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PRACTICE-A-THON Iola Middle School and Iola High School band students spent most of Saturday honing their craft and raising funds through their annual Practice-A-Thon on the courthouse square. The musicians raised an estimated $4,100 in donations and pledges. Above, from left, are Kayton Godfrey, Averie Sharon and Callie Murcko. Of the 39 students, Theresia Middleton, Averie Sharon and Colin Long logged in the most hours with 13 hours and 32 minutes apiece. Others proving their endurance were Zury Burleson, 13 hours, 30 minutes; Hannah Anderson, 13 hours, 15 minutes; Callie Murcko, 12 hours, 36 minutes and Michael Price, 12 hours, 32 minutes. Modern Woodmen insurance donated $1,500 to the effort. Funds go to a semi-trailer used to transport band instruments. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Critics push for debate on tax hike

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrats and moderate Republicans are pushing the Kansas Legislature to consider a big tax increase next year as they campaign against conservative GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s fiscal policies.

The vision they’re presenting to voters would include increasing aid to public schools, undoing cuts in higher education and protecting highway funding. Following through would force lawmakers to undo key parts of Brownback’s tax-cutting legacy and raise taxes, possibly by hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

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Just another manic Monday Iola firefighters promptly extinguished a large car fire on South State Street, near Elm Creek Bridge, this morning. Cory Strunk pulled his 1987 New Yorker to the side of the road after smoke began billowing from underneath the hood. As the front-end fire grew in intensity, Strunk grabbed his bag and exited the car. Within seconds, the entire vehicle was consumed in flames. No injuries were reported and rush hour traffic was resumed within the hour. SUBMITTED

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Terror plot unravels in Garden City GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Law enforcement sought Saturday to reassure immigrants in a diverse western Kansas community of their safety after three men were accused of plotting to target Somali immigrants there.

A complaint unsealed Friday charged Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, 49, with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in Garden City. The men are members of a small militia group that calls itself “the Crusaders,” and whose members espouse sovereign citizen, anti-government, antiMuslim and anti-immigrant extremist beliefs, according to the complaint.

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Prosecutors said the men don’t yet have attorneys.

The suspects planned to detonate truck bombs around a small apartment complex where about 120 Somali residents live, according to the complaint. Prosecutors also said the men talked about attacking some of the area churches that have helped settle refugees and helped them get jobs at Tyson Foods, the meat packing company that

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has drawn a diverse immigrant population to the area.

H u n d re d s of Somalians, Malaysians, Curtis Allen Burmese and others gathered around FBI agents and law enforcement officers for a briefing early Saturday, The Wichita Eagle reported.

“The only answer I can give you about why this happened is that they wanted to attack your religious beliefs,” Police Chief Michael Utz said. “But you need to know that whether you are an immigrant or not, you are all Garden Citians.”

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Tipped information plays a vital role

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Allen Countians who give tips to Crime Stoppers are assured of anonymity, Mike Ford, an Iola officer and advocate of the information hotline, said Sunday.

That is not true of every state. Richard Carter, a former judge and Crime Stoppers USA legal adviser, said in rare cases informants become part of the court process in a case.

That can be avoided, he said, by Crime Stoppers groups organizing so that police officers are not directly involved with collection of tips. Laws governing whether information is public or not is different for private groups than for public entities, such as a police department.

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Scene Information call center in Texas. Then, information is relayed to the appropriate officers in Allen County. The tipster’s name is never a part of dissemination of information.

About 30 people attended the Crime Stoppers’ conference, which continues today and Tuesday in Riverside Park.

Carter spoke about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 1963 to do with Brady vs. Maryland. The case opened a preponderance of information for defense attorneys by saying if due process were compromised it could prevent a fair trial.

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More accuse Trump of predatory behavior LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Two Southern California women came forward Friday to accuse Donald Trump of accosting them, the latest in a spate of sexual misconduct allegations buffeting the Republican presidential nominee.

Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” described darting around a Beverly Hills hotel bungalow to avoid Trump’s kisses and wandering hands in 2007. Kristin Anderson, a onetime aspiring model, said Trump slipped his hand up her skirt and touched her vagina in a New York City nightclub in the early 1990s.

Both women said they decided to go public because of the emergence of a video last week in which Trump describes how he can kiss women and grab their genitals without their consent

because of his celebrity, assertions he later dismissed as “locker-room talk.”

“You do not have a right to treat women as sexual objects just because you are a star,” Zervos said.

She and Anderson joined several other women who have publicly accused Trump of sexual misconduct since he said at Sunday’s second presidential debate that he had never acted in the manner he described on the recording. One said Trump slipped his hand up her skirt on an airplane, another said he kissed her without her consent at Trump Tower and two others described separate episodes at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Trump angrily rebuffed all of the claims, dismissing the women as “sick” fame-seekers.

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WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The measure, Constitutional Amendment 1, would add a new section to the state’s Bill of Rights to explicitly preserve hunting and fishing as a preferred way to manage wildlife.

Any future measures seeking to limit hunting or fishing would need proof that a particular animal could become endangered. The Kansas measure easily won the required two-thirds majority in both the state Senate and House for a place on the ballot. If approved by voters, the measure would make the state among roughly 20 in which hunting and fishing are a constitutional right.

WHY NOW? Some lawmakers say the measure is a pre-emptive safeguard against possible restrictions such as pushes to ban hunting and fishing outright or incrementally. The National Rifle Association has said animal-rights groups pressed to ban the hunting of certain animals that weren’t endangered. A 1990 ballot

initiative banned mountain lion hunting in California. Campaigns by animal-protection groups in 2006 brought about a ban on dove hunting in Michigan.

WHAT’S THE IMPACT? Kansas brought

in roughly $26 million from hunting and fishing permits and licenses in the 2015 fiscal year, according to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. Under the proposed amendment, hunters and anglers still would need the correct licenses and stamps. A spokesman for the state’s wildlife and parks department, Ron Kaufman, said that while the KDWPT testified legislatively in support of getting the measure on the ballot, it has taken no public stance on it now that the matter is headed to voters.

