The Iola Register, Dec. 6, 2022

Petrolia man arrested for murder

By the Register staff

A Petrolia man has been arrested on suspi cion of killing a Chanute man who was found dead on Satur day.

The Kan sas Bureau of Investi gation and sheriff’s de partments in Allen and Neosho counties are investigat ing.

Casey Dye, age 43 of Petrolia, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder after he came to the Allen County Sheriff’s Department at 4:50 p.m. Saturday and gave a state ment, according to a press released issued on Sunday

Santa hears Christmas lists

Santa Claus made his first visit of the season at downtown Iola on Saturday afternoon, courtesy of a ride around town with the Iola Fire Department.

Santa will return from 5 to 7 p.m. on both Tuesday and Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. At left, Kason, left, and little brother Kyle Doughty of Moran were first to visit with Santa and share their wish list. Kyle was a bit unsure about the whole thing. Below left, Liam Boltwood, with parents Katie Riffel and Kyle Boltwood, accept a candy cane from elf Sandy Hardwick. Below, Santa waves hello to the crowd upon his arrival.

Preschoolers hone purchasing skills at library

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

There are times when a lit tle noise in the library is per fectly acceptable.

Lesa Cole, youth services librarian at the Iola Public Li brary, watched with content as the gaggle of preschoolers flocked to the newest addition to the Family Place Center in the children’s section last week.

There, the youngsters ex citedly got acquainted with the toy checkout stand, as if they were in an actual grocery store.

Plastic containers depict ing canned goods or boxes of food were placed on the small

conveyor belt as another pre schooler punched buttons. An apparatus similar to a credit card swiper beeped periodi cally as a third fiddled with the controls.

The would-be grocery store is the library’s latest tool in getting children mentally pre pared for kindergarten.

“Pretend play is very im portant,” Cole said. “It’s all geared toward letting kids learn through talk, read, sing, write and play.”

Hands-on learning took on greater emphasis about a year ago, after the Southeast Kan sas Library System received a Children’s Cabinet Communi ty Based Child Abuse Preven

Kansas coalition seeks to fix food sales tax bug

vaporize one year

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

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Dashing through deals

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Casey Dye

From left, Marlee Fehr, Mackenzie Heffern, Willa Sigg and Nellie Sigg pretend they are at a grocery store. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Becky Sander pilots a horse-drawn carriage during Friday’s Downtown Block Party. Businesses stayed open late to offer holiday shopping deals. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

TOPEKA — The Kansas League of Municipalities is a proponent of eliminating the state’s 6.5% sales tax on food purchases, but an un expected wrinkle compli cates that policy position. The 2022 Legislature and Gov. Laura Kelly approved a law dropping the state wide sales tax on groceries to 4% on Jan. 1. It would fall to 2% on Jan. 1, 2024, and

later. The Republican-dominated 2023 Legislature, which convenes Jan. 9 in Topeka, will have an opportunity to address Kelly’s plea to immediately strike the state’s share of the food sales tax. High inflation has bolstered political sup port for the move.

the catch: Reduc tion and elimination of the state food sales tax would un dermine the ability of cities, such as Newton, to meet obli

Obituary

Don Madison

Donald (Don) Charles Madison, 77, Wichita, went to his Heavenly home, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. He was born Nov. 23, 1945, in Wichita, the son of Charles W. Madison and Mary E. Alliston Madison

Survivors include his wife, Sharon, of the home; and his three children, Joan Kramer (Tim) of Wichita, Tom Madison (Kitty) of Wichita and Karen Traynor (Kip) of Walnut Cove, N.C.

Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Immanuel Baptist Church, 1415 S. Topeka Ave., Wichita. The family will receive friends from 10:30 a.m. until service time at the church. The service will be livestreamed on the church’s website at ibcwichita.com.

A graveside service will be held that afternoon at 2:30 at Colony Cemetery in Colony. Memorials are suggested to either Immanuel Baptist Church Future Building Fund or Gideons International and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chap el, 201 S. Main, P.O. Box 347, Fort Scott, KS 66701.

Words of remembrance may be submitted at cheneywitt.com.

IHS band to play for retired teachers

Iola High School band students under director Brandi Holt will present the pro gram at Wednesday’s Allen County Retired School Personnel or ganization meeting.

The meeting is set

for 12:15 p.m. Wednes day in the Mary Ellen Stadler Conference room at Allen Commu nity College.

Meals are available at the cafeteria, or attendees can bring their own.

Carlyle news

Carlyle Presbyterian Church

Ron Phipps and Merrill Hodgden pre sided over the Second Sunday Advent Can dle Lighting service on “JOY.”

As we prepare for good and bad times, let us pray God will light our hearts with hope and joy. And fill us with anticipation and longing for the true joy Christ brings, and temper it with patience that we may never fall into despair as we await its fulfill ment.

Pastor Steve Traw’s message “Highway Builders” was taken from Luke 3:1-6, which tells of the ministry of John the Baptist, who preached repenting of sins and becoming baptized thus paving the way for Christ’s

ministry.

You can watch the church service, short ly after 10 a.m. Sun days, via Facebook.

Pianist Myrna Wildschuetz played “Do You Hear What I Hear?” for the prelude and “O Little Town of Bethlehem” for the of fertory.

Vaughn Walker cel ebrated his birthday Sunday.

The Carlyle Church Christmas Eve Com munion and Candle lighting Service will be at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24.

Police reports

Vehicle hit

An unknown motor ist struck a vehicle be longing to Jonna Bow er sometime Friday in the 800 block of North Sycamore Street. The unknown motorist left without reporting the accident.

The incident oc curred sometime be tween 5 a.m. and 3:15

p.m., officers said.

Arrest reported Iola police officers arrested Troy Bland and Regina Esquivel Sunday morning for suspicion of possess ing marijuana and drug paraphernalia at the Allen County Sher iff’s Department office in the courthouse.

Anniversary

Chanute director of development takes new job with state

CHANUTE — Matt Godinez, executive di rector of the Chanute Regional Development Authority has taken a position with the State of Kansas, according to the Chanute Tri bune.

firmly believes that this opportunity for Matt to serve both here locally, while having a consistent presence in Topeka, is ultimately in the best interest of Chanute,” said Adams.

Martin and Mary Henderson celebrated their 65th wedding an niversary Sunday, Dec. 4 at Midpoint Baptist Church in Moran.

Hosting the celebra tion were their children, Shirley Fry, Eddie Hen derson, Gloria Donavan, Karen Culver and Gary Henderson.

Godinez, however, will remain with the CRDA in a part-time position and a fulltime deputy director will be hired to take the lead.

The Chanute board regards Godinez’s new position as a ben efit to the community, said Kellen Adams, CRDA board chair.

“The CRDA board

Godinez’s increased responsibilities will open additional doors for Chanute, Adams said.

Godinez said the role of an economic development direc tor involves a wealth of information that comes from network ing, strategic plan ning and long-term projects.

Capsule homebound after lunar pass

By MARCIA DUNN The Associated Press

CAPE CANAVER AL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule and its test dummies swooped one last time around the moon Monday, fly ing over a couple Apol lo landing sites before heading home.

Orion will aim for a Pacific splashdown Sun day off San Diego, set ting the stage for astro nauts on the next flight in a couple years.

The capsule passed within 80 miles of the far side of the moon, using the lunar gravi ty as a slingshot for the 237,000-mile ride back to Earth. It spent a week in

a wide, sweeping lunar orbit.

Once emerging from behind the moon and re gaining communication with flight controllers in Houston, Orion beamed back photos of a closeup moon and a crescent Earth — Earthrise — in the distance.

“Orion now has its sights set on home,” said Mission Control com mentator Sandra Jones.

The capsule also passed over the landing sites of Apollo 12 and 14. But at 6,000 miles up, it was too high to make out the descent stages of the lunar landers or anything else left be hind by astronauts more than a half-century ago.

Area schools ready to ring in the holidays

Iola schools will bring the sounds of the sea son over the next couple of weeks.

Tonight at 7, kinder garten and first grade

students at Iola Ele mentary School will perform a concert at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

The Iola middle and

high school choir will perform a concert at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the Bowlus Iola’s middle and high school bands will

During a similar flyover two weeks ago, it was too dark for pictures. This time, it was daylight.

Deputy chief flight di rector Zebulon Scoville said nearby craters and other geologic features would be visible in any pictures, but little else.

“It will be more of a tip of the hat and a his torical nod to the past,” Scoville told reporters last week.

The three-week test flight has exceeded ex pectations so far, ac cording to officials. But the biggest challenge still lies ahead: hitting the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound and surviving the fiery reentry.

Orion blasted off Nov. 16 on the debut flight of

NASA’s most powerful rocket ever, the Space Launch System or SLS.

The next flight — as early as 2024 — will attempt to carry four astronauts around the moon. The third mis sion, targeted for 2025, will feature the first lunar landing by astro nauts since the Apollo moon program ended 50 years ago this month.

Apollo 17 rocketed away Dec. 7, 1972, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, carrying Eu gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ron Evans. Cernan and Schmitt spent three days on the lunar surface, the lon gest stay of the Apollo era, while Evans orbited the moon. Only Schmitt is still alive.

perform at a concert at 7 p.m. Dec. 12, and the Strings Concert will be 7 p.m. on Dec. 14, both also at the Bowlus.

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The Artemis III Orion crew capsule being assembled at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The capsule was launched in November for a three-week test flight, and is scheduled to return to Earth on Sunday. ORLANDO SENTINEL/JOE BURBANK/TNS

Children enjoy the Family Place Center at the Iola Public Library. They are from Munchkinland and Ready Set Learn preschools.

Library: Early Literacy can’t wait

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tion Grant, with the li brary serving as the pi lot recipient.

The funds have al lowed Cole to add a number of pieces to the library over the past 12 months, including a toy kitchen area, a work shop and literacy center.

