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Still a teacher IMS instructor adjusts to life after stroke

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

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or 24 years, Iola Middle School history teacher Mark Boyd delivered his lessons while standing at the front of his classroom.

He looked upon a sea of rambunctious eighth grade faces, watching through the course of the school year as they transitioned from children to teenagers on the cusp of adulthood.

He kept a watchful eye on the students in the back of the classroom, ready to intervene if they started to act up.

He delighted as their conversations evolved into more a mature understanding of the world around them.

Now, his perspective has changed.

He spends most of his time seated in a wheelchair, after a stroke last summer left him with very limited control of the left side of his body. His new vantage point doesn’t allow him to see the back of the classroom. He has to trust those kids to behave.

Mark Boyd works in his history classroom at Iola Middle School. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS He’s had to adapt his teaching style, with more discussion and fewer hands-on or group activities.

He even sees the students a little differently. They’re still

kids, of course. They still have moments when they misbehave. They struggle to fit into an ever-changing world with the new challenges that come from social

media, bullying and the like.

But they understand his condition more than he expected.

“I have an uncle who had a stroke,” one student told him.

For another, it was a grandparent. Others watched family members and friends cope with a variety of ailments.

They can relate. They are sympathetic.

They encourage him. They ask for regular updates on his physical therapy and cheer his progress.

“I don’t know that we’ve gotten into it too deeply, but they are not totally mystified,” he said. “I told them, I don’t really understand what happened to my brain.”

He also has the encouragement of his fellow teachers, staff and school administrators. During his recovery, Principal Brad Crusinbery and his wife, IMS counselor Stacey, were among the many friends and family members who pitched into take care of the Boyd home and animals.

And the support continues when Mark travels to Allen County Regional Hospital for physical therapy. Therapist Ben Taylor is a parent of children Mark has taught.

Another therapist, Drew Mueller, is a former student.

They know him on a deeper See BOYD | Page A5

Late swoon sinks Mustangs

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Legislative forum Monday Kansas lawmakers Kent Thompson and Kenneth Collins will be in Iola Monday as part of a legislative forum sponsored by Allen County Farm Bureau.

The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Iola Senior Citizens Center, 204 N. Jefferson.

Both Thompson and Collins represent Allen County in the Kansas House of Representatives.

Kansas Sen. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker, will be unable to attend in person because of a schedule conflict in Topeka.

However, she will be able to participate in the forum via telephone.

The public is invited.

Recalling Allen County’s rip-roaring, bootlegging past

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

A new window display at the Allen County Historical Museum marks the 100th anniversary of the days when it was illegal to make or sell alcohol in Kansas and across the US. The exhibit features an antique “still” and bottles being smashed, along with angrily crumpled copies of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which outlawed all “hooch,” “spirits” or “sauce.”

Prohibition was Kansas law from 1881 to 1948, longer than any state in the nation, but a federal ban was not ratified until Jan. 16, 1919.

In The Annals of Allen County, an entry from that date reads: “Constitutional prohibition is effective at midnight tonight … and declares places where liquor is sold to be common nuisances.”

Leading up to this legislation, “dry” Protestants and social Progressives from Vol. 121, No. 312 Iola, KS 75 Cents

A window display at the Allen County Historical Society Museum marks the 100th anniversary of prohibition. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG the Prohibition, Democratic, and Republican parties had joined together in opposition to the beer industry as well as “wet” Catholics and German Lutherans, the former convinced that an end to alcohol would curtail many of society’s evils.

Given these political diSee ALCOHOL | Page A8

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Barbara Bollier, candidate for U.S. Senate, addresses Iolans during a campaign visit Friday. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Senate hopeful makes campaign stop in Iola

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

A doctor’s job is to listen, gather data, assess the situation and collaborate with others to find a solution.

Kansas Sen. Barbara Bollier, a retired anesthesiologist, said she wants to take that same policy to Washington D.C. as a U.S. Senator.

Bollier, a former Republican now running as to be the Democratic Party nominee for Kansas in the U.S. Senate, spoke to Allen County residents Friday morning at Around the Corner.

Bollier is considered the likely Democratis nominee, and she said she expects Kris Kobach to win the nod from the Republican Party. Kobach

ran for Kansas governor in 2018 and lost to Democrat Laura Kelly, which gives Bollier hope that she might also be able to convince Kansans to give her a chance.

Bollier was elected as a Republican to the Kansas House of Representatives in 2010 and then to the Kansas Senate See BOLLIER | Page A4

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Obituary Sam Tressler Samantha Lynn “Sam� Tressler, 50, of Yates Center, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, at her home.

She was born Dec. 20, 1969, in Topeka, the daughter of Grayden and Willena (Holloway) Tressler.

Sam grew up on the family farm near Colony. She loved the farm and Sam Tressler helped care for the animals and with the farming. She graduated from Crest High School in 1988 where she was a cheerleader. As a child she was a member of the Northcott Church where she was active in the youth group and enjoyed singing.

Following high school she earned an Associate Degree at Allen Community College in Iola.

She became the mother of three beautiful children, Austin, Sharayah, and Zachariah. Her life was centered on her children and family. She was a selfless, loving person who never said anything bad about anyone and had a love for people that was sincere.

After moving to Yates Center she was a member of the Assembly of God Church until it closed.

She leaves her children, Austin Holmquest of Yates Center, Sharayah Johnson and husband Taylor of Wamego, and Zachariah Holmquest (a new airman of the United States Airforce) and wife Caitlyn of Yates Center; her parents, Grayden and Willena Tressler of Yates Center; brothers Doug Tressler (Pam) of Yates Center and Brian Tressler (Michele) of Wichita; and she has her first grandchild (grandson) on the way in March. Also little Baby Johnson, whom she already adored and loved unconditionally.

Cremation is planned. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Campbell Funeral Home in Yates Center. Inurnment will immediately follow the service at Colony Cemetery in Colony.

Memorial contributions may be made to ACARF (Allen County Animal Rescue Facility) 305 HWY 54, LaHarpe, KS 66751, or may be sent in care of Campbell Funeral Home, PO Box 188, Yates Center, KS 66783.

Police reports Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested Dale A. McDown and Theresa A. Walker, both of Iola, Thursday for suspicion of domestic battery in the 800 block of East Street.

Michael Craig, Iola, was arrested for a warrant out of Allen County District Court Thursday in the 700 block of North Jefferson Avenue.

Roy Poffenbarger, 62, Iola, was arrested Wednesday in the 200 block of North First Street for suspicion of criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct.

Officers arrested Steven R. Sinclair for probation violation Wednesday morning in the 200 block of South Tennessee Street.

Justin Robers, 31, Iola, was arrested for suspicion of being a pedestrian under the influence following a disturbance Tuesday in the 300 block of West Madison Avenue.

Juveniles cited A noise complaint to police Wednesday evening led officers to the 100 block of White Boulevard, where 10 individuals were cited for consuming alcohol as minors.

Fake bill found Officers were told Tuesday a fraudulent $20 bill had been passed at Pump N Pete’s in the 200 block of South State Street. An investigation continues.

Vehicles collide Brooklyn M. Whitcomb, 28, was backing her vehicle from a parking stall in the 500 block of Kennedy Drive Monday, when she collided with a passing pickeup driven by Melissa A. Seeber, 36.

Neither was injured, nor was a child in Whitcomb’s car. All were properly restrained, Iola police officers said.

Guardrail work slated to begin GARNETT — The Kansas Department of Transportation will replace guardrail sections along a seven-mile stretch of U.S. 59, starting Tuesday.

Eight guardrails will be replaced between Garnett’s north city limits and the AndersonFranklin county line.

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Flaggers will direct one-lane traffic through the work zones. Brief delays are expected.

Leavenworth Excavating & Equipment, Leavenworth, is in charge of the $494,000 project.

The road work is expected to be finished by mid-April.

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DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Civil cases filed: David L. Harris vs. Amanda Julian, divorce Leslie E. Rowe vs. Joshua L. Rowe, protection from stalking State of Kansas ex rel DCF vs. Christina E. Mynatt Joanne M. Michael vs.

Rick J. Michael, divorce Deutsche Bank National Trust Company vs. Johnny and Barbara Branstetter, et al, mortgage foreclosure Marriage licenses issued: Stefanie Anderson and Steven C. Slyter MAGISTRATE COURT Judge Tod Davis Convicted of no seat belt and fined $30: John L. Holroyd, Erie Cody L. Pass, Chanute Brooklyn D. Thron, Wichita Adrienne R. Wahl, Chanute Convicted of speeding: Martin R. Trujillo, Kansas City, Kan., 80/65, $183 Joel D. Crider, Bonner Springs, 75/65, $153 Casey D. Brown, Louisburg, 75/65, $153 Richard L. Hacker, Cushing, Okla., 82/65, $195 Bryan R. Hitchens, Owasso, Okla., 73/55, $201 Ernest L. Herman, Richmond, Texas, 75/65, $153 Darrell W. Herrington III, Tulsa, Okla., 75/65, $153 Leanna C. Ribbeck, Oswego, 85/65, $213

Sharrell S. Williams, Brooklyn Park, Minn., 89/65, $249 Benjamin T. Hillmon, Chanute, 75/65, $153 Richard L. Bevans Jr., Edna, 75/65, $153 Kevin J. Cruts, Broken Arrow, Okla., 75/65, $153 Shanna M. Stewart, Osawatomie, 75/65, $153 Mark W. Musselman, Collinsville, Okla., 75/65, $153 Tamara Childs, Raymore, Mo., 75/65, $153 Convicted as follows: Lena M. Howington, Garnett, no driver’s license, no seatbelt, $238 Brent L. Newman, Iola, transporting an open container, $208 Brandon S. Stover, Moran, battery, $568 Hollis F. Grewing, Iola, possession of drug paraphernalia, two charges, $1,136 Michael J. Houk, Iola, no driver’s license, no ignition interlock device, $518, nine months probation Angel L. Morales, Iola, no registration, no driver’s license, $328 Nicholas M. Lehman, Iola, failure to stop at inspection station, $395 Carrie D. Armer, Osawatomie, no child passenger restraint, $168 Michael A. Johnson, Yates Center, no seatbelt, no insurance, $438 Clifton G. Yeager, Le Roy, display license plate not assigned, $228 Barbara A. Cannady,

Mulvane, driving on left in no-passing zone, $183 Harry C. Lynn Jr., Coffeyville, 81/65, no seatbelt, $219 Cases deferred with fines assessed: Tyrell O. Yelm, Iola, DUI, transporting an open container, $1,528 Failed to appear: Blayke Reynolds, Iola, expired registration, no notice of change of address or name, failure to signal, $547 Brandon J. Towne, Iola, no driver’s license, failure to yield, $303 Ashley N. Green, Broken Arrow, Okla., passing on left with insufficient clearance, $183 Joshua R. Jones, Iola, improper driving, 102/65, $727 Tracie A. Dean, Kansas City, Mo., no child passenger restraint, $168 Criminal cases filed: Matthew K.W. Wells, Iola, criminal damage, domestic battery Erin L. Johnson, Iola, four counts of violation of a protection order Jason M. Roush, Chanute, DUI, transportation of an open container, possession of a firearm while under the influence Kaleb W. Sellers, Iola, aggravated burglary, aggravated battery Aubrey M. Naff, Humboldt, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia

Storm A. Acklin, Yates Center, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia Grant L. Holman, Veguita, N.M., traffic contraband in a correctional facility, possession of drug paraphernalia Tyler B.G. Clark, Spring, Texas, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia Dakota J. Westhoff, Walnut, DUI, possession of a firearm under the influence Tessa J. Thomas, Garnett, possession of drug paraphernalia, no valid driver’s license, no proof of insurance Contract cases filed: Rent A Center West Inc., vs. Angel Kilbury Azura Credit Union vs.

Gregory A. Marquez and Nancy L. Vest Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Raymond L. Branstetter Midland Credit Management Inc., vs. Cindy Liles LVNV Funding LLC vs.

Maria Hernandez Allen County Hospital vs.

