The Iola Register, July 5, 2023

Iola radio station sells

By THE REGISTER

STAFF Tom and Monica Norris, owners of 101.5 KIKS and 1370 / 99.3 KIOL Radio for the past 16 years, announced Friday they’ve sold Iola Radio to Ad Astra Per Aspera Broadcasting.

The changeover took place Saturday. Ad Astra owns nine other radio stations in Kansas. Ad Astra Radio began in 1986 with one station and is now in its second generation as a family-owned business. With the addition of the KIKS and KIOL, Ad Astra Radio will become the largest family-owned radio station company based in Kansas with stations in Hutchinson, Larned, Lyons and McPherson areas.

“They’re really big on doing local news, sports and community service,” Tom Norris said in a news release.

As an aside, Tom and Monica met while working at Ad Astra Radio in 1990.

“I’VE HAD the pleasure of knowing Tom and Monica for over 30 years,” Ad Astra president Chris Shank said. “In fact, when I first started DJ-ing at Ad Astra Radio

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New state laws on the books

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Jay Schumacher was locked up at the Ellis County Jail on a charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of his wife, but under Kansas law could spend the couple’s assets while awaiting trial for offenses capable of sending him to prison for decades.

A loophole in the state’s so-called slayer law compelled Jeremiah Schumacher, the son of alleged perpetrator Jay and domestic violence victim Karen, to plead with the 2023 Kansas Legislature to adopt a statute to prevent distribution of assets until resolution of crim-

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Marijuana grow site discovered

By THE REGISTER STAFF BOURBON

COUNTY – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation discovered what was described as an extensive outdoor marijuana growing operation Thursday, capable of producing about $1.7 million worth of cannabis.

Tom and Monica Norris, left, owners of KIKS and KIOL radio stations in Iola for the past 16 years, have sold the stations to Ad Astra Per Aspera Broadcasting, based in Hutchinson. The acquisition makes Ad Astra the largest family-owned radio station company based in Kansas, with 11 stations across the state.

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The discovery was announced in a Friday press release, in which the KBI said was a joint investigation with several other agencies began after receiving information about a possible operation near the intersection of 35th Street and K-65 Highway, about 7 miles north of Bronson.

Upon arriving at the location Thursday morning, law enforcement spotted an unknown subject who fled the area, and could not be located, according to the press release.

A total of 1,350 marijuana plants were seized, along with camping gear, firearms, a vehicle and growing paraphernalia, such as watering devices, garden sprayers,

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Beatlemania coming to Bowlus

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

(With

all due apologies to Paul Harvey.)

Louise Harrison Caldwell was used to being a fish out of water.

She grew up in England, fell in love and married an engineer for a coal mining company — 15 years her senior — and soon found herself living on the other side of the globe, in a small town in southern Illinois.

One of her biggest passions was supporting her brother George, a teenage musician eager to make a name for himself.

His group, The Quarrymen, showed promise.

Louise’s mother often sent letters, updating her on her brother’s exploits.

“George got his motoring license today.”

“George was in Germany with his band. He sent me $2.”

Louise, more than a decade older than her brother, wanted to help any way she could.

She sent records of her brother’s songs to local radio stations, appealing to DJs near and far to give the songs a listen.

Almost always the answer was no.

Louise wasn’t one to give up easily, even with some of the commentary she re-

ceived.

“Shouldn’t you be in the kitchen?”

Louise filed away the letters for safekeeping as well as those from her mother and the occasional correspondence from her father.

Despite the stream of rejections, she remained undaunted.

Even the Quarrymen’s old manager, Brian, had asked if Louise would be willing to promote the music.

ONLY ONCE, in a small Illinois radio station, did a DJ say yes. “From Me To You” was a peppy number written

as an ode to the letters section of a local newspaper.

George even paid his older sister a visit one summer, and earned an invitation to play a gig at a VFW banquet hall in Benton, Illinois. The music was good. The crowd was maybe 250.

That fateful summer of 1963 became a significant bit of trivia.

By then, The Quarrymen had taken on a new name, complete with a pair of front men who frequently collaborated on their musical pieces. George, a bit younger than his bandmates, was content in the background.

He was the silent one after all.

As you may have guessed, George and his bandmates, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, were The Beatles. George’s return trip to the United States the second time around was a bit different.

While he was able to anonymously walk the streets in southern Illinois in September 1963, only six months later the group arrived in New York City to mobs of screaming fans. They sang on the

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The Liverpool Legends, a Beatles tribute band founded by Louise Harrison Caldwell, sister of George Harrison, will be at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center July 21. COURTESY

NATO preps plans to defend against unbowed Russia

BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia’s armed forces are bruised but by no means beaten in the war in Ukraine, a top NATO military officer said Monday, as he laid out the biggest revamp to the organization’s military plans since the Cold War should Moscow dare to widen the conflict.

“They might not be 11 feet tall, but they are certainly not 2 feet tall,” the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, told reporters. “So, we should never underestimate the Russians and their ability to bounce back.”

U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are set to endorse a major shakeup of the alliance’s planning system at a summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius next week.

NATO, as an organization, does not provide weapons or ammunition to Ukraine. It’s sought to avoid being dragged into a wider war with nuclear-armed Russia. At the same time, it is massively re-

inforcing the security of member countries near Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Around 40,000 troops are on standby from Estonia in the north down to Romania on the Black Sea. About 100 aircraft take to the skies in that territory each day, and a total of 27 warships are operating in the Baltic and Mediterranean

Seas. Those numbers are set to rise.

Under its new plans, NATO aims to have up to 300,000 troops ready to move to its eastern flank within 30 days. The plans divide its territory into three zones — the high north and Atlantic area, a zone north of the Alps, and another in southern Europe. Bauer said that NA-

TO’s new planning is based on the strength of the Russian army before President Vladimir Putin launched the war on Ukraine almost 17 months ago. He said the war has depleted Russia’s army, but not its navy or air force.

Of Russia’s ground forces, around “94% is now engaged in the war in Ukraine,” Bauer said.

Cleanup begins after Yellowstone asphalt spill

HELENA, Mont. (AP)

— Globs of asphalt binder that spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River during a bridge collapse and train derailment could be seen on islands and riverbanks downstream from Yellowstone National Park a week after the spill occurred, witnesses report.

Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency said cleanup efforts began on Sunday, with workers cooling the gooey material with river water, rolling it up and putting the globs into garbage bags. It will probably be recycled, said Paul Peronard with the EPA.

Alexis Bonogofsky, whose family’s ranch was impacted by an oil spill on the Yellowstone River near Billings in 2011, took pictures Saturday of the refined petroleum product covering rocks and sandbars. She also snapped an image of a bird that had died in the black substance.

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“This killdeer walked across the asphalt, which had heated up in the sun, and it got stuck and died with its head buried in the asphalt,” Bonogofsky wrote in the caption of an image she posted on social media. “You could tell where it had tried to pull itself out.”

A bridge over the river collapsed as a train crossed it early on June 24 near the town of Columbus and 10 cars fell into the water, spilling liquid asphalt and molten sulfur, officials said. Both materials were expected to cool and harden when exposed to the cold water, and officials said there was no threat to the public or downstream water supplies, officials said.

However, the asphalt binder behaved differently.

“This stuff is not sinking in this water,” Peronard said Sunday.

“It adheres really well to rock, and we can roll it up like taffy on the sand.”

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Pastor Steve Traw’s message Sunday, “Red, White and You,” taken from Matthew 24:3-14. “This passage describes how the Lord would have believers live today,” Traw said.

Myrna Wildschuetz played “The Statue of Liberty” for the prelude and “Then I Met the

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Master” for the offerto ry. There will be no Bible study this Tuesday.

Bonogofsky, in another of her photos, captured a sheen on the water. She said the spilled material heated up with warmer temperatures and “you can smell it.”

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the EPA and Montana Rail Link — the entities managing the cleanup — said more asphalt product was released Friday as a rail car was being removed from the river.

“Initial assessments indicate the release was minimal based on the amount of material believed to still be remaining in the impacted car,” the statement said.

Professor Kayhan Ostovar with the Yellowstone River Research Center at Rocky Mountain College also took pictures Friday of the petroleum product that had washed onto the riverbank about 6 miles downstream from the spill.

Ostevar’s team has been conducting turtle surveys below the derailment and is sharing the GPS locations of sensitive sites that are near areas where the asphalt binder has come to rest.

Turtles are particularly vulnerable to this type of spill, Ostovar said, because they are leaving the

water right now to seek out nesting sites on gravel bars and basking in the sun.

The center was created after the 2011 ExxonMobil pipeline breach to gather better baseline information on species of concern that live in and around the Yellowstone River.

Statements from the agencies and the railroad over the past week have asked people to report the sighting of asphalt materials on the riverbank via email to rpderailment@mtrail. com, and have listed a phone number — 888275-6926 — for the Oiled Wildlife Care Network to report animals with oil on them.

No reports from the public had been received, Peronard said.

Bonogofsky argued it shouldn’t have taken more than a week to develop a cleanup plan, especially since it’s known what materials the trains haul through Montana, as well as the damage the 2011 oil pipeline spill caused.

