Kirksville Daily Express - April 18, 2018

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Adair County Relay For Life participants carry a banner during the event Saturday to raise money for the American Cancer Society. NEMO PHOTOGRAPHY

Truman on tap Truman’s softball team will play six of its final eight regular season games this week. Track and field will compete at the Kansas Relays. Baseball returns home to host Missouri-St. Louis. page 9

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(AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, already facing a felony charge related to an extramarital affair, could soon face another felony count after the state‘s attorney general cited evidence Tuesday suggesting that Greitens’ use of a charity donor list for political purposes may have broken state law.

Attorney General Josh Hawley said an investigation by his office shows that Greitens took computer data listing the top donors to The Mission Continues without the consent of the St. Louis-based veterans’ charity he had founded and used it to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign.

Community bands together in annual Relay For Life Amendment

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KHS to send six to Kansas Relays

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Six members of Kirksville’s track and field team have been accepted to compete in Lawrence, Kansas this weekend as part of the Kansas Relays. page 9

Hundreds of people came together to fight cancer at last Saturday’s Adair County Relay For Life.

Held at the Kirksville Primary School, the event was one in a series of Relay For Life assemblies across the globe this year. Though each Relay For Life gathering is unique, they all share common goals. Each event works to raise money to help find a cure for cancer as well as to assist those affected by it.

“The purpose of the event is to raise money for American Cancer Society so that one day we don’t have to hear the word cancer,” said Lacey Scheurer, event lead.

“I’ve lost a lot of people really close to me.

I couldn’t take their pain from them, I couldn’t take the cancer from them, but I can help raise money to try and find the cure,” Scheurer said.

Saturday’s event included a variety of activities with the relay at its heart. From 1 p.m. until 1 a.m., team members took turns walking around the makeshift track.

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Royals are taken down by Jays, 11-3 Yangervis Solarte and Randal Grichuk have big offensive games for Toronto, handing the Kansas City Royals a lopsided loss to start out doubleheader. page 9

LOCAL & STATE Luminaries line the walking track area Saturday at the Adair County Relay For Life. NEMO PHOTOGRAPHY

aims for campaign, ethics reform JASON HUNSICKER @JHunsicker_KDE

Massive sums of money from lobbyists and wealthy campaign contributors have pushed political influence out of constituents’ hands and into those of special interests, according to a reform group proposing amendments to the Missouri Constitution it says will return rightful power to voters.

Clean Missouri is currently gathering signatures and bipartisan support for its amendment proposal to appear on the November general election

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Local officials present annual State of the County Potential Greitens impeachment may face challenges Missouri lawmakers considering whether to impeach Gov. Eric Greitens may first have to wrestle with an unprecedented question. page 3 Your News...........2 Comics ...............6 Local/State ........3 Sports.................9 Opinion ...............4 Classifieds .........11

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Several Adair County officials provided an update on their agencies Tuesday during the annual “State of the County” address.

The event was hosted by the Kirksville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Governmental Affairs Committee and featured officials from the Adair County Commission, Ambulance District, Public Library, SB40 Developmental Disability Board, Sheriff ’s Of-

fice, Health Department, Public Water Supply District and Twin Pines Adult Care Center.

Adair County Ambulance District Kat Probst, director of business development and quality assurance, said ACAD saw a significant improvement in its rate of restoring a heartbeat in cardiac arrest cases, also known as return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), between 2016 and 2017.

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Probst thanked the efforts of local law enforcement agencies, first responders and NEMO Heart Health for ACAD’s success with the rate.

“Two year ago, we set out to improve the outcome of patients that have sudden cardiac arrest within their homes. The likelihood nationally is under 40 percent that you would survive a sudden cardiac arrest SEE COUNTY, 12

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The Mom Stop: Pursuit of perfect party ends I was browsing Pinterest on my phone last week, feeling a slight twinge of guilt that I hadn’t planned on doing tri-colored aqua rice crispy treats or pretzel sticks dipped in aqua-colored almond bark, rolled in matching sugar crystals for either of my daughters’ upcoming birthdays.

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LYDIA SEABOL AVANT 3-year-old would have loved it if we had hired someone to dress up as “Elsa” and come to her birthday party, but I hope she’ll be just as happy with the Frozen-themed bounce house that we splurged on instead.

Unlike my first child’s first birthday, there will be no professional photographer at the party, no fondant, multi-layered cake.

There will be no professional catering (unless you count Little Ceasar’s drivethru pizza and grocery store cupcakes) and no handpainted birthday banners like I did for my oldest kids’ birthdays for the first few years.

When you have three kids and work full time, some things fall to the wayside. When you have two kids whose birthdays are the same week — and end up hosting their two separate parties on the same day — convenience rules the day.

There was a time when I’d spend weeks working on my yard and cleaning my house to make sure the backyard birthday party was perfect. But for sanity’s sake, we have parties elsewhere these days. And while it may cost more money up front to do so,

the sweat and stress it saves is worth every penny.

As I was planning my girls’ birthday parties recently, thinking back on previous parties through the years, it occurred to me: My oldest child is turning nine. She is halfway through her childhood already.

They say you blink and your children are grown.

And in those early, blurry years of diapers and midnight feedings, the thought of the first day of kindergarten or after-school sports seem so far off. Even now, with an almost 3-, 6and 9-year-old, the idea of high school dances and driver’s license tests seem like a lifetime away.

But I know they aren’t.

My oldest child will be able to start driving in six short years. In less than a decade, she’ll be packing for college.

The college students I teach every week are much closer to my kids’ ages than they are to mine. Gulp.

My almost 9-year-old is not a small child, but she’s not a teenager, either. Yet the streaks of independence that have always been there in her lean, determined little body have started to shine through lately. As we stood in line at Publix last week, debating on cupcakes or a larger cake, and debating over icing colors — why she doesn’t want chocolate icing for a chocolate-themed birthSEE MOM STOP, 5

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After TAVR, Hannibal man still enjoying the view

By Joe Walljasper MU Health Care Writer

Right outside Jesse Eddington’s front door in Hannibal is Ben Lomond Street, an old Civil War road. It climbs at a steep angle for 200 yards to an overlook where you can see most of town and a sliver of Illinois across the Mississippi River.

Each evening, Eddington takes “the love of my life,” a one-eyed white Cairn terrier named Sweet Caroline, up the hill for another look.

Eddington recently turned 86 and has lived at the same address for about half that time, but the view never gets old.

In May 2017, Eddington wondered how much longer he would be making the climb. He was often short of breath and occasionally confused. An echocardiogram revealed a severe case of aortic valve stenosis — a narrowing of the opening where blood leaves the heart.

He needed surgery.

“I was a little apprehensive,” Eddington said. “I said to the doctors, ‘Isn’t 85 getting a bit old for this kind of stuff?’ ” His age did make openheart surgery too risky. But he was a perfect candidate for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a procedure offered to older patients at University Hospital.

“We just kind of expect in your 80s and 90s you get short of breath, but you don’t have to live that way,” said Kim Sperry, RN, the nurse coordinator of MU Health Care’s TAVR program. “The symptom man-

agement is really huge for these people. Most of them will come back and give us these great one-liners, like, ‘I went to Walmart by myself for the first time in years,’ or, ‘I can care more for myself.’ ” In a typical TAVR procedure, a catheter with a new

“He was hesitant about having surgery because he felt like he had lived a long, good life.The doctors kept encouraging him to have this surgery, and he’s so glad he did.”

Linda Eddington on her husband, Jesse Eddington

valve is threaded to the heart through the femoral artery in the groin. The new valve is placed over the diseased valve, and a balloon is inflated inside the diseased valve, pushing it against the walls of the new valve. The balloon is deflated and removed, opening the path for blood to flow freely again.

University Hospital began performing the procedure three years ago.

“Previously, the only alternatives were St. Louis and Kansas City,” said MU Health Care cardiologist Arun Kumar, MD. “An elderly person in their 80s or 90s, they often don’t want to drag their families all the

Jesse Eddington and his dog, Sweet Caroline, enjoy taking evening walks to a scenic spot near their home in Hannibal. Eddington had TAVR surgery to correct a severe case of aortic valve stenosis, and within days he was climbing hills again.

way to St. Louis or ask their family to take days off and go to a big city. They would prefer to stay in mid-Missouri.”

Interventional cardiologists Kumar and Richard Webel, MD, along with cardiac surgeon John Markley, MD, worked together as part of a multidisciplinary team to perform Eddington’s TAVR procedure on Dec. 1, 2017. Two days later, Eddington was back in Hannibal, fixing dinner for his wife, Linda, and his older brother, Leslie.

“They treated me like royalty,” he said of his experience at University Hospital. “Everybody was just as good as they could be. Kim

was wonderful.”

Eddington, who farmed until his late 70s, still loves to grow tomatoes. He looks forward to planting that garden again, along with doing some of his other favorite activities, such as reading World War I history, listening to his Neil Diamond albums and, of course, taking Sweet Caroline to the top of the hill every evening for another look.

“He was hesitant about having surgery because he felt like he had lived a long, good life,” Linda Eddington said. “The doctors kept encouraging him to have this surgery, and he’s so glad he did.”

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April 19 NEMO Job Fair: The NEMO Job Fair will be held at 11 a.m. at the Days Inn in Kirksville.

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JEFFERSON CITY

Missouri ethics nominees: No promises made to gov.

(AP) — Gov. Eric Greitens’ two nominees to the Missouri Ethics Commission said they did not promise anything to anybody in exchange for their nominations.

The governor nominated former Democratic state representative Wayne Henke and Republican retired financial analyst Bill Birkes to the ethics commission Friday. Concern that their nominations came at a price stemmed from Greitens’ decision last year to stack the state Board of Education with people willing to fire the education commissioner.

The ethics commission is one member shy of a quorum and cannot act on any complaints, including one pending against Greitens.

The governor’s campaign is accused of falsely reporting how it accessed a list of donors in 2015 from a charity Greitens co-founded, and of failing to disclose that it received the charity’s email list.

The complaint against the Republican governor was filed last month. If no action is taken, complaints automatically expire after 90 days. The Senate, however, will likely not be able to confirm the nominees before the ethics commission’s next meeting on April 25.

Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard, a Republican from Joplin, chairs the committee that would first need to approve the nominees. He said background checks were ongoing, but he said his committee planned to hold both a hearing and vote on the nominees April 25, in the hopes that the full Senate could vote on them the next day.

Both nominees said they were looking forward to serving, if confirmed.

“I’m just happy to have the opportunity to serve my state, my home state, and hopefully I’ll be impartial and honest and fair,” Birkes said.

KPD welcomes new officer - Courtesy of the Kirksville Police Department The Kirksville Police Department recently welcomed a new officer.

KPD announced on Tuesday that it recently hired Travis Williams as its newest officer.

Williams was born and raised in Kirksville and graduated from the Law Enforcement Academy in Moberly in 2011.