Deanna R. Edwards IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted of speeding: Maggie F. Johnson, Humboldt, 34/25, $155 Ryan A. Stephens, Moran, 35/25, $155 Convicted as follows: Ty A. Reed, Piqua, failure to yield, $195

Donkey basketball tickets available A collection of local basketball players will get some four-legged teammates to join them on the hardwood.

A Dairyland Donkey Ball Doubleheader is on the schedule for 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at Iola High School.

The event is like most

basketball games, with one notable exception: players will ride live donkeys for the competition. The “thrill a minute, spill a minute� competition is billed as an event wilder than a rodeo and funnier than a circus.

Advance tickets are

available at the USD 257 Board of Education office, 305 N. Washington Ave., for $9 apiece for adults and $7 for students. Tickets at the door sell for $12 and $10, respectively. Preschoolers are admitted free of charge.

Free donkey rides

also will be offered to anyone 12 and under, when accompanied by parent or guardian.

Parents are welcome to bring a camera to get a photo or two of their children.

Advance tickets are available through Jan. 27.

US to screen airline passengers from China for new illness NEW YORK (AP) — Three U.S. airports will screen passengers arriving from central China for a new virus that has sickened dozens, killed two and prompted worries about an international outbreak, health officials said Friday.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say they will begin taking temperatures and asking about symptoms of passengers at three U.S. airports who traveled from the outbreak city of Wuhan.

Officials estimate

roughly 5,000 passengers will go through the process in the next couple of weeks at New York City’s Kennedy airport and the Los Angeles and San Francisco airports. The first direct flight was expected Friday night at Kennedy, and the next expected Saturday morning in San Francisco.

Doctors began seeing a new type of viral pneumonia — fever, cough, difficulty breathing — in people who worked at or visited a food market in the sub-

Quilt guild meets soon HUMBOLDT — The next meeting of The Sunflower Quilter’s Guild will be at 10 a.m.

Jan. 27 at the Humboldt United Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall, 806 N Ninth St. in Humboldt.

The board meeting

begins at 9:30 a.m.; the Guild meeting at 10 o’clock.

For the program, Carolyn Zellner of Heavenly Kneads & Threads, Humboldt, will demonstrate how to save fabric by using the Accuquilt Go! Cutter.

urbs of Wuhan late last month. More than 40 cases of the newly identified coronavirus have been confirmed in Asia, including two deaths — at least one involving a previous medical condition. Officials have said it probably spread from animals to people but haven’t been able to rule out the possibility that it spreads from person to person.

So far, the risk to the American public is deemed to be low, but the CDC wants to be prepared and is taking precautions, the CDC’s Dr. Martin Cetron said. “The earlier we detect a case, the better we can protect the public, and the more we can understand about this virus and its risk for spread,� he said in

a call with reporters.

It’s always possible a virus can mutate to become more dangerous. It’s also likely that more cases will spring up around the world, including at least one at some point in the United States, said another CDC official, Dr. Nancy Messonnier.

The CDC is sending in 100 staffers to handle the airport screenings. Passengers who seem like they might be infected will undergo testing for flu or other possible causes. The plan is to place them in isolation at a nearby hospital until doctors know what they’re dealing with, to prevent possible spread of the new virus. Specialized testing for the virus can take a day for results, CDC officials said.

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Kansas says it’s better prepared for aviation layoffs

By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press

Kansas Labor Secretary Delia Garcia said Thursday that the state is better prepared to respond to layoffs stemming from the grounding of the troubled Boeing 737 Max than it was during the Great Recession, when it had to borrow money to prop up its unemployment insurance trust fund.

That fund now has about $1 billion in it — money that could be tapped now for things such as its shared work program that helps pay worker salaries to keep them on the job. The state is working closely with Spirit and other Kansas companies in the supply chain that supply parts and labor for the 737 Max, she said.

“We took a hit,” Garcia said of the Great Recession. “We’ve been through this before and we are resilient and we got out of it ... Right

Grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington. WIKIPEDIA COMMONS now we are talking one industry, and then it was much larger. I think we are more prepared than we were then.”

Spirit AeroSystems announced last week it planned to lay off off 2,800 workers and since then at least 10

Kansas companies have inquired about that program. Labor officials had no details yet on the number of jobs that might be covered by the shared work program. They declined to identify interested companies that have

contacted them, citing the program’s confidentiality.

But Garcia said the shared work program, which lasts 26 weeks, avoids layoffs and is a huge asset to the state.

The program allows an employer to divide the

State Supreme Court finalists announced TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Court of Appeals judge, a Lawrence attorney and a veteran prosecutor now working for the attorney general’s office are finalists for a state Supreme Court seat.

A lawyer-led state nominating commission on Friday sent the candidates’ names to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. She has until March 17 to pick one,

and her selection will sit on the high court with no oversight from the Republican-controlled Legislature.

The finalists are Court of Appeals Judge Thomas Malone, Lawrence attorney Keynen Wall and Steven Obermeier, who worked three decades as a Johnson County prosecutor before becoming assistant state solicitor general in

2017.

A place on the seven-member Supreme Court is open because former Chief Justice Lawton Nuss retired in December.

It will be Kelly’s second appointment to the court after she picked District Judge Evelyn Wilson of Shawnee County in December to fill another vacancy.

Wilson plans to take her seat Jan. 24.

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Obermeier was a finalist for the first vacancy.

Malone has served on the Court of Appeals since 2003 and was a Sedgwick County district judge for 12 years before that.

Wall has been with a Kansas City-area law firm since 2015 and previously managed the Supreme Court’s office for appeals in death penalty cases.

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Youth Group Located at 322 N. Walnut.

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118S.W. Jackson 401 Walnut, IolaSt., Iola Sunday Main Worship 9 a.m. and 10:45 am of Iola The United Methodist Churches Wednesday Youth Group 6:30 p.m.

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Calvary UMC 365-3883

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Sunday Praise & Worship . . . . 9:15 a.m.

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available work among a specified group of affected employees in lieu of a layoff. Employees to receive a portion of their unemployment insurance benefits while working reduced hours.

Garcia also cited some of the other resources the state is making available to affected workers, including a mobile workforce center that the state is unveiling next week.

Spirit AeroSystems is the largest employer in Wichita, which bills itself as the “Air Capital of the World” due to a heavy concentration of aerospace manufacturers. More than 40 aerospace companies, most of them in and around Wichita, provide parts and services for the production of the 737 Max. The 737 Max was grounded worldwide in March after crashes in

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Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people.

Garcia’s visit to the Workforce Center in Wichita comes a day after local government and community leaders announced the formation of a task force comprised of 14 organizations for what officials are dubbing the “Air Capital Commitment” to coordinate services and resources available to affected companies and workers.

“We are in this together. We are a community coming together to make sure we face these troubles side by side,” Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple said. “This is not a situation where people who are impacted need to feel that they are in this alone.”

Aerospace employment in Kansas peaked in 2008, followed by a continual decline until 2017, according to the Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University. Kansas then had a big ramp-up in aerospace jobs in 2018 and 2019. The layoffs at Spirit, planned to begin Jan. 22, means Wichita has lost that employment growth in the industry and is now back at its 2017 bottom.

“This is not good news, but we have experienced real economic downturns in far more numbers of people losing their jobs,” Sedgwick County Commission Chairman Pete Meitzner said. “This is not our fault, the Max is not our fault. But we are suffering economically from it.”

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Kelly looks to tap cash reserves to balance budget

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly proposed Thursday that Kansas burn through more than half of its cash reserves to pay off some debt early while taking longer to close a longterm funding gap for the state pension system for teachers and government workers.

Kelly’s budget director, Larry Campbell, outlined her proposed spending blueprint during a joint meeting of the House and Senate budget committees.

He called it a “plan to restore fiscal responsibility� and later told reporters that it “smooths out the ride� for state government in future years. “There are critical things that need to be done now,� Campbell said during a budget briefing for reporters. “We have commitments to the schools; we have other commitments to foster care and our prisons, and this is just good business.�

Several key Republican legislators said they are open to her proposals for reducing debt, though they might choose other targets.

But Kelly’s plan to free up tax dollars for each of the next 15 years by cutting the

state’s annual payments to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System appeared to be a non-starter with top Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature. They viewed it as a gimmick that helps Kelly cover overspending while keeping the pension system from improving its financial health quickly enough. “I don’t think it has a chance,� said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Troy Waymaster, a Bunker Hill Republican.

Kelly’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 includes additional funding for public schools and anticipates that a bipartisan plan to expand Medicaid health coverage to as many as 150,000 additional people would cost the state an extra $35 million a year.

The Democratic governor and Kansas Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, an Overland Park Republican, struck a deal last week that likely clears the way for Kansas to become the 37th state to expand Medicaid. Kelly would get a straightforward expansion, and Denning would get a version of his proposal for a program aimed at lowering private health insurance premiums.

For the second con-

secutive year, Kelly is proposing what would be the state’s largest annual budget ever, nearly $19.8 billion in spending from all funding sources. It would increase total spending about $1.1 billion, or 5.8%, with much of the increase tied to the Medicaid expansion that would be financed largely with federal funds.

The state expects to begin July with more than $1.1 billion in cash reserves, thanks to a solid economy, low unemployment and months of better-than-expected tax collections. Kansas also is seeing some businesses and individuals pay more to the state in income taxes because of changes in federal tax laws at the end of 2017.

Many Republicans want to cut state income taxes to lessen or eliminate what they consider the state’s undeserved revenue “windfall.�

Kelly is proposing more modest initiatives to

help ease the burden of the state’s sales tax on groceries for poor families and to boost aid to cities and counties in hopes that they’ll cut property taxes.

Kelly also wants to pay off $532 million in internal debts that the state used to patch budget holes in recent years and pay off $70 million in bonds early.

Kelly’s administration projects that the mix of policy changes still would leave the state with cash reserves of more than $628 million or more each of the next four years.

The debts Kelly wants to pay off early include $268 million in payments to the pension system that the state skipped during past budget woes and agreed to pay back over two decades. The rest is an internal loan used to patch budget holes. “The more debt we can pay off, the better — I mean, just even as in-

dividuals or as a state,�

Campbell said.

But Kelly’s budget ties her plan to retire about $602 million in debt early to her proposal to slash the state’s annual payments to the pension system. That move would save $131 million in state tax dollars during the next budget year and $584 million over four years.

A 2012 law ramps up the state’s annual payments over time to close a projected $9.2 billion gap in the pension system’s long-term funding by 2033. This year’s payment is supposed to be more than $700 million, and it would top $1 billion in 2033.

Kelly is proposing to give the state an extra 10 years, until 2043, something that would add $4.4 billion to the longterm cost, just as refinancing a home mortgage to lower monthly payments can.

Campbell told lawmakers in his presenta-

tion that the benefits of the move include budget stability and “outweigh the costs.� He also told reporters that the state is going to have to take such a step in coming years anyway to make the pension payments manageable while keeping promises to boost funding on public schools, sustain social services and fund other parts of state government.

Top Republicans agree that a smoothingout of pension payments is coming. But Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, an Overland Park Republican, said the state should wait until the pension system is 70% funded long-term; the figure is now 68%.

Kelly proposed a similar plan last yearand it died quickly, with little support among lawmakers.

Denning said, “They’re just pushing a rope.�

Grandpa forgot something — $43K stashed in footstool OWOSSO, Mich. (AP) — The footstool didn’t feel right. That’s what happens when someone stashes $43,170 inside and apparently forgets about it.

Indeed, the money was discovered inside a footstool that was donated to a Michigan resale shop in Owosso Township.

Howard Kirby bought the piece and other furniture for $70 after Christmas. He was stunned Sunday when his daughter-in-law unzipped the cushion and shouted. After the shock wore off, he began the extraordinary step of returning the money to the former owners. “I do what I can to be as much like Christ as I

can, and this is the moral thing to do,� Kirby, 54, said. “This is going to help them. I’m so happy for them.�

The footstool was part of a living room set donated to a Habitat For Humanity store by Kim Fauth-Newberry and her husband. The furniture had belonged to her grandfather, Phillip Fauth, who died in July.

