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Educating for change Anthony Maness joins Allen staff to teach criminal justice

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

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Anthony Maness believes most of the problems found in the criminal justice system can be remedied by education and training.

“I’ve worked really hard on the law enforcement side to dive into that,” he said.

That meant working as a training officer during much of his career as an officer and detective. He dreamed of one day working as an instructor for the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center at Hutchinson, but figured that would come closer to the final stage of his career.

“The way it usually works, you’re a cop for your entire See MANESS | Page A3

Anthony Maness is Allen Community College’s new Criminal Justice Studies program coordinator. He is shown with mannequins Bob, at left, and unnamed companion. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Israel, Hamas talk truce, free hostages

’Tis the season Humboldt rang in the holiday season Friday evening with its annual Christmas lights parade around the downtown square. Above, Kale Fowler, left, and Crosby Stanley roast hot dogs in a fire pit set up on the square. Bottom left, among the throngs of youngsters with lighted bicycles for the event are Elisha Ivy, left, and Ava Booth. Bottom right, paying a visit to Santa and Mrs. Claus are Mason Moore, left, and Emberlynn Callahan. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday, the Qatari government said, bringing the prospect of a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war and further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

The announcement came on the final day of the original four-day truce between the warring sides. A fourth swap of hostages for prisoners under that deal was expected later Monday. Qatar, along with the United States and Egypt, has been the key mediator in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Israel has said it would extend the cease-fire by one day for every 10 additional hostages released. After the Qatari announcement, Hamas confirmed it had agreed to a two-day extension “under the same terms.”

But Israel says it remains committed to crushing Hamas’ military capabilities and ending its 16-year rule over Gaza after its Oct. 7 attack into southern Israel. That would likely mean expanding a ground offensive from devastated northern Gaza to the south, where See TRUCE | Page A6

Employers struggle to entice workers back to the office NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Ryan Horton has two jobs.

When he’s not working 24hour shifts as a firefighter, the 22-year-old is working as an administrative assistant for a local community college from his home in Colorado

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Firefighting is, of course, not a work-from-home kind of job. So when the community college position gave Horton the choice to clock in remotely, he took it.

“I’m gone a lot being a fire-

fighter,” Horton said. “Instead of coming home and then seeing my family for a few minutes before leaving to go to my other job... I feel like I have just more time with (them) when I work from home.”

The COVID-19 pandemic upended what working looks like for millions of people all around the world. While many jobs can only be done in person, swaths of employers shuttered their physical doors and moved their work-

places increasingly online.

Workers have since begun to return to the office in waves, at least for part of the week, and navigating that transition is an ongoing and significant hurdle for emSee WORK | Page A3

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Advocates push to ensure students are fed

By SUZANNE PEREZ Kansas News Service

WICHITA, Kansas — As first-graders file through the cafeteria line at Earhart Elementary School in Wichita, they pick up peaches, broccoli and cartons of milk.

Lunch supervisor Rachel Smith helps them with their trays and makes quick notes on her tablet to log names with lunches. You can’t tell — nor does Smith ever say — which students qualify for free lunch or which might have negative balances in their school meal accounts.

“We can’t just deny them a lunch,” Smith says. “They automatically get a lunch. And then if they get behind, we’ll just send out a notification to the parents, and the parents will take care of it when they have the chance.”

Wichita schools serve regular meals to students regardless of their debt or ability to pay. But that’s not the case everywhere in Kansas — at least not according to rules on the books.

A recent report by

Student meal debt in Kansas is over $23 million this year. At least nine school districts have policies that say certain levels of debt can even trigger a call to the state Department of Children and Families to report abuse or neglect.

Kansas Appleseed looked at school lunch policies across the state to see how schools treat children and families who have meal debt.

In many districts, kids can be singled out if their parents don’t pay the bill.

About two-thirds of Kansas districts have policies that say students with overdue accounts get an alternative meal or snack.

It’s sometimes a cheese or peanut butter sandwich; in other districts, just a granola bar or crackers. Some districts prohibit kids with certain levels of debt from participating in after-school activities.

At least nine districts have policies that say certain levels of debt can even trigger a call to the state Department of Children and Families to report abuse or neglect.

“A neighboring district could have a great policy, but your district is potentially reporting kids to DCF,” said Martha Terhaar, one of the authors of the Kansas Appleseed report. “That disparity is something that affects kids.”

DCF officials said they don’t track whether or how many abuse reports come from school districts, but few if any likely stem from unpaid meal balances.

Terhaar said punitive policies cause added stress for students and parents who are already struggling with rising costs. Even if they’re enforced sparingly or not at all, she said, the policies are a problem.

“It’s written down.

It’s still threatening,” she said. “It’s still limiting kids’ access to meals and putting a lot of fear around access to food, which should just be a

Leadership Character Champs Crest school honored its Leadership Character Champs on Friday, Nov. 17.

Being recognized were front row, from left, Lennie Boone, Lawson Holloway, Maysyn Bain, Emmett Beebe, Bud Sanchez, Kreed Miller and Aidynn Edgerton; back row, Kroy Walter, Jemma Womesldorf, Kole Walter, Lane Yocham, Kinley Edgerton and Ryan Golden. Not pictured: Delaney Ramsey.

First-graders eat lunch at Earhart Environmental Magnet Elementary School in Wichita. The Wichita district serves regular meals to students regardless of any unpaid balances in their account. PHOTOS BY SUZANNE PEREZ/KANSAS NEWS SERVICE

basic necessity.”

IN PHILLIPSBURG, a school district of about 560 students north of Hays, the official lunch policy says children who owe more than $20 have to pay cash for meals or bring a sack lunch from home.

If the student doesn’t bring a lunch, he or she “will be provided a sack lunch consisting of a cold cheese sandwich, fruit, vegetable, and milk,” the policy says.

“The sack lunch will be available for pickup in the office before lunch.”

Phillipsburg Superintendent Mike Gower said that may be the rule on the books, but it’s not the common practice. School officials from several other Kansas districts agreed: Children who want a school lunch always get one.

“We’ve never turned anybody away, and we never will,” Gower said.

“You have to have something that says, ‘Hey, pay your bill.’ And so we just stay after them. And then if they don’t pay, then somehow their bill gets magically paid.”

STUDENT MEAL debt in Kansas is over $23 million this year —

about six times what to eat free at school, districts reported in regardless of wheth2019, according to to er they met income the Kansas Appleseed guidelines for free report. Districts usual- meals. Since then, nine ly cover shortfalls out states have passed laws of their general fund to keep school meals or through donations. free for everyone. Last About 40% fall, Coloraof districts do put the turn unpaid It is the duty of question to debt over to our public school voters, who collection overwhelmagencies or system to make ingly said sure that kids are yes. courts.

K e l l y educated.

T h i s But Chanay, di- they can’t be ed- school year rector of in Kansas, child nu- ucated if they’re Topeka is trition and not fed. the first dis—Martha wellness for trict to offer Terhaar, Kanthe Kansas free lunches sas Appleseed Department to all stuof Educadents. Wichtion, said ita serves statewide training in free breakfast to evrecent years has fo- eryone, using a federal cused on eliminating program for districts meal shaming. with high numbers of “They really are low-income students. working hard not to Anti-hunger advoovertly identify chil- cates said the state dren that don’t have could use some of its $2 money in their account, billion surplus to offer and they’re focusing reduced-price lunches primarily on those par- across the state. Kanents and guardians re- sas Appleseed also recsponsible for providing ommends ending debt the funds,” she said. collection policies and “We’ll be doing some changing ones that training prior to the could shame or punstart of next school year ish students for unpaid to really stress the im- meal balances. portance of all schools “It is the duty of our updating those meal public school system charge policies.” to make sure that kids For two years during are educated,” Terhaar the COVID pandem- said. “But they can’t be ic, federal subsidies educated if they’re not allowed all students fed.”

