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Kansas prisons, such as in El Dorado and Lansing, shown above, are plagued with high turnover and increasing inmate populations. KANSAS
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Prison staffing issues persist By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas prisons face high staff turnover and potential inmate unrest at a time when state officials expect the population behind bars to continue growing steadily well into the future, potentially making current problems worse. Corrections Secretary Joe Norwood told legislators recently that he’s worried that high turnover — including 46 percent turnover at the maximum-security prison in El Dorado — is creating an inexperienced workforce. He blames low pay, starting at $13.95 an hour, for keeping open one in every five jobs for uniformed officers. Legislators and the union representing the officers increasingly see a link between inmate unrest and staffing shortages and long hours for remaining employees. The El Dorado prison has seen multiple disturbances in recent months. Kansas is certain to have more offenders in its custody over time. The inmate population has nearly doubled over the past generation See PRISONS | Page A4
A dreary, rainy morning made for pristine racing conditions for the Allen County Fair Mud Run at the Wide Open Speed Park south of Iola. At top, Speed Hoepker barrels through the mud aboard an all-terrain cycle. At bottom right, Lance Keazer, Newton, in his pickup. At bottom left, the water-logged mud pit proved too inviting to resist for a small dog during a lull in the action. Saturday’s mud run was the final event of the 2017 Allen County Fair. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Nations press on with North Korea sanctions By HYUNG-JIN KIM The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Armed with extraordinary new U.N. sanctions, nations raced today to ensure that North Korea’s biggest trading partners actually carry them out, an elusive task that has undercut past attempts to strong-arm Pyongyang into abandoning its nuclear weapons.
North Korea reacted angrily, vowing to bolster its nuclear a r s e n a l and launch “thousandsfold” revenge Rex Tillerson against the United States. In a statement carried by state media, Kim Jong Un’s government called the sanctions a “violent in-
fringement of its sovereignty” caused by a “heinous U.S. plot to isolate and stifle” North Korea. As President Donald Trump demanded full and speedy implementation of the new penalties, his top diplomat laid out a narrow path for the North to return to negotiations that could ultimately see sanctions lifted. Stop testing missiles for an “extended period,” Secre-
tary of State Rex Tillerson said, and the U.S. might deem North Korea ready to talk. “We’ll know it when we see it,” Tillerson said. “This is not a ‘give me 30 days and we are ready to talk.’ It’s not quite that simple. So it is all about how we see their attitude towards approaching a dialogue with us.” Even as they celebrate a See KOREA | Page A4
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Happy birthday! Friends and family streamed into Donna Houser’s home Saturday afternoon to help her celebrate her 80th birthday. Pictured with Donna, left, was Jamie Webb, a close friend from Donna’s teenage years in El Dorado. Webb and her husband drove from Topeka. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education is set to take the first official step toward enacting sweeping changes in the way the state’s public schools are accredited and held accountable. The 10-member board is expected to receive a set of new regulations Tuesday that represent the first overhaul of an accreditation system that has been in place since 1992, the Lawrence Journal-World reports . The system, known as Quality Performance and Accreditation, grew out of a movement in the 1970s and 1980s known as outcomes-
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based education, in which individual schools were held accountable for the results they produced. The new Kan- Brad Neuenswander sas Education System Accreditation represents a massive change, in part by accrediting whole districts instead of individual schools. “Since 1992 we’ve always accredited buildings,” said Brad Neuenswander, the state’s deputy education See SCHOOLS | Page A4
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Iola’s own Gary Hawk is lending a hand to this year’s Farm-City Days celebration. Hawk, whose art has drawn global acclaim for more than half a century, allowed use of one of his paintings for the 2017 Farm-City Days button sales and medallion hunt. The buttons depict Hawk’s painting “Pickin’ A Winner,” showing a county fair judge closely eyeing a youngster’s Holstein,
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presumably at a county fair of some sort. “We knew we wanted to have some sort of farm theme for this year’s button,” noted
Aaron Franklin, FarmCity Days Committee chairman. “We’re honored to have Gary Hawk allow us to use one of his paintings. I’m not sure our younger residents realize just how big an influence Gary has been.” The buttons sell for $2 apiece, and are needed to participate in the annual $1,000-towin medallion hunt. The hunt will begin the week prior to festival,
which runs Oct. 12-15. To purchase a button, keep an eye on the Farm-City Days Facebook page. This year’s FarmCity Days will feature many of the usual standards — parade, car show, music concerts, etc. — and will add a bike race, in conjunction with Velo+ and Bike Allen County. Plans are to offer 40and 72-mile gravel bike races, Franklin said.
