The Iola Register, Sept. 15, 2023

NASA: Science, not stigma needed for UFO research

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(AP) — NASA said Thursday that the study of UFOs will require new scientific techniques, including advanced satellites as well as a shift in how unidentified flying objects are perceived.

The space agency released the findings after a yearlong study into UFOs.

In its 33-page report, an independent team commissioned by NASA cautioned that the negative perception surrounding UFOs poses an obstacle to collecting data. But officials said NASA’s involvement should help reduce the stigma around what it calls UAPs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena.

“We want to shift the conversation about UAPs from sensationalism to science,”

NASA Administrator Bill Nel-

Court appeals in spotlight

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

The public will get a first-hand look at how court rulings are appealed to a higher court Tuesday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

A three-judge panel of the Kansas Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on three such cases, starting at 9 a.m.

The session is open to the public. Roughly 500 students from area high schools will also be in the audience.

After the arguments conclude, judges Angela Cole, Thomas Malone and Sarah Warner will discuss the court system and explain how cases progress from filing to trial to appeal. A question-and-answer session will follow.

“The Court of Appeals is a traveling court, and we welcome any chance to hear cases around our state and talk to the public about our court system,” Coble said in a news release. “We are excited to be in Allen County and look forward to meeting members of the community in Iola and the surrounding county.”

THE THREE cases — two criminal and one civil — originate from Cherokee, Crawford and Neosho counties.

Brian Michael Waterman, 40, was convicted of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated burglary, stemming from

a January 2016 incident in Cherokee County. In a synopsis provided by the Court, Waterman stormed into the Baxter Springs home of Bob Hop-

Buckets N Boards at the Bowlus

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

The Bowlus Fine Arts Center kicks off its new season with a boisterous display of percussion, music, dancing and comedy.

Buckets N Boards, a comedy percussion show that promises fresh and clean fun for the whole family, is coming to the Bowlus at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

“When you talk about family friendly, these two guys are absolutely hilarious,” Dan Kays, executive director for the Bowlus, said.

The duo of Matthew Levingston and Gareth Sever created Buckets N Boards out of their shared passion for music, comedy and rhythm. Their high-energy act uses a variety of instruments — including buckets as makeshift drums — for an entertaining array of ridiculous songs, dancing and musical talents.

“There’s so much going

kins and repeatedly stabbed him.

Waterman went to confront Hopkins’ house because he had believed the

By VICKIE MOSS The

The newest COVID-19 vaccine doses are expected to arrive at the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department and other clinics in the next few weeks.

The FDA approved an updated mRNA vaccine to better protect against currently circulating COVID variants.

The new vaccine is a single dose that targets the dominant Covid virus variant Omicron XBB.1.5.

The SEKMCHD will not have COVID vaccine available until the new shipment arrives. The current bivalent vaccines are no longer authorized for use in the U.S. Shipments to the local

Could open primaries douse extremism?

By RYAN SUPPE Idaho Statesman (TNS)

BOISE, Idaho — High-profile Idaho Republicans, including a former governor and lieutenant governor, have endorsed a proposed ballot initiative that would overhaul primary elections and install ranked-choice voting in the state.

A coalition of advocacy groups are collecting signatures to place a question on next year’s ballot. It would ask voters whether Idaho

should eliminate partisan primaries and use rankedchoice voting in general elections.

While the Idaho Republican Party has condemned the measure, a new group, Republicans for Open Primaries, has formed to support it. Among the 116 members are former Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and First Lady Lori Otter.

“It’s time to bring some civility back into the political

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on Jan. 18, 1928, in Bazine. He was the oldest of four children born to Roland Vernon Rowe and Millie (Mounce) Rowe.

Rowe

Jerry attended school in Bazine and Garnett. He graduated in 1946 from Blue Mound High School. Jerry was on the football team when they went undefeated. After high school he joined the United States Air Force and spent two years in the military.

Jerry and Rosalie Rebecca Priest were married on Jan. 27, 1952, in Ozark, Ark.

Jerry and Rosalie moved to Ruskin Heights, Mo., where he worked at the Leeds GM Plant in Kansas City. Jerry and Rosalie moved to a farm between Blue Mound and Mound City in 1962, where he farmed and did construction.

Jerry lived through a lot of things, including the 1930’s Dust Bowl in western Kansas and a tornado that destroyed the family home in Ruskin Heights in 1957. Jerry enjoyed playing his guitar, banjo, harmonica and mandolin. He was a 50-year member of the Kansas Old Time Fiddlers, Pickers, and Singers, Inc.

Jerry was preceded in death by his wife, Rosalie; his parents; sister, Bonnie Roper; and brother, Don Rowe.

Jerry is survived by sons, Ricky (Lori) Rowe, Ken Rowe, Pat (Rhodenia) Rowe, John (Anita) Rowe; eight grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; brother, Charles Vernon Rowe; and numerous other relatives and friends.

A visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, in the chapel at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola, followed by a funeral service at 2. Interment will be in Sunny Slope Cemetery, Blue Mound.

Memorials are suggested to Blue Mound High School Alumni Association, and be left with the funeral home.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Pig kidney works a record 2 months in donated body

NEW YORK (AP) —

Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

The dramatic experiment came to an end Wednesday as surgeons at NYU Langone Health removed the pig kidney and returned the donated body of Maurice “Mo” Miller to his family for cremation.

It marked the longest a genetically modified pig kidney has ever functioned inside a human, albeit a deceased one. And by pushing the boundaries of research with the dead, the scientists learned critical lessons they’re preparing to share with the Food and Drug Administration — in hopes of eventually testing pig kidneys in the living.

“It’s a combination of excitement and relief,” Dr. Robert Montgomery, the transplant

News briefs

Pittsburg housing projects get boost PITTSBURG — Two housing projects in Pittsburg will benefit from a federal grant and state tax credits, according to The Morning Sun. The Smithsonian Apartments project at 9th and Broadway will get $840,000 in grant funds and $420,000 in tax credits. The project will add 14 new rental units. Another project, Sunflower Estates, will get $360,000 in tax credits to build 12 new single-family homes.

Train cars derail near U.S. 169 GREELEY — Of the 27 Union Pacific train cars that derailed Friday evening near U.S. 169 south of Greeley, only two flipped over the rail bed, according to The Anderson County Review. UPAC crews cleaned the area and rail service reopened about 4 a.m. Sunday. No injuries were reported and no oil was spilled. The cause is under investigation.

Burlington raises water rates

BURLINGTON —

unveiled a new agriculture classroom, as reported by The Chanute Tribune.

The classroom is a 40-foot shipping container designed to grow vegetables and leafy greens with room for 356 vertical, hydroponic grow towers and a space for seeding those towers. It can grow up to 500 heads of lettuce per week every week of the year.

Illegal animal rescue shuttered

PARSONS — An illegal animal rescue was shut down in Parsons, according to The Parsons Sun. The police department and the city’s code enforcement officer were investigating the wellbeing and treatment of dogs in the area and contacted a Parsons homeowner who claimed to be running a nonprofit animal rescue.

Representative’s husband dies in plane crash

WASHINGTON — Eugene Peltola Jr., the husband of Rep. Mary Peltola, died following a plane crash, the Alaska Democrat’s office announced Wednesday.

Peltola is returning to Alaska to be with family, according to a statement from her chief of staff, Anton McParland.

“He was one of those people that was obnoxiously good at everything. He had a delightful sense of humor that lightened the darkest moments. He was definitely the cook in the family. And family was most important to him,” McParland wrote.

“He was completely devoted to his parents, kids, siblings, extended family, and friends — and he simply adored Mary. We are heartbroken for the family’s loss.”

Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the 11,780 votes he needed to defeat Biden. Meadows also arranged Trump’s call to a state investigator conducting an audit of absentee ballot signatures in Cobb County and showed up unannounced during the audit.

—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Romania finds Russian-style drone fragments

BERLIN — The Romanian defense ministry said Wednesday the air force found new fragments on Romanian territory near the Ukrainian border that are believed to be from a downed Russian drone.

surgeon who led the experiment, told The Associated Press. “Two months is a lot to have a pig kidney in this good a condition. That gives you a lot of confidence” for next attempts.

Montgomery, himself a recipient of a heart transplant, sees animal-to-human transplants as crucial to ease the nation’s organ shortage. More than 100,000 people are on the national waiting list, most who need a kidney, and thousands will die waiting.

So-called xenotransplantation attempts have failed for decades — the human immune system immediately destroyed foreign animal tissue. What’s new: Trying pigs genetically modified so their organs are more humanlike.

Some short experiments in deceased bodies avoided an immediate immune attack but shed no light on a more common form of rejection that can take a month to form.

Water customers will see a significant rate increase after the Burlington City Council agreed with a recommendation to cover increasing costs for chemicals, equipment, manpower and related water expenses, The Coffey County Republican reported.

Wholesale water rates will rise by $1.85 per 1,000 gallons, up to $6.54 from $4.69.

Residential customers will see an increase of $1.91 per 1,000 gallons, up to $6.75 from $4.84. It affects Burlington city customers as well as rural water districts and the cities of Gridley, New Strawn and Le Roy.

Chanute students grow hydroponics

CHANUTE — Chanute High School

Officials determined the operation was illegal because it did not follow zoning issues and had not been filed with the city. No paperwork could be found to show it was registered as a nonprofit. Also, the facility had no running water or a working sewer system. The owners moved the animals outside of the city limits.

Microchip facility breaks ground

NEW STRAWN — A new microchip manufacturing facility broke ground Sept. 8 near the Coffey County Airport, as reported by The Anderson County Review. The company, Secure Semiconductor Manufacturing (SSM) plans to build a 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility that will primarily supply semiconductor components for EMP Shield.

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran joined state and local officials as well as area businesses and citizens to celebrate the event.

Elks plan Fun Fest

The Iola Elks Lodge No. 569 is hosting a Junior Elks Fun Fest from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Recreation Community Building at Riverside Park.

A $5 admission fee

grants open access to an assortment of carnival games, inflatables, prizes and a hot dog dinner.

Children of Elks members will get a special gift as well.

Peltola was piloting a single-engine Piper PA-18 when it crashed shortly after takeoff near St. Mary’s, Alaska.

Mary Peltola became the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first woman to represent her state in the House when she won an August 2022 special election.

—CQ-Roll Call

Judge rejects Mark Meadows’ request

ATLANTA – A federal judge has rejected a request by Donald Trump’s former chief of staff to stay court proceedings against him in Fulton County.

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones last week rejected Mark Meadows’ request to move his case to federal court. Meadows sought a stay in the proceedings while he appealed Jones’ ruling.

On Tuesday, Jones rejected that request. Among other things, Jones found that Meadows’ appeal is not likely to be successful and had not shown he would be irreparably harmed unless a stay was granted.

Meadows is one of 19 defendants — including Trump — named in a 41-count indictment issued by a Fulton County grand jury last month. The indictment accuses the former White House chief of staff and others of illegally conspiring to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Georgia.

Meadows participated in the January 2021 phone call in which

The defense ministry said the fragments were spotted by military helicopters some 14 miles inland near the towns of Nufăru and Victoria in the Danube Delta.

The debris belonged to a “drone similar to those used by the Russian army,” the Romanian foreign and defense ministries said.

Romania is a member of the NATO defense alliance.

—dpa

Neo-Nazi held for role in antisemitic banners hung over Fla. highway

A man was arrested Tuesday for his role in a neo-Nazi banner drop on Interstate 4 earlier this year, while three others are also facing arrest, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Jason Brown, 48, was booked in the Brevard County Jail on a warrant accusing him of criminal mischief for his role in hanging swastikas and antisemitic messages on an overpass on June 10, the same day other neo-Nazis were rallying in front of the entrance of Walt Disney World.

An FDLE spokesperson said Brown is part of the Order Of The Black Sun, a Florida-based neo-Nazi network the Anti-Defamation League said was formed in 2023 “by long time affiliates of Florida’s overlapping white supremacist network.”

Three others living out of state are facing arrest along with Brown, who officials said was charged under the recently signed House Bill 269, a law that forbids intimidating and bigoted language.

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man had sexually abused his daughter. Once inside the home, Waterman locked the door, stabbed Hopkins 17 times with a pocket knife, dumped bleach on his head and fled to Oklahoma.

Hopkins survived the attack, but later died before trial.

In January 2022, Waterman was sentenced to 36 years in prison. His earliest possible release date is in 2047.

Waterman is appealing his jury conviction, alleging the state provided insufficient evidence to support an aggravated kidnapping conviction; the district court violated his right to present a defense by excluding certain witnesses; the district court failed to instruct the jury on criminal restraint as a lesser-included offense of aggravated kidnapping; the state intentionally misappropriated his confidential attorney-client communications; the district court abused its discretion by failing to grant Waterman’s pretrial motion for substitute counsel; and the state

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health department will be limited, with more coming as it becomes available.

Anyone, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status, may receive the updated monovalent vaccine as long as it has been at least 2 months since the last dose of any COVID-19 vaccine. There are a few exceptions, so call the health department at 620-365-2191 for more information.

This action only affects bivalent mRNA vaccine manufactured by Pfizer, Inc and ModernaTX, Inc. This does not affect Novavax at this time.

The health department will announce when the new vaccine is available. Only the Pfizer (COMIRNATY) has been ordered.

More information can be found at cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index. html

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on in terms of comedy and physicality. They’re literally drumming on buckets, propane tanks and squeaky toys. They bring kids on stage and there’s a lot of audience participation,” Kays said.

The act recently wrapped up their 14th season headlining in Branson, Mo., at Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Theater. They’re also one of the top requested headlining acts for Disney Cruise Lines and will return to the sea aboard the Disney Dream in October.

Tickets are $19 for adults and $16 for students, and are available bowluscenter.org

miscalculated his criminal history, making his prison sentence illegal.

COBY CUPP is appealing his jury trial conviction of driving while under the influence, which stemmed from a traffic accident in September 2019.

According to court records, a Crawford County Sheriff’s deputy was called to an accident scene and found a truck smashed into trees off of the roadway. Cupp was found unconscious inside the vehicle, lying on the bench seat, with apparent facial injuries.

Deputies said he was incoherent and smelled of alcohol.

Believing paramedics would transport Cupp via helicopter to the hospital, the deputies at the scene asked paramedics to perform a blood draw on Cupp without first seeking a warrant.

The blood test showed a blood alcohol concentration of .29, more than three times the legal limit in Kansas.

At trial, Cupp testified that he was not driving his truck, but rather it was an acquaintance who left the scene of the accident.

That acquaintance was not located, nor did he testify at trial.

Cupp also testified that while the deputies were at the acci-

dent scene, he was coherent and conscious, he got in and out of the vehicle, and he spoke with the deputies.

The jury subsequently found Cupp guilty of one count of driving under the influence (second offense), with a blood alcohol content of 0.08 or higher. Additionally, the jury found him guilty of the alternative count of DUI, incapable of safely operating a vehicle.

