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Jury selection underway in murder retrial

By Caitlin Doornbos

Potential jurors questioned individually out of public view

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Jury selection began Monday morning in the retrial of Martin Miller, charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife more than 10 years ago.

A Douglas County jury

convicted Miller, 56, in 2005 of first-degree murder in the July 28, 2004, death of Mary E. Miller, 46, at the family’s central Lawrence home. The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled in February

2014 that Miller should get a new trial based on errors in the jury instructions during his initial trial.

Prosecutors Mark Simpson and Andrew Bauch say Miller, a former Lawrence

carpenter and Christian school leader, strangled his wife in her sleep because he had been having an affair with another woman and he wanted to collect $300,000 in life insurance money.

Miller’s attorney, Richard Ney, argues that Mary Miller died of natural causes.

About 100 potential jurors came to the district Please see RETRIAL, page 5A Miller

KU hires professors to lead immigration studies

Electrifying progress

By Sara Shepherd

Twitter: @saramarieshep

Kansas University is hiring two top sociologists as Foundation Distinguished Professors and to lead the creation of a new center focused on migration and immigration studies.

Victor Agadjanian and Cecilia Menjívar, both distinguished professors at Arizona Please see PROFESSORS, page 5A Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

WESTAR ENERGY WORKERS INSTALL NEW POWER LINES recently on Bob Billings Parkway near the South Lawrence Trafficway. The Billings/SLT interchange is expected to be completed by November, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation. Developers have said they expect the interchange to attract considerable residential and retail growth.

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sually in Lawrence, talk of a streak involves KU basketball or that unfortunate incident that has you doing community service. But there is another streak we ought to talk about: Lawrence’s winning streak when it comes to jobs.

The latest federal report is out, and the Lawrence metro area in 2014 posted job gains every single month. The new numbers show that job totals in Lawrence were up for

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January 2015, as well. In fact, I did a little digging to figure out when the last

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A Lawrence City Commission candidate forum on health and wellness issues Monday produced a variety of ideas, including a candidate who said he thinks the community could benefit from a lower drinking age.

Candidate Stan Rasmussen told a crowd

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country in August 2014.

(The number ultimately got revised downward, and that is why I have an only half-finished bust of the Chamber CEO in my living room.)

But the numbers have been impressive nonetheless. All these numbers, by the way, are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its monthly Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment report. When I

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month was that Lawrence saw a dip in jobs. The numbers show it was all the way back in Sept. 2013.

That’s 16 straight months of year-over-year job growth.

If you remember, we have reported a few times over the last year about some job numbers that have looked good for Lawrence.

There was a time when a report came out that said the Lawrence metro area had the highest job growth rate of any metro in the

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A Lawrence man faces felony charges after he was accused of killing a 10-week-old puppy and threatening a victim he shared the animal with, police said. ladys arie unt Michael L. Kewley is 83, of Oskaloosa, died 03/29/2015. Services are charged with 1:30PM 04/03/2015. Visitation is 6-8PM on Thurs. at felony animal the funeral home. Full obituary at barnettfamilyfh.com cruelty and making COURTS criminal amela nn u ossette threats and misdemeanor criminal restraint, accordArrangements for Pamela, 67, Lawrence will be ing to court documents.

Thursday night the announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Pamela victim arrived at the home died March 30, at Pioneer Ridge. rumsey-yost.com she shared with Kewley in the 400 block of Hutton Circle and found the dog, elen arie itnick possibly a Labrador mix, to be unresponsive, said Mass for Helen Pitnick, will be at 10 a.m. April 1st Lawrence police spokes~ Holy Family Catholic Church in Eudora. VISO one hour prior at 9 a.m. at church. warrenmcelwain.com For information about running obituaries, call 832-7151. Obituaries run as submitted by funeral homes or the families of the deceased.

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Destry Lee DaiLey Destry Lee Dailey, 43, Oskaloosa, died Sunday, March 29, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Emergency Room. Destry was born February 25, 1972 at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, the son of Danny Lee and Ann Catherine Moeller Dailey. He was a 1990 graduate of Oskaloosa High School and earned an A. A. degree in Farm and Ranch Management from Garden City Community College in 1994. Destry worked as a truck driver and forklift operator for BC&R Storage Company in Lawrence.

He enjoyed farming and ranching and had formerly worked for the Dailey Ag Services in Oskaloosa, Nortonville Farm Supply and for several trucking companies. He enjoyed truck and tractor pulling events and was a first class “tinkerer” mechanic around the farm and shop. He was a baptized member of Oskaloosa United Methodist Church, and he attended and was a member of the Metzger Church, Oskaloosa.

Destry was preceded in death by his dad, Danny Lee Dailey on December 16, 2005. He is survived by one son, Jared Peter Dailey, Adams, NY, his mother and step-dad, Ann “Cathy” and Gus

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Barnett, Oskaloosa, one brother, Brian “Scoob” Dailey, Oskaloosa, one step-brother, Jake (Beth) Barnett, Oskaloosa, two stepsisters, Samantha (Chad) Frickey, Lawrence, Katie (Skylar) Jones, Topeka, his maternal grandfather, Thomas Moeller, Oskaloosa, many aunts, uncles, nieces, cousins, extended family and a literal host of friends who loved him. He will be missed and never forgotten.

Services will be at 10:00 AM, Thursday at the Oskaloosa United Methodist Church. Burial will be at Pleasant View Cemetery, Oskaloosa.

Visitation will be 5:00 to 8:00 PM, Wednesday at Barnett Family Funeral Home, Oskaloosa.

Memorials are suggested to the Jared P. Dailey Education Fund in care of the Funeral Home, P.O. Box 602, Oskaloosa, KS. 66066. www. barnettfamilyfh.com Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries.

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But in 2014, it appears the answer was that a lot of people got a job.

It looks like Lawrence’s CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A job growth resurgence peaked in July. say Lawrence had job It also is worth nothgrowth in a month, I ing that in most of the mean that it had more months of 2014, Lawjobs in that month than rence posted the largest it did in the same month job growth rate of any a year ago. Here’s a look city in Kansas. (Note: at our year-over-year job The BLS counts Kangrowth rate by percentsas City as a Missouri age in 2014: metro area, so Lawrence l January: 1.4 percent was competing against l February: 2.7 percent Manhattan, Topeka and l March: 3.1 percent Wichita.) l April: 4.6 percent The latest report l May: 4.0 percent gives us our first peek l June: 5.4 percent at 2015. So far, so good. l July: 7.1 percent The report shows there l August: 4.6 percent were 51,300 jobs located l September: 2.2 perin Douglas County in cent January. That’s up from l October: 3.9 percent 49,800 in January 2014. l November: 1.3 perThat’s a 3 percent growth cent rate, which is better than l December: 1.5 perseveral other regional cent communities. Here’s a Usually in Lawrence, look at the preliminary the question of “What numbers: l Kansas City: up 3.2 did you do last summer?” percent will cause you to worry l Manhattan: up 1.7 greatly about your kids percent becoming college-age.

of about 100 at the Lawrence Public Library that a lower drinking age would make it easier for the university to promote responsible alcohol use.

“We need to work to teach our students more responsibility,” Rasmussen said.

He said the current system encourages too much sneaking around and binge drinking by underage students.

Rasmussen made his comments at a forum hosted by the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, LiveWell Lawrence and WellCommons, the health website operated by the Journal-World.

None of the other candidates mentioned lowering the drinking age as a possible strategy to combat alcohol-related problems, but they all did have various suggestions.

Candidate Matthew Herbert said he wanted to ensure that establishments that receive tax incentives could have those incentives revoked or reduced if they are the site of frequent alcohol violations. Candidate Leslie Soden agreed and said she thought the commission needed to work harder to de-emphasize downtown as an entertainment district. She said returning downtown to its roots as a place for

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The dog had vomited and was showing signs of head trauma and bowel issues.

When asked what happened, Kewley told the victim the dog may have eaten broken glass, McKinley said, and when she tried to leave with the dog, he threatened her and damaged property.

The dog was taken to a veterinary clinic in the Kansas City area where it died Friday morning from what the doctor listed as “severe head trauma,” McKinley said.

Police were called Friday morning when Kewley and the victim argued again, McKinley said. He was arrested that morning and made his first appearance in court Monday afternoon, when he was officially charged.

Kewley’s preliminary hearing has been schedsmall, independent retailers could help ease some alcohol pressures in the district.

Commissioner Bob Schumm and candidate Stuart Boley both said city officials need to have more individual conversations with bar operators before problems start to get out of hand. Schumm said he was part of a meeting where city officials threatened to ask the Alcohol Beverage Control division to revoke the license of The Cave — the bar inside The Oread hotel — if behavior doesn’t improve at the establishment. The Cave currently is receiving a tax break from City Hall.

City Commissioner Terry Riordan said he wants to continue to work with staff to find a middle ground on how to ensure that projects like The Oread and The Cave can continue to be built with the help of tax incentives but done so in a way that gives the city leverage to force the owners of the business to address problems as they arise.

The six candidates seeking three at-large seats on the City Commission largely agreed on other health and wellness topics presented at the forum. Here’s a look at some of their comments: l Both Herbert and Rasmussen advocated for an increase in the city’s guest tax that is charged to hotel customers. Rasmussen said the additional tax should be used to help fund an affordable

The other thing to keep in mind is that l Wichita: up 0.9 Lawrence really has been stagnant on the job percent l Ames, Iowa: up 4.9 growth front for quite percent awhile. In other words, l Columbia, Mo.: up we’ve got a lot of time 1.7 percent to make up for. I did an l Joplin, Mo.: up 2.0 article in November, percent where I looked at our l St. Joseph: up 0.3 job growth performance percent over the last 10 years.

Now, it is not all I found that Douglas Champagne and roses County’s job growth rate yet when it comes to was negative 1.1 percent.

Lawrence job numbers.

During that same time First, we don’t know period Johnson County much about these new had job growth of 10.6 jobs. Are they full time, percent, Riley County good-paying jobs, or 15.6 percent, Wyandotte have we just seen an County 10.8 percent, and increase in part-time jobs Sedgwick County 1.3 in the service sector? percent. The only metro At this point, it would area with negative job just be a guess. On the growth — other than job front, the two largest developments over the last year have been Hallmark Cards growing the workforce total at its Lawrence production plant, and General Dynamics adding significant numbers of people to its call center in East Hills Business Park. cent

uled for 2 p.m. Thursday.

He is currently being held in the Douglas County Jail in lieu of a $7,500 bond.

A booking photo of Kewley wasn’t available Monday.

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Railroad charged for acid spill Wichita (ap) — Prosecutors have filed a misdemeanor charge against Union Pacific Railroad over a 2012 spill of sulfuric acid after a derailment at the company’s Herington yard in central Kansas.

A criminal information filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas alleges the railroad spilled 114,297 pounds of sulfuric acid from a railcar in Herington into Lime Creek.

If convicted, the railroad is subject to a maximum fine of $200,000 per violation. housing trust program, while Herbert was more general and said it should be used to help on issues of jobs and poverty. l All six candidates said they supported expanding the city’s smoking ban to include e-cigarettes. l Candidates were mixed on how aggressive they would be in banning smoking in city parks.

All candidates expressed some willingness to consider banning smoking in outdoor seating areas at athletic events on cityowned property. Boley, Soden, Riordan and Schumm said they would want additional information about a general ban on smoking in city parks.

Rasmussen and Herbert, though, both said they could see some value in it.

“Let’s get rid of smoking in the park,” Rasmussen said. “I don’t want to ever see a cigarette butt in the parks again.” l All six candidates supported the idea of a 24-hour, seven-days-aweek crisis stabilization center for people with a mental illness. Every candidate said working with the county on funding issues would be important.

The City Commission election will be held April 7. The top three votewinners will receive seats on the five-member commission.

— City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at clawhorn@ljworld.com and 832-6362.

Douglas County — was Shawnee County. It had negative job growth of 1 percent, which was a bit better than’ Douglas County’s showing.

But as each month passes, those numbers become a little more dated. A new narrative may be forming, and we all may soon have a new story to tell about a streak.

— These are excerpts from Chad Lawhorn’s Town Talk column, which appears each weekday at LJWorld.com.

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Religious freedom bill stirs controversy in statehouse

By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

Topeka — Religious groups and civil rights advocates clashed Monday over a bill that would require public colleges and universities to recognize and support campus student organizations that restrict their membership to those who share their religious beliefs.

Supporters say it’s a response to what they see as a growing trend on campuses around the country — especially

campuses with “open door” policies that require groups to be open to all students — where exclusive religious groups have been denied funding, forced to meet off campus or charged high fees for using campus facilities.

“We are seeing more and more attempts to bring in policies, under this sort of red herring of discrimination, against religious organizations,” Wichita attorney Craig Shultz told the House Federal and State Affairs

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cluding student fees that all students are required to pay — to support groups that are not open to all students.

CLS requires its members to attest in writing to their belief in certain strict Christian tenets, and it bars membership to those who engage in sity of California, Hast- “unrepentant homosexuings College of the Law. al behavior.”

In that case, the court Please see BILL, page 4A ruled for the university because the state of California has a statute pro- l Key lawmakers are hibiting universities from defending a plan to using public funds — in- issue pension bonds. 4A

We are seeing more and more attempts to bring in policies, under this sort of red herring of discrimination, against religious organizations. In other words, the community is saying because you are a religious organization, we can discriminate against you.”

— Craig Shultz, Wichita attorney

Committee. “In other words, the community is saying because you are a religious organization, we can discriminate against you.”

Shultz is a past president of the Christian Le-

gal Society, a group that has been at the center of the controversy over religious student groups since 2010, when it lost a U.S. Supreme Court case over its efforts to be recognized by the Univer-

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State to plea for death sentence reinstatement 2 overturned sentences prompt Kansas to push for review

By Roxana Hegeman Associated Press

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY FRESHMEN, BRANDON SCOTT, of Fort Wayne, Ind., Paige Drummond, of Kansas City, Mo., and sophomore Tessa Newberry carry on a conversation while making sketches for their drawing media class from a vantage point overlooking Potter Lake on Monday.

Wichita — The nation’s highest court agreed Monday to hear Kansas’ appeal seeking to reinstate death sentences for two brothers convicted of robbing four people and forcing them to engage in sex acts COURTS before shooting them to death naked on a Wichita soccer field in 2000.

The U.S. Supreme Court also agreed to review a separate Kansas Supreme Court decision overturning the death sentence of a man convicted of killing a couple in Great Bend in 2004.

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City Commission to consider $100K Former U.S. Rep. in incentives for affordable housing project explains U.S., reported, Tenants to Homeowners has plans to build the Cedarwood Senior CotBoth incentives and af- tages project at 125 Cedarfordable housing have been wood Ave., which is behind buzzword topics on the City the United Way building in Commission election trail. South Lawrence. The $2.1 Tonight, affordable housing million project is expected and incentives will to have 14 affordbe wrapped up in a ably priced town single issue. homes for seniors, City commissionalong with some ers will consider other amenities. approving about But leaders of $100,000 worth of the project say it incentives for a needs some help CITY Tenants to Home- COMMISSION in meeting all the owners project costs related to citythat will provide affordable required infrastructure and housing to people 55 and permit fees. In total, the older. As we’ve previously project is asking for $101,975

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City commissioners will consider approving about $100,000 worth of incentives for a Tenants to Homeowners project that will provide affordable housing to people 55 and older. worth of city assistance.

About $61,000 would come in the form of city rebates of utility “impact fees” and meter installation fees. The rest includes some city assistance with sidewalk construction, storm water work, and fire hydrant installation.

City staff members are recommending approval of the incentive request. Money for the incentives would

come from the city’s Community Development Block Grant funds, utility funds, and the city’s storm water fund.

Commissioners meet at 5:45 p.m. tonight at City Hall.

— City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362 or at clawhorn@ljworld.com

Iran relationship

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Former U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kansas, spoke Monday afternoon at Kansas University’s Dole Institute of Politics about the United States’ relations with Iran, the countries’ histories and current nuclear negotiations.

Slattery served six terms as a United States congressman and has been meeting with Iranians outside of Iran for more than a decade in an Abrahamic dialogue meant to bring Iranian Shiite Muslims together with American Christians and Jews, Melanie Coen of the Dole Institute said in a release.

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Topeka — Kansas is considering $1 billion or more in pension bonds because it has a chance to improve the state retirement system’s financial health, not because officials want to back off short-term funding commitments, the Legislature’s pension committee chairmen said Monday.

Republican Sen. Jeff King, of Independence, and GOP Rep. Steve Johnson, of Assaria, sought to lessen concerns that issuing bonds would be risky and delay efforts to erase a long-term funding gap

Iran Morgan Klug, student, Lawrence “I used to coach young girls in cheerleading, and now I see them as teenagers on Facebook; it’s weird. As long as there’s an understanding on the proper way to use it and privacy settings, I think teenagers would be OK.”

Lila Alvarado, student, Lawrence “I would say probably junior high.”

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Around 100 people gathered in the Dole Institute to hear the former congressman speak.

Among them was Sallie Dickinson, of Lawrence, who came to the event to learn all she could.

“I have a number of very close friends from Iran, and I try to get as much info about America’s history with Iran as possible.”

In particular, Dickinson said she was eager to hear Slattery speak on the interfaith conversations

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Critics say passage of the bill would lead to public funding of discrimination on a much wider basis because some religious groups also restrict their membership on the basis of race, gender, sexual ori-

Court Zora Lotton-Barker, student, Lawrence “I guess whenever you’re ready, know the rules and you want to make sure you and your parents are ready for it.”

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The justices said they will review the Kansas high court’s rulings that threw out the sentences of Jonathan and Reginald Carr and Sidney Gleason.

The Kansas court hasn’t upheld a death sentence since a new capital punishment law was enacted in 1994. The state’s last executions, by hanging, took place in 1965.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider instructions given to jurors in the sentencing phase of capital trials about evidence favorable to

facing the pension system for teachers and government workers. King and Johnson are lead negotiators for their chambers on the final version of a bonding bill.

Negotiations began Monday, and legislative leaders hope lawmakers can pass a bill before beginning their annual spring break Saturday.

The measure is important to finishing a budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, because Republican Gov. Sam Brownback outlined proposals — including $1.5 billion in bonds — to decrease the state’s payments to the Kansas Public Employees

Retirement System.

“You always wonder if it’s going to work,” said Dennis Phillips, chairman of the Kansas Coalition of Public Retirees.

KPERS is on track to close a projected $9.8 billion gap between revenues and benefit costs from now until 2033, thanks to laws enacted in recent years. But those laws require increasing contributions to KPERS by the state, and Brownback has argued that the payments will strain the budget.

Supporters of issuing bonds face skepticism of the idea outside Kansas.

A report last year from the Center for Retirement

Research at BosBrownback’s proton College said posals would reduce issuing bonds the state’s contribudecreases finantion to KPERS by cial flexibility, $40 million during turning pension the next fiscal year, payments that when the state is trycan be modified ing to close a budget into firm bond shortfall. payments. The Brownback The House report also said passed a bill last pension bonds can ben- week to authorize $1.5 bilefit well-funded pension lion in bonds, and the Sensystems but under-fund- ate last month approved ed plans and financially $1 billion in bonds, but the stressed governments legislative plans would retypically issue them. duce pension costs during Alicia Munnell, the the next fiscal year only center’s director, said between $7 million and officials can seek to use $10 million, according to bonds to avoid “the hard KPERS. That is only about job” of adequately fund- a quarter of the reduction Brownback projects. ing pension systems.

between the two countries.

Slattery said he is “fascinated” by the world of Islam and Iran and looked to the country’s history and culture to begin that dialogue.

“The people in Iran are very serious about their faith, so why not talk to them about issues of their faith and the places Abrahamic faiths have in common?” he said.

Slattery also discussed historical events that helped to create Iran’s current perspective on the United States.

“One of the things all Americans should be mindful of is that Iranians have a legitimate list of grievances with our

country,” he said.

As examples, Slattery spoke of a joint effort in the 1950s between the United States and Great Britain, where the two countries “led the effort to overthrow the freely elected government of Iran.”

Slattery also talked about the Iran hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war and Iran Air Flight 655, which was shot down by the United States Navy in 1988.

All of these events and many more have come to shape the current relationship between the two countries, Slattery said — and must be considered during the ongo-

ing and “vital” nuclear negotiations “In the next five or six months I believe there is really nothing more important in the world than getting this relationship right with Iran,” he said to the crowd.

Virgil Dean, of Lawrence, said he has always been interested in history and politics and Slattery’s career.

Dean said he came to the Dole Institute on Monday afternoon in part because of the timeliness of negotiations between the United States and Iran.

Leaving the event, Dean said he was satisfied with what Slattery had to say.

“It was very informa-

tive,” he said. “I was really impressed with the depth of his knowledge.

The whole idea is really to better understand where Iranians are coming from and the complexity of the issues in the Middle East. I think we as Americans tend to oversimplify these things.”

One of those oversimplified issues, Slattery said, is the inevitable spread of Iranian influence in the Middle East.

“I’ve got news for you: By virtue of population, resources, talented people, geography, history and religion, the influence of Iran in the Middle East is going to continue to increase no matter what we do,” he said.

entation or disability.

“It’s going to make campus discrimination legal against all kinds of people,” said Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, a gay rights and civil rights advocacy group.

Jennifer Parson, a Kansas University graduate who is now president of the Douglas County chapter of the National Organization for Wom-

en, said many religious groups also discriminate on the basis of gender.

“Gender discrimination is very, very real in religion in this country,” Parson said.

Senate Bill 175 is one of dozens of “religious freedom” bills being debated in state capitols around the country, some of which are creating significant backlash. It passed the Senate earlier this

month by a vote of 30-8.

In Indiana, Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed a broader religious freedom bill that extends protection to any individual or business that discriminates on the basis of religious beliefs.

That law has sparked protests and threats of boycotts against the state just as the city of Indianapolis is preparing to

host the NCAA Final Four men’s basketball tournament.

Rep. Steve Brunk, RWichita, who chairs the committee, said the Kansas bill is much narrower than the Indiana law, and he denied that its intent is to legalize discrimination.

Brunk said he plans to have the committee debate and vote on the bill today or Wednesday this week.

the defendants, as well as whether sentencing the Carr brothers together violated their rights.

Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said the Carr case is “important to us, important to the victims, important to this community.

In terms of legal importance, well, I guess that is in the eye of the beholder.

The U.S. Supreme Court obviously thought it merited their attention.”

But Sarah Johnson, an attorney with the state capital appellate defender’s office who represents Gleason and Jonathan Carr, said they were “honestly a little surprised” that the court agreed to hear the cases.

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Expert in ancient DNA returning to KU as Foundation Distinguished Professor A Kansas University most experts in the use of graduate who went on to ancient DNA to reconbecome a leading scholar struct human settlement, of migration and settleaccording ment of the Americas is to KU. His coming back to KU as a documenFoundation Distinguished tation of Professor. the genetic Dennis O’Rourke, diversity professor of anthropology of ancient at the University of Utah, and modern will join KU’s department populations of anthropology in Januin the North ary 2016, KU announced O’Rourke American Monday. arctic has O’Rourke is considered provided a new view of one of the country’s fore- migration and coloniza-

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State University, will start in KU’s department of sociology this fall, KU announced.

Their hires are part of a larger effort by KU to grow the school’s prowess in the area of human migration, immigration and Agadjanian h u m a n trafficking.

