Peninsula Clarion, January 15, 2019

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 90

In the news Southeast man arrested with meth at Ketchikan airport KETCHIKAN — A rural southeast Alaska man suspected of carrying methamphetamine was arrested at the Ketchikan airport.

Alaska State Troopers say 50-year-old Stanley Lynch of Hollis was carrying 159 grams of meth when he was arrested at about 5 p.m. Friday.

Hollis is a village on the east side of Prince of Wales Island.

Troopers say the street value in Ketchikan of the seized methamphetamine is about $50,000.

Troopers contacted Lynch with the assistance of a drug dog. Troopers say Lynch tried to discard the drugs when he was contacted.

Lynch is charged with drug misconduct and evidence tampering.

Officers with the Craig Police Department assisted with the arrest.

Lynch is represented by the Alaska Public Defender’s Office, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

Homeowner confronts teenage burglary suspect, fires gunshot ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers say a homeowner confronted a teenage theft suspect and fired a shot when the young man came at him.

Troopers at about 10:30 a.m. Sunday took a call of a home invasion northwest of North Pole.

Troopers say 18-yearold Raymond Koonaloak of Utqiagvik climbed through a dog door into the home and stole gloves and a circular saw.

The homeowner, carrying a gun, confronted Koonaloak outside the home.

Troopers say Koonaloak charged toward the homeowner, who fired a shot. No one was injured.

Koonaloak was jailed on suspicion of burglary, theft and criminal trespass and scheduled for arraignment Monday.

Online court documents to not list his attorney.

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Suicide risk assessments on rise in schools

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has so far this year seen an increased number of suicide risk assessments and referrals to the Office of Children’s Services compared to the previous year.

As of last week, the district has conducted 210 suicide risk assessments on students this year, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction John O’Brien told the school board during a work session on Monday. Last year, the school district reached a record high of 140 suicide risk assessments for the full year. Suicide risk assessments are done on students who have exhibited suicidal ideation.

In recent years, the district has been working to get more

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meet for a work session on Monday in Soldotna. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

counselors and psychologists in schools to help alleviate growing issues with students’ mental health. O’Brien said he

was hoping the district would southern peninsula and eastern be able to fund four additional peninsula, which would cost counselors, two for the central $400,000.

See SCHOOL, page A3 peninsula, and one each for the

Session to begin with House in disarray

By KEVIN BAIRD Juneau Empire

The 31st Legislative Session convenes Tuesday but uncertainty hangs over the Capitol as the Alaska House remains unorganized.

The House session convenes at 1 p.m. and new Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer will swear in new representatives. But if the House remains in disarray, it will essentially be crippled. The House would not be able to perform basic functions such as organizing committees and holding hearings

School superintendent announces retirement

would not be authorized to work starting Wednesday.

Each of Alaska’s 40 representatives generally have two staffers, said Skiff Lobaugh, the legislative human resource director. There are also floor staff and the chief clerk. Lobaugh said the number of House staffers can vary and they have not been tallied yet.

The possibility of staffers The Alaska State Capitol in Juneau is pictured in this undated being out of work remains a major concern among House photo. (File photo) members. on bills. The House could not Mike Dunleavy’s State of the “I’m optimistic a bipartiinvite the Senate to hear Gov. State Address. House staffers See HOUSE, page A3

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District superintendent Sean Dusek announced his retirement on Monday.

Dusek will be leaving the district at the end of the school year, effective June 30.

“I’m resigning for retirement purposes,” Dusek said during Monday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education work session.

There is no one lined up to replace Dusek. On Monday, the school board discussed plans to create a committee that would begin the process of finding a new superintendent.

Dusek has served as the superintendent for nearly five years.

During Monday’s work sessions, school board member Dan Castimore said the district was large enough to have a CEO instead of a superintendent. The school board’s committee will see what’s the most suitable plan of action for filling the superintendent’s role later this year.

Dunleavy admin plans Alaska marijuana Trump declares he’ll ‘never back down’ in shutdown fight board change

By CATHERINE LUCEY and JILL COLVIN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — With the government mired in shutdown week four, President Donald Trump rejected a short-term legislative fix and dug in for more combat Monday, declaring he would “never ever back down.”

Trump rejected a suggestion to reopen the government for several weeks while negotiations would continue with Democrats over his demands for $5.7 billion for a long, impregnable wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The president also edged further away from the idea of trying to declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress.

“I’m not looking to call a national emergency,” Trump said.

“This is so simple we shouldn’t President Donald Trump speaks at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 100th Annual Convention Monday in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) have to.”

No cracks were apparent in the president’s deadlock with path forward, and little else was wall and their demand that he re- than dealing with House Speaker lawmakers after a weekend with in sight. Congressional Republi- open government before border Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to no negotiations at all. His rejec- cans were watching Trump for talks resume. a signal for how to move next, The White House has been try and chip away at Democratic tion of the short-term option and Democrats have not budged considering reaching out to opposition to the wall. A White proposed by Republican Sen. See FIGHT, page A3 from their refusal to fund the rank-and-file Democrats rather Lindsay Graham removed one

JUNEAU (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration plans to replace the public safety member on the board regulating Alaska’s legal marijuana industry.

Dunleavy spokesman Matt Shuckerow said by email that for “various reasons,” Dunleavy’s boards and commissions director chose to reopen the search for applicants.

Shuckerow says the decision was not based on prior policy positions.

Sitka Police Chief Jeff Ankerfelt has held the seat since May but wasn’t confirmed yet by the Legislature. He was a critical vote in last month’s board passage of rules for allowing onsite use of marijuana at certain shops.

Ankerfelt was out of the office Monday and didn’t immediately return a message.

An officer has sued the city of Sitka, its police department and Ankerfelt, saying he was retaliated against for complaining about alleged department misconduct.

Two people indicted on charges Dunleavy admin denies request of assaulting, robbing cab drivers resignation details for their jobs. Dunleavy’s chief

By CLARION STAFF

Two people were indicted last week for allegedly assaulting and robbing two Anchorage-area cab drivers last year.

Hector Rivera, 21, and Shirley Borrero-Qinones, 21, were indicted Wednesday, Jan. 9, each for two counts of robbery in the first degree, one count of assault in the second degree, one count of

burglary in the first degree, one count of assault in the third degree, and five counts of theft in the second degree, according to a Jan. 10 press release from the Alaska Department of Law. In March of last year, the two allegedly assaulted a cab driver near Anchorage’s Spring Creek area, robbed him at gunpoint and tried to shove him in the trunk of his cab, according to the release.

The two are also accused of assaulting and robbing a second cab driver in the Girdwood area in March.

If convicted at trial, both defendants face sentences of up to 20 years imprisonment for each of the robbery charges, up to 10 years imprisonment for burglary and second-degree assault charges, and up to five years imprisonment for the assault in the third degree and seconddegree theft charges.

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration has denied a request for information on employee resignations after Dunleavy took office.

The Associated Press requested the number and a list of employees whose resignations were accepted and details on any owed severance.

After Dunleavy’s election, his transition said it asked at-will employees to resign and reapply

of staff said asking if they want to work for the administration was appropriate.

Dunleavy’s public records officer, Angela Hull, said neither Dunleavy’s office nor other agencies have lists of personnel who did or did not submit requested resignation offers; who had their resignations accepted or left state work because they did not offer to resign.

Hull said even if such lists existed, information derived from certain employee personnel records is confidential.

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Snow showers will dot the Great Lakes today as rain showers gather over South Texas. A storm will bring heavy rain and snow from California to Utah and parts of Arizona. Most other areas will be dry.

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100 years ago in Boston: The day molasses was deadly fast

By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press

BOSTON — Slow as molasses? This treacle didn’t trickle. It was a sticky, deadly tsunami that flattened an entire Boston neighborhood within seconds.

On Tuesday, the city marks the 100th anniversary of its most peculiar disaster — the Great Molasses Flood.

It struck without warning at midday on Jan. 15, 1919, when a giant storage tank containing more than 2.3 million gallons of molasses suddenly ruptured, sending a giant wave of goop crashing through the cobblestone streets of the bustling North End. The initial wave rose at least 25 feet high — nearly as tall as an NFL goalpost — and it obliterated everything in its path, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others. Rivets popped like machine-gun fire.

Elevated railway tracks buckled.

Warehouses and firehouses were pushed around like game pieces on a Monopoly board. Tenements were reduced to kindling.

Outrunning the molasses was out of the question. The first of it raced through the harborside neighborhood at 35 mph. Not even Usain Bolt, who clocked just under 28 mph at his world-record fastest, could have sprinted to safety.

And yet a century later, the catastrophe remains mired in relative obscurity.

“When you first hear of it, the molasses gives the entire event this unusual whimsical quality. The substance itself kind of begs some incredulity,” said historian Stephen Puleo, author of “Dark Tide,” a book about the disaster.

“People’s first reaction is, ‘Are you serious? Did that really happen?’ If it were fire or flood or famine or pestilence, this story would be much better known,” he said.

The tragedy struck as World War I troops were returning from Europe and Boston was still basking in a World Series victory by Babe Ruth’s Red Sox. The tank was owned by the Purity Distilling Co., and its syrupy

In this Jan. 15, 1919, file photo, the ruins of tanks containing more than 2 million gallons of molasses lie in a heap after erupting along the waterfront in Boston’s North End neighborhood.

Several buildings were flattened in the disaster, which killed 21 people and injured 150 others.

(AP Photo/File)

contents were used mostly to make alcohol for wartime munitions but also to produce rum before Prohibition kicked in. In a stroke of irony, on the day after the disaster, Nebraska became the decisive 36th state to ratify the 18th Amendment outlawing the production, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. It ruptured in the city’s oldest neighborhood, a district popular with tourists and locals alike for its warren of ancient streets lined with Italian restaurants and for its historical sites, including Paul Revere’s house and the Old North Church. Those treasured landmarks were spared because they were uphill.

“A dull, muffled roar gave but an instant’s warning before the top of the tank was blown into the air,” The Associated Press

reported that day. Rescuers were “greatly hampered by the oozing flood of molasses which covered the street and the surrounding district to a depth of several inches and slowly drained down into the harbor. … If a worker stood still for a minute he found himself glued to the ground.”

Most of the dead were municipal workers killed while eating lunch at a city building. Two tenement occupants, a firefighter, a chauffeur and a blacksmith also were killed, along with horses and other animals.

“Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was,” the Boston Post reported. “Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly paper. The more they struggled, the deeper in the mess they were ensnared.”

Among the dead was a young

girl, one of many neighborhood children drawn to the leaky tank with sticks and buckets to collect the sweet molasses oozing from the bottom.

Archaeologists with the University of Massachusetts-Boston using ground-penetrating radar and other sleuthing techniques found what appears to be the base of the tank 20 inches below ground, they said Monday in a blog post.

In 2016, Harvard University researchers published a study that helped explain the heavy loss of life. Two days before the disaster, the tank had been topped off with a fresh shipment of molasses from the balmy Caribbean that hadn’t yet cooled to Boston’s wintry temperatures. Once the gush of molasses hit the chilly air, it quickly thickened, complicating rescuers’ frantic efforts to free victims.

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Around the Peninsula Kenai Peninsula Military Order of the Purple Hearts monthly meeting Chapter #830 will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, Jan. 17 at the VFW Post #10046 in Soldotna. All associate members and new members wishing to attend are welcome at any or all monthly meetings. Meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at 1 p.m. at Post 10046 in Soldotna. Bring a copy of DD 14 of order of being wounded. For more information contact Jim McHale at 907980-5433 or Joe Sawyer at 907-690-6886 or Nick Preston Nelson at 907-953-0576.

Central Peninsula Fish & Game Advisory Committee meeting

Figure 8, Stand for Exam, Heel Free, Recall, Sit/Stay - Get Your Family History and Resource Center opening Leash, and Group Exercises Sit and Down Stay. Cost is $75. Classes The Newly Remodeled Soldotna Stake Temple & Family Histobegin Wednesday, Jan. 23 and run for six weeks. For more informary and Resource Center will be opening to the public Jan. 8. Located tion contact instruction Nancy at nlwiles@hotmail.com. inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at 159 W. Marydale Ave. in Soldotna. Come and explore our beautiful facilAlaska USA Federal Credit Union shutdown ity on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday mornings 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. assistance and Tuesday, Wednesday evenings 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Thursday evenings 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Go to the Soldotna Stake Temple & FamAlaska USA Federal Credit Union is prepared to assist our mem- ily History and Resource Center Facebook page or call our Center bers who are employees of the federal government impacted by the during open hours at 907-262-3581 for more information. partial shutdown through special programs now in place. We encourage members to call our 24/7 Member Service Center at 800Caregiver Support Meeting Training 525-9094.

Caregiver Support Meeting Training: Part 1 of DVD presentation KPC to assist current, potential students impact- with Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA: Progression of Dementia Seeing Gems-Not Just Loss will take place Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 1 ed by federal shutdown p.m. at the Kenai Senior Center. Training covers which level of Kenai Peninsula residents who have enrolled or hope to enroll in dementia your care partner experiences to customize your caregivKPC classes, but are impacted by the federal shutdown are encour- ing techniques. Teepa Snow explains the appropriate levels of care aged to call KPC toll-free at 877-262-0330. needed during different stages, which types of behaviors to expect, appropriate activity, and much more.

