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LAWRENCE MUSICIAN CHRISTOPHER LUXEM of the band CS Luxem works through the chorus of a song about the 17-year cicadas as he records in the Sound + Vision studio at the Lawrence Public Library with Mark Rockwell, on drums, also of CS Luxem. Jared Scholz, of the Greenhouse Culture Band, is at right. Both CS Luxem and the Greenhouse Culture Band accepted an invitation from Lawrence Magazine to collaborate on the song and record it within just a few hours.

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Musicians collaborate on song honoring 17-year phenomenon

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he thought of millions of cicadas emerging from the ground after 17 years under our feet — to breed and then die within weeks — is both fascinating and eerie. Two local bands have managed to capture those sentiments in a collaborative song honoring the burrowing insects.

The two bands — The Greenhouse Culture Band, an Indie-rock Christian group; and CS Luxem, described variously as psychedelic

Sound + Vision recording studio and come out with an original song on the theme of the periodic cicadas.

The bands, which had never worked together before, wrote and recorded the song in about four The 17-year cicada emerges from the hours on Wednesday, with each ground only once every couple of decades musician contributing ideas. Christo breed, then die. topher Luxem — vocals, guitar and bass for CS Luxem — wrote most and punk-oriented — were invited of the music. Luxem said the time

by Lawrence Magazine, which is crunch had positives and negatives. owned by The World Company, “It’s both invigorating and to participate. The task: to walk Please see SONG, page 2A into the Lawrence Public Library’s

When conservative Republicans made huge gains in the Kansas Legislature following the 2012 and 2014 elections, many people thought they would have an easy time pushing through their agendas on taxes and state spending.

But with the state now mired in a $400 million budget shortfall — and the LEGISLATURE prospect of having to furlough tens of thousands of employees next week if the budget crisis isn’t resolved — Republicans in the House Please see LEADING, page 2A l Republicans who want to preserve a break for Kansas business owners blocked debate Thursday over raising taxes to balance the state budget. 3A

Pet store fire due to ‘electrical event’; damage estimate $500K

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Hikers, bikers concerned about illegal motorized vehicles destroying river trail

By Chad Lawhorn Twitter: @clawhorn_ljw

A caretaker for a popular hike and bike trail along the Kansas River is asking people to be on the lookout for a rogue ATV rider, or riders, damaging miles of trails and wildlife habitat.

Art King, trail maintenance coordinator for the Lawrence Mountain Bike Club, said riders have done damage to the Kansas River trails that will take several hundred hours to repair.

The approximately 10-mile trail runs through the city’s Riverfront Park, which is on the north bank of the Kansas River.

Art King, trail maintenance coordinator for Lawrence Parks and Rec-

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They went through a lot of areas that had never been disturbed before. It was really good habitat for wildlife.”

— Art King, trail maintenance coordinator reation’s Lawrence River Trail, walks in the path made by an ATV, adjacent to the trail Wednesday afternoon in North Lawrence.

Runners and bicyclists have reported ATVs in the area.

Motorized vehicles and horses are prohibited on the trail.

ART KING, TRAIL MAINTENANCE COORDINATOR for the Lawrence Mountain Bike Club, walks along a path Wednesday that was illegally made by an ATV at the city’s Riverfront Park in North Lawrence. At the left of the photo is the actual trail for hikers and bikers. King says the damage done by motorized vehicles, which are not permitted in the trail area, will take several hundred hours Please see TRAIL, page 2A to repair.

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Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical officials ruled Thursday that the fire at Pet World, 711 W. 23rd St., was accidental, Fire Department Division Chief Eve Tolefree said.

Fire investigators determined the fire was due to “an electrical event in the main breaker panel,” Tolefree said. The store’s total damages are estimated to be about $500,000.

Firefighters responded to a report of a fire at the building around 12:30 p.m. Monday. The business had been closed for Memorial Day. Pet World co-owner Sherry Emerson said Tuesday that she would not disclose how many animals died in the fire, but she said all of the store’s mammals and birds, plus some reptiles and some fish perished.

Firefighters were able to rescue several animals, including a few iguanas, some fish and a Burmese python and other reptiles. Some feeder rats, a few hamsters and gerbils stored in a separate structure were alive.

Store owners have said they intend to rebuild.

— Reporter Caitlin Doornbos can be reached at 832-7146 or cvdoornbos@ljworld.com.

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DRUMMER MARK ROCKWELL asks for the volume in his headphones to be turned up prior to recording the percussion track for the song.

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challenging,” he said.

The cicadas, which have already begun emerging throughout northeast Kansas, have one goal to accomplish in their short time above ground: to breed.

To that end, the male cicadas cluster in huge groups to amplify their buzzing mating song — their own form of collaboration.

Jared Scholz — vocals and guitar for Greenhouse Culture — wrote most of the song’s lyrics. Scholz said the two bands seemed to find the balance between group consensus and individual vision.

“Striking that balance is a powerful thing,” he said.

Touching on the cicadas’ ephemeral existence above ground, one verse of the song goes: “You can rip your wings, take a ride, pull the shades and hope to die.”

But the upbeat song is far from fatalistic. The chorus builds toward a

kind of reverence for the insects, saying: “Wake up, wake up.

Rise up, rise up. You’ve got breath, so breathe.

You’ve got song, so sing.

You’ve got her and me.

The choir agrees, find your part and sing.”

In all, six musicians worked on the song. For CS Luxem, in addition to Luxem, Mark Osman — on drums and shaker — took part. For Greenhouse Culture, in addition to Scholz, there was Addison Sauvan, guitar; Kalah Sipp, vocals; and Matt Baldwin, tambourine and bells.

Matt Pelsma, the audio engineer for the collaboration, said group efforts aren’t always easy; he thinks this one worked because of honest communication and respect for each contributor’s musical talent.

“None of us really knew each other, so it’s kind of cool that we were able to make a song within such a short time frame,” he said.

The song will be posted, likely by next week, on the Lawrence Music Project website, lawrencemusicproject.org, which is organized by the library.

GUITARIST ADDISON SAUVAN with the Greenhouse Culture band uses pedals during the recording.

Lawrence all caught up on rainfall Staff Reports

Around 32-hundredths of an inch of rain fell Thursday on Lawrence, according to Matt Wolters of the National Weather Service in Topeka.

Although the scattered showers Thursday morning and early afternoon didn't amount to much total rainfall, Wolters said the area has now, finally, caught up with the average expected rainfall

for this point in the year.

As of Thursday evening, Lawrence had seen 13.75 inches of rain so far this year, Wolters said.

The average amount of rainfall expected by May 28 is 13.36 inches.

"This month has been pretty wet," Wolters said. "And it had been a dry winter and a dry spring."

More showers are likely today, Wolters said.

As much as half an inch might fall, he added.

King said for the past year members of the Lawrence Mountain Bike Club and other trail users have noticed increasing amounts of damage at the trail, which has multiple signs that prohibit motorized vehicles.

“But on Memorial Day weekend the amount of damage at the site escalated about 100 times from what it had been before,” King said.

King estimated that on Wednesday of last week one rider, possibly more, used an ATV and a small motorcycle to “shred vegetation, knock down trees and make his own trails.” King said the culprit created about a mile’s worth of rogue trails through the woodland areas around the river. At some point on Friday night, the culprit returned and cut swaths totaling about three to four miles, King said.

“They went through a lot of areas that had never been disturbed before,” King said. “It was really good habitat for wildlife.”

In addition, the riders have been tearing up the trail that the Mountain Bike Club has built and maintained for the city since 1989. King said the the riders have damaged berms, created loose soil and other issues that

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and Senate remain sharply divided over how, or even whether, to raise enough taxes to pay the state’s expenses.

And after the 98th day of what was supposed to be a 90-day session, neither Republican Gov. Sam Brownback nor the GOP leaders in the House and Senate have been able to unite their members behind a plan for a balanced budget.

“It goes without saying that it’s a failure of leadership, and it permeates up from the second floor,” said Senate Minority Democratic Anthony Hensley, of Topeka, referring to the floor of the Statehouse where the governor’s office is located.

On Wednesday, the Senate spent several hours debating and amending one tax bill before shooting the final product down on a 30-1 vote.

On Thursday in the House, GOP leaders couldn’t even muster the votes needed to bring a tax bill to the floor for debate, even though a large number of Democrats had agreed to help them on the procedural motion.

House Speaker Ray Merrick, of Stilwell, seldom speaks to reporters.

And when he does, he typically gives very short responses as his communications director Rachel Whitten escorts him away from the press.

“We’re working on it,” Merrick said Thursday when asked whether there was a plan for ending the session.

But other GOP leaders have tried to convey the image that there is nothing unusual about the lack of progress this year as the Legislature continues to work into overtime.

“I’ve been here a long time, and tough votes don’t happen until about the third or fourth night, until about 3 o’clock in the morning,” said Senate President Susan Wagle, of Wichita. “It’s hard. Everybody has a perception of what’s best, and they come from very different districts and very different populations, and it’s hard to build consensus.”

Quietly, some Republicans have complained

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could be dangerous for unsuspecting mountain bikers.

King said a few trail users have seen the riders at various times but have been unsuccessful in getting police officers called to the scene while the riders were still present. King said he’s asking trail users to be diligent in calling the police whenever they spot the users. He said North Lawrence residents also can help by calling when they see people on ATVs or motorcycles in the area near the entrances to Riverfront Park.

King said the trail system has become a desti-

nation for many mountain bike riders across the country, in part because it is a well-maintained trail that allows for an exciting, higher speed trip for experienced riders. He said about 250 people contribute a total of about 1,500 hours of maintenance work each year on the trail.

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that Brownback himself hasn’t put forth his own plan for solving the budget shortfall.

Brownback, however, insisted Thursday that he is engaged in trying to broker an agreement, although he has not put forth a plan of his own.

The problem, he said, is that conservatives are being asked to do something that conservatives aren’t inclined to do: raise taxes.

“As I’ve said all along, this is a very complicated, very difficult thing for a conservative Legislature to deal with, and we’re trying to work through that,” Brownback said.

Rep. Marvin Kleeb, R-Overland Park, who chairs the House Taxation Committee, made a similar comment to his fellow Republicans during a caucus meeting Thursday.

“This is part ideology and part, ‘This is just not in our DNA,’” he said.

House Majority Leader Jene Vickrey, R-Louisburg, said Republicans are basically divided into four camps: those who don’t want to raise any taxes because they would prefer to cut more spending; those who will only raise sales and other “consumption” taxes; those who insist on reversing course on the 2012 tax cuts for business owners; and those who are looking for any combination of tax hikes that can get majorities in both chambers and the governor’s signature.

Vickrey said most of the GOP leaders in the House fall into the last category.

