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By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

A family of seven who lived in the Lawrence Community Shelter for more than 400 days was helped out of it through a new rental-assistance program established by the city of Lawrence and Douglas County.

The New Horizons Family Housing Program was created to transition single- or two-parent families, such as that family of seven, out of the Lawrence Community Shelter with housing vouchers and one-time grants for security and utility deposits.

Douglas County contributed $50,000 to the program in October, most of which has already been used. The City Commission will decide Tuesday whether to approve the program’s parameters and provide $100,000.

“We’re already — with the county’s money — doing good work,” said Shannon Oury, executive director of the LawrenceDouglas County Housing Authority, which is running the program. “We want the family to be able to be stably housed, without constantly having to worry about where they are going to lay their heads tonight.”

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DAFFODILS ARE COVERED WITH SNOW on Easter Sunday in Lawrence. Temperatures are expected to be much more spring-like today with a high in the mid-60s.

Data: Percentage Sexual abuse center opens new locations of nonwhite students Agency now offers services to in higher ed increases victims in Oskaloosa, Ottawa

By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson

On a per-capita basis, sexual assault is just as likely to happen in a rural community as an urban one. A major difference between the two areas, however, is the amount of social services available to victims.

“I think rural communities face different challenges than more urban areas. It’s harder to access those services,” said Chrissy Heikkila, executive director for the Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center in Lawrence.

“Everyone has their own personal experiences with sexual violence, whether they were

personally affected or it’s someone they know,” said Liz Chapa, the center’s rural and under-served advocate. “But in the rural areas there are those barriers. There’s more silence. There’s a difficulty getting services or the knowledge that they’re out there.”

Although those differences do exist, the Sexual Trau- Heikkila ma and Abuse Care Center — formerly the GaDuGi SafeCenter — is combating the discrepancy between the two types of communities, Heikkila and Chapa said. And the recent openings of new locations in both Franklin

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Center to rent the two new spaces but also to double its staff from six to 12 employees.

“All the positions are kind of in all three counties. Previously we had one dedicated person for Franklin and Jefferson counties, and now we have positions in all three,” Heikkila said.

To coincide with Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the two new locations will host open houses in April, which will allow them to spread the word on the services they officer, Heikkila said.

“We’re inviting the communities to come see our spaces and really get familiar with our staff and us as an agency since we changed our name,” Chapa said. “In Oskaloosa and Please see CENTER, page 2A

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and Jefferson counties is helping the organization to make an impact.

The Franklin County location, which is at 114 W. Second St., in Ottawa, opened in January. The Jefferson County location, which is at 100 Washington St., in Oskaloosa, opened in February.

The expansion is due, in part, to recent increases in federal funding, Heikkila said. One fund in particular, the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Assistance Grant, increased annual funding from $26,000 to $160,000 this year.

“That one is the really big one,” Heikkila said.

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The percentage of white students enrolled at Kansas’ public postsecondary education institutions dropped from 68.4 percent in 2013-14 to 67 percent in 2014-15, according to the latest Kansas Board of Regents data.

Although the percentage of minority students increased systemwide, significant differences remain in the percentages of certain minorities at fouryear universities compared with community and technical colleges.

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Overall, just fewer than 250,000 students are enrolled in Kansas state, municipal, community and technical colleges, according to the data. That includes both full- and part-time students.

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SARAH BELLE "SADIE" VAUGHN Funeral services for Sarah Belle “Sadie” Wilkinson Vaughn will be Thursday, March 31, 2016 at Worden United Methodist Church.

Visitation will be at 1:00 p.m. followed by the service at 2:00 p.m.

Private burial will be in Worden Cemetery.

Sarah passed away March 26, 2016 at Neuvant House in Lawrence, Kansas.

Sarah was born September 1, 1926 in Parsons, Kansas, the daughter of Frank W. and Esther E. Wilkinson. She was a 1944 graduate of Parsons High School and then entered nurses training as a U.S. Government Army Service Cadet at Bell Memorial Hospital (soon after renamed the University of Kansas Medical Center) in Kansas City, Kansas. After her graduation in 1947, she continued to work at the KU Medical Center for two years as head nurse in the Children's Orthopedic Ward.

She married Gilbert R. Vaughn on March 29, 1949 at St. Johns Episcopal Church in Parsons. She moved to Lawrence and worked 2 years as a pediatrics office nurse located over the Crown Drug Store for Dr. Mary Boyden, Dr. Vernon Branson, and Dr. James Campbell. She returned to work after her two sons, Michael A. and Bruce E. Vaughn were in Junior High School.

During that time she was a CUB Scout den mother active in the Schwegler Elementary School PTA including being the president. She became a school nurse for 2 years as part of a federal Poverty Program grant. Sarah then worked for Dr. Helen Gilles, Dr. Vernon Branson and later Dr. Chuck Loveland, and Dr. Terry Riordan, as head nurse and office manager until her retirement in 1983.

Sarah was a member of many organizations and served actively holding leadership positions in several.

Those organizations include University of Kansas Alumni and Nurses Alumni Gold Metal Clubs,

Order of the Eastern Star and the Order of the White Shrine (Lifetime), Central EHU, Volunteer at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Clinton Historical Society, Kaw Valley Quilters, Home Chipperfield Owners Association, and Worden United Methodist Women and Treasurer of Worden Cemetery.

Survivors include her son Bruce E. Vaughn, Lawrence, KS. Several nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Gilbert R. Vaughn, her oldest son, Michael A. Vaughn, her parents and two brothers Paul N. and Floyd J. Wilkinson.

Sarah enjoyed traveling with her husband and friends, cooking, sewing (many different types and methods), quilting and knitting as well as reading, watching Kansas University Basketball, dining out with her friends and attending church.

Sarah was always proud of her nursing career and had special feelings about the white uniform they formally wore.

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Jefferson County some people still don’t know that our services are available, so for some folks it’s quite new and exciting.”

At its core the Care Center focuses on three main areas, Heikkila said.

And although the organization has always served Douglas, Franklin and Jefferson counties, the new locations allow them to expand their community outreach.

Heikkila said the expansion has affected core goals in the following ways: l 24/7 advocacy, hotline and hospital response — “We have advocates available all the time, but now we have the spaces to meet clients in a confidential location.

We’re able to meet them face to face,” she said. l Therapeutic programs — “We offer ongoing one-on-one therapy and support groups, but before we were relying on churches or open spaces,” she said. “Now we have our own locations.” l Prevention education programs — The new locations “again allow us to have landing spaces for all of our staff to provide services to schools and programs interested in

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Ultimately, the program’s backers warn, rehabbing the properties might cost tens of thousands of dollars.

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The idea for the program was brought up late last summer, after the Lawrence Community Shelter, which has room for 125 people, went to the city and county commissions asking for emergency funding. At the time, the shelter was facing a drastic revenue shortfall that a city audit later found was caused by a slow fundraising environment and the cost to the shelter of moving to a new facility in 2012.

The shelter’s financial struggles coincided with a decrease in funding to the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority for a transitional housing program that closely resembles New Horizons.

Oury said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development provided $300,000 for that program in 2011, and then cut funding nearly in half to $174,000 in 2014 and $200,000 in 2015.

As the funding dropped, a waiting list grew for those living at the Lawrence Community Shelter, campgrounds and other places who wanted transitional housing.

According to information provided to the city earlier this year, 671 individuals and families were on waiting lists for affordable housing in Lawrence. More than 100 were waiting for some type of rental assistance.

“The last few years, the last three at least, the funding has been cut significantly, and the waiting list has grown a lot,” Oury said. “So in August, when the shelter was having

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trouble with its budget, there was a conversation about, ‘Well, how do we get people moving along from the shelter to other types of housing?’”

The City Commission already approved allocating $100,000 from its 2016 budget to the new rentalassistance program, but it hasn’t yet reviewed how it will work. The city’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board worked on the parameters in February. It’s recommending the city approve them Tuesday and contribute the promised one-time payment of $100,000.

The board decided preference for the vouchers should be given to residents of the Lawrence Community Shelter, which “could help the shelter approve their costs,” according to a city memo.

Assistance will first go to families. Families who can prove they’re Douglas County residents will be the most preferred.

The advisory board considered a preference for families with at least one person working or a preference for single parents. Oury, who serves on the advisory board, said members decided against those parameters because they thought it would create too many restrictions.

There was also the thought that family units may split to meet the preference for single-parent families and move up on the waiting list.

“If we put a lot of other restrictions on it, it can lead to a bunch of unintended consequences to people we really intend to help,” Oury said. “We didn’t want to make it any harder than it already is to house these families.”

Families that qualify

and have a gross annual income below 50 percent of the median income for Douglas County are referred to the program by staff at the Lawrence Community Shelter.

Those receiving the assistance pay what they can of rent and utility bills while the Housing Authority pays the remainder directly to landlords and utility providers.

Housing has to be located in Douglas County.

The assistance lasts for two years, during which households must be supported by services to help them become more selfsufficient. Those “wraparound” services are provided by local agencies such as Bert Nash Center Homeless Outreach Team, Heartland Community Health Center, Family Promise and Willow Domestic Violence Center.

At the end of the two years, families could receive a federal Section 8 voucher that provides a subsidy directly to landlords, with tenants paying the difference.

With the $50,000 from Douglas County, the Housing Authority has placed two families, and another two have completed their registration and are looking for rentals. Two more are in the application process.

Once those six are housed, the county’s money will likely be used up, Oury said. More families are waiting for the city’s funding to become available.

The City Commission will meet at 5:45 p.m.

Tuesday at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.

learning about sexual violence,” she said.

One of the Care Center’s oldest partners, the Willow Domestic Violence Center, also serves Douglas, Franklin and Jefferson counties, said Kristine Chapman, the organization’s director of community engagement. Recent increases in VOCA funding also helped the Willow, allowing the two organizations to strengthen their longstanding relationship even further.

“We are constantly working with the Care Center,” Chapman said.

“Whether it’s them needing to find a safe place for a survivor of sexual assault to be able to stay, they have that guaranteed at our shelter, or if it’s working in the community to educate about prevention and intervention.”

Domestic violence and sexual assault, more often than not, are interlinked issues, Chapman said.

“For example, in college-age women, 1 in 5 experiences sexual violence, and I think 80 to 90 percent of those cases are perpetrated by someone they trust,” Chapman said. “As a woman I’ve always been taught to beware the man hiding in the bushes, but that’s not really where the danger lies. More often than not it’s the people we think we can trust.”

Educating the public and offering aid to vic- (USPS 306-520) Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, Kan. tims can be a difficult Member of Alliance task, but Heikkila said the for Audited Media Care Center’s new spacMember of The Associated Press es and recent financial boosts are positively affecting the organization’s mission, a trend that will hopefully continue.

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Wildfire claims Lawrence man’s boyhood home

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ELSIE MIDDLETON LOOKS THROUGH SOME BOOKS ON WEDNESDAY to fill the shelves in a public library inside the old Lecompton High School building. The opening of a library was a priority in the effort to reclaim the vacant building for community use. BELOW: Historic Lecompton High School, 640 E. Woodson Ave. in Lecompton.

The biggest wildfire in Kansas’ recorded history has destroyed the boyhood home of a Lawrence man.

Janet Gerstner said her husband, Kyle, would return Sunday from Medicine Lodge after visiting his parents, 87-year-old Don and 85-year-old Carol Gerstner. The couple lost their home Wednesday to the raging wildfire that has burned through miles of the rugged Gypsum Hills on both sides of the Kansas-Oklahoma line. The Associated Press reported Saturday that the fire had

consumed 640 square miles of grassland and destroyed six homes.

She and her husband had been tracking with concern the progress of the wildfire that started Tuesday near Alva, Okla., Gerstner said. They and Kyle’s parents thought the house was safe when the fire moved north past their home two miles southwest of Medicine Lodge. However, a wind shift early Wednesday again put the house in danger.

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Community reclaims historic Lecompton High School building

By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ

Bill Smith recalls escaping Lecompton High School in the early 1950s through a second-floor study hall window for the temptations offered elsewhere in the northwest Douglas County town.

“It was spring, and I was bored,” Smith said.

“I thought, ‘I could crawl out this window and go downtown.’ I did it several times. I never got caught.”

Fast forward 60-plus years, and the retired industrial electrician volunteers to spend time in the closed school. A 1953 graduate of Lecompton High School, Smith is the go-to guy to operate the sound system in the thirdfloor theater and acts as the all-around building maintenance man, fixing what he can and contacting the right expert when it’s beyond his scope.

In that Smith is not alone, said Cyndi

Treaster, president of Lecompton Community Pride. Forty-two years after the building stopped functioning as Lecompton High School with the consolidation that created the PerryLecompton High School, the building is again a center of community life through the efforts of scores of Lecompton Community Pride volunteers, she said.

Last weekend, the group had its biggest annual fundraiser, a twoday rummage sale that took in $5,000. Smith, Treaster and about 10 other volunteers were busy Wednesday boxing up the unsold items from the sale that cluttered all three floors of the school for donation to The Salvation Army.

For many of the volunteers, it’s a labor of respect for parents and grandparents whose taxes during tough economic times paid off the debt incurred to build

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A HOME BELONGING TO DON AND CAROL GERSTNER NEAR MEDICINE LODGE that was destroyed by a wildfire is pictured Thursday. The Gerstners are the parents of Lawrence resident Kyle Gerstner.

the school, which opened in 1928, said Lecompton City Councilwoman Elsie Middleton. They built a handsome school, too, with an ocher-colored brick exterior topped with a now-gone red tile roof and finished inside with hallway floors and stairs of the same marble as Kansas University’s Strong Hall, she said.

Smith’s parents were among the taxpayers who paid for the school, he said, tracing his deep roots in the community to the Lane University and Territorial Capital Museum standing in the same block as the school.

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went to college in the building next door, and my aunt was a teacher there,” he said.

He may have ducked out of the school on spring days, but he also played basketball in its now divided first-floor gym and was in plays in its third-floor theater, Smith said. Those memories haunted him when the building sat vacant.

“That’s part of my drive to keep it alive now,” Smith said. “It’s a shame to see a building like this going unused.

It’s a good old building.”

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Local business works on Air Force ‘supercomputer’

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A small Lawrence business is helping to harness artificial intelligence to improve the United States Air Force acquisitions process — a project the business can see through if it’s selected this spring to receive a second round of funding.

Lawrence-based KalScott Engineering Inc. was chosen last summer to train a supercomputer,

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said. “I got home that afternoon at 6:30. Looking at the computer to follow the fire, we got concerned. We tried to call, but we got a busy signal.”

Gerstner said that was because phone lines were down from the fire. By the time she and her husband were making that call, a finger of flames driven by sustained winds of 35 to 40 mph with gusts of up to 60 mph had consumed her in-laws’ home on U.S. Highway 281.

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unoccupied following school consolidation in 1970. After about a decade, it became the home of the Northeast Kansas Educational Service Unit, and after that agency left, the John Dewey Learning Academy alternative high school.

With the departure of the alternative high school in 2012, ownership of the school reverted to the city of Lecompton.

“The City Council was interested in selling it, but nobody stepped up except a young couple with only $1,500,” Treaster said.

Town residents interested in opening the school for community use organized themselves as Lecompton Community

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got off the phone with Kyle, Don saw a 16-foot wall of fire to the west,” Gerstner said. “As he was watching the fire, a cedar tree exploded in flames in the yard. That’s when he knew they had to leave. He and Carol made it to the truck. He tried to get his bird dogs when he realized he needed to go if they were going to survive. He actually drove out through fire with cedar trees burning near the driveway.”

The house had been the home of her husband’s parents for 54 years, Gerstner said. Through the years, her father-in-law, who is a carpenter as well as a bird dog trainer, rebuilt and

expanded the house that started as a dugout in the 1800s, using brick salvaged from the old Barber County Courthouse and cedarshake siding and shingles, she said.

“I remember standing at the kitchen sink at Christmas and telling my mother-in-law, ‘This is one of the most miraculous landscapes and beautiful views in the world,’” she said. “It really was a beautiful house. He (Don Gerstner) did a wonderful job building it.”

Her father-in-law lost a number of bird dogs, including a descendant of a two-time national champion, Gerstner said. Two

survived, perhaps through the efforts of responding firefighters, she said.

Everything inside was lost, including her artist mother-in-law’s paintings and the dog training trophies her father-in-law won. It could have been much worse, Gerstner said.

“If this would have happened at night, there would have been nothing left of them to find,” she said. “We have immense gratitude that they survived and the outpouring of support for them.”

The home was insured, and with the success of an Internet fundraising drive for Don and Carol Gerstner, she is asking that

contributions be made to the larger community, Gerstner said.

The hundreds of firefighters, local ranchers and other volunteers battling the wildfire appear to have gained the upper hand with the help of snow early Sunday morning and the deployment Saturday of Kansas National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, Gerstner said. But she said a lot of recovery work will be needed as the area of large ranches.

Volunteers will be needed to help replace miles of fencing destroyed or cut to allow livestock to escape the blaze and a call has been made for hay donations to

feed livestock with the loss of pasture, she said. Those who would donate or help can find links at sccfks.org.

Don and Carol Gerstner are moving into a Medicine Lodge apartment, but Janet’s fatherin-law’s early intention is to rebuild at the 40acre homestead. Gerstner said it’s a plan that “made sense” for a man who was an active carpenter.

“He’s very rugged,” she said. “Carol loves the outdoors, too. They are the epitome of that rugged county.”

medical professionals to answer clinical questions.

“We’ve taken all this data, and it’s been ingested into Watson,” Saripalli said. “It has to be trained for it to gain an understanding — what we call a ‘deep learning.”’

A 2006 report from the federal government’s accountability office said the current federal acquisitions process “discourages small and innovative businesses

from partnering with the government.”

Camron Gorguinpour, director of transformational innovation for the Air Froce, said in a news release that cognitive tools, like what KalScott is working on, can help businesses “better navigate what is a very complex bureaucracy.”

Businesses applying for defense contracts, as well as government employees who work in

procurement, can ask questions and get immediate responses from the system in a natural language. The computer is like a “very intelligent assistant,” Saripalli said, and would engage in a back-and-forth similar to knowledge navigators like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa.

Saripalli and Tom Sherwood, both Kansas University graduates, opened

their engineering and research and design firm in 2002. Drones are the company’s “bread and butter,” Saripalli said, and it’s previously been selected for jobs with NASA and the U.S. Navy to develop the unmanned air vehicles.

Saripalli and Sherwood are applying the same core technology the drones have to help train the supercomputer. Washington, D.C.based Applied Research

in Acoustics LLC was also chosen last summer to help with the project.

An Air Force news release says the tool should be completed by summer 2018. An announcement on whether KalScott is selected to finish the project may be made in the next couple of months.

Pride through Douglas County K-State Extension and approached a skeptical City Council about an arrangement to reopen the building. Fourteen months after the John Dewey group left, Community Pride started working to reclaim the building under an agreement with the city.

Treaster said the city paid the building’s insurance, mowed the lawn and contributed to maintenance cost, but Lecompton Community Pride was responsible for day-to-day operational expenses associated with the many functions now offered, Treaster said.

“We pay all the utilities,” she said. “It takes about $20,000 a year to keep everything going.”

Lecompton Community Pride also knew gaining the

keys to the building would be followed by a lot of work to make it functional. Middleton said the John Dewey group made a lot of alterations to the building during its occupancy. Some, such as the installation of an elevator, were welcomed, but others created headaches.

Walls, since removed, had been put up everywhere to divide big and small rooms into smaller ones. Carpets needed replaced or removed, wood floors refinished, walls painted and windows replaced.

Helping with the costs were grants from the Douglas County Community Foundation and the state Community Pride organization, Treaster said, but the work was done through the sweat equity of the volunteers.

As work started, two areas were given priority,

Treaster said. One was reclaiming a portion of the divided gym as a community meeting room, and the second was clearing space on the first floor for a town library that Carol Howard manages.

The library now is open 20 hours a week thanks to volunteers, Howard said.

It has a summer children’s reading program but is also popular with adults checking out movies, using two desktop computers or connecting their own devices to available Wi-Fi, she said.

The meeting room with its adjacent kitchen has become much in demand, and is home to the annual Lecompton High School reunions.

Those rooms might have been the priorities, but the biggest financial commitment was made in

rehabilitating the school’s old theater, Treaster said.

“The first big thing was buying new curtains for the plastic ones we found in here,” she said of the dark red curtains now covering the windows that line the theater’s exterior wall. “That took a lot of money. We pulled up the dirty old carpet and refinished the floors. We easily spent $20,000 in here.”

The old study hall and library that Brown sneaked out of years ago has been reclaimed for a studio for youth dance and tumbling and adult yoga and fitness classes. The dance classes are popular with Lecompton girls and draw students from north of the Kansas River who do not want to travel all the way to Lawrence for classes or prefer the more relaxed atmosphere of the local

instruction, Treaster said.

Other activity rooms include a large space for a local sewing circle, a Lecompton United Methodist Church free clothes shop and lounge where residents meet for weekly morning teas.

As the list of activities offered in the school indicate, the building is once again woven into the daily life of the community and a place where younger generations of Lecompton residents will make their own memories, Treaster said.

“Ultimately, I think that is what this building is all about is facilitating the connectedness of community,” she said. “We think that is very important.”

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

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

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

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Vegas oddsmakers now rivaling the best pollsters

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ou had to know it would only be a matter of time.

As soon as the Internet started offering online gambling sites, and states like Kansas began legalizing fantasy sports betting, it was only a matter of time before the oddsmakers in Vegas would figure out a way to tap into the political market.

The truth of the matter is that gambling on the outcome of elections is nothing new. But what is new is the ability to take data from people who are willing to lay down money on the outcome of an election and turn that into a form of crowdsourcing that yields a barometer that appears to be at least as accurate as any other prediction model floating around these days.

So, if you’re wondering who the odds-on favorite is to win the White House in November, all you have to do is Google the term “presidential prediction markets” and you get your answer: Democrats stand a 71 percent chance of winning the general election, and right now, Hillary Clinton has roughly a 90 percent chance of being the Democratic nominee.

Put another way, Donald Trump is viewed as having an 80 percent chance of being the Republican nominee, giving

Republicans only a 29 percent chance of winning the White House.

That’s the current (as of this writing) assessment from the website PredictWise, founded

by Microsoft Research economist David Rothschild, which aggregates data from a number of different sites.

One of the sites PredictWise uses goes by a similar name, PredictIt, which gives users the chance to buy, sell and trade shares in the outcome of an electoral event, such as the outcome of a primary, a nomination, or the general election. So, for example, ‘Candidate A wins the nomination’ would be an event, and traders will speculate on what the percentage chance is of a particular outcome of that event, either “yes” or “no.” Percentages are then translated into U.S. cents.

The sum total of “yes” and “no” bids add up to $1.

As of Sunday afternoon, people willing to bet money on a “Clinton-Yes” outcome of the general election were buying at 61 cents. People betting on a “Clinton-No” outcome were selling for 39 cents.

To see how accurate that model is, we only have to look back at some recent primaries. Leading up to the March 1 Super Tuesday primaries, PredictIt was forecasting that Trump would win in

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oldest prediction markets around, and one originally set up by academics.

IEM has been around for a few election cycles now, and in 2008 it outperformed all the major public opinion polls for accurately predicting the outcome of the election.

IEM’s model, which looks a lot like commodity Peter Hancock futures trading, offers two phancock@ljworld.com different types of “contracts,” or estimates of the 10 states and lose only in outcome: “vote shares,” or Texas to that state’s favorite son Sen. Ted Cruz. the percentage of the total popular vote either party And it showed Florida will get; and “winner-takeSen. Marco Rubio would all,” which predicts the finish second in the Minoutcome, regardless of nesota caucuses. point spread.

