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In the news Corps corrects end date for Pebble project comment period JUNEAU — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has corrected the closing date for the extended comment period for a draft environmental review of a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.

The corps earlier this month said it was extending the comment period from 90 days to 120 days and said it would end June 29.

However, John Budnik, a spokesman for the corps, said by email Monday that a formal comment period cannot close on a weekend. He says the new close date is July 1.

The Pebble Limited Partnership wants to develop the mine in Southwest Alaska. Critics of the project fear it could impact a major salmon fishery.

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Knopp censured by Republicans

By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

Rep. Gary Knopp, RKenai/Soldotna, faced an official censure on Friday from the Alaska Republican Party State Central Committee for his role in forming a majority coalition with Democratic representatives at the beginning of this year’s legislative session.

Glenn Clary, chairman of the State Central Committee, said that the censure will have three major consequences for Knopp: Knopp will no longer receive any official support — financial or otherwise — from the Alaska Republican Party; a primary chal-

Rep. Gary Knopp, R-Kenai/Soldotna, and Rep. Dave Talerico, R-Healy, sit next to each other after Knopp voted not to confirm Talerico as Speaker of the House on Feb. 5. (Alex McCarthy | Juneau Empire)

lenger to Knopp will be supported by the party and Knopp will be prohibited

from participating in any official Alaska Republican Party activities.

As of now, two people have already filed as primary challengers against Knopp, who is up for reelection in 2020: Ron Gillham, who previously ran against Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, in the last election cycle, and former Rep. Kelly Wolf.

Clary said that the Alaska Republican Party has not yet endorsed either of these candidates.

The motion for censure was made during Friday’s Republican Party committee meeting in Kenai by Jason Floyd, a member of the District 30 Republicans and a constituent of Knopp.

According to the language in the motion, Knopp “enSee REP, page A2

Troopers arrest suspect in death of Fairbanks woman FAIRBANKS — Alaska State Troopers have arrested a 25-yearold Fairbanks man suspected of killing a 69-year-old woman with whom he had been staying.

A trooper patrolling Friday north of North Pole spotted Patrick Marsh walking. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Marsh provided a false name but troopers positively identified and arrested him.

Marsh is charged with killing Trisha Pearson on May 12 at her home west of Fairbanks.

Prosecutors say a home video surveillance system installed by another of Pearson’s tenants captured images of Marsh striking Pearson with pieces of furniture and strangling her.

Prosecutors say Marsh covered Pearson’s body and left the house in her sport utility vehicle. The SUV was found abandoned in east Fairbanks.

Other tenants asked a friend to check on Pearson. Her body was found May 13.

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Caroline Huber, left, and Derek Brown graduated from the IDEA Homeschool program at the Kenai Central High School on Saturday. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

A unique ceremony for a unique school IDEA home-school students graduate

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

A statewide home-school program graduated 45 Kenai Peninsula students Saturday afternoon.

IDEA Homeschool is a statewide home-schooling program that began out of

the Galena City School District in 1997.

The program has a handful of local offices across the state, including on the Kenai Peninsula, where the program serves nearly 1,000 students.

“It’s an amazing program,” Dean O’Dell, the site

administrator for the local office, said. “We serve quite a few families here.”

O’Dell said the IDEA Homeschool graduation is not a typical ceremony.

“Our ceremony is a little different than most,” O’Dell said. “Instead of administrators handing diplomas to

Crime bill vote delayed

By Ben Hohenstatt Juneau Empire

Representatives hadn’t seen a new crime bill more than an hour after the legislation was expected on the House floor Monday, and they expected the delay was just getting started.

A delayed afternoon flight, 4 p.m. caucusing and 5 p.m. public testimony combined to form an hourslong delay for an expected 3 p.m. vote on House Bill 49.

“The intent is to go tonight even if it’s a little bit later than we normally would like and take a vote on the crime bill,” Rep. Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage, told the Juneau Empire.

“It’s just kind of a weird special session delay.”

Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, agreed the

delay was an odd one in light of the sunny weather in Southeast Alaska.

See VOTE, page A2

Troopers begin high-visibility enforcement campaign

By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

Alaskans can expect to see a higher number of State Troopers on the highways for the next two weeks, and those troopers will specifically be on the

students, we encourage the parents to take part and hand the diplomas to the students.

It’s really quite special and unlike most ceremonies.”

Caroline Huber, a senior who graduated this year, said her favorite part of studying in the program was See IDEA, page A3

lookout for people who aren’t wearing their seat belt.

Alaska State and Wildlife Troopers have begun their Annual Click It or Ticket high-visibility enforcement efforts across the state, according to

a Monday press release from the Department of Public Safety. Colonel Barry Wilson, director of the Alaska State Troopers, said that the main focus of the campaign is to save lives.

See HIGH, page A3

School board approves some nontenured teacher contracts

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Sixty two non-tenured teachers will avoid pink slips at the end of this year.

At Thursday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meeting, the school board moved to offer contracts to more than 60 teachers across the district. The jobs weren’t secure due to fiscal uncertainty around Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed budget and the local contribution from the borough. Education funding is in a more certain place, now that Gov. Dunleavy has promised to not veto education funding and the borough says they’ll fund to the cap, or to the maximum allowable by statute.

“The only reason the district waited on NonTenured teacher contracts was due to the fiscal uncertainty of state funding for FY20,” Pegge Erkeneff, communications liaison for the district, said in an email.

The contracts are based on contracts that were set to expire last June, but are still in effect.

Since May 8, the district and two employee associations, Kenai Peninsula Education Association and Kenai Peninsula Education Support Association, have been negotiating a new contract in several collective bargaining meetings, to replace the outdated agreement. Thursday’s session ended with no conSee BOARD, page A3

Fatalities confirmed in floatplane crash

By Ben Hohenstatt Juneau Empire

Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, speaks about the House’s work on the crime bill at the canyon Monday. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire)

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Two people died after a floatplane crashed in the water near Ketchikan late Monday afternoon.

A pilot and a single passenger died after a Taquan Air Beaver floatplane crashed in Metlakatla Harbor at 4:10 p.m., according to a press release from the emergency Operations Center in Ketchikan. No others were aboard the plane.

The names of the deceased in Monday’s crash were not released Monday evening pending notification of next of kin.

The fatal crash comes one week after a fatal mid-air collision involving two floatplanes near Ketchikan. Six died and 10 were injured in that crash.

A Taquan Air Beaver was also involved in that crash.

Both of the deceased were brought to the Annette Island Service Unit, and good Samaritans brought the Beaver to the beach until it could be secured, according to the release.

The U.S. Coast Guard received a report of the crash at 4:10 p.m., according to Public Affairs Specialist Lauren Dean.

“The Coast Guard has responded to that, but we’re not the lead on that case,” Dean said.

She said Metlakatla Police, Alaska State Troopers, local EMS and good Samaritans were able to assist the people aboard the floatplane before the Coast Guard was on the scene.

Fifteen members of the Metlakatla Volunteer Fire Department responded to the crash. A seine boat was first on scene.

The Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad dispatched a 26-foot rescue boat at 4:56 p.m. with eight volunteers, according to the release.

While circumstances of the crash have not been released, Jerry Kiffer, Incident Commander for Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad told the Juneau Empire that while he could not speak to the exact conditions in Metlakatla Harbor visibility was good and See CRASH, page A3

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“I don’t think anyone thought they’d have any problems with getting in,” Wilson said in an interview with the Empire.

Additionally, public testimony for House Bill 1001, a bill appropriating money for public education, was scheduled for 5 p.m. Monday, which Wilson expected to push a vote further back.

“It could be quite a bit later,” Wilson said. “I don’t think we’ll be lonely.”

While legislators had yet to see the bill late Monday afternoon, Wilson said she anticipated that both legislators in favor and opposed to the bill will be “content” with HB 49. The bill is expected to result in putting more Alaskans in prison for longer sentences.

Both Wilson and Sara

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gaged in actions detrimental to Alaska Republicans or to Republican values and goals.”

The motion cited Knopp’s vote against the Republican House Majority, his vote against Republican House Speaker candidate Dave Talerico, R-Healy — which prevented the House from organizing with a Republican majority — and Knopp’s public statement that he would rather organize with a select group of Republicans and Democrats than with 21 Republicans.

The censure was passed unanimously. Knopp was also in attendance during the meeting.

Knopp has had to justify his actions to constituents repeatedly throughout this year’s legislative session.

In the first 30 days of the regular legislative session, Knopp refused to vote for a Republican Speaker of the House, and said during a

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Hannan, D-Juneau, said the impact of the bill would be expected to create more prisoners than Alaska’s facilities could contain, which would necessitate sending prisoners out of state.

“We’re going to open up Palmer, and that still won’t be enough,” Wilson said.

Hannan, who had not yet seen the most recently revised version of the bill, said she took issue with its approach to addressing crime.

“For all political regards, it remains the repeal of Senate Bill 91,” Hannan said in an interview. “I’ve been burglarized and I’ve been assaulted, so it’s not that I don’t care about crime, but my concerns always were with the bill, as it is written, is all it’s doing is increasing punishments.”

She said while individuals would be expected to receive longer sentences, the bill does not provide more funding for police officers

or additional resources for prosecutors.

“If we don’t put more police into enforcement, if we don’t have more defense attorneys, we still don’t end up with any reduction in crime, just longer punishments,” Hannan said.

Wilson said she hopes the extension the Legislature has received in the form of the special session allows for some of those issues to be addressed.

“There’s no treatment in this bill whatsoever,” Wilson said in reference to programs that could help rehabilitate inmates.

She said she hopes that’s a concern that the Legislature will get to through new legislation or the budget before it convenes. Wilson said folks sent out of state have the right to come back to Alaska, and it’s irrational to expect them to find the resources that would help reduce recidivism.

“We absolutely need to address some of those things this year,” Wilson said.

town hall held in Soldotna on Feb. 15 that he did so because he didn’t feel that a 21-person Republican Majority would be a strong enough coalition to get things done during session.

Knopp has said that his primary goal has always been getting a budget

passed, but even with the bipartisan majority coalition that Knopp helped form, the House was unable to pass a budget during regular session and was forced to go into an extended session to deal with that and several other issues including crime, education and

the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend.

Clary said that the topic of censure was initially brought up within the State Central Committee back in January, during the fight over organization in the House, but the issue was tabled at that time.

More delays to come?

Like the tardy crime bill, boxes also weren’t present around the Capitol Monday afternoon.

However, legislators were split on whether a lack of packing portends the special session could be a long one.

Wilson chalked it up to a sign of the digital age, making toting around physical files unnecessary. Additionally, she said legislators know they’ll be coming back to their offices again next year.

Hannan was less optimistic and said the state’s budget and the size of Alaska Permanent Fund dividend checks are likely, in her estimation, to be sticking points.

“I think we’re going to use all 30 days of the session,” Hannan said. “I think the wheels have come to a screeching halt.”

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LeeShore Center monthly board meeting Sterling Community Rec Center: May

The LeeShore Center will be holding its monthly Board —Pickleball: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 10 a.m.-12 meeting at The LeeShore Center on Wednesday May 29. The p.m.

Book to Action Climate Series meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. For further —Beginner pickleball lessons: Tuesdays, 12 p.m.

— Intermediate pickleball lessons: Wednesdays, 9 a.m.

In partnership with the Soldotna Library and Ke- information call 283-9479.

—Weight room: Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday naiChange, Cook Inletkeeper is excited to host the third Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival (Free weights, squat rack, rowing machine, cardio bikes, event in a Book to Action Climate Series on Thursday, May Into its 20th year, the Seldovia Summer Solstice Music tread mill, elliptical, and yoga balls/mats) 23 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Soldotna Public Library. This —Zumba: Mondays at 6 p.m. series uses the bestselling book “Drawdown: The Most Com- Festival is happening June 20-23 in Seldovia and is building —Teen Center: 12-15 years old. $2 per visit. 3:30-5:30 prehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming” to be an event to remember. The headliners are the Sahnas to focus on climate action and local solutions. May’s topic is Brothers and Suzanne Lansford who play a blend of Greek, p.m. Monday-Friday. Air hockey, fosse ball, video games, transportation and will include a panel discussion focused on Latin, and Flaminco guitar music with the added flair of Su- Wi-Fi, and gym time.

—Home school gym time: Fridays at 12-2 p.m. public transit on the Kenai. Refreshments will be provided. zanne Lansford’s excellent fiddle accompaniment. The sec—After school rec program: 3:30-5:30 p.m. Monday to The series is held the fourth Thursday of each month. Future ond headliner is Tumbledown House Band, which performed topics will include Food and Agriculture, Built Environment, at Salmonfest 2018. Also appearing from Alaska is the Emily Friday. Registration anytime Call for information 907-262-7224. Adults $3 per visit, and Community Action. For more information contact lau- Anderson Band from Fairbanks, Kat Moore from the Super Saturated Sugar Strings, Noah Proctor and Kelly Baber from seniors $2 per visit, teens $2 per visit, and children $1 per ra@inletkeeper.org Soldotna, Susan Mumma and Daryl and the Scribs from Sel- visit Soldotna Senior Center Luau Fundraiser dovia. Happening at the same time is the 5th annual Higgy’s Soldotna Senior Center will be hosting their annual Ha- En Plein Air Art Festival with Emil Vinberg and Jen Jolliff Mouth to Mouth Wild Run and Ride Registration now open for 2019 Mouth to Mouth Wild waiian Luau fundraiser on Saturday, June 15, starting at as Headliners. Both events have free workshops along with 5:30 p.m. This event is open to the public. Enjoy a fun filled musical busking, a song circle with the performers and other Run and Ride. The 6th annual Mouth to Mouth will take evening starting with a wonderful Hawaiian feast, continu- activities to make this a truly memorable weekend! Tickets place on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27. A 10-mile beach ing with fabulous hula dancing demonstrations by Pua Mae are $40 for an all festival Adult pass, Teens $16., under 12 run or fat bike ride between Kasilof and Kenai River mouths Ole and Na Manu Olu hula dancing troupes, and wrapping free. More info on Facebook- Seldovia Summer Solstice Mu- begins at 2 p.m. at Kasilof River Special Use Area off Kasilof Beach Stub Road and ends at Kenai South Beach parking up with our outcry auction. There will be many silent auc- sic Festival or the seldoviaartscouncil.net. lot off Cannery Rd. Registration at 12 p.m. 3 mile beach run tion items available for bidding, as well as door prizes given Caregiving and Depression from Cannery Road Beach to Kenai River mouth and back throughout the night. Tickets are $26 for adults and $13 for Caregiver Support Meeting will take place Tuesday, May begins at 3 p.m. at Cannery Road beach access off Dunes children under 12. For tickets and reservations, please call 21 at 1 p.m. at Kenai Senior Center. Topic: Caregiving and Road. Registration at 2 p.m. Register online at https://inlet262-2322.

Depression. During Mental Health Month, we will discuss keeper.org/m2m/. Advance registration $30 ($25 for Cook Flotilla events notice how caregiving puts you at risk for depression. Please join us Inletkeeper members), day of registration $40 ($35 for memThe United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Kenai Flotilla, to share your experiences as a caregiver, or to support some- bers). will be conducting a “FREE BOAT/VESSEL SAFETY one who is a caregiver. For more information, call Sharon or Kenai Senior Center activities May CHECK” at Fred Myers parking lot located at 43843 Ster- Judy at 907-262-1280.

The Kenai Senior Center is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monling Highway in Soldotna on Friday, May 24 and Saturday, 2nd Annual Disability Pride day to Friday, and are open until 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays.

