Humboldt celebrates its 64th Biblesta festival on Saturday with gospel music, children’s activities, a bean feed and the renowned parade, featuring Biblical stories. Below, the B&W Trailer Hitches oat featured Moses with the snake. At right, Logan Pals 4-H Club of Humboldt says “Let he without sin cast the rst stone.”
TOPEKA — An academic alliance years in the making among more than three dozen Kansas community colleges and independent colleges will
help students earning an associate degree avoid costly and time-consuming problems of transferring credit hours to a four-year school.
The coordination agreement signed by 19 members of the Kansas Community
College Association and 20 members of the Kansas Independent College Association guaranteed students earning the two-year diploma at a Kansas community college the opportunity to enroll as a junior at one of the nonprofit,
private colleges or universities in the Kansas association.
The key is transferring students would be recognized as having finished all general education requirements and wouldn’t be in jeopardy of
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)
— People kayaking down streets that were passable just a day or two earlier. Hundreds of thousands without power. National Guard helicopters flying rescue missions to residents still stranded on Florida’s barrier islands.
Days after Hurricane Ian carved a path of destruction from Florida to the Carolinas, the dangers persisted, and even worsened in some places. It was clear the road to recovery from this monster storm will be long and painful.
And Ian was still not done. The storm doused Virginia with rain Sunday, and officials warned of the potential for major flooding along its coast, with a coastal flood warning in effect Monday.
Ian’s remnants moved offshore and formed a nor’easter that is expected to pile even more water into an already inundated Chesapeake Bay and threatened to cause the most significant tidal flooding event in Virginia’s Hampton Roads region in the last 10 to 15 years, said Cody Poche, a National Weather Service meteorologist. Norfolk and Virginia Beach declared states of emergency.
Other portions of the Atlantic coast could see higher tides than usual. The island town of Chincoteague in Virginia declared a state of emergency Sunday and
By LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press
Doctors have a message for vaccine-weary Americans: Don’t skip your flu shot this fall — and seniors, ask for a special extra-strength kind.
After flu hit historically low levels during the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be poised for a comeback. The main clue: A nasty flu season just ended in Australia.
While there’s no way to predict if the U.S. will be as hard-hit, “last year we were going into flu season not knowing if flu was around or not. This year we know flu is back,” said influenza specialist Richard Webby of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
Annual flu shots are recommended starting with 6-month-old babies. Flu is most dangerous for people
June O’Dell, 90, of Iola, died in her home surrounded by her family on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022.
Iris June O’Dell was born Oct. 1, 1932, in Fayette County, Ill., to Minnie and Herbert Roe. She was raised by Minnie and Irl Atwood. On Dec. 17, 1950, June married Dr. Morris O’Dell in St. Elmo, Ill., and they were blessed to enjoy 72 years of marriage. In November 1953, they moved to Iola, to start Dr. Morris O’Dell’s Chiropractic practice.
June was preceded in death by parents, Minnie and Irl Atwood; biological father, Herbert Roe; brother, Herbert Roe; and son, Dr. Robert O’Dell of Fort Scott.
June is survived by her husband, Morris, of the home; daughter, Becky Hedman and husband, David, Gardner; two sons, Brian O’Dell and wife, Nancy, Olathe, and Mark O’Dell and wife, Rachel, Independence, Mo.; 13 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren. June devoted her life to raising four children. She attended First Baptist Church and dedicated many hours to volunteering, visiting many elderly in the nursing homes, and worked part-time at her husband’s chiropractic office. She was a fitting example of how to live and walk in the faith through loving the Lord our God. Later on, their church was in their home through the Berean Bible Society. The way of Salvation: 1 Cor. 15:1-4
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola. Burial will follow at the Highland Cemetery, Iola.
June’s family will greet friends in The Venue at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Berean Bible Society and may be left in care of the funeral home.
Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.
Beverly Ann Murrill, 88, of Humboldt, passed away Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, at Country Place, Chanute. Beverly was born June 30, 1934, in Girard, to John C. Zeibert and Bernice (LaRue) Zeibert.
Beverly graduated in 1952 from Arma High School. She and Tom Murrill were married Sept. 26, 1953, in Franklin.
Beverly and Tom owned and operated Murrill Insurance and Real Estate in Humboldt for 30 years.
Beverly liked to read, cook, watch westerns, and Hallmark movies. She loved to travel with Tom and enjoyed Polka dancing. Beverly was an avid football fan and she liked fishing. Beverly was known for her ability to get things organized and done. She was the last surviving founding member of The Famous Murrilleo Sausage Factory.
Beverly was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Tom; son, Mark Murrill; sister, Linda Donaldson; brother, Joe Zeibert; and son-in-law, Mike Stattelman.
Beverly is survived by daughters, Cindy (Joe Pfeifer) Murrill, Seattle, Wash., Lisa Stattelman, Pahrump, Nevada; son, David (Susan) Murrill, Castle Rock, Colo.; grandchildren, Katie, Taylor, Tony, Tom, Nick, Cory and Anne; great-grandchildren, Lilah, Jakob and Leighton; sisters, Eleanor (Neal) Lord and Patricia Foust; and numerous other relatives and friends.
A Rosary will be recited at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 7, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Humboldt. A Mass of Christian burial will follow at 10:30 at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Humboldt.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the Tom and Beverly Murrill Scholarship Fund at Allen Community College, which may be left with Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1833 U.S. 54, Iola, KS.
Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.
Sunday services at the Carlyle Presbyterian Church, Oct. 2
Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday was “The Table Revisited” taken from Mark 14:1-25.
This passage summarizes the events that transpired two days prior to Passover, the plot to kill Jesus, Jesus celebrating the Passover with his disciples and instituting the Lord’s Supper. The people were preparing for the Passover Feast but Jesus was preparing for His upcoming trial and the cross, said Pastor Traw. You can watch the church service via its Facebook page shortly after 10 a.m. Sundays.
Guest pianist, Glen Cunningham, played “Air on the G String” for the Prelude and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desire” for the offertory.
Aiden Fraker will celebrate his birthday on Thursday, Oct. 6.
Assisting Pastor Traw with The World Wide Communion service were David Loomis, Glen Herschberger, Merrill Hodgden and Virginia Warren.
Betty Cunningham played the piano for the Communion. Betty also provided the special music, singing “The Wonder of It All” accompanied by her husband Glen.
Pastor Steve leads a Bible Study, Tuesdays, 3 p.m. on the Book of Ezekiel.
Allen County Regional Hospital has upgraded its electronic medical record (EMR) system to the Epic platform, according to a Saint Luke’s press release.
The change will allow the hospital and the primary care clinics in Iola and Humboldt to align patient health records and billing with all other providers and clinicians associated with Saint Luke’s Health System.
“Moving to the Epic system will provide better security for our patients’ information and enable important health information sharing among a patient’s care providers,
no matter where they receive care within the Saint Luke’s Health System,” said Steve Schieber, CEO of Saint Luke’s Critical Access Region.
Clinicians across care settings will now have access to a patient’s health history and medical progress. They will be able to order and review tests and medications to ensure transparency and higher quality care.
For better efficiency, patients will receive one consolidated bill for services received after Oct. 1 at Allen County Regional Hospital or any other Saint Luke’s Health System facility.
Patients will have access to their health
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday will survey damage from Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico, where tens of thousands of people are still without power two weeks after the storm hit.
The Category 1 hurricane knocked out electrical power to the U.S. territory of 3.2 million people, 44% of whom live below the poverty line.
