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City wants Oread group to repay $520K By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @NikkiWentling

The city is seeking more than $500,000 from the developers of The Oread hotel after a city-ordered audit found the development group filed incorrect sales tax returns in order to receive sales tax rebates from the city and the county. The improper reimbursements, which were paid from January 2010 through May 2015, total $429,594.74. The city is charging developers $63,320.11 in interest, as well as the cost of the audit, which is estimated at slightly more

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This is certainly a situation that was not contemplated by the city, that than $27,000. The total bill is ed by the city, that something almost $520,000. like this would be occurring,” something like this City officials sent a letter Interim City Manager Diane would be occurring.” to the developers Wednesday demanding repayment by Dec. 31. The findings of the development group’s actions — some of which are thought by the auditing firm to violate Kansas law — have been forwarded to the Kansas Department of Revenue. “This is certainly a situation that was not contemplat-

Stoddard said. “In this particular case, we worked hard — Interim City Manager to get to the bottom of what Diane Stoddard was occurring, and, in the end, we want what is fair to the city.” “He indicated to me that Stoddard said she spoke he wanted to resolve the Wednesday morning with matter,” she said. Thomas Fritzel, a Lawrence Fritzel did not answer a businessman who leads the phone call Wednesday evening development group behind Please see OREAD, page 5A The Oread.

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No-gun zones a matter of cost under Regents’ plan By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

The Kansas Board of Regents’ proposed new weapons policy will give individual universities the freedom to choose which, if any, buildings or events to prohibit guns from. BOARD OF However, under state law, REGENTS doing so would require universities to put in place adequate Inside: The security measures such as met- Board of al detectors or guards at those Regents has buildings or events, which approved a could be costly. proposal to “They’re going to have to require all weigh that,” Regents chairman state univerShane Bangerter said. “There’s sities to add limits, obviously.” transcript The Regents Governance notations Committee on Wednesday ap- for students proved draft amendments to expelled for the statewide weapons policy forcible sex and forwarded them to the offenses or full board for a final vote, another serious ticipated in January. Amending personal ofthe policy is needed to account fenses. 3A for changes to state law that require universities to allow concealed carry of guns on campus beginning in July 2017. Please see GUN, page 5A

State contractors warn of Highway Fund dipping By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

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STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY TRANSITION PROGRAM, or C-TRAN, sing Christmas carols to residents at the Pioneer Ridge Health & Rehab skilled nursing facility, 4851 Harvard Road, on Wednesday. C-TRAN is for students ages 18 through 21 and offers development opportunities for secondary transition and college and career readiness of youth with disabilities. See the video at LJWorld.com/ctran2015

Updated East Ninth Project plans get tepid response By Mackenzie Clark Twitter: @mclark_ljw

The architecture firm el dorado inc. presented the East Ninth Citizen Advisory Committee with two updated, preliminary design plans at its meeting Wednesday. Josh Shelton, a principal with el dorado inc., presented both plans to the committee in detail. The first plan offers a complete street option with a wider

road with equal right-of-way space to the north and south. The street is wide enough to include bike lanes on either side. Shelton said the first plan was closer to what currently exists in the corridor than the second plan, which justifies the street to the south curb edge and makes room to the north for an 8- to 10-foot-wide sidewalk for pedestrians and bicyclists. Shelton said both plans would allow the street to remain a designated truck de-

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be impossible, the plan would add a secondary sidewalk, or a “recreation trail.” Phil Collison, an East Lawrence Neighborhood Association representative, raised concerns about the addition of a second sidewalk. “Which sidewalk would need to be shoveled in the wintertime, and who’s responsible for shoveling it, if there’s two sidewalks like that?” Collison Please see NINTH, page 2A

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livery route, and both would maintain much of the historic brick sidewalk that lines the street, as well as most of the nearby trees. He noted neither plan includes medians nor a curve in the street, which had been a concern at previous meetings. In the first plan, Shelton said, an artisan brick layer could widen the existing brick sidewalks to 5 feet in order to be ADA accessible. However, for some areas where that would

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Topeka — An organization that represents highway construction companies is launching a campaign to discourage any more raids on the state Highway Fund to make up for revenue shortfalls that pay for other government programs. “Our message basically is that we’re not taking care of the quality of life,” said Bob Totten, executive vice president of the Kansas Contractors Association. “We have seen a deterioration in the amount of money that is being put into the whole state budget.” Since Kansas lawmakers approved the current 10-year, $8 billion highway program known as T-Works in 2010, Totten said, governors and legislators have continually raided the fund to make up for revenue shortfalls in other areas. Just within the past year, he said, about $300 million has been transferred to the general fund, or nearly $1 million per day. The result, he said, is that the state will only do a small fraction of the “preservation” projects that were originally planned, which he said will eventually force the state to spend money on more costly repairs in the future. Those include such routine things as repaving roads and bridges, filling potholes and repairing shoulders along the roughly 140,000 miles of roadway in the state highway system.

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Wilbur Dean Garrison, Jr. Private family services for Wilbur Garrison, Jr., 57, Lawrence will be held at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. He died Tues., Dec. 8th at his home.

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“It’s not the gigantic South Lawrence Trafficway projects. It’s the minor preservation work that has to be done or the roads are going to fall apart,” Totten said. He said the original TWorks plan called for doing an average of 1,200 miles of preservation work each year. Instead, he said, “KDOT is doing 200 miles for the next two years.” “We were scheduled to (repair) or fix 115 bridges a year. That’s an average. We have about 18 percent of our bridges structurally deficient,” he said. “We’re going to do 58. That doesn’t work, and our contention, as the pros who know the work, is that in three or four years, or five years, we’re going to have to do substantially more.” But Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Mike King disagreed that the transfers out of the highway fund will have a negative impact on the program or on the highways themselves. “Our Interstate is system is No. 1 in the nation in terms of the quality of our interstate,” he said. “We’re in the top five or top 10 in the nation in our state

routes and bridges. We’re meeting our targets.” King said the state could afford to take money out of the highway program in large part because the projects have ended up costing substantially less than expected when the 2010 legislation was approved. He pointed to three factors that have held those costs down: record-low petroleum prices, which have reduced the cost of asphalt, operating trucks and other equipment; recordlow interest rates that have reduced the cost of borrowing money; and a new federal highway bill he said will bring an estimated $30 million a year in additional federal highway funds to Kansas. Totten said the construction industry is concerned that additional transfers out of the highway fund are being planned, noting that KDOT recently issued another $400 million in highway bonds, putting the total amount of bonds issued under the project at about $1.8 billion, more than was originally authorized under the T-Works program. But lawmakers raised that cap during the 2015 session, and King said KDOT’s financial advisers strongly urged the agency to issue more bonds before the anticipated interest rate hike announced by the Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday.

CORRECTION A story in Wednesday’s Journal-World about a temporary location for Greyhound buses to stop in Lawrence contained incorrect information. The buses will stop at the northeast side of Sixth and New Hampshire streets, near Riverfront Plaza, for up to six months while the bus system searches for a permanent location in the city.

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Notation policy for serious offenders OK’d by Regents

From the Archives HASKELL INDIAN INSTITUTE’S BASKETBALL TEAM, SHOWN HERE ON MARCH 14, 1956, AFTER THE TEAM’S 64-45 SEMIFINAL WIN OVER FREDONIA, was set to face Rosedale High of Kansas City in Hutchinson for the Class A State Tournament in Hutchinson. Kneeling left and right are Haskell head coach Tony Coffin and assistant Rupert Thompson. In the front row from left are Ken Bailey, Wayne Jimboy, Walter Postoak, Tom Sugar and Cecil Jefferson. In the back row are Wayne Postoak, Eugene Black, Bob McCosar, Elliot Ryal and Willie Sevier. It was the first time Haskell ever advanced to the finals of a state basketball event. Rosedale High won the tournament that year. Each week, usually on Thursday, the Journal-World runs a photo from its archives, chosen by chief photographer Mike Yoder, that gives a glimpse into Lawrence’s past.

ic misconduct transcript notations for students expelled for forcible sex Topeka — If students offenses or other serious have been kicked out of personal offenses. another school or crimiTo catch serious offendnally convicted for ers coming from sexual assault, state community coluniversity leaders leges or out-of-state want to know beschools, the policy fore agreeing to adalso would require mit them. state universities to University presi- BOARD OF ask on admission dents gave their REGENTS and readmission apstamp of approval plications whether on Wednesday to a pro- students have been conposed Kansas Board victed of a personal crime of Regents policy that or suspended or expelled would help inform them. from any other educationThe proposed policy al institution. requires all state univerPlease see POLICY, page 4A sities to add nonacademBy Sara Shepherd

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Trial set for man accused of rape, burglary Humane Society gets $500,000 estate gift

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A Douglas County District Court judge on Wednesday ordered Ryan Allen Miller, who is accused of raping two women and burglarizing four homes on Nov. 7, to stand trial in late March. During Miller’s preliminary hearing Wednesday, at which he entered a plea of not guilty, Judge Kay Huff listened to testimony from seven crime victims, Miller including two women who testified that Miller sexually assaulted them. Douglas County District At-

torney Charles Branson also submitted an amended complaint on Wednesday that added two new charges of kidnapping. In all, Miller, 36, of Lawrence, faces 15 criminal charges, including rape, criminal threat, two counts of aggravated sodomy, two counts of kidnapping, four counts of aggravated assault and five counts of aggravated burglary. Miller, dressed in a gray shirt and red pants, his hair cropped close, sat quietly watching as victims recounted the events of a late-night crime spree in the 800 blocks of Missouri, Maine and Alabama streets.

All but one of the crime victims who testified Wednesday identified Miller as the suspect. A witness who lived at a home on Alabama Street — the first home Miller is accused of breaking into — testified that Miller was wearing a mask and carrying a weapon, which Lawrence police later identified as a BB gun. Miller attempted to break in through a door, got in partway, and had an altercation with the witness, who also testified that she grabbed the gun’s barrel and pushed it upward. Miller then fled, leaving behind the mask, according to the witness’ testimony. Please see MILLER, page 4A

By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

The Lawrence Humane Society said Wednesday that it has received a gift of nearly $500,000 from the estate of Ann L. Hyde, who died June 19, 2014. The gift is meant to assist with the organization’s upcoming major renovation or the building of a new facility. “This gift will have an

enormous impact in the lives of homeless animals, and we are all so incredibly grateful for it,” said Kate Meghji, executive director for the Lawrence Humane Society. In a news release, the Humane Society said Hyde’s gift will provide about 10 percent of the funding needed to complete the planned $5 million building project. Please see GIFT, page 4A

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Kansas’ U.S. attorney criticizes attempts to block Syrian refugees Wichita (ap) — The U.S. attorney for Kansas has issued a statement criticizing efforts to bar Syrian refugees from entering the country, and discouraging discriminatory acts against Muslims in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris. The Wichita Eagle reports that U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Tuesday that decisions regarding the resettlement of

refugees are part of the federal government’s authority over immigration. Several governors, including Gov. Sam Brownback, have spoken out against letting Syrian refugees into the United States, citing that terrorists could enter the country disguised as refugees. Brownback signed an executive order in November directing that no state agency or organization

that receives state money participate in the relocation of Syrian refugees. Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said the refugee resettlement program is a collaboration between the state and federal government. “It is well within the governor’s authority to direct how state agencies and groups receiving state funding use those funds,” Hawley said.

In his statement, Grissom says fear of terrorism is no reason for backlash against Muslims in America. He also says the Department of Justice will act to enforce hate crime laws. “We always have a concern when we see rhetoric cross the line and become threats or violence,” he said. “It is the responsibility of all Americans of every faith to reject discrimination.”

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the living room where several friends were, she testified. Miller then swung the gun around the room, pointed it at them, said again he was not going to hurt anyone and went out the front door, she said. Miller then allegedly went to a house on Missouri Street. A man who lives in that house testified that Miller quickly left when the man, who was using a computer in another room, called out after hearing a noise. Miller then allegedly went to another house on Missouri Street. Two wom-

en in the house testified that he sexually assaulted them. After an altercation with the man, in which one of them said she tried to shoot him with his gun, the women were able to flee the house. Police said they found Miller hiding in the basement wearing only his socks. Two detectives testified that Miller gave a videorecorded confession to the crimes over about two and a half hours. The detectives said Miller told them he broke into houses for money to buy drugs and to get his

car out of the tow lot. Branden Smith, Miller’s court-appointed attorney, said the confession included a statement by Miller that he was high on methamphetamine at the time of the crimes. Smith said he intended to file a motion to suppress some of the statements Miller made to detectives. Miller is being held on a $1 million bond in the Douglas County Jail. His trial is scheduled for the week of March 28.

for its facility once it had gathered 50 percent to 60 percent of the total cost. She estimated that would be sometime before 2017. “We’re really going to ramp it up in 2016 because we need something done about the building,” Meghji said. Meghji would not say how much had already been raised. The Journal-World reported in July that the Humane Society’s facility had a lack of space and seclusion areas, faulty air-conditioning and a

leaking ceiling. The layout of the kennels causes stress for the animals, according to the report. Meghji said it was not yet certain whether the Humane Society would renovate the current facility or build a new one. If it chose a new building, it would be constructed the Humane Society’s 4 acres at 1805 E. 19th St., she said. It’s also unsure when the project would begin, but “the sooner, the better,” Meghji said. “Every month it seems like there’s something

that breaks or some major repair that has to happen,” she said. The Humane Society took a request to the Lawrence City Commission in July for $2.5 million to be paid over two years. The request was denied, but commissioners said they’d help explore other funding options for the project. Douglas County commissioners denied Meghji’s request for $450,000 in July, but did grant $43,000 — up from $28,000 last year — for the shelter’s stray animal program.

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Minutes afterward, Miller allegedly broke into a house on Maine Street where several college students lived and were entertaining friends. One of the witnesses testified that she walked into the kitchen just as Miller came through the door. He turned and pointed a gun at her, she testified. He told her he would not hurt her as she backed into

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Hyde was born in 1930 in New York City and is a 1960 graduate of Kansas University, according to the release. She was the manuscripts librarian in the Department of Special Collections at KU’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library, retiring in 2000. Meghji said the organization would start a public fundraising campaign

— Reporter Karen Dillon can be reached at kdillon@ljworld.com or at 382-7162.

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If approved, the policy would go into effect July 1, 2017. After Wednesday’s approval by the Regents Council of Presidents, the next steps are consideration by the Regents Governance Committee and then the full board, which could happen as early as February. It was students, via the Regents Students’ Advisory Committee, who first introduced the idea last year, Regents general counsel Julene Miller said. The resulting proposal is not as broad as what students initially requested, Miller said, but individual schools may enact tougher policies if they wish. “These are the required,” Miller said. “If you want to make academic or nonacademic transcript notations beyond these, you are still free to do so.” According to the proposed policy, if a university expels a student for assault, criminal homicide (including murder and negligent manslaughter), kidnapping or a forcible sex offense, the school must add “nonacademic expulsion” to that student’s transcript. If a disciplinary decision is reversed after an appeal, the notation must be removed. The language for those four offenses comes directly from the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, Miller said. Since the transcript wording itself is generic, it would be up to university officials to contact one another to communicate what type of offense caused the notation. “The existence of a criminal conviction or disciplinary suspension/ expulsion shall not automatically result in refusal of admission, but may be

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These are the required (transcript notations). If you want to make academic or nonacademic transcript notations beyond these, you are still free to do so.” — Kansas Regents general counsel Julene Miller

the basis for refusal to admit or for placement of conditions on admission,” the proposed policy says. FERPA — often cited as the reason universities won’t disclose anything about student conduct proceedings — does allow university officials to share some information without students’ consent. That includes communicating disciplinary results with officials at an institution where the student seeks to enroll. Of the six Regents universities, two — Kansas University and Kansas State University — already apply nonacademic misconduct notations. Wichita State University President John Bardo said his school gets a lot of transfers coming from community colleges, so lacking information about offenses they may have committed was a problem. The Regents do not have authority to require the same notations from community colleges, Miller said. But asking about criminal or school discipline history on admissions forms is hoped to help plug that gap. “Students, you have to trust them to tell you the truth, but you have a question to tell you whether they’ve been dismissed from another institution,” she said. — KU and higher ed reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at 832-7187 or sshepherd@ljworld.com.

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Findings The final report from the audit, which was conducted by Wichita-based Allen, Gibbs & Houlik, focused on Oread Wholesale L.C., a business owned by Fritzel, who also is a leader of the group that developed The Oread hotel. As previously reported, Oread Wholesale is registered with the Kansas Secretary of State’s office as having an office at The Oread, 1200 Oread Ave. Businesses located at 1200 Oread Ave. are part of a special taxing district approved by city commissioners in 2008. That special taxing district allows the hotel’s development group to receive a rebate on a large percentage of all local sales taxes collected at 1200 Oread Ave. In addition, the property is part of a transportation development district that allows businesses at 1200 Oread to charge an extra 1 percent sales tax. That audit alleges Oread Wholesale would buy items — everything from construction materials to supplies for The Oread hotel — from vendors without paying a sales tax. Oread Wholesale then would “sell” those items to other companies in which Fritzel has an ownership interest. The sales would be recorded as occurring at 1200 Oread Ave., which means the sales taxes paid by Fritzel’s companies would largely be rebated back to the Fritzel-led development group. The audit alleges Oread Wholesale wasn’t actually selling any goods or services to the companies, but rather was just being reimbursed by the Fritzel-led firms. The auditors contend Oread Wholesale should have paid sales tax on the items when they were first purchased, and that sales tax would not be subject to be rebated back to the hotel development group. The special taxing district has generated more than $3 million in sales and property tax reimbursements from the city since its creation. Stoddard said that when the redevelopment agreement went before the Lawrence City Commission in 2008, it was not known that a wholesale company would be located there. A reporter went to The Oread in November to find Oread Wholesale’s registered office but could not locate one. In addition to questions about whether Oread Wholesale was truly engaged in retail sales, auditors discovered most of Oread Wholesale’s transactions — 69 percent — were made outside of the special taxing district. The city gave reimbursements to The Oread based off of “materially inaccurate” sales tax returns filed by Oread Wholesale, the report states. As an example, auditors found that materials purchased by Oread Wholesale for the construction of the Varsity House apartment project were delivered to Varsity House at 1043 Indiana St. According to city maps of the special taxing district, Varsity House falls outside its boundaries. But Oread Wholesale main-

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The policy will require each university to create policies and procedures “for the safe possession and storage of lawfully possessed handguns.” Bangerter said the Regents want to see those by June, giving universities a full year to prepare for implementing the policies and undertake any training. The new draft contains some changes to an earlier draft the Journal-World reported on in early November. The most notable change is that, under the new draft,

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tained Varsity House was inside the district. The report goes on to say the circumstances surrounding Oread Wholesale “strongly suggest” developers created and used the business only to improperly increase the amount of sales tax reimbursements to The Oread. Fritzel told auditors the wholesale business was used to purchase property in bulk — and without sales tax — and then sell it to The Oread, Eldridge Hotel and Varsity House, all of which Fritzel partially owns. Each month, Oread Inn and DFC Company of Lawrence L.C. — the name of the group that owns Varsity House — reimbursed Oread Wholesale for the materials they purchased. Oread Wholesale would charge Kansas sales tax to those reimbursements. Then, The Oread would include that sales tax in its request for city reimbursements. “There doesn’t appear to be any other reason to have the entities work in the way they were working, other than to have the effect of increasing sales within the district,” Stoddard said. Further, auditors said in their report that they thought Oread Wholesale violated Kansas law by improperly using a Kansas Resale Exemption Certificate for all of its purchases. Auditors wrote that the transactions between Oread Wholesale, The Oread hotel and DFC do not count as “retail sales” under the Kansas Retailers’ Sales Tax Act because there was no exchange of property. Oread Wholesale should have been paying taxes on all of its purchases, the audit reads.

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of Revenue policy that requires businesses to retain only three years’ worth of records. It was found that Oread Wholesale also filed forms with the state to amend some of its sales tax returns after the city contacted the business about the audit, the report states. The changes reduced net sales within the special tax district by nearly 62 percent. Before they had access to Oread Wholesale’s books, auditors used numbers from 2015 to estimate The Oread hotel had received $470,003.20 in improper reimbursements. Auditors sent to Oread Wholesale a letter demanding repayment of that amount on Nov. 13. Ten days later, Oread Wholesale provided auditors with two boxes containing copies of documents the business used to prepare its monthly sales tax returns. The documents, dated January 2012 through June 2015, were used to determine that Oread Wholesale was overpaid a total of $429,594.74.