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USD 257 receives Kansas Star Kindergarten Readiness Award USD 257 received its third Kansas Star Kindergarten Readiness Award and was one of 15 districts recognized in Kansas.

The early education program has been successful in providing free, quality preschool for five years.

The program focuses on: • Engaging activities that foster learning through play.

• Valuing children’s experiences in the real world and community.

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• Recognizing the responsibility to let little kids be little kids, love

them where they are • Preparing them for Kindergarten.

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Work: Today’s employees prioritize a work-life balance Continued from A1

ployers and workers alike. And many simply cannot fathom a return to the pre-COVID status quo, changing how companies approach their staffing needs.

Retaining employees who don’t want to work in person is an issue for companies, but relatively few employers (13%) have introduced new incentives that would make employees more satisfied with it, according to a newly released poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.

About 3 in 4 human resources representatives say that retaining employees who don’t want to work in the office is a problem — including 19% who call it a “major problem.” Only about one-third of HR professionals say employees at their workplace are “extremely” or “very” happy about returning to the workplace.

“Once workers discovered that (remote work could be) less expensive and... make their life a little easier, they just wanted to keep doing it, even once the pandemic began fading away,” Marjorie Connelly, senior fellow with

About 3 in 4 human resources representatives say that retaining employees who don’t want to work in the office is a problem. PIXABAY.COM NORC’s Public Affairs & Media Research department, told The Associated Press.

Researchers have found that the top factors behind employees’ desire to work from home include their prioritization of flexibility and work-life balance.

Others cite the length and costs of commuting as key.

Those are some of the main reasons that Megan Homis, 33, pre-

fers remote work. As a senior account executive for an advertising and marketing firm in Southern California, Homis goes into the office once a month.

“With traffic, it’s about an hour and 45 minute drive each way into the office,” she said.

“And on top of that, I have two little kids — so just wrangling childcare for them with drop off and pick up is a lot.”

Homis said that the

ability to work remotely will continue to be a priority for her down the road. She would consider potentially going into the office more if an employer offered sufficient incentives and support for in-person work, but hasn’t seen opportunities that would sway her in that direction yet.

Bill Castellano, a professor in the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, notes that flexibility is key — particularly in giving employees agency for scheduling their work.

“Employees really value more of when to do work vs. where to do work,” Castellano, who was not involved in the NORC surveys, said. He added that this is a key benefit for many remote workers today — and could be duplicated in physical offices with the right policy, such as having flexible start times.

There are some initiatives that could incentivize more employees to work in-person — or at least increase their satisfaction about already going into the office — the poll shows.

Most hybrid workers (55%) say paying employees more for their

in-office work would provide “a lot” of encouragement for them to work in-person more often.

Additional pay topped the list across respondents whether they were working in-person, remotely (44%) or in hybrid (50%) roles.

However, just 4% of HR representatives whose companies have introduced new policies to get employees back to

ticularly social gatherings. “For example, I work hundreds of miles away from the main office, so they can have all the pizza parties they want, but I’m not going to be affected by it,” she said.

Regardless, many U.S. employees have returned to in-person work, or had never left.

Most paid employees report that they work in person per NORC’s

Employees really value more of when to do work vs. where to do work.

— Bill Castellano, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

the workplace say that higher compensation is among them.

Employees who are already going into the office — either entirely or part-time — indicated that other incentives such as commuter benefits, in-office childcare, free food and social gatherings could also add at least “some” more satisfaction with returning to the office.

Those in-office perks had less sway among solely remote workers, Connelly noted — par-

survey, and three-quarters of those in-person employees say they are required by their employer to do so. About 1 in 10 indicate that they could work remotely but prefer working from the office.

About one-third of paid employees surveyed work remotely or in hybrid positions. The number of people working remotely has fallen significantly since the peak of COVID-19 — but is still far higher than pre-pandemic levels.

Maness: Critical thinking skills are vital to law enforcement Continued from A1

career and then you go into teaching,” he said.

Maness got a jumpstart on that goal this fall when he became the Criminal Justice Studies program coordinator at Allen Community College.

“I think I’m supposed to make a difference now,” he said.

MANESS grew up in Iola and has centered his career here as well.

His first job, at 15, was working at A&W for his future father-in-law, Jim Gribble. He and wife, Sherise, have two sons, Michael, 14, and Caleb, 7. Sherise works for Allen as an online adjunct professor for early childhood education and teaches first grade in Chanute.

At age 18, Maness joined the Iola Police Department’s reserve program as a volunteer.

“It gave me an opportunity to make sure law enforcement was what I wanted to do and it gave them a chance to make sure I was somebody they would consider hiring,” he said.

He was hired as a dispatcher in 2001 before joining the police department. Over the next decade, he worked on patrol, investigations and the Special Response Team. He was a night shift lieutenant when he left to join the Allen County Sheriff’s Department in 2011.

He worked there as a detective and chief deputy until leaving for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in January 2020.

Throughout his career, Maness also worked to educate himself. He attended Allen before going on to earn a bachelor’s and then master’s degree. He’s currently working on his doctorate in instructional design through Baker University, in hopes of improving the criminal justice system

from the inside out.

MANESS said Allen’s program aligns well with his teaching philosophy. He also plans to encourage more students to take in-person rather than online classes.

A hands-on approach helps students to better process and investigate crime scenes. He even has a couple of mannequins to help him.

Maness hopes to encourage students to participate in national crime scene competitions, where students can test their skills and knowledge against others across the nation.

He also plans to expand Allen’s outreach to include more of those working in the field.

“Everybody’s got a different interest. Some people just like listening to true crime podcasts and I welcome them because they’ll learn the police don’t just drag somebody in without probable cause,” he said.

“As far as my adult learners, I use myself as an example because I

fell victim to that myth great on paper but it’s that I’m a cop, why do I flawed on execution. need college?”

And so my goal for this A degree helps a pa- program is to develop trol officer advance students who undertheir career, particularly stand the importance of if they desire to work for professionalism. Educaa state or federal agency, tion is key.” “but equally, you are going to learn how to think OVER THE past decritically and how to de- cade, Maness has fend your arguments witnessed changing with evidence-based re- attitudes toward law ensearch.” forcement, particularly arguments with evi- as social media allowed dence-based research.” citizen journalists to Law endocument forcement bad behavior includes by some offiI fell victim to cers. more professions than that myth that “I saw police offi- I’m a cop, why do these changcers. It also I need college? es coming includes and, obvithose in the ously, when —Anthony court system, there’s a critManess corrections icism about departments something and commuyou’ve innication offivested your cers as well as advocates life in, you get a little for victims and for sys- defensive and say, ‘But temic change. that’s not me.’

“I want students to “After you recover understand how every from that you say, ‘OK, one of these compo- but why is there this pernents work together,” ception?’” Maness said.

Maness said.

“It goes back to training “Ultimately the crim- and education.” inal justice system is Some officers don’t

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stay current on their training. Some leaders are not adequately dealing with problem behavior. Education and training can address those issues.

Maness is “a huge proponent” of officers wearing body cameras.

He also supports citizens recording their interactions with officers.

Of course, that raises questions about ethics and editing, and that’s where college classes can facilitate conversations and lead to change in the system.

“I want my students to understand that if you engage in that (recording and posting videos on social media), then you need to hold yourself to the same ac-

countability you want to hold those organizations to and make sure the whole story is being presented.”

Ultimately, Maness’ goal is to build Allen’s reputation as a school that teaches its students how to engage in the difficult conversations required in criminal justice. He wants students to think critically and articulate clearly.

“I want Allen to be known as a school that promotes critical thinking, professional standards and high integrity.

When someone goes out into the field and they say, ‘Tell me about your background,’ I want that student to be able to proudly say, ‘Well, it started at Allen.’”

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Sunn hemp a good option during ‘summer slump’ In 2023, on-farm trials were conducted in three Southeast Kansas counties under partnership between local producers and their respective Extension districts. The goal of these trials was to observe sunn hemp’s potential as a summer annual forage to supplement tall fescue pastures during the “summer slump.”