Fauth-Newberry said Fauth was a frugal man who always paid in cash, even $9,000 for a new roof. The newly discovered money was separated with paper clips and topped with handwritten notes. “This is crazy,� FauthNewberry said Thursday, staring at stacks of hundred dollar bills.

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in 2016. She switched parties in 2018.

If elected, Bollier would be the first woman physician to serve in the U.S. Senate. But winning the seat will be a challenge, she acknowledged.

Kanas hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1932.

At Friday’s event, Bollier touted herself as a moderate and criticized former Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, for his budget policies and his position on Medicaid expansion, which she supports.

She first ran for office to help the state with issues surrounding health care. “As a physician, I knew there needed to be more people at the table who understood medicine,� she said. “It’s not about being partisan, it’s about doing things to care for

people. That’s what you do as a doctor, and I thought that’s what you do as a legislator.

However, when I got to Topeka I found out it wasn’t quite so easy.�

She soon found herself at odds with Republican leadership over things like funding for public education, equality and health care issues.

She believes health care remains the most important issue for Kansas voters. Thriving communities depend on access to quality health care, and she hopes Kansas will finally approve Medicaid expansion.

A bipartisan plan was unveiled recently between Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Republican leadership.

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level than simply as a patient.

“All the connections are valuable,” Mark said. “It helps.”

Mark’s wife, Patti, credits all of that support — from family, friends, school and hospital staff, and even the students themselves — for allowing her husband to keep hold of something so essential during a very difficult time.

In spite of his stroke, Mark is still a teacher.

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Mark and Patti Boyd, with daughters Emily, left, and Clara, right, pose for a picture at Christmas. COURTESY PHOTO

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“To me, it was something he could do to structure his days and keep him from sitting at home and descending into a deep sadness.”

School administrators helped Mark adjust his schedule to accommodate therapy, at first three times a week but now twice weekly. Staff may need to help with things like making copies or organizing paperwork.

Iola Middle School history instructor Mark Boyd stands with the help of a walker in his classroom. Boyd suffered a stroke over the summer, but was back at work by the first day of classes for the 2019-20 school year. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

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MARK WAS determined to return to teaching.

He was lucky in the sense that the stroke did

not affect his cognitive ability, including his memory or his speech.

He missed the preliminary stuff like teacher in-service days but was able to be in class the first day students arrived.

“I knew it’d be easier to manage the kids if I got to know them right away,” he said. “I told them what happened. I told them I didn’t really know how much better I would get. They asked all kinds of questions, but it was genuine concern.”

Patti stayed by his side, attending school with him every day for the first couple of weeks. She had visited his classroom over the years to answer questions about things like the law and constitution, but she had never just sat and watched him teach. That experience changed Patti’s perspective, as well.

“He’s a really good teacher. I’m not just saying that because he’s my guy,” she said. “He may not be able to walk around the classroom, but he still has a lot to

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“So many people have offered to help and I’m grateful for that,” Mark said. “It’s hard to ask for help, and it’s hard to know what help to ask for.”

The return home also meant a return to some sort of normalcy, or at least a new normal.

“Over time, you realize all the different things you can’t do anymore,” Mark said.

“That’s frustrating and sad.”

Initially, Mark was unable to stand. Now, he can stand and walk short distances with a walker. He’s even able to drive.

The hardest part is not knowing how much Mark will be able to recover, Patti added.

Therapists have told him it could take up to two years to know how much progress he can make.

“It’s difficult to be in that kind of limbo,” Patti said.

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use my left arm. It was hard for me to imagine coming back to work.”

After about 10 days, he was transferred to a rehabilitation hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he spent the next six weeks or so before coming home.

Patti, who serves as Iola Municipal Court judge, made the fivehour drive to Iola once a week for court. She was able to check on the house and make arrangements to convert it to a handicapped-accessible home. Again, friends like Bob Hawk stepped up to donate tasks like building a wheelchair ramp.

Although their close friends knew what had happened, the Boyd family held back from posting about their experience on social media or otherwise publicizing Mark’s condition. Because of their roles in the community — both have served on the hospital board and done volunteer work for other groups — and because of Patti’s job as a judge, they didn’t want to advertise their absence.

That meant a second wave of support followed once they came home in August and others learned what had happened.

THE BOYDS celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in October. They had planned to have family photographs taken to commemorate the occasion — and they did.

“There are things you can do even in tough times,” Patti said. “It is really hard. You can see it in our faces in those photos.”

This wasn’t the way the couple had planned to spend the next phase of their life together.

Mark has been unable to do many of the activities he previously enjoyed, like cooking, hunting and fishing.

Even reading is more challenging.

“I told him, he cooked for the first 25 years. I can cook for the next 25,” Patti said.

Patti admits she struggles with knowing where to draw the line between helping and pushing Mark to test his limits.

“We’re learning how to compensate for those things that haven’t come back, but at the same time not getting complacent about where we are,” she said.

They’re still adjusting, without knowing how much Mark will be able to recover.

“It makes me realize how good I had it before, and how much people care,” Mark said. “I hope to either regain the use of my arm and my leg, or figure out how to enjoy life as I have it.”

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IT HAPPENED with no warning on June 23, 758 miles away from home.

The Boyd family was visiting Patti’s parents in Mobridge, South Dakota. Mark and his brothers-in-law were playing frisbee golf when Mark started to notice something was wrong with his left leg.

Then, his arm.

He realized he needed to go to the hospital. Immediately.

He was flown from the hospital in Mobridge to Fargo, North Dakota, about 270 miles away.

Patti and the couple’s daughters, Emily and Clara, drove more than four hours to the hospital, not knowing what was wrong or if Mark would even be alive when they arrived.

“Obviously, it was terrifying,” Patti said. “We were in Fargo, talking to people we’d never met in a completely unfamiliar environment. It was a long time before we were able to talk to the doctors.”

At first, it was a matter of ruling things out, Patti said. Doctors eventually surmised Mark suffered a hypertensive hemorrhagic stroke, or bleeding in his brain.

It’s likely connected to blood pressure, but Mark had not been diagnosed with having high blood pressure.

Because it was a family vacation, Emily, age 23 and a PhD student at the California Institute of Technology, and Clara, age 19 and a sophomore at the University of Kansas, were with Mark and Patti when it happened. They were all grateful for that.

“I was glad to have their support right then,” Patti said. “I had to sort of go into crisis mode, and I stayed there for probably four months. It was October before I felt like I could snap out of that feeling.”

Mark woke up a day or so after the stroke, but he still struggles to come to terms with what happened to him.

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How close to normal could I get back to?” he asked. “I was pretty helpless for a long time.

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Kansas lawmakers look up into the press gallery at Wednesday evening’s State of the State address by Gov. Laura Kelly. Rep. Kent Thompson of LaHarpe is in the center of the photo. Kelly made note that for the first time in state history, women sit at the helm of all three branches of Kansas government. In addition to Kelly, who is Kansas’ third female governor, is Susan Wagle, the first female president of the Senate and Marla Luckert, the second female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Twenty-eight percent of Kansas legislators are women. DANIEL CAUDILL/KANSAS NEWS SERVICE

Kansas: the comeback state I loved watching Gov. Laura Kelly give her State of the State address Wednesday evening.

While her pedantic style of delivery was somewhat underwhelming — yes, she should have studied drama in high school — her message was nothing short of inspiring.

Perhaps it’s her lack of theatrics that helps keep the focus on her words.

Last year was a great start, she said, but there’s still lots to do.

“One year of progress can’t erase a decade of damage,” she said, referring to the slow and painful recovery from the 2007-2009 Great Recession which necessitated $1 billion in spending cuts only to be followed by Gov. Sam Brownback’s disastrous “supply-side” income tax cuts in 2012 and 2013.

Instead of serving as a “shot of adrenaline” to the state economy, as Brownback predicted, his “march to zero” on income taxes plunged state revenues, severely delaying our recovery from the recession.

In 2017, a bipartisan twothirds majority of legislators overturned Brownback’s veto of future tax cuts and began to restore the most reliable of revenue-making mechanisms — the income tax.

When Kelly took the reins in 2019, “Kansas was on life support,” she said, but beginning to gain ground.

Among her first challenges as governor was to veto yet another Republican tax cut and keep the focus on education.

By session’s end, a majority of legislators agreed to increase funding for K-12 ed-

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ucation, bringing to an end a decades-long battle on school finance.

“None of the teachers who attended the bill signing cared if it was a “Democrat” plan or a “Republican” plan,” she said. “They cared only that their schools would be funded. That it might help improve Kansas teacher salaries, which rank 41st in the nation. They cared that it would ensure educators have what they need to serve Kansas children well.”

IF SCHOOL finance was the goal for 2019, then Medicaid expansion is that for 2020.

With a bipartisan bill already in the works, hopes are high legislators will make Kansas the 37th state to enroll in the successful federal-state program that will provide an additional 150,000 Kansans with health insurance.

Like the school funding drama, legislators have made expanding Medicaid a partisan issue, ignoring who and what is being hurt in the process. Its passage will close the door on wasted time and funds and open up access to health care and guaranteed funding that will help grow the Kansas economy and keep our rural hospitals solvent.

IF ANY TAX cuts are on the horizon, Kelly wants them to go for food and prop-

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Because everyone needs to eat, the sales tax on food — the highest in the nation — is especially punitive to the poor, who pay a disproportionately higher share of their income on food than those with means.

Property taxes are also out of whack, Kelly said, urging legislators to return to the balanced “three-legged stool” of funding between income, sales and property taxes.

KELLY’S AGENDA also includes criminal justice reform, another transportation package, addressing our state prisons and child services programs.

Kelly knows that it takes ambitious programs and policies such as these to take the state forward.

Maybe that’s why Kansas was declared the “comeback state of 2019,” in CNBC’s annual “Top States for Business” ratings.

Kelly has her sights on this next decade being the “Soaring Twenties” for Kansas.

I’ve no doubt that in her understated way she’ll be able to lead us to great heights.

If we got all of the people in Iola together in a big circle and had half of them take one step backward, those stepping backward would still not represent the number of folks in our community who live at or below 200% of the poverty level. And 27% of those people live in poverty.

The rest are surviving at just 200% of the poverty level.

Wherever you are, half of the folks surrounding you are struggling with issues related to living in poverty.

There is never enough food or enough money for rent, gasoline, medicine, or utilities.

The struggle shows on some faces, but not on everyone’s.

One of the issues that we see over and over are people struggling with utilities.

Most of the time their problem isn’t a lack of funds; it’s that the don’t have all of the funds they need by the due date, perhaps because their disability checks arrive a day or two after the shut-off date or because their wages are low and hours have been cut.

Circumstance has put them in a cycle of always being late and never being able to catch up.

Right now, our city has $500,000 in unpaid utilities.

Much of that is owed by those who have had to leave town because they could not afford to have their utilities turned back on.

Iola’s current policy gives a person 28 days to pay their bill, after which a notice is sent with a 5% late fee added.

People who can’t come up with the entire new amount due in 12 days have their electricity shut off. To have it turned back on, they must pay the bill, the 5% late fee, and another late fee of $25. If the reconnection is made after 4 p.m., there’s an additional $75 late fee. After 10 more days, water and gas are also shut off, and an additional $25 late fee is applied.

At this point the person must come up with the past due amount, the 5% late fee, first additional $25 late fee, the third $25 late fee and their current bill to have their utilities turned on.

How can we not see these utility policies as punitive?

We should all have the right to food, shelter, and heat no matter how much or little money we have.

Here’s how this plays out for many of the poor people living in Iola.

If a disabled person is

Tracy Keagle Humanity House trying to survive on $783 a month, the limit allowed for an individual dependent on the Social Security Disability Insurance program, and they receive a $300 utility bill that is due the day before their support check arrives, they’ll lose 2% of that monthly income because of Iola’s due date policy.

If their check comes 11 days after the utility due date, their power is cut off and they have to pay an additional 5% of their monthly income. They have no electricity and have to come up with $340 to have power again. In the meantime, food spoils; there is no heat; they have no lights. They might be elderly or disabled. There could be children in the home. Or they may be the working poor.

