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Allen County COVID-19 Case Count

Active cases ...........100 Total cases* ...........3,804 Deaths ..................43

*Since the start of the pandemic Sources: Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Departments, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Iola royalty Iola High School’s Evan Casner, left, and Josie Plumlee were crowned 2022 Winter Homecoming king and queen Friday, following the IHS basketball games against Burlington. For details of the Mustang squads, go to sports on B1. REGISTER/REESE BECKER

BRUSSELS (AP) — Several of the world’s top government leaders are lining up today to walk the diplomatic tightrope that could mean the difference between war and an uneasy peace in Ukraine as Russia’s menace on the border of its neighbor continues unabated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stays in the Kremlin following his diplomatic foray to get support from China over the weekend and hosts the prime meeting of the day when French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will be seeking to de-escalate tensions.

Later, U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House to shore up Western resolve in what they see as Russian aggresSee UKRAINE | Page A2

Bill would allow sale of fireworks year-round

By JULIE FREIJAT Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — As it stands, retail fireworks sellers in Kansas are only allowed to sell their wares from June 27 to July 6, a shorter time period than some neighboring states.

Seasonal retailers in Missouri can sell fireworks from June 20 to July 10 and from Dec. 20 to Jan. 2. Missouri also allows the sale of fireworks year round.

The Senate Commerce Committee is considering a bill that looks to expand the timeframe in Kansas from June 15 through July 6 — and allow for year-round sales.

Senate Bill 378 was introduced by Sen. Caryn Tyson,

R-Parker. The legislation closely resembles a bill from 2020. The new bill introduces a definition for annual retailers. Those looking to sell fireworks throughout the year must meet state and local fire safety regulations and obtain a license.

Doug Jorgenson, Kansas fire marshal, said licenses would be issued through the Office of the State Fire Marshal, which doesn’t intend to charge for the license.

Local governments would still control how fireworks are regulated in their jurisdictions.

Sarah Beagle, a retail firework owner in southeast Kansas, said fireworks can be shot off all year round in See FIREWORKS | Page A4

Jacqie Spradling, former Allen County assistant attorney and a former Shawnee County prosecutor, arrives Friday for a Kansas Supreme Court disciplinary hearing on a finding she violated the ethics code for lawyers in two criminal cases. KANSAS REFLECTOR/SHERMAN SMITH

Stubborn personality or malicious intent?

Supreme Court weighs penalty for former prosecutor

By TIM CARPENTER and SHERMAN SMITH Kansas Reflector

Sen. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker, introduced legislation that would expand the timeframe for selling fireworks, including the possibility for year-round sales. KANSAS REFLECTOR FILE PHOTO Vol. 124, No. 89 Iola, KS 75 Cents

TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court sat in judgment Friday of a prominent former Shawnee County prosecutor who built a reputation for winning difficult trials until accused of ethical breaches to secure convictions in high-profile murder and sexual assault cases subsequently reversed on appeal.

A three-attorney panel unanimously recommended

in June the Supreme Court disbar Jacqie Spradling for repeatedly making false statements to juries. The state’s disciplinary board for lawyers, however, downgraded the recommended sanction to indefinite suspension of her license. The Supreme Court didn’t issue an immediate ruling.

L.J. Leatherman, the attorney for Spradling, told justices the issue was whether clear and convincing evidence existed that Spradling’s conduct in the trials involved

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deception and lying to the court and reached the level of professional incompetence. He said, in terms of a double-homicide case, that Spradling made honest mistakes and it would be wrong if prosecutors in Kansas had to routinely deal with a bunch of Monday morning quarterbacking.

“The mission is can we put trust and faith in Ms. Spradling?”

Leatherman said. “And, did they prove that she lied to you? I don’t think it’s there. The record just does See SPRADLING | Page A4

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U.S. Senate hopeful in Iola Mark Holland, a Democrat from Kansas City, will be in Iola at 6 o’clock tonight at the Bass Community Center, 505 N. Buckeye.

Holland, a Methodist minister and former Kansas City mayor, is running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate race.

The likely Republican nominee is Sen. Jerry Moran, who will be running for a third six-year term.

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Lincoln Elementary School’s spelling bee was so competitive Friday that time ran out before the final three qualifiers for the upcoming Allen County Spelling Bee were decided. After 75 minutes of competition, Lincoln’s Brynna Jelinek, right, took first place after correctly spelling “columns.” Cade Curry, second from right, took second, having been eliminated by “professional” — he didn’t hear the entire word and omitted the “al.” That leaves, from left, Maxton Coltrane, Alivia Coltrane, Seattle Nagy and Austin Cooper in a fourway tie for third. A spell-off among the quartet is set for today. The third-place finisher will join Jelinek and Curry at the county bee on Feb. 24. The fourthplace finisher also will go as an alternate competitor. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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Western estimates of some 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine is increasing worries that a offensive could be days away. At the same time, borders of the NATO alliance are also being shored up.

