Neal 9-14 3-5 24, Oubre Jr. 3-7 0-0 8, Blair 3-5 0-0 6, Sessions 5-8 4-5 14, Humphries 2-7 1-2 5. Totals 37-86 12-20 95. MEMPHIS (112) Je.Green 6-12 3-4 15, Barnes 7-9 2-2 20, Gasol 9-17 6-6 24, Conley 7-14 2-2 18, Lee 6-11 0-0 15, Randolph 4-7 0-0 8, Chalmers 5-6 1-1 12, Ja.Green 0-2 0-0 0, Smith 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 44-78 14-15 112. Washington 21 25 15 34 — 95 Memphis 25 32 26 29—112 Three-Point Goals-Washington 9-24 (Neal 3-4, Dudley 2-3, Oubre Jr. 2-3, Wall 2-7, Sessions 0-1, Porter 0-1, Humphries 0-2, Temple 0-3), Memphis 10-15 (Barnes 4-5, Lee 3-4, Conley 2-4, Chalmers 1-1, Je.Green 0-1). Rebounds-Washington 47 (Gortat 9), Memphis 45 (Gasol 12). AssistsWashington 22 (Wall 9), Memphis 26 (Conley 11). Total Fouls-Washington 13, Memphis 18. A-15,397 (18,119).

Clippers 105, Pistons 103, OT Auburn Hills, Mich. — Jamal Crawford hit a three-pointer with 12.4 seconds left in overtime, and Los Angeles beat Detroit. L.A. CLIPPERS (105) Mbah a Moute 1-2 0-0 2, Griffin 15-30 4-6 34, Jordan 3-5 1-3 7, Paul 6-16 1-1 13, Redick 10-17 0-0 24, W.Johnson 2-6 0-0 5, Crawford 5-8 3-3 14, Smith 1-6 0-0 2, Rivers 1-5 0-0 2, Pierce 0-2 2-2 2. Totals 44-97 11-15 105. DETROIT (103) Morris 3-10 0-0 6, Ilyasova 3-8 0-0 6, Drummond 8-17 4-8 20, Jackson 9-18 14-16 34, Caldwell-Pope 6-17 5-7 19, Tolliver 1-5 0-0 3, Blake 2-3 0-0 5, S.Johnson 0-5 0-0 0, Baynes 5-6 0-0 10. Totals 37-89 23-31 103. L.A. Clippers 27 21 25 21 11—105 Detroit 27 12 24 31 9 —103 Three-Point Goals-L.A. Clippers 6-19 (Redick 4-8, Crawford 1-3, W.Johnson 1-3, Pierce 0-1, Rivers 0-2, Paul 0-2), Detroit 6-19 (Jackson 2-2, CaldwellPope 2-8, Blake 1-2, Tolliver 1-4, Morris 0-1, Ilyasova 0-2). Rebounds-L.A. Clippers 47 (Jordan 14), Detroit 70 (Drummond 15). Assists-L.A. Clippers 29 (Paul 12), Detroit 17 (Jackson 7). Total Fouls-L.A. Clippers 22, Detroit 21. Technicals-Detroit Coach Van Gundy. A-13,525 (22,076).

Grizzlies 112, Wizards 95 Memphis, Tenn. — Marc Gasol had 24 points and 12 rebounds, Mike Conley finished with 18 points and 11 assists, and Memphis beat Washington. The Grizzlies shot 56 percent overall and were 10-for-15 on three-pointers.

