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Budget, Royals top ’15 stories TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A budget shortfall that forced lawmakers to increase sales and cigarette taxes and a long-awaited World Series title were among the top stories in Kansas in 2015.

Here’s a look at those and the rest of the year’s Top 10 stories:

BUDGET SHORTFALL: Lawmakers hiked

Iola city employee Michael Boeken slices away at a broken tree limb Monday in the 1100 block of North Jefferson Avenue. Windy and wintry weather created headaches for municipal crews in the area with the first winter blast of the season. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Region misses worst of wintry blast

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Icy weather, coupled with the calendar, kept Iola city crews particularly busy Monday.

As the first working day after Christmas, the city sent extra street and alley crews out with trash crews to help pick up extra refuse from the holidays, a routine manner done every year.

However, the wintry weather over the weekend also kept city crews busy, by replacing street signs toppled over by gusty winds, treating roads made slick by ice and snow,

and finally helping remove pesky limbs that had fallen onto city streets.

The most cumbersome clean-up project took place in the 1100 block of North Jefferson Avenue, where a pair of limbs broke off the same tree. One of the limbs fell into Jefferson’s northbound lane, while the other was wedged against it while dangling in the opposite direction.

City crews Michael Boeken, Chad Beasley and Bud Jones had to meticulously trim off parts of each limb, to ensure neither fell and struck a nearSee WINTER | Page A3

‘Affluenza’ fugitive nabbed DALLAS (AP) — Authorities said a Texas teenager serving probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck after invoking an “affluenza” defense was in custody in Mexico, weeks after he and his mother disappeared.

Mexico’s Jalisco state prosecutors’ office said in a statement that its agents had been working with American authorities via the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara since Dec. 26 to track down and capture 18-year old Ethan Couch and his mother, Tonya Couch. The office said the two were located and detained Monday evening in a beachside neighborhood of the Pacific Coast resort city of Puerto Vallarta.

After their detention, they were handed over to Mexican immigration authorities for deportation, the statement said.

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sales and cigarette taxes after state revenues fell short of expectations for much of the year, but the state still faces a projected $160 million budget deficit for the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2016. And the state’s budget problems could get worse because of a lawsuit filed by four school districts challenging the state’s funding for K-12 schools. The Kansas Supreme Court is considering a lowercourt ruling that ordered the state to boost funding by at least $548 million a year to meet its constitutional obligation to provide a suitable education to every child.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS-WORLD SERIES:

The Kansas City Royals bested the New York Mets in Game 5 for their first World Series championship title since 1985.

Royals Manager Ned Yost gushed after the

Savannah Flory scrapes away ice and snow from the sidewalk in front of Emprise Bank Monday in downtown Iola.

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Predictability flies out the window

By NANCY BENAC The Associated Press

Ethan Couch trict Attorney’s office also told local media outlets that the two had been taken into custody. A spokeswoman for the office could not immediately be reached by The Associated Press for further comment.

Authorities began searching for the pair after Ethan Couch failed to keep a mandatory appointment See TEEN | Page A2

Quote of the day Vol. 118, No. 43

WASHINGTON (AP) — ’Tis the season — no, not THAT season.

It’s that point in the presidential election cycle when speculation starts swirling that the primaries won’t produce a clear winner and one of the parties’ big nominating conventions will dissolve in chaos.

This time, it’s the Republican side of the race that’s looking particularly unsettled.

After a crazy year in which Donald Trump’s ability to stay on top in a supersized pack has repeatedly confounded the conventional wisdom, the what-if chatter is wilder and louder than usual.

What if no one gets a majority of delegates in the primaries and caucuses? What if Trump leads the delegate count but party elites want to derail his route to the nomi-

Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush arrives at Chico’s Cuban Restaurant for a campaign stop Monday in Hialeah, Fla. MIAMI HERALD/C.M. GUERRERO/TNS

nation? What if delegates to the Cleveland convention deadlock on multiple votes and then try to turn to someone completely new, perhaps House Speaker Paul Ryan?!?

Ridiculous, says Ryan.

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Silly, says Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus.

“I don’t think that’s going to happen,” says Trump.

Veteran politicos agree See GOP | Page A3

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with his probation officer on Dec. 10, leading authorities to issue the juvenile equivalent of an arrest warrant for him.

Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson has said he believes the two fled in late November

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after a video surfaced that appears to show Couch at a party where people were drinking.

If found to be drinking, Couch’s probation could be revoked and he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.

A spokesman for the Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Department has declined to say whether Tonya Couch is facing any charges.

There was no immediate comment Monday night from the U.S. Marshals Service, which had issued a wanted poster promising a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to Couch’s whereabouts and capture.

In June 2013 at age 16, Ethan Couch was driving drunk and speeding

on a dark two-lane road south of Fort Worth when he crashed into a disabled SUV off to the side, killing four people and injuring several others, including passengers in Couch’s pickup truck.

Couch pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury. Because of his age, he wasn’t certified as an adult for trial and a judge sentenced him in juvenile court to 10 years’ probation and a stint in a rehabilitation center.

During the sentencing phase of his trial, Couch’s attorneys relied on a defense ex-

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pert who argued that Couch’s wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility — a condition the expert termed “affluenza.” The condition is not recognized as a medical diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association, and its invocation drew widespread ridicule.

Anderson, the sheriff, was among those critical of the judge’s decision not to incarcerate Couch. The sheriff said that the teen has never expressed remorse for his actions and that his case sparked more outrage than any other Anderson has encountered in his law enforcement career.

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The Kansas Supreme Court in December unanimously struck down a law meant to reduce its administrative influence over lower courts, setting up a showdown with lawmakers who threatened to defund the state’s entire judiciary system if the law was overturned. The justices wrote that the potential loss of funding did not factor into their ruling.

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T E R RO R I S M : Threats of violence roiled the state, with a Topeka man charged with a Fort Riley bomb plot, and a Wichita man sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a suicide bomb attack at a Wichita airport. A deadly attack in Paris prompted Gov. Sam Brownback to issue an executive order attempting to halt the relocation of Syrian refugees to Kansas.

Meanwhile, Kansas elected leaders sought to prevent the state from becoming the next home to detainees currently housed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

ABORTION: Kansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on a common secondtrimester method for terminating pregnancies was set to take effect in July. But a judge blocked the law while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds.

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such scenarios are unlikely.

The outlook will clarify once people start voting in February, they insist.

But they also acknowledge that the chances of an unsettled outcome are higher than usual in the current unconventional political environment.

Ben Ginsberg, the lawyer who served as counsel to the Mitt Romney and George W. Bush presidential campaigns, says that because this GOP election cycle offers three lanes of candidates instead of two — a “Trump” lane in addition to the traditional “establishment” and “conservative” lanes — “it becomes more likely that no one will have a majority of delegates.”

“The odds are still really small,” Ginsberg continues, then offers this caveat: “I did say on the day before the 2000 election that there would never be another presidential recount.”

This from the man who went on to play a

central role in the Florida recount at the heart of the Bush v. Gore battle for the presidency.

The large field of GOP candidates and Trump’s

wildcard candidacy aren’t the only factors at play in speculation that the 2016 primaries could end in uncertainty.

The GOP in recent years has been shifting to a more proportional way of allocating delegates from each state than the old winnertake-all approach.

And that means the momentum Romney achieved after winning a couple of big states in 2012 “is just not going to be as likely” this time, says Mark Stephenson, a Republican consultant who handled delegate strategy for Scott Walker’s short-lived presidential campaign and worked on the Romney campaign in 2008.

Even if the field of candidates has been winnowed to three or four after the first four states award 130 delegates in February, the winner in the big Super Tuesday round of voting on March 1 still might come up with just 300400 delegates of the 600plus to be awarded that day, says Stephenson.

That’s a far cry from the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.

Stephenson agrees that a contested convention is unlikely, but says that between the unusual campaign dynamics at play this year and the proportional delegate allocation rules, “as people start playing with the math, it’s certainly an interesting exercise to come up with scenarios” under which nobody gets to a majority before the convention.

This, then, is the time of joy for delegate geeks who love to nerd out on the fine print of presidential politics and speculate on the what-ifs of a divided convention.

“We do this every four years,” says Joshua Putnam, a political science lecturer at the University of Georgia whose frontloading.blogspot. com wallows in the intricacies of the primaries.

