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‘Breastplate of righteousness’ Sen. Marshall says he’s up to the job; asserts that COVID-19 is no different from the common cold or flu

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

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Council weighs request to help company

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iola City Council members aren’t yet ready to decide on a request to help an internet service provider pay for what would become a citywide fiber-optic network.

The Council was asked Monday by Iola-based KwiKom Communications to pay half the cost of the fiber-optic expansion.

KwiKom already has fiber-optic service through portions of Iola, primarily north of U.S. 54.

It would cost roughly $640,000 to cover much of the rest of Iola, KwiKom operations manager Eric Vogel said.

He requested the See COUNCIL | Page A6

All of the Iola school principals agree: Their students and staff aren’t happy to return to face masks due to a recent surge in COVID-19 infections.

The principals asked the school board to consider reducing a policy that requires face masks to be worn for at least two weeks when the number of infections in a building reaches 4%.

Currently, all schools except Jefferson Elementary School are under a face mask requirement after cases exceeded that 4% threshold last week. Iola Middle School’s mask requirement will end Friday.

Because cases have dropped from a high of 39 to 11, IMS Principal Brad Crusinbery said it seems

Roger Marshall left little doubt who’s to blame for a number of issues facing the country.

Kansas’s junior U.S. Senator was in Iola Monday for a town hall meeting. The Republican rattled off a laundry list of complaints, from rising gas prices to the opioid pandemic, that, in his opinion, are the fault of President Joe Biden.

“Anybody in the room concerned about inflation?” he asked at the start. “Concerned about the price of gasoline?

Concerned about the southern border and lawlessness in this nation? National security and the direction the president has taken us as far as foreign policy standpoint?

“I never would have imagined we’d be in the situation we’re in,” he said.

When prodded by one attendee, Marshall said he was frustrated, “but I’m good. I’m solid. There are so many people praying for me. I do feel like I have a shield in my right hand, and a breastplate of righteousness.”

WITH THAT prologue out of the way, Marshall fielded questions from a group of about 15 like-minded Allen Countians. And while such topics as infrastructure spending and an investigation into meat packers suspected of fixing beef prices were mentioned, the bulk of the discussion focused on the ongoing

Principals call for easing mask rules

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Allen County COVID-19 Case Count Sen. Roger Marshall dons a Kansas City Chiefs shirt for his town hall meeting at the Allen County Country Club Monday. REGISTER/ RICHARD LUKEN

ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s time to go back to normal,” Marshall said. “It’s time to live with (COVID) and not in fear of it. Americans are

scared to death.”

With the surging omicron variant, a highly contagious, but milder version of COVID-19 spreading across See MARSHALL | Page A3

Cases since 1/21......77 Total cases*............3,526 Deaths...................30 *Since the start of the pandemic Sources: Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Officers, lawmakers resist bill banning no-knock warrants

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

Rachel Palmer, a fifth-grade teacher at Iola Middle School, poses for a selfie with KC Wolf, the official mascot of the Kansas City Chiefs. Dan Mears, who has donned the wolf costume for the past 32 years, was the keynote speaker at Monday’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) commencement. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

DARE students graduate with help from KC Wolf

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Fresh from rooting on the Kansas City Chiefs to one of their most exciting wins in team history a day earlier, Dan Mears was in Iola MonVol. 124 No. 80 Iola, KS 75 Cents

day to cheer a group of Iola Middle School fifth-graders.

Mears is known more for the costume he dons each Sunday at Chiefs home games as KC Wolf, a job he’s held for the past 32 years.

And while it was a treat

cheering at “that boring old football game,” Mears told the fifth-graders he was equally enamored with what they’ve done in completing a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program.

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TOPEKA — Advocates of Kansas House legislation imposing a prohibition on no-knock search warrants by law enforcement officers Monday triggered indignation and rebukes from legislators with professional experience as investigators, attorneys and judges in Kansas.

Rep. Brett Fairchild, a St. John Republican, joined with Republican and Democratic peers in the House to seek support for the bill endorsed by representatives of the Libertarian Party and the ACLU of Kansas. It would require officers to be in uniform and to announce their presence before breaking down doors of a residence in a quest for suspects or evidence. A collection of law enforcement organizations testified against House Bill 2133.

“I believe that no-knock warrants have caused harm to both civilians and police

officers and have caused more harm than good, and I believe that my bill is at least a first step in attempting to solve this problem,” Fairchild said.

McPherson Police Chief Mikel Golden, representing the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police, told the House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee the legislation was unnecessary. No-knock warrants for high-risk suspects were rare and didn’t give officers a license to be reckless, he said.

This type of warrant did enable officers to get inside a residence swiftly and improve odds of avoiding the threat of violence at home entrances, he said.

“Officers will be announcing “police department, search warrant” as they go through the residence,” Golden said. “They just do not have to sit in the fatal funnel at the door for 10 seconds or more announcing “police department, search warrant,” when the reaSee WARRANTS | Page A6

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Jesse Green Sr.

Edward J. Danford, 59, Iola, died on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, Iola, with Chaplain Lloyd Houk officiating. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery, Iola.

The family will great friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

Thursday at The Venue at the funeral home.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Jesse A. Green Sr., 66, passed away Dec. 29, 2021, at Neosho Regional Medical Center in Chanute.

Jesse was born Dec. 10, 1955, in Wichita, to Virgil A. Green and Faye Benjamin Green.

Jesse grew up in Tracy, Mo., most of his younger life, then made his home in Neosho Falls for over 30 years. He impacted many lives of friends and family in which he enjoyed fishing, camping, get-togethers and cookouts.

Jesse is preceded in death by his parents, first wife Connie Puckett Green, daughter Misty Dawn, sisters Leona Edwards, Loretta Lear, Lanita Lee, Linda Coulter and Lelia Robker; and brothers, Frank, Butch and Gerald Green. He is survived by wife Kathy Roles Green of the home. son Jesse Jr., daughter Sylvia Hunt and husband David, stepsons Donald Puckett and wife Shawnna, Larry Holle and wife Julie, and Andrew Holle and wife Alizyn; and 11 stepgrandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to Friends for Life in Yates Center.

Graveside service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at Cedarvale Cemetery in Neosho Falls.

Joseph Elmenhorst Joseph Henry (Okie Joe) Elmenhorst, age 91, Moran, passed away Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, at his residence. Joe was born Dec. 2, 1930, in El Reno, Okla., to Anton Elmenhorst and Mary Irene (Kappus) Elmenhorst.

Joe attended school in Oklahoma and graduated in 1949 from Sacred Heart Catholic High Joseph School in El Reno.

Elmenhorst Joe and Edna Wittrock were married Nov. 18, 1953, in Okarche, Okla. Together they made their home in El Reno, where they were blessed with their four children. They moved to Moran in 1966 where they continued their life together raising their children on the family farm.

Farming was Joe’s hobby as well as his occupation. Joe loved to visit and talk, especially at the local sale barns and farm auctions. He never met a stranger. Joe loved spending time with his family.