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U.S. service members receive supplies as they wait at the Pope Army Airfield before deploying to Europe at Fort Bragg, N.C., Thursday. The forces from the 18th Airborne Corps were sent to Wiesbaden, near Frankfurt, amid a buildup of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border. AFP/GETTY IMAGES/ALLISON JOYCE/ TNS also legitimate for Russia to pose the question of its own security.”

AFTER FRENCH MOVE, SO DOES GERMANY

France and Germany have worked in tandem before. Seven years ago, they were essential in creating a peace deal for eastern Ukraine in a bid to end the hostilities between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists that erupted in 2014 following the Russian annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.

Germany has been criticized for being slow and halfhearted in its approach to the Ukraine crisis but on Monday, Europe’s economic juggernaut was moving on different fronts. As Chancellor Schulz was preparing his meeting with Biden, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has meetings scheduled in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and is set to visit the “line of contact” with pro-Russia

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separatists in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday.

Germany’s show of solidarity amid tensions over Berlin’s refusal to send weapons. Yet Baerbock said that “we stand — without ifs or buts — by the territorial integrity of the country and at the side of people in Ukraine.”

Baerbock added that “together, we will react with hard and very concrete measures to any further Russian aggression against Ukraine.”

MORE TROOPS ON NATO’S EASTERN FRONT

Germany is also mulling sending more troops to Lithuania, potentially reinforcing its presence on NATO’s eastern flank. Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has raised the possibility ahead of Scholz’s meeting with Biden. The German leader is due to receive on Thursday the

leaders of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the three Baltic states who specifically feel the heat from Moscow, before traveling to Ukraine and Russia next week. Germany has led a NATO battlegroup in Lithuania for the past five years.

A few dozen elite U.S troops and equipment were seen landing Sunday in southeastern Poland near the border with Ukraine, following President Joe Biden’s orders to deploy 1,700 soldiers there amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Hundreds more infantry troops of the 82nd Airborne Division are still expected to arrive at the Rzeszow-Jasionka airport, 90 kilometers from Poland’s border with Ukraine. A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster plane brought a few dozen troops and vehicles.

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FRANCE MAKES A BIG MOVE

Even if the 27-nation European Union as bloc has had little impact on the crisis, France has always felt it could force a breakthrough in the East-West stalemate, and Macron is the epitome of that confidence.

Moscow is only the first of a one-two diplomatic dance that will take him to Kyiv on Tuesday. His priority is simple — “dialogue with Russia and de-escalation.”

What makes execution much more complicated is the need to keep a unified Western front consisting of over two dozen players in the face of the Kremlin monolith, where one man’s will faces precious little opposition.

Macron’s essential challenge is make sure things don’t get worse on the ground “before building confidence gestures and mechanisms.”

In an interview with French newspaper Journal du Dimanche, he said Putin might make Ukraine only a means to achieve a bigger goal.

“The geopolitical objective of Russia today is clearly not Ukraine, but to clarify the rules of cohabitation with NATO and the EU,” Macron said. Even if Ukraine’ security cannot be a bargaining chip, Macron said “it is

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Anti-wind politics could cost the Kansas economy Conservative politicians across America are promoting state-level legislation aimed at preventing new wind farms from being built in their states.

In Kansas, a conservative legislator from urban Johnson County has proposed three bills that would make it difficult to impossible to expand the Kansas wind industry.

The Kansas Association of Counties labeled one of those proposals an “assault on local control.” That legislation places an unfunded mandate on Kansas counties, forcing them to change zoning policies and expand regulation of building projects.

That zoning change would also restrict property rights of Kansas landowners, who would no longer have the freedom to contract their land for wind development without the approval of their neighbors and possibly voters in an election.

This kind of “big government conservatism” that sacrifices local control and property rights plays well with ideological conservative activists, but it poses economic risks for Kansas.

Brian Grimmett at KMUW in Wichita recently documented some essential facts about wind energy in Kansas, compiling data from the United States Geological Survey Wind Turbine Database, the 2021 Land-Based Wind Market Report, and the Annual Economic Impacts of Kansas Wind Energy 2020 report.

Patrick Miller Insight Kansas Kansas ranks second nationally for the proportion of energy produced in the state coming from wind—over 40 percent of all electricity produced in Kansas in 2020.

Kansas wind turbines can create over 7,000 megawatts, “the 4th highest in the country and enough to power about 1.6 million homes,” per Grimmett’s report.

Kansas has about 3,500 turbines, which generate about $48 million annually in lease payments to Kansas landowners and almost $660 turing to the service indusmillion in lifetime payments try.

Since Kansas has such imto local governments for exmense capacisting projects. ity to develop These dollars wind, how flow primariIf Topeka conser- does anti-wind ly to Kansas’s rural counties, vatives successfully politics make Let’s many of which squash the Kansas sense? ignore the are struggling wind industry, that c o n s p i r a cy economically.

In the last two economic impact will theorists who decades, Kansas hit our rural counties claim that turbines cause wind farms have hardest. cancer, and generated about focus on the 8,600 constructhree main flation jobs and vors of anti-wind politics.

560 jobs related to on-going maintenance and operation.