Power has been restored to about 90% of the island’s 1.47 million customers, but more than 137,000 others, mostly in the hardest hit areas of Puerto Rico’s southern and western regions, continue to struggle in the dark.
Another 66,000 customers are without water.
Biden has pledged that the U.S. government will not abandon Puerto Rico as it starts to rebuild again, five years after the more powerful Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017.
On Monday morning, the president said
he was going in part because people there “haven’t been taken very good care of,” and they were “trying like hell to catch up from the last hurricane.”
During his visit, Biden planned to announce the administration will provide $60 million through last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law to help Puerto Rico shore up levees, strengthen flood walls and create a new flood warning system so the island will be better prepared for future storms, the White House said.
“We see what you’re going through, and we’re with you,” Biden told Puerto Ricans and Floridians in a message Sunday on his official Twitter account.
Florida is cleaning up after Hurricane Ian churned across that state last week, killing more than 60 people, decimating some coastal communities and flooding others. Biden plans to visit Florida on Wednesday to survey damage.
information, test results, billing, and pay online through the mySaintLukes patient portal, found at the Saint Luke’s website (saintlukeskc.org), or by downloading the mySaintLukes app.
At a patient’s initial visit following the
launch, they may need to provide some additional information, as registration staff, physicians, and clinicians will update records and get up to speed during the transition. Staff will be available to answer questions that patients might have.
65 and older, young chil dren, pregnant women and people with certain health problems includ ing heart and lung dis eases.
Here’s what to know:
As people get old er, their immune sys tem doesn’t respond as strongly to standard flu vaccination. This year, people 65 or older are urged to get a special kind for extra protec tion.
There are three choices. Fluzone HighDose and Flublok each contain higher doses of the main anti-flu ingre dient. The other option is Fluad Adjuvanted, which has a regular dosage but contains a special ingredient that helps boost people’s im mune response.
Seniors can ask what kind their doctor car ries. But most flu vac cinations are given in pharmacies and some drugstore websites, such as CVS, automati cally direct people to lo cations offering senior doses if their birth date shows they qualify.
Webby advised mak ing sure older relatives and friends know about the senior shots, in case they’re not told when they seek vaccination.
“They should at least ask, ‘Do you have the shots that are better for me?’” Webby said. “The bottom line is they do work better” for this age group.
If a location is out of senior-targeted dos es, it’s better to get a standard flu shot than to skip vaccination, ac cording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
All flu vaccines in the U.S. — including types for people young er than 65 — are “quad rivalent,” meaning they guard against four different flu strains. Younger people have choices, too, including shots for those with egg allergies and a na sal spray version called FluMist.
Australia just expe rienced its worst flu season in five years and what happens in Southern Hemisphere winters often foreshad ows what Northern countries can expect, said Dr. Andrew Pekosz
of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
And people have largely abandoned masking and distanc ing precautions that earlier in the pandemic also helped prevent the spread of other respira tory bugs like the flu.
“This poses a risk es pecially to young chil dren who may not have had much if any previ ous exposure to influen za viruses prior to this season,” Pekosz added.
“This year we will have a true influenza season like we saw be fore the pandemic,” said Dr. Jason Newland, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Washington University in St. Louis.
He said children’s hospitals already are seeing an unusual early spike in other respira tory infections includ ing RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, and worries flu likewise will strike earlier than usual — like it did in Australia.
The CDC advises a flu vaccine by the end of October but says they can be given any time during flu season. It takes about two weeks for protection to set in.
The U.S. expects 173 million to 183 million doses this year. And yes, you can get a flu shot and an updated COVID-19 booster at the same time — one in each arm to lessen sore ness.
The companies that make the two most widely used COVID-19 vaccines now are test ing flu shots made with the same technology.
One reason: When in fluenza mutates, the recipes of so-called mRNA vaccines could be updated more quick ly than today’s flu shots, most of which are made by growing influenza virus in chicken eggs.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech are recruit ing 25,000 healthy U.S. adults to receive either its experimental influ enza shot or a regular kind, to see how effec tive the new approach proves this flu season.
Rival Moderna test ed its version in about 6,000 people in Austra lia, Argentina and oth er countries during the Southern Hemisphere’s flu season and is await ing results.
having a portion of those 60 hours of com munity college credit rejected by the inde pendent college. In the past, some transfer stu dents were compelled to retake courses.
“This is going to build trust with our students,” said Heather Morgan, executive di rector of the communi ty college organization.
“It makes us feel better as community college leaders, that our stu dents are protected.”
She said on the Kan sas Reflector podcast the policy would be im plemented in fall 2023, but some participating colleges have been en gaged in this type of partnership on a re gional level.
“This takes away all of the problems and confusion that hap pened with individu al school articulation agreements and says, ‘If you complete your associate’s degree, you’re assured this ben efit,’ “ Morgan said.
The 39 signers of the transfer agreement serve more than half of all college students en rolled in Kansas.
Matt Lindsey, pres ident of the Kansas independent college organization, said de bate about college af fordability and access carried negotiations to ward a deal that would
demonstrate to Kansas families and taxpayers the two higher educa tion organizations were “leading the way.”
A national study in 2017 indicated U.S. stu dents transferring from a community college to a four-year institution lost an average of 43% of accumulated course credits or about 13 cred it hours, Lindsey said.
“So, we’re talking about a full semester lost,” he said. “That has dramatically negative impacts on the ability to graduate on time, to be able to graduate affordably, to get right out into the workforce, which is why most of our students are going to college.”
Lindsey said campus leaders emerged from the COVID-19 pandem
ic committed to ham mering out the col laboration agreement following years of startand-stop discussions. Faculty at participating colleges understood this reform would bene fit students, he said.
Morgan and Lindsey said the transfer agree ment could spur col leges to engage in other partnerships. It could lead to greater sharing of faculty and changes to advising so students better understood their options.
“How can we make sure that private college voices are more pres ent at the community colleges? How can we make sure that commu nity college voices are more prevalent among the private college con versations?” Lindsey
said.
The Kansas Board of Regents, which has direct jurisdiction over six public universities, has been working on a transfer program that would cover 34 credit hours of general educa tion classes.
Some states have mandated higher ed ucation coordinating boards overcome pa rochial, academic and financial obstacles to improving transfer of course credits.
Michael Schneider, president of McPher son College, said text of the agreement among the community col leges and the indepen dent colleges in Kansas would serve as “pream ble to the new stories of enterprise that our stu dents will write.”
BEIRUT (AP) —
When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked in Lebanon last summer, Ukrainian diplomats said the vessel was carrying grain stolen by Russia and urged Lebanese officials to impound the ship.
Moscow called the allegation “false and baseless,” and Lebanon’s prosecutor general sided with the Kremlin and declared that the 10,000 tons of barley and wheat flour wasn’t stolen and allowed the ship to unload.
But an investigation by The Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline” has found the Laodicea, owned by Syria, is part of a sophisticated Russian-run smuggling operation that has used falsified manifests and seaborne subterfuge to steal Ukrainian grain worth at least $530 million — cash that has helped feed President Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
AP used satellite imagery and marine radio transponder data to track three dozen ships making more than 50 voyages carrying grain from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to ports in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and other countries. Reporters reviewed shipping manifests, searched social media posts, and interviewed farmers, shippers and corporate officials to uncover the details of the massive smuggling operation.