WHAT CRITICS SAY:

Ron Klataske, Audubon of Kansas’ executive director, has said the measure might prevent citizens from stepping in to prevent unsportsmanlike practices, and that the greatest threat to hunters is the loss of habitat, not animalrights organizations.

Klataske said, “it’s ridiculous to put something like that in the state constitution.”

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— Pinterest Party at Iola Public Library holiday-themed décor. 6 p.m.

LaHarpe PRIDE Committee meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall.

— Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen County Regional Hospital.

— “Twain for Twainiacs: A One-Man Show.”

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He implied that the woman who described the airplane encounter wasn’t attractive enough to warrant his attention.

“Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you,” he told the crowd at a campaign rally in Greensboro, N.C. Trump asserted the new revelations were a “set-up” meant to hurt his bid for the presidency. As he has in recent days, he repeatedly suggested that forces were conspiring against him and his supporters.

“The whole thing is one big fix. It’s one big ugly lie. It’s one big fix,” he said.

Trump trained his ire on the news media, particularly The New York Times, which published the first two accusers’ accounts this week. In a new twist, he asserted that billionaire and Times shareholder Carlos Slim was behind the negative news coverage. Bringing up the new foe in his speech, Trump repeated several times that Slim is from Mexico.

states have constitutional provisions guaranteeing the right to hunt and fish. Vermont’s language dates to 1777; the guarantees in the other 18 states have passed since 1996. Indiana voters also will decide Nov. 8 whether to amend its constitution to include the right to hunt and fish. Missouri and at least five other states introduced legislation on this issue in 2016, but those measures did not pass.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Searchers found two more bodies inside vehicles that were submerged in flood waters in North Carolina from Hurricane Matthew, increasing the toll in the state to 26 dead, Gov. Pat McCrory said Saturday.

McCrory talked a lot about recovery at his Saturday news conference — one week after the hurricane dumped more than a foot of rain 100 miles inland causing massive

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Laver cousins enjoy reunion Donna Laver Krokstrom, Parsons, hosted the Laver FirstCousin Reunion on Oct. 8-9.

Ten grandchildren of Ross and Stella (Sears) Laver were present out of the 32 possible.

Those attending were: Larry and Judy Laver, Iola; Charlene (Seastedt) Headley, Sandy Romine, J.D. and Cathy Baughn, DeWayne and Janice (La-

ver) Ard, and Raymond Barnett, all of Humboldt; Gary Ludlum, Moran; Don Baughn, Al and Juanita (Allen) Barker, Chanute; Leon Feuerborn, Altamont, and Donna (Laver) Krokstrom, Parsons.

Those that spent the night and enjoyed the breakfast were: J.D. and Cathy Baughn, Charlene (Seastedt) Headley, Sandy Romine and Al and Juanita (Allen) Baker.

Hurricane’s US death toll at 43

Wildlife concerns on KS ballot KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas voters on Nov. 8 will decide the fate of a proposed amendment to the state constitution declaring that Kansas residents have the right to hunt, fish and trap wildlife.

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flooding in the eastern part of the state. Towns such as Princeville, Lumberton and Fair Bluff remain under water, and not all rivers have crested.

Early next week, the governor plans to release a detailed plan on how North Carolina will rebuild, including how to pay for the effort. But he said serious problems remain.

“There are still many, many difficult days ahead for North Carolina,” McCrory said.

The latest victims from the flooding were found in Cumberland County and Wayne County after flood waters receded from last weekend’s rains. Al-

most all the deaths in North Carolina have been from people driving or walking into flood waters and being swept away.

Flooding triggered by the hurricane has killed at least 43 people in the United States and more than 500 people in Haiti McCrory said Friday was the first day since the rains began that crews have not had to rescue anyone from the water.

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Plot to bomb GC apartment complex a wake-up call, all right A plot to bomb an apartment complex in Garden City was foiled by law enforcement officials late last week.

The modest gathering of apartments, in which one was used as a mosque, housed mostly immigrants from Somalia who fled their war-torn country to work at the local Tyson Foods factory.

If successful, the attack would have obliterated the complex and killed or wounded 150 people, including 50 children.

The perpetrators are three middle-aged white men who belong to a militia group called the Crusaders.

We’re guessing that’s an homage to the original crusaders whose holy wars ransacked much of Europe and the Middle East over the course of 500 years, first pitting Christians against Muslims, and then Christians against Catholics.

Supposedly, the men take issue with the fact that some of the immigrants are not Christians.

What probably plays a bigger role is that their skin is black and their culture is different.

According to local religious leaders about half of the immigrants in Garden City are Christians and others a variety of religions, including Muslim.

The immigrants certainly were not targets because they are taking jobs away from local folks. The meat

packing industry has long had to cast a wide net for those willing to work such hard jobs.

Local leaders have prided themselves on the successful assimilation between the locals and immigrants.

Of Finney County’s 40,000, more than half are immigrants, hailing from all over the world including Myanmar, Malaysia and Mexico. More than 35 native languages and dialects can be heard on the city’s streets and in its schools in this modern day melting pot.

Religious leaders, particularly, have taken up the mantle that Garden City be a welcoming community to these immigrants. The result has been a steady workforce for the megaindustries and for the immigrants — up until now — the ability to live free from fear.

The assailants said their mission was intended to “wake people up.”

That’s the popular line of thinking these days. People who look and talk differently are a threat to our country.

All their lives these immigrants probably have wanted to come to the United States because it has the reputation of being a place where you can live and worship freely and if you work hard, can get ahead.

Last week, they were proven wrong.

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Kansas hospitals buckling under Brownback Kansas’s hardline opposition to Medicaid expansion has to change if healthcare and health outcomes are going to grow in rural Kansas.