“We want it to happen just for the sheer excitement of it all,” Putnam says of a contested convention. “But the chances of it happening are pretty slim.”

The idea of a brokered convention harks way back to when power brokers in smoke-filled rooms could twist arms and party bosses could steer their preferred candidate toward the nomination. More likely these days, if still a longshot, is a contested or deadlocked convention that opens without a presumptive nominee.

The last time a Republican convention opened without a clear nominee was 1976, when Gerald Ford led in delegates but lacked a majority coming into the convention.

There was plenty of drama as Ford beat back a challenge from Ronald Reagan and eked out the nomination on the first vote.

You have to go all the way back to 1952 for a true brokered convention at which delegates turned to someone new. Demo-

crats drafted Adlai Stevenson, who won on the third ballot.

Putnam says a rule approved at the GOP convention in Tampa in 2012 could add intrigue in 2016. It requires a candidate to have a majority of delegates in eight states to win the nomination, up from the previous requirement of a plurality of delegates in five states.

In a large field, this higher hurdle to the nomination could be daunting. But it’s also a temporary rule that the party can change if the outlook is muddled coming out of the last round of primaries in June.

Talk that party elites might try to derail a Trump presidency at the convention runs into all sorts of pushback against the idea of disregarding the will of GOP voters.

“I’m an ANTI-Trump guy, but if the GOP elites (of whom I might be one) attempt to smother the will of Republican primary voters, I will spring to Trump’s defense,” GOP consultant Rich Galen said in an email.

As for the Paul Ryan scenario, the House speaker declares it “dumb speculation” that should stop. Of course, it was just two months ago that Ryan was poohpoohing pleas that he become speaker of the House after Rep. John Boehner resigned.

Associated Press writer Stephen Ohlemacher contributed to this report.

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No charges in teen’s shooting CLEVELAND (AP) — Officials are urging calm as they brace for expected protests after a grand jury voted not to indict a white Cleveland police officer for fatally shooting a 12-year-old black boy who was carrying what turned out to be a pellet gun.

Small groups of protesters gathered Monday outside the Cuyahoga County Justice Center and at the recreation center where Tamir Rice was shot by then-rookie patrolman Timothy Loehmann in November 2014.

The size of those protests likely was reduced by a cold and steady rain that fell throughout the day.

County Prosecutor Tim McGinty announced that Loehmann and his field training officer wouldn’t be indicted because of “indisputable” evidence that Tamir was reaching for what officers thought was a real gun tucked in his waistband, and urged those who disagreed with the grand jury to protest peacefully.

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a nearby gas meter.

Eventually, the broken limbs were disassembled into pieces, and pulled from their lofty wedges.

Icy streets delayed the start of the project, as a bucket truck lost traction along curbside while being backed into position.

A loader was retrieved to pull the bucket truck forward enough for the driver to once again gain traction.

Road crews through-

out Allen County were kept busy throughout the day as motorists struggled to maintain traction on icy roads, with several vehicles sliding into ditches.

Ambulance crews were dispatched to one accident at the intersection of Patterson Street and Marshmallow Lane at about 10 p.m. Monday, but the driver refused treatment.

Forecasts call for partly cloudy weather through Friday, with highs in the lower 30s.

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Measures now can curb fly population in spring What you can’t see won’t hurt you, right?

False, especially when it comes to spring fly control.

The stable fly is the most concerning pest for producers of both pasture and feedlot cattle, according to Ludek Zurek, Kansas State University professor of entomology.

Because stable flies are difficult to control, especially around pastured cattle, he encourages producers to be proactive and begin controlling stable fly populations even when they cannot be seen.

“Stable flies to some degree can actually survive winter here in large piles of manure and spoiled feed around

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feedlots,” Zurek said.

“The maggots dig deeper and deeper into the area that doesn’t freeze. Most of them still die, but we have evidence that some of them make it through the winter and emerge as adults in the spring.”

Ranchers may not be thinking about fly control when temperatures drop, because they can’t see the flies. But, Zurek’s research shows the time to be aware is when ranchers start feeding

hay in the winter, especially large round bales.

On pastures, cattle waste some hay when they feed, because it drops from their mouth and then mixes with the manure. When this mixture starts to accumulate in one area, Zurek said, it becomes a perfect ground for stable flies in the spring.

“When feeding these large hay bales, what needs to be done is move the feeders to a new feeding site at least several feet every time, so that the manure and hay do not accumulate in the same place,” Zurek said. “If it accumulates, it retains moisture, and in the spring, stable flies start developing.

Then that one site can

produce thousands of stable flies.”

In southern parts of the United States, the climate allows for stable flies to live year-round.

Many migrate north to Kansas in the early spring, where they find areas with accumulated hay waste and manure from winter feeding.

Zurek said Kansas typically experiences two peaks for stable fly populations throughout the year. The first and largest peak starts around the end of April and usually lasts until the early weeks of June. Due to the summer heat quickly drying the manure where maggots live, the population will decline during the summer and rebound

Amazon sets holiday shipping record

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pany’s Prime Now service, which now offers free two-hour delivery to more than 20 metropolitan areas. When Prime Now launched last year, it only delivered within Manhattan.

Seattle-based Amazon also said it shipped a record number of items worldwide for the holidays, with items going to 185 countries.

The 20-year-old company is profiting from major trends reshaping holiday shopping in the U.S. More and more people do part or even all of their shopping online, increasingly using mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones to “window shop” and then buy items from their couch or their

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Online retailer Amazon has been a prime beneficiary of more consumers doing their holiday shopping online and procrastinating.

Amazon Prime, the company’s $99-a-year loyalty program that includes unlimited free two-day shipping, gained 3 million new members in the third week of December alone. Meanwhile, the number of Prime members shopping via mobile more than doubled this holiday season, Amazon said Monday.

Christmas Eve was the biggest day yet for deliveries by the com-

desk at work. Retailers are deluging consumers with e-mail offers for online-only deals.

And procrastinators, once stuck dealing with huge crowds at shopping malls and big-box stores right before Christmas, now can do last-minute shopping online. Amazon and some other retailers promised that items ordered as late as the morning of Christmas Eve would arrive by midnight.

Amazon said nearly 70 percent of its customers this holiday used a mobile device to shop. Worldwide, on Cyber Monday alone, those customers ordered more than 35 electronic items per second and Adele’s new CD,

“25,” every 3 seconds.

Cyber Monday, the Monday following Thanksgiving, has seen online purchases jump since its founding a decade ago.

Meanwhile, the number of shoppers going to stores on Black Friday has decreased as major retailers open on Thanksgiving evening and many retailers offer deals before then.

Amazon’s report issued on Monday covers trends and percentage changes in its shipments, but doesn’t give sales figures or the number of items it shipped. In response to an Associated Press request for details, Amazon.com Inc. said that it isn’t sharing additional information.

Prisoner released early charged in fatal wreck OLYMPIA, Wash.

(AP) — A Washington state prisoner mistakenly released early because of a computer error has been charged with killing his girlfriend in a car crash when he should have been behind bars, officials said Monday.

The revelation comes a week after Gov. Jay Inslee announced that a software coding error led as many as 3,200 offenders to be wrongly released early since 2002. He has ordered a review of prisoner releases ahead of a broad fix to the software problem, which is expected early next month.

One of those freed was Robert Jackson, 38, who walked out of prison four months too soon, on Aug. 10. He

had been convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon and should have been released Dec. 6.

During that time, he fled from a Nov. 11 wreck in Bellevue that killed girlfriend Lindsay Hill, 35, who was riding in the car he was driving, according to prosecutors and Department of Corrections officials.

Jackson has been charged with vehicular homicide and felony hit-and-run and is being held in jail on $2 million bail, prosecutors said.

Department Secretary Dan Pacholke said he apologized to Hill’s family on Sunday.

“Nothing I can say will bring back Ms. Hill.

I deeply regret that this happened,” Pacholke said in a written statement.

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Inslee called the news “absolutely gutwrenching and heartbreaking.”

“There is nothing that can right this horrible wrong,” Inslee said in a written statement. “We must make sure nothing like this happens again.”

More than two dozen offenders erroneously released since June potentially need to be arrested and returned to prison because of an error the agency made on calculating sentences, officials said last week.

