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Tuesday’s meeting of Allen County commissioners covered a scattershot list of topics, including budgets, grant opportunities, internet security and the acute need for Meals on Wheels volunteers.

Following a discussion of the tax lid and which county departments it applies to, with assistance from auditor Rodney Burns commissioners approved the county’s 2021 budget for publication.

In reference to the budget,

which does not include a tax hike, commissioner Bill King said “we didn’t want to put a burden on the residents.”

King also said he thought that although “the [COVID-19] crisis isn’t over, things are beginning to level off,” suggesting that the county was successfully weathering the economic impact of the virus.

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Rodney Burns helps finalize the county’s 2021 budget for publication with commissioners. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG

State bought substandard pandemic equipment

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

Meanwhile, work continues on the building pad for a new science and technology building with a cafeteria at

TOPEKA — The Kansas director of emergency management said Tuesday state purchases of $64 million in personal protective equipment during the pandemic included substandard N95 r e s p i r a t o r Gen. David masks and bo- Weishaar gus surgical gowns that were little more than plastic bags with openings for a person’s arms.

Maj. Gen. David Weishaar, adjutant general of the Kansas National Guard and the state director of emergency management, told an interim committee of the Kansas Legislature about the acquisition of flawed equipment acquired since the pandemic emerged in March. The disclosure, which apparently surfaced Monday during a closed meeting with legislators, came as the committee considered possible amendments to the state’s emergency management act.

Sen. Dennis Pyle, a Hiawatha Republican, said the volume of equipment purchased by local, state and federal government agencies in response to spread

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Workers with RenTerra clear soil from the site of a new elementary school on the east side of Iola. In the background is the intersection of Vermont and Willow streets, which will be on the back side of the new school. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Crews dig into new school projects

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Dirt work and soil remediation at the site of Iola’s new elementary school continues to move quickly.

School board officials expect to have a building pad ready by Labor Day. The work is being done

by RenTerra, a company associated with the Veterans Worldwide group that is remediating soil throughout Iola as part of an EPA Superfund site.

RenTerra has demolished some existing structures, including the remains of an old brick plant. The site of the former brick plant will be

the location of the elementary school building.

To the west was once an old ironworks foundry. That will become a parking lot.

A zinc smelting plant also was located in the vicinity, to the east. That area will be remediated under the EPA, and work will begin after the building pad is completed. Some buildings have not yet been demolished because they are part of the EPA portion.

Eventually, the east area will become a playground and recreational area.

The board is expected to hear final construction bid proposals for the elementary school project at its Sept. 28

A construction crew works on a building pad and foundation for a new science and technology building at the Iola High School campus. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS meeting. Preliminary estimates indicated the project was expected to come in very near the $25 million mark as approved by voters in 2019.

3 shot, 2 killed in third night of unrest over Blake shooting KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Two people were killed and another was wounded as shots were fired late Tuesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the third night of unrest following the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake.

The shootings were reported at about 11:45 p.m. in an area where protests have taken place, Kenosha police Lt. Vol. 122, No. 211 Iola, KS 75 Cents

Joseph Nosalik said in a news release. They happened after police drove away protesters from in front of a courthouse that had been the site of the main clashes between protesters and authorities.

Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said one victim was shot in the head and another was shot in the chest, the Milwaukee Journal Sen-

tinel reported. Beth didn’t know where the other person was shot, but that person’s injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

Beth told the Journal Sentinel that armed people had been patrolling the city’s streets in recent nights, but he did not know if the shooter was among them.

“They’re a militia,” Beth

said. “They’re like a vigilante group.”

He said authorities didn’t detain anyone over the shootings, but that investigators had reviewed video of what happened and that he was confident a man would be arrested soon.

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Megan Belcher, the youngest sister of Jacob Blake, speaks at a press conference. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

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By JEFF MARTIN, JOHN MONE and STACEY PLAISANCE The Associated Press

Gary Lynn Cookus, age 69, passed away Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 at his home in Iola.

Gary was born Sept. 1, 1950 to Frank and Mary (Andrews) Cookus in Beatrice, Neb. Gary attended high school at Lincoln East High School in Lincoln, Neb., where he graduated in 1969. After high school, he drove Gary Cookus a truck with his brother Frank until joining the U.S. Air Force. He served 20 years in the Air Force before retiring. After retiring from the military, he owned and operated Cookus Construction out of Hastings, Neb. He received his associate of applied science degree from Neosho County Community College in December of 2000. Gary fully retired in June of 2009.

Gary enjoyed tinkering with electronics and loved woodworking. He made custom cabinets during his career and also in his spare time. He was known for being a perfectionist. Family was so important to Gary. He spent time with his grandchildren every chance he got.

Gary is preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Don, Walter, and Richard Cookus; nephews, Bobby and Richard Cookus; and nieces, Teresa Wallace, Cindy Devor, and Elizabeth Cookus.

Gary is survived by his wife of 45 years, Dawn; children, Andrea Northcutt and husband, Darren, Aaron Cookus and wife, Amanda; grandchildren, Christopher Northcutt, Johanna Hendry, Breanna Northcutt, Kolton Northcutt, Dakota Cookus, Remingtyn Cookus, Easton Cookus, and Brantlee Cookus; three great-grandchildren, Izaac Northcutt, Noah Northcutt, and Maggie Hendry; brother, Frank Cookus; nephews, Jimmy and Scotty Cookus; nieces, Kim Cookus and Stacy Bechtel; and numerous other family members and friends.

A funeral service in honor of Gary will take place at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service. Family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

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Humboldt explosions were target practice HUMBOLDT — A series of explosions north of Humboldt Tuesday morning proved to be nothing more than some loud target practice.

Humboldt Police Chief Shannon Moore said the shooters, who weren’t identified, were shooting at tannerite targets, which make a loud boom when they’re struck, but are otherwise harmless. “With it being in the

county, there was nothing illegal about it,�

Moore said.

Several residents, as well as Humobldt officers, heard the explosions just north of Humboldt’s city limits.

The concussion was loud enough to rattle windows, one resident reported.

The Humboldt officers investigated the incident because Allen County sheriff ’s deputies were tied up on another call, Moore said.

Police report Campaign warns drivers who drink The Allen County Sheriff ’s Department is joining other law enforcement agencies with the “You Drink, You Drive, You Lose� campaign.

Deputies will step up their patrols through Sept. 7, Sheriff Bryan Murphy announced in a press release.

Other agencies, such as the Iola Police Department, also are stepping up patrols through the Labor Day holiday.

Driver arrested Iola police officers arrested Jason Poffenbarger, 43, Iola, Saturday for suspicion of driving while suspended in the 100 block of East Broadway Street.

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demic, more than half a million people were ordered Tuesday to flee from an area of the Gulf Coast along the Texas-Louisiana state line.

More than 385,000 residents were told to evacuate the Texas cities of Beaumont, Galveston and Port Arthur. Another 200,000 were ordered to leave the low-lying Calcasieu and Cameron parishes in southwestern Louisiana, where forecasters said as much as 13 feet of storm surge topped by waves could submerge whole communities. “Cameron Parish is going to be part of the Gulf of Mexico for a couple of days, based on this forecast track,� said Donald Jones, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Lake Charles, Louisiana, which is near the bullseye.

In Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas, many people boarded buses to Austin and other inland cities.

“If you decide to stay, you’re staying on your own,� Port Arthur Mayor Thurman Bartie said.

Laura also is expected to dump massive rainfall over a short period of time as it moves inland, causing widespread flash flooding in states far from the coast. Flash flood watches were issued for much of Arkansas, and forecasters said heavy rainfall could move to parts of Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky late Friday and Saturday.

Urging people in southwest Louisiana to evacuate before it’s too late, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said they need to reach wherever they intend to ride out the storm by noon Wednesday, when the state will start feeling the storm’s effects.

Officials urged people to stay with relatives or in hotel rooms to avoid spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.

Pro-police demonstrators in Topeka clash with BLM

By SHERMAN SMITH Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Hundreds of police supporters gathered Tuesday afternoon outside the capital’s city hall to protest demands by Black Lives Matter.