Mosque bombing shakes Minnesotans MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in suburban Minneapolis, like other U.S. mosques, occasionally receives threatening calls and emails. Its leaders say they’re more frightened now after an explosive shattered windows and damaged a room as worshippers prepared for morning prayers. “We feel like it’s much deeper and scarier than like something random,” Mohamed Omar, the center’s executive director, said Sunday. “It’s so scary.” No one was hurt in the blast, which happened around 5 a.m. Saturday. Windows of the imam’s office were shattered, either by what the FBI called an “improvised explosive device” or by an object thrown through
them. The FBI is seek- ton, just south of Mining suspects and trying neapolis, has a fitness to determine whether center, gymnasiums for the incident was a hate boys and girls, a football crime. field and adjoins a city Gov. Mark Dayton park, Omar said. He joined other estimates public ofthe mosque ficials and This is an act of holds up to community worshipterrorism. This is 300 leaders for pers for Fria meeting against the law in day prayers. inside the America. The commubuilding nity center — Mark DaySunday, dealso hosts ton, Minnesota scribing the computer governor bombing as classes, a “so wretchb a s ke t b a l l ed” and “not league, reliMinnesota.” gious classes, lectures “This is an act of ter- and other events. rorism. This is against “It’s a place that a the law in America,” family can come and Dayton said at a news get everything they conference afterward, need,” Omar said. the Star Tribune reThe mosque opened ported . in 2011 at the site of Besides serving as a a former elementary place of worship and school in the suburb of community center, the about 85,000, and serves mosque in Blooming- people primarily from
the area’s large Somali community. Reports of anti-Muslim incidents in the U.S. are increasing, including arson attacks and vandalism at mosques, harassment of women wearing Muslim head coverings and bullying of Muslim schoolchildren. Also in Minnesota, an Islamic cemetery in Castle Rock Township recently reported it had been vandalized with spray painted profanities and swastikas. A U.S. Department of Homeland Security statement on the Bloomington explosion says the department “fully supports the rights of all to freely and safely worship the faith of their choosing and we vigorously condemn such attacks on any religious institution.”
Wichita schools target behavior problems WICHITA, Kan. the same page, (if) (AP) — Leaders of the there’s conversations Wichita school district happening, I believe are offering a plan to you’re going to begin reduce the rising num- to see the trajectory of ber of discipline prob- what’s happening with lems in the district, the behavior change,” particularly in Thompson the elementary said. schools. M i ch e l e The plan calls Ingenthron, Data shows s u s p e n s i o n s , for clear expec- a s s i s t a n t detentions and tations in class- s u p e r i n trips to the tendent of principal’s of- rooms, hallways elementary common schools and fice have in- and creased dra- areas ... a former matically in the principal at last four years. three highIn elementary poverty elschools, disciementary pline incidents have schools, joined the disincreased more than trict’s central leadership 53 percent during that team in March. She said time, The Wichita Eagle principals will receive reported. new training that emDistrict leaders un- phasizes setting behavior veiled a plan this week expectations and dealing that will clarify expec- with misbehavior. tations, monitor data “We’re bringing more carefully and help this back to the foreteachers better under- front to make sure stand students’ diverse that all of our buildbackgrounds. The dis- ings are on the same trict also plans to in- page,” she said. crease teacher recruitThompson wants ment and retention, principals to revisit with an emphasis on the Multi-Tiered placing more veteran System of Supports, teachers in high-pover- a districtwide plan ty schools, Superinten- from seven years dent Alicia Thompson ago that also was said. designed to improve “If people are on student achievement
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and address behavior issues. The plan calls for clear expectations in classrooms, hallways and common areas, and for school employees to agree on what types of misbehavior should be referred to the principal. It also seeks to limit office referrals and to avoid out-of-school suspensions. Under the plan, teachers try to “catch” a child doing something good — taking turns, helping a classmate, sitting quietly — at least three times for every one time they react to misbehavior. Ingenthron said revamped training for school employees will emphasize understanding and valuing cultur-
al diversity. The majority of teachers are white, middle-class and female, while Wichita schools’ are experiencing greater racial, ethnic, linguistic and economic diversity. Last fall, for the first time, the number of Hispanic students in Wichita schools surpassed the number of non-Hispanic white students. School board member Joy Eakins supports efforts to reduce discipline problems but she wants to ensure the data is accurate. She said teachers have told her some principals return misbehaving students to the classroom too often, in part to lower the number of office referrals.
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Catherine Feese Catherine L. Feese, 66, Kincaid, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 at Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. She was born on Sept. 14, 1950, in Garnett, the daughter of Howard and Marjorie (Hetzel) Jones. Catherine married Larry Feese on March 30, 1973 in Colony. This union was blessed with two daughCatherine Feese ters, Carrie and Carla. She was a member of KNEA, AQHA and the University of Kansas Alumni Association. Catherine enjoyed her horses, dogs and spending time with her grandchildren. Catherine was preceded in death by her parents, Howard and Marjorie Jones. She is survived by her husband, Larry Feese of the home; two daughters, Carrie Scheckel and husband Greg, Kincaid, and Carla Lockhart and husband Nick, Atchison; five grandchildren, Kohlton, Kinzee and Kaylee Scheckel and Caitlyn and Cody Lockhart; and one brother, Richard Jones and wife Lisa, Fontana. Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Iola. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Kansas Youth Quarterhorse Assn., which may be left with the funeral home. You may send your condolences to the family at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.
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3 Regents seats open MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Three open seats on the Kansas Board of Regents have yet to be filled even though the board’s next meeting is just days away. The Manhattan Mercury reports that Gov. Sam Brownback hasn’t named anyone to replace Regents Shane Bangerter, Ann Brandau-Murguia and
Helen Van Etten. As governor, Brownback appoints members of the board. Board members are then seated by the state Senate’s confirmation oversight committee. Spokeswoman Breeze Richardson says the group is still waiting on word from Brownback’s office about the replacement appointments.