They had said three of those prisoners had committed new crimes,

but they downgraded that number to two on Monday, which includes Jackson. They are searching for another offender who committed crimes during the period he should have been incarcerated, but they did not release his name.

Officials also are reviewing records to find any additional offenders who may have committed new crimes.

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around the end of August for a second shorter and smaller peak.

The economic effects of stable flies are indirect; while these bloodsucking insects do not transfer any pathogens or parasites to the cattle, the bites are painful.

When the pests bite the legs of the cattle, it can be distracting and may cause the herd to bunch for protection. The cattle will even stand in water to escape the annoyance if water is available.

All of these reactions lead to a decreased time grazing or eating, which in turn reduces weight gains.

“Unfortunately, in pastures there is nothing that can be done for stable fly control,

except controlling the sites where they develop as maggots,” Zurek said. “The ear tags don’t work for stable flies, and insecticides sprayed on the cattle are often brushed off too quickly by the grass.”

Control is easier for feedlots, he said, because they have structures such as buildings, feed bunks and fences that can be sprayed with residual insecticides and will kill the flies when they come in contact with the surface.

Because pastures do not have such structures, Zurek encourages producers to be proactive by taking away the moist manure and hay mixture that creates the flies’ habitat.

Travel smart, and download winter safety survival app Whether commuting to work or traveling across three states to visit relatives for the holidays, winter travel can be hazardous. Now is the time to download the Winter Survival Kit smart phone app in addition to gathering a winter survival kit for your vehicles.

The app is for people traveling in areas where roads can be icy or who run the risk of getting stuck in the snow. The free app is available for iPhones and Android smart phones. It’s provided by the North Dakota State University Extension Service, a member of the national Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN).

The Winter Survival Kit app can be as critical as a physical winter survival kit if you find yourself stuck or stranded in severe winter weather conditions.

The app will help users find their current location, call 911, notify friends and family, and estimate how long they can run a vehicle’s engine to keep warm before running out of fuel.

It can also store important phone and policy numbers for insurance or roadside assistance and you can designate emergency contacts you

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want to alert if you become stranded.

The app alerts the user every 30 minutes as a reminder to turn off the vehicle’s engine and check the exhaust pipe for snow buildup, which is critical to avoiding potentially deadly carbon monoxide poisoning.

Additionally, it provides information on putting together a physical winter survival kit, preparing a vehicle for winter driving and staying safe when stranded in an ice storm or stuck in snow.

Even though your phone can find your location, call 911 and store contacts, the Winter Survival Kit app can help you stay calm when you may be in a dangerous situation. Parents can have their less-experienced drivers download the app for peace of mind.

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Topeka clinic draws last breath The scheduled closure Thursday of the medical clinic — not the dental office — at Marian Clinic in Topeka is cause for concern about the future welfare of low-income, uninsured Shawnee County residents.

The clinic’s 400 medical patients will have to look elsewhere for general medical care, mental health counseling, medications, health education and referrals.

Marian Clinic’s logic is that access in this region to dental services is more difficult to obtain than medical care.

The facility, founded by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth in 1988, has provided healing and hope, as well as health care, for people of all faiths on a sliding scale.

In a state where access to affordable, quality care has too often been a lifeand-death struggle, Marian Clinic delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars in services in absence of sufficient alternatives. Two local hospitals collaborated with the clinic. For decades, community members generously donated money.

More than 200 health professionals volunteered time and skills to treat patients.

One example sticks out.

In 2009, Washburn University student Sara Engelhardt was 23, without health insurance and un-

able to afford medical care.

She sought help at Marian Clinic after noticing a lump on her neck. A clinic physician referred her to one of the clinic’s volunteer

Internal Revenue Service documents indicate revenue to the clinic fell short of expenditures in three of the four years from 2010 to 2013. The four-year deficit

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In a state where access to affordable, quality care has too often been a life-and-death struggle, Marian Clinic delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars in services in absence of sufficient alternatives.

surgeons, who confirmed Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She was passed to a volunteer oncologist affiliated with the clinic for chemotherapy treatment.

Engelhardt’s grandparents shared the story with president of the Emma Balsiger Foundation in Abilene. In response, the foundation decided to donate $50,000 to Marian Clinic to support the facility’s noble purpose. The abrupt transition in emphasis to dental care by SCL Health, the nonprofit which sponsors Marian Clinic, didn’t come as a total surprise.

SCL Health executives declined following announcement of the pending medical clinic closure to delve into the operation’s financial status during 2014 and 2015. Publicly available

was about $700,000.

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about the void in medical access created by Marian Clinic’s reorganization.

The hope is local physicians and hospitals, as well as providers at Shawnee County Health Agency, can meet the need. Eventually, perhaps in July, SCHA patients will fall under the umbrella of GraceMed Health Clinic. That’s when the Wichita-based entity expects to assume management of Shawnee County’s safety net clinics.

Of this we are certain: our community is indebted to Marian Clinic for improving the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of so many.

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(TNS) The vast majority of Americans who expect to retire in the next decade can count on little income other than their Social Security. This is true not only for low-income workers, who have struggled most of their lives, but also for millions of middle-income workers. Although Social Security is a tremendously important program, and provides a solid base that retirees can depend upon, its $16,000 average annual benefit doesn’t go very far.

Many if not most can expect to see sharp reductions in living standards.

The reason for such bleak retirement prospects is the disappearance of traditional defined benefit pensions and the failure of 401(k)type plans to fill the gap. A recent analysis by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that, in 2011, only 14 percent of privatesector employees participated in a defined benefit pension plan. The participation rate has been falling quite rapidly, so it was almost certainly lower in 2015.

Although many people were hopeful that 401(k)s would be sufficient to support a comfortable day-today retirement, this has proved not to be the case.

In 2013, the middle fifth of households of people ages 45 to 54 had less than $60,000 in total financial assets.

And most homeowners in this age group still had less than 40 percent equity in their homes, meaning they could look forward to paying off a mortgage well into their retirement.

In response to this situation, Illinois is developing a state-run retirement program that will make it easier and cheaper for workers to save. Many other states, including California, are studying this option.

Although there are differences in proposals, the common goal is to create a publicly managed system that will automatically include workers whose employers do not enroll them in a plan.

Workers would have a modest amount (around 2 percent to 3 percent) deducted from each paycheck, although they could opt out if they chose. The money would then accumulate like a 401(k) during a person’s working years, with the option to receive a lump sum or draw a monthly payment at retirement.

There are four main advantages to this idea.

Almost half the workforce does not have the option to enroll in a 401(k)-type plan at their workplace. By creating a state-run system, many would have access to such an account for the first time.

One problem with employer-managed retirement accounts is that when people change jobs, they often cash out their holdings, paying penalties and losing their savings. But a publicly run system would be portable, so that people could keep contributing to the same system from one job to the next.

Another benefit to the state system is that participation would be the default option. There is now a considerable body of research showing that workers will contribute to their retirement if they’re automatically enrolled, but won’t contribute otherwise. (The basic story is that inertia is powerful. Many people may want to take part in a retirement plan, but they have busy lives and never get around to doing the paperwork if it requires action.)

The last advantage is that a publicly run plan would have far lower costs than many privately run alternatives. The administrative fees for a plan in a large state such as California would almost certainly be under 0.5 percent of the annual holdings. By contrast, private plans can easily charge 1.5 percent or more.

The difference for someone putting $2,000 a year into an account for 30 years would be more than $25,000.

It’s increasingly obvious that there’s a major hole in the retirement system, and that the government can help fill it. That’s why President Obama asked the Treasury Department to set up a new low-cost, low-maintenance savings plan for workers — called myRA for “my retirement account.”

But the myRA limits are low and participants can only invest in low-yielding government bonds. What Illinois and, perhaps soon, other states, propose to try is more ambitious, and may ultimately be more effective.

About the writer: Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economics and Policy Research. He is coauthor of “Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People.”

