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Ex-student files Title IX lawsuit against KU Former rower says university failed her after reporting rape

By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

Kansas City, Mo. — After she decided to come forward and tell Kansas University officials that she

Daisy Tackett

was raped on campus, Daisy Tackett thought she’d done everything right, her father, James Tackett, said.

But KU let her down, he said, spurring the former KU rowing team member to file a

lawsuit against KU accusing the school of failing to meet its obligations under Title IX. Saying his daughter was in “a very fragile state,” James Tackett read a statement in her stead during a

did not care. I felt like I did every single thing KU asked of me, and I feel that they did not hold up their end of the bargain. KU did not protect me, and I was not able to be a student or an athlete there.”

press conference Monday, the day the suit was filed in Douglas County District Court.

“I did not feel safe after my report,” Daisy Tackett’s statement said. “My coaches

Please see LAWSUIT, page 6A

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‘I love every single person in this building’ House advances bill limiting local housing laws

By Peter Hancock

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DEBRA WILLIAMS HOLDS UP HER CHECK FOR SUNSET HILL STUDENTS TO SEE after she was announced as the 2016 Lawrence Elementary Teacher of the Year during a school assembly at Sunset Hill at East Heights Monday. Williams is Sunset Hill Elementary special education interrelated resource teacher.

Sunset Hill special ed instructor named Elementary Teacher of the Year

By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

The assembled Sunset Hill Elementary students cheered so much that they had to be asked to quiet down so that the Lawrence Elementary Teacher of the Year presentation could continue.

Debra Williams, who works as a special education resource teacher at the school, was awarded the honor during a surprise assembly Monday afternoon. Williams was presented with a check for $1,000 as part of

the award, sending the students into another round of cheering.

“Boys and girls, thank you so much,” Williams told the students. “It is such an honor to come here to school and to be your teacher every single day. I love every single person in this building, and I’m so grateful and I’m so humbled by this.”

Lawrence Superintendent Rick Doll made the announcement to Sunset Hill teachers, staff and students who gathered in the gymnasium.

“I’m glad we had the chance to come over today to celebrate one of your teachers who’s very,

very special,” Doll said. “We also want to stop and thank all of our teachers, because teachers are the heart and soul of our school district; they’re what make things happen every day in the classroom.”

The school district annually selects an elementary and a secondary Teacher of the Year for local recognition. A representative of Truity Credit Union, one of the district’s Lawrence Education Achievement Partners, presented Williams with the $1,000 check.

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Topeka — The Kansas House advanced two bills Monday that would limit the authority of local governments to enact certain kinds of housing laws, including one that could affect the city of Lawrence’s rental inspection program.

House Bill 2665 would prohibit cities or counties from enacting residential property licensing laws that require periodic interior inspections unless the owner or occupant consents.

Rep. J.R. Claeys, RSalina, said the bill is

intended to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of property owners and tenants to be free from unwarranted searches by government officials.

“This bill is quite simple, and it simply allows a tenant or owner who is occupying a property to say no to a search without a warrant,” he said.

Please see HOUSING, page 6A

School board OKs purchase of 5,000 iPads they had spoken with were in favor of laptops.

“I think the iPad is great for consumption, but I don’t think it’s very good for production,” said board member Rick Ingram, who voted against the proposal at the board’s meeting Monday. “And it’s not that you can’t, but if a kid

By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

After nearly two hours of review, the Lawrence school board approved a proposal to purchase 5,000 iPads for the district. Much of the discussion centered on whether iPads were preferable to laptops, and several board members said most people

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Groundbreaking scheduled for affordable housing project

JUDY K. MILLER 63, of Lawrence died 3/20/2016. Services will be 10AM 3/26/2016 at the Barnett Family Funeral Home in Oskaloosa. Full obit barnettfamilyfh.com

MYRNA N. BENSON Viso for Myrna Benson,64, Lawrence will be 5­7 Wed. 3/23/2016 at Warren­McElwain. Funeral will be 10:30 Thurs. 3/24/2016 at the mortuary.

DUKE D. CRANFORD Duke D. Cranford, 88, Junction City, KS, passed away Saturday, March 19, 2016, at Valley View Senior Life in Junction City. Mr. Cranford was cremated. A graveside service with full military honors will be conducted 10 a.m. Friday, March 25, 2016, at the Kansas Veterans' Cemetery near Manhattan, KS. Duke was born February 8, 1928 in Troy NC to John and Ada (Brewer) Cranford. He was the 12th of 13 children and the last of his siblings to survive. He grew up in Troy and as a young man swam across the PeeDee River, almost drowning in the event.

Duke was drafted during World War II and served in post war Japan.

He was one of the last surviving members of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s honor guard. He went on to serve during the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts. He served three combat tours during the Korean War receiving the Purple Heart for wounds during his third tour. SGM Cranford retired from the Army after more than 28 years of service settling in Junction City. After his military retirement he worked at the Ft. Riley

commissary in the meat department for many years.

Duke married Sue (Sumiko Mitsui) on March 18, 1952 in Sapporo Japan. They were able to spend their 64th anniversary together.

Duke was preceded in death by his parents, John and Ada, his 8 brothers: Bob, Cashion, Charles, Dale, John, Paul, Raymond, and Woodrow; sisters: Clattie Belle, Clara, M. Edith and Sarah.

He is survived by his wife Sue; son Ted (Lisa) of Leavenworth; daughters Anna Cranford of Henderson, NV, Mary Mitsui (CW Cade) of Lawrence; and four grandsons: Micheal Hawes of Henderson, NV; Matt & Adrian Cade of Lawrence, and Sean Cranford of Leavenworth.

Duke enjoyed going to garage sales, the library and the DAV store. In lieu of flowers please consider a memorial to the Dorothy Bramlage library or the DAV store in Junction City, KS. **To leave a special online message for the family, visit:www.PenwellGabelJ unctionCity.com** Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries.

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DONALD R. CAILLOUET Services for Don Caillouet, 74, Lawrence, are pending with Rumsey­Yost. Don died 3/19/16 at Rehab Hosp. of Overland Park. rumsey­yost.com

TINA MARIE (NOLAN) SHEPPERD 57, Lawrence will be 3pm Wednesday at Butler County Memorial Park ­Hamilton, Ohio. She died Mar 17th. warrenmcelwain.com

The five organizations behind a new affordable housing project in East Lawrence will hold a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday.

The ceremony will start at 1:30 p.m. at 908 La Salle St. City Commissioner Stuart Boley and representatives from the agencies involved will sledgehammer an existing blighted home at the site.

The project, a

three-home complex, will be paid for in part with $100,000 from the city’s affordable housing trust fund. It’s the first project reviewed by the city’s newly established affordable housing advisory board.

The total cost of the project is estimated at $500,000. Besides the $100,000 in funds from the city’s affordable housing trust fund, the project

will be funded through donations to Habitat for Humanity and $200,000 from the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Tenants to Homeowners would donate the land, valued at $75,000, and Family Promise, The Willow and the LawrenceDouglas County Housing Authority will pay to provide their services and vouchers.

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district would pay an interest rate of about 1 percent over a four-year period, which amounts to about $47,000 in interest payments.

At the end of the fouryear period, the district could purchase the devices for $1 each, sell the devices to a third-party or sell them back to Apple with the proceeds going toward another leasepurchase plan.

In addition to about $2.5 million for the 5,000 iPads, there are also some laptops being purchased.

The agreement includes $382,000 for 500 MacBook Air computers. The rest of the total is made up of accessories, services or training.

School board President Vanessa Sanburn said she was struggling with the decision as well, and that even though a majority of students and teachers that she has talked to also preferred laptops, that may change in time given the district’s expansion of blended learning.

Blended learning uses iPads in the classroom with the goal of using more interactive material and personalizing lessons.

“I think that the way that some of the blended learning classrooms are changing and the way that some of those iPad initiatives are going, the iPad actually might be a better device in some respects than a laptop for certain things,” Sanburn said. “So I’m trying to keep an open mind that in some ways this might actually be better for some learning that we want to be happening in our classrooms.”

meeting, the board also discussed the recent absences of Adair, who has not been present for several board engagements over the past month.

After Adair indicated she would “take a less active role” on the board through May because of a business commitment, Sanburn suggested she consider resigning if she was not able to attend meetings.

“In our correspondence you had indicated that you might take a break,” Sanburn said to Adair. “Are you no longer considering doing that?”

Adair responded that if she has to attend all the meetings in order to continue on the board, she will.

“It would be to my benefit if I could take a few meetings off; I was hoping to miss as few as six meetings,” Adair said. “It was suggested to me that that was not an option.

The commitment that I made to the school board is important enough to me that if I must attend all the meetings in order to make my commitment, I will be at the board meetings.”

In other business the board: l Voted to approve a bond construction bid for Broken Arrow, Prairie Park, Quail Run and Sunflower elementary school projects. l Voted to approve a bond construction bid for Pinckney Elementary School.

The next regular board meeting will be April 11 at the district offices, 110 McDonald Drive.

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has a choice to write a fivepage term paper on a laptop or an iPad, they’re going to choose the laptop.”

The board voted 5-2 to approve a lease-purchase agreement with Apple that totals about $3.2 million, with board members Ingram and Kris Adair voting against the measure.

It would have been about $1.3 million more to purchase MacBook Airs instead of iPads, according to Jerri Kemble, assistant superintendent of educational programs and technology. Kemble, along with Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Angelique Nedved, put forward the lease-purchase plan.

School board member Jill Fincher said that while most middle school students she asked said they’d prefer laptops to iPads, they probably aren’t taking cost into consideration.

Fincher said that because students will likely be issued a laptop once they get to high school — the district plans to roll out 1-to-1 devices for the high school level next year, and board members favor laptops for that level — she feels better about the decision to go with iPads at the middle schools.

“Middle school is kind of that bridge, and I guess if it comes down to cost, I’m OK with sacrificing that knowing that high school is going to be a different four-year set of tools and preparation,” Fincher said.

As part of the lease- Adair returns At the end of the purchase agreement, the

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KENNETH ADKINSON Memorial visitation for Kenneth W. Adkinson, 73, will be held at 5­7 p.m.

Monday, March 28, 2016 at Warren­McElwain Mortuary in Eudora. He passed away the morning of Thursday, March 17, 2016.

Kenneth was born January 25, 1943 in Joplin, MO the son of George Kenneth and Clare (Cole) Adkinson.

He married Marsha Ramey on August 21, 1963 in Kansas City, Kansas.

She survives of the home include two daughters, Kenna Wright of Eudora, KS and Wendy Churchill of Las Cruces, NM; two granddaughters, Jessica Gallegos, Lenexa, KS and Samantha Stout of Linwood, KS; and a half­ sister, Sandy Duncan, Bentonville, AR. He received his Associates degree from Kansas City Kansas Community College. He served his country in the Army Reserves.

He was an active member of the Odd Fellows, Ottawa Indian

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Tribe of Oklahoma, and he also served on the Eudora Zoning Commission.

He loved golfing, fishing, hunting and playing cards.

He was an Agricultural Chemical Sales Specialist and also owned and operated Mid States from 1976­1984.

He later worked for United Supplier as a Territory Manager until retirement.

Online condolences may be sent to warrenmcelwain.com.

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After the presentation, Williams said it was a lot of fun to watch the students’ reactions to the announcement.

“They seemed really excited, but that’s the way our students are,” Williams said. “All of our students are always very excited, and we celebrate each other in this building.”

Williams has worked in education for 22 years, and has served as a special education resource teacher at Sunset Hill since 2009. Prior to that, she was a parent-educator for five years with Lawrence Parents as Teachers, a support program for parents of young children. Williams said that when helping students, she tries to have a personal and flexible approach.

“I do what I feel like each child needs in order for that child to be successful as they go through each day of school,” she said.

Williams’ dedication to personalizing lessons was one of the qualities cited in her nomination for the honor.

“She spends countless hours designing her lessons to meet the needs of students in the least invasive way possible, juggling para-professional schedules and being our ‘go-to’ crisis manager without missing a beat,” said Sunset Hill Principal Darcy Kraus, in a news release.

Williams earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Missouri.

Prior to her time in Lawrence, she taught four years in Tonganoxie and six years in Blue Springs, Mo., and Columbia, Mo. As the Lawrence Elementary Teacher of the Year, Williams will be nominated for the Kansas State Department of Education’s Kansas Teacher of the Year program.

The announcement of the Lawrence Secondary Teacher of the Year will be made later this week.

— K-12 education reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at 832-6314 or rvalverde@ljworld.com.

— K-12 education reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at 832-6314 or rvalverde@ljworld.com.

CORRECTIONS The byline for the story “GOP worries state can’t hit fairness target for school aid” in Monday’s Journal-World incorrectly identified the reporter who wrote it. John Hanna of the Associated Press wrote the article.

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In surprise move, Senate sends back school finance bill

All the way to the Capitol

By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

Topeka — The Kansas Senate sent its school finance bill back to committee Monday, with plans to bring forth a new bill that could be voted on later this week.

“We still plan on going home Thursday,” said Sen. Jim Denning, R-Overland Park, who made the motion to send the bill back to committee. “So we read (the new bill) in today, so I could see something appearing on the calendar Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning.

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STACY TUCKER, OF LAWRENCE, WALKS WEST OUT OF TOWN MONDAY ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 40 toward Topeka. Tucker is an advocate for people with special needs and is walking the 28 miles to Topeka to raise awareness for people with special needs and to participate in Push Day — a rally at the Kansas Statehouse for hundreds of Kansans with disabilities, their families and other advocates to call for full funding of social services upon which they depend.

The surprise move came after the Joint Legislative Budget Committee held an unprecedented type of hearing throughout the day Monday in which an attorney hired by the Legislature, with a court reporter present, took testimony similar to depositions regarding how the Legislature devised its current funding system, and what they believe the Supreme Court’s order in February really means.

Denning said details of the new bill still haven’t been worked out, but that Please see SURPRISE, page 4A

City boards approve KU says student newspaper’s lawsuit lacks merit, standing new guidelines for “In short, the (University Daily Kansan) is Oread Neighborhood

By Sara Shepherd

Twitter: @saramarieshep

In its first formal response to a lawsuit by its student newspaper, Kansas University has moved to dismiss the charges, saying the plaintiffs’ claims lack merit.

KU attorney Mike Leitch authored KU’s answer, filed Friday in federal court.

“Plaintiffs lobbied KU administrators to override the elected Student Senate and increase their funding based on a few alleged statements made by fewer than a handful of the 105 Student Senate members,” he wrote. “But the official reason given for the fee cut made just as must sense: the (University Daily Kansan) slashed its publication schedule in half. With students getting half as many newspapers each week, it stands to reason they should pay half as much.”

Leitch said in the motion that although the newspaper did not like that logic, there was no practical way for the chancellor or vice provost to discern the actual motives the student body’s elected representatives, because statements from one member can’t necessarily be attributed to another.

In February, University Daily Kansan Editor-inChief Vicky Díaz-Camacho and former Editor-inChief Katie Kutsko sued Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Tammara Durham.

The suit alleges that by signing off on the KU Student Senate’s 2015-16 fees — which slashed the Kansan’s fee revenue in half to approximately $45,000 for the year instead of $90,000 — Gray-Little and Durham allowed the Senate to illegally cut the newspaper’s funding based on its content, creating a chilling effect on its “expression of First Amendment-protected speech.”

Though the Senate’s official reason for the funding cut was the paper’s drop from printing

merely a part of the University, and you can’t sue yourself.”

— KU’s motion to dismiss charges four days a week to two, the suit cites a number of statements made by former Senate members that indicate their decision to cut funding was based on dissatisfaction with the newspaper’s coverage of the Senate.

KU’s response also says the plaintiffs,

including the newspaper, lack standing.

Neither Díaz-Camacho nor Kutsko themselves “spoke, wrote, or published anything that was the subject of retaliation,” Leitch wrote. Also, The Kansan is part of the Please see LAWSUIT, page 4A

By Nikki Wentling

Twitter: @nikkiwentling

Two city boards unanimously approved new design guidelines for the Oread neighborhood Monday, though rental property owners in the area said the rules would make home renovation unappealing.

The Oread Neighborhood Design Gudelines, a 132-page document, outlines in detail how architecture, landscaping and parking should look with

new projects or redevelopments to keep with the neighborhood’s historic character. But much of the hours-long conversation Monday focused on two fine points: stacked parking and zoning that would limit the number of residents in each home.

Paul Werner, of Paul Werner Architects, and Matthew Gough, an attorney representing multiple rental property owners in Please see PLANNING, page 4A

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university and lacks the authority to sue or be sued.

“Its alleged ‘editorial independence’ is not legal separation or legal independence,” according to KU’s motion. “In short, the UDK is merely a part of the University, and you can’t sue yourself.”

Kutsko currently is employed as an intern for Sunflower Publishing, which, along with the Journal-World, is owned

by The World Company.

Earlier this month the Senate voted on required student fee allocations for the upcoming school year, and decided to keep the Kansan fee revenue at $45,000 instead of restoring it to $90,000.

Díaz-Camacho has said the loss of revenue has forced the Kansan to cut back staff and leave the vacant position of faculty news director unfilled.

She said that even though the paper does not print as often, it is shifting to Web-first and still needs staff to deliver a quality news product online.

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the neighborhood, said the changes would stymie renovations of historic homes.

They pointed to the new rules, saying they would decrease the number of bedrooms developers could add into the homes and the parking they could offer residents.

“If someone is faced with a renovation that would cause them to lose occupancy, guess what?

They’re not going to do the renovation,” Gough said.

They’re going to do everything they can to keep the occupancy they have.”

After some talk about — KU and higher ed reporter creating an exception for Sara Shepherd can be reached at duplexes that would allow 832-7187 or sshepherd@ljworld.com. them to maintain the same

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it may be very different from the one the Senate was preparing to vote on Monday, including the possibility of a “hold harmless” provision to ensure that no district would lose equalization funding under a new formula.

The Supreme Court’s decision in February said that lawmakers created an unconstitutional funding system last year when

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they repealed old formulas that determined how school funding is distributed and devised a new formula for distributing equalization aid to less wealthy districts.

Equalization aid is used to subsidize the capital outlay and local option budgets of school districts — two funds that come primarily from local property taxes — so that districts with less property wealth do not have to levy significantly higher property tax rates than districts with more wealth.

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hen you’re already in handcuffs it’s probably not best to add insult to injury.

Johnathon Lee West, 38, of Lawrence, was arrested early Monday morning on suspicion of battery on a law enforcement officer, driving with a revoked license, driving while a habitual violator and two counts of possession of certain stimulants.

Around 2:30 a.m. a

Lawrence police officer stopped West in the 800 block of Missouri Street for a traffic violation, said Lawrence Police Sgt. Trent McKinley. During the stop the officer noticed what appeared to be marijuana in the vehicle.

The officer arrested West and placed him in a patrol vehicle, McKinley said.

Inside the patrol vehicle the officer noticed

West attempting to shift his handcuffs from front to back, McKinley said, and he also complained that the handcuffs were hurting him.

The officer then noticed a plastic bag sticking out of the top of West’s sock, McKinley said. The bag contained a white powdery substance.

After finding the plastic bag in West’s sock, the officer noticed West

chewing on something and asked what was in his mouth, McKinley said. West then allegedly spit his gum on the officer.

West was booked into the Douglas County Jail, where he is being held Monday without bond.

number of bedrooms, even during large renovations, Lawrence’s Historic Resources Commission and the Lawrence-Douglas Planning Commission decided against it.

“Duplexes are not what duplexes used to be; they’ve grown,” planning commissioner Jim Carpenter said. “I’m having a hard time giving special protection to those… I think that goes against the original intent of starting these guidelines in the first place.”

The guidelines cover the area from Ninth Street to the north and 17th Street to the south. The area surrounds part of the Kansas University campus, with Massachusetts Street as the east boundary and Arkansas Street as the boundary to the west. They were created

to make the neighborhood look and feel like it did between 1877 and 1945, before some of the old homes were split into apartments for Kansas University students.

The guidelines split the neighborhood into five districts. The highestdensity district, which hugs the east side of the KU campus, allows 16 residential units per acre.

Other districts allow seven to 15 units, and the low-density area, north of Memorial Stadium, allows six or fewer.

Candice Davis, speaking for the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods, was in opposition to allowing rental property owners to keep the same number of units during renovations even if they went against the new guidelines.

“The high density has created conflict due to the single-family nature of the neighborhood,” Davis said. “The conflict has gone on; there’s been a push-and-pull for a lot of years. The design guidelines were implemented to help inconsistencies.”

Commissioner Julia Butler agreed, saying she’d like to see the neighborhood “get back to what its intended use was.”

“Super big dwelling units with a lot of people in them are popping up,” Butler said. “I’m glad we have a lot of students going to KU, and they all need housing, but I don’t think that’s an appropriate use.”

Both commissions also decided Monday to omit stacked parking from the guidelines.

Werner had asked that

it be included as an option, saying the previous renovation of a 14-bedroom home on Ohio Street, across from Jayhawk Cafe, wouldn’t have been completed if the city hadn’t allowed stacked parking spaces.

Commissioners reiterated that developers could go through an appeals process to get special permission for stacked parking or to maintain the number of units in a renovated home.

Those appeals would first go to the Historic Resources Commission, and then the City Commission. Developers could then take the case to district court.

The City Commission will make the final decision on the Oread guidelines.

district was among those that lost state aid last year under the new system, which was partly responsible for the district raising its property tax mill levy for this year.

The bill that the Senate was to vote on Monday would have restored the old formula, which would have enabled Lawrence and other districts in similar situations to reduce their mill levies. But districts that had gained aid under the new formula would have lost it under the Senate bill, possibly resulting in higher tax

levies in those districts.

The overall cost of the bill, estimated at about $38 million, would have been paid for by reducing every district’s general state aid by about 1.5 percent, or roughly $825,000 for the Lawrence district.

In its ruling, the court said restoring the old formula and fully funding it would be one way the Legislature could restore equity. But it also left open the possibility that there could be other ways of doing it as well.

However, the court warned that if lawmakers

chose to use any other method, they should build a record to show why they believe any other method would satisfy the Kansas Constitution’s requirement for equitable funding.

Sen. Ty Masterson, RAndover, said that was the purpose of hiring an outside attorney and conducting the special hearing Monday.

“That’s because our traditional methods (of building records) have not been considered as evidence by the court,” he said.

“There’s been a consistent request, ‘lack of evidence,

lack of evidence.’”

But Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka, said she did not think the hearing would change the Supreme Court’s mind.

“We’re trying to put into the testimony the things that will justify the actions that we’ve taken, even though I would suggest no matter what we put in the record, the actions we’ve taken to date are not going to pass court muster,” she said.

— This is an excerpt from Conrad Swanson’s Lights & Sirens column, which appears regularly on LJWorld.com.

— City Hall reporter Nikki Wentling can be reached at 832-7144 or nwentling@ljworld.com.

— Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock can be reached at 354-4222 or phancock@ljworld.com.

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By Mackenzie Clark from Baker University the Baldwin Read more responses and add changed your thoughts at LJWorld.com school board’s consideration of the possible doWho was your favorite nation of land for a community center. teacher?

Baldwin City RecreAsked on ation Commission DirecMassachusetts Street tor Steve Friend informed board members Monday See story, 1A that based on his conversation with Baker officials earlier in the day, the university would not be a partner in the proposed community center. Baker had been assumed to be one of four key partners in the community center with the BCRC, Baldwin school district and city since the BCRC started a push for the facility in November, but Friend said the university found the proposed Humbelina Harper, center would not address home with four kids, its needs for such athletic Lawrence facilities as indoor turf “Mrs. Ivadelle Cotton, in fields and running tracks.

Scott City, Kan. She was my first-grade teacher. I was a new immigrant to the U.S., and she took extra time to help me learn how to read.”

Friend’s news came as the board was set to consider which of two properties it would donate to be used for the community center. The properties were the vacant city block to the north of the 500 block of Chapel Street and the so-called Rhulen property the district owns northwest of Baldwin High School.

Friend and BCRC board member Ginny Honomichl made a request last month the district donate one of those properties, but board members wanted to take the pulse of the community before making such a decision. Although no one addressed the board Monday during time reserved for comments on the issue, board members said they did hear from a great many members of the public in the last month.

Community members were equally split on which property they preferred, but all were supportive of a community

center, board members reported. There was no objection to the district donating land, they said.

Another unexpected development was a request from Baker to discuss the university’s acquisition of the vacant Chapel Street lot and the current district office and storage building on the 700 block of Chapel Street. It was agreed Superintendent Paul Dorathy and board members Kelley Bethell-Smith and Greg Kruger would meet with Baker representatives about the properties as soon as possible.

That development swung the board’s preference to the Rhulen property, which Friend said was the BCRC’s favored site from the beginning.

