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Jurors find McLinn eligible for ‘Hard 50’

By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos

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Jurors on Friday found Sarah Gonzales McLinn, 20, of Lawrence, guilty of the premeditated, first-degree murder of Harold “Hal”

Sasko. Monday morning, they decided the killing was committed in an “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner,” allowing a judge to sentence McLinn to a “Hard 50.”

Because jurors determined the crime was com-

mitted with one or more “aggravating factors,” District Judge Paula Martin will be able to depart from the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines and sentence McLinn to a mandatory minimum of 50 years in prison without eligibility for parole.

A sentencing hearing is set for April 29. McLinn’s attorney Carl Cornwell said he will likely present further evidence and witnesses then to dissuade Martin from the 50-year sentence.

The jury deliberated for nearly five hours Friday be-

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fore determining that McLinn was able to form intent when she used a long, black knife to slice the neck of Sasko, 52, of Lawrence, on Jan. 14, 2014. In a post-arrest interview shown to jurors Please see HARD 50, page 2A

Budget bill reworked as House support erodes

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A KANSAS UNIVERSITY STUDENT WALKS PAST A ROW OF FORSYTHIA BUSHES along Mississippi Street as spring flowers begin to bloom on campus and across Lawrence on Monday. Pictured in the top row, from left, are saucer magnolia, red maple and star magnolia.

County updates public on jail improvements

By Chad Lawhorn Twitter: @clawhorn_ljw

By mid-May local leaders should know how many prisoners in the Douglas County Jail have mental illnesses, and how many could be better treated without housing them in costly jail cells.

A crowd of about 40 people at the Douglas County Courthouse on Monday evening were told that a detailed research project is underway, and that by this summer a report will be delivered on the type of prisoners currently being served at the jail. Then, the project will shift into the phase of starting to find so-

and the Sheriff’s Department to consider issues such as employment programs, transitional housing, substance abuse treatment and several other programs that could help jail prisoners more easily re-enter society, or keep them out of jail in the first place.

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lutions, which could include a multimillion-dollar expansion of the county jail.

“But this issue goes well beyond the county jail,” Douglas County Commissioner Jim Flory told the crowd. “We’re looking at this as a community issue.”

Members of the crowd asked the County Commission

Topeka — As support in the Kansas House appeared to erode for its proposed budget for the next two years, the Senate Ways and Means Committee went back to work on its own bill, hoping to come up with a version that may be more acceptable to conservatives in the House.

During a hastily called meeting Monday, the Senate panel made a handful of changes to the bill it had previously sent to the full Senate.

Among those was reinserting a $9.4 million cut to the Kansas University campus in Lawrence, but LEGISLATURE deleting an earlier provision to shift that money to the KU Medical Center campus in Wichita. As the bill stands now, the Senate bill would simply cut $9.4 million from the Lawrence campus.

The Senate panel also deleted $2 million that it had earlier proposed adding to the state’s comprehensive grant program, a form of need-based student financial aid. But the panel kept a requirement that at least 75 percent of the remaining $15.7 million in grants go to students from independent, private colleges, such as Baker University in Baldwin City.

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DEATHS Charles William medley National Association of Secondary School P r i n c i p a l s - L aw r e n c e Chamber of CommerceSouthwestern College Athletic Hall of Fame Committee-Kids Voting-Lions ClubMethodist ChurchesNational Advisory Council, University of KS School of Education and Easter Seal Capper Foundation.

Services 11:00 A.M., Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Winfield.

Memorials for Winfield USD 465 Foundation, Southwestern College and Easter Seal Capper Foundation.

Online condolences may be made at www. milesfuneralservice.com.

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BarBara richards Memorial services for Barbara Richards, 67, Lawrence will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, March 27, 2015 at WarrenMcElwain Mortuary in Lawrence, KS. She died March 21, 2015 at her home.

She was born May 19, 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri the daughter of Phillip and Lyllian (Muehlebach) Cope.

She worked at the Country Club Bank until she retired in 2007.

She married Steve Richards on June 27, 1982 in Overland Park, Kansas.

He survives of the home.

Other survivors include two daughters, Sondra Speer and Christina Speer both of Lawrence, KS; a son,

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last week, McLinn told investigators she committed the gruesome crime because it was something she “always wanted to do” and that she “wanted to see what it felt like to kill someone.”

After the killing, McLinn fled to Texas, then to Florida, stopping along the way at tattoo parlors. On her ribcage, McLinn had tattooed the macabre quote, “Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb,” from the Sue Grafton murder mystery novel “I is for Innocent.”

McLinn lived with Sasko at the time of his death and had previously worked for him at Sasko’s CiCi’s Pizza restaurant. To find McLinn not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, as McLinn’s attorney asked, jurors had to find that she was “incapable of possessing the required culpable mental state” to plan and intend to kill Sasko.

Before jurors began deliberating Monday on whether Sasko’s murder was committed with one or more aggravating factors, Assistant Douglas County District Attorney David Melton showed jurors a gory photo of Sasko’s body at the crime scene.

Melton said McLinn used a hunting knife rather than a gun to get the most out of the murder.

Wes Rincon of Orlando, FL; two step daughters, Amy Howard of San Diego, CA, Emily Runyan of Lake Villa, IL; a step son, Adam Richards of Waukegan, IL; eight grandchildren; three sisters, Sharon Hyman, Phyliss Chapman and Charlotte Rabicoff.

M e m o r i a l contributions may be made in her name to American Cancer Society and may be sent in care of the mortuary.

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Visitation 6-8 Tues. Quisenberry Funeral Home.

Zachary Lee Shawano Zachary L. Shawano, 26, of Crandon, WI, passed away unexpectedly Friday, March 20, 2015 as a result of a motor vehicle accident. He was born on November 4, 1988 in Rhinelander, WI to Eugene Shawano and Dori Zimmerman.

Zach spent his childhood in the Crandon area and at the age of 12 moved to Lawerence, Kansas.

He graduated from the Lawerence High School, and then moved to Madison, WI. There he worked for a public relations firm as a spokesperson for the Forest County Potawatomi.

In 2013 he returned back to Crandon.

On August 2, 2014, Zach married Megan Longanecker in Linden, WI. He loved playing church softball and golfing. He also enjoyed watching Wisconsin sports: Badgers, Packers, Brewers, and the Bucks when they were winning.

Zach is survived by his wife, Megan and son, Homer of Crandon, WI; father, Eugene (Michelle Johnson) of Crandon, WI; mother, Dori (Jim Tibbits) Zimmerman of Fort Myers, FL, a sister, Abigail Shawano of Lawerence, KS,; a

brother, Oliver Shawano of Lawerence, KS. He is further survived by step sisters: Kaylee McGeshick of Appleton, & Taylor Smith of Crandon, WI, a stepbrother, Kody Smith of Appleton, WI, sister-inlaws: Gina Currier of Louisville, KY, Kristen Rice of Minneapolis, MN, and brothersin-law: Dakota Kahn and Tyler Kahn of Lawerence, KS; also paternal grandparents Eugene (Eleanor) Shawano of Crandon, WI, and maternal grandparents Milton (Rita) Zimmerman of Linden, WI. Visitation for Zach will be held after 4:00 pm on Tuesday March 24, 2015 at the Lake Lucerne Gospel Chapel, Crandon, WI. Meal will take place on Wednesday March 25, at 12:00 noon at the church, with the funeral service to follow.

Rev. Don Dewing will officiate.

Weber-Hill Funeral Home, Crandon, WI is assisting the family with arrangements.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www. weberhillfuneralhome. com Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries.

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Every murder is horrific; however, the extreme brutality of the method of his murder was shocking to everyone in our community.”

— Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson “She felt his hot blood all over her arms and hands,” Melton said. “She wanted to maximize her enjoyment of that murder.”

District Attorney Charles Branson said the crime was so ruthless in nature that it shook Lawrence.

“Every murder is horrific; however, the extreme brutality of the method of his murder was shocking to everyone in our community,” Branson said.

Cornwell said jurors should not find the case had aggravating factors because “Hard 50” sentences should be given only in cases of harsher crimes.

“This isn’t a Hard 50 case,” Cornwell said.

“Hard 50 should be reserved for somebody who is kept alive and tortured.”

Juror Linda Smith said that it was McLinn’s “overkill” of Sasko that led her to a guilty verdict. During a recorded confession, McLinn said she stuck the knife in as far as it would go, hitting the carpet beneath Sasko’s head, and sawed the blade toward herself through his throat. Then, McLinn said she wiped Sasko’s blood on the wall and used her finger to scrawl out “FREEDOM” in the smear.

“She could have stopped after just putting

the knife in,” Smith said.

“The smearing of the blood. It was overkill.”

Smith said McLinn’s straight-faced confession shown to jurors convinced her that McLinn had the mentality to form intent.

“We saw the entire confession and there wasn’t any inconsistencies in the way she confessed,” Smith said.

Cornwell had said that McLinn had Dissociative Identity Disorder, or multiple personalities, after a childhood molestation and teenage rape and thus could not form intent. Psychologist Marilyn Hutchinson testified that one of McLinn’s subidentities, “Alyssa,” killed Sasko “as an act of love” toward another of her personalities.

Branson questioned whether McLinn was malingering, or falsifying symptoms of a mental disorder for secondary gain.

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CHARLES WILLIAM (BILL) MEDLEY, 87, of Winfield, Kansas, passed away March 20, 2015. He received his BA degree from Southwestern College and his Masters degree from Kansas State Teachers College.

He received additional education from University of KS, WY, CO, OR, MS, DE, Pittsburgh and WSU. Bill was united in marriage to Maxine Hudspeth in Caldwell on August 14, 1969. Bill was Principal at Lawrence, KS from 1965-1973. Bill was a member of the Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame.

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ing psychology books in her jail cell since she has been incarcerated, Branson said, and some of McLinn’s psychological tests were inconclusive because of “over-reporting” symptoms.

Smith said that some of her fellow jurors “had reservations because of (McLinn’s) mental state,” but ultimately agreed that the young woman had the capacity to form intent. If one of McLinn’s personalities had the propensity to kill, Smith said, couldn’t it come forth again?

“Whether she had that mental disorder or not, she still committed the act,” Smith said. “If the (Dissociative Identity Disorder) existed, what’s to say she wouldn’t do it again?”

After the jury sided with the prosecution on Monday, Sasko’s brother, Tom Sasko, said there “are no winners.” “(Sasko’s 18-year-old daughter) Amanda loses the most. Sarah’s family loses second-most,” Tom Sasko said.

– Reporter Caitlin Doornbos can be reached at 813-7146 or cvdoornbos@ljworld.com.

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“Employment and housing are the keys to recovery,” said Rick Cagan, executive director of the Kansas chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “This community needs to make investments in those paths to recovery.”

Sheriff Ken McGovern said he agrees that any solution needs to be broad-based.

“I give the county commissioners a lot of kudos,” McGovern said. “I was focused on building a jail, and they said ‘time out.’ They said we need to look at the whole process, and I agree.”

The jail, though, is facing some space issues.

When the jail was built in 1999, female inmate populations weren’t as large as they are today. The current jail has only 24 beds for female inmates out of the 186 beds total. On Monday, the county was paying for nine female prisoners to stay in jails in other counties because the female section of the facility was at capacity.

McGovern said the county is going to look at a variety of models in communities that have worked to reduce inmate populations, including: special mental health courts that allow mentally ill defendants to receive diversions and treatments rather than jail time; special crisis intervention training for law enforcement officers; and greater partnerships between law enforcement, mental health providers and the judicial system.

Monday’s meeting was the first of five to six public forums the county plans to host on issues surrounding the county jail and mental health care.

The county has said any solution to improve the jail and improve mental health care in the county could cost $20 million to $30 million. It hasn’t yet proposed a plan to pay for any future project.

The county tentatively has set a date of May 18 for the next public forum on the issue. At that point, the Sheriff’s Department expects to have more data to present about the current situation at the jail.

— City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at clawhorn@ljworld.com.

Reception to be held for those 100 plus On April 15 at the Capitol in Topeka, Gov. Sam Brownback will host a reception for Kansas residents who are 100 and older. Family and caregivers also are invited to attended. The reception will start at 1:30 p.m. on the Capitol’s second floor rotunda. RSVPs may be emailed to angela.derocha@kdads.ks.gov.

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won the Girls State Chess Championship on Saturday at Kansas University, officials said.

Saturday’s victory qualifies Hajiarbabi to compete against other state champions in a girls’ national tournament this summer, said Phil Wedge, Cordley Chess Club sponsor.

Shahrzad Hajiarbabi, of Lawrence High; Logan Camarda, of West Middle; Annelise Hoopes, of Cordley Elementary; Mikah Beaty, of Liberty Memorial Central Middle, and Jenny Li, of Quail Run Elementary, placed third, fourth, sixth, 10th and 11th in the competition respectively, Wedge said.

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here’s nothing like a long City Commission meeting to take your mind off a season-ending Jayhawk loss, although both occasionally will cause you to stand up and yell, “I need some more !*&#!!$!! cheese dip.” Regardless, here’s a look at a couple of the larger items city commissioners are set to deal with at their meeting this evening.

Associates Inc. — has indeed revised its audit report, and acknowledged that some methods related to calculating concrete weren’t the best.

But one finding of the revised report is probably different than what city commissioners hoped for: Version 2.0 of the audit says the city actually owes more money on the infrastructure project than what Rock Chalk Park audit Version 1.0 had deterIf you remember from mined. The new report earlier this month, there says the city still has were questions raised an outstanding balance about the accuracy of of $1,092,971 compared portions of the audit con- with $1,025,649 that was ducted on the infrastruc- determined in the first ture costs at Rock Chalk report. In other words, Park. Well, the city-hired the city — according to auditor — McDonald & the auditor’s calculations

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through the new report, but it appears the second report has removed about $67,000 worth of payments that the first report said had already been made by the city.

In Version 1.0 of the audit report, the auditors found that the city paid $10,550,630 for the city’s recreation center at Rock Chalk Park. But Version clawhorn@ljworld.com 2.0 credited the city with $10,500,000 in recreation — owes about $67,000 center costs. more to KU Endowment, The $10,500,000 cost which in turn will pay is consistent with the Bliss Sports II, which was bid the city received for the private contractor the recreation center. that received the no-bid But in Version 1.0 of the contract to build roads, report, the auditors said parking lots, sewer lines there were city accountand other infrastructure ing records that showed at the site. $10,550,630 had actually I’m still sorting been paid for the recre-

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The amount paid for the recreation center is important because the city has a $22.5 million cap on how much it must pay for total Rock Chalk Park expenses. Every dollar paid for the recreation center reduces by a dollar the amount the city must pay for the infrastructure.

The two versions of the audit report also disagree on how much the city should be credited for architecture fees for the recreation center. Version 1.0 of the report says $941,408, based on city accounting records. Version 2.0 says $925,000.

Honestly, I’m still checking on why the

amounts are different. I think it is because upon further review it was found that some of the amounts listed in Version 1.0 report were found to be payments that were outside the scope of the development agreement, and thus shouldn’t be used to reduce the city’s payment cap. I’ll keep checking on that.

I don’t believe any of it, though, is related to the original question that sparked Version 2.0 of this report — the analysis of concrete batch tickets.

On that point, the auditors said they once thought looking at conPlease see CITY, page 4A

Group asks what will make 9th Street project a success

By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @ConradSwanson

A committee of neighborhood, city and business representatives gathered Monday night at the Lawrence Public Library to ask what will make the planned Ninth Street Corridor Project a success.

The group, named the Ninth Street Corridor Citizen Advisory Committee, is meant to act as a sounding board for city staff and the project’s design team as the seven-block creative placemaking project moves forward.

The committee’s meetings will be held about once a month and are open to the public.

Around three dozen interested Lawrence residents sat quietly in the li-

brary’s auditorium as the group discussed its goals.

At face value, the project will be a complete renovation of the Ninth Street thoroughfare, from Delaware Street west to Massachusetts Street, said Josh Shelton of the project’s design team.

The project aims to deliver streetscape and landscaping strategies, proposed infrastructure upgrades and public art integration, Shelton said.

Aside from several deliverable concepts, however, much of the project is open to interpretation, Shelton said. And it is the purpose of these meetings to steer the effort in the right direction.

Monday night’s main discussion point was a single question: “What

does success look like for the Ninth Street Corridor Project?”

Lawrence Mayor Mike Amyx spoke of his barber shop on Massachusetts Street, and how a successful renovation would allow for traffic to flow naturally to and from the downtown area.

“I think success is a multimodal and safe roadway that can bring my customers up and down Ninth Street,” he said.

Tom Carmody, chairman of the Lawrence Arts Center board of directors, spoke of the potential for artwork along the corridor, mentioning a $500,000 grant the center was awarded in 2014 from ArtPlace America.

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KU hires architecture dean

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WORLD YO-YO CHAMPION AND JUGGLER MARK HAYWARD catches three balls catapulted by a giant mouse trap triggered by a dart from a blow gun as he performs a trick for the audience during his TEDxLawrence talk on Monday at Liberty Hall.

Kansas University has hired a new dean for the School of Architecture, Design and Planning.

Mahesh Daas, professor and chairman of the department of architecture at Ball State University, will start the job June 15, KU announced Monday. Daas will succeed Dean John Gaunt, who has led the school for more than 20 years.

Daas is known for innovation in design computing, architectural robotics, design thinking, innovation methods and management, according to KU. He said his vision for

Ideas take stage at TEDx event

By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

The Liberty Hall stage became a launchpad of ideas Monday.

The first TEDxLawrence event featured a dozen speakers ranging from a cancer researcher to a world air guitar champion.

Lawrence is full of fodder to inspire such an event, said Megan Stuke, the volunteer coordinator for the event.

“We knew that there was a well of information here that needed to be shared,” she said.

Morning speakers included Mick Murray, a pastor who asserted that, rather than combat one another, theologians and scientists should sit down together to answer the “riddles” of our time.

“Who knows what

breakthroughs might follow if we have these conversations?” he said.

There was also Anthony Barnett speaking on human-canine healing.

Barnett, who himself suffers from anxiety, said he learned much from working with dogs rescued from fighting and that others can, too.

Among other things, he said, we all need not just physical activity

but brain activity, too, to stay healthy and balanced.

The TEDx program purposely does not identify speakers’ employers, but Murray is pastor at Lawrence’s Antioch Community Church and Barnett owns Home Sweet Home Dog Resort in Lawrence.

Monday’s TEDxLawrence event was one of Please see TED, page 4A

the school includes continuing to build partnerships with on- and off-campus entities. Today’s architecture extends beyond simply making buildings, Daas Daas said.

“That knowledge is also valuable in such a wide range of problems that the world faces today,” he said. “... those require really interdisciplinary approaches.”

Daas called the school he will lead at KU “pioneering” and said he was excited and humbled by the appointment.

His wide-ranging background made Daas an “exceptional” fit for KU,

provost and executive vice chancellor Jeff Vitter said.

“He will enable us to build upon and combine the creative energy and knowledge of the three departments of architecture, design and planning to great effect,” Vitter said in a statement.

Daas earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India, where he is a licensed architect. He earned a master’s of architecture in urban design from Kansas State University and an execuPlease see DEAN, page 4A

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Man sentenced to 7 years in synthetic marijuana case pleaded guilty to with his brother one count of conClark Sloan and spiracy, one count Sloan’s son Jonaof misbranding than Sloan to and one count of manufacture and mail fraud, acsell the drugs, the cording to a news release said. release from U.S. Miller and the Attorney Barry Sloans’ designer Miller Grissom. drug business had In the plea its beginnings in a agreement, Miller ad- retail shop Persephone’s mitted he had conspired Journey at 1103 Massa-

By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon

A Lawrence man who helped create a global market for synthetic marijuana known as K2 and other designer drugs was sentenced Monday to seven years and three months in federal prison.