The ongoing theft, which legal experts say is a potential war crime, is being carried out by wealthy businessmen and stateowned companies in Russia and Syria, some of them already facing financial sanctions from the United States and European Union.
Meanwhile, the Russian military has attacked farms, grain silos and shipping facilities still under Ukrainian control with artillery and air strikes, destroying food, driving up prices and reducing the flow of grain from a country long known as the breadbasket of Europe.
The Russians “have an absolute obligation to ensure that civilians are cared for and to not deprive them their ability of a livelihood and an ability to feed themselves,” said David Crane, a veteran prosecutor who has been involved in numerous international war crime investigations. “It’s just pure pillaging and looting, and that is also an actionable offense under international military law.”
The grain and flour
carried by the 138-meter-long (453 feet) Laodicea likely started its journey in the southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, which Russia seized in the early days of the war.
Video posted to social media on July 9 shows a train pulling up to the Melitopol Elevator, a massive grain storage facility, with green hopper cars marked with the name of the Russian company Agro-Fregat LLC in big yellow letters, along with a logo in the shape of a spike of wheat.
Russian occupation official Andrey Siguta held a news conference at the depot the following week where he said the grain would “provide food security” for Russia-controlled regions in Ukraine, and that his administration would “evaluate the harvest and determine how much will be for sale.”
As he spoke, a masked soldier armed with an assault rifle stood guard as trucks unloaded wheat at the facility to be milled.
Workers loaded flour into large white bags like those delivered by the Laodicea to Lebanon three weeks later.
Siguta, along with four other top Russian occupation officials, was sanctioned by the U.S. government on Sept. 15 for overseeing the theft and export of Ukrainian grain.
Putin signed treaties Friday to annex four occupied regions of Ukraine into the Russian Federation, in defiance of international law. The United States and European Union immediately rejected “the illegal annexation.”
Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov told AP the occupiers are moving vast quantities of grain from the region by train and truck to ports in Russia and Crimea, a strategic Ukrainian peninsula that Russia has occupied since 2014. Despite Russian claims to have annexed Crimea, the United Nations ruled that land grab was also illegal.
Videos posted on social media in recent months show a steady stream of grain transport trucks moving south through occupied areas of Ukraine with the letter “Z” painted on their sides, a wartime symbol for Russia and its military forces. Agro-Fregat train cars have been recorded rolling through the Crimean port town of Feodosia, where satellite imagery shows trucks and trains lined up as grain was being loaded onto ships.
Southeast Kansas has been in a severe drought for most of this year’s growing season. Poor crop and pasture yields have led to limited feed options and increased forage price tags for cattle producers.
The year 2012 offered very similar conditions. One option many Kansas producers found was to ammoniate wheat straw.
Wheat straw is widely considered a poor forage that is better served as bedding, but research conducted by Kansas State University shows ammoniating bales can greatly improve protein content and digestibility. Wheat straw typically tests around 3.3% crude protein and 31% in-vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD). Ammoniation rates of 1.5% (lbs anhydrous ammonia/dry matter lbs wheat straw) can increase crude protein content to 8.6% and IVDMD to 42%. An ammoniation rate of 3% increased crude protein to 10.8% and IVDMD to 46.2%.
The process of ammoniating wheat straw is not overly complicated. An area large enough to hold the stacks of bales will need to be cleared, with some soil pulled away to be used later. Bales should be gathered in rows and stacked in a pyramid (three bales on the base, two on the second level and one on top). The entire stack should be covered with a black plastic sheet, about 6 to 8 mm thick. A 40’ x 100’ sheet can cover 12 rows of pyramid-stacked bales. The edges of the plastic should hit the ground and be covered with loose soil to seal the bales inside the plastic. Any holes in the sheet will need to be patched with tape. Next, a pipe (6 - 8 ft. long) should be placed on the ground and inserted into the center of the stack. At-
Chad Guthrie Southwind Extension Agriculture Agent
tach the pipe to the anhydrous tank and slowly empty
Once the stacks of bales are covered, it is time to let the anhydrous ammonia go to work. The ammoniation process is dependent on heat, so the straw will be ready to feed sooner with warmer temperatures. Average temperatures above 86° will need to be sealed for one week, temperatures between 59–86° need to remain sealed for two to four weeks, and temperatures below 59°need to remain sealed for up to eight weeks. The October 2021 average daily high and low temperatures at the Kansas Mesonet Station near Uniontown, were 71°and 51°, respectively. With expectations of a warmer than average October, we could expect the ammoniation process to take around 4 weeks if started the first week of October.
Now, what is the cost?
Any producer who fertilized his pasture or crop ground this past spring knows that fertilizer prices have gone through the roof, especially compared to 2012, when producers were using this alternative feed source.
THE PRICE of anhydrous ammonia at Midwest Fertilizer in Iola was $1,206.67 as of Sept. 28. That equates to $0.60/ lb. A 40’x100’ sheet of black plastic can seal a row of 12 pyramids. Assume a tightly wrapped wheat straw bale (tightly wrapped bales work better for ammoniating) weigh on average 1,100 lbs. 72 total bales, at 90%
MAZATLAN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Orlene made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast near the tourist town of Mazatlan on Monday.
Electrical cables swayed and sent off showers of sparks in the town of El Rosario, about 40 miles south of Mazatlan, close to where the hurricane hit.
Orlene lost some strength after roaring over the Islas Maria, a former prison colony being developed as a tourist draw. The main island is sparsely populated, mainly by government employees, and most buildings there are made of brick or concrete.
The hurricane’s
winds slipped back to 85 mph as it hit land about 45 miles southeast of Mazatlan Monday morning, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
Authorities did not immediately report any damage, but along the coast they suspended classes, closed seaports and set up shelters.
A hurricane warning was in effect from San Blas to Mazatlan.
The government of Jalisco state, where Puerto Vallarta is located, suspended classes Monday in towns and cities along the coast.
In Sinaloa, where Mazatlan is located, some emergency shelters were opened.
MANHATTAN — Kansas Farm Bureau has pledged the largest donation in the organization’s history: $5 million over five years to support the Kansas
State University College of Agriculture’s innovation centers for grain, food, animal and agronomy research. The two new innovation centers will focus on the devel-
opment and diversification of Kansas and the world’s food and agricultural economy.
This investment will fund new facilities, renovations of current build-
Wheat straw is widely considered a poor forage that is better served as bedding, but research conducted by Kansas State University shows ammoniating bales can greatly improve protein content and digestibility.
dry matter, means you will have roughly 35.64 dry tons of wheat straw to ammoniate.
1.5% rate will require 1,069.2 lbs. anhydrous ammonia
1,069.2lbs x $0.60/lb = $641.52 = $18/dry ton wheat straw 3.0% rate will require 2,138.4 lbs anhydrous ammonia
2,138.4lbs x $0.60.lb = $1,283.04 = $36/dry ton wheat straw Anhydrous ammonia will not be the only cost associated with this process. Let’s assume another $15/dry ton wheat straw to account for fuel, the plastic sheeting, labor, and other miscellaneous costs. This will bring our cost of ammoniating wheat straw to: 1.5% rate: $33/dry ton wheat straw
3.0% rate: $51/dry ton wheat straw
Today’s prices may make the decision more challenging than it was in 2012, but with prairie hay trading in southeast Kansas at $100-130/ton and wheat straw only
trading at $60/ton, ammoniating wheat straw is an option for those lacking feed this fall.