A community center and required parking would only take about half of the 5-acre site, he said.

Friend said discussion with the city were continuing, but that Baker’s decision obviously

changed the game plan.

“We’ll have to readjust the scope with Baker’s involvement to make sure we can afford it,” he said. “I’m very interested in operating this thing in the black.”

Board members noted that unlike the Chapel Street property, the Rhulen plot would have surrounding green space for programming, provide overflow parking for high school events, would be expandable and be easy for students to access after school from the adjacent high school/junior high campus.

Board members agreed to consider the BCRC’s request again at a special board meeting on March 28. Friend said a drawing of what the community center would look like on the Rhulen property would be available at the meeting.

The superintendent also updated the board on school finance developments in the Kansas Legislature. The Kansas Supreme Court has told the

Democrat files for County Commission

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Julian Umana, student, Lawrence “My eighth-grade history teacher. He was very relatable, super funny and he had about 70 Beanie Babies in his classroom that he’d involve in his lectures.”

A third candidate has entered the race to succeed Jim Flory as 3rd District Douglas County commissioner.

Jim Weaver, of rural Lecompton, filed Friday as a Democrat for the seat. Two Republicans, Jim Denney and Michelle Derusseau, have filed for the position.

Incumbent Republican Jim Flory said in January that he would not seek a third four-year term for the 3rd District seat, which represents precincts in west Lawrence and the western part of the county, including Clinton, Lecompton, Lone Star, Stull and Worden.

Weaver said he was with the Topeka Fire Department for 33 years

and was the department’s deputy chief for six years before retiring in 2005. While with the department, he also worked for the public union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, he said.

After his retirement from the fire department, he was a technician and manager with the Douglas County Conservation District until retiring 18 months ago. Through that job, he learned to respect the diversity of the county’s people and landscapes, Weaver said.

An issue of interest was the county’s code inspection and enforcement, Weaver said.

“We ought to have firm and fair codes that can be enforced,” he said.

“Those people out doing

code inspections ought to have the authority to do that. If people have an issue with that, they should have access to an appeal procedure that is fair to the landowner and code officials.”

Weaver said he would make an effort to learn the concerns of those in the district.

“Six of the county’s townships, or at least a portion of them, are in the district,” he said.

“My hope is to get around to the townships and drop in on the township boards.”

County Treasurer Although she hasn’t filed for re-election yet, Douglas County Treasurer Paula Gilchrist said she would soon sign paperwork to run for another four-year term. The Democrat

was first elected to the office in 2004.

Gilchrist said she wanted to continue working on software improvements in the office, which have included updates of tax software and motor vehicle software in conjunction with a state overhaul of its system and planned human resource and payroll software. Her office is in the process of installing a line-management system that should be ready in mid-April, Gilchrist said.

“There’s just a lot of stuff — some done, some getting done and some still to be done,” she said. “It’s just an awkward time to shift gears.”

— County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166 or ejones@ljworld.com.

Prosecutors rest case in Flack murder trial Danon Taylor, student and barista at Alchemy Coffee and Bake House, Lawrence “Brian Staihr, a KU economics professor, because he made economics understandable when my jerk of a high school econ teacher said I’d never succeed in college.”

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Ottawa (ap) — Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the trial of an eastern Kansas man accused of killing four people, including an 18-month-old baby.

Franklin County prosecutors spent two weeks laying out their case against 30-yearold Kyle Flack.

He is facing one count of capital murder in the deaths of 21-year-old Kaylie Bailey and her daughter, Lana Bailey, in 2013. He also is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 30-year-old Andrew Stout and 31-year-old Steven White.

Flack did not testify and his attorneys did not call any witnesses. Court officials say closing arguments are scheduled for Wednesday morning in Ottawa.

If Flack is convicted of capital murder, jurors next will consider whether he should Flack be sentenced to death.

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Legislature to address discontinued state equalization payments in support of local options budget and capital outlay funding or face a July 1 court order closing schools.

Dorathy said the one school funding bill remaining alive in the Topeka was in the Senate Ways and Means Committee chaired by Sen. Ty Masterson, R-Andover.

Overall, Masterson’s plan would be a wash for the district, Dorathy said.

He was unsure if the Supreme Court would be satisfied with a reduction in general fund dollars to districts as a way to attain the equalization mandate.

“They gotten themselves in quite a fix and now there is a lot of battling between the Legislature and governor,” he said. “What happens? We don’t know.”

— County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166 and ejones@ljworld.com.

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Trials for two former Haskell Indian Nations University students accused of rape were rescheduled Monday.

The defendants, a 21-yearold man and a 20-year-old man, are accused of raping a fellow Haskell student in a university dormitory on Nov. 15, 2014.

Both men were expelled from the school after the incident. They were released from the Douglas County Jail after each posted a $75,000 bond.

The 20-year-old defendant faces two felony counts of rape and one of sodomy.

The 21-year-old defendant faces counts of aiding and abetting attempted aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated criminal sodomy, aiding and abetting attempted rape and two counts of rape. Both men pleaded not guilty in May 2015.

The trial for the 20-yearold was scheduled to begin Monday morning, but his defense attorney, Sarah Swain, filed for a continuance, citing the need to further review the prosecution’s evidence. His trial, which is scheduled to last for eight days, will now begin on June 13.

The trial for the 21-yearold suspect was scheduled to begin April 4, but has now been pushed to July 25.

— Public safety reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at 832-7284 or cswanson@ljworld.com.

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Topeka — Kansas legislators advanced a bill Monday declaring that state Supreme Court justices could be impeached for interfering too much in the Legislature’s business.

Here is a look at that and other legislative developments Monday.

Judicial impeachment The Senate considered the measure on judicial impeachment after the Kansas Supreme Court last month ordered lawmakers to increase the state’s aid to poor school districts — or see schools shut down in July. The chamber’s voice vote advanced the bill to a final vote today to determine whether the measure goes to the House.

The state constitution says Supreme Court justices can be impeached for treason, bribery or “other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The bill outlines a list of misconduct covered by the latter phrase, including attempting “to usurp” the power of other branches of state government.

Supporters in committee added a similar list of grounds for impeaching for the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and secretary of state and argued Monday that the measure isn’t targeted at the Supreme Court.

“There are no kings in America,” said Sen. Forrest Knox, an Altoona Republican. “There has to be a recourse and that recourse is plainly laid out.”

But critics said the

measure is an attack on the participating in commujudiciary’s independence. nity-based programs such as anger management.

Birth control debate Juvenile offenders can The birth control pro- currently be placed in deposal was offered by tention centers or group Democratic Sen. Marci homes for any level of Francisco, of Lawrence, offense. Kansas has the as an amendment to a bill sixth-highest rate of juthat would permanent- venile offenders placed ly block the state from in detention centers or sending federal fam- group homes nationwide. ily planning dollars for The Senate approved non-abortion services to a version of the bill last Planned Parenthood. month, 38-2, but must Her proposal failed on a consider changes made voice vote, and the Senate by House members begave the bill first-round ap- fore the measure can go proval on a voice vote, with to Gov. Sam Brownback. final action set for today.

The House version of Francisco said her pro- the bill includes a provision posal would reduce unin- to reserve up to 50 beds in tended pregnancies and group homes for juvenile abortions among young offenders. The measure apwomen. It would have al- proved by the Senate says lowed the state health de- all group homes will close partment to contract with by July 2018. family planning providers to make birth control such State building projects The House also passed, as IUDs and beneath-the114-8, a bill to give legisskin implants available.

Sen. Mary Pilcher- lators more control over Cook, a Shawnee Repub- the state’s use of debt for lican and among the Leg- construction projects. It islature’s most socially goes next to the Senate.

The bill would require conservative members, said such efforts target the full Legislature to authorize bonds, borrowing the poor and minorities.

Sen. Laura Kelly, a against the state’s credit or Topeka Democrat, said other debt for projects costPilcher-Cook’s compari- ing $25 million or more. The son was shocking because governor and legislative the eugenics movement leaders would have to apadvocated measures such prove smaller projects.

Lawmakers drafted the as forced sterilization of the mentally ill. Kelly said bill after a nonprofit corpoof Francisco’s proposal, ration affiliated with Kansas University went to a “It’s not even close.”

Wisconsin agency for $327 Juvenile justice million in bonds for camoverhaul pus improvements. Also, The House approved Brownback’s administraa bill, 117-6, to overhaul tion pursued but canceled a the state’s juvenile jus- $20 million plan for a new tice system so that more power plant near the Stateyoung, low-risk offenders house. Neither project had would stay at home while prior legislative approval.

Psychiatric hospital cuts spending amid budget woes Larned — A psychiatric hospital in west-central Kansas challenged with staffing troubles and leadership turnover has implemented stringent spending controls after burning through more than 60 percent of its annual

budget in six months.

As of Dec. 31, Larned State Hospital had spent at least $34.2 million of its $57 million budget for the fiscal year ending June 30.

Contract labor costs drove the faster-than-budgeted spending, according

to Angela de Rocha, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services, which oversees the hospital.

Larned State Hospital is struggling with staffing levels as workers are often mandated to work overtime.

Housing

get a handle on some of the unscrupulous absentee landlords.”

Rep. Stan Frownfelter, another Kansas City Democrat, tried unsuccessfully to offer an amendment that would allow cities to require inspections when a landlord first obtains a license, and whenever a rental property changes tenants. He also offered amendments to give Wyandotte County that authority, but all of his proposed amendments were rejected.

The House gave firstround approval to the bill on a 67-55 vote. Final action is expected today.

Meanwhile, the House also advanced a bill that takes direct aim at one type of affordable housing program that has been discussed in Lawrence.

It would prohibit cities from enacting what are called “inclusionary zoning” laws that set aside a certain percentage of housing units within a development for affordable housing.

Senate Bill 366 would prohibit cities from enacting any kind of price controls on the sale or purchase of residential property. The state already has a statute preventing cities from enacting rent control laws.

Highberger, however, added an amendment that would lessen the impact of the law. It adds language that says property owners or developers may enter into voluntary agreements with a city government to set aside units for affordable housing in exchange for grants or other incentives offered by the city.

Still, Highberger said,

he objected to the overall bill.

“We are in the unfortunate situation of having higher than average home prices and rentals at the same time as we have below-average income levels,” he said of conditions in Lawrence. “And so our community is very concerned about the ability of people who live in our community to continue to live there and that we have a real mix of incomes and socio-economic backgrounds that makes a community healthy.”

That bill advanced to final action on a voice vote.

If approved, it will go back to the Senate to either agree with the House’s amendment or request a conference committee.

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Opponents of the bill called it an attempt to take away control from local units of government, and they said it would deal a setback to successful rental housing programs that some cities have had in place for years.

Rep. Boog Highberger, D-Lawrence, said the city of Lawrence spent considerable time crafting a policy that balances property rights and privacy rights of landlords and tenants with the public health and safety needs of the community.

“If you pass this bill, it’s got the potential to throw out a lot of hard work by a lot of people in my community,” he said. “I think we took a lot of time to craft a solution that respects everyone’s rights and addresses our community needs.”

Under Lawrence’s program, however, Highberger noted that the city cannot conduct an inspection without the tenant’s consent, unless the city obtains an administrative search warrant from a municipal judge.

In Kansas City, Kan., though, a mandatory inspection program has been in place for more than 20 years, and lawmakers from there said it has been critical to protecting the health and safety of people who live in rental housing.

“This works very well for us,” said Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore, D-Kansas City. “This was the only way we’ve been able to

— Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock can be reached at 354-4222 or phancock@ljworld.com.

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Tackett was a freshman on the KU rowing team in the fall of 2014 when she was raped by a KU football player in Jayhawker Towers apartments, her father said. He said that before withdrawing from KU early this semester and returning home to Florida, she was a Student Senate representative and honor roll student who had other college options but “fell in love” with the campus when she visited KU. The Journal-World does not generally identify rape victims, but Tackett requested her name be used.

“It’s every father’s nightmare for their daughter,” he said of the situation that spurred the lawsuit. “I’m filled with righteous anger.”

The accused football player is not named in the lawsuit.

Daisy Tackett’s attorney Dan Curry, of the Kansas City, Mo., firm Brown and Curry, said that KU notified him late last week — following a four-month investigation

by KU’s Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, or IOA — that the man “agreed” to be expelled from KU. James Tackett called that “too little, too late.”

“I hope he isn’t able to do this again,” Tackett said. “He’s a serial rapist.”

The Title IX lawsuit According to the lawsuit: The night Daisy Tackett was raped, a group of KU students and athletes had gotten together at Jayhawker Towers following a Halloween party.

The football player, who appeared “inebriated” when he arrived, invited Tackett to his apartment to watch a television show, then sexually assaulted her. Tackett remained in his apartment “in a state of shock and horror” until the next morning, when the man said he had to leave to go to practice.

About a year after the incident occurred, in October 2015, another rowing team member told Tackett she had also been sexually assaulted by the same man. That woman filed a police report and a complaint with IOA. That’s when Tackett decided to report her assault.

She told the rowing team trainer, who referred her to a KU Athletics physician, who referred her to KU’s senior associate athletics director Debbie Van Saun, who set up Tackett’s meeting with IOA. After reporting the assault, Tackett said she encountered the man on campus at a time and location she’d never seen him before, “staring her down.”

She reported the encounter to the IOA investigator.

Later that week, it happened again, and the man also called her a derogatory name.

She reported the second encounter to IOA, which “eventually” provided her an escort from one class as well as issuing an order preventing the man from

Sara Shepherd/Journal-World Photo

JAMES TACKETT, CENTER, TAKES QUESTIONS from reporters on behalf of his daughter Daisy Tackett at a press conference Monday in Kansas City, Mo. Daisy Tackett, who did not appear at the press conference, said she was raped in fall 2014 at Jayhawker Towers and filed a lawsuit against Kansas University alleging KU violated federal Title IX law by creating a hostile environment on campus. Also pictured are Kansas City, Mo., attorneys Dan Curry, left, and Tony LaCroix, right. contacting Tackett.

Tackett experienced anxiety and panic attacks as a result of the assault and subsequent encounters with the man that would “frequently manifest during workouts at the KU football team’s stadium.”

She “began to withdraw from campus life,” avoiding athletic facilities and dining halls where she might encounter the man or his friends.

During fall 2015, the incident also affected Tackett’s status on the rowing team.

Tackett — who told KU rowing coach Rob Catloth about the rape and IOA investigation — was not allowed to attend an annual training trip in Florida in December, even though she met a time test ordered by the coach, and other rowers with less experience and slower times were allowed to go.

When Tackett explained that she may have to leave KU because of the “stalking” by her assailant, in addition to the rowing team issues, the coach agreed to give her a letter that would allow her to transfer schools but not to another Big 12 school.

One week into this semester, KU still had not completed its IOA investigation or suspended the male student and Tackett “decided she had no choice but to withdraw from KU.” KU has billed her for the semester and placed an administrative hold on her transcript.

Tackett’s lawsuit alleges that KU failed to comply with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gender-based discrimination in education and the law under which universities are required to investigate and take measures to prevent sexual assault on their campuses.

KU failed to “take reasonable steps” to prevent sexual assaults from occurring at Jayhawker Towers, failed to properly shield Tackett from harassment by her alleged assailant after she reported the assault, failed to complete an investigation in a timely fashion, and failed to stop her rowing coach from retaliating against her after she reported, the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit specifically targets KU’s practices involving athletes and where they live.

“KU had an official policy of placing KU athletes, in particular KU

football players, in KU’s Jayhawker Towers Apartments, where they would receive less supervision than other residence hall options,” the lawsuit says.

“KU knew that sexual assaults were occurring at a high rate at Jayhawker Towers. KU failed to provide adequate supervision, warnings, training, guidance and education to its athletes and KU football players in particular at Jayhawker Towers.”

The lawsuit asks for actual damages in excess of $75,000, for attorney fees, lawsuit costs and the return of tuition and board payments.

Separate lawsuit Coach Catloth did not return a call seeking comment Monday, and KU associate athletics director Jim Marchiony referred questions regarding the suit to KU spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson.

She declined to confirm whether the accused unnamed football player had been implicated in a second assault, or his status as a student.

“The University of Kansas does not comment on individual sexual assault investigations,” Barcomb-Peterson said.

“As we said in response to the Tacketts’ first lawsuit earlier this month, any suggestion that we do not support those who report sexual assault on our campuses is baseless.”

On March 11, James and Amanda Tackett filed a separate suit against KU under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. That suit, which seeks class action status, accuses KU of misleading the public by representing campus housing as safe.

KU, describing extensive measures the university has taken to combat sexual assault, said campus housing was “absolutely safe” and called the allegations in that lawsuit “baseless.”

Daisy Tackett never filed a police report.

Her father said he could not comment on her reasons for not doing so.

Curry, her attorney, said Tackett was not ruling it out.

“That’s a very intensely personal decision,” Curry said. “Right now our focus is on getting all the relief available under the civil process.”

— KU and higher ed reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at sshepherd@ljworld.com or 832-7187.

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By Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times

We wish new City Manager Tom Markus well as he takes on his new duties at City Hall.

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onday’s bright sunshine hopefully served as a good omen for Tom Markus’ first day on the job as Lawrence’s new city manager.

After several months of transition following the resignations of its city manager and mayor, the city now can move on to other issues. Diane Stoddard has done an outstanding job as interim city manager, but having Markus on board allows the city to turn its attention to more long-term planning and projects.

Markus just finished leading a strategic planning process in Iowa City and says he hopes to undertake a similar process here, which is great news. It’s much easier to move Lawrence in a positive direction if goals are in place to help guide that process. Lawrence has a habit of dealing with projects or issues on an individual basis without fully examining the precedents those decisions set or how they fit into the big picture.

A strategic plan could help set a broader vision to guide the city’s future.

There certainly are plenty of issues awaiting Markus. Continued development in downtown Lawrence poses some special challenges, as does residential growth in other parts of the city. The resolution of troublesome issues involving the HERE @ Kansas development near Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium is on tonight’s Lawrence City Commission agenda, and the city is in discussions to settle a legal dispute with the developers of The Oread hotel. Then there’s the lawsuit filed by developers whose proposed retail project on South Iowa Street was rejected by commissioners.

Those are just a few of the immediate issues that Markus will face even before turning his attention to longer term planning.

Markus’ long experience in city administration and his previous work in a university city hopefully will serve him well as he tackles the Lawrence job. University towns often have a different vibe as expressed recently by an advocate of new rules to allow the expansion of “urban agriculture” in Lawrence. “Nothing is out of line with other cities…” she said, “but we’re putting our own unique Lawrence spin on it because we’re Lawrence, and that’s what we do.”

Yes, that’s what we do. Lawrence is a progressive and well-educated community that likes to figure out ways to accomplish often-difficult projects.

Welcome to Lawrence, Tom Markus.

We hope you’ll embrace the community and offer many new ideas to move Lawrence toward its own unique and prosperous future.

I was in Florida earlier this month, attending Donald Trump rallies and talking with the voters who love him.

My question was straightforward: What’s the secret of the front-runner’s appeal?

Yes, Trump is attractive to voters who are angry — angry about the economy, illegal immigration and “political correctness.” And some of his supporters feel threatened by racial diversity, to put it mildly. But that’s only part of the answer.

What Trump’s supporters also hear from their champion is a message of unbridled optimism — a promise that he can repair the economy, bring jobs back and Make America Great Again.

Trump is running as a candidate of Hope and Change.

Just listen.

“We’re going to make our country rich again,” Trump promised last week in Palm Beach, Fla. “If I win … Apple and all of these great companies will be making their product in the United States, not in China.”

“We’re going to bring back all our jobs,” he told voters in Tampa. “We’re going to end up having great, great health care … for a fraction of the price.”

“Trust me,” he added. “I know about health care.”

And his over-the-top, allpurpose promise: “We’re going to win so much, you’re going to get tired of winning.”

Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. “Make America Great Again — that’s optimism,” he said last month. “Some people say, ‘Oh, such negativity.’ It’s just the opposite.”

Trump, the fixer The voters who put their faith in the real estate promoter seem to think Trump can fix almost anything, including the economy, health care, schools, veterans’ benefits, military strength and U.S. relations with Israel. Trump, they believe, will sweep all obstacles out of the way and impose simple answers on complex problems.

His supporters didn’t all fit the stereotype of the angry blue-collar voter either. Sure, some rally-goers scowled and muttered vulgarities when asked if they

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The voters who put their faith in the real estate promoter seem to think Trump can fix almost anything, including the economy, health care, schools, veterans’ benefits, military strength and U.S. relations with Israel.”

would talk with someone from the mainstream media.

But others were talkative, cheerful and educated.

“Trump’s not a politician, he’s a businessman, and that’s what America needs,” Norm Holt, a genial retired firefighter from Largo, Fla., told me. “He can get more done than a politician can.”

“He’s whip-smart, he’s a leader,” said Tina Collier, a retiree from Arlington, Va. “He’s going to do things other people haven’t done.”

“I’m just ready for change,” said Allison Polikoff, a middle school teacher from Plantation, Fla. “I think he can do a lot for education, too.”

Magical thinking Some of this sounds like simple frustration. If a generation’s worth of politicians hasn’t solved the country’s problems, maybe it’s simply time to give someone else a chance. Besides, as Ben Carson said last week, “We’re only looking at four years.”

But there’s also a dose of magical thinking born of the old American ideal of entrepreneur as all-purpose problem solver.

Trump isn’t the first businessman to offer his commercial prowess as proof that he can run the government.

Herbert Hoover campaigned for president in 1928 on his success as a mining engineer and executive.

Data processing mogul H. Ross Perot ran as a thirdparty candidate in 1992 saying, “My strength is creating jobs and fixing things.”

And the Republicans’ last presidential nominee, in 2012, was a former venture capitalist who argued that business experience was a “basic qualification” for the presidency. That was Mitt Romney, who’s now trying to rally Republican opposition to Trump.

Not a new idea The idea that businesspeople are better qualified than politicians to run the country may be an illusion — but Trump didn’t invent it.

There’s a potential lesson here for anyone, Republican or Democrat, who hopes to keep Trump away from the White House.

His rivals in the GOP have been trying to dent his appeal by pointing out that he’s not a real conservative, that he’s needlessly divisive, and that he has a record of demeaning women. All true — but Trump supporters don’t seem to care.

Perhaps it would be more effective to argue that Trump isn’t the business genius he claims and that his proposed solutions are bogus. It would be better, in other words, to take on the validity of his optimism.

Most of Trump’s promises are an amalgam of nonsense and fantasy.

His plan for reviving manufacturing jobs is a 35 percent tariff on automobile imports; he never mentions that the cost would be paid by American consumers, even before the trade war that would ensue. His skimpy plan for “great, great health care” doesn’t add up either; nonpartisan analysts say it would insure fewer people and cost more money than Obamacare. And so on.

Romney tried his hand at bubble-popping earlier this month. “Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud,” he said on March 3. “His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

He’s playing the American public for suckers.”

That’s the right message.

Now it’s up to Ted Cruz and John Kasich, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to make it.

Because if Trump wins the presidency, even his most well-meaning supporters will soon discover that he’s a quack.

As Trump might put it: Sad! — Doyle McManus is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His email address is doyle. mcmanus@latimes.com.

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 22, 1916: “The roller coaster at Woodland park was blown down by the high years wind which prevailed shortly afago ter midnight this morning, causIN 1916 ing a loss of between $6,000 and $7,000 to the Lawrence Coaster company which owned it. About threequarters of the structure was demolished, and the lumber was so splintered that it would not be used for rebuilding the coaster. There was no insurance, and except for a small salvage amount the loss is total.... Other structures at Woodland park suffered from the wind last night, but none of them seriously.”

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

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To the editor: The March 5 Douglas County Democratic Caucus held at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School was an historic event. For the record, 3,541 Democrats were patient enough to remain and be counted two hours after registration closed. To put this in context, the second highest attendance in Kansas that day was 2,008 in Prairie Village, followed by 1,595 in Manhattan. The average caucus attendance among the 49 senate district sites was 805.

Kudos to the Clinton and Sanders campaign leaders for their professionalism in cooperating with official counters committed to a fair vote. Thanks to party members who came forward for training-on-the-fly to create additional laptop registration stations.

The demographic of those newly registered voters shows that many young people are motivated. It brings back fond memories of 2008 when young voters who were early Obama supporters continued to work for his election to the presidency. It is my hope that these Sanders and Clinton supporters will work for whoever becomes the Democratic candidate, and vote.

Absent a realignment of the stars, the likelihood of any Democrat winning the Kansas Electoral College vote is slim. However, if my Sanders and Clinton friends want to make a real difference, they will invest time and energy in changing the Kansas Legislature, which has more influence over our daily lives (and needs a makeover).

This is already an historic election year and I strongly urge everyone to be a part of this history.