Bradley Miller, 57,

chusetts St., the release said.

Miller and Jonathan Sloan also owned Bouncing Bear Botanicals at 14501 S. U.S. 59 Highway in Oskaloosa.

The business grew until it encompassed a chain of suppliers, retailers, wholesalers and business associates in Kansas and across the

U.S. The men also did business in Canada, South America, Europe and Asia.

They made at least $3.3 million from the sale of the drugs.

Miller created the recipes for K2 and manufactured them, the release said. There were four products with varying levels of potency.

A federal jury convicted Clark Sloan, of Tonganoxie, and Jonathan Sloan, of Lawrence, last September on 20 counts of conspiracy, misbranding, mail fraud, smuggling and money laundering. Sloan received seven years and three months in prison, and his son received eight years.

Pastor rattled by nearby gunshot while on bike ride Dean was startled out of his reverie by a gunshot and the smell of gunpowder.

Not 10 feet from him was a man lying on the embankment of a pond holding a small revolver with the barrel pointed upward but not at him, Barclay said.

Barclay said he had stopped pedaling and was coasting, trying to decide what to do. Had he been shot? Should he ditch his

By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon

It was early Sunday morning before church services when pastor Jeff Barclay of Christ Community Church decided to take a bicycle ride to ponder the sermon he would be giving in a short while on “grace and truth.”

As he biked on a trail in the Sandra J. Shaw Community Health Park, he

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He made eye contact with the gunman and saw that he had not shot himself.

“I kept my eyes on his eyes,” Barclay said. “He didn’t say a word to me and I didn’t say a word to him.

“This was all happening very fast,” Barclay said. “I didn’t want to confront him. I didn’t think it would make any

final payment on the infrastructure project.

is the former Honeywell building just north of 31st and Haskell.

Peaslee Technical The project is seeking CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3A Training Center the following: Here is an economic l About a $64,000 crete batch delivery tick- development project that rebate on property taxes ets would be a feasible has gone much smoother paid for the building in way of verifying that the at City Hall. The Peaslee 2014. The $64,000 repreamount of concrete used Center hopes to open sents the amount of taxes on the job was roughly later this year and begin owed on the portion of the matching the amount teaching skilled trades building that will be used of concrete city inspecsuch as conby the technical traintors were noting in their struction, ing center. There’s also a reports. manufacturmanufacturer that uses a But Version 2.0 of the ing technolportion of the building — report has since deterogy and Hiper Technology — and mined that “reliance automotive it will continue to pay on the delivery tickets repair. property taxes for its porCITY quantities was very likely The joint COMMISSION tion of the building. l A $500,000 grant unreliable, but this in no venture from the city to help way impacted the other between the Economic renovation costs of the testing and examinations Development Corporabuilding. The estimated that we performed.” tion of Lawrence and renovation budget is In other words, the Douglas County, and $1.2 million. Leaders of concrete delivery ticket the city and the county the technical center also information included in has been well received are asking the Douglas Version 1.0 of the audit because training center County commission to report shouldn’t be relied is expected to help the provide a $500,000 grant. on, but auditors are still community retain and The Economic Develconfident in the audit’s attract employers who opment Corporation is main finding that the city need skilled labor. is being appropriately The center will enter a prepared to provide a charged for the project. little bit of different terri- $200,000 grant. The EDC Commissioners are tory on today. It will ask previously has invested scheduled to review the for some financial incen- about $1 million into purnew findings at their tives to help renovate the chasing the building. l A loan of up to meeting today and also building that will house may agree to make the the school. That building $150,000 to complete

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a handful of TEDx events planned this spring in Lawrence, according to the TEDx website.

TEDx events are local, independently organized events inspired by the national TED conference. TED (which stands for technology, entertainment and design) describes itself as a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, typically in the form of short talks.

Barnett said he hoped the TEDxLawrence event at Liberty Hall would help move a variety of ideas forward.

“I don’t know how you put a value on being able to share,” he said.

While most of Monday’s speakers were local, TEDxLawrence organizer Beth Pine said, the event brought in two names from outside as well.

Jacqueline Von Edelberg presented “How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance,” based on her book of the same name. World Yo-yo champion Mark Hayward appeared, too, presenting “A Yo-yo With a Broken String: How Failure Leads to Success.”

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Officers took him to the hospital for screening, Murphree said. Alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor.

Barclay called his wife and seven children to report the early morning events, and then the family went to church and he gave his sermon.

Barclay said it was only afterward that he fully realized the danger.

renovations of a portion of the building that will be used to house the Lawrence Workforce Center.

Leaders of the technical center submitted a proposal for the Workforce Center to relocate from south Iowa Street to the site of the technical center because they believe students of the school will benefit by being close to the workforce center.

The County Commission also will be asked to support a loan of up to $150,000 for the renovation costs. Leaders with the technical center are proposing a 10-year loan that will include an interest rate that is 1 percent higher than the “idled funds rate,” which basically just means the interest rate the city could earn on a savings account. l Request for industrial revenue bonds, which would allow the project to receive an exemption from paying sales tax on any of the construction materials bought for the renovations.

Eldridge Hotel tax incentive City commissioners will consider finalizing a tax incentive for an expansion of The Eldridge Hotel.

Last month, city commissioners gave preliminary approval for an incentive that will rebate 95 percent of the new property taxes on the expansion for 15 years through the Neighborhood Revitalization Act. The County Commission, however, approved a lesser incentive. It approved an 85 percent property tax rebate for 15 years.

After the meeting, a representative with the hotel group said the lesser incentive likely would work for the project. The school board approved a 95 percent, 15-year tax rebate for the project.

Lawrence city commissioners meet at 5:45 p.m. tonight at City Hall.

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St. (11th and Vermont Lawrence City Commisstreets.) sion meeting, 5:45 p.m., “Writing the History of City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. the Jews of Russia and Books and Babies Poland,” noon, 318 Bailey (birth-23 months), 6-6:30 Hall, Jayhawk Blvd. p.m., Lawrence Public Performance The GoldLibrary, 707 Vermont St. enberg Duo: Music from Maker Meet-Up, 6:30 Around the World, 2-3 p.m., Lawrence Creates p.m., Spencer Museum of Makerspace, 512 E. Ninth Art, 1301 Mississippi St. St. City of Lawrence City of Lawrence Cultural Plan: Steering Cultural Plan: Artists Committee Meeting, 3:30Meeting, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 5 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, Theatre Lawrence, 4660 4660 Bauer Farm Drive.

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Barclay had forgot his cellphone so he pedaled to Lawrence Memorial Hospital a couple of blocks away to call police.

Kim Murphree, Lawrence Police Department spokeswoman, said when police arrived at the park, they found a 29-year-old man and seized a gun from his

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tive doctoral degree in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.

At Ball State, Daas also has served as the inaugural Emerging Media Fellow of the university’s Center for Media Design, which has come to be widely known for digital fabrication and social justice in design, according to KU. He teaches courses in design thinking, innovation methods, advanced digital fabrication and leadership.

Before joining Ball State, Daas served as associate dean for academic affairs and research of the College of Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio as well as a visiting assistant professor at K-State. He also worked with professional firms in Chicago and Kansas City.

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“We hope that the city uses the grant we got to engage artists,” Carmody said before the meeting.

“We’d like to see a diverse set of artists represented in the corridor,” he later added.

Representing the East Lawrence Neighborhood on the committee, Dave Loewenstein said the project should make sure the area’s current residents are treated fairly.

Pennsylvania Street resident Judy Romero said she attended Monday night’s meeting to learn more about the project and because she is concerned it will draw a downtown atmosphere into the neighborhood.

After the meeting, Romero said she was satisfied about how the committee is proceeding “The design team is trying to get an idea of what the people want,” she said. “I think they’re open-minded. They have no preconceived notions and want to do what’s best for the area.”

The committee’s next meeting is will be May 27.

ond Language class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. Affordable community Spanish class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. Science on Tap: Genome Wars, 7:30 p.m., Free State Brewing Company, 636 Massachusetts St. Tuesday Concert Series: Bluestem, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Recognizing Cuba with Frank Calzon and HOSPITAL Marifeli Perez-Stable, 7:30 p.m., Dole Institute, Births 2350 Petefish Drive.

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Training support A financial package to support a new technical training center in Lawrence is a good investment for city and county government.

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his week, Lawrence and Douglas County officials will be asked for financial support for a new technical training center in Lawrence.

This is a project that has been needed in the community for many years, and is a good investment for the two government entities.

The Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center is being spearheaded by the Economic Development Corporation of Lawrence and Douglas County, which is a partnership of the chamber of commerce and city and county government.

The EDC already has invested about $1 million in the building and has another $200,000 it plans to spend on renovations for the training center, which will be located on Haskell Avenue just north of 31st Street.

The city and county also are being asked to contribute $500,000 each to help cover the building renovation costs. The project also is seeking loans of $150,000 each from the city and county to renovate a section of the building that will be used to house the Lawrence Workforce Center, which is moving to that location. To complete the package, the EDC is seeking a rebate of the $64,000 in property taxes paid for the building in 2014 and industrial revenue bonds, which would give the project a sales tax exemption for construction materials purchased for the renovations.

The $500,000 grants being sought from the city and county aren’t insignificant, but they seem like a reasonable investment in the Peaslee Center, which will train skilled employees needed by both existing and prospective businesses in the county. In the long run, the center needs to stand on its own financially, but the one-time grant requests will help the project get up and running.

A lot of questions are being raised locally about tax incentives, but the tax rebate and IRBs being requested for the Peaslee project don’t seem out of line — especially for a project that will benefit the community as a whole and not just an individual developer.

Providing a skilled workforce is one of the keys to attracting and retaining businesses and jobs in Lawrence. The Peaslee Center is a promising step in that direction that needs and deserves city and county support.

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U.S. rift with South America grows The White House announcement of President Barack Obama’s agenda for the April 10-11 Summit of the Americas in Panama, stating that he will meet with Caribbean and Central American leaders, raises a big question: Has the United States given up on South America?

According to a White House statement, Obama will travel to Jamaica on April 8 to meet with leaders from the 15-country Caribbean Community and hold a bilateral meeting with Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.

From there, Obama will go to Panama to attend the 35-country Summit of the Americas, which for the first time will include Cuba. At the summit, Obama is scheduled to meet with leaders from the eight-country Central American Integration System, and with Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela.

But what about Brazil and other South American nations that make up the bulk of Latin America’s economy? I asked U.S. officials in recent days.

So far, no group or individual meetings with South American countries are planned, officials say.

They add that Obama will most likely meet informally with leaders of some South American countries at a private retreat with all participating heads of state during the two-day summit.

By comparison, Obama had a formal meeting with leaders from the 12-country Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) at the 2009 Sum-

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South America’s ties with the United States have deteriorated badly over the past decade, as China became the leading buyer of the region’s exports …” mit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago. At the 2012 Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia Obama met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.

South America’s ties with the United States have deteriorated badly over the past decade, as China became the leading buyer of the region’s exports, and Brazil, Venezuela and other leftist-ruled countries — emboldened by their booming commodity exports — created their own sub-regional organizations such as UNASUR to exclude the United States from regional decisions.

UNASUR’s headquarters was placed in Ecuador, whose populist president, Rafael Correa, is a rabid U.S. critic.

UNASUR is presided over

by former Colombian President Ernesto Samper, whose U.S. entry visa was revoked in 1996 following charges that his 1994 presidential campaign had been funded by the Cali drug cartel.

Earlier this month, U.SSouth American ties took a turn for the worse after Obama issued an executive order denying U.S. entry visas and freezing financial assets of seven Venezuelan government figures involved in human rights abuses, and UNASUR denounced the U.S. measure as an “interventionist threat” to Venezuela’s national sovereignty.

Michael Shifter, head of the Washington, D.C.-based Inter-American Dialogue think tank, says the absence of an Obama-UNASUR meeting at the upcoming summit in Panama “is a recognition of reality.” He added, “Reality is that the U.S. influence in South America has become marginal, and that if the United States has any influence in Latin America, it’s in Central America and the Caribbean.”

By focusing on Caribbean and Central American countries, Obama may be also trying to fill the vacuum left by financially bankrupt Venezuela in the Caribbean Basin.

“Venezuela can’t maintain its support for Petrocaribe,” Shifter said, referring to the Venezuela-created institution that channels subsidized oil to Caribbean Basin nations.

U.S. officials reject the idea that the Obama administration has given up on South America, stressing that Ca-

ribbean Basin countries are facing some of the region’s worse violence, drug and energy problems. At the summit, Obama will try to enlist South American nations in efforts to help them, they say.

My opinion: Obama should reach out to Brazil and other South American countries at the summit.

Granted, his recent sanctions against the seven Venezuelan officials will be a problem, because Venezuela will ask its South American neighbors at the meeting to denounce what it calls U.S. “aggression.”

But times have changed, and for the first time in more than a decade it is in the interest of most South American countries to move closer to Washington.

South America’s commodity export boom is over, Brazil’s economy is expected to have its worst performance of the past 25 years this year, and both Argentina and Venezuela’s economies are hurting badly.

Meanwhile, China — a major engine of South America’s economic growth — is slowing down, and Europe is not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. The United States is the only major world economy that is doing relatively well.

It’s a new regional scene.

Obama should keep this in mind, and try to reset ties with South America — especially with financially ailing Brazil — at the summit.

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

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Longtime resident concerned for Kansas

By Sue Novak

I recently spent a rough night, filled with bad dreams. Everything I tried to do turned out exactly the opposite of what I had set out to achieve: Several haircuts left my hair even longer than before, and multiple attempts to park my bike near some building I apparently needed to get to were thwarted by regulations that sent me increasingly farther from my destination (“You’re using the wrong brand of lock and chain, so you’ll be fined if you park here”).

I was actually grateful when the dog poked me, much too early, to go outside; enough of that nonsense for one night.

After waking, though, I still felt uneasy. I kept thinking about something that had happened the previous evening.

I’d been messaging online with a Kansas University graduate school friend — a man probably 20 years my junior whom I respect greatly. We’d been discussing current events in Kansas — he as a current resident, I from my still-new home many states away.

I was a 26-year Lawrence resident and a homeowner for 18 of those. I lived in Kansas longer than I’ve ever lived anywhere; it’s home, where my family of friends and support still lives.

So I was greatly bothered when this lifelong Kansas City-area resident said what he did.

“I’m starting to think it’s time to live elsewhere,” he wrote. “I’ve always felt like an ideological minority in Kansas, but this is the first time I’ve felt unwelcome.”

This man is no alarmist. He’s a stable, quiet guy who would never draw attention to himself; he’s a calm head, always looking for a logical answer.

YOUR TURN So for him to say what he did … well, I couldn’t come up with a single thing to say back to him. I let the conversation drop, closed my computer and went to bed, troubled and saddened.

His words drove home for me the real gravity of Kansas’ situation: Extremism and control have pushed the state to a place where some residents no long feel either comfortable or safe.

I’ve already decided that I won’t return to Kansas to retire unless its politics become more moderate and the safeguards for LGBT state workers are reinstated.

But lately I’ve seen Kansas teachers, who no longer have due Novak process rights to defend themselves, writing about losing confidence in their teaching, now that their jobs are at the mercy of parents who might wake up cranky and choose to be offended by something their kid hears in class.

University workers I know feel their own free speech rights threatened (see “Heard on the Hill,” March 2). Government workers I know are afraid to speak out against this punitive administration, so they just stay quiet and keep their heads low, doing the work of two and three people, now that their coworkers have been let go.

An acquaintance, disabled by rheumatoid arthritis, says, “If Brownback had allowed federal money, I wouldn’t have a

$5,000 (Medicaid) spend-down every six months on monthly disability checks of $1,359.” Her doctor had to beg the pharmaceutical company, on her behalf, for a one-year’s supply of the medicine that allows her to hold up a coffee cup.

And then there’s my friend. Here’s a smart, incredibly well-read man who pays his taxes, works hard and is dedicated to his students. He’s a good neighbor, and both he and his wife participate in charity fundraising.

Yet for all this good he offers the state, the governor and his staff and cohorts have created, and continue to perpetuate, an atmosphere that leaves this couple feeling unwelcome in their own home territory.

To those who say “Good. Leave,” I say, I’m sorry for you, because you’re supporting an administration that’s driving out a really decent couple. And probably many other good couples, and singles. People of all types; people who just want to work and live their lives as they see fit, without feeling unwanted. They want the same things those of you who support this administration want, except they’re feeling they have to leave to find those things elsewhere; you’re helping push them away.

The thing is, the more you enable this extremist conservatism, the further you separate yourselves from a truly functional state.

But eventually, much like a bad dream, you’ll pay for putting the wrong brand of lock and chain around Kansas.

You’ll find yourselves parked far from where you need to be.

— Sue Novak is a teacher now living in Massena, N.Y.

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formula would use a combination of per-pupil valuation, median household income and median home values in the district.

In addition, Abrams’ plans would put more controls over state funding that is used to subsidize bond and interest payments for schools. Although aid would still be available, the bill calls for establishing a review board made up of legislative leaders who would have to review and approve a school district’s bond proposal before the district could submit it to voters.

The Kansas State Department of Education said Monday it had not finished analyzing the bill to determine how it would affect each school district. But Abrams said the overall funding under his plan would be roughly the same as what those districts are expected to receive under the recently passed block grant bill.

Brownback is expected to sign that bill.

Abrams said he hopes that his bill can also be passed by both chambers this session, although time is quickly running out for the session.

whether the state can afford to fund the proposed budget, which officials have said may require at least $135 million in additional state revenue.

“I guess basically it’s a timing issue for the budget, putting a budget together with unknowns about revenue and unknown revenue estimates,” Vickrey said.

“It’s a difficult year. Our appropriations committee has done very good work.

We started this with a huge hole; we’ve pared it down with work we’ve done to something that is manageable, but the next step, we’re still working on.”

The changes in higher education spending in the Senate bill were first pro-

posed by a subcommittee of that panel, but they were not included in the House version.

Sen. Ty Masterson, RAugusta, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee, said Monday’s actions were intended to produce a bill that the two chambers could negotiate in conference committee.

The Senate’s budget proposal is included in a House bill, so even if the House is unable to pass its own bill, it could either take a vote to concur with the Senate bill or request a conference committee.

Masterson said the Senate still plans to debate and vote on its budget bill Wednesday.

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According to several sources, opposition to that bill has been mounting from two factions: conservatives who want to see larger cuts in state spending, and others who want to include expansion of Medicaid as allowed under the federal Affordable Care Act. In addition, House Majority Leader Jene Vickrey, R-Louisburg, said there is concern about

student achievement.

They currently include the Concordia, McPherson, Kansas City, Marysville, Hugoton and Blue Valley districts.

Abrams’ bill calls for returning to a per-pupilbased funding system, with funding initially set at $3,820, slightly less than this year’s funding level.

But in place of the current “weighting” formulas that provide additional funding for at-risk, bilingual and other categories of students who are considered more expensive to educate, Abrams’ bill provides three other kinds of supplemental aid based on each district’s poverty level, the relative sparsity of its population and how successful its graduates are in college or the workplace five years after graduating high school.

It would also continue to allow districts to levy additional local property taxes to supplement their budgets, but it provides a completely different “equalization” formula to subsidize the budgets of less wealthy districts.

Currently, that equalization aid is based on the district’s per-pupil assessed valuation, a measure of a district’s ability to raise revenue through local property taxes. Abrams’

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The proposal by Sen. Steve Abrams, R-Arkansas City, who chairs the committee, comes after lawmakers last week passed and sent to Gov. Sam Brownback a bill that repeals the existing formula and replaces it with a system of block grants for the next two years.