For more questions regarding ammoniating wheat straw and other forage questions, contact Chad Guthrie, crop production and forage management agent, or Hunter Nickell, Livestock Production Agent at any Southwind Extension District office. Locations in Erie, Fort Scott, Iola, and Yates Center.
Disclaimer: Caution should be taken as anhydrous ammonia is a dangerous chemical. Releasing the anhydrous too quickly could cause the plastic sheeting to rupture. The plastic will also balloon out during the ammoniation process, so strong winds, hail, or wildlife could puncture the plastic. Any products or companies mentioned in this article were used for localized information and are not endorsed by the Southwind Extension District.
ings and improvements in the technology and equipment necessary for interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research and continue to enhance the college’s student experience.
The Russians are catch ing on that President Vlad imir Putin’s “special mili tary operation” in Ukraine is not going so well.
Putin’s call for conscrip tion of an estimated 300,000 reservists has brought the war into their homes. Now fathers, uncles, and even grandfathers are be ing forced into a battle that they still don’t understand.
How is it their duty to fight Ukraine?
When Russia first invad ed seven months ago, Putin said it was to “de-Nazify” Ukraine — a solid democ racy. A master at victim hood, Putin has broadened the scope as an existential battle with the West.
Unfortunately, Russians appear to have little say in the matter. Putin’s mandate last week ordered those up to age 55 with military ex perience to expect the call.
As for those who pro test the invasion on moral grounds, they have been jailed — or worse. Consci entious objectors have no rights in Russia.
Today, hundreds of thou sands are trying to flee the country rather than fight their neighbor. Lines of cars and buses at the bor
ders are miles deep. The cost of outward bound flights is almost tenfold.
Many countries, in cluding the United States and most of Europe, have banned flights from Russia, limiting recruits’ choices to countries that either re main sympathetic to Rus sia or don’t require visas, including Turkey and Isra el.
Many fear it’s only a matter of time before Putin closes the border for men of military age, trapping them in his service.
Up until now, Russians have swallowed Putin’s propaganda. According to polls, a majority have been content to believe that Ukraine and its Western al lies are the aggressors.
Putin’s success with this line is that he’s asked very little of everyday citizens, relying on his sole control of the military, the media and parliament’s political parties to do his dirty work.
That’s the danger of au tocracies. People can be forced to satisfy the whims of crazed individuals.
As long as Putin remains in power, we can only ex pect more of the mayhem.
— Susan LynnFirst, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Donald Trump appointee, granted the former president’s re quest for a “special master” to review documents he took from the White House, a baffling decision derided by legal experts across the political spectrum. Worse, Cannon ruled that the FBI couldn’t have access to clas sified documents, thwarting a probe with national secu rity implications — anoth er head-scratching stance that an appeals court later overturned in blistering lan guage.
Then, last week, Can non overruled the special master that she herself ap pointed, saying Trump’s lawyers don’t have to pro vide evidence of his baseless claim that the FBI “planted” documents in his home. It has become glaringly obvi ous that this judge shares Trump’s corruptly transac tional approach to politics. She shouldn’t preside in this case.
Trump has offered mul tiple unlikely explanations for why he took and stored classified federal documents (some of which dealt with nuclear weapons) at his Florida home and refused to return them until they were finally retrieved during a court-ordered search. He has claimed executive priv ilege, which doesn’t apply to ex-presidents. He has claimed that presidents have the power to declassify doc uments just “by thinking about it.” He has suggested, with zero evidence, that the FBI planted documents in his home during his search.
What self-respecting judge would tolerate such non sense? Why, Cannon, whom Trump nominated late in his term and whose thin ré sumé includes membership
in the Federalist Society, the right-wing activist breed ing ground of so many of Trump’s judicial appointees.
Still, even most Trump-ap pointed judges have admi rably upheld their duty to unbiased interpretation of the law. In fact, Trump appointed two of the threejudge appellate panel that found Cannon “abused (her) discretion” in suspending the FBI’s probe of the docu ments.
But Cannon wasn’t done carrying Trump’s water. On Thursday, she ruled that Trump could ignore a decision from the special master — whom she ap pointed at Trump’s request — that would have required Trump’s lawyers to either prove his false claim that the FBI planted documents, or quit claiming it. In other words, said Cannon, Trump is free to continue muddy ing the case with innuendo without having to back it up.
Appellate courts can reas sign cases to different judges based on bias, though that’s an extreme step that isn’t usually undertaken merely because a judge’s rulings favor one side and don’t make legal sense; generally, the remedy for that is to get those decisions overturned on appeal. But this is an un usual case in that Cannon’s apparent bias may have jeop ardized national security in her attempt to stall the FBI’s investigation into the con tents of the classified docu ments.
The Justice Department should ask Cannon to recuse herself, and if she refuses, it should appeal for reassign ment of the case. This is too important to leave on the docket of someone whose loyalty is clearly to Trump instead of the law.
zakhstan, says his country will offer a safe haven to Rus sian draft-dodgers.
Vladimir Putin’s war is, first and foremost, a war against the Ukrainian peo ple, who are being bombed, robbed, raped and killed by his army. But it is also a war against millions of Russians, whose lives and futures their president is willing to sacri fice in pursuit of his imperial fantasies. Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have al ready died in battle. Having suffered a series of humili ating defeats in Ukraine, Mr. Putin plans to throw yet more young men and women into the furnace.
His order for mass mobili zation has caused shock and panic in Russia. Mr. Putin calls it “partial mobiliza tion,” but there appears to be no legal limit to the number of people he can force to go and fight. This has shattered the illusion among Russians that they could ignore his war, or support it passively without disruption to their daily lives.
Until now, those who op pose Mr. Putin’s war — rough ly estimated to be at least 30% of Russians, most of them young — have been afraid to speak out. But mobilization has changed their calculus. Faced with the prospect of dying in a frozen Ukrainian field, many have loudly pro tested against the mobili zation. In the past few days nearly 2,500 people have been detained in protests that have erupted from Dagestan to Yakutia. Some have emerged from police cells with visible injuries; others with draft pa pers. Many face prosecution. At least 20 military recruit ment centers have been at tacked or torched, sometimes resulting in the destruction of paper records identifying those eligible for the draft.
Others have voted with their feet. Russian officials report that at least 260,000 people have fled the country since Mr. Putin issued his call.
Most have crossed land borders into Georgia and Ka zakhstan, neither of which require Russian citizens to hold visas. Kassym-Jomart Tokaev, the president of Ka
The much richer countries of Europe, by contrast, have been less welcoming. Among large European countries only Germany and France have so far indicated that they are willing to let Rus sians in. To get there, howev er, most would have to cross borders with the Baltic states and Finland. These countries are a lot less keen.
They — and others — have reasonable excuses. Poland has already accommodated millions of Ukrainian refu gees. Russia’s neighbors, in cluding the tiny Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithua nia, have bitter experience of being ruled from Moscow and remain under constant threat from Mr. Putin, who claims a right to “protect” ethnic Rus sians in neighboring states. Estonia and Latvia have substantial Rus sian-speaking minorities, so adding a large influx of young Russian men understandably makes them nervous. You can see why they refuse to open their bor ders — though they might consider letting draft-dodg ers pass through en route to the rest of the EU.
Expelling Russian forces from Ukraine will be hard. Mr. Putin may be an incompe tent commander, but he has nuclear weapons and dictato rial control of a vast country. The war cannot be won on the battlefield alone. It will also have to be won inside Russia, when enough Russians see it for the pointless waste of life it is and demand that it ends.