Steve Lopes, Lawrence

To the editor: I read with some amazement that the City Commission is going to consider new zoning guidelines that would allow goats and sheep to be raised within the city limits. Further, the proposed guidelines would allow the sale of homegrown goods at residences.

There are very good reasons for most zoning restrictions. One of the most important is to protect individual homeowners from invasive nuisance activity by other people. I can speak as an expert when I say that nothing, and I mean nothing, on God’s green earth smells like goat dung that has been baking in a hot summer sun. Sheep dung is not quite so bad, but sheep themselves are exceptionally smelly because of the sour lanolin that their sebaceous glands pump into their wool.

Why is it a zoning violation for someone to run a small business out of their home, arguably because of parking congestion, when it would be fine for mom-and-pop butcher/vegetable markets to do the same thing?

This is not the 18th century any longer. If you want to live in a rural area, grow your own food and make your own clothes, go right ahead.

Richard L. Warrick, Lawrence

Public goods To the editor: Nothing is so painful as self-inflicted wounds like a finger cut while slicing potatoes. You feel stupid. The moment before, your finger was not bleeding, and you have only yourself to blame,

you did it to yourself. It’s worse when you knew you were in the wrong and did it anyway — like going too fast on a wet road.

So, last week, the Journal-World reported an Amtrak train, the Southwest Chief, derailed west of Dodge City; 145 people, 32 hurt. Initial reports said the tracks in that area were known to be dangerous. I wasn’t surprised to read that track maintenance had been underfunded. The same paper reported that hundreds marched, some as far as 60 miles, to protest underfunding of Kansas schools: another self-inflicted wound?

It’s not that we don’t have the money for schools and train tracks; it’s the will we lack. Earlier generations of Americans had the political will to build and fund good schools, and good railroads, bridges, and roadways, and to make clean water for everyone to drink. These are public goods — things good for everyone, not just a few — and all of us, both the many and the few, together, need to have the will to pay for public goods. That’s real patriotism. There are fundamental standards for an intelligent, industrious, and forwardlooking people.

William Skepnek, Lawrence

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Tuesday Concert Pickett, Paull & Jeans, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. KU Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive. Featuring soloist Mi Ou Lee. Science on Tap: Serving up Coffee, Chocolate, and More: How Wildlife Protect our Favorite Foods, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Free State Brewing Company, 636 Massachusetts St. Gamer Night, 8 p.m., Burger Stand at the Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St., free.

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professional track and field athletes, in addition to the collegiate and high school competitors. Back in 2014, we reported that KU Athletics had eliminated about $200,000 in funding that previously had been used to pay for travel expenses, appearance fees and other expenses related to bringing professional athletes clawhorn@ljworld.com to compete at the Relays. for the pole vaulters.

I haven’t had a chance In a letter to city to chat with KU officials officials, LeAnn Brock about the Relays this with Salty Iguana says year, but based on their the event is in “direct website for the event, it affiliation” with Kansas appears that professionals University. “Our goal is won’t be a part of it this to offer a fun and unique time either. The Relays are scheduled to be a experience to local and collegiate quadrangular, out of town residents involved with the Kansas featuring KU, Nebraska, Colorado State and Rice.

Relays,” she wrote.

In addition, other indiOne piece of informavidual collegiate comtion I don’t have is what petitors will be allowed type of pole vaulters to compete in the Relays, will be competing in according to the website. the event. The shot put The Relays also will have event has been a professional event that actually a high school division.

It will be interesting to has attracted some of the watch the Relays evolve best U.S. and Canadian over the coming years. shot-putters to downtown Lawrence. Whether The Rock Chalk Park facility certainly gives the Rethis pole event will be lays a premier home that an invitational event it was lacking at Memorial for some of the top pole vaulters, or rather will be Stadium. The downtown shot put competition, for the many collegiate pole vaulters who will be which is kept alive largely at the relays, I’m unsure. by convention and visitors I’m assuming it is not just bureau planning and fundraising, has added more for the general public. visibility and excitement For those of you to the Relays. A pole vault wondering about the competition also could be Kansas Relays, they are great fun to watch. set for April 20-23 at Rock Chalk Park. The — This is an excerpt from Relays have changed in Chad Lawhorn’s Town Talk the last couple of years. column, which appears at The event has shifted LJWorld.com. away from hosting

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aybe south Lawrence ought to host a steeplechase through Wal-Mart.

(I’ve seen the unofficial version when a shopping cart obstructs the dash to the deeply discounted holiday candy.) Or perhaps, Home Depot and Menards could host a hammer throw in the lot between their two stores.

Why? I’m guessing most of you are aware that downtown hosts a unique shot put event in conjunction with next month’s Kansas Relays. Well, south Lawrence may be feeling left out because I now have word that west Lawrence plans to host a pole vault competition.

The folks with the Salty Iguana Mexican restaurant at Sixth and Wakarusa have filed plans with City Hall to host a pole vault competition in the restaurant’s parking lot.

City commissioners are tentatively scheduled to approve the event at their March 29 meeting.

I’ve got a call into a manager at the Salty Iguana to get more details, but here’s what I have from the plans that have been filed with City Hall. The event is tentatively scheduled to run from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. April 21. Organizers plan to rope off about 95 parking spaces in the lot outside of the Salty Iguana restaurant. Plans call for a couple of sets of bleachers, a kids fun zone, and a few tents selling beer, food and other such items. Of course, there also will be a runway and a big matted landing zone

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OBAMA, CASTRO: EMBARGO MUST END Both leaders weigh in on human rights

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HAVANA President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro emerged from two hours of meetings in Havana on Monday agreeing on at least one thing: The 54-year economic embargo of Cuba needs to end so the economic ties between the two nations can improve.

Fifteen months after Obama and Castro announced their intent to normalize relations, Obama said he’s done almost all he can do to lift travel and trade restrictions without action by Congress. But he said that it was only a matter of time before Congress votes to lift the embargo and that the progress would continue even after he leaves office.

“The embargo’s going to end.

When, I can’t be entirely sure,” Obama said. “The reason is that what we did for 50 years did not serve our interests or the interests of the Cuban people.”

On that, the two leaders agreed. But they also disagreed on a number of human rights issues. “There are profound differences between our countries that will not go away,” Castro said.

Obama said relations “will not be transformed overnight.”

Human rights, Obama said, does not have to be the only issue

Clinton goes on the offensive

Says Trump is “dangerously wrong” without saying his name.

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U.S. and Cuban leaders discuss in the future, “but this is something we’re going to stay on.”

Castro said he did not think human rights issues “should be politicized.” Castro said human rights mean different things to different countries. For example, women in Cuba receive equal pay for the same work as men, which is not true in other nations.

Obama and Castro’s meeting Monday was their third face-to-

face encounter since the two countries began to normalize relations 15 months ago, but it was the first on Castro’s home turf and the first visit of a U.S. president to the island in 88 years.

“For more than half a century, the sight of a U.S. president here in Havana would have been unimaginable. But it’s a new day, el nuevo dias, between our two countries,” Obama said.

Castro said while differences

remain between the two countries, Obama’s visit was a key part toward building a new and positive relationship with the United States. Ties between the two nations started to fray in early 1959, when Castro’s brother, Fidel, took power after a revolution ousted the former dictator Fulgencio Batista.

The United States then backed an unsuccessful invasion by Cuban exiles in April 1961 and start-

Trump sees easy path after meeting with D.C. doubtful David Jackson USA TODAY

WASHINGTON Donald Trump visited the nation’s capital Monday to seek peace with skeptical groups of traditional Republicans and Jewish voters, and predicted he would soon have the 1,237 convention delegates needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.

“We should make it pretty easily based on what I’m seeing,” Trump told reporters after meeting with a group of current and former Republican lawmakers.

Trump said he has drawn new voters to the Republican Party, and “if people want to be smart, they should embrace this movement.” Trump also denounced talk that some more traditional Republicans might try run their own candidate, saying that would hand the election to the Democrats. “They better be careful, and they certainly should be careful with thirdparty stuff,” he said.

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Trump speaks Monday at AIPAC.

Some Republicans have vowed to never support Trump, saying he is not a true conservative and that his economic and foreign policy proposals are dangerous.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama organized a meeting for Trump with GOP lawmakers past and present, including former

House speaker Newt Gingrich.

At the AIPAC conference Monday evening, Trump pledged to protect Israel from threats ranging from the Iran nuclear deal to the possibility that the United Nations would seek to impose some sort of settlement with the Palestinians.

“When I become president, the days of treating Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day one,” Trump told the influential pro-Israel lobby. While Trump has taken criticism for previously saying he would be neutral between the Israelis and the Palestinians, at AIPAC he described the Palestinians as unwilling partners and said they will have to stop attacks on Israel before he would support any kind of agreement.

Reading from a prepared text off a Teleprompter — both rarities for him — Trump also pledged to move the U.S. Embassy to “the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.”

On Tuesday, Republicans in Utah and Arizona vote for a presidential nominee.

ed the economic embargo in February 1962.

Obama said the leaders deepened agricultural ties with Cuba.

“With only 90 miles between us, we are natural trading partners,” Obama said.

On Tuesday, Obama is scheduled to make an address to the Cuban people at El Gran Teatro de Havana, meet with dissidents and watch the Tampa Bay Rays play the Cuban National Team.

For teachers in pricey enclaves, a struggle to pay the rent Districts respond by building housing Madison Park

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After waving goodbye to his first-graders at Malcolm X Academy, public school teacher Anthony Arinwine slings his backpack over his shoulder, gets into his Nissan Altima and becomes an Uber driver.

“It’s something I never thought I’d have to do,” Arinwine said. “I have a college degree and a paycheck. I thought it would be enough.”

Arinwine teaches in San Francisco but lives in slightly more affordable Oakland, where his $1,700 monthly rent eats more than half his monthly pay. Four hours of Uber driving after the 8hour school day helps bridge the gap.

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FBI may not need Apple’s assistance to hack phone Justice lawyers claim ‘outside party’ may have way to open it Kevin Johnson USA TODAY

On the eve of its scheduled legal showdown in a California court with Apple Inc., the Justice Department’s request for a postponement was granted Monday by a federal judge as the FBI tests a new method for unlocking the iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.

Justice lawyers claimed in court documents filed late Monday that an undisclosed “outside party” demonstrated a “possible method” to the FBI for unlocking Farook’s phone, recovered in the aftermath of the December massacre that left 14 dead.

“Testing is required to determine whether it is a viable method that will not compromise data on Farook’s iPhone,” Justice lawyers said in the three-page filing.

“If the method is viable, it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple Inc.” The government, which earlier informed Apple of its request,

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Apple has defended its decision to oppose a federal court order directing it to help investigators.

said it would file a status report with the court by April 5. “Our top priority has always been gaining access into the phone used by the terrorist in San Bernardino,” Justice spokeswoman Melanie Newman said Monday. “With this goal in mind, the FBI has continued in its efforts to gain access to the phone without Apple’s assistance.”

Federal authorities declined to identify the outside party working with the FBI. But a federal law enforcement official said authorities have been in discussions with the outside source for a period of days before the government

developed enough confidence to seek a cancellation of Tuesday’s hearing. The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said the outside party approached the FBI with a potential solution.

The request by the government came as the tech giant Monday was again defending its decision to oppose last month’s federal court order, directing the company to help investigators in their attempt to gain access to the phone. “We have a responsibility to help (our customers) protect your data and protect your privacy,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said.

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Time to relish Cuba’s baseball history Cesar Brioso

USA TODAY Sports

Should Jackie Robinson’s widow, Rachel Robinson, go to Estadio Latinoamericana in Havana on Tuesday, she’ll see a game at the same site where her husband played 69 years ago just before breaking baseball’s color barrier.

Rachel Robinson and her daughter, Sharon, traveled to Havana on Sunday aboard Air Force One for President Obama’s visit to Cuba, including Tuesday’s exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national baseball team.

Jackie Robinson’s groundbreaking 1947 major-league season began with spring training in Cuba as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Class AAA Montreal Royals farm team, playing games at what was then called El Gran Stadium.

As a kid growing up in Cuba in the 1940s and ’50s, my father, Cesar, attended games there, watching his favorite team, Almendares, one of Havana’s four professional baseball teams that played in the Cuban League every winter. The Cuban League, which debuted in 1878, had been integrated since 1900 with white major- and minor-league players having Negro League players and black Cubans as teammates.

It was the reason then-Dodgers’ president Branch Rickey relocated the team’s spring training base from Jim Crow-era Daytona Beach, Fla., to Havana in 1947 as he prepared to elevate

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Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher, left, shakes hands with Jackie Robinson of the Montreal Royals before an exhibition game in Havana on March 31, 1947.

Robinson to the majors.

My father didn’t see Robinson play in Cuba, but he saw many others, including future Hall of Famers Ray Dandridge, Monte Irvin and Tommy Lasorda and a then-little known Dodgers minor-league player named Kevin Connors, who would find more fame as Hollywood actor Chuck Connors in The Rifleman.

When I was a kid, I would listen to my father’s stories about the different American players — black and white — who would play in Cuba each winter. Those stories fueled my interest in Cuban baseball, an interest that

was heightened once I learned that Robinson’s history-making season began in Cuba. I spent years seeking out those players to chronicle their experiences.

Dodger pitching great Don Newcombe was in Cuba with Robinson, along with Roy Campanella and Roy Partlow, as teammates on the 1947 Royals team in spring training.

While the Dodgers stayed at Havana’s opulent Hotel Nacional, the Royals were housed and trained at the Havana Military Academy, about 15 miles outside the city. Rickey, perhaps out of an abundance of caution, housed

Robinson and his African-American teammates at the Hotel Los Angeles, a place one newspaper described as “a musty, third-rate hotel” that looked “like a movie version of a waterfront hostelry in Singapore.”

Newcombe told me how he was stopped in the lobby of the exclusive Hotel Nacional when he went to talk to Rickey.

“One (white) bellhop put me out of the lobby,” Newcombe said. “I told him I had to see Mr. Rickey with the Dodgers. I was allowed to go to the house telephone and call Mr. Rickey to get permission to go up to his room

to see him.”

Newcombe was with the Cincinnati Reds in 1959, when his team played a pair of spring training games in Havana against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

It was the last time any majorleague team played in Cuba until the Baltimore Orioles visited in 1999. The practice of Americans playing in Cuba ended in the early 1960s after Fidel Castro came to power.

Like many Cubans, my father fled his country after the revolution, forced to give up his job and his home after he applied for permission to leave for the USA. I was only 5 months old when my family left Cuba in 1965.

My father has refused to go back, fearful because he managed to escape despite being of military draft age at the time. My mother, Maria, returned in 1980, spending a month on a ship in Mariel harbor before finally being able to return with her brother and his family.

I’ve never been back, but I’ve always longed to see the land of my birth. Most of all, I long to see baseball games in Cuba. I long to go to the “Esquina Caliente” — the “Hot Corner” at Havana’s Parque Central, where people still gather as they have for decades to talk baseball. And I long to walk into El Gran Stadium, just as my father did as a die-hard Almendares fan so many years ago.

Watching on television as Air Force One landed in Cuba, I had one thought: “It’s time.”

Brioso, a digital producer for USA TODAY Sports, is the author of Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson and the Cuban League.

Obama’s Argentina visit rubs salt in old wounds Some Argentines resent U.S. role in 1976 military coup Kamilia Lahrichi

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President Obama will receive a warm welcome from Argentina’s new free-market president but face mass antiAmerican protests from regular Argentines when he stops here following his historic trip to Cuba this week.

“We, Argentines, love to hate the U.S.,” said Gustavo Sierra, a journalist at the local newspaper Clarin.

Obama, the first U.S. president to visit Argentina in more than two decades, hopes to strengthen economic and political ties with Latin America and conservative President Mauricio Macri during his two-day visit starting BUENOS AIRES

Wednesday.

Macri took office in December with a vow to reverse many policies of his leftist predecessors, who imposed tight controls over the economy. One quick change: He lifted currency controls to allow a free exchange of the Argentine peso for U.S. dollars.

Obama plans to lay a wreath at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral, where Pope Francis had served as archbishop. Obama also will hold a town hall with the Young Latin American Leaders Initiative before traveling Thursday to Bariloche and Patagonia.

The visit is controversial here because it comes on the 40th anniversary of the March 24, 1976, military coup that the U.S. first supported, and resentment lingers over the tens of thousands of people who disappeared or were killed under military dictatorship.

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likely to address that chapter of history during his trip.

Argentine Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel wrote in an open letter that Obama would not be welcome on Thursday’s anniversary because

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel blames the U.S. for destabilizing governments.

the U.S. “has been and is behind all the destabilization attempts on popular governments of our continent.”

About 10,000 people are expected to protest on the anniversary in the iconic Plaza de Mayo with banners that say “Memory Day, Obama Get Out!” “I will attend the event to protest against corporations,” said Gustavo Obligado, 25, a musician in Buenos Aires.

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ers struggling to live on a public service salary in the Bay Area, where housing costs rank highest in the nation. Many teachers share Arinwine’s frustrations.

As the gap between wages and the high cost of living reaches a crisis point, school districts are taking drastic steps to keep their teachers in town: They are building affordable housing for them.

San Francisco announced in October it would take steps to build 100 housing units for the city’s educators and consider rental subsidies and forgivable loans to keep 500 educators in the city. The project is still early in development with no time frame, according to the mayor’s office. Funding for San Francisco teachers’ housing would come from the city and school district.

“A policy for determining which educators get access to the housing will be adopted by the School Board in the future, should we be able to make an educator housing development financially feasible,” wrote Francis Tsang, chief deputy communications director for San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Cupertino Union School District, the home of Apple, announced in December that it sought to build 200 housing units for its employees by 2019 on the site of an elementary school that

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Anthony Arinwine, a San Francisco elementary school teacher, also drives for Uber to help pay for housing in the Bay Area. closed in 1983. The district will offer the apartments to teachers and staff at below market rates.

“Residing ... in the epicenter of the Silicon Valley, the region’s housing supply has not been able to keep up with the demand due to the influx of workers in the tech sector,” the school district wrote in its announcement.

“Equally, the influx of tech workers ... has dramatically increased rental rates.” The school board is expected to discuss the housing proposal in a meeting Tuesday.

But housing affordability is not just a public school teacher’s issue. A 180-unit residential project for Stanford University faculty is expected to open by 2017. The

university in Palo Alto already oversees more than 700 on- and off-campus units to help its faculty find housing in the heated Bay Area market.

The idea of teachers’ housing is not a new one. More than a decade ago, nearby Santa Clara Unified School District built 40 units to keep its teachers in the highrent area. That development eventually expanded, adding 30 units in 2009. Nearby San Mateo County Community College District also rents apartments to employees at below-market rates.

School districts in cities including Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Asheville, N.C., have also built teacher housing facilities.

In the Bay Area, David Campos, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors said the city needed to address the housing crisis because it is affecting the ability to retain teachers.

But even if the district builds designated housing, it’s unclear whether it will make a real difference for the vast majority of teachers. San Francisco schools employ 9,500 people.

Housing prices are a flash point in the Bay Area as it gentrifies amid an influx of tech workers. While the median salary for San Francisco teachers is $67,000, the median rent for onebedroom apartments is $3,490 in San Francisco, $2,210 in Oakland and $2,200 San Jose, according to January data from Zumper, which analyzes rental listings.

In California, most of the money to fund schools is allocated by the state, leaving little leeway for local school districts to raise salaries. “We’re professionals, too,” said Arinwine, who holds a master’s degree. “Without us teachers, there wouldn’t be all these high-paid professionals.”

The situation irks Arinwine, who admits holding down two jobs is sometimes so exhausting that he had to remind himself why he became a teacher: “I wanted to work in a community and be a model for kids and show them you can do this if you put your mind and effort into it.”

ma’s visit is meant to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Macri wants to join. It is led by large corporations and filled with secret clauses … which threaten countries’ sovereignty,” he said.

The 12-nation TTP is one of the largest economic treaties to lower trade barriers. Concluded in 2015, it has drawn political opposition in the U.S. as well.

Macri, 57, told the Associated Press last week that Obama’s visit is a chance to show that Argentina is cleaning up its act and wants to open the country to investment. “A year from now ... we hope to be receiving investments from all over the world,” he said.

Buenos Aires lawyer Yamil Santoro called Obama’s visit “a step in the right direction. I think that it gives us the possibility to ... improve our international standing and generate agreements to foster development.”

Contributing: Gregory Korte in Washington

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COMPANIES STEERING CONSUMERS TO COSTLY NAME-BRAND DRUGS Drugmakers are offered incentives Jayne O’Donnell l USA TODAY

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ecret deals often prompt drug benefit companies to cover brand-name prescriptions when equally effective generic or even over-the-counter medications are available, several drug pricing experts say.

These companies, known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), negotiate deals with drugmakers that include rebates and other compensation to encourage certain drugs and come up with lists of drugs that their insurance plans will cover. Employers and insurance companies then determine which drugs to encourage on these formularies.

The process is so convoluted that the United States’ largest insurer, Anthem, discovered what it said were $3 billion in overcharges by Express Scripts and filed suit Monday against the PBM for damages.

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“That the largest insurer has to file suit against the largest PBM is a testament to the complexity that exists in the market,” says Michael Rea, CEO of Rx Savings Solutions, which represents health plans.

Express Scripts spokesman Brian Henry said the suit is “without merit. ... Express Scripts has consistently acted in good faith and in accordance with the terms of its agreement with Anthem.”

In their deals with drugmakers, PBMs agree to favor the high-cost drugs on the PBMs’ formularies and agree they won’t place quantity limits or require prior authorization on the drugs, even though doing so would save money and make medical sense, says Linda Cahn, founder and president of Pharmacy Benefit Consultants, which audits PBM contracts.

As drug prices fall under scrutiny following the disclosure of price increases by drugmakers, the role of PBMs is being more closely examined. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is considering whether to require more transparency in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program.

Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., reintroduced legislation recently to require more public disclosure in

how PBMs determine reimbursements, especially with government drug benefit programs including Medicare Part D. Last week,the Susan Hayes Pharmaceutical says brand Care Managenames are seldom made ment Associacheaper than tion, the PBM trade group, generics. launched a campaign to emphasize that PBMs are part of the solution to high drug prices and not part of the problem.

But those who audit PBM contracts for a living disagree.

“What really gets me started is when PBMs sell their clients on programs that increase costs by encouraging brands so that the PBM can collect rebates,” says Susan Hayes, a principal in Pharmacy Outcomes Specialists, which audits PBM contracts.

PBMs pass along some or all of the rebates to their clients, but they seldom make brand-name drugs cheaper than generics for employers and unions, Hayes say.

“Express Scripts nudges patients

to the most clinically appropriate and most affordable medication,” spokesman David Whitrap says.

“And in almost all cases when a generic is available, the generic is the most cost-effective option.”

Hayes says that’s incorrect and cited generic diabetes drugs that are cheaper based on their average wholesale price than the generic versions Express Scripts prefers.

An egregious example of the problem, according to Cahn, is the class of ulcer drugs known as “proton-pump inhibitors” or PPIs. The best known is Nexium, which costs several times the price of generics, which often cost far more than many over-the-counter options.

Most plans, including Medicare and Medicaid, are “spending an absurd amount of money” on prescription PPIs, Cahn says.

CVS Caremark, the chain’s PBM, doesn’t exclude Nexium from its 2016 formulary, but spokeswoman Christine Cramer says “in some cases, although less expensive overthe-counter versions of drugs may be available, some patients will still require access to a prescription drug to treat their condition.”

Dayton, Ohio, gastroenterologist Sanjay Sandhir says he has a patient who was spending $140 a month for her share of the cost of Nexium, so he told her to buy one of the nonprescription over-the-counter versions, which saved her $100 a month.

“The prices are too high for patients and there’s a lack of transparency,” Sandhir says.

Cahn says drugmakers should stop selling “copycat PPIs,” doctors should stop writing prescriptions for PPIs and PBMs should educate clients on how to cut waste. Pharmacists should suggest patients stop using prescription versions.

Another example: The cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor is on many formularies even though the generic can save patients hundreds of dollars a month. CVS Caremark excludes Lipitor for coverage, but Express Scripts does not, a review of formularies shows, Cahn says.

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French urban climber Alain Robert, also known as “French Spiderman,” scales the headquarters building of French oil giant Total in a Paris suburb on Monday.

CONGO REBEL LEADER CONVICTED OF WAR CRIMES

A former Congolese rebel leader and vice president was convicted Monday in a landmark International Criminal Court case that identified sexual violence by troops as a war crime.

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba highlighted the critical need to eradicate sex crimes as weapons of war.

Bemba, 53, was accused of allowing his 1,000-man rebel army, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo, to run roughshod over civilians in neighboring Central African Republic in 2002-03.