College Men NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 16 10 .615 — Boston 14 10 .583 1 New York 11 14 .440 4½ Brooklyn 7 17 .292 8 Philadelphia 1 25 .038 15 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Charlotte 14 9 .609 — Miami 14 9 .609 — Orlando 13 11 .542 1½ Atlanta 14 12 .538 1½ Washington 10 13 .435 4 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 15 7 .682 — Chicago 14 8 .636 1 Indiana 14 9 .609 1½ Detroit 14 12 .538 3 Milwaukee 10 15 .400 6½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 21 5 .808 — Dallas 14 11 .560 6½ Memphis 14 12 .538 7 Houston 12 13 .480 8½ New Orleans 6 18 .250 14 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 16 8 .667 — Utah 10 13 .435 5½ Portland 11 15 .423 6 Denver 10 14 .417 6 Minnesota 9 14 .391 6½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 24 1 .960 — L.A. Clippers 15 10 .600 9 Phoenix 11 15 .423 13½ Sacramento 9 15 .375 14½ L.A. Lakers 3 21 .125 20½ Monday’s Games Indiana 106, Toronto 90 Orlando 105, Brooklyn 82 L.A. Clippers 105, Detroit 103, OT Chicago 115, Philadelphia 96 Memphis 112, Washington 95 Miami 100, Atlanta 88 San Antonio 118, Utah 81 Dallas 104, Phoenix 94 Denver 114, Houston 108 Portland 105, New Orleans 101 Today’s Games Cleveland at Boston, 6:30 p.m. Denver at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Houston at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Milwaukee at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Dallas at Indiana, 6 p.m. Charlotte at Orlando, 6 p.m. Miami at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Boston at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Minnesota at New York, 6:30 p.m. Memphis at Chicago, 7 p.m. Portland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7 p.m. Washington at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. New Orleans at Utah, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Milwaukee at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Mavericks 104, Suns 94 Dallas — Chandler Parsons scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half, and Raymond Felton followed his second Big 12 Men career triple-double with 17 points as Dallas beat Iowa State Phoenix. Oklahoma PHOENIX (94) Tucker 3-9 0-0 6, Leuer 5-11 4-4 15, Len 1-7 0-0 2, Bledsoe 7-17 6-7 23, Knight 5-11 0-0 12, Price 2-4 0-0 5, Teletovic 0-5 0-0 0, Chandler 2-3 2-2 6, Booker 0-1 0-0 0, Warren 3-5 4-5 10, Weems 2-3 3-4 9, Goodwin 3-4 0-5 6. Totals 33-80 19-27 94. DALLAS (104) Matthews 5-13 0-0 13, Nowitzki 5-10 4-5 14, Pachulia 2-3 0-0 4, Felton 6-11 2-2 17, Williams 8-16 0-0 18, Parsons 5-10 5-5 17, Powell 2-2 4-5 8, Barea 0-4 1-2 1, Harris 5-8 0-2 12. Totals 38-77 16-21 104. Phoenix 21 22 15 36 — 94 Dallas 25 21 31 27—104 Three-Point Goals-Phoenix 9-25 (Bledsoe 3-8, Weems 2-2, Knight 2-4, Price 1-1, Leuer 1-3, Goodwin 0-1, Tucker 0-3, Teletovic 0-3), Dallas 12-32 (Felton 3-7, Matthews 3-9, Harris 2-3, Parsons 2-5, Williams 2-6, Nowitzki 0-1, Barea 0-1). Rebounds-Phoenix 56 (Leuer 13), Dallas 43 (Pachulia 12). Assists-Phoenix 19 (Bledsoe 7), Dallas 17 (Nowitzki, Felton 4). Total Fouls-Phoenix 23, Dallas 22. A-19,822 (19,200).

Nuggets 114, Rockets 108 Denver — Will Barton Bulls 115, scored 23 points, includ76ers 96 ing two game-sealing free Chicago — Jimmy throws with 13.5 seconds Butler had 23 points, and remaining. Chicago rallied from HOUSTON (108) a halftime deficit for a Ariza 6-12 0-0 16, Jones 0-3 0-0 0, 6-10 1-2 13, Beverley 6-11 0-0 rout of lowly Philadel- Howard 14, Harden 9-20 1-3 24, Motiejunas 7-11 phia. 2-2 19, Lawson 1-5 0-0 2, Brewer 1-4 2-2 Nikola Mirotic had 17 5, Thornton 4-8 2-2 13, Terry 1-3 0-0 2. 41-87 8-11 108. points, and Tony Snell Totals DENVER (114) Gallinari 4-8 6-7 15, Faried 5-8 1-2 added 16. Lauvergne 7-11 0-0 14, Nelson 4-13 Joakim Noah had 15 re- 11, 0-0 10, Harris 8-11 4-4 21, Jokic 3-3 3-3 bounds and eight assists 9, Barton 8-18 5-5 23, Foye 0-3 3-4 3, 2-4 0-0 5, Miller 1-3 0-0 3. as the Bulls won their Papanikolaou Totals 42-82 22-25 114. third straight. Houston 22 36 24 26—108 PHILADELPHIA (96) Grant 2-8 2-4 6, Covington 6-16 0-0 15, Okafor 9-17 4-4 22, Canaan 1-5 1-1 4, Wroten 4-11 2-4 12, Thompson 2-5 0-0 5, McConnell 3-11 0-0 7, Stauskas 2-5 0-0 5, Holmes 2-3 0-0 4, Wood 3-5 0-0 7, Sampson 4-6 0-0 9. Totals 38-92 9-13 96. CHICAGO (115) Snell 5-10 5-6 16, Gibson 3-5 0-2 6, Gasol 5-7 3-3 13, Rose 2-3 2-2 6, Butler 8-14 7-7 23, Noah 2-7 1-2 5, McDermott 6-16 0-0 13, Hinrich 1-2 0-0 3, Mirotic 6-10 0-0 17, Brooks 1-4 2-2 4, Moore 0-1 0-0 0, Portis 3-4 1-2 7, Bairstow 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 43-85 21-26 115. Philadelphia 19 37 12 28 — 96 Chicago 24 27 34 30—115 Three-Point Goals-Philadelphia 11-31 (Covington 3-11, Wroten 2-4, McConnell 1-2, Sampson 1-2, Wood 1-2, Thompson 1-2, Canaan 1-3, Stauskas 1-4, Okafor 0-1), Chicago 8-22 (Mirotic 5-8, Hinrich 1-1, McDermott 1-4, Snell 1-5, Noah 0-1, Butler 0-1, Brooks 0-2). ReboundsPhiladelphia 45 (Okafor 8), Chicago 60 (Noah 15). Assists-Philadelphia 19 (Thompson 4), Chicago 28 (Noah 8). Total Fouls-Philadelphia 17, Chicago 15. Technicals-Chicago defensive three second. A-21,166 (20,917).