“I don’t think anyone’s throwing in the towel,” he said. “We just have to find what is the structure of the components that we put together that can get enough votes to pass and be signed by the governor.”

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The House’s next move Earlier this week, the House Taxation Committee advanced a bill, without recommendation, that includes a combination of business income and sales tax increases, along with a variety of other changes in tax policy.

Their plan Thursday, which eventually fell apart on a procedural vote, was to bring an amended version of that bill to the floor, stripping out nearly all of the substantive provisions, and pass out a “shell” bill so that the whole tax question could be sent to a conference committee.

That conference committee could then send out a variety of different plans that could only be voted up or down, and could not be subject to amendments.

“We’ve all seen what happened on the Senate side,” Kleeb told his fellow Republicans. “Countless amendments and hours of ‘gotcha’ votes.”

But the more conservative members of the caucus rebelled, saying that plan put too much power in the hands of a small group of legislators.

And some House members, including Rep. Marc Rhoades, of Newton, said they particularly didn’t trust that Wagle shares their agenda.

House leaders are expected to try again today to pass out a “shell” tax bill that can send the issue to a conference committee.

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Governor open to budget cuts Topeka — Conservative Republicans who want to preserve a break for Kansas business owners prevented a debate Thursday over raising taxes to balance the state budget, while GOP Gov. Sam Brownback said he’s willing to consider new proposals to trim spending.

Republicans who control the Legislature insisted they’re getting closer to agreeing on how to close a projected $406 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year beginning July 1. But neither chamber has passed a plan for raising new revenues during a session that has been one of Kansas lawmakers’ longest.

House GOP leaders wanted to consider a bill Thursday to boost sales and cigarette taxes and repeal an income tax exemption for business owners and farmers enacted in 2012 at Brownback’s urging. Members didn’t expect those proposals to pass, but top Republicans hoped the House would pass a stripped-down version of the measure.

The Legislature’s rules then would have allowed six House and Senate negotiators LEGISLATURE to draft revenue-raising plans and present them to each chamber for up-ordown votes, speeding up the resolution of tax issues.

But several conservatives said during a meeting of House Republicans that they feared losing their influence.

“The tax process is going to be handled by three people from the House and three people from the Senate,” said conservative Republican Rep. Steve Brunk, of Wichita.

“What’s our mechanism for input then?”

The hitch for GOP leaders was changing the House’s debate calendar for the day. The vote was 72-40, but Republican leaders needed a twothirds majority, or 84 of 125 possible votes.

House leaders then scheduled a debate on tax issues for today, expecting it to last all day, with no guarantee that anything will pass.

The state’s budget problems arose after Brownback successfully pushed lawmakers to cut personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 as an economic stimulus. Lawmakers reduced income tax rates, dropped the top rate to 29 percent and exempted from taxes the profits of 281,000 business owners and 53,000 farmers.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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PEDESTRIANS CROSS THE INTERSECTION OF NINTH AND MASSACHUSETTS STREETS DURING THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SEASON IN DECEMBER 1954. Every week, usually on Thursday, the Journal-World runs an image from our archives, chosen by chief photographer Mike Yoder, that gives a glimpse into Lawrence’s past.

Two manufacturing companies that could bring a total of 200 jobs to Lawrence are seriously considering locating in the city’s newest business park, economic development leaders said Thursday.

“I think it is going well,” Larry McElwain, president and CEO of The Chamber, said of efforts to land the first tenants for the 220-acre Lawrence VenturePark on the former site of the Farmland Industries fertilizer plant. “The two prospects we are working with are solid.”

McElwain and other leaders of the Lawrence chamber of commerce provided an update at an economic development breakfast on Thursday.

McElwain confirmed that The Chamber is in the process of putting together incentive packages to

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A 33-year-old Oskaloosa man was charged Thursday with seconddegree murder and felony theft in connection with the Monday stabbing death of Tracy Dean Lautenschlager, 45, of Lawrence.

Charging documents allege that Joshua Lee Back killed Lautenschlager and stole a 1992 GMC Sienna truck from Sue Radcliffe, who is listed on Douglas County Appraiser’s Office records as the owner of a home at 700 Arkansas St., where police believe the stabbing occurred.

Emergency responders on Monday found Lautenschlager bleeding outside of the McDonald’s at 1309 W. Sixth St. shortly after 6 a.m. After medics took him to the hospital, where he later died, po-

lice followed a blood trail back to the 700 Arkansas St. home, Lawrence police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley said Monday.

Lautenschlager’s connection to the Back home, if any, is unclear.

On Wednesday, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said Lautenschlager had worked as an election poll worker for Douglas County since 2012. Shew described Lautenschlager as “a person who was willing to go the extra mile.”

Police investigators remained at 700 Arkansas St. Monday and Tuesday but had left the scene by Wednesday.

Back was arrested in Leavenworth County Wednesday after leading law enforcement on a chase in a “stolen gold color GMC Yukon”

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offer to the two companies. Ultimately, city and county commissioners will be responsible for deciding whether to approve those incentive packages.

“The competition is fierce for the type of projects that we’re competing for,” McElwain said.

Chamber officials did not provide many details about either prospect but did confirm both are manufacturers. Between the two, the companies could add more than 200 jobs and $60 million worth of capital investment in the community, according to The Chamber. McElwain said one company is seeking a 10acre site at VenturePark, while the other is seeking 90 acres. Previously the company had been seeking 120 acres, but the firm has modified its request.

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Police have not said why Back was identified as a suspect, other than that his arrest came after investigators “were following leads” in the case.

Back’s second-degree murder charge indicates he “intentionally” killed Lautenschlager, according to court documents.

Second-degree murder does not require an element of premeditation, unlike first-degree murder. The felony theft charge indicates the truck was valued at “at least $1,000 but less than $25,000.”

According to court records, Back was wanted on a warrant out of

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Topeka — Legislators would be required to sign off on any plan for reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions under a measure Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed Thursday.

Brownback also signed a compromise on renewable energy incentives while the Senate approved a raft of tweaks to the state’s liquor laws.

The emissions bill is a response to a new rule from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aimed at reducing power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change. States that don’t submit a plan to the EPA will have a federal one imposed upon them.

The measure authorizes the state’s health and environment secretary

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Republicans don’t expect to get any help in passing a tax plan from Democrats, who argue that Brownback’s tax policies favored the wealthy.

GOP lawmakers remain divided over whether the break for business owners and farmers was fair or whether it went farther than intended.

If lawmakers don’t rethink that break, they’ll have to rely more heavily on increasing the sales tax and tobacco taxes to raise new revenues. The bill

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Douglas County at the time of the Monday stabbing. The warrant had been issued after Back failed to appear for a court hearing on a November 2014 felony interference with law enforcement charge.

Back pleaded no contest in 2001 to a misdemeanor criminal damage of property in Douglas County.

According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, Back has a 2001 aggravated indecent liberties with a child conviction and a 2013 criminal possession of a weapon conviction out of Jefferson County.

The Journal-World reported in 2013 that Back had allegedly been “menacing people” in an Oskaloosa mobile home park with a sawed-off shotgun.

It is illegal in Kansas to carry a shotgun with a barrel shorter than 18 inches and for convicted felons to

Emissions plan An 11-member legislative committee would have to approve the emissions reduction plan developed by the utilities regulator and environment officials before the state could submit it to the EPA. Zack Pistora, a lobby-

resources account ist with environfor 20 percent of mental advocacy utilities’ capacity group the Kansas to generate elecSierra Club, said tricity by 2020. the Kansas bill Republican Sen. was a positive step Rob Olson from that would ensure Olathe helped nethe state would gotiate the deal be able to comply and said it prowith new federal Brownback vides greater busiregulations in a way best tailored to its ness certainty for both renewable energy proeconomic needs.

But, several officials ducers and utilities comat the signing ceremo- panies.

Green energy comny criticized the EPA over the new rules, and panies agreed to let the Brownback said he be- mandate become a nonlieves the federal agency binding goal in return made the changes with for legislators dropping a short deadlines because proposal to impose a 4.33 the Obama administra- percent tax on the election is “trying to rush a tricity generated from rerule out” before the 2016 newable resources.

The agreement also presidential elections. would give all new green Renewables mandates energy projects tax-free The governor also status for their first 10 years signed a bill Thursday and require them to pay that would remove a re- commercial property taxes quirement that renewable thereafter. Renewable pow-

the House was to consider Thursday would have set the sales tax at 6.45 percent.

The Senate voted 30-1 Wednesday to reject a tax plan with similar elements, along with an increase in the gasoline tax.

Senate President Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican, said afterward that lawmakers must consider new spending cuts. House and Senate negotiators agreed last week on a proposed budget allowing spending financed with state tax dollars to rise 3 percent during the next fiscal year.

Asked about trimming spending during a Thursday news conference, Brownback said, “Let’s see what they come for-

ward with, with ideas.”

“I’m sure there are possibilities,” he said.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Ron Ryckman Jr. said budget negotiators will vet new proposals to trim spending, but the Olathe Republican is also confident they’ve drafted a solid spending blueprint. Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a Nickerson Republican, questioned whether legislators would support further trimming.

“We can talk about it — make sure we didn’t miss anything. But, at the end of the day, it’s hard to push something like that through the Legislature,” Bruce said.

to draft a plan for reducing such emissions, and it could include voluntary agreements with utilities to reduce production at coal-fired power plants.

Jay Emler, a commissioner at the state’s utilities regulator, said at the signing ceremony that he believes the new federal regulations will be expensive and could have “horrendous ramifications” for ratepayers.

Here is a look at significant issues taken up by the Kansas Legislature Thursday.

If Back makes bond, he will have to wear a GPS bracelet and will be forbidden to contact any non-lawenforcement witnesses.

Back is scheduled to appear next in court on June 24. possess firearms.

Back additionally has a 2011 conviction for obstructing the legal process from Shawnee County, according to the department of corrections.

Douglas County Judge Pro Tem James George set bond for Back’s seconddegree murder and felony theft case at $750,000.

George also set a $5,000 bond for Back’s 2014 felony interference charge.

If Back makes bond, he will have to wear a GPS bracelet and will be forbidden to contact any non-lawenforcement witnesses. Back is scheduled to appear next in court on June 24.

er plants are currently given vide samples and let vinea lifetime exemption from yards sell wine on their property taxes. property.

Liquor laws The Kansas Senate voted 30-6 Thursday to approve a measure that would allow alcohol at state events at the Capitol and adjusts a number of liquor permit processes.

It now goes to the House for consideration.

Republican Rep. Vicki Schmidt of Topeka said she opposed the bill, because it vaguely defined when alcohol would be permitted in the Capitol.