Testimony revealed numerous instances of women and girls being gang raped at gunpoint, sometimes as their families were forced to watch. — John Bacon JUSTICES WON’T HEAR MARIJUANA DISPUTE CASE

The Supreme Court refused Monday to referee a simmering dispute between Colorado and two neighboring states over the cross-border impact of marijuana legalization, heartening legalization advocates who feared the high court could have rolled back their gains.

The justices denied an effort by Oklahoma and Nebraska to bring their grievances about pot-relat-

ed crime directly to the nation’s highest court without seeking to go through lower courts first.

Oklahoma and Nebraska complained that pot purchased legally in Colorado is being transported illegally into or through their states, overwhelming police and courts dealing with a sudden influx of smugglers.

— Richard Wolf NORTH KOREA FIRES PROJECTILES INTO SEA

North Korea fired five shortrange ballistic missiles into waters off the country’s east coast Monday in an apparent rebuke of joint military exercises underway between the United States and South Korea.

The missiles were launched from a site near the northeastern city of Hamhung and flew about 125 miles before landing in waters off North Korea’s east coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

Hours after the missiles were launched, South Korea and the United States began talks in Seoul on implementing new United Nations sanctions imposed on the North over its nuclear test in January and long-range rocket launch last month. Pyongyang has repeatedly issued nuclear strike threats against both Seoul and Washington.

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Hillary Clinton speaks to American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington.

Clinton: Trump’s view of the world is ‘dangerously wrong’ In speech to AIPAC, she attacks rival’s foreign policy inexperience Heidi M. Przybla USA TODAY

WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton went on offense against Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Monday, saying he would abdicate U.S. leadership in the Middle East, his worldview is “dangerously wrong” and he is a “bully” — all without speaking his name.

The former secretary of State began her speech before the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee by slamming candidates who think they can “outsource” Middle Eastern leadership to “dictators” and followed up with a more frontal attack on Trump, who has said wants to be a “neutral” broker between Israelis and Palestinians.

“America can’t ever be neutral when it comes to Israel security or survival,” Clinton told the AIPAC meeting in Washington.

Candidates who think “America no longer has vital national interests at stake in this region are dangerously wrong,” she said.

“Some things aren’t negotiable, and anyone who doesn’t under-

stand that has no business being our president.”

Trump’s stance on foreign policy in the Middle East, including his opposition to the Iraq war, is more isolationist than most recent Republican candidates, and he may face a skeptical audience when he speaks later Monday.

Clinton is seeking to amplify the billionaire real estate mogul’s potential weaknesses on foreign policy before a hard-line Jewish audience. Yet she didn’t limit her attacks to Israel policy, also calling on attendees to oppose “bigotry” after citing Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. “Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented,” she said. “Let us never be neutral or silent in the face of bigotry.”

The dueling speeches offer a preview of the foreign policy debate likely to unfold if Clinton and Trump win their party nominations. And Clinton’s aggressive attack on Trump indicates she is pivoting to a general election campaign in which she is the likely Democratic nominee after a string of primary wins over Ver-

mont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Yet Clinton is at odds with AIPAC on President Obama’s nuclear pact with Iran, which the group tried to stop and which Trump has criticized. Clinton has tried to explain her support for the deal by emphasizing her commitment to enforcement.

Clinton said her approach is to “distrust and verify” that Iran is in fact winding down its nuclear program. “This deal must come with vigorous enforcement,” she said, and “clear consequences for any violations.”

GOP candidates Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Sen. Ted Cruz also addressed the gathering Monday.

Kasich stressed his experience and contrasted himself with Trump. “I don’t need on the job training,” he said. “We are Americans before we are Republicans and Democrats. ... I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land.”

Cruz, who spoke after Trump, criticized the GOP front-runner for referring to Palestine in his remarks. “Palestine has not existed since 1948,” Cruz said.

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA ALABAMA Birmingham: A

veteran shot himself in the parking deck of a Veterans Administration building, AL.com reported. After he shot himself in the wrist, he went back into the clinic.

ALASKA Juneau: A meeting of

the state congressional transportation committees hosted Google to hear about the tech giant’s developments related to self-driving cars, newsminer.com reported. Lawmakers touted the state as a good cold-weather testing ground for Google.

ARIZONA Phoenix: A warm, dry February melted hopes of a drought-busting winter in the Colorado River basin, and Lake Mead could suffer a shortage by 2018, The Arizona Republic reported.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Mayor Mark Stodola said officials are researching how to start a picture-identification program that would provide city-issued identification to people who may not have driver’s licenses, ArkansasOnline reported.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: The

state’s rebate program for electric vehicles will soon cut off higher income green car buyers, The Sacramento Bee reported. Single tax filers who earn $250,000 will not qualify for rebates on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and battery electric vehicles.

COLORADO Denver: A man

HIGHLIGHT: MINNESOTA

Church’s bequest: 30,000 model cars Boyd Huppert

while it was carrying a high school basketball team from Griffith to a game in Lafayette, the Journal & Courier reported.

IOWA Des Moines: The prose-

cution of a high school basketball coach accused of sexually abusing a student will move forward, despite his objections to the destruction of video he says could exonerate him, The Des Moines Register reported.

accused of running a fraudulent breast cancer charity has pleaded guilty in a separate case in which prosecutors say he stole more than $1 million through a scheme involving the sale of donated mattresses, the Denver Post reported.

Corp. told the Salina Airport Authority that cleanup at the former Schilling Air Force Base could begin as soon as 2018, The Salina Journal reported.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: The

KENTUCKY Newport: Officials

Department of Public Health says it has confirmed the first case of the Zika virus in Connecticut.

DELAWARE Lewes: Three nurses won $100,000 in a Powerball drawing, The News Journal reported.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Actor Richard Gere visited homeless shelters, then spoke at a fundraising gala at the Ritz-Carlton, The Washington Post reported.

FLORIDA Pensacola: IMPACT

100 Pensacola Bay Area, a local women’s philanthropy group, announced that its 2016 membership drive yielded a record 1,082 members, The Pensacola News Journal reported.

GEORGIA College Park: Martin Blackwell, 48, was accused of pouring boiling water on two gay men, one of whom is his girlfriend’s son, as they lay in bed in their apartment, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

HAWAII Kailua-Kona: Court could be the next venue for a dispute over public criticism of the Hawaii Fire Department. The Merit Appeals Board unanimously ruled that neither Ty Medeiros nor Steve Loyola were entitled to overtime and vacation pay both said they lost after being placed on leave, West Hawaii Today reported. Loyola, now retired, and Medeiros were battalion chiefs when they sent letters of complaint to the Fire Commission.

IDAHO Boise: Officials at the

Boise National Forest have scheduled prescribed burns, the Idaho Statesman reported.

ILLINOIS Springfield: Most

state school districts are spending more than they’re taking in and dipping into reserves or borrowing to stay afloat, the Chicago Tribune reported.

INDIANA Lafayette: A driver

spilled a drink on herself and then sideswiped a school bus, causing it to roll over Saturday

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: The University Center here could go under the leadership of the University of South Dakota if approved by the Board of Regents, the Argus Leader reported.

KARE-TV

EAGAN A longtime usher at a church near here died late last year, leaving his home and its contents to the church.

But when Lisa Lundstrom, chief financial officer at Celebration Church in Lakeville, Minn., went to take a look at the property, she was amazed.

“It was breathtaking when I walked in. ... I’m still a bit overwhelmed,” she said. “It’s nuts!”

Shelves filled with scalemodel cars filled the foyer then kept going.

Kitchen, living room, bedrooms, family room — every available space was covered with cars. “Literally, it’s floor to ceiling every single room,” Lundstrom said.

Dennis Erickson, 69, had collected more than 30,000 cars over his lifetime and meticulously displayed them in the hallways, laundry room even the bathroom walls of his home in Eagan, about 20 miles southeast of Minneapolis. The collection includes a full-size Model T Ford, a ’59 Edsel and a ’66 Rambler.

Weeks later, she’s done enough research to know that the civil engineer had amassed one of the largest car collections in the world in the past 60 years. He started collecting at

KANSAS Salina: The Dragun

at the Newport Aquarium say the oldest animal at the facility — an alligator snapping turtle — has died, The Kentucky Enquirer reported. Aquarium spokeswoman Jennifer Tan said the animal was estimated to be about 150 years old.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Pet owners who dread the idea of entering eternity without their beloved cat or dog by their side may find solace in a bill pending in the state Legislature that would let cemeteries designate a garden or special section for pets to be laid to rest with their owners, The Times-Picayune reported.

MAINE Bucksport: Demolition

of the former Verso paper mill here has been delayed, WLBZ-TV reported. AIM Development says work was stopped this month because of financial issues. But the company said it’ll be back on track in a few weeks.

MARYLAND Salisbury: Christy Briggs, a veteran educator who teaches sixth-grade English language arts at Bennett Middle School, is Wicomico County’s newest teacher of the year, The Daily Times reported.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum moved more than two dozen works by Rembrandt, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens and others to a more contemporary hall. The works selected for the exhibit showcase the museum’s famed Renaissance and Baroque art collection.

Hedge jewelry store owner Ronald Paul Stewart II to prison after he pleaded guilty to multiple felony counts after defrauding more than 100 people of more than $200,000.

TENNESSEE Knoxville: A state report, citing a study from the Center for Economic Research in Tennessee, suggests that up to 1.4 million people are at risk of losing their jobs to automation — nearly half of the state’s workforce — the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.

BOYD HUPPERT, KARE-TV

One room of Dennis Erickson’s home in Eagan, Minn., shows some of the 30,000 cars he had collected in his life. age 9.

Scouring antique shops, cars shows and the Internet, Erickson bought more than one car for every day of his life.

In fact, days after Erickson died Dec. 3 in his sleep, cars still were arriving.

“He would sit and polish these cars every day,” Lundstrom said. “It was his passion.”

Erickson was an only child who lived in the house with his parents until they both passed away. He never married. He never had children.

“He didn’t have family to put a funeral together for him. We MICHIGAN Bay City: Plans call

for transforming an elementary school closed a decade ago into an assisted living home, The Bay City Times reported. The facility, which is expected to need $1.5 million in renovations, would have 32 private bedrooms and bathrooms, a dining room, library, a store for residents and a conference room.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: State musicians are banding together to raise money for children affected by lead contamination in the water supply of Flint, Mich. Nearly 30 musicians and groups are scheduled to appear at the “Water For Flint” benefit Friday night at Parkway Theater here.

MISSISSIPPI Hattiesburg:

Southern Pines Animal Shelter is sheltering dozens of pets whose owners are out of their homes due to flooding. Shelter director Ginny Sims told The Hattiesburg American that the shelter has been taking care of the pets so the owners can take care of themselves.

MISSOURI Ava: All the children

in centers run by non-profit Ozark Action drink bottled water, the Springfield News-Leader reported. Since February the center here has been using bottled water to cook, as well. The change was made at the request of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

MONTANA Helena: Gov. Bullock will reimburse the state more than $2,500 for travel using a state-owned plane that coincided with campaign events.

NEBRASKA Crawford: Fort Robinson State Park wants at least 30 quilts donated for its overnight quarters. Quilts are reminiscent of bedding that would have been used when the fort was an active U.S. cavalry post in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

did it as a church because he was our family,” Lundstrom said.

Erickson’s church family now is celebrating the passion of a man who also saved and catalogued thousands of automotive brochures and meticulously logged his every car encounter.

His display cases were handbuilt and covered with Plexiglas to keep dust from reaching his cars.

“He took better care of these little cars than people take care of people in their lives,” Lundstrom said.

City-based Supplied Industrial Solutions will start the work April 11 with a deadline of Memorial Day weekend, one of the park’s busiest.

UTAH St. George: A Washington City man is accused of stealing nearly two dozen rifles and pistols from a home, The Spectrum reported. Jeremy Cogdell, 23, was booked this week on 21 felony counts of theft of a firearm and one count of burglary.

VERMONT Williston: Mal Bo-

right, a “renaissance man” of Vermont journalism, died after battling a short illness. He was 81.

A sports and news journalist who covered all corners of Vermont in print, radio and television, Boright served as a sportswriter, newswriter, columnist and managing editor at several newspapers.

VIRGINIA Chesterfield County: Police uncovered an illegal gambling operation inside a Midlothian Turnpike store that displayed merchandise for sale but also contained about 200 computer stations that customers could use to play casino-like games and win cash, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

NEW YORK Rochester: The

former Highland Branch Library was formally renamed the Frederick Douglass Community Library, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported.

NORTH CAROLINA Durham: Non-tenure-track professors at Duke University voted to join a union.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck:

The state is getting $2.5 million from the federal government for grants to help promote specialty crops. Specialty crops grown commercially in North Dakota include dry beans and peas, lentils, potatoes, confection sunflowers, grapes, honey and various vegetables.

OHIO Sandusky: Construction is nearing completion on Cedar Point’s new roller coaster called Valravn, scheduled to debut in May, The News-Messenger reported. The track has been completed on the ride that will include a free-fall 90-degree drop of more than 200 feet and a top speed of 75 mph, and crews now are focusing on landscaping, electric and computer work.

NEVADA Las Vegas: An elderly woman died after her husband accidentally hit her with his car at their home.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: State legislators will address suggested changes to education standards written to replace the “Common Core” requirements.

The Oklahoman reported that some are criticizing the new standards, saying they aren’t specific enough.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

OREGON Newport: The U.S.

Despite a mild winter, many of the state’s lakes will remain closed to open water fishing until April 1.

Coast Guard rescued four people from an overturned boat here, KIRO-TV reported.

NEW JERSEY Sayreville: An off-duty police officer was found dead from gunshot wounds in a vehicle next to the former Amboy Cinemas just off the Garden State Parkway, the Home News Tribune reported.

Two public housing high-rises in north Philadelphia were demolished as part of a plan to revitalize the area.

NEW MEXICO Carlsbad: Carlsbad Caverns National Park awarded a contract for overdue repair work to its elevators, the Current-Argus reported. Granite

TEXAS Amarillo: Officials are hoping installation of a kiosk providing real-time weather and forecasts for both the floor and the rim of Palo Duro Canyon will trim the number of people experiencing heat-related issues, the Amarillo Globe-News reported.

More than 100 heat-related incidents, including two deaths, were recorded at the 28,000-acre park in the Texas Panhandle between 2011 and 2014.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia:

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Brown University is opening a center for its students who are the first in their families to attend college.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville:

A judge sentenced former Golden

WASHINGTON Bellingham:

Authorities say an experimental aircraft similar to a powered hang glider crashed into Lake Samish.

Investigators told KOMO-TV that the male pilot avoided injury and used parts of the craft to paddle to shore.

WEST VIRGINIA Logan: Starting Friday, Jeeps, Hummers and other full-size four-wheel drive vehicles will have access to the Hatfield-McCoy Trails’ 53-mile Bearwallow Trail System, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.

WISCONSIN Menasha: The

Herb Kohl Educational Foundation honors educators and students from across the state, but for the first time, the foundation will present awards to a parent and child in the same year. Susie Fritsch, a fourth-grade teacher at Clovis Grove Elementary School in Menasha, was named a 2016 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Fellow. Her daughter, Halee, an Appleton West High School senior, was named a 2016 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Scholar.

WYOMING Riverton: The Bureau of Land Management says it will hold its wild horse and burro adoption events in May and September. According to the Ranger, there are more than 47,000 offrange horses and burros that are fed and cared for in off-range corrals or off-range pastures.

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MONEYLINE MARKIT, IHS TO MERGE IN TAX INVERSION DEAL Financial information services firm Markit and analytics company IHS are merging in a deal worth more than $13 billion. The merger is an apparent inversion deal, where a U.S. company combines with a foreign company and moves its operations overseas, often to avoid higher tax liabilities in the U.S. The new company, named IHS Markit, will be based in London with certain operations out of Englewood, Colo., where IHS currently is headquartered.

HIGH SCHOOLERS SHRUG OVER SELF-DRIVING CARS The prospect of self-driving cars might have captivated the interest of jaded commuters, but high school students in the U.S. — those just getting their driver’s licenses — sound less interested in a new survey. Some 72% — almost three out of four — high school-age youths would rather have a car they can drive themselves. Only 28% say they would rather have a car that pilots itself, the survey by tracking firm Nielsen finds.

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NEWSPAPER DEAL APPROVED A court has approved the sale of two California newspapers, ‘The Orange County Register’ and ‘The Press-Enterprise’ in Riverside County, to Digital First Media.

Freedom Communications, which owns the papers, had attempted to sell them to Tribune Publishing, which owns the ‘Los Angeles Times,’ and the ‘Chicago Tribune,’ but it was blocked by antitrust concerns.

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China’s Anbang Insurance Group, which bid $13 billion for Starwood on Friday, could counter Marriott again.

Privacy fight upstages launch of new iPhone

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide accepted a sweetened $13.6 billion offer to merge with Marriott International, creating the largest hotel chain in the world and thwarting Chinese insurer Anbang’s latest effort to broaden its lodging portfolio.

Marriott raised its bid for Starwood from $65.33 a share to $79.53 a share, greater than Anbang’s offer of $78. Starwood shareholders will receive $21 cash and 0.8 shares of Marriott Class A common stock for each share of Starwood common stock.

“We’re excited to get back on track and get this historic merger together. We think what we can accomplish together is just fabulous,” Arne Sorenson, Marriott International’s CEO who will helm the newly combined company, told USA TODAY. Sorenson, who is vice chair of President Obama’s Export Council, is in Cuba with the president.

Starwood Hotels and ReROLEX DELA PENA, EPA sorts is poised to play a significant role in Cuba, having received authorization from the U.S Treasury Department to operate existing hotels on the island. Marriott also received the necessary permission from the Treasury Department but hasn’t announced any deals.

Sorenson said that with the pending deal, the possibilities to reshape hospitality in Cuba are even greater.

“We are eager to roll up our sleeves and get back to work and get ready to close the deal,” he said.

Friday, Starwood dropped a $12.2 billion bid from Marriott and opted instead for a $13 billion all-cash offer from Anbang. If Starwood had backed out of the agreement with Marriott, it would have owed its hotel rival $400 million in cash.

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“Even last week in the midst of this Chinese bid that was being negotiated, the Marriott and Starwood teams were working together on integration and planning and trying to look forward to the next step,” Sorenson said.

“I think there’s broad recognition of what we can accomplish together.”

But Anbang shouldn’t be counted out quite yet. “It is an asset that means a lot to Anbang and its partners,” Baird analyst David Loeb said. Also, “Marriott’s bid isn’t that much higher ... than Anbang’s, and I doubt that Anbang’s first bid would be its last.”

If Starwood, which runs hotel brands such as Westin, Sheraton and Aloft, changes its mind again, it would incur a breakup fee of $450 million, and it would have to reimburse Marriott, which operates its namesake brand, RitzCarlton and others, up to $18 million of the actual costs Marriott has had so far, Loeb said.

Anbang is making other plays in the hotel industry, buying the Waldorf Astoria New York from Hilton Worldwide in 2014 for $1.95 billion, and reports recently emerged it was close to acquiring a separate portfolio of hotels from Blackstone Group for $6.5 billion. But some analysts see a tie-up of Marriott and Starwood being a more natural fit.

“While Anbang offered a better value per share in the short term, Marriott seems a better suitor for Starwood in the long term,” wrote Euromonitor analyst Wouter Geerts.

Starwood shares closed Friday at $80.57 and rose 4.5% to finish at $84.19 on Monday. Marriott’s stock fell $1.2% Monday to $72.30.

Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson says he’s ready to get the “historic merger” back on track.

“I think there’s broad recognition of what we can accomplish together.”

Marriott International CEO Arne Sorenson, on the proposed merger with Starwood

CUPERTINO, CALIF. Tucked within a small, 350-seat theater on Apple’s campus here, CEO Tim Cook didn’t take long to address the elephant in the room.

“For many of us, the iPhone is an extension of ourselves,” Cook said. “We need to decide as a nation how much power the government should have over our data and over our privacy. We did not expect to be in this position, at odds with our own government. But we have a responsibility to help you protect your data and protect your privacy. We owe it to our customers and we owe it to our country.

“We will not shrink from this responsibility,” he said, to rousing, prolonged applause.

As Apple openings go, this was a radical departure FP/GETTY IMAGES from the usual Tim Cook recap of sales and marketing milestones that served as a preamble to highly-scripted, formulaic presentations pioneered by Steve Jobs and refined by Cook.

Monday’s announcement of modest upgrades to the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch product lines had the feel of a subdued, incremental event.

That’s in contrast to the launch of the Apple Watch last year or the iPhone 6 in 2014. And it was certainly milder than the fireworks expected Tuesday, when Apple was scheduled to face off in federal court in Southern California with the Department of Justice over the fate of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook’s iPhone. (Late Monday, the government asked for a postponement of the hearing.)

Expert witnesses are scheduled to make their case on protecting consumer privacy, which is Apple’s stance, vs. the Department of Justice’s arguments on security. Apple has Silicon Valley squarely behind it, while the U.S. government is supported by law enforcement agencies and the families of victims in the December mass shooting.

It’s likely to be the first of several court battles that will hash out free speech in the age of encryption and big data.

Reflecting the odd subtext of the brisk news conference, many reporters covering Monday’s event prepared to hop on short flights to Southern California to attend the judicial square-off.

“For today, at least, (the case) is the outlier,” Brian Blau, research vice president at Gartner, said before the product unveiling here. “Tomorrow, it’s a different story.”

As Pearson departs, Ackman joins Valeant’s board Drugmaker accuses former CFO, another executive of ‘improper conduct’ Kevin McCoy @kmccoynyc USA TODAY

Embattled drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International said Monday that CEO J. Michael Pearson will step down and billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman will join the company’s board of directors.

The company also said it would restate some of its financial results, a move Valeant said was based in part on “improper conduct” of Howard Schiller, the drugmaker’s former chief finan-

cial officer, and a second executive. Schiller, who denied the allegations, has not agreed to a request that he leave the company’s board, Valeant said.

Trading in the drugmaker’s shares, which have lost roughly 87% of their value since August, was halted before U.S. markets opened. The stock closed up 7.4% at $28.98 in regular trading.

The Canada-based company said Pearson, who recently returned following treatment for pneumonia, would stay on as chief executive and a member of the firm’s board of directors until a successor is appointed. He had been hailed for Valeant’s rapid expansion in recent years through acquisition of other pharmaceutical firms and their medications.

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Bill Ackman’s hedge fund holds a 9% stake in Valeant.

But his tenure has been marred by questions and criticism of the company’s since-canceled business dealings with Philidor Rx Services, a specialty pharmacy that had helped distribute some of Valeant’s medications.

An October report by Citron

Research and its executive editor, activist short-seller Andrew Left, contended that arrangement was designed to create “phantom accounts” as part of a purported “fraud to create invoices to deceive the auditors and book revenue.” Valeant denied the allegations and characterized them as an effort to drive down the price of the company’s shares.

However, Valeant appointed a special committee to examine the issue. Preliminary results from the review showed that approximately $58 million in net revenue from sales to Philidor in the second half of 2014 should not have been recognized at the time the medications were delivered to the specialty pharmacy.

The committee’s review is con-

tinuing. The examination prevented Valeant from filing its annual report before a March 15 deadline, a slip that raised risk of potential default on the company’s bonds, the drugmaker warned last week. The disclosure caused Valeant shares to lose half their value in a single day.

“While I regret the controversies that have adversely impacted our business over the past several months, I know that Valeant is a strong and resilient company, and I am committed to doing everything I can to ensure a smooth transition,” Pearson said.

Ackman, whose fund Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund holds a 9% Valeant stake, will join the board of directors immediately.

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AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

The broad U.S. stock market is back in the black for the year, erasing its sizable losses in what had been its worst start to a year — ever.

But for the bull to get a second lease on life, the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index has to do more than just stay in the plus column for 2016. In short, it has to take out its previous record closing high of 2,130.82 from May 2015. If it does that the bull market will be back on and the correction that kicked off the year will end as just that, and not a bear market, or drop of 20% or more from a peak.

Until the bull reasserts itself and tallies another record, the current rebound rally will be

viewed as nothing more than a counter-trend rally in a down market.

But if the bull can notch a fresh record, it would cement its position as only the third bull market in history to last seven years. If it can close at another peak and also not suffer a 20% drop between now and the end of April, the 84month old bull will supplant the 85.6-month-old bull that ended in August 1956 as the second longest in history.

So, there’s a lot at stake for stock investors. Another high would confirm the rebound rally is for real. It would also mark a new starting point in which future corrections (or drops of 10% or more) and bear markets are measured. But if the bull stumbles, the market narrative will quickly shift from rebound and resilience to a tired bull still stuck in a new downtrend.