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Denver 36 18 34 26—114 Three-Point Goals-Houston 18-40 (Harden 5-8, Ariza 4-9, Motiejunas 3-4, Thornton 3-4, Beverley 2-6, Brewer 1-3, Howard 0-1, Terry 0-2, Lawson 0-3), Denver 8-25 (Barton 2-6, Nelson 2-6, Harris 1-2, Papanikolaou 1-2, Miller 1-3, Gallinari 1-3, Lauvergne 0-1, Foye 0-2). Rebounds-Houston 32 (Howard 8), Denver 60 (Lauvergne 11). AssistsHouston 26 (Beverley 8), Denver 26 (Gallinari, Nelson 7). Total FoulsHouston 22, Denver 15. TechnicalsHouston defensive three second, Denver delay of game. A-12,022 (19,155).

Blazers 105, Pelicans 101 Portland — Damian Lillard had 30 points as Portland evened its record at home. NEW ORLEANS (101) Gee 0-0 0-0 0, A.Davis 11-19 6-9 28, Ajinca 1-3 0-0 2, Gordon 3-9 3-3 9, Evans 7-15 4-5 19, Holiday 7-14 2-2 19, Asik 0-0 2-4 2, Anderson 5-16 4-4 16, Cole 2-6 0-0 6, Cunningham 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-82 21-27 101. PORTLAND (105) Aminu 4-9 0-0 10, Vonleh 1-5 0-0 2, Plumlee 5-10 5-6 15, Lillard 8-16 11-12 30, McCollum 5-14 3-5 16, Crabbe 2-9 2-2 7, Henderson 7-10 1-1 19, Leonard 1-5 0-1 2, E.Davis 2-2 0-2 4, Harkless 0-1 0-0 0, Frazier 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-81 22-29 105. New Orleans 31 17 21 32—101 Portland 26 24 28 27—105 Three-Point Goals-New Orleans 8-25 (Holiday 3-6, Cole 2-3, Anderson 2-7, Evans 1-2, A.Davis 0-2, Gordon 0-5), Portland 13-32 (Henderson 4-5, McCollum 3-6, Lillard 3-7, Aminu 2-4, Crabbe 1-7, Leonard 0-3). ReboundsNew Orleans 49 (Evans 12), Portland 56 (Plumlee 13). Assists-New Orleans 15 (Evans 5), Portland 28 (McCollum, Plumlee 6). Total Fouls-New Orleans 22, Portland 21. A-19,231 (19,980).

Big 12 Overall W L W L 0 0 9 0 0 0 7 0 Kansas 0 0 8 1 West Virginia 0 0 8 1 Baylor 0 0 7 1 Texas Tech 0 0 6 1 Kansas State 0 0 7 2 Oklahoma State 0 0 6 3 Texas 0 0 6 3 TCU 0 0 5 4 Sunday’s Games Iowa State 78, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 64 West Virginia 100, LouisianaMonroe 58 Today’s Games Appalachian State at Texas, 7 p.m. Longwood at Oklahoma State, 8 p.m. (ESPNU) Wednesday’s Games South Dakota State at Texas Tech, 7 p.m. Hardin Simmons vs. Baylor, 7 p.m. at Fort Hood, Texas

AP Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 13, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and previous ranking: Rec Pts Prv 1. Michigan St. (64) 11-0 1,621 1 2. Kansas (1) 8-1 1,499 2 3. Oklahoma 7-0 1,409 7 4. Kentucky 9-1 1,385 5 5. Iowa St. 9-0 1,370 4 6. Maryland 9-1 1,353 6 7. Duke 8-1 1,271 8 8. Virginia 8-1 1,132 10 9. Purdue 11-0 1,082 11 10. Xavier 10-0 1,062 12 11. North Carolina 7-2 1,023 3 12. Villanova 8-1 865 9 13. Arizona 9-1 860 13 14. Providence 10-1 724 15 15. Miami 8-1 622 17 16. Baylor 7-1 605 16 17. Butler 8-1 562 18 18. SMU 7-0 560 19 19. Louisville 7-1 534 22 20. West Virginia 8-1 466 14 21. George Washington 9-1 256 — 22. UCLA 7-3 213 — 23. Cincinnati 8-2 197 23 24. Texas A&M 8-2 152 — 25. UConn 6-3 47 — Others receiving votes: Gonzaga 44, South Carolina 42, Oregon 37, Colorado 21, Vanderbilt 18, Wichita St. 17, Dayton 14, UALR 14, Pittsburgh 12, Georgetown 8, Utah 7, Notre Dame 4, Texas 4, Iowa 3, Northwestern 3, Syracuse 3, Army 1, Florida 1, Houston 1, Marquette 1. Ballots Online: http://collegebasketball.ap.org/poll

