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City vehicles adding GPS for efficiency, accountability

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$50,000 system will allow supervisors to monitor locations and speeds of vehicles and equipment

By Mark Fagan mfagan@ljworld.com

performed illegal abortions and falsified reports about some procedures to the state, which it denies. Stegall also initially represented Kline in professional disciplinary proceedings stemming from his investigations of abortion providers.

Kline, a Republican, was attorney general in 2003-07, and, after he lost his bid for re-election, Johnson County district attorney in 2007-08. He filed the criminal case against Planned Parenthood’s clinic as district attorney, and it’s still pending, though legal disputes kept it from moving forward. A disciplinary hearing for Kline is scheduled for February on allegations that he made false statements and allowed subordinates to mislead other state officials during investigations of abortion providers. Kline strongly disputes the accusations, calling

The hands-on work of collecting trash, plowing streets and plugging broken waterlines is about to get a high-tech assist.

Beginning next month, new GPS units will be installed on dozens of trucks and other pieces of equipment owned and operated by the city of Lawrence for basic municipal services: collecting and disposing of solid waste, repairing and clearing public streets, and We’re replacing and using unplugging the separate pipes technology that carry water to better, and sewage. more The intent: Work faster, plan efficiently better and, per- deploy our haps, spend less resources. That’s doing it. increasingly important “We’re using technology to when we have limited better, more effi- resources.” ciently deploy our resources,” — Lawrence City Manager David Corliss said David Corliss, city manager. “That’s increasingly important when we have limited resources.”

Lawrence city commissioners voted Tuesday to spend $50,199 on the system for 2011. The total includes buying actual GPS units — 35 for trash trucks, 32 for utilities vehicles and 26 for street division trucks and equipment — and a year’s worth of monitoring service through Networkfleet Inc., based in San Diego.

The units will allow supervisors to monitor the precise locations, speeds and, in some cases, even activities of GPS-equipped vehicles and equipment. The street division’s dump trucks, for example, will have special “diagnostic” units that will sense when a snowplow is scraping ice or snow from a road surface, and when a spreader is spraying salt and sand to improve traction.

At some point, the city may make such information available to anyone with Internet access, said Chuck Soules, the city’s director of public works.

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VINCENT OTCHERE, 7, casts a glance at Patrick Soo, 7, as he feigns aggravation while the two construct New Year’s Eve party hats during the Holiday Happenings camp Tuesday at the Holcom Park Recreation Center. The kids will get to sport their party hats at the end of the weeklong camp when they attend an overnight party at Holcom on New Year’s Eve.

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Brownback picks Kline’s former attorney to be general counsel for governor’s office Caleb Stegall is a Lawrence native and KU grad currently serving as Jefferson County attorney

By John Hanna Associated Press Writer

TOPEKA — A northeast Kansas county prosecutor who’s previously represented missionaries detained in Haiti and former Attorney General Phill Kline will be Gov.-elect Sam Brownback’s top staff lawyer.

Jefferson County Attorney Caleb Stegall will become the general counsel for the governor’s office when Brownback is sworn in Jan. 10. He referred questions Tuesday to Brownback’s transition team, after the governor-elect issued a statement saying he’s pleased that Stegall agreed to join the administration.

“Caleb will bring strong legal experience to the governor’s office,“ Brownback said.

It’s the second time in less than a week that someone with a tie to Kline, a Republican who became a national figure for investigating abortion providers, has been named to an important job in state government. Last week, Secretary of State-elect Kris Kobach announced that he’d picked Kline’s former top deputy as assistant secretary of state.

But Stegall, a Republican like Brownback, also received national attention earlier this year for representing four Baptist missionaries detained in Haiti after being charged with child trafficking for trying to take 33 children out of that nation. His clients included a youth pastor from Topeka.

Most of the missionaries, including Stegall’s clients, were

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jailed for three weeks in Haiti but released, returning to the U.S. without facing the charges.

They said they were told the children were orphans whom they’d planned to take them to the Dominican Republic to care for them at a hotel there. The Associated Press determined that the children still had parents, however.

Stegall represented Kline in a legal dispute with a Planned Parenthood clinic in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, over Kline’s attempts to pursue criminal charges that the clinic

Berry Plastics, Plastikon Industries to be major business projects next year

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

Lawrence’s business environment in 2011 is expected to be twosided — and that’s a good thing, local economic development professionals say.

Beth Johnson, vice president of economic development for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said she’s looking forward to major projects on both the east and west sides of Lawrence.

On the west side, Berry Plastics is expected to begin construction on a new 675,000-square-foot distribution center. On the east side, Plastikon Industries is expected to com-

plete its move into the East Hills will end up being the largest in DouBusiness Park. glas County. The site for the distri“Those projects definitely give us bution center, which is just west of something new to talk the Lecompton interabout with site selectors,” change on the Kansas Johnson said. “The conTurnpike, is expected to sultants want to hear and add momentum to efforts see new information. They to use the interchange as a don’t want to just hear the way to attract companies same old things about how that want easy access to we have a great communiInterstate 70. Two other ty and a great education sites have been proposed Part 5 in a series: system, and a great work for industrial uses near the force, which is all true, but interchange, although both BUSINESS it is not new.” have faced opposition from Both projects are neighbors. expected to make a splash. The “I-70 is a huge benefit to the comBerry Plastics deal is estimated at munity, and we have to learn to take $20 million, and the building likely advantage of it,” Johnson said.

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The Plastikon project is expected to make a different kind of impact.

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The biggest question in the Lawrence business community may be whether consumers will join the fun in 2011. City Commissioner Aron Cromwell, right, who, if tradition holds, will take over as mayor in April, said he thinks the city’s retail scene will pick up steam in 2011.

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DEATHS DONA MAXINE ROBERTS NORTON — Funeral service for Dona Maxine Roberts, Norton, 83, will be at 11 a.m.

Thursday at Enfield Funeral Home, 215 W. Main, Norton.

Mrs. Roberts, the mother of Gary Roberts of

Lawrence, died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

B ETTY B RUNE Services for Elizabeth “Betty” Josephine Brune, 86, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m.

Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Cremation will follow the service.

Mrs. Brune died Monday, Dec. 27, 2010, at her home.

She was born Jan. 9, 1924, in Hays, the daughter of Joseph Jesse Svoboda and Florence Clara Saindon Svoboda Jilka. She graduated from Kansas University.

Mrs. Brune was an elementary school teacher for many years in the Lawrence area, teaching at Fairview, Cordley, Centennial and Broken Arrow schools. She enjoyed gardening, bird watching, reading and music.

She married Danny Rothwell Brune on Nov. 6, 1943. He died in March of 2007.

She was also preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, Joe Jr., Lloyd, and Floyd.

Survivors include three sons, Daniel C. Brune, Tempe, Ariz., Albert W. Brune, Lawrence, and Stuart

F. Brune, Duvall, Wash.; one daughter, Marilyn J. Brune, Eudora; a brother, Charles Svoboda, Brune Kansas City, Mo.; a sister, Norma Hamrick, Lawrence; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, where the family will receive them from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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The family suggests memorials to the Douglas County Visiting Nurses, Rehabilitation, and Hospice Care, Lawrence Memorial Hospital Oncology, Lawrence Humane Society, or Independence Inc., sent in care of the funeral home, 601 Ind., Lawrence, KS 66044.

Online condolences may be sent at rumsey-yost.com.

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“You get up in the morning, see there’s 15 inches of snow, and you’re wondering how you’ll get to work,” Soules said. “You can open this and see which roads we’ve been on and which ones we haven’t been on.”

The units will begin arriving in January, with installation expected to be complete in the spring, he said.

Other benefits of the system, Soules said: ● Efficiency. Supervisors will be able to track trash trucks as they make their daily rounds, to see where routes could be adjusted to save time and fuel — and exactly which truck would be closest to anyone calling in a

“missed” collection. ● Accountability. Supervisors hearing reports of a city truck barreling through a residential area will be able to check the claim within moments, simply by looking at a truck’s data on a computer screen.

Businesses with fleets large and small already use such technology to improve efficiency and service, Soules said, and it makes sense to extend such capabilities to appropriate municipal motor pools.

“We’re dealing with public money,” Soules said. “We have to be accountable.”

— Schools reporter Mark Fagan can be reached at 832-7188.

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them politically motivated.

Stegall also represented Eric Rucker, who served as Kline’s top deputy both in the attorney general and Johnson County district attorney’s off ice, when Rucker faced a disciplinary complaint.

In August, a state panel informally admonished Rucker for not correcting information provided to the Kansas Supreme Court about Kline’s abortion investigations. But he’d initially been accused of more serious misconduct, and Stegall described the outcome as a vindication of Rucker.

Kobach said Rucker had been “completely exonerated” as he appointed him his top assistant.

In 2008, Stegall also represented four Wyandotte County residents in an unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to block construction of a stateowned casino at Kansas Speedway, the NASCAR track in Kansas City, Kan. Stegall, 39, is a Lawrence native who now lives in Perry, about 10 miles to the northwest. He received his law degree from Kansas University in 1999 and was elected Jefferson County attorney in 2008. Republicans in the county will name a replacement for him once he joins Brownback’s administration.

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Kan. rescinds moratorium on water rights for aquifer

By Bill Draper Associated Press Writer

K A N S A S C I T Y , M O . — The Kansas Department of Agriculture’s water resources division has lifted a six-year moratorium on new permits to draw water from the Ozark aquifer after a U.S. Geological Survey study showed three times more water available in the aquifer than what was authorized for use.

That’s in contrast to aquifer use in southwest Missouri, where the same 2009 study warned that some areas could go dry if there’s even slight growth over the next 50 years.

“Most of the water use in the study area that we looked at, which comprises the tristate area of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, over 90 percent is in Missouri,” said Walt Aucott, director of the Kansas Water Science Center in Lawrence, Kan., for the U.S. Geological Survey. “Kansas is down to less than 10 percent of the total water use, in the model.”

Southwest Missouri is

more heavily populated and developed than southeast Kansas, Aucott said, so even a 1 percent increase in use in Missouri would take a toll on water supplies there. Southeast Kansas can greatly increase the amount of water it uses from the aquifer without having the same kind of impact because its use is comparatively low now.

Dave Barfield, chief engineer with the water resources division in Kansas, rescinded the moratorium this week. It was implemented in 2004 because of concerns that the aquifer’s water supply was running out.

The moratorium mainly affected municipalities where the aquifer is a prime source of city water. There is much more industrial and agricultural use of the water on the Missouri side, in addition to municipal use, he said.

“It certainly is a relief to our users in southeast Kansas, particularly the city of Pittsburg,” Barfield said.

“Pittsburg and others were concerned about where their water supply would be. Now

they know they can continue to grow from the Ozark aquifer, as opposed to going somewhere else for their water.”

Kansas law controls use of water in the state, while there are no such controls in Missouri, Barfield said.

“It’s sort of a western state law vs. an eastern state,” he said. “In western states, water is more limited, and so the state has mechanisms to control the use through the doctrine of prior appropriations. In Kansas, you have to get a water right. Missouri is an eastern state. They don’t control the use of water there. That’s why there are bigger problems on the Missouri side than the Kansas side.”

The 2009 study was a product of the Kansas moratorium, Aucott said.

“One of the things driving the need of this study was the moratorium put on by the state of Kansas for new well permits,” he said. “That created a lot of need to assess the resource closer than had been done before.”

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for four years, so this will help get more excitement going at East Hills,” Johnson said. “But the best part is that jobs really fit our community.”

The biggest question in the Lawrence business community may be whether consumers will join the fun in 2011. City Commissioner Aron Cromwell — who, if tradition holds, will take over as mayor in April — said he thinks the city’s retail scene will pick up steam in 2011.

“I believe very strongly that we have been spared the worst of the economic downturn here in Lawrence,” Cromwell said, pointing to unemployment numbers that are better than the national average.

“I would anticipate that in 2011 residents will become less susceptible to the national media reports about the economy and will start looking at the Lawrence economy and spending a little bit more.”

Figuring out how to boost retail spending is expected to get some attention at City Hall. The city’s Retail Task Force is scheduled to deliver its report to commissioners early in the year. The report likely will recommend ways the community can cut down on the number of residents who leave the city to shop.

The report comes on the heels of one of the City Commission’s more controversial subjects of 2010: a decision to reject a plan for a Lowe’s home improvement store near Sixth

DODGE CITY (AP) — A Montezuma man who won a seat in the Kansas House in August has been chosen to fill an empty seat in the state Senate instead.

Garrett Love was elected Monday in Ford County to replace state Sen. Tim Huelskamp in the 38th District in the Kansas Senate. Huelskamp will take Rep. Jerry Moran’s seat in the U.S. House. Moran will replace LEGISLATURE outgoing Sen. Sam Brownback when Brownback becomes governor in January.

Love defeated former state Rep. Melvin Neufeld during a nominating convention hosted by the Ford County Republican Central Committee in Dodge City. Love also defeated Neufeld in August in the August primary for the GOP seat in the Kansas House.

The Dodge City Daily Globe reports that a convention to fill Love’s vacant seat in the Kansas House is tentatively set for Jan. 7.

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1 I ISLAMABAD

Coalition partner quits Cabinet Pakistan’s U.S.-allied ruling party suffered a fresh blow to its fragile hold on power Tuesday when a coalition partner said it will quit the cabinet, deepening the nation’s political turmoil and potentially distracting Islamabad from helping American forces target militants.

New elections could lead to the emergence of a government not as friendly to U.S. interests and less vocal in opposing the Taliban.

Still, even if the government changes — a prospect that is not at all certain — the country’s new leaders will be faced with the same seemingly intractable challenges as their predecessors: a feeble economy, chronic power shortages and rebuilding after this year’s horrendous flooding.

And they will have to navigate the delicate partnership between their military, the nation’s most powerful institution, and the U.S., which provides billions in aid, to target al-Qaida and Taliban fighters who use Pakistani territory to plan attacks on Western troops in neighboring Afghanistan.

The current government “is not only too weak to meet the U.S.’s short-term priorities even if it wanted to, it’s already too weak to meets the long-term priorities that would give Pakistan stability,” said Anthony Cordesman, an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

2 I NEW MEXICO

Pardon of Billy the Kid called for More people say they favor a pardon for Billy the Kid than oppose the idea after Gov. Bill Richardson’s office set up a website and e-mail address to take comments on a possible posthumous pardon for one of New Mexico’s most famous Old West outlaws.

Richardson’s office received 809 e-mails and letters in the survey that ended Sunday. Some 430 argued for a pardon and 379 opposed it.

The website was created in mid-December after Albuquerque attorney Randi McGinn petitioned for a pardon, contending New Mexico Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace promised one in return for the Kid’s testimony in a murder case against three men.

Richardson term ends Friday, leaving him only a few days to decide whether to pardon the Kid in the 1878 killing of Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady.

“I might not pardon him. But then I might,” Richardson told The Associated Press last week.

His successor, incoming Gov. Susana Martinez, has already said she won’t be wasting her time on a pardon.

No fare: Tipsy Taxi will give rides home to drunken revelers ————

Public donations sought to help fund New Year’s Eve service

By Aleese Kopf

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Unfortunately, with all the state budget cuts, covering a major difference could be problematic so we really need Intoxicated revelers who for- folks to help out.” akopf@ljworld.com

got to assign their designated drivers will have another option this New Year’s Eve. Thanks to the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism and several local restaurants, bars and residents, Tipsy Taxi will be back again.

Tipsy Taxi is a free taxi service coordinated by DCCCA to provide safe rides home for Lawrence residents. Last year the program provided free cab rides to 420 people.

The service, now in its 27th year, is funded through donations from the public. But funds for the Tipsy Taxi program are coming up short this year. Last year the cost for the Ground Transportation Inc. taxi service alone was close to $1,300.

Jen Brinkerhoff, director of prevention at DCCCA, said that so far this year the center has received only about $850 in donations. Brigg’s Auto Group has provided the largest donation, with $500. Johnny’s Tavern,

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Just another day at the fake beach

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Restrained man chews way to freedom

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IRIS BRANDEN, 6, FOREGROUND, AND HER SISTER SOPHIE BRANDEN, 7, MAKE SANDCASTLES at Dad Perry Park on Monday in 40-degree weather. Sandcastle-making weather may last the rest of the week as unseasonably warm temperatures are predicted to reach the 60s by Thursday.

4 I ALASKA

Judge clears way for Murkowski’s win A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by Republican Joe Miller and lifted a stay on certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate election, clearing the way for Sen. Lisa Murkowski to officially be declared the winner.

The rulings by U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline mean Alaska state officials will certify the November election results Thursday. That will allow Murkowski to be sworn in when the new term of Congress convenes next week, and make her the first U.S. Senate candidate since 1954 to win with a write-in campaign.

“This is the best possible outcome for us,” her campaign manager, Kevin Sweeney, said Tuesday.

Miller, a tea party favorite who defeated Murkowski in Alaska’s GOP primary only to be confronted with her more-energetic November write-in campaign, could still appeal. He has said he’s willing to go to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary — and that one of his main goals is to ensure there’s an accurate, fair vote tally. But he also has said he is taking his legal steps one at a time.

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By Mark Fagan mfagan@ljworld.com

Amarr Garage Doors laid off 19 manufacturing employees this week in Lawrence, citing a seasonal downturn in residential and commercial construction nationwide.

The layoffs affected full-time workers on all three shifts at the manufacturing plant at the southeastern edge of Lawrence, at 3800 Greenway Circle in the East Hills Business Park. Most of the affected employees learned of the layoffs Tuesday, but some had been notified late Monday.

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“Obviously, we’re tied to the construction market, and the construction sector,” said Delbert Phlipot, vice president for manufacturing at Amarr, which is based in Winston-Salem, N.C. “Construction usually slows in the winter months.”

The company still has about 480 employees working at the 411,000-square-foot plant, which produces garage doors that are sold through more than 3,000 independent dealers and some major retailers, including Costco and — under private labels — Sears and Lowe’s Home Improvement Centers.

The company also made a

Parents fear more school budget cuts

By John Milburn

3 I WASHINGTON

The King County sheriff’s office says a 92-year-old Shoreline man chewed through restraints to free himself after two men robbed his house.

Sgt. John Urquhart says that on Monday two men knocked on Lester Matteson’s door and asked to use his phone, claiming their car had broken down. But once they entered, the men grabbed the victim’s arms and held them while they used masking tape to tape him to a chair.

Urquhart says the men ransacked the house, eventually taking off with more than $400 in cash and the victim’s 2000 Ford pickup truck.

It took Matteson two hours to chew through the masking tape. Other than bruises, he was not injured.

Matteson tells KOMO-TV he wasn’t frightened, but at his age, “you don’t wrestle two young men.”

And he says he’s learned his lesson: “Watch out who you let in.”

The robbers are still at large.

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PARENT VOLUNTEER ALEE PHILLIPS cuts apart laminated items Dec. 17 at Cordley School. Budget cuts in — Jen Brinkerhoff, director of prevention at DCCCA the district have parents now doing tasks once performed by staff as the difficult to receive in recent state continues to struggle with eduTIPSY TAXI years, demand has increased. cation funding.

About 420 people caught rides Tipsy Taxi service last year, but Reynaldo Puentes, When: 11 p.m.-3 a.m. Dec. 31-Jan. 1 owner of Ground TransportaWhere: Any residence in Lawrence, tion Inc., said close to 700 or 800 just call 842-TAXI (8294) and ask for people actually called for rides.

Tipsy Taxi.

Tipsy Taxi donations can be sent to: Puentes has eight drivers scheduled for the night, but said he DCCCA, 3312 Clinton Parkway, hopes for at least two more.

Lawrence, KS 66047.

“Callers need to know that Call Jen Brinkerhoff at 841-4138 for they should call at least 45 minmore information. utes to an hour ahead of time, All donations are tax deductible. because it takes time to get there and it’s impossible to get there immediately,” Puentes said. the Community Mercantile and He also said that the drivers at least six others have donated sometimes have trouble finding as well. callers, who leave where they “Unfortunately, with all the said they would be. state budget cuts, covering a Regardless of the time, the major difference could be prob- service is worth the wait if it lematic so we really need folks to means not driving home drunk. help out,” Brinkerhoff said.

While funding has been more

handful of seasonal layoffs at a smaller manufacturing center in Mocksville, N.C., Phlipot said.

“We don’t anticipate any future reductions,” said Scott Carpenter, an Amarr spokesman.

Affected workers have not been offered severance packages or outplacement services, Phlipot said, although there could be potential for rehiring some displaced workers when and if construction activity picks back up.

Cordley School used to have up to a dozen volunteers helping students with reading, writing and math, but now parents do clerical work to help make up for staff cuts.

The reductions were one effect of Kansas’ budget problems. With less state aid, Lawrence schools have been forced to cut nearly $8 million in spending over the past two years.

Things are not likely to get better. Kansas raised its sales tax this year to help make up for the loss of federal economic stimulus funds next year, but when the Legislature convenes and Gov.elect Sam Brownback takes office Jan. 10, they’ll be looking at a $500 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year that starts July 1. It’s a gap that could lead to more spending cuts across the state.

At Cordley, parents like Alee Phillips aren’t sure how long they’ll be making copies, laminating posters or filling out paperwork.

“I hope it’s not the new reality.

Districts have to deal with the resources they are provided,” said Phillips, who has two children at the school. “I think it’s a scary time with education funding.”

Public schools in Kansas had a few years of relative prosperity before the Great Recession began, thanks to a lawsuit that forced legislators to increase education aid. But with aid to public schools consuming more than half of the state’s tax dollars, it has been a natural target for cuts in tough times.

School districts have responded by cutting more than 1,600 jobs in the past year, consolidating buildings, cutting programs and laying off teachers.

Lawrence schools have about 11 ,000 students and 1 ,600 employees, with a monthly payroll of $4.5 million.

— Schools reporter Mark Fagan can be reached at 832-7188.

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• Douglas County prosecutors on Tuesday filed an aggravated assault charge against a 46year-old Lawrence man who was accused of threatening his girlfriend with a knife during an argument at 10 p.m. Sunday in the 600 block of Schwarz Road.

The girlfriend, 39, of Lawrence, also alleged he verbally threatened her, said Sgt. Matt Sarna, a Lawrence police spokesman. Police arrested John Paul Cron at 5 p.m. Monday in connection with the case, and prosecutors filed the charge against him Tuesday. A judge set his bond at $10,000, cash or surety. • A 24-year-old Lawrence man was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital early Sunday after a fight at The Ranch, 2515 W. Sixth St. Sarna said the man had a possible broken nose and cut to the head. Witnesses told police he was possibly involved in a fight with an unidentified white man who left the area before police arrived. The victim refused to give information to police, Sarna said. • A 37-year-old Lawrence woman alleged her brother threatened her and pulled a knife during a disturbance at 8:30 p.m. Monday in the 1900 block of East 19th Street. Police later arrested the 32-year-old

Lawrence man on an aggravated assault charge. He remained in the Douglas County Jail Tuesday, but prosecutors had not yet filed official charges. • Rueschhoff Security alerted Lawrence police to a possible break-in at midnight Sunday at the Lawrence Food Mart, 3300 W. Sixth St. A glass door, valued at $1,000, was damaged and $50 worth of cigarettes were taken, according to the police report. • Douglas County prosecutors have filed two misdemeanor charges of operating an open saloon against an owner of a Baldwin City bar. Douglas Scott Delaney, 51, of Baldwin City, an owner of The Salt Mine, 301 Ames St., posted $100 bond Tuesday after he turned himself in to be booked at the Douglas County Jail.

Baldwin City Police Chief Greg Neis said Delaney was cited twice, once on June 13 and once on Aug. 21, because it’s alleged he consumed alcohol after hours at the bar. Delaney is next scheduled to appear in court on the charges Jan. 5.

INJURY ACCIDENT Two Franklin County residents were injured early Tuesday in a one-vehicle rollover accident on Kansas Highway 68 after the driver swerved to avoid a deer.

According to the Franklin

County Sheriff’s office, 39-yearold Patricia Sleichter of Quenemo was headed west in a 1998 Pontiac Grand Am at 1:35 a.m. about 1 mile east of the Osage County line.

Her passenger, 32-year-old Gerald Trinkle of Ottawa, told officers she swerved to miss a deer and the car rolled off the highway.

Sleichter was flown via helicopter ambulance to Overland Park Regional Medical Center, and Trinkle was taken via a ground ambulance to the same hospital.

ACCIDENT UPDATES Lawrence police are awaiting blood-test results to see if alcohol contributed to a one-vehicle accident that injured a Topeka man Saturday in western Lawrence.

Sgt. Matt Sarna, a Lawrence police spokesman, said Tuesday that officers were also still trying to determine how fast 24year-old Randal Hogue was driving before his gold 2004 Chrysler Sebring rolled over at the intersection of Clinton Parkway and Lake Pointe Drive.

Police released more information about the accident that occurred 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

Sarna said evidence at the scene indicated Hogue was driving west on Clinton Parkway, and that skid marks on the pavement indicate he tried to slow down before entering the roundabout at Lake Pointe Drive.

But the vehicle slid sideways into the landscaping curb, and the car rolled over and landed upside down in the middle section of the roundabout. Hogue, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected through the driver’s side window, Sarna said.

Sarna said Hogue was listed in stable condition Tuesday at a Topeka-area hospital. He was flown via helicopter ambulance to Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center. • Lawrence police on Tuesday released an accident report from a Dec. 16 car and bicycle collision in the 1300 block of Kasold Drive.

Police said the accident occurred when the bicyclist, 76year-old Paul Enos of Lawrence, made an unsafe lane change and failed to see a Toyota Prius, driven by 89-year-old George Berlin, in the inside lane. Berlin couldn’t stop in time, and his car struck Enos, who was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for treatment.

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WICHITA (AP) — Wichita police say a 40-year-old man found dead in his home might have been the victim of a fight over a game of dominoes.

KWCH-TV reported that Christopher Rackham was found stabbed to death on Christmas Eve. Police said a 50-year-old man is accused of second-degree murder and was to be charged Tuesday.

Rackham’s roommate says he was asleep when the stabbing occurred at the apartment. He says Rackham and the suspect — a frequent visitor — did not get along but were hanging out together on Christmas Eve.

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Boulder County sets 2025 zero-waste goal BOULDER, COLO. (AP) — Boulder commissioners have approved a plan to achieve a goal of becoming a zero-waste county by 2025.

The commissioners adopted the plan earlier this month that outlines 28 recommendations to divert most waste from landfills. About 35 percent of waste throughout the county Heath Downing, landscaper, Lawrence “Just grabbing a sled and darting down a hill.�

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. (AP) — Lawmakers headed to the Missouri Capitol are likely to encounter some lobbying from a puppy.

Backers of a successful November ballot measure increasing regulations for dog breeders are erecting billboards along major highways leading into Jefferson City. The signs feature a picture of a springer spaniel puppy and the words, “Missouri voters have spoken. Will you listen?�

State Sen. Bill Stouffer, of Napton, already has filed legislation to repeal the ballot initiative. He says voters were misled about the measure, which would limit licensed businesses to 50 breeding dogs and impose various requirements about their care.

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Holiday break a chance to show family some love

By Wes Crenshaw and Ben Markley

Wes: Christmas 2010 is now in the memory book.

High school and junior high students have a few days left of vacation, college kids won’t head back to dorms or apartments until mid-January. So it’s tempting to cram in a lot of intense family time over the holidays, especially if your child’s been away since September or you’re a noncustodial parent of a younger teen, and this is “your” holiday. Before decking the halls with lots of activities, put yourself in your kid’s shoes. Reflect a moment on your own adolescence, and how different this time of year is when you were 17 than when you are, say, 40.

For adults the holidays bring times of family celebration, travel and togetherness.

For teens it’s a time for rest, relaxation, hanging out with

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friends and trying to forget the pain of finals, while suppressing the dread of what terror next semester’s Advanced Calc might hold.

That’s even truer for kids already in the work force. It’s been a tough year for employment-seeking youths and those who have jobs are often thankful to have any break from the workaday world. As parents we’ve long adapted to that daily routine. Our kids are just getting the hang of it.

So as you are surveying your crashed-out teens this holiday season, lounging nonproductively on the couch, texting or improving their kill-to-death ratio on “Call of Duty,” try not to be disappointed at their lack of spirit. Make them a sandwich, give them a hug and realize that in doing so you may be giving the most precious holiday gifts of all: space and time. They don’t call it “Christmas Break” for nothing.

Ben: The holidays are a great time for family and friends. I’ve spent every Christmas at home with my family, and I’ve spent the last three years bringing in the new year with a handful of close friends. I’m one of those people who got away with having a great family and great friends, and that’s something I try to appreciate over the holiday season.

Family is something to be

cherished. I know that your posse’s idea of a good time may be more up your alley, but posses come and go.

Some of you are fortunate enough to have lifelong friends, but all of us have lifelong families. Show them some love over break. It doesn’t matter how crummy your Christmas gifts to them were.

Your time is a gift. Give it.

— Dr. Wes Crenshaw is a boardcertified family psychologist and director of the Family Therapy Institute Midwest. Ben Markley is a senior at Free State High School.

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The district trimmed its spending by laying off paraprofessionals who worked with special education students, reducing the number of days teachers work and increasing the studentteacher ratio by one student, a move that may seem small but saved more than $1 million in one year.

Many districts have reserve funds — something Republicans who opposed the sales tax increase noted.

Brownback said in a recent interview that he hopes to give districts more flexibility to use that money to tide them over.

But Lawrence Superintendent Rick Doll said that without clear direction from the state, districts are reluctant to tap reserves much more.

Once the money set aside for emergencies is gone, it’s gone.

“If the Legislature would say that funding wouldn’t be cut, then we would be much more likely to dip into our contingency because (right now) we don’t know that there is light at the end of the tunnel,” Doll said.

Kansas law sets schools’ base state aid at $4,400 per student, with extra money for at-risk students and those with limited English skills.

But the base aid districts actually receive has fallen to $4,012, about where it was six years ago.

Schools would be getting even less were it not for the sales tax increase and federal

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stimulus. To avoid more cuts in education funding, the state will have to make up for the loss of $192 million in stimulus dollars during the next fiscal year, something legislators don’t think is likely.

Senate Majority Leader Jay Emler, a Lindsborg Republican, said districts “need to be realistic” in their expectations.

“Just with all of the things that we are required by law to fund, there isn’t enough money to go around,” Emler said.

Some parents and school districts have already lost patience with the state.

Attorneys representing 63 districts and 32 students filed a lawsuit in November in Shawnee County District Court, demanding that the state restore funding for schools. The lawsuit claims the state is shirking its responsibility under the Kansas Constitution to provide an adequate education to all students.

The same attorneys were behind a lawsuit that led to the 2005 and 2006 Kansas Supreme Court rulings that forced legislators to boost spending on public schools.

Their latest case is a response to the state going back on

those increases.

Meanwhile, in Lawrence, there are fewer pencils and less paper for students after the district cut spending on supplies. Teachers complain of the stress of trying to do more with fewer resources.

“I worry about our novice teachers who are just starting,” said Valerie JohnsonPowell, president of the Lawrence Education Association and 29-year veteran in the district. “This stress is extremely hard on teachers’ health, including mine.“ Teachers also feel frustrated because the budget, not students, has become the focus of attention, she said.

“I love working with my students,“ said Johnson-Powell, a speech and language pathologist. ”That gets lost in all the rhetoric about the budget. We teach because it is in our blood.”

Parents say the most glaring change is the absence of support staff who once helped teachers reach students who were falling behind in math and reading.

Phillips said she would love to return to Cordley’s classrooms to work directly with teachers and students.

“I’m not doing that now,” she said. “I’m in the lounge making photocopies.”

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Sgt. Matt Sarna, Lawrence police spokesman, said patrols will be normal on the holiday. Patrols with the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office also will remain at the normal level. Officials stressed planning ahead, calling other means of transportation such as taxis or friends, promptly reporting drunken drivers and wearing seat belts.

According to the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office website, statewide in 2007 there were 3,292 alcoholrelated crashes that resulted in 118 deaths and 1,944 injuries. During New Year’s last year, the Kansas Highway Patrol recorded 58 alcoholrelated crashes, 20 injury crashes and one fatal crash.

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Ski lift accident sends 8 to hospital

By Glenn Adams Associated Press Writer

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, MAINE — A 35-year-old chair lift due to be replaced failed Tuesday in high winds at a Maine resort, sending skiers — some of them children — plummeting into ungroomed snow far below that fell with the Northeast’s recent blizzard and softened the landing. At least eight were injured.

Five adults and three children were taken to hospitals after the double-chair lift at Sugarloaf derailed during a busy vacation week at the resort 120 miles north of Portland. Dozens of skiers remained on the crippled lift for more than an hour until the ski patrol could get them down.

It’s unclear whether the accident was wind-related or mechanical, officials said. The ski resort was being buffeted by winds gusting up to 40 mph a day after the blizzard blew through. A witness said he saw someone working on the lift before the derailment.

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THIS PHOTO PROVIDED BY AL NOYES SHOWS skiers and lift chairs on the slope after a lift derailed on the state’s tallest ski mountain Tuesday at the Sugarloaf resort in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.