Process The city worked to engage an auditing firm after the Journal-World inquired about Oread Wholesale — based on an anonymous tip — in February. An “Understanding of Engagement” with Allen, Gibbs & Houlik was signed in May. A copy of that document was obtained by the Journal-World through an open-records request in November. Stoddard said the arrangement with the auditing firm did not go before the City Commission at the time because “we did not know the extent of the issues.” City Attorney Toni Wheeler said another reason the arrangement was not made public was because it’s a “legal dispute” and the city did not want to “forecast what our legal theories might be.” A statement sent Wednesday from the city said it has been “as transparent as possible at appropriate points in the process of review.” Auditors first met with Fritzel on June 16. For the next five months, Oread Wholesale “resisted the city’s efforts” to review the business’ books and records, the report states. It wanted the auditing firm to “substantially” modify its standard confidential disclosure agreement. Prior to the audit, the city had not been receiving the business’ sales tax returns “in a timely manner,” Stoddard said. Oread Wholesale told the city it had destroyed all of its books and records prior to January 2012. Its practice was to do so because of a Kansas Department

Future dealings Commissioners have been planning to discuss early next year possible changes to the city’s economic development incentives policies. Mayor Mike Amyx said Wednesday that transparency requirements for businesses receiving public incentives would be part of those talks. The city does not currently have access to all of the invoices for sales within special taxing districts, Stoddard said. She noted the city would consider strengthening agreements such as the one it has with The Oread to improve access to records for the purpose of auditing. “We certainly want to learn everything we can with this kind of situation and do what we can moving forward to make sure it doesn’t happen,” Stoddard said. Because of the findings of The Oread audit, the city has been looking into Lawrence’s other special taxing districts. So far, Stoddard said, no issues have been found. According to the city’s 2014 report on economic development support and compliance, there are two other transportation development districts: The Free State (Bauer Farm) district and the Ninth and New Hampshire district. There also are two other tax increment financing districts: the Downtown 2000 district and the Ninth and New Hampshire district. “We haven’t at this point noted any abnormalities,” Stoddard said. When asked whether the special tax district at The Oread would remain intact, she said the city is “looking at all of our options.” “Our first interest is to get a response to the demand letter we have sent,” she said. When asked about the city’s future dealings with the development group, Amyx said the audit’s findings “would be a factor.” Stoddard said the findings would have to be weighed by the City Commission. “Anyone we enter into agreements with, yeah, there’s trust, as there is in any business relationship,” Amyx said. “You rely on partnership.”

universities won’t be required to provide secure gun storage for students, such as at the university police station — a service Kansas and Emporia State universities already offer but other state universities do not. That requirement was removed because some universities were concerned about liability, said Julene Miller, general counsel for the Regents. Other points of the draft policy: l Each university must determine whether guns will be prohibited in specific buildings or areas and, if so, provide adequate security measures and signage — either permanent

or temporary — at entrances. Universities must provide the Regents Governance Committee with a list of these buildings, the rationale for banning guns from them and the security measures in place. l Universities may implement adequate security measures on a “temporary, as-needed basis.” Those must be outlined in the school’s annual security report to the Regents. l If adequate security measures are used to prohibit guns in stadiums or other large venues requiring tickets for admission, tickets must state that concealed carry will be prohibited at the event.

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Document all of bitter husband’s aggression Dear Annie: My husband has been stalling our divorce for two years, trying to keep me broke. We have two children, the oldest in college. Their father and his parents badmouth me to them and tell them inappropriate reasons about why I left the marriage, none of which are true. Fortunately, my children know this. But I never thought my husband would involve his children in this manner. I was truly hoping we would come out of this on good terms and be able to co-parent like adults, but my husband blames me for everything. He has not been honest with his parents, which might explain why they are upset with me. But they also treat the children poorly since the separation. My husband brings in nearly five times my sal-

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ary, but he pays a minimal amount of child support. Much of our money is being spent on lawyers because he fights over everything. His need to hurt me is only hurting the children. There are no rules at Dad’s house. He uses money to gain favor, and I believe he thinks they will live with him if he wipes me out. How do I get him to put his children ahead of his hate? — Fighting for My Kids Dear Fighting: It is

One-episode season of ‘Luther’ Whatever happened to the idea of a TV “season”? Folks have waited all year for the next season of “Downton Abbey.” The PBS favorite returns on Jan. 3 for eight episodes before fading to black. Perhaps “Luther” (8 p.m., BBC America, TV-MA) holds the record for shortest season. It returns tonight for a fourth season of exactly one feature-length episode. In the U.K. it aired over two nights. For the uninitiated, Idris Elba stars as detective chief inspector John Luther, a brooding, laconic type who’s surrounded by extraordinary frenemies who push the boundaries between adult drama and comic book villains. My favorite of these characters is, or rather was, Alice Morgan (Ruth Wilson, “The Affair”), a fetching redhead who is a bewitching homicidal maniac and a flirty genius to boot. Wilson’s character won’t be returning in tonight’s special, but “Game of Thrones” star Rose Leslie has joined the cast. “Downton” fans may recall Leslie as Gwen Dawson, a housemaid from season one. She reprises her role briefly in the final season of “Downton.” Perhaps I’ve said too much. The first three “seasons” of “Luther” can be streamed on Netflix. There are just 14 episodes.

“Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2015” (8:30 p.m., ABC) rounds up the year’s top “newsmakers.” They include movie and TV stars Bradley Cooper, Amy Schumer and Tracy Morgan; mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); ballerina Misty Copeland; and designer Donna Karan.

Darius Rucker hosts “American Country Countdown’s Top 10 Stories of 2015” (7 p.m., Fox, TV-14). Look for performances by Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean and Little Big Town among others. Tonight’s holiday highlights

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for Santa in the 2014 special “How Murray Saved Christmas” (7 p.m., NBC, TV-G).

Elves bring military precision to the North Pole in my least favorite Christmas specials, “Disney Prep and Landing” (7 p.m., ABC, TV-G) and “Disney Prep and Landing 2: Naughty vs. Nice” (7:30 p.m., ABC, TV-G). Tonight’s other highlights

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the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on “Thursday Night Football” (7:25 p.m., NFL).

Morland plays decoy on “Elementary” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

President Barack Obama appears on “Running Wild With Bear Grylls” (9 p.m., NBC, TVPG).

“Funniest Commercials of the Year 2015” (9 p.m., Spike) rounds up amusing spots.

truly sad that so many parents are willing to hurt the children in order to punish the spouses. You cannot force your husband to be more grown up, so protect yourself. Document every instance of manipulation or parental alienation by him or his parents, and give a copy to your lawyer. It may also help to get counseling for your children to weather the storm. Dear Annie: I would like to add to your response to “Wiser Now” and “Foolish Daughter,” whose parents left estates to children who were less involved. The hurt feelings caused when parents show favoritism not only affect the child who has been slighted, but also the relationship the child has with the sibling who was favored — not to mention residual feel-

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Thursday, Dec. 17: This year your creativity plays a dominant role in your day-to-day life. You might want to keep a notebook for your ideas and dreams. If you are single, you could meet someone any day, any time. If you are attached, you seem to be able to make your sweetie happy. The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) Your sixth sense points to doing a better job, and clues you in to how to deal with a controlling individual. Tonight: Listen, but don’t contribute. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Emphasize working with others; you’ll find the results to be much better if you do. Understand what is motivating you. Tonight: Among the crowds. Gemini (May 21-June 20) Rather than do nothing, throw yourself into your to-do list. You might be surprised by what you can accomplish. Tonight: Be grateful for what you have. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Look at the big picture, and know full well what you want to accomplish. Tonight: Make sure you have mistletoe nearby. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You can’t help but respond to others directly, specifically one person. Stay close to home, if possible. Tonight: Be with a favorite person.

ings toward the parent. My parents have been dead for years, but I am still acutely aware that my sister was Mom’s favorite. And although I have a relationship with my sister, it is always in the back of my mind that my mother’s treatment of her was different than her treatment of the rest of us. — Still Bitter Dear Bitter: We have stated before that the bequests in a will are often perceived by children as a reflection on how much they were loved by the parent, especially when bequests are unequal between siblings. Parents may think they are doing the right thing, but the results can poison the relationship between siblings forever. — Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Be aware of your dependency on others. You cannot control anyone else’s mood. Tonight: Go along with plans. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You might lose your cool because you’re fed up with the holidays and overwhelmed. Use care with spending. Tonight: Head home early. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Your creativity perks up when you hit an obstacle. Refuse to overthink a talk with a contrary person. Tonight: Ever playful. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) A family issue or a personal matter seems to dominate your thoughts. Tonight: A friend is full of energy. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) A boss often is contrary, and you might not want to deal with this person right now. Tonight: Act with certainty. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Be aware of the costs of continuing as you have been. Be more upbeat, and trust your instincts. Tonight: Try to complete shopping ASAP. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You’re in your element right now, with the exception of having to deal with a boss. Detach if you must. Look at the big picture. Tonight: Find your friends. — The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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Wishful thinking There seems to be little hard evidence to justify Gov. Sam Brownback’s optimism on the state economy.

ov. Sam Brownback’s discussion of the state economy sounds a little like the police officer telling people at the scene of an accident, “Move along, folks; nothing to see here.” The less Kansans focus on the details of the state economy, the better. In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Brownback brushed aside any suggestion that painful budget cuts may be necessary to close a projected deficit of about $160 million for the fiscal year that begins next July. He didn’t provide much solid data to back up his optimism, saying simply, “I think we’re going to be in good shape.” The governor did point to the state’s 4.1 percent unemployment for October. According to the federal labor statistics compiled by a Topeka newspaper, that’s below the national rate (5 percent) and puts Kansas in the middle among its neighbors — below Oklahoma (4.3 percent) and Missouri (5 percent) but above Nebraska (2.9 percent) and Colorado (3.8 percent). The governor expressed frustration with critics who say that the business tax cuts he helped push into law aren’t achieving the economy boom that Brownback predicted. It’s true that Kansas has more private sector jobs than it did a year ago, but the state still is lagging behind the nation and most of its neighbors in job growth. From the start of the Great Recession in December 2007 through October 2014, private sector jobs in Kansas rose by 2.5 percent and the October 2015 figures represented a 1.1 percent increase from October 2014. Both of those figures ranked Kansas fourth among the five central states. A 0.2 percent jobs increase from September 2015 to October 2015 put Kansas in third place among those five. Despite those lackluster figures, Brownback continues to say there’s no need to revisit the state’s tax policy, which has shifted the tax burden away from business owners, many with high incomes, onto sales taxes and other “consumption” taxes that fall disproportionately on lower-income Kansans. Brownback wants to stay the course. “I don’t think we ought to be messing with taxes,” he said. “The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs. What we’re doing here is — it’s the same moral argument — we’re giving small business a tax break and why are you doing it? To get jobs.” But what happens if those tax breaks aren’t creating new jobs beyond what is attributable to an upswing in the nation’s economy? What if Kansas business people choose to keep the money they gain through the tax breaks for their own personal use while lowerincome Kansans pick up the revenue slack? How does that fit with the “moral argument”? The moral argument is important, but so is the practical impact of the state’s economic policy, including the state’s ability to meet its basic responsibilities for education, transportation and other public services. The governor can keep saying “we’re going to be in good shape,” but it’s hard for Kansans to see that attitude as anything more than wishful thinking.

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Washington — History, on the “right side” of which Barack Obama endeavors to keep us, has a sense of whimsy. Proof of which is something happening this week: Britain’s last deep-pit coal mine is closing, a small event pertinent to an enormous event, the Industrial Revolution, which was ignited by British coal. The mine closure should not, however, occasion cartwheels by the climate’s saviors, fresh from their Paris achievement. The mine is primarily a casualty of declining coal prices, a result

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A single word change that brought the agreement to fruition: It replaced a command (nations ‘shall’ do so and so) with an entreaty (nations ‘should’ do so and so).” of burgeoning world energy supplies. Thanks largely to the developing world, demand for coal is expected to increase for at least another quarter-century. The mine is closing immediately after the planet’s latest “turning point” — the 21st U.N. climate change conference since 1995, each heralded as a “turning point.” The climate conference, like God in Genesis, looked upon its work and found it very good. It did so in spite of, or perhaps because of, this fact: Any agreement about anything involving nearly 200 nations will necessarily be primarily aspirational, exhorting voluntary compliance with

inconsequential expectations — to “report” on this and “monitor” that. A single word change that brought the agreement to fruition: It replaced a command (nations “shall” do so and so) with an entreaty (nations “should” do so and so). Secretary of State John Kerry knew that any agreement requiring U.S. expenditures and restrictions on wealth creation would founder on the reef of representative government. He remembers why Bill Clinton flinched from seeking Senate ratification of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol: The Senate voted 95-0 for a resolution disapproving the Protocol’s principles, with Massachusetts Sen. Kerry among the 95. Eighteen years later, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, one of whose invaluable functions is to be a wet blanket about moveable feasts such as the Paris conference, says: “Before (the president’s) international partners pop the champagne, they should remember that this is an unattainable deal based on a (U.S.) domestic energy plan that is likely illegal, that half the states have sued to halt, and that Congress has already voted to reject.” The Paris agreement probably occasions slight excitement among the plan-

et’s billion people who lack electricity, and the hundreds of millions in need of potable water. Historians, write Walter Russell Mead and Jamie Horgan of The American Interest, are likely to say that the Paris agreement ended climate change the way the 1928 KelloggBriand Treaty ended war. But as the ink dries on the Paris gesture of right-mindedness, let us praise the solar energy source most responsible for the surge of human betterment that began with the harnessing of fossil fuels around 1800. The source is, of course, coal, a still abundant and indispensable form in which the sun’s energy has been captured from carbon-based life. Matt Ridley, a member of a British coal-producing family and author of “The Rational Optimist,” notes that the path of mankind’s progress, material as well as moral, has been from reliance on renewable but insufficient energy sources to today’s 85 percent reliance on energy from fossil fuels. The progression has been from reliance on human (often slaves’) muscles, to animal energy (first oxen, then horses), to burning wood and peat as stores of sunlight, to energy from water and wind, to, at last, fossil fuels.

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Bleak future To the editor: Where’s Clarence now, when we really need him. In the film, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” he was the angel (played by Henry Travers) who came down to Bedford Falls and showed George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) what a bleak future the town would face if George jumped off the bridge on Christmas Eve and let the bankers, oligarchs and politicians run things. Clarence does a great job so both George Bailey and Bedford Falls are saved for a bright future. Clarence showed George a dim future full of shanty houses, with poorly fed and under educated people struggling to get by with little or no health care and no prospects for improvement. Since 1946, millions have enjoyed the film in theaters or on TV each Christmas season. If only Clarence were here in Kansas now to show our “leaders” the same dismal future that Bedford Falls almost had. With a least one hospital already closed, school districts across the state in dire financial conditions, teachers leaving by the score for better paying jobs, our highway building and maintenance funds drained away to meet cash shortfalls, our state’s credit rating at an all-time low and more children than ever living in poverty, including many that are homeless, Clarence would find the future is already here. Things are really looking bleak, my friends, but it isn’t any movie, it’s our real life. The film should be required viewing for state officials and advisers. Graham Kreicker, Lawrence

Economic disconnect To the editor: The recent Associated Press interview given by Gov. Brownback continues to demonstrate the disconnect between his perception of the Kansas economy and the reality of the lackluster performance of the state in comparison to the overall economy. He notes the Kansas unemployment rate is now 4.1 percent. Clearly an improvement, but not a great performance when compared to those troublesome statistics published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing, that the national unemployment rate has dropped 46

percent since the beginning of 2011 vs. 40 percent for the state of Kansas. How about wages? The governor cites a 7 percent growth in wages since 2011. This is about a 1.5 percent growth compounded annually. Again, those stubborn statistics shed light on the lack of performance. Nominal wages have been growing at an average nationally of approximately 2 percent for the last four years. So, Kansas has lagged the national average. The facts indicate that shifting $400 million in tax burden to those with Kansas adjusted gross incomes below $100,000 has proven to be a bad idea. It is time to “mess around” with taxes to provide both revenue and equity. Rob Chestnut, Lawrence

It’s still socialism To the editor: I’ve noticed a large number of bumper stickers in support of Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist, around Lawrence. If you were to talk to these Sanders supporters, it is likely a large percentage would share two claims. First, there is the claim that a democratic socialist isn’t really a socialist. Second, there is the claim that democratic socialism has absolutely nothing to do with Karl Marx. However, the very first sentence on the Democratic Socialists of America’s “About” page (dsausa.org/about_dsa) debunks both claims: “The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.” Note that DSA, which strongly supports Sanders’ presidential candidacy, describes itself as the largest “socialist” organization in the United States. DSA does not use the modifier “democratic” in that sentence. It uses “socialist” and “democratic socialist” interchangeably throughout its website. Saying democratic socialism isn’t really socialism is like saying royal blue isn’t really blue. As far as the second claim, we have it on the authority of Michael Harrington himself in his book “Socialism” (1972) that the Socialist International claims “direct descent from Marx’s International Workingmen’s Association.” Harrington served as the chair of DSA until his death in 1989. Kevin Groenhagen, Lawrence

Sustained economic growth, a necessary prerequisite for scientific and technological dynamism, became possible, Ridley writes, when humanity was able to rely on “nonrenewable, non-green, nonclean power.” Because “there appeared from underground a near-magical substance,” Britain’s landscape was spared: “Coal gave Britain fuel equivalent to the output of 15 million extra acres of forest to burn, an area nearly the size of Scotland. By 1870, the burning of coal in Britain was generating as many calories as would have been expended by 850 million laborers. ... The capacity of the country’s steam engines alone was equivalent to 6 million horses or 40 million men.” In May 1945, Aneurin Bevan, a leading light among British socialists, said: “This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.” Genius was not required. Socialism — command-and-control government of the sort that climate fine-tuners recommend for the entire planet — soon accomplished this marvel, with coal rationed and the price of fish soaring. — George Will is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 17, 1915: years “The work of layago ing track for the IN 1915 interurban was resumed in North Lawrence this morning. This afternoon the workmen were busy in the 500 block on Locust street. Bad weather and a shortage of ties combined to cause a lay-off yesterday, but today the sun was shining and the needed supplies were on hand. Every effort will be made to push the track to the temporary terminal by the end of this week.” “The (school) board voted to place four standard fire extinguishers in the Manual training building. This protection was considered essential and resulted after the discussion of the recent fire in the New York school. Superintendent Smith was urged to give especial attention to the fire drills. He reported that timed drills had shown that any school in the city could be emptied within two minutes without hurrying or rush that might endanger the pupils.” — Compiled by Sarah St. John

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Clinton can close gap among women

Elba returns as ‘Luther’ in 2-hour BBC special tonight

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Fed finally takes step on interest rates Increase is tiny nudge toward gradual normality

Move reflects Fed’s confidence, Yellen says

Matt Krantz

ening to move rates and just got it done. The Dow Jones industrial average rallied 224 points to 17,749 after the announcement, and all 10 of the major market sectors gained. “Like unwrapping the holiday gift that had been repeatedly requested, the markets breathed a sigh of relief when the Fed raised the fed funds rate,” says Sam Stovall of S&P Capital IQ. The effects of the move will take time to be felt, but soon signs of higher rates will show up everywhere. Credit card and home equity rates will move up in as little as one or two statement cycles, says Greg McBride of

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The Federal Reserve finally did it — and it’s about time. The nation’s central bank Wednesday hiked short-term interest NEWS rates for the first ANALYSIS time in nearly 10 years, finally signaling the days of free money are over. The initial rate hike was a scant 1 ⁄4-percentage point move, but that’s not what’s important. The move signals the start of what is NEWSLINE

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Terror attacks in Pakistan take toll A year after a school massacre, many outraged at the government’s failure to curb continuing rampages.

ANDREW HARRER, BLOOMBERG

Janet Yellen is chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

likely to be a slow and gradual move to put rates back up to normal levels. The move surprised almost nobody — 80% of traders predicted the hike Tuesday. If anything, markets appeared relieved the Fed stopped threat-

Bankrate.com. Longer term, the import of the moves will be significant. Over the next year, adjustable mortgage rates will go from 3% to 5% and credit card rates rise from 15% to 17%, McBride says. “This is where the effect on household budgets becomes more pronounced,” he says. Higher borrowing costs will be a hurdle for businesses, especially companies with the lowest credit ratings because investors will demand higher yields, says Moody’s Investors Service. The cost of higher interest rates will start to matter for companies in 2017 and 2018 when they look to refinance debt, Moody’s says. The Fed had to get this over with. Even investors — who have enjoyed the days of free money — knew it had to come to an end eventually. It just did.

BALTIMORE ON EDGE AFTER GRAY MISTRIAL

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Cheap Trick, Steve Miller, Deep Purple also in. Janet Jackson, Nine Inch Nails among acts that missed out.

Beware, Santa 94% know a furnace can emit deadly carbon monoxide gas, but

1 in 4 don’t realize: So can a fireplace.

Note Clothes dryers, too. About 500 people die from CO poisoning a year. Source Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning survey of 1,000 U.S. and Canadian homeowners; CDC

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OIL BAN’S END WILL BOOST STABILITY Oren Dorell USA TODAY

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Protesters react outside Baltimore City Circuit Courthouse after the hung jury was announced in the trial of police officer William Porter on Wednesday.