USA Today Top 25

The top 25 teams in the USA Today men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 13, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Rec Pts Prv 1. Michigan State (28) 11-0 794 1 2. Iowa State (3) 9-0 719 2 3. Oklahoma (1) 7-0 675 8 4. Kentucky 9-1 665 4 5. Kansas 8-1 664 7 6. Duke 8-1 649 5 7. Maryland 9-1 640 9 8. Purdue 11-0 552 11 9. Virginia 8-1 547 10 10. Xavier 10-0 491 13 11. North Carolina 7-2 474 3 12. Arizona 9-1 469 12 13. Villanova 8-1 464 6 14. Providence 10-1 323 18 14. Baylor 7-1 323 15 16. Louisville 7-1 288 19 16. West Virginia 8-1 288 14 18. Butler 8-1 268 21 19. Miami 8-1 265 20 20. Cincinnati 8-2 101 22 21. Gonzaga 6-3 90 17 22. George Washington 9-1 87 — 23. Vanderbilt 6-3 79 16 24. Texas A&M 8-2 77 25 25. South Carolina 8-0 70 — Others receiving votes: UCLA 59, UConn 45, Oregon 38, Pittsburgh 30, Colorado 25, Wichita State 19, Dayton 18, Notre Dame 15, Davidson 13, Syracuse 12, UALR 9, California 9, Indiana 9, Iowa 8, LSU 8, Northwestern 7, Georgetown 6, Texas 3, UNLV 2, Florida 1, South Dakota State 1, Utah 1.

EAST Columbia 78, Robert Morris 71 Manhattan 71, St. Francis Brooklyn 60 SC-Upstate 66, Navy 57 SOUTH Alcorn St. 68, Blue Mountain 60 Charleston Southern 107, Columbia International 74 Coastal Carolina 71, Wofford 63 Marshall 92, NC Central 73 North Florida 94, FIU 72 Southern Miss. 57, South Alabama 54 Tennessee St. 93, Stetson 90, 2OT Tulane 63, Prairie View 49 W. Carolina 97, E. Washington 80 SOUTHWEST North Texas 78, Nicholls St. 60 Sam Houston St. 96, LeTourneau 54 FAR WEST Gonzaga 86, St. Martin’s 50

Big 12 Women

Big 12 Overall W L W L Baylor 0 0 10 0 Oklahoma State 0 0 8 0 Texas 0 0 8 0 9 1 Oklahoma 0 0 Kansas State 0 0 8 1 West Virginia 0 0 7 2 Texas Tech 0 0 7 2 TCU 0 0 7 3 Iowa State 0 0 6 3 Kansas 0 0 5 4 Sunday’s Games Texas 77, Stanford 69 Iowa State 70, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 41 Kansas 61, Navy 54 OT Baylor 105, McNeese State 46 Oklahoma 80, UTSA 41 West Virginia 66, Marshall 60 Kansas State 102, Florida Atlantic 53 Monday’s Games Texas Tech 70, Incarnate Word 55 Oklahoma State 77, North Carolina 67 Wednesday’s Games Longwood at West Virginia, 6 p.m. Canisius at Texas, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Game Oral Roberts at Baylor, 7 p.m.

AP Women’s Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 13, total points based on 25 points for a firstplace vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Rec Pts Prv 1. UConn (32) 8-0 800 1 2. South Carolina 9-0 763 2 3. Notre Dame 9-1 724 3 4. Baylor 10-0 711 4 5. Texas 8-0 659 5 6. Maryland 10-0 651 5 7. Oregon St. 7-0 599 7 8. Kentucky 9-0 549 8 9. Mississippi St. 7-1 535 9 10. Ohio St. 6-3 507 10 11. Florida St. 7-2 447 11 12. Northwestern 9-0 434 12 13. Duke 7-2 416 13 14. Tennessee 7-2 342 16 15. Stanford 6-2 329 14 16. DePaul 7-3 302 18 17. Oklahoma 9-1 293 17 18. Texas A&M 7-3 245 15 19. UCLA 5-2 163 20 20. South Florida 6-2 145 21 21. Arizona St. 5-3 125 24 21. California 7-2 125 22 23. Miami 10-0 98 — 24. Michigan St. 7-2 83 25 25. St. John’s 8-1 64 — Others receiving votes: Missouri 49, Syracuse 39, Seton Hall 38, Georgia 37, Virginia Tech 32, Iowa 27, Southern Cal 26, Princeton 17, Oklahoma St. 15, Florida 6, Nebraska 2, UTEP 2, Purdue 1.