Abrams’ measure, Senate Bill 294, would not change that for most school districts. But it would set up a pilot program that would initially apply to only six school districts during the first year and as many as 106 districts in the second year.

The first six districts are those that have been designated “public innovative school districts.”

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Ted Cruz isn’t shy.

He’s combative. He rejects compromise as “the mushy middle.” He’s not inclined to wait his turn. And he doesn’t seem to mind annoying his Republican elders with tactics that critics see as destructive and short-sighted.

So perhaps it’s no surprise that little more than two years after he was sworn in to the Senate, the 44-year-old Texan on Monday became the first contender to officially announce his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. He skipped the one-step-at-a-time tradition of announcing an “exploratory” committee to declare flatly that he was in the race.

try’s third-largest city, Taiz, and its airport.

The Houthi overthrow of the Hadi government last month is “a stunning setback for U.S. policy, which sadly resulted in a U.S. military retreat from Yemen this weekend,” said Jack Keane, a retired Army general.

The Hadi government said Iran has provided support to the Houthi insurgents. The Houthis, a Shiite group, deny they receive aid from Iran.

In Syria, Tehran supports Assad with weapons and equipment and has dispatched Hezbollah fighters to attack the regime’s opponents, allowing the dictator to tighten his hold on power.

U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State militants in Syria have assisted Assad by weakening one of his most effective opponents. Only a year ago, Assad’s ability to stay in power looked tenuous.

“His throne is a lot firmer today than it was a year ago,” said Jonah Blank, an analyst at RAND. In Iraq, Iranian-backed militias have emerged in recent weeks as a leading force against the Islamic State, the Sunni extremists who have seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria.

Iran’s Shiite militias play a major role in Tikrit, the first major ground offensive in Iraq against the militants. The United States, which has launched airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is not participating in the Tikrit offensive.

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“It’s going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again,” Cruz said in a 30-second video he posted on Twitter early Monday morning, followed by a speech at Liberty University, “and I’m ready to stand with you to lead the fight.”

He won’t be lonely for long.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is slated to announce his candidacy in two weeks, likely followed in short order by yet another Republican senator, Marco Rubio of Florida.

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The violence that drove U.S. advisers from Yemen, once a key U.S. counterterrorism partner, is the latest in a string of regional victories for Iran.

Rebels backed by Iran expanded their grip over portions of Yemen and advanced south, where U.S.-backed President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi recently fled and established his base.

In Iraq, militias backed by neighboring Iran take a leading role in fighting Islamic State militants on the ground. And in Syria, embattled President Bashar Assad has consolidated his control with the help of Iran during the four-year civil war.

Iran “will emerge, whether we like it or not, as the central power in their sphere,” said Aaron David Miller, an analyst at the Wilson Center and former State Department official.

The United States lacks a coherent strategy for combating Iran’s growing influence in the region.

“We’re dealing with each problem as a vexing one-off issue,” said James Mattis, a retired Marine general who was head of the U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the Middle East.

“We need a new Mideast security architecture to deal with what’s happening.”

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Justices won’t hear challenge to strict Wisconsin voter ID law Richard Wolf USA TODAY

The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a major challenge to Wisconsin’s voter ID law, delivering a victory to Republicans who favor tougher election laws.

The decision is a setback for civil rights groups that contend the law could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of residents who lack proper ID — particularly racial minorities, seniors, students and people with disabilities.

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Texas, where a similar statute is pending before a federal appeals court. Eventually, the justices are likely to resolve the issue.

It appears a majority of high court justices approve of photoID laws such as Wisconsin’s, which does not involve allegations of intentional racial discrimination. None of the high court’s more liberal justices voiced dissent with the decision.

New election laws in both states, along with Ohio and North Carolina, forced the high court to settle last-minute disputes before the 2014 elections. Justices generally tried not to change proce-

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Citizens vote in Wisconsin in November. The state will become the eighth with a strict photo identification law.

dures as voters were set to go to the polls, but they didn’t rule on the broader issue: what types of state limits are constitutional.

Wisconsin’s law was passed in 2011 and used in primaries before being blocked by a state court.

Last year, a federal district judge declared it unconstitutional because it disproportionately affected black and Hispanic residents.

A three-judge Richard Mangus panel of the 7thSupervisor Circuit Court of Appeals reAssembly versed that decision.

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“The Supreme Court’s decision is a huge step backward for our democracy,” said Penda Hair, codirector of the Advancement Project, a civil rights group.

“The 300,000 registered Wisconsin voters who lack the limited forms of photo ID needed to vote in Wisconsin — disproportionately African Americans and Latinos — deserve to have their voices heard in our political process., “ Hair said.

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dents in a prominent front row sported red “Stand With Rand” sweatshirts.

Cruz has been overshadowed in recent months by other contenders who have more muscular fundraising networks and stronger institutional support. In the Senate, he has been more of an agitator than a legislator. Arizona Sen. John McCain, the GOP’s 2008 nominee, once called him a “wacko bird.”

That said, Cruz is worth watching. For one thing, the skills he honed as a debater at Princeton — he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year in 1992 — should serve him well in the series of crowded primary debates.

For another, while his Tea Party credentials might be a mixed blessing in a general election, in the primaries they align him with the most energized forces in the party today. That helped him upset the establishment’s favorite, lieutenant governor David Dewhurst, for the Republican Senate nomination in 2012.

What’s more, the locale where Cruz chose to make Monday’s announcement reflects his efforts to broaden his electoral base by wooing Christian conservatives, another key group in the GOP coalition. He spoke at the Lynchburg, Va., school founded by evangelical leader Jerry Falwell.

His speech had the ring of the religious testimony of an evangelical church. He declared his opposition to abortion and his support of traditional marriage.

He emotionally described how his father’s embrace of Jesus saved his parents’ marriage. His father, Rafael, a pastor at a suburban Dallas church, fled Castro’s Cuba in 1957.

Cruz’s Cuban-American heritage would be a selling point for the Republican Party as it tries to reach out to Hispanic voters, although his hardline stance on im-

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Ted Cruz’s Cuban-American heritage could benefit the Republican Party as it tries to reach out to Hispanic voters.

The locale where Cruz chose to make Monday’s announcement, Liberty University, reflects his effort to woo Christian conservatives. migration could be a complication with those voters.

And speaking of biography, he has an education that might surprise those inclined to dismiss him: He was graduated from Princeton and then from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, before clerking at the Supreme Court for Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

At one point, he urged his audience to “take out your cellphones” and text the word “Constitution” or “Liberty” — “we’re flexible,” he said — to a number linked to his campaign.

Her life story got a sketchy outline in her husband’s presidential announcement speech, but when they first joined forces, Heidi Cruz was as involved in Republican politics as Ted. In his speech Monday announcing his candidacy, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz recounted his wife’s childhood during which she spent time in Africa with her missionary parents. In grade school, she started a bread-baking venture with her brother. He mentioned her reaching “the highest pinnacles” in a business career.

“And then Heidi becomes my wife and my very best friend in the world. Heidi becomes an incredible mom to our two precious little girls,” he said. The couple’s daughters, Catherine and Caroline, are ages 4 and 6, respectively.

Heidi Cruz is a managing director at Goldman Sachs, the investment firm she joined in 2005. She runs the Houston wealth management unit, which handles portfolios for clients with an average net worth of $40 million. Cruz, 42, will take an unpaid leave of absence from the firm for the duration of her husband’s campaign, Goldman spokeswoman Andrea Raphael said Monday.

Before she joined Goldman,

Netanyahu apologizes for rhetoric about Arabs

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shown here delivering a speech Wednesday at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, met with members of Israel’s Arab minority at his residence Monday.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized Monday for his election day comments warning about a strong Arab voter turnout.

“I know the things I said a few days ago hurt some of Israel’s citizens and hurt Israel’s Arabs. I had no intention to do that. I apologize for it,” Netanyahu said, according to Ynet News.

Netanyahu, whose Likud Party won last Tuesday’s parliamentary election, made the apology while meeting with members of Israel’s Arab minority at his residence.

He said he regretted singling them out last week or sending a message they were not valued.

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ister of every one of you, of all Israeli citizens, without any difference of religion, race or gender. I see all Israeli citizens as partners in the building of a thriving and secure Israel for all Israeli citizens,” Netanyahu said.

On election day, Netanyahu — who had been trailing in pre-election polls — warned that Arab citizens were voting “in droves.” His comment to spur his supporters drew accusations of racism from many in Israel, including the country’s Arab minority, plus a White House rebuke.

Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint List coalition of four Arab parties that won enough seats in Tues-

day’s vote to be the third-largest party in parliament, rejected Netanyahu’s apology as “zigzagging” from one day to another.

“He incited against citizens who were exercising their basic right to vote for Knesset,” or parliament, Odeh said Monday.

The day before the election, Netanyahu also said he no longer supported creating a Palestinian state, but he backtracked on that comment Thursday — two days after the vote. Israel’s ceremonial president, Reuven Rivlin, on Sunday was among those who criticized what he had said.

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, with wife Heidi and daughters Catherine, left, and Caroline at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., where he announced his presidential candidacy Monday.

Heidi Cruz was half of a Washington power couple, working for the Bush administration.

In fact, she met her husband when the two were working on George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign.

Cruz initially turned down a job with Goldman after finishing Harvard Business School (she also has a graduate degree in business from a Belgian university) in favor of the Bush campaign, where she worked on the candidate’s economic policy.

After Bush’s victory, Cruz won plum jobs with the U.S. trade representative and with Condoleezza Rice on the National Security Council. In 2004, she left Washington for Houston, so her husband could pursue elective office in Texas.

Ted Cruz has praised his wife for being willing to put all the couple’s savings — $1.2 million —

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The United States has dispatched hundreds of trainers and advisers to Iraq, but they are not accompanying Iraqi forces in combat operations. By contrast, the advisers from Iran’s elite Quds force are alongside Shiite militias in Iraq and provide artillery and rocket support.

“The Iraqis will tell you that the Iranians are doing the things they would like America to do,” Keane said. “The Iranians have boots on the ground.”

The leader of Iran’s Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, plays an active role in Iraq, CIA Director John Brennan told Fox News this weekend.

Some analysts say Iran and the United States share an interest in combating Sunni extremist groups, such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, which can work to the advantage of both countries.

“From the U.S. perspective, Iran’s role in the region is actually a good thing,” Blank said.

IN BRIEF AUTHORITIES: MISSISSIPPI HANGING LIKELY A SUICIDE

Authorities close to the investigation of a Mississippi man found dead hanging from a tree say early autopsy results and other evidence show Otis Byrd committed suicide.

Officials say they are checking every lead and every piece of information to be absolutely certain that the most thorough investigation possible has been conducted.

On the record, officials confirm few details of the case. FBI agents are interviewing people who knew Byrd, as well as going back through interviews and collecting additional leads “in order to get the most granular of detail” about Byrd’s life up until the day he died, said Supervisory Special Agent Jason Pack.

Claiborne County Sheriff Marvin Lucas said he has not seen any reports on cause of death.

Byrd, 54, was found hanging by a bedsheet from a tree not far from his last known residence Thursday after having been missing for two weeks. Local authorities called in the FBI upon finding his body. — Therese Apel

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pened. “We don’t know where they were or what they were doing,” Hammerstein said of the victims. All were wearing safety harnesses.

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into his 2012 Senate campaign.

Heidi Cruz said in an interview in 2013 with The New York Times that she first made him agree to raise money to show that others supported him.

“I’m not dumb,” she said. “I need to see that other people support you.”

“She’ll play very well” in the campaign, says Mark Jones, chairman of the political science department at Rice University in Houston.

Heidi Cruz will have little trouble handling the public role of candidate’s wife, says Edward Haley, a professor at Claremont McKenna College, who taught Cruz as an undergraduate and has remained close.

Demands of the campaign trail “would be easy for her,” he said. “The harder part would be the demands on time with Ted and the family.”

Tunisia’s prime minister has sacked six police chiefs following last week’s attack on the famous Bardo Museum, BBC reported.

Habib Essid had noted several security deficiencies during a visit to the museum, his office said.

The Islamic State said it carried out the attack in the capital, Tunis, killing at least 22 people, mostly European tourists.

Two of the gunmen were killed by the security forces, while a third was on the run, President Beji Caid Essebsi said.

“There were certainly three attackers. ... There is one who is on the run; he won’t get far,” he said.

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Yemeni mourners carry the coffin of Bashar Arhab, a victim of three suicide attacks targeting mosques, in Sanaa on Monday.

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Ariel Fernandez, left, signs up for Obamacare with Noel Nogues, an insurance adviser with UniVista Insurance company.

Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid to their poorest residents faced about $5 billion less in unpaid bills last year — about twice the reduction as those that did not expand this health care coverage, according to a new federal report.

The Department of Health and Human Services released the report at a Virginia event marking the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. The ACA expanded Medicaid, but a Supreme

Court decision gave states the option of offering Medicaid to all of their citizens or not, and so far 22 states have not done so.

States that didn’t expand Medicaid saw a $2.4 billion decline in “uncompensated care” costs. Non-profit hospitals, which make up the vast majority of hospitals, are required to treat everyone who shows up in their emergency rooms, regardless of ability to pay. People who don’t have insurance or who can’t afford their deductibles or co-payments make up these uncompensated costs.

Hospitals provided more than $50 billion in uncompensated care in 2013, an amount that is only partly offset by the government.

In addition to the impact on lo-

cal, state and federal budgets, and doctors and hospitals, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell noted uncompensated care is also covered by higher premiums for employer-provided insurance policies.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat who has pushed for Medicaid expansion in his state, says he expects Medicaid expansion to have a better chance after the 2016 elections than it did after his election in 2014, when he was told it had “zero chance of passing.”

In 2016, states would have to pick up 10% of the cost of expansion, but McAuliffe says he thinks that a coalition of state hospitals will pick up the additional cost, as hospitals proposed to do in Tennessee before that plan was blocked by the Legislature.

Specialty tags programs questioned Justices frown on state programs that censor individual speech

“They either need to get rid of the program or ... open up the program just to everybody else.”

R. James George, Sons of Confederate Veterans lawyer

Richard Wolf USA TODAY

WASHINGTON State programs that allow special-interest groups to design license plates could be jeopardized based on Supreme Court justices’ complaints Monday about Texas’ denial of a plate commemorating Confederate veterans.

A majority of justices appeared to reject the state’s contention that hundreds of license plates endorsing everything from blood donors to Mighty Fine Burgers represent government speech and can therefore be censored at the government’s discretion.

But if the Confederate flag must be allowed, they reasoned, perhaps swastikas and racial epithets do, too. That realization appeared to lead some justices to conclude that specialty-plate programs used by most states to raise money may be the problem.

“They’re only doing this to get the money,” Chief Justice John Roberts said of Texas’ specialtyplate program, which charges groups that seek the plates. The solution to blocking potentially offensive messages without infringing on free speech rights, he said, might be that “they don’t have to get in the business of selling space on their license plates to begin with.”

The case was filed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which has specialty plates in nine other states but was blocked by Texas motor vehicles after some residents protested that the Confederate flag symbolizes slavery. It is similar to lawsuits in other states, many of which focus on programs that allow the anti-abortion “Choose Life” license plates.

All 50 states have specialtyplate programs. At least half of them offer more than 100 such plates; Texas offers more than 400. While some are chosen by the state Legislature or the Department of Motor Vehicles

A proposed Kentucky Confederate Heritage license plate.

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Proposed Arizona legislation seeks to reduce clutter.

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Board, others are proposed by groups of citizens or organizations. Rarely are they rejected.

The central argument is over who is talking — the government or the motorist. Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller said the government is talking because it “etches its name onto each license plate.” For that reason, he said, it can pick and choose which plates to approve.

A majority of justices appeared to reject that argument, given

how many license plates the state has approved. Justice Elena Kagan said the state effectively relinquished control of the program to paying customers, making it a “people’s license plate.” Justice Stephen Breyer said because state officials claim they can reject any plate for any reason, “Then I think they lose.”

Noting states pad their budgets with income from the specialtyplate programs, Justice Samuel Alito said, “That is really all this is

Jay Barringer, commander of the Maryland Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, has license plates that feature the Confederate flag.

about, isn’t it?”

As soon as Sons of Confederate Veterans lawyer R. James George stood up, things began to go south for his side. If Texas must approve the organization’s license plate featuring a Confederate flag, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, how about a swastika?

George said the state would have to approve that, too.

“Suppose somebody else says, ‘I want to have jihad on my license plate?’ ” Ginsburg said, a reference to the flip side of state plates urging “Fight Terrorism.”

Apparently mishearing her, George responded, “Vegan?”

“Jihad,” Ginsburg repeated.

That, too, would be OK, the lawyer said.

“And ‘Bong hits for Jesus?’ ” she said, a reference to a 2007 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled schools could suppress speech promoting drug use.

That too, George replied.

“You’re really arguing for the abolition of Texas specialty plates,” Justice Antonin Scalia, who had been Texas’ only vocal supporter, said.

“They either need to get rid of the program or they need to open up the program just to everybody else,” George said.

Police can’t verify ‘Rolling Stone’ story on alleged U.Va. rape Investigation suspended but remains open John Bacon and Marisol Bello USA TODAY

Police in Charlottesville, Va., were unable to verify that an alleged sexual assault detailed in a Rolling Stone magazine article ever took place at the University of Virginia, police Chief Timothy Longo said Monday, adding that the investigation has been suspended but not closed.

The story, A Rape on Campus, detailed a female student’s gruesome tale of a three-hour gang rape by seven men at a fraternity house in 2012. Days after it was published in November 2014, university president Teresa Sullivan suspended all fraternity activities on campus.

But the story didn’t hold up.

The Washington Post was first to find discrepancies. Then the magazine published an apology, saying it also found flaws and had

lost faith in the piece — days after author Sabrina Rubin Erdely defended the reporting.

Longo said his department’s investigation also found problems with the tale. He said the woman identified as “Jackie” in the story declined to provide a statement to police. But he said the fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, cooperated with the investigation.

Fraternity records and other evidence indicated the party Jackie described taking place on the night of the attack did not take place, Longo said. Friends of Jackie also disputed her description of events that night, he said.

“We are unable to conclude to any substantive degree that an incident consistent with the act contained in that article occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi house — or any other house,” Longo said. But he added that the results of the investigation do not mean that “something terrible didn’t hap-

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Students cross campus at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Last year, Rolling Stone detailed a female student’s story of a gang rape at a fraternity house in 2012. pen to Jackie.”

Longo said more than 70 interviews were conducted, and although the investigation was suspended it was not closed because more information could become available later.

Sullivan said in a statement that the investigation “confirms what federal privacy law prohibited the University from sharing last fall: that the University provided support and care to a student in need, including assistance in reporting potential criminal

“We are unable to conclude to any substantive degree that an incident consistent with the act contained in that article occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi house — or any other house.”

Timothy Longo, University of Virginia police chief

conduct to law enforcement.”

In January, the university reinstated the fraternity because it said in a statement that police had told school officials “that their investigation has not revealed any substantive basis to confirm that the allegations raised in the Rolling Stone article.”

Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner has asked Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for an independent review of the story.

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA ALABAMA Montgomery: Auburn professor Jonathan Armbruster has discovered the suckermouth armored catfish, a previously unknown species, the Montgomery Advertiser reported.

Armbruster found the fish while he was working with a research team in Brazil.

ALASKA Anchorage: Police

served search warrants at the Alaska Cannabis Club owned by Charlene Egbe, who quit her job as a KTVA reporter on live TV in September, KTUU reported.

Police said they were investigating “reports of the illegal sale of marijuana.”