Joe was preceded in death by his wife, Edna; parents; sisters, Margaret Williams, Millie Hess, Eileen Williams; brothers, Francis Elmenhorst, Gene Elmenhorst, George Elmenhorst, Bob Elmenhorst, Paul Elmenhorst, Carl Elmenhorst; and granddaughter, Nicole Sigg.

Joe is survived by children, Karen (Bob) Sager, Moran, Chris (Sherry) Elmenhorst, LaHarpe, Carla (Jim) Metcalfe, Chanute, Julie (Chris) Hammes, Edmond, Okla.; 12 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; brothers, Don Elmenhorst, El Reno, Jim Elmenhorst, Oktaha, Okla.; his beloved dog, Charlie; and numerous other relatives and friends.

A visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, in The Venue at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola. A Rosary will be recited at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at St. John Catholic Church, Iola, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10. Burial will follow in St. John Catholic Cemetery, Gas. Memorials are suggested to St. John Altar Society, and may be left with the funeral home.

Condolences for the family may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Robert Burkholder Jr. Robert David Burkholder Jr., born Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, passed away nine hours after he was born, to parents Helen Burkholder (Leckrone) and the late Robert Burkholder.

Robert Jr., is survived by his mother, Helen Burkholder; sisters Keair French of Iola and Addison Brown of Buffalo, Mo.; and brothers Scotty Burkholder Jr. of Ottawa and Hunter Leckrone of Ottawa.

He was preceded in death by one brother, Shawn Blevins Jr., grandmother Tammy Hughes, and a great-grandmother, Sharon Denslow. A service will be at a later date.

Kansas COVID: those age 12-17 have highest rate

By DAVID TIDD Topeka CapitalJournal

As the nation’s top infectious disease specialist expressed optimism amid the omicron surge, Kansas doctors continue to warn of challenges hospitals face amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported 14,270 new COVID-19 cases, 71 new hospitalizations and 17 new deaths over the weekend.

An eighth child death was reported Monday. The youth was in the 10-17 age group.

Federal data released Monday show Kansas has the eighth-highest rate of

new cases of any state in the country. Just over 2% of the entire state population was diagnosed with COVID-19 in the most recent week of reporting.

The statewide positive test rate is about 33%, with the 12-17 population experiencing the highest rate of any age group, at 42%.

“What we are seeing nationally, overall, is we think maybe the peak or the decrease in case rates or case numbers,” said Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease specialist at The University of Kansas Health System. “However, we know that there are communities, and in certain geographic regions, that are still having high amounts of cases.

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Leonard Rahmeier Leonard Franklin Rahmeier, 85, Le Roy, passed away Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, at Coffey County Hospital.

Leonard was born June 6, 1936, at his family’s home in rural Coffey County, the son of Frank and Lena Rahmeier. He lived in Coffey County his entire life. In his younger years he was an avid baseball player.

He married the love of his life Patricia on Aug. 4, 1962. After getting married they made their home in Aliceville, where they raised their two children, Kurt and Diann. In 1996 they moved to the family farm just southwest of Aliceville. Leonard farmed his entire life and in his earlier years he ran a hog operation. In later years livestock was phased out and he farmed crops. Throughout the years, Leonard had won many awards for soil conservation and wildlife preservation. Several years he had served on the Le Roy Co-op Board and the PCA board of directors which was known as Farm Credit Services.

Leonard loved hunting, wildlife and bowling. He enjoyed hunting quail, pheasant, turkey and deer.

Later in life, Leonard loved to teach his kids and grandkids about hunting and wildlife. In his “golden years” Leonard said he only farmed because he enjoyed it and not because he had to. He was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather, doing whatever it took to provide for his family.

A devout Christian, he always said “I feel it is important to give thanks and praise to the one who has given us so much.”

He is preceded in death by his wife of 59 years; parents, brother-in-law Eldon Graham and brotherin-law Howard Caldwell.

He is survived by children, Kurt Rahmeier, Le Roy, and Diann (Tom) Hoag, Gridley; grandchildren, Andrea (Jacob) Stewart, Michael Stohs, Kati Hoag, Seth Hoag, and Drew (Jessie) Hoag; six great-grandchildren and one on the way; a sister, Luella Graham, and a sister-in-law, Elaine Caldwell; and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services are at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Burlington. Burial will follow in Quisling Cemetery northeast of Le Roy. Mr. Rahmeier will lie in state from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday at Jones Funeral Home in Burlington.

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the country, it’s time to put COVID-19 in the same category as other illnesses, the senator said.

“The virus at this point is not that much different than the common cold or flu,” he said, lambasting the Centers for Disease Control for focusing too much on testing and vaccines, and not enough on therapeutics. He also faulted the CDC, Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci for pushing for asymptomatic Americans to be tested at all.

“I’m all about local control,” Marshall said.

“Maybe it does make sense to keep kids out of school when omicron is peaking, maybe a week or two, but not for months,” though that has not been suggested locally now that vaccines are available.

He encouraged Americans to get vaccines, but said those decisions should be made between people and their doctors.

Mandates have aggravated a shortage of healthcare professionals, Marshall continued, alleging many doctors and nurses have left

SAT going digital By the Associated Press

The SAT exam will move from paper and pencil to a digital format, administrators announced today, saying the shift will boost its relevancy as more colleges make standardized tests optional for admission.

Test-takers will be allowed to use their own laptops or tablets but they’ll still have to sit for the test at a monitored testing site or in school, not at home.

The format change is scheduled to roll out internationally next year and in the U.S. in 2024. It will also shave an hour from the current version, bringing the reading, writing and math assessment from three hours to about two.

“The digital SAT will be easier to take, easier to give, and more relevant,” said Priscilla Rodriguez, vice president of College Readiness Assessments at the New York City-based College Board, which administers the SAT and related PSAT. “We’re not simply putting the current SAT on a digital platform.

We’re taking full advantage of what delivering an assessment digitally makes possible.”

Once essential for college applications, scores from admission tests like the SAT and rival ACT carry less weight today as colleges and universities pay more attention to the sum of student achievements and activities throughout high school.

I never would have imagined we’d be in the situation we’re in, but I’m good. I’m solid. There are so many people praying for me. I do feel like I have a shield in my right hand, and a breastplate of righteousness.

— Sen. Roger Marshall

Chanute City Commissioner Sam Budreau speaks at a town hall meeting with Sen. Roger Marshall Monday. their jobs in opposition to getting vaccinated.

Marshall also tied opioid deaths, suicides and other psychological problems with the federal response to the pandemic.

“You’re making people wear masks, kicking people out of school, people are not going to work,” he said. More people are dying of opioids than COVID. Why doesn’t the CDC understand that? We’re causing more problems than

good.”

By the time the omicron surge is complete, Marshall said more than 90% of Americans will have some natural immunity to the coronavirus.

To date, more than 868,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.

In Kansas, more than 7,370 have died from the virus, including eight children.

MARSHALL also spoke about the Build Back Better infrastruc-

ture plan passed largely through party lines and signed into law by Biden.

With so much money being injected into the economy, the rate of inflation is rising, and not enough funds are coming to Kansas, Marshall said.

“Certainly Kansas did not get our fair share of the apple,” he said.