Standing in sweltering heat, they chanted “back the blue,� joined in prayer, sang “God Bless America,� and cheered speakers, including three Republican candidates for the Kansas Legislature, who urged them to brace for a long battle against activists who would restrict police from keeping them safe.

The demonstration preceded a special city council meeting in which dozens of community members signed up to speak in favor or opposition of proposed police reforms.

Some of the rally participants hocked T-shirts. Virtually all of them were white, and few wore masks as they

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packed into shady corners of the city block.

A contingent of Black Lives Matter supporters held court on the edge of the larger protest, engaging in spirited verbal clashes. “Black lives matter!� “Jesus matters!� “Jesus was black, baby!� “This is like a comedy show I didn’t even have a ticket for.�

THE RALLY was organized by retired Topeka police officer Ron Gish in response to various proposals inspired by the death of George Floyd earlier this year, and countless other Black men and women who have been killed by police nationwide.

In Topeka, Black Lives Matter is asking the city council to overhaul qualified immunity for police officers, classify a chokehold as a crime, prohibit racial profiling, establish a registry of police misconduct to be maintained by the U.S. Department of

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Justice, and create a civilian review board to represent and empower the community. “When we say Black Lives Matter, we’re talking about more than police brutality,� said Pjay Carter, an organizer for Black Lives Matter-Topeka. “We’re talking about incarceration, health care, housing, education, and economics — all the different components of a broader system that has created the reality we see today, where Black people are incarcerated at more than five times the rate of white people, where Black people are given harsher sentences for the same offenses, where Black people are more likely to be held on bail pretrial, and where Black people are dying not only at the hands of police, but because of an unequal health care system. “Black lives should matter in all stages of life, and to honor that truth, we must radically transform the system from its roots.�

Speakers at the pro-police rally warned supporters of the dangers of pursing such reform. “We have to be vigilant,� said Francis Slobodnik, a Topeka resident and district manager for the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, which bills itself as Catholic inspired and is known as an anti-LGBTQ group. “Be vigilant,� Slo-

bodnik told the crowd. “Because what the people who want to reduce the police, weaken the police, what they will do is they will try to wait us out. They will hope we fall asleep.�

Republican Jeff Coen, a former Topeka councilman who is now running against Democratic Rep. Jim Gartner, lamented how the council in one year had gone from talking about fixing potholes and water main lines to talk of police reform. “You know, if one of our officers was struggling with a bad guy, and it was a chance to get a little jujitsu action to put the person to sleep, so they could put the handcuffs on him — that’s not asking for much,� Coen said.

Janlyn Nesbett Tucker, a Republican who is running for a Statehouse seat held by Democratic Rep. Annie Kuether, led the crowd in chanting the names of fallen Topeka police officers. It was her take on the “say his name� references to Floyd. “When someone says, ‘Black lives matter,’ and we say, ‘All lives matter,’ it’s like saying, ‘My grandmother died,’ and, ‘Well, all grandmothers die.’ And you know, I want us to really think about that,� she said.

She continued: “I believe in my heart of hearts that what started off as an awareness movement has turned into something ... out of control.�

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Kayaker reunites author with message in a bottle from 1985 MILTON, Del. (AP) — A kayaker who discovered a message in a bottle floating in a Delaware river was able to reunite the letter with the woman who wrote it 35 years ago.

Brad Wachsmuth thought the bottle bobbing in the water about 2 miles offshore of the Broadkill River was a piece of trash when he spotted it Aug. 8,

just a few days after Tropical Storm Isaias swept through the area, WBOC-TV reported.

“As we usually do as kayakers, we try to pick up trash out of the water when we can,” he told the station this week.

But Wachsmuth’s friend noticed there was something inside, and the two fished out the letter written by Cathi Riddle and her cousin,

A message in a bottle. Pixabay Stacey Wells, dated 35 years ago — Aug. 1, 1985.

It described their family

pets and asked potential future readers if they had any of their own,

among other childhood musings.

Wachsmuth brought the letter to the Milton Historical Society and a curator reached out to family and put the two in touch, the news outlet said.

Riddle still lived just miles away in Milton, and Wachsmuth was able to return the letter to her Thursday. He said he was surprised it end-

ed up in the same waters after decades of storms and tides, but Riddle suggested that maybe, it was fate.

“My cousin and I were staying at the beach and we decided to write the letter and send it out and see how far it went,” Riddle told the station.

“It didn’t travel very far, but perhaps it traveled the world and came back.”

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of COVID-19 represented as an opportunity for fraud. He speculated greedy individuals may have an interest in perpetuating the pandemic to score big profits.

“Is that a real possibility?” Pyle said. “I have some real concerns.”

Weishaar said a portion of deficient or unusable supplies making it to Kansas went back to manufacturers or the federal government.

The not-as-advertised N95 masks can be used in instances when a lower level of protection is required, he said.

Pyle picked up the wasteful-spending thread during testimony by Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

“Are there any guidelines that have been established or put in place?” the senator said.

Norman said KDHE’s laboratory purchased only equipment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. KDHE decided in March not to invest millions of dollars in doses of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, which were touted by politicians and other individuals as beneficial in dealing with

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Sen. Dennis Pyle, a Hiawatha Republican, says he’s disappointed state emergency management officials confirmed Tuesday the purchase of hospital gowns that turned out to be trash bags with arm holes cut in the corner. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) COVID-19.

“We chose to take a pass on it at that time,” he said. “I think we were right. Time will tell.”

He said he referred to the attorney general’s office evidence a Kansas hospital was marketing an antibody test for COVID-19 that falsely concluded someone testing positive for the virus wouldn’t come down with it again.

KDHE has reported more than 38,000 positive tests, 426 fatalities and 2,100 hospitalizations related to the coronavirus in Kansas.

Currently, KDHE says the rate of positive tests hovered at 10.3%, despite a national average of 5.3%.

Norman said hospitalizations and deaths were trending downward and that the capacity of Kansas hospitals had bed and ventilator capacity to deal with a surge. He also said KDHE had no plans to require Kansans to take a COVID-19 vaccine.

Meanwhile, the University of Kansas released an updated testing summary that showed 222 positives among 19,400 students, staff and faculty tested in conjunction of fall semester classes. Of that total, KU said, 133 positives for COVID-19 were among members

of Greek sororities or fraternities at KU. Rep. Eric Smith, the Burlington Republican, said he was frustrated by news reporting that declared people who visited a lake together and subsequently came down with COVID-19 acquired the virus at the lake. He said no one can definitively say those people were infected at the lake.

He said it would be wonderful if the state could test 60% or 70% of its 3 million residents for COVID-19 to determine more precisely status of the virus in Kansas.

KDHE says the state’s testing capacity ranges from 8,500 to 9,000 tests per day.

Shawnee Republican Sen. Mike Thompson questioned the work of KDHE and pointed to the prevalence of false positives from coronavirus testing, the economic damage of temporarily closing Kansas businesses and the state’s burn through approximately $1 billion in unemployment benefits.

“In my estimation,” Thompson said, “we’re scaring people unnecessarily.”

Thompson also said

he was concerned about research arguing that wearing a mask lowered a person’s oxygen level in the blood and made those individuals more susceptible to coronavirus. He suggested mask mandates recommended by the governor and local officials amounted to business suppression.

During the hearing at the Capitol, Weishaar said he would appreciate the Legislature and Gov. Laura Kelly take steps to amend the emergency law to strike

Kansas Reflector) Rep. Kristey Williams, an Augusta Republican, said lawmakers need to clarify lines of authority running from the Legislature, governor, state Board of Education, local school boards and county governments when decisions must be made during a pandemic.

There needs to be clarity when evaluating necessity of school closures, delaying start of classes and wearing a mask, she said.

She said holding

ence of COVID-19 to guide their approach to learning and to be nimble in how they responded to instructional challenges.

“Some kids do really well on virtual learning. But they’re the minority,” Watson said.

“The vast majority do best with a caring teacher in a brick-and-mortar school. Public or private. Statistically I can show you test scores, I can show you graduation rates, I can show you post-secondary success.”

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a provision granting the adjutant general authority to assume law enforcement duties in an emergency. He said it made sense for the adjutant general to assist local authorities in securing an area struck by disaster, such as the city of Greensburg after it was flattened by a tornado.