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Eugene Edward “Gene” Clounch, Jr., 78, Iola, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 at Windsor Place in Iola. Gene was born March 28, 1939, in Iola to Eugene Edward and Gladys June (Boyd) Clounch. He married Naomi Johnson on Dec. 28, 1962, in Iola. He worked at Ellis Motors and Arbuckle Automotive in Iola as a mechanic early in his life. Later he Gene Clounch worked for Heartland Rural Electric as a lineman, where he retired after 32 years. He coached Little League baseball, and was a certified A.S.A. umpire. He enjoyed deer hunting, fishing, working outdoors and tinkering on various projects. He will always be remembered for his willing helping hand for those in need, and for his quick wit. He is survived by his wife, Naomi, of the home, sons Paul Graham and wife Rondalyn, Hollywood, Calif., and Rodney Graham, Fort Scott; daughters, Teresa Clounch, Hays, and Gena Clounch, Iola; nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; a brother, Kenneth Clounch, St. Louis, and a daughter-in-law, Ida Graham, also of St. Louis. He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Wilma Johnson, sons Thurman Graham and Nathaniel Graham, and a grandson, Justin Graham. A memorial service for Gene will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Ward Chapel A.M.E. Church in Iola. Inurnment will follow at Highland Cemetery in Iola. Contributions in his memory are requested to the Ward Chapel A.M.E. Church. Condolences for his family can be left at www. feuerbornfuneral.com.
ERIE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 21-year-old Erie man died when an ATV rolled on top of him. The patrol said Jonah DeMeritt was a passenger on the ATV Saturday when it rolled on top of him as it was going up hill on private property in Neosho
County. The crash happened 5 miles south of Erie. DeMeritt was riding on a 2017 Polaris ATV being driven by a 21-year-old Galesburg man. The patrol reported DeMeritt was trying to get off the ATV when it crashed. The driver was not injured.
— Moran City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Moran City Hall. — Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse. — Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen County Regional Hospital. — Open house on a proposed wind farm near Moran, 5-8 p.m., Marmaton Valley High School commons area. — Allen Community College Board of Trustees meeting, 6 p.m., ACC student center. — Gas City Council meeting, 7 p.m., City Hall. — Grief Support Group, 1 p.m., Allen County Home Health and Hospice. — Moran Public Library meeting, 6 p.m., Moran Public Library — Jones Hardy American Legion Post No. 385, 7 p.m., Post Home, Moran. — LaHarpe City Council meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall. — Iola BPOE No. 569, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.
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New ambulance stations would be countywide plus Whether or not the $300,000 sequestered in Allen County’s 2018 budget will be sufficient to plan, build and outfit new ambulance stations in Humboldt and Moran, the commissioners’ zeal to do so is refreshing. Commissioner Jerry Daniels is beating the drum loudest, proclaiming ambulance station projects should be in the works by spring. We haven’t toured the Moran station, but having walked through Humboldt’s, it’s starkly evident new living quarters and storage area for ambulance and equipment are sorely needed. An enlarged garage for ambulances that soon will flesh out the service’s fleet is required; newer ones won’t fit in existing space. It was equally refreshing to hear Humboldt Administrator Cole Herder affirm that he and Humboldt council members would be eager to work with the county. Moran officials no doubt will be just as supportive. Ever since accord was reached in 2014, Iola has operated the countywide ambulance service with the county providing vehicles and $1 million a year subsidy to offset costs. Iola provides space for ambulances in its fire station. EMS personnel also serve as firefighters. Humboldt and Moran have made stations available in their towns; neither has the financial wherewithal to build new ones. That county commis-
sioners are eager to front much of the upgrade of those outlying stations is not just generosity. It is only right and proper that the county absorb costs of projects that help any and all taxpayers. Further, county coffers were swollen mightily when Enbridge laid a huge pipeline to carry crude oil from Illinois to the largest oil storage depot in the world at Cushing, Okla. Enbridge also built a huge, state-of-the-art pumping station about two miles southeast of Humboldt. To bring those tidbits of information to a head, all of the nearly $40 million increase in Allen County’s assessed valuation generated by Enbridge lies within the service areas of ambulances operating from Humboldt and Moran. Also, having new stations will make recruitment of personnel easier, Iola Fire Chief Tim Thyer noted. Larger ambulances will mean better response, from ability to negotiate treacherous winter roads with four-wheel drive, to more space within the medical chamber to better accommodate newer equipment to give paramedics what they need to save lives. Only someone given to distressing pragmatism would consider putting a price on a person’s life. It’s heartening that our county commissioners are willing to see the best of emergency services be made available to every last person within the county. — Bob Johnson
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Jim Potter and Wally McDown worked today to wire McKinley Elementary School to give students access to the Internet. Potter and McDown, retired Southwestern Bell employees, volunteered to do the wiring at McKinley and at Lincoln School next Wednesday. ***** David South, new Iola High School principal, has three
major changes in mind for IHS. He told Iola Rotarians Thursday that IHS should: 1. Concentrate on technology. 2. Adopt what is called a block system under which the school day would be apportioned into four periods rather than seven. 3. Create a school-to-work program to put students in touch with area businesses in a creative way so more students will start their careers in the area.