“Based on our population, we didn’t do well.”

To members of the audience, Kent Webber

of Monarch Cement Co., Humboldt, and Sam Budreau, Chanute city commissioner, touched on infrastructure funds.

Webber encouraged planners to spread out any cash injections, thus limiting reliance on imports for infrastructure, while Budreau urged Marshall and others in Washington to make sure money wasn’t being skimmed off the top and “making sure money filters down to us.”

MARSHALL fielded other questions, including: ALLEGATIONS OF PRICE FIXING BY MEATPACKERS

Marshall noted four packing plants control 85% of the beef processing in the country, and that while prices of beef are rising, producers

are being left out of the equation.

The Federal Trade Commission and attorney general’s office have opened an investigation, Marshall said.

“We’ve talked with the Biden Administration, and they gave me their word they would investigate, and they are.”

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What will it take to ensure solvency in both programs, he was asked.

“It’s gonna take a bipartisan group of senators and House members, and it will require a president in his second term, not worried about re-election,” Marshall said. “It starts with a strong economy.”

Too few Americans are working, he said, in part because of policies laid out by Biden.

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unfair to force students to continue wearing masks.

Iola High School Principal Scott Carson asked board members if they might consider dropping the mandate to five days or when numbers reach 2% or fewer.

IHS triggered the mandate on Wednesday, with 16 cases. They reached a high of 22 on Friday.

They were down to nine on Monday and expect to have just four cases today “but we’re going to be in masks for another week and a half,” Carson said.

Carson spoke passionately about the difficulty in enforcing a mask mandate for high school students, especially after going without one for most of the school year.

His most important duty is to protect the environment of learning, he said. He took over as principal during the height of the pandemic, in July of 2020, and has faced that challenge every day.

“The shutdown showed me consistency in education is key. We were just getting back to that consistency,” he said.

A return to face masks “kind of sets us back,” Carson said.

The other principals agreed.

Older students either refuse to wear them or don’t wear them proper-

ly, they said.

Younger students struggle to keep them on, and at this time of year, they often have runny noses that create a mess inside the mask. Very young students need to see their instructors’ mouths to learn how to properly pronounce words, said Angie Linn, principal at McKinley Elementary.

AFTER the principals spoke, Superintendent Stacey Fager pointed out that the district’s COVID policies allow schools to remain open despite a high number of cases so there’s no threat of canceling classes.

Across the state and even in neighboring districts, schools were closed for a period of time during the latest surge in cases.

“If we would have shut down and we had the numbers we’re having now, you might have said that’s because we shut down for two days,” he said.

The high number of cases also translates to a high number of absences, and the district has been facing a shortage of staff and substitutes.

USD 257 Board of Education member Mandey Coltrane, left, listens as board member Jennifer Taylor reads a proposal to purchase furniture for the new Iola Elementary School. Read more coverage of the meeting online at www.iolaregister.com and in Wednesday’s edition.

Even though the district was short on staff in all areas, they managed to keep essential services going. Some teachers pulled other classes into theirs to make up for shortages.

“I’m not saying we can’t shut down, but we found a way to make it through. We found a way to bus our kids and give them a hot meal.

We found a way to combine classrooms,” Fager said.

“Not only am I hearing from administrators but also from the teacher’s union, anything we can do to stay in school, we’re willing to do. It makes me feel

good knowing we have a team pulling together so hard for the benefit of our students.”

THE BOARD did not address the principals’ comments and moved on to other matters.

That didn’t sit well with John Wilson, attending his second meeting as a new school board member.

After a motion was made to go into executive session and it became apparent the other board members were not going to discuss or act on the matter, he said, “We just heard from administrators

telling us how the situation is with their buildings with masks. What are we going to do with that? Are we going to let it go by the wayside?”

Fager attempted to tell him the usual procedure is for administrators to share their concerns, then he looks into the matter and updates the board if he has recommendations for changes or new policies.

Wilson wasn’t satisfied. “It needs to be addressed.”

“It will be something we can look at,” Dan Willis, school board president, told him.

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New protection for Soil testing: A tool to combat high fertilizer prices consumers against surprise medical bills Chad Guthrie

The new year is kicking off with the No Surprises Medical Bills Act, the newest consumer rights and protection law from the federal government. The goal of the act is to create a more transparent, competitive, and fair health system to prevent surprise medical bills.

For Insured Individuals, Protections from Surprise Medical Bills

For people who have health coverage through an employer, Health Insurance Marketplace, or an individual health plan purchased directly from an insurer, surprise billings are common and range from $750 to $2,600 in situations such as childbirth related care, ER, or surgical services.

First ruling of the Act is the ban of surprise bills any time you receive emergency care and require cost sharing for these services, like co-pays, will always be based on in-network rates, even when care is received without prior authorization. The second rule ban’s surprise bills from certain outof-network providers if you go to an in-network hospital for a procedure. This means cost sharing for certain additional services during your visit will generally be based on in-network rates. The third item requires providers and facilities to share with consumers easy-to-understand notices that explain the applicable billing protections and who to contact if they have concerns that a provider or facility has violated the new surprise billing protections.

For Uninsured Individuals, Better Advanced Knowledge of Costs

For people who do not have health insurance or pay for care on their own (also known as self-paying), the new rule requires most providers to give a “good faith estimate” of costs before providing non-emergency care.

Joy Miller Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences

The good faith estimate must include expected charges for the primary item or service, as well as any other items or services that would reasonably be expected. For an uninsured or self-pay consumer getting surgery, for example, the estimate would include the cost of the surgery, as well as any labs, other tests, and anesthesia that might be used during the procedure.

Uninsured or self-pay consumers who receive a final bill that exceeds the good faith estimate by $400 or more can dispute the final charges.

Consumer Help is Available

Health plans, providers, and facilities will most likely work in good faith to comply with the Act requirements, but problems could arise. Consumers should diligently review their medical claims and bills to recognize when surprise billing protections have not been applied and seek help.

Consumers now have access to tools to appeal certain health plan decisions including a help desk (800-985-3059) and webpage (CMS.gov/nosurprises).

Details on polices, resources, and consumer rights and protections are also on the webpage.

There are many details to know about these new protections and medical scenarios it applies to, take time to learn more about it to protect you and your family.

For more information, please contact Joy Miller, Family Resource Management Extension Agent, at joymiller@ ksu.edu or by calling 620-223-3720.

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Fertilizer prices have reached new highs as we move into 2022, and they show no signs of coming back down for this growing season. Many farmers wonder if they’ll be able to properly fertilize their crops, or if they’ll have to settle for lighter rates, and consequently, lighter yields come harvest.

While there is no slam dunk way to raise a healthy crop without the use of chemical fertilizers, farmers can take small steps now to possibly lower the amount of fertilizer they apply come spring. One easy, and affordable, step every farmer can take is to have soil tests done for their field prior to spring planting.

Many farmers guess what the nutrient levels are in their soils.

Sometimes the assumption is made that most of their fields will have similar nutrient levels, and one soil test is enough to make fertility decisions across their entire operation.

Each field is different, and each field should have its very own fertility plan.