“To me, that doesn’t mean I’m going to write a speeding ticket,” he said. “I’m not a law enforcement authority.”

Abilene Rep. John Barker, a Republican, pushed back against the adjutant general’s recommendation.

He said it made more sense for the state’s emergency response officials to possess broad authority during a crisis.

Randy Watson, commissioner at the Kansas Department of Education, said students in public and private schools perform best with a caring teacher in a brick-and-mortar school. He also said the science of COVID-19 should guide educators as they work through instructional challenges. (Sherman Smith/

students out of school classes threatened to impose a “COVID slide” in terms of academic prowess.

Legislature needs to accommodate parents who aren’t satisfied with lack of in-person instruction in public schools so their children can enroll children in alternative schools, she said.

“Take into consideration the social-emotional wellness of our students, the sadness that many of them are experiencing, because they don’t get to physically go to school, they don’t get to physically play in their athletics,” Williams said. “Compound all those together, we’ve got a serious situation and that impacts how the Legislature looks at the emergency management act.”

Randy Watson, commissioner of the Kansas Department of Education, said the majority of the state’s 286 public school districts and 80 private school systems would start the new academic year with face-toface instruction.

He said educators should rely on the sci-

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Universities must accept reality: student behaviors will be tough to curb The wave of restrictions began hitting college campuses around the country this past week. It hasn’t yet hit Kansas State University, but it seems almost inevitable that it will.

The University of North Carolina moved to online-only instruction Thursday, after 177 students tested positive for the coronavirus. Notre Dame suspended in-person classes when 147 had confirmed cases. These are obviously the result of parties and social gatherings in dorms, Greek houses and off-campus gathering points. At Iowa State, they sent a warning letter after hundreds of students gathered for a semester kickoff party, violating social-distancing rules.

Here in Manhattan, a Mercury photographer Friday night found the bar scene more crowded than a typical weekend night before the pandemic, and only about a quarter of the people there were wearing masks. On Saturday, officials confirmed that they had closed two Aggieville bars (O’Malley’s and O’Malley’s Alley) for violating pandemic-related restrictions.

Confirmed cases began surging last week, just as classes got underway. It’s not a coincidence.

The thing is, most college students and certainly all college towns would prefer to have operational campuses, with in-person learning.

College kids don’t want to get booted from the dorms, forced to go back to live in Mom and Dad’s basement.

But college kids are also going to be college kids. They are not fully-formed, mature adults. We can ask them to be, we can plead with them to look out for one another, we can even boot them out of campus housing, as they’ve done to some partiers at the University of Connecticut and Drake University. Syracuse

denounced a bunch of freshmen for wandering around the campus unmasked. Penn State suspended a fraternity for partying.

Truth is, this isn’t going to work. It’s like asking bars to restrict crowd size, make everybody sit at tables and stay 6 feet apart. A bar is going to be a bar. College kids are going to be college kids. Those things are going to lead to big surges in virus transmission, just as sure as the sun coming up in the east.

So what is there to do?

Where this is all leading is another lockdown, with colleges sending kids out of the dorms and bars shut down by government order. It’s almost inevitable, simply as a matter of risk management.

You might have a different viewpoint — you might say that college kids infecting each other is no big deal, that they’ll all be fine, and that nobody will really get sick. You might say that they’d be more likely to suffer actual harm just by, say, getting blackout drunk and falling down a set of stairs. Statistically, you might actually be right.

But institutions in positions of power simply cannot abide the risk of being responsible for death. There’s a virus that has killed 150,000 American on the loose, without a cure. If you’re a university president, do you want to face a plaintiff ’s lawyer in front of a jury, asking you: “So, Madam President, you knew the risk and you chose to put my client’s life in danger anyway? You ignored the warnings of the health authorities in this country because you didn’t want to lose the tuition revenue?”

That’s not going to fly. All over the country, it’s the same story. College towns are trying to hold back the tide, and it’s not working.

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The Trumpublican National Convention Why doesn’t a polarizing president let others do the subtle work of persuasion?

By KYLE PETERSON The Wall Street Journal

Democrats would love for the 2020 election to be a referendum on the person of Donald Trump. So, apparently, would Mr. Trump. Typically, a political convention is a dayslong crescendo, rising steadily in intensity until the nominee takes the stage on the final night. Not this year.

On Monday evening, when the Republican National Convention began broadcasting its TV-palooza, the speeches

by Tim Scott and Nikki Haley were delivered in the expected tone. But President Trump isn’t a man content to wait for cues. Hours before prime time, Mr. Trump surprised GOP delegates in Charlotte, N.C., where he delivered almost an hour of freewheeling observations in his usual style.

He called Bernie Sanders “the greatest loser I’ve ever seen.” He promised to put a man on Mars. He predicted that his price controls on drugs will cut the cost of a patient’s prescriptions by perhaps 70%. He warned that Democrats are “using Covid to steal an election.”

Mr. Trump enthused that,

“Air Force One has more televisions than any plane in history.” Responding to chants of “four more years,” he joked that, “If you want to really drive them crazy, you say ‘12 more years.’ ” As for the Democratic agenda, he said: “They want no guns. They want no oil and gas. And they want no God.” When the prime-time program started, Mr. Trump was there, too. In two segments, he moderated group conversations, including one with “front-line” workers, where he name-checked the “China virus” and made a joke about hydroxychloroquine. Several montages showed the president shaking hands, flashing thumbs-up, signing documents, laying wreaths, and so forth. Mr. Trump reportedly will be playing some kind of role in every nightly TV broadcast this week.

It’s a curious strategy, given the polling. In 2016, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were the two most intensely disliked presidential nominees in Gallup’s historical data, which goes back to the 1950s. Four years on, Mr. Trump’s net approval has improved somewhat—to minus 15, or 42% favorable to 57% unfavorable. Joe Biden, by comparison, is about even, 47% favorable to 48% unfavorable. Among independent voters, Mr. Biden is 11 points underwater, but Mr. Trump is 20 points in the drink.

Monday’s lineup included speakers who could theoretically reach waffling voters. “I am living my mother’s Amer-

U.S. needs a realistic strategy with Russia The suspected poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny underscores the dangers Russians face for speaking out against President Vladimir Putin. It’s also a warning to those currently protesting for democratic change in neighboring Belarus. So long as Putin remains at the helm, Russia will continue to pose a serious threat to democratic values, in its periphery and beyond.

A coherent strategy to confront this challenge will be essential for the next U.S. administration. It should include responding more directly to Putin’s provocations, raising the costs for Russian misconduct and strengthening America’s relationships with its NATO allies. The U.S. shouldn’t rule out cooperation with Moscow in areas of mutual interest, but only when doing so demonstrably advances its own security.

Above all, Washington must send clear signals to Putin about the kinds of

behavior the U.S. deems unacceptable. The Trump administration’s policies have instead been characterized by inconstancy. Since 2017, the U.S. has imposed sanctions against Russian individuals and some government entities for a range of actions, from conducting cyberattacks to meddling in Ukraine to poisoning a former Russian spy living in the U.K. Yet the impact of these measures has been blunted by Trump’s resistance to tougher penalties, his acceptance of Putin’s denial of interference in the 2016 election and his push to welcome Russia back into the Group of Seven club of industrial nations.

More recently, Trump has refused to respond to intelligence assessments that Russian operatives paid bounties to Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops. The U.S. should avoid a rush to judgment, but the president’s willingness to side with the Kremlin’s version of events, rather than

that of his own intelligence agencies, is disturbing. At a minimum, the White House should suspend high-level communication with Moscow while it conducts a thorough investigation. If the deaths of American troops are traced back to Russian operatives, the U.S. should impose a cost that will make Putin regret those actions.

Meanwhile, Washington needs to push back against Putin’s efforts to divide NATO and subvert the U.S. political system. Military and diplomatic officials should remind their counterparts of America’s capacity to retaliate if Russia attempts to meddle in this fall’s election. The next administration should repair relationships with NATO partners and work with them on modernizing weapons systems. The U.S. should also reverse Trump’s decision to remove some 9,000 troops from Germany, which has cheered Russia at the expense of allies’ security.