The resort said the lift, which recently passed an inspection, was due to be replaced — possibly as early as this coming summer — partly because of vulnerability to wind. Five chairs fell 25 to 30 feet onto a ski trail below, Sugarloaf spokesman Ethan Austin said.

Rebecca London, one of the skiers who tumbled to the snow, told The Associated Press that her face hit a retaining bar but her goggles

spared her from serious injury. She credited new snow underneath the lift with a soft landing; the resort said it got 20 to 22 inches in Monday’s storm.

“Thankfully, they didn’t groom it last night, so they left it like it was,” London said. “So the snow was all soft.”

Most of the skiers who fell appeared to be stunned but OK, she said, and the ski patrol was on the scene with-

in minutes to treat the injured. London, 20, of Carrabassett Valley, said she wasn’t hurt badly enough to go to a hospital.

Jay Marshall, who was on a lift that was parallel to the one that broke, said his lift was moving but the other was not. There was a “loud snapping noise” after the lift restarted, he said, then some screams.

“The next thing I know, it was bouncing up and down like a yo-yo,” said Marshall, of Carrabassett Valley. He said it was too difficult to watch, so he looked away. “It was terrifying,” he said.

Marshall said there was a worker atop the tower where the lift’s cable derailed but noted that could have been a coincidence. It’s not uncommon to see workers on the lift towers, he said.

All told, there were about 150 skiers on the lift at the time, according to Sugarloaf, operated by Boyne Falls, Mich.-based Boyne Resorts.

Sugarloaf workers used a pulley-like system to lower skiers to safety.

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Notable Domestic box-office revenues for 2010 won’t quite hit last year’s record-setting haul, but they’ll be awfully close. Total movie-ticket sales will reach $10.556 billion, the tracking agency Hollywood.com said Tuesday. That’s a slight decrease from the $10.6 billion total from 2009, but it’s also only the second time that the annual box office has crossed the $10 billion mark. ● Change is soon coming to the White House economic team, with President Barack Obama set to announce a new top adviser who will have broad influence over the administration’s efforts to jump-start the struggling economy. Obama is expected to announce a replacement for departing National Economic Council director Lawrence Summers early in the new year. The president’s choice is being closely watched for signs of where he wants to take his economic agenda in the second half of his term, and how he looks to bring down the almost double-digit unemployment rate.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Holiday spending surged this year, but Americans still have their doubts about the economy.

With unemployment high and home prices falling in the nation’s largest cities, consumer confidence took an unexpected turn for the worse in December.

The decline followed two months of rising optimism.

Economists say the economic recovery is likely to be less fitful next year.

“The modest drop in the confidence index is not worrisome,” said Omair Sharif, economist at RBS Economics Research. “What matters to us — and to the economy — is that consumers are getting out there and spending. We’re looking at the best holiday season for retailers in five years.”

Busy malls in December are a big reason economists are less concerned about the latest consumer confidence figures. There’s also a slew of data that suggest next year will be brighter. Layoffs are slowing, businesses are investing money in computers and equipment, and the stock market has risen to its highest point in two years.

Still, consumers are not quite convinced.

The Conference Board, a private research group, said its Consumer Confidence Index fell to 52.5 in December, down from a revised 54.3 in the November survey. It takes a reading of 90 to indicate a healthy economy. The last time the index was that high was in December 2007, just as the recession began.

Among the 5,000 people

surveyed this month, many expressed concerns about jobs. Fewer see them as “plentiful.” More described them as “hard to get.” The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in November, and only 39,000 net jobs were created that month.

Chris G. Christopher Jr., senior principal economist at IHS Global Insight, cautioned not to read too much into one report. A downward trend over several months would be more worrisome.

Same goes for the holiday sales data, which showed shoppers spending at the fastest pace since 2006. Key areas such as jewelry, home furnishings and consumer electronics are still below pre-recession levels. Many retailers offered discounts on holiday merchandise starting in late October and free shipping to lure buyers back.

Christopher will have a better sense of consumers’ mood when he sees how they spend after the holidays.

“There was a lot of unleashing of pent-up demand,” Christopher said. “Things are getting better, but there are still a lot of negatives.”

The biggest may be the decline in home prices in the largest U.S. cities. Every city in the Standard & Poor’s/CaseShiller 20-city home price index posted a decline from September to October. The last time that happened was in February 2009.

Prices are expected to keep falling through the middle of next year, as fewer people purchase homes and millions of foreclosed homes come on to the market.

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H O N O L U L U — Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere.

Abercrombie was a friend of Obama’s parents and knew him as a child, and is deeply troubled by the effort to cast doubt on the president’s citizenship.

The newly elected governor will ask the state attorney general’s office about what can be done to put an end to questions about Obama’s birth documentation from Aug. 4, 1961, spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Tuesday.

“He had a friendship with Mr. Obama’s parents, and so there is a personal issue at hand,” Dela Cruz said. “Is it going to be done immediately? No, the first thing on our list is the economy.”

It’s unclear what Abercrombie could do because Hawaii’s privacy laws have long barred the release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who doesn’t have a tangible interest.

Hawaii’s health director said last year and in 2008 that she had seen and verified Obama’s original vital records, and birth notices in two Honolulu newspapers were published within days of Obama’s birth at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu.

So-called “birthers” claim Obama is ineligible to be president because they say there’s no proof he was born in the United States, with many of the skeptics questioning whether he was actually born in Kenya, his father’s home country.

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Redistricting game Round and round goes the redistricting wheel. Where Douglas County will end up nobody knows.

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ow that 2010 Census figures have confirmed that Kansas will keep its four seats in the U.S. Congress, political observers are starting to speculate on logical ways to redraw the state’s congressional districts to accommodate the continuing population shift from western Kansas to the northeast corner of the state.

The only problem is that the redistricting process has almost nothing to do with logic and everything to do with politics.

That became painfully obvious to Lawrence residents 10 years ago when the city was split down the middle between the 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts. The only basis on which that division made sense was that it split one of the state’s most reliably Democratic counties in an effort to diminish the influence it would have on congressional elections in either district.

Despite that decision, the 3rd District continued to elect Democrat Dennis Moore throughout the last decade until he announced his retirement this year. He will be replaced by Republican Kevin Yoder, and Kansas again will be represented in Congress by four Republicans.

Republicans generally control the redistricting process in Kansas, but their influence will be even more dominant following November elections that increased their majority in the Kansas Legislature. Interestingly, however, some observers say the redistricting battle still will be contentious, mostly because Republicans will be fighting to keep pockets of Democratic voters out of certain districts.

Because of population shifts, Lawrence and Douglas County again will be in play. Growth in Johnson and Douglas counties in the last decade means that some of the territory in the 3rd District will have to be carved off, probably into the 2nd District. Johnson and Wyandotte counties have about the right population to constitute the 3rd District by themselves. That could mean all of Douglas County goes into the 2nd. That makes a certain amount of sense politically for Republicans because it helps neutralize the only two Kansas counties that reliably vote Democratic: Douglas and Wyandotte.

That would be logical, but, as we said, this process isn’t always logical. Rep. Lynn Jenkins may not want all of Douglas County in her 2nd District. U.S. representatives aren’t directly involved in the redistricting process, but they have their champions among Republican legislators.

Douglas County could make the case that it has significant ties to Johnson County, but it would be hard to trump the ties Johnson County has to Wyandotte County, which are both included in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

State Democratic leaders recognize that they will have little, if any, power over this redistricting process. Douglas County also will be hard-pressed to exert much influence over what district it is placed in or whether it remains whole or is split between two districts.

We have been in this position before, and, fortunately, being a pingpong ball in the redistricting game hasn’t severely damaged Douglas County in the past. Local officials should keep their eye on the upcoming process to make sure it doesn’t go too far awry, but local residents also must recognize that where Lawrence ends up is largely out of our hands.

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Key news Americans may have missed Now that 2010 is almost over, it’s time to look at some of the stories that should have made the front pages throughout the Americas, but didn’t.

If most of us in the media focused on the issues that really matter — rather than on celebrity tragedies or the political scandals of the day — these are some of the stories that would have dominated the news this year: ● “Shanghai tops world education survey:” For the first time, a Chinese city ranked No. 1 in the world’s most recognized standardized test for 15-year-old students, the 65-country Pisa test run by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

In reading comprehension, South Korea ranked No. 2, the United States ranked 17th, Chile 44th, Uruguay 47th, Mexico 48th, Brazil 53rd, Argentina 58th and Peru 63rd. In math, Singapore ranked second, the United States ranked 31st, Uruguay 48th, Chile 49th, Mexico 51st and Argentina 55th.

In a knowledge-based global economy, the Pisa test is considered a key measure of which countries are advancing the most in generating scientists and technologists who will produce increasingly sophisticated goods. While the Pisa test measured just one Chinese city, Shanghai’s performance is seen as proof that China is forming new generations of highly skilled people who may challenge the

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United States ranked 31st, Uruguay 48th, Chile 49th, Mexico 51st and Argentina 55th.”

West’s scientific supremacy. ● “South Korea hits new record of patents:” While the United States remains by far the world’s biggest producer of new inventions, Asian countries are gaining ground, and Latin American countries are falling behind.

South Korea more than doubled its patents over the past decade to reach 8,800 last year, according to the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office. Meanwhile, the number of U.S. patents has dropped slightly over the past 10 years, to 83,400 last year. By comparison, Brazil registered only 103 patents last year, Mexico 60, Argentina 45 and Chile 21 , according to U.S. figures.

● “Brazil becomes new headache for Washington:” Brazil, no longer content with its role as Latin America’s regional leader, sought global prominence in 2010 by defying U.S. and European foreign policies on almost every front, although always with a smooth rhetoric and a polite smile.

Early this year, Brazil — which was criticized by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International for supporting dictatorships around the world — embraced Iran’s regime after the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency concluded that Iran was developing a nuclear program.

More recently, Brazil announced its recognition of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, which did not include east Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip or the West Bank. Israel and the United States criticized the move.

Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff may focus more on domestic issues, and her foreign minister designate, Antonio Patriota — a recent Brazilian ambassador to Washington — is likely to be more moderate than his predecessor. But Brazil, much more than Venezuela, is likely become the biggest new challenge to U.S. and European diplomacy in the global arena. ● “Slow-motion coup in Venezuela”: It’s not making world headlines, because it’s happening on a piecemeal basis, but Venezuela’s narcissist-Lenin-

ist President Hugo Chavez — who lost the majority vote in the 2010 legislative elections — is turning his country into an allout dictatorship.

Shortly before a newly elected Congress is to take office with a greater opposition presence, the Chavez-controlled National Assembly gave him extraordinary powers to rule by decree and passed laws prohibiting television stations from broadcasting news that “foment anxiety” and declared the Internet to be a “public service” which is to be controlled by the state, much like in Cuba, or China. ● “U.S. considers prosecuting Assange:” The Obama administration’s suggestion that it may prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on espionage charges for publishing classified U.S. cables could amount — if carried out — to a devastating blow to press freedom around the world.

Authoritarian governments would feel vindicated, and others would have their best excuse ever to clamp down on the Internet and basic press freedoms.

I readily concede that this list of most important headlines is incomplete. Please feel free to write to me about others I’ve missed. In the meantime, I wish all of you a 2011 with plenty of health, passion, purpose and peace.

— Andres Oppenheimer is a Latin America correspondent for the Miami Herald.

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Big media are Obama lap dogs You don’t have to be a psychic who forecasts future events for supermarket tabloids to accurately predict what awaits the new congressional Republican class of 2011. The writing is already on the computer screens and in the TV teleprompters.

A preview of coming attractions was trotted out during President Obama’s last scheduled news conference of 2010. After spending most of the year worrying about the economy and whether the Democrats could fix it, sycophantic reporters gave new meaning to the term “lapdog.”

Following the lame-duck congressional session that rammed through legislation clearly at odds with the voters’ message in the November election, ABC White House correspondent Jake Tapper offered “congratulations” on the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Tapper then sounded as if he was channeling gay-rights activists when he asked the president whether it is “intellectually consistent to say that gays and lesbians should be able to fight and die for this country, but they should not be able to marry the people they love.”

That prompted an answer from the president that his views on the subject of same-sex “marriage” are “evolving.” Let me go out on a limb and predict they will “evolve” to acceptance, even advocacy, just in time for his reelection campaign.

Mark Knoller of CBS Radio wanted the president to “explain the anger and even outrage many Democrats felt when the tax cut bill extended tax cuts not just for the middle class, but also for the wealthy.” They weren’t tax cuts, but an extension of lower tax rates. The question could have

Cal Thomas tmseditors@tribune.com

The message from the “November election was

about ending Obamism, not expanding it. You wouldn’t know that from the drooling big media …” come straight from the White House press office.

CNN’s Dan Lothian asked about the president’s frequent use of the “car in the ditch” analogy, wondering who the president thinks will be behind the wheel when Republicans take control of the House, and “what do you think Republicans will be sipping and saying next year?”

And so it went with a liberal question about the defeated “Dream Act,” and many other suck-up questions that ought to have embarrassed any selfrespecting journalist.

On MSNBC, Tom Brokaw compared Obama’s year-end legislative successes to Lazarus rising from the dead. As most nationally known journalists are anything but “religious,” that analogy could stump Brokaw’s secular media colleagues. They might even have to look it up, which would not be a bad thing for them to do.

The lapdog big media will predictably question everything the

new Republican House attempts to do, characterizing it as “insensitive,” pro-rich and even inhuman. They will be helped by unions, which will stage demonstrations against any program cuts or attempts to reduce the size and reach of government.

Characters are already in the wings, waiting for their moment on stage.

These will include the elderly, the poor, the homeless and other “victims” who make up much of the Democrat base. They will tell sob stories, and the media will dutifully cover them without fact-checking a single one, much less suggesting such people could better their lives by relying less on government and more on themselves.

As Byron York correctly noted in The Washington Examiner, Democrats will again cry “Washington is broken” after Republicans take control of the House and improve their numbers in the Senate. To them, Washington “works” only when it is passing bills authored by Democrats that cost and tax more, while expanding the size and reach of government.

Washington is “broken” when Republicans say “no” to more dependence on government and yes to liberty, opportunity and personal responsibility.

The message from the November election was about ending Obamism, not expanding it. You wouldn’t know that from the drooling big media, which is already trying to re-establish the liberal narrative that everything Democrats do is good and everything Republicans do is evil. The big question is: What narrative do Republicans have to counter, even replace, the Democrats’ narrative? That I can’t predict, except to say we’ll soon know.

— Cal Thomas is a columnist for Tribune Media Services.

To the editor: This problem may be just a grain of sand on the beach of life, given the state of this world, but I just returned from yet another store where in order to disengage a shopping cart from about 30 of them all jammed together, I had to tug violently at two of them with another customer, each of us at either end of the stuck-together baskets, as though we were engaged in a tug of war. We managed each to get one loose, but not without getting my finger jammed in the process. I am watching the knuckle swell as I type this letter and I fully expect to lose my fingernail.

Almost daily at whatever type of store, I have found carts so tightly forced together that it is only after about five physically taxing tries that I manage to find one that frees itself from its captive companions (and inevitably that’s the cart that only makes left turns).

This time, I took up the matter with a store manager who listened politely and then proceeded to do absolutely nothing, probably rolling his eyes to the ceiling after I quit bothering him. This was despite the “greeter” at that store who was standing there doing nothing, and who could have employed his time productively by separating the baskets for the customers.

Perhaps store owners who provide shopping carts would consider giving a gift to their customers at this festive time of year by making life a bit easier in this respect.

Jan Kozma, Lawrence

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Tafanelli gets first general’s star TOPEKA (AP) — The Kansas National Guard’s next commander has been pinned with his first star to mark his promotion to brigadier general.

The ceremony for Lee Tafanelli, of Ozawkie, was Tuesday at the Guard armory in Topeka. The promotion from colonel was in the works even before Gov.elect Sam Brownback chose him earlier this month to be the new Tafanelli adjutant general.

Tafanelli will assume command when Brownback takes office Jan. 10, though the appointment is subject to state Senate confirmation.

Tafanelli will replace Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting, who is retiring.

Tafanelli’s new rank was approved last week by the U.S. Senate. He eventually expects to get a promotion to major general, which is the traditional rank for the state adjutant.

Tafanelli is also a state representative, but he will give up his House seat.

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The heavy rain helped Confederates thwart the invasion.

Scary Larry Kansas Bike Polo, 7 p.m., Edgewood Park, Maple Lane and Miller Drive.

Theology on Tap, this week’s session is a social gathering to talk about New Year’s resolutions and just hang out, 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. Fuzz Nasty, Right of Way, Yetispeak, 8 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H. The Dirty 30: Part DEUX, 9 p.m., The Granada, 1020 Mass.

Midnight Ghost Train, Molly Gene One Whoaman Band, 10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Mass.

Casbah DJ Night, hear some great tunes by DJ Cyrus D, 10 p.m., The Casbah, 803 Mass.

Brody Buster Band with Brother Bagman, the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Mass.

31 FRIDAY

January

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Jan 4

Douglas County Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Mass.

Conroy’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W. Sixth St. Acoustic Open Mic with Tyler Gregory, 10 p.m., the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Mass.

Dewi Sant, Margo May, 10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Mass.

Casbah Karaoke, stop by after 10:30 p.m. for a low-profile karaoke held in the upper mezzanine. Singers have the option to partake in a Casbah Karaoke Challenge; winners get free prizes. 803 Mass.

New Year’s Eve at The Eldridge, three-course dinner begins at 7 p.m., dancing with the band MultiPhonic begins at 10 p.m., Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass.

New Year’s Eve at the Cave with DJ Max Fanning, doors open at 8 p.m., The Oread, 1200 Oread Ave. (entrance on Indiana Street).

New Year’s Eve Overnighter for children, 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., must register by 5 p.m. through Lawrence Parks and Recreation, Holcom Park Recreation Center, 2700 W. 27th St. New Year’s Eve dinner at Pachamama’s, served 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., 800 N.H. Kelley Hunt New Year’s Eve show and CD release event, 8 p.m., Liberty Hall, 644 Mass.

Big Sexy New Year’s Eve with Appleseed Cast, Approach, Minus Story, The Willnots, 8 p.m., Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Mass.

The Floozies, Beans & Cornbread, Inflect, 8 p.m., the Bottleneck, 737 N.H. New Year’s Eve with Murder

by Death, Black Christmas, BaioWolf, Mansion, appearances by Foxy By Proxy Revue and The Obelisk, 8 p.m., The Granada, 1020 Mass.

Hammerford, Wrath and Ruin, Trogolodyte and DJ Cruz on the Patio, 10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Mass.

New Year’s Eve Reggae Bash, with Ras Neville and the Kingstonians, DJ Stiga, 10 p.m., Fatso’s, 1016 Mass.

New Year’s Eve with Arthur Dodge & the Horsefeathers and Fourth of July, 10 p.m., Louise’s Downtown, 1009

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Lecompton City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Lecompton City Hall, 327 Elmore St. Baldwin City Council meeting, 7:30 p.m., City Hall, 803 S. Eighth St. Karaoke Idol!, with babies and old folks theme, 10 p.m., the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Mass.

4 TUESDAY

Margo May and Dewi Sant She made it past five rounds of auditioning for American Idol before being judged by Simon Cowell and Victoria Beckham. She’s been on the cover of Kansas City’s Pitch Weekly, played South by Southwest and, just recently, submitted an audition for the show “Glee.”

When Margo May visits The Replay Lounge tonight, she’ll be doing so on the heels of a new folk and acoustic album. Inspired by The Beach Boys, May began writing her own music when she was 11. Simple, positive songs about love, longing and inspiration make up May’s catalogue.

She’ll be joined by the Minnesota indie-folk group Dewi Sant. The show at The Replay Lounge, 946 Mass., starts at 10 p.m. and runs until 2 a.m.

Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m., Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, 933 Iowa $1 Drink Dance Party, 10 p.m., Fatso’s, 1016 Mass.

Casbah Karaoke, 10:30 p.m., Burger Stand at the Casbah, 803 Mass.

Mass.

New Year’s Eve concert featuring the Sunflower Colonels, 10 p.m., The Casbah, 803 Mass.

New Year’s Eve Party with Checkered Beat, the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Mass.

1 SATURDAY Happy New Year!

The Fortress, Daddy & the Scarecrow, The Tards, Terror Tractor, 8 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H. Video Jerry, DJ John, playing music videos, 9 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. The Freds, 10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Mass.

Wheatfield Rebellion with Hello Biplane, 10 p.m., the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Mass.

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

Lawrence City Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Civil Air Patrol informational meeting, 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Kansas National Guard Armory, 200 Iowa, 841-0752.

Scary Larry Kansas Bike Polo, 7 p.m., Edgewood Park, Maple Lane and Miller Drive.

It’s Karaoke Time with Sam and Dan featuring The Karaoke Jail!, 7 p.m., Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Mass.

Teller’s Family Night, 746 Mass., 9 p.m.-midnight Tuesday Night Karaoke, 9 p.m., Wayne & Larry's Sports Bar & Grill, 933 Iowa.

Tuesday Transmissions with DJ Proof, 9 p.m., Bottleneck, 737 N.H. Live jazz at The Casbah, stop by The Casbah every Tuesday night at 9 p.m. for some live jazz and great drink specials, 803 Mass.

ONGOING

“SHARING: An Exhibition of Prints and Other Multiples,” noon, Wednesday through Sunday, Wonder Fair, 803 1/2 Mass., through Jan. 25 “Portraits by Murphy, McLouth and Sebelius,” weekends noon to 6 p.m., Lawrence Percolator, in the alley near Ninth and New Hampshire streets, through Jan. 9.

“Dreamland… Homeland: New Mixed Media Works by Justin Marable,” Signs of Life, 722 Mass., through Jan. 15.

KU Natural History Museum exhibits: Bug Town, third floor; Explore Evolution, fifth floor; Mosasaur Munchies, self-guided tour; Darwin’s Journey, sixth floor. Museum open until 5 p.m. daily, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd.

Spencer Museum of Art exhibits: Site Specifics, New Media Gallery, through Jan. 16; Dan Perjovschi artist-in-residence project, Central Court, through Feb. 6. Museum open until 4 p.m. daily, 8 p.m. on Thursdays, 1301 Miss.

Lawrence Public Library storytimes: Library storytime, 7 p.m. Thursdays.

2 SUNDAY

Scary Larry Kansas Bike Polo, 7 p.m., Edgewood Park, Maple Lane and Miller Drive.

Texas Hold’em Tournament, free entry, weekly prizes, 8 p.m., The Casbah, 803 Mass.

Smackdown! trivia, 8 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H. Karaoke Sunday, 11 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H.

3 MONDAY

Open mic night, 9 p.m., the Bottleneck, 737 N.H. Dollar Bowling, Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, 933 Iowa, 9:30

News of public events that you would like to be considered for the calendar can be submitted by e-mail to datebook@ljworld.com.

Many notices for regular meetings of groups and clubs can be found in the Meetings and Gatherings calendar in Saturday's JournalWorld. Events for that calendar must be submitted by noon Wednesday; the e-mail address is meetings@ljworld.com. A full listing of upcoming events also is available online at LJWorld.com/events

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Pizza al fresco Bret Schacht, fifth- and sixth-grade teacher at the Prairie Moon Waldorf School, Lawrence, shows the pizza oven built by third- and fourth-graders at the school. Paul Fairchild submitted the photo.

“I am enjoying my improved hearing aids which I got at Lawrence Hearing Aid Center.

The sounds quality is more clear and telephone conversation is enhanced without any whistling.

Come see the good folks at Lawrence Hearing Aid Center today.”

-Max Falkenstien

NFL: Three Chiefs named to Pro Bowl. 2B

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BYE-BYE Antoine Winfield (26) and the Vikings prohibited Michael Vick and the Eagles from securing a first-round playoff bye. Page 7B

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KU’s Self shuffles starting lineup

By Gary Bedore

Tom Keegan

gbedore@ljworld.com

tkeegan@ljworld.com

Selby boosts Reed Nothing in a game played at such a fast pace with five parts moving in scripted symmetry and five others trying to disrupt those movements is ever as simple as it seems, but on the surface, it appears nobody will benefit from the addition of freshman Josh Selby more than senior Tyrel Reed.

Selby has the potential to quickly become the Kansas University basketball team’s best penetrator, and Reed is the best pure long-range shooter.

Maybe it’s just a coincidence that Reed set career highs in points (18) and rebounds (seven) in his second game playing alongside Selby, against California, but it didn’t seem that way. They looked to be a pair of guards already showing strong chemistry.

“I just know what Tyrel likes to do,” Selby said. “He likes to shoot from the corner. I drive and I know if I kick it out to him, he’ll knock it down.”

Selby’s arrival has made Reed a better player.

“I think it’s going to help everybody, including myself,” Reed said. “He can get in there and he’s a great passer as well.

A lot like Sherron (Collins), he can penetrate and pitch to all the different guards. I think Tyshawn (Taylor) can do that as well, so we have a lot of different weapons.”

Selby seemed to know where Reed was going to be when.

That’s not by accident.

“We work on a ton of different things every day, when a guy penetrates, where we need to be,” Reed said. “When a guy drives baseline, we’ve got to get to the corner. It’s just all about angles and staying in their vision. (Assistant) coach (Joe) Dooley is really good at working with us on that. It just comes down to our guards having vision and finding you in open spots.”

Reed has developed into more than just a spot-up shooter. His relentless drives to the hoop in victories against Arizona and Cal — two of the four Pac-10 teams KU has beaten — were nowhere to be found in previous seasons.

“That was a big part of my game in high school,” Reed said.

“I wasn’t just shooting every time I caught it on the threepoint line. Coach Self wants me to shoot when I’m open and I want to be aggressive, make plays at the rim, drive and make plays for my teammates as well.”

He’s even rebounding, taking advantage of his exceptional leaping ability, which tends to be overlooked because it’s not matched with similar lateral quickness.

“I definitely need to hit my man and go get the ball,” Reed said of what it will take to continue his recent trend toward rebounding better. “I think that’s probably what I wasn’t doing. I was probably just boxing out my man, making sure he wouldn’t get the rebound, and I wouldn’t go and get the ball.”

Reed played 35 minutes against Cal, but with Selby on board, Reed’s minutes could decline, to which he says big deal.

“There are going to be less minutes and guys will get fresher legs,” Reed said. “I definitely think for shooters and scorers, that helps. You have to look at it like it’s a good thing and not like someone is taking away minutes.”

Typically positive attitude from a guy who’s had an increasingly positive impact on the program since the day he signed up.

KANSAS VS. UT ARLINGTON When: 8 tonight Where: Allen Fieldhouse Records: KU 11-0, UT Arlington 5-5 TV: ESPNU (35, 235)

Marcus Morris faced no NCAA-mandated suspension for committing a flagrant foul and getting tossed from Kansas University’s heated 78-63 victory over the University of California last Wednesday in Berkeley, Calif.

He’s encountered some discipline, Bill Self-style, however.

KU’s junior small forward from Philadelphia will come off the bench for the first time this season — as the Jayhawks (11-0) go with a radically different look

MORE INSIDE Much more Kansas men’s hoops coverage inside, including: ■ Complete lineups, rosters for Kansas, UT Arlington ■ More from Marcus Morris: What nickname has stuck with him since he was a child?

Page 3B in today’s 8 p.m. home contest against the University of Texas at Arlington (5-5).

“He’s not going to start. For how long, I don’t know,” KU

coach Self said, stressing that Morris will def initely play against the Mavericks of the Southland Conference.

“He had it right where he wanted it and let it get away from him,” Self added of Morris.

Self reported that sophomore Thomas Robinson will start his first game of the season — second of his career — at power forward. He’ll be in the same frontcourt as junior Markieff Morris, who started the first nine games before coming off the bench in the last two.

Freshman Josh Selby will make his first start at combo

guard in three games, while Elijah Johnson lands his first start of the campaign and third in his two-year career at point guard.

Senior Tyrel Reed, who has started all 11 games, will open in the backcourt as part of KU’s threeguard lineup.

“We haven’t given Thomas a chance to start. To be honest with you, he’s played real well the last couple games — (been) really big for us,” Self said.

“We’ve been playing small, Travis (Releford, starter last two games) has done a nice job, still, Please see SELF, page 3B

KANSAS FOOTBALL

The Top 10 stories of 2010

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MEMBERS OF THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL TEAM RACE ONTO THE FIELD following a 52-45 comeback victory over Colorado on Nov. 6 at Memorial Stadium. The victory, which included a 28-point comeback in the fourth quarter (largest in school history), led the list of beat writer Matt Tait’s Top 10 stories from the 2010 KU football season.

Comeback can’t be topped: Epic 52-45 victory over Colorado No. 1

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

The 2010 college football season was as rough as we’ve seen at Kansas University for a few years.

The Jayhawks, in new head coach Turner Gill’s first season, finished 3-9 overall and won just one game in Big 12 Conference play.

The adjustment from the old regime to the new coaching staff was a rocky one, as switching to new offensive and defensive schemes was made even trickier by a new style of conducting business in the football facility.

In the end, though, 2010 was seen as eventful if nothing else.

With the players and coaching staff already moving ahead to 2011, here’s one final look back at the top stories of the 2010 KU football season, good and bad:

1. Record-setting comeback rocks Lawrence: Nov. 6 The Jayhawks scored 35 points in the final 11 minutes to beat Colorado, 52-45. The 35 fourth-quarter points set a school record for most points in a single quarter and the 28-point comeback (KU trailed, 45-17, in the fourth) also was a school record. Freshman running back James Sims tied a school record with four rushing touchdowns and junior quarterback Quinn Mecham eclipsed Todd Reesing’s school record of 13 conSims secutive completions by stringing together 17 of his own. KU’s victory was its lone win in the Big 12 this season and also

marked the final game for CU coach Dan Hawkins, who was fired a few days later.

2. North Dakota State stuns Kansas: Sept. 4 KU coach Turner Gill got his Kansas career off to a rocky start, with a 6-3 loss to FCS foe North Dakota State in the season opener. The Jayhawks struggled throughout the night, looking out of sync on offense and Gill unsure on defense. Third-year sophomore Kale Pick started at quarterback but was pulled after three quarters in favor of red-shirt freshman Jordan Webb. Webb fared no better

WHAT’S THE REST? A hint at some of the other top 10 football stories inside: ■ Trio of players make KU history in NFL Draft ■ QB decommits from Colorado, chooses Kansas ■ Defensive end overcomes Hodgkin lymphoma Rest of Top 10 on page 4B and the Jayhawks fell to 0-1 on the season and dropped their eighth straight game overall.

3. Jayhawks storm back, shock Georgia Tech: Sept. 11 One week after an embarrassing loss in the season opener, Kansas Please see GILL’S, page 4B

Realignment rules KUsports.com’s most-clicked on stories ONLINE

By Jesse Newell

In visiting this story on kusports.com today, you’ll be able to take a look back at links to the top 10 most-clicked on stories of the year.

Before focusing on 2011, it’s time to take a look back at the year that was in Kansas University athletics.

The following are the top 10 most-clicked on stories for KUsports.com in 2010:

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1. Conference realignment saga/Big 12 Conference saved (48,258 pageviews) Following the departures of Nebraska (Big Ten) and Colorado (Pac-10/12), the Big 12 seemed to be on the verge of

extinction. Teams like Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were receiving strong interest from other conferences, while schools like Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State worried they might be left to scramble for a conference if major realignment took place.

On June 14, Texas ended the speculation with a late-afternoon press release; the Long-

horns announced their athletic criminal damage and criminal programs would continue to trespassing. According to a police statecompete in the Big 12 after the 10 ment, Little remaining teams in the league pushed his girlpledged to stay together. The friend — a forconference realignment drama mer KU men’s gripped KUsports.com readers basketball throughout the week, as three manager — other blog entries on the topic into a sink. KU received at least 25,000 coach Bill Self pageviews. announced Little 2. KU basketball player Mario later that day Little arrested (33,387 that Little had been suspended pageviews) indefinitely. “(The charges) are Kansas senior Mario Little was misdemeanors, but are still very arrested early in the morning on Dec. 16, on charges of battery, Please see HENRY, page 4B

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Three Chiefs selected to Pro Bowl J-W Staff and Wire Reports

Three members of the Kansas City Chiefs were selected to compete in the NFL’s Pro Bowl on Jan. 30 in Honolulu.

Running back Jamaal Charles, wide receiver Dwayne Bowe and offensive guard Brian Waters were chosen as AFC reserves.

Waters has been key in Charles having a massive year. Charles, in his third year out of Texas, has compiled 1,380 rushing yards and seven total touchdowns for the AFC West champion Chiefs, who

still have one regular season game remaining (Sunday vs. Oakland, noon).

Bowe, in his fourth year out of LSU, has had his best season as a pro, catching 67 passes for 1,094 yards and 15 touchdowns.

Waters, in his 11th season out of North Texas, will play in his fifth Pro Bowl. Charles and Bowe will be playing in their first.

On a national level, Michael Vick’s sensational comeback season made a big impression throughout the NFL, not just in Philadelphia.