May 25 from 10 a.m.-4 pm. This event is to inform boaters The Kenai Peninsula will celebrate its 2nd Annual Pride Community meals are served Monday to Friday from 11:30 and boat owners to check and equip their boats with safety equipment in compliance with the state and federal regula- Celebration on Saturday, July 20 at the Soldotna Creek Park a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost for lunch is $7 suggested donation for tions. Boats that pass the check list will receive a vessel safety from 12-4 p.m. This is a national event, which celebrates the individuals 60 or older, $14 for those under 60. Call 907-283check decal. Contact the Vessel Exam Officer, Jon Bartelds signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability 4156 for more information.

Pride is seeking sponsors for this event and extends a warm —Thursdays in May: M&M Knitting group, 1-2 p.m.

907-398-9933 for more information. invitation to you and your business to participate. We hope —Kumi with Kit 2, Japanese braided key-chain project, Sterling Senior Center breakfast to hear back from you by June 3. Contact Maggie Winston Tuesday, May 21, 1 p.m.

—Kenai Peninsula Caregivers Group, Tuesday, May 21, The Sterling Senior Center is serving breakfast on Sat- at 907-740-0410 or Nikki Marcano at 907-262-6351. Donaurday, May 25 from 9 a.m. to noon. Menu includes bacon, tions can be mailed to Independent Living Center at 47255 1-3 p.m.

—Memorial Day (observed): wear your red shirts, Friday, sausage, pancakes, scrambled eggs, and biscuits and gravy. Princeton Ave., #8, Soldotna, AK, 99669.

May 24, 11:30 a.m.

Adults $10, children $5. All proceeds benefit the center. Free Picnic at the Food Bank —Closed, Memorial Day, Monday, May 27 Everyone welcome. Further info, call 262-6808.

Join us for the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank Spring Festival —Health Fair Walker and Roller Fun Run, Wednesday, Nikiski community council meeting and Fundraiser on Friday, May 31 from noon to 7 p.m. This May 29, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Nikiski community council meeting rescheduled is a community event for all ages and an opportunity for us —Food Bank Spring Festival, BBQ, Friday, May 31, Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m. at fire station #2 in the con- to thank you, our neighbors, for your support. There will be 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. a free barbecue/picnic, games, music, cake walks and bucket ference room. Voting on bylaws.

Al-Anon support group meetings raffles. There will be prizes for the kids and even a clown Midnight Sun Soiree making balloon animals. A no host beer/wine garden will be Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central The LeeShore Center invites you to join us at the Ke- from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and if you donate a food item you will Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 nai Elks Lodge Saturday June, 8 6-11 p.m. for the Mid- be entered the drawing for a special prize. p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and night Sun Soiree with Prime Rib Dinner, Silent Auc- 5th Annual Homeschool Swap and Share enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. tion, Split the Pot, Raffle, Door Prizes, Live Music and 5th Annual Homeschool Swap and Share will take place Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information.

Dancing. Tickets are $60 per person or $110 per couple and available at The LeeShore Center or online at www. Tuesday and Wednesday, May 21-22 from 10 a.m. to 4 2019 Women On Target Clinic schedule leeshoreak.org. roceeds to help fund construction of a p.m. at Star of the Northern Lutheran Church, 216 N. ForGo to our events and sign up on Eventbrite “get tickets” heated storage building. For more information contact est Drive, Kenai. Everyone is welcome. Bring any materials, curriculum, toys, games that you wish to share with other and review the instructions on Facebook-Kenai Peninsula the LeeShore Center at 283-9479. home-school families. Or stop by to browse the selection of Women on Target. You must be 18 years of age. June 8: Intro Novice rally obedience class donated items. All items are free. Contact Karen at karen@ to pistol; June 29: Intro to pistol; August 2: Intro to Rifle.

Sponsored by Friends of the NRA, Kenai Peninsula SCI and Peninsula Dog Obedience Group will be offering a acsalaska.net or 907-205-0663.

Snowshoe Gun Club. novice rally obedience class and a conformation class 2019 TriTheKenai Triathlon starting on May 29. For more information, contact us Kenai River Festival Salvage Art Exhibit The 2019 TriTheKenai triathlon is set for Sunday, June 9. at rael@ptialaska.net or visit our facebook page (PenThis event is a great beginner triathlon for adults (15+) and Creative entries for the Salvage Art Exhibit are encourDOG). youth (6-14) and includes both individual and team events aged to be displayed at the Kenai River Festival June 7-9 KDLL Spring Membership Drive and for the serious-minded triathlete. We offer the more chal- This event is cosponsored by ReGroup and The Kenai Fine KDLL Public Radio has its Spring Membership Drive lenging intermediate distance event. The nonprofit TriTheK- Art Center. Recycling at other summer events will be disfrom 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 23 and 24 and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. enai is a great family fun community event and this year our cussed at the monthly meeting of ReGroup Monday, April May 25, with special, original programming, live music charity of choice is the Soldotna Montessori Food Box pro- 15 at 6:30 p.m. in the Hope Community Center on Princand a raffle for concert tickets. Tune in at 91.9 FM or listen gram. If you are not a racer, we are always in need of volun- eton Ave. just off K-Beach. Details of the upcoming Eleconline at www.kdll.org. Call 283-8433 for more information teers on race day. Contact Janice at volunteer@trithekenai. tronics Recycling Event May 4 will be finalized. For more com. Get all the event details or register at www.trithekenai. information or to volunteer to help at any of these happenings or visit KDLL 91.9 FM on Facebook. com or email me at wahoo@trithekenai.com or call 252- call 252-2773.

2019 Celebration of Birds 0558.

Kenai Community Library: May The Keen Eye Bird Club is hosting Saturday bird Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor class —Lego Maker Mondays, Mondays from 4-5 p.m.: Do walk opportunities led by local bird enthusiasts. SchedThe Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) you like LEGOs? Why not join us each week to create with ule follows: May 25 Kenai Wildlife Refuge Walk, 8-10 a.m.; June 1 Bishop Creek/Stormy Lake Walk 8-10 a.m. will offer a Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor class in Homer on LEGO based on themes inspired by children’s books! Best Families encouraged. Weather appropriate clothing is May 25 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The class will be conducted at the for children ages 6-12; children under 8 must be accompasuggested. For more information refer to the Kenai Pen- Best Western Bidarka Inn, 575 Sterling Highway. This class is nied by an adult.

—Wee Read Story Time, Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.: insula Birding Festival Facebook Page or call 262-7767. free to commercial fishermen, thanks to support from the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community & Economic DevelopDesigned for children ages 0-3. Every Tuesday enjoy a Trump immigration policies and Alaska ment, the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, program full of stories, songs, finger play and more! No Margaret Stock, immigration expert/attorney, will and AMSEA members. The cost is $175 for all others. Interested registration required. talk about changes in immigration law and policy that have mariners may register at www.amsea.org or call 907-747-3287.

—Chess Club, Tuesdays at 4 p.m.: Get ready to ROOK been implemented since President Donald Trump took ofthe HOUSE every Tuesday! Do you like playing Chess or fice, and how these changes affect Alaskans on Thursday, Kenai Performers’ summer drama camp would you like to learn how? The Kenai Community LiJunior session, ages 5-7, June 17-June 28, Monday-Friday, brary is proud to offer a casual program for chess players May 23 from 6-8 p.m. at the Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. Changes include the slowing of legal immigration, 10 a.m.-noon. Fee: $250. Senior session, ages 8-18, June 17-July of all ages and skill levels. Chess boards will be provided. increases in denials of visa petitions and citizenship applica- 13, Monday-Friday, 12:30-4 p.m. Fee: $450. Location: 43335 —Preschool Story Time, Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.: tions, reduced refugee numbers, and the growth in detention K-Beach Road (backside of Subway). Early enrollment dis- Designed for children ages 3-5. Every Wednesday enjoy of asylum seekers. Hosted by Many Voices. https://www. count if fee is paid by June 1. For more information or to a program full of stories, songs, movement and more! No register, call Terri at 252-6808. facebook.com/events/325949158103118/ registration required.

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“Memorial Day weekend serves as a kick-off to summer,” Wilson said in Monday’s press release.

“We want people to go out and have a good time.

We just ask that you do it with a plan in place to get

home safe. Wear your seat belt.”

Since 1989, Alaska law has required that all occupants of a motor vehicle wear a seat belt while driving on the highway.

The high-visibility enforcement campaign is funded by grants from the Alaska Highway Safety Office and will run through June 2.

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not abnormally windy.

“It was a typical Ketchikan day,” he said, Continued from page A1 Kiffer said when rescue squad personnel arrived at there was no rain this after- the site of the wreck, the noon in Ketchikan. two people aboard the plane Kiffer said there was had already been removed some slight wind, but it was and good Samaritans had

secured the float plane.

“The boat harbor there is very close to where the aircraft loads and unloads,” Kiffer said. “It’s our understanding that the air raft was landing in the harbor.”

Kiffer said he could not

recall two fatal crashes happening in such quick succession.

“It’s unusual,” he said.

“We have had multiple fatal accidents before, but not in recent years. I don’t really recall there being something within a week.”

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a professor at UAA,” Huber said. “I hope to go into vocal performance.”

Continued from page A1 She said being homeschooled her whole life has being able to focus on her allowed her more freedom and to be closer to her famvocal studies.

“I got to go to Anchorage ily.

“I feel like public school and take voice lessons from probably wouldn’t bring

that,” Huber said.

Huber will be attending bible school in Wyoming, and then go onto a four-year university.

The IDEA home-school program has allowed graduating senior Derek Brown to go to school at his own pace, he said.

“I went to public school for a year and it did a toll on me,” Brown said. “In this program, I’ve been able to not stress as much. I can move at my own pace and do my homework anywhere.”

Now graduated, Brown is gearing up for a two-year mission with his church.

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I’m concerned that several teachers are not on the list. I don’t know how many, but I hope they get contracts soon, but thank you for putting 62 names out tonight.”

The number of teachers still waiting on contracts is unclear at this time.

School board member Jason Tauriainen’s wife was on

the list of non-tenured teachers set to receive a contract.

He abstained from voting due to a conflict interest.

“I’m very pleased we’re offering these contracts,” school board member Debbie Carey said. “All of our employees are hardworking and unique and we appreciate what you do.”

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tract, and no plans for further meetings.

David Brighton, president of the Kenai Peninsula Education Association, told the Clarion last week that

the associations were considering a strike.

“It’s been a long difficult legislative session,” Brighton said at the meeting.

“I’m happy to see we’re not looking at any cuts, according to what the Legislature says. I’m happy the borough has given us some assurance they’ll fund to the cap.

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What others say

Trump’s tariffs bring economic uncertainty President Trump often cites the stock market as proof of his economic-policy success, so let’s hope he was watching the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday. The Dow fell 2.38%, and the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 fell even more, on the escalating tariff dispute between the U.S. and China.

Stocks are volatile, but there’s no denying that markets are rising or falling these days in substantial part on the prospects of a U.S.-China trade deal. They fell Friday morning after Mr. Trump raised tariffs to 25% on $200 billion in Chinese exports to the U.S., then rose later that day on word that bilateral talks had been “constructive.”

Equities fell again Monday when China retaliated with tariffs up to 25% on $60 billion of U.S. goods.

The Dow is now nearly 1300 points lower than it was in January 2018 when Mr. Trump began his tariff offensive — despite the best 12 months for economic growth since 2005 and healthy corporate profits. The stock market isn’t the only measure of economic health, and it can send false signals, but in this case the clear market message is that tariffs will subtract from economic growth.

Regarding China, Americans have been giving Mr. Trump the benefit of the doubt that his tariff strategy is intended as leverage to negotiate a better, fairer trading regime. But Mr. Trump seems to sincerely believe that tariffs are a free lunch. “The unexpectedly good first quarter 3.2% GDP was greatly helped by Tariffs from China. Some people just don’t get it!” Mr. Trump tweeted Monday.

But tariffs are taxes that raise the price of Chinese goods for U.S. consumers and producers. They also raise the price of domestic goods that compete with Chinese imports because U.S. producers tend to raise their prices with the competition. This is what happened after Mr. Trump raised tariffs on washing machines, as we wrote on May 1.

Mr. Trump may be pointing to the one-percentage point added to GDP in the first quarter due to an increase in net exports (exports less imports) as imports fell. But this came after a surge of imports in the second half of 2018 due to faster U.S. growth and as companies tried to get out ahead of Mr. Trump’s potential imposition of higher tariffs.

Jobs in U.S. manufacturing, which relies on export markets, surged in 2017 and 2018 but that growth has slowed in recent months as tariff uncertainty has increased.

The ultimate economic cost of tariffs is hard to measure precisely because it extends beyond the tariff rate to the impact of uncertainty on trade and investment decisions. But there’s not an economist we know — White House adviser Peter Navarro doesn’t count — who thinks that tariffs are a net economic benefit.

Don Rissmiller of Strategas Research Partners estimates a hit to GDP this year of “about -0.1% point for every 2 months we go along with the higher China tariff rates, or roughly -0.5% for a year. A little more than half of this is through reduced confidence & lower investment.” That estimate sounds as good as any, unless the trade war gets worse.

Mr. Trump may feel this is a price worth paying if it drives a deal that opens China’s market up to fairer rules of trade and investment. But the economic payoff is the deal, not the tariffs that are a deadweight economic loss.

— The Wall Street Journal, May 13

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Repeal hurts fight against Medicaid fraud A laska V oices E mily S tabile The state Legislature is leaving much-needed money on the table and hurting the state’s efforts to fight health care fraud by failing to stop the automatic repeal of the whistleblower provisions in Alaska’s three-year-old Medicaid fraud law.

The Alaska Medicaid False Claims Act, which the Legislature passed with bipartisan support in 2016, encourages whistleblowers to sue, on behalf of the state, health care providers and other entities that are fraudulently siphoning off Medicaid funds. The law protects whistleblowers from job retaliation and provides financial rewards, if the government recovers funds as a result of their case.

One incentive for adopting the statute was that it could increase the state’s share of recoveries in Medicaid fraud cases from 50 to 55%, with the federal government getting the remaining share.

The federal government increases the share of recovered funds, with certain conditions, to encourage states to enact whistleblower laws to fight Medicaid fraud.

That incentive is even more important as the state’s budget deficit grows.

In addition, whistleblower programs are the most effective way to stop significant health care fraud by incentivizing insiders with detailed information about fraud to step forward. The federal government, for instance, has recovered

over $32 billion as a result of whistleblower cases exposing health care fraud that were brought under the federal False Claims Act, on which the Alaska law is modeled.

Yet the Legislature has taken no action to revoke the automatic repeal of the whistleblower provisions that were part of the state statute when it was enacted. Unless the state Legislature takes steps to repeal the statutory “sunset” on the whistleblower provisions before the close of the legislative session, these provisions will cease to be effective as of July 1 this year.

Like the federal False Claims Act, the Alaska Medicaid False Claims Act prohibits health care providers and others from knowingly submitting fraudulent claims for treatment of Medicaid patients. It also prohibits providers and others from creating false or fraudulent records to avoid or decrease payments owed to the government, such as excess payments that providers might have received.

So much fraud is well hidden and disguised that enforcement agencies need insider information about these fraudulent schemes that only whistleblowers can provide. But whistleblowers risk their jobs and careers when they do step forward, so job protection measures and financial incentives are needed to help balance the significant risks whistleblowers are taking to help society.

Health care providers and others who are found liable in false claims cases are required to pay three times the government’s losses plus penalties for each false claim, but most cases tend to settle for less. The whistleblower is rewarded with 15 to 30% of the recovery, depending on many factors, including whether the government intervenes in the case.