The bill also would allow patrons of art galleries to bring their own bottles of wine to painting sessions. Alcoholic beverages could also be consumed at farmer’s markets, state fairs and catered events on public property, under the bill. It also would allow alcohol distributors to pro-

Approaching 100 days Lawmakers convened Thursday for the 98th day of their session, eight more than their leaders traditionally schedule.

Each extra day in session costs the state a total of more than $40,000.

Republicans in the GOP-dominated Legislature have yet to agree on proposals for raising taxes to close a projected $406 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

Resolution of budget and tax issues isn’t expected until at least the session’s 100th day.

Only five sessions have lasted 100 days or more, according to legislative researchers. The longest in state history was in 2002, at 107 days.

Man pleads not guilty in rape case

By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos

A 20-year-old Anadarko, Okla., man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges related to an alleged November 2014 rape of a fellow Haskell Indian Nations University student in his dorm room.

The man pleaded not guilty Thursday to aiding and abetting attempted aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated criminal sodomy, aiding and abetting attempted rape and two counts of rape.

have been expelled Prosecutor Cathfrom Haskell in erine Decena allight of the allegaleges the man both tions. sexually assaultThe man is ed a 20-year-old scheduled to next woman and helped COURTS appear in court on his 19-year-old coSept. 25, according defendant, charged with two counts of rape to Cheryl Wright Kunard, and one count of sodomy, assistant to the district atto commit sex crimes torney.

His codefendant pleadwith the same victim during the man’s encounter. ed not guilty last week.

The crimes are alleged He is scheduled to next to have occurred dur- appear in court on Oct. 9. ing the early-morning hours of Nov. 15, 2014, — Reporter Caitlin Doornbos can be in a Haskell dorm room reached at 813-7146 that the two defendants or cvdoornbos@ljworld.com. shared. The two men

KU student nominated for national astronaut scholarship Jennifer Stern, a Kansas University senior from Lawrence, has been nominated to for the national Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s Astronaut Scholarship program, the university said in a release.

Stern, along with three Stern other students, was nominated by KU for the program,

the release said. Founded in 1984 by the six surviving members of the Mercury 7 mission, the program is meant to encourage students to pursue scientific endeavors. The other KU students nominated were David Gier, a senior from Overland Park; Amanda House, a junior from Overland

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Brown Bag Concert Series approaches Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department’s Thursday Brown Bag Concert Series will begin June 4 with The Beer Bellies. The concerts are free and open to the public.

The concerts in the series, cosponsored by Downtown Lawrence Inc., will be from noon to

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1 p.m. each Thursday in front of U.S. Bank, 900 Massachusetts St., except for shows on June 11 and July 30, which will take place outside the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. The series, featuring local bands, will include: l June 4: The Beer Bellies l June 11: Billy Ebeling and the Late for Dinner Band (at the library)

Park; and Jessica van Loben Sels, a senior from Albuquerque, N.M. This is the first year KU has been chosen by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s Board of Directors to participate in the program. Up to two of KU’s four nominees will be selected later this summer to receive a $10,000 scholarship for their junior or senior years.

l June 18: Rural Harmony Band l June 25: BRC Sounds l July 2: Spirit Dancer Dennis Rogers l July 9: Lonnie Ray Blue’s Band l July 16: Borderline Country l July 23: Rhythmia l July 30: Sideways Glance (at the library) In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be at Watkins Com-

munity Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St.

Part of Ninth Street to be closed Ninth Street will be closed for about one week starting Monday between Rhode Island and New Hampshire streets for replacement of a sewer line, city officials said.

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The first of five codefendants convicted on charges related to a violent home-invasion robbery in November 2014 was sentenced Thursday to three and a half years in prison.

Driskell Alan Johnson, 20, pleaded guilty in March to two counts of aggravated robbery after forcefully entering an apartment in the 900 block of Arkansas Street on Nov. 8, 2014, pistol whipping residents inside and stealing more than $1,000 in cash and $1,000 worth of marijuana, according to court testimony.

Johnson committed the crime with four others: Zachary John Pence, 21, Gabriel Alexander Pat-

terson, 21, Cody Scott Kukuk, 22 and Yusef Muhammad Kindell, 21. Pence, Kukuk and Kindell took plea agreements, and a jury found Patterson guilty of his charg- Johnson es earlier this month. Those four will be sentenced in June.

Originally charged with three counts of aggravated robbery, aggravated battery and aggravated burglary, Johnson took a plea agreement with the state for the reduced charges and a recommended 42-month sentence. As part of the agreement, Johnson had to testify at Patterson’s jury trial.

At the sentencing hearing Thursday, Johnson apologized to the court

for his actions and expressed remorse for the violence he committed.

“I’m sorry that you had to see a side of me that rarely surfaces,” Johnson said.

Johnson’s parents told District Judge Paula Martin that Johnson’s drug addiction prior to the crime contributed to his involvement. Johnson told Martin that he had ingested Xanax, cocaine, marijuana and “whippets,” or the nitrous oxide from whipped cream canisters.

Martin noted that Johnson appeared healthier and more alert after spending more than six months in the Douglas County Jail. Driskell testified at Patterson’s trial

Originally charged with three counts of aggravated robbery, aggravated battery and aggravated burglary, Johnson took a plea agreement with the state for the reduced charges and a recommended 42-month sentence. that he had gained about 40 pounds in jail since his arrest.

Martin said she had ordered a competency evaluation for Johnson during the initial phase of his court proceeding because she was unsure whether Johnson had a substance abuse problem or a mental illness.

“You stand here today a different person,” Martin said.

Also on Thursday, Prosecutor Eve Kemple read statements from victims Shubhanker Mathur and Jacqueline Wells, who both said they suf-

fered from anxiety following the incident.

Kemple said that Mathur, Wells and fellow victims Kendri Salmans and Christopher Adams all agreed with the terms of the plea agreement offering Johnson 42 months in prison.

Martin said she has “really struggled” with sentencing in this case “because of the violence in this,” but ultimately ruled to give Johnson 42 months, or 3.5 years, in prison. The decision was a “downward departure,” as the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines recommend

a minimum 55 months in prison for an aggravated robbery conviction. Martin said she based the decision largely on the victims’ approval of the sentence.

Johnson has about 6.5 months of time-served credit. When he is released, he will have to serve 36 months of postrelease supervision, or parole. He will also have to register as a violent offender for 15 years after his release.

– Reporter Caitlin Doornbos can be reached at 832-7146 or cvdoornbos@ljworld.com.

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type of incentive packages The Chamber is crafting for consideration. One issue city commissioners likely will have to decide is whether they are willing to give free land to companies at VenturePark and how that land should be valued in terms of calculating the total incentives package.

The city did not pay to buy the former Farmland Industries site. Instead, it agreed to take over the environmentally blighted property after Farmland Industries fell into bankruptcy. The city received about $8.5 million in trust fund money to address the environmental issues on the site, the largest of which is groundwater that has been contaminated by nitrogen fertilizer. The city still has about $6 million in the trust fund, but will have future costs as it must continue to monitor and pump the groundwater on the site.

The city did spend about $8 million to build roads, sewers and other infrastructure at the site.

It hopes to recoup those costs through special assessments on the property tax bills of future tenants.

Chamber officials said they do not yet have a time line for deals to materialize with the two prospects. Brady Pollington, economic development project manager for The Chamber, said he’s been working with the large prospect for more than a year and has been working with the company interested in the 10acre site for about three months.

“It is very much a hurry up and wait scenario,” Pollington said.

In other news from the economic development event: l Chamber officials reported that about 40 students thus far have enrolled for fall classes at the new Peaslee Tech training center near 29th Street and Haskell Avenue. The center is expected to start its first year in late August by offering classes in manufacturing technology, construction sciences, HVAC and other such topics. The school has set a goal of having 100 students for its inaugural year. The center has enrollment events scheduled for June and July.

The Lawrence school district also is on track to open its College & Career Center adjacent to Peaslee Tech this August.

Hugh Carter, vice president of external affairs, said the school district is well on its way to meeting its goal of having 200 high school students enrolled in the College & Career Center.

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Downtown: Watkins Museum of History, 1047 MassachuIf a presidential setts St.: Progress Report: Education in Lawrence in candidate could come the Early 1900s, 5-8 p.m. to Lawrence, who This new exhibit explores would you most like the changes that took to hear speak? place in public education in the early 1900s and Asked at the the forces that motivated Lawrence Public Library those changes.

The Greenhouse Culture, 1001 Massachusetts St.: Artwork by Chuck Watson, Aaron Riffel and Isaac Riffel; live jazz music; refreshments!

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Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.: “The Innumerable AnxietNick Krug/Journal-World Photos ies” exhibition by Patrick VAN GO ARTIST LUKE FITZGERALD, 18, stops to study a colorful wall of 196 glass panels, 20 of which he estimates he created, Duegaw; steamroller outside Van Go, 715 New Jersey St., during The Big Picture event on Thursday. The event, which featured live music and a look printmaking with artist-inTom Jordan, at the new glass tile mural created by Van Go artists, marked the start of the organization’s Big Picture Endowment Campaign, residence Tonja Torgerretired teacher, said development director Eliza Nichols. The campaign is meant to ensure the longevity of the 20-year-old organization, Nichols son; FInal Friday Street Lawrence said. So far, the endowment has raised $555,000. The group hopes to accumulate $750,000 by the end of the year. The wall pARTy; live music 5-9 “Bernie Sanders has the capacity to hold more than 800 tiles, Nichols said. A single tile can be purchased for $150. p.m.; Free State Festival I think would be Under the Stars: “Ameriinteresting to listen to.” can Graffiti” (1973), 9-11 p.m.

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McLouth schools. In addition to SeedCo Satellite, 840 “Bernie Sanders.” their professional careers, Massachusetts St.: Geoff the couple have donated Benzing presents Retrosthemselves and their time to pectoid (water color and various organizations such acrylic paintings), 6-9 as the Boys and Girls Club, Audio Reader, The Lawrence p.m.

Yantra Financial Pan Hellenic Association and Technologies, 840 MasThe United Way. sachusetts St.: Preview items for Van Go’s “What Floats Your Boat” event, including hand painted outdoor furniture, unbrellas, and yard decor.

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Weirdly fun Some offbeat entertainment is in the offing in downtown Lawrence this weekend.

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rom time to time, local residents lovingly refer to the need to “keep Lawrence weird.”

Building on that theme Mayor Jeremy Farmer has proclaimed today through Sunday “The Official Weird Weekend” in Lawrence.

Maybe “unique” would be a more flattering term, or simply “special,” but, however you look at it, this weekend offers a number of opportunities to see something in downtown Lawrence that you just don’t see everyday.

The weekend kicks off tonight with the monthly Final Friday arts event along with opening acts for the Lawrence Busker Festival. The festival, which features a wide variety of offbeat performances, has been held in August for seven years but made the move to late May to avoid the sweltering Kansas weather. Avoiding the rain may prove to be a challenge this year, but dodging a few showers is a good trade-off for 100-degree heat. At this writing, it looks like rain chances will taper off Saturday and Sunday and provide a perfect setting for the street performances.