The Eagles’ quarterback, who sat out two seasons while serving a federal sentence for dogfighting, will start for the NFC. Vick was selected in a leaguewide vote by NFL players, coaches and fans.

Vick made three Pro Bowls with Atlanta before he was suspended by the league and served jail time for running a dogfighting ring.

This season, he has gone from a seldom-used backup to the NFC’s leading passer, the catalyst for Philadelphia’s dynamic offense.

Atlanta, which leads the NFC

with a 12-3 record, had the most Pro Bowlers with seven, including quarterback Matt Ryan, receiver Roddy White and defensive end John Abraham.

New England (13-2), the AFC leader, had six Pro Bowlers, led by QB Tom Brady, the league’s top passer who will make his sixth trip to the game — providing the Patriots don’t make the Super Bowl.

The game will be played the Sunday before the title game at Cowboys Stadium. ● Rosters on page 7B

Ohio State players apologize for NCAA problems Paterno not quitting TAMPA, FLA. — A jovial Joe Paterno insists he has no plans to stop coaching after this week’s Outback Bowl.

The 84-year-old Penn State coach said during a news conference Tuesday that he “honest to goodness” has not entertained thoughts of stepping down after 45 seaPaterno sons leading the Nittany Lions.

Paterno called rumors he may quit after Saturday’s game against Florida “ridiculous.” He said he feels great and is still having fun coaching.

UF D-coordinator treated

TAMPA, FLA. — Florida defensive coordinator Teryl Austin has been released from a Tampa hospital after spending a day there being treated for mild gastritis.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL University of Florida spokesman Steve McClain says Iowa’s Robinson arrested the 45-year-old Austin missed DES MOINES, IOWA — Even practice and was admitted to though Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz Tampa General Hospital on Monsuspended starting running back day with abdominal pains. He Adam Robinson for the Insight says Austin was diagnosed with Bowl, Ferentz expected Robinson an inflammation of the stomach to eventually earn back his spot lining. with the Hawkeyes.

Austin became Florida’s defenGetting arrested on a marijuana sive coordinator this season, joincharge wasn’t what Ferentz had in ing the staff from the Arizona mind. Robinson, 21, was charged Cardinals. with possession of marijuana Monday night in his hometown of ‘Cuse P back with team Des Moines, putting his career at NEW YORK — Syracuse punter Iowa in jeopardy.

Rob Long, who had surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor UM interested in OC? earlier this month, says he AUBURN, ALA. — Auburn coach expects to undergo radiation Gene Chizik said Maryland might treatment and chemotherapy. have reached out to Tigers offenThe 22-year-old Long joined his sive coordinator Gus Malzahn teammates in New York this week about its vacant head coaching as they prepare for the Pinstripe job.

Bowl on Thursday against Kansas “I have not talked to anybody State. He had been away from the personally, but there are possibili- team since having the surgery on ties of contact,” Chizik said.

Dec. 11.

NFL Niners interview Softli SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — A perFins sign ex-KU LB Rivera MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins signed former Kansas University linebacker Mike Rivera, along with offensive lineman Allen Barbre, on Tuesday. Miami also released veteran receiver Kevin Curtis, who came back this season from a knee injury and a bout with testicular cancer.

MNF ratings soaring BRISTOL, CONN. — “Monday Night Football” is enjoying its best year in five seasons.

Since coming to ESPN from broadcast network ABC for the 2006 NFL season, the show has produced the top 10 biggest household audiences on cable, including four this season.

Monday night’s Saints-Falcons game was the most-watched show of the year.

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COLUMBUS, OHIO — Star quarterback Terrelle Pryor and four Ohio State teammates suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season apologized on Tuesday for selling championship rings and memorabilia and taking discounts from a tattoo parlor.

The NCAA will permit all five to play in the Sugar Bowl against Arkansas on Jan. 4.

“I didn’t mean to hurt nobody at all and I didn’t mean to bring anything down or embarrassment to our university because this is the greatest university in the nation,” Pryor said, addressing his comments to alumni, former Ohio State players, fans, teammates and the coaching staff.

He added: “Hopefully I can someday get your forgiveness.”

Pryor, along with starting tailback Dan “Boom” Herron, wide receiver DeVier Posey and offensive tackle Mike Adams, and backup defensive lineman Solomon Thomas, said they regretted their actions, which go back as far as two years.

TODAY • Men’s basketball vs. UT Arlington, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY • Women’s basketball vs. UT Arlington, 8 p.m.

son with knowledge of the situation says 49ers team president and CEO Jed York has interviewed Tony Softli as the first known candidate to fill the team’s vacant general manager position.

Softli, a former personnel executive with the Carolina Panthers and St. Louis Rams, met Tuesday with York, the person told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the matter. York fired coach Mike Singletary on Sunday night.

NFL to donate $1 million

NEW YORK — The NFL will donate more than $1 million to the American Cancer Society as a result of this year’s breast cancer awareness campaign.

The league says those funds will support both national and local breast cancer initiatives of Couple suing Bengals the American Cancer Society, which has a presence in more CINCINNATI — A woman says two than 5,100 communities nationincreasingly intoxicated fans at a wide.

Cincinnati Bengals game fell on her, breaking her nose and finger Polamalu iffy for Sunday and causing other injuries.

The woman and her husband PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh are suing the Bengals, the beer Steelers probably won’t know vendor and the county-owned until Friday whether safety Troy football stadium for negligence, Polamalu can play in Sunday’s alleging they continued to serve final regular-season game at alcohol to “noticeably intoxicated” Cleveland. fans at a 2009 NFL game.

Polamalu hasn’t played or pracRebecca Dunn and husband ticed for two weeks because of an Curtis Dunn of Owensboro, Ky., injured right Achilles’ tendon. say the two men sitting behind them were served several drinks at Paul Brown Stadium before NBA they fell on her, breaking and Boykins suspended gashing her nose, breaking her finger, and causing bruises, New York — Milwaukee Bucks sprains and other injuries. guard Earl Boykins has been suspended one game without pay by the NBA for making intentional Colts change D-backs contact with a referee.

INDIANAPOLIS — The IndianapoBoykins was issued a technical lis Colts have released defensive foul, but not ejected after bumpback David Pender and have ing Brian Forte with 5.3 seconds claimed defensive back Mike left in the third quarter of the Richardson off waivers from Bucks’ 95-80 home loss to Kansas City.

Atlanta on Monday.

SPORTS ON TV TODAY College Basketball Time Georgetown v. N. Dame 6 p.m.

Jax St. v. S. Carolina 6 p.m.

Mo. State v. N. Iowa 7 p.m.

Duke v. NC-Greensboro 6 p.m.

LSU v. Rice 7 p.m.

Marquette v. Vanderbilt 8 p.m.

UT-Arlington v. Kansas 8 p.m.

Wash St. v. UCLA 10 p.m.

Miss. St. v. St. Mary’s 10 p.m.

Net ESPN2 FCSA KSMO ESPNU CBSC ESPN2 ESPNU FSN ESPNU

Cable 34, 234 144 3, 203 35, 235 143, 243 34, 234 35, 235 36, 236 35, 235

College Football Time E. Carolina v. Maryland 1:30 p.m.

Baylor v. Illinois 5 p.m.

Arizona v. Oklahoma St. 8:15 p.m.

Net ESPN ESPN ESPN

Cable 33, 233 33, 233 33, 233

Premier Soccer Bolton v. Chelsea

Net FSC

Cable 149

Time 1:30 p.m.

THURSDAY College Football Time Army v. SMU 11 a.m.

K-State v. Syracuse 2:20 p.m.

UNC v. Tennessee 5:40 p.m.

Nebraska v. Washington9 p.m.

Net ESPN ESPN ESPN ESPN

Cable 33, 233 33, 233 33, 233 33, 233

College Basketball Time Temple v. Villanova 6 p.m.

Oakland v. Oral Roberts 7 p.m.

Arizona v. Oregon 9 p.m.

Ariz. St. v. Oregon St. 9:30 p.m.

Net ESPN2 FCSC FCSA FCSP

Cable 34, 234 145 144 146

Women’s Basketball Time UT-Arlington v. Kansas 7 p.m.

UConn v. Stanford 8 p.m.

Net Ch.6 ESPN2

Cable 6 34, 234

NBA New York v. Orlando San Antonio v. Dallas

Time 6 p.m.

8:30 p.m.

Net TNT TNT

Cable 45, 245 45, 245

College Hockey Great Lakes Invite

Time 6:30 p.m.

Net FCSA

Cable 144

ONLINE ONLY Check out ljworld.com and KUSports.com for online-only content from the Journal-World staff.

There you’ll find:

Conference Chatter

www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/conference_chatter/ Eric Sorrentino’s blog about the Big 12 Conference

‘Hawks in the NBA

www2.kusports.com/weblogs/hawks_nba/ A staff blog about former Jayhawks at the next level

The Keegan Ratings

www2.kusports.com/weblogs/keegan_ratings/ Tom Keegan’s postgame rankings for KU football and basketball

Rolling Along

www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/rolling_along/ Andrew Hartsock’s blog about commuting by bike

LATEST LINE NFL Favorite ...............................Points ..........................Underdog Sunday, Jan 2nd.

Week 17 KANSAS CITY ......................4 (43) ..............................Oakland NEW ENGLAND ...................3 (43) ..................................Miami INDIANAPOLIS ....................9 (48).........................Tennessee Jacksonville......................21⁄2 (49)..........................HOUSTON Pittsburgh ...........................6 (37) .......................CLEVELAND 1 BALTIMORE ........................9 ⁄2 (43) ........................Cincinnati DETROIT................................7 (43)..........................Minnesota NY Giants.............................4 (44)....................WASHINGTON GREEN BAY.........................61⁄2 (43) ............................Chicago PHILADELPHIA...................12 (48)..................................Dallas NY JETS................................3 (36)................................Buffalo ATLANTA.............................141⁄2 (41)............................Carolina NEW ORLEANS....................8 (48) ........................Tampa Bay St. Louis..............................21⁄2 (43)............................SEATTLE SAN FRANCISCO...............61⁄2 (38).............................Arizona San Diego ..........................31⁄2 (47).............................DENVER COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GAMES Favorite ...............................Points ..........................Underdog Eagle Bank Bowl RFK Stadium-Washington D.C. Maryland............................71⁄2 (68)..................East Carolina Texas Bowl Reliant Stadium-Houston, TX. Baylor ....................................1 (63) ..................................Illinois Alamo Bowl Alamodome-San Antonio, TX. Oklahoma St .....................51⁄2 (66) .............................Arizona Thursday, Dec 30th.

Armed Forces Bowl Gerald J. Ford Stadium-Dallas, TX. SMU........................................7 (52)....................................Army Pinstripe Bowl Yankee Stadium-Bronx, NY. Kansas St ......................Pick’em (47) .....................Syracuse Music City Bowl LP Field-Nashville, TN. North Carolina...................2 (50) .........................Tennessee Holiday Bowl Qualcomm Stadium-San Diego, CA. Nebraska.............................14 (53) ......................Washington

Friday, Dec 31st.

Meineke Car Care Bowl Bank of America Stadium-Charlotte, NC. 1 Clemson.............................5 ⁄2 (40) .................South Florida Sun Bowl Sun Bowl Stadium-El Paso, TX. Miami-Florida.....................3 (47) ......................Notre Dame Liberty Bowl Liberty Bowl-Memphis, TN. 1 Georgia...............................6 ⁄2 (55)...............Central Florida Chick-Fil-A Bowl Georgia Dome-Atlanta, GA. South Carolina...................3 (55)...........................Florida St Friday, Jan 1st.

Dallas Ticket City Bowl Cotton Bowl-Dallas, TX. Texas Tech ........................91⁄2 (60).................Northwestern Outback Bowl Raymond James Stadium-Tampa, FL. 1 Florida ................................7 ⁄2 (48).............................Penn St Capital One Bowl Citrus Bowl Stadium-Orlando, FL. Alabama..............................10 (52)......................Michigan St Gator Bowl Municipal Stadium-Jacksonville, FL. Mississippi St.....................5 (60)............................Michigan Rose Bowl Rose Bowl-Pasadena, CA. Tcu .........................................3 (58) ..........................Wisconsin Fiesta Bowl University of Phoenix Stadium-Glendale, AZ. Oklahoma ...........................17 (55) .....................Connecticut Monday, Jan 3rd.

Orange Bowl Sun Life Stadium-Miami, FL. Stanford.............................31⁄2 (58)...................Virginia Tech Tuesday, Jan 4th.

Sugar Bowl Louisiana Superdome-New Orleans, LA. Ohio St................................31⁄2 (57)..........................Arkansas Thursday, Jan 6th.

Go Daddy.com Bowl Ladd-Pebbles Stadium-Mobile, AL. Miami-Ohio..........................1 (48) .................Middle Tenn St

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Cotton Bowl Cowboys Stadium- Arlington, TX. Lsu ..........................................1 (49) .........................Texas A&M Saturday, Jan 8th.

Compass Birmingham Bowl Legion Field-Birmingham, AL. Pittsburgh ...........................3 (52)............................Kentucky Sunday, Jan 9th.

Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl AT&T Park-San Francisco, CA. Nevada................................71⁄2 (55) ..............Boston College Monday, Jan 10th.

BCS National Championship Game University of Phoenix Stadium-Glendale, AZ. Auburn..................................3 (74)................................Oregon NBA Favorite ...............................Points ..........................Underdog WASHINGTON......................1 (194) ...............................Indiana ATLANTA..............................7 (203)..........................Golden St CHARLOTTE.......................61⁄2 (196) ........................Cleveland Boston................................61⁄2 (189) ...........................DETROIT OKLAHOMA CITY...............9 (197) ......................New Jersey LA Lakers ...........................11⁄2 (191) ................NEW ORLEANS Denver ...............................21⁄2 (224).....................MINNESOTA Miami....................................4 (199)...........................HOUSTON PHOENIX............................61⁄2 (208) ..................Philadelphia Memphis .............................4 (195)...................SACRAMENTO Utah......................................2 (196).....................LA CLIPPERS COLLEGE BASKETBALL Favorite ...............................Points ..........................Underdog RICHMOND...............................16..........................Wake Forest INDIANA ST ..............................4....................................Bradley CLEMSON .................................14........................East Carolina DAYTON......................................1.......................George Mason LA SALLE..................................12 ...................................Towson WEST VIRGINIA.......................10...............................St. John’s RHODE ISLAND........................1 .....................Boston College Georgetown...........................21⁄2........................NOTRE DAME WICHITA ST............................121⁄2.............................Evansville Southern Illinois....................2......................................DRAKE NORTHERN IOWA..................21⁄2 ...........................Missouri St ILLINOIS ST...............................1................................Creighton RICE ..........................................21⁄2 ..........................................Lsu

New Mexico .............................2 ...........................TEXAS TECH UTAH ST ...................................18.....................................Hawaii Illinois........................................4.........................................IOWA 1 VANDERBILT...........................7 ⁄2.............................Marquette IDAHO.......................................11⁄2.....................New Mexico St BOISE ST...................................13 ....................Louisiana Tech Washington .............................4...........................................USC 1 UCLA.........................................2 ⁄2.....................Washington St FRESNO ST ...............................3 ...........................San Jose St x-St. Mary’s, CA......................15 .......................Mississippi St MONTANA .................................5................Northern Arizona SOUTH CAROLINA .................19....................Jacksonville St Duke..........................................33 ................NC GREENSBORO TENNESSEE.............................27...............Tennessee Martin IONA .........................................91⁄2 ..................................Hofstra Pennsylvania ..........................7 ....................................MARIST SMU............................................12......................SE Missouri St MIDDLE TENN ST ..................61⁄2.......................Tennessee St AUBURN ...................................10...............Georgia Southern EASTERN WASHINGTON........9 .....................Sacramento St PORTLAND ST ..........................1..............Northern Colorado Dr. Pepper Classic McKenzie Arena-Chattanooga, TN. First Round Georgia St ................................1...............Texas A&M Corpus TENN CHATTANOOGA .....No Line ..........................Montreat VCU Christmas Tournament Verizon Wireless Arena-Richmond, VA. First Round Cornell.......................................6 ...................New Hampshire VA COMMONWEALTH...........71⁄2..................................Wofford UCF Holiday Classic UCF Arena-Orlando, FL. First Round CENTRAL FLORIDA ................13...................................Furman Princeton .................................5........................Northeastern Cable Car Classic Leavy Gym-Santa Clara, CA. First Round SANTA CLARA..........................7.................................Delaware 1 American................................3 ⁄2................................Fordham x-at Las Vegas, NV. Home Team in CAPS (C) 2010 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.

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Most of it is illusory and disposable. And whether it’s a Will Ferrell production or the Meineke Car Care Bowl we’re talking about, about 98 percent of it is instantly forgettable.”

—Michael Hunt, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, on college football bowl games

TODAY IN SPORTS 1961 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 60 points against the Los Angeles Lakers at Hershey, Pa., the future site of his 100point game.

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KU MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. UT ARLINGTON: 8 TONIGHT

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Marcus’ nickname? ‘Mook’

By Gary Bedore

Probable Starters

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His name is Marcus Morris, but you can call him ‘Mook.’

“My grandmother gave me the name when I was young.

My teammates call me ‘Mook.’

Coach (Bill) Self calls me ‘Mook’ all the time,” Morris, Kansas University’s junior small forward, said Tuesday.

Why ‘Mook?’

“I don’t think it has a meaning, but it rhymes with book,” Morris said. “When I was younger I used to read books.

My grandmother used to call me ‘Mook Book.’ Then we took the book part off and kept the mook.”

Use of the nickname has definitely picked up this season. Self and KU players have often dropped that name in media interviews. So what do the players call Marcus’ brother, Markieff?

‘Kieff,’’’ Marcus said with a laugh. ●

Tyrel Reed on his favorite Christmas gift: “My parents got me — as kind of as a joke — a remote control helicopter. I’ve been playing with it every day. It’s pretty cool actually. I like it a lot.” ●

Lonely: Marcus Morris on how it felt leaving the Haas Pavilion floor after getting ejected with 171⁄2 minutes left in last Wednesday’s game against Cal: “It wasn’t real at first. I was like, ‘Dang did I really just do that?’’’ Morris said. “I went to the back (of locker room) and stared at the clock for the entire game. I was hoping they didn’t lose because if we lost, I know all the blame would have went to me.”

He wasn’t surprised KU beat Cal, 78-63.

“We’ve got guys that can play. I’m not the only player on this team. When I go down or get injured or kicked out of the game, I know my team can win,” Morris said. ●

About tonight’s foe: University of Texas at Arlington has an enrollment of 33,000.

The school competes in the Southland Conference. ... UT Arlington is 5-5 after its 76-53 loss Wednesday at Texas Tech. ... UT Arlington is 4-0 at home and 1-5 on the road. ...

The Mavericks average 72.9 ppg with a +7.9 scoring margin. UT Arlington forces 17.9 turnovers and is outrebounding foes by a +2.2 margin. ...

Junior forward LaMarcus Reed III averages a team-leading 15.5 ppg. He’s made 20 threes and averages 4.8 rpg. ...

Freshman guard Darius Richardson averages 9.4 ppg.

He’s made 21 threes.

UT ARLINGTON (5-5) F — Bo Ingram (6-5) F — Brandon Edwards (6-6) F — Darius Richardson (6-4) G —Bradley Gay (6-4) G — S. White-Miller (5-9)

KANSAS (11-0) F — Thomas Robinson (6-9) F — Markieff Morris (6-10) G — Josh Selby (6-2) G — Elijah Johnson (6-4) G — Tyrel Reed (6-3)

Tip: 8 p.m., today, Allen Fieldhouse.

TV: ESPNU, channels 35, 205. Replay: 10:30 p.m., Cable Ch.6.

Rosters UT ARLINGTON 1 — Bo Ingram, 6-5, 195, Jr., F, Kinston, N.C. 2 — Darius Richardson, 6-4, 190, Fr., G, Fort Bend, Texas.

5 — Stuart Lgerson, 7-0, 210, Fr., C, Converse, Texas.

10 — Bradley Gay, 6-4, 185, Jr., G, Missouri City, Texas.

11 — Rivest Aduku, 6-2, 200, Soph., G, Houston.

12 — Shaquille White-Miller, 5-9, 165, Fr., G, Port Arthur, Texas.

15 — Ryan Bruce, 6-2, 200, Fr., G, Glen Rose, Texas.

20 — Armani Williams, 6-2, 170, Soph., G, Elgin, Ill. 21 — Kevin Butler, 6-5, 210, Jr., F, Duncanville, Texas.

22 — Daniel Francis, 6-6, 190, Sr., F, Lancaster, Texas.

24 — Bryant Smith, 6-1, 170, Fr., G, Chicago.

25 — Cameron Catlett, 6-3, 185, Soph., G, San Antonio.

31 — Lamarcus Reed, 6-5, 185, Jr., F, Dallas.

35 — Brandon Edwards, 6-6, 210, Fr., F, Fort Worth, Texas.

55 — Jordan Reeves, 6-10, 240, Soph., F, Jeffersontown, Ky. Head coach: Scott Cross: Assistants: Greg Young, Derrick Daniels, Zak Buncik.

KANSAS 0 — Thomas Robinson, 6-9, 237, Soph., F, Washington, D.C. 2 — Conner Teahan, 6-5, 212, Sr., G, Leawood.

4 — Justin Wesley, 6-8, 200, Soph., F, Fort Worth, Texas.

5 — Jeff Withey, 7-0, 235, Soph., C, San Diego.

10 — Tyshawn Taylor, 6-3, 185, Jr., G, Hoboken, N.J. 11 — Royce Woolridge, 6-3, 182, Fr., G, Phoenix.

12 — Brady Morningstar, 6-4, 185, Sr., G, Lawrence.

14 — Tyrel Reed, 6-4, 193, Sr., G, Burlington.

15 — Elijah Johnson, 6-4, 195, Soph., G. Las Vegas.

20 — Niko Roberts, 5-11, 175, Fr., G, Huntington, N.Y. 21 — Markieff Morris, 6-10, 245, Jr., C, Philadelphia.

22 — Marcus Morris, 6-9, 235, Jr., F, Philadelphia.

23 — Mario Little, 6-6, 218, Sr., G, Chicago.

24 — Travis Releford, 6-5, 207, Soph., G, Kansas City, Mo. 32 — Josh Selby, 6-2, 183, Fr., G, Baltimore.

40 — Jordan Juenemann, 6-3, 195, Jr., G, Hays.

Head coach: Bill Self. Assistants: Joe Dooley, Kurtis Townsend, Danny Manning.

“It’s a lot like watching us, to be honest with you,” KU’s Self said. “They do a lot of similar things we do offensively.”

nical foul call on Thomas Robinson in the second half of the Cal game, but did not send a complaint to any league office.

“No, no. I let it go. The last time I was so perturbed on a call was six years ago. I have been perturbed since then, but on a call I thought was a call that was definitely the difference in the outcome of the game, which is a pretty stupid thing for a coach to say because there’s many calls throughout the course of a game. This one happened to be a call at the end of the game. I made a big deal out of that in my own mind. I sliced tape together. I sent it off. I spent the next two, three days worrying about something I couldn’t get back, as opposed to just focusing on the next game. So I don’t do that. If somebody calls me and asks me what I think, I tell ‘em.

Officials really do a good job.

Just because I don’t agree doesn’t make them wrong.”

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KANSAS FORWARD MARCUS MORRIS, MIDDLE, TURNS for a shot over Arizona forward Jamelle Horne (42) on Nov. 27 in the Las Vegas Invitational. Morris has a nickname — ‘Mook’ — that’s stuck with him from his days growing up in Philadelphia.

Self comments on Little: Self on senior Mario Little, whose municipal court date has been delayed from Jan. 5 to May 19 (Little faces four counts of battery, two counts of criminal damage to property and one count of criminal trespassing, all misdemeanors): “He’s with us and part of our team. He’ll practice and sit on the bench in street clothes (during games).

He will not participate. I don’t know if or when that (return) will happen. I’m still trying to get some information (on arrest on Dec. 15). Over Christmas vacation is not the easiest time to get that sometimes. I will say this: I like him.

He needs three hours to graduate. I think it’s my responsibility to make sure that occurs. When I know some● thing — where there’s a game Fear the (Self) beard? OK, plan — I’ll make sure to share that with you, but right now I maybe not: KU coach Self was sporting a fairly heavy beard don’t have one.” ● on Tuesday. He joked that it’ll Robinson’s technical: Self likely be gone by game time was not pleased about a tech- tonight.

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we’re going to play two bigs tomorrow and we’ll switch some things up on the perimeter as well.”

Tyshawn Taylor will come off the bench for the first time all season. He finally boarded a 5 p.m. flight Tuesday at Newark, N.J.’s snowbound airport, after missing four straight practices dating to Sunday night. Weary after arriving at the airport as early as 8 a.m., Tuesday, Taylor did indeed finally work out with the Jayhawks on Tuesday night in KU’s practice facility.

“It’s not his fault,” Self said of Taylor’s delayed return to Lawrence from holiday break, “but when a guy misses four practices in a row ... you wouldn’t even do that (start) if a guy turns his ankle. At least I wouldn’t do that.

“It’s still his starting spot, but he definitely won’t start (tonight). He’ll be the first to tell you he shouldn’t. How can you have any rhythm when he hasn’t had a ball in his hand the last seven days?”

Selby, who scored 21 and 18 points versus USC and Cal, will remain at combo guard, with Johnson taking the heat off him — as Taylor did — at the lead guard slot.

“I don’t worry about who starts. All that matters is who finishes,” Selby said Tuesday.

Noted Self: “I think Josh is doing great. I think he’s picking stuff up all the time. He’s really trying hard. He’s done a

really nice job and a good job fitting in.”

Self remains bothered by the flagrant foul Marcus Morris picked up after elbowing Cal’s Harper Kamp in the face with 17:23 remaining.

“That was a very, very immature play that he made on his part,” Self said. “He certainly has to be more mature than that because he’s too valuable.

“He shouldn’t have done that, but I think in some ways, things like that have a way of getting a guy’s attention to the point where they get a lot better fast, where they understand the value of things coaches have been telling them all along.”

Morris said he apologized to both Cal’s Kamp and to his own teammates.

“Of course I went back and looked at it (tape). It was all over ESPN for a while,” Morris said. “It was a mental mistake by me. My team needs me. My coach told me I can’t do things like that. I already knew by me being a captain it was a bad play.”

Self doesn’t designate official team captains. But with Morris being a first-team preseason all-Big 12 pick, it’s obvious who the Jayhawks look to for leadership.

“The guys look to us for confirmation. We all know as a team who the captains are,” Morris said. “Even for the young guys who look up to me and my teammates — for them to think I’d do something as stupid as I did to get

myself thrown out of the game — it’s kind of embarrassing to me and embarrassing to the fans, too.”

Will other teams bait him?

“I expect everybody to do that,” Morris said. “I mean, you try to get into the two best players’ heads. ‘Kieff ... they do the same thing with him.

You just can’t retaliate the way I did.”

Morris said he should have taken a different approach.

“I really never let my temper get ahead of me, but I felt it was dirty play (by Kamp). I should have went to the refs and told them that something was going on. I retaliated the wrong way,” he said.

Self realizes other teams may continue to try to get into the twins’ heads.

“I guess there’s always a possibility. You watch tape and if a guy gets that easily provoked,” Self said. “There were some things if you really watched the game from the perspective we did — and tape is the true indicator — that was a pretty chippy game and it started right from the beginning. But Marcus has to be smarter than that.”

Self praised Robinson for not losing his cool during a second half scramble for the ball in which he actually was knocked in the face by Cal’s Jorge Gutierrez.

“Thomas handled himself beautifully,” Self said. “It’s about as good as a guy can handle himself when guys are on top of him squirming around.”

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bounced back with an impressive effort to knock off No. 15 Georgia Tech. James Sims ran for 101 yards and a touchdown in his college debut and junior wideout Daymond Patterson caught seven balls for 85 yards and a TD, including a highlight-reel, 32-yard run-andcatch that ended with Patterson diving head-first into the end zone. After the game, players and fans joined together on the Memorial Stadium surface to celebrate Gill’s first victory with the program and the school’s first home win against a Top-15 team since 1984.

4. Stuckey, Meier, Briscoe selected in NFL Draft: April 24 For just the second time this decade, the Jayhawks had more than two players selected in the NFL Draft, as safety Darrell Stuckey went in the fourth round to San Diego; wide receiver Kerry Meier went in the fifth to Atlanta and wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe was scooped up in the sixth by Cincinnati. All three players signed with their respective squads, though only Stuckey and Meier were able to stick. Briscoe was released by Cincy but later picked up by Tampa Bay, where he joined former Jayhawk Aqib Talib. Former KU players Jake Sharp, Maxwell Onyegbule and Justin Thornton also made it to NFL camps, with Thornton making it to the final cut with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

5. Colorado prep standout picks Kansas: Dec. 20 Still smarting from missing out on junior-college quarterback Zack Stoudt (who chose Ole Miss over KU on Dec. 13) the Jayhawks received a huge lift when highly-touted prep QB Brock Berglund, a senior at Valor Christian High in Highlands Ranch, Colo., decommits from Colorado and picks Kansas. Berglund, a 6-foot-4, 205-pound dualthreat QB, is the 13th-ranked quarterback in the Class of 2011 and may be on campus in January, which would give him a jumpstart on his quest

Nick Krug/Journal-World File Photo

FORMER GUARD XAVIER HENRY, RIGHT, HAS AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT alongside his brother, C.J. Henry, during a news conference on April 7 in Allen Fieldhouse. Henry declared for the NBA Draft, a moment that ranked at No. 3 on the most-clicked on KUsports.com stories of 2010.

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KANSAS COACH TURNER GILL LEAVES THE FIELD following the Jayhawks’ 20-3 loss to Nebraska on Nov. 13 in Lincoln, Neb. With the Cornhuskers’ departure to the Big Ten, it could be the only time Gill coaches against his alma mater. Gill’s homecoming was No. 6 on Matt Tait’s Top 10 KU football stories of 2010. to become KU’s starting quar- players, including running terback in 2011. back Brandon Bourbon, who picked KU after previously 6. Gill heads home: Nov. 13 committing to Stanford. The On the day Gill was hired, other, Blue Springs, Mo., wide thousands of KU and Nebras- receiver/safety Keeston ka fans circled Nov. 13 as an Terry, originally was recruitimportant date. That was the ed by the previous staff but day that the former Corn- decided to remain with huskers standout returned to Kansas after meeting Gill.

Lincoln, Neb., to coach Signing two four-star recruits against his alma mater. Gill was somewhat of a coup for downplayed his battle against KU, which only has had only the Big Red all week but final- 11 such players commit to the ly admitted after KU’s 20-3 program since 2002. loss that it was a little emotional returning to the place 8. Defensive end wins he starred as a college quar- bigger battle off the field: terback. Because Nebraska is Nov. 23 During a season in which headed for the Big Ten in 2011, this game could very well go few things went right for the down as the only time in his Jayhawks, Gill announced one career that Gill will have to major victory for one member coach against his former of the squad. Sidelined for school. The Jayhawks played more than a year because of inspired football that night, Hodgkin lymphoma, sophoespecially defensively. How- more defensive end D.J. Marever, NU’s defense limited the shall was dubbed to be canJayhawks to just 87 yards of cer-free in early November total offense and Kansas and was ready to return to football. Though his return never seriously threatened. came in a limited role, Mar7. Gill backs up emphasis shall suited up in full pads for on recruiting: Feb. 3 KU’s practice on Nov. 23 and Less than two months into is hoping to be ready for the job, Gill made his first spring drills in 2011. recruiting splash. When Gill met with the media to 9. Familiar face found announce the 2010 recruiting on football field: April 3 With the starting quarterclass, it included two four-star

Associated Press Sports Writer

Come closer, just listen: What do you hear?

It’s loud and it seems we’ve heard it all year.

Is it roars for the Saints echoing still, After Katrina before the big spill?

Or shrieks for Nadal? The World Cup for Spain?

There’s nothing quite like a strong summer reign.

Or gasps for Butler and a halfcourt heave Ending a run we could hardly believe?

All that was music but not quite the sounds Stuck in our heads as the year made its rounds.

Fight songs? The anthem before the first pitch?

Olympic theme music serving up kitsch?

That classic of peanuts and Cracker Jack?

Not on this playlist. We’re swerving off track.

What, then? Beethoven’s "Fifth"? Clapton’s "Layla"?

No, just the buzz of a vuvuzela.

Reputations this year rolled through the mud.

Exhibit A, Tiger: one chastened stud.

Woods chased women like a barracuda, Then rued he strayed from the path of Buddha.

He split with his swing coach, grew a goatee — Not that it mattered from fairway to tee.

So little went right, his drives and his putts.

Divorce lawyers, though, took nice, healthy cuts.

Roethlisberger, Favre: Two more names defiled, More scandal yet of libidos run wild.

And no year, for sure, is truly complete Without someone asking, "Is Lance a cheat?"

Then there’s Contador, who thought his race won.