K U ’ s Bold Aspirations strategic plan identifies the topic as an issue of our times but Menjívar also an existing strong suit for KU, said Marsha Haufler, associate dean for international and interdisciplinary studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Haufler said about 75 KU faculty members work in the area and that CLAS has been emphasizing it in hires for the past few years.

As Foundation Distinguished Professors and

leaders of the new center, Agadjanian and Menjívar are hoped to help “pockets of expertise” come together and increase KU’s visibility in the subject, Haufler said.

The professors will begin planning the center once they arrive, said Mary Lee Hummert, KU’s interim vice chancellor for research.

The center will initially operate within CLAS and be funded with money the state Legislature allotted for KU’s ongoing Foundation Distinguished Professor initiative, Hummert said. She said eventually it could grow into a self-supported university designated research center.

Hummert said the issue of migration and human trafficking also has been cited as an important one

by Kansas lawmakers.

“We have faculty strength here, but we haven’t had a research center particularly focused on this area,” Hummert said. “Each of them (Agadjanian and Menjívar) is fabulous in terms of groundbreaking research that they’ve been doing.”

Agadjanian, described

by KU as a “world-class demographer” whose work illuminates how migration affects health,

tion events.

“The addition of Professor O’Rourke to the faculty will make KU’s Department of Anthropology a leader in molecular anthropology, particularly in studies of ancient DNA,” Jane Gibson, professor and chairwoman of the department, said in a news release.

O’Rourke has been with the University of Utah since 1978, with the exception of two years he spent as program director is founding director of Arizona State’s Center for Population Dynamics.

His research centers on social change in sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. Themes include causes and consequences of migration, reproduction and reproductive control, HIV/AIDS prevention, gender relations and religious practices.

Agadjanian has written more than 70 publications appearing in more than 20 journals and has held leadership roles with various National Institutes of Health panels, according to KU. Menjívar’s research focuses on U.S.-bound migration from Central America and the effects of legal, social and economic exclusion on immigrants’ lives, according to KU. She also has been researching the militarization of the southern U.S. border and its consequences for immigrants who risk their lives to cross it, as well as political violence and state terror in Central America.

Menjívar has written six books — including award-winning “Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala” and “Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in Amer-

for physical anthropology at the National Science Foundation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from KU in 1973. He also has a master of arts, a master of philosophy and a doctorate from KU, all in anthropology.

O’Rourke is one of six Foundation Distinguished Professors to be hired so far, part of KU’s ongoing initiative to hire 12.

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ica” — more than 90 articles and book chapters and a number of additional reviews and commentaries.

KU Provost Jeff Vitter said the professors’ expertise will enhance multiple KU strategic initiatives.

“Professor Agadjanian will bring innovative perspectives to KU and provide fresh appreciation of the risks experienced by populations on the move,” Vitter said in a news release. Menjívar “will generate additional national and international recognition for the work KU conducts in the fields of migration, immigration and vulnerable populations.”

KU’s Bold Aspirations plan calls for hiring 12 Foundation Distinguished Professors.

Three have already begun work at KU: David Roediger, Bill Picking and Chris Beard.

The hires of Agadjanian, Menjívar and anthropologist Dennis O’Rourke were announced in recent days.

KU says it plans to announced two more Foundation Distinguished Professors this year.

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

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courthouse Monday to be questioned by attorneys. The Douglas County residents had previously filled out an extensive questionnaire about their personal and professional lives, in addition to their knowledge of Miller’s first trial and conviction.

Ney had previously tried and failed to have the case moved to another jurisdiction because he alleged the jury pool in Douglas County would be prejudiced against his client after COURTS a decade of publicity in the case.

Ney commissioned a study last year from Kansas University professor Thomas Beisecker of 192 potential jurors that Ney said showed a Douglas County jury would not be impartial.

When Beisecker asked survey takers about their knowledge of the crime, 63 percent said they had heard of the case. Of the 121 who said they had heard of the crime, 85 people, or about 70 percent, said they thought Miller was “definitely” or “probably” guilty. Less than 3 percent thought he was not guilty and about 26 percent said they were unsure.

Additionally, when asked if they knew why the case had been reversed, many survey respondents “expressed the opinion that his conviction had been overturned due to a legal technicality,” Ney said.

Ney said in court documents that the survey results proved that Douglas County would be an unfair location for Miller’s retrial.

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“These potential jurors will come to the table not with a belief that the defendant is ‘clothed with a presumption of innocence,’” Ney said.

“Rather, they come with an opinion that he is actually guilty and his retrial is simply a formality.”

Ultimately, District Judge Paula Martin denied Ney’s request to change venues, stating that juror prejudice is a factor in each case, but that’s why the court system has voir dire, the process of jury selection.

Ney did win the right to individual voir dire, wherein each potential juror is questioned one by one, out of public view. Ney said this was necessary to allow the attorneys to “fully probe individual jurors’ prejudices and knowledge of (Miller’s) past conviction without tainting the remainder of the jury pool.”

By 2 p.m., many jurors had been excused, some for their prior knowledge of the case. Other items asked in individual voir dire were “Have you ever felt your life was threatened?” and “Have you been convicted of any sex crimes?”

At 4 p.m., roughly 75 potential jurors were sent home after a day’s worth of waiting to be called for questioning. The selection process will resume this morning.

Miller has been out of jail since posting a $250,000 bond in April.

During a March court appearance, Miller’s attorney said Miller would arrange to live with his wife, Laura Cuthbertson, and her father at a home in Paola. Miller and Cuthbertson married while Miller was in prison in 2006.

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Ex-Brownback aide lobbies against tobacco tax hike Topeka (ap) — Gov. Sam Brownback’s former chief of staff is lobbying against a proposed tax increase on tobacco, one of the governor’s primary proposals to balance the state’s budget, according to Kansas secretary of state records.

The records show David Kensinger registered as a lobbyist for Reynolds American on Feb. 6. He confirmed to The Wichita Eagle that he was representing a client opposed

to the tax but wouldn’t comment further.

Kensinger was one of a group of people who was asked in January by Budget Director Shawn Sullivan for feedback on a proposed state budget.

He would not say if he began talks with Reynolds before the budget was made public, or whether his knowing that a tax increase on tobacco was going to be proposed helped him land the contract with Reynolds.

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Seems to me a real blatant conflict of interest. It’s like insider trading in the stock market.� — Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, DTopeka, said Kensinger seemed to receive information on the tax increase that he could use to obtain a client. “Seems to me a real blatant conflict of inter-

Before renovations start, take in ‘Last Look’ at Spencer Museum

By Joanna Hlavacek Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

With renovations slated for May, the Spencer Museum of Art is giving guests the chance to take a last look at its galleries with a series of events that will culminate in a closing party April 12.

Over the next two weeks, the museum will host several “Last Look� events, including a performance from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday by Kansas University’s Percussion Group, featuring a piece written by professor Kip Haaheim to complement Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing 519.� “Whether you visit us to study great works of

art, find tranquility, or Galleries are tentaseek inspiration, I invite tively set to reopen in you to experience the 2016. On April 12, the last Spencer one last time be- day before closing, the fore our transformation museum is partnering begins,�

Spencer with the KU Natudirector Saralyn ral History MuseReece Hardy said um to host a “Day in a news release. of Creativity,�

The first phase with performancof the project, budes, demonstrations geted at $5 mil- KANSAS and hands-on aclion, will entail a UNIVERSITY tivities from noon complete overhaul to 3 p.m., followed of the main lobby and by a closing party from 3 central court. Features to 5 p.m. will include an elevator While the galleries and staircase connecting remain closed during the museum’s two floors renovations, the muof gallery space and a seum will offer offsite floor-to-ceiling window programs and special feature, allowing natural events throughout the light inside the galler- community. ies and connecting the For a compete schedbuilding to KU’s Marvin ule of events, visit spenGrove. cerart.ku.edu.

est,� Hensley said. “It’s like insider trading in the stock market.�

The governor’s office has consistently dismissed concerns about a possible conflict of interest. “As we have said before, the Governor con-

sulted with a number of individuals — from private industry, education and government — throughout the course of budget discussions,� Eileen Hawley, the governor’s spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.

Hensley also suggested that Kensinger’s work with Reynolds calls into question whether the Brownback administration is serious about a proposal to increase state taxes on a pack of cigarettes by $1.50

to $2.29 a pack, and raising the wholesale tax on tobacco products from 10 percent to 25 percent.

The proposed tax increase on cigarettes would bring in an estimated $71.9 million for next fiscal year and the increase on wholesale tobacco is projected to bring in $8.9 million.

Brownback also has recommended increasing taxes on alcohol and slowing down scheduled income tax cuts.

BRIEFLY Black Hills Energy offers billing help Kansas’ cold weather rule, which prevents utility companies from shutting down heating services because of lack of payment, ends today, and Black Hills Energy is encouraging customers to explore billing options and payment plans.

Black Hills Energy can provide customers with payment plans and contact information for local energy assistance agencies, the natural gas utility company said in a release.

These resources can be particularly helpful as the cold weather rule ends for the year and heating bills begin to arrive. “We want to help our customers all we can,�

General Manager Todd Jacobs said in the release.

“There are more payment options and assistance available to customers who call before their bill is past due.�

Local organizations that can provide energy assistance include The Salvation Army and Warm Hearts of Douglas County, the release said.

Customers can contact Black Hills Energy about billing and assistance by phone at 890-5554 or online at blackhillsenergy. com.

Library’s Teen Zone reopens after crash The Lawrence Public Library’s Teen Zone is back open after the building was hit by a pickup early Saturday morning, said Brad Allen, the library’s director.

Just before 2 a.m. Saturday, the pickup hit the

library, 707 Vermont St., damaging two windows on the building’s east side, along with a tree and turf on the property, Allen said. “A very young white oak tree perished far too early in its life,� Allen said.

The Teen Zone was closed all day Saturday, Allen said, but due to quick work by Kennedy Glass, 730 New Jersey St., the windows were safely boarded up and the area reopened Sunday.

Damage is estimated to be around $10,000, Allen said, and it may take as long as a month to replace the windows and the tree and restore the turf. “It was quite a surprise, but it could have been a lot worse on a whole lot of fronts,� Allen said. “I never would have imagined the building would have been hit by a car.�

Broadway faves, new fare on tap at Theatre Lawrence next season Staff Reports

A mermaid, a deathtrap and classic Broadway hits will be coming to the Theatre Lawrence stage, as Monday the group announced its show lineup for the 2015-2016 season that will debut in September.

The season will open with “Hands on a Hardbody,� 2012’s hit about 10 ordinary people who must keep their hands on a Nissan truck under the scorching Texas sun for as long as possible in order to win the “hardbody� vehicle in a giveaway contest.

Around the holidays, Theatre Lawrence will

launch the area premiere of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,� the musical based on the Hans Christian Andersen story about a mermaid who longs to live on land.

January will bring “Girls’ Weekend,� a modern farce

by Karen Schaeffer that documents a getaway among female friends that

goes awry when “bottles tip up, secrets spill out and men sneak in,� teases a Theatre Lawrence press release.

Next up, “Deathtrap,� a 1978 Ira Levin thriller that follows a struggling Broadway writer and his wife as they scheme to collaborate with a talented young student on

a new play. “Deathtrap� offers as many laughs as it does thrills, promises Theatre Lawrence, and holds the record for the longest running comedythriller on Broadway.

Rounding out the schedule will be a pair of Broadway classics: “A Streetcar Named Desire,� Tennessee Williams’ 1947 Pulitzer

Prize-winning play; and the celebrated musical “Guys and Dolls,� which will close out the season.

Tickets will go on sale starting May 1, and can be purchased at the Theatre Lawrence box office or by calling 843-7469. Exact dates for the 2015-2016 slate of shows have not yet been announced.

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Happy trails The Kansas River has always been a focal point for Lawrence, and a new trail will provide better opportunities to enjoy the riverfront.

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new, improved trail along the Kansas River just west of downtown will be a nice addition for Lawrence residents, as well as visitors to the city.

Work is scheduled to begin soon on the trail, which will run along the south bank of the river and connect Constant Park and Burcham Park. The trail, which will be about two-thirds of a mile long, also will connect to a trail that serves the new Sandra Shaw Park, on the former VFW property near Second and Maine streets. Some informal trails exist in the area, but the new trail will be highly improved with a combination of concrete and crushed asphalt surfaces that are appropriate for use by both walkers and bicyclists.

Especially at this time of year, people get the itch to head outside. Some of us have enough yard work to meet that desire, but trails like the new river walk provide a more recreational venue.

It will be a nice place for residents of nearby neighborhoods to take a ride or a walk, as well as providing downtown visitors a nice place for an after-lunch or after-dinner stroll. The Kansas River is an important part of the downtown landscape, and many people would like to see more development that focuses on the riverfront.

As is true of all city trails, the city will need to make sure trash is picked up and this trail is well maintained so it is both safe and attractive for those who use it. Bicyclists also need to make sure they are courteous and mindful of pedestrians on the trail to avoid accidents and make sure everyone can use the trail safely.

A meeting last week that focused on providing safe byways for pedestrians and cyclists in Lawrence drew a large crowd at Liberty Hall, which is an indication of the community’s interest and support for those activities both for recreation and basic transportation. The new trail along the river should be a pleasant extension of the community’s pedestrian and cycling network.

Venezuela must clean up elections While U.S. and Latin American officials say that Venezuela’s political crisis should be solved through upcoming legislative elections, recent testimony before the U.S. Senate raised many questions: It said Venezuela’s voting registry includes the names of so many dead, many states have more registered voters than people.

In March 17 testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Russ Dallen, editor in chief of the Caracas-based Latin American Herald Tribune, said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government is overseeing a voting process that almost guarantees electoral fraud in the legislative elections tentatively scheduled for September.

Before we get into whether that’s true — some U.S. experts and Venezuelan opposition figures dispute it — let’s take a look at Dallen’s figures.

According to his testimony, Venezuela’s voting registry has been manipulated by the Venezuelan and Cuban regimes since late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez contracted Cuban companies to run Venezuela’s passport and identification agencies.

In 2003, when Venezuela’s opposition launched a campaign for a referendum to revoke Chavez’s term, Venezuela had 11.9 million registered voters. Chavez managed to delay the vote for a year and a half, which gave him time to add more than two million voters, and by 2004 Venezuela had 14 million registered voters,

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If Maduro wants to prove to the world that this year’s legislative elections will not be a sham, he should appoint a credible National Electoral Tribunal …”

Dallen said.

Angered by his defeat in a 2007 referendum to change the constitution and allow him to run indefinitely, Chavez once again ramped up registration of names, and added several million new registered voters. By the time of the 2013 elections, which the government-controlled National Electoral Commission awarded to Maduro by 1.5 percent of the vote, the registry had 18.9 million eligible voters.

“So, the voting registry increased by almost 60 percent in 10 years. Quite a population boom,” Dallen said in his prepared testimony.

He added that a 2013 study

by Venezuela’s Andres Bello Catholic University, UCAB, found that 14 out of 24 states had more registered vot-

ers than people. “One of the poorest states, the rural Delta Amacuro, for example, has 122 percent more registered voters than its estimated population,” Dallen said.

Asked about these figures, the Carter Center’s Americas Program director Jennifer McCoy, who has led several electoral observation missions to Venezuela, told me that the Carter Center and previous UCAB studies “do not find significant voter registry over-inflation, nor states with more registered voters than population.”

A Carter Center 2012 report on Venezuela’s election system said that “no voting registry is perfect. International norms accept a certain degree of inaccuracies, up to perhaps 3 percent” of the voting registry, as long as they do not help any particular political party.

It added that a 2012 UCAB study had found that while Venezuela has a high percentage of registered voters — 97 percent of the voting age population — “that’s in accordance with that of comparable Latin American countries.”

Venezuela’s opposition coalition, known by its acronym MUD, said before the 2013 elections that while the number of Venezuelans aged 18 and over had grown by 4.3 percent during the previous three years, the number of registered voters had risen by 7.3 percent. But MUD had found the overall voting registry “acceptable,” the Carter Center Report said.

After the 2013 elections, however, the opposition co-

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

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alition reported that almost 300,000 votes were cast under the names of people who were dead. That amounted to 1.5 percent of the voting registry.

The Carter Center report concluded that despite the absence of evidence of massive voting registry fraud, international observing missions from the Organization of American States, the European Union and the Carter Center “have long recommended a wide audit of the voting registry.”

My opinion: If Maduro wants to prove to the world that this year’s legislative elections will not be a sham, he should appoint a credible National Electoral Tribunal — one of the main demands of the student protests that left 43 dead last year — allow an audit of the voting registry, and give opposition candidates equal time on television.

That may be too much to ask to a president who has arrested Venezuela’s top opposition leaders, including democratically elected Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma and Leopoldo Lopez, on bogus charges that are hard to take seriously.

But if the Obama administration and Latin American countries are serious when they say that Venezuela’s crisis should be resolved at the ballot box, they should start demanding Maduro take these steps to clean up the election process — and they should do it now.

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April brings both hope and fear to thousands of anxious teenagers. It is the month when many high school seniors receive acceptances and rejections from the colleges of their choice.

But, in the last decade, April has gained another distinction: It has also become the month when the public is bombarded by media stories about the difficulty of gaining admission to our nation’s elite colleges. In what has become an annual ritual, we will once again hear that selective schools are receiving more applications than ever, creating stress, anxiety, uncertainty and unhappiness for our top high school academic performers.

This story is one of several recurring media narratives on education.

Here are a few of the others. l College costs continue to rise, making it unaffordable for many. l Higher proportions of rich people attend and graduate from college than poor people. l People with college degrees make more money than people without college degrees. l Too few high school graduates are academically prepared for college. l American students have lower test scores than in many other developed countries. l White and Asian students outperform black, Hispanic and Native American students.

The problem is not that these stories are inaccurate. They are accurate. The problem is that these stories shed no new light on either the extent of or the solutions to our educational crisis.

For those who Budig doubt that we have an educational crisis, the National Assessment of Educational Progress — the U.S. Department of Education’s national report card — tells us that less than 40 percent of our high school se- Heaps niors are academically prepared for collegelevel math and reading. For those who doubt that the public is aware of the crisis, according to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, education ranked third — behind terrorism and the economy — in terms of the public’s policy priorities for 2015.

Solutions to our social problems do not arise spontaneously. They need to be built and nurtured. And the press has a central role to play in this process. It is through their coverage that we learn about potential solutions. It is through their coverage that we pose questions and debate answers. It is

through their coverage that we develop consensus. It is though their coverage that we create a movement by mobilizing opinion and resources.

To be fair, not all the educational press focuses on stale stories. Important education topics do receive substantial attention including coverage of some of the most pressing issues of the day: restructuring college loans, higher education accountability, Common Core, testing, charter schools, vouchers, and teacher evaluations. But even these often suffer from one particular kind of coverage, one that focuses on the political perspective — which parties and candidates support which positions — rather than on the substance.

Just last month, several media outlets reported on a new study that showed that rich people are more likely than poor people to graduate from college.

We have heard this story before. Later this month we will again hear that admission to an elite college is becoming more difficult. And while no one questions the intentions behind much the coverage, we must ask how these stories further the national conversation on improving our schools and colleges. Repeating the old does little to help the new.

— Gene Budig is past president of three major state universities (Illinois State University, West Virginia University and Kansas University) and of Major League Baseball’s American League. Alan Heaps is a former vice president at the College Board in New York City.

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DATEBOOK Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania St. Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 9-10 a.m., Brandon Woods, 1501 Inverness Drive.

Books and Babies (birth-23 months), 9:3010 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Books and Babies (birth-23 months), 10:3011 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 10:3011:30 a.m., Drury Place, 1510 St. Andrews Drive.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County volunteer information, noon, United Way Building, 2518 Ridge Court.

KU at the Capitol Concert Series: KU Brass Ensemble, Steve Leisring, director, noon, Kansas State Capitol Rotunda, S.W. Eighth and S.W. Van Buren streets, Topeka.

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 1-2 p.m., Babcock Place, 1700 Massachusetts St. Kaw Valley Older Women’s League: Transportation Programs and the Effect of KDOT Funding, 2-3:30 p.m., United Way Building, 2518 Ridge Court.

Beatnik Cafe for ages 5-11, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Dole Study Group: All Politics is Personal – A Gay Conservative Looks at the Culture Wars, 4-5:30 p.m., Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive.

Teen Yoga, 4:15-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Douglas County Commission meeting, check website at douglas-county.com for meeting time, Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Presentation of “Champion of Child Abuse Prevention” award, 4-4:30 p.m., at Douglas County Commission meeting, 1100 Massachusetts St. Burger Basket night, 5:30 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1802 W. Sixth St. Easter Eggstreme, 6-7 p.m., Lawrence First Church of the Nazarene, 1470 N. 1000 Road.

The Beerbellies, 6:309:30 p.m., Johnny’s Tavern, 401 N. Second St. American Legion Bingo, doors open 4:30 p.m., first games 6:45 p.m., snack bar 5-8 p.m., American Legion Post #14, 3408 W. Sixth St. Public reception to meet final candidates for City of Lawrence Director of Arts and Culture, 7 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. On Book: A staged

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Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, 6 a.m., Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. (11th and Vermont streets.)

Skillbuilders: Care Care 101, 10-11:30 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. 2015 Ft. Leavenworth Series: Military Innovations in Peace and War, 3 p.m., Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive.

KU Libraries Lecture Series, 3:30 p.m., Third Floor West, Watson Library, 1425 Jayhawk Blvd.

Computer Class: PowerPoint and Alternatives, 4-5 p.m., Meeting Room B, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. KU Youth Chorus rehearsal, 4:30 p.m., Room 328, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

Dinner and Big Band music, 5:30 p.m., American Legion Post #14, 3408 W. Sixth St. Entrepreneur Evenings #3, 6-8 p.m., Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania St. Film Screening: Kevin Willmott’s “Destination Planet Negro,” 6:30-9 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Junkyard Jazz Band, 7 p.m., American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St. Library Storytime for ages 3 & up, 7-7:45 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Free English as a Second 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. Turkish Film: Uzun Hikaye (A Long Story), 7-9 p.m., Room 318, Bailey Hall, KU campus.

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Library Storytime for ages 3 & up, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Books and Babies (birth-23 months), 6-6:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. “In Advance of Fate: Portrait of an Abolitionist” with author Charles E. Heller, 3 p.m., Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive.

13th Annual Celebration of Books, 4-6 p.m., Hall Center, 900 Sunnyside Ave. Tech Drop-In, 5-6 p.m., Meeting Room B, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. KDOT Open House to discuss west leg of K-10 improvements, 5-7 p.m., Southwest Middle School, 2511 Inverness Drive.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County volunteer information, 5:15 p.m., United Way Building, 2518 Ridge Court.

Lawrence City Commission meeting, 5:45 p.m., City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Auditions for “Genius of Women” talent show, 6-8 p.m., Social Hall (basement), St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 15th and Engel streets.

Lonnie Ray’s open jam session, 6-10 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St., no cover.

Maker Meet-Up, 6:30 p.m., Lawrence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. Ninth St. (Ninth and New Jersey streets).

Dennis Detweiler: Fighting Fair: Transforming Conflict within Intimate Relationships, 7 p.m., ECM Building, 1204 Oread Ave. Free English as a Second 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. KU School of Music: Jazz Ensemble I with Steve Wilson, 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

Tuesday Concert Series: Kelly Werts CD Release Party, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Gamer Night, 8 p.m., Burger Stand at the Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St., free.

reading of “Collected Stories” by Donald Margulies, 7 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Appomattox 150 with historical interpretations of Generals Grant & Lee, 7 p.m., Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive.

