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INSIDE THE YEAR AHEAD

Jobs at forefront of business concerns While KU’s Bioscience & Technology Business Center is showing robust growth, Lawrence needs many more jobs to pump the local economy. Business leaders are looking west to Manhattan and Topeka to study major business developments there — the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan and the Mars chocolate factory and Bimbo Bakeries USA in the capital city. Page 3A

LEGISLATURE

Redistricting likely to extend session On top of an ambitious agenda from Gov. Sam Brownback that includes taxes, school finance, public pension changes and overhauling the state’s Medicaid program, legislators will have to redraw legislative and congressional districts to reflect the 2010 Census. The legislative session is likely to go beyond its mandated 90 days. Page 5A

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It’s hard to describe, but you know it when you see it.”

— Lila Reynolds, 44, an undecided voter in Iowa. Many voters were still weighing their choice of Republicans on the eve of today’s caucuses in the state. Page 7A

COMING TUESDAY We’ll give you the latest from tonight’s City Commission meeting.

Group seeks more time to turn in report mfagan@ljworld.com

Zenger marks first anniversary It’s been a busy year for Sheahon Zenger, Kansas University’s athletic director.

From navigating the worrisome waters of conference realignment to reorganizing the athletic department after a ticket scandal to firing one football coach and hiring another, Zenger has had his hands full since the day he started at KU. Page 1B

CONSOLIDATION

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY HAS ENROLLED ITS FIRST SIXTH-GENERATION JAYHAWK. THREE OF THE SIX GENERATIONS ARE, FROM LEFT, DAVID DYER, CLASS OF 1989, MEDICINE; CATE DYER, HIS DAUGHTER, A FRESHMAN; AND JIM BARROW, CATE’S GRANDFATHER, CLASS OF 1956, ARCHITECTURE.

Family’s history at university extends for six generations

By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com

When Cate Dyer, a freshman at Kansas University, graduated from Blue Valley West High School in Stilwell last spring and made the choice to attend KU, genetics may have had something to do with the decision.

Dyer is the first sixth-generation Jayhawk honored by the KU Alumni Association. So she can trace her family’s KU roots all the way back to 1880, when Dyer’s great-greatgreat grandfather Franklin Riffle graduated with a degree in engineering.

For some perspective, 1880 was 11 years before the sport of basketball was even invented but only six years before professor Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey developed the chant that would become “Rock Chalk Jayhawk, KU.” Over the Christmas holiday, three of the six generations met to discuss their own memories

of KU. Dyer was joined by her father, David Dyer, an ophthalmologist, and her grandfather, Jim Barrow, who graduated from KU with an architecture degree in 1956.

Most of the line of Cate’s family involve her maternal side, with her grandfather, great-grandparents, great-great grandparents and Riffle all earning undergraduate degrees from KU, with some earning graduate degrees as well.

Cate’s father earned a medical degree from KU Medical Center in 1989. Cate’s mother is something of the odd one out in the family, having attended the University of California Santa-Barbara, as Barrow was working in California at the time.

“She said, ‘I have to marry a KU boy,’” David said.

“And that’s when you decided to go to KU,” Barrow added.

Cate said she was something of a last hope. Her older sister went to the University of Texas (though she still roots for KU

—unless they’re playing Texas — and may return for a graduate degree). Her younger sister just wants to get out of the state for college.

They all shared favorite memories. Barrow remembered seeing Wilt Chamberlain on campus. David remembered climbing on the roof of KU Hospital to watch storms roll in, and Cate remembered moving into Corbin Hall for the first day of classes. She remembered not knowing what to expect at first.

“My whole life, I’d been going to school with the same people,” she said. “We have a very close floor, and they’re my best friends now.”

And will there be some extra pressure on the next group of children to become seventhgeneration Jayhawks?

“They’ll definitely know about it,” Cate said. “I’m not going to be one to say, ‘You have to go to KU.’ But it definitely means a lot to me and my family.”

— Higher education reporter Andy Hyland can be reached at 832-6388. Follow him at Twitter.com/LJW_KU.

Time is running out for members of an advisory group assigned to recommend which two or three elementary schools should close during the next couple years.

After group members spent more than two hours Monday night discussing ideas, options and processes without coming to conclusions — about which scenarios SCHOOLS might deserve further study by a consultant, or whether certain possibilities should get a closer look, or exactly how such suggestions should be judged — they soon acknowledged that they have only two meetings left before their assigned report is due to the Lawrence school board.

And that led to at least one thing members of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group could agree on: It’s time to seek an extension.

“It doesn’t hurt to ask,” said Josh Davis, a representative for New York School.

Group members have been working since early September to come up with a plan that would reduce a list of six elementary schools — Cordley, Hillcrest, Kennedy, New York, Pinckney and Sunset Hill — down to either three or four within two years, as directed by the board.

The seven-member board formally will receive the group’s request for an extension this coming Monday night, and two board members who attended the group’s meeting, Bob Byers and Keith Diaz Moore, indicated during a break that it was likely the board would grant the request.

“I’d rather get something right than something rushed,” Diaz Moore said.

The request for the ability to stretch its work beyond the Jan. 31 deadline is the lone issue the group will be taking to the board during the board’s next meeting, Please see GROUP, page 2A

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Brownback campaigns for Perry TOPEKA (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback is helping Texas Gov. Rick Perry in his final push to win the Iowa Republican caucuses.

Brownback was an early supporter of Perry’s presidential bid. He endorsed the conservative Brownback Republican after attending an August prayer rally in Houston hosted by the Texas governor.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that Perry Brownback was scheduled to appear at a pro-Perry rally Monday evening at a hotel in the town of Perry, Iowa. Brownback also planned to remain in Iowa to speak on Perry’s behalf at a caucus event today.

Injured snowy owl taken for rehab

By Karrey Britt kbritt@ljworld.com

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GARY CRAIN, OF OVERLAND PARK and a volunteer with Operation WildLife, rescues an injured snowy owl Monday afternoon at the Jayhawk Station post office, 1901 W. 31st St. The bird has a broken wing but is expected to recover with surgery and rehabilitation.

About a dozen people took pictures and watched over an injured snowy owl Monday in the parking lot of the Jayhawk Station post office, 1901 W. 31st St., as they waited for Operation WildLife to arrive.

Darrell Huff, Lawrence, said he had just pulled into the post office about 2 p.m. when he saw the large bird fall and hit the concrete.

He believed it flew into the power lines above.

“I drove over to see what it was, and when I got closer, it sort of rolled over and I could tell it had a broken wing,” he said.

Margaret Uhler, 11, and her dad, Bill, of Lawrence, also saw the bird fall as they were driving by and were the next on the scene.

They called the police department and then Operation WildLife in Linwood.

“I love animals,” Margaret said, shivering in the

HOW TO HELP Founded in 1989, Operation WildLife, or OWL, provides rehabilitation and veterinary services for injured and orphaned wild animals. It also provides wildlife education for residents of northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri.

OWL receives thousands of animals each year, and the release rate averages about 69 percent, which is higher than the national average of 49 percent.

As a not-for-profit organization, OWL relies on donations and volunteers to stay open. To learn more about the organization or to make a donation, visit owl-online.org or call 542-3625.

The mailing address is 23375 Guthrie Road, Linwood, KS 66052.

36-degree weather. “I hope it’s going to be OK.” Within 30 minutes, Gary Crain, an Operation WildLife volunteer, pulled up in a van along with Meghan Carey, an intern. Crain Please see OWL, page 2A

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DEATHS DEY SERVICES Graveside services with military honors for Delmar E. “Del” Dey, 88, Topeka, formerly of Lawrence, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Osborne

Cemetery in Osborne.

Mr. Dey died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, at St. Francis Health Center in Topeka.

GLADYS GUILD SHAW Services for Gladys Guild Shaw, 91, will be at 10 a.m.

Wednesday at First Christian Church in Tyler, Texas.

Burial will be at Rose Hill in

Tyler.

Mrs. Shaw, the mother of Michael Shaw of Lawrence, died Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, in Lawrence.

MARY ROSE PEUSER A funeral Mass for Mary Rose Peuser, 80, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 505 E. Chippewa St., Paola. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Mrs. Peuser, the mother of Ann Marie Peuser of Bald-

win City, died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, at Olathe Medical Center.

The family will meet friends from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the church, where a rosary will be recited at 6 p.m.

MATTHEW J. ROFKAHR A funeral Mass for Matthew J. Rofkahr, 73, Holton, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Altus, Ark. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery.

Mr. Rofkahr, formerly of

Lawrence, died Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, at the VA Hospital in Topeka.

A rosary will be recited before services at 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday at the church.

Private family services for William H. Yockey, 93, Lyndon, were held Saturday, with entombment in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka.

Mr. Yockey died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

He was born Feb. 9, 1918, in Quenemo, the son of William and Mabel Blair Yockey. He grew up in Quenemo and graduated from Quenemo High School. He moved to California in 1939 and lived there until 1951 when he moved back to Lyndon, where he had lived since.

He was a farmer and stockman most of his life. He had served as a city councilman and mayor for Lyndon and was a county commis-

sioner for Osage County. He was a member of the Osage City Presbyterian Church and the Euclid Lodge No. 101 A.F. & A.M. in Lyndon.

He married Dorothy Goodman on July 26, 1945, in Burbank, Calif. She preceded him in death Dec. 8, 2008.

Survivors include two sons, Dr. Charles and wife Nancy, of Lawrence, and Dennis and wife Peggy, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; his sister, Ruth Loper, of Santa Ynez, Calif.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to the LMH Endowment Association, sent in care of Feltner Funeral Home, 818 Topeka Ave., Lyndon, KS 66451.

GILBERT SERVICES A Celebration of Life Service for Alberta “Louise” Gilbert, 97, McLouth, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at McLouth United Methodist Church. A graveside committal service will precede services at 10 a.m. Saturday.

Mrs. Gilbert died Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at her home in McLouth.

She was born March 5, 1914, in McLouth, the daughter of Walter Stephen and Alberta Mary Stout Bradford.

She was a 1931 graduate of McLouth High School and attended Kansas University.

Mrs. Gilbert taught third and fourth grades in the McLouth schools, retiring in 1974. She also served as the district clerk and as superintendent secretary for McLouth public schools.

She was a member of the McLouth United Methodist Church, the Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority, the American Legion Auxiliary 393 and the AllSew club in McLouth.

She married William Harold Gilbert. He preceded her in death Feb. 14, 1965.

She was also preceded in death by a sister, Helen Means, and a brother, William “Bill” Bradford.

Survivors include two daughters, Kathleen Helen Gilbert McConnell and husband Winder, McLouth, and Nancy Louise Gilbert Moring and husband Steve, Oskaloosa; and three granddaughters, Sarah Thomas, Karen Mary Louise McConnell and Kerry Jeanne-Michelle McConnell.

Friends may call after 9 a.m. Friday at the Barnett Family Funeral Home, 1220 Walnut (U.S. Highway 59) in Oskaloosa, where the family will meet friends from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.

The family suggests memorials to the McLouth United Methodist Church or to the Jefferson County Friends of Hospice, sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 602, Oskaloosa, KS 66066.

Online condolences may be sent at barnettfamilyfh. com.

Owl

where it did because people actually saw him,” she said.

Johnson said the owl has a midshaft humeral fracture of the left wing. On Monday, they immobilized the fracture, treated him for shock and started antibiotics. Today, he will go to the vet, where he will receive X-rays and probably surgery. She expects his rehabilitation to take about three months, and then he will be released.

It was only Carey’s second day on the job as an intern, and she felt blessed to have been part of the rescue.

“They are extremely rare so I was very, very excited,” she said. “I feel honored that I am able to have such a great experience.”

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scooped up the owl with his gloves and put it in a cage in the back of the van. He said it was the first snowy owl that he had seen in his nine years at Operation WildLife.

The large birds typically nest in the Arctic tundra of the northernmost stretches of Alaska, Canada and Eurasia.

“It’s pretty unusual for them to come this far south for food, but that means food is pretty scarce,” he said.

Diane Johnson, executive director of Operation WildLife, said it was only the second time she had taken care of a snowy owl in 30 years.

“It’s a very cool bird, and it’s lucky that it got injured

— Health reporter Karrey Britt can be reached at 832-7190. Read her health blog at WellCommons.com, and follow her at Twitter.com/WellCommons.

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Sean Peter Thomson Sean Peter Thomson, 56, of Wellsville, KS, passed away Dec. 31, 2011, at Olathe Medical Center.

Memorial service will be held 2:00 pm Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 at Bruce Funeral Home, Gardner, KS (913) 856-7111. 1:00 pm visitation before the service at the funeral home. Condolences may be expressed at www.brucefuneralhome. com.

Sean was born May 6, 1955, in Lawrence, to Jack Kale and DaVise (Outhier) Thomson. He grew up in Mulvane, KS, and moved to Gardner in 1972. Sean also lived in Rantoul and moved to Wellsville 20 years ago. He graduated from Gardner High School in 1973. Sean attended Emporia State University.

He married Debbie Ann Gillihan on June 20, 1986, in Lawrence.

He worked for 20 years at Liberty Hall in Lawrence. Sean enjoyed hunting, fishing, horticulture, KU basketball, and he won medals and the team championship in Frisbee Golf at the Sunflower State Games. He also loved to cook for his family. Sean will be dearly missed by family and friends.

Sean is survived by his wife, Debbie, of the home; children Nicole Gillihan, Ellensburg, WA, Sean Kale Thomson and Cody Erin Thomson, both of the home; siblings Kelly Thomson Juiliano and husband Ray, Kansas City, KS, and Jon-David Thomson, Lava Hot Spring, ID.

A news brief about Mr. Thomson is on page 5A.

By John Hanna

TOPEKA — Conservatives are attacking moderate Republicans’ major stronghold in Kansas government, hoping voters in this year’s elections remove the last significant obstacles to Gov. Sam Brownback’s push to the right in policy.

A tide that washed over state politics in 2010, sweeping Brownback and fellow GOP conservatives into office, missed the state Senate, where only two seats were on the ballot in special elections.

Anti-tax, small-government legislators and political activists buoyed by the rise of the tea party movement have been frustrated by Senate Republican leaders’ wariness toward the governor’s agenda, feeling it has hindered conservative gains.

But this year, all 40 Senate seats are on the ballot, and conservative candidates have emerged for potential Republican primaries in at least nine districts held by moderate Republicans. Those incumbents include President Steve Morris, of Hugoton; Vice President John Vratil, of Leawood; and budget committee Chairwoman Carolyn McGinn, of Sedgwick.

While Brownback is promising publicly not to get involved, groups that backed him are preparing to jump into contested races ahead of the August primary election.

The governor also will be perceived as the beneficiary if moderates lose control over the Senate.

“There are many out there who believe the Senate is the final step,” said Derrick Sontag, state director for the antitax, small-government group Americans for Prosperity and husband of Brownback’s

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which is set for 7 p.m. Monday at district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive.

Kelly Jones, a group member from the Cordley community, had sought the group’s permission to seek a change in the group’s charge. Her suggestion: Ask the board if it would be OK to recommend closing only one school, rather than two or three.

“Maybe that would help us narrow — make it easier for this group to move forward in a more streamlined way,” Jones said.

The idea stirred discussion, including worry about the flip side: If the board were to reject such a request, then

chief spokeswoman. “What it would do for Governor Brownback is that it would push him to the right. It would make his agenda even more conservative.”

Biggest game around The state Senate races appear to be the year’s most politically compelling contests in Kansas. There’s no U.S. Senate race, statewide elected officials are in the middle of their four-year terms, and no serious challengers have yet emerged for the four members of the state’s allGOP delegation in the U.S. House. Republican presidential caucuses in March could spark interest, but the state is expected to go for any Republican candidate in November, as it has since 1964.

Republicans have a 32-8 majority in the state Senate, and conservatives calculate that they’ll need a net gain of several seats to control the GOP caucus and choose the president and majority leader, who control the flow of legislation.

Conservative Republicans have led the House for most of the last two decades, but there had been a sizeable group of moderates willing to consider tax increases to prevent cuts in education and social services. That bloc, working with Democrats and Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson, pushed through a sales tax increase in 2010 to help balance the state budget — with the help of Morris and other Senate GOP leaders.

Elections in 2010 shattered that coalition in the House, leaving the GOP with a 92-33 majority that was more conservative.

In 2011, the conservativeled House passed a bill to phase out individual income taxes, only to see it stall in the

the group would have clear reaffirmation that the group should recommend closure of two or three schools.

“If you don’t want the answer,” said Dawn Shew, a representative from Kennedy, “don’t ask.”

The group’s work follows recommendations another advisory group, the Lawrence Elementary School Facility Vision Task Force, which met for eight months before recommending to close Wakarusa Valley School and to plan for closure of two or three others through consolidation.

The school board had approved those recommendations, including formation of the working group to recommend by the end of January which other schools to close.

Rick Doll, district superintendent, declined to speculate Monday about what the board

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CARL DEAN WALES Funeral services for Carl Dean Wales, 76, Williamstown, will be at 11 a.m.

Thursday at the First Assembly of God Church in Topeka. Burial will be at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Underwood Cemetery in Williamstown.

Mr. Wales died Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka.

Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday at Barnett Family Funeral Home, 1220 Walnut (U.S. Highway 59) in Oskaloosa.

The family will meet friends from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday at the church.

Last bastion of GOP moderates in state politics under attack Associated Press Writer

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Senate without a vote. The House approved a 401(k)style pension plan for new teachers and government workers, but senators’ wariness led instead to a study of the issue. The governor plans to outline a plan for cutting top individual income tax rates after lawmakers convene their annual session Jan. 9, and Morris has appointed a tax study group that could produce a rival proposal.

“I think part of the tradition of the Senate is to be more moderate and to try to govern the state,” said Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Jean Schodorf, a Wichita Republican who is among the moderates facing a challenger.

Active opposition At least five challengers in GOP Senate primaries will be conservative House members. Schodorf’s opponent is House Health and Human Services Chairwoman Brenda Landwehr, of Wichita, who said she considers the Senate too liberal, arrogant and out of touch.

“That’s kind of the point I came to: All right, quit complaining and do something about it,” Landwehr said.

The state chapter of Americans for Prosperity plans to be active with independent campaigns about issues and incumbents’ and challenger’s records, Sontag said. The national group was founded with support from billionaire brothers and Wichita businessmen Charles and David Koch, who’ve also been Brownback supporters.

The Kansas Chamber of Commerce, the state’s largest business group, also is expected to help what its vice president, lobbyist Jeff Glendening, calls “free market” candidates.

might do if faced with various recommendations — or lack of recommendations — that would not meet the terms of the group’s assignment.

The board, after all, has the final say in all decisions regarding which schools stay open and which ones close, if any.

“Inaction by this group doesn’t necessarily mean that nothing’s going to happen,” Doll said to the group.

The working group’s next scheduled meeting is 7 p.m.

Jan. 16 at district headquarters. The last scheduled meeting is set for Jan. 30, and members have agreed to “pencil in” an additional meeting on Jan. 23, if necessary.

— Schools reporter Mark Fagan can be reached at 832-7188. Follow him at Twitter.com/MarkFaganLJW.

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Do you know someone who was born on New Year’s Day? ¾ Yes ¾ No ¾ Not sure Monday’s poll: What do you think was the most important local story of the year?

Gov. Brownback’s agenda, 27%; Lawrence SRS office fight, 20%; None of the above, 19%; Charlie Weis hired as KU football coach, 19%; K-10 safety issues, 12%.

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1 | LOS ANGELES

Man, 24, arrested in arson spree Authorities arrested a German man Monday in connection with dozens of suspected arson attacks that destroyed parked cars, scorched buildings and rattled much of the nation’s second-largest city over the New Year’s weekend.

Harry Burkhart, 24, was booked for investigation of arson of an inhabited dwelling and was being held without bail, authorities said. He is a German national, but authorities said they didn’t know how long he’s been in the United States. Police said he told arresting officers he’s from Frankfurt.

Burkhart was arrested earlier in the day because he resembled a “person of interest” captured on surveillance video. He was stopped by a reserve sheriff’s deputy in a van being sought by arson investigators, who did not rule out the possibility that others may be involved.

More than 50 blazes have flared since Friday in Hollywood, neighboring West Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, causing about $3 million in damage. Firefighters have not responded to any other suspicious fires since Burkhart was detained.

Lawrence area’s business call: ‘We need jobs’

By Mark Fagan

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der way to help the process along during the new year.

We need jobs. It’s an old record. It’s a well-played song. But the fact of the matter is: There are a lot of A new year doesn’t exactly things in Lawrence that we like to do, but we need to be mean a new refrain for economic development efforts in Law- able to fund those.” mfagan@ljworld.com

rence and Douglas County.

“We need jobs,” said John Ross, who this week starts a one-year term as chairman of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. “It’s an old record. It’s a well-played song. But the fact of the matter is: There are a lot of things in Lawrence that we like to do, but we need to be able to fund those.”

And that means bringing

2 | IRAN

Iran’s navy tests cruise missile Iran test-fired a surface-to-surface cruise missile Monday in a drill its navy chief said proved Tehran was in complete control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-sixth of the world’s oil supply.

The 10-day naval maneuvers, which are scheduled to end today, were Iran’s latest show of strength in the face of mounting international criticism over its nuclear program. Tehran has threatened to close the strait as possible retaliation to new U.S. economic sanctions.

The missile, called “Ghader,” or “Capable” in Farsi, was described as an upgraded version of one that has been in service before. The official IRNA news agency said the missile “successfully hit its intended target” during the exercise.

An earlier version of the same cruise missile had a range of 124 miles and could travel at low altitudes.

There were suggestions it could counter the U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf.

3 | CALIFORNIA

Occupy protests follows Rose Parade The 2012 Tournament of Roses brought its flowery floats and strutting bands to a worldwide audience Monday under clear blue skies, and in its wake came a scruffier parade — hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters.

The 123rd annual New Year’s Day event, with the theme “Just Imagine,” flowed along downtown Pasadena to the cheers of hundreds of thousands of sidewalk spectators.

An estimated 40 million people viewed this year’s procession of 44 floats, 16 marching bands and 22 equestrian troupes on U.S. television.

There were 10 arrests overnight, including four felonies, as thousands of spectators staked out viewing places along the route, but that figure was down from the previous year, police said.

On the heels of the two-hour parade came anti-Wall Street protesters in a pre-arranged demonstration.

The thunder of the retreating marching bands mingled in the air with chants of “Banks got bailed out; we got sold out” as the Occupy the Rose Parade demonstrators retraced about 1.5 miles of the 5.5-mile parade route before veering off for a rally near City Hall.

They carried a 250-foot-long banner that said “We the People” to represent the U.S. Constitution.

Some also held a 70-foot-long octopus made from recycled plastic bags that represented the tentacles of perceived corporate greed.

Bioscience and technology The city of Lawrence, Douglas County and Kansas University continue to invest in and strengthen their partnership in turning KU research and translating on-campus expertise into real-life business operations and related endeavors.

The Bioscience & Technology Business Center, on KU’s West Campus, is on the brink of being filled with startup and

— John Ross, who this week starts a one-year term as chairman of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce more employers to the area, providing more opportunities for existing businesses to grow and otherwise building a strong foundation that enables more people to find work — and therefore spur more home

sales, more shopping, more services and all the other economic activities that generate sales taxes and property taxes and other revenues that make the community go.

There are several efforts un-

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Breast cancer patient’s last wish fulfilled Friends raise funds to renovate LMH’s Oncology Center

By Karrey Britt kbritt@ljworld.com

Jamie Pursley’s wish is coming true.

Three weeks before she died of breast cancer on March 29, the 35-year-old Lawrence resident looked her closest friends in the eyes and told them that she wanted to renovate the infusion rooms at Lawrence Memorial Hospital’s Oncology Center where she had spent countless hours receiving treatment.

She wanted all 15 rooms to have a peaceful, spa-like feel with comfortable chairs and other amenities, especially for the guests.

“She was just always thinking of other people, and her big thing was to really get new guest side seats for the friends and family who would come to visit, which was unbelievable that she was thinking of others while she was facing the last few weeks of life,” said Aimee Jackson, one of Jamie’s close friends and a sorority sister at Kansas State University.

On Aug. 14, Jackson and Kelli Alldredge, another one of Jamie’s friends, launched a fundraiser and Jamie’s Wish Foundation.

Their goal was to raise the $100,000 needed to make Jamie’s wish come true. They figured it would take about a year, especially in a difficult economy.

But not Lawrence businessman Miles Schnaer, who gave

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FRIENDS AIMEE JACKSON, LEFT, AND KELLIE ALLDREDGE CHECK OUT TWO INFUSION CHAIRS to vote for a winning style to replace the ones already in the Oncology Center at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Also checking the chair is Lawrence businessman Miles Schnaer. They have organized a fundraiser to renovate the infusion rooms in honor their friend Jamie Pursley, who died last March after battling breast cancer.

Jamie’s Wish Foundation its first donation and helped in any way he could. He said they had a specific goal, and they were passionate about reaching it.

“These girls just engulfed everybody that they cae in contact with to be able to do something,” he said. “It was $5 here and a couple of bucks stuffed in a can at a game there.”

HOW TO GIVE TO JAMIE’S WISH FOUNDATION

Kelly Pursley’s dying wish was to renovate all 15 infusion rooms at Lawrence Memorial Hospital’s Oncology Center, where she received treatments. Her close friends created Jamie’s Wish Foundation to make her wish a reality.

They reached their goal of raising $100,000 in November but now are using extra donations to do even more with the rooms, like upgrading flooring and countertops. They would like to raise enough money for Please see WISH, page 4A each room to have an iPad or iPod

and a docking station. Currently, there is one laptop computer for the entire center.

If you would like to make a taxdeductible donation to the Jamie’s Wish Foundation:

Visit the LMH Endowment Association’s website at lmhendowment. org/donate/jamies-wish.

Make a check payable to: Jamie’s Wish — LMHEA, in care of Kathy Clausing-Willis, 325 Maine, Lawrence, KS 66044.

To learn more about Jamie’s story visit jamieswish.org.

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S. Korea: ‘New era’ possible for Koreas South Korea’s president is urging rival North Korea to use the transition of leadership after Kim Jong Il’s death to usher in a new era of peace on the tense Korean peninsula, even as he warned the North against any provocations.

President Lee Myung-bak reached out in his New Year’s message Monday to the North Korean government now led by Kim’s son, Kim Jong Un, saying he has high hopes for a breakthrough this year in negotiations over the North’s nuclear program.

However, Lee warned that Seoul would respond sternly to any North Korean provocations. Relations between the rival Koreas dropped to their lowest point in decades following the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors and North Korea’s deadly shelling of a front-line island later that year.

Lee’s comments in a nationally televised speech came a day after the North called on its citizens to rally around Kim Jong Un and transform themselves into his “human shields.”

Keep the green in your Christmas tree by recycling it The city will pick up live-cut trees on two Fridays: Jan. As the holidays come to an 6 and Jan. 13. The trees end, the questions of what to should be set out by 6 a.m.