He worked with the Schuyler County Sheriff ’s Office prior to joining KPD.

KIRKSVILLE

Menards to begin accepting applications The new Menards store in Kirksville will be accepting employment applications from April 25 to May 4 at its 3309 N. Baltimore St. location.

Interested applicants can visit the store during those days from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Interviews will be conducted on site for those coming to the store to fill out an application.

Full-time and part-time positions are available.

Menards has not officially announced an opening date for its Kirksville location.

During a recent Kirksville City Council meeting, city officials said the store would open around June 15.

April 21 Earth Day: An Earth Day celebration will be held at 1 p.m. at Take Root Cafe.

Reverse raffle: The Thousand Hills Rotary Club will host its 2018 reverse raffle at 5:30 p.m. at the Kirksville Moose Lodge.

April 21

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“A Toast to Art - Paint Night”: The “A Toast to Art - Paint Night” will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Gallery 104.

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Curtain Call to host annual meeting The Curtain Call Theatre Company will host its annual meeting at 7 p.m. on Saturday at 512 W. Elizabeth Street.

During the meeting, people will have an opportunity to renew their memberships.

The theme for the event will be the 1950s. The event will also feature a costume contest, trivia contest, door prizes, entertainment and a dessert buffet.

JOPLIN

University to financially help boy hit by baseball (AP) — Officials at Missouri Southern State University are working to help cover medical expenses for the family of a 7-year-old boy who was severely injured watching a baseball game.

The Joplin Globe reports that Dawson Hirshey of Diamond was struck in the head by a line-drive foul ball on Friday while sitting in the stands at Joe Becker Stadium. University spokeswoman Cassie Mathes says Dawson was immediately taken to a Joplin hospital and later transferred to a children’s hospital in Kansas City, where he underwent

brain surgery. She says the boy’s mother is a university employee.

University administrators also plan to visit the family at the hospital.

Mathes says the school wants to find the best way to financially support the family.

CLAYTON

Former Missouri youth pastor charged with child sex crimes (AP) — A former suburban St. Louis youth pastor has been charged with child sex crimes.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 30year-old Andrew Dickson, of University City, was charged last week in St. Louis County Circuit Court with one count of child molestation and two counts of statutory sodomy. Dickson has been released on bond.

His attorney didn’t immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press. Charging documents say that the crimes occurred earlier this year, and Dickson admitted to fondling and engaging in oral sex with a minor at his home.

Central Presbyterian Church executive administrator Tim Page said in a statement that the Clayton church went to authorities immediately upon learning of the “deeply disturbing situation” and proceeded to terminate the youth pastor.

Curtain Call meeting: The Curtain Call Theatre Company will host its annual meeting at 7 p.m. at 512 W. Elizabeth Street.

April 25 School Board meeting: The Kirksville R-III School Board will meet at 6 p.m. inside the Administration Building.

April 27 Arbor Day: A tree planting in celebration of Arbor Day will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Truman’s quad.

April 27 “Kids Night Out”: The annual “Kids Night Out” event will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church.

April 27 Daddy Daughter Dance: The 19th annual Daddy Daughter Dance will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the NEMO Fairgrounds.

April 28 “Tri for a Healthy Life”: The “Tri for a Healthy Life” event will be held at 11 a.m. at Truman’s Natatorium.

May 1 LPRC meeting: The Lakes, Parks and Recreation Commission will meet at noon inside the City Hall second-floor conference room.

JEFFERSON CITY

Potential Greitens impeachment would face legal ambiguities (AP) - Missouri lawmakers considering whether to impeach Republican Gov. Eric Greitens may first have to wrestle with an unprecedented question: Does it matter that the alleged actions occurred before he was in office?

There is no definitive answer to that question because only one Missouri executive official has ever been ousted from office following impeachment and her offense was directly related to her job.

Greitens, 44, faces a felony invasion-of-privacy indictment in St. Louis for allegedly taking and transmitting a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom Greitens says he had a consensual affair in 2015, a year before he won election.

On Tuesday, Attorney General Josh Hawley suggested the St. Louis prosecutor could charge Greitens with another felony for allegedly taking a database of donors from a veterans’ charity he founded and using it for his campaign.

Separately, a special legislative committee is to recommend in the coming weeks whether to pur-

sue Greitens’ impeachment.

The committee released a report last week that included testimony from a woman who said Greitens restrained, slapped, shoved and threatened her during a series of sexual encounters that at times left her crying and afraid.

The Missouri Constitution says executive officials can be impeached “for crimes, misconduct, habitual drunkenness, willful neglect of duty, corruption in office, incompetency, or any offense involving moral turpitude or oppression in office.”

“This provision can be read a couple of different ways, kind of depending upon how you construct that sentence, which I think is going to lead to a legal argument about whether or not this is an impeachable offense under the constitution,” said Steve Gaw, former Missouri House speaker who served on the state’s last impeachment panel.

“It’s a question that hasn’t been answered by the Missouri courts,” he added.

Gaw, a Democrat, was one of five

lawmakers on a bipartisan committee that recommended the impeachment of Democratic Secretary of State Judi Moriarty in 1994 for the backdating of her son’s candidacy filing paperwork for a state House seat. Election paperwork is a core function of the secretary of state’s office, and the House impeached Moriarty on three misconduct counts. The Missouri Supreme Court, which conducted the subsequent trial, convicted her of all three and ousted her from office.

Greitens has asserted that his affair was “a private mistake that has nothing to do with governing.”

Most of the constitution’s list of impeachable offenses - such as “corruption in office” or “willful neglect of duty” - relate to the officeholder’s job.

Some have suggested Greitens could be impeached for “moral turpitude.”

But because of the sentence structure - with an “or” at the start of the last phrase and no intervening comma - it’s likely that the final words “in office” are

meant to apply to the impeachable offenses of both “oppression” and “moral turpitude,” said several legal experts interviewed by The Associated Press.

Yet the fact that corruption “in office” is specifically cited in the middle of the sentence likely indicates that other impeachable actions could occur outside of elected office, the legal experts said.

Misconduct, for example, contains no specific limitation on occurring in office.

“That can be subject to a lot of interpretation,” said Connie Murray, a Republican and retired attorney who served on the 1994 legislative impeachment panel. But “to say that he committed misconduct at some point in time that qualified for impeachment, that seems like a high bar to meet.”

Attorney James Layton, a former state solicitor general who also taught state constitutional law at the University of Missouri, agreed that it would be difficult to impeach someone for misconduct that occurred before that person held office.

But, he added, “I think there’s a very good argument that misconduct in the process of gaining office would be grounds for impeachment.”

The special House committee is to release a report in the coming weeks about allegations that Greitens wrongly obtained and used a donor list from The Mission Continues to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign in 2015.

Greitens’ campaign agreed to pay a small fine to the Missouri Ethics Commission last year for not originally reporting the receipt of the charity donor list.

Hawley said that both the donor list and sex-related allegations “appear to be impeachable offenses.” He cited the grounds of “crimes” and additionally referred to the sexual allegations as “serious misconduct.”

Legal analysts interviewed by the AP, including former Missouri Chief Justice Michael Wolff, all agreed that the impeachable offense of “crimes” likely is not limited to events occurring while in office.

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A death blow to Backpage and a victory against child sex trafficking

Dems exalt power abusers

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Carl Ferrer is suddenly singing a different tune.

The chief executive of the online site Backpage spent years proclaiming his company’s innocence despite overwhelming evidence that it was facilitating child sex trafficking. He has been dragged kicking and screaming into court and before Congress, insisting his classified advertising site wasn’t responsible for its own smutty content.

Last Monday in Phoenix, 93-count federal indictments were unsealed against seven Backpage executives. But Ferrer was nowhere to be seen in the indictments because he’s now a cooperating witness and, on Thursday, entered guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy and money laundering. The company pleaded guilty in Texas to facilitating prostitution.

Ferrer’s cooperation comes in exchange for a lighter sentence that he most certainly does not deserve. Hundreds, if not thousands, of young lives have been destroyed because of his handiwork.

Backpage websites across the country – including St. Louis – have been seized as part of a joint federal enforcement action. Where visitors previously could access hundreds of local ads, now all they see is a big U.S. government stamp that notably mentions the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

Advertisers for years used code words such as “cute Lolita,” “young babe” and “little angel” to alert clients to the availability of minors for sex. When local prosecutors tried to crack down on Backpage for facilitating child sex trafficking, Ferrer adamantly defended Backpage as being no more responsible than daily newspapers are for their advertising content. He asserted First Amendment protections whenever lawmakers proposed bills to censor the site.

Now Ferrer admits it was all a smokescreen. He wrote in his federal plea agreement: “I have long been aware that the great majority of these advertisements are, in fact, advertisements for prostitution services,” adding parenthetically, “which are not protected by the First Amendment and which are illegal in 49 states and in much of Nevada.” He and the other defendants conspired “to find ways to knowingly facilitate the state-law crimes being committed by Backpage’s customers.”

Prosecutors have agreed not to seek more than five years in prison for him. All bets are off for the seven others, who also are accused of laundering money to evade federal banking regulations.

Their enterprise helped facilitate the rape of countless kids, some of whom were kidnapped and held captive for years while Backpage marketed their captors’ sex-trafficking operations. Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and Republican Rep. Ann Wagner played key roles in hearings that exposed Backpage’s role, then led a bipartisan effort that yielded the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law on Wednesday.

These bold actions won’t make the problem disappear, but traffickers now will have a much harder time finding facilitators for their disgusting trade.

During his half-century spent defending Americans’ civil liberties, here’s what has changed, according to lawyer Alan Dershowitz: “Now conservatives have become civil libertarians, and liberals have become strong supporters of law enforcement, the Justice Department and the FBI,” the professor and pundit said after dining with President Donald Trump on Tuesday night.

That snorting sound you hear? That’s a thousand libertarians shooting coffee through their noses at the notion that the GOP is newly sympathetic to issues of law enforcement overreach and intrusive investigative tools.

Republicans had an opportunity as recently as three months ago to rein in warrantless snooping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. What did they do? They voted overwhelmingly to reauthorize the practice for another six years: 19145 among GOP members in the House, 43-7 in the Senate.

It’s unfortunate how wrong Dershowitz is about the Republican Party. But what’s also depressing is that he may be right about the Democrats. In their efforts to oust a potentially lawless president, they are exalting a rogue’s gallery of surveillance-state officials who have abused their power.

Take James Clapper.

The man who oversaw a vast surveillance appara-

MATT WELCH tus as director of national intelligence under President Obama is now the toast of left-leaning media outlets including Salon, the Guardian and the Huffington Post for questioning Trump’s “fitness to be in office,” saying that Watergate “pales” in comparison to the current crisis, and quipping that Russian President Vladimir Putin treats Trump “like an asset.”