If producers are able to provide high quality forage during the summer slump, less feed supplementation could be used and other tall fescue paddocks could be allowed longer rest periods.

Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) is an annual, warm season legume native to India. It has traditionally been used as a fiber crop, but it has

Chad Guthrie Extension Agent for Agriculture

gained popularity in the United States as a cover crop.

Recent studies from Missouri University have shown sunn hemp to be a productive annual forage option that is high in protein and carries negligible bloat risk.

Sunn hemp was drilled into long-time tall fescue pastures at rates of 30 pounds an acre. After planting, roughly 90% emergence was observed. By July, the stand had decreased

Recent studies from Missouri University have shown sunn hemp to be a productive annual forage option that is high in protein and carries negligible bloat risk.

to roughly 50% due to drought.

Plots were harvested the first week of August. Crude protein was found to be 2-5% higher in samples containing sunn hemp. This increase in crude protein was enough to meet a cow’s needs without supplementation. To-

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tal digestible nutrients (TDN) also showed a 2-3% increase in samples containing sunn hemp.

Water was a limiting factor throughout these

trials, but sunn hemp shows potential to be a high-quality alternative forage to interseed into tall fescue pastures.

Sunn hemp was broadcast into others areas,

but the sunn hemp did not emerge, therefore, drilling sunn hemp is recommended.

A full study report will be coming out soon.

Policy analyst says farm bill favors grain producers

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Kansas Rural Center policy analyst Paul Johnson said the federal farm bill plowed about twothirds of crop subsidies into feed grains for livestock despite the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recommendation that half a person’s diet feature fruits and vegetables.

Johnson said too many politicians were content with the government’s recipe for stabilizing the agriculture economy and showed little interest in reform legislation matching USDA farm program strategies with dietary suggestions.

“It has health implications,” said Johnson, an organic market gardener. “It’s less than 1% of federal farm bill subsidies that go for primary sources of healthier food.”

Congress was expected to complete a rewrite of the five-year law implemented in 2018, but conflict interfered with work by the House and Senate on a bipartisan compromise.

Federal lawmakers, including President Joe Biden, agreed to a one-year extension of the farm law that had earmarked $430 billion for food and agriculture objectives from 2019 to 2023.

About 80 cents of every $1 of farm bill expenditures go to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, while much of the remainder served interests of farmers engaged in growing wheat, corn, soybeans and sorghum.

A fraction was reserved for specialty crops that included fruits ranging from apples to strawberries, vegetables such as artichokes and watermelon and tree nuts including almonds and walnuts.

Johnson said only 7% of Kansas farmers were under the age of 35 and the average age was nearly 60. He said Kansans should expect a robust generational

Levendofsky said managed grazing, plant Congress should fully of cover crops to prefund conservative pro- serve moisture or tergrams authorized in the races to deter erosion. farm bill to get as much Sustainable farming participation as possi- practices could reduce ble. In 2020, only 18% erosion into streams, of eligible Conservation rivers and reservoirs Stewardship Program that compromised the applicants in Kansas drinking water supply. received funding to deLevendofsky said the velop whole farm con- 2022 Inflation Reducservation and soil im- tion Act, which made provement programs. investments in clean There is interest in energy and climate acdrafting legislation re- tion, included approquiring farmers who priations for farm conKansas Rural Center policy analyst Paul Johnson says the 2024 federal farm bill benefit from subsidized servation. crop insurance to adopt “Those programs are should be drawn from robust policy debate at the state and federal levels about land use practices em- in place, so that we have crop subsidies, food nutrition and environmental conservation. SHERMAN SMITH/ braced by environmen- that land to pass on to KANSAS REFLECTOR talists, Levendofsky the next generation. It’s an investment,” Levchange in who farms consumers affordable, system allows for the said.

Directives could in- endofsky said. “Preservthe state during the accessible and healthy, production of these clude common practic- ing that land, preservnext two decades. he said. other crops instead.”

“We need a whole In any given year, es such as no-till culti- ing the water and the new generation of beKansas received $1 bil- vation, crop rotation, soil is key to all of this.” ginning farmers to lion to $1.2 billion for “We need a emerge for a better, farm programs and whole new genmore wholesome food $400 million to $500 PIQUA eration of beginsystem in Kansas,” he million for food stamps. ning farmers to said. “We need a Kansas Federal funding investfood-farm plan from ed in Kansas has been so emerge for a betthe Department of Comsubstantial that farmers Open 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. M-F • Sat 7:30 a.m. - 12 Noon ter more wholeCombine Guards & Sections merce and Department concentrated on fewer some food sysBaler Teeth Rake Teeth • Twine & Net Wrap of Agriculture. We need crops.

Extensive Stock of Sprayer Fittings tem in Kansas.” a robust debate. In this Johnson said Constate … the Kansas Leggress could adjust the — Paul islature doesn’t seem farm bill to bring about Johnson, KRC to take notice. We need more equity in terms policy analyst to build it into the conof distributing taxpayer gressional campaigns funding. He said there and really talk about were about 58,500 farms kind of the future of in Kansas, but 2,900 farming in Kansas.”

“Kansas was once one accounted for threeKansas Farmers of those states that grew fourths of the state’s Union executive direc- a lot of produce. We farm sales in 2017. tor Nick Levendofsky, were growing grapes.

In fact, he said, 88% who also appeared on We were growing pota- of approximately $1 bilthe Kansas Reflector toes and we were grow- lion in federal farm paypodcast with Johnson to ing watermelon. There ments scattered across talk about the farm bill, was lots and lots of di- Kansas in the past 20 said updates to the fed- versity at one time,” years went to 20% of eral law in 2024 should said Levendofsky, part farms in the state. recognize broader agri- of a farm family opera“So, only 12% of those Includes Skinning culture interests. tion near Belleville. “We farm payments were 6 specialties also offered: National policy ought could still be doing this. left over for the remainto place an emphasis It’s just that we choose ing, you know, 80% of stix, cheddar & jalapeño on making food for U.S. not to and because the farms,” Johnson said. summer sausage, summer

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a press conference in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, earlier this year. Zelenskyy continues to astound foreign policy experts with his leadership in defending Ukraine against the invading giant, Russia. (GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/ TNS)

Channeling my inner wartime leader Zelensky Midwesterners — known for their mule-like stubbornness — can relate to the Ukrainian president’s determination to defend his country

By CALVIN TRILLIN Guest essay for The Washington Post

I’m becoming more and more certain that Volodymyr Zelensky and I are cousins.

As my father, who was born in Ukraine, often said when he uttered one of his ironclad dictums — e.g., you can’t gain more than a pound from eating all the chocolates in a one-pound box of chocolates — it stands to reason.

The notion was in my mind even before I heard someone on cable TV mention the Ukrainian president’s height, which would put him at around the middle button of Charles de Gaulle’s dress uniform — and which would be almost precisely midway between my height and my father’s. (Our family does not run to ranginess.) When I heard that comment, I muttered to myself, “Uncanny!”

And then I started checking off the ways Zelensky and my father matched up. Born in Ukraine? Check. Although my father was brought up from the age of 2 or 3 in St. Joseph, Mo., had an accent that recalled Harry S. Truman, and was familiar with Midwestern phrases such as, “Haven’t had so much fun since the hogs ate little sister,” he was born in a place called Sokol’cha, Ukraine.

Born into a Jewish family?

Check. Stocky build? Check.

An attraction, possibly genetic, to cities located at the confluence of two rivers? Check.

Zelensky’s hometown, Kryvyi Rih, is at the confluence of the Inhulets and the Saksahan. Kansas City, where my father spent virtually all his adult life, is, of course, at the confluence of the Missouri and the Kaw. Born into a Russian-speaking family? Check-ish. I can’t claim to know for sure that my family in Sokol’cha spoke Russian. But I know my father knew at least one Russian song, “Ochi Chernye,” because he often sang it on long car trips that also featured his rendition of “The Road to Mandalay.” “Ochi Chernye” originated as a

poem by Yevhen Hrebinka.