On Book with Card Table Theatre, 7-8:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Conroy’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W. Sixth St. Free swing dancing lessons and dance, 8-11 p.m., Kansas Room in the Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

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As a self-imposed Tuesday deadline nears, the United States and five other world powers are negotiating with Iran on an agreement that limits Iran’s nuclear program to peaceful purposes and ensures it does not develop nuclear weapons.

USA TODAY’s Oren Dorell details the major sticking points that have divided negotiators:

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A Who’s Who of central Indiana corporate leaders called on Gov. Mike Pence and legislative leaders to reform the Religious Freedom Restoration Act so it can’t be used to “justify discrimination based upon sexual orientation or gender identity.”

The letter was released Monday after being hand-delivered to Pence, state House Speaker Brian Bosma and state Senate President David Long, all Republicans.

The nine CEO signatories head some of the state’s largest employers, including Eli Lilly, Anthem and Indiana University Health. They are part of a coalition of businesses that has lobbied against the RFRA legislation.”

The business leaders want Pence and the Legislature to immediately enact legislation to clarify that the RFRA can’t be used to discriminate because of sexual orientation or gender INDIANAPOLIS

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Jon Mills, spokesman for Cummins CEO Tom Linebarger, said changing the legislation probably will involve a new amendment or stripping part of an existing bill to insert language that would modify the RFRA. Pence has said he is open to “clarifying” the law. He wrote in today’s Wall Street Journal: “I want to make clear to Hoosiers and every American that despite what critics and many in the national media have asserted, the law is not a ‘license to discriminate,’ either in Indiana or elsewhere.”

Other executives signing the letter were Bill Oesterle, CEO of Angie’s List; Joseph Swedish, CEO of Anthem Inc.; Jeff Smulyan, CEO of Emmis Communications Corp.; Dan Evans, CEO of Indiana University Health; Jack Phillips, CEO of Roche Diagnostics; Scott McCorkle, CEO of Salesforce Marketing Cloud; John Lechleiter, CEO of Eli Lilly and Co.; Tim Hassinger, CEO of Dow AgroSciences.

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In Ukraine, despair is everywhere Oren Dorell @OrenDorell USA TODAY

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Everywhere I went during my recent visit to Ukraine, I ran into people heartbroken about what war with Russian-backed separatists has done to their country.

I encountered tears in Odessa, Mariupol, Donetsk, Amvrosiivka, Vasylkiivka and Kiev, government- and separatist-held towns where the brutality of the conflict and the likelihood it will last seemed to be setting in. Everywhere, the sadness was accompanied by financial fear. Yet the war has caused feelings on both sides to harden against what many here see as Russian – or Ukrainian – aggression.

Elena Bilan, 55, prayed at makeshift shrines to dozens of people killed by mysterious snipers in Kiev during last year’s Maidan uprising that led to the war. “We used to have a lot of tourists from Belarus and Russia. Last year we had a lot of people from Donetsk, but they weren’t tourists, they were displaced people,” she said. “What

will happen next year I don’t know. I have a son at the front, and I help him with everything I have.”

Prices on foreign goods have risen while wages stagnate.

Some jobs have disappeared, and everywhere young men are waiting to find out whether they’ll be mobilized for the country’s defense.

In separatist-held Amvrosiivka, near the Russian border, I spoke to a group of mothers waiting in the cold for handouts from an aid group. Those who had jobs weren’t getting paid.

Government assistance no longer arrives. And the war is killing their men. They were afraid rebel officials would retaliate against them if they spoke candidly on the record to a reporter.

OREN DORELL, USA TODAY Eventually, Natalia Larkina, 30, Elena Bilan, 55, prays at a makeshift shrine in Kiev to dozens Olga Lapteva, 35, Alona Peof people killed by mysterious snipers last year. leshok, 33, Marina Azmanova, 39, and Tatiana Belsmer, 38, agreed to talk as a group.

She admits that she supportple here can still enjoy.

Belsmer, a clerk at a new car ed separation from Ukraine a “We can’t buy a house and showroom before the war, has year ago. But she never expected can’t afford a child now,” Semetwo small children and a son war. “Many people were killed,” nets said. “Now, everyone is who could be drafted into the she said. “It’s almost impossible nervous. We’re waiting for the rebel military. She’d like to leave to forgive.” mobilization.” her town and go somewhere In Kiev, Oksana Semenets, 25, Semenets’ husband, who else, anywhere else. But she stood in line with a friend outplays the trumpet with the Nadoesn’t have the money. She side the Pinchuk Art Centre, a tional Philharmonic Society of started crying as she contemfree art gallery that is one of the Ukraine, may soon have to trade plated her fate. few entertainment venues peoin his tuxedo for fatigues. Seme-

nets, a pianist and teacher, opposed pro-European demonstrations when they began in the fall of 2013. Ukraine has a long cultural connection to Russia, especially in the musical sphere, and Ukraine is a country with resources that can develop without attaching itself to Europe, she said. But the war and the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin changed her mind.

Mykola Polishchuk, 62, a retired store manager who has traveled across the region, said countering Russia and its cronies in eastern Ukraine means going up against a deep Russian nationalism that’s hard to reason with. “Their Russian identity is the glue that holds their Russian society together,” Polishchuk said. “It’s a kind of fascism that believes we don’t need good cars, bread or economy as long as we have that (identity) to hold us together.”

Ukraine needs Western capital as well as agricultural and technical know-how to improve its economy, he said. And, he added, “If Putin is to be stopped, we need modern American weapons.”

Dorell covers foreign affairs for USA TODAY

Overhaul on horizon for GI pay, retirement plans Tom Vanden Brook @tvandenbrook USA TODAY

FORT DRUM , N.Y.

The White House and Pentagon on Monday backed proposals that would overhaul pay and benefits for troops and military retirees — including a 401(k)-style retirement plan for all troops.

The 15 recommendations released earlier this year by the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission would save an estimated

$12 billion annually. The White House plans to report to Congress by April 30 on the changes that can be implemented quickly.

Release of the White House letter on the changes coincides with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s two-day trip to Pennsylvania and New York to underline one of his priorities: recruiting and retaining the skilled troops the military needs to fight the wars of the 21st century.

Keeping seasoned troops in the ranks was the focus of Carter’s visit with soldiers here. Extending retirement benefits to all

troops is a key component of that effort. About 83% of troops, including most of the enlisted men and women who have done the majority of fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, do not qualify for retirement pay.

Changing military pay, retirement and health benefits is tricky.

Retirees, for instance, have resisted calls to increase co-payments for health care.

The pension system pays out 50% of a soldier’s pay after 20 years’ service but nothing prior to that. The commission’s proposal would match funds each member

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Ashton Carter speaks at Camp David, Md.

of the armed forces puts into a retirement account.

Another recommended change

would allow troops and retirees to choose commercial health care plans. Retirees would be required to pay an increasing share of their health care costs but less than the rates paid by government employees.

Personnel costs, such as pay, health care and retirement, consume an unsustainable share of the Pentagon budget. In the last decade, the cost per person in the active duty force grew 46%, excluding war funding and adjusting for inflation, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

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VEHICLE RAMS NSA GATE; 1 KILLED Police opened fire on an SUV that tried to crash a gate Monday near the National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade, Md. Two men dressed as women were in the vehicle, NSA officials said. One man was killed in the firefight, the other was wounded, the post’s garrison commander, Col. Brian Foley, said. An NSA police officer also was wounded.

tion to his official undercover identity as “Nob,” created several unauthorized online aliases, so he could conduct complex bitcoin transactions to steal from the government and Ulbricht.

In one transaction, Force, using his second alias, allegedly demanded Ulbricht pay him $250,000 in bitcoin so he would not disclose information to the government. Posing under the alias “French Maid,” Force allegedly offered to sell Ulbricht information about the government’s investigation in exchange for $100,000 worth of bitcoin.

Authorities arrested Force on Friday. Force, a 15-year veteran, resigned from the DEA in May. He is in jail and will be in court Thursday for a detention hearing.

IN BRIEF PROSECUTION CASE RESTS WITH BOMBING AUTOPSIES

Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the Boston Marathon bombing trial after a morning full of grisly testimony from physicians who conducted autopsies on the youngest victims.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, is charged in the April 15, 2013, attack that left three people dead and more than 260 injured. He faces 30 counts, including 17 that could carry the death penalty.

Jurors heard from Katherine Lindstrom, who examined the body of Lingzi Lu, 23, and Henry Nields, who examined Martin Richard, 8.

“The cause of death was blast injuries of torso and extremities,” Nields said. “Overall the injuries would have been painful.” Several jurors wept as they viewed autopsy photos.

— G. Jeffrey MacDonald AMERICAN AID WORKER WITH EBOLA IMPROVING

The health of an American aid worker suffering from Ebola was upgraded Monday to fair condition at the National Institutes of

Bridges, the computer forensics expert on the Baltimore investigation, allegedly stole more than $800,000 worth of bitcoin that he controlled during the Silk Road investigation and placed it into an account with Mt. Gox, a digital currency exchange in Japan. Silk Road reported a massive bitcoin theft Jan. 25, 2013, the day Bridges attended an interview with the Silk Road administrator caught in the sting. Bridges allegedly wired the funds to a personal investment account from March 6 to May 7, 2013.

Bridges intends to fight the charges, his attorney Steven H. Levin said. Bridges “maintains his innocence,” Levin said. Bridges, who joined the Secret Service in 2009, resigned March 18. He surrendered Monday and was released under pretrial supervision.

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PALESTINIANS COMMEMORATE DARK DAY

focusing renewed emphasis on Guinea, where dozens of new cases continue to arise each week.

— Gregg Zoroya WHISTLE-BLOWERS, VETS’ FAMILIES SPEAK AT HEARING

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Palestinians carry olive trees and a flag as they mark the anniversary of “Land Day” near the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit Monday. Land Day commemorates the 1976 killing of six Arabs.

Health in Bethesda, Md., according the hospital.

The worker, whose identity has not bee released, was evacuated from Sierra Leone this month.

The worker was initially listed in critical condition and later improved to serious condition.

Nearly 500 health care workers across West Africa have died of

the disease since the outbreak began in December of 2013.

In all, nearly 25,000 people across West Africa have been infected with Ebola and more than 10,000 have died. Infection rates have dropped dramatically since last year. They are near zero in Liberia and declining in Sierra Leone. International groups are

They came from Green Bay and Chicago, from Indiana and Iowa on Monday to talk about the ripples of pain and loss that have spread from the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center for years as allegations of mismanagement and over-prescription of opiates to veterans went unheeded.

At a congressional field hearing in Tomah, a rural central Wisconsin town, late veterans’ family members and former Tomah employee whistle-blowers who had been fired and silenced were able for the first time to publicly lay out their struggles, and do so in front of VA officials who have been overseeing the center.

Noelle Johnson, a pharmacist fired in 2009 after refusing to fill narcotics prescriptions she believed were unsafe, testified that the quantity of narcotics prescribed at the Tomah facility were “irrefutably unsafe.”

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NATION/WORLD Obama dedicates Kennedy center President says senator knew value of Congress that can work together

“Ted understood the only point of running for office is getting something done. Not to posture.”

Gregory Korte @gregorykorte USA TODAY

BOSTON President Obama called for a return to compromise and collegiality in politics Monday as he dedicated the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate and lauded the senator it’s named for.

“Ted understood the only point of running for office is getting something done. Not to posture.

Not to sit there worried about the next election or the polls,” Obama said. “Ted grieved the loss of camaraderie and collegiality, the faceto-face interaction. I think he regretted the arguments made to cameras instead of colleagues, directed at a narrow base instead of the body politic as a whole.”

Obama spoke at the opening of a $78 million center that will teach students and others about the Senate through interactive

President Obama

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President Obama hugs Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of the late senator Edward Kennedy, in Boston on Monday. exhibits and role play. He called for those in public life to “set an example for the kids who enter these doors and exit with higher expectations for this country.”

On a cold Boston day, as snowflakes swirled after a winter of record snowfall, the dedication was as much a paean to a bygone era of bipartisan legislating as a

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tribute to Kennedy. “Since this is a joyous occasion, this is not the time for me to propose a slew of new ideas for reform, although I do have some,” Obama said.

“Maybe I’ll just mention one: What if we all carried ourselves more like Ted Kennedy?”

Attending the dedication were members of the Kennedy family, current and former senators from both parties, and, Obama joked, “pretty much every elected official in Massachusetts.”

“There are Republicans here today for a reason,” Obama said.

“They know who Ted Kennedy was. It’s not because they shared Ted’s ideology or his positions, but they knew Ted was someone who bridged the partisan divide over and over and over again.”

One of those Republicans was former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who sits on the institute’s board. “Yes, a Republican from Mississippi is proud to be here today,” Lott said.

Dozens of private pilots use planes for suicide Thomas Frank USA TODAY

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Christoph Kumpa, left, said Andreas Lubitz had received psychotherapy several years before obtaining his pilot’s license.

Pilot had been treated for suicidal tendencies Prosecutor: Physicians determined Lubitz was unfit to fly John Bacon USA TODAY

The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that slammed into the French Alps last week was treated for suicidal tendencies years ago and more recently was deemed “unable to fly,” a German prosecutors’ office said Monday.

Christoph Kumpa, spokesman for Düesseldorf prosecutors, said Andreas Lubitz, 27, had received psychotherapy several years before obtaining his pilot’s license.

Officials for Germanwings and parent Lufthansa have not directly addressed the issue of whether they were aware of Lubitz’s therapy for suicidal tendencies, citing confidentiality of medical records.

Kumpa also said physicians had found Lubitz unfit to fly in recent months, though it was not clear why. He said Lubitz had displayed no suicidal tendencies nor aggressive behavior and had no apparent physical illness.

Lubitz apparently tore up the notes from physicians excusing him from work — including one for March 24, the day of the crash. Kumpa said the information was never forwarded to the airlines.

“At no point ever did we know he was sick,” Lufthansa spokesman Wolfgang Weber told USA TODAY. “The captain was also 100% fit. We would never let anyone fly if they weren’t. We can’t. If a pilot is sick in any way, they

“At no point ever did we know he was sick. ... If a pilot is sick in any way, they have no valid license.”

Wolfgang Weber, Lufthansa spokesman

have no valid license.”

No suicide note was found nor any documentation that would provide a motive for Lubitz to crash the Airbus A320 into the steep ravine last Tuesday, Kumpa said. French and German investigators say Lubitz deliberately crashed the Düsseldorf-bound Flight 9525 less than an hour after departing Barcelona, killing himself and the other 149 people on board.

The German publication Bild reported that Lubitz was being treated for vision problems that he feared could jeopardize his career. But Kumpa said there was no documentation of any vision problem. The German newspaper Die Welt reported that Lubitz was suffering from a “psychosomatic” illness and that investigators found prescription medication in his Düesseldorf apartment. Other German media reported that Lu-

bitz apparently suffered from depression.

Lubitz began training for his license seven years ago. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said that shortly after that Lubitz took several months or more off from training. Lubitz returned and passed all required tests before joining Germanwings in 2013.

German aviation officials have said Lubitz’s file required that he regularly obtain a medical exam for an undisclosed condition. It was not clear if the condition was mental or physical. Lubitz also had a license from the Federal Aviation Administration that included a medical certificate requiring that he be cleared of psychological problems and personality disorders.

Flight 9525’s recovered voice recorder indicates that when pilot Patrick Sonderheimer left Lubitz alone in the cockpit, Lubitz almost immediately began an unscheduled descent. Minutes later, Sonderheimer is heard frantically banging on the cockpit door — screaming “For God’s sake, open the door!” — in an ill-fated effort to gain entry and take back control of the plane.

Minutes later, the plane crashed. U.S. aviation regulations require that more than one person always be in the cockpit.

Since the crash, several airlines and nations have adopted similar requirements.

Contributing: Mihret Yohannes in Berlin

HARSH WEATHER HAMPERS SEARCH BERLIN A team of 50 forensic and recovery workers resumed searching for victims from the Germanwings plane crash in treacherous French Alps terrain Monday, as airline officials said a crucial data recorder might never be found.

At 6,000 feet above sea level, the search, in its sixth day, continued to be hampered by harsh weather and the inaccessible location of the crash site.

The second “black box” containing the flight data recorder is still missing.

It stores detailed information on altitude, speed and how the pilots handled the controls, factors key to determining the cause of the crash with greater certainty.

On the steep, high-alpine slopes of the crash site, which spans almost 5 acres, search teams battled snow and stormy weather, accompanied by climbers used to scaling the difficult terrain.

Another difficulty is that the plane disintegrated into small pieces because it apparently smashed into the mountain at cruising speed.

According to the French Interior Ministry, 86 DNA strands have been identified from the recovered human remains using dental records, fingerprint records and DNA samples from family members.

Currently, 400 to 600 body parts are being examined by identification experts.

“We haven’t found a single body intact,” said Patrick Touron, the deputy director of the police’s criminal research institute, according to French news agency AFP.

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At least 44 private pilots in the U.S. have committed suicide in the past 30 years by deliberately crashing their small airplanes, sometimes in dramatic fashion, federal crash reports show.

The most notable airplane suicide occurred five years ago in Austin when a local pilot apparently angry at the government flew his Piper Cherokee into an Internal Revenue Service office building, killing an IRS worker and igniting a massive fire.

The only other suicide-flight killing more than one person occurred in Indiana in 2007 when a man killed himself and his 8year-old daughter by flying a rented Cessna into the house of his ex-wife’s mother.

Pilot Eric Johnson had been in a child custody dispute with his ex-wife, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report.

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A pilot apparently angry at the government flew a plane into an IRS building in Austin in February 2010.

Except for the Austin crash, the suicide flights involved small, single-engine airplanes that amateur pilots flew into the ground, water or a building without hurting anyone on the ground.

The crashes typically lack the spectacle and intrigue of last Tuesday’s crash of a German airliner that killed 150 passengers and crew.

The German co-pilot apparently had a history of psychological issues, which are raising questions about his motives in flying the airplane into the French Alps.

The number of airplane suicides in the U.S. is far smaller than the hundreds of people who kill themselves each year by stepping in front of trains.

In 2014, approximately 340 people killed themselves by standing in path of passenger or cargo trains, according to a report last week by the Federal Railroad Administration.

The number of suicide deaths also is tiny compared with the roughly 350 people a year who are killed in private aircraft.

Private pilots must undergo the same annual medical exams as commercial pilots that involve psychological reviews intended to disqualify people with personality disorders, bipolar disorder or a history of substance abuse.

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

oin deaths in Jefferson County jumped 140% in 2014, with 123 confirmed and 18 suspected deaths reported, AL.com reported.

NORTH CAROLINA

Court orders GPS monitoring review

The East Greenwich Animal Protection League is at the East Greenwich Animal Hospital, which is closing this week for financial reasons.

Richard Wolf USA TODAY

ALASKA Fairbanks: The crop of

birch seeds is uncommonly strong this year, according to University of Alaska assistant professor of forest science Jan Dawe, newsminer.com reported.

The seeds provide an abundant food source for chickadees, grouse and redpolls.

ARIZONA Flagstaff: The city made website GasBuddy’s list of top 10 towns where drivers may be overpaying for gas, the Arizona Daily Sun reported. The list cited an average spread of 68 cents a gallon between gas stations in the city in 2014, which could be caused by the stations near large highways overcharging consumers.

State programs that use GPS systems to monitor sex offenders could eventually be jeopardized based on a preliminary Supreme Court ruling Monday.

The justices gave a North Carolina sex offender another chance to prove in state court that being forced to wear a GPS monitoring bracelet for life could be unconstitutional.

More than 40 states have passed laws in the last decade that call for some type of GPS monitoring of sex offenders, including eight states that monitor them for life.

The court allowed a challenge brought by Torrey Dale Grady, a convicted sex offender from North Carolina, who has two sex crimes on his record — a second-degree offense from 1996, when he was 17, and a 2005 conviction for taking “indecent liberties with a child.”

Grady was ordered by a state Superior Court judge to enter the GPS monitoring program in 2013. It requires him to wear an ankle bracelet around the clock so that all his movements are transmitted to state officials.

Because the bracelet must be charged daily, the order “requires him to

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A sex offender claims that being forced to wear a GPS monitoring bracelet for life is unconstitutional. be plugged into a wall outlet at least once a day for four to six hours at a time,” his Supreme Court petition said. The state monitors about 600 other sex offenders.

Grady’s challenge contends that the extreme nature of the monitoring constitutes an unconstitutional search under the Fourth Amendment. The high court agreed and sent the case back to the lower court for a full hearing along those lines.

“The state’s program is plainly designed to obtain information,” the

Supreme Court ruled in an unsigned opinion. “And since it does so by physically intruding on a subject’s body, it effects a Fourth Amendment search.

“That conclusion, however, does not decide the ultimate question of the program’s constitutionality. The Fourth Amendment prohibits only unreasonable searches. ... The North Carolina courts did not examine whether the state’s monitoring program is reasonable — when properly viewed as a search — and we will not do so in the first instance.”

ARKANSAS Danville: The

state’s Youth Services Division will begin sending young offenders back to the Yell County Juvenile Detention Center because it has addressed several problems discovered last fall, including that guards used restraints and pepper spray as punishment, ArkansasOnline reported.

CALIFORNIA Stanford: Stanford University is investigating allegations of academic cheating by students during the winter quarter, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

COLORADO Fort Collins:

Twenty months into implementation, Colorado’s controversial gun control laws are mostly unenforceable and have done little to nothing to attain bill sponsors’ goals, according to gun rights advocates and statewide data, the Fort Collins Coloradoan reported.

CONNECTICUT New Haven:

Gateway Community College and Southern Connecticut State University announced an agreement that will allow students who received an associate degree from the community college to bypass a number of courses at SCSU, The New Haven Register reported.

DELAWARE Wilmington: The

Police Foundation, which is analyzing city law enforcement, is scheduled to release its report on the Wilmington Police Department today, The News Journal reported.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The

city’s first elected attorney general, Karl Racine, asked Mayor Muriel Bowser to include in her budget, due out Thursday, authorization for his office to retain up to $20 million annually from settlements and awards that attorneys in his office recoup on behalf of taxpayers, The Washington Post reported.

FLORIDA Mims: Brevard County

tourism officials decided to abandon plans to build a $3 million futuristic-looking welcome center off Interstate 95, Florida Today reported.

GEORGIA Atlanta: Spelman

College named former New York University dean Mary Schmidt Campbell as its next president, the Journal-Constitution reported.

ILLINOIS Geneva:

To mark the Class A Minor League Kane County Cougars’ 25th season, Two Brothers-brewed Raging Cougar Ale will be on tap at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark on opening night, April 9, the Chicago Tribune reported. The team’s MLB affiliate, the Arizona Diamondbacks, will offer the beer at Chase Field in Phoenix.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Bill

Hudnut, a former minister who was the longest-serving mayor in Indianapolis history, has advanced congestive heart failure and throat cancer and has only months to live, the Indianapolis Star reported.

IOWA Des Moines: Hate mail

containing suspicious powder was delivered to the Blazing Saddle, a gay bar in Des Moines, last week, The Register reported.