Plans are to expand the grant services to other libraries.

“It’s a popular area,” Cole said. “The kids are really enjoying it. They

get so excited when they see what we have.”

The Family Engage ment in Public Librar ies model program — titled “Early Literacy can’t wait” — and the Cabinet extended the grant for three years, al lowing for expansion to other libraries.

A PAIR of upcoming library programs are certain to carry special favor for youngsters with Christmas ap proaching.

Santa Claus will be at the library at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 14 to read “The Night Before Christ mas” as part of the reg ular Library Littles sto rytime.

Elle Dominquez will be at the library at 2 p.m. Dec. 16 to read Christ mas stories from her collection of vintage Little Golden Books in the library’s main lounge area.

Regular Library Lit tles sessions will re sume in January.

League: Priorities announced

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gations of STAR bonds used to finance econom ic development proj ects that included retail stores selling groceries.

The STAR bond pro gram requires debt to be paid off with sales tax revenue, but that source of cash would be dimin ished when the state’s portion of the food sales tax was shelved.

“We absolutely sup port the lower food sales tax, and we support the Legislature doing it away with it imme diately if they can,” said Spencer Duncan, a lobbyist for the Kansas League of Municipali ties.

On the Kansas Re flector podcast, Duncan recommended lawmak ers consider an alterna tive to possible default of STAR bonds tied to tax revenue on grocery sales. He said the state’s large surplus would al low resources to be set aside to cover retire ment of that long-term debt.

The League of Munic ipalities was founded in 1910 and directly rep resents 530 member cit ies, but generally serves interests of all 625 cities

in Kansas. In addition to lobbying, the League of Municipalities con ducts training and ed ucation programs on public transparency and government leadership.

The League’s attorney took more than 2,000 calls this year from lo cal government officials seeking legal advice.

The legislative pri orities of the League of Municipalities runs from property and sales tax issues to policy on water, traffic codes, housing, mental health, asset forfeiture, liquor regulation, infrastruc ture, energy, pension systems and state man dates. It touches on long standing local govern ment subjects, including annexation, eminent domain, city and coun ty consolidation, home rule, elections as well as police powers.

Duncan said water quality and quanti ty may not seen like a forefront issue for the League of Municipali ties, but diminishment of the Ogallala Aquifer, drought and climate change posed a threat to growth and viability of communities. The organization urged leg

islators to aggressively pursue conservation, protection and develop ment of water supplies.

The League also recom mended the state take action, in consultation with municipal suppli ers, to address contro versy about “over-ap propriated surface and groundwater resourc es.”

Death

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by the KBI.

Officers found the body of Ryan M. Holcomb, age 45 of Chanute, in a vehicle inside an automotive glass shop at 7545 K-39 in Chanute. He had been shot.

Law enforcement believe Dye killed Holcomb on Satur day morning at a rural property in Al len County and then moved his body to the Chanute business.

The investigation is continuing. Formal charges are pend ing and additional charges are expected.

North Carolina power outages could last days after shootings

CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — Tens of thou sands of people braced for days without elec tricity in a North Car olina county where au thorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more peo ple with apparent crim inal intent.

Across Moore Coun ty southwest of Raleigh on Monday, businesses handed out free food or coffee, temporary stop signs were erected at intersections where traffic lights went dark and businesses with out internet conducted transactions in cash. One local economic official described the area known for its golf courses and local pot tery as “eerily quiet” at a time of year when businesses are nor mally full of tourists and holiday shoppers.

County schools were also closed, and a 9 p.m.-5 a.m. countywide curfew was in place.

Meanwhile, federal, state and local author ities were undertaking a massive investiga tion of what’s being described as a serious attack on critical in frastructure. Utility officials said it could take until Thursday to restore all power.

“An attack like this on critical infrastruc ture is a serious, in

tentional crime and I expect state and feder al authorities to thor oughly investigate and bring those responsible to justice,” Gov. Roy Cooper wrote on Twit ter.

Moore County Sher iff Ronnie Fields said Sunday that author ities have not deter mined a motivation. He said someone pulled up, breached the substa tion gates and opened fire at the substations.

The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines re ported that a wooden post holding up a gate had been snapped at one of the substations and that it was lying in an access road Sunday morning.

He also said the sub stations were targeted: “It wasn’t random.”

Fields said law en forcement is providing security at the substa tions and for business es overnight.

“We will have folks out there tonight around the clock,” Fields said.

Roughly 35,000 elec tric customers in the county were without power late Monday morning, down by sev eral thousand from the peak of the outages, according to power outage.us. Tempera tures dropped below freezing early Monday,

and lows in the 40s were expected again later in the week.

About 20 people spent the night at an emergency shelter at the Moore County Sports Complex in Car thage, said Phil Harris, executive director of the local American Red Cross chapter. Harris, who’s managing a team of nine volunteers, said plenty more have stopped by for food, warmth or to charge their devices.

“If you’ve got no pow er, you probably don’t have any heat, so with winter weather coming in, it’s a nice place to stay,” Harris said.

Duke Energy spokes man Jeff Brooks said Sunday that multiple pieces of equipment were damaged and will have to be replaced. He said while the company is trying to restore pow er as quickly as possi ble, he braced custom ers for the potential of outages lasting days.

“We are looking at a pretty sophisticated repair with some fair ly large equipment and so we do want citizens of the town to be pre pared that this will be a multiday restoration for most customers, extending potentially as long as Thursday,” Brooks said at the news conference.

Record number of women serve as lawmakers

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

WASHINGTON — A record number of wom en will soon serve in state legislatures, break ing the previous cap of female lawmakers by at least 69 seats and bring ing total representation to more than 32%, ac cording to the Center for American Women and Politics.

States will have at least 2,376 female law makers in 2023, includ ing both women elected in 2022 and holdovers. That is an increase in the number of wom en writing and voting on state laws from the current record of 2,307 women set in 2022. An other 59 races this year

with female candidates are too close to call.

Democrats hold the lead with 1,560 mem bers, while Republicans have 795. The remaining female state lawmakers don’t belong to a major party or are indepen dent. CAWP, which is a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey, noted that means GOP female law makers make up just 33.5% of women state legislators.

The numbers are far from reflective of the nation’s population, though women have reached parity in some states.

Colorado will join Nevada next year as the only two states that have at least half of

their legislatures made up of women, accord ing to CAWP’s analysis of this year’s elections.

“Nevada became the first state to reach this milestone following the 2018 elections. As of Election Day 2022, 58.7% of Nevada state legislators were wom en, and in 2023 Neva da’s legislature will be 60.3% women,” CAWP wrote in a summary of state legislative elec tion results.

“Colorado’s legisla ture will also be major ity-women in 2023, with women holding 51% of state legislative seats,” CAWP wrote.

Women hold exact ly half of the seats in the Arizona and New Hampshire Senate chambers.

Ukraine grain reaches Africa

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first ship ment of grain as part of Ukraine’s own initiative to supply countries in need arrived in Djibouti Monday for delivery to neighboring Ethiopia amid the region’s worst drought in decades.

Ukraine’s embassy in Ethiopia confirmed that the “Grain from Ukraine” shipment of 25,000 tons is separate from a United Nations World Food Program ef fort that has funded hu manitarian grain ship ments from Ukraine.

A second ship with

30,000 tons of wheat will be heading to Ethiopia next week, while a third vessel is currently be ing loaded with 25,000 tons of wheat bound for Somalia, an embassy statement said.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky last month announced the initiative aimed at helping “countries the most struck by the food crisis.” Ukraine has said it plans to send more than 60 ships to Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Congo, Kenya, Yemen and other countries.

Millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are going hungry due to drought following the fifth straight failed rainy season, while con flicts in Ethiopia and Somalia have worsened the crisis.

Ethiopia has not yet commented on the new grain shipment from Ukraine. But Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in August criticized reports of a U.N. ef fort to ship grain from Ukraine to Ethiopia as an attempt to paint “a picture that we are starved.”

Arizona certifies election results

PHOENIX (AP) —

Arizona’s top officials certified the midterm election results Monday, formalizing victories for Democrats over Re publicans who falsely claimed the 2020 elec tion was rigged.

The certification opens a five-day window for formal election chal lenges. Republican Kari Lake, who lost the race for governor, is expect ed to file a lawsuit after weeks of criticizing the administration of the election.

Election results have largely been certified without issue around the country, but Arizo na was an exception. Several Republican-con trolled counties delayed their certification de spite no evidence of problems with the vote count. Cochise County in southeastern Arizo na blew past the dead line last week, forcing a judge to intervene on Friday and order the county supervisors to certify the election by the end of the day.

“Arizona had a suc cessful election,” Sec retary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, said before signing the certi fication. “But too often throughout the process, powerful voices prolif erated misinformation that threatened to dis enfranchise voters.”

The statewide cer tification, known as a canvass, was signed by Hobbs, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, Republican Attorney General Mark

Brnovich and Chief Justice Robert Brutinel, a Ducey appointee.

When the same group certified the 2020 elec tion, Ducey silenced a call from then-President Donald Trump, who was at the time in a frenetic push to persuade Re publican allies to go along with his attempts to overturn the election he lost.

“This is a responsi bility I do not take light ly,” Ducey said. “It’s one that recognizes the votes cast by the citi zens of our great state.”

Republicans have complained for weeks about Hobbs’ role in cer tifying her own victory over Lake in the race for governor, though it is typical for election offi cials to maintain their position while running for higher office. Lake and her allies have fo cused on problems with ballot printers that pro duced about 17,000 bal lots that could not be tabulated on site and had to be counted at the elections department headquarters.

Lines backed up in some polling places, fu eling Republican suspi cions that some support ers were unable to cast a ballot, though there’s no evidence it affected the outcome. County of ficials say everyone was able to vote and all legal ballots were counted.