PredictIt got every At last check, contracts one of those right, except Minnesota, where Rubio for a Democratic popular vote win in November eked out a win.

That kind of information were trading at 59.8 cents, compared with can be fun and entertain40.5 cents for a Republiing, depending on which can win. side of the race you’re on, In the winner-take-all as long as you take it with a contracts, Democrats grain of salt. There’s still a whole lot of race left, and a were up 71 cents to 31 cents over Republicans. scandal here, or a misstep Prediction markets are there still could greatly affect the outcome. But these essentially a variation prediction markets are also on a theme that has been grabbing serious attention developing in the field from academic circles. of public opinion polling Kansas University for some time. Originally, political science profespollsters would ask (and sor Burdett Loomis called still do ask), “Who do you attention to them durintend to vote for in the ing a recent talk he gave upcoming election?” That to the Douglas County would give an accurate Democratic Party. When snapshot in time of where I emailed him later to the race stood at that get more information, he particular moment, but suggested the Iowa Elecit often had little predictronic Markets, one of the tive value because people

change their minds.

More recently, pollsters have started asking a different question: “Regardless of who you intend to vote for, who do you think will win the race?” That question turns out to have much more predictive value because it acknowledges the tendency of people, in the end, to gravitate toward the norm. In other words, most people want to be on the winning side.

The new, Web-based prediction markets are another step in that direction because they basically ask, “Regardless of your own opinion, if you were to put actual money on the line, where would you place your bets?” The theory is, people start getting a lot more honest when they have money at stake, even if it’s only a couple of bucks.

Bear in mind, however, the old saying in Las Vegas: “All those glitzy casinos weren’t built with money people won at the slot machines.” Gamblers often have a propensity for losing, so these current market-based predictions should be taken for what they are: predictions. It’ll take until November to find out how accurate they are.

— This is an excerpt from Peter Hancock’s Statehouse Live column, which appears on LJWorld.com.

Walk Kansas gets active with coming of spring

By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ

Although Lars Leon is dedicated to fitness, he says his job as a resource sharing librarian at Kansas University’s Watson Library doesn’t lend itself to staying active.

“It’s not physically demanding,” he said. “Sitting before a computer screen all day between going to meetings doesn’t get you much exercise.”

He and five co-workers have found a way to jointly address that with the arrival of spring. Three years ago they formed the Stax Trekkers to participate in the annual spring Walk Kansas program offered through Kansas State Research and Extension.

The team started with the least demanding of the three levels of the Walk Kansas challenge, which is to log miles equal to the 423-mile distance between the Missouri to Colorado state lines, Leon said. After “knocking that off pretty easily,” the team decided last year to take on the

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Unfortunately that’s down from the overall headcount in 2014 (252,421) and 2013 (258,949), said Cindy Farrier, Regents director of data, research and planning. However, she said, it’s reflective of the national trend, particularly post-Recession.

Looking to the future, Farrier said it was important to maintain a good balance in the “system portfolio,” remembering it’s full of different schools with different missions.

“Our institutions must focus on their mission and student success,” Farrier said. “And if they do, the enrollment picture should follow.”

Across the Regents system, the largest minority groups are Hispanic and black students.

The percentage of black students enrolled

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LARS LEON, OF LAWRENCE, TAKES A WALK across the Kansas University campus on Friday. The KU librarian will be a member of a team participating in the Walk Kansas program that Kansas State Research and Extension offers each spring. most demanding level of walking the 1,200 miles of the state’s perimeter.

The mid-level equals the 750-mile distance from the state’s northwest to southeast corners.

Leon said the team aspect helped keep him and other team members motivated last year, and they will again take on the parameter challenge this spring.

“It’s the accountability,” he said. “Not in a bad way, but that team spirit of ‘Oh my gosh, we’re going to walk around Kansas together’ way.”

Douglas County Kansas State Extension family and consumer science agent Susan Johnson said the team approach to fitness was one of the research-based aspects of Walk Kansas.

“That’s why I think it works so successfully in the workplace, because it does motivate people to get out and walk together or take a break for physical activity,” she said.

“Research shows 10 minutes of physical activity does motivate workplace productivity.”

About 80 percent of

the 122 teams and 740 participants in Douglas County’s 2015 Walk Kansas program were workrelated, Johnson said.

Walk Kansas addresses more elements of healthy living than walking, Johnson said. Teams also get mileage credits for eating fruits and vegetables or engaging in other forms of exercise such as weight training, bicycling or jogging.

“It’s not just walking,” Johnson said. “It’s any kind of cardiovascular activity. It’s really meant to get your cardiovascular going for 10 minutes at a time.

“There’s several components of Walk Kansas. We want to get more people motivated to get fit. We want them to eat more fruits and vegetables and drink more water.”

Research shows the Walk Kansas activity and healthy eating have a number of benefits, including increased muscle strength, lower blood pressure, healthier attitudes, better sleep habits and improved stress management, Johnson said.

“We have had a

How does KU minority enrollment compare?

The percentages of Hispanic, black and multiracial students enrolled at Kansas University has increased every year for the past five years, according to Kansas Board of Regents data. In that time period, the percentage of white students has gone down every year, in higher education is larger than the percentage of black Kansas residents, while the percentage of Hispanic students remains smaller than the percentage of Hispanic Kansas residents.

In Kansas, 6.3 percent of residents are black, according to 2014 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

According to Regents data for the 2014-15 academic year, black students represent: l 4.3 percent of state university enrollees. l 9.4 percent of community college enrollees. l 7.5 percent of

from 75.4 percent in 2010-11 to 70 percent in 2014-15.

Here is the breakdown of KU students by race/ethnicity for 2014-15, the most recent year of Regents data: l 70 percent white l 9.7 percent nonresident alien (foreign) l 5.8 percent Hispanic

l 4.2 percent black l 4.2 percent multiracial l 3.8 percent Asian l 1.6 percent unknown l Less than 1 percent

American Indian/Alaska Native l Less than 1 percent Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander

technical college enroll- students represent: ees. l 6.1 percent of state l 7 percent of enrollees university enrollees. l 9.7 percent of comacross all of the state’s public postsecondary in- munity college enrollees. l 10.3 percent of stitutions. technical college Over the past enrollees. five years, the perl 8.1 percent of centage of black enrollees across all students systemof the state’s public wide has fluctuated between 6.7 and 7.3 BOARD OF postsecondary inpercent, according REGENTS stitutions.

Over the past to Regents data.

Hispanics make up 11.4 five years, the percentpercent of Kansas resi- age of Hispanic students dents, according to 2014 systemwide has gone up data from the U.S. Census every year. They made up 6.6 percent of students Bureau.

According to Regents systemwide in 2010-11.

Multiracial students data for the 2014-15 academic year, Hispanic are another growing

number of diabetics who said their participation improved their blood numbers,” she said.

The 2016 program starts April 2 and will continue through May 28. Team registrations will be accepted through April 8 at walkkansas.org or by returning forms to the Douglas County Extension Office, 2110 Harper St., Johnson said. Teams are to have six members with a team captain who logs miles online, although there are some five-member teams.

Registration is $8 per team member.

The Walk Kansas website is more interactive this year, which will allow participants to communicate with other team members or participants online, Johnson said.

“It’s another little nudge to increase motivation to get moving,” she said. “The idea is never to get too caught up on minutes, but to enjoy movement. It’s a program that inspires you to get outside again.”

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

minority population in the Regents system.

Their share of statewide enrollees has increased each year for five years, starting with 1.2 percent in 2010-11 and reaching 2.4 percent in 2014-15, according to the Regents data for students identifying as two or more races.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2.8 percent of Kansans in 2014 were multiracial, defined as identifying themselves as two or more races.

Farrier said maintaining enrollment also involves addressing retention and graduation.

“You have to look at the demographics of your stop-outs,” she said, using a term for students who quit school either temporarily or permanently before earning a degree.

Low-income, firstgeneration and some minority students are among groups that struggle, she said. She said the Regents are working to address

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ON THE RECORD Marriages Rebecca S. Popp, 70, Lawrence, and Alfred Schilousky, 43, Ewing, Neb. Jeffrey Scott Gutshall, 32, Tonganoxie, and Kathleen Lynn Thomas, 32, Tonganoxie.

Emma Jane Payne, 28, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Robert John Rielly, 30, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Aaron T. Rogers, 33, Lawrence, and Lacy Webb, 29, Lawrence.

Leah Marie Hoelscher, 30, Lawrence, and Gregory Scott Burr, 30, Lawrence.

Derrick Jerome Mahoney, 51, Lawrence, and Cindy Lee Spears, 47, Lawrence.

Jonathan Robert Overton, 52, Lawrence, and Judy Kay Bucklin, 52, Lawrence.

Ann Wu, 26, Lawrence, and Seth Brooks, 24, Lawrence.

Drew Allan Peters, 27, Lawrence, and Victoria Kavana Sweraringer, 26, Lawrence.

Jarek Cameron Penney, 26, Andale, and Jordan Kaylyn Weber, 22, Lenexa.

Jennifer McVey, 37, Lawrence, and Amber Cripps, 35, Lawrence.

Christenia Raele Abramovitz, 36, Lawrence, and Kyle William Owens, 27, Lawrence.

Frank Martin, 50, Topeka, and Larry Collins, 50, Topeka.

Thomas Edwin Kleinschmidt, 32, Kansas City, Mo., and Amanda Lea Mayhew, 33, Kansas City, Mo. Mikayla Shea Brewer, 21, Kansas City, Mo., and Jarett Joseph Shane Legleiter, 21, Kansas City, Mo. Andrew Blakemore, 27, Emporia, and Nicole Schmidt, 29, Emporia.

Robert Nii Anuaku Nunoo, 52, Lawrence, and Patience Olambipe Nunoo, 39, Lawrence.

Michel Alimasi-Katopa, 24, Lawrence, and Kirisa M. Turner, 26, Lawrence.

Robert Amado Bitu Brinkley, 36, Lawrence, and Kelsey Dawn Oliver, 24, Lawrence.

Patrick John Leach, 26, Lawrence, and Anna Elizabeth Perkin, 26, Lawrence.

Jacob Paul Brotbeck, 28, Lawrence, and Alison Winifred Dishinger, 49, Lawrence.

Joshua Ray Bailey, 29, Lawrence, and Brittny Lace Randol, 25, Topeka.

Justin David Banks, 35, Lawrence, and Kate Lauren Davanzo, 29, Lawrence.

Elizabeth Jon Edmonds, 50, Lawrence, and Kent Wayne Ely, 50, Lawrence.

Eric Guy Giroux, 28, Lawrence, and Jaclyn Sue Wolff, 27, Lawrence.

Shawna Diane Hanrahan, 46, Topeka, and Theodore Joseph Meyer, 42, Topeka.

Dannie Clarence Lynch, 52, Lawrence, and Babette Joy Barrett, 49, Lawrence.

John Alfred Huntington, 52, Lawrence, and Alejandra Guzman Carrasco, 50, Lawrence.

Divorces John Scott Watson, 52, Lawrence, and Theresa Carol Watson, 48, Lawrence.

Allen J. Ward, 74, Lawrence, and Linda Louise Ward, 70, Lawrence.

Terry Lee Fursman, 50, Baldwin City, and Angelia Kay Fursman, 45, Baldwin City.

Richard L. Albin, 63, Lawrence, and Charlotte Louise Albin, 63, Lawrence.

Bankruptcies Denice Priscilla Lawson, 1527 Acorn Lane, Eudora.

DeAndre Maurice Simmons and Theda Kierra Simmons, 204 Eisenhower Drive, Apt. G-8, Lawrence.

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some “barriers,” including transfer courses.

Fort Hays State University President Mirta Martin said barriers for students there include cultural perceptions that prevent some students — particularly men — from asking for help until it’s too late. She said other students may work 40 hours a week to support their families, when often those are the students that really need to work less and focus on academics.

Wichita State University sees local students quit because of family or economic problems but is trying to do more for them, President John Bardo said.

“There’s a lot of very complex issues that go in to trying to improve this,” he said. “We’re all worrying a lot about it, because those people are our future.”

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

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Daughter shouldn’t move back near abusers Dear Annie: I adopted two older children from different orphanages and now they are grown adults. They both suffered deprivation and abuse in their early childhood years, but overall seem to be achieving more than expected.

My older child, ‘’Rose,’’ married a man with a gambling addiction and an attraction for young children.

Rose has a new baby and apparently wants to keep the baby’s father in the picture at all costs. She goes along with whatever he says and rationalizes their behavior as acceptable and normal. I strongly suspect they deal in child pornography to supplement their income, as this has been a problem in the past.

My youngest daughter, ‘’Meg,’’ has a

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10-year-old daughter who was molested by these two when she was 5 years old. The family decided never to allow the child to be alone with Rose and her husband, and told them why. Meg reported the incident to the police and someone contacted child protective services. Unfortunately, the facts of the case got mixed up and Meg was found guilty of failing to protect her daughter, while the perpetrators

Skeptic’s stunts worth watching Can people be conned into the truth? The “Independent Lens” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) presentation of “An Honest Liar” profiles Canadian-born magician, escape artist and skeptical educator James Randi, aka “The Amazing Randi.” He used his mid-century popularity and regular appearances on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” to debunk so-called psychics, channelers and notorious faith healers.

In the war between reason and gullibility, the role of the professional skeptic can often seem joyless. Richard Dawkins has made a name for himself as a skeptic, but it’s hard to call his lectures “fun.” In contrast, it’s downright exciting to believe that people with special powers can bend spoons or that preachers endowed by the Holy Spirit can drive away devils and diseases from the dying.

As “Liar” explains, Randi posed as a psychic as a young man and correctly predicted the outcome of a World Series. After people approached him offering riches to foretell their futures and fortunes, he was struck by the power of his deception. He was horrified enough to dedicate his adult life to disproving liars and fakers. And he knew that as a trained illusionist and stage performer, he could bring a certain razzle-dazzle to his sermon of science and reason.

Scenes of Randi on 1970s talk shows, sitting next to Ricardo Montalban in a powder blue leisure suit, or Doc Severinsen dressed in parrot green, are worth the price of admission.

At the heart of “Liar” are several stunts pulled by Randi and accomplishments such as explaining how he discovered that a faith healer was using an earpiece and radio signals to “sense” the names and addresses of tearful believers; how a government-sponsored parapsychology study was riddled with bad science; and how easily the media and the people of Australia could be duped into swallowing the gibberish of a newly coined spiritualist “channeling” the spirit of a 40,000-year-old man.

The last third of the film explores a much larger deception at the center of Randi’s life that involves his lover and partner of more than 25 years. “Liar” offers a remarkable portrait of a true original as well as a provocative discussion of the natures of truth, belief and illusion that have only grown more relevant in our era of “reality” programming.

Tonight’s other highlights O Not even separate networks can keep the Flash (Grant Gustin) from helping “Supergirl” (7 p.m., CBS, TV-14).

O Framed in more ways than one on “Blindspot” (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

were never even interviewed. Rose and her husband moved out of state.

Meg went back to school and is finally getting her college degree, but she is panicked about finding a job. She is talking about moving near Rose. My granddaughter doesn’t remember the earlier abuse and seems excited to be with her new cousin. Meg says she wants to be closer to her sister, and promises never to leave her daughter unsupervised.

I worry constantly about the new baby’s safety and what could happen to Meg’s daughter. Meg is planning a visit soon, and I’m sure they’ll be staying with Rose while she looks for nearby housing.

How can I protect my granddaughter if she moves out of state? —

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For Monday, March 28: This year you open up to many new ideas. These different concepts often come through your comrades at work or through casual acquaintances. The ideas you hear are likely to be provocative, as these people live such a different lifestyle from yours. If you are single, you will find that others are drawn to you. However, not until fall 2016 are you likely to meet someone of significance.

If you are attached, the two of you often enjoy going out together as a couple.

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) ++++ Keep pushing to accomplish what you want. You see a path that few others do. Tonight: Break past barriers.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ++++ Togetherness surrounds a change. Understand your limitations, and know where you are heading. Tonight: Don’t hesitate.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ++++ Defer to others, and know full well where you are heading and why. Tonight: Confusion surrounds plans.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ Defer to others. Listen to someone who feels strongly about what is going on. Tonight: Make it easy.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ Rethink a decision involving a loved one; you can’t be

Frightened Grandma Dear Grandma: This situation is reprehensible. Surely, Meg can find a job in another city just as easily as she can in Rose’s area. We wonder why she is so determined to go there, knowing the risks. If Meg moves to Rose’s town and stays in her home, report the situation to their local child protective services.

You can do so anonymously. They will investigate the home and determine what’s going on. And if there is any chance they may be abusing the baby, call child protective services immediately.

— Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

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too careful. Tonight: Pretend it’s still the weekend.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ You could be on a roll and not see what is going on.

Listen to your inner voice. Tonight: Close to home.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++++ You could feel cornered.

How you handle a personal matter depends on your mood. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.”

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) +++++ You could be in a situation that seems to be very difficult and time-consuming.

Tonight: Let someone else pick up the tab.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) +++++ Those around you believe that you are driven, and you are. You have a lot of energy.

Tonight: All smiles.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ Others often want to be around you or share more with you. Honor your feelings. Tonight: Beam in more of what you want.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ A friend could be overly assertive and touchy. You tend to draw others in quickly. Tonight: Not alone.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) +++ You might discover that a higher-up is touchy and perhaps a bit angry. Tonight: Out and about.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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ACROSS 1 “__ a sudden ...”

6 Make disappear 11 Parochial school subj.

14 Hotelier Helmsley 15 Backless couch 16 Hagen of stage and screen 17 Alley dwellers?

19 Moo __ pork 20 Nineveh’s region 21 Move along jumpily 23 Concerning, on a memo 25 Derek and the Dominos classic 26 Temporary occupant 30 Leadingedge 33 Dr. Alzheimer 34 Gadded about 35 Craigslist posts 38 “Adult” literature 39 Audited a class, say 40 Prison uprising 41 Bricks unit 42 Yielded to pressure 43 Model glider wood 44 Dealer in cloth 46 Long-eared hound

47 Grouchy Muppet 49 Lasting emotional damage 51 Coffeemaker inserts 54 Gallery event 59 “Rope-adope” boxer 60 Milk, bread, potatoes, etc.

62 Area between outfielders 63 Doo-wop tune, say 64 Attack from all sides 65 Twisty curve 66 Raring to go 67 Pen’s inferior, in a saying DOWN 1 Goya’s Duchess of __ 2 Many August babies 3 Weather map areas 4 “For Your Eyes __” 5 Tinker Bell and others 6 Mystery writer’s award 7 Job for a tailor 8 Alamo rival 9 Holed, as a putt 10 Stored, as fodder 11 Drambuie and Scotch cocktails

12 Lucy’s landlady 13 Gene Tierney title role 18 Punch-in time for many 22 Cigarette gunk 24 Hams on stage 26 In the proverbial cellar 27 Lincoln who played Tarzan 28 Audio snippets 29 Watch junior 31 Roman writer of “Amores” 32 Cozy retreat 34 Go ballistic 36 Two tablets, perhaps 37 BA or ERA 39 Easy mark

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City critters City officials need to consider all of the potential pitfalls of allowing expanded urban agriculture in Lawrence.

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heep, goats and bees in the city?

Oh, my.

Many people may not realize it, but Lawrence already allows ducks and chickens (hens, no roosters) to be raised on residential properties of a certain size (one duck or hen per 500 square feet of yard, to be precise). Now, Lawrence city commissioners are being asked to consider a significant expansion in backyard crops and livestock inside the city limits.

It’s all in the name of promoting “urban agriculture” in Lawrence. The city’s staff has been working with the Douglas County Food Policy Council to draft new regulations for growing, harvesting and selling crops and keeping small farm animals in residential areas of the city. Residents with large enough yards could keep goats or sheep. Bees would be permitted on even small lots. The proposed regulations also allow gardeners to use hoop houses and greenhouses on their property, and residents would be permitted to sell unprocessed products like eggs, honey, produce and flowers from their homes.

The regulations under consideration are related to increased interest in the “local food” movement which encourages local food production. Raising food and keeping animals can be “empowering” for local residents, one official said, but what about their neighbors?

The regulations are written in a way that seeks to prevent urban agriculture from becoming a neighborhood nuisance, but residents have legitimate concerns about having traditional farm animals in their neighborhoods. A neighbor’s goats may not be more of a problem than a neighbor’s dogs, but the neighborhood beekeeper could pose a real problem for someone with a severe allergy to bee stings.

Urban agriculture on a small scale may seem acceptable, but it seems the kind of uses allowed in the new regulations could get out of hand. Certain neighborhoods may get a lot more interested in enforcing long-dormant development covenants that prohibit certain outdoor structures like greenhouses or chicken coops.

Growing food and tending animals can be a satisfying pursuit, but the expansion of urban agriculture also could have negative impacts on city neighborhoods. City officials need to make sure they’ve adequately considered those negative impacts before moving forward on the new regulations.

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Europe must unite against terrorism Washington — “We have the Europe we deserve,” admitted French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Wednesday.

The question is how Europeans can build the security structures they need.

The first requirement is solidarity, within each country and among the 28 nations of the European Union. This begins with better links with the Muslim communities, the angry, alienated people at Europe’s table. Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that’s only half of it.

Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship.

What would this solidarity look like? After Sept. 11, 2001, Muslims in America by the thousands volunteered for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. They despised the terrorist acts that had been committed in their name by al-Qaida, and wanted to show themselves and their fellow citizens that they were loyal Americans.

European Muslims should step up now in a similar way. In immigrant neighborhoods like Molenbeek in Brussels or the banlieues that surround Paris, Muslim leaders who want change should organize campaigns to enlist their neighbors in the army, police and security services; these leaders can create a new social compact by showing their fellow citizens that they are ashamed of what the jihadist thugs have done and are unafraid of retribution. European Muslims need to feel

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European Muslims need to feel ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army.” ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army.

The jihadists often emerge from a youth-gang subculture of violence and intimidation.

No wonder the Belgian authorities stumbled for four months looking for Islamic State fugitive Salah Abdeslam.

No wonder they couldn’t find the suicide bombers who struck Tuesday, four days after Abdeslam’s arrest, even though they suspected an attack was coming. Nobody would talk to them. The community was “deaf and dumb,” as the mobsters liked to say about ethnic neighborhoods in America.

The second requirement is fairness. The European Union has largely been a project of the elites. The powerful companies (and nations) have prospered.

The weak have suffered.

When the bills came due,

the haves told the have-nots to tighten their belts. Should it surprise us that this arrogant system is cracking at the seams?

The Greeks may have exploited a system that gave them a financial free ride, but the Germans then insisted on imposing an impossible debtrepayment scheme that was meant to teach the debtors a lesson. The Germans should have known better: The punitive repatriations plan imposed by the allies after World War I created the bitter payback of Nazism.

The third requirement is for Europe to grow up about intelligence. Many Europeans seem to think that good intelligence is created by immaculate conception, rather than through the hard and sometimes intrusive work of surveillance. The authorities often don’t mind if America does the counterterrorist snooping, so long as they don’t have to admit it to their publics.

Europeans don’t like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don’t spy. This immature approach leaves them unable to demand accountability from the security services after chronic intelligence failures like the ones we have seen in France and Belgium. How can you reform something if you won’t talk honestly about how it works?