As during the Cold War, the U.S. should look for ways to manage tensions and reduce the risks of catastrophic escalation. Russia lacks the economic power to compete with the U.S., but it possesses the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal and a larger military budget than any European country. Extending and strengthening the New START treaty, a bilateral arms-control agreement that’s due to expire next February, is critical for the security of both countries. Seeking collaboration in areas of shared concern — on climate change, say, or space policy — would also make sense.

Engaging with Putin, however, should not mean placating him. Consistent messaging, tougher deterrence measures and resolute support for allies are essential to a successful strategy. Continued drift will only embolden Putin and his operatives, to the detriment of America’s security and the world’s.

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ican dream,” said Sen. Tim Scott. He talked about opportunity zones, school choice and “the evolution of the Southern heart.” His grandfather, Mr. Scott explained, was “forced out of school as a third-grader to pick cotton” but lived to see his grandson sitting in the U.S. Senate.

Maximo Alvarez, who called himself Cuban-born “but 100% American,” evoked “the sound of waves in the ocean, carrying families clinging to pieces of wood” and “the sound of tears hitting the paper of an application to become an American citizen.” Mr. Trump “may not always be politically correct,” but Mr. Alvarez said he believes in a president who will protect the country’s freedoms, since “there is no other place to go.”

Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, cast Mr. Biden as weak on foreign policy, saying that the previous administration “let Iran get away with murder, and literally sent them a planeful of cash.” She praised Mr. Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a shift that other presidents had promised but failed to deliver.

Undecided voters who are weary of Mr. Trump could be moved by these varied attestations to his administration’s record. Maybe Mr. Trump should sit back and let them be persuaded.

Peterson serves on the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.

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A state study showed that Kansans are beginning to live with the 55 mph speed limit imposed nationwide in 1974 in response to high fuel prices created by OPEC. While about half of Kansas motorists violate the limit, average speeds have dropped from the 70s to the 60s, according to Kansas Highway Patrol records. Fatalities have decreased dramatically. Traffic deaths went from 666 in 1972 to 510 in 1984, despite the significant increase in vehicles and drivers on the highways. ***** John Masterson was hired Thursday as dean of student services at Allen County Community College. Masterson, an officer at Allen County Bank and Trust, fills a vacancy created indirectly by the resignation earlier this summer of Dr. Jack Lundy, vice president for academic affairs.

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‘Fighting for you’: First lady makes her case for Trump vote WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump portrayed her husband as an authentic, uncompromising leader in a Rose Garden address as President Donald Trump turned to family, farmers and the trappings of the presidency to boost his reelection chances on the second night of the scaled-down Republican National Convention.

Mrs. Trump offered a polished portrait of Trump’s presidency Tuesday night that was often at odds with the crises, division and unforgiving actions of his administration.

But it was part of a broader effort to show a more forgiving side of a combative president who will soon face the voters. Beyond the first lady’s remarks, Trump pardoned a reformed felon and oversaw a naturalization ceremony for several immigrants in the midst of the program, though he frequently states his vigorous opposition to more immigration, legal as well as illegal.

“In my husband, you have a president who will not stop fighting for you and your families,” said Mrs. Trump, an

immigrant herself. “He will not give up.”

Democrat Joe Biden’s camp was not impressed.

“Immigrants and Latinos are not props, and these empty gestures won’t make us forget Donald Trump’s failures,” said the Biden’s Latino media director, Jennifer Molina.

Mrs. Trump and two of the president’s five children led a diverse collection of supporters, including a convicted bank robber, calling for Trump’s reelection on a night that featured a distinctly more positive tone than the night before.

Trump has ground to make up. Most polls report that Democratic rival Biden has a significant advantage in terms of raw support; the former vice president also leads on character issues such as trustworthiness and likability.

That makes character assessments such as the one Mrs. Trump provided on Tuesday important if the president hopes to win back voters — particularly women — who have strayed amid the pandemic, economic collapse and a reckoning on racism.

U.S. first lady Melania Trump addresses the Republican National Convention from the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/TNS)

In a particularly emotional moment, Trump showed a video of himself signing a pardon for Jon Ponder, a man from Nevada who has founded an organization that helps prisoners reintegrate into society.

“We live in a nation of second chances,” Ponder said, standing alongside Trump.

“Jon’s life is a beautiful testament to the power of redemption,” Trump said before he signed the pardon.

The lineup also had a Maine lobsterman, a Wisconsin farmer and a Native American leader. Social conservatives were represented by

an anti-abortion activist and Billy Graham’s granddaughter. The convention also featured a Kentucky high school student whose interaction last year with Native Americans became a flashpoint in the nation’s culture wars.

With Election Day just 10 weeks off and early voting beginning much sooner, Trump is under increasing pressure to reshape the contours of the campaign.

But as he struggles to contain the pandemic and the related economic devastation, Republicans have yet to identify a consistent political message arguing for his

reelection.

Mrs. Trump noted that the lives of Americans changed “drastically” in March with the onset of the coronavirus. But other speakers made little mention of the pandemic even as it remains a dominant issue for voters.

The COVID-19 death toll surged past 178,000 on Tuesday, by far the highest in the world, and there is no sign of slowing. The nation’s unemployment rate still exceeds 10%, which is higher than it was during the Great Recession. And more than 100,000 businesses are feared closed forever.

At the same time, the White House seems to have abandoned efforts to negotiate another federal rescue package with Congress.

There were fierce attacks on Biden throughout the night, although the lineup generally maintained a positive tone — in part due to some last-minute changes.

Mary Ann Mendoza, an Arizona woman whose son, a police officer, was killed in 2014 in a car accident involving an immigrant in the country illegally, was

pulled from the program minutes before the event began. She had directed her Twitter followers to a series of anti-Semitic, conspiratorial messages.

There were also barrier breakers featured like Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, the first African American to hold statewide office in Kentucky, and Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez, first Latina to hold that office in her state.

And the convention featured a Democrat for the second night: Robert Vlaisavljevich, the mayor of Eveleth, Minnesota, who praised Trump’s support for his state’s mining industry in particular.

“President Trump is fighting for all of us. He delivered the best economy in our history and he will do it again,” Vlaisavljevich said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed the convention and the nation during an official overseas trip in Israel.

“President Trump has put his America First vision into action,” Pompeo said. “It may not have made him popular in every foreign capital, but it’s worked.”

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requests.

She also said that small businesses, nonprofits and food pantries should soon have additional funding opportunities thanks to SPARK, and that applications would resemble those for receiving Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) monies.

What restrictions might exist for those funds is not entirely clear at this time, but Regehr said the process “should be a little easier for businesses to access than CDBG.” Becky Voorhies of Thrive presented commissioners with four new applications for CDBG monies, and said that the previous eight applications approved by commissioners had also now been approved by the state.

Voorhies noted that $45,494 remains in CDBG funding, so there’s still time for small businesses and other entities adversely affected by COVID-19 to apply for assistance.

NATE Mentzer approached commissioners to ask about the possibility of using COVID-19 relief funds to purchase internet towers for various areas of

Hence there may be an “Allen County Code Red” notification system eventually set up to ensure people know that certain communications are legitimate.

Nate Mentzer discusses with commissioners the possibility of using COVID-19 relief funds to help build internet towers. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG the county, especially near Geneva.

Commissioners agreed to provide Mentzer with letters of support to help the possible projects move forward.

Angie Murphy had a similar request to commissioners, although she was interested in pursuing “very competitive” funds from FEMA in order to purchase storm shelters or safe rooms for around the county, especially in smaller towns such as Mildred, Carlyle, Petrolia and Savonburg.

If FEMA granted Allen County one of its 125 awards for this purpose, FEMA would pay 75% of the total project cost, and Allen County would pay 25%.

Murphy further mentioned that interns from

Iola High School would soon go to work for the Sheriff ’s Office, dispatch and the county attorney’s office.

She likewise brought up a concern with “spoofing,” for example, using fake ids to pose as a county office looking for money from residents.

“We’ve had some spoofing calls here,” she said, including callers pretending to be emergency personnel asking for donations.