California Democrat Rep. Adam B. Schiff tweeted his Clapper endorsement last year: “James Clapper is a patriot who served his country for 50 years & knows dangerous bluster when he sees it. So yes, he’s an authority on DJT.” But as Schiff certainly knows through his work on the House intelligence committee, Clapper straight-up lied to Congress and the American people in March 2013 when asked by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) whether the National Security Agency collects “any type of data at all” on millions of Americans. “No sir. Not wittingly,” Clapper replied.

Three months later, after the revelations of phone logs and email data collected by the NSA made front pages, Clapper characterized his lame answer as the “least untruthful” way he felt he could re-

spond. If Trump and his B-movie gang of hangerson are eventually to be tripped up on a series of lying and obstructionstyle charges, surely there are better character witnesses for the prosecution than a perjurer.

It’s difficult these days to get the latest #resistance news without encountering some of Clapper’s partners in government malfeasance. One of MSNBC’s latest contributor hires, for example, is former Obama-administration CIA Director John Brennan. Like former FBI director James B. Comey (coming soon to a bookstore near you!) Brennan is one of the more melodramatic voices on Twitter, delivering stern lectures to a presidential interloper who dares impugn our noble intelligence state.

“When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known,” Brennan tweeted at Trump last month in a characteristic effort, “you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America. ... America will triumph over you.“ (McCabe, the FBI deputy director who got fired the day before his planned retirement, raised a quarter-million dollars for a legal defense fund within six hours, helped out by retweets from the likes of MSNBC

host Rachel Maddow.)

Brennan’s moral compass has not always been so prominently displayed.

During his tenure as CIA director, the agency got caught spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computers. When confronted by then-Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) about it, Brennan used the same howdare-they tone he now reserves for the president: “Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said at first. “We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the scope of reason.”

By uncritically cheering on such flawed actors, the Trump opposition is sending a clear if unwitting message to future abusers of power: To rehabilitate your image, simply oppose the president with enough flowery adjectives. I predict we will hear more such performances – complete with applause from progressives – during the upcoming book tours of Comey and former CIA Director Michael Hayden.

To the extent that these former officials have direct knowledge of matters relevant to the Trump/Russia investigation – and Comey, at least, certainly does – we need to hear from them. But if in these fraught political times we’re taking our moral cues from a gang of former intelligence officials, then our problems run deeper than – and will outlast – the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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Trump’s ‘fake news’ becomes weapon against US After the United States last week accused the Russianbacked Assad regime in Syria of a chemical-weapons attack, Russia had a ready rejoinder: Fake News.

A Kremlin statement dismissed “the latest fake news about a chemical attack on Douma,” calling the charges “absolutely unsubstantiated lies.”

After the Trump administration had accused China of stealing technology, Beijing responded this month by calling the charge that it forces foreign firms to share technology “fake news.”

In Missouri last week, Republican Gov. Eric Greitens, facing trial next month on charges related to sexual impropriety, said he was the victim of “fake charges” resulting from a “witch hunt.”

Also last week, the U.S. Marine Corps suspended Brig. Gen. Kurt Stein, who this month disparaged as “fake news” allegations of sexual harassment at his command, USA Today reported.

President Trump pioneered the use of the term “fake news” to discredit any report he didn’t like. Now the same allegation is being used against the United

States abroad by adversaries, and against legitimate authorities at home by those credibly accused of misdeeds.

If Trump’s goal was to debase the very notion of truth, then he can truly say “Mission Accomplished.”

Trump’s constant branding of real events as fake has squandered U.S. credibility. When the United States correctly tries to discredit others’ disinformation and propaganda, it is now the country that cried wolf. A search of the website Factbase, which aggregates all the president’s words, shows that Trump has used the “fake news” label more than 350 times since December 2016. This month alone, he has used it to cast doubt on topics including Syria, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, China, North Korea, the North American Free Trade Agreement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sinclair Broadcasting.

Trump’s method is acquiring many unsavory imitators here at home. Roy Moore’s Senate campaign in Alabama fought allegations about inappropriate relationships with teenage girls by branding them “fake news.”

DANA MILBANK White supremacist David Duke thanked Trump after he retweeted a British anti-Muslim video for “showing us what the fake news media WON’T.” More problematic is what is happening overseas: Scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month labeled major Israeli news outlets “fake news” and said they “lie to you night in and night out.”

India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting this month briefly attempted to crack down on journalists for spreading “fake news.”

In December, a state security ministry official in Burma said its genocidal campaign against Rohingya Muslims is “fake news” because “there is no such thing as Rohingya,” The New York Times reported.

Syria’s Bashar Assad dismissed a report about deaths in military prisons by saying “we are living

in a fake-news era.”

Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro says reports in the world media about his repressive regime are “what we call ‘fake news’ today.”

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, known for his extralegal killings, justified a media crackdown by accusing news outlets of “fake news.”

Libya used Trump’s claim about “fake news” CNN to knock down a report by the network about slavery in Libya.

Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia, who has jailed journalists, applauded Trump’s fakenews attack on CNN. Uganda justified detaining newspaper editors by claiming they published “fake news” about the government.

Spain’s foreign minister, Alfonso Dastis, said reports about police violence to stop Catalonia’s independence referendum were “fake news.”

Suppose, in this America First era, that you don’t care about what’s happening in Cambodia or Uganda or Venezuela. You might care that when the United States needs to counter actual fake news, Trump’s fake-news charge is boomeranging.

Turkey’s strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accused the United States in February of “spreading fake news” and of operating a “lie machine” about civilian casualties during Turkey’s military operations in Syria.

China has applied the fakenews label to reports that it tortured a human rights lawyer, that it reduced its buying of U.S. debt and that it was increasing support to North Korea.

The Communist Party’s People’s Daily argued that Trump’s “fake news” claims should cast doubt on media reports about China, and the Chinese military launched a website for people to report fake news.

Russia’s foreign ministry, similarly, has been using a “fake” logo in red to discredit unhelpful news. Its own disinformation campaigns, meanwhile, are destabilizing the globe. Taking a brief break from election tampering last year, Russia used bogus photos to accuse the United States of supporting the Islamic State.

That was fake news — really.

But why should anybody believe us?

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day party is beyond me — I had to remind myself: I need to loosen the reins.

At nine, my eldest wants and deserves some control.

Just as she strived for independence in picking out her own clothes as a toddler and putting on her own shoes as a preschooler, it’s just as vital that I give her the leeway to express herself today, especially when it comes to how she celebrates her birthday.

And so, I let her choose who she wants to invite and left it up to her to get their addresses and to deliver the invites. She’s chosen what kind of party she wants and what they’ll eat, down to the type of cake and which color of icing.

It doesn’t sound like much, maybe. But for me, it’s a practice in patience and give-and-take. It’s a reminder that parties don’t have to be Pinterest-perfect.

And what matters is that my kids are healthy, happy and learning how to be independent.

Because my oldest daughter is turning 9 — and I know 18 is just around the corner.

— Lydia Seabol Avant writes The Mom Stop for The Tuscaloosa News in Alabama. Reach her at lydia.seabolavant@tuscaloo sanews.com.

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Wednesday, April 18, the 108th day of 2018. There are 257 days left in the year.

On April 18, 1938, Superman, AKA “The Man of Steel,” made his debut as the first issue of Action Comics (bearing a cover date of June) went on sale for 10 cents a copy. (In 2014, a nearly flawless original copy was sold on eBay for $3.2 million.)

In 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning colonists that British Regular troops were approaching.

In 1865, Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman near Durham Station in North Carolina.

In 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.

In 1923, the first game was played at the original Yankee Stadium in New York; the Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.

In 1942, during World War II, an air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities. The first World War II edition of The Stars and Stripes was published as a weekly newspaper.

In 1943, Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, was shot down and killed by U.S. fighters while approaching Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.

In 1956, American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier (ren-YAY’) of Monaco in a civil ceremony. (A church wedding took place the next day.)

In 1966, “The Sound of Music” won the Oscar for best picture of 1965 at the 38th Academy Awards. The first Major League baseball game played on AstroTurf took place at the Houston Astrodome as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Astros 6-3.

Bill Russell was named player-coach of the Boston Celtics, becoming the NBA’s first

black coach.

In 1978, the Senate approved the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999.

In 1983, 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.

In 1988, an Israeli court convicted John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN’-yuk), a retired auto worker from Cleveland, of committing war crimes at the Treblinka death camp in Nazioccupied Poland. (However, Israel’s Supreme Court later overturned Demjanjuk’s conviction.)

In 1998, despite fierce internal dissent, Northern Ireland’s main Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists, approved a peace agreement. The remains of Pol Pot were cremated, three days after the Khmer Rouge leader blamed for the killings of up to two million Cambodians died at age 73. Former North Carolina governor and U.S. senator Terry Sanford died in Durham at age 80.

Ten years ago: Addressing the United Nations, Pope Benedict XVI said that respect for human rights, not violence, was the key to solving many of the world’s problems.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gave birth to her fifth child, a son named Trig Paxson Van Palin.

Five years ago: The FBI released surveillance camera images of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, hours after President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended an interfaith service at a Roman Catholic cathedral. Randy Newman, Heart, Rush, Public Enemy, Donna Summer, Albert King, and producers Quincy Jones and Lou Adler were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Los Angeles.

One year ago: Turning back to the economic populism that helped drive his election campaign, President Donald Trump signed an order he said should help American workers whose jobs were threatened by skilled immigrants; the signing took place at

the headquarters of hand and power tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc., in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A man shot and killed three people on the streets of downtown Fresno, California; a suspect who was also accused of killing a motel security guard two days earlier was almost immediately arrested. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence assured Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (shin-zoh AH’-bay) “we are with you 100 percent” during a visit amid escalating tensions over North Korea.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Clive Revill is 88.

Actor James Drury is 84. Actor Robert Hooks is 81. Actress Hayley Mills is 72. Actor James Woods is 71. Actress-director Dorothy Lyman is 71. Actress Cindy Pickett is 71. Country musician Walt Richmond (The Tractors) is 71. Country musician Jim Scholten (Sawyer Brown) is 66. Actor Rick Moranis is 65. Actress Melody Thomas Scott is 62. Actor Eric Roberts is 62. Actor John James is 62. Rock musician Les Pattinson (Echo and the Bunnymen) is 60. Author-journalist Susan Faludi is 59. Actress Jane Leeves is 57. Ventriloquist-comedian Jeff Dunham is 56. Talk show host Conan O’Brien is 55. Bluegrass singer-musician Terry Eldredge is 55. Actor Eric McCormack is 55. Actress Maria Bello is 51. Actress Mary Birdsong is 50. Actor David Hewlett is 50.