Hobbs planned to im mediately petition the Maricopa County Su perior Court to begin an automatic statewide

recount required by law in three races decided by less than half a percent age point. The race for at torney general was one of the closest contests in state history, with Demo crat Kris Mayes leading Republican Abe Hama deh by just 510 votes out of 2.5 million cast.

The races for super intendent of public in struction and a state legislative seat in the Phoenix suburbs will also be recounted, but the margins are much larger.

Once a Democratic stronghold, Arizona’s top races went resound ingly for Democrats after Republicans nom inated a slate of candi dates backed by Trump who focused on sup porting his false claims about the 2020 election.

In addition to Hobbs and Mayes, Democrat ic Sen. Mark Kelly was re-elected and Demo crat Adrian Fontes won the race for attorney general.

Be a hero; learn CPR

We are familiar with the scene on tele vision and movies: a person clutches their chest and drops to the ground, unconscious. Another character starts chest compres sions and help is sum moned. Although cardiopulmonary re suscitation, or CPR, is often not accurately portrayed in such pro ductions, it serves as a good reminder to all that CPR can save a life.

Cardiac arrest is a general term to de scribe any situation in which the heart stops pumping blood to other organs in the body, most urgently the brain. Cardiac arrest can have many caus es, including a mas sive heart attack or a deadly heart arrhyth mia. Regardless of the cause, the most press ing need of any person after cardiac arrest is, in short, restoring the circulation of oxygen to the brain and other critical organs.

The American Heart Association estimates that over 350,000 car diac arrests occur out side a hospital in the US each year. These events might happen at home or in a public lo cation. If that person is

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lucky enough to have a bystander educated in CPR present at the time of the cardiac arrest, their odds of surviving that event are hugely improved.

The most basic and important component of CPR is effec tive chest compres sions.

Free CPR certification and First Aid Course 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturday LaHarpe City Hall For more information call 620-496-2241

CPR can also in clude defibril lation, or shocking an elec trically malfunction ing heart to restore a normal rhythm. Many public places now keep an automated external defibrillator, or AED, on hand. A CPR class will teach participants to perform effective CPR and how to use a defibrillator.

What can you do? If you have never done so, or if it has been a few years (as all things, the science of

CPR has changed and improved), I would en courage you to find a CPR class in your com munity. If you own or manage a business, consider getting an AED and keep it in a visible location. I hope you will never have to use these skills, but you could be the reason a family member or complete stranger survives an other wise-fatal event.

Cardiac arrest is a common cause of death, but bystander CPR can be life-saving. If you are able, consid er learning this heroic skill. For information on where to find a CPR class, check at red cross.org or with your local hospital.

Kelly Ev ans-Hullinger, M.D. is part of The Prairie Doc® team of physi cians and currently practices internal med icine in Brookings, S.D..

‘Sesame Street’ legend dies at 90

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bob McGrath, an actor, musician and children’s author widely known for his portrayal of one of the first regular char acters on the chil dren’s show “Sesame Street” has died at the age of 90.

McGrath’s pass ing was confirmed by his family who posted on his Face book page on Sunday: “The McGrath family has some sad news to share. Our father Bob McGrath, passed away today. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family.”

Sesame Workshop tweeted Sunday eve ning that it “mourns the passing of Bob McGrath, a beloved member of the Sesa me Street family for over 50 years.”

McGrath was a found ing cast member of “Sesame Street” when the show premiered in 1969, playing a friendly neighbor Bob Johnson. He made his final ap pearance on the show in 2017, marking an almost five-decade-long figure in the “Sesame Street” world.

The actor grew up in Illinois and studied music at the University of Michigan and Man hattan School of Music. He also was a singer in the 60s series “Sing Along With Mitch” and launched a successful singing career overseas in Japan.

“A revered performer worldwide, Bob’s rich tenor filled airwaves

and concert halls from Las Vegas to Saskatch ewan to Tokyo many times over,” Sesame Workshop said. “We will be forever grateful for his many years of passionate creative con tributions to Sesame Street and honored that he shared so much of his life with us.”

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Back in 2001, precious few Americans could have ex plained what Houston-based Enron did as a company and how it got so spectacularly wealthy. But when it filed for a record-breaking bankrupt cy, Americans got schooled fast about not putting their trust and money behind swaggering, fast-talking con artists. But fools and their money regrouped over the years, and along came FTX, a $32 billion cryptocurren cy exchange that repeated many of Enron’s mistakes and yielded the same abys mal results. We suspect that a lot of investors who lost their shirts in the FTX fail ure would have trouble ex plaining exactly what FTX did, and that’s largely be cause the entire cryptocur rency industry is built on fantasy.

Even the person in charge of the company, Sam Bank man-Fried, didn’t under stand it completely. “I didn’t know exactly what was go ing on,” he told The New York Times last week in a DealBook video interview.

A year ago, Bankman-Fried was worth an estimated $26.5 billion. Today, the 30-year-old might have around $100,000 in assets. “I’ve had a bad month,” he told The Times.

The losses he and his investors suffered are far more complex to explain than what happened at En ron. That company actual ly dealt in a tangible asset — energy — but was guilty of creating fake companies and shuffling money-los ing accounts among them to hide its financial losses.

In the case of FTX, it was an exchange where people bought and sold imaginary cryptocurrency, whose val ue was based on nothing

that anyone could see or touch. And yet millions of people around the world poured billions of real dol lars into it.

When the imaginary world of cryptocurrency and FTX came crashing down, investors demanded their real, tangible money back. But it was gone. That prompted the equivalent of a bank run that exposed the myth behind everything Bankman-Fried was doing. He invented currency. When that wasn’t enough, he in vented an exchange for oth er invented currencies. As long as everyone believed in the myth, the money poured in.

Company officers appar ently used FTX assets to take out real loans to make investments in real, mon ey-based enterprises. When the run on the bank began, they apparently began using customers’ money to pay off other customers — a Ponzi scheme, in other words.

Former President Bill Clin ton was among the promi nent personalities who got burned by associating them selves with FTX.

To his credit, though, Clinton gave a talk at the FTX headquarters in the Ba hamas reportedly warning all involved to “do right by it in the regulatory space,” meaning to make sure FTX operations abided by U.S. securities and banking reg ulations. Because the indus try took off way before U.S. regulators could catch up, it’s not clear what they can do now to hold FTX officials legally accountable.

That shouldn’t stop Con gress from trying. The inter net isn’t going away anytime soon, nor will its imaginary currency market.

— St. Louis Post-Dispatch

NYC on right track in treating mentally ill; Congress must help

Even as advocates claim that New York will be ab rogating the rights of men tally ill people, we strongly support Mayor Eric Adams’ push to more proactively assess unstable individu als who are living on the streets — and provide need ed treatment to those who are indeed in the throes of crippling psychological con ditions and risk harming themselves or others.

It’s only a patina of decen cy to let such men and wom en continue to live on the streets or the subways. Giv en that their very state ren ders them unable to break out of the vicious cycle, it is far more caring to ensure that they get help.

But it would be naive in the extreme to believe that the city can change the equation alone. Albany has a big part to play in deliv ering better laws and more supportive housing, and Washington has let fester a terrible federal provision that creates a powerful eco nomic disincentive to treat destitute people with seri ous mental illness.

It’s called the IMD ex clusion, on the books since the creation of Medicaid in 1965. It prohibits states from using that massive

federal health care program for the poor on psychiatric hospitals or other residen tial treatment facilities with more than 16 beds.

If it sounds arbitrary and cruel to deny money for just one type of illness, that’s because it is. The exclusion renders it economically im possible for those who wish to help this desperate pop ulation to do so. Conserva tives and liberals alike un derstand this.

SOME FEAR that making this fix will hurtle us back to mass institutionalization, returning America to Bed lam in 1946. That’s not go ing to happen. We now live in a starkly different world that safeguards individual rights and prioritizes com munity caregivers.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who lost her primary to Jer ry Nadler, is lead author of the IMD-exclusion-ending Michelle Go Act, named after the woman killed in January by an emotionally disturbed man who didn’t get the care he needed. Who will get this change passed? Who will save lives of peo ple tormented by psychosis and those they might some day hurt?

— New York Daily News

Make no mistake, this is genocide

Imagine if Philadelphia were totally blacked out for a dozen hours daily, with no wa ter or heat and no electricity or cell phone coverage. Imag ine if Philly high-rise apart ment dwellers, including the elderly and moms with ba bies, had to lug water and food to upper floors because the elevators weren’t work ing. Imagine if surgeons at local hospitals had to operate by generator, and cars had to drive in total darkness while pedestrians navigated by flashlight.

This is the situation in Ukraine’s major cities, includ ing the newly liberated city of Kherson, as Russian mis siles pound civilian electrical grids and power stations in an effort to freeze citizens into capitulating. Russian officials baldly insist these missiles are aimed at military targets, even though the world can plainly see they are lying.

These missiles are the lat est phase of Vladimir Putin’s genocidal effort to destroy the Ukrainian state and absorb its remains into Russia. Hav ing lost military momentum, Putin is taking his revenge on the Ukrainian people — try ing to freeze and starve much of the population into fleeing the country or pressuring their leaders to accept Rus sia’s terms.

The United States and Eu rope (and Isra el) could stop Putin’s murder from the air.

The Western allies have the advanced air defense systems Ukraine desper ately needs — notably Patriot missile defense systems. Yet they are still holding back.

What are they waiting for? Will the West, and Israel, per mit another genocidal killer to succeed in Europe in 2022?

I AM USUALLY WARY of using the word genocide be cause I associate it with the Holocaust and the effort to physically wipe out a single religious or ethnic group. But, after covering conflict for four decades and making two trips to Ukraine this year, l feel this term is appropriate when it comes to Putin and his impe rial war.