The struggle for Russian hearts and minds is one that must be waged primarily by Russians themselves. Mr. Pu tin is attempting to rally sup port with the argument that the entire West is fighting Russia, and that it holds Rus sians in contempt and wants to destroy their country. The West counters that its argu ment is with Mr Putin and his regime, not the Russian people. It does not want the destruction of Russia, but for Mr Putin to leave Ukraine to determine its own future as a sovereign na tion.
Forcing people to stay and accept the draft so that they get sent to the front to kill and die is cruel. It is also likely to be coun terproductive.
Other countries have less creditable reasons for drag ging their feet. Privately, European officials and diplo mats argue that if Russians are unable or unwilling to overthrow Mr. Putin’s re gime, they bear some respon sibility for it.
This argument is flawed. Forcing people to stay and ac cept the draft so that they get sent to the front to kill and die is cruel. It is also likely to be counterproductive. Closing an escape route could in theo ry increase the pressure on a dictatorship, feed dissent and hasten its collapse, but that is not how it has worked out in, say, North Korea. More probably, shutting the border would strengthen Mr. Putin’s regime by seeming to con firm the story he tells Rus sians — that their country is under siege by a hostile West.
If Europe shuts its bor ders to all Russians, it is handing Mr. Putin tangible evidence that he is right. It undermines Europe’s credi bility as a defender of human rights and alienates those parts of Russian society whose interests and values are most strongly aligned with the European Union and Ukraine. It is also fail ing to shelter the people best suited to rebuild the Russian state once he is gone. Just as it did in the cold war, the West should offer safe haven to the Russians with whom it has no argument.
If the exodus of draftable Russians continues, Mr. Pu tin may decide to impose his own travel ban on them. In other words, the man who called the collapse of the So viet Union the “greatest geo political catastrophe” of the 20th century may partly rec reate the Iron Curtain. Now, as then, the West should let the tyrant in Moscow take the blame for restricting Rus sians’ freedom, and welcome the brave souls who escape.
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gency Sunday and strongly recommended that residents in certain areas evacuate.
The Eastern Shore and northern portion of North Carolina’s Outer Banks were also likely to be impacted.
At least 68 people have been confirmed dead: 61 in Florida, four in North Carolina and three in Cuba.
In Florida, Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy told NBC’s “Today Show” on Monday that the search and rescue mission would be taking place for the next couple of days. Murphy said that was why residents who evacuated are largely being kept away from their homes.
With the death toll rising, Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said the federal government was ready to help in a huge way, focusing first on victims in Florida, which took the brunt of one of the strongest storms to make landfall in the United States.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden plan to visit the state on Wednesday.
Flooded roadways and washed-out bridges to barrier islands left many people isolated amid limited cellphone service and a lack of basic amenities such as water, electricity and the internet. Officials warned that the situation in many areas isn’t expected to improve for several days because the rain that fell has nowhere to go because waterways are overflowing.
About 600,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without electricity on Monday morning, down from a peak of 2.6 million.
The current goal is to restore power by Sun-
day to customers whose power lines and other electric infrastructure is still intact, Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said Monday. It does not include homes or areas where infrastructure needs to be rebuilt.
More than 1,600 people have been rescued statewide, according to Florida’s emergency management agency.
Rescue missions were ongoing, especially to barrier islands near Fort Myers in southwest Florida that were cut off from the mainland when storm surges destroyed causeways and bridges.
The state will build a temporary traffic passageway for the largest one, Pine Island, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Sunday, adding that an allocation had been approved for Deportment of Transportation to build it this week and construction could start as soon as Monday.
“It’s not going to be a full bridge, you’re going to have to go over it probably at 5 miles an hour or something, but it’ll at least let people get in and off the island with their vehicles,” the governor said at a news
conference.
In Virginia, the U.S. Navy postponed the first-ever deployment of the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier, according to a statement from the Navy’s 2nd Fleet. The carrier and other U.S. ships were scheduled to leave Norfolk on Monday for training exercises in the Atlantic Ocean with vessels from other NATO Countries.
Coast Guard, municipal and private crews have been using helicopters, boats and even jetskis to evacuate people over the past several days.
In rural Seminole County, north of Orlando, residents donned waders, boots and bug spray to paddle to their flooded homes Sunday.
Ben Bertat found 4 inches of water in his house by Lake Harney after kayaking there.
“I think it’s going to get worse because all of this water has to get to the lake” said Bertat, pointing to the water flooding a nearby road.
“With ground saturation, all this swamp is full and it just can’t take any more water. It doesn’t look like it’s getting any lower.”
Europe faces “unprecedented risks” to its natural gas supplies this winter after Russia cut off most pipeline shipments and could wind up competing with Asia for already scarce and expensive liquid gas that comes by ship, the International Energy Agency said.
The Paris-based IEA said in its quarterly gas report released Monday that European Union countries would need to reduce use by 13% over the winter in case of a complete Russian cutoff amid the war in Ukraine. Much of that cutback would have to come from consumer behavior such as turning down thermostats by 1 degree and adjusting boiler temperatures as well as industrial and utility conservation, the group said.
The EU on Friday agreed to mandate a reduction in electricity consumption by at least 5% during peak price
hours.
Just a trickle of Russian gas is still arriving in pipelines through Ukraine to Slovakia and across the Black Sea through Turkey to Bulgaria. Two other routes, under the Baltic Sea to Germany and through Belarus and Poland, have shut down.
Another hazard in the study was a late winter cold snap, which would be particularly challenging because underground gas reserves flow more slowly at the end of the season due to less gas and lower pressure in the storage caverns. The EU has already filled storage to 88%, ahead of its goal of 80% before winter. The IEA assumed 90% would be needed in its Russian cutoff scenario.
Businesses in Europe have already cut back natural gas use, sometimes simply by abandoning energy-intensive activity such as making steel and fertilizer, while smaller businesses like bakeries are feeling a severe crimp
in their costs.
High prices for gas, which is used for heating homes, generating electricity and a host of industrial processes are feeding through to record consumer inflation of 10% in the 19 EU member countries that use the euro and sapping so much consumer purchasing power that economists predict a recession at the end of this year and the beginning of next.
European governments and utilities have made up much of the Russian shortfall by purchasing expensive supplies of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, that comes by ship from countries such as the U.S. and Qatar and by obtaining increased pipeline supply from Norway and Azerbaijan.
The goal is to prevent storage levels from falling so far that governments must ration gas to businesses. Gas storage must remain above 33% for a secure winter, according to the IEA, while levels below that risk shortages if there’s a late cold snap.
By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register
The Iola Mustangs dropped their homecoming football game to Burlington on Friday, 20-18.
Even with the defeat, the Mustangs may have found a second-half identity. Iola outscored the Wildcats 18-7 in the second half. Last week, the Mustangs outscored Anderson County 21-0 in the second half.
Burlington got on the scoreboard first when Cam Stadel rushed the ball in from one yard out for a 7-0 Wildcat advantage with seven minutes left in the first half.
Stadel wasn’t done there though as he took a 25-yard rush to the house on the next drive for a 13-0 Burlington lead. Iola came up empty on a drive in the final minute of the half to remain scoreless.
“It’s really been three weeks in a row now. If you look back at our three second halves, we’ve won each second half but we’ve lost each first half,” said Iola head coach David Daugharthy. “If we can put together a full game, we’re going to be a pretty tough team to beat.”