“We should have plans in place for this and we should have learned our lesson in 2011,” she said, arguing that work to clean up the asphalt binder could have happened at the same time they were removing rail cars from the water.

“What we see in general is that the Russians are careful around NATO. They are not for seeking a conflict with NATO. I think that is a sign that they are very, very busy,” he said. “In the land domain, I don’t think they have a lot of forces available to do anything to anyone else.”

“But we are convinced that the Russians are going to reconstitute,” he said. “We will continue to look at them as a serious threat, in the maritime, and in the air especially, and in space, they are still very, very, capable, let alone of course in nuclear.”

A revolt by Wagner mercenaries in Russia late last month raised deep security concerns in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland after a deal was reached for their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, to be allowed to take refuge in Belarus.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that neighboring countries would face a heightened danger if the Wagner Group deploys its “serial killers” just over their border.

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JoAnn Ludlum

JoAnn Ludlum, 72, Scranton, older sister of Iolan Melinda Tindel, died Sunday, July 1, 2023, in a Kansas City hospital. Cremation has taken place. A private family gathering is planned at Quincy Cemetery near Toronto. Flowers and correspondence may be sent to Tindel at 402 McGuire Dr., Iola, KS 66749.

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Vehicle struck Joyce I. Line was exiting the Iola Walmart parking lot when her car was struck from behind by a van driven by Justin T. Briggs the early morning hours of June 22. Line was at a stop sign, waiting to turn onto State Street, when the accident occurred.

ETFs can spell opportunity

Mutual funds offer investors a chance to own shares in dozens of companies, as well as bonds, government securities, and other investments. But you might be able to broaden your portfolio further by owning another type of fund — an exchange-traded fund (ETF).

An ETF, like a mutual fund, can own an array of investments, including stocks, bonds, and other securities. Many ETFs are passively managed in that they track the performance of a specific index, such as the S&P 500. In this respect, they differ from most mutual funds, which tend to be actively managed — that is, the fund managers are free to buy and sell individual securities within the fund.

Another difference between ETFs and mutual funds is that ETFs are traded like stocks, so shares are bought and sold throughout the day based on the current market price, whereas mutual funds are traded just once a day, at a price calculated at the end of the trading day. Whether this ability to make intra-day trades is meaningful to you will likely depend on how active you are in managing your investments.

For some people, the main attraction of ETFs is their tax advantages. Because many ETFs are index funds, they generally do much less buying and selling than actively managed funds — and fewer sales mean fewer taxable capital gains. These ETFs are somewhat similar to index mutual funds, which are also considered to be tax-efficient, as opposed to actively managed funds, which constantly buy and sell investments, passing on taxable capital gains to you throughout the life of the fund. (Keep in mind, though, that mutual funds that trade frequently may still be appropriate for your financial strategy. While taxes are one element to consider when evaluating mutual funds, or any investment, other factors, such as growth potential and the ability to diversify your portfolio, are also important.)

ETFs typically also have lower operating costs than mutual funds, resulting in lower overall fees. Part of the reason for these lower costs is that actively managed mutual funds, by definition, usually have larger management teams devoted to researching, buying, and selling securities. By contrast, passively managed ETFs may have leaner, less costly management structures.

But while most ETFs may share the same basic operating model, many types are available. You can invest in equity ETFs, which may track stocks in a particular industry or an index of equities (S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and so on), or you can purchase fixed-income ETFs, which invest in bonds. ETFs are also available for currencies and commodities.

Of course, as with all investments, ETF investing does involve risk. Your principal and investment return will fluctuate in value, so when you redeem your ETF, it may be worth more or less than the original investment. Also, liquidity may be an issue. Some ETFs may be more difficult to sell than other investments, which could be a problem if you need the money quickly. And because it’s so easy to move in and out of ETFs, you might be tempted to “overtrade” rather than follow an appropriate long-term investment strategy.

A financial professional can evaluate your situation and help you determine whether ETFs are suitable for your needs. At a minimum, they represent another investment opportunity that may prove useful as you work toward your financial goals.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with residents of Derbent during his working trip to Russia’s Republic of Dagestan June 28. AFP VIA GETTY

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inal proceedings involving anyone arrested or charged with killing a person sharing financial interest in an estate.

Under Kansas law in place at time of the March 2022 slaying, alleged perpetrators could procure estate assets until convicted of killing someone.

“He’s arrested for the murder of his spouse,” Jeremiah Schumacher told lawmakers days after the session began in January. “I can’t wrap my head around it.”

Gov. Laura Kelly as well as the Senate and House heard his plea.

The House vote on House Bill 2027 was 1230. The Senate paired that with a 40-0 vote.

The law signed by Kelly allowed as of July 1 a court to block sale, distribution, spending or other use of a decedent’s assets by a person arrested or charged in that killing. That order must stand until charges were dismissed, the accused was acquitted or convicted, and if records were expunged.

“This change is necessary, reasonable and will close what amounts to a loophole in the slayer provision of Kansas probate law by limiting those individuals, who kill a spouse or person from whom they will inherit, from receiving those proceeds,” said Hays attorney Chris McGowne.

The amended slayer law was among 77 bills — three fourths of the total to survive the legislative process in 2023 — scheduled to become effective on Saturday. The 21 others went live promptly rather than await the first day of July. The new roster of laws delve into abortion, concealed guns, elections, clergy abuse, public health, retirement investments, food stamps, transgender rights, water, smoking, utilities and sports.

‘Just that — fairness’

Republicans in the Legislature tangled with Democrats and the governor on merits of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, otherwise known as House Bill 2238. It was designed to forbid transgender girls or women from participating in girls or women school sports. The anti-transgender bill easily cleared the GOPled Legislature, but was vetoed by Kelly. Both chambers were able to override her veto.

The law required interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural and club athletic teams sponsored by public or private educational entities to group players on teams of boys or men, girls or women or on separate coeducational units based on “biological sex” of athletes. It covered sports teams from kindergarten through college.

“The fairness in women’s sports act is just that — fairness,” said Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover. “It simply sets guidelines that ensure the fair playing field continues for women and girls that we have recognized for decades.”

The Kansas State High School Activities Association established a policy requiring partic-

ipants to present a copy of their first birth certificate to verify the gender declaration at birth.

Test-strip ban lifted

Initially, the idea of decriminalizing possession of test strips to detect the synthetic opioid fentanyl didn’t gain much political traction at the statehouse. For three years, the prevailing legislative sentiment was Senate Bill 174 and others like it sent the wrong message to people using drugs illegally.

Advocates for the change pointed with alarm to the rising death toll among Kansans who unknowingly consumed drugs blended with fentanyl, which could be 50 to 100 times as potent as morphine.

Kelly, looking for ways to prevent overdose poisonings and fatalities, signed the bipartisan bill removing test strips from the state’s list of illegal drug paraphernalia. At the same time, the penalty for manufacture and distribution of fentanyl-laced substances was heightened.

Rep. Jason Probst, D-Hutchinson, said the agonizing wait for adoption of the legislation meant the values of kindness and compassion prevailed in the end.

“By decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips,” Probst said, “we are helping Kansans protect themselves from a deadly poison that has taken far too many lives, including the tragic and profoundly painful loss of far too many teenagers and young adults in our state.”

Unsettled law

The contents of Senate Bill 180 also become law July 1, but conflict over interpretations of the statute could drag on for months or years.

The measure labeled by supporters as the

Women’s Bill of Rights aimed to define biological sex as the determinant for use of restrooms, domestic violence shelters, locker rooms and correctional facilities. It didn’t contain enforcement mechanisms, leaving open questions about how the bill would operate in the real world outside the Capitol bubble.

Kelly vetoed the bill, but the House and Senate had votes to override the governor. Attorney General Kris Kobach issued a nonbinding legal opinion declaring new Kansas licenses to drive and birth certificates had to reflect gender at birth. At the same time, he said, the identification documents revised in the past to address transgender residents of Kansas had to be reissued to reflect an individual’s determination of sex at birth.

The ACLU of Kansas and the governor disagreed with the Republican attorney general, and contended the law couldn’t impact public accommodations because it didn’t include an enforcement mechanism. Kelly said state agencies would continue to allow transgender individuals to change gender markers on driver’s licenses and birth certificates.

“KDHE and KDOR disagree about its impacts on their operations and will instead keep in place their policies regarding gender markers on birth certificates and driver’s licenses,” Kelly said.

Kobach, who lost the 2018 general election for governor against Kelly, said he would proceed with a legal challenge of the governor’s decision.

State salaries, pensions

The launch of a new fiscal year July 1 coincided with implementation of salary adjustments for state government employees. The package adopted by the Legislature and embraced by the governor linked pay increases to market rates for comparable job classifications in the private sector. State workers 10% below peers in that occupational field would be brought up to that 10% figure or given a 5% adjustment. Personnel earning above 10% of the market rate would receive a 2.5% increase.

Those less than 10% below market or 10% above market would qualify for a 5% raise.