DALLAS STARS — Recalled Fs Gemel Smith and Cole Ully from Idaho (ECHL) to Texas (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled Fs Joel Vermin and Yanni Gourde from Syracuse (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signed M Justin Mapp. COLLEGE JACKSON STATE — Named Tony Hughes football coach. RUTGERS — Named Drew Mehringer offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

World Golf Ranking

Through Dec. 13 1. Jordan Spieth USA 11.85 2. Jason Day AUS 11.29 3. Rory McIlroy NIR 11.19 4. Bubba Watson USA 8.26 5. Henrik Stenson SWE 7.57 6. Rickie Fowler USA 7.38 7. Justin Rose ENG 7.24 8. Dustin Johnson USA 6.34 9. Jim Furyk USA 5.87 10. Patrick Reed USA 4.76 11. Sergio Garcia ESP 4.67 12. Adam Scott AUS 4.61 13. Zach Johnson USA 4.50 14. Branden Grace SAF 4.23 15. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 4.16 16. Brooks Koepka USA 4.11 17. Louis Oosthuizen SAF 4.03 18. Kevin Kisner USA 4.03 19. Danny Willett ENG 3.93 20. Matt Kuchar USA 3.84 21. Shane Lowry IRL 3.65 22. Paul Casey ENG 3.57 23. Kevin Na USA 3.57 24. J.B. Holmes USA 3.53 25. Jimmy Walker USA 3.45 27. Martin Kaymer GER 3.39 26. Marc Leishman AUS 3.37 32. Byeong-Hun An KOR 3.19 28. Thongchai Jaidee THA 3.19 30. Russell Knox SCO 3.08 31. Bernd Wiesberger AUT 3.05 32. Phil Mickelson USA 3.01 33. Victor Dubuisson FRA 3.00 34. Emiliano Grillo ARG 2.98 35. Charl Schwartzel SAF 2.92 36. Andy Sullivan ENG 2.91 37. Kiradech Aphibarnrat THA 2.89 38. Justin Thomas USA 2.89 39. Billy Horschel USA 2.84 40. Robert Streb USA 2.83 41. Anirban Lahiri IND 2.81 42. Bill Haas USA 2.81 43. Jamie Donaldson WAL 2.71 44. Soren Kjeldsen DEN 2.71 45. Chris Wood ENG 2.71 46. Matthew Fitzpatrick ENG 2.71 47. Brandt Snedeker USA 2.69 48. Chris Kirk USA 2.69 49. Danny Lee NZL 2.67 50. Lee Westwood ENG 2.67 51. Scott Piercy USA 2.66 52. Charley Hoffman USA 2.52 53. Daniel Berger USA 2.48 54. Matt Jones AUS 2.44 55. Ian Poulter ENG 2.37 56. Graeme McDowell NIR 2.37 57. David Lingmerth SWE 2.36 58. Ryan Palmer USA 2.36 59. K.T. Kim KOR 2.26 60. Shingo Katayama JPN 2.26 61. Ryan Moore USA 2.24 62. Gary Woodland USA 2.23 63. Jason Bohn USA 2.21 64. Russell Henley USA 2.18 65. Francesco Molinari ITA 2.16 66. Kristoffer Broberg SWE 2.12 67. Hunter Mahan USA 2.12 68. Jaco Van Zyl SAF 2.12 69. Keegan Bradley USA 2.05 70. Cameron Tringale USA 2.03 71. Marc Warren SCO 2.02 72. Steven Bowditch AUS 2.00 73. Webb Simpson USA 1.98 74. Luke Donald ENG 1.94 75. Brendon Todd USA 1.93

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EAST Arizona St. 60, Hartford 29 Columbia 84, LIU Brooklyn 74 Princeton 55, Fordham 44 Stony Brook 46, Morgan St. 42 SOUTH Alabama 69, North Florida 47 Campbell 73, W. Carolina 66 Duke 70, UMass 46 Georgia Southern 64, Charleston Southern 51 MVSU 64, Philander Smith 53 Mississippi 97, New Orleans 59 Murray St. 89, Blue Mountain 64 SC-Upstate 86, Morehead St. 72 Southern U. 81, Tougaloo 48 UNC Asheville 63, Coastal Carolina 52 Wake Forest 57, Jacksonville 51 MIDWEST Denver 56, Milwaukee 49 Youngstown St. 80, Salem International 40 SOUTHWEST Canisius 57, Lamar 55 Oklahoma St. 77, North Carolina 67 Sam Houston St. 53, Texas Southern 51 Texas Tech 70, Incarnate Word 55 UNLV 65, Texas A&M-CC 51 UTEP 86, Texas-Permian Basin 32 FAR WEST New Mexico St. 76, E. New Mexico 61