ARIZONA Phoenix: Those $7

lightweight bats that are popular souvenirs at Sloan Park, the Chicago Cubs’ spring training park in Mesa, and other ballparks in the state, are banned from carry-on luggage, the Republic reported.

ARKANSAS Bentonville:

Robert De Niro and Rosie O’Donnell will attend the inaugural Bentonville Film Festival, scheduled for May 5-9, ArkansasOnline reported.

HIGHLIGHT: KENTUCKY

Cop’s helping hand touches millions Gregory A. Hall

Former Bob Jones University president Bob Jones III issued a public apology for anti-gay comments he made in 1980 calling for homosexuals to be stoned, The Greenville News reported.

LOUISVILLE

SPECIAL TO THE COURIER-JOURNAL

Louisville Metro Police Lt. Aubrey Gregory walks Asia Ford and her son Terrance across the finish line on Saturday. there and help her through that ... people still care enough and want to see that and be a part of that and share that with their friends and family,” he said.

Ford — who at one point was almost 475 pounds — got motivated to get physically active a couple of years ago after her then-husband had to have his hand amputated because of an out-of-control infection and wound up on dialysis because of a loss of kidney function.

Ford said she was pumped up and ready to go for Saturday’s approximately 6.2-mile

race but started having breathing problems near the end.

When Gregory, the incident commander for the run, saw Ford laboring again, he told his partner he was going to walk with her.

“As soon as I walked up to her, she immediately grabbed my hand,” Gregory said. After he asked and she said she didn’t want to stop, “I said, ‘Good, then we’re going to do this together.’ ” Contributing: Darla Carter, The Courier-Journal

CALIFORNIA Sacramento:

Sacramento International Airport is within weeks of signing a deal to build two large solar farms on airport grounds to save $15 million on energy bills over the next two decades, the Bee reported.

COLORADO Denver: The Purple

Door Coffee Shop here has a program that takes in three homeless teens at a time and gives them a job behind the counter for a year, KUSA-TV reported. The program was the brainchild of co-founders Madison Chandler and Mark Smesrud.

CONNECTICUT Bridgeport: The

chairmen of a key committee differ over a proposal that would ban politicians convicted of felonies from the ballot, The Connecticut Post reported.

DELAWARE New Castle: A Fron-

tier Airlines plane on its way to Orlando from New Castle County Airport got stuck in the mud, an airport official said. No injuries were disclosed, The News Journal reported.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Vin-

cent Cohen Jr. next week becomes acting U.S. attorney, filling in after the resignation of U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen, The Washington Post reported.

FLORIDA Cape Canaveral: The

U.S. Air Force and United Launch Alliance plan to launch a ULA Delta IV rocket Wednesday afternoon at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida Today reported.

On top of the 206-foot rocket is the ninth in a series of 12 Boeingbuilt GPS satellites.

GEORGIA Gainesville: The U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency discovered multiple violations of the Clean Water Act by chicken processors Pilgrim’s Pride and Mar-Jac, The Journal-Constitituion reported.

to lawmakers, Scott McCorkle, CEO of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, warns that the legislation threatens future growth in Indiana.

IOWA Des Moines: A Texas man was arrested in connection with an Iowa lottery fraud investigation, The Des Moines Register reported.

KANSAS Wichita: Westar Ener-

gy will send rebates to customers after collecting $38 million too much last year, The Wichita Eagle reported. Rebates will average about $1.26 a month.

KENTUCKY Louisville: A higher

percentage of residents of the Louisville area identify themselves as gay than in all but 10 metro areas in the USA, The Courier-Journal reported. A new Gallup survey shows that 4.5% of the residents of the 13-county Louisville metro describe themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

LOUISIANA Lafayette: The

city’s current zoning map reflects a heavily industrial city where subdivisions were permitted to be sporadically built, The Advertiser reported.

MAINE Portland: Officials are

close to bringing in a private developer to build a multimilliondollar cold storage warehouse on the local waterfront, the Portland Press Herald reported.

MARYLAND Berlin: Three

members of the Stephen Decatur High School wrestling team and their parents are calling for the dismissal of coach Todd Martinek after he kicked the students off the team for allegedly using marijuana, the Daily Times reported.

stalled a new traffic signal near Waipahu elementary school, KHON-TV reported.

IDAHO Boise: The College of

Western Idaho will waive its $25 application fee this week for prospective students, The Idaho Statesman reported. The Free Application Week ends Monday.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Early voting is underway ahead of the April 7 runoff election between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, the Tribune reported.

There are also 18 aldermanic runoffs.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Tech

giant Salesforce.com has joined a growing list of companies who are standing in opposition to the “religious freedom” bill currently making its way through the Indiana General Assembly, The Indianapolis Star reported. In a letter

MINNESOTA St. Cloud: A developer here is proposing to build housing for homeless veterans on property owned by the St. Cloud VA Medical Center, the St. Cloud Times reported. Proponents said it would be a place for these veterans to transition to independent living close to VA medical services and support.

MISSISSIPPI Hernando:

Redistricting could mean changes for 90,000 of the county’s 96,500 registered voters, The Commercial Appeal reported The County Circuit Clerk’s office is sending new registration cards to voters in 37 of DeSoto County’s 39 precincts.

MISSOURI Arrow Rock: The

Friends of Arrow Rock raised $460,000, making it eligible for a $230,000 grant from Jeffris Family Foundation, The Columbia Daily Tribune reported. The project will restore the Sites House, the J.P. Sites Gun Shop, the Masonic Lodge Hall and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge Hall in Arrow Rock.

MONTANA Helena: The U.S. Department of Agriculture ranked Montana as the secondhighest producer of honey in 2014, the Billings Gazette reported. The state produced 14.26 million pounds of honey last year.

NEBRASKA Grand Island:

The Stuhr Museum looks to attract more visitors this year due, in part, to an advertising campaign in the Kansas City area, The Grand Island Independent reported.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Lempster:

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The

Liberty Mutual Insurance is ending its financial support of the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, The Boston Globe reported.

The event is currently without funding for 2016.

MICHIGAN Livonia: Jeff Sieber,

53, plans to donate his kidney later this month to his neighbor, Linda Zukowski, 51, who lives a

Eight people, including five children, escaped from a house fire here, WMUR-TV reported. Crews were called to the home at 10:30 p.m. Sunday.

NEW JERSEY Middletown Township: Because of a big boost from its most prominent alum, Mater Dei Prep here has moved closer to being saved.

Suspended NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams donated $50,000 to supporters of the embattled Catholic high school during a gala Saturday night, the Asbury Park Press reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Nearly a quarter of the city’s garbage was sent to recyclers rather than the landfill, the Argus Leader reported. It was the largest amount for recycling since the city began tracking the number in 2008.

TENNESSEE Lafollette: Authori-

ties have exhumed the remains of a woman whom sheriff’s deputies found dead more than 17 years ago on the side of a road, The Tennessean reported. In response to new leads in the case, the woman’s remains were taken to a regional forensic center where DNA will be extracted and sent for comparison to possible matches.

TEXAS Dallas: A local foundation is giving Southern Methodist University a $45 million grant for the school’s museum and arts school, The Dallas Morning News reported. The gift from the Meadows Foundation is the singlelargest donation in SMU’s 100-year history.

block and a half away from him.

Zukowski has a hereditary kidney disease that is fatal unless she has a transplant or goes on dialysis, the Observer & Eccentric reported.

NEVADA Reno: A Blue Ribbon Committee for Transit, established to consider ways to close a multimillion-dollar revenue shortfall faced by Washoe County’s transit system, has concluded local transportation officials should pursue a ballot question to raise needed funds, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.

HAWAII Honolulu: Crews in-

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Critics say Uber and Lyft are failing to pay state sales tax, The Providence Journal reported.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville:

The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal

Asia Ford’s thirdto-last finish in Saturday’s Rodes City Run is getting more attention than anyone ahead of her because of help she had from Louisville Metro Police Lt. Aubrey Gregory in reaching the finish line.

Photos of the event shared on social media sites, including

by Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and a paramedic, have been viewed millions of times.

On Facebook, Ford, 35, thanked Gregory after the race saying that she had “messed up and forgot to eat this morning.”

With her son Terrance also helping her, Gregory approached a struggling Ford around the 4-mile mark and, shortly after, walked with the woman to the finish, where he released her arm — which she raised triumphantly — in a scene captured by photographer Jonathan Roberts. Fischer tweeted and shared the moment on Facebook, saying it was “what a compassionate city looks like.”

In an interview Sunday, Gregory said the response to the images and story of Ford’s achievement and his helping her is refreshing.

With “positive successes like Asia’s and my opportunity to be

filming, the Pittsburgh PostGazette reported.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Meteo-

rologists say a warming trend in the Pacific Ocean could mean a wet spring for the state, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.

NEW YORK Albany: The state is

moving toward a verification system, such as a swipe card, to prove state lawmakers actually were in town when they said they were in the Capitol, Gannett’s Albany bureau reported. The verification is being pitched as a way of cutting down on abuses such as people being out of town yet putting in for the $172 per diem for each day they are in the Capitol.

NORTH CAROLINA Asheville:

State health department figures show 5.06% of Buncombe County kindergartners were exempted from receiving required vaccinations, as almost all of those parents claimed religious exemptions, the Citizen-Times reported.

NORTH DAKOTA Mandan: A cake shop owned by two sisters has gained a following in its first year, the Bismarck Tribune reported. Jill Castleberry and Jackie Ressler of JJ’s Cakery, who are primarily self-taught, design custom cakes and cupcakes for birthdays, weddings and other celebrations.

OHIO Pleasant Plain: A woman

accused of giving her 11-year-old daughter to a Cincinnati drug dealer in exchange for heroin has been indicted on 27 counts, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: American Airlines’ maintenance base here faces expensive upgrades, the Tulsa World reported.

OREGON Eugene: Despite a forecast for 3 to 6 inches of snow, the Willamette Pass and Hoodoo ski areas are likely to remain closed. The Register-Guard reported that Willamette Pass and Hoodoo are having among their worst seasons ever.

PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh:

City Councilwoman Darlene Harris wants to overhaul local permits for movie and television

UTAH Cedar City: Southern Utah University announced the single-largest donation in school history. The Dixie and Anne Leavitt Foundation is giving $7.5 million toward scholarships and the construction of a new business building, The Spectrum reported.

VERMONT Burlington: An

off-duty police lieutenant was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after he crashed his car on Vermont 15, the Burlington Free Press reported.

VIRGINIA Pamunkey Indian Reservation: The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs will decide by the end of the month whether to recognize the Pamunkey Indians as a federal tribe, making them the first in the state to get that designation, The Washington Post reported.

WASHINGTON Olympia: State regulators have fined a Port Angeles company nearly $52,000 for violations related to the death of a logger who was struck in the head by a falling tree, The Peninsula Daily News reported.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The Intelligent Transit or “iT” bus service between here and Huntington will run out of funding June 30, the Daily Mail reported. Local transit officials are working with state and federal officials to find additional funding.

WISCONSIN Green Bay: Bay

Port High School senior Julia Stanzel shared via Twitter and Facebook her design of a “virtual” meal to promote hunger awareness for a biotechnology class assignment and ended up winning $5,000 from Bayer CropScience’s #thankful4Ag initiative.

The money will be used for a hydroponics system, Green Bay Press-Gazette reported.

WYOMING Jackson: Teton

County has completed the purchase of the Clifford P. Hansen Memorial Courthouse from the federal government, The Jackson Hole News & Guide reported. The deal cost $600,000 for the building and mandates that the courthouse continue to be used as a public building.

Compiled by Tim Wendel, Linda Tufano, Carolyn Cerbin, Linda Dono, Nicole Gill, Mike Gottschamer, Dennis Lyons, Nichelle Smith and Michelle Washington. Design by Robert Hatfield.

Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.

NEWS MONEY Magic:SPORTS Profits down, stocks up LIFE AUTOS TRAVEL USA TODAY - L awrence J ournal -W orld TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015

Market rides high as profits edge toward recession Adam Shell USA TODAY

Stocks are flying high again, but the latest melt-up comes as corporate profit growth resembles the movie The Incredible Shrinking Man. By any measure, the U.S. stock market is on fire. Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500 both closed within 1% of their record highs. Even more telling was the Nasdaq composite, which ended just 0.7% away from its record close set 15 years ago.

MONEYLINE FIRST WORDS

A smooth path upward in the federal funds rate will almost certainly not be realized, because, inevitably, the economy will encounter shocks.”

— Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer in a speech Monday. He added that unforeseen economic BLOOMBERG shocks — such as a crisis overseas, falling oil prices or burst in productivity — could even force an unusual break in Fed policy, with rates falling before the Fed completes the rate-hiking schedule.

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$202,600

Median price of existing singlefamily homes, townhouses, co-ops and condominiums in February, according to the National Assocation of Realtors.

Sales crept up 1.2% last month — to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.88 million — despite harsh winter storms.

PAYING UP FOR PAYPAL'S NEW CEO TO TUNE OF $38.7M If there was an eBay auction for Dan Schulman’s services, the former American Express executive came out a winner. Schulman, who will become CEO of the payment services provider when it is spun off by eBay, received compensation of nearly $38.7 million in 2014, eBay said in its annual proxy. Much of his compensation is a one-time, make good payment to cover forfeited equity and repayments tied to American Express.

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But even as stocks are thriving, corporate profits are not. Profit growth for companies in the S&P 500 index in the first quarter is estimated to contract 3.1%, down from a projection of a gain of 5.3% on Jan. 1, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Wall Street analysts have been slashing their profit estimates for months.

The profit slowdown can be blamed on two culprits: uThe earnings hit to energy firms blindsided by the nearly 60% top-to-bottom drop for U.S.produced crude. uThe fallout from the dollar’s most powerful rally vs. foreign currencies, including the euro, in decades, which has translated into smaller profits for U.S. multinationals that do a lot of business abroad. A stronger dollar means weaker foreign sales, where the

prices of U.S. goods bought with other currencies have risen. Adding to the woes: Foreign sales add up to smaller profits when the money is converted back to more expensive dollars.

Slowing profit growth is expected for the remaining quarters of 2015 and puts the S&P 500 at risk of finishing 2015 with contracting earnings. Currently, the full-year forecast for profit growth is 1.3%, down sharply from the 8.1% projection at the start of the year.

That sharp drop in earningsgrowth forecasts prompted Sam Stovall, strategist at S&P Capital IQ, to address the issue in a research note titled “Preparing for a Recession — in Profits.”

“The U.S. equity markets may have a new worry to contend with: earnings growth,” Stovall

Q1 2015 EARNINGS GROWTH

Wall Street analysts have slashed their first-quarter profit growth estimate to -3.1% down from a +5.3% projection back on Jan. 1.

Estimates for S&P 500 sectors today compared to Jan. 1: Sector Jan. 1 Today Consumer discret. 14.6% 7.0% Consumer staples 5.3% -0.6% Energy -32.2% -63.4% Financials 13.9% 11.2% Health care 11.1% 7.2% Industrials 11.5% 4.2% Materials 17.0% -1.2% Technology 10.2% 4.3% Telecom 1/2% -0.8% Utilities -5.9% -6.6% S&P 500 5.3% -3.1% SOURCE THOMSON REUTERS I/B/E/S

LOUISVILLE SLUGGER BOUGHT FOR $70M Wilson steps up to the plate for iconic American brand

The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory has become a tourist attraction.

Grace Schneider

The (Louisville) Courier-Journal LOUISVILLE Louisville Slugger, an iconic brand as associated with baseball as peanuts and Cracker Jack, is being sold to Wilson Sporting Goods.

Hillerich & Bradsby, the 131year-old company that still makes about 1.5 million wood bats at its factory in its hometown on the Ohio River, announced the $70 million cash deal on Monday. It also said that 52 employees, about a fifth of its workforce, would be let go.

Under the deal, due to close in June, Wilson would acquire global brand, sales and innovation rights to Louisville Slugger, pending H & B shareholder approval.

H & B would continue manufacturing for Wilson all Louisville Slugger-branded wood bats — supplied to major league and minor league players under contract, as well as those for retail sale and souvenir models. H & B would also maintain ownership of the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, as well as its Bionic gloves and Powerbilt golf brands.

Shrinking resources and the prospect of keeping pace with

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wrote. “While not an official profit recession, as no contraction in EPS (earnings per share) growth is currently projected, the fullyear growth estimate is getting uncomfortably close to that threshold.”

Second-quarter profit growth is estimated at -0.7% vs. a Jan. 1 forecast of 5.9%. Growth in the third quarter is seen ticking up to 1.8%, but below the 7.4% estimated on Jan. 1. Fourth-quarter growth is seen rising 6.2%.

Earnings will have to pick up if the stock market rally is to keep going, says Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at Nuveen Asset Management. “Significant upside will require an end to earnings estimate reductions and some visibility on better earnings from sectors benefiting from the oil price decline,” he says.

better-funded multinational companies drove the Hillerich family to start considering an exit strategy about 18 months ago, says John A. Hillerich IV, chief executive officer.

“It was not an easy decision, nor one I took lightly,” he says.

Louisville Slugger has been a fixture in baseball practically since the game began. Hillerich & Bradsby, which started as a woodworking shop, made its first baseball bat for local pro player Pete Browning in 1884.

The popularity of its ash bats exploded, and over the years star players, including Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Jackie Robinson, sprayed hits across the outfield and over the wall using Louisville Slugger bats.

H & B now employs 273 people, but the workforce will shrink to 177 in the next four months.

Forty-four of the jobs, roughly half of which are sales positions in the field, will be shifted to Wilson.

Wilson, with annual sales exceeding $700 million, makes gloves, bats, uniforms, apparel, protective gear, accessories and pitching machines through its Wilson, DeMarini and ATEC brands. Its president, Mike Dowse, outlined plans during Monday’s announcement to grow Louisville Slugger’s sales by utilizing a domestic and global network established by Wilson parent Amer Sports, of Helsinki.

Amer sells and markets sports equipment, apparel and footwear in over 30 countries through a number of subsidiaries. The company’s main market areas are the USA, Europe and Japan.

Because Louisville Slugger sells 90% of its products in the USA, Wilson sees an opportunity to boost the brand’s overseas sales. uAlthough Louisville Slugger bats had been made of ash since 1884, the company introduced maple bats, which had been gaining in popularity among pros, in 2012.

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Trial paints two perceptions of Pao Closing arguments likely to begin today Elizabeth Weise USA TODAY

The final scene of the almost Shakespearean drama of the Ellen Pao trial begins today, when lawyers on both sides of what could be a landmark sexdiscrimination lawsuit are likely to begin their closing arguments.

Pao is suing her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, for $16 million in lost wages and as much as $144 million in damages. The damages figure is new. Judge Harold Kahn ruled on Saturday that Pao has sufficient grounds to sue for punitive damages.

Over the past four weeks, the two sides have called witnesses who’ve described scenes that at times clash wildly in their depiction of reality.

Beginning today, Pao and Kleiner lawyers will have the chance to weave all the bits and pieces of the stories told on the stand into two opposing narraSAN FRANCISCO

tives they hope will convince the jury that their side is right.

The pictures they attempt to paint with their words will be very different. Which one prevails will set a tone for hiring in the tech world for years to come.

Some of the reverberations are already being felt. Last Monday, a former Facebook program manager sued the social networking site for harassment and discrimination based on her gender and her race. And on Thursday, a lawsuit was filed against Twitter, accusing the site of having a “secretive” system of promotions that favors men.

In Pao’s telling, Kleiner Perkins is a boys’ club where men were valued and promoted to senior partners while women were ignored and left to linger in less powerful and much less remunerative junior partner positions. It is a firm where a colleague could pressure Pao into a relationship that she ended immediately after she found out he was not separated from his wife, as he had told her he was. A firm that then did nothing when he spent years retaliating against her by cutting her out of vital e-mails

MARTIN E. KLIMEK, USA TODAY

Ellen Pao is suing Kleiner Perkins for $16 million.

and meetings.