Meanwhile, the Legislature pushed through a bill forbidding trustees of the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System from making investment decisions based on principles of ESG. It stands for environmental, social and corporate governance considerations relied on by investors and often associated with liberal political causes.

Majorities in the Legislature said KPERS should manage its $20 billion portfolio to bring about the highest return on investment with the least risk.

Kobach, who lobbied for passage of the reform, said it was wrong to enable corporate intruders to jeopardize pensions of state government workers, teachers and law enforcement officers.

“ESG investing uses retirement savings as leverage to force companies to reduce their carbon footprints, adopt racial and gender quotas or to succumb to the ‘woke’ social justice fad of the month,” he said. Revise and extend

After years of debate, a bipartisan coalition of Kansas lawmakers agreed to make it easier for victims of childhood sexual assault to make a case in court.

House Bill 2027, which received unanimous support in the Senate and House, dropped the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of the alleged crimes and extended by 10 years the opportunity to file lawsuits against alleged perpetrators.

Sen. Cindy Holscher, D-Overland Park, said persistence of a group of survivors made the difference.

“This is breakthrough legislation that will keep our children and communities safer by permitting our state to get more predators off our streets, while building a foundation to allow more survivors of childhood sexual violence to pursue justice,” she said.

Previous Kansas law dictated criminal cases had to be filed within five years of the alleged crime. Cases of rape carried a 10-year statute

qualify for food aid. In divorce cases, Kansans would now be permitted to change a last name to something other than a maiden name or former name. Election laws were modified to open the door to a presidential preference primary in March 2024.

The cluster of abortion reforms include a law requiring health professionals to perform life-saving care when an infant was was born alive during an abortion. In 2022, Kansas doctors reported no such instances of live birth. Organizations opposed to abortion, a right protected in Kansas by the state constitution, pointed to examples of failed abortions in other states. Kelly vetoed the measure but was overridden.

of limitations once a person alleging harm turned 18. In civil cases, the suit had to be filed by the time a victim turned 21 years of age.

The grab bag

Turn of the calendar to July also enabled implementation of a law requiring groundwater management districts to produce for the Legislature annual reports on water usage and to develop strategies for conserving a resource made scarce by drought and heavy reliance on the Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation.

Conservative legislators pushed through eligibility reform in the state’s food stamp program, technically known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. The new Kansas mandate required people 50 to 59 years of age without dependents to work 30 hours a week or participate in job training initiatives to

In addition, state lawmakers earmarked $2 million to support activities of anti-abortion centers that would be scattered across Kansas.

Legislators and the governor agreed the state should limit how much public utility companies could recover through rate increases when making investments in new electricity transmission lines.

The $100 fee paid to the attorney general’s office to obtain a concealed weapon license in Kansas was eliminated, but left in place a charge of $32.50 payable to a county sheriff’s department. Individuals as young as 18 can receive a permit to carry a concealed handgun.

But lawmakers passed a law declaring only individuals 21 years of age or older were mature enough to purchase, possess or consume tobacco products. Until Saturday, those 18 or older could buy cigarettes.

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Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Republican-led Kansas Legislature tangled over many issues in 2023 session — there were more than a dozen veto showdowns — and led to implementation Saturday of 77 new state laws, including a measure altering criminal and civil procedure in sex abuse cases. KANSAS REFLECTOR/TIM CARPENTER

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Slouching: So wrong, but it feels so right

Fifty percent of people in the industrialized world suffer from some form of back pain and many are related to poor seat design and posture. I am on the road plenty these days, and I have been having some neck pain as a result.

My 4-foot, 11-inch stature often does not allow me to sit flat footed, so I have been able to get a chair that fits better and engaged some strategies when traveling that alleviate some of the pain.

After looking into this a little bit more, it amazed me how much proper posture and chair design can take a toll on your body. Improper posture can lead to muscle fatigue, pain, and even disk degeneration overtime. The good news is there are things we can do to improve the natural habit of slouching.

Move More, Sit Less No matter what your work station consists of, take movement breaks every hour and change your postures when you start to fatigue. Research findings recommend the following: sit for 20, stand for 8, and move for 2 minutes per half hour. You can

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work up to this. Start by standing for short periods such as 5-10 minutes every hour.

How Does your Work Station Measure Up?

∙ Your chair should support your lower back, feet should rest firmly on the ground or footrest slightly in front of you

∙ Your monitor should be directly in front of you, at an arm’s length distance with your eyes at the same level as the tool bar

∙ Your mouse should be positioned close to you near the edge of the desk

∙ Your keyboard should be centered in front of you and near the edge of the desk

Standing Posture

∙ Good foot support (low heeled supportive shoes or insoles)

∙ Knees slightly bent

∙ Weight balanced on

both feet evenly, with feet hip width apart, shoulders back and relaxed

∙ Abdominal muscles slightly activated

∙ Neck and head in line with shoulders from the side

∙ From the side, you

Corn, soybean tours scheduled

PARSONS — The Corn and Soybean Field Tour 2023 is from 8 to 11 a.m. July

19 at the Southeast Research and Extension Center, 25092 Ness Rd., in Parsons. The focus will be on controlling weeds and diseases in summer crops as participants tour multiple research trials at the Southeast Research Center.

Topics will include herbicide programs for soybeans, seed treatments for controlling soybean sudden death syndrome, corn and soybean fungicide timing, and options for foliar fungicides.

K-State Weed Specialist Sarah Lancaster, K-State Row Crop Pathology Specialist Rodrigo Onofre, K-State

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Extension Agent for Agriculture

Plant Pathology expert Madison Kessler, Salina Ralia of K-State Agronomy, and Bruce Steward, FMC service manager, will provide commentary.

Registration is free. An informational flier is available at www.wildcatdistrict.k-state.edu.

For more information or registration, contact the SEREC at 620-421-4826, the Girard office at 620724-8233, or email jcoover@ksu.edu

should be able to draw a straight line from earlobes, shoulder, hip, to ankle I still need to practice!

For more information, contact Tara Solomon-Smith, tsolomon@ ksu.edu, or by calling 620-244-3826.

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back in high school, Tom was my boss.

“I learned lessons from him that I still use today,” Shank continued. “They are

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“Ed Sullivan Show” to an audience of about 72 million TV viewers.

GEORGE died of cancer in November 2001.

Just a few weeks later, Louise was a guest of honor at a Beatles festival in the Chicago area.

There, she spotted Marty Scott strumming along to one of George’s classics, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”

Louise pulled Scott aside after his set had ended.

Her message stunned the fledgling musician

“She saw me and thought I’d been brought to her,” Scott recalled.

It was amazing. It was humbling. “It was weird,” Scott laughed.

They bonded over a hectic weekend. He even stayed at Louise’s house for a spell.

In fact, Scott was at Louise’s house when McCartney showed up one fateful weekend.

It had been the first time Paul and Louise had seen each other since George had died.

Much of the talk was about George, and their unprocessed grief.

“They talked for more than an hour, on a couch,” Scott said. “And I was sitting between

them. It was a crazy time.”

From that weekend, Louise offered to help Scott and his band.

The Liverpool Legends were born.

The group began to do quite well in their own right, performing across the United States, then on every continent. Shows at Carnegie Hall and the Rose Bowl were particularly memorable.

Liverpool Legends even earned a Grammy nomination one year.

Fast forward to about 2006, and the Liverpool Legends found a fulltime home in Branson, Mo.

“I’d never even heard of Branson before,” Scott laughed.

Still, they drew legions of fans of all ages for more than a decade.

Over the past few

years the group has adjusted its schedule to include touring across the country.

The Liverpool Legends will be in Iola’s Bowlus Fine Arts Center at 7 p.m. Friday, July 21.

PERFORMING as a tribute to the Fab Four carries a unique pressure, Scott acknowledged, because everybody knows exactly what each member looked like. The bassist, like Paul, had to be left-handed.

But getting the looks down was only half the battle.

The Beatles’ iconic sound, from the early years with their 2-minute harmonica-laced pop tunes, and then, as the band matured, the more sophisticated evolution that led to such standards as “Hey Jude” and “Let It Be.”

“We don’t take any liberties” with the music, Scott said. “We’re not just a cover band. We’re really trying to give the audience a feel of what it might have been like to see the Beatles in person.”

Even 60 years later, fans remain enamored with John, Paul, George and Ringo.

Scott understands the group’s legacy all too

well.

“We have 8-yearolds who show up,” Scott said. “Their parents were Beatles fans. Their grandparents and their great-grandparents, too.”

Scott counts himself as one of the group’s lifelong fans.

“My older sister had their greatest hits record that I stole as a kid,” he laughed. “I just sort of discovered, there are a million groups out there that haven’t written so many songs that affected so many peoples’ lives. They led a whole generation. The Beatles were first at everything. Everybody else just sort of followed.”

Scott learned to play guitar as a youth, and often found himself mimicking George’s playing style, which led to being a part of a tribute band in Chicago that fateful night.

“I love the Beatles,” he said. “I never

thought I’d be a Beatle, though. It’s been an interesting life.”

LOUISE, who was an integral part of the Liverpool Legends for most of the group’s existence, died at age 91 in February.

Scott described her as a friend, a confidant, a grandmother and a fan, all in one.