Given the governor’s position, and a bill passed in 2014 that change will have to begin in the Kansas legislature.

A change in the Republican moderate-conservative power distribution coupled with some pick-ups in Democratic seats this November could provide the legislative majority required by HB 2552.

A harbinger of that change is the serious challenge being given to Republican State Representative Ron Highland of Wabaunsee County who is facing a young, well-funded, and skillfully organized challenge from Rossville, Democrat Adrienne Olejnik. Similar changes in Johnson County and other districts around the state also seem more likely come Nov. 8.

The Medicaid problem got a pretty good airing through announcements made recently by Stormont-Vail, a big healthcare provider in northeast Kansas. Stormont-Vail and its Cotton-O’Neil division announced the closing of two clinics open for less than 18 months. The Stormont CEO, Randy Peterson, attributed the closings of the Cotton–O’Neil Clinics in Alma (Wabaunsee County) and Lyndon (Osage

Guterres ideal choice as UN leader The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have chosen Antonio Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal, to succeed Ban Ki-moon as secretary-general. The appointment to the initial five-year term still needs approval by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly but that should be a formality.

There is little question that Guterres, 67, is up to the job. Portugal, a country of nearly 11 million, has a complex economy and foreign policy that spreads across the world, as a result of Portugal having been an important world power. Also, more to the point of the realities of the day, he served as the U.N.’s high commissioner for refugees from 2005 through 2015. The flow of refugees, both from the wars of the Mideast and South Asia but also from the economic desolation of parts of Africa, is far and away one of the preeminent problems facing the world today, with the U.N. inevitably playing a critical role in dealing with it.

The U.N. secretary-general is unavoidably — and even though sometimes ignored in world power politics — one

Antonio Guterres has been appointed as the next United Nations secretary general.

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of this world’s key figures, ranking with the American, Chinese and Russian presidents, the German chancellor and the pope. Apart from the political problems that sometimes require U.N. intervention to reach a conclusion, there are the global problems. These are issues that must be attacked on a universal basis if they are to have any chance of being dealt with successfully.

Epidemics of disease are one example; climate change is another. Peacekeeping in places where no nation wish-

es to involve itself is another. Who wants to put troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be frustrated, killed and drained of money? The United Nations picks up the problems that all wish to see addressed but are the porcupines of world diplomacy that no one wants to pick up.

There was pre-choice discussion of the need to pick a woman as secretary-general for the first time. There were initially a dozen or so candidates for the job. But agreement among the permanent members — China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States — on whom it should be was not reached, and Guterres was finally chosen after weeks of discussion.

That does not mean that he was a compromise, fallback choice. Guterres gives every appearance of being well prepared to serve the world in this almost impossible mission. He deserves and requires the support of the United States and all other countries represented at the U.N. in performing his duties.

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Mark Peterson Insight Kansas County) to two things. First, the state’s recent decision to cut Medicaid reimbursements by 4 percent, and second, the unsparing determination of the governor, endorsed by earlier legislative resolutions, not to accept additional Medicaid money to serve 150,000 Kansans who earn more than the state’s stingy 38 percent of poverty Medicaid benefit qualification, but less than $30,000 a year for a family of four.

The reimbursement reduction alone cut $3 million from Stormont’s revenue, and the closings negatively impact 2,700 clients in northeast Kansas.

Not all of that now-unserved clientele uses Medicaid. Many are simply average townspeople and farm families, or elderly residents who will now have to find alternatives. State action (and inaction) has made service for all by the healthcare provider economically impossible. Representative Highland has been a supporter of the hardline anti-Medicaid position.

Since the purge of moderate Republican legislators began in earnest in 2012, the legislature has gone on record several times to make clear its solidarity with the governor in opposing Medicaid. In 2014 the legislature attempted to take away any existing or subsequent executive authority to expand Medicaid by enacting HB 2552. The bill explicitly required a legislative enactment before any expansion of Medicaid beyond the current stingy limits can occur. HB 2552 passed the Kansas House 68 to 54 and the Senate 33 to 7.

It was signed by the governor in the last days of the 2014 session The tea leaves do not foretell a veto-proof Legislature’s election. If that doesn’t happen, Kansas can continue to deny expanded Medicaid supported healthcare for 150,000 uncovered Kansans. Whether that proves to be the case or not, it should provide a valuable civics lesson to an electorate that may be turned off by the ugliness of the national electoral scene this year.

It is important to remember that races like the Highland– Olejnik contest actually matter far more to the daily lives of Kansans. Do not forget that voting will determine government’s actions that will affect the lives of real people in real ways.

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Allen Countians have been able to lay hands on only 75 new cars during the first nine months of 1946 according to Mrs. L. E. Foster, license clerk of the county treasurer’s office. This means that of the 17,707 residents, only about one out of every 236 persons have been blessed with 1946 or 1947 model automobiles. ***** Iola will be the focal point of southeastern Kansas next Saturday when Gov. Andrew F. Schoeppel, other dignitaries and radio stars will combine to provide the fall seed festival with a program so varied that it has some special feature for all ages from the bobby soxer to her grandma. Free motion picture shows will be shown. The speaking program will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the courthouse park or in Memorial Hall in case of rain. Gov. Schoeppel’s speech will be followed by remarks by Dr. F. D. Farrell, president emeritus of Kansas State College, Dr. C. M. Miller, director of vocational education in Kansas, and A. L. Clapp of the Kansas crop improvement association. They

will discuss various aspects of the certified seed program. Local experts believe that use of proper seeds would increase Allen County’s agricultural return by at least $1 million annually. The climax of the entertainment will be a dance at Memorial Hall. ***** Dr. A. C. Scott, Oklahoma City scholar and writer, was presented the University of Kansas Alumni Association meritorious award for distinguished service in Oklahoma City today. The elderly scholar, who has created a large part of Oklahoma’s cultural and intellectual history, was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1877 and received his master’s degree in 1880. He was named Oklahoma’s most useful citizen in 1937. A native of Iola, he is the brother of the late publisher of the Iola Register, Charles F. Scott. ***** Brace Rowley, county agent at Clay County, will come to Allen County to succeed W. A. Goodbary as Farm Bureau agent. Goodbary has accepted a position as head of the Extension dairy department at the University of Arkansas.