The reason for the automatic repeal of the whistleblower provisions, according to Sen. Pete Kelly’s sponsor statement in 2016, is to protect providers by assuring “frivolous lawsuits remain in check.”

The bogeyman of “frivolous lawsuits” was raised by the health care industry and other opponents to the federal False Claims Act when it was enacted 33 years ago, yet the flood of frivolous lawsuits that opponents warned would come did not happen. Instead, the law has become the federal government’s most powerful weapon to fight healthcare fraud.

In addition, there appears to be no sign that the whistleblower provisions of Alaska’s law are being used to file frivolous lawsuits. Given that cases under the law are filed “under seal” and remain confidential while the government investigates, the number of cases filed since the law was enacted less than three years ago is unknown. Therefore, it is far too soon for Alaska’s Legislature to evaluate the impact of the law, whether there have been any problems and whether repeal of the whistleblower provisions are warranted.

At a time when Alaska faces a $1.6 billion budget deficit and severe funding cuts in public schools, health care and other important programs, the state Legislature should be looking for additional ways to stop fraud that is costing taxpayers money.

Revoking the repeal of the whistleblower provisions of the state false claims law would be a good, no-cost way to start.

Emily Stabile is an attorney with the law firm of Phillips & Cohen LLP in San Francisco.

News and Politics

Architects of post-9/11 CIA interrogation program to testify

By BEN FOX Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Two former CIA contractors who designed the harsh interrogation program used after the Sept. 11 attacks are being summoned to testify before the military tribunal at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were among a dozen approved witnesses listed in a letter sent Monday by prosecutors to defense lawyers for five men charged in the 2001 attacks.

Defense lawyers in the long-running Sept. 11 military tribunal want to question Mitchell and Jessen as part of an effort to exclude statements the defendants made to the FBI at Guantanamo after being subjected to brutal treatment in clandestine CIA detention facilities.

The defense lawyers are also seeking to compel testimony from dozens

of current and former CIA officers who were involved with what the government called the "enhanced" interrogation program.

Mitchell and Jessen gave depositions in a civil lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three former U.S. prisoners, including one who died in custody. That case was settled for undisclosed terms in August 2017 and the two former contractors did not testify in court.

"This will be the first time Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Jessen will have to testify in a criminal proceeding about the torture program they implemented," said James Connell, a lawyer for Ammar al Baluchi, one of the five Guantanamo prisoners facing trial by military commission for their alleged roles in the attack.

Mitchell and Jessen helped design an interrogation program that included such abusive techniques as prolonged sleep deprivation, confinement in small,

enclosed spaces and waterboarding. The former contractors have defended their work, arguing it was legal and necessary.

A Senate investigation in 2014 found that Mitchell and Jessen's techniques were not effective.

At the earliest, the two former contractors would testify at a pretrial hearing scheduled for July, though it could be later. The proceedings have faced repeated delays, largely because of legal issues related to the treatment of the five defendants while in CIA custody.

The defendants include Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, who has portrayed himself as the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacking plot. He and his co-defendants were arraigned in May 2012 on charges that include terrorism and nearly 3,000 counts of murder in violation of the law of war. They could get the death penalty if convicted by the commission, which combines elements of military and civilian law.

subservience and complicity, one has little alternative but to include Alaska’s congressional contingent among those willing to become mere ’subjects’.

That small-minded man, the one with those self-inflated delusions of his own grandeur, has no real wish to make America great again, his obvious aim is remake America in his false and wholly self-constructed image, put an end to the very founding

principles and ideals that formed this nation, and simultaneously erase all evidence of what America truly once was.

America’s founders rejected the tyrannical rule of kings and fought to establish new, honorable, worthy, and more equitable ideals of governance, ideals which are still very much worth guarding and defending today.

Letter to the Editor We must resist tyranny One exceedingly small-minded man’s egomaniacal role playing, his seeing himself as America’s tyrant king, is as great a betrayal of this country’s founding tenets and doctrines as are the complicit betrayals of the many willingly clamoring to become nothing much more than that man’s most subservient of ’subjects’.

And by their own unmistakable

— Paul Zimmerman, Kasilof

Nation Feds: DeVos used personal emails for work in ‘limited’ cases

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has sometimes used her personal email accounts for government business and has not always properly saved the messages, according to an internal investigation released Monday.

The agency’s Office of Inspector General, which was investigating at the request of House Democrats, said it searched the department’s email system and found a “limited” number of messages to or from DeVos’ personal accounts. In total, it said there were “fewer than 100” emails linked to four personal accounts.

Most of the emails were from the first six months of 2017, soon after DeVos took office, and most were from a single person, the inquiry found. The person, who was not identified in the report, was writing to recommend candidates for agency jobs. Other emails were from people who congratulated DeVos on

her confirmation or offered other job advice.

In total, investigators said they identified six emails sent by DeVos on private accounts, including five that involved official agency business. The inquiry concluded that there was no evidence of “active or extensive” use of DeVos’ personal accounts.

The secretary’s office told investigators it was taking “additional steps to identify and preserve” emails in her personal accounts. A department spokeswoman declined to comment for this story.

Under department rules, employees are forbidden from using personal emails for government business except in rare circumstances when their work accounts are unavailable.

In those cases, employees are required to forward the messages to their work accounts within 20 days. But in DeVos’ case, the report said, that never happened.

“We did not identify any instances where the secretary forwarded emails from

In this file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)

her personal accounts to her department email accounts,” the report said. It added that “the secretary’s emails related to government business were not always being properly preserved.”

The inspector general’s office urged the department to improve its training on the issue. It said there was no other evidence of irregularities around the use of personal emails.

During his 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump repeatedly attacked

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press

In this 2014, file photo, a bend in the Rio Grand is viewed from a Texas Department of Public Safetyhelicopter on patrol over in Mission, Texas. (APPhoto/Eric Gay, Pool, File)

ing children.”

John Sanders, CBP’s acting commissioner, said in a statement that his agency was “saddened by the tragic loss of this young man and our condolences are with his family.”

“CBP is committed to the health, safety and humane treatment of those in our custody,” Sanders said.

Border Patrol agents said Carlos was apprehended on May 13 in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley after crossing the border illegally. He was taken to the agency’s central processing center in McAllen, Texas, a converted warehouse where hundreds of adults and children are held in large, fenced-in pens and sleep on mats.

Democratic rival Hillary Clinton over findings that she used a private email server for work while she was secretary of state. At rallies, Trump often called for her prosecution and led supporters in chants of “lock her up!”

The Education Department review was requested in October 2017 by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.

The inspector general’s office said it was unable to begin work until “well into 2018” because of staffing challenges.

CBP said Carlos was processed as a minor unaccompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Federal law and CBP’s guidelines generally require that unaccompanied youth be transferred within three days to a facility operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A CBP official who declined to be named in order to brief reporters said Carlos was awaiting transfer to HHS custody on Thursday, three days after his apprehension. At the time of his death, Carlos was supposed to be sent to Southwest Key Casa Padre, a 1,400-person facility inside an old Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, the official said.

Mark Weber, a spokesman for HHS, did not address in a statement why the teenager wasn’t transferred sooner, but said a “minority of cases exceeding 72 hours have generally involved exceptional circumstances.”

CBP said Carlos reported early Sunday morning that he was not feeling well and diagnosed with the flu by a nurse practitioner.

He was prescribed the medicine Tamiflu, then transferred later Sunday to the Border Patrol station at Weslaco, Texas, to prevent his flu from spreading to other detainees.

He was not hospitalized, according to the agency official who briefed reporters.

The official said CBP facilities have medical providers who can monitor detainees, though the official did not know what specific symptoms Carlos had.

Carlos had last been checked an hour before he was found unresponsive.

Asked about the death, Trump blamed Democrats, saying they are refusing to approve changes that could improve the system.

“The Democrats are really making it very, very dangerous for people by not approving simple quick 15 minutes legislation, we could have it all worked out,” Trump said.

Ex-White House lawyer won’t testify after Trump direction

In this file photo, White House counsel Don McGahn, listens as he attends a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump directed his former White House Counsel Donald McGahn to defy a congressional subpoena Monday, citing a Justice Department legal opinion that maintains McGahn would have immunity from testifying about his work as a close Trump adviser. A lawyer for McGahn said he would follow the president’s wishes and skip a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Trump’s action, the latest in his efforts to block every congressional probe into him and his administration, is certain to deepen the open conflict between Democrats and the president. Democrats have accused Trump and Attorney General William Barr of trying to stonewall and obstruct Congress’ oversight duties.

The House Judiciary Committee had issued a subpoena to compel McGahn to testify Tuesday, and the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., has threatened to hold McGahn in contempt

Around the Nation Judge sides with Congress over Trump in demands for records

5th migrant child dies after detention by US border agents HOUSTON — A 16-year-old Guatemala migrant who died Monday in U.S. custody had been held by immigration authorities for six days — twice as long as federal law generally permits.

The teenager, identified by U.S. Customs and Border Protection as Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, was the fifth minor from Guatemala to die after being apprehended by U.S. border agents since December.

Advocates demanded that President Donald Trump’s administration act to safeguard the lives of children in detention as border crossings surge and the U.S. Border Patrol detains thousands of families at a time in overcrowded facilities, tents, and outdoor spaces.

“We should all be outraged and demand that those responsible for his well-being be held accountable,” said Efrén Olivares, a lawyer with the Texas Civil Rights Project.

“If these were white children that were dying at this rate, people would be up in arms,” he said. “We see this callous disregard for brown, Spanish-speak-

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of Congress if he doesn’t.

Nadler has also suggested he may try and levy fines against witnesses who do not comply with committee requests.

McGahn’s lawyer, William Burck, said in a letter to Nadler that McGahn is “conscious of the duties he, as an attorney, owes to his former client” and would decline to appear.

Still, Burck encouraged the committee to negotiate a compromise with the White House, saying his client “again finds himself facing contradictory instructions from two co-equal branches of government.”

McGahn was a key figure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, describing ways in which the president sought to curtail that federal probe.

Democrats hoped to question him as a way to focus attention on Mueller’s findings and further investigate whether Trump did obstruct justice.

“This move is just the latest act of obstruction from the White House that includes its blanket refusal to cooperate with this committee,” Nadler said in a statement. “It is also the latest example of this Admin-

istration’s disdain for law.”

Separately on Monday, a federal judge in Washington ruled against Trump in a financial records dispute, declaring the president cannot block a House subpoena for information from Mazars USA, a firm that has done accounting work for him and the Trump Organization.

And a hearing is planned in New York on Wednesday in another case, this one involving an effort by Trump, his business and his family to prevent Deutsche Bank and Capital One from complying with subpoenas from two House committees for banking and financial records.

If McGahn were to defy Trump and testify before Congress, it could endanger his own career in Republican politics and put his law firm, Jones Day, in the president’s crosshairs. Trump has mused about instructing Republicans to cease dealing with the firm, which is deeply intertwined in Washington with the GOP, according to one White House official and a Republican close to the White House not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled against President Donald Trump on Monday in a financial records dispute with Congress and said lawmakers should get the documents they have subpoenaed.

Trump called it a “crazy” decision that his lawyers would appeal.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta comes amid a widespread effort by the White House and Trump’s attorneys to refuse to cooperate with congressional requests for information and records.

Earlier Monday, Trump directed former White House counsel Don McGahn to defy a congressional subpoena that had compelled McGahn, a pivotal figure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

In ruling that Trump cannot block the financial records subpoena, Mehta said the Democratic-led House Oversight and Reform Committee had “valid legislative purposes” for its request and that it was not for him “to question whether the Committee’s actions are truly motivated by political considerations.” The committee has said the records will help it consider whether to strengthen ethics and disclosure laws, among other things, said Mehta, who was nominated to the bench

by President Barack Obama.

Trump pointed to his Democratic predecessor when he told reporters before leaving the White House for a Monday night rally in Pennsylvania that “we think it’s totally the wrong decision by, obviously, an Obamaappointed judge.”

To the committee chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the judge’s decision was a “resounding victory for the rule of law and our constitutional system of checks and balances.”

Trump’s lawyers, in cases from Washington and New York challenging the Democrats’ demands, argued that congressional investigations are legitimate only if there is legislation that might result from them.

“There is no possible legislation at the end of this tunnel,” his legal team said.

The White House made the same argument Friday when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he would not comply with a congressional subpoena for six years of Trump’s tax returns.

In the New York case, Trump, his business and family want to prevent Deutsche Bank and Capital One from complying with House subpoenas for banking and financial records. A Wednesday court hearing is planned.

In the Washington case, Trump and his business organization are trying to block the subpoena issued in April to Mazars USA, which has provided accounting services to Trump.

Even before the ruling, legal scholars had said Trump’s argument had little merit and that Congress has broad powers to investigate.

Mehta said in his 41-page opinion that there are limits on Congress’s authority to investigate, but those limits “do not substantially constrain Congress.” He said that as long as “Congress investigates on a subject matter on which ‘legislation could be had,’” it is following the Constitution.

Mehta said that was true in this case, pointing to the committee’s memo outlining four areas of investigation, each of which he said Congress could legislate on.

The judge cited the Watergate investigation involving President Richard Nixon and the Whitewater investigation involving President Bill Clinton. He said Congress “plainly views itself as having sweeping authority to investigate illegal conduct of a President, before and after taking office.”

“This court is not prepared to roll back the tide of history,” he said.

Alabama police capture suspect; 1 officer slain, 2 wounded AUBURN, Ala. — A man who opened fire on police responding to a domestic disturbance report, killing one officer and wounding two others, was arrested Monday and charged with capital murder, authorities said.

Grady Wayne Wilkes, 29, was being held without bond in the shooting death of Officer William Buechner, who had been with the Auburn Police Division for more than 13 years.

Wilkes also was charged with attempted murder in the wounding of officers Webb Sistrunk and Evan Elliott, said Police Chief Paul Register. Both are expected to recover.

District Attorney Brandon Hughes said authorities would seek capital punishment: “If you shoot a police officer, we’re going to seek the death penalty, absolutely.”

The chief described Wilkes as a former member of the military who was working in the area and hadn’t had previous contact with police. The “Blue Alert” sent out after the officers were shot described him as wearing camouflage body armor and a helmet.

But with helicopters hovering overhead, he didn’t get far. An intense, overnight manhunt led to Wilkes’ arrest about nine hours after the shootings, less than a mile from the Arrow Head Trailer Park, where the officers were hit. Information from a citizen helped police and U.S. marshals take him down.

The chief called the arrest “relatively uneventful” and said no one was injured bringing Wilkes into custody. A booking photo released by police showed Wilkes with red marks and apparent bruises on his face.

Auburn Police spokesman Lorenza Dorsey said the injuries occurred before police found him.

The person who called police wasn’t hurt, the chief said, but Wilkes also was charged with domestic violence.

Court records weren’t available immediately to show whether Wilkes had a lawyer. Register wouldn’t comment on details of the investigation.

The Lee County coroner Bill Harris said the officer who was killed died in an emergency room.

“This is probably the worst day of my time here,” Register said. “Words cannot express the loss for this family, our family and this community.”

— The Associated Press

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World

Ukraine president takes political stage in dramatic fashion

Ukrainian new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy gestures during his inauguration ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and EFREM LUKATSKY Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s new president, a comedian before he turned to statecraft, made a dramatic entrance to the political stage Monday by disbanding parliament minutes after his inauguration.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who won 73% of the vote last month, justified his contentious decision on the grounds that the legislature, controlled by allies of the man he defeated, is riddled with self-enrichment.