In the future, Scott is eager to see the letters Louise received from her family — which cover everything from playing in front of the queen to buying drapes — turned into a documentary or some other type of production.

“The letters go from 1962 to 1970, which just happens to be the entire Beatles years. It’s like a whole history of the Beatles, narrated by Louise Harrison.” he said. “It’s the greatest stuff. My hair just stands on end reading about it. “

great, professional broadcasters who are passionate about local radio. We’re honored for the opportunity to add Iola Radio to the Ad Astra Radio Family and we’re thrilled Tom and Monica are going to continue being involved with the stations. Their knowledge and expertise are invaluable.”

Iola radio broadcasting dates back to July 25, 1961, when 1370 KALN (KIOL’s former call letters) was a daytime-only operation, the company’s website noted. The station was started by LLoyd C. McKenney of Carthage, Mo., who also owned stations in Monett, Mo., and Fort Scott.

Mike and Lovetta Russell acquired the station in 1973, and in 1976, he changed the station’s call letters to KIKS (as in Iola, KS). An FM station was added a year after that.

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Tom Norris joined the Iola Radio team, where he took over the morning DJ slot. Monica, who also had radio experience, joined the stations a short while later. The Norrises took over on May 1, 2007.

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How to deal with a wounded Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has faced down the biggest threat his regime has confronted in more than two decades in power. For now. As details about the dramatic mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin — the excon who founded the PMC Wagner paramilitary group, which has been fighting in Ukraine — have emerged, it’s become clear that Putin narrowly avoided disaster.

On Wednesday, news media reported that Prigozhin had intended to kidnap two top Russian officials — Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s general staff — when the two visited a Russian region neighboring Ukraine. Western officials say the plot likely had a good chance of working until details leaked to Russia’s Federal Security Service and Prigozhin marched toward Moscow instead.

Two elements of the failed plot stand out.

First, Prigozhin, a brutal warlord with longstanding ties to Putin, seized a strategically important Russian city, shot down Russian aircraft, took over several key military installations and marched his troops to within hours of the Kremlin, all without meeting significant resistance. The sheer boldness of his original plot — which reportedly included amassing huge amounts of military hardware and advanced weaponry — suggests Prigozhin expected many rank-and-file Russian

troops to join in the uprising.

Perhaps more surprising: Putin, a merciless strongman who has routinely crushed perceived threats in the past, seems to have allowed the mutineers to walk. Although the details are still murky, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, a close Putin ally, brokered a deal under which the rebellious forces withdrew, Prigozhin got safe passage to Belarus, and Wagner troops would face no legal consequences.

Although any kidnapping attempt failed, Putin has emerged from this fiasco as a much-weakened leader. Not only did he appear dazed and vulnerable, he has now been forced into a widespread shakeup of the armed forces, wary of further disloyalty. Prigozhin’s denunciation

Colleges should end legacy boost for connected kids

The Supreme Court has spoken, invalidating racial preferences in college admissions as was widely anticipated. The six-justice conservative majority deemed the boost that universities give some applicants purely on the basis of their ethnicity or skin color incompatible with the U.S. Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the laws.

There is plenty we disagree with in the reasoning as articulated by Chief Justice John Roberts. He — and a concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, tapped for the court by George H.W. Bush in part, let’s be honest, because he is Black — gives too-short shrift to the educational benefits of diversity. Colleges seeking to give their students a well-rounded education and mint future leaders have very good reason to go out of their way to admit all types of people from different walks of life and backgrounds, including different racial backgrounds.

We cannot, however, dispute that racial preferences that disadvantage Asian-Americans are in tension with, if not at odds with, the same principles that seek to guarantee equal opportunity for all, including Black and Latino Americans. They could never last forever, so the imperative is for colleges to find a better way to uphold high academic standards and comprise diverse academic classes.

The first thing to do: give applicants a boost based on their income-level or whether they’d be the first in their family to attend

of the war effort — which he said was based on false pretenses and riddled by corruption — is likely to undermine public support. As Russia’s military and its economy continue to suffer steep losses, the potential for more instability will only rise.

HOW SHOULD the West respond? So far, NATO has rightly stayed above the fray. Any attempt to influence Russia’s internal politics at such a time is likely to be either ineffectual or counterproductive. Two more modest steps would help, however.

One is to reiterate through all channels the importance of controlling nuclear devices and following established safety protocols. Russia’s embattled leader has not hesitated to make nuclear threats in the past, and re-

cently began moving weapons to Belarus. Amid this added chaos, NATO should ensure that risk-reduction measures, including communication hotlines, are maintained. It should also accelerate recent efforts to bolster its conventional forces, secure its borders and improve ballistic-missile defenses so that they have the capacity to meet any escalation.

Next, the West should continue its support for Ukraine unabated. Any withdrawal of the battle-hardened Wagner troops from the fight (Russia is insisting they be contracted directly with the defense ministry) will likely help Ukraine’s forces, which are undertaking a grueling counteroffensive. It’d be foolish to hold back much-needed military assistance now when it could be most effective on the battlefield and ultimately hasten the end of the war. There’s no need for a reckless escalation: The West’s job is simply to stay the course.

Prigozhin’s brief mutiny called to mind Winston Churchill’s old saying about Russia in 1939: “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Perhaps an older proverb, about those who live by the sword, may prove more apt. Putin’s reign — long abetted by a grotesque cast of gangsters, mercenaries and war criminals — was never likely to end well for him. The question is how much damage he can do in the meantime.

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Iolans eager to save the Santa Fe depot were gathered at the depot collecting signatures on a petition urging the railway to offer the building for sale so that it could be used for a museum, restaurant or for another purpose. More than 150 signatures had been collected. The company gave several reasons why it should be razed, including stipulations in the deed which requires the land to return to the estates of the S.S. Northrup and R. W. Acers families if it ceases being used for railroad purposes. The company said it would be difficult to ever obtain a clear title to the property because of those restrictions, which would make it legally difficult to sell. The depot was built not long after the turn of the century and has been closed for several years.

**** LaVerne Eichman has made a thriving business of his Charity Thrift Shop at 3 S. Jefferson. He collects donated clothing and other things most anyone can use and then he resells them at a fraction of their original cost. Some people can’t afford even Eichman’s low prices — a good pair of double-knit trousers for $1 and a like-new child’s shirt for 25 cents — and when that happens, Eichman gives it to them. “That’s where the charity in the store’s name comes from. I help anyone who really needs help,” he said.

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college. As liberal Richard Kahlenberg has written in these pages, class-based preferences can just as successfully produce varied student bodies that honor the American promise. Colleges public and private should follow that advice.

Simultaneously, the schools should do away with the widespread practice that is the single worst offense against the American promise of fairness: legacy admissions, whereby the sons and daughters of alumni get easier entry based solely on the fact that their parents happened to attend. That practice privileges the privileged, and it should end.

Progressives furious at the court should redirect their energy to sculpting productive class-based admissions programs — and helping extinguish legacy admissions once and for all.

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Federal awards to states for expanding broadband access are out, and U.S. senators are rushing to brag about the money their states will receive, including those like Texas Republican John Cornyn and others who opposed the bipartisan infrastructure bill that contained the funding they’re now lauding. Their boasting produced plenty of mockery by Democrats, including President Joe Biden, who called out Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville repeatedly on Wednesday.

“There’s a guy named Tuberville, senator from Alabama, who announced that he strongly opposed the legislation. Now he’s hailing its passage,” the president said, while also reading Tuberville’s tweet aloud.

Biden paused briefly afterward to make the sign of the cross, drawing laughter and applause from the crowd.

Look, of course it’s fair game for the president to tweak those who voted against something and then took credit for it. But I’ll defend what these senators are doing.

For one thing, it’s not unusual for members of Congress to strongly support one or more provisions of a complex bill but wind up voting against the overall legislation. While it doesn’t appear to apply here, it’s also isn’t unheard of for a senator to insert something into a bill — to be the one primarily responsible for an entire section of piece of legislation — and still vote against the bill for other reasons. That happened with dozens of provisions of the Affordable Care Act in 2009, with Republicans adding pet ideas to the omnibus bill that wound up passing on a party-line vote. In those cases, there’s really nothing wrong with claiming credit for what

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is a real accomplishment.

More broadly, however, at best this is a case of hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is a very minor sin in politics. Yes, being part of the vote-no-brag-yes caucus might be awkward, but it’s really just normal representation — making promises to constituents, acting with those promises in mind and then explaining what’s happening in the context of the original promises. Cornyn and Tuberville support goodies for their states, and there’s nothing much wrong with touting those goodies when they get the chance.

So score this one a draw: It’s fine for the senators to do what they’re doing, and it’s fine for Biden to mock them.

Beyond that, whether the White House realizes it or not, Republicans who opposed the infrastructure bill now bragging about the spoils is actually good for Biden. The president has been trying to convince voters that he’s been accomplishing things on their behalf, especially when it comes to the economy. But he’s up against a blizzard of negativity, with high-profile Republicans and Republican-aligned media using relentless negative talking points, and the “neutral” press following the media norm of all economic news is bad. Between that and the hangover from the pandemic, views of the economy — and therefore Biden — have been worse than the raw numbers this year, with inflation falling and the jobs market still robust.