He should have sent back

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NEW ORLEANS TIGHT END JIMMY GRAHAM (80) REACTS after his touchdown reception on Monday in Atlanta. The Saints told one of the most memorable stories of all-time, recovering from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and winning the Super Bowl in 2010. that filet mignon.

The list goes on of those taken to task.

Like coach Rick Pitino?

Don’t even ask.

And what of Pete Carroll at USC? He saw the storm clouds, decided to flee, While Reggie Bush struck his own Heisman pose, Returning the trophy like store-bought clothes.

And sometimes before you’re an undergrad The money trail’s leading to dear old Dad. Says the NCAA: merely a flaw.

Yes, life’s good at Auburn with Newton’s Law. And what could be dumber, you might presume, Than brandishing guns in a locker room?

The rules are quite clear beyond any doubt.

It takes no Wizard to figure that out.

But men are from Mars, women from Venus — Like common sense and Gilbert Arenas.

Then came the night of LeBron’s "Decision," A prime-time special met with derision.

With Jim Gray looking like some game-show host, King James decreed what he really wants most.

He longs for the Heat, provoking a howl From wounded Cleveland crying flagrant foul.

Baseball this season was not without charms — No-hitters each week in this call to arms.

And Galarraga nearly joined the club.

Perfect! Except for an umpire’s flub.

Safe or out? That was the call for Jim Joyce.

Sometimes we simply don’t make the right choice.

The playoffs were nothing but downright weird When the Giants taught us to Fear the Beard.

These castoffs and misfits bought on the cheap Somehow rose to the top of baseball’s heap.

On deck are Clemens and Bonds, don’t forget, The law’s long arm hardly done with them yet.

Football met science but this wasn’t dull — Assessing the force of hits to the skull.

This much was clear from the studies discussed: When helmets collide heads may be concussed.

The damage, of course, goes beyond the brain, Like a busted shoulder that’s racked with pain.

Favre honored his streak, but to no avail.

His Viking ship was unable to sail.

And before Vancouver could light the flame The order of business was grief and blame.

A luger was dead, with blood on the track.

The Olympics went on, no turning back.

Kim Yu-na sparkled, a jewel to behold.

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major and serious in our eyes,” Self said. “We’ll wait and see how that plays out.” back position wide open, a Little remains suspended popular member of the KU from the team. men’s basketball team decided to throw his hat in the ring. 3. Xavier Henry declares On the third day of spring for 2010 NBA Draft drills, former Rockhurst (30,991 pageviews) (Mo.) High QB Conner TeaThough Aldrich’s deparhan, a reserve guard for Bill ture from KU was expected, Self ’s hoops squad, got into some fans held out hope that the competition. freshman guard Xavier Henry Teahan, 6-foot-5, 215 might return for his sophopounds, stuck with it all more season. It didn’t happen, spring — through good as on April 7, Henry moments and bad — and announced at a press conferplayed a couple of series dur- ence that he would enter the ing the annual spring game, NBA Draft, becoming KU’s where he received the loudest first “one-and-done” player. cheer of the day. Ultimately, Though Henry had shown litthough, Gill and company tle emotion during the season, informed Teahan that his he had tears in his eyes when future remained in basketball. he told reporters that he would be leaving Lawrence. “I 10. Arrest leads to didn’t know I’d love it here Greene’s dismissal: May 14 this much at KU,” Henry said.

After a standout spring in “All the people here ... they which he emerged as a team really made it a place for me leader, senior Jamal Greene to love.” Henry was drafted was kicked off the team after 12th overall by the Memphis being arrested on charges of Grizzlies in June. attempted armed robbery.

The arrest led to Greene’s 4. Cole Aldrich declares for immediate dismissal and left a 2010 NBA Draft (29,685 huge void on KU’s defensive pageviews) As expected, KU center line, where the Kansas City, Kan., product was projected Cole Aldrich announced on to be a starter. Greene later March 29 that he was declarenrolled at MidAmerica ing for the NBA Draft. By Nazarene University in doing so, he was able to help Olathe and joined the Pio- out his parents, who both were struggling to keep neers football program. steady work in a tough economy. “I don’t think the public or media would possibly know what his family members have gone through this year,” KU coach Bill Self said.

“I think it was a very, very easy Canada’s hockey team trad- decision and one that needed to be made.” Aldrich was later ed in gold, While Norwegian curlers taken 11th overall by the New Orleans Hornets, who traded looked sharp and loose Wearing pants whose col- his rights to the Oklahoma City Thunder. The NBA’s ors could blind a moose.

UConn and Duke showed rookie salary scale indicates that Aldrich will make about once more how to win, While at Alabama the Tide $1.8 million in the first year of his contract and $1.9 million in rolled in, And college sports sorted the second year. out its affairs, Its conferences playing 5. KU gets No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament musical chairs.

The Big Ten has 12 teams. (26,724 pageviews) Though the KU men’s basHow’s that again?

It makes perfect sense: The ketball team earned the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Big 12 has 10.

It was the Lakers’ crown, Tournament, many analysts believed the Jayhawks Chicago’s Cup. Make a movie and call it received a tough draw in the Midwest Regional. KU’s side "Blackhawk Up," And a big-budget film, all of the bracket included Ohio State, Georgetown, Maryland, heart and will: The Masters, co-starring Michigan State and also the only two teams KU had lost to Amy and Phil.

The PGA brought not tears all season (Tennessee and Oklahoma State). “The first but debates About grounding a club at thing I thought was, ‘Wow, are we No. 1, or is somebody else Whistling Straits.

Wimbledon traveled to The No. 1?’” KU forward Marcus Morris said after watching the Twilight Zone, With Isner-Mahut a world selection show. The Jayhawks didn’t end up getting far all their own.

These were eerie doings enough to face any of those teams, losing to Northern across the pond.

They played to infinity and Iowa in the second round of the tourney in Oklahoma City. beyond.

In Dallas, the Cowboys gal6. Zach Peters to loped off course Into the sunset and flung announce college decision (26,274 pageviews) from their horse.

Rumors swirled on April 19, But restoration can indeed 2010, that high school sophobe quick, If you can run and throw more recruit Zach Peters was about to commit to KU over like Michael Vick.

Pacquiao fought as if on a Kentucky, North Carolina and Texas. The next day, the 6mission — Can’t lay a glove on this foot-9, 235-pound Peters made politician. things official, committing to In the rear-view mirror, KU during a press conference wouldn’t you know, at his school. Peters, from Comes Jimmie Johnson for Plano, Texas, is the 97th-best five in a row. player in the class of 2012, Zenyatta was beaten; according to the latest Rachel was done.

Rivals.com rankings.

We all turned for home, the 7. Mayer: Kentucky year had its run, With 2011 now in close pur- basketball victories tainted (24,363 pageviews) suit, Though Kentucky was the And with the vuvuzelas put first NCAA men’s basketball on mute.

Ode to sports year: lots of rhyme, less reason

By Fred Lief

Henry declaring for draft is No. 3 team to 2,000 victories, Lawrence Journal-World columnist Bill Mayer said the Wildcats cheated to get there.

Mayer outlined the transgressions of former Kentucky coach (and KU grad) Adolph Rupp, which included payment to his players. The pageviews show how a story can spread quickly on the Internet, as more than 10,000 of the clicks came directly from links on Kentucky men’s basketball pages/message boards.

8. Lew Perkins to resign (21,981 pageviews) A few weeks after it was revealed that five KU athletic department employees and a consultant were involved in a massive ticket scandal, Lew Perkins announced he would retire from his post as KU athletic director following the 2010-11 school year. The news shook many KU fans, who feared for the school’s future conference affiliation if the Big 12 dissolved. Perkins ended up retiring even earlier than expected, putting his immediate resignation on Sept. 7 — three days after his newly-hired football coach, Turner Gill, lost his debut at home against North Dakota State, 6-3.

9. KU football uniforms changing (20,990 pageviews) In what was the first of a few controversial moves by new Kansas football coach Turner Gill, the Jayhawks elected to go without names on the back of their uniforms for the first time since 1981.

Gill said he made the change “to support what we are expecting from our team and program. Our program is about team. We are representing the University of Kansas.

You will see that name on the front of our jerseys.” KU also removed the red stripe from its blue helmets. In an online poll, 56 percent of respondents didn’t like the new uniforms, 32 percent said they did like them, and 12 percent were undecided.

10. Mangino leaves Lawrence (20,023 pageviews) After serving eight seasons as Kansas University football coach, Mark Mangino resigned from the position on Dec. 3, 2009. The final chapter of his stay in Lawrence took place on May 18, as Mangino, his wife Mary Jane and dog Yogi packed up moving vans and headed to a new home in Naples, Fla. Many of the 100 comments on KUsports.com sent their best wishes to the coach responsible for KU’s 121 season in 2007-08, which included an Orange Bowl victory over Virginia Tech.

The rest of the top 20 11. Quarterback recruit Brock Berglund commits to KU (18,688 pageviews); 12.

Northern Iowa stuns KU in second round of NCAAs (18,614); 13. Talk at Jordan Brand Classic indicates Josh Selby will choose KU (18,271); 14. Basketball recruit Zach Peters picks Kansas (18,163); 15. North Dakota State football coach rips KU (18,012); 16.

North Dakota State stuns Jayhawks, 6-3 (17,892); 17. Sherron Collins explodes for 32 points in NBA summer league finale (17,832); 18. Keegan: Next-best fit for KU? Big/Pac-20 (17,457); 19. KU’s Self disagrees with Bob Knight, who said Collins should have been benched to start second half against Texas A&M (17,207); 20. Keegan: Notre Dame, Arkansas: Come on down (16,982).

BOWLS

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Hawkeyes edge Mizzou TEMPE , A RIZ . (AP) — Micah Hyde ran around, even behind the Missouri Tigers. Fill-in freshman Marcus Coker ran right over them.

Coker ran for 219 yards and two scores, and Hyde scored on a meandering, 72-yard interception return in the fourth quarter to help Iowa beat Missouri, 27-24, in the Insight Bowl on Tuesday night.

Undermanned due to injuries and suspensions, Iowa (8-5) turned to Coker, who had 403 yards and touchdown as Adam Robinson's backup during the regular season.

The bruising freshman had no trouble taking over with Robinson gone to a suspension, setting school records for yards and carries 33 in front of an Insight Bowlrecord 53,453 fans.

Missouri (10-3) had its way with Iowa's once-stout

DE BALLARD CLOSES CAREER WITH WIN Tuesday’s Insight Bowl marked the final game in the college career of former Free State High standout Christian Ballard.

Ballard, a 6-foot-5, 297pound senior defensive tackle for the Iowa Hawkeyes capped his career with a 27-24 victory against No. 14 Missouri.

Ballard finished the game with three tackles and a sack.

He finished 2010 with 43 defense most of the night, rolling up 512 yards, including a school bowl record 434 passing by Blaine Gabbert.

Gabbert finished 41-for-57 to set two more school records, but inexplicably threw the ball right to Hyde, who dodged several tackles while running backward and sideways before racing up the

tackles, including three sacks, five tackles for loss, two pass break-ups and a forced fumble.

For his career, Ballard recorded 152 tackles, 12.5 sacks and 21.5 tackles for loss as a three-year starter.

Next up for the former Firebird is preparation for next April’s NFL Draft, where some draft analysts have Ballard projected as high a second-round pick. sideline for the secondlongest interception return in Insight Bowl history.

Missouri had one f inal chance, but a fourth-down reception by T.J. Moe with 2:15 left was overruled on review and Coker helped grind out the clock. Moe finished with an Insight Bowl record 15 receptions for 152 yards.

CHAMPS SPORTS BOWL

N.C. State topples West Va. ORLANDO, FLA. (AP) — If this was Russell Wilson’s football finale, he sure made the most of it.

Wilson threw for 275 yards and two touchdowns, leading North Carolina State past No. 22 West Virginia, 23-7, in the Champs Sports Bowl on Tuesday night.

The Atlantic Coast Conference’s leading passer this season now has to decide whether to make an early move toward a professional baseball career or come back to lead the Wolpack again next year.

“I’ve been blessed to have the opportunity to play football and baseball my whole life,” Wilson said. “If it happens in the future that I can still do that, or if it doesn’t, whatever, but I know that playing for Coach (Tom) O’Brien and playing for N.C. State — whether I do come back or not — has been a great opportunity and a great blessing.

“I’m very passionate about N.C. State and N.C. State football, and I will always be.”

Wilson also had 41 yards rushing, Josh Czajkowski made three field goals and the Wolfpack (9-4) won nine games for the first time since 2002.

Geno Smith had 196 yards passing and an injured Noel Devine ran for 50 yards for the Mountaineers (9-4), whose five second-half turnovers ended any hopes of a cheerful send off for some of Bill Stewart’s staff.

Stewart is being slowly moved out as coach, with Dana Holgorsen, Oklahoma State’s offensive coordinator, taking over at the same position next year at West Virginia before moving into Stewart’s job in 2012. The game was current offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen’s last game.

“I don’t mean to be a wise (guy), but this is not the time to talk about next year,” Stewart said. “I just finished a bowl game. I’ll see them Jan. 9 and we’ll start preparation then for 2011.”

Instead, this one was a coronation for someone else.

Wilson, who earned the bowl’s MVP honor, may very

STATISTICS

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NORTH CAROLINA STATE WIDE RECEIVER JARVIS WILLIAMS (5) CELEBRATES his 7-yard touchdown catch with center Camden Wentz (53). N.C. State defeated West Virginia, 23,-7, in the Champs Sports Bowl on Tuesday in Orlando, Fla. well have played his last football game for the Wolfpack.

He spent much of the summer playing second base in the Colorado Rockies’ minorleague system, and his career in baseball has always seemed more promising.

The Wolfpack can only hope he returns.

Wilson was 28 for 45 passing, had no interceptions and shredded a West Virginia defense that had been solid. It was the most points that the Mountaineers — who had never given up more than 21 points — allowed all season.

“We’ve got to try to persuade him to come back,” running back James Washington said.

Wilson’s 16-yard touchdown pass to Mustafa Greene put the Wolfpack up 7-0 in the first quarter, and they never had trouble moving the ball after that. Scoring, at least early, was another matter.

N.C. State’s offense stalled several times after crossing into Mountaineers’ territory.

The Wolfpack also faked a potential 43-yard field goal in the second quarter that was a disaster: Holder Corey Tedder threw an over-the-shoulder pass from his knees that skipped off the new field turf,

West Virginia 0 7 0 0— 7 N.C. State 7 3 6 7 — 23 First Quarter NCSt—Greene 16 pass from R.Wilson (Czajkowski kick), 1:37.

Second Quarter WVU—Bailey 32 pass from G.Smith (Bitancurt kick), 2:10.

NCSt—FG Czajkowski 45, :26.

Third Quarter NCSt—FG Czajkowski 38, 6:05.

NCSt—FG Czajkowski 40, 1:50.

Fourth Quarter NCSt—Williams 7 pass from R.Wilson (Czajkowski kick), 3:55.

A—48,962.

WVU NCSt First downs 19 21 Rushes-yards 25-130 36-103 Passing 196 275 Comp-Att-Int 22-39-1 28-45-0 Return Yards (-2) 0 Punts-Avg. 4-43.0 6-39.0 Fumbles-Lost 5-4 3-1 Penalties-Yards 3-29 4-39 Time of Possession 23:14 36:46 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—West Virginia, G.Smith 12-59, Devine 8-50, Sanders 1-17, Austin 1-8, Alston 2-6, Team 1-(minus 10). N.C. State, Washington 1862, R.Wilson 14-41, Greene 3-13, Tedder 1-(minus 13).

PASSING—West Virginia, G.Smith 22-39-1-196.

N.C. State, R.Wilson 28-45-0-275.

RECEIVING—West Virginia, Sanders 5-58, Austin 5-30, Bailey 4-61, Devine 4-21, Woods 214, Alston 2-12. N.C. State, Williams 6-77, Davis 5-68, Spencer 3-44, Bryan 3-25, T.Gentry 2-14, M.Carter 2-11, Graham 2-7, Washington 2-4, Greene 1-16, Howard 1-5, J.Smith 1-4.

kicker Czajkowski was hit amid the scramble and West Virginia took possession.

West Virginia capitalized when Smith threw a 32-yard touchdown pass to Stedman Bailey, who reached over defensive back David Amerson to catch the ball and tie the game.

But the Mountaineers ended any chance of a comeback with late turnovers.

Smith fumbled a handoff, Devine lost the ball after a hit

by Amerson and then Smith was intercepted by Brandon Bishop.

As if that wasn’t enough, Jock Sanders fumbled a punt on the West Virginia 7-yard line that led to a 3-yard TD catch by Jarvis Williams to seal the victory. Smith also had another fumble in the final minutes.

“We said all year long that our motto was we can only stop ourselves and beat ourselves and that’s pretty much what happened,” Devine said.

The win put Wilson in elite company with only one other Wolfpack quarterback: Only the 2002 team that went 11-3, led by Philip Rivers, had won at least nine games.

Pinstripe Bowl hit by snowstorm N EW Y O R K ( AP ) — Yankee Stadium isn’t accustomed to digging out for anything. The ballpark in the Bronx is usually dormant this time of year, the sweet sounds of spring still months away.

The grounds crew is getting a crash course in snow removal this week.

About 400 people have been working around the clock since a brutal storm dumped about two feet of snow on the New York area over the weekend. The workers are trying feverishly to get the stadium ready for the inaugural Pinstripe Bowl between Kansas State and Syracuse on Thursday afternoon, clearing the f ield, plazas, concourses and

enough seating for about 48,000 fans.

Ready, set, hike?

More like ready, set, shovel.

“We had the field covered up and we’re getting it plowed, and the field looks great,” Yankees president Randy Levine said Tuesday.

“They’ve been working all night and really there’s no issues whatsoever. It’ll be ready for the game.”

In fact, Levine believes it will be ready today, when the Wildcats (7-5) and Orange (75) are scheduled to hold their final practices at the ballpark.

The teams have been shuttled all over the New York City area this week, trying to squeeze in practice wherever they can. The Wildcats

worked out in a hotel ballroom on Sunday, when the snow and wind was crippling the city. Both teams practiced at the New York Giants’ indoor facility in East Rutherford, N.J., on Monday and the New York Jets’ training facility in Florham Park, N.Y., on Tuesday.

Kansas State was fortunate just to arrive on Sunday. Its charter landed shortly before the storm swept through with a vengeance, one of the last flights into the city before the three major airports shut down. Syracuse also made it from its campus in upstate New York, only slightly behind schedule, despite conditions that made driving nearly unbearable.

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MINNESOTA’S RALPH SAMPSON (50) IS SURROUNDED by Wisconsin’s Keaton Nankivil, left, Jon Leuer and Jordan Taylor, right. Wisconsin defeated No. 14 Minnesota, 68-60, on Tuesday in Madison, Wis.

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Badgers beat No. 14 Gophers ————

Kentucky slams Coppin St. Wisconsin 68, No. 14 Minnesota 60 MADISON, WIS. (AP) — Jordan Taylor scored 22 points and Jon Leuer added 16 to lead Wisconsin to a 68-60 upset of No. 14 Minnesota on Tuesday night in the Big Ten opener for both teams.

No. 12 Purdue 80, Michigan 57 A N N A R B O R , M I C H . ( AP ) — JaJuan Johnson scored 22 points, E’Twaun Thomas added 20 points and No. 12 Purdue opened the Big Ten season with an easy victory over Michigan.

MINNESOTA (11-2) Mbakwe 3-5 5-6 11, Williams 2-7 1-1 5, Sampson III 5-12 4-7 14, Nolen 0-6 0-0 0, Hoffarber 5-10 0-0 12, Ahanmisi 0-0 0-0 0, Hollins 0-0 0-0 0, Armelin 1-1 0-0 2, Joseph 6-13 1-1 14, Iverson 1-5 0-0 2. Totals 23-59 11-15 60.

WISCONSIN (11-2) Leuer 4-13 6-6 16, Bruesewitz 0-2 0-0 0, Nankivil 3-5 3-3 11, Taylor 6-16 8-9 22, Gasser 15 0-0 2, Evans 0-1 0-0 0, Jarmusz 3-3 0-0 9, Berggren 4-6 0-0 8. Totals 21-51 17-18 68.

Halftime—Wisconsin 33-29. 3-Point Goals— Minnesota 3-12 (Hoffarber 2-4, Joseph 1-5, Sampson III 0-1, Nolen 0-2), Wisconsin 9-24 (Jarmusz 3-3, Nankivil 2-3, Leuer 2-5, Taylor 2-9, Berggren 0-1, Bruesewitz 0-1, Gasser 0-2).

Fouled Out—Sampson III. Rebounds—Minnesota 42 (Mbakwe 11), Wisconsin 24 (Leuer 9).

Assists—Minnesota 16 (Joseph 7), Wisconsin 14 (Taylor 7). Total Fouls—Minnesota 18, Wisconsin 16. A—17,230.

PURDUE (12-1) J. Johnson 6-16 10-10 22, Byrd 0-3 0-0 0, Jackson 2-5 0-0 4, Smith 6-7 0-0 17, Moore 8-16 2-4 21, T. Johnson 4-6 0-1 10, Day 0-0 0-0 0, Barlow 2-4 0-0 4, Anthrop 0-0 0-0 0, Bade 0-1 0-0 0, Carroll 0-0 0-0 0, Marcius 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 2959 12-15 80.

MICHIGAN (10-3) Smotrycz 2-3 0-0 6, Morgan 4-7 0-0 8, Novak 14 0-0 3, Douglass 6-10 0-0 15, Hardaway Jr. 3-8 22 9, Morris 3-14 2-4 9, Akunne 0-0 0-0 0, Vogrich 0-1 0-0 0, Horford 1-5 2-2 4, Bartelstein 1-2 0-0 3, Christian 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 21-55 6-8 57.

Halftime—Purdue 30-26. 3-Point Goals— Purdue 10-18 (Smith 5-6, Moore 3-5, T. Johnson 2-4, Byrd 0-3), Michigan 9-23 (Douglass 3-6, Smotrycz 2-3, Bartelstein 1-2, Hardaway Jr. 1-2, Novak 1-3, Morris 1-5, Horford 0-1, Vogrich 0-1).

Fouled Out—Smotrycz. Rebounds—Purdue 38 (Moore 9), Michigan 30 (Hardaway Jr., Novak 5).

Assists—Purdue 19 (Jackson 6), Michigan 12 (Morris 6). Total Fouls—Purdue 15, Michigan 19.

A—13,751.

No. 11 Kentucky 91, Coppin State 61 LEXINGTON , K Y. (AP) — Terrence Jones scored 18 points, Brandon Knight added 17 points and eight assists and the 11th-ranked Wildcats rolled by Coppin State in their final tuneup before a showdown with the rival Cardinals on New Year’s Eve. COPPIN ST. (4-6) Ellis 3-10 3-4 10, Williams 1-2 1-2 3, Doughty 14 0-0 2, Gallo 3-11 2-2 10, Lee 4-13 2-4 11, Goldsberry 2-10 1-1 5, Simpson 1-1 0-0 3, Murray 2-3 0-0 5, Johnson 2-3 0-0 5, Kucinskas 3-4 0-0 7.

Totals 22-61 9-13 61.

KENTUCKY (10-2) Jones 9-12 0-0 18, Harrellson 4-5 2-2 10, Miller 3-5 0-0 7, Knight 6-11 2-2 17, Liggins 4-8 1-1 10, Poole Jr. 0-0 1-2 1, Hood 2-7 2-2 7, Polson 0-1 00 0, Lamb 6-11 3-3 17, Vargas 1-1 2-4 4. Totals 3561 13-16 91.

Halftime—Kentucky 40-19. 3-Point Goals— Coppin St. 8-25 (Gallo 2-7, Kucinskas 1-1, Johnson 1-1, Simpson 1-1, Murray 1-2, Ellis 1-3, Lee 1-8, Goldsberry 0-2), Kentucky 8-22 (Knight 3-5, Lamb 2-5, Miller 1-3, Liggins 1-4, Hood 1-4, Jones 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Coppin St. 22 (Goldsberry, Kucinskas 4), Kentucky 43 (Liggins 8). Assists—Coppin St. 10 (Goldsberry 6), Kentucky 21 (Knight 8). Total Fouls—Coppin St. 15, Kentucky 15. A—24,329.

No. 5 Syracuse 81, Providence 74 SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Kris Joseph had a career-high 27 points, Scoop Jardine scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half, and No. 5 Syracuse beat Providence in the Big East opener for both teams on Tuesday.

PROVIDENCE (11-3) Brooks 10-22 5-6 27, Batts 2-6 2-2 7, Dixon 4-5 3-5 11, Coleman 4-11 3-3 12, Council 3-10 1-6 10, Mondy 2-8 2-2 7, Evans 0-0 0-0 0, Cotton 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 25-63 16-24 74.

SYRACUSE (14-0) Jackson 2-6 5-6 9, Joseph 8-13 7-10 27, Melo 00 0-0 0, Jardine 6-11 8-10 21, Triche 6-11 1-2 15, Waiters 0-2 1-2 1, Keita 0-2 0-0 0, Southerland 37 0-0 8. Totals 25-52 22-30 81.

Halftime—Syracuse 42-32. 3-Point Goals— Providence 8-30 (Council 3-8, Brooks 2-7, Batts 1-2, Mondy 1-6, Coleman 1-6, Cotton 0-1), Syracuse 9-22 (Joseph 4-6, Southerland 2-4, Triche 2-5, Jardine 1-5, Waiters 0-2). Fouled Out—Mondy. Rebounds—Providence 35 (Dixon 9), Syracuse 37 (Jackson 17). Assists— Providence 13 (Council 7), Syracuse 18 (Jardine 7). Total Fouls—Providence 20, Syracuse 18.

Technical—Jackson. A—20,388.

BOSTON (95) Pierce 8-14 2-2 21, Garnett 4-10 3-6 11, S.O’Neal 2-2 5-6 9, Robinson 3-8 1-2 8, Allen 711 1-1 17, Daniels 6-10 0-0 12, Davis 6-14 2-3 14, Bradley 0-2 1-2 1, J.O’Neal 0-0 0-0 0, Wafer 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 37-73 15-22 95.

INDIANA (83) Granger 5-21 5-5 15, McRoberts 2-3 1-3 5, Hibbert 3-9 2-2 8, Collison 4-10 2-3 10, Rush 3-9 9-10 17, Dunleavy 4-6 0-0 9, Posey 3-5 0-0 8, S.Jones 0-3 0-0 0, Ford 2-3 0-0 4, D.Jones 0-3 0-0 0, Foster 3-6 1-2 7. Totals 29-78 20-25 83.

Boston 19 26 21 29 — 95 Indiana 26 21 20 16 — 83 3-Point Goals—Boston 6-11 (Pierce 3-3, Allen 2-4, Robinson 1-3, Wafer 0-1), Indiana 5-17 (Rush 2-3, Posey 2-4, Dunleavy 1-1, D.Jones 0-1, Collison 0-2, Granger 0-6). Fouled Out— S.O’Neal. Rebounds—Boston 48 (Garnett 13), Indiana 49 (Hibbert 8). Assists—Boston 18 (Pierce 7), Indiana 15 (Granger 4). Total Fouls— Boston 19, Indiana 24. Technicals—Boston defensive three second, Indiana Coach O’Brien.

A—18,165 (18,165).

Magic 110, Cavaliers 95 CLEVELAND (AP) — Gilbert Arenas scored 22 points, fellow newcomer Jason Richardson added 20, and the Orlando Magic made a season-high 19 three-pointers in a victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Orlando won its fourth straight by breaking open a close game in the fourth quarter with leading scorer Dwight Howard on the bench. Howard went out with his fourth foul late in the third period and didn’t play in the fourth as the Magic extended a one-point lead to 102-85 with 4:23 to play.

ORLANDO (110) Turkoglu 3-8 1-1 9, Bass 1-4 0-0 2, Howard 4-8 4-6 12, Nelson 4-11 2-3 13, J.Richardson 8-13 00 20, Anderson 2-3 0-0 6, Redick 4-7 3-4 14, Arenas 8-15 1-1 22, Clark 6-10 0-0 12. Totals 4079 11-15 110.

CLEVELAND (95) Parker 3-11 0-0 8, Jamison 8-13 4-6 21, Varejao 4-9 6-6 14, M.Williams 5-11 3-3 14, Gibson 4-8 57 15, Hickson 4-9 1-7 9, Moon 1-3 0-0 2, Sessions 4-8 4-4 12, Hollins 0-0 0-0 0, Harris 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 33-72 23-33 95.

Orlando 30 30 15 35 — 110 Cleveland 33 24 17 21 — 95 3-Point Goals—Orlando 19-31 (Arenas 5-8, J.Richardson 4-6, Redick 3-3, Nelson 3-6, Anderson 2-3, Turkoglu 2-5), Cleveland 6-19 (Gibson 2-2, Parker 2-7, Jamison 1-3, M.Williams 1-6, Moon 0-1). Fouled Out—Gibson.

Rebounds—Orlando 44 (Turkoglu, Arenas, Howard 6), Cleveland 48 (Varejao 9). Assists— Orlando 27 (Arenas 11), Cleveland 22 (M.Williams 8). Total Fouls—Orlando 25, Cleveland 19. Technicals—Orlando defensive three second, Gibson, Jamison. A—20,562 (20,562).

Heat 106, Knicks 98 MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade scored a season-high 40 points, LeBron James and Chris Bosh each finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds, and the Miami Heat held off a big fourth-

STANDINGS EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W 24 18 12 11 9

L 5 13 19 20 22

Pct .828 .581 .387 .355 .290

GB — 7 13 14 16

W 24 20 20 10 7

L 9 12 13 19 22

Pct .727 .625 .606 .345 .241

GB — 31⁄2 4 12 15

W 20 13 12 10 8

L 10 16 18 21 23

Pct .667 .448 .400 .323 .258

GB — 61⁄2 8 101⁄2 1 12 ⁄2

W L 27 4 24 6 18 13 15 15 14 17

Pct .871 .800 .581 .500 .452

GB — 21⁄2 9 111⁄2 13

W 21 21 17 16 8

Pct .677 .656 .567 .500 .250

GB — 1 ⁄2 31⁄2 51⁄2 131⁄2

W L Pct L.A. Lakers 21 10 .677 Phoenix 13 16 .448 Golden State 12 18 .400 L.A. Clippers 10 22 .313 Sacramento 5 23 .179 Tuesday’s Games Orlando 110, Cleveland 95 Boston 95, Indiana 83 Miami 106, New York 98 Chicago 90, Milwaukee 77 Toronto 84, Dallas 76 San Antonio 97, L.A. Lakers 82 Denver 95, Portland 77 Today’s games Golden State at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 6 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Miami at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

GB — 7 81⁄2 1 11 ⁄2 141⁄2

Boston New York Philadelphia Toronto New Jersey Southeast Division Miami Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Washington Central Division Chicago Indiana Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio Dallas New Orleans Houston Memphis Northwest Division Utah Oklahoma City Denver Portland Minnesota Pacific Division

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quarter rally to beat the New York Knicks.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Miami, which is 15-1 in its last 16 games and has beaten the Knicks seven straight times.

Miami led by as many as 22, then saw the lead cut to three before Wade’s step-back 3pointer with just inside of 2 minutes remaining helped save the Heat.

NEW YORK (98) Chandler 9-15 3-4 21, Gallinari 5-12 2-2 13, Stoudemire 10-23 10-12 30, Felton 5-13 3-4 15, Fields 1-6 1-3 3, Williams 1-4 0-0 3, Douglas 3-9 2-3 11, Turiaf 0-0 2-4 2, Walker 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-82 23-32 98.

MIAMI (106) James 8-17 1-3 18, Bosh 6-12 6-7 18, Ilgauskas 6-8 2-2 14, Arroyo 1-2 1-1 3, Wade 13-28 13-16 40, Anthony 1-2 0-0 2, Howard 1-3 0-0 2, Jones 0-3 4-5 4, Chalmers 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 38-79 27-34 106.

New York 18 22 25 33 — 98 Miami 34 19 27 26 — 106 3-Point Goals—New York 7-24 (Douglas 3-5, Felton 2-6, Williams 1-3, Gallinari 1-4, Chandler 0-1, Stoudemire 0-1, Fields 0-4), Miami 3-13 (James 1-2, Chalmers 1-2, Wade 1-7, Jones 0-2).

Fouled Out—Chandler. Rebounds—New York 45 (Stoudemire, Fields 7), Miami 60 (Ilgauskas, Bosh, James 10). Assists—New York 14 (Felton 5), Miami 15 (James 8). Total Fouls—New York 22, Miami 20. Technicals—New York Coach D’Antoni, Stoudemire, Williams, New York defensive three second, Ilgauskas, Miami Coach Spoelstra, Wade. A—20,288 (19,600).

Bulls 90, Bucks 77 C H I C A G O ( A P ) — Carlos Boozer had 24 points and nine rebounds, Luol Deng scored 24 points, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Milwaukee Bucks.

DRAWINGS DEADLINE SOON

How former Jayhawks fared Mario Chalmers, Miami Pts: 5. FGs: 2-4. FTs: 0-0.