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do with the Christmas tree begin.

If it’s a live-cut tree, consider recycling it through the city of Lawrence.

The city will pick up live-cut trees on two Fridays: Jan. 6 and Jan. 13. The trees should be set out by 6 a.m.

In the past, the city has picked up trees on the two Mondays

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following the holidays, but this year they’ve changed the day because Monday falls so close to New Year’s Day. Place the trees at the curb or alley for collection, and all artificial items, such as tinsel, lights and tree stands, should be removed.

Over the past two years, the city of Lawrence has helped residents recycle more than 4,400 trees. The trees have a second life (or is it a third?) providing wildlife habitat in a closed-down landfill site north of Lawrence.

In McLouth, trees can be dropped off at Rose Park.

Leavenworth Jefferson Electric Cooperative will chip the trees into mulch.

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Road funds at risk in some states over safety rule

By David A. Lieb Associated Press

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. — Stuck in a financial pothole, Missouri’s highway department has been selling equipment and eliminating employees to scrounge up enough money to repair its roads. Unless it also changes state law, it could lose tens of millions of federal highway dollars as a penalty for not adopting new safety requirements for commercial truck drivers.

Though Missouri’s financial predicament may be extreme, it is far from unique.

Approximately one-third of states have indicated they may not meet a Jan. 30 deadline for their drivers’ license offices to require interstate truck drivers to provide proof from a medical professional that they are healthy enough to drive, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

States that fail to comply with the federal mandate could lose 5 percent of their

highway funds — about $30 million in Missouri’s case. If they remain out of compliance for a second year, that penalty doubles. But noncompliant states could receive a grace period; as long as they submit a plan to obey the mandate, federal officials have indicated they may not start deducting money until 2014.

The federal agency declined to provide a list of the states in jeopardy of missing the deadline. But Missouri’s plight was confirmed by state officials and documents obtained by The Associated Press through an openrecords request. Officials in several other states, including Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma, also confirmed to the AP that they will not be able to fully implement the federal requirement by the deadline.

“It’s hard enough to keep our roads in good condition, and this is going to make it more difficult,” said Missouri state Rep. Eric Burlison, a Republican who unsuccessfully sought to bring Missouri in

line with the federal requirements.

The federal government already requires interstate truck drivers to get a medical OK from a doctor. Drivers currently carry around their medical certification cards in case stopped by a police officer or inspector. Under the federal requirement that kicks in Jan. 30, truck drivers are to begin submitting their medical approval forms to state licensing offices, which are to enter the information in a nationwide database that also tracks things such as invalid licenses and driving violations.

“Its whole purpose is just to make sure that the drivers on the road are safe,” said Claire O’Brien, a spokeswoman for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.

Adding truckers’ medical status to the database was supposed to relieve them of the duty to carry medical cards. But because some states have been slow to implement the requirement, the

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They did some major fundraising at the Kansas State University and Kansas University football game Oct. 22 because Jamie, who was originally from Topeka, was a diehard K-State fan who had fallen in love with the Lawrence community. She, her husband, Aaron, and their young daughter, Kayden, moved to Lawrence in February 2010 from Kentucky to be closer to home. Jamie had been battling cancer for about four years, and it had metastasized to her bones.

“She never complained, and I felt like she really never had a bad day,” Jackson said. “I think she internalized it, but never said, ‘Why me?’ and dealt with the cards that she was given.”

Once KU and K-State fans heard about the cause, they put their rivalry aside and came out in full support. Former KU wide receiver Harrison Hill and former K-State quarterback Jonathan Beasley became heavily involved in the project. Then, a national sports TV station aired Jamie’s story, and people took to the cause like wildfire.

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KELLIE ALLDREDGE LIFTS THE COVER ON ONE OF THE OLD INFUSION CHAIRS to show how dated the recliner is that is used by patients in the Oncology Center at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Jackson said they received small and big donations and even letters from people across the country and around the world, including Italy, Russia and London.

“It’s just been an overwhelming response of amazing people,” she said.

So far, they’ve raised $116,000 and exceeded their expectations.

The extra money is going to allow them

to be able to upgrade countertops and flooring, which wasn’t in the original plan. If they raise more, they would like to get iPads or iPods and docking stations for every room so patients and families have something to help bide their time. Currently, there is one laptop computer for the entire center.

The LMH Oncology Center serves about 600 new pa-

BUSINESS AT A GLANCE

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Irate drivers in Africa’s

most populous nation paid more than twice the usual price Monday after the government quietly removed a long-cherished consumer subsidy that had kept gas affordable, prompting fears of strikes and unrest.

Gas powers Nigeria’s generators because the national electricity supply is sporadic at best, and fuel also keeps engines running in traffic that can snarl for hours. The government’s announcement — made over a long holiday weekend — drew outrage.

“This New Year ‘gift’ by the presidency is callous, insensitive and is intended to cause anarchy in the country,” said a joint statement by two unions who said they were planning general strikes and protests in the coming days.

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I look over here at Lawrence and love everything about this city.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3A But how come we’re spin-off technology enter- missing out on some of prises, all looking to turn these things?”

their proven ideas into successful — and job-creating — businesses. The $7.5 million center is owned by the Lawrence-Douglas County Biosciences Authority, itself a partnership of the city, county and KU. The new year is set to begin with the center welcoming its eighth tenant: Assurant Employee Benefits, a division of insurance firm Assurant, a Fortune 500 company. The center’s other tenants:

Argenta, a New Zealandbased animal health care company.

BrightEHR, which provides electronic health records.

Garmin Ltd., maker of GPS navigation systems.

Gyrasol Technologies, which handles molecular diagnostics and drug testing.

Propylon, a producer of legislative software systems.

Sunlite Science and Technology, a producer of LED products.

360 Energy Engineers, an engineering and energy management firm.

There’s talk of adding to the center, which is the cornerstone of a system that already includes an expansion center — and home to CritiTech, a pharmaceutical company spun out of KU research — southwest of Bob Billings Parkway and Wakarusa Drive; and a center at the KU Medical Center, in a building home to operations for OsteoGeneX, Aptakon, and Orbis Biosciences.

Such success at the KU locations could offer a path for others nearby to follow, Ross said.

“There are a number of things that KU is doing, looking long range,” Ross said.

“They want to have a global presence. … The rest of Lawrence can take those as the lead, and the rest of us can pick up our game.”

Other communities also can offer vision for the future, he said.

— John Ross, who owns Laser Logic stories and a relatively recent third — the opening in Topeka of a production plant for a subsidiary of Bimbo Bakeries USA — offer the Lawrence area both something to shoot for and something to build upon, Ross said.

“I look over here at Lawrence and love everything about this city,” said Ross, who owns Laser Logic, which provides services for printers in northeast Kansas. “But how come we’re missing out on some of these things?

“We’re studying what Topeka did. What can we learn from them?”

The chamber, working as the economic-development organization for Lawrence and Douglas County, will continue to identify ways to build upon the area’s strengths and capitalize on the region’s growing influence in the manufacturing sector and its continued strong presence in bioscience and animal science industries.

The Lawrence chamber has entered into a joint marketing agreement with its counterparts in both Topeka and Manhattan so that all three organizations can work together to attract jobs and draw industries that can be beneficial for all three.

“It’s one for all, and all for one,” Ross said.

tients each year and administers about 18,000 treatments.

Those treatments can be up to eight hours long.

Dr. Sherri Soule, who was Jamie’s oncologist, said she was a joy to be around and there often was laughter coming from her room. Thanks to Jamie, she said, her patients and their guests are going to have some of the best infusion rooms in the country.

“It has just been wonderful and really touching,” she said.

Building for future On Friday, Alldredge, JackAnd other areas aren’t son, Schnaer and a couple of alone in success stories. Berry other friends visited LMH’s Plastics is expanding northoncology center to try out west of Lawrence, building a two infusion chairs they are $20 million, 600,000-squarethinking of ordering. The foot warehouse and printchairs are in the waiting room ing center near the Kansas where staff, visitors and paTurnpike’s Lecompton intertients can try them out as well change. and vote on their favorite.

And as 2011 nears its end, Their hope is to have the another existing name in the renovation work done and Lawrence business scene, a ribbon-cutting ceremony API Foils, announced it near the first anniversary of would be moving its U.S. their friend’s death. corporate headquarters “I think she would just be from New Jersey to Lawso thrilled and so happy, and Partnerships for the rence. API Foils came to I just love that she was the future Manhattan, home to Kan- Lawrence in 2003, when it catalyst for this idea,” Jacksas State University, is build- opened a plant in the East son said. ing off the momentum of Hills Business Park for — Health reporter Karrey Britt can be landing the National Bio and making hot-stamping foils reached at 832-7190. Read her health blog at Agro-Defense Facility, a $650 and other products used in WellCommons.com, and follow her million federal laboratory printing, packaging and reat Twitter.com/WellCommons. complex designed to help lated industries.

“We are extremely pleased protect the national food supply and agricultural economy to renew and expand our from both natural and terror commitment to Kansas and the Lawrence area,” said Brad threats.

The project is expected Mueller, president and gento provide an economic im- eral manager for API Foils pact of $3.5 billion during its Americas. “The Kansas busifirst two decades of opera- ness-friendly environment is tion, both from construction very refreshing. The skill and spending and then through dedication of our workforce, 450 permanent jobs at the lab the attractive cost profile, and through ongoing collabo- coupled with its central georations, spinoffs and related graphic location, make Lawas high as 13.8 million, close rence an ideal location for business opportunities. to what experts consider a Over in Topeka, econom- our continued growth.” healthy market — about 14 That’s just what Ross and ic development leaders are million. economic-developstill celebrating a decision other December sales could last year by Mars Chocolate ment leaders like to hear reach an annual rate of 13.4 North America to build a and hope to hear more often million, which would make it new $250 million manufac- during the year and years to the second-strongest month turing plant in the city, one come. of the year. Only November expected to start with 200 was better. Auto website Ed— Schools reporter Mark Fagan can be full-time jobs when the place munds.com forecasts a 37 reached at 832-7188. Follow him opens in 2013 and expand to percent rise in sales at Chrysat Twitter.com/MarkFaganLJW. at least 425 jobs in the future. ler Group LLC in December, Helping draw the company thanks to new and revamped was an incentives package products such as the Jeep pegged at $9.1 million, and Grand Cherokee SUV and the one fueled by a half-cent Chrysler 200 midsize sedan. countywide sales tax for Carmakers have aneconomic-development purnounced plans to crank up poses. factories and add thousands The two nearby success of jobs. Last January, Ford said it would hire 7,000 workers over the next two years.

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U.S. auto industry poised to post another good sales year

By Tom Krisher Associated Press

DETROIT — After hitting a 30-year low in 2009, U.S. auto sales are poised for a second straight year of growth — the result of easier credit, low interest rates and pent-up demand for cars and trucks created by the Great Recession.

The sales forecast bodes well for the industry’s continued recovery and for the broader American economy.

In 2009, Detroit automakers were in peril. Car sales plunged as unemployment soared, and loans became harder to get. Chrysler and General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection. Ford avoided bankruptcy only by

Bank of America Corp., borrowing billions. under pressure to raise Now credit is more availcapital and cut risks, is able, interest rates are low, severing lines of credit to some and Americans need to resmall-business owners who place old cars and trucks have used them to stay afloat. they kept during and after the The Charlotte, N.C., bank is downturn. Millions of drivers demanding that these customin their teens and 20s are exers pay off their credit line pected to buy vehicles, too. balances all at once instead of That could mean more jobs, making monthly payments. If more factory shifts and overthey can’t pay in full, they are all growth. being offered new repayment Vince Powell, a retiree plans for as long as five years, but with far higher interest DILBERT rates than their original credit lines had.

Business owners complain that BofA’s credit squeeze is abrupt and could strain their small companies and even put them out of business.

markets were closed Monday for the New Year’s holiday.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plans to continue the card-carrying requirement until Jan. 30, 2014.

Some states have had trouble meeting the technological standards needed to submit truckers’ medical certifications into the nationwide database.

Colorado, for example, plans to require truck drivers to submit the medical forms to the licensing bureau beginning Jan. 30 but doesn’t expect to be able to enter the information into the database until mid-summer, said Mark Couch, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Revenue. The Kansas Department of Revenue said it could be a few months after the deadline before its computers are capable of meeting the federal requirement.

“We already have information up on our website explaining the information they’re going to need to bring in, we just don’t have a date to begin processing,” said Jeannine Koranda, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Revenue.

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from Winfield, Pa., recently traded in his wife’s 7-year-old Chrysler 300 luxury sedan for a 2011 model. The old car had 145,000 miles on it, but it was the deal he got that most attracted him: a low interest rate (2.7 percent per year), a six-year loan term and a big discount off the $31,900 sticker price.

“I’m getting a $300-permonth payment,” he said just before closing the sale at Beaver Motors in Beaver Springs, Pa., near Harrisburg.

“I’ve never had a new car for 300 bucks a month.”

In their effort to survive, all three automakers downsized and positioned themselves to turn profits — even if sales remained depressed.

Now that sales are rising, the outlook has brightened considerably.

Automakers report U.S. sales for 2011 on Wednesday.

When final figures are calculated, sales of new cars and trucks are expected to reach 12.7 million, up from 11.5 million in 2010 and 10.4 million in 2009, the worst year since 1982.

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A torn and damaged U.S. flag has been flying over the Willow Springs Fire Station No. 2 for over a month. The station is at the corner of East 1100 Road and North 650 Road in Douglas County. DisplayThe election of Brownback,

By John Hanna ing a flag in this condition is Associated Press a Republican and a strong disrespectful to our country. abortion opponent, also guarIs there anything that can be TOPEKA — The Kansas Leg- anteed the enactment of antidone about this situation? islature’s coming annual ses- abortion measures that had sion promises to be memora- been vetoed by his predecesA representative from ble because of the ambitious sors. the fire station said agenda already outlined by Amid the hurly-burly, some the flag has been re- Gov. Sam Brownback and his House members contemplatplaced. conservative Republican al- ed cutting this year’s session lies’ desire to pursue social down to 80 issues such as abortion and days, partly as a symimmigration.

But lawmakers also must bolic gesture difficult tackle the complicated issue in of redistricting, which tends f i n a n c i a l to increase political and per- times. Legsonal tensions and could islative lead- LEGISLATURE make it difficult to wrap up ers are now the session on time. The anticipating the traditional once-in-a-decade redrawing 90 days, though their staff acof legislative and congressio- knowledges lawmakers might SOUND OFF nal districts is done after each stretch it past 95 days.

Last year, legislators had a If you have a question, call census to adjust for populalong 16-day wrap-up in late 832-7297 or send email to tion shifts.

History suggests a monster April and early May to finish soundoff@ljworld.com. session is on the way. The the bulk of their business in state constitution specifies 90 days, adding a short 91st 90-day sessions, but it’s often day when the House rejected been more of a psychological some members’ attempt to barrier than a practical one override Brownback’s veto of because lawmakers have the funding for the Kansas Arts authority to extend their time. Commission.

Brownback was content During redistricting in 1992, they went to 100 days, and in last year with kicking off de2002, the session stretched to bates on school finance and tax policy. This year, he’s pusha record 107 days.

By Alex Garrison Since then, legislative lead- ing a proposal to rewrite the Read more responses and add ers have modified session school funding formula, and your thoughts at LJWorld.com schedules so that more of the he’s expected to outline a plan 90 days they normally sched- for reducing the state’s top inDo you think the ule are left for the wrap-up. But dividual income tax rates after this year’s conclusion could ri- the session opens Jan. 9.

Kansas economy will State law also requires lawval 2002’s, with Brownback’s improve in 2012? agenda including taxes, school makers to consider a commisAsked at Dillons, finance, public pension chang- sion’s proposal for moving es and overhauling the state’s toward a 401(k)-style plan 1015 W. 23rd St. for new teachers and governMedicaid program.

“We’ve got a really big ment workers. A study on the agenda, one of the biggest, issue was done last year.

And the governor’s agenmost aggressive in decades,” Brownback said in a recent da includes a revision of the interview with The Associ- state’s traditional “use it or lose it” policy on allocating ated Press.

The Legislature’s session annual water rights to give last year was significant for farmers and other holders of members’ struggle to balance water rights more flexibility the budget and Brownback’s in how much they use from insistence in his first months year to year. Brownback bein office that the state needed lieves such a change will ento tackle the escalating costs of courage conservation.

“It will be a real challenge Medicaid and public pensions.

Jordan Ashley, Kansas University student, Lawrence ON THE RECORD LJWORLD.COM/BLOTTER “I’m optimistic — I think everything I’ve read has said able to access the fire within we’re on an uprise, at least a FIRE REPORT the field, so Wakarusa Township A truck caught on fire in little bit.” brought in a brush truck to the

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The truck was stuck in the field and surrounding brush also caught fire, said Chris Moore, Wakarusa Township fire chief. The fire was south of the roadway and did not block traffic.

Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical engines were not

HOSPITAL Nadine Milne, residential aide, Lawrence “I think it depends on who’s in governmental office.”

BIRTHS Lawrence Memorial Hospital reported no births Monday.

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Wanda Breeden, administrative assistant, Lawrence “I think so, but maybe just because I’m an optimist.”

Rich Rodgers, Vangent employee, Lawrence “It’s really hard to say. I think even the so-called experts are making an educated guess.”

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scene.

Moore said the cause of the fire was unknown.

The Journal-World does not print accounts of all police reports filed.

The newspaper generally reports: • Burglaries, only with a loss of $1,000 or more, unless there are unusual circumstances. To protect victims, we generally don’t identify them by name.

• The names and circumstances of people arrested, only after they are charged.

• Assaults and batteries, only if major injuries are reported.

• Holdups and robberies.

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to be able to get the redistricting process completed along with the other issues the governor has put on the table within the time that’s allotted,” said House Minority Leader Paul Davis, a Lawrence Democrat.

The Legislature’s session also will be crowded by issues that aren’t on Brownback’s agenda. Conservative Republicans want to revisit illegal immigration and pass more abortion restrictions, while Democrats want to revise the state’s 2007 gambling law to make good on promises of a casino in southeast Kansas and slot machines at dog and horse tracks.

At least a few lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike O’Neal, a Hutchinson Republican, contend redistricting shouldn’t overly complicate the session. O’Neal sees it as a “self-contained task.”

But the speaker also acknowledges such statements can seem naïve.

Some tensions in redistricting are regional, with rural areas attempting to minimize their loss of clout in the Legislature while Johnson County gains seats. Some tensions are partisan, with Democrats worrying about the designs of large Republican majorities and a GOP governor.

Tensions within the Republican party also can influence redistricting as many moderate GOP incumbents are likely to face primary challenges from conservatives bent on taking control of the Senate.

The process can get personal, too.

“Individual legislators tend to look at it as, well does that mean I can get elected easily, or not elected easily? Does that complicate things for me?” said Senate Majority Leader Jay Emler, a Lindsborg Republican.

With so many competing interests in the mix, this year’s session has a good chance of slipping into overtime.

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BRIEFLY Wichita starts 2012 with two homicides WICHITA (AP) — The new year was only hours old when Wichita police began investigating two homicides.

Police say they were called to a convenience store about 2 a.m. Sunday after a car full of people drove up with a person who had been shot. Police say a group of people were leaving a party when someone shot into their vehicle, striking the man. He died later at a hospital.

About 2:30 a.m., police were called to a southwest Wichita apartment complex, where they found an injured man lying on the sidewalk. He died at a Wichita hospital.

The two victims’ names, and other details of the cases, have not been released.

Franklin County investigating death WELLSVILLE (AP) — Franklin County sheriff’s deputies continue to investigate the shooting death of a 56-yearold Wellsville man.

Sean Thomson died after being shot Saturday afternoon.

No other details were released.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the shooting was reported by Thompson’s daughter.

Master Deputy Jerrod Fredricks said the death is being investigated as a homicide.

• An obituary for Mr. Thomson appears on page 2A.

asked for a minimum 90-day jail sentence for the felony conviction, noting he had never failed to appear in court.

Seamster was arrested April 2 when Hutchinson police found him passed out in the driver’s seat of a vehicle at a local park. Prosecutor Stephen Maxwell pointed out a photo of him with one leg hanging out of a car window and a bottle between his legs.

Kansas law treats fourth and subsequent DUI convictions the same, with a maximum sentence of a year in jail.

Soldiers urged to review insurance TOPEKA (AP) — The top insurance regulator in Kansas says military personnel returning from Iraq should review their life insurance coverage Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger also is offering tips to military families in case they consider altering their coverage. For example, she notes that people soliciting insurance sales on military bases must have permission from the U.S. Defense Department.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs already offers low-cost life insurance coverage of up to $400,000 to service members on active duty, and it allows them to switch that coverage to a different program for veterans after they leave active duty.

Praeger says veterans who want to supplement that coverage or move to private coverage need to examine whether policies exclude coverage for war-related deaths or deaths that occur in traveling on noncommercial aircraft.

Man gets year in jail for 9th DUI verdict HUTCHINSON (AP) — A Hutchinson man has been sentenced to a year in jail for his ninth conviction for driving under the influence.

The Hutchinson News reports 48-year-old Percy Seamster apologized Friday to Reno County District Judge Trish Rose for his “stupidity.”

His public defender had

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Undecided Iowans weigh whom to back

By Shannon Mccaffrey Associated Press

DES MOINES, IOWA — For Republicans here, the ideal presidential candidate would blend Ron Paul’s ideological passion with Mitt Romney’s electability. Newt Gingrich’s intelligence with Rick Perry’s evangelical appeal. Add a dash of social conservatism from Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum — and stir.

Yet, as Lila Reynolds, one of many undecided Iowa Republicans, laments: “There is no Prince Charming.”

“What am I looking for?”

Reynolds, 44, said, as she crammed into LJs Neighborhood Bar and Grill in Waterloo to see Gingrich ahead of Tuesday’s caucuses. “It’s hard to describe, but you know it when you see it.”

The “it’ factor was large in people’s minds as they sifted through their choices in the final hours before Iowa becomes the first state in the nation to have a formal say in picking a Republican challenger to face President Barack Obama next fall.

Interviews with more than three dozen Iowa voters in recent days found a restless GOP electorate, with many still up for grabs. A bunch seemed to be struggling with exactly what they wanted, not just from a particular candidate but from the heart and soul of a Republican Party fractured between tea party activists, evangelical Christians and mainline fiscal conservatives.

No single candidate has brought those threads together in voters’ minds.

“They’re all a little wobbly on the issues,” says Clara McKee, a 69-year-old from Emerson who plans to attend her first Republican caucuses. “None of them are perfect.

None of them are exactly what I’m looking for.”

Her solution: “Go with the candidate who is the best package and will do the best job given the situation.” But she added: “I’m just not sure which of these candidates that is, though.”

For many people, no one seems quite right. And for a bunch, the process boils down to a hard choice between the safe, pragmatic candidate who stands the best chance of trouncing Obama or the fervent, ideological purist who sets the heart racing but is a far riskier bet in a general

election.

They’re mulling these questions: Do they value electability more than anything else and buy Romney’s argument that he alone stands the best chance of defeating Obama? Or do they vote with their emotions and side with a candidate like Santorum considered a Republican who more closely advocates on their behalf on social issues? There’s a third option: stay home, frustrated at the prospect of nominating someone who doesn’t entirely fit the bill.

Just the other day, Grant Allen was struggling as he left a rally for Gingrich in Atlantic. He clutched a “Newt 2012” yard sign and mused: “Maybe I’ll actually put this one up.”

He said he was attracted to the former House speaker’s intelligence and bold ideas but not enough to sign on with him yet, saying: “I worry about the baggage, but he gave me some confidence today.”

Asked whom he would vote for, Allen grimaced: “Romney.”

The reluctance to back the former Massachusetts governor — and the search among conservative voters for someone other than him — is one of the defining themes of this Republican race. Romney, who lost the 2008 nomination to John McCain, doesn’t stoke the passions of conservatives who are skeptical about his Mormon faith and reversals on some social issues.

For months, Republicans here and nationally have rallied behind one alternative to him only to turn away and move on to another. Their flirtations have been brief in a race has seen no less than a half-dozen candidates at the front of the pack.

Muddling matters further has been a lack of consensus within the GOP about attributes the nominee must have.

Many tea party activists have tended to seek out tough-talking Republicans who will take it to Obama.

Many cultural and religious conservatives crave a candidate who adheres strongly to their top issues, like opposition to abortion and gay rights. And a slew of establishment Republicans has hungered for a fiscal conservative who will reverse the bloat of the George W. Bush years.

Obama, Congress begin 2012 in pipeline dispute

By Matthew Daly Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will force the White House to make a politically risky choice between two key Democratic constituencies.

Some unions say the Keystone XL pipeline would create thousands of jobs. Environmentalists fear it could lead to an oil spill disaster.

A law Obama signed just before Christmas that temporarily extended the payroll tax cut included a Republican-written provision compelling Obama him to make a speedy decision on whether to build the pipeline. The administration is warning it would rather say no than rush a decision in an election year.

It’s a dicey proposition for Obama, who enjoyed strong support from both organized labor and environmentalists in his winning 2008 campaign for the White House.

Environmental advocates, already disappointed with his failure to achieve climate change legislation and the administration’s decision to delay new smog standards, have made it clear that approval of the pipeline would dampen their enthusiasm for Obama

in the upcoming November election.

Some liberal donors even threatened to cut off funds to Obama’s re-election campaign to protest the project, which opponents say would transport “dirty oil” that requires huge amounts of energy to extract.

If he rejects the pipeline, Obama risks losing support from organized labor, a key part of the Democratic base, for thwarting thousands of jobs.

Obama appeared to have skirted what some dubbed the “Keystone conundrum” in November when the State Department announced it was postponing a decision on the pipeline until after this year’s election. Officials said they needed extra time to study routes that avoid an environmentally sensitive area of Nebraska that supplies water to eight states.

The affected area stretches just 65 miles through the Sandhills region of northern Nebraska, but the concerns were serious enough that the state’s governor and senators opposed the project until the pipeline was moved.

Republican Gov. Dave Heineman, who opposed the initial route, says he supports efforts to accelerate the project, noting that provisions in the payroll tax bill allow the project developer to find a new route avoiding the Sandhills.

The new route would have to be approved by Nebraska environmental officials and the State Department, which has authority because the pipeline would cross an international border.

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THE FLAG AT AN ENTRANCE TO MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK in Washington state flies at half-staff Monday, the day after park ranger Margaret Anderson was killed by a gunman inside the park.

Body of suspected gunman in Mount Rainier shooting found

By Mike Baker Associated Press

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, WASH. — An armed Iraq War veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger managed to evade snowshoe-wearing SWAT teams and dogs on his trail for nearly a day. He couldn’t, however, escape the cold.

A plane searching the remote wilderness for Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, on Monday discovered his body lying partially submerged in a mountain creek lined by deep snow and rugged terrain hours from where authorities could get to him.