Moreover, it’s always hard for presidents to get credit for legislative accomplishments. If something fails, it becomes a negative. But if it’s smoothly implemented and popular it immediately becomes just another part of the status quo. Voters have notoriously short memories. And everyone but the strongest partisan supporters tend to tune out presidential cheerleading for the economy or for specific actions, figuring that the White House — any White House — will always put the best face on things.

But having Republican senators, and specifically Republicans so opposed to Biden that they voted against an infrastructure bill that had plenty of support from their party, now touting a White House success story? That’s the kind of publicity, if repeated enough, that might really convince voters that things are getting done and government is working. And if Republicans also tout the jobs that the infrastructure law is producing, that might convince Americans that the economy is actually pretty good.

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A fight over whether a Republican senator is a hypocrite might entertain partisan Democrats who are sure to vote for Biden. But a fight over who deserves credit for all the good stuff happening in the nation? That’s a fight that’s structured so that the White House has to win.

(1) At the very least, it might produce one of those rare periods, such as middle of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the last six years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, and the first three years of Donald Trump’s presidency — I think that’s it over the last 55 years or so — when the neutral media actually acknowledged there was mainly good news about the economy.

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Ten injured in Wichita nightclub shooting

By TODD RICHMOND The Associated Press

An eighth gunshot victim from a weekend shooting at a Kansas nightclub has been confirmed, police said Monday, bringing the total number of people hurt to 10.

Wichita police had originally reported seven people with gunshot wounds and another two people who were trampled in the rush to escape the club being hospitalized following the early Sunday morning shooting.

An eighth shooting victim walked into a Wichita hospital later Sunday with a gunshot wound from the club shooting, Wichita Officer Juan Rebolledo confirmed. The man’s injury is not believed to be life-threatening. Rebolledo did not give the man’s name or age.

Police investigators believe several shooters opened fire inside the City Nightz club just before 1 a.m. Sunday. One suspect, believed to be one of the shooters, was arrested Sunday morning, police said.

That person’s name had not been released and no other arrests had been reported by Monday morning. Shots were fired from at least four guns inside the club, Wichita Police Lt. Aaron Moses said in a news release in the hours after the shooting. Police recovered four guns and were working to determine if they were the weapons the shooters used. No one was killed but one person was critically injured. The gunshot victims taken to a Wichita hospital imme-

diately after the shooting included five men between the ages of 21 and 34, a 21-yearold woman and a 24-yearold woman, Moses said. The two people trampled were a 30-year-old woman and a 31-year-old male. Detective Chris Merceau said during a news conference Sunday morning that police have been called to the nightclub about a dozen times this year for various incidents, including a report of aggravated battery and a drive-by shooting on May 21.

Search is on for Baltimore gunmen

BALTIMORE (AP) —

More than one person is suspected of opening fire during a holiday weekend block party in Baltimore that killed two people and wounded 28 others, many of them under 18, police said Monday.

The circumstances leading up to the shooting early Sunday remained under investigation after police spent hours combing a massive crime scene in the Brooklyn Homes area in the southern part of the city. Richard Worley, Baltimore’s acting police commissioner, told reporters there were a total of 30 victims, with more than a dozen believed to be minors.

No arrests had been made by early Monday. Worley said it wasn’t clear if the shooting was targeted or random, but he said police believe there were multiple shooters.

“We don’t know exactly how many, but we do know more than one person was shooting,” Worley said.

The shooting comes amid gatherings around the country leading up to the July Fourth holiday. A shooting in Kansas left seven people with gunshot wounds and two more victims hospitalized after being trampled as people rushed out of a nightclub early Sunday morning, police there said. The violence in Baltimore occurred the same week federal prosecutors there touted efforts to reduce violent crime in the city. Police have reported nearly 130 homicides and close to 300 shootings so far this year, though that’s down from the same time last year. Authorities have vowed to crack down aggressively on repeat violent offenders.

Nine of Sunday’s victims were transported by ambulance and 20 walked into area hospitals with injuries from the shooting, Worley

said. Nine remained hospitalized Sunday afternoon.

The deceased victims were identified as 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez and 20-yearold Kylis Fagbemi, police said Sunday. Gonzalez died at the scene and Fagbemi died at the hospital. The 28 injured victims ranged in age from 13 to 32, with more than half younger than 18, officials said.

Charlene Bowie, 66, who lives close to where the shooting took place, said she saw a huge crowd, largely made up of teenagers. “They were having fun in the beginning, but you know kids ... they started drinking and they was getting all out of order,” she said.

Bowie said she called the police and told her granddaughter to come inside. A little while later, they heard gunshots, and a bullet struck her air conditioner, breaking off a piece of it and hitting her granddaughter in the back. The girl was unhurt, and they both laid on the floor, Bowie said.

“Then I heard some banging on the door — boom, boom, boom, real loud — so I come down and got the door. The little girl (was) laying on my steps, shot,”

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gardening tools, herbicides, pesticides and fertilizer.

The marijuana would have produced approximately 1,350 pounds, with an estimated street value of $1.7 million, the KBI said.

Others involved in the investigation are the Bourbon and Allen County sheriff’s departments, Bourbon County Public Works and Kansas Highway Patrol.

Bowie said.

She said the girl, who appeared to be 14 or 15, was shot in the leg. Bowie ran inside to get a rag, then tied a tourniquet around her leg.

“I just kept talking to her so she wouldn’t get panicky, you know,” she said.

The shooting scene was nearly deserted Monday morning, with only a handful of people there, including police officers, a man in a Red Cross vest and a young man who cleaned a popcorn machine and swept away kernels before loading it into a U-Haul truck.

Gov. Wes Moore said his “heart breaks for these victims, their families, and the Baltimore community that is coping with the loss.”

“Maryland has had enough of watching gun violence continue to ravage our state and our nation,” Moore said in a statement. “The fact that these horrific shootings continue to take place is abominable. We as a state will continue to

do everything we can to prevent senseless acts of violence like the one we saw last night.”

It took some time for detectives to process the extensive crime scene, authorities said.

Worley said the party was “unpermitted,” so police did not know about it in advance. Some residents, however, said police had been stationed at the block party in past years. The event is held every July to celebrate the South Baltimore neighborhood, a mix of modest rowhouses and public housing.

Mel Johnson, who has lived in the neighborhood since 2011, said he had been playing cards with a friend when he heard what sounded like fireworks.

“Then something sounded different. I saw people running and screaming,” Johnson told The Baltimore Sun.

“It’s a dangerous neighborhood, especially when you got young guys and girls, and liquor,” he said.

He said police met with the club’s owner after that incident and discussed the importance of using electronic wands to detect weapons on patrons and surveillance cameras. He said investigators will work to determine if any of those recommendations were followed.

The club has not returned messages left by The Associated Press since Sunday morning. Police said Monday that they expected to release more information at a later time.

Israel strikes West Bank stronghold

JENIN, West Bank

(AP) — Israel struck targets in a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank and deployed hundreds of troops Monday in an incursion that resembled the broad attacks carried out during the second Palestinian uprising two decades ago. Palestinian health officials said at least eight Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded.

The assault began with drone strikes and continued with troops, which remained inside the Jenin refugee camp at midday, pushing ahead with the largest operation in the area during more than a year of fighting. It came amid growing domestic pressure for a tough response to a series of attacks on Israeli settlers, including a shooting attack

last month that killed four Israelis. Black smoke rose from the crowded streets of the camp while exchanges of fire rang out and the buzzing of drones was heard overhead. Military bulldozers plowed through narrow streets, damaging buildings as they cleared the way for Israeli forces. The Palestinians and neighboring Jordan and Egypt and the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemned the violence, along with the United Arab Emirates, which established diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the operation was “proceeding as planned,” but gave no indication when it would end.

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Indians victorious at MOKAN Showdown

By QUINN BURKITT

The Iola Register

PITTSBURG — The Iola AA

American Legion Indians went 2-1 at the MOKAN Legion Showdown in Pittsburg over the weekend.

The Indians (19-5) used some dominant pitching in both their victories as Logan Page and Trey Sommer each gave up one run across their five- and seven-inning starts, respectively, in 4-1 and 11-1 wins.

The only blemish was a 6-5 loss to Sedalia.

Vs. Lee’s Summit Outlaws Post 189 — 4-1 win

Sommer’s RBI double keyed a three-run seventh inning as Iola broke open what had been a pitchers duel Saturday afternoon.

Page allowed one run on two hits through seven innings with 10 strikeouts. He walked two.

Sommer homered to center field in the top of the third inning to put Iola ahead, 1-0.

Lee’s Summit knotted the score in the bottom of the fourth when Charles Wanashko scored on a wild pitch for the 1-1 tie.

Sommer’s RBI double

pushed Iola ahead 2-1 in the seventh. Sam Hull and Kaiden Barnett added RBI singles for the final tally.

Page shut down the Lee’s Summit bats after that as they went down 1-2-3 in the seventh.