And where was Yevhen Hrebinka from? Ukraine!

Enough said? No? Well, there’s more.

Before I get to the real clincher, though, I want to point out that we have never been the sort of family that claimed connection with heroic figures as a way of catching a few rays of reflected glory.

Of course, we take pride in the achievements of our relatives. I may have mentioned from time to time that my cousin Keith once reached the finals of the Kansas state spelling bee. I have never made a secret of the fact that my cousin Neil (on my mother’s side, rather than what I

my mind — was “like talking to the wall.” A proclamation that could cause my father to end with “it stands to reason” might also cause him to begin with “I don’t care what you say,” even if you hadn’t said anything.

More than one of my Zelensky-side relatives served as the model for a fictional uncle I once described in a story as “flexible as a tree stump.”

For years, my theory about why my family happened to enter the United States through Galveston rather than Ellis Island was that my grandfather once said that when you go to America, you land in Texas, and when the time finally came to leave Ukraine, he preferred to go

Long before Zelensky became world famous, my father’s family was so renowned for stubbornness that my mother regularly used a single world to describe the entire clan: mules. She always said that trying to change my father’s mind was ‘like talking to the wall.’

now refer to as the Zelensky side) was the drum major of the University of Nebraska marching band.

But we have never claimed to be related to, say, Winston Churchill, the historic figure now often mentioned in discussions of Zelensky as an inspiring wartime leader.

We are not the sort of people who would claim a relationship simply because some cousin’s newborn baby resembles Winston Churchill. On the contrary, I’ve always been forthright about my belief that one of my nephews as a newborn had a strong resemblance to Clement Attlee.

So, the real clincher? Here it is.

Long before Zelensky became world famous, my father’s family was so renowned for stubbornness that my mother regularly used a single word to describe the entire clan: mules.

She always said that trying to change my father’s mind — or, let’s be honest,

a thousand or so miles out of the way in steerage rather than admit he was wrong.

What Cousin Vlod (if I may) has displayed is a creative and courageous form of the stubbornness that runs in our family.

From the start, he didn’t seem to care about the opinions of the learned foreign policy analysts who agreed that the Russians would capture Kyiv in three days and that he ought to get out while the getting was good.

I can picture a European leader returning from an effort to persuade Vlod to accept a “diplomatic solution” that would grant Russia a couple of chunks of Ukraine as a reward for staging an unprovoked, criminal and thoroughly bungled invasion.

The leader sighs and then says to his cabinet ministers, “It was like talking to the wall.”

About the author: Calvin Trillin is a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker.

We spend a lot of time focusing on what still needs correcting, because without awareness — and usually, sustained pressure — change is not even possible. But in this season in between the days we set aside for giving thanks and for making new resolutions to do better, we also wanted to recognize the transformation that has already happened in the lives of some former Kansas prison inmates.

At a recent luncheon for Reaching Out From Within, a Kansas-based, inmate-led program co-founded in 1982 by community activist SuEllen Fried and the late Greg Musselman, who was serving a life sentence in Lansing when they met, 10 alumni of the program spoke about what they’d learned, how they’d learned it, and where they are today. Here are a few excerpts: MARC SHOWALTER served two stints in prison, the last time for 16½ years. Now he’s been out for five-and-a-half years, and talked about summoning the courage to tell an employer about his history. He could do that, he said, because he’s not that person any more. “I put in effort,” and like other alums can say, “look where I came from! Before I got out, I set goals, and have achieved all but one of them.”

No, he’s not telling what that one is, but the list of those he’s already made good on includes “a great job and a great group of friends. I’m thankful for that, and thankful I will not be in prison any more; I’m never going back.”

DEON DEAN said that when he first started going to ROFW meetings while inside, even he wondered “how can people change” just by “listening to a bunch of troubled people.”

But then, “you start listening to the stories. Everybody wants to change and nobody knows how.” He did change, though, by learning to “express what I’m feeling.”

At first, “you feel like if you let it out, somebody’s going to judge you,” but then they don’t, “and you start feeling valuable” by helping others help themselves. And vice versa.

Since his release five years ago, “I can walk with my chest up now.” He bought his first house, and with the birth of his son has a second chance at being a father. “I messed up with my daughter and didn’t get to raise her.” He can’t go back and change that, as much as he’d like to, but as he now sees it, “my life is a work of art. It’s not done, and may not look right to everybody, but when it’s done, it’s going to be a masterpiece.”

JEREMIAH PARKS, who came to the lunch from Michigan, along with his family, thanked all the Reaching Out From Within volunteers whose presence at their meetings while incarcerated “make us feel normal. Human.” What he’s learned, he said, is that change happens when you decide, “I’m better than this,” and “let go of the mask. Just do a little better than the day before.”

MADELINE BROOKS has done a bunch of different jobs in the six-and-a-half years since her release: “I got my CPT, went to work in warehouses, started driving trucks,” and after her son with special needs was born, “started my own cleaning business.” She’s studying to become an aesthetician, and still sees members of her Reaching Out From Within support group.

“They’re like my family now.”

JACOB WALDRON began by saying, “I went to prison for selling drugs, not my proudest moment in life.” But he does take pride in the fact that since then, he’s “just tried to live an earnest life, and become a real man. I settled down, calmed down and just went and got a job. … Society is really crazy, and I try to evade issues and toxicity.”

KOHLER JEFFRIES, who served “30 years straight,” said that the volunteers who attended meetings with him made him start to look at himself differently. “It makes us feel human to have people come in and not be afraid to sit next to us.” Like the others, though, he’s the one who changed his own life. Since his release, he’s started his own electrical company. “Your voting was made a lot smoother,” he said, “because I wired the new building” of the Jackson County Election Office. “And I can’t even vote.”

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Thousands of people and the families of hostages hold up their mobile phones with the torch on to sing the national anthem during a rally in support of the hostages held by Hamas during the second day of the temporary truce, outside The Museum of Modern Art known as the “The Hostages and Missing Square” on Saturday, Nov. 25, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (ALEXI J. ROSENFELD/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

Truce: Some hostages have been released Continued from A1

hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have crammed into United Nations shelters, and where dire conditions persist despite the increased delivery of aid under the truce.

Israel will resume its operations with “full force” as soon as the current deal expires if Hamas does not agree to further hostage releases, with the goal of eliminating the group and freeing the rest of the captives, government spokesperson Eylon Levy told reporters on Monday.

So far, 58 hostages have been released during the current truce, including 39 Israelis.

Before the truce, four hostages were freed, another rescued and two were found dead inside Gaza.

After weeks of national trauma over the around 240 people abducted by Hamas and other militants, scenes of the women and children reuniting with families have rallied Israelis behind calls to return those who remain in captivity.

“We can get all hostages back home. We have to keep pushing,” two relatives of Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old girl and dual Israeli-American citizen who was released Sunday, said in a statement.

Hamas and other militants could still be holding up to 175 hostages, enough to potentially extend the cease-fire for two and a half weeks. But those include a number of soldiers, and the militants are likely to make much greater demands for their release.

A THIRD RELEASE OF HOSTAGES AND PRISONERS

On Sunday, Hamas freed 17 hostages, including 14 Israelis, and Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners — the third such exchange under the truce.

Most hostages appeared to be physically well, but 84-year-old Elma Avraham was airlifted to Israel’s Soroka Medical Center in life-threatening condition because of inadequate care, the hospital said.

Avraham’s daughter, Tali Amano, said her mother was “hours from

death” when she was brought to the hospital.

Avraham is currently sedated and has a breathing tube, but Amano said she told her of a new great-grandchild who was born while she was in captivity.

Avraham suffered from several chronic conditions that required regular medications but was stable before she was kidnapped, Amano said Monday.