BASEBALL American League SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Steve Cishek on a two-year contract. TEXAS RANGERS — Claimed 1B Andy Wilkins off waivers from Seattle. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Trevor Cahill on a one-year contract. NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with RHP Buddy Carlyle, LHPs Duane Below and Andrew Barbosa and INF Marc Krauss on minor league contracts. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms with C J.P. Arencibia, INF Angelys Nina and RHPs Greg Burke, Ernesto Frieri and Gregory Infante on minor league contracts. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Yusmeiro Petit on a one-year contract. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Recalled F Christian Wood from Delaware (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Placed S Antrel Rolle on injured reserve. Activated OT Tayo Fabuluge from exemption. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed CB Joe Haden on injured reserve. Waived OL Gabe Ikard. Claimed OL Kaleb Johnson off waivers from Baltimore. Signed WR Rannell Hall from Tampa Bay’s practice squad. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed DT Mike Daniels to a contract extension. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Placed TE Brandon Williams on injured reserve. Signed DT Deandre Coleman from the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Waived S Shaun Prater. Signed DE Justin Trattou. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Anaheim F Nate Thompson three games an illegal check to the head of Carolina D Justin Faulk. CAROLINA HURRICANES — Assigned D Michal Jordan to Charlotte (AHL) for conditioning.

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA x-New England 11 2 0 .846 402 253 N.Y. Jets 8 5 0 .615 325 256 Buffalo 6 7 0 .462 316 301 Miami 5 8 0 .385 264 331 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 6 7 0 .462 275 356 Houston 6 7 0 .462 259 291 Jacksonville 5 8 0 .385 326 357 Tennessee 3 10 0 .231 253 326 North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 10 3 0 .769 354 229 Pittsburgh 8 5 0 .615 344 260 Baltimore 4 9 0 .308 278 326 Cleveland 3 10 0 .231 240 357 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 10 3 0 .769 281 225 Kansas City 8 5 0 .615 331 243 Oakland 6 7 0 .462 299 326 San Diego 3 10 0 .231 250 334 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Washington 6 7 0 .462 281 307 Philadelphia 6 7 0 .462 301 322 N.Y. Giants 6 7 0 .462 338 320 Dallas 4 9 0 .308 230 305 South W L T Pct PF PA y-Carolina 13 0 0 1.000 411 243 Tampa Bay 6 7 0 .462 288 322 Atlanta 6 7 0 .462 279 295 New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 323 397 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 9 4 0 .692 317 245 Minnesota 8 5 0 .615 258 255 Chicago 5 8 0 .385 272 314 Detroit 4 9 0 .308 267 336 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Arizona 11 2 0 .846 405 252 Seattle 8 5 0 .615 340 235 St. Louis 5 8 0 .385 210 271 San Francisco 4 9 0 .308 188 315 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game Arizona 23, Minnesota 20 Sunday’s Games St. Louis 21, Detroit 14 Kansas City 10, San Diego 3 Washington 24, Chicago 21 Philadelphia 23, Buffalo 20 Cleveland 24, San Francisco 10 New Orleans 24, Tampa Bay 17 N.Y. Jets 30, Tennessee 8 Pittsburgh 33, Cincinnati 20 Jacksonville 51, Indianapolis 16 Carolina 38, Atlanta 0 Seattle 35, Baltimore 6 Oakland 15, Denver 12 Green Bay 28, Dallas 7 New England 27, Houston 6 Monday’s Game N.Y. Giants 31, Miami 24 Thursday, Dec. 17 Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 7:25 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19 N.Y. Jets at Dallas, 7:25 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20 Chicago at Minnesota, noon Atlanta at Jacksonville, noon Houston at Indianapolis, noon Carolina at N.Y. Giants, noon Tennessee at New England, noon Buffalo at Washington, noon Kansas City at Baltimore, noon Cleveland at Seattle, 3:05 p.m. Green Bay at Oakland, 3:05 p.m. Miami at San Diego, 3:25 p.m. Cincinnati at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m. Denver at Pittsburgh, 3:25 p.m. Arizona at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21 Detroit at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