It is a firm where men made subtle and not-so-subtle comeons to women junior to them, where raunchy, locker-room talk was accepted and all-male dinners and social events occurred without anyone batting an eye.

All told, it was a firm where a smart, highly accomplished and hard-working woman like Pao stood no chance of actually making it to senior partner. A place

where she was hired and mentored by legendary investor John Doerr but finally betrayed by him and was pushed out as soon as she complained, by men who refused to let her succeed.

None of which jibes with the version of events described by witnesses when questioned by Kleiner’s lawyers. They told of a firm operating in a field that is predominantly male, but led by Doerr, a visionary who has worked tirelessly for years to bring more women into venture capital and technology as a whole.

It was a firm of high standards, where vulgar sexual comments are unacceptable and where partners discussed economics, technology and more esoteric topics such as Buddhism. It was a place that hired many women who in turn held their own women’s networking dinners and get-togethers, one where men and women worked well in partnership with each other.

In their view, Pao was a talented, well-educated worker whose interpersonal skills were lacking.

Beginning today, all eyes in Silicon Valley will be on whose arguments seem most persuasive.

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AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch Adam Shell USA TODAY

It’s hard to shop for a brandnew home with that drop-dead kitchen and family room big enough to accommodate a 100inch HD TV when you’re trapped inside your existing home due to Ice Age-like weather conditions that limit your movement and quash your motivation to do anything but stay inside, eat and watch TV. That’s kind of what held back new-home sales in January and also sales of existing homes in the first two months of 2015, a period when the Northeast and Midwest were inundated with weather alerts, icy roads, snowstorms and bitter cold temperatures.

While existing-home sales in February ticked up 1.2% to an annualized pace of 4.88 million

Facts about America’s investors who use SigFig tracking services:

units, sales were below the 4.92 million economists forecast. Sales in the Northeast and Midwest were again “significantly affected by severe winter weather,” UBS economist Maury Harris told clients Monday after the sales data were released. Sales were also hurt by tight inventories and continued difficulty for some homeowners to gain access to credit.

A similar story on ho-hum sales is expected today when February new-home sales data are released.

While new-home sales in January fell just 0.2%, despite a nearly 52% collapse in purchases in the Northeast due to severe weather, a decline of 2.3% is expected in February.

“It looks like annualized newhome sales may have fallen again in February to around 470,000 units, from 481,000,” says Andrew Hunter of Capital Economics.

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The company released disappointing results from tests on its cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco when com- $90 bined with an experimental drug.

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$52.07

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This guessing game is rather pointless

Q: Which stocks will split next?

Matt Krantz

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A: Starbucks and Visa are among the latest companies to treat investors to stock splits. Investors love the idea of getting more shares for nothing — leading investors to try to guess which companies will split next.

Stock splits are a bookkeeping exercise. In a 2-for-1 split, a company will give investors who own a share of stock a second share. But before you get too excited, keep in mind the stock price is cut in half. Following a split the investor will own more shares, but the market value of the holdings is the same.

Typically, investors might suspect a company would consider a stock split when the shares get to $100 or more.

Starbucks’ shares were trading for just shy of $100 a share when it announced a 2-for-1 stock split.

There’s no shortage of companies that have also reached this per-share price level. There are nearly 120 stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index that are trading for $100 or more. But investors shouldn’t spend much time on this.

Investors like to think if a company splits its stock, the CEO has faith in the future. But long-term value is steered by profit, valuation and other metrics, not stock splits. Also, companies have shown a reluctance to split their shares in the age of exchange-traded funds and online brokers that let investors buy one share.

Square Cash opens to businesses and unveils Cashtags Brett Molina @brettmolina23 USA TODAY

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Square is joining the increasingly competitive mobile payments market.

vidual for services. Users create personal tags (a name preceded by the “$” symbol) they share to receive payments, which can be

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made either through the Square app or website cash.me.

Before Cashtags, users could pay others only if they had their

phone number or e-mail address.

“We think Cashtags are a fantastic marketing service that lets your customers, donors, fans or even friends pay you quickly and securely,” says Brian Grassadonia, head of Square Cash.

Grassadonia envisions multiple scenarios where small businesses or individuals can use Cashtags, such as adding them to business cards or sending tips.

“There’s all sorts of people that are producing work where they’re not currently getting paid,” Grassadonia says.

Non-profit companies will participate as well, with Wikipedia,

the USO and RED among those claiming tags.

Square is among several companies competing in the increasingly competitive mobile payments market. While most of the market is focused on payment services such as Apple Pay and future offerings from Samsung and Google, peer-to-peer options such as Square and Venmo are also on the rise. The company is processing more than $1 billion in peer-to-peer payments each year.

“We think it’s going to completely obliterate the remainder of cash and check payments that exist today,” Grassadonia says.

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GOOD DAY JULIE ANDREWS The Academy Award-winning actress is set to KEVIN WINTER, write a second GETTY IMAGES memoir. It will be a follow-up to her 2008 release ‘Home,’ which is about her childhood and early years as an actress. The as-yet-untitled book will tell the story of Andrews’ life starting in the 1960s, including her roles in ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘The Sound of Music.’ The book arrives in September 2017.

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Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Christopher Wolstenholme.

‘Dead Inside’ is Muse with a punch In Muse’s Dead Inside, frontman Matt Bellamy coos, “Your lips feel warm to the touch; you can bring me back to life” over a malevolently distorted bass groove. In the dystopian musical universes Muse creates, though, such a happy development isn’t likely. The vibrant front masks a soul-killing relationship that drags down Bellamy’s protagonist, too.

Along with previously released track Psycho, Dead Inside sets up the storyline for the trio’s new album, Drones, out June 9. Judging from those songs, co-producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange is bringing the same punch to the British trio’s sound that he has given the likes of AC/DC and Def Leppard.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT Jon Hamm, far right, and his ‘Mad Men’ colleagues Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, series creator Matthew Weiner, Christina Hendricks and January Jones, pose for a photo Monday on a bench unveiled by AMC in New York. The bench, which features Hamm’s Don Draper silhouette, is in front of the Time & Life Building, where the fictional ad agency in the show has its offices.

It’s on display at the outdoor plaza through the summer.

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USA TODAY’s Brian Mansfield picks his favorite recent jams to go with country singer Kacey Musgraves’ new single, Biscuits.

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TWEET TALK STARS SOUND OFF ON TWITTER @JohnStamos Let your heart lead the way, and you'll find love any day. @iamdiddy You were born an original. Don’t die a copy! @ConanOBrien The working title of my autobiography is “Sex Karate Maximum: Overdrive To Glory.”

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LOS ANGELES Even 40 years later, Al Pacino recalls an early rockstar moment with crystal clarity.

The consummate actor was performing a heady Bertolt Brecht play in Boston when he glanced out into the crowd from stage.

“In the first two rows were these girls sitting there with a picture of me on their chests,” he says. “And I’m just looking at that.

You have to adjust to that stuff.”

It’s hard to blame the legions of adoring fans Pacino amassed after exploding into popular culture with an unforgettable string of classic movies, including The Godfather (1972), Serpico (1973), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

He has received reverential treatment ever since.

In the dramatic comedy Danny Collins (expanding nationwide Friday), Pacino, 74, plays an aging but beloved musician who takes his gift more seriously after receiving a never-delivered letter from John Lennon.

The rocker persona fits, says co-star Bobby Cannavale, who witnessed prolonged Pacinomadness while the two starred in Broadway’s Glengarry Glen Ross.

“People lose their minds around Al,” Cannavale says. “We would try to get him to go out with us, but he cannot go out. He just gets mobbed.”

Pacino looks the rocker part during a Beverly Hilton breakfast

“PEOPLE LOSE THEIR MINDS AROUND AL. ... HE CANNOT GO OUT. HE JUST GETS MOBBED.” Co-star Bobby Cannavale

meeting, taking off his mirrored sunglasses to stride through the restaurant in head-to-toe black, topped by a slick tuxedo jacket.

Every diner’s head turns.

The two-time Tony Award winner says his love for musical performing started when he played King Mongkut of Siam in his school’s staging of The King and I. As an up-and-coming actor, Pacino was offered a role in the Broadway production of Zorba.

But Pacino passed on the part because it was too big of a time commitment and went on to make The Godfather.

Some of the rocker aspects are in his blood, like the swiveling stage moves he incorporates in Danny Collins.

“I’m a natural dancer,” Pacino says. “I inherited that from my

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Frank Grubman (Christopher Plummer), Danny Collins (Pacino) and Sophie (Katarina Cas) bask in the limelight.

mother and my father, who used to win dance contests. I can get into it. I have the rhythm.”

And as he showed in his Oscarwinning performance as the bombastic Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman, he booms.

“I still have a voice from all the theater I have done. I can project and carry a tune to a point,” Pacino says. “And then we’re lost.”

He returns to Broadway this fall with the new David Mamet play China Doll. But music is “more visceral.” He knows this firsthand after his true rock moment, stepping out as Danny Collins to perform solo at a sold-out Greek Theatre concert in Los Angeles while film cameras rolled.

Pacino sailed onstage. The crowd went nuts.

“If I wasn’t in character — if it was me, Al — I probably would have passed out,” he says. “It’s that’s invigorating.”

Biscuits Kacey Musgraves

The charming Musgraves has a sweet-as-honey message for busybodies: “Mind your own biscuits, and life will be gravy.”

Make a Liar Out of Me Striking Matches

Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis give off sparks as singers and writers, but they’re even hotter guitarists. Incendiary.

Beryl Mark Knopfler

The single from Knopfler’s Tracker has all the elements of early Dire Straits, particularly the flowing guitar runs.

They Don’t Make ’Em Like They Used To Will Hoge

A maturing guitar-slinger pays tribute to his father’s virtues, which include craftsmanship, thrift and perseverance.

Nothing to Lose Andrew Combs

Combs’ album All These Years is a gem, blending a ’70s troubadour’s gentleness with Roy Orbisoninspired melodies.

The Sweetest Thing The Pine Hill Project

Folk singers Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell cover a U2 B-side for their collaborative album, Tomorrow You’re Going.

Shine Like Lightning Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors

Even after all these years, rock ’n’ roll still has its true-hearted dreamers.

And Holcomb just gave them their anthem.

Like it Used to Be Allison Moorer

Moorer’s stunning Down to Believing may be the finest album of her career, and it begins with this clear-eyed rocker.

Unbelievable Bettye LaVette

Few singers possess the passion, grit and authority to pull off Bob Dylan’s song from Under the Red Sky. LaVette does, on her new album Worthy.

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BEFORE YOU CAST YOUR VOTE IN THE APRIL 7 CITY COMMISSION ELECTION, hear the candidates’ views on public health issues — from promoting physical activity to ensuring access to health services — at a forum 7 p.m. March 30 in the Lawrence Public Library Auditorium.

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awrence City Commission candidates have been answering questions for weeks about policies, projects and decisions that would affect the financial health of the city of Lawrence.

But how about the physical and mental well-being of the city’s population?

The City Commission is not only responsible for decisions that affect the city’s bottom line, but also ones that can affect public health. And voters will have the chance to ask questions of the candidates to assess their ability to keep the city fit at a forum at 7 p.m. March 30 at the Lawrence Public Library auditorium.

Dan Partridge, director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, said since release of the Community Health Plan in April 2013, Douglas County, Lawrence, Baldwin

Does Lawrence do what it can to promote the health of its residents? Can the city be engaged in new ways? Ask your public health questions now so we can ask the candidates what YOU want to know. Tweet us @ WellCommons, or send an email to mtevis@ljworld.com.

“With the election of new leadership, we wanted to provide an opportunity for the public to hear from candidates... how they would use their future role as commissioner to positively influence the health of Lawrence residents.”

— Dan Partridge, director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department

City, Eudora and Lecompton have all adopted the plan as a guiding document.

“We have seen over the past 22 months significant community support for the plan,” Partridge said. “With the election of new leadership, we wanted to provide an opportunity for the public to hear from candidates how they will advance the strategies described in the plan and, in a broader sense, how they would use their future role as commissioner to positively influence the health of Lawrence residents.”

The health plan was released after two years of research and priority setting. The health department recently released a progress report on the priority issues and goals in the health plan, which are: l Access to healthy foods: To create environments where healthy food consumption is easier and more likely. l Access to health services: To ensure a health care system in Douglas County that effectively and efficiently offers preventive and primary care services that are timely, accessible and

affordable for all residents. l Mental health: To create a community that values positive mental and behavioral health and encourages everyone to seek help when they need it by promoting prevention and responding to mental health needs. l Physical activity: To create an environment and culture, through policy and systems change, that makes physical activity easier and more rewarding Please see FORUM, page 2C

Don’t hesitate to get screened for colorectal cancer

By Aynsley Anderson Lawrence Memorial Hospital

Whenever they ask about colorectal cancer screening, doctors are accustomed to hearing excuses. “Not right now,” the patient may say or “I’ll think about it.” These patients may be anxious about embarrassment or perceived pain or discomfort. They may think they are at low risk because they have had no symptoms.

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and it is important to know that colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2014 about 136,830 people will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the United States, and about 50,310

people will die of the disease. In both men and women, colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer.

The good news is screening is particularly effective at detecting colorectal cancer at an early, treatable stage — even preventing it in some cases. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, if everyone age 50 and older were screened regularly, six out of 10 deaths from colorectal cancer could be prevented.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, if everyone age 50 and older were screened regularly, six out of 10 deaths from colorectal cancer could be prevented.

one of the most effective screening tests.

It reduces colorectal cancer deaths by 60 to 70 percent, according to studies. It also has the advantage of being able to remove any abnormalities that are found during the same procedure.

Before cancer develops, a tumor usually begins as a non-cancerous polyp on the inner lining of the colon or rectum.

Colorectal cancer These are often detected screening during a routine colonosA colonoscopy is copy, and some can be widely recommended as removed as part of the

procedure.

During a colonoscopy, a flexible lighted tube is inserted into the rectum and threaded through the entire length of the colon. Air is pumped into the colon to expand it and make viewing easier. Since the patient is given either general anesthesia or sedation, the whole procedure is less uncomfortable than the description suggests.

Many people refrain from undergoing a screening colonoscopy based on fear of the re-

sults, while others are nervous about the test itself. But these concerns are unfounded.

The relatively minor discomfort that comes from the screening is overshadowed by the very real life-saving potential.

Kyra: This week I celebrated my tattoo’s second birthday. I didn’t go out for ice cream or anything, but I did revel in the fact that I still don’t regret getting a silver dollar-sized doodle permanently etched into the skin on my hipbone.

It will come as no surprise that in the past several years more teens and young adults have been getting tattoos than did their parents or grandparents. According to a 2010 Pew Research Center report, 38 percent of people aged 18 to 29 have at least one tattoo and about half of those have between 2 and 5.

I’ll admit the adrenaline rush post-tattoo parlor is exhilarating.

With it came a new, uncharacteristic desire for attention and affirmation of my decision. That was difficult to obtain discreetly, given my clothing usually covers the tattoo site.

My inked friends must have felt the same way, as evidenced by their wearing tank tops or shorts at every opportunity to display their body art.

The growth in the ink industry does not appear to stem from a “look at me” mentality, however.

Nor does it seem to root itself in rebellion. In fact, research suggests tattoos no longer serve as a means of discovering one’s identity, but rather of defining it.

In a series of studies — in 1998 and 2006 — researchers from the University of Arkansas found that, while both groups used tattoos to express themselves, the latter did so to reaffirm that they actually had an identity.

Study co-author Jeff Murray explained that rapidly changing culture created a “loss of personal anchors needed for identity” and that tattoos’ popularity could be attributed to a need for stability, predictability and permanence.

I see some truth in that assertion. In 60 years, after our texts, Instagrams and tweets have been lost to cyberspace, my friends and I can point to our wrinkled, faded tattoos as one of the few lasting expressions of who we are and where we came from.

Colorectal cancer treatment If a cancerous growth is detected during a screening, there are many successful surgical, chemotherapy and radiation treatment options available. Many of the treatment options used today were developed within the past 10 years and are proving very effective.

As screening numbers are increasing and treatWes: Happy birthday, ment options for colorec- Kyra’s Tattoo. I hope tal cancer are improving, you have many more fond and joyful days of Please see LMH, page 2C

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revelry. You’re not alone.

Many under-18s are now getting body art, and many others head to the parlor about 20 minutes after they reach the age of majority.

But as any fan of “Tattoo Nightmares” can attest, not everyone ends up celebrating his or her ink. Many folks who beg for artistic salvation from Gus, Tommy and Jasmine loved their art at first, only to break up with their one true love whose name was emblazoned on their butt, realize someone misspelled a critical phrase in the ribcage poem of their life or learn too late that their idea or its execution was just super tacky.

Worst of all, time brings with it new trends and innovations and washes away what once was cool. Can anyone say “tramp stamp?”

For teens and young adults, the whole idea of permanence is an illusion. I say this not to condescend to youth but to lift up its greatest gift: the ability to see everything as fresh, changeable and open to critique.

That’s pretty much the opposite of everything a

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survival rates are on the rise.

The success of early detection and new treatment options is evident: There are more than a million colorectal cancer survivors in the United States today.

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for people of all ages and abilities. l Poverty and jobs: All people have equal opportunity for employment and resources that meet their family’s needs.

All six candidates will be in attendance, and the public is encouraged to attend. The forum is sponsored by the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, LiveWell Lawrence and WellCommons.

The candidates will be introduced, then questions will be posed to the candidates. Afterward, the public will be allowed to ask additional questions.

The LiveWell Lawrence coalition’s mission is to make it easier for Douglas County residents to eat

In general, the more parents attempt to pressure kids away from body art, the more quickly kids will rack up the tats. tattoo is about.

Of course, that opinion isn’t going to sway anyone. In general, the more parents attempt to pressure kids away from body art, the more quickly kids will rack up the tats. Nevertheless, here’s my list of criteria parents should urge their children to consider: l Watch at least ten episodes of “Tattoo Nightmares.” It’s an entertaining way to learn what not to do, and the art the hosts turn out is simply amazing. Any young person who wants permanent ink on their body needs to settle for nothing less. l Go for the long plan.

It’s hard at 18 to know what you’ll like at 35, but that has to be your goal. l Avoid names. The only exception might be for your children — which usually isn’t relevant for the late-teen crowd. l Don’t go overboard.

Kyra isn’t kidding about that feeling of exhilaration. Many folks with a lot of ink admit it can

be addicting. Addiction isn’t a good reason to do anything. l Consider cover-ups in the initial art. No matter how perfectly late teens follow my suggestions, there’s a darn good chance they’ll want a change someday. Some tattoos are easier to cover than others. Go for one of those.

Just as with a discussion of sex, parents who calmly sit with their kids and go down this list of ideas create an environment of authentic choice. And the more teens feel they are making a real choice, the more likely they are to make a good one.

— Wes Crenshaw, Ph.D., ABPP, is author of “I Always Want to Be Where I’m Not: Successful Living with ADD & ADHD.” Learn about his writing and practice at dr-wes.com.

Kyra Haas is a Free State High School senior who blogs at justfreakinghaasome.wordpress. com. Send your confidential 200-word question to ask@drwes.com. Double Take opinions and advice are not a substitute for psychological services.

WHILE MANY TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS USE TATTOOS TO EXPRESS THEIR INDEPENDENCE, it’s important to plan carefully before making the trip to the tattoo parlor to avoid the regret that comes from getting botched or poorly considered ink.

cer Society lists the following as risk factors for colorectal cancer. If you have one or more of these risk factors, talk to your health care provider.