“He was wearing T-shirt, a pair of jeans and one tennis shoe. That was it,” Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

Barnes did not have any external wounds and appears to have died because of the elements, he said. A medical examiner was at the scene to determine the cause of death.

Troyer said two weapons were recovered, but he declined to say where they were located.

Troubled return from Iraq According to police and court documents, Barnes had a troubled transition to civilian life, with accusations in a child custody dispute that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder following his Iraq deployments and was suicidal.

Barnes is believed to have fled to the remote park on Sunday to hide after an earlier shooting at a New Year’s house party near Seattle that wounded four, two critically.

Authorities suspect he then fatally shot ranger Margaret Anderson.

Immediately after the park shooting, police cleared out Mount Rainier of visitors and mounted a manhunt.

Fear that tourists could be caught in the crossfire in

a shootout with Barnes, who had survivalist training, prompted officials to hold more than 100 Barnes people at the visitors’ center before evacuating them in the middle of the night.

The mother of his toddler daughter sought a temporary restraining order against him, according to court documents.

She alleged that he gets easily irritated, angry and depressed and keeps an arsenal of weapons in his home. She wrote that she feared for the child’s safety. Undated photos provided by police showed a shirtless, tattooed Barnes brandishing two large weapons.

The woman told authorities Barnes was suicidal and possibly suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder after deploying to Iraq in 20072008 and had once sent her a text message saying “I want to die.”

In November 2011, a guardian ad litem recommended parenting and communication classes for both parents as well as a visitation schedule for Barnes until he completed evaluations for domestic violence and mental health and complied with treatment recommendations.

Suspect of another shooting Late Sunday, police said Barnes was a suspect in another shooting incident.

On New Year’s, there was an argument at a house party in Skyway, south of Seattle, and gunfire erupted, police said. Barnes was connected to the shooting, said Sgt. Cindi West, King County Sheriff’s spokeswoman.

Police believe Barnes headed to the remote park wilderness to “hide out” following the Skyway shooting.

“The speculation is that he may have come up here, specifically for that reason, to get away,” parks spokesman Kevin Bacher told reporters early Monday. “The speculation is he threw some stuff in the car and headed up here to hide out.”

Anderson had set up a roadblock Sunday morning to stop a man who had blown through a checkpoint rangers use to check if vehicles have tire chains for winter conditions. A gunman opened fire on her before she was able to exit her vehicle, authorities say.

Before fleeing, the gunman fired shots at both Anderson and the Anderson ranger that trailed him, but only Anderson was hit.

Anderson would have been armed, as she was one of the rangers tasked with law enforcement, parks spokesman Kevin Bacher said. Troyer said she was shot before she had even got out of the vehicle.

Park superintendent Randy King said Anderson, a 34-year-old mother of two young girls who was married to another Rainier ranger, had served as a park ranger for about four years.

According to the Seattle Times, Anderson received a bachelor’s degree in fisheries and wildlife biology from Kansas State University in 1999 and a master’s degree in biology from Fort Hays State University five years later.

King said Anderson’s husband also was working as a ranger elsewhere in the park at the time of the shooting.

The shooting renewed debate about a federal law that made it legal for people to take loaded weapons into national parks. The 2010 law made possession of firearms subject to state gun laws.

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BRIEFLY Arab League: Killings in Syria continue BEIRUT — Syrian security forces are still killing anti-government protesters despite the presence of foreign monitors in the country, the head of the Arab League said Monday. But he insisted the observer mission has yielded important concessions from the Damascus regime, such as the withdrawal of heavy weapons from cities.

Syria’s opposition cautioned the observers not to be taken in by President Bashar Assad’s government, which has unleashed a withering military assault to crush a 9-month-old uprising. Opposition groups have been deeply critical of the mission, saying it is simply giving Assad cover for his crackdown.

“The Arab League has fallen victim to the regime’s typical traps, in which observers have no choice but to witness regime-staged events and move about the country only with the full knowledge of the regime,” said a statement by the Local Coordinating Committees, an umbrella group of activists.

“This has rendered the observers unable to work or move independently or in a neutral manner,” the group said.

The U.N. estimates more than 5,000 people have been killed since the revolt erupted in mid-March. Activists say that in the week since the observers started their work in Syria on Dec. 27, hundreds have been slain. The LCC put the death toll at more than 390 people since Dec. 21.

Aretha Franklin announces engagement NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin is engaged to longtime friend William “Willie” Wilkerson.

The Grammy-winning singer told The Associated Press in a statement Monday that she and Wilkerson are considering a summer wedding, perhaps in Miami Beach, Fla. The Queen of Soul wants to follow the ceremony with a reception on a private yacht.

The 69-year-old jokes: “No, I’m not pregnant.”

Franklin and Wilkerson became engaged over the holidays.

She is considering Vera Wang, Valentino and Donna Karan to design her dress.

Franklin has been married twice before.

Pakistan, U.S. assume less cooperation in future

By Anne Gearan and Kathy Gannon Associated Press

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN — In what could be the biggest change in a decade in a relationship that has been a mainstay of U.S. military and counterterrorism policy since the 9/11 terror attacks, the United States and Pakistan are lowering expectations for what the two nations will do together and planning for a period of more limited contact.

The change described by both Pakistani and U.S. officials follows a series of diplomatic crises over the past year that strained an already difficult partnership based around the U.S. goal of stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a reduction in Islamic-inspired terrorism.

For Pakistan, cooperation on that agenda was rewarded with billions in financial aid.

The change means less cooperation with Washington and a willingness to swear off some aid that often made Pakistan feel too dependent, and too pushed around.

For the United States, scaling down an expensive military and economic program that has not met expectations could come at the cost of less Pakistani help in ending the war in next-door Afghanistan.

Both U.S. and Pakistani officials said the November killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO airstrike and Washington’s refusal to outright apologize for the deaths has been a game changer in a relationship characterized by mistrust and mutual acrimony.

In the United States, civilian and military officials have called the friendly fire incident a tragedy caused by mistakes on both sides, but insist that Pakistan fired first. Pakistan denies that and has called the incident an unprovoked attack.

Pakistan’s loudly angry reaction has, if anything, hardened attitudes in Congress and elsewhere that Islamabad is untrustworthy or ungrateful.

A senior Obama administration official conceded that the deaths made every aspect of U.S. cooperation with Pakistan more difficult, and that the distance Pakistan has imposed may continue indefinitely. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of ongoing discussions.

Pakistan has already stopped billing the United States for its anti-terror war expenses under the 10-year-old Coalition Support Fund, set up by Washington after the 9/11 attacks to reimburse its many allies for their military expenses fighting terrorists worldwide and touted by the U.S. as a success story.

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Quick shift Kansas officials shouldn’t move too quickly to shift the state’s entire Medicaid program to a managed care system.

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ealth care providers and advocates — as well as state legislators — have ample reason to be nervous and cautious about major changes in the state’s Medicaid program.

The rising costs of the program make it a natural target for Kansas officials trying to trim the state budget or divert funds to other uses. Kansas isn’t the only state that is pursuing ways to cut its Medicaid costs — sometimes with mixed success.

Kansas already uses a private managed care provider for its HealthWave program, which serves children in low-income families. Gov. Sam Brownback now is proposing a plan that would include the elderly, disabled and mentally ill in managed care plans and to make the entire transition in one year’s time, by Jan. 1, 2013. Although other states are moving toward managed care plans administered by private insurance companies, making such a fast and complete shift is unusual.

What works for children in low-income families may not work as well for elderly nursing home residents or people who need longterm assistance because of developmental disabilities.

The goal of Brownback’s plan is to cut the state’s Medicaid costs without diminishing the services Kansans receive. The administration estimates its plan will reduce overall Medicaid costs by $29 million in the current fiscal year and $277 million by 2017. It’s hard to imagine how the new system could save that much money through administrative efficiencies without having an impact on patient care.

It hasn’t worked that well in some other states. The Kansas Health Institute News Service reported on the transition to Medicaid managed care in New Mexico. The shift began in 1997 but only recently was expanded to nursing home residents. A representative of a long-term care trade group in that state noted that care providers hadn’t had a rate increase since 2007, and many staff members have gone three years or more without raises. The managed care companies took over a broken system, she said, and “didn’t fix it.”

In the last decade, two states — Oklahoma and Connecticut — have dropped their managed-care plans and returned Medicaid programs to state control, believing they could ensure better care for Medicaid patients at a lower cost.

Brownback and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, a surgeon who led the task force that drafted the plan, say they will set benchmarks for managed care companies that will make sure they meet the state’s goals for both care and costcutting. Maybe they will, but such a quick and complete transition for the state’s Medicaid system creates a significant risk for a host of vulnerable Kansans if the plan doesn’t work out as expected. Even advocates who see some promise in the plan are concerned about details that are yet to be revealed.

It’s another case of the Brownback administration taking an extremely broad-brush approach to solving a problem when a more measured attack might better serve the state.

Lawmakers should be careful not to move too quickly to upend a care system that impacts so many Kansans in need.

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Here is only a partial list of America’s most important power centers this week: The St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa.

The tiny airport in Atlantic, Iowa.

The Boyd Building in Shell Rock, Iowa. The community center in Lidderdale, Iowa. The fire station in Prairiesburg, Iowa. The meeting room of the Moose Lodge in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Knights of Columbus Hall in Marion, Iowa. And the Masonic Lodge in Columbus City, Iowa.

This week, it begins. For months, candidates have canvassed and campaigned; tonight, Republicans will gather in caucuses in Iowa’s 1,784 precincts to begin a process that will lead to the GOP national convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 27, and to the presidential election on Nov. 6.

The campaign began unusually late and came into focus with unusual clarity late in the year. Now its contours, but not its conclusion, are clear.

For the next 10 months, Americans will be preoccupied with their presidential choice, but the nature of that choice will be shaped by what happens in the next 10 days. Here is a viewer’s guide for the first vital weeks of Campaign 2012, beginning with a procedural question:

How does what’s happening today in Iowa differ from what will happen next week in New Hampshire?

Iowa’s Republicans will begin the work of selecting convention delegates in evening caucuses rather than in the more conventional daylong primaries like the one in the Granite State.

About 125,000 Republicans will travel in the Iowa cold to places like the American Legion Hall and the Masonic Lodge to take their stand and make their mark.

Surrounded by neighbors and family members, these Iowa Republicans often have to declare their choices publicly by clustering with, for example, the Newt Gingrich supporters in

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For the next 10 months, Americans will be preoccupied with their presidential choice, but the nature of that choice will be shaped by what happens in the next 10 days.

one corner of the room or with the Michele Bachmann supporters in another. This is democracy, prairie-style, but it is not a secret ballot; caucusers generally are subject to the sort of peer pressure that voters in New Hampshire’s primary will avoid.

One other important distinction: Only Republicans can participate in Iowa. Independents are free to join in the voting in New Hampshire.

Will the Gingrich bubble be sustained?

The rise of the former House speaker, the subject of a House leadership coup that almost succeeded and a House reprimand that did succeed (by a 395-28 vote in a chamber controlled by his own party), is one of the most remarkable phenomena in political history. Left for dead politically at least three times, Gingrich enters the Iowa caucuses with unlikely but, in some mid-December polls, unambiguous strength.

A victory in the Iowa caucuses, which would seem less likely now than it did a fortnight ago, would transform the Georgian’s ascent from a political fluke to a political force, changing the dynamics of the political year. This is the prin-

cipal question that will be determined by Iowa Republicans, who only four months ago delivered a startling (but meaningless) strawpoll victory to Bachmann.

Will Mitt Romney’s performance in the 2012 caucuses differ from that of the 2008 caucuses?

Romney won the 2007 straw poll with a formidable display of financial muscle, but he finished second to former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas in the actual caucuses. He got 25 percent of the votes, which is within range of how he is polling this time around as his late push in the state aims to stanch the flow of support to Gingrich and blunt the rise of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Political professionals are not expecting Romney to prevail in Iowa. If he does, that would be a signal of political power that could clear the way to his nomination.

How will Ron Paul do?

This is a question almost no one expected to be asking this month, but it could be one of the most important political indicators of the season.

The 2012 campaign is Dr. Paul’s third, and as Christmas approached, some polls showed him leading in Iowa, with a number of them showing him in third place nationally. The mainstream media have discounted Paul’s campaign. But of all the contenders, he has the most loyal cadre of supporters and the most consistent policy positions.

Paul also may have the most staying power. This is not insignificant. Nobody thinks he will win in 2012, just as nobody thought the Rev. Jesse Jackson would prevail in 1988. But Jackson’s reluctance to leave the race boxed in Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts politically and strategically. Paul could have the same effect on the 2012 Republican nominee, and though he has indicated he will not mount an independent campaign for president, a strong showing in Iowa could change his mind.

What about the social conservatives?

These are the Iowans who changed the character of the Republican Party in the state, who made abortion one of the touchstones of Iowa politics, and who catapulted the Rev. Pat Robertson into a second-place finish in 1988, six percentage points ahead of Vice President George H.W. Bush, the eventual nominee.

Each political cycle, the presence of a large number of religious conservatives draws candidates like Huckabee, Bachmann and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who seems to be enjoying a bit of a late but perhaps well-timed boom, to the presidential race.

Indeed, Iowa may produce two “winners”: the mathematical victor and the highest-ranking social-conservative candidate.

The social-conservative candidate who finishes highest will have reason to continue in the race while others withdraw.

Can the Iowa winner translate that into a New Hampshire victory?

It doesn’t happen every time.

Indeed, not once since 1980 has the Republican victor in contested Iowa caucuses also captured the New Hampshire primary.

Since 1980, only two Republican winners of contested Iowa caucuses (Sen. Bob Dole in 1996 and Gov. George W. Bush in 2000) have won the GOP nomination, while three winners of contested New Hampshire primaries (former Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1980, Vice President Bush in 1988 and Sen. John McCain in 2008) won the nomination.

That leads us to the conclusion that Iowa and New Hampshire will be the beginning of the campaign and not the end.

The two contests bear watching, to be sure. But they only tell us who will persist in the race, not who will prevail.

— David M. Shribman is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 3, 1912: “Some small boys appeared at the Journal-World office this mornYEARS ing and wanted to know about the AGO coasting ordinance, saying that the IN 1912 coasting was ‘fine’ just now. The provisions of the ordinance that the council passed after some serious accidents are that there can be no coasting west of Massachusetts or south of Warren [currently Ninth] streets. This eliminates the danger of the Indiana street hill and others upon which some fatal accidents have occurred. The ‘kiddies’ can coast in the ravines or on other less steep inclines.”

“Everyone about town should see that the walks are cleaned off. There is an ordinance to this effect but it is not noticeable in many parts of town. In one location in West Lawrence the snow has never been cleared away from an incline and walking is very dangerous.”

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

Read more Old Home Town at LJWorld.com/ news/lawrence/history/old_home_town.

Resolution: Status quo is good enough

By Gina Barreca The Hartford Courant (MCT)

I’ve been making the same New Year’s resolutions since I was 11: be nicer, get organized and lose weight. And although I still have friends who speak to me, can easily locate 1,392 pencils in my office without searching and am not yet being hauled around by a winch, I haven’t exactly exceeded my expectations.

In the spirit of new beginnings, and yet aware that, if certain fringe groups are correct, the world will end before I pay off my 2011 Visa bills, I’d like to propose a new vision for New Year’s resolutions: Resolve to keep doing precisely what you’re doing.

Doesn’t that immediately lower your heart rate, improve your breathing and permit you to unclench those pretty fists?

The only way you’ll need to tweak your life is to do the really rotten stuff slightly less often and with less enthusiasm. This way, as long as you’re the kind of promise keeper who can get up there and shout to the world, “I will attempt not to get significantly, disastrously, monstrously worse!” you actually have a shot at achieving your goals.

In terms of niceness, you should start with small resolutions, such as, “I promise not to spend as much of my time trying to guess other women’s weight and dress sizes as if they were livestock and I were at a state fair trying to win a prize.” This daily practice of niceness would help you become far less likely to comment, “Lois! Three months

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The only way you’ll need to tweak your life is to do the really rotten stuff slightly less often and with less enthusiasm.”

pregnant or going heavy on the gravy?” when you meet acquaintances.

In terms of getting organized, you could concede that closets are not for storing things, but for hiding things. Just ask your gay friends: The expression “coming out of the closet” did not originate from the idea that people with same-sex preference were tidy, but that they were invisible. Stop attempting to group together items by color, size or expiration date. Admit that, for reasons not even your therapist could explain, you can’t bear to throw away the souvenir shot glass you bought in Niagara Falls. Shove it on the back shelf and put something bulky in front of it. Can’t find it? Good for you!

In terms of losing weight, just give up.

Stop torturing yourself already. If you’re over 35, nobody is looking at you anyhow.

Face it: everybody is looking at beautiful 20-year-olds, male and female. They’re like gazelles on an “Animal Planet” documentary. They run, lithe and light-footed, across the boundless territory just the way you once did, until they mate, whereupon they become part of a pack. Then the males gather at the watering hole and the females try to guess each other’s weight.

Reassure yourself by repeating this man-

tra, “Retaining water only matters if you are a boat.” (Not built like a boat, but an actual boat). If you spend time scanning your body for flaws the way a proofreader scans a legal document for errors, just stop.

If you are the kind of person who has ever said to anyone, “Does this barrette make my head look fat?” resist the urge to reveal your innermost thoughts at that particular moment.

It’s taken 60 years of the women’s movement to get us to where we can work at our own jobs, earn our own money and exert sufficient financial independence — even at 71 cents earned to every man’s dollar — to purchase that hair accessory without asking someone’s permission. To wield it as an implement of whining self-sabotage would make a suffragette weep. Either that or she’d put your eye out with it; they were tough broads.

Look, we all know that what keeps us from getting what we want in life is the story we tell ourselves about why we can’t have it. So let’s make 2012 a year of new stories. Tell yourself that you can get better by not getting worse.

And tell yourself how you can start. This is far easier, and will be more rewarding by year’s end, than expecting to live each day off of 400 calories or $11 or only kind words. Because there’s no worse way to begin a new year than to fail within its first 24 hours. For luck, stay away from women wielding barrettes.

— Gina Barreca is an English professor at the University of Connecticut, a feminist scholar who has written eight books, and a columnist for the Hartford Courant. She can be reached through her website at http://www.ginabarreca.com.

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Kearney 54/21

McCook 60/21 Oberlin 60/22 Goodland 62/23

Beatrice 52/26

Oakley 62/24

Russell Salina 54/24 53/28

Manhattan 54/22 Topeka 54/27 Emporia 54/25

Great Bend 60/24 Dodge City 60/25

Garden City 60/23 Liberal 60/24

Chillicothe 45/27 Marshall 47/28

Kansas City 48/30 Lawrence Kansas City 50/27 54/27

Sedalia 48/29

Nevada 51/29

Chanute 53/29

Hutchinson 54/26 Wichita Pratt 54/28 59/30

Centerville 37/25

St. Joseph 50/24

Sabetha 48/25

Concordia 54/27 Hays 56/24

Clarinda 47/24

Lincoln 54/20

Grand Island 52/23

Springfield 46/28

Coffeyville Joplin 54/30 50/33

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WEATHER HISTORY

On Jan. 3, 1777, George Washington noticed it would freeze that night. He ordered bonfires built as a decoy. When the ground froze, Washington’s men outflanked the British.

Red Dog’s Dog Days winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, Enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, 5:15 p.m., 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers.

For more information, call 843-7359.

Lonnie Ray’s open jam session, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. Lawrence City Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Trivia Night at the Jayhawker, 8-10 p.m., Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass.

Teller’s Family Night, 9 p.m.-midnight, 746 Mass.

Tuesday Night Karaoke, 9 p.m., Wayne & Larry’s Sports Bar & Grill, 933 Iowa.

Live jazz at The Casbah, 9 p.m., 803 Mass.

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Group: Dante’s “Inferno,” 2 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Ragtime Piano Rehearsal/Jam Session, 2-4 p.m., Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass.

Americana Music Academy Saturday Jam, 3 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Mass.

Older Women’s League meeting, 2-4 p.m., Robert Doud room, United Way Building, 2518 Ridge Court.

Growing Lawrence meeting for food producers, topic Resources (seeds, plugs, organic suppliers, etc.), 7-8 a.m., Chamber of Commerce offices, 646 Vt., Suite 200.

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Red Dog’s Dog Days winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, Enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Theology on Tap, discussion of a selected religion topic, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Henry’s, 11 E. Eighth St. Junkyard Jazz Band, 7 p.m., American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St. Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Team trivia, 9 p.m., Johnny’s West, 721 Wakarusa Drive.

Trivia Night, 8 p.m. The Burger Stand, 803 Mass.

7 SATURDAY Red Dog’s Dog Days, 7:30 a.m., parking lot behind Kizer-Cummings Jewelry, Ninth and Vermont streets.

Book signing by Bill Wilson, of new novel “One Hand Clapping” as well as “Majesty,” 1 p.m., Hastings, 1900 W. 23rd St. Great Books Discussion

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is promoting a free program to help people who want to do more walking for exercise in 2012.

The Walk with Ease program is a six-week offering that teaches participants how much they should walk and how to increase HEALTH their pace and endurance.

Health department officials are working with the Arthritis Foundation, and people can register for the free program on the health department’s arthritis website.

KDHE Secretary Robert

Moser says walking regularly can ease problems associated with arthritis.

The program is designed for anyone who wants to walk more. Walking can help people manage their weight and reduce their risks for heart disease and diabetes.

10% Tuesdays at The Bird Dog Bar at The Oread, 1200 Oread Ave., is an opportunity to unwind and help animals in need in the process. The first Tuesday of the month, 10 percent of the pre-tax purchase is donated to the Lawrence Humane Society. The program starts at 5 p.m. and lasts until 9 p.m. As a bonus, two hours of valet parking is free.

8 SUNDAY Allégresse. Flute, oboe and piano trio playing music of the classical masters. Unitarian Chamber Series, 2:30 p.m., Unitarian Fellowship, 1263 N. 1100 Road.

Free State Junior Firebird Dance Clinic, 3-5 p.m., Free State High School, 4700 Overland Drive.

9 MONDAY Women’s Entrepreneur Group, 9 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m., Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa.

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Watkins Community Museum of History exhibit: “It Happened on Mass Street: 150 Years in Lawrence,” featuring historic photographs and objects illustrating the growth of downtown Lawrence, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday, 1047 Mass.

Freedom’s Frontier exhibit, Wednesday-Saturday,

is the record low temperature for the lower 48 states in Q: What January?

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BRIEFLY State health dept. promotes walking

10% Tuesdays

Kansas University alumni Yuen Lam “Ricko” Li, 2011 graduate, left, and Robert Goetsch, 2010 graduate, center, met with fellow KU alumnus Claude “Gene” Kean, 1958 graduate, of Lawrence in Hong Kong. The three met at the Cityview Hong Kong hotel Nov. 6, when Kean, the retired director of sales at Allen Press Inc., was on a tour of China and presented them with KU T-shirts.

Recently engaged, Li and Goetsch moved to Hong Kong in August after accepting jobs there. Kean submitted the photo.

2007 approved the opening of four state-owned casinos.

The Boot Hill Casino opened in Dodge City in 2009, while the Kansas Star opened near Mulvane last month. There have been no bids for a casino in the southeast zone in Crawford and Cherokee counties.

New Kansas casino 3-year-old girl hit plans to open Feb. 3 by car in KCK KANSAS CITY, KAN. — The Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway will open next month if it receives final state approval.

The casino said in a news release Monday that grand opening for the gaming complex will begin about 11 a.m. Feb. 3.

The Hollywood Casino will offer 2,000 slot machines and 52 table games, along with five restaurants.

The Kansas Legislature in

10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, 1-4 p.m., Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St. Lawrence Arts Center exhibits: Yesnomaybe Exhibition, collaborative works by Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad and Yoonmi Nam, through Jan. 14; Lived: Living, works by Isadora Stowe and Jordan Schranz, through Jan. 14; Learning is Remembering, works

by Amber Hansen, through Jan. 14; Constellation, an aerial installation by Juniper Tangpuz; 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, 940 N.H. Lawrence Public Library storytimes for January: Fun with Food storytime, 10:30 a.m Tuesdays and Fridays, Jan. 10-Jan.20; Toddler storytime resumes Jan. 24, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays; Library storytime, 7 p.m. Thursdays and, after Jan. 24, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesdays and 10:30 a.m.

Fridays; Storytime in Spanish and English resumes Jan. 21, 10:30 a.m. Saturdays; Family storytime, 3:30 p.m.

Sundays; Books & Babies resumes Jan. 23, 10:30 a.m.

Mondays and 9:30 a.m., 10:10 a.m. and 10:40 a.m.

Wednesdays; Storytime in German resumes Jan. 31, 4 p.m. Tuesdays 707 Vt. Lawrence Public Library weekly teen programs for January: Wii Olympics for Teens, 7 p.m. Tuesdays; Gaming with the Pro, 3 p.m.

Wednesdays; Teen Zone Cafe, 4 p.m. Fridays; Saturday Teen Screen, 3 p.m.

Saturdays; Teen tutoring, 3 p.m. Sundays, 707 Vt. Library bookmobile schedule (open to the public): 9-10 a.m. Monday, Prairie Commons, 5121 Congressional Circle; 10:3011:30 a.m. Monday, Babcock Place, 1700 Mass.; 9-10 a.m. Wednesday, Brandon Woods, 1501 Inverness Drive; 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Wednesday, Presbyterian Manor, 1429 Kasold Drive; 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, Drury Place, 1510 Andrews Drive; 11:15-noon Friday, Vermont Towers, 1101 Vt.; 1:30-2:30 p.m. Friday, Peterson Acres, 2930 Peterson Road.

Spencer Museum of Art exhibits: Passages: Persistent Visions of a Native Place, through Jan 15.

Museum open until 4 p.m. daily, 8 p.m. Thursdays, 1301 Miss.

The Impact of the King James Bible, Quayle Bible Collection exhibit, 518 Eighth St., Baldwin City, 1-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, through July 2012.

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70F below zero at Rogers Pass, Mont., set on Jan. 20, 1954.

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KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Kansas City, Kan., police say a 3-year-old girl was critically injured when she was hit by a car.

Police are trying to determine why the girl, whose name was not released, was in the street about 2 a.m. Sunday before she was hit.

Neighbors told KSHB-TV cars often speed along the street. Further details of the case have not been released.

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Classes meet Tuesdays, beginning Jan. 10, 2012, 4:45 pm, FSHS Choral education for children PK-3rd grade. No auditions. Scholarships available.

Register at www.lawrencechildrenschoir.org or call 331-4662.

This program is presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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’Cats will put KU to test Kansas State forward Jamar Samuels has played three games in Allen Fieldhouse, Jordan Henriquez, Martavious Irving, Rodney McGruder and Victor Ojeleye two, Will Spradling and Shane Southwell one. Frank Martin has been the Wildcats’ head coach four times, an assistant to Bob Huggins at K-State once, in Allen Fieldhouse.