Burlington scored again shortly into the second half when Grant Hegg hauled in a 20-yard touchdown pass for
Iola’s Landon Weide (2) makes a pass with a Burlington defender in his face on Friday, Sept. 30. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT
the 20-0 visitors lead.
The Mustangs got a huge momentum boost on the next kickoff when Eli Adams took the return to the end zone to cut the deficit to 20-6.
“He (Adams) played really well tonight and when he had his opportunities he really shined. It’s pretty crazy that this is his first year playing football ever. It is so impressive that he’s able to do that,” said Daugharthy. “That kickoff return was a big spark for
us.” Landon Weide then hit Hutton out wide for a five-yard touchdown pass on the next Iola offensive drive with four minutes left in the third quarter to make the score 20-12.
The Mustangs missed their second-straight field goal attempt to keep the game at an eight-point difference.
The next drive brought Iola within two points as Weide hit Korbin Cloud on a 59-yard touchdown pass. The team
then came up short on a twopoint conversion attempt to keep the deficit at 20-18.
Iola earned one more opportunity at the end zone when the special teams blocked a Burlington punt and recovered the ball at the 45-yard line. The Mustangs, however, couldn’t translate that into another score.
“They showed tremendous grit, specifically in the second half. I felt like it was a whole different defense. In the second half we really stepped up and were the dominant defensive unit on the field, it was just too little too late,” said Daugharthy.
Jake Skahan and Briggs Michael led Iola defensively with seven tackles apiece while Eli Adams collected five tackles.
Weide passed for two touchdowns and 188 yards. His longest pass came on the 59-yard touchdown strike to Cloud. Cloud hauled in 99 yards through the air while Carter Hutton brought in 64 receiving yards.
Mustang Tre Wilson finished his day as the leading rusher, going for 44 yards on the ground including a 35yard rush on his first carry of the game.
Iola will host Girard next Friday at 7 p.m. at Riverside Park.
CISCO, Texas — The ACC volleyball team split a pair of matchups at Seminole State College and Cisco College on Saturday.
Allen Community College toppled Seminole State College with set scores of 25-22, 25-15 and 25-11.
The team amassed 37 kills
through the three sets. Katherine Harris led the Lady Red Devils with 11 kills while Veronica Agostini made eight kills and Abby Al-
tic registered six kills.
Guilia Gonclaves led from the serving line with 21 aces, followed by Harris’ seven
The Allen Community College men’s soccer team took down Southeast Community College at home on Sunday afternoon, 2-0.
The Red Devils (8-2-1; 2-1) got back on track with the victory following the team’s first loss of the season at Hesston on Sept. 24. Allen is also undefeated on their home turf this season at 5-0.
Shutting out teams is one of head coach Doug Desmarteau’s main goal this season in controlling both possession of the ball and chances at the goal.
It was a quiet first half for Allen considering the team footed 14 shots and seven shots on goal. The team couldn’t get any momentum to get on the board and headed to the locker room all knotted up at 0-0.
Red Devil Yuki Ikezaki found the back of the net eight minutes into the second half when he finished a Tavar Lawrence pass for the one goal advantage.
With 15 minutes remaining in the match, Boikaego Mbaakanyi footed an unassisted goal for the 2-0 advantage.
Ikezaki led the scoring attack for the Red Devils as he sent five shots and four shots on goal, followed by Romario Tomlinson’s three shots and
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HARTFORD — Marmaton Valley High’s Brayden Lawson rushed for 245 yards and six touchdowns and threw for another score Friday as the Wildcats fended off a pesky Hartford squad, 52-46.
“He’s a great passer, but he’s also a tank to tackle,” Wildcat head coach Max Mickunas said of his sophomore quarterback.
The Wildcats overcame struggles late in the first half that allowed Hartford to rebound from a 26-8 deficit and tie the score at intermission.
“They have a quarterback who’s super elusive,” Mickunas said. “He scrambled around and made some big plays. We threw an interception, and they were able to crawl back into the game.” Marmaton Valley made some key adjustments from there.
“We really leaned on Brayden,” Mickunas said, noting Lawson racked up 38 carries. “I don’t know if he’s ever run that many times in junior high, but that’s the most I’ve ever run a quarterback.”
Lawson completed 7 of 11 passes for 155 yards and another score.
Fellow sophomore Jaedon Granere had four receptions for 73 yards and 33 yards
on six carries, to go with two touchdowns, one on the ground and the other through
the air. Senior Dylan Drake had two receptions for 49 yards. Tyler Lord had three carries for eight yards.
Defensively, Granere had a team-high nine tackles, including two sacks. Evanm Kent added seven stops, including one behind the line of scrimmage. Lord and freshman Brevyn Campbell each had five tackles.
The victory puts Marmaton Valley (3-2) at 2-0 in district play, which qualifies the Wildcats for the playoffs.
“We’re happy, but not satisfied,” Mickunas said, noting the Wildcats end the regular season with a brutal threegame gauntlet, starting Friday at home against Crest.
“They start eight seniors and have 11 seniors total,” Mickunas said. “We know they’re going to be a tough matchup for us. We just want to leave it all out on the field.”
Another doozy follows with a trip to Lebo the following week before MV wraps up the regular season at home against perennial power St. Paul.
“We’re in the playoffs,” Mickunas said. “We just want to improve our seeding.”
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HUMBOLDT — Hum boldt wasted little time in showing off its pass ing game against vis iting Eureka Friday evening, as sophomore quarterback Blake El lis connected with Sam Hull on a 40-yard touch down pass on the Cubs’ first play from scrim mage.
Humboldt’s ground game took things from there, with senior run ning back Trey Sommer racking up 160 rushing yards and four touch downs.
Humboldt overcame a few first-half hiccups to pull away for a 42-14 victory.
The win improves Humboldt to 4-1 on the season and 1-1 in Class 2A, District 2 play, and sets up what should be a mammoth contest next Friday at Osage City.
Like Humboldt, Osage City is at 4-1 on the sea son, with both teams chasing Council Grove, which rallied last week to hand Humboldt its only loss of the year.
“We kind of dropped the ball last week,” Humboldt head coach Logan Wyrick said. “We’re playing behind the 8-ball, but we still hold our own destiny, as long as we keep taking care of business.”
Sommer, who entered Friday’s contest averag ing nearly 140 yards a game, took control late in the first quarter and never looked back.
He powered his way in for a 5-yard run late in the first half, then reversed course on an option play to the left midway through the second quarter, outrac ing the Tornado defense
22 yards to paydirt for an 18-6 lead.
Another 3-yard touch down in the third quar ter preceded Sommer’s final scoring jaunt of the evening, a 50-yard scamper up the middle early in the fourth peri od.
That score pushed Humboldt ahead 42-6, triggering a running clock for the balance of the contest.
But while the score board suggested an easy win, Eureka was any thing but a walkover.
Carson Spoonts, the Tornadoes’ rifle-armed junior quarterback, proved dangerous when
given time to throw.
He threw for a pair of touchdowns, including a 65-yard dart to Zacha ry Hilton, and narrowly missed out on a 71-yard scoring strike when it was called back due to a holding penalty.
“We knew they had some good skill players, and they showed that,” Wyrick said. “We knew what they were capable of.”
Humboldt also stum bled a bit in the first half. One drive short-circuit ed when two would-be touchdowns were called back due to penalties.
An interception ended another potential scor
ing chance late in the first half.