FOSSIL FUEL producers Per the U.S. Department of Energy, those projects have see wind as a competitor also indirectly generated threatening profits and the almost 13,000 jobs, ranging roughly $21 billion they refrom component manufac- ceive annually in direct gov-

ernment subsidies, per the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. Rather than seeking coexistence with wind, fossil fuel interests pump huge money into politics to oppose it.

Many conservative activists muster various anti-wind arguments, but also see wind as identity politics.

For them, wind is a liberal symbol — something to defeat for a cultural win rather than economically exploit.

Some individual wind projects also have local opponents representing the unique backyard politics of their communities.

Whatever the flavor of opposition, you don’t have to be an environmentalist to see that wind means jobs and

dollars for Kansas. If Topeka conservatives successfully squash the Kansas wind industry, that economic impact will hit our rural counties hardest.

The politics industry makes money on divisiveness and turning issues that could generate large consensus — like wind — into hyper-divisive fault lines that feed media clicks, donations, and attention. It’s profitable for politics to turn wind into just another culture war symbol, but that politicization will cost the Kansas economy.

About the author: Patrick R. Miller is an associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas.

Missouri’s Sen. Hawley desperately While the world cheers on Olympians, China must answer needs a history lesson on Ukraine Something serious appears to have prompted Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., to label a fellow Republican, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, a “con artist” and “one of the worst human beings.”

Perhaps it was Hawley’s public questioning of the need to defend Ukraine from a Russian invasion. Maybe it was when Hawley last week urged President Joe Biden to cave to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand that Ukraine be officially denied membership in NATO. Or maybe it was when Hawley falsely asserted that Biden is to blame for Ukraine’s predicament.

There once was a time when Hawley had presidential aspirations, but a badly timed fist-pump on Jan. 6, 2021, along with his appeasing advocacy of Russian supremacy just about closes the lid on his presidential dreams. We thought Hawley should’ve resigned his Senate seat for his role in the Capitol insurrection, but the idea that the United States should kneel down to Russia over Ukraine underscores how grossly unfit Hawley is to continue in office.

Perhaps the young senator should be forgiven for his naivete regarding Russia.

He wasn’t even born during the worst years of the Cold War, and he was still in diapers when Moscow invaded Afghanistan and dominated half of Europe. So he might not remember why containing Russian expansionism remains such a big deal for older Americans. Republi-

for its record on human rights

Sen. Josh Hawley, R- Mo., has questioned the need to defend Ukraine. (ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/TNS) cans these days seem averse to reading any history that makes them feel bad about themselves, which could explain why Hawley’s ignorance is so embarrassingly on display in Washington.

Hawley tweeted on Wednesday: “If Russia invades Ukraine, the Biden Administration can blame one person above all: Joe Biden.

He’s given Putin his own slush fund in Nord Stream 2 and failed to aid Ukraine when he could have.”

A short history lesson is in order. Biden became president a year ago. Before that, Donald Trump was president. Trump is the one who denied military aid to Ukraine to extort its leader into helping with Trump’s reelection effort. The person who failed Ukraine was Trump, and it earned him an impeachment. Biden in the past year has shipped around $650 million in military aid to Ukraine as

Russia amasses more than 100,000 troops on its border.

So Kinzinger’s “con man” critique of Hawley seems precisely on target.

Hawley describes Europe as a “secondary theater” and suggests that the only international situation worthy of administration attention is China. He outlined his limited understanding of world affairs in a three-page letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Hawley was “parroting” Moscow’s talking points and “digesting Russian misinformation.”

China does, in fact, matter. But China isn’t amassing troops to invade and swallow up another country. Russia is — just like the Soviet Union did when Hawley was in diapers. But there we go again with all those historical facts that bring such discomfort to folks like Hawley.

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At their core, the Olympics have always been about presenting the best that human determination and perseverance can achieve, creating ever so briefly a stage on which people from countries around the world can compete on a level playing field.

As the Beijing Winter Olympics get underway, the games will again be a showcase for athletes who have dedicated years to honing their minds and bodies.

They should also, however, put the host country in the spotlight — and not a flattering one.

As the Chinese government strives to project strength and international cooperation, the very same state will be busying itself with appalling human rights abuses, particularly against the majority-Muslim Uyghur population in the Xinjiang region, where Chinese officials have engaged in an

unprecedented campaign of surveillance, detention and genocide under the guise of anti-terror efforts.

President Xi Jinping has attempted a wholesale gutting of Hong Kong’s traditions of democratic self-rule and freedom of expression, reneging on promises to respect the region’s autonomy while suffocating the free expression that made that a great global city.

Outside its own borders, Xi’s China continues to recklessly insinuate military action against Taiwan, a small nation that has battled enormous headwinds to become a global manufacturing giant with a vibrant civic life and culture.

Turn on the TV and enjoy the speed, strength, acumen and artistry; who can resist a perfect double axel or slapshot? But don’t dare let China skate.

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Sen. Howard Immel of Iola has introduced a bill in the Kansas Legislature to permit Allen County to transfer the old Allen County jail to the county historical society so that it can be preserved as a historical treasure. The 85-year-old jail is said to be the oldest occupied public building in Kansas.

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Court upholds conviction LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Topeka man’s conviction in the Anthony s h o o t i n g Roberts Jr. deaths of three people in Lawrence in 2017.