All those Wildcats have something in common. They never have tasted victory in Allen Fieldhouse.

Martin did a nice job Monday on the weekly Big 12 coaches conference call of summarizing what makes playing in the fieldhouse so difficult.

“There are three major challenges,” Martin said. “Bill Self and his coaching staff, their players and the culture that they’ve built, and then, obviously, the 16,000 who sit in the stands and just don’t let you communicate with your players.

“That may sound simplistic, but it is what it is. They’ve got a lot to be proud of there. Their team plays to it every single time they take their home court.

Their crowd is amazing, and it makes it an incredible challenge for us and everybody else who goes in there.”

Martin knows better than to think that school not being in session means the building won’t generate the same intensity Wednesday night in the conference opener for both squads.

“We went in there for their conference home-opener in early January, and it was absolutely bonkers in there,” Martin said.

A crowd’s influence generally benefits the home team’s defense more than anything, in part because it rattles the opposing ballhandlers.

The seven Wildcats with Allen Fieldhouse experience have played 211 minutes in the building, or 11 minutes more than a team compiles in one game. They have combined for three assists and 15 turnovers in those 211 minutes and have shot just .340.

Obviously, they’re older and more experienced than when they played those minutes, a year older and more experienced than when they lost 90-66.

McGruder, the leading scorer (12.5 points per game) for KState (11-1), has had the most statistical success of any of the Wildcats in Allen Fieldhouse, averaging 10 points and six rebounds and shooting .538 overall, .429 from beyond the three-point semicircle.

Likely to be hounded by KU’s lock-down defender Travis Releford, McGruder has emerged from a five-game shooting slump in which he made just two of 20 threepoint attempts. He has made eight of 13 in the past four games. He made 10 of 11 field goals and six of seven free throws and scored 28 points in a 17-point victory against Long Beach State.

“Rodney faced adversity, and he didn’t pack up his bags and go home or pull up a pillow on the corner of the bench and cry,” Martin said. “He’s played so much better of late.”

During that same four-game stretch during which McGruder heated up, sophomore guard Will Spradling has made eight of 14 three-pointers. If KU’s big men don’t hustle back on defense and the guards have to drop down to protect the goal, McGruder and Spradling could burn the Jayhawks by nailing open threes in transition, no matter how loud it gets Wednesday.

What a year

Self OK with K-State opener

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Journal-World File Photos

SCENES FROM SHEAHON ZENGER’S BUSY FIRST YEAR AS KANSAS’ ATHLETICS DIRECTOR, clockwise from top: at his introductory news conference on Jan. 3, 2011; handing out scholar-athlete awards in May; beaming over the hire of Charlie Weis as football coach last month; glowering on the sideline of a football game on Oct. 29 in Austin, Texas; and visiting with his predecessor, Lew Perkins, at Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 29, 2011.

Zenger had eventful first 365 days

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Today marks Sheahon Zenger’s one-year anniversary as the athletic director at Kansas University.

If you haven’t been paying close attention, it might seem more like five years have passed since Zenger was introduced as the replacement for Lew Perkins. That’s often the case for Zenger, who, in 12 months, has been through and done more than some ADs do during an entire career.

“For the most part, the tasks

of an athletic director’s job on a daily basis are relatively the same across the country,” said Zenger, looking back at the year that was.

“What was unique here was the magnitude of the issues that surfaced relatively quickly.”

From navigating the worrisome waters of conference realignment to reorganizing the athletic department and firing one football coach and hiring another, Zenger has had his hands full since the day he started at KU. “The issues that arose early on forced me and forced the staff to

run at a faster pace,” said Zenger, who came to KU after six years as AD at Illinois State. “And I see that now as a real positive, because we’re not sitting around, twiddling our thumbs, trying to figure out what we’re going to do next.”

With his foundation firmly in place, and KU’s most dire issues behind him (for now), Zenger plans to focus even more attention on raising the level of competitiveness throughout the KU athletic department. His focus from Please see ZENGER, page 3B

Bill Self has never been the type of guy to complain about things he has no control over, like the Big 12 basketball schedule.

And so Kansas University’s ninth-year coach shrugged his shoulders twice Monday — once during the morning Big 12 coaches teleconference and again Monday evening on his “Hawk Talk” radio show — when asked if he likes the fact the Jayhawks open the 2011-12 slate against rival Kansas State (7 p.m. Wednesday, Allen Fieldhouse).

“I don’t know. I guess I do since that’s the way they scheduled it,” Self said.

“You look around, and everybody is playing somebody good.

Baylor-A&M is a big rivalry game, too. No matter who you play, you are dealt a tough hand.

Everybody has a tough road. Everybody plays the same schedule.”

The Jayhawks (10-3) will enter with a No. 14 national ranking. KSU (11-1) is No. 23. The two teams last met in a league opener to start the 2008-09 season, when KU beat the Wildcats, 8771, in Allen.

“I may prefer something else, but it’s OK. It’s the way it shakes out, shakes down, but certainly we know this will be an intense game ... totally,” Self said. “The only thing that’s a bit negative about it … anybody at home, you’d like to have your students back on campus when you play home games. We’re not going to have that. I don’t know who has that this time of year.”

The Jayhawks, who have won 20-straight league openers (15-0 in Big 12, last five in Big Eight), opened at Iowa State last year and Nebraska in 2009-10. In the 15-year history of the Big 12, KU has had four league openers against Colorado (now in Pac12), three against Nebraska (now in Big 10), two against K-State, Iowa State and Texas A&M and one versus Oklahoma State and Texas Tech.

KU has had 10 league openers on the road and five at home.

KU, which has won seven straight league titles, follows the KSU game with contests at Oklahoma (1 p.m. Saturday) and Texas Tech (8 p.m. Wednesday).

“We talked to them (Jayhawks) about what our goals are. They are the same as they have been every year, to win the league,” Self said. “It’s not so much seven in a row as much as, ‘This is what our goal is and what we are Please see HOOPS, page 3B

Transfers settling in at LHS ————

Howard, Coleman quickly find places for Lions’ girls basketball

By Benton Smith

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If you would’ve walked in our first day of practice, Before Lawrence High’s girls you wouldn’t have known basketball season began, it was a bit unknown exactly how the those two girls had come in not knowing anybody else.” squad would come together. basmith@ljworld.com

As LHS (2-2) prepares during its winter break for the schedule to resume, it is hard to imagine where the Lions would be without junior Monica Howard and sophomore Kionna Coleman, who transferred in as new pieces to the team’s puzzle this season and fit in perfectly.

Howard, who is averaging eight points and seven rebounds, joined LHS from Baldwin. Coleman, averaging seven points and seven boards, came over from crosstown rival Free State a couple of weeks before the start of preseason practices.

Lawrence coach Nick Wood said the transfers and established players in the program worked to make the transition

— LHS coach Nick Wood, on transfers Kionna Coleman and Monica Howard seamless.

“It couldn’t have gone much better,” Wood said of the new players’ acclimation to the squad.

Wood admitted he didn’t initially know how the transfers would mix in. However, both Coleman and Howard were able to impact the program immediately, he said, because the returning players welcomed them — which probably had a lot to do with the newbies, as Wood described it, working “their butts off to earn their spot.”

The duo’s work ethic, great personalities and ability to get along with their teammates, Wood said, made his job easy.

He didn’t have to coach anybody on building new relationships with Coleman and Howard as they meshed with teammates Christina Haswood, Emma Kelly, Krista Costa, Bri Anderson, Kylie Seaman, Marissa Pope and others.

“If you would’ve walked in our first day of practice,” he said, “you wouldn’t have known those two girls had come in not knowing anybody else.”

For Howard, coming to LHS from a smaller, Class 4A school was different. With far more students, she wasn’t seeing everyone in the hall each day like she used to. She said playing Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo volleyball and basketball helped her transition, even though she LAWRENCE HIGH TRANSFERS KIONNA had to “start over” at Lawrence. COLEMAN, SOPHOMORE, FRONT, and junior Monica Howard are surprised how quickly Please see LIONS, page 3B they’ve meshed with their new teammates.

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NFL coaches Spagnuolo, Morris fired The Associated Press

Let the NFL coaching changes begin.

The St. Louis Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the latest teams to fire their coaches, bringing to five the number of NFL clubs looking for the right man for the job.

The Rams fired Steve Spagnuolo and general manager Billy Dev-

aney on Monday, and about an hour later the Bucs fired Raheem Morris and his entire staff.

Both were first-time head coaches, and both lasted three seasons. Spagnuolo leaves with a 10-38 record; Morris with a 17-31 mark.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said Monday he hasn’t decided whether to retain Jim Caldwell after Indy finished 2-14

without Peyton Manning in the lineup. Irsay, however, fired vice chairman Bill Polian and general manager Chris Polian.

The Jacksonville Jaguars started the coaching carousel by firing Jack Del Rio on Nov. 29; two weeks later the Miami Dolphins fired Tony Sparano and the Kansas City Chiefs dismissed Todd Haley.

And the search is on, especially in Florida, where all three NFL

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Penn State’s sad season has sad end

By Bob Ford The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

DALLAS — A season of tragedy and upheaval finally came to an end for Penn State football Monday in a third-rate bowl game played in a half-empty stadium that also has seen much better days.

There wasn’t much of a final reward for the Nittany Lions players who endured the fallout from the Jerry Sandusky scandal this season. They very nearly voted to turn down this invitation from the TicketCity Bowl after being bypassed by several bowls further up the pecking order.

The better bowls with Big Ten Conference affiliation thought Penn State’s distressing season would keep its normally loyal fans from traveling, and they apparently were right.

Penn State sold just 3,500 tickets, far short of the allotment it had to buy, and the majority of the 46,817 in the Cotton Bowl were those who made the trek up I-45 from Houston to watch their Cougars fling the ball around a few more times.

The players decided that not playing was the wrong message, even at the end of a season in which it has been difficult to know the right message. What they got for their trouble was a sound 30-14 beating in a game that was never in doubt.

It could have been worse, and the Lions — maybe for the first time this season — were spared further embarrassment when Houston missed a couple of field goals and dropped at least two interceptions that would have gone for touchdowns. As it was, it was bad enough. “All the things you can do to lose a game, we did them today,� interim head coach Tom Bradley said.

So that was how the 2011 season ended, as the minor-key prelude to a day on which five other bowl games, each more meaningful than this one, would be played. Penn State, which has known so many glorious January games, finished off the greatest era in its football history as a sideshow act that couldn’t draw a crowd.

All of it is prelude, of course, and when Penn State next plays it is possible that the entire coaching staff will have been replaced, that a new athletic director will be in power, and that the new university president will be delivering the results of the school’s internal investigation into what went wrong with the culture of the football program. You can toss in some NCAA sanctions as another possibility. All of that could happen before the start of the 2012 season, and, very probably, much of it will. “I’m going to work until the very end, until they tell me my services are no longer needed,� Bradley said. “(Acting athletic director Dave) Joyner’s committee is going to make this decision. I don’t have a date when it’s going to be. He hasn’t set a time frame for exactly when that’s going to happen.�

Joyner originally hoped to have a new coach in place before the bowl game, but something has slowed the process. Including Bradley and assistants Jay Paterno and Larry Johnson — none of whom seems a likely candidate if the program is to be swept clean — there are a dozen rumored replacements for Joe Paterno, who was fired soon after the scandal broke.

The hot names this week are New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien and San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman, but there are plenty of other names out there. Eventually, someone will get the job, although delaying much longer will have a terrible effect on recruiting.

Far down the list of disappointments this season, it bothered Paterno to go out with as poor a performance as quarterback Rob Bolden had against Houston. Bolden played only because starter Matt McGloin suffered a concussion in a locker-room scuffle with receiver Curtis Drake two weeks ago. Then Bolden himself was caught up in an incident that Bradley called a “prank gone awry� and the police called “retail theft.� It was just more noise in the chaotic soundtrack of a season best forgotten.

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teams will have new coaches next season.

In San Diego, Chargers coach Norv Turner says he knows a decision on his future is being made by team president Dean Spanos and will be announced in a matter of days. Turner says he’d be “excited� to return to the Chargers for his sixth season because he thinks they “can go do some great things.�

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PHILADELPHIA — Mike Rupp scored two goals, and Brad Richards posted the winner on top of a chilly baseball field, as the New York Rangers outlasted the Philadelphia Flyers, 3-2, in the Winter Classic on Monday at Citizens Bank Park.

The NHL surrounded the rink with Christmas trees, fire wood, fake snow, and even trashcan fires. But there was nothing artificial in the elements with snow flurries late in the second period and temperatures that dipped into the 30s, forcing 49,967 fans to bundle up for the big game.

votes Monday for the fifth straight week after blowing out Mississippi Valley State in their only game.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

49ers O.C. finalist at PSU?

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — The agent for San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman says his client is a finalist to replace Joe Paterno at Penn State.

Mike Harrison said Monday by phone that Roman interviewed for the position in November and is on the “short list� at the embattled COLLEGE BASKETBALL program, rocked in recent months by the scandal. Harrison said he expects to OSU’s Olukemi done for year sex-abuse know in about a week whether Roman will be STILLWATER, OKLA. — Oklahoma State hired, but declined to offer further details, such swingman Jean-Paul Olukemi is out for the as whether Roman would finish out the season rest of the season with a knee injury. with the playoff-bound NFC West champion OSU coach Travis Ford announced Monday 49ers (13-3). that Olukemi tore the ACL in one of his knee early in the second half of Saturday’s loss to UW’s Polk to enter draft Virginia Tech. Ford also said starting guard Markel Brown aggravated a hip injury during SEATTLE — Chris Polk wanted to own all Saturday’s game and is day-to-day. of Washington’s records for running backs by Olukemi was averaging 9.4 points and 4.8 the time he left school. He doesn’t have every rebounds a game while Brown averages 8.4 one, but he’s got plenty of accolades to put on points per game for the Cowboys. his resume for NFL teams.

Washington made the expected announcePitt falls out of men’s Top 25 ment on Monday that Polk will forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft, leaving the Syracuse is No. 1 in the Associated Press’ Huskies as the No. 2 rusher all-time in school Top 25 for a fourth straight week and Pittshistory trailing only Napoleon Kaufman. burgh is out of the poll for the first time since the middle of 2009-10.

UNC’s Paige-Moss to NFL The Orange received 60 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina says Kentucky, which moved up one spot to secjunior defensive end Donte Paige-Moss has ond, got the other five. told Tar Heels coaches he plans to enter the North Carolina, Baylor and Duke all jumped NFL Draft. two places to third through fifth. Ohio State Paige-Moss played all 13 games and dropped from second to sixth after losing at finished with 29 tackles, four tackles for loss Indiana. Missouri, Connecticut, Georgetown and two sacks. He tore the anterior cruciate and Michigan State round out the top 10. ligament in his right knee during the Tar Heels’ Louisville, which lost to Georgetown and loss to Missouri in the Independence Bowl on Kentucky, dropped from fourth to 11th.

Dec. 26.

No. 23 Kansas State and No. 25 Gonzaga enter the rankings on six-game winning NFL streaks. Creighton fell out from 21st. Pittsburgh, losers of three straight, dropped out Steelers’ Mendenhall finished from 22nd.

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers journey through the playoffs won’t include Baylor women still No. 1 running back Rashard Mendenhall.

Baylor remains the unanimous No. 1 choice A person familiar with the injury told the in the Associated Press women’s college Associated Press that Mendenhall has a torn basketball poll.

ACL in his right knee and is out for the entire The Lady Bears received all the first-place postseason.

Sunday, Jan 8th.

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BCS Championship Game Mercedes-Benz Superdome-New Orleans, LA. Alabama ......................11â „2 (40) ...................................Lsu NBA Favorite............Points (O/U) .......... Underdog CLEVELAND ................. 5 (187).........................Charlotte OKLAHOMA CITY ......51â „2 (198) ....................... Portland a-MEMPHIS ........... No Line (XXX)............ Sacramento CHICAGO .......................10 (185)............................Atlanta UTAH .............................11â „2 (191) .....................Milwaukee LA LAKERS ................. 71â „2 (192).........................Houston a-Memphis forward Z. Randolph is doubtful.

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1973 — A 12-member group headed by George Steinbrenner buys the New York Yankees from CBS for $10 million.

1991 — Wayne Gretzky scores three goals, including his 700th, as the Los Angeles Kings beat the New York Islanders 6-3.

1995 — Nebraska, the fourth team to finish 13-0 in Division I-A, wins its first national football title since 1971, with the Cornhuskers the overwhelming choice in the AP poll.

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the beginning was on elevating all of KU’s sports programs into the top tier of the Big 12. Although the near collapse of the conference and his quest to hire Charlie Weis as the school’s 37th football coach demanded most of Zenger’s energy and attention during Year One, his vision has not changed.

“There’s only one goal here at the University of Kansas, and that is to always aim high,” Zenger said. “Aspire to greatness. That’s how I was brought up. That’s what I think the University of Kansas stands for, and that’s what I think the athletic department here needs to keep in its forefront at all times.”

Men’s basketball long has been top dog at KU, and Zenger was well aware of that when he arrived. In fact, much of what he did during his first year in charge — not all of it noticeable — was done with men’s basketball in mind. At least one man recognized and he spoke highly of the way with which Zenger began to repair the image of an athletic department in need of a makeover.

“One of the things that has impressed me about him is that he is not a knee-jerkreaction guy,” men’s basketball coach Bill Self said of Zenger. “He studied, talked to people and has done it his way, as opposed to feeling pressure to do what others sometimes think you should do. And I think that’s been a very positive thing for KU. It’s a challenging time. It was a challenging year. But the pot at the end of the rainbow is gold.”

One of Zenger’s first visible roles with Kansas was to follow Self’s top-ranked team during its run to the Elite Eight. He talked often about how he saw sitting courtside at KU hoops games as one of the best parts of his job, both for the Jayhawk fan inside of him and for the connection to donors and alumni it allowed him to create.

Shortly after basketball ended, things began to heat up with conference realignment for a second straight year, and Zenger spent the bulk of the summer in the middle of intense talks designed to save the Big 12 Conference. Although the league lost two schools (Missouri and Texas A&M to the SEC) for the second straight year, it also added two — TCU and West Virginia — and appears to be on more stable ground heading into 2012.

With less threatening realignment issues still lingering, Zenger, a former football coach, was forced to endure the disappointment of a 2-10 football season that led to

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out to do is win a league championship.’ We have talked about it, but not like people may think. Our goal is to win. You’ve got to do certain things to win. We talk about what we need to do to win as much as the end result.”

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Robinson player of week: KU junior power forward Thomas Robinson on Monday was named Big 12 player of the week for the third time this season. The 6-foot10 Robinson averaged 19.5

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“Just being on a team helped me make friends easier,” the 6-foot-1 junior said.

From a basketball standpoint, Howard said the adjustments came in learning new drills with the Lions and discovering how each player worked as a member of the unit.

Coleman experienced the same things. She said getting used to her LHS teammates, how they played and their personalities was a big part of her transition. Plus, there

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BAYLOR’S PERRY JONES DUNKS OVER TEXAS A&M’S KHRIS MIDDLETON (22) in first half. Baylor won, 61-52, Monday in Waco, Texas.

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KANSAS ATHLETIC DIRECTOR SHEAHON ZENGER WATCHES the Jayhawks warm up before tipoff of their men’s basketball game against Texas Tech on Feb. 1, 2011. the dismissal of second-year coach Turner Gill. Though Zenger did not hire Gill, he acted swiftly in firing him, largely because expectations were not being met on or off the field.

While pulling the plug on Gill marked his first such move at KU, Zenger had been through coaching transitions in the past. During his six years at Illinois State, Zenger parted ways with three highprofile coaches and ultimately hired two-thirds of the head coaches who were in place the day he left.

“It’s the most unfortunate part of any athletic director’s job,” Zenger said of having to fire a coach. “But it’s the most important part of an athletic director’s job. And if I had not gone through it before, I can’t imagine having to do it at this level.”

Less than two weeks after firing Gill and his staff, Zenger made national news by hiring Weis, a man with nearly 20 years of NFL coaching experience and four Super Bowl rings. The move, though met with skepticism by some, was celebrated throughout the KU community.

“A lot of times, you can’t get to the good things until you take care of some things that need to be addressed,” Self said. “But you don’t want

to rush into addressing them.

So, to me, it’s been one of those situations where he’s taken his time, and taking his time has better given him the opportunity to evaluate and make the proper decisions.

It was the perfect time for a guy like Sheahon to come in here and put his own stamp on things. Moving forward, I think there will be a lot of positive things happening.”

While his first year at KU was an eye-opening experience, Zenger said he would not have asked for anything different.

“I see it as a positive,” he said. “Rather than sitting back and watching for a year, we rolled up our sleeves and got to work and got to know people locally, regionally and nationally. Now we’re at warp speed, and we’re way ahead of where we would’ve been had this first year just been a normal year.”

When it was suggested that the breakneck pace of his first year in town made it seem as if he had been in his current job for much more than 365 days, Zenger agreed.

“It does,” he said. “And part of that has to do with the fact that this isn’t my first time at the University of Kansas. At the same time, my lifespan in the department feels like … it feels more like I’ve been here

points and 14.0 rebounds in victories over Howard and North Dakota.

Robinson exploded for 30 points, 21 rebounds and four assists Saturday against North Dakota. For the season, he averages 17.7 points and 12.2 rebounds a game, the only Big 12 player averaging a double-double.

“I thought he played one of his best games he’s played in a Jayhawk uniform Saturday,” Self said. “Not because he had 30 and 21. (It’s) the way he played with poise in handling double-teams. He could have easily had six, seven assists with no turnovers if we made shots. He played with such patience and poise, and his motor was going. It was

fun to watch. It was good for him. He’s played really well this year but in my mind has another big step to take. In my mind, he’s doing a great job doing that.”

Wednesday’s atmosphere: The KU students who live in the area certainly will make their way to Allen for Wednesday’s game, which is on semester break. “I think it (atmosphere) will be pretty good. I would say when our building is good, it’s as good as any place anywhere,” Self said. “I would think this would be one of those times it’s very good. We won’t have as many students here, but we’ll have other people pick up the slack, I’m sure.”

was the matter of her former school.

“I wasn’t sure if they were going to accept me or not since I was from Free State,” she said with a laugh.

It actually worked out just fine. Wood said Coleman played her best game so far in the most intense atmosphere, when the Lions played at FSHS and the student section greeted her with chants of “traitor.”

“If she can handle that environment,” Wood said, “then she can handle anything we play in the rest of the way.”

As for Howard, Wood said as she gets stronger, she will be even more effective for the Lions.

“I feel like she’s adjusted

to 6A basketball really well, and I feel like she’ll continue to grow and get better at it,” he said.

Both Howard and Coleman said they really felt like members of the team by the end of the season opener, a road win at Kansas City Wyandotte, because they had contributed to an LHS victory.

And both are proud to be key pieces of their new team.

Said Coleman: “I’m ecstatic.”

Added Howard: “I’m very happy. We have a great team, and everyone gets along really well.”

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closer to two or three years.

And quite frankly, that’s something I’m thankful for.”

Although he spends most days with dozens of things going on at once and all of them racing through his busy mind, Zenger is not a complicated man. He loves his job and his family, and those are the two most important things in his world.

During winter break, when the KU campus was quiet and many of the students and staff members spent extended time away with their families, Zenger found time, just about every day, to head up to his office. Sometimes he sat there and thought. Other times, he returned phone calls or straightened his desk.

His idea of a break? Going to work in a KU sweatshirt instead of wearing a suit and tie.

“Now’s not the time to rest,” Zenger said. “People perceive that this has been a long year and a year with a lot of intense issues, and they’re right. Some people, at the end of that time period, might think that it’s time to take a deep breath. But my message to the department and to the institution is now is not the time to take a deep breath.

Now is the time to continue to push forward with great momentum.”

Bingham, Stevens honored J-W Staff Reports

WICHITA — Former Kansas University baseball coach Dave Bingham and Lawrence High product Lee Stevens have been elected to the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame.

Bingham and Stevens, along with former Wichita State pitcher Darren Dreifort, former college umpire Bob Homolka, former major leaguer Joseph Vaughan and 14 Negro League players will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame on Feb. 4.

The ceremony will take place at the Hillside Christian Church, at 8330 East Douglas.

Bingham coached at KU from 1988 to 1995 and led the Jayhawks to the first NCAA Tournament and College World Series appearances in school history in 1993. His 1993 team shattered a host of program records, including the school record for wins in a season with 45. He posted a 249225 record in eight seasons at KU, reaching the NCAA Tournament in 1993 and 1994.

Stevens was a first-round pick in the 1986 amateur baseball draft and played from 1990 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002 for the Angels, Rangers, Expos and Indians.

Baylor opens Big 12 with win The Associated Press

No. 4 Baylor 61, Texas A&M 52 WACO, TEXAS — With its highest ranking ever and already with the best start in school history, fourth-ranked Baylor opened Big 12 play accomplishing another first.

Perry Jones III had 14 points with 12 rebounds, and the Bears remained undefeated with a 61-52 victory over Texas A&M on Monday night for their first 14-game winning streak in school history.

After moving up two spots to No. 4 in the new Associated Press poll earlier Monday, the Bears (14-0) scored the first eight points of the game and led throughout against the Aggies (9-4).

“I make sure, being the captain of the team, that we don’t pay attention to that,” senior Quincy Acy said. “It’s good to have it, but we want more. ...

Just make sure that we don’t pay attention to that, and we go out every night and play like we have something to lose.”

Part of Baylor’s opening spurt was Pierre Jackson’s half-court alley-oop pass to Jones for a slam dunk ”Actually, that was the first time he’s ever thrown me an alley-oop that far,” Jones said.

“But you’ve got to be ready for anything when he’s on the floor.”

It was the first double-double of the season for Jones, the Big 12’s preseason player of the year. Jones, a 6-foot-11 sophomore who bypassed the chance to be a high NBA draft pick last summer, missed the first five games this season while completing a six-game NCAA suspension for accepting improper benefits before he got to Baylor.

The Bears had already matched the school-record winning streak of 13 in a row set in 1946 by winning their 13 non-conference games. Baylor has won five consecutive Big 12 openers.

Acy added 13 points for Baylor, while freshman Quincy Miller had 11 points with eight rebounds in his first Big 12 game. A.J. Walton had 10 points.

This was the 204th meeting for the Texas teams from along the Brazos River. Baylor has won four in a row, but A&M still leads the series 12777.

It was the last Big 12 matchup between the two teams in Waco with A&M’s pending move to the Southeastern Conference after this season.

They play again Feb. 1 at College Station.

“Obviously like everyone else I wish they were still in the Big 12, but we’ve got a pretty good league, and there’s a reason the last four years RPI-wise the Big 12’s been the best conference

in basketball,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said. “It’s outstanding basketball. We know the future’s very bright for the Big 12.”