On appeal, Cupp argued the district court erred in four ways: denying his motion to suppress the evidence derived from his blood draw, which was taken without a search warrant; permitting one responding deputy to testify in an expert capacity when the deputy testified the engine block’s temperature indicated the truck had likely been driven within a few hours; accepting the jury verdict form with both the original and alternative charges marked as guilty; and denying his motion for judgment of acquittal or, in the alternative, a new trial.

SCOTT COATES is a surgeon who formerly worked for Ashley Clinic in Neosho County.

A jury in 2021 ruled Coates breached a non-compete provision in his employment contract when he left Ashley Clinic to work at Labette County Medical Center.

The jury voted in favor of Ashley Clinic on

Coates breached a 2003 confidentiality agreement and a non-compete provision in his contract, with Labette wrongfully interfering with Coates’s contract with Ashley Clinic. The monetary damages for the three claims totaled more than $1.2 million.

Labette and Dr. Coates appeal six aspects of this jury trial, concerning application of the Kansas Tort Claims Act (KTCA) and whether evidence introduced in the trial warranted such a verdict.

Ashley Clinic subsequently raised three more issues in a cross-appeal, dealing with the Tort Claims act and what it described as an “unjust” enrichment claim against Labette which the district court denied.

DAN CREITZ, chief judge for Kansas’s 31st Judicial District, said regional cases are preferred for such hearings to accommodate attorneys who otherwise would have to travel across the state to be heard.

Creitz estimated he worked for more than a year as part of his application process to get the appeals cases debated in Allen County.

In addition to the high-schoolers, the public is invited to sit in on the arguments. The session is expected to wrap up by 11 o’clock, Creitz said.

Time for a Crash Course for Canines and Parvovirus

By Darrell R. Monfort D.V.M.

It's that time of year again - not Fall or football season, but what veterinarians call “Parvo Time”. I have practiced for 45 years, and parvovirus was just on the horizon when I graduated from vet school, in 1976. Canine parvovirus (CPV) really arrived over the next 2 or 3 years, and spread worldwide, killing thousands of puppies while millions of dogs became ill. Vaccines used to prevent parvovirus were developed in response to the rapid spread of the disease and the futility of treatment, to prevent the disease. They have been amazingly effective when used correctly.

A short course in immunology relating to CPV. When a mammal, in this case a puppy, is born and receives the first milk his mother produces, that puppy develops what is termed passive immunity. The first milk, colostrum, contains concentrated antibodies that will protect against bacteria and viruses that the mom dog has been exposed to naturally or through vaccination. The antibodies provide protection for the first 3 to 10 weeks, depending on how much was ingested during the first few feedings. However, individual mammal’s immune systems develop at their own pace, in dogs and people, meaning that a few pups will build their own immunity in response to exposure to a virus or bacteria in the form of antibodies at 6 weeks, more puppies at 8 to 10 weeks, and the majority will be able to respond by 16 weeks.

Veterinarians cannot predict when a juvenile’s immune system will become active and, to both stimulate it into response and to provide the earliest individual protection from common canine diseases, vaccinations are given in a series at intervals. Once the passive immunity from the mother’s colostrum has been used up, without vaccinations using safe vaccines, properly stored and administered, the puppy is now unprotected. A more mature immune system will jump into action creating antibodies to fight the disease, an immature or unexposed unvaccinated immune system may or may not try to respond, but often there just isn’t time before the disease, in this case, parvovirus, replicates within the puppy’s body and overwhelms them. Untreated, unvaccinated, and active parvovirus in puppies have as high as 91% fatality rates.

How can you, as an owner, keep your pup and dogs, as well as others, safe? Vaccinate puppies on the recommended schedule, and annually after that (adults may be ill without visible signs and still be shedding virus in their bowel movements). Keep your pup home in your yard where other dogs do not wander, feed quality food and deworm as your vet advises. If you are the owner of a dog and walk them in public areas, bag your animal’s feces and dispose of them safely. This will physically cut down on some levels of intestinal parasites and virus exposure in public where children and other animals also walk.

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4-H’ers compete at State Fair contest

Southwind Extension District 4-H members from Bourbon and Neosho counties competed Sunday at the Kansas State Fair Photography Judging Contest in Hutchinson.

Jackson Han, Neosho County, placed 33rd and Austin Maycumber, Bourbon County, placed 32nd in the state. They were accompanied by their coach Terri Kretzmeier.

Drenched Northeast braces for Lee

PORTLAND, Maine

(AP) — Days of wild weather that produced torrential rain, flooding, sinkholes and a likely tornado in New England could be a prelude to something more dangerous lurking offshore — Hurricane Lee.

Maine was under its first hurricane watch in 15 years as the region prepared for 20foot waves and winds gusting to 70 mph along with more rain, officials said. A dangerous storm surge was projected for Friday evening for Massachusetts’ Cape Cod Bay and Nantucket Island, while the brunt of the storm was to arrive early Saturday. Although the Category 1 system did not contribute to the recent flooding, it threatened to exacerbate conditions in a region that is already much too wet.

The Coast Guard and emergency manage-

ment agencies warned New England residents to be prepared, and utility companies brought in reinforcements to deal with possible power outages. At Boothbay Harbor Marina in Maine, the community came together to remove boats from the water to keep them out of harm’s way.

“It’s a batten-downthe-hatches kind of day,” owner Kim Gillies said Thursday.

Earlier in the week, the region saw 10 inches of rain over six hours. Tornado warnings were posted Wednesday for communities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and more heavy rain opened up sinkholes and brought devastating flooding to several areas.

The National Weather Service in Boston said radar data and videos indicated that a likely tornado damaged

trees and power lines in Rhode Island and Connecticut on Wednesday. In Lincoln, Rhode Island, photos taken after the storm showed that at least one roof damaged and the press box at the high school stadium tipped into the bleachers.

AT MIDDAY Thursday, Lee was spinning 245 miles southwest of Bermuda, with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was traveling north on a path that could lead to landfall in Nova Scotia, Canada, possibly as a tropical storm, forecasters said. The storm threatened to bring a mixed bag of threats. Ocean waves as tall as 20 feet could lash the coast, damaging structures and causing erosion; powerful wind gusts could knock down trees weakened by a wet summer.

Wanted: Journalists to cover Taylor Swift, Beyonce phenomena

LOS ANGELES (AP) —

This week the United States’ biggest newspaper chain posted to its site two unusual job listings: a Taylor Swift reporter and a Beyoncé reporter.

Gannett, which owns more than 200 daily papers, will employ these new hires through USA Today and The Tennessean, the company’s Nashville-based newspaper. The chain is looking for “mod-

ern storytellers” adept in print, audio and visual journalism, said Michael Anastasi, The Tennessean’s editor and Gannett’s vice president for local news.

“Seeing both the facts and the fury, the Taylor Swift reporter will identify why the pop star’s influence only expands, what her fanbase stands for in pop culture, and the effect she has across the music and business worlds,” the company

said in its job description.

Similarly, the company wants a journalist who can capture Beyoncé’s effect on society and the industries in which she operates.

Anastasi said the Tennessean already has a three-person music team and “I put our sophisticated coverage up against anybody.” Gannett is always looking for opportunities to make itself essential for

paying customers, he said.

Critics of the new roles cited layoffs at Gannett, where the workforce has shrunk 47% in the last three years because of layoffs and attrition, according to the NewsGuild. At some newspapers, the union said the headcount has fallen by as much as 90%. Last year alone, Gannett cut about 6% of its roughly 3,440-person U.S. me-

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son said. He promised an open and transparent approach.

Officials stressed the panel found no evidence that UAPs had extraterrestrial origin. But Nelson acknowledged with billions of stars in billions of galaxies out there, another Earth could exist.