Anthony L. Roberts Jr., was convicted on June 25, 2019 in the deaths, which occurred after a fight between two groups of people from Topeka erupted into gunfire, with more than 20 shots fired.

The jury found Roberts guilty of one count of second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder.

The court on Friday rejected Roberts’ argument that the Douglas County District Court judge should have instructed the jury that they could consider convicting him of voluntary manslaughter.

The court also ruled the evidence was sufficient to uphold Roberts’ convictions.

Colwin L. Henderson III, 20, of Topeka; Leah E. Brown, 22, of Shawnee; and Tre’Mel D. Dean-Rayton, 24, of Topeka, were killed.

Tahzay Rayton, of Topeka, survived after being shot twice.

Brown was the only shooting victim who didn’t know anyone involved in the fight, The Lawrence Journal-World reported.

Two co-defendants — Ahmad Malik Rayton, 23, and Dominique Jacquez McMillon, 20, both of Topeka — pleaded to lesser charges.

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ry that followed, the hearing panel unanimously recommends that the respondent be disbarred. From all the evidence presented, it appears that the respondent concluded that Chandler and Ewing were guilty of the crimes charged and she adopted a ‘win-at-allcosts’ approach.”

Spradling, who earned her law license in 1992 and secured about 80 murder convictions during her career, landed before the disciplinary board as the Supreme Court overturned the 2012 double-homicide conviction of Dana Chandler in Shawnee County and the Kansas Court of Appeals overturned a 2017 guilty verdict against Jacob Ewing in a sex crime case in Jackson County. Spradling was lead prosecutor in both cases.

Chandler is awaiting retrial for first-degree murder, while Ewing accepted a plea deal to avoid another trial.

The Supreme Court justices appeared more interested in Spradling’s behavior during the Chandler case.

not support by clear and convincing evidence the recommendations of the panel.”

He said a standard in Kansas that transformed mistakes into negligence and the premise for disbarment meant that “none of us are safe.” He said Spradling’s stubborn personality shouldn’t be confused with malicious intent.

Serious misconduct

Matt Vogelsberg, who represented the state disciplinary board before the Supreme Court, said Spradling was found to have violated a collection of ethics rules in the way she handled the prominent murder and sex offense cases. The disciplinary office’s findings included evidence demonstrating Spradling intentionally misled the district courts, he said.

He said Spradling’s decision to resign from prosecutor jobs in Bourbon and Allen counties and to step aside from the practice of law should be considered by the Supreme Court when deciding whether to impose indefinite suspension, disbarment or some other resolution.

Spradling said under oath during the disciplinary proceeding she “denied the defendants a fair trial,” but subsequently urged the state not to punish her.

The Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys’ panel of lawyers looking at evidence in the Spradling case sought disbarment after concluding she “knowingly and intentionally” engaged in a deliberate misconduct.

Here is what the panel of Spradling’s peers concluded: “Based on the deliberative pattern of serious misconduct and the serious inju-

‘Trust your mind’

Leatherman said Spradling was guilty of being confident in her abilities. When confronted with evidence undermining her claim that a protection from abuse order had been issued by a judge against Chandler, Spradling dismissed the notion she might be mistaken, Leatherman said.

In the past, she repeatedly held to that false belief when filing an appellate brief and in oral argument before the Supreme Court.

Leatherman said a disciplinary case against Spradling was inevitable and acknowl-

Justices’ mindful questions

This win-atall-costs, this exaggeration, this entrenched memory that she has, how do we look at that in light of what is the obligation of a prosecutor?

— Supreme Court Justice Eric Rosen, on former prosecutor Jacqie Spradling

edged some people could inappropriately interpret her conduct as dishonest.

“I knew when she said it and the questions began, that someone would be standing at this podium for Miss Spradling. I didn’t know it’d be me. But she violated your trust.

You felt very sure that she did,” Leatherman said.

Her mistakes, however, shouldn’t rise to the level of challenging her license to practice law, Leatherman argued. He said Spradling had a kind of personal confidence essential to high-performing athletes, such as Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and former Kansas City Royals infielder George Brett.

“She does not question her mind. And that’s part of being a trial lawyer,” Leatherman said. “Whether you’re Mahomes on the football field or Brett on the baseball field, you must have a short memory and be convinced you are the best or you cannot play at this level. And, when you prosecute first-degree murder cases, you have to trust your mind. You can’t second guess your mind.”

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most counties.

“Each individual city in the county sets their own regulations, and then the county itself sets their regulations,” Beagle said. “A hundred percent, our bigger counties, our higher-populated areas, absolutely — they shouldn’t be lighting fireworks at midnight on a Tuesday in the middle of October when kids are in school and people have jobs. It makes sense.”

Philip Bradley of the Kansas Fireworks Association said he thinks the bill covers almost everyone’s concerns.

“In no way does the bill or does our association want to impinge upon the rights of local government to make the rules that are appropriate to that area, and we support that, and that was one of the amendments we insisted on having,” Bradley said.

Beagle said the bill would match Kansas’ fireworks season to its surrounding states’ seasons.