A Baltimore judge declared a hung jury Wednesday in the trial of a police officer charged in the case of Freddie Gray, a black man who died in April while in police custody. His death prompted protests across the city. Prosecutors will retry officer William Porter, 26, said U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings. IN NEWS

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Congress’ decision to end a 4decade-old oil export ban will help stabilize global oil supplies and protect against terrorist disruptions in the Middle East, but consumers won’t see any benefits in the short term. Lifting the ban also won’t have any immediate impact on the OPEC oil cartel whose refusal to sell to the USA in the 1970s prompted the ban. Oil prices are near an 11-year low, and the price difference between oil produced in the USA and the Middle East is so small that U.S. producers are unlikely to ship oil overseas, says Tom Kloza, chief global analyst at the Oil Price Information Service. “Right now it has very little impact,” Kloza said. “The price of light sweet crude in the U.S. and overseas is very similar.” The ban was put in place two years after Arab oil producers launched the embargo in 1973 to try to punish the United States for its military support for Israel, which had been attacked by Syria and Egypt. The U.S. oil industry v STORY CONTINUES ON 2B

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A protester yells at members of the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday.

Oil prices unlikely to see big swings

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Ferguson, Justice Department near deal on police policy Federal report ripped city for racial bias Kevin Johnson USA TODAY

The Justice Department and the city of Ferguson, Mo., are nearing an agreement to revamp the city’s troubled policing, an official familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The development comes nine months after the Justice Department issued a scathing denouncement of racially biased WASHINGTON

policing in Ferguson. The report was prompted by the shooting of Michael Brown, 18, a black man, by white police officer Darren Wilson. No criminal charges were filed against the police officer, who has since left the department, but the incident set off a national re-examination of law enforcement operations that continues more than a year after Brown’s fatal shooting. Justice Department spokeswoman Dena Iverson did not comment on the timing of any agreement, saying only that Justice officials continued to “engage with the community on the issues

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Demonstrators rally Aug. 10 in Ferguson, Mo.

addressed in our investigation.” “While we cannot comment on the content of negotiations, the talks with the city of Ferguson to develop a monitored consent decree have been productive,” Iver-

“To remedy the Justice Department’s findings, an agreement needs to be reached without delay.” Justice Department spokeswoman Dena Iverson

son said. “The department believes that in order to remedy the Justice Department’s findings, an agreement needs to be reached without delay.” Ferguson spokesman Jeff

Small acknowledged that the negotiations have been productive. “It’s not a done deal,” Small said. “But I think it’s fair to say that the city of Ferguson would like to see a positive outcome as soon as possible. We would certainly like to get past this.” Developments in the talks were first reported Wednesday by The New York Times. The Justice examination issued in March found a host of long-festering troubles, including rampant evidence of racial bias in a department that had long ago lost the public trust of its AfricanAmerican residents, who represent 67% of the city’s population.

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BALTIMORE MAYOR APPEALS FOR CALM

‘This is just a temporary bump,’ Gray lawyer says John Bacon and Melanie Eversley USA TODAY

A Baltimore judge declared a hung jury Wednesday in the trial of a police officer charged in the case of Freddie Gray, a young black man whose death in April prompted “Black Lives Matter” protests across the city and sometimes violent riots. William H. “Billy” Murphy, the lawyer for the Gray family, stressed the outcome was not a

disappointment for eislaughter, assault, misther side in the case that conduct and reckless brought the country’s endangerment charges, eyes on Baltimore. U.S. Rep. Elijah Cum“This is just a tempormings, D-Md., said in a ary bump on the road to statement. justice,” Murphy said Porter was the first of during a news conference six officers facing trial in Wednesday afternoon. “It Gray’s death. AFP/GETTY IMAGES “Twelve Baltimore reshappens. It’s part of how William Porter idents listened to the evithe system works.” Most hung jury cases are re- dence presented and were unable tried, and 70% go on to result in a to render a unanimous decision,” conviction, Murphy said. He said Rawlings-Blake said in a statethe family appealed for calm in ment. “As a unified city, we must respect the outcome of the judithe wake of the announcement. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings- cial process. “In the coming days, if some Blake also asked for calm and promised to protect the city’s choose to demonstrate peacefully to express their opinion, that is neighborhoods. Prosecutors will retry officer their constitutional right. I urge William Porter, 26, on the man- everyone to remember that col-

lectively, our reaction needs to be one of respect for our neighborhoods, and for the residents and businesses of our city.” Cummings said: “I know that many of my neighbors have been following this trial closely, and many may be disappointed by today’s outcome. Each of us will continue to struggle with the very raw, very real emotions the death of Mr. Freddie Gray invokes.” U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., urged residents to work toward unity and practice peace. “As this process unfolds, let us reject violence that might hurt our communities and local businesses.” The city had taken steps aimed at keeping the peace no matter what the verdict. The Police Department canceled leave for all

officers this week while RawlingsBlake opened an emergency operations center. Public transit officials coordinated with city officials to minimize service disruptions, but the Maryland Transportation Administration warned bus and rail riders that route diversions were possible if protests clog the city. “MTA is closely monitoring the officer Porter trial and travel conditions downtown and will adjust services as necessary due to the potential for heavy pedestrian and/or vehicular traffic,” MTA said in a statement. Judge Barry Williams declared the mistrial during the third day of deliberations — about 24 hours after the jury told him they were deadlocked.

Attacks taking toll on Pakistan Country mourns on anniversary of school attack Naila Inayat

Special for USA TODAY LAHORE , PAKISTAN

Altaf Hussain will never forget his 6-yearold daughter’s first day of school on Dec. 16, 2014. Seven Taliban gunman attacked the Peshawar Army Public School in Pakistan’s unruly north, and killed the girl and 131 classmates. “Who knew that my daughter Khaula’s first day at school will be her last day?” he lamented. A year later, grief lingers over the loss of at least 141 people along with outrage over the Pakistani government’s failure to curb terrorist rampages that continue to plague the region. The country closed schools nationwide Wednesday as part of a national day of mourning as well as a safeguard against possible attacks to mark the anniversary. “We will take revenge for every drop of our children’s sacred blood,” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said at a ceremony for the victims’ families. Violence continues unabated along the Afghan-Pakistani border that Afghan and Pakistani Taliban fighters routinely cross, analysts say. Just this past Sunday, a bomb exploded in remote Parachinar, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens more. Police arrested two Taliban suspects after the attack. “Both Pakistani Taliban head Maulana Fazlullah and his lead-

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Pakistani Christians hold a candlelight vigil for victims of Army Public School attack Wednesday in Lahore. ing commander, Omar Mansoor, are based in Afghanistan and are forever planning and executing new attacks,” said Rahimullah Yusufzai, a Peshawar-based expert on Afghan affairs. “The presence of the safe havens of the Pakistani militants in Afghanistan is an undeniable fact.” After the school massacre, Sharif swore to crack down on the Pakistani Taliban fighters who staged the attack with a raft of measures that included lifting a seven-year moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism. This year, authorities have hanged more than 300 people on terrorism-related crimes and oth-

er offenses, according to Amnesty International. Last week, the government put to death four terrorists charged in the school attack and on Wednesday executed eight convicted murderers. Talat Masood, a retired lieutenant general in Islamabad, said the military has cleared militant sanctuaries and forced some Taliban to flee. But the police force and the judicial system remain very weak, he adds, and oversight of religious schools that teach extremism and mosques that preach militancy is practically non-existent. Some critics say the government has used the death penalty

Q: Have things changed for female candidates since 2008, the last time Hillary Clinton ran for president? Schriock: There has really been immense change in these last seven years. What we see is a much more centralized conversation about the issues that relate to the economic success of women and families in this country. As you see Hillary Clinton running for president now, it is the centerpiece of her entire campaign. That’s a big change. The other one is, we’ve seen a Republican Party that has moved pretty far to the right on all of those issues. Q: One new poll of Millennials shows younger women more likely to support Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders than Clinton. She’s got a generation gap among women. Why? Schriock: I think part of it is that Millennials are still getting to know her. I have no doubts that after this nomination process if complete and we do what

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been countering Islamabad’s allegations on this point by pointing to the presence of the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network leadership in Pakistan,” Yusufzai said. Pakistani leaders are reluctant to crush Afghan terrorists on their territory because they hope the militants might become peaceful, and become Pakistan’s allies, Haqqani said. Those leaders are misguided, he said. Failure to end the terrorist attacks infuriates Hussain, who was shot by gunmen in the attack. “A day doesn’t go by when I don’t think of Khaula,” he said. “I just wish I had got a chance to see her one last time.”

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EMILY’s List chief looks to spark Millennial voters for Clinton Stephanie Schriock, 42, is a top Democratic strategist and president of EMILY’s List, an influential group that helps elect pro-choice Democratic women to office. She talks with USA TODAY’s weekly newsmaker series about what Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton needs to do to energize female Millennial voters and about prospects for female presidents down the road. Questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity.

to target political opponents instead of extremists. “The end of the moratorium on the death penalty has resulted in more executions of non-terrorists than terrorists,” said Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States and a senior fellow at Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. “Several terrorist groups ... and the Afghan Taliban still flourish.” Afghanistan has little reason to help Pakistan because Pakistani leaders aren’t controlling Islamic militants who plan their attacks in Pakistan then target Afghan cities and troops. The Afghan government “has

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See the entire interview with Stephanie Schriock.

Stephanie Schriock says Millennials are key this election.

we’ve never done before, which is nominate a woman to be president of the United States on either ticket, that the women are going to be with her. Q: Are attitudes toward breaking that glass ceiling different between Baby Boomers and Millennials? Schriock: I think the most important thing for either of those groups is electing a candidate who can do the job, who is focused on the issues that they care about. Women are not going to vote for a woman because she’s a woman. They’re going to vote for a woman who is a strong leader, who has a vision for the future, and that’s Hillary Clinton. Q: How important is it for Clinton to excite and engage younger women? Schriock: Well, as we see just (for) Democrats in general, we see this growing gender gap. In 2012, we had the biggest gender gap we’re ever seen. I think we’re going to see that continue to grow because the Democrats, and Hillary Clinton leading the way, are focusing on issues that really matter to the Millennial

generation. Q: Which would be ... Schriock: It’s about equal pay, raising the minimum wage, paid sick leave. I mean, we’re talking about Millennials. These aren’t 18-year-olds anymore. This entire election is going to be about those growing families and that growing generation. Q: You have experience in presidential politics. You worked for Howard Dean’s campaign in 2004. What’s your key advice for Clinton? Schriock: Just keep to the plan, keep to the plan. ... She is having the conversation with the voters, and that is precisely what she should be doing. Q: What’s the biggest hurdle today for women seeking office? Schriock: We need more women to say ‘yes’ to running. And part of the job of EMILY’s List is to keep building that pipeline and why we do so much work at the legislative level, because those are our future U.S. Senate candidates, our future House candidates, probably a future president in there somehow.

producers began clamoring to end the ban after the Arab Spring protests of 2011 caused a spike in Middle Eastern oil prices, while increased U.S. shale oil production caused U.S. prices to fall. For a time, a barrel of crude sold for $90 in the USA and $110 in Europe, and U.S. producers missed out on those higher prices. Those days are over. U.S. oil sells for about $36.25 a barrel, compared with Middle East oil that sells for 50 cents more, a difference that wouldn’t justify the cost of shipping, Kloza said. The USA produces 9.2 million barrels per day, close to 10% of the world oil supply, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency. A doubling in oil prices would spur U.S. shale producers to add 2 million barrels a day to the market, which might lead to cheaper U.S. prices and more exports, Kloza said. Iranian oil is likely to enter the global market as nuclear sanctions are removed, so that prospect is probably several years away. Lifting the oil export ban “could be a big deal some time in the next decade but not in 2016,” he said. Sara Vakhshouri, an energy analyst at SVB Energy International and the Atlantic Council think-tank, said the end of the export ban will help stabilize global oil prices. Some of the world’s major producing countries, such as Iraq, Syria and Libya have oil fields that are threatened or under control of terrorists, such as the Is-

The USA produces 9.2 million barrels per day, close to 10% of the world oil supply. lamic State group. International airstrikes to counter those terrorists, who have sold oil to raise funds, have destroyed oil facilities. That takes that oil off the market and affects prices, Vakhshouri said. “So it’s really important to have supply from countries not in these areas, including the U.S.,” she said. Karen Young, a political economist at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, called the export ban “a relic of the 1970s” that will have little impact on the U.S. oil market. Oil prices are low because Saudi Arabia, which depends almost entirely on foreign oil revenue, maintained production despite falling prices to establish market dominance in the Far East with oil importers such as China and Japan. That was done to preempt Iran’s entry into the market and to depress prices and U.S. production of more expensive shale oil, Young said. The USA is a large oil producer, but it is also a large consumer of oil, and the domestic manufacturing economy is capable of absorbing excess U.S. supply. Lifting the export ban might help U.S. producers provide a backup the next time a country such as Russia uses oil as a weapon against one of its trading partners, Young said.

USA TODAY - L awrence J ournal -W orld THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2015

THE BUDGET DEAL

Bill delays ‘Cadillac tax’ Businesses applaud change in Obamacare Laura Ungar and Jayne O’Donnell USA TODAY

Business groups on Wednesday applauded the proposed two-year delay of the so-called “Cadillac tax” for the Affordable Care Act that was included in the tentative federal spending deal, while experts said the amount of revenue the government would lose by postponing the tax — and the effect on the law — is minimal. The delay from 2018 to 2020 in the tax on generous health care benefits provided by employers won’t do much, because John only 1% of Goodman plans will be affected when the tax first takes effect, said John Goodman, a health economist who runs the Goodman Institute for Public PoliWASHINGTON AND LEE cy Research. He Timothy Jost also said he doubted the tax would raise the $87 billion over 10 years predicted by the Congressional Budget Office, partly because companies and unions will try to avoid paying it. “Any company or union that pays a Cadillac tax is not very smart,” said Goodman. The budget deal’s two-year elimination of the 2.3% tax on medical devices that took effect in 2013 will also do little, said Tim Jost, an emeritus professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an ACA supporter. Although a January CBO report estimated the tax would bring in $29 billion in net revenues over 10 years, Jost said it would only raise about $4 billion over the next two years. The Cadillac tax, Jost said, would raise only $10 billion in that period. The changes only increase “the budget deficit and apparently this Congress doesn’t care about the budget deficit,” Jost said. “It’s not like it was going into a piggy bank and coming out for the ACA.” The Cadillac tax, he said, is a “ham-fisted way to cut spending and raise revenue.” The delays in the taxes could be the first steps toward elimination, some said. The Alliance to Fight the 40 said Congress realized it was bad for businesses, families and retirees who rely on employer-sponsored benefits.

CONGRESS TO VOTE ON TAX CUTS, SPENDING BILL

PHOTOS BY EPA

Massive legislative packages let both Democrats and Republicans vote while keeping the government running through September Paul Singer USA TODAY

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said the legislation gives no one exactly what they want.

WASHINGTON The House of Representatives will begin voting Thursday on a colossal trade, giving Democrats a $1.1 trillion spending bill largely free of controversial policy provisions in exchange for a Republican-backed $629 billion package of tax cuts. Unable to convince enough members to back such a global deal, House leaders will break them into two votes. On Thursday, the House will vote on the tax package, which is likely to pass with almost exclusively Republican votes. On Friday, the spending package will come to the floor needing a majority of Democrats to pass. That way, Republican conservatives can vote against the spending bill, Democratic liberals can vote against the tax bill, and both bills still pass and a government shutdown is averted. Congressional leaders unveiled the massive package that will keep government funded through September 2016 in the wee hours

of Wednesday morning. The 2,009-page bill abandoned most of the controversial provisions Republicans wanted to add to block President Obama’s policies on topics from immigration to wetlands rules to armor-piercing bullets. But it includes a major Republican goal of lifting a 40-year ban on exports of domestic crude oil. The 233-page tax measure will permanently extend the enhanced child tax credit and earned income tax credit that were boosted by the 2009 stimulus bill, and extend through 2019 a popular corporate tax break that allows companies to more quickly depreciate the value of new equipment. The two bills also delay for two years unpopular taxes that were part of Obama’s signature health care law. The federal government is operating on a short-term spending measure that ran out Wednesday because Congress did not pass the 12 annual spending bills that fund the federal government. To prevent a government shutdown, the House and Senate moved a short-term bill providing funding though Dec. 22, providing enough time for both chambers to vote on the omnibus bill that includes

all the outstanding spending measures and the tax package. The combined legislation covers everything government does, and, as usual, contains scores of provisions limiting how federal money can be spent. For example, the bill does not prohibit the administration from resettling Syrian refugees in the U.S., as many Republicans and some Democrats hoped, but it does include new anti-terrorism limits on visitors from 38 countries who can travel to the U.S. without a visa. While the legislation extends existing prohibitions on abortion-related spending, it does not include a ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which has been a key goal of Republicans for much of the fall. Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Wednesday “in divided government, no one gets exactly what they want,” but he said there are major policy victories in the bill that Republicans can be proud of. The long-term extension of tax cuts achieves something he has sought for years: “Certainty in the tax code so we can create more jobs. This is one of the biggest steps for the rewrite of our tax code that we have made in many years.”

The legislation covers everything government does, and contains scores of provisions limiting how federal money can be spent.

Bill bars IRS, others from forcing political disclosure Fredreka Schouten USA TODAY

WASHINGTON The $1.1 trillion spending deal Congress released Wednesday would bar the Internal Revenue Service from completing controversial new regulations to define and potentially crack down on the political activities of non-profit groups. The bill also would prohibit the Securities and Exchange

Commission from trying to force public companies to disclose their political activities to shareholders and the public. Campaign-finance watchdog groups slammed the measures, tucked into the last-minute spending bill, as a push by the Republican-controlled Congress to limit disclosure of corporatebacked political spending that they argue threatens to overwhelm the next year’s presidential contest. Non-profit groups

increasingly are active in elections but do not have to disclose their donors’ identities. The provisions will “allow hundreds of millions in dark money to continue to be laundered into elections,” said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a campaign watchdog group. His group and others had lobbied hard against a slew of so-called campaign-finance riders or policy measures that lawmakers sought to insert into

the bill needed to fund the government through September. Congress abandoned several of the more controversial measures in last-minute deals, including one that would have eased limits on the coordination between political parties and candidates and another that would have barred President Obama from requiring companies with contracts before the federal government to disclose their political activity.

IN BRIEF DHS ACTIVATES NEW TERROR WARNING LEVEL

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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson activated the National Terrorism Advisory System for the first time Wednesday, warning the public of “self-radicalized actors who could strike with little or no notice.” The bulletin, which marks the addition of a new level of public warning to the system, will be in effect for the next six months, or until events dictate otherwise, Johnson said. The Department of Homeland Security is “especially concerned that terrorist-inspired individuals and homegrown violent extremists may be encouraged or inspired to target public events or places,” the bulletin stated. There was no specific information, however, about a pending attack, Johnson said. — Kevin Johnson CONGRESS SLATED TO INCREASE RAPE KIT FUNDING

Lawmakers are positioned to devote $45 million in the 2016 fis-

SOUTH KOREA IS KEEN ON CHRISTMAS A Buddhist monk strolls past Christmas decorations during a Wednesday ceremony at Jogye Temple in Seoul. Christmas is widely celebrated in South Korea, where Christians make up more than half the population. JUNG YEON-JE, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

cal year to combat the nation’s accumulation of untested sexual assault kits. The funding, included as part of the omnibus spending bill Congress released Wednesday, is aimed at helping local law enforcement agencies test backlogged sexual assault evidence kits and perform related activities as part of a Justice Department initiative. The increased funding, coming amid mounting national concern over untested evidence, repre-

sents a 25% growth in support for the program over the past two years. The omnibus bill is expected to come before the House and Senate for a vote later this week. — Steve Reilly ALSO ...

uPresident Obama will travel to San Bernardino, Calif., on Friday to visit with families of victims of a terrorist shooting spree that killed 14 people and injured 22 others, the White House said.

uDefense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived on an unannounced visit to Iraq on Wednesday as the Obama administration tries to highlight its efforts to accelerate military pressure on the Islamic State. Carter has said the Pentagon stands ready to support Iraq’s military with Apache helicopter gunships and to place American advisers with Iraqi combat brigades to bolster an offensive to recapture the city of Ramadi from the militants. Corrections & Clarifications

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA ALABAMA Birmingham: Police

investigated an altercation involving Mayor William Bell and council member Marcus Lundy, AL.com reported.

ALASKA Fairbanks: A new liquefied natural gas trailer specially designed for Alaska hit the road for the first time, newsminer.com reported. The 75-foot, five-axle, 13,000-gallon capacity trailer began a monthslong trial in the Fairbanks Natural Gas utility’s fleet of trucks. ARIZONA Sun City: Royal Oaks Retirement Community residents, ages 70 to 95, were in full costume and makeup to create a 2016 “Classic TV Shows” calendar, spoofing such shows as The Flintstones and Green Acres. The calendar is to raise money for the American Diabetes Association, The Arizona Republic reported. ARKANSAS North Little Rock:

Police responded to a food fight at a Taco Bell and arrested a man on a charge of public intoxication, ArkansasOnline reported. CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Occi-

dental College revoked an honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby amid allegations of sexual misconduct, the Los Angeles Times reported. COLORADO Boulder: A man

exonerated in the high-profile Central Park jogger case in New York has donated $190,000 to the University of Colorado’s Innocence Project, the Daily Camera reported. Korey Wise was one of five men exonerated, after being found guilty of the 1989 attack on a female jogger. CONNECTICUT Meriden: Police

are trying to determine who shot a teenager in the leg with a BB gun as the youngster was playing football with friends, The RecordJournal reported. DELAWARE Dover: The Delaware Attorney General’s Office will not pursue criminal charges against the correctional officers responsible for the death of an inmate, The News Journal reported. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The

number of people who walk into subway stations, decide the hassle isn’t worth it and walk out is substantial. On a day of “severely impacted service,” that number could pass 10,000, according to a Metro budget document cited by The Washington Post. To try to win back riders’ goodwill, Metro staffers proposed not charging people who enter, then leave a station within 15 minutes.