Drew Gooden, Milwaukee Did not play, foot injury Paul Pierce, Boston Pts: 21. FGs: 8-14. FTs: 2-2.

Brandon Rush, Indiana Pts: 17. FGs: 3-9. FTs: 9-10.

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BOSTON FORWARD AND KANSAS UNIVERSITY PRODUCT PAUL PIERCE, RIGHT, DRIVES on another former KU standout, Indiana’s Brandon Rush. Pierce’s Celtics beat Rush’s Pacers, 95-83, on Tuesday in Indianapolis. Pierce finished with 21 points, while Rush poured in 17.

Derrick Rose had 18 points, 12 assists and six assists for Chicago, who has won 11 of its last 13 games.

John Salmons scored 18 points for the Bucks.

Raptors 84, Mavericks 76 DALLAS (AP) — Rookie Ed Davis scored a career-high 17 points and pulled down 12 rebounds, Linas Kleiza and DeMar DeRozan added 16 points apiece, and the shorthanded Toronto Raptors pulled off an upset of the Dallas Mavericks.

The Raptors were missing several key players, but took advantage of the injury absence of Dallas’ top scorer, Dirk Nowitzki.

MILWAUKEE (77) Mbah a Moute 5-9 2-2 12, Ilyasova 4-13 2-2 10, Bogut 2-12 0-2 4, Dooling 4-9 2-2 11, Salmons 517 6-7 18, Sanders 0-2 0-0 0, Maggette 4-8 6-10 15, Douglas-Roberts 2-11 0-0 5, Brockman 1-3 00 2. Totals 27-84 18-25 77.

CHICAGO (90) Deng 9-15 5-6 24, Boozer 10-16 4-6 24, Thomas 1-4 0-0 2, Rose 7-17 1-1 18, Bogans 1-4 0-0 3, Gibson 0-5 0-0 0, Brewer 2-3 0-0 4, Asik 00 1-2 1, Korver 3-8 0-0 7, Watson 3-4 1-1 7. Totals 36-76 12-16 90.

Milwaukee 15 30 17 15 — 77 Chicago 27 17 23 23 — 90 3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 5-14 (Salmons 2-5, Dooling 1-2, Douglas-Roberts 1-2, Maggette 1-2, Mbah a Moute 0-1, Ilyasova 0-2), Chicago 6-15 (Rose 3-4, Bogans 1-3, Deng 1-4, Korver 1-4).

Rebounds—Milwaukee 61 (Bogut 16), Chicago 47 (Boozer 9). Assists—Milwaukee 11 (Dooling 6), Chicago 24 (Rose 12). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 15, Chicago 21. Technicals—Milwaukee defensive three second. A—22,091 (20,917).

TORONTO (84) Kleiza 7-14 0-0 16, Johnson 4-8 4-5 12, Dorsey 2-2 3-4 7, Bayless 2-10 0-0 4, DeRozan 7-13 2-3 16, Davis 6-8 5-8 17, Barbosa 5-12 2-2 12, Wright 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 33-69 16-22 84.

DALLAS (76) Butler 7-16 1-2 15, Marion 5-10 2-3 12, Chandler 1-1 1-1 3, Kidd 3-11 1-1 7, Stevenson 1-5 0-0 2, Terry 8-19 0-1 18, Haywood 0-0 2-2 2, Cardinal 2-4 2-2 8, Barea 3-8 0-0 7, Mahinmi 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 31-75 9-12 76.

Toronto 23 23 18 20 — 84 Dallas 13 27 19 17 — 76 3-Point Goals—Toronto 2-10 (Kleiza 2-6, Bayless 0-2, Barbosa 0-2), Dallas 5-22 (Cardinal 2-4, Terry 2-8, Barea 1-3, Kidd 0-2, Butler 0-2, Stevenson 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Toronto 50 (Davis 12), Dallas 39 (Cardinal 7).

Assists—Toronto 20 (Bayless 8), Dallas 19 (Terry 6).

Total Fouls—Toronto 14, Dallas 17.

Technicals—Dorsey, Kleiza 2, Chandler, Dallas defensive three second. Ejected—Kleiza. A— 20,027 (19,200).

Spurs 97, Lakers 82 S AN A N T O N I O ( AP ) — Tony Parker scored 23 points and the San Antonio Spurs, backing up their NBA-best record against the defending champions, beat Kobe Bryant and the reeling Los Angeles Lakers.

DeJuan Blair had 17 points and 15 rebounds, leading an unlikely Spurs cast that handed the Lakers their third straight loss while Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili muddled through a dreadful game.

L.A. LAKERS (82) Odom 3-9 2-2 9, Artest 4-9 0-0 10, Gasol 3-8 33 9, Fisher 1-4 0-0 2, Bryant 8-27 2-2 21, Bynum 4-4 2-8 10, Blake 1-5 0-0 2, Brown 1-11 2-2 5, Barnes 3-4 2-2 9, Caracter 1-1 3-3 5. Totals 29-82 16-22 82.

SAN ANTONIO (97) Jefferson 6-14 1-2 15, Duncan 1-7 0-0 2, Blair 8-14 1-2 17, Parker 10-18 3-4 23, Ginobili 3-12 12 9, Bonner 3-4 0-0 8, Hill 2-5 6-7 10, Splitter 02 2-4 2, Neal 3-10 0-0 9, Udoka 1-1 0-0 2, Quinn 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-87 14-21 97.

L.A. Lakers 18 26 18 20 — 82 San Antonio 27 15 29 26 — 97 3-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 8-23 (Bryant 3-7, Artest 2-5, Barnes 1-1, Odom 1-2, Brown 1-5, Fisher 0-1, Blake 0-2), San Antonio 9-32 (Neal 39, Bonner 2-3, Ginobili 2-7, Jefferson 2-8, Duncan 0-1, Hill 0-2, Parker 0-2). Fouled Out— None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 59 (Brown 11), San Antonio 57 (Blair 15). Assists—L.A. Lakers 15 (Gasol 5), San Antonio 20 (Ginobili 6). Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 19, San Antonio 23.

Technicals—Bryant, Fisher, Hill. A—18,581 (18,797).

A&M routs Drexel No. 7 Texas A&M 74, Drexel 45 S A N D I E G O — Danielle Adams scored 16 of her 20 points in the first half and No. 7 Texas A&M rolled to a 74-45 victory over Drexel on Tuesday night in the Surf ‘N Slam tournament.

Texas A&M (10-1), playing its first game in nine days, showed no rust as it led from the outset. The Aggies used a 16-3 run midway through the first half to take a 25-7 lead with 8:55 left.

Adams made nine of 14 shots to lead Texas A&M, which shot 47.7 percent.

Adams, who averages 21.9 points, scored in double figures in her 20th consecutive game.

Kamile Nacickaite scored 11 points and Jasmina Rosseel added 10 for Drexel (7-3), which trailed, 42-22, at halftime.

The Aggies will play host to

San Diego State (6-5) in Thursday night’s championship game.

Texas A&M looked solid in every phase of the game as it held a 38-26 rebounding edge, limited the Dragons to 35.6 percent shooting and forced Drexel into a season-high 24 turnovers.

Tyra White scored 14 points for the Aggies and Adaora Elonu finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds for her second career double-double.

DREXEL (7-3) Wootton 2-4 0-0 4, Nacickaite 4-13 1-1 11, Rosseel 4-13 0-0 10, Crane 2-7 4-6 8, Lee 2-3 2-2 6, Johnson-Allen 0-0 2-2 2, Thierolf 0-1 0-0 0, Mershon 0-2 0-0 0, Flanagan 1-1 0-0 2, Schluth 11 0-0 2. Totals 16-45 9-11 45.

TEXAS A&M (10-1) Elonu 5-10 3-4 13, Adams 9-14 2-2 20, Carter 38 2-2 9, White 6-13 0-0 14, Colson 3-7 0-0 7, Bellock 0-0 0-0 0, Windham 0-2 0-0 0, Grant 0-2 00 0, Baker 0-1 0-0 0, Collins 0-0 0-0 0, Pratcher 11 0-0 2, Gilbert 3-5 1-2 7, Assarian 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 31-65 8-10 74.

Halftime—Texas A&M 42-22. 3-Point Goals— Drexel 4-18 (Nacickaite 2-5, Rosseel 2-10, Mershon 0-1, Crane 0-2), Texas A&M 4-13 (White 2-5, Colson 1-3, Carter 1-4, Adams 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Drexel 26 (Mershon 5), Texas A&M 38 (Elonu 10). Assists—Drexel 12 (Crane 5), Texas A&M 21 (Colson 6). Total Fouls— Drexel 14, Texas A&M 14. A—683.

Nuggets 95, Trail Blazers 77 DENVER (AP ) — Chauncey Billups scored 18 points and the short-handed Denver Nuggets snapped a seasonhigh, three-game losing streak by beating the Portland Trail Blazers.

J.R. Smith and Nene added 17 points apiece for the Nuggets, who were without forward Carmelo Anthony for a fourth consecutive game following the death of his sister. The Nuggets said in a statement that Anthony is expected to rejoin the team on Thursday.

PORTLAND (77) Batum 6-11 1-2 14, Cunningham 3-9 0-0 6, Aldridge 9-17 0-0 18, Miller 4-11 1-1 9, Matthews 1-8 3-3 6, Marks 2-3 0-0 5, Fernandez 3-7 2-2 11, Mills 1-4 0-0 2, Johnson 2-7 0-0 4, Babbitt 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 32-80 7-8 77.

DENVER (95) Smith 6-15 2-4 17, Martin 5-5 0-0 10, Nene 6-7 5-6 17, Billups 7-11 2-2 18, Afflalo 5-12 4-4 15, Andersen 2-5 4-4 8, Lawson 1-7 0-0 2, Forbes 210 4-6 8, S.Williams 0-2 0-0 0, Ely 0-1 0-0 0, Balkman 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-75 21-26 95.

Portland 21 20 17 19 — 77 Denver 25 23 30 17 — 95 3-Point Goals—Portland 6-13 (Fernandez 3-4, Marks 1-1, Matthews 1-2, Batum 1-4, Mills 0-2), Denver 6-16 (Smith 3-6, Billups 2-3, Afflalo 1-4, Lawson 0-1, Forbes 0-2). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Portland 41 (Aldridge 13), Denver 54 (Andersen 12). Assists—Portland 17 (Miller 5), Denver 22 (Billups 9). Total Fouls—Portland 20, Denver 15. Technicals—Denver defensive three second 2. A—17,388 (19,155).

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Celtics 95, Pacers 83 I N D I A N A P O L I S ( AP ) — Paul Pierce scored 21 points and Ray Allen added 17 to help the Boston Celtics beat the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night.

Boston point guard Rajon Rondo missed his f ifth straight game with a sprained left ankle.

The Celtics improved to 41 without him and maintained the best record in the Eastern Conference. The Celtics were coming off an 86-78 loss at Orlando on Christmas that ended a 14-game winning streak.

Brandon Rush led the Pacers with 17 points. Danny Granger scored 15 points, but he shot 5 for 21 from the field.

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SCOREBOARD Big 12 Men

Conference W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

All Games W L 11 0 12 1 11 1 10 1 10 2 10 3 9 2 9 2 8 3 8 4 6 6 5 6

Kansas Missouri Oklahoma State Texas A&M Iowa State Kansas State Nebraska Texas Baylor Colorado Texas Tech Oklahoma Today’s Games New Mexico at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Maryland Eastern Shore at Colorado (FSNRM), 7 p.m.

UT Arlington at Kansas (ESPNU), 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Old Dominion at Missouri (MSN), 7 p.m.

Iowa State at Virginia (Comcast), 7 p.m.

Central Arkansas at Oklahoma (SSn), 7 p.m.

Friday’s Games Coppin State at Texas (LSN), 1 p.m.

North Florida at Kansas State (FSKC), 1 p.m.

McNeese State at Texas A&M, 3 p.m.

Oklahoma State at Gonzaga (ESPN2), 9 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 2 North Dakota at Nebraska, 1 p.m.

Texas A&M Corpus Christi at Texas Tech (TTSN), 2 p.m.

Texas Southern at Baylor (FSSW), 2:30 p.m.

Miami, Ohio, at Kansas (ESPNU), 5 p.m.

Colorado at Cal State Bakersfield, 6 p.m.

College Men

EAST Bucknell 70, Loyola, Md. 59 Drexel 84, Niagara 39 Long Island U. 89, N.J. Tech 82 Oberlin at Bryant, ppd.

Otterbein 84, St. Vincent 76 Saint Joseph’s 65, Holy Cross 54 Seton Hall 64, South Florida 55 St. Bonaventure 82, Siena 79 SOUTH Austin Peay 101, Brescia 46 Fairfield at Florida, ccd.

Georgia 70, Charleston Southern 55 Kentucky 91, Coppin St. 61 Liberty 84, Union, Ky. 47 Marshall 85, Binghamton 60 Morehead St. 76, Kent St. 59 N.C. State 82, Alabama A&M 51 Oakland, Mich. 98, Centenary 71 Rider 78, Howard 64 UNC Asheville 85, W. Carolina 79, OT MIDWEST Cincinnati 76, DePaul 60 Cornerstone 80, Goshen 57 Maryville, Tenn. 84, Ohio Wesleyan 77 Purdue 80, Michigan 57 South Dakota 93, Midland Lutheran 69 UMKC 75, N. Dakota St. 73 Valparaiso 69, Ball St. 52 Walsh 97, York, Pa. 71 Wisconsin 68, Minnesota 60 Xavier 88, Albany, N.Y. 64 SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 120, Central Baptist 39 IPFW 76, Oral Roberts 73 North Texas 83, Okla. Panhandle St. 62 TCU 99, Chicago St. 72 FAR WEST Lewis-Clark St. 90, Lewis & Clark 78 TOURNAMENT Coach Connor Classic Championship Marian, Ind. 87, Thomas More 70 Third Place Cincinnati-Clermont 102, Wilberforce 90, 2OT

Kansas Men

Exhibition Washburn, W 92-62 Emporia State, W 90-59 Regular Season Longwood, W 113-75 (1-0) Valparaiso, W 79-44 (2-0) North Texas, W 90-63 (3-0) Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, W 82-41 (4-0) Ohio University in Las Vegas, W, 98-41 (5-0) Arizona in Las Vegas, W 87-79 (6-0) UCLA, W 77-76 (7-0) Memphis, W 81-68 (8-0) Colorado State, Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo., W 76-55 (9-0) USC, W 70-68 (10-0) at California, W 78-63 (11-0) Today — Texas-Arlington, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 2 (Sunday) — Miami (Ohio), 5 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 5 (Wednesday) — UMKC, 7 p.m., Jayhawk TV. Jan. 9 (Sunday) — at Michigan, 12:30 p.m. or 3:30 p.m., CBS. Jan. 12 (Wednesday) – at Iowa State, 8 p.m., ESPN2.

Jan. 15 (Saturday) — Nebraska, 1 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 17 (Monday) — at Baylor, 8:30 p.m., ESPN. Jan. 22 (Saturday) — Texas, 3 p.m., CBS. Jan. 25 (Tuesday) — at Colorado, 7 p.m., Boulder, Colo., Big 12 Network.

Jan. 29 (Saturday) — Kansas State, TBD. Feb. 1 (Tuesday) — at Texas Tech, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Feb. 5 (Saturday) — at Nebraska, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 7 (Monday) — Missouri, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 12 (Saturday) — Iowa State, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 14 (Monday) — at Kansas State, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 19 (Saturday) — Colorado, 1 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 21 (Monday) — Oklahoma State, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 26 (Saturday) — at Oklahoma, 1 p.m. or 3 p.m., ESPN or ESPN2.

March 2 (Wednesday) — Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN or ESPN2.

March 5 (Saturday) — at Missouri, 11 a.m., CBS. March 9-12 (Wed.-Sat.) — Big 12 Championship, Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo.

Big 12 Women

Conference W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

All Games W L 11 1 11 1 11 1 10 1 10 1 9 2 8 2 8 3 8 3 8 4 7 4 7 4

Baylor Texas Tech Kansas Oklahoma State Texas A&M Oklahoma Iowa State Kansas State Texas Nebraska Colorado Missouri Tuesday’s Games Texas A&M 74, Drexel 45 Texas vs. Cincinnati, 10 p.m.

Today’s Games Kansas State at Dartmouth, 6 p.m., Arkansas Pine Bluff at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Texas Tech at Western Kentucky, 7 p.m.

UAB at Missouri, 7 p.m.

Florida A&M at Iowa State, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Texas vs. TBA, TBA TBA vs. Texas A&M, TBA Kansas State vs. Vermont, 4 p.m.

USF at Nebraska, 5:05 p.m.

Texas Pan American at Baylor, 7 p.m.

UT Arlington at Kansas (Sunflower), 7 p.m.

Prairie View A&M at Iowa State, 7:30 p.m.

Colgate at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 2 Sam Houston State at Texas, 2 p.m.

Texas Pan American at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.

Florida State at Missouri, 2 p.m.

Chicago State at Iowa State, 2 p.m.

Oklahoma at TCU (The Mtn.), 5 p.m.

Florida A&M at Nebraska, 6 p.m.

College Women

EAST Canisius 58, Md.-Eastern Shore 48 Otterbein 86, Carnegie-Mellon 52 Penn St. 96, Bucknell 48 Pittsburgh 75, Austin Peay 53 Siena at Villanova, ppd.

St. Bonaventure 62, Sacred Heart 54 Syracuse 94, St. Francis, Pa. 60 Yale at Fordham, ppd.

SOUTH Alabama 88, Southern Miss. 78 Auburn 84, Alabama A&M 45 Bethune-Cookman 79, Flagler 56 Boston U. at Richmond, ppd.

Colorado St. 69, W. Carolina 53 Fairfield at N.C. State, ppd.

Florida St. 74, Florida 72 Georgia Tech 101, Mercer 44 Jacksonville St. 77, Kennesaw St. 56

Louisville 92, Tenn.-Martin 67 Miami 83, George Washington 62 Morehead St. 61, Marshall 50 North Carolina 75, Coll. of Charleston 49 Rice 80, Northwestern St. 44 Savannah St. 69, IUPUI 52 South Carolina 68, Presbyterian 40 Winthrop 93, Southern Wesleyan 46 MIDWEST California 65, Illinois 61 Capital 67, Albion 60 Cleveland St. 81, Lake Erie 62 Concordia, Mich. 90, Malone 58 Duquesne 71, Ohio St. 67 E. Michigan 89, Niagara 34 Illinois St. 76, Wis.-Milwaukee 69 N. Illinois 70, Loyola of Chicago 59 Providence at Akron, ccd.

Purdue 76, W. Illinois 44 Wis.-Green Bay 70, South Dakota 53 Wis.-Platteville 57, Trine 40 Wis.-Whitewater 70, Point Loma 55 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 88, Furman 47 Chicago St. 66, Cent. Arkansas 58 Georgetown 77, Houston 37 North Dakota 77, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 66 Stephen F.Austin 95, Houston Baptist 53 Texas-Pan American 78, Sam Houston St. 66 Trinity, Texas 66, E. Texas Baptist 62 FAR WEST Arizona 79, Iona 32 N. Colorado 57, Colgate 53, OT Stanford 89, Xavier 52 TOURNAMENT Amy Hasbrook Memorial Tournament First Round DePauw 60, Rose-Hulman 33 John Carroll 79, Ripon 75 Hawk Classic First Round Lafayette 56, Quinnipiac 54 Saint Joseph’s 67, New Hampshire 66 Marriott Cavalier Classic First Round ETSU 90, Holy Cross 68 Virginia 88, N. Carolina A&T 59 San Diego Surf ’N Slam First Round San Diego St. 72, UTSA 52 Terrapin Classic First Round Maryland 83, La Salle 45 St. John’s 81, Liberty 66

Kansas Women

Exhibition Fort Hays State, W 83-62 Washburn, W 80-46 Regular Season South Dakota, W 73-40 (1-0) Texas A&M Corpus Christi, W 85-44 (2-0) at Wisconsin, W 93-86, OT (3-0) North Dakota State, W 61-53 (4-0) Memphis, W 90-58 (5-0) Fordham, W 81-68 OT (6-0) Maine, W 126-63 (7-0) at SMU, W 73-65 (8-0) at Michigan, L 75-67 (8-1) Alabama, W 79-57 (9-1) SIUE, W 95-52 (10-1) at Creighton, W 64-58 (11-1) Thursday — UT Arlington, 7 p.m.

Jan. 3 — UMKC, 7 p.m.

Jan. 8 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Jan. 12 — at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Jan. 16 — at Nebraska, 2 p.m.

Jan. 19 — Baylor, 7 p.m.

Jan. 23 — Oklahoma, noon Jan. 26 — at Missouri, 7 p.m.

Jan. 29 — at Kansas State, 2 p.m.

Feb. 2 — Colorado, 7 p.m.

Feb. 5 — at Texas, 2 p.m.

Feb. 9 — Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 12 — at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

Feb. 19 — Missouri, 7 p.m.

Feb. 23 — at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 26 — Nebraska, 7 p.m.

March 1 — at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

March 5 — Kansas State, 6:30 p.m.

March 8-12 — Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Mo.

College Bowls

Saturday, Dec. 18 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque BYU 52, UTEP 24 Humanitarian Bowl At Boise, Idaho Northern Illinois 40, Fresno State 17 New Orleans Bowl Troy 48, Ohio 21 Tuesday, Dec. 21 Beef ’O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Louisville 31, Southern Mississippi 28 Wednesday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State 26, Utah 3 Thursday, Dec. 23 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego San Diego State 35, Navy 14 Friday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Tulsa 62, Hawaii 35 Sunday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Florida International 34, Toledo 32 Monday, Dec. 27 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Air Force 14, Georgia Tech 7 Today Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. North Carolina State 23, West Virginia 7 Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Iowa 27, Missouri 24 Wednesday, Dec. 29 Military Bowl At Washington East Carolina (6-6) vs. Maryland (8-4), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl At Houston Baylor (7-5) vs. Illinois (6-6), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Arizona (7-5) vs. Oklahoma State (10-2), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas SMU (7-6) vs. Army (6-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Syracuse (7-5) vs. Kansas State (7-5), 2:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

North Carolina (7-5) vs. Tennessee (6-6), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Nebraska (10-3) vs. Washington (6-6), 9 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday, Dec. 31 Meineke Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Clemson (6-6) vs. South Florida (7-5), 11 a.m.

(ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Notre Dame (7-5) vs. Miami (7-5), 1 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Georgia (6-6) vs. UCF (10-3), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta South Carolina (9-4) vs. Florida State (9-4), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 1 TicketCity Bowl At Dallas Northwestern (7-5) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPNU) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Michigan State (11-1) vs. Alabama (9-3), noon (ESPN) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Florida (7-5) vs. Penn State (7-5), noon (ABC) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Michigan (7-5) vs. Mississippi State (8-4), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

TCU (12-0) vs. Wisconsin (11-1), 4 p.m. (ESPN)

Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Connecticut (8-4) vs. Oklahoma (11-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 3 Orange Bowl At Miami Stanford (11-1) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 7 p.m.

(ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 4 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Ohio State (11-1) vs. Arkansas (10-2), 7 p.m.

(ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Miami (Ohio) (9-4) vs. Middle Tennessee (6-6), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 7 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Texas A&M (9-3) vs. LSU (10-2), 7 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 8 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (7-5) vs. Kentucky (6-6), 11 a.m.

(ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 9 Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Boston College (7-5) vs. Nevada (12-1), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Monday, Jan. 10 BCS National Championship At Glendale, Ariz.

Auburn (13-0) vs. Oregon (12-0), 7:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 22 At Orlando, Fla. East-West Shrine Classic, 3 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 29 At Mobile, Ala. Senior Bowl, 3 p.m., (NFLN) Saturday, Feb. 5 At San Antonio Texas vs. The Nation All-Star Challenge, 1 p.m.

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-New England 13 2 0 .867 480 x-N.Y. Jets 10 5 0 .667 329 Miami 7 8 0 .467 266 Buffalo 4 11 0 .267 276 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 9 6 0 .600 412 Jacksonville 8 7 0 .533 336 Tennessee 6 9 0 .400 336 Houston 5 10 0 .333 356 North W L T Pct PF x-Pittsburgh 11 4 0 .733 334 x-Baltimore 11 4 0 .733 344 Cleveland 5 10 0 .333 262 Cincinnati 4 11 0 .267 315 West W L T Pct PF y-Kansas City 10 5 0 .667 356 San Diego 8 7 0 .533 408 Oakland 7 8 0 .467 379 Denver 4 11 0 .267 316 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-Philadelphia 10 5 0 .667 426 N.Y. Giants 9 6 0 .600 377 Washington 6 9 0 .400 288 Dallas 5 10 0 .333 380 South W L T Pct PF x-Atlanta 12 3 0 .800 383 x-New Orleans 11 4 0 .733 371 Tampa Bay 9 6 0 .600 318 Carolina 2 13 0 .133 186 North W L T Pct PF y-Chicago 11 4 0 .733 331 Green Bay 9 6 0 .600 378 Minnesota 6 9 0 .400 268 Detroit 5 10 0 .333 342 West W L T Pct PF St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 283 Seattle 6 9 0 .400 294 San Francisco 5 10 0 .333 267 Arizona 5 10 0 .333 282 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game Pittsburgh 27, Carolina 3 Saturday’s Game Arizona 27, Dallas 26 Sunday’s Games Kansas City 34, Tennessee 14 St. Louis 25, San Francisco 17 Chicago 38, N.Y. Jets 34 Baltimore 20, Cleveland 10 New England 34, Buffalo 3 Detroit 34, Miami 27 Washington 20, Jacksonville 17, OT Indianapolis 31, Oakland 26 Denver 24, Houston 23 Cincinnati 34, San Diego 20 Green Bay 45, N.Y. Giants 17 Tampa Bay 38, Seattle 15 Minnesota at Philadelphia, ppd., snow Monday’s Game New Orleans 17, Atlanta 14 Tuesday’s Game Minnesota 24, Philadelphia 14 Sunday, Jan. 2 Oakland at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Miami at New England, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 4:15 p.m.

San Diego at Denver, 4:15 p.m.

Chicago at Green Bay, 4:15 p.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 4:15 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Washington, 4:15 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 4:15 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 8:20 p.m.

Pro Bowl Rosters

PA 306 297 295 387 PA 368 385 316 410 PA 223 263 291 382 PA 295 294 361 438 PA 363 333 360 423 PA 278 284 305 377 PA 276 237 328 356 PA 312 401 339 396

x-starter AFC OFFENSE WIDE RECEIVERS — x-Andre Johnson, Houston; x-Reggie Wayne, Indianapolis; Dwayne Bowe, Kansas City; Brandon Lloyd, Denver TACKLES — x-Jake Long, Miami; x-Joe Thomas, Cleveland; D’Brickashaw Ferguson, N.Y. Jets GUARDS — x-Kris Dielman, San Diego; x-Logan Mankins, New England; Brian Waters, Kansas City CENTERS — x-Nick Mangold, N.Y. Jets; Maurkice Pouncey, Pittsburgh TIGHT ENDS — x-Antonio Gates, San Diego; Marcedes Lewis, Jacksonville QUARTERBACKS — x-Tom Brady, New England; Peyton Manning, Indianapolis; Philip Rivers, San Diego RUNNING BACKS — x-Maurice Jones-Drew, Jacksonville; Jamaal Charles, Kansas City; Arian Foster, Houston FULLBACK — x-Vonta Leach, Houston DEFENSE ENDS — x-Dwight Freeney, Indianapolis; xRobert Mathis, Indianapolis; Jason Babin, Tennessee INTERIOR LINEMAN — x-Haloti Ngata, Baltimore; x-Vince Wilfork, New England; Richard Seymour, Oakland OUTSIDE LINEBACKERS — x-James Harrison, Pittsburgh; x-Cameron Wake, Miami; Terrell Suggs, Baltimore INSIDE/MIDDLE LINEBACKERS — x-Ray Lewis, Baltimore; Jerod Mayo, New England CORNERBACKS — x-Nnamdi Asomugha, Oakland; x-Darrelle Revis, N.Y. Jets; Devin McCourty, New England STRONG SAFETY — x-Troy Polamalu, Pittsburgh FREE SAFTIES — x-Ed Reed, Baltimore; Brandon Meriweather, New England SPECIALISTS PUNTER — Shane Lechler, Oakland PLACEKICKER — Billy Cundiff, Baltimore KICK RETURN SPECIALIST — Marc Mariani, Tennessee SPECIAL TEAMER — Montell Owens, Jacksonville NFC OFFENSE WIDE RECEIVERS — x-Calvin Johnson, Detroit; x-Roddy White, Atlanta; DeSean Jackson, Philadelphia; Greg Jennings, Green Bay TACKLES — x-Jordan Gross, Carolina; x-Jason Peters, Philadelphia; Chad Clifton, Green Bay GUARDS — x-Jahri Evans, New Orleans; x-Chris Snee, N.Y. Giants; Carl Nicks, New Orleans CENTERS — x-Andre Gurode, Dallas; Shaun O’Hara, N.Y. Giants

TIGHT ENDS — x-Jason Witten, Dallas; Tony Gonzalez, Atlanta QUARTERBACKS — x-Michael Vick, Philadelphia; Drew Brees, New Orleans; Matt Ryan, Atlanta RUNNING BACKS — x-Michael Turner, Atlanta; Steven Jackson, St. Louis; Adrian Peterson, Minnesota FULLBACK — x-Ovie Mughelli, Atlanta DEFENSE ENDS — x-John Abraham, Atlanta; x-Julius Peppers, Chicago; Justin Tuck, N.Y. Giants INTERIOR LINEMEN — x-Jay Ratliff, Dallas; xNdamukong Suh, Detroit; Justin Smith, San Francisco OUTSIDE LINEBACKERS — x-Clay Matthews, Green Bay; x-DeMarcus Ware, Dallas; Lance Briggs, Chicago; INSIDE/MIDDLE LINEBACKERS — x-Patrick Willis, San Francisco; Brian Urlacher, Chicago CORNERBACKS — x-Asante Samuel, Philadelphia; x-Charles Woodson, Green Bay; DeAngelo Hall, Washington STRONG SAFETY — x-Adrian Wilson, Arizona FREE SAFTIES — x-Nick Collins, Green Bay; Antrel Rolle, N.Y. Giants SPECIALISTS PUNTER — Mat McBriar, Dallas PLACEKICKER — David Akers, Philadelphia KICK RETURN SPECIALIST — Devin Hester, Chicago SPECIAL TEAMER — Eric Weems, Atlanta

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San Diego, W 21-14 (1-0) at Cleveland, W 16-14 (2-0) San Francisco, W 31-10 (3-0) at Indianapolis, L 9-19 (3-1) at Houston, L 31-35 (3-2) Jacksonville, W 42-20 (4-2) Buffalo, W 13-10, OT (5-2) Oakland, L 20-23, OT (5-3) at Denver, L 29-49 (5-4) Arizona, W 31-13 (6-4) at Seattle, W 42-24 (7-4) Denver, W 10-6 (8-4) at San Diego, L 0-31 (8-5) at St. Louis, W 27-13 (9-5) Tennessee, W 34-14 (10-5) Sunday — Oakland, noon

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA—Suspended Milwaukee G Earl Boykins one game for making intentional contact with a game official in a Dec. 27 game against Atlanta.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS—Signed G-F Alonzo Gee. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS—Placed S Shann Schillinger on injured reserve.

BUFFALO BILLS—Signed WR Paul Hubbard from the practice squad. Placed OL Cordaro Howard on injured reserve. Signed WR Rod Windsor to the practice squad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Placed RB Brian Leonard on injured reserve. Claimed CB David Pender off waivers from Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Claimed DB Mike Richardson off waivers from Kansas City. Waived DB David Pender.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Released WR Kevin Curtis and OL Eric Ghiaciuc. Signed OL Allen Barbre and LB Mike Rivera.

NEW YORK JETS—Waived DL Matt Kroul.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Signed DE Maurice Fountain to the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ATLANTA THRASHERS—Recalled C Patrice Cormier from Chicago (AHL). Assigned C Tim Stapleton to Chicago (AHL).

CALGARY FLAMES—Announced the resignation of general manager Darryl Sutter. Named assistant general manager Jay Feaster acting general manager.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Activated RW Patrick Kane from injured reserve.

MINNESOTA WILD—Reassigned D Jared Spurgeon to Houston (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS—Traded D James Wisniewski to Montreal for a 2011 second-round draft pick and a conditional 2012 fifth-round draft pick.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Recalled C Keith Aucoin from Hershey (AHL).

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS—Loaned C Brock McBride to Houston (AHL).

LACROSSE National Lacrosse League COLORADO MAMMOTH—Signed D Steve Toll to a one-year contract. Released D Shayne Bennett.