They now have $443 to live on for a month. That has to cover food (food assistance allowance is $17–$50 for an individual), medicine (if they don’t qualify for Medicaid), rent, and the upcoming utility bill for the next month.

If the person does not have enough funds to cover their utility bill before the next one arrives, and they cannot pay their previous bill and all of the fees, then another $25 fee is added, all of their utilities are off, and they must pay the past due $300, the current $300, and $65 in late fees.

This month they have $118 to cover rent, food, and every expense associated with being alive.

We will be going before city council on Feb. 10 to ask them to adopt a policy that’s less punitive for poor people and more humane for everyone.

All we are asking is for the city to adopt a promise-to-pay policy that would allow people to pay when their check comes in so they can avoid the late fees that put them further and further into poverty.

Lawrence, Wichita, and other towns with more forgiving policies have fewer utility shut-offs and are owed less money for unpaid utility bills.

Iola can do better for the more than half of us who live in poverty, and we should.

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Does lipstick on the old Brownback agenda sell it in 2020?

This year will test just how short voter memories are in Kansas. Will Kansans keep rejecting Brownback-era politics? Or, will they buy those politics again, attractively repackaged and reframed? With the Kansas legislature reconvening, that test starts now.

The Brownback era officially ended one year ago with Laura Kelly replacing Brownback’s running mate as governor. She still faces major challenges, but Kelly has enjoyed wins on the budget, transparency, education, and possibly Medicaid expansion. She has also earned solid job approval numbers from Kansans in polls, even from Republican voters.

Kelly’s governing partner is the Kansas legislature, led by conservatives who frequently supported Brownback’s policies. Brownback cutely called his supporters “Brownbackers.” Many are on record effec-

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tively saying that their biggest governing mistake was not Brownbacking Kansas harder.

If only they had doubled down on Brownbacking the budget and taxes, everything would have been awesome.

WHAT ARE former Brownbackers doing now? They are repackaging many of their old policies — same positions, different language. Many are also acting like Kansas politics began with Kelly, as if the Brownback era didn’t happen.

Take a recent column from House Speaker Ron Ryckman, Jr., a frequent supporter of the

Brownback agenda. Consensus content aside, let’s dissect it to infer his priorities this session.

Ryckman criticized “BandAid fixes.” Fair point. Under Brownback, Band-Aid fixes like raiding state transportation funds to fill budget holes and “sun is shining’ incantations did not fix the problems his policies created. But what does this mean today?

Inferring from generic critiques and his public statements, he seems to criticize Kelly’s proposed KPERS reamortization plan, which would decrease short term costs, increase long term costs, but not impact retiree benefits. Fair and necessary debate. But there were 15 skipped or reduced KPERS payments in the Brownback era. What alternatives are former Brownbackers proposing for a funding problem they exacerbated, especially when

they are also criticizing state spending?

He also mentions “fiscal responsibility so all parts of our state can flourish.”

Meaning what? Conservatives have used this language to critique the recent school funding agreement, and pitted it against infrastructure as Ryckman does. Does this signal continued conservative opposition to that plan, which could reopen school funding litigation? Or is this a generic reference to increased funding for areas that Brownback cut?

Ryckman also criticizes citizen dependency on the state.

Meaning what? Conservatives have used this language to oppose Medicaid expansion, calling it a handout for lazy people, when most potential enrollees are actually employed or disabled. Or is this a defense of controversial Brownback-era welfare rules that have been linked to negative outcomes

for children?

As with most broad political-speak, room exists for interpretation. This year will clarify what policy specifics, if any, exist behind these critiques, and how much they resemble the old Brownback agenda.

Kelly’s election was also a political advantage for Brownbackers. It focused attention on a new governor. Consequently, the more removed Kansans become from the Brownback era, the less they might remember its turmoil.

Going forward, do former Brownbackers offer real policy and work on necessary compromise? Or, do they repackage the old Brownback agenda, hoping that it sells better as voter memories fade?

This legislative session will force conservatives to show their hand, and test the will of voters to stay focused on leaving the Brownback era behind.

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Dick Foster — historian by experience Crises mounts for Iran

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

During his senior year at Humboldt High, Dick Foster was a janitor at City Hall. Duties included sweeping the city streets on Friday nights. He even handdug a couple of graves at Mount Hope Cemetery.

When he graduated in 1953, a full-time job awaited.

He expected to be drafted anytime — which came four years later. After his two-year obligation, including one in Korea, Dick returned to city employment. Dick worked for the City of Humboldt for 47 years, rising to the rank of superintendent of the water plant.

His remembrances of what occurred before and throughout his tenure would fill a book.

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Charlie, was also water plant super for years.

The job was more demanding then, with the elder Foster working seven days a week. A crew of three kept the wheels turning at the water treatment plant.

During World War II, another was hired for security, for fear of sabotage.

He also gave the others a break. For years, Humboldt had no dispatch.

When a police officer was needed, telephone operators stationed in an office at the rear of the Bailey Hotel flipped a switch to turn on a red light atop the building.

The operators, who probably recited “number please” in their sleep, also triggered the fire siren that summoned volunteers who raced to the fire barn just as they do today.

Dick Foster’s 47-year career working for the City of Humboldt included upgrading the dam just south of the Marsh arch bridge that spans the Neosho River at the west edge of Humboldt, shown below courtesy of Google Maps. REGISTER/ BOB JOHNSON

Winter weather often intervened.

Before the city purchased a salt spreader, “we threw salt from buckets at the intersection of Ninth and Bridge streets,” the main intersection, and anywhere else ice or snow posed a problem.

Dick recalls the winter of 1986-87 when the mercury dropped to the teens and single digits and stayed there. Heavy snow fell on Christmas Eve. “I was called out at 8 that night and Gene Reeves and I didn’t go home (much) for weeks,” working to keep the water mains open.

“Once I crawled behind a control panel, laid on the floor and slept for about an hour and a half.”

A year after he began full-time work, the old river dam, built originally of car-sized rocks, was upgraded to what it is today. The legendary 1954 drought was an advantage.

First chore was to pour concrete on the north side, “as deep as

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we could dig.” When that concrete set, dirt was dumped into the river for a road so a compressor to run air tools was handy. “I backed that compressor out on the road every day for two weeks,” Dick said.

After water below the dam was removed with an irrigation pump borrowed from the Works family, a 13-foot-deep footing was dug and the dam was faced with concrete. The boulders, backbone of the dam and worn slick by years of running water, also were covered with concrete.

While all this was being done, men and boys visited the river daily to hunt for lead sinkers on the exposed bottom.

Working at the old water plant, an eerie hulk of what it once was, also was a challenge. Once a broken pipe carrying raw water from the Neosho tested Dick and Gene’s resolve, it being about 18 feet deep, same as the old Humboldt well through which the pipe ran.

The new water plant opened in 1979.

“I saw a lot of change in my career with the city,” Dick said.

Camera records moose trapping Alaska man in shed ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man carrying garbage to his shed had to take cover inside when a curious bull moose decided to join him.

A Ring home security camera captured Curtis Phelps trapped inside the shed while the moose, with just one antler, tried to push his way inside. The moose eventually moved on and Phelps escaped after calling his wife, Amy, with his cellphone.

“He’s like, let me know when I can get out of the shed,” she said Friday. “I’m stuck in the shed.”

The Phelps live in south Anchorage, where moose are regular visitors. Two years ago, a cow gave birth to a calf in their back yard. Since then, a young moose, possibly the same calf, has regularly returned. The home security camera in December 2018 recorded the moose on the Phelps’ front porch eating a Christmas wreath that the family had hung.

The latest encounter occurred at about before noon on Jan. 11.

The family was having a lazy Saturday, Amy Phelps said. She had placed a garbage sack on the front porch and Curtis decided to take it to their locked shed.

“He said he walked out and he looked both ways as we always do and nothing was

there,” she said. “All he wore was his hat. He had his cellphone, though.”

Curtis unlocked the shed, deposited the garbage sack, stepped outside and spotted the moose moving his way — and picking up its pace. He ducked inside and the moose walked up to the door and gently pushed it.

“He could see him pushing,” she said. “It’s cracked a little bit.”

Curtis heard footsteps along the side of the building and suspected the moose had moved.

He called his wife to

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader says his nation is living through “days of God.” The Islamic Republic has been reeling from one crisis to another, from the targeted killing by the United States of its top general to the Revolutionary Guard’s accidental shootdown of a passenger plane carrying scores of young people, most of them Iranians. U.S. sanctions have crippled its economy as tensions with America have soared.

In a rare Friday sermon in Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stuck to the playbook Iran has relied on since 1979, blaming the country’s woes on the U.S. and other Western powers, and proclaiming that Iranians still support the Islamic Revolution.

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make sure. She ignored the call.

“I thought he was just accidentally calling me,” she said. “I had no clue that the poor thing was stuck in there.”

Curtis then called his 13-year-old daughter inside the house. She wanted to keep sleeping and ignored the call, Amy Curtis said.

On his third call to his wife, she picked up. She heard Curtis yelling and looked outside but could not see him.

She finally figured out he was in the shed. She told him the moose had

crossed the street and he could come out, she said.

Moose generally are not aggressive, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, but if irritated or threatened, can deliver deadly blows by kicking, usually with their front legs. The kicks can kill a wolf and fend off a bear.

More people in Alaska are injured by moose than bears, according to the department.

Amy Phelps said she’s not sure what the moose was thinking as it walked toward her husband.

After unilaterally withdrawing from Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, President Donald Trump began ratcheting up sanctions. The sanctions have exacerbated an economic crisis, sending the local currency into a freefall and wiping away many people’s life savings.

The Institute of International Finance, a global association of financial institutions, estimates that Iran’s economy will contract this fiscal year by more than 7%, mostly because of the drop in crude oil exports due to sanctions. The report found that as a result, Iran’s reserves are expected to dip to $73 billion by March, totaling nearly $40 billion in losses over two years.

THE LOSS OF SOLEIMANI

As head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, So-

leimani was the architect of Iran’s regional military operations and its support for armed groups in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. He was blamed for the killing of hundreds of American soldiers by Iranbacked militias in the years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He also helped Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces battle rebels and Islamic extremists. In Iran, he was seen by many as a mythic figure who had defended the nation. Critics and supporters alike say he will be tough to replace.

THE PLANE TRAGEDY

In response to the killing of Soleimani, Iran launched a wave of ballistic missiles at U.S. bases in Iraq.

No one was seriously wounded, though several soldiers were screened for concussions and sent to Germany for medical treatment. As Iran braced for a counterattack, the Revolutionary Guard shot down a passenger plane shortly after it took off from Tehran’s international airport last week, mistaking it for a U.S. cruise missile. Most of those killed were Iranians.

STREET PROTESTS

As the economic crisis has worsened, Iran has seen wave after wave of sporadic, leaderless protests.

The protests are usually sparked by economic grievances but rapidly escalate into calls to overthrow the Islamic Republic. The demonstrations have often turned violent, and security forces have responded with force. Amnesty International says more than 300 people were killed in protests in November over a hike in gasoline prices, when authorities shut down the internet for several days.

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Plane slides off runway KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A plane slid off an icy taxiway at Kansas City International Airport on Friday as a sprawling winter storm hit large sections of the Midwest and beyond, leading to the closure of schools, universities and government offices.

The Delta Air Lines flight was taxiing to be de-iced before flying to Detroit when the nosegear slipped off a taxiway, said Delta spokeswoman Martha Witt.

There were no reports of injuries aboard the Airbus A319, which was carrying 123 passengers and a crew of six. Witt said the airline was trying to put passengers from Delta flight 1114 on other planes.

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The winter weather advisory extended south into western Oklahoma and northern Arkansas, where freezing rain was expected Friday.

In South Dakota and Minnesota, dozens of schools canceled classes Friday ahead of snowfall expected during the day.

In Kansas, Gov. Laura Kelly closed state offices in the Topeka area, urging people in a news release to “stay safe and warm, exercise caution and allow road crews to do their job.”