“We are losing a lot of revenue to our surrounding states — just from things I have heard from my customers,” Beagle said.

“For me, when we won

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the Super Bowl in 2020, there were so many fireworks that were lit off, the National Weather Service was able to see it on their radar. For me, that’s just incredible, because where’d they get them from? Sure, some people might save fireworks after the season.

But for most people, if you’re like my family, it’s getting blown up that night.”

Beagle said she fa-

vored expanding the seasonal retail period, as it would help both local and bigger retailers.

“I believe it’s 13 days would be what we would add to the sell season — and that is a lot of revenue we can make in those few days,” Beagle said.

Many seasonal retailers are looking to expand in the future, Bradley said.

“They’re looking

down the road, and if the law passed so that they could do that, they would start laying those plans, getting the financing they need and go into that type of a business,” Bradley said. “And, most of them would have one location in their local area, so it would make even more of those sales for the folks … who go to Oklahoma and go to Missouri stay in the state of Kansas.”

Justice Dan Biles said he was wary of such comments from prosecutors because it appeared they were twisting words to justify misconduct.

“Quite honestly, when I see that, I see that as prosecutors … trying to say it’s OK for us to walk through a wrongly opened door in order to convict someone,” he said Chief Justice Marla Luckert said she was puzzled Spradling rejected multiple opportunities in the disciplinary process to clearly declare that she made mistakes at trial.

She said a sworn statement given to the disciplinary tribunal repeated her claim nothing unethical occurred.

Justice Eric Rosen, a former Shawnee County District Court judge, said the obligation of a prosecutor was to seek justice. In the Supreme Court’s opinion overturning the Chandler double-homicide conviction. the justices concluded Spradling’s winat-all-costs approach was her undoing.

Instead, Rosen, said, a prosecutor’s objective should be to seek justice.

“This win-at-all-costs, this exaggeration, this entrenched memory that she has, how do we look at that in light of what is the obligation of a prosecutor?” Rosen said.

Need measuring stick

Justice Caleb Stegall asked a series of questions about the state’s standard for discipline

of attorneys and how the judicial branch was to evaluate alleged misconduct.

“We really need some sort of objective measuring tape. What I’m just looking for is like, how do I know what’s incompetent versus what’s just a negligent mistake?” Stegall said.

Vogelsberg recommended the court take into account the belief that some mistakes were pure and didn’t rise to the level of a violation of professional conduct. He said there was certainly a necessity to make findings of negligence, perhaps as defined by the American Bar Association.

Stegall asked Leatherman what the Supreme Court was to do with the disciplinary panel’s conclusion Spradling lied about existence of the protection from abuse order, which was used at trial to convince the jury Chandler was a recognized threat.

“The record here does not show dishonesty or any intent to mislead.

It shows that a horrible, horrible thing happened,” Leatherman said.

He said Spradling was a victim of how the human mind worked in terms of whether she believed a protection from abuse order existed or was simply a figment of the imagination.

“If you believe something’s true, you don’t worry about it being untrue,” Leatherman said. “Once you conjure a belief in your head, you don’t question that belief. It’s not the way the mind works.”

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Iola’s Sam Fager drives down the court against Burlington on Friday. REESE BECKER/ IOLA REGISTER

Iola High’s boys got an early lead against Burlington Friday but ended up losing to the Wildcats, 58-36 on homecoming.

Iola went on a 4-0 run to start the game with Burlington tying the game midway through the first quarter. A three by Landon Weide put the Mustangs up 7-4, but that would mark Iola’s final lead.

Burlington took control with a 19-4 run over the first and second quarters.

Iola’s drought ended when Sam Fager hit a short jumper.

By then, the Wildcats were up 23-11.

Turnovers were key as Burlington extended its lead to 20 in the second half.

In the fourth quarter, the Wildcats hit 9-10 from the line to keep things in control, while Iola took only six free throws all game. Tyler Boeken went 3-4 from the line.

“It was a physical game tonight,” said Iola coach Luke Bycroft. “ We shoot the ball in the paint, but it doesn’t do any good to talk about officiating. We can’t use it as an excuse, but it’s tough for the boys. We have to take care of the ball and rebound. There were balls we didn’t box out and go get. It’s the same things hurting us.”

Boeken led the Mustangs with 13 points. Cortland CarSee MUSTANGS | Page B4

Iola girls come up short against Burlington

By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

The Iola High School girls basketball team welcomed Burlington on homecoming.

The Wildcats however, rained on the Mustangs’ parade, defeating Iola 52-34.

The game started rough for both sides.

Burlington took advantage of Iola turnovers and converted them into points. The Mustangs did just enough to keep the Wildcats close.

Iola’s Jenna Curry scored five points early, keeping the Mustangs at 20-15 at the break.

The second half is when

things started to go south for Iola. When the Wildcats opened a 16-point lead.

Iola’s Aysha Houk got hot and scored eight points in the second half, but Iola’s turnover issues continued to hamper the Mustangs.

Free throw shooting also hurt. Iola went to the line 13 times, but only made five, with Maci Miller going 3-4 from the line.