COLLEGE AUBURN—Agreed to terms with offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn on a three-year contract.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 38 25 11 2 52 125 89 Philadelphia 35 22 8 5 49 117 87 N.Y. Rangers 37 21 14 2 44 115 97 N.Y. Islanders 34 9 19 6 24 78 114 New Jersey 35 9 24 2 20 61 112 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 35 20 11 4 44 100 74 Montreal 37 20 15 2 42 93 86 Ottawa 37 16 17 4 36 86 108 Buffalo 37 15 18 4 34 98 108 Toronto 35 13 18 4 30 82 107 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 39 22 12 5 49 117 105 Tampa Bay 37 21 11 5 47 115 120 Atlanta 39 19 14 6 44 123 117 Carolina 35 16 15 4 36 98 108 Florida 34 16 17 1 33 93 89 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit 36 23 9 4 50 121 100 St. Louis 36 19 12 5 43 95 97 Chicago 38 20 15 3 43 120 108 Nashville 36 17 13 6 40 87 91 Columbus 36 18 15 3 39 93 105 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 34 21 8 5 47 115 88 Colorado 36 19 12 5 43 125 117 Minnesota 35 16 14 5 37 86 100 Calgary 37 16 18 3 35 100 107 Edmonton 35 12 17 6 30 91 120 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 37 22 11 4 48 106 98 Los Angeles 35 22 12 1 45 106 78 San Jose 36 19 12 5 43 106 100 Anaheim 40 19 17 4 42 102 116 Phoenix 35 16 12 7 39 92 100 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games Columbus 4, Minnesota 3, SO Boston 3, Florida 2, SO N.Y. Rangers 7, N.Y. Islanders 2 Detroit 4, Colorado 3, OT Calgary 5, Buffalo 2 Los Angeles 4, San Jose 0 Tuesday’s Games Carolina 4, Toronto 3 Pittsburgh 6, Atlanta 3 Washington 3, Montreal 0 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 3 St. Louis 3, Chicago 1 Dallas 4, Nashville 2 Buffalo 4, Edmonton 2 Anaheim 3, Phoenix 1 Vancouver 6, Philadelphia 2 Today’s Games N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Columbus at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Colorado at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

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PHILADELPHIA’S BRENT CELEK (87) IS TACKLED by Minnesota’s Asher Allen (21) and Jamarca Sanford (33). The Vikings beat the Eagles, 24-14, on Tuesday in Philadelphia.

Vikings fly past Eagles P H I L A D E L P H I A ( AP ) — The Philadelphia Eagles got their bye a week early — and not the way they wanted.

Joe Webb threw for 195 yards and ran for a touchdown in his first career start filling in for an injured Brett Favre, and the lowly Minnesota Vikings stunned Michael Vick and the NFC East champion Eagles, 24-14, in the NFL’s first Tuesday game since 1946.

Adrian Peterson ran for 118 yards and a score, helping the Vikings (6-9) knock Philadelphia out of contention for a first-round playoff bye.

The Eagles (10-5) could’ve secured a first-round bye with a victory over the Vikings and Dallas and with a loss by either Chicago or Atlanta next week.

Now the Eagles are locked into the NFC’s No. 3 seed and will host the No. 6 seed on Jan. 8 or 9. Their f inal game against the Cowboys is meaningless in the standings, so it’s likely Vick and most of the starters will rest.

Two days after a winter storm forced a postponement, there wasn’t even a snowflake visible at the Linc. The game was switched from Sunday because of a howling storm that dumped about a foot of snow in the area — perhaps a good idea considering Philadelphia’s history of snowball-throwing fans.

But 42 years after fans got a bum rap for tossing snowballs at Santa — the man in the costume said it was playful pelting — the Eagles said snowballs didn’t factor in the decision to move the game.

“There were a lot of issues considered, but that was absolutely not among them,” said Pamela Browner White, the Eagles senior vice president of public affairs and government relations.

Nine days after rallying from a 21-point deficit in the final 7:18 to beat the New York Giants on DeSean Jackson’s 65-yard punt return on the final play, there would be no miracle at the Linc for the Eagles.

Vick, selected as the NFC Pro Bowl starter shortly

SUMMARY Minnesota 0 7 10 7 — 24 Philadelphia 7 0 0 7 — 14 First Quarter Phi—Harbor 3 pass from Vick (Akers kick), 7:42.

Second Quarter Min—Winfield 45 fumble return (Longwell kick), :44.

Third Quarter Min—FG Longwell 30, 12:24.

Min—Webb 9 run (Longwell kick), 7:03.

Fourth Quarter Phi—Vick 10 run (Akers kick), 10:17.

Min—Peterson 1 run (Longwell kick), 6:43.

A—69,144.

Min Phi First downs 21 24 Total Net Yards 337 331 Rushes-yards 31-161 22-107 Passing 176 224 Punt Returns 2-8 1-9 Kickoff Returns 1-27 4-66 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 17-26-0 25-43-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-19 6-39 Punts 6-38.7 5-42.8 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-2 Penalties-Yards 5-74 12-62 Time of Possession 30:21 29:39 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Minnesota, Peterson 22-118, Webb 6-31, Harvin 2-6, Gerhart 1-6. Philadelphia, Vick 8-63, McCoy 13-44, D.Jackson 1-0.

PASSING—Minnesota, Webb 17-26-0-195.

Philadelphia, Vick 25-43-1-263.

RECEIVING—Minnesota, Harvin 7-100, Shiancoe 3-32, Berrian 2-16, Rice 1-16, Peterson 1-11, Tahi 1-11, Booker 1-6, Kleinsasser 1-3.

Philadelphia, Celek 10-97, Maclin 6-74, McCoy 441, D.Jackson 2-32, Avant 2-16, Harbor 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Philadelphia, Akers 54 (SH).

before the game, mostly struggled after his 3-yard TD pass to Clay Harbor in the first quarter gave the Eagles a 7-0 lead. He lost two fumbles, threw an interception and was sacked six times.

Trailing, 17-7, to start the fourth quarter, the Eagles cut the def icit to 3 when Vick scored on a 10-yard TD r u n . B ut t h e Vi k i n g s answered on the ensuing drive. Peterson ran in from the 1 to put Minnesota up 2414 with 6:43 left. The Pro Bowl running back showed no signs of the right knee injury that had him listed as questionable.

Favre was inactive for the Vikings because of a concussion, missing his second game in three weeks after an NFLrecord 297 consecutive regular-season starts.

The 41-year-old Favre got hurt last week against the Chicago Bears and was listed as doubtful. Vikings interim coach Leslie Frazier said on Monday that Favre still hadn’t passed initial concussion testing.

Three division titles remain unclaimed NEW YORK (AP) — Three division titles remain undecided heading into the final week of the NFL season: the AFC South, NFC South and NFC West.

Indianapolis wins the AFC South by beating visiting Tennessee on Sunday, or if Jacksonville loses at Houston. The winner of Sunday’s game in Seattle between the Rams and Seahawks wins the NFC West.

While the AFC wild cards belong to the Jets and either the Ravens or Steelers — whichever doesn’t take the AFC North — five teams have shots at NFC wild cards: Atlanta, New Orleans, Green Bay, Tampa Bay and the New York Giants.

So the AFC is not very complicated, with New England the East winner, Kansas City champion of the West, and either Baltimore or Pittsburgh taking the North. The Steelers hold the tiebreaker over the Ravens and are at Cleveland on Sunday. Baltimore hosts Cincinnati.

The Chiefs and the AFC South winner will host a wild-

card round playoff game.

Things are more unsettled in the NFC, where Chicago (North) and Philadelphia (East) own division titles.

Seattle (6-9) could become the first division winner in NFL history with a losing record if it beats St. Louis (78) in their finale, which has been flexed to a Sunday night game.

New Orleans defeated Atlanta, 17-14, on Monday night to clinch a playoff spot.

The Falcons can still wrap up their first division crown since 2004 and home field through the NFC playoffs by knocking off two-win Carolina at home in the final week of the season.

The Packers (9-6) have the inside track for a wild card — win and they are in. The Giants and Bucs must win Sunday to have a shot at a wild card. Tampa Bay travels to New Orleans, Green Bay hosts archrival Chicago, while New York is at Washington to close out the regular season.

No first-round byes have been clinched in the NFC.

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Some food additives more harmful than others Q:

I am totally confused about all of the food additives out there. Can you help explain what they’re used for?

A:

Actually, one of our K-State Extension nutrition specialists, Tandalayo Kidd, just wrote a publication on “The Roles of Food Additives” that includes a chart listing the various categories of food additives, the functions of those additives, products they are typically found in, and examples of food additive names found on product labels. The chart is too long to print here, but please go on our website at www.douglas.ksu.edu and you can pull up the whole chart. Or, if you don’t have Internet access, call 843-7058, and we can send you the chart.

Here is information about food additives that Kidd shares in her publication: For hundreds of years, food additives have been used to preserve foods.

Prior to refrigeration, salt was used to preserve meats, vegetables were pickled in vinegar, and sugar was used to preserve fruits. Salt, vinegar and sugar seem harmless, but they are just a few among the list of more than 3,000 ingredients maintained by the FDA in its food additive database.

Food additives are sub-

stances added to a food to preserve it, give it flavor or improve its taste and/or appearance. Manufacturers use additives in foods to retain nutritional value, maintain freshness and safety, and increase affordability and convenience. Basically, without food additives, our food supply would be limited and costly.

There is growing concern about color additives being used in breakfast cereals, snack foods, soft drinks and other processed foods because of reports of hyperactivity and hypersensitivity in some children and consumers, respectively. However, the Food and Drug Administration has ruled these reports as inconclusive because of the inconsistencies between studies.

Therefore, the food industry continues to use these inexpensive, brighter-than-natural color substances.

Other additives such as fiber, vitamins and minerals can improve the nutrient density of a product and help protect against certain health problems. Breakfast cereal is a good example of a product that has been “enriched” (nutrients lost during processing are added back to the product) or “fortified” (nutrients have been added that did not originally exist in the product). However, in my opinion, try to choose “whole-grain” cere-

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als and other grain products whenever possible instead of “enriched.”

Preservatives, another category of food additive, protect food by slowing down the damage caused by bacteria, fungi, mold, yeast and air. Vitamin E, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) are examples of preservatives used in baked goods because these additives hinder the rancidity of fats and oils. However, again it is my opinion that the more we buy local foods (including baked products) or make our own, we can reduce our reliance on these additives that preserve foods.

Some food additives such as sorbitan monostearate may sound more harmful than others because the name is difficult to pronounce or the function is unknown, but sorbitan monostearate and egg yolks both serve as emulsifiers in

products to keep oil and water from separating.

Although the FDA strictly monitors and regulates all food additives for safety based on the intended usage level in a product, consuming several different products with similar additives could increase risks for some chronic diseases. For example, salt (sodium) and sugar (sucrose) are very common household names, but too much sodium increases the risk for hypertension, and too much sugar increases the risk for obesity and dental issues. Hypertension and obesity both increase the risk for heart disease. Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), monosodium glutamate (MSG), sodium benzoate, sodium carbonate and sodium erythorbate are all sodium-based ingredients, yet they are found in different products and serve different roles.

refrigerated for safety and quality.

Large onions have the brown or red paper-like peel that protects the onion and is always peeled off. The peel adds a layer of protection from contamination.

Green onions, on the other hand, are more vulnerable to contamination.

Large onions become a problem when they are sautéed and left warm until use. These have been linked to foodborne illness. It is best to sauté onions per order.

As far as onions helping to prevent the flu, this is an old superstition and will just make your house smell like onions.

Likewise, corn syrup, highfructose corn syrup, brown sugar, maple syrup, molasses and evaporated cane juice are all sugar ingredients that appear in different products and contribute the majority of the added sugar consumed in the American diet.

Q: Are cut onions safe?

A: An e-mail rumor has been circulating for a few years about how dangerous large onions are after they are peeled and cut. The claim is the onions are bacteria “magnets” and the remaining fresh cut onion should never be kept to use later. They also claim that cut onions left lying around the house kills flu germs.

Frankly, it’s a waste of good onions. Any food that is not handled safely with clean hands and clean equipment can be a problem. Leftover cut fresh vegetables must be

— Susan Krumm is an Extension agent in family and consumer sciences with K-State Research and Extension-Douglas County, 2110 Harper St. She can be reached at 843-7058.

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By Sarah Henning sarah@lawrence.com

Well, how’s the fridge looking? A bit deflated after all that holiday eating?

If your fridge was stuffed with a defrosting turkey only days ago but is now a wasteland of congealed mashed potatoes and stale sugar cookies, just shut the fridge door.

Get in the car.

Now, drive to the store and buy the ingredients for this festive and tasty Bulgur Salad with Arugula, Pomegranate Seeds and Toasted Hazelnuts.

It’s red and green, and filling all over with the inclusion of bulgur, a whole grain that is most famously used in tabbouleh and contains twice the fiber of long-grain brown rice and about 50 fewer calories per cooked cup.

If you need to get back on the healthy eating train after a weekend of holiday gluttony, this is definitely the way to go.

BULGUR SALAD WITH ARUGULA, POMEGRANATE SEEDS AND HAZELNUTS 1 cup uncooked bulgur wheat 1 1/2 cups boiling water

MEATLESS MONDAYS Every Monday at Lawrence.com, we’re going meatless.

Meatless Monday is a moneyand health-saving initiative so old that even Herbert Hoover participated in it. Started during World War I, Meatless Monday encouraged Americans to cut meat out of their diets at least one day a week to save precious war-time resources. The campaign returned along with rationing during World War II and helped the allies keep Europe fed.

But it wasn't until 2003 that Meatless Monday became a permanent campaign, backed by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health's Center for a Livable Future. The idea? To help Americans cut meat consumption by 15 percent to help both the community's overall

1/2 cup hazelnuts 3 cups packed baby arugula 1 cup pomegranate seeds 1 stalk celery, thinly sliced

In a large bowl, combine bulgur and boiling water, cover and set aside until water is absorbed, about 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread hazelnuts on a rimmed baking sheet and

health and the health of the planet, which is strained by the commercial production of meat and its use of resources like water and oil.

That said, even if you're digesting a cheeseburger while reading this, don't fear, you can still participate, and over time save yourself money and possibly improve your health, just by starting small and making something meatless tonight. And, lucky for you, we've provided a recipe so you don't even have to think. You just have to print this page and wander into the grocery store.

See an archive of past Meatless Monday recipes at Lawrence.com/meatlessmondays.

— Sarah Henning

toast until lightly golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Wrap nuts in a clean dish towel and rub them together to remove skins. Set aside until cool enough to handle, then chop nuts.

Stir arugula, pomegranate seeds, celery and hazelnuts into bulgur. Serve 4.

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VOTE FOR BEST OF LAWRENCE As we get closer and closer to Best of Lawrence voting (Jan. 24, but who’s keeping track) we continue to march out new categories on lawrence. com.

This week we premiered Best Pizza and Italian.

Cast your vote on Twitter (@lcom), on Facebook (facebook.com/lawrenceka nsas/), or via e-mail at trevan@lawrence.com.

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3 SPOONS YOGURT employee Ethan Hrabe replaces a spoon into the Oreo cookies container at the shop, 732 Mass., which opened in the fall.

Lawrence food scene shifted locally in 2010

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FREE STATE BREWING CO. began selling its beers in retail stores in May after a two-year setback from a fire at its East Lawrence bottling facility. have a sip of Free State Brewing Company beer without stepping foot inside the beloved Lawrence brewery. The retail arrival of favorites like Ad Astra Ale and Copperhead Pale Ale came two years after a fire set back production and caused more than $1 million in damages to the brewery’s East Lawrence bottling facility.

Also getting in on the retail sales side of things was the veggie burger from Local Burger, 714 Vt. Tagged “The World’s Best Veggie Burger,” the quinoa-millet-sweet potato-greens burger made its way into grocery stores from Newton to Leawood and several stops in between, including the Kansas University campus,

where it’s being sold at the university sports venues as well as the campus eateries. It also has become the official veggie burger of other Lawrence restaurants, including Set ’em up Jack’s, 1800 E. 23rd and the 23rd Street Brewery, 3512 Clinton Parkway.

— Staff writer Sarah Henning can be reached at 832-7187.

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Party in style with homemade cocktail recipes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10B

Blue Curacao.

THE SKITTLETINI 1 fluid ounce Blue Curacao 1 fluid ounce pomegranate juice 4 fluid ounces vodka

Shake over ice and strain into a martini glass. Just give it a little twist of lemon.

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Shake vigorously (to dissolve the honey) over ice until well-chilled, and then strain into a champagne flute. We used a large twist to help counterbalance the gin, and it was not only pretty, but a delicious addition. Don’t ask me why we called it The 800. I won’t tell you. ●

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This next one was a dark horse. Neither Lindsey nor I thought we’d like it much, because we’re neither one a huge fan of gin.

But in the interest of diversity, we gave it a go, and it turned out to be our favorite little concoction of the evening.

THE 800 4 fluid ounces gin Juice from half a lemon 2 tablespoons honey (we had some delicious local stuff that far surpasses the syrupy stuff in the plas-

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3. Irony, breaded and fried In other vegetarian-spotturns-omnivore news, the owner of Lawrence’s all-vegetarian restaurant decided to close the restaurant down and open a chicken restaurant in the same space.

Nancy Nguyen launched 10th Street Vegetarian Bistro, 125 E. 10th St. in late 2009 out of love for the vegetarians who frequent her first Lawrence restaurant, The Orient Vietnamese Cuisine, 1006 Mass. But, she says, the vegetarian menu just didn’t work out. In early December, Nguyen decided to flip the bistro space into a comfort-food haven for poultry-lovers: Oh Boy! Chicken.

5. Local brands go retail In May, after months of anticipation, Kansas beer lovers were finally able to

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Exploring the art of jewelry and textiles

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4. We all scream for ice cream?

In a year that saw Lawrence lose local favorite Yummy’s Over the Top Frozen Yogurt, 1119 Mass., and its franchise of Ben & Jerry’s, 818 Mass., Lawrence gained 3 Spoons Yogurt, 732 Mass., and Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt, 4801 Bauer Farm Drive. Moreover, Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers took over the former location of Sheridan’s Frozen Custard, 2030 W. 23rd St., which closed Dec. 1, 2009. Call it a draw?

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The Clementini was a close runner-up to The 800. These days, our family is consuming about three clementines each, every day, so it only seemed natural to go ahead and try to incorporate our favorite winter citrus into a cocktail.

THE CLEMENTINI Juice from one clementine 2 fluid ounces triple sec 4 fluid ounces vodka

Shake well over ice and strain into a martini glass.

Garnish with a slice of clementine. Beautiful! This is

delicately sweet and you know, chock full of vitamin C. I count it as a health drink. ●

And while we’re talking health drinks, let’s talk about pomegranate juice. It’s super good for you, full of antioxidants and other desirable stuff. Which cancels out any alcohol you put with it, right?

POMEGRANATE-CURRANT CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL 1 fluid ounce Creme de Cassis 1 fluid ounce pomegranate juice Fill with Champagne

If you want to be extra highclass, you could put some pomegranate aerils in the bottom of the glass. So pretty! ●

And finally, a little dessert treat. This is a

White Russian Martini, or, as we like to call it, “The Lebowskitini.”

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It’s sort of like a milkshake. For grownups.

Of course, the best part of the “at home” party is that you can fall asleep on your friend’s couch and not worry about driving yourself home (or waiting FOREVER for a taxi), which is key if you’re going to set up a bar like we have planned.

Have a safe and happy new year!

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LAWRENCE’S TOP FOOD STORIES 2010

We ate locally, drank locally, grew locally, bought locally, merrily

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rom highs that include the farmto-school movement (kids + heirloom tomatoes = adorable!) to lows such as the closing of more than one beloved eatery (no one did quinoa quite like The Casbah Market), 2010 could be called the year of the foodie, Lawrence edition.

Here’s a breakdown of some of Lawrence’s biggest, and most interesting, food stories of the past year. Let’s just say 2011 better have its mise en place started if it plans on one-upping the past 12 months.

— By Sarah Henning

MORE AT LAWRENCE.COM:

Enjoy Sarah Henning’s food retrospective and then head over to Lawrence.com, where we have fresh retrospectives from our staff writers popping up all week. Check out the music, movies and other arts and entertainment that stood out in Lawrence in 2010.

FARM TO SCHOOL

OLD HANGOUTS, NEW LIFE

Arguably, the biggest Lawrence food story of 2010 was made possible by some of the city’s smallest residents.

Coming on the heels of successful gardens at private schools (Prairie Moon Waldorf School) and day care centers around Lawrence, The Community Mercantile’s Nancy O’Connor led an initiative that brought a garden and oodles of food education to West Junior High School in 2010. The West Junior High garden project made at least $4,000 for the garden’s continued use by selling produce at weekly farmers’ markets and also provided the school’s cafeteria with more than 180 pounds of produce, saving the school $700.

O’Connor was also involved in a farm-to-school lunch put on at Cordley School in May that treated more than 300 kids to a meal prepared almost entirely from locally made ingredients, including produce some of the children helped harvest. That effort was led by Linda Cottin of Cottin’s Hardware & Rental, 1832 Mass., and Rick Martin of Free State Brewing Company, 636 Mass., who put together a menu containing lasagna, salad, whole-wheat breadsticks and a strawberry-rhubarb crumble.

Other schools are in discussions for both gardens and possibly their own farm-to-table meals in the coming year.

And just this month, the Douglas County Child Development Association and Success by 6 coalition of Douglas County received a $100,000 grant to help get gardens on-site at 25 home-based child care programs, and three area child-care centers will get access to fresh produce by joining up with a local community-supported agriculture (CSA) program.

In February 2010, Lawrence said goodbye to its first downtown grocery store in more than a decade, The Casbah Market, 803 Mass. When it launched in January 2008, the market was meant to be an urban grocery store for downtown Lawrence, who could also enjoy fast vegetarian meals and snacks made with mostly organic ingredients from the back counter and deli display.

In July, the Casbah came to life again, this time as the new location for The Burger Stand, formerly located inside Dempsey’s Pub, 623 Vt. Maybe not so ironically, just as The Casbah was closing its doors, the owners of The Burger Stand, Robert and Molly Krause, were Richard Gwin/Journal-World File Photo launching their CHEF SIMON BATES looks over one taqueria, Esquina, of his latest creations at the Burger in the space next Stand in the Casbah, 803 Mass. door — 801 Mass.

— which was formerly occupied by the historic Round Corner Drug Store and The Cheese & Salami Shoppe, a favorite of anyone in search of a quick sandwich, which closed in July 2009.

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TOP PHOTO: Cordley School second-grader Chloe McNair helps pick strawberries at Wohletz Farm Fresh, 1831 N. 1100 Road, as part of a special lunch put on by the Farm-toSchool program. Photo by Rick Martin/Special to the Journal-World

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Avoid amateur night: Make your own New Year’s Eve cocktails

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he things I do for you people.

At the time of this writing, I am popping two Advil and attempting to rehydrate myself before I head off to work. You see, Lindsey and I had to sample cocktails last night. We had to do it, because we know that not everyone likes to hit the bars on New Year’s Eve. And we wanted to be there for those of you, who, like us, choose not to imbibe in the public haunts of Lawrence or Kansas City on Amateur Night, where girls in too-few clothes (it’s freaking January, ladies!) throw up on their toohigh heels, and boys in shiny black

shirts block my path to the bathroom while they posture for the aforementioned girls.

Yep, we’re over it. We will be tucked safely in at Lindsey’s New Year’s Eve We’d-Rather-Not-GetCaught-Up-In-A-Barfight Party, eating prime rib, warming ourselves by the chiminea, and we might even break out the cards for a game of gin rummy if we get really crazy. And, we’ll have cocktails. Good cocktails, made with booze we like the way we like, and we won’t have to wait for half an hour in line to get them, or pay nine bucks a pop for a watereddown version.

didn’t really know how to make one, so I decided to wing it. The results? Deeelish. Think smoothie with bubbles. Yum!

“THE FLYING FORK”

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a blog by Megan Stuke And because we’re nice, we took one for the team and tested out our arsenal of new drink recipes last night. Ouch.

I was determined to make a Red Velvet Champagne Cocktail, because I heard it has replaced the Cosmo as New York’s “it drink.” I

1 cup strawberries, halved 1 fluid ounce Triple Sec 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon strawberry jam 1/4 teaspoon vanilla Juice of half a lemon

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Spacious 1 & 2 BRs Featuring:

Drug-Free Workplace Equal Opportunity Employer

• Sell video, Internet and phone service to new customers.

• Work promotional events during day, evenings and weekend.

• Complete sales orders.

Ad Astra Apartments

Eudora Senior Community

Excellent Location 6th & Frontier

The Only Limit to your Career Potential is You! Please Apply in person or e-mail to: Bill Egan began1969@yahoo.com or call 785-843-7700 to set-up an interview.

We are hiring: Direct Sales Representatives to join our door-to-door outside sales team.

Only 2BRs left

Luxury Living for Less 785-842-3280

Jacksonville

Apartments Furnished Are You Earning What You’re Worth?

Apartments Unfurnished

3601 Clinton Parkway

Trade Skills

Sales-Marketing

Experienced Caregiver for young teen girl with Autism. Reliable transportation a must. 785-331-9630

Lab Tech: MT or MLT (ASCP), progressive southeast Nebraska hospital, phlebotomy skills preferred. Competitive pay scale, excellent benefits.

Send resume to: Sandy Bauer, Jefferson Community Health Center, P.O. Box 277, Fairbury, NE 68352.

Train for high paying Aviation Career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified - Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 888-248-7449

To apply submit a cover letter, resume and links to your work to hrapplications@ljworld.com.

Background check, preemployment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. EOE

Health Care

Full-time LPN. Baldwin Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is accepting applications for a full-time LPN for Tues.-Fri. eves.

Prefer IV Certified. Must be dependable and team oriented. CNA part time and full time, all shifts. Please call Lori or Chelsea at 785-594-6492.

Schools-Instruction Apartments AIRLINES ARE HIRING. Unfurnished

DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS Responsible for planning and coordinating admissions to the community. Develops and implements marketing program.

Provides community information to family members and other referral sources.

Conducts tours, assessments, screening, and evaluations. Ensures community admissions documents are completed.

Bachelor’s degree preferred - in marketing, health care, or with courses that establish knowledge in business, sales, motivation, communication and related marketing skills. Prior exposure in health care/senior living environment a real plus!

SEND RESUME TO: Brandon Woods at Alvamar Sharon Bingham, Administrator 1501 Inverness Dr., Lawrence, KS 66047 Email TProchaska@5sqc.com Equal Opportunity Employer Drug Free Workplace

2C WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2010 Apartments Apartments Unfurnished Unfurnished DON’T BE LATE TO CLASS!

Louisiana Place Apts 1136 Louisiana St.

Spacious 2BR Available 900 sq. ft., $610/month

Look & Lease Today!

785.841.1155

2BR — 2406 Alabama, bldg.

10, avail. now. 2 story, 1½ bath, CA, DW, W/D hookup, $570. No pets. 785-841-5797 2BR — 2406 Alabama, in 4plex. 2 story, 1½ bath, CA, DW, W/D hookup. $550 per mo. No pets. 785-841-5797 2BR, 1 bath, all appliances including W/D, & carport. $650/mo. 505 Colorado. If interested please call 785843-8566 or 785-840-8147

1BR, 1 bath, 916 W. 4th St., Wood floors, 3BR, 1½ bath, 2301 Ranch Lawrence Way. Reduced from $820 to W/D hookup, AC. $500 per month.

Call 785-842-7644 $750/mo. Offer ends Dec. 31st. Call 785-842-7644 3BR, 2 bath, 624 Missouri.

Very nice! CA, DW, W/D. Call for Winter Specials New paint/carpet. Reduced to $750/mo. ½ Month FREE rent. Call 785-842-7644

Apartments 785-843-4040 www.thefoxrun.com

DOWNTOWN LOFT

Studio Apartments 600+ sq. ft., $725/mo.

825 sq. ft., $850/mo.

No pets allowed Call Today 785-841-6565

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Call for Details

2 Bedroom Apartments Starting at $609 3 Bedroom Townhomes Starting at $799

2BR/4plex, spacious split level. W/D hookups, sm pet? Central location. $565.

Avail. Jan. 785-841-4201

785-843-7333 trail@nolanrealestate.com

2133 Quail Creek Drive 3BR, 2½ bath, all appls. included. Balcony and porch area. In 4-plex, W. side of town. Section 8 approved.

If interested call Tiffany at 785-843-8566, 785-840-8147

Move In SPECIAL 3 Bedroom, 2 bath 785-843-4300

Accounting

Automotive Services

C & G Auto Sales

Rentals Available!

Quality Pre-owned Cars & Trucks Buy Sell Trade Financing Available 308 E. 23rd St. Lawrence

785-749-1904

AVAIL. NOW Large 3BR, 2 bath, W/D, fireplace, 2 car garage. $1,050/mo. 785-832-8728 www.lawrencepm.com 3BR, 1/75 bath, garage, fenced yard, pets ok, on bus route. Close to hospital, $800/mo. 221 Wisconsin 785-393-3355 3BR, 1½ bath, 2 car garage. $795/month. 2528 Crestline Court. If interested call 785-843-8566, 785-840-8147

Townhomes

2BR, 1.5 bath, CA, DW, washer & dryer, storage. Studios — 2400 Alabama, Pets allowed. $500/mo. built in bed & desk, LR. All electric. $380. Water/cable Avail. Jan. 1st. 785-766-7589 pd. No pets. 785-841-5797 2BR, 850 Highland. $500/mo.

Upper in 4-plex, DW, quiet, Duplexes clean. 1 block east of 9th & Iowa. No pets. 785-218-3616 Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 2BR, small apt. in 4-plex. www.GageMgmt.com 713 W. 25th. Avail. now. All kitchen appls. W/D on-site. $475 deposit, $575/mo. with 1BR duplex near E. K-10 acutilities paid. 785-979-7812 cess. Stove, refrig., off-st.

2BR — 934 Illinois, avail. parking. 1 yr. lease. $410/ now. In 4-plex, 1 bath, CA, mo. No pets. 785-841-4677 DW. $490/mo. No pets. Call 2BR W. Lawrence. Owner 785-841-5797 occupied complex. garage, 2BR & 3BR, 1310 Kentucky. 1-1/2 bath, patio, yard CA, DW, laundry. $550-$750. work included. $650/mo. $100/person deposit + ½ 785-979-7474 Mo. FREE rent 785-842-7644 2BR, 1½ bath - Large, has wood floors, W/D, DW. 920 Deposit Specials & Ohio. $660/mo. Water paid.

FREE Rent Specials Avail. now. 785-393-6443 to Qualified Applicants

Trailridge & Graystone

Duplexes

LAWRENCE AUTOMOTIVE DIAGNOSTICS, INC. Brakes, Exhaust, Starters, Transmissions, Engines, Check Engine Light, Tires Pre-purchase Inspections

See our mechanic’s blog at

1, 2, & 3BR townhomes available in Cooperative.

Units starting at $375-$515.

Water, trash, sewer paid.

FIRST MONTH FREE! Back patio, CA, hard wood floors, full bsmt., stove, refrig., W/D hookup, garbage disposal. Reserved parking. On site management & maintenance. 24 hr. emergency maintenance.

Membership & Equity Fee Required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

6th & Eldridge

2BRs: $650 - $725 per month 785-832-8728, 785-331-5360 www.lawrencepm.com Avail. Now. 2BR, 2 bath, bsmt., lawn care provided.

Wood floor & brand new tile. $650/mo. 785-393-9359

Saddlebrook

625 Folks Rd., 785-832-8200 2BR, 2 bath, 1 car garage.

New Rate: $895/mo. www.firstmanagementinc.com

Overland Pointe

5245 Overland Dr.785-832-8200 2BR, 3 bath, 2 car garage.

New Rate: $1,175/mo.

K’s Tire

Sales and Service Air Conditioning Heating/Plumbing

930 E 27th Street, 785-843-1691 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/chaneyinc

Auctioneers

Tires for anything Batteries Brakes Oil Changes Fair and Friendly Customer Service is our trademark 2720 Oregon St. 785-843-3222 Find great offers at

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Homes, Farms, Commercial Real Estate, Fine Furnishings, Business Inventories, Guns

Auto Detailing King’s Auto Polishing 785-393-9878.

313 East 8th Street, Over 36 yrs. exp.

• Full Detail • Buff & Wax • Interior Shampoo • Engine Steam Clean.

Open by appt. lawrencemarketplace.com/ kingsauto

Automotive Services Bryant Collision Repair Mon-Fri. 8AM-6PM We specialize in Auto Body Repair, Paintless Dent Repair, Glass Repair, & Auto Accessories.

785-843-5803 bryantcollisionrepair@msn.com. lawrencemarketplace.com/ bryant-collision-repair Buying Junk & Repairable Vehicles.

Cash Paid. Free Tow. U-Call, We-Haul!

Call 785-633-7556

A New Transmission Is Not Always The Fix. It Could Be A Simple Repair.

Now, Real Transmission Checkouts Are FREE! Call Today 785-843-7533 atsilawrence.com

Dale and Ron’s Auto Service

Family Owned & Operated for 37 Years Domestic & Foreign Expert Service 630 Connecticut St

785-842-2108

http://lawrencemarketplace. com/dalerons

For All Your Battery Needs Across The Bridge In North Lawrence 903 N 2nd St | 785-842-2922 lawrencemarketplace.com/ battery

Westside 66 & Car Wash

Full Service Gas Station 100% Ethanol-Free Gasoline Auto Repair Shop - Automatic Car Washes Starting At Just $3 2815 W 6th St | 785-843-1878 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/westside66

Carpet Cleaning Kansas Carpet Care, Inc.