Elections to the Supreme Rada were sched-

uled for Oct. 27, which raised the prospect of Zelenskiy struggling to enact his agenda in the face of a hostile parliament over his first few months in power.

A snap parliamentary election will be held within two months of his signing a formal dissolution decree.

Zelenskiy, a comedian who played the role of a Ukrainian president on a popular TV show for years, is gambling that his popularity will see the next parliament dominated by supporters of his agenda to reform Ukraine and steer a new path with Russia.

Zelenskiy said Ukrainian politics for the past quarter-

century created “opportunities for kickbacks, money laundering and corruption.”

Zelenskiy’s efforts follow repeated attempts by the majority in the current parliament to stymie his campaign promise for a new election.

Since last month’s election, Zelenskiy’s opponents in the Rada sought to put off the inauguration close to the May 27 deadline by which the parliament can be dissolved.

And in a dramatic move last week, the Rada announced the collapse of the ruling parliamentary coalition. According to parliamentary rules, the chamber can’t be dissolved for 30 days after the governing coalition has been disbanded.

Zelenskiy’s supporters argue that the Rada’s actions are legally void because the coalition had long ceased to exist and that the Ukrainian Constitution, unlike the Rada regulations, doesn’t contain such a rule.

Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kiev-based think-tank Penta, said Zelenskiy’s announcement shows “political will for radical change.”

“The legally dubious decision to disband parlia-

ment will certainly be contested in court but Zelenskiy has shown that it is going to be him who will lay down the agenda and that he will dominate the political landscape,” he said.

Zelenskiy’s landslide victory reflected Ukrainians’ exhaustion with widespread corruption and the country’s political elite. Before disbanding parliament, the 41-year-old Zelenskiy upended other Ukrainian political traditions on inauguration day.

He ditched the idea of a traditional motorcade to his inauguration, walking to the parliament in Kiev through a park packed with people. Flanked by four bodyguards, the beaming president-elect gave high-fives to some spectators, even stopping to take a selfie with one of them.

At the end of his swearing-in ceremony, Zelenskiy asked the Supreme Rada to adopt a bill against illegal enrichment and support his motions to fire the country’s defense minister, the head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) and the Prosecutor General. All are allies of Zelenskiy’s predecessor, Petro Poroshenko.

South Korea vows to send aid to North quickly, may send food The Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea vowed Monday to move quickly on plans to provide $8 million worth of medical and nutritional aid for North Korean children through U.N. agencies while it also considers sending broader food aid to the country, which says it is suffering its worst drought in decades.

Lee Sang-min, spokesman for Seoul’s Unification Ministry, said the government will discuss its plans with the World Food Program and the United Nations Children’s Fund, through which the aid would be provided, so it reaches North Korean children and pregnant women quickly. South Korea is also trying to build public and political support for providing wider food aid to North Korea, either directly or through the WFP. North Korea’s state media said last week that the country was suffering its worst drought in more than a century amid reported food shortages.

“The government will first discuss with international organizations over the provision of aid and take measures so that the support arrives (in North Korea)

In this 2019, photo, North Korean farmers plant rice seedlings in a field at the Sambong Cooperative Farm, South Pyongan Province, North Korea. (AP Photos/ APTN)

quickly,” Lee said. “On the matter of direct aid, we will consider the matter while sufficiently garnering the opinions of our citizens.”

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has expressed hopes that aid will help revive diplomacy and engagement with North Korea, which tapered off after a nuclear summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in February broke down because of differences over sanctions relief and disarmament steps. Kim has since declared that the Trump administration has until the end of the year to come up with mutually ac-

ceptable terms for a deal to salvage the negotiations.

While the United States has urged allies to maintain economic pressure on North Korea until it takes material steps toward relinquishing its nuclear weapons, White House spokesman Sarah Sanders recently said Washington has no plan to “intervene” if South Korea moves forward with food aid.

But Moon’s government has yet to decide on concrete plans amid growing public frustration over Kim’s government, which recently resumed short-range missile tests that were apparently aimed at pressuring Washington and Seoul.

It is also unclear whether any aid package from South Korea would influence the behavior of North Korea, which has been demanding much bigger concessions from the South, such as resuming inter-Korean economic projects currently held back by the U.S.-led sanctions against the North.

A North Korean propaganda website last week described the South Korean proposals for humanitarian aid as disrespectful and said Seoul was trying to sidestep fundamental issues with “hollow talk and boastful credit-taking.”

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said last Wednesday that an average of 2.1 inches) of rain fell in North Korea from January to early May, which it said was the lowest level since 1982. Two days later, the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper said the average precipitation of 2.2 inches from January to May 15 was the country’s lowest since 1917.

U.N. food agencies said earlier this month that about 10 million people were facing “severe food shortages” after one of North Korea’s worst harvests in a decade.

Reports: Iran quadruples production of enriched uranium

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran quadrupled its uraniumenrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran’s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday, just after President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister traded threats and taunts on Twitter.

Iranian officials made a point to stress that the uranium would be enriched only to the 3.67% limit set under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, making it usable for a power plant but far below what’s needed for an atomic weapon.

But by increasing production, Iran soon will go beyond the stockpile limitations set by the accord. Tehran has set a July 7 deadline for Europe to come up with new terms for the deal, or it will enrich closer to weaponsgrade levels in a Middle East already on edge. The Trump administration has

deployed bombers and an aircraft carrier to the region over still-unspecified threats from Iran.

Already this month, officials in the United Arab Emirates alleged that four oil tankers were damaged in a sabotage attack; Yemeni rebels allied with Iran launched a drone attack on an oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia; and U.S. diplomats relayed a warning that commercial airlines could be misidentified by Iran and attacked, something dismissed by Tehran.

A rocket landed Sunday near the U.S. Embassy in the Green Zone of Iraq’s capital of Baghdad, days after nonessential U.S. staff were ordered to evacuate from diplomatic posts in the country. No one was reported injured.

Iraqi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasoul told The Associated Press that the rocket was believed to have been fired from eastern Baghdad, an area home to Iran-backed Shiite militias.

The Iranian enrichment announcement came af-

Around the World Austrian government collapses over Ibiza video scandal VIENNA — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called time Monday on his coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party after its leader was shown on video appearing to offer favors to a purported Russian investor.

Kurz said he was seeking the removal of the country’s interior minister, Freedom Party politician Herbert Kickl, to ensure an unbiased probe into the video.

“I’m firmly convinced that what’s necessary now is total transparency and a completely and unbiased investigation,” Kurz told reporters in Vienna.

The Freedom Party reacted by withdrawing its ministers from the government.

“We won’t leave anyone out in the rain,” said the party’s interim leader, Norbert Hofer.

Kickl’s removal, which must still be approved

by Austria’s president, follows the resignation on Saturday of Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who was also Austria’s vice chancellor.

That came a day after two German newspapers published a video showing Strache pandering to a woman claiming to be a Russian tycoon’s niece at a boozy gathering in Ibiza two years ago, shortly before national elections. Strache and party colleague Johann Gudenus are heard telling the woman that she can expect lucrative construction contracts if she buys an Austrian newspaper and supports the Freedom Party. They also discuss ways of secretly funneling money to the party.

Gudenus, who was instrumental in arranging the meeting, has quit as leader of the party’s parliamentary group and is leaving the party.

The Hamburg-based weekly Der Spiegel and Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung said the meeting in Ibiza was likely a trap that Strache and Gudenus had fallen for. The papers refused to reveal the source of the video.

Kurz noted that at the time the video was shot, Kickl was general-secretary of the Freedom Party and therefore responsible for its financial conduct.

The chancellor added that in his conversations with Kickl and other Freedom Party officials following the video’s release, he “didn’t really have the feeling (they had) an awareness of the dimension of the whole issue.”

The ouster of the Freedom Party from the government was a setback for populist and nationalist forces as Europe heads into the final days of campaigning for the European Parliament elections, which run Thursday through Sunday.

Kurz has endorsed a hard line on migration and public finances, and he chose to ally with the Freedom Party after winning the 2017 election.

The chancellor, who is personally popular, had said Saturday that “enough is enough” — a reference to a string of smaller scandals involving the Freedom Party that had plagued his government. In recent months, those have included a poem in a party newsletter comparing migrants to rats and questions over links to extreme-right groups.

Kickl, a longtime campaign mastermind of the Freedom Party, had already drawn criticism over matters including a raid last year on Austria’s BVT spy agency, which opposition parties claimed was an attempt by the new government to purge domestic political enemies.

Kickl’s party said he had done nothing wrong and sought to portray itself as the victim of a plot.

The Russian government, meanwhile, said it couldn’t comment on the video “because it has nothing to do with the Russian Federation, its president or the government.”

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said of the woman in the Strache video that set off the crisis: “We don’t know who that woman is and whether she’s Russian or not.”

Pledging to ensure stability in Austria over the coming months, Kurz said vacancies in the government left by the Freedom Party’s departure would be filled with civil servants and technocrats.

His government, meanwhile, may find it difficult to continue as planned until Austria holds early elections, likely in September. Opposition parties plan to call for a vote of no confidence in Kurz’s government in the coming days.

Bomb hits tourist bus near Egypt’s Giza Pyramids, wounds 17

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, sailors partake in a foreign object and debris walk-down on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Garrett LaBarge/U.S. Navy via AP)

ter local journalists traveled to Natanz in central Iran, the country’s underground enrichment facility. There, an unidentified nuclear scientist gave a statement with a surgical cap and a mask covering most of his face. No one explained his choice of outfit, although Israel is suspected of carrying out a campaign targeting Iranian nuclear scientists.

The state-run IRNA news agency later quoted Behrouz Kamalvandi, the

spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as acknowledging that capacity had been quadrupled. He said Iran took this step because the U.S. had ended a program allowing it to exchange enriched uranium to Russia for unprocessed yellowcake uranium, as well as ending the sale of heavy water to Oman.

Heavy water helps cool reactors producing plutonium that can be used in nuclear weapons.

CAIRO — A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus on Sunday near the Giza Pyramids, wounding at least 17 people including tourists, Egyptian officials said.

The officials said the bus was travelling on a road close to the under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum, which is located adjacent to the Giza Pyramids but is not yet open to tourists.

The bus was carrying at least 25 people mostly from South Africa, officials added.

The attack comes as Egypt’s vital tourism industry is showing signs of recovery after years in the doldrums because of the political turmoil and violence that followed a 2011 uprising that toppled former leader Hosni Mubarak.

The officials said security forces cordoned off the site of the explosion and the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital.

The explosion damaged a windshield of another car, they said. Footage circulated online shows shattered windows of the bus.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.

Atif Moftah, general supervisor of the Grand Egyptian Museum, said the explosion did not cause any damage to the museum, in a statement issued by the antiquities ministry.

No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. It is the second to target foreign tourists near the famed pyramids in less than six months.

In December, a bus carrying 15 Vietnamese tourists was hit by a roadside bomb, killing at least three of them.

— The Associated Press

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World

Ukraine president takes political stage in dramatic fashion

Ukrainian new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy gestures during his inauguration ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and EFREM LUKATSKY Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s new president, a comedian before he turned to statecraft, made a dramatic entrance to the political stage Monday by disbanding parliament minutes after his inauguration.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who won 73% of the vote last month, justified his contentious decision on the grounds that the legislature, controlled by allies of the man he defeated, is riddled with self-enrichment.

Elections to the Supreme Rada were sched-

uled for Oct. 27, which raised the prospect of Zelenskiy struggling to enact his agenda in the face of a hostile parliament over his first few months in power.

A snap parliamentary election will be held within two months of his signing a formal dissolution decree.

Zelenskiy, a comedian who played the role of a Ukrainian president on a popular TV show for years, is gambling that his popularity will see the next parliament dominated by supporters of his agenda to reform Ukraine and steer a new path with Russia.

Zelenskiy said Ukrainian politics for the past quarter-

century created “opportunities for kickbacks, money laundering and corruption.”

Zelenskiy’s efforts follow repeated attempts by the majority in the current parliament to stymie his campaign promise for a new election.

Since last month’s election, Zelenskiy’s opponents in the Rada sought to put off the inauguration close to the May 27 deadline by which the parliament can be dissolved.

And in a dramatic move last week, the Rada announced the collapse of the ruling parliamentary coalition. According to parliamentary rules, the chamber can’t be dissolved for 30 days after the governing coalition has been disbanded.

Zelenskiy’s supporters argue that the Rada’s actions are legally void because the coalition had long ceased to exist and that the Ukrainian Constitution, unlike the Rada regulations, doesn’t contain such a rule.

Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kiev-based think-tank Penta, said Zelenskiy’s announcement shows “political will for radical change.”

“The legally dubious decision to disband parlia-

ment will certainly be contested in court but Zelenskiy has shown that it is going to be him who will lay down the agenda and that he will dominate the political landscape,” he said.

Zelenskiy’s landslide victory reflected Ukrainians’ exhaustion with widespread corruption and the country’s political elite. Before disbanding parliament, the 41-year-old Zelenskiy upended other Ukrainian political traditions on inauguration day.

He ditched the idea of a traditional motorcade to his inauguration, walking to the parliament in Kiev through a park packed with people. Flanked by four bodyguards, the beaming president-elect gave high-fives to some spectators, even stopping to take a selfie with one of them.

At the end of his swearing-in ceremony, Zelenskiy asked the Supreme Rada to adopt a bill against illegal enrichment and support his motions to fire the country’s defense minister, the head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) and the Prosecutor General. All are allies of Zelenskiy’s predecessor, Petro Poroshenko.

South Korea vows to send aid to North quickly, may send food The Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea vowed Monday to move quickly on plans to provide $8 million worth of medical and nutritional aid for North Korean children through U.N. agencies while it also considers sending broader food aid to the country, which says it is suffering its worst drought in decades.

Lee Sang-min, spokesman for Seoul’s Unification Ministry, said the government will discuss its plans with the World Food Program and the United Nations Children’s Fund, through which the aid would be provided, so it reaches North Korean children and pregnant women quickly. South Korea is also trying to build public and political support for providing wider food aid to North Korea, either directly or through the WFP. North Korea’s state media said last week that the country was suffering its worst drought in more than a century amid reported food shortages.

“The government will first discuss with international organizations over the provision of aid and take measures so that the support arrives (in North Korea)

In this 2019, photo, North Korean farmers plant rice seedlings in a field at the Sambong Cooperative Farm, South Pyongan Province, North Korea. (AP Photos/ APTN)

quickly,” Lee said. “On the matter of direct aid, we will consider the matter while sufficiently garnering the opinions of our citizens.”

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has expressed hopes that aid will help revive diplomacy and engagement with North Korea, which tapered off after a nuclear summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in February broke down because of differences over sanctions relief and disarmament steps. Kim has since declared that the Trump administration has until the end of the year to come up with mutually ac-

ceptable terms for a deal to salvage the negotiations.

While the United States has urged allies to maintain economic pressure on North Korea until it takes material steps toward relinquishing its nuclear weapons, White House spokesman Sarah Sanders recently said Washington has no plan to “intervene” if South Korea moves forward with food aid.

But Moon’s government has yet to decide on concrete plans amid growing public frustration over Kim’s government, which recently resumed short-range missile tests that were apparently aimed at pressuring Washington and Seoul.

It is also unclear whether any aid package from South Korea would influence the behavior of North Korea, which has been demanding much bigger concessions from the South, such as resuming inter-Korean economic projects currently held back by the U.S.-led sanctions against the North.