Elston Turner had 21 points for the Aggies, who have lost three of its last four games.

Khris Middleton had 14 points.

Turner’s three-pointer got Texas A&M within 10 with five minutes left before consecutive turnovers that Baylor turned into baskets.

After Anthony Jones forced an A&M turnover, Cory Jefferson made a jumper. Jackson then had a steal that led to Walton’s baseline jumper in the front of the Baylor bench.

“I wasn’t real pleased with that play,” Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy said. “He made a tough shot.”

Turner hit another threepointer with 2:25 left to get the Aggies within 57-48, but they never got closer.

Texas A&M made only 18 of 63 field goals (29 percent) overall, but that was actually an improvement after making only 6-of-28 (21 percent) in the first half.

TEXAS A&M (9-4) Middleton 4-17 5-6 14, R. Turner 1-5 0-0 2, Harris 2-7 0-2 5, Loubeau 4-12 0-0 8, E. Turner 6-16 4-5 21, Hibbert 0-0 0-0 0, Davis 1-1 0-0 2, Green 0-1 0-0 0, Alexander 0-3 0-0 0, Kinsley 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 18-63 9-13 52.

BAYLOR (14-0) Jones III 6-12 2-2 14, Acy 3-7 6-6 13, Miller 5-13 1-5 11, Heslip 0-4 0-0 0, Walton 2-6 5-6 10, Franklin 0-2 0-0 0, Jefferson 2-2 1-1 5, Jones 2-4 0-0 4, Jackson 0-1 4-4 4. Totals 20-51 19-24 61.

Halftime-Baylor 30-17. 3-Point GoalsTexas A&M 7-25 (E. Turner 5-12, Harris 1-3, Middleton 1-7, Alexander 0-1, Green 0-1, Kinsley 0-1), Baylor 2-12 (Acy 1-1, Walton 1-2, Jackson 0-1, Jones 0-1, Miller 0-1, Jones III 0-2, Franklin 0-2, Heslip 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Texas A&M 38 (Davis 7), Baylor 41 (Jones III 12). Assists-Texas A&M 9 (Harris 4), Baylor 13 (Heslip, Jackson 4).

Total Fouls-Texas A&M 20, Baylor 14. A-8,424.

No. 21 Virginia 57, LSU 52 BATON ROUGE, LA. — Sammy Zeglinski scored 17 points, including a big threepointer late, to help Virginia beat LSU. Joe Harris added 14 points, also hitting a three-pointer late, for the Cavaliers (131), who have won 11 straight games.

With their lead down to one, Zeglinski made his fourth 3 of the game to put the Cavaliers on top 51-47 with 3:25 remaining. A threepointer by Anthony Hickey again reduced Virginia’s lead to a single point before Harris made his three-pointer with 1:30 left.

VIRGINIA (13-1) Scott 5-9 2-2 12, Sene 2-5 0-0 4, Evans 0-4 4-5 4, Harris 5-9 2-2 14, Zeglinski 6-12 1-2 17, Jesperson 0-0 0-0 0, Brogdon 1-2 0-0 2, Ak. Mitchell 2-6 0-2 4, Atkins 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-47 9-13 57.

LSU (10-4) O’Bryant 1-4 2-2 4, Hamilton 9-14 3-6 21, Hickey 3-10 0-0 8, Stringer 3-8 0-0 8, Turner 1-2 0-0 2, Bass 1-1 0-0 2, White 0-0 0-0 0, Ludwig 0-0 0-0 0, Courtney 1-1 0-0 3, Warren 1-3 0-0 2, Isaac 1-5 0-0 2. Totals 21-48 5-8 52.

Halftime-Tied 26-26. 3-Point GoalsVirginia 6-10 (Zeglinski 4-7, Harris 2-3), LSU 5-18 (Stringer 2-7, Hickey 2-7, Courtney 1-1, Turner 0-1, Isaac 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Virginia 32 (Scott 9), LSU 26 (Hamilton 9). Assists-Virginia 11 (Evans 5), LSU 10 (Bass 4). Total Fouls-Virginia 14, LSU 16. A-8,810.

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Cowboys claim wild one GLENDALE, ARIZ. (AP) — Brandon Weeden threw for 399 yards and three touchdowns to Justin Blackmon in his final collegiate game, and Quinn Sharp hit a 22yard field goal in overtime to give No. 3 Oklahoma State a 41-38 win over Andrew Luck and No. 4 Stanford in a wildly entertaining Fiesta Bowl on Monday night.

The most anticipated postseason game outside of the BCS championship, the Fiesta Bowl was an impressive offensive show, two of the nation’s best teams trading big plays and scores.

Oklahoma State (12-1) had the last one on Sharp’s gamewinner to win in its first BCS bowl game, earning a chance to stake claim at being No. 1 in The Associated Press poll should Alabama beat LSU in the BCS title game.

Stanford (11-2) had a chance to win in regulation, but redshirt freshman Jordan Williamson hooked a 35-yard field goal wide left as time expired. He also missed from 43 yards in overtime.

Usually balanced Oklahoma State had just 15 yards rushing on 13 carries, but Weeden made up for it, completing 29 of 42 passes and the three scores to Blackmon, who had eight catches for 186 yards.

After the game, Blackmon said he will skip his senior season to enter the NFL draft.

Weeden did his best to keep up with Luck, who hit 27 of 31 passes for 347 yards and two touchdowns in his final game before heading to the NFL. Stepfan Taylor ran for 177 yards and a pair of scores, and the Cardinal had 590 yards — nearly 200 more than Oklahoma State — but lost a chance for their second straight BCS bowl victory after Williamson’s two misses.

The Fiesta Bowl needed a pick-me-up game after the year it had.

Last year’s game was a dud on pretty much all accounts.

Connecticut had trouble filling its allotment of tickets and keeping up with Oklahoma — a 44-10 rout — leading to a big dip in the ratings.

Not long after that, the bowl got tangled in controversy, nearly losing its BCS status following financial improprieties that were uncovered and led to the firing of executive director John Junker.

This matchup figured to be the ticket to match the golden jackets worn by Fiesta Bowl officials.

Spartans win in three OTs The Associated Press

Outback Bowl

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STANFORD RUNNING BACK STEPFAN TAYLOR, CENTER, IS TACKLED by Oklahoma State cornerback Brodrick Brown, right, and linebacker Caleb Lavey. OSU won the Fiesta Bowl, 41-38 in overtime, on Monday in Glendale, Ariz.

SUMMARY Stanford 7 14 7 10 0 —38 Oklahoma St. 0 21 3 14 3 —41 First Quarter Stan-Montgomery 53 pass from Luck (Williamson kick), 4:16.

Second Quarter Stan-Stewart 24 run (Williamson kick), 10:21.

OkSt-Blackmon 43 pass from Weeden (Sharp kick), 8:50.

OkSt-Blackmon 67 pass from Weeden (Sharp kick), 6:19.

Stan-Taylor 4 run (Williamson kick), 2:25.

OkSt-Weeden 2 run (Sharp kick), :27.

Third Quarter Stan-Ertz 16 pass from Luck (Williamson kick), 8:22.

OkSt-FG Sharp 19, 5:21.

Fourth Quarter Stan-FG Williamson 30, 14:16.

OkSt-Blackmon 17 pass from Weeden (Sharp kick), 11:53.

Stan-Taylor 1 run (Williamson kick), 4:34.

OkSt-Randle 4 run (Sharp kick), 2:35.

Overtime OkSt-FG Sharp 22.

A-69,927.

Stan OkSt First downs 27 15 Rushes-yards 50-243 15-13 Passing 347 399 Comp-Att-Int 27-31-1 29-42-1 Return Yards 26 14 Punts-Avg. 2-41.5 5-43.4 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-35 1-5 Time of Possession 34:17 25:43 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Stanford, Taylor 35-177, Stewart 3-65, Gaffney 4-4, Meinken 2-2, Team 1-(minus 1), Wilkerson 1-(minus 1), Luck 4-(minus 3). Oklahoma St., Randle 10-23, J.Smith 1-1, Blackmon 1-0, Team 1-(minus 4), Weeden 2-(minus 7).

PASSING-Stanford, Luck 27-31-1-347.

Oklahoma St., Weeden 29-42-1-399.

RECEIVING-Stanford, Montgomery 7-120, Whalen 7-85, Ertz 4-38, Taylor 3-21, Fleener 2-19, Stewart 1-25, Toilolo 1-18, Gaffney 1-16, Hewitt 1-5. Oklahoma St., Blackmon 8-186, J.Cooper 7-55, Co.Chelf 5-97, Randle 5-28, Anderson 2-10, Harrison 1-16, J.Smith 1-7.

Oklahoma State has an electrifying offense — second in scoring, third in total yards — run by the 28-year-

old Weeden and featuring Blackmon, the two-time Biletnikoff Award winner.

The Cowboys also came in with a chip on their shoulder, believing they should have gotten a shot at the BCS title game instead of it being a rematch of the field-goalkicking Game of the Century earlier this season between Alabama and LSU. Finishing a tantalizingly close .0086 behind the Crimson Tide in the BCS standings, Oklahoma State had plenty to prove, with booster T. Boone Pickens saying the Cowboys should get firstplace votes in The Associated Press poll with a Fiesta win and a loss by LSU in the title game.

Across the field was Stanford, another one-loss team that could have a legitimate beef with the BCS system.

The Cardinal lost to eventual Pac-12 champion Oregon and crushed nearly everyone else with an offense that was top-15 in scoring and yardage.

Stanford also has Luck, the two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up and all-but-certain No. 1 overall NFL pick, complemented by a powerful running game that’s as good as any anywhere.

The Fiesta Bowl had a pretty good lead-in, too: Oregon’s wild, 45-38 win over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.

Stanford was the only team

to live up to the billing in the early going.

Manhandling Oklahoma State’s defense up front, the Cardinal had 225 yards by early in the second quarter and led 14-0 after Luck hit Ty Montgomery on a 53-yard touchdown pass and Jeremy Stewart ran for a 24-yard score.

Oklahoma State’s offense was stranded in the desert early: Weeden threw an interception on his first pass, the Cowboys had 27 yards while failing to score in the opening quarter for the first time this season and Blackmon was nowhere to be found.

That changed in the second — and quickly.

Blackmon caught his first pass by splitting the middle of Stanford’s defense for a 43yard touchdown catch, then showed off his power on the next, brushing off a defender like a jacket over his shoulder before racing for a 67-yard touchdown that tied it 14-all.

Two big catches, 110 yards and the offensive show was on.

Stanford answered with an 80-yard drive in eight plays, capped by Taylor’s 4-yard touchdown run. The Cardinal left too much time, though, and the Cowboys raced down the field for Weeden’s first career rushing touchdown, an ugly-but-effective 2-yarder that made it 21-all at halftime.

ROSE BOWL

Oregon powers past Wisconsin PASADENA, CALIF. (AP) — The Oregon Ducks had waited 95 years to win another Rose Bowl, and the last few seconds stretched for an eternity. The players in mirrored helmets held each other back on the sideline, waiting on tiptoes for video review to confirm Wisconsin was out of time.

The call went Oregon’s way. The Ducks stormed the hallowed field.

The most futuristic team in college football had buried another bit of history, and that revolutionary offense finally has a shiny trophy that will look right at home among those eye-catching uniforms.

Darron Thomas passed for three touchdowns, De’Anthony Thomas scored on runs of 91 and 64 yards, and the No. 6 Ducks earned their first bowl victory under coach Chip Kelly, holding off the Badgers 45-38 Monday night in the highest-scoring Rose Bowl ever played.

“We had no doubt this year that we were going to come out and do big things,” said Darron Thomas, who passed for 268 yards. “It’s a big statement for the Oregon program.”

Indeed: The last time Oregon won the Rose Bowl, beating Penn 14-0 in 1917, the players wore leather helmets, not those shiny numbers that exemplify every innovation the Ducks have created during Kelly’s three-year tenure.

Oregon (12-2) showed off that creativity with 621 total

ROUNDUP

SUMMARY

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WISCONSIN’S MONTEE BALL (28) GOES OVER Oregon’s John Boyett and others as he is stopped during the second half of the Rose Bowl. Oregon won, 45-38, on Monday in Pasadena, Calif. yards — second-most in Rose Bowl history — against the tough Badgers, playing at its usual frantic pace until the final whistle. Lavasier Tuinei caught eight passes for 158 yards and two TDs for the Ducks, who had no postseason success to show for Kelly’s otherwise wildly successful threeyear tenure until this landmark offensive performance.

“None of us were around 95 years ago, and we never talked about it,” Kelly said.

“We’re a forward-thinking operation, and we’re always looking ahead.”

Maybe so, but it’s unlikely anybody from Oregon will forget how this one ended.

With two long passes, Russell Wilson moved the Badgers to the Oregon 25, but with 2 seconds left and no timeouts. After waiting for the ball to be set, he spiked it to set up a last-ditch heave to the end zone, but the clock hit zeros while he did it.

The Ducks were winners after video review, holding Wisconsin scoreless in the fourth quarter.

“It would have been nice to have a chance there,” said Wilson, who passed for 296 yards and two scores. “With 1 second left, I think we could have capitalized.”

The Ducks don’t doubt it: The 98th Rose Bowl

Wisconsin 14 14 10 0—38 Oregon 14 14 7 10—45 First Quarter Wis-Abbrederis 38 pass from Wilson (Welch kick), 11:48.

Ore-James 1 run (Maldonado kick), 9:41.

Wis-Wilson 4 run (Welch kick), 5:55.

Ore-De.Thomas 91 run (Maldonado kick), :00.

Second Quarter Wis-M.Ball 3 run (Welch kick), 10:52.

Ore-Barner 54 pass from Da.Thomas (Maldonado kick), 10:36.

Wis-Nzegwu 33 fumble return (Welch kick), 3:26.

Ore-Tuinei 3 pass from Da.Thomas (Maldonado kick), :30.

Third Quarter Ore-De.Thomas 64 run (Maldonado kick), 14:11.

Wis-FG Welch 29, 10:50.

Wis-Toon 18 pass from Wilson (Welch kick), 4:44.

Fourth Quarter Ore-Tuinei 11 pass from Da.Thomas (Maldonado kick), 14:35.

Ore-FG Maldonado 30, 6:50.

A-91,245.

Wis Ore First downs 23 22 Rushes-yards 46-212 40-345 Passing 296 276 Comp-Att-Int 19-26-1 18-24-1 Return Yards 44 4 Punts-Avg. 2-44.5 3-46.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 3-20 7-56 Time of Possession 35:42 24:18 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Wisconsin, M.Ball 32-164, White 8-30, Wilson 6-18. Oregon, James 25-159, De.Thomas 2-155, Barner 7-30, Da.Thomas 6-1.

PASSING-Wisconsin, Wilson 19-25-1-296, Team 0-1-0-0. Oregon, Da.Thomas 17-23-1268, Bennett 1-1-0-8.

RECEIVING-Wisconsin, Toon 9-104, Abbrederis 4-119, M.Ball 4-51, Pedersen 1-17, Ewing 1-5. Oregon, Tuinei 8-158, De.Thomas 4-34, Barner 2-52, Huff 2-14, Paulson 1-10, Da.Thomas 1-8.

was that kind of game. The Granddaddy of Them All had never seen this many points, beating the record 80 scored by Washington and Iowa in 1991.

“We knew we had to score almost every time we touched the ball,” Wisconsin tailback James White said.

No. 12 Michigan State 33, No. 18 Georgia 30, 3OT TAMPA, FLA. — Kirk Cousins threw for 300 yards and one touchdown, and Dan Conroy kicked a 28-yard field goal in the third overtime to give Michigan State its first bowl victory since 2001.

Georgia’s Blair Walsh became the Southeastern Conference’s career scoring leader with a field goal in the second extra period. But he missed a 42-yarder in the first overtime after conservative play-calling and had a 47-yard attempt blocked on the final play of the game.

Michigan State (11-3) ended a five-game bowl losing streak with its first postseason win since beating Fresno State in the 2001 Silicon Valley Bowl. Georgia (10-4) finished on a two-game losing streak, including a lopsided loss to top-ranked LSU in the SEC championship game.

Georgia cornerback Brandon Boykin scored a safety, returned a punt 92 yards for a touchdown and caught a 13yard TD pass that helped the Bulldogs take a late lead.

Michigan St. 0 0 14 13 0 3 3 —33 Georgia 2 14 0 11 0 3 0 —30 First Quarter Geo-Boykin Safety, 12:07.

Second Quarter Geo-T.King 80 pass from Murray (Walsh kick), 3:06.

Geo-Boykin 92 punt return (Walsh kick), 1:39.

Third Quarter MSU-Bell 8 run (Linthicum pass from Cousins), 7:52.

MSU-Dennard 38 interception return (pass failed), 1:47.

Fourth Quarter Geo-FG Walsh 32, 9:58.

MSU-Ke.Nichol 7 pass from Cousins (pass failed), 8:22.

Geo-Boykin 13 pass from Murray (Mitchell pass from Murray), 6:44.

MSU-Bell 1 run (Conroy kick), :14.

Second Overtime Geo-FG Walsh 47.

MSU-FG Conroy 35.

Third Overtime MSU-FG Conroy 28.

A-49,429.

MSU Geo First downs 15 15 Rushes-yards 29-73 39-51 Passing 318 288 Comp-Att-Int 28-51-3 20-32-2 Return Yards 41 147 Punts-Avg. 8-50.1 7-43.7 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 8-50 5-15 Time of Possession 28:26 31:34 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Michigan St., Bell 17-48, Cousins 4-23, Baker 6-10, Martin 2-(minus 8).

Georgia, Malcome 12-51, Boykin 2-8, B.Smith 2-3, Crowell 3-3, Thomas 2-0, Samuel 9-0, Team 1-(minus 1), Murray 8-(minus 13).

PASSING-Michigan St., Cousins 27-50-3300, Martin 1-1-0-18. Georgia, Murray 20-322-288.

RECEIVING-Michigan St., Linthicum 7-115, Cunningham 7-66, Bell 5-39, Ke.Nichol 4-53, Martin 4-35, Anderson 1-10. Georgia, Mitchell 7-51, T.King 6-205, Boykin 1-13, Brown 1-6, Malcome 1-6, Bennett 1-4, Crowell 1-4, Charles 1-2, Murray 1-(minus 3).

Capital One Bowl No. 10 South Carolina 30, No. 21 Nebraska 13 ORLANDO, FLA. — Connor Shaw threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score, and South Carolina had six sacks as the Gamecocks shut out Nebraska over the final three quarters.

The victory gave South Carolina 11 wins for the first time in school history and snapped a string of three straight bowl losses.

Nebraska lost its second consecutive bowl game and drops to 12-6 all-time in bowl matchups against SEC foes.

Both teams lost standout players in the third quarter when Gamecocks’ leading receiver Alshon Jeffrey and Cornhuskers’ cornerback Alfonso Dennard were ejected for a post-play skirmish in which both players threw punches.

Nebraska 13 0 0 0—13 South Carolina 9 7 0 14—30 First Quarter Neb—K.Bell 30 pass from Martinez (kick blocked), 11:58.

SC—2-point defensive conversion by Gilmore, 11:58.

SC—C.Shaw 1 run (Wooten kick), 6:04.

Neb—Abdullah 1 run (Maher kick), 3:33.

Second Quarter SC—A.Jeffery 51 pass from C.Shaw (Wooten kick), :00.

Fourth Quarter SC—Miles 9 pass from C.Shaw (Wooten kick), 12:25.

SC—Miles 3 run (Wooten kick), 3:05.

A—61,351.

Neb SC First downs 17 16 Rushes-yards 46-137 40-121 Passing 116 230 Comp-Att-Int 10-16-1 11-17-0 Return Yards (-1) 22 Punts-Avg. 5-39.4 5-39.4 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-0 Penalties-Yards 10-58 6-66 Time of Possession 30:49 29:11 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Nebraska, Burkhead 23-89, Martinez 16-37, K.Bell 1-14, Marlowe 1-6, Abdullah 4-(minus 1), Reed 1-(minus 8).

South Carolina, Miles 15-67, C.Shaw 19-42, A.Sanders 3-15, Byrd 1-3, Team 2-(minus 6).

PASSING—Nebraska, Martinez 10-16-1116. South Carolina, C.Shaw 11-17-0-230.

RECEIVING—Nebraska, Burkhead 5-35, K.Bell 3-53, B.Cotton 1-22, Legate 1-6. South Carolina, A.Jeffery 4-148, A.Sanders 3-45, Miles 2-13, Anderson 1-21, Cunningham 1-3.

Ticketcity Bowl No. 20 Houston 30, No. 24 Penn State 14 DALLAS — Penn State’s tumultuous year ended with a loss, a dispiriting finish to a season in which coach Joe Paterno was fired as part of a child sex-abuse scandal that shook college sports.

The Nittany Lions were picked apart by Cougars star Case Keenum, who threw for 532 yards and three touchdowns. Penn State was allowing 162 yards passing per game, but Keenum threw for more than double that by halftime.

He burned the Nittany Lions’ veteran secondary with touchdown passes of 40 and 75 yards to build a 24-7 lead by halftime.

It was the school’s first bowl game without Paterno as head coach since the 1962 Gator Bowl, a 17-7 loss to Florida.

Houston 17 7 3 3—30 Penn St. 0 7 7 0—14 First Quarter Hou-Edwards 40 pass from Keenum (M.Hogan kick), 13:08.

Hou-FG M.Hogan 35, 9:12.

Hou-J.Johnson 8 pass from Keenum (M.Hogan kick), 2:35.

Second Quarter PSU-Green 6 run (Fera kick), 5:57.

Hou-Edwards 75 pass from Keenum (M.Hogan kick), 1:43.

Third Quarter Hou-FG M.Hogan 38, 4:21.

PSU-Brown 69 pass from Bolden (Fera kick), 2:38.

Fourth Quarter Hou-FG M.Hogan 22, 14:52.

A-46,817.

Hou PSU First downs 25 14 Rushes-yards 16-68 44-169 Passing 532 137 Comp-Att-Int 45-69-0 7-27-3 Return Yards 19 47 Punts-Avg. 6-42.5 9-41.6 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 6-55 6-55 Time of Possession 27:49 32:11 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Houston, C.Sims 6-39, Hayes 2-20, Keenum 7-10, Team 1-(minus 1). Penn St., Green 15-63, Redd 14-53, Belton 6-38, Bolden 6-16, De.Smith 2-0, Team 1-(minus 1).

PASSING-Houston, Keenum 45-69-0-532.

Penn St., Bolden 7-26-3-137, Belton 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING-Houston, J.Johnson 12-148, Edwards 10-228, Carrier 9-44, Ron.Williams 6-58, C.Sims 5-30, E.Smith 2-13, Hayes 1-11.

Penn St., De.Smith 2-49, Green 2-6, Brown 1-69, Haplea 1-12, Suhey 1-1.

Gator Bowl Florida 24, Ohio State 17 JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Andre Debose returned a kickoff 99 yards — the longest scoring play in Gator Bowl history — and Chris Rainey blocked a punt that was returned for a touchdown for Florida.

The speedsters helped the Gators (7-6) avoid their first losing season since 1979 and pick up some much-needed momentum after losing six of their previous eight games.

Ohio State (6-7) finished below .500 for the first time since 1986.

The Buckeyes can take solace in knowing that former Florida coach Urban Meyer, who officially takes over at Ohio State this week, will make it a priority to improve special teams.

He did that in his six seasons in Gainesville, and Rainey and Debose were two of his most prized recruits.

Ohio State fell to 0-10 in bowl games against teams from the Southeastern Conference. Yes, the Buckeyes beat Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl last year. But that victory was vacated.

Ohio St. 0 10 0 7—17 Florida 7 7 7 3—24 First Quarter Fla-Thompson 17 pass from Brantley (Sturgis kick), :56.

Second Quarter OSU-Posey 5 pass from B.Miller (Basil kick), 11:25.

Fla-Debose 99 kickoff return (Sturgis kick), 11:13.

OSU-FG Basil 37, :15.

Third Quarter Fla-Stewart 14 blocked punt return (Sturgis kick), 11:14.

Fourth Quarter Fla-FG Sturgis 17, 14:09.

OSU-J.Hall 11 pass from B.Miller (Basil kick), :57.

A-61,312.

OSU Fla First downs 20 14 Rushes-yards 37-137 38-131 Passing 162 132 Comp-Att-Int 18-23-0 12-16-1 Return Yards 0 45 Punts-Avg. 5-47.2 3-37.3 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 2-2 Penalties-Yards 4-25 7-74 Time of Possession 32:21 27:39 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Ohio St., Herron 12-82, J.Hall 4-24, B.Miller 15-20, Hyde 5-17, Posey 1-(minus 6). Florida, Rainey 16-71, Demps 7-30, T.Burton 4-23, Gillislee 5-15, Joyer 1-0, Brantley 2-(minus 3), Team 3-(minus 5).

PASSING-Ohio St., B.Miller 18-23-0-162.

Florida, Brantley 12-16-1-132.

RECEIVING-Ohio St., Posey 5-38, Herron 4-11, J.Hall 3-12, D.Smith 2-47, Heuerman 1-25, Fields 1-13, Boren 1-8, Hyde 1-8.

Florida, Rainey 3-31, Hines 2-40, Thompson 2-27, Debose 1-9, Hammond 1-8, Demps 1-7, Dunbar 1-6, Leonard 1-4.

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General Deliver ATT phone books in Lawrence & surrounding areas.

Payment issued within 72 hrs. 866-314-5888 Leasing Manager needed. for Tuckaway Management.

Our primary goal is ensuring the quality of living for our tenants. The ideal candidate will have exceptional customer service skills & knowledge of Microsoft Office programs.

Please submit resume & application inquiries to: erin@tuckawaymgmt.com - No phone calls, please

WINTER BLUES Child Care Provided Licensed Home Daycare openings. Call Katie for more information.

785-207-3200

Cleaning Burma’s Cleaning since 1987. Great Gift! Move cleans, wkly. biwkly. mo.

Refs. Free est. 913-579-4730

READY TO WORK? CAN’T FIND WORK? PROBLEM SOLVED!!

FT POSITIONS 18/25 NEEDED NOW top pay for Reliable workers Filling Positions Fri.

Call interview 785-856-1243 WORK NOW!

Assemble/Display 30+ FT Openings Sign on Bonus On Job Training $400 to $600 wkly pay No layoffs

Call interview 785-856-0355

AdministrativeProfessional

Director of Career Services KU School of Law Full time, unclassified position supports key functions of the office, advises students & alumni on aspects of career development and implements programs that support employment search. JD and 2 years of post-JD work experience required. Preferred: law school or higher education administration, student services, or career services experience; prior legal recruiting or law practice experience.

Application review begins January 16, 2012.

For more information and to apply on line: https://jobs.ku.edu, search position 00005002. EO/AA

WorldClassNEK.com

Health Care Baldwin Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Immediate openings for CNAs Full time & Part time weekends & nights.

RNs Part time every other weekend.