Rock musician Greg Eklund (The Oolahs) is 48. Actress Lisa Locicero is 48. TV chef Ludovic Lefebvre is 47. Actor David Tennant is 47. Country musician Marvin Evatt (EH’veht) is 44. Rock musician Mark Tremonti is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Trina (Trina and Tamara) is 44. Actress Melissa Joan Hart is 42. Actor Sean Maguire is 42. Actor Kevin Rankin is 42. Actor Bryce Johnson is 41. Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian (kar-DASH’-ee-uhn) is 39. Actress America Ferrera is 34. Actress Ellen Woglom (TV: “Marvel’s Inhumans”) is 31. Actress Vanessa Kirby is 30. Actress Alia Shawkat is 29. Actress Britt Robertson is 28. Actress Chloe Bennet is 26. Rock singer Nathan Sykes (The Wanted) is 25. Actor Moises Arias is 24.

DEAR ANNIE

MY ANSWER

The gross habit of spitting

Jesus knew He came to earth for one reason

Dear Annie: The other day, I was working from a cafe close to my house. As I sat there for a few hours, I saw a number of men spitting on the sidewalk as they passed by. Men in dirty clothes, men in fancy suits, young men, old men — it seems to be a trait shared by all types of men. Fond as I am of finding and cultivating common connections between humans, I find this habit disgusting. Why is it that men choose to spit in public so often? Am I the only one who notices this? And what should I do if I see another drooling delinquent? — Wondering Woman

Dear Wondering Woman: You’re in good company in your disgust. After his first visit to America, Charles Dickens lamented the “offensive and sickening” sight of men who “(spat) incessantly.” In Dickens’ time, chewing tobacco was mostly to blame for the great expectorations. Nowadays, there’s no definitive explanation. Boise State sociology professor Robert McCarl says it most likely has to do

BY ANNIE LANE with male posturing. It does seem that this issue is socio-cultural and not biological, as there’s no evidence that men produce more saliva than women.

I’m sure I’ll hear from a few people with their takes. In the meantime, if you see a “drooling delinquent,” you might offer him (or her!) a tissue.

Dear Annie: I have never been more compelled to write than after reading your recent response to “P.U.,” the person concerned about a co-worker’s bad hygiene. In your response, you indicated that the coworker’s mental health is not “P.U.’s” business. Based on the co-worker’s reported outburst when confronted and information from his wife that he was “off his medication,” I strongly believe it is not only “P.U.’s” business but his obligation to report his observations to management. Too often, these early signs of potential violence are missed and, as recent events around the country show, work-

place tragedy follows. I respectfully think you missed the mark on this one. — See Something, Say Something

Dear See Something, Say Something: Though “P.U.” said he’d already approached management to no avail, I should not have left it at that. You’re right that the situation is potentially dangerous and should be addressed with urgency.

Approaching the topic of another person’s mental health requires a great deal of care, especially if that person is an employee or colleague. And you should be careful not to engage in workplace discrimination based on mental illness — not only because that would be unethical but also because it’s prohibited in the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are worried about a coworker’s mental health, you can and should intervene, for everyone’s safety. Implore human resources to enlist some outside help. The following letter writer sheds more light on options.

Dear Annie: “P.U.’s” manager

is ineffective. He should mandate an employee assistance program to provide counseling and clearance before the man is allowed back to work. Most states require employee assistance program agencies, but sadly they are underutilized. In this program, a mental health counselor would decide whether the man is a threat to himself or others.

Step two would be to notify the local authorities of concerns of violence so they could determine whether he’s a threat. — Prevent Tragedy

Dear Prevent Tragedy: Thank you for the helpful information on employee assistance programs. I’d like to second your advice to contact the authorities if someone seems like a threat to his own or others’ safety.

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Quick Italian chicken Dear Heloise: My mother used to make your BAKED ITALIAN CHICKEN, and I still can remember how great it tasted. It was easy and quick to prepare, so can you reprint that recipe for us working women?

— Pam M., Ashboro, Ind.

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please your family, order my pamphlet All-Time Favorite Recipes.

Pam, I always loved this recipe! Just send $5, along with a stamped (71 cents), self-adHere it is: dressed, long envelope, to: Heloise/All-Time Favorite Heloise’s Italian Chicken 1 chicken, cut up or equivalent Recipes, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. Or you in parts 1 (8-ounce) bottle nonfat (or can order it online at www.Heloise.com. FYI: Italian regular) Italian salad dressing 1 medium onion, peeled and dressing makes an easy, fast marinade for meat. — Heloise sliced 4 medium potatoes, sliced (peeled or not) into bite-size Cut the recipe in pieces.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a casserole dish with nonstick spray. Place the chicken in the casserole dish and cover with the Italian dressing. Top with onions and potatoes. Bake for about 1 hour, or until done.

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Dear Heloise: When cutting a recipe in half, should the cooking time be reduced? Just to let you know, I enjoy reading your column in The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette. — A Reader, Gastonia, N.C.

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cooking. A cake probably would be just under half the time, while a roast usually would be a little over half the time. If it’s a stir-fry, it’s the same time. You’ll have to keep an eye on your recipe to judge how long something needs to cook. — Heloise

Letter of laughter Dear Heloise: Every Christmas Eve, I make oyster stew, along with salad and crackers. I made the Heloise Olive Nut Dip spread and served it to my olive-hating son-in-law. He loved it and commented on how delicious it was. That’s when we told him one of the main ingredients happened to be OLIVES! We had a hard time holding our laughter inside! — Kate C., Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Ice cream dressed up Dear Heloise: Sometimes I have an unexpected guest(s) for dinner, and finding a lastminute dessert is difficult. I

discovered that you can take a simple dish of ice cream and dress it up with some whipped cream and chopped nuts. I always encircle the ice cream with whipped cream, or some other topping, sprinkle nuts on top and add a dab of whipped cream on top. Stick a wafer cookie in it and you have dressed-up ice cream. — Hazel P., Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.

Cereal change Dear Heloise: I have found that a good way to change up cold cereal is to add texture by using fruit-flavored yogurt rather than milk. Double the goodness. — Dona in Houston

Bugged by buns Dear Heloise: Why can’t hamburger buns be packaged in bags of four? Our family of two invariably has to throw out some of the contents of the larger packages. — T.B. in ©2018 by King Features Syndicate Inc.

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From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham Q: Why didn’t Jesus stay on earth any longer? It seems to me that He could have done a lot of good if He’d lived longer.

Couldn’t He have avoided getting arrested and put to death?

— Mrs. N.N.

A: Yes, Jesus could BILLY h a v e GRAHAM avoided arrest and death if He had chosen to do so — and He did avoid them during most of His ministry. When people in his home town of Nazareth attempted to kill Him, for example, He deliberately escaped (see Luke 4:28-30).

But Jesus Christ came from Heaven to earth for one reason: to become the final and complete sacrifice for our sins. In the final hours before His arrest Jesus confronted the terrible ordeal He was about to endure, and yet He did not refuse it. Instead, He knew this was God’s purpose in sending Him into the world. He declared, “It was for this very reason I came to this hour” (John 12:27).

Remember: Our greatest need is to be reconciled to God — but this is only possible if our sins are somehow erased. And this is exactly what Jesus came into the world to do. Ahead of Him wasn’t just the physical suffering of the cross, but the spiritual horror of enduring the judgment we deserve for our sins. He was without sin — but all our sins were placed on Him, and He died in our place. As the Bible says, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

What does Jesus’ death mean to you? Have you confessed your sins to Him and asked Him to cleanse you and make you His child? Don’t let another day go by without Christ.

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"The following astrological forecasts should be read for entertainment value only. Such predictions have no reliable basis in scientific fact."

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 ASTROGRAPH by Eugenia Last Educational pursuits, honing your skills and adding to your qualifications are encouraged this year. No matter what age or stage of life you may be in, consideration, reflection and lifestyle changes will be in your best interest.

Know what you want and proceed with patience. Personal growth is highlighted.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Learn from your mistakes and be ready to set some guidelines and rules in place to ensure that you reach your goal. Research and dedication are your route to victory.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A personal change will suit your current needs and give you the boost you need to pursue bigger and better objectives. Use common sense and apply your skills strategically.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You need to take a closer look at your personal situation. If you aren’t happy with a relationship you have with someone, speak up and make suggestions.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’ll be reminded of a change you made that you aren’t happy about. Use this experience to help you avoid making a similar mistake.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Get as much done as you can to avoid complaints and criticism. Be open about the way you feel and what you would like to see happen. Embrace change.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Emotional issues should not be vocalized around anyone you cannot trust to keep a secret. Concentrate on making personal physical changes.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Choose your words wisely if you want to convince others to help you or approve of your plans. Listen to sound advice regarding a change you want to make.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Get to the bottom of a situation that could influence your earning ability. A contract will need to be adjusted before you continue to offer your services or help.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Talk over your concerns to find out exactly where you stand. A partnership will need some fine-tuning if you plan to move forward or make a commitment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Plan to have some fun.

Going on a shopping spree or spending time with someone who rocks your world will improve your attitude. A cosmetic improvement or healthier routine is favored.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Excessive behavior should be ended before it takes control. Be kind to your body and protect it from anything that may become habitforming or costly. Caution and safety come first.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Participate in functions that allow you to mingle and network with people who can help you get ahead. A partnership will be financially advantageous. Personal grooming will result in compliments.

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1 dead after jetliner apparently blows an engine in flight (AP) — A Southwest Airlines jet apparently blew an engine at about 30,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel that smashed a window and damaged the fuselage Tuesday, killing a passenger and injuring seven others, authorities said.

The plane, a twin-engine Boeing 737 bound from New York to Dallas with 149 people aboard, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia just before noon as passengers breathing through oxygen masks that dropped from the ceiling said their prayers and braced for impact.

“I just remember holding my husband’s hand, and we just prayed and prayed and prayed,” said passenger Amanda Bourman, of New York. “And the thoughts that were going through my head of course were about my daughters, just wanting to see them again and give them a big hug so they wouldn’t grow up without parents.”

National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt said one person was killed. It was the first passenger fatality in an accident involving a U.S. airline since 2009, Sumwalt said.

Seven other people were treated for minor injuries, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said. He said there was a fuel leak in one of the engines when firefighters arrived and a small fire was quickly brought under control.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the crew reported damage to one of the engines, the fuselage and at least one window. The NTSB sent a team of investigators to Philadelphia. Sumwalt said the engine will be taken apart and examined to understand what caused the failure.

Bourman said she was seated near the back and was asleep when she heard a loud noise and oxygen masks dropped. She said the plane was fairly quiet because everyone was wearing a mask.

“Everybody was crying and upset,” she said. “You had a few passengers that were very strong, and they kept yelling to people, you know, ‘It’s

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Hawley said he referred the matter to St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who has jurisdiction to decide whether to charge Greitens with a crime. He also referred his findings to a special House investigatory committee that is

OK! We’re going to do this!’”