“If you ask me, do I believe there’s life in a universe that is so vast that it’s hard for me to comprehend how big it is, my personal answer is yes,” Nelson said at a news conference. His own scientists put the likelihood of life on another Earth-like planet at “at least a trillion.”

When pressed by reporters on whether the U.S. or other governments are hiding aliens or otherworldly spaceships, Nelson said: “Show me the evidence.”

NASA has said it doesn’t actively search for unexplained sightings. But it operates a

fleet of Earth-circling spacecraft that can help determine, for example, whether weather is behind a strange event.

The 16-member panel noted that artificial intelligence and machine learning are essential for identifying rare occurrences, including UFOs.

NASA recently appointed a director for UFO research, but is not divulging the identity to protect them from the kind of threats and harassment faced by the panel members during the study.

“That’s in part why we are not splashing the name of our new director out there because science needs to be free. Science needs to undergo a real and rigorous and rational process, and you need the freedom of thought to be able to do that,” said Dan Evans, NASA’s liaison with the panel.

No top-secret files were accessed by the scientists, aviation and

artificial intelligence experts, and retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, the first American to spend nearly a year in space. Instead, the group relied on unclassified data in an attempt to better understand unexplained sightings in the sky.

Officials said there are so few high-quality observations that no scientific conclusions can be drawn. Most events can be attributed to planes, drones, balloons or weather conditions, said panel chairman David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation, a scientific research group.

The government refers to unexplained sightings as UAPs versus UFOs. NASA defines them as observations

in the sky or elsewhere that cannot be readily identified or scientifically explained.

The study was launched a year ago and cost under $100,000.

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Some journalists said that while hiring these massively popular artist-specific roles reflect their influence in pop culture, they do fail to invest in local journalism at a company known for its local dailies.

“At a time when so much serious news and local reporting is being cut, it’s a decision to raise some questions about,” Rick Edmonds, an expert at the journalism think tank Poynter Institute, said of the new positions. Said Anastasi:

“We’re not hiring a Taylor Swift reporter at the expense of other reporters.”

Some journalists criticized the job listings for present-

ing superfan behavior as a full-time journalism job. Music writer Jeremy Gordon said on social media that it “doesn’t feel great to see ‘full-time stan’ go out as an actual journalism job.” (“Stan” is slang for superfan. ) If the hire acts more like a fan than a journalist, the decision could backfire on Gannett. But if the job is done well, and the reporters can penetrate tightly controlled operations to glean insights, they can establish themselves as national authorities on important cultural figures.

Representatives for Swift and Beyoncé did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Austin Maycumber, left, and Jackson Han competed in the Kansas State Fair Photography Judging Contest Sunday. COURTESY OF TERRI KRETZMEIER

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Russia & North Korea: Brothers in arms

A weapons deal would make life harder for Ukraine — and elevate nuclear risks in Asia

It was like a scene from the cold war. Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, stepped off his luxurious bulletproof train this week having crossed into Russia’s Far East, to be greeted by a military brass band and whisked off to meet Vladimir Putin. Over a meal of duck salad and crab dumplings, washed down with Russian wines, the two dictators toasted what Mr. Kim called the “sacred fight” against Western imperialism. Both men are throwbacks. Mr. Kim is the grandson of a tyrant imposed on North Korea by Stalin. Mr. Putin waxes nostalgic about Russia’s imperial past. Yet the threat they pose today is clear and present.

An alliance between them could alter the course of the war in Ukraine by granting Russia a new supply of weapons. It could also escalate a nuclear-arms race in Asia.

North Korea is like an extreme version of what Russia is becoming under Mr. Putin: a militarized society, cut off from the West, run by a despot who is heedless of human life. Yet despite its poverty and isolation, it sud-

denly has something that Russia badly needs: more artillery shells. Russia is estimated to have fired over 10 million of them last year and, like Ukraine, is running low. North Korea, with its Soviet-style armed forces, has millions in storage and the primitive industrial brawn to manufacture more. The failure rate of its shells is high: in one barrage aimed at South Korea in 2010, 20% did not detonate. But for Russia that is much better than nothing. And North Korea could also offer other weapons, such as rockets or

howitzers.

Any deal over munitions would come at a delicate moment in Ukraine’s counter-offensive, the painfully slow pace of which has raised new questions about its tactics and Western resolve.

For now Ukraine has at least achieved parity with Russia in the artillery war, with both sides facing constrained supplies. But were Russia to receive an influx of ammunition, it would be able to pin down Ukrainian forces more effectively, slowing their advances even further and increasing the level of attrition in the com-

ing winter months.

North Korea wants something in return. In the 2000s Russia was a signatory of the international sanctions regime that was placed on North Korea for its unlawful nuclear-weapons program. Yet the location of this week’s meeting — the Vostochny Cosmodrome spaceport — gave a not-too-subtle clue as to what may be coming next.

Mr. Kim may demand access to Russian missile technology that could improve the range, reliability and flexibility of North Korea’s delivery system for nuclear weapons. He may also be keen to

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their effort, but Wilson is right that a Trump victory would be the result of a centrist third-party ticket.

get his hands on Russian satellite and submarine secrets. So although the immediate effect of any deal could simply be to make life harder for Ukraine’s soldiers, it could also ultimately alter the nuclear balance in Asia. The North Korean regime is erratic as well as malign: it periodically threatens to incinerate South Korea and fired two short-range ballistic missiles just before the Kim-Putin summit. Other countries worry that its military capabilities are improving, and may respond by building up their own arsenals. A Kim dynasty that could launch missiles at will from submarines would terrify the neighbors.

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What to do? One unpredictable factor is China, which has some sway over both dictatorships. It has no problem with a prolonged and bloody 20th-century-style war in Ukraine, which it hopes will divide Europe and America, but says it is wary of nuclear proliferation.

A deal between Russia and North Korea would test that claim. For the West, further sanctions on Russia or North Korea would have little effect. Instead it must ramp up supplies of munitions to Ukraine to help it defend itself from Russia. It should also publicize what it knows about arms deals between Moscow and Pyongyang, and reaffirm that America’s nuclear umbrella shields its allies in Asia.

— The Economist

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25 Years Ago

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Recently, we’ve received a couple of messages from readers extolling the promise of the supposedly centrist group No Labels.

In theory, this is a group looking for solutions in the neglected middle of the ideological spectrum by bringing together Republicans and Democrats who can see beyond their own partisan interests. “The crackpot left and the crackpot right that demand 100% of their agenda and demonize the other side for not agreeing with it are ripping this country apart,” as one commenter wrote on KansasCity.com.

Here in the middle of the map, No Labels’ purported “common sense” agenda may well have particular appeal.

If Joe Biden and Donald Trump are once again the presidential nominees of their parties, the group says, and if (some? many? how many?) Americans aren’t happy about that, well then it will sponsor a “unity ticket” offering us a third choice.

But polling, history and the same “common sense” that No Labels advertises tell us that such a ticket would likely return Trump to office.

Maybe that’s why one of the biggest known do-

nors to this dark money group is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ patron Harlan Crow, the Dallas billionaire who collects Hitler’s table linens and other Nazi niceties.

And it’s definitely why our message to anyone tempted by the vision of comity that No Labels is selling is the same as that of the former No Labels enthusiast Rep. Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin Democrat.

In a recent op-ed in the Capitol Hill news outlet

The Hill, Pocan wrote this:

“When I first came to Congress, I was enamored with the alleged ideal behind No Labels and their mission to take partisanship out of politics. A world where people can work together on ideas that help the American people despite ideological differences. Boy was I wrong.