So far, 19 people of other nationalities have been freed during the truce, mostly Thai nationals. Many Thais work in Israel, largely as farm laborers.

sive.

The calm from the truce allowed glimpses of the destruction wreaked by weeks of Israeli bombardment that leveled entire neighborhoods.

Footage showed a complex of several dozen multi-story residential buildings that had been pummeled into a landscape of wreckage in the northern town of Beit Hanoun. Nearly every building was destroyed or severely damaged, some reduced to concrete frames half-slumped over. At a nearby U.N. school, the buildings were intact

We can get all hostages back home. We have to keep pushing.

— Relatives of Abigail Edan, the 4-yearold Israeli-American girl released Sunday

The Palestinian prisoners released were mostly teenagers accused of throwing stones and firebombs during confrontations with Israeli forces, or of less-serious offenses. Many Palestinians view prisoners held by Israel, including those implicated in attacks, as heroes resisting occupation.

The freed hostages have mostly stayed out of the public eye, but details of their captivity have started to trickle out.

Merav Raviv, whose three relatives were released Friday, said they had been fed irregularly and lost weight. One reported eating mainly bread and rice and sleeping on a makeshift bed of chairs pushed together. Hostages sometimes had to wait for hours to use the bathroom, she said.

but partially burned and riddled with holes.

The Israeli assault has driven three-quarters of Gaza’s population from their homes, and now most of its 2.3 million people are crowded into the south. More than 1 million are living in U.N. shelters. The Israeli military has barred hundreds of thousands of Palestinaisn who fled south from returning north.

Rain and wind added to the hardship of displaced Palestinians sheltering in the compound of Al-Aqsa hos-

pital in central Gaza.

Palestinians in coats baked flatbreads over a makeshift fire among tents set up on the muddy grounds.

Alaa Mansour said the conditions are simply horrendous.

“My clothes are all wet and I am unable to change them,” said Mansour, who is disabled. “I have not drunk water for two days, and there’s no bathroom to use.”

The U.N. says the truce made it possible to scale up the delivery of food, water and medicine to the largest volume since the start of the war. But the 160 to 200 trucks a day is still less than half what Gaza was importing before the fighting, even as humanitarian needs have soared.

Long lines formed outside stations distributing cooking fuel, allowed in for the first time. Fuel for generators has been brought for key service providers, including hospitals, water and sanitation facilities, but bakeries have been unable to resume work, the U.N. said.

Iyad Ghafary, a vendor in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, said many families were still unable to retrieve the dead from under the rubble left by Israeli airstrikes, and that local authorities weren’t equipped to deal with the level of destruction.

Many say the aid is not nearly enough.

made this statement?

We don’t always trust what we see anymore,” Sokolowski said. “We sometimes don’t believe our own eyes or our own ears. We are now recognizing that authenticity is a performance itself.”

Merriam-Webster’s entry for “authentic” is busy with meaning.

There’s “not false or imitation: real, actual,” as in an authentic cockney accent. There’s “true to one’s own personality, spirit or character.” There’s “worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact.” There’s “made or done the same way as an original.”

And, perhaps the most telling, there’s “conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features.”

“Authentic” follows 2022’s choice of “gaslighting.” And 2023 marks Merriam-Webster’s 20th anniversary choosing a top word.

The company’s data crunchers filter out evergreen words like “love” and “affect” vs. “effect” that are always high in lookups among the 500,000 words it defines online. This year, the wordsmiths also filtered out numerous five-letter words because Wordle and Quordle players clearly use the company’s site in search of them as they play the daily games, Sokolowski said.

Sokolowski, a lexicologist, and his colleagues have a bevy of runners-up for word of the year that also attracted unusual traffic.

They include “X” (lookups spiked in July after Musk’s rebranding of Twitter), “EGOT” (there was a boost in February when Viola Davis achieved that rare quadruple-award status with a Grammy) and “Elemental,” the title of a new Pixar film that had lookups jumping in June.

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More than 13,300 Palestinians have been killed since the war began, roughly twothirds of them women and minors, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

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NEW YORK (AP) — In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”

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Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on the dictionary company’s site but were boosted to new heights throughout the year, editor at large Peter Sokolowski told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.

“We see in 2023 a kind of crisis of authenticity,” he said ahead of Monday’s announcement of this year’s word. “What we realize is that when we question authenticity, we value it even more.”

Sokolowski and his team don’t delve into the reasons people head for dictionaries and websites in search of specific words.

Rather, they chase the data on lookup spikes and world events that correlate. This time around, there was no particularly huge boost at any given time but a constancy to the increased interest in “authentic.”

This was the year of artificial intelligence, for sure, but also a moment when ChatGPT-maker OpenAI suffered a leadership crisis. Taylor Swift and Prince Harry chased after authenticity in their words and deeds. Musk himself, at February’s World Government Summit in Dubai, urged the heads of companies, politicians, ministers and other leaders to “speak authentically” on social media by running their own accounts.

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By MARK ANDERSON The Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Three games in a row without a point in the second half.

A two-touchdown deficit not even an hour into Sunday’s game at Las Vegas.

This is the vaunted Patrick Mahomes-led offense?

Well, yes, as it turned out.

The Kansas City Chiefs began to look more like their Super Bowl selves in the second quarter, and by the end, Mahomes had passed for 298 yards and two touchdowns to rally past the Raiders 31-17.

“We’re so used to Pat scoring 30 points a game,” Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones said. “We’ve been so spoiled with that as a team. It might not have started (this season) the way we wanted it to start, but as this offense continues to play, they’re going to continue to get better. We’re going to get back in that rhythm of Pat scoring 30.”

Andy Reid won his 125th career game as the Chiefs coach, passing Hank Stram for the team record. That also made Reid the first NFL coach to hold that distinction for two teams — he won 130 games in Philadelphia.

Kansas City (8-3) fell behind 14-0 in the second quarter but tied it by halftime and pulled away after that.

Isiah Pacheco rushed for two touchdowns, and Rashee Rice caught eight passes for 107 yards and a TD. “We still have stuff to learn

Sporting KC

Houston slips past Sporting KC HOUSTON (AP) — Defender Franco Escobar scored a first-half goal, Steve Clark posted a clean sheet and the Houston Dynamo beat Sporting Kansas City 1-0 on Sunday night to advance to the Western Conference Final.

No. 4 seed Houston (1511-9), in its first season with Ben Olsen at the helm, advances to play the winner of Sunday’s other semifinal match between the No. 2 seed Seattle Sounders and defending champion and third-seeded Los Angeles FC next Saturday. No matter who the Dynamo play next it will be on the road.

Escobar used an assist from Héctor Herrera to send a header into the top left corner of the net in the 39th minute and the Dynamo took a 1-0 lead into halftime.

Escobar notched his fourth career postseason goal and his first in his first season See SPORTING KC | Page B4

By JEFF WALLNER The Associated Press

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Richie James (17) is grabbed by Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Malcolm Koonce (51) after a kickoff return during the first half Sunday in Las Vegas. LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL/L.E. BASKOW/TNS

from this game,” Mahomes said. “There were some situations where we didn’t execute at a high enough offensive level, but we obviously took a step in a positive direction.

Now it’s just continuing to do that throughout the rest of the season.”

Josh Jacobs rushed for 110 yards and a touchdown for the Raiders (5-7), ending a 12-game streak in which the Chiefs did not allow a 100yard rusher.

The NFL’s reigning rushing champion also broke 1,000

yards from scrimmage this season to become the only player to reach that mark each year since 2019. He joined Hall of Famer Marcus Allen as the only Raiders backs to accomplish that in their first five seasons.

Las Vegas’ Aidan O’Connell passed for 248 yards and a touchdown.

The Chiefs have held 11 consecutive opponents to 24 or fewer points, just three off the team record. They shut down the Raiders in the second half, holding them to 113

yards after Las Vegas picked up 245 in the first two quarters.