A fourth requirement is for a trans-Atlantic partnership that’s equal to the seriousness of this crisis. All the alarm bells are ringing. The

leaders of America and Europe should meet in a crisis summit — Brussels would be a good spot — and they should stay until they have agreed on plans for collecting and sharing intelligence together, so that citizens across Europe are safer.

Bureaucracy, a modern European specialty, is the enemy: To forge an alliance that can succeed, Europeans must break through national, regional and international barriers to fight a global adversary. President Obama, perhaps more popular in Europe than in America, can lead this trans-Atlantic partnership and create a legacy that’s worthy of him.

The final requirement is to think ahead about changes that will create better stability in the future. If it’s 1941 in terms of the shock, it should be 1944 in terms of planning for the future — devising the post-crisis equivalents of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the United Nations that can cope with the explosion of rage that has swept Muslim Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It’s an interconnected problem, and the solutions require shared, visionary ideas about governance, economic development and global tolerance.

Fix it or lose it. That’s the challenge today for Europe.

They won’t get it right without American help. Now is the time to start.

— David Ignatius is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

Obama visit not enough to change Cuba President Barack Obama’s speech in Cuba calling for democracy and human rights on the island was relatively good, but don’t fool yourself: It will be drowned in an avalanche of Castro government propaganda in the coming weeks and might soon be a faint memory in most Cubans’ minds.

This is not meant to dismiss Obama’s speech in Havana as a waste of time, nor his opening to Cuba as a mistake, as Obama’s right-wing critics are already saying. In fact, Obama’s decision to re-

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… don’t believe the conventional wisdom in the U.S. media that Obama’s calls for human rights and democracy may mark a turning point in Cuba’s history.” verse U.S. policy about Cuba was a good decision after decades of failed U.S. efforts to isolate the island.

But Obama could have done it much better. The U.S. president was too diplomatic, too conciliatory and too nice to Cuban dictator Raúl Castro.

He could have made the same trip by holding an official meeting in Havana with Castro, but delivering a somewhat stronger — while respectful — speech, without singing praises to Cuba’s alleged achievements in health and education that collapsed decades ago, and without appearing next to Castro enjoying a baseball game.

To his credit, in his speech broadcast live on the island at the end of his historic three-day visit, Obama said that “I believe citizens

should be free to speak their mind without fear, to organize and to criticize their government, and to protest peacefully. And that the rule of law should not include arbitrary detentions of people who exercise those rights.”

He added, “And yes, I believe voters should be able to choose their governments in free and democratic elections.”

Furthermore, he stressed over and over that the United States is no longer an enemy of Cuba, debunking the Castro regime’s claim that it needs to suppress fundamental freedoms because the island is threatened by Washington. All of that was well conceived, and well delivered.

But many human rights advocates, including those who support Obama’s Cuba policy, expected a less abstract, more specific speech.

Jose Miguel Vivanco, head of Human Rights Watch’s Americas department and a supporter of Obama’s opening to Cuba, said that “Obama could have done much more to highlight the reforms that are urgently needed to end” Cuba’s police state.

“What Obama did not do was talk about the specific ways in which the Castro government denies these freedoms, such as blocking

access to websites of independent journalists, denying rights to labor unions, threatening and detaining people to prevent them from participating in peaceful protests and political meetings, and using an Orwellian law to imprison critics for up to four years for ‘pre-criminal dangerousness,’ “ Vivanco said.

Also to his credit, Obama met with leading Cuban dissidents at a private meeting at the U.S. Embassy after his speech. Among those attending were Berta Soler, a leader of Ladies in White, activist Guillermo Fariñas and Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission founder Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz.

Shortly before Obama’s trip to Cuba, Sánchez had cautioned me in an interview not to buy into speculation that a nationally broadcast speech by Obama would have a big impact in Cuba. He reminded me that there are no independent newspapers, nor radio or television stations on the island, and that Internet service is scarce and censored.

Former President Jimmy Carter, Pope John Paul II and several other foreign dignitaries were allowed to make public speeches in Cuba through the years, but their impact was short-lived, he said.

Referring to Obama, Sánchez told me that “Castro may allow him to say whatever he wants because later, with his huge domestic and foreign propaganda machine, and with police intimidation, Castro can erase his message from people’s memory.”

And as for the dissidents’ meeting with Obama, Castro’s propaganda machine will stress that it took place at the U.S. Embassy, citing that as alleged proof of its ridiculous claims that all oppositionists in Cuba are “U.S. mercenaries.”

My opinion: Obama’s conciliatory message will make it increasingly difficult for the Castro dictatorship to continue claiming that it can’t hold free elections or allow political parties because the country is under threat of a U.S. invasion.

But don’t believe the conventional wisdom in the U.S. media that Obama’s calls for human rights and democracy may mark a turning point in Cuba’s history. Only an international diplomatic offensive in support of Cuba’s peaceful opposition will help force a political opening in Cuba. That’s a pending assignment for Obama, or for his successor.

— Andres Oppenheimer is a Latin America correspondent for the Miami Herald.

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Seventh St. The Future of the GOP with Alex Castellanos, 7:30 p.m., Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive.

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Named a 2010 “Diversity Hero” of Massachusetts lawyers, Judge Joyce London Ford is no stranger to adversity.This week, Director Bill Lacy will interview London Ford about her extraordinary judicial career and legacy, including her time as the nation’s first AfricanAmerican chief U.S. magistrate judge.

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03.28.16 Tech firms protest Kurt Sutter’s comic features N.C. anti-LGBT law dark, supernatural antihero EMERY P. DALESIO, AP

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Momentum vs. math as Sanders claims victories Clinton maintains her delegate lead in Democratic contest Susan Page USA TODAY

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed political momentum in the Democratic presidential race Sunday after scoring lopsided victories in Saturday caucuses in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington.

But delegate math continued to favor rival Hillary Clinton as the campaign headed toward the

Wisconsin primary April 5 and the New York primary April 19.

The former secretary of State leads Sanders among pledged delegates by 1,243 to 975, according to the Associated Press. When unpledged “superdelegates” are included, her lead stretches to 1,712 to his 1,004. Needed for nomination: 2,383.

“We have won five of the six last contests in landslide fashion,” Sanders said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “I think a lot of the superdelegates are now beginning to look at which Democratic candidate is the best place to defeat Donald Trump. I think some of

them are beginning to overwhelmingly white. understand that it’s BerLess than 5% of the popnie Sanders.” ulation in each are AfriSanders trounced Clincan-Americans, the ton 81.6% to 18.4% in voters who have given Clinton her biggest marAlaska; 69.8% to 30% in Hawaii; and 72.7% to gin of victory. Looking ahead, two of the remain27.1% in Washington.

Democratic rules reing state contests are cauIMAGES quire delegates be allo- Bernie GETTY cuses, in Wyoming and Sanders cated proportionately, North Dakota, and the big making it harder for Sanders to primaries ahead include New make up his deficit.

York, Pennsylvania and New JerAll three states held caucuses, sey, where more than one in 10 the sort of partisan contest in residents are black.

Sanders predicted he would which Sanders has been boosted by the enthusiasm of his sup- “do well” in Wisconsin and has “a porters. The three states also are real shot in New York.”

“And then we go out to California,” he said. The Golden State votes June 7, the final big primary day.

That signaled his determination to stay in the race until the end, and he rebuffed questions about what it would take for him to endorse Clinton. “I hope very much, Chuck, that you will be asking her that question,” he said to NBC’s Chuck Todd.

On NBC, Sanders said he had “a little bit of concern” that Clinton would not participate in more debates. The Clinton campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

PAKISTAN REELING AFTER EASTER BOMBING A breakaway Taliban faction has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed at least 65 people and wounded hundreds more Sunday in a park filled with Christian families celebrating Easter in the Pakistani city of Lahore, the government says.

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BRUSSELS LOOKS TO HEALING, NOT FEAR Residents rally amid worry and security raids

Anti-Islamic State demonstrators clash with police at Place de la Bourse, the site of the memorial for the victims of last week’s terrorist attacks in Brussels.

Maya Vidon and Jabeen Bhatti Special for USA TODAY

BRUSSELS Police fired water cannons to disperse hundreds of right-wing protesters who trampled a makeshift memorial to terrorist victims when chaos broke out Sunday at a Rally Against Fear.

Belgian security forces also conducted raids in three cities Sunday and took four people into custody as part of a crackdown on suspected terrorists.

The clashes and ongoing investigation after Tuesday’s suicide bombings that killed 31 people and wounded hundreds make some residents worry that Brussels could turn into a city of fear.

Authorities had canceled the planned march, citing a police force already strained after Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels that left at least 31 people dead and hundreds wounded. But several hundred people rallied anyway, including many dressed in black, some covering their faces with balaclavas and carrying an

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anti-Islamic State banner.

Police struggled to separate the rioters from families quietly paying respects to the victims.

Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur expressed outrage that “this kind of scum” had added to the nation’s pain instead of aiding healing, according to Belgian broadcaster VTM. “We are afraid to go into the metro, on the trains — we are afraid now to live our lives nor-

mally,” said Meriem Sayah, 24, who was upset the original march was canceled and came to Place de la Bourse anyway to honor the victims. “We need to speak out (against fear), we need to shout — because we must be heard.”

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Pay raises, hiring trend push thousands back to work Paul Davidson USA TODAY

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are streaming back to an improving labor market as employers raise wages and hire lessskilled job candidates to cope with a rising worker shortage.

The portion of the U.S. population working or looking for jobs — known as the labor force participation rate — has risen to 62.9% from 62.4% since September, Labor Department figures show.

The rate had been falling since 2008, mostly because of Baby

Boomer retirements, and that’s still expected to be the long-term trend.

Yet part of the drop was caused by a tough post-recession job market that prompted discouraged workers to leave the labor force and many other unemployed Americans to retire, go on disability or return to school.

At least some of those idled workers are returning to work or looking again now that the jobless rate has fallen to 4.9%, a level many economists consider full employment. They’ve been lured by employers who are raising pay or becoming less selective.

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The labor force participation rate has risen to 62.9%.

“We’re just hearing a lot more openness” from employers, says Tim Gates, of staffing firm Adecco.

Wells Fargo recently said the rebound appears to be driven by the less educated, including discouraged workers who had been on the sidelines. Since September, the participation rate for college graduates with at least a bachelor’s degree has dropped to 73.8% from 74.4%. The rate for every other group, including high school graduates and those with less than a high school diploma, has climbed at least half a percentage point.

Even so, their unemployment rate has declined, indicating that many of those coming back are landing jobs despite increased competition from their peers.

Other groups are also returning, including retirees, the disabled and people in school, according to Goldman Sachs.

Many are enticed by rising wages. Although average wage growth nationally has been tepid at about 2%, average earnings for private-sector employees in the same job at least 12 months jumped 4.1% in the fourth quarter, according to payroll processor ADP.

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Petition for guns at GOP convention nears 35,000 Arena forbids guns; Effort began as satire David Jackson USA TODAY

Donald Trump says he wants to study a petition that calls for allowing the open carry of guns at the Republican convention this July in Cleveland.

While proclaiming himself “a very, very strong person for Second Amendment,” the Republican front-runner told ABC’s This Week that “I have not seen the petition. I want to see what it says. I want to read the fine print.”

Posted on the website Change .org, the petition of unknown origin notes that “though Ohio is an open carry state, which allows for the open carry of guns, the hosting venue — the Quicken Loans Arena — strictly forbids the carry of firearms on their premises.”

That “is a direct affront to the Second Amendment and puts all attendees at risk,” reads the petition that has more than 34,000 signers.

The other Republican presidential candidates — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich — have not commented on the open carry petition.

The name of the group purportedly behind the effort — Americans for Responsible Open

“I have not seen the petition. ... I want to read the fine print.”

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Carry — does not appear anywhere else online and accepts online message only from networked supporters, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.

According to the website CNET on Sunday, the petition may have been started as satire by a group called Hyperationalist.

CNET quoted from the blog: “It just doesn’t seem right that thousands of patriotic Republican good guys should be left to-

tally unprotected by whatever bad guys might wish to do them harm. I mean forgodsake people, ISIS could show up to take out everybody in and around that building and they’d be sitting ducks. Sitting ducks, I tell you!

There might even be a bad egg or two among the delegates.”

CNET reported that Hyperationalist didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tweets from Hyperationalist also suggest the writer is not necessarily sympathetic to the Republican cause, CNET said, citing the example: “Win-win for the Trump people at last night’s rally: a protester got beat up and a black guy got arrested. #TrumpRally #NeverTrump”

The Ohio Republican Party said it was not aware of the petition, the Akron Beacon Journal reported, nor was the host committee overseeing the convention, although it noted that the Secret Service, in conjunction with Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and state and federal authorities, is handling security for the event.

“They are coordinating and will be continuously refining security plans leading up to the national convention,” said Alee Lockman, a spokesperson for the Republican National Convention, the Journal says.

In 2012, firearms were banned by the Secret Service at the Republican convention in Tampa.

IRELAND’S EASTER RISING RESONATES, 100 YEARS LATER Failed rebellion gave birth to independence Kim Hjelmgaard USA TODAY

Ireland on Sunday staged its largest ever military parade as it marked the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, a botched but historically significant rebellion against British rule.

Hundreds of thousands of people lined Dublin’s streets to watch 3,600 members of Ireland’s military and emergency services take part in a five-hour, 3-mile procession that wound its way past some of the buildings seized during the revolt that left parts of this city in ruins.

Irish President Michael Higgins laid a wreath in front of the General Post Office. The building’s bullet-riddled columns reflect that it was used for six days, starting on Easter Monday in 1916, as the headquarters of a revolt that aimed to overthrow 700 years of British reign.

A minute of silence was observed, the Irish flag was lowered to half-staff, and there was a flypast by the Irish air force.

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Hundreds of thousands line Dublin streets on Easter Sunday for the parade marking the centennial of the Easter Rising. killed and 2,500 injured during the failed uprising. The rebellion and the execution of 16 of its leaders led to a series of events that did give Ireland its independence in 1922.

Outside the post office Sunday, Capt. Peter Kelleher, an Irish military officer, recited the rebels’ 1916 proclamation of independence. Former Irish presidents Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson, as well as former prime minister Bertie Ahern also were present.

Ben Phillips, the great-grand nephew of one of the executed rebels, told USA TODAY he continues to be amazed by the valor and sacrifices made by the rebels 100 years later.

“They knew they were going to die when they started this,” he said. “They were taking on an empire that had never really, with the exception of in the United States, been beaten.”

Ireland has struggled to embrace Easter Rising as its national day of independence, in part be-

cause the country’s two dominant political parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, both claim to inherit the rebels’ nationalist ideals.

Complicating this year’s event, after an inconclusive Feb. 28 election, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail are locked in a dispute over whether to form a coalition government.

Meanwhile, some ultra-nationalist groups, such as Republican Sinn Féin or RSF — not to be confused with Sinn Féin, the Irish republican political party active in

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Ireland and Northern Ireland — say there is unfinished business to attend to north of the border.

“The state is trying to dilute 1916, to turn it into some kind of history-fest,” Des Dalton, who runs RSF’s offices in Dublin, told the Irish Times on Saturday.

“We uphold the right ... to defend our national territory from foreign aggression or invasion.

Whether people like it or not, as long as there is a British presence in Ireland, there will always be an IRA to oppose it,” he said.

Syrian forces recapture Palmyra from ISIL militants John Bacon and Steph Solis USA TODAY

Syrian government forces backed Sunday by Shiite militias and Russian airstrikes recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State militants, Syrian officials said.

Antiquities experts already were developing strategies for rehabilitating iconic ruins severely damaged by the militants who swept into the city last May. The rout followed a three-week siege that left hundreds of militants dead and sent many more fleeing into the desert, the army said. It follows a string of military setbacks for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, in its

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Experts already are looking for ways to rehabilitate the ruins at Palmyra, which is back under the Syrian army’s control. efforts to create a Sunni-based caliphate.

“Palmyra city is now fully cleared of ISIS terrorists after the

army established complete control over all its parts,” the army said in a statement through the government-controlled Syrian

Arab News Agency.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed Syrian army gains, saying government forces and Shiite militias also were taking control of neighborhoods on the outskirts of the site known as “the bride of the Syrian desert.”

The struggle against Islamic State fighters continues in Syria while a cease-fire between U.S.backed rebels and army forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad continued to hold.

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Palmyra reports, which provided political capital for Assad and for Moscow, pressing their cases as leaders in the war on terror.

Assad said the victory showed his army’s efforts were more effective than that of the U.S.-led coalition.

Rebel leaders dismissed Assad’s assertions. “The government wants ... to win the favor of Western nations by fighting against terrorism, while obscuring its responsibility as providing the reasons for the spread of terror,” Khaled Nasser, a member of the opposition coalition, told the Associated Press.

Hours before Assad’s claim of victory, Russia said it had flown 40 airstrikes in the area in a 24hour period.

The Islamic State took control of the city last spring and destroyed monuments dating back thousands of years.

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brunch with friends and co-workers and knows the attacks will come up.

“It’s that moment now when you again start walking the streets ... when you again start to live like you used to,” she said. “I don’t want to think every time I see someone with a backpack that he is carrying a bomb. That’s no way to live.”

Some injured in Tuesday’s attacks said they were determined not to let terrorists dictate how they live.

Max Beamish, 35, was on the subway car behind the one that blew up. He suffered burns and cuts but said he plans to use metro again. “I say it with a certain defiance. I strongly feel it is im-

portant to live our lives without fear,” he said.

Still, fear is rampant in Molenbeek, a neighborhood of mostly Belgian Muslims where police raids have taken place since it came to light that some people responsible for the Paris terrorist attacks in November lived here.

“It’s getting worse. Molenbeek was bad before, now it is world famous — labeled as the Islamic State’s recruiting grounds,” said taxi driver Zakariya Afallah, 21. “If you live in Molenbeek you are labeled, too. ... This is something that doesn’t get erased, even when life returns to normal in Brussels.”

Afallah said he was stopped by police and checked just after the attacks. “If you walk the streets of Molenbeek carrying a bag, the police think it could be loaded with

A woman and a man argue Sunday outside the stock exchange in Brussels as tensions mounted after rightwing protesters invaded the square.

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explosives and they search you.

It’s humiliating,” he said.

Mehdi Abou Walae, 41, a bus driver, said the current fearful situation will hinder residents even more. He wants to leave the neighborhood but said no one

outside of Molenbeek would rent to a Muslim family even before the attacks.

“I was born in Belgium. I consider myself Belgian,” he added.

“Earlier today I took the metro, and I could feel people were look-

ing at me differently. The tension and the distrust are palpable.”

At Place de la Bourse, Somya Jibet, 44, and her daughter lit candles for the victims of the attacks. She said she doesn’t feel comfortable being a Muslim in Brussels anymore.

“It makes us wonder if our place is still in Belgium,” she said.

Van de Water said the city and its people must stay as they were before the attacks. “The laidback, open quality of the city is what makes Brussels a fun place to live,” she said. “I hope that won’t disappear because then, what is left of Brussels?”

Bhatti reported from Berlin. Contributing: James Crisp and Linda Thompson in Brussels; John Bacon, USA TODAY, in Arlington, Va.

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Trump, Cruz still on the attack Candidates spar over delegates, families David Jackson USA TODAY

In the wake of personal accusations, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz opened new lines of attack against each other Sunday on delegates and debates.

Trump accused Cruz of trying to steal Republican convention delegates from him, while the Texas senator said the New York businessman is afraid to debate because he knows so little about the issues.

Responding to reports that Cruz may wind up with more delegates in Louisiana even though Trump took more votes in the state, Trump told ABC’s This Week that “it tells you ... what a rotten political system we have.”

Attacking Cruz and the GOP in general, Trump said that “I have a guy going around trying to steal people’s delegates,” and “what’s going on in the Republican Party is a disgrace.”

For his part, Cruz told Fox News Sunday that Trump is engaged in personal attacks because he can’t discuss substance. “He refuses to debate because when he debates, his lack of understanding of the challenge facing America becomes evident for everyone to see,” Cruz told Fox. Cruz is trying to catch Trump, who leads him in delegates 739 to 465, or at least keep the frontrunner from winning the necessary 1,237 delegates on the first ballot at the July convention.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who has 143 delegates, also is looking to block Trump.

On their Sunday-show appearances, Trump and Cruz renewed their personal feud.

Trump again blamed Cruz for a Super PAC ad showing a nearly nude photo of his wife, Melania Trump, and said that made Cruz’s wife Heidi fair game in the campaign. “He’s the one that started it,” Trump told ABC. Cruz told Fox he had nothing to do with the Super PAC ad on Trump’s wife, and found it “deplorable.” The Texas senator said Trump is using it an excuse to attack Heidi Cruz.

Meanwhile, Cruz accused Trump’s “henchmen” of engineering a National Enquirer story saying that the senator is being investigated for extramarital affairs. The story is “lies” and “garbage,” Cruz told Fox. Trump denied Cruz’s claims, telling ABC that “the National Enquirer did a story — it was their story.”

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Pakistani women mourn the death of relatives after the blast. Hundreds were injured and officials warn the death toll could rise.

BOMB BLAST IN PAKISTAN PARK KILLS AT LEAST 65 Taliban faction claims to be behind attack

Alan Gomez USA TODAY

A bomb blast in a park filled with Christian families celebrating Easter in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed 65 people and wounded hundreds more, a government official said Sunday.

A breakaway Taliban faction told the Associated Press that it was responsible for the explosion. Ahsanullah Ahsan said the militant group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, deliberately targeted Christians and warned of more attacks to follow.

Salman Rafiq, a health adviser to the chief minister of Punjab province, said many of those injured were in critical condition and warned that the death toll could climb. Zaeem Qadri, a spokesman for the chief minister, said at least 300 were injured.

“This cowardly act in what has long been a scenic and placid park has killed dozens of innocent civilians and left scores injured.”

National Security Council spokesman Ned Price

The explosion took place near the children’s rides in Gulshan-eIqbal park, local police chief Haider Ashraf said. He said the explosion appeared to have been a suicide bombing, but the investigation is ongoing.

“Most of the dead and injured are women and children,” Mustansar Feroz, the police superintendent of the area, told Reuters.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed grief and shock over the bombing, and Punjab

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Security officials inspect the scene of a suicide bomb attack that killed dozens in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif declared three days of mourning starting Monday, according to The International News, a Karachibased newspaper.

In Washington, the White House condemned the bombing.

“This cowardly act in what has long been a scenic and placid park has killed dozens of innocent civilians and left scores injured,” National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said. “We send our deepest condolences to the loved ones of those killed. ... The United States stands with the people of Pakistan at this difficult hour.”

Ashraf said the park was manned by police and private security guards. “We are in a war-like situation and there is always a general threat, but no specific threat alert was received for this place,” he said.

Footage broadcast on local television stations showed chaotic scenes in the park, with people running while carrying children and cradling the wounded in their laps.

“When the blast occurred, the flames were so high they reached above the trees and I saw bodies flying in the air,” Hasan Imran, 30, told Reuters.

Nasreen Bibi waited at a nearby hospital for an update on the condition of her injured 2-year-old daughter.

“May God shower his wrath upon these attackers,” she told Reuters. “What kind of people target little children in a park?”

After the attack, the Punjab government ordered all public parks, many of the city’s main roads and several shopping areas closed.

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Punjab province where the prime minister was born and now serves as Sharif’s political base. The region has long been more peaceful than other parts of the country, which features constant skirmishes along its borders with Afghanistan and India. Critics have accused Nawaz of tolerating attacks in other parts of the country in exchange for keeping his province safe, a charge he strongly denies.