Trump uses Russia probe as poke to critics WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is trying to turn the Russia investigation into a rallying cry. Far from avoiding talk of the accelerating probe into his campaign’s ties to Moscow, Trump is instead using it to stoke the outrage felt by his most loyal supporters. The investigation, he argues, is an outgrowth of the bias and resentment media elites and Democrats hold against his white, workingclass base. He casts the investigation as a nefarious attempt to undo the results of the election and seize power from the voters who have been marginalized. “They can’t beat us at the voting booths so they are trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you want,” Trump said during a Thursday night rally in Huntington, West Virginia. “They are trying to cheat you out of the leadership you want with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us and most importantly, demeaning to our country and demeaning to our Constitution.” The message falls in line with Trump’s long-standing appeal to the voters he has called the “forgotten men and women of our country” who lack a voice in government. Trump portrays himself as the voice of the aggrieved who understands their troubles. But this heavy reliance on his loyal base, which comprise far short of an electoral majority, carries risks. Long term, it’s unclear how his message will appeal to mainstream Republicans, some of whom are conducting investigations into his Russia ties in Congress and are unlikely to see special counsel Robert Mueller, the by-the-book for-
Ken Thomas An AP news analysis mer FBI director and decorated Vietnam War veteran, as the face of a witch hunt. The message also obscures the issue his base cares most deeply about: the economy. For now, Trump appears to be on solid ground on that front. He has presided over a strong economy during his first six months in office. He repeatedly noted this week that the stock market had risen to new heights. He pointed Friday to the latest job report, which showed more than 200,000 new jobs in July and an unemployment rate of 4.3 percent, matching a 16-year low. But a slip in the nation’s economic fortunes before the 2020 election, especially in states key to Trump’s victory like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, could make it harder for Trump to hold onto his base. In some respects, Trump is taking a page from his favorite scapegoats: Bill and Hillary Clinton. During the late 1990s, Bill Clinton assailed House Republicans and independent counsel Ken Starr as fierce partisans for pushing investigations into his affair with a White House intern and his role in an Arkansas land deal. Hillary Clinton famously called it a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” Two decades later, when Republicans pursued a lengthy investigation into her handling of the 2012 attacks in
Benghazi, Libya, she said it was a partisan attempt to hurt her 2016 campaign. This time, Trump has taken the partisan argument to a new degree, parlaying it with his longstanding indictment of the Washington “swamp” of insiders whom he says hurt many Americans. “He’s not just doing the partisan playbook, but he’s making it about the system in some ways going after him and going after what the voters wanted,” said presidential historian Julian Zelizer, a professor at Princeton University. Zelizer said the reliance on base politics carries risks for Trump, who has already sustained cracks in his support, embodied by strained relations with Republican leadership, Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake’s book criticizing Trump’s leadership, and three GOP senators’ unwillingness to go along on repealing the Affordable Care Act. “That could be a dangerous path. Just the base can’t protect him,” Zelizer said. Most Americans don’t seem to share Trump’s views on the investigation. Nearly 60 percent of Americans say they don’t think Trump is taking the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election seriously enough and roughly the same percentage think he’s tried to derail the probe, according to a Quinnipiac poll published this week. Still, in West Virginia, the president called the Russia story “a total fabrication” and an excuse promulgated by Democrats for their 2016 defeat. Editor’s note — Ken Thomas has covered the White House and national politics for The Associated Press since 2011.
Tough to watch while Venezuela succumbs to dictatorship Venezuela’s descent into dictatorship accelerated this week with a bogus vote to create a Constituent Assembly that would be tasked with rewriting the country’s constitution. This comes on top of other assaults on democratic institutions like the judiciary and the news media, as Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro cements his ruinous rule. While efforts to resist and reverse the repressive regime have not and will not be easy, Venezuelan citizens and Western Hemisphere governments, including and especially the United States, need to keep up the pressure. The July 30 vote to pack the new body with regime loyalists was boycotted by the opposition, and there are allegations that even the preordained outcome was tainted by fraud. “The real reason
the Constituent Assembly was convened is to take away any remaining power that exists in a democracy,” Jason Marczak, a director at the Atlantic Council’s Latin American Center, told an editorial writer. “The democratic checks that exist in the country will most likely be erased ... so we’re headed into a really extremely volatile situation.” That situation has been building since the despotic drift under Hugo Chavez, Maduro’s presidential predecessor, who died in 2013. Maduro lacks Chavez’s charisma but also did not inherit his era of high oil prices, which at least temporarily paid for the socialist government’s reckless disregard for market forces. Now, despite having among the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is on pace to be among the poorest
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, left, and his wife Cilia Flores wave next to electoral candidates after the first results of the controversial election for a constituent assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, July 31. According to the national electoral authority, 8.1 million people participated in the controversial election for a change of the constitution. Manu Quintero/DPA/Abaca Press/TNS countries in the hemisphere. The repression intensified on Tuesday, when two prominent opposition mayors were hustled from house arrest to
detention. But outside pressure has ratcheted up, too, including the imposition of new U.S. sanctions on key government officials, includ-
ing Maduro himself. “The Venezuelan government’s push for total control — despite evidence of a vast majority of people who are opposed to the government, despite the terrible economic conditions and scarcities which are being suffered —means that some international response is essential,” Ivan Briscoe, program director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Crisis Group, told an editorial writer. Briscoe added that despite the worthy objective, any additional sanctions must not exacerbate citizens’ misery but must be targeted at regime figures. That’s true, but clearly more must be done to save Venezuela and the region from Maduro’s chaotic and cruel rule. — The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune
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to more than 9,900 last week, and the state’s official projections have it reaching 11,000 by 2027. “My sense of it is, we’re not keeping up, not only with the numbers but the character of the folks that are being locked up,” said Rep. Russ Jennings, a Lakin Republican and a former state juvenile justice commissioner who is now chairman of the House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee. The Department of Corrections boosted the prison system’s capacity 9 percent, to more than 10,500, by double-bunking cells across the prison system. The doublebunking includes maximum-security inmates at the El Dorado prison — where the capacity is now listed as 1,955 inmates, up 444 from a year ago. Following recent disturbances there, the actual population has been held under 1,800. Norwood said some cells can’t be double-bunked because they’re too small. In the early and mid1980s, the state worried less about that — double-bunking 5-foot by 8-foot cells at its Hutchinson prison — but faced a federal lawsuit, orders to release inmates early and court supervision of