The Central Peninsula Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at the Ninilchik School Library, located at 15735 Sterling Hwy at 7 p.m. Agenda will include continuing preparing comments on Game proposals, start on Statewide Finfish AK CESCL training proposals, possibly discuss Cook Inlet proposals to submit and any other business that may properly come before the committee. For The Kenai Watershed Forum will be hosting a 2 day AK CESCL more information contact David Martin at 567-3306. training on Feb 11-12 at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association in Kenai. With a 1-day refresher course on February 13. The 2-day training explains the erosion process and how to obtain and comply Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory with the EPA NPDES Construction General Permit. NPDES comCommittee meeting pliance is required for all projects that disturb a total of five acres or The Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee will more of soil. The course will describe the key elements of a Stormmeet on Jan. 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Cook Inlet Aquaculture building, lo- water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) and provide detailed cated at 40610 K-Beach Road. Agenda includes discussion of South instructions on how to maintain a SWPPP, and select, install and Central Board of Game proposals. For more information contact maintain stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs). The refresher course is a summary of the 2-day AK-CESCL class. The Mike Crawford at 252-2919. be eligible you must have an active AK-CESCL number and have taken the 2-day training within the last 3 years.

Homer Fish & Game Advisory Committee’s Fish Register online at www.kenaiwatershed.org

Subcommittee meeting

The Homer Fish & Game Advisory Committee’s Fish Subcommittee will be meeting Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. at KBRR building located at 2181 Kachemak Drive. The agenda will be developing proposals for Cook Inlet and Cook Inlet intercept fisheries, and any other proposals included in the 2019 Call for Proposals (which includes Cook Inlet, Kodiak, and Statewide King & Tanner Crab (except SE).

Proposals are due by April 10. For more information, contact Dan Anderson, Fish Subcommittee Chair at 435-3929 or paragondan@ sbcglobal.net.

Pioneers of Alaska officer installation Igloos 33 and 16 of the Pioneers of Alaska will host the annual installation of officers on Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Kenai Elks Club.

Grand Officers will be in attendance to install incoming officers.

Social hour begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and installation at 7:30 p.m. Members and guests are invited to support the new officers and meet the 2019 Grand Officers.

SPEAK meeting SPEAK (Support Group for families of children who live though disabilities) will be meeting on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 6:30 p.m. at the Love Inc. building 44410 K-Beach Rd. Parents, grandparents, guardians, and caregivers are welcome to come and participate.

SPEAK is a resource-based group. Please no children. Childcare is not available. Questions call 907-252-2558.

Competition Obedience class

Yellow Bird dancers to perform in Kenai Yellow Bird Productions, an internationally known indigenous dance group, will perform at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at Kenai Central High School on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and are available at the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s administration building at 150 N. Willow Street in Kenai. The event is a fundraiser for the Tribe’s Yaghanen Program. For ticket questions or to contact the Tribe, contact Michael Bernard at 907-335-7290.

N.E.T.S. (Necessary Education, Technology and Skills)

NETS is a FREE seven-week workshop to help adults gain skills, explore careers, and find a job! The workshop every Monday and Wednesday from 2–3:30 p.m. from Jan. 23 to March 6 in the LearnThe KPC Showcase presents a screening of the ing Center at Kenai Peninsula College. The course, taught by Terri Cowart, will focus on community service, learning about resources, documentary film: ‘We Up’ and career/college awareness. Everybody is invited to attend (ages We’ Up is a documentary film tracing the cultural, creative, 18+) For more information, call 262-0327. and spiritual connections between indigenous hip-hop artists of ^ Alaska and their peers across the circumpolar north. After the Free In-Person Tax Preparation Available screening of the film Executive Producer Aaron Leggett, curator of Alaska History and Culture at the Anchorage Museum, will be Free income tax return preparation is available again this year at on hand to discuss the film and gather feedback. At Kenai Pen- the Soldotna Library from Feb. 9 to April 13. This AARP Foundainsula College, McLane Commons, on Thursday Jan. 24 at 6:30 tion-sponsored program is open to low-and moderate-income taxp.m. payers of all ages, with special attention to those age 60 and older.

AARP membership is not required. Call 907-420-4308 to schedule an appointment. For more information, email taxprepsoldotna@ Fireweed Fiber Guild gathering gmail.com.

Fireweed Fiber Guild will have its monthly “gathering” Jan. 19 at the Soldotna Library from noon to 2 p.m. The public is in- Wolfpack hosts flag rugby vited to join us. There will be demonstrations of spinning as well as spindling. Bring your projects and come and learn all the acThe Kenai River Wolfpack Rugby Club hosts indoor flag rugby tivities that the guild participates with and are planning for 2019. Tuesday nights starting Jan. 22 at 7:15 p.m. at the Soldotna Prep Gym. Flag rugby is a fun, fast-paced, non-contact game and a great cardio workout. Participants in the 10-week session will learn the Tie One On: Fly tying fundamentals of the sport from USA Rugby certified coaches. The Learn to Tie Flies at Tie One On: Kenai Peninsula Chapter summer season runs from May to August with Kenai hosting a tourof Trout Unlimited’s popular fly tying night. Family friendly. All ney in July. New interested players are always welcome. Get introskill levels welcome. Vices and fly tying equipment supplied. duced to the fastest growing sport. Open to Co-ed ages 16 and up.

6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 29 at Odie’s Deli in Soldotna.

No experience necessary. For more info, contact Dan at 360-2207497 or like us on Facebook.

Community craft show

Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association Meeting

The Kenai Peninsula Homeschool Activities Committee will Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association Board of Directors will meet Kenai Kennel Club will be offering a Competition Obedience host a Community Craft and Vendor Show on Feb. 2 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Soldotna Sports Center.

For vendor inforSaturday, Jan. 19 at 10 a.m., in the conference room at its Kenai ofclass for those interested in competing in obedience. Dogs must have mation visit www.facebook.com/kphomeschoolactivities or call fice located at 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road. The meeting is open basic obedience skills. Exercises covered will be Heel on Leash and 907-513-9469. to the public and an agenda will be posted at www.ciaanet.org.

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san working group will come together,” Rep.-elect Andi Story said in Monday phone interview. “I know I’d like to see that happen soon. I think everyone here at the House wants to make sure everyone is working.”

Story, a Democrat, said she had not heard any rumors of who might make a move to create a majority. The last two years, the House has been led by a largely Democratic House Majority Coalition.

“I’m looking forward to working with a bipartisan working group. Everyone in the building is wanting to get organization happening,” Story said.

Democrat Rep.-elect Sara Hannan will be sworn-in along with Story when the House session convenes.

Senate Juneau’s Sen.-elect Jesse Kiehl will be sworn in when the Senate session convenes at 11 a.m. Kiehl will fall into the Senate Minority as a Democrat. He is expected to receive committee assignments later in the day.

The Senate’s Republican majority announced leadership roles shortly after the November election. Sen. Cathy Giessel of Anchorage, who has served in the Senate since 2011, will be sworn-in as Senate President Tuesday.

Sen. John Coghill of Fairbanks will be Senate Rules Committee chair, and Sen.

Gary Stevens of Kodiak will be the Legislative Council chair. Natasha Von Imhof of Anchorage and Sens.

Bert Stedman of Sitka will co-chair the Senate Finance Committee.

The Senate Finance Committee will be organized Wednesday at 9 a.m. At that meeting, Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Fiege will present a production forecast.

Department of Revenue Commissioner Bryce Tangeman will present a revenue forecast.

Budget The Dunleavy administration has inherited a $1.6 billion deficit heading into this session. Cuts are almost certain, since Dunleavy has vowed to match expenses with revenue. Neither Dunleavy, nor the GOP-led Senate Majority have a desire increase revenue streams by way taxation.

Legislative Welcome The City and Borough of Juneau is hosting its 34th Annual Legislative Welcome Reception, at 5 p.m. Wednesday, at Centennial Hall. There is no cost to attend the event.

“It’s a community reception. It’s catered. No presentations, no formal actions taken — nothing like that,” said CBJ Assemblyman Loren Jones. “It’s a community reception to welcome the legislators and staff.”

“It’s an opportunity to renew acquaintances and meet the new legislators,” he added.

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“Administratively and fiscally, on what’s going on with the state, the board was reluctant to come up with an additional $400,000 for those counselors,” O’Brien said at the work session.

The district uses the number of OCS referrals and suicide risk assessments as indicators of student mental

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House official said plans were in the works to call freshman representatives, especially those who initially did not support Pelosi’s bid for the speakership.

It was uncertain whether any Democrats would respond to the invitation.

Separately, around a dozen senators from both parties met Monday to discuss ways out of the shutdown gridlock. Participants included Graham and Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Tim Kaine, D-Va. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was aware of the group’s effort but added, “I wouldn’t go so far as to say he’s blessed it.” The odds of the group producing an actual solution without Trump’s approval seemed slim. In the past, centrists of both parties banding together have seldom resolved major partisan disputes.

Lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill late Monday “discouraged,” as GOP Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota put it, as all signals pointed to a protracted fight.

Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, the GOP chairman of the Appropriations Committee, compared the shutdown saga to the play “Waiting for Godot.”

“And Godot never shows

health. O’Brien said recent data for the number of referrals and assessments was troubling.

“I hate to continually bring you this kind of data, but it is real,” O’Brien said. “Our school psychologists, counselors and principals, especially schools that don’t have counselors, are the ones who are on the front lines of students dealing with crisis.”

O’Brien said the number of OCS referrals this year has exceeded numbers compared to

2016.

“At this point in the year we already have almost as many OCS referrals as we have had in years past for the entire year,” O’Brien said. “We’re only one semester into the year now.”

School board member Mike Illg said he is going to keep pushing for more counselors in schools.

“I would like to see (more counselors) in the budget, even if it means we have to cut something else,” Illg said.

“Our schools are literally on fire, internally. We owe it to these kids to help them where we can.

“This is coming at us hard and fast and it’s only going to get worse if we do not provide the services they need in our schools. $400,00 is a lot of money, but what’s the long game on this?”

The school district is beginning to work on their FY2020 budget. It is unknown if they will fund additional counselors.

up,” Shelby said. “We could be protracted here for a long time.

There’s nobody on the horse coming to rescue us … that I know about.”

Meanwhile, the impact of the 24-day partial government closure was intensifying around the country. Some 800,000 federal workers missed paychecks Friday, deepening anxieties about mortgage payments and unpaid bills, and about half of them were off the job, cutting off some services. Travelers at the Atlanta airport, the nation’s busiest, dealt with waits of more than an hour Monday as no-shows by security screeners soared.

Trump spent the weekend in the White House reaching out to aides and lawmakers and tweeting aggressively about Democratic foes as he tried to make the case that the wall was needed on both security and humanitarian grounds. He stressed that argument repeatedly during a speech at a farming convention in New Orleans on Monday, insisting there was “no substitute” for a wall or a barrier along the southern border.

Trump has continued to insist he has the power to sign an emergency declaration to deal with what he says is a crisis of drug smuggling and trafficking of women and children at the border. But he now appears to be in no rush to make such a declaration.

Instead, he is focused on pushing Democrats to return to the negotiating table — though he walked out of the most recent talks last week —

and seized on the fact that a group of House and Senate Democrats were on a retreat in Puerto Rico.

Democrats, he argued, were partying on a beach rather than negotiating — though Pelosi and Schumer were not on the trip.

White House officials cautioned that an emergency order remains on the table. Many inside and outside the White House hold that it may be the best option to end the budget standoff, reopening the government while allowing Trump to tell his base supporters he didn’t cave on the wall.

However, some GOP lawmakers —as well as White House aides— have counseled against it, concerned that an emergency declaration would immediately be challenged in court. Others have raised concerns about re-routing money from other projects, including money Congress approved for disaster aid. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have also warned that acting under an emergency order would set a troubling precedent for executive power.

For now, Trump apparently sees value in his extended fight to fulfill a key campaign pledge, knowing that his supporters — whom he’ll need to turn out in 2020 to win reelection — don’t want to see him back down.

Trump was taking a wide range of advice on both sides of the issue, including from his new chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, senior aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Rep. Mark Meadows, as well as outside political advisers.

In the House, Democrats look to keep the pressure on Trump by holding votes this week on two bills: one that would reopen the government until Feb. 1, and a second that would reopen it until Feb. 28.

Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said the bills offer “additional options” to end the shutdown and would give lawmakers time for negotiations on border security and immigration.

A key question is how long Trump is willing to hold out in hopes of extracting concessions from Democrats.

Recent polling finds a slight majority of Americans opposed to building a wall along the U.S.Mexico border — and few see the situation at the border as a crisis — but views are predictably divided by partisanship.

Polls also show that Americans are more likely to fault Trump for the shutdown. A large majority of Democrats put responsibility on Trump, while a slightly smaller majority of Republicans blame Democrats. A modest share of Republicans either hold Trump responsible or say both sides are at fault.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll published Jan. 13 found that 54 percent of Americans oppose a wall along the border, while 42 percent express support for it. Fully 87 percent of Republicans favor the wall, compared with about as many Democrats (84 percent) who are opposed.

Opinion

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Millenials should rethink their love of socialism

When you receive your paycheck and look at the withholding for federal, state and sometimes city taxes, along with Social Security and Medicare, you probably Serving the Kenai Peninsula since 1970 don’t think you’re underpaying governments and want them to take more.

Terry R. Ward New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Publisher believes that if you have played by what ERIN THOMPSON..................................................................... Editor used to be called “the rules” and are makDOUG MUNN....................................................... Circulation Director ing a decent living, taking care of yourself FRANK GOLDTHWAITE.................................... Production Manager and your family and not relying on government, your taxes should be increased.

In his State of the City address last week, de Blasio said, “…brothers and sisters, there’s plenty of money in the world.

There’s plenty of money in this city. It’s just in the wrong hands.” He continued: “You haven’t been paid what you deserve for all the hard work. You haven’t been given the time you deserve. You’re not living the life you deserve. And here is the cold, hard truth: It’s no accident. It’s an agenda.”

He blamed presidential administrations from Reagan to Trump.

The mayor ignores the tax cuts and in some cases spending reductions that have fueled an economic boom, producing more wealth for individuals and more revenue It’s time to get the flu vaccine if you for governments.

The mayor is not alone in promoting haven’t already. unvarnished liberalism, which the many on Health officials have said time and time again how the left have tried to mask behind the “progressive” euphemism. Rep. Alexandria Ocimportant it can be. However, those words are more asio-Cortez (D-NY) suggests we institute a important now than ever before as flu season has hit 70 percent tax rate on the wealthy. Julian Kentucky hard.

Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio Through Dec. 29, there were more than 1,450 laband HUD secretary, who just announced he is running for president, has resurrected confirmed cases across the state. Four adult deaths and one pediatric death have now been linked to the flu this the “fair share” lingo of past Democrats.

What Others Say

Take the flu seriously and get vaccinated

season These numbers do not include rapid test results nor do they include those with flu-like illnesses who have been diagnosed by their primary care physician as having the flu based on symptoms.

“We strongly encourage anyone who hasn’t received a flu vaccine, particularly children 6 months and older and those people at high risk for complications related to the flu, to get a flu shot,” said Jeff Howard, M.D., commissioner of Department of Public Health.

Health officials have said the flu season typically peaks in mid-February.

Despite the high numbers, the amount of cases is comparable to the number of cases at this time last season.

But not everyone gets the vaccine. In fact, just 38 percent of Kentuckians got the flu shot in 2016-17. The numbers improved slightly among children as 43.5 percent got their flu shot.

That means more half the population is vulnerable to this potentially deadly disease.

With the flu being so widespread, health officials are reminding Kentuckians to be especially aware of the high-risk population, which includes children younger than 5, senior citizens, pregnant women, residents of nursing homes and other long-term facilities and those with chronic illnesses.

Officials said the flu can be highly contagious and cause potentially life-threatening disease. Infection with the flu virus can cause fever, headache, cough, sore throat, runny nose, sneezing and body aches. Those who develop flu symptoms should seek medical advice to determine if they should be treated with an antiviral drug, which could shorten the course of the illness or reduce its severity.

To help stop the spread of the flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers these tips: • Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

• While sick, limit contact with others as much as possible to keep from infecting them.

• If you are sick with flu-like illness, stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone for 24 hours without the use of a fever-reducing medicine).

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.

• Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.

• Clean and disinfect surfaces and objects that may be contaminated with germs like the flu.

And get the flu vaccine.

The authors noted, “Until the mid-20th century, Sweden pursued highly competitive market-based policies. By 1970 Sweden achieved the world’s fourth-highest per capita income. Then increasingly radical Social Democratic governments raised taxes, spending and regulation much more than any other Western European country.

Economic performance sputtered. By the early 1990s, Sweden’s per capita income ranking had dropped to 14th. Economic growth from 1970 to the early 1990s was roughly 1 percentage point lower than in Europe and 2 points lower than in the U.S.” In 1991, they write, a market-oriented government assumed power and instituted major reforms. As a result, the country is now “richer than all of the major EU countries and is within 15 percent of U.S. per capita GDP. While Sweden still has a larger government than the U.S., its tax code is flatter. The progressivity of the U.S. tax code distorts incentives.” Precisely!

Sweden’s experience with socialism has a lesson for Americans and especially millennials, a majority of whom favor socialism over capitalism, according to a 2016 Harvard University survey. Maybe they should take a closer look at their pay stubs and ask themselves whether they would be OK with handing over more of their net pay to federal, state and local governments that irresponsibly and unnecessarily spend their money on programs that don’t work.

This year marks Cal Thomas’ 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@ tribpub.com.

News and Politics

McConnell rips Rep. King over white supremacy remark

By LAURIE KELLMAN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday denounced Rep. Steve King over his latest remarks on white supremacy, saying, “There is no place in the Republican Party, the Congress or the country for an ideology of racial supremacy of any kind.”

McConnell is the highest-ranking Republican to criticize King, R-Iowa, who lamented — Richmond (Kentucky) Register, Jan. 5 last week that white supremacy and white nationalism have become offensive terms.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other GOP House leaders have also conE-mail: demned King’s remarks as racist.

Meanwhile, House Democrats said they’ll news@peninsulaclarion.com seek formal punishment for King.

Write: Fax: Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., said a censure Peninsula Clarion 907-283-3299 resolution against King would announce to P.O. Box 3009 Questions? Call: Kenai, AK 99611 907-283-7551 the world that Congress has no home for “repugnant and racist behavior.”

“As with any animal that is rabid, Steve The Peninsula Clarion welcomes letters and attempts to King should be set aside and isolated,” Rush publish all those received, subject to a few guidelines: said Monday in a statement that also called n All letters must include the writer’s name, phone numon Republicans to strip King of his commitber and address. tee memberships until he apologizes. n Letters are limited to 500 words and may be edited to Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, introduced a sepfit available space. Letters are run in the order they are arate censure resolution against King. received.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat n Letters addressed specifically to another person will or Republican, we all have a responsibilnot be printed. ity to call out Rep. King’s hateful and racist n Letters that, in the editor’s judgment, are libelous will comments,” Ryan said, noting that the white not be printed. supremacy comments were not the first time n The editor also may exclude letters that are untimely or King has made headlines for inappropriate irrelevant to the public interest. language.

Letters to the Editor:

In an interview with ABC News, Castro seemed nostalgic for a time when the top marginal tax rate was 90 percent.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has formed a presidential explorCal Thomas atory committee, hasn’t said what top tax rate she favors, but she told CNBC last July that “Ninety percent sounds pretty shockingly high.” Why, because it would stifle incentive? What about Eighty percent? Why not confiscate all private-sector money and let the government decide how much each of us should be allowed to have? Wouldn’t pure socialism be a dream come true for the far left?

It’s not that higher taxes and more government spending hasn’t been tried.

Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, a series of U.S. programs charged with totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country, is but one example. Johnson failed to achieve his goal of wiping out poverty because his social programs began in Washington, not in individual hearts and minds.

The Wall Street Journal recently carried a column about Sweden’s experience with socialism. It was written by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Lee E. Ohanian, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of economics at UCLA.

The text of Rush’s censure resolution lists more than a dozen examples of King’s remarks, beginning with comments in 2006 in which he compared immigrants to livestock and ending with his lamentation in the New York Times last week that white supremacy and white nationalism have become offensive terms.

McConnell, in his statement, said he has “no tolerance” for the positions offered by King, and said “those who espouse these views are not supporters of American ideals and freedoms. Rep. King’s statements are unwelcome and unworthy of his elected position. If he doesn’t understand why ‘white supremacy’ is offensive, he should find another line of work.”

McCarthy on Sunday said that “action will be taken” against King.

One Republican did not join the chorus of criticism. Asked about King’s remarks Monday, President Donald Trump said, “Who?” Told it was King, Trump said, “I haven’t been following it.”

King on Friday suggested he’s been misunderstood. He said the foundation of the Times interview was partly a Sept. 12 tweet in which he wrote: “‘Nazi’ is injected into Leftist talking points because the worn out & exhausted “racist” is over used & applied to everyone who lacks melanin & who fail to virtue signal at the requisite frequency & decibels. But…Nazis were socialists & Leftists are socialists.”

On Friday, King said on the House floor that the interview with the Times “also was discussion of other terms that have been used,

almost always unjustly labeling otherwise innocent people. The word racist, the word Nazi, the word fascist, the phrase white nationalists, the phrase white supremacists.”

King said he was only wondering aloud: “How did that offensive language get injected into our political dialogue? Who does that, how does it get done, how do they get by with laying labels like this on people?”

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who is the only black Republican in the Senate, cast King’s remarks and those like them as a blemish on the country and the Republican Party.

“When people with opinions similar to King’s open their mouths, they damage not only the Republican Party and the conservative brand but also our nation as a whole,” Scott wrote in an op-ed last week in The Washington Post.

King’s views, Scott added, are separate from the conservative movement and “should be ridiculed at every turn possible.”

“Some in our party wonder why Republicans are constantly accused of racism — it is because of our silence when things like this are said,” Scott wrote.

King’s position in the GOP had been imperiled even before his remarks about white supremacy.

Shortly before the 2018 midterm elections, in which King was running, Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, then the head of the GOP campaign committee, issued an extraordinary public denunciation of him.

King has already drawn a primary challenger for the 2020 election: Randy Feenstra, a GOP state senator.

Nation LA teachers go on strike in 2nd-largest US school district

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers went on strike Monday after contentious contract negotiations failed in the nation’s second-largest school district.

“Students, we are striking for you,” teachers union President Alex Caputo-Pearl told a cheering crowd of teachers marching in pouring rain.

Members of United Teachers Los Angeles voted last year to walk off the job for the first time in three decades if a deal wasn’t reached on issues including higher wages and smaller class sizes.

Months of talks between the union with 35,000 members and the Los Angeles Unified School District ended without a deal.

It follows teacher walkouts in other states that emboldened organized labor.

Schools will stay open because the district with 640,000 students has hired hundreds of substitutes to replace teachers and others who leave for picket lines. The union has called it irresponsible to hire substitutes and called on parents to consider keeping students home or join marchers.

The district maintained that the union’s demands could

bankrupt the school system, which is projecting a half-billion-dollar deficit this budget year and has billions obligated for pension payments and health coverage for retired teachers.

Negotiations broke down in December and started again this month, but little progress was evident in the contract dispute.

The union rejected a district offer Friday to hire nearly 1,200 teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians and reduce class sizes by two students.

It also included a previously proposed a 6 percent raise over the first two years of a threeyear contract. The union wanted a 6.5 percent hike at the start of a two-year contract.

The union also wants significantly smaller class sizes, which routinely top 30 students, and more nurses, librarians and counselors to “fully staff” the district’s campuses in Los Angeles and all or parts of 31 smaller cities, plus several unincorporated areas.

Teachers are hoping to build on the “Red4Ed” movement that began last year in West Virginia and moved to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, Colorado and Washington state. It spread from conservative states with “right to work” laws that limit the ability to strike to the more liberal West Coast with strong unions.

By AMY FORLITI and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press

BARRON, Wis. — A Wisconsin man accused of abducting 13-year-old Jayme Closs and holding her captive for three months made up his mind to take her when he spotted the teenager getting on a school bus, authorities said Monday.

Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, told detectives that “he knew that was the girl he was going to take,” and he made two aborted trips to her family’s home before finally carrying out an attack in which he fatally shot Jayme’s mother in front of her, according to a criminal complaint filed hours before Patter-

son’s first court appearance.

Prosecutors charged him Monday with kidnapping Jayme and killing her parents Oct. 15 near Barron, about 90 miles northeast of Minneapolis. He was also charged with armed robbery.

Investigators believe Patterson hid Jayme in a remote cabin before she escaped on Thursday. Police have said the two did not know each other.

Patterson sat expressionless during the court appearance, which he made via video feed from the county jail. He spoke only to acknowledge that his name and address were correct on paperwork and that he agreed to waive a speedy preliminary hearing. The judge set

Los Angeles Unified District teacher brave the pouring rain to join in a picket line during a citywide teacher strike in front of Los Angeles High School on Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Actions elsewhere emboldened Los Angeles teachers, Caputo-Pearl said before the strike.

The union argues that the district is hoarding reserves of $1.8 billion that could be used to fund the pay and staffing hikes. The district said that money is needed to cover retiree benefits and other expenses.

District Superintendent Austin Beutner asked Friday for Gov. Gavin Newsom to step in to avoid a strike.

The union says Beutner, an investment banker and former Los Angeles deputy mayor

without experience in education, and school board members who voted him in are trying to privatize the district.

The union says they’re encouraging school closures and flipping public schools into charters, which are privately operated public schools that compete for students and the funds they bring in.

Beutner has said his plan to reorganize the district would improve services to students and families. He and his supporters on the board envision an education system with public and charter schools under the same leadership.

bail at $5 million.

The complaint said Patterson went to the home twice intending to kidnap Jayme, but broke off one attempt because too many cars were in the driveway and called off another because the house was too active.

On the night she was abducted, Jayme told police, she was asleep in her room when the family dog started barking. She woke her parents as a car came up the driveway.

She and her mother, Denise, hid in the bathroom, clutching one another in the bathtub with the shower curtain pulled shut. Her father, James, went to the front door. They heard a gunshot, and Jayme knew that James had just been killed, according to the complaint.

Denise Closs started to call 911. Patterson broke down the bathroom door. Jayme said he was dressed in black, wearing a face mask and gloves and carrying a shotgun.

Patterson told her mother to hang up and ordered her to tape Jayme’s mouth shut. Patterson told detectives that Denise Closs struggled with the tape so he wrapped the tape himself around Jayme’s mouth and head. He then taped her hands behind her back and taped her ankles together, pulled her out of the bathtub and shot her mother in the head.

He dragged Jayme outside, nearly slipping in blood pooled on the floor. He threw her in the trunk and drove off, pausing to

yield to three squad cars speeding toward the house with flashing lights.

Patterson took her to a cabin that he said was his, ordered her into a bedroom and told her to take off her clothes and get dressed in his sister’s pajamas.

He then threw her clothes into a fireplace in the cabin’s basement.

Whenever he had friends over, he made clear that no one could know she was there or “bad things could happen to her,” so she had to hide under the bed. He sealed her under the bed with tote boxes and weights so she could not crawl out, according to the complaint. She had to stay under the bed whenever he left the house, sometimes going for hours without food, water or bathroom breaks.

Patterson told investigators that he kept Jayme under the bed when his father often visited him on Saturdays, turning up the radio in his room to cover any noise she might make.

He said he assumed he had gotten away with the slayings and kidnappings after two weeks went by. He told detectives that on the night he kidnapped her he put stolen license plates on his car and removed an anti-kidnapping release cord from his trunk. He also shaved his head so he would not leave any hair behind and chose his father’s Mossberg shotgun because he thought it was a common model that would be hard to trace.

Company known for deep cost-cutting offers to buy Gannett

By MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK — A hedge fund-backed bid to buy Gannett Co., the publisher of USA Today and several other major dailies, is renewing fears of consolidation and job losses — as well as a decline in the quantity and quality of news coverage — in the already battered newspaper industry.