In recent years, Punjab has increasingly become a target.

In February 2015, five people were killed when a suicide bomber aligned with a Taliban splinter groups attacked a police complex in Lahore. The next month, attackers targeted two Christian churches in Lahore, killing more than a dozen, wounding 70 others and instigating protests from religious minorities who felt they were not being protected by the nation’s government. And in August, a provincial minister and 16 others were killed when suicide bombers destroyed his home, where he was holding meetings.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel has decided to reject three finalists to head the troubled police department that were selected by his handpicked Police Board and instead wants to fill the position with a high-ranking officer in the department.

Emanuel plans to tap Eddie Johnson, a 27-year veteran of the department and chief of patrol, to soon become the department’s interim superintendent. Alderman Anthony Beale, who represents a South Side ward, said he was among city council members briefed by the mayor’s aides about the decision.

To get Johnson, the mayor will have to formally reject the Police Board’s recommendations for the open position. The opening was created after Emanuel fired superintendent Garry McCarthy in the aftermath of protests in the city following the court-ordered release in November of dash cam footage of a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times.

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told the newspaper. He said police received reports that the explosion was a pipe bomb, but he couldn’t immediately confirm the source. Wyatt said the explosion took place in an alley, doing moderate damage to the outside of a nearby building.

The area is about 3 miles north of the Disneyland theme park.

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Thousands turn out for Easter Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. Following Mass, Pope Francis delivered the “Urbi et Orbi” blessing for Rome and the world.

REPORTS OF PIPE BOMB PUT ANAHEIM, CALIF., ON EDGE

Police in Anaheim, Calif., were investigating an explosion early Sunday afternoon after reports of a pipe bomb detonation, local media reported.

No injuries were immediately

reported. Bomb squad personnel were investigating the explosion, The Orange County Register reported. Police, meanwhile, were evacuating homes in the area.

Police were called to a block of North Anaheim Boulevard around 1:50 p.m., after a report of an explosion, Sgt. Daron Wyatt

uJim Harrison, the fiction writer, poet and outdoorsman who enjoyed mainstream success in middle age with his historical saga Legends of the Fall, has died at age 78, according to the Associated Press. Spokeswoman Deb Seager of Grove Atlantic, Harrison’s publisher, told AP that Harrison died Saturday at his home in Patagonia, Ariz.

Seager did not know the cause of death. uIvanka Trump, daughter of the Republican front-runner Donald Trump, has given birth to a baby boy, she announced Sunday via Twitter. Theodore James is her third child with her husband Jared Kushner.

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: Three

men face charges after a raid on illegal gambling, AL.com reported. Police Lt. Teena Richardson said investigators seized gaming and betting slips, $2,367 and other evidence of gambling. The suspects, she said, were operating a “drive-thru” gambling operation.

ALASKA Fairbanks: A grand jury indicted Arnold Demoski on several charges related to his alleged snow machine assault on two of the top teams in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, newsminer.com reported.

ARIZONA Fountain Hills: Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said charges were filed against three protesters who were part of a group that prevented or delayed people from accessing a Donald Trump rally at a Fountain Hills park, The Arizona Republic reported.

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kUAV, a drone operator, received an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration to use unmanned aerial vehicles commercially, ArkansasOnline reported.

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Student pays off grandparents’ mortgage Rucks Russell KHOU-TV

HOUSTON A full-time college student who also has a full-time job and runs two non-profit organizations, gave his grandparents peace of mind last week.

Stefun Darts, 24, of Houston decided last week to repay their kindness by paying off their mortgage.

“I’ve been eating pizza, microwave pizza for all my life,” he said.

“My friends will tell you I never did go out.

KHOU-TV They didn’t Stefun Darts know, but this was the reason why.”

Family members captured the moment March 20 on their cellphones of Darts’ most unexpected gift: a $15,000 check.

The money will not only pay off the mortgage but allow them to go to the Bahamas.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said Marilyn Roberts, Darts’ grandmother. “To have a grandson like that is a blessing.”

For more than 20 years, Marilyn and Cecil Roberts have been paying on their Houston house on time every month.

They were on track to pay it off by themselves, but the payoff date was four years away.

INDIANA Indianapolis: CEO

campus police officer fired a Taser at a student during a fight at Lincoln High School, San Diego Unified called on the Sheriff’s Department to investigate the conduct of the officer, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Sam Sato said that Indianapolisbased sportswear retailer Finish Line Inc. already has closed 54 stores as part of its plan to shutter 150 locations, The Indianapolis Star reported.

COLORADO Aspen: Officials

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here are considering a plan to allow wealthy donors to put their names on buildings and programs to help ease the budget crisis for public schools, the Aspen Daily News reported. Supporters say they could raise as much as $15 million toward an endowment.

CONNECTICUT East Hartford:

Tyshon King, 38, was arrested after police found 360 bags of heroin in his car and apartment, the Hartford Courant reported.

DELAWARE Newark: A Univer-

sity of Delaware student died five months after he was hit by a bicycle on campus, The News Journal reported. Matthew Rosin, 19, died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Jackie

Jeter, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, told The Washington Post that Metro chief Paul Wiedefeld is the first general manager to take transit safety seriously.

FLORIDA Naples: A woman was arrested by Collier County deputies for having sex with two pet dogs, The News-Press reported.

GEORGIA Roswell: Officer Bill Lowe and dispatcher Cristy Way drove an 88-year-old woman to her new home almost 200 miles away after she got lost in this Atlanta suburb last week, WXIA-TV reported. The Tampa woman, whose name was not released, was driving to her 94-year-old brother’s house in North Carolina when she got confused and stopped at a gas station here.

bilitation facility says an injured bald eagle that had to be euthanized last week was suffering from lead poisoning, the Sioux City Journal reported. Many of the birds received by Saving Our Avian Resources in Manning, Iowa, suffer from lead poisoning, said SOAR director Kay Neumann. That’s usually because they’ve eaten wild animals that have been shot with lead bullets or pellets, she said.

KANSAS Wichita: Local police

have been cracking down on the sale of drug paraphernalia at local businesses, The Wichita Eagle reported.

KENTUCKY Fort Thomas: Wa-

ter rescue crews pulled a car out of the Ohio River that had toppled off the Interstate 275 bridge during a dozen-vehicle crash 11 days earlier, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: The state experienced a 43% decrease in new tuberculosis cases since 2010 when it was ranked eighth nationally for the number of people coming down with the potentially fatal bacterial infections, The Times-Picayune reported.

affordable housing complex will break ground next month near the future rail line, Hawaii News Now reported. The six-story Keauhou Lane building will have 209 units that will include studios, one-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom apartments.

MAINE Augusta: Officials say

waiter at an Ammon restaurant kept a customer’s credit card and used it to make purchases at Home Depot, KIDK-TV reported.

the number of licensed beekeepers has nearly tripled in the last 10 years and the count of registered hives grew from 5,000 to about 10,000. The United States Department of Agriculture says honey production from Maine producers with five or more colonies totaled 470,000 pounds in 2015. The state’s honey production increased by 25% last year.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The region

MARYLAND Baltimore: Former

IDAHO Idaho Falls: Police say a

saw its first population decline since at least 1990, marking the greatest loss of any metropolitan area in the country, according to Census data cited by the Chicago Tribune. In 2015, the region lost 6,263 people.

Baltimore homicide detective Kelvin Sewell, who last served as the first black police chief in Pocomoke, is joining the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office as an investigator, The Baltimore Sun reported.

SOUTH CAROLINA Pelion: A

federal judged fined Walter P. Rawl farm $1 million hiring between 300 and 350 illegal immigrants as workers, The State reported. The fine and four years probation was levied against the HW Group LLC, a family-held corporation that runs the farm.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: The

South Dakota State Historical Society Press plans to publish a new book on Laura Ingalls Wilder after the author’s autobiography turned out to be a blockbuster for the small stateowned publishing house, the Argus Leader reported.

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Marilyn and Cecil Roberts of Houston pose with a giant check for $15,000 that their grandson gave them that symbolizes his gift to pay off their mortgage.

“He’s a very special kid, and I just love having him in my life,” Cecil Roberts said.

Darts’ mother, Stephanie Wyatt, said her son was always concerned about others, even as a small child. “He would start giving, asking if anyone needed MASSACHUSETTS Lenox: Country music star Dolly Parton will perform at Tanglewood on June 17.

MICHIGAN Richland Township: Five children and one adult injured in a house explosion are expected to survive, WNEM-TV reported.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: The

St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority approved up to $2.2 million, most of it a loan, for new affordable housing next to the Willow Reserve wetlands in the city’s North End, the Pioneer Press reported.

help with anything,” she said.

Darts said he didn’t give his grandparents the money to get accolades.

“To see tears of joy, to experience that in a lifetime, it’s like how many people can say that?” he asked. ed that the University of New Mexico refused a request to give $50 million to New Mexico’s Human Services Department to help with Medicaid.

NEW YORK Westchester

County: Starting April 4, two cars on all Metro-North weekday trains will be designated quiet cars, The Journal News reported.

Right now, rush-hour trains have one car designated as “quiet.”

Hattiesburg Farmers Market kicks-off its 13th year. This farmto-table hotspot will set up from 3 to 6 p.m. each Thursday at Town Square Park, the Hattiesburg American reported.

MISSOURI Cape Fear: Authori-

ties say a pilot was critically injured during a helicopter crash 10 miles southeast of here, KYTVTV reported.

MONTANA Billings: Federal

regulators approved a plan to divert water from the Yellowstone River to help farmers in eastern Montana, the Billings Gazette reported. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agreed to allow the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project to use boulders to rebuild a diversion barrier to irrigate about 55,000 farm acres between Glendive and Sidney.

NEVADA Las Vegas: A 53-yearold man who is accused of making off with more than $350,000 in casino investments has been arrested, the Las Vegas ReviewJournal reported.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Salem: Rockingham Park is up for sale after an unsuccessful attempt at running a casino there. Horse racing ended at the 109-year-old racetrack in 2010, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.

NEW JERSEY Mantua: Victor Anderson stole more than $75,000 from his grandmother, the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office said. Anderson, 18, allegedly made withdrawals and cashed a certificate of deposit she held that incurred penalties, the Courier-Post reported.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque:

The Albuquerque Journal report-

TENNESSEE Knoxville: A mistress who supplied Judge Richard Baumgartner of Knox County Criminal Court with drugs and helped lead to his downfall in 2012 has been arrested on prostitution charges, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. Deena Castleman, 38, was arrested in a sting at a motel here and charged with promoting prostitution and impersonating a licensed professional.

TEXAS Austin: The new law

requiring state agencies to use E-verify to ensure all potential workers have legal status doesn’t assign an agency to enforce the law or provide any penalties if an agency doesn’t comply, The Texas Tribune reported.

UTAH Provo: A pregnant woman is recuperating with her newborn after surviving a car crash on the way to the hospital to give birth, KUTV-TV reported.

VERMONT Burlington: Media

organizations covering Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Democratic presidential nomination spent about $181,000 on flying with the candidate on planes chartered by the campaign during February, Burlington Free Press reported.

VIRGINIA Henrico County: Police arrested Domonic Anthony Leuzzi, 23, a former teacher at the Academy at Virginia Randolph, after receiving a tip that students had been smoking marijuana in class, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

WASHINGTON Olympia: Gov.

MISSISSIPPI Hattiesburg: The

NEBRASKA Grand Island: Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers in is collecting gently used cellphones that will be recycled and turned in for calling cards, The Grand Island Independent reported. The calling cards will be given to Nebraska soldiers who are away on active duty.

HAWAII Kakaako: Another

land amid thick fog after the last ferry for the night had run, the Providence Journal reported.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Betty Brock, who lived in a van parked at Moore Square and played mother hen to the rest of the city’s homeless, died at age 72, The News & Observer reported.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck:

More than 50 service groups and religious orders are coming to the University of Mary for an event to help students learn about religious life and missionary work. The Bismarck Tribune reported that the college’s first vocations jamboree begins Wednesday.

OHIO Athens: Ohio University

plans to build an observatory on a site where a former tuberculosis ward was demolished three years ago, The Athens Messenger reported. The observatory, to be built before the end of the year, will house the university’s 2-ton telescope, which has been in storage for several years.

Inslee signed a bill that raises salaries of troopers at the Washington State Patrol. The measure has $5 million for a 5% salary increase for patrol officers in July.

WEST VIRGINIA Kanawha County: An elderly woman drove through the gate and fencing at the Sheriff’s Office headquarters, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.

WISCONSIN Green Bay: The

Green Bay Packers are accepting submissions of photos to be on a game ticket for the coming season. The annual contest picks one fan photo to be on the tickets for the Fan Appreciation Game. The prize includes two tickets to the game, airfare and accommodations for two nights. The top five photos chosen by Packers representatives will be posted on packerseverywhere.com to be voted on by fans April 11-27.

OKLAHOMA Tiawah: Rogers County rancher Arthur Leake, 74, was dragged to death by a calving cow after becoming entangled in a calf-pulling chain, Claremore Daily Progress reported. When the cow became spooked and took off running, Leaker’s wrist was caught in the chain and he was dragged for an unknown time and distance.

OREGON Bend: Erik Utter, the

head of patrol operations at the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, resigned after learning he was the subject of an internal investigation into his affair with a subordinate female employee, The Bulletin reported.

PENNSYLVANIA Fort Washing-

ton: A man was charged with animal cruelty in the death of a dog found sealed in a crate.

RHODE ISLAND Narragansett:

The U.S. Coast Guard helped transport a sick 35-year-old man from Block Island to the main-

WYOMING Sheridan: The state

will match $6.5 million in funding to allow Sheridan College to expand and renovate its Technical Education Center. The Sheridan Press reported that construction could begin by fall on the $13 million project. The college plans to remodel existing space and add 25,000 square feet.

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NON-FARM PAYROLLS ARE UP IN 36 STATES Non-farm payrolls rose in 36 states in February, while nine states had statistically significant employment rate declines, signs of an improving labor market. California had the highest increase, with a 39,900 employment jump, followed by New York and Pennsylvania, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. New Hampshire and Hawaii had the largest over-the-month percentage increases increases in employment, with both states up 0.7%. North Dakota experienced the largest over-the-month decline in employment, a 1% drop, the federal data showed.

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MICROSOFT MAY MAKE PLAY FOR YAHOO Microsoft may be in the bidding hunt for embattled Internet company Yahoo. The communications and computing giant was approached by private equity executives to gauge Microsoft’s financial interest as Yahoo auctions its core businesses, Reuters reported. Microsoft did not respond to an email message Sunday seeking comment. But the report said Microsoft’s potential involvement as a financial backer of a deal is aimed at preserving its longstanding search and advertising agreements with Yahoo.

CALIFORNIA, UNIONS REACH DEAL ON MINIMUM WAGE California could boost the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, a $5 increase, by 2022. State lawmakers and labor unions on Saturday reached a tentative agreement that would give California the highest minimum rate among all U.S. states, the Los Angeles Times and other media organizations reported. Democratic state Sen. Mark Leno confirmed the tentative agreement, which could be announced by California Gov. Jerry Brown this week.

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NEWS MONEY SPORTS STRONG STOCK HEADWINDS LIFE PERSIST DESPITE REBOUND AUTOS TRAVEL It will be difficult for stocks to climb considerably higher and hard to surpass the old record highs.”

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A quick glance at the year-todate performance of the Dow (+0.5%) and S&P 500 (-0.4%) camouflages what had been the worst-ever start to a year for stocks. But with Wall Street’s first-quarter winding down and headwinds still blowing at investors, the path forward for stocks after a strong rebound rally will likely be challenging.

“The market will continue to be challenged by a lot of the same headwinds that have existed since the middle of last year,” says Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors.

Coming up with a list of the forces that could slow stocks’ upward march is a relatively easy task. The market will be hobbled by debate over the timing of the Federal Reserve’s next interest rate hike, which at least one Fed official says could come as early as April.

Sluggish corporate profit growth will be another negative story line for stocks, as many U.S. companies continue to struggle to book sales and make money in a world dogged by slow economic growth. The fact that stock market valuations currently are pricier than long-term historical norms also is likely to give investors pause.

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bility of the U.S. dollar gaining strength again and hurting sales of U.S. multinationals.

Yet another negative hanging over markets is growing concern that the world’s central banks are out of ammunition and will have difficulty boosting growth despite ongoing stimulus policies.

“Given that backdrop, it will be difficult for stocks to climb con-

siderably higher and hard to surpass the old record highs,” Arone says.

Still, for the moment, stock investors are in a far better place than they were back in mid-February, when stocks looked as if they were headed for their first bear market — or drop of 20% or more — since 2009.

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The Dow now is in the black for the year, and the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 is almost back to even after the market surge trimmed its year-to-date loss to 0.4%. More volatile stock indexes, such as the technologypacked Nasdaq, and the small-cap Russell 2000, remain more deeply in the red for the year, down about 5%.

On the positive side of the ledger, U.S. economic growth for the fourth quarter of 2015 was upgraded by the government on Friday to 1.4% from 1%, a signal that the U.S. economy was entering the new year on a stronger footing and that it was not flashing signs of recession, Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank, stressed in a client report Friday.

“Net, net, the economy, real economic growth was stronger than we thought late last year, and this makes us more hopeful that the first quarter will be better than expected and surprise us on the upside as well,” Rupkey wrote.

Still, after last week’s decline — which snapped a five-week winning streak for both the Dow and S&P 500 — many Wall Street pros were wondering aloud whether the stock market’s recent upside momentum has been short-circuited as well.

“The key question at hand is whether the recent rebound in risk assets was merely a bear market rally, and a new downside collapse is underway, or if the pending pullback is an opportunity to further accumulate equities in an unfolding bull cycle upturn,” says Robert Sluymer, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets.

Sluymer is betting on the current downturn being a “buying opportunity” within a longerterm bear market, or down market.

Tech industry, other companies line up against N.C.’s LGBT law

spokeswoman Laura Nedbal.

“We believe no individual should be discriminated against because of gender identity or sexual orientation. Laws that allow such discrimination go against our fundamental belief of equality and are bad for the economies of the states in which they are enacted.”

Lowe’s Home Improvement, based in Mooresville, N.C., said it “values the rich diversity of our employees, the customers we serve and the communities where we do business each day. We welcome all people to our stores.

Lowe’s opposes any measure in any state that would encourage or allow discrimination.”

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SAN FRANCISCO Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies are protesting a sweeping anti-LGBT law passed by North Carolina, a state that’s courted technology and biotech companies.

North Carolina legislators on Wednesday approved House Bill 2, which prevents cities and counties from passing their own rules preventing discrimination of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed the bill into law on Wednesday.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, Microsoft President Brad Smith and others in the tech industry, in tweets, say HB 2 deepens discrimination.

“More than ever, now is the time to be an #LGBTQAlly and stand up for nondiscrimination.

Join me,” Krzanich said in a tweet Thursday night.

Google called the law “misguided and wrong” in a tweet.

“We are disappointed by the passage of HB2 in the North Carolina General Assembly because this measure will reduce, rather than expand, the scope of antidiscrimination protection in the state,” IBM said in a statement.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has aggressively criticized laws that have curtailed LGBT rights in multiple states.

“This measure will reduce, rather than expand, the scope of anti-discrimination protection.”

IBM said about North Carolina law that prevents cities and counties from passing their own rules against LGBT people.

sure over the law, which also prevents municipalities from passing ordinances to allow people to use bathrooms that don’t correspond to their birth sex, a change sought by transgender advocates.

A host of other companies and sports teams, including the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets, the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes and director Rob Reiner (This Is Spinal Tap, Misery), also spoke out against the new law.

American Airlines has long been a pioneer in its fair-minded policies and practices for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender customers and employees, said

On Friday, San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee issued a directive barring any publicly-funded city employee travel to North Carolina that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.

The mounting backlash in North Carolina mirrors a similar movement in Georgia, after the Legislature there passed, and the governor considers, a law that detractors say legalizes discrimination against gay men and lesbians in the name of religion. Supporters say the bill promotes “religious liberty.” Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Disney/ABC, Coca-Cola, the Atlanta Falcons and the NFL have also opposed the Georgia bill.

Contributing: Elizabeth Weise, Marco Della Cava and Jessica Guynn.

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ROAD WARRIORS NAME THEIR FAVORITE WORLD AIRLINES

Plane cameras can have many uses John Cox

Special for USA TODAY

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Singapore Airlines was named the favorite for overall condition of planes, food quality and the in-flight entertainment system.

Singapore Airlines takes off with most votes compared to other global and U.S.-based carriers on several fronts Nancy Trejos USA TODAY

When Scott McKain flies Singapore Airlines, the flight attendants don’t just return his jacket to him at the end of the journey.

“They wait until you stand and help you put it on,” he says.

And that’s why the author and speaker from Henderson, Nev., has named Singapore Airlines his favorite non-U.S. carrier.

“It’s those small, personal touches that makes it the best and separates it from domestic U.S. carriers,” he says.

Singapore Airlines got the most votes — 41 — in an informal survey to determine the best world airlines.

A total of 143 Road Warriors, USA TODAY’s panel of frequent travelers, cast their votes.

No other airline came even close to Singapore, though a few, such as Lufthansa, British Airways, and Cathay Pacific were also frequently mentioned.

Ashok Raiji, a principal at a global design firm who lives in

Yonkers, N.Y., also named Singapore his favorite airline. One reason: The flight attendants know his name without using a cheat sheet.

“Singapore Airlines is predictably and consistently great,” he says.

Road Warriors also praised Singapore for the cleanliness and overall condition of their planes and the quality of the food and the in-flight entertainment system.

“Business class outdoes even U.S.-based airlines’ first class,” says Scotty Ernst of Milwaukee.

“Coach is also well above U.S.based carriers. Service is the key.

Even in coach, they take pride in the service they provide. Not just ‘You want chicken or pasta?’ ” Several Road Warriors echoed the sentiment that airlines based in other parts of the world are superior to the U.S.-based legacy carriers.

“The non-U.S. airlines for business travelers in Europe and Asia still offer better service than the U.S.-based airlines, even for short-haul segments,” says Marc

FREQUENT TRAVELERS’ PICKS An informal survey of 143 Road Warriors, USA TODAY’s panel of frequent travelers, voted for favorite world airlines: 1. Singapore Airlines 2. Lufthansa Airlines 3. British Airways 3. Cathay Pacific (tie) 5. Emirates 6. Etihad Airways 7. Qatar Airways 8. Virgin Atlantic 9. Virgin Australia

Mancher, who travels all over Asia, South America and Europe.

“When flying from Italy to France or Amsterdam to London in business and usually in coach, there is still often a meal served as opposed to peanuts and crackers.”

Lufthansa, a German carrier, was the second-most popular airline with 13 Road Warriors designating it their favorite.

“I feel like Lufthansa has a high level of service which is what I look for when traveling,” says Kevin Streit, a sales and marketing consultant in Las Vegas. “I

also like options when traveling.

If I can’t be in business class, economy plus is an acceptable alternative. Concerning food, even on domestic flights they feed you at no extra charge.”

Others singled out Lufthansa for being on time and for serving free alcohol in coach.

British Airways and Cathay Pacific tied for third place, each receiving 10 votes.

The three Gulf airlines — Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways — also earned praise from Road Warriors.

Emirates was the most popular of the three with 11 votes.

Terry Buchen, a golf course agronomist in Eagle, Idaho, says the food, service, planes and inflight entertainment system are first-class. “Customer service is the No. 1 goal,” he says.