He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

How to contact your elected officials

President Barack Obama, (Democrat) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington D.C., 20500; phone (switchboard): (202) 456-1414; (comments): (202) 4561111

Gov. Sam Brownback, (Republican) Capital, 300 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 212S, Topeka, KS 66612-1590; phone: (785) 2963232; www.governor. ks.gov/comments/comment.htm

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, (Republican) 109 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-4774; Email: www.roberts. senate.gov/public/index. cfm?p=EmailPat

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, (Republican) Russell Senate Office Building, Room 354, Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-6521; Pittsburg: 306 N. Broadway, Suite 125, Pittsburg, KS, 66762; (620) 232-2286. Email: moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry

Rep. Lynn Jenkins, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; phone: (202) 225-6601; Pittsburg: 701 N. Broadway, Pittsburg, KS 66762; phone: (620) 231-5966. Email: lynnjenkins.house.gov/ contact-me/

Sen. Caryn Tyson, (Republican) State Capitol-236 E Topeka, KS 66612 phone: (785) 2966838; e-mail: caryn. tyson@senate.ks.gov or 19984 County Rd. 1077 Parker, KS 66072 phone: (913) 898-2366

Rep. Kent Thompson, (Republican) House District No. 9, phone: (620) 496-7200 State Capitol, Room 050-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, or phone: 620-496-2255 1816 2800 St., LaHarpe, KS 66751 email: kent@iolare. kscoxmail.com

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Topeka targets blighted centers TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An effort to improve large, blighted shopping centers in Topeka, Kansas, is getting a $500,000 boost.

The Topeka CapitalJournal reports the Joint Economic Development Organization’s board has approved a 2016 budget for the use of revenue from a

countywide, half-cent sales tax. Revenue from the tax is used to finance infrastructure improvements and economic development.

That budget includes setting aside $500,000 to finance a new business initiative to enhance the attraction of blighted shopping centers.

Go Topeka is the eco-

nomic development arm of the Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce.

It administers the use of the tax’s economic development revenue.

Go Topeka’s plans call for the incentive program to provide a 25 percent match in funding for developers who invest in any of the locations.

Author tries never saying ‘no’ Mary Ellen MacKay uses a colored pencil during a “Color Me Calm” adult coloring event at the Minneola Schoolhouse Library in Minneola, Fla. STEPHEN DOWELL/ORLANDO SENTINEL/TNS

Adults find coloring calming (TNS) Jobs. Grades. Bills.

Parking lots swarming with frantic drivers.

The craziness of the holidays.

Stress can come in more hues than you’ll find in a box of crayons.

Adults in need of a break are finding peace inside the blank spaces of a coloring page.

Fans of the rainy-day activity that has taken off in popularity say it can induce a meditative state that helps people ease their anxieties and unwind.

“I always experience calmness when I color with my grandchildren,” Clermont, Fla., resident Mary Ellen MacKay said.

Lately, she and other grown-ups have been enjoying the calmness, minus the children.

Ten of the top 20 best-selling books on Amazon are adult coloring books — not to be confused with the simpler versions many might remember from childhood.

The books offer page after page of intricately drawn mandalas, animals, inspirational phrases or woodland scenery. Some are so large and detailed, they can take hours to fill in.

Two of the bestselling coloring books, “Secret Garden” and “Enchanted Forest,” have been printed 13.5 million times.

Book stores and libraries around the region are responding to the craze by organizing group events where people can pick up their colored pencils together.

The Minneola Schoolhouse Library in Lake County is hosting a series of four sessions called “Color Me Calm.” At one December morning gathering, blackberry and caramel-vanilla tea bags steeped on the tabletop, and a flute melody called “Morning Stillness” drifted out of the CD player.

MacKay, 71, said there’s something restful about engaging in a tactile activity that demands a degree of attention.

“You’re focusing so thoroughly on one thing rather than letting your mind go,” she said.

There is research to back up the idea that coloring can be relaxing, much like meditation.

By SARA BAUKNECHT Pittsburgh PostGazette com

Y — E — S. For TV producer powerhouse Shonda Rhimes, those three letters pack a lot of possibilities. In fact, they can even change lives.

Rhimes, the mastermind behind TV hits “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder” on ABC, details her ongoing journey with the word in her new book “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person.” It’s part memoir, part self-help prose, even part coming-of-age tale at times.

Whatever you want to call it, though, it makes for a raw, honest and enjoyable read that can be devoured in just a couple of sittings.

We get to know a lot about Rhimes in the book’s 300-plus pages.

She tells us about her modest Midwest upbringing, her siblings

Derby school officers to get body cameras DERBY, Kan. (AP) — The police chief in the Wichita suburb of Derby says his department will outfit its four school resource officers with body cameras as part of a pilot project.

Derby Police Chief Robert Lee said the department will spend about $7,400 on the cameras, and he anticipates the school resource officers will be equipped by March. The pilot project is expected to last a year, The Wichita Eagle reported.

Lee said the Police Department is considering equipping all 47 of its officers with body cameras. The pilot program with the school resource

officers, who work regular patrol beats in the summer, will help determine whether the department wants to invest further in cameras, Lee said.

“Cameras are a good thing for law enforcement,” Lee said. “I have no issues with cops having cameras — none at all. It’s a matter of affording them; it’s a matter of how to store them.”

According to estimates given to the department in 2014, Lee said it would cost around $170,000 to equip all officers with cameras and buy server space for the first several years of footage. That’s “a lot of money” for a smaller department, he

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In Wichita, the City Council in July approved spending $2.2 million to outfit each of the city’s police officers with body cameras. A goal called for equipping all officers by the end of the year, but the Police Department said that would continue into 2016 because federal funding hadn’t come in yet.

If police and the City Council in Derby decide

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“Accountability and transparency are huge issues right now, and quite honestly the public has every right to have very high expectations of their police,” Lee said.

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who never appear to age, her parents and their enviable marriage (even after 50 years), how she can’t live without Jenny McCarthy (her kids’ nanny, not the actress), and her vivid imagination that’s had her concocting characters and plots before she even knew how to write. She also lets us in on something her sister Delores muttered to her while chopping onions for Thanksgiving dinner a couple of years ago: “You never say ‘yes’ to anything.”

Those six words become the catalyst for Rhimes’ “year of yes” quest. How it works sounds pretty simple: Rather than crouching in the shadow of challenges or dismissing opportunities without even giving them a second thought, Rhimes tasks herself with embracing whatever life decides to hurl at her with an open-minded “Yes!” But it’s not that simple.

She has to trump quite a few insecurities and an introvert mentality to do that.

What follows are several stories of how she

did it, strung together with humor and vulnerability. One is about getting up the guts to deliver a commencement speech at her alma mater, Dartmouth. Another is about mustering the moxie to do an interview with Jimmy Kimmel.

But she doesn’t stop there. Rhimes goes on to delve into more universal situations. Saying “yes” to playtime with kids, even when work calls. Saying “yes” to a healthier lifestyle, even when cake calls. Saying “yes” to the kind of life you envision for yourself, even if it’s not what society calls “normal.”

Learning when and how to say “yes” to saying “no” is powerful stuff, too.

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Denver comeback Intrigue the rule as playoffs near Barry leads to OT victory Wilner DENVER (AP) — DeMarcus Ware put the clamps on the loose football and punched Denver’s ticket to the playoffs.

“The ball was on the ground and I was feeling like, ‘There’s no way somebody’s going to take this ball from me,’” Ware said after his fumble recovery in overtime sealed Denver’s 20-17 victory over Cincinnati on Monday night.

Russell Bodine’s catchable shotgun snap eluded AJ McCarron, who was making his second start in place of Andy Dalton. He raced to recover it, but Ware swept past right tackle Andrew Smith and secured Denver’s fifth consecutive trip to the postseason.

“It was my fault. I told the team that,” McCarron said. “I looked up to see the coverage and the snap caught me by surprise.”

McCarron also hurt his

left wrist on the play and wrapped it afterward. He said he wasn’t sure how bad it’s hurt, but “I’ll get it checked out tomorrow and we’ll see.”

This was just the big play Ware’s been looking for ever since missing a month with a bad back.

“Felt great to finish the game that way,” Ware said.

“We thought we were going to finish it with the field goal but at the end of the game, it’s all about that win.”

Ware’s recovery followed a 37-yard field goal by Brandon McManus, whose shanked 45-yarder at the end of regulation made necessary the extra drama.

“I’m 24 years old and I don’t think I’ve ever kicked the ball like that in my life: grade school, elementary school, or See DENVER | Page B3

Weather hits WSU schedule WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State’s game against New Mexico State on Monday night was postponed after winter weather lashing the Midwest forced the cancellation of the Aggies’ flight to Kansas.