“Their nonpartisan agenda is and always has been dishonest. My first disagreement with No Labels came when I

realized they were only looking out for mega donor special interests, advocating for lowering taxes on the rich and powerful, and weakening regulations for big business, making it easier for them to exploit workers or the environment.”

Rick Wilson, the longtime Republican strategist and co-founder of the Never Trumper Lincoln Project, has been talking about what he thinks No Labels is really about for some time now. No Labels founders “Nancy Jacobson and Mark Penn have one goal: to punish the Democratic Party that rejected and ejected them,” he has written.

“Their profitable psychodrama revenge fantasy against Joe Biden and the Clintons is a lie from top to bottom, and their 2024 plan is designed to divide the anti-Trump vote and ensure Trump returns to the Oval Office.” We don’t know what fantasies have fueled

Ask Ralph Nader voters in 2000 and Jill Stein voters in 2016 if they’re happy with the way their purity set the world on fire and put our democracy at serious risk.

POTENTIAL No Labels presidential nominee and Joe Manchin, the Democratic West Virginia senator, sees all pushback to the group as the work of those who profit from partisanship.

As someone who has made millions from the coal industry and blocked Biden’s climate plan last year, he would know something about that.

“The politics in Washington is a better business model if they can keep you divided,” Manchin has said. “We’re trying to say: ‘Hey boys, get off your high horse on the right and the left and come back together and let’s do our job.’ ”

If the job here is electing someone who consistently and openly admires dictators, who has called for the “termination” of the U.S. Constitution, and who according to his own team was willing to use force to stay in power, then yeah.

But if it’s preserving the republic, say no to No Labels.

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Stanley Dreher will winter more livestock this year than usual. Dreher said this week

that he would not sell offspring calves because of low prices. He hopes that beef exports will lift prices over the winter.

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Laura Caillouet, second grade teacher at Jefferson Elementary School, was one of four Kansas teachers to win Milken Family Foundation awards for excellence in teaching.

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Flooding hit many homes and businesses in Iola this morning, particularly in the drainway of Coon Creek and at the north edge of the city, along U.S. 169, after storms dumped more than five inches of rain on the city.

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The Humboldt Union reported this week that Gertrude Finney, Wichita, donated $100,000 to the Humboldt Historic Preservation Alliance for the purchase of the Orcutt Museum, which contains thousands of American artifacts.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday. Russia wants North Korea’s weaponry to defeat Ukraine while North Korea is eager for access to Russia’s nuclear weapons technology. Either would mean increased risks to the greater world. (VLADIMIR SMIRNOV/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

‘Unity ticket’ agenda looks out for the wealthy

One of its biggest known donors to the No Labels party is Clarence Thomas’ patron Texas billionaire Harlan Crow. TNS

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Texas AG trial continues

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —

Lawyers for impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton began calling witnesses Thursday and Donald Trump came to his defense on social media as a verdict in the historic trial draws closer.

The timing of the former president’s reaffirmed support for Paxton, who tried to baselessly help Trump overturn the election in 2020, comes as a jury of mostly Republican senators are on the cusp of deciding whether to remove Paxton from office over charges of corruption and bribery.

Blasting the impeachment as “shameful,” Trump sought to make his presence felt in the waning moments of a trial that has showcased fractures in the party.

Paxton was impeached by the Republican-led Texas House in May, but activists on the far right have mounted a pressure campaign aimed at several GOP senators who could tilt the verdict.

“Democrats are feeling very good right now as they watch, as usual, the Republicans fight & eat away at each other. It’s a SAD day in the Great State of Texas!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Closing arguments are expected in the coming days. It was not until

Thursday — eight days into the trial — that Paxton’s defense attorneys began calling their own witnesses. The first was the head of the Texas attorney general office’s open records division, a branch of the agency that Paxton is accused of manipulating to help Austin real estate developer Nate Paul.

Attorneys for the bipartisan group of lawmakers prosecuting Paxton’s impeachment rested their case Wednesday after a woman who was expected to testify about an extramarital affair with the attorney general made a sudden appearance at the trial, but never took the stand.

The affair is central to the historic proceedings in the Texas Senate and accusations that Paxton misused his power to help Paul, who

Idaho: Extremism

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discourse,” Otter said during a news conference Wednesday at the Idaho Capitol in Boise. “I’m confident that one of the ways to do that is to pass this initiative.”

How ranked-choice voting works

The initiative would create a “top four” primary election. All candidates, regardless of party, would participate in the same primary, and the top four vote-getters would advance to the general election. Currently, non-Republicans are barred from participating in GOP primaries.

General election voters would then rank candidates in their preferred order. A candidate who collects more than 50% of first-place votes wins the election. But if no candidate reaches that threshold, a runoff counting process is triggered. The candidate with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated, and their votes are reallocated to the candidates listed second. That process repeats until a candidate surpasses 50%.

Advocates say the process would curb extremism in the GOP by forcing candidates to appeal to a broad range of voters. Idaho GOP Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon has said the scheme would “silence the voices of conservative voters.”

“Rather than ensure our elections are safe and secure, Reclaim Idaho wants to com-

Teens cheer on Chiefs

On Aug. 26 at the Kansas City Chiefs preseason football game against the Cleveland Browns, Gracie Snethen, 17, Griffin Snethen, 15, and Klaira Hayes, 15, all performed in the half-time show with the Chiefs cheerleaders at Arrowhead Stadium as members of the Studio KC Chiefs cheerleaders squad.

was under FBI investigation and employed the woman, Laura Olson. One of the 16 articles of impeachment against Paxton alleges that Paul’s hiring of Olson amounted to a bribe.

Olson was called to the stand Wednesday morning and waited outside the chamber. But her testimony was delayed for hours before Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is acting as the trial’s judge, said toward the end of the day that Olson was “deemed unavailable to testify,” providing no further explanation but saying both sides had agreed to it.

After the prosecution rested Wednesday, Paxton attorney Tony Buzbee moved to end the trial on the grounds of insufficient evidence, only to withdraw the request without a vote.

They were selected as studio dancers with Spotlight Dance Academy in Ottawa and attended practices for the half-time show throughout the summer. As members of the squad, the girls received official Chiefs cheerleader uniforms and poms. Griffin received an official Chiefs yell leader jersey. They all also received Chiefs backpacks and practice clothes and had photos taken at the stadium by the organization.

Mallory Melvin Watkins is the Spotlight Dance Academy owner and head teacher. Darian Bruch is on staff at Spotlight and is also a KC Chiefs cheerleader and was one of their instructors.

All three performers are students at Ottawa High School and have been members of the OHS Cyclones Spirit Squad and Dance Team. They are all the great-grandchildren of Jeanne Masterson

Percy and late coach Glenn Percy. (Coach Percy was a friend of the KC Chiefs Coach Hank Stram and coached Hank’s son, Stu Stram, at Shawnee Mission East, so they all enjoyed seeing his displays at the stadium.)

Gracie and Griffin are the children of Scott and Beth Snethen and are the grandchildren of Chuck and Michelle Percy Johnson and Ron and Carolyn Snethen. Klaira is the daughter of Jared and Mallory Melvin Watkins and she has two brothers, River, 7, and Lennox, 5. Klaira is the granddaughter of Mick

Hunter Biden indicted on firearms charges

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plicate our elections with California-style voting systems,” Moon said in a news release last month. “In short, Reclaim wants to eliminate the Republican Party and turn Idaho into a Rocky Mountain San Francisco.”

Lori Otter on Wednesday sharply criticized Moon, after the state party this summer eliminated voting authority on the party’s executive committee for three groups that represent Republican women and young voters.

“Those are the women that stuff envelopes, they wear the red jackets, they pound on doors, they canvass neighborhoods and they are the Republican Party,” Lori Otter said during the news conference. “Shame on the Republican Party for taking that voice away.