MNG Enterprises, better known as Digital First Media, offered $1.36 billion on Monday for Gannett, saying in a letter that it can run the company more profitably via tight cost controls and consolidation of operations such as printing and administration.

Gannett said its board will review the proposal.

Investors gave the deal a vote of confidence, immediately pushing Gannett stock up more than 20 percent to almost $12, the amount Digital First is offering.

The proposed deal is the latest indication newspapers aren’t done suffering from the punishing effects of the internet. Over the past decade, U.S. papers have struggled as giants like Google and Facebook siphoned

off readers and advertising dollars.

Many publications have already made dramatic cuts in their newsroom staffs and scaled back coverage. Even then, acquirers still often swoop in and make even deeper cuts. In July , for example, Tribune Publishing, then known as Tronc, cut half of the New York Daily News’ newsroom staff, including the editor in chief.

Digital First has a reputation for especially ruthless cost-cutting.

The takeover bid is “very bad news for anybody who works for a Gannett paper or reads a Gannett paper,” said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “Gannett is a publicly traded company, of course, and it runs its properties pretty lean, but nevertheless they have a reputation for offering a certain degree of quality.”

“Digital First is really the most avaricious of the newspaper chains these days,” and is “unique in the degree to which it is willing to cut” costs and jobs, Kennedy said.

Digital First is one of the biggest U.S. newspaper chains, with about 200 papers and oth-

Around the Nation Atlanta airport: More than 1 hour of waiting at checkpoints

Kidnapping suspect targeted girl after seeing her get on bus

In this image made from a pool video by KSTP-TV, Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, who is accused of abducting 13-year-old Jayme Closs and holding her captive for three months, makes his initial court appearance via video feed . (KSTP-TV via AP, Pool)

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In this file photo, specialist Michael Cacace, foreground right, works at the post that handles Gannett on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

er publications, including The Denver Post and the Boston Herald. Its biggest shareholder is Alden Global Capital, a New York hedge fund that invests in distressed companies.

Gannett publishes more than 100 papers around the country, including USA Today; the Detroit Free Press; The Record in New Jersey; The Tennessean in Nashville; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; the El Paso Times; The Des Moines Register; and the Arizona Republic.

Overall, estimated U.S. daily newspaper circulation, print and digital combined, fell 11 percent to 31 million in 2017, according

to the Pew Research Center. As recently as 2000, weekday subscriptions totaled 55.8 million.

USA Today’s daily circulation was 3.1 million in 2017, down from 3.6 million in 2016, a count that includes both print and digital readers.

Gannett has faced declining profits for years. Its annual profit fell 97 percent to $6.9 million between 2013 and 2017, although the company spun off part of its business during that period. In November, it cut its 2018 profit and revenue forecast . Its CEO, Robert Dickey, announced plans to step down by May.

ATLANTA — Air travelers endured waits of more than an hour to get through domestic checkpoints at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta on Monday, the first business day after security screeners missed paychecks for the first time due to partial government shutdown.

No-shows among screeners across the nation soared Sunday and again Monday, when the Transportation Security Administration reported a national absence rate of 7.6 percent, compared with 3.2 percent on the comparable Monday a year ago.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport reported the long lines on its website Monday morning, showing the hour-plus waits at all three checkpoints in the domestic terminal.

TSA is working with the Atlanta airport and airlines “to maximize all available operational resources at the airport,” TSA spokesman Jim Gregory said.

The agency is working with airports and airlines nationwide to consolidate operations and get the most out of resources, Gregory added. He declined to provide absentee figures for Atlanta or other airports, saying that would compromise security by exposing possible vulnerabilities.

“Screeners will not do anything to compromise or change their security procedures,” he said.

Atlanta’s wait times stretched well beyond what the TSA says most passengers have encountered since the shutdown began.

TSA said that it screened 1.97 million people on Sunday and that 99.1 percent waited less than 30 minutes, and 93.1 percent less than 15 minutes. Precheck lines for people who pay a fee for expedited screening averaged less than five minutes, TSA said.

A combination of a busy Monday travel day combined with some security lines being closed led to the long lines, airport spokesman Andrew Gobeil said. He said he didn’t know how many security lines were down.

A statement from TSA attributed the long waits in Atlanta to “anticipated high volume.”

Across the country, airports are making changes to deal with the shortage of screeners.

Miami International Airport closed one of its concourses for part of Saturday and Sunday, shifting about a dozen afternoon and evening flights each day to other concourses so that TSA workers could adequately staff the other checkpoints.

Airport spokesman Greg Chin said TSA was staffing the Concourse G checkpoint on Monday, but airport officials were monitoring the situation and would make more adjustments if necessary.

Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport closed one terminal Sunday afternoon and it remained shuttered Monday morning, according to an airport spokesman.

Birth control coverage rules blocked nationwide HARRISBURG, Pa. — Trump administration rules that allow more employers to opt out of providing women with nocost birth control cannot be enforced anywhere in the nation, a federal judge wrote Monday in a decision blocking the rules from taking effect.

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Philadelphia agreed with a lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania, citing the potential harm to states should the rules be enforced.

Numerous citizens could lose contraceptive coverage, Beetlestone wrote, resulting in the increased use of state-funded contraceptive services, as well as increased costs associated with unintended pregnancies.

The rules would have allowed more employers, including publicly traded companies, to opt out of providing no-cost contraceptive coverage to women by claiming religious objections. Some private employers could also object on moral grounds.

The rules had been scheduled to take effect Monday. Pennsylvania’s attorney general, Josh Shapiro, called the ruling a “victory for the health and economic independence of women.”

“Women need contraception for their health because contraception is medicine, pure and simple,” Shapiro said in a statement.

On Sunday, a federal judge in California blocked the rules from taking effect in the jurisdictions in the lawsuit before him. Those included California, New York and 11 other states along with Washington, D.C. At issue is a requirement under Democratic President Barack Obama’s health care law that birth control services be covered at no additional cost.

2 female victims unharmed after UPS hostage situation LOGAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — An armed man entered a UPS processing facility Monday morning, took two women hostage and barricaded himself in a room with them for 3½ hours until police moved in to rescue the women in a confrontation that left the suspect with gunshot wounds.

The women escaped without serious injuries while the gunman’s condition remained unknown after the standoff in Logan Township, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Philadelphia, Gloucester County Prosecutor Charles Fiore said.

The gunman wasn’t identified by authorities. Officials believe he had a prior relationship with one of the hostages, according to Fiore, who did not elaborate.

“I heard one of my fellow employees say, ‘Run, he’s got a gun,’ then I heard the little pop of the gun, I guess, and we all ran and law enforcement took over,” employee Allen Anthony Dowling said.

The man entered the building shortly before 9:30 a.m. and fired shots, though Fiore said no one was hit. Police evacuated the building and blocked access to the busy industrial park, and nearby schools were put on a modified lockdown.

Hostage negotiators talked to the suspect by phone as he held the women captive.

Shortly before noon, as Fiore held a news conference at a township building about 8 miles away, a short burst of gunfire was heard at the scene. Fiore later said he didn’t know how many shots police fired or whether the gunman fired any shots.

Television news footage showed officers crouched behind a vehicle behind the building’s loading dock at the time.

“There was an intervention,” FIore said. “He did not surrender.”

Police trained in hostage situations, he said, “would make a determination as to whether or not it’s appropriate to intervene, using force at any point in time.”

— The Associated Press

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Poles in grief over assassination of mayor

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland — The popular liberal mayor of Poland’s port city of Gdansk died Monday after being stabbed at a charity event by an ex-convict with a history of violent crime. The killing plunged the politically divided country into shock and grief and brought Poles into the streets for solemn vigils in a rare show of national unity.

Pawel Adamowicz, 53, died from the wounds inflicted by a 27-year-old man who stormed onstage Sunday evening while the mayor was addressing an audience during the “Lights to Heaven,” the finale of a nationwide fundraiser for sick children.

Adamowicz had just expressed gratitude to the “generous” crowd, adding: “This is a wonderful time of sharing good things. You are dear. Gdansk is the most wonderful city in the world. Thank you!”

That’s when the assailant rushed up and stabbed him three times, then grabbed a microphone to tell the audience that he acted in revenge against the country’s main opposition party, Civic Platform, which Adamowicz was a member of for many years but left it in 2015.

With the music still playing and pyrotechnics erupting onstage, the attacker told the stunned crowd he had been wrongly imprisoned under a Civic Platform-led government.

“I was jailed but innocent. … Civic Platform tortured me.

That’s why Adamowicz just died,” he said.

Adamowicz was taken to a hospital, where doctors struggled to save him, but a fivehour operation and blood transfusions were not enough, given the gravity of the injuries.

The assassination comes while the nation is torn by bitter political divisions that are similar in many ways to those in the United States.

The right-wing ruling Law and Justice party faced accusations that a hostile atmosphere against Adamowicz and other liberals has created fertile ground for violence.

Government officials pushed back against that accusation, strongly denouncing the attack and stressing the assailant had a history of violent bank robberies.

Identified by authorities only as Stefan W., he was arrested and charged Monday with murder.

Deputy Chief Prosecutor Krzysztof Sierak said there were questions about the mental state of the attacker, who used a 14.5-centimeter (5.5-inch)

Israel finds last tunnel, ending mission on Lebanese border

The file photo shows Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz speaking at a commemoration ceremony for late Bremen Mayor Hans Koschnick. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa via AP)

knife on Adamowicz, and that two psychiatrists will examine him. He had served 5½ years in prison and was released toward the end of last year.

President Andrzej Duda, who is aligned with the ruling party, opened a news conference with a minute of silence and said a day of national mourning will be observed when Adamowicz’s family holds his funeral, which was not yet announced. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

Duda called Adamowicz a “truly great human being, a great politician and great resident of Gdansk,” and denounced the attack as an act of unimaginable evil.

Ruling party leader Jaroslaw

Kaczynski, Poland’s most powerful politician, expressed his “great pain” and solidarity with Adamowicz’s family.

In the evening, solemn vigils were held in Gdansk, Warsaw and other cities. Many carried candles in glass jars and some used cellphones to produce flickers of light, an apparent reference to the “Lights to Heaven” event where Adamowicz was attacked.

In Warsaw, the capital, some held a big banner reading “Stop Hate.”

Donald Tusk, a founder of Civic Platform who was prime minister when the attacker was imprisoned and who is now president of the European Council, joined mourners in Gdansk, also his hometown.

Death penalty for Canadian escalates China-Canada tensions

By ROB GILLIES and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press

TORONTO — A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death on Monday in a sudden retrial of a drug smuggling case and Beijing said that it has denied a Canadian diplomatic immunity, ratcheting up tensions since Canada’s arrest of a top Chinese technology executive last month.

A Chinese court in northeastern Liaoning province announced that it had given Robert Lloyd Schellenberg the death penalty, reversing an earlier 2016 ruling that sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau strongly condemned Monday’s proceeding, suggesting that China was using its judicial system to pressure Canada over the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

In his strongest comments yet, Trudeau said “all countries around the world” should be concerned that Beijing is acting arbitrarily with its justice system.

“It is of extreme concern to us as a government, as it should be to all our international friends and allies, that China has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply a death penalty,” Trudeau said.

Further escalating the diplomatic rift between the two countries, a Chinese spokeswoman said earlier Monday that Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat taken into custody in apparent retaliation for Meng’s arrest, was not eligible for diplo-

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s warning that if Turkey attacks U.S.backed Kurdish forces in Syria, the United States will “devastate Turkey economically” has drawn a sharp response from Ankara and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman.

Trump’s decision to pull American troops out of Syria has left the United States’ Kurdish allies in the war against the Islamic State group vulnerable to an attack from Turkey. Ankara views the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces as terrorists aligned with insurgents inside Turkey.

Turkey’s presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin responded to Trump on Twitter by saying: “Terrorists can’t be your partners & allies.”

He also insisted that Turkey

JERUSALEM — Israeli troops discovered the sixth and final tunnel dug by Hezbollah militants for cross-border attacks, the military announced Sunday, saying it was wrapping up its operation along the Lebanese border.

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said the final tunnel was the largest one discovered so far, running hundreds of meters (yards) from under a Lebanese home and deep into Israeli territory. Israel launched the “Operation Northern Shield” early last month to detect and destroy what it called a vast network of Hezbollah tunnels aimed for militants to sneak across the border and carry out attacks.

Conricus said the latest tunnel originated from the Lebanese border town of Ramyeh. He said it was 55 meters deep and ran 800 meters inside Lebanese territory and also “dozens” of meters into Israel. It included stairs, a rail system and a wide a passageway that allowed for the movement of equipment and a large number of forces.

The tunnel would be destroyed in the coming days, Conricus said, adding that while more tunnels still existed on the Lebanese side of the border, this effectively marked the end of the ambitious military operation.

“We have achieved the goal that we set out to achieve a month and a half ago,” he said. “According to our intelligence, there are no longer any cross-border attack tunnels into Israel.”

Israel and the United Nations say the tunnels violate a cease-fire resolution that ended a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. Conricus says the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as UNIFIL, had been updated on the latest development.

In the wake of its discoveries, Israel has asked the international community to impose tough sanctions on Hezbollah and begin to act against its state-within-a-state operation in Lebanon.

The military said its forces would stay deployed along the border area to monitor for any other possible underground activity, and said it holds the Lebanese government responsible for everything happening in its territory.

The powerful Shiite militant Hezbollah, which acts independently in Lebanon, has yet to comment on the Israeli discoveries.

Saudi facing assault charges flees after embassy posts bail SYDNEY, Nova Scotia — Officials in Canada say a 28-year-old Saudi Arabian man charged with sexually assaulting a Canadian woman has gone missing.

Nova Scotia’s prosecution service said Monday that Mohammed Zuraibi Alzoabi had bail posted by the Saudi Arabian Embassy last year in the case involving allegations of sexual assault, assault and forcible confinement.