New Mexico State was unable to book a different flight in time for the game, which was scheduled to tip at 7 p.m. The Aggies hope the weather improves enough so that the matchup of NCAA Tournament

teams from last season can be played tonight.

Freezing rain fell across a wide stretch of Kansas on Sunday night, and it continued to make travel difficult Monday. Several inches of snow were also expected before the front moved away.

New Mexico State (7-6) is scheduled to face Arizona Christian on Wednesday. Wichita State (6-5) begins Missouri Valley play against Drake on Thursday.

Just when you thought it was safe to look toward the playoffs, Week 16 of the NFL schedule threw a bunch of stuff out of kilter.

Carolina’s unbeaten season ended. New England’s injuries and defensive holes made it look especially vulnerable.

Pittsburgh lost control of its postseason chances by falling to perhaps the league’s most banged-up team, the Ravens. That created an opening for the Jets, who grabbed it by beating an opponent with a winning record for the first time in 2015.

Seattle lost for a third time at home and could be looking at the NFC’s sixth seed.

Green Bay again looked discombobulated, like a team headed for a first-round exit.

Some clarity emerged, too: Washington eliminated the possibility of a losing team taking the NFC East, and Arizona again appeared to be the league’s most-balanced squad in its romp past the Packers.

But the number of questions raised by results in the penultimate week of the season certainly outnumbered any answers provided.

“There are no magic words that need to be said,” Cam Newton insisted after the Panthers fell to 14-1 — and saw any semblance of invincibility disappear. “We don’t wave a magic wand or anything like that. We got our (butt) kicked today and to a degree we deserved it.

Offensively, defensively, and special teams, I’m talking with a mirror in front of my face.

“There are some plays that

Associated Press pro football writer we left out there. We knew it. Yet we know what we are capable of. We are 14-1 right now. We put ourselves in the situation where we can use this as fuel.”

Count on plenty of other NFC teams using what they saw from the Panthers at Atlanta as fuel, too. The problem is, with all six of the conference’s playoff qualifiers determined, only the Cardinals seem particularly formidable right now.

And the AFC might be even more jumbled.

Questions, questions, questions: —Were the Panthers playing above their heads for most of the season and now have been exposed somewhat? They are a good team with a dynamic quarterback performing at his best, and several other standouts such as linebackers Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis, cornerback Josh Norman, and tight end Greg Olsen. But are they championship quality?

—Can the Patriots find enough healthy bodies to make a run at defending their title? They look especially beatable in the secondary, and the offensive line is struggling to keep Tom Brady upright — a key to success for New England. Brady might be the best quarterback the NFL has seen in turning so-so players into formidable performers, but

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can he really do that with, as he said after Sunday’s loss, “guys coming in off the street to play.”

—Pittsburgh looked like a potential wild-card team no one would want to face, with an unstoppable offense, enough defense, and terrific coaching. Then came Sunday’s flop at Baltimore. Explaining it away as a rivalry game doesn’t work in this case because these Ravens are so undermanned. Did the Steelers throw away their opportunity to do damage in January?

—Like Pittsburgh, Seattle was peaking as the postseason approached, something the Seahawks mastered the past two years. Only Arizona appeared to have more uniformity on offense, defense and special teams.

But the Seahawks’ dud against underwhelming St. See NFL | Page B4

All eyes on Kansas as Big 12 conference play looms

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Every year, Kansas coach Bill Self insists the league is the toughest it has ever been, that there is better balance top to bottom and anybody can beat anybody on any given day.

They’re all clichés. Maybe they’re all true, too.

But here is something that is also true: The Jayhawks always end up on top in the end.

Self ’s bunch begins pursuit of its 12th straight regularseason championship when the league gets rolling with a full slate of games Saturday.

That would break a tie for second-most in college hoops with Gonzaga, and trail only the UCLA teams from 1967-79 for most titles in a row.

“It should be a fun time,” Self said. “It will be an unbelievable league again, just like it has been, maybe as good this year as it ever has been. So whoever is fortunate enough to be the last one standings will have to be very consistent and play very well for a long time.”

That’s because the Big 12 puts its teams through a double-round robin schedule, with everybody playing everybody else at home and away.

So while teams may get away with playing a heavyweight just once in some leagues, every team has to face mighty Kansas at home and inside Allen Fieldhouse.

They may stop the Jayhawks once. Very few have stopped them twice.

The result has been a nearly unparalleled stretch of success. The only time Self ’s teams have failed to win or tie for the league title was his

never really been in this position before. But they’ll handle it well. They understand how they have to work every day, focus every day. They know how tough this league is, they know what lies ahead.”

The opening three days of the conference schedule should offer a good early barometer.

The Jayhawks face Baylor and Oklahoma gets Iowa State on Saturday, then Kansas plays the Sooners two days later. West Virginia opens against Kansas State, TCU plays Oklahoma State and Texas faces Texas Tech.

As the Big 12 begins play, here are a few key storylines: SHAKA’S

SURPRISE:

Texas dropped early games to Washington, Texas A&M and Michigan while adapting to new coach Shaka Smart’s style. But the Longhorns have knocked off North Carolina and Stanford in recent weeks, and now set their sights on returning to conference prominence. “He’s really brought a positive attitude to this program,” Longhorns guard Isaiah Taylor said of the former VCU coach. “I think that’s something we really needed.”

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Kansas’ Perry Ellis (34) is expected to be a primary cog for the Jayhawks, who begin pursuit of their 12th consecutive Big 12 championship. KANSAS CITY STAR/RICH SUGG/TNS first season in 2003-04, when Oklahoma State finished alone in first and the Jayhawks tied for second. Otherwise, the Jayhawks have seven outright titles and tied for four others, the last of those

shared championships coming three years ago.

But the rest of the league is hardly rolling over.

Oklahoma is off to an 11-0 start with notable wins over Villanova and in the Diamond

Head Classic, while Iowa State and West Virginia are expected to contend for conference supremacy.

“Expectations are different this year,” Sooners coach Lon Kruger said. “These guys have

Steve Prohm inherited a Final Four-caliber team when Fred Hoiberg bolted for the NBA. But while Iowa State has been impressive at times, neardefeats against Colorado and Iowa and a loss to Northern Iowa have some wondering if Prohm has things clicking yet in Ames.

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(TNS) Three years ago, iconic products like Wonder Bread and Twinkies were dead, killed in a bankruptcy that shut down the once-thriving Hostess bakeries of a Kansas City-based company.

Today, at bakeries in Lenexa and Emporia and other spots around the country, the brands are reborn. Phalanxes of loaves, buns and snack cakes are baked, packaged and shipped, bound for consumers who never lost appetite for them.

At the newly reopened Flowers Baking Co. plant in Lenexa, 9,000 loaves an hour, two shifts a day, five days a week slide into an oven the size of a tennis court. The Wonder and Home Pride breads, along with bun production, line retail shelves the next day.

Ninety-eight miles southwest of the Lenexa bakery, staggering daily totals — 1.8 million mini-doughnuts, 1.4 million chocolate cupcakes, 1.5 million Twinkies

bakeries. To date, Flowers has returned three former Hostess sites to production — in Lenexa, Knoxville, Tenn., and Henderson, Nev. (Another former plant in the Missouri/Kansas region, in Boonville, Mo., was not re-opened and is for sale.)

Separately, a private investor partnership of Metropoulos and Co. and Apollo Global Management LLC paid about $410 million to buy five of the former Hostess snack cake bakeries. It re-opened four. But after amping up production in Emporia, it closed one, leaving bakeries in Columbus, Ga., and Indianapolis in operation.

Emporia’s site came back on line in mid-2013 after being dark for only half a year.

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Hostess Cupcakes are decorated with the famous squiggle. — shoot through production lines 24 hours a day, six days a week in the new Hostess Brands LLC snack cake plant in Emporia. Within minutes, they’re out of the oven and snuggling into plastic sleeves, bags and boxes.

The paths to resurrection of the old Hostess Brands Inc. brands may be as convoluted as the conveyors winding through the big bakeries. But the results are not hard to follow. Some of America’s most recognizable brands are back in business after labor turmoil, debt burdens and a second failed attempt at bankruptcy restructuring led to shuttering 36 bakeries and firing 18,500 workers in November 2012.

The renaissance was gradual and partial. It first required asset sales of Hostess Brands Inc., a successor to Kansas City-based Interstate Bakeries Corp.