A North Korean propaganda website last week described the South Korean proposals for humanitarian aid as disrespectful and said Seoul was trying to sidestep fundamental issues with “hollow talk and boastful credit-taking.”

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said last Wednesday that an average of 2.1 inches) of rain fell in North Korea from January to early May, which it said was the lowest level since 1982. Two days later, the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper said the average precipitation of 2.2 inches from January to May 15 was the country’s lowest since 1917.

U.N. food agencies said earlier this month that about 10 million people were facing “severe food shortages” after one of North Korea’s worst harvests in a decade.

Reports: Iran quadruples production of enriched uranium

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran quadrupled its uraniumenrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran’s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday, just after President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister traded threats and taunts on Twitter.

Iranian officials made a point to stress that the uranium would be enriched only to the 3.67% limit set under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, making it usable for a power plant but far below what’s needed for an atomic weapon.

But by increasing production, Iran soon will go beyond the stockpile limitations set by the accord. Tehran has set a July 7 deadline for Europe to come up with new terms for the deal, or it will enrich closer to weaponsgrade levels in a Middle East already on edge. The Trump administration has

deployed bombers and an aircraft carrier to the region over still-unspecified threats from Iran.

Already this month, officials in the United Arab Emirates alleged that four oil tankers were damaged in a sabotage attack; Yemeni rebels allied with Iran launched a drone attack on an oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia; and U.S. diplomats relayed a warning that commercial airlines could be misidentified by Iran and attacked, something dismissed by Tehran.

A rocket landed Sunday near the U.S. Embassy in the Green Zone of Iraq’s capital of Baghdad, days after nonessential U.S. staff were ordered to evacuate from diplomatic posts in the country. No one was reported injured.

Iraqi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasoul told The Associated Press that the rocket was believed to have been fired from eastern Baghdad, an area home to Iran-backed Shiite militias.

The Iranian enrichment announcement came af-

Around the World Austrian government collapses over Ibiza video scandal VIENNA — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called time Monday on his coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party after its leader was shown on video appearing to offer favors to a purported Russian investor.

Kurz said he was seeking the removal of the country’s interior minister, Freedom Party politician Herbert Kickl, to ensure an unbiased probe into the video.

“I’m firmly convinced that what’s necessary now is total transparency and a completely and unbiased investigation,” Kurz told reporters in Vienna.

The Freedom Party reacted by withdrawing its ministers from the government.

“We won’t leave anyone out in the rain,” said the party’s interim leader, Norbert Hofer.

Kickl’s removal, which must still be approved

by Austria’s president, follows the resignation on Saturday of Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who was also Austria’s vice chancellor.

That came a day after two German newspapers published a video showing Strache pandering to a woman claiming to be a Russian tycoon’s niece at a boozy gathering in Ibiza two years ago, shortly before national elections. Strache and party colleague Johann Gudenus are heard telling the woman that she can expect lucrative construction contracts if she buys an Austrian newspaper and supports the Freedom Party. They also discuss ways of secretly funneling money to the party.

Gudenus, who was instrumental in arranging the meeting, has quit as leader of the party’s parliamentary group and is leaving the party.

The Hamburg-based weekly Der Spiegel and Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung said the meeting in Ibiza was likely a trap that Strache and Gudenus had fallen for. The papers refused to reveal the source of the video.

Kurz noted that at the time the video was shot, Kickl was general-secretary of the Freedom Party and therefore responsible for its financial conduct.

The chancellor added that in his conversations with Kickl and other Freedom Party officials following the video’s release, he “didn’t really have the feeling (they had) an awareness of the dimension of the whole issue.”

The ouster of the Freedom Party from the government was a setback for populist and nationalist forces as Europe heads into the final days of campaigning for the European Parliament elections, which run Thursday through Sunday.

Kurz has endorsed a hard line on migration and public finances, and he chose to ally with the Freedom Party after winning the 2017 election.

The chancellor, who is personally popular, had said Saturday that “enough is enough” — a reference to a string of smaller scandals involving the Freedom Party that had plagued his government. In recent months, those have included a poem in a party newsletter comparing migrants to rats and questions over links to extreme-right groups.

Kickl, a longtime campaign mastermind of the Freedom Party, had already drawn criticism over matters including a raid last year on Austria’s BVT spy agency, which opposition parties claimed was an attempt by the new government to purge domestic political enemies.

Kickl’s party said he had done nothing wrong and sought to portray itself as the victim of a plot.

The Russian government, meanwhile, said it couldn’t comment on the video “because it has nothing to do with the Russian Federation, its president or the government.”

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said of the woman in the Strache video that set off the crisis: “We don’t know who that woman is and whether she’s Russian or not.”

Pledging to ensure stability in Austria over the coming months, Kurz said vacancies in the government left by the Freedom Party’s departure would be filled with civil servants and technocrats.

His government, meanwhile, may find it difficult to continue as planned until Austria holds early elections, likely in September. Opposition parties plan to call for a vote of no confidence in Kurz’s government in the coming days.

Bomb hits tourist bus near Egypt’s Giza Pyramids, wounds 17

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, sailors partake in a foreign object and debris walk-down on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Garrett LaBarge/U.S. Navy via AP)

ter local journalists traveled to Natanz in central Iran, the country’s underground enrichment facility. There, an unidentified nuclear scientist gave a statement with a surgical cap and a mask covering most of his face. No one explained his choice of outfit, although Israel is suspected of carrying out a campaign targeting Iranian nuclear scientists.

The state-run IRNA news agency later quoted Behrouz Kamalvandi, the

spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as acknowledging that capacity had been quadrupled. He said Iran took this step because the U.S. had ended a program allowing it to exchange enriched uranium to Russia for unprocessed yellowcake uranium, as well as ending the sale of heavy water to Oman.

Heavy water helps cool reactors producing plutonium that can be used in nuclear weapons.

CAIRO — A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus on Sunday near the Giza Pyramids, wounding at least 17 people including tourists, Egyptian officials said.

The officials said the bus was travelling on a road close to the under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum, which is located adjacent to the Giza Pyramids but is not yet open to tourists.

The bus was carrying at least 25 people mostly from South Africa, officials added.

The attack comes as Egypt’s vital tourism industry is showing signs of recovery after years in the doldrums because of the political turmoil and violence that followed a 2011 uprising that toppled former leader Hosni Mubarak.

The officials said security forces cordoned off the site of the explosion and the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital.

The explosion damaged a windshield of another car, they said. Footage circulated online shows shattered windows of the bus.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.

Atif Moftah, general supervisor of the Grand Egyptian Museum, said the explosion did not cause any damage to the museum, in a statement issued by the antiquities ministry.

No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. It is the second to target foreign tourists near the famed pyramids in less than six months.

In December, a bus carrying 15 Vietnamese tourists was hit by a roadside bomb, killing at least three of them.

— The Associated Press

Peninsula Clarion | Tuesday, May 21, 2019 | A7

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Warriors complete sweep of Blazers

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer

PORTLAND, Ore. — Experience bred confidence for the Golden State Warriors, even when challenged by the upstart Portland Trail Blazers.

No matter how far they were down, they’ve been through too much to ever think they’re out.

“We just really understand what we’re capable of on both sides of the basketball,” Draymond Green said. “We’re never out of the fight.

That’s just always our mindset.”

The Warriors swept their way to a fifth straight NBA Finals, getting triple-doubles from Stephen Curry and Green in a 119-117 overtime victory on Monday night.

The two-time defending champions overcame a double-digit deficit for the third straight game against the Blazers, back in the conference finals for the first time since 2000.

Green had 18 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists, and made a key 3-pointer in overtime. Curry added 37 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists. They became the first teammates to have triple-doubles

in the same playoff game.

The Warriors will face the winner of the Eastern Conference finals between Toronto and Milwaukee. The Bucks lead that series 2-1 with Game 4 on Tuesday night in Canada.

The Warriors came back from 17 down after erasing an 18-point deficit in Game 3 and a 17-point hole in Game 2.

“We’ve been here before. We’ve seen everything, every experience you can imagine. So we relied on that,” Curry said.

Playing without Kevin Durant, Andre Iguodala and DeMarcus Cousins, the Warriors became the first team to reach five straight finals since the Boston Celtics went to 10 in a row from 1957-66.

Damian Lillard, playing with separated ribs, had 28 points and 12 assists for Portland. He missed a 3-point attempt as time ran out in the extra period. Meyers Leonard added a career-high 30 points along with 12 rebounds.

The Warriors were up 114-113 in the extra period after Green missed the first of a pair of free throws. CJ McCollum’s jumper from out front briefly gave Port-

land the lead but Alfonzo McKinnie’s basket put Golden State back ahead and Green made a 3-pointer to push it to 199-115 with 39 seconds left.

Lillard made a layup and Curry missed a jumper to give Portland back the ball. Facing stifling defense from both Green and Klay Thompson, Lillard couldn’t get off a shot but the ball went out of bounds in the scramble. The Blazers got it back with 3.3 seconds left but Lillard’s final shot didn’t fall.

Blazers coach Terry Stotts was asked if he was expecting another buzzer-beating winner from Lillard, who had a memorable 3-pointer at the buzzer to clinch the first-round series against Oklahoma City.

“Yeah, I did. I thought it was going to — kind of meant to be,” Stotts said. “When he shot it, it had a good arc. I thought it had a chance.”

The Blazers stretched the lead to 17 points in the third quarter, but the Warriors went on a 12-0 run to close within 95-90 early in the final period.

Green’s long baseline jumper gave the Warriors a 108-106 lead

with 3:30 left. Lillard’s 3-pointer put the Blazers back ahead and Leonard’s dunk extended it to 111-108 with just under 2 minutes to go.

After Thompson’s 3-pointer tied it up again both Curry and Lillard missed 3s. Curry made a 3 from the corner with 10.7 seconds left but he was called for traveling first and it didn’t count.

Lillard’s layup bounced around the rim and out and the game went to overtime.

Iguodala was out because of a sore left calf. The veteran swingman, who is averaging 10.1 points in the playoffs, was hurt in the second half of Saturday’s Game 3 victory.

It was not known how long he’d be out, but the Warriors said an MRI Sunday was clear.

Golden State was already missing Durant because of a sore right calf. It’s unknown when the twotime NBA Finals MVP will return. Also sitting is Cousins, who injured his left quadriceps in the opening round.

“We’ve had guys step up all along this entire time and we’re going to look forward to those

guys continuing to step up, no matter what happens with the injuries that we have,” Green said.

“You know, we’re trying to go win this thing. Never the goal is just to get there.”

Lillard separated his ribs in Game 2 but was playing through the pain. He averaged 33 points in the first-round playoff series against Oklahoma City but struggled against Golden State’s defensive focus on him.

Playing with urgency in an elimination game, Portland pulled in front 30-28 in the opening quarter on CJ McCollum’s layup and free throw, but Curry answered on the other end with a step-back 3-pointer.

Portland went ahead 59-50 after back-to-back 3-pointers from Leonard, who finished with five 3s in the first half.

Curry hit a 3-pointer with 2.6 seconds left in the half to close the Warriors within 69-65 at the break.

Portland pushed the lead to 8372 on McCollum’s 3-pointer. After he made another 3 to push the lead to 91-78, he gestured to the crowd to make noise. McCollum finished with 26 points.

Raptors focus on resting up for Game 4

By IAN HARRISON Associated Press

TORONTO — For Kawhi Leonard and the Raptors, Monday was all about rest and recovery.

Coming off a season in which he sat out 22 regularseason games and never played on back-to-back nights as part of a plan to manage his workload, Leonard played a playoff careerhigh 52 minutes in Toronto’s double-overtime victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday.

The Raptors cut their deficit to 2-1 in the Eastern Conference finals, but it may have come at a cost. Leonard battled through both extra sessions while dealing with soreness in his leg. Pascal

Siakam also had a long night, playing 51 minutes for Toronto, which will try to even the series in Tuesday’s Game 4.

Leonard didn’t speak to reporters Monday, but Raptors coach Nick Nurse said the star player isn’t injured, just fatigued.

“The consensus today is he’s tired, and he’s got two days and will be ready to go,” Nurse said. “Those are kind of the words coming out of his mouth: little tired, but he’ll get his rest, got two days, and he’ll be ready.”

Leonard played only nine games in 2017-18 because of a quadriceps injury. He was traded from San Antonio to Toronto after that season, and the Raptors made keeping him fresh a priority.

He acknowledged feeling

NBC ready for Indy 500

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer

Like most aspiring broadcasters of his era, Mike Tirico remembers tuning into ABC every Saturday to watch Wide World of Sports, listening in rapt attention to the dulcet tones of Jim McKay. “It was Channel 7 back in New York,” Tirico recalled fondly, “and this was a time that was almost unfathomable — pre-cable, no internet. Wide World of Sports shrunk the world. It took you everywhere.”

One of the places was the Indianapolis 500.

Tirico would watch A.J. Foyt and the Unser brothers and the rest of those famous daredevils as they pushed their cars to the limit at the Brickyard. McKay would provide the soundtrack, right along with the roar of the engines, of a spectacle that Tirico remembers vividly all these years later.

Now he’s ready to settle into McKay’s old seat.

After airing every Indy 500 from 1965 through last season, ABC was outbid for the rights by NBC, giving the network exclusivity over the IndyCar Series. And that means Tirico, who spent 25 years with ESPN before heading to NBC in 2016, will host the broadcast Sunday alongside Danica Patrick and a host of other celebrities, analysts and reporters.

“It was the one race as a family we’d sit down and watch, and now knowing people will be doing that at home, it gives me a chill,” Tirico said. “Just seeing with my own eyes what I’ve seen for years on TV, it’s hard to imagine all those seats being full, as far as the eye can see.”

The Indy 500 falls within a busy three months for Tirico, beginning with the Masters and including the Stanley Cup Final, horse racing’s Triple Crown and the French Open in Paris.

Asked where it ranks among those signature events, Tirico said right at the top.

“When I got hired here,” he said, “three of the things I talked about that I had never done in the business were the Kentucky Derby, the Olympics and the Indy 500. When they asked me if I would be host, that really does complete the list of significant sporting events I’ve wanted to go to.”

sore after scoring 36 points in Game 3, including eight in the second overtime, but insisted he’d be ready to go on Tuesday.

The Bucks are still expecting Leonard to be at his best.

“He’s going to shoot with one, two, sometimes even three or four guys on him,” Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton said. “I keep saying this over and over: He’s a great player. You can’t stop great players. You can only make it tough on them.”

Leonard isn’t just an offensive force. A two-time Defensive Player of the Year, he helped limit Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo to 12 points on 5-for-16 shooting in Game 3.

Raptors guard Kyle Lowry called Leonard “probably the

best two-way basketball player in the NBA.” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer was asked Monday whether his team might fare better in Game 4 with Leonard battling fatigue.

“I don’t know that we can go any harder at Kawhi than we are,” Budenholzer said.

“We’ve been throwing a lot at Kawhi, and we’ll continue to do that.”

CHART TOPPER Sunday marked the sixth time in 15 playoff games with Toronto that Leonard has scored 35 or more. That gives Leonard as many 35-point games in the playoffs as former Raptors stars Vince Carter and DeMar DeRozan combined. Carter (15 career

playoff games with the Rap- points in Game 3, while tors) and DeRozan (51) each Brogdon — a starter in the had three such games. regular season before he was sidelined by a foot injury — had 20.

UNDER MY THUMB “We’ll continue to think Lowry is still wearing a about it and wrestle with compression glove on his left everything but, generally hand, trying to manage the speaking, I think that seems thumb injury he sustained in like it’s in a good place,” he Game 7 against Philadelphia said. in the previous round. Lowry said the thumb bothers him ONE IN THE when he tries to make steals.