Chiefs cheering section McKinley Elementary School students were decked out in Red Friday, to cheer on the Kansas City Chiefs, who are vying for a trip to the Super Bowl this weekend in the AFC championship game. Students and teachers wore red shirts, and made up special headbands, shown at left, in honor of Chiefs all-pro quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his distinctive curly locks. The Chiefs take on the Tennessee Titans at 3 p.m. Sunday. COURTESY PHOTOS

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viding-lines, many people viewed the prohibition movement as imposing rural religious values on urban America.

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ty, prohibition and attitudes toward alcohol certainly had an effect through the years.

On Jul. 10, 1905, the infamous Charley Melvin detonated hundreds of sticks of dynamite in order to destroy saloons on West Street in Iola.

The explosions were powerful enough to stop the courthouse clock, and were heard in Neosho Falls.

In letters to the Register, mayor, governor, saloon owners and local bootleggers, Melvin had warned “if the lid isn’t put on there’ll be a hot time in the old town some night.”

Melvin, who fled Iola after the explosions, was apprehended months later in Iowa.

His exploits were recreated about a century later for the now defunct Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life.

ON OCT. 29, 1920, a striking headline from the Register reads: “Horseshoe Bend Went Bone Dry Yesterday.”

According to the accompanying article, “so many of the boys about town had been getting stewed up that the county and city officials whose duty it is to enforce the law began taking copious notes on the source of the supply.”

After a shakedown from police headed up by Federal Prohibition Officer Warren Wilson, the “local drunks” or “lit ups” revealed they had procured the “liquor that makes men rave” from local grocery stores selling potent 80-proof “peach extracts,” and from George and Abe Townsend’s homes on

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The raid of the Townsends revealed around $1,000 worth of alcohol, and soon eight bountiful barrels of sparkling elderberry and raisin wine were being poured into the river. Because officers could find no production still and no witnesses who would admit to purchasing said wine, the Townsends were neither arrested nor prosecuted.

Almost two decades later, however, Abe Townsend was sentenced to 60 days in jail, after pleading guilty to “possession of intoxicating liquor and maintaining a nuisance at his farm northwest of Iola … sheriff ’s officers raided his place and found more than 450 gallons of what they said was wine.”

Townsend served only two weeks due to health concerns, but the 76-year-old wound up in jail again less

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than two months later after several additional barrels of wine were discovered beneath his machine shed. He was turned in by Carl Huey, a disgruntled former employee.

On Aug. 11, 1925, another entry from the Annals reads: “With no mourners on hand and no services on behalf of the interred, Sheriff Custer David late yesterday performed the last rites for 55 gallons of old White Mule by pouring the liquor into the sewer.”

And in June 1932, when the Krause Brake and Battery shop switched locations, a place called Billy Frampton’s Saloon was rediscovered, featuring an immense landscape painting and a concealed 20-foot-long walnut bar. “The best people in Iola visited the place in those days.”

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STILL today, Kansas features some of the strictest alcohol laws in the country, and has multiple dry counties.

General on-premises liquor sales were not allowed until 1987, and the state has yet to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which ended nationwide prohibition in 1933.

In order to learn more about Charley Melvin, the Townsends, and the local history of prohibition, drop by the Allen County Historical Museum, which is open from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuessday through Saturday, or by appointment.

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Momentum can be a fickle beast.

Crisp passes, sharp drives to the hoop and ace marksmanship from senior standout Cal Leonard led put Iola High’s Mustangs firmly in control Thursday.

But a few too many lulls — when passes got a bit sloppy, drives to the hoop came up

empty and potential rebounds fell into the hands of the opponent — proved fatal.

Visiting Wellsville took full advantage, erasing a 14-point second half deficit with some pesky defense.

And even though Wellsville almost was done in by some misadventures at the free throw line, the Eagles righted their ship in overtime, claiming a 74-67 victory.

The loss drops Iola to 5-3

overall and 2-2 in Pioneer League play.

“When we got the lead, we just relaxed,” Iola head coach Luke Bycroft said. “We have the ability to be good, but we’re not good enough to do that and beat teams that play hard all the way to the end.”

Leonard provided the early fireworks. He scored 14 of Iola’s first 17 points by channeling his inner James Harden with 3-pointers and drives to

the bucket that resulted in free throws.

Leonard had 24 by halftime as the Mustangs led 31-25 at the break. Bradyn Cole, Calvin Delich and Landon Carson picked up the baton from there, keying an 8-0 run to start the second half, pushing the lead to 39-25.

The success proved fleeting.

Wellsville’s scrappy defense See MUSTANGS | Page B4

When Andy Reid was an assistant coach at Northern Arizona in 1986, Dave Toub had recently joined Bob Stull’s staff at TexasEl Paso and took Reid out for lunch as a prospective offensive-line coach.

“Guess I must have said something good,” Toub said, laughing, in a 2016 interview with The Star. “We hit it off, too, right away.”

From El Paso to Columbia, Missouri, to Philadelphia, they’ve worked together nearly ever since, with the exception of Toub’s stint in Chicago from 2004-2012 before he rejoined Reid in Kansas City as special-teams coordinator.

Other than Reid’s son, Britt, the Chiefs’ linebackers coach, and whatever the exact timing was of some cameo appearances from then-interloper Steve Spagnuolo, nobody on Reid’s staff has known him longer.

Certainly, no one has spent more time working directly with Reid, and few have more firsthand appreciation of Reid’s coaching journey.

So pardon Toub if he gets sentimental at the prospect of Reid coaching the Chiefs to victory in the AFC Championship Game against Tennessee on Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium — and the potential for Reid to then win his first Super Bowl.

“I’ve thought about this a lot. Nobody deserves it more than Andy. He’s such a great coach …” Toub said See REID | Page B3

High School Basketball: Iola Fillies

Eagles soar past the Fillies at home

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

A gloomy start did in Iola High’s Fillies Thursday.

Visiting Wellsville’s withering full-court pressure forced the Fillies into a litany of early mistakes.

The Eagle raced out of the gate to nab leads of 14-2 and 25-5, and never looked back from there.

Iola clawed its way back to as close as 14 in the second half, but could get no closer in a 65-31 defeat.

“Even when we got down the court, they put so much pressure, that we were nervous with the ball,” Fillies head coach Becky Carlson said.

Wellsville’s dynamic duo of Made McCoy and Demi Aamold were the primary catalysts.

McCoy scored nine of her game-high 22 points in the

first quarter, on an assortment of 3-pointers, layups and free throws. Aamold did much of her damage from beyond the arc. She drilled four 3-pointers — one in each quarter — on the way to scoring 17 points.

Still, the Fillies didn’t go down without a fight.

Kelsey Morrison and Gaby Lampe each connected from 3-point range in the second quarter, then Hannah Gardner and Elysia scored early in the third period as part of a 15-9 Fillies run to cut Wellsville’s lead to 34-20.

“We settled in and played as hard as we could,” Carlson said. “The difference is, they have two girls who can shoot the 3. We did a great job with our help defense, but when you do that, you give up something else.”

Wellsville re-exerted its defensive pressure midway through the third quarter,

scoring 11 straight to push the gap to 25.

Iola never threatened again.

In a statistical oddity, 10 Fillies scored in the contest, but nobody had more than two field goals.

Becca Sprague led the way with five points. Lampe, Holloway and Kunkler added four apiece.

Jadyn Troutman added 11 for the Eagles.

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Iola High School will celebrate a bit of Fillies history Feb. 7.

The school will honor the inaugural Fillies team from 1974-75, while also recognizing all former Fillies players and coaches.

The ceremony is slated for halftime of the IHS girls basketball game, which tips off See FILLIES | Page B4

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers expect to have their most serious debate so far on medical marijuana this year, fueling high hopes for advocates who have been stymied by the state’s prohibitionist roots and Republicancontrolled Legislature.

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has said she would sign a bill legalizing medical marijuana.

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“With Colorado and Oklahoma being so close and Oklahoma being a rather conservative partner to Kansas, I would say that they’re starting to just decide that the climate’s changed,” said Esau Freeman, a longtime Wichita legalization advocate and co-founder of the advocacy group Kansans for Change.

Kelly’s election in 2018 boosted the prospects for medical marijuana in Kansas. Her GOP predecessor, Gov. Jeff Colyer, a surgeon, opposed it, as did the last Republican nominee for governor, Kris Kobach.

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last year created an industrial hemp research and production program, and approved a law to protect from prosecution people who use cannabidiol oils to treat children with debilitating medical conditions.

Three medical marijuana bills carried over from last year when lawmakers opened their annual lawmaking session Monday. A fall study committee recommended considering a measure like Ohio’s 2016 law, which allows treatments for about 20 conditions if the marijuana cannot be smoked.

“Out in the public, people just think it needs to be done,” acknowledged House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins, a conservative Wichita Republican who has opposed the idea.

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Kansas prohibited the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in 1881, and when that proved still too loose for some lawmakers, a 1917 “bone dry” law banned almost all personal possession and consumption.

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The state also was slower than others to create a lottery or legalize other forms of gambling.

“Kansas, many many years ago, was thought of as sort of a progressive state. But with issues such as gambling or marijuana, there really is an inherent conservative streak,” said Bob Beatty, a Washburn University of Topeka political scientist. “Not just along party lines, either.”

Kansas also doesn’t allow groups or individuals to put proposed laws or state constitutional amendments up to a statewide vote by circulating petitions — as they could in both Missouri and Oklahoma.

“They were forced into it,” said Kansas state Sen. Gene Suellentrop, another conservative Wichita Republican, chairman of his chamber’s health committee.

Kansas law enforcement groups still oppose medical marijuana, arguing that it would increase crime and accidental use by young children and could become a cover for recreational use. They also worry that officers would have

trouble distinguishing between its legal and illegal use while enforcing a law.

“There’s no research that provides a solid base of what it should look like — everybody gets to decide; everybody gets to be the doctor,” said state Rep. Eric Smith, a Republican and deputy sheriff from Coffey County, south of Topeka. “As a law enforcement officer, then, what is that going to create for me in my decisionmaking process on the side of the road?”

Yet even some medical marijuana skeptics acknowledge that Kansas must grapple with what to do about people with legal pot prescriptions in other states who travel through Kansas.

The House committee this week briefly discussed the idea of a “safe harbor” law to protect out-of-state travelers from prosecution. But members immediately questioned the fairness of giving out-of-state residents a pass while still busting Kansans.

Freeman, the medical marijuana advocate, said: “Anybody who is standing in the way of it, I think, is on the wrong side of history, and they’re beginning to realize that.”

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“I don’t know if I’d stop crying.

I’d probably hug him forever.”

Toub wouldn’t be alone.

Right alongside, perhaps weeping and at least figuratively embracing Reid would be plenty in a city looking for its first Super Bowl victory, or even appearance, in 50 years. And you can bet an organization that Reid revived and his players, whom Reid is known for treating as grown men, would feel the same.

“It would be amazing, obviously,” said quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who laughed when then asked if he’d be happier for himself or Reid. “I’d probably be happier for him, for sure. But I think I Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, right, greets Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien after the Chiefs (would) be pretty hapdefeated the Texans on Sunday. RICH SUGG/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS py, too, for myself.”

Elated, too, would in the Philadelphia area not panic when down Kelce going across the after last season’s 37-31 be people Reid grew up on Team Reid, as are 24-0 in last week’s 51-31 field, you’ve got Mecole overtime loss to the Pawith in Los Angeles and plenty of national NFL AFC Divisional victory (Hardman) doing some triots. His lone Super fans from Dick Vermeil broadcasters and per- over Houston and a vi- kind of crazy route, ‘D- Bowl was a 24-21 loss to Stull and those on his haps others in the sports brant offensive mind Rob’ (Demarcus Rob- to the Patriots in 2005, considerable coaching media he once wanted further animated by his inson) doing a crazy a game forever rememtree. So would legions to be part of to the point synergy with Mahomes. route, ‘D-Will’ (Damien bered for Reid’s curious of former players and he wrote columns for “He’s like a magician Williams) faking,” Hill clock management. their families, like the the Provo Daily Herald when he’s calling plays. said. “You’ve got all Perhaps making the ones he’s stayed close when he was a senior at Even at practice, he’s kinds of crazy stuff, and void all the more prowith from Mizzou and Brigham Young. calling plays and just to mix all of that in with nounced, three of Reid’s doubtless from his days There are plenty of drawing them up like an MVP quarterback, former assistants have with the Eagles. And, reasons for this outpour- he’s (Harry) Houdini you can do whatever gone on to win Super heck, maybe even some ing, of course. Starting or something,” receiver you want.”