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a seat behind either the KU or OU bench for the Jayhawks’ game against the Sooners on Jan. 4 in Allen Fieldhouse. A $10 donation to Coaches Vs. Cancer gives a fan the opportunity to win free transportation and room and board in Lawrence, also a signed jersey of one of the two teams. The losing coach has agreed to pose in a selfie with the winning fan, wearing a baseball cap of the winning team. For a video of Self and Kruger explaining the contest, go to http://ljw.bz/1J8gMRM

not just happy to be going to Omaha. KU, which joins NU, Minnesota and Texas as part of a strong field, seeks the NCAA crown. “He wants the title,” Brennan said. “They are still young (losing three seniors), but like any great teams, you never know when you’ll get back again. They are happy to be there, but I know they are not satisfied.” Of coach Bechard, KU assistant Townsend said: “I talked to him today, and he had a great comment. I said, ‘You’ve got (to play) Nebraska in Omaha.’ He said, ‘None of those fans have gotten on the court and helped ’em dig the ball out or block a spike.’ He said, ‘We’ll be fine.’ When I watched the USC game, it looked like Kansas fans were louder than USC’s (in San Diego). It’s great our people went out and supported ’em. I know they’ll have the same support this week.”

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matches all season — a loss to Texas and win over USC. “Everyone knows their role,” Brennan said. “How they’ve meshed ... as long as they win, everyone’s happy. We’ve had a lot of teams like that with coach (Bill) Self, obviously. Those are the most fun teams to have. Everyone’s on the same page, everyone’s for the team and good of the program.” Brennan hopes to attend Thursday’s KU-NU match, and, if all goes well, Saturday’s NCAA final. “We have early practice Thursday. I’ll probably sneak out early,” Brennan said. “I’m glad they don’t play until 8:30. If they could play well and win, I’ll try to get l there after our game on Self, Kruger combine: Saturday (vs. Montana, 1 p.m., Allen; NCAA final is KU coach Self and Oklahoma’s Lon Kruger will 6:30 p.m.).” Brennan said his papa is treat a fan (and guest) to

Goolsby nets high honor: KC Run GMC 17-and-under coach L.J. Goolsby has been named head coach for the United States Nike Hoop Summit team, it was announced Monday. Players such as Josh Jackson, De’Aaron Fox, Jayson Tatum, Harry Giles, Marques Bolden and Jarrett Allen will play for the U.S. against an international all-star team on April 9 in Portland. l

Storming talk: Self on the

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Big 12 teleconference was asked about court storming in the wake of Des Moines Register reporter Randy Peterson breaking his leg when fans hit the court following Iowa State’s win over Iowa. “We’ve had enough warnings that something bad could occur from this. We’ve had opposing fans put their hands on opposing players. We’ve had two broken limbs (Peterson; also, a ref broke his hand in a court storming after KU at ISU a couple years ago), and both occurred within our league,” Self said. “I’m sure the commissioner and athletic directors are discussing ... are very, very aware. Certainly it’s something (debate) that does not need to proceed any further because we’ve had enough warnings. Something very negative could potentially happen. That would be something we could not get back if that occurs. I hope it can be corrected. I’m not saying totally eliminated, but if it can’t be corrected, it has to be eliminated.”

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Lions

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over four minutes in the second quarter, with four points from Stafford. The sophomore came off of the bench Monday but is one of the most experienced LHS players after starting nearly every game last year. “I see myself as a upperclassman, being a leader to them,” Stafford said. In the third quarter, freshman point guard Hannah Stewart, Boyd, Lemus and Stafford contributed to a 12-4 run in the first 51⁄2 minutes. In the final minute of the period, freshman Leslie Ostronic added a baseline jumper off an inbounds pass. “We didn’t pick up our second win until January 30th last year,” Dickson said. “Here we’re sitting on December 14th, that’s a whole different ballgame for these girls. We’ve been a little disap-

— LHS coach Jeff Dickson pointed with how we’ve started out. But to continue to work hard in practice, now we’re starting to see some of the fruits of our labor.” The Lions will travel to Kansas City (Kan.) Wyandotte at 7 p.m. today. TOPEKA WEST (24) Fherrin Manning 0-5 2-6 2, Sydney Watkins 0-3 1-2 1, Kelsey Bowers 0-5 0-0 0, Sierra Smith 0-1 0-2 0, Lauryn Davis 1-4 5-6 7, Addison Donahue 1-2 1-2 4, Savannah Guy 1-3 0-0 2, Alyssa Gentry 1-2 0-0 3, Alanna Walker 0-3 0-0 0, Riley Zook 2-3 0-0 5, Gabriella Rivera 0-0 0-1 0. Totals 6-31 9-18 24. LAWRENCE (50) Hannah Stewart 2-6 0-0 4, Olivia Lemus 2-6 2-4 6, Skylar Drum 2-4 0-0 4, Emma Bentzinger 0-2 0-0 0, Chisom Ajekwu 4-6 0-0 8, Alexis Boyd 3-7 0-0 6, E’lease Stafford 5-11 1-2 12, Talima Harjo 1-2 0-2 2, Gracie Reinsch 2-6 0-0 4, Leslie Ostronic 2-3 0-0 4, Asia Goodwin 0-3 0-2 0, Sammy Williams 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-57 3-10 50. Topeka West 1 8 6 9 — 24 Lawrence 16 16 14 4 — 50 Three-point goals: Topeka West 3-12 (Donahue, Gentry, Zook); Lawrence 1-8 (Stafford). Turnovers: Topeka West 20, Lawrence 7.