Passenger Marty Martinez went on Facebook Live while wearing an oxygen mask. He posted, “Something is wrong with our plane! It appears we are going down! Emergency landing!! Southwest flight from NYC to Dallas!!” After the plane landed, he posted photos of a broken window near the left engine.

Everyone started yelling to brace for impact as the plane came in for a landing, Bourman said. She said passengers clapped and praised the pilot after the aircraft touched down.

Bourman said she saw emergency workers using a defibrillator to help a woman who was then taken off the plane. Bourman said that she also saw a man in a cowboy hat rush to cover the broken window and that the man had a bandage around his arm after the plane landed.

Passengers did “some pretty amazing things under some pretty difficult circumstances,” Thiel said.

Tracking data from FlightAware.com showed Flight 1380 was heading west over Pennsylvania at about 32,200 feet (10 km) and traveling 500 mph (800 kph) when it abruptly turned toward Philadelphia.

The last time a passenger died in an accident on a U.S. airliner was 2009, when 49 people on board and one on the ground were killed in the crash of a Continental Express plane near Buffalo, New York.

Southwest has about 700 planes, all of them 737s, including more than 500 737-700s like the one in Tuesday’s accident. It is the world’s largest operator of the 737. The 737 is the best-selling jetliner in the world and has a good safety record.

The jet’s CFM56-7B engines were made by CFM International, jointly owned by General Electric and Safran Aircraft Engines of France.

CFM said it sent technical experts to help NTSB investigators. In a statement, it said the CFM56-7B has had “an outstanding safety and reliability record” since its debut in 1997, powering more than 6,700 aricraft worldwide.

considering whether to recommend impeachment proceedings to try to remove Greitens from office.

“We believe that the evidence we have will support a finding of probable cause that the governor obtained the list, used the list (and) transmitted the list without the permission of The Mission Continues and he did so for political fundraising purposes,” Hawley said at a

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Parks said. “The lobbyists wouldn’t be giving that much money and these big busiFrom page 1 nesses wouldn’t be giving that much money if it didn’t have ballot. The initiative targets power, if they didn’t get their several changes to Article III way. of the Missouri Constitution, “Most Missourians don’t limiting lobbyists gifts and have that kind of power to campaign contributions, clos- make our voices equally heard ing a loophole exploited by to our legislators, yet these are political action committees, people we vote for. They’re and attempting to remove supposed to represent us and partisanship from the process communities like Kirksville.” that creates legislative district maps.

Campaign contributions “Legislators from both parMissouri voters passed ties have been calling for some campaign contribution limits of these reforms, but obvi- just a few years ago, but that ously many of them have amendment left loopholes failed in our esteemed Legis- Clean Missouri aims to close. lature,” said Benjamin Singer, Current Missouri law limits communications director for individual donors to $2,600 Clean Missouri. “Now this is to state office candidates per an opportunity for the people election. To circumvent that to get it on the ballot and cap, contributors can establish pass it ourselves.” multiple political action comSinger visited Kirksville mittees of which they are the Tuesday morning and was sole or majority donor. Each joined by several Clean Mis- of those PACs can then make souri supporters, among them maximum donations to a canJessica Parks, executive di- didate’s campaign. rector at Take Root Cafe.

Clean Missouri’s amendParks said she supports the ment would further limit the Clean Missouri platform in campaign contribution maxthe interest of accountability imum ($2,500 for Missouri and transparency.

Senate candidates, $2,000 “I think our culture has for Missouri House) and close been dominated by big busi- the PAC loophole. Contribuness that we don’t always tions received from PACs know where the money is go- which receive 50 percent or ing or what’s happening,” she more of their funding from a said. single source would count to“(The amendment) brings ward that source’s maximum the voice back to the people.” donation.

The platform touches sevJimmy Clemens, a Truman eral ethics and reform areas: student and Clean Missouri supporter, said the staggering Lobbying amount of money in Missouri Missouri’s elected officials politics acts as a deterrent to would be unable to become voters. lobbyists for a period of two “(The amendment) is a way years after the conclusion of to get our voices heard,” he their final legislative session said. “We feel this is a very (the current law requires a six- good way to have just as much month wait after the individ- of a say as some special interual leaves office). est groups may have in the Additionally, the amend- Missouri government right ment would ban any gift from now.” lobbyists to lawmakers that The amendment also proexceeds $5. hibits fundraising activity on Clean Missouri notes lob- state property. byists spent more than $1 million in gifts to Missouri Legislative district maps lawmakers in 2017.

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The Republican governor quickly issued a rebuttal statement questioning the legal skills of the Republican attorney general and lambasting him for working with Gardner, a Democrat. Greitens and Hawley both won election in 2016 as maverick political outsiders. Hawley now is challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill and has faced an onslaught of Democratic ads trying to link him to Greitens.

“Anyone who has set foot in a Missouri courtroom knows these allegations are ridiculous,” Greitens said.

He added: “We will dispense with these false allegations.”

Greitens has been fighting for his political survival amid mounting calls to resign, including from Hawley.

He is to go to trial May 14 on a felony invasion-ofprivacy charge in St. Louis for allegedly taking and transmitting a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom he had an affair in 2015. The separate House investigatory panel released a report last week containing testimony from the woman alleging that Greitens restrained, slapped, grabbed, shoved and threatened her during a series of sexual encounters that at times left her crying and afraid.

A spokeswoman for Gardner said St. Louis prosecutors met with officials from the attorney general’s office Monday and are “reviewing the evidence” related to The Mission Continues donor list.

Hawley indicated that the legal deadline is fast approaching to charge Greitens with a crime of tampering with computer data.

He said Greitens could be charged with a felony because the donor list produced a gain to Greitens’ campaign of more than $500.

McCaskill campaign spokeswoman Meira Bernstein in a statement criticized Hawley for not acting sooner against Greitens and

said the timing shows “gross incompetence on the part of the attorney general.”

Hawley denied that his Senate candidacy influenced his handling of the case, adding: “We investigated when we had evidence to investigate.”

Federal law bars 501(c)(3) charities such as The Mission Continues from intervening in political campaigns on behalf of candidates. The Internal Revenue Service has ruled charities cannot give donor lists to politicians but can rent them at fair market value if made available to all candidates.

Mission Continues spokeswoman Laura L’Esperance said Tuesday that Greitens had access to the donor list as CEO but did not have permission to later use it for his campaign.

“The Mission Continues

did not authorize the use of any donor information for political purposes, nor did we promote Governor Greitens for political office,” she said.

The Associated Press first reported in October 2016 that Greitens’ campaign had obtained a Mission Continues spreadsheet showing the names, email addresses and phone numbers of donors who had given least $1,000. The spreadsheet properties show it was created by a Mission Continues employee in 2014, shortly before Greitesn stepped down as CEO, and had last been saved in March 2015 by Michael Hafner, who had been working for Greitens‘ gubernatorial exploratory committee. The AP reported that Greitens had raised nearly $2 million from donors who previously gave

petitive when the new legislative maps are drawn following the 2020 census.

Clean Missouri proposes using an open application process to select one nonpartisan expert to draw the maps, which would be ultimately approved by a citizen commission.

Singer noted many Missouri Legislature races only have one major party candidate on the ballot, and less than 1 in 10 of the contested elections are “competitive” (won by fewer than 10 percent).

“Most people in Missouri don’t really have a choice come election time. This should give people more of a choice and make the Legislature representative of what voters want, take away the process of protecting insiders,” Singer said.

The amendment would also require state lawmakers to operate under the Missouri Sunshine Law, of which they are currently exempt from some requirements.

Singer, originally from Chesterfield, Mo., worked for the largest homeless services provider in Illinois and experienced firsthand there how special interests repeatedly won battles for government funding. As opposed to Missouri, where Republicans hold supermajorities, Democrats maintain majorities there.

“When people like to point fingers at one party or another, I can testify very clearly that it’s not about what party is in power,” Singer said. “It’s about what are the incentives, what’s the system that’s in place, what’s the framework that we’ve agreed to for our elected representatives as a society.

“The people of Missouri are generally in agreement. I feel we’ll be able to make the case.

When you just say the facts of what Clean Missouri does, these are things that most people agree need to be done.

That’s what we’re going to stick to doing.”

For more information, visit www.cleanmissouri.org. significant amounts to The Mission Continues.

In October 2016, Greitens initially denied using the list for his campaign. But in April 2017, he agreed to pay a small fine to the Missouri Ethics Commission for failing to report that his gubernatorial campaign had, in fact, received the charity’s donor list. Greitens campaign filed amended finance reports valuing the list as a $600 in-kind contribution received March 1, 2015, from Danny Laub, who was listed as Greitens’ campaign manager at the time.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in February 2018 that it had obtained a copy of an email indicating that a Greitens employee had shared The Mission Continues donor list with Hafner and Laub in January 2015.

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High court worries about abandoning online sales tax rule (AP) — The Supreme Court sounded concerned Tuesday about doing away with a rule that has meant shoppers don’t always get charged sales tax when they hit “checkout” online.

The justices were hearing arguments in a case that deals with how businesses collect sales tax on online purchases at sites from Amazon.com to Zappos. Right now, under a decades-old Supreme Court rule, if a business is shipping a product to a state where it doesn’t have an office, warehouse or other physical presence, it doesn’t have to collect the state’s sales tax. Customers are generally supposed to pay the tax to the state themselves if they don’t get charged it, but the vast majority don’t.

More than 40 states have asked the Supreme Court to abandon its current sales tax collection rule , saying that as a result of it and the growth of internet shopping, they’re losing billions of dollars in tax revenue every year.

But several Supreme Court justices suggested during arguments Tuesday that they had concerns about reversing course.

“I’m concerned about the many unanswered questions that overturning precedents will create a massive amount of lawsuits about,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor told South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, who was arguing for the court to do away with its current rule.

Chief Justice John Roberts pointed to

briefs suggesting the problem of sales tax collection “has peaked” and may be “diminishing rather than expanding.” ‘’Why doesn’t that suggest that there are greater significance to the arguments” that the court should leave its current rule in place, he asked.

The fact that Congress could have addressed the issue and has so far hasn’t, Justice Elena Kagan said, “gives us reason to pause.” Congress can deal with the issue in a more nuanced way than the court, she said, saying Congress is “capable of crafting compromises and trying to figure out how to balance the wide range of interests involved here.”

Large retailers such as Apple, Macy’s, Target and Walmart, which have brick-andmortar stores nationwide, generally collect sales tax from their customers who buy online. But other online sellers that only have a physical presence in a few states can sidestep charging customers sales tax when they’re shipping to addresses outside those states.

For years, the internet sales tax collection issue for states was largely about online giant Amazon.com, which didn’t collect sales tax in every state. But the site’s physical presence in states has grown, and since 2017 it has collected sales tax in every state that imposes one. Third-party sellers who sell goods on the site don’t have to, however.

Sellers who defend the current rule say collecting sales tax nationwide is complex and costly, especially for small sellers.