KANSAS Lawrence: A $2.5 mil-

lion, 10-month renovation project is completed at Swarthout Recital Hall on the University of Kansas campus, The Lawrence Journal-World reported. The hall was scheduled to reopen with an eight-concert series starting Monday.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: In one of

the final actions of the 2015 General Assembly, lawmakers raided the balance in the public employee health insurance fund for $63.5 million, The Courier-Journal reported. The transfer will ensure the state has money to pay for a few special appropriations made this session.

LOUISIANA Thibodaux: The

opening of Nicholls State University’s John Folse Culinary Institute has been delayed until late April or early May, houmatoday reported.

MAINE Augusta: William Dow-

ling, who was mayor from 1999 to 2006, is suing developer Kevin Mattson and his business entities for back wages, unused vacation and sick pay, loan repayment and other costs, the Kennebec Journal reported.

HAWAII Honolulu: A 21-year-

old man died after falling about 50 feet during a hike on an Oahu trail, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

IDAHO Boise: After passing in

the Idaho Senate, a bill that would bump Idaho’s presidential primary from May to March will move to the House floor this week, the Twin Falls Times-News reported.

MARYLAND Ocean City: After

more than three decades of competition, organizers of the Ocean City Shark Tournament announced that the 2014 competi-

tion was its last one, the Daily Times reported. The tournament began in 1981.

MASSACHUSETTS Plymouth: A woman was arrested on accusations that she set a fire in the First Parish Church, WBZ reported.

MICHIGAN

Farmington Hills: Fourthgrader Rani Dhiman started an ambitious journey to spread the word about voting through the launch of a children’s group called Farmington Kids GoTV. The group highlights the importance of voting and the need to urge parents and guardians to vote, the Detroit Free Press reported.

MINNESOTA St. Cloud: A cityfunded financial review of a downtown condominium project supports St. Cloud selling the site for $1, the St. Cloud Times reported. Developer Makenda wants to build 46 loft units in a site that is a parking lot.

MISSISSIPPI Brandon: A county

firefighter is in critical condition after a fire truck accident on Highway 469.

MISSOURI St. Joseph: The

school district settled a wrongful termination lawsuit with its chief financial officer, The St. Joseph News-Press reported.

MONTANA Helena: The Mon-

tana Transportation Commission will reconsider its ban on digital billboards on public roads, the Independent Record reported.

Digital billboards are legal within the city limits of Helena, Billings and Great Falls.

NEBRASKA Arthur: A wildfire

blamed on lightning has blackened more than 42 square miles, KNOP-TV reported.

Civil War battle involving Latino and Native American Union soldiers, KOB-TV reported. The League of United Latin American Citizens and the Hispano Round Table of New Mexico announced a new effort to get the Battle of Glorieta Pass in classrooms.

NEW YORK Mount Pleasant:

Philanthropist David Rockefeller has donated $4 million to establish an endowment for the Rockefeller State Park Preserve, the Journal News reported.

NORTH CAROLINA Spencer:

The state announced that the Transportation Museum’s former powerhouse building is getting a $2.2 million renovation, the Salisbury Post reported. The 1896 building provided power to Southern Railways’ repair facility for steam-powered trains.

NORTH DAKOTA Williston:

Felony arrests in 2014 more than doubled from the previous year, the Williston Herald reported.

There were 1,328 felony arrests last year, up from 591 in 2013.

OHIO Cincinnati: A retired police lieutenant died after his motorcycle was struck while he was leading a funeral procession over the weekend, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Lt. George Brooks, 63, died from injuries sustained in the crash.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Kingfisher County is the healthiest county in the state, The Oklahoman reported. It snagged the top ranking thanks to its low rates of smoking, child poverty and single-parent families.

McCurtain County — in southeast Oklahoma, one of the poorest regions of the state — ranks No. 59 in the state for overall health. The report says the county has an unemployment rate of 9%, higher than the state’s average of 5.4%.

year-old boy suffered life-threatening injuries when he was thrown from the side of a moving vehicle, The Reno Gazette-Journal reported.

OREGON Bend: A cougar was shot and killed after it was spotted just above a popular hiking trail, KTVZ-TV reported. It was a large male, 15 yards from a paved road and hiking trail used by hundreds of people daily.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

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The state Senate passed a bill that will add restrictions to where Electronic Benefit Transfer cards can be used. Among the restrictions are tattoo and body piercing shops, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.

NEW JERSEY Camden: The deaths of Cooper Health System executive John Sheridan and his wife, Joyce, were a murder-suicide, the (Cherry Hill, N.J.) Courier-Post reported.

NEW MEXICO Glorieta Pass: Activists are pushing for state schools to teach students about a

ville: Plans to update the city’s Arsenal Park will focus on preserving its historical feel, including restoring original fountains and capstones, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

The renovations have been a source of controversy for some community groups who oppose knocking down parts of the park’s original stone walls to create entrances closer to neighborhoods.

RHODE ISLAND East Green-

wich: An animal shelter closing its doors seeks new homes for its animals, WLNE-TV reported.

SOUTH CAROLINA Wallace: The non-profit Carolina Waterfowl Rescue is asking for the public’s help to care for and rehome 117 roosters and one duck seized in a cockfighting ring bust, WLTX-TV reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Vermillion: A University of South Dakota professor is refusing calls to censor a controversial documentary, the Argus Leader reported. Professor Miglena Sternadori says the screening of Honor Diaries will take place despite calls by Muslim groups to stop the showing.

TENNESSEE Nashville: The sentencing hearing of two former Vanderbilt University football players convicted of raping an unconscious woman has again been pushed back, The Tennessean reported.

TEXAS Austin: A bill that would

allow Texans with concealed carry licenses to carry openly was passed by the Texas House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety. The bill will be scheduled for a vote by the entire state House, where it is likely to pass, Breitbart Texas reported.

UTAH Hurricane: The large genitalia of a bull sculpture on a restaurant sign has been removed after complaints, but the restaurant owner, Stephen Ward, says he did it because he decided the bull would look better without the genitals, The Spectrum reported.

VERMONT Burlington: A “ma-

jor marijuana trafficker” in Vermont, Roy McAllister II, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay a $25,000 fine in a federal prosecution, the Burlington Free Press reported.

Prosecutors said McAllister and another man were responsible for bringing bulk quantities of marijuana across the Canadian border into northern Vermont from 2009 to 2013.

VIRGINIA Richmond: The Virginia State Bar canceled its midyear legal seminar in Jerusalem, saying exit and entrance policies in Israel would discriminate against Arab, Muslim and Palestinian members, The Washington Post reported. House Speaker William Howell urged the group to reconsider, saying the state has a long-standing relationship with Israel.

WASHINGTON Renton: The

Washington State Patrol says a woman tried to help a man she saw walking on Interstate 405, only to get punched for her efforts, KOMO-TV reported. The man was walking in the northbound carpool lane near Exit 7.

WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling: Main Street will be reduced to one lane in front of the Capitol Theatre through April 17 as the historic downtown venue gets a new roof, The Intelligencer/ Wheeling News-Register reported. Shows will continue as scheduled during the $100,000 project.

WISCONSIN Green Bay: In-

flated pay rates mandated on government projects cost state taxpayers more than $200 million last year, according to a study released by the non-partisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, Green Bay Press-Gazette reported.

WYOMING Cheyenne: The

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center hired Kristen TrumanAllen to help improve patient satisfaction and physician involvement, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported.

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What is happening in Indiana is pretty unbelievable.

However it’s dressed up, it’s a signal that discrimination is welcome in this state.”

— PayPal cofounder Max Levchin tweeted Monday about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was recently signed into law. OppoBLOOMBERG nents say it could allow discrimination against gays and lesbians.

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What Americans saved from their aftertax income in February, the highest level since December 2012. But bad weather and the lower gas prices in recent months may have held back consumers’ spending, some economists said.

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SEC builds fraud case worth $200M Kevin McCoy USA TODAY

A onetime young tennis starturned-wealthy-investment adviser and her financial firms were charged with fraud Monday for allegedly misleading investors and improperly collecting nearly $200 million in fees.

Lynn Tilton, 55, and her New York-based Patriarch Partners companies hid the poor performance of loan assets in three collateralized loan obligation funds they manage, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in an administrative cease-and-desist proceeding.

Tilton and the companies defrauded clients by failing to value

assets using the methodology they outlined to investors in offering documents for the investments collectively known as the Zohar Funds, which have portfolios of loans to distressed firms, the SEC charged.

The funds have raised more than $2.5 billion from investors.

Those investors allegedly were led to believe Tilton and her firms made objective valuations of the loan assets.

However, nearly all the valuations were reported to investors as unchanged from the time the loan assets were acquired, even though many of the companies had made partial or no interest payments to the Zohar Funds for years, the SEC said.

“As a result ... management fees and other payments to Tilton and her entities would have been reduced by almost $200 million, and investors would have gained

more control over the funds’ activities,” the SEC filing alleged.

Andrew Ceresney, the SEC’s director of enforcement, said Tilton “violated her fiduciary duty to her clients when she exercised subjective discretion over valuation levels, creating a major conflict of interest that was never disclosed to them.”

The self-proclaimed “Turnaround Queen,” who, unlike many private equity executives, has made numerous media appearances, told CNBC Monday she wants “to live in a country where I can fight for

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VOLVO TO BUILD AUTO PLANT IN THE UNITED STATES

UNITEDHEALTH TO BUY DRUG MANAGER CATAMARAN UnitedHealth, the largest health insurer in the U.S., will spend nearly $13 billion to buy pharmacy benefits manager Catamaran. Catamaran manages more than 400 million prescriptions for 35 million customers.

Pharmacy benefits managers such as Catamaran help negotiate the prices customers pay for drugs. The deal is designed to help UnitedHealth seek better prices with pharmaceutical companies and drug stores.

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Volvo Cars will spend $500 million to build its first auto factory in the U.S., where it has sold cars since 1955.

The Swedish brand says it has a “short list” of potential locations, but is yet to announce a site for the new plant. It will join other foreign auto brands that have built plants in the U.S., mostly in the South. BMW has thrived in Spartanburg, S.C., exporting SUVs to the world, and Mercedes-Benz is in Vance, Ala.

truth without assuming that because it’s the government that I’m guilty without the battle.”

Tilton is a resident of Rumson, N.J., and Highland Beach, N.J., according to the SEC filing. She rose from a nationally ranked tennis player as a teen in Teaneck, N.J., to a successful financial career with stops at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.

Tilton has since promoted her business philosophy on Diva of Distressed, a reality TV program she starred in on the Sundance Channel.

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Trucks are stuck on I-65 south of Lebanon Junction, Ky., on March 5.

IBM, Weather Channel team for biz forecasts

Pair hope to take guesswork out of predictable costs Mike Snider @MikeSnider USA TODAY

IBM and the Weather Channel’s parent company are collaborating on a true cloud data service.

The computing powerhouse and WSI, the Weather Company’s global business division, have teamed up to integrate real-time weather information into business applications for improved performance and decreased loss of productivity due to weather.

With better weather data, insurance companies could alert policyholders via text message about impending hailstorms, for which vehicle damage claims total more than $2 billion annually, and direct them to safe areas.

Retailers could more smartly order supplies — salt, shovels or food, for instance — and adjust staffing during weather events.

Pinpointing regions that might be hit the hardest by a weather event can affect the bottom line. Areas hit with temperature drops of more than 10 degrees during the January 2014 polar vortex saw sales fall 15.5%, while those with declines of less than 10 degrees saw sales drop less than 3%.

Utility companies could more accurately predict power consumption to reduce service interruptions. The difference between a 90-degree day and a 95-degree day in Texas, for example, can result in a daily increase of $24 million in electricity spending.

Better access to more accurate weather information could affect all types of businesses, helping save billions and adding to the U.S. economy. “When you think about most business processes, businesses treat every day as the

EXAMPLES OF HOW WEATHER DATA COULD BE USED BY BUSINESSES

Stocks kicked off the week on a positive note as markets got a boost from several health care deals, encouraging economic data and comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.

Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 264 points, or 1.5%, to 17,976.31. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 1.2%.

The rally put both market benchmarks back into positive territory for the year — which makes it likely the stock market will extend a long winning streak of quarterly gains as the first quarter ends today.

The roots for Monday’s rally came from a speech Friday in which Yellen said the central bank will raise interest rates only gradually because of persistent slack in the labor market, the

By combining weather forecasts with analytics, your insurance company could text you a warning before hail hits your area. Insurance companies pay $2 billion in claims every year for vehicles damaged by hail.

Analyzing weather data and energy consumption can keep the lights on. Energy and utility companies say weather causes 70% of power outages.

Weather affects more than what we wear or what we do. Businesses lose $500 billion every year in the U.S. because of weather.

SOURCES IBM; INSURANCE INFORMATION INSTITUTE, APRIL 2012; CLIMATE CENTRAL 2014 REPORT USING DATA FROM 2003-2012; UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH, JUNE 2011

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same day, weather-wise,” said IBM Senior Vice President Bob Picciano. “Many businesses could competitive derive these advantages.”

Weather is perhaps the largest external factor in business performance, according to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Weather conditions cost U.S. businesses about half a trillion dollars annually, the American Meteorological Society estimates.

WSI has already been fine-tuning its weather data. Similar to how Google mapped the Earth, the company WSI maps the atmosphere and can deliver more than 26 billion forecasts daily.

WSI currently supplies airlines with improved weather models and forecasts, updated every 15 minutes, so that pilots get realtime data. That allows pilots to avoid turbulence, reducing that by 70% for the average commercial flight. “That’s not only more pleasant for passengers but reduces wear and tear (on aircraft),” said WSI CEO David Kenny.

Other industries learned about the improved data and looked to WSI to build systems for them to integrate it. “We don’t have that capacity,” Kenny said.

The integration of WSI’s weather data into IBM’s cloud services will let more businesses make use of improved forecasts for better planning, he said.

IBM Global Business Services consultants will be trained to interpret the data for clients. The new cloud weather information will be available to users of IBM’s Watson Analytics and Bluemix cloud app development platforms. And the data will only get better over time as sensors in smartphones, vehicles and other smart devices send data to the system. “This will take the weather excuses out of business,” Picciano said.

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Traders on the floor of the NYSE.

risks of another economic downturn and vestiges of the Great Recession.

The comments eased fears that the Fed would hike rates sooner than Wall Street has been anticipating.

Economic news Monday also offered encouragement.

In a good sign for the housing market’s spring buying season, the National Association of Realtors said its pending home sales index jumped 3.1% to 106.9 in February, the highest reading since June 2013.

And the government reported that consumer spending rose 0.1% in February.

Then a batch of mergers and acquisitions announcements Monday stoked the bullish tone: uUnitedHealth Group said it was buying the drug benefits manager Catamaran for $12.8 billion. uDrugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical agreed to buy Auspex Pharmaceuticals for about $3.2 billion deal. uHorizon Pharma announced it is buying Hyperion Therapeutics in a pharmaceutical merger worth about $1.1 billion.

As of Monday’s close, the S&P 500 was up 1.3% for 2015. The first quarter ends today, so barring a big selloff, the S&P will have registered its ninth consecutive up quarter.

The last time the S&P 500 has suffered a down quarter was the final quarter of 2012, or more than two years ago.

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Just when it looked like this year’s first quarter would mark the first quarterly loss for the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index since the end of 2012, the bulls started buying, fueling a rally that could help propel the large-company index to its ninth consecutive quarter of gains.

The S&P 500 rose 1.2% Monday to 2086.24, leaving it up 1.3% for the quarter heading into the last trading day today.

Fueling the gains Monday?

Bargain-hunting for beaten-down names and old-fashioned window-dressing, the practice of money managers buying stocks that were winners as a way to show investors their investment strategy is working. Also boosting

sentiment was the fact that stocks shot up around the globe before Wall Street opened, in places like China and Europe, setting the tone for a day of risk-taking to capture late-quarter gains.

Chinese officials suggested they will take more steps to stimulate their economy, building on bullish vibes from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s comments Friday that the Fed would raise rates deliberately once it starts hiking rates later this year.

Wall Street investors are also getting more comfortable with the pace of the U.S. economic recovery, despite the recent soft patch. “It is a general feeling that the U.S. economy continues to gradually improve, but we are in the sweet spot with growth slowly trending up and the data friendly enough to keep the Fed subdued,” says Bill Hornbarger, chief investment strategist at Moneta Group.

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Analog Devices (ADI) 64.81 +5.97 Barclays upgrades to overweight along with price target.

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Lorillard (LO) Reynolds deal still to get FTC approval.

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts (HOT) Slides as Chinese tourists slow down.

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H&R Block (HRB) Loses momentum in March, 2015 weakens more.

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Hyperion Therapeutics

Price: $45.98 Chg: $3.24 % chg: 7.6% Day’s high/low: $46.96/$45.82

The company’s WWE Network had a paid subscribership average of 918,00 in the first quarter, which was less than expected.

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Close 208.25 12.78 2.34 40.22 24.28 18.47 44.74 24.96 106.73 49.20

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Close 6 mo ago 3.80% 4.11% 3.04% 3.22% 2.66% 2.49% 3.14% 3.46%

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1,184.80 1,199.80 Hogs, lean (lb.) .61 .61 Natural Gas (Btu.) 2.64 2.59 Oil, heating (gal.)

1.73 1.73 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.)

48.68 48.87 Silver (troy oz.)

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Prev. .6724 1.2600 6.2182 .9175 119.10 15.1923

6 mo. ago .6172 1.1206 6.1385 .7917 109.70 13.4241

Yr. ago .6008 1.1055 6.2122 .7272 102.79 13.0820

FOREIGN MARKETS Close 12,086.01 24,855.12 19,411.40 6,891.43 43,922.83

Prev. Change 11,868.33 +217.68 24,486.20 +368.92 19,285.63 +125.77 6,855.02 +36.41 43,637.97 +284.86

%Chg. YTD % +1.8% +23.3% +1.5% +5.3% +0.7% +11.2% +0.5% +5.0% +0.7% +1.8%

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A major Swiss bank will pay $211 million in a deal to avoid prosecution on charges it secretly helped American clients evade U.S. taxes, the Department of Justice said Monday.

The agreement with BSI SA makes the private bank the first to come clean under a federal program that encourages overseas banks to disclose their role in suspected criminal offenses stemming from undeclared offshore accounts held by wealthy

mum value they held as of August 2008 and afterward.

BSI also agreed to ensure the closing within two years of all previously unreported accounts held by U.S. clients.

The deal marks the latest development in a multiyear federal crackdown on offshore tax evasion on income secretly held in offshore accounts by wealthy Americans. Federal law require taxpayers to disclose overseas accounts to the IRS. Despite that mandate, a 2008 Senate report estimated that offshore tax evasion costs the U.S. Treasury at least $100 billion annually.

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3 factors help determine future stock returns Q: Do market values matter?

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A: Sizing up companies based on their market value is a bit of a sport. But there are reasons why market value is important to serious investors, too.

Market value measures how much investors are paying for the stock of a company. Market value is calculated by multiplying a company’s stock price by its number of shares outstanding. Investors can use companies’ market values as a way to measure which companies are the most valuable. Currently, Apple holds the spot as the most valuable U.S. company, with a value north of $740 billion.

The fact that Google has a higher market value than ExxonMobil is interesting. It’s one way to see how falling oil prices have hammered the energy sector relative to technology. But market value takes on a more important role with investors.

Market value is one of three factors, along with the valuation of the company and the volatility of its shares, that determine future stock returns, according to the Fama-French three-factor model.

This model shows that companies with smaller market values tend to overperform those with larger market values, albeit with more risk. Understanding the market value of stocks helps investors make sure they’re properly diversified across stocks of different sizes.

Swiss bank reaches $211M agreement in U.S. tax case U.S. citizens.

Along with the financial penalty, BSI, one of Switzerland’s 10 largest banks, agreed to disclose “detailed information on an account-by-account basis for every account it has in which a U.S. taxpayer has a direct or indirect interest,” said acting Associate Attorney General Stuart Delery.

Additionally, the Lugano-headquartered bank disclosed how its cross-border business for U.S.-related accounts operated, provided the name and function of those involved in the operation and turned over the total number of accounts and aggregate maxi-

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“BSI is the first bank to sign a non-prosecution agreement under the Swiss Bank Program, but it will not be the last,” said Delery.

By entering the non-prosecution agreement, “BSI resolves its liability with the DOJ arising from its legacy U.S. private banking cross-border business,” the bank said in a statement issued Monday.

BSI said the bank’s net profit “was significantly impacted by the penalty payment,” and stood at 2.2 million Swiss francs, or nearly $2.3 million. The agreement facilitates the completion of BSI’s pending acquisition by Ban-

co BTG Pactual SA, an investment bank and asset manager whose website describes it as having a dominant franchise in Latin America.

The Department of Justice program applied only to Swiss banks that weren’t already under investigation by federal prosecutors and the IRS. It was designed to encourage cooperation about which the DOJ “had little or no information,” operated overseas and acknowledged a role in concealing accounts involved in U.S. tax evasion, said acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline Ciraolo.

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LIFELINE MAKING WAVES Following the success of “The Sound of Music” and “Peter Pan,” NBC has lined up its next live musical producUSA TODAY tion: “The Wiz,” the hit 1970s stage reinvention of “The Wizard of Oz.” Its partner on the TV version will be Cirque du Soleil’s new stage theatrical division, which will then present “The Wiz” on Broadway for the 2016-17 season. Both the TV production and the Broadway musical will be done with stage legend Harvey Fierstein, who will contribute new material. No cast members have been announced yet.

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Retiring host Jon Stewart is ‘thrilled’ about the pick Gary Levin

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Comedy Central is reaching abroad for its latest late-night leader.

Stand-up comedian Trevor Noah, 31, has been named The Daily Show’s third host, replacing Jon Stewart when he steps down later this year after a nearly 17-year run, completing a late-night overhaul that also saw Larry Wilmore succeed Stephen Colbert in January.

Like James Corden, a Brit who took the reins of CBS’ Late Late Show this month, Noah is a foreign-born performer — the Soweto-born son of a black South African mother and white father of Swiss-German descent — who’s largely unknown to American audiences. He has appeared on The Daily Show just three times since joining the news satire in December. Yet he’s hosted radio and TV shows in South Africa, has 2 million followers on Twitter and is on tour in Dubai this week.

Comedy executives say Noah was an early candidate even before Stewart announced last month that he’d step down later this year. (The exact timing of the handoff is undetermined.)

“He has such a great point of view and insightful perspective on the world and is just crazy funny,” says Comedy president Michele Ganeless. “He’s everything that a Daily Show host should be. This is a very specific job with a very specific set of talents, and Trevor checks off all those boxes.”

Still, it’s a tall order to replace the multiple Emmy-winning Stewart, who was 36 when he replaced Craig Kilborn in 1999, and turned the satirical show into one of late-night’s most influential. Other candidates fell by the wayside: John Oliver, Stewart’s fill-in last summer, was poached by HBO, which just extended his contract through 2017. Samantha Bee and Jason Jones, a married couple and longtime Daily correspondents, are leaving for new shows.

“We were never going to find another Jon Stewart,” Ganeless says, “but we wanted someone who can find his own take, someone who can present the news of the day to our audience with humor and understanding and intelligence, and Trevor has all that. Whether or not he became host of The Daily Show, he is going to break big here.”