Burlington’s defense handled Iola down the stretch to hold onto the win.

“I feel like tonight was the most aggressive the girls have played all year,” said Iola head coach Kelsey JohnSee IOLA | Page B4

17th ranked Red Devils extend winning streak

By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

The Red Devils dominated from the early stages of the game on Saturday against Labette Community College.

The 17th ranked Red Devils won 75-59.

Cedrice Rollerson hit a pair of early threes to put Allen up and they never looked back, holding the lead for the rest of the game.

Quickly, Allen raced to a 17-4 lead, backed by good shooting and lockdown defense. Allen continued to dominate the half, but turned the ball over a few too many times toward the end of the half.

Nevertheless, Allen led 4127 at the break.

The two teams traded blows in the opening stages of the second half with Labette narrowing Allen’s lead to 12,

only to have the Red Devils storm back. Finally, midway through the half, the Red Devil lead hit 20 points.

Not only did Allen get great defensive play, but the Red Devils saw action from all 16 players in the contest, with six players getting more than 20 minutes.

Allen shot 16-23 from the free throw line, another big factor in the Red Devils’ eighth win in a row.

Ed Wright led the way with 15 points. Brayden Thompson continued his big run with 12 points. Rollerson finished with 11 and eight boards. Tyren Shelley had nine points.

Ahmed Mahgoub had seven.

Allen is 18-4 and remains undefeated in conference.

Their big time matchup last week with Johnson County was postponed due to the winter storm. Allen’s next game is today at Hesston.

Iola’s Aysha Houk puts up a shot against Burlington on homecoming. REESE BECKER/ IOLA REGISTER

Brooklyn Nets not trading former MVP James Harden at NBA trade deadline DENVER (AP) — James Harden is staying put with the Brooklyn Nets.

Coach Steve Nash gave a direct answer when asked before the team’s game at Denver on Sunday if the team was definitely not trading the former MVP before Thursday’s deadline.

“Yes, that’s correct,” Nash said. “I’ve talked to James, he wants to be here.

He wants to be here long term as well, so I don’t think anything’s changed other than noise from the outside.

“James wants to be here, we’re building with James and we think we have the best chance to win with Brooklyn Nets guard James Harden dribbles against Sixers James.” guard Ben Simmons. TNS Harden has missed two games with a left ham- send him to Philadelphia he has lost strength in the string injury and been the for Ben Simmons. Nash ligament.

“For us, we just don’t want subject of trade rumors, said Harden’s hamstring is including a possible deal to tightness, not a strain, and See NETS | Page B4

Ice dancers propel U.S. to 1st Olympic silver in team skating

By SALLY HO The Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — Madison Chock and ice dance partner Evan Bates knew what they were up against as figure skating’s team competition drew to a close at the Beijing Olympics and the American chances of a silver medal started to slip away.

“I had heard the Russians’ (score) right before we skated and I was like ‘Oh, that’s such a hefty score,’” Chock said in a dark hallway inside Capital Indoor Stadium on the third day of the medley event. “And then it was like: ‘All right. Focus.’”

Did they ever.

With poise and precision, Chock and Bates proceeded

to win the discipline with a score of 129.17, less than a point ahead of the world champion Russians, who had been penalized a point for an overly long lift. That gave Team USA the maximum of 10 points and just about locked up its first silver medal in three editions of the team competition.

That spot on the podium

was confirmed a few minutes later, when Karen Chen did what she needed to do in her free skate.

“A silver medal is something we should be incredibly proud of. It’s the highest achievement for our team in this event,” Bates said. “Up until today, we haven’t skated the free dance as well as we could in the season. But it

happened today.”

As the U.S. team accepted its medals, missing from the podium was Vincent Zhou, who returned a positive COVID-19 test earlier in the day. The team shot a video message for him during the celebration and wished him well; the men’s short program is Tuesday, and Zhou See SKATING | Page B4

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Dear Carolyn: My husband has an ex-girlfriend with whom he has stayed good friends for the 10 years since their breakup. (She refers to him as being “like a brother.”) She is now a single mom and doesn’t have much of a support system. The baby’s father is not local.

My husband has shown his ex a lot of support by bringing her small meals, sitting outside with the baby monitor for half an hour while his ex takes a jog, and other things that I would imagine she really appreciates as she teleworks while being a single parent. (We do not have kids.)

Though I generally trust them, I have become uncomfortable with the sheer number of hours he invests, and I asked him to stop. She has family who can do those things for her if she really needs them.

He agreed to stop, but says he feels really bad about leaving her in the lurch, and suggests I take over and help her instead of him.

Is this absolutely ridiculous? I get that parents have it hard right now. I think my husband was very generous for six months. And I don’t feel that equals a commitment to keep doing it until the pandemic ends.

Carolyn Hax Tell Me About It But I probably just seem like a jealous Grinch.

Helping Husband’s Ex: Your concern seems

legitimate about the amount of time and attention he’s investing — in any friend, be it male or female, alwaysfriend or recent, or exgirlfriend or not.

But asking him to stop outright is using blunt force where something surgical would work. And I don’t like that he just agreed to it when he didn’t want to.