... Shame on Dorothy Moon.”

— Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on federal firearms charges, the latest and weightiest step yet in a long-running investigation into the president’s son.

Biden is accused of lying about his drug use when he bought a firearm in October 2018, a period when he has acknowledged struggling with addiction to crack cocaine, according to the indictment filed in federal court in Delaware by a special counsel overseeing the case.

President Joe Biden’s son has also been under investigation for his business dealings. The special counsel has indicated that charges of failure to pay taxes on time could be filed in Washington or in California, where he lives.

The firearms indictment comes weeks

after the collapse of a plea deal that would have averted a criminal trial as the 2024 election looms. Since then, the political pressure has only escalated as the House formally opened an impeachment inquiry into the Democratic president, seeking to tie the elder Biden to his son’s businesses and divert attention off former President Donald Trump’s own legal woes.

Over the yearslong probe, federal prosecutors have not indicated Joe Biden is connected. And so far, Republicans have unearthed no significant evidence of wrongdoing by the elder Biden, who as vice president spoke often to his son and stopped by a business dinner with his son’s associates. The White House maintains Joe Biden was not involved in his son’s business affairs.

The prosecutor who

has long overseen the Hunter Biden investigation, Trump-appointed Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, was elevated to special counsel last month, giving him broad authority to investigate and report out his findings.

The three-count indictment says Hunter Biden lied on a form required for every gun purchase when he bought a Colt Cobra Special at a Wilmington, Delaware, gun shop.

He’s charged with two counts of making false statements by checking a box falsely saying he was not a user of or addicted to drugs and a third count for possessing the gun as a drug user.

Two counts are punishable by up to 10 years in prison while the third carries up to five years in prison, upon conviction.

and Mona Percy Melvin. The extended family attended the Chiefs game.

Klaira Hayes, from left, Gracie Snethen and Griffin Snethen performed at halftime of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Aug. 26 preseason football game at Arrowhead Stadium. COURTESY

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, center, sits with his lawyers Tony Buzbee, left, and Dan Cogdell at the beginning of the first day of Paxton’s impeachment trial in the Texas Senate chambers at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Tuesday.

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Allen wrangled by No. 1 Johnson County

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

Allen’s Lady Red Devils couldn’t keep up when they hosted No. 1 Johnson County in some NJCAA Division II volleyball action Wednesday.

The Lady Red Devils (36) came out with the lead in the opening set but it quickly evaporated when Johnson County went on a run to secure a 25-14 win in the first set. Allen dropped the final two sets, 25-17 and 25-14.

“Even if the score didn’t reflect it, we got better playing Johnson,” Allen head coach Maria Aikins said. “We knew we were in for a tough game. They are very disciplined and big in the front row so our defensive coverage had to be spot on tonight.”

Veronica Agostini led Allen on the attack with a team-high six kills, followed by Nadia Gallegos’s five kills and Katy Harris and Abby Altic’s four kills apiece. Altic had a teamhigh seven points while Gallegos tacked on 6.5 points and Agostini had six.

SCC settles into 6-man ball

By QUINN BURKITT

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Southern Coffey County football head coach Brian Rand believes his team has taken a giant leap forward from last season when the Titans finished 1-8.

The Titans (1-1) earned their first win of the season Friday at home against Centre High School, 39-36. This came after SCC fell to Waverly in the season opener, 54-6.

Seniors Reeston Cox, Xavier Cross and Thomas Nickel have stepped up big for the Titans.

Cross and junior Isaac Higdon combined to rush for over 250 yards last week against Centre High while the defense made a number of key stops. Cox has been the man under center and at defensive end while Nickel has lined up primarily at nose guard.

“We have the saying to strive for perfection,” said Rand. “If we do it perfectly, great, and if we’re close, there’s positive things that happen.”

Freshmen Lane Brooks and Cyrus Nickel are impressing Rand.

“They’ve come in wanting to learn the game and as a result played varsity minutes,”

Rand said.

Rand noted the positives of last week’s game against Centre, including overcoming a deficit early on.

“We were able to block down the field and our defense stepped up and made stops,” he said. “We gave up two touchdowns early but our defense came up big. The momentum turned when they made stops. Just trying to keep them in front and open field corralling and tackling.”

Now in its third year of playing six-man football, SCC has grown accustomed to its faster pace, Rand said. Critical to their success are dominant runners.

SCC’s defense has combined to give up 90 points through the opening two games but the mix of a contained defense and a smashmouth run game could bode well for the Titans.

“We have to clean up all the silly things. We have to corral their quarterback. Offensively, we need to have clean plays and make fewer mistakes,” said Rand.

SCC’s 11-man roster includes sophomores Cayden Mizer and John Rolf and freshman John Snyder.

“I’ll use them all,” said Rand.

“Offensive execution is a large part of volleyball,”

Aikins said. “Johnson had a great block and they made it tough for hitters to put a ball down. I am very proud of the girls. We have practiced hard the last few days and tried to execute our best game plans against them.”

Isabelle Simone led the way from the serving line with a team-high 18 aces while Chloe Vargas added two aces.

Defensively, Altic led the charge with a team-high nine digs while Agostini had eight digs and Vargas had seven digs. Altic had a team-high three blocks.

“We will be able to take a plethora of things from this match,” said Aikins. “We can tidy up our defense, add more options and shots for hitters and limit unforced errors. Everyone contributed so much that we needed everyone to step up tonight and play their role.”

The Lady Red Devils take on Independence Community College at the MCCKC Invitational on Friday at 10 a.m.

MV drops two at Uniontown

UNIONTOWN — Marmaton Valley High found itself on the short end of a pair of heartbreakers Tuesday.

The Wildcats went 1-2, defeating Altoona-Midway in straight sets, 25-23 and 2519, but falling in a three-set thriller to host Uniontown, 25-17, 21-25 and 26-24, with the Eagles rallying from 7-2 and 14-7 deficits in the tiebreaker.

Marmaton Valley then dropped a pair of tough sets to Yates Center, 25-23 and 25-23.

In other action Tuesday, Yates Center dropped a pair of sets to Uniontown, 25-19 and 25-16.

Marmaton Valley and Yates Center face each other again on Saturday at a tour- nament in Humboldt.

No. 14 K-State seeks another win over Mizzou

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

Kansas State made quick work of Missouri a year ago, when the old conference foes renewed their rivalry in Manhattan, Kansas. Well, it would have been quick if not for the driving rainstorm and hour-long lightning delay.

All it did was make the dreary day even worse for Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz, whose team was soundly beaten by the Wildcats in their first matchup since Missouri bolted the Big 12 for the SEC. Brady Cook struggled through the air, the ground game couldn’t get anything going and Kansas State ran roughshod

offensively in a 40-12 rout that could have been worse. “Just a weird day in general with the amount of delays we had and how hard it was raining,” recalled Kansas State coach Chris Klieman. “I know it was a very difficult day to throw the football. It was pouring. It was just a very strange day.”

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Retiring Cardinals pitcher Wainwright to say farewell with songs

BALTIMORE (AP) — Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright will perform on an entirely different stage before bidding farewell to St. Louis fans and life on the baseball diamond.

Wainwright will give a postgame concert during his final weekend playing at

Busch Stadium. The 42-yearold will retire from baseball after this season, but not before treating fans to three original songs from his upcoming country album. His performance is slated for Sept. 30, the second-tolast day of the season.

“I’m excited about sharing

some music with everybody, and hopefully they’ll like it,” Wainwright said Wednesday before the Cardinals faced the Baltimore Orioles. “It’s a fun opportunity for me.”