Noah says he can get used to New York: “Although I happen to be a guy who’s not from the same place that Jon’s from, I’ve lived in America for years before I went back out on the road, and I’ve learned to love the place,” he told the Associated Press.

Stewart, in a statement, pronounced himself “thrilled” by his replacement. “He’s a tremendous comic and talent that we’ve loved working with. … In fact, I may rejoin as a correspondent just to be a part of it!”

Says Noah: “I feel really confident. All I needed in my life was Jon’s blessing.”

HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY MAISIE WILLIAMS BBC has announced that the “Game of Thrones” actress, who plays Arya Stark in the fantasy drama series, will guest-star on “Doctor Who” this fall. No details were provided about whom she’ll be playing.

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BAD DAY WILCO FANS The band has canceled its May 7 show at the Murat in Indianapolis, citing the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act. On a note posted to Facebook, the group writes that the controversial law “feels like thinly disguised legal discrimination to us.

Hope to get back to the Hoosier State someday soon, when this odious measure is repealed.”

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT Sporting greenish-blue hair and a wide smile, Hilary Duff participated in AOL’s BUILD Speaker Series to discuss her new TV show ‘Younger’ on Monday in New York.

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The last time Ludacris released an album, Lil Wayne was just starting his prison stint, B.o.B was weeks away from a No. 1 hit, and Eminem was gearing up for his summer of Recovery.

That was March 2010, when Luda had a charttopping album (Battle of the Sexes) and popradio smashes with Justin Bieber (Baby) and Taio Cruz (Break Your Heart).

After bowing out on a high note, the 37-year-old rapper returns with Ludaversal in a much more competitive field, where Kendrick Lamar and Drake are tearing down genre walls with their respective releases. While at times he can seem out of step with his more progressive rap heirs, Luda still has a lot to say on his star-studded ninth effort.

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Ludaversal Intro, Luda establishes that he’s still got it as he reminds fans that it’s unlikely there will “be another like (him).” It’s a point he harps upon throughout Ludaversal’s 18-song deluxe edition.

On Money (featuring Rick Ross), he doles career advice for his “young students;” and on Not Long with Usher, he verges on silliness with lyrics such as “I’m on fire/these other rappers are burnt up.”

While his cocky odes to his own greatness are part of his charm — try not to crack a smile as he sincerely raps he’s the “master of the Ludaverse” — his verses waver between welcome honesty and lyrical duds. On

Charge It to the Rap Game, he runs through all the ways the industry is like a “crap game,” from the “bogus contracts” to those on “Instagram frontin’ like life is grand.” And on Grass Is Greener, he laments how he’s in constant search “for another high.”

Such run-of-the-mill lyrics could be pulled from any number of rap songs, of course. Luda’s better served by the frankness of Ocean Skies, an ode to his father, who died just after his son’s Grammy win for rap album (Release Therapy) in 2007. Detailing his dad’s struggles with alcoholism and how he taught him to be a man, the song is heartfelt.

Overall, where Luda fares best — and where he stands the best chance of reclaiming Top 40 victory — is with his many collaborators, including Jason Aldean (Burning Bridges), John Legend (In My Life), Big K.R.I.T. (Come and See Me) and Miguel (album highlight Good Lovin). Pairing catchy hooks with expert production, Ludacris shows he can still surprise without sacrificing his familiar appeal.

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DESPITE DECADES OF RESEARCH, THERE ARE STILL MANY ASPECTS OF CANCER THAT SCIENTISTS CAN’T EXPLAIN OR TREAT. A new documentary, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” takes its audience through the history of cancer research to shed light on some of these mysteries. The second part of the Ken Burns-produced documentary airs tonight at 8 p.m. on PBS affiliates KCPT and KTWU.

New PBS film explores malady’s history, mysteries

provide comprehensive information, clinical services, genetic testing and support. Other options may include increased surveillance with Breast

Wes: The operative phrase in your letter is “we taught her.” It would be valuable to readers to know how you went about that, but I’d lay bets you expressed clearly the proper uses of technology before handing over the phone, Xbox, computer or other gadget.

To do otherwise is to abrogate your responsibility as a parent to guide your child in using the most powerful technological advances in human history — tiny supercomputers, the power of which we could not have imagined just 25 years ago.

That your daughter chose to comply with technology best practices suggests that she either has an unusually welldeveloped conscience, is uncommonly concerned about what you think of her, or fears what you might do if she committed a tech transgression.

She might even have an anxiety disorder.

It’s more common than you’d think among highly compliant teens, making them so fearful of consequence they can hardly make an independent move.

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ON THE AIR: ‘CANCER: THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES’

There’s a mystery to cancer, in large part because of fear, that PBS tries to unravel in this week’s six-hour documentary “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.”

“We’re not really honest with each other,” filmmaker Ken Burns said. “We know about heart disease. We know about diabetes. We know about other things, but there’s a kind of resistance because cancer is so scary.”

Burns, who was 11 when his mother died of breast cancer, is executive producer of the film, directed by Barak Goodman. It’s one of the few times Burns has been involved in a project that he didn’t instigate.

The film airs over three consecutive nights and is inspired

by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of

PBS affiliates KCPT and KTWU will air the second and third episodes of “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies” at 8 p.m. tonight and Wednesday. For more information and additional re-broadcast times, visit kcpt.org or ktwu.org.

originally aired on Monday, watch or set the DVR to one of these rebroadcasts.

• 3 a.m. Wednesday on KCPT -1 • 2 p.m. Sunday on KCPT-1 • 8 p.m. Sunday on KCPT-2

and the search for a cure.

Episode 3: “Finding the Achilles Heel” • 8 p.m. Wednesday This episode starts at a moment of optimism: Scientists believe they Episode 2: “The Blind Men and have cracked the mystery of the Episode 1: “Magic Bullet” the Elephant” malignant cell, and the first targeted This episode follows the centuries• 8 p.m. today therapies have been developed. But long search for a cancer cure and This episode picks up the story in very quickly cancer reveals new layfocuses on Dr. Sidney Farber. the wake of the declaration of a “war ers of complexity and a formidable To see the first episode, which on cancer” by Richard Nixon in 1971 array of defenses. the same title. The series started on Monday night and continues tonight and Wednesday at 8 p.m. on KCPT. The Monday night episode will re-air several times in the next few days.

Starting at its most elemental — how cancer got its name — the documentary tells the story of advances and setbacks in years

of research on how the disease develops and is treated, through developments since Mukherjee’s book was published in 2010.

Mukherjee sees it as a State of the Union address on cancer, a topic with a reach and complexity that can make the entirety of the federal government seem simple in comparison.

The film softens the science with individual stories of people fighting for their survival.

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Genetic testing can highlight breast health risks

By Roxy Johanning Lawrence Memorial Hospital

Angelina Jolie, who has the BRCA1 gene, which increases the risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer, recently announced she had her ovaries removed.

This followed her decision two years ago to have a preventive mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing cancer.

Her announcement has created a flurry of public discussion about genetic testing.

Women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene abnormalities have a very high risk of breast cancer — three to seven times greater than that of a woman without the mutation. The risk of ovarian cancer is also very high.

These risks can be lowered substantially by undergoing preventive mastectomy (often double mastectomy) or surgical removal of the ovaries.

These are drastic measures, of course, and it’s

Women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene abnormalities have a very high risk of breast cancer — three to seven times greater than that of a woman without the mutation.

important to realize that these mutations are rare, accounting for only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancer cases and 10 to 15 percent of ovarian cancer cases.

Only about 1 in 600 women have variants on the breast cancer genes that are known to increase cancer risk.

Women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent are more likely to have BRCA mutations, but overall less than 1 percent of the U.S. population of women has

them — highly significant if you’re in that 1 percent, but not so for the vast majority who do not have strong family histories of inherited cancer.

Though family history of breast or ovarian cancer in a primary relative (such as a mother or sister) may increase a person’s risk, even these families do not necessarily carry mutations on the BRCA genes. For those with strong family histories that have mutations of unknown significance (and there are many), decision-making about riskreduction strategies is even more complicated.

Risk-reducing surgery is an individual decision

for each woman. Each woman needs to consult with her doctor and consider all the options to determine a course based on her own personal health history and her reproductive decisions. It should be a process. Current guidelines suggest a woman who has a BRCA1 mutation should make a decision by age 40.

Knowing if you are at risk of developing breast cancer is an essential part of your breast health.

Discovering if risk factors are present is key to preventing or identifying the disease early.

For this reason, breast health screenings at the LMH Breast Center now include administration of a family health questionnaire based on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines.

If your answers on the questionnaire indicate you may be at a higher risk for developing cancer, the LMH Breast Risk Assessment Clinic can

Dear Dr. Wes and Kyra: I think a lot of your tweets and columns about technology lean toward trying to control teens’ behavior. We give our daughter free rein with technology because we taught her to be responsible. We think that’s better than creating a lot of strict rules that she’d only rebel against anyway.

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New York — Every year, slightly more boy babies than girl babies are born worldwide. But back when sperm meets egg, the two sexes are conceived in equal numbers, a new study suggests.

That contradicts the idea found in many textbooks and scientific articles that males are in the majority at conception, researchers said.

And it implies more females than males die before birth, resulting in the excess of male births, says Steven Orzack, a

study author.

“We don’t have good information on the cause of this difference,” he said.

The work, released Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also estimates the ratio of males to females at various points in pregnancy. It finds a seesawing pattern over that time in which sex is more prone to die in the womb, as various genetic influences take their toll.

“We’re gaining fundamental new insights in the biology of humans in

“We’re gaining fundamental new insights in the biology of humans in the first nine months of life.

[That biology] unfolds differently, starting soon after conception, between boys and girls.”

— Steven Orzack, one of the study’s authors

the first nine months of life,” Orzack said.

That biology “unfolds differently, starting soon after conception, between boys and girls,” he said.

Orzack is president

Cancer “The history of cancer has been littered with false dawns with ... moments of great optimism followed by characterize the disease immediately crashing disillusionment.”

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can be triggered by genetics, the environment or a virus. Treatments that once seemed promising proved disappointing. Some had limited success. Immunotherapy, the use of a person’s own immune system to fight cancer cells, is so new that it barely received a mention in Mukheerjee’s book but gets a thorough telling in the film.

The film follows the story of the very first child ever to receive a new treatment to attack cancer cells.

“The history of cancer has been littered with false dawns with, as our film discusses, moments of great optimism followed by immediately crashing disillusionment,” Goodman said.

“So we did have to be

BRIEFLY Employee wellness workshop planned The Jayhawk Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management and WorkWell Lawrence will host the “Creating a Thriving Workplace Culture” workshop featuring Dr. Rosie Ward, an industry professional.

The workshop will focus on employee wellness. It will take place April 14 at the Holiday Inn, 200 McDonald Drive. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m., and the workshop runs from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Registration will be $50 prior to Friday and $60 after. The fee includes the workshop, a continental breakfast and healthy snacks. Attendees can register at jayhawkshrm.org.

Ward currently works as the director of health coaching education for Fairview Physician Associates and is an owner of Salveo Partners.

— Barak Goodman, director of “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies”

very careful about those we chose to follow.”

Often, the doctors and scientists are pushed by patients themselves. The story of radical mastectomy for breast cancer is particularly illuminating, how it went from the universally accepted treatment with naysayers ridiculed until other, less invasive approaches were proven effective.

The film discusses the groundbreaking surgeon general’s report in the 1960s strongly linking cigarette smoking to cancer and the slow but steady reduction, at least in the United States, of

probably the best-known carcinogen.

“You could say, ‘Does that matter?’” Mukherjee said. “Trust me, in the next 10 years we will find yet another new carcinogen being somewhere that we don’t know about and a company that’s eager to obfuscate on its origins, and the lessons from what we learned about cigarettes will apply all over again.”

Sharon Rockefeller, president and CEO of PBS’ influential Washington affiliate WETA, read Mukherjee’s book while she was being treated for colon cancer, caught just

of the nonprofit Fresh Pond Research Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He reports the work with scientists from Harvard and Oxford universities and elsewhere.

In general, around 105 weeks before becoming incurable. With Laura Ziskin, the late cofounder of Stand Up to Cancer, they resolved to see the book turned into a film.

The documentary is one that its own makers hope becomes outdated quickly by the advance of new research. Perhaps it can have an impact on a trend that Mukherjee sees as particularly alarming: funding cuts to cancer research at a crucial moment for understanding the disease.

He’s concerned that the best scientists will be drawn to more lucrative work. Still, Mukherjee was positive when asked if he was more or less optimistic about the fight against cancer than when he was writing his book.

“I’m immensely optimistic not because politics has proved that way, but because patient advocacy and science have moved that way,” he said.

“I’m optimistic despite the political realm.”

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ing with all these situations and many more, I’ve learned that parents don’t really give teens freedom. Teens take it.

Annoying as it can be to a parent, this is the foundation of healthy differentiation.

Undifferentiated children carry their insecurities into their romantic and future family relationships, leading to dependency and need for other-validation.

And without rules and boundaries to test, kids don’t really have much to differentiate from.

Hopefully your daughter is just a thoughtful “old soul,” blessed with a natural tendency to self-regulate. I’ve met some of those kids, and they really are a parent’s dream come true. They essentially barter to get a freer parental hand in

“Following teens on Twitter or friending them on Facebook should fall within the idea of free rein, because if anyone or everyone in the world can see your teen’s posts at the click of a button, why shouldn’t you?”

— Kyra Haas

exchange for avoiding some of the natural impropriety of youth. That often turns out to be a winner for all concerned.

For everyone else, the problems inherent to social media exposure, video game excess, smartphone worship and unregulated Internet access are easy to see. You just have to click a couple of times and read what’s out there. That doesn’t mean you should “control” your child’s every move if she’s proving herself ethical and intentional. But the only way you can know how she’s consuming this vast digital age is to stay involved.

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That’s not control.

It’s giving your child a chance to take her freedom, not just have it handed to her.

Kyra: For the most part, my parents also give me free rein of technology. Their reasoning is similar to yours.

However, they monitor my social media and let me know when I’ve overstepped the line.

Though I like to think of myself as fairly responsible, my choice in language occasionally conflicts with what my parents deem appropriate. I usually adhere to

boys are born for every 100 girls worldwide. The imbalance, first noticed centuries ago, is a natural phenomenon not due to selective abortion of girls in some areas.

The study authors drew on a variety of sources for information on the male-female ratio throughout pregnancy, including abortions, fetal deaths and genetic sampling of fetuses in the womb.

To estimate the sex ratio at conception, they examined data on nearly 140,000 embryos that had been routinely screened at fertility clinics in the

United States and elsewhere for genetic problems.

The embryos were 3 to 6 days old. Analysis concluded that by that point, the sex breakdown was virtually 50-50. So extrapolating backward, “the best evidence we have is that the sex ratio at conception is even,” Orzack said.

The fertility-clinic data provide the best available stand-in for what happens in natural conception, the authors said; their analysis shows those two ways of conceiving produce identical sex ratios for babies at birth.

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quire DNA from a blood or saliva test. The sample is sent to a specialized outside laboratory to look for specific changes in DNA. Patients review the results with our certified staff to develop personalized breast health plans.

Deciding to pursue genetic testing is highly personal and requires serious considerations.

At the LMH Breast Risk Assessment Clinic, we appreciate the concerns involved with genetic testing and will work with you and your doctor to help you make an informed decision.

For more information about the Breast Risk Assessment Clinic, call 505-3300 or visit lmh.org/breastcenter.

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MRI and clinical breast examinations, in accordance with guidelines by the American Cancer Society, the American College of Radiology and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and medical management.

An appointment at the LMH Breast Risk Assessment Clinic can involve: l An assessment of cancer risks for you and your family l A detailed review of your family cancer history l A clinical breast examination, if needed l A discussion of the pros and cons of genetic testing l Supportive counseling to help you make the best decision for you and your family Genetic tests are performed at LMH and re-

their advice, considering colleges and prospective employers often look at Twitter and Facebook profiles.

Just as you suggest, teens like to rebel against authority, especially if that authority doesn’t appear to be grounded in anything meaningful. So I’m not a fan of rules for rules’ sake. How you decide to regulate technology in your home really comes down to knowing your teen, which becomes far more difficult in the teen years than it was in elementary school.

While parents want to believe their teens will make good choices, once a breach in confidence occurs, reeling kids back can be nearly impossible. As Wes notes, such an issue is less likely if your teen is afraid of you or if, like me, he or she leans toward the anxious side.

Even so, nothing is foolproof. At least being aware of a teen’s online activity can help parents

— Roxy Johanning, MSN, APRN, NP-C, CRN, CMS, CNBP, is the clinical coordinator and risk counselor for the LMH Breast Center. She works in collaboration with Dr. Sherri Soule, an oncologist at the LMH Oncology Center.

notice and address small problems before they become big or even disastrous. Following teens on Twitter or friending them on Facebook should fall within the idea of free rein, because if anyone or everyone in the world can see your teen’s posts at the click of a button, why shouldn’t you?

Letting teens freely prowl and post to the Internet without checks and balances perpetuates the illusion that social media can be private and without consequences.

— 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.

Lawrence Memorial Hospital Community L Education Calendar for April 2015 E Special Events and Programs National Healthcare Decisions Day: Understanding Advanced Directives Thursday April 16, 6:30-8:30 pm In honor of National Healthcare Decisions Day, come and learn why advance care planning is important.

Review information about Advance Directives including durable power of attorney for healthcare and living will.

Time for discussion, plus assistance provided for those who wish to complete their documents. Sponsored by LMH Palliative Care Consult Team and C.H.E.C. (Lawrence Area Coalition to Honor End of Life Choices). Free. Register early as space is limited.

Senior Supper and Seminar Tuesday April 21. Supper: 5:00 pm, Educational presentation: 6:00 pm. This month’s topic: “End of Life Decisions.”

Presented by Charles Yockey, MD, of Lawrence Pulmonary Specialists.

On the third Tuesday of each month at 5 pm, seniors are invited to come and dine at LMH for $5.50 and enjoy a healthy three course meal prepared by the Unidine chefs, plus conversation with others. At 6 pm, there will be a short educational program on a health or wellness topic of interest to older adults, presented by LMH affiliated physicians or associates. Advance reservations are required for the supper portion only, and must be made at least 24 hours in advance by calling LMH Connect Care at (785) 749-5800. Supper seating is limited so please enroll early.

Wellness Classes Prediabetes Class Wednesday April 22, 12:00-1:30 pm This free class is for those at risk for developing diabetes or have already been told that they have prediabetes.

Topics include preventing or delaying Type 2 diabetes, diet, exercise, weight loss, medications and avoiding potential complications. Taught by LMH Diabetes Education Center staff. Advance enrollment requested.

Health Screenings Know Your Numbers – Cholesterol Screening Wednesday April 1, 8:30-10:00 am This screening event offers a total only cholesterol (does not include HDL or LDL) by fingerstick. No appointment or fasting necessary. $8/test. Located in the West LMH Lobby, Arkansas Street entrance.

Fitness Programs LMH Therapy Services offers a variety of fitness and aquatic programs, including four levels of Tai Chi for Balance. Dates and times vary. Registration for aquatic programs at www.lprd.org or (785) 832SWIM). To enroll in non-aquatic classes, call (785) 505-2712. For more information, visit lmh.org.

Free Support Groups Breastfeeding/New Parent Support Group– meets most Mondays from 1011:30 am in the LMH Auditorium. Call (785) 505-3081.

Build Your Village-a Perinatal Support Group– for new mothers experiencing postpartum adjustment challenges.

Meets Thursday mornings at 10:00 am.

For more information, call (785) 505-3081.

Cancer Support Group: for those with cancer, their family and friends. Meets third Wednesday at 5:30 pm in the LMH Oncology Center. Call (785) 505-2807.

Diabetes Education Group – meets 2nd Wednesdays at 6 pm. Call (785) 505-3062.

This month’s topic: Cooking for One or Two.” Presented by Nancy Donahey, RD, LD, CDE. Grief Support Group – meets 1st and 3rd Mondays at 4 pm. Call (785) 505-3140. .

Stroke Support Group – meets 3rd Tuesdays at 4 pm. Call (785) 505-2712.

LMH offers several childbirth and new parent preparation classes as well as many safety programs including CPR and first aid classes and child safety seat checks.

For more information, visit www.lmh.org.

For more information or to enroll, call ConnectCare at (785) 749-5800 or visit us at lmh.org.

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closet. Or he might have issues being physically close. For this, counseling could be useful, but only if your husband is willing to seek help, and apparently, he is not.

Your choice is to decide how important this is to you compared to the more positive things your husband brings to the marriage.

Sometimes, counseling for the person most affected (you) can be helpful in working through a problem and

TV Land’s new sitcom is no classic People don’t watch pornography for the laughs. But the sensibility of that business has had a terrible effect on comedy.

The freedom to show or discuss such matters has inspired too many to throw clever writing out the window.

We’re discussing “Younger” (9 p.m., TV Land), the latest sitcom from producer Darren Starr (“Sex and the City”).

“Younger” offers viewers of a certain age a revenge fantasy of sorts. It follows the recently divorced, 40-yearold mother Liza (Sutton Foster) as she tries to re-enter the workforce. Rebuffed as too old and out-of-touch by cruel 20-somethings just barely older than her daughter, Liza has a magical revelation when a Brooklyn hipster hits on her at trendy bar. She doesn’t look 40 and could pass for 26. She proceeds to do so and lands a publishing job right out of “The Devil Wears Prada.”

So far, so good. Her subterfuge and pop culture cluelessness offer plenty of fodder for comedy and misunderstanding. It’s just too bad that the writing is so often thoughtless and vulgar.

For starters, Liza is supposed to be a smart professional, a former publishing executive with a grown daughter volunteering in India. So why is it news to her that Bombay is now called Mumbai? That makes no sense.

That’s a minor quibble compared to the show’s sensibility.

After a day at the office, Liza’s young colleague invites her for a session of krav maga, a popular form of martial arts fitness training. Not long ago, good sitcom writers might have mined great physical comedy gold from the sight of an older woman trying to keep up with supple 20-somethings. Think of Lucy and Ethel, Mary and Rhoda, Patsy and Edina or Elaine Benes.

Instead, we cut right to the locker room, where Liza’s colleagues gasp in horror at the sight and style of her pubic hair.

Yes, we go there. And right away. That’s the sensibility at work in “Younger.” Call me old, older or old-fashioned. But I despise it.

Tonight’s other highlights Cheese dominates the menu on “Hell’s Kitchen” (7 p.m., Fox).

Jessica’s old beau may have had another agenda on “Fresh Off the Boat” (7 p.m., ABC).

BIRTHDAYS Actor Christopher Walken is 72. Former Vice President Al Gore is 67. Actor William McNamara is 50. Actor Ewan McGregor is 44.

coming to a decision.

Please consider it.

Dear Annie: I had a strong reaction to the letter from “Missing It,” whose husband had a prostatectomy. I am a prostate cancer survivor who had a prostatectomy, and my experience has been nothing like her husband’s. No one who is facing prostate cancer should take her husband’s story as typical.

Did her husband faithfully do his physical therapy exercises to prevent incontinence? I did, at least three times a day. I’ve had complete control for years. I worked with my urologist on sexual activity, and we experimented with various therapies because there are many options. I had to do my part, but my sex life is now as satisfactory as it was prior to the surgery.