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its decisions for nearly a decade, starting in 1987. The department is pursuing a plan to replace the state’s oldest and largest prison in Lansing that would increase its capacity by about 200 beds. But the new prison might not open until 2021. “We don’t have anything that would suggest the population is going to decrease,” said Scott Schultz, executive director of the Kansas Sentencing Commission, which makes inmate population projections and recommendations on criminal justice policy. “You have a choice of building new prisons, or engaging in sentencing reform or perhaps a mixture of the two.” The American Civil Liberties Union responded to the unrest at El Dorado by last week calling on legislators to consider rewriting sentencing laws, particularly for drug offenders. “But you’ve got to fight that perception that you’re somehow
being soft on crime,” Jennings said. Meanwhile, with corrections officers’ low pay, the annual turnover across the Kansas prison system is 33 percent. In neighboring states where the starting pay is higher, turnover is lower. The turnover rate in Iowa, for example, is 12 percent. Starting pay there is $19.32 an hour. At El Dorado, 84 uniformed-officer jobs were vacant as of last week, or 23 percent. The prison began in June to schedule employees for four, 12hour shifts a week, and is sometimes having officers end their work weeks with a 16hour shift. On June 29, the date of one reported disturbance, the inmate population was approaching 1,900. “These problems are going to be made worse,” said Robert Choromanksi, executive director of the Kansas Organization of State Employees, the union representing corrections officers.
Kansas driver’s licenses have new features to comply with a federal law in order to meet airport security purposes. KANSAS DEPT. OF REVENUE
‘Real ID’ licenses available TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has unveiled a new driver’s license design meant to comply with federal identification requirements for airport security purposes. The new licenses will contain either a gold circle with a white star cutout proving the holder is lawfully in the U.S.
and that it is acceptable federal identification, or the words “not for federal ID.” The revamped licenses come three years before they are required. Anyone seeking the “Real ID” credential must provide Social Security number documentation, and their birth certificate or valid
U.S. passport. Those without such documents can get the “not for federal ID” card, which will not be acceptable identification for boarding domestic flights or entering designated federal sites after Sept. 30, 2020. Those cards still will be valid as state identification or as a driver’s licenses.
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commissioner for learning services. “But you can have in a school district buildings that are governor’s achievement award winners and others that are ‘on improvement.’ We just didn’t believe in the past that accrediting isolated buildings helped move things forward.” The new system also put districts on a fiveyear accreditation cycle instead of renewing accreditation every year.
And it bases accreditation on a much wider set of criteria than academic test scores by taking into account such things as each student’s social and emotional growth and the level of engagement the districts have with the communities they serve. Neuenswander said the concepts behind the new system grew out of a statewide listening tour that the state Department of Edu-
cation and the State Board of Education conducted in 2015. During the tour, officials asked parents, community leaders and local businesses what they expected from their public schools. “What Kansans clearly told us, we need to put value back on nonacademic skills,” he said. “Things like grit, teamwork, resilience, those social-emotional character development skills.”
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an labor. The American and Japanese diplomats held another three-way session with Australia. The South Korean envoy held a rare but brief meeting in Manila with North Korea’s top diplomat, who also spoke by phone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who had discussed the sanctions with Tillerson a day before. In a phone call requested by Seoul, Trump and newly installed South Korean President Moon Jae-in committed jointly to “fully implement all relevant resolutions and to urge the international community to do so as well,” the White House said. Moon’s office said that he and Trump had agreed to apply “the maximum pressure and sanction.” The penalties, approved unanimously Saturday by the Security Council, aim to cut off roughly one-third of North Korea’s estimated $3 billion in annual exports, ostensibly
diplomatic victory in persuading China and Russia to sign on to cutting new sanctions, the U.S. and other countries are deeply concerned that failure to rigorously enforce them could significantly blunt their impact. Since Saturday’s U.N. Security Council vote, Washington has put Beijing in particular on notice that it’s watching closely to ensure China doesn’t repeat its pattern of carrying out sanctions for a while, then returning to business as usual with the pariah nation on its border. Such concerns were on display Sunday in a dizzying display of fast-paced diplomacy spanning multiple continents. South Korea’s foreign minister joined her counterparts from the U.S. and Japan for a meeting in the Philippines in which Tillerson touted efforts to persuade nations to stop using North Kore-
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starving the nation of funds for its weapons programs. All countries are now banned from importing North Korean coal, iron, lead and seafood products, and from letting in more North Korean laborers who sent remittances back into the country. Yet already, there are signs that nations with the strongest ties to North Korea may fall short of the stringent enforcement that Trump and others seek. Although Russia voted for the sanctions, its U.N. ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, told the Security Council that sanctions “cannot be a goal in itself ” and “shall not be used for economic strangling” of North Korea, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. Still, the key con-
cern is over China, the North’s economic lifeline and biggest trading partner. John Delury, a China and North Korea expert at Yonsei University in Seoul, noted that the Chinese population that lives along the 800-mile border with North Korea is already struggling financially. Triggering an economic meltdown in North Korea would inevitably produce a spillover effect in China, he said. “They’re almost going from sanctions to embargo and really trying to slam the North Korean economy,” Delury said. “If you really start to go down that path, I’m not sure how far the Chinese will go down with you.” The other mounting concern: that by the time the sanctions really start
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ability to cap them with nuclear warheads, but that step may not be far off. Tillerson conceded there would likely be a lag period before the sanctions “actually have a practical bite on their revenues.” “I think perhaps the more important element to that is just the message that this sends to North Korea about the unacceptability the entire international community finds what they’re doing to be,” he said.