Sommer led the way with two hits and two RBIs. McK-

arnin also had two hits.

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Sedalia scored four times in the bottom of the seventh to storm back and stun the Indians in walk-off fashion.

Trevor Church started for Iola and took a rare loss, throwing six-plus innings while allowing six runs on 10 hits with three strikeouts. McKarnin came on in relief and allowed a hit with a strikeout.

Iola’s three-run seventh inning broke open a 2-2 dead-

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lock, but it wasn’t enough to claim the victory.

Tanner Damlo scored on an error by Iola’s catcher in the bottom of the first to put Sedalia on the board. Avyn Burkhart scored on a steal of home to take the early 2-0 advantage.

Iola cut into the deficit in the top of the fifth when Rogan Weir scored on a steal of home. Sommer then unloaded again for a solo home run to left field to knot the game at 2-2.

McKarnin doubled in the top of the seventh to center to bring home two runs before Hull tripled to left field to score one more for the 5-2 lead.

Sedalia rallied and scored four runs in the final inning, beginning with a Colton Hughes two-run single to center field to make it a 5-4 game. Owen Caton then singled home two more runs on a knock to center field for the 6-5 victory.

Tre Wilson and Hull each had two hits while McKarnin drove in two.

Vs. Oak Grove Post 379 Seniors — 11-1 win

The Indians scored ear-

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Royals win series over Dodgers

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) —

Nicky Lopez remembers the halcyon days of the Kansas City Royals in 2014 and 2015, when the small-market club won back-to-back American League pennants and its first World Series title in three decades.

More importantly, Lopez remembers how they did it: good starting pitching, timely hitting and a dominant bullpen.

It’s precisely the formula they used to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.

Brady Singer threw seven effective innings, Lopez matched a career high with four RBIs, Maikel Garcia and Bobby Witt Jr. drove in two runs apiece and the Royals beat the Dodgers 9-1 to claim their first series victory since May 17.

“You know, a lot of the times in 2014 and 2015, they won a lot of ballgames 3-1, but they put it all together — timely hitting and a bullpen shut it down, and good starting pitching,” Lopez said. “I just think that’s been the identity of the Royals for a while, and sometimes we lose sight of that, but I feel like that has to be it.”

Singer (5-7) played a big part in it from the mound, allowing one run on three hits and four walks over

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Ferreira helps US advance in Gold Cup

CHARLOTTE, N.C.

(AP) — Jesús Ferreira became the first American to score international hat tricks in consecutive games, and the United States advanced to the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals with a 6-0 rout of Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday night.

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ly and often, while Sommer was lights out on the mound, allowing only one run and striking out seven in five.

Weir, McKarnin and Hull each drove in two runs while Weir, McKarnin and Barnett each had two hits.

Oak Grove scored its lone run in the top of the first inning, a Kaden Kinzel RBI single. The deficit didn’t last long.

Hull put the Indians in front for good in the bottom of the inning

with a two-run double.

In the third, McKarnin tripled to center field to drive in Sommer before Barnett sent McKarnin home with a single, making it 4-1.

Weir’s RBI double to left scored Page, Sommer singled to left for another run, and McKarnin followed with an RBI double for a 7-1 advantage.

Jack White ripped a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth for the 8-1 lead. Logan Page, Wilson and Weir followed with RBI singles to wrap up the scoring.

Iola hosts Garnett at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Ferreira scored in the 14th and 38th minutes against 101stranked Trinidad, then converted a penalty kick in the third minute of first-half stoppage time.

“That intensity that the team is going out with is helping me get in the box,” Ferreira said. “We’re all working together. We’re all defending together. We’re all attacking together,”

Cade Cowell scored in the 66th, four minutes after entering, and Gianluca Busio in the 79th — the first international goal for both. Brandon Vázquez added his third goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time as the No. 11 Americans won by six goals for the sec-

ond straight game.

A 22-year-old son of former Colombian midfielder David Ferreira, Jesús Ferreira joined Landon Donovan as the only Americans with three hat tricks. Twelve of Ferreira’s 14 international goals have been against Caribbean nations, including four against Grenada in June 2022 and three versus St. Kitts and Nevis on Wednesday.

“When I see his movement and his confidence in the penalty box, you can tell that the game has slowed down for him,” U.S. interim coach B.J. Callaghan said. “All of the work that he’s doing, leading our line defensively, dropping down, helping buildup play, for me he’s having a really complete tournament.”

The U.S. won Group A on goal difference

over Jamaica and advanced to a quarterfinal at Cincinnati on July 9 against Canada, Guatemala or Guadeloupe. The Americans have 40 wins, one loss and five draws in the Gold Cup group stage

The U.S. won its group for the 16th time in 17 Gold Cups, along with a second-place finish to Panama in 2011. Before a crowd of 40,243, the Americans

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seven innings.

“Hopefully, you know, this gives us a lot of confidence,” Singer said. “We have a lot of confidence.”

The Royals took the lead off Tony Gonsolin (4-3) in the second on a single by Garcia, who also had a career-best four hits, and then knocked the righthander from the game in the fourth, when they scored three more to pull away.

Gonsolin allowed four runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings, and has now allowed 15 runs over his last 14 1/3 innings.

“We just didn’t play well and they played better, quite frankly,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “Those guys just outplayed us. It’s a different brand of baseball as far as putting the ball in play, hitting behind runners, stealing bases. They were excellent in situational hitting. To be quite honest, we didn’t keep up. That’s how

they won the series.”

The Royals, who still have not homered in their last seven games, continued to produce runs with small ball, just as they did in a rain-delayed 6-4 victory Saturday night. They strung together a walk and three hits to score three times in the fourth; had four hits along with a walk and a sacrifice to score three more in the fifth; and took advantage of an error leading off the sixth with a walk and two more hits to produce two more runs and take a 9-1 lead.

“Getting the ball in play consistently is the difference-maker,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said.

The only offense the Dodgers mustered came in the fourth inning, when J.D. Martinez drew a leadoff walk and advanced on a single by David Peralta.

Miguel Vargas followed with a sacrifice fly to deep center field.

Otherwise, the 26-year-old Singer shut down one of baseball’s

hottest lineups to win for the first time since June 4. He’d taken the loss in three of his last four starts, though he did pitch six innings of four-hit ball without a result his last time out.

After Daniel Lynch’s win Saturday night, the Royals have back-toback wins by starters for the first time in 93 games.

“That was huge. The bullpen was a little taxed,” Singer said. “To get out there and give them seven was huge.”

KERSHAW’S SHOULDER

The next step for Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, who had shoulder soreness after his last start against Colorado, remained

unclear after a throwing session Sunday. He could make his next start against Pittsburgh on Monday, push it back a few days or even go on the injured list. Part of the consideration is the upcoming All-Star break, which could minimize the number of games that the threetime Cy Young winner would potentially miss.

“I just don’t want to

say right now,” Roberts said before the game. “He hasn’t thrown a bullpen, he didn’t spin the baseball, but there was progress. He felt better. So that was encouraging.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Dodgers: LHP Julio Urías came out of Saturday’s game healthy. It was his first start since straining a hamstring May 18. He was

battered for five runs in the first inning but made it through three before he was lifted for a reliever.

Royals: 1B/OF Matt Beaty (concussion) was cleared to resume baseball activities, Quatraro said, and will head to Arizona to begin his rehab. Beaty was hurt in a collision with Samad Taylor on June 21 in Detroit.

Iola’s Sam Hull on base. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

United States forward Jesús Ferreira reacts after missing a shot on goal against Trinidad and Tobago during the first half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match on Sunday in Charlotte, NC. AP PHOTO/CHRIS CARLSON

Ohtani a 2-way All-Star again; 8 Braves selected

NEW YORK (AP) —

Shohei Ohtani became a two-way All-Star for the third straight year when he was picked for the American League pitching staff on Sunday, and eight Atlanta Braves were chosen for the July 11 game in Seattle — the most of any team since 2012.

Ohtani was elected to the pitching staff by players 10 days after fans voted him to start at designated hitter. Ohtani appeared on the most ballots among AL players. He is the only twoway All-Star in major league history.

“He’s very respectful. He doesn’t do a whole

bunch of talking,” AL manager Dusty Baker of Houston said. “He comes to play, and he really handles the notoriety and the publicity with humility and greatness.”

At the 2021 game in Denver, Ohtani grounded out against Max Scherzer and Corbin

Iga Swiatek wins day 1 at Wimbledon; others in action

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Topranked Iga Swiatek advanced despite a rain delay as Wimbledon got started on Monday with some of the biggest names in tennis in action, including Novak Djokovic, Venus Williams and Coco Gauff.

It is the year’s third major tournament — and Djokovic won the first two: the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June. That puts him halfway to the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969. He came close to the feat in 2021, falling just one victory short when he lost in the final of the U.S. Open.

He seeks a fifth consecutive title at the All England Club and eighth overall, which both would tie records for men.

Djokovic’s title at Roland Garros was his 23rd at a Slam event, breaking a tie with Rafael Nadal for the men’s mark in that category.