“We had a little bit of a slump in the first half, and they were able to do some things to frustrate us,” Wyrick said. “But the good thing was the guys kept battling, and we were able to take care of some things.”
Ellis rushed for 66 yards and threw for 117, including another pinpoint spiral down the middle to Jacob Har rington, covering 54 yards.
“We’re a run-first team, but we saw some thing and took a shot,” Wyrick said.
Hull added 40 yards
on his lone reception.
But while it’s always nice to pick up a win on Homecoming Night – William Koboldt was crowned king; Leah Mueller queen — it’s time to focus on Osage City, Wyrick said.
“They’re always a good team, always a well-coached team,” he said. “They’re always a tough out, no matter what.We know we’ve got our work cut out for us.” Eureka 6-0-0-8—14 Humboldt 12-6-16-8—42
First quarter Humboldt — Hull 40 yard pass from Ellis (run failed)
Eureka — Cornett 7 yard pass from Spoonts (run failed) Humboldt — Sommer 5 yd run (run failed)
Second quarter Humboldt — Sommer 22 yard run (run failed)
Third quarter
Humboldt — Sommer 3 yard run (Sommer run)
Humboldt — Slocum 14 yard pass from Ellis (Slocum pass from Sommer)
Fourth quarter
Humboldt — Sommer 50 yard run (Mathes run)
Eureka — Hilton 65 yard pass from Spoonts (Hilton pass from Spoonts)
Stats
Rushing Humboldt — Sommer, 22160; Ellis, 10-66; Mathes, 6-33; Slocum, 3-14; Hull, 1-4; team 1-(-1). Eureka — Boulanger, 12-60; Cornett, 1-7; Spoonts, 6-(-20).
Passing Humboldt — Ellis, 4-10117; Sommer, 0-4-0; Hull, 0-10. Eureka — Spoonts, 8-23152.
Receiving Humboldt — Harrington, 1-54; Hull, 1-40; Slocum, 2-23. Eureka — Cornett, 5-68; Hil ton, 1-65; Valentine, 1-14; Howard, 1-5.
UNIONTOWN — Marmaton Valley Ju nior High rebounded from a slow start Sat urday to finish in a tie for second at the Uniontown Invitation al Tournament.
“For the day, we were 3-2,” head coach Bren da Mills said. “We were happy to come around and finish the day with three straight wins.”
Marmaton Valley opened with a tough, three-set loss to host Uniontown, 25-27, 25-17 and 15-4.
Andie Carr led the Wildcats with 12
points, followed by Taylen Blevins with four, Layla Cook and Addisyn Drake with three each and Jae Beachner with one.
The struggles con tinued in a straight-set loss to Yates Center, 25-13 and 25-10. Drake and Emma Michael each had three points. Beachner and Blevins both had a single point.
But the tide began to shift from there.
The Wildcats romped past Pleasanton, 25-12 and 25-17, with Drake pouring in 14 points. Beachner and Blevins
scored five apiece. Carr scored four, Michael two and Cook one.
A hard-fought win over Crest, 25-20 and 25-19, was keyed by Mi chael with nine pints and Blevins with six. Dake, Carr and Beach ner all scored four, while Cook had three.
Marmaton Valley se cured the second-place tie with a three-set win over Jayhawk-Linn, 2725, 19-25 and 15-2.
Blevins ended the match with 20 points, Cook scored six, Drake and Carr each had four and Michael had three.
COLONY — Crest High dominated St. Paul on Friday night, 60-14.
The game began with both sides scoring touchdowns and going back and forth in the first half.
Following two St. Paul touchdowns, the Crest defense changed its at tack and shut out the Indians the rest of the night.
“We made a couple of adjustments defensive ly and started blitzing a little more to help take away the passing game,” said Crest head coach Nick McAnulty.
The Lancer offense only threw the ball three times and used the run game to score most of their points. The offen sive line blocked well
and Crest scored six rushing touchdowns.
“Offensively we used our size advantage to re ally move them up front and relied heavily on our running game, only throwing the ball three times. We were very physical and it was a lot of fun to watch the big blocks taking place from every position on the field,” McAnulty said.
Holden Barker led the Crest rushing attack with five touchdowns and 203 ground yards on 16 carries. Ethan God derz scored a touchdown and went for 83 ground yards.
Godderz threw the ball three times for two touchdowns and 57 yards. He connected on all three passes with
Stetson Setter.
“I was really proud of the guys staying lev el headed when they scored early on us, and not panicking. They stayed the course and trusted each other,” said McAnulty.
Defensively, Barker racked up 11 tackles and four sacks while also forcing a fumble. Avery Blaufuss made 10 tack les.
Crest will hit the road to take on Marmaton Valley Friday at 7 p.m.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Jace Gilbert missed three field goals, including a 37-yarder with a chance to tie the game with under 30 seconds to play as Kansas held off Iowa State 14-11 on Saturday to remain undefeated.
At 5-0 overall, this is the Jayhawks’ best start to the season since 2009 and just the second time in the last 14 years they’re 2-0 to begin Big 12 Conference play.
“This feels different because of what this group has been though,” Kansas coach Lance Leipold said. “We’ve only been here 16 months and focusing on how we can improve, but I’m so happy for them because we can see what it does in the community, the stands, togetherness and these are great things to build upon.”
Jalon Daniels and
the offensive end,” Dekkers said. “If we do that, we’ll be just fine. I was alright today, but I got some things I need to do better.”
Dekkers’ interception in the second quarter ended up turning into a touchdown for the Jayhawks, a 2-yard run by Daniels for a 14-0 lead.
game 5-for-5 on field goals for the Cyclones but missed two kicks off the post — one in the first quarter and another in the fourth — which proved costly.
we have seven games to go,” Leipold said about the start of the season.
Daniel Hishaw both scored rushing touchdowns for the Jayhawks, who were shut out in the second half, but did just enough to hang on for the victory.
“Before the season I said adversity is going to come at some point,” Daniels said. “We had some adversity today as an offense, but seeing the defense being able
to come through when needed, we really love that.”
Daniels threw for 93 yards while Iowa State’s Hunter Dekkers had 278 passing yards but threw a costly interception in the second quarter.
“They did a good job mixing things up with their different blitzes and we have a lot of things to clean up on
“I think the quarterback has to have great precision to detail,” Iowa State coach Matt Campbell said. “We’ll have to look at the video tape and see what that looked like and he can continue to go forward. He had some positive moments and some moments he wants back.”
Iowa State got on the board just before halftime with Dekkers’ 7-yard pass to Easton Dean. A two-point conversion after a botched PAT snap drew the Cyclones within 14-8.
Gilbert came into the
The Cyclones didn’t do hardly anything on the ground after Jirehl Brock left the game with an injury. The leading rusher for the Cyclones had just eight of Iowa State’s 26 total yards on the ground.
“We won’t know until early in the week,” Campbell said. “I don’t think it’s going to be lengthy more week-toweek.”
Kansas didn’t score in the second half, but big defensive stops lead the Jayhawks to another victory for this upstart team.
“Based on what everyone thinks where this program was going to be, yeah, but we’ve got to finish this story and
“I said we weren’t going to measure the improvement with the scoreboard last year and the improvement has helped the buy in and you start trying to find ways to win these close games.”
Iowa State: The Cyclones looked a bit out of sorts all day and probably could’ve won this game against lesser Kansas teams. It’s the first time the Cyclones have lost to Kansas since 2014.