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Johnson back from another Achilles injury By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press
Kansas City Chiefs inside linebacker Derrick Johnson (56) is helped off the field after being injured in the second quarter against the Oakland Raiders at Arrowhead Stadium on Dec. 8, 2016. David Eulitt/Kansas City Star/TNS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Derrick Johnson has hardly followed the typical path for an NFL linebacker. He was a first-round draft pick out of Texas, then got benched when he fell out of favor with the Kansas City Chiefs’ coaching staff. A new regime and renewed motivation got him back on the field. Rock steady, he has become the franchise’s career tackles leader. All of that while enduring two season-ending injuries to his Achilles tendons. The first occurred one game into the 2014 season, sidelining the four-time Pro Bowler for the rest of the year. The second happened last December against Oakland, so late in the year that some questioned whether Johnson would be back this season. That was never a question in his mind,
though. “I don’t want to think about it too much,” said Johnson, who was on the field during part of the offseason program and going full speed at the start of training camp. Johnson did miss a couple of days this week, but it had nothing to do with his knee. Turned out it was a tooth abscess. “I’ve had some good luck and I want to keep it going,” Johnson said. “It’s a little different process from my Achilles’ recovery now than a couple of years ago because it was almost a year removed (back then), so physically I was all the way well. Mentally, I wasn’t there because I didn’t play the whole season. This year I played most of the season, 75 percent or so, but it’s 7 ½ months removed from surgery, so it’s a little bit different.” Mentally, Johnson said, he’s ready to go. The physical part should be there by the season
opener. That’s good news for the Chiefs, who struggled to stop the run last season. Johnson’s role is to make tackles while the big boys up front occupy the offensive line. His uncanny ability to dart through and make stops was sorely missing in a playoff loss to Pittsburgh. Steelers star LeVeon Bell ran 30 times for 170 yards in the season-ending defeat. “It feels good to see him out there,” said fellow linebacker Justin Houston, who is coming off a knee injury of his own. “I can’t tell a difference. He looks great. He looks fast.” Johnson surpassed 1,000 career tackles while becoming the Chiefs’ career leader early last season, but his consistency is what’s most remarkable. He’s easily topped 100 tackles the past five years in which he’s played at least 15 games, and he had his fourth career touchdown last season. See CHIEFS | Page B4
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Major League Baseball: Mariners 7, Royals 8; Royals 9 , Mariners 1
Truex takes the Glen By JOHN KEKIS The Associated Press
Kansas City Royals’ Melky Cabrera follows through on an RBI double to score Eric Hosmer in the seventh inning against the Seattle Mariners during the second baseball game of a double header on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On his first day in the major leagues, Cam Gallagher stood by his locker at just past 10:30 Sunday morning. A pack of reporters surrounded him, asking the usual questions about his journey. A few feet
away, Drew Butera milled about the center of the room, fiddling with some equipment and peering back toward the scene. On the Royals’ first day without catcher Salvador Perez — who officially landed on the 10-day disabled list because of an intercostal strain in his right side — the
two men most affected by his absence began the morning separated by a line of empty locker stalls. By the end of a doubleheader against the Seattle Mariners, both Gallagher and Butera had played crucial roles in a split Sunday at Kauffman Stadium. In a 9-1 victory in the second game, Gallagher collect-
Major League Soccer: Sporting KC 1, Atlanta United 1
Peterson, Atlanta United rally for 1-1 tie with Sporting KC KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Jacob Peterson scored in stoppage time to lift Atlanta United to a 1-1 draw with Sporting Kansas City on Sunday night. Peterson, who came on for Julian Gressel in the 67th minute, ran onto loose ball — after an attempted clearance by Matt Besler was de-
flected into the center of the box — and blasted a left-footer past a sliding Tim Melia into the net in the first minute of injury time. Atlanta United (10-75) is 4-0-2 in its last six games. Benny Feilhaber came on at halftime and, after Latif Blessing drew a penalty against Leandro
Pirez, converted from the spot to give Sporting Kansas City (9-4-10) a 1-0 lead in the 59th minute. Atlanta had just seven shots and didn’t have a shot on goal in the first half. Kansas City is unbeaten in its last nine MLS matches (2-0-7), dating to a 1-0 loss at Colorado on May 27.