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For Tuesday, March 31: This year no one will question your efficiency or your strong drive. Your ability to detach will be tested, as you often seem to be too involved in the here and now to see the big picture. If you are single, romance could enter your life from out of the blue sometime before September. If you are attached, the two of you might disagree about vacations and where to go.

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) Use the first half of the day for any matter that needs a creative solution. Tonight: Be more fun-loving.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You suddenly might have an energy boost. Choose how you want to direct this vitality. Tonight: As you like it.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Don’t swallow your anger; instead, consider expressing your feelings. Tonight: Settle in for a cozy evening.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Speak your mind. If you encounter a financial snafu, don’t hesitate to backtrack. Tonight: Meet up with a pal.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You might be dealing with someone you barely recognize, as he or she could be unusually upset. Tonight: Vanish.

To other men with a prostate cancer diagnosis who choose the prostatectomy route, if you do your part, there is every reason to hope for complete recovery and a fully normal and satisfying life. — Not Missing Anything Dear Not Missing: Thank you for pointing out that there are individual responses to prostate surgery, and a great deal depends upon how dedicated one is to doing the necessary exercises and therapies.

There are also other options besides prostatectomy. For all men facing this, it is important to find a physician who knows what treatments are available and can discuss them clearly.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might be out of sorts in the morning, but by midafternoon, you’ll feel more like your old self. Tonight: Be your friendly self.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) A last-minute detail could slow you down. You can count on some surprises from a partner. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) A loved one might let you know that it is time to spend some quality time together. Tonight: Where your friends are.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You are likely to encounter an obstacle in the afternoon with someone you must answer to. Tonight: In the limelight.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You will be tired of pushing so hard to achieve the results you want. A partner has been very supportive. Tonight: Look beyond the obvious.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’ll be able to open up to the intricacies of someone else’s thought process. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.”

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Work on a project in the morning, and you’ll be noticed in the afternoon. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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Kansas hurdler blazing early For college track-andfield athletes, it’s all about building toward the big meets at the end of the season. March and April training is designed for building the strength that will come in handy for conference, regional and national meets. Those are the meets they tend to perform at their best because training sessions are scaled back so that their refreshed bodies come alive. Personal records tumble.

That’s what made Kansas University senior Michael Stigler’s 400-meter hurdles performance in the Texas Relays finals Friday in Austin, Texas, so stunning. He posted a personal-record 48.44, best time in the world in 2015 and the best time for anybody in any college meet since 2011. Researchers are in the midst of trying to find a faster March time in a college meet. So far, nothing. Stigler’s previous best of 49.19 came in his sophomore year in the NCAA Championships, his first of back-toback second-place finishes.

He ran a 49.90 as runner-up last spring.

Had Stigler run a 48.44 in 2014, it would have been the second-best time by an American all year, behind only Michael Tinsley, and would have ranked fourth in the world.

“It’s my last year, so why not go put it all out there on the line?” Stigler said Monday, after a grueling workout, running at Rock Chalk Park and lifting weights on campus. “Not that I didn’t do that in previous years, it’s just that this year is all or nothing.”

So far, it’s been an allworld.

“I feel like the way training has been going, we haven’t backed off anything.

We trained through Texas Relays, so that’s the best part for me, knowing we haven’t tapered off,” said Stigler, KU’s Male Athlete of the Year the past two years. “I feel like my time will drop even more.”

The 400-meter hurdles race requires clearing 10 3-foot-high hurdles stationed 35 meters apart.

Stigler said he twice last season was on pace for a time in the low 48-seconds range but “stuttered” at the last hurdle.

“I knew it was there,” he said. “I just had to put it all together, and I put it all together at Texas Relays. For me to do that, it shows the coaching’s working, and the hard work is paying off.”

Elisha Brewer, in her 10th season on Stanley Redwine’s staff, coaches sprints and hurdles.

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Prep Bragg hustles to all-star game

By Mike Helfgot Special to the Journal-World

Chicago — If ever there was a time to set all cares aside, this was it.

This was the state championship.

It was the second in three years for Cleveland’s Villa Angela-St. Joseph High, and it was the culmination of a re-

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leading his team to the Ohio Division III title, Bragg was on a plane bound for Chicago, the host city of Wednesday night’s McDonald’s AllAmerican Games.

Practices began Sunday afternoon, and unlike the allstar game itself, they are serious competitions witnessed by representatives of every NBA team.

Rest would have to wait.

“This is what you’re training for,” Bragg said. “You train every day for things like this. I felt good out there. My legs were kind of dead, but I’ll be fine.”

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So when the buzzer sounded and the celebration commenced, Bragg’s first thought was to check the time: 3:09 p.m.

“My flight was at 5,” Bragg said. “I was rushing.”

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Lakers 113, 76ers 111, OT Philadelphia — Jordan Clarkson made the tiebreaking basket with 0.7 seconds left in overtime, lifting the Lakers past Philadelphia.

L.A. LAKERS (113) Johnson 5-16 2-4 12, Kelly 5-9 3-3 16, Black 2-3 2-2 6, Clarkson 9-15 8-10 26, Ellington 7-15 2-2 20, Sacre 3-6 0-0 6, Brown 7-10 5-5 22, Hill 2-8 1-4 5. Totals 40-82 23-30 113.

PHILADELPHIA (111) Covington 4-13 1-2 12, Noel 7-18 5-10 19, Aldemir 3-4 2-4 8, Smith 8-20 0-0 17, Sampson 2-4 1-2 7, Canaan 4-9 7-7 18, Robinson III 3-8 1-4 8, Thompson 0-4 1-2 1, Robinson 4-7 5-7 13, Sims 4-9 0-0 8. Totals 39-96 23-38 111.

L.A. Lakers 17 34 25 26 11 — 113 Philadelphia 28 22 21 31 9 — 111 3-Point Goals-L.A. Lakers 10-21 (Ellington 4-6, Brown 3-4, Kelly 3-6, Clarkson 0-2, Johnson 0-3), Philadelphia 10-30 (Canaan 3-7, Covington 3-10, Sampson 2-4, Smith 1-3, Robinson III 1-4, Sims 0-1, Thompson 0-1).

Fouled Out-Black, Hill, Aldemir. ReboundsL.A. Lakers 51 (Johnson 11), Philadelphia 70 (Noel 14). Assists-L.A. Lakers 27 (Clarkson 11), Philadelphia 27 (Thompson 5). Total Fouls-L.A. Lakers 26, Philadelphia 24. A-13,501 (20,318).

Raptors 99, Rockets 96 Toronto — DeMar DeRozan scored a career-high 42 points and tied his career best with 11 rebounds, and Toronto earned its eighth straight home victory over Houston.

HOUSTON (96) Ariza 5-15 2-4 15, Smith 3-14 2-4 8, Dorsey 3-3 1-2 7, Terry 3-5 0-0 8, Harden 9-22 10-12 31, Capela 4-5 0-3 8, Prigioni 1-1 1-1 3, Brewer 6-16 1-4 13, N.Johnson 1-3 1-1 3. Totals 35-84 18-31 96.

TORONTO (99) Ross 2-6 0-0 5, A.Johnson 4-7 0-0 8, Valanciunas 5-9 5-5 15, Vasquez 1-10 0-0 3, DeRozan 14-27 12-17 42, Patterson 2-4 2-2 7, Williams 5-9 0-0 13, J.Johnson 2-6 2-3 6, Hansbrough 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-78 21-27 99.

Houston 27 25 24 20 — 96 Toronto 27 21 26 25 — 99

Oklahoma RB Ford suspended indefinitely Norman, Okla. (ap) — Oklahoma has suspended running back Keith Ford indefinitely for academic and team rules violations The school and coach Bob Stoops made the announcement on Monday.

Ford was Oklahoma’s top rusher and one of the Sooners’ top receivers last season before he broke his right leg in the third game against Tennessee and missed the next five games.

Samaje Perine took over as the lead back and finished with 1,713 yards and 21 touchdowns.

Ford finished last season with 392 yards and five touchdowns rushing and 140 yards and another score receiving.

He was the team’s best pass catcher out of the backfield, and he was good enough to temporarily regain his starting spot after returning from his injury.

New offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley, who is installing his Air Raid offense, said he won’t dwell on Ford’s absence.

“You know, I’m going to stay worried about the guys we’ve got,” Riley said after Monday’s practice. “Those are the guys I’ve got to worry about right now.”

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Celtics 116, Hornets 104 Charlotte, N.C. — Avery Bradley had 30 points and eight rebounds, and Boston beat Charlotte.

Evan Turner scored 15 points as the Celtics won for the 10th AMERICAN time in the last 16 games.

Jae Crowder and Marcus Smart each had 14 points.

BOSTON (116) Turner 7-11 1-1 15, Bass 2-4 3-4 7, T.Zeller 4-9 0-0 8, Smart 5-9 3-4 14, Bradley 12-23 3-3 30, Thomas 3-9 2-2 10, Crowder 4-9 4-4 14, Wallace 2-3 0-4 4, Olynyk 5-10 0-0 11, Jerebko 1-2 1-1 3.

Totals 45-89 17-23 116.

CHARLOTTE (104) Taylor 2-6 0-0 5, Ma.Williams 4-6 1-1 10, Jefferson 6-10 0-0 12, Walker 9-20 8-9 28, Henderson 7-15 2-2 17, Maxiell 3-5 0-0 6, Hairston 1-4 0-0 2, M. Williams 6-17 5-5 19, Biyombo 2-2 1-2 5, Roberts 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-85 17-19 104.

Boston 26 30 29 31 — 116 Charlotte 24 20 25 35 — 104 3-Point Goals-Boston 9-26 (Bradley 3-7, Crowder 2-4, Thomas 2-6, Smart 1-2, Olynyk 1-4, Turner 0-1, Bass 0-1, Jerebko 0-1), Charlotte 7-26 (Walker 2-8, M. Williams 2-8, Taylor 1-2, Ma.Williams 1-3, Henderson 1-3, Hairston 0-2).

Fouled Out-Henderson. Rebounds-Boston 51 (Bradley 8), Charlotte 46 (Maxiell 8). AssistsBoston 28 (Thomas 7), Charlotte 20 (Walker 12). Total Fouls-Boston 21, Charlotte 17.

Flagrant Fouls-Henderson. A-15,140 (19,077).

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St. John’s legend Mullin to return as head coach New York — Chris Mullin, St. John’s all-time leading scorer and still the face of its basketball program three decades after his career ended, has agreed to coach the Red Storm, a person with knowledge of the discussions told the Associated Press on Monday.

Mullin, who led St. John’s to the Final Four in 1985, has never coached at any level. He replaces Steve Lavin, who agreed to leave last week, after five seasons during which the Red Storm reached the NCAA Tournament twice.

Lavin had an 81-55 record at St. John’s and the Red Storm went to the NCAA Tournament in his first and last seasons. His teams compiled a 2-9 postseason record in the Big East Tournament, NCAA and NIT. Lavin had one year left on his original six-year contract.

Mullin, a New York native, was a five-time AllStar with Golden State, a member of the USA’s gold-medal winning “Dream Team” in 1992 and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011. He was presented for induction by his coach at St. John’s, Hall of Famer Lou Carnesecca.

When Miller did not return in January, the school removed the interim tag from Holtmann’s title.

The 43-year-old former Gardner-Webb coach helped Butler rebound from a 14-17 mark in 201314 to 23-11, a second-place finish in the Big East and an NCAA Tournament victory in the round of 64. The Bulldogs came up just short against Notre Dame in the round of 32, losing in overtime.

The move also appears to take Holtmann out of the running for other jobs.

Conn. gov.: Move ’16 Final Four

Albany, N.Y. — Connecticut’s governor and UConn’s athletic director called on the NCAA on Monday to consider moving next year’s Women’s Final Four out of Indianapolis unless changes are made to Indiana’s new religious-objections law.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other critics contend the law would allow businesses to deny service to gays and lesbians based on religious beliefs. The governor on Monday signed an executive order banning state spending on travel to Indiana and says the NCAA would be wise to move the tournament.

“We have gay men and women who play NCAA Snubbed Temple in NIT semis sports, and to hold a tournament in a state that has New York — Temple’s season could have passed, and really quite frankly has flaunted laws ended in mid-March with the Owls still sagging that would lead to discrimination against those from their NCAA Tournament snub. athletes, is not a wise place to have a tournament,” Playing three days after the selection committee Malloy said. made them the first team left out of the field, they came out sluggish in their NIT opener and trailed Two Alabama players arrested with just over 11 minutes left.

Tuscaloosa, Ala. — Alabama coach Nick Then their senior point guard, Will Cummings, ensured his college career would last much longer Saban steadfastly defended his signing of defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor, who has now been than those 11 minutes. Ever since, Temple has kicked off his second Southeastern Conference looked sharp, and now the Owls are headed to Madison Square Garden for today’s NIT semifinals. team for domestic violence arrests.

Taylor, who some say should never had been on the team, was one of two Crimson Tide players Butler coach gets extension arrested over the weekend. Defensive back Geno Indianapolis — Butler coach Chris Holtmann Smith was charged with the second DUI of his has a new contract that could keep him with the Alabama career.

Bulldogs through the 2020-21 season.

A defiant Saban was unapologetic Monday The school announced the deal Monday. about choosing to sign Taylor, who was also disHoltmann replaced Brandon Miller last fall after missed from Georgia before signing with Alabama Miller took a medical leave for undisclosed reasons. for similar allegations of domestic violence.

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THE 2015 JOURNAL-WORLD ALL-AREA GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM, FROM LEFT, Megan Bonar, De Soto; Brette Moore, Ottawa; Tori Huslig, Veritas Christian; Coach of the Year Bob Martin, Baldwin; Player of the Year Madison Piper, Free State; Marissa Pope, Lawrence; Corie Fischer, Ottawa; Maddie Ogle, Baldwin; Caitie Kaifes, Mill Valley.

Player of the Year Madison Piper, Free State The 5-foot-10 sophomore forward frustrated opposing teams with her ability to drill three-pointers, make mid-range jumpers and drive to the rim.

Piper, who was selected as the Sunflower League’s Player of the Year, ranked among the league’s best with 17 points and seven rebounds per game.

First team Megan Bonar, De Soto — The South Dakota signee capped off her strong career by lifting the Wildcats to a 12-10 record by posting 14.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.2 blocks per game.

Bonar, who earned firstteam All-Frontier League honors, recorded more than 1,200 points and 500 rebounds in her four-year career.

Sarah Coversup, Free Coach of the Year State — A transfer from Bob Martin, Baldwin Horton High, Coversup With a balanced lineup was among the Sunflower of strong players, Martin League leaders by averled the Bulldogs to a 21-4 aging 14.4 points and 6.1 record and second place rebounds per game. The at the Class 4A-II state 6-foot-1 senior was tough tournament. It was their to guard in the paint with first state tournament ap- her height and strength, pearance since 1997. BHS helping FSHS to a 17-5 was led by Taylor Cawley, record.

Madeline Neufeld, Abby Corie Fischer, OtOgle, Maddie Ogle, Kyna tawa — A four-year Smith, Alexia Stein and starter for the Cyclones, Corey Valentine.

Fischer recorded 17

double-doubles this season and led OHS in scoring (14.5), rebounding (10.3) and steals (2.2).

The first-team All-Frontier League selection grabbed 216 rebounds this season and 577 in her career, breaking school records.

Tori Huslig, Veritas — Huslig followed up a strong freshman season with an even better sophomore campaign. She led the Eagles with 19.3 points per game, scoring at least 15 points in 20 of her team’s 22 games.

She also averaged 4.9 rebounds and 3.2 assists, earning first-team AllKCAA state-tournament honors.

Caitie Kaifes, Mill Valley — The 5-foot-11 junior forward led the Jaguars with 16 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. Kaifes lifted MVHS to an 18-4 record, and

she was a dominant player in the paint at the end of the season, scoring on 58 percent of her shots inside the threepoint line.

Jabria Leggett, Mill Valley — Leggett was nearly impossible to stop with her ability to drive deep into the lane to score or find her teammates for easy buckets.

The 5-foot-6 point guard, who has signed with Johnson County Community College, averaged 13.4 points, 5.0 assists and 2.4 steals per game.

Brette Moore, Ottawa — A future volleyball player at Fort Scott Community College, Moore was strong in the low post all season. The 6-foot-1 forward had four double-doubles and recorded 12.7 points and 7.0 rebounds per game, helping the Cyclones to a 13-8 record.

Maddie Ogle, Baldwin — Ogle led the Bulldogs in their full-court defense and fast-break offense, posting a teambest 13.4 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. The 6-foot senior was a firstteam All-Frontier League and all-state selection, and she dominated in the state tournament, scoring 20.7 points per game.

Madison Piper, Free State — Piper frustrated opposing defenses all season long, leading the Firebirds to a sub-state title game. She finished second in the league in scoring (17 points), third in rebounding (7.1) and fourth in assists (3.2), earning a first-team allstate selection.

Marissa Pope, Lawrence — The 5-foot-3 senior point guard led the Lions on both sides of the court all season,

leading LHS to its first sub-state victory since 2009. Pope, a four-year starter, earned secondteam All-Sunflower League honors after averaging 12.1 points and 3.4 assists per game.

Honorable mention Sarah Ahart, Tonganoxie; Makaila Garcia, Eudora; Meghan Jackson, McLouth; Adriana Jadlow, Free State; Lexia Jamison, Perry-Lecompton; Reilly Malone, Seabury; Tori Marshall, De Soto; Madeline Neufeld, Baldwin; Emily Newhouse, Wellsville; Abby Ogle, Baldwin; Karly Patton, Wellsville; Alexia Stein, Baldwin; Kyna Smith, Baldwin; Ashley Sparks, Wellsville; E’lease Stafford, Lawrence; Tressa Walker, Tonganoxie.

— Bobby Nightengale

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THE 2015 JOURNAL-WORLD ALL-AREA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM, FROM LEFT, Mitchell Ballock, Eudora; Isaac McCullough, Ottawa; Logan Koch, Mill Valley; Justin Roberts, Lawrence; Coach of the Year Mike Lewis, Lawrence; Player of the Year Anthony Bonner, Lawrence; Austin Downing, Eudora; Cole Silsby, Wellsville; Quentin Blaue, Ottawa; Weston Hack, Free State.

Player of the Year Anthony Bonner, Lawrence The Sunflower League’s Player of the Year led the Lions to the Class 6A state championship game, averaging a team-best 19.3 points per game. Bonner, who will play at Colorado State next year, scored at least 20 points in 14 games this season and earned firstteam all-state honors.

First team Mitchell Ballock, Eudora — Despite missing six of the first seven games of the season because of a stress fracture in his foot, the highly recruited sophomore didn’t miss a beat when he returned to the court.

Ballock averaged 20 points, six rebounds and three assists per game on his way to first-team All-Frontier League and all-state honors.

Coach of the Year Quentin Blaue, Ottawa Mike Lewis, Lawrence — The 6-foot-6 The Lions entered the senior was tough to guard season with high expecta- with his length to get to tions, and Lewis led them the rim and his ability to to their first state tourna- shoot from deep. Blaue ment appearance since averaged 10.6 points and 2008. LHS finished with 4.8 rebounds, leading a 23-2 record, including the Cyclones to the 4A-I an undefeated Sunflower state tournament. He was League title, with a start- a first-team All-Frontier ing lineup featuring John League selection.

Barbee, Anthony Bonner, Anthony Bonner, Price Morgan, Ben Rajew- Lawrence — The 6-foot-2 ski and Justin Roberts. senior guard dominated

on a nightly basis this season, shooting 39 percent from deep and knocking down 68 percent of his shots inside of the three-point line.

He was a nightmare for opposing defenders with his ability to drive to the rim and shoot off of the dribble.

Austin Downing, Eudora — Downing carried the Cardinals on offense early in the season, using his strength and speed to cause problems for defenses. The 6-foot junior averaged 19 points, five rebounds, three assists and two steals per game to secure first-team AllFrontier League honors.

Weston Hack, Free State — The Firebirds didn’t return much experience from the previous season but were lifted to an 11-10 record by their 6-foot-3 senior guard.

Hack shot 50 percent

from the field and averaged 16 points, seven rebounds and three assists per game, earning a second-team All-Sunflower League selection.

Logan Koch, Mill Valley — Koch missed several games because of a knee injury but returned and eventually hit the game-winning shot in the sub-state finals to send the Jaguars to the state tournament. The 6-foot-1 guard averaged 13 points and four assists per game and was a first-team All-Kaw Valley League pick.

Isaac McCullough, Ottawa — The Cyclones’ 6-foot-4 sophomore led the team in nearly every statistical category, lifting OHS to an undefeated Frontier League title and fourth place at state in Class 4A-I. Despite being face-guarded all season, McCullough averaged 17.1

points and 5.2 rebounds on his way to first-team all-state honors.

Cole Silsby, Wellsville — Silsby was reliable all season for the Eagles, posting 13.5 points, 3.9 assists, 2.7 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game. The 6-1 senior guard who uses his speed to get into the paint led WHS to a 20-6 record and fourth place at state in Class 3A. Justin Roberts, Lawrence — A second-team all-state selection, the Lions’ junior point guard was dominant on offense all season long, averaging 17.5 points and 4.4 assists per game. Roberts, who has already recorded 1,107 points in his career, added 39 steals while shooting 48 percent from the floor.

Mikey Wycoff, Seabury — Wycoff missed seven games in the middle of the season be-

cause of an ankle injury, but that didn’t stop him from dominating when he was on the court. The 6-foot sophomore guard averaged 21 points per game with his ability to hit jump shots and drive to the hoop.

Honorable Mention Nic Bair, McLouth; John Barbee, Lawrence; Christian Gaylord, Baldwin; Weston Gloss, Santa Fe Trail; Hunter Gudde, Free State; Clayton Holmberg, Mill Valley; Jared Klamm, Wellsville; Zach McDermott, Bishop Seabury; Price Morgan, Lawrence; Nick Mullen, De Soto; Luis Rodriguez, Oskaloosa; Jomain Rouser, Eudora; Justin Sharp, Oskaloosa; Chad Stieben, Veritas Christian; Seth Surface, Perry-Lecompton; Dalton Verhulst, Wellsville.

— Bobby Nightengale

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2015 J-W All-Area Wrestling Team

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THE 2015 JOURNAL-WORLD ALL-AREA WRESTLING TEAM, FROM LEFT, Joel Halford, Baldwin; Josh Miller, De Soto; Conner Ward, Mill Valley; Tate Steele, Free State; Coach of the Year Kit Harris, Baldwin; Wrestler of the Year Jon Pratt, Baldwin; Dylan Gowin, Mill Valley; Bryan Burnett, Mill Valley; Thomas Lisher, Baldwin; Ethan Dean, Santa Fe Trail. Not pictured: Alan Clothier, Lawrence Wrestler of the Year Jon Pratt, Baldwin The senior 152-pounder set a school single-season record with 48 wins, and he finished his career with Frontier League, regional and state championships.

Pratt won five tournament championships throughout the season and led the Bulldogs with 70 takedowns.

which BHS won its fourth straight Frontier League title.

First team Bryan Burnett, Mill Valley — After taking fourth place at the Class 5A state tournament last year, Burnett was the state runner-up at 152 pounds this season. The senior won Kaw Valley League and regional championships, finishing Coach of the Year with a 38-4 record.

Kit Harris, Baldwin Alan Clothier, LawThe Bulldogs won their rence — The Lions junior first Class 4A state cham- 182-pounder was domipionship after sending a nant all school-record 10 wresseason, tlers to the state tourna- recordment, and seven of them ing a 42-1 finished in the top six of record and their respective weight improving classes. State medalists to 113-6 in Levi Green, Joel Halford, his career.