Age: Although colorectal cancer can strike at any age, after the age of 50 the chances of developing this type of cancer increase dramatically.

Racial and ethnic background: The reason is not yet understood, but African-Americans and Jewish people of Eastern

European descent are at an increased risk. Other risk factors include: l A diet high in red meats and processed meat l Personal history of colorectal polyps or colorectal cancer l Personal history of inflammatory bowel disease l Family history of colorectal cancer l Obesity l Smoking l Physical inactivity l Heavy alcohol use

l Type 2 diabetes For more information on colorectal cancer, colonoscopies and other colorectal screening tests, visit lmh.org and search under the Wellness tab for the Health Library.

Lawrence Memorial Hospital has two sites in Lawrence where colorectal screenings are done: the LMH Endoscopy Center at the main campus at 325 Maine St. and the LMH West Endoscopy Center at 4525 W. Sixth St.

THE CANDIDATES All six City Commission candidates have agreed to participate in the health forum. The election is April 7.

• Stuart Boley • Matthew Herbert • Stan Rasmussen • Terry Riordan • Bob Schumm • Leslie Soden healthy foods, be physically active and live tobacco free. Its team members include health advocates from agencies, schools and businesses across Douglas County, including Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Just Food and Lawrence Parks and Recreation.

Nikki White, chairwoman of LiveWell Lawrence, said that as a sponsor of the forum, the LiveWell Lawrence coalition hopes to both raise

the coalition members’ interest in local government and raise government officials’ awareness regarding decisions that impact health.

“I hope LWL continues to be invited into dialogue with officials whenever health is a factor in a local issue. Our current work group priorities (healthy kids, healthy food, built environment, worksites, and tobacco) can improve a large cross-section of Lawrence with a positive partnership with local officials.”

Partridge said he hopes the forum gives voters a chance to know enough to vote for someone who truly represents them.

“When we more fully understand the value system through which leaders make decisions, residents can cast votes for commissioners who will represent their values,” he said.

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You can learn more by watching a video on LMH’s YouTube channel in which Charles Brooks, MD, Tracy Hill, APRN, and Chad Tate, MD, discuss the importance of screening colonoscopy.

Go to youtube.com/lmhorg.

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— Aynsley Anderson, MA, RN, is Community Education Coordinator for Lawrence Memorial Hospital, which is a major sponsor of WellCommons. She can be reached at aynsley.anderson@lmh.org.

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Dear Annie: I’m a 24-year-old male who has been crossdressing since the age of 8.

It started with collecting my own bras and panties, and now I have an entire wardrobe of women’s clothing.

Because I currently live on my own, I change out of my male clothes into my female ones as soon as I come home from work. I’ve also had very serious thoughts and dreams about being a woman.

This is confusing to me, and I want to know whether there is someone I can talk to about these feelings. I’m way too scared to come out to family or friends because of what they would think. — Lost in Ottawa Dear Ottawa: Crossdressing is not as uncommon as you might think, and there are

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many reasons. Some people crossdress to disguise themselves, be more comfortable, act a part or because it is attractive to a partner (e.g., women who wear a man’s dress shirt to bed).

That type of crossdressing is fairly common and socially acceptable.

For others, there is a sexual component or a release of tension, along with a compulsion to wear clothing of the opposite gender. This type of crossdressing

On PBS, a Beltway insider’s tale Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And make sure they all show up in your official documentary. As the title makes clear, “James Baker: The Man Who Made Washington Work” (7:30 p.m., PBS, check local listings) is all but an authorized biography of the former secretary of state and consummate Washington insider. Tom Brokaw’s narration also anoints it with insider approval.

At the s a m e time, you can’t say it doesn’t cover Baker’s varied career, warts and all. Voices take him to task for sweeping the savingsand-loan financial crisis of the mid-1980s under the rug. Curiously, it essentially begins with the Florida recount saga of 2000.

Former President Bill Clinton offers Baker, who oversaw strategy for George W. Bush, begrudging admiration for his hard-knuckled handling of the situation. Some may see that as a gesture of bipartisan respect. Others may resent Clinton’s tip of the hat as Washington at its worst, a glaring example of politics as a fixed game between cynical operatives.

All the same, history buffs and political junkies should not miss this. Friends, opponents and adversaries-turned-colleagues are on hand. Look for former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Henry Kissinger, former Vice President Dick Cheney and former presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Clinton to join Baker’s wife and close friends in recalling his remarkable rise from Houston lawyer to political strategist to diplomat and architect of the post-Cold War era.

“Baker” celebrates the art of compromise and his ability to work with congressional Democrats, including former representatives Tip O’Neill and Dan Rostenkowski. The filmmakers clearly admire their subject and mourn the loss of comity in Washington. A more cynical mind might see this as “James Baker: The Man Who Made Washington Work ... for the Oil Companies.”

Tonight’s other highlights O A dead painter offers food for thought on “iZombie” (8 p.m., CW).

O Lost in the fog on “The Night Shift” (9 p.m., NBC).

O Henry revisits the site of his first demise on “Forever” (9 p.m., ABC)

BIRTHDAYS Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is 63. Actor Robert Carradine is 60. Singer Nena is 54. Actor Jim Parsons is 41.

Football player Peyton Manning is 38.

can be more difficult for family members or partners to accept. You can find support and information through The Society for the Second Self (tri-ess.org) and the International Foundation for Gender Education (ifge.org).

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “At a Loss for Words,” the daughter who is constantly hurt by her mother’s lack of involvement with her children.

She could work on changing her own behavior toward the situation. She has taught her mother how to treat her by always being loving and kind in spite of Mom’s narcissistic attitude. Perhaps she should take a different approach and just invite Mom to her children’s events with only brief notice and no expectation that

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Tuesday, March 24: This year you open up to more opinions, animated discussions and new systems of thought. If you are single, the person you meet today most likely will not be suitable in a year from now. If you are attached, the two of you revitalize your relationship.

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) +++++ Someone you know might put down your thoughts and ideas. Don’t engage this person in a discussion. Tonight: Discuss what is being said.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++ A situation will evoke strong feelings; what you do with them will be up to you. Tonight: Trust your abilities with a challenging situation.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++++ You might have felt less than great upon waking up, but you’ll change that scenario quickly. Tonight: A whirlwind of energy.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) +++ You might have little choice but to take a step back. Use your imagination and create more of what you want. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) +++++ Touch base with friends before you launch into action. Tonight: Go to a jam session, or meet friends for munchies.

Mom will show up. The more distance she puts between herself and her mother the more Mom will want to be involved, because she will wonder why things changed. — Better Approach Dear Better: You could be right. Sometimes withholding one’s attentions makes you more desirable, although it would take a major behavioral adjustment for the daughter to behave in an indifferent and uncaring way. But Mom may never quite care enough about missing out on one set of grandchildren. She has another set whom she favors, which is also part of the problem.

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

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) +++ When it comes to dealing with a boss, understand that it is either his or her way or the highway. Tonight: Be less available.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) +++++ Let your mind drift to other people and places. Doing so will allow you to relax and gain a new perspective. Tonight: Put on some great music.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ++++ Someone whom you are close to might express him- or herself in a fun and witty way, which will make you lighten up.

Tonight: Let it all hang out.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) +++ Deal with what seems like an unending onslaught of people asking you for favors. Tonight: Chill out.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ An associate will encourage you to share your thoughts and become more a part of the dialogue. Tonight: Reveal more of your zany side.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) +++++ At times you are able to break down walls and get past others’ limitations. Tonight: Be a wild thing.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ++++ You could feel a little more down or burdened than you usually do. Take a few days off.

Tonight: Out to dinner.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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Kansas University’s nonconference basketball schedule figures to be rugged again during the 2015-16 season.

What is known right now is KU will meet NCAA Sweet 16-bound Michigan State in the Champions Classic on Nov. 17 in Chicago and also travel to San Diego State to meet Steve Fisher’s perennially tough Aztecs. S.D. State fell to Duke, 68-49, in an NCAA Round of 32 game Sunday in Charlotte, North Carolina.

KU will compete in the Nov. 23-25 Maui Invitational, which has a field that also features UCLA, Indiana and former KU phenom Danny Manning’s Wake Forest team, as well as St. John’s, UNLV, Vanderbilt and Chaminade.

KU’s opponent in the Jan. 30 Big 12/SEC Challenge has not yet been revealed. There were strong rumors in January that Kentucky would travel to KU next season, with the Jayhawks heading to Lexington the following year as part of the one-day challenge.

“If I were a betting man, I’d put money on the (UK) Cats seeing Kansas in late January next year,” wrote Drew Franklin of Kentucky Sports Radio.

Amazingly, if that game materializes and the Maui tourney pairings fall the right way, KU could face Kentucky, Michigan State, Indiana and UCLA in the same season.

The Jayhawks and Georgetown Hoyas, who were to have met in Allen Fieldhouse next season, have agreed to postpone that game until 2016-17.

Kansas will play in the CBE Classic in 2016-17 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Teams have not been announced. Also, in 2016-17, KU will meet Indiana in Honolulu, travel to UNLV and play Georgetown in Allen. KU has not decided which preseason tournament it will play in 2017-18.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY GUARD FRANK MASON III WALKS OFF THE COURT after fouling out in the Jayhawks’ 78-65 loss to Wichita State on Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska. Mason should return to anchor the KU roster next season, but in an era of transfers and quick departures to the pro ranks, it’s hard to say which teammates will return to play with him.

KU’s 2015-’16 outlook uncertain The malaise in the aftermath of Kansas University’s two other recent NCAA Tournament losses to schools from the Missouri Valley Conference feels different this time.

Kansas started three freshmen, a sophomore and a junior in the loss to Bradley in 2006. All the starters knew they had to return for at least another year to elevate their games before entertaining thoughts of playing for pay. They were just too young to handle the NCAA Tournament pressure in the wake of a thrilling drubbing of a loaded Texas in the Big 12 tournament final. It was easy to see better years on the horizon.

After Northern Iowa bounced Kansas in the Round of 32 in 2010, freshman Xavier Henry, junior Cole Aldrich and senior Sherron Collins were done playing college basketball.

That’s a huge hit for any program. Still, Marcus and Mar-

Who will start for Kansas next year? Impossible to say without knowing what players will make up the roster.

None of the 11 scholarship players is a senior.

Subtract likely NBA Draft entrants Cliff Alexander and Kelly Oubre Jr. and add McDonald’s All-Ameritkeegan@ljworld.com can Carlton Bragg, a 6-footkieff Morris and Tyshawn 9 sharp-shooter from Taylor would return for Cleveland, and that brings their junior seasons, reserve the roster to 10, leaving forward Thomas Robinson the space for three more showed strong promise. recruits. Certainly, 7-footer Veteran guards Brady Morn- Stephen Zimmerman from ingstar and Tyrel Reed exLas Vegas could change ceeded expectations, and KU the team for the better. made it to the Elite Eight, Many consider 6-3 shootlosing to VCU. ing guard Malik Newman Roster turnover in colof Mississippi to be the lege basketball has increased most talented player in the since then. Prospects jump class. Kansas has a shot at to the pros earlier. Freshmen him and is in on a number and sophomores not yet in of other McDonald’s Allthe rotation become antsy Americans. more often and transfer.

KU should be able to Forecasting rosters in the count on its two best players wake of exiting the tour— tough point guard Frank nament becomes a hazier Mason and do-it-all forward practice.

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although Ellis hasn’t said definitively that he will.

Guard Devonté Graham, the team’s top player in the Wichita State game, should improve. Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk said earlier this week he would return to Kansas for a sophomore season. If he does, he has enough talent to leap over Wayne Selden Jr., who regressed as a sophomore, and Brannen Greene, who took a step back late in the season.

Inside, Landen Lucas, not nearly the athlete that Jamari Traylor is, developed into a better basketball player and showed enough to at least fill a key reserve role for his remaining two seasons.

Maybe a summer trip to Korea could bring the team closer together. Maybe. That word pretty well sums up the outlook for next season, when Kansas will attempt to win a 12th consecutive Big 12 championship and make it past the Round of 32 for the first time in three seasons.

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Beaty eager to kick off first Kansas spring ‘Fun part’ begins today for new football coach

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Kansas University football coach David Beaty has been a busy man since he was hired back in December. And all of the running from place to place to meet with recruits, fans, administrators and donors is something the first-year coach believes was critical in building his program.

But what Beaty and his new team will embark upon at 4:20 this afternoon is the one element of his new job that he has been looking forward to the most.

“It’s an unbelievable ex-

citement for a couple different reasons,” Beaty told the Journal-World on the eve of spring football. “The things I’ve been doing up to this point are program-related, and I’ve really enjoyed doing all of that, but this is the fun part. This is the point where I’m ready to get out of this office, off the planes and out of the cars and get on that field and watch our guys do what they love to do.”

There will be plenty of important observations made during the next five weeks, when the Jayhawks will conduct 15 spring practices culminating with the annual spring game on April

25. But instead of zeroing in on which players will fill out the first team and who will win which starting battles, Beaty has a clear plan for the spring that will emphasize three things.

The first is installation of KU’s new philosophies.

“I’m excited about getting to see our coaches install their systems and bring them to KU,” Beaty said.

“I’m excited to see how certain guys fit into the new systems and how quickly they catch on.”

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Cinderella, where are you?

By Greg Cote

Miami Herald

This is the break at the midpoint of the annual American basketball bacchanalia March Madness, the pause that allows your brackets to breathe — always assuming your brackets have any life left and have not been ripped to confetti in frustration by now.

The men’s NCAA Tournament resumes Thursday night with the original 68 teams pared now to the Sweet 16 survivors, and what remains of the bracket has almost everything left on it that you’d want (except perhaps your favorite team).

It has kings, champions, legends, blue bloods and pedigrees.

It has everything but a Chair-man.

I miss that chair, man.

So does this tournament.

Embodied in that chairon-casters that Georgia State coach Ron Hunter rode courtside was the last true Cinderella. Her glass slipper had wheels.

Hunter had torn his Achilles’ celebrating his team’s unlikely Sun Belt Conference championship the week before, leaving him to coach off his feet in the NCAA Tournament on a rolling chair. That was until his son hit a gamewinning three-point shot to stun heavily favored Baylor, which sent the coach spilling from his seat in sheer joy, cheering prone on his side.

It was a bizarre, delightful snapshot — the most memorable of the Madness thus far.

One more win and he’d have rolled into this Sweet 16 tall as John Wayne on a saddle. (As it was, his chair already had its own Twitter site.)

In two weeks this event’s crowning moment might very well be Kentucky coach John Calipari, on a ladder, snipping pieces of the net to mark what would be college hoops’ first unbeaten national champion since Bobby Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers of 1976.

I’d propose though that Calipari up on a ladder won’t stick in your mind like Hunter down on the floor.

What’s expected seldom is as interesting as what isn’t.

There is ample greatness in this Sweet 16, and in Kentucky there is even an ultimate favorite to root against if you are so inclined.

What there ISN’T is a warm ‘n fuzzy underdog left like No. 14-seed Georgia State and its rolling coach would have been.

Or like 15th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast was in getting to this round in 2013.

The fascination in March Madness isn’t found in Kentucky’s perfection or in the office-pool payout you’re playing for. The fascination is that, every year, there are doubledigit-seeded teams whose nicknames you don’t know, from conferences you’ve barely heard of, and this is their Powerball.

This year, no Cinderella left.

No little team aiming a slingshot high.

What’s left is big, storied programs like Kentucky, Duke, Louisville and Michigan State.

Ten of the 16 schools left have won a combined 38 national championships. Coaches still in it include legends like Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams, Calipari, Rick Pitino, Tom Izzo, Bob Huggins and Lon Kruger.

The ultimate proof that Cinderella has left the building?

The only double-digit seed left in the Sweet 16 is only the most successful college basketball program ever: UCLA. The giants are all over this Sweet 16. If only a little guy had been able to sneak in.

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INDIANA (100) S.Hill 2-6 0-0 5, West 4-13 2-4 10, Hibbert 8-12 2-2 18, G.Hill 9-15 0-1 20, Miles 3-16 0-0 6, Rudez 3-6 0-0 7, Mahinmi 1-4 0-0 2, Watson 7-10 5-6 23, Scola 3-8 3-6 9. Totals 40-90 12-19 100.

Houston 26 27 23 34—110 Indiana 15 24 29 32—100 3-Point Goals-Houston 13-24 (Smith 4-6, Harden 3-8, Terry 2-3, Beverley 2-3, Motiejunas 1-2, Brewer 1-2), Indiana 8-24 (Watson 4-5, G.Hill 2-6, S.Hill 1-2, Rudez 1-3, Miles 0-8).

Fouled Out-Dorsey. Rebounds-Houston 41 (Ariza 11), Indiana 52 (Hibbert 10). AssistsHouston 16 (Harden 7), Indiana 21 (Watson, West 5). Total Fouls-Houston 25, Indiana 23.

Technicals-Dorsey, Terry, Hibbert, G.Hill.

A-16,201 (18,165).

Celtics 110, Nets 91 New York — Evan Turner had 19 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds, and the Celtics beat Brooklyn to snap a threegame losing streak that had dropped them out of playoff position.

Avery Bradley scored 20 points to lead the Celtics, who entered a half-game behind Charlotte for the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference.

BOSTON (110) Turner 9-13 1-2 19, Bass 4-8 4-4 12, Zeller 9-13 0-0 18, Smart 1-3 0-0 2, Bradley 8-16 2-3 20, Crowder 3-13 2-3 9, Jerebko 5-12 0-0 10, Olynyk 7-12 1-2 18, Pressey 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 47-92 10-14 110.

BROOKLYN (91) Johnson 3-11 0-0 6, T.Young 5-12 1-1 12, Lopez 12-19 7-7 31, Williams 2-6 6-6 10, Brown 1-2 2-2 4, Bogdanovic 3-14 0-0 6, Jack 1-9 6-7 8, Anderson 2-9 3-4 7, Plumlee 2-4 1-3 5, Jefferson 1-2 0-0 2, Morris 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-89 26-30 91.

Boston 23 31 29 27—110 Brooklyn 28 21 25 17— 91 3-Point Goals-Boston 6-22 (Olynyk 3-5, Bradley 2-4, Crowder 1-7, Smart 0-1, Pressey 0-1, Jerebko 0-2, Turner 0-2), Brooklyn 1-17 (T.Young 1-2, Williams 0-2, Jack 0-2, Anderson 0-3, Johnson 0-4, Bogdanovic 0-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Boston 53 (Turner 10), Brooklyn 57 (T.Young, Williams 9). AssistsBoston 25 (Turner 12), Brooklyn 15 (Williams 10). Total Fouls-Boston 21, Brooklyn 13.

Technicals-Boston defensive three second, Brooklyn defensive three second. A-16,814 (17,732).

Andrew Wiggins, Minnesota Min: 49. Pts: 22. Reb: 7. Ast: 1.

Bulls 98, Hornets 86 Chicago — Nikola Mirotic scored 14 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter, and Chicago clinched a playoff spot with a win over Charlotte.

Pau Gasol had 27 points and 12 rebounds as Chicago moved into a tie with Toronto for third place in the Eastern Conference. Jimmy Butler added 19 points in his return to the lineup after missing 11 games due to a sprained left elbow.

The Bulls played without Joakim Noah, who was scratched because of general soreness.

CHARLOTTE (86) Kidd-Gilchrist 2-8 3-4 7, Ma.Williams 2-2 3-4 9, Jefferson 1-7 1-2 3, Walker 11-24 5-5 29, Henderson 3-12 5-6 11, Maxiell 0-4 0-0 0, M. Williams 4-16 4-5 15, Biyombo 0-2 1-2 1, Stephenson 4-5 0-0 9, Vonleh 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 28-81 22-28 86.