“Defensively, our guys put the hammer down when needed,” Reid said.

Kansas City extended its winning streak to six games over the Raiders, and the Chiefs have beaten their AFC West rival in 16 of the past 18 meetings.

More importantly for the Chiefs, they bounced back from a 21-17 loss Monday See CHIEFS | Page B3

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jason Bean returned from injury and threw a pair of touchdown passes and ran for two more, helping Kansas snap a two-game losing streak with a 49-16 victory at Cincinnati.

Bean, who was injured two weeks ago in a loss to Texas Tech and missed last week’s loss to Kansas State, passed for 250 yards and rushed for 90. He had touchdown runs of 43 and 50 yards to seal the game in the fourth quarter.

“It felt good to get back out there with the boys,” Bean said. “Last week was tough just sitting on the sideline watching. I wanted to come out and make a statement this week.”

Devin Neal rushed for 106 yards and two TDs for the Jayhawks (84, 5-4 Big 12) who had their first winning season since 2008.

“I’m very proud of See JAYHAWKS | Page B6

Big 12: Iowa State 42, Kansas State 35

Cyclones fend off K-State in ‘Snowmageddon’

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — There was nothing that could stop Abu Sama III, Rocco Becht and the rest of the Iowa State offense on Saturday night.

Not heavy snow that turned “Farmageddon” into “Snowmageddon.”

Not the roaring Kansas State student section, which braved the freezing weather to make life miserable in seats just behind the Cyclones anyway. And certainly not the Wildcats’ defense, which watched in agony as Iowa State ripped off long scoring plays all night long.

Sama plowed through the snow for 276 yards and three touchdowns, Becht threw for 230 yards and three more scores, and the Cyclones’ defense held No. 19 Kansas State on fourth down with less than a minute left to preserve a wild 42-35 victory.

“Kids just responded, and that’s been the makeup of this program,” Iowa State

Iowa State running back Abu Sama (24) breaks into one of his two first-half touchdown runs, despite the best efforts of Kansas State safety Marques Sigle (21) Saturday in Manhattan. GETTY IMAGES/PETER AIKEN/TNS

coach Matt Campbell said. “It takes kids believing in each other and it takes a coaching staff believing in each other, and that’s what makes this really fun tonight.”

The shortest of the Cyclones’ six touchdowns was a tying 33-yard pass from Becht to Jayden Higgins in the fourth quarter, and the longest an 82-yard pass to Jaylin

Noel that gave Iowa State (7-5, 6-3 Big 12) the lead with 8:04 to go.

In between, Sama had TD runs of 60, 71 and 77 yards See K-STATE | Page B3

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WSU moves to 6-1 WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kenny Pohto’s 25 points helped Wichita State defeat Norfolk State 80-67 on Saturday night.

Pohto also had six rebounds and five assists for the Shockers (6-1). Harlond Beverly added 13 points with five rebounds and eight assists. Quincy Ballard had 13 points and finished 6 of 7 from the floor.

Jamarii Thomas led the way for the Spartans (4-3) with 17 points, five assists and three steals. Allen Betrand added 15 points and two steals for Norfolk State. Terrance Jones finished with eight points.

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night to Philadelphia, a Super Bowl rematch in which several receivers dropped passes.

“It’s a tough thing to do to win a game like this after a big Monday night game and then Thanksgiving,” Reid said. “You get the tryptophan hangover, so you’ve got to work through that.”

Kansas City’s receivers did a much better job against Las Vegas with just one drop, especially after the Chiefs fell into an early 14-point hole.

The Raiders took the lead on an 18-yard pass from O’Connell to Jakobi Meyers and a 63-yard run by Jacobs in which he stiff-armed safety Mike Edwards. But Las Vegas also left points on the board when interim coach Antonio Pierce eschewed going for it on fourth-and-1 and Daniel Carlson missed a

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Jalen Milroe and Isaiah Bond rescued No. 8 Alabama’s playoff hopes, connecting for a last-minute touchdown on fourth-and-goal from the 31 to beat Auburn 2724 on Saturday.

Bond caught Milroe’s desperation heave in the left corner of the end zone with 32 seconds left to give the Crimson Tide (11-1, 8-0 Southeastern Conference) a 10th straight win in the latest dramatic Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Trailing by four with 1:43 left, Alabama had first-and-goal at the Auburn 7 before moving backward. The Crimson Tide lost 18 yards on a bad snap and were pushed back 5 more yards with an illegal downfield pass on third down after Milroe crossed the line of scrimmage.

Two years ago, Ala-

bama needed four overtimes to beat the Tigers on the Plains, where the Kick Six went down in college football history a decade ago.

Alabama nearly returned an interception for another touchdown on the final play. But this game will be remembered around the state for fourth-and-31, a play where Auburn didn’t try to put any pressure on Milroe before he spotted Bond.

Ja’Varrius Johnson scored on a 27-yard touchdown catch and a 12-yard run to put the Tigers (6-6, 3-5) in position to win.

Milroe passed for 259 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 107 more yards. Jermaine Burton had 107 yards receiving, including a 68yard touchdown. Bond had five catches for 75 yards.

Payton Thorne passed

30-yard field goal to the right.

Kansas City answered with short two touchdowns in the second quarter to tie the game and end a three-period scoreless stretch.

Pacheco rushed for a 1-yard score and Mahomes connected with Justin Watson on a 3-yard TD 25 seconds before the break.

The Chiefs took a 21-14 lead to open the second half on another 1-yard Pacheco touchdown run. They took full control early in the fourth when Mahomes converted a third-and-6 with a short pass to Rice, who maneuvered down the left sideline for a 39yard touchdown and a 28-17 lead.

“I think as the game went on, for four quarters, they became the better team,” Pierce said. “There’s a reason why Patrick Mahomes

is the best quarterback in football.”

INJURIES Chiefs: WR Mecole Hardman (thumb) and RB Jerick McKinnon (groin) did not play. ...

WR Skyy Moore (knee), T Donovan Smith (neck and shoulder) and G Trey Smith (foot) was injured, but Reid said none were serious.

Raiders: DE Maxx Crosby (knee) started and played after being listed as doubtful and not practicing during the week. He even had a sack. ... LT Kolton Miller (shoulder) played after missing the two previous games. ... S Marcus Epps (neck and shoulder) went out in the second quarter but returned in the third period.

UP NEXT Chiefs: At Green Bay on Sunday night.

Raiders: Las Vegas is off and will return Dec. 10 to host Minnesota.

onship Game with the playoff hopes intact, if still precarious.

A muffed punt gave Alabama the ball on the Auburn 30 with 4:48 left. But cornerback Nehemiah Pritchett upended a scrambling Milroe a yard shy of the first down on third-and-20.

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for 91 yards and a touchdown and ran for 58 yards for Auburn.

Jarquez Hunter ran for 93 yards and Damari Alston gained 85.

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runs of 60, 71 and 77 yards while finishing with the fourth-best rushing performance in school history. And the fleet-footed Noel had another 79-yard TD catch to finish with three grabs for 160 yards and two scores.

Kansas State (8-4, 6-3) still had a chance to tie the game late, twice converting on fourth down while marching inside the Iowa State 20. But on yet another fourth down, Will Howard’s pass to the end zone with less than a minute left fell incomplete.

He finished with 288 yards and a touchdown pass, a TD run and an interception for the Wildcats. Ben Sinnott had 10 catches for 136 yards and a score, while D.J. Giddens and Treshaun Ward also had touchdown runs.

It wasn’t the offense that was their problem, though.

“We didn’t play good defense at all,” Kansas State coach Chris Klieman said. “That was a poor performance on defense, period.”

Heavy snow fell all game, and more than a dozen workers tried to keep yard lines and hash marks clear. But the field soon became the kind of playing surface better suited to sled dogs and snowmobiles. Players slipped,

stumbled and slid, and more than once they ran over a woebegone official, photographer or cheerleader when they couldn’t stop at the sideline.