It warranted an in-depth discussion of questions, such as: If it were a guy friend, would you feel as threatened? Is it the number of hours? The intimacy?

That you’re (apparently) not also her friend?

Does it create more work, or loneliness, for you? Do you sense rekindled feelings? Better to identify what needs fixing than to just wipe it all out.

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The way you broke down the issues to explore is outstanding and so logical, but not something I could do myself. It feels like some of the questions I should ask my-

self are swirling around in my head but they never land. Do you have any tips on how to approach an analysis like this? — Asking myself Asking Myself: It’s a skill like any other.

You start with the thing that’s bothering you — in this example, “Husband helps ex with her baby more than I think is okay.”

Then you break it down into pieces. Husband, ex-girlfriend, time, baby.

Then you see whether your feelings change if you change each element, one at a time: Husband: Does it bother you just that he’s not with you, and you miss him? Or do you think married people don’t do this on principle? Would you question it if one of your friends were helping another friend this way?

Ex-girlfriend: Is it that she’s an ex? That she’s female? Or would it bother you if it were a guy friend?

Time: If you changed the recipient and the type of generosity — into, say, volunteering for a charity — and he spent the same amount of time on it, would that still annoy you?

Baby: If he were there doing … say, yardwork, because she got injured, would you think differently?

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASCAR was the big winner at its glossy Los Angeles gala held inside Memorial Coliseum.

In need of an energy boost ahead of its upcoming season, NASCAR broke its dated mold and staged an experimental exhibition race inside one of the most iconic venues in sports. The race itself on a temporary quarter-mile asphalt oval was a sideshow in Sunday’s made-for-Fox Sports spectacular.

Just how successful was the Busch Light Clash? Two losing drivers high-fived a pair of NASCAR senior executives as they passed in the USC locker room.

One was Ben Kennedy, the 30-year-old great-grandson of NASCAR’s founder and forward-thinker who pushed The Clash from its birthplace in Daytona across the country

and into the Coliseum.

“Really good day for the entire sport,” Kennedy said.

The Clash was a success before a single racecar drove through the Southern California football team’s tunnel and onto the smooth, black asphalt that covered the Trojans’ field.

Ice Cube performed a six-minute set from the Peristyle during a brief “halftime,” and Pitbull with backup dancers outfitted in a checkered-flag theme used the same stage for his prerace concert.

The grand marshals were Los Angeles sporting greats and Jeff Gordon lit the cauldron built for the 1932 Summer Olympics before the race began. Celebrities walked a red carpet, the USC student section filled in early, and the crowd booed pole-sitter Kyle Busch like a bunch of old pro’s during driver introductions.

The name of the race was the same, but every-

thing else about the 44th running of The Clash was different.

Joey Logano was the actual race winner and, like nearly everyone else in the industry, heaped praise on NASCAR for successfully fulfilling Kennedy’s vision.

“The hype around this, you watch football games lately, they’re advertising the Clash as much as they’re advertising Daytona 500,” Logano said. “ That kind of puts it into perspective a little bit on what this event meant to our sport, how big of a gamble this really was, right? This could have gone awful. It went great.”

Added runner-up Busch: “Ben Kennedy and the guys at NASCAR, if this didn’t work, it was going to be ugly.”

Instead, Busch was one of the drivers who high-fived Kennedy.

NASCAR moved the Clash to Los Angeles from Daytona International Speedway, its

only home since its 1979 inception, as part of a focused effort to break from its dated traditions. And the race was a success before a single racecar drove through the Southern California football team’s tunnel and onto the smooth, black asphalt that covered the Trojans’ field.

The Coliseum could hold about 60,000 fans for The Clash, and although it wasn’t a sellout, the crowd was both strong and loud. NASCAR said at the start of the week that 70% of those who purchased tickets identified as first-time race attendees, and the buildup in Los Angeles for next week’s Super Bowl only helped publicize NASCAR’s big party.

The name of the race was the same, but everything else about the 44th running of The Clash was different.

“I think it was a risk.

We knew that from the start,” Kennedy said.

“As we’ve talked about

the schedule over the past couple years, we talked about being bold, we talked about being innovative. This was something new, something different. We challenged ourselves, the team challenged themselves, to think about this event differently.

“We’re really proud of the outcome.”

The field was determined by heat races held earlier Sunday, and a pair of last chance qualifiers to give drivers one final chance to make the 23-car starting grid. The format made for spirited racing in the final “LCQ” as rookie Austin Cindric bounced and banged his way through traffic trying to transfer into the main event.

Cindric fell short but was in good company: NASCAR champions Brad Keselowski and Kurt Busch were among the drivers who didn’t make it out of the heats.

Kyle Busch started on the pole for the 150-lap

feature that included a planned stop on Lap 75 for Ice Cube’s set. Busch dominated the first half but was eventually caught by Logano, who never gave Busch a chance to move him out of the way for the win.

Logano won the Clash for the second time in his career. It was the fifth win for Team Penske, which has won three of the last six runnings of what had traditionally been a warmup for the Daytona 500.