2015 now USA’s costliest wildfire season Doyle Rice USA TODAY

The 2015 wildfire season is now the costliest on record, with $1.71 billion spent to fight the blazes, the U.S. Forest Service said Wednesday. The previous record of $1.67 billion, adjusted for inflation, was set in fiscal year 2002, Forest Service communications director Matt Herrick said. With the season nearly over, 9.8 million acres burned in 2015, the second-highest total since records began in 1960, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. With 9.87 acres charred, 2006 had a higher total. In addition, seven forest service firefighters died this year battling wildfires. Since 2000, on average, 18 firefighters have died each year fighting flames, the fire center reports. Most of the fires hit the West and Alaska, which is typical. The size of the area burned this year is roughly equivalent to the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Over the past 10 years, the Forest Service has spent $1.13 billion on average each year to fight wildfires. That amount does not include local or state costs to fight fires. Nor does it include other federal agency firefighting INDIANA Indianapolis: When

Butler’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann said he’d pay for students’ drinks at Starbucks, as he does every year, he had no idea a single tweet would push the tab up to $600, The Indianapolis Star reported. Instead of the usual 10 to 20 students meeting him at Starbucks, this year’s number was more than 150. IOWA Des Moines: The state is seeking public comment on reducing alcohol-related incidents at Iowa beaches, The Register reported. KANSAS Topeka: Kirk Mychale,

27, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for a bank robbery this year, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.

KENTUCKY Lexington: Federal

investigators say they believe Central Kentucky tobacco farmers, crop insurance agents, tobacco warehouse owners and others conspired to defraud thousands and possibly millions of dollars from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s program that insures crops, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: Re-

cent temperatures have reached 80 degrees, and some people have been hankering for a snowball. Saturday, Hansen’s Sno-Bliz will oblige, opening for one day only from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., The TimesPicayune reported.

FLORIDA Cape Coral: The Zom-

HAWAII Kailua-Kona: The

Hawaii Police Department says it is moving forward with plans for its officers to begin wearing body cameras, West Hawaii Today reported. IDAHO Twin Falls: The City

Council approved a proposal allowing bars and restaurants to sell liquor by the drink on Memorial Day, election days and Thanksgiving, The Times-News reported.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The state

Department of Public Health will accept petitions in January from residents who want to add specific diseases to the medical marijuana pilot program, the Chicago Tribune reported.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville:

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A firefighter douses flames from a backfire while battling the Butte Fire near San Andreas, Calif., in September. costs. Agencies such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also chip in, though the Forest Service contributes the most. Because of the cost of fighting fires, the Forest Service has been forced to tap other funds, such as forest-thinning projects, in order to keep up with the massive blazes, according to a report released by the agency in August. The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act — a bipartisan effort that would have treated wildMICHIGAN Flushing: For the first time in 15 years, the Salvation Army of Genesee County says a gold coin worth $1,100 landed in one of its Flint-area donation collection kettles, The Flint Journal reported. The 1979 South African Krugerrand was put in the kettle outside a grocery store over the weekend. MINNESOTA St.

Paul: Minnesota lifted the last remaining quarantines on poultry farms that were infected with highly pathogenic bird flu.

MISSISSIPPI Pascagoula: A 42-year-old man accused in an armed home invasion led police officers on a vehicle chase that ended shortly after an officer trying to stop him fired three rounds at the suspect’s vehicle, The Sun Herald reported. MISSOURI Neosho: A local man pleaded guilty to driving his vehicle toward two police officers two years ago, The Joplin Globe reported. MONTANA Billings: Gov. Bullock, a Democrat, asked federal environmental regulators to reverse a 2013 designation that areas around Billings were out of compliance with air pollution standards.

Grand Island Independent reported that the Northwest school board approved a policy to randomly drug test students who participate in extracurricular activities. It is set to go into effect at the beginning of the 2016-17 school year.

GEORGIA Henry County: Jen-

MAINE Blefast: Front Street

Shipyard President J.B. Turner signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a joint venture with a shipyard in Norway that has been building high-speed, carbon-fiber ferries for several years. Turner tells the Portland Press Herald that building ferries could add 50 to 100 jobs. MARYLAND Vienna: Residents

are lining the streets with 1,500 luminarias as they open up their town for people to enjoy the holiday. Free tram rides are available, and visitors are encouraged to tour the town by car or on foot, The Daily Times reported. MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Members of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will consider a recommendation to close an underperforming charter school in Dorchester.

PENNSYLVANIA Warren: Despite the lack of snow, the Allegheny National Forest is opening its snowmobile trails. The Times Observer says crews plan to open the trails at 8 a.m. Saturday. RHODE ISLAND Providence: A former Marine reservist avoided jail time and received a sevenyear suspended sentence for felony assault plus probation for punching a Brown University basketball player in 2013, the Providence Journal reported.

NEBRASKA Grand Island: The

bicon festival has been having trouble finding a home since a shooting at an October event in Fort Myers left one man dead, The News Press reported. Now, the city of Cape Coral has likewise shunned the event.

nifer Rosenbaum, who is charged with beating, starving and killing a 2-year-old foster child in her care, was out on $100,000 bond, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

skis or snow shoes.

HIGHLIGHT: ACROSS THE USA

NEVADA Las Vegas: Trigg Laboratories is relocating its headquarters and manufacturing facilities from Valencia, Calif., to the south valley in July, Vegas Inc. reported. NEW HAMPSHIRE Hampton: A

33-year-old man who died in the culmination of a high-speed police chase was under investigation for impersonating a police officer earlier this month, The Portsmouth Herald reported. NEW JERSEY Manchester: High school students and parents are upset after six students were suspended for refusing to stop a “dance battle” or recording it, the Asbury Park Press reported. In a letter the principal of Manchester Township High School said the dance-offs began “innocently” but escalated into a disturbance when a large group surrounded two dancers and blocked the hallway.

fires more like other natural disasters and ended the transfer of money from other programs to battle the blazes — did not make it into the federal budget released this week, though there are hopes it can be revived next year, Herrick said. “The future trend will be hotter, longer, and more severe and ultimately more costly fire seasons, which directly impacts the Forest Service’s ability to fund other critical work such as restoration that can reduce wildfire threat, drinking-waterarea protection and recreation investments,” Herrick said. NEW MEXICO Taos: The Albu-

querque Journal reported that the Taos Art Museum at Fechin House is hosting a retrospective exhibit on Jonathan Sobol that features some of his iPad artwork along with his oil pieces. The iPad paintings are dye sublimation images printed into the surface of a solid sheet of aluminum.

NEW YORK Valhalla: The National Transportation Safety Board released documents and details from the Feb. 3 Metro-North Railroad crash that killed six people when it plowed into an SUV on the tracks at a rail crossing here, The Journal News reported. The findings found that there were no alcohol or illicit drugs in the system of Ellen Brody, the driver of the SUV. NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Administrative Law Judge Melissa Owens Lassiter refused to throw out a citizen lawsuit seeking to block the Amazon Wind Farm, setting the legal dispute for trial next year, The News & Observer reported. NORTH DAKOTA Dickin-

son: Police arrested two people in a rash of storage unit break-ins, KXMB-TV reported. OHIO Fairfield: The family

of 13-year-old Emilie Olsen, who committed suicide a year ago, is suing the Fairfield City School District, accusing school officials of ignoring bullying so extreme that a Facebook account alleged Emilie chewed tobacco and had sex with random people in the woods, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The federal lawsuit alleges that she had been the subject of the bullying for three years and that school officials did little to keep the perpetrators from continuing. OKLAHOMA Alva: A Texas driver faces charges after surveillance video shows his pickup truck crashing into the front desk of a hotel and nearly hitting two women, the Enid News and Eagle reported. OREGON Klamath Falls: Crater Lake rim is closed to vehicle traffic after winter storms dropped heavy snow and knocked down trees near the park, the Herald and News reported. Park spokeswoman Heidi Barker says the visitor center is still open and the rim can still be accessed by

American Airlines is offering a special direct flight to Miami International Airport on Dec. 30 for Clemson’s New Years Eve College Football Playoff game against the Oklahoma Sooners. Tickets start at nearly $700 and the plane will return Jan. 1, The Greenville News reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: A Goodwill thrift store here was targeted by a burglar over the weekend, the Rapid City Journal reported. TENNESSEE Nashville: The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating what caused Southwest Flight 31, a Boeing 737 carrying 133 passengers and five crewmembers, to skid off a taxiway at the Nashville International Airport and land in a ditch, injuring at least eight passengers, The Tennessean reported. TEXAS Keller: A local school district halted an assignment requiring sixth-graders to make a step-by-step plan on how dealers distribute cocaine. KTVT-TV reported that a teacher issued an assignment called: “The Cocaine Trade: From Field to Street.” UTAH Farmington: Davis County authorities told residents that the newly green water of Farmington Pond is not toxic, but instead may be the result of a prank. Police say a large amount of food dye was dumped into the pond. VERMONT Northfield: Federal

authorities accused Mark McCloud, who lost his left hand in an explosion last week, of possessing unregistered explosive devices and illegally transferring an explosive device, the Burlington Free Press reported.

VIRGINIA Chesterfield County: Police Detective Carey Williams testified that Carl Hughes told police he “erased” his father, mother and sister because he believed he had “no way out” after becoming seriously addicted to crack cocaine and began stealing from them to support his habit, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. WASHINGTON Mount Vernon:

Eight Skagit County projects have received a $5.4 million grant to remove barriers to salmon migration and increase fish habitat, the Skagit Valley Herald reported. The grant was recently announced by the Salmon Recovery Funding Board and the Puget Sound Partnership. WEST VIRGINIA

Charleston: Piper King, 6, did somersaults when she was informed she’d been chosen as one of the five grand prize winners of the Uncle Ben’s Brand Ben’s Beginners Cooking Contest, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. Piper’s Extra Sloppy Joes won $15,000 for her family and $30,000 for her school. WISCONSIN Crawford County:

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking hunters to donate deer heads for testing because a 31⁄2 year-old buck has tested positive for chronic wasting disease despite appearing healthy, The Green Bay Press Gazette reported. WYOMING Cheyenne: Wyo-

ming has had only “sporadic” levels of flu activity, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported. Not one city or region in the state has reported widespread infection. Compiled by Tim Wendel, Nicole Gill and Jonathan Briggs, with Linda Dono, Mike Gottschamer, Ben Sheffler and Nichelle Smith. Design by Mallory Redinger. Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.

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NEWS MONEY SPORTS LIFE AUTOS TRAVEL

FED FUND RATES OVER THE PAST DECADE

MONEYLINE RATES FOR BORROWERS ALREADY ON THE RISE The nation’s largest banks, in response to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, have already started raising their prime lending rates. Citibank, Bank of America, U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, PNC and others raised their prime lending rate to 3.50%, from 3.25%, effective in most cases Friday. Banks did not, however, increase interest rates on savings accounts or certificates of deposit. “Savers will see little to no measurable improvement in the near term,” says Greg McBride, a senior vice president at Bankrate.com in West Palm Beach, Fla. “It will likely take at least a couple of rate hikes before that materializes.”

MICHAEL NAGLE, BLOOMBERG

HOUSING CONSTRUCTION UP 16.5% IN NOVEMBER More homes were built in November, fueled by a job market recovery and steady consumer confidence. New U.S. home construction starts in November rose 16.5% from a year ago to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.17 million, new data from the Commerce Department showed Wednesday. The growth was driven largely by single-family housing starts, which rose 7.6% from October.

When Ben Bernanke took over as Fed chair in Feb. 2006, the funds rate was 4.25%. The rate plummeted at the end of 2008 in reaction to the Great Recession and stayed near zero through Bernanke’s departure in Feb. 2014. Janet Yellen took over as Fed chair at that time and kept the rate unchanged until Wednesday.

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Nasdaq composite S&P 500 T- note, 10-year yield Oil, light sweet crude Euro (dollars per euro) Yen per dollar

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x 75.77 x 29.66 x 0.03 y 1.30 x 0.0053 x 0.12

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Average CD yields This week Last week Year ago 0.16% 0.16% 0.16% 1-year

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FED RAISES RATES FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2006

Markets give sigh of relief; Dow up 224 Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

Stocks built on earlier gains Wednesday, the Dow ending up 224 points at 17,749, after the Federal Reserve’s historic decision to hike interest rates for the first time in nearly 10 years came with a reassurance that future rate increases will be “gradual.” At the closing bell, the Dow Jones industrial average stood 1.3% higher. At the time of the Fed announcement two hours earlier, it was up about 80 points, and before that the blue chips were up 165 points. Wednesday’s gains come after back-toback triple-digit point gains Monday and Tuesday. Wall Street bulls viewed the Fed’s widely expected quarter-point increase as a sign of an improving economy. Heading into decision day, skeptics warned that the move to higher rates could cause market volatility and upheaval. Other stock indexes also rallied on the news. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index ended 1.5% higher, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1.5%. “The Fed delivered exactly what was expected — a quarter-point baby step now and a gradual pace to follow,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com. Jeffrey Saut, a market strategist at Raymond James, said the rate hike should not derail the stock market: “Historically, stocks do pretty well after the first Fed tightening.”

expect unemployment to fall to 4.7% by the end of next year, a bit below their previous forecast. “The first thing Americans should realize is that the Fed’s decision today reflects our confidence in the U.S. economy,” Yellen said. Yet the officials also modestly revised down their inflation forecast for next year to 1.6%. Even in recent weeks, Fed policymakers remained split over whether the economy is finally ready for higher rates. The unemployment rate has fallen sharply from 10% in 2009 and monthly job growth has averaged well over 200,000 the past two years.

It’s about time, for Pete’s sake

The Fed’s decision Wednesday surprised almost nobody, 1B

Still, many Americans continue to work part time even though they prefer full-time jobs or have given up looking for work, though the ranks of such Americans have fallen. Partly as a result of this surplus labor supply, wage growth has only recently shown signs of accelerating beyond the tepid 2% annual pace that has prevailed during the recovery. Broader inflation has been stuck well below the Fed’s annual 2% target, both because of meager pay gains as well as low oil prices and a strong dollar that has kept imports cheap for U.S. consumers. Yellen reiterated Wednesday that she expects energy prices and the dollar to stabilize. In September, the Fed’s hand was stayed by global economic woes, which combined with the rallying greenback to clobber exports, and related market turbulence. Citing those forces and feeble inflation, several Fed policymakers had argued for caution. Since October, though, the mood has shifted. China’s economic troubles eased somewhat, stock markets rallied, and U.S. job growth rebounded strongly. The rate increase marks another landmark in the recovery from the 2007-09 downturn, the worst since the Great Depression. In fall 2014, the Fed ended an unprecedented bond-buying stimulus.

End to U.S. oil export ban likely won’t hit prices Analysts say global glut having effect on supply and demand Nathan Bomey @NathanBomey USA TODAY

As of Wednesday: 6-month

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growth and they expect the economy to warrant “only gradual inUSA TODAY creases” the next few years. With inflation still well below the Fed’s WASHINGTON target, policymakers tellingly said he nation’s recovery from they “will carefully monitor actuthe Great Recession al and expected progress toward reached a historic mile- its inflation goal.” stone Wednesday as the Carl Tannenbaum, chief econFederal Reserve raised interest omist of Northern Trust and a rates for the first time in nearly a former Fed official, doesn’t expect decade, ending an extraordinary the central bank to raise rates era of easy-money policy. again until June, saying the reThe modest one-quarter percent tumble in oil prices will supcentage point increase in the press inflation next year. Fed’s benchmark rate was widely The Fed’s vote was unanimous expected and accompanied by despite recent divisions among CVS SHARES RISE AS signals that Fed policymakers in- policymakers, some of whom preOUTLOOK SHINES tend to nudge up rates even more ferred to wait until next year to Shares of CVS Health closed up gradually than anticipated the hoist rates. 5.4% at $97.56 Wednesday after next few years. That’s a Fed policymakers, the pharmacy nod to inflation that though, are forecastoperator raised remains unusually ing an even shalits earnings low and vestiges lower rise in the outlook. Its of the downrate than they “The first thing per-share earnturn that conpreviously ings for 2016 are Americans should tinue to projected. now expected realize is that the thwart a Their mediJUSTIN SULLIVAN, to be between more vibrant an estimate Fed’s decision today GETTY IMAGES $5.73 to $5.88, economy. is that it will reflects our up from OctoThe Fed’s increase to ber’s $5.68 estimate. CVS also confidence in the move puts 1.4% by the completed the acquisition of the federal U.S. economy.” end of 2016 Target’s 1,672 pharmacies, a $1.9 funds rate at and 2.4% by the billion deal announced in June. Janet Yellen, Fed chair about 0.4% after end of 2017, leavit has hovered near ing rates unusually zero since the 2008 filow for several years. LAYAWAY ANGEL PAYS OFF nancial crisis as the Fed Fed officials emphasized THOUSANDS AT WALMARTS sought to spur more borrowing that could change if inflation An anonymous donor visited two by consumers and businesses and picks up more abruptly and that Ohio Walmarts, spreading holijuice often-sluggish growth. their moves will hinge on the day cheer by paying off the “The economic recovery has economy. stores’ entire layaways. Steelclearly come a long way, though it The Fed yanked up rates about yard Commons in Cleveland had Chair is not yet complete,” Fed twice as rapidly during the previabout $70,000 in layaway goods Janet Yellen told reporters after a ous three recoveries. and the store in Lorain had two-day meeting. “We decided to Wednesday’s rate increase, about $36,000, which means the move at this time because ... we along with subsequent anticipatdonor paid a total of more than felt the conditions” of further im- ed hikes the next few years, are $106,000, Walmart says. provement in the labor market likely to ripple across the econoand confidence that inflation will my, modestly boosting rates on DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVG. rise to the Fed’s annual 2% target everything from mortgages and “had been satisfied.” student loans to corporate bonds 17,750 If the Fed had waited to boost and bank savings accounts. The rates, “We would likely end up Fed’s aim: slightly tamp down 17,700 224.18 4:00 p.m. having to tighten policy relatively economic activity and prevent in17,749 abruptly to prevent the economy flation from overheating as the 17,650 from overheating” and, eventual- near-normal 5% unemployment 17,600 ly, a rapid climb in inflation. That, rate and a shrinking pool of availshe says, could tip the U.S. back able workers begin to put upward 17,550 into recession. pressure on wages. 9:30 a.m. In a statement, Fed officials The Fed slightly increased its 17,500 17,525 added that interest rate policy estimate for economic growth in “remains accommodative” to 2016 to 2.4%. Policymakers also WEDNESDAY MARKETS INDEX

The end to U.S. restrictions on oil exports could eventually offer a new sales route for American energy producers but it’s not expected to bring about sweeping changes to prices or supply. Congressional negotiators reached a deal late Tuesday on a $1.1 trillion spending bill that would end the four-decade-long ban on most U.S. exports of crude oil. Republicans and oil companies pushed to end the ban, which Democrats agreed to in exchange for concessions on tax credits for renewable energy and other environmental priorities. The deal, which must still be

approved by Congress and signed by President Obama, caps off a crushing year for U.S. energy producers, which have flailed as oil prices collapsed, sending the average price of a gallon of gasoline below $2 for much of the country. Facing plunging revenue and profits, U.S. oil and gas companies have announced 250,000 layoffs this year, according to a November report by consultant Graves & Co. that was cited by Bloomberg. The fact that U.S. producers may finally be allowed to sell unrefined crude oil to foreign customers is a welcome development to the industry but hardly a boon to the bottom line. Few analysts expect the price of oil to swing sharply up or down because of the decision. “I don’t think it changes much,” said Rob Haworth, senior investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. “In the longer term it could be of some benefit to them because they’ll

DANIEL ACKER, BLOOMBERG

Plunging revenue and profits at U.S. oil and gas companies have led to 250,000 layoffs.

have some new markets to their light sweet crude ... but in the short term, not much benefit.” The reason comes down to the same explanation for the decline in oil prices: There’s too much supply. U.S. producers are refusing to lower production, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is also maintaining the status quo. Lawmakers imposed the oil export ban in 1975 as the global oil

shock made it politically unpalatable to ship petroleum to other countries instead of selling it to U.S. customers to lower sky-high energy prices. Some exceptions were eventually created, and the ban does not apply to natural gas. In recent years, some politicians have called for removing the ban in part to increase U.S. strategic influence in the global energy markets and decrease the geopolitical influence of suppliers from places such as Russia. The U.S. Government Accountability Office said the impact of an end to the ban could be a decrease in the price of gas of from 1.5 cents to 13 cents. One likely occurrence is that the price of Brent crude oil, the major global benchmark price, is likely to closely track closer to the price of U.S. benchmark crude, called West Texas Intermediate, analysts said. Wednesday, Brent prices closed down 3% to $37.19 and WTI fell 4% to $35.52.