Interstate had slid downhill from a mid1990s peak when it was the largest wholesale baker of bread and snack cakes in the United States. In fact, national brand recognition prompted the company to rename itself in 2009 as Hostess Brands Inc. But by 2012, the company had failed, union contracts were severed, and its brands disappeared.

Fast forward to 2013.

Flowers Foods, a publicly owned baking company based in Georgia, paid $355 million in court-ordered proceedings to acquire 20 closed Hostess bread and bun

proceeding through the baking, cooling, slicing and packaging chain. “I grew up on a chicken farm. This smells much better,� beamed the 30-year veteran in the Flowers company, who came from Georgia to reopen the plant.

Pulling a just-sliced loaf off the line to offer a taste, he touts the former Hostess brands as well as Flowers products. A “fantastic reintroduction of Wonder Bread,� he said, has vaulted it to a best-seller status among the Nature’s Own, Home Pride and Sunbeam breads and buns made at the plant.

After $10 million in updating, the bakery’s two production lines — one for bread, one for buns — cycle through 525,000 pounds of flour a week, 58,000 pounds of yeast, 65,000 pounds of sugar. Nearly a million pounds of finished product are trucked weekly from the plant.

Frankum credits Amber Mangiaracino, the plant’s director of manufacturing and a grain science major from Kansas State University, for part of the bakery’s successful revival. “We’re lucky to have her,� he said. “She can go places in this industry.�

The Lenexa plant earlier this year geared up with an employment structure different from what it had before the bankruptcy shutdown.

The big change: No union affiliations.

The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union had represented about 100 of the former

Freshly baked and filled Twinkies move down the conveyer belt to the packaging area at the Hostess plant in Emporia. JILL TOYOSHIBA/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS bakery’s employees; the Teamsters union represented its delivery drivers, and the Operating Engineers represented the plant’s maintenance workers. Fighting year after year of pay and pension givebacks to assist the old Hostess company in reorganization, the Lenexa bakery union led the 2012 walkout that eventually contributed to the total Hostess shutdown.

In rebirth, the Lenexa plant now has about 100 Flowers Foods employees — all in management, bread production or skilled machinery operation. Another 70 workers in packaging and warehouse operations are supplied by Ambassador, an employee leasing company.

Cleaning is outsourced, too. Deliveries to stores are made by franchise operators who own the rights to serve specific geographic territories in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.

Frankum said about two dozen of the plant’s current workers had worked there before. He

speedy operations. The injection of filling in Twinkies, the application of little white frosting squiggles atop chocolate cupcakes, and the insertion of cakes in plastic sleeves happen in a blink.

The private investor partnership that bought Hostess snack cake assets has kept the corporate headquarters of the new Hostess Brands LLC in Kansas City.

From 1 E. Armour, CEO Bill Toler and a staff of about 90 manage the company. They make decisions about product mix and production of Twinkies, Hostess Cupcakes, Donettes, Zingers, Snoballs and the newer brownies.

Since re-opening the Emporia bakery, originally built in 1964 as a Dolly Madison plant, the company has added a 36,000-square-foot warehouse. It now operates with about 500 on payroll, similar to the plant’s pre-bankruptcy employment. The new Hostess plant also is non-union.

The new Hostess op-

Amber Bernhardt monitors the powdered sugar Donette line at the Hostess plant in Emporia. said pay on the bakery line starts at $13.50 an hour and rises to a top range in the $20s. According to a union leader who previously dealt with the plant, that’s about $5 an hour lower to start than union members earned before the shutdown.

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It’s not possible to see from one end of the Hostess bakery in Emporia to the other, partly because the 290,000-square-foot plant is big and partly because it’s filled with floor-toceiling equipment that snakes up, down and around the plant.

Wearing the required hair and beard nets, Kevin Sandefur, senior director of operations strategy, points out more than $40 million in upgrades to the plant. That includes work on the six production lines, which usually run two 12-hour shifts a day. One change turned two of the snack cake lines into super

erations in Emporia reflect another new way of doing business: All products made at the plant are boxed and shipped to one of two warehouses in Chicago and Carthage, Mo., before being trucked to retail locations. “We used to use route trucks directly from the bakery,� Sandefur said.

Now, robotic arms stack pallets that go to brokered carrier trucks to one of the centralized warehouses. “It’s a more efficient operation,� he said.

From the two warehouses, the snack cakes generally are distributed to stores within three days to three weeks, he said. Unlike the nextday delivery of bread and buns, Hostess snack cakes don’t have the same speed-to-market concern. “Twinkies shelf life?

We usually say 65 days,�

Sandefur said, grinning with acknowledgement that consumer lore sometimes extends it much longer.

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Maclin’s move to Chiefs big reason they are playoff-bound KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jeremy Maclin darted off the line of scrimmage, saw a soft pocket in the middle of the Cleveland defense, and angled sharply toward the goal posts in the back of the end zone.

Alex Smith zipped a pass between three defenders that hit him right on the hands.

The 13-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter Sunday gave the Kansas City Chiefs an early lead.

But it also allowed Maclin to eclipse 1,000 yards receiving this season, a rare feat under coach Andy Reid and exactly what the franchise hoped for when they signed him as a free agent.

“It seems like every week we look back at the film and I felt like I could have gone Jeremy’s way more,” Smith said, “because he consistently wins. Even when they try to take him away, he consistently wins. He’s that type of player.”

Maclin finished with five catches for 49 yards against Cleveland, giving him 84 catches for 1,034 yards and seven touchdowns — seven more than all Chiefs wide receivers had combined last season.

Not a bad follow-up to last season, when he had 1,318 yards receiving for Philadelphia.

“I think the great thing about him is he’s all team-first. All he cares about is winning,”

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Jeremy Maclin (19) catches a touchdown pass on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. DAVID EULITT/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS Smith said. “But credit to him, I think it shows how smart he is besides the talent he has. He sees things so well. He sees it like a quarterback.”

The touchdown reception was a perfect example of it.

Maclin could have broken off his route at any point, but the key to making it work was doing it when Smith expected it. A moment too soon and Smith overthrows him, too late and it’s an interception.

It was the kind of throw into tight coverage that the cautious Smith rarely makes, and almost certainly would avoid trying with any other wide receiver.

I think the greatest thing about (Maclin) is he’s all team-first. All he cares about is winning.

— Alex Smith Kansas City Chiefs quarterback

“There are a lot of adjustments that are happening in that route and he sees it the exact same way you do, and you trust him,” Smith said.

“I think that comes with time. I think with me, it’s proven that Jeremy sees it very well. He’s going to make good decisions out there.”

All of which is why he’s the first Chiefs wide receiver with more

than 1,000 yards since Dwayne Bowe in 2011, and only the fourth under Reid to reach that mark. Terrell Owens, Kevin Curtis and DeSean Jackson all made it when they were with the Philadelphia Eagles.

“It’s nice,” Maclin said, “but that doesn’t really mean much.”

What means something to Maclin is making the playoffs. The

Chiefs have matched a franchise record with nine straight wins after their 1-5 start, and clinched no worse than a wild-card slot when Pittsburgh lost to Baltimore on Sunday.

After all, it was the chance to play for a Super Bowl — and to be reunited with Reid, the coach who drafted him in Philadelphia — that lured him to Kansas City.

Maclin considered staying with the Eagles as a free agent, but ultimately signed a $55 million, five-year deal with the Chiefs.

It was a big investment for Kansas City, but one the franchise believed

it had to make given the dearth of options. The only other wide receiver with a track record of production last season was Bowe, and his five receptions this season with the Browns proves how far he’s dropped off.

Most importantly, Maclin has given Smith a comfortable target.

“He’s got a lot of trust in Jeremy,” Reid said.

“You just have to find that small window.”

All that matters to him is beating Oakland next week and getting ready for the playoffs, where the Chiefs have not won a game since the 1993-94 season.

“The way they assembled this locker room with this mixture between veteran guys and young guys, I think everybody pretty much understands kind of what it takes to be successful,” he said.

“The older guys, myself included, our job is to bring the younger guys along and let them know it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. And I think we’ve kind of proven that. We’re in now.”

NOTES: The Chiefs’ game against Oakland has been flexed to a 3:25 p.m. CT kickoff. ... Reid said Monday that the Chiefs will prepare for the Raiders as if they need to win, rather than rest for the playoffs. ... S Husain Abdullah (concussion) is close to returning, Reid said.