Your locally owned and operated carpet and upholstery cleaning company since 1993!

• 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage Services Available

By Appointment Only

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

Decorative & Regular Concrete drives, walks, & patios. 42 yrs. exp.

Jayhawk Concrete 785-842-5205/785-979-5260

Custom Design & Fabrication Mobile, Fast, affordable repairs On-site repairs & installation Hand Railings & Steel Fences http://lawrencemarketplace. com/trironworks Phone 785-843-1877

Decks & Fences Looking for Something Creative?

Call Billy Construction Decks, Fences, Etc. Insured. (785) 838-9791

Stacked Deck

Electrical

Serving Lawrence & Surrounding Area Since 1980 Award Winning BBQ! Booking Now For Summer Parties/Events 785-841-7665 www.bumsteercatering.com

Electric & Industrial Supply Pump & Well Drilling Service

Oakley Creek Catering

http://lawrencemarket place.com/patchen

Family Owned & Operated

Motors - Pumps Complete Water Systems 602 E 9th St | 785-843-4522

Employment Services

785-887-6936 http://oakleycreek.com

from $540 - $920/month

OPEN HOUSE 11AM - 5PM Mon.- Fri.

785-841-8400

www.sunriseapartments.com

3BR — 2109 Mitchell, 1 story, 1 bath, garage, AC, DW, W/D hookup, no pets. $775/mo. 785-841-5797

Paid Internet

3BR, 2 bath, 2 car, FP. 2008 Goodell Court. Prairie Park.

Laundry rm., fenced. $1,150.

Avail. Dec. 785-691-7115

785-842-7644 www.gagemgmt.com

3BR - Charming! 4 miles just S. of Lawrence/KU. 2 bath, lg. 2 car/storage. No pets. $1,200 + Refs. 785-842-3476

3BR, 1½ bath reduced to $750/mo., 12 mo. lease

1/2 Off Deposit

3BR, 2 bath, all amenities, garage. 2831 Four Wheel Drive. $795/mo. Available 3BR, 1-1/2 bath W. 22nd Now. Call 785-766-8888 Terrace, $900. No smoking , no pets, new inside & out, PARKWAY 6000 new appliances, + W/D, garage, large deck, fenced CALL FOR SPECIAL yard. Avail. 785-423-1565 • 2 & 3BRs, walkout bsmt.

• 2 or 3 Baths • 2 car garage w/opener • W/D hookups • Gas FP, balcony • Maintenance free 4BR, new, NW, executive 2 Call 785-832-0555 story home. 2,400 sq. ft., 4 or after 3PM 785-766-2722 bath, 2 car, finished bsmt. $1,900/mo. 785-423-5828

Houses LUXURIOUS TOWNHOMES * 2 BR, 1,300 sq. ft. * 3 BR, 1,700 sq. ft.

Kitchen Appls., W/D 2-Car Garage * Small Pets Accepted Showings By Appointment

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

www.mallardproperties 1BR, carport, refrigerator & lawrence.com stove. Nice and efficient. In North Lawrence. $525/mo.

Call 785-842-1524

PARKWAY 4000

• 2 & 3BRs, 2 bath, 2 car • Patio, W/D hookups • Fully applianced kitchen • Maintenance free 785-749-2555, 785-766-2722

VILLA 26 APTS. 3BR Townhome Available Comes with W/D and 1 car garage. No pets.

Move-in Specials Avail.

785-842-5227, 785-218-7899

Avail. now. 785-841-1284

Expert, experienced rental management Realtor accepting new homeowners. 23 years experience, reference list of happy owners available. Charles Gruber.

785-766-3400. cgruber@cgruber.com.

2608 Belle Crest Drive 5BR, 3 bath, large deck, fenced backyard, finished basement. $1,200/month.

If interested call Tiffany at 785-843-8566, 785-840-8147

Mobile Homes 2 MONTHS FREE RENT!

2 - 3 bedrooms starting at $525 per month!

4 Lawrence Locations

Call Erin at 618-616-2272 WAC

LEGACY

Steve’s Place

Banquet Hall available for wedding receptions, birthday parties, corporate meetings & seminars.

For more info. visit http://lawrencemarket place.com/stevesplace

Garage Doors

Home Improvements Essential Inspections LLC

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation Call 785-842-5203 or visit us at Lawrencemarketplace. com/freestate garagedoors

General Services

785-843-2174

1388 N 1293 Rd, Lawrence

State Energy Office Rebate Pay Just $100 For a Comprehensive Energy Audit of Your Home!

Call us to find out how!

785-550-8104 essentialinspectionsllc.com Home Inspections • Energy Audits • Weatherization

REMODELING & HANDYMAN SERVICES

• Baths • Kitchens • Rec Rooms • Tile • Windows •Doors •Trim •Wood Rot Since 1974 GARY 785-856-2440 www.winston-brown.com Licensed & Insured

Financial Bankruptcy Attorney: Get a Fresh Start.

Free Consultation.

1-800-768-8036

Bankruptcy, Tax Negotiation, Foreclosure Defense - Call for Free consultation.

Cloon Legal Services 888-845-3511 “We are a federally designated debt relief agency.”

Flooring Installation Christensen Floor Care LLC. Wood, Tile, Carpet, Concrete, 30 yrs. exp.

785-842-8315 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/christensenfloorcare

Martin Floor Covering

Linoleum, Carpet, Ceramic, Hardwood, Laminate, Porcelain Tile.

Estimates Available 1 mile North of I-70. http://lawrencemarketplace. com/martin_floor_covering

NOT Your ordinary bicycle store!

Graphics

Renovations Kitchen/Bath Remodels House Additions & Decks Siding & Windows Children’s Play Areas Quality Work Affordable Prices

(785) 550-1565

mmdownstic@hotmail.com Lawrencemarketplace.com/tic

Landscaping Lawrence’s Newest Sign Shop

• Full Color Printing • Banners & Decals • Vehicle Graphics • Yard Signs • Magnets • Stationary & Much More!!

785-856-7444 1717 W. 6th

Low Maintenance Landscape, Inc.

1210 Lakeview Court, Innovative Planting Design Construction & Installation www.lawrencemarketplace. com/lml

785-842-0094

jayhawkguttering.com

Mudjacking, waterproofing.

We specialize in Basement Repair & pressure Grouting, Level & Straighten Walls, & Bracing on Walls.

Apply at eapp.adecco.com B.B.B. Or Call (785) 842-1515 FREE ESTIMATES BETTER WORK Since 1962 BETTER LIFE WAGNER’S 785-749-1696 lawrencemarketplace.com/ www.foundationrepairks.com adecco Office* Clerical* Accounting Light Industrial* Technical Finance* Legal

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Recycle Your Furniture

(785) 542-1020 TDD#(800) 766-3777 “This institution is an Equal Opportunity Provider & Employer” Commercial Management Company

Tonganoxie

15 yrs exp, Mowing, Yard Clean-up, Tree Trimming, Snow Removal All jobs considered. 15% Sr. Discount.

785-312-0813, 785-893-1509 “Your Comfort Is Our Business.”

Installation & Service Residential & Commercial (785) 841-2665 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/rivercityhvac

Love’s Lawncare & Cleaning Service Quality Service Free Est. & Senior Discounts 60 & up.

Bonded & Insured Call Danny 785-220-3925

Large, Shop Space

GREAT SPECIALS Cedar Hill Apts.

850 E. 13th St., Lawrence

W/D hookups, Pets OK

913-417-7200, 785-841-4935

Roger, Kevin or Sarajane

with multiple offices

Rent ALL or Will Divide!

Approx. 4,000 sq. ft. of heated shop space w/3 2 & 3BR Townhomes - with overhead doors (13 - 14’ garage on quiet cul-de-sac. high), 500 - 1,500 sq. ft. of No pets. $700 - $800/month. office space w/AC, & rest rooms. Call 785-550-3247 785-542-3240, 785-865-8951

WINTER ICE MELT PRODUCTS Residential & Commercial Use Buy In Bulk Or By the Bag Eco-Friendly & Pet Friendly

Commercial Real Estate Abe & Jakes

8 East 6th St., Lawrence

Duplexes 2 in S. Lawrence, 2BR, w/garage, $132,000 each.

Thousands under appraised value. Theno R.E. 785-843-1811

Office Space 1311 Wakarusa - office space available. 200 sq. ft.

- 6,000 sq. ft. For details call 785-842-7644 Office Space, several sizes avail. 150-1,800 sq. ft., 4,500 total sq. ft. possible. Remodel to suit. 785-842-4650

Appliances Lawrence

Retail & Commercial Space 615 Maple, N. Lawrence commercial bldg. - 1,800 sq. ft. of office/retail space and a 40’ x 60’ shop area.

Call 785-843-4370

Large, Shop Space with multiple offices

850 E. 13th St., Lawrence

Rent ALL or Will Divide!

Moving-Hauling Haul Free: Salvageable items. Charge; other moving, hauling, landscaping, home repair, clean inside & out. 785-841-6254. http://www.a2zenterprises. info/ Rock Hauling, Driveway Rock or Dirt.

Will spread, Prices Available. Mike. 785-214-0848

STARVING ARTISTS MOVING

15yr. locally owned and operated company.

Professionally trained staff. We move everything from fossils to office and household goods.

Call for a free estimate.

785-749-5073 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/starvingartist

HOLIDAY FREE Piano Lesson. sjkeus@yahoo.com 785-550-1608. Performed on President Ford’s piano.

Packing & Shipping

The Mail Box 3115 W 6th Street, Suite C., Lawrence, KS

785-749-4304

Mon.-Fri. 10:30-6PM. Sat. 10AM-3PM. • UPS • Fed Ex • USPS • DHL • Packing • Notary • Shreddng • Fax • Copies • Home movie transfer-DVD lawrencemarketplace.com/ themailbox

A. B. Painting & Repair Int/ext. Drywall, Tile, Siding, Wood rot, & Decks 30 plus yrs. Refs. Free Est. Al 785-331-6994 albeil@aol.com

Inside - Out Painting Service

Complete interior & exterior painting Siding replacement

785-766-2785

“Advising Investors Since 1985” www.LawrenceKsHomes ForSale.biz 785-865-5000

Manufactured Homes BRAND NEW 3BR, 2 BATH!

Financing available!

Crib Set: Noah’s (Ark) Zoo Crib Set. Brand new. Includes comforter, bumper & sheet. Fits standard crib.

Pictures available upon request. $50/offer. myfootprints8@yahoo.com

OWNER WILL FINANCE 3BR, 2 bath, CH/CA, appls., Move in ready - Lawrence.

Call 816-830-2152

Snow Boots: Child’s size 1 Totes Brand, black with navy blue top, $8.

785-842-8776.

Plumbing

Security

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 35 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace.com /kastl

Locksmith & Security Systems Secure Your Home, Business or Apartment.

Security Systems Video Surveillance Access Control Residential Commercial (785) 843-2182 lawrencemarketplace.com/ rueschhoff

Recycling Services 12th & Haskell Recycle Center, Inc. No Monthly Fee - Always been FREE! Cash for all Metals We take glass!

1146 Haskell Ave, Lawrence 785-865-3730 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/recyclecenter

Sewing Service & Repair Bob’s BERNINA

Sewing and Vacuum Center

2449 B Iowa St.

785-842-1595 Lonnie’s Recycling Inc. Buyers of aluminum cans, NEW STORE HOURS all type metals & junk vehiM-F 9-6, Th 9-8, Sat 9-4 cles. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-4, 501 Maple, Lawrence.

Servicing Most Model Sewing 785-841-4855 Machines, Sergers & Vacs lawrencemarketplace.com/ www.lawrencemarketplace. lonnies com/bobsbernina

Roofing

Tree/Stump Removal

Allcore Roofing & Restoration

Roofs, Guttering, Windows, Siding, & Interior Restoration

Hail & Wind Storm Specialists

We Work With Your Insurance Inspections are FREE

785-766-7700 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/allcore

Shamrock Tree Service

We Specialize in Fine Pruning If you value your tree for its natural shape and would like to retain its health and beauty in the long term, call on us!

785-393-2260

Complete Roofing

Tearoffs, Reroofs, Redecks * Storm Damage * Leaks * Roof Inspections

We’re There for You!

785-749-4391

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Int/Ext/Specialty Painting Siding, Wood Rot & Decks

Specializing in: Residential & Commercial Tearoffs Asphalt & Fiberglass Shingling Cedar Shake Shingles

Kate, 785-423-4464

Baby & Children's Items

Perfect Lawrence location!

Garrison Roofing

www.kbpaintingllc.com

Stacking Washer & Dryer.

Like new stacking washer and dryer. $350/offer. Call 785-841-8069 Also available, Desk, Chest of drawers, dresser & floor lamp

Doll house - cloth doll Call Erin at 800-943-0442 WAC house, 10” by 24” by 15” tall. Has 6 rooms and comes with 2 dolls and furniMobile Homes ture. $20. Call 785-841-2093

inside-out-paint@yahoo.com Free Estimates Fully Insured Lawrencemarketplace.com/ inside-out-paint

Since 1982

Vacuum Service & Repair DAVE BALES VACUUM CLEANERS & LAMP SALES & REPAIR. Dave repairs & sells all makes & model vacuum cleaners, Rainbow, Panasonic, Kirby, Filter Queen, Electrolux, etc.

FREE PICKUP & DELIVERY to your home or business.

Just call Dave Bales at 785-843-7811 & he’ll be out to help you. Don’t forget Dave Bales does all types of lamp repair too!

SERVING LAWRENCE FOR 37 YEARS

Call 785-841-0809

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Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

Prompt Superior Service Residential * Commercial Tear Off * Reroofs

Free estimates/Insured.

Insurance Work Welcome

Pet Services

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ mclaughlinroofing

Locally owned & operated.

Air Conditioning/ & Heating/Sales & Srvs.

Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

Office/Warehouse

3BR, 1 bath, 1989, very nice. $12,000. — $300 per month. Call 785-727-9764

24,000 sq. ft. for lease: 800 Comet Lane $1,300,000. approximately 8,000 sq.ft.

Call 785-766-8211 building perfect for service or contracting business. Has large overhead doors and plenty of work Income Property and storage room.

Bob Sarna 785-841-7333 3BR duplex NW Lawrence make about $700/mo. with down - extended lease.

Warehouse Space no $260,000. Call 785-865-8459

Spacious 1, 2, & 3 BRs

Green Grass Lawn Care

Free Estimates 785-764-9582

PineLandscapeCenter.com 785-843-6949

Window Installation/Service

Windows, Doors Exterior & Interior Trim & all your remodeling needs Free Estimates

Licensed & Insured (785) 312-9140 www.crconstruct.com

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785-843-2244

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Locksmith “We Can Train Any Dog!” Call for Free Home Demo!

785-764-2220 www.SitMeansSit.com www.lawrencemarketplace. com/sms-dogs

Furniture Temporary or Contract Staffing Evaluation Hire, Direct Hire Professional Search Onsite Services (785) 749-7550 1000 S Iowa, Lawrence KS lawrencemarketplace.com/ express

924 Walnut Eudora, KS 66025

Office/Warehouse

10,000 sq. ft. warehouse with 1,200 sq. ft. office on N. Iowa St., Lawrence. Lg. storage yard included.

Call First Management, Inc. - 785-841-7333 or email bobs@firstmanagementinc.com

Painting

Heating & Cooling

Foundation Repair

Quality work at a fair price!

“62 years of age or older, handicap/disabled, regardless of age”

Retail & Mobile Homes Commercial Space OWNER WILL FINANCE

785-550-5610

Plan Now For Next Year • Custom Pools, Spas & Water Features JAYHAWK GUTTERING • Design & Installation Seamless aluminum gutter• Pool Maintenance ing. Many colors to choose (785) 843-9119 from. Install, repair, screen, midwestcustompools.com clean-out. Locally owned.

Insured. Free estimates.

785-841-9222

CONCRETE INC Your local foundation repair specialist!

Waterproofing, Basement, & Crack Repair

NOW Accepting Applications Pinecrest Apartments I &II

Music Lessons

Guttering Services Kitchen/Bath Remodel Carpet ,Tile, Wood, Stone Showroom 4910 Wakarusa Ct, Ste B (785) 843-8600 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/wildgreen

Eudora

Approx. 4,000 sq. ft. of heated shop space w/3 overhead doors (13 - 14’ Roommates high), 500 - 1,500 sq. ft. of Furn. BR available now & office space w/AC, & rest Jan. 1 in nice 4BR, 2 bath rooms. Call 785-550-3247 townhome in W. Lawrence. $300/mo. 785-749-5100 Office & Retail For Lease, Properties from $550/mo.

2BR, 2bath, W/D hookup, Rooms for rent - $425/room up. Iowa St., Kasold, 6th Dishwasher, Fireplace, per mo. including utilities. St., Mass St. (14 to choose Theno R.E. pets ok 785-766-6194 Re- For female only, No pets. from) 785-843-1811 duced Deposit!

No smoking. 785-727-0025

Eagles Lodge

Foundation Repair

ACLEANROUTINE@gmail.com

Bird Janitorial & Hawk Wash Window Cleaning.

• House Cleaning • Chandeliers • Post Construction • Gutters • Power Washing • Prof Window Cleaning • Sustainable Options Find Coupons & more info: lawrencemarketplace.com/ birdjanitorial Free Est. 785-749-0244

2, 3 & 4BRs up to 1,500 sq. ft.

Short Term lease avail. thru June. Discounted 1st month rent: $800, subsequent months: $900/mo.

3BR, 2 bath, 1 car garage, 739 New York. Great location, walk to downtown!

Washer & dryer included.

No pets, no smoking.

Avail. Jan. 3, 785-423-5367, or 512-847-5970 ext. 221

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

Cleaning A CLEAN ROUTINE Residential cleaning service customized to your family’s needs. All general housekeeping tasks, laundry & linens included.

Services performed by the owner/operator. All supplies provided. For estimate call 785-230-3529 or

Available Now

Houses

www.billyconstruction.com

Bum Steer Catering

- Full Service Caterer Specializing in smoked meats & barbeque - Corporate Events, Private Parties, WeddingsOn-Site Cooking Available

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NOTICE OF SUIT STATE OF KANSAS to the above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, 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; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Mortgage Foreclosure has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas by CitiMortgage, Inc., praying for foreclosure of certain real property legally described as follows: LOTS 178 AND 180 ON HIGH STREET AND LOTS 205 AND 207 ON INDIANA STREET, ALL IN HOGAN’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF BALDWIN, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID No. BO1194A for a judgment against defendants and any other interested parties and you are hereby required to plead to the Petition for Foreclosure by January 26, 2011, in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered

4C WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2010 Public Notices Public Notices

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in due course upon the re- kworster@msfirm.com quest of plaintiff.

Chad R. Doornink, #23536 cdoornink@msfirm.com MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC Aaron M. Schuckman, By: #22251 Lindsey L. Craft, #23315 aschuckman@msfirm.com lcraft@msfirm.com 11460 Tomahawk Creek Kristin Fisk Worster, #21922 Parkway, Suite 300 kworster@msfirm.com Leawood, KS 66211 Chad R. Doornink, #23536 (913) 339-9132 cdoornink@msfirm.com (913) 339-9045 (fax) Aaron M. Schuckman, #22251 ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF aschuckman@msfirm.com 11460 Tomahawk Creek MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS Parkway, Suite 300 ATTORNEYS FOR Leawood, KS 66211 CitiMortgage, Inc. IS AT(913) 339-9132 TEMPTING TO COLLECT A (913) 339-9045 (fax) DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. ________ MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS ATTORNEYS FOR (First published in the LawCitiMortgage, Inc. IS AT- rence Daily Journal-World TEMPTING TO COLLECT A December 15, 2010) DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS ________ CIVIL COURT DEPARTMENT (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 15, 2010) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS PATRICIA G. CALLAHAN, as Executor of the Estate of Pauline G. Harvey Plaintiff, vs.

KEVIN W. MAYO, et al Defendants.

Case No. 10CV693 Div No. 4 Proceeding Under K.S.A. Chapter 60.

Title to Real Estate Involved NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Judge of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas in the case above numbered, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand in the Jury Assembly Room of the District Court located in the lower level of the Judicial Law Enforcement Center in the City of Lawrence in said County and State on the 6th day of January, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on said day, the following described interest in real estate situated in Douglas County, Kansas, to-wit: Tract 1: Lot 21 in Block 3 in the replat and subdivision of Blocks 3 and 4 in the Southwest Addition, an Addition to the City of Lawrence, as shown by the recorded plat thereof in Douglas County, Kansas (commonly known as 1524 W. 22nd Terrace, Lawrence, KS 66046) Tract 2: Lot 4, The Morimar Subdivision, an Addition to the City of Lawrence, as shown by the recorded plat thereof in Douglas County, Kansas (commonly known as 1626 Cadet, Lawrence, KS 66044) Tract 3: Lot 10, Block 2, Chaparral Addition, an Addition to the City of Lawrence, as shown by the recorded plat thereof in Douglas County, Kansas (commonly known as 2718 Ponderosa, Lawrence, KS 66046) together with all fixtures, appurtenances, etc. thereunto pertaining; said interest in real property is levied upon as the property of defendants and all other alleged owners and will be sold without appraisal to satisfy said Order of Sale.

On this 10th day of December 2010.

SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS COUNTY PREPARED BY: STEVENS & BRAND, L.L.P. P. O. Box 189 Lawrence, KS 66044 (785) 843 0811 Attorneys for Plaintiff Bradley R. Finkeldei #19470 _______ (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 15, 2010) Millsap & Singer, LLC 11460 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Suite 300 Leawood, KS 66211 (913) 339-9132 (913) 339-9045 (fax) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Douglas County, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT CitiMortgage, Inc. Plaintiff, vs.

Jody B Riddle, Jane Doe, John Doe, and Commerce Bank, N.A., et al., Defendants Case No. 10CV837 Court No. 2 Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60

(First published in the Law- following described real esrence Daily Journal-World tate, to wit: December 28, 2010) A tract of land located in In accordance with the the Northwest Quarter of statutes governing adverse Section 4, Township 14 possession, the West park- South, Range 20 East of the ing lot at 3101 W. 6th, Law- 6th P.M., Douglas County, rence, KS, will be closed Kansas, more particularly January 1, 2011. HD Lewis described as follows: Com_______ mencing at the Southeast corner of the Northwest (First published in the Law- Quarter; thence North rence Daily Journal-World 00°11’12” West a distance December 29, 2010) of 380.32 feet to the point of beginning, said point being IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF on the East line of the DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS Northwest Quarter; thence North 88°53’12” West a dis66 FEDERAL CREDIT UNION tance of 704.34 feet; thence Plaintiff, North 00°22’34” West a disvs. tance of 318.79 feet; thence South 88°53’11” East a disJOHN C. ZARICKY, III tance of 705.40 feet, said KLEE A. ZARICKY point being on the East line JOHN C. ZARICKY, III of the Northwest Quarter; Trustee of the John C. thence South 00°11’12” East Zaricky, III and a distance of 318.76 feet to Klee A. Zaricky Revocable the point of beginning.

Living Trust and for a judgment against KLEE A. ZARICKY Defendant Vernon L. Cheek, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Trustee of the and any other interested Plaintiff, John C. Zaricky, III and parties, and you are hereby vs.

Klee A. Zaricky required to plead to said ROBERT M. BRAUGHT, et al., Revocable Living Trust Petition on or before the Defendants.

14th day of February, 2011, PEOPLES BANK in said Court in Douglas Case No. 2007 CV 458 County, Kansas.

Should CITY OF LAWRENCE you fail therein, judgment Title to Real Estate Involved and decree will be entered BAUER BROOK ESTATES in due course upon said peNOTICE OF SHERIFF`S SALE HOMES ASSOCIATION tition.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, BOARD OF COUNTY This firm is a debt collector that under and by virtue of COMMISSIONERS OF an Order of Sale issued by DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS for the creditor named above, this notice is an atthe Clerk of the District tempt to collect a debt, and Court of Douglas County, and Kansas, in the case above The unknown heirs, execu- any information obtained numbered, wherein the par- tors, administrators, devi- will be used for that purties above named were re- sees, creditors, trustees, pose.

66 spectfully plaintiff and De- and assigns of such of the FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, fendant, and to me, the un- defendants as may be dePlaintiff dersigned Sheriff of Doug- ceased; the unknown las County, Kansas, di- spouses of the defendants; rected, I will offer for sale the unknownexecutors, ad- BERMAN & RABIN, P.A. Michael H. Berman at public auction and sell to ministrators, devisees, the highest bidder for cash trustees, creditors, succes- #11567 15280 Metcalf Avenue in hand at the south steps sors, and assigns of such of the Law Enforcement defendants as are or were Overland Park, Kansas 66223 Center 111 E. 11th Street partners or in Tel: (913) 649-1555 Lawrence, Kansas 66044 on partnership; January 6, 2011, at 10:00 the affiliates, subsidiaries, Fax: (913) 652-9474 Attorney for Plaintiff a.m. of said day, the follow- assigns, or parent ________ ing described real estate corporation(s) of the desituated in the County of fendants; the unknown (First published in the LawDouglas, State of Kansas, guardians and trustees of rence Daily Journal-World to-wit: such of the defendants as December 22, 2010) LOT ONE (1) LESS NORTH 10 FT AND LESS EAST 10 FEET THEREOF, LOT TWO (2) LESS EAST 10 FT THEREOF, AND NORTH 10 FT OF LOT THREE (3) FT EAST 10 FEET THEREOF, BLOCK NINETY FOUR (94), CITY OF EUDORA, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS (“Property”)

Case No. 2010-CV-00539 Division No. 5 Chapter 60

said real property is levied TITLE TO REAL ESTATE upon as the property of DeINVOLVED fendant Robert M. Braught and all other alleged ownNOTICE OF SALE ers and will be sold without appraisal to satisfy said Or- UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of der of Sale. an Order Of Sale to the Clerk of the District Court DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF in and for said County of Douglas, in a certain cause Submitted by: in said Court numbered 10 MARTIN, LEIGH, LAWS CV 539, wherein the parties & FRITZLEN, P.C. above-named were respecRobert M. Swiss KS tively, Plaintiff and Defend#21697 ants, and to me, the underDesarae G. Harrah signed, Sheriff of Douglas KS #23021 County, Kansas, I will offer ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidMARTIN, LEIGH, LAWS & der for cash in hand, in the FRITZLEN, P.C. IS ATTEMPT- jury assembly room in the ING TO COLLECT A DEBT lower level of the Judicial AND ANY INFORMATION OB- and Law Enforcement CenTAINED WILL BE USED FOR ter, in the City of Lawrence, THAT PURPOSE. in said County of Douglas, State of Kansas, on the 20th (Braught, 3596.094) day of January, 2011, at (RSVP#262595)(12/15/10, 10:00 a.m. of said day, the 12/22/10, 12/29/10) following described real es________ tate situated in the County of Douglas, State of Kansas, (First published in the Law- to-wit: rence Daily Journal-World December 29, 2010) Lots 1A, Block 1, in Bauer Brook Estates No. 4, a SubIN THE SEVENTH division in the City of LawJUDICIAL DISTRICT rence, Douglas County, DISTRICT COURT, Kansas, as shown on a Lot DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS Split for Lot 1, Block 1, CIVIL DEPARTMENT Bauer Brook Estates No. 4, recorded in Plat Book 17, MERITRUST CREDIT UNION Page 655, in the office of f/k/a BOEING WICHITA the Register of Deeds of CREDIT UNION, Douglas County, Kansas, Plaintiff, vs. commonly known as 1049 CLEARWATER, L.L.C., N. 1665 Rd., Lawrence, KanJOEL FRITZEL, BOARD OF sas 66049, to satisfy the COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, judgment in the ) above-captioned case; the DOUGLAS COUNTY, KAN- sale to be without apSAS, GROUP 4, L.L.C., praisement and subject to and DOUGLAS COUNTY the interests of all DefendBANK, and ants as set out in the Order the unknown heirs, ex- of Sale, with Defendants ecutors, administrators, having a three month right devisees, trustees, credi- of redemption in the subtors and assigns of such of ject property. the defendants as may be deceased; the unknown SHERIFF spouses of the defendants’; DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors Michael H. Berman and assigns of such de- #11567 fendants as are existing, BERMAN & RABIN, P.A. dissolved or dormant cor- 15280 Metcalf Avenue porations; the unknown ex- Overland Park, Kansas ecutors, administrators, 66223 trustees, creditors, succes- Phone (913) 649-1555 sors and assigns of such Fax: (913) 652-9474 defendants as are or were ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF partners or in partnership; ________ the unknown guardians and trustees of such of the de- (First published in the Lawfendants as are minors or rence Daily Journal-World are in anywise under legal December 29, 2010) disability; and John and/or Jane Doe, unknown occu- IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS pants, Defendant(s).

66 FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Plaintiff, Case No: 2010 CV 676 vs.

Pursuant to Chapter 60 VERNON L. CHEEK of K.S.A.

NOTICE OF SUIT

SHERIFF’S SALE

STATE OF KANSAS to the above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, 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; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned:

By virtue of an Order of Sale issued out of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, in the above entitled action, I will, on Thursday, the 20th day of January, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., in the Jury Assembly Room of the District Court, in the Lower Level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th Street, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand all the right, title and interest of the defendants above named in and to the following described real property situated in the County of Douglas, State of Kansas, to-wit:

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Mortgage Foreclosure has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas by CitiMortgage, Inc., praying for foreclosure of certain real property legally described as follows:

1500 Prestwick Court, as shown by the Plat of Survey for Lots 1, 2, and 3, Prestwick Count, a subdivision in the City of Lawrence, recorded at Plat Book 1, Page 127, Douglas County, Kansas, commonly known as: 1500 Prestwick Court, Lawrence, Kansas

LOT 5, IN BLOCK 3, IN BRITTANY RIDGE SUBDIVISION, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF BALDWIN CITY, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. TAX ID NO. BO2818-23.

Said real property is levied on as the property of the defendants above named and will be sold without appraisement to satisfy said Order of Sale.

for a judgment against defendants and any other interested parties and you are hereby required to plead to the Petition for Foreclosure by January 26, 2011, in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the request of plaintiff.

Sheriff, Douglas County, Kansas

MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC By: Lindsey L. Craft, #23315 lcraft@msfirm.com Kristin Fisk Worster, #21922

are minors or in any wise under legal disability, or any other party who may assert an interest in the property or claim described herein, Defendants.

BRUCE, BRUCE & LEHMAN, LLC Attorneys at Law P.O. Box 75037 Wichita, Kansas 67275-5037 Attorney for Meritrust Credit Union _______

Millsap & Singer, LLC 11460 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Suite 300 Leawood, KS 66211 (913) 339-9132 (913) 339-9045 (fax) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Douglas County, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT CitiMortgage, Inc. Plaintiff, vs.

Barbara S Decker, Jimmy L Decker, Jane Doe, and John Doe, et al., Defendants

Public Notices Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

You are notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, praying to foreclose a real estate mortgage on the following described real estate: Lot 25, in Block 6, replat of CIMARRON HILLS, a subdivision in the City of Lawrence, as shown by the recorded plat thereof, in Douglas County, Kansas, commonly known as 2613 Rawhide Lane, Lawrence, KS 66046 (the “Property”) and all those defendants who have not otherwise been served are required to plead to the Petition on or before the 1st day of February, 2011, in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

NOTICE Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Prepared By: South & Associates, P.C. Brian R. Hazel (KS # 21804) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Case No. 10CV852 Overland Park, KS 66211 Court No. (913)663-7600 (913)663-7899 (Fax) Title to Real Estate Involved Attorneys For Plaintiff (123239) Pursuant to K.S.A. §60 _______ NOTICE OF SUIT STATE OF KANSAS to the above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, 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; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Mortgage Foreclosure has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas by CitiMortgage, Inc., praying for foreclosure of certain real property legally described as follows: BEGINNING AT A POINT 2055.7 FEET SOUTH AND 228.7 FEET WEST OF THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 13 SOUTH, RANGE 21 EAST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; THENCE WEST 460.0 FEET; THENCE NORTH 369.6 FEET; THENCE EAST 460.0 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 369.6 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING ALL LINES BEING PARALLEL WITH EITHER THE NORTH OR EAST LINES OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER, TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AS DESCRIBED IN DEED RECORDED OCTOBER 14,1976, IN BOOK 313, PAGE 1718, ALL IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID No. 200263P

for a judgment against defendants and any other interested parties and you are hereby required to plead to the Petition for JUDITH K. CHEEK Foreclosure by February 2, (deceased) 2011, in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas. If KIMBERLY KAY BROWN you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered PAMELA SUE LANDON in due course upon the request of plaintiff.