Bowls. who played for him in with the fact that Reid Tyreek Hill said of Reid.

That’s a lot to admire To be sure, Reid has his first full-time coach- is a genuinely decent Hill perhaps inadver- and root for. encountered some biing gig at San Francisco and empathetic per- tently was invoking the But maybe the most zarre postseason misState — where Reid son, something that’s illusionist and escape substantial reason fortunes just in his time and former Tampa Bay evident in how he deals artist … or perhaps it many want to see Reid in Kansas City: from coach Dirk Koetter sold with all people and per- was an apt parallel, to win it all is simply Andrew Luck fumbling hot dogs amid campus haps can be glimpsed after all, for someone that he hasn’t before, to himself as the Colts protests to supplement in his engagement with whose array of plays the missing jewel in a rallied from down 38-10 the football “budget” Special Olympics Mis- often are the essence of career that seemingly to win 45-44 … to Marand taught classes and souri. deception. already has him bound cus Mariota completing took 10-hour bus rides And because it’s un“You never know for the Pro Football Hall a pass to himself as the and made about $22,000 derstood he’s a terrific where the ball is com- of Fame.

Titans came back from a year. coach, with the seventh- ing, because you have Reid is 220-142 over- down 21-3 to win 22-21 For that matter, many most wins in NFL his- Sammy (Watkins) going all in his NFL career, … to insane interpretaEagles fans with whom I tory, the sort of steady on a shallow cross or but he’s just 13-14 in the tions of “forward proggrew up or went to col- presence from which you have me going on a postseason and 1-4 in ress” … to, of course, lege are among others the team took its cue to post, you have (Travis) conference title games the Dee Ford offside and

lost coin flip and ensuing defensive meltdown last season.

This time around, at least to this point, fate seems to be smiling at Reid and the Chiefs.

What appeared at Denver to be a devastating knee injury to Mahomes proved just a bump in the road. The Dolphins somehow upended New England to give the Chiefs a lastminute No. 2 seed and a bye, and the Titans beat the Ravens to enable the Chiefs to play at home on Sunday, too.

Now the Chiefs have to funnel that luck into what figures to be a grueling matchup against the Titans, who beat the Chiefs 35-32 earlier in the season and against whom Reid is 1-8 in his career.

Because of Mahomes and all the other stars and emerging stars on a team whose defensive liabilities have been muted by the hiring of Spagnuolo and the additions of Tyrann Mathieu and Frank Clark, the window of opportunity figures to remain plenty open for the Chiefs these next few years regardless of what happens on Sunday.

Moreover, if the Chiefs do win Sunday and go on to win the Super Bowl, history shows that plenty of coaches win more than one after years of waiting. Guy named John Wooden went from 1946 to 1963 before winning the first of 10 national titles in 12 seasons.

Just the same, you never know when things will align so well again.

And first things first.

“He needs that,” Toub said. “He needs this.”

NFL: Kansas City Chiefs

Mathieu, Clark become great investments Reid embarked on a massive overhaul of the unit. He replaced longtime coordinator Bob Sutton with Steve Spagnuolo, jettisoned aging and unproductive players, then asked general manager Brett Veach to bring in some legitimate playmakers to better fit their new scheme.

That's how Mathieu and Clark wound up in Kansas City.

The Chiefs signed the ball-hawking safety to a $42 million, three-year deal to bring his talent and swagger to the back end of their defense. A month later, they trad-

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Tyrann Mathieu and Frank Clark were watching the AFC championship game on television a year ago, their teams knocked out of the playoffs, never thinking for a moment what the following 12 months might bring them.

Or more accurately, where it might bring them.

But after the Chiefs watched their defense fold in overtime against the Patriots, costing them a chance to reach the Super Bowl for the first time in nearly five decades, coach Andy

ed a package of draft picks to the Seahawks for Clark, then signed him to a $105.5 million, five-year contract before the bruising pass rusher had even played a down for them.

Now, the pair not only reside in Kansas City, they're playing for an AFC championship there.

“A great opportunity to play in Kansas City and in front of the world,” Mathieu said Wednesday, before their first practice to prepare for Sunday's game against Tennessee. “To be on this stage is every-

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Baseball is now a prisoner of technology

Cal Leonard looks for a way to weave around a Wellsville defender on Thursday evening against Wellsville. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Mustangs squander late lead Continued from B1

forced Iola out of its comfort zone.

Even more troubling were the Eagles’ second-chance points.

“We came out to start the half, and had some fire, and we figured now we’re good,” Bycroft said. “But I knew that wasn’t the case, because these guys just keep coming.”

Wellsville ended the quarter with a 19-9 spurt.

The Eagles’ Kaden O’Neil then drilled backto-back 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter to give Wellsville a 54-52 lead.

“We were just out of sync most of the fourth quarter,” Bycroft said. “Turnovers and rebounds killed us. I haven’t looked at the film to know how many rebounds were out there, but the ones they got were key. They changed the game.”

But as Iola’s offense sputtered, Wellsville gave the Mustangs a reprieve by going cold at the line. The Eagles missed 4 of 5 free throws

in the game’s final 55 seconds.

Delich gave Iola its final spark of the night.

His layup with 20.9 seconds cut Wellsville’s lead to 60-59. Delich missed the subsequent free throw, but the Eagles’ Cole Swanson left the door open for the tie by hitting only 1 of 2 charities.

Delich was fouled on the inbound play with 16 seconds left. He hit both free throws to tie the score at 61-61.

The Eagles set up a play to end regulation, but missed from 3-point range as the buzzer sounded.

But Wellsville’s offense found its footing in the extra frame; Iola’s never did.

Leonard hit a pair of free throws to knot the score at 63-63 with 2 1/2 minutes left in overtime before the Eagles responded with a 7-0 run to take control. The Eagles took full advantage of their second chance to win the game from the stripe, hitting 7 of 8 down the stretch.

Leonard wound up

with 28 points to lead the Mustangs. Delich scored 17 points, with five assists and two steals. Carson pitched in with 13 points, 10 rebounds and four assists. Tyler Boeken pulled down eight rebounds.

Luke Richards and Jackson Showalter scored 18 apiece to lead Wellsville. O’Neil added 17 and Jimmy Dorsey 12.

“We’ve gotta learn from it,” Bycroft said. “It was a tough loss. I don’t like to lose, ever. But if we learn from this and get better, then it will be a productive one.”

BOX SCORE

Wellsville (16-9-19-1713—74) (FG/3pt): Richards 4/1-1-4-18, Kearney 0-0-10, Dorsey 3/2-0-3-12, Harris 1-2-2-4, O’Neil 0/4-5-4-17, Swanson 3-1-2-7, Showalter 4/2-4-4-18, Smith 1-2-24. TOTALS: 16/9-15-22-74.

Iola (9-22-17-13-6—67) (FG/3pt): Adams 0-0-3-0, Leonard 2/5-9-2-28, Barker 0-0-2-0, Cole 2-0-1-4, Carson 5/1-0-4-13, Delich 6-5-5-17, Boeken 1-3-5-5.

TOTALS: 16/6-17-22-67.

Olympic rings arrive in host city TOKYO (AP) — The Olympic rings have arrived in Tokyo.

They sailed into Tokyo Bay on Friday on a barge and will stay there until the Olympics open on July 24 and close on Aug. 9.

The blue, black, red, yellow, and green rings will be replaced after that by the symbol for the Paralympics Games, which open on Aug. 25.

The symbol for the Paralympics is called “agitos,”which resembles three brush strokes

in red, blue, and green.

The word in Latin means “I move.”

The five Olympic rings are gigantic. They stand 15.3 meters high — about 50 feet tall — and are 32.6 meters from end to end — about 100 feet in length.

“We decided to install the Olympic rings at this time because we wanted to do it first thing in the Olympic year,” said Kenichi Kimura, an Olympic official with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

The location of the

rings in Tokyo Bay is the Odaiba Marine Park, which is the venue for triathlon and distance swimming. The venue is a made-for television location, with a view across the water of the Tokyo skyline and the Tokyo’s Rainbow bridge.

Many of Tokyo’s venues are located around the bay.

The rings will be the center of attention on Jan. 24 when Tokyo will note its six-months-to-go milestone with a fireworks display.

NEW YORK (AP) — Technology unleashed baseball’s Analytics Era, and now it’s holding the sport prisoner.

AJ Hinch, Alex Cora and Carlos Beltrán are casualties, a triple play of hubris. At the cutting edge with the Houston Astros, now they have been cut.

Their sign-stealing system exposed, all three managers were deposed within a whirlwind 72 hours this week that raised questions about the prevalence of the sport’s rule breakers.

What’s next in a game grappling with innovation and plagued by paranoia?

Video rooms and dugouts are now monitored by Major League Baseball, like proctors pacing an exam room to stifle students’ temptation to cheat. Bench and bullpen telephones are monitored, Big Brother in the commissioner’s office listening in to assure compliance. Television feeds in clubhouses were ordered to be delayed by a minimum 8 seconds last year to prevent prying eyes from decoding signals in real time.

Should hitters be blocked from reviewing their plate appearances between at-bats? Sure, it helps them detect flaws in their approach.

But they also might see a sequence of the catcher’s fingers that tip pitches.

These are the types of questions MLB executives in the sport’s new Rockefeller Center offices are thinking about as spring training approaches. Commissioner Rob Manfred’s one-season suspensions of Hinch and Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow signaled the harsh repercussions.

“It’s a serious problem for baseball, the merging of technology and an ancient game. It seems to me that cheating — and this was clearly cheating — had to be stepped on very firmly,” former Commissioner Fay Vincent said. “Technology presents a challenge as well

as an opportunity, and it also seems to me that cheating has become endemic throughout our culture, and this is a very good sign for baseball to say we’re not going to put up with it.”

Infield shifts, upper cuts and quick hooks became the norm in the 2010s as programmers prevailed over scouts.

Paranoia proliferated, fear opponents had found the secret sauce to success, within the rules or not.

Already worried about dwindling attendance, accusations of tanking, lengthening games and the rise of the Three True Outcomes, executives fret over how to rein in some of the most competitive people on the planet who drive billion-dollar businesses with the goal of outsmarting each other to come out on top.

Hinch’s decision not to stop his Astros’ players from stealing signs cost him his job, and Manfred questioned Luhnow’s protestation that he knew nothing.

Cora was Houston’s bench coach in 2017 and Beltrán the Astros’ senior player, a Crash Davis type seeking one last moment of glory at age 40 and in his 20th big league season rewarded with his first title ring.

But their roles as renegade ringleaders caught up with them, both identified by Manfred as culprits. Cora had gone on to become Boston’s manager and led the Red Sox to the 2018 World Series championship. Beltrán was hired by the Mets in November. When Oakland pitcher Mike Fiers went public in November to The Athletic about sign stealing during his Astros days, he wound up taking out 10% of the big league managers, exposing a dark side ambition that became a blemish.

“That sort of behavior is not acceptable,” Red Sox chairman Tom Werner said.

Boston jettisoned

Cora one day after Manfred’s report. CEO Sam Kennedy maintained “it was ultimately an easy decision for the Red Sox and for Alex.”

While Cora appears certain to be suspended for his actions in Houston, Beltrán was not disciplined because he was a player at the time of the transgression, not part of management. Mets executives delayed their decision until Thursday, leaving the appearance of uncertainty.

“Make no mistake, it’s been difficult for everyone involved,” general manager Brodie Van Wagenen said.

Baseball lore includes Koppett’s Law, named after the late reporter Leonard Koppett, who decreed that the most likely outcome is the one that causes the greatest inconvenience to the most people. It is cited when postseason results lead to cumbersome travel.