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The fact of the matter is, that each field is different, and each field should have its very own fertility plan.

The problems that can arise from treating an entire operation as one field can range from over-fertilizing, and wasting money, to under fertilizing, and missing out on the added yield potential of a field. With rising grain prices, farmers are not going to want to miss out on any yield potential from their fields.

Taking soil samples is very simple. Each of our Extension offices have soil probes and sampling bags that farmers can check out to take proper samples.

I recommend taking

multiple probes from each field, mixing those subsamples together in a clean bucket, and then filling one of our sampling bags from the congregated sample.

For large fields, I recommend splitting the field into sections, no bigger than 40 acres, and using the same method to pull samples from each of those sections. More information on taking proper samples can be found on the KSU soil testing lab website, or by contacting your local extension office.

Once you have gathered soil samples from your fields, you can bring them into our extension offices and we can take care of the

rest. Tests run around $15 to cover shipping and lab fees, and results are typically received 10-15 days after the lab receives the samples.

Each test result will have recommendations made by the KSU soil testing lab, and adjustments can be made by the extension office to fit our area.

Spending the money now to get testing done may seem like an unnecessary, added expense to rising input prices, but knowing exactly what each field needs to raise a quality crop can either save money by removing excess fertilizer, or equate to added yield and higher profits at harvest time.

Snowstorm strands thousands in Istanbul, Athens ISTANBUL (AP) — Rescue crews in Istanbul and Athens scrambled on Tuesday to clear roads that came to a standstill after a massive cold front and snowstorms hit much of Turkey and Greece, leaving countless people and vehicles in both cities stranded overnight in freezing conditions.

Highways and roads in and around Istanbul became clogged on Monday after the storm pounded the city of about 16 million people that straddles the European and Asian continents — accumulating more than 31 inches of snow in some areas.

Stranded motorists either spent the night in cars, abandoned their vehicles to walk home or crowded subways and other public transportation.

Rescue teams worked overnight to clear snowy roads and highways, but abandoned vehicles hampered their operations. Istanbul Gov. Ali Yerlikaya urged motorists to return to their vehicles and move them. Some returned with shovels to free their cars, the private DHA news agency reported.

In Athens, rescue crews were still trying to free around 200-300 drivers trapped on a

major highway that runs across Athens and connects the Greek capital with the city’s international airport.

Some drivers similarly abandoned their cars and walked home. Others trekked to a nearby train station, jumping over the barriers at the side of the road to reach the platform after spending the night in their cars. The train service had been suspended, but a train was

there Tuesday morning to pick up those who had made it to the station from the highway.

The army was sent out overnight to deliver food and water to those trapped and to help free as many as possible.

Istanbul’s Disaster Coordination Center, or AKOM, says an Icelandic low-pressure system is behind the cold front and precipitation affecting most of the country.

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Ukraine urges calm, saying invasion not imminent KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leaders sought to reassure the nation that a feared invasion from neighboring Russia was not imminent, even as they acknowledged the threat is real and prepared to accept a shipment of American military equipment Tuesday to shore up their defenses.

Russia has denied it is planning an assault, but it has massed an estimated 100,000 troops near Ukraine in recent weeks, leading the United States and its NATO allies to rush to prepare for a possible war.

Several rounds of high stakes diplomacy have failed to yield any breakthroughs, and this week tensions escalated further. NATO said it was bolstering its deterrence in the Baltic Sea region, and

the U.S. ordered 8,500 troops on higher alert to potentially deploy to Europe as part of an alliance “response force” if necessary.

The State Department has ordered the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave the country, and it said that nonessential embassy staff could leave. Britain said it, too, was withdrawing some diplomats and dependents from its embassy.

In Ukraine, however, authorities have sought to project calm.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Monday that the situation was “under control” and that there is “no reason to panic.”

Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that, as of Monday, that

Russia’s armed forces had not formed what he called battle groups, “which would have indicated that tomorrow they would launch an offensive.”

“There are risky scenarios. They’re possible and probable in the future,” Reznikov told Ukraine’s ICTV channel on Monday. “But as of today ... such a threat doesn’t exist.”

Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, echoed that sentiment, saying that the movement of Russian troops near Ukraine’s border “is not news.”

“As of today, we don’t see any grounds for statements about a fullscale offensive on our country,” Danilov said Monday.

Russia has said Western accusations that it

is planning an invasion are merely a cover for NATO’s own planned provocations.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday once again accused the U.S. of “fomenting tensions” around the Ukraine, a former Soviet state that Russia has been locked in a bitter tug-of-war with for almost eight years.

In 2014, following the ouster of a Kremlin-friendly president in Ukraine, Moscow annexed the Crimean peninsula and threw its weight behind a separatist insurgency in the country’s industrial heartland in the east.

The fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels has since killed over 14,000 people, and efforts to reach a peaceful settlement of the conflict have stalled.

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On Russian sanctions, Medical breakthroughs continue to thrill best policy for US is to keep its powder dry

By RANDALL PRATHER The Baltimore Sun/TNS

Russia continues its threatening military buildup around Ukraine. A half-dozen ships capable of carrying troops and tanks are en route from Russia Baltic ports to the Mediterranean, whence they could reach Ukraine on short notice. Russia has also dispatched new troops and aircraft to Belarus, ostensibly for military exercises in early February.

There is still a hope for diplomacy: talks between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ended on Friday with a promise to continue later. Clearly, however, Russia is surrounding Ukraine and the questions of how best to deter an invasion — or to respond if deterrence fails — are more pressing than ever.

It’s a hard balance to strike, especially because Russian President Vladimir Putin can — and will — use any measures the United States and its NATO allies either take or refrain from taking as a pretext for aggression.

With that reality in mind, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is calling for tough economic sanctions now, as punishment for the moves Mr. Putin has already made. Some Republican lawmakers echo him.

Mr. Zelensky’s argument is understandable, both politically and emotionally. But it’s not strategically optimal for the reason Mr. Blinken gave on Sunday during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation”: “Once sanctions are triggered, you lose the deterrent effect.” Unstated by Mr. Blinken, but also relevant, is the likelihood that sanctions now would divide the alliance, because European allies would be unlikely to join in.

So it’s better to keep the West’s powder dry, while broadcasting to Moscow just how potent the sanctions bomb could be if Russia chooses to detonate it by in-

vading.

The Biden administration has usefully sent that signal by openly contemplating a plan to deprive Russia Antony Blinken of indispensable electronic components manufactured with U.S.-made tools or containing U.S.-made software.

FOR NOW, it is more important to make sure Ukraine has defensive weapons and that its NATO-member neighbors are prepared to deal with potential cross-border consequences — from refugees to spillover combat — that Russian aggression might create. On these points, too, the administration appears to be striking the right balance, albeit after previous hesitation based on anxiety about provoking Mr. Putin.

President Biden is also considering sending more U.S. troops and planes to Eastern Europe as France, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands have already done. He should.

This would be a mission of deterrence, not war-fighting, and would bolster the previous deployments of 5,000 NATO troops to Poland and the Baltic states in the wake of Russia’s 2014 aggression in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. The administration is encouraging NATO allies such as Britain and the Baltic countries to send weapons to Ukraine following a direct dispatch of some 180 tons of U.S. equipment.