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A: Investors are told to stay calm during volatility. But panic can be profitable, according to new research.

Alan Moreira and Tyler Muir, professors of finance at the Yale School of Management, say panicking and selling when market volatility picks up can boost success. Stocks’ returns aren’t large enough to justify the risk investors are taking during volatility, they say.

Investors get better risk-adjusted returns shifting to bonds and out of stocks when volatility is high and shifting back when it’s low. When stocks get clobbered they tend to stay depressed for a long time. But volatility tends to be over quickly. Investors can duck out of the market during periods of high volatility and have plenty of time to get back in, the professors say.

Real-life evidence, though, has shown how difficult it is to weave in and out of stocks. Famed investor Warren Buffett has a long-term record of gnoring shortterm swings and remaining invested.

Again last year, two-thirds of active managers who tried to beat the market wound up lagging it, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Investors who panicked and sold stocks this February after the market dropped 10% on the year may have locked in losses if they didn’t get back in. That’s a shame as the market has since recovered nearly all its losses.

Supreme Court will weigh Samsung-Apple patent battle Kevin McCoy USA TODAY

The Apple-Samsung smartphone patent war will rage on.

Stepping into a highly charged legal battle between the smartphone giants, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider Samsung’s appeal of rulings that the Korean company infringed on design patents in U.S. rival Apple’s popular iPhones.

The court said it would limit its review to one of two questions raised by Samsung — whether the maker of the rival Galaxy smart-

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Apple accuses Samsung of infringing on design patents for its iPhone.

phones was hit with excessive financial penalties after a U.S. jury concluded the company copied some of Apple’s iPhone designs.

The Supreme Court’s agreement to review that part of the

case means Samsung might not have to pay Apple the $548 million in damages the companies agreed to late last year following lower court rulings.

Apple declined to comment on the decision. Samsung said, “The court’s review of this case can lead to a fair interpretation of patent law that will support creativity and reward innovation.”

Design patents involve the shape or appearance features corporate owners craft for products.

They differ from utility patents, which cover new and useful machines, processes or improvements. In a legal battle that began

in 2011, Apple argued Samsung improperly copied some of the iPhone’s look and features. They include the round-cornered front face and colorful grid of icons. A California federal jury agreed, and a Washington, D.C., appeals court upheld much of the verdict and damages award last May. However, Samsung argued the rulings improperly allowed the jury “to find infringement based merely on similarities in ‘overall appearance’ and indeed based on ‘any perceived similarities or differences’ whatsoever.” Samsung also contended the lower courts compounded the problem by

awarding Samsung’s full profits from sales of smartphones that contain the patented designs.

Google, Facebook and other tech firms backed Samsung’s contentions in friend-of-the-court legal briefs. They contended that decades-old U.S. patent laws are not equipped to provide the proper legal framework for decisions on modern technology in smartphones and other products.

Saying the Supreme Court has not reviewed a design patent case in more than 120 years, Samsung’s legal brief said, “The time is ripe for this court to take up the issue.”

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ROYALS REPORT EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY As Nepal approaches the one-year anniversary of its devastating earthquake, Prince Harry is working to raise awareness about the country’s road to recovery. During a five-day visit to the Himalayan nation, Harry traveled to local villages and heritage sites as part of a tour intended to “shine a spotlight on the resilience of the Nepali people.”

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HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY KATY PERRY Perry won’t be the only one roaring at the Academy of Country Music Awards. The pop singer will perform with Dolly Parton during the ceremony, which airs April 3 on CBS at 8 p.m. ET. “My prayers have been answered,” Perry tweeted Monday. “I shall remember though that I am but one sequin on this living legend’s costume.”

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“I love getting into the ho-hum day-to-day of being Batman,” says Will Arnett, who voices the hero in The Lego Batman Movie.

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT Welcome to ‘The Jungle Book.’

On Monday, Disney unveiled a special promo for the live-action remake, which premieres April 15.

As part of the promo, stars Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Walken, Ben Kingsley and Giancarlo Esposito posed alongside their CGI characters.

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THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES “Wonder Woman would win.”

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He’s Batman — Lego Batman.

The toy-brick version of the superhero (voiced by Will Arnett) steps into the leading-man role in The Lego Batman Movie (out Feb. 10, 2017) after spinning off from 2014’s The Lego Movie.

While the world readies for Ben Affleck to appear as the human caped crusader in Batman v.

Superman this weekend, Arnett’s Lego Batman will show off a first trailer on Wednesday — featuring a full-Lego view into billionaire Bruce Wayne’s secret lair.

“The Batcave is even better than we remembered it — it’s awesome” Arnett says. “But I also love getting into the ho-hum day-to-day of being Batman and what it’s like to fight crime each day. Like the idea of Batman oversleeping — his alarm clock makes me laugh. It really does humanize him.”

Director Chris McKay, animation director for The Lego Movie, says it was immediately clear how popular Batman was in his past supporting role, especially with fan-repeated lines like “I always work in black, and sometimes very, very dark gray.”

“We thought, if we can tell a well-

Will Arnett voices the blockheaded superhero in a new movie opening next February

rounded, funny story that’s action-packed, we can build a big movie around this character,” McKay says. “This is the movie we would want to see.”

The story is set around the solitary figure in his killer hideout — all the Batsuits and silk kimonos he wants — but whose main relationship is with his butler, Alfred (voiced by Ralph Fiennes). Batman’s world upends with the introduction of Dick Grayson (or Robin, voiced by Michael Cera) and Barbara Gordon (or Batgirl, voiced by Rosario Dawson).

“Batman is an island onto himself, the only thing he doesn’t have is relationships,” McKay says. “We’re making About a Boy as directed by (action director) Michael Mann.”

Besides Batman’s nemesis The Joker (voiced by Zach Galifianakis), McKay’s team has included female roles in the traditionally “guy-centric” Bat-story. Mariah Carey voices Gotham’s mayor, for example.

Batman also will be joined by a league of superhero friends.

“We’re nothing but exhaustive about the cameos and other characters that try to enter Batman’s life,” McKay says.

McKay is deep in production in Australia completing the intricate 3-D and fully Lego world as created by computer animation programs that follow the principles of existing Lego bricks.

“At first it doesn’t look like it’s all built in Lego. But as you get closer you realize it is,” McKay says. “We’re building an entire city, the Batcave and vehicles, going deep into Batman’s world.”

Arnett’s deep, yet comedic voice comes ready-made. He goes low with hints of clueless.

“We get down to that perfect sweet spot for Batman, but also having moments of hesitation,” Arnett says. “There’s nothing better than a guy who has this super-authoritative brooding voice but also moments where he’s a bit unsure.”

One thing Arnett is sure of: He will definitely be pro-Affleck over Henry Cavill’s Superman when watching the Batman v Superman movie.

“I’m going to just to enjoy the show, but I’ll be rooting for Ben,” Arnett says. “I mean, he’s Batman.”

The cast includes Alfred (Ralph Fiennes), Robin (Michael Cera) and Batgirl (Rosario Dawson), as well as an appearance

by The Joker (Zach Galifianakis).

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Ethan Hawke was ‘Born’ to play jazz icon Chet Baker Patrick Ryan USA TODAY

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You don’t want to be near Ethan Hawke when he’s learning to play trumpet.

Filming Born to Be Blue, in which he portrays jazz icon Chet Baker, “the challenge was largely for my co-star, Carmen Ejogo, who had the dressing room next to me and was on the same floor as my hotel room,” Hawke says.

“Listening to me practice was a little like listening to someone stab a porpoise.”

The cacophony eventually paid off in Blue, which premiered to strong reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall and opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday (and on videoon-demand March 31). The music drama is not a typical cradle-tograve biopic; instead following Baker — washed up and addicted to heroin — as he tries to stage a comeback in the 1960s.

Blue isn’t the first time Hawke, 45, has tackled the jazzman, who died in 1988. Twenty years ago, he and Boyhood filmmaker Richard Linklater developed a movie about Baker as a twentysometh-

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In Born to Be Blue, Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) must relearn the trumpet after a devastating attack. ing. They tried raising money, but Hawke got too old for the script.

“In a lot of ways, this feels like a sequel to a movie I never actually made,” Hawke says. “It was exciting to get to revisit this character in his 40s. He’s such a charismatic, enigmatic human being, (and) his life was full of so much intrigue and mystery. I feel like you could make five movies about him.”

When Hawke received director Robert Budreau’s Blue script, he was drawn to its unusual structure and mostly fictional take on the famed trumpeter. In the first scene of the film, Baker is shown playing himself in a movie-within-a-movie. Off set, he strikes up a relationship with Jane (Ejogo), who is a composite of several women in Baker’s life and helps him recover from a brutal attack

that leaves him unable to play his instrument.

“The thing that was most interesting about this story is what happens to Chet when jazz is taken away from him,” Hawke says.

“Something that was a God-given gift as a young man got taken away and he reclaimed it. That discipline and dedication is insight into the best of him.”

Blue was shot in Ontario in 2014, which Hawke playfully says was a sore spot for him. “If you’re going to play Chet Baker, your first thought is that you’re going to get to hang out in these cool jazz clubs in Paris and Amsterdam and London — not freezing your (butt) off at a Ramada Inn in Canada.”

The film arrives just a week ahead of Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis movie, Miles Ahead, out April 1. That two films about jazz legends are in theaters at the same time is awesome, Hawke says.

“What really makes me laugh is that Miles appears in Chet’s movie all the time, and Chet, of course, makes no appearance in Miles’ movie. Miles is all over Chet’s psyche and Miles never thought twice about Chet Baker.

It’s kind of perfect.”

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Hearts of Gold Ball returning April 8 Lawrence Memorial Hospital the hospital. This year, on April 8, the Hearts of At Lawrence Memorial Gold will benefit cardioHospital, they’re putting vascular services at LMH. some heart in the 2016 After 10 years of providHearts of Gold Ball. ing interventional cardiolEvery two years Law- ogy services, LMH officials rence Memorial Hospital have determined the time Endowment Association is right to renovate the hosts the community’s Heart Catheterization Lab only black-tie event, with and further enhance carproceeds designated to diovascular services. benefit a specific need of “This project, which

Gold Ball would be a perfect time to underscore the importance of receiving cardiac care at home.”

Last year, 457 patients had procedures in the Cath Lab, and patients made 9,062 visits to Cardiovascular Specialists of Lawrence.

In the Heart Catheterization Lab, LMH cardiologists use specialized

will benefit our patients and their families, will cost nearly $2 million,” said Gary Sollars, president of the LMH Endowment Association. “That is why we decided the Hearts of

equipment to visualize the arteries and chambers of patients’ hearts and address any problems. When a patient is suffering a heart attack, time is of the essence, and LMH cardiologists work with clinical staff to ensure patients’ needs are addressed quickly.

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4 WAYS TO EAT MORE WHOLE GRAINS

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WHOLE GRAINS GIVE YOU A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE

Why is it important to eat grains, especially whole grains? common refrain among those who urge us to According to the United States Department of Agriculture, adopt a healthy diet is to eat more whole grains.

Eating grains, especially whole grains, provides health benefits.

But the reality is that many whole grains People who eat whole grains as part of a healthy take longer to cook. So if you’re a diet have a reduced risk of some chronic busy adult trying to quickly pull diseases. Grains provide many nutritogether meals, whole grains can ents that are vital for the health seem out of reach. Switching and maintenance of our bodies. from white bread to whole Grains are important wheat bread is easy. Opting sources of many nutrients, for brown rice, steel-cut including dietary fiber, oats or wheat berries several B vitamins can seem daunting. (thiamin, riboflavin, Boston-based food niacin, and folate), writer and cookbook and minerals (iron, author Maria Speck magnesium, and l Consuming whole grains challenges the noselenium). as part of a healthy diet may tion that it’s hard Dietary fiber reduce the risk of heart disto get more whole from whole ease. grains on the table. grains or other l Consuming foods containSpeck grew up foods, may ing fiber, such as whole grains, with a muesli-lovhelp reduce as part of a healthy diet, may ing German father blood cholesreduce constipation. and a polenta-lovterol levels l Eating whole grains may ing Greek mother. and may lower help with weight management.

Her family’s meals risk of heart l Eating grain products regularly included disease, obefortified with folate before and whole grains, a sity, and type 2 during pregnancy helps prevent practice she has diabetes. neural tube defects during fetal continued as an The B vitamins development. adult. thiamin, riboflavin, “Grains were on and niacin play a — Source: choosemyplate.gov our table — simply as key role in metabogood food,” Speck said. lism – they help the In the United States, body release energy whole grains are lumped from protein, fat, and carin with the diet food. bohydrates. B vitamins are “We have to stop calling also essential for a healthy nergrains healthy,” Speck said. vous system. Many refined grains Instead, we should celebrate evare enriched with these B vitamins. erything that whole grains bring to the Folate (folic acid), another B vitatable, such as interesting colors, textures min, helps the body form red blood cells. and flavors. She can talk eloquently about chewy Women of childbearing age who may become whole wheat, delicate quinoa, plump barley, tangy rye, pregnant should consume adequate folate from foods, and in earthy buckwheat and sweet oats. addition 400 mcg of synthetic folic acid from fortified foods Speck’s latest book, “Simply Ancient Grains,” ator supplements. This reduces the risk of neural tube defects, tempts to share the tricks she has used for years to spina bifida, and anencephaly during fetal development. incorporate whole grains into meals on a nightly basis.

Iron is used to carry oxygen in the blood. Many teenage girls and Here is her advice: women in their childbearing years have iron-deficiency anemia. They 1. Turn to quick grains: Many grains can be made in should eat iron-containing foods along with foods rich in vitamin C, about 15 minutes. The most familiar are couscous and which can improve absorption of non-heme iron. Whole and enriched refined grain products are major sources of non-heme iron in AmeriPlease see GRAINS, page 2C can diets.

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From toys to childhood, things we shouldn’t let go of

By Dan Coleman Special to the Journal-World

B

iggie is back, after lying low for a year or so. My 5-yearold son’s favorite stuffed animal, Big Bear, isn’t notorious, but like his late, great hip-hop namesake, never said no to smoked salmon. Biggie wasn’t lost or abandoned, just fell in our household stuffed animal Top 40 (how I wish that number were an exaggeration) from his place at the top of the

charts — in Ray’s arms every night — to obscurity beneath the bed.

I don’t know the reason for Biggie’s comeback, but the truly amazing thing is how long Biggie has been with us. The floppy, pot-bellied bear arrived even before Ray, a gift from one of his beloved grandmas, and was the first toy he ever glommed onto. Many a spit-up, spill and misplaced sticker have sent Biggie through the wash,

although he’s not as far gone as the bears documented in photographer Mark Nixon’s survey of items embraced nearly to the point of disintegration, Much Loved, a great checkout from the library for anyone fascinated by the mysterious and devastating power of a child’s attachment to a favorite thing.

Seeing Biggie this much again has got me looking around the

BRIEFLY Pain seminar set for Wednesday New guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week send a strong message.

The growing number of overdoses and addictions to opioids is startling, and medical providers are urged to help patients get to the pain-free stage safely, without using opioids as a bridge.

Lawrence’s TherapyWorks is hosting a free painmanagement seminar at 7 p.m. Wednesday, 1311 Wakarusa Drive, Suite 1000. Dr. Margaret Estrin of Women’s Healthcare Group will share tips and tricks to dealing with sore muscles both for immediate relief as well as for long term prevention.

For more information, or to schedule a free, 10-minute issue assessment, visit therapyworkskansas.com or movefowardpt.com.

Walk Kansas deadline Friday Do you want to get a Walk Kansas team together? There’s still time to get signed up.

Walk Kansas is a team-based program that will help you and others lead a healthier life by being more active, making better nutrition choices, and learning positive ways to deal with stress.

This is how it works: Form teams of six people who log minutes of physical activity, resistance training, water intake and fruit/vegetable consumption, each day, and upload your results to the website.

The challenge lasts eight weeks, from April 3 to May 28.

Teams do not have to do any of their physical activity together, they just log their information as a team.

Registrations will be accepted through Friday. The individual participant fee is $8, and T-shirt costs start at $7.75. Tshirt colors this year include lime green, purple and sand.

For more information, visit walkkansas. org, call 843-7058 or email susanjohnson@ ksu.edu or pheikes@ ksu.edu.

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Eudora adds bike repair station The city of Eudora recently added a bicycle repair station through a LiveWell Community Wellness Grant from the Douglas County Community Foundation.

The stand is located outside the Eudora Community Center, 1630 Elm St., and offers 24-hour access.

The grant application was a partnership between the city and Lawrence Unchained Bicycle Co-op, which promotes sustainability and healthful living through bicycle distribution and cycling education.

The repair station allows users to perform basic bike repairs and maintenance, from changing a flat tire to adjusting brakes.

“The tools and air pump are securely attached to the stand with stainless steel cables and tamperproof fasteners,” said Michele Berendsen, with Lawrence Unchained. “Hanging the bike from the hanger arms allows the pedals and wheels to spin freely while making adjustments.”

Lawrence Unchained partnered with the city on the grant as a thank you for Eudora’s commitment to encouraging cycling among children and adults, Berendsen said.

— Jenalea Myers

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house for other relics that have somehow survived the sound and fury of Ray’s first five years, but it’s hard to find many besides me, his mom and the dog.

I can only wonder at the return on investment we’ve reaped from what has made it, a metric I’m in the habit of considering in my work at the library, where we calculate the cost per circulation of an item by dividing what we paid for it by the number of times it has been checked out.

If only library books were as sturdy as Ray’s indestructible blue sippy cup, for example. Not only has this thing been with us for as long as anyone can remember, but it also features in a household legend. When Ray was about 2 and a half, the bottle fell unnoticed from his stroller on a walk one day, only to be spotted several weeks later as we drove on a busy section of 19th Street. There it lay forlornly against the curb, and, more to see whether our eyes deceived us than to retrieve it, I pulled over. Sure enough, same bottle. Dented and gritty from a run-in with a car, it remained watertight, so I pushed it back into shape, washed it, and now we love to tell the story of its perilous past.

Perhaps the feeling of getting one’s money’s worth is at the heart of the satisfaction I get out of seeing that blue bottle — or the occasional phenomenon of reuniting all the disparate

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bulgur, which only have to be added to boiling water and left to sit for 10 minutes.

Other grains, such as millet, quinoa, teff and cracked freekeh, also can be cooked in 10 to 20 minutes. These are great go-to ingredients for weeknight meals.

2. Make-ahead grains: One way to eat more of those whole grains that take longer to cook is to make a batch of them on the weekends. Those cooked grains, like barley, rye, wheat berries and sorghum, can become the basis for salads, soups and even muffins on hectic weeknights. “If you have these in the fridge, you will be surprised how you will use them,” Speck said. (Cooked grains will keep for seven days in the refrigerator.)

3. Freeze cooked grains: Make a batch of whole grains and freeze them in portion sizes.

They will keep for several months. pieces of a toy from the piles of crucial but wayward parts found on every counter in our house. The kids seem just as pleased to see something like this come together again. Their attachment to an object they love, even if it can be had for less than $5 in the toy aisle of any grocery store in America, seems strangely at odds with our time, when we’re expected to upgrade our gadgets perpetually.

Or maybe my kids just come from a long line of people who like to get their money’s worth. I don’t know how many times I saw my dad cut out an uncanceled postage stamp for reuse, and my mom’s house is filled with well-worn objects, chief among them her trusty kitchen knife, which it’s no exaggeration to say has been somewhere near to hand every time I’ve ever seen her prepare food there.

It was a boning knife from the small grocery store that was the life’s work of my grandpa, and the blade, once nearly an inch wide, has been ground down to half that at best.

I doubt my mom will ever replace that knife, but Ray is already too old for his blue sippy cup. Kindergarten roundup has made it onto our spring calendar; I wrote it down, although I have no idea how it got there. The stir-craziness of late winter exhausts our whole household, and one day I glean a deeper understanding of Ray’s sudden rages and impulsive physicality when I catch another, bigger boy looking out from his eyes, trapped inside a body and brain which hardly contain him. I wish

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4. Soak ahead: Many whole grains can be soaked ahead to cut down on the cooking time. Muesli with its raw oats can be added to yogurt the night before and enjoyed in the morning. Boiling water can be poured over amaranth and left to soak at night to make breakfast porridge.

Polenta can even be soaked overnight and cooked in 10 minutes instead of the usual hour of stirring; that neat trick was labeled a “genius recipe” on the Food 52 website.

Speck hopes that distilling her knowledge will inspire others to pick up her book or try one of her recipes. She hopes you think: “Wow. I can do this. It’s easy.”

MARIA SPECK’S MUESLI FORMULA From “Simply Ancient Grains,” by Maria Speck (Ten Speed Press, 2015).

Ingredients: 3 cups rolled oats or any other grain flakes, such as rye, barley, quinoa, spelt, wheat or a mixture tomorrow would come sooner, but I’m already nostalgic for today.

For once I will my frugal soul to plan for no deferred reward and take solace in a notion that the experience of raising kids is not a commodity that can even be saved. I assume great satisfaction in my grown children awaits, but I can’t help suspecting that, like a hike of many miles or a mountain climb, it’s really all about the journey. Soon enough my wife and I will no longer tend to tantrums, but ar-

3/4 cup chopped nuts, such as almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts or a mixture 1/2 cup seeds, such as sesame, flax, pumpkin or a mixture 1 cup chopped dried fruit, such as apricots, figs, dates, prunes or raisins Pinch of fine sea salt

Directions: Add all the ingredients to a large bowl or combine them directly in a tall glass jar with a tight-fitting lid, shaking or stirring with a soup spoon. Muesli will last at room temperature for at least 4 weeks.

Classic: Add 1/2 cup muesli to a small bowl and stir in 1/4 cup yogurt, kefir, milk or cream. Cover and refrigerate overnight to soften the grain flakes. In the morning, stir in freshly grated apple, top with more fruit if you like, and squeeze on a bit of fresh lemon juice.

Everyday: Add 1/2 cup muesli to a small bowl and pour about 1/4 cup boiling water over it to soften the grain flakes.

After 5 minutes or so, add a bit of whole milk, buttermilk, kefir or yogurt, top with any fresh fruit you have on hand.

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cluded a complete overhaul of the acute rehabilitation and transitional care units, located on the fourth floor of LMH. That renovation is complete.

Now, an army of community volunteers has kicked into high gear to ensure the 2016 Hearts of Gold will be an evening to remember.

“At the Hearts of Gold Ball, we can show our support for cardiovascular services, all while having fun,” Sollars said.

The April 8 event is at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 6001 Bob Billings Parkway, and will kick off at 6:45 p.m. with cocktails and a silent auction, followed by dinner and a live auction. The evening will close with dancing to the music of Dave Halston and The Little Big Band. The theme of this year’s Hearts of Gold is “Black and White.” And although it is a black-tie affair, no one is limited to black or white attire.

Tiffany Hall, annual giving manager for the Endowment Association, explained: “It’s spring. We want to celebrate the season while having a wonderful time and showing support for our world-class cardiovascular team.”

To attend the 2016 Hearts of Gold Ball, visit heartsofgoldball.com or contact Hall at tiffany.hall@lmh.org or 785-505-3318.

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Sollars said: “We are so proud that we have topflight cardiologists here at the hospital who are prepared, 24 hours a day — every day — to provide the best care possible to our community members, our neighbors.”

Once planned renovations are complete, the Cath Lab will offer more room, comfort and privacy for patients and their families. Kathy Clausing-Willis, LMH vice president and chief development officer, said: “At LMH, we believe that patients and their families belong together, whenever possible.”

Technological improvements will make an impact on patients and staff. New, state-of-the-art equipment will further reduce exposure to radiation for patients, as well as LMH’s interventional cardiologists and staff, and it will provide higher-quality images.

In 2014, the Hearts of Gold Ball was held in the former pressroom at the Lawrence Journal-World and raised funds for the LMH Fourth Floor renovation project. The event raised a half-million dollars toward a $4.2 million project that in-

tifacts, our home become a museum to childhoods passed. In the meantime there’s nothing for it but to grit our teeth, seek joy in the toil, and get our money’s worth from every tear.

— Dan Coleman is secretary on the board of Dads of Douglas County. He is a part-time stay-at-home dad, but in his other life he is a librarian at the Lawrence Public Library, where he selects children’s and parenting books for the Children’s Room. He can be reached at danielfcoleman@yahoo.com.

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Dear Annie: I live with a friend who wants the house to be neat all of the time. But his personal habits are disgusting. ‘’Bruno’’ washes up in the morning with a washcloth that he leaves on top of the hamper.

He takes a shower once every two weeks. He coughs and hacks and spits into the trash can by his desk. He gets black newsprint on his fingers when he reads the paper and then it gets all over our white walls when he touches them. He is diabetic and disposes of his bloody test strips and tissues in a garbage can in the kitchen.