Justices brought up that issue Tuesday too.

Sotomayor expressed concern for the “added cost of doing business for the small businessman” if the court overturns its current rule.

Justice Stephen Breyer asked: “What does it cost for a mandolin seller who sells mandolins on the internet to sell them in 50 states?” ‘’How much does it cost him to enter that market?”

That complexity of collecting sales tax nationwide was a concern for the Supreme Court when in 1967 it said that a catalog retailer whose only contact with a state was by mail didn’t have to collect sales tax on sales made there. In 1992, the court reaffirmed what it called the physical presence rule. But states say software has now made collecting sales tax easy.

Three justices — Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy — have expressed a willingness in past writings to rethink the sales tax collection rule. On Tuesday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed willing them to join them, suggesting the court’s past decisions were “obsolete precedent.” Both Ginsburg and Kennedy seemed to say the court should take responsibility for fixing the rule, which Kennedy suggested has, “especially in light of the cyber age, proven incor-

rect.”

The case the court heard arguments in has to do with a law passed by South Dakota in 2016, a law designed to challenge the Supreme Court rule. The law requires out-of-state sellers who do more than $100,000 of business in the state or more than 200 transactions annually with state residents to collect and turn over sales tax to the state.

South Dakota wanted out-of-state retailers to begin collecting the tax and sued Overstock.com, home goods company Wayfair and electronics retailer Newegg.

The state has conceded in court, however, that it can only win by persuading the Supreme Court to do away with its current physical presence rule.

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard said in a telephone interview after Tuesday’s arguments that he hopes the court will fix the rule, but if it doesn’t, his state will continue to push for action by Congress.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, urged the justices to side with South Dakota. Like other online sellers, however, The Trump Organization’s official retail website doesn’t collect tax on sales to every state.

Customers in only three states are charged sales tax on their purchases, whether it’s a polo shirt or Trump deodorant.

A decision in the case, 17-494, South Dakota v. Wayfair, is expected by the end of June.

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First the chlorine, then chaos and death in Syria attack

IRS payment site fails on tax day, extensions to be granted

(AP) — Residents of the Syrian town of Douma were packed into underground shelters amid bombardment when the gas began to spread. Suddenly, panic ensued.

As shouts of “chlorine, chlorine!” rang out, some ran into the night and fainted in the street. Others climbed to rooftops, hoping they’d be safer rising above the gas. Dozens didn’t make it out at all, some stumbling on stairwells, out of breath, where they were later found dead.

The bodies were still there the next morning, strewn around the buildings, including toddlers and young children.

Much about the April 7 suspected chemical weapons attack in Douma, just east of Damascus, remains unknown, including the exact death toll, because of the lack of an independent investigation.

Experts from the international chemical weapons watchdog entered the town on Tuesday, 10 days after the attack.

The Associated Press spoke to rescuers, medics and numerous residents of Douma for their accounts of what took place. Some were reached in rebel-held areas in northern Syria where they were evacuated after the attack, while others were still in Douma.

They spoke of at least two buildings with people sheltering in the basements that were overwhelmed with gas so strong that it was hard to breathe hundreds of meters (yards) away.

More than 40 people were killed, many of them

(AP) – Americans who waited until the last day to pay their taxes online got an unwelcome surprise: The IRS website to make payments and access other key services is down.

The IRS still expects Americans to pay their taxes but U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says extensions will be granted to those impacted when the site is up again.

The IRS said in a statement that “certain IRS systems are experiencing technical difficulties.” It also said that at this point, the problem appears to be a hardware issue.

The agency advised taxpayers to “continue filing their tax returns as they normally would.”

The problem is, electronic filing is the most popular way to file. And the IRS offered no immediate solution but said the returns will be processed when feasible.

However, Mnuchin who oversees the IRS, said that they expect the direct pay system to go up shortly.

“We’ll make sure taxpayers have extensions once the system comes up to make sure they can use it and it in no way impacts people paying their taxes,” he told reporters in New Hampshire. “It was just a technical issue we’re working through. A high volume technical issue that impacted the system.”

Pages on the IRS website (www.irs.gov) used to view account information, make a direct payment or set up a payment plan were all not functioning most of the day Tuesday.

It’s unclear when and why the failure occurred. But it appears, based on a message on the site, that the online payment system became unavailable at 2:50 A.M. ET that morning.

It’s unclear how many people were impacted Tuesday but, by comparison, about 5 million tax returns were filed on the final day of last year’s tax season.

The IRS snafu also caused problems for popular third-party tax preparers such as Turbo Tax and H&R Block. Both said that they will hold onto customer tax returns and file them as soon as the IRS system reopens.

Tax day falls on April 17 this year because April 15 was a Sunday and April 16 was Emancipation Day, a holiday in Washington, D.C. IRS Acting Commissioner David Kautter testified during a House Oversight Hearing Tuesday that a number of systems are down at the moment and that the agency is working to resolve the issue.

Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow offered a deadpan reaction when asked about the failure.

“The IRS is crashing? Sounds horrible. Really bad,” he said during a briefing with reporters in West Palm Beach, Florida. “I hope it gets fixed.”

The IRS typically recommends that taxpayers use electronic filing to avoid common mistakes. Online filing is quicker than dropping something in the mail — when the site works, of course.

children, according to medics and opposition activists in the town. The World Health Organization said an estimated 500 patients exhibited symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic chemicals, including respiratory failure.

The U.N.-mandated Independent International Commission on Syria has documented more than 30 chemical attacks in Syria between 2013 and the end of 2017 — at least 25 of them carried out by the Syrian military, the commission says. For the rest, it had insufficient evidence to determine the perpetrator. Most involved chlorine gas, usually causing only a few injuries.

But in this case, it appeared the gas hit dozens of people crammed into confined spaces, huddling away from the bombs outside. The U.S. and France say they have evidence the Syrian government carried out the April 7 strike, while Syria and its ally, Russia, have denied any gas attack even took place.

An AP team visited the site on a Syrian government-organized tour Monday, including a two-room underground shelter where one resident said 47 people were killed, including his pregnant wife and two young daughters.

A strange smell lingered, nine days after the attack.

The floors of the shelter were covered with carpets and pillows were lined up against a wall. There were no signs of blood stains.

There had been bombings going on all day, and in the evening, a heavy volley

In this Monday, April 16, 2018 photo, man walks just meters away from where the alleged chemical weapons attack occurred in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria. AP PHOTO/HASSAN AMMAR

of rockets hit, dozens within 10 minutes, said Ahmed, a 20-year-old medic.

After the rocket fire subsided, he and his team moved in to check for wounded. Nearing the site, they encountered a powerful smell, then saw people running and screaming, “Chlorine! Chlorine!”

Ahmed ran into the building, trying to reach the shelter. He didn’t make it far. He saw two bodies, a man and a woman, but he couldn’t go further. His eyes swollen from the fumes, he struggled to breathe. Everywhere was the overpowering smell of chlorine, he said, speaking on condition he be identified only by his first name out of fear for his safety and that of his family.

He rushed to a nearby medical center, where hundreds were crowded, many gasping for breath. Some had fainted. After washing his face and recovering, he joined other medics and went back to the attack site, but the gas was still too strong to get close. Instead they went back and forth helping those who had managed to stagger out get to the medical center.

“After an hour and a half, I couldn’t do more,” said. “I was in bad shape. I had to rest.”

Soon after the attack, Ahmed was among thou-

sands evacuated from Douma as the town surrendered to government forces.

He believes the attack was clearly carried out by Syrian government forces.

“It was like an earthquake,” he said, speaking to the AP from northern Syria.

“The town was facing an earthquake.”

Men and women were preparing to perform the sunset Muslim prayers in an underground shelter when an overpowering smell started spreading.

“It’s chlorine! It’s chlorine!” they screamed.

Khaled Nuseir was in the two-room shelter with 51 other people when the fumes hit. He ran to a nearby clinic, calling for paramedics to help, but fainted in the clinic.

The 25-year-old vegetable vendor said he woke up some time later to people putting vinegar and water on his face. He ran back to the shelter where he found his wife and two daughters dead, white foam covering their mouths.

His wife, Fatmeh Qarout, was nine months pregnant.

His daughters, Qamar — Arabic for moon — and Nour — Arabic for light — were 18 months and 2 ½ years old. He said only five people in the shelter survived.

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Trump says US and North Korea talking at ‘extremely high levels’ (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. and North Korea are holding direct talks at “extremely high levels” in preparation for a potential summit with dictator Kim Jong Un. At Mar-a-Lago with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump also confirmed that North and South Korea are negotiating an end to hostilities before next week’s meeting between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The meeting will be the third inter-Korean summit since the Koreas’ 1945 division.

“They do have my blessing to discuss the end of the war,” said Trump, who welcomed Abe to his Florida resort on Tuesday.

Trump is looking to hold his own summit with Kim in the next two months and said five locations are under consideration. The proposed summit follows months of increasingly heated rhetoric over the North’s nuclear weapons program.

“We have had direct talks at very high levels — extremely high levels — with North Korea,” Trump said.

“We’ll either have a very good meeting or we won’t have a good meeting,” he added. “And maybe we won’t even have a meeting at all, depending on what’s going in. But I think that there’s a great chance to solve a world problem.”

The president did not answer shouted questions about whether he has spoken with Kim. Kim ‘s offer for a summit was initially conveyed to Trump by South Korea last month, and the president accepted. U.S. officials have indicated over the past two weeks that North Korea’s government has communicated directly with Washington that it is ready to discuss its nuclear weapons program. The officials also said discussions between the two sides are being held in preparation for a summit.

Abe, who has voiced fears that short- and medium-range missiles that pose a threat to Japan might not be part of the U.S. negotiations, praised Trump on Tuesday for his bravery in agreeing to meet with the North Korean dictator.

“I’d like to commend Donald’s courage in his decision to have the upcoming summit meeting with the North Korean leader,” Abe said.

Trump took credit for the inter-Korean talks, saying, “Without us and without me, in particular, I guess you would have to say, they wouldn’t be discussing anything.”

North Korea has long sought a peace treaty with the U.S. to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War. It is unusual for the North to seek to broach the issue directly with South Korea rather than with Washington itself. The armistice that ended the fighting was signed by the United Nations Command — the U.S.-led forces in the conflict — North Korea and China. South Korea was a member of the U.N. Command but was not a direct signatory.

The U.S. has traditionally sought to resolve the dispute over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program before addressing the North’s demands for a peace treaty, which the isolated, authoritarian nation views as a means to ensuring its security.

The U.S. retains nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea to deter North Korean aggression. The leaders of the two Koreas are due to meet April 27 on the southern side of the tense, demilitarized zone that separates them.

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Majors have impact in different ways (AP) — Major champions today create memories for tomorrow.

Some of them, anyway.