The change in schedule also allows the Busker Festival to coordinate with a longtime Lawrence event, the Art Tougeau parade. Other communities may have street performers and arts events similar to Final Fridays, but no one else has Art Tougeau.

The event, which began in 1997, is billed on its website as “Lawrence’s Hometown Wheeled-Art Parade.” It features decorated bicycles, painted cars and perhaps an appearance by a wheeled flying saucer and a huge rolling dial telephone. If ever there was an event that made spectators say “only in Lawrence …” this is it. Parade vehicles will be on display in front of the Lawrence Arts Center tonight and the parade will start there “around noon” on Saturday and make a loop south to 11th street and down Massachusetts.

The Busker Festival will continue through Sunday with more than 25 acts at six sites around downtown. There will be jugglers, unicyclists and at least one juggling unicyclist. There will be music, a “comedy contortionist,” fire dancers and musicians. In other words, it’s an event that has something for everyone of any age — and it’s free, although performers would welcome tips. The full schedule is available at lawrencebuskerfest.com.

Lots of events mark summer weekends in Lawrence, but “The Official Weird Weekend” will be a great opportunity for both residents and visitors to enjoy and celebrate some of what makes Lawrence such a special place.

Campaigns free of election controls Washington — A simple apology would suffice. Instead, campaign finance reformers, horrified by the predictable results of their handiwork, aspire to yet more regulatory wrinkles to limit political speech.

These, too, would have consequences unintended and undesired by reformers, “requiring” a new round of reforms. But the Constitution, properly construed, requires a wall of separation between campaign and state.

Reformers detest the emergence of super PACs that fund advocacy supportive of, but not “coordinated” with, particular candidates.

These vast reservoirs of money are, however, inevitable, reasonable and, on balance, wholesome responses to the reformers’ attempts to combat what they call “too much money” in politics. Reformers have limited the amounts that can be contributed to parties and to candidates’ campaigns, thereby limiting the quantity of political advocacy — aka speech.

To the surprise of no one familiar with political hydrology, money has flowed through crevices in our (fortunately) still porous society, into super PACs. Most political money funds the dissemination of political advocacy to influence elections, and Americans continue to exasperate reformers by finding new ways to speak about politics.

Reformers regret super PACs as a source of “outside” money. Greg Weiner asks: Outside of what? Weiner, an Assumption College political

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The Constitution speaks only of Congress’ power to regulate the ‘time, place and manner’ of elections.” scientist, wonders: Who decreed that campaigns are the private property of the two parties and their candidates?

Today, parties and candidates welcome supportive super PACs as a necessity, given the reformers’ regulatory regime.

But parties and candidates would prefer to receive the money that goes to the super PACs, which can frustrate the parties’ and candidates’ desires to control America’s political conversation.

Super PACs can annoy parties by enabling inconvenient candidates to compete in primaries and can annoy even candidates they favor by forcing certain issues into the campaign dialogue. So, Weiner argues, super PACs are new devices that actually restore something old — an era when “campaigns were communicative free-foralls rather than regulated, top-down affairs.” The First Amendment, which takes no cognizance of parties or

candidates, hardly supports making them privileged, semi-exclusive conduits of the political conversations.

Reformers who resent the existence of super PACs, and the reformers’ critics who oppose the reformers’ regulations of politics that have made super PACs necessary, should ponder Bradley A. Smith’s “Separation of Campaign and State” in The George Washington Law Review of November 2013. He argues not just that the quality of America’s civic conversation would be improved by the deregulation of politics but also that the Constitution requires this because it contains no enumerated power authorizing Congress to regulate campaigning.

The Constitution speaks only of Congress’ power to regulate the “time, place and manner” of elections. Congress has justified the regulation of political speech by conflating what Smith rightly says are two quite different things — campaigns and elections. Campaigns consist of speech and other activities to persuade the public to register particular decisions in elections. Elections are the formal processes by which those decisions are recorded.

The regulation of the quantity, content and timing of political speech is clearly unrelated to regulating an election’s “time” or “place.”

Can Congress, however, wring an implied power to regulate political speech from the enumerated power to regulate the “manner” of elections? No. The “manner” of an election includes modalities

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such as the keeping of voter lists, designating polling places and counting votes.

The Constitutional Convention’s discussion of the times, places and manner clause, Smith notes, “revolved entirely around election administration” and referred “not at all to the process of seeking to persuade citizens to vote in one way or another.”

“There is,” he says, “no ‘on’ or ‘off’ switch on American politics”; campaigning is constant. Elections are occasional, discrete episodes.

And “the fact that ‘manner’ was combined with ‘times’ and ‘places’ in the Constitution further suggests that it refers to the details of carrying out the formal process of voting.” Listen, Smith says, to the logic of our language.

“We do not talk about candidates making ‘election stops’ as they travel the country talking to voters, but rather ‘campaign stops.’ ... We have a ‘campaign,’ at the conclusion of which voters cast ballots on ‘election day.’”

The phrase “a wall of separation between church and state” is from Thomas Jefferson, not the Constitution. But, says Smith, the metaphor’s aptness “flows from the document’s structure and purpose.” So does the propriety of a wall between campaigns and government: It is simply impermissible for the government to regulate the debate that determines if the party controlling this or that portion of the government will retain control.

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Guns on campus To the editor: I’m the father of two daughters. One is a Kansas University graduate. Our other daughter is currently enrolled at KU, where three generations of our family have taught or attended. I am deeply opposed to the recently passed Kansas law that will allow people to carry concealed guns on college campuses in 2017, even without concealed-carry permits. The law provides no guarantee that someone toting a gun on a Kansas college campus would be qualified to possess the firearm or use it safely.

Right-to-carry or concealed-carry laws have generated much debate in the past two decades. Do they make society safer or more dangerous?

Last November, a Stanford University study found that right-to-carry gun laws were connected with an increase in violent crime. The study debunked claims that more guns lead to less crime. Distressingly, the Stanford study found that homicides increased in eight states that adopted right-tocarry laws during 1999-2010.

I suspect many parents and students share my deep concern over Kansas’ concealed-carry law. Should the law take effect, parents may decide not to enroll their children in the state’s public colleges. Many Kansas college students, concerned for their own safety, may take similar action. For the same reason, faculty resignations could follow. If this happens, enroll-

ment declines, teacher resignations and associated revenue losses could be significant. The concealed-carry law will make matters worse for families, students, teachers and higher education in Kansas. It’s a loss for us all if it happens, and a risk we should avoid.

Bernard R. McCoy, Lincoln, Neb.

Humane food chain To the editor: I have read that Wal-Mart is making some sweeping policy changes regarding its food chain, specifically working with its suppliers nationwide to reduce farmed animal suffering with respect to such practices as intensive confinement, mutilation and inhumane slaughter. Since Lawrence supports two Wal-Marts, I found this to be very heartening news.

As we all mourn the loss of life in the wake of the Pet World fire, let us consider the pain and misery we’ll be sparing millions of animals if we move toward a healthier more humane food chain.

Diana Scott, Lawrence

Love thy neighbor To the editor: Wednesday morning, I awoke to your editorial asking some healthy questions about what an affordable housing trust fund would look like in Lawrence. In search of answers to

questions like these, we partnered with Tenants to Homeowners to organize the housing conference in July and requested city commissioners to attend. We believe this event will provide an opportunity for Lawrence to profit from the experiences of hundreds of other cities with housing trust funds who have overcome these obstacles while creating and preserving affordable housing. Your readers can get a brief introduction at: https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=AcXaEWsyPfs &feature=youtu.be Thursday morning, I awoke to a familiar scripture reading during my daily reflections: the parable of the Good Samaritan. The story begins as Jesus asserts that love for God and love for neighbor sums it all up. Then comes the follow-up question: “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus says the good neighbor was the one who cared for the needs of a victim, even when he had to go above and beyond the cultural expectations to do so.

We realize the religious convictions Justice Matters represents are not universally shared in our city. However, we believe this underlying value — love for neighbor — does represent the people of Lawrence. It is this value, combined with wisdom, that will enable us to put a roof over our most vulnerable neighbors who currently wait years before an affordable home opens up.

Rev. Matthew Sturtevant, co-chair, Justice Matters housing working group, Lawrence

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Lawrence Farmers’ Market, 7-11 a.m., 824 New Hampshire St. (parking lot on New Hampshire, between Eighth and Ninth streets).

Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, 7:30 a.m., parking lot in 800 block of Vermont Street.

John Jervis, classical guitar, 8-11 a.m., Panera, 520 W. 23rd St. Lone Star Church - Pork & Pie Fest, market 8 a.m.-2 p.m., lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Lone Star Church of the Brethren, 883 E 800 Road.

North Lawrence: Lawrence Creates Tooter and Tillaye’s, KU Reuse Treasure 644 Locust St.: Kim’s and Art Sale, 8 a.m.Kreations: Multimedia 6 p.m., Hobbs Taylor textile wall art, 6-10 p.m.

Lofts, Eighth and New The Brewhaus, 624 N. Hampshire streets.

Second St.: Opening ReSt. John Catholic ception: Tom Mersmann, Church Rummage 6-9 p.m.

Sale, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 1246 Kentucky St. Other events today: Eudora Indoor FarmLawrence Public ers Market, 9 a.m.Library Book Van, 9-10 noon, Market On Main, a.m., Clinton Place, 2125 724 Main St., Eudora.

Clinton Parkway.

Yard Waste Drop-Off Mike Shurtz Trio feaand Compost/Woodturing Erin Fox, 10:15chip Sale, 10 a.m.-4 11:30 a.m., Signs of Life, p.m., Wood Recovery 722 Massachusetts St. and Compost Facility, Lawrence Public 1420 E. 11th St. Library Book Van, 10:30Summer Reads for 11:30 a.m., Wyndham Children and Adults Place, 2551 Crossgate Book Sale, 10 a.m.-4 Drive. p.m., Lawrence Public Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Library Book Van, 1-2 Caddy Stacks, 10 p.m., Peterson Acres, a.m.-5:30 p.m., Law2930 Peterson Road. rence Public Library, Perry Lecompton 707 Vermont St. Farmers’ Market, 4-6:30 Kansas City Symp.m., U.S. Highway 24 phony Presents: A Viand Ferguson Road (in olin/Viola Master Class FastTrax Parking Lot), with Pinchas ZukerPerry. man, 11 a.m., Helzberg Final Friday Art Hall, Kauffman Center Tougeau Pre-Parade for the Performing Arts, Street Party, 5-9 p.m., 1601 Broadway, Kansas Downtown Lawrence.