How can I tell him to be more sanitary? — Disgusted Roommate Dear Roommate: This is what happens when people share living quarters — you

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have to find ways to live with those traits that irritate one another. We recommend putting a trash can with a flip lid in the kitchen, so his tissues and test strips are not visible, and the container is easy enough to use that Bruno won’t drop the tissues on the floor. You can do the same with the one by his desk. Do the reverse with the hamper — replace it with one that has no lid, so everything goes into a basket that can be carried

Medical melodrama too cheesy “Heartbeat” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-14) has one great thing going for it. But it’s not enough to save this forgettable, and often ridiculous, new medical melodrama.

The great thing is its star, Melissa George. The Australian actress projects a sensuous intelligence that was on full display in the first season of the excellent and little-watched HBO series “In Treatment.”

That series fell into such cult status that we few fans feel protective about it. We want to save George from stuff like, well, “Heartbeat.”

George was also in “The Slap,” both the NBC version and the Australian series that inspired it.

Unfortunately, the makers of “Heartbeat” seem afraid we might not be interested unless her character, Dr. Alexandra Panttiere, is a masterful surgeon at the tippy-top of her super-elite profession. She’s so good, the hospital has put her in charge of developing all new technology and major fundraising. This allows her to spout mountains of jargon while strutting through the show’s far too many tracking-shot scenes in high heels and formal wear, trailed by gaggles of drooling billionaires fighting for the chance to write big checks.

If all that weren’t nifty enough, she’s being fought over by two — maybe three — superhot guys. OK, one of them is her ex-husband, who left her for another man. But before that, he was a rock star! Seriously, at the end of the show — after several cutting-edge heart transplants, tears, hugs, multiple flashbacks, gunplay, love-triangles and a pickup basketball game — she attends a hospital gala in a stunning gown. There she is introduced by the voice of (an unseen) George Clooney!

Yes, she’s that big a deal. And no, fans of Clooney’s old show “ER” will probably not watch “Heartbeat.”

Is Alex perfect? No. She cares too darn much! She’ll do anything for a patient, including breaking every rule and threatening to prep a recent gun suicide for heart donation surgery even before she’s wiped the blood and viscera from her ohso-pouty lips. Now there are probably fans of “Grey’s Anatomy” out there saying, “Sign me up!” But for the rest of us, “Heartbeat” is the kind of bad television we stopped watching about a decade ago.

Tonight’s other highlights O Battles continue on “The Voice” (7 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).

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O Secrets and double lives on “Limitless” (9 p.m., CBS, TV14).

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Dear Annie: My niece is married and they have three children. Each year, I send my niece a Christmas gift of a significant amount of money for the family. I send a gift certificate for each child’s birthday, and I also send my niece a gift for her birthday.

She never sends a thank you via letter, card, text or email. She never acknowledges receiving the gifts at all. I always have to write and ask whether the gifts arrived, and usually, I will get a response a day or two later.

I realize I don’t send gifts simply to be ac-

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For Tuesday, March 22: This year you’ll want to avoid radical or profound changes. You will discover that what you choose to do might have to be redone.

During this period, reflection and testing out ideas might be helpful in making a major decision. If you are single, date all you want. Come fall, you could meet someone significant to your life’s history. If you are attached, enjoy as much free time together as possible.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) +++ Despite what you hear, you understand what is going on and what needs to happen. Tonight: Make it an early bedtime.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++++ While others might not be sure which way to go, you can think of many different routes.

Tonight: Be naughty if you want.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++ You can’t seem to avoid tension or get past a problem at the moment. Tonight: Make it easy. Order in.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) +++ You might note an innate nervousness surrounding your plans, days and actions in general.

Tonight: Be responsive but not reactive.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) +++ Use caution with your funds. Postpone financial decisions, and don’t accept offers right

knowledged, but it is a courtesy to let the giver know something was received. At what point can I let go of this tradition since it certainly doesn’t seem to be appreciated?

If I stop sending gifts, I know she will never once consider that she is responsible. But do I continue sending gifts to someone I consider unappreciative and rude? — Annoyed Aunt Dear Aunt: You can stop this tradition immediately. Send your niece a lovely card for the next occasion and write inside, ‘’I can tell that gifts seem to create an extra burden for you, so I’ve decided to stop sending them.’’ Enough already.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ You could sense pressure building, and you might want to shake off the stress. Tonight: Get as much R and R as possible.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++ You could be feeling the build toward tomorrow’s lunar eclipse in your sign. Tonight: Close to home.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) +++++ Zero in on what you want. You might have what you believe is a very important conversation. Tonight: Find your friends.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ You will be more aware of what is happening around you than others would believe. Tonight: As late as you want.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ Push yourself past your trigger points in order to understand where a group of friends is coming from. Tonight: Choose a favorite pastime.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ You might want to proceed carefully and have an important discussion. Tonight: With a favorite person.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ++++ You will need to have an important talk with a close associate or friend. Tonight: Happy at home.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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Keller explains A&M’s ‘miracle’ With Texas A&M down 12 points to Northern Iowa and 35 seconds remaining, even late, great Yogi Berra, squatting behind heaven’s home plate, no doubt declared the game over and headed for the clubhouse.

Texas A&M caught up, forced overtime and won it in the second overtime, 92-88.

A&M scored 14 points in its final six possessions.

Full-court pressure resulted in UNI turning it over four times in five possessions.

Even the one bucket the Panthers scored, a breakaway dunk on a home run pass, backfired because it happened too quickly.

Dribbling some clock away would have been more efficient.

When pressed and forced into throwing panicky passes that were intercepted, the Panthers would have served themselves better if they had thrown the ball straight up in the air as high as they could, killing time off the clock. Or just holding onto the ball for 10 seconds and taking a turnover a couple of times, although at some point A&M would have changed its strategy and started fouling. (The five-second rule only applies to those in possession of the ball in the frontcourt, not the backcourt).

Taking a short break from preparing for a Sweet 16 game against Oklahoma, Kyle Keller, assistant to A&M head coach Billy Kennedy, returned a phone message to discuss the comeback that defies explanation.

“Billy said after the game, and he believes this, he said, ‘It’s not about coaching. It wasn’t about the players.

This was a miracle, a miracle from God.’ And it was,” Keller said. “Not to get real religious on you, but that stuff doesn’t happen without divine intervention.

It never happened before in the history of the game.”

Keller said that Kennedy drilled his players to trying trapping without fouling one time each possession, and it worked to perfection.

The comeback couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy than Kennedy, according to Keller.

“He’s made me appreciate there is more to life than basketball,” Keller said of Kennedy, in his fifth season as head coach at A&M. “We never practice on Sunday. He believes that time is to be with your

Independence, Mo. — Triggered by a barrage of three-pointers and a suffocating defense, Baker University’s women’s basketball team barnstormed into tonight’s NAIA national championship game.

Baker crushed Heart of America Athletic Conference rival Benedictine, 5034, in a semifinal on Monday night at Silverstein Eye Centers Arena, establishing a single-season school record for victories in the process.

“I don’t know if I expected us to be in that good

of rhythm,” Baker coach Ben Lister said of his team knocking down its first five three-point attempts in building a 23-7 lead after one quarter and never looking back.

“I honestly thought we would come out and air-ball the first couple shots because we’re too jacked up, but, man, they settled down right away, and we hit a couple shots early. We were just ultra-aggressive in what we wanted to run, and we had a high level of execuKevin Anderson/Special to the Journal-World tion.”

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Kansas University junior point guard Frank Mason III says he definitely enjoyed his postgraduate year at Massanutten Military Academy.

Yet, back in the fall of 2012, he was relieved to be granted at least one weekend pass by officials at the strict Woodstock, Va., school.

“I went on a recruiting visit to Maryland. I got a chance to get out of the mountains and go watch them play (a football game). I couldn’t do that often. It was a great time.

The game was great. I think they won,” said Mason, who ultimately chose KU over Maryland, Virginia Tech, South Carolina, Providence, Seton Hall and Rutgers.

“The environment was special. They’ve got a very good basketball program, a good football program. It’s just a good school overall,” Mason added of KU’s upcoming basketball opponent in the NCAA tournament Sweet 16. Tipoff is 8:40 p.m. Thursday in KFC Yum!Center in Louisville, Ky. “We can’t wait to get there,” Mason said of Louisville. The Jayhawks are scheduled to leave Allen Fieldhouse at 1 p.m. today, drive to Topeka, then fly charter for the next round of the NCAAs. “We’ve not made it to the Sweet 16 since I’ve been here. It’s a different feeling. I think the guys are still not satisfied. We want to accomplish more,” Mason added.

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Dixon leaving Pitt for alma mater TCU Jamie Dixon is leaving Pittsburgh to become head coach at TCU, where he played on the last Horned Frogs team that won an NCAA Tournament game nearly three decades ago.

TCU hired Dixon on Monday, a week after Trent Johnson was fired with only eight Big 12 Conference wins in his four seasons.

Scott Barnes, Pittsburgh’s athletic director for less than a year, said there had been several conversations with Dixon about the job at his alma mater since the Panthers were knocked out of the NCAA Tournament last week.

“We all knew that job was open, so it wasn’t a surprise,” Barnes said. “As we went through the process, we learned there was a very small window of opportunity and wasn’t sure he was going to have an opportunity to take later, and his heart and his head was moving that way.”

The 50-year-old Dixon had a contract with Pitt until 2023 with a buyout that was believed to be about $10 million.

TCU is 8-64 in Big 12 games since moving to that league in Johnson’s first season, with the losses coming by an average margin of 15 points. TCU was 12-21 this season, 2-16 in conference games.

Dixon was 328-123 at Pitt, where he led the Panthers to Big East Conference regular season titles in 2004 and 2011 before they moved to the Athletic Coast Conference three years ago. Pitt was 21-12 this season, and lost 47-43 to Wisconsin on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Underwood leaving SFA for Oklahoma St. Stillwater, Okla. — Oklahoma State has hired Stephen F. Austin coach Brad Underwood as its men’s basketball coach.

Oklahoma State made the announcement Monday.

In three seasons at SFA, Underwood compiled an 89-14 record and set a program record with an .864 winning percentage. The Lumberjacks lost to Notre Dame 76-75 in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday.

The three-time Southland Conference Coach of the Year went 53-1 in league play and posted a 59-1 record against Southland foes. He led the Lumberjacks to three straight conference regular season and tournament titles.

Before that, Underwood was associate head coach for a season at South Carolina and a year at Kansas State.

Underwood played at Kansas State from 1984-1986.

OSU parted ways with Travis Ford last week.

LSU’s Simmons declares for draft Baton Rouge, La. — LSU freshman forward Ben Simmons, who led the Tigers in scoring, rebounds and assists this season, has decided to turn pro and relinquish his final three seasons of college eligibility.

Simmons, who grew up in Australia before moving to Florida for three years of high school at Montverde Academy, averaged 19.2 points, 11.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists this season with LSU. Opposing coaches and NBA scouts alike have gushed over Simmons’ all-court game, vision and instincts, as well as ballhandling and passing ability seen as exceptional for a player with his 6-foot-10 height.

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SAN ANTONIO (88) Leonard 6-14 2-2 15, Aldridge 9-17 0-0 18, WEDNESDAY Duncan 7-11 2-5 16, Parker 8-15 2-2 19, Green DETROIT TIGERS MINNESOTA CHICAGO WHITE SOX CITY ROYALS CLEVELAND INDIANS 0-7 2-2 2, Ginobili 1-3 0-0 3, Diaw 0-5 0-0 0, • GirlsKANSAS swimming at Emporia div-TWINS Anderson 0-1 0-0 0, West 3-4 0-0 6, Mills 1-5 0-0 BOSTON RED SOX NEW YORK YANKEES TAMPA BAY RAYS BALTIMORE ORIOLES TORONTO BLUE JAYS AL WEST ing invitational, 4 p.m.

2, Martin 2-4 2-2 7. Totals 37-86 10-13 88.

AL CENTRAL CHARLOTTE (91) • Baseball vs. St. James, 6 p.m.

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W L Pct GB Ben McLemore, Sacramento y-San Antonio 59 11 .843 — build a 19-point lead and erase College Baseball Time Net Cable Memphis 41 30 .577 18½ Did not play (finger injury) the memory of an embarrassHouston 35 35 .500 24 Tenn. Tech v. Tenn. 6 p.m. SEC 157 ing loss on Saturday in Miami.

Dallas 35 35 .500 24 Marcus Morris, Detroit New Orleans 26 43 .377 32½ WEDNESDAY DENVER (91) Northwest Division Min: 37. Pts: 21. Reb: 3. Ast: 4.

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W L Pct GB College Basketball Time Net Cable 4-12 3-3 11, Mudiay 1-11 2-2 5, Harris 4-12 y-Oklahoma City 48 22 .686 — 2-2 11, Nurkic 5-7 1-4 11, Augustin 3-10 1-1 Markieff Morris, Washington Portland 36 35 .507 12½ NIT game 6 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 8, Lauvergne 3-7 3-3 9, Barton 9-12 5-6 27, Utah 34 36 .486 14 Min: 27. Pts: 14. Reb: 7. Ast: 0.

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1-2, Augustin 1-2, Mudiay 1-3, Harris 1-6, Miami at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Lauvergne 0-1, Jokic 0-1, Arthur 0-1, Toupane Houston at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

K.C. v. Cleveland 3 p.m. FSN 36, 236 0-1), Cleveland 15-31 (Dellavedova 3-5, Smith Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Yankees v. Washington 4 p.m. MLB 155,242 3-6, Frye 3-7, Jones 2-2, McRae 1-1, James 1-2, Shumpert 1-2, Jefferson 1-5, Irving 0-1). Fouled Pistons 92, Bucks 91 Oakland v. Seattle 9 p.m. MLB 155,242 Out-None. Rebounds-Denver 45 (Nurkic 7), Auburn Hills, Mich. — An- WASHINGTON (117) Cleveland 52 (James 11). Assists-Denver 19 Porter 6-15 2-2 16, Morris 5-11 2-5 14, Gortat (Augustin 5), Cleveland 38 (James 11). Total dre Drummond’s tip-in with Golf Time Net Cable Fouls-Denver 16, Cleveland 19. Technicals- two seconds remaining lifted 6-9 3-4 15, Wall 10-21 4-5 27, Beal 10-15 0-0 25, Dudley 2-4 1-2 5, Temple 2-5 0-0 5, Nene 3-6 0-2 Denver defensive three second, Cleveland 1 p.m. Golf 156,289 6, Sessions 1-3 0-0 2, Oubre Jr. 1-2 0-0 2. Totals Match Play Champ.

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12-20 117.

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Purdue 5 p.m. BTN 147,237 1-2 0-1 3, Humphries 1-2 0-0 2, Sefolosha 2-3 Indianapolis — Paul George came out inexplicably flat and 0-0 5, Hardaway Jr. 6-8 0-0 16, Schroder 3-9 scored 15 points, and Monta El9, Scott 4-6 0-0 9, Muscala 1-2 0-0 2. Totals trailed by 17 points in the first 2-2 College Softball Time Net Cable 38-78 13-17 102. lis added 13 to help Indiana pull half. They were down 13 in the Washington 27 34 28 28—117 Cent.

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30 29 27 16—102 third quarter before chipping Atlanta Indiana snapped a two-game 3-Point Goals—Washington 13-25 (Beal away at Milwaukee’s lead in 5-6, Wall 3-5, Morris 2-3, Porter 2-5, Temple losing streak and won for just Time Net Cable 1-4, Oubre Jr. 0-1, Dudley 0-1), Atlanta 13-33 Pro Hockey the fourth. the second time in five games (Hardaway Jr. 4-5, Teague 3-9, Horford 2-5, Boston v. Rangers 7 p.m. NBCSP 38, 238 Sefolosha 1-1, Korver 1-2, Scott 1-2, Schroder as it tries to take advantage of MILWAUKEE (91) 1-3, Muscala 0-1, Millsap 0-1, Bazemore 0-4).

10-17 0-0 21, Parker 2-7 a favorable schedule to make a 0-0Antetokounmpo 5, Monroe 9-15 0-0 18, Bayless 2-5 0-2 5, Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Washington 57 D-League Basketball Time Net Cable Middleton 11-16 3-3 27, Inglis 1-3 0-0 2, Ennis (Porter 10), Atlanta 40 (Horford 9). Assists— late-season playoff push.

2-5 0-0 4, Plumlee 2-3 0-0 4, Cunningham 1-3 0-0 Washington 27 (Wall 14), Atlanta 23 (Horford Delaware v. Canton 7 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 9). Total Fouls—Washington 17, Atlanta 15.

2, Henson 1-2 1-2 3. Totals 41-76 4-7 91.

PHILADELPHIA (75) Technicals—Morris. A—15,729 (18,729).

Thompson 6-13 2-2 15, Grant 6-12 2-4 14, Noel DETROIT (92) Harris 4-12 5-5 13, Morris 8-9 1-3 21, 3-5 2-4 8, Smith 2-15 0-0 4, Canaan 6-14 0-0 15, Brand 1-3 0-0 2, Stauskas 1-5 2-2 4, Weems 2-2 Drummond 7-16 0-1 14, Jackson 3-8 3-3 9, 1-2 5, Landry 2-6 0-0 4, McConnell 2-5 0-0 4. Caldwell-Pope 6-18 1-2 15, Blake 1-3 1-1 3, Bulls 109, Kings 102 Johnson 1-6 2-2 4, Tolliver 4-9 0-0 11, Baynes 1-4 Totals 31-80 9-14 75.

Chicago — Derrick Rose and NBA 0-0 2. Totals 35-85 13-17 92.

INDIANA (91) Taj Gibson had 18 points each. Favorite.............. Points (O/U)........... Underdog 30 18 26 17—91 George 4-16 6-6 15, Turner 5-9 0-0 10, Milwaukee Charlotte..........................7 (203).....................BROOKLYN 17 28 20 27—92 Mahinmi 6-8 0-1 12, G.Hill 6-8 0-0 12, Ellis 5-12 Detroit 3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 5-10 (Middleton SACRAMENTO (102) 0-0 13, Stuckey 3-12 1-2 9, Allen 0-2 2-2 2, OKLAHOMA CITY.........91⁄2 (219.5).......................Houston Gay 7-11 1-1 18, Acy 1-2 0-0 2, Cousins 6-14 Lawson 2-3 0-0 6, J.Hill 2-5 2-2 6, Miles 2-6 0-0 6, 2-4, Bayless 1-1, Parker 1-1, Antetokounmpo Miami...............................31⁄2 (201).............NEW ORLEANS 1-3, Cunningham 0-1), Detroit 9-33 (Morris 7-7 19, Rondo 7-13 0-0 14, Anderson 1-6 0-0 S.Hill 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-81 11-13 91.

Memphis.........................5 (204.5)...................LA LAKERS 2, Cauley-Stein 0-2 0-0 0, Collison 6-10 3-3 19, 4-4, Tolliver 3-8, Caldwell-Pope 2-11, Johnson Philadelphia 18 18 20 19—75 College Basketball 0-2, Harris 0-2, Blake 0-2, Jackson 0-4). Casspi 2-6 2-4 7, C.Butler 5-11 0-0 10, Belinelli Indiana 25 22 19 25—91 3-Point Goals-Philadelphia 4-18 (Canaan 3-7, Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Milwaukee 42 4-10 0-1 9, Koufos 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 40-88 13-16 Favorite.............. Points (O/U)........... Underdog 102.

Thompson 1-5, Grant 0-1, McConnell 0-1, Smith (Antetokounmpo 12), Detroit 50 (Drummond NIT Tournament 0-1, Stauskas 0-3), Indiana 10-26 (Ellis 3-7, 16). Assists-Milwaukee 23 (Bayless 6), Detroit CHICAGO (109) Quarterfinals Dunleavy 3-8 0-0 9, Gibson 7-13 4-4 18, Gasol Lawson 2-2, Stuckey 2-4, Miles 2-4, George 18 (Jackson 5). Total Fouls-Milwaukee 20, 1-5, Turner 0-2, G.Hill 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Detroit 14. Technicals-Antetokounmpo. 4-10 6-8 14, Rose 9-15 0-2 18, J.Butler 3-10 5-7 VALPARAISO.....................5 (131)................ St. Mary’s, CA 11, Mirotic 2-8 0-0 6, McDermott 6-11 0-0 16, BYU...................................41⁄2 (165)......................Creighton Rebounds-Philadelphia 48 (Smith 9), Indiana 54 A-13,577 (22,076).

Brooks 1-4 0-2 2, Holiday 3-6 0-0 9, Portis 3-6 0-0 Thursday, March 24th.

(Mahinmi 10). Assists-Philadelphia 15 (Smith, 6. Totals 41-91 15-23 109.

McConnell 4), Indiana 18 (Ellis 5). Total FoulsNCAA Tournament Sacramento 26 25 30 21—102 Philadelphia 17, Indiana 20. A-16,155 (18,165).

KFC Yum Center-Louisville, KY. Warriors 109, T’wolves 104 Chicago 30 29 23 27—109 South Regional Semifinals 3-Point Goals-Sacramento 9-29 (Collison 4-5, Minneapolis — Draymond Gay 1⁄2 (145).............. Maryland 3-4, Casspi 1-3, Belinelli 1-5, Cousins 0-1, Celtics 107, Magic 96 Green had 24 points, nine re- Acy 0-1, Rondo 0-1, Anderson 0-4, C.Butler 0-5), Kansas...................6 Villanova............................4 (141)................ Miami Florida Chicago 12-24 (McDermott 4-7, Holiday 3-4, Boston — Isaiah Thomas bounds and six assists to help NCAA Tournament 3-6, Mirotic 2-4, J.Butler 0-1, Brooks had 28 points and seven assists, Golden State narrowly avoid Dunleavy Honda Center-Anaheim. CA. 0-1, Rose 0-1). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsWest Regional Semifinals and Boston held on to beat Or- its first two-game skid in near- Sacramento 58 (Cousins 18), Chicago 51 (Gasol 14). Assists-Sacramento 23 (Rondo 5), Chicago Oregon............................. 3 (156.5)................................Duke lando. ly a year.

28 (J.Butler 8). Total Fouls-Sacramento 19, Oklahoma............. 21⁄2 (145.5)......... Texas A&M Avery Bradley had 22 points Chicago 16. Technicals-Gibson. A-21,531 Friday, March 25th.

GOLDEN STATE (109) (20,917). and nine rebounds, and Kelly NCAA Tournament Barnes 3-7 0-0 6, McAdoo 3-8 1-2 7, Green Olynyk had 22 points in his 10-13 4-8 24, Curry 6-17 5-6 19, Thompson 5-14 Wells Fargo Center-Philadelphia, PA. 17, Speights 4-6 0-0 8, Livingston 4-6 0-0 8, Grizzlies 103, Suns 97 fourth game back from a right 2-2 East Regional Semifinals Barbosa 4-7 1-2 9, Rush 2-6 0-0 5, Varejao 2-2 Phoenix — Lance Stephen- North Carolina..............51⁄2 (160)..........................Indiana shoulder sprain to help the 1-2 5, Clark 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 43-87 15-24 109. son scored 12 of his 16 points in Notre Dame......................1 (131).........................Wisconsin Celtics even the season series MINNESOTA (104) Wiggins 8-21 8-11 25, Dieng 2-7 4-4 8, Towns NCAA Tournament with the Magic at two games 11-19 1-2 24, Rubio 5-9 7-7 20, LaVine 7-13 3-4 the fourth quarter.

United Center-Chicago, IL. 19, Muhammad 2-6 0-0 4, Jones 0-2 0-0 0, Prince MEMPHIS (103) each.

Midwest Regional Semifinals 1-1 2-2 4, Smith 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 36-82 25-30 104.

Barnes 4-11 2-3 12, Randolph 7-15 0-0 14, Virginia...................5 (141.5)..................Iowa St Golden State 27 34 28 20—109 Hollins 4-4 1-1 9, McCallum 3-10 2-3 9, Allen ORLANDO (96) Gonzaga........................41⁄2 (134.5).....................Syracuse Minnesota 29 29 31 15—104 4-11 4-4 12, Green 3-12 0-0 6, Stephenson 6-8 Fournier 5-15 2-4 13, Gordon 6-14 0-0 13, 3-Point Goals-Golden State 8-24 (Thompson Home Team in CAPS Dedmon 3-8 2-2 8, Jennings 1-5 0-0 2, Oladipo 5-5, Curry 2-9, Rush 1-4, Green 0-1, Clark 0-1, 4-4 16, Carter 3-8 0-0 8, Farmar 4-8 2-2 12, 10-17 4-4 25, Smith 2-8 2-2 6, Payton 4-9 0-1 8, Barnes 0-2, Barbosa 0-2), Minnesota 7-19 Martin 0-1 2-2 2, Munford 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 39-90 (c) TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC Ilyasova 2-4 0-0 5, Hezonja 1-3 1-1 3, Marble 0-2 (Rubio 3-7, LaVine 2-5, Towns 1-1, Wiggins 1-3, 17-19 103.