Kansas: They did just enough to win this game and showed they can win a defensive battle after shootouts in their first four games of the season.
UP NEXT Kansas faces TCU at home on Saturday. Iowa State hosts Kansas State the same day.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes threw for 249 yards and three touchdowns, including an electrifying jump pass to Clyde Edwards-Helaire, to lead the Kansas City Chiefs to a 41-31 victory over Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night.
Playing in a packed stadium only four days after Hurricane Ian ravaged portions of Florida, Mahomes had TD throws of 16 yards to Travis Kelce, 1 yard to
Edwards-Helaire and 10 yards to Jody Fortson while making NFL history by reaching 20,000 yards passing faster than anyone else.
Edwards-Helaire and tight end Noah Gray rushed for TDs for the Chiefs (3-1), who won the first meeting between Mahomes and Brady since Tampa Bay’s 31-9 rout of Kansas City in the Super Bowl — also played at Raymond James Stadium — two seasons ago.
By DAN GELSTON
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Doc Rivers is at ease using his platform as an NBA coach to fight bigotry and racial injustice, campaign for politicians he believes in and advocate for social change on themes ranging from poverty to police brutality.
Sometimes, his speeches sound like they were delivered by someone running for office. Might the 60-yearold Rivers, the son of a Chicago police officer, someday stump for change as an actual politician?
“Oh God, no. I wouldn’t win, number one,” Rivers said. “And number two, that’s not what I want to be.”
Rivers is fine with wading into political waters — and the older he gets and the more he learns about modern issues and Black history with deep meaning to him, the more he speaks out. At Donald Trump. At police misconduct. At the horrors of racism that have shadowed him his entire life. At the idea that, even as coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, it can still be hard to find his place as a Black man in America.
“When you hear, ‘America first,’ that scares me, because I’m a Black man and that’s not including me,” Rivers said last week in an interview with The Associated Press. “I want
us to all be included. I want us all to function with each other.”
Rivers has become an agent of change in the NBA and found his voice as an activist, trying to contribute perhaps more to the league than he has already, first as an All-Star guard and then with a coaching career that includes the 2008 championship with Boston and a spot this year on the list of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History. That outreach starts at home — or perhaps, on this point, on the road — where Rivers used training camp not just as the usual time to rehash X’s and O’s but as a daily history class. The Sixers practiced at The Citadel, the military college where tanks and jets and plaques dedicated to prisoners of wars dot the campus, an education all part of Rivers’ plan to squeeze more out of camp than basketball.
“All of it is good for us,” Rivers said.
The Sixers usually hold camp at their New Jersey complex but Rivers wanted to strengthen team bonding with a road trip. The Sixers gathered last week for team dinners, played card and video games, and had serious conversations, the type of day-to-day activities largely shelved the last two seasons because of COVID-19 protocols.
“When you have camp at home, you don’t get that,” Rivers said.
“They go home at the end of practice and they don’t spend time with each other.”
Rivers was a guard with the Knicks in the early 1990s when the team held camp at the College of Charleston. Back then, coach Pat Riley made the players walk from the team hotel to the arena.
The 76ers stuck to the team bus last week.
Rivers and the Sixers organized field trips to the Old Slave Mart Museum, often staffed by individuals who trace their history to the enslaved people of Charleston, and to the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Citadel
President Gen. Glenn Walters and retired professor and historian Bernard Powers both spoke to the team.
“My people, my African people coming here, the people that gave up their lives for us to be able to be in this position, it was good to learn about all of that,” said center Joel Embiid, who was born in Cameroon and recently became a U.S. citizen.
Powers said by phone that he talked to the Sixers at their team hotel about such topics as the role Charleston played in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the slave revolt of 1739 and the descendants of enslaved people known as Gullah,
BURLINGTON — The Iola Middle School volleyball team finished in sixth place at a league tournament in Burlington on Saturday.
The Mustangs competed against Prairie View, Anderson County and Santa Fe Trail.
Iola began the action by falling to Prairie View in three sets, 25-7, 20-25 and 15-7.
Addilyn Wacker led at the serving line with one ace while Bella Wilson, Shaylee Karns, Tierce
Moore and Kali Joy each passed the ball well, setting up good hits for the setter.
“Overall, the girls did an amazing job of not giving up when they played the Buffaloes,” said Iola head coach Aubrey Westhoff.
Iola came away with a win against Anderson County, winning in two sets, 25-16 and 27-25.
Wacker led again from the serving line with four aces while Olivia Matthews, Moore and Karns
each passed the ball well for the much-needed Mustang points.
“Coach King-DeNoon and I were so proud of the girls for taking the Bulldogs in two sets. They were communicating and playing as a team,” Westhoff said.
Iola won their final matchup with Santa Fe in back-to-back sets, 2513 and 25-22.
Wacker registered one ace in the win over Santa Fe Trail. Kali Joy, Matthews, Wilson, Wacker,
Karns and Moore all passed the ball well again.
“This last match the girls as a team were passing the ball so well,” said Westhoff. “They all worked so hard to get their passes to where they needed to be. We are so proud of how far the girls came this year. Watching all their improvements was enjoyable to watch.”
The tournament puts
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two shots on goal. Gustavo Guarnieri, Methembe Mzizi and Lawrence also each totaled
two shots on goal.
Allen managed to get off 17 shots on goal in the match for Southeast goalkeeper Luca Zucchetti to make 15 saves in
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aces and Andrea Maldonado’s four aces.
Defensively, Maldonado led with 19 digs, Karsyn Smith and Agostini had 14 kills apiece and Gonclaves knocked 13 digs. Lexi Deweese, Harris and Altic had one solo block each in the victory.
Overall, Harris led the scoring with 14 points, Agostini had nine points and Deweese had eight points. Altic also contributed 7.5 points while Arlette Becerra totaled six points.
Allen slipped up to Cisco College in three sets, 25-18, 25-22 and 25-17.
Altic led offensively with nine kills, followed by Agostini’s seven kills and Alycia Shaw and Harris’ six kills apiece.
Gonclaves managed to serve up 20 aces through the three sets while Harris ripped eight ace serves.
Defensively, Maldonado and Agostini made 17 digs apiece while Harris made 10 digs. Shaw and Becerra also made one solo block each. Altic led in points with nine, followed by Agostini’s eight points and Shaw’s seven points.
Allen hosts Independence Community College on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
net. Red Devil goalkeeper Samuel Montanez was only forced to make two saves with only a pair of Storm shots on goal in 90 minutes.
who live in small island communities scattered over 425 miles (684 kilometers) of the Southern Atlantic U.S. coast.
“This was the port where a greatly disproportionate number of Africans were brought here,” Powers said. “This place, more than any other, might be very likely a source of their ancestry. They could think about perhaps having a personal connection to this place.”
Rivers believed the experiences resonated with a team full of 20-somethings all the way up to coaching staff veterans.
“Teaching American history is under assault right now. And
it’s not Black history or teaching about slavery, it’s American history,” Rivers said. “And so I was amazed. The first thing that I was taught the other day was, how many players, and not only players, coaches, came up to me and said, ‘Wow, I never was taught that in my history class.’”
Rivers referenced learning about shameful historic chapters such as the Tulsa Race Massacre as an adult rather than learning about the white mobs in school as one reason he has pushed for more Black history to be taught in all schools.
“You should know your history.”
ACC will be back in action on Saturday when they host Central Community College-Columbus on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.