Still to be determined is whether the grit Patrick Reed showed at Augusta National — holding off Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler in that order — resonates with a junior who is just getting into golf or motivates one of Reed’s peers.

“It’s such a nostalgic game,” McIlroy said last summer. “People remember when they watched Jack

La Plata at Madison

(Nicklaus) win a U.S. Open or Tom Watson chip in at Pebble Beach. Whatever generation it is, that’s what they’re going to remember and that’s their fondest memory.”

McIlroy was among five major champions who were asked about their fondest memory of a major (excluding those they won).

REDEMP TION “I’m a big redemption person,” McIlroy said. “I’m big on someone winning who deserves it.”

The one major that stands out is Adam Scott winning the Masters in 2013, mainly because it came nine months after one of the most stunning collapses on the back nine in a major, even by Australian standards. Scott had a four-shot lead with four holes to play at Royal Lytham & St. Annes when he closed with four straight bogeys, and Ernie Els won his second British Open.

The next year, Scott holed a 20foot birdie putt on the final hole at

Augusta National, and then won with a birdie on the second playoff hole.

“I thought that was awesome,” McIlroy said.

Perhaps he spoke from experience. McIlroy had a four-shot lead going into the final round of the 2011 Masters when he shot 80. He won the very next major, the U.S. Open, by eight shots at Congressional.

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TRACK AND FIELD

KHS to send six to Kansas Relays

When Wednesday, April 18, 5 p.m.

Where Madison High School.

Why The Bulldogs (5-0) look to remain undefeated and have scored 51 runs in their last three games.

The Panthers (6-2) are on a two-game winning streak, scoring 27 runs in the wins.

Six Kirksville track and field athletes have been accepted to compete in the Kansas Relays this weekend.

Sophomore Anna Moore will compete in the triple jump. She owns the school record with a distance of 37-11. She set the record last year.

Freshman Kenslie Stufflebean will race in the 300m hurdles. Her personal best time is 49.34 seconds, the second-fastest time in school history.

Sophomore Remy Ndiang will compete in the triple jump. He owns the school record of 44-3, set earlier this season.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR April 18 High school boys tennis Kirksville at Moberly High school baseball Putnam Co. at Clark Co., 5 p.m.

La Plata at Madison, 5 p.m.

Lewis and Clark Tournament Scotland Co. vs.

Fayette, 5 p.m.

Fayette vs.

Schuyler Co., 7 p.m.

Paris vs. Knox. Co., 7 p.m.

April 19 High school baseball Macon at Highland, 5 p.m.

La Plata at Madison, 5 p.m.

Putnam Co. at Mercer, 5 p.m.

Marshall at Kirksville, 5 p.m.

High school boys golf Kirksville at Moberly High school girls soccer Moberly at Kirksville, 6:30 p.m.

College softball Truman at Illinois Springfield (DH), 2 p.m.

College track and field Truman at Kansas Relays

REMEMBER? April 18 5 Years Ago The Kirksville girls soccer team lost to Moberly, 2-1.

Kirksville goalie Kallie Holte scored a goal off a free kick in the 25th minute.

1 Year Ago Schuyler Co. defeated Atlanta in baseball, 12-2.

Schuyler hit three home runs in the first inning courtesy of Keaton Nelson, Braxton Shaw and Easton Kerby.

TRIVIA How many points did Allen Iverson score in his rookie NBA season? (Answer Thursday) From Tuesday: How many goals did Wayne Gretzky score in his career?

A: The Great One scored 894 goals in 1,487 games.

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Nicolette Simpson pitches against Southern Indiana on April 7. Simpson has appeared in 14 games for the Bulldogs and is currently 3-2 with a 3.96 ERA. MATTHEW ASHER/DAILY EXPRESS

Softball nears finish Truman’s softball team will play six of its final eight regular season games this week MATTHEW ASHER @masher_KDE

Truman’s baseball team returns home to host Missouri-St. Louis, softball travels to Illinois Spring-

end before dropping the next three games. The Bulldogs host the University of Missouri-St. field and the track team Louis (15-19, 7-8) in a heads to Lawrence, four-game series this Kansas this week. weekend.

Baseball Charlie Kreh leads the Truman (9-27, 3-13 Bulldogs with a .366 avGLVC) took the first game erage. Playing in all 36 of its four-game series games, he’s recorded three against Quincy last week- home runs, nine doubles

Solarte, Grichuk power Blue Jays past Royals, 11-3

and has 28 RBIs. Kreh batted .533 in the Quincy series, picking up six RBIs and four doubles.

Noah Schrader is second on the team with a .270 average. He’s played in 25 games and has six RBis, two home runs and two doubles.

TORONTO (AP) — Yangervis Solarte homered and drove in four runs, Randal Grichuk also went deep and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 11-3 on Tuesday in the opener of a doubleheader.

Solarte’s third homer of the season was a two-run shot off Erik Skoglund (02) into the second deck in the first inning. He has reached base in all 13

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Knox County falls apart in seventh inning vs. S. Shelby MATTHEW ASHER @masher_KDE

EDINA — The Knox County Eagles learned the hard way that no lead in a baseball game is safe. Leading South Shelby 6-2 in the top of the seventh inning, the Cardinals proceeded to score eight runs in the inning and then add two more in the eighth inning to come away with a 10-9 win.

Through the first six innings of the game, Knox (2-3) looked to be in control of the outcome. The Eagles had just handed the ball over to Hayden Miller with a chance to close out the game. He struck out the first batter and that’s when things started to go wrong.

South Shelby’s (1-7) Luke Woutzke got to first base on a fielding error, stole second base, reached third on another throwing error and scored on another fielding error to cut the lead in half.

Miller struck out the next batter but Brennan Otto also reached first base and scored on multiple errors. South Shelby didn’t record a single official hit in the inning, but a combination of errors and walks allowed the Cardinals to send 10 batters to the plate before Miller struck out his third batter to end the inning.

Knox was able to tie the game in the bottom of the seventh with a two-RBI hit

by Trace Wheeler. Then came the eighth inning and Knox once again gave up the lead when CJ Glover hit a two-RBI double.

Knox had a chance to win the game with runners on the corners and two outs, but Trent Klocke struck out to end the game. Klocke had started the game for Knox on the mound, giving the Eagles 4.2 innings of solid work, allowing just one run off a wild pitch in his 73 pitches in the game.

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Knox County’s Jullian Hurst pitches in the fifth inning of Tuesday’s game. Hurst came in to pitch 1.1 innings.

He struck out three batters. MATTHEW ASHER/DAILY EXPRESS

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LOCAL ROUNDUP HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL Macon 4, Monroe City 3 Macon - Nash Waller, winning pitcher; Jamison Hogsett, 2-4, 1 run scored, 1 stolen base; Eric Moore, 3-4, 2B, 1 RBI; Garrett Blaise, 1-1, 2B, 1 run scored; Cade Hicks, 1-3, 2B, 1 RBI; Meade Fry, 2B Schuyler 9, Atlanta 3 Schuyler - Easton Kerby, winning pitcher; Wyatt Homer, 2-3, HR, 2B; Carson Tallman, 2 hits; Colby Frederick, 2 hits; Atlanta - Stats not reported.

Milan 14, Brashear 7 Milan - Conner Bankus, winning pitcher; Jesus Gonzalez, 5 RBIs; Brashear - Austin Peterson, home run; Zane Sykes, home run

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOCCER Hannibal at Kirksville Kirksville - Stats and score not reported.

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Knox County players mob Zane Hubble (19) after he hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game against South Shelby. Hubble finished the game 3-for-4. MATTHEW ASHER/DAILY EXPRESS

to lose, especially after a great offensive showing by first baseman Zane Hubble. Hubble went 3-for-4 From page 9 with a two-run homer in the fourth inning to put Knox up 6-1.

“We have a bunch of young guys Knox coach Michael O’Haver declined to comment following the that we put in tonight and gave them the spotlight,” Hubble said. game.

It was a frustrating way for Knox “They’ll have to learn, but I think

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Kent Frantz (4-4) is 3-1 in his last four starts for Truman with a 2.17 ERA. In his last five starts Frantz has thrown two complete games and has lasted as least seven innings each time.

Jake Morsch leads the Tritons with a .333 average.

He has 11 RBIs, one triple and four doubles in 34 games.

Matt Graser (4-3) leads the Tritons on the mound.

In his 10 appearances he’s thrown 40.2 innings, has one complete game and struck out 21 batters.

First pitch for Saturday’s game is scheduled for noon.

Softball Truman (21-15, 10-10) will have a long week, playing in six games. Currently in eighth place in the GLVC, Truman has eight games remaining on its schedule. The top eight teams in the GLVC qualify for the postseason tournament.

The Bulldogs travel to face Illinois Springfield (30-11, 17-3) on Thursday with a 2 p.m. start. Truman then returns home to face Lewis (17-21, 6-14) on Saturday and Wisconsin-Parkside (18-20, 9-11) on Sunday. First pitch for the weekend games are scheduled for noon.

Ali Haesele leads the Illinois Springfield Prairie Stars with a .386 average.

She’s hit one home run, four triples, 16 doubles and

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games he’s played, the longest on-base streak to start a season for Toronto since Jose Bautista’s 17-game run in 2016.

The Blue Jays added three more runs off Skoglund with four consecutive singles in the fifth and then put the game away in the sixth, sending 11 batters to the plate and scoring six times.

Jaime Garcia (2-0) allowed back-toback homers by Mike Moustakas and Lucas Duda in the third. He gave up three runs on eight hits in five innings, walking one and striking out five.

they did great. South Shelby basically came out and said they were going to beat us and we let it happen. I think after a few more practices we’ll get more confidence and we’ll be solid.”

Knox begins playing in the Lewis & Clark Tournament today. The Eagles will face Paris at 7 p.m.

28 RBIs. Haesele is also the leading pitcher. She’s 18-6 with 15 complete games, striking out 160 batters in 27 appearances.

Kaylee Prieto leads the Lewis Flyers with a .313 average, 19 RBIs and three home runs.

Dara Sanders has pitched 23 games for the Flyers. At 11-8, she’s thrown 12 complete games and has struck out 69 batters.

Kellie Fenza leads the W i s c o n s i n - Pa r k s i d e Rangers with a .320 average. She’s collected 20 RBIs, two home runs, four triples and three doubles.

Alyssa Hrncar is 12-6 for the Rangers in the circle.

She’s thrown 17 complete games in her 19 starts.

Christa Reisinger leads the Bulldogs with a .464 average, 26 RBIs, eight

All six of Toronto’s runs in the sixth were charged to right-hander Blaine Boyer, whose ERA ballooned to 25.20 even though just two of the runs he allowed Tuesday were earned.

Kevin Pillar reached on a throwing error by third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert to start the inning. He later scored on Grichuk’s three-run homer.