CHAMBER “It’s going to hurt, it’s going to be sore, but you’ve got Danny Green was surto push through,” Lowry said. prised when Nurse ran a play for him in the first overBENCH PRODUCTION time, even though Green had missed all eight attempts so Budenholzer said he far. doesn’t plan on moving either “We put him back in and I Malcolm Brogdon or George said to him, ‘You’ve gotta hit Hill into the starting lineup. one here for us, man,’” Nurse Hill led the Bucks with 24 said.

Scoreboard Baseball AL Standings

East Division W L Pct GB New York 29 17 .630 — Tampa Bay 27 17 .614 1 Boston 25 22 .532 4½ Toronto 19 28 .404 10½ Baltimore 15 32 .319 14½ Central Division Minnesota 31 16 .660 — Cleveland 25 21 .543 5½ Chicago 21 25 .457 9½ Detroit 18 26 .409 11½ Kansas City 16 31 .340 15 West Division Houston 32 16 .667 — Texas 22 23 .489 8½ Oakland 23 25 .479 9 Los Angeles 22 25 .468 9½ Seattle 23 27 .460 10 Monday’s Games Boston 12, Toronto 2 Oakland 6, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 10, Baltimore 7 Texas 10, Seattle 9 Houston 3, Chicago White Sox 0 Minnesota 3, L.A. Angels 1 Tuesday’s Games Oakland (Bassitt 2-1) at Cleveland (Bauer 4-2), 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (German 8-1) at Baltimore (Hess 1-5), 3:05 p.m.

Boston (Rodriguez 4-2) at Toronto (Stroman 1-6), 3:07 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Wood 1-0), 3:10 p.m.

Miami (Smith 3-1) at Detroit (Turnbull 2-3), 3:10 p.m.

Seattle (Milone 0-0) at Texas (Lynn 5-3), 4:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Covey 0-2) at Houston (Verlander 7-1), 4:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Bailey 4-4) at St. Louis (Wacha 3-1), 4:15 p.m.

Minnesota (Pineda 3-3) at L.A. Angels (Cahill 2-4), 6:07 p.m.

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NL Standings

East Division W L Pct Philadelphia 28 19 .596 Atlanta 26 22 .542 New York 21 25 .457 Washington 19 28 .404 Miami 13 31 .295 Central Division Chicago 27 18 .600 Milwaukee 28 21 .571 Pittsburgh 24 20 .545 St. Louis 24 23 .511 Cincinnati 21 26 .447 West Division Los Angeles 31 17 .646 Arizona 25 23 .521 San Diego 24 24 .500 Colorado 20 25 .444 San Francisco 20 26 .435

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Colorado (Marquez 4-2) at Pittsburgh (Archer 1-3), 3:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Eflin 5-4) at Chicago Cubs (Quintana 4-3), 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Wood 1-0), 3:10 p.m.

Miami (Smith 3-1) at Detroit (Turnbull 2-3), 3:10 p.m.

Washington (Fedde 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 3-3), 3:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Gray 0-4) at Milwaukee (Gonzalez 2-0), 3:40 p.m.

Kansas City (Bailey 4-4) at St. Louis (Wacha 3-1), 4:15 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 3-4) at San Francisco (Anderson 0-0), 5:45 p.m.

Arizona (Greinke 6-1) at San Diego (Strahm 1-3), 6:10 p.m.

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Red Sox 12, Blue Jays 2

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Corbin, Rainey (6), Ross (7), Sipp (8) and Gomes; Font, Gagnon (5), Familia (7), Zamora (8), Gsellman (8), Diaz (9) and Ramos. W_Gagnon 2-0. L_Corbin 4-2. Sv_Diaz (11). HRs_Washington, Rendon (9). New York, Rosario (4), Alonso (15).

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B.Anderson, Petit (6), Buchter (7), Trivino (8), Treinen (8) and Phegley; Carrasco, Otero (6), O.Perez (7), A.Cole (7), Clippard (9) and R.Perez. W_B.Anderson 5-3.

L_Carrasco 4-4. Sv_Treinen (8).

HRs_Oakland, Chapman (11), Profar (6), Olson (4). Cleveland, Lindor (6), Perez (6).

Arrieta, Dominguez (7), Neris (9), Morgan (10), Nicasio (10) and Realmuto; Darvish, Montgomery (7), Brach (9), Ryan (10) and Caratini, Contreras. W_Neris 1-1. L_Ryan 0-1. Sv_Nicasio (1).

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Basketball NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Sunday, May 19 Toronto 118, Milwaukee 112, 2OT,

Milwaukee leads series 2-1 Monday, May 20 Golden State 119, Portland 117, OT, Golden State wins series 4-0 Tuesday, May 21 Milwaukee at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

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Hockey NHL Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Thursday, May 16 Boston 4, Carolina 0, Boston wins series 4-0 Friday, May 17 St. Louis 2, San Jose 1, Sunday, May 19 St. Louis 5, San Jose 0, St. Louis leads series 3-2.

Tuesday, May 21 San Jose at St. Louis, 4 p.m.

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Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Selected the contract of RHP Josh Lucas from Norfolk (IL). Transferred RHP Nate Karns to the 60-day IL. BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned C Oscar Hernandez and RHP Josh Smith to Pawtucket (IL). Reinstated C Sandy Leon from paternity leave and LHP David Price from the 10-day IL. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated OF Eloy Jiménez from the 10-day IL. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Sent LHP Andrew Heaney to Salt Lake (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Jake Barrett from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Sent OF Giancarlo Stanton to Tampa (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent RHP Matt Seelinger to San Francisco to complete an earlier trade.

TEXAS RANGERS - Announced Rule V selection RHP Reed Garrett was returned by Detroit and assigned to Nashville (PCL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Traded RHPs Arodys Vizcaino and LHP Jesse Biddle to Seattle for RHP Anthony Swarzak.

NEW YORK METS — Placed RHP Seth Lugo on the 10-day IL. Selected the contract of LHP Héctor Santiago from Syracuse (IL). Sent LHP Jason Vargas to Binghamton (EL) for a rehab assignment.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned OF Nick Williams to Lehigh Valley (IL). Reinstated SS Scott Kingery from the 10-day IL. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Designated OF Aaron Altherr

for assignment. Reinstated LHP Drew Pomeranz from the 10-day IL. Recalled LHP Andrew Suarez from Sacramento. Optioned INF Donovan Solano to Sacramento.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Designated LHP Dan Jennings for assignment. Reinstated LHP Tony Sipp from the 10-day IL. Claimed RHP Javy Guerra off waivers from Toronto.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Named J.B. Bickerstaff associate head coach.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed CB Rock Ya-Sin and WR Parris Campbell.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Announced interim coach Ryan Saunders will be retained.

Women’s NBA LOS ANGELES SPARKS — Traded C Jantel Lavender to Chicago for a 2020 second-round draft pick.

NEW YORK LIBERTY — Waived Gs Bianca Cuevas-Moore and Kelly Faris and F Megan Huff.

FOOTBALL National Football League INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived DT Jordan Thompson.

Signed QB Chad Kelly.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released OL Jake Eldrenkamp.

Re-signed DL Danny Shelton.

NEW YORK JETS — Waived TE Jordan Leggett. Signed P Matt Darr.

Canadian Football League B.C. LIONS — Signed LB Adam Konar.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with D Yegor Rykov on a entry-level contract.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Resigned Fs Shane Gersich and Brian Pinho to one-year, two-way contracts.

SOCCER Major League Soccer CINCINNATI — Recalled F Rashawn Dally from Memphis (USL Championship).

COLLEGE FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON — Relieved interim baseball coach Justin McKay of his duties.

IOWA — Placed volleyball coach Bond Shymansky on paid administrative leave for 30 days for an unspecified violation of NCAA rules.

MICHIGAN — Named Toyelle Wilson assistant women’s basketball coach and recruiting coordinator.

ST. JOHN’S — Named Will Bartlett director of men’s basketball player development and Chris Huey director of men’s basketball operations.

UCLA — Named Kristina Comforte associate head gymnastics coach.

A8 | Tuesday, May 21, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion

Sanchez rallies Yankees past Orioles

By The Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Gary Sánchez hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning to cap a New York rally fueled by Baltimore gaffes, and the Yankees pulled out a 10-7 victory Monday night.

Gleyber Torres homered twice for the Yankees, who trailed 6-1 after four innings and 7-3 after six.

At that point, the Orioles fulfilled their stature as the team with the worst record in the AL. They threw to the wrong base, missed popups and were outscored 7-0 over the final three innings.

New York scored in the seventh on an overthrow by left fielder Dwight Smith Jr., who fell for a fake tag-up on third base. In the ninth, right fielder Joey Rickard threw to the wrong base on a single, Smith heaved the ball past the plate on Aaron Hicks’ tying sacrifice fly, catcher Pedro Severino misjudged a foul pop that preceded a two-out walk to Luke Voit and Sánchez connected off Mychal Givens (0-1).

Zach Britton (2-0) worked the eighth and Aroldis Chapman got three outs for his 12th save.

Hanser Alberto and Renato Núñez homered for the Orioles.

Yankees starter J.A. Happ allowed six runs and a pair of solo homers in 3 2/3 innings, but New York’s comeback got him a nodecision.

Peacock (5-2) allowed two hits in five innings. Ryan Pressly pitched a scoreless eighth to extend his MLBrecord streak of appearances without allowing a run to 40, and Roberto Osuna gave up a hit in the ninth, preserving the shutout and earning his 12th save.

The White Sox used five pitchers on a bullpen day which began with Ryan Burr (1-1). He allowed one hit and one run — which was unearned, in two innings.

METS 5, NATIONALS 3

NEW YORK — Amed Rosario and Pete Alonso homered in the first inning as New York, after learning embattled manager Mickey Callaway is staying around, broke out of its offensive funk a bit to beat Washington.

Carlos Gómez cracked an RBI double off the wall for his first Mets hit in 12 years, and slumping Todd Frazier had a run-scoring single to help New York (21-25) stop a fivegame losing streak. After the Mets built a 4-0 lead in the third, fill-in starter Wilmer Font and five relievers held off the rival Nationals.

Anthony Rendon homered and Yan Gomes had three hits for Washington, including an RBI single.

Patrick Corbin (4-2) was tagged for four runs and six hits over five innings.

Pinch-hitter Dominic Smith delivered a two-out RBI single in the eighth on the first pitch from lefthander Tony Sipp, who came off the injured list earlier in the day.

Font, starting in place of injured Jason Vargas, lasted four innings before Drew Gagnon (2-0) tossed two ASTROS 3, WHITE SOX 0 hitless innings. Edwin Díaz pitched a HOUSTON — Jake Marisnick scoreless ninth for his 11th save. and Tyler White homered and Brad Peacock struck out nine in his third PHILLIES 5, CUBS 4 straight win to lead Houston over Chicago.

CHICAGO — J.T. Realmuto hit a Playing without George Spring- solo homer in the 10th, Jake Arrieta er, who leads the American League allowed one run over six innings in his with 17 homers, the Astros got pop return to Wrigley Field and Philadelfrom the bottom of the lineup to give phia beat Chicago. them at least one homer in 17 straight Realmuto connected with two outs games. They’ve won 11 of 12 overall against Kyle Ryan (0-1), driving a 1-2 and eight in a row against the White fastball a few rows into the left-field Sox.

seats to decide the opener of a fourgame series between the NL East and Central leaders.

Héctor Neris (1-1) worked a scoreless ninth. Adam Morgan struck out Jason Heyward leading off the 10th, and Juan Nicasio gave up a single to Albert Almora Jr. before Daniel Descalso grounded into a double play, giving Nicasio his first save since last June 28.

Yu Darvish gave up three runs, four hits and three walks in innings while striking out seven. Anthony Rizzo had three hits, including an RBI single.

ning when he ducked to avoid a ball hit up the middle by Roberto Pérez.

Both pieces of Pérez’s broken bat also sailed close to the pitcher.

Anderson finished the inning, then was removed in the sixth with a 3-1 lead and a runner on second.

Jurickson Profar, Matt Olson and Matt Chapman homered as Oakland extended its winning streak to four, matching its season high.

José Ramirez hit an RBI single in the eighth off Lou Trivino that pulled Cleveland to 4-3, and Blake Treinen retired Carlos González on an inningending groundout with the bases loaded. Treinen picked up his eighth save BRAVES 4, GIANTS 1 in 10 chances.

Carlos Carrasco (4-4) allowed SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Soroka carried a perfect game into the three runs, seven hits and two walks, sixth inning, Ronald Acuña Jr. hom- throwing 100 pitches in five innings. ered twice and Atlanta topped San Francisco.

PADRES 2, Austin Riley also homered for DIAMONDBACKS 1 the Braves, who won the opener of a seven-game trip and have won eight SAN DIEGO — Franmil Reyes hit of 11. a two-run home run in the sixth inning Soroka (5-1) struck out seven and to lift rookie Chris Paddack and San allowed one run and two hits in eight Diego past Arizona. innings. The 21-year-old Braves rookThe Padres snapped a three-game ie retired the first 15 batters before losing streak that had dropped them Brandon Crawford led off the sixth one game below .500 for the first time inning with a homer to straightaway this season. center field.

Luke Weaver (3-3) had outdueled Atlanta second baseman Ozzie Al- Paddack (4-2) and got the first two bies helped preserve Soroka’s gem, outs in the sixth before allowing Greg making a running catch with his back Garcia’s two-out single to right and to the infield on a fly ball to short cen- Reyes’ homer to center, his 15th. ter field by Kevin Pillar that ended the Paddack allowed one run and five fifth inning. hits in six innings, struck out seven Sean Newcomb retired three bat- and walked one. Weaver allowed ters for his first major league save. two runs and four hits in six innings Acuña homered leading off the and also had seven strikeouts and no game against San Francisco starter walks.

Andrew Suarez (0-1). It’s the 10th Kirby Yates pitched the ninth for leadoff home run of Acuña’s career his 18th save. and second in as many games this season.

RED SOX 12, BLUE JAYS 2

ATHLETICS 6, INDIANS 4 CLEVELAND — Brett Anderson left in the sixth inning with a cervical strain, and Oakland hung on to beat Cleveland.

Anderson (5-3) allowed one run in 5 1/3 innings. The 31-year-old left-hander was injured in the fifth in-

TORONTO — David Price did not allow any earned runs over five innings in his return from the injured list, and Boston hit four home runs in a rout of Toronto.

Price (2-2), who had not pitched since May 2 because of left elbow tendinitis, allowed three hits, struck out four and walked none, throwing

67 pitches.

Toronto scored twice in the second to tie the game, including Luke Maile’s second homer this year. Price then retired his final 10 batters.

Chavis, Jackie Bradley Jr., Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers homered for the Red Sox. Brandon Workman, Heath Hembree, Ryan Brasier and Hector Velázquez combined for hitless relief.

RANGERS 10, MARINERS 9 ARLINGTON, Texas — Asdrúbal Cabrera hit two of the five Texas homers and Mike Minor struck out 11 over six innings in a win over Seattle.

Hunter Pence, Joey Gallo and Rougned Odor also homered. The Rangers twice had back-to-back homers while winning for the fifth time in six games since losing five in a row.

Minor (5-3) had pitched 29 innings in a row at home without giving up a run before Seattle, down 7-0 at the time, scored twice in the sixth.