A court document says the sheriff unsuccessfully tried to locate Alzoabi last month. His lawyer is quoted as saying that he fled Canada even though police had seized his passport.

— The Assoiated Press

Today in History In this image taken from a video footage run by China’s CCTV, Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg attends his retrial at the Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in Dalian Monday. (CCTV via AP)

matic immunity as Trudeau has maintained.

A senior Canadian government official said Chinese officials have been questioning Kovrig about his diplomatic work in China, which is a major reason why Trudeau is asserting diplomatic immunity. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly about the case, spoke on condition of anonymity.

Kovrig, a Northeast Asia analyst for the International Crisis Group think tank, was on a leave of absence from the Canadian government at the time of his ar-

rest last month.

Schellenberg was detained more than four years ago and initially sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2016. But within weeks of Meng’s Dec. 1 arrest an appeals court suddenly reversed that decision, saying the sentence was too lenient, and scheduled Monday’s retrial with just four days’ notice.

The court gave no indication that the death penalty could be commuted, but observers said Schellenberg’s fate is likely to be drawn into diplomatic negotiations over China’s demand for the release of Meng.

“Playing hostage politics, China rushes the retrial of a Canadian suspect and sentences him to death in a fairly transparent attempt to pressure Canada to free the Huawei CFO,” Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said in a tweet.

The Chinese media began publicizing Schellenberg’s case after Canada’s detention of Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, at the request of the United States, which wants her extradited to face charges that she committed fraud by misleading banks about the company’s business dealings in Iran.

Trump says US will hurt Turkey economically if it hits Kurds

By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press

Around the World

“fights against terrorists, not Kurds” as a people.

In Sunday’s tweet, Trump also warned the Kurdish forces not to “provoke Turkey.”

The U.S. withdrawal has begun with shipments of military equipment, U.S. defense officials said. But in coming weeks, the contingent of about 2,000 troops is expected to depart even as the White House says it will keep pressure on the IS network.

Once the troops are gone, the U.S. will have ended three years of organizing, arming, advising and providing air cover for Syrian, Kurdish and Arab fighters in an open-ended campaign devised by the Obama administration to deal the militants, also known as ISIS, a lasting defeat.

“Starting the long overdue pullout from Syria while hitting the little remaining ISIS territorial caliphate hard, and from many directions,” Trump

In this 2018, file photo, Syrians ride on a motorcycle as they pass a checkpoint of the Kurdish internal security forces in Manbij, northern Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

tweeted. “Will attack again from existing nearby base if it reforms. Will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds.”

Trump’s decision to leave Syria, which he initially said would be rapid but later slowed down, shocked U.S. allies and

angered the Kurds in Syria. It also prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and drew criticism in Congress. Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, called the decision a “betrayal of our Kurdish partners.”

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2019. There are 350 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 15, 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta.

On this date: In 1559, England’s Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

In 1862, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Abraham Lincoln’s choice of Edwin M. Stanton to be the new Secretary of War, replacing Simon Cameron.

In 1892, the original rules of basketball, devised by James Naismith, were published for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the game originated.

In 1919, in Boston, a tank containing an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst, sending the dark syrup coursing through the city’s North End, killing 21 people.

In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of War (now Defense).

In 1961, a U.S. Air Force radar tower off the New Jersey coast collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean during a severe storm, killing all 28 men aboard.

In 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I. In 1973, President Richard M. Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.

In 1978, two students at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, were slain in their sorority house.

(Ted Bundy was later convicted of the crime and was sentence to death. But he was executed for the rape and murder of a 12-yearold girl, which occurred 3 weeks after the sorority slayings.)

In 1981, the police drama series “Hill Street Blues” premiered on NBC. In 1989, NATO, the Warsaw Pact and 12 other European countries adopted a human rights and security agreement in Vienna, Austria.

In 1993, a historic disarmament ceremony ended in Paris with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons.

Ten years ago: US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger ditched his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disabled both engines; all 155 people aboard survived.

Five years ago: In the latest in a series of nuclear stumbles, the U.S. Air Force disclosed that 34 officers entrusted with the world’s deadliest weapons had been removed from launch duty for allegedly cheating -- or tolerating cheating by others -- on routine proficiency tests. A highly critical and bipartisan Senate report declared that the deadly Sept. 2012 assault on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, could have been prevented; the report spread blame among the State Department, the military and U.S. intelligence. A $1.1 trillion spending bill for operating the government until just before the 2014 election steamed through the battleweary House over tepid protests from tea party conservatives.

One year ago: Singer Dolores O’Riordan of the Irish rock band The Cranberries died at a London hotel at the age of 46; a coroner found that she had accidentally drowned in a bathtub after drinking.

American women lost nine of their ten first-round matches on the opening day of the Australian Open; they included Venus Williams and U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Margaret O’Brien is 81. Actress Andrea Martin is 72. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy White is 66. Actor-director Mario Van Peebles is 62. Rock musician Adam Jones (Tool) is 54. Actor James Nesbitt is 54. Singer Lisa Lisa (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam) is 52. Actor Chad Lowe is 51. Altcountry singer Will Oldham (aka Bonnie Prince Billy) is 49. Actress Regina King is 48. Actor Eddie Cahill is 41. NFL quarterback Drew Brees is 40. Rapper/reggaeton artist Pitbull is 38. Actor Victor Rasuk is 34. Actress Jessy Schram is 33. Electronic dance musician Skrillex is 31. Actress/singer Dove Cameron is 23. Singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal (TV: “America’s Got Talent”) is 15.

Thought for Today: “I refuse to accept the idea that the ‘is-ness’ of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the ‘ought-ness’ that forever confronts him.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968).

Sports

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Syracuse pulls off upset of No. 1 Duke

By The Associated Press

DURHAM, N.C. — Tyus Battle scored a season-high 32 points, and Syracuse used its 2-3 zone defense to rattle No. 1 Duke in overtime as the Orange pulled off the upset, 95-91 on Monday night.

With swingman Cameron Reddish out with an illness and point guard Tre Jones suffering a shoulder injury roughly 5½ minutes in, Duke was down two starters and was a completely different team — and the Orange took full advantage.

Paschal Chukwu added 10 points and a career-high 18 rebounds while Elijah Hughes added 20 points, Frank Howard finished with 16 and Oshae Brissett had 14 for the Orange (12-5, 3-1 Atlantic Coast Conference).

Zion Williamson had a career-high 35 points and 10 rebounds, and his free throw with 16.2 seconds left in regulation tied it at 85 for Duke (14-2, 3-1), but he missed a second go-ahead foul shot.

No. 7 KANSAS 80, TEXAS 78 LAWRENCE, Kan. — Lagerald Vick scored 21 points, Marcus Garrett added a career-high 20, and Kansas held on to beat Texas when Jase Febres’ 3-pointer at the buzzer never came close.

Dedric Lawson added 17 points and eight rebounds for

On Tap Peninsula high school sports Tuesday Hockey Homer at Soldotna, 7:45 p.m.

Basketball Soldotna girls at Homer, 6:30 p.m.

Soldotna boys at Homer, 8 p.m.

Nikolaevsk girls at Ninilchik, 4 p.m.

Nikolaevsk boys at Ninilchik, 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday Hockey Kenai at Soldotna, 7 p.m.

Thursday Basketball Homer vs. South at O’Brady’s Invitational at South High School, 6 p.m.

Lumen Christi girls at Nikolaevsk, 5 p.m.

Lumen Christi boys at Nikolaevsk, 6:30 p.m.

CIA girls vs. Eagle River JV, 3 p.m.

CIA boys vs. Eagle River JV, 4:30 p.m.

Seward girls vs. Delta at Dean Cummings Memorial Basketball Tournment at Delta, 6:30 p.m.

Seward boys vs. Delta at Dean Cummings Memorial Basketball Tournment at Delta, 8 p.m.

Rus Hitchcock Nikiski Tip Off Tournament Glennallen girls vs. South, 2:45 p.m.

Glennallen boys vs. South JV, 4:15 p.m.

Houston girls vs. Nikiski, 5:45 p.m.

Houston boys vs. Nikiski, 7:15 p.m.

Joe T. Classic Basketball Tournament at Lathrop Kenai girls vs. Lathrop, 6:20 p.m.

Kenai boys vs. Lathrop, 8 p.m.

Friday Hockey Homer at Juneau, 7:45 p.m.

Basketball Colony girls at Soldotna, 6 p.m.

Colony boys at Soldotna, 7:30 p.m.

Homer at O’Brady’s Invitational at South High School, TBD Seward girls, boys at Dean Cummings Memorial Basketball Tournment at Delta, TBD Lumen Christi girls at Ninilchik, 4 p.m.

Lumen Christi boys at Ninilchik, 5:30 p.m.

CIA girls at Birchwood, 6 p.m.

CIA boys at Birchwood, 7:30 p.m.

Rus Hitchcock Nikiski Tip Off Tournament South girls vs. Houston, 2:45 p.m.

South JV boys vs. Houston, 4:15 p.m.

Glennallen girls vs. Nikiski, 5:45 p.m.

Glennallen boys vs. Nikiski, 7:15 p.m.

Joe T. Classic Basketball Tournament at Lathrop Kenai girls vs. Kodiak, 3 p.m.

Kenai boys vs. Kodiak, 4:40 p.m.

Saturday Hockey Homer at Juneau, 7:30 p.m.

Basketball Colony girls at Soldotna, 3 p.m.

Colony boys at Soldotna, 4:30 p.m.

Homer at O’Brady’s Invitational at South High School, TBD Seward girls, boys at Dean Cummings Memorial Basketball Tournment at Delta, TBD CIA girls vs. Akiak at Birchwood Christian, 10:30 a.m.

CIA boys vs. Akiak at Birchwood Christian, noon Rus Hitchcock Nikiski Tip Off Tournament Houston girls vs. Glennallen, noon Houston boys vs. Glennallen, 1:30 p.m.

South girls vs. Nikiski, 3 p.m.

South JV boys vs. Nikiski, 4:30 p.m.

Joe T. Classic Basketball Tournament at Lathrop Kenai girls vs. Monroe, 11:20 a.m.

Kenai boys vs. Monroe, 1 p.m.

Skiing Besh Cup at Tsalteshi, 10 a.m.

Sunday Skiing Besh Cup at Tsalteshi, 11 a.m.

the Jayhawks (15-2, 4-1 Big 12), who blew a 10-point second-half lead before escaping with their 10th straight win over the Longhorns.

The game was tied at 73 when Lawson made a pair of foul shots.

Texas big man Dylan Osetkowski was forced into a jump ball at the other end to give Kansas possession again, and Vick knocked down a 3 from the wing with 1:31 left in the game to give the Jayhawks a cushion.

The teams swapped empty possessions and Texas (10-7, 2-3) was forced to foul Lawson, who missed the second of two free throws. The Longhorns pulled down the rebound and Courtney Ramey buried a 3-pointer to get them within 79-78 with 8.9 seconds left in the game.

They quickly fouled Garrett, a 64-percent foul shooter, and he made the second of two free throws to give the Longhorns a chance.

But after racing the ball up floor, they settled for a contested 3 from Febres that clanked harmlessly off the side of the rim.

PITTSBURGH 75, No. 11 FLORIDA STATE 62 PITTSBURGH — Trey McGowens had 30 points and seven rebounds, Xavier Johnson scored 16 and Pittsburgh pulled away late for a win over Florida State.

McGowens, a freshman guard, attacked the bigger, deeper Seminoles relentlessly to help the Panthers (12-5, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) end a 13-game losing streak against ranked teams. Pitt’s previous victory over a team in the

Syracuse’s Tyus Battle (25) dunks against Duke during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Monday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) AP Top 25 came against Florida State on Feb. 18, 2017.

Last Tuesday, McGowens set a school record by pouring in 33 points in a victory over Louisville. He threatened the mark just six days later thanks in large part to going 18 of 19 from the line.

Johnson overcame seven turnovers for the Seminoles (13-4, 1-3), to score seven points down the stretch, including a driving layup No. 19 MARYLAND 64, with 2:43 remaining that helped WISCONSIN 60 restore Pitt’s advantage to 65-55 COLLEGE PARK, Md. — after Florida State cut a 10-point Anthony Cowan Jr. hit a pivotal deficit in half.

Trent Forrest scored 19 points 3-pointer with 44 seconds left, and

Maryland edged Wisconsin after blowing a 21-point lead in the second half.

Back in the AP Top 25 for the first time since early December, the Terrapins marked the occasion with a strange hot-and-cold perforSee 25, page A8

Serena cruises in return to Australia

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

MELBOURNE, Australia — This was quite a return for Serena Williams. Almost as if she never left.

In her first match at the Australian Open since winning the 2017 title while pregnant — and her first official match anywhere since a loss in the chaotic U.S. Open final last September — Williams looked to be at her dominant best, overpowering Tatjana Maria 6-0, 6-2 in the first round Tuesday.

“I kind of like to jump in the deep end and swim,” Williams said in an on-court interview after the 49-minute workout, “and see what happens.”

She hadn’t dipped her toe in Grand Slam waters since New York, where everything devolved after Williams was warned for getting coaching, then docked a point for breaking a racket and eventually docked a game for calling the chair umpire “a thief” during the final.

When that match was mentioned by a reporter during Williams’ news conference Tuesday, as part of a question about whether coaching should be allowed during matches at majors, she replied, “I, like, literally have no comment.”

Truth be told, the match against Maria was not much of a test for Williams, given that the 74th-ranked German entered with an 11-15 record in first-round matches at Grand Slam tournaments, only once has

made it as far as the third round at any major and owns a total of one career WTA title after a dozen years on the tour.

Williams, meanwhile, is pursuing an eighth title in Melbourne and 24th Slam trophy overall, which would equal Margaret Court — whose career spanned the amateur and professional eras — for the most in tennis history.

“I have been going for the record (for) what seems like forever now,” the 37-year-old Williams said, “so it doesn’t feel any different.”