0-2 0, Nicholson 5-8 2-3 13. Totals 39-93 13-19 96. Muhammad 0-1, Jones 0-1, Dieng 0-1). Fouled PHOENIX (97) Tucker 4-9 6-7 15, Len 3-8 3-4 9, Chandler 1-2 BOSTON (107) Out-None. Rebounds-Golden State 55 (Green Turner 7-11 0-0 16, Johnson 5-6 1-1 11, 9), Minnesota 49 (Towns 11). Assists-Golden 0-0 2, Knight 4-17 2-2 13, Booker 5-13 6-8 18, Teletovic 2-8 6-6 10, Price 2-3 0-0 6, Leuer 5-11 Sullinger 2-7 1-2 5, Thomas 9-18 10-12 28, State 31 (Curry 11), Minnesota 26 (Rubio 11).

Bradley 9-15 3-4 22, Smart 1-11 1-1 3, Olynyk Total Fouls-Golden State 20, Minnesota 20. 2-5 13, Jenkins 3-4 1-2 8, Budinger 1-1 0-0 3.

7-12 4-4 22, Jerebko 0-3 0-0 0, Rozier 0-2 0-0 0. Technicals-Golden State Coach Kerr. A-19,452 Totals 30-76 26-34 97.

Tom Keegan, Andrew Hartsock, Memphis 24 15 31 33—103 Totals 40-85 20-24 107.

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ERICKA SIMPSON (3) PUTS UP A SHOT in the Wildcats’ 50-34 victory over Benedictine in an NAIA national semifinal on Monday in Independence, Mo.

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national title of any sort in school history, the Wildcats (28-8) will take on MidAmerica Nazarene (31-5) in tonight’s championship game at 6:30.

“It’s unbelievable, it’s exciting, but we have no other option, we have to win it,” Baker guard Ericka Simpson said. “You can’t come this far to lose it.

“We’re going to win it all.”

Simpson scored 15 of her career-high 24 points in the first half Monday night, while center Macy Wallisch dominated the inside, as Baker’s lead crested at 36-15 at halftime after it built its 16-point edge after one period.

“It’s been awhile coming. I’ve kind of been in a drought,” said Simpson, who made 10 of 15 shots, including 3-for-5 on three-pointers, and 1-for4 on free throws. “But I finally feel like I’m getting my shot back.

“We came out with a game plan of just stepping right on them right away and getting a big lead and having them chase us the rest of the game. That’s been our game plan the whole tournament.”

Baker forward Kelsey Larson added nine points, and guard Jami Hodge, shaking off a nasty spill which resulted in a cut on her chin, finished with seven points and six rebounds.

Baker made 21 of 52 field goals (40.4 percent), while limiting the Ravens to 11-for-50 shooting (22.0 percent).

Benedictine (29-7) was led by guard Ali Taff with 12 points.

The Wildcats only scored 14 points after halftime, but the defensive stranglehold they applied on the Ravens at the outset was enough.

“Absolutely, I feel like our energy was the most we could have had,” said Wallisch, a three-time conference defensive player of the year, who had four blocked shots — all in the opening 20 minutes.

BOX SCORE Baker University 50, Benedictine 34 BAKER (28-8) Sydney Buchel 1-7 0-0 2, Kelsey Larson 3-9 1-2 9, Macy Wallisch 3-5 0-0 6, Jami Hodge 3-10 0-0 7, Ericka Simpson 10-15 1-4 24, Jessica Zweifel 0-3 0-0 0, Courtney Hoag 1-2 0-0 2, Taylor Chase 0-1 0-0 0, Mackenzie Cook 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-52 2-6 50.

BENEDICTINE (29-7) Kristen Murphy 2-7 2-2 7, Lexie Villegas 0-5 0-2 0, Chayla Rutledge 0-5 0-0 0, Ali Taff 5-12 1-2 12, Jordan Kramer 1-9 4-4 7, LaRanda Thomas 3-5 1-2 8, Saige Baalman 0-1 0-0 0, Haylee Beard 0-1 0-0 0, Serena Parker 0-5 0-2 0. Totals 11-50 8-12 34.

Baker 23 13 6 8—50 Benedictine 7 8 6 13—34 Three-point goals — Baker 6-24 (Simpson 3-5, Larson 2-6, Hodge 1-5, Buchel 0-5, Zweifel 0-3); Benedictine 4-14 (Taff 1-3, Kramer 1-2, Murphy 1-2, Thomas 1-1, Parker 0-2, Villegas 0-2, Rutledge 0-1, Beard 0-1). Total fouls — Benedictine 14, Baker 12.

Fouled out — None. Rebounds — Baker 37 (Buchel 9, Hodge 6, Larson 6, Wallisch 4); Benedictine 37 (Villegas 8, Murphy 6). Assists — Baker 9 (Buchel 3, Chase 2); Benedictine 2 (Villegas, Rutledge). Steals — Baker 6 (Hodge 2, Larson 2); Benedictine 5. Turnovers — Benedictine 11, Baker 10. Blocked shots — Baker 12 (Wallisch 4, Buchel 4, Hodge 3, Hoag 1); Benedictine 3 (Murphy 1, Baalman 1, Parker 1).

“We knew we could get here, but just the fact that we’re actually here just gave us so much energy, and we were just so excited, especially going against one of our rivals from our own conference added to it.”

The Wildcats, leading the nation in blocked shots with a 6.0 per-game average, had 10 blocks in first half and 12 for the game.

Baker forward Sydney Buchel led the Wildcats with nine rebounds while matching Wallisch’s block total of four.

The Wildcats ushered in a 9-2 run during the opening three minutes, 16 seconds in building their commanding first-quarter lead. They knocked down their first five three-point tries, including a pair by Simpson, two by Larson and one by Hodge.

After that, the rout was on.

“I thought we shot the ball exceptionally well, but I thought we shot rhythm shots,” Lister said of his team’s early sizzle.

“Benedictine really collapses hard in the middle of the lane and tries to take away the middle of the floor when we penetrate. We had to hit some kick-out threes to be able to soften them up, and we did that early.”

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Self, Turg are friends: Self and Maryland coach/ KU grad Mark Turgeon go back a long time.

“I played against Turg his freshman and sophomore year,” former Oklahoma State guard Self said of the former Topeka Hayden point guard, who played for KU and coach Larry Brown from 1984 to ’87.

“When I came up here as a grad assistant (to Brown), he was our sixth man (during KU’s run to 1986 Final Four),” Self added. “He was really a good player. I’ve known Turg for a lot of years.

I’ve always been a fan of how he’s conducted himself. He’s really good at his trade, obviously. He’s

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got these guys not only playing extremely well this year, but set up to be very good moving forward as well,” Self added.

Turgeon, who was a captain his junior and senior campaigns, worked on the coaching staffs of Brown and Roy Williams at KU. “I know he loves KU,” Self said. “He obviously loves Maryland and has done a fabulous job there.

It’ll be an emotional game (for Turgeon) but an emotional game for us, too, because the stakes are the highest they’ve been.”

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He’s a Royals fan: Turgeon and his sons, Will (16) and Leo (10), attended the deciding Game Five of the 2015 World Series between the Royals and Mets at Citi Field in New York, the Baltimore Sun reports. In 1985, Turgeon was at Kauffman Stadium for Game Seven of the Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Royals, of course, were crowned world champs both times.

Turgeon told the Sun jokingly that he has “brainwashed” his sons into becoming Royals fans despite the fact they’ve lived in Maryland five years and, before that, Texas, when he was A&M’s coach for four seasons.

“They’re diehards now,” Turgeon told the paper.

He feels fortunate he has seen two Series clinchers of his favorite team.

“There are not many of us. I was in the building in ’85, and I was in the building (again),” Turgeon told the Sun. “For sure, me and George Brett were at both games.”

Turgeon is married to former KU basketball manager Ann Fowler.

They also have a daughter, Ella (12).

The day after the Series winner, Turgeon told the Sun: “Ella and I will have a dad-daughter night.

She had a girl’s night out with her mom (instead of going to game), so it all worked out.”

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Tough foe: KU coach Bill Self has started preparing for No. 5 seed Maryland, which enters with a 27-8 record, including NCAA first- and second-round wins over South Dakota State (7974) and Hawaii (73-60).

“I honestly believe they have as good or the best starting five in the country,” Self said Monday on USA Today’s national podcast. Maryland boasts starters Melo Trimble (63, sophomore), Rasheed Sulaimon (6-4, senior), Diamond Stone (6-foot11, 255-pound freshman), Damonte Dodd (6-11, 250, junior) and Robert Carter (6-9, 235, junior). Jake Layman, a 6-9, 220 senior, lends more muscle off the bench.

“I don’t think it’s one of those things you look at them and say, ‘If we could stop this and that, then we should be good.’ There’s a lot of this and that with them,” Self said. “We’re evaluating it and breaking it down right now. We’ll have a game plan, but when you are balanced at all five spots, you are much more difficult to guard. All their guys are capable of having very big nights.”

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MARYLAND PLAYERS CELEBRATE AFTER OUSTING HAWAII, 73-60, in the Round of 32 at the NCAA Tournament on Sunday in Spokane, Wash. The Terps will face Kansas University at 8:40 p.m. Thursday in Louisville.

Terps not dwelling on past setbacks

By Don Markus The Baltimore Sun

Still dressed in his uniform, Varun Ram had wandered out of the Maryland locker room at the Spokane Arena after Sunday night’s 73-60 win over 13th seed Hawaii to catch a glimpse of the second-round NCAA Tournament game between Oregon and St. Joseph’s.

The walk-on from Clarksville, Md., who had returned for his final year of eligibility in College Park, Md., as a graduate student, was a Maryland fan long before he joined the team and understood the significance of the program’s first Sweet 16 appearance in 13 years.

Ram was clearly in the minority in the team’s locker room.

“A lot of the guys aren’t from Maryland and they’re so young, they don’t really think about it,” Ram said. “We just feel like we’re (good enough to be) a Sweet 16 team. To have that mindset that we haven’t been a Sweet 16 team is not something we think about.”

The fifth-seeded Terps had enough trouble beating both of its double-digit seeded opponents in the first two rounds without getting bogged down with the emotional baggage of a long-frustrated fan base and the media reminding them about the drought on a regular basis.

Maryland blew nearly all of an 18-point lead against South Dakota State on Friday before winning, 79-74, despite playing without sophomore guard Melo Trimble for the final minute after he had fouled out.

Against the Rainbow Warriors on Sunday, the Terps used an impressive 19-2 run in the second half to turn around a three-point deficit.

Trimble, who grew up a Maryland fan in Prince George’s County, said the burden of the 13-year absence from the Sweet 16 didn’t play a factor in either game.

“Just go out there and play,” Trimble said. “We

want to celebrate after the game like we just did.

A lot of teams (that were eliminated) gave up leads in the second half, we just wanted to play strong the whole game and not just worry about (not going to) the Sweet 16. We got past this and now we’re going to the Sweet 16.”

Senior forward Jake Layman had never really heard much about the drought until last year, when the Terps, seeded fourth, barely beat No. 13 seed Valparaiso to advance to the second round against fifth-seeded West Virginia. The Mountaineers knocked Trimble out of the game with a concussion and the Terps out of the tournament, 69-59.

Layman said the talk about Maryland not reaching the Sweet 16 since 2003 had never really been a topic of discussion among the players.

“I think, for us, if we were thinking about that, then our heads would be all messed up,” Layman said. “I think we did a great job of focusing on one game at a time. I think (Sunday night) we showed a toughness than we hadn’t shown all year.”

Said junior forward Robert Carter Jr.: “We try to stay focused in the moment, try to think about each other and help each other get to the Sweet 16.

We don’t think about past teams. We know we have to play for them and everyone in the Maryland program, but we don’t think about any individual accolades.”

Maryland (27-8) could have a tough time reaching its first Elite 8 since 2002, the year the Terps won their only national championship, if the offensive execution doesn’t improve dramatically against top-seeded Kansas (30-4) in the South Region semifinal Thursday at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. The Terps might have set a record for the fewest three-point shots made and the most attempted in a second-round game by a team that advanced to a Sweet 16. Maryland

missed its first 15 threepointers before Trimble made one during the game-breaking run, before finishing 1-for-18.

“Coach (Mark Turgeon) said to us, ‘There’s going to be one game (in the tournament) where we’re going to have to guard and the shots won’t fall, and that was tonight,” said Layman, who missed all four of his three-point attempts after making five of eight against South Dakota State.

Layman said the team felt “disrespected a little bit” for being shipped to the NCAA Tournament’s farthest outpost and then having to turn around and play Thursday in Louisville against a Kansas team ranked No. 1 nationally after the Terps spent most of the year in the Top 10.

“They stuck us all the way out here in Spokane, it felt like two away games a little bit,” said Layman, who needs to play in two more games to break Juan Dixon’s school record of 141 consecutive games.

Asked if reaching the Sweet 16 validates his decision to come back this season after briefly contemplating leaving to turn pro after last season, Layman said: “Losing that game last year, it feels like we’re taking that next step forward. This team is dangerous. (Some teams) don’t want to play us.”

Having grown up on the Eastern Shore, junior center Damonte Dodd was somewhat aware of the long drought for a team that went to the Sweet 16 seven times in 10 seasons from 1994 though 2003 under Hall of Famer Gary Williams. Dodd said that Turgeon did his best not to place any extra burdens of this year’s team.

“I give all props to coach Turgeon and to our fans,” said Dodd, whose block helped fuel the big second-half run. “Our fans have always been with us since Day One and they said, ‘Just take it one game of a time.’

“We just took it one game at a time and we’re here.”

Back in the Sweet 16.

BIG 12 WOMEN IN NCAAS The Associated Press

Bridgeport Regional No. 2 Texas 73, No. 10 Missouri 55 Austin, Texas — Ariel Atkins scored 22 points, and Texas earned its second consecutive trip to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament with a victory over Missouri on Monday night with an impressive display of speed and athleticism that overmatched the bigger Tigers.

16 points, including nine straight over the third and fourth quarters, to help Kentucky beat Oklahoma.

The Wildcats (25-7) earned their fifth Sweet 16 berth in seven seasons and will play a few blocks away from campus at Rupp Arena, home of the men’s team. Thompson deserves credit for helpLexington ing her team get there after a tense stretch Regional that featured a big hand No. 3 Kentucky 79, from hobbled teammate No. 6 Oklahoma 58 Makayla Epps.

Lexington, Ky. — JaGioya Carter’s 12 points nee Thompson scored led Oklahoma (22-11).

Lashann Higgs scored 11 points and was a sparkplug off the bench for the Longhorns (30-4), who head to the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Regional looking to make their deepest run in the postseason since a Final Four appearance in 2003. Texas will play UCLA in the Sweet 16.

First Four At UD Arena Dayton, Ohio Tuesday, March 15 Florida Gulf Coast 96, Fairleigh Dickinson 65 Wichita State 70, Vanderbilt 50 Wednesday, March 16 Holy Cross 59, Southern 55 Michigan 67, Tulsa 62 EAST REGIONAL Round of 64 Thursday, March 17 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina 83, Florida Gulf Coast 67 Providence 70, Southern Cal 69 At Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines, Iowa Indiana 99, Chattanooga 74 Kentucky 85, Stony Brook 57 Friday, March 18 At Barclays Center Brooklyn, N.Y. Stephen F. Austin 70, West Virginia 56 Notre Dame 70, Michigan 63 At Scottrade Center St. Louis Wisconsin 47, Pittsburgh 43 Xavier 71, Weber State 53 Round of 32 Saturday, March 19 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina 85, Providence 66 At Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines, Iowa Indiana 73, Kentucky 67 Sunday, March 20 At Barclays Center Brooklyn, N.Y. Notre Dame 76, Stephen F. Austin 75 At Scottrade Center St. Louis Wisconsin 66, Xavier 63 At Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 Wisconsin (22-12) vs. Notre Dame (23-11), 6:27 p.m.

North Carolina (30-6) vs. Indiana (27-7), 8:40 p.m.

Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Semifinal winners SOUTH REGIONAL Round of 64 Thursday, March 17 At Dunkin’ Donuts Center Providence, R.I. Miami 79, Buffalo 72 Wichita State 65, Arizona 55 At Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines, Iowa UConn 74, Colorado 67 Kansas 105, Austin Peay 79 Friday, March 18 At Barclays Center Brooklyn, N.Y. Villanova 86, UNC Asheville 56 Iowa 72, Temple 70, OT At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash.

Hawaii 77, California 66 Maryland 79, South Dakota State 74 Round of 32 Saturday, March 19 At Dunkin’ Donuts Center Providence, R.I. Miami 65, Wichita State 57 At Wells Fargo Arena Des Moines, Iowa Kansas 73, UConn 61 Sunday, March 20 At Barclays Center Brooklyn, N.Y. Villanova 87, Iowa 68 At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash.

Maryland 73, Hawaii 60 At KFC YUM! Center Louisville, Ky. Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 24 Villanova (31-5) vs. Miami (27-7), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas (32-4) vs. Maryland (27-8), 8:40 p.m.

Regional Championship Saturday, March 26 Semifinal winners MIDWEST REGIONAL Round of 64 Thursday, March 17 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Butler 71, Texas Tech 61 Virginia 81, Hampton 45 At Pepsi Center Denver Iowa State 94, Iona 81 UALR 85, Purdue 83, 2OT Utah 80, Fresno State 69 Gonzaga 68, Seton Hall 52 Friday, March 18 At Scottrade Center St. Louis Syracuse 70, Dayton 51 Middle Tennessee 90, Michigan State 81 Round of 32 Saturday, March 19 At PNC Arena Raleigh, N.C. Virginia 77, Butler 69 At Pepsi Center Denver Iowa State 78, UALR 61 Gonzaga 82, Utah 59 Sunday, March 20 At Scottrade Center St. Louis Syracuse 75, Middle Tennessee 50 At The United Center Chicago Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 Virginia (28-7) vs. Iowa State (23-11), 6:10 p.m.

Syracuse (21-13) vs. Gonzaga (28-7), 8:40 p.m.

Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Semifinal winners WEST REGIONAL Round of 64 Thursday, March 17 At Dunkin’ Donuts Center Providence, R.I. Duke 93, UNC Wilmington 85 Yale 79, Baylor 75 Friday, March 18 At Chesapeake Energy Arena Oklahoma City VCU 75, Oregon State 67 Oklahoma 82, Cal State Bakersfield 68 Texas A&M 92, Green Bay 65 Northern Iowa 75, Texas 72 At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash.

Oregon 91, Holy Cross 52 Saint Joseph’s 78, Cincinnati 76 Round of 32 Saturday, March 19 At Dunkin’ Donuts Center Providence, R.I. Duke 71, Yale 64 Sunday, March 20 At Chesapeake Energy Arena Oklahoma City Oklahoma 85, VCU 81 Texas A&M 92, Northern Iowa 88, 2OT At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash.

Oregon 69, Saint Joseph’s 64 At The Honda Center Anaheim, Calif.

Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 24 Oklahoma (27-7) vs. Texas A&M (288), 6:37 p.m.

Oregon (30-6) vs. Duke (25-10), 8:40 p.m.

Regional Championship Saturday, March 26 Semifinal winners

FINAL FOUR At NRG Stadium Houston National Semifinals Saturday, April 2 South champion vs. West champion East champion vs. Midwest champion National Championship Monday, April 4 Semifinal winners

NCAA men’s Tournament Remaining Seeds EAST 1. North Carolina 5. Indiana 6. Notre Dame 7. Wisconsin SOUTH 1. Kansas 2. Villanova 3. Miami 5. Maryland MIDWEST 1. Virginia 4. Iowa State 10. Syracuse 11. Gonzaga WEST 1. Oregon 2. Oklahoma 3. Texas A&M 4. Duke

NCAA Conference Records Through Sunday (Selections in parentheses) Conference W West Coast (1) 2 Atlantic Coast (7) 12 Big Ten (7) 8 Big 12 (7) 6 Missouri Valley (2) 3 Southeastern (3) 3 Big East (5) 5 Atlantic Sun (1) 1 Big West (1) 1 Ivy (1) 1 Conference USA (1) 1 Patriot (1) 1 Southland (1) 1 Sun Belt (1) 1 Atlantic 10 (3) 2 Pacific-12 (7) 3 American Athletic (4) 1 America East (1) 0 Big Sky (1) 0 Big South (1) 0 Colonial (1) 0 Horizon (1) 0 Metro Atlantic (1) 0 Mid-American (1) 0 Mid-Eastern Athletic (1) 0 Mountain West (1) 0 Northeast (1) 0 Ohio Valley (1) 0 Southern (1) 0 SW Athletic (1) 0 Summit (1) 0 Western Athletic (1) 0

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BRIDGEPORT REGIONAL First Round Friday, March 18 At Starkville, Miss.

Michigan State 74, Belmont 60 Mississippi St. 60, Chattanooga 50 Saturday, March 19 At Storrs, Conn.

UConn 101, Robert Morris 49 Duquesne 97, Seton Hall 76 At Los Angeles UCLA 66, Hawaii 50 South Florida 48, Colorado State 45 At Austin, Texas Missouri 78, BYU 69 Texas 86, Alabama State 42 Second Round Sunday, March 20 At Starkville, Miss.

Mississippi State 74, Michigan State 72 Monday, March 21 At Storrs, Conn.

UConn 97, Duquesne 51 At Los Angeles South Florida 74, UCLA 56 At Austin, Texas Texas 73, Missouri 55 Regional Semifinals At Bridgeport, Conn.

Saturday, March 26 UConn (34-0) vs. Mississippi State (28-7), 10:30 a.m.

UCLA (26-8) vs. Texas (30-4), 12:30 p.m.

Regional Championship Monday, March 28 Semifinal winners, TBA DALLAS REGIONAL First Round Friday, March 18 At Waco, Texas Baylor 89, Idaho 59 Auburn 68, St. John’s 57 At Louisville, Ky. DePaul 97, James Madison 67 Louisville 87, Central Arkansas 60 At Corvallis, Ore. Oregon State 73, Troy 31 St. Bonaventure 65, Oklahoma State 54 Saturday, March 19 At College Station, Texas Florida State 72, Middle Tennessee 55 Texas A&M 74, Missouri State 65 Second Round Sunday, March 20 At Waco, Texas Baylor 84, Auburn 52 At Louisville, Ky. DePaul 73, Louisville 72 At Corvallis, Ore. Oregon State 69, St. Bonaventure 40 Monday, March 21 At College Station, Texas Florida State 74, Texas A&M 56 Regional Semifinals Saturday, March 26 At Dallas Baylor (35-1) vs. Florida State (257), TBA DePaul (27-8) vs. Oregon State (304), 5 p.m.

Regional Championship Monday, March 28 Semifinal winners, TBA SIOUX FALLS REGIONAL First Round Friday, March 18 At Columbia, S.C. Kansas State 56, George Washington 51 South Carolina 77, Jacksonville 41 At Syracuse, N.Y. Albany (NY) 61, Florida 59 Syracuse 73, Army 56 At Columbus, Ohio West Virginia 74, Princeton 65 Ohio State 88, Buffalo 69 At Tempe, Ariz.

Tennessee 59, Green Bay 53 Arizona State 74, New Mexico State 52 Second Round Sunday, March 20 At Columbia, S.C. South Carolina 73, Kansas State 47 At Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse 76, Albany (NY) 59 At Columbus, Ohio Ohio State 88, West Virginia 81 At Tempe, Ariz.

Tennessee 75, Arizona State 64 Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 At Sioux Falls, S.D. South Carolina (33-1) vs. Syracuse (27-7), 6 p.m.

Ohio State (26-7) vs. Tennessee (2113), 8:30 p.m.

Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Semifinal winners, TBA LEXINGTON REGIONAL First Round Saturday, March 19 At South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame 95, North Carolina A&T 61 Indiana 62, Georgia 58

At Stanford, Calif.

South Dakota State 74, Miami 71 Stanford 85, San Francisco 58 At Lexington, Ky. Oklahoma 61, Purdue 45 Kentucky 85, UNC Asheville 31 At College Park, Md. Maryland 74, Iona 58 Washington 65, Pennsylvania 53 Second Round Monday, March 21 At South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame 87, Indiana 70 At Stanford, Calif.

Stanford 66, South Dakota State 65 At Lexington, Ky. Kentucky 79, Oklahoma 58 At College Park, Md. Washington 74, Maryland 65 Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 At Lexington, Ky. Kentucky (25-7) vs. Washington (2410), 6 p.m.