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Sweet treats Square B 4-H members gathered en masse Friday to deliver cookies to Iola’s four banks, Landmark National Bank, Community National Bank, Great Southern Bank and Emprise Bank, as a token of their appreciation for the support each financial institution provides the 4-H programs. Here, the 4-H’ers deliver their cookies to Landmark. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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“Some of you have said you can’t go to your mosque to pray, or that you can’t go to your homes because you are afraid,” Utz said. “But we and the sheriff and the FBI are here to say that you are safe in Garden City, and safe in the United States of America.”

Dalma Ali Warsame, a 34-year-old Somalian, said Somalia had no government “and no safety,” which was why he came to the U.S. Now he has a wife and two daughters, ages 1 and 3, who are frightened, as is he.

Mahad Jama, a Somalian who works at Tyson, said he has always felt welcomed.

“I see white people at Tyson, at the gas station, everywhere, and everyone is my friend. I don’t know what’s going on here,” he said.

John Doll, a former Garden City mayor and candidate for the Kansas Senate in the November election, said he was told he was one of the targets discussed by the group.

“This is terrible, because these people they targeted are great people; they work hard, pay taxes, obey the laws,” he said. “Why would anyone want to hurt them?”

Debra Bolton has studied the immigrant populations for years, currently for Kansas State University and said

U.S. Attorney Tom Beall in Wichita on Friday announcing charges in a suspected domestic terrorism plot. Bo Rader/Wichita Eagle/TNS 35 languages and dialects besides English are spoken in Garden City schools. Of the 40,000 people in Finney County, only 46 percent are of white European descent, and there are about 500 Somalians, she said.

“This is devastating to

the community,” she said.

Mohamad Saufar, a 13-year-old Malaysian Muslim who lives across the street from the targeted apartments, said his mother won’t let him play outside now. His 9-year-old sister tried to reassure him.

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The question is when does information coming from a tipster become part of the defense process.

Officials are keen to protect the identify of informants. Judges typically review tipped information ahead of time and decide whether some should be redacted. That leads to a clean paper trail from judge to prosecutor to investigators, and later defense attorneys.

That approach protects officers who might tend to withhold tipped information and then be impeached for untruthfulness.

CARTER mentioned some cases that Crime Stoppers members should take to heart.

In Dallas a tip was to be examined, with redaction of parts a possibility, when the Crime Stoppers group was unable to produce the information, claiming the tip stored in computer had been destroyed by a virus. The lost information could have affected the outcome of the trial, Carter said.

Further, Carter said legal standards of a defendant’s right to face his accuser may be precluded by an informant not necessarily being a witness.

Such was the case in Texas where robbers used a pick ax to kill a convenience store clerk. The pick ax was left behind when it became embedded in the floor. The owner of the tool was traced and arrested. Then, an informant gave officers verifiable information that the pick ax had been stolen. The owner was freed.

Finally, Carter said prosecutors and courts, in their zeal to protect the identity of informants have gone so far as to dismiss cases rather than reveal a name.

That happened in a case, again in Texas, where a man faced felony charges and was released rather than violate anonymity of the person giving the tip. Poetic justice was served, he said, when the former defendant slammed his vehicle into a road-side tree, driving while drunk, and was killed.

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pick up enough seats to keep conservatives from controlling each chamber on their own and to form governing coalitions with GOP moderates.

The scenario is plausible because 14 conservatives lost legislative seats in the August primary.

State Rep. Melissa Rooker, of Fairway, a moderate GOP leader, said the message from voters has been clear and simple: “Fix it.”

“We have deep problems,” she said. “They see the potential harm to the things they value, quality public schools and the amenities that make up what we refer to as quality of life. And public safety, good roads — all of those things matter.”

Brownback successfully pushed GOP legislators in 2012 and 2013 to slash personal income taxes, in a nationally watched experiment aimed at stimulating the economy.

He won re-election in 2014 by telling voters that economic growth would protect schools, roads and social services.

But Kansas has struggled to balance its budget since the first income tax cuts. The state faces at least a $60 million shortfall in its current budget and spending cuts in the fiscal year that begins in July 2017. A coming state Supreme Court ruling on a lawsuit filed by four school districts also could direct lawmakers to boost funding for public schools.

The term-limited governor blames the state’s fiscal woes on sluggishness in parts of the economy affecting many states, particularly agriculture and energy production.

Still, anti-Brownback voters are aligning with other anti-incumbent voters who “just feel uncomfortable” about the budget, said Clay Barker, the state GOP’s executive director.

“I’ve heard it from all sides: We’re living on the

fiscal edge,” Barker said.

Brownback allies such as state House Appropriations Committee Chairman Ron Ryckman Jr., a conservative Olathe Republican, argue that there’s plenty of room to eliminate duplicate programs and make government agencies more efficient.

And critics such as Democratic state Sen. Laura Kelly, of Topeka, expect Brownback to propose diverting highway funds to school funding or other programs, which he and other governors have done repeatedly. Democrats and moderate Republicans are campaigning against continued “raids” on transportation.

Incumbents and challengers in both parties have advocated reversing a key Brownback policy, a personal income tax exemption for more than 330,000 farmers and business owners. They argue that it’s grossly unfair for lawyers, doctors and accountants to avoid paying state income taxes while their secretaries and assistants still do. The governor so far has strongly defended the policy as pro-growth.

Eliminating the exemption could raise $200 million a year — not enough to address the budget gaps seen by Brownback’s critics. Kelly acknowledged, “We’re going to have to do more.”