How lopsided was this?

Williams needed all of 18 minutes to wrap up the first set, ceding just five of 29 points along the way.

The American, a former No. 1 who is seeded 16th on account of playing only 24 matches in 2018, never faced a single break point and compiled a 22-7 edge in winners.

“Maybe,” Maria said afterward, “I was a little bit overwhelmed.”

Just a little bit.

The two players have homes near each other in a gated community in Florida — “We do sometimes barbecue together,” Maria said — and their daughters — Williams’ is 16 months old; Maria’s is 5 years old — share play dates.

“I think the last time I was here, I was actually pregnant and playing at the same time, which is insane,” Williams said. “It was kind of weird walking back on — by myself, this time.”

Other seeded winners Tues-

United States’ Serena Williams hits a forehand return to Germany’s Tatjana Maria during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

day included No. 7 Karolina Pliskova, No. 12 Elise Mertens, No. 13 Anastasija Sevastova and No. 17 Madison Keys among the women, plus No. 4 Alexander Zverev, No. 8 Kei Nishikori, No. 11 Borna Coric and No. 12 Fabio Fognini among the men.

Both Nishikori, who had dropped the opening two sets against qualifier Kamil Majchrzak, and Fognini advanced when their opponents retired mid-match.

Those scheduled to player later Tuesday included No. 1 seeds

Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep.

Two years ago, no one knew Williams was carrying her child while winning her 23rd major to break a tie with Steffi Graf for the most in the half-century professional era. Her baby, Olympia, was born on Sept. 1, 2017, and Williams was off the tour until last March. Her Grand Slam return came at the 2018 French Open, where she reached the fourth round before withdrawing with an injured chest muscle, and was followed by runner-up

showings at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.

Because of a health scare after giving birth, Williams wears compression stockings during matches to try to make sure she doesn’t get blood clots again.

On a humid afternoon with the temperature topping 90 degrees (32 Celsius) Tuesday, Williams wore a green leotard of sorts — she called it a “Serenatard” — and while her dangerous serve produced only two aces, her other, considerable, tools were in working order.

Van Riemsdyk hat trick leads Flyers’ rout of Wild

By The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — James van Riemsdyk recorded a hat trick, and Nolan Patrick had two goals and two assists to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 7-4 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Monday night.

Wayne Simmonds also had two goals for the Flyers. Carter Hart had 34 saves.

It was just the second win in the last 11 games for Philadelphia, which began Monday with the fewest points in the league.

Jason Zucker, Marcus Foligno, Joel Eriksson Ek and Ryan Suter scored for Minnesota.

The Wild dropped to 0-5-1 against Metropolitan Division teams.

AVALANCHE 6, MAPLE LEAFS 3 TORONTO — Carl Soderberg had his first career hat trick and Colorado topped Toronto.

Gabriel Landeskog, Mikko Rantanen and Matt Calvert also scored for Colorado, which had lost nine of its last 10 games overall (1-7-2), and seven straight in regula-

tion on the road. Semyon Varlamov stopped 17 shots.

Igor Ozhiganov, Kasperi Kapanen and Mitch Marner scored for Toronto. Frederik Andersen made 32 saves in his return to the starting lineup after missing eight games with a groin injury. Auston Matthews added two assists.

Toronto has lost five of its last seven games and four of five at home.

CANADIENS 3, BRUINS 2, OT BOSTON — Jeff Petry scored 15 seconds into overtime, batting the puck out of the air and past Tuukka Rask to lead Montreal to a win over Boston.

Carey Price stopped 41 shots for the Canadiens. Paul Byron scored a short-handed goal, and Brendan Gallagher also scored to help Montreal earn its third victory in four tries.

Rask made 19 saves but lost for the first time in his last six starts. David Krejci scored a power-play goal — with Rask pulled for a 6-on-4 — with just 38 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime.

Brad Marchand also scored for Boston, giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead about six minutes into the game.

DEVILS 8, BLACKHAWKS 5 NEWARK, N.J. — Kyle Palmieri and Blake Coleman each scored twice, and New Jersey had its biggest offensive game of the season in beating Chicago.

Travis Zajac, Sami Vatanen, Kevin Rooney and Brett Seney also scored as the Devils won consecutive games for only the third time since opening the season with four straight wins. Rookie goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood won for the fifth time in seven decisions.

Patrick Kane scored twice and set up two others for the Blackhawks. Brent Seabrook, Dominik Kahun and Brandon Saad also scored for Chicago, which left goaltenders Cam Ward and Collin Delia defenseless most of the game in giving up at least seven goals for the fifth time this season. The eight goals against tied the most given up by the Blackhawks this season.

BLUES 4, CAPITALS 1 WASHINGTON — Vince Dunn scored his first goal since October, David Perron extended his point streak and St. Louis scored three goals in a five-minute span to beat Washington for its first three-game win-

ning streak of the season.

Dunn banked the puck in on a double deflection for his first goal in 33 games and assisted on Perron’s goal with a no-look backhanded pass. Ivan Barbashev and Vladimir Tarasenko also scored.

Perron, who rejoined St. Louis as a free agent in the offseason, has five goals and nine assists during his career-best 11-game point streak.

Jake Allen made 28 saves.

Alex Ovechkin scored his league-leading 33rd goal of the season for Washington, which dropped its second in a row. Ovechkin took over sole possession of sixth in NHL history with his 238th career power-play goal and tied Dave Andreychuk at 14th on the all-time list with the 640th goal of his career.

OILERS 7, SABRES 2 EDMONTON, Alberta — Milan Lucic and Zack Kassian each scored a pair of goals as Edmonton routed Buffalo.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl also scored for the Oilers, who have won two of their last three.

Casey Mittelstadt and Evan Rodrigues scored for the struggling Sabres, who have lost three straight.

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mance against a perennial Big Ten contender before emerging with their sixth straight win.

Maryland (15-3, 6-1) led by 10 after eight minutes and 38-17 with 17:47 remaining before the Badgers (11-6, 3-3) roared back to take a 60-59 lead with 2:01 to go.

Cowan turned it around with his long-range jumper, and the Terps held on after Wisconsin’s Nate Reuvers missed two 3-pointers in the final 33 seconds.

Reuvers scored a career-high

18 for Wisconsin.

NEBRASKA 66, No. 25 INDIANA 51 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Glynn Watson Jr. scored 15 points, Isaac Copeland added 14 and James Palmer Jr. to help Nebraska upset Indiana. The Cornhuskers (13-4, 3-3 Big Ten) have won two straight overall and three straight in the series. They never trailed.

Romeo Langford had 18 points and Juwan Morgan finished with 17 on a miserable shooting night for the Hoosiers (12-5, 3-3), who have lost three in a row. Indiana’s 10-game home winning streak also ended.

Harden, Rockets defeat Grizzlies

By The Associated Press

HOUSTON — James Harden scored a season-high 57 points to carry the short-handed Houston Rockets to a 112-94 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night.

The reigning MVP extended his streak of 30-point games to 17 by halftime, pouring in 36 points over the first two quarters to put Houston on top.

It’s the longest such streak since Wilt Chamberlain had 20 straight games of at least 30 points in 1964.

It’s the franchise-record 14th time Harden has scored 40 this season and the eighth time in his last 11 games. It’s the third time he’s topped 50 points this season and the 12th time in his career. He surpassed his previous season best of 54 against Washington and fell just shy of the career-high and club-record 60 points he scored last January against Orlando.

Garrett Temple and Mike Conley scored 14 each for the Grizzlies, who lost for the eighth time in nine games.

Harden’s big game came on a night when the Rockets were without three starters, as center Clint Capela joined Chris Paul and Eric Gordon on the injured list after hurting his right thumb Sunday.

Harden scored 38 points Sunday in a loss to Orlando despite going 1 for 17 from 3-point range. This time, he made his first two 3s and finished 6 of 15. He also hit 15 of 17 free throws and pulled down nine rebounds.

HORNETS 108, SPURS 93 SAN ANTONIO — Kemba Walker scored 33 points and Tony Parker enjoyed a triumphant return to San Antonio as Charlotte snapped the Spurs’ seven-game home winning streak.

Parker had eight points, four assists and three rebounds in his first game back in San Antonio after signing with the Hornets during the offseason.

Jeremy Lamb added 19 points for Charlotte, which ended a three-game skid. The Hornets also stopped an 11-game slide in San Antonio.

LaMarcus Aldridge led the Spurs with 28 points and 10 rebounds.

The Spurs honored Parker before the game with a two-minute video of his career highlights during 17 seasons in San Antonio, including his four NBA championships with the team. The crowd roared in appreciation, chanting “Tony! Tony! Tony!”

NETS 109, CELTICS 102 NEW YORK — D’Angelo Russell scored 18 of his 34 points in the third quarter and Brooklyn ended a 10-game losing streak to Boston, sending the Celtics to a winless three-game road trip.

With Kyrie Irving nursing a bruised right quadriceps, the Nets

broke open the game with a 15-0 run in the third and outscored the Celtics 44-21 in the period.

Jarrett Allen added 19 points and 12 rebounds for the Nets, who have won nine of their last 10 home games. Rookie forward Rodions Kurucs also scored 19.

Jayson Tatum had 34 points for the Celtics, who dropped games at Miami and Orlando to start their trip. Jaylen Brown added 22.

Boston also played without Marcus Smart because of an illness.

PELICANS 121, CLIPPERS 117 LOS ANGELES — Anthony Davis had 46 points and 16 rebounds, Julius Randle added 27 points and New Orleans defeated Los Angeles for just its second road win this season against a Western Conference team.

Davis and Randle combined to score 24 of their team’s 28 points in the third quarter, when the Pelicans stretched their lead to 20.

The Clippers chipped away and took a lead in the fourth, but the Pelicans quickly snatched it back.

Davis made all 12 of his foul shots in the game, including four in a row to close it out. Holiday finished with 19 points.

The Pelicans improved to 6-17 on the road, including 2-10 versus the West.

Montrezl Harrell led the Clippers with 26 points and 10 rebounds. Danilo Gallinari added 25 points, and Tobias Harris had 21.

JAZZ 100, PISTONS 94 SALT LAKE CITY — Donovan Mitchell scored 28 points and Rudy Gobert tied a career high with 25 rebounds to propel Utah past Detroit.

Kyle Korver had 19 points, including five 3-pointers, to help the Jazz win for the sixth time in seven games. Gobert finished with 18 points and two blocks. Mitchell has poured in at least 26 points in six consecutive games, the best such stretch of his career.

Utah has won five straight against the Pistons and 23 of 27 in the series.

Blake Griffin scored 19 points and Andre Drummond contributed 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Pistons, who have lost five of six.

KINGS 115, TRAIL BLAZERS 107 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — De’Aaron Fox scored 16 points and made a key 3-pointer with 1:30 remaining as Sacramento beat Portland.

Fox also had nine assists, Buddy Hield scored 19 points and Marvin Bagley III added 13 points and 11 rebounds. The Kings have won three straight and four of five.

Damian Lillard had 35 points to become the fastest player in Portland history to reach 12,000 for his career. Jusuf Nurkic had six points and 11 rebounds. CJ McCollum scored six points on 2-of-14 shooting.

The Trail Blazers, playing the second half of a back-to-back, have lost two straight since winning four in a row.

Murray declares for NFL draft

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer

Kyler Murray, the first-round Major League Baseball draft pick and Heisman Trophy-winning Oklahoma quarterback, declared himself eligible for the NFL draft on Monday.

Murray announced his decision in a tweet , ending his brief and storied college career.

What’s next for the Murray is not yet known.

The Oakland Athletics made the speedy outfielder the ninth overall selection last June and agreed to $4.66 million signing bonus. The A’s agreed to let him continue playing football, and he made the most of it by winning the Heisman in his only season as a starter for the Sooners. He passed for 4,361 yards and 42 touchdowns and ran for 1,001 yards and another 12 scores, posting the second-best passer efficiency rating in FBS history.

As Murray dominated, his draft stock improved. Jim Callis, a senior writer on MLB. com, said the A’s couldn’t have foreseen Murray would be a potential first-round NFL draft pick because of his size. Listed at 5-foot-10 and 195 pounds, Murray would be a small quar-

Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB 33 12 .733 — Toronto Philadelphia 28 16 .636 4½ Boston 25 18 .581 7 Brooklyn 22 23 .489 11 New York 10 33 .233 22 Southeast Division Miami 21 20 .512 — Charlotte 20 23 .465 2 Orlando 19 24 .442 3 Washington 18 26 .409 4½ Atlanta 13 30 .302 9 Central Division Milwaukee 30 12 .714 — Indiana 28 14 .667 2 Detroit 18 24 .429 12 Chicago 10 33 .233 20½ Cleveland 9 35 .205 22 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Houston 25 18 .581 San Antonio 25 20 .556 New Orleans 21 23 .477 Dallas 20 23 .465 Memphis 19 24 .442 Northwest Division 29 13 .690 Denver Oklahoma City 26 16 .619 Portland 26 19 .578 Utah 24 21 .533 Minnesota 21 22 .488 Pacific Division Golden State 29 14 .674 L.A. Clippers 24 19 .558 L.A. Lakers 23 21 .523 Sacramento 23 21 .523 Phoenix 11 33 .250

— 1 4½ 5 6 — 3 4½ 6½ 8½ — 5 6½ 6½ 18½

Monday’s Games Brooklyn 109, Boston 102 Houston 112, Memphis 94 Charlotte 108, San Antonio 93 Utah 100, Detroit 94 Sacramento 115, Portland 107 New Orleans 121, L.A. Clippers 117 Tuesday’s Games Minnesota at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

Phoenix at Indiana, 3 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m.

Miami at Milwaukee, 4 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 5 p.m.

Chicago at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m.