Please call Chelsea & Lori at Baldwin Healthcare & Rehabiliation Center 785-594-6492

Call Today 785-856-8900

Downtown Lofts

Call Today 785-841-1155

www.tuckawaymgmt.com

New Studio, 1, & 2 BRs

LIVE IN LUXURY

at 901 New Hampshire 785-830-8800

www.firstmanagementinc.com

Happy Holidays 785.843.4040 www.thefoxrun.com Offering Leases through the end of May 2012

RENT SPECIAL!

2BR starting at $525 W/D included. Pool

2001 W. 6th. 785-841-8468 www.firstmanagementinc.com

ASHBURY TOWNHOMES

NEW YEAR’S GIFT

Near K-10, W/D hookups & fenced courtyard.

2BR & 3BRs Available

Move in January and Get $300 OFF your rent

Call NOW 785-842-1322

MOVE IN SPECIALS

1, 2, and 3 BRs available 3 Great Locations Nice Communities Remodeled Units avail.

Call 785-841-5444 or 785-830-0888

Apartments Furnished

Rooms (newly remodeled) Rent by week or by month.

With cable & internet. Call Virginia Inn 785-856-7536

Apartments Unfurnished

1BRs — 622 Schwarz. CA, laundry, off-street parking, gas & water paid. $435/ mo. No pets. 785-841-5797

Move-In Specials!

Winter is here No high gas bill to pay, all electric units only!

LAUREL GLEN APTS

NEW RENT SPECIALS Campus & Downtown 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts 785-843-8220 Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com Studio Apt., 1907 W. 25th, $390/mo. + Tenant only pays elect. 785-841-1155

DOWNTOWN LOFT

PARKWAY 4000

• 2 & 3BRs available now • 2 Bath, W/D hookups • 2 Car garage w/opener • New kitchen appliances • Maintenance free 785-749-2555/785-766-2722 2BRs from $600 - $800/mo.

West side or close to KU. 785-832-8728 / 785-331-5360 www.lawrencepm.com

Four Wheel Drive Townhomes

3BR, 2 bath, 2 car garage.

Newer spacious unit. All appls. No pets. Avail. now. $895/mo. Call 785-766-9823

AVAIL. Now 3BR, 2 bath, major appls., FP, 2 car.

785-865-2505 Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

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PARKWAY COMMONS

Bob Billings & Crestline

One Month FREE Rent Available Now! 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

www.meadowbrookapartments.net

3601 Clinton Pkwy., Lawrence

Sunrise Terrace — 951 Arkansas, so close to KU! 2BR w/study or 3rd BR, 2 full bath, CA, DW, laundry, lots of parking, some with W/D. $550 - $750/month.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

785-842-3280

Red Oak Apts.

2408 Alabama

1BR - $450, 2BR- $510/mo.

Water & trash pd. Deposit - $300. On the Bus Route.

Call Today 785-841-1155

Great Locations! Great Prices!

1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

Call for SPECIALS

785-842-4455

One Month FREE!

3BR — 1131 Tennessee, 1st floor, 1 bath. Avail. now. No pets. $650/mo. 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com 3BR, 2 bath, 2408 Lancaster, 2 car garage, C/A, W/D hookups, DW, FP, deck, fenced yard, 1 pet ok, $835, 785-841-5797

Studios — 2400 Alabama, all elect., plenty of parking, AC, laundry. $390, water/cable paid. No pets. 785-841-5797 Studios - 1708 W. 5th, all elect, plenty of parking, AC, laundry. $410. water/cable paid. No pets. 785-841-5797

Duplexes 3BR + loft, great south location, 2924 Crestline Dr. 2½ bath, walk-in closet, lots of storage, deluxe kitchen, FP, sound proofing, 2 car garage w/opener, big back yard, patio. No pets. $900/mo. Avail. now.

Call Neil 785-423-2660

3 BEDROOMS Quality thru-out - like new in NW Lawrence at FHS No pets, $1175.

785-843-4798

www.lawrencerentals.com

NEWER - LUXURIOUS

VILLAS & TOWNHOMES * 1 BR, 870 sq. ft.

Covered Parking * 2 BR, 1,300 sq. ft.

2-Car Garage Showings By Appointment

www.mallardproperties lawrence.com

Call 785-842-1524

PARKWAY 6000

CALL FOR SPECIALS! • 3 Bedroom, 2 bath • 2 car garage w/opener • W/D hookups • Maintenance free 785-832-0555, 785-766-2722

DIGITAL MEDIA SALES REPS Are you looking for a career opportunity in media sales and can you answer YES to the following questions?

• Do you enjoy meeting new people and coming up with creative ideas?

2859 Four Wheel Drive Amazing 2BR, tranquil intimate setting, free standing townhome w/ courtyard, cathedral ceilings, skylights, & W/D. Most residents professionals.

Pets ok. Water & trash pd. $750/mo.

785-842-5227 www.villa26lawrence.com

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2 & 3BR Apts. $500-640.

Some utilities incl.

Pets ok.

Tenants to Homeowners: 785-842-5494 1BR, 1/2 block to KU, reserved parking, $510. GAS & WATER PAID. 785-842-7644 www.gagemgmt.com

Call 785-841-8400 www.sunriseapartments.com

Studio Apartments 600 sq. ft., $675/mo.

825 sq. ft., $855/mo.

No pets allowed Call Today 785-841-6565

Studio, 1, 2 & 3 BRs

1BR farm house, near Lawrence. Stove, refrig., W/D hookups. NO PETS! $560/ 1, 2, & 3BR townhomes mo. +deposit. 785-842-3626 avail. in Cooperative. Units Leave name, phone#, msg. starting at $412 - $485/mo.

Water, trash, sewer paid.

1st Class, Pet Friendly FIRST MONTH FREE! Houses & Apts.

Back patio, CA, hard wood www.vintagemgmt.com floors, full bsmt., stove, 785-842-1069 refrig., W/D hookup, garbage disposal, Reserved 2BR, lg. W. Lawrence home, parking. On site manage- master BR suite w/garden ment & maintenance. 24 hr. tub & terrarium. 2 bath, 2 emergency maintenance. car & yard work included.

Membership & Equity Fee No pets. Call 785-979-7474 Required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) 3BR, 813 Crestline Ct. CA, 1 bath, garage, fenced yard. www.pinetreetownhouses.com Avail. Now. $750/mo. 1/2 off Deposit. Call 785-842-7644

Townhomes

2BR, 2 bath, fireplace, CA, W/D hookups, 2 car with opener. Easy access to I-70. Includes paid cable.

Pets under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com

Houses

Use Tax Refund to Invest in a Co-op

Limited Time Special

For Current Rent Specials Call 785-838-9559 EOH

HIGHPOINTE APTS

Townhomes

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

All Units: Pool, on KU bus route, DW, & microwave 2BRs - 1/2 Mo. Rent FREE near KU, laundry facilities 837 MICHIGAN 3 & 4BRs - Special Prices W/D, FREE wireless internet 660 GATEWAY COURT

2BR — 909 Missouri or 1305 Kentucky, in 4-plex. Have CA & DW. No pets. $450/ month. Call 785-841-5797 2BR, 1310 Kentucky. CA, DW, laundry. Close to KU. $550/ mo. One Month FREE. $200 Deposit. Call 785-842-7644

Duplexes

Apartments & Townhomes 2, 3 & 4BRs

• Small dog welcome • Income restrictions apply • Students welcome

2BR, 925 Alabama. 1 Bath, Central Air, $500/mo. 2 Car garage is avail. for $100 per month. 785-842-7644

REDUCED RATES

Sunrise Place Sunrise Village

The Woods of Old West Lawrence 785-841-4935

Fast, Reliable Maintenance On-site Management Close to KU, 3 Bus Stops

• Are you famous for getting results from your customers?

• Are you a great listener and problem solver?

• Do you use unique and innovative ways to achieve budget?

• Do you love to turn a “no” into a “yes”?

• Do you believe digital advertising needs to be a part of every campaign?

• Do you use social marketing as part of your everyday life?

• Do you love staying on top of the current internet trends and finding digital solutions for your clients’ needs?

• Are you looking at being part of the fastest-growing area in media sales with the best growth potential?

If you have been answering YES to these questions and have experience in sales, marketing and/or advertising; experience in online media sales; demonstrated success with prospecting and cold calling then we want to hear from you!

The World Company has an extraordinary opportunity for talented media sales professionals. As a sales rep some of what you would be doing includes: • Selling creative solutions to your clients to capitalize on our one million unique visitors per month on a trio of nationally recognized websites such as kusports.com, ljworld.com and Lawrence.com.

• Sell clients a platform of products including online advertising, web banners, social marketing, sports marketing, search engine optimization, our Deals websites (including Lawrence Deals and johnsoncountydeals.com), and event marketing sponsorships.

• Prospect new regional clients and make initial contact by cold-calling either in person or by phone.

• Develop and build relationships with potential clients to build a large advertising client list.

Ideal candidates will also have remarkable verbal and written communication skills; enjoy networking; effective time management and interpersonal skills; regularly achieve monthly sales goals; self-motivated; proficient in Microsoft Office applications; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

We offer a competitive salary and commissions with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

Saddlebrook Townhomes

Luxury 2BR, 2 Bath Units Gas FP, W/D, 1 Car garage Quiet West Side Area 625 Folks Rd. 785-832-8200 Saddlebrook@sunflower.com

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785-838-3377, 785-841-3339 www.tuckawaymgmt.com

YOUR PLACE, YOUR SPACE

Crossgate Casita’s

New 1BR - $540/mo. Open Mon.-Sat. Noon-4pm, 2451 Crossgate Dr. 785-760-7899 1BR — 740 Massachusetts, above Wa Restaurant, big windows, 1 bath, CA. $750/ mo. No pets. 785-841-5797

Ad Astra Apartments

1 & 2 BRs from $390/mo.

Call MPM for more details at 785-841-4935

Cedarwood Apts 2411 Cedarwood Ave. Beautiful & Spacious

1 & 2BRs start at $400/mo. * Near campus, bus stop * Laundries on site * Near stores, restaurants * Water & trash paid 4BR duplex - start at $795 —————————————————— Get Coupon* for $25 OFF

EACH MONTH’S RENT *Sign lease byJan. 30, 2012 AND College Students

Start at $495 One Bedroom/studio style Pool - Fitness Center -On-Site Laundry - Water & Trash Pd.

785.856.7788

Available January 2012

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1 - 4 BRs

Garages - Pool - Fitness Center • Ironwood Court Apts.

• Park West Gardens Apts • Park West Town Homes • Homes at Monterey Bluffs and Green Tree Call for more details 785.840.9467

GET 10% DISCOUNT

2BR — 1017 Illinois. 2 story, —————————————————— 1 bath, CA, DW. $500/mo.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 CALL TODAY (Mon. - Fri.) www.rentinlawrence.com 785-843-1116 10th & Massachusetts Lofts Studio & One Bedroom IMMEDIATE MOVE-IN 785-841-8468

www.firstmanagementinc.com

2BR at 1BR price

Newer 2BR for only $475.

Jacksonville Apts.

Act fast! (785) 841-4935

A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE

Lawrence Ophthalmology practice seeking energetic, dependable professional to perform special testing procedures. Position is F/T Mon-Fri. Experience preferred but will train the right candidate. Friendly environment, great benefits, competitive salary.

Email cover letter and resume to meggie401@aol.com or fax to 785-841-2280.

Parkway Terrace Apts.

2340 Murphy Drive 1 Bedroom - $440/mo.

2 Bedrooms - $500/mo.

Now Leasing for 2012!

Front Office Receptionist

Part time. Bilingual is a plus. Evenings and weekends required.

Fax resume to Lisa 785-842-7433

941 Indiana - 2BR 1 bath $650/mo. 785-841-4935

Large kitchens, bedrooms and closets. Newly updated. Convenient to all services, on the bus route

CDL-A Drivers Needed

Auction Calendar

www.lawrencerentals.com

Tuckaway at Frontier 542 Frontier, Lawrence

Gordon Trucking, Inc.

Solos and Teams needed!

Refrigerated, Dry Van & Regional Positions Open!

Up to $3,000 Sign On Bonus Consistent and Frequent Miles Reliable Home Time, Full Benefits, 401k. EOE

Apartments Unfurnished

2BR - LARGE & CLEAN

Reserve YOURS for Spring/Fall

Career Education University Career Center University of Kansas

Apartments Unfurnished

Move-in Special for 1BRs Only one of each left: 2BR Apt.& 2BR Townhome

VILLA 26 APARTMENTS

2BR - 2406 Alabama, Bldg. 2, 2 story, 1.5 baths, CA, DW, $500. No pets. 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com 2BR — 2412 Alabama in 4-plex. 1 bath, CA, washer & dryer. No pets. $470/mo.

Call 785-841-5797 2BR - 3503 W. 7th Court, 2 story, 1 bath, CA, DW, W/D hookup, garage, 1 pet ok. $650/mo. 785-841-5797 2BR — 725 W. 25th, In 4plex, CA, W/D hookup, offst. parking. $410-$420/mo.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 2BR avail. now, very nice & quiet, DW, W/D, off-st. parking. $545/mo. No pets.

785-423-1565, 785-841-4035

Quiet, great location on KU bus route, no pets, W/D in 2BR, 602 Bremer, 1 story, 1 bath, garage, C/A, W/D all units.

785-842-5227 hookups, DW, 1 pet ok, www.villa26lawrence.com $500. 785-841-5797

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

2BR, lower in 4-plex, 1725 Tennessee. $465/mo. Has DW. Quiet & clean. No pets.

785-813-1344, 785-393-4510

Ask how to get these features in your ad TODAY!!

2BRs, 1419 1/2 New Jersey, 2 story, 1 bath, C/A, W/D hookups, DW, 1 pet ok, $535, 785-841-5797

DISTRIBUTION TEAM LEADER Lawrence Journal-World is hiring a Team Leader in our distribution center. We are a family-owned operation with a 20,000 circulation daily newspaper, several weekly community newspapers, a Commercial Printing division, and a contract print site for USA TODAY. Team Leaders are responsible for handling the processing and bundling of newsprint products from the press to distributors; troubleshoot machinery; and assist with supervising and providing training to team members.

Candidates must be available to work between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. daily.

We are looking for talented and hardworking individuals who are looking to grow in their career with a fastpaced company. Ideal candidate will have leadership experience; a team player; self starter with strong organizational skills; experience operating machinery and maintenance skills preferred; strong communication skills; good attention to detail and able to multi-task; a high school diploma or GED; able to lift up to 70 lbs.; stand for long periods of time and frequently twist and bend; and proficient with MS Office products.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com or complete an employment application at 609 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS. We offer an excellent benefits package including health insurance, 401k, paid time off, employee discounts, opportunities for career advancement and more!

Background check, pre-employment drug screen, and physical lift assessment required. EOE

WEB DESIGNER Looking for a new gig? Well, regardless of whether you are or are not “in search of” that next great place to work… We are looking for you!

Want to be our next web designer and be part of our rapidly expanding digital development team? The team designs/develops our digital products, provides maintenance/support of existing websites, and implements third-party digital initiatives. The World Company’s online operation is considered to be among the most innovative of news and media organizations in the country. Our websites include LJWorld.com, Lawrencemarketplace.com, KUsports. com, Lawrence.com and WellCommons.com. We are in search of a designer that is fairly technical and not afraid of the command line when dealing with front-end development and that can also provide creative concept and design solutions after ramping up.

What we want to see: • A few years of web design experience is ideal (preferably using open-source technologies).

Obviously - proficient with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Experience in designing for mobile platforms a plus).

• Knowledge and hands on experience with content management systems is extremely helpful (Django templates would be ideal).

• Strong preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience. However, we will train the right person who demonstrates passion for their work and a willingness to learn.

• Experience with a version control system (preferably Git).

Some of what you will do here: • Varied design work and maintenance in addition to design processing from concept to implementation.

• Respond to non-technical users on a variety of technical issues and status updates.

• Identify research and resolve technical problems.

• Document, monitor and follow-up on issues to ensure a timely resolution.

The World Company is a communications and media company based in Lawrence, Kansas. We offer a competitive salary with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

6B TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 Houses Music-Stereo 3BR, Remodeled old farm house, huge kitchen/LR, 1 bath. 7 mi. S. of Lawrence on all blacktop. $800/mo.

Avail. Jan. 5. 785-979-0767 Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

Subleases Enormous apt. right next to campus w/gated parking, huge closet & private bathroom. $395/mo. 817-690-7743

Roommates

(3) Pianos, Winter Company Spinet or Acrosonic Spinet, $525.

Sterling Spinet, $175. Price includes tuning and delivery. Call: 785-832-9906

Sports-Fitness Equipment Golf Club, Cobra Hybird #3 Wood, Lefthanded, Like New, $30.

Call 785-841-2381.

Rollerblades. Gently used ladies rollerblades in carrying bag. Size 5-7. $40.00.

Call 785-318-0774.

Cars-Domestic

Cars-Domestic

Cars-Domestic

Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT 47K, One Victory Red! Why Are You still Drowning in Choices? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT 47K, One Victory Red! Why Are You still Drowning in Choices? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2BRs avail. now for females TV-Video in 4BR townhome. No pets/ smoking. $350/BR per mo. TV, Sharp 19” Color TV. $25.

Please call for more inforShare utils. 785-727-0025 mation 785-331-7022 2BR, 1 bath.

The house is at TV. 36” Sony Trinitron 4101 W. 13th St. standard definition TV. Lawrence, KS. 66049.

Great for children’s play$450/month room. Call 785-318-0774. $450 deposit.

Pontiac 2008 G6 Carbon Black, 32K Finally! A Better Way To Go! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Pontiac 2010 G6 4cyl, great gas mileage, GM certified, that means 2 yrs of scheduled maintenance for free!

Stk#453475 only $12,877.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2008 Fusion SE Silver Bright Metallic, 44K Get Hooked At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chevrolet 2010 Impala LT Stk#D8756 Sale Price $15,780

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Tonganoxie 2BR Duplex, new furnace & window AC, thermal pane windows. $450/mo. + $450 deposit. 603 Church. Avail. now. Call 913-205-7183

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3BR country home, 2 full bath, partial bsmt, 2 car, large yard, $800/mo.

816-807-1832, 913-369-3055

CEDAR HILLS

New Management

1-3BR apts. in Tonganoxie

Many improvements!

816-260-8606, 913-845-0992

Office Space Downtown offices, 2 avail. $325 or $350/month. New! Nice amenities. Utils. pd.

Year lease. 785-842-7337

Office Space Available

at 5040 Bob Billings Pkwy.

785-841-4785

Buick 2010 ENCLAVE Certified, Stk#T96788A Special Price $30,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Office space for lease, from $525/mo. w/locations on Iowa, 6th, 9th, & 27th St. Theno R.E. 785-843-1811

Retail & Commercial Space 1311 Wakarusa - office space available. 200 sq. ft. Buick 2007 Lacrosse CXL, - 6,000 sq. ft. For details ABS, traction control, remote start Chrome Tech call 785-842-7644 alloy wheels, On Star, very sharp and only $10,850.00 stk#304751 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Antiques

KIPP’S TREASURES

423B E 4th Street Tonganoxie, KS 66086 913-704-5037 Antiques, Collectibles, Glass, Furniture, Treasures

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Buick 2008 Lucerne CX, 46K, Dark Crimson Metallic A Car For The People from The “Dealer For The People” www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Ford 1998 Mustang Cobra Convertible SVT, leather, power seat, premium alloy wheels, very sharp and low miles!

Stk#376431 only $10,888 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pontiac 2008 Grand Prix Certified, Stk#B6652A Sale Price 19,000.

Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Chevrolet 2010 Malibu’s 32 mpg hwy, nicely equip’d.

Like new throughout with remainder of 5yr/100,000 mile factory warranty. 2 available price as low as $13,841. 1.9% apr financing available.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2008 Mustang GT this is one hot ride!

Leather heated seats, Shaker sound system, local trade, very nice!

Stk#58041A2 only $16,999.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pontiac 2008 Grand Prix, sunroof, spoiler, alloy wheels, great gas mileage and room for the family! Stk#166701 only $10,854.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chevrolet 2007 Monte Carlo LT, leather heated seats, ABS, traction con- Ford 2002 Mustang. Local trol, spoiler, alloy trade-in in shiny black. wheels, very sharp, Nice car with automatic stk#168771 only and V6. Two owners and $10,995.00 only 75K miles. Much reDale Willey 785-843-5200 cent maintenance done. www.dalewilleyauto.com Clean interior. See website for photos and more information.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7 7

Chevrolet 2006 Monte Carlo LT, local trade, alloy wheels, spoiler, sunroof, ABS, traction control, cd changer and much more! Stk#500993 only $9,444 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Clothing Boots, Men’s black work Buick 2009 Lucerne CXL, boots - Wolverine brand. leather heated seats, 6” lace up, soft toe, oil & 3800 V6, great power skid resistant, water proof, with great gas mileage, gore tex lined. Size 10 1/2 On Star, trade in, D. Like new condition. $30. stk#54939A2 only $12,500 785-842-8776.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Firewood-Stoves A Full Cord Seasoned Hedge, Oak, Locust & mixed hardwoods, stacked & delivered, $160. Call Landon, 785-766-0863 Firewood, Mixed hardwoods, full cord: $150. You haul. Or small delivery fee.

Oak & hedge cords slightly more. 35 years in business.

Call Bill at 816-810-3673 Red Oak/White Oak Mix, $150/truck, $210/cord Cadillac 2007 CTS sunleather, Bose Stacked & delivered. Cured roof, navigation, On & Seasoned.

Adam sound, Star, and more, only 816-547-1575 $13,500. stk#371851.

Seasoned Firewood for Dale Willey 785-843-5200 sale. hedge, oak, locust, & www.dalewilleyauto.com other mixed hardwoods. $160/cord. Split stacked & Delivered. Call Ryan at 785-418-9910

Furniture DayBed, Metal frame includes mattress. Used 5 times. Great condition. $50.

785-843-9199 Mattress, New Full size Limited Edition I Ortho-Firm-Posture series mattress for sale. Perfect condition.

Downsizeing Cadillac 2007 DTS very very luxurious! guest room to twin size. nice, out the luxury $499.95 new. Selling for With price! Stk#164601 only $100/offer. 785-691-7316 $14,956.

Moving Sale, Ethan Allen a Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com moire, side board/buffet, qu.size bed w/headboard, 2 night tables, 1 rocking chair. ex. cond. Call for 1999 CHEVROELT appt. 913-244-0311 Lawrence MALIBU Sofa w/ queen sleeper. ReNADA retail price $3625, movable pillows.

Blue Buy it NOWfor $1750 Denim fabric. $100/offer.

Kevin at 785-760-1151.

Full Mechanical Condition Report Table, Hexagon glass table, Available online $25.

Please Call All Will Sell To The 785-842-1760 Highest Bidder, only at Tables, Nice marble corner briggsautodirect.com tables. $75. Please call for more info. 785-766-0768 ***

Medical Equipment

Chevrolet 2002 Cavalier, Automatic 2 door in very clean condition. A very Electric Medical Bed- Bed nice car, with good gas and mattress like new. mileage for under $5000.

Come for a test drive. See $100.00 Call 785-331-6368. website for photos.

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Cars-Imports

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Tremendous gas mileage! See website for photos.

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Crossovers

TOYOTA 2004 Prius Hatchback HYBRID - no photo.

Stk#T7056A Sale Price $12,000

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Ford 2007 Focus SE Cloud 9 White!

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Full Mechanical Condition Report Available online All Will Sell To The Highest Bidder,

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785-210-5353

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Acura 2007 TL-Type S loaded (navigation, back up camera), pearl white with beige interior, 74K miles, sole owner, have all Acura dealer service records, heated seats, dual climate control, Bluetooth, 3-month old Michelin Sport tires, never has had a single door ding, mint condition, call 913-484-7564.

FORD 2008 FOCUS Stk#B6482A $12,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

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Scion 2009 XD, 35K Silver, 4 Door Hatch-back,

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Toyota 2007 RAV4 Limited, V6, FWD, 3rd row seat, DVD, 79K, Excellent Condition. $15,500.

785-242-3830 785-418-5749

2006 Toyota 4Runner SPORT, 4WD, Moon, tow, CD, PL, PW, cruise, spoiler, 120K, new tires, clean! $14,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049 2008 Buick Enclave CXL 1-Owner, AWD, Pearl White, 3rd row, Leather, 2nd Row Buckets, rear ac, Bose, htd seats, power, park assist 92K, $20,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

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Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

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Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

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BMO Harris Bank N.A., as successor to M&I Bank FSB Plaintiff, vs.

Angela S. Bradley a/k/a Angela Bradley; Clint E. Bradley a/k/a Clint Bradley; John Doe (Tenant/ Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/Occupant), Defendants.

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the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

fice of the County Clerk, Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts, Lawrence, Kansas 66044, upon which is clearly written or printed “Proposal for “KDOT Project No. 23 KA-2342-01/ Douglas County Project No. 2011-8 “, and the name and address of the bidder. Any bids received after the closing time will be returned unopened.

Copies of the Contract Documents and Specifications are available from the Office of the Director of Public Works and County Engineer of Douglas County, Kansas.

A Ten Dollar ($10.00) non-refundable deposit is required per proposal, which includes one full size set of plans and a copy of the contract documents and specifications.

The plans, contract documents and specifications become the property of the prospective bidder and are not returnable. Copies of the contract documents and specifications are on file and open for public inspection at the Office of the County Engineer.

You are notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas Full Mechanical County, Kansas, praying to Condition Report foreclose a real estate Available online mortgage on the following All Will Sell To The described real estate: All bids must be accompaHighest Bidder, nied by a CERTIFIED CHECK, only at Lot 23, in QUAIL RUN NO. 4, CASHIER’S CHECK or a BID briggsautodirect.com an addition to the City of BOND for not less than Five *** Lawrence, Douglas County, Percent (5%) of the base Kansas, commonly known bid as a guarantee that if Toyota 2010 Tacoma, regu- as 1302 Vantuyl Drive, Law- awarded the Contract, the lar cab. 2WD, 4cyl. 5spd, rence, KS 66049 (the bidder will enter into a Con7K, Warranty, Carfax okay, “Property”) tract and give bond as re$15,000. 785-628-8726 quired. Said check or bond and all those defendants shall be made payable to who have not otherwise the Board of County Combeen served are required to missioners, Douglas plead to the Petition on or County, Kansas.

Toyota 2006 Tundra, before the 13th day of Feb68K, Access Cab. ruary, 2012, in the District Contracts will be awarded You Have the Right to a Court of Douglas only to such bidders as are Fair and Easy Credit County,Kansas. If you fail on the list of Pre-Qualified Approval Process! to plead, judgment and de- Contractors for the Kansas www.academycars.com cree will be entered in due Department of Transporta785-841-0102 course upon the Petition. tion on the date established for receiving and NOTICE opening of bids.