“If you want peace, prepare for war,” as the old saying has it. Mr. Putin might have already gone so far down the path toward war that he will not turn back, regardless of how well NATO prepares. If there is any chance for deterrence and diplomacy to work, though, the United States and its allies have a duty to maximize it.

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It was only three months ago that surgeons successfully attached a kidney from a genetically altered pig to a human recipient. Since then, new successes continue to pile on. In December, the kidney procedure was successfully repeated. Then, earlier this month, we celebrated another huge leap forward in such xenotransplantation: Surgeons successfully transplanted a pig heart into a human patient who lives in the Baltimore area. For this accomplishment, congratulations are in order.

The success of these procedures hinged on the incredible talent of surgeons and medical professionals, and it also required decades of behind-the-scenes research to build the foundations of genetic engineering in pigs. It was a continuum of work that I was part of at a lab in Missouri beginning over two decades ago and is now offering hope to the more than 100,000 people waiting for organ transplants.

But there was also a time when that initial research was derided as, pardon the pun, pork barrel spending.

In 2001, I and a team of collaborators at the University of Missouri, and Robert Hawley at Immerge Biotherapeutics in Boston, first patented the technology to create so-called “knockout pigs.” In simple terms, our research showed how to remove — or knock out — a molecule on the surface of a pig’s cell. These “knockouts” affect the genes that control for a variety of traits. To develop the technology’s potential, we began with projects that to some may have seemed silly. Through our genetic engineering research, we showed it’s possible to develop bioluminescence in pigs, basically making them emit a low level of light.

This development was a vital proof of concept (and those “green” pigs remain essential to scientists by providing cells that can be

easily tracked, for example, to study the use of stem cells to repair organ damage).

We showed that pigs could be produced from genetically engineered cells, like the process used to clone Dolly the sheep.

Next came a steady drumbeat of progress that benefited both human and animal health. For example, we’ve been able to disrupt the gene that makes pigs vulnerable to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

These pigs are now resistant to a deadly virus that every year kills thousands of animals and costs pork producers in North America and Europe an estimated $6 million each day.

Taken collectively, all of these milestones were part of the slow process that helped us find how knockout pigs and gene editing could help people.

By developing these and other enabling technologies, we were able to create pigs that help us study a range of ailments, including cystic fibrosis, retinitis pigmentosa and cancer. Fast-forward to 2022; Revivicor was able to use knockout pig technology licensed from the University of Missouri (one of the 10 genetic modifications included

by Revivicor) to develop a heart and kidney that resist hyperacute rejection. This is critical because hyperacute

rejection occurs when the body’s defenses attack a foreign organ. It ensues within minutes without this specific knockout.

It’s clear we are now taking the first steps into a new era of human health and well-being. I’ve mentioned that there are more than 100,000 people on transplant lists, a vast majority of them awaiting a kidney. Those patients have the option to go on dialysis while they wait.

For those who need a heart, options are more limited.

Basically, there are two ways off any transplant list: You either receive an organ or you die. It’s been reported that the patient in Baltimore was facing just this choice, and receiving a pig heart was the final (and best) option.

This is the unique hope xenotransplantation provides, built on decades of foundational discoveries and the enabling technologies that make genetic engineering in pigs possible. There is a direct line from glowing pigs to saving lives —­­it just takes time for scientists to discover what is possible.

About the writer: Randall Prather is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Animal Sciences at the University of Missouri and director of the National Swine Resource and Research Center.

United Nations continues to combat Holocaust denial Israel became the United Nations’ 59th member on May 11, 1949. In the seven decades since, the General Assembly, now numbering 193 countries, has passed uncounted resolutions blasting the Mideast’s sole democracy.

Slander and libel and unfairness by a majority of tyrannies gathered at Turtle Bay against the world’s only Jewish state is mind-numbingly routine.

But at least when it comes to dead Jews, the Parliament of Man has some decency.

Only twice in the 73 years since Israel joined the U.N., the General Assembly has approved resolutions offered by Israel, both dealing with the Holocaust.

The first time was 2005, when the General Assembly designated Jan. 27 as the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by the Red Army. Israel had 104 co-sponsors.

The second time was Thursday, the 80th anniver-

Portraits of European Jews murdered in the Holocaust hang in the documentation center of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, on Jan. 19, 2022, in Berlin. (SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES/TNS) sary of the Jan. 20, 1942, Wannsee Conference of top Nazis, where the German

state planned how to murder all 11 million Jews in Europe.

The ever-efficient Germans

got about halfway through their victims before the Allies destroyed Hitler’s thou-

sand-year Reich. This resolution denounces Holocaust denial, a sickness of weak minds inextricable from the ancient hatred of antisemitism. Iran, which somehow claims it is guided by Islam, was the single country that objected, but did not block the passage of the resolution, which came without a vote.

Joining Israel as prime sponsor was Germany, and more than 100 states signed on to write into the annals of the United Nations that the Holocaust was real, and that to deny or distort the historical facts is wrong on every level and dangerous to society and needs to be to countered with education.

The resolution also urges governments and “social media companies to take active measures to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion by means of information and communications technologies and to facilitate reporting of such content.”

Let the truth be known.

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pay half the cost — $320,000 — to extend the private company’s reach to an additional 1,700 residences and 100 businesses in town.

The money would be repaid through the additional franchise fees Iola would receive by gaining more users, Vogel said.

He estimated the fee could be as much as $37,500 annually, plus another $7,000 to $10,000 per year in rental fees, because much of the fiber-optic line would be strung along city utility poles.

“You could easily look at it as a loan,” Vogel said, “with about a 10-year payoff.”

But because franchise and rental fees would go on in perpetuity, the city would continue to recoup the additional funds, well after the money is repaid, Vogel added.

As part of the “partnership,” KwiKom also would connect city offices at no charge with an L2 data link, which Vogel compared to running an ethernet cable between the buildings, making it possible to transfer voluminous data records between offices with ease.

KwiKom also would add public-access Wi-Fi hot spots to Cofachique Park and the John Silas Bass North Community Building, much like it already does at Iola’s Riverside Park, he said.

Vogel also stressed what he described as “intangible” benefits, such as making Iola more attractive to businesses, developers and work-from-home professionals.

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request drew a receptive response from Councilman Nickolas Kinder.

“I’m in favor of the project,” he said.

“We’ve talked about wanting businesses to come to town. We’ve offered economic incentives to new businesses. … The intangible benefits make it definitely worth looking into.”

But Kinder’s motion to approve the request died without a vote when none of the other Council members seconded it.

Councilwoman Kim Peterson spoke out against the request.

She echoed sentiments voiced by City Administrator Matt Rehder in a memo to the Council: that approving such a request would establish a precedent of providing public funds for an established private company.

In addition, any money the city approves would come from a sewer rehabilitation project utilizing up to $800,000 of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds the city received in 2021.

“I hate to take away money from the sewer project,” she said.

“Our sewers are in bad shape.”