Given the presence of such fraudulent activities, Murphy and commissioners discussed the possibility of paying for phone/internet protections to ensure that proper caller ids would appear only when calls indeed came from Allen County agencies.

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COUNTY clerk Sherrie Riebel presented a request to commissioners from Iola Reads, namely that the group be allowed to put up lavender ribbons around the inside of the square in order to raise awareness regarding cancer.

Commissioners consented to the request such that the lavender ribbons should soon be on display.

Riebel also noted that the county will receive two drop boxes for ballots, so that residents can deposit them while maintaining social distancing.

The placement of the boxes is unknown at this time, but Riebel said they’ll likely be near an area where cameras can keep watch, and it may also be the case that one box is placed in Humboldt and the other in Iola.

Riebel likewise made

an impassioned plea to residents to assist with Meals on Wheels delivery. In her words, there is a “very desperate need to have carriers,” such that anyone who might be able to help should contact the clerk’s office.

Public works director Mitch Garner presented commissioners with bids to haul away and process scrap metal from the county landfill.

They approved the bid from Ray’s Metal Depot for $80 per ton of metal processed.

Garner also brought up the need to purchase new vehicles for the county, specifically two trucks for the landfill, two 10-wheeled trucks for roads and a motor-grader.

He suggested the need was especially great at the landfill, because when dirt there needs moved, he’s having to call trucks away from road repairs.

Despite potential economic problems faced by the county, commissioners seemed open to the idea.

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missioners agreed to maintain a standard maintenance contract for generators at both new ambulance stations in Humboldt and Moran.

The standard contract will run $1,000 per year as opposed to a more costly alternative.

Call also said that construction issues at the new stations had been “worked out,” and so after weeks of waiting it looks as though grand opening ceremonies will finally take place.

Commissioners said that both ceremonies would likely occur outdoors so that social distancing could be maintained, and noted that ribbon-cuttings would be part of the celebration.

Commissioners received a thank you note from Carla Nemecek and 4-H participants from the Southwind district.

The 4-H’ers had obtained permission last week to use the courthouse basement for virtual judging activities, and ended up excelling in their respective events.

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Remains dug from Japan mass grave suggest epidemic in 1800s

By MARI YAMAGUCHI The Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, buried in a 19th century mass grave while excavating as part of a city development project in Osaka in western Japan.

Officials at the Osaka City Cultural Properties Association studying the remains said Wednesday that they believe they are of young people who died in the

late 1800s.

The Umeda Grave, one of seven historical burial sites in Japan’s bustling merchant city of Osaka, was unearthed as part of a redevelopment project near a main train station. The more than 1,500 remains were found during the latest round of excavation that started in September 2019, following an earlier 20162017 study that dug up hundreds of similar remains at adjacent locations, according to Yoji Hirata, an official at the association.

“It was our first historical discovery of a burial site in Osaka,” Hirata said. “The findings will provide details of burial tradition of ordinary people back then.”

In the earlier excavation, many of the remains of the people showed signs of lesions on their limbs. The discovery of more similar remains suggest the burial site was for those who fell victim to an epidemic in the region, Hirata said.

All of the remains have been removed from

the excavation site, and experts will examine them and other artifacts in hopes of finding more details related to the deaths. Some experts have cited the possibility of an epidemic of syphilis, which was rampant then in populated areas such as Osaka.

Many of the remains were in small round holes, where bodies were apparently stacked and buried. Archaeologists found coffins containing multiple remains, a sign that many victims of an epidemic were buried together, Hirata said.

Experts also found about 350 urns and a possible ossuary at the site, signs that bodies were cremated. They also unearthed coins, Buddhist prayer beads, headdresses, combs, sake cups and clay dolls that were believed to have been buried with the dead.

Remains of several piglets were buried in the north side of the cemetery, and two horses in the south, while those of cats were in containers.

Hirata said experts plan to compile their

findings and analysis in a report expected at the end of next year.

The burial site is in what used to be a farming area outside of the urban community near Osaka Castle and was one of seven major cemeteries in the city. It also appeared in Japan’s traditional Bunraku musical drama “The Love Suicides at Sonezaki,”

by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. People used to tour around the cemeteries to pray for their ancestors during the mid-summer Bon season under the Buddhist tradition.

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two of the shootings that was posted online shows what appears to be a white man with a semi-automatic rifle jogging down the middle of a street as a crowd and some police officers follow him. Someone in the crowd can be heard asking “What did he do?” and another person responds that the man had shot someone.

The man with the gun stumbles and falls, and as he’s approached by people in the crowd, he fires three or four shots from the seated position, hitting at least two people, including one who falls over and another who stumbles away to frantic shouts of “Medic! Medic!”

With the crowd scattering, the shooter stands up and continues walking down the street as police cars arrive.

The man puts up his hands and walks toward the squad cars, with someone in the crowd yelling at police that the man had just shot someone, but several of the cars drive past him toward the people who had been shot.

Protester Devin Scott told the Chicago Tribune that he witnessed one of the shootings.

“We were all chanting ‘Black lives matter’ at the gas station and then we heard, boom, boom, and I told my friend, that’s not fireworks,” said Scott, 19.

“And then this guy with this huge gun runs by us in the middle of the street and people are yelling, ‘He shot someone! He shot someone!’

And everyone is trying to fight the guy, chasing him and then he started shooting again.”

“I was cradling him in my arms. I was trying to keep this kid alive and he wasn’t moving or nothing. He was just laying there,” Scott said.

“I didn’t know what to do and then this woman starts performing CPR. There was no pulse. I don’t think he made it.”

The shooting victims have not been identified.

At a news conference earlier Tuesday, Ben Crump, the lawyer for Blake’s family, said Blake was shot multiple times by police on Sunday and that it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again.

He called for the officer who opened fire to be arrested and for the others who were involved to lose their jobs.

The shooting of Blake — apparently while three of his children looked on — was captured on cellphone video and ignited new protests over racial injustice in several cities, coming just three months after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police touched off a wider reckoning on race.

Earlier Tuesday, Blake’s father spoke

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alongside other family members and lawyers, telling reporters that police shot his son “seven times, seven times, like he didn’t matter.”

“But my son matters.

He’s a human being and he matters,” said Blake’s father, who is also named Jacob Blake.

The 29-year-old was in surgery Tuesday, said attorney Ben Crump, adding that the bullets severed Blake’s spinal cord and shattered his vertebrae. Another attorney said there was also severe damage to organs.

“It’s going to take a miracle for Jacob Blake Jr. to ever walk again,” Crump said.

When asked what the police response to the family has been, the family’s lawyer said, “At this point, it seems to be a one-way street. They only want to get information from the family and the friends who were there that day. But they have offered this family no answers whatsoever.”

Blake’s mother, Julia Jackson, told CBS “This Morning” in an interview that aired Wednesday that she feels like she’s in a “bad dream” and that it felt “unreal” that her son’s name has been added to the list of

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“Never in a million years did I think we would be here in this place. Him being alive is just a miracle in itself.”

The family’s legal team plans to file a lawsuit against the police department over the shooting. Police have said little about what happened, other than that they were responding to a domestic dispute. The officers involved have not been named. The Wisconsin Department of Justice is investigating.

Police fired tear gas for a third night Tuesday to disperse protesters who had gathered outside Kenosha’s courthouse, where some shook a protective fence and threw water bottles and fireworks at officers lined up behind it. Police then used armored vehicles and officers with shields pushed back the crowd when protesters ignored warnings to leave a nearby park.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers had called for calm Tuesday, while also declaring a state of emergency under which he doubled the National Guard deployment in Kenosha from 125 to 250.

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“We cannot allow the cycle of systemic racism and injustice to continue,” said Evers, who is facing mounting pressure from Republicans over his handling of the unrest. “We also cannot continue going down this path of damage and destruction.”

Three of the younger Blake’s sons — aged 3, 5 and 8 — were in the car at the time of the shooting, Crump said. It was the 8-year-old’s birthday, he added.

The man who said he made the cellphone video of the shooting, 22-year-old Raysean White, said he saw Blake scuffling with three officers and heard them yell, “Drop the knife!

Drop the knife!” before the gunfire erupted. He said he didn’t see a knife in Blake’s hands.