Pursuant to the Fair Debt Toyota 2003 Tundra Collection Practices Act, 15 The Board of County ComLimited Stepside, U.S.C. §1692c(b), no infor- missioners of Douglas Black mation concerning the col- County, Kansas reserve the Can You Believe it?!? lection of this debt may be right to reject any or all www.academycars.com given without the prior con- bids and to waive techni785-841-0102 sent of the consumer given calities, and to award the directly to the debt collec- contract to the bidder that tor or the express permis- the Commission deems Vans-Buses sion of a court of compe- best suited to accomplish tent jurisdiction. The debt the work. collector is attempting to collect a debt and any in- DOUGLAS COUNTY formation obtained will be PUBLIC WORKS used for that purpose.

Keith A. Browning, P.E. Director of Public Works Prepared By: ________ South & Associates, P.C. Megan Cello (KS # 24167) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World Overland Park, KS 66211 January 3, 2012) Buick 2007 Terraza CXL (913)663-7600 these have got to be one (913)663-7899 (Fax) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF of the nicest mini-vans Attorneys For Plaintiff DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS that you will ever look (138689) ________ at.

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Estate of (First published in the LawDale Willey 785-843-5200 rence Daily Journal-World Janice Colman, Deceased. www.dalewilleyauto.com December 27, 2011) Case No. 2011 PR 111 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Pursuant to K.S.A. DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS Chapter 59.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSONOTICE OF HEARING CIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCDodge 2010 Caravan’s CESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE STATE OF KANSAS TO starting at $17451.00, BANK OF AMERICA, NAALL PERSONS CONCERNED: stk#13591, 4 to choose TIONAL ASSOCIATION AS from, hurry for best se- SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO You are hereby notified lection on these like LASALLE BANK NA AS TRUSTEE FOR WASHINGTON MU- that a petition has been new, low miled, vans.

TUAL MORTGAGE filed on December 29, 2011, Dale Willey 785-843-5200 PASS-THROUGH CERTIFI- in this court by Carolyn www.dalewilleyauto.com CATES WMALT SERIES Rogers, the duly appointed, qualified and acting Execu2006-5 tor of the Estate of Janice PLAINTIFF Colman, deceased, praying -vsthat her acts be approved, Dodge 2006 Grand CLYDE DALLAS DUNN, that her account be settled Caravan, 67K, et. al.; and allowed, that the Will Are You Drowning In DEFENDANTS be construed and the esChoices? tate be assigned to the perNo. 11CV266 sons entitled thereto; that Div. No. 1 www.academycars.com attorneys’ fees, fees and K.S.A. 60 785-841-0102 expenses be allowed; that Mortgage the administration of the Foreclosure estate be closed; that the be discharged NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Executor and that she be released Dodge 2007 Grand Caravan SE Under and by virtue of an from further liability.

Stone White, 60k, Order of Sale issued by the Perfect for You and Clerk of the District Court You are required to file written defenses the Crew! in and for the said County your www.academycars.com of Douglas, in a certain thereto on or before the 785-841-0102 cause in said Court Num- 26th day of January, 2012, bered 11CV266, wherein the at 10:00 o’clock A.M. of said parties above named were day, in said court, in the respectively plaintiff and City of Lawrence, Douglas defendant, and to me, the County, Kansas, at which Dodge 2009 Grand undersigned Sheriff of said time and place said cause Caravan SXT, County, directed, I will offer will be heard. Should you Green, 58k, for sale at public auction fail therein, judgment and Perfect for today’s and sell to the highest bid- decree will be entered in busy family! der for cash in hand at the due course upon the petiwww.academycars.com Jury Assembly Room of the tion.

785-841-0102 District Court located in the Carolyn Rogers, Ford 2003 Windstar SEL 4D, lower level of the Judicial Executor $6,000 obo: very comforta- and Law Enforcement Cenble seven-passenger van ter Building in the City of RILING, BURKHEAD & with leather interior, VCR Lawrence in said County, NITCHER, Chartered system, rear bucket seat- on January 19, 2012, at 10:00 808 Massachusetts Street ing, luggage rack, dual au- a.m., of said day the follow- P.O. Box B tomatic sliding doors, re- ing described real estate Lawrence, Kansas 66044 mote open/close and located in the County of (785) 841-4700 lock/unlock. 117, 500 miles Douglas, State of Kansas, to Attorneys for Petitioner runs very well. Please call wit: ________ 785-838-8906, schedule a LOTS 17 AND 18, BLOCK 3, (First published in the Lawdrive or to make an offer.

BELLE HAVEN SOUTH ADDI- rence Daily Journal-World TION NUMBER 2, A SUBDIVI- December 27, 2011) SION IN LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS, AC- IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Kia 2008 Sedona, CORDING TO THE RE- DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS 38K Glacier Blue CORDED PLAT THEREOF. Perfect for Today’s Busy Commonly known as 2530 In the Matter of the Family!

Alabama St., Lawrence, Estate of www.academycars.com Kansas 66044 Glenn L. Bender, deceased 785-841-0102 This is an attempt to collect Case No. 2011 PR 208 a debt and any information Autos Wanted obtained will be used for Pursuant to K.S.A. that purpose.

Chapter 59

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Full Mechanical Condition Report Available online All Will Sell To The Highest Bidder, only at

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Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS, to

Kenneth M. McGovern NOTICE TO CREDITORS SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: SHAPIRO & MOCK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff You are hereby notified 6310 Lamar- Ste. 235 that on December 16, 2011, Overland Park, KS 66202 a Petition for Probate of (913)831-3000 Will and Issuance of Letters Fax No. (913)831-3320 Testamentary was filed in Our File No. 11-002280/jm this Court by Alan D. ________ Bender, as heir, devisee, and legatee and one of the co-executors named in the (First published in the Law- Last Will and Testament of rence Daily Journal-World Glenn L. Bender, deceased, January 3, 2012) requesting the will filed with the petition be admitDOUGLAS COUNTY, ted to probate and record; KANSAS co-executors named be apKDOT PROJECT NO. 23 pointed without bond and KA-2342-01 Letters Testamentary be DOUGLAS COUNTY granted.

PROJECT NO. 2011-8 BID #11-F--00 21 You are required to file NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS your written defenses to the petition on or before Notice is hereby given that January 19, 2012 at 10:00 sealed proposals for the a.m. in the District Court, performance of the con- Lawrence, Douglas County, tract above noted will be Kansas at which time and received in the Office of the place the cause will be Douglas County Clerk until heard. Should you fail to 3:00 P.M., Thursday, Febru- file your written defenses, ary 2, 2012, and then pub- judgment and decree will licly opened in the Court- be entered in due course house, 1100 Massachusetts upon the petition.

Street, Lawrence, Kansas.

All creditors of the deceDouglas County Project dent are notified to exhibit 2011-8 & KDOT Project No. their demands against the 23 KA-2342-01 consists of Estate within the latter of grading, milling (2”), HMA four months from the date Commercial grade, pat- of first publication of notice terned cold plastic (PCP) under K.S.A. 59-2236 and traffic marking, temporary amendments thereto, or if traffic control and erosion the identity of the creditor control. This project is gen- is known or reasonably aserally located 3 miles certainable, 30 days after northwest of Lawrence, actual notice was given as Kansas on Douglas County provided by law, and if Route 438 between E650 their demands are not thus and E700. exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

All bids must be submitted on forms obtainable at the Alan D. Bender, Office of the Director of Petitioner Public Works/County Engineer, 1242 Massachusetts PREPARED AND Street, Lawrence, Kansas or APPROVED BY: Demand Star at STEVENS & BRAND, L.L.P. www.demandstar.com, and 900 Massachusetts, Ste. 500 are open for public inspec- Lawrence KS 66044-0189 tion.

Proposals shall be (785) 843-0811 submitted in sealed enve- Attorneys for Petitioners lopes, addressed to the Of________

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I am hurt and would like an explanation. Apparently, they changed the location and didn’t inform us. I would understand if they did that or decided just to have imanniesmailbox@comcast.net mediate family. But a phone call telling me this would the family to herself. Such rehave been nice, as I left my marks are inappropriate and own family dinner early. I damaging. called the family again and Dear Annie: Recently, a dear friend and neighbor passed away. The family chose to have a get-together on Thanksgiving and invited another neighbor and me.

They understood that we would spend dinner with our own families and said it would be perfectly fine if we showed up afterward. They said they’d be home all evening. The family mentioned the event several times and called to be sure we were coming. They even asked permission to use my driveway for their guests.

I had Thanksgiving dinner at my son’s house. When I arrived home, there were no cars in my driveway. My neighbor said there hadn’t been any cars there all day. I phoned the family twice and got voicemail. My neighbor

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ABC comedy is a drag, literally How bad is ABC’s new comedy “Work It” (7:30 p.m.)? Let’s just say I can probably wrap up my end-of-the-year “Worst New Show of 2012” column right now. ‘‘Work It” continues a weird trend for ABC, a variation explored on the dreadful “Last Man Standing” and the quickly canceled “Man Up!” — a theme of male insecurity. ‘‘Work It” stars Ben Koldyke as Lee, a brash car salesman who, like his friend, Angel (Amaury Nolasco), has been out of work for a year, since Pontiac shut down. At least they say they’re down on their luck. You’d never know it from the spanking-new kitchen Lee shares with his wife, or the ham-fisted, hardy-har-har punch lines he tosses around like anvils.

Desperate for a job and faced with mounting medical bills, Lee does something audacious and dresses as a woman to land a sales job. Yes, we’ve crossed over into cross-dressing comedy, a long and proud tradition that includes “Some Like It Hot” and “Tootsie,” considered by many to be two of the best big-screen comedies of all time. It’s also the premise for “Bosom Buddies,” hardly a distinguished television comedy, but one that launched the career of Tom Hanks, no slouch in the acting department.

As Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis demonstrated, the job of a man passing as a woman and doing it convincingly enough to make us laugh is very difficult. To quote the Wicked Witch of the West, “These things must be done delicately.” If not performed with finesse, drag can be obvious, stupid and crude, as it is here.

There isn’t a moment of subtlety on “Work It.” Lee and (eventually) Angel pass themselves off as women by putting on big ugly dresses and wigs. To make matters worse, the other female characters seem to fall for their act. After chatting with one deluded fellow job seeker, Lee purrs, “Thanks for the tampon.” Yes, folks, we’re talking real wit here.

“The Biggest Loser” (7 p.m., NBC) enters its 13th season. I’m reminded of the line in “Blade Runner” from Rutger Hauer’s replicant: “Time to die.”

Tonight’s other highlights

Sue’s scandal sheet on “Glee” (7 p.m., Fox).

Angelo intrudes on “Switched at Birth” (7 p.m., ABC Family).

“America’s Election HQ” (7 p.m., Fox News) sifts the tea leaves from the Iowa caucuses.

Mixed signals from Nick on “New Girl” (8 p.m., Fox).

Freak-casting alert: Gary Busey and Ted Haggard (and the women who love them) appear on “Celebrity Wife Swap” (8 p.m., ABC).

“Jane by Design” (8 p.m., ABC Family) sets yet another melodrama in the world of high-powered fashion design.

Secret beliefs revealed on “Taboo” (8 p.m., National Geographic).

A test of wills on “Raising Hope” (8:30 p.m., Fox).

Murder at a construction site on “Unforgettable” (9 p.m., CBS).

On the road on “Parenthood” (9 p.m., NBC).

A bride does not survive to say “I do” on “Body of Proof” (9 p.m., ABC).

“Frontline” (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings) looks at women forced into marriage by Afghan drug lords.

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problems when there is no need to. Tonight: Vanish while you can.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Meetings and interactions in general draw success. Don’t hesitate to ask for more of what you desire. Tonight: Where your friends are.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You could be taken aback by a boss or someone you look up to.

You only need to make an adjustment. Tonight: A force to be dealt with all night.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) Think outside the box, and success will follow. Sometimes you understate your case. Don’t.

Tonight: Put on a movie.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You enjoy dealing with someone directly.

Together you let go of many of the issues that interfere when you are not together. Tonight: Continue the theme.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Maintain your limits with another person. He or she is on top of the world, no matter what anyone says or does.

Tonight: Follow another’s lead.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21) Be aware of the costs of holding the line or assuming a particular point of view. You might be considering a change regarding the management of your money. Tonight: Go that extra step.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your ingenuity comes out in nearly everything you do. Let the kid in you emerge. Tonight: Make the most of the night.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Home is where your mind — if not heart — is wandering to. Focusing on matters that aren’t involved with the issue at hand could be difficult at best. Tonight: Whatever suits you.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Your presence has an impact in a meeting, perhaps more than you want. You do wow a friend. Tonight: Think again: What do you want?

is 69. Musician Stephen Stills is 67. Rock musician John Paul Jones is 66.

Actress Victoria Principal is 62. Actor-director Mel Gibson is 56. Actress Shannon Sturges is 44.

Jazz musician James Carter is 43. Christian

63 Strictly verboten 64 Airport once called Orchard Field 66 Where one’s first savings are deposited?

68 Leafy shelter 69 “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” actress Georgia 70 Elevator on a golf course 71 Wanda of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” 72 Examine again, as a patient 73 What’s extracted from soil to get oil?

DOWN 1 Frosh successors 2 Arctic native 3 Coconut meat 4 Baffles 5 “Iron Man” Ripken 6 Over 7 All-night dance party 8 Least constrained 9 Letterman’s turf 10 410 or 212, e.g.

11 Diners’ requests, sometimes 12 Chap who plays the field

ACROSS 1 Command to Fido 4 Winter accessory 9 Band of fighters 14 Lennon’s wife 15 Mongol invader 16 Trout-fishing venue 17 Teen crush 19 Musician’s transition 20 Biblical King of Tyre 21 A person’s equal 23 Got more mature 24 Radio interference 26 Smartmouthed 28 Matinee idols 32 Bugling mammal 35 Speak unclearly 36 Boise’s state 38 Racetrack boundary 40 Luau 43 Word of mock horror 44 Bit of tomfoolery 46 Brown or scorch 48 Noted seashore vendor 49 Ambiances 53 Gossipy gal 54 Tilting 58 Thai coin 60 End-of-year season

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

41 Wait and ___ 42 Fictional Georgia plantation 45 Scam 47 Fashion anew 50 Wallowing whereabouts 51 Tom Canty, in a Mark Twain book 52 Flat piece 55 Decrease 56 Ninth day before the ides 57 Quick puffs 58 ____ and weaves 59 “Hey there!”

61 Script segment 62 Poached breakfast items 65 Sounds of hesitation 67 Turn right, to a horse

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singer Nichole Nordeman is 40. Actor Jason Marsden is 37. Actress Danica McKellar is 37.

Actor Nicholas Gonzalez is 36. Singer Kimberley Locke (”American Idol”) is 34. NFL quarterback Eli Manning is 31.

13 ___ out a living (barely got by) 18 Walk in a garden 22 Cheerleader’s cheer 25 Baby elephant 27 Paranormal showman Geller 29 Be sorry about 30 Curbside takeout?

31 Exile of 1979 32 History chapter 33 Turner of Hollywood 34 Where headlines were made on Dec. 17, 1903 37 Exalting poem 39 Certain citrus source

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BIRTHDAYS Record producer Sir George Martin is 86. Actor Robert Loggia is 82.

Actor Dabney Coleman is 80. Journalist-author Betty Rollin is 76. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Hull is 73. Singer-songwriterproducer Van Dyke Parks

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left a message but still have received no response. I don’t know what to make of the situation. — Kentucky Dear Kentucky: Let’s be charitable and assume the family changed the location and forgot to notify those who wouldn’t also be attending their Thanksgiving dinner. When they returned to hear your messages, they were too embarrassed to call back and apologize. We hope you can forgive them.

When there is a death in the family, people can sometimes be unintentionally inconsiderate.

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS For Tuesday, Jan. 3: Your imagination makes you a force to be dealt with. You are in a period in which you are processing on a deep, emotional level.

Others are constantly viewing you in a new light as you process and grow.

If you are single, you could meet someone very special. If you are attached, you rebuild the heat of your dating period. Taurus draws out the best in you.

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) You are more than ready to handle a problem or move forward. Someone could be quite demanding without realizing it. Tonight: Treat yourself well.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You seem to be able to stretch and go that extra mile when others cannot. Someone appreciates your efforts.

Tonight: Be the all-around Bull.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Know when you would prefer to say less or nothing at all. Sometimes you create a lot of

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Dear Annie: I am a 17-yearold girl with divorced parents. My dad lives with “Heather.” She is young, has three kids and is very irritating.

Heather seems to think she has to make fun of people.

Her favorite targets are my mom and my father’s family members. She’s always touching my dad and constantly picks fights with my sister and me, and sometimes Dad, too. She is always checking the numbers he calls and texts because she is afraid he’s cheating on her.

Once, Heather told me I was no longer welcome in her house. She told my father she hates me and would appreciate it if I left him alone.

How can I tell her I don’t like it when she makes fun of the people I love, and that I’d prefer it if she’d simply ignore me rather than be all nice one minute and a wicked stepmother the next? — Confused Teenager Dear Confused: Heather sounds a little insecure about her relationship with your father, and it’s unfortunate that you are on the receiving end.

Right now, if you want to see your father, you’ll have to put up with Heather. But you should talk to Dad about how unwelcome she makes you feel, and say you’d appreciate it if he’d ask her to keep her snarky comments about

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

Philadelphia Boston Toronto New York New Jersey

L 2 3 3 3 5

Southwest Division Pct .500 .500 .400 .400 .167

GB — — 1⁄2 1⁄2 2

L10 2-2 2-3 2-2 2-3 1-4

Str W-1 W-3 W-1 L-1 L-5

Home 0-0 2-0 0-1 1-1 0-2

Away 2-2 1-3 2-2 1-2 1-3

Conf 0-0 San Antonio 3-2 Houston 2-2 New Orleans Dallas 1-1 Memphis 1-5

L 1 1 2 3 5

Pct .833 .800 .667 .250 .000

GB — 1⁄2 1 3 41⁄2

L10 4-1 4-1 3-2 1-3 0-4

Str L-1 W-1 L-1 L-3 L-5

Home 2-1 2-0 3-0 1-2 0-2

Away 3-0 2-1 1-2 0-1 0-3

Conf 3-1 4-0 3-1 1-3 0-5

L 1 1 2 2 3

Pct .800 .800 .500 .500 .400

GB — — 11⁄2 11⁄2 2

L10 4-1 4-1 2-2 2-2 2-3

Str W-1 W-3 W-1 L-1 W-2

Home 2-0 1-0 1-1 2-0 2-1

Away 2-1 3-1 1-1 0-2 0-2

Conf 4-1 L.A. Clippers 0-0 L.A. Lakers 2-2 Phoenix Sacramento 1-1 Golden State 2-3

Southeast Division Miami Atlanta Orlando Charlotte Washington

W 5 4 4 1 0

Indiana Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee Detroit

W 3 2 2 2 1

L 2 2 2 4 3

Pct .600 .500 .500 .333 .250

GB — 1⁄2 1⁄2 11⁄2 11⁄2

L10 3-2 2-2 2-2 2-3 1-3

Str L-1 W-1 L-2 W-1 L-1

Home 3-0 2-0 1-1 2-2 1-1

Away 0-2 0-2 1-1 0-2 0-2

Conf 3-2 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-2

L 1 1 2 3 3

Pct .833 .750 .667 .400 .250

GB — 1 1 21⁄2 3

L10 5-1 3-1 3-2 1-3 1-3

Str L-1 L-1 W-2 W-2 L-1

Home 3-0 3-0 3-0 2-2 1-0

Away 2-1 0-1 1-2 0-1 0-3

Conf 4-1 2-1 3-2 2-1 0-3

L 2 3 3 3 3

Pct .500 .500 .400 .400 .400

GB — — 1⁄2 1⁄2 1⁄2

L10 2-2 3-3 2-3 2-3 2-3

Str W-1 L-1 W-1 W-1 L-2

Home 1-1 3-1 1-2 2-2 2-2

Away 1-1 0-2 1-1 0-1 0-1

Conf 2-1 2-2 2-2 2-1 0-2

Northwest Division

Central Division W 4 4 2 2 2

NFL Playoff Glance

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W 2 3 2 2 1

SCOREBOARD

Oklahoma City Portland Denver Minnesota Utah

W 5 3 4 2 1

Pacific Division W 2 3 2 2 2

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 7 Cincinnati at Houston, 3:30 p.m.

Detroit at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 8 Atlanta at New York Giants, noon Pittsburgh at Denver, 3:30 p.m.

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 14 Atlanta, N.Y. Giants or New Orleans at San Francisco, 3:30 p.m.

Cincinnati, Pittsburgh or Denver at New England, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 15 Pittsburgh, Denver or Houston at Baltimore, noon Detroit, Atlanta or N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 3:30 p.m.

College

Monday’s Games TicketCity Bowl at Dallas Houston 30, Penn State 14 Capital One Bowl at Orlando, Fla. South Carolina 30, Nebraska 13 Outback Bowl at Tampa, Fla. Michigan State 33, Georgia 30, 3OT Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla. Florida 24, Ohio State 17 Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38 Fiesta Bowl at Glendale, Ariz.

Oklahoma State 41, Stanford 38, OT Tonight’s Game Sugar Bowl at New Orleans Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

AP Top 25 Men

Roundup The Associated Press

Hawks 100, Heat 92 MIAMI — Joe Johnson scored 21 points, Tracy McGrady hit a pair of big threepointers in the fourth quarter, and Atlanta ended Miami’s perfect start on Monday night.

McGrady and Al Horford each scored 16 for the Hawks (4-1), who opened the final period on a 15-3 run to take control. And McGrady made perhaps the two biggest plays of the night in the final minutes, first throwing a lob to Josh Smith for a dunk, then hitting a 3-pointer that gave the Hawks a 93-84 lead with 2:26 left.

ATLANTA (100) Williams 4-6 0-0 8, Smith 4-12 1-2 9, Horford 6-9 4-4 16, Teague 7-11 0-0 15, J.Johnson 8-16 2-3 21, McGrady 5-8 3-7 16, Pachulia 2-5 2-2 6, Radmanovic 0-5 0-0 0, Green 0-5 1-2 1, Pargo 3-5 0-0 8. Totals 39-82 13-20 100.

MIAMI (92) James 11-18 6-9 28, Bosh 8-18 3-4 19, Anthony 1-1 0-0 2, Chalmers 2-5 1-1 6, Wade 4-17 4-6 12, Haslem 1-3 2-4 4, Battier 3-4 2-3 11, Cole 4-7 1-1 10, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-73 19-28 92.

Atlanta 19 28 20 33—100 Miami 23 27 21 21— 92 3-Point Goals-Atlanta 9-16 (McGrady 3-3, J.Johnson 3-5, Pargo 2-3, Teague 1-2, Williams 0-1, Radmanovic 0-1, Green 0-1), Miami 5-13 (Battier 3-4, Chalmers 1-2, Cole 1-3, Wade 0-1, Bosh 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Atlanta 47 (Horford 9), Miami 51 (Haslem 10). Assists-Atlanta 19 (Teague 5), Miami 23 (Wade 10). Total Fouls-Atlanta 21, Miami 15. Technicals-Pachulia, Atlanta defensive three second. A-20,078 (19,600).

Mavericks 100, Thunder 87 DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki scored 10 of his 26 points during the third quarter, sending Dallas over Oklahoma City.

The Thunder, who topped Dallas on a buzzer-beater in Oklahoma City on Thursday, came in as one of only two unbeaten teams in the NBA at 5-0.

OKLAHOMA CITY (87) Durant 10-21 4-7 27, Ibaka 4-10 2-2 10, Perkins 1-3 5-6 7, Westbrook 8-20 2-4 18, Sefolosha 0-1 0-0 0, Collison 0-0 0-0 0, Harden 5-11 5-5 16, Maynor 3-4 2-2 9, Hayward 0-4 0-0 0, Mohammed 0-0 0-0 0, Jackson 0-3 0-0 0, Aldrich 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-77 20-26 87.

DALLAS (100) Marion 8-17 0-0 17, Nowitzki 10-16 5-6 26, Haywood 3-6 0-0 6, Kidd 0-1 0-0 0, West 2-5 0-0 4, Carter 3-9 8-9 14, Odom 2-4 4-5 8, Terry 6-12 0-0 15, Mahinmi 5-8 0-0 10, Beaubois 0-0 0-0 0, Cardinal 0-2 0-0 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 39-80 17-20 100.

Oklahoma City 20 27 18 22— 87 Dallas 20 34 24 22—100 3-Point Goals-Oklahoma City 5-19 (Durant 3-6, Maynor 1-2, Harden 1-5, Sefolosha 0-1, Westbrook 0-2, Jackson 0-3), Dallas 5-16 (Terry 3-5, Marion 1-2, Nowitzki 1-5, West 0-1, Odom 0-1, Cardinal 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Oklahoma City 51 (Westbrook, Ibaka 8), Dallas 45 (Mahinmi 9). Assists-Oklahoma City 12 (Westbrook, Harden 3), Dallas 21 (Kidd 9). Total FoulsOklahoma City 17, Dallas 23. TechnicalsWestbrook. A-20,108 (19,200).

Raptors 90, Knicks 85 NEW YORK — Andrea Bargnani and DeMar DeRozan each scored 21 points, and Toronto held onto a big lead against New York after wasting one a night earlier.

TORONTO (90) Butler 5-12 0-0 13, Bargnani 7-13 7-8 21, A.Johnson 2-4 1-2 5, Calderon 3-8 2-2 9, DeRozan 7-13 5-6 21, Magloire 0-2 0-2 0, J.Johnson 2-4 0-0 5, E.Davis 1-5 0-0 2, Carter 1-2 2-2 4, Barbosa 2-5 6-7 10. Totals 30-68 23-29 90.

NEW YORK (85) Anthony 13-31 5-8 35, Harrellson 0-4 2-2 2, Chandler 3-4 5-6 11, Douglas 8-19 2-3 22, Fields 1-7 3-4 5, Walker 2-6 2-2 7, Bibby 0-3 0-0 0, Novak 1-3 0-0 3, Jordan 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 28-78 19-25 85.

Toronto 22 29 16 23—90 New York 23 11 24 27—85 3-Point Goals-Toronto 7-17 (Butler 3-7, DeRozan 2-2, J.Johnson 1-1, Calderon 1-4, Barbosa 0-1, Bargnani 0-2), New York 10-35 (Anthony 4-9, Douglas 4-11, Walker 1-3, Novak 1-3, Fields 0-2, Bibby 0-3, Harrellson 0-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Toronto 51 (Magloire, Butler 10), New York 49 (Anthony 11). Assists-Toronto 21 (Calderon 12), New York 14 (Fields 5). Total Fouls-Toronto 30, New York 24. Technicals-Toronto defensive three second 2. A-19,763 (19,763).

T’wolves 106, Spurs 96 MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Love had 24 points and 15

Today’s games Charlotte at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Portland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Utah, 8 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

rebounds to lead Minnesota over San Antonio, which lost star guard Manu Ginobili to a broken left hand.