Even their toiletry bags are superior, says Corina Bilger, a director of sales and acquisitions in Wilsonville, Ore. “They treat you as an individual,” she says. “They don’t cut corners like American carriers on quality of food or simple things like the toiletry bags. They care, and it shows. Dinner service is served and prepared with class and attention to detail.”

Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia also got glowing reviews.

Q: Why don’t airplanes have external cameras for the pilots to use when taxiing or parking to better guide the plane?

— Christopher, Indianapolis A: Some of the larger airplanes (e.g. Airbus A340 and A380, and the Boeing 747-8) have cameras to help assist the pilots on taxiways and at gates.

The wide-body airplanes that do not have cameras installed by the manufacturer require careful positioning by the captain during taxiing and parking. It has not been cost-effective to retrofit these airplanes with cameras.

Q: American Airlines and perhaps others still have someone who appears to be watching each wing during arrival and departure. Why not just use cameras or sensors to warn the pilot?

— James Hupp, Gainesville, Fla. A: Judging distance is difficult with a camera. Utilizing ramp service technicians to monitor wing tip clearance has proven to be effective and cost-efficient.

Q: Why can’t they put a device on the plane so the captain can see the engines or rudder outside of the plane?

— Diane, Brooklyn Park, Minn.

A: Some planes have cameras that allow the pilots to see external parts of the plane. More often, the movement of flight controls is displayed on the screens within the flight deck, mitigating the need for an external view.

Q: Do you see a day when a camera might be mounted up front so passengers can see the fantastic cockpit view?

— Brian, Newcastle, Wash.

A: Many newer airplanes have several cameras that can be shown to passengers. On airplanes that have them you can find the various angles using the in-flight entertainment system.

Have a question about flying? Send it to travel@usatoday.com.

What to know if traveling after latest attacks Many want to know how to save their vacations to Europe Christopher Elliott

chris@elliott.org Special for USA TODAY

Following a fresh wave of terrorist bombings in Turkey and Belgium that seemed to target visitors, travelers like Dianne Bush want to know how to save their vacations.

She’d booked an apartment in Istanbul from April 4 to April 11 through Airbnb, knowing the risks. But the latest incident, a March 19 suicide bombing that killed two Americans, hit too close to home.

“The bomb went off in the main tourist shopping area,” she says. “That’s a place I would surely visit.”

Bush doesn’t scare easily. She’s a police officer from Cranbourne East, Australia. But her Airbnb host insisted that her reservation is only partially refundable, despite the company’s claim that it offers full refunds for political unrest.

All across the world, travelers are asking similar questions, particularly in light of last week’s airport bombings in Brussels.

Should we stay or go? If we go, how do we keep safe? Should we take any additional precautions on the road?

Nick Shapiro, an Airbnb spokesman, said the company was “heartbroken” about the reON TRAVEL EVERY MONDAY

cent terrorist bombings. In Brussels, the company took immediate action that allowed Airbnb hosts to offer their place for free to those in urgent need of somewhere to stay. Airbnb does, indeed, offer an exception to its refund rules for cases like this, and when I asked about Bush’s case, it agreed to review her case.

“She will get a full refund,” Shapiro said.

Other travel companies loosened their refund and change policies in the wake of the bombings, but were wary of saying too much publicly, for fear of opening a floodgate of refund requests. In other words, there are many other guests like Bush who are quietly canceling their vacations and receiving a refund.

Others are undecided. Traci Fox, a college professor from Philadelphia, has plans to visit a friend in Brussels this spring, but doesn’t know if she should go. “I believe in not living in fear but being smart, but my traveling companion is panicking,” she says. “It’s a hard choice.”

In the short term, visitors to a destination hit by terrorism should review their travel plans and consider deferring non-essential travel, says Jim Hutton, chief security officer for On Call International, a travel risk management company in Salem, N.H. “There are now tremendous amounts of logistical issues, including longer lines at airports, more thorough baggage screening and handling and a likely shortage of hotel accommodations in Europe,” he adds.

If you’re planning a summer trip to Europe, you can take steps to ensure your safety and security. “There are several things travelers can do to stay safe,” says Roy Berger, president of MedjetAssist,

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Tourists look for directions in Brussels as police patrol Tuesday following explosions at Zaventem airport.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR TRIP TO EUROPE uMake a plan. Know what you’ll do in the event of an attack, say experts. In addition to notifying the State Department, let a friend or relative know where you’ll be. “It’s important to stay in touch with friends and family to ensure they know your whereabouts and how to reach you in the event of an emergency,” says John Renderio, vice president of global security and intelligence at International SOS, a global travel security company. uPack what’s important. Carry your emergency contact information, money, credit cards, signed passport and emergency information in your carry-on luggage and keep it with you at all times, advises MedJet’s Berger. “Make sure to have at least two weeks of daily medications with you,” he says. uAvoid targets and practice the art of blending. That’s the advice of Michael Brein, a Seattle psychologist who specializes in travel. Wear muted colors. Don’t stand out and make yourself an easy target. And avoid large gatherings of people. “My simplest advice is to avoid big crowds at busy times of days as well as major, public soft targets,” he says. Those include large public events and festivals where a terrorist could cause havoc.

a Birmingham, Ala., company that provides air medical transport.

Berger recommends signing up for the U.S. Department of State’s

Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP), a free service that allows travelers to receive realtime, detailed updates of countryspecific warnings and alerts,

which helps travelers avoid problem countries and areas and are essential for international travel, he says.

Pay attention to any warnings, advises Christie Alderman, a vice president at Chubb Personal Risk Services. “The State Department issues travel warnings and travel alerts that outline concerns within a country,” she says. For example, just last week, the government issued a travel alert for Europe. “The warnings and alerts outline specific concerns and provide helpful guidance on ways travelers can protect themselves,” she says.

Even if you get the all-clear, and no further attacks happen between now and your European vacation, you still have to be careful.

“Plan for the worst,” advises Anthony Roman, a counterterrorism expert based in Lynbrook, N.Y. Among the required precautions: Make an emergency plan.

Memorize all of your hotel emergency exits and be prepared to find them with limited to no visibility. Register with your embassy and keep the numbers of the nearest embassies and consulates with you. And hope you never have to use them.

Bottom line: If you have a trip coming up soon, you can probably postpone without losing a lot of money. Your airline, hotel or car rental company is likely to be more understanding than you expect. But if you’re traveling later this year, take all the necessary steps to protect yourself, and in the words of my colleague Ed Hewitt, “go anyway.”

Elliott is a consumer advocate and editor at large for National Geographic Traveler.

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Hugh Jackman doesn’t need the Wolverine claws to be a hero.

The ‘X-Men’ actor helped rescue several swimmers (including his son) who were caught in a riptide at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

Australia’s 9 News caught the incident on camera, but Jackman’s rep Michele Schweitzer says the incident was no big deal.

“Hugh is completely fine, as is his family,” she told USA TODAY. “The incident looks far more dramatic than it actually was.”

CAUGHT IN THE ACT Actor Clark Gregg jokingly choked his ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ co-star Brett Dalton at their show’s WonderCon panel Saturday in Los Angeles. The cast talked about the ABC series and surprised fans with a screening of Tuesday’s episode.

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TWEET TALK STARS SOUND OFF ABOUT EASTER Bob Saget: In my yard all morning looking for eggs. Then reached in my pajamas pocket and realized they were there all along. Just painting them now.

Marilyn Manson: The Egg with smooth arrogant completeness, trembles in the green plastic-pagan grass. This is why the Rabbit crushes him.

A martyr is born.

Colin Hanks: Woke up this morning and found that a goldfish left Lincoln Logs in my sock drawer. Must be Easter.

Whitney Cummings: Even though your Easter is not at all my responsibility I do hope you don’t fight with your family too much today Josh Gad: #HappyEaster Is it wrong if I eat the eggs before I hide them?

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IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY WHO’S CELEBRATING TODAY?

‘Sons of Anarchy’ creator’s comic has a supernatural hitman Brian Truitt USA TODAY

If hell’s going to have a hitman, it’s probably best that Kurt Sutter created him.

The producer behind Sons of Anarchy goes from Hamlet on bikes to otherworldly supernatural fantasy with the new Boom!

Studios comic book Lucas Stand, debuting June 1 and written by Sutter and Caitlin Kittredge (Coffin Hill) with art by Jesús Hervás.

Sutter was a writer and producer on FX’s cop show The Shield and juggled colorful motorcycle gangs on Sons before dreaming up the brutal (and short-lived) The Bastard Executioner, so when he says the central figure of Lucas Stand is “the darkest antihero or hero I’ve ever created,” that’s saying something.

Lucas is a former special-ops soldier who has seen and done heinous things. Returning home, he’s cut himself off from society and family. Carrying that burden becomes too much for him, so he tries to put a bullet in his head.

Instead of dying, though, he’s spared by the dark angel Gadriel, who tells him the balance of heaven and hell is out of whack because too many demons have escaped.

“Over the course of mankind, mortals who were technically not evil people and weren’t supposed to land in hell have been corrupted so much by the way we’ve learned to live,” Sutter explains, “and the temptations and the greed and the opulence of our lifestyles have turned the people who were supposed to be on a more altruistic path to the dark side.”

So Gadriel makes Lucas a deal: For every demon he kills, thereby saving a soul, he gets one of his own sins taken away so he can be redeemed and move on.

Lucas has a female antagonist on his tail trying to undermine him and bring on the fall of humanity, and hunting demons, he goes on time-travel missions to the French underground during World War II to Vietnam, seeing his father before he’s killed

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Sons of Anarchy producer Kurt Sutter created Lucas.

in the conflict.

Sutter originally brought Lucas Stand to FX as a potential TV property, but admits “they were more curious than excited.” Yet he was intrigued by the thought of breaking out of his wheelhouse

to explore an intriguing mythology and its central character.

“I always said the bikes and the leather and the explosions were the candy that tempted people” to watch Sons, Sutter says. “But it was the emotionality and the family component that got them to stay. Because blowing (stuff ) up every week gets old.”

The complete seven-season story line of Sons was told — and Sutter currently is developing The Mayans, an FX spinoff focus-

ing on the Mexican bikers of SOA — but with Executioner cut short after a single, low-rated season, Lucas gives Sutter a chance to tell a complete saga without boundaries, a CGI budget or the looming threat of cancellation.

“There’s all these crazy demons and amazing implements of death, and (I’m) able to run with it without worrying about ‘How the (expletive) are we going to do this?’ ” Sutter says with a laugh.

“So that’s been very liberating.”

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‘Batman v Superman’ crushes the box office Bryan Alexander USA TODAY

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice made superhero-like noise at the box office in its opening weekend, taking a recordbreaking $170.1 million.

Audiences flocked to see the battle between Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill) in the DC Comics film, which also introduced Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot).

It’s the biggest March opening weekend ever (beating 2012’s The Hunger Games at $152.5 million), the largest Easter opening (beating 2015’s Furious 7, $147.2 million) and the largest Warner Bros. domestic release ever (beating 2011’s final Harry Potter film, $169.2 million).

The huge debut runs counter to terrible reviews for the Zack Snyder-directed film, branded with a 29% positive critical score on RottenTomatoes.com. Audiences gave it a B grade on CinemaScore.

“No one cared about the re-

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When Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill) clash, the cleanup is a record-breaking $170.1 million. views — they didn’t matter,” says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for the tracking service comScore. “People just wanted to see this movie and this classic matchup between two titans of the superhero universe.”

The release comes with tremendous pressure: Batman v Superman is the launch pad for Warner Bros.’ DC Comics uni-

verse, which will see the unveiling of 10 interlocking films by 2020.

The movie was a costly production, shot with a reported $250 million budget and $150 million in global marketing costs.

But Jeff Bock, box office analyst for Exhibitor Relations, predicts that the movie’s $424 million global haul for the weekend will be enough to allow DC

Comics to take on rival Marvel Comics onscreen.

“As long as Batman v Superman makes $750 million worldwide, that will be enough to launch this universe successfully,” Bock says.

“In the end, it was the fans that spoke the loudest.”

Second place for the weekend went to Disney’s animated Zootopia, which took $23.1 million for a total $240.5 million in its fourth week of release. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, the follow-up to 2002’s romantic comedy, managed a third-place finish in its opening weekend with $18.1 million.

Allegiant and Miracles From Heaven came in a virtual tie for the final two spots in the weekend’s top five with $9.5 million each.

Allegiant, the third installment of the young-adult Divergent franchise, has made $46.6 million total in two weekends. The faithbased Miracles From Heaven has made $34.1 million total, also in two weekends.

Final numbers are expected Monday.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY COACH BILL SELF LEAVES THE COURT following the Jayhawks’ 64-59 loss to Villanova on Saturday in Louisville, Ky. Kansas ended its season a victory short of the Final Four.

Difference between Final Four, Elite Eight: ‘Huge. It’s monumental’ Any season that ends one loss to a No. 2 seed shy of advancing to the Final Four qualifies as a successful one.

That’s especially so in a year that included a 12th consecutive Big 12 regular-season title, a Big 12 tournament championship and 17 consecutive victories leading up to the elimination game.

At the same time, no loss in any other round stings quite the same as coming so close and then having to watch the Final Four on television.

Villanova coach Jay Wright captured the difference between reaching the Elite Eight and the Final Four in a news conference a day before his team threw a blanket over Perry Ellis and defeated Kansas University, 64-59, Saturday night in the Yum! Center.

“Huge,” Wright said when asked about the difference.

“It’s monumental. ... The whole week leading up for the university is great, (and) for the alumni.”

Elite Eight losses rank high among the toughest to stomach in sports.

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KANSAS’ DEVONTÉ GRAHAM, LEFT, AND FRANK MASON III MEET THE MEDIA after the Jayhawks’ Elite Eight loss to Villanova. big of a deal,” Wright said.

“But getting to the Final Four, it’s so big. It’s defining.”

Wright lost his first Elite Eight game in 2006 to eventual national champion Florida. Three years later, Wright took Villanova to its first Final Four since the school won the national championship in 1985.

“All of our young assistants from our Final Four team, the young guys, liked the graduate assistants,

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the video guy, they all are major assistants on majorcollege teams,” Wright said.

“I told our guys it’s because people want people that

were associated with the Final Four.”

But in terms of assessing a team’s accomplishments, it’s just a one-game difference, and Villanova was better in that one game.

Villanova advanced by playing a cleaner game, turning it over nine times, compared to 16 for KU. The Wildcats (18-of-19 in both of its South Regional games) did a better job of cashing in opportunities at the freethrow line than Kansas (7of-11), which was consistent with how both teams performed at the line all season.

Villanova remains in the hunt for a national title, and Kansas begins an offseason of reloading.

Next season’s roster — no telling precisely what it will look like — probably won’t be as experienced, but possibly as talented.

“They’ve done so much for the program,” sophomore Devonté Graham said of KU’s departing seniors.

“Perry (Ellis) is going to be a KU legend. It’s going to be tough moving forward without them.”

It’s never easy, but Kansas will find a way. It always does.

Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, who played some point guard in practice this season and also worked as emergency/experimental lead guard in a game or two, was asked last weekend in Louisville, Ky., if he might become a true combo guard if he decides to stay for a third season at Kansas University.

“I don’t think so,” the 6-foot-8, 195-pounder from Cherkasy, Ukraine, said.

He knows his future in the pros likely consists of being a deep three-point threat at the shooting-guard/smallforward positions.

“I would try to,” he added of playing some point if asked.

“I would just try to get better at every spot to help the team,” added Svi, who had 32 assists to 26 turnovers with 12 steals in 201516 for KU (33-5).

Mykhailiuk missed the only three he took and committed one foul in a scoreless seven- Mykhailiuk minute stint in KU’s season-ending 64-59 loss to Villanova on Saturday. For the season, he averaged 5.4 points a game off 45.2 percent shooting. He made 37 of 92 threes for 40.2 percent.

Mykhailiuk, who turns 19 in June, may yet take advantage of a new NBA rule that allows players to attend the NBA combine in May and one workout for a pro team in an attempt to learn one’s status for the upcoming draft. A player can still return to school if he does not sign with an agent. The final decision for players could come as late as the end of May. Kentucky coach John Calipari recently said all of his players, including walkons, would declare for the draft to see if they net an invite to the combine.

“I am not trying to think about that now,” Mykhailiuk said of his future after the Jayhawks’ Sweet 16 win over Maryland.

None of the Jayhawks who are considered possible early entries, in fact, were willing to discuss their futures during the NCAA Tournament. Wayne Selden Jr., Cheick Diallo, Carlton Bragg Jr. and Brannen Greene all within the past couple of days or weeks told the Journal-World they were not thinking about next year right now.

On a lighter note, Mykhailiuk was asked if he has become a national hero in Ukraine considering KU’s highly successful season.

“Back home, they are watching the games. I think people around the world are watching the games in the tournament,” he said. “Last night (semifinal win over Maryland) was late here (in U.S.). It was probably in the morning 3 or 4 a.m. (in Ukraine).”

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Stallings leaving Vanderbilt for Pitt Pittsburgh (ap) — Kevin Stallings stressed that “the decision is not made by me” when asked whether he would return for an 18th season at Vanderbilt following a first-round NCAA Tournament flameout against Wichita State.

Turns out, it was.

Stallings abruptly left the Commodores for Pittsburgh on Sunday, trading a program that

spent most of his tenure in the SOUTH recruiting the ACC footprint muddled middle of the SEC for and beyond, and is one of the one trying to forge a new iden- best coaches in the country at tity in the stacked ACC after building an offense around his Jamie Dixon bolted last week talent. He plays a fun up-tempo for TCU. style that players love and fans “Coach Stallings and I share will enjoy.”

SOUTH the same vision for Pitt — Stallings is 455-283 with playing in the Final Four,” Pitt nine appearances in the athletic director Scott Barnes NCAAs while at Illinois State AL EAST said in a statement. “Kevin and Vanderbilt. The 55-yearhas a successful track record old went 332-220 with the

Commodores and is the winningest coach in the program’s history. His tenure included seven NCAA berths AL EAST and trips to the Sweet 16 in 2004 and 2007.

Stallings — who coached under AL CENTRALRoy Williams at Kansas University — is expected to be introduced today, a week after Dixon left the Panthers for his alma mater.

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New No. 1 Day wins Match Play crown Austin, Texas — Jason Day made his return to No. 1 in the world feel even sweeter Sunday by winning the Dell Match Play.

Day outlasted Rory McIlroy in an epic battle in the semifinals by making a 12-foot par putt on the final hole. The championship match against Louis Oosthuizen turned into a victory lap at Austin Country Club.

Day pulled ahead with a 10foot birdie putt on the fourth hole, stretched his lead to 3 up at the turn and was relentless the rest of the way. He closed out Oosthuizen on the 14th hole to win, 5 and 4.

It was the biggest rout in a title match since Tiger Woods beat Stewart Cink, 8 and 7, in 2008.

Day now has won six of his last 13 starts.

SOCCER

U.S. team adds Zusi Columbus, Ohio — United States coach Jurgen Klinsmann added midfielders Graham Zusi and Christian Pulisic to the roster ahead of Tuesday’s World Cup 2018 qualifying rematch against Guatemala on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio.

The Americans lost 2-0 at Guatemala on Friday, the first loss to Los Chapines in 21 games since January 1988.

Zusi, who played in the 2014 World Cup, has three goals in 32 appearances for the national team. His last U.S. game was in the third place match of the 2015 Gold Cup. He plays for Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer.

Pulisic is a 17-year-old who makes his debut on the senior national team roster. He represented the U.S. at the 2015 Under-17 World Cup. He plays for Germany’s Borussia Dortmund.

NBA

Griffin cleared; now he sits Los Angeles — Blake Griffin has been medically cleared to return to the Los Angeles Clippers and will immediately begin serving a four-game suspension for punching their assistant equipment manager, the team announced Sunday.

Griffin, who has not played since December, practiced with the Clippers on Saturday. He was cleared by the team’s doctor before Sunday’s game against the Denver Nuggets.

“He looked great, but he had no endurance, as far as his wind,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said.

“As far as just playing basketball, he was terrific. It’s amazing, though, watching what three months does as far as memory goes. As far as sets and timing, that wasn’t pretty.”

In terms of conditioning, Rivers said, Griffin still has a long way to go.

“Honestly, I don’t know if you can get him in condition to play 30-35 minutes right away,” he said. “My guess is right now we’re going to start him. The question more importantly is how many minutes in a row can he play. If you went by yesterday, it would be three.”

Griffin will sit out the game against Denver, along with games against Boston, Minnesota and Oklahoma City. The Clippers imposed the four-game suspension after the forward punched assistant equipment manager Matias Testi in Toronto on Jan. 23.

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Clippers 105, Nuggets 90 Los Angeles — DeAndre Jordan had 16 points and 16 rebounds, and the Los Angeles Clippers beat Denver on Sunday to become the fourth Western Conference team to clinch a playoff spot.

Chris Paul added 14 points, six rebounds and nine assists, Jamal Crawford also had 14 points, Jeff Green and Wesley Johnson each added 13, and J.J. Redick had 12. The Clippers had a 25-8 edge in fast-break points.

DENVER (90) Sampson 1-4 0-0 2, Arthur 2-13 2-2 6, Jokic 2-7 1-2 5, Mudiay 2-15 0-0 4, Harris 4-10 0-0 11, Barton 6-11 0-1 13, Nurkic 9-13 1-2 19, Augustin 5-13 5-6 18, Toupane 1-1 0-0 2, Lauvergne 5-7 0-0 10. Totals 37-94 9-13 90.

L.A. CLIPPERS (105) Mbah a Moute 1-2 0-0 2, Pierce 2-5 0-0 5, Jordan 7-10 2-4 16, Paul 4-11 4-5 14, Redick 4-12 2-2 12, Johnson 5-6 0-0 13, Crawford 3-8 8-8 14, Green 6-13 1-2 13, Rivers 3-8 1-4 8, Prigioni 1-2 0-0 3, Aldrich 2-3 1-1 5, Ayres 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-80 19-26 105.

Denver 26 22 12 30— 90 L.A. Clippers 31 21 25 28—105 3-Point Goals-Denver 7-29 (Harris 3-5, Augustin 3-8, Barton 1-3, Jokic 0-1, Lauvergne 0-1, Sampson 0-2, Arthur 0-4, Mudiay 0-5), L.A. Clippers 10-28 (Johnson 3-4, Paul 2-4, Redick 2-7, Prigioni 1-2, Rivers 1-3, Pierce 1-4, Crawford 0-4). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsDenver 55 (Arthur 12), L.A. Clippers 55 (Jordan 16). Assists-Denver 24 (Augustin 10), L.A. Clippers 24 (Paul 9). Total Fouls-Denver 19, L.A. Clippers 19. Technicals-L.A. Clippers defensive three second. A-19,060 (19,060).

Pacers 104, Rockets 101 Indianapolis — Paul George scored 16 of his 25 points in the first quarter, and Indiana overcame 34 points from James Harden to beat Houston.

Monta Ellis had 23 points and Ian Mahinmi tied his career high with 19 points for the Pacers, who have won three of four.

HOUSTON (101) Ariza 5-12 2-2 14, Motiejunas 3-8 1-2 8, Howard 5-6 1-3 11, Beverley 3-8 0-0 6, Harden 11-22 8-11 34, Beasley 4-11 1-2 9, Capela 4-5 1-2 9, Terry 0-3 0-0 0, Brewer 2-9 4-5 8, McDaniels 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 38-85 18-27 101.