City, Mo. Lawrence Busker FesArt Tougeau Parade, tival, 5-11 p.m., Downnoon, Massachusetts town Lawrence.

Street, Downtown LawOutdoor Downtown rence.

Sculpture Exhibition: Lawrence Death Opening reception and Cafe, 1-3 p.m., Lawtour, 5:30 p.m., beginrence Public Library, ning at Lawrence Arts 707 Vermont St. Center, 940 New HampSaturday Afternoon shire St. Ragtime, 2-4 p.m., WatFried chicken dinner, kins Museum of History, 5:30 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1047 Massachusetts St. 1803 W. Sixth St. Lawrence Busker Lecture: “Design Festival, 2-11 p.m., with Others” by David Downtown Lawrence.

Perkes, 5:30-7 p.m., LawAmericana Music rence Arts Center, 940 Academy Saturday New Hampshire St. Jam, 3 p.m., Americana VFW dinner, 6 p.m., Music Academy, 1419 VFW, 1801 MassachuMassachusetts St. setts St. Headpin Challenge, Bingo night, doors 6-9 p.m., Royal Crest 5:30 p.m., refreshments 6 Lanes, 933 Iowa St. p.m., bingo starts 7 p.m., Lawrence Bridge Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Club, 6:30 p.m., Kaw Sixth St. Valley Bridge CenKansas City Symter, 1025 N. Third St. phony Classical Se(Partner required; first ries: Zukerman, Geller, two visits free; call 760Beethoven and Bach, 4195 for more info.)

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Culinaria Food and Wine, 512 E. Ninth St.: Culinaria Food and Wine Supper Club with Exhibition by Molly Murphy.

Cider Gallery of Fine Art, 810 Pennsylvania: Preview of “The Listeners” - A documentary film about suicide prevention hotlines, 5-8 p.m.; also More Than Meets The Eye: Collaborative works

by Jeromy Morris and John Sebelius.

SeedCo Studios, 720 E. Ninth St. #7: Resident Exhibition and Open Studios.

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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. Piano Recital: Ariana Krasniqi DuPont, 7:30 p.m., Eudora United Methodist Church, 2084 North 1300 Road, Eudora.

Kansas City Symphony Classical Series: Zukerman, Geller, Beethoven and Bach, 8 p.m., Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.

31 SUNDAY

Lawrence Creates KU Reuse Treasure and Art Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Hobbs Taylor Lofts, Eighth and New Hampshire streets.

Lawrence Arts & Crafts group, 1-3 p.m., Five Bar and Tables, 947 Massachusetts St. Lawrence Busker Festival, 1-6 p.m., Downtown Lawrence.

Kansas City Symphony Classical Series: Zukerman, Geller, Beethoven and Bach, 2 p.m., Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. KU School of Music: Steven Spooner, piano, 2:30 p.m., Polsky Theatre, Carlsen Center for the Performing Arts, JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park.

ICAN OF Douglas County Kansas, 3-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Film: “The Iron Giant” (1999), 4 p.m., Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. Irish Traditional Music Session, 5:30-8 p.m., upstairs Henry’s on Eighth, 11 E. Eighth St. Old Time Fiddle Tunes Jam, 6-10 p.m., Steve Mason Luthiers and Violin Shop, 3809 W 24th St. (All acoustic instruments welcome.)

O.U.R.S. (Oldsters United for Responsible Service) dance, doors 5 p.m., potluck 7:15-7:45 p.m., dance 6-9 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St. Smackdown! trivia, 7 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.

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Lip Sync Hus Wendy Williams ›‡ Friday After Next (2002) Ice Cube. ›› First Sunday (2008) Ice Cube.

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All the latest from the FIFA soccer corruption scandal

Two Army scientists run tests in a BSL-3 chamber at Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground. This is the same facility that recently shipped live anthrax specimens to as many as 18 labs in nine states, CDC officials said Thursday.

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Hundreds of accidents, safety violations, near misses put people at risk

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Source World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015”

26 people treated as precaution in U.S., South Korea

A team from the USA TODAY Network of journalists at more than 40 Gannett newspapers and television stations reveals: uHundreds of safety accidents at labs nationwide uOversight is fragmented, self-policing uNames of 100 labs facing sanctions kept secret uSome researchers flout rules or experiment without approvals MORE ONLINE USATODAY.COM

Is there a biolab in your neighborhood? Search our database of more than 200 biolabs.

Alison Young and Nick Penzenstadler USA TODAY

Vials of bioterror bacteria have gone missing. Lab mice infected with deadly viruses have escaped, and wild rodents have been found making nests with research waste. Cattle infected in a university’s vaccine experiments were repeatedly sent to slaughter and their meat sold for human consumption. Gear meant to protect lab workers from lethal viruses such as Ebola and bird flu has failed, repeatedly.

A USA TODAY Network investigation reveals that hundreds of lab mistakes, safety violations and near-miss incidents have occurred in biological laboratories coast to coast in recent years, putting scientists, their colleagues and even the public at risk.

Oversight of biological research labs is fragmented, often secretive and largely self-policing, the investigation found. And even when research facilities commit the most egregious safety or security breaches — as more than 100 labs have — federal regulators

keep their names secret.

Of particular concern are mishaps occurring at institutions working with the world’s most dangerous pathogens in biosafety level 3 and 4 labs — the two highest levels of containment that have proliferated since 9/11. Yet there is no publicly available list of these labs, and the scope of their research and safety records are largely unknown to most state health departments charged with responding to disease outbreaks. Even the U.S. government doesn’t know where they all are, the Government Accountability Office has warned for years.

The USA TODAY Network identified more than 200 highcontainment lab facilities in all 50 states and the District of Columbia operated by government agencies, universities and private companies. They’re scattered across the country from the heart of New York City to a valley in Montana; from an area near Seattle’s Space Needle to just a few blocks from Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza restaurant and shopping district. v STORY CONTINUES ON 2B

TERRY BYRNE AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday as many as 18 labs around the country received live anthrax samples. Twenty-six people who may have been exposed, including 22 at an Air Force base in South Korea, are being medically treated as a precaution.

The incident is the latest highprofile mistake involving federal laboratories.

The Atlanta-based CDC said labs in nine states received the Bacillus anthracis specimens from the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Shipments went to California, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Exact lab locations had not been identified, but “they are mostly private, and some are operated by government and public institutions,” said Jason McDonald, a spokesman for the CDC.

Shipments went to California, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Richard Ebright, a biosafety expert at Rutgers in New Jersey, called the mistake “gross negligence.”

“There is absolutely no excuse.

Not for the shipping institution.

Not for receiving institutions that failed to confirm inactivation upon receipt,” Ebright said. “Both should lose, irrevocably, authorization for work with active or inactivated select agents.”

There were no cases of anthrax infection in lab workers and no risk to the public, according to the Pentagon. Four lab workers in three states — Texas, Delaware and Wisconsin — were receiving precautionary antibiotics, McDonald confirmed.

One of the samples was shipped to Osan Air Base in Korea. A U.S. Air Force statement said 22 people may have been exposed. “All personnel were provided appropriate medical precautionary measures,” the Air Force said. “None ... have shown any signs of possible exposure.”

Anthrax spores can spread through the air and cause a deadly infection if not treated. Army Col. Steve Warren said all 22 people in Osan were under treatment with the antibiotic Ciprofloxacin.

Last summer, dozens of CDC workers were potentially exposed to live anthrax after specimens were not properly inactivated before being transferred.

Contributing: Tom Vanden Brook

Former House Speaker Hastert faces charges

Accused of illegal cash withdrawals and lying to FBI Aamer Madhani and Susan Davis USA TODAY

Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged former House Speaker Dennis Hastert with illegally structuring cash withdrawals from bank accounts to conceal payments to someone he committed “prior misconduct” against and lying to the FBI about it.

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The charges stem from Hastert, 73, agreeing to pay an individual, whom authorities did not identify, a total of $3.5 million, according to the indictment.

The indictment did not specify the nature of the misconduct. A spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor in Northern Illinois declined to offer further detail about the alleged wrongdoing.

The indictment said the individual was a resident of Yorkville, where Hastert had previously been a teacher and wrestling coach. Hastert has known the person for most of the individual’s life, according to the indictment.

Dennis Hastert

H. DARR BEISER, USA TODAY

The Republican from Illinois is accused of circumventing federal rules that require banks to report withdrawals of more than $10,000. He specifically is accused

of withdrawing a total of $952,000 in increments under the threshold that were paid to the individual.

When asked about it by the FBI in December 2014, he allegedly lied and said he was keeping the cash, according to the indictment.

Hastert did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

Around 2010, Hastert and the individual discussed the misconduct that had occurred years earlier, according to the indictment.

The former speaker agreed in that meeting and other meetings to pay a total of $3.5 million.

From 2010 to 2014, Hastert withdrew approximately $1.7 million in cash from various bank accounts and provided it to the person identified in the indictment as “Individual A.” Between June 2010 and April 2012, Hastert made 15 withdrawals of $50,000 each from a bank account. The individual was paid about every six weeks during that period, according to the indictment.

By 2013, the FBI and IRS began looking into Hastert’s withdrawals. Each count of the indictment carries a penalty of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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BIOLABS IN YOUR BACKYARD

A rare mishap could spell disaster v CONTINUED FROM 1B

High-profile lab accidents last year with anthrax, Ebola and bird flu at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the discovery of forgotten vials of deadly smallpox virus at the National Institutes of Health raised concerns about lab safety and security nationwide and whether current oversight is adequate to protect workers and the public.

Wednesday, the Department of Defense disclosed one of its labs in Utah mistakenly sent samples of live anthrax — instead of killed specimens — to labs across the USA plus a military base in South Korea, where 22 people are now being treated with antibiotics because of their potential exposure to the bioterror pathogen. Up to 18 labs in nine states received the samples, the CDC said Thursday.

“What the CDC incidents showed us ... is that the very best labs are not perfectly safe,” says Marc Lipsitch, a Harvard University professor of epidemiology. “If it can happen there, it certainly can happen anywhere.”

Some people find little reassurance that nobody was sickened in the CDC accidents or in the historically low numbers of serious infections among lab workers generally, or that infections spreading into communities nearby have been rarer still.

“Many of us think that’s really a matter of good fortune,” said Beth Willis, who chairs a citizen lab advisory panel in Frederick, Md., home to one of the nation’s largest high-containment research campuses at the Army’s Fort Detrick.

The country’s best labs have robust safety programs, said Kenneth Berns, co-chair of a panel of outside lab safety advisers currently examining biosafety at CDC and other federal labs. Yet the systemic safety problems identified at the CDC’s prestigious labs have raised questions about what’s happening elsewhere. “It’s a matter of some concern,” said Berns, a distinguished professor emeritus of molecular genetics and microbiology at the University of Florida.