Wainwright won his 199th career game on Tuesday night. The right-hander also was part of a World Series

championship team. He’s a three-time All Star and has garnered two Gold Gloves.

This won’t be his first musical stint at the Cardinals’ home stadium. He performed the national anthem prior to the team’s home opener this year.

To Wainwright, that was

the musical equivalent of facing a slugger with the bases loaded. “The anthem was a lot of pressure,” he said. “If I mess my own song up, I can get by and no one will even know it because I haven’t put the album out yet.”

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Allen’s Abby Altic goes for a hit against No. 1 Johnson County. REGISTER/QUINN BURKITT

MV’s Janae Granere goes for a hit. COURTESY PHOTO

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ORDINANCE NO. 3518 SUMMARY

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Police: Fugitive planned to flee US

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM The Associated Press

A murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail and was captured two weeks later told authorities he had been planning to carjack someone and flee to Canada or Puerto Rico, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

Interviewed at a state police barracks hours after his capture Wednesday morning, Danelo Cavalcante, 34, revealed to investigators he planned to get a car in an effort to slip a tightening law enforcement perimeter, Deputy U.S. Marshal Robert Clark told The Associated Press, “He said the law enforcement presence in this perimeter was becoming too intense, and that he felt that he needed to get out of the area,” Clark said.

Speaking in Portuguese through an interpreter, Cavalcante revealed other details about his life on the run since his brazen escape from the Chester County jail on Aug. 31.

ate,” Lt. Col. George Bivens, the leader and public face of the intensive search, said at a news conference Wednesday..”

At one point, Cavalcante told investigators, he thought of giving himself up. He didn’t want to be caught, but he also didn’t want to die, Clark said.

“He said, ‘I knew that I had to pay for what I had done. However, I wasn’t willing to pay with my life,’” Clark said.

Cavalcante escaped from the Chester County jail in southeastern Pennsylvania by crabwalking up between two walls that were topped with razor wire, then jumping from the roof. His capture ended an intensive search that terrified residents, with the fugitive breaking into homes, changing his appearance and stealing a van and rifle during two weeks on the run.

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“We doing the have have ing about guys had found just, couraging said.

of this code is to provide a standardized public offense ordinance to regulate criminal conduct within the jurisdiction of the City of Iola, Kansas. A complete copy of this ordinance is available at City Hall, 2 W. Jackson, Iola, Kansas or may be viewed on the City’s website at www.cityofiola.com. This summary has been certified by Robert E. Johnson II, Iola City Attorney.

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Cavalcante said he drank water from a creek and ate watermelon he’d stolen from a farm and cracked open with his head. He hid in foliage so thick that search teams came within a few yards of him on three separate occasions. He covered his feces with leaves in an effort to cover his tracks. He stayed put for days at a time and only moved at night.

“I don’t know that he was particularly skilled. He was desper-

Still armed with the rifle, Cavalcante tried to escape by crawling through underbrush. But a U.S,. Customs and Border Protection search dog named Yoda subdued him, biting him on the scalp and then latching onto his leg.

Cavalcante, who was sentenced to life in prison last month for killing his ex-girlfriend, was taken to a state prison in the Philadelphia suburbs after speaking with investigators from the U.S. Marshals Service and detectives with Pennsylvania State Police and Chester County.

Q: Didn’t Anne Hathaway have a weekly series role some time ago?

A: She did. The Oscar winner (for “Les Miserables”) got her big break in “Get Real,” a Fox series that aired during the 1999-2000 season. The seriocomic show about a dysfunctional family also was the first major credit for Jesse Eisenberg (“The Social Network”), who played Hathaway’s younger brother; Eric Christian Olsen, later of “NCIS: Los Angeles,” also por trayed one of the show’s three siblings. Though the series lasted only that one season, it didn’t take long for Hathaway’s movie career to get going. “The Princess Diaries” was a big hit in 2001, and though its filming meant Hathaway had to miss her first semester of college, she said later that she didn’t mind. Director Garr y Marshall had thought of Liv Tyler for the par t, but his granddaughters weighed in and convinced him to opt for Hathaway instead, and the picture earned her an MTV Movie Award.

Returns were mixed on her movies that followed immediately, including “Nicholas Nickleby” and “Ella Enchanted,” but she sampled another medium by putting her singing talents to work in a 2002 New York staging of “Carnival.” She eventually got back on the box-of fice track with the 2004 sequel “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” and moved from that into a variety of screen projects encompassing “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Devil Wears Prada.”

Hathaway has returned to TV on occasion, as a host of “Saturday Night Live” and the Oscars, and she also appeared in the streaming projects “Modern Love” and “WeCrashed” (ser ving as an executive producer of the latter as well). Additionally, her voice has been heard in episodes of “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy.”

He’s worried his girlfried is being abused

Adapted from an online discussion.

Hi, Carolyn: My girlfriend and I are both in college. We have been together for eight months and love each other very much. But I’m a little worried that she is emotionally abused by her stepdad, and I don’t know what to do about it.

Examples: He monitors and criticizes my girlfriend’s weight when she is at home, calls her and her mom [glass bowls] and says he is smarter than they are because of the college he went to, and has said my girlfriend is “a guest” in his house. He makes light of anxiety issues she has. She doesn’t have a bank account and is reliant on his credit card, but he threatens to withhold or offer money — like, thousands of dollars — depending on whether she goes along with his

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preferences on things such as which major she chooses. Once, when I visited her house, he offered to let me drive an expensive car he has — even though my girlfriend is prohibited from ever driving it. His offering me the keys in front of her made me feel gross, like he was belittling her. (I passed on driving the car.)

What is going on here? Is this emotional abuse? What can I do about it as a boyfriend that won’t make things worse? My girlfriend says she hates him but feels stuck because he has threatened to stop paying for college if she does something wrong.

— A Boyfriend A Boyfriend: Oh, wow. Yes, this checks about every box for emotional abuse. Belittling, shaming, controlling, financial strongarming: It’s a buffet of abuses of his power over her.

Please remind her that there are resources to help her navigate this. It’s a difficult problem — I won’t minimize it — but that is not the same as her being helpless or stuck.

Typically, a college’s counseling service is the most accessible option, but many are stretched beyond their capacity. Still, yours may not be. Without pushing, see whether your girlfriend is up to making an appointment. Return thereafter to your listener role, regardless of her answer.

This hinges on the college’s resources in another way, but she

Walking: A step toward heart health

By DEB BALZER Mayo Clinic News Network (TNS)

Walking is an inexpensive form of exercise that many people of various abilities and ages can do. What about those 10,000 steps a day that many fitness apps recommend?

Dr. Francisco LopezJimenez, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, says there is no magic number of steps per day that people should strive for because everyone is different. What matters most, he says, is that people are moving.

“Walking is perhaps the easiest, most affordable and one of the most effective types of physical activity humans can do,” says Dr. Lopez-Jimenez.

How many daily steps should you take? It depends.

“For a 25-to-30year-old person, walking 6,000 steps a day is probably too little, whereas for an 85-yearold person, walking 5,000 steps is actually very good,” he says. And make walking part of your daily routine. Use the stairs, walk your dog or park away from the store entrance.

“People should be walking every day, even for a few minutes at a time, and even if it is just 15 or 20 minutes,” says Dr. Lopez-Jimenez. Take a break from your desk and take a walk. It’s good for your head and heart.

“Walking has many beneficial effects on our health — not just cardiovascular but even mental health,” he says. Tips to add more steps to your day

— Take the dog for a

walk or find a walking buddy.

— Head to the mall.

— Include the family.

— Walk while waiting.

— Schedule workday walks.

— Park farther away.