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

Finally! It’s about time! You finally did it! Really? That was the reaction of many Wall Street pros after the Janet Yellen-led Federal Reserve kicked off its move to normalize interest rates by hiking short-term borrowing costs a quarter of a percentage point, its first increase since 2006. Short-term rates no longer are pegged at 0%. The rate is now set at 0.25% to 0.5% — still a very low rate by historical measures. Wall Street seemed relieved by the Fed’s decision to get the first rate hike out of the way, as the willthey or won’t-they dialogue has served as a major uncertainty and headwind for stocks in 2016. The market got what it wanted:

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

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DOW JONES

STORY STOCKS First Solar

S&P 500

SPX

+29.66

INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

CHANGE: +1.3% YTD: -73.98 YTD % CHG: -.4%

CLOSE: 17,749.09 PREV. CLOSE: 17,524.91 RANGE: 17,483.68-17,784.36

STANDARD & POOR'S

CHANGE: +1.5% YTD: +14.17 YTD % CHG: +.7%

NASDAQ

COMP

+75.77

CLOSE: 5,071.13 PREV. CLOSE: 4,995.36 RANGE: 4,992.63-5,078.99

CLOSE: 2,073.07 PREV. CLOSE: 2,043.41 RANGE: 2,042.43-2,076.72

RUSSELL

RUT

+17.42

COMPOSITE

CHANGE: +1.5% YTD: +335.08 YTD % CHG: +7.1%

RUSSELL 2000 INDEX

CHANGE: +1.5% YTD: -55.72 YTD % CHG: -4.6%

CLOSE: 1,148.97 PREV. CLOSE: 1,131.55 RANGE: 1,133.82-1,150.26

S&P 500’S BIGGEST GAINERS/LOSERS GAINERS

Company (ticker symbol)

Price

$ Chg

YTD % Chg % Chg

First Solar (FSLR) 65.62 +5.79 Up another day on new climate change legislation.

+9.7

+47.1

Honeywell (HON) Rises as forecast beats estimates.

+5.61

+5.7

+4.2

Whirlpool (WHR) 153.10 +8.06 Climbs as it files petition challenging dumping washers.

+5.6

-21.0

CVS Health (CVS) Raises earnings forecast and boosts dividend.

97.56 +4.97

+5.4

+1.3

NextEra Energy (NEE) 103.65 +4.93 Rises as it expands renewables in strong sector.

+5.0

-2.5

Ryder (R) Climbs as it keeps buy at Stifel Nicolaus.

+4.9

-36.2

104.08

4-WEEK TREND

The maker of solar energy systems has surged this week after global $80 Price: $65.62 leaders signed a deal in Paris to Chg: $5.79 lower greenhouse gas emisssions. % chg: 9.7% Day’s high/low: Also, the new federal budget ex- $50 tends solar energy tax credits. Nov. 18 $66.35/$63.40

CVS Health

The pharmacy operator raised its earnings outlook for next year and $100 reiterated its five-year targets. It projected per-share earnings for 2016 of $5.73 to $5.88. The low end $80 of its previous estimate was $5.68. Nov. 18

Price: $97.56 Chg: $4.97 % chg: 5.4% Day’s high/low: $97.81/$93.46

The Food and Drug Administra- $3.0 tion gave the company positive feedback for development of its drug CaPre, which is intended to treat severe hypertriglyceridemia, $1.5 Nov. 18 which is a cardiovascular disease.

59.26 +2.77

+4.9

-28.9

Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) Up on strong buy recommendations.

159.08 +6.84

+4.5

-25.0

Wynn Resorts (WYNN) Up another day since buy rating at Deutsche.

68.99

+2.95

+4.5

-53.6

Urban Outfitters (URBN) Climbs all day on average hold rating.

23.76

+.95

+4.2

-32.4

4.74

YTD % Chg % Chg

Price

$ Chg

134.40

-10.18

-7.0

-9.7

13.78

-.68

-4.7

-51.3

100.56

-4.53

-4.3

-5.1

Devon Energy (DVN) Dips along with peers in trailing sector.

30.57

-1.30

-4.1

-50.1

Nucor (NUE) Quarter hit by cheap imports.

38.66

-1.51

-3.8

-21.2

Baker Hughes (BHI) 44.76 Antitrust officials unsatisfied with Halliburton deal.

-1.74

-3.7

-20.2

Halliburton (HAL) 35.86 Dips as Baker Hughes deal may need more gas.

-1.24

-3.3

-8.8

Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) Weak oil might hamper exports. Marathon Oil (MRO) Loses early momentum in weak sector. Cimarex Energy (XEC) Dips as insider sells in weak sector.

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1 – CAPITAL GAINS AND DIVIDENDS REINVESTED

ETF, ranked by volume Ticker SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr SPY Barc iPath Vix ST VXX iShs Emerg Mkts EEM SPDR Financial XLF Mkt Vect Gold Miners GDX iShares EAFE ETF EFA PowerShs QQQ Trust QQQ CS VelSh 3xLongCrude UWTI iShares Rus 2000 IWM iShare Japan EWJ

Close 208.03 19.34 33.19 24.44 14.17 59.73 113.98 4.01 114.43 12.37

Chg. +3.00 -1.42 +0.64 +0.39 +0.54 +1.18 +1.67 -0.50 +1.72 +0.30

% Chg %YTD +1.5% +1.2% -6.8% -38.6% +2.0% -15.5% +1.6% -1.2% +4.0% -22.9% +2.0% -1.8% +1.5% +10.4% -11.1% -91.8% +1.5% -4.3% +2.5% +10.1%

INTEREST RATES

MORTGAGE RATES

Type Prime lending Federal funds 3 mo. T-bill 5 yr. T-note 10 yr. T-note

Type 30 yr. fixed 15 yr. fixed 1 yr. ARM 5/1 ARM

Close 6 mo ago 3.50% 3.25% 0.15% 0.13% 0.25% 0.01% 1.75% 1.66% 2.30% 2.31%

Close 6 mo ago 3.87% 4.06% 3.06% 3.19% 2.73% 2.64% 3.31% 3.20%

SOURCE: BANKRATE.COM

COMMODITIES

Leucadia National (LUK) Reverses gain on CEO comments.

16.49

-.47

-2.8

-26.4

ConocoPhillips (COP) Faces rating cut at Moody’s.

49.35

-1.21

-2.4

-28.5

Ensco (ESV) Earns underweight at JPMorgan.

16.00

-.40

-2.4

-46.6

SOURCE: BLOOMBERG AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Commodities Close Prev. Cattle (lb.) 1.20 1.20 Corn (bushel) 3.70 3.77 Gold (troy oz.) 1,078.00 1,062.90 Hogs, lean (lb.) .58 .59 Natural Gas (Btu.) 1.79 1.82 Oil, heating (gal.) 1.11 1.15 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.) 35.52 37.35 Silver (troy oz.) 14.22 13.74 Soybeans (bushel) 8.63 8.67 Wheat (bushel) 4.84 4.94

Chg. unch. -0.07 +15.10 -0.01 -0.03 -0.04 -1.83 +0.48 -0.04 -0.10

% Chg. unch. -2.0% +1.4% -1.7% -1.8% -3.0% -4.9% +3.5% -0.6% -2.2%

% YTD -27.6% -6.9% -9.0% -28.7% -38.0% -39.8% -33.3% -8.7% -15.4% -18.0%

FOREIGN CURRENCIES Currency per dollar British pound Canadian dollar Chinese yuan Euro Japanese yen Mexican peso

Close .6643 1.3772 6.4724 .9115 121.85 16.9856

Prev. .6649 1.3728 6.4627 .9160 121.73 17.1279

6 mo. ago .6390 1.2317 6.2084 .8896 123.37 15.3981

Yr. ago .6359 1.1636 6.1911 .8009 117.21 14.7144

FOREIGN MARKETS Country Frankfurt Hong Kong Japan (Nikkei) London Mexico City

Close 10,469.26 21,701.21 19,049.91 6,061.19 43,429.72

$97.56 Dec. 16

$2.52

Dec. 16

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NAV 192.16 51.71 190.29 51.68 190.31 100.69 45.43 14.61 20.88 56.60

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Dec. 16

4-WEEK TREND

Acasti Pharma

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$65.62

4-WEEK TREND

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Frontier Communications (FTR) Shares rise as broadband expands.

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Here’s how America’s individual investors are performing based a tiny rate hike and reassurances on data from SigFig online investment tracking service: from the Fed that it will take a “gradual” approach to future hikes, so as not to derail the ecoCONSERVATIVE BALANCED nomic recovery that has grown Less than 30% equities 30%-50% equities stronger amid job market gains. 5-day avg.: -1.68 5-day avg.: -1.69 Stocks reacted positively, with 6-month avg.: -7.06 6-month avg.: -5.80 the Dow climbing 224 points to Largest holding: TSPCF Largest holding: AAPL 17,749, its third consecutive day of Most bought: AAPL Most bought: LLEX triple-digit point gains. Most sold: AAPL Most sold: AMZN With the Fed now out of the way until next year — and the imMODERATE AGGRESSIVE pact of the rate increase still 51%-70% equities 71% or more in equities Among the most largely unknown other corners Among the most 5-dayin avg.: -2.22 5-day avg.: -1.62 5-day avg.: -1.85 conservative SigFig of global markets — avg.: markets-12.36 will conservative 6-month SigFig portfolios 6-month avg.: -5.70 6-month avg.: -6.76 go back to focusing on business portfolios (less than Largest holding: AAPL Largest holding: AAPL Largest holding: AAPL (less than 30% equities) fundamentals like holiday retail 30% equities), Netflix was Most bought: NFLX Most bought: KMI Most bought: KMI AT&T was the most-sold sales, job growth and otherNFLX data Most sold: the most-bought stock Most sold: FII Most sold: KMI stock in late-November. points that provide insight into in late November. NOTE: INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SIGFIG IS STATISTICAL IN NATURE AND DOES POWERED BY SIGFIG the profit potential of U.S. firms. NOT CONSTITUTE A RECOMMENDATION OF ANY STRATEGY OR SECURITY. VISIT The Fed’s rate hike might also SIGFIG.USATODAY.COM/DISCLOSE FOR ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES AND INFORMATION. POWERED BY SIGFIG pave the way for a Santa Claus rally, something that didn’t look More than half a million investors nationwide with total assets of $200 billion possible last week when stocks manage their investment portfolios online with SigFig investment tracking service. sold off amid fears of a meltdown Data on this page are based on SigFig analysis. in the high-yield bond market.

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Prev. Change 10,450.38 +18.88 21,274.37 +426.84 18,565.90 +484.01 6,017.79 +43.40 42,905.20 +524.52

%Chg. +0.2% +2.0% +2.6% +0.7% +1.2%

YTD % +6.8% -8.1% +9.2% -7.7% +0.7%

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Raising interest rates not all doom and gloom Q: Did the Fed kill the bull market? Matt Krantz

mkrantz@usatoday.com USA TODAY

A: Rising interest rates aren’t good for stocks. But they don’t necessarily snuff out bull markets, either. There’s no question stocks have a tougher time when the Federal Reserve takes up short-term interest rates, as it did Wednesday. When rates are rising, some investors who owned stocks previously might sell them if less risky assets are yielding enough to satisfy them. Companies carrying debt also face higher borrowing costs. Consumers and businesses — who might have borrowed money to buy equipment or goods — might decide to hold off instead. But while higher rates aren’t good for stocks, they don’t kill them, either. The Standard & Poor’s 500 delivered average 5.9% annualized returns when the Fed was “restrictive” and raising rates between 1966 and 2013, says Robert Johnson, president of the American College of Financial Services and co-author of Invest with the Fed. That’s not exactly a horror show. The big problem is that during those periods inflation was 5.1%, meaning investors only got a 0.8% annualized real return. In contrast, during expansionary times when the Fed was lowering rates, stocks turned in an annualized gain of 10.6% when inflation averaged 4.2%, Johnson says.

Erratic Apple shares narrowly escape the red for 2015 Matt Krantz @mattkrantz USA TODAY

Apple’s investors are barely clinging onto their 2015 gains. Shares of the gadget maker Wednesday were down as much as 1.5% during the day — which had completely erased the stock’s gains for the year. A broad market rally following the Fed’s interestrate hike gave Apple shares a lift — as they ended up 85 cents, or 0.8%, to $111.33. But the damage is done: Apple stock is still off 4% over the past week, down 17%

ADAM BERRY, GETTY IMAGES FOR APPLE

from its high and up just 0.8% for the year. What’s dogging the shares? Evidence continues to mount Apple’s smartphone sales in the current quarter — and also the

following quarter — will be disappointing. That’s a major issue for Apple shares given the company gets a majority of its revenue from the device and has ridden the smartphone boom, which is now slowing down. Some Apple diehards might discount all this as just noise. But a growing body of evidence shows weakness in iPhone sales, based on signs of demand from companies that make iPhone parts. Mizuho Securities, which has correctly warned of a downturn for months, said Wednesday supply chain measures are pointing to a weaker fourth calendar quar-

ter. Estimates for iPhone shipments for the March quarter, also are too high, Abhey Lamba of Mizuho says. Lamba has a price target of $125 a share on the stock, but says even that could be too high. “If demand does not accelerate, there could be a risk to even our below-consensus estimates,” Lamba wrote in a note to clients. Steven Milunovich at UBS says a slowdown in iPhone demand growth is dramatic enough to warrant taking down his 12month price target on the stock to $130 from $140 Wednesday after already reducing it from $150

earlier in the year. Demand for iPhones in the December quarter is pointing to 71 million units, down from 75 million units earlier, he says. Milunovich is also cutting iPhone demand targets for the March quarter 56 million, 8.5% below what the company sold in the same period last year. What about Apple Music and Apple Pay? “Other services have a potential to drive some revenue for Apple; we think they will not be able to move the needle or fill the gap created by a slowdown iPhone sales,” Lamba says. “Apple remains largely an iPhone company.”

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COUNTDOWN TO ‘STAR WARS’ Is it Friday yet? It’s Star Wars Month at USA TODAY, and we’re counting down to the release of ‘The Force Awakens.’ Visit us online for interviews with the cast and creators, videos, quizzes and more. And as always, may the Force be with you.

SPORTS LIFE AUTOS BRINGING SEXY BACK: TRAVEL BBC’S ‘LUTHER’ RETURNS

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Film icon Idris Elba reprises his detective for a 2-hour special Patrick Ryan USA TODAY

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VISIT LIFE.USATODAY.COM LIFELINE AWARD TRACKER GRAMMYS HOST The Recording Academy must really like LL Cool J. The rapper, a two-time Grammy winner himself, will once again preside over music’s biggest night, hosting the Grammy Awards for the fifth consecutive year. The awards are slated for Feb. 15.

JASON LAVERIS, FILMMAGIC

HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY LARRY WILMORE Comedian in chief? ‘Nightly Show’ anchor Larry Wilmore will host the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, cracking jokes for President Obama and other political bigwigs. He follows in the footsteps of fellow ‘Daily Show’ alum Stephen Colbert, who hosted the dinner in 2006.

NEW YORK Hanging out with Idris Elba is, at times, a painful lesson in humility. “If you’re a middle-aged man walking down the street with Idris, it’s an interesting insight into what it must be like to actually be invisible,” laughs Luther creator Neil Cross. “His presence is such that he commands attention without ever meaning to. He doesn’t seek it out, which must be exhausting, but he’s a genuinely lovely man.” Ranked one of Essence and People’s sexiest men, Elba embraces his status as a style icon, collaborating on a menswear collection with Superdry in the United Kingdom and sharing tips for comfortable, all-day garb. But when he’s asked about encountering his ravenous female fan base, he politely demurs. “Come on,” Elba smirks. “Another question.” The British heartthrob, 43, prefers to talk about his role as an antihero detective in Luther, which returns to BBC America for a two-hour special Thursday (9 p.m. ET/PT). A modern-day meld of Sherlock Holmes and Columbo, the gritty drama aired its third and final season stateside in 2013 but was left in limbo as Elba’s film roles (this year’s Oscars contender Beasts of No Nation, Avengers: Age of Ultron and The Gunman) multiplied. “I was a bit like a lovelorn teenager in that I wanted to come back, but (Idris and I)thought the show was over,” Cross says. “It was a bittersweet experience to say goodbye,” but months after it aired “we realized that we missed it and wanted to do more.” Rather than a typical four- to six-episode season, “we wanted to try and redesign the way Luther is absorbed,” Elba says. “It is a TV show, but there’s scope for a film, more specials, another (season). I don’t think we should really map out how we do it. ... The more ways I can dissect it and give it back to the audience, the better.” When we reconnect with John Luther, he’s still grieving the deaths of his partner, Justin Rip-

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ley (Warren Brown), and murderous lover, Alice Morgan (The Affair’s Ruth Wilson), as he’s swept into another case involving a cannibalistic serial killer. Luther is a “recluse,” Elba says. “He’s not a cop when we see him again, and he doesn’t have his famous coat, which was a bit

weird.” Although the special adds Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie as a new detective helping Luther, “we didn’t change much. For us, we were like, ‘Let’s pick up where we left off, but pay attention to the fact that, hey, he’s a human being. How is this affecting him?” It’s not a spoiler to say that the

special ends with a cliffhanger, allowing for more Luther stories down the line. As for what those could be? “We definitely keep thinking forward,” Elba says. “If we can do more, whether it’s TV or film, where do we start off? Rest assured, we’re thinking about it all the time.”

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MUSIC CAUGHT IN THE ACT Who you gonna call? Sony has released the first official cast photo for the new ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot, which features Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones in the movie’s trademark khaki jumpsuits and ready for business. The film hits theaters on July 15.

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USA SNAPSHOTS©

Top music downloads Somebody to Love Jordan Smith Hello Adele Sorry Justin Bieber

164,400 158,100 104,700

Love Yourself Justin Bieber

76,000

Same Old Love Selena Gomez

55,900

Source Nielsen SoundScan for week ending Dec. 10 MAEVE MCDERMOTT AND VERONICA BRAVO, USA TODAY

N.W.A, Chicago among Rock Hall inductees Nine Inch Nails, Janet Jackson and Chic will have to wait

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Straight outta Compton and into the Rock Hall. N.W.A is joining the 31st class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The legendary hip-hop group will be inducted alongside Cheap Trick, Chicago, Steve Miller and Deep Purple on April 8 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Immortalized on the big screen this summer in the blockbuster biopic Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A has been considered for entry into the Rock Hall four times. British rockers Deep Purple have been nominated on three occasions, while Chicago, Cheap Trick and Miller all earned nods for the first time this year. The 2016 crop was chosen by more than 800 members of the Hall’s voting committee. To be eligible for nomination, the acts must have released their first single or album at least 25 years ago (in this case, 1990 or earlier). In the online fan vote conducted across websites including USATODAY.com, Chicago led with 23%, followed by Yes, The Cars, Deep Purple and Miller. The aggregate of the fan vote counted as a ballot in the official voting. Acts that missed out on a 2016 induction include Janet Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, The Smiths, Los Lobos and Chic, nominated a record 10 times.

GET TO KNOW THE 2016 INDUCTEES CHEAP TRICK. The hard-rocking, pow-

er-pop pioneers (Dream Police) found success in Japan before breaking through stateside and have toured almost non-stop over the band’s fourdecade history. CHICAGO. Formed in Illinois in the late ’60s with a revolving door of members, the band continues its U.S. tour in January. DEEP PURPLE. The British quintet, which helped define the heavy metal genre with its organ-driven thick sound and early covers of Hush and Kentucky

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2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees N.W.A, left, and Chicago.

Woman, climbed the charts with Smoke on the Water and Woman From Tokyo. N.W.A Led by Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and the late Eazy-E, the West Coast rap group caught the attention of the FBI with its gangsta rap classic F - - - Tha Police in the late 1980s. STEVE MILLER. The veteran guitarist has released more than a dozen albums with his Steve Miller Band since the mid-1960s, scoring hits with seminal anthems The Joker, Abracadabra and Jet Airliner.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS POSE FOR A PORTRAIT after practice Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska. The Jayhawks will meet Nebraska tonight in an NCAA semifinal.

Jayhawks form special bond at Final Four Omaha, Neb. — A red sea of Cornhuskers volleyball backers will fill CenturyLink Center for tonight’s national semifinal match between Nebraska and Kansas. It will make for quite the spectacle, but the Kansas volleyball players will be the last ones able to describe the crowd. Their eyes will be elsewhere, specifically where they always are trained: on each other. “I know that no mat-

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ter what, my team has my back,” was how junior Tayler Soucie put their bond. “Whether I make a mistake or I’m having a rough day,

they’re going to help me out. “Sometimes we get more excited for each other than we do for ourselves. That makes me feel good. We feed off of each other. When one person gets going, it kind of makes everyone else get going. That’s worked for us all year.” Nebraska rides a 14-match winning streak into tonight and has a series advantage of 86-0-1 vs. Kansas.