MARK DOUGLAS STOKER MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC BOARD OF COUNTY By: COMMISSIONERS OF Lindsey L. Craft, #23315 DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS lcraft@msfirm.com Kristin Fisk Worster, #21922 and kworster@msfirm.com The unknown heirs, execu- Chad R. Doornink, #23536 tors, administrators, devi- cdoornink@msfirm.com sees, creditors, trustees, Aaron M. Schuckman, and assigns of such of the #22251 defendants as may be de- aschuckman@msfirm.com ceased; the unknown 11460 Tomahawk Creek spouses of the defendants; Parkway, Suite 300 the unknown executors, ad- Leawood, KS 66211 ministrators, devisees, (913) 339-9132 trustees, creditors, succes- (913) 339-9045 (fax) sors, and assigns of such defendants as are or were ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF partners or in partnership; MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS the affiliates, subsidiaries, ATTORNEYS FOR assigns, or parent CitiMortgage, Inc. IS ATcorporation(s) of the de- TEMPTING TO COLLECT A fendants; the unknown DEBT AND ANY INFORMAguardians and trustees of TION OBTAINED WILL BE such of the defendants as USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. are minors or in any wise ________ under legal disability, or any other party who may (First published in the Lawassert an interest in the rence Daily Journal-World property or claim de- December 22, 2010) scribed herein, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Defendants.

DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT Case No. 10 CV 794 Division No. 5 Federal National Chapter 60 Mortgage Association Plaintiff, TITLE TO REAL ESTATE vs.

INVOLVED Thomas E. Schumock; John NOTICE OF SUIT Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/ OccuTHE STATE OF KANSAS TO pant); Jill Roe (real name unknown THE ABOVE-NAMED DE- unknown) FENDANTS, AND ALL OTHER spouse, if any, of Thomas E. Kelly B. PERSONS WHO ARE OR MAY Schumock; Schumock aka Kelly B. BE CONCERNED: Henly; State of Kansas, DeYou are hereby notified partment of Social and Rethat a Petition has been habilitation Services, Defendants. filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, by Case No. 10CV830 66 Federal Credit Union, Court Number: 6 praying for foreclosure of a real estate mortgage on the

Public Notices Pursuant to Chapter 60 of K.S.A. SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of an Order of Sale issued out of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, in the above entitled action, I will, on Thursday, the 20th day of January, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., in the Jury Assembly Room of the District Court, in the Lower Level of the Judical and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th Street, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand all the right, title and interest of the defendants above named in and to the following described real property situated in the County of Douglas, State of Kansas, to-wit: Lot Five (5) in Block A, in Meadowlark Addition No. 2, an Addition to the City of Eudora, Douglas County, Kansas; AND Lots Two (2), Four (4), Eleven (11), and Fifteen (15), in Block B, in

Case No. 10 CV 212 Div. No. 2 Proceeding Under K.S.A. Chapter 60.

Title to Real Estate Involved

IN THE SEVENTH SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY, KS DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS PREPARED BY: CIVIL DEPARTMENT

Case No. 10 CV 364

Court Numbered 08cv639, wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to me, the undersigned Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at 10:00 AM, on 01/20/2011, the Jury Assembly Room of the District Court located in the lower level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center building, 111 E. 11th St., Lawrence, Kansas, the following described real estate located in the County of Douglas, State of Kansas, to wit: LOT 40, BLOCK 1, STONEGATE SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS

Respectfully Submitted, By: Shawn Scharenborg, # 24542 Sara Knittel, # 23624 Kelli N. Breer, # 17851 Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. (St. Louis Office) 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 St. Louis, MO 63141 Phone: (314) 991-0255 Fax: (314) 567-8006 Meadowlark Addition No. 2, Email: an Addition to the City of sscharenborg@km-law.com Eudora, Douglas County, Attorney for Plaintiff ________ Kansas; AND (First published in the LawLots Four (4), and Five (5), rence Daily Journal-World in Block C, in Meadowlark December 22, 2010) Addition No. 2, an Addition to the City of Eudora, DougIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF las County, Kansas.

DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT Said real property is levied on as the property of the The Bank of New York Meldefendants above named lon fka The Bank of New and will be sold without apYork as Trustee for the Cerpraisement to satisfy said tificateholders of CWABS Order of Sale.

2004-11 Plaintiff, Sheriff, Douglas County, vs.

Kansas Rachel Torkelson; David Torkelsona/k/a David Alvin BRUCE, BRUCE Torkelson, a/k/a David A. & LEHMAN, LLC Torkelson; John Doe Attorneys at Law (Tenant/Occupant); Mary P.O. Box 75037 Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Wichita, Kansas State of Kansas Depart67275-5037 Attorney for ment of Labor; Donald RobMeritrust ert Grinnell; Jill Roe (real Credit Union name unknown) unknown ________ spouse, if any, of David (First published in the Law- Torkelson, Defendants. rence Daily Journal-World December 22, 2010) Case No. 10CV847 Court Number: 2 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS Pursuant to K.S.A. PEOPLES BANK, a Kansas banking corporation, Plaintiff, vs.

DENNIS GROVER, et al Defendant.

(First published in the Law- NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE rence Daily Journal-World December 15, 2010) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that under and by virtue of IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF an Order of Sale issued by DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS the Judge of the District Court of Douglas County, US Bank National Associa- Kansas in the case above tion, as Trustee for CMLTI numbered, I will offer for 2007-WFHE2 sale at public auction and Plaintiff, sell to the highest bidder vs. for cash in hand in the Jury Danielle Raquel Williams, Assembly Room of the Diset al., trict Court located in the Defendants. lower level of the Judicial Law Enforcement Center in Case No. 09CV658 the City of Lawrence in said Division 4 County and State on the 13th day of January, 2011, K.S.A. 60 at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on said Mortgage Foreclosure day, the following de(Title to Real Estate scribed interest in real esInvolved) tate situated in Douglas County, Kansas, to-wit: NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE A tract of land located in Under and by virtue of an the Southeast Quarter Order of Sale issued by the (SE/4) of Section Clerk of the District Court Twenty-one (21), Township in and for the said County Twelve South (T12S), Range of Douglas, State of Kansas, Nineteen East (R19E) of the in a certain cause in said 6th P.M., Douglas County, Court Numbered 09CV658, Kansas described as folwherein the parties above lows: named were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and Commencing at the Southto me, the undersigned east corner of the NorthSheriff of said County, di- east Quarter (NE/4) of said rected, I will offer for sale Southeast Quarter (SE/4); at public auction and sell to thence South 89°50’59” the highest bidder for cash West 34.98 feet (measured), feet (described); in hand at 10:00 AM, on 35.00 1/6/2011, the Jury Assembly thence North 1°14’56” West, Room of the District Court 74.16 feet (measured), 75.34 (described); thence located in the lower level of feet 39°10’22” West, the Judicial and Law En- North forcement Center building, 336.26 feet (measured), 111 E. 11th St., Lawrence, 336.00 feet (described); Kansas, the following de- thence North 61° 47’14” 270.34 feet scribed real estate located West, 270.00 feet in the County of Douglas, (measured, (described) to the point of State of Kansas, to wit: beginning; thence South UNIT 15F, AS SHOWN BY 69°32’43” West, 292.39 feet; PLAT OF SURVEY OF WOOD- thence South 45°11’23” CREEK TOWNHOUSES, FILED West, 142.09 feet; thence 31°17’44” West, IN CONDOMINIUM BOOK 1, North PAGE 60, IN THE OFFICE OF 206.53 feet; thence North THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF 68°25’56” West, 399.93 feet DOUGLAS COUNTY, KAN- to a point on the West line SAS, IN THE CITY OF LAW- of the Northeast Quarter RENCE, IN DOUGLAS (NE/4) of said Southeast Quarter (SE/4); thence COUNTY, KANSAS. North 0°01’31” East, 178.75 thence South SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS feet; COUNTY, KANSAS 88°32’33” East, 656.88 feet; thence South 0°10’35” East, 178.44 feet (measured), Respectfully Submitted, 178.00 feet (described); By: thence South 61°34’48” Shawn Scharenborg, East, 220.09 feet # 24542 (measured), 220.00 feet Sara Knittel, # 23624 (described) to the point of Kelli N. Breer, # 17851 beginning.

Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. (St. Louis Office) together with all fixtures, 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 appurtenances, etc. thereSt. Louis, MO 63141 Phone: (314) 991-0255 unto pertaining; said interest in real property is levFax: (314) 567-8006 ied upon as the property of Email: sscharenborg@km-law.com defendants and all other alAttorney for Plaintiff leged owners and will be _______ sold without appraisal to satisfy said Order of Sale.

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World On this 16th day of DecemDecember 29, 2010) ber, 2010.

MERITRUST CREDIT UNION f/k/a BOEING WICHITA CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs.

MEADOWLARK DEVELOPMENT GROUP, L.L.C., JOEL FRITZEL, BRETT FRITZEL, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS, and CORNERBANK, N.A., and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of such of the defendants as may be deceased; the unknown spouses of the defendants’; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of such defendants as are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of such defendants as are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians and trustees of such of the defendants as are minors or are in anywise under legal disability; and John and/or Jane Doe, unknown occupants, Defendant(s).

Public Notices

STEVENS & BRAND, L.L.P. P. O. Box 189 Lawrence, KS 66044 (785) 843 0811 Attorneys for Plaintiff Bradley R. Finkeldei #19470 ________ (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World December 29, 2010) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS US Bank National Association, as Trustee for Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-WFHE3 Plaintiff, vs.

Wade Alan Stroble and Shawn Renee Stroble, et al., Defendants.

Case No. 08cv639 Division 5 K.S.A. 60 Mortgage Foreclosure (Title to Real Estate Involved) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County of Douglas, State of Kansas, in a certain cause in said

Public Notices Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

Public Notices County of Douglas, State of Kansas: Lot 1, Block Four, in Shadow Ridge Amended, a subdivision in the City of Eudora, Douglas County, Kansas, less that part beginning at a point on the North Line, 99.00 feet East of the Northwest corner of Lot 1, Block Four, Shadow Ridge Amended, a subdivision in the City of Eudora, Douglas County, Kansas; thence South 89 degrees 59 minutes 38 seconds East, along said North line, 196.00 feet to the Northeast corner thereof; thence South 00 degrees 05 minutes 07 seconds East, along the East line of said Lot 1, 56.20 feet to the Southeast corner thereof; thence South 89 degrees 59 minutes 04 seconds West, along the South line of said Lot 1, 196.00 feet; thence North 00 degrees 05 minutes 07 seconds West, 56.27 feet to the point of beginning. Contains 0.253 acres more or less , commonly known as 111 West 27th Street, Eudora, KS 66025 (the “Property”)

and all those defendants who have not otherwise been served are required to plead to the Petition on or before the 1st day of February, 2011, in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will County of Douglas, State of be entered in due course Kansas: Lot 1, Block Four, in upon the Petition.

Shadow Ridge Amended, a subdivision in the City of NOTICE Eudora, Douglas County, Pursuant to the Fair Debt Kansas, less that part be- Collection Practices Act, 15 ginning at a point on the U.S.C. §1692c(b), no inforNorth Line, 99.00 feet East mation concerning the colof the Northwest corner of lection of this debt may be Lot 1, Block Four, Shadow given without the prior conRidge Amended, a subdivi- sent of the consumer given sion in the City of Eudora, directly to the debt collecDouglas County, Kansas; tor or the express permisthence South 89 degrees 59 sion of a court of compeminutes 38 seconds East, tent jurisdiction. The debt along said North line, 295.00 collector is attempting to feet to the Northeast corner collect a debt and any inthereof; thence South 00 formation obtained will be degrees 05 minutes 07 sec- used for that purpose. onds East, along the East line of said Lot 1, 56.20 feet Prepared By: to the Southeast corner South & Associates, P.C. thereof; thence South 89 Kristen G. Stroehmann degrees 59 minutes 04 sec- (KS # 10551) onds West, along the South 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 line of said Lot 1, 196.00 Overland Park, KS 66211 feet; thence North 00 de- (913)663-7600 grees 05 minutes 07 sec- (913)663-7899 (Fax) onds West, 56.27 feet to the Attorneys For Plaintiff point of beginning. Con- (122146) tains 0.253 acres more or _______ less.

You are notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, praying to foreclose a real estate mortgage on the following described real estate:

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While networks settle in for their long winter’s nap of reruns, two cable outlets launch new series tonight — both with the strange confessional aspects that “documentary” reality shows can bring.

“I Used to Be Fat” (9 p.m., MTV) follows teens from their final weeks of high school until their opening weeks of college. They want to make their summer count, particularly on the scale. Every new episode will focus on a different teen, from a 306-pound student from a close-knit Italian family whose mother equates food with love to an obese girl who opted to be home-schooled rather than face the taunting of her peers.

As we’ve come to expect from MTV series like “Real Life,” not all of the teens will succeed in losing the weight but “I Used To Be Fat” will drain maximum drama from their attempts. ● Weight-loss struggles pale besides the trials of the subjects on “My Secret Addiction” (8 p.m., TLC), a new hourly series. Don’t go looking for something as humdrum as “Hoarders.” These folks include a woman who can’t sleep unless she has her blow-dryer with her in bed. On full blast! It’s murder on her skin (not to mention her utility bills), and she runs the risk of burning down the house. Stranger still, this hairdryer obsession has been with her since she was 8 years old.

Other subjects include people with a predilection for eating detergent. Another snacks on toilet paper. And one man has taken body building to an unhealthy extreme.

“My Secret Addiction” joins TLC’s peculiar niche of shows about extreme situations, subcultures and behavior. The season opener of “Toddlers & Tiaras” (9 p.m., TLC) follows. ● “Great Performances” (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings) puts the accent on talent from South and Central America with “Celebracion: Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil with Juan Diego Florez.” The first half of the concert is devoted to Italian opera, notably Rossini. Then Florez sings works from composers closer to his native Peru and performs a popular cancion his father used to sing at home.

Tonight’s other highlights ● A vacation in Greece proves eventful on “Undercovers” (7 p.m., NBC). ● Director Clint Eastwood’s 2006 war drama “Letters From Iwo Jima” (7 p.m., IFC) presents the battle from the Japanese perspective and offers a companion piece to his film “Flags of Our Fathers” from the same year. ● On two episodes of “Human Target” (Fox), Winston retrieved (7 p.m.), one for the wives (8 p.m.). ● On two episodes of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (NBC), Marcia Gay Harden guest stars (8 p.m.), rape on campus (9 p.m.). ● An earthquake rattles some more than others on “Modern Family” (8 p.m., ABC).

Nathan Lane guest stars. In a second helping (9 p.m.), Claire’s perfectionist vision of Halloween unravels. ● A gambling debt misunderstanding ends in murder on “The Defenders” (9 p.m., CBS).

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS For Wednesday, Dec. 29: This year, you often juggle your personal desires with a need to lead. This conflict remains resolvable.

If you are single, you meet someone through friends, or a friendship could evolve into more. If you are attached, take on a joint life goal together. Scorpio can be insightful and a good friend.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You'll Have: 5Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★ Challenges surround you. The real issue remains how to handle them. You cannot go to battle over every issue or problem. Tonight: Visit with a favorite person.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★ Accomplish as much as you can. Prioritizing is the only way to go. A partner or associate can relate to your sense of direction. Tonight: The only answer is "yes."

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ Tap into your creativity. A child or loved one might not intend to create a roadblock. Work with this person without forcing the issue. Tonight: Exercise time!

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

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★★★ Leaving home takes talent. You have been getting used to being close to the pad. Your creativity surges midday, helping create more reasons to stick close to home. Tonight: Catch up with friends.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Someone is impervious to your messages. Try as you might, you cannot break through.

Instead of trying or triggering, just forget it. Tonight: Head home.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ A financial matter might get the best of you, perhaps creating a lot of negativity. You wonder what to do. Focus on communication; speak about what is bothering you.

Tonight: Visit with friends.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ Someone finds you to be very difficult at this moment. As a result, this person could blow up as you rarely have seen.

Tonight: Buy a token of affection on the way home.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ Refuse to take someone's words personally. You could become very angry if you do. Defer the whole comment; deal with it in a few days.

Tonight: Whatever knocks the Scorp's socks off!

Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21) ★★★★ Zero in on your priorities this morning. You still could hit a snafu. Give yourself a day or so before trying to dislodge the issue. Tonight: Get extra R and R. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★ Assume the lead once more, but also know that eventually you will step down and relax. Let others know this, too.

Tonight: Where the fun is, of course.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ Take an overview. Detach or imagine what it is like to be the other person. This afternoon, clear out some must-do's. Tonight: Know that, without question, you are leader of the gang.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ A partner or someone key to your life could be very difficult. Let go. You also don't have support from as many people as you might like.

Detach in the afternoon.

Tonight: Follow the music.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

BIRTHDAYS Actress Inga Swenson is 78. ABC newscaster Tom Jarriel is 76. Actress Mary Tyler Moore is 74. Actor Jon Voight is 72. Country singer Ed Bruce is 71. Rock musician Ray Thomas is 69. Singer Marianne Faithfull is 64. Jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. is 64. Actor Ted Danson is 63. Actor

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Dear Frightened: Biff has been your stepfather for 13 years and believes he is part of your family. Set some boundaries, and maintain your distance. Insist he call before coming over. Try to arrange meetings at neutral places, such as playgrounds or the zoo, and when your husband can be with you. Keep the visits brief, and gradually let them become less frequent. If he yells, leave. If his verbal abuse becomes physical, call the police.

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Jon Polito is 60. Singeractress Yvonne Elliman is 59. Actress Patricia Clarkson is 51. Comedian Paula Poundstone is 51. Rock singer-musician Jim Reid (The Jesus and Mary Chain) is 49. Actor Michael Cudlitz is 46. Rock singer Dexter Holland (The Offspring) is 45. Actor-come-

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ACROSS 1 Road sign silhouette 5 “Homo,” for humans 10 “Half,” “quarter” or “eighth” follower 14 Fish-eating sea bird 15 Place for pro hoops 16 You might bounce it off someone 17 Place to keep one’s sheets 20 Site of the Krupp steel works 21 Baron’s bride, e.g.

22 Clashers in Hollywood 25 Eye medication dose 26 Tell a whopper 29 Home of the Osmonds 31 Stoolie 35 Genetic code letters 36 Fruits for rickeys 38 “Heartburn” author Ephron 39 Not available for use 43 Ready for the operating room 44 Not together 45 Young man 46 Virgil’s epic 49 Evidence of an old injury 50 Overhead expanse

51 Entre ___ (between us) 53 Etch-a-Sketch control 55 Small hovering falcon 58 Bumper sticker, e.g.

62 Righteous Brothers classic 65 Manhattan art gallery district 66 Stars that brighten then fade 67 Direction in sailing 68 Resting on 69 Not a kid anymore 70 Hankerings DOWN 1 Takeout for an editor?

2 Bow-andarrow boy 3 Nephew of Cain and Abel 4 Examine again, as a patient 5 ___ pal (girlfriend) 6 Previously, in poems 7 Lowest high tide 8 Like expired parking meters 9 Swashbuckling blades 10 Variety of bowling 11 They could be in your favor 12 Informal shirts 13 Musical skill

18 Totally swamp 19 Liver nutrient 23 Suffix with “narc” 24 Setting for Margaret Mead’s first book 26 Parkinson’s medicine 27 Become hardened (to) 28 Word with “worm” or “moth” 30 Rope fibers 32 Slaves away 33 Froggy’s last comment?

34 Good with tools, say 37 Lip sound 40 Where union membership isn’t needed 41 Land where Farsi is spoken 42 Walked triumphantly

47 Very small amount 48 In the course of 52 Title with a tilde 54 Secure, as a climbing rope 55 Sheepshank, e.g.

56 Guitar amp effect 57 Prefix meaning “toward the left” 59 Tunesmith Porter 60 The Arabian Sea’s Gulf of ___ 61 Caustic solutions 62 “God Bless the ___” 63 Margery of children’s rhyme 64 Jones film, “___ in Black”

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Dear Annie: My mother passed away two years ago.

She had been with “Biff ” for about 13 years. Biff is a jerk.

Most of the family discontinued all contact with my mother because no one could stand him. I tolerated him, but he made me uncomfortable. When I was a teenager, he made sexual comments to me, and I moved out of the house as soon as I could. He was also verbally abusive of my younger brother. Biff only behaved this way when Mom was at work, and when we told her, she did nothing.

I am now 32, and even though my mother is gone, Biff is determined to stay in my life. He refers to my 3year-old as his “granddaughter.” He visits us at my work, where my daughter is in a daycare program. My husband and I are expecting our second baby soon, and there is no reason for Biff to consider himself related in any way to this child. My daughter will be starting a preschool program soon. When I told Biff, he said he would come to my house to see her. Annie, I do not want him coming into my home.

I need a way to tell Biff that there is no longer a reason for him to hang around. He has a grown daughter and two

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N.Y. struggles to dig out from under snow Morass at airports affecting travel throughout U.S.

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AN ENGINE TECHNICIAN WORKS on a vessel engine Feb. 17, 2009, at the Caterpillar company in Friedrichsort near Kiel, northern Germany. More than half of the 15,000 people that Caterpillar Inc., maker of the signature yellow bulldozers and tractors, has hired this year were outside the U.S.

Where are the jobs?

American companies hiring, just not in U.S.

By Pallavi Gogoi Associated Press Writer

Corporate profits are up.

Stock prices are up. So why isn’t anyone hiring?

Actually, many American companies are — just maybe not in your town. They’re hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is fat.

More than half of the 15,000 people that Caterpillar Inc. has hired this year were outside the U.S. UPS is also hiring at a faster clip overseas.

For both companies, sales in international markets are growing at least twice as fast as domestically.

The trend helps explain why unemployment remains high in the United States, edging up to 9.8 percent last month, even though companies are performing well: All but 4 percent of the top 500 U.S. corporations reported profits this year, and the stock market is close to its highest point since the 2008 financial meltdown.

But the jobs are going elsewhere. The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, says American companies have created 1.4 million jobs overseas this year, compared with less than 1 million in the U.S. The additional 1.4 million jobs would have lowered the U.S. unemployment rate to 8.9 percent, says Robert Scott, the institute’s senior international economist.

“There’s a huge difference between what is good for American companies versus what is good for the American economy,” says Scott.

American jobs have been moving overseas for more than two decades. In recent years, though, those jobs have become more sophisticated — think semiconductors and software, not toys and clothes.

And now many of the products being made overseas aren’t coming back to the United States. Demand has grown dramatically this year in emerging markets like

India, China and Brazil.

Meanwhile, consumer demand in the U.S. has been subdued. Despite a strong holiday shopping season, Americans are still spending 18 percent less than before the recession on furniture, and 10 percent less on electronics, according to MasterCard’s SpendingPulse.

“Companies will go where there are fast-growing markets and big profits,” says Jeffrey Sachs, globalization expert and economist at Columbia University. “What’s changed is that companies today are getting top talent in emerging economies, and the U.S. has to really watch out.”

With the future looking brighter overseas, companies are building there, too. Caterpillar, maker of the signature yellow bulldozers and tractors, has invested in three new plants in China in just the last two months to design and manufacture equipment.

The decision is based on demand: Asia-Pacific sales soared 38 percent in the first nine months of the year, compared with 16 percent in the U.S. Caterpillar stock is up 64 percent this year.

“There is a shift in economic power that’s going on and will continue. China just became the world’s secondlargest economy,” says David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor’s, who notes that half of the revenue for companies in the S&P 500 in the last couple of years has come from outside the U.S. A key factor behind this runaway international growth is the rise of the middle class in these emerging countries.

By 2015, for the first time, the number of consumers in Asia’s middle class will equal those in Europe and North America combined.

“All of the growth over the next 10 years is happening in Asia,” says Homi Kharas, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and formerly the World Bank’s chief economist for East Asia and the Pacific.

NEW YORK — Hundreds of airline passengers were stranded for up to 10 hours on the tarmac at overworked Kennedy Airport. Ambulances struggled to get patients through unplowed streets. City buses sat abandoned in the snow.

The Christmas weekend blizzard proved to be the curse that keeps on giving Tuesday, as confusion and frustration snowballed in New York and the rest of the country.

Officials warned it could take until New Year’s to rebook all passengers and straighten out the transportation mess created by the storm, which shut down all three of New York’s major airports for 24 hours and caused a ripple effect across the U.S. A high school band from Pennsylvania faced the prospect of marching in the Rose Bowl parade in Pasadena, Calif., with only half its musicians after the storm stranded the rest in Philadelphia. European tourists who planned to fly into New York found themselves in Chicago when their flights were diverted. Travelers as far away as San Francisco were marooned, even though they were headed nowhere near the Northeast.

New York’s airports struggled to get planes in and out.

But some jetliners couldn’t even get to the gate.

At Kennedy, a British Airways plane from London carrying 300 passengers waited five hours for an open gate, and then two more hours for customs to open, said John Lampl, a spokesman for the airline. A Cathay Pacif ic flight that had been diverted to Toronto spent 10 hours on the tarmac, and a second

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A SANITATION DEPARTMENT PLOW TRUCK IS STUCK Tuesday on West 16th Street in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Cathay Pacific plane with 250 people was still on the runway after eight hours as of Tuesday afternoon.

Passenger Abi Subramanian, 38, said supplies on the plane were running low and he was worried about his wife and 2-month-old daughter.

“We’re going to be in trouble very shortly. There’s no food left for her,” he told The Associated Press by cell phone.

Airlines were dispatching planes to the airport without lining up gate space first, causing backups on the ground, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Kennedy.

Cathay Pacific spokesman Gus Whitcomb said the planes had taken off under the assumption that they would have somewhere to go upon landing.

In general, U.S. airlines operating domestic flights are not allowed to keep passengers waiting on the tarmac for more than three

hours. But the rule does not apply to international flights or foreign airlines.

The chaos was also reflected in New York’s streets, where hundreds of abandoned city buses and dozens of ambulances still sat in the middle of snowdrifts from the storm, which clobbered the city with up to 2 feet of snow. A video that instantly went viral on the Internet showed city crews accidentally smashing a parked car as they tried to free a city construction vehicle.

Officials predicted streets would not be clear until today, a day later than they first promised.

“And even then I’m not so sure,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

Brooklyn resident Annie O’Daly waited more than 30 hours for help after falling and breaking her ankle Sunday night at around 8 p.m., said Jim Leonhardt, her husband. An ambulance didn’t arrive until 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Leonhardt had to help paramedics carry her out onto the

New first-class stamps will be ‘forever’

By Douglass K. Daniel Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Rummaging around for 1- and 2-cent postage stamps when postal rates go up is heading the way of the Pony Express. Beginning in January, all new stamps good for 1 ounce of f irst-class mail will be marked as “forever.”

The move is designed to help customers cope with postage increases, a U.S. Postal Service official told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The off icial requested anonymity to discuss a policy that hasn’t been announced formally.

Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe plans to announce the new policy Jan. 14, the official said.

“I think that’s a great idea,” Sean Swilling, a research analyst for commercial property, said inside a downtown

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THIS HANDOUT IMAGE SHOWS a postage stamp honoring jazz appreciation forever, a design which is included in the 2011 U.S. postage stamps collection.

Washington post office during a mail run. “For me, a guy who uses snail-mail regularly, it’s a hassle to get 1- or 2-cent stamps. Streamline things —

that would be perfect.”

When the Postal Service unveiled its first-class commemorative stamps for 2011 on Tuesday, all were marked “forever” instead of the current rate of 44 cents.

The initial f irst-class stamp under the new policy will be the Lunar New Year: Year of the Rabbit stamp, to be issued Jan. 22. It will be followed by stamps commemorating Kansas statehood on Jan. 29 and, in February, the centennial of President Ronald Reagan’s birth.

The Forever Stamp, first issued in April 2007 and featuring the Liberty Bell, was designed for use regardless of changes in postal rates. They are sold at the prevailing price of 1 ounce of domestic first-class postage.

The Postal Service says that 28 billion Forever Stamps have been sold since, generating $12.1 billion in

Some new laws may not be on the books for long

By Scott Bauer Associated Press Writer

MADISON, WIS. — Revamped gun measures and tougher rules for payday lenders are among the laws set to take effect around the country on Jan. 1. But some of them may not be on the books for long.

This January, the statutes will kick in just as freshly elected governors and legislators arrive for work. And if new GOP majorities succeed in getting legislation repealed, the result may be sudden U-turns on issues that were only recently debated.

B efore the November election, Democrats controlled legislatures in 27 states, with Republicans in charge of just 14. But after the nationwide Republican sweep, the GOP will soon control 26, the Democrats only 17. Control of others is split between the parties.

The election also increased the number of Republican

governors from 23 to 26.

With the switch in party control could come abrupt changes in the way some states handle government regulation, privatization and other matters.

Nowhere was the political shift more dramatic than in Wisconsin, where power in the Statehouse will shift wholesale from Democrats to Republicans. Already, incoming Republican Gov. Scott Walker and others would like to head off a law that makes it tougher for payday loan companies and auto lenders to do business in the state.

Until Democrats pushed the law through the Senate and House in 2010, Wisconsin was the only state that did not regulate those industries, and consumer advocates complained that lenders were exploiting poor people by charging exorbitant interest rates.

Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle shepherded the bill into law.

But Walker said the new reg-

unplowed street and over a snowbank.

Officials pleaded with private companies to help out, and the city converted various vehicles in its fleet into snowplows, including trucks typically used for cleaning graffiti.

“It’s a bad situation and we’re working together to correct it,” Bloomberg said.

Some 1,000 vehicles had been removed from three major New York City-area expressways alone, the mayor said. In New Jersey, police in helicopters counted at least 60 vehicles stranded along a highway at the shore.

Motorists were taken in National Guard Humvees and other vehicles to shelters.

In Asbury Park, N.J., a commuter train hit a tractor-trailer that got stuck at a railroad crossing. The driver had left the truck and no injuries were reported.

More than 5,000 flights had been canceled since Sunday night at all three New Yorkarea airports, about 1,000 of them on Tuesday alone.

ulations go too far, and that the outright ban on loans secured by an auto title isn’t what many legislators want.

“My hope is we’re able to go back to that commonsense middle ground” with lesser restrictions, said Republican state Rep. Robin Vos, co-chairman of the budget committee. The new law limits payday loans to a maximum of $1,500.

In New Hampshire, Republicans hope to shoot down a new gun law they say doesn’t do enough to protect private property and gun owners’ rights. Republicans captured the legislative majority from Democrats in the midterm election.

In the recent session, lawmakers gave residents the right to display a gun or other weapon to warn away a potential attacker. Republicans plan to replace it with a stronger version that was vetoed by Democratic Gov. John Lynch in 2006. The tougher law would allow gun

owners to use deadly force when threatened, inside their home or anywhere else.

“Why should I have to run away?” said Republican state Sen. Jack Barnes, who said residents who feel threatened should be able to use whatever force necessary.

“It’s my house.”

In a switch benefitting the Democrats, incoming Gov. Jerry Brown in California may undo part of his Republican predecessor’s legacy on privatization.

Brown could stop the controversial sale of 11 state buildings — including the Ronald Reagan building in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Civic Center — for $2.3 billion. Outgoing Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sought the sale to help balance the state’s budget.

As the state attorney general, Brown declined to defend the measure in court and asked that it be delayed.

A court-ordered delay means the issue will be pending

when Brown takes office Jan. 3.

While other states have increased “sin taxes” and fees, Massachusetts will remove a 6.25 percent sales tax on alcohol in effect since August 2009. The repeal followed a major advertising campaign by liquor store owners and beer distributors.

California will try to rein in its rampant paparazzi. New laws dictate that those caught driving recklessly while chasing celebrities in the state can now be charged with a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $2,500 fine. Previously they were charged with a lesser infraction. The state will also downgrade marijuana possession from a misdemeanor to an infraction requiring no court appearance.

Delaware, Kentucky and Kansas will join many other states adopting tougher laws regulating cell phone use while driving.

total revenue. The stamps without denominations already account for 85 percent of its stamp program, the service says.

The Postal Service sought a 2-cent increase in postage rates for 2011, but the independent Postal Rate Commission rejected the request.

The post office is appealing the decision in federal court.

Use of the Internet as well as the economic downturn have been cited for a 3.5 percent decline in mail volume from 2009 to 2010.

The Postal Service lost $8.5 billion in the year ending Sept. 30, even after trimming more than 100,000 jobs in recent years, and estimates it will lose $6 billion to $7 billion in the next year. One of its proposals for dealing with its financial troubles calls for cutting delivery to five days a week instead of six, a change Congress must approve.

West Africa delegation tells Gbagbo he must go ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — West African leaders who came to deliver an ultimatum to Laurent Gbagbo met with him late into the night Tuesday after threatening a military ouster if he doesn’t accept an offer to go into exile a month after the disputed election.

The regional delegation led by presidents from Sierra Leone, Cape Verde and Benin held meetings with both Gbagbo and internationally recognized winner Alassane Ouattara, then returned to meet with Gbagbo a second time late Tuesday.

Gbagbo, the incumbent leader who has been in power for a decade in Ivory Coast, has so far shown no interest in stepping aside despite the calls for him to go. While Ouattara has been endorsed by most of the world, Gbagbo still maintains control of Ivory Coast’s military and security forces. Weeks of postelection violence have left at least 173 people dead, according to the U.N.