Swiatek, who owns

four major titles but hasn’t been past the fourth round at the All England Club, beat Zhu Lin of China 6-1, 6-3 at No. 1 Court, winning the final two games after the roof was closed following a rain delay.

Swiatek said she feels better prepared for the grass-court major this year following her title at the French Open.

“After Roland Garros,” she said on court, “I really took some time to just appreciate what happened. Last year, when I won Roland Garros, it was my second Grand Slam so it still felt, like, overwhelming, but this time I really could just focus on celebrating and getting back to work with more peace in my head and I try to be open minded for the grass season and I think it’s working. Hopefully I’m going to be able keep that mindset.”

Barbora Strycova, a semifinalist in 2019, became the first winner of this year’s tournament by beating

Maryna Zanevska 6-1, 7-5. On the men’s side, seventh-seeded Andrey Rublev beat Max Purcell 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 on No. 3 Court.

As the reigning men’s champion at Wimbledon, Djokovic is scheduled to play the opening match at Centre Court on Day 1, facing Pedro Cachin of Argentina.

They’ll be followed in the main stadium by Williams, a 43-yearold participating in the sport’s oldest major tournament for the 24th time and taking on Elina Svitolina of Ukraine. Williams — whose younger sister, Serena, retired after last season — won five of her seven Grand Slam singles trophies at Wimbledon.

After Swiatek at No. 1 Court, three-time Grand Slam runner-up Casper Ruud was playing Laurent Lokoli. And then Gauff — a 19-yearold American who was a French Open finalist last year — will face 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin.

USA: Tops Trinidad & Tobago

Continued from B3

outshot T&T by 23-9.

Trinidad was eliminated, finishing with a win over St. Kitts and a pair of losses. The Soca Warriors denied the U.S. a trip to the 2018 World Cup with a victory at home.

Ferreira put the U.S. ahead in the 14th minute. Cristian Roldan shuffled the ball to DeJuan Jones, who cut back to Ferreira. He settled the ball and poked the ball in from near the penalty spot.

Ferreira doubled the lead in the 38th when goalkeeper Marvin Phillip palmed his initial shot and Ferreira put the rebound in off a leg of defender Sheldon Bateau.

Guatemalan referee Mario Escobar awarded the penalty kick when

Alvin Jones pulled down Djordje Mihailovic, and Ferreira sent his kick to Phillips’ left.

Goalkeeper Matt Turner, defender Miles Robinson and Roldan were inserted into the starting lineup in place of Sean Johnson, Matt Miazga and Cowell.

Midfielder Alan Soñora missed the game because of a strained right hamstring and will be replaced on the roster. Midfielder Aidan Morris was allowed to leave camp for what the U.S. Soccer Federation said were personal reasons.

Jamaica, which drew 1-1 with the U.S., advanced with a 5-0 win over St. Kitts at Santa Clara, California. The Reggae Boyz went ahead on an own goal by goalkeeper Julani

Burnes, and pitched a perfect first inning, retiring Fernando Tatis Jr. on a flyout and Max Muncy and Nolan Arenado on groundouts.

Last year at Dodger Stadium, Ohtani singled on Clayton Kershaw’s first pitch of the game and walked against Joe Musgrove. Ohtani didn’t pitch.

Atlanta outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr., shortstop Orlando Arcia and catcher Sean Murphy were elected to the National League starting lineup by fans. They will be joined by five Braves teammates voted in by fellow players: starting pitchers Spencer Strider and Bryce Elder, first baseman Matt Olson, second baseman Ozzie Albies and third baseman Austin Riley.

Atlanta is a major league-best 56-27 after winning 23 of its last 26 games.

“To have eight guys, it’s awesome,” Riley said.

The contingent includes Atlanta’s entire starting infield, a proud accomplishment for Braves coach Ron Washington.

“Washington said this is probably the most emotional day of his career because all of his infielders went to the All-Star Game,” Albies said.

The previous team with eight All-Stars was the 2012 Texas Rangers. It was the first time an NL club had eight picks since the 2008 Chicago Cubs.

Atlanta is the first club with six position players since Boston in 2008.

Texas has six AllStars this year and the Dodgers five.

Arizona rookie outfielder Corbin Carroll, a Seattle native elect-

ed to start, is the youngest All-Star at 22. Dodgers designated hitter J.D. Martinez is the oldest at 35.

Twenty-six players are first-time All-Stars. Angels center fielder Mike Trout has the most AllStar selections with 11, making his 10th trip as a starter.

Starting pitchers Zac Gallen, Kershaw and Marcus Stroman also were voted to the NL staff along with relievers Alexis Díaz, Camilo Doval and Josh Hader.

NL reserves voted in by players included catcher Will Smith, shortstop Dansby Swanson, outfielders Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Nick Castellanos, and designated hitter Jorge Soler.

MLB had six NL picks, using five for players on teams still without All-Stars: pitchers Josiah Gray, Mitch Keller, Justin Steele and Devin Williams along with first baseman Pete Alonso and catcher Elias Diaz.

Starting pitchers Gerrit Cole, Nathan Eovaldi, Sonny Gray and Shane McClanahan were voted by players to the AL staff along with Ohtani. The relievers elected by fellow players were Felix Bautista, Yennier Cano and Emmanuel Clase.

AL reserves elected by players included catcher Adley Rutschman, first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr., second baseman Whit Merrifield, shortstop Bo Bichette, third baseman José Ramírez and outfielders Yordan Alvarez, Adolis García and Austin Hays, and designated hitter Brent Rooker.

“There’s a really cool picture of me hitting a homer off Shohei in Anaheim, and I’m going to approach him very humbly and try to get him to sign it,” Rooker said. “That’s

something that I would like to have forever. If there’s anybody doubting that he’s the best baseball player of all-time, I don’t really know why they are. He could be the front-page story in every newspaper every day and it wouldn’t be talked about enough what he’s doing from an offensive and pitching standpoint.”

MLB used five of its seven AL picks for players whose teams were not already represented, selecting Luis Castillo of the host Mariners along with fellow pitchers Kevin Gausman, Kenley Jansen, Michael Lorenzen and Framber Valdez, plus catcher Salvador Perez and outfielder Luis Robert Jr.

Seattle outfielder and hometown favorite Julio Rodríguez was omitted, though AL injury replacements likely will be selected for Alvarez and Aaron Judge. Rodríguez has already committed to participating in the Home Run Derby.

Other notable players left off despite excellent numbers included Tatis, Rays shortstop Wander Franco and Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte.

Keller, a 27-yearold Pittsburgh righthander, became an All-Star in his fifth season. Two years ago he was pitching for Triple-A Indianapolis at the time of the AllStar Game and last year he was demoted to the bullpen for two weeks in May.

“Them having the most confidence in me the last two or three years is really cool and everyone sticking with me and showing me their support and giving me their love, it’s been awesome,” Keller said of his Pirates teammates.

Archibald, then got goals from Jonathan Russell, DiShon Bernard, Daniel Johnson and Cory Burke.

Poland’s Iga Swiatek celebrates defeating China’s Zhu Lin. AP PHOTO/ALASTAIR GRANT

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THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL

PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified a Petition was filed on June 27th, 2023, in this Court by Deborah Smail, Susan Hawk, and Lora Obermueller, praying for the appointment of Deborah Smail, Susan Hawk, and Lora Obermueller as co-executrices of the estate of Beverly J. Hawk, and for the issuance of Letters Testamentary.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before July 28th, 2023, at 8:30 a.m. of said day, in the District Courtroom, at the Allen County

(Published in The Iola Register June 28, 2023)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT

U.S. Bank National Association

Plaintiff, vs. The Heirs-at-law of Kimberlynn

Foust a/k/a Kimberlynn Cooper, Deceased; United States of America, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/Occupant)

Defendants.

Case No. AL-2023-CV-000008

Court Number:

Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60

NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Front Door of the Courthouse at Iola Allen County, Kansas, on July 19, 2023, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate: The South Half (S 1/2) of Lot Two (2), and all of Lot

Courthouse, in the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition. All creditors of the decedent notified to exhibit their demands against the estate within four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Deborah Smail, Petitioner Susan Hawk, Petitioner Lora Obermueller, Petitioner JOHNSON SCHOWENGERDT, PA 118 W. Madison/P.O. Box 866 Tel. (620) 365-3778/Fax (620) 380-6230 Iola, Kansas 66749 chase@ jslaw.kscoxmail.com

/s/ Chase J. Vaughn Chase J. Vaughn, # 29371 Attorney for Petitioners (7) 5, 12, 19

Three (3), in East Side Addition, a Subdivision in the West Half of the Northeast Quarter (W 1/2 NE 1/4) of Section Thirty-one (31), Township Twenty-four (24) South, Range Nineteen (19) East of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Allen County, Kansas, commonly known as 220 McAtee Rd, Iola, KS 66749 (the “Property”) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case. The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court. For more information, visit www. Southlaw.com

Bryan J. Murphy, Sheriff Allen County, Kansas

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DIVISION

In the Matter of the Estate of STEVEN DON MCDONALD, Deceased AL-2023-PR-000021

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified a Petition was filed on May 31, 2023, in this Court by Mary McDonald, praying for the appointment of Mary McDonald, as administrator of the estate of Steven Don McDonald, and for the issuance of Letters of Administration.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 14th day of July 2023, at 8:30 a.m., of said day, in the District Courtroom, at the Allen County Courthouse, in the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

All creditors of the decedent notified to exhibit their demands against the estate within four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

/s/ Mary McDonald, Petitioner Jacob T. Manbeck, #27684 MANBECK LAW, LLC 10 E. Jackson Ave. Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) 305-2592 Attorney for Petitioner (6) 21, 28 (7) 5

Car strikes restaurant

LACONIA, N.H. (AP) —

A car crashed into a busy New Hampshire restaurant and injured more than a dozen patrons inside, authorities said.