INDIANA (104) George 8-17 5-5 25, Turner 0-5 0-0 0, Mahinmi 8-12 3-8 19, G.Hill 1-5 0-0 3, Ellis 10-18 2-3 23, S.Hill 1-2 0-0 2, J.Hill 2-4 0-0 4, Lawson 3-4 0-0 6, Stuckey 2-7 0-0 5, Allen 2-2 3-4 7, Miles 4-11 0-0 10. Totals 41-87 13-20 104.

Houston 24 23 32 22—101 Indiana 30 27 24 23—104 3-Point Goals-Houston 7-33 (Harden 4-11, Ariza 2-8, Motiejunas 1-3, Beasley 0-1, Terry 0-3, Beverley 0-3, Brewer 0-4), Indiana 9-26 (George 4-8, Miles 2-6, Stuckey 1-3, G.Hill 1-4, Ellis 1-4, Lawson 0-1). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Houston 54 (Howard 10), Indiana 55 (George, Mahinmi 11). Assists-Houston 17 (Harden 8), Indiana 25 (Ellis 7). Total FoulsHouston 18, Indiana 23. Technicals-Houston defensive three second. A-17,165 (18,165).

Kings 133, Mavericks 111 Sacramento, Calif. — Rookie Willie Cauley-Stein followed a breakout offensive performance with 21 points, and DeMarcus Cousins had 20 points and 12 rebounds to lead Sacramento over Dallas.

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W L Pct Atlanta 44 30 .595 Miami 42 30 .583 Charlotte 42 31 .575 Washington 36 37 .493 Orlando 30 43 .411 Central Division

W L Pct y-Cleveland 52 21 .712 Indiana 39 34 .534 Detroit 39 35 .527 Chicago 36 36 .500 Milwaukee 30 44 .405 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct y-San Antonio 61 12 .836 Memphis 41 32 .562 Houston 36 38 .486 Dallas 35 38 .479 New Orleans 26 46 .361 Northwest Division

W L Pct y-Oklahoma City 51 22 .699 Portland 38 36 .514 Utah 36 37 .493 Denver 31 43 .419 Minnesota 24 49 .329 Pacific Division

W L Pct y-Golden State 66 7 .904 x-L.A. Clippers 45 27 .625 Sacramento 29 44 .397 Phoenix 20 53 .274 L.A. Lakers 15 58 .205 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Today’s Games Oklahoma City at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

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San Antonio at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Denver, 8 p.m.

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three straight and 10 of 12. They are ninth in the Western Conference and trail Houston by half a game for the final playoff spot.

DALLAS (111) Matthews 3-7 4-4 12, Nowitzki 6-15 0-0 14, Mejri 1-1 0-2 2, Barea 7-14 0-0 14, Felton 5-12 4-4 15, Pachulia 1-2 0-0 2, Lee 5-7 2-2 12, Harris 3-5 3-4 11, Ju.Anderson 5-13 1-1 11, Villanueva 2-5 0-0 5, McGee 1-3 0-0 2, Powell 3-4 5-7 11. Totals 42-88 19-24 111.

SACRAMENTO (133) Gay 4-10 1-2 9, Acy 3-4 0-0 7, Cousins 7-12 6-10 20, Rondo 4-7 1-2 11, Curry 4-7 4-4 14, Cauley-Stein 8-11 5-5 21, Collison 7-11 2-2 17, Casspi 4-5 1-2 10, Koufos 5-6 0-0 10, McLemore 5-9 2-3 14, Ja.Anderson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 51-82 22-30 133.

Dallas 20 26 33 32—111 Sacramento 25 38 39 31—133 3-Point Goals-Dallas 8-24 (Nowitzki 2-4, Harris 2-4, Matthews 2-5, Felton 1-2, Villanueva 1-2, Barea 0-2, Ju.Anderson 0-5), Sacramento 9-20 (Rondo 2-3, Curry 2-4, McLemore 2-5, Acy 1-1, Casspi 1-1, Collison 1-2, Cousins 0-1, Gay 0-3). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsDallas 44 (Lee, Powell 6), Sacramento 46 (Cousins 12). Assists-Dallas 22 (Felton 5), Sacramento 32 (Rondo 11). Total Fouls-Dallas 24, Sacramento 18. Technicals-Matthews, Pachulia, Sacramento defensive three second.

A-17,147 (17,317).

Warriors 117, 76ers 105 Oakland, Calif. — Klay Thompson scored 40 points in consecutive games for the first time in his career, Draymond Green posted his franchisebest 12th triple-double, and Golden State beat Philadelphia.

How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, L.A. Clippers Min: 16. Pts: 5. Reb: 3. Ast: 0.

Darrell Arthur, Denver Min: 23. Pts: 6. Reb: 12. Ast: 1.

Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers Min: 9. Pts: 2. Reb: 1. Ast: 0.

Joel Embiid, Philadelphia Did not play (inactive) Drew Gooden, Washington Did not play (coach’s decision) Ben McLemore, Sacramento Min: 20. Pts: 14. Reb: 1. Ast: 1.

Markieff Morris, Washington Did not play (inactive) Kelly Oubre Jr., Washington Min: 1. Pts: 0. Reb: 0. Ast: 0.

Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Min: 15. Pts: 5. Reb: 3. Ast: 1.

Brandon Rush, Golden State Min: 16. Pts: 5. Reb: 5. Ast: 4.

PHILADELPHIA (105) H.Thompson 2-10 0-0 4, Grant 0-2 0-0 0, Landry 9-15 4-4 22, Smith 9-14 0-0 20, Canaan 3-9 6-6 15, Covington 6-12 0-0 16, Stauskas 4-10 0-0 9, Marshall 0-3 0-0 0, McConnell 4-8 1-2 9, Brand 5-6 0-0 10, Wood 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 42-90 11-12 105.

GOLDEN STATE (117) Barnes 4-9 2-2 10, Green 4-7 3-6 13, Bogut 0-1 0-0 0, Curry 7-16 4-5 20, K.Thompson 15-27 3-3 40, McAdoo 2-3 0-0 4, Barbosa 1-3 0-0 2, Rush 2-2 0-0 5, Speights 7-10 1-1 17, Clark 2-5 2-3 6.

Totals 44-83 15-20 117.

Philadelphia 31 24 24 26—105 Golden State 32 39 25 21—117 3-Point Goals-Philadelphia 10-30 (Covington 4-7, Canaan 3-6, Smith 2-4, Stauskas 1-6, Wood 0-1, Marshall 0-1, Grant 0-1, H.Thompson 0-4), Golden State 14-33 (K.Thompson 7-14, Green 2-3, Speights 2-3, Curry 2-9, Rush 1-1, Clark 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Philadelphia 39 (Covington 11), Golden State 54 (Green 11). Assists-Philadelphia 27 (Smith 10), Golden State 32 (Green 11). Total Fouls-Philadelphia 20, Golden State 15. Technicals-Philadelphia delay of game. A-19,596 (19,596).

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WASHINGTON (101) Porter 6-9 0-0 14, Nene 4-8 2-2 10, Gortat 6-10 4-4 16, Wall 9-16 2-2 22, Beal 1-5 1-4 4, Temple 2-2 0-0 4, Dudley 0-1 0-0 0, Sessions 4-9 2-3 11, Thornton 1-6 1-2 4, Hickson 5-5 4-12 14, Oubre Jr. 0-0 0-0 0, Eddie 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 39-72 16-29 101.

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Washington 24 26 27 24—101 L.A. Lakers 27 17 15 29— 88 3-Point Goals-Washington 7-20 (Porter 2-4, Wall 2-5, Sessions 1-2, Beal 1-3, Thornton 1-4, Nene 0-1, Dudley 0-1), L.A. Lakers 7-28 (Bryant 3-7, Russell 3-7, Huertas 1-1, Randle 0-1, Kelly 0-2, Clarkson 0-4, Williams 0-6). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Washington 53 (Gortat 10), L.A. Lakers 49 (Nance Jr., Bass, Randle 7).

Assists-Washington 23 (Wall 13), L.A. Lakers 15 (Huertas, Clarkson, Bass 3). Total FoulsWashington 17, L.A. Lakers 26. TechnicalsWall, Randle. A-18,997 (18,997).

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THE 2015-16 JOURNAL-WORLD ALL-AREA GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM, FROM LEFT: E’lease Stafford, Lawrence; Tori Huslig, Veritas; Madeline Neufeld, Baldwin; Mariah Grizzle, De Soto; Coach of the Year Ryan Robie, De Soto; Player of the Year Madison Piper, Free State; Kyna Smith, Baldwin; Sydney Dwyer, Wellsville; Kamryn Shaffer, Ottawa; Chisom Ajekwu, Lawrence. Not pictured: Catie Kaifes, Mill Valley.

Player of the Year Madison Piper, Free State A two-time Sunflower League Player of the Year, Piper was among the league leaders with 18.5 points and 6.8 rebounds per game. The 5-foot-10 junior, who was constantly face-guarded by defenders, became Free State’s all-time leading scorer during the season (1,132 career points), and is one of the five finalists for the DiRenna Award.

First team Chisom Ajekwu, Lawrence — The 6-foot-3 freshman led the Sunflower League in rebounding, averaging 9.6 boards per game. Helping the Lions host their first sub-state game since 2008, Ajekwu improved on offense throughout the season on her way to 10 points per game, earning third-team all-league honors.

Sydney Dwyer, Wellsville — A talented point guard with an ability to dribble around full-court pressure, Dwyer helped the Eagles to a 14-8 record by scoring a team-high 12.2 points per game. The 5-foot-5 sophomore was a first-team All-Pioneer League selection, adding 4.6 steals, 3.2 rebounds and 2.0 assists each night.

Coach of the Year Ryan Robie, De Soto In his first year as head coach at De Soto, Robie led the Wildcats to a 14-9 record and their first state tournament berth since 1984. Led by All-Frontier League selections Mariah Grizzle, Julia Johnson and Kristen Saucerman, the Wildcats beat Eudora and Mariah Grizzle, De Atchison in the postseason. Soto — One of the big

reasons the Wildcats made it to the state tournament for the first time in 32 years was Grizzle’s strong presence on the court.

Earning second-team AllFrontier League honors, the 5-foot-11 Grizzle averaged a double-double with 13.7 points and 10 rebounds per game.

Tori Huslig, Veritas — Huslig has an ability to score points in a hurry, grabbing steals with fullcourt pressure and using her strong shooting from behind the three-point line.

The junior guard lifted the Eagles to fifth place in the KCAA state tournament, posting 20.3 points, 8.5 rebounds, 4.0 steals and 4.0 assists per game.

Catie Kaifes, Mill Valley — When Kaifes is playing at her best, she makes all of her teammates better. The 5-foot-11 senior

forward helped the Jaguars win 15 straight games on their way to a spot in the Class Kaifes 5A state tournament. Kaifes averaged 17.6 points and 8.0 rebounds per game — the second straight year she’s led the team in points and rebounds.

Madeline Neufeld, Baldwin — Leading the Bulldogs to a 19-4 record and a spot in the Class 4A-II state tournament, Neufeld was dominant defensively with a teambest 3.5 steals per game.

The 5-foot-6 senior guard earned first-team AllFrontier League honors, averaging 10.8 points and 2.0 assists.

Kamryn Shaffer, Ottawa — The only returning starter for the Cyclones this season, Shaffer led her team to a 9-13 record and was chosen firstteam All-Frontier League.

The 5-foot-8 sophomore averaged a team-best 12.9 points and 9.0 rebounds, completing a double-double in six games.

Kyna Smith, Baldwin — Smith, a first-team All-Frontier League selection, scored at least eight points in all but one game this season, averaging a team-high 14.1 points by shooting 41 percent from deep. The 5-foot-4 senior guard helped the Bulldogs with her strong defensive instincts (2.9 steals per game) and passing (2.4 assists).

E’lease Stafford, Lawrence — A firstteam All-Sunflower

League selection, Stafford ranked fifth in the league by averaging 12.6 points per game.

The 5-foot-10 sophomore, who can frustrate defenders by scoring off the dribble, added 5.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists each game before tearing a ligament in her left knee in the regular-season finale.

Honorable mention Skylar Drum, Lawrence; Ashlyn Hendrix, Mill Valley; Julia Johnson, De Soto; Taylor Lee, Tonganoxie; Olivia Lemus, Lawrence; Abby Ogle, Baldwin; Karly Patton, Wellsville; Kristen Saucerman, De Soto; Cameryn Thomas, Free State; Peyton Workman, Santa Fe Trail; Regan Zaremba, Seabury.

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THE 2015-16 JOURNAL-WORLD ALL-AREA WRESTLING TEAM, FROM LEFT: Korbin Riedel, Tonganoxie; Tate Steele, Free State; Bryce Erickson, Santa Fe Trail; Coach of the Year Travis Keal, Mill Valley; Dylan Gowin, Mill Valley; Gage Foster, Free State. Not pictured: Wrestler of the Year Alan Clothier, Lawrence; Joel Katzer, Baldwin; Blaine Ray, Ottawa; Conner Ward, Mill Valley; Taylor Wilmarth, Wellsville.

Wrestler of the Year Alan Clothier, Lawrence One of the most accomplished wrestlers in school history, the Sunflower League’s Wrestler of the Year won his second career Class 6A state championship at 182 pounds, Clothier winning by major decision in the state title match. Clothier added league and regional titles, finishing his four-year career with a 151-8 record.

Coach of the Year Travis Keal, Mill Valley The Jaguars qualified 12 wrestlers for the Class 5A state tournament and took third for the second straight year with 97.5 points. They won Kaw Valley League and regional titles, led by state placers Jarrett Bendure, Peyton

Bendure, Seth Burnett, Dylan Gowin and Conner Ward.

First team Bryce Erickson, Santa Fe Trail — For the second straight season, Erickson finished third at the Class 4A state tournament, helping the Chargers to sixth in the team standings.

The 132-pound junior was runner-up in his regional and in the Pioneer League, improving his record to 118-18 in his career.

from Kansas. The junior won Kaw Valley League and regional titles before taking third place at the Class 5A state tournament at 113 pounds, his second straight season placing inside of the top three.

Joel Katzer, Baldwin — The 182-pound senior capped his prep career with his second Frontier League championship and a third place finish at Gage Foster, Free the Class State — Right before 4A state regionals, Foster moved up tournato 170 pounds and never ment. looked back. The sophoKatzer, Katzer more won a regional title in who had his first tournament at the a 35-9 new weight, then he took record and was an acathird place at the Class 6A demic all-state selection, state tournament. Foster was runner-up at regionended the season with an als and won 14 matches 8-1 record at 170. by fall, including two at state.

Dylan Gowin, Mill Valley — Gowin posted a Blaine Ray, Ottawa — 33-11 record with only four A regional champion at 182 losses against opponents pounds, Ray placed fourth

to Sunflower League, regional and Class 6A state titles. The talented sophomore, who finished the season with a 40-2 record, became the first wrestler in school history to win a state championship.

at the Class 4A state tournament, including three wins by fall. The Cyclones junior was Ray runnerup in the Frontier League, ending the season with a 38-9 record.

He led Ottawa to 22nd place in the team standings at state.

Conner Ward, Mill Valley — Ward was runner-up in the Class 5A state tournament, for the second straight year, at 126 pounds.

The Jaguars sophomore had a 37-7 record, Ward winning Kaw Valley League and regional titles, leading his school to its fourth straight league championship.

Korbin Riedel, Tonganoxie — Only a freshman, Riedel set a school record with 43 wins this season on his way to fifth place at the Class 4A state tournament at 120 pounds.

He won a regional championship with four straight wins by pinfall and was runner-up in the Kaw Valley League.

Tate Steele, Free State — Steele moved up to 132 pounds midway through the season and was dominant on his way

Taylor Wilmarth, Wellsville — A 132-pound senior, Wilmarth was state runner-up in Class 3A,

and he set a state record with 168 reversals in his four-year career. The fourtime state qualifier won a regional title and finished his career with a 140-43 record.

Honorable mention Jarrett Bendure, Mill Valley; Peyton Bendure, Mill Valley; Seth Burnett, Mill Valley; Christian Davis, Santa Fe Trail; Ethan Dean, Santa Fe Trail; Jake Hastings, Santa Fe Trail; Gad Huseman, Tonganoxie; Isaiah Jacobs, Free State; Jake Katzer, Baldwin; Noah Kennedy, Eudora; Adian McClellan, Tonganoxie; Ben Morgenstern, Baldwin; Nate Panagakis, De Soto; Owen Tuckfield, Baldwin; Ryan Ware, Wellsville; Tucker Wilson, Lawrence.

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THE 2015-16 JOURNAL-WORLD ALL-AREA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM, FROM LEFT: Zach McDermott, Seabury; Isaac McCullough, Ottawa; Mikey Wycoff, Seabury; Hunter Gudde, Free State; Player of the Year Justin Roberts, Lawrence; Coach of the Year Mike Bennett, Mill Valley; Logan Koch, Mill Valley; Seth Breithaupt, Wellsville; Price Morgan, Lawrence. Not pictured: Austin Downing, Eudora; Clayton Holmberg, Mill Valley.

Player of the Year Justin Roberts, Lawrence The 5-foot-9 point guard recovered from a torn ACL and earned first-team AllSunflower League honors, averaging 19.9 points, 3.1 assists and 3.0 steals. Roberts, the school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,549 points, led the Lions to their second straight Class 6A Final Four appearance, posting a 7419 record in his four-year career. He has committed to play at Toledo.

Coach of the Year Mike Bennett, Mill Valley The Jaguars won 12 of their final 13 games, capturing their first Class 5A state championship in school history. Back at state for the third time in four years, Bennett led his team to wins over Salina Central, Kansas City (Kan.) Washington and Wichita

Kapaun Mt. Carmel, winning the title game, 87-84, in overtime.

Downing averaged a teambest 15 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5 assists per game, leading the Cardinals to the Class First team 4A-I state tournament.

Seth Breithaupt, Hunter Gudde, Free Wellsville — Breithaupt State — Gudde averaged led the Eagles to the Class a school-record 20.3 points 3A state tournament for per game and picked up the third straight season, first-team All-Sunflower averaging a team-high 9.8 League honors, shooting points with 4.0 rebounds 62 percent from the field. per game. The senior Along with his scoring, the forward earned first-team 6-foot-3 wing grabbed a All-Pioneer League honors, team-best 4.4 rebounds scoring at least 10 points in per game. An all-state 12 games to help his team pitcher in baseball, he has to a 17-7 record. committed to play baseball Austin Downing, at Johnson County CC. Eudora — The Neosho Clayton Holmberg, Community College commit Mill Valley — One of the frustrated toughest defenders players to with his guard in ability to the Kaw drive to Valley the rim. A League first-team with his All-Frontier size and League ability selection, to score Downing Holmberg

from anywhere on the floor, Holmberg averaged 12.1 points, 8.8 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game.

The Washburn University signee was a first-team all-league pick for the Class 5A state champions.

Logan Koch, Mill Valley — After winning a state championship in football, Koch helped the Jaguars become the first school to win state titles in both sports in the same year. The 6-foot point guard and Eastern Illinois basketball signee averaged eight points per game and set up his teammates with six assists per game.

Isaac McCullough, Ottawa — Despite offseason hip surgery, McCullough was one of the best scorers in the Frontier League, averaging 18 points per game while shooting 45 percent from behind the three-point arc. The junior guard led the Cyclones to

a 13-8 record, adding 6.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game.

Zach McDermott, Bishop Seabury — McDermott led the Seahawks to the Class 2A state tournament, their first state berth since 2012. When the 6-foot-2 point guard wasn’t helping his teammates find open shots, he had no problem draining shots from the perimeter, averaging 19.2 points, 6.1 assists and 5.2 rebounds per game.

Price Morgan, Lawrence — The 6-foot-4 senior wasn’t the tallest post player in the Sunflower League, but he was dominant with his strength and shooting touch. Morgan, who has signed to play football at Air Force, averaged 16 points and six rebounds per game. He led the Lions to a 22-3 record and was a second-team all-league selection.

Mikey Wycoff, Bishop Seabury — Wycoff missed a few games because of an ankle injury, but he was nearly impossible to stop when he was on the court. The Seahawks’ junior guard averaged a team-high 21.5 points with 6.3 rebounds, 3.0 steals and 2.8 assists per game, slashing past opponents to the rim in transition.

Honorable mention Jackson Barth, Baldwin; Fred Brou, Lawrence; Perry Carroll, Ottawa; Kasey Conklin, Mill Valley; Miles Dressler, Veritas; Cooper Kaifes, Mill Valley; Bansi King, Seabury; Anthony Harvey Jr., Lawrence; Jacob Jennings, De Soto; Jackson Mallory, Lawrence; Caleb Mann, Wesllville; Kristian Rawls, Free State; Jomain Rouser, Eudora; Chad Stieben, Veritas; Brian Tolefree, Eudora; Chrision Wilburn, Free State.

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Syracuse rallies past Cavs Chicago (ap) — Malachi Richardson and Syracuse scrapped and fought their way from the bubble to the Final Four.

Richardson scored 21 of his 23 points in the second half, and Syracuse extended its improbable run with a 68-62 victory over top-seeded Virginia on Sunday.

The Orange were among the last teams to get into the NCAA Tournament after a rough closing stretch, but slipped in as a 10 seed before storming to its first Final Four since 2013 and No. 6 overall. It comes at the end of a challenging season for coach Jim Boeheim, who was suspended for nine games as the result of an NCAA investigation.

“It was a whole team effort and these guys really deserve it,” Boeheim said. “We beat a great basketball team. I’ve never been prouder in all my 40 years as coach of a basketball team as I am of this team tonight.”

Syracuse (23-13), which trailed by 16 at the start of the second half, becomes the first 10 seed to make it to the Final Four and just the fourth double-digit seed to accomplish the feat.

It’s the lowest seeded team to reach the national semifinals since VCU in 2011, according to STATS. Michael Gbinije and freshman Tyler Lydon each scored 11 points for the Orange, who will face East Regional champ North Carolina on Saturday in Houston. Tyler Roberson finished with 10 points and eight rebounds.

“We worked so hard,” Gbinije said. “We’ve been through a lot.”

London Perrantes scored 15 of his 18 points in the first half for Vir-

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VIRGINIA’S MIKE TOBEY (10) SHOOTS AGAINST SYRACUSE’S TYLER LYDON (20) and DaJuan Coleman during the second half of Syracuse’s 68-62 victory in the Midwest Regional final on Sunday in Chicago. ginia (29-8), which blew a 16-point lead in the second half. Malcolm Brogdon, the ACC player of the year, had 12 points on 2-of-14 shooting in the final game of his Cavaliers career.

Syracuse trailed 54-39 before it ripped off 25 of the next 29 points, including 15 in a row.

And Richardson led the way, often taking the ball right at Brogdon.

Richardson’s driving layup made it 59-58 Orange with 5:47 remaining for their first lead since early in the first half.

After Perrantes missed a long three, Richardson connected from deep and smiled as he ran up the court while making circles around his eyes with his hands.

“I started slow, I had a couple of bad turnovers and Coach got on me at halftime,” Richardson said. “I knew I had to pick

it up for my teammates.

We were down, and I just wanted to come back and we did it.”

The confident freshman, who scored 21 points in Syracuse’s firstround win against Dayton, added another layup for his seventh straight point before Anthony Gill stopped Virginia’s drought with a basket inside.

The Cavaliers had a chance to tie in the final seconds after Gbinije went 1-for-2 at the line.

But Devon Hall missed a three-point attempt, and Lydon and DaJuan Coleman combined for three free throws to close it out for the Orange.