Jake Katzer, Joel Katzer He won a Thomas Lisher, Jon regional Clothier Pratt and Owen Tuckfield title and highlighted the year in finished third at the Class

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at the fast start from his coaching staff, Beaty said no.

“It’s a way of life,” he said. “There was a plan from the beginning in terms of what type of folks we were looking for. It’s not necessarily yellers and screamers.

It’s teachers, but we do want (the players) to feel urgency.”

That has not been an issue.

Even when running the most simple and seemingly uneventful drills, KU’s coaches have made it clear that, whether the Jayhawks do a drill right or wrong, they will do it well.

Even if a guy makes the right play in the end, if he did not follow the right steps along the way or let up at any point, you can bet he’ll hear about it before his next rep.

“Effort’s a minimum expectation,” Beaty said.

“We tell ’em we’re not gonna spend a lot of time on their effort, because we expect that every day.

We expect (them) to produce. You look across the world, it’s the guys that produce that are the big winners.”

That philosophy led to the hiring of this coaching staff, and even though they’ve only had a week on the field together, Beaty said he was overjoyed that the coaching around him had matched his expectations.

“A long time ago, a good buddy of mine told me the definition of ur-

gency is an immediate call to action,” Beaty said.

“And that’s what we want them to feel in everything we do — between drills, before practice starts — and we’re trying not to lower that standard on anything.”

Asked what question he heard on the recruiting trail most this offseason, Beaty said the athletes and parents he recruited wanted to know why or how KU was different than the rest of the schools out there. Each time, Beaty pointed to his coaching staff.

“One of the things I do say is, ‘Hey, you’re gonna have a hard time finding a place that has more energy, enthusiasm and passion than we have and better coaches on their staff,’” Beaty recalled. “There’s a lot of great coaches in this country, but I really like our staff.”

Early standouts Although Beaty and company are still getting to know their new players, the Jayhawks have honored multiple players following each of the first three practices this spring.

March 24 — T.J. Semke and Jordan Shelley-Smith (special teams), Ronnie Davis (defense) and Ben Johnson (offense).

March 26 — Tevin Shaw (special teams), Ben Goodman (defense) and DeAndre Mann (offense).

March 28 — Ronnie Davis (special teams), Fish Smithson (defense) and Tre’ Parmalee (offense).

KU will hit the field for spring practice No. 4 of 15 this afternoon.

6A state tournament, placing in the top three of his weight class for the third straight year.

Ethan Dean, Santa Fe Trail — Dean capped a strong junior campaign by finishing as the Class 4A state runner-up at 220 pounds. He won Pioneer League and regional titles, finishing the season with a 33-6 record and improving to 78-35 in his career, Dylan Gowin, Mill Valley — The 106-pound sophomore finished as Class 5A state runner-up, helping the Jaguars to third place in the team standings, their best finish in school history.

Gowin won a regional championship and finished second in the Kaw Valley League.

Joel Halford, Baldwin — After an injury forced Halford to default to

fourth place in the Frontier League, he finished the year on a strong note by getting second place at regionals and third at the Class 4A state tournament. The senior 182-pounder finished with a 28-10 record.

Thomas Lisher, Baldwin — Lisher was a nightmare for opponents all season at 138 pounds, and he became the Bulldogs’ first sophomore state champion. He finished with a 43-4 record, won six tournament championships including the Frontier League and regionals and led his team with 27 falls.

Josh Miller, De Soto — The Wildcats’ 170-pounder, Miller took third place at the Class 4A state tournament after winning Frontier League and regional championships.

He won five tournament

championships this season, ending with a 43-3 record.

Jon Pratt, Baldwin — Pratt ended his career with 144 wins, fifth on the Bulldogs’ all-time wins list. He was a three-time state placer, four-time Frontier League champion and two-time regional champion. His 1-0 decision to win a state title clinched a state championship for his school in the team standings.

Tate Steele, Free State — A 106-pound freshman, Steele compiled a 36-2 record this year and won Sunflower League and regional titles. The Sunflower League Wrestler of the Year also took third place at the Class 6A state tournament.

Conner Ward, Mill Valley — Ward beat two state champions in different

weight classes throughout the season and finished as Class 5A state runner-up at 113 pounds. The Jaguars freshman had a 40-3 record and won Kaw Valley League and regional championships.

Honorable mention Jett Bendure, Mill Valley; Seth Burnett, Mill Valley; Chandler Carter, De Soto; Bryce Erickson, Santa Fe Trail; Levi Green, Baldwin; Jake Hastings, Santa Fe Trail; Jake Katzer, Baldwin; Joel Katzer, Baldwin; Elijah Kennedy, Eudora; Hayden Keopke, Mill Valley; Dylan Leckner, Wellsville; Logan Marx, Mill Valley; Hunter Miller, De Soto; Ben Morgenstern, Baldwin; Owen Tuckfield, Baldwin; Taylor Wilmarth, Wellsville.

— Bobby Nightengale

KU BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK Bragg places Florida State signee Dwayne Bacon, a 6-foot-6 senior small forward from Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, won the McDonald’s All-America Game slam dunk contest Monday in Chicago. Future KU forward Carlton Bragg, 6-9 from Cleveland Villa Angela-St. Joseph High, placed third. Undecided Stephen Zimmerman, 7-foot from Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas, who is considering KU and others, earned second.

Duke signee Luke Kennard, 6-5 from Franklin (Ohio) High, won the threepoint contest, edging Villanova signee Jalen Brunson, 6-1 from Stevenson High in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Brunson won the skills competition, placing ahead of runner-up Bragg.

Ellis honored KU junior forward Perry Ellis on Monday was named honorable mention All-America by the Associated Press.

Recruiting KU coach Bill Self visited the parents of former Charlotte center Mike Thorne Jr. on Monday in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Self met with Thorne, a 6-11, 270-pound junior, last Thursday. Thorne, who

Bragg

me,” he said. “I was kind of nervous. I got the KU and the UK mixed up. A lot of people joke around about it. It was an honest mistake.

It was out of excitement. I was kind of nervous. It was a big decision.”

The Jayhawks’ style of play and Self’s history of success with power forwards were among the biggest reasons Bragg chose KU over UK, and he appears to be a worthy successor to the Morris twins, Thomas Robinson, Perry Ellis, et al.

A high-flier, he has touch and range on his shot and the strength and will to compete in the post. He averaged 21.3 points, eight rebounds and two blocked shots in earning Ohio Division III Player of the Year honors.

Bragg was the most physically impressive big man at Monday’s practice on a West team that lists seven players between 6-8 and 7-0.

“It’s the best fit for me,” Bragg said. “They play up and down and use the

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authored one of the most memorable commitments in recent years.

While putting on a Kansas hat, Bragg announced he was going to Kentucky.

This was no Cliff Alexander-style head fake, though. Bragg simply said the wrong school.

“It was a big day for

Ellis also was named one of 25 members of the Lute Olson All-America team presented by collegeinsider. com. One of the 25 players will be named Olson player of the year on April 3.

averaged 10.1 points and 7.3 rebounds a game last season, is considering a transfer to KU, Pitt, Illinois, Marquette, West Virginia, Xavier, Arizona, Virginia Tech, Minnesota and others.

Self on Monday also visited Dennis Smith Jr., a 6-2 junior point guard from Trinity Christian in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which happens to be the alma mater of Thorne.

— Gary Bedore

pick and roll and the pick and pop. That fits me well.”

The size of Bragg’s role could depend on whether Ellis and Alexander depart for the NBA and perhaps even how effective of a recruiter he proves to be.

He has been working on Jayhawk targets Jaylen Brown, a 6-7 small forward, 6-9 Cheick Diallo and 6-8 Brandon Ingram.

“I tell them we can dominate,” Bragg said, and “hopefully win the NCAA championship.”

Lions’ Bonner, Firebirds’ Piper honored J-W Staff Reports

Lawrence High senior basketball standout Anthony Bonner and Free State High sophomore Madison Piper both earned Class 6A firstteam All-State honors from the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association on Monday.

Bonner also was select-

ed to play in the KBCA All-Star game, which will be played on June 27th at Kansas Wesleyan University.

LHS junior Justin Roberts was named to the second team and Free State senior Weston Hack picked up an honorable mention.

Among area players, Eudora sophomore

Mitchell Ballock was a Class 4A-I boys firstteam All-State selection, along with Ottawa sophomore Isaac McCullough. Eudora junior Austin Downing earned an honorable mention.

Wellsville senior Dalton Verhulst also received an honorable mention in 3A. Baldwin High senior

Maddie Ogle was named to the 4A-II girls firstteam, while freshman Abby Ogle was placed on the second team.

Mill Valley senior Jabria Leggett was an honorable mention in 5A, and Ottawa senior Corie Fischer and De Soto senior Megan Bonar picked up honorable mentions in 4A-I.

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KU’s Perry Ellis receives honorable mention

By Jim O’Connell AP Basketball Writer

Frank Kaminsky and Jahlil Okafor are as different as stories can be in college basketball. The two, however, have a lot in common — both are in the Final Four and both were the top selections on The Associated Press’ 2014-15 All-America team.

Kaminsky, the 7-foot senior from Wisconsin, was a unanimous choice Monday. Okafor, the 6-11 freshman from Duke, received all but one firstteam vote.

Notre Dame senior Jerian Grant, Kentucky junior Willie Cauley-Stein and Ohio State freshman D’Angelo Russell rounded out the first team.

Kansas University’s Perry Ellis earned honorable mention.

Kaminsky worked his way to the top by improving through four seasons in college. Okafor arrived with all the laurels out of high school and immediate talk about leaving for the NBA. “Not to be overly patriotic, but we’re an American story, that you can do that in this kind of a system,” Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said. “Sometimes where it looks like the privileged, the ones that are identified as being great players and can’t-miss-type guys, where there can always come that guy from behind in the race and then cross the tape first.

“Frank is that guy who got a little bit later start as far as people noticing his abilities, but that’s just a great accomplishment on his part. ... He took advantage of a chance and has made the most of it.”

Kaminsky, projected as a top pick in the NBA draft, led the Badgers to their second straight Final Four berth, averaging 18.2 points and 8.0 rebounds while shooting 55.3 percent from the field, including 39.5 percent from 3-point range.

He is one of those big men who is as comfortable on the perimeter as in the lane and his outgoing personality has made him a media favorite.

“It’s cool to be named first team All-American.

It’s something you dream of as a kid,’” Kaminsky said. “To finally be able to do so, it’s a good thing and it shows how hard I’ve worked in my career.

To be up there with Alando Tucker is a pretty cool thing.”

Kaminsky is Wisconsin’s second All-America joining Tucker in 2007.

He is the second unanimous pick in as many

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WISCONSIN SENIOR FRANK KAMINSKY was the top vote-getter on the AP AllAmerican Team, with 65 first-place votes and 325 points.

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DUKE FRESHMAN JAHLIL OKAFOR was a close second in balloting for the AP AllAmerican Team, with 64 first-place votes and 323 points.

2014-15 AP All-America Teams Statistics through March 15 First Team Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin, 7-0, 242, senior, Lisle, Ill., 18.2 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 2.7 apg, 55.3 fg pct, 39.5 3-pt fg pct, 1.6 blocks (65 first-team votes, 325 total points), Jahlil Okafor, Duke, 6-11, 270, freshman, Chicago, 17.7 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 66.9 fg pct (64, 323).

Jerian Grant, Notre Dame, 6-5, 204, senior, Bowie, Md., 16.8 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 6.6 apg, 1.7 steals, 36.6 minutes (53, 298).

Willie Cauley-Stein, Kentucky, 7-0, 240, junior, Olathe, Kan., 9.3 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 2.0 apg, 58.8 ft pct (45, 285).

D’Angelo Russell, Ohio State, 6-5, 180, freshman, Louisville, Ky., 19.3 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 5.1 apg, 41.5 3-pt fg pct, 1.6 steals (51, 282).

Second Team Delon Wright, Utah, 6-5, 190, senior, Los Angeles, 14.9 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 5.3 apg, 52.9 fg pct, 83.4 ft pct, 2.1 steals (15, 186).

Karl-Anthony Towns, Kentucky, 6-11, 250, freshman, Piscataway, N.J., 9.7 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 55.4 fg pct, 81.4 ft pct, 2.4 blocks (8, 139).

Sean Tuttle, Northern Iowa, 6-8, 240, senior, Sheffield, Iowa, 15.3 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 3.3 apg, 61.6 fg pct, (3, 139).

Bobby Portis, Arkansas, 6-11, 242, sophomore, Little Rock, Ark., 17.5 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 54.7 fg pct (2, 102).

Malcolm Brogdon, Virginia, 6-5, 215, junior, Atlanta, 13.9 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 2.5 apg, 87.1 ft pct (2, 98).

Third Team Buddy Hield, Oklahoma, 6-4, 212, junior, Freeport, Bahamas, 17.5 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 82.2 ft pct (3, 96).

Kyle Wiltjer, Gonzaga, 6-10, 240, junior, Portland, Ore., 16.7 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 1.9 apg, 53.6 fg pct, 46.6 3-pt fg pct (4, 93).

Rakeem Christmas, Syracuse, 6-9, 250, senior, Philadelphia, 17.5 ppg, 9.1 rpg, 55.2 fg pct, 2.5 blocks (74).

Georges Niang, Iowa State, 6-8, 230, junior, Methuen, Mass., 15.5 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 3.5 apg, 40.2 3-pt fg pct, 80.5 ft pct (1, 51).

Kevin Pangos, Gonzaga, 6-2, 182, senior, Holland Landing, Ontario, 11.5 ppg, 5.0 apg, 44.4 3-pt fg pct, 83.3 ft pct (1, 50).

Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order) Lawrence Alexander, North Dakota State; Justin Anderson, Virginia; Ryan Arcidiacono, Villanova; Ron Baker, Wichita State; Jalen Cannon, St. Francis, Brooklyn; Karl Cochran, Wofford; Kyle Collinsworth, BYU; Quinn Cook, Duke (1 first-team vote).

Kris Dunn, Providence (1); Perry Ellis, Kansas (1); Rico Gathers, Baylor; Madarious Gibbs, Texas Southern; Anthony Gill, Virginia; Kendall Gray, Delaware State; Ty Greene, S.C.-Upstate; Olivier Hanlan, Boston College (1).

Montrezl Harrell, Louisville (1); Martez Harrison, UMKC; Tyler Harvey, Eastern Washington; Corey Hawkins, UC Davis; Tyler Haws, BYU; LaDontae Henton, Providence; Darrun Hilliard, Villanova; R.J. Hunter, Georgia State.

Stanley Johnson, Arizona (1); Tyus Jones, Duke; Tyler Kalinoski, Davidson; Tim Kempton, Lehigh; David Laury, Iona; Damon Lynn, NJIT; Derrick Marks, Boise State; Jerell Martin, LSU; T.J. McConnell, Arizona.

Mikh McKinney, Sacramento State; Nic Moore, SMU; Justin Moss, Buffalo; Saah Nimley, Charleston Southern; Cameron Payne, Murray State; Chasson Randle, Stanford; Justin Sears, Yale; Kenneth “Speedy” Smith, Louisiana Tech.

Keifer Sykes, Green Bay; Marcus Thornton, William & Mary; Melo Trimble, Maryland; Fred VanVleet, Wichita State (1); Thomas Walkup, Stephen F. Austin; Jameel Warney, Stony Brook; Dez Wells, Maryland; Joseph Young, Oregon (1).

years following Doug McDermott of Creighton.

Okafor is Duke’s 16th first-team All-America and is the Blue Devils’ second freshman in as many years, with Jabari Parker being chosen last season.

Okafor, who received 64 first-team votes, averaged 17.7 points and 9.0 rebounds while shooting

66.9 percent, second in the nation.

“His game has grown continuously and he’s got a lot more growth ahead of him,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “The main thing for Jah is that he’s gotten better as the season’s gone along.”

At Notre Dame, Grant’s career was in jeopardy

Moustakas, Gordon homer in Royals’ 11-7 victory Surprise, Ariz. (ap) — Mike Moustakas hit a grand slam in a seven-run first inning as the Kansas City Royals outslugged the Texas Rangers 11-7 Monday.

Alex Gordon, who also homered, and Eric Hosmer each had three of the Royals’ 15 hits.

Rangers starter Lisalverto Bonilla retired only one of eight batters he faced before being pulled after 37 pitches. He allowed five hits, walked one, hit a batter and balked home a run.

Moustakas hit a 1-2 pitch over the left-field wall after Hosmer singled, Alex Rios walked and Salvador Perez was hit by a pitch.

Gordon, who was held out of early games while rehabbing from December wrist surgery, had only three singles in 24 atbats, entering the game.

“Obviously, I got a late start,” Gordon said. “The numbers aren’t great, but you turn the page every day and realize this is spring training. I want to go out there and produce

and perform, and when that’s not happening, you’ve just got to come here the next day and try to figure it out.

“I’m trying to do as much as I can right now with the time I have to get ready for the season,” he added. “The whole point was to make the wrist feel normal again and that’s what it’s feeling like right now.”

Adam Rosales, Leonys Martin, Jake Smolinski and Ryan Rua each hit solo home runs off Royals left-hander Jason Vargas.

last season when he was suspended for the second semester for what he called an academic mistake. The son of former NBA player Harvey Grant star returned for his senior season and averaged 16.8 points and 6.6 assists while playing 36.6 minutes per game.

“I can’t think of a better comeback story in college basketball the last couple years than Jerian,” Notre Dame coach Mike Brey said. “When I told him you need to come back because we have unfinished business, I didn’t know it would be this good and I am thrilled that it is this good because I was nervous it wouldn’t be this good. He came back for all the right reasons.”

Grant, who received 53 first-team votes and is Notre Dame’s first AllAmerica since Troy Murphy repeated in 2001, said receiving an honor like this makes his decision to return that much sweeter.

“It’s great, especially with where I was last year,” he said. “The work I’ve put in, the guys having so much confidence in me to welcome me back like that.”

Cauley-Stein and his teammates are chasing history with an undefeated season just two wins away. The 7-footer is the first first-team AllAmerica to average less than 10 points per game.

He averaged 9.3 points while grabbing 6.4 rebounds and shooting 58.8 percent. He anchors Kentucky’s stifling defense.

“Coming in I felt like I was really overlooked and didn’t know if I really belonged but just worked and worked and worked and eventually became a player that everybody looks at like ‘Dude, you’re a freak athlete, you’re a beast,’” said Cauley-Stein, who received 45 first-team votes.

“You can do so many things that I never imagined even happening and now it’s coming together.”

He is the 18th AllAmerican from Kentucky and first since Anthony Davis in 2012.

Russell is another freshman who isn’t expected to be back for a second season. He averaged 19.3 points, 5.6 rebounds and 5.1 assists and received 51 first-team votes. Russell is 15th All-American from Ohio State and the first since Jared Sullinger repeated in 2012.

“The level that he sustained was the most impressive thing,” Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said.

“The other thing that I loved was that the mistakes early, he learned from. He got better as the season went on.”

BOX SCORE Royals 11, Rangers 7 Kansas City Texas

ab r h bi ab r h bi A.Escobar ss 3 1 1 0 L.Martin cf 3 1 3 2 G.Noriega ph-ss 3 0 1 1 C.Peguero rf 2 1 2 0 A.Gordon lf 4 3 3 1 Smolinski cf 5 2 2 2 Sierra lf 2 0 0 0 Fielder 1b 2 0 1 0 L.Cain cf 3 1 1 1 Moreland 1b 3 0 0 0 P.Orlando cf 2 0 0 0 Rua lf 4 1 1 2 Hosmer 1b 3 1 3 0 J.Martinez lf 1 0 0 0 M.Fields 1b 2 0 0 0 Choo dh 4 0 0 0 K.Morales dh 2 0 0 1 Chirinos c 2 0 0 0 R.Jackson pr-dh 1 1 1 0 Gimenez c 2 0 1 0 Rios rf 2 1 1 0 Rosales 3b-ss 3 2 1 1 J.Dyson rf 1 0 0 0 Odor 2b 3 0 1 0 S.Perez c 2 1 0 1 Lucas pr-3b 1 0 0 0 Kratz c 2 0 0 0 Field ss-2b 4 0 0 0 Moustakas 3b 3 1 1 4 C.Colon 3b 1 1 1 0 W.Merrifield 2b 5 0 2 1 Totals 41 11 15 10 Totals 39 7 12 7 Kansas City 700 101 002—11 Texas 013 100 200— 7 E-Smolinski (1). LOB-Kansas City 9, Texas 6.

2B-C.Peguero (3), Smolinski (5), Gimenez (3). HR-A. Gordon (1), Moustakas (2), L.Martin (3), Smolinski (2), Rua (2), Rosales (2). S-J.Dyson.

IP H R ER BB SO Kansas City J.Vargas W,1-2 5 7 5 5 1 5 Frasor 1 1 0 0 0 1 Flynn 1 2 2 2 0 1 Coleman S,1-2 2 2 0 0 0 1 Texas 1⁄3 Bonilla L,0-3 5 7 7 1 1 J.Wright 22⁄3 2 0 0 1 2 S.Freeman 1 3 1 1 0 0 Claudio 2 2 1 1 0 2 Bass 2 1 0 0 0 2 Feliz 1 2 2 2 2 0

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SCOREBOARD NCAA Men’s Tournament

FINAL FOUR At Lucas Oil Stadium Indianapolis National Semifinals Saturday, April 4 Michigan State (27-11) vs. Duke (334), 5:09 p.m.

Kentucky (38-0) vs. Wisconsin (353), 7:49 p.m.

National Championship Monday, April 6 Semifinal winners

Odds to Win Men’s NCAA Tournament

Team Kentucky Duke Wisconsin Michigan St.

Curr. Open.

Odds Odds 4-5 1-1 7-2 6-1 4-1 8-1 8-1 50-1

Final Four Teams Winning Percentage

The overall winning percentage of the participants entering the Final Four: Year W L Pct. 1939 74 23 .763 1940 76 12 .864 1941 76 15 .835 1942 82 13 .863 1943 88 16 .846 1944 65 14 .823 1945 72 23 .758 1946 103 14 .880 1947 90 14 .865 1948 102 16 .864 1949 96 19 .835 1950 93 25 .788 1951 104 13 .889 1952 86 20 .811 1953 88 11 .889 1954 78 33 .703 1955 88 15 .854 1956 97 10 .907 1957 89 16 .848 1958 91 16 .850 1959 95 21 .819 1960 99 8 .925 1961 98 13 .883 1962 90 23 .796 1963 100 12 .893 1964 97 13 .882 1965 92 17 .844 1966 100 11 .901 1967 104 12 .897 1968 105 11 .905 1969 101 12 .894 1970 103 6 .945 1971 103 13 .888 1972 105 12 .897 1973 99 12 .892 1974 101 13 .886 1975 101 16 .863 1976 112 9 .926 1977 106 16 .869 1978 102 19 .843 1979 106 16 .869 1980 96 29 .768 1981 111 22 .835 1982 107 24 .817 1983 110 24 .821 1984 113 22 .837 1985 119 18 .869 1986 127 22 .852 1987 120 19 .863 1988 122 22 .847 1989 117 24 .830 1990 119 23 .838 1991 119 19 .862 1992 112 20 .848 1993 121 17 .877 1994 114 20 .851 1995 115 22 .839 1996 121 18 .871 1997 116 22 .841 1998 126 14 .900 1999 126 15 .894 2000 102 40 .718 2001 113 25 .819 2002 118 22 .843 2003 110 23 .827 2004 120 23 .839 2005 126 15 .894 2006 115 27 .810 2007 127 19 .870 2008 143 9 .941 2009 123 21 .854 2010 124 23 .844 2011 114 37 .755 2012 128 24 .842 2013 123 29 .809 2014 124 27 .821 2015 133 18 .881 Bold — Kansas in Final Four

National Invitation Tournament

Semifinals At Madison Square Garden New York Today Miami (24-12) vs. Temple (26-10), 6 p.m.