In the footage, Blake walks from the sidewalk around the front of his SUV to his driver-side door as officers follow him with their guns drawn and shout at him.

As Blake opens the door and leans into the SUV, an officer grabs his shirt from behind and opens fire. Seven shots can be heard, though it isn’t clear how many struck Blake or how many officers fired.

Blake’s father told the Chicago Sun-Times that his son had eight holes in his body.

Anger over the shooting has spilled into the streets of Kenosha and other cities, including Los Angeles, Wisconsin’s capital of Madison and in Minneapolis, the epicenter of the Black Lives Matter movement this summer following Floyd’s death.

Hundreds of people again defied curfew Tuesday in Kenosha, where destruction marred protests the previous night as fires were set and businesses vandalized. There were 34 fires associated with that unrest, with 30 businesses destroyed or damaged along with an unknown number of residences, Kenosha Fire Chief Charles Leipzig told the Kenosha News.

“Nobody deserves this,” said Pat Oertle, owner of Computer Adventure, surveying the damage on Tuesday.

Computers were stolen, and the store was “destroyed,” she said.

“This accomplishes nothing,” Oertle said.

“This is not justice that they’re looking for.”

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, both Republicans, called on the governor to do more to quell the unrest. Steil said he would request federal assistance if necessary.

Evers continued to call for protesters to be peaceful.

“Please do not allow the actions of a few distract us from the work we must do together to demand justice, equity, and accountability,” he said.

Blake’s family also called for calm.

“I really ask you and encourage everyone in Wisconsin and abroad to take a moment and examine your hearts,” Blake’s mother said.

“Do Jacob justice on this level and examine your hearts. ... As I pray for my son’s healing physically, emotionally and spiritually, I also have been praying even before this for the healing of our country.”

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the Iola High School campus. The board in July approved total costs of $7,288,693 for that project, but had to make some adjustments to materials because of higher than expected costs because of the pandemic.

Among the major factors was higher costs for delivery, masonry and metal. Bidders were wary to commit to new projects,

as they were unsure about the potential impact of the pandemic.

Those extra expenses were expected to affect the elementary school project, too, but preliminary estimates came within $400,000. That should be easier to adjust because of the larger scale of the project, according to architects and the construction manager.

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By WARREN MAYES The Associated Press

Lucas Giolito of the Chicago White Sox celebrates his no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates Tuesday at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago. GETTY IMAGES/DAVID BANKS/TNS

Sox’s Giolito pitches a no-hitter

By SCOTT HELD The Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Lucas Giolito quietly walked to the mound for the ninth inning, piped-in fake crowd noise wafting through the ballpark and cardboard cutouts dotting the stands.

Moments later, the Chicago White Sox right-hander threw the final pitch in a truly bizarre performance.

A no-fan no-no.

With the seats at Guaranteed Rate Field empty, Giolito

pitched the first no-hitter of the pandemic-delayed season, striking out 13 in leading the White Sox over the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 Tuesday night.

“2020 has been a very strange year,” said Giolito, who conducted a postgame interview while wearing a mask. “Obviously a lot of weird stuff going on with COVID and the state of the world, so may as well throw this in the mix.”

Sounds like he didn’t mind that nobody saw it. Well, almost no one.

After right fielder Adam Engel extended on the run to catch Erik Gonzalez’s slicing drive toward the line for the final out, the hollers of Giolito’s teammates in the middle of the diamond echoed around the stadium.

“I’m just stoked for Lucas and so happy and ecstatic and emotional for Lucas,” Engel said. “It stinks we couldn’t celebrate the way most no-hitters get celebrated.”

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ryan McBroom had two hits and drove in the winning run with a single in the eighth inning, Ryan O’Hearn added a solo homer, and the Kansas City Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 on Tuesday night.

In the eighth, Hunter Dozier reached on an infield single to lead off. With two outs, McBroom singled to left, scoring Dozier for the winning run.

The Royals had lost six of their previous eight games before getting the victory. The Cardinals had won five of their previous seven games.

Kansas City manager Mike Matheny was happy his team notched a win.

“Every chance this team has to take that next step,” said Matheny, who used to manage the Cardinals. “I’m just happy to be walking out of here with a win.”

Josh Staumont (1-1) pitched one inning of relief to earn his first major league win. Trevor Rosen-

Ryan McBroom thal pitched the ninth, earning his seventh save in seven opportunities. Rosenthal gave up a one-out triple and then hit a batter before getting out of the jam.

In his six years with St. Louis, Rosenthal recorded 65 saves at Busch Stadium.

The Cardinals were the only team Rosenthal had yet to face in his career.

John Gant (0-1) took the loss.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — LeBron James had just exited a Mickey Mouse-decorated bus last week when the superstar’s arrival for that night’s Lakers game was spotted by Camera 50, one of the nearly 100 remote-operated cameras stationed around Disney World’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.

A half-mile away in a humid parking lot, James’ stonefaced entrance at HP Field House was registered by Mike Schwab, a television director scanning a wall of glowing, shoebox-sized feeds inside a 53-foot ESPN production truck. He could not linger on the image for long.

Surrounded by a producer, audio engineer, associate director and technician, Schwab was directing an afternoon game between the Memphis Grizzlies and Utah Jazz. With more than a minute to play before halftime, Jazz center Rudy Gobert had begun looping behind the defense for an alley-oop.

In the truck, a replay was queued up after the dunk.

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The NBA and its players weren’t sure when they’d see highlights like this again while stuck in limbo for four months because of COVID-19.

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dles.

As the league hammered out details to stage games, its television broadcast partners, including ESPN, scrambled to ensure fans would be able to watch them. They had no script to follow, only one question to avoid: If the NBA holds a 22-team restart but fans can’t watch in person, did it really happen?

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for any no-hitter in the majors over the last 100 years came in 1944, when a mere 1,014 watched Cincinnati’s Clyde Shoun beat the Braves at Crosley Field.

Nowhere close to that number on this night, not with the park that holds over 40,000 closed to fans because of virus protocols.

Suffice to say, years from now when White Sox fans fondly remember Giolito’s gem, there will not be, say, 100,000 or so people claiming they were there to see it in person.

At one point early in the game, some members of grounds crew

drifted in sight, but that was about it outside of the teams.

An All-Star last year, the 26-year-old Giolito (3-2) matched his career high for strikeouts set in his previous start against Detroit.

Only a four-pitch walk to Gonzalez leading off the fourth inning got in Giolito’s way of perfection. That was only runner he permitted while throwing 101 pitches “I’ve been working for this type of game for a while now and it’s really cool that we got it done,” Giolito said.

Giolito relied on his changeup and fastball to make quick work of

the Pirates, who came into the game batting just .229 and have the worst record in the majors. Six of their starters finished the game hitting under .199 this season.

The White Sox rushed toward the mound after the final out in Giolito’s first career no-hitter. Giolito hugged catcher James McCann as the Chicago players joined the party.

The South Side of Chicago normally rattles with fireworks after a home win — this is the club that gave the game the exploding scoreboard — but the park remained silent as the dugout emptied.

Giolito, meanwhile, was locked in his own zone in the later innings, fully aware of what was at stake.

“After the seventh, six more outs, looking at who I was facing, became very, very, very possible,” he said, “and then we were able to get it done.”

Giolito pitched the 19th no-hitter in White Sox history — second most to the Dodgers’ 23 — and first since Philip Humber threw a perfect game at Seattle in 2012. This was the seventh time the Pirates have been held hitless, with Washington’s Max Scherzer having done it in 2015.

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Jong home on a double to left center by Yadier Molina, but DeJong was out easily at the plate.

“It didn’t work out,” St. Louis manager Mike Shildt said. “That’s baseball. I’ve got no problem with Jose (Oquendo) sending him home. I trust his experience. He’s one of the best third base coaches in the game. He took a shot. I have no real major issue with it.”

O’Hearn, who also had two singles, tied the game 4-4 with a leadoff homer in the sixth off St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright.

The Cardinals chased Kansas City starter

Matt Harvey with a four-run third inning.

All the runs came home with two outs. Tommy Edman hit a groundrule double to score two runs. Brad Miller and DeJong each added RBI singles.