Moore’s Law has become of even more import. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and CEO of Intel, wrote in 1965 that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit would double every year, a figure he revised in 1975 to every two years.

Algorithms have led to fixation on velocity, spin rates and launch angles, created handheld devices used to measure mechanics from the majors down to youth ball. Teams worry whether zoom lenses are spying on them. Some clubs have been rumored to sweep clubhouses on the road, leery of listening devices.

From the Black Sox who threw the 1919 World Series, to the Color Barrier that didn’t end until 1947, to Pete Rose’s gambling and the swollen Steroids Era sluggers of the 1990s and early 2000s, tarnish has been a part of baseball along with triumph. This time, it’s high tech that has awakened low motives.

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BOX SCORE

Wellsville (21-13-1318—65) (FG/3pt): Pryzbylo 1-0-1-2, Farrar 0-0-1-0, Aamold 1/4-3-0-17, McCoy 5/2-6-0-22, Pearson 0-0-4-0, Troutman 5-1-2-

11, McDaniel 0-1-5-1, Ball 2/1-1-3-8, TOTALS: 16/712-16-65.

Iola (5-11-7-8—31) (FG/3pt): Gardner 0-22-2, Morrison 0/1-0-2-3, Lampe 0/1-1-0-4, Plumlee 1-0-0-2, Holloway 0/1-1-24, Kunkler 1-2-1-4, Schinstock 0-1-0-1, Taylor 0-1-11, Curry 1-0-0-2, Sprague 2-1-3-5, Richards 0/1-0-03. TOTALS: 6/4-7-11-31.

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NFL: AFC Championship

Golf: Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship

Koepka ready to get back to work after long break

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and teammates celebrate after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime during the AFC Championship Game in 2019. PATRICK SMITH/GETTY IMAGES/TNS

A game full of timeless memories since 1970

By ARNIE STAPLETON The Associated Press

Tom Brady has been synonymous with the AFC championship for the last two decades.

Thirteen times he played for the Lamar Hunt Trophy and nine times he won it, besting MVP Patrick Mahomes in overtime, upending Blake Bortles in a classic comeback, denying Andrew Luck and Philip Rivers trips to the Super Bowl, foiling Ben Roethlisberger twice and Kordell Stewart once, and splitting two games with Joe Flacco.

Peyton Manning he bested once but three other times he lost to his rival in the conference title game.

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Tennessee Titans (117) and the top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs (134) marks the first AFC championship game since 2010 without Brady barking under center and Bill Belichick scowling on the sideline.

It’s also the first time since 2002 that the AFC championship doesn’t include Brady, Manning or Roethlisberger.

The star attractions this time are the Titans’ bulldozing running back Derrick Henry, the man most responsible for putting an end to New England’s pre-eminence and for trampling the high hopes in Baltimore after All-Pro Lamar Jackson played his position in 2019 unlike any other quarterback in the league’s first 100 years.

Reigning league MVP

Mahomes produced an astonishing 51-7 response to the 24-0 hole the Chiefs found themselves in against Houston in the divisional round last week. So consummate was Kansas City’s comeback that the Chiefs ran out of fireworks they shoot off to celebrate their touchdowns at Arrowhead Stadium.

Before Brady made the AFC title game his personal playground, John Elway, Bob Griese and Terry Bradshaw built their reputations in the big games that secured Super Bowl appearances for the eventual Hall of Famers.

Two decades before winning two AFC titles from the front office with Manning as his quarterback, Elway engineered five victories for the Den-

ver Broncos from the huddle, including classics such as “ The Drive “ and “The Fumble” against the Cleveland Browns.

He won Super Bowls following his last two conference championship appearances and another with Manning, who toppled Brady 2018 in the 2016 AFC title game in the 17th and final meeting between the two greatest quarterbacks of the 21st century.

Griese led Miami to three consecutive AFC trophies in the years following the 1970 merger, including a win over Pittsburgh and Bradshaw during the only undefeated season in league history.

See AFC | Page B6

HONOLULU (AP) — Brooks Koepka hasn’t been the same since he tied for third in the FedEx Cup final in August, and hasn’t felt entirely healthy since last March.

He wouldn’t rate himself full strength now.

Koepka returns to competition this week in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, his first tournament since he reinjured his left knee in South Korea at the CJ Cup. He said Tuesday his left knee “doesn’t feel the same as my right.”

“It probably won’t for a while, but it does feel stable,” Koepka said.

“Leaving Korea and all the way up to about a month ago, it just didn’t feel stable. It felt like it could either way. It could go left, out, back.”

Koepka says he’s had issues since March and just dealt with them. He still managed to win the PGA Championship for the second straight year and pick up his first World Golf Championship. During his short offseason, Koepka had stem cell treatment on his left knee because the patella tendon was partially torn.

Then, he was walking off a tee when he slipped on a wet piece of cement, went to brace himself from falling and reinjured the knee. He said his knee cap moved into the fat pad, which he described as “excruciating.”

He had physical therapy in San Diego for most of December and says he started hitting balls

right before Christmas.

Koepka said he wouldn’t have flown to the United Arab Emirates if he didn’t feel healthy, and that his speed and everything else about his game were the same as before he was hurt at the CJ Cup. “From that moment on, after a couple days of hitting balls and not feeling pain, it was like, ‘OK, I could get back here and do this and finally play,’” he said.

A NAME FROM THE PAST

The first player of note from an emerging golf nation is not always the best one. As Li Haotong of China was making his debut at the Presidents Cup, Guan Tianlang was preparing to qualify for the PGA Tour Series-China.

Guan, who won the Asia-Pacific Amateur and then made the cut at the Masters and Zurich Classic when he was 14, made it through. Despite closing with a 79, he tied for 10th last week to earn full status for the season in China.

Guan is a sophomore at Arizona and is still an amateur.

“I think I will turn pro soon,” he said, adding there was a “good chance” he would play China’s opening tournament. “But I still need some time to think about everything. I might also balance school and play professional events.”

Guan says he expected some highs and lows after his Masters perforSee GOLF | Page B6

Chiefs: Defensive free agent additions making an impact Continued from B3

six-year deal the safety signed in 2017, playing three games total over the next two seasons due to injuries. Justin Houston appeared in only 32 games over three seasons after signing a $101 million, six-year contract in 2015, at the time the second richest for a defensive player in NFL history. Wide receiver Dwayne Bowe had 117 catches but just five touchdowns in two seasons after his $56 million, five-year contract in 2013, and quarterback Matt Cassel went a mere 19-28 in four years as the starter after his $63 million, six-year deal in 2009.

No wonder the Chiefs

are so happy with the production Mathieu and Clark have provided.

Yet their road to Kansas City — and all those riches — was fraught with obstacles.

Mathieu was a standout safety at LSU before a series of drug arrests torpedoed his college career. At one point, after an arrest in 2012, he told an Arizona television station that he contemplated suicide.

And when Mathieu got his life in order, and the Cardinals had taken a chance on him, injuries threatened his professional career.

He turned that around, too. Mathieu helped the Texans reach the playoffs last season,

then landed his contract in Kansas City, where he immediately became the go-to leader not only of the secondary but the entire Chiefs defense.

“That’s who he is,” quarterback Patrick Mahomes said. “He doesn’t have to be anything other than himself. He goes out there every single day and just by his attitude, his mindset, he’s leading other guys. His play speaks for itself, but the way he’s every single day able to be great, it spreads through the team.”

Clark has a remarkably similar story in finding his way to Kansas City.

He also was kicked off his college team, though

Michigan did so following a domestic violence incident. And when Seattle gave him a chance, Clark avoided drama until an ugly social media incident involving a female TV reporter.

The Chiefs insist they did their due diligence before trading for him, though, and Clark has steered clear of trouble while helping Mathieu steer their revamped defense deep into the postseason. Clark had three sacks of Deshaun Watson in their comeback win over Houston last week, including one in which he whiffed twice and ran about 40 yards before he finally brought down the Texans quarterback from

behind.

“He’s relentless. That one sack kind of tells you the whole story,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “He was running around chasing him, missed him twice, got back up and sacked him.

That’s how he is wired.”

That’s how Mathieu and Clark are both wired. It’s a big reason they have bucked the NFL trend — so far — by living up to their massive contracts, and in doing so, helping the Chiefs return to the AFC championship game.

This time, they won’t be watching it on TV. “It’s awesome,” Clark said, “but our goal isn’t just to make it there, it’s to win it all. It’s one

game at a time. But it would feel good to go ahead and bring home that trophy, the AFC championship trophy — that would mean the world to us.”

NOTES: Pro Bowl DT Chris Jones (calf) did not practice Wednesday, though Reid said he was improving. Jones missed last week’s game against Houston and is likely to be questionable Sunday. “He’s a tough kid,” Reid said. “It’s not a pain thing. It’s however he can play to the best of his ability. That’s what we’re looking at.” ... RB LeSean McCoy and QB Matt Moore also did not practice Wednesday because of illnesses.

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Brooks Koepka acknowledges fans in March of 2019 after making a putt at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass during The Players Championship. BOB SELF/FLORIDA TIMES-UNION

Koepka: Ready to get going in 2020 Continued from B5

mance. “I think that I’m trending in the right direction now,” he said.

G-MAC STYLE

Graeme McDowell can add his name to the list of players who went searching for distance and lost sight of their game.

McDowell was enthusiastic at the Sony Open, and that was before he closed with rounds of 67-64 for the best weekend score at wet Waialae. It gave him a tie for fourth, his best finish since winning in the Dominican Republic last spring.

He attributes that to getting back to his normal flight with irons.

McDowell started working in August with Kevin Kirk, also the swing coach for Patrick Reed.

“The first thing I said was I’ve got to start hit-

ting it lower again,” McDowell said. “I’m not playing the wind anymore. That was my bread and butter.”

He still works with Pete Cowen, but McDowell said their schedules didn’t mesh as much with McDowell out of the top 50 and not playing in all the majors or World Golf Championships.

Where did he lose his way?

“It probably came from trying to launch the drive too high in a little search for a wee bit of distance,” he said.

“I got an iron in my hand, it was vertical.

That’s not me. I need to hit the ball back down to a good window.”

For two weeks in the Hawaii wind, he said he was “back to G-Mac style.”

SHORT ROAD, LONG SHOT

For the host country of the Tokyo Olympics, Hideki Matsuyama (No. 21) and Shugo Imahira (No. 33) are the leading candidates to represent Japan.

Next in line is Ryo Ishikawa at No. 83.

Ishikawa showed signs of getting back to form last year when he won three times on the Japan Golf Tour, his first titles since 2016 and his biggest year in Japan since 2010. The problem facing him now is a schedule.

Ishikawa is part of a solid field this week in the Singapore Open, co-sanctioned by Japan.

Among those playing are Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson and Matt Kuchar.

Otherwise, the Japan Golf Tour season doesn’t start until a week after the Masters. That would leave Ishikawa only six events on his home tour

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Ishikawa is looking for sponsor exemptions, with his eye on the Genesis Invitational at Riviera and perhaps the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. He made his U.S. debut at Riviera in 2009 when he was 17.

POLICY BOARD

Six new players were selected for the 16-member Player Advisory Council this year, the group tasked with listening to players and conveying their thoughts to the four members of the PGA Tour’s policy board.

The newcomers include Russell Knox and Harry Higgs.

More telling was who was put up for election as PAC chairman, who next year would join the policy board — Justin Thomas, Charley Hoffman and Peter Malnati. That assures a streak that probably should have ended long ago. No foreignborn player has ever been on the policy board.

Last year, 48 of the 125 players who qualified for the FedEx Cup postseason were international players, including 12 of the 30 who reached the Tour Championship.

The others on the PAC: Ryan Armour, Paul Casey, Zach Johnson, Anirban Lahiri, Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Harold Varner III all served last year.

Also new for this year are David Hearn, Billy Horschel, Ryan Palmer and Kevin Streelman.

Missing from the list is Bryson DeChambeau. Last year at The Northern Trust, when he was criticized for how long it took him to play a shot, DeChambeau said, “I’ve asked to be on the PAC committee for three years, and it takes time to get on there.”