It’s not just that last week end was the 90th anniversary of Ukraine’s Holodomor — meaning “death by hunger” — in a Soviet-orchestrated famine. From 1932 to 1933, as many as four million Ukrai nians starved to death when Soviet dictator Josef Stalin forced unwilling farmers into collectives and seized their food and possessions while sending their grain harvest to

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Soviet cities.

Ninety years later, Putin insists that Ukrainian state hood is a fiction and that the country belongs to Russia. He is willing to bomb the coun try into the Stone Age and kill, starve, or drive out much of its population in order to make his fantasy come true.

So President Joe Biden was spot on when he said at the U.N. General Assembly in September, “This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple.”

That fact is hard to grasp until you see firsthand the way the Russian military op erates in Ukraine.

Having failed in its plan to quickly overthrow the Ukrainian government in Kyiv and install a puppet re gime, the Russian military opted for mass terror and de struction. Every city it has occupied has been brutalized, including those in the four re gions Russia “annexed” via fake referendums. Murder, torture, rape, suppression of the Ukrainian language, are the norm of Russia’s mili tary game.

The vibrant city of Mariu pol that I visit ed in February simply doesn’t exist anymore. In villages I vis ited from which the Russian army was forced to withdraw, every cottage was targeted as Russian troops departed. In a sickening pattern, schools, hospitals, universities, and apartment buildings in unoc cupied cities such as Kharkiv and Chernihiv were deliber ately bombed into rubble.

If you dismiss all this as the normal casualties of war, you should listen to the most pop ular talk shows on state-con trolled Russian TV. (Kudos to @JuliaDavisNews on Twitter, who watches and translates the vitriol.) The best-known hosts and their guests talk gleefully about destroying Ukrainian infrastructure and killing Ukrainian “Nazis” or drowning their children. Their vile proposals make Fox News’ Tucker Carlson look cuddly.

This week, TV host Sergey Mardan and a guest casual ly discussed why Ukraine should be erased from the map and “not even a memory left of it.” Mardan was smil

ing most of the time.

“It would be much more peaceful for everybody if Ukraine did not exist,” Mar dan insisted. An “empire” of Russia’s size, he continued, “has to bring into submission or pacify the barbarians we are surrounded with.” This is the kind of propaganda that most Russians listen to daily since most of the public gets its news from TV.

SO THERE ARE no bound aries to the destruction that Putin is willing to rain down on Ukraine’s population. Af ter all, he has appointed Ser gei Surovikin, nicknamed “General Armageddon” by the Russian media for his ruthlessness, as Moscow’s top commander. Surovikin was responsible for the mass mur der of Syrian civilians from the air in 2015.

Given these genocidal real ities, I ask again: Why is the West still hesitating on giving Ukraine enough advanced air defenses? On Tuesday, Pen tagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters that the U.S. has “no plans to provide Patriot batteries to Ukraine” right now. True, the Ukrainians would need training, but they have proved masterful at adopting West ern technology (and training could have begun months ago).

Meantime, Germany has proposed to send some Patri ot systems to protect Poland’s border with Ukraine, but Pol ish leaders have suggested they be sent to Ukraine where they could protect both coun tries. No takers in Berlin.

More than a dozen oth er U.S. allies have Patriot systems, but none has been pressed to lend them tempo rarily to Ukraine.

Certainly, Patriot systems are needed more than the ne gotiations that French Presi dent Emanuel Macron urged again to Biden during his state visit to the White House on Thursday. Any negotia tions would be fruitless with a genocidal killer who wants to destroy Ukraine.

At a meeting on Tuesday, NATO foreign ministers fo cused on sending transform ers and generators to help Ukraine restore its electrical systems. That’s great, but as Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba pointed out, if Kyiv receives sufficient air defense systems, “we will be able to protect this infrastruc ture from the next Russian missile strikes [which are] definitely to come.”

“In a nutshell,” he added, “Patriots and transform ers are what

needs most.”

So again, as Putin readies more missiles, what the hell are we waiting for?

Ukraine

People traveling to Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, wait in the darkness. Electricity is out after Russian forces bombed multiple power stations. (CAROLYN COLE/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS)

Vladimir Putin is will ing to bomb Ukraine into the Stone Age and kill, starve, or drive out its population in order to make his fantasy come true.

FTX saga may be unique, but the greed is universal

Oxford Dictionaries names ‘goblin mode’ as word of year

LONDON (AP) —

Asked to sum up 2022 in a word, the public has chosen a phrase.

Oxford Dictionaries said Monday that “gob lin mode” has been se lected by online vote as its word of the year.

It defines the term as “a type of behavior which is unapologet ically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.”

First seen on Twitter in 2009, “goblin mode” gained popularity in

2022 as people around the world emerged un certainly from pandem ic lockdowns.

“Given the year we’ve just experienced, ‘gob lin mode’ resonates with all of us who are feeling a little overwhelmed at this point,” said Oxford Languages President Casper Grathwohl.

The word of the year is intended to reflect “the ethos, mood, or pre occupations of the past twelve months.” For the first time this year’s winning phrase was cho sen by public vote, from

among three finalists selected by Oxford Lan guages lexicographers: goblin mode, metaverse and the hashtag IStand With.

Despite being rela tively unknown offline, goblin mode was the overwhelming favor ite, winning 93% of the more than 340,000 votes cast.

The choice is more evidence of a world un settled after years of pandemic turmoil, and by the huge changes in behavior and politics brought by social media.

Warnock, Walker: Starkly different choices for Black voters

ATLANTA (AP) — Ra phael Warnock is the first Black U.S. senator from Georgia, having broken the color barrier for one of the original 13 states with a special election victory in Jan uary 2021, almost 245 years after the nation’s founding.

Now he hopes to add another distinction by winning a full six-year term in a Tuesday run off. Standing in the way is another Black man, Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

Both men have com mon upbringings in the Deep South in the wake of the civil rights move ment and would make history as the first Black person elected from Georgia to a full Senate term. Yet Warnock and Walker have cut dif ferent paths and offer clearly opposing visions for the country, includ ing on race and racism.

Black voters say the choice is stark: War nock, the senior min ister of Martin Luther King’s Atlanta church, echoes traditional liber al notions of the Black experience; and Walker, a University of Georgia football icon, speaks the language of white cultural conservatism and mocks Warnock’s interpretations of King, among other matters.

“Republicans seem to have thought they could put up Herschel Walk er and confuse Black folks,” said Bryce Berry, president of Georgia’s Young Democrats chap ter and a senior at More house College, a his torically Black campus where both King and Warnock graduated.

Standing beneath a campus statue of King, Berry continued: “We

are not confused.”

Other Black voters raised questions about Walker’s past — his false claims about his business and profession al accomplishments, instances of violence against his ex-wife — and the way he stumbles over some public policy discussions as a can didate. Some said they believe GOP leaders are taking advantage of Walker’s fame as a be loved Heisman Trophy winner and national champion running back for the Georgia Bull dogs.

“How can you let yourself be used that way as a Black person?” asked Angela Heard, a state employee from Jonesboro. “I think you should be better in touch with your people instead of being a crony for someone.”

Even some Black con servatives who back Walker lament his can didacy as a missed op portunity to expand Republicans’ reach to a key part of the elector ate that remains over whelmingly Democrat

ic.

“I don’t think Her schel Walker has enough relatable life experience to the aver age Black American for them to identify with him,” said Avion Abreu, a 34-year-old realtor who lives in Marietta and has supported Walker since the GOP primary campaign.

Warnock led Walker by about 37,000 votes out of almost 4 million cast in the November gener al election. AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 3,200 voters in the state, showed that Warnock won 90% of Black vot ers. Walker, meanwhile, won 68% of white vot ers.

VoteCast data in the 2021 runoff suggested that Black voters helped fuel Warnock’s victo ry over then-Sen. Kel ly Loeffler, comprising almost a third of that electorate, slightly more than the Black share of the 2020 general elector ate.

The senator’s cam paign has said since then that he’d have to as semble a multiracial co

alition, including many moderate white voters, to win reelection in a midterm election year. But they’ve not disputed that a strong Black turn out would be necessary regardless.

The Republican Na tional Committee has answered with its own uptick in Black voter outreach, opening com munity centers in sever al heavily Black areas of the state. But the gener al election results raise questions about the ef fectiveness, at least for Walker.

Abreu said she be lieves Walker still can win the runoff but has to do it with the usual, overwhelmingly white GOP coalition moved by party loyalty and the 60-year-old candidate’s emphasis on cultural is sues. His campaign, she said, “hasn’t told the full story of Herschel’s life and related that to people, with an explana tion of how he is going to help them.”

Indeed, Walker and Warnock share their stories as Black men quite differently.

Warnock doesn’t of ten use phrases like “the Black church” or “the Black experience,” but infuses those institu tions and ideas into his arguments.

The senator some times notes that others “like to introduce me and say I’m the first Black senator from Georgia.” He says Geor gia voters “did an amaz ing thing” in 2021 but adds that it’s more about

the policy results from a Democratic Senate. Born in 1969, he calls himself a “son of the civil rights movement.” He talks of King’s desire for “a beloved communi ty,” an inclusive society Warnock says is an chored in the belief that “we all carry a spark of the divine.”

He touts his Senate work to combat mater nal mortality, noting the issue is acute among Black women. He cam paigns with Black fra ternity and sorority alumni. And he tells of his octogenarian moth er using her “hands that once picked somebody else’s cotton” to “cast a ballot for her youngest son to be a United States senator.”

“Only in America is my story possible,” he concludes.

Walker, alternately, is often more direct in identifying himself by race, usually with hu mor.

“You may have no ticed I’m Black,” he tells audiences that are often nearly all-white. But that jovial aside is the precursor to his indict ment of a society — and a political rival — he says are consumed by discussions of race and racism.