All Times AST

Men’s Major Scores EAST Brown 100, Johnson & Wales (RI) 61 Bucknell 93, Holy Cross 78 Monmouth (NJ) 63, Siena 60, OT NC A&T 67, Md.-Eastern Shore 58 NC Central 71, Delaware St. 70 Pittsburgh 75, Florida St. 62 SOUTH Alabama St. 81, MVSU 79, OT Grambling St. 77, Alcorn St. 42 Jackson St. 64, Southern U. 58 Maryland 64, Wisconsin 60 Norfolk St. 75, Bethune-Cookman 68 SC State 70, Coppin St. 68 Syracuse 95, Duke 91, OT MIDWEST Kansas 80, Texas 78 Nebraska 66, Indiana 51 SOUTHWEST

FAR WEST N. Colorado 73, Montana St. 70

Trump gets fast food for Clemson WASHINGTON — The scent of burgers, fries and victory wafted through the stately White House on Monday as President Donald Trump saluted college football’s Clemson Tigers for winning the national championship.

Trump, a fast food lover, said he even paid for their meal himself because of the partial government shutdown. He did not disclose the tab.

“We ordered American fast food, paid for by me. Lots of hamburgers, lots of pizza,” Trump said after returning to the White House from a trip to New Orleans. “We have some very large people that like eating, so I think we’re going to have a little fun.”

Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said much of the staff in the White House residence has been furloughed because of the shutdown, “so the president is personally paying for the event to be catered with some of everyone’s favorite fast foods.”

An impressive — and highly unusual — White House smorgasbord greeted the players. Silver trays held stacks of wrapped burgers from Wendy’s. Also on offer were boxed burgers from McDonald’s, including Big Macs.

White House cups bearing the presidential seal held the fries.

— The Associated Press

helicoptering in and his great speed, coverage skills,” Callis said. “When you’re a quarterback, you have to put in hours and hours of study running an offense. ... You can’t play both sports when you’re a quarterback. I think if he wants to play quarterback, which appears to be his greatest love, there can’t be any question that he’s 100 percent football.”

Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said in November that if anyone could play both sports, it’s Murray.

“I don’t want to put it past him,” Riley said. “ A lot of people would say he can’t do what he’s done right now — how well he performed for our baseball group here this spring, and how well he’s played here for us. So there’s certainly some different dynamics with it. Obviously the fact that he would want to play quarterback, if he chooses the football route, is a little different than Deion or Bo or some of those guys. But he athletically is so gifted and can transition between the two.”

The NFL scouting combine is in late February and early March and could intersect with his spring training — major league camp starts in mid-Feb-

ruary and minor league camp begins in early March. If Murray wanted to participate in the combine, the A’s would need to allow it and it would need to be reflected on his contract.

Murray’s road to his NFL draft choice was a winding one from his prep days in suburban Dallas. After a disappointing freshman season in football at Texas A&M in 2015, he transferred to Oklahoma. He sat out a year because of transfer rules, and then was the backup during Baker Mayfield’s Heismanwinning 2017 season.

Murray then had an impressive enough baseball season in 2018 to draw the A’s attention.

Callis said Murray is somewhat like a faster version of outfielder Andrew McCutchen.

After he was drafted, Murray took batting practice at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, greeted by “WELCOME TO OAKLAND” on the big scoreboard with his photo.

A’s manager Bob Melvin, executive Billy Beane and general manager David Forst closely followed Oklahoma football this season as the Sooners reached the College Football Playoff, losing to Alabama in a semifinal.

Scoreboard

Ark.-Pine Bluff 50, Alabama A&M 49 Baylor 73, Oklahoma St. 69

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terback in the NFL by any standard.

“I don’t think anybody was saying he could be an NFL first-round pick,” Callis said.

Once the NFL emerged as a potential option for Murray, the A’s took action. Representatives of the A’s and Major League Baseball met Sunday with Murray, according to a person with direct knowledge of the session who spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting was not made public.

The possibility existed Oakland could offer more money by putting him on the 40-man major league roster.

Even with the A’s efforts, Murray would have a shot at a bigger payday sooner in football and he wouldn’t have to go to the minor leagues.

Callis and other observers say it is very unlikely Murray will be able to play both sports because he’s a quarterback. Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders pulled it off, but Jackson was an outfielder and a running back and Sanders was an outfielder and cornerback.

“This isn’t Bo Jackson showing up and here, we’ll pitch you the ball and you outrun everybody, or Deion Sanders

Women’s Major Scores EAST Delaware St. 71, NC Central 61 Mount St. Mary’s 84, CCSU 53 NC A&T 51, Md.-Eastern Shore 49 Robert Morris 89, LIU Brooklyn 37 Sacred Heart 49, Bryant 48 St. Francis Brooklyn 78, St. Francis (Pa.) 65 Wagner 71, Fairleigh Dickinson 59 SOUTH Grambling St. 61, Alcorn St. 56 MVSU 64, Alabama St. 62 Mississippi St. 85, Auburn 59 Norfolk St. 57, Bethune-Cookman 50 SC State 75, Coppin St. 59 Southern U. 76, Jackson St. 74 MIDWEST Iowa 81, Minnesota 63 Ohio St. 65, Michigan St. 55 SOUTHWEST Alabama A&M 78, Ark.-Pine Bluff 52

FAR WEST Montana St. 79, N. Colorado 66

AP Women’s Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 13, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. Notre Dame (23) 16-1 736 1 2. Baylor (6) 13-1 706 4 2. UConn (1) 14-1 706 3 4. Louisville 15-1 652 2 5. Oregon 15-1 621 5 6. Stanford 14-1 615 6 7. Mississippi St. 15-1 571 7 8. N.C. State 17-0 542 8 9. Maryland 15-1 505 9 10. Oregon St. 14-2 482 10 11. Texas 14-2 452 11 12. Syracuse 14-2 427 12 13. Gonzaga 16-1 369 14 14. Marquette 14-3 352 15 15. South Carolina 12-4 273 21 16. Kentucky 15-3 243 16 17. Michigan St. 12-3 217 23 18. Iowa St. 13-3 202 20 19. Arizona St. 12-4 192 19 20. Rutgers 13-3 163 — 20. Tennessee 12-4 163 13 22. Iowa 11-4 146 17 23. Minnesota 12-3 76 18 24. DePaul 12-5 57 — 25. Indiana 15-2 56 25 Others receiving votes: Florida St. 54, Utah 36, Butler 20, Texas A&M 20, Missouri 19, California 17, Georgia 17, Cent. Michigan 12, Drake 9, South Dakota 7, Auburn 4, UCF 4, Clemson 3, Purdue 3, Arizona 1.

Men’s AP Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 13, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. Duke (36) 14-1 1558 1 2. Michigan (9) 17-0 1497 2 3. Tennessee (13) 14-1 1482 3 4. Virginia (6) 15-0 1473 4 5. Gonzaga 16-2 1315 5 6. Michigan St. 15-2 1292 6 7. Kansas 14-2 1188 7 8. Texas Tech 15-1 1157 8 9. Virginia Tech 14-1 1091 9 10. Nevada 16-1 1015 10 11. Florida St. 13-3 918 13 12. Kentucky 12-3 790 18 13. North Carolina 12-4 678 12 14. Auburn 12-3 669 11 15. Marquette 14-3 668 21 16. Buffalo 15-1 625 19 17. N.C. State 14-2 586 15 18. Mississippi 13-2 501 — 19. Maryland 14-3 412 — 20. Oklahoma 13-3 394 23 21. Houston 16-1 387 17 22. Villanova 13-4 300 — 23. Iowa 14-3 172 — 24. Mississippi St. 12-3 154 14 25. Indiana 12-4 116 22 Others receiving votes: Louisville 112, Nebraska 36, Ohio St. 34, Wisconsin 31, Iowa St. 20, UCF 17, Purdue 16, Kansas St. 14, St. John’s 12, TCU 12, Murray St. 9, Arizona 8, Washington 8, LSU 7, Seton Hall 6, South Carolina 6, Temple 5, Minnesota 3, Cincinnati 2, Wofford 2, Florida 1, Hofstra 1.

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 46 35 9 2 72 189 133 Toronto 45 28 15 2 58 161 128 Boston 46 26 15 5 57 133 119 Montreal 47 25 17 5 55 141 141 Buffalo 46 23 17 6 52 133 137 Florida 44 17 19 8 42 138 160 Detroit 47 17 23 7 41 133 160 Ottawa 46 17 24 5 39 143 178 Metropolitan Division Washington 45 27 13 5 59 155 132 Columbus 45 27 15 3 57 148 139 Pittsburgh 45 25 14 6 56 161 132 N.Y. Islanders 44 25 15 4 54 134 117 Carolina 45 22 18 5 49 123 130 N.Y. Rangers 45 18 20 7 43 126 157 New Jersey 45 18 20 7 43 136 153 Philadelphia 46 17 23 6 40 130 164

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Winnipeg 45 Nashville 47 Dallas 46 Colorado 46

29 14 27 16 23 19 21 17

2 4 4 8

60 156 128 58 145 122 50 121 122 50 157 147

Minnesota 45 22 20 3 47 128 132 44 20 20 4 44 125 135 St. Louis Chicago 48 16 23 9 41 142 179 Pacific Division 47 30 13 4 64 173 133 Calgary San Jose 47 27 13 7 61 167 141 48 28 16 4 60 146 127 Vegas Edmonton 46 22 21 3 47 133 146 Anaheim 46 19 18 9 47 112 140 Vancouver 47 21 21 5 47 136 148 45 20 22 3 43 116 130 Arizona Los Angeles 46 18 25 3 39 105 136 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Monday’s Games New Jersey 8, Chicago 5 Colorado 6, Toronto 3 Philadelphia 7, Minnesota 4 St. Louis 4, Washington 1 Montreal 3, Boston 2, OT Edmonton 7, Buffalo 2 Tuesday’s Games New Jersey at Columbus, 3 p.m.

St. Louis at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m.

Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m.

Florida at Montreal, 3:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Detroit, 3:30 p.m.

Washington at Nashville, 4 p.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

Vegas at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Jose, 6 p.m.

All Times AST

Tennis Australian Open

MELBOURNE (AP) — Results Tuesday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses): Men’s Singles First Round Taro Daniel, Japan, def. Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australia, 5-7, 4-2, ret.

Denis Shapovalov (25), Canada, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

David Goffin (21), Belgium, def.

Christian Garin, Chile, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2.

Ryan Harrison, United States, def.

Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, 6-0, 7-5, 6-3.

Daniil Medvedev (15), Russia, def. Lloyd Harris, South Africa, 6-1, 6-2, 6-1.

Fabio Fognini (12), Italy, def. Jaume Antoni Munar Clar, Spain, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7), 3-1, ret.

Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, def.

Nicolas Jarry, Chile, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-3.

Ilya Ivashka, Belarus, def. Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 4-0, ret.

Pablo Carreno-Busta (23), Spain, def. Luca Vanni, Italy, 6-7 (5), 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4.

Joao Sousa, Portugal, def. Guido Pella, Argentina, 7-6 (2), 4-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2.

Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, def. Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5).

Kei Nishikori (8), Japan, def. Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, 3-6, 6-7 (6), 6-0, 6-2, 3-0, ret.

Alexander Zverev (4), Germany, def. Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4.

Alex Bolt, Australia, def. Jack Sock, United States, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.

Gilles Simon (29), France, def.

Bjorn Fratangelo, United States, 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-2.

Hyeon Chung (24), Republic of Korea, def. Bradley Klahn, United States, 6-7 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, def. Sam Querrey, United States, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-3, 6-1.

Borna Coric (11), Croatia, def.

Steve Darcis, Belgium, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, def.

Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3.

Evgeny Donskoy, Russia, def.

Laslo Djere, Serbia, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-1, 7-6 (5).

Women’s Singles First Round Carla Suarez-Navarro (23), Spain, def. Clara Burel, France, 7-5, 6-2.

Eugenie Bouchard, Canada, def.

Shuai Peng, China, 6-2, 6-1.

Serena Williams (16), United States, def. Tatjana Maria, Germany, 6-0, 6-2.

Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland, def. Daria Kasatkina (10), Russia, 6-3, 6-0.

Natalia Vikhlyantseva, Russia, def. Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-4.

Johanna Konta, Britain, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, 7-6 (4),

2-6, 7-6 (7).

Garbine Muguruza (18), Spain, def. Saisai Zheng, China, 6-2, 6-3.

Camila Giorgi (27), Italy, def. Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenia, 6-3, 6-0.

Madison Brengle, United States, def. Misaki Doi, Japan, 6-4, 6-0.

Karolina Pliskova (7), Czech Republic, def. Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2.

Tamara Zidansek, Slovenia, def.

Daria Gavrilova, Australia, 7-5, 6-3.

Su-Wei Hsieh (28), Taiwan, def.

Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, 6-2, 6-1.

Qiang Wang (21), China, def. Fiona Ferro, France, 6-4, 6-3.

Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, def.

Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.

Anastasija Sevastova (13), Latvia, def. Mona Barthel, Germany, 6-3, 6-1.

Elise Mertens (12), Belgium, def.

Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 6-2, 7-5.

Anastasia Potapova, Russia, def.

Pauline Parmentier, France, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Madison Keys (17), United States, def. Destanee Aiava, Australia, 6-2, 6-2.

Transactions BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms with RHP Blake Parker on a one-year contract. Designated RHP John Curtiss for assignment.