Syracuse also trailed in the regional semifinal against Gonzaga, erasing a nine-point deficit in the final 61⁄2 minutes.

Virginia, which beat Syracuse 73-65 on Jan.

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NORTH CAROLINA’S THEO PINSON, CENTER, BATTLES FOR A REBOUND against Notre Dame’s V.J. Beachem, left, and Zach Auguste during the second half of the Tar Heels’ 88-74 victory in the finals of the East Regional on Sunday in Philadelphia. had 11 points and eight assists for North Carolina, which has won its four tournament games by an average of 15.4 points.

The Tar Heels finished with a 32-15 rebound advantage, including 13-5 on the offensive end.

Demetrius Jackson had 26 points, and V.J. Beacham had 18 for sixthseeded Notre Dame (2412).

“I thought we put ourselves in position,” Notre Dame coach Mike Brey said. “You have to give credit to North Carolina.

We took that one-point

lead, and they answered it like men.

“They’re really playing well. I think they’re playing the best of anyone left. I thought the way they answered that run was championship level,” he said.

The teams split their games in the regular season. Notre Dame won 80-76 at home, and the Tar Heels prevailed 7847 in the ACC Tournament semifinals just two weeks ago. Notre Dame has made just one Final Four in 1978.

The second half Sun-

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SYRACUSE GUARD BRITTNEY SYKES (20) FIGHTS FOR A POSSESSION with Tennessee forward Kortney Dunbar 24, shot 35.7 percent in during the second half of Syracuse’s 89-67 victory in the the second half. Gill and Sioux Falls Regional final on Sunday in Sioux Falls, S.D. Mike Tobey finished with 10 points apiece.

Richardson went 6-for16 from the field and 8-for-9 at the line. The 6-foot-6 forward, who was voted the most outstanding player of the region, also had seven rebounds.

“This is a dream come The Associated Press true for me,” he said. top-seeded South Carolina, and she was named SYRACUSE (23-13) the regional’s Most OutRoberson 4-6 2-2 10, Richardson 6-16 Sioux Falls 8-9 23, Coleman 0-3 3-4 3, Gbinije 4-13 standing Player.

3-6 11, Cooney 4-11 0-0 8, Howard 0-1 Regional “Our defense just 2-2 2, Lydon 3-7 2-2 11. Totals 21-57 20-25 68.

Syracuse 89, wasn’t as crisp as it was VIRGINIA (29-8) against Ohio State,” Gill 4-4 2-2 10, Wilkins 0-3 0-0 0, Tennessee 67 Hall 1-5 0-1 2, Brogdon 2-14 7-7 12, Sioux Falls, S.D. — DeShields said. “We Perrantes 6-12 0-0 18, Tobey 5-8 0-0 10, Nolte 0-2 0-0 0, Shayok 0-1 1-2 Diamond DeShields did weren’t talking as much.

1, Thompson 4-4 0-0 9. Totals 22-53 all she could to keep Ten- We weren’t as connected.

10-12 62. nessee close, but there I think that allowed AlexHalftime-Virginia 35-21. 3-Point Goals-Syracuse 6-18 (Lydon 3-5, was no stopping Alexis is Peterson to get into a Richardson 3-7, Cooney 0-1, Howard Peterson and her Syra- lot of the gaps, find her 0-1, Gbinije 0-4), Virginia 8-21 (Perrantes 6-10, Thompson 1-1, cuse teammates in their spots. It just wasn’t our Brogdon 1-6, Nolte 0-2, Hall 0-2). bid to make the women’s day. I mean, clearly it was Fouled Out-Roberson. Reboundstheirs.”

Syracuse 36 (Roberson 8), Virginia Final Four the first time.

34 (Brogdon 7). Assists-Syracuse 10 DeShields had 20 Tennessee was try(Gbinije 6), Virginia 21 (Brogdon 7). points and 10 rebounds as ing to reach its 19th FiTotal Fouls-Syracuse 15, Virginia 16. the Lady Vols’ surprising nal Four and first under A-20,155.

NCAA run ended with a fourth-year coach Holly loss Sunday in the Sioux Warlick. The Lady Vols Falls Regional final. haven’t made it to the The Lady Vols (22-14) national semifinals since came into the tournament 2008, the year they won after a 13-loss regular sea- their last of eight champison that was the worst onships. in program history, and The Lady Vols were their No. 7 seed was their without starting guard lowest ever.

Jordan Reynolds, who “As much as we want was out with a concusday seemed like it was going be like the ACC to be proud of how far sion after getting hit in Tournament game in we’ve come, based on the face against Ohio which the Tar Heels used the season we had, we State. Te’a Cooper made a 24-0 run to take control. could have gone farther,” her first start since Feb. This time, a 12-0 run DeShields said. “We 25 and had eight points that gave the Tar Heels know that. I think that’s after coming off the a 63-52 lead with 9:19 what hurts the most. So bench to score 16 against to play. North Carolina our season got cut short, the Buckeyes.

“I thought we missed showed its depth in the we all feel like. So we’re leadership,” run with the final eight not happy about that. Jordan’s points coming from re- Never happy about los- Warlick said. “She’s been serves Isaiah Hicks and ing. We never will be. in these situations before.

This is a program full of All fairness to Te’a, she’s Theo Pinson.

North Carolina opened winners. Winning is what not done this.” the second half with an we do. That’s always go8-2 run and Kennedy ing to be the goal.”

DeShields kept the Lexington Meeks scoring all the Tar Heels’ points down low. Lady Vols in range, at Regional Notre Dame answered least temporarily, scorwith 12 straight points. ing 11 points the first 6:42 Washington 85, During that run, Johnson of the third quarter and Stanford 76 Lexington, Ky. — Kelsey was charged with a tech- forcing Syracuse to call nical foul for throwing a timeout after hitting Plum scored 26 points, the ball high in the air two straight 3s to pull and Chantel Osahor had after he was called for a her team to 54-51. But 24 points and 18 rebounds foul.

Maggie Morrison’s three- as Washington defeated But that’s when the Tar pointer and a snaking la- Stanford to earn its first Heels, with Johnson on yup by Corneilia Fondren women’s basketball Final the bench, took off. pushed Syracuse’s lead Four appearance.

The seventh-seedAfter an incredible first back to 63-53. half in which both teams Jaime Nared added ed Huskies scored the played about as well as 14 points for Tennes- game’s first 12 points and they could offensively, see, which committed 21 stayed ahead the rest of North Carolina led 43-38. turnovers against the Or- the way. Washington (26Both teams shot better ange’s pressure 2-3 zone 10) will play Syracuse in than 58 percent from the defense. The Orange con- an NCAA semifinal April field and from three-point verted those turnovers in 3 in Indianapolis.

Stanford, the No. 4 range. In one stretch, 25 points.

North Carolina went four Mercedes Russell, seed, was seeking its 13th minutes without missing. who had a career-high 25 Final Four appearance points against Ohio State overall, and seventh in NOTRE DAME (24-12) Beachem 6-9 3-5 18, Auguste 2-3 1-1 on Friday and came into the last nine years.

5, Farrell 2-3 0-0 6, Jackson 10-16 3-4 26, Lili Thompson scored Vasturia 4-10 2-2 11, Pflueger 0-0 0-0 0, the game shooting 70 Ryan 0-0 0-0 0, Colson 3-8 2-2 8. Totals percent in her first three 19 points for Stanford (2727-49 11-14 74. tournament games, was 8). Erica McCall added 17 NORTH CAROLINA (32-6) Meeks 4-4 2-2 10, Johnson 10-15 5-5 limited to just five shots points — all in the second 25, Jackson 4-6 2-3 11, Berry II 4-8 2-2 half — and 15 rebounds.

11, Paige 3-8 5-5 13, Britt 2-3 0-0 4, and finished with seven This marked the first Pinson 2-2 2-5 6, Hicks 3-4 0-0 6, James points. The Lady Vols’ 0-2 2-2 2. Totals 32-52 20-24 88. other post, Bashaara regional final between Halftime-North Carolina 43-38.

3-Point Goals-Notre Dame 9-18 Graves, was 3-for-8 for 11 two Pac-12 schools since (Beachem 3-5, Jackson 3-7, Farrell points.

Stanford beat Southern 2-2, Vasturia 1-4), North Carolina But the Lady Vols, who California 82-62 on its 4-13 (Paige 2-6, Jackson 1-2, Berry II 1-4, Britt 0-1). Fouled Out-None. defeated Ohio State 78-62 way to winning the naRebounds-Notre Dame 15 (Colson 5), North Carolina 32 (Johnson 12). on Friday, had no answer tional championship in Assists-Notre Dame 9 (Jackson 4), for Peterson. She had 29 1992, when the conferNorth Carolina 17 (Berry II 8). Total points after scoring 26 ence was still known as Fouls-Notre Dame 18, North Carolina in the Orange’s upset of the Pac-10.

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Heels stomp Notre Dame Philadelphia (ap) — Brice Johnson had 25 points and 12 rebounds to lead North Carolina to an 88-74 victory over Notre Dame on Sunday night, leaving the Tar Heels as the only No. 1 seed in the Final Four.

The Tar Heels reached the Final Four for a record 19th time and the first since 2009, when they won the last of their five national championships.

North Carolina (32-6) will face Syracuse, the 10th seed from the Midwest Regional, in another all-Atlantic Coast Conference matchup in the Final Four on Saturday in Houston. The Orange beat top-seeded Virginia 68-62.

The halves were very different. In the first, the teams went shot for shot with both teams shooting over 58 percent and neither leading by more than six points.

The second half was run for run and the Tar Heels, taking control of the boards, had the last and biggest one to seize control over the final 10 minutes.

“They made a great run and we made a great run right back at them,” Tar Heels coach Roy Williams said. “These guys were phenomenal. It’s a fine feeling right now.”

It was Johnson’s school-record 23rd double-double of the season.

“It means a lot,” Johnson said of the Final Four.

“It took us four years to do this, but we’re finally there.”

Marcus Paige added 13 points, and Joel Berry II

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SCOREBOARD Dell Match Play

At Austin Country Club Austin, Texas Yardage: 7,073; Par: 71 Semifinals Sunday (Seedings in parentheses) Jason Day (2), Australia, def. Rory McIlroy (3), Northern Ireland, 1 up.

Louis Oosthuizen (16), South Africa, def. Rafa Cabrera Bello (52), Spain, 4 and 3.

Championship match Jason Day (2), Australia, def. Louis Oosthuizen (16), South Africa, 5 and 4.

Consolation match Rafa Cabrera Bello (52), Spain, def.

Rory McIlroy (3), Northern Ireland, 3 and 2.

Puerto Rico

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OAKLAND’S JED LOWRIE (8) IS CONGRATULATED BY BILLY BUTLER after hitting a home run against the Royals during the second inning of the Athletics’ 10-1 victory on Sunday in Mesa, Ariz. At right is Royals catcher Salvador Perez.

Lowrie, Coghlan homer; A’s rough up Royals, 10-1 Mesa, Ariz. (ap) — Jed Lowrie and Chris Coghlan hit home runs, and Kendall Graveman pitched seven solid innings in the Oakland Athletics’ 10-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.

Danny Valencia had two hits and drove in a pair of runs and Yonder Alonso added two hits for the A’s. Josh Reddick, Khris Davis and Billy Butler also drove in runs.

“Lowrie seems like he gets a good at-bat every time out,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said.

“He’s been consistent the whole spring.”

Tony Cruz homered in the seventh for the Royals.

Chris Young pitched 41⁄3 innings, giving up five earned runs and nine hits.

Joakim Soria, who gave up his first earned runs of the spring in his last appearance, pitched a perfect seventh for the Royals.

Graveman took a shutout into the seventh. He allowed four hits, struck out six and walked one.

Starting time Royals: Young was the victim of the Arizona sun as the Royals committed four errors.

“We got him past 90 pitches on his pitch count and that’s the important thing,” Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. “A lot of those balls that found holes wouldn’t be hits during the regular season.

All in all, it was a pretty good outing.”

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not ever talked to the president.”

KU coach Bill Self conceded after the Jayhawks’ loss to Villanova that some underclassmen could leave the program in addition to scholarship seniors Perry Ellis, Hunter Mickelson and Jamari Traylor and walk-on Evan Manning. He said he had no idea when decisions would be made.

“Whatever Wayne decides to do, we will support him as one of our brothers,” junior point guard Frank Mason III said. Mason is expected to return for sure, with sophomore Devonté Graham as well as Lagerald Vick, a freshman shooting guard with great explosiveness. “Wayne is

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T-2:34. A-7,172 (10,000).

Yost also said that Young will make a “backdown start” in his next outing.

Athletics: Graveman felt this was an important game for him and the team.

“I’ve been getting incrementally better in every game and I wanted to keep that going,” Graveman said. “I think this was in the right direction.

I was able to throw all my pitches for strikes. To win this game is big because pretty soon, they’re going to count.”

Graveman was particularly happy with the development of a changeup, a pitch he worked on during the offseason and a pitch he needs.

somebody we can always count on, who played hard every night and had a great season.”

The Jayhawks are still in the running for comboguard deluxe Josh Jackson, the No. 1 prospect in the country according to Rivals.com, who would be projected as an immediate starter. He told Eric Bossi of Rivals he hoped to have a decision within two weeks.

KU is bringing in a pair of forwards in No. 27 ranked McDonald’s All-American Udoka Azubuike and Mitch Lightfoot, who is rated No. 117.

KU also is in the running for 7-footer Thon Maker, who is projected as an immediate impact player.

Also figuring to return for sure is Landen Lucas, the 6-10 honorable mention All-Big 12 player who improved leaps and bounds his junior season. He’ll be joined on the inside

“I think it weakens the contact and gets them off my fastball,” Graveman said. “I have to be able to throw that pitch to both lefties and righties.”

Trainer’s room Royals: OF Jarrod Dyson (right oblique strain) has begun a throwing program.

He’s expected to return to action by mid-April.

Athletics: OF Sam Fuld returned to camp following the birth of his first child. He’s been out with a sore shoulder. ... RHP Henderson Alvarez will throw a bullpen on Tuesday and is expected to throw to hitters when the team returns to Oakland either Saturday or the following Wednesday. ...

Former A’s shortstop and AL Rookie of the Year Bobby Crosby threw out the first pitch.

Up next Royals: RHP Edinson Volquez is scheduled to make his first start against a major-league team in two weeks and his fourth overall today in Surprise against the San Diego Padres as he prepares for his opening day start. He’ll be opposed by LHP Drew Pomeranz.

Athletics: RHP Jesse Hahn starts today’s game in Mesa against the Cleveland Indians and RHP Danny Salazar.

Cuts Athletics: Optioned OF Jake Smolinski to TripleA Nashville; Reassigned C Carson Blair to the minor-league camp.

ries finale against West Virginia was canceled.

Due to snowfall SunWVU won the series, day morning, Kansas 2-0.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

W L Pct Toronto 16 5 .762 Los Angeles 15 8 .652 Houston 16 9 .640 Detroit 15 10 .600 Minnesota 15 10 .600 Texas 16 11 .593 Seattle 14 12 .538 Chicago 13 12 .520 Cleveland 12 12 .500 Tampa Bay 11 11 .500 Oakland 11 12 .478 Boston 12 14 .462 New York 10 13 .435 Kansas City 12 17 .414 Baltimore 9 14 .391 NATIONAL LEAGUE

W L Pct Washington 17 4 .810 Arizona 20 6 .769 Philadelphia 14 9 .609 Colorado 13 9 .591 Milwaukee 12 11 .522 Los Angeles 12 12 .500 Cincinnati 12 15 .444 Miami 9 12 .429 San Francisco 11 17 .393 St. Louis 8 13 .381 New York 7 13 .350 Chicago 8 17 .320 San Diego 8 18 .308 Pittsburgh 7 18 .280 Atlanta 6 17 .261 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against nonmajor league teams do not.

Sunday’s Games Minnesota 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Miami 4, St. Louis 2 Houston 8, Detroit 3 Toronto 7, Tampa Bay 3 Boston 5, Philadelphia 1 Washington (ss) 7, Atlanta 2 N.Y. Mets 4, Washington (ss) 4, tie San Diego 21, Houston 6 Chicago White Sox 13, San Francisco 9 Oakland 10, Kansas City 1 Cleveland 10, Milwaukee 3 Seattle 12, Chicago Cubs 9 Cincinnati 7, L.A. Dodgers 6 Texas 5, Arizona (ss) 4 L.A. Angels 11, San Diego 2 Colorado 8, Arizona (ss) 6, 10 innings Baltimore 5, Pittsburgh 3 Today’s Games Miami vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 12:07 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Oakland at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Kansas City (ss) at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Kansas City (ss) vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Houston vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 5:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 5:35 p.m.

Texas vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

NCAA Men

EAST REGIONAL At Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 Notre Dame 61, Wisconsin 56 North Carolina 101, Indiana 86 Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 North Carolina 88, Notre Dame 74 SOUTH REGIONAL At KFC YUM! Center Louisville, Ky. Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 24 Villanova 92, Miami 69 Kansas 79, Maryland 63 Regional Championship Saturday, March 26 Villanova 64, Kansas 59 MIDWEST REGIONAL At The United Center Chicago Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 Virginia 84, Iowa State 71 Syracuse 63, Gonzaga 60 Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Syracuse 68, Virginia 62 WEST REGIONAL At The Honda Center Anaheim, Calif.

Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 24 Oklahoma 77, Texas A&M 63 Oregon 82, Duke 68 Regional Championship Saturday, March 26 Oklahoma 80, Oregon 68

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned 1B Christian Walker to Norfolk (IL).

Released RHP Dale Thayer.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Released OF Chris Denorfia. Optioned INF Rob Refsnyder to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned OF Jake Smolinski to Nashville (PCL).

Reassigned C Carson Blair to their minor league camp.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned RHP David Hale to Albuquerque (PCL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Traded LHP Eric O’Flaherty to Atlanta for cash considerations.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Announced RHP Blake Smith cleared waivers and was assigned back to the Chicago White Sox. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned RHP Mike Broadway, OFs Jarrett Parker and Mac Williamson to Sacramento (PCL). Reassigned LHP Braulio Lara, OF Gorkys Hernandez, INFs Grant Green, Ramiro Pena and Conor Gillaspie and C George Kottaras to their minor league camp.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Assigned 1B Tyler Moore outright to Syracuse (IL). Traded INF/OF Tyler Moore to Atlanta for 1B Nate Freiman.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed F Christian Wood to a 10-day contract.

Waived G-F Sonny Weems.

GOLF PGA TOUR — Signed commissioner Tim Finchem to a one-year contract extension until June 2017.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLORADO AVALANCHE — Recalled F Andrew Agozzino and D Nikita Zadorov from San Antonio (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned D Mac Bennett from St. John’s (AHL) to Brampton (ECHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Signed M Andrea Mancini.

COLLEGE PITTSBURGH — Named Kevin Stallings men’s basketball coach.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 75 42 24 9 93 216 184 Tampa Bay 75 43 27 5 91 211 182 Boston 76 40 28 8 88 222 207 Detroit 75 37 27 11 85 192 206 Ottawa 76 34 33 9 77 217 234 Montreal 76 34 36 6 74 201 221 Buffalo 75 31 34 10 72 179 202 Toronto 74 27 36 11 65 181 217 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Washington 74 53 16 5 111 232 174 N.Y. Rangers 76 43 24 9 95 219 199 Pittsburgh 75 42 25 8 92 214 186 N.Y. Islanders 74 40 25 9 89 208 192 Philadelphia 74 36 25 13 85 193 197 Carolina 76 33 28 15 81 186 206 New Jersey 76 36 32 8 80 171 193 Columbus 75 30 37 8 68 194 233 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Dallas 76 45 22 9 99 247 218 x-St. Louis 76 45 22 9 99 203 185 Chicago 76 44 25 7 95 212 188 Nashville 75 39 23 13 91 210 190 Minnesota 76 37 28 11 85 206 189 Colorado 75 38 33 4 80 200 212 Winnipeg 75 31 38 6 68 192 220 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Los Angeles 75 45 25 5 95 206 175 x-Anaheim 74 41 23 10 92 194 177 San Jose 75 41 28 6 88 219 196 Arizona 75 34 34 7 75 197 221 Calgary 75 31 38 6 68 205 238 Vancouver 75 27 35 13 67 171 217 Edmonton 78 30 41 7 67 193 232 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference Sunday’s Games Carolina 3, New Jersey 2 Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, OT Chicago 3, Vancouver 2 Today’s Games Winnipeg at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Washington, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Boston at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Carolina at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Colorado at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

by Dwight Coleby, a 6-9 junior transfer from Ole Miss, who is also expected to contribute immediately.

There are other prospects, obviously, who FINAL FOUR could be landed in reAt NRG Stadium Houston cruiting.

National Semifinals As far as putting this Saturday, April 2 Villanova (33-5) vs. Oklahoma (29season to rest, Self said Kia Classic 7), 5:09 p.m. of the Big 12 champs, who Sunday North Carolina (32-6) vs. Syracuse Aviara Golf Club (23-13), 7:49 p.m. reached the Elite Eight: “I At Carlsbad, Calif.

National Championship don’t want to reflect now. Purse: $1.7 million Monday, April 4 6,593; Par: 72 I’ll look back ... coaches Yardage: Semifinal winners Final probably know better Lydia Ko, $255,000 MLS 68-67-67-67—269 NCAA Women than anybody what team BRIDGEPORT REGIONAL Park, $154,127 EASTERN CONFERENCE ceilings are. These kids Inbee

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W L T At Bridgeport, Conn.

Montreal 2 1 0 played pretty close to it Ai Miyazato, $111,808

67-72-71-66—276 Saturday, March 26 Philadelphia 2 1 0 the last couple months. Sung Hyun Park, $78,055 UConn 98, Mississippi State 38 Orlando City 1 0 2 Texas 72, UCLA 64 I don’t know with this 71-66-68-72—277 NYC FC 1 1 2 Regional Championship Shin, $78,055 Toronto FC 1 1 1 particular group it could Jenny Today

69-65-71-72—277 New York 1 2 0 UConn (35-0) vs. Texas (31-4), 6 p.m. New England 0 1 3 be a special year without Gerina Piller, $45,989

72-70-69-67—278 Chicago 0 1 2 getting to Houston (Final DALLAS REGIONAL Shanshan Feng, $45,989 D.C. United 0 2 2 Four). Nobody could say Regional Semifinals 71-69-70-68—278 Columbus 0 2 1 Saturday, March 26 Hyo Joo Kim, $45,989 these kids didn’t have a WESTERN CONFERENCE

70-66-73-69—278 At Dallas

W L T great year. They battled Jessica Korda, $45,989 Baylor 78, Florida State 58 Sporting KC 3 0 0 Oregon State 83, DePaul 71 70-67-70-71—278 hard, almost always rose FC Dallas 3 1 0 Regional Championship Brooke M. Henderson, $32,909 Los Angeles 2 1 0 to the occasion when 73-70-70-66—279 Today 2 2 0 Baylor (36-1) vs. Oregon State (31- Vancouver they needed to. Tonight Brittany Lang, $32,909 San Jose 2 1 0 67-68-70-74—279 4), 8 p.m. we played a team that is Anna Nordqvist, $26,918 Real Salt Lake 1 0 2 Houston 1 2 1 scrappy also. They made 72-68-71-69—280 SIOUX FALLS REGIONAL Portland 1 1 1 Regional Semifinals Suzann Pettersen, $26,918 a couple more plays.”