ed his first major league hit and caught a gem from fellow rookie Jakob Junis, who yielded just one run and four hits in eight innings while making a spot start. In an 8-7 loss in game one, Butera was among a cast of characters responsible for a disastrous second inning that ultimately See SPLIT | Page B4
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. won a fuel-mileage gamble, holding off Matt Kenseth on the final lap to capture the NASCAR Cup race at Watkins Glen International on Sunday. Brad Keselowski had a big lead but was forced to pit with three laps to go. That gave the lead to Ryan Blaney, who began to run dry and had to pit before taking the white flag. Trailing by 3 seconds after saving fuel for several laps, Truex assumed the lead in his No. 78 Toyota and, despite a bobble and locking the brakes as Kenseth challenged on the last lap, won for the fourth time this season. Rookie Daniel Suarez was third, followed by Denny Hamlin and Clint Bowyer. Pole-sitter Kyle Busch was seventh. Four races — Michigan, Bristol, Darlington and Richmond — remain before the playoffs start. Busch, who dominated qualifying earlier in the day, was the class of the field early and gained a big lead in the esses after the green flag dropped and dominated the first stage, leading all 20 laps. By the eighth time around the 2.45-mile circuit, Busch held a 3.4-second lead over Truex, while Keselowski in sixth was 10 seconds behind. It was Busch’s ninth stage win of the season. Busch, who overcame a pit road penalty early in Saturday’s Xfinity race at The Glen and rallied to win, had to return to the pits after his first stop to check for a loose wheel and restarted 34th. Chase Elliott assumed the top spot until he pitted nine laps later, giving the lead to Suarez, who barely held off Truex to win the second stage, the first of his rookie season. “Hopefully, we can keep See NASCAR | Page B4
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Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health when any part of the sun’s bright disk is visible. The only time it is safe to look at the sun during a total eclipse is when the sun is totally obscured by the moon. However, the sun is no more dangerous during an eclipse than it is when there is no eclipse, and we all catch a glimpse of it from time to time. The concern is that, during the rare event that is a solar eclipse, we will be so interested that we will forget all the warnings and stare at the unprotected sun for a prolonged time, which
can cause damage, sometimes permanent, to the retina. Fortunately, there are several ways to safely look at an eclipse. One that anyone can do is to make a pinhole camera, which keeps you from looking directly at the sun. Or, for a few dollars, you can get a pair of ISO-certified eclipseviewing glasses. These can be ordered from https://tinyurl.com/eyeeclipse and many other places, but the site above has lots of good information about eye safety. Dear Dr. Roach: My son is 51 years of age, and apparently in good health. He had chickenpox as a young child. My concern is whether he should get the shingles vaccination now, or wait until he is older. I have heard that the vac-
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cine wears off as you get older, and I wonder if he should wait until he is older and hope he does not get the shingles earlier. — L.C. Answer: I recommend waiting until 60. The shingles vaccine becomes more important as people get older, partially because the vaccine wears off, but mostly because shingles is worse in older people. In particular, the likelihood of getting severe post-herpetic neuralgia, the pain syndrome that can follow shingles, is higher, and when it does, it lasts longer in older people. That’s why expert groups recommend getting the vaccine at age 60. A new vaccine in development hopefully will be longer-lasting and more effective.
Hard to move on after friend’s remarks
Dear Carolyn, A year ago I met a girl in college, we bonded and quickly became very good friends. In fact, I think of her as one of my best friends. The thing is, a few days ago she said something horrible behind my back and the only reason I know is because she was recorded saying it and this recording was sent to me. She was quick to apologize for the way it sounded, insisting it was only meant to be a joke. The person she was with when it happened does joke around with us a lot, so I kind of want to believe her, but she hurt me really badly and the few people I have consulted about this have told me a friend wouldn’t say that. After we talked it out openly and honestly, I decided to forgive her for what she said, but I don’t know if I should listen to others and stay away from her or just move on with our friendship as if she had done nothing. What should I do? — A Concerned Friend Answer:
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to know what you “should” do in a tough emotional situation, especially when trust is involved. Counting on a panel of friends to be your tiebreaker, when they haven’t lived this friendship themselves and when their feelings aren’t the ones on the line, can complicate as much or more than it illuminates. That someone (a) recorded and (b) reported this is a nasty wrinkle of its own. (That’s the friend to dump, no?) When understandably stuck on what you “should” do, I suggest just doing what you “can” — as in, can you “just move on with our friendship as if she had done nothing”? Or, if not: Can you see this friend in a different light and be her friend on different terms? Can you be open to seeing this as
an improvement, given that you’re now better informed — and maybe a little wiser about the sharp edges to the way you and these friends “joke around”? Or, if not: Can you simultaneously keep your guard up and trust her with a second chance? Or, if not: Can you stay in your same general group and demote this friend to acquaintance until you figure out what to believe about her? If not: Then you have your answer — no agonizing required.
of them to assume, and chastising you publicly is an excellent way for these women to make asses of themselves. It hurts to be their target, no doubt, but technically you’re not obligated — neither to indulge them, nor feel bad for denying them, nor apologize, nor keep them on the guest list. So don’t. “This is a shower for adults only. Thank you for respecting my and the guest of honor’s wishes.” Period. Enjoy!