CHICAGO (98) Dunleavy 1-4 0-0 2, Gibson 1-5 2-2 4, Gasol 11-19 4-6 27, Brooks 6-10 1-1 13, Butler 6-20 7-10 19, Mirotic 10-19 7-10 28, Snell 0-1 0-0 0, Hinrich 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 37-82 21-29 98.

Charlotte 26 23 20 17—86 Chicago 28 20 26 24—98 3-Point Goals-Charlotte 8-20 (M. Williams 3-9, Ma.Williams 2-2, Walker 2-7, Stephenson 1-1, Henderson 0-1), Chicago 3-16 (Gasol 1-1, Hinrich 1-2, Mirotic 1-6, Snell 0-1, Butler 0-2, Dunleavy 0-2, Brooks 0-2). Fouled Out-Maxiell.

Rebounds-Charlotte 60 (Henderson, KiddGilchrist 9), Chicago 52 (Gasol 12). AssistsCharlotte 11 (M. Williams 5), Chicago 21 (Brooks 10). Total Fouls-Charlotte 25, Chicago 20. Technicals-Charlotte defensive three second. A-21,646 (20,917).

Timberwolves 106, Jazz 104, OT Salt Lake City — Rookie guard Zach LaVine scored 27 points, including two threepointers to force overtime, and Minnesota rallied past Utah.

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struggled to avoid blackouts, and the league is taking a bit of a gamble for 2015.

Phoenix — The NFL is saying bye-bye to blackouts. At least for 2015.

No NFL games will be blocked from local television next season, the league said Monday at the owners’ meetings. The teams voted for a one-year suspension of the long-standing blackout policy for the preseason and regular season.

There were no blackouts last season, because the minimum number of tickets, by NFL sellout standards, was sold for every game, and the league had only two blackouts in 2013.

Still, the experiment is a huge step for the NFL, whose blackout policy dates back decades. In the 1970s, half of NFL games were blocked from local TV because the games did not sell enough tickets. Some teams — Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, Oakland, St. Louis and San Diego — have

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Sharper pleads guilty Los Angeles — Former NFL star Darren Sharper removed all doubt Monday that he drugged and raped women, taking the first of several legal steps to own up to sex assaults in four states that will send him to federal prison for nine years.

He pleaded guilty to sexual assault in Arizona and no contest in California to raping two women he knocked out with a potent sedative mixed with booze.

Sharper, 39, wearing a striped, light blue suit, said he was entering the plea because it was in his best interest. He had faced up to 33 years in prison if convicted of all counts against him in California.

By not contesting the charges, the former all-pro safety who

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W L Pct Portland 44 24 .647 Oklahoma City 40 30 .571 Utah 31 39 .443 Denver 27 44 .380 Minnesota 16 54 .229 Pacific Division

W L Pct x-Golden State 57 13 .814 L.A. Clippers 46 25 .648 Phoenix 38 33 .535 Sacramento 24 45 .348 L.A. Lakers 18 50 .265 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Today’s Games Toronto at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

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LaVine’s clutch shots in the fourth quarter set up a 6-1 Minnesota run to start overtime that the Jazz couldn’t overcome.

The game featured some of the NBA’s top young stars. No. 1 overall draft pick Andrew Wiggins scored 22 points, and Sean Kilpatrick added 13 off the bench for Minnesota.

MINNESOTA (106) Wiggins 10-19 2-3 22, Payne 4-7 0-0 8, Dieng 4-8 3-4 11, Brown 4-5 2-3 10, LaVine 7-19 8-10 27, Budinger 4-13 3-3 15, Kilpatrick 4-7 2-2 13.

Totals 37-78 20-25 106.

UTAH (104) Ingles 7-10 0-0 18, Favors 8-13 3-7 19, Gobert 7-11 4-8 18, Exum 2-5 0-0 4, Hood 3-8 0-0 8, Burke 4-22 6-6 16, Booker 2-5 1-4 5, Millsap 4-9 5-6 13, Cotton 1-4 0-0 3, Evans 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-87 19-31 104.

Minnesota 20 22 18 36 10—106 Utah 22 26 15 33 8—104 3-Point Goals-Minnesota 12-19 (LaVine 5-6, Budinger 4-8, Kilpatrick 3-4, Wiggins 0-1), Utah 9-28 (Ingles 4-6, Hood 2-2, Burke 2-13, Cotton 1-2, Millsap 0-2, Exum 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Minnesota 50 (Payne 9), Utah 57 (Gobert 17). Assists-Minnesota 19 (Brown 6), Utah 21 (Burke 6). Total Fouls-Minnesota 23, Utah 20. Technicals-Utah defensive three second. A-19,911 (19,911).

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won a Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints, admitted he raped two women he drugged after meeting them at a West Hollywood bar in 2013 and 2014.

The no contest plea has the same effect as a conviction.

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Miss. St. taps Howland Mississippi State needed barely 48 hours to find its new basketball coach, settling on a veteran who has taken three different schools to the NCAA Tournament and advanced to three Final Fours.

The school announced Monday night it had hired former UCLA coach Ben Howland. He’ll be introduced today during a news conference on campus in Starkville, Mississippi.

The 57-year-old Howland is best known for his 10 seasons at UCLA, where he led the program to three straight Final Fours from 2006 to 2008.

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LATEST LINE NBA Favorite.............. Points (O/U)........... Underdog x-DETROIT......................OFF (OFF)........................ Toronto OKLAHOMA CITY......... 101⁄2 (209)....................LA Lakers Miami..................................1 (193)....................MILWAUKEE San Antonio.................. 21⁄2 (205)......................... DALLAS SACRAMENTO............... 81⁄2 (207)................Philadelphia y-Golden St...................OFF (OFF)................... PORTLAND x-Detroit forward G. Monroe is questionable. y-Portland forward L. Aldridge is doubtful.

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Sweet 16-bound WSU not looking ahead Omaha, Neb. (ap) — Wichita State should know how to avoid distractions by now.

When the NCAA Tournament field was first set, all anybody wanted to talk about was the Shockers finally getting a shot at Kansas University. Nobody wanted to mention that they first had to take care of Indiana just to give the game a chance of happening.

It came to pass, of course. And behind a stellar effort on both ends of the floor, the No. 7 seed Shockers beat the Jayhawks 78-65 on Sunday night, advancing to the Sweet 16.

Now, all anybody will talk about is a potential rematch with overall No. 1 seed Kentucky, the same team that ruined

the Shockers’ perfect season in the NCAA Tournament a year ago.

Except Wichita State first has to beat No. 3 seed Notre Dame.

“We’re going to approach it the same way we did this time,” Shockers star Fred VanVleet told the Associated Press.

“We’ll let y’all do all the looking ahead, anticipating.”

Don’t worry. There will be no shortage of it.

The Shockers (304) have played enough win-or-go-home games that they should be immune to looking ahead, though. VanVleet and fellow backcourt mates Ron Baker and Tekele Cotton were part of the team that advanced to the Final Four two years ago, beating No. 1 seed Gonzaga

and second-seed Ohio State before falling to eventual national champion Louisville.

So even in the moments after an emotional victory over Kansas, a school that has refused to play the Shockers for years, VanVleet was already able to focus on the Fighting Irish.

“Listen, Notre Dame is a heck of a team,” he said of the ACC Tournament champs. “We don’t have time to overlook anybody. That’s what teams do with us. We know how it feels.”

The Shockers beat the Jayhawks with the same formula that has carried them to so many wins under coach Gregg Marshall: They fought for every rebound, they pestered the Kansas guards

in the half-court, and they executed flawlessly whenever they had the ball.

VanVleet had 17 points and six assists. Cotton poured in 19 points. Baker had 12 points without a turnover in 37 minutes.

Even unheralded guard Evan Wessel drained four 3-pointers and had 12 points to go with nine rebounds against the bigger, longer Jayhawks.

“We knew we could heat ‘em up after free throws and a couple of dead balls, like we do most teams,” Baker said.

“We just got our pressure into the game, kind of slowed them up.”

Kansas led by eight in the first half, but a 13-2 charge into the locker room had given the Shockers the lead. They

never relinquished it in the final 20 minutes, giving their fans bragging rights over a school that had not played them since 1993.

“It’s definitely one of the biggest wins I’ve been a part of. Definitely hits home, being a Wichita kid, growing up a Wichita State fan,” Wessel said. “My family went to Wichita State. It’s big for the community, and I’m just glad we got the win and we can move on.”

The Shockers headed home after their game Sunday, but they won’t have a whole lot of time to rest. Their matchup against Notre Dame in the Midwest Regional is Thursday night.

“Our coaches are already scouting them,” freshman forward Shaq

Morris said. “We didn’t see them all year. Now that this game is over, that’s what we’re focused on.”

Likewise, the Fighting Irish will surely be focusing on Wichita State.

Even with the blue bloods from the Bluegrass State potentially looming, Notre Dame first must beat a program that has won at least 30 games three straight years, that started 35-0 last season and is headed to another Sweet 16 with many of the same players.

“It kind of sinks it,” Marshall said. “You’re one of the top 16 teams in the country at this point, with only an upside.

That’s the basement.”

The next couple of weeks will determine the ceiling.

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Top prospects available: KU, which currently has one scholarship to give in recruiting (more if Kelly Oubre Jr., Cliff Alexander, Perry Ellis and/ or Wayne Selden Jr. turn pro and if anybody transfers), in January received a commitment from Carlton Bragg, a 6-foot-9, 225-pound forward from Cleveland’s Villa-Angela St. Joseph High.

The Jayhawks are after a batch of blue-chip prospects, meaning it figures to be an interesting upcoming month in recruiting.

Prospects who are considering KU include No. 2-ranked (by Rivals. com) Jaylen Brown, 6-7, Wheeler High, Marietta, Georgia; No. 3 Malik Newman, 6-3, Callaway High, Jackson, Mississippi; No.. 5 Thon Maker, 7-foot, Orangeville Prep, Mono, Ontario; No. 7 Cheick Diallo, 6-7, Our Savior New American, Centereach, New York; No. 8 Ivan Rabb, 6-9, Bishop O’Dowd, Oakland, California; No. 11 Stephen Zimmerman, 7-foot, Bishop Gorman High, Las Vegas; No. 19 Brandon Ingram, 6-8, Kinston (North Carolina) High. l

Draft beckons: Oubre is listed as the No. 12 pick in the upcoming NBA Draft by draftexpress. com, No. 11 by ESPN’s Chad Ford and No. 9 by nbadraft.net. Alexander is listed as the No. 24 overall pick by ESPN’s Ford, the last pick of Round One by draftexpress.com and fifth pick in the second round by nbadraft. net. Ellis is listed as the ninth pick of the second round by nbadraft.net and is not listed by draftexpress.com. Ellis and Selden were not listed in Ford’s list of the top 100 prospects.

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factors the Jayhawks know they can control.

“There’s gonna be a high premium on focusing on ourselves,” Beaty said. “The way we’re gonna get better faster is by being the most disciplined team in the country and being a smart football team.”

The final thing ties into that and is something Beaty said both the KU offense and defense would spend a significant portion of each spring practice emphasizing.

“You’re gonna see a ton of ball-security drills,”

Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

KANSAS UNIVERSITY COACH BILL SELF MEETS THE MEDIA after KU’s 78-65, season-ending loss to Wichita State on Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska.

More from Marshall: Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall, whose Shockers knocked KU out of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, was on the Mike Francesa radio show Monday.

“They (Jayhawks) don’t really have a need to play us (in regular season). They play a great schedule so they are going to be in the NCAA Tournament regardless.

We want to play them because obviously we want to play teams as good as we can in our nonconference to give us an opportunity to be an at-large if we need to be, which we

were this year,” Marshall said. “It also would be good for the state. The bottom line is, it takes two to tango in scheduling. I have no problems with them not wanting to schedule us. They say it’s not best for them, which is fine. We are in position to try to put ourselves in an at-large place by playing the best we can. So we want to see the game happen. The good news is, we’ve been able to make that happen three of the last four years, whether KU plays us or not.”

Marshall’s agent, Myles Solomon, told AL.com on Monday that he will begin researching Alabama, which CBS Sports says is prepared to make a “big run” at Marshall once WSU’s season is over.

“Now that I’ve read those reports, I’ll certainly just kind of look into the situation,” Solomon told AL.com. “Then we’ll see. A lot of times reports come out, and they have no (accuracy) behind them whatsoever.

So we’ll what happens.”

Solomon told al.com he “might discuss” the CBS Sports report concerning Alabama with Marshall in the near future.

“It would have to be something extraordinary because they do love Wichita so much,” Solomon said.

Beaty said. “And there’ll be a ton of time put into the hidden third of the game, which is special teams. We feel like if we do those things well, we give ourselves an advantage and a chance to get better faster.”

That last bit will be the mantra for the Jayhawks throughout the next five weeks.

“That’s what these practices are for,” Beaty said. “To get a little bit better every day, as a team, as units and as individuals. We’re looking for consistency and guys that love the game and want to put the time in to be better than good.

Those guys always separate themselves.”

Beaty said this kind of

sweeping approach to a team that has a ton of questions would allow the coaching staff to start from ground zero with everyone in the program and also, he hoped, inspire guys to fall in line with Beaty’s “bring your lunch pail to work and earn everything” mentality.

Of course, he would love to know who his starting quarterback will be, whether he has an offensive line that will hold up or what the revamped secondary might look like. But he’s OK with waiting for answers to those questions and others to sort themselves out organically.

“There will be separation this spring,” Beaty

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Landen Lucas on the future: “Coach (Bill) Self understands what it takes to make it deep in the tournament. Going forward, we have to make sure whatever he says to do, to do it. It starts from the top down as far as leadership goes. Next year we have to make sure to do what he tells us to do.

“It hurts going out early. The main focus is doing whatever it takes in the future. If it’s individual improvements, we have to make those improvements, make sure we do something about it instead of just talking about not going home this early.” l

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SAN FRANCISCO’S GREGOR BLANCO SLIDES TO SCORE against the Royals in the second inning of an 8-3 victory in a spring training game Monday in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Peavy, Giants down K.C. Scottsdale, Ariz. (ap) BOX SCORE — Jake Peavy pitched City San Francisco five innings, and the Kansas

ab r h bi ab r h bi San Francisco Giants Infante 2b 3 0 2 2 G.Blanco cf 4 1 1 1 Roberts 2b 1 0 0 0 M.Wllmsn rf 1 1 1 0 snapped a four-game los- A.Gordon lf 4 0 1 0 Panik 2b 4 0 2 1 lf 0 0 0 0 B.Hicks 2b 1 0 0 0 ing streak with an 8-3 ex- W.Merrifield L.Cain cf 3 0 0 0 Posey c 2 0 1 0 hibition victory against P.Orlando cf 1 0 0 0 B.Lara p 0 0 0 0 Hosmer 1b 3 0 1 0 Machi p the Kansas City Royals M.Threlkeld 1b 1 0 0 0 D.Carbnell lf 2 0 0 2 0 2 02 K.Morales dh 3 0 0 0 Belt 1b 4 0 1 1 on Monday.

Sierra ph-dh 1 0 0 0 B.Crwford ss 3 1 2 0 Brandon Crawford and Rios rf 3 1 1 0 Adrianza ss 1 0 0 0 rf 1 0 1 0 Maxwell rf 4 0 0 0 Joe Panik each had two J.Dyson S.Perez c 3 1 2 1 Strickland p 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 S.Casilla p 0 0 0 0 hits for the World Series Kratz c Moustakas 3b 2 0 1 0 Duvall 3b 4 1 1 1 champions. Adam Du- G.Noriega pr-3b 1 0 0 0 J.Perez lf 2 1 1 1 ss 2 1 1 0 G.Brown cf 1 0 0 0 vall, Juan Perez, Gregor C.Colon R.Jackson pr-ss 1 0 0 0 Peavy p 1 0 0 0 Blanco, Brandon Belt Susac c 2 1 2 0 Totals 34 3 10 3 Totals 36 8 14 7 and Panik each drove in Kansas City 010 020 000—3 San Francisco 040 000 13x—8 a run.

E-M.Threlkeld (1). DP-Kansas City 1, San “It’s good to see them Francisco 1. LOB-Kansas City 6, San Francisco 9.

(2), S.Perez (4), Moustakas (3), C.Colon break out a little bit,” 2B-Infante (2), G.Blanco (3), Panik (3), Posey (3), B.Crawford Giants manager Bruce (2). 3B-Duvall (1), Susac (1). HR-D.Carbonell (2).

(2). S-Peavy.

Bochy said. “There were SB-J.Dyson (1), B.Crawford IP H R ER BB SO a lot of good things to- Kansas City Volquez L,1-2 4 7 4 4 4 2 day.”

Coleman 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 Peavy, who felt ill be- Frasor Hochevar 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 4 3 1 0 1 fore the game, gave up Madson San Francisco three runs and seven Peavy W,1-3 5 7 3 3 1 3 B.Lara 1 1 0 0 0 2 hits.

Machi 1 1 0 0 1 0 Omar Infante had two Strickland 1 0 0 0 0 1 S.Casilla 1 1 0 0 0 1 hits and drove in two Umpires-Home, Jim Wolf; First, Paul Schrieber; runs for the Royals, and Second, Jim Reynolds; Third, Mike Everitt.

T-2:53. A-10,915 (12,000).

Salvador Perez had two hits and drove in a run.

Infante made his first “I want to be 100 perspring training start at cent,” he said. “I’m not second base. He has been quite there yet.” bothered by a tender Infante said he is havright elbow. ing some difficulty with

said. “And I can want it to be settled today. But what I want and what I can have are two different things. That’s why they pay us as coaches, to develop these guys, and we’re definitely looking forward to getting started with that.”

Pro Day on tap KU’s pro timing day — the local version of the NFL combine — will take place starting at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Several former Jayhawks will participate in drills covering everything from the bench press and 40-yard dash to agility drills on the field and interviews with scouts.

Roughly 12-15 former Jayhawks figure to par-

ticipate in Wednesday’s showcase, with cornerback JaCorey Shepherd, a combine invitee who sat out because of injury, likely to garner the most attention.

’Bama-bound According to reports out of Alabama, former KU offensive coordinator Eric Kiesau and former KU manager Charlie Weis Jr. have joined the Alabama coaching staff.

Kiesau, who initially coached KU’s wide receivers before being promoted during his lone season in Lawrence, and Weis Jr., son of former KU coach Charlie Weis, will serve as offensive analysts for the Crimson Tide program.

turning two and throwing to third base. He doesn’t feel any pain, but his arm strength is not where he needs it to be.

“I don’t have the power just yet,” he said. “I’m going to be playing every day to get ready for opening day.”

Kansas City’s Edinson Volquez lasted four innings, giving up four runs and seven hits. He walked four and struck out two.

Volquez was able to laugh off an otherwise lackluster performance.

“I can’t remember the last time I had a good spring training,” he said.

“It’s crazy. At the same time, I did a lot of good things. I only have one or two things I need to change and I’m ready to go.”

Volquez said he threw “a lot of bad pitches.”

“I’d get ahead of them and then hang a curveball,” he said. “I have to finish them off. That’s what I will be working on in my next bullpen: on my breaking ball.”

Cal clips Kansas in women’s golf J-W Staff Reports

San Diego — Kansas University’s Yupaporn Kawinpakorn and Gabriella DiMarco each won their matches, but the Jayhawks fell to Cal, 3-2, in the first round of the SDSU Farms Invitational on Monday.

Kawinpakorn beat Cal’s Marthe Wold, 5 and 3, and DiMarco edged Carly Childs, 2 and 1, but Jayhawks Minami Levonowich, Pornvipa Sakdee and Kallie Gonzales lost their matches.

KU will face New Mexico today.