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(First published in the tion of the estate, and no Lawrence Daily Journal- notice of any action of the World December 8, 2015) Executor or other proceedings in the administration IN THE DISTRICT COURT will be given, except for OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, notice of final settlement KANSAS of decedent’s estate. In the Matter of the Estate of William Copp, Deceased. Case No. 2015-PR-000196 Division I Proceeding Under K.S.A. Chapter 59. NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that on December 3, 2015, a petition was filed in this court by Patricia Boyle, Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of William Copp, dated January 26, 2004, praying that the Will filed with the petition be admitted to probate and record; that Patricia Boyle be appointed as Executor without bond; and that she be granted Letters Testamentary under the Kansas Simplified Estates Act. You are further advised that under the provisions of the Kansas Simplified Estates Act, the court need not supervise administra-

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on January 7, 2016 at the DEBT AND ANY INFORMAtime of 10:00 AM, the fol- TION OBTAINED WILL BE lowing real estate: USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. _______ LOT 17, IN BLOCK 1, IN PRAIRIE MEADOWS ES- (First published in the TATES, AN ADDITION TO Lawrence Daily JournalTHE CITY OF LAWRENCE, World December 1, 2015) AS SHOWN BY THE REIN THE DISTRICT COURT CORDED PLAT THEREOF, IN OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANKANSAS CIVIL SAS. Tax I.D. NO. U16012BQ, DEPARTMENT Commonly known as 2908 W 23rd Terr, Lawrence, KS Federal National 66047 (“the Property”) Mortgage Association MS119282 Plaintiff, to satisfy the judgment in vs. the above entitled case. The sale is to be made Bradford B. Hinkle; John without appraisement and Doe (Tenant/Occupant); subject to the redemption Mary Doe period as provided by law, (Tenant/Occupant); and further subject to the Elizabeth A. Hinkle; approval of the Court. Evanston Insurance Company; Household Douglas County Sheriff Finance Corp III, Defendants. MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC By: /s/ Chad R. Doornink Case No. 15CV366 Chad R. Doornink, #23536 cdoornink@msfirm.com Court Number: Jason A. Orr, #22222 jorr@msfirm.com 8900 Indian Creek Park- Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 way, Suite 180 Overland Park, KS 66210 (913) 339-9132 NOTICE OF SUIT (913) 339-9045 (fax) MS File No. 119282.342670 THE STATE OF KANSAS, to KJFC the above-named defendants and the unknown ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF heirs, executors, adminisMILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS trators, devisees, trustees, ATTORNEYS FOR BANK OF creditors and assigns of AMERICA, N.A. IS AT- any deceased defendants; TEMPTING TO COLLECT A the unknown spouses of

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to plead to the Petition on or before the 11th day of January, 2016, in the District Court of Douglas County,Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition. NOTICE Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Brian R. Hazel (KS #21804) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913) 663-7600 (913) 663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (184747) _______

Lot 1, in Michael Street West Subdivision, a Resurvey and Replat of Lots 10, 11, 12, and 13, Faye Hird Addition, an Addition to the City of Lawrence, (First published in the Douglas County, Kansas, Lawrence Daily Journalcommonly known as 3928 World December 15, 2015) West 11th Place, Lawrence, KS 66049 (the “Property”) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, and all those defendants KANSAS who have not otherwise DIVISION SEVEN been served are required

IN THE MATTER OF THE IRREVOCABLE TRUST ESTATE FOR CHARLES RANDALL SAYLER CREATED UNDER THE CHARLES KEITH SAYLER RESTATED REVOCABLE TRUST DATED MAY 30, 2014 Case No. 2015-CV-652 NOTICE OF HEARING You are notified that a status hearing has been set for January 8, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in Division Seven of the District Court, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, at which time and place pending motions, including a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings and Proposed Case Management Order, and such other matters the court deems appropriate, will be heard. Should you fail to appear or file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course. Respectfully Submitted, /s/ Miranda K. Carmona Miranda K. Carmona#21630 GOODELL, STRATTON, EDMONDS & PALMER, L.L.P. 515 South Kansas Avenue Topeka, Kansas 66603 (785) 233-0593 (785) 233-8870 (fax) mcarmona@gseplaw.com Attorneys for Petitioners ________