The vehicle struck the Looney Bin Bar & Grill a little after 12:40 p.m. Sunday and came to a stop well inside, pinning one man inside the bathroom, restaurant owner Michelle Watson said.

“Everybody jumped right in and helped,” she told WHDH-TV. “Everybody jumped in to make sure everybody was OK.”

ment, the Laconia Fire Department said.

“There were a lot of people inside due to it being lunchtime and a holiday weekend,” Fire Capt. Chad Vaillancourt said in the statement.

The building, which is on Highway 3 north of Concord, sustained significant damage.

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Police Chief Matt Canfield said the crash involved three vehicles: One was making a left turn out of a parking lot across the street while a second was in the center lane. The driver making the turn didn’t see a third oncoming vehicle, and the ensuing collision sent that third vehicle crashing into the restaurant.

Emergency responders transported 14 people to area hospitals with non-life-threatening medical issues including significant lower leg injuries, cuts and bruises. Another 20 people were evaluated at the scene by emergency personnel but did not require hospital treat-

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65-year old Bernhard Langer wins US Senior Open

STEVENS POINT, Wis.

(AP) — Bernhard Langer won the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday at SentryWorld to break the PGA Tour Champions’ career victory record.

Pushing his record as the oldest winner on the 50-and-over tour to 65 years, 10 months, 5 days, the German star broke a tie with Hale Irwin for the victory mark with No. 46.

“I have my mother that’s going to be 100 on August 4th, so I think I have good genes,” Langer said. “Hopefully, I’ll be around a few more years.”

Seven strokes ahead on the back nine, Langer bogeyed the final three holes for 1-under 70 and a two-stroke victory over home-state favorite Steve Stricker on the tree-lined course with thick rough.

“Never thought it would happen at a U.S. Senior Open, but I’m very thrilled that the record of 46 wins happened this week,” Langer said. “It’s certainly one of the greatest tournaments we ever compete in, and to beat this field, where

everybody was here, especially Stricker and (Jerry) Kelly on their home grounds, is a very special feeling.”

Langer finished at 7-under 277, with only eight players breaking par for the week. He shattered the tournament age record set by Allen Doyle in 2006 at Prairie Dunes at 57 years, 11 months, 14 days.

“There are a lot more aches and pains than 10 years ago,” Langer said.

“I still enjoy the game. If I play like I did this week, I’m going to keep playing. There have been the odd week when I thought, `What were you doing out here? Go home and play with the grandkids.’”

The two-time Masters champion has a record 13 victories since turning 60 and holds the top five spots on the oldest- winners list. He has multiple victories in 11 straight seasons and 14 overall.

Also the 2010 U.S. Senior Open winner at Sahalee outside Seattle, Langer extended his record for senior major victories to 12. He won

the Chubb Classic in Florida in February to tie Irwin.

Stricker — from Madison, 100 miles to the south — birdied three of the last five holes for a 69.

“It gives all of us hope, I guess, that are out here still playing that we can continue to play as good as he’s played for such a long time,” Stricker said about Langer. “It’s really impressive. I knew he wasn’t going to back off today.”

Stricker won the first two senior majors of the year and took his hometown Madison event three weeks ago for his fourth Champions victory of the season.

“It seemed like I had a poor nine holes in there every day, and that just ended up costing me the tournament,” Stricker said.

Kelly, also from Madison, was third at 4 under after a 71.

“I was way too amped up,” Kelly said. “I was

trying to be settled and calm, but I was talking more than I have all week. I was moving a little bit faster than I have all week.”

Two shots ahead of Kelly entering the round, Langer birdied the first two holes for the second straight day.

Langer added a birdie on No. 5, then rounded from a bogey on No. 6 with birdie on No. 7. He opened the back nine with a birdie on the 10th, parred the next five and closed with the

three straight bogeys.

“It was not easy,” said Langer, who earned a spot next year in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2. “My age probably showed up toward the end.”

Brett Quigley (66) and Rob Labritz (69) tied for fourth at 2 under. Twotime U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen (71), Steven Alker (65) and Dicky Pride (69) were 1 under.

“The rough was difficult and, as many fairways as I missed, I think I did OK,” Goosen said. “I was like a cow out there just eating cabbage the whole time.”

Langer, paired with Goosen the first two rounds, sacrificed distance for accuracy to stay out of the rough.

“I think that’s one of the reasons I did so well. I didn’t hit it in the rough very often,” Langer said. “Took many 3-woods off the tees at times, but then I had to hit 3-wood into the green or a very long club. But I’d rather do that than hit driver and wedge it out from the rough.”

Rickie Fowler wins Rocket Mortgage Classic

DETROIT (AP) —

Rickie Fowler tilted his head back, exhaled and smiled.

He finally did it, holding on for a win after so many have slipped away.

Refusing to crumble and collapse again, Fowler made a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole of the Rocket Mortgage Classic and outlasted Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin on Sunday, two weeks after squandering a chance at the U.S. Open.

“It’s just nice to have this one out of the way,” Fowler said after winning for the first time in four years. “I’m obviously going to soak this one in and celebrate a bit.

“Yeah, it’s just been a long road.”

Fowler ended a career-long, 96-start championship drought after missing out on two chances to win in June, closing with a 75 at the U.S. Open to tie for fifth and with a 69 last week at the Travelers Championship to drop into a tie for 13th.

Followed all day by a sea of orange at Detroit Golf Club, Fowler was knocked down on the leaderboard by a near record-tying-round from Morikawa. He responded on his 72nd hole of the tournament with an approach from 145 feet that left him with a 3-foot birdie putt to pull into a three-way tie with Morikawa and Hadwin at 24 under.

Fowler hit an errant tee shot way right in the playoff and after a drop, his approach from 184 landed 12 feet from the cup. Morikawa was inches long on

his approach and instead of having the ball spin back to the hole, it bounced into the rough.

“I truly thought I hit the perfect shot,” Morikawa said. “It just was a little juiced, went a little far and just didn’t have the putter in the hand. Not that the chip wasn’t possible, but would have been nice to have the putter in the hand.”

Hadwin missed a 22foot putt and Morikawa his chip, opening the door for Fowler to close out the tournament before thunderstorms rolled over Detroit.

“I knew it was just a matter of time with how I’ve been playing,” said Fowler, who has eight top-10 finishes this season. “I’ve had a couple tough weekends where I had a chance.”

Even though Morikawa was disappointed in coming up short on a victory he has been shooting for since winning the 2021 British Open, he was happy for Fowler.

“He’s been playing phenomenal golf, it’s great to see,” he said.

“People love him.”

Morikawa’s 8-under round put him one shot back from the course record of 63. Hadwin shot a 67 and Fowler a 68.

Fowler had a share of the 54-hole lead last month at Los Angeles Country Club with an opportunity to win his first major and was at least a co-leader after three rounds in one tournament in each of the previous two years.

Before his breakthrough in Detroit, he had won just two of the 10 times he was the third-round leader or co-leader.

The 34-year-old Fowler physically and mentally did what was needed to earn his sixth PGA Tour victory and his first since winning the 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open.

The fan favorite Fowler, a longtime ambassador for Rocket Mortgage, was cheered with chants of “Rick-ie! Rick-ie!” as clusters of people gathered around the 18th green hoping he would win it.

While Fowler faltered, going 10 straight

holes settling for pars on a relatively easy course, Morikawa had four birdies on both the front and back nine. Morikawa made a 10foot putt at No. 12, his fourth birdie in a sixhole stretch that put him within a shot of Fowler, and his 9-footer for birdie at No. 14 pulled him into a tie

with Fowler at 23 under.

Monday qualifier Peter Kuest (65), Lucas Glover (65) and Taylor Moore (67) were tied for fourth at 21 under. Kuest, who started the week ranked 789th in the world, did well enough to earn a spot in this week’s John Deere Classic in Illinois. Play was suspend-

ed Saturday for 1 hour, 42 minutes because of lightning and the schedule for the final round was adjusted due to inclement weather in the forecast. The leaders teed off Sunday morning about 5 hours before the original schedule with threesomes starting on both the front and back nine.

Bernhard Langer hits out of bunker on seventh hole during second round of the 2023 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club April 7 in Augusta, Ga. JASON GETZ/TNS

Rickie Fowler wipes his face after finishing on the 18th green during the final round of the 123rd U.S. Open Championship at the Los Angeles Country Club. KEITH BIRMINGHAM/PASADENA STAR-NEWS/SCNG