“My opponent say America ought to apol ogize for its whiteness,” Walker says in most campaign speeches, a claim based on some of Warnock’s sermons ref erencing institutional racism.

Walker invokes King

— “a great man” — with a line from his 1963 “I Have a Dream Speech” and accuses Warnock and “trying to divide us” by race. “He’s in a church where a man talked about the content of your character, not the color of your skin,” Walker told supporters in Canton on Nov. 10, his first rally of the runoff campaign. In Forsyth County last week, he blasted schools he in sisted teach “Critical Race Theory.”

“Don’t let anyone tell you you’re racist,” he said in August at a “Women for Herschel” event, which included Alveda King, the conser vative evangelical niece of the slain civil rights leader.

He blasts Warnock as anti-law enforcement but without any context about police killings of Black citizens. “What I want to do is get behind our men and women in blue,” Walker said in Forsyth.

Walker touts his “mi nority-owned food ser vices company.” Talking to reporters at one fall campaign stop, he re called being a freshman at the University of Georgia just a decade af ter the football program integrated with its first Black scholarship play ers. But when telling voters of his athletics and professional suc cesses, he doesn’t allude to race, instead talking in terms of faith.

“The Lord blessed me,” he says of each milestone.

Carla Nemecek and Job Springer of Your Community Foundation present Ma rie Barclay of the Iola Chamber of Commerce, right, with a check for $1,000. The Iola Chamber of Commerce was awarded the grant to help fund the installation of murals around Iola’s downtown square. The Chamber was one of several recipients of Your Community Foundation’s annual grants. COURTESY

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Community activists hold a get-out-the-vote event near a polling station in southwest Atlanta during early voting on Thursday in Georgia’s runoff be tween Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Re publican Herschel Walker. (JENNY JARVIE/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS)

Cubs split opener with Eureka

EUREKA — The Hum boldt High boys and girls basketball teams began their season against Eureka on Friday night.

The Humboldt boys (10) used tough defense and scoring from a few main contributors to win, 62-29, while the Lady Cubs (0-1) lost due to lackluster de fense and a lack of offensive threats, 61-29.

Boys Basketball

The Cubs scored with ease underneath the basket and played well enough de fensively to earn a 33-point victory.

Humboldt began strong when Colden Cook hit four two-pointers. Sam Hull and Blake Ellis also netted a few first quarter two-pointers.

“I thought we were pretty crisp in running our offense, especially this early,” said Humboldt head coach David Taylor. “In the first half I thought we played unself ishly and then we cranked the intensity up in the sec ond half. We also didn’t turn the ball over a lot.”

Humboldt held Eureka to six points in the first quar ter, before limiting the Tor nadoes’ damage to only four in the third quarter.

Trey Sommer helped the Cubs pull away even more in the second half when he went up for 11 points, part of a four-basket sec ond quarter performance. Mateo Miller and Cook also went up for two-pointers in the second quarter.

“They’re unselfishness and their ability to run the offense they want to run are critical,” Taylor said. “They didn’t stray and get off the beaten path. I was really pleased with how they are disciplined in what we’re trying to do as a basketball program.”

The Tornadoes made six shots in the first half be tween three scorers.

Humboldt led Eureka at halftime, 36-18.

The trio of Sommer, Cook and Hull led the Cubs offensively. In the second

Mustangs lose to Bulldogs

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

Too many turnovers and bad rebounding. That’s what Iola High boys basket ball team’s head coach Luke Bycroft believes got the best of his team in a 61-54 blun der to Anderson County in their season opener on Fri day evening.

The Mustang girls also fell to the Bulldogs, 52-32. Turnovers and an inability to find good shots frustrated the girls who are still gell ing as a team.

Girl’s Basketball

Aysha Houk’s solid bas ketball IQ was instrumen tal in leading the Mustang offense.

“Aysha has definitely stepped up into that role, she’s our senior on the team so she knows she has the most experience on the varsity level,” said Iola head coach Kelsey Johnson.

“She’s one of our returning starters. She has definitely taken leadership in practice and tonight.”

Anderson County relied on Kylie Disbrow as she scored five first half bas kets and notched 20 points total. Addie Fudge also helped launch the Bulldogs, hitting a couple first half three-pointers and added 13

points total. Reese Curry helped the Mustangs keep the game within striking distance with some points inside the perimeter in the first half and again in the fourth quarter. The senior finished with 10 points while mainly scoring underneath the bas ket.

“We definitely need to make sure we are setting the pace for our offense and not letting ourselves get rushed into it,” said Johnson. “Mak ing sure we can develop our plays so that we find those quality shots.”

Houk led the scoring charge with her 11 points while Karingten Hall also created a few successful shots and came up with five points.

Boy’s Basketball

The Mustangs kept it close throughout the game includ ing when Landon Weide went in for a couple of treys and a trio of two-pointers in the third quarter. Eli Adams also made a difference in the second half with his hot hands, hitting a few threes to keep his team in striking distance.

“He’s (Weide) one of the smartest players,” said Iola head coach Luke Bycroft. “He’s also one of the hardest working players and that’s

why he has gotten himself to the point where he can get some tough shots, attack at the right time and finish from all different angles. He has a good understanding of what needs to happen and when it needs to happen.”

Hats off to Anderson County and their size as big man Garrison Martin scored 20 points underneath the basket, part of a 22-point performance for Martin. It was a physical game and a tussle for the ball all night long.

Weide began by going in for a trio of two-point buck ets in the first quarter for the main Iola scoring spark. Mac Leonard also made an impact by going underneath for a two-pointer and a pair of free throws.

“They were big and phys ical and we didn’t rebound well,” Bycroft said. “Our three goals were to take care of the ball, we struggled at that; to box out and rebound, we struggled at that; and to take great shots. In the first half we struggled with that but in the second half we took a lot better shots.”

Anderson County led by margins of five to 15 points. Weide scored a total of five baskets in the third quar ter with a couple of threes

Iola wrestles at Wildcat Duals

BURLINGTON — The Iola High wrestling team began its season at the Wildcat Duals on Friday evening.

The Mustangs had a somewhat rough go of it with the team dropping five matches against Eu dora, Maize South, Bald win, Wellsville and West Elk.

Iola began the night by falling to Eudora, 60-18.

Mustang Trapper Boren started out by beating Eudora’s Jason Ditty on a fall 3:17 into the tussle.

Iola’s Griffin Westervelt then got knocked over by Eudora’s Noah Van Foek en on a 3:07 fall. Mason Lampe also fell to Eudo ra’s Tanner Yankovich in a 2:53 fall.

Iola’s Korbin Cloud toppled Maize South’s Eudora’s Wesley Borger in a 3:22 fall before Isaac Velasquez was defeated by Eudora’s Alex Clobes on a fall over 3:03 into the match. Mustang Isaac Hopkins lost to Eudora’s Mason Cox on a fall over 1:58 into the match.

Wyatt Westervelt threw down Eudora’s Christian Koehn on a fall in 2:49.

The Mustangs then tripped against Maize South in their second match, 66-18.

Boren began by falling to Maize South’s Dylan Moore in a 40-second fall.

Maize South’s Braden Cully toppled G. Wester velt 3:07 in for a fall before Lampe got a victory over Maize South’s McCartney in a 42-second fall.

Iola’s Cloud topped Maize South’s Isaiah Lowe on a fall over 5:20 into the match. Velasquez was then spun down by Maize South’s CJ Richards in a 3:43 fall and Isaac Hopkins lost to Maize South’s Josh ua Berlin on a fall over 28 seconds into the match.

Wyatt Westervelt beat Maize South’s Keatan Car penter on a fall over 4:45 into the match.

Iola lost to Baldwin in

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Kansas State rallies past Wichita State late

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

MANHATTAN — The Kan sas State Wildcats knew if they were going to gut out a slim victory over Wichita State on Saturday night, they would have to hit more shots in the second half.

The Wildcats turned to one of their men of the night, Markquis Nowell, to make the final shot and he deliv ered with a three-point jump er from the top of the arc with less than a minute left in the game. Nowell finished his night scoring 11 points.

“I was happy to see one go in first and foremost,” said Nowell. “They left me open. And I just felt that it was a rhythm, that I should take it and then it went in. But I feel like our team really locked in the last seven minutes of the game. We got some key rebounds, got some key stops, and that’s what really helped us get this victory.”

The Wildcats scored first and led in the opening min utes before the Shockers be gan to hit more shots and take advantage of their pos sessions. Nae’Qwan Tomlin knocked down a three-point er and layup before David

N’Guessan dunked a score for an early 6-0 advantage.

Wichita State then went on an 11-0 run highlighted by Xavier Bell’s five points off a three-pointer and a layup.

Tomlin hit a three-pointer with 12 minutes remaining

in the first half and gave his Wildcats a one-point lead but Wichita State would answer immediately with a Jaykwon Walton three-pointer.

“The shots are gonna go in at some point in time,” said KSU head coach Jerome Tang. “If we kept defending and we kept attacking the paint, I thought every time we got to the paint something good would happen, and we didn’t need to settle for shots. I know they will open shots, but that’s exactly what they wanted us to do.”

Shocker James Rojas stretched the Kansas State deficit to seven points with six minutes left in the first half on a breakaway slam dunk.

Tomlin and Johnson scored 11 and nine points in the first half, respectively. A Tomlink dunk and a Johnson two-point jumper kept the Wildcat deficit to three points in the final minutes of the first half.

Wichita State led Kansas State at halftime, 32-29.

It was a low-scoring affair.

Kansas State got a two-point er from N’Guessan a couple minutes into the half. The Wildcats then went on a five minute-plus scoring drought until Johnson nailed a twopoint jumper to bring Kansas State within four points, 4036.

Cam Carter knocked down a three-pointer for Kansas State halfway through the second half before Johnson scored a two-point jump er and a layup with seven minutes left in the game to bring the deficit within three points.