Denver: Broncos clinch playoff berth with overtime victory Continued from B1

anything like that,” McManus said. “I just wrapped my toe around it and I knew I had to bounce back.”

He did, helping the Broncos (11-4) overcome a 14-0 first-half deficit and denying the Bengals (11-4) their first road win on a Monday night since 1990.

“There’s an old saying: ‘It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,’” Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler said. “And this team finished great tonight.”

The Bengals blew a chance to earn a bye in the playoffs and move ahead of the New England Patriots in the race for the AFC’s top seed.

“We knew what we have in front of us, an opportunity to get the

bye,” said Carlos Dunlap, who collected all three sacks of Osweiler.

“It is what it is now. Now we’re going to move on.”

Denver, which was in danger of becoming the first team since the 1970 merger to miss the playoffs after starting 10-2, snapped a two-game skid with its third overtime win of the season.

Now, the Broncos can earn the top seed in the AFC with a win over San Diego and a loss by New England at Miami next weekend.

“We’ve won in a lot of ways this year,” Broncos safety T.J. Ward said.

“Overtime, game-winning field goals, blocked field goals, strips, fumble recoveries. When you get down to the playoffs you’re going to need all those type of wins.”

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There’s an old saying: ‘It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.’ And this team finished great tonight.

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a kick in five consecutive games, and this one wasn’t even close. It sailed wide left — missing the protective netting — to the astonishment of 74,511 fans even though the flags atop the goal posts revealed a complete lack of wind.

The relieved Bengals called tails but the coin landed heads.

Unlike Patriots coach Bill Belichick a day earlier, Broncos coach Gary Kubiak chose to receive, and Denver drove 60 yards in 13 plays. Os-

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“Coming into the game, I was a little bit banged up. Coming out of the game I’m a little bit banged up. But that’s football,” said Osweiler, who will get the start against the Chargers next week, too.

McCarron drove the Bengals on two long first-half drives, cover-

ing 80 and 90 yards and eating up a total of 16:24 to put Cincinnati ahead 14-0. He threw a 5-yard TD pass to A.J. Green and Mohamed Sanu scooted in from 6 yards out on a direct snap.

After that, he found it tough to sustain drives against Denver’s defense, which is ranked No. 1 against both the run and the pass and held McCarron to 200 yards passing and the Bengals to 3.3 yards a carry.

The Broncos pulled to 14-3 at halftime on McManus’ short field goal, and the Broncos came out in hurry-up mode and were a different team in the second half — a reversal of last week at Pittsburgh, where they jumped out to a 17-point lead but were outscored 24-0 after

the break.

Osweiler connected with Sanders on a short TD throw for Denver’s first third-quarter points since Nov. 8 at Indianapolis, and C.J. Anderson gave the Broncos their first lead when he broke free for a 39-yard touchdown run with 11:17 remaining.

After Mike Nugent’s 52-yard field goal tied it with 6:45 remaining, the Broncos twice drove to the Bengals 26 only to come away empty, once on Anderson’s fumble and then on McManus’ miss.

“We told him if you get another chance take advantage of it and he did,” Demaryius Thomas said. “That’s what won the game.”

That, and Ware’s huge play moments later.

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Curry records tripledouble in victory OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry’s eyes lit up when he saw little brother Seth guarding him for the first time in their NBA career, and the reigning MVP promptly missed a long 3-pointer.

“It was a very cool moment,” the Golden State star said. “I missed and he let me know about it.

After that I was able to see a couple go in.”

That’s an understatement.

Curry scored his first 17 points in the final 3:16 of the first half and went on to record his sixth career triple-double as the Warriors won for the 29th time in 30 games this season, 122-103 over the Sacramento Kings on Monday night.

“He’s done that so many times throughout the year, I don’t think that’s me, per se,” Seth Curry said. “He’s going to turn it up. He’s done that probably once a game, had a run like that. We tried to stop him from getting going, but it’s tough. The game was

Men’s Top 25 The Top Twenty Five The Associated Press The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 27, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and previous ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. Michigan St. (64) 13-0 1,623 1 2. Kansas (1) 10-1 1,534 2 3. Oklahoma 11-0 1,498 3 4. Maryland 11-1 1,428 4 5. Virginia 10-1 1,351 5 6. Xavier 12-0 1,296 6 7. North Carolina 10-2 1,219 7 8. Arizona 12-1 1,081 8 9. Butler 10-1 984 9 10. Kentucky 10-2 963 12 11. Iowa St. 10-1 938 11 12. Providence 12-1 923 10 13. Miami 10-1 867 13 14. Purdue 12-1 818 14 15. Duke 9-2 781 15 16. Villanova 9-2 643 17 17. SMU 11-0 636 18 18. Louisville 11-2 516 16 19. West Virginia 10-1 500 19 20. Texas A&M 9-2 371 21 21. Utah 10-2 224 24 22. Cincinnati 10-3 199 22 23. Baylor 9-2 195 23 24. South Carolina 11-0 175 25 25. UCLA 9-4 51 — Others receiving votes: UConn 49, Oregon 45, Gonzaga 44, Pittsburgh 42, George Washington 40, Dayton 19, Colorado 15, Monmouth (NJ) 11, Northwestern 11, Vanderbilt 10, Iowa 7, Texas Tech 6, Florida 4, Texas 4, Saint Joseph’s 2, Mississippi 1, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 1.

Women’s Top 25 The Top Twenty Five The Associated Press The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 27, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and previous ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (32) 9-0 800 1 2. South Carolina 12-0 763 2 3. Notre Dame 10-1 725 3 4. Baylor 13-0 712 4 5. Texas 11-0 662 5 6. Maryland 11-0 654 6 7. Kentucky 10-0 597 7 8. Mississippi St. 11-1 556 8 9. Ohio St. 8-3 550 9 10. Oregon St. 9-1 479 11 11. Stanford 9-2 472 12 12. Duke 9-3 402 13 13. Tennessee 8-3 394 14 14. Northwestern 11-1 349 15 15. Florida St. 8-3 345 10 16. Texas A&M 9-3 327 16 17. Arizona St. 8-3 244 22 18. Oklahoma 9-2 239 18 19. California 8-2 224 21 20. South Florida 7-2 192 20 21. UCLA 7-3 137 19 22. Miami 12-1 119 23 23. Missouri 12-0 101 25 24. Michigan St. 9-2 99 24 25. DePaul 8-5 84 17 Others receiving votes: Southern Cal 36, Seton Hall 34, Georgia 27, Virginia Tech 18, Iowa 14, Oregon 14, Syracuse 14, Florida 4, Princeton 4, UTEP 4, Nebraska 3, Oklahoma St. 2.

going so fast at that time, that’s when he’s at his best.”

Curry had 23 points, a career-high 14 rebounds and 10 assists, Klay Thompson scored 29 and Draymond Green had 25 points for the Warriors, who have won 33 straight regular-season home games.

Omri Casspi scored a career-high 36 points, tying Mike Bibby’s team record with nine 3-pointers for Sacramento.

But star center DeMarcus Cousins got ejected in the third quarter and the Kings lost their 11th straight against their Northern California rivals.

Stephen Curry made three of the four free throws to start a 15-0 run that turned a two-point deficit into a 79-66 lead for the Warriors. His 3-pointer just before the third quarter ended put Golden State up 9075.

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Kings: Host the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday.

Warriors: Visit the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday.

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan and wide receiver Julio Jones celebrate their long touchdown pass Sunday in the Falcons’ surprising 20-13 victory over previously undefeated Carolina. ATLANTA JOUR-

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Louis can’t be explained by it being a bad matchup, even though the Rams always give Seattle problems. Will the lack of a running game without injured Marshawn Lynch and Thomas Rawls be the downfall for the twotime NFC champs?

— Most perplexing is the spiral the Packers are on. They began with six victories, including wins over Seattle and Kansas City.

Then they went into a three-game slide and, despite subsequently winning four of five — one on a last-second desperation heave from Aaron Rodgers to Rich-

ard Rodgers against Detroit — issues remained, mainly on offense.

At Arizona on Sunday, the Packers looked like amateurs. Now they must beat Minnesota at Lambeau Field, where they already have lost to the other two NFC North teams, Detroit and Chicago, or

become a wild card.