“What I’ve been telling folks is that we ought to take this opportunity to do a comprehensive reform of our tax structure,” Kelly said. Rooker agreed.

Other Brownback critics argue for repealing most or all of the personal income tax cuts the governor has championed.

Besides the exemption for farmers and business owners, the state dropped its top personal income tax rate by 29 percent, to 4.6 percent.

State Democratic Party Chairman Lee Kinch said

the pre-Brownback top rate of 6.45 percent was “hardly confiscatory” for wealthy taxpayers.

“We have a revenue problem, and any thoughtful, decent individual would agree with that,” Kinch said.

Brownback has given no sign that he’s ready to go along. But House

Majority Leader Jene Vickrey, a conservative Louisburg Republican and Brownback ally, said if the governor’s critics don’t pursue a huge tax increase, they’ll have to back off what they’ve promised voters.

“There’s just no way to deny the math,” Vickrey said.

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High School Volleyball: Neodesha Tournament

Cubs take second in Neodesha Tournament NEODESHA — The Humboldt Cubs were able to reach the championship match in Saturday’s Neodesha Tournament.

The Cubs won five matches on their way to the title match against Baxter Springs by beating Southeast Cherokee, Parsons, Fredonia, Neodesha and Caney Valley.

“I was very pleased with our play,” Humboldt coach Terry

Meadows said. “We came out and played hard every match and got some quality wins.”

Sydney Houk and Kaylie Johnson each had five kills to lead the Cubs to a 25-13, 25-14 straight-set victory over Caney Valley and sophomore Aricah McCall had a strong serving game with six aces.

Against Parsons, McCall and Lizzie Myers each registered

eight kills to set the tone in a 2522, 25-18 straight-set victory and Houk added six digs while McCall had five.

Humboldt faced off with tour namenthost Neodesha next. The Cubs were able to record a 25-16, 25-20 straight-set win behind senior

Annalise Whitcomb’s 21 assists.

Myers and McCall were the primary beneficiaries of Whitcomb’s sets with six kills each.

McCall led the team in kills again in its win over Southeast Cherokee. She had nine kills and the Cubs rolled to a 25-16, 2522 straight-set victory.

“I was extremely proud of Aricah and the way she put the ball away,” Meadows said. “She

played a well-rounded game.”

Myers also added eight kills, while Whitcomb had 24 assists.

McCall and Houk each had seven kills against Fredonia as the Cubs won 25-11 and 25-11.

The Cubs settled for a runnerup finish when they lost 25-9 and 25-15 against Baxter Springs.

Senior Tilar Wells led the team with four kills in the championship match.

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National Football League: Chiefs 26, Raiders 10

Fillies go winless in tournament on Saturday

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

Chiefs outside linebacker Dee Ford celebrates sacking Raiders quarterback Derek Carr on a fourth down play in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter on Sunday at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

RIVALRY WIN Chiefs earn divisional road victory in Oakland

By JOSH DUBOW The Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — With two weeks to stew over a lopsided loss, the Kansas City Chiefs went back to basics and put together a balanced offense that allowed the running game to shine.

Spencer Ware ran for a career-high 131 yards and a touchdown, Alex Smith picked apart Oakland’s struggling defense and the Kansas City

College Football: OU 38, KSU 17

Wildcats fall to Sooners

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Kansas State wide receiver Dominique Heath (4) is hoisted into the air by teammates after a touchdown in the fourth quarter against Oklahoma on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla. The host Sooners won, 38-17. Bo Rader/

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College Football: Baylor, KU

Baylor blasts Kansas

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By STEPHEN HAWKINS The Associated Press

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Baker Mayfield and Dede Westbrook have become a dynamic duo for the Oklahoma Sooners.

Mayfield completed all but six of his 31 passes for 346 yards and four touchdowns, Westbrook had nine receptions for 184 yards and three scores and No. 19 Oklahoma pulled away to beat Kansas State 38-17 on Saturday.

One week after Mayfield passed for 390 yards and Westbrook had a school-record 232

Chiefs shut out Derek Carr and the Raiders in the second half of a 26-10 victory Sunday.

“That’s the game we play,” said defensive lineman Dontari Poe, who got into the act on offense with a TD run of his own.

“You come out sometimes and it doesn’t go your way, but you got to make sure it goes your way the next time. Can’t keep on the downward

GARNETT — The grind that has been the Iola Fillies’ volleyball season continued with three tough losses on Saturday in the Anderson County Invitational in Garnett.

The Fillies, who now own a 9-18 record this season, failed to take a set from the tough competition in Garnett.

Iola’s day began with an opponent they have unfortunately become very familiar with this season.

Burlington is the No. 2 team in the state in Class 4A-II and were able to flex their muscle against the Fillies again with 25-11 and 25-7 victories in a straight-set win. The victory is the Wildcats’ fifth against the Fillies this season.

The road got no easier against Independence. The Bulldogs were a new opponent this season for the Fillies, but Iola was unable to bounce back from the Burlington match and they lost in straight sets, 25-10, 25-9.

“Independence is young,” Iola coach Jeff Fehr said.

“One of their best players is a freshman. At the beginning of the year, I said that we weren’t blessed with much size and

Cornerback Ryan Reid and No. 11 Baylor will enjoy their upcoming open date a little more than the last one.

Reid returned the first of his two interceptions 64 yards for a touchdown , quarterback Seth Russell accounted for four touchdowns playing only a half, and Shock Linwood earned the school record for career rushing touchdowns in the Bears’ 49-7 win over Kansas on Saturday.

“We were just trying to make a statement. A lot of people they thought that Iowa State game, that’s who we are, which it’s not,”

Reid said, referring to a 4542 win two weeks ago in the last game when Baylor’s only lead came on a gameending field goal. “We had to make a statement with our next game, and Kansas was in the way.”