The Cornhuskers’ last two losses, on consecutive days (Oct. 23-24), came against Final Four participant Minnesota and then Wisconsin. Kansas (30-2) lost twice to Texas, which is in the Final Four for the fifth consecutive year. The KU players were their relaxed selves in the locker room and focused at their public practice. The partisan crowd makes Nebraska the favor-

ite, but Cornhuskers coach John Cook knows the lopsided series history was not built by the current players. Shortly after the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced its 14-deep All-American first team that included Kansas setter Ainise Havili and right-side hitter Kelsie Payne, Cook said, “Right there shows you they’ve got talent. I think they’re a very

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Who: Kansas (30-2) vs. Nebraska (30-4) When: 8:30 p.m. today Where: Omaha, Nebraska TV: ESPN2 (WOW! channels 34, Please see KEEGAN, page 5C 234)

KU’s Havili, Payne earn All-American honors By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Want to know just how tight the Kansas University volleyball family has been this season? Two of the most critical players on the Jayhawks’ Final Four team during the best season in school history even have kept KU vol-

On Monday afternoon, KU coach Ray Bechard informed sophomore setter Ainise Havili that she, along with sophomore hitter Kelsie Payne, had been named first-team All-Americans by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Havili Payne But it was not until a leyball secrets from their phone call from Bechard to actual family. Havili’s mother the follow-

ing day that the Big 12 setter of the year’s family learned about the monster achievement. “Our staff found out on Monday that she was a first-team All-American,” Bechard recalled. “So we brought her in, told her. She was excited. She was Please see VOLLEYBALL, page 5C

More online at KUsports.com… For more coverage of the KU volleyball team’s run to the Final Four, be sure to check out Tom Keegan’s “Double-Chin Music” blog and Matt Tait’s “Tale of the Tait” blog as well as audio and video clips from Omaha, Nebraska. In addition, KUsports.com will be live-blogging KU’s matches at the Final Four.

Shopping cheers KU players By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Wearing holiday sweaters and Santa Claus hats, Kansas University’s 16 men’s basketball players paraded around the Iowa Street WalMart on Wednesday night, purchasing Christmas gifts for Lawrence families in conjunction with the Salvation Army. “Joy,” KU junior guard Frank Mason III said, asked what he wanted to provide most to families as part of the Jayhawks’ 19th-annual Santa’s Helpers program.

“You want everyone to be happy, give them everything they want for Christmas. We’re trying our best to make them happy and have a great Christmas,” Mason added. The 5-foot-11 Petersburg, Virginia, native placed pots and pans, flashlights, clothes, toys and even a space heater in his shopping cart during his trek around Wal-Mart. “It’s just special to come in here, give back to families and put a smile on their face,” Mason said. Players were allotted

$100 per family, with money raised by former KU basketball player Roger Morningstar and his wife, Linda, the KU Roundball Club and coach Bill Self. “I’m just happy to come out here and do something positive for someone else,” said KU senior forward Jamari Traylor, who early in his shopping spree had selected toy wagons, Legos and teddy bears for his family of four. “Anytime we can John Young/Journal-World Photo put a smile on other people’s faces, it’s an amazing feeling. KANSAS UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL PLAYERS huddle around ex-Jayhawk Roger Morningstar as he gives out the Christmas lists of local families in need so the Please see HOOPS, page 3C players can shop for the families at Wal-Mart, 3300 Iowa, on Wednesday night.

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Chicago — The White Sox were looking to add some pop while solidifying third base, and they are counting on Todd Frazier to provide it. The All-Star third baseman was acquired from the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday as part of a three-team, seven-player trade that also included the Los Angeles Dodgers. Los Angeles received outfielder Trayce Thompson, righthander Frankie Montas and second baseman Micah Johnson from the White Sox, and Cincinnati got infielders Brandon Dixon and Jose Peraza and outfielder Scott Schebler from the Dodgers. The 29-year-old Frazier, who won last summer’s All-Star Home Run Derby in Cincinnati, was an NL All-Star in each of the last two seasons and hit .255 this year with 43 doubles, 35 homers and 89 RBIs.

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Mayfield, Sooners dominate All-Big 12 Baker Mayfield has gone from two-time walk-on to the unanimous pick as the Big 12 Conference offensive player of the year. Oklahoma’s junior quarterback is among a league-high seven players from the playoff-bound and league champion Sooners on the Associated Press All-Big 12 first team released Wednesday after voting by members of the media who cover the league. Mayfield has thrown for 3,389 yards with a league-high 35 touchdowns in his first season starting for the Sooners, who play No. 1 Clemson in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Eve. He had to sit out last year after walking on as a transfer from Texas Tech. After winning their ninth Big 12 title, the fourth-ranked Sooners have four first-team picks on offense and three more on defense. That includes sophomore running back Samaje Perine (108 yards rushing per game, Big 12-best 15 TDs), a repeat first-teamer a year after he was the league’s top offensive newcomer. All of Oklahoma’s record nine Big 12 championships have come under Bob Stoops, who is the first four-time winner as AP Big 12 coach of the year. He had last won that award in 2006, the year the Sooners won the first of three consecutive Big 12 titles. Kansas State’s Bill Snyder has won the honor three times. Oklahoma State junior defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah is the league’s defensive player of the year with 13 sacks. He was a unanimous pick at his position, and got 16 of the 20 votes for top defender. Kansas University’s only representative on the All-Big 12 teams was safety Fish Smithson, who made second team.

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China stuns U.S., 1-0 New Orleans — Abby Wambach threatened to score several times in the final game of her extraordinary career, but China shut out the World Cup champion United States 1-0 on Wednesday night to hand the Americans their first loss on home soil in more than a decade. Wambach played 72 minutes, managing two threatening headers and a shot from inside the penalty area before subbing out of a match for the final time. The U.S. had gone 104 home games without losing since falling 3-1 to Denmark in 2004.

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U.S. Championships coming to KC in ’17 Kansas City, Mo. — The 2017 U.S. Figure Skating Championships will be held in Kansas City. The U.S. Figure Skating Association announced its choice Wednesday. It will be the first nationals staged in Kansas City since 1985, when Brian Boitano won the first of four straight U.S. crowns.

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Memphis 7 p.m. ESPNN 140,231 Crowder 3-9 2-2 9, A.Johnson 5-10 0-0 11, Philadelphia 23 32 21 30—106 Lopez 3-8 0-1 6, Calderon 1-3 0-0 3, Afflalo Sullinger 7-13 2-4 17, Thomas 12-20 11-11 38, Atlanta 32 34 36 25—127 9-14 8-9 29, O’Quinn 2-2 0-0 4, Galloway 5-11 3-Point Goals-Philadelphia 12-26 (Canaan Bradley 2-8 0-0 5, Turner 4-9 1-1 9, Olynyk 0-2 1-2 12, Vujacic 0-2 2-2 2, Thomas 5-10 3-3 14, Time Net Cable 6-8, McConnell 1-1, Covington 1-2, Holmes 0-0 0, Young 0-0 0-0 0, Lee 2-6 2-2 6, Jerebko 3-5 College Football Williams 1-4 1-2 3, Seraphin 1-2 1-1 3. Totals 1-2, Marshall 1-3, Wroten 1-4, Thompson 0-0 9, Zeller 5-7 2-4 12. Totals 43-89 20-24 116. 37-85 25-30 107. NCAA Div. III champ. 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 1-4, Grant 0-2), Atlanta 10-21 (Teague 2-3, DETROIT (119) Minnesota 26 14 30 32—102 Morris 4-9 2-2 11, Ilyasova 2-8 5-6 11, NCAA Div. I semifinal 7 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Schroder 2-4, Korver 2-4, Horford 1-1, Millsap New York 27 33 18 29—107 1-1, Scott 1-2, Muscala 1-2, Sefolosha 0-1, Drummond 6-10 3-10 16, Jackson 7-16 8-9 23, 3-Point Goals-Minnesota 4-21 (Towns 2-4, Bazemore 0-1, Mack 0-1, Patterson 0-1). Caldwell-Pope 10-16 8-8 31, Blake 0-4 0-0 0, Rubio 1-1, LaVine 1-5, Payne 0-1, Prince 0-1, Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Philadelphia 45 S.Johnson 3-5 2-3 8, Tolliver 3-5 0-0 9, Baynes 3-5 Pro Basketball Time Net Cable Muhammad 0-1, Rudez 0-1, Bjelica 0-3, Wiggins (Holmes, Okafor 7), Atlanta 32 (Bazemore 7). 3-3 9, Anthony 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 38-78 32-43 119. 0-4), New York 8-21 (Afflalo 3-5, Thomas 25 27 31 33—116 Assists-Philadelphia 20 (Marshall, McConnell, Boston Clippers v. San Antonio 7 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 1-1, Anthony 1-2, Calderon 1-3, Galloway 18 37 30 34—119 Covington 4), Atlanta 32 (Korver, Schroder Detroit 1-3, Porzingis 1-6, Williams 0-1). ReboundsNew Orleans v. 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Oklahoma City — Kevin Du- 20, and Paul George had 19 to Clippers 103, Bucks 90 rant scored 24 points, leading help Indiana beat Dallas. Los Angeles — Chris Paul Oklahoma City past Portland DALLAS (81) for its sixth straight victory. Matthews 2-10 0-0 4, Nowitzki 6-16 0-0 13, had 21 points and eight assists.

PORTLAND (90) Aminu 2-7 0-0 5, Vonleh 0-2 2-2 2, Plumlee 4-14 6-6 14, Lillard 6-20 4-5 20, McCollum 9-18 2-2 24, Leonard 2-8 0-0 4, Davis 4-5 1-3 9, Crabbe 1-5 0-0 3, Harkless 1-4 0-0 2, Henderson 1-5 0-0 2, Frazier 2-3 0-0 5, Connaughton 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-92 15-18 90. OKLAHOMA CITY (106) Durant 8-14 7-9 24, Ibaka 5-9 3-5 13, Adams 5-8 1-1 11, Westbrook 5-15 3-3 13, Roberson 2-3 0-0 4, Waiters 6-10 5-7 18, Morrow 1-3 0-0 2, Kanter 3-6 6-8 12, Augustin 0-2 2-2 2, Collison 2-5 0-0 4, Payne 1-2 0-0 2, Singler 0-1 1-2 1, Novak 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 38-79 28-37 106. Portland 26 19 22 23— 90 Oklahoma City 31 21 36 18—106 3-Point Goals-Portland 11-26 (McCollum 4-7, Lillard 4-8, Frazier 1-1, Aminu 1-2, Crabbe 1-3, Connaughton 0-1, Henderson 0-1, Leonard 0-3), Oklahoma City 2-14 (Waiters 1-2, Durant 1-4, Novak 0-1, Roberson 0-1, Morrow 0-1, Augustin 0-2, Westbrook 0-3). ReboundsPortland 51 (Plumlee 10), Oklahoma City 62 (Kanter 13). Assists-Portland 13 (McCollum 4), Oklahoma City 13 (Westbrook 5). Total FoulsPortland 28, Oklahoma City 20. TechnicalsDurant. A-18,203 (18,203).

Pachulia 2-8 1-3 5, Williams 3-10 1-1 8, Felton 6-12 1-2 16, Powell 1-1 0-0 2, Harris 1-1 2-2 5, Parsons 3-9 0-0 7, Barea 3-8 2-2 8, McGee 2-2 0-0 4, Villanueva 4-8 0-0 9, Anderson 0-5 0-0 0, Evans 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-90 7-10 81. INDIANA (107) George 7-18 3-3 19, Allen 4-6 0-0 8, Mahinmi 2-2 1-4 5, G.Hill 5-10 0-2 11, Ellis 7-17 2-2 19, Miles 7-13 3-5 20, Stuckey 5-11 1-1 12, J.Hill 3-4 0-0 6, Budinger 0-4 0-0 0, Robinson III 1-2 0-0 2, Young 2-2 0-0 5, S.Hill 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 43-89 10-17 107. Dallas 19 28 17 17— 81 Indiana 20 25 30 32—107 3-Point Goals-Dallas 8-33 (Felton 3-6, Harris 1-1, Villanueva 1-3, Parsons 1-3, Williams 1-4, Nowitzki 1-7, Barea 0-2, Anderson 0-3, Matthews 0-4), Indiana 11-29 (Ellis 3-5, Miles 3-9, George 2-8, Stuckey 1-1, Young 1-1, G.Hill 1-4, Budinger 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Dallas 53 (Pachulia 14), Indiana 60 (Mahinmi 10). Assists-Dallas 16 (Williams 6), Indiana 28 (Stuckey 7). Total Fouls-Dallas 16, Indiana 17. Technicals-Nowitzki. A-14,824 (18,165).

MILWAUKEE (90) Middleton 4-11 6-6 15, Parker 6-11 2-2 14, Plumlee 1-4 0-0 2, Carter-Williams 8-18 1-2 17, Mayo 7-18 0-0 17, Antetokounmpo 4-12 0-0 9, O’Bryant 3-4 0-1 6, Henson 5-8 0-0 10, Ennis 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 38-88 9-11 90. L.A. CLIPPERS (103) Mbah a Moute 3-5 0-0 7, Griffin 5-13 5-7 15, Jordan 4-4 1-1 9, Paul 7-12 4-4 21, Redick 5-11 6-6 19, Johnson 0-3 0-0 0, Crawford 0-3 2-2 2, Pierce 3-7 0-0 6, Smith 5-9 0-2 13, Rivers 2-6 2-2 7, Stephenson 2-2 0-0 4. Totals 36-75 20-24 103. Milwaukee 21 22 23 24— 90 L.A. Clippers 29 25 24 25—103 3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 5-16 (Mayo 3-9, Antetokounmpo 1-1, Middleton 1-5, Ennis 0-1), L.A. Clippers 11-21 (Smith 3-3, Paul 3-4, Redick 3-6, Rivers 1-1, Mbah a Moute 1-1, Crawford 0-1, Johnson 0-2, Pierce 0-3). Rebounds-Milwaukee 47 (Antetokounmpo 11), L.A. Clippers 48 (Jordan, Griffin 8). Assists-Milwaukee 21 (Middleton, Mayo 6), L.A. Clippers 25 (Paul 8). Total FoulsMilwaukee 21, L.A. Clippers 10. Technicals-Mayo, Milwaukee defensive three second, Jordan 2. Ejected— Jordan. A-19,060 (19,060).

Magic 113, Hornets 98 Orlando, Fla. — Chan- Warriors 128, Suns 103 Bulls 98, Grizzlies 85 Oakland, Calif. — Klay ning Frye had a season-high Chicago — Jimmy Butler 17 points in Orlando’s victory Thompson scored 27 of his seascored 24 points, Derrick Rose over Charlotte. son-high 43 points in the third added 19, and Chicago beat CHARLOTTE (98) quarter. Memphis. Hairston 5-11 1-1 14, Williams 2-7 0-0 6, Zeller

MEMPHIS (85) Je.Green 4-12 2-4 11, Barnes 2-7 3-4 7, M.Gasol 4-10 0-0 8, Conley 3-14 1-2 8, Lee 8-11 0-0 18, Randolph 4-9 2-2 10, Chalmers 2-5 4-8 8, Ja.Green 4-6 3-6 11, Ennis 1-2 1-2 4. Totals 32-76 16-28 85. CHICAGO (98) Snell 1-4 0-0 2, Gibson 3-6 2-2 8, P.Gasol 3-6 4-4 10, Rose 9-19 1-3 19, Butler 10-22 3-3 24, Noah 1-4 1-4 3, McDermott 6-12 1-1 17, Hinrich 2-3 0-0 5, Mirotic 1-2 0-0 3, Brooks 2-8 1-2 7. Totals 38-86 13-19 98. Memphis 26 27 13 19—85 Chicago 30 20 24 24—98 3-Point Goals—Memphis 5-19 (Lee 2-2, Ennis 1-1, Je.Green 1-3, Conley 1-8, Chalmers 0-1, Ja.Green 0-1, Barnes 0-3), Chicago 9-24 (McDermott 4-8, Brooks 2-4, Hinrich 1-1, Mirotic 1-2, Butler 1-4, P.Gasol 0-1, Snell 0-1, Rose 0-3). Rebounds—Memphis 55 (Randolph 11), Chicago 55 (P.Gasol 14). Assists—Memphis 27 (M.Gasol 7), Chicago 22 (Noah, Rose 5). Total Fouls—Memphis 20, Chicago 17. Technicals— Ja.Green, Mirotic, Chicago defensive three second. A—21,032 (20,917).

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3-3 5-5 11, Walker 4-12 4-6 12, Batum 2-7 0-0 6, Kaminsky 4-8 0-0 9, Hawes 1-4 0-0 2, Lin 3-9 1-2 8, Lamb 7-10 1-1 16, Hansbrough 0-2 0-0 0, Roberts 2-2 0-0 5, Daniels 3-4 0-0 9. Totals 36-79 12-15 98. ORLANDO (113) Harris 5-11 1-1 13, Frye 5-7 2-2 17, Vucevic 7-14 0-2 14, Payton 5-9 2-2 12, Fournier 4-7 4-4 15, Oladipo 5-9 0-0 11, Nicholson 2-4 2-2 7, Hezonja 3-5 0-0 8, Gordon 2-3 2-2 6, Smith 5-6 0-0 10, Dedmon 0-0 0-0 0, Napier 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 43-77 13-15 113. Charlotte 23 22 28 25— 98 Orlando 30 28 31 24—113 3-Point Goals-Charlotte 14-34 (Daniels 3-3, Hairston 3-7, Batum 2-4, Williams 2-5, Roberts 1-1, Lamb 1-2, Lin 1-4, Kaminsky 1-4, Hawes 0-1, Walker 0-3), Orlando 14-24 (Frye 5-7, Fournier 3-5, Hezonja 2-3, Harris 2-4, Nicholson 1-2, Oladipo 1-2, Payton 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Charlotte 36 (Williams, Lamb, Kaminsky 5), Orlando 46 (Vucevic 8). AssistsCharlotte 23 (Walker 9), Orlando 28 (Payton 9). Total Fouls-Charlotte 19, Orlando 15. Technicals-Orlando defensive three second 2. A-16,019 (18,500).

PHOENIX (103) Tucker 0-2 0-0 0, Leuer 3-6 0-0 7, Chandler 3-5 0-0 6, Bledsoe 3-12 0-0 6, Knight 7-16 3-3 17, Warren 9-15 1-2 19, Teletovic 9-13 3-3 24, Len 3-6 0-0 6, Price 1-6 6-6 9, Booker 0-4 0-0 0, Goodwin 3-6 3-4 9. Totals 41-91 16-18 103. GOLDEN STATE (128) Rush 4-8 0-0 11, Green 5-14 4-4 16, Bogut 0-0 0-2 0, Curry 10-14 3-5 25, K.Thompson 15-22 5-5 43, Iguodala 2-4 1-1 5, Ezeli 3-7 1-2 7, Livingston 0-3 2-2 2, Barbosa 2-6 0-0 4, Speights 3-7 5-6 11, Clark 1-2 0-0 2, McAdoo 1-1 0-0 2, J.Thompson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 46-88 21-27 128. Phoenix 28 18 19 38—103 Golden State 26 33 46 23—128 3-Point Goals—Phoenix 5-22 (Teletovic 3-5, Leuer 1-2, Price 1-3, Tucker 0-1, Warren 0-1, Booker 0-3, Goodwin 0-3, Knight 0-4), Golden State 15-32 (K.Thompson 8-13, Rush 3-5, Green 2-3, Curry 2-5, Livingston 0-1, Clark 0-1, Iguodala 0-1, Barbosa 0-3). Rebounds— Phoenix 46 (Warren 8), Golden State 54 (Bogut 12). Assists—Phoenix 28 (Bledsoe 8), Golden State 32 (Green 10). Total Fouls—Phoenix 20, Golden State 17. Technicals—Phoenix defensive three second. A—19,596 (19,596).