The 31-year-old Harvey was making his second start for the Royals and lasted 2 2/3 innings. The former Mets right-hander, who had Tommy John surgery in 2015, has a 9.00 ERA covering 5 2/3 innings this season.

“To get taken out after two or three innings, that’s not the starter’s job, so that’s frustrating for me,” Harvey said.

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the amount of trucks and trailer space than we would have for a normal event.”

Before the pandemic, ESPN produced a typical NBA game from one truck, with up to 10 people working snugly within its largest compartment. In the restart compound, there are 13 trucks — two per network per arena, as a means of spreading out workers now divided by plastic shields.

They are surrounded by 31 office trailers, 20 generators that supply all of the site’s power, two catering tents and red Coca-Cola machines offering free mid-shift pick-me-ups.

To get here, ESPN, Turner and the NBA had to first agree on health and safety rules, twice-weekly testing protocols, camera locations and how they would share their technology. They also had to coordinate staffing.

While the majority of the 170 to 200 ESPN workers here at any given time live in a hotel close to the edge of the Disney property, a handful of its camera operators, producers and reporters live inside the bubble, near the teams, and were required to quarantine upon their arrival in Florida.

“I’ve done Super Bowls and World Series and this has been infinitely more challenging,” said Steve Hellmuth, the NBA’s executive vice president of media and technology. “You can’t just put someone on an airplane and say, ‘Go to work, you’re Camera 2 tomor-

The Los Angeles Clippers’ Paul George drives to the basket against the Dallas Mavericks’ Boban Marjanovic Tuesday in Game 5 of the first round of the playoffs at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. GETTY IMAGES/ASHLEY LANDIS/TNS row.’ “ STAGING games without fans is a worstcase scenario for the league’s bottom line.

Commissioner Adam Silver told players in May that 40% of league revenue is derived from game nights.

And yet, for broadcasters tasked with designing and producing the best television possible, empty arenas represented unprecedented opportunity.

Underneath each court, 36 contact microphones were placed to pick up sneaker squeaks and dribbles. Empty seats are obscured by 17-foot-tall video boards ringing three sides of the court on which the feeds of 320 fans watching from home are digitally stitched into seats.

More than 20 cameras are positioned inside each arena — including new angles such as “rail cam,” which runs the length of the court — but only a fraction are operated in person.

“We had dreamed

about all these things and being able to do these things in NBA buildings but were prevented by fans,” Hellmuth said. “But now there are no fans. We knew exactly where we wanted to put the cameras.”

Visiting the Wide World of Sports Complex during the summer was nothing new for Mark Jones, who has called games for ESPN since 1990. As a father to a basketball-playing family, he’d watched countless games within the venues. He knew the bubble’s strict health and safety protocols would alter some elements of his job. Playby-play teams no longer work courtside, within breathing distance of the players, because commentators live just outside of the bubble.

Instead, they now work about 15 rows up, surrounded by Plexiglass.

It looks less like a broadcast booth and more of a phone booth.

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“To see what it should look like with a bunch of teenage kids occupying 20 different courts all playing at once and whistles blowing in your ears like a cacophony of sound, and then to walk in and see just one NBA court with the technology, the lighting, the microphones, the cameras, the scoreboards, the virtual fans board — it’s very impressive,” Jones said. “I was just blown away when I walked in.”

The new toys at ESPN’s disposal have led the broadcasting giant to walk a fine line during its broadcasts. As much as they want to incorporate the new elements, they don’t want to upset viewers accustomed to the way broadcasts were before, Shiffman said.

There was pressure to find that balance quickly.

They understood their work would be scrutinized closely by an audience that had gone without live basketball for more than four months.

“The fact that we can be a source of entertainment or distraction or escape for fans, I don’t think was lost on anybody,” Shiffman said.

“We always go in thinking of the fan experience first and maybe there’s a little more added to that given the current circumstances.”

BEFORE the pandemic, Jones would match the energy of his call after a game-changing play to that of the crowd around him.

Without live fans, however, he’s cognizant of not going overboard.

It’s one of many adjustments he has made to change his style to fit the unprecedented surroundings.

His preparation now includes noting which

players are loud or emotional on the court, a detail that has led him to often stay silent after consequential plays — “laying out” in TV-speak — in hopes of catching candid reaction.

“There are some real, good unique things about this,” Jones said.

“It’s something that’s made me more aware of the sound that’s available to us and I think it’s great.”

Just not too candid: The broadcasts run on a delay.

“This is still the players’ place of work,” Shiffman said. “I think the mix we’ve landed on is the appropriate mix. It brings fans a bit closer to the players but again, we want to respect their privacy.”

ESPN and Turner not only had to figure out how to broadcast their own games but those televised by teams’ regional networks because the NBA didn’t allow networks such as Fox Sports Prime Ticket or Spectrum to send staffers to Orlando in order to reduce the number of personnel on site.

ESPN routes a “clean feed” — a version with an audio mix but without an announcer track or graphics — from its production truck to NBA Entertainment headquarters in Secaucus, N.J., where on-court branding for arena sponsors and other advertisers is digitally overlaid.

The feed then goes to regional networks, who add their own announcer audio and graphics.

Most of the angles seen at home are chosen in trucks in Orlando, but regional networks also have control over one camera in every arena.

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Lakers games have been produced remotely before, such as the team’s preseason trip to China, but the restart arrangement is a more delicate dance, led by the trucks in Orlando.

“You’re used to having entire control of how you produce a game from every shot you select and we don’t have as much control of that,” said A.J. Ponsiglione, a senior coordinating producer who oversees the production of Lakers’ broadcasts for Spectrum. “Most fans at home probably don’t realize the difference because it still looks, feels and sounds like a Lakers show.”

WHEN James entered HP Field House through its back door on Aug. 5, he began preparing for a matchup with Oklahoma City that would be broadcast locally by Spectrum and nationally on ESPN. Usually, an ESPN game would lead the network’s commentators to chat with James in person before tipoff.

In Orlando, those meetings happen via videoconference.

In so many ways, players have never been farther away from their fans. And yet, Jones wondered whether viewers at home have ever felt closer. He believes the tighter camera angles and better audio has revealed nuances of the game and more about the players themselves.

When James missed a free throw with 32 seconds remaining in the third quarter, Jones laid out while watching Thunder guard Chris Paul approach his teammates.

“He don’t ever miss two in a row,” Paul said, in comments heard faintly on the broadcast. “Don’t box out.”

When James missed his second shot, Jones pounced, repeating the remark to the audience at home. The clip of ESPN’s broadcast was quickly posted to House of Highlights, a popular Instagram account. Within hours, it had been watched more than two million times.

“Being able to hear that and pick that up is gold, man,” Jones said.

“It’s like players in the park.”

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Boyfriend has lots of female friends Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend came to our (hetero) relationship with a lot of female friends. I’m uncomfortable with my partners having close female friendships, based on a prior history of dating people who were emotionally unavailable to me and were superclose with a female friend. One of those exes went on to marry his bestie, which still stings.

I expressed my discomfort to my boyfriend. He wants me to be happy, so he adjusted his behavior and engages less with female friends one-on-one.

Meanwhile, I’m really trying hard to get better when his friendships put him in oneon-one situations with female friends . . . but it still really bothers me.

Our relationship is good. I do not want to assume the worst of him because he is a man. I worry that expressing my feelings with the result of changing his behavior is controlling, and that he is missing out on friendships he

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I also cannot make my discomfort go away, so I’m really uncomfortable with the idea of saying, “Go back to hanging out with your lady friends, no prob.”

Can’t wait to get spitfire roasted in the comments over this, but nevertheless: Any advice?

— Pain and More Pain Pain and More Pain: I hope you don’t get roasted — it discourages honesty like yours.

Your request that he see his female friends less was controlling, yes — because you did it to address something in you by changing him. And he is indeed missing out on his friends, who are in turn missing out on him,

when they did nothing wrong.

If he had written to me, I would have advised him to say no to you, and to say that he really cared about you and wanted to see where your relationship would go, but he wouldn’t change himself to make that happen.