Notre Dame (33-1) vs. Stanford (267), 8:30 p.m.

Regional Championship Sunday, March 27, TBA Semifinal winners, TBA FINAL FOUR At Indianapolis National Semifinals Sunday, April 3 Bridgeport champion vs. Dallas champion, 5 or 7:30 p.m.

Sioux Falls champion vs. Lexington champion, 5 or 7:30 p.m.

National Championship Tuesday, April 5 Semifinals winners, 7:30 p.m.

BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Named Jorge Perez-Diaz as senior vice president and special counsel, litigation and international affairs.

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Erik Johnson to Charlotte (IL).

Reassigned RHP Tyler Danish and INF Steve Lombardozzi to their minor league camp.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Jose Valdez to Toledo (IL). Assigned RHP Preston Guilmet, LHP Drake Britton, C Miguel Gonzalez, INFs Dominic Ficociello, Tommy Field and JaCoby Jones and OFs Mike Gerber and Jason Krizan to their minor league camp.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned OF Andrew Aplin, INF Nolan Fontana and RHP Asher Wojciechowski to their minor league camp. Reassigned INF Tony Kemp to their minor league camp.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned INFs Tyler Ladendorf and Max Muncy to Nasvhille (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned LHP Alex Claudio, RHP Anthony Ranaudo, 3B Joey Gallo, INF Jurickson Profar and OF Nomar Mazara to Round Rock (PCL). Assigned RHP Francisco Mendoza, OF Lewis Brinson, INF Ryan Cordell and INF Drew Robinson to their minor league camp.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reassigned INF Brandon Hicks, C Shawn Zarraga, OF Corey Brown and INF/OF Cody Bellinger to their minor league camp.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned LHP Marco Gonzales to Memphis (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned INFOF Alez Dickerson to El Paso (PCL).

Reassigned C Jason Hagerty and INFs Nick Noonan and Ryan Schimpf to their minor league camp.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reassigned RHPs Erik Davis, Michael Brady and Burke Badenhop to minor league camp.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed G Jordan Farmar to a 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed S Trenton Robinson to a one-year contract.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed WR Jeremy Kerley. Assigned G Jared Coreau to Grand Rapids (AHL).

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Promoted Eliot Wolf to director-football operations and Brian Gutekunst to director of player personnel. Re-signed RB James Starks.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Named Monte Kiffin defensive assistant, John Benton assistant offensive line coach and John Donovan offensive quality control coach.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed TE Brian Leonhardt.

COLLEGE CLAYTON STATE — Named Fergal Forde women’s interim head soccer coach.

ILLINOIS — Named Thad Ward running backs coach.

LSU — Freshman F Ben Simmons announced he will enter the NBA draft.

NEW MEXICO — Named Paul Maestas women’s assistant soccer coach and Aurmon Satchell head athletic performance coach, working specifically with the football team.

PITTBURGH — Announced the resignation of men’s basketball coach Jamie Dixon, to accept the same position at TCU. WYOMING — Announced the resignation of men’s basketball coach Larry Shyatt. Named Allen Edwards men’s basketball coach.

Monday’s Games Washington 5, Houston 3 Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh (ss) 3 Philadelphia 4, Detroit 3 Boston 4, St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh (ss) 2, Minnesota 0 Miami 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Oakland 6, San Francisco 4 Seattle 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 Milwaukee (ss) 4, L.A. Angels 3 Cleveland 9, Chicago White Sox 4 Colorado 9, Texas 6 Milwaukee (ss) vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., (n) Cincinnati vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., (n) Today’s Games Boston vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota (ss) vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Minnesota (ss) at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

San Francisco (ss) vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 4:10 p.m.

Oakland vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 4:10 p.m.

Texas vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 6:35 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 8:05 p.m.

San Francisco (ss) vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 9:10 p.m.

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L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

CARS

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2014 Honda Civic LX

2012 Hyundai Veloster w/Black

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NOTICES

TO PLACE AN AD:

TO PLACE AN AD:

Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60 NOTICE OF SALE

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee for the Holders of the Banc of America Alternative Loan Trust 2005-6 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-6 Plaintiff, vs.

Helen M. Krische, et al.

Defendants, Case No.14CV310 Court No. Title to Real Estate

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the South entrance of the Law Enforcement Building, Douglas County, Kansas, on March 31, 2016 at the time of 10:00 AM, the following real estate:

legals@ljworld.com

SAS, AND KNOWN AS : BEING LOT NUMBER 1 BLOCK 6 IN DAVIS-WIGGINS ADDITION OF DOUGLAS COUNTY RECORDS. TAX ID NO. 023-103-05-0-20-12-030.01-0, Commonly known as 1646 E 19th St, Lawrence, KS 66046 (“the Property”) MS161636 to satisfy the judgment in the above entitled case.

The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court.

Douglas County Sheriff

A PARCEL OF LAND LO- MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC CATED IN THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, COUNTY OF By: /s/ Chad R. Doornink DOUGLAS, STATE OF KAN- Chad R. Doornink, #23536

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cdoornink@msfirm.com Jason A. Orr, #22222 jorr@msfirm.com 8900 Indian Creek Parkway, Suite 180 Overland Park, KS 66210 (913) 339-9132 (913) 339-9045 (fax) ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS ATTORNEYS FOR WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE BANC OF AMERICA ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-6 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-6 IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. _______

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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2015 Mazda Mazda5 Sport

2015 Lincoln Navigator

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2008 Honda CBR 600

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PUBLIC NOTICES (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld March 8, 2016)

Motorcycle-ATV

Mercury 2007 Mariner

$15,994

2013 Hyundai Veloster

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2010 Toyota 4Runner V6

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Special Notices

TRANSPORTATION SPECIAL!

Special Notices WANTED: 1 BDRM IN COUNTRY Looking for small space in the country to rent.

785-766-0517

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background?

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Parkwood Day School Lawrence NOW OPEN! Early education program offering highquality services for children 6 weeks to 6 years, including children with special needs.

Visit our website: www.parkwooddayschool.org Enroll today!

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10 LINES & PHOTO: 7 DAYS $19.95 28 DAYS $49.95 Doesn’t sell in 28 days? + FREE RENEWAL!

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A P P LY N O W

410 AREA JOB OPENINGS! BRANDON WOODS ...................... 5 OPENINGS

FACULTY/LECTURER/ACADEMIC 100 OPENINGS

MV TRANSPORTATION ................ 20 OPENINGS

CITY OF LAWRENCE ................... 36 OPENINGS

DAYCOM ................................. 11 OPENINGS

PIONEER RIDGE ......................... 5 OPENINGS

KU STUDENT OPENINGS .......... 113 OPENINGS

LAWRENCE PRESBYTERIAN MANOR 5 OPENINGS

THE SHELTER, INC. ................... 10 OPENINGS

STAFF OPENINGS ...................... 73 OPENINGS

MISCELLANEOUS ...................... 25 OPENINGS

WELLSVILLE/BROOKSIDE RETIREMENT 7 OPENINGS

L E A R N M O R E AT J O B S . L AW R E N C E . C O M

AT T E N T I O N E M P L OY E R S !

Email your number of job openings to Peter at psteimle@ljworld.com. *Approximate number of job openings at the time of this printing.

Taxi Drivers Yellow Cab Taxi is currently seeking FT drivers for medical transportation in the Lawrence area. Must must be familiar with the area, possess a valid drivers license with a clean record, and be able to pass a drug screen and background check.

Community Living Opportunities

is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping adults and children with severe developmental disabilities achieve personally satisfying and fulfilling lifestyles.

Teaching Counselors

Must be at least 19 years of age Have a high school diploma/GED Current valid driver’s license.

Experience working with persons who have disabilities is a plus.

Family Teachers

Imagine that your career is to work with your partner to raise and care for your family, providing enriching and educational life experiences. Now imagine it includes a: 3-bedroom duplex in a great neighborhood with excellent schools Monthly food and utility allowance Company vehicle (while working) Salary of $42k-$45 per couple And, you’re able to work and care for your children!

You’ll teach and support up to four people with developmental disabilities who live in separate, but attached duplexes, managing the home operations and budget. Want a good life for yourself and your family? This could be a terrific career and CLO is hiring couples with or without children. Lawrence & Kansas City Metro locations.

Learn more by visiting our website www.clokan.org, or call 785-865-5520 EOE

Please call (785) 357 4444 or submit resume to yellowcabtaxi@gmail.com AccountingFinance

Building Maintenance

Bookkeeper

Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority

Business Office Bookkeeper for Nursing Facility setting.

Must have AR/AP/PR knowledge and experience. Midicare A Skilled & Medicaid billing experience.

Multi-tasking a must.

Experience with monthly financials.

Excellent pay & benefits.

Call Administrator:

785 863 2105 Fax: 785 863 2735 Or send resume to 700 Cherokee Oskaloosa, KS 66066 Need to sell your car?

Place your ad at classifieds.lawrence.com or email classifieds@ljworld.com

Property Managment Specialist Clinton Place Apartments Administration of low income senior housing assistance program.

Responsible for day-to-day management & operations; ensuring compliance with HUD regulations & Housing Authority policies; enforcing lease & program compliance including federal regulations governing Project Based Section 8; processing tracking & managing work orders & HQS inspections; interdepartmental communications & coordination of dependent program functions w/ other LDCHA departments. Complete job description at :

www.ldcha.org Send cover letter, resume, & 3 work related references to: Lawrence-Douglas County

Housing Authority 1600 Haskell Ave. Lawrence KS 66044

Citizens’ Utility Ratepayer Board

Accountant/Economist For position details, please view the job posting on the agency website: http://curb.kansas.gov or the State of Kansas website at http://admin.ks.gov EOE

by 4 pm on Tues., March 29 or email to housing@ldcha.org with PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST in subject line.

EEO/AA Employer.

Need an apartment?

Place your ad at apartments.lawrence.com

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LAWRENCE Deliver Newspapers!

It’s Fun! Outstanding pay Part-time work Be an independent contractor, Deliver every day, between 2-6 a.m.

Reliable vehicle, driver’s license, insurance in your own name, and a phone required.

Come in & Apply!

Administrative Assistant Fundraising and public relations firm seeking a full-time administrative assistant to work in team-oriented environment. Duties include database management for numerous clients mail-merge mailings & related clerical and receptionist tasks. Requires strong organization, communication, & computer skills. Must be dependable, detail oriented, motivated, able to work independently & handle multiple projects at the same time. Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Raiser’s Edge, & Adobe Acrobat preferred.

Salary + benefits.

Email resume & cover letter to: employment@penningtonco.com

Find the latest openings at the best companies in Northeast Kansas!

Construction Concrete Finishers Local concrete company needs reliable and experienced concrete finishers. Would prefer a valid driver’s license and must be a team player. Please call (785) 423-0704 or

(785) 749-3900

Customer Service

11 Hard Workers needed NOW! $10 hr to train.

Quickly earn $12-$15 hr Weekly pay checks.

Paid Vacations No Weekends

Call today!

785-841-9999

Interview TIP #2 Arrive 5 min early.

Not 25 - Just 5.

Decisions Determine Destiny

DriversTransportation

CONSTRUCTION Labors and equipment operators needed for work near Lawrence.

Excellent pay & benefits.

Apply 8am to 4pm at Hamm Companies 609 Perry Place Perry, KS Equal Opportunity Employer

General

Eudora Seasonal Employees City of Eudora is accepting applications for seasonal help. Salary range $10-$12 per hour. Job responsibilities include but not limited to mowing, operating weed eater, assisting street department, and other duties assigned by supervisor. Valid Kansas Drivers License is required. Applications available at Eudora City Office, 4 E. 7th Street or www.cityofeudoraks.gov Applications accepted at same office until position filled.

HIRING IMMEDIATELY! Drive for KU on Wheels or Lawrence Transit System.

Flexible part-time schedules, 80% company paid employee health insurance for full time.

Career opportunities. $11.50/hr after paid training. Must be 21+ w. good driving record.

Apply online: lawrencetransit.org/ employment Or come to: MV Transportation, Inc. 1260 Timberedge Road Lawrence, KS. EOE

General

Full-Time & Part-Time Opportunities! Good with computers.

Apply in person at 1401 W 23rd Street Lawrence, KS 66046 785-832-2679

Maintenance

Custodial Supervisor Supervises and works with approximately 18 custodians assigned to school district facilities.

Duties include: employee supervision; trains employees on proper cleaning techniques and equipment usage; schedules and supervises floor care requirements; custodial quality control and task completion; staffing special events; orders and distributes supplies/materials.

Minimum of two years experience in custodial industry, floor care and supervision required.

Salary range based upon qualifications: $33,500 to $36,500. Benefits include health care and PTO. Criminal background check and drug screening required.

Email resume to: opsmaintains@gmail.com or call 913-231-1032

Industrial Maintenance Technician 2nd Shift 3:30pm to Midnight Stouse, LLC, a specialty printing company in the Gardner area listed as one of the Top 20 Area Manufacturers, is looking for a maintenance person with 2+ years of experience.

The right candidate must have excellent problem solving skills in the repair of manufacturing equipment including electrical, and mechanical.

Knowledge of computers and/or Industrial Maintenance Certification would be a plus.

We offer a competitive benefit and wage package which includes profit sharing. Call (913) 791-0656 for Info, Please send resume to: pmadrigal@stouse.com Stouse, LLC. Attn: Pete Madrigal 300 New Century Pkwy New Century, KS 66031 Drug Free/EEO Employer

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RENTALS & REAL ESTATE

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CARS

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Learn more online at: penningtonco.com

645 New Hampshire 816-805-6780 jinsco@ljworld.com

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Auction Calendar FARM AUCTION Saturday, April 2, 9:30 AM 818 E. 1300 Rd Lawrence, KS Trucks, Tractors, Trailers, Equipment, OutBuilding, Firearms, Collectibles, Household, & Misc.

70+ Years of Farming!

Seller: Bud & Thelma Dillon See website for list & pics!

Mark Elston & Jason Flory 785-594-0505|785-218-7851 www.kansasauctions.net/elston

ONLINE AUCTION Turner Babb Flowers & Interiors Preview 3/21, noon-6pm 16160 W. 135th St. Olathe, KS 66062 Inventory/Fixtures. 2009 Ford Van & Walk-in cooler.

Bidding ends 3/22 See online for pics & list! www.lindsayauctions.com Lindsay Auction Svc Inc. 913.441.1557 PUBLIC AUCTION Saturday, Mar. 26, 10AM 1 3/8th m. West of Jct HWY 56 & 59 (1118 N. 300 Rd) Baldwin, City, KS Tools & Building supplies, collectibles, toys tractors & planes, misc., furniture and glassware. 2 sellers! See web for list & pics:

Antiques

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REMODELING SALE Antiques & Vintage  203 W. 7th, Perry, KS Open 9 am - 5 pm daily Call first: 785-597-5752

Craftsman 10” work site table saw Lightly used, never outside.

Comes with mitre, blade guard, kickback guard, fence and dust collector. $100 ph# 530-413-8657

Music-Stereo

Need to sell your car?

Place your ad at classifieds.lawrence.com or email classifieds@ljworld.com

• H.L. Phillips upright $650 • Cable Nelson Spinet $500 • Gulbranson Spinet - $450 Prices include tuning & delivery

785-832-9906

Wine Refrigerator 24” wide, 24” deep, 34” tall.

Holds 24 bottles. Glass door. $80. 785-843-7093

TV-Video

4 ACRES

Between Lawrence & Topeka on blacktop.

Old farmstead, repo, assume owner financing with NO down payment.

Farm Land HAY

GROUND Available Southwest of Vinland 785-838-9009

Machinery-Tools Extension Ladder Davidson, 16ft-Aluminium, w/ 200lb load capacity.

Type III duty rating.

Asking $50. 785-842-2928

Revere Camera Co Revere 8mm Projector A125605 Model 85. Excellent condition of camera and case. Original manual.

One good lamp included. $40 785-841-7635, Please leave a message

(785)554-9663

Ford 8 N Tractor: $1,500

Downsizing - Moving?

We’ve got a Custom Solution for You! Estate Tag Sales and Cleanup Services Armstrong Family Estate Services, LLC 785-383-0820 www.kansasestatesales.com

Carpentry

The Wood Doctor - Wood rot repair, fences, decks, doors & windows - built, repaired, or replaced & more! Bath/kitchen remodeled. Basement finished.

785-542-3633 • 816-591-6234

Remodeling Specialist Handyman Services • 30 Yrs Exp Residential & Commercial 785.608.8159 rrodecap@yahoo.com

Cleaning

DECK BUILDER

Auctioneers HOUSE CLEANER ADDING NEW CUSTOMERS Years of experience, References available, Insured.

785-748-9815 (local)

Over 25 yrs. exp.

Licensed & Insured. Decks, deck covers, pergolas, screened porches, & all types of repairs. Call 913-209-4055 for Free estimates or go to prodeckanddesign.com

STARTING or BUILDING a Business?

under $100 Call 785.832.2222

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Stamped & Reg. Concrete, Patios, Walks, Driveways, Acid Staining & Overlays, Tear-Out & Replacement Jayhawk Concrete Inc. 785-979-5261

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Contact Donna

785-841-6565

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Find Google Maps and Get Directions

Contact Property Management Directly

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Rich Black Top Soil No Chemicals Machine Pulverized Pickup or Delivery Serving KC over 40 years

913-962-0798 Fast Service

Foundation & Masonry Specialist Water Prevention Systems for Basements, Sump Pumps, Foundation Supports & Repair & more. Call 785-221-3568

Home Improvements

Home Improvements

AAA Home Improvements Int/Ext Repairs, Painting, Tree work & more. We do it all! 20 Yrs. Exp. w/ Ins. and local ref. Will beat all est.

Call 785-917-9168

Handyman Services Located in Lawrence Family business with the lowest prices & guarantee service. Did you see a great idea on Pinterest?

I can make it! Anything from hanging a picture to building decks or pergolas.

Interior upgrades, restoration, maintenance.

Email or call fcano100@gmail.com Phone: 917-921-6994 Anytime & Any Day! Free estimates!

Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of: Deck Drywall Siding Replacement Gutters Privacy Fencing Doors & Trim Commercial Build-out Build-to-suit services

913-488-7320

Mudjacking, Waterproofing.

We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting.

Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB. Free Estimates Since 1962 Wagner’s 785-749-1696 www.foundationrepairks.com

JAYHAWK GUTTERING Seamless aluminum guttering.

Call 785-248-6410

Interior/Exterior Painting Quality Work Over 30 yrs. exp.

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

Plumbing

Tree/Stump Removal

Landscaping YARDBIRDS LANDSCAPING Tractor and Mowing Services.

Yard to fields.

Lifetime of Experience Call 785-766-1280

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Interior/exterior painting, roofing, roof repairs, fence work, deck work, lawn care, siding, windows & doors. For 11+ years serving Douglas County & surrounding areas. Insured.

785-312-1917

Complete Lawn Care, Rototilling, Hauling, Yard Clean-up, Apt. Clean outs, Misc odd jobs.

Family Tradition Interior & Exterior Painting Carpentry/Wood Rot Senior Citizen Discount Ask for Ray 785-330-3459

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Higgins Handyman

Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned. Insured. Free estimates.

Mike McCain’s Handyman Service

Painting

RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

Home Builders Repair & Remodel. When you want it done right the first time. Home repairs, deck repairs, painting & more. 785-766-9883

IT’S

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & House Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Power wash and Tree Services.

785-766-5285

Fully Insured 22 yrs. experience

FOUNDATION REPAIR

785-842-0094

785-841-3339

AVAILABLE at WEST LAWRENCE LOCATION $525/mo., Utilities included Conference Room, Fax Machine, Copier Available

1 Month $118.95 | 6 Months $91.95/mo.

12 Months 64.95/mo. + FREE LOGO!

Dirt-Manure-Mulch

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Stacked Deck

STARTING or BUILDING a Business?

TUCKAWAY APARTMENTS

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Call now! 785-841-8400

EOH

Guttering Services Decks • Gazebos Siding • Fences • Additions Remodel • Weatherproofing Insured • 25 yrs exp.

785-550-5592

 NOW LEASING  Spring - Fall

SUNRISE PLACE

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New York Housekeeping Accepting clients for weekly, bi-weekly, seasonal or special occasion cleaning.

Excellent References.

Beth - 785-766-6762

785-841-6565

Now Leasing 2 BR’s Close to Campus & Downtown Pool, On KU Bus Route, Spacious Floorplan, Patios/Decks.

Great location: 837 Michigan CALL FOR SPECIALS!

Some with W/D, Water & Trash Paid, Small Pet, Income Restrictions Apply

Auctioneers 800-887-6929 www.billfair.com

Downtown Office Space Single offices, elevator & conference room, $725.

Call Donna or Lisa

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All Electric

Foundation Repair Decks & Fences

Office Space

2BR, 2 bath, fireplace, CA, W/D hookups, 2 car with opener. Easy access to I-70. Includes paid cable.

Pet under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com

1, 2 & 3 BR units

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Lawrence

HUTTON FARMS Huttonfarms.com

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769 Grant Street in North Lawrence Loading dock, workshop, multi-use space.

Bob Bloom: 842-8204

• 1 Day - $50 • 2 Days - $75

RENTALS

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For LEASE Warehouse / Offices

HARPER SQUARE Harpersquareapartments.com

Open House Special!

Call 785-832-2222

Farm Supplies

$200 6 ft dirt blade: $100 3 pt. dirt scoop: $100 785-418-0695

NELSON Traveling Sprinkler Raintrain travels 200 ft.& 13,500 sq.ft. Like New Perfect condition Original Box $40. 785-865-4215

Cooperative townhomes start at $446-$490/month.

Water, trash, sewer paid.

Back patio, CA, hardwood floors, full basmnt., stove, refrigeratpr, w/d hookup, garbage disposal, reserved parking. On-site management & maintenance. 24 hr emergency maintenance.

Membership & Equity fee Required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) pinetreetownhouses.com

Farms-Acreage

AGRICULTURE

3 BR w/2 or 2.5 BA W/D hookups, Fireplace, Major Appliances. Lawn Care & Dbl Car Garage!

Equal Housing Opportunity

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800-887-6929

6 ft trimming mower:

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Townhomes

Bill Fair & Company www.billfair.com

3 Males and 1 Females from working parents, $100 each Call 785-418-4524

Lawrence

785-865-2505

Lawrence Schools, large CUSTOM home, barns, 2nd house on property, ponds, just west of 6th & SLTfastest growing intersection in Kansas. $1.6 M

BLUE HEELER PUPS -

Townhomes

Equal Housing Opportunity.

785-865-2505

OPPORTUNITY: ~147 Acres~

PIANOS

Clearing out merchandise so we can paint & repair.

Tons of pictures, mirrors, shelving curios & all merchandise will be 50% off O.B.O. No reasonable offers will be rejecetedWe need to clear up & clean out!

Antique/Estate Liquidation

1st Month FREE!

Investment / Development

2nd & Walnut Downtown Ottawa, KS Tues - Sat, 10 am - 5 pm 785-242-1078 <<<< >>>> Mitch has listed his building for sale but the mall is open until it sells.

His own large inventory (#R01) is all 40% off!

Some other dealers discounting also

www.edgecombauctions.com Edgecomb Auctions 785-594-3507|785-766-6074

New carpet, vinyl, cabinets, countertop.

W/D is included.

Lawrence

OTTAWA ANTIQUE MALL

www.kansasauctions.net/edgecomb

TOY AUCTION Saturday, Mar. 26, 9:30 am American Legion, Lawrence 3408 W. 6th St ******** Vintage Pedal Vehicles & Construction Toys, 150+ Farm Toys, 30+ Shotguns /Rifles /Revolvers/ Pistols, Collectibles & Misc.

OUTSTANDING QUALITY! Elston Auctions 785-594-0505|785-218-7851

Pets

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Mowing...like Clockwork!

7 or 14 Day Scheduling Honest & Dependable Mow~Trim~Sweep Steve 785-393-9152 Lawrence Only

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Spring Clean -Up Mowing-Trimming Serving Lawrence Since 1993 Pioneer Lawn Care Call 785-393-3568 or email Pioneerlawncare93@gmail.com

Golden Rule Lawncare Mowing & lawn cleanup Snow Removal Family owned & operated Call for Free Est. Insured.

Eugene Yoder 785-224-9436

Need to sell your car?

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Fredy’s Tree Service cutdown • trimmed • topped • stump removal Licensed & Insured.

20 yrs experience.

913-441-8641 913-244-7718

KansasTreeCare.com Trimming, removal, & stump grinding by Lawrence locals Certified by Kansas Arborists Assoc. since 1997 “We specialize in preservation & restoration” Ins. & Lic. visit online 785-843-TREE (8733)

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