Kansas State regained the lead back with five minutes remaining in the game. The go-ahead basket was a layup delivered off Tomlin’s fingers to take a 47-45 advantage.

The Wildcats defense also held the Shockers to an im pressive 18 points in the sec

Iola’s Grady Dougherty looks up to score a basket against Anderson County in the season opener on Friday. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Kansas State senior Desi Sills (13) dribbles into the lane against Wichita State on Saturday. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

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Dear Carolyn: A guy I REALLY like just told me that, although he likes me too, he is not physically attracted to me and therefore can’t see starting a serious relationship. This was after three increasingly amazing dates where we laughed so much and flirted so hard that I, a lifelong atheist and cynic, began to wonder whether maybe soul mates really are a thing. I’m 33 (so not super young), but I don’t have a lot of serious relationship experience and am wondering whether this is why? Maybe I am shooting outside of my attractiveness league? Who knows.

Hax

The question is: What am I supposed to do now? I gained some pandemic pounds that I could probably lose. I would also probably be attractive to more guys if I learned how to do my makeup better. But I know those things are superficial. What really smarts is that I could have that much chemistry with someone (a true first for me), then have something as silly as my appearance ruin it.

That’s the part I don’t know how to deal with. — Crushed! But, Like, Really Crushed Crushed! But, Like, Really Crushed: Yeah, that sucks.

Besides his saying it out loud, though — who does that? — it’s pretty common. And I think you might be overstating the connection between physical attraction and appearance. Movies/ TV shows remind us of this all the time. They’re filled with people who are paid to be looked at, and we just as often shrug at them as feel the pull of attraction. We can see someone as objectively beautiful and feel noth-

ing beyond that.

It is absolutely appropriate to apply that logic to your own experience. In fact, it makes a lot more sense to do that — to recognize that beauty and physical attraction are two separate things — than to apply different rules to yourself and conclude that someone’s lack of attraction can only be explained by your own beauty deficit.

If you want to work on your appearance anyway, to make yourself feel better, then great. Be the steward of your body that you want to be, that your body deserves, that aligns with your values, preferences, tastes and

schedule. For you. Learn how to feel good.

As long as you’re doing that, then a negative review from someone might still sting — of course — but it won’t be an existential hit.

Just make sure you also nurture the longrange emotional, intellectual and charismatic aspects of attraction, too.

Specifically: Network for friendship, not dates. It may not be completely feasible, but getting to know people as friends will make room for the chemistry of like-mindedness to develop organically into physical attraction.

Doesn’t always hap-

pen, but it happens enough to be worth reorienting your social life — especially because, worst case, you have a bigger, more like-minded network of friends.

And now, a one-reader pep rally:

· Oh, Crushed! It’s not you. It’s him! Who knows what makes us feel attracted to someone — but it’s not because of your weight, or your makeup, or anything about you, really. It’s just … there or not. I’m so sorry this happened, and it must feel so bad. But now you know that you can feel chemistry with someone, which means you can feel it again.

Carolyn

K-State’s Big 12 championship a promise kept

By STEPHEN HAWKINS The Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Deuce Vaughn remembers what Chris Klieman told him when recruiting the running back to Kansas State.

Consider that a promise kept.

“Coach Klieman said we’re going to build a culture that’s going to win championships. It’s going to be built on team, player-first, a player-led team,” said Vaughn, the 5-foot-6 dynamo who was the Big 12 championship game MVP. “And we built that.”

Vaughn ran for 130 yards with a 44-yard touchdown and was the game’s MVP, former backup Will Howard threw two touchdowns and Ty Zentner kicked a 31-yard field goal in overtime as the No. 13 Wildcats beat thirdranked playoff hopeful TCU 31-28 on Saturday.

“Big 12 champions has a nice ring to it,” said Klieman, who is in his fourth season at Kansas State.

The Wildcats (10-3, No. 10 CFP), likely headed to the Sugar Bowl, reached 10 wins for the first time since 2012, when it last won a Big 12 title by sharing the regular-season crown with Oklahoma during a six-year hiatus when there was no conference championship game.

It was the first Big 12 championship game for the Wildcats since 2003. They won 35-7 over the then-No. 1 Sooners that

year, who like TCU on Saturday went into that title game undefeated.

This is Klieman’s fourth season at Kansas State since Hall of Fame coach Bill Snyder retired again. Klieman went to Manhattan after being part of seven FCS national championships at North Dakota State, including four in five seasons as head coach there.

“I’m fortunate to be here. Gene Taylor took a chance on an FCS coach when not a lot of people would. But he believed in me and us,” Klieman said. “And coming here, I look at these guys that believed in us as a coaching staff when there was a coaching change and stuck with us.”

Klieman had worked under Taylor, the Kansas State athletic di-

rector, at North Dakota State.

After blowing an 11-point lead in the final 7½ minutes of regulation, the Wildcats got the ball in overtime after stopping TCU running back Kendre Miller twice from inside the 1, the second on fourth down when the Horned Frogs opted against a field goal try in overtime.

“That was just great execution, just overall, by the defense,” said linebacker Daniel Green, who was in on the fourth-down stop. “That’s a statement right there. We always say the mob, mob mentality. It don’t get no better than that, on the goal line for the game, almost.”

Six weeks earlier, the Wildcats jumped out to a 28-10 lead early in the second quarter at TCU before the Horned Frogs (12-1, No. 3 CFP) scored the game’s last 28 points.

That was Howard’s first action of the season, coming in after transfer dual-threat quarterback Adrian Martinez got banged up on the first series. Martinez got hurt again at Baylor, and Howard has now

Jayhawks to take on Arkansas in Liberty Bowl

MEMPHIS (AP) — Kansas and Arkansas will meet in the Liberty Bowl on Dec. 28.

This will mark the Jayhawks’ first bowl appearance since the end of the 2008 season.

Kansas started 5-0 and cracked the AP Top 25 this year.

The Jayhawks’ six wins are more than they had in the previous three seasons combined. Arkansas started 3-0 and reached No. 10 in the AP Top 25.

This is Kansas’ second appearance in the Liberty Bowl. In 1973, the Jayhawks lost to North Carolina State 31-18.

MATCHUP

Kansas (6-6, Big 12) vs. Arkansas (6-6, Southeastern Conference), Dec. 28, 4:30 p.m., ESPN

LOCATION

Memphis, Tennessee

TOP PLAYERS

Kansas: RB Devin Neal. He ran for a teambest 1,061 yards and nine touchdowns to go with a TD catch.

Arkansas: QB KJ Jefferson. He has

thrown for 22 touchdowns and run for seven more as a dual-threat weapon.

NOTABLE

Kansas: The Jayhawks opened 5-0 and cracked the AP Top 25 poll before losing six of seven to close the schedule, though Kansas has won more games this year than in its previous three years combined (five).

Arkansas: The Razorbacks started 3-0 and spent two weeks at No. 10 in the AP Top 25 before losing three straight to ranked opponents, then losing three of four in November.

LAST TIME

Kansas 37, Arkansas 5 (Oct. 13, 1906)

HISTORY

BOWL

Kansas: Second appearance in the Liberty Bowl, first bowl appearance since the Insight Bowl at the end of the 2008 season and 13th overall.

Arkansas: Sixth appearance in the Liberty Bowl, second straight postseason appearance and 44th overall.

started the last three games.

Kansas State has won its last four games, and five of six, since that 3828 loss at TCU on Oct. 22.

“Like coach said, it started in January, this team coming together and believing in each other,” Green said. “And belief is what won us this game. We came into this game knowing it was going to be a dogfight and we were going to have to earn it. But not one second of that game we didn’t believe.”

Next up for Wildcats: A date with Alabama

NEW ORLEANS

(AP) — Alabama and newly crowned Big 12 champion Kansas State will meet for the first time at the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Eve.

The Crimson Tide (10-2, No. 5 CFP) are headed to the Sugar Bowl for the 17th time after narrowly missing out on the four-team College Football Playoff because of losses at Tennessee and LSU on the last play of each game.

Kansas State (10-3, No. 9 CFP) did its best to help Alabama’s chances of a playoff berth by handing TCU its first loss of the season in overtime of Saturday’s Big 12 title game in Dallas.

But that close loss in a title game for TCU was not enough to persuade the College Football Playoff selection committee to drop the Horned Frogs out of the top four in its rankings. TCU wound up as the third seed and Ohio State, whose lone loss came against

unbeaten Michigan, is the fourth seed and will meet top-seeded Georgia. No. 2 seed Michigan will play TCU.

SWAN SONG

The Sugar Bowl could be the final college game for Alabama quarterback and 2021 Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young, who is eligible for the 2023 NFL draft and might even be the top player selected. This season he passed for 3,007 yards and 27 touchdowns.

LEADERS

Kansas State has been led this season offensively by running back Deuce Vaughn, who has rushed for 1,425 yards and eight touchdowns. Dual-threat quarterback Adrian Martinez passed for 1,261 yards and six TDs while rushing for 615 yards and 10 scores.

Alabama has played in 75 postseason games overall and is 9-7 at the Sugar Bowl. Kansas State is heading to the Sugar Bowl for the first time.

Photo by April Kroenke Photography

Ty Zentner (8) of the Kansas State Wildcats is carried away by teammates after kicking the game-winning eld goal in overtime against the TCU Horned Frogs in the Big 12 Football Championship Saturday. Kansas State won 31-28 in overtime. GETTY IMAGES/RON JENKINS/TNS

The Kansas Jayhawks, under head coach Lance Leipold, will meet Arkansas Dec. 28 in the Liberty Bowl. GETTY IMAGES/JAY BIGGERSTAFF/TNS

Allen sweeps Southeast Holiday Classic

BEATRICE — The Allen Community College men’s basket ball team swept their pair of games at the Holiday Classic in Be atrice, Neb. over the weekend.