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Lions, Firebirds keep perspective By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

Lawrence High and Free State girls basketball teams both insist the City Showdown is just another game on the schedule. Of course, there’s the packed crowd and the bragging rights. But a loss won’t end a season or take away a school’s chances at a league title. Instead, both teams are preparing for their matchup at 5:30 p.m. Friday at LHS like all of their previous games. “I look forward to it,” LHS junior guard Skylar Drum said, “but it’s just

SHOWDOWN a n o t h e r the second half in both player that’s really, really the past, but we know on help defense,” Bishop

game that you want to win.” After a 19-point loss to Shawnee Heights last week, the Lions (3-2) have rebounded with some of their strongest performances of the season. The Lions won games against Topeka West and Kansas City (Kansas) Wyandotte earlier this week, forcing a running clock in

Who: Free State girls (3-0) vs. Lawrence High girls (3-2) When: 5:30 p.m. Friday Where: Lawrence High

games. But Free State (3-0, ranked No. 3 in Class 6A) will be among the toughest teams the Lions have faced this season, featuring junior wing Madison Piper, last year’s Sunflower League Player of the Year, who is averaging 22.7 points per game. “They’ve got a program that’s been exceptionally good for a long time,” LHS coach Jeff Dickson said. “In that respect, we’ve got our work cut out for us. We played a similar team in Shawnee Heights that has a Div. I

Three mid-year transfers commit to KU football By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Months of hard work and pavement-pounding began paying off early Wednesday morning, when Kansas University football coach David Beaty announced the signing of a handful of mid-year junior-college transfers. Riverside (California) College defensive tackle Isi Holani, Highland Community College defensive tackle DeeIsaac Davis and versatile wide receiver/defensive back Stephan Robinson from Northeastern Oklahoma JC became the first in the Class of 2016 to officially join the Jayhawks on Wednesday. “We are very excited to be adding DeeIsaac, Isi and Stephan to our program,” Beaty said in a news release. “It is our goal to build Kansas football by addressing our biggest needs and at the same time finding the right people who fit the profile of who we want to be Jayhawks. All three of these guys help us accomplish that.”

Beaty, one of KU’s most active coaches on social media, announced the signings on Twitter. Holani, a 6-foot-2, 315-pound, three-star prospect from Riverside College in California, made an official visit to Kansas last weekend and ended his recruitment Monday afternoon. Holani, who hails from Hilo High in Hawaii and figures to add immediate depth to KU’s defensive line, had offers from Kansas State, Hawaii, Oklahoma State, Colorado State, Boise State, Nevada, and Fresno State. Robinson, a 5-foot-11, 173-pound two-star athlete who could play wide receiver, defensive back and on special teams, will have four years remaining to play out three seasons of eligibility. Two of Robinson’s official visits during the recruiting process were to Kansas and Tennessee and, according to JayhawkSlant.com, Nebraska and Virginia Tech recently tried to get involved with him. Robinson also had offers from Southern Miss,

Tulsa, Arkansas State, and Utah State. Davis, a 6-foot-4, 295 pound two-star defensive tackle from Highland Community College, drew serious interest from several programs after he committed to Kansas in early November, picking up new offers from Southern Miss, Western Kentucky, New Mexico and Ohio. Linebackers coach Kevin Kane began recruiting Davis midway through the 2015 season, and Davis, who originally hails from Andover High near Wichita, ultimately chose Kansas over New Mexico. All three players visited KU in the last month and are expected to be on campus in time for the beginning of the spring semester and spring football. “These student-athletes address our immediate needs,” Beaty added. “Having the opportunity to get these guys on campus in January was huge for our program moving forward and then also knowing we would have Stephan for three years was an added bonus.”

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I remember growing up as a kid (in Chicago) the effect of presents. Just doing something for others makes you feel a lot better.” Self said the players truly look forward to the annual shopping excursion at Wal-Mart. “They try to shop smart and still yet make somebody else’s Christmas,” Self said. “Christmas is pretty special to our guys. We are so fortunate and blessed. There’s a lot of people out there struggling, especially this time of year. Anything our guys can do ... I know it gives them great pride to do it.” l

Volleyball fans: Self moved the shopping excursion from tonight to Wednesday so the Jayhawks could watch KU’s Final Four semifinal volleyball match against Nebraska on TV. First serve is set for 8:30 p.m., in Omaha, Nebraska. “I won’t miss a serve,” Self said. “I know our players have been huge fans. I’ve seen ’em play a few times this year as well. I love how hard they play. I love our athletic ability. I love how aggressive we are. Ray (Bechard, volleyball coach) has obviously done a fantastic job. “This is a fun team to watch play. I hope our basketball team plays with the reckless abandon in many ways the volleyball team plays with.”

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This, that: KU signee Mitch Lightfoot scored 39 points and grabbed 25 rebounds in Gilbert (Arizona) Christian’s 92-83 win over Cesar Chavez on Tuesday. Lightfoot, a 6-9 senior forward, is ranked No. 117 in the Class of 2016 by Rivals. com. ... Billy Preston, a 6-foot-9 junior forward from Advanced Prep International in Dallas, who is ranked No. 6 in the recruiting Class of 2017 by Rivals.com, has cut his list from 29 schools to 13. They are: KU, Arizona, USC, Maryland, UConn, Kentucky, Oregon, N.C. State, UNLV, Baylor, Arizona State, Texas and St. John’s. l

How long will he coach?: Self was asked by radio-talk-show host Jim Rome on Wednesday if he wants to coach as long as possible or perhaps walk away from the game at some point. “I’ve thought about it. I thought about it when I got involved in coaching how long I’d want to do this. I respect so many, whether it be Bo (Ryan, who just retired

at Wisconsin), or coach Boeheim (Jim, Syracuse) or Krzyzewski (Mike, Duke) or Williams (Roy, North Carolina) or whoever has been in this business for so long. I don’t think I’ll do that,” Self, 52, said. “I know certainly I want to be able to fulfill my contract (through 2021-22 season) and maybe go beyond that, but I’m not going to be a lifer. I can’t see that right now. Now if I havc no hobbies and no other interests and certainly I need something to keep me busy ... that would be something if my motor is still running. “To compete at the highest level for so long in any profession, it wears on you after time. I don’t think I’d want to do this unless I felt I could give the energy and be as good as I could be because there’s young guys coming up behind you trying to knock you off your perch or beat your butt without question. As long as I have the energy level I will do it and I’ll love to do it. As soon as I lose that, I can’t see staying in.”

good. We’ve been building up to play that kind of competition.” The Firebirds have won the past 12 games against their crosstown rival, dating back to 2009. Players from both schools are aware of the streak but try to avoid thinking too much about it. “I think for the team, just the hype gets everybody nervous,” LHS senior guard Emma Bentzinger said. “So that’s the toughest part. We have to get over that.” FSHS junior guard Jaycie Bishop added: “We know we have won in

they have improved a lot over the years. We are excited to play a competitive game. I hope it it’ll be close, and I hope it’ll be a lot of competition.” The Firebirds earned a 55-46 comeback victory against Mill Valley last week and have used their talented set of guards — Bishop, Cameryn Thomas, Caiti Schlesener, Hannah Walter and Jaelyn Two Hearts, along with forwards Piper and Peyton Brown — to play an up-tempo pace on both ends of the court. “We’re able to pressure a lot more and rely

said. “We’re a very quick team, so we’re able to pressure the ball, pressure off of the ball. It really helps.” The Lions have a young lineup, including several freshmen who will be a part of their first rivalry game. Sophomore E’lease Stafford leads the team in scoring. Though both schools don’t want to put extra emphasis on the rivalry game, they are aiming to head into winter break on a high note. “We’re a lot better than we have been,” Bentzinger said. “It’ll be great.”

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Flyover country volleyball country now By Tom Keegan Twitter:@TomKeeganLJW

Omaha, Neb. — USC headed to the NCAA women’s volleyball tournament West Regional in San Diego last week on a quest to win a seventh national championship. It’s more difficult than ever to win one, isn’t it? “No question that that’s true,” Trojans coach Mick Haley answered, two days before getting knocked out of the tournament by Kansas University in an Elite Eight match. “It used to be that you felt like the kids on the West Coast would play a little bit more volleyball because they get to play in the summers and outdoors. If you look at the number of matches and the number of practices kids in the Midwest and on the East Coast and the Southwest are playing now, they’re all playing about the same number. It’s amazing.” As a result, Haley said, “recruiting shifts from each side of the country from year to year. You know, Texas has more than 38,000 high school kids playing. California

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ALL FOUR TEAMS IN THE NCAA VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT’S FINAL FOUR — KANSAS, MINNESOTA, NEBRASKA AND TEXAS — are from the Central time zone. It’s the first time in the tournament’s 35-year history that there are no teams from the West Coast or Hawaii in the Final Four. has 37,000 now. Texas has actually taken the lead.” Haley also listed Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Ohio as “very strong recruiting areas,” and added, “Iowa, believe it or not, is a very strong state to get talent out of. You don’t have an advantage being on one side of the country or another now. There’s talent everywhere.”

This Final Four at CenturyLink Center features all teams from the Central time zone, two from the Big Ten (Minnesota and Nebraska), two from the Big 12 (Kansas and Texas), meaning that for the third year in a row, the Pac-12 will not have a team playing in the national-title match. The Big Ten had six teams in the Sweet 16.

For the first time in the national tournament’s 35 years, there are no teams from the West Coast or Hawaii in the Final Four. In every season from 2001 through 2008, the Pac-12 had at least one team in the title match. “I think it speaks to the parity across the nation,” Kansas coach Ray Bechard said. Minnesota coach Hugh

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No. 11 North Carolina 96, Tulane 72 Chapel Hill, N.C. — Brice Johnson had a career-high 25 points and 10 rebounds, and North Carolina beat Tulane on Wednesday night. Marcus Paige added 16 points, and Justin Jackson had 13. The Tar Heels (82) won their first game without injured big man Kennedy Meeks and bounced back from a lastsecond loss at Texas that knocked them out of the top 10. Joel Berry II had 12 points, and Isaiah Hicks finished with 11 for North Carolina, which never trailed, shot 50 percent and built a 43-33 rebounding advantage. TULANE (6-5) Dabney 6-15 5-5 18, Reynolds 0-4 0-0 0, Morgan 6-11 0-0 12, Osetkowski 3-8 3-4 10, Jarreau 5-10 0-1 10, Oliver 2-2 0-0 4, Mack 2-2 0-1 4, Conroy 0-0 0-0 0, Julien 2-4 0-1 5, Harris 2-3 0-0 5, Smith 0-1 0-0 0, Paul 2-2 0-0 4, Frazier 0-1 0-2 0. Totals 30-63 8-14 72. NORTH CAROLINA (8-2) Berry II 4-9 1-2 12, Paige 5-10 2-2 16, Johnson 11-17 3-3 25, James 2-5 0-0 4, Jackson 6-9 0-1 13, Britt 0-6 2-2 2, Pinson 3-6 2-3 10, Hicks 4-5 3-4 11, Coker 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, White 1-1 0-0 2, Coleman 0-0 0-0 0, Maye 0-2 1-4 1, Egbuna 0-1 0-0 0, Dalton 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-72 14-21 96. Halftime-North Carolina 50-31. 3-Point Goals-Tulane 4-17 (Julien 1-1, Harris 1-2, Osetkowski 1-2, Dabney 1-5, Jarreau 0-1, Reynolds 0-2, Morgan 0-4), North Carolina 10-24 (Paige 4-8, Berry II 3-5, Pinson 2-3, Jackson 1-2, Egbuna 0-1, Dalton 0-1, Maye 0-1, Britt 0-3). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsTulane 33 (Jarreau 8), North Carolina 43 (Johnson 10). Assists-Tulane 9 (Morgan 3), North Carolina 30 (Berry II 9). Total Fouls-Tulane 17, North Carolina 15. A-16,199.

No. 16 Baylor 104, Hardin-Simmons 59 Fort Hood, Texas — Johnathan Motley had 23 points, and Baylor beat Hardin-Simmons in the first regular-season college basketball game played at Fort Hood, one of the nation’s largest Army posts. Rico Gathers had 20 points for the Bears (81). Cameron Barnes had 11 points for Division III Hardin-Simmons (6-5). Fort Hood covers 340 square miles, with more than 40,000 soldiers living on the post about an hour from the Baylor campus in Waco. The game was closed to the general public, but 1,600 free tickets were distributed to soldiers and their families to attend the game at Abrams Field House on the post.

HARDIN-SIMMONS (6-4) Hopper 3-7 0-0 9, Jack 1-5 0-0 3, Jones 1-10 1-3 3, O’Neal 5-8 0-0 11, Barnes 4-6 0-0 10, Hoeup 0-2 0-0 0, Spoon 0-3 0-0 0, Dixon 3-12 0-0 7, Leiss 3-7 1-3 9, Shannon 1-3 0-0 3, Chaney 1-1 0-0 2, Scott 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 23-65 2-6 59. BAYLOR (8-1) Gathers 10-12 0-1 20, Prince 4-8 3-3 11, Medford 0-4 0-0 0, Wainright 4-9 0-0 9, Freeman 4-7 2-2 12, Lindsey 5-11 0-0 11, Motley 11-15 1-3 23, Heard 0-2 0-0 0, McClure 4-8 0-0 9, Maston 2-3 2-2 6, Mills 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 45-83 8-11 104. Halftime-Baylor 48-32. 3-Point Goals-Hardin-Simmons 11-37 (Hopper 3-7, Leiss 2-3, Barnes 2-3, O’Neal 1-2, Shannon 1-3, Jack 1-5, Dixon 1-6, Hoeup 0-2, Spoon 0-3, Jones 0-3), Baylor 6-26 (Freeman 2-5, Mills 1-3, Lindsey 1-3, Wainright 1-4, McClure 1-5, Heard 0-2, Medford 0-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Hardin-Simmons 27 (Jones 8), Baylor 57 (Prince 10). AssistsHardin-Simmons 20 (O’Neal 6), Baylor 40 (Medford 13). Total Fouls-HardinSimmons 11, Baylor 15. A-NA.

No. 13 Arizona 92, Northern Arizona 37 Tucson, Ariz. — Mark Tollefesen scored 19 points, Ryan Anderson had 18 points and 12 rebounds, and Arizona overwhelmed Northern Arizona. N. ARIZONA (2-7) Johnson 0-3 0-2 0, Yanku 5-14 2-2 12, Kaluna 1-8 0-0 3, Thomas 2-3 0-0 4, DeBerry 1-6 0-0 3, Brown 0-1 0-0 0, Green 0-5 0-0 0, Neely 1-7 5-7 8, RiveraVega 2-8 2-4 7. Totals 12-55 9-15 37. ARIZONA (10-1) York 2-8 0-0 6, Allen 2-3 3-3 7, Trier 4-10 2-3 11, Anderson 7-9 4-4 18, Ristic 4-8 2-5 10, Jackson-Cartwright 1-1 2-3 4, Simon 4-5 1-2 9, Comanche 3-4 0-0 6, Tollefsen 6-10 6-6 19, Hazzard 1-1 0-0 2, Cruz 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-59 20-26 92. Halftime-Arizona 40-24. 3-Point Goals-N. Arizona 4-17 (Kaluna 1-3, Rivera-Vega 1-3, DeBerry 1-3, Neely 1-5, Yanku 0-1, Green 0-2), Arizona 4-14 (York 2-5, Tollefsen 1-3, Trier 1-4, Allen 0-1, Anderson 0-1). Fouled Out-Brown. Rebounds-N. Arizona 25 (Kaluna 8), Arizona 49 (Anderson 12). Assists-N. Arizona 6 (Yanku 3), Arizona 17 (Allen 7). Total Fouls-N. Arizona 21, Arizona 11. Technicals-N. Arizona Bench, Arizona Bench. A-13,566.

No. 18 SMU 86, Nicholls State 42 Dallas — Ben Moore had 22 points and 15 rebounds as SMU routed Nicholls State. The short-handed Mustangs (8-0) took a 12-0 lead and kept pulling away. SMU used its seven available players, including one walk-on, with three players out because of injuries. NICHOLLS (3-6) Frye 4-14 0-0 9, Kamber 0-3 0-0 0, L. Thomas 4-8 0-0 9, Rillieux 2-7 1-2 5, Carpenter 4-15 4-6 12, Nelson 0-0 0-0 0, Caudill 0-1 0-0 0, O’Neal 1-3 1-2 4, Young 0-0 0-0 0, Ward 0-2 0-0 0, Bell 1-6 0-0 2, Q. Thomas 0-4 1-2 1. Totals 16-63 7-12 42. SMU (8-0) B. Moore 10-15 2-2 22, Tolbert 6-10 5-8 18, Milton 8-15 3-4 20, Brown 3-5 2-2 10, N. Moore 2-6 1-2 6, Foster 3-10 0-2 7, Wilfong 1-4 0-1 3. Totals 33-65 13-21 86. Halftime—SMU 48-17. 3-Point Goals— Nicholls 3-22 (O’Neal 1-1, L. Thomas 1-3, Frye 1-4, Caudill 0-1, Rillieux 0-1, Kamber 0-3, Q. Thomas 0-4, Carpenter 0-5), SMU 7-19 (Brown 2-2, Tolbert 1-1, Wilfong 1-3, N. Moore 1-3, Milton 1-5, Foster 1-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Nicholls 25 (Carpenter, L. Thomas 4), SMU 62 (Tolbert 23). Assists—Nicholls 7 (Carpenter 3), SMU 24 (B. Moore 8). Total Fouls—Nicholls 15, SMU 11. A—6,460.

No. 19 Louisville 94, Kennesaw State 57 Louisville, Ky. — Damion Lee scored 18 points, and Louisville used another strong shooting performance to beat Kennesaw State. The Cardinals (8-1) shot 59 percent (40 of 68). They have shot over 50 percent in eight of their nine games, matching their total for all of last season. KENNESAW ST. (3-9) Jones 2-5 1-4 5, Morena 1-5 0-0 2, Ray 5-14 3-4 13, Brown 7-17 3-4 19, Masterson 2-7 0-0 6, Hector 1-3 0-0 2, Williams 4-6 2-6 10. Totals 22-57 9-18 57. LOUISVILLE (8-1) Lee 5-9 4-4 18, Spalding 0-3 0-0 0, Onuaku 8-10 0-0 16, Snider 4-9 0-0 9, Lewis 5-10 0-0 13, Stockman 4-5 0-0 8, Johnson 2-3 0-0 4, Henderson 1-3 0-0 3, Mathiang 4-5 0-0 8, Levitch 2-3 0-1 5, Mitchell 5-8 0-0 10. Totals 40-68 4-5 94. Halftime-Louisville 41-19. 3-Point Goals-Kennesaw St. 4-17 (Masterson 2-6, Brown 2-7, Morena 0-1, Ray 0-3), Louisville 10-24 (Lee 4-7, Lewis 3-7, Levitch 1-2, Henderson 1-2, Snider 1-3, Johnson 0-1, Mitchell 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Kennesaw St. 22 (Williams 5), Louisville 47 (Lee, Mitchell, Onuaku 7). AssistsKennesaw St. 10 (Ray 5), Louisville 17 (Snider 8). Total Fouls-Kennesaw St. 9, Louisville 17. A-19,288.

Big 12 Men Texas Tech 79, South Dakota State 67 Lubbock, Texas — Toddrick Gotcher scored 17 points, and Zach Smith chipped in 13, including five points during a key second-half surge, to propel Texas Tech. S. DAKOTA ST. (9-2) Parks 7-15 0-0 17, Bittle 1-5 2-2 4, Moffitt 0-4 0-0 0, Tellinghuisen 7-15 0-0 19, Theisen 0-2 0-0 0, King 2-6 8-9 12, Daum 4-8 2-2 11, Severyn 0-3 2-2 2, Devine 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 22-59 14-15 67. TEXAS TECH (7-1) Williams 4-10 2-2 10, Smith 3-7 6-7 13, Evans 2-7 2-2 6, Gotcher 6-11 2-2 17, Odiase 3-7 4-4 10, Thomas 3-3 1-3 7, Gray 2-5 3-4 7, Ross 3-4 0-0 7, Jackson 1-2 0-0 2, Temple 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 27-57 20-24 79. Halftime—S. Dakota St. 38-36. 3-Point Goals—S. Dakota St. 9-27 (Tellinghuisen 5-10, Parks 3-7, Daum 1-2, King 0-1, Moffitt 0-1, Severyn 0-3, Bittle 0-3), Texas Tech 5-14 (Gotcher 3-6, Ross 1-1, Smith 1-3, Gray 0-1, Evans 0-1, Williams 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—S. Dakota St. 37 (Daum 9), Texas Tech 29 (Smith 6). Assists—S. Dakota St. 10 (Moffitt 3), Texas Tech 11 (Evans 4). Total Fouls—S. Dakota St. 20, Texas Tech 16. A—4,996.

Big 12 Women No. 5 Texas 92, Canisius 62 Austin, Texas — Imani Boyette had 15 points and 10 rebounds to help Texas beat Canisius. The 6-foot-7 Boyette was 7-of-9 from the field. Lashann Higgs and Brooke McCarty added 14 points apiece for the Longhorns (9-0).

crashing the gates of volleyball heaven. “I think it creates great stories, similar to what men’s basketball does in the NCAA Tournament, where a Butler can be in the Final Four. ... I also look at Texas, which has been here five years straight, which is an amazing accomplishment.” Half of the 14 first-team All-Americans are from Final Four teams: Ainise Havili and Kelsie Payne of Kansas, Kadie Rolfzen of Nebraska, Amy Neal and Chiak Ogbogu of Texas, and Daly Santana and Hannah Tapp of Minnesota. Wisconsin’s Lauren Carlini makes it eight first-team All-Americans from Central time zone schools. Three players — Florida’s Rhamat Alhassan, Ohio State’s Taylor Sandbothe and Penn State’s Haleigh Washington — made it from Eastern time zone schools. Just two, USC’s Samantha Bricio and Washington’s Lianna Sybeldon, are from the Pacific time zone, and BYU’s Alexa Gray is the lone firstteam selection from a Mountain time zone.