“That was my first snow game,” said Becht, who went to high school near Tampa, Florida. “It wasn’t really that cold, just the snow was falling in your eyes. That was the worst thing about it.

But I had fun out there today.”

Indeed, the longtime Big 12 rivals played a wildly different yet equally entertaining game.

Kansas State was content to mush through the snow on long, methodical drives, even if it meant converting on third and fourth down to keep them alive.

Giddens and Ward did most of the work, but Howard’s connection with Sinnott and wide receiver Jayce Brown was a big reason why the Wildcats were able to keep getting into the end zone.

Iowa State was perfectly happy scoring in one big play.

Sama took the first carry of the game 71 yards for a score, then the first carry of the second quarter 77 yards for another. He also had that 60-yard touchdown run in the second half, sandwiched around Brecht’s 79-

yard TD pass to Noel and his 33-yard pass to Higgins that knotted the game 35-all early in the fourth quarter.

The Cyclones had one more big play in them.

On third-and-16 at their own 18-yard line, Becht completed a pass to Noel well short of the first-down marker.

But somehow, five different Wildcats failed to corral him near the sideline, and he ran untouched 82 yards for the go-ahead score.

It proved to be the difference.

“I couldn’t be prouder,” Campbell said. “I think the future is really bright, but I think the reality also, man — we have a chance to go for an eighth win, a bowl victory. There are still a lot of things to play for.”

BIG PICTURE Iowa State had already qualified for its sixth bowl game in the last seven years. Now, the destination could be a bit better.

Kansas State hoped it would be playing for a chance to defend its Big 12 title on Saturday night. But when Texas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State won before the Wildcats kicked off, they were left playing for bowl positioning.

UP NEXT Both teams will find out their bowl destinations next weekend.

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Thursday, Nov. 30 Seattle at Dallas, 7:15 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 3 Arizona at Pittsburgh, noon Atlanta at N.Y. Jets, noon Denver at Houston, noon Detroit at New Orleans, noon Indianapolis at Tennessee, noon L.A. Chargers at New England, noon Miami at Washington, noon Carolina at Tampa Bay, 3:05 p.m.

Cleveland at L.A. Rams, 3:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Philadelphia, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Green Bay, 7:20 p.m.

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pitch and converted the fourth down, setting up the go-ahead score.

Midway through the third quarter, Thorne hit a wide-open Johnson for a touchdown that put Auburn ahead 21-20. Alex McPherson’s 21-yard field goal made it 24-20 with 10 minutes left.

K-State: Falls to Cyclones

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W L T Atlanta 5 6 0 New Orleans 5 6 0 Tampa Bay 4 7 0 Carolina 1 10 0 North

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Shiffrin remains on Cloud 90 KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin has extended her record of World Cup wins to 90.

And she has done so in style.

The American twotime Olympic champion dominated a slalom Sunday, pleasing the home crowd by posting the fastest time in both runs on the Superstar course and beating her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova by 0.33 seconds.

“It’s amazing to do this, especially here, with the home crowd,” said Shiffrin, who is from Colorado but can almost consider Killington a hometown race because she honed her skills nearby at the Burke Mountain Academy as a teenager.

“It’s just such a good vibe and there’s a little extra intensity because we want this to be good for you guys to watch.

I hope it was a good show,” she addressed the spectators in a course-side interview.

Shiffrin was put to the test by a frenetic second run from Vlhova, the Olympic champion who led the race by more than a second with only the American left in the start gate.

Shiffrin lost half of her first-run lead of 0.28 seconds at the first split, but she gradually gained time on Vlhova again.

After crossing the finish, Shiffrin briefly bent forward before getting up and showing the crowd a few fist pumps.

“It feels really good.

It’s amazing to race in front of this crowd no matter what. Being in a position to win is something different, that’s really spectacular,” she said.

Shiffrin collected her 90 wins from 254 starts on the World Cup since her 2011 debut on the circuit two days before her 16th birthday.

She won her first race at a slalom in Sweden in December 2012

and set the record for most World Cup wins across genders when passing Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark’s mark of 86 in a race at the same resort in Sweden last March.

Sunday’s result marked her 55th win in slalom; no other skier, male or female, has ever won more than 46 races in a single discipline.

Vlhova had won the first slalom of the season in Finland two weeks ago and held a clear lead over Shiffrin in the second race the next day, but then she straddled a gate and handed victory to the American.

On Sunday, however, Vlhova made Shiffrin work hard for the win.

“I’m satisfied with my second run,” Vlhova said. “But first run, I didn’t go well. I lost in the first run, but the second run was a good show. Mikaela, she was stronger than me.”

Shiffrin has won six of the seven slaloms at

the annual World Cup weekend on the East Coast, with her streak interrupted last year, when she led after the first run but finished fifth as Wendy Holdener and Anna Swenn Larsson shared the victory.

Before her second run Sunday, Shiffrin recalled what happened last year.

“This kind of moments, you can call it a disappointment ... those are the things that stick with me more than winning actually does. So, I always feel more doubt in myself than confidence, because of races like here last year. That’s something that really fuels me,” she said.

Holdener finished third this time, trailing Shiffrin by 1.37 seconds. Lena Duerr of Germany dropped from second to fourth.

Earlier, Shiffrin positioned herself for victory with an aggressive first run to lead Duerr by 0.19 seconds.

ESTERO, Fla. (AP) — Just when it seemed like Kansas State might beat Iowa for the third time in a little over 12 months, Caitlin Clark found herself remembering one of coach Lisa Bluder’s mantras.

“She always says, ‘Find a way,’” Clark said.

That’s what she and the Hawkeyes did — to win a title, and finally beat the Wildcats.

Clark scored 32 points, and No. 5 Iowa survived wasting a pair of double-digit leads before rallying to finally beat No. 16 Kansas State 77-70 in the championship game of the Gulf Coast Showcase on Sunday night.

Iowa finished the game on a 10-2 run.

“We just responded and stayed together,” Clark said.

Clark made seven 3-pointers, the last coming with 47 seconds left, to help ensure the Hawkeyes (7-1) would win and avenge a Nov. 16 loss to Kansas State.

The Wildcats also beat Iowa last season.

Molly Davis added 13, while Kate Martin had 11 points and 10 rebounds for Iowa.

“We’ve come back on them twice before,” Kansas State coach Jeff Mittie said. “We’ve won the last four minutes of the game the two previous games.

Didn’t do it today.”

Serena Sundell and Ayoka Lee each scored 18 for Kansas State (6-1), and Zyanna Walker finished with 11. The Wildcats got themselves into a 13-point hole early, then trailed by 11 in the second half.

Both times, they rallied. Sundell threw up a beat-the-clock prayer that bounced in to end the third quarter, and Kansas State — fueled by holding Iowa to a 1-for-11 stretch from the floor — went on a

14-2 run and took the lead back on Gisela Sanchez’s three-point play with 2:44 remaining.

Martin then hit a layup to put Iowa back on top, and Clark scored Iowa’s next seven points.

Things got a bit heated in the second half, when Bluder was arguing for what she thought were missed three-second calls. She was exchanging words with officials, and said Mittie then directed some her way.

“I’ve never had a coach yell at me from the sideline ever in my entire career,” Bluder said. “I’m talking to the official, I’m not talking to him.”

Clark moved another spot — her fifth in three days — up the Division I all-time scoring list.

She passed Appalachian State’s Valorie Whiteside (2,944) for 16th and has moved up 21 spots since the start of the season.

Now at 2,954, she’s within 573 points of Kelsey Plum’s record of 3,527.

BIG PICTURE Iowa: Clark’s sixth field goal gave her 964 in her career, one more than Syracuse’s Dyaisha Fair for the lead among all active women’s college players.

She finished with 12, for 970 total. Clark is now the active leader — among all divisions — in points, scoring average, field goals made, 3-pointers made and attempted, free throws made and attempted, assists, assist average and triple-doubles.