On Friday, the Red Devils (8-5) defeated Southeast Communi ty College, 58-45, and then won a one posses sion game over Cen tral Community Col lege-Columbus, 54-52.

Allen outshot South east from the field in their double-digit vic tory, 41.5% to 26.9%.

Chris Dixon led the scoring with 17 points, followed by Ahmed Mahgoub and Brayden Thompson’s 15 points.

Mahgoub’s perfor mance included hit ting seven-of-13 shots from the floor and oneof-two three-pointers.

The Red Devils won the battle up front as they outrebounded the Storm, 42-39. Thomp son was all over the boards for Allen as he swooped in for 16 re bounds while Dixon and Mahgoub each col lected eight rebounds.

“I am proud of the way we played on the defensive end,” said Allen head coach Andy Shaw. “We held Southeast to just 45 points for the game, and then held Central to just 52 points. Our defense carried us to

two big wins on the road. We will need to clean some things up on the offensive end but our defense is what will continue to win us games.”

The Storm shot better from beyond the three-point line, 22.7% to 16.7%. Mai jhe Wiley hit twoof-seven shots from three-point range to lead Southeast.

Allen then knocked off Central Communi ty College-Columbus, 54-52.

Sophomore Nick

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ond, 14 points fewer than they allowed in the first half, 32 points.

“We were deeply in spired by our football team’s defensive stand on the goal line and de cided we want to make this a defensive game, and don’t worry about making shots tonight,” said Tang. “I thought our guys in the second half did a really good job of guarding and re bounding. I think I need to have Will Howard come in and let them know they have some offense.”

Johnson lifted Kan sas State back into the game after scoring a trio of three-pointers with six minutes left in the game and knotted the score up.

Wichita State wouldn’t make it easy after taking the lead again following a Craig

Porter Jr. two-point jumper with two min utes left in the game.

Kansas State’s Nowell then splashed in his three-pointer with just under a minute remain ing.

The shot would prove to be the difference as Kansas State held on for the 55-50 victory.

Johnson led with 17 points, followed by Tomlin’s 14 points and Nowell’s 11 points.

Johnson hit two-of-sev en shots from the floor. The Wildcats were able to make more shots and hold Wichita State to a lower mark from the floor in the second half.

Kansas State forced more turnovers on Wichita State, 16-8. Nowell led with three steals.

The Wildcats host Abilene Christian on Tuesday night at 7 p.m.

Mustangs: lose opener

sprinkled in as well.

Between the true point guard, Weide, and Adams, Iola kept the lead within reach on both ends of the floor in the second half. The gold and yellow of the crowd kept Iola in the ball game as well with a loud season opener en vironment.

“I’ve had a lot of tal ented teams who didn’t know how to play with this much heart but these guys know how to play with heart,” said Bycroft. “That’s not something I have to keep asking them for. They’re going to keep going out there, give an effort, play hard, play with heart and put themselves on the line for their teammates.”

Adams knocked down

a few three-pointers in the fourth quarter and totaled five baskets and a 14-point performance. Weide was fouled late in the game but still fin ished with 24 points to lead the scoring charge.

The Mustangs head to Central Heights for a tournament Monday through next weekend.

Iola Freshmen Boys The freshmen Mus tangs came out victo rious in their match up against Anderson County, 37-21.

Mustangs Nick Bau er, Hayden Kelley and Brennan Coffield led the offensive charge with nine, eight and seven points, respec tively. Kelley nailed four two-pointers and Coffield knocked down a three-pointer in the third quarter.

Whittick scored the game-winning shot in the final seconds of the game.

Both teams shot

Allen ahead early. After Southeast got back into the game with good shooting from Trey Deveaux, the Storm knotted the score at halftime, 25-25.

The lead went back and forth throughout the game.

Seamster hit a goahead three-pointer to put Allen ahead by one point with only a few minutes left in the sec ond half.

Central Community College was ultimately fouled with 13 seconds left. The Raiders hit the first free throw but missed the second to knot the game.

stepped up and made a big time play against Central to give us the win at the buzzer, but it was a total team ef fort,” Shaw said. “Now we have to shift our attention to Metropoli tan. We lost by 10 earli er in the year when we played them at their place. We’re hoping to have a great crowd on Tuesday evening.”

poorly in the low-scor ing matchup. Dono van Seamster came out and nailed a few threw-pointers to put

The Devils then got the ball to point guard Whittick who dribbled down the court and hit a game-winning shot with three seconds left. Thompson assist ed Whittick on the shot with a ball screen that allowed some space for the clutch shot.

“Nick Whittick

Seamster led the Devils with 16 points, followed by Mahgo ub’s 11 points and Thompson’s eight points. Seamster hit six-of-10 shots from the field and was good from three-point dis tance on four-of-eight attempts.

Thompson led on the glass with nine rebounds, followed by Mahgoub’s seven re bounds and Whittick’s six boards.

Allen hosts Metro politan Community College on Tuesday at 8 p.m.

‘Primetime’ hired at Colorado

BOULDER, Colo.

(AP) — Part politician, part preacher and part pitchman, Deion Sand ers fired up a crowd of alumni, boosters, former players and other VIPs celebrating his hire as Colorado’s coach on Sunday.

He spewed motiva tional sayings that he promised will soon adorn the walls inside the complex at Folsom Field and he vowed to lead the bedrag gled Buffaloes back to prominence after going 27-5 in three seasons at Jackson State.

“I have the best coaching staff assem

bled, some of the best scouts, some of the best kids that we’re re cruiting, some already coming on the way as I speak,” Sanders told the crowd of hundreds who whooped and hol lered at his answers from among the dozens of reporters at his in troductory news con ference.

“And now that I’ve gotten here, I see it, and understand it, and I can grasp it and I can touch it, I can feel it, I can taste it,” Sanders added. “I truly under stand what you want — all you want is the opportunity to win. To

compete. To dominate. To be amongst the elite. To be amongst the best.

“And darn it, I’m gonna give you that.”

But first, he remind ed everyone, “I have work to finish in Jack son, Mississippi.”

Sanders said he will coach the unbeaten Tigers in the Celebra tion Bowl, the champi onship for historically Black college football programs, on Dec. 17 Then he can turn his attention entirely to resuscitating the Buf faloes.

“Simultaneously, like I played baseball and football, I can multitask

and I can focus,” assured Sanders, the former NFL and major league superstar. and the only athlete ever to play in both the Super Bowl and the World Series.

“This is my job and my occupation and my business and my dream to bring you back to where you know you should belong,” Sand ers said.

A person with knowledge of Sand ers’ contract told The Associated Press that it’s worth $29.5 million plus incentives over five years beginning at $5.5 million in the first year.

Allen men’s basketball player Chris Dixon (0) drives into the lane against North Central Missouri on Tuesday, November 29. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

Supreme Court takes up clash of religion, gay rights

WASHINGTON (AP)

— The Supreme Court is hearing the case of a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, a dispute that’s the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court.

The designer and her supporters say that rul ing against her would force artists — from painters and photogra

phers to writers and mu sicians — to do work that is against their faith. Her opponents, meanwhile, say that if she wins, a range of businesses will be able to discriminate, refusing to serve Black customers, Jewish or Muslim people, interra cial or interfaith couples or immigrants, among others.

The issue of where to draw the line dominated the questions early in

Public notices

CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 22 A CHARTER ORDINANCE EX EMPTING THE CITY OF IOLA, KANSAS, FROM THE PROVI SIONS OF K.S.A. 14-570 AND K.S.A. 14-571 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT RELATING TO PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND THE IS SUANCE OF BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS.

WHEREAS, Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas (the “Act”), provides that cities may exercise certain home rule powers, including passing chaffer ordinances which exempt such cities from non-uni form enactments of the Kansas Legislature; and WHEREAS, the City of Iola, Kansas (the “City”) is a city, as de fined in the Act, duly created and organized, under the laws of the State of Kansas; and WHEREAS, K.S.A. 14-570 and K.S.A. 14-571 are part of an enact ment of the Kansas Legislature (K.S.A. 14-570 et seq.) relating to public improvements and the is suance of bonds for such purpos es, which enactment is applicable to the City, but is not uniformly applicable to all cities within the State of Kansas; and

WHEREAS, the governing body of the City (the “Governing Body”) desires, by charter ordi nance, to exempt the City from the provisions of K.S.A. 14-570 and K.S.A. 14-571, and to provide substitute and additional provi sions therefor.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT OR DAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF IOLA, KANSAS:

Section 1. Exemption. The City, by virtue of the powers vest ed in it by the Act, hereby elects to exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it the provisions of K.S.A. 14-570 and K.S.A. 14-571, and shall be governed by the fol lowing substitute and additional provisions contained herein.

Section 2. Master Plan for Public Improvements. When ever the City Administrator, the chief financial officer of the City, or such other person designated by the City Administrator, has filed with the Governing Body a master capital improvements plan (the “Plan”) for the physical development of the City within the boundaries of the City, in cluding public improvements, the acquisition of land neces sary therefore, the acquisition of equipment, vehicles or other personal property to be used in relation thereto, and may pro vide for assulnption and payment of benefit district indebtedness heretofore created for public im

Monday’s arguments at the high court.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked whether a photography store in a shopping mall could re fuse to take pictures of Black people on Santa’s lap.

“Their policy is that only white children can be photographed with Santa in this way, be cause that’s how they view the scenes with Santa that they’re try

ing to depict,” Jackson said.

Justice Sonia So tomayor repeatedly pressed Kristen Wag goner, the lawyer for website designer Lorie Smith, over other catego ries. “How about people who don’t believe in in terracial marriage? Or about people who don’t believe that disabled peo ple should get married? Where’s the line?” Soto mayor asked.

provements, and which Plan may require a number of years to ex ecute, and such Plan is approved by the Governing Body, the City is hereby authorized to issue its general obligation bonds (the “Bonds”) in an amount sufficient to carry out such Plan and associ ated costs.