Named Javier Valentin manager of Rochester (IL); Ramon Borrego manager, Cibney Bello and Justin Willard pitching coaches, Steve Singleton hitting coach and Davey LaCroix trainer of Pensacola (SL); Toby Gardenhire manager, Matt Borgsculte hitting coach, Luis Ramirez pitching coach, Frank Jagoda coach and Ben Myers trainer of Fort Myers (FSL); Brian Dinkelman manager, Ryan Smith hitting coach, Luis Rodriguez coach and Tyler Blair trainer of Cedar Rapids (MWL); Richard Salazar pitching coach of Elizabethton (Appalachian); Robbie Robinson manager, Zach Bove and Carlos Hernandez pitching coaches, Cesar Castillo strength coach, Asja Morello trainer and Micheal Thomas, Nate Rasmussen and Caleb Abney hitting coaches of the GCL Twins; Seth Feldman manager of the DSL Twins; Billy Boyer minor league infield and baserunning coordinator; Peter Fatse minor league hitting coordinator; Sam Perlozzo senior adviser to player development; Peter Larson minor league rehab pitching coach; and Matt Cheesman minor league equipment manager.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with INF DJ LeMahieu on a two-year contract. Designated OF Tim Locastro for assignment.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Kyle Wilson hitting coach of Arkansas (TL), Rob Marcello pitching coach of Modesto (Cal), Ari Ronick pitching coach and Amanda Lee trainer of Everett (NWL), Connor Dawson hitting coach of the AZL Mariners, Andy Bissell coach and Jorge Rodriguez trainer of the Dominican Academy Mariners, Max Weiner minor league pitching coordinator, Adam Bernero minor league peak performance coach and Trent Blank and Forrest Herrmann minor league pitching strategists.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms with OF Avisail Garcia on a one-year contract.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with RHP David Phelps on a one-year contract.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Named Perry Minasian senior vice president of baseball operations and assistant general manager; Alex Tamin assistant general manager, major league operations; Dixie Keller director, baseball administration; Garrett Wilson manager, baseball systems; Noah Woodward manager, major league operations; Elizabeth Teran executive assistant to the executive vice president and general manager; Matt Grabowski assistant director, amateur scouting operations; Ron Knight assistant director, minor league operations; Jonathan Schuerholz assistant director, professional scouting; and A.J. Scola assistant director, minor league personnel.

CHICAGO CUBS — Named Craig Breslow director of strategic initiatives for baseball operations.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with C Yasmani Grandal on a one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with LHP Derek Holland on a one-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed G Kadeem Allen to a two-way contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named Steve Wilks defensive coordinator, Todd Monken offensive coordinator, Mike Priefer special teams coordinator, Stump Mitchell running backs/run game coordinator, James Campen offensive line/associate head coach, Ryan Lindley quarterback coach, Jody Wright special assistant to the head coach, Jim Dray offensive quality control coach and Tyler Tettleton offensive quality control coach.

DENVER BRONCOS — Named Mike Munchak offensive line coach.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed S Isaiah Johnson, CB D.J. Killings and WR Jordan Veasy to reserve/future contracts.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Named Gary Kubiak assistant head coach/offensive advisor, Brian Pariani tight ends coach and Klint Kubiak quarterbacks coach.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed DE Avery Moss and G Chad Slade to reserve/future contracts.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Promoted Shaun Sarrett to offensive line coach.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHLPA — D Josh Gorges announced his retirement.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned G Adin Hill to Tucson (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Traded F Devin Shore to Anaheim for F Andrew Cogliano.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Stefan Noesen on injured reserve, retroactive to Saturday.

Recalled F Egor Yakovlev from Binghamton (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Reassigned G Brandon Halverson from Hartford (AHL) to Maine (ECHL).

Acquired F Connor Brickley from Nashville for LW Cole Schneider.

Recalled D Ryan Lindgren from Hartford (AHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Resigned F Marcus Sorensen to a two-year contract extension, through the 2020-21 season.

SOCCER Major League Soccer ATLANTA UNITED — Named Orlando Trustfull, Bob de Klerk and Rob Valentino assistant coaches.

LA GALAXY — Re-signed M Emmanuel Boateng.

National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Announced the retirement of D Christina Gibbons.

Acquired F Nahomi Kawasumi from Seattle for F Shea Groom.

WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Signed D Megan Crosson.

COLLEGE ALABAMA — LB Mack Wilson will enter the NFL draft.

BUCKNELL — Announced the resignation of football coach Joe Susan to assume a role within the athletics department.

CHARLESTON SOUTHERN — Named Autry Denson Jr. football coach.

COASTAL CAROLINA — Named Carrie Patterson associate head women’s soccer coach.

EAST CAROLINA — Named Nina Baloun director of football operations.

GEORGIA — Named Todd Hartley tight ends coach.

IOWA — TE T.J. Hockenson, DB Amani Hooker and DE Anthony Nelson will enter the NFL draft.

LSU — LB Devin White will enter the NFL draft.

NORTHWESTERN — Named Kurt Anderson offensive line coach.

OKLAHOMA — QB Kyler Murray will enter the NFL draft.

PITTSBURGH — Named Mark Whipple offensive coordinator.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — Suspended G Kevin Porter Jr. indefinitely from the men’s basketball team for an unspecified conduct issue.

SYRACUSE — Announced the resignation of women’s associate head lacrosse coach Regy Thorpe to become the coach and general manager of National Lacrosse League’s New York team.

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Wife gets the silent treatment without knowing reason why good at expressing their feelings. Rather than become upset with him, ASK if he is upset with you. If the answer is no, believe him and give him his space. It would be considerate (and mature) of him, however, to warn you when he’s upset about something that has nothing to do with you, without prompting.

DEAR ABBY: Is there an Abigail Van Buren organization that matches seniors who would love to be grandmothers with families that need grandparents for their child/children?

I’m a 70-year-old recent widow who has no grandchildren to love, take places, play games with or just be with. I would think in every city there are children with no seniors in their lives, seniors who could make great grandparents. It would be a win-win for both the child and the senior. It could also be a blessing for a single mother or father to have someone to help out with emergency child care or just have some extra “family” in their hometown.

-- UNFULFILLED GRANDMA IN MINNESOTA

DEAR UNFULFILLED: Unless the parents get to know you well, it isn’t likely they would entrust their children to your care. However, this doesn’t mean you cannot volunteer your time to help children in need.

One organization is Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (bbbs.org), which offers opportunities to mentor.

Another that might appeal to you is Foster Grandparents, which is sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

You could also call the hospitals in your area and ask if they need someone to come in on a regular basis to hold and rock premature infants and newborns.

If you contact CASA for Children (casaforchildren. org), you could become a court-appointed advocate for abused and neglected children and teens, which may provide the emotional satisfaction you need and fill the void you are feeling.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

To order “How to Write Letters for All Occasions,” send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby -- Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447.

Shipping and handling are included in the price.

Hints from Heloise

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019: This year proves to be nothing less than exciting. You might be resisting a change, or you could decide to just go with it. The less you fight the inevitable, the happier you will be. If you are single, do not decide that any bond is long term before it has lasted for at least a year. If you are attached, the two of you could test your boundaries, but ultimately will settle into a very stable and caring life together. TAURUS enjoys you and is of the same mindset.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You are well-aware of what is going on and maintain an appropriate demeanor. Your instincts will serve you well, but don’t take any risks where you can’t handle a loss.

A discussion could be informative and might affect your well-being. Tonight: Pay bills first.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH The Moon in your sign illuminates your personality and exaggerates your highs and lows. You might attempt to have a serious talk, and are likely to discover that the other party just isn’t in the mood for any heavy conversations. Tonight: You could be full of surprises.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You might feel constrained or as if you cannot get your message across. Remember, today is but one day in your life. Give yourself some space. Indulge in a favorite pastime.

You will be a lot more content accepting the present trends than fight-

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ing them. Tonight: Out late.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH Emphasize what is important to you in a changing situation. You don’t often support yourself in expressing your priorities. Discuss your desires and goals right now, as you have a willing audience. Follow through on a friend’s suggestion. Tonight: Where fun can be found.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Be ready to have a challenging discussion with a close associate. The two of you do not look at life from the same perspective.

Sharing your differences could be very rewarding and informative. Your dynamic energy produces surprising results. Tonight: A must appearance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Keep reaching out to someone you care about. This person might seem distant or closed off.

Your caring attitude makes quite a difference in this bond. Do not make assumptions about odd behavior.

More information will be forthcoming.

Tonight: Get into a favorite TV series.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could be exhausted by what is happening around you. You enjoy the good life and dislike instability, which seems to be surrounding you right now. Consider pulling out of a divisive situation or at least ignoring it for now. Tonight: Find a hot tub and soak your stress away.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH You could be tired and withdrawn in how you deal with a loved one. The real issue is control, which you think you need to have over situations. In reality, the only control you have is over yourself. En-

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courage more conversation. Tonight: Have a quiet chat with a loved one.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Take your time, and refuse to get overly serious about any matter. Reining yourself in a bit might be wise, as you seem to go to extremes.

You will find that you can realize a long-term wish, though at times you feel that it’s impossible. Tonight: Know when to change topics.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH You flourish with additional creativity and a sense of fun and adventure. You have many good ideas that someone might be trying to tease out of you. Your imagination becomes a source of wilder notions and concepts. Enjoy the discussions that ensue. Tonight: Ever playful.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You value friendship.

Sometimes you do not share your thoughts, because you do not want to disrupt the present moment or mood. You might want to discuss an important purchase for your home with a friend or loved one. Listen to the feedback. Tonight: Put up your feet.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You could have a very good idea; however, a lot seems to be happening quite quickly around you.

Turning an imaginative thought into reality could be challenging, even for you. A friend has a lot to share. Listen, and you might feel more grounded. Tonight: Out and about.

BORN TODAY Civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), drummer Gene Krupa (1909), actress Dove Cameron (1996)

WHOA, BABY! Dear Heloise: My granddaughters got some baby dolls for Christmas, but the prices of the baby-doll clothes are crazy!

Then I had a thought: What about real baby clothes? They are much cheaper, and are marked down all the time. My grandkids are happy with their baby wardrobes, and I’m happy I don’t have to spend so much!

-- Grandma Mary in Kansas GOOD DONATIONS Dear Heloise: I volunteer at a nonprofit in my hometown. In addition to many services we offer the community, we sell gently used clothing. We use this money to pay our utilities, etc., so it’s important funding.

When going through the donated bags, we select only the best -- clean, no animal hair, no smoke/offensive smells, no torn, stained or heavily used clothing.

However, we receive all of the above, which we have to haul off. The old electronics we receive (old televisions, VCR players, etc.) we have to pay the town dump to take.

I would ask your readers to think about their donations the next time they clean out their closets. If it’s junk, throw it away. If you’re truly wanting to help, bring the clothes YOU would want to buy.

-- Joseph F., via email JOB JAR Dear Readers: Let’s start off the new year on the right foot: How about creating a job jar? Write down all household chores on slips of paper and put them in a jar. Everyone in the family, even Mom and Dad, grabs a slip once per week and completes that task.

Makes for a fun, and fair, disbursement of the workload!

-- Heloise HINT FROM HIM Dear Heloise: Do you prefer reusable grocery bags? They’re convenient and great for the environment, but they can harbor germs! I run mine through the washer every month or so, and hang them to air-dry.

-- Mike P. in Massachusetts

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married more than 20 years. Once in a while, he’ll stop being affectionate and ceases talking to me. Obviously, he is upset. He holds it together for our children, but I get the serious cold shoulder.

He won’t tell me why he is unhappy. He simply expects me to give him “space.” This is difficult because I assume it’s something I have done, and I want to make it right. After several days, he’ll start coming around and talking to me again, and he expects me to jump right back into our usual behavior. But by this time I feel abandoned and resentful.

It generally takes me some time to warm back up to him, which doesn’t make him very happy since he doesn’t see anything wrong with his needing space. I realize that’s true, but should I be expected to put aside my hurt feelings overnight? How can I deal with these difficult days so I won’t feel so alone and get upset with him? And what should I do when he expects me to bounce right back?

-- TIED IN KNOTS IN TEXAS DEAR TIED IN KNOTS: You’re in a long marriage. Has your husband always behaved this way?

Talk to him about it at a time when he’s himself and not in one of his silent phases.

As you should be aware by now, not all men are

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Pets Inmates battling addiction get an unlikely ally: a puppy

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press

BOSCAWEN, N.H. — Caitlin Hyland’s New Hampshire jail cell looks like those of many of her fellow inmates, featuring family photos, a few books and a cot. But one thing sets it apart: the cage on the floor for a 4-week-old puppy.

Hyland, a 28-year-old from Concord, New Hampshire, who is serving time for a drug conviction, is one of four inmates at the Merrimack County jail

who are training puppies. In a partnership between a group called Hero Pups and the jail, two male and two female inmates, who are all in the jail’s drug treatment program, will raise the puppies for the next two months. They will eventually be handed over to military veterans and first responders who are struggling with posttraumatic stress disorder and other challenges. “It feels like a second chance,�

Hyland said of being chosen to raise the chocolate Labrador re-

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triever mix puppy. She must feed the dog three times a day, walk it every two hours for 20 minutes and is giving it obedience training. The dog stays with her around the clock. “It’s just amazing to have that unconditional love,� she continued. “I am learning so much about finding the balance. You have to love yourself before you can appreciate the love something else is giving you.�

Justin Martin, another inmate, says his dog has given

him a sense of purpose. “Knowing he is going on to help someone else is totally huge for me,� said Martin, 33, of Barnstead, New Hampshire. “With me and my sobriety and recovery, it’s just really a life-changer.

He is really changing two lives.�

The program is the first of its kind in New Hampshire but mirrors similar programs around the country in which inmates raise and care for animals, typically dogs.

NEADS World Class Service Dogs works with inmates at seven facilities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island to train service dogs, while Leader Dogs For the Blind works with prisons in Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan in raising puppies that eventually become guide dogs for people who are blind. At one program at the Erie County Correctional Facility in New York, inmates raise pheasant chicks that are then released into the wild.

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Supporters of the programs say the puppies get a dedicated trainer while the inmates learn to be more caring, compassionate and enterprising — skills that can help them once they are released. Several studies suggest that puppy programs in prisons and jails have reduced anxiety and depression among inmates and increased morale among staff.

Some groups say the programs have lowered recidivism rates, though it’s unclear what role the puppies played.

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