Higgs is a rookie, although the PAC is evenly populated by players young and old, high and low in the FedEx Cup.

Bradshaw bounced back to win four AFC titles in six seasons, parlaying each of them into a Super Bowl ring.

Jim Kelly won a record four consecutive AFC championships in the 1990s, but heartbreaking Super Bowl losses followed each of them during a streak of 13 consecutive victories by the NFC representative.

Elway snapped the streak with an upset of Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl 32 after beating the Steelers 24-21 for the AFC title, providing the first ring for the celebrated QB class of 1983, which had gone 0-9 in Super Bowls.

THE DRIVE & THE FUMBLE

After Bernie Kosar put the Browns ahead 2013 with a 48-yard touchdown pass with 5:43 left in the AFC championship in Cleveland on Jan. 11, 1987, Broncos returner Ken Bell couldn’t handle a knuckleball of a kickoff that teammate Gene Lang recovered at the Denver 2.

Broncos coach Dan Reeves was resolute.

“Whenever you have John Elway as your quarterback, you’ve got a chance,” Reeves said.

Elway poked his head into the huddle and hollered, “Let’s go!” above the din of 79,915 roaring fans.

Fifteen plays and 98 yards later, Mark Jackson dived into the end zone to catch Elway’s touchdown pass with 37 seconds left, and Rick Karlis’ extra point tied it.

Then, 41 seconds into overtime, Elway and the Broncos took over again and, with two passes covering 50 yards, they marched to the Cleveland 15 before Karlis kicked the winning field goal.

“The day before a big game, you dream of doing things like that,” Elway said after beating both the heavily favored Browns and the longest of odds.

“That drive probably is something I might be able to do again,” Elway said.

A year later, it wasn’t “The Drive” that broke Cleveland hearts but “The Fumble.”

The Browns trailed 38-31 at Mile High Stadium when Earnest Byner fumbled at the Denver 2 with a minute remaining and cornerback Jeremiah Castille recovered. Denver punter Mike Horan ran out of the end zone for a safety with 8 seconds to play.

“Last year, I felt elated. This year, I feel numb,” Reeves said afterward. “I know the Cleveland Browns feel terrible.”

BRADY VS. MANNING XVII

In the AFC championship match in Denver on Jan. 24, 2016, Brady and Manning met for the

17th and final time.

“I don’t know that there’ll ever be another rivalry -- or has been a rivalry -- like it” in football, said Elway, who faced fellow Hall of Famer Dan Marino just twice in his playing career.

Brady had won 11 of their meetings but had split four playoff games, with Manning beating him in the conference championship with the Colts and Broncos.

“This is Jesse James and Wyatt Earp standing out in the street at high noon for the last showdown,” Joe Theismann said before the game.

Manning was the last man standing this time when Bradley Roby’s interception of Brady’s 2-point pass in the closing seconds sealed Denver’s 20-18 win in a game in which the Broncos walloped Brady 23 times, more than he’d ever been hit in his career.

“He was rattled,” said Broncos cornerback and former Brady teammate Aqib Talib. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody put that much pressure on Tom — ever.”

CLASSIC COMEBACK

The first time Brady and Manning squared off in the AFC championship was Jan. 18, 2004, and Brady built a 15-0 lead on Manning’s Indianapolis Colts on the way to a 24-14 victory at home.

They met again three years later at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis and Brady again built a big lead, this time putting the Patriots up 21-3 early in the second quarter only to watch Manning engineer the biggest comeback in NFC title game history for a 38-34 Colts victory that sent him and coach Tony Dungy to their first Super Bowl.

Joseph Addai’s 3-yard run with 1 minute left gave the Colts their first lead in the game.

Manning couldn’t bear to watch Brady’s desperation drive, looking up from the sideline only after hearing the crowd at the RCA Dome go wild after Marlin Jackson’s interception.

“I said a little prayer on that last drive,” Manning said. “I don’t know if you’re supposed to pray for stuff like that, but I said a little prayer.”

CHILLY CHARGERS

Cincinnati Bengals coach Forrest Gregg called the Freezer Bowl -- a 27-7 win over the San Diego Chargers on Jan. 2, 1982 -- worse than the Ice Bowl on Dec. 31, 1967, when he was a Packers offensive lineman in the most famous coldweather game in NFL history.

The Ice Bowl was colder — minus-13 degrees at kickoff with a wind chill of minus-48 — but the 35 mph wind gusts in Cincinnati 15 years later made minus-9 degrees feel like minus-59.

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Granny is the star of in-law’s family Dear Carolyn: My 80-something mother-inlaw makes me atrophied with her incessant attention-seeking, hyper-dramatized conversation hijacking. Amidst her long soliloquies of relating everything you just said to herself, I wither away, uninspired to contribute additional words, as they would become invalidated and unheard anyhow. As a doting and loving mother of several children of her own, she also extends her motherly skills and knowledge to others in a patronizing manner, which is embarrassing and unnecessary.

I’ve thought about confronting her on these things over the years, but if I did, I would undoubtedly become the black sheep because my spouse’s family “fans” find her grandstanding nature adorable. And to mention this to my spouse would most certainly cause distance between us.

Everyone loves “Granny,” so what’s wrong with me? — Withering Daughter-in-Law

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax

Withering Daughterin-Law: Nothing, probably. No one’s charms are universal.

As is typical when an extended-family problem occurs in the context of a marriage, the real problem is how it affects the marriage.

It’s possible you’re not giving your spouse enough credit. Plenty of people are capable both of adoring Mama and admitting her faults. Plus, what are the chances he has zero inkling of how you feel?

Plus, holding back is a lie in the marriage; far better to fix that than to presume to fix Granny through “confronting,” which must have a great PR rep, given how often it’s contemplated as a remedy for personality clashes and how rarely it is one.

So: “You know me, so

certainly noticed: It bugs me when Granny does/ says X. I feel bad. Any suggestions?”

A limited complaint with a plea for help is less of a domestic grenade than, “I’m so done with that preachy cow.” It gives you both something to work with.

If even that causes drama, then you’ll know: that inviting honesty, flexibility and forgiveness into your marriage will be a longer and more serious project, and that your opinion of Granny is the least of it.

As you address the bigger stuff — please do, in solo counseling if feasible, since intimacy deplores charades — try these Granny coping tactics: • Looking hard for what everyone likes about her.

If you haven’t exhausted this avenue by now.

• Exploiting her popularity. If she has even one rapt fan listening to her, then you can mouth, “Excuse me!” as you slink away to freedom.

• Harnessing what an-

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noys you as an agent for good. (Pure gold, when it works.) Surely this font of maternal knowledge knows something you value? Good. Then ask her to cook the family specialty, or show you how; record tales of your husband’s childhood, which you collect as a gift for your husband; keep you company during some absorbing task, like running errands or doing dishes.

This way you can justifiably half-listen while logging precious good-sport minutes.

• Giving up all hope.

Sometimes you’re just stuck in that room with that egocentric soliloquy and that spousal blind spot, so you might as well find a soft chair and go to your mental happy place.

Eventually the sun will set, sleep will overcome the best of you and tomorrow will be another day.

Again — this is about Granny only on the surface, and everything beneath is about your marriage. Do what it needs and let the rest take care of itself.

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Warrant issued for NFL star after video shows butt swat NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A misdemeanor simple battery warrant has been issued for Cleveland Browns wide receiver and former LSU star Odell Beckham Jr., police in New Orleans said Thursday.

The warrant comes as video posted on social media appears to show Beckham swatting a security officer's buttocks during LSU's locker room victory celebration after Monday night's college national championship game in the Superdome.

“We are aware of the incident and have been in touch with Odell and

his representatives on the matter,”the Browns said in a statement.

"They are cooperating with authorities to appropriately address the situation.''

LSU players were seen smoking cigars — forbidden in the Superdome — in pictures from the Monday night celebration.

Authorities reportedly warned them they could face arrest.

In a 27-second video available on Twitter, a security officer is seen standing over an LSU player sitting on a locker room bench.

The officer appears to

be searching around the bench and pointing to the floor. He can be heard talking about a “burn mark” just before Beckham approaches him from behind and appears to swat his backside.

The arrest warrant follows another postgame controversy involving Beckham.

LSU has acknowledged contacting officials from the NCAA and Southeastern Conference about Beckham apparently handing out cash to Tigers players on the field after the national championship game.

LSU athletics spokesman Michael Bonnette said initial information suggested that Beckham handed out “novelty bills” to players after LSU defeated Clemson on Monday night. However, further investigation showed that Beckham may have given away real money, Bonnette said earlier this week.

“We were in contact with the NCAA and the SEC immediately upon learning of this situation in which some of our student-athletes may have been placed in a compromising position,” Bonnette said.

Beckham, who is from New Orleans, had an interesting first season with the Browns, who acquired him in March from the New York Giants in a blockbuster trade.

The 27-year-old threetime Pro Bowler skipped most of the team’s preseason training camp and his absence may have contributed to him seeming to be out of sync with quarterback Baker Mayfield.

Beckham played most of the season with a sports hernia injury that may require surgery. Despite not being completely healthy,

he still played in all 16 games and finished with 74 catches for 1,035 yards. However, he had just four touchdowns, his fewest in a full season.

Late in the season, as the Browns were falling from playoff contention, Beckham dismissed reports he was telling opposing players to “come get me” during games. Beckham said he had no intention of leaving the Browns and was committed to helping them win while playing alongside Jarvis Landry, his best friend and former college teammate.

NASCAR THIS WEEK CUP COUNTDOWN

No. 1: Race-ending chaos pushes Kansas to top Playoff drama draped the closing laps, and then some

By Godwin Kelly godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com

This is the last of a five-part series counting down the top five Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races of 2019.

D

enny Hamlin led a racehigh 153 of 277 laps to win the Hollywood Casino 400 in two overtimes at Kansas Speedway in October.

But the real story was happening behind him as three drivers were jockeying for the last two playoff berths for Round 3 of the postseason.

Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano were fighting for their playoff lives when they arrived at the 1.5-mile oval in late October.

The race was supposed to end after 267 laps, but a rash of yellow flags over the last 25 laps scrambled the lineup and extended this critical playoff race by 10 laps, and it ultimately knocked Keselowski out of championship contention.

Keselowski, who entered the race with a 20-point advantage over Elliott, was bottled up on the final restart, fell from 13th to 19th in the running order and lost the final playoff berth to Elliott by three points.

Elliott finished second, only .128 seconds behind Hamlin, while Logano restarted 20th in his damaged No. 22 Ford and finished 17th to secure the last playoff position.

The dramatic finish sparked two celebrations along pit road, one for the race winner and another for Elliott, who staved off elimination in the closing laps of this postseason nail-biter.

Denny Hamlin celebrates his victory at Kansas Speedway after a race that shook up the playoff picture. [AP/ORLIN WAGNER]

“This is a great feeling,” said Hamlin. “That car was awesome to dominate that whole second half. I have to thank everybody who pushed me on the restarts, such as Kyle Busch and the No. 9 car (Elliott) at the end.”

Elliott’s second-place finish felt like a win after extending his playoff run.

“The good news was the bottom lane rolled good enough on the last restart to at least get back to second,” Elliott said. “So I appreciate the effort. We were really struggling there at one point in the race.

You have to stay fighting in these things, especially with these late race

restarts.

“I’m just proud of the effort. Just excited we get to fight another race.

Back up against the wall, to come out here and battle for a win, that’s what you have to do when you’re in the position that we were in.”

Elliott was the only driver from Hendrick Motorsports to survive the Round of 12. Teammate William Byron finished fifth but missed the next round by 16 points.

Alex Bowman suffered early damage and rallied to run 11th, but he finished the race 20 points behind Elliott for the last spot.

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It was Keselowski who took the worst hit at this race. He was not happy with the result.

“We didn’t make it,” Keselowski said. “I pushed as hard as I knew how and didn’t quite do good enough on the last restart, and that was it.

“We clawed as hard as we could, and there were times it looked like we were going to be fine and times it didn’t. In the end it didn’t work out.”

There were seven caution periods during the race, but three yellow flags over the final 22 laps.

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