Solarte added a sacrifice fly and Pillar had a two-run double in his second at-bat of the sixth.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: C Russell Martin and 2B Devon Travis started the opener but sat out the nightcap. ... DH Kendrys Morales (right hamstring) is not expected to require a rehab assignment before rejoining the team.

Morales went on the disabled list

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RARE TWIN BILL Tuesday’s doubleheader was just the third at home for the Blue Jays since they moved into their retractable-roof stadium in June of 1989. Toronto swept both games of each previous twin bill, beating the Los Angeles Angels on July 17, 1989, and the Cleveland Indians on October 5, 2001.

The Blue Jays were rained out twice in Cleveland over the weekend and then faced the first streak of three consecutive postponements in franchise history after chunks of ice fell from the adjacent CN Tower, puncturing several holes in the Rogers Centre roof. The biggest hole, over right field, was roughly 3 feet by 5 feet.

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home runs, four triples and five doubles. She was named the GLVC Softball Player of the Week for the fourth time in her career this week after batting .615 (8-for-13) with three home runs, six RBIs and three stolen bases.

Track and field Truman heads to the Kansas Relays on Thursday. Last weekend at the Jim Duncan Invitational, Truman freshman Cassie Jennings scored a provisional mark in pole vault with a height of 11-11.25.

She is currently ranked 33rd nationally in the vault.

Bobby Campbell, who already had a provisional mark in the discus with a throw of 165-10, is currently ranked 23rd nationally.

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There was one another example of redemption: Sergio Garcia, one of McIlroy’s best friends, who went nearly 20 years before winning his first major.

“I cried,” McIlroy said. “I cried! I was so happy for him.”

BIG MOMENTS Jordan Spieth was 11, already honing his putter on a closely mown section of his front yard, when Tiger Woods won the Masters in 2005 for the fourth time. Spieth considers that his favorite major championship victory that wasn’t his own.

“It goes back to when Tiger holed that chip on 16 and ended up going to a playoff with Chris DiMarco,” Spieth said. “That Masters win because of that shot ... when you’re a kid, you want to go out right away and try some kind of similar shot that you saw someone hit.”

Nothing was remotely similar until he played Augusta National for the first time in the fall of 2013.

“The first thing I was interested in was going behind 16, putting the tee down wherever that pin was and hitting that shot,” he said.

Ten years after watching Woods win a fourth green jacket, Spieth won his first.

And perhaps it was only fitting that in the final round, Spieth went long on the 16th and wound up in a similar spot from where Woods chipped in.

“I didn’t hit the shot anywhere as good as him,” said Spieth, who had to make an 8-footer for par to keep a four-shot lead. “He was against the collar of

the rough, too. That was the coolest shot I ever witnessed and probably ever will witness.”

EMOTIONS Davis Love III has watched a lot of friends win majors, all special occasions. One of them meant so much to him that he stayed behind even after missing the cut in the 2011 British Open at Royal St. George’s.

“Darren Clarke winning made me the happiest,” Love said.

Even on opposite sides of the Atlantic, Love and Clarke were close. Clarke was 42, five years removed from losing his wife to breast cancer. He was no longer among the top 100 in the world and not even eligible for all the majors.

And then, finally, he won the claret jug .

Love recalls waiting to see Justin Leonard win at Royal Troon in 1997.

This was different.

“I don’t think when I watched Justin get the trophy I had tears in my eyes,” Love said.

AUSSIE PRIDE Scott used to get up early Monday morning to watch the Masters. His favorite major, however, was the British Open in 1993 at Royal St. George’s, mainly because of the winner.

Greg Norman never won the Masters. He won the claret jug twice, the second time when Scott was a few weeks from turning 13.

“It was such a big moment for me,” he said. “I was 5 when he won his other Open. So this was huge. I had more Shark clothing than him at that point. I really remember a lot of the ‘90s majors, how they all panned out. But my favorite was Greg, because it was Greg.”

dles. He owns the school record with a time of 15.48 seconds, set in From page 9 2017.

Senior Mathew RobSenior Ian Richmond bins will race in the 100m will compete in the pole sprint. He has the school vault. His personal record record of 11.04 seconds, is 15-1 which was set last set last year. season.

The Kansas Relays take Senior Ethan Gooch place Friday and Saturwill run the 110m hur- day in Lawrence, Kansas.

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As explained on the American Cancer Society website, “each team is asked to have a member on the track at all times to signify that cancer never sleeps. Cancer patients don’t stop because they’re tired, and for one night, neither do we.”

Team Onie was one of the many teams circling the track throughout the evening.

Named in honor of Onie Hatfield, who was diagnosed with lung cancer almost three years ago, Team Onie consisted of a close group of about 12. After her diagnosis, Hatfield encouraged her friends and family to participate in the annual Relay For Life event. Sadly, Hatfield passed away in June of last year.

Her family and friends returned to the event this year to honor her memory.

“We’re going to try to make this a yearly thing now,” J.R. Hatfield, Onie’s husband, said.

Hatfield hopes to achieve for others what couldn’t be achieved for his wife.

“I hope they find a cure for this and save people’s lives,” Hatfield said.

In addition to the relay, the event included live music, games and a silent auction. The evening’s schedule also included a luminary

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within your home,” Probst said.

“With all of those initiatives together, we have been able to shift that from 55 percent ROSC (return of spontaneous circulation) meaning that when you left our care you did have a heartbeat back. So, we were able to shift that from 55 percent to 67 percent.”

ACAD also recently made several capital improvements over the last year.

Last year, the district re-

A look down at the Adair County Relay For Life. NEMO PHOTOGRAPHY

service, which for many in attendance had particular significance.

“We turn all the lights down, every single ounce of motion stops, and we read all the names off of people who have had cancer, who have survived it, who are still fighting their fight, and who have lost their battle, and it is very touching. You know, you don’t realize how many people have been diagnosed. You don’t realize how many people have won the battle.

You don’t really realize how many

ceived about $3.3 million in net revenues, while it spent about $3.4 million, which is about a $107,000 deficit.

Probst attributed the deficit to several capital improvement projects.

“This was somewhat of a known deficit. We did several capital improvements over the last year and chose that these capital improvements were more important or necessary than it was to stay out of a deficit,” Probst said.

The capital improvements included the purchase of two new ambulances and a replacing the roof for its operational building.

people have lost the battle. It just really gets you,” Scheurer said.

During the luminary service, the room is lit by luminaria bags and glow sticks, each light honoring someone whose life was altered by cancer.

“It’s really neat and it’s really touching,” Scheurer said.

Phyllis Hamilton, who participated with a large group from Hollister Inc., believes the luminaria service, and the gathering as a whole, is of utmost importance.

Adair County Nursing Home District The Adair County Nursing Home District is currently in the process of constructing a new facility, which will be located near the Adair County YMCA. The new building will be 45,000 square feet and will feature four different neighborhoods. Two of the neighborhoods will focus on residents needing long-term care, one will focus on residents dealing with dementia, while the other will be a post-acute rehab center.

The facility will also be renamed to The Pines.

“This is a $12 million

“(It is important) for the community to come together and to realize that no matter what walk of life you come from you are impacted in some way,” Hamilton said.

“No family should have to go through watching their loved ones suffer from cancer,” said Candace Harrington, Hamilton’s teammate.

The Hollister Inc. team chose a Disney/Pixar movie “Up” theme for their booth. Team members

project, like I said, we’ve been working on it for two and a half years and (the) Adair County (Nursing Home) District did not do this alone,” Administrator Jim Richardson said. “We have had exceptional partners. It is a very complex project and we couldn’t have asked for better.”

Adair County SB40 Director Nancy Pennington said the agency’s mission is to “assist and provide essential resources to individuals with developmental disabilities.”

“Our big push right now is to educate and engage the community, because we want people to be a part of their community and not just in their community,” Pennington said.

SB40 provides targeted case management to about 400 individuals in Adair, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland and Sullivan counties.

The targeted case management, which bills Medicaid for its services, brought in about $1.1 million in revenue last year for SB40, while property taxes brought in about $420,000 in revenue, according to Pennington.

She said one challenge the agency is facing is the state’s push to no longer provide case management to people without Medicaid. Pennington said if that happens it would affect about 40 individuals it currently serves.

“Our board has decided that that is important. Disability knows no income level,” Pennington said.

“There are people that need support no matter what their income level is, so the board has made a commitment to provide that as long as there is funding

wore t-shirts reading “Never Give Up,” an apt message for the hundreds gathered to fight cancer and to keep hope for a cure alive.

“I want to do anything I can personally do to help try to find a cure. When I started working at Hollister a little over two years ago we got the company involved.

The company is very involved in the community, so this was an awesome way to get out there and help the community and help raise awareness,” Harrington said.

available to do that.”

that we can,” Livingston said. “The board and I are talking about future plans Adair County to maybe use that space Commission Second District Com- better or get some more missioner Mark Thompson space.” said several concerns for the county include potholes, Adair County maintaining local control Health Department For 2017, the department and several lawsuits, which he said have “cost Adair provided more than 8,000 County an awful lot of mon- clinical services, which included about giving about ey recently.”

However, he also said the 2,200 flu shots and about county has seen an increase 2,000 immunizations.

Administrator Jim in revenue over the last LeBaron said the departyear.

Between 2016 and 2017, ment will also be forming Thompson also said the the Adair County Opioid county saw a 6 percent in- Coalition in response to crease in revenue; 19.5 per- the nationwide opioid epicent increase in its use tax demic. He said the coalirevenue for road and bridge tion is still in its infancy repairs; and a 7 percent in- stage and more informacrease in property tax rev- tion will be available in the coming weeks. enue.

“We know that in 2016 “New businesses I think love Adair County and that Missouri had over 900 translates into a sales tax deaths associated with opirevenue increase,” Thomp- oids. We know that heroin son said. “We anticipate is a huge problem right continued growth in 2018.” now,” LeBaron said. “It’s cheap, people are mixing it with fentanyl…really a Adair County lethal combination. So, Public Library For 2017, more than we’ve got a real problem 200,000 items were here.” checked out from the library; it received about Adair County 47,000 website visits; Public Water about 6,500 new items Supply District No. 1 were added to the library’s In 2017, the water supply collection; and about 13 district purchased families completed the li- 227,324,017 gallons of wabrary’s “1,000 Books Be- ter from the City of fore Kindergarten” pro- Kirksville and 804,600 galgram. lons from the ConsolidatDirector Jami Livingston ed Public Water Supply also said the library re- District No. 1 in Schuyler cently purchased a 3D County. printer and is working to It sold 208,822,745 galoffer telescopes for people lons of water in 2017 and to check out. She said chal- had a total water loss of 8 lenges for the library in- percent. clude potential budget cuts Board vice president and lack of space.

Dwight Hart said the dis“We’re kind of wedged trict is now using a drone, right in there and we’ve which helps examine storused every inch of space age tanks.

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