Tim Beckham had five RBIs for the Mariners, including his first career grand slam in the eighth to chase Shelby Miller. Seattle added three runs in the ninth, including Daniel Vogelbach’s two-run homer with two outs.

Texas went ahead to stay with a five-run first inning off Mike Leake (3-5).

TWINS 3, ANGELS 1 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Miguel Sano’s two-run homer in the eighth inning lifted the Twins over the Angels.

Sano has homered twice in the past three games. He missed the first 41 games due to a right heel laceration before making his season debut last Thursday.

Eddie Rosario singled with one out in the eighth before Sano hit Ty Buttrey’s fastball over the wall in rightcenter. It is the first home run Buttrey (2-2) has allowed in 38 relief appearances over two seasons.

Sano’s go-ahead shot came after the Angels tied it in the seventh on Tommy La Stella’s two-out single to score Brian Goodwin.

Lakers’ drama overshadows Vogel’s introduction EL SEGUNDO, Calif.

(AP) — Frank Vogel’s determination to build “organizational togetherness” within the Los Angeles Lakers met the reality of the team’s current dysfunction Monday.

Vogel’s introduction as the Lakers’ coach was almost overshadowed by comments made earlier by Magic Johnson. The former Lakers great appeared on ESPN’s “First Take” and said general manager Rob Pelinka “betrayed” him, which was one of the reasons he resigned as president of basketball operations.

That put the GM in the position of using most of Vogel’s 26-minute news conference

to respond.

Pelinka said he has talked to Johnson several times since his resignation on April 9 and said Johnson’s comments surprised him.

“It’s saddening and disheartening to think he believes things are a misperception,” Pelinka said. “I think all of us in life probably have been through things where maybe there’s third party whispers or ‘he said, she said’ things that aren’t true.”

LeBron James watched the news conference from the back of the gym at the team’s facility, but did not shake hands with Vogel and declined interview requests.

He shot baskets on another court while Vogel did one-onone interviews with television reporters.

Vogel, who replaced Luke Walton, said the news conference took on a different tone than he imagined at the start of the day.

“It was definitely different than I expected and different than I’ve ever been a part of,” Vogel said. “But I understand the line of questioning in light of the events of this morning. So you just roll with the punches.

“The perception about our team is not always the same as reality and you block out the noise.”

Johnson stunned everyone by giving up his role during an impromptu news conference roughly 90 minutes before the regular-season finale. He said he wanted to fire Walton but that others blocked that. Walton did end up being dismissed before being hired by Sacramento.

“I started hearing, ‘Magic, you’re not working hard enough’ and ‘Magic’s not in the office.’ People around the Lakers office were telling me Rob was saying things, and I didn’t like those things being said behind my back,” Johnson said. “So I started getting calls from my friends outside of basketball saying those

Gold Nugget Triathlon draws a crowd Staff report Peninsula Clarion

A handful of Kenai Peninsula athletes traveled north Sunday to compete in the Gold Nugget Triathlon in Anchorage, which features a 500-yard swim, 12-mile bike and 3.5-mile run.

The event was won by Stephanie Arnold in 1 hour, 1 minutes and 44 seconds. There were 1,445 finishers.

Peninsula finishers follow:

74. Morgan Aldridge, Sterling, 1:16:41; 191. Hartley Miller, Homer, 1:23:45; 387. Kristi Ellsworth, Moose Pass, 1:32:38; 428. Margaret Shalit, Nikiski, 1:34:16; 432. Sidney Epperheimer, Kenai, 1:34:28; 533. Avery Kornstad, Kenai, 1:38:01; 534. Nadia Anders, Kenai, 1:38:04; 563. Chelsea Springer, Soldotna, 1:39:31; 590. Bailey Epperheimer, Kenai, 1:40:28; 597. Rena Kornstad, Kenai, 1:40:38; 621. Jill Evoy, Kenai, 1:41:38; 711. Julie English, Kenai, 1:45:22; 721. Chelsea McGarry, Soldotna, 1:45:47; 735. Alexi Walker, Seward, 1:46:14; 737. Brandi Mangione, Kenai, 1:46:21; 743. Lori Wagoner, Kenai, 1:46:52; 803. Jennifer Jackson, Soldotna, 1:49:16; 842. Kelli Stroh, Kenai, 1:51:03; 885. Julie Doepken, Seward, 1:52:44; 904. B. Doepken, Seward, 1:53:20; 913. Valerie McKenney, Soldotna, 1:53:46; 924. Sara Boersma, Soldotna, 1:54:09; 972. Leah English, Kenai,

1:56:34; 981. Stacy Tronnier, Kenai, 1:57:00; 1005.

Dana Cordle, Homer, 1:58:30; 1030. Sandy Stevens, Sterling, 1:59:54; 1133. Margaret McGarry, Kasilof, 2:06:05; 1176. Amber McGlasson, Kenai, 2:10:20; 1184. Yvonne Oren, Kenai, 2:10:53; 1201. Katie Hollingsworth, Anchor Point, 2:12:35; 1214. Tawni Eubank, Kenai, 2:13:33; 1250. Erin Knotek, Moose Pass, 2:18:13; 1260. Kari Gdula, Soldotna, 2:18:46; 1285. Shannon Dosko, Kenai, 2:22:14; 1294. Kathryn Epperheimer, Kenai, 2:23:30; 1302. Penny Furnish, Kenai, 2:24:30; 1312. Connie Best, Soldotna, 2:26:19; 1366. S. Lautaret, Soldotna, 2:39:31; 1379.

Tanya Lautaret, Soldotna, 2:43:38; 1388. Cindi Parsons, Ninilchik, 2:47:51; 1434. Ashley Dahlman, Soldotna, 3:25:14; 1440. Robin Dahlman, Soldotna, 3:36:47; 1442. Ashley Blatchford, Kenai, 3:39:19.

Results posted for Exit Glacier Race Staff report Peninsula Clarion

The 37th annual Exit Glacier Race was held Saturday in Seward on Exit Glacier Road. Winners included Amanda Scott in 35 minutes, 33 seconds in the women’s 10-kilometer, Slade Manning in 38:29 in the men’s 10-kilometer, Kathleene Simonson in the women’s 5K in 22:26 and Cody Bryden in the men’s 5K in 22:25.

Results follow: 10 kilometers Women: 1. Amanda Scott, 35:33; 2.

Kellyann Cavaretta, 43:50; 3. Kristen Sieminski, 45:19; 4. Rosemary Rhodes, 45:34; 5. Ellie Weir, 46:02; 6. Heather Moon, 47:10; 7. Kristie Cotroneo, 47:19; 8. Jennifer Anderson, 47:41; 9. Gloria Garber, 47:43; 10. Elizabeth Hardie, 48:32; 11. Susan Craig, 49:26; 12. Rebekah Summer, 49:39; 13 (tie). Shelby Harris, Sara Lane, 49:45; 15. Heidi Sinclair, 50:05; 16.

Nico Christopher, 51:44; 17. Kathy Jacobsen, 52:19; 18. Jennifer, Leonard, 52:49; 19. Katia Lundell, 52:54; 20. Natasha Saunders, 53:21; 21. Jenny Santiago, 53:27; 22. Mariah Butters, 54:06; 23. Jessie Huett, 54:20; 24. Malia Skril-

off, 55:23; 25. Rahni Johnson, 56:16.

26. Jen Novobilski, 57:15; 27. Carey Quiring, 59:00; 28. Sarah O’Loughlin, 1:02:24; 29. Veronica Rivera, 1:03:04; 30. Kaylie Plunkett, 1:03:29; 31. Caye Moberg, 1:04:37; 32. Erin Kelley, 1:05:30; 33. Sarah Fink, 1:06:34; 34.

Maryjane Hadaway, 1:06:44; 35. Justina Reeves, 1:07:36; 36. Jennylyn Basalo, 1:07:37; 37. Jamie Beever, 1:24:28; 38. Amy Warfle, 1:30:36; 39 (tie). Lynda Jones, Lee Miller, 1:30:44; 41. Caitie Martin, 1:36:09; 42. Taylor Morris, 1:38:17; 43. Rachel Gould, 1:38:17; 44. Larissa Arbelovsky, 1:38:17; 45. Kimberly Wahowski, 1:38:18; 46 (tie). Denise DemetreeTro., Joyce Sexton, 1:47:52.

Men: 1. Slade Manning, 38:29; 2. Jacob Bera, 39:44; 3. Adam Breidinger, 42:02; 4. Alec Wollen, 42:51; 5. Michael DiFilippo, 43:42; 6. Matthew Cope, 44:51; 7. Marty Byrne, 45:15; 8. Brad Bailey, 45:51; 9. Dustin Henkin, 46:45; 10. Murray Aitken, 46:51; 11. Larry DeBoard, 47:24; 12. Richard Rodriguez, 51:02; 13. John Botson, 51:04; 14. Jon Rhodes, 51:10; 15. Robert Bernardi, 51:47; 16. Anthony Barruso, 51:48; 17. Mark Jacobsen, 52:57; 18. Michael Kent, 53:56; 19. Anthony Santiago, 1:00:58; 20. Wayne LaMagdeleine, 1:01:10; 21. Bill Kane, 1:31:07.

5 kilometers 1. Kathleene Simonson, 22:56; 2.

Kathleen Sorsensen, 23:16; 3. Maryam Norton, 23:46; 4. Hallie Bergwall, 24:38; 5. Natalie Sieminski, 25:02; 6.

Shelby Sieminski, 25:02; 7. Shannon Berry, 25:13; 8. Chloe Farrell, 25:38; 9.

Hattie Luckasson, 25:40; 10. Hayden Blair, 26:02; 11. Kassi Murray, 26:10;

12. Leigh Ann Childs, 26:38; 13. Wren Dougherty, 26:48; 14. Susanne Rieder, 27:10; 15. Sophia Taeschner, 27:39; 16. Taylor Farrell, 28:10; 17. Chana Rist, 28:18; 18. Melinda Nelson, 28:38; 19. Jessica Bjerke-Owens, 28:38; 20. Julie DeBoard, 28:39; 21. Wendy Dean, 29:23; 22. Laurie Winslow, 29:46; 23. Katy Jurney Scriv, 30:03; 24.

Felicia Carlson, 30:23; 25. Jacqueline Rocker, 30:38.

26. Cody Czer-Ransom, 30:39; 27.

Sarah Schmidt, 30:40; 28. Natalia Taeschner, 30:51; 29. Pat Brady, 30:56; 30. Laura Sanborn, 31:17; 31. Wendy Bryden, 31:21; 32. Sarah Stokey, 31:54; 33. Misono Berry, 31:57; 34.

Rebecca Ingram, 32:11; 35. Stephanie Plieness, 32:16; 36. Danielle Wynne, 32:17; 37. Paige Klem, 32:17; 38. Renae Wall, 32:43; 39. Ashley Bradley, 33:13; 40. Hairui Ma, 33:18; 41. Ryan Queen, 33:26; 42. Kathryn Hoffmeister, 33:49; 43. Melanie Smith, 33:51; 44. Pan Webber, 33:52; 45. Stephanie Higgins, 34:01; 46. Jeanette Nienaber, 34:01; 47. Julia Henkin, 34:22; 48.

Terri Agee, 34:31; 49. Marina Ramirez Medi, 34:58; 50. Morgan Hull, 35:22.

51. Syliva Gates, 37:06; 52. Kelsey Yarberry, 38:06; 53. Jennifer Cambridge, 38:56; 54. Mandy Dulin, 39:01; 55.

Teresa M. Hull, 39:35; 56. Michelle Shutt, 40:04; 57. Dana Cordle, 40:35; 58. Melissa Emmerson, 41:05; 59.

Riley Stanley, 41:33; 60. Heather Johnston, 41:35; 61. Audrey Blenkush, 42:15; 62. Alicia Blenkush, 42:16; 63.

Amelia Stanley, 43:16; 64. Danielle Andersen, 43:41; 65. Erin Boggs, 43:42; 66. Amanda Richards, 43:50; 67. Holly Andrews, 43:53; 68. Manette Stanley,

44:02; 69. Sara Saxton, 44:02; 70.

Emma Jackson, 44:54; 71. Stella Breidinger, 44:54; 72. Lindsay Barnett, 46:33; 73. Lindsey Denton, 46:35; 74.

Fritha Breidinger, 47:40; 75. Melinda Rathkopf, 47:43.

76. Sarah Cambridge, 48:34; 77. Bridget Turnbach, 50:16; 78. Dawn Maness, 52:39; 79. Morgan Bernardi, 52:40; 80.

Marjorie Mceldowney, 52:41; 81. Mary Jackson, 1:01:02; 82. Aimee Jackson, 1:01:06; 83. Sarah Jackson, 1:01:07; 84. Leslie Redmond, 1:01:08; 85.

Charlene DiFilippo, 1:01:08; 86. Maria Gacel, 1:02:47; 87. Breannea Wolverton, 1:06:53.

Men: 1. Cody Bryden, 22:25; 2. Jovier Oliva, 22:51; 3. Nicholas Chapman, 22:54; 4. Tim Jackson, 24:27; 5. Parker Blair, 25:13; 6. Charles McEldowney, 25:37; 7. Bryan Jackson, 26:14; 8.

Lawrence Harmon, 26:24; 9. Steve Agree, 27:43; 10. Alex Martin, 27:53; 11. Evan Andersen, 27:59; 12. Eric Werkmeister, 28:29; 13. Trevor DobellCarls, 29:16; 14. Nate Jackson, 30:00; 15. Scott Yarberry, 30:11; 16. James Schmidt, 30:38; 17. Paul Schrooten, 30:50; 18. Maynard Gates, 35:21; 19.

Makayla McNaughton, 38:00; 20. Justin Boggs, 38:15; 21. Rich Hull, 39:34; 22. Robert Baden, 40:56; 23. Garrett Queen, 41:18; 24. Patrick Martin, 41:25; 25. Memphis Stanley, 41:28.

26. Holden Breidinger, 42:02; 27.

D’Angelo DiFilippo, 44:49; 28. Stephen Hart, 44:53; 29. Brock Martin, 46:39; 30. Ted Rathkopf, 47:43; 31. Richael Cambridge, 48:34; 32. Gianluca, DiFilippo, 1:02:21.

things now were said to them outside of basketball now, just not in the Lakers office anymore.”

Pelinka said owner Jeanie Buss has eliminated Johnson’s position and the Lakers chain of command is now

clearer.

“When it comes to a basketball decision I collaborate with the staff, many of whom are at this press conference today. Then I make a recommendation to Jeanie and she blesses that or not,” he said.

Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2019. There are 224 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.

On this date: In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.

In 1863, the Seventh-day Adventist Church was officially organized.

In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for president by the Republican national convention in Chicago.

In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

In 1924, in a case that drew much notoriety, 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a “thrill killing” carried out by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb (Bobby’s cousin).

In 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33 1/2 hours.

In 1941, a German U-boat sank the American merchant steamship SS Robin Moor in the South Atlantic after the ship’s passengers and crew were allowed to board lifeboats.

In 1945, actors Humphrey Bogart, 45, and Lauren Bacall, 20, were married at Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio (it was his fourth marriage, her first, and would last until Bogart’s death in 1957).

In 1972, Michelangelo’s Pieta, on display at the Vatican, was damaged by a hammer-wielding man who shouted he was Jesus Christ.

In 1979, former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the slayings of Mayor George Moscone (mahs-KOH’-nee) and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk; outrage over the verdict sparked rioting. (White was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison; he ended up serving five years and committed suicide in 1985.)

In 1991, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated during national elections by a suicide bomber.