Council member Carl Slaugh, meanwhile, noted the city has no such policy in place to foster a public-private partnership such as KwiKom has proposed.

“The challenge I see is if the city contracts with an entity to do work, it has to be an open competition,” Slaugh said. “It has to be a bid process. Otherwise it becomes a donation to an individual company. At the present time, we don’t have a policy that dictates those terms.”

And while Iola has provided funds for industrial partners, it has not partnered with companies “just looking to expand,” Slaugh continued.

Slaugh’s motion to table the request until if or when the city develops such a policy passed, 7-0, with Councilman Joel Wicoff absent.

IN RESPONSE to a question from Mayor Steve French, Vogel said KwiKom’s citywide expansion effort would not necessarily be abandoned if the Council rejects it, but it would be pushed down to its to-do list because KwiKom continues to expand elsewhere.

“What prompted this discussion was talking to a dozen other counties to try to partner with them,” Vogel said.

“We thought, maybe we should talk to our home town. We’ve been so busy, trying to keep up with all that, we don’t want to forget home.”

IN OTHER business, the Council renewed its property and workman’s compensation insurance premiums through EMC Insurance for 2022-23 at a cost of $496,071. That figure is about 2% higher than what the city paid last year, noted Deb Taiclet of Iola Insurance Associates, which administers the plan.

The premium cost is likely to drop some, because of unused dividends returned to the city at year’s end, Taiclet noted.

Iola has recouped roughly $375,000 over the past five years, Taiclet said.

FRENCH said he plans to appoint a new Council member to fill his vacated seat at the Feb. 14 meeting.

French moved from the Council to the mayor’s seat in January after being elected as mayor in November.

So far, one person in Iola’s Ward 4 has expressed an interest in the Council seat, Rehder said.

Anyone living in Ward 4, which covers the southeast quadrant of town, roughly south of Lincoln Street and east of Cottonwood, should contact City Hall for an application prior to the Feb. 14 meeting.

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Iola Middle School fifth-graders honored for their essays at Monday’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) commencement ceremony are, from left, Maycie Johnson, Angelina Rodriguez, Hadlee Stranghoner, Broden Emerson, Logan Thompson, Alexa Cronk, Tayven Kress, Adelynn Droessler, Braylon Keithly, Kailyn Rodriguez, Kinzley Fountain and Kolten Drake.

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For the past three months, the students have worked with Danny Rodriguez, community resource officer with the Iola Police Department, to develop strategies to avoid harmful drugs, alcohol and bad decisions.

Mears, who showed up at the event in full

costume — much to the delight of the students and most of the adults — said their effort should be celebrated.

Mears stressed the importance of the A-BC’s of being good citizens The A stands for attitude, B for behavior and C for character, Mears explained.

He also showed several videos of him in action, on and off the football field, and at public events around the world.

Students also wrote essays vowing to stay free of drugs, alcohol and bad behavior.

The top three students in each fifth-grade class received medals for their work, while sever-

al read their essays.

The honored students were Maycie Johnson, Angelina Rodriguez, Hadlee Stranghoner, Broden Emerson, Logan Thopmson, Alexa Cronk, Tayven Kress, Adelynn Droessler, Braylon Keithly, Kailyn Rodriguez, Kinzley Fountain, Kolten Drake.

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able response would be to get in the residence as quickly as possible to protect lives and property.”

Line of questioning

Among members of the House committee, Garden City GOP Rep. John Wheeler’s aggressive questioning of ACLU of Kansas representative Aileen Berquist prompted the committee’s chairman to briefly intervene.

Berquist listed a half-dozen ideas for improving the proposed bill, including prohibiting servicing of warrants to 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and banning use of flash-bang devices that disorient people. She suggested addition of provisions holding officers accountable for violations of the search warrant law. She said no-knock warrants were an indication some people valued the preservation of evidence over human life.

“I will tell you upfront, I don’t agree,” said Wheeler, a former Finney County prosecutor. “I want to ask you if you recognize that there are very evil people in the world. Not everybody is innocent. They may be evil. You recognize that?

“Yes, sir, as someone who has had family members murdered, I do recognize that,” Berquist said.

“I hate that,” Wheeler replied. “Now, I am sure that you’re aware that multiple bullets can be fired through a door at no time at all and it happens frequently. You aware of that? Also, are you aware that a noknock warrant cannot be issued without a review of the judge?”

“I am, and yet we still see instances where things go wrong,” Berquist said.

“So, maybe we need to do away with judges, in your eye, as well,” Wheeler said. “ Re p r e s e n t a t ive ? ” said Rep. Stephen Owens, a Hesston Republican and chairman of the House corrections committee.

“I know it’s argumentative, but it’s also a fact.

Answer?” Wheeler said.

Libertarian ideals

Matt Clark, a representative of the Libertarian Party of Kansas, said search warrants executed on dwellings without knocking and absent continuous announcement of the presence of law enforcement officers exacerbated the danger of injury or death. Lack of easily recognizable uniforms enhanced potential of a violent encounter, he said.

He said the majority of Kansas legislators respected the right of people to bear arms. Every member of the committee who owns a firearm has likely considered the potential of a home invasion, he said.

“How will I protect my family and myself when the door or window gets kicked in in the middle of the night?

If you do not hear someone yelling, ‘Police. Police,” over and over, you are going to take steps necessary to protect your dwelling. I would, you would and most of Kansas would,” Clark said.

He said no-knock search warrants had no place in Kansas, because they defied the proper relationship between a free people and their government.

Rep. Eric Smith, a Burlington Republican and deputy sheriff in

the Coffey County Sheriff ’s Office, said he’d served a number of noknock warrants during his career. The work in Coffey County has been done by a special response team formed after one of his friends, Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels, was shot and killed while serving a search warrant in 2005.

“I don’t have to pretend what it looks like to go in on a no-knock search warrant,” Smith said.

He said Coffey County law enforcement organized the special response team in wake of Samuels’ death. He said some people skeptical of the additional unit “looked at us as cowboys just looking for a way to kick doors and violate peoples’ rights.”

“I’m explaining this to you not as a punishment,” he said to Clark.

“What I would ask is that some of these ideas actually be explored by going to your local law enforcement agency.”

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Iola ninth-graders win with buzzer-beater

By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

Iola High School’s ninth grade basketball teams split a pair of games in Iola’s freshman tournament Monday night. The girls lost 3432 to Frontenac. The boys won on a buzzer-beater, 36-34 over Fort Scott.

It wasn’t until the second quarter that the Mustang boys took control of the game thanks to a monumental trey scored by Kyser Nemecek.

After that, Iola rebounded well and stayed neck-andneck with Fort Scott.

Toward the end of the half, Iola’s Jeremy Adair went 2-2 from the line to help tie the game up.

At the half, the teams were knotted at 17-17.

The Tigers broke the tie early in the second half. The two teams kept the game clean in the third and went back and forth, exchanging the lead. As the game crept toward the fourth quarter, Iola led 26-25.

Iola held the lead until the Tigers warmed up offensively, and made some key shots.

Fort Scott also had a great few minutes on defense, limiting Iola’s chances.

For a while, the Mustangs couldn’t buy a bucket.