Section 3. Procedure for Is suance of Bonds. Before any Bonds are authorized or issued pursuant to this Charter Ordi nance, the City will adopt a reso lution specifying thc amount of such Bonds and the purpose of the issuance thereof. The resolu tion will be effective upon adop tion and the City may proceed to issue thc Bonds.

Section 4. Severability. If any provision or section of this Char ter Ordinance is deemed or ruled unconstitutional or otherwise illegal or invalid by any court of conipetent jurisdiction, such ille gality or invalidity shall not affect any other provision of this Char ter Ordinance. In such instance, this Charter Ordinance shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid provision had not been contained herein.

Section 5. Effective Date. This Charter Ordinance shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in the official City newspaper, and shall take sixty (60) days after final publica tion, unless a petition signed by a number of electors of the City

equal to not less than ten percent (10%) of the number of electors who voted at the last preceding regular City election shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk de manding that this Charter Ordi nance be submitted to a vote of the electors, in which event this Charter Ordinance shall take ef fect when approved by a majority of the electors voting at an elec tion held for such purpose.

PASSED with at least a twothirds (2/3) vote of the entire Gov erning Body of the City of Iola, on November 14, 2022 and SIGNED by the Mayor.

/s/Steven C. French Mayor

ATTEST: /s/ Roxanne Hutton Clerk SEAL (11) 29 (12) 6

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DIVISION

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RETABESS LING, DECEASED CASE NO. AL-2022-PR-000079

NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are notified that on No vember 29, 2022, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this Court by Andrew Beatty, and you are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 28th day of Decem ber, 2022, at 8:30 o’clock a.m. of said day, in said court, at the Allen County Courthouse, 1 N. Wash ington Street, in the City of Iola, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and de cree will be entered in due course upon said petition.

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

ANDREW BEATTY, Petitioner Roberta L. Wilkes -Ks. S. Ct. 9610 111 S. State Street Yates Center, KS 66783 (913) 299-0229 Attorney for petitioner (12) 6, 13, 20

Saturday’s Cryptoquote: The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.

— Terri Guillemets

MARVIN

ZITS by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman BEETLE BAILEY by Mort Walker HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne FUNKY WINKERBEAN by Tom Batiuk

BLONDIE by Young and Drake

by Tom Armstrong HI AND LOIS by Chance Browne

Burrow, Bengals outduel Mahomes, Chiefs

CINCINNATI (AP) —

Joe

With the Chiefs lead ing Burrow’s Bengals 24-20 early in in the fourth quarter on Sun day, Mahomes hooked up with Travis Kelce, who rumbled for a big gain. But while Bengals linebacker Germaine Pratt and other de fenders were wrestling Kelce to the ground, Pratt forced the ball free and recovered the ensu ing fumble.

Burrow took it from there, completing 6 of 7 passes during a 53-yard drive that he finished with a go-ahead 8-yard touchdown to backup running back Chris Evans. The Bengals’ de fense held Kansas City scoreless from there and Burrow closed out a 27-24 victory over the Chiefs.

“He’s playing at an MVP level – absolutely,” Bengals coach Zac Tay lor said. “He gives us a lot of confidence.”

The Bengals (8-4) have won four straight overall and their last three meetings with Kansas City (9-3) — all

in the same calendar year. Cincinnati won on Jan. 2 to clinch the AFC North title. Four weeks later, the Ben gals beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in overtime — also by a 2724 score — to reach the Super Bowl for the first time in 33 years.

This time, Burrow finished 25 of 31 with two touchdowns and ran in for a 4-yard score to get the Bengals on the board in the first quar

ter. He concluded his day by converting two third downs on passes to Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, allowing the Bengals to run out the clock.

“We left some points on the field, but we still find a way to win,” Bur row said. “We’ve still got five weeks left. Let’s keep this train rolling. This team knows what it takes to win these games. We’ve been there. It’s December. It’s

time to separate our selves.”

Cincinnati running back Samaje Perine, subbing again for Joe Mixon (concussion), ran for a season-high 106 yards on 21 tough carries.

Mahomes was 16 for 27 for 223 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score. But the Chiefs fell short on their final possession when Joseph Ossai sacked Mahomes on third-

and-3 from the Bengals 33, and Harrison Butker missed a 55-yard field goal wide right.

“We started off slow, we got back in the game, into the flow of things and (then) we had a turnover late and a missed kick,” Mahomes said. “In the fourth quarter, those are the things that kind of bite you at the end.”

Cincinnati led for the entire the first half and took a 14-10 advantage into the locker room.

Mahomes led Kansas City on two methodical third-quarter drives that ended in touch downs — an 8-yard-run by Isiah Pacheco and a 3-yard scramble by the multi-talented QB — while the Bengals had to settle for a pair of field goals. That gave the Chiefs a 24-20 lead that held until the turn over and subsequent Cincinnati TD.

WELCOME BACK Chase, in his re turn after missing four games with a hip injury, had seven receptions for 97 yards. He was also flagged for taunt ing after getting in the face of Chiefs defenders after Higgins caught a

12-yard TD pass to push Cincinnati’s first-half lead to 14-3.

“I was surprised at how quickly he was looking like the same Ja’Marr, even in prac tice last week,” Taylor said. “He’s a freak.”

INJURIES

Bengals TE Hayden Hurst suffered a right calf injury in the first half and was ruled out. ... Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Mahomes “hurt his foot there at the end of the game, but he’s going to be OK.”

DECISIONS, DECI SIONS

Reid defended his de cision to attempt a long field goal that would have tied the game in stead of keeping Ma homes on the field.

“If I don’t think he’s going to make that, I’m not going to do it,” Reid said. “It’s pretty simple. I feel like (Butker) has been in a good place, and we just have to ex ecute it better all the way around. It really shouldn’t come down to that, but it did.”

UP NEXT Chiefs: At Denver next Sunday.

Bengals: Host Cleve land next Sunday.

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the third match, 81-0.

Boren began by fall ing to Baldwin’s Asher Englert in a 32-second fall. G. Westervelt got knocked down by Bald win’s Gunnar Reichard in a 57-second fall. Iola’s Lampe lost to Baldwin’s Ethan Williams 58 sec onds in for a fall over.

Mustang Cloud was defeated by Baldwin’s Dayton Peterson in a 9-2 decision. Velasquez lost to Baldwin’s Jesse Hop per in a 15-second fall be fore Hopkins lost to Bald win’s Jaiden Michael in a 1:19 fall.

Iola’s W. Westervelt stumbled to Baldwin’s Jack Harvey in a 41-sec

ond fall.

The Mustangs fell to Wellsville in their fourth match, 60-16.

Boren began by win ning via a forfeit as did G. Westervelt. Lample lost to Wellsville’s Jake Martin with a 4:46 fall before Cloud defeated Wellsville’s Koy Randel in a 13-4 major decision.

Velasquez lost to Bald win’s Noah Oxley in a 2:25 fall.

Iola’s Hopkins slipped to Wellsville’s Malachi Riker in a 51-second fall before W. Westervelt fell to Wellsville’s Carter Wilmarth in a 2:37 fall over.

The blue and gold were defeated in their

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half Humboldt out scored the Tornadoes, 21-4. Cook scored four two-pointers while Som mer netted nine points in the third quarter alone to take a 57-22 ad vantage heading to the fourth.

“I think if they con tinue to do the things they’re doing, they’ll continue to win,” said Taylor. “If we rebound and play defense we’ll win. If they work to gether and put the team first, they’ll win some ball games.”

Mason Sterling and Hull each scored baskets and Humboldt earned a 33-point season opening victory.

“We did a good job communicating. We hang our hats on de fense and rebounding. They’re still trying to find their offense and they have a new coach. We pressured the ball when we needed to and that gave them some trouble.”

Girls Basketball

The Lady Cubs had a hard time muster ing points, scoring five in the second and fourth quarters each, and allowed Eureka to score double digits ev ery quarter except the fourth.

Carsyn Haviland came out scoring with a couple of two-point

ers and a trio of success ful free throws. Karley Wools also got involved early and scored four points in the first quar ter. Lady Cub Shelby Shaughnessy helped score some of the only points in the fourth with a two-point bucket.

Ali Singhateh led Eu reka in the first half with 18 points.

Humboldt trailed Eu reka at halftime, 41-16.

Shaughnessy contin ued in the second half a layup while Haviland scored four points and Kenisyn Hottenstein scored a two-pointer. Singhateh had an out

burst again in the third quarter for Eureka when she scored 12 points and knocked down two three-pointers.

The Lady Cubs would only score five points in the final quarter follow ing a three delivered off the fingers of McKenna Jones and a two-pointer from Wools.

Haviland led the Hum boldt scoring charge with 11 points, followed by Wools’s six points and Hottenstein’s four points.

Humboldt hosts a home tournament be ginning on Tuesday at 6 p.m.

fifth and final match to West Elk, 42-30.

Boren won by forfeit before G. Westervelt was pinned down by West Elk’s Evan Coble in a 37-second fall. Lampe lost to West Elk’s Nolan Denton in a 28-second fall over. Cloud won a

match due to a forfeit.

Mustangs Velasquez and Hopkins won by forfeit and W. Westervelt toppled West Elk’s Ed ward Metcalf in a 14-sec ond fall over.

Iola will face off at An derson County on Satur day morning at 9 a.m.

Burrow got a huge assist from his defense in another riveting duel with Patrick Mahomes.

Joe Burrow (9) of the Cincinnati Bengals looks to pass against the Kansas City Chiefs during the second half at Paycor Stadium on Sunday, Dec. 4 in Cincinnati. ANDY LYONS/GETTY IMAGES/TNS