Kansas State: The Wildcats held Iowa to a 2-for-21 effort from 3-point range in their first meeting this month. The Hawkeyes were 12 for 32 from 3 on Sunday. Another big difference was free throws — Iowa was 11 for 16, Kansas State just 4 for 11.

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with Houston. He spent last season with LAFC and scored three goals for Atlanta United in the 2018-19 playoffs.

Clark finished with three saves to earn his first shutout this postseason after collecting 12 clean sheets during the regular season. He has four career postseason shutouts — two with the Portland Timbers in 2021 and one with the Columbus Crew in 2015.

Tim Melia stopped two shots for eighth-seeded Sporting KC (12-15-8). SKC ad-

vanced to the semis by sweeping expansion St. Louis City — the regular-season conference champions — in the first round.

Olsen, who had a 10-year run as coach of United, and his Dynamo have been the hottest team since the Leagues Cup break with a record of 10-1-6 in all competitions, including two shootout victories and a US Open Cup title. The only blemish in the streak was a 2-1 loss to Sporting KC on Sep. 23.

The home side has won eight of the last

10 matchups with two draws. The last win by the road team was Sporting KC’s 2-1 victory in October of 2020.

Sporting KC has just two outright wins in 28 all-time playoff matches on the road and that includes the club’s 4-1 victory over St. Louis City this postseason.

Houston has advanced in five of the last six postseason matchups in the series. Sporting KC’s lone win came in the 2013 Eastern Conference Final on its way to winning the MLS Cup.

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Race for AFC’s top seed remains wide open

By ROB MAADDI The Associated Press

ting up a wide-open race for the No. 1 seed down the stretch.

The Ravens (9-3) beat the Chargers 20-10 to remain a half-game ahead of the Chiefs (8-3), Jaguars (8-3) and Miami Dolphins (8-3).

Jackson threw for 177 yards, the Ravens ran for 197 and a stingy defense shut down Justin Herbert and the Chargers, forcing four turnovers.

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Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars took control of their division. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs shrugged off a big deficit. Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens showed their balance.

Three of the AFC’s division leaders kept pace on the road Sunday, set-

Rams after their bye week and then play Jacksonville and Miami sandwiched around a difficult game against San Francisco (8-3) in Weeks 15-16-17. Those games will help determine who will earn the AFC’s top spot.

The Chiefs rebounded from a disappointing loss at home to Philadelphia on Monday night by rallying for a 31-17 win over the Raiders. It

took them a quarter to get going in Las Vegas before Mahomes tossed two touchdown passes and Isiah Pacheco ran for two scores.

“When you have a short week and you’re playing a team like the Raiders, who always plays you tough, you have to bounce right back,” Mahomes said.

“You wash it, you learn from it, and then you kind of just go back to

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Jayhawks: Bean stars in road win Continued from A1

tempt was intercepted

by Cobee Bryant early in the second quarter, leading to Neal’s 13yard TD to put the Jayhawks ahead 7-3.

With 5:31 left in the first half, Neal found tight end Jared Casey in the end zone for a 15-yard TD, making the score 14-3.

There was a big momentum swing just before halftime Jones returned to toss an 11-yard TD pass to Ryan Montgomery to cut the deficit to 14-10 with 22 seconds left in the half.

The Jayhawks responded by driving 56 yards in two plays in 17 seconds. Bean’s 26yard TD pass to Mason Fairchild made the halftime score 21-10.

“We’ve been able to that ... answer a score really late in the half,” Leipold said. “It kind of took a little wind out of them.”

Neal took a direct

our guys and their perseverance after losing two (straight) and get a road win to cap the season,” Kansas head coach Lance Leipold said. “It’s a testament to how far this program’s come in a very short two and a half years.”

Kansas will learn its next destination when bowl pairings are announced on Sunday, Dec. 3.

“I sure hope we get a great destination because these guys deserve it,” Leipold said.

Corey Kiner ran for 106 yards on 18 carries and has 1,047 yards rushing this season, one of few bright spots for the Bearcats (3-9, 1-8 Big 12) in a very difficult season.

Cincinnati used a pair of quarterbacks in the first half.

Emory Jones started, then Brady Lichtenberg’s first pass at-

snap and ran 30 yards untouched for a touchdown making the score 28-10 early in the third quarter.

“We had some really high goals for this team this year,” Bean said.

“I’m just really proud of this team for what they’ve done this season. We still have more to accomplish.”

THE TAKEAWAY Kansas: Neal now has 3,006 rushing yards for his career, placing him fifth all-time on the school’s list. He needs 69 yards to pass Laverne Smith for fourth place.

Cincinnati: The Bearcats, two years removed from a College Football Playoff appearance under Luke Fickell, finished Scott Satterfield’s first season as head coach with their worst record since 1999.

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see who is staying then we get back to work.

We had some undisciplined play that cost us a lot of games. We have 22 recruits coming in.

When the transfer portal opens up on December 4, we will hit that hard.”

UP NEXT Kansas: The Jayhawks will play in a bowl game for the second straight year.

Cincinnati: Season is over.

the fundamentals and working. And so, we still have stuff to learn from this game.”

A major bright spot for the Chiefs was the performance of rookie wide receiver Rashee Rice, who had eight catches for 107 yards and one touchdown.

A week after drops by Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Justin Watson cost them a win against the Eagles, it was important someone other than Travis Kelce stepped up to catch Mahomes’ passes.

“He’s a guy who wants it. I think that’s the biggest thing,” Mahomes said of Rice. “He has talent. He wants to be great. But it’s going to take us staying on top of it every single week, and he’s going to be a great receiver in this league.”

Kansas City has hosted five straight AFC championship games.

None of the Chiefs’ final six opponents currently has a winning record so they have a clear path to the top spot. If they win out, they’ll earn a firstround bye.

Lawrence threw for 364 yards and one TD and ran for a score to help the Jaguars hold off Houston, 24-21.

Jacksonville opened up a two-game lead over the Texans (6-5) and Indianapolis Colts (6-5) in the AFC South.

“You look at how well Houston has been playing, they were kind of nipping at our heels in the division, so this was a big game,” Lawrence said. “They win this game, we’re all square, and they beat us twice, so they’re first place in the division, and we don’t really control our own destiny anymore. ... We just keep winning, we don’t have anything to worry about.”

The victory wasn’t secured until Matt Ammendola’s 58-yard field goal attempt hit the

crossbar in the final minute. Josh Allen and Travon Walker combined to sack C.J. Stroud for a 9-yard loss a few plays before the missed kick.

“For our D-line to run all over the field sometimes it felt like to make plays, it’s just a credit to them and just the ‘no-quit mentality,’ and Josh had a heck of a game, particularly here at the end,” Jaguars coach Doug Pederson said.

Jacksonville’s hopes of earning the No. 1 seed could come down to how the team fares in back-to-back games against Cleveland (7-4) and Baltimore in Weeks 14-15.

The Dolphins had the day off after whipping the New York Jets in the NFL’s first Black Friday game.

They earned another victory Sunday when the Buffalo Bills collapsed in Philadelphia.

Josh Allen and the Bills blew several leads, including one in overtime, before losing 3734 to fall to 6-6.

The Bills, who entered the season with Super Bowl expectations, are 10th in the AFC and now trail Pittsburgh (7-4), Cleveland, Indianapolis, Houston and Denver (6-5) in the wild-card race.

Miami’s next three opponents are 12-22 combined. But the Dolphins finish with three tough games against Dallas (8-3), Baltimore and Buffalo.

In the NFC, the Eagles (10-1) are the clear leader following their fourth straight comeback win.

They’ve been resilient and Jalen Hurts has played at an MVP level.

Philadelphia faces the 49ers and Cowboys in its next two games but has margin for error.

The top teams in the AFC don’t have that luxury. They have to keep winning.