Baylor (6-0, 3-0 Big 12), which now has another open date, led 42-0 after Russell’s last pass, a 4-yard TD to Ishmael Zamora with 1:45 left in the first half. KD Cannon, who missed the last game with a groin injury, turned a short pass into a 59-yard score.

A week after almost beating TCU at home, Kansas (1-5, 0-3) had five turnovers that led to 21 points for the See KU | Page B4

Iola sophomore Piper Moore goes for a kill against Fort Scott on Saturday in the Anderson County Invitational.

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By ROBYN DIXON Los Angeles Times

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (TNS) — When the Nigerian military drove Boko Haram from the towns it had claimed for its self-declared caliphate, life got much worse for Fatima Ahmadu.

Like so many other women and girls stolen by the militants during years of attacks on civilians, she was taken to a camp in the Sambisa Forest, near the border with Cameroon.

There, the 40-year-old mother of seven was imprisoned in a pit until she agreed to marry a fighter who went by the name Abu Sata.

“It was suffering upon suffering. He was always threatening me, saying he knew I wanted to escape,” Ahmadu said of the man she was forced to marry.

One afternoon, she tried to creep away but was caught by the group’s religious police, the hisbah, who began flogging her.

“My prayers were answered and a plane dropped a bomb as they were beating me, and everybody ran away,” she said. “That’s when I escaped.”

Ahmadu is one of hundreds of abducted women and girls from three northeastern states who have staggered to freedom in recent months, many of them pregnant or carrying babies fathered by Boko Haram fighters.

This past week, 21 girls taken from their school dormitories in the town of Chibok in 2014 were freed after negotiations between the Nigerian government and the militants. But nearly 200 others captured with them are still missing, and some are believed to have died.

The world has followed the fate of the Chibok girls. But theirs is just part of a larger tragedy: Thousands of other women and girls in northeastern Nigeria were also abducted and forced into marriages to Boko Haram fighters.

They tell harrowing stories of friends and neighbors killed for refusing to accept marriage to a fighter or for trying to escape, and of beatings for small infractions.

Many of them were seized when Boko Haram took control of their towns in 2014 and 2015, and then incarcerated in packed houses.

As the group retreated under government fire, they endured terrifying bombing raids, hunger and disease alongside their captors.

Ahmadu had already been abandoned by the father of her children when a convoy of Boko Haram fighters attacked her village of Pulka 22 months ago. They unleashed a storm of killing.

“They killed (people) any way they found them, either slitting their throats, or shooting them, or beheading them, or hacking them with machetes,” she said. “The whole place was burning.”

She was spared because she is a Muslim who speaks the same Kanuri dialect as the fighters. But her Christian neighbors were

Fatima, 20, was a keen school student when she was kidnapped by Nigerian militants, Boko Haram, from her town in north eastern Nigeria, two years ago and forced into marriage. “They just took me away.

They said come, we are going to take you to where you will learn more. I felt like they were killing me,” she says. The child in her arms is the daughter of the fighter forced on her. Robyn Dixon/Los Angeles Times/TNS dragged from their house and shot dead in front of her. When she tried to plead their case, she said, the fighters threatened to kill her, too.

After Boko Haram had control of the town, the militants called everyone to the main square to witness the execution of a prisoner, a member of a community resistance force.

They also amputated the hands of five accused thieves, and then plunged the severed limbs into a pot of boiling fat.

Ahmadu managed to scrape together enough money to buy her children’s freedom and get them out of Pulka. But she said she couldn’t afford the face-covering veil that the militants insisted she buy from them before they would let her go.

She is now recovering from her ordeal at a camp in the northeastern city of Maiduguri that is full of people who fled Boko Haram.

A disquieting aspect of the tragedy has been the differing responses by government officials and the global community to the Chibok girls compared with the thousands of other abductees.

One example is the lengths to which the Nigerian authorities have gone to recover the Chibok girls, including negotiations with Boko Haram for the first time.

Other abductees had to escape on their own or wait for a military rescue.

When Hadiza Mala smuggled her four children out of a Boko Haram camp with another woman, the fighters tied her down under the blazing sun for a day.

Mala, another abandoned wife, was unaware that her new husband was a Boko Haram commander when she married him in a village outside the town of Gwoza. Horrified when she found his gun, she said she reported him to local authorities, who did nothing.

Her husband’s fighters threatened to kill her for betraying him and told her she would never escape.

Two years ago, her husband took her into the forest after the military attacked their village.

“My children were enrolled in a Boko Haram indoctrination school.

We were kept in harrowing conditions, in a hut

with spikes around it,” said Mala, 40.

“I saw them beating and humiliating so many other women.

They even took some of them into the bush and killed them.”

She finally escaped when the fighters were away on a night attack, and the guards who were supposing to be watching the camp had fallen asleep.

Another difference between the Chibok girls and the many others who suffered the same fate is their treatment after being freed.

The Chibok girls were flown to Nigeria’s capital, where a team of doctors and trauma counselors waited. Other abductees said they were placed in military detention camps and interrogated before being released into displacement camps.

When 14-year-old Yakaka was seized from a village near Bama, one of the towns hit hardest by Boko Haram, the fighters, who oppose Western-style education, told her they were taking her away so that she could learn the Koran.

She said every fighter in the Boko Haram camp had a wife, most of whom were abducted. She was married to a man named Modu Gana.

“I never liked him,” said Yakaka, her expression numb and her voice a soft monotone. “I was forcefully married, and if I refused, I would have been killed. I did it to survive.”

The Los Angeles Times is withholding her surname because she is a minor and a sexual assault victim.

There was little food at the Sambisa camp and no medicine.

“There were problems like typhoid and yellow fever and all kinds of sicknesses,” Yakaka said. “People died.”

She escaped with several other girls by convincing the fighters that they loved their “husbands,” but wanted to visit their home village for a day.

They trekked through the bush until they met Nigerian soldiers and surrendered to them.

They were then placed in the notorious Giwa military detention camp and interrogated for two months.