In 1998, a teen gunman opened fire inside Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killing two students, a day after he killed his parents. (The shooter was sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison.) In the wake of deadly protests, Indonesian President Suharto stepped down after 32 years in power.

Ten years ago: A day after the Senate voted to keep the Guantanamo prison camp open, President Barack Obama made his case for closing the facility, denouncing what he called “fear-mongering” by political opponents; Obama made his case moments before former Vice President Dick Cheney delivered his own address defending the Bush administration’s creation of the camp. A 66-year-old woman with terminal cancer became the first person to die under Washington state’s new assisted suicide law.

Five years ago: With outrage mounting over veterans’ health care, President Barack Obama declared that misconduct alleged at VA hospitals would not be tolerated. China signed a $400 billion gas deal with Russia, binding Moscow more closely to Beijing amid international sanctions for Russian actions in Ukraine. Wendell Scott became the first African-American driver to be elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

One year ago: Syria’s military captured an enclave in southern Damascus from Islamic State militants after a monthlong battle, bringing the entire capital and its suburbs under full government control for the first time since the civil war began in 2011. A divided Supreme Court ruled that businesses can prohibit their workers from banding together in disputes over pay and conditions in the workplace, finding that individual employees can be forced to use arbitration, not the courts, to air complaints about wages and overtime. Gina Haspel was sworn in as CIA director. Netflix announced a multi-year deal with Barack and Michelle Obama; there were no details announced on what shows they would make. The U.S. Postal Service announced that it would soon issue its first scratch-and-sniff stamps, featuring illustrations of ice pops.

Today’s Birthdays: Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 78. Rock musician Hilton Valentine (The Animals) is 76.

Musician Bill Champlin is 72. Singer Leo Sayer is 71. Actress Carol Potter is 71. Former Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is 68. Actor Mr. T is 67.

Music producer Stan Lynch is 64. Actor Judge Reinhold is 62. Actordirector Nick Cassavetes is 60. Actress Lisa Edelstein is 53. Actress Fairuza Balk is 45. Rock singer-musician Mikel Jollett (Airborne Toxic Event) is 45. Rapper Havoc (Mobb Deep) is 45. Rock musician Tony LoGerfo (Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real) is 36. Actor Sunkrish Bala is 35. Actor David Ajala is 33. Actress Ashlie Brillault is 32. Country singer Cody Johnson is 32. Actor Scott Leavenworth is 29. Actress Sarah Ramos is 28.

Thought for Today: “Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”

-- James Stephens, Irish poet and novelist (1882-1950).

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“Contraband” (2012, Action) Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale.

Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural “Pilot” ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ “Ocean’s Thirteen” (2007) George Clooney.

Charmed ‘PG’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Charmed ‘14’ Supernatural “Skin” ‘14’ Supernatural ‘14’ Supernatural “Bugs” ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ Bones ‘14’ SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) MLB Baseball SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) College Softball SportsCenter (N) (Live) Outside NFL Live (N) (Live) NBA: The Jump (N) (Live) High Noon Question Around Interruption SportsCenter (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live NBA: The Jump Question Question Around Interruption NFL Live First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live NBA: The Jump High Noon Question Around Interruption NBA Studio (N) (Live) First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live NBA: The Jump High Noon Question Around Interruption NFL Live First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) NFL Live NBA: The Jump High Noon Question Around Interruption Professional Fighters First Take Jalen & Jacoby (N) College Softball College Softball College Softball The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog.

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The Dan Patrick Show (N) Mariners Mariners The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog.

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The Dan Patrick Show (N) ‘PG’ Mariners Mariners Paid Prog.

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Mariners Mariners MLB Baseball Seattle Mariners at Texas Rangers. (N) (Live) Mariners The Dan Patrick Show (N) ‘PG’ The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog.

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The Dan Patrick Show (N) WCC All Bensinger Mariners Mariners College Baseball The Rich Eisen Show (N) (Live) ‘PG’ Paid Prog.

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The Dan Patrick Show (N) Tennis Bar Rescue Bar Rescue Bar Rescue ‘PG’ Bar Rescue ‘PG’ Bar Rescue ‘PG’ Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men Mom Stooges Stooges (8:55) “Planet of the Apes” (2001) Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth.

“Dante’s Peak” (1997) Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton.

“Braveheart” (1995) Mel Gibson.

The Son ‘14’ (:01) “Braveheart” (1995) Mel Gibson. A Scottish rebel rallies his countrymen against England.

“Enter the Dragon” (1973, Action) Bruce Lee, John Saxon.

Last Sam Stooges Stooges Stooges “The Last Samurai” (2003, Adventure) Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall.

“The Departed” (2006, Crime Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon.

Stooges Stooges “The Untouchables” (1987, Crime Drama) Kevin Costner.

“Predator 2” (1990) Danny Glover, Gary Busey.

“Total Recall” (1990) Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Stooges “Animal House” (1978) John Belushi, Kevin Bacon.

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Man plans to bequest money to the soul mate he deserted riage in any way, but I cannot help but think that despite my good intentions it might cause a disturbance in their relationship. Am I doing the right thing, and is there a better way to do it?

-- “JOHN BERESFORD TIPTON JR.” DEAR “MR. TIP- Abigail Van Buren TON”: Your letter brings to mind a television series from years ago called “The Millionaire.” Each week the representative of an eccentric multimillionaire, John Beresford Tipton Jr., would hand some deserving person a check for $1 million in the hope that it would improve the person’s life.

Ask your financial adviser or the person who will administer your estate how to discreetly pull off an anonymous bequest, and I’m sure the person can make it happen.

DEAR ABBY: For a year and a half, my wife and I have been looking forward to attending our granddaughter’s college graduation. (She will be graduating on June 1.) When I called my son to discuss hotel and other arrangements, he told me my granddaughter initially was allowed only

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from. You have a lot going on and need to take a prominent role dealing with it.

Others respect your knowledge and want your input. Decide how much time you can give. Tonight: Add in some naughtiness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You could be tired and withdrawn.

You might not be sure what needs to happen next. Get feedback and opinions first.

Take your time mulling over possibilities.

You might not be ready to make a decision just yet. Tonight: Head home early.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Speak your mind quietly yet with authority. A partner is only too happy to give you feedback. Creativity solves problems quickly. You find another person at a distance to be irritating. Touch base with this person to anchor him or her in the issue. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You could be tired and wanting to take on a project. Be careful because this project could cost you in time, energy or finances. Weigh the pros and cons of heading down this path. Tonight: Get a partner to verbalize his or her anger and its source.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You feel more energized than in the recent past. Your instincts could be off when dealing with a creative idea.

It might not be as easily materialized as you might like. Another person close to you could be irritated. Tonight: Take the lead.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You might be tired and somewhat withdrawn. Much is going on behind the scenes, which you are going over in your mind. Reach out for a friend who might have some important feedback. You could also easily lose your temper. Tonight: As you like it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH Speak your mind and get past a problem quickly without getting stuck on another person’s feelings. You know and understand that nearly anything is possible. Take action once you are clear. You might need to establish limits. Tonight: Hang with your friends.

BORN TODAY Painter Henri Rousseau (1844), actor Mr. T (1952), rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (1972)

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THE YEAR IN NUMBERS Dear Heloise: I love reading your column in the Orange County Register here in Southern California. A reader asked what is the proper way to say the year. I spent 25 years as a professional broadcaster, and I tend to keep it less on the slang side and more on the educated side. So for me, it’s “two thousand nineteen.”

Consider this admonition by my high school math teacher: There should be no separation when saying numbers. Would you like “twenty nineteen” dollars, or “two thousand nineteen” dollars?

-- Adam in Laguna Hills, Calif.

AD MAD Dear Heloise: I’m a paying customer for cable TV, and it seems commercials are taking over the programs I try to watch. I counted 15 TV commercials on one break. I should not have to pay for or endure so many annoying and ridiculous commercials! ENOUGH! -- Terry V. in New Orleans LIGHTS OUT Dear Heloise: When I am staying in a motel room, I find that the heavy window curtains don’t close completely, letting light in through the opening.

I take a clothes hanger with clips and clasp the curtains together. As a result, I have privacy and a dark room in which to sleep!

-- Dianne G., Canton, Ohio One of my favorite travel hints!

-- Heloise PAY IT FORWARD Dear Heloise: Many gift cards are never fully used because only a small amount remains on the card. My solution: Hand the card to someone else in the store. It’s better to have it used, and it’s always appreciated.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, May 21, 2019: This year, you evolve into a more direct, verbal person. You will not hold yourself back as much. Others value your feedback. If you’re single, your love of flirting emerges, though you are quite likely to meet someone of special life significance.

If you’re attached, the two of you move to a new level of understanding. You respect each other’s differences. CAPRICORN tends to hold you back.

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 have a lot to say, and you want your words heard. You feel the topic is important and need to air it out. Finances and decisions made accordingly could cause stress. Once you air out the topic, others respond. Tonight: You will be heard.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Reach out for someone at a distance. You do not need to see eye to eye with this person to be friends. You like what his or her imagination offers. Someone from a distance could be on the warpath. Tonight: Work with others in the face of a disagreement.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You feel energized and directed.

You can take on a major project with the expectation of finishing it appropriately.

You might not see eye to eye with a loved one. Both of you have validity in what you are saying. Tonight: With a favorite person.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Curb a tendency to be overly reactive. If someone shares a problem, listen and put your feelings on the side.

You will get to deal with them at a later point, though you might need to employ self-discipline. Tonight: Check out a rumor or an unusual idea.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You might become more sensitive and serious-minded. You have a lot to do ahead of you, with a tight schedule.

Act; do not fuss. You could be irritated by someone in your day-to-day life. Express your feelings. Tonight: Burning the midnight oil.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Tap into your creativity and understand where others might be coming

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three tickets, but managed to get two more tickets from students whose relatives could not attend. He then informed me that he, his ex-wife, his son, his ex-wife’s sister and the sister’s livein boyfriend will be using the tickets.

I feel very hurt that the ex’s sister and boyfriend got tickets instead of me and my wife. We had planned to give my granddaughter $500 for graduation. After this slap in the face, should we give her the $500, which we have given to all our other grandchildren upon their graduation?

-- LEFT OUT IN FLORIDA DEAR LEFT OUT: Yes, you should. Although you are right to feel hurt and offended, the blame should rest with your son and not your granddaughter, and she should not be penalized for it.

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Good advice for everyone -- teens to seniors -- is in “The Anger in All of Us and How to Deal With It.” To order, send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Anger Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)

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DEAR ABBY: Many years ago, I had a romance with a young girl in a faraway town. After a year, thinking I could do better, I moved on.

With the benefit of hindsight, I now realize she stood head and shoulders above all the others, and I had tragically discarded my soul mate.

By chance, I ended up settling in the same city as she. She eventually married and raised a family. Now and then we would run into each other, exchange a few friendly words and a quick hug, then move on. On one of those occasions, she was accompanied by her husband and introduced me as a “friend” from back in our younger days. Although he was cordial, I could see in his expression that he wondered if perhaps there wasn’t more to the story than that.

In the course of getting my papers and estate arranged, it is clear I have done fairly well in terms of money. I divorced years ago and have no children. I am leaving money to a relative or two, some assorted charities and, for two reasons, I have decided to leave a reasonably large sum to my soul mate. For one, she was, and is, perhaps the finest person I have ever known.

Second, it is obvious to me that they can use the money.

But what happens when this windfall drops out of the sky into their laps? I have no wish to cause problems in their apparently happy mar-

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Advice on dining out with your dog American Kennel Club

The warm months are finally upon us. As we spend more time outside enjoying the weather, we want our pups to come along, too, and dog-friendly restaurants are becoming ever more popular.

Whether it’s a weekend brunch or a quiet dinner,

the American Kennel Club offers the following tips on how to safely dine out with your dog: —Pack a doggy dish and water. Outdoor dining usually occurs during the summer months, which means that it can get pretty hot, especially while sitting outside in the sun. Make sure you have

This pet is available at the Clear Creek Cat Rescue

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a bowl and that you bring water, or ask the server for some. If your dog seems to be panting heavily, it’s time to ask for the check.

—Puppy-proof. Before looking at the menu, do a scan of the area. Inspect under the table and chairs and anywhere within reach of your dog to make sure there’s nothing he can

snack on. In addition to fattening foods that may cause pancreatitis or other health issues, other foods could make your dog sick, such as raisins or chocolate.

—Bring an interactive toy. You might be having a wonderful time catching up and gossiping with your friends, but to your

Meet Annabelle Adorable little girl about a year old, Annabelle is a sweetheart of the first degree.

She is so easy and quiet and gentle. She walks into the house and soon you would find that you have a forever kitty who fits in so well. Annabelle once lived outside and doesn’t want to do that again, but she will want to go outside to play with her kitty friends when spring comes.

other dogs, strangers, loud noises or crowds shouldn’t be brought to restaurants until they are properly socialized. You want your pet to feel comfortable in this kind of environment.

That way, you (and fellow diners) can enjoy your meals in peace, and your dog isn’t placed in an uncomfortable environment.

This pet is available at the Kenai Animal Shelter

This pet is available at the Kenai Animal Shelter

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• Domestic • Medium Hair • Young • Female • Small • edium Coat • House Trained • Vaccinations up to Date • Spayed/ Neutered • Good in a Home With Other Cats, Children

dog, sitting under a table on a short lead can quickly become boring. Ensure that your dog is on his best behavior by keeping him happily occupied with productive and acceptable activities like favorite toys, chews and stuffed food puzzles.

—Know your dog.

Dogs who are fearful of

Meet Olson Olson is a very nice boy who just does not want to share his home with another cat anymore. He’s done it for almost 2 years and he’s had enough. He loves attention and is very playful.

• Domestic Short Hair • Adult • Male • Large • Housetrained • Vaccinations up to Date

Meet Lovelace This boy takes some time to warm up to strangers. He prefers quiet solitude most of the time. Needs a home that allows him to just chill out and be left alone. He does enjoy being petted but he’s not extremely social.

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• Domesti • Short Hair • Adult • Female • Medium • House Traines • Spayed/ Neutered

• Domestic • Medium Hair • Female • Medium Size • House Trained • Vaccinations up to Date • Spayed Neutered • Takes Hyperthyroid Medication

Meet Eclipse Eclipse is a beautiful ebony girl with a fluffy coat and a very impressive ruff. She is quite slim, maybe 4 or 5 years old and a super lovebug. She is okay with other cats and dogs existing in the house. But she prefers to ignore them and focus all her attention on her humans that she loves beyond all else.

If you’re looking for affection and devotion, Eclipse is the girl for you!

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GIVING A PET A HOME. PLEASE ADOPT A PET FROM ONE OF YOUR LOCAL SHELTERS Kenai Animal Shelter-283-7353 Soldotna Animal Shelter-262-3969 Alaska’s Extended Life Animal Sanctuary 776-3614 Please visit WWW.PETFINDER.COM for available pets at these & other shelters or check the Peninsula Clarion Classified Ads.

JESSIE

Meet Jessie I am a sweet cat. I am friendly to my family and visitors. I am affectionate and playful.

I don’t mind being picked up when I am in the mood for it. I love to have my back petted. I have not lived with other cats, dogs or children.

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• Adule • Female • Large • Bicolor • Medium Coat • House Trained • Vaccinations up to Date • Good in a Home With Other Dogs/ Cats Meet Che’ Bear Che’ Bear is a fantastic dog. She walked in here with 8 other dogs and had zero problems. She’s playful, respectful of the older dogs and she’s quiet. She has been a ladies dog all her life but seems to think I’m okay as well, but she prefers women.

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