Turnovers could have ended up costing Iola late but the Mustangs stayed in the game. Trailing by four, with less than a minute left, Iola’s Lucas Maier hit

Mustang in school.

The shot fell just as the buzzer sounded.

Rutherford was mobbed by his teammates as they celebrated the game-winner.

Kolton Greathouse led the

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Ochai Agbaji scored a career-high 37 points to help No. 5 Kansas avenge its only conference loss of the season with a 94-91 double overtime win over No. 13 Texas Tech on Monday night.

Agbaji outdueled Bryson Williams, who poured in 33 points for Tech. Agbaji, the reigning co-Big 12 Player of the Week, had seven of Kansas’ eight made 3-pointers.

He had 24 points in the second half and two overtimes.

Agbaji hit a guarded 3-pointer near the end of the first overtime to send the game to another period.

“It was kind of like our game Saturday (when KU overcame a 17-point second-half deficit to beat Kansas State) and the Chiefs game” Agbaji said. “When we went to overtime, I thought (the Chiefs) won at all costs. We have to do the same thing. That was so much fun.”

An exhausted Kansas coach Bill Self had nothing but praise for his star.

“It was a great win,” he said after the game. “We played a terrific team that played terrific. We didn’t play great, but we played good. We had one guy go off.

“I think we can play bet-

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Iola High’s Kaiden Rutherford puts up the game-winning shot Monday in a 36-34 win over Fort Scott. REGISTER/REESE BECKER a clutch jumper to bring the Mustangs within two points.

Then, with just 30 seconds left, Iola’s Kaiden Rutherford sank a jumper to tie the game at 34-34. Fort Scott had the ball and drove down the court, only to turn it over to Iola. With just three seconds

left, the Mustangs called a timeout to discuss the final play.

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KU tops Texas Tech in double-OT

Sterling’s 30 Butker accustomed to kicking under pressure propels HMS Cubs

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Middle School’s basketball teams faced off against Eureka on Monday night. The boys A team won 42-39 and the B team won 30-20. The girls A team lost 34-30 and the B team fell 30-12.

Mason Sterling had a mammoth night for the boys, including a double-double and 30 points.

In the A game, Humboldt fell behind early, falling into a 6-0 hole. That was before Sterling decided to have one of the best middle school basketball games ever. The Cubs proceeded to take the game over, taking a four-point lead midway through the second quarter after a huge rally, propelled by Sterling.

Humboldt held onto the lead, going into the break up 13-12.

Eureka wasn’t done though, as they came storming back in the third to take a four-point lead. But once again, Sterling and his teammates had other plans, regaining the lead before the Tornadoes took it back late in the third.

The fourth quarter alone would have made for a great basketball game.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — After three divisional playoff games had been decided on last-second field goals, Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker had to know that fate was probably going to send him onto the field for a pressure-laden try against Buffalo on Sunday night.

Even when the Chiefs were far from within range and there were 13 seconds left on the clock.

So rather than stand and watch Patrick Mahomes calmly hit Tyreek Hill for a 19-yard gain, and Travis Kelce from 25 more, Butker retreated to the solitude of the sideline kicking net. He went through his normal routine, visualizing every movement before taking the field, and was ready when those two long pass plays gave him an opportunity.

The rest went down in playoff history: Butker split the uprights from 49 yards as time expired to send the game to overtime, and Mahomes and Co. took care of the rest, marching for the decisive touchdown in a wild 42-36 victory.

“As a kicker, I try to be ready for every moment,” Butker said, “whether that’s the first series, an extra point, the last series, a game-tying kick to go to overtime. I have to prepare

every series like I’m going to have a big kick, and if we have the ball, I have to be ready to go. And when you have 13 seconds, you’re going to need to be ready in a hurry.”

Butker’s stone-cold kick on a chilly night at Arrowhead Stadium has been overshadowed by the back-andforth drama of Mahomes and Buffalo counterpart Josh Allen, who might as well have been playing H-OR-S-E the way they were going at it.

Also forgotten: The fact that Butker had earlier missed an extra point and 50-yard field goal try.

And that 50-yarder came from nearly the exact same spot on the field as his kick to force overtime.

“You know, I think it was actually a blessing,” he said. “When you have a missed kick, you’re able to think about what you need to change, what you need to adjust. The 50-yard, left-hash kick, I adjusted my aiming point too much, deviated from a game plan I had in the warm-up. After that I kind of kicked myself in the butt and said, ‘Stay with what you did in the warmup.’ I took what I could from the miss and that helped me with the 49-yard, left-hash, same-direction kick.”

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Nadal wins after five grueling sets MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — With another Australian Open semifinal spot secured after a four-hour, fiveset victory, Rafael Nadal looked toward his support team in Rod Laver Arena and nodded his head.

It was like he was just confirming the plan: Five wins down, two to go in his bid for a men’s record 21st major title.

On the other side of the net, 14th-seeded Denis Shapovalov broke his

racket on the hard blue court after a frustrating 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3 loss to Nadal, who later acknowledged he felt “destroyed” physically on a hot afternoon.

There were plenty of momentum-shifting moments, including Nadal needing attention for a stomach ailment in the third and fourth sets after dominating the first two.

Shapovalov openly complained to chair umpire Carlos Bernardes during the quarterfinal

match about Nadal getting longer breaks than players usually are entitled to, and taking too long between points.

He took a few shots at Nadal in his post-match news conference, too, saying he’s “100%” convinced the 35-year-old Spaniard receives special treatment.

At a tournament where he’s clinched the title only once (2009) and had lost seven of his previous 13 quarterfinals — by far his worst conversion rate at any of the

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four major tournaments — Nadal looked vulnerable in the third and fourth sets.

But following a seven-minute break — when Nadal left the court and went to the locker room — between the last point of the fourth set and his first serve in the fifth, he recovered sufficiently to save a break point with an ace, hold serve and then break Shapovalov for a 2-0 lead.

“I don’t know, was a little bit of miracle,” Nadal said of his revival.

Iola High’s Baylie Crooks, left, is defended by a player from Frontenac Monday. REGISTER/REESE BECKER

Iola: Boys win thriller; girls fall short Continued from B1

way with nine points.

Nemecek and Maier each had eight. Rutherford had seven. Jeremy Adair had four. Ben Kerr and Grady Dougherthy each had two.

“Coming in, we had no film on these guys,” said Iola coach Chris Weide.

“We knew we were going to have a heck of a game. Our kids responded. Kaiden has a really good jumper. We have a sideline play we run all

the time and he made it pay off.”

TURNOVERS kept the girls game close early.

After Iola was able to keep hold of the ball, a big shot by Iola’s Kaysin Crusinbery put the Mustangs up 8-5 as the first quarter came to a close.

The Raiders stormed back in the second quarter to take the lead for the first time as Iola was hamstrung by turnovers

once again. Frontenac was able to convert those mishaps to points.

Iola tried to come back and take the lead, but poor rebounding got the better of the Mustangs.

At the half, Frontenac led 21-16.

Coming out of the half, Iola kept it close, but a flurry of turnovers prevented them from getting back in the lead. Iola pulled as close as three points.