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Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Lower Level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center of the Courthouse at Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, on April 2, 2015, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate: Lot 1, in EDGEWOOD PARK ADDITION NO. 6, an addition to the City of Lawrence, in Douglas County, Kansas, commonly known as 1512 East 21st Terrace, Lawrence, KS 66046 (the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Propertyâ&#x20AC;?) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case.

The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court. For more information, visit www.Southlaw.com Kenneth M. McGovern, Sheriff Douglas County, Kansas Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Kristen G. Stroehmann (KS # 10551) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913) 663-7600 (913) 663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (157546) File No. 157546 ________

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Court Number: 3 Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60

THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

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Lot 13, Block 7, of PRAIRIE PARK ADDITION NO. 2, a Case No. 2015 DM 41 subdivision in the City Division 4 of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, comNOTICE OF SUIT monly known as 2933 Fenwick Road, Lawrence, KS STATE OF KANSAS TO TIM66046 (the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Propertyâ&#x20AC;?)

OTHY CHAD BOYER, REand all those defendants SPONDENT: who have not otherwise been served are required Petitioner has filed a petito plead to the Petition on tion for paternity in the or before the 20th day of District Court of Douglas April, 2015, in the District County, Kansas, and you Court of Douglas are required to plead to County,Kansas. If you fail the petition on or before to plead, judgment and de- the 30th of April, 2015, in cree will be entered in due said Court. If you do not, judgment will be entered course upon the Petition. in due course upon the petition.

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You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in the Douglas County Court by Tanya Webb; you are hereby required to answer the petition on or before April 27, 2015, in the Court at Lawrence, Kansas.

If you fail to answer, judg- (First published in the ment and decree will be Lawrence Daily Journalentered in due course World, March 17, 2015) upon the petition.

IN THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL TANYA WEBB, PETITIONER DISTRICT COURT ________ DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS (First published in the PROBATE DIVISION Lawrence Daily JournalWorld, March 17, 2015) In the matter of No. 2015-PR-000033 IN THE DISTRICT COURT Kenneth Eugene Flanders, OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, Deceased KANSAS

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on March 9, 2015, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary under the Kansas Simplified Estates Act was filed in this Court by Brent Flanders, an heir, devisee and legatee, and Executor named in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last Will and Testament of Kenneth Eugene Flanders,â&#x20AC;? deceased. All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Brent Flanders Petitioner Brian Russell 730 New Hampshire 3M Lawrence, KS 66044 785-423-4234 Attorney for Petitioner ________ (First Published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld March 17, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS DIVISION SIX IN THE INTEREST OF: M.W. DOB:05/06/2009, a male Case No. 2015-JC-000001 NOTICE OF HEARING

1997 Ford 1FTDF1869VND02086 ________

(K.S.A. Chapter 38)

(First Published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld March 23, 2015)

TO: Ashley Turner, the parents and adult relatives of Ashley Turner; and all other persons who are or may be concerned

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COMES NOW the Petitioner, State of Kansas, by and through counsel, Emily C. Haack, Assistant District Attorney, and provides notice of a hearing as follows:

A petition pertaining to the (First published in the parental rights to the child name appears Lawrence Daily Journal- whose World March 24, 2015) The following vehicle will be sold by Lighthouse Tow & Recovery at public auc-

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, Prepared By: KANSAS CIVIL SouthLaw, P.C. DEPARTMENT Brian R. Hazel (KS # 21804) 6363 College Blvd., U.S. Bank National Suite 100 Association Overland Park, KS 66211 Plaintiff, (913) 663-7600 (913) 663-7899 (Fax) vs.

Attorneys for Plaintiff (75352) Rocky G. Radford a/k/a Rocky Gene Radford ; File No. 75352 Becky M. Radford a/k/a Invoice No. 75352-721432 Becky Radford , a/k/a ________ Rebecca Mary Radford, a/k/a Rebecca M. Radford; Mortgage Electronic Regis(First published in the tration Systems, Inc., as Lawrence Daily Journalnominee for Millennia World March 17, 2015) Mortgage Corp.; Unknown spouse, if any, of Rocky G. IN THE DISTRICT COURT Radford; Unknown spouse, OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, if any, of Becky M. RadKANSAS ford; John Doe DIVISION 2 (Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/Occupant), In the Matter of the Defendants.

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Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and resume to Valeo Behavioral Health Care, Human Resources, 5401 SW 7th Street, Topeka, KS 66606 or email to apply@valeotopeka.org.

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Customer Service Representatives Managers A New department is opening at DST/Boston Financial Services at 6th & Iowa Streets in Lawrence, KS! • Must be comfortable using a computer, and helping customers over the telephone. No selling • Must be available for any shift 7 am - 6 pm, Monday - Friday.

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Delivery Driver Dean Foods- Le Mars, a licensed manufacturer of Land O'Lakes milk is seeking highly motivated individuals to deliver products in the Lawrence, Kansas area. Candidate must live in Lawrence, Kansas or surrounding area.

We offer the following benefits:

- Hourly Rate $19.30 - 401K - Competitive Health & Benefit Package - Vision - Dental - Paid Vacations Five(5) day workweek: Start time varies, pending route assignment. Full time position; additional hours may be required to complete specific routs, but will NOT exceed DOT guidelines.

Applicant must have a valid Class A CDL, 2 years tractor trailer experience, good driving record.

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Boys All-Sunflower League Teams First team: DeVonte Brown, Olathe East; Michael Crow, Olathe East; Matthew Eagle, Free State; Alex Jimenez, Free State; Tristan Musick, Olathe North; Drake Rapue, Olathe North.

Second team: Jake Butler, Olathe East; Kaelan Harmon, Olathe South; Javier Lemmons, Lawrence High; Noah Modean, SM East; Billy O’Donnell, Leavenworth; Michael Wirth, SM West.

Honorable Mention: Luke Burkholder, SM South; Tory Clayton, Olathe South; Jeremy Crowder, Leavenworth; Michael Crow, Olathe East; Nathan DeMars, Olathe NW; Eric Glogau, Lawrence Free State; Evan Howell, SM East; Colton Kinsella, SM Northwest; Justin Maxwell, Olathe South; Hunter McCowen, Leavenworth; Quentin Miller, Olathe South; Garrett Neal, Olathe NW; Branden Russell, Olathe North; Adonis Stanwix, Lawrence High; Mike Thibodeau, SM East.

Bowler of the Year: Alex Jimenez, Free State.

Coach of the Year: Patti Kennedy, SM East.

Girls All-Sunflower League Teams First team: Allie Brachtenbach, Olathe East; Nicole Edwards, SM North; Ashlee Erickson, Lawrence High; Rachel Rapue, Olathe North; Gabby Russell, Olathe South; Mackenzie Saulnier, Olathe NW. Second team: Jessica Brewer, SM West; Alaina Burris, SM Northwest; Miranda Krom, Lawrence; Chye Reiste, Olathe North; Kristina Robinson, Olathe North; Morgan Sheehan, Olathe South.

Honorable Mention: Morgan Daniels, Lawrence High; Vakara Daugherty, SM West; Makaela Harmon, Olathe South; Bri Martin, Free State; Lainie Richards, Olathe North; Izzy Schmidtberger, Lawrence High; Jamie Souders, Free State; Darienne Watkins, Leavenworth; Brittany Weber, SM West.

Bowler of the Year: Allie Brachtenbach, Olathe East.

Coach of the Year: Bill Lowe, Olathe South.

NCAA Women

ALBANY REGIONAL Second Round Sunday, March 22 At Berkeley, Calif.

Texas 73, California 70 At Lexington, Ky. Dayton 99, Kentucky 94 Monday, March 23 At Storrs, Conn.

UConn 91, Rutgers 55 At Tampa, Fla. Louisville 60, South Florida 52 Regional Semifinals At Albany, N.Y. Saturday, March 28 UConn (34-1) vs. Texas (24-10), 11 a.m.

Dayton (27-6) vs. Louisville (27-6), 1:30 p.m.

Regional Championship Monday, March 30 Semifinal winners SPOKANE REGIONAL Second Round Sunday, March 22 At Corvallis, Ore. Gonzaga 76, Oregon State 64 At Durham, N.C. Duke 64, Mississippi State 56

Monday, March 23 At College Park, Md. Maryland 85, Princeton 70 At Knoxville, Tenn.

Tennessee 77, Pittsburgh 67 Regional Semifinals At Spokane, Was. Saturday, March 28 Maryland (32-2) vs. Duke (23-10), 3:30 p.m.

Gonzaga (26-7) vs. Tennessee (295), 6 p.m.

Regional Championship Monday, March 30 Semifinal winners OKLAHOMA CITY REGIONAL Second Round Sunday, March 22 At Notre Dame, Ind. Notre Dame 79, DePaul 67 At Iowa City Iowa 88, Miami 70 At Waco, Texas Baylor 73, Arkansas 44 Monday, March 23 At Stanford, Calif.

Stanford 86, Oklahoma 76 Regional Semifinals At Oklahoma City Friday, March 27 Iowa (26-7) vs. Baylor (32-3), 6:30 p.m.

Notre Dame (33-2) vs. Stanford (269), 9 p.m.

Regional Championship Sunday, March 29 Semifinal winners GREENSBORO REGIONAL Second Round Sunday, March 22 At Columbia, S.C. South Carolina 97, Syracuse 68 Monday, March 23 At Chapel Hill, N.C. North Carolina 86, Ohio State 84 At Tempe, Ariz.

Arizona State 57, UALR 54 At Tallahassee, Fla. Florida St. 65, Florida Gulf Coast 47 Regional Semifinals At Greensboro, N.C. Friday, March 27 South Carolina (32-2) vs. North Carolina (26-8), 6 p.m.

Arizona State (29-5) vs. Florida State (31-4), 8:30 p.m.

Regional Championship Sunday, March 29 Semifinal winners FINAL FOUR At Tampa, Fla. National Semifinals Sunday, April 5 Albany Champion vs. Spokane champion, TBA Oklahoma City champion vs.

Greensboro champion, TBA National Championship Tuesday, April 7 Semifinal winners

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Second Round Friday, March 20 Vanderbilt 92, South Dakota State 77 Saturday, March 21 Miami 73, Alabama 66 Sunday, March 22 Temple 90, George Washington 77 Richmond 76, Arizona State 70 Stanford 74, Rhode Island 66 Monday, March 23 Louisiana Tech 84, Texas A&M 72 Old Dominion 50, Illinois State 49 Murray State 83, Tulsa 62 Quarterfinals Today Miami (23-12) at Richmond (21-13), 6 p.m.

Vanderbilt (21-13) at Stanford (2113), 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25 Louisiana Tech (27-8) at Temple (2510), TBA March 24-25 Murray State (29-5) vs. Old Dominion (26-7), TBA Semifinals At Madison Square Garden New York Tuesday, March 31 Game One, 6 p.m.

Game Two, 8:30 p.m.

Championship Thursday, April 2 Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Arizona at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Montreal at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Calgary, 9 p.m.

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EAST REGIONAL At the Carrier Dome Syracuse, NY Regional Semifinals Friday, March 27 N.C. State (22-13) vs. Louisville (268), 6:37 p.m.

Michigan State (25-11) vs. Oklahoma (24-10), 9:07 p.m.

Regional Championship Sunday, March 29 Semifinal winners SOUTH REGIONAL At NRG Stadium Houston Regional Semifinals Friday, March 27 UCLA (22-13) vs. Gonzaga (34-2), 6:15 p.m.

Duke (31-4) vs. Utah (26-8), 8:45 p.m.

Regional Championship Sunday, March 29 Semifinal winners MIDWEST REGIONAL Round of 64 At Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 26 Wichita State (30-4) vs. Notre Dame (31-5), 6:15 p.m.

Kentucky (36-0) vs. West Virginia (29-6), 8:45 p.m.

Regional Championship Saturday, March 28 Semifinal winners WEST REGIONAL At The Staples Center Los Angeles Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 26 Wisconsin (33-3) vs. North Carolina (26-11), 6:47 p.m.

Arizona (33-3) vs. Xavier (23-13), 9:17 p.m.

Regional Championship Saturday, March 28 Semifinal winners FINAL FOUR At Lucas Oil Stadium Indianapolis National Semifinals Saturday, April 4 Midwest champion vs. West champion East champion vs. South champion National Championship Monday, April 6 Semifinal winners

NHL

Monday’s Games Los Angeles 3, New Jersey 1 Chicago 3, Carolina 1 Minnesota 2, Toronto 1 Ottawa 5, San Jose 2 Dallas 4, Buffalo 3 Calgary 3, Colorado 2 Winnipeg 4, Edmonton 1 Today’s Games Minnesota at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

W L Pct Kansas City 13 8 .619 Los Angeles 11 7 .611 Toronto 12 8 .600 Oakland 13 9 .591 New York 12 9 .571 Boston 10 8 .556 Houston 8 8 .500 Seattle 9 9 .500 Tampa Bay 9 9 .500 Cleveland 9 11 .450 Minnesota 8 10 .444 Chicago 7 10 .412 Texas 7 10 .412 Baltimore 8 13 .381 Detroit 7 14 .333 NATIONAL LEAGUE

W L Pct Los Angeles 11 6 .647 Arizona 12 9 .571 New York 12 9 .571 St. Louis 9 7 .563 Pittsburgh 10 8 .556 Colorado 11 9 .550 Miami 10 9 .526 Cincinnati 9 9 .500 Philadelphia 10 10 .500 San Diego 10 10 .500 Washington 9 9 .500 Chicago 9 11 .450 Atlanta 9 12 .429 Milwaukee 8 11 .421 San Francisco 6 16 .273 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Monday’s Games Washington 7, N.Y. Yankees 6 Philadelphia 3, Minnesota 0 St. Louis vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., ccd., unplayable conditions Atlanta 14, Houston 10 Pittsburgh 7, Tampa Bay 6 N.Y. Mets 12, Miami 3 L.A. Dodgers 7, Arizona 4 Cleveland 8, Oakland 3 San Francisco 8, Kansas City 3 San Diego 10, Chicago White Sox 4 L.A. Angels 5, Seattle 0 Colorado 5, Milwaukee 1 Cincinnati vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., (n) Today’s Games Philadelphia vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Boston vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Houston vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Oakland at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 6:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 8:40 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER — Suspended free agent minor league C Dusty Brown following a second positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reassigned RHP Steve Johnson to minor league camp. Optioned OF Henry Urrutia to Norfolk (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned OF Steven Moya to Toledo (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHP Dan Straily to Fresno (PCL). Assigned RHP Mark Appel and OF Andrew Applin to minor league camp.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned RHP Stephen Pryor to Rochester (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Spencer Patton and C Tomas Telis to Round Rock (PCL) and C Jorge Alfaro to Frisco (Texas). Assigned 1B Kyle Blanks, 3B Joey Gallo, OF Jared Hoying and RHP David Martinez to their minor league camp. Released LHP Joe Beimel.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Reassigned RHP Sugar Ray Marimon, LHP Donnie Veal and C Braeden Schlehuber to their minor league camp.

CINCINNATI REDS — Traded INF Neftali Soto to the Chicago White Sox for cash. Released LHP Jose Mijares.

Optioned C Tucker Barnhart, INF Eugenio Suarez and OF Donald Lutz to Louisville (IL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned LHP Chris Rusin, INF Ben Paulsen and RHP Chad Bettis to Albuquerque (PCL). Assigned RHPs Jair Jurrjens and Brett Marshall; LHPs Aaron Laffey, John Lannan and Kraig Sitton; C Audry Perez; INFs Omar Quintanilla and Trevor Story; and OF Roger Bernadina to minor league camp.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reassigned INF/OF Kyle Jensen and OF Matt Carson to minor league camp.

NEW YORK METS — Optioned LHP Steven Matz to Binghamton (EL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHPs Leonel Campos and Casey Kelly and LHP Robbie Erlin to El Paso (PCL).

Assigned RHPs Matt Wisler and Jay Jackson and INF Diego Goris to minor league camp.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned C Cody Stanley and INF Aledmys Diaz to Memphis (PCL). Re-assigned C Travis Tartamella and OF Rafael Ortega to Memphis.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned RHP Taylor Jordan to Syracuse (IL). Reassigned RHP Evan Meek and INF Matt Skole to their minor league camp. Released RHP Heath Bell.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed WR Nathan Slaughter.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled F Jordan Szwarz from Portland (AHL).

Assigned F Justin Hodgman to Portland.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Reassigned F Sonny Milano from Plymouth (OHL) to Springfield (AHL).

Recalled C William Karlsson from Springfield. Signed F Matthew Zay, D Rick Pinkston and D Steve Weinstein to amateur tryout contracts.

COLLEGE ILLINOIS-CHICAGO — Named Steve McClain men’s basketball coach.

VANDERBILT — Named Kelly Keelan women’s assistant soccer coach.

Stanford women oust Oklahoma The Associated Press

Stanford 86, Oklahoma 76 Stanford, Calif. — Amber Orrange scored 24 points, and Lili Thompson added 19 as Stanford’s backcourt mates took the game over in the second half Monday to lead the fourth-seeded Cardinal to an victory over fifthseeded Oklahoma in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Bonnie Samuelson scored 19 points, and Briana Roberson provided a spark with 13 points and tough defense to help Stanford (26-9) protect its home court and advance to the Sweet 16 for the eighth consecutive season. The Cardinal will play top-seeded Notre Dame (33-2) in the third round on Friday in Oklahoma City.

Kaylon Williams scored 24 points and Gioya Carter added 20 for the Sooners (21-12), who struggled to generate any consistent offense one game after scoring a season-high 111 points in a first-round win over Quinnipiac.

Oklahoma knew this game would be more difficult, especially on Stanford’s home court, and that proved correct once Thompson and Orrange took over.

Thompson hit a 3-pointer just before the buzzer at the end of the first half to start a 15-2 run that put the Cardinal up 44-38. Thompson, held scoreless for the first 17 minutes, had nine points in that spurt with Orrange adding two baskets.

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son claiming legal custody of the minor child is required to appear for an adjudication and disposition hearing in Division 6 at the Douglas County Law Enforcement and Judicial Center, 111 E 11th Street., Lawrence, Kansas.

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above has been filed in this Court requesting the Court to find the child is a child in need of care as defined in the Kansas Code for the Care of Children. If a child is adjudged to be a child in need of care and the Court finds a parent to be unfit, the Court may permanently terminate that parent’s parental rights. The Court may also make other orders including, but not limited to, requiring a parent to pay Each parent has the right child support. to be represented by an atA parent that is On the Monday, April 6, torney.

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be unfit, the Court may permanently terminate that parent’s parental rights. The Court may also make other orders including, but not limited to, reCOMES NOW the Peti- quiring a parent to pay tioner, State of Kansas, by child support. and through counsel, Emily C. Haack, Assistant District On the Monday, April 20, Attorney, and provides no- 2015 at 9:30 a.m. the fa(First Published in the tice of a hearing as fol- ther and any other person Lawrence Daily Journalclaiming legal custody of lows: World March 17, 2015) the minor child is required A petition pertaining to to appear for an adjudicaIN THE DISTRICT COURT the parental rights to the tion and disposition hearOF DOUGLAS COUNTY, child whose name appears ing in Division 6 at the KANSAS DIVISION SIX above has been filed in Douglas County Law Enand Judicial this Court requesting the forcement IN THE INTEREST OF: Court to find the child is a Center, 111 E 11th Street., J.B. Each child in need of care as de- Lawrence, Kansas.

DOB: 01/05 /2011, a male fined in the Kansas Code grandparent is permitted for the Care of Children. If but not required to appear Case No. 2015-JC-000004 a child is adjudged to be a with or without counsel as child in need of care and an interested party in the NOTICE OF HEARING Prior to the the Court finds a parent to proceeding.

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