The consequences could be devastating if accidents were to occur with lab-created strains of deadly influenza viruses that are purposely engineered to be easier to spread than what’s found in nature, said David Relman, a microbiology professor at Stanford University who is a federal adviser on lab safety and a past president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

“You’re talking about something that has the ability to take off, and we could not be confident of being able to contain it,” he said.

Relman said that not enough is known about the state of safety at labs that perform infectious disease research but emphasized that the kinds of labs drawing concern are the same ones the public needs to discover important new treatments and vaccines. “We have to find some happy blend of minimized risk and enhanced benefit,” he said.

At the high-containment labs identified by USA TODAY, experiments are underway involving drug-resistant tuberculosis, exotic strains of flu, the SARS and MERS viruses, plague, anthrax, botulism, ricin and the Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever viruses, according to interviews and more than 20,000 pages of internal lab safety records and incident reports obtained.

Studies are also being done on a wide range of bioterrorism pathogens that are less known to the public, such as the agents that cause exotic diseases like tularemia, Q fever and melioidosis.

The research at BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs — which use special equipment, negative air pressure and numerous safety and security procedures — seeks to better understand how organisms cause disease and ways to protect against them. It’s the kind of work that the public doesn’t give much thought to until people with Ebola arrive on planes in the United States from an outbreak in Africa, or the current avian flu outbreak forces farmers to kill millions of chickens raising the specter of higher egg prices.

It’s impossible to obtain a full accounting of lab accidents or lab-acquired infections because there is no universal, mandatory requirement for reporting them and no system to analyze trends

Scientists Susan Liegey, foreground, and Deborah Doyle work in a biosafety level 3 lab at Virginia’s Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services in Richmond.

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HOW PATHOGENS CAN INFECT PEOPLE

Animal risks

Human errors

Researchers can be scratched or bitten by infected animal.

Workers can be stuck by needles, cut by a scalpel or exposed by a splash.

Failure to follow procedure Not adhering to established protocols may result in infectious agents being moved to areas of lower containment.

Aging systems

Shipping errors

Bioterrorism

Old or improperly maintained facilities can result in the failure of critical systems resulting in a pathogen release.

Pathogens shipped in unmarked packages can be delivered to the wrong address or lost.

A lab worker could steal and release pathogens, such as what the FBI says attributed to the 2001 anthrax attacks.

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to assess emerging biosafety risks and disseminate lessons learned on a regular basis.

The Federal Select Agent Program, which inspects and regulates the subset of research labs that experiment with about four dozen types of pathogens deemed to pose bioterror threats, requires labs to report potential exposure or release incidents, as well as thefts or losses of specimens.

From 2006 through 2013, labs notified federal regulators of about 1,500 incidents with select agent pathogens and, in more than 800 cases, workers received medical treatment or evaluation, limited public data in program annual reports show. Fifteen people contracted lab-acquired infections and there were three unintended infections of animals,

“I don’t think the public needs to be too concerned.

There are multiple levels of checks and balances in place.”

Marian Downing, president of the American Biological Safety Association

according to the reports, which do not identify labs and mostly provide aggregated counts of incidents by type.

The program, jointly run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, refuses to release copies of detailed incident reports, citing a 2002 bioterrorism law.

Incident records obtained directly from labs provide a window on the kinds of mistakes that happen. An animal caretaker in Georgia was potentially exposed to a bird flu virus that kills 60% of the people it infects when a defective respirator hose detached from its coupling in September. A researcher in Wisconsin was quarantined for seven days in 2013 after a needle stick with a version of the same H5N1 influenza virus. A lab worker in Colorado failed to ensure specimens of the deadly bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei had been killed before shipping them in May 2014 to a co-worker in a lower-level lab who handled them without critical protective gear.

None of the workers was infected.

The public and the lab community tend to learn only about the rare instances of serious or fatal lab infections, which sometimes are published as case reports in scientific journals or make news.

In 2009, Malcolm Casadaban, a University of Chicago scientist with an underlying medical condition, died from an infection with a weakened strain of plague

bacteria. In 2012, researcher Richard Din, 25, died after being infected during vaccine research involving Neisseria meningitides bacteria at a lab inside San Francisco’s VA medical center. Both deaths involved research in BSL-2 labs, where pathogens are considered less dangerous than those in high-containment labs.

RISKS TO THE COMMUNITY

Although lab-created outbreaks that spread to people or animals in the nearby community are rare, they have happened.

“That’s what you would worry about,” said Gigi Kwik Gronvall, of the UPMC Center for Health Security, an independent think tank that studies biosecurity.

A small, deadly outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in China in 2004 was traced to lab workers at the National Institute of Virology in Beijing. In 2007, an outbreak of foot and mouth disease among cattle in England that required herds to be slaughtered was blamed on leaking drainage pipes at a nearby research complex.

In Louisiana, tests are underway to make sure a deadly bioterror bacterium hasn’t colonized the soil and water around the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans. Late last year, the bacteria got out of one of the center’s BSL-3 labs, likely hitching a ride on workers’ clothing, sickening two monkeys that lived in outdoor cages and later infecting others. Tulane will spend the next five years testing its outdoor monkey colony as well as wildlife and feral cats around the 500-acre facility to ensure the bacteria haven’t contaminated the environment. The CDC and Tulane say they think the bacteria spread only inside the center’s buildings, and so far tests outdoors have not detected the bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, which can cause severe and difficult-to-treat illness in infected people and animals.

On a global scale, a lab accident is considered by many scientists to be the likely explanation for how an H1N1 flu strain reemerged in 1977 that was so genetically similar to one that had disappeared before 1957 it looked as if it had been “preserved.” The re-emergence “was probably an accidental release from a laboratory source,” according to a 2009 article in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Most pathogens studied in labs, though, unlike the flu, don’t spread easily among people.

“I don’t think the public needs to be too concerned,” said Marian Downing, president of the American Biological Safety Association.

“There are multiple levels of checks and balances in place.”

Beyond accidental lab-associated outbreaks, federal auditors

consider the deliberate theft and misuse of a deadly pathogen to be one of the most significant risks of biolab research. That’s what the FBI says happened in the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five and sickened 17. Bruce Ivins, a biologist and anthrax researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., was the culprit, the FBI concluded.

The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, has issued repeated warnings since 2007 that the proliferation of BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs has increased the aggregate risk of accidental or intentional releases of viruses, bacteria or toxins. No single agency tracks the overall number or location of these labs, the GAO has said. Little is known about high-containment labs working with dangerous pathogens such as tuberculosis, the MERS virus and others that aren’t on the select agent list.

Lab regulators at the Federal Select Agent Program would not grant interviews despite repeated requests since last year. The program oversees about 262 organizations that operate BSL-3 and eight that operate BSL-4 labs.

The CDC and USDA operate their own labs that have been involved in recent high-profile incidents.

“We believe the current system of inspecting/overseeing laboratories is adequate, but we are always open to continued improvements,” the CDC said in an email.

USDA officials also declined to be interviewed.

LAB FAILURES KEPT HIDDEN

More than 100 labs experimenting with potential bioterror agents have been cited by regulators at the CDC and USDA for serious safety and security failings since 2003, USA TODAY learned.

Yet so much of select agent oversight is cloaked, making it difficult to assess regulators’ effectiveness in ensuring safety.

Since 2003, the CDC has referred 79 labs for potential enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General. It has levied fines against 19 of them totaling more than $2.4 million, the CDC said in response to questions.

Some are repeat offenders.

Five labs had “multiple referrals” for enforcement actions, the CDC said. Two labs were kicked out of the program, and five labs were suspended from doing any select agent research, the agency said.

Which labs repeatedly failed to address issues? The CDC won’t name names. It and its regulatory partners at the USDA say the 2002 bioterrorism law requires keeping this information secret.

Yet earlier this year, the CDC publicly announced its suspension of the Tulane National Pri-

mate Research Center — after the center’s accidental release of a bioterror bacterium became publicly known in news reports. The CDC said it balances the public’s right to transparency with the risk posed by information being made available to those who might use it for ill deeds.

Seven labs are now under the scrutiny of a federal select agent lab performance improvement program, the CDC said. The program is a voluntary alternative to regulatory action, the agency said, for labs with a “repeated failure to correct past observation, biosafety and security concerns.”

Thirty-three labs have been put on performance improvement programs since 2008, CDC said. Their names are secret too.

Dozens more have faced regulatory actions from the USDA, which takes the lead overseeing select agent labs primarily working with animal or agricultural pathogens. The USDA says it has conducted 48 investigations that resulted in $116,750 in fines.

Last year, two labs agreed to pay fines handed down by the HHS Office of Inspector General for select agent violations, records show.

A lab that U.S. officials would describe only as an “Arizona research university” agreed in 2014 to pay a $165,000 fine for failing to keep accurate inventory records for select agents and not having biosafety procedures adequate for the risks associated with pathogens being used. The lab, the USA TODAY Network’s reporting found, was Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

An unnamed Florida lab agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve violations that included failing to ensure accurate inventories of select agents and failing to notify the CDC and appropriate law enforcement agencies after discovering a missing select agent.

The inspector general’s office, citing regulations stemming from the 2002 bioterrorism law, redacted the names of these and of all other labs receiving fines, in documents it provided to USA TODAY under the Freedom of Information Act. Other labs that have been fined over the years for select agent violations are located in Alabama, California, Missouri, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin, records show.

For some residents living near labs, the lack of transparency is frustrating — and worrisome. It’s not enough to tell the public the labs have robust safety procedures. “What people are really interested in is how well it’s working,” said Beth Willis, the citizen lab safety representative near Fort Detrick. “The more people in the community feel that there’s secrecy, the more they’re distrustful, whether their distrust is warranted or not.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and FIFA President Sepp Blatter take part in July in the official handover ceremony for the 2018 World Cup scheduled to take place in Russia, now an issue with a bribery scandal shadowing the selection process.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out at the United States on Thursday, accusing it of meddling in global soccer amid an unprecedented corruption scandal.

In televised comments, Putin called the U.S. involvement in the FIFA investigation “strange” and said the country was overstepping its power amid growing concerns that the scandal could affect Russia’s hosting of the 2018 World Cup. Corruption charges were announced Wednesday in the U.S. against 14 FIFA officials and sports executives. Seven were arrested in Switzerland. The allegations include racketeering, wire MOSCOW

fraud, money laundering and bribery, and relate to at least two generations of soccer officials who are accused of acquiring millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.

Speaking to journalists Thursday, Putin called the probe “a clear attempt to keep Mr. (Sepp) Blatter from being re-elected as president of FIFA,” according to an official statement on the Kremlin’s website. Blatter is expected to win a fifth term today.