Colorado 1 1 1 Friday, March 25

Kansas-WVU baseball finale snowed out J-W Staff Reports

Sunday At Coco Beach Golf & Country Club Rio Grande, Puerto Rico Purse: $3 million Yardage: 7,506; Par 72 (x-won on third playoff hole) x-Tony Finau (300), $540,000

69-70-67-70—276 Steve Marino (165), $324,000

70-67-69-70—276 Rodolfo Cazaubon, $174,000

70-70-69-68—277 Ian Poulter (93), $174,000

71-66-68-72—277 Scott Brown (60), $109,500

71-69-67-71—278 Andres Romero (60), $109,500

70-73-68-67—278 Nick Taylor (60), $109,500

70-71-67-70—278 Aaron Baddeley (45), $87,000

66-72-69-72—279 Rafael Campos, $87,000

64-71-72-72—279 Will MacKenzie (45), $87,000

66-71-71-71—279 Alex Cejka (34), $66,000

66-71-72-71—280 Graham DeLaet (34), $66,000

70-69-70-71—280 Scott Langley (34), $66,000

72-70-69-69—280 Kyle Reifers (34), $66,000

67-70-71-72—280 Luke Guthrie (29), $46,500

69-70-72-70—281 Tim Herron (29), $46,500

68-75-72-66—281 Mark Hubbard (29), $46,500

67-70-72-72—281 Freddie Jacobson (29), $46,500

69-69-70-73—281 Kelly Kraft (29), $46,500

72-69-70-70—281 Luke List (29), $46,500

70-70-71-70—281 Derek Fathauer (27), $31,200

70-68-71-73—282 Retief Goosen (27), $31,200

73-69-71-69—282 Jerry Kelly (27), $31,200

74-69-74-65—282 Patrick Rodgers (27), $31,200

69-70-72-71—282 Tim Wilkinson (27), $31,200

71-71-69-71—282 Michael Bradley (23), $20,417

67-72-73-71—283 Luke Donald (23), $20,417

69-73-72-69—283 Frank Lickliter II (23), $20,417

66-72-75-70—283 Scott Pinckney (23), $20,417

71-72-70-70—283 Chris Stroud (23), $20,417

71-71-73-68—283 Jhonattan Vegas (23), $20,417

69-72-73-69—283 Brice Garnett (23), $20,417

72-71-69-71—283 Rod Pampling (23), $20,417

69-72-71-71—283 Cameron Percy (23), $20,417

69-71-70-73—283 Gregory Bourdy, $15,113

69-72-77-66—284 George Coetzee, $15,113

71-69-73-71—284 Billy Mayfair (20), $15,113

67-74-71-72—284 Boo Weekley (20), $15,113

72-71-69-72—284 Ricky Barnes (17), $11,400

71-71-73-70—285 Dean Burmester, $11,400

69-71-75-70—285 Jonathan Byrd (17), $11,400

70-68-68-79—285 Erik Compton (17), $11,400

71-70-70-74—285 Henrik Norlander (17), $11,400

72-70-70-73—285 Sam Saunders (17), $11,400

71-69-74-71—285 Michael Thompson (17), $11,400

68-74-72-71—285 David Toms (17), $11,400

73-69-69-74—285 Bronson Burgoon (13), $7,706

69-68-77-72—286 Bryce Molder (13), $7,706

70-70-74-72—286 Darron Stiles (13), $7,706

67-75-74-70—286 Thomas Aiken (13), $7,706

72-71-70-73—286 Chad Collins (13), $7,706

70-73-71-72—286 Jorge Fernandez-Valdes, $7,706

72-69-68-77—286 Adam Svensson, $7,706

67-76-70-73—286 John Rollins (10), $6,870

71-72-70-74—287 Cameron Smith (10), $6,870

72-69-70-76—287 D.J. Trahan (10), $6,870

71-69-76-71—287 Steve Wheatcroft (10), $6,870

71-72-75-69—287

Spring Training

FINAL FOUR At Indianapolis National Semifinals Sunday, April 3 Bridgeport champion vs. Dallas champion, 5 or 7:30 p.m.

Washington (26-10) vs. Syracuse (29-7), 5 or 7:30 p.m.

National Championship Tuesday, April 5 Semifinals winners, 7:30 p.m.

overall, 0-2 Big 12) will host Missouri State in a single game at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, then travel Friday to Baylor.

70-72-66-72—280 Na Yeon Choi, $26,918

70-69-69-72—280 Mi Jung Hur, $26,918

68-71-69-72—280 Ha Na Jang, $21,518

71-72-68-70—281 Carlota Ciganda-, $21,518

70-71-70-70—281 Candie Kung, $21,518

75-69-65-72—281 Haru Nomura, $21,518

70-69-69-73—281 Lizette Salas, $18,396

72-74-70-66—282 Holly Clyburn, $18,396

72-68-73-69—282

At Sioux Falls, S.D. Syracuse 80, South Carolina 72 Tennessee 78, Ohio State 62 Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Syracuse 89, Tennessee 67 LEXINGTON REGIONAL Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 At Lexington, Ky. Washington 85, Kentucky 72 Stanford 90, Notre Dame 84 Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Washington 85, Stanford 76

Pts 6 6 5 5 4 3 3 2 2 1

GF 6 5 4 7 4 4 4 4 2 2

GA 4 3 3 7 3 8 7 5 8 4

Pts GF GA 9 4 1 9 7 5 6 7 3 6 6 6 6 4 4 5 6 5 4 11 8 4 5 5 4 2 2 Seattle 0 3 0 0 2 5 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Friday’s Game New York at New England, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 2 Philadelphia at Chicago, 4 p.m.

Toronto FC at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Sporting Kansas City, 7:30 p.m.

Columbus at FC Dallas, 8 p.m.

Montreal at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

D.C. United at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 3 Portland at Orlando City, 7 p.m.

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Toyota 2014 Corolla LE

2005 Infiniti QX56 $8,500

888-631-6458

2007 Honda Odyssey EX-L

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2008 Honda CBR 600

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

JackEllenaHonda.com

23rd & Alabama Lawrence 785-727-7116

Motorcycle-ATV

23rd & Alabama Lawrence 785-727-7116

Only $13,995

Only $13,814

Always Priced Below NADA Retail! It Just Makes Sense to Buy From Laird Noller!

23rd & Alabama Lawrence 785-727-7116 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

23rd & Alabama Lawrence 785.727.7116

Stk#PL2147

$28,596

Leather, dual climate control, heated seats, well maintained, new tires, brakes, radiator & transmission fluid. $11,500 785-691-5594

Lincoln SUVs

Stk#116L517

Honda Cars

Always Priced Below NADA Retail! It Just Makes Sense to Buy From Laird Noller!

JackEllenaHonda.com

2012 Lincoln MKT EcoBoost

2010 Lincoln Navigator

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

FWD

Only $8,997

Scion

Infiniti SUVs

W/T Ext. cab, one owner trade in, tow package, cruise control, power windows, ready for any job!

Stk#574301

Extremely sharp!!!

Sedan, 126k miles STK# F690A

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

GMC 2011 Sierra

$24,987

JackEllenaHonda.com

Always Priced Below NADA Retail! It Just Makes Sense to Buy From Laird Noller!

Only $20,777

888-631-6458

www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Honda 2009 Accord

Only $10,415

Always Priced Below NADA Retail! It Just Makes Sense to Buy From Laird Noller!

888-631-6458

GMC Trucks

GMC 2009 Sierra SLE

Call Coop at

$29,999

2112 W. 29th Terrace Lawrence, KS 66047

Hyundai SUVs

LX, fwd, one owner, power equipment, great gas mileage and dependable.

Stk#489001

Move quickly!!!

FWD Hatchback, 28k miles STK# G098A

Always Priced Below NADA Retail! It Just Makes Sense to Buy From Laird Noller!

23rd & Alabama Lawrence 785-727-7116 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

2002 LS 430 $5,500 200k miles. Clean leather interior, excellent condition. Loaded with lots of extras. 913-269-6518

Always Priced Below NADA Retail! It Just Makes Sense to Buy From Laird Noller!

23rd & Alabama Lawrence 785-727-7116 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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489 AREA JOB OPENINGS! CITY OF LAWRENCE ............................ 36

KU: FACULTY/ACADEMIC/LECTR ......... 100

MV TRANSPORTATION ......................... 20

CLO ................................................ 12

KU: STAFF OPENINGS ......................... 73

THE SHELTER, INC. ............................ 10

DAYCOM ............................................9

KU: STUDENT OPENINGS .................. 113

WELLSVILLE/BROOKSIDE RETIREMENT ....7

EZ GO STORES....................................5

LAWRENCE PRESBYTERIAN MANOR .........5

FEDEX ............................................. 65

MISCELLANEOUS ............................... 34

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.

Warehouse Associates

Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority

Property Managment Specialist Clinton Place Apartments

LAWRENCE

Focus Workforces is currently seeking Warehouse Associates that can perform a variety of job duties and functions in a distribution center in Ottawa, KS! We are looking for candidates that possess the desire and the ability to work in a fast paced environment!

Deliver Newspapers!

If you are driven and ready for a new challenge, we want to interview YOU!

It’s Fun! Outstanding pay Part-time work

www.ldcha.org Send cover letter, resume, & 3 work related references to: Lawrence-Douglas County

Currently Hiring For: Pickers | Order Selectors | Packers General Labor | Production Work | Special Projects

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.

All Jobs are in Ottawa, KS!

Come in & Apply!

All Shifts Available: Days/Evenings/Weekends

Apply at: www.workatfocus.com In person at: 1529 N. Davis Rd. Ottawa, KS 66067 Call (785) 832-7000 to schedule a time to come in!

NOW HIRING Seeking Positive and Outgoing Full Time and Part Time Team Members

$10.25 to Start!

Great people!

Great pay!

Great benefits!

Mile Post 209, Kansas Turnpike (I-70), Lawrence, KS Apply at ezgostores.com/our-team/

AccountingFinance

(DeSoto, KS) Accounts Receiveable.

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision.

E-mail resume to:

hr.desoto@enginee redair.com 32050 W. 83rd St. DeSoto, KS 66018

EMPLOYMENT

EOE

Financial advisory firm in Lawrence has an opening for full time associate to perform general office duties and assist in daily activites related to servicing clients.

Send resume to: Norman@sunflower.com or fax: 785-843-5971

AdvertisingMarketing

AccountingFinance

Bookkeeper Accounting

Administrative Assistant

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

General

Ogden Publications, Inc., the largest sustainable living media company in the country, is seeking an Advertising Account Executive to work in our Topeka office. Applicants should have an understanding of sales to increase revenue and have the capacity to juggle multiple priorities. Prospecting and new business calls are required.

Please send resume for consideration to: blegault@ogdenpubs.com

by 4 pm on Tues., March 29 or email to housing@ldcha.org with PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST in subject line.

EEO/AA Employer

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

DriversTransportation

Requires Class B CDL w/Air Brakes license.

Experience in lumber industry a plus but not necessary. Excellent benefits after 60 days.

Mon-Fri only. No wknds.

Apply in person at: McCray Lumber 1516 W. 6th St. Lawrence, KS 66044 Drug Free & EOE

You Miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

APPLY! Decisions Determine Destiny

Office-Clerical

HIRING IMMEDIATELY! Full time staff needed for busy optometric office.

Excellent customer service and communication skills required.

Previous experience in sales or medical office preferred but will train right person. Right person is a happy, energetic, caring person who is self motivated and can be part of a team. Must be willing to travel and available some evenings and Saturdays. Wage and benefits commensurate with experience.

Bring resume and fill out an application at:

The EyeDoctors 2600 Iowa St Lawrence, KS 66046

Hiring ALL Positions Oskaloosa & Perry Full & Part-Time.

Benefit packages for full-time, incl. health & 401k, paid vacation & sick leave. Apply at the stores or online at

caseys.com

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

Healthcare

Needed for an I-Car Gold-Class Shop.

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I-Car Training Req’d 3 Years Experience Flat Rate Pay Competitive Benefits

We have state-of-the-art equipment, including a Pro-Spot Welder and Genesis Measuring System. Email your resume to Dave Williamson at Crown Collision Center dwilliamson@crown automotive.com

Apply online at: wellsvillerc.com or stop by 304 W. 7th St. in Wellsville.

Commercial Electricians Oliver Electric Construction accepting applications for experienced Journeyman & Apprentice, for work in the Lawrence & KC area. Top wages/ Benefits. EOE. For details: (785) 748-0777

Interview TIP #2 Arrive 5 min early.

Not 25 - Just 5.

Decisions Determine Destiny

NOTICES

LPN/RN Wellsville Retirement Community has created a fabulous full-time position for a nurse in our Assisted Living neighborhood.

YOU MUST BE FUN OR DON’T APPLY! And we are SERIOUS! Flexible hours, 18 residents, competitive wage and deep commitment to quality of life – for YOU and our residents. Prefer previous experience in assisted living/long term care but willing to train a “FUN” person.

Trade Skills

Auto Body Technician

General

Customer Service

Driver Advertising Account Executive

Housing Authority 1600 Haskell Ave. Lawrence KS 66044

645 New Hampshire 816-805-6780 jinsco@ljworld.com

Pay up to $10.50/hour

AdministrativeProfessional

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 :

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Special Notices

Special Notices Parkwood Day School

Friends Spring Book Sale Kentucky side of Library April 1-3 Friday, Saturday 10-6 Sunday. 12-4 Quality books All $2.00 or less

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!

785-856-0409 or parkwoodlawrence@gmail.com

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785-832-7119

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SERVICES TO PLACE AN AD: Antique/Estate Liquidation

SPECIAL! 6 LINES

1 Month $118.95 | 6 Months $91.95/mo.

12 Months 64.95/mo. + FREE LOGO!

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Carpentry

Construction

Guttering Services

Dirt-Manure-Mulch

Rich Black Top Soil No Chemicals Machine Pulverized Pickup or Delivery

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

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

Cleaning

Remodeling Specialist Handyman Services • 30 Yrs Exp Residential & Commercial 785.608.8159 rrodecap@yahoo.com

Need to sell your car?

Place your ad at classifieds.lawrence.com

Decks & Fences

Auctioneers

DECK BUILDER 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 prodeckanddesign @gmail.com Free estimates or go to prodeckanddesign.com

Foundation Repair

Advertising that works for you!

785-842-0094

jayhawkguttering.com

Foundation & Masonry Specialist Water Prevention Systems for Basements, Sump Pumps, Foundation Supports & Repair & more. Call 785-221-3568

Home Improvements

FOUNDATION REPAIR

Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of:

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

Deck Drywall Siding Replacement Gutters Privacy Fencing Doors & Trim Commercial Build-out Build-to-suit services

913-488-7320

Often featured by our local Auctioneers!

New York Housekeeping Accepting clients for weekly, bi-weekly, seasonal or special occasion cleaning.

Excellent References.

Beth - 785-766-6762

Higgins Handyman

Concrete 785-832-2222 classifieds@ljworld.com

Seamless aluminum guttering.

Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned. Insured. Free estimates.

Ag Equipment & Farm Tools / Supplies

800-887-6929 www.billfair.com STARTING or BUILDING a Business?

JAYHAWK GUTTERING

Serving KC over 40 years

913-962-0798 Fast Service

Fully Insured 22 yrs. experience

Auctioneers

Stamped & Reg. Concrete, Patios, Walks, Driveways, Acid Staining & Overlays, Tear-Out & Replacement Jayhawk Concrete Inc. 785-979-5261

Stacked Deck Decks • Gazebos Siding • Fences • Additions Remodel • Weatherproofing Insured • 25 yrs exp.

785-550-5592

Check our Auction Calendar for upcoming auctions and the

BIGGEST SALES? classifieds@ljworld.com

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

Home Improvements

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

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!

Mike McCain’s Handyman Service

RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

Tree/Stump Removal

Landscaping YARDBIRDS LANDSCAPING Tractor and Mowing Services.

Yard to fields.

Lifetime of Experience Call 785-766-1280

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

Needing to place an ad?

785-832-2222

TO PLACE AN AD:

STRICKER’S AUCTION MONDAY, APRIL 4, 6 PM 801 NORTH CENTER GARDNER, KANSAS Furniture, fountain pen collection, sports memorabilia, tools, hand guns, mowers, neon signs, collectibles, antiques MORE INFO & PICS, SEE WEB STRICKERSAUCTION.COM RON: 913-963-3800 JERRY: 913-707-1046 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

MAN CAVE AUCTION Sat. April 9, 9 AM 830 N. Kansas Ave. Topeka, KS 2006 Jaguar XJ8L, 2007 Harly Davidson Dyna Bob, 2006 EZ-GO Golf Cart, Lots of nice furniture, restaurant equip., & misc.

Color photos and list: kansasauctions.net/ads/04/09/

AUCTIONS

PAINE AUCTION SVCS 785-233-2727|785-554-2234

classifieds@ljworld.com Collectibles

ESTATE SALE 112 Wagon Wheel Dr. Saturday, April 2 8:00-6:00

FREE 2 Week AUCTION CALENDAR LISTING when you place your Auction or Estate Sale ad with us! Call our Classified Advertising Department for details!

785.832.2222 classifieds@ljworld.com

MERCHANDISE Antiques OTTAWA ANTIQUE MALL 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

Jewelry

REAL ESTATE

785.832.2222 Duplexes 2BR in a 4-plex

Men’s Silver Wedding band. $100 obo.

785-841-4616

Coca-Cola Collectibles Show & Sale Saturday, April 23 9 AM-2 PM Holiday Inn Hotel 8787 Reeder Road Overland Park FREE ADMISSION

Diamondart CZ Ring 1 Carat Diamondart CZ Ring w/silver band.

Very nice. $100 obo 785-841-4616

Furniture

Miscellaneous

2 black faux leather swivel chairs w/ foot stools. Recline/rock. $40 each or both $75 785-841-4616. Leave a message w/name and number and what you are inquiring about.

NEW MICHELIN TIRES

Beautiful Cocktail Table with sculptural iron base, granite top. $100 785-841-3332 Benchmark Petite Wingback Chair Coral custom benchmark chair. Nice. $100 785-841-4616

Five piece Oak bedroom set. $275 obo More info: 785-8414616 Oriental Brass Lamp w/shade Very Nice Oriental Brass table lamp w/shade. $100 785-841-4616

REMODELING SALE

Household Misc.

Antiques & Vintage  203 W. 7th, Perry, KS Open 9 am - 5 pm daily Call first: 785-597-5752

2 Tier Chandelier White Porcelin/brass 2 tier chandelier excellent condition. $100 785-841-4616

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!

Plumbing

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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785.832.2222

Everything in great condition; furniture, antiques, appliances, collectibles.

Sale by Elvira

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & House Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Power wash and Tree Services.

785-766-5285

TO PLACE AN AD:

**PAWN SHOP AUCTION** Saturday, April 2, 6 PM 4795 Frisbie Rd Shawnee, KS Preview items at NOON -Great selection of recreational items from hunting, laptops, game systems, tools, coins, jewelry AND MORE! Metro Pawn Inc 913.596.1200 metropawnks.com Lindsay Auction Svc. 913.441.1557 lindsaysauctions.com

Interior/Exterior Painting Quality Work Over 30 yrs. exp.

Call 785-248-6410

APARTMENTS

Auction Calendar

Family Tradition Interior & Exterior Painting Carpentry/Wood Rot Senior Citizen Discount Ask for Ray 785-330-3459

Complete Lawn Care, Rototilling, Hauling, Yard Clean-up, Apt. Clean outs, Misc odd jobs.

MERCHANDISE PETS Auction Calendar

Painting

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

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under $100 CALL 785-832-2222

175/70 R14, SET OF 4 $100 913-845-3365

Music-Stereo

PIANOS • H.L. Phillips upright $650 • Cable Nelson Spinet $500 • Gulbranson Spinet - $450 Prices include tuning & delivery

Lawrence

New carpet, vinyl, cabinets, countertop.

W/D is included.

Investment / Development

Equal Housing Opportunity.

785-865-2505

1st Month FREE!

OPPORTUNITY: ~147 Acres~

Lawrence Schools, large CUSTOM home, barns, 2nd house on property, ponds, just west of 6th & SLTfastest growing intersection in Kansas. $1.6 M

Bill Fair & Company www.billfair.com 800-887-6929

Farms-Acreage 4 ACRES

Between Lawrence & Topeka on blacktop.

Old farmstead, repo, assume owner financing with NO down payment.

RENTALS

Pasture too small Need to Sell$5 - $20 each.

Call 785-766-4273

Warehouse / Offices 769 Grant Street in North Lawrence

grandmanagement.net

FIRST MONTH FREE! 1 & 2 Bedroom Units Available Now!

Lawrence

Office Space

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

785-865-2505

Downtown Office Space Single offices, elevator & conference room, $725.

Call Donna or Lisa

785-841-6565

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

 NOW LEASING  Spring - Fall TUCKAWAY APARTMENTS

AVAILABLE at WEST LAWRENCE LOCATION $525/mo., Utilities included Conference Room, Fax Machine, Copier Available

Tuckawayapartments.com 785-856-0432 TUCKAWAY AT BRIARWOOD

Tuckawayatbriarwood.com HARPER SQUARE Harpersquareapartments.com

Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com

Apartments Unfurnished LAUREL GLEN APTS

Black Faced Sheep

For LEASE

3 BR w/2 or 2.5 BA W/D hookups, Fireplace, Major Appliances. Lawn Care & Dbl Car Garage!

Equal Housing Opportunity

Townhomes

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

FREE!!

Livestock

Lawrence

Contact Donna

HUTTON FARMS Huttonfarms.com

TV-Video

AGRICULTURE

Townhomes

Loading dock, workshop, multi-use space.

Bob Bloom: 842-8204

(785)554-9663

785-832-9906

SOLID OAK RCA TV RCA Solid Oak TV/Cabinet.

Nice. Must pick up.

785-841-4616

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All Electric

1, 2 & 3 BR units Some with W/D, Water & Trash Paid, Small Pet, Income Restrictions Apply

785-838-9559 EOH

SUNRISE PLACE 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!

Call now! 785-841-8400 www.sunriseapartments.com

785-841-6565

Advanco@sunflower.com

785-841-3339

YOUR NEXT APARTMENT IS READY. FIND IT HERE.

apartments.lawrence.com

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Classified Advertising Executive + Auction Enthusiast Contact Ariele today to promote your auction and make our audience your audience.

785-832-7168

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785.832.2222 (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld March 28, 2016) The March meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority, will be held on Monday, March 28, at Babcock Place, 1700 Massachusetts St. The public is invited to attend. The meeting agenda is available at www.ldcha.org. _______

legals@ljworld.com Case No. 2016-PR-000028 Div. No.1 Petition Filed Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that on March 24, 2016, Letters of Testamentary were granted to Sarah A Albright in the estate of Lee S Douglass, deceased.

(First published in the All creditors of the deceLawrence Daily Journal dent are notified to exhibit their demands against the World March 28, 2016) Estate within the latter of four months from the date IN THE DISTRICT COURT of first publication of noOF DOUGLAS COUNTY, tice under K.S.A. 59-2236 KANSAS and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the In the Matter of the creditor is known or reaEstate of Lee S Douglass, sonably ascertainable, 30 Deceased

days after actual notice was given as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they forever shall be barred.

Sarah A Albright, Executrix 11350 Estates View Lane Manassas, VA 20112 (817) 366-0421 sarahalbright62@gmail.com ________ (First Published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld March 28, 2016) Eudora 491 will hold a milk bid opening on April 13th at 2pm for the ‘16-’17 school year needs.

For specs email: jasonoehlert@eudorascho ols.org _______

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