With just a few sec-

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onds left, Iola had a shot to win the game when the Mustangs inbounded a ball on their end of the floor.

The Raider defense, however, clamped down to keep the Mustangs from making a last shot.

Alana Mader led the Mustangs with 12 points.

Harper Desmarteau had seven. Crusinbery and Karingten Hall had four each. Elza Clift and Baylie Crooks each had three.

seven with just 3:30 left when Humboldt’s Collin Cook hit a jumper and got the and one and hit his free throw. Sterling then took matters into his own hands, stealing the ball and driving for a layup narrowing the gap to two points. With less than 90 seconds left, Humboldt’s Creed Shannon stole the ball and got the assist, passing to Sterling who tied the game on a jumper in the paint.

With a little over a minute left, Sterling got a rebound and a putback to put Humboldt up by two but Eureka still wasn’t done, taking a 39-38 lead.

Shannon was big late, going 2-4 from the free throw line in the final 20 seconds to help put Humboldt up 42-39. Eureka missed a game-tying shot and the Cubs won.

Sterling led the way with 30 points, 12 rebounds, and nine steals, one away from a triple-double. Cook had seven points.

Shannon had five and went 1-1 from three.

The B game was a little more tame.

The Cub offense got going early and the defense did their job, stopping the Tornado offense from scoring. One big factor for the Cubs was their continued great rebounding, which has been a trend for Humboldt this season.

Humboldt’s offense waned toward halftime and let Eureka come back, but the Cubs led 10-9 at the break.

After the break, Humboldt came out re-energized on both ends. The Cub defense held Eureka to eight points in the third, while the offense got in double digits for the first time of the night. The Cub offense would continue to score in bunches, with ten more points in the fourth.

The defense clamped down and allowed only three points to squash any hopes of a Eureka comeback.

Thatcher Mueller led Hmboldt with 12 points. Taner King had five and 10 rebounds. Kreed Jones and Carson Peters had four each. Emmitt Carson had three.

Carson Russell had two.

The girls struggled against Eureka. The A team played a close game but didn’t have enough offense to topped the Tornadoes Skylar Hottenstein led the way with 14 points and six rebounds. Laney Hull had ten points. Rylee Woods had eight. Riklyn Hillmon and Anapaua Ranco each contributed three points. Lakyn Meadow had two.

The B team never got into a rhythm and let the game get away early. Despite good play, the Lady Cubs couldn’t find a groove and dropped the game to the Tornadoes.

Grace Reno led the way with five points.

Meadows scored three. Jo Ellison, Kinley Hart, Maleah Gordon, and Hadley Galloway each had two. Kamry DeLaTorre scored one.

Humboldt is back in action at Fredonia on Thursday before this weekend’s tournament in Iola.

Featuring Area Student Athletes

Aysha Houk — Iola Iola High School junior Aysha Houk is a threesport star for the Mustangs. Houk excels in all three seasons as a right hitter on the volleyball team, a point guard in basketball, and an infielder on the softball team.

Register: Which of the three sports is your favorite?

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Register: You fight through a lot of adversity on the field and the court, with bloody noses and injuries. How do you keep going?

Houk: I just tough it out and keep going. I think the team is more important than my inconveniences. I want to play for the team no matter what.

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ter, but I don’t know if an individual can play better. I told him that I don’t ever remember us having a player play better than that.”

Kansas led by one in the second overtime when Williams banked in a 3-pointer. KJ Adams tipped in a miss to tie the game at 91 with 1:39 left. Jalen Wilson gave the Jayhawks (17-2, 6-1 Big 12) the lead, hitting the second of two free throws 21 seconds later.

After both teams went scoreless over the next 50 seconds, Christian Braun hit two free throws with 10.1 seconds remaining to make it a 94-91. Terrence Shannon missed a 3-pointer that would have tied it a few seconds later.

Braun added 15 points for Kansas, which also got 13 from David McCormack.

Texas Tech (15-3, 5-3) got 17 points from Kevin Obanor and 15 for Davion Warren.

Agbaji and Williams carried their teams early in the second half. Williams had 11 second-half points by the second media timeout. After Texas Tech trimmed the deficit to 3 points, Kansas went on an 8-0 run to grab its first double-digit lead of the game.

“He gave us problems

last year (with UTEP), he gave us problems when we played them at Tech, and he gave us problems tonight,” Agbaji said. “He’s a great player. He’s a dangerous, complete player.”

After Kansas grabbed its biggest lead of the game at 70-58, Texas Tech scored the next six points to start a 17-5 run to close regulation.

Trailing 75-73, Terrence Shannon hit two free throws to tie the game with 12.8 seconds left.

Agbaji’s 3-pointer at the regulation buzzer caromed off.

In the first overtime, Williams put Tech up 8077 in the first overtime before Agbaji hit 1-of2 free throws. Obanor then drained a 3-pointer.

Braun cut it to 83-80 with a running layup, but Warren extended it to 85-80. Agbaji answered with a layup with 1:09 left.

Kansas then closed the OT with a 6-1 run capped by Agbaji contested 3-pointer with 7 seconds left to tie the score at 86.

lead in the conference.

They lead Baylor by a game, pending the Bears’ game against Kansas State on Tuesday.

Texas Tech: The Red Raiders learned that sweeping Kansas is really tough. Tech defeated Kansas 75-67 Jan. 8 in Lubbock.

Kansas: The Jayhawks kept their slim

The Big 12/SEC Challenge takes both teams away from conference play in their next games this Saturday. Texas Tech hosts Mississippi State while Kansas hosts No. 12 Kentucky.

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Those numbers, along with his clutch performance Sunday night, are why the Chiefs signed Butker to a five-year, $20.275 million contract after his 2018 rookie season, making him one of the league’s highest-paid kickers.

“He’s done so well for the years that he’s been here,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.

“Every once in a while, you’re going to have a clunker or two, whether that’s the snap, the

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Butker had been in a nearly identical position his rookie season, when the Chiefs faced the Patriots in the AFC title game. On that night, the Chiefs had 32 seconds rather than a mere 13 to give Butker a chance at a field goal to force overtime, though New England won the coin toss and ultimately scored the winning touchdown to reach the Super Bowl.

“You have to have that belief,” Mahomes said, “and if you’re not going to go down fighting, then you don’t deserve to be here. We knew that if we could just give ourselves a chance to get in Butker’s field-goal range, he was going to knock

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The 26-year-old Butker padded his franchise playoff scoring record, which now stands at 83 points — 14 field goals and 41 PATs in 11 career games.

And given his age and effectiveness, he probably won’t be done any time soon.

“This definitely has a feel from 2019,” Butker said of the Chiefs’ title season. “We have a lot of special guys, everyone is playing super loose. I don’t think there’s a lot of fear or doubt in anybody. The chemistry is great. I think we’ve faced a lot of adversity throughout the season, the losses and closegame losses, and even throughout the playoffs, I think all those different challenges we’ve faced and overcome is important to making a championship-caliber team.”

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THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on January 7, 2022 a Petition was filed in this Court by Jaime Luedke praying that Letters of Administration under the Kansas

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