Ginobili injured his shooting hand in the second quarter. The two-time All-Star will be examined in San Antonio on Tuesday.

SAN ANTONIO (96) Jefferson 6-10 0-0 16, Duncan 7-12 2-2 16, Blair 2-9 2-2 6, Parker 3-11 5-6 11, Ginobili 3-6 1-1 8, Splitter 5-7 2-4 12, Leonard 2-6 2-2 6, Anderson 1-6 1-2 4, Ford 2-3 0-0 4, Bonner 2-6 0-0 4, Green 3-6 2-2 9. Totals 36-82 17-21 96.

MINNESOTA (106) Beasley 8-15 1-2 19, Love 8-15 4-5 24, Milicic 5-9 0-0 10, Ridnour 7-10 3-4 19, Johnson 6-6 0-0 14, Rubio 3-8 0-0 6, Ellington 0-2 2-2 2, Tolliver 1-3 2-2 5, Williams 3-3 0-0 7. Totals 41-71 12-15 106.

San Antonio 25 34 21 16— 96 Minnesota 35 31 28 12—106 3-Point Goals-San Antonio 7-20 (Jefferson 4-7, Green 1-2, Ginobili 1-3, Anderson 1-5, Bonner 0-3), Minnesota 12-21 (Love 4-9, Johnson 2-2, Beasley 2-2, Ridnour 2-3, Williams 1-1, Tolliver 1-2, Rubio 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-San Antonio 39 (Bonner 6), Minnesota 44 (Love 15). AssistsSan Antonio 26 (Parker 9), Minnesota 18 (Ridnour 9). Total Fouls-San Antonio 15, Minnesota 18. A-14,514 (19,356).

Suns 102, Warriors 91 PHOENIX — Steve Nash scored 13 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter and rookie Markieff Morris added 16 points to lead Phoenix over Golden State.

GOLDEN STATE (91) D.Wright 0-4 0-0 0, McGuire 6-9 2-2 14, Biedrins 2-4 0-2 4, Curry 4-8 0-0 10, Ellis 6-16 5-5 18, K.Brown 3-4 3-7 9, Udoh 5-8 1-2 11, Jenkins 3-3 0-0 6, Rush 5-11 1-2 13, Thompson 2-5 0-0 6, Smith 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-72 12-20 91.

PHOENIX (102) Hill 4-10 0-0 8, Frye 3-8 3-4 10, Gortat 2-6 1-2 5, Nash 9-13 2-2 21, Dudley 6-14 1-2 15, Warrick 3-9 2-2 8, S.Brown 3-8 2-3 10, Lopez 1-3 0-0 2, Price 1-3 4-4 7, Morris 7-13 1-2 16.

Totals 39-87 16-21 102.

Golden State 26 21 22 22— 91 Phoenix 25 26 21 30—102 3-Point Goals-Golden State 7-17 (Curry 2-3, Thompson 2-3, Rush 2-4, Ellis 1-4, D.Wright 0-3), Phoenix 8-23 (Dudley 2-5, S.Brown 2-6, Price 1-2, Morris 1-3, Frye 1-3, Nash 1-3, Warrick 0-1).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Golden State 39 (McGuire 9), Phoenix 58 (Frye 10). Assists-Golden State 27 (Ellis 11), Phoenix 23 (Nash 9). Total Fouls-Golden State 24, Phoenix 18. Technicals-Golden State defensive three second, Phoenix defensive three second. Flagrant FoulsLopez. A-14,793 (18,422).

Celtics 100, Wizards 92 BOSTON — Ray Allen scored 11 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter and Boston won for the second straight night over Washington.

Paul Pierce had 21 points and eight rebounds for the Celtics (3-3), who pulled to .500 after losing their first three games of the season.

Rookie Greg Stiemsma, making his first start, had 13 points and seven rebounds, and reserve Brandon Bass scored 12.

WASHINGTON (92) Lewis 4-10 0-0 9, Blatche 10-20 8-10 28, McGee 8-9 1-2 17, Wall 4-13 3-4 11, Young 3-14 4-4 10, Crawford 1-6 3-3 5, Seraphin 2-4 0-0 4, Booker 0-1 0-0 0, Mason 2-4 0-0 5, Singleton 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 35-83 19-23 92.

BOSTON (100) Pierce 8-18 1-1 21, Garnett 3-8 4-6 10, Stiemsma 5-7 3-4 13, Rondo 3-8 0-0 6, Allen 9-16 3-5 27, Bass 7-13 0-0 14, Wilcox 0-2 0-2 0, Daniels 2-5 3-3 7, Dooling 1-3 0-0 2, Bradley 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 38-83 14-21 100.

Washington 24 24 22 22— 92 Boston 23 24 22 31—100 3-Point Goals-Washington 3-11 (Singleton 1-1, Mason 1-2, Lewis 1-3, Crawford 0-1, Young 0-4), Boston 10-20 (Allen 6-7, Pierce 4-9, Bradley 0-1, Daniels 0-1, Dooling 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Washington 49 (McGee 14), Boston 55 (Pierce 8). AssistsWashington 14 (Wall 8), Boston 28 (Rondo 13). Total Fouls-Washington 17, Boston 23.

Technicals-Washington Coach Saunders 2, Wall, Washington defensive three second 2. Ejected-Washington Coach Saunders.

A-18,624 (18,624).

How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, Oklahoma City Pts: 0. FGs: 0-0. FTs: 0-0.

Mario Chalmers, Miami Pts: 6. FGs: 2-6. FTs: 1-1.

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Pts: 0. FGs: 0-0. FTs: 0-0.

Drew Gooden, Milwaukee Pts: 2. FGs: 1-3. FTs: 0-0.

Markieff Morris, Phoenix Pts: 16. FGs: 7-13. FTs: 1-2.

Paul Pierce, Boston Pts: 31. FGs: 8-18. FTs: 1-1.

Brandon Rush, Golden State Pts: 13. FGs: 5-11. FTs: 1-2.

Marcus Morris sent to NBADL HOUSTON — Former Kansas University forward Marcus Morris is being sent to the NBA Developmental League for some seasoning, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday night. Firstround draft pick Morris is headed to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in Hidalgo, Texas.

“Fortunately, we’re a team it’s very hard to come in as a rookie and play,” Rockets general manager Daryl Morey told the Houston Chronicle. “We like all our young players to go through a process before they get on the floor. Marcus is someone with very high level of talent and someone we feel will benefit greatly from playing and working on his game. Our focus for Marcus is to work on his defense and offense at the three.”

Morris had been working a lot at power forward with Patrick Patterson injured.

The Rockets, who are in the midst of a busy schedule, do not have a practice scheduled until next week.

RecordPts Prv 1. Syracuse (60) 15-0 1,618 1 2. Kentucky (5) 13-1 1,554 3 3. North Carolina 13-2 1,451 5 4. Baylor 13-0 1,389 6 5. Duke 12-1 1,354 7 6. Ohio St. 13-2 1,277 2 7. Missouri 13-0 1,255 8 8. UConn 12-1 1,199 9 9. Georgetown 12-1 1,072 12 10. Michigan St. 13-2 992 16 11. Louisville 12-2 977 4 12. Indiana 13-1 974 13 13. Florida 11-3 753 10 14. Kansas 10-3 663 17 15. Mississippi St. 13-2 644 15 16. Michigan 12-2 641 18 17. UNLV 15-2 611 19 18. Wisconsin 12-3 506 11 19. Murray St. 14-0 454 20 20. Marquette 12-2 447 14 21. Virginia 12-1 292 23 22. Harvard 12-1 269 24 23. Kansas St. 11-1 229 — 24. San Diego St. 12-2 196 25 25. Gonzaga 11-2 121 — Others receiving votes: Creighton 86, Ohio 28, Stanford 12, Pittsburgh 8, Vanderbilt 8, Xavier 8, Cincinnati 6, New Mexico 6, Purdue 6, Saint Louis 6, Texas A&M 4, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 3, California 2, Seton Hall 2, Alabama 1, Wagner 1.

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RecordPts Pvs 1. Syracuse (30) 15-0 774 1 2. Kentucky (1) 13-1 739 3 3. Duke 12-1 679 5 4. North Carolina 13-2 670 6 5. Baylor 13-0 638 7 6. Missouri 13-0 620 8 7. Ohio State 13-2 593 2 8. Connecticut 12-1 580 9 9. Georgetown 12-1 515 12 10. Louisville 12-2 454 4 11. Michigan State 13-2 442 17 12. Indiana 13-1 423 15 13. Michigan 12-2 368 16 14. Florida 11-3 367 10 15. Kansas 10-3 318 18 16. Mississippi State 13-2 300 14 17. UNLV 15-2 263 20 18. Murray State 14-0 236 21 19. Wisconsin 12-3 230 11 20. Marquette 12-2 196 13 21. Harvard 12-1 156 23 22. Kansas State 11-1 127 25 23. Virginia 12-1 125 24 24. Creighton 11-2 67 19 25. San Diego State 12-2 60 NR Others receiving votes: Gonzaga 57; Saint Mary’s 17; Vanderbilt 16; Middle Tennessee 9; New Mexico 9; Stanford 7; Pittsburgh 6; Alabama 3; Purdue 3; Seton Hall 3; Saint Louis 2; Southern Mississippi 2; Illinois 1.

Niagara 57, Loyola (Md.) 54 Siena 67, Canisius 61 Stony Brook 54, Vermont 47 UMBC 67, New Hampshire 65 SOUTH Austin Peay 66, E. Kentucky 63 Belmont 54, North Florida 37 Campbell 82, UNC Asheville 62 Charleston Southern 83, Winthrop 78 Coastal Carolina 52, Presbyterian 49 Coppin St. 73, Longwood 51 Duke 77, Virginia 66 Elizabeth City St. 62, Md.-Eastern Shore 55 Florida A&M 69, UAB 59 Florida Gulf Coast 98, Mercer 50 Georgia Southern 56, Wofford 48 Georgia St. 66, Bethune-Cookman 50 Georgia Tech 76, NC State 66 Hampton 76, East Carolina 48 High Point 63, Gardner-Webb 41 Jacksonville 81, Lipscomb 75, OT Maryland 91, Florida St. 70 Norfolk St. 60, George Mason 57 North Carolina 65, Miami 63 Northwestern St. 63, LSU-Shreveport 40 Stetson 65, Kennesaw St. 55 UNC Wilmington 90, NC A&T 63 UT-Martin 114, Tennessee St. 105 Virginia Tech 55, Clemson 33 W. Carolina 63, SC-Upstate 58 Wingate 69, Coll. of Charleston 60 MIDWEST E. Illinois 76, Murray St. 51 E. Michigan 65, Wyoming 43 Minnesota 84, Indiana 43 Ohio St. 84, Iowa 71 Penn St. 82, Wisconsin 49 Purdue 64, Illinois 63 SE Missouri 66, Jacksonville St. 48 SIU-Edwardsville 62, Tennessee Tech 54 Temple 64, W. Michigan 52 SOUTHWEST Cent. Arkansas 94, Philander Smith 25 Lamar 61, Rice 54 Texas-Pan American 73, Our Lady of the Lake 66 FAR WEST BYU 79, Portland 53 Idaho St. 57, N. Colorado 52 Montana 53, E. Washington 46 New Mexico 70, Houston 44 UNLV 74, Nevada 63

Haskell Men

at Bethany, L 67-75 (0-1) McPherson, L 72-79 (0-2) Baker, L 62-80 (0-3) at Southwestern, W 66-59 (1-3) St. Mary, W 79-70 (2-3) at Tabor, W 66-57 (3-3) at Ottawa, W 90-76 (4-3) Bethany (McPherson Classic), W 72-65 (5-3) at McPherson, L 73-78 (5-4) Tabor, W 70-68 (6-4) Ottawa, L 77-87 (6-5) at Utah Valley State, L 49-84 (6-6) at South Dakota School of Mines, L 68-80 (6-7) at Oglala Lakota, W 114-64 (7-7) Avila, L 56-73 (7-8) at St. Mary, L 76-83 (7-9) Jan. 6 — at Warner Southern (Fla.) Jan. 7 — at Northwood (Fla.) Jan. 13 — Southwestern Christian, 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 14 — Oklahoma Wesleyan, 5 p.m.

Jan. 17 — Central Christian, 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 20 — at College of the Ozarks (Mo.) Jan. 21 — at Central Baptist (Ark.) Jan. 27 — at York (Neb.) Jan. 28 — at Bellevue (Neb.) Feb. 3 — York, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 4 — Bellevue, 5 p.m.

Feb. 7 — at Central Christian Feb. 10 — College of the Ozarks, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 11 — Central Baptist, 5 p.m.

Feb. 17 — at Southwestern Christian (Okla.)

Feb. 18 — at Oklahoma Wesleyan (Okla.)

Haskell Women Pistons 89, Magic 78 College of the Southwest (at Espanola, AUBURN HILLS, MICH. — Ben N.M.), L 81-86 (0-1) Gordon scored 26 points, and at Northern New Mexico, L 74-79 (0-2) McPherson, W 72-66 (1-2) Detroit overcame some early at Our Lady of the Lake (Bacone Classic), foul trouble in an impresL 71-97 (1-3) at Bacone (Okla.), L 81-88 (1-4) sive defensive effort against St. Mary, W 80-77 (2-4) Dwight Howard and Orlando. at Ottawa, L 53-68 (2-5) Northern New Mexico, W 84-62 (3-5) Rodney Stuckey and TayBethel (at McPherson), L 59-73 (3-6) shaun Prince scored 14 points at McPherson, L 61-74 (3-7) at Tabor, L 59-64 (3-8) apiece for the Pistons, who Ottawa, W 60-47 (4-8) have won two in a row after Hannibal-LaGrange (at College of the losing their first three games Ozarks Classic), L 47-60 (4-9) Missouri Baptist (at College of the of the season.

Ozarks), L 58-94 (4-10) Howard had 19 points, at South Dakota School of Mines (S.D.), L 51-61 (4-11) seven rebounds and five at Oglala Lakota (S.D.), W 96-33 (5-11) steals before fouling out with seconds, to lead Denver over Big 12 Men at St. Mary, L 50-54 (5-12) Conf.

Overall Jan. 13 — Southwestern Christian, 5:30 2:46 remaining on an illegal Milwaukee.

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Al Harrington added 17 Baylor Jan. 14 — Oklahoma Wesleyan, 3 p.m.

0 0 13 0 Jan. 17 — Central Christian, 5:30 p.m. points and Ty Lawson 16 for Missouri Kansas State 0 0 11 1 ORLANDO (78) Jan. 20 — at College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 0 0 10 2 Turkoglu 4-7 1-2 13, Anderson 5-10 2-2 the Nuggets, who were play- Oklahoma Jan. 21 — at Central Baptist (Ark.) Kansas 0 0 10 3 13, Howard 8-14 3-8 19, Nelson 1-5 2-3 4, ing their third game in as Texas Jan. 27 — at York (Neb.) 0 0 10 3 J.Richardson 1-5 2-2 4, Davis 3-7 0-0 6, Jan. 28 — at College of St. Mary (Neb.) Iowa State 0 0 10 3 Q.Richardson 1-3 0-0 3, Duhon 2-2 2-2 8, many nights.

Feb. 3 — York, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma State 0 0 7 6 Redick 3-10 2-2 8. Totals 28-63 14-21 78.

Stephen Jackson led MilFeb. 4 — College of St. Mary, 3 p.m.

Texas Tech 0 0 7 5 DETROIT (89) Feb. 7 — at Central Christian 0 1 9 4 Prince 5-10 4-4 14, Jerebko 4-6 0-2 8, waukee with 17 points. Car- Texas A&M Feb. 10 — College of the Ozarks, 5:30 p.m.

Monroe 5-10 0-1 10, Stuckey 2-8 10-13 14, los Delfino added 14 for the Saturday’s Games Feb. 11 — Central Baptist, 3 p.m.

Kansas 84, North Dakota 58 Gordon 8-15 8-9 26, Maxiell 3-4 3-4 9, Wallace Feb. 17 — at Southwestern Christian Bucks, who were denied a bid Virginia Tech 67, Oklahoma State 61 0-0 0-0 0, Knight 4-7 0-0 8, Wilkins 0-2 0-0 0, (Okla.)

Iowa State 67, Mississippi Valley State 65 Villanueva 0-0 0-0 0, Daye 0-0 0-0 0. Totals third consecutive win.

Feb. 18 — at Oklahoma Wesleyan 31-62 25-33 89.

Orlando 19 27 17 15—78 Detroit 21 23 24 21—89 3-Point Goals-Orlando 8-22 (Turkoglu 4-6, Duhon 2-2, Q.Richardson 1-2, Anderson 1-5, J.Richardson 0-1, Nelson 0-2, Redick 0-4), Detroit 2-8 (Gordon 2-3, Jerebko 0-1, Knight 0-2, Stuckey 0-2). Fouled Out-Howard.

Rebounds-Orlando 34 (Howard 7), Detroit 47 (Jerebko 11). Assists-Orlando 20 (Nelson 5), Detroit 19 (Gordon 6). Total FoulsOrlando 24, Detroit 19. Technicals-Orlando defensive three second 2, Detroit defensive three second. A-8,120 (22,076).

Jazz 94, Hornets 90 SALT LAKE CITY — Al Jefferson scored 22 points and Devin Harris added 19, including a 3-pointer and three free throws down the stretch, to lead Utah over New Orleans.

Reserve Josh Howard added 13 points, including six straight in the fourth quarter to tie the score at 80. C.J. Miles had 11 points and four rebounds for the Jazz, who have won two at home to offset three blowout losses on the road.

NEW ORLEANS (90) Ariza 2-4 0-0 4, Landry 1-4 1-2 3, Okafor 3-8 1-2 7, Jack 11-17 4-4 27, Belinelli 2-9 0-0 6, Smith 8-13 0-0 16, Kaman 6-7 2-2 14, Aminu 3-6 5-6 11, T.Johnson 1-2 0-0 2, Vasquez 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 37-74 13-16 90.

UTAH (94) Hayward 1-3 1-1 3, Millsap 3-7 0-0 6, Jefferson 11-18 0-1 22, Harris 5-9 6-10 19, Bell 0-2 0-0 0, Watson 1-3 0-0 2, Kanter 2-4 0-1 4, Favors 4-6 1-2 9, Howard 3-8 7-8 13, Burks 2-4 0-0 5, Miles 5-12 0-0 11. Totals 37-76 15-23 94.

New Orleans 22 25 27 16—90 Utah 18 32 20 24—94 3-Point Goals-New Orleans 3-10 (Belinelli 2-4, Jack 1-3, Smith 0-1, Aminu 0-2), Utah 5-15 (Harris 3-6, Burks 1-1, Miles 1-2, Watson 0-1, Millsap 0-1, Hayward 0-2, Bell 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-New Orleans 43 (Smith 8), Utah 44 (Jefferson, Millsap 6). Assists-New Orleans 22 (Jack 11), Utah 20 (Watson 7). Total Fouls-New Orleans 24, Utah 18. A-19,159 (19,911).

NUGGETS 91, BUCKS 86 DENVER — Danilo Gallinari scored 21 points, including a pair of free throws in the final

MILWAUKEE (86) Jackson 7-18 2-2 17, Ilyasova 3-7 0-0 6, Bogut 5-12 2-4 12, Jennings 5-16 2-2 12, Delfino 5-11 1-3 14, Gooden 1-3 0-0 2, Leuer 4-5 0-0 8, Udrih 3-6 0-0 7, Livingston 1-4 0-0 2, Mbah a Moute 3-6 0-0 6, Sanders 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 37-88 7-11 86.

DENVER (91) Gallinari 5-12 10-12 21, Koufos 3-4 2-2 8, Mozgov 2-9 0-0 4, Lawson 7-13 2-2 16, Afflalo 2-8 0-0 4, Andersen 0-3 0-2 0, Harrington 7-12 2-3 17, Miller 3-12 0-0 6, Fernandez 1-3 2-2 5, Brewer 3-7 3-4 10. Totals 33-83 21-27 91.

Milwaukee 30 18 26 12—86 Denver 24 24 20 23—91 3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 5-19 (Delfino 3-6, Udrih 1-2, Jackson 1-5, Ilyasova 0-2, Jennings 0-4), Denver 4-19 (Brewer 1-2, Fernandez 1-3, Harrington 1-5, Gallinari 1-5, Miller 0-1, Lawson 0-1, Afflalo 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Milwaukee 48 (Delfino 9), Denver 63 (Gallinari 10).

Assists-Milwaukee 19 (Jackson, Bogut, Udrih 4), Denver 22 (Lawson 6). Total FoulsMilwaukee 20, Denver 15. A-14,142 (19,155).

Pacers 108, Nets 94 NEWARK, N.J. — Paul George scored 21 points and Indiana shot a season-best 52.6 percent to beat skidding New Jersey.

Danny Granger added 15 points and David West scored 13 as the Pacers won for the fourth time in five games.

INDIANA (108) Granger 4-14 4-6 15, West 6-10 1-1 13, Hibbert 4-8 1-2 9, Collison 2-4 4-4 9, George 8-10 0-0 21, Hill 3-5 0-0 8, Hansbrough 5-11 2-3 12, Amundson 3-6 1-2 7, Stephenson 0-2 0-0 0, Jones 5-6 0-0 11, Price 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 41-78 13-18 108.

NEW JERSEY (94) James 4-9 2-4 10, She.Williams 1-9 0-0 2, Okur 3-7 0-0 8, Gaines 4-6 3-3 12, D.Williams 6-14 9-11 22, Brooks 8-17 3-4 21, Sha.Williams 3-9 0-0 7, Petro 1-3 4-4 6, Stevenson 0-2 0-0 0, Morrow 1-8 0-0 2, Farmar 2-5 0-0 4, Horner 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-89 21-26 94.

Indiana 29 19 29 31—108 New Jersey 21 21 22 30— 94 3-Point Goals-Indiana 13-21 (George 5-5, Granger 3-7, Hill 2-2, Price 1-2, Jones 1-2, Collison 1-2, Stephenson 0-1), New Jersey 7-28 (Okur 2-3, Brooks 2-5, Gaines 1-2, Sha. Williams 1-4, D.Williams 1-7, Stevenson 0-1, Farmar 0-2, Morrow 0-4). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Indiana 52 (Hansbrough 7), New Jersey 51 (Brooks 7). Assists-Indiana 26 (Collison 7), New Jersey 15 (D.Williams 8). Total Fouls-Indiana 23, New Jersey 16.

A-12,519 (18,711).

Kansas State 82, Howard 46 Texas 73, Rice 59 Oklahoma 83, Northwestern State 63 Monday’s Game Baylor 61, Texas A&M 52 Tonight’s Game Oklahoma at Missouri, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 4 Kansas State at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Texas Tech at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Texas at Iowa State, 8 p.m.

College Men

EAST Albany (NY) 88, Hartford 63 American U. 70, Brown 61 Columbia 67, Fairleigh Dickinson 52 Maine 76, Binghamton 61 Marist 71, St. Peter’s 67 NJIT 78, Lafayette 58 Niagara 66, Loyola (Md.) 61 Northeastern 57, Towson 48 Rhode Island 78, Boston College 72, 2OT Rider 88, Manhattan 77 Stony Brook 65, Vermont 59 UMBC 82, New Hampshire 76 VCU 80, Hofstra 63 SOUTH Auburn 67, Bethune-Cookman 41 Belmont 83, North Florida 53 Campbell 70, Coastal Carolina 65, OT George Mason 70, William & Mary 56 Georgia Southern 88, Brewton-Parker 60 Georgia St. 58, Drexel 44 High Point 88, Charleston Southern 78 Lipscomb 77, Jacksonville 71 Mercer 76, Florida Gulf Coast 54 Old Dominion 67, James Madison 61, OT Presbyterian 63, Liberty 56 Stetson 66, Kennesaw St. 62 Tennessee 76, Chattanooga 63 The Citadel 91, Virginia-Wise 74 UNC Asheville 66, Radford 56 UNC Wilmington 80, Delaware 75 VMI 76, Gardner-Webb 72 Vanderbilt 69, Miami (Ohio) 62 Virginia 57, LSU 52 Wofford 56, Wake Forest 52 MIDWEST Kent St. 90, Shawnee St. 65 Robert Morris 70, Ohio 67 SE Missouri 74, Jacksonville St. 56 SOUTHWEST Baylor 61, Texas A&M 52 Sam Houston St. 83, Jarvis Christian 49 FAR WEST Idaho St. 57, N. Colorado 55

College Women

EAST Albany (NY) 40, Hartford 37 Binghamton 72, Maine 54 Boston College 57, CCSU 49 Cornell 40, Fordham 39 Fairfield 62, Iona 58 George Washington 60, American U. 49 La Salle 75, Northeastern 60 Manhattan 59, Rider 45 Marist 56, St. Peter’s 54 Miami (Ohio) 61, Robert Morris 50

BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS-Agreed to terms with RHP LaTroy Hawkins on a one-year contract.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS-Agreed to terms with C Josh Bard and LHP John Grabow on minor league contracts.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA-Fined Utah F Josh Howard $25,000 after upgrading his Flagrant Foul One against San Antonio’s James Anderson in a Dec. 31 game.

FOOTBALL National Football League INDIANAPOLIS COLTS-Fired vice chairman Bill Polian and vice president and general manager Chris Polian.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS-Signed WR Kris Adams, G Chris DeGeare, DB Reggie Jones, G Butch Lewis, LB Tyrone McKenzie, TE Allen Reisner and WR Kerry Taylor to reserve-future contracts.

NEW YORK JETS-Signed WR Michael Campbell, TE Dedrick Epps, WR Dexter Jackson, T Dennis Landolt, CB Julian Posey and WR Eron Riley to reserve-future contracts.

ST. LOUIS RAMS-Fired coach Steve Spagnuolo and general manager Billy Devaney.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS-Fired coach Raheem Morris.

TENNESSEE TITANS-Agreed to terms with RB Herb Donaldson, G Ryan Durand, DE Pannel Egboh, TE Cameron Graham, WR James Kirkendoll, OT Troy Kropog, WR Michael Preston, CB Terrence Wheatley on reserve-future contracts.

SOCCER CONCACAF-Named Ted Howard acting general secretary.

COLLEGE NORTH CAROLINA-Announced junior DE Donte Paige-Moss will enter the NFL draft.

NOTRE DAME-Named Chuck Martin offensive coordinator, Kerry Cooks co-defensive coordinator. Named defensive coordinator Bob Diaco an assistant head coach.

Promoted Scott Booker from intern to offensive assistant.

WASHINGTON-Announced junior RB Chris Polk will enter the NFL draft.

NHL

Monday’s Games San Jose 3, Vancouver 2, SO Colorado 2, Los Angeles 1, SO N.Y. Rangers 3, Philadelphia 2 Ottawa 3, New Jersey 2, OT Edmonton 4, Chicago 3