Dear Carolyn: I am throwing a baby shower for a dear friend. She opted for the traditional, ladies-only shower. Many guests assume they can bring their children. I am at a loss how to handle the few rotten apples making me feel bad because I won’t cater to their kids. To chastise me publicly for doing so is ludicrous. Is it not rude to assume kids are allowed? How do I handle this rudeness? — Seething Hostess Answer: Yes, it’s rude
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Salvador Perez put on DL; Gallagher called up from Omaha KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals put AllStar catcher Salvador Perez on the 10-day disabled list Sunday with a strain on the right side of his chest. Perez was injured on a swing in the sixth inning Friday. The fivetime All-Star is hitting .278 with 21 home runs and 65 RBIs. Royals manager Ned Yost said the “worstcase scenario was four weeks� for Perez being out with the right intercostal strain, but he was hopeful it would be in the 10-to-14 days range. Yost said the club is expected to know more today about the extent of Perez’s in-
jury when the swelling diminishes. The move was made retroactive to Saturday, when the Royals’ game against the Mariners was rained out. Drew Butera, who entered Sunday hitting .250 with two home runs and nine RBIs in 92 at-bats, will do the majority of the catching in Perez’s absence. The Royals recalled catcher Cameron Gallagher from Triple-A Omaha, where he was hitting .294 with five home runs. Gallagher, 24, was a 2011 secondround pick and will be making his major league debut. With Perez and Butera in the World
Baseball Classic, Gallagher received more playing time in spring training. “He’s very solid defensively,� Yost said. “He’s hitting .290 at Triple-A. He’s was very impressive this spring.� This is Perez’s third trip to the disabled list but first since 2013. He missed six games last season with a quad contusion. “We’ve been through this before,� Yost said. “This is nothing new to us. You just deal with it and move on. Guys understand. We’ll have Drew and Cam here to pick up the slack behind the plate. We feel like we can cover it.�
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prevented a sweep. The Royals (57-53) settled for series split after four games with Seattle after heavy rains washed out a game on Saturday. The victory in the nightcap pulled them within 2{ games of first-place Cleveland, which lost a series finale in New York, and kept them in line for the second wild-card spot in the American League. Melky Cabrera finished 3 for 4 with a homer and four RBIs, igniting the Royals offense in the second game. Lorenzo Cain finished 6 for 10 after two three-hit games, raising his batting average
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it up,� Suarez said over his radio. Busch, meanwhile, worked his way through the field and was ninth at the end of the stage, in contention again. On a restart halfway through the 90-lap race around the 2.45-mile layout, Truex took the lead from Suarez with a powerful move on the outside and pulled away to a lead of more than 4 seconds as Busch encountered more trouble. His No. 18 Toyota suffered damage after the restart when he made
contact with Keselowski’s No. 2 Ford in the Inner Loop while racing for seventh. Keselowski bounced into Busch and both slid off course. Keselowski stayed out, but an irate Busch pitted for four tires and voiced his displeasure over his radio. Keselowski pitted a couple of laps later for tires, and when a caution flew he gained the top spot for the restart when much of the field pitted. Truex, who ran up front most of the race, passed Bowyer for second on lap 61 and began
to chase down the leader. He caught Keselowski three laps later, passing him on the final turn of lap 64, a sweeping righthander leading onto the front straightaway. But with fuel mileage coming into play, Truex started to slow his pace to save fuel, dropping back as Keselowski and Blaney drove past. Undaunted by his bad luck, Busch rallied back again. He was up to eighth on lap 68 and was clocking some of the fastest times on the track despite a damaged front fender.
Chiefs: Johnson’s value still high Continued from B1
That’s why the Chiefs didn’t balk at giving the 34-year-old Johnson a $21 million, three-year contract before last season. They don’t believe age will catch up to him anytime soon — even with multiple injuries to his Achilles’ tendons. “I think when guys go through an injury twice, they kind of know how to handle it better the second time. They’re not afraid to push themselves a little bit further,� Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “You kind of know that you’re not going to break it. You push it to the limit. That’s where he’s at.� Johnson’s value extends far beyond the field, too. He is tied with punter Dustin Colquitt as the longest-tenured member of the Chiefs, and that gives him a certain amount of respect. Young linebackers such as second-year pro Dadi
Nicolas and rookie Ukeme Eligwe are able to bounce ideas off him, making Johnson tantamount to an assistant to longtime linebackers coach Gary Gibbs. “Young guys will ask me questions. They’re picking my brain, seeing if I know my stuff, so I’m always on point with that,� he said with a smile. “Later in life I’d like to become some kind of a coach and this is a perfect opportunity out here with the young guys asking me all kinds of questions.� Right now, however, Johnson is happy to be back on the field. NOTES: TE Travis Kelce missed practice Friday with swelling his knee. “He’ll be fine,� Reid said. ... CB Terrance Mitchell (hamstring), CB Steven Nelson (groin strain), LB Josh Mauga (hip flexor) and CB Keith Baxter (wrist surgery) also missed practice Friday.
... The Chiefs released DT Montori Hughes, two days after signing DT Roy Miller to a $1.4 million, one-year contract.
eight points to .283. The Kansas City attack finished the day with five home runs, battering Seattle starter Erasmo Ramirez for five runs in five innings to salvage a win after a missed opportunity in the early afternoon. So let’s start with the good: Second baseman Whit Merrifield collected a game-tying solo homer in the second game and a tworun shot in the first. Eric Hosmer clubbed a solo blast to deep leftcenter in the sixth inning of game two. Mike Moustakas finished the day just five homers shy of Steve Balboni’s club record after cranking his 31st homer in the
eighth inning of game one. And Junis retired the last 19 hitters he faced while serving as the Royals’ 26th man during the traditional doubleheader. For one day, the Royals were without Perez. There will be more, too. After sustaining an intercostal strain in a loss on Friday night, Perez could be out as long as four weeks. Club officials are hopeful that the recovery process will be closer to two. Yet for now, the club will move forward with Butera and Gallagher, a former second-round pick, behind the plate. The first day without Perez ended with one victory and one loss.
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