Yakaka was released from detention last week and sent to another displaced persons’ camp in Maiduguri.

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Dear Dr. Roach: What is a fractured penis?

— R.C. Answer: The word “fractured” isn’t accurate, because there are no bones in the penis.

Erections are due to the pressure of the corpus cavernosum being engorged with blood, much like a water balloon. The blood is held under pressure by the tunica albuginea. Under blunt trauma, the tunica albuginea ruptures, often with an audible “pop.” This is immediately followed by pain and swelling.

Use of medications like Viagra may increase the risk of penile fracture. It is an uncommon, but not rare, condition. Urgent surgical

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health evaluation to consider repair is recommended.

Without surgery, longterm complications include pain, scarring and loss of function.

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your recent column on inflammatory bowel syndrome, which I have had for years. I could not go out to eat without having to go to the restroom before leaving. It got so bad that I couldn’t go to weddings, picnics, etc.

I started using Metamucil, which did help and made life better, but still

I never knew when the cramps and gas would flare up. Then my doctor told me that daily probiotics might help.

At that point, I was willing to try anything. He stated that all probiotics work the same, so there is no need to buy the most expensive. I started taking them every day, and though it didn’t help overnight, the doctor did say to take them for at least a month to see if it works.

What a different world for me. I am 95 percent better! No more cramps that would double me over, no more diarrhea that would leave me exhausted for days, and no more vomiting!

I was hoping you could tell your readers of my experience and what a difference it has made

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in my life. Hopefully we can help other people.

— Anon.

Answer: The evidence to support the effectiveness of probiotics in irritable bowel syndrome is mixed, but I have had some patients with improvements as remarkable as yours. However, it has been my experience that it may matter what type of probiotic you use. I have seen a few people not respond at all to one type and then have a good response to a different one (the difference is the type or types of healthy bacteria used). I think probiotics are a very reasonable option for people who do not respond to lifestyle and dietary changes.

Sister dynamics need readjustment Dear Carolyn: I have always been the smart one. The sister was an average student, and I have always excelled in all areas of academia.

This sounds conceited, I know, and I’m not writing off my sibling. She has many talents that I simply don’t possess, like the ability to make people feel comfortable.

My problem is that my sister despises me for my brains. I started school a year early, putting me just a grade behind her, although there is more than two years’ difference in age between us. I got better grades and more awards, and the attention paid to my successes made her feel horrible. After graduation, she became a hairstylist and insists she loves her job. I went on to college. I am 19 and about to begin my junior year.

I love my university and my studies, but every time I mention school in any way (an organization, a football game, a paper that’s due) my sister bashes the school and reminds everyone

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax that she is out in the world earning money, not just studying “useless abstract things.”

She has even become a fan of our rival school’s football team!

I try to avoid these “trigger” topics, but academics are my life. I want to pursue a career in research and teaching. I hate that my abilities have poisoned our relationship, but I think this is her problem, not mine. If she is as contented with her life as she claims to be, then she shouldn’t feel the need to bad-mouth my studies. How do I make the insults stop?

— L. L.: How can I make the simplistic assumptions stop?

Maybe you were born many points brighter than your sister, and

maybe that alone is what cut you out to be an academic to her mocker of all things abstract.

Maybe, instead, you and she are a lot like most other people, whose adult selves are a result of countless influences large and small, natural and nurtured, chosen and coincidental, under noses and out of view.

Maybe, for example, you babbled a 10-cent word at a surprising age, and your parents weren’t familiar with the hazards of drawing lifelong conclusions about intelligence in young children and used mistaken assumptions to pop you into kindergarten at 4 and raise you to think you were brainy — at least compared with your sister — and, as a result, both of you built lives around ideas of your intelligence that don’t track with your actual gifts. Maybe you’re both equally smart. Maybe she’s the “smart one,” but bloomed late and was never trained or

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Not to make them the villains; they could have had the best of intentions to give each of you the right encourage­ ment for what they perceived to be each of your strengths, and merely were wrong in what they perceived.

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yards receiving, they were electric once again as Oklahoma (4-2, 3-0 Big 12) won its third straight game after starting out 1-2.

When Mayfield hit a wide open Westbrook for an 88-yard touchdown — the longest pass play at home and fourth-longest overall in Oklahoma history — in the fourth quarter, it was Westbrook’s eighth TD in the last three games, a new school record.

“Two talented guys,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. “Of course, Baker’s just great. I’m just looking at 25 out of 31 — that’s a great day against a good defense. And then Dede’s just got that speed and polish in his route running to get open.”

With Samaje Perine sidelined by a muscle injury in the first quarter, Joe Mixon stepped up for Oklahoma. He rushed for 88 yards, caught three passes for 34 yards and a touchdown and became the first Sooners running back since Joe Washington in 1973 to throw a touchdown pass. The 26-yarder to Westbrook in the second quarter put the Sooners ahead 21-7.

“We trust Joe,” Mayfield said. “We were able to come out there and still run the same plays, even when Samaje wasn’t out there, so that’s why you saw some success in our passing game because those guys were still worried about our run game.”

Stoops noted that Perine was held out for precautionary reasons.

“Samaje just had a slight pulled muscle, and if forced to play, he could have,” Stoops said. “We wanted to see if we could get away with it, and hopefully allow it to heal this week.”

Kansas State (3-3, 1-2) had its own injury issues as starting quarterback Jesse Ertz left for good just after halftime with an apparent problem with his right throwing shoulder. He completed 8 of 14 passes for 68 yards and ended the game as the Wildcats’ leading rusher with 40 yards and a touchdown on seven carries.

Joe Hubener came in and threw for 157 yards on 12 of 23 passes, with a spectacular 54-yard touchdown to Dominique Heath early in the fourth quarter that pulled KState to within 31-17.

Heath ended up with seven receptions for 101 yards, both career-highs.

“It’s never as good as I would like,” Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said of his quarterbacks. “I think Jesse did some good things, Joe did some good things, but they made some mistakes. It’s still a work in progress.”