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Meeks-less Tar Heels too much for Tulane

McCutcheon cited the same factor. “Perhaps at one point it used to be a little more West Coast-dominated, but it seems that there’s great volleyball players and great volleyball programs everywhere,” he said. Nebraska, which holds an 86-0-1 series record vs. Kansas, and Texas are far from new to the big stage. “Way back, Nebraska and Texas kind of opened the door, and then Penn State,” Nebraska coach John Cook said. “Now you’re seeing teams like BYU, Kansas, that are breaking the doors down in regards to anybody can get into this Final Four and this NCAA Championship. So I think you’re seeing great balance across the country.” KU’s recent run has grown the fan base overnight, although that won’t be evident at tonight’s match vs. Nebraska because each school was limited to 200 tickets. Cornhuskers fans long ago bought up most of the tickets. “It’s great for the sport,” Cook said of new teams

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-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 Today’s Game 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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The 2015 Associated Press All-Big 12 team, as selected by a panel of 20 sports writers who regularly cover the league for newspapers throughout the league’s five states. Players at all positions are listed alphabetically with name, school, height, weight, class and hometown; “u-” denotes unanimous selections. FIRST TEAM Offense Quarterback — u-Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma, 6-1, 209, Jr., Austin, Texas. Running backs — Samaje Perine, Oklahoma, 5-10, 230, So., Pflugerville, Texas; DeAndre Washington, Texas Tech, 5-8, 200, Sr., Missouri City, Texas. Tackles — Le’Raven Clark, Texas Tech, 6-6, 308, Sr., Rockdale, Texas; Spencer Drango, Baylor, 6-6, 320, Sr., Cedar Park, Texas. Guards — Jarell Broxton, Baylor, 6-5, 325, Sr., Gaithersburg, Md.; Nila Kasitati, Oklahoma, 6-3, 319, Sr., Euless, Texas. Center — Joey Hunt, TCU, 6-3, 295, Sr., El Campo, Texas. Receivers — u-Corey Coleman, Baylor, 5-11, 190, Jr., Richardson, Texas; Josh Doctson, TCU, 6-3, 195, Sr., Mansfield, Texas. Tight end — Mark Andrews, Oklahoma, 6-5, 245, Fr., Scottsdale, Ariz. All-purpose player — Jakeem Grant, Texas Tech, 5-7, 168, Sr., Mesquite, Texas. Kicker — Jaden Oberkrom, TCU, 6-3, 187, Sr., Arlington, Texas. Defense Ends — u-Emmanuel Ogbah, Oklahoma St., 6-4, 275, Jr., Houston; Charles Tapper, Oklahoma, 6-2, 282, Sr., Baltimore.

Tackles — Andrew Billings, Baylor, 6-2, 310, Jr., Waco, Texas; Will Geary, Kansas St., 6-0, 297, So., Topeka, Kan. Linebackers — Jordan Burton, Oklahoma St., 6-3, 215, Jr., Longview, Texas; Peter Jinkens, Texas, 6-0, 230, Sr., Dallas; Eric Striker, Oklahoma, 6-0, 222, Sr., Tampa, Fla. Cornerbacks — Xavien Howard, Baylor, 6-2, 200, Jr., Houston; Zack Sanchez, Oklahoma, 5-11, 179, Jr., Fort Worth, Texas. Safeties — Derrick Kindred, TCU, 5-10, 210, Sr., San Antonio; Jordan Sterns, Oklahoma St., 6-1, 205, Jr., Cibolo, Texas. Punter — Nick O’Toole, West Virginia, 6-3, 216, Sr., Corona, Calif. SECOND TEAM Offense Quarterback — Trevone Boykin, TCU, 6-2, 205, Sr., Dallas. Running backs — Shock Linwood, Baylor, 5-9, 200, Jr., Linden, Texas; Wendell Smallwood, West Virginia, 5-11, 202, Jr., Wilmington, Del. Tackles — Halapoulivaati Vaitai, TCU, 6-6, 315, Sr., Haltom, Texas; Cody Whitehair, Kansas St., 6-4, 305, Sr., Abilene, Kan. Guards — Brady Foltz, TCU, 6-4, 320, Sr., Rose Hill, Kan.; Alfredo Morales, Texas Tech, 6-4, 319, Sr., Arlington, Texas. Center — (tie) Ty Darlington, Oklahoma, 6-3, 286, Sr., Apopka, Fla., and Kyle Fuller, Baylor, 6-5, 315, Jr., Wylie, Texas. Receivers — Sterling Shepard, Oklahoma, 5-10, 193, Sr., Oklahoma City; James Washington, Oklahoma St., 6-0, 200, So., Stamford, Texas. Tight end — Glenn Gronkowski, Kansas St., 6-3, 234, Jr., Amherst, N.Y. All-purpose player — Morgan Burns, Kansas St., 5-11, 201, Sr., Wichita, Kan. Kicker — Austin Seibert, Oklahoma, 5-10, 210, Fr., Belleville, Ill. Defense Ends — Josh Carraway, TCU, 6-4, 250, Jr., Flower Mound, Texas; Noble Nwachukwu, West Virginia, 6-2, 271, Jr., Wylie, Texas. Tackles — Kyle Rose, West Virginia, 6-4, 295, Sr. Centerville, Ohio; Desmond Tucker, Iowa St., 6-0, 296, Jr., Hazelhurst, Miss. Linebackers — Dominique Alexander, Oklahoma, 6-0, 220, Jr., Tulsa, Okla.; Micah Awe, Texas Tech, 6-0, 221, Sr., Arlington, Texas; Nick Kwiatkoski, West Virginia, 6-2, 238, Sr., Bethel Park, Pa. Cornerbacks — Jordan Thomas, Oklahoma, 6-0, 191, So., Klein, Texas; Daryl Worley, West Virginia, 6-2, 202, Jr., Philadelphia. Safeties — Steven Parker, Oklahoma, 6-1, 200, So., Tulsa, Okla.; Fish Smithson, Kansas, 5-11, 190, Jr., Baltimore. Punter — Austin Seibert, Oklahoma, 5-10, 210, Fr., Belleville, Ill. Coach of the year — Bob Stoops, Oklahoma. Offensive player of the year — u-Baker Mayfield, QB, Jr., Oklahoma. Defensive player of the year — Emmanuel Ogbah, DE, Jr., Oklahoma St. Newcomer of the year — Mike Warren, RB, Fr., Iowa St.

College Men

EAST Duquesne 83, SC State 68 Iona 83, Texas Southern 73 UMass 103, New Orleans 95, OT Vermont 75, UC Santa Barbara 68 SOUTH Alabama 72, Winthrop 60 Campbell 87, Johnson & Wales (NC) 53 East Carolina 78, UNC Wilmington 73 Elon 91, Alabama St. 74 Florida St. 90, Mississippi St. 66 Furman 94, Bluefield 46 LSU 78, Gardner-Webb 57 Louisville 94, Kennesaw St. 57 McNeese St. 77, LSU-Alexandria 72 NC State 76, High Point 73 North Carolina 96, Tulane 72 North Florida 80, Austin Peay 70 Richmond 77, Old Dominion 61 South Florida 88, Jacksonville 75 Stetson 95, Albany (Ga.) 69 Tennessee 81, FAU 62 The Citadel 99, Bethune-Cookman 87 UAB 96, SC-Upstate 54 W. Kentucky 79, Alabama A&M 70 MIDWEST Cleveland St. 60, Loyola of Chicago 54 Illinois St. 72, Ill.-Chicago 60 Indiana St. 75, Ill.-Springfield 60 Minnesota 70, Chicago St. 52 Missouri St. 85, Oral Roberts 66 N. Dakota St. 73, Montana St. 64

Nebraska-Omaha 81, Simpson (Iowa) 71 Ohio St. 67, N. Illinois 54 UT Martin 82, Saint Louis 76 SOUTHWEST Baylor 104, Hardin-Simmons 59 Houston 73, NC Central 65 SMU 86, Nicholls St. 42 Texas St. 62, Prairie View 44 Texas Tech 79, S. Dakota St. 67 UALR 77, Cent. Arkansas 54 UTSA 75, East Central 61 FAR WEST Arizona 92, N. Arizona 37 Arizona St. 66, UNLV 56 Denver 81, N. Colorado 77 Fresno St. 76, CS Bakersfield 68 New Mexico 79, New Mexico St. 61 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 92, S. Utah 36 Utah 99, Savannah St. 53

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Omaha, Neb. — It’s not every year that a head coach of a powerhouse program that has been to five consecutive Final Fours is answering questions about how he let an All-American get out of town. But that was exactly what Texas volleyball coach Jerritt Elliott was doing Wednesday at CenturyLink Center, one day before his Longhorns take on Minnesota a couple of hours before the Kansas University volleyball team squares off with Nebraska in the nightcap. “We were very aware of her,” Elliott said of KU sophomore Kelsie Payne, who, on Wednesday, was named a firstteam All-American. “She came for a couple of visits, and we looked at her. She’s in our backyard. Sometimes, as recruiting goes at such an early age, you’re learning a lot about where they are emotionally as young ladies. We knew she had the talent to be extremely good. That was always our position. At the end of the day, I made a miss, and that’s not the first one I made a miss on. She’s a great player playing for a great coach at

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good passing defensive team and solid.” For Nebraska, junior Kadie Rolfzen, like Payne a right-side hitter, earned first-team AllAmerican honors to go with the two third-team honors she had won in her previous seasons. Her twin, Amber, a middle blocker, earned second-team All-Amer-

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excited for Kansas volleyball. Tuesday, I thought, ‘Hey, I should call her mom.’ So I call mom up, and I said, ‘Hey, how’s everything going? Ainise called you, right?’ She said, ‘No.’ So here’s a kid that’s first-team All-American, humble enough that she didn’t think she needed to call home and say, ‘Hey, guess what happened to me?’ “That’s off the court. When she gets on the court, she’s an intense, fiery competitor who does

Elite 90 award banquet Wednesday night. Hall, who hails from Centennial, Colorado, was the 2015 recipient of the Elite 90 award, which recognizes the true essence of the student-athlete by honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers.

Hello, old friend In 1998, Ray Bechard moved to Lawrence to become the head coach of the KU volleyball program. Two years later, just up the road in Lincoln, Nebraska, John Cook took the reins at Nebraska. From that day on, for the next 13 years, Bechard and Cook had at least two

showdowns on the volleyball court every year as members of the Big 12 Conference. Every one of those matches went Cook’s way — Nebraska owns an 860-1 all-time record against the Jayhawks — but the outcomes did nothing to stamp out Cook’s respect for Bechard or their budding friendship. That’s one of the things that makes this Final Four so special for the 16thyear NU head coach. “We were in a meeting already this morning,” Cook said with a smile. “And I think Ray’s one of the classiest coaches in the country. (In) coaching, you don’t have a lot of friends I guess you’d

Hall an award-winner Occasionally overlooked on the volleyball court because of the amount of star power surrounding her, KU junior Janae Hall had the spotlight all to herself at the

they used to do multiple matches in a day, and maybe you played two sets. If you split them, you called it good, and you moved on to the next match. (That) would be my guess. So that’s kind of unique.” Bechard was dead on. KU played six matches that day — all of them were two sets — and KU finished the day 4-11, with wins over Lawrence Spikers, Swaim of KC, Wichita State and the Wichita Volleyball Club, The tie a loss to Kansas State and Speaking of that KU- the tie against Nebraska. Nebraska tie in the lopsided series between the Big 12 vs. Big Ten? Even though they two former Big Six, Big Eight and Big 12 foes, it battled the Jayhawks in came way back in 1977, a couple of cutthroat when the Jayhawks and conference matches this Cornhuskers split a dou- season, the Texas Longbleheader on Nov. 5 dur- horns were overjoyed by ing the Jayhawk Invita- the fact that their Big 12 brethren knocked off toptional in Lawrence. The Jayhawks lost the seeded USC last week first set, 16-18, and then and joined them at this won the second, 15-7. year’s Final Four. Several KU players on Asked Wednesday if he knew why the match end- Wednesday shared with ed in a tie, Bechard point- the media the text mesed out that he was a long sages and phone calls way away from becoming they received from UT a college coach when that players and coaches last weekend, and KU setmatch was played. “I was a freshman at ter Ainise Havili said the Barton Community Col- shared celebration crelege playing hoops,” ated a Final Four stage Bechard said with a laugh. of the Big 12 vs. Big Ten “I’m not sure what was (Nebraska and Minnegoing on in ’77. I think sota).

ican honors, and junior libero Justine WongOrantes was recognized on the third team. Two other Cornhuskers earned honorable mention. Channeling emotions properly under difficult circumstances will be key for Kansas. Tiana Dockery, the only player in program history to participate in four NCAA tournaments, has been known to get hot serving and attacking. That doesn’t happen when she gets amped up,

rather when she settles down, she said. “More focus, calming myself down a little bit, going up to Janae (Hall) a little bit more, saying, ‘OK, help me out here.’ I think that’s for everyone,” Dockery said. “Everyone just kind of looks in each other’s eyes and says, ‘All right, let’s calm it down here.’ I know that helps a lot.” Havili and Payne earning All-American honors Wednesday was a “big deal, a really big deal,” according to sophomore

Madison Rigdon, who scored the final point of KU’s remarkable fifth-set comeback against USC, the tournament’s top seed. The poker faces worn by Havili and Payne didn’t reveal as much. KU’s first two firstteam All-Americans went to the U.S. Collegiate National Team trials in Colorado Springs with Dockery last summer. All three were selected to compete in New Orleans. Dockery said that nothing about the way they

competed there revealed their relative youth. “I mean, they’re pretty nonchalant about a lot of things,” Dockery said. “They just kind of take it and go with it. You can never really tell if they’re nervous about anything. They just kind of go in with a lot of confidence and play and have fun.” Of their selection to the All-American team, Dockery said, “I’m ecstatic. I thought back to when we went to USA Trials, watching them learn so much and prog-

ress and get better, and they’re only sophomores. I’m really excited to watch them play for the rest of their years here and progress as individuals and young women. It’s a wonderful honor, but they’re so good it’s not really a surprise.” After defeating USC in the Elite Eight, nothing the Jayhawks do should count as much of a surprise anymore. Sure, it’s their first Final Four. It also was their first Elite Eight, and look how well that turned out.

not like to lose. She creates great opportunities emotionally for our team, competitively for our team, and there’s nobody else we’d rather have running our team than Ainise Havili.” That passion — as well as the dynamic combination of Havili and Payne together — helped Kansas field one of the most productive offenses in the nation this season. The Jayhawks, who will face fourth-seeded Nebraska (30-4) in a national semifinal at 8:30 tonight, finished the season ranked fourth in hitting percentage (.305), second in kills per set (15.1) and second in assists per set (14.2).

Havili and Payne became the first KU players to earn first-team AVCA All-America honors and were just the second and third AVCA All-Americans in school history, joining Caroline Jarmoc, who was a third-team selection in 2013. In addition to the Big 12 setter of the year honor, Havili also earned the following accolades: AllBig 12 First Team, AVCA all-Midwest Region First Team, AVCA National Player of the Week (Oct. 13), and two-time Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week. The Fort Worth, Texas, native ranks second in the nation in assists per set (12.2).

Payne enters the Final Four as the Big 12’s leader in kills per set and also was a member of the All-Big 12 first team, the AVCA All-Midwest Region first team, and was a four-time Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week. The Austin, Texas, native is the only player in the nation ranked in the top 35 in hitting percentage (34th; .379) and kills per set (19th; 4.4). Payne holds the KU record for kills in a season with 474, a total that includes seven 20-kill performances this season. This team did not advance this far by worrying about individual achievements. And Bechard and

the players themselves emphasized that Wednesday during KU’s media session at CenturyLink Center. But now that the secret is out of the bag, both were happy to discuss what it meant to them. “It’s awesome,” Payne said. “It’s a really big accomplishment. It’s something that athletes strive for, and something we work toward. To be the first ones to do it, together, it’s really cool for us.” Added Havili: “It’s a dream come true. Every athlete coming up sees the All-American team and hopes one day they can be on that list. Now

that we are, and I’m on the list with my best friend, I hear for the first time, and it’s great.” Bechard, in his 18th season leading KU volleyball, has been around long enough to know that not all of the nation’s most talented players get recognized every season. “Certainly a team that advances deep in the tournament is going to create opportunities for individual awards,” Bechard said. “Ainise has been outstanding. Payne’s been outstanding. And this whole team has collectively pulled together and created a season that we’ll remember for a long time.”

a great program, and it’s good to see her succeed. “I don’t regret any part of it. I think she’s happy, and I wish her the best of luck.” As it turned out, Elliott had very little shot of keeping the 6-foot-3 heavy hitter who owns the KU record for kills in a season (474) and led the Big 12 in kills per set. “I’m not going to say no,” said Payne when asked if she always wanted to go to UT. “Because I grew up in Austin, and Texas was always a big part of my life. But once I started getting into recruiting and looking into colleges, I realized that I did want to leave Austin, I did want to leave Texas, and just get away and go experience college like a regular student. So, yeah, I think leaving was a good choice for me. That’s awesome that he said that, though.”

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS MEET ON THE COURT after practice as coach Ray Bechard looks on Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska. The Jayhawks will face Nebraska at 8:30 tonight in the NCAA semifinals. be close with within your conference, but I always felt like Ray had some connections. “Like I said, he’s a classy guy. I’m really happy for him. He’s really built that program. So it’s great for Kansas. It’s great for the Big 12. It’s great for this part of the country. There’s not a more deserving guy than Ray to get there. I hope Lawrence is hopping right now because of him.”

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(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal- World December 17, 2015) ORDINANCE 1046 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A ZONING DISTRICT OF R-S RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT FOR A 7.455 ACRE PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN LOTS 2 AND 4 IN THE INTECH BUSINESS PARK, EUDORA, KANSAS. WHEREAS, an application has heretofore been made to establish a zoning district for the 7.455 acre parcel of land located the Intech Business Park to R-S Residential (Single Family District), and notice of said application was duly given as required by law by publication and mailing; and WHEREAS, a public hearing was held pursuant to law before the Planning Commission of the City of Eudora, Kansas, and the recommendation of said Planning Commission was acted upon by the Governing Body of the City of Eudora, Kansas, by rezoning the specified property to R-S Residential (Single Family District), as required by law. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERN-

ING BODY OF THE CITY OF EUDORA, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS: SECTION I. The zoning regulations and zoning district map are hereby amended and changed with respect to the following described land, to-wit:

SECTION II. All the land as described in Section I above (First published in the should be and the same is hereby zoned and classified Lawrence Daily Journalas R-S Residential (Single Family District), according to World December 17, 2015) the existing zoning ordinances of the City of Eudora, NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Kansas.

A tract of land in lots 2 and 4, Intech Business Park SECTION III. The City is hereby directed to amend the Business Park Addition, in the City of Eudora, Douglas official zoning district map of the City in accordance County, Kansas, more particularly described as follows: with the foregoing. The official zoning district map of the City is hereby amended in accordance with this orBeginning at the northeast corner of said lot 2; thence dinance, and is hereby reincorporated by reference. along the east line of said subdivision and the west right-of-way Kansas Highway No. 10 south 00°53?05? SECTION IV. This ordinance shall be in full force and efeast, 455.03 feet to the southeast corner of said subdivi- fect from and after its adoption and publication as prosion; thence along the south line of said subdivision vided by law. and the north right-of-way Kansas Highway No. 10 south 39°17?46? west 202.90 feet; thence continuing PASSED AND APPROVED this 14th day of December, along the south line of said subdivision and the north 2015, by the Governing Body of the City of Eudora, Kanright-of-way Kansas Highway No. 10 south 43°46?17? sas, as provided by law. west, 266.15 feet; thence north 00°53?05” east; 228.81 feet, thence south 89°22?49” west, 215.00 feet, thence APPROVED: north 00°53?05” east, 572.00 feet to a point on the north Tim Reazin, Mayor line of south subdivision and the south right-of-way of county route 442; thence north 89°22?49” east along ATTEST: said north line and said south right-of-way, 572.00 feet Pam Schmeck, City Clerk to the point of beginning, contains 7.456 acres more or ________ less.

The Lawrence Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a public hearing on Thursday, January 7, 2016, at 6:30 p.m., in the Commission Meeting Room, first floor of City Hall at Sixth and Massachusetts Street, Lawrence. The following item will be considered at that time: B-15-00581: A request for variances as provided in Section 20-1309 of the Land Development Code of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, 2015 edition. The first request involves variances from the code standards contained in Article 9, “Parking, Loading and Ac-

cess,” requiring a minimum number of off-street parking spaces to be provided in an improved parking lot on the same property as the land use or on nearby property under the same ownership as the land use. The second request seeks variances from the density and dimensional standards in Section 20-601(b), “Nonresidential Districts,” of the Development Code which are being requested to address the existing site conditions found on this property. The property is located on the northwest corner of Elm Street and N. 3rd Street, having an address of 239

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