— Take the stairs.

— Set personal goals.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that adults get 150 minutes of weekly physical activity. There are different goals for people of different ages and abilities.

can speak to a financial aid adviser to learn of any options for cutting ties to an abusive parent. It’s a big if, but she won’t know whether help is available until she starts asking for it.

The next place to turn is solid, free and available on short notice: the National Domestic Violence Hotline, thehotline.org. It’s not on-theground like the school can be, but the hotline staff can do the crucial work of explaining why the stepfather’s behavior is abusive, what the risks are and what she can do to mitigate them.

She’d be wise to get a job, even a tiny one, and a bank account for her earnings.

I’m so glad you asked this and have shown her such love and respect. This says good things not only about you, but also about her: It’s a sign her “picker” still works, despite her exposure to abuse tactics at home. That she chose someone supportive is a ray of light from an otherwise dark situation.

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Netflix ‘Full Swing’ won’t get full access to Ryder Cup rooms

By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press

The Netflix golf documentary series “Full Swing” won’t have full access at the Ryder Cup.

U.S. captain Zach Johnson says he spoke to all 12 players on his team when concerns were raised about a film crew in the team rooms, and they unanimously decided to keep certain areas off limits.

“Netflix is going to be there,” said Seth Waugh, CEO of the PGA of America. “I would say all things involving the team we leave to the team and the captain.

I think there’s a sanctity to the team room, and the experience is important to them. It’s part of being a team, right? Netflix has been

great for the game.

They’re doing great things. The team collectively decided there are areas of privacy that need to be respected.”

Netflix is in production for its second season of the series that has been popular with golf fans and even those who didn’t pay much attention to the sport.

Nielsen Media Research analysis in U.S. markets showed 60% of viewers are between the ages of 25 and 54, and 63% of viewers watched the PGA Tour in the two months following the series’ debut.

The Ryder Cup, which starts the week of Sept. 25 outside Rome, presumably would be a big part of the upcoming season of “Full Swing.”

But there were

enough concerns from a few players about letting Netflix into the team room at Marco Simone that Johnson

Wainwright: To drop album

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Manager Oliver Marmol said, “I think he’s more confident on the mound. Once he gets going, he’s good. But he’s done the pitching thing a little longer.”

Marmol said Wainwright has provided him samples of his music, sometimes when the manager is least expecting it.

“Whenever he comes out with a new song he usually sends it to me, and it’s usually around midnight,” Marmol said. “I’ve actually gone

to see him play. I enjoyed it. It will be fun.”

Wainwright’s teammates can’t wait.

“He’s a really good guitar player,” reliever Matthew Liberatore said. “It’s mostly country, and that’s what I like. So I’m looking forward to hearing it.”

The concert will enable fans to hear part of Wainwright’s upcoming album, which will contain 15 songs.

“I’ll be putting some teasers out on social media until the album drops,” he said. “This

is more of an in-depth look at what we’re all about. It’s all songs about me and my upbringing.”

After he’s done with baseball, playing music will occupy much of Wainwright’s time. But that’s only part of his plan to keep busy.

“It’s going to be one of the chapters,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of chapters in the book — five kids and a wife. I’m going to do some broadcasting, too, but this will part of it for sure.”

KSU: Wants another win over Missouri

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The weather figures to be a whole lot better Saturday when the teams meet again in Columbia, Missouri.

Whether the outcome will be different remains to be seen.

Kansas State has carried its momentum from a Big 12 championship into this season, waylaying Southeast Missouri and Troy — a 12-win team a year ago — in two home games. Will Howard has been accurate through the air, DJ Gidden and Treshaun Ward have been a potent one-two punch on the ground, and the Kansas State defense has allowed one touchdown in eight quarters.

Asked what must change Saturday, Drinkwitz was succinct.

“We’re going to have to do a better job than we did last year defending the run. We put our defense in a lot of bad situations in last year’s game,” he said. “We have to limit the explosive plays in the run game. And then I think their quarterback is very good. He has a natural feel for where to place the ball. He’s incredibly accurate.”

The Tigers, meanwhile, followed up an easy opening win over South Dakota with a 23-19 win over Middle Tennessee State, which wasn’t secured until the Blue Raiders turned the ball over on downs with 3:44 left in the game.

“It’s going to be fun. It’s going to be a loud, packed environment,” Howard said. “It’s kind of an us-against-

the world mentality when you go in there. You have 70-plus players and some staff and you have a whole stadium rooting against you.

“We love that,” Howard said. “We love being on the road.”

INJURY UPDATE

Wildcats offensive tackle Christian Duffie practiced early in the week but Klieman was not sure whether he would play. Duffie had started 35 straight games before missing the first two because of an undisclosed injury that occurred over the summer.

Missouri linebacker Chad Bailey has also been working his way back from an undisclosed procedure that Drinkwitz said would take about three weeks of recovery. That puts Bailey a bit ahead of schedule if he suits up Saturday.

GETTING OFFENSIVE

Drinkwitz relinquished offensive play-calling midway through last year, then he hired Kirby Moore to direct the offense. There have been some bumps early in the sea-

son but Drinkwitz remains confident in the Tigers’ ability to move the ball.

“Kirby calls the plays,” he said. “Obviously when it comes between series, you’re making suggestions. We all have open traffic and talk through what were seeing and what we have to improve and how do we attack them. Pretty standard, honestly.”

RAMPING UP

Keagan Johnson made his Kansas State debut against Troy, catching three passes for 25 yards. The Iowa transfer missed the opener to an injury, and Klieman said he expected Johnson to be closer to full-go against the Tigers.

CHANGES UP FRONT

Marcellus Johnson is expected to start for Missouri in the latest attempt to improve the offensive line. Cook was sacked once by South Dakota and four more times by Middle Tennessee State, which piled up seven tackles-for-loss in their game.

polled his players and they chose to keep the team room private.

“It was one of those where we all gathered, I talked to every individual and laid out scenarios,” Johnson said in a telephone interview. “And they all felt like it was best to navigate that week of the tournament in a manner which the sanctity and sacredness of Team USA is preserved. We’re eliminating scenarios.” A Netflix spokesperson declined comment. Netflix typically does not discuss potential content for a series currently in production.

Stefan Schauffele, the father of Xander Schauffele, said he first was aware of the

Netflix presence when he received a player participation and benefits agreement in July, a month before Ryder Cup qualifying had ended.

“Apart from the fact the guys don’t get paid, you cannot make a deal with a third party that we are not party to for rights into eternity,” said Stefan Schauffele, who said his son did not sign the agreement without changes to the language.

and at the host hotel for the Ryder Cup that historically are off limits to the media and other VIPs not directly involved in the matches.

Netflix has had extensive access to the players it has profiled from the “Full Swing” series, at their homes and during travel to tournaments. The first season was shot during 2022 as golf was torn apart by defections to LIV Golf.

The PGA Tour released results of a general population survey that showed 42% of those who watched at least some of the Netflix series spent more time watching golf on TV, and 36% spent more time engaging with pro golf on social media.

They all felt like it was best to navigate ... in a manner which the sanctity and sacredness of Team USA is preserved.

Justin Thomas, another captain’s pick who has taken part in the Netflix series, said it was an easy decision for Johnson to eliminate any source of distraction.

—Zach Johnson, US Captain

The Americans and Europeans have a team room at the golf course

“I just think there was maybe a couple of people a little skeptical, and it really was not even a conversation,” Thomas said. “We’re all a team this week. All 12 were on board so it doesn’t really matter.”

Zach Johnson hits out of a sand trap at the 16th green of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. JEFF SINER/ CHARLOTTE OBSERVER/TNS