Stanford (22-13) vs. Old Dominion (27-7), 8:30 p.m.

Championship Thursday, April 2 Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.

NCAA Women’s Tournament

FINAL FOUR At Tampa, Fla. National Semifinals Sunday, April 5 Notre Dame (35-2) vs. South Carolina (34-2), 5:30 p.m.

UConn (36-1) vs. Maryland (34-2), 7:30 p.m.

National Championship Tuesday, April 7 Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.

Spring Training

AMERICAN LEAGUE

W L Pct Oakland 19 9 .679 Kansas City 17 10 .630 Boston 14 10 .583 Toronto 16 12 .571 New York 15 12 .556 Los Angeles 13 12 .520 Houston 10 10 .500 Tampa Bay 11 11 .500 Cleveland 12 15 .444 Minnesota 11 14 .440 Seattle 11 15 .423 Baltimore 11 16 .407 Chicago 9 15 .375 Texas 9 15 .375 Detroit 10 17 .370 NATIONAL LEAGUE

W L Pct Los Angeles 16 8 .667 New York 17 11 .607 Pittsburgh 14 10 .583 San Diego 15 11 .577 St. Louis 12 10 .545 Cincinnati 13 11 .542 Colorado 15 13 .536 Arizona 14 14 .500 Miami 12 12 .500 Atlanta 13 14 .481 Chicago 13 15 .464 Milwaukee 11 13 .458 Washington 10 13 .435 Philadelphia 11 15 .423 San Francisco 9 20 .310 Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 6, Baltimore 6, tie, 10 innings St. Louis 6, Washington 2 Atlanta 4, Detroit 2 Pittsburgh 18, Philadelphia 4 N.Y. Mets 7, Miami 1 Chicago Cubs 8, San Francisco 5 Oakland 11, Colorado 2 Seattle 5, L.A. Angels 3 Cleveland 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Kansas City 11, Texas 7 San Diego 6, Cincinnati 3 L.A. Dodgers 4, Arizona 2 Toronto 7, Houston 4 Boston 14, Minnesota 2

Today’s Games Boston vs. Tampa Bay (ss) at Port Charlotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Miami vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (ss) vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 12:07 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Texas (ss) at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.

Texas (ss) vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Oakland vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Houston vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Montreal 77 47 22 8 102 203 174 x-Tampa Bay 77 47 23 7 101 249 201 Detroit 75 40 23 12 92 220 206 Boston 76 38 25 13 89 201 196 Ottawa 75 37 26 12 86 218 203 Florida 76 35 26 15 85 190 207 Toronto 76 28 42 6 62 198 244 Buffalo 75 20 47 8 48 144 254 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-N.Y. Rang. 75 47 21 7 101 228 177 Pittsburgh 76 42 23 11 95 210 190 N.Y. Islanders 77 45 27 5 95 235 215 Washington 76 41 25 10 92 223 188 Philadelphia 76 30 29 17 77 198 219 Columbus 75 36 35 4 76 207 232 New Jersey 76 31 33 12 74 168 194 Carolina 75 28 36 11 67 174 204 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Nashville 77 47 22 8 102 220 188 St. Louis 76 46 23 7 99 229 190 Chicago 76 46 24 6 98 217 176 Minnesota 76 44 25 7 95 219 186 Winnipeg 76 39 25 12 90 215 201 Dallas 77 37 30 10 84 239 248 Colorado 76 35 29 12 82 206 213 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Anaheim 78 49 22 7 105 227 216 Vancouver 76 44 27 5 93 219 204 Calgary 77 42 28 7 91 229 204 Los Angeles 76 37 25 14 88 201 192 San Jose 76 37 30 9 83 212 215 Edmonton 76 23 40 13 59 185 255 Arizona 76 23 45 8 54 160 252 Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 5, Montreal 3 Vancouver 4, St. Louis 1 Chicago 4, Los Angeles 1 Calgary 5, Dallas 3 Edmonton 4, Colorado 1 Buffalo at Arizona, (n) Today’s Games Florida at Boston, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Nashville, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reassigned C J.P. Arencibia to minor league camp.

BOSTON RED SOX — Placed C Christian Vazquez on the 60-day DL. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reassigned RHP Chris Beck to minor league camp.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned OF Tyler Holt to Columbus (IL). Released LHP Scott Downs from a minor league contract.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned C Bryan Holaday and OF Tyler Collins to Toledo (IL). Assigned C Manny Pina, OFs Xavier Avery and Jason Krizan and INFs Jordan Lennerton, Jefry Marte and Aaron Westlake to minor league camp.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Released 2B Ryan Roberts.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Assigned RHP Stephen Pryor outright to Rochester (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Blaine Boyer from Rochester.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Named Tino Martinez minor league instructor.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Released RHP Kevin Correia. Named Christopher Ellis director of safety and security.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned LHP Matt Reynolds and RHPs Allen Webster, Yoan Lopez and A.J. Schugel to Reno (PCL).

Reassigned OF Nick Buss, INF Water Ibarra and LHP Dan Runzler to minor league camp.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP Arodys Vizcaino to Gwinnett (IL).

Reassigned RHP Michael Kohn to minor league camp.

CHICAGO CUBS — Selected the contract of LHP Phil Coke from Iowa (PCL). Optioned INF Javier Baez to Iowa. Assigned INFs Kris Bryant and Addison Russell to their minor league camp.

CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Pedro Villarreal to Louisville (IL).

Reassigned RHP Nate Adock, INFs Ivan De Jesus Jr. and Irving Falu and C Kyle Skipworth to minor league camp.

Released LHP Paul Maholm.

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned RHP Preston Claiborne to New Orleans (PCL). Granted OF Reed Johnson his unconditional release.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned RHP Brandon Kintzler to Colorado Springs (PCL). Released RHP Chris Perez.

NEW YORK METS — Traded OF Matt den Dekker to Washington for LHP Jerry Blevins.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Selected the contract of RHP Carlos Villanueva from Memphis (PCL). Placed LHP Jaime Garcia on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Traded LHP Alex Torres to the N.Y. Mets for RHP Cory Mazzoni and player to be named.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned OFs Gary Brown and Juan Perez, C Andrew Susac, RHP Hunter Strickland and 1B Adam Duvall to Sacramento (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Traded C Sandy Leon to Boston for cash. Agreed to terms with OF Reed Johnson on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Recalled F-C Jarnell Stokes and G Russ Smith from Iowa (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed RB/ KR Jordan Todman to a one-year contract.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Re-signed DL C.J. Wilson.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed RB Michael Hill.

COLLEGE ALABAMA — Dismissed DL Jonathan Taylor from the football team for a domestic violence arrest.

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Title to Real Estate Involved NOTICE OF SUIT

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 “Last Will and Testament of Kenneth Eugene Flanders,” 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.

TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, TRUSTEES, CREDITORS AND ASSIGNS OF JULIA M. A/K/A JULIA GILLESPIE GILLESPIE A/K/A JULIA MONIQUE GILLESPIE, NOW DECEASED; AND ALL OTHER PERSONS WHO ARE OR MAY BE CON- Brent Flanders CERNED: Petitioner You are notified that an Amended Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, by Mid-America Bank, praying for judgment and foreclosure of a real estate mortgage on the following-described real estate: A tract commencing at the Southwest Corner of the Southeast Quarter of Section 4, Township 15 South, Range 20 East of the 6th P.M., in the City of Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas; thence South 89?43’56” East, 1,140.81 feet (Rec 1,143.00 feet); thence North 00?01’49” West, 1,239.25 feet; thence South 88?50’03” West, 40.00 feet to the Point of Beginning, said point being on the West line of 10th Street; thence continuing South 88?50’03” West 200.03 feet; thence North 00?01’49” West 135.00 feet; thence North 88?50’03” East, 200.03 feet, said point being on the West line of 10th Street; thence South 00?01’49” East, 135.00 feet to the Point of Beginning, in Douglas County, Kansas

Brian Russell 730 New Hampshire 3M Lawrence, KS 66044 785-423-4234 Attorney for Petitioner ________ (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld March 31, 2015) NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Lawrence, Kansas, in the Office of the City Clerk, 6 East Sixth Street until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 19 2015, for the following: BID #B1521 - Pump and Motor Rehabilitation Program Copies of the Notice to Contractors and specifications may be obtained at the Finance Department at the above address.

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Diane Trybom (commonly known as 1105 Acting City Clerk 10th St., Baldwin City, KS ________ 66008); (First published in the and you are hereby re- Lawrence Daily Journalquired to answer or other- World March 31, 2015) wise plead to the Amended Petition on or NOTICE TO BIDDERS before Monday, May 11, 2015 in said Court. If you Sealed proposals will be fail to answer or otherwise received by the City of plead, judgment and fore- Lawrence, Kansas, in the closure will be entered Office of the City Clerk, 6 upon the Amended Peti- East Sixth Street until 2:00 tion. p.m., Tuesday, May 19 Patricia A. Reeder, #10341 2015, for the following: WONER, GLENN, REEDER & GIRARD, P.A. BID #B1520 - Electrical 5611 SW Barrington Court Preventive Maintenance South Program P.O. Box 67689 Topeka, KS 66607-0689 Copies of the Notice to (785) 235-5330; Contractors and specifica(785) 235-1615 Fax tions may be obtained at Attorneys for Mid-America the Finance Department at Bank the above address.

00215223.DOC ________

The City Commission reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to (First published in the waive informalities.

Lawrence Daily JournalWorld, March 17, 2015) City of Lawrence, Kansas IN THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DIVISION In the matter of

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(First published in the Northwest corner of said Lawrence Daily Journal- Northwest Quarter; thence World March 31, 2015) South 90 degrees 0 minutes 0 seconds East, 840.00 IN THE DISTRICT COURT feet; thence South 32 deOF JOHNSON COUNTY, grees 47 minutes 11 secKANSAS onds East, 796.23 feet; CIVIL COURT DEPARTthence North 52 degrees 26 MENT minutes 19 seconds East, 352.43 feet to a point EQUITY BANK, N.A., 1100.00 feet West of the Plaintiff, East line of said Northwest Quarter; thence South 0 vs. degrees 0 minutes 18 seconds East, 854.55 feet to a SANDRA L. VANLERBERG, point on the South line et al., 1100.02 feet West of the Defendants.

Southeast corner of said Northwest Quarter; thence Case No. 14CV04627 South 89 degrees 39 minCourt No. 7 utes 34 seconds West along the South line of Title to Real Estate said Northwest Quarter, Involved 1550.64 feet to the point of beginning, also known as NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Tract 4 as shown by Plat of Survey by Dennis Handke, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, LS-786, recorded May 24, that under and by virtue of 2005, in Book 987, Page 267. an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Tract II: Court of Johnson County, A tract of land in the Kansas, in the case above Northwest Quarter of Secnumbered, wherein the tion 22, Township 14 South, parties above named were Range 21 East of the Sixth respectively plaintiff and Principal Meridian, DougDefendant, and to me, the las County, Kansas deundersigned Sheriff of scribed as follows: BeginnJohnson County, Kansas, ing at the Southeast cordirected, I will offer for ner of said Northwest sale at public auction and Quarter; thence South 89 sell to the highest bidder degrees 39 minutes 34 secfor cash in hand at the onds West (assumed bearsouth door steps of the ing) along the South line of Johnson County Court- said Northwest Quarter, house, 100 N. Kansas Ave. 1100.02 feet; thence North in Olathe, Kansas on April 0 degrees 0 minutes 18 22, 2015, at 10:00 AM of seconds West, 300.00 feet; said day, the following de- thence North 89 degrees 39 scribed real estate situ- minutes 34 seconds East, ated in the County of John- 1100.02 feet to the East line son, State of Kansas, of said Northwest Quarter; to-wit: thence South 0 degrees 0 minutes 18 seconds East Johnson County Property along the East line of said Northwest Quarter, 300.00 All of the West 10 Acres of feet to the point of beginnthe South ½ of the South- ing, also known as Tract I east ¼ of Section 16, Town- as shown by Plat of Survey ship 12, Range 23, in the by Dennis Handke, LS-786, City of Shawnee, Johnson recorded May 24, 2005, in County, Kansas, except Book 987, Page 265 any part in streets or (“Property”) roads and except that part said real property is levied conveyed to the City of upon as the property of Shawnee, Kansas, a Munic- Defendant Sandra L. ipal Corporation of the Vanlerberg and all other State of Kansas in Deed of alleged owners and will be Dedication of Right of Way sold without appraisal to recorded March 25, 1997 in satisfy said Order of Sale.

Book 5139, Page 583 de- JOHNSON COUNTY SHERIFF scribed as follow: Commencing at the Southwest Submitted by: corner of the Southeast MARTIN, LEIGH, LAWS & Quarter (1/4) of Section 16, FRITZLEN, P.C. Township 12 South, Range 23 East; thence North /S/Beverly M. Weber along the Quarter Section Beverly M. Weber KS #20570 line 30.00 feet to the Point Dustin J. Stiles KS #25152 of Beginning; thence the bmw@mllfpc.com following four (4) courses: djs@mllfpc.com 1. North 02 degrees 31 min- ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF utes 41 seconds West on said quarter line. 5.00 feet; MARTIN, LEIGH, LAWS & P.C. IS AT2. North 88 degrees 15 min- FRITZLEN, utes 53 seconds East, TEMPTING TO COLLECT A 313.75 feet; 3. South 02 de- DEBT AND ANY INFORMAgrees 31 minutes 41 sec- TION OBTAINED WILL BE onds East 5.00 feet; South USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. ________ 88 degrees 15 minutes 33 seconds West 313.75 feet (First published in the to the point of beginning.

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First Round

16 N. Florida 77

11 Boise State 55

16 Hampton 74

11 BYU 90

March 17-18

16 Robert Morris 81

11 Dayton 56

Men’s NCAA Division I Basketball Championship

Third Round

March 19-20

9 Purdue 65

4 Maryland 59

13 Valparaiso 62 6 Butler 56

4 Louisville 70 5 N. Iowa 53

Final Four

4 Louis. 75

Indianapolis

Sat. 7:49 p.m

MIDWEST

April 4 Sat. 5:09 p.m

4 Louisville 66

EAST

7 Mich. St.

1 Kentucky

11 Dayton 66 3 Okla. 58

3 N. Dame 81

3 Notre Dame 69

3 Oklahoma 72

3 N. Dame 67

14 Northeastern 65

3 N. D. 66

7 Wichita St. 81

7 Wich. 70

2 Kansas 75 15 New Mexico St. 56 1 Wisconsin 86

7 MSU 76

National Championship

7 Wichita St. 78

10 Indiana 76

7 Mich. St. 60

April 6

2 Kansas 65

2 Virginia 54

1 Duke 68 1 Duke 63 8 San D. St. 49

8 Oregon 65

9 Oklahoma St. 73

5 Utah 75

5 Arkansas 78

12 Wofford 53 4 North Carolina 67

Second Round March 19-20

1 Villanova 93 16 Lafayette 52 8 NC State 66 9 LSU 65 5 Northern Iowa 71 12 Wyoming 54 4 Louisville 57 13 UC Irvine 55 6 Providence 53 11 Dayton 66 3 Oklahoma 69 14 Albany 60 7 Michigan St. 70

2 Virginia 79

5 Utah 57

4 UNC 72 4 UNC 87

WEST

4 GTWN 64

SOUTH

1 Duke

1 Wisconsin

6 Xavier 75

11 Ole Miss 57

11 UCLA 92

6 Xavier 60

11 UCLA 62

14 Ga. St. 67

14 UAB 75 2 Gonz. 52

2 Arizona 78

7 Iowa 68

10 Ohio St. 58 2 Ariz. 68

16 Robert Morris 56 8

5 Utah 57 12 S. F. Austin 50 4 Georgetown 84 13 E. Washington 74 6 SMU 59 11 UCLA 60 3 Iowa St. 59 14 UAB 60 7 Iowa 83 10 Davidson 52

2 Gonz. 74

All times CDT

2 Arizona 73

1 Duke 85

9 St. John’s 64

1 Duke 66

1 Wisconsin 85

5 Arkansas 56

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15 Belmont 67

1 Wisconsin 79

8 Oregon 79

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10 Georgia 63

7 MSU 62

1 Wisconsin 72

16 Coastal Car. 72

15 Texas So. 72

8 NC State 71

6 Butler 64

11 Texas 48

2 Arizona 93

Elite Eight

5 W. Va. 39

4 Maryland 65

8 NC St. 65

March 28-29

5 W. Va. 69

12 Buffalo 62

10 Ohio St. 75

Elite Eight

March 28-29 1 Kentucky 68

5 W. Virginia 68

7 VCU 72

March 26-27 1 Villanova 68

March 26-27

8 Cincinnati 51

March 21-22

Sweet 16

1 Kentucky 78

8 Cincinnati 66

14 Georgia St. 57

Sweet 16

1 Kentucky 64

16 Hampton 56

3 Baylor 56

Third Round

March 21-22

1 Kentucky 79

6 Xavier 76

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Second Round

13 Harvard 65

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2 Gonzaga 87

2 Gonzaga 86 15 N. Dakota St. 76 AP

First Round March 20-21

1 UConn 89 16 St. Fran. Bklyn 33 8 Rutgers 79 9 Seton Hall 66 5 Texas 66 12 W. Kentucky 64 4 California 78 13 Wichita St. 66 6 South Fla. 73 11 LSU 64 3 Louisville 86 14 BYU 53 7 Dayton 78 10 Iowa St. 66 2 Kentucky 97 15 Tenn. St. 52 1 Maryland 75 16 New Mex. St. 57 8 Princeton 80 9 Green Bay 70 5 Miss. St. 57 12 Tulane 47 4 Duke 54 13 Albany (NY) 52 6 G. Washington 69 11 Gonzaga 82 3 Oregon St. 74 14 S. Dakota St. 62 7 Chattanooga 40 10 Pittsburgh 51 2 Tennessee 72 15 Boise St. 61

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March 27-28 1 Notre Dame 79

March 27-28

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March 22-23

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Elite Eight

1 UConn 91

1 N. Dame 77

Mar. 29-30

1 N.Dame 81 9 DePaul 67

Mar. 29-30

5 Oklahoma 76

5 Texas 73

Final Four

5 Texas 54

4 Stanford 60

Tampa Bay

4 California 70

4 Stanford 86

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ALBANY

1 UConn

1 N. Dame

OKLAHOMA CITY

6 South Fla. 52

11 Miami 70 3 Iowa 66

3 Louisville 66

3 Iowa 88

3 Louisville 60 7 Dayton 70

National Championship

7 Dayton 99 7 Dayton 82

2 Baylor 68 10 Arkansas 44 2 Baylor 81

April 7

2 Kentucky 94

2 Baylor 73

1 Maryland 85

1 S. Carolina 97

16 Montana 43 8 Minnesota 72 9 DePaul 79 5 Oklahoma 111 12 Quinnipiac 84 4 Stanford 73 13 CS Northridge 60 6 Washington 80 11 Miami 86 3 Iowa 75 14 American 67 7 Northwestern 55 10 Arkansas 57 2 Baylor 77 15 Nwestern St. 36

1 Maryland 65

Sunday, 7:30p.m.

Sunday, 5:30p.m.

1 S. Car. 67 8 Syracuse 68

8 Princeton 70 1 Maryland 58

5 Ohio St. 84 4 UNC 65

4 Duke 55

4 N. Carolina 86

4 Duke 64

SPOKANE

1 Maryland

1 S. Car.

11 UALR 54

11 Gonzaga 76

3 Arizona St. 57

3 Oregon St. 64

10 Pittsburgh 67 2 Tenn. 73

5 Ohio St. 80 12 J. Madison 80 4 North Carolina 71

6 Texas A&M 60

3 Arizona St. 74 14 Ohio 55

2 FSU 74 All times CDT

8 Syracuse 72

11 UALR 69

3 Ariz. St. 65

2 Tenn. 48

16 Savannah St. 48

13 Liberty 65

GREENSBORO

11 Gonzaga 69

1 S. Carolina 81

9 Nebraska 69

1 S. Car. 80

5 Miss. St. 56

2 Tennessee 77

1 Notre Dame 77

7 FGCU 47 2 FSU 66 2 Florida St. 65

7 FGCU 75 10 Okla. St. 67 2 Florida St. 91 15 Alabama St. 49

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“She’s a motivator,” Stigler said. “She’s a tough cookie. She doesn’t give you light workouts at all, stays on top of me, pushing me every day. Say I stutter a hurdle, I could probably have pushups, or she’ll get on me: ‘We can’t settle for less.’

That’s where she’s at now. It’s working for me. I’m not complaining at all. The more she pushes me, the better I’ll become.”

Stigler said he likes to spend much of race day by himself.

Friday, for example, his day started with a Stigler shakeout, an easy jog of 10 minutes or so and a stretch.

“Usually do that before breakfast, just so you don’t lay in the bed all day, get your legs under you,” he said.

He had breakfast — two scrambled eggs, bacon, breakfast potatoes and fruit cup — delivered to his room.

“I like to stay away from people a little bit,” on race day, he said. “I like to stay focused, not get sidetracked by other things going on. Not that I’m so focused on my race, just to stay in my element. You don’t want negative energy coming your way.”

For lunch, somewhere between noon and 1, he had half of a submarine sandwich. A coach picked him up in time for him to arrive at the track at 5 p.m., two hours before his race. He had the other half of the sub sandwich stuffed in his bag, “just so I have something to snack on, so I can have some energy I can burn off.”

After arriving at the meet, he underwent a rubdown and massage, did a series of stretching drills and sprint drills, then summoned Brewer to watch him scale some hurdles under her watchful eye.

Stigler, measured at 5-foot-10 with shoes on, weighs 155 pounds. Not eating much in advance of a night race doesn’t bother him.

The gun sounded, he blew away the field and knocked 0.75 seconds off of his PR. How did he do it?

“It was just strength we’ve been working on all year and being more consistent between the hurdles,” he said. “Last year, I was just running.

This year, I’m focusing on my run being more smooth and quick, and it’s made a huge difference.”

How does he make it smoother?

“Basically, just the rhythm between the hurdles,” he said. “The more consistent I got between each hurdle (repeating the same touch-down time), say I go 3.9 (seconds) between hurdles 1 and 2, just carry that out through, say, the first five hurdles of the race, that means I’m being more consistent. And I’m not chopping up my rhythm and not over-striding.”

Some hurdlers count their steps between hurdles.

“We never count the steps,” Stigler said.

“I feel like that’s too much to think about in a race. Some people count steps, but that’s not the way we do it here. Mainly, it’s touchdown time between the hurdles.”

Stigler’s mind and body were perfectly synched Friday, getting his senior year off to an amazing start.