TAKEAWAY Kansas State: K-State entered the game with the Big 12’s top defense, allowing just 17.6 points and 310.2 yards per game, but Oklahoma had 21 points less than five minutes into the second quarter and piled up 510 total yards.

“You have to stay aggressive against a defense like K-State,” said Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley. “If you start to get conservative and hand it off every time, they will prey on you, and they’ve done it against everybody, they’re one of the best run defenses in the country.”

UP NEXT Kansas State: The Wildcats host Texas next Saturday.

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when we run up against size, we get hurt.”

Iola’s day ended when they faced Fort Scott in their third and final match of pool play.

The Fillies continued to struggle offensively and lost to the Tigers in straight sets.

It would be nice if Iola’s schedule would lighten up, but playing against the 2016 Pioneer League volleyball slate offers no favors.

“I would stack the toughness of our schedule against any team in the state, including 5A and 6A,” Fehr said. “It can be demoralizing at times. Sometimes we are able to rise to the challenge and sometimes we dread it. We are an onand-off team.”

After traveling to Burlington for matches on Tuesday, Iola will be placed in the toughest sub-state assignment in the state.

Joining the Fillies in their Burlington location on Saturday will be Topeka-Hayden, the No. 1 team in the state; Burlington, the No. 2 team in the state; and Santa Fe Trail, the No. 5 team in the state.

It is a tough road to be sure, but Fehr hopes that his senior-laden team will be able to rise to the remarkable challenge and acquit themselves well.

“We have to get past this tournament because Tuesday we go to Burlington and then we get ready for sub-state,” Fehr said.

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spiral. You got to get it back up.”

In their first game since getting blown out by 29 points in Pittsburgh two weeks ago, the Chiefs (3-2) efficiently handled a Raiders team that had overcome defensive shortcomings with a big-play offense to lead the AFC West.

Smith completed 19 of 22 passes for 224 yards and the Chiefs forced two turnovers

by Carr to dampen a fast start to the season by the Raiders (42), who are trying to end a 13-year playoff drought.

“I felt like we did a great job taking our shot today and when we did, hitting them,” Smith said. “But certainly the running game got us going and staying with that.

Those guys drove it down in the beginning.”

Marcus Peters set up Ware’s TD run with an early interception of Carr and Dee Ford forced a fumble from Carr in the fourth quarter to end any hopes of a late comeback.

After allowing a touchdown on the opening drive, the Chiefs held the Raiders

by Sebastian Janikowski that cut Kansas City’s lead to 13-10 at the half.

All that momentum was erased when Kansas City took the second-half kickoff and drove down for a touchdown.

“To come out and let them go right down the field to start the second half, that’s a major can’t do,” coach Jack Del Rio said.

Kansas City Chiefs inside linebacker Derrick Johnson knocks down Oakland Raiders defensive back SaQwan Edwards in the fourth quarter on Sunday in Oakland, Calif. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS to one field goal the rest of the way.

“It hurts man,” Carr said. “We didn’t do good enough at all. That was bad. That was a bad performance by us.”

BIG-MAN TD The 346-pound Poe showed off some versatility. With the Chiefs facing 3rd-and-goal from the 1 in the third quarter, Poe came in as an eligible receiver. He initially lined up in the backfield before shifting out wide right. He then took a lateral from Smith and bulled with way into the end zone for the TD . It was the first TD

run by a defensive player since Poe had won last year against San Diego.

“I’m taking credit for that one for all the chubby guys out there,” coach Andy Reid said. “He’s got phenomenal hands. ... It’s just a matter of looking it in, be patient and then cut the beast loose.”

WELCOME BACK After getting only two carries in his first game back from a torn ACL, Jamaal Charles played a bigger role this week. He scored his first TD since Sept. 28, 2015, with a 4-yard run midway through the second quarter. Charles

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Bears. The Jayhawks have lost 15 Big 12 games in a row, and dropped 36 consecutive road games since winning at UTEP seven years ago.

“We made some strides last week, and then today we took several steps back. That’s my responsibility,” second-year Kansas coach David Beaty said of the Jayhawks offense, which had only 217 total yards.

Russell had two touchdown runs in the first quarter, with Reid’s TD return coming between those.

Now 14-0 when starting for Baylor, Russell was 9-of-22 passing for 144 yards. He led baylor with 68 yards rushing, and got flipped after he leaped in the end zone for a 26-yard TD when converting a fourthand-3 to make it 21-0 in the first quarter Linwood’s 4-yard score on the first play after a Kansas fumble was his 36th career rushing touchdown and broke a tie with

Alfred Anderson for the most in school history.

Linwood was already the career rushing leader for the Bears.

Reid returned his second pick 52 yards to the Jayhawks 19, but Baylor

then had the first of its three missed field goals.

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finished with nine carries for 33 yards and two catches for 14 yards.

QUICK TURNAROUND Just when it looked as if the Chiefs would add on to a 13-7 lead late in the first half, there was a major momentum shift.

Spencer Ware was stopped for a 2-yard loss on thirdand-1 by Stacy McGee and Cairo Santos missed a 38yard field goal. The Raiders took over with 25 seconds left and one timeout.

But Carr quickly completed three passes for 44 yards and then spiked the ball with 1 second left, setting up a 46-yard field goal

HOMECOMING For the second straight year, Peters had an interception in his return to his hometown. Peters left the game for a bit in the second half to go through the concussion protocol, but was cleared and able to return.

FAST START The Raiders jumped out early, thanks to a 50-yard return of the opening kick by Jalen Richard. Carr completed four of five passes on the ensuing drive, including a 3-yarder to Andre Holmes that made it 7-0 with Oakland’s second first-drive TD of the season. That was about it for highlights for the Raiders as Carr struggled in the rain and wasn’t helped by dropped third-down passes from Seth Roberts and Richard.