“This is a blatant violation of the principle of how international organizations function,” Putin said. “We are aware of the pressure that he was subjected to in relation to Russia holding the 2018 World Cup.” Putin compared the U.S. involvement in the case to the per-

secution of whistleblowers Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.

He accused the U.S. of overstepping its “jurisdiction,” saying it was “strange” that Washington had requested the arrests when the crimes did not involve U.S. citizens and did not happen in the country.

Putin’s successes in securing Russia’s bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2018 World Cup were seen as some of the top achievements of his administration among Russians.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry called the arrests of FIFA officials “illegal” and called on Washington to “stop trying to hold court far beyond your own borders using your own legal norms and (instead) adhere to accepted international legal procedure,” according to an official statement

from Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich posted on the ministry’s website.

Swiss prosecutors said Thursday they planned to question 10 FIFA executive committee members who were with the organization in 2010, when voting took place that awarded Russia the World Cup in 2018 and Qatar the tournament in 2022.

Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, who is one of the members, said he did not receive any invitation for questioning, Russia’s sports news agency, R-Sport, reported Thursday.

Mutko did however fly to Switzerland on Wednesday, but said it was not related to the case.

Asked about the possibility of Russia losing its host status for the 2018 World Cup, he said there were no reasons it would happen.

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George Pataki made it official Thursday, emphasizing his record as a three-term New York governor in announcing he would seek the presidency.

“I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States,” Pataki said at an event in Exeter, N.H. Pataki, 69, made clear he was joining the GOP field earlier in the morning with a video on his campaign website.

During his announcement, Pataki spoke of the need to rein in what he called an “oppressive government” and cited his record leading New York.

Describing himself as a “solutions guy,” Pataki proposed ending Obamacare and Common Core and ending taxes that “crush small business.”

Pataki has his work cut out for him in a Republican field that will likely have more than a dozen candidates.

On paper, his credentials are impressive. He defeated liberal icon Mario Cuomo in 1994 to win the first of his three terms as governor of New York, one of the nation’s largest, and bluest, states.

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A Department of Veterans Affairs already scandalized by health care delays, record manipulation and construction overruns got a bit more tarnished Thursday with release of an investigation showing that a boss pressured employees in Philadelphia to participate in psychic readings last year.

“I’ll have munchies, wine/

beer/vodka ... (the psychic) will be doing private readings, they are $35,” Lucy Filipov, then-acting director of benefits, wrote in an email to eight senior employees just before the session at Filipov’s home.

The benefits office is one of the largest payout centers within the Department of Veterans Affairs, serving more than 900,000 veterans and disbursing $4 billion annually in compensation and pension benefits.

It is also one of the most troubled. A VA inspector general audit released in April found the center rife with mismanagement and data manipulation potential-

“I’ll have munchies, wine/ beer/vodka ... (the psychic) will be doing private readings, they are $35.”

Lucy Filipov

VA

Email from Lucy Filipov to eight senior employees

ly cheating tens of thousands of veterans out of timely and accurate payments. Agency leadership has since said the problems have been corrected.

In the midst of that broader audit, investigators got wind of Filipov’s other-worldly session held June 6, 2014. The clairvoyant is a woman married to anoth-

er VA executive, Gary Hodge, who manages pension payouts at the Philadelphia office, according to a report detailing the incident.

VA employees who showed up and left after cash payments to the psychic on Filipov’s kitchen table told auditors they were uncomfortable with the evening’s festivities.

IN BRIEF RIVERS STILL RISE ACROSS TEXAS AS DEATH TOLL CLIMBS

Recovery efforts continued in Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday while the death toll from flash floods from heavy rain rose to 21, with 10 people still missing in the Lone Star State.

More rain, and possibly hail and wind damage, was on the way, even as rivers continued to rise. A family along the San Jacinto River in southeast Texas was rescued Thursday after water surrounded their home. The river isn’t expected to crest until late Friday morning.

A flood warning continued for the west fork of the San Jacinto near Porter, according to the National Weather Service. Experts say the river will crest near 31 feet and remain above the 24-foot flood level through the weekend.

Elsewhere, officials say lowlying homes along the Colorado and Brazos rivers might also experience flood conditions this weekend as the rivers continue to rise an additional 1-2 feet in certain areas.

Along the Brazos, Richard Pate has lived in Horseshoe Bend for 14 years. Upstream, Possum

The investigation concluded that by pressing subordinates to attend the readings, Filipov misused her authority for the private gain of Hodge and his wife.

Filipov, who remains listed on the VA website as assistant director of the Philadelphia center, told auditors in her defense, “You keep calling them subordinates ... but they’re my friends.”

Hodge and Filipov weren’t reachable for comment.

An East Coast area benefits director for the VA, Willie Clark, said said Filipov and Hodge would receive refresher ethics training and have been admonished.

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Vanya Shivashankar, left, and Gokul Venkatachalam are crowned co-champs Thursday of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee at National Harbor, Md. Kingdom Lake is releasing water, causing the river to swell, so he stayed in a Weatherford hotel when Parker County officials asked residents to voluntarily evacuate. He came home early Thursday morning to check on his garden.

“It’s almost completely under water,” Pate said.

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The USA’s overall drought level has dropped to its lowest in nearly

four years, thanks to the phenomenal rain in the Plains this month, scientists reported Thursday.

Only 26.3% of the nation is in a drought, according to U.S. Drought Monitor, a federal website. That’s the lowest percentage since May 31, 2011.

“An extraordinarily active weather pattern led to flood intensification across the central and southern Plains, culminating in a Memorial Day weekend deluge,” meteorologist Brad Rippey wrote.

May has been the rainiest month on record in Texas and Oklahoma, erasing drought conditions. Now 2.7% of Oklahoma is in a drought, a drop from 41.9% last week, and 5.4% of Texas remains in drought, its lowest percentage since late 2010. Many lakes and reservoirs are close to capacity, Texas climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said.

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA ALABAMA Montgomery: U.S.

Magistrate Judge Wallace Capel denied bond for Stephen Howard, 64, an Auburn University lab technician accused of selling a date rape drug, AL.com reported.

ALASKA Kenai: Wings Christian

Academy held a graduation ceremony for Tyler Ophus, its sole departing senior, JuneauEmpire.com reported. The ceremony included a scripture reading from the Song of Solomon. After thanking God for his education, Ophus thanked his mother for withdrawing him from public school after first grade.

ARIZONA Canyon de Chelly National Monument: The Bureau of Indian Affairs estimated 60,000 feral horses roam the Navajo Nation, the Navajo Times reported. According to Alvin Whitehair of the BIA, an adult horse eats about 26 pounds of grass a day. Multiply that by 60,000, and they’re stripping 1.6 million pounds of vegetation from Diné Bikéyah daily.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Dress

Pair says lake holds $2M in treasure

OREGON Salem: Hundreds of people rallied at the Oregon Capitol to protest two liquified natural gas terminals proposed for the Oregon coast, the Statesman Journal reported.

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PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh:

HIGHLIGHT: MICHIGAN

FRANKFORT Could lost Confederate gold that was stolen after the Civil War be somewhere in northern Lake Michigan?

Two Muskegon treasure hunters strongly believe it is.

This year’s quest to find the gold has begun for Kevin Dykstra and Frederick Monroe.

They believe they may have already found a significant piece to the puzzle.

Dykstra and Monroe made news in December 2014 when they went public with their claim of finding the holy grail of all Great Lakes shipwrecks — Le Griffon. They say they found that shipwreck in 2011, but chose not to go public until December 2014 because they wanted to research and consult with maritime experts first.

The duo admitted they weren’t searching for vessels at the time. Instead, they say they were looking for gold.

In April, the pair began scanning Lake Michigan off the coast of Frankfort as soon as the ice melted, looking for a boxcar they claim holds more than $2 million in gold bullion.

“Forty years of waiting,” said Monroe, referring to how long it has been since he first heard about the possible treasure.

IDAHO Boise: The Ada County

up your daughter in her Elsa costume, grab your son’s box of Legos and draw a lightning scar on your forehead: The Central Arkansas Library System’s CALSCon is back, ArkansasOnline announced. Self-proclaimed “nerds” can assemble at the Main Library on Saturday to celebrate fandom of all things books, movies and television. CALS-Con is the library’s spin on Comic-Con.

Republican Central Committee has selected its first and second choices to replace Sheriff Gary Raney who is resigning at the end of June, The Idaho Statesman reported.

CALIFORNIA Oroville Wildlife Area: Austin Harr drowned trying to swim across a pond while carrying a 10-pound rock.

He died on his 21st birthday, according to The Sacramento Bee.

INDIANA Indianapolis: The

COLORADO Aurora: A retired

military plane made its final journey early Thursday morning to the Wings Over the Rockies Museum, KUSA-TV reported.

Under the cover of darkness, the EA-6B Prowler was towed from Buckley Air Force Base to the museum.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: A

judge has acquitted a man of charges that he let teenagers drink alcohol at a 2013 party, leading to a high school student’s death in a car crash, The Hartford Courant reported.

DELAWARE Newark: Voters in the Christina School District again rejected a property tax increase, which means the district will move forward with plans for layoffs and other budget cuts, The News Journal reported.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The worldtraveling exhibit “Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age,” all eight semis’ worth, has returned to the Field Museum, the Tribune reported.

Indiana Board of Animal Health has banned all bird shows at county fairs this summer and through the fall in the hope of stopping the spread of a virulent influenza that has led to the deaths of more than 40 million birds in 16 states, The Indianapolis Star reported.

IOWA Des Moines: There were

32 boating accidents in Iowa serious enough to require reporting in 2014, up from 24 the year before, a spike that ended four years of steadily declining watercraft accidents, The Register reported.

KANSAS Lawrence: The owners

of a local pet store are vowing to rebuild it following a fire that killed an undisclosed number of animals and injured dozens more, The Lawrence JournalWorld reported.

FLORIDA Viera: The Brevard

siblings may be closer to a settlement over the ownership of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and his traveling Bible. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney agreed to a mediation, the Journal-Constitution reported.

HAWAII Honolulu: Hawaii fell

two spots and placed fourth in the USA for senior citizen health, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. America’s Health Rankings Senior Report found that Vermont was the healthiest state for seniors, and Louisiana was the least healthy.

Dykstra and Monroe believe the lost Confederate gold is somewhere at the bottom of Lake Michigan, thanks to a story relayed to Monroe in 1972.

A friend of Monroe’s told him about a story of a deathbed confession in which the person said there’s “$2 million of gold bullion inside a boxcar that fell off a ferry into Lake Michigan.”

Then the friend told Monroe about a boat that contained a safe with jewelry, gold and silver, Monroe said.

The vessel the two found had a pilot house that was perfectly intact, and “to the left of the rear door was a safe,” Dykstra said. “To find a boat with a cabin intact, with a safe, while we’re looking for the boxcar, MARYLAND Princess Anne:

While investigating a report of an attempted murder, Princess Anne police seized 10 pounds of marijuana, more than $40,000 and two guns from an apartment complex, the Daily Times reported.