Nothing learned in Los Angeles will transfer into the Feb. 21 season-opening Daytona 500, but the race was the first for NASCAR’s new car. The Next Gen was a long-planned project that was delayed a season by the pandemic.

The car is designed to cut costs to teams, even competition throughout the field and produce a better racing product.

The Next Gen didn’t disappoint in its debut on the shortest track on the NASCAR schedule.

Nets: No plan to trade Harden Continued from B1

to take any chances,” Nash said. “We know last year we lost him for an extended period and we want to be conservative and make sure he

resumes full strength so there isn’t an extended absence.”

Harden has missed 10 games in his first full season with Brooklyn.

The Nets entered Sunday’s game having lost seven in a row, including a blowout loss at Utah on Friday night.

Skating: U.S. gets silver in teams Iola’s Josie Plumlee fights in the paint vs Burlington. REESE BECKER/IOLA REGISTER

Iola: Girls fall on homecoming Continued from B1

Johnson. “Turnovers are what it comes down to. We played really hard and really aggressively but we turned the ball over too many times.”

Houk scored 10 to lead the way. Miller and Jenna Curry both scored seven. Reese Curry had six.

Iola’s junior varsity won 20-19. Alana Mader led the way with six points. Tatum Boyd and Resse Curry both had five. Jackie Fager and Hallie McDermeit each had two.

Iola, 2-12, heads to Wellsville tonight.

Iola (6-9-13-6—34) FG/3pt FT Houk 5 0 Plumlee 1 2

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Miller 2 3 3 7 J. Curry 2/1 0 3 7 R.e Curry 3 0 4 6 TOTALS: 13/1 5 16 34 Burlington (7-13-16-16—52) FG/3pt FT F TP Courser 1 2 2 4 Hernandez 0 0 2 0 Whitworth 6 7 4 19 Fejfer 0/1 1 1 4 Meats 0/1 1 1 4 Doebele 5 5 2 15 Young 0/2 0 2 6 Totals: 12/4 16 14 52

Mustangs: Fall to Burlington Continued from B1

Carson and Fager chipped in with eight each.

Iola’s junior varsity lost 45-27. Mac Leonard led the way with 10 points. Gage Skahan had four. Travis Wanker and Japheth Rutoh had four. Casey Rowe and Cody Wille had two. Carson had one.

The freshman team

got a 48-41 win, led by 16 points from Lucas Maier. Grady Dougherty had 11. Ben Kerr had six. Kyser Nemecek had four. Kaiden Rutherford and Alex Donnelly had two. Cole Moyer had one.

Iola plays at Wellsville tonight.

Iola (9-7-6-10—36) FG/3pt FT Carson 2/1 1 Weide 0/1 0

F 1 1

TP 8 3

Adams 1 0 1 2 Fager 4 0 2 8 Riley 1 0 2 2 Boeken 5 3 3 13 Totals 14/1 4 13 36 Burlington (17-9-11-21—58) FG/3pt FT F TP Anderson 1/1 1 1 6 Combs 5 0 2 10 Sides 2/2 2 0 12 Kohlman 1 1 2 3 Smith 3/1 6 3 15 Wagner 2 0 1 4 Fejfer 2 1 2 5 Hegg 1 1 2 3 Totals 17/4 12 13 58

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must return a negative test or he will miss the event.

“We basically said: ‘Vincent, we’re sorry to hear the news.

We miss you. We wish you were here because you’re a big part of this team. You helped earn the silver medal,’” Bates said.

Performing their avant-garde alien-astronaut love story set to Daft Punk’s techno music, Chock — wearing silver makeup and an out-of-this-world hairstyle — and Bates showcased the kind of artistry and emotion that could also land on them on the individual dance podium before the Beijing Games are done.

The Russians easily won the team gold medal, thanks to dominance from history-making Kamila Valieva in the women’s discipline and their strong performance in pairs. The U.S. earned the silver after back-to-back bronze medals at the past two

Olympics, while Japan climbed onto the team podium for the first time in third place.

It was a roller coaster four days in the team competition for the Americans.

On Friday, fellow ice dancers Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue won the rhythm dance with a season-best score. The spectacular Janet Jackson-inspired performance not only gave the Americans maximum points in their discipline but also energized the team, and Nathan Chen followed with a winning performance in his short program.

After a day off Saturday, the program resumed in disappointing fashion: Zhou repeatedly fell during his short program, and Karen Chen also fell on her final triple loop, allowing Japan to close the gap for the silver medal.

The final day didn’t start much better, either. Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, whose

short program helped the U.S. build a Day 1 lead, struggled throughout their free skate and that allowed Japan to pull even with Team USA. Then came Chock and Bates, who saved the Americans’ long-sought silver medal, and Chen, who redeemed herself with a free skate that earned the U.S. enough points to climb one step up the podium.

“I’m so happy. I knew that we had a great shot of getting a medal,” said Chen, who did not skate for the U.S. when it won team bronze in Pyeongchang, which means she did not take home a medal of her own.

“I didn’t allow myself to think about what color — like, what are the chances with the percentage of gold, silver, bronze or whatnot,” she said.

“But I’m just really happy that I did my job and that the team was very happy.”

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