“We are professionals. We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard and play better. Everybody has to play better,” Aaron Rodgers said.

Can they? Just another question to ponder heading into the new year and the season finales.

KU: Quest for 12th straight title begins Saturday Continued from B1

bunch has only lost to Virginia. “I think that’s a good thing that we were picked sixth in the league. I respect that,” Mountaineers star Devin Williams said.

“It’s going to allow us to stay humble, get us back to our roots.”

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With an almost entirely new roster, the Wildcats picked up non-conference wins over Georgia and Colorado State and nearly beat the Tar Heels. But the conference season should prove whether coach Bruce Weber has enough talent to make

MARCH MADNESS:

Speaking of the tournament, will the Big 12 be able to live up to expectations when it rolls around? The league was universally considered the best in college hoops last season, then melted down in March.

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Iowa State lost to 14seed UAB, about an hour before fellow No. 3 seed Baylor was beaten

by Georgia State, while Kansas was ousted by Wichita State as the league went 5-7 in the dance.

“You talk about rosters, we return a lot of the top players from

the league last year — the top three teams, two-thirds of those return,” Kruger said.

“Leading scorers, leading rebounders, they return, so down the line it seems like it’s a league that not only has talent, but it’s older talent, which will make everyone tougher.”

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DEPARTMENT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH C. THOMPSON, Deceased.

Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59 Case Number: 15 PR 24 NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that a petition has been filed in this Court by Cynthia J. Holinsworth, duly appointed, qualified and acting Executor of the Estate of Judith C. Thompson, deceased, requesting that Petitioner’s acts be approved; account be settled and allowed; the heirs be determined; the Will be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entitled thereto; the Court find the allowances requested for attorneys’ fees and expenses are reasonable and should be allowed; the costs be determined and ordered paid; the administration of the Estate be closed; upon the filing of receipts the Petitioner be finally discharged as the Executor of the Estate of Judith C. Thompson, deceased, and the Petitioner be released from further liability.

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I have a 1991 Honda Civic Wagon with almost 180,000 miles. It runs fine, except that it has an intermittent hesitation problem that is happening more frequently. It happens only at low speeds or after stopping at a light.

Sometimes I will notice some sputtering while I am stopped, and then when I step on the gas to go, the accelerator will not respond unless I push it halfway down, and then it takes a few seconds to respond before it jumps to life. It sometimes is accompanied by a low groaning sound when I press down hard on the accelerator. I’ve asked my mechanic, but he said it is hard to diagnose unless it is doing it all the time.

Do you have any ideas? — Lynnette Well, the sound could be the groans of your embarrassed kids, Lynnette.

I assume your check engine light has not come on. Otherwise, your mechanic would have checked for a fault code, and you wouldn’t be suffering the indignity of writing to us today.

But you might want to make sure the check engine light still works.

When you turn your key to the “run” position, just before you start the car, all of your dashboard warning lights should light up, to confirm that they’re functioning. If you don’t see the little orange engine icon, start by getting a new bulb for that baby.

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Ray Magliozzi could be caused by a lot of things, Lynnette, but I’d start with the most likely and least expensive. Start by asking your mechanic to change your fuel filter — especially if it hasn’t been changed since, say, the Bush administration.

A dirty fuel filter could easily cause stumbling and hesitation when you start off.

A weak fuel pump or really dirty injectors also could make that happen. So your mechanic can test your fuelpump pressure to see if it’s up to spec.

And if he suspects that the injectors are dirty, he can try add-

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ing a can of fuel-system cleaner, like Chevron Techron, to a tank of gas. If you notice some improvement after he does that, try another can!

You also could have a misfire. If one of your four cylinders is not firing regularly, that could cause this type of behavior, too. The first steps you’d take to correct a misfire would be to check the distributor cap for cracks and replace any ancient secondary ignition components, like the cap, the rotor and the spark plugs and wires.

There are other possibilities, like a bad throttleposition switch, a failing transmission or abduction by aliens. But ask your mechanic to start with the simple things, and see if your Honda can get its groove back, Lynnette. Good luck.

Boss works Christmas shift for 40th year MT. ARLINGTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey convenience store executive has fulfilled his Christmas tradition of working in one of the company’s stores for the 40th consecutive year.

QuickChek Senior Vice President Mike Murphy worked Friday at a store in Mount Arlington.

Murphy says he’s always felt he should work the holiday since

many of the employees have to.

According to the company’s website, it has 140 stores in New York and New Jersey.

He served coffee and cleaned inside and outside the store during his five-hour shift. The store is run by one of his sons.

Murphy says coffee and batteries are the top two products for customers to pick up on Christmas morning.

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• 1 Tenderized Minute Steak • 1 pkg Stew Meat

14 # Average

• 2 T-Bone Steaks • 2 Kansas City Strip Steaks • 2 Ribeye Steaks • 2 Filet Steaks

Choice $

Grade

80

2

99

lb.

Order Early!

Limited Supplies

Moran Locker Cured Smoked Ham

2

3

Boneless

Bone-In

$

$

99 lb.

99 lb.

For Your Company Employees CUSTOM BUNDLES AVAILABLE

40 # Average

Premium $300 Bundle

Approx. 10 lb 8 # Average $

• 20 lbs Extra Lean • 2 lbs KC Strip Ground Beef Steaks • 6 lbs Bacon • 2 lbs Ribeye Steaks • 10 lbs Boneless Chops • 1 lb Filet Steaks • 2 lbs T-Bone Steaks • 2.5 lb Pork Tenderloin • 10 lbs. Boneless Skinless • 1 Spiral Cut Ham Chicken Breast

299

Smoked Turkeys

$

ALL PACKAGES IN GIFT BOXES AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE!

All meat cut, double wrapped and frozen.

201 S. State, Iola (620) 380-MEAT (6328) Market Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sun. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m Deli Hours: Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Sun. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Bundle

• 1 Beef Roast • 1 Round Steak • 2 Sirloin Steaks • 2 T-Bone Steaks • 2 KC Strip Steaks • 2 Whole Chickens • 2 Chicken Breasts

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Brown Sugar Maple Glaze Spiral Cut Ham

$

150

Approx. $375lb

Steak Bundle

Bundle

$

• 1 Slab Spare Ribs • 2 pkgs Sausage • 1 pkg Bacon • 2 pkgs Ground Pork • 1 Pork Roast • 1 pkg Pork Chops • 2 pkgs Ground Beef

Order Early!

16 # Average

81

$

• 1 Beef Roast • (3) 2lb. pkgs Ground Beef • 2 T-Bone Steaks

• 1 pk Ground Pork • 1 Slab Pork Spare Ribs • 1 pkg Bacon

Approx. 2 lb $

SLICED TO YOUR ORDER!

Gift Cards Purchased For A Meat Bundle Must Be Used By 12-31-15 In Order To Get These Prices

lb.

999

USDA Choice Prime Rib

$

lb.

Gift Cards Available!

Visit Our Website: www.bollingsmarket.com 201 S. State, Iola • (620) 380-MEAT (6328) Market Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m Deli Hours: Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

CARA THOMAS • MITCH & SHARON BOLLING

— NOTICE —

O ur carriers’ (under contract) deadline for hom e delivery ofThe Iola R egister is 5:30 p.m . w eekdays and 9:30 a.m . Saturdays for Iola carriers.

D E A D L IN E FO R O U T -O F-T O W N C A R R IE R S IS 6:30 P .M .

W E E K D A Y S A N D 9:30 SA T U R D A Y .

Ifyou have not received your paper by deadline, please callyour carrier first. Ifunable to reach your carrier, callthe R egister office at 365-2111. R uralC arriers 6:30 p.m . w eekdays – 10:30 Saturdays

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15 Wrangler Unlimited 4dr 4x4 Sport w/Hard top, AT, keyless, alloys, PW, keyless, Baja Yellow

ALL CHRISTMAS MERCHANDISE

NEW

LIST $34,415

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*$

32,250

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NEW

List $34,065

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*$

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$

11,900

$

13,900

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$

14,900

$

16,900

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$

19,500

$

22,500

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$

23,900

$

25,900

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$

31,500

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34,500

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$

39,900

$

43,900

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$

49,900

$

52,900

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$

40,900

CLOSE TO NEW!

$28,900

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