Attempting that kind of change is not a good thing for him, or for you, either: The best shot you have at a healthy relationship is in being yourself, and freeing your partner to be himself. Utterly. If that mix is a bad one, then so be it — time to break up.

You’ve also left part of this problem unaddressed: You cite “a prior history of dating people who were . . . super-close with a female friend.” So, at least two priors, probably more for it to qualify as a “history” — then you choose a new boyfriend with “a lot of female friends.”

So you are picking men over and over again who have close

Are cracking joints a problem?

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 52-year-old woman.

I would consider myself in good shape.

I do aerobic exercise three to four times a week with weight training.

I am 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weigh 119 pounds.

I eat a generally healthy diet.

I have been noticing that many of my joints crack or crackle (ankles, hips, knees, shoulders, sometimes spine) when I exercise or just with normal activity.

Is this normal with aging, or is there something I can do to stop it?

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health Am I doing any joint damage? — A.W. Answer: Cracking joints may be normal, and it’s thought to come from one of two mechanisms.

The first is that a tendon can snap over a bony protuberance; the second is that nitrogen bubbles can form under the pressure of moving a joint.

Crunching in the joint can be related to debris in the synovial

fluid, often seen in arthritis or with damage to the cartilage, such as a torn meniscus in the knee.

One person (thank you, Dr. Donald Unger) did an experiment on himself by cracking the knuckles in only one hand daily for 60 years and found no arthritis in either hand.

An experienced doctor usually can tell the difference between normal and abnormal joints and their noises. An X-ray is occasionally needed.

relationships with women? Why are you applying extra pressure to an area you know is vulnerable?

You do need to deal with your trust issues, absolutely — but please recognize as part of the process that you can also seek like-minded people on something you see as a priority, but you are choosing not to.

That emotional machinery is where your attention belongs, not on this or any boyfriend’s behavior.

I urge you to find a therapist (using whatever platform is available to you) and get to work.

Trying to fix your problem through other people’s behavior means you’re always dependent on others to feel good — which, as I think you’re learning, never feels very good at all.

Write to Carolyn Hax at tellme@washpost. com. Get her column delivered to your inbox each morning at wapo. st/haxpost.

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With some of the state’s largest districts canceling or suspending fall sports and other extracurricular activities, the association’s Executive Board voted 9-0 Monday in favor of the “alternative fall season opportunity.”

Any schools that play in the alternative season won’t have a playoff. If enough similarly sized schools move their fall seasons, the spring sports season also could be pushed back by about a month.

The association’s board of directors, which is made up of more than 70 representatives, will take final action Friday.

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KSHSAA Executive Director Bill Faflick said in a news release that the model would give an opportunity for students to take part in activities “when it is appropriate in their school communities later this year.”

Among the districts to cancel fall sports is Wichita, which is the state’s largest with

50,000 students. Several other districts in the Kansas City area have suspended or called off at least some of their fall sports.

The state Department of Health and Environment on Monday reported 1,545 new cases since Friday, an increase of 4.2%, to put pandemic total at 38,401. The state reported an additional seven COVID-19-related deaths, for 426 in all.

The numbers include nine sports clusters,

with 67 cases, according to state officials.

During a Zoom call Tuesday with teachers and medical experts, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly reiterated concerns about playing contact sports this fall.

“I have huge concerns,” she said. “I don’t see how you play football the way football is meant to be played safely at this point. I think it would be better to put it off and hope that a vaccine is developed.”

Falwell resigns amid scandal at Liberty U. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Jerry Falwell Jr. announced his resignation Tuesday as the head of Liberty University after a provocative photo and revelations of his wife’s extramarital affair roiled the evangelical school founded by his father.

Falwell’s exit marks a precipitous fall from power for one of the country’s most visible conservative Christian leaders and ardent supporters of President Donald Trump. He confirmed his decision to resign in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press.

According to the school, he initially offered to resign Monday, hours after a news outlet published an interview with a man who said that he had a yearslong sexual relationship with Becki Falwell and that Jerry Falwell participated in some of the liaisons as a voyeur.

Falwell, who denied any participation, later reversed course on his resignation and began telling news outlets he had no intention of leaving.

Then he changed direction again.

Falwell also said he

didn’t want his wife’s affair with a Miami pool boy to become a distraction for the Christian school.

“That’s the only reason I resigned: because I don’t want something my wife did to harm the school I’ve spent my whole life building,” he said in a phone interview. “I never broke a single rule that applies to staff members at Liberty, which I was. So I want everybody to know that.”

Falwell added, “I was starting to get bored,” with the job.

The university confirmed in a statement that its board had accepted Falwell’s resignation as president, chancellor and board member.

Becki Falwell also spoke with the AP on Tuesday, saying she and her husband are “more in love than ever” — a sentiment echoed by an audibly tearful Jerry Falwell.

“We have the strongest relationship, and Jerry is the most forgiving person I’ve ever met,” she said. “It’s a shame that Christians can’t give us the same forgiveness that Christ

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned Tuesday evening. His severance package could come to $10.5 million. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/ TNS)

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Falwell had already been on leave since earlier this month after alumni and others recoiled at a photo he posted on social media. The image showed him with his pants unzipped, stomach exposed and arm high around the waist of his wife’s pregnant assistant. He also held a glass of dark liquid that he described in a caption as “black water.” Falwell has said the photo was taken at a costume party during a family vacation.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 19-year-old Democratic candidate for the Kansas House who admitted to engaging in revenge porn and harassing girls online has reversed his decision to abandon his campaign, and a party leader suggested Tuesday that the House wouldn’t seat the young candidate if he won.

Aaron Coleman, of Kansas City, Kansas, said in a tweeted statement Tuesday that many of the people who voted for him in the primary over veteran state Rep. Stan Frownfelter urged him not to drop out.

Coleman prevailed by 14 votes, with the final, unofficial tally standing at 823 to 809.

Frownfelter already has launched a write-in campaign for the November general election that has the backing of the Kansas House’s top Democrat, Minority Leader Tom Sawyer of Wichita.

“If for some reason he does win, I think it’s highly unlikely the Kansas House will allow Mr. Coleman to be seated,” Sawyer said in a statement texted to The Associated Press.

The state constitution says that each chamber is the judge of the elections and qualifications of members.” Sawyer said during a followup interview that if a House member challenges Coleman’s fitness, House leaders could appoint a committee to recommend whether Coleman should be seated, with a two-thirds majority needed to deny Coleman his seat.

That’s the process used to determine whether House members are censured or expelled when other members complain about their conduct.

“It doesn’t appear Democrats would support Aaron Coleman, and so I would be surprised that Republicans would go ahead and vote to seat him,” Sawyer said. “To me, he clearly seems unfit for office.”

Top Republicans in the GOP-controlled House did not immediately return telephone and text

messages seeking comment about whether the chamber might refuse to seat Coleman. The GOP doesn’t have a candidate for the seat on the November ballot.

In a Facebook in June, Coleman said allegations that he engaged in online bullying, blackmail and revenge porn were true. He said his past behavior targeting several middle-school girls was that of “a sick and troubled” 14-yearold.

Some Democrats also disavowed Coleman because of incendiary social media posts.

Coleman did not immediately return telephone or email messages seeking comment but said in his tweeted statement that voters urged him to stay in because he’s advocated policies that “improve the lives of ordinary people.” He is running on a liberal platform that includes universal health coverage, eliminating college tuition, defunding the police and legalizing marijuana.

“They said that they did not vote for me expecting that I was a perfect person,” he said.

“They told me that all of us have sinned, and we all make mistakes.”

Coleman said Sunday he would drop out to focus on caring for his family. He said Tuesday that his father is “quite ill,” that his older brother died by suicide last year and that his family is suffering economically because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Coleman is a community college student and dishwasher.

State law would have required Coleman to file a written statement with the Kansas secretary of state’s office, signed by a doctor, certifying that he or his family faced a “severe medical hardship.”

A handful of Democratic Party activists in the district would have then picked a new nominee — with the possibility that it could be Frownfelter, a 69-yearold small businessman first elected to the House in 2006. Republicans also would have been allowed to pick a nominee.

“I go down fighting,” Frownfelter said. “I’m not much for losing.”