KENTUCKY Louisville: Citing

serious and persistent problems with Kentucky’s food stamp program, federal authorities have warned state officials they must fix the problems quickly or risk losing federal funds the state uses to run the program that helps the poor buy food, The Courier-Journal reported.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: At nola.com, The Times-Picayune lists its top picks for the area’s best summer festivals, featuring food, music, rampaging women on roller skates and maybe a spanking.

MAINE Orono: Susan Hunter,

the first woman president in the University of Maine’s 150-year history, has agreed to lead the state’s largest campus for an extra year, university officials said.

the odds just seem too far that it must be related,” he said.

But the four-decades-long wait will continue unless the state of Michigan decides it wants to get involved.

The state can decide if it wants to send somebody out to the wreck site to excavate the safe, it can issue Dykstra and Monroe a permit to retrieve the safe themselves, or it can decide that nothing is to be done, meaning the safe, and its contents would remain a mystery.

Michigan’s state archaeologist, Dean Anderson offered no comment about whether the state plans to investigate the wreck or excavate the safe.

So, for now, the contents of that safe will remain a mystery. $14 million in the next two-year budget, but Senate President Chuck Morse expects it to balance out as more businesses are drawn to the state, New Hampshire Public Radio reported.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Department of Public Safety data indicates that about 8,600 elevators in Massachusetts have not had their yearly safety inspections as required by law, despite a budget increase that allowed for more inspectors, The Boston Herald reported.

MICHIGAN Detroit: Mayor Mike Duggan, tired of being asked if he’s going to run for governor in 2018, made it clear in an answer to a Detroit Free Press question that he has no such plans.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Renderings of a new city park in front of the Minnesota Vikings stadium were released to help jump-start fundraising. Minnesota Public Radio News reported that the park will include a reflecting pool, gardens, a cafe and children’s play areas.

MISSISSIPPI Biloxi: The Biloxi

Shuckers’ stadium won’t be ready for what would have been the first home game on June 6, The Sun Herald reported. The city, the team and Yates Construction are hoping the stadium will be ready sometime before Aug. 4.

Duggan, longtime editorial page editor of the old St. Louis Globe-Democrat and host for 23 years of the local TV public affairs show Donnybrook, has died, KETC-TV reported. He was 93.

guidance from the Office of Personnel Management is unambiguous and stern, The Washington Post reported: Despite the District’s permissive policy, pot is still illegal for federal employees.

GEORGIA Atlanta: The King

KEVIN DYKSTRA

In April, two treasure hunters began scanning Lake Michigan near Frankfort to look for a boxcar of treasure.

MISSOURI St. Louis: Martin

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: New

County Commission will spend up to $10 million in hotel tax money to upgrade Space Coast Stadium as the future home of the Kissimmee-based U.S. Specialty Sports Association, Florida Today reported.

Duquesne University is increasing its employee minimum wage to $16 an hour, slightly more than twice the state and federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.

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MONTANA Butte: The company that owns the Copper King Hotel and Convention Center has filed for bankruptcy, with assets to be sold, reported the Montana Standard.

NEBRASKA Grand Island: Huey

Lewis and the News will play at the Nebraska State Fair on Sept. 4, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

NEVADA Carson City: Former speaker John Oceguera, D-North Las Vegas, said Tuesday at the Legislature that he’s running for Nevada’s 4th District U.S. House seat that is currently held by Republican Cresent Hardy, RMesquite, the Reno GazetteJournal reported.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

Senate budget writers have voted to cut the state’s Business Profit Tax from 8.5% to 7.9%, and the Business Enterprise Tax from 0.75% to 0.675% by 2019. The cuts would result in a loss of

RHODE ISLAND Cumberland: Wildlife officials are reporting an increase in black bear sightings in Rhode Island, The Call reported.

A local man told police he was taking out his trash Sunday night when he saw a bear in his neighbor’s driveway.

SOUTH CAROLINA Lexington: A multiple vehicle crash and fire shut down both directions of Interstate 26 for more than three hours Wednesday morning, The Greenville (S.C.) News reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: A driver has admitted to causing a car crash that injured five people and fleeing from the scene, The Argus Leader reported.

TENNESSEE Memphis: Two men

and a woman were arrested Thursday in connection with the shooting of an undercover police officer serving a warrant, WREGTV reported.

TEXAS Austin: The House ap-

proved a bill that would require public universities to allow concealed handguns on campus, although it must go through a final vote. Health facilities would be exempt and universities can have gun-free zones, The Texas Tribune reported.

UTAH Hyrum: A guard station built in 1934 in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest has been restored, KSL-TV reported.

VERMONT Burlington: A man

suspected to have groped or grabbed women during the People’s United Bank Vermont City Marathon & Relay has been arrested, Burlington Free Press reported.

NEW JERSEY Seaside Park: Beach buggies are coming. The buggies should be up and running at the Funtown Pier site by sometime next month, after the Seaside Park Planning Board unanimously approved Pier owner William Major’s application, the Asbury Park Press reported.

The rides will feature professional drivers, who will pilot up to three passengers at a time along a course on the beach.

VIRGINIA Richmond: Those who buy a bottle of spirits made in the state at participating Virginia ABC stores can get a free “Virginia is for Lovers” trucker cap. The Times-Dispatch assures readers it is “one awesome hat.”

WASHINGTON Seattle: Wildlife officials are working to tag 100 steelhead trout, KING-TV reported. A variety of groups including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are conducting the research.

NEW MEXICO Gallup:

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup has incurred over $2.25 million of legal fees and expenses in its ongoing bankruptcy reorganization case, The Gallup Independent reported.

NEW YORK Ithaca: Cameras

will probably be a part of every police officer’s uniform here by the end of the summer, the Ithaca Journal reported.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Hundreds of feet of concrete walls along the Shaw University campus will be painted with murals that explore the history of the university and its relationship with the city, The News & Observer reported.

NORTH DAKOTA Grand Forks:

Mayor Mike Brown’s recent open heart surgery prompted a leave of absence from his work as a doctor, the Grand Forks Herald reported. Brown is also the longest-serving mayor in the city’s history.

OHIO Lodi: Jeffrey and Debra

Gillium are trying to keep Archie, their 41-year-old toothless caged black bear, despite not getting a required state permit by a deadline, The Medina County Gazette reported.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Officials have replaced two offduty law enforcement officers accused of handcuffing abused and neglected children at a staterun emergency shelter and threatening youths with pepper spray and stun guns, The Oklahoman reported.

WEST VIRGINIA

Charleston: To celebrate the history of African Americans in the state, West Virginia University Press published a commemorative edition of An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation, 1865–1955. The first African-American college in the state was established in Harpers Ferry in 1867 to educate former slaves, according to the Gazette.

WISCONSIN Wausau: Steven “Rambo” Thompson, the man known locally as the subject of a months-long manhunt in 1987, was jailed this week for allegedly punching a disabled man in the face over an anti-gay slur, the Wausau Daily Herald reported.

WYOMING Riverton: Parents are volunteering as crossing guards after a traffic incident killed a 7-year-old girl. The Ranger of Riverton reported that Sophia Archer died when a 77-year-old woman driving a pickup truck struck the child as she was crossing the street. No arrests or citations have been issued in the case and police are still investigating the case.

Compiled by Tim Wendel, Nicole Gill and Jonathan Briggs, with Carolyn Cerbin, Linda Dono, Mike Gottschamer, Wilton Jackson II, Ben Sheffler and Nichelle Smith. Design by Jeff Harkness. Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.

Special thanks to Dennis Lyons.

NEWS MONEY SPORTS 2.2M cars added to air bag recall LIFE AUTOS TRAVEL

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Automakers rush to create lists of models with Takata inflators Chris Woodyard USA TODAY

Automakers were adding millions of cars Thursday to their official lists of models recalled because of potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said it will add another 1.4 million vehicles globally. Honda announced the addition of 350,000 in the U.S. And BMW added 420,100, also in the U.S. That’s likely just the start.

Eleven automakers in the U.S. have been caught in the Takata air bag recalls, and it’s likely more will add recall details as they figure them out.

The action came as a followup to last week’s announcement by

the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it was nearly doubling the number of vehicles included in the Takata recall to 33.8 million.

At the time, NHTSA said it knew the grand total but did not have a list of the individual models. The task of determining the additional models was left up to automakers, which have been scrambling ever since.

Air bags made by Japan’s Takata are deemed dangerous because their inflators can explode when they deploy in a crash, sending shards of metal or plastic at drivers or passengers. They have been blamed for six deaths, all in Hondas. The problem appears to be worse in states with high humidity.

The confusion isn’t over. Honda said that even though it knows the models involved and grand totals, it is now trying find out whether they may have been registered in any of the states con-

RECALLED VEHICLES

Honda u2001-07 Honda Accord u2001-05 Honda Civic u2002-06 Honda CR-V u2003-11 Honda Element u2002-04 Honda Odyssey u2003-08 Honda Pilot u2006 Honda Ridgeline u2003-06 Acura MDX u2002-03 Acura TL u2003 Acura CL u2005 Acura RL Fiat Chrysler u 2004-08 Dodge Ram 1500 pickups u2005-09 Dodge Ram 2500 pickups u 2006-09 Dodge Ram 3500 pickups u2008-10 Dodge Ram 4500 and 5500 cab chassis vehicles u2008-09 Sterling 4500 and 5500 cab chassis vehicles u2004-08 Dodge Durango full-size

sidered to have high humidity that could make the air bags deploy in a more dangerous way. It will take “several weeks” to determine a more specific list, Honda said.

SUVs u2005-10 Chrysler 300, 300C and SRT8 full-size sedans u2005-10 Dodge Charger full-size sedans u2005-10 Dodge Magnum full-size station wagons u2005-11 Dodge Dakota small pickups u2006-11 Mitsubishi Raider small pickups In a separate action Thursday, Fiat Chrysler said it is also pulling back 2003 Dodge Ram 1500, 2500 and 3500 pickups.

BMW u2002-06 3 Series u2002-03 5 Series1 u2003 X51 1 - When equipped with optional sport steering wheel

Honda had previously recalled its 350,000 vehicles to fix driver’s side air bags. Now the same cars are coming back to replace the passenger side as well.

“The vast majority of Honda

and Acura vehicles impacted by last week’s announcement were already covered by past recalls or safety improvement campaigns,” says Bruce Smith, a vice president for American Honda. “In fact, many of these vehicles have already been repaired – we’ve replaced nearly 2 million inflators since 2013, most of those in the last nine months alone.”

BMW found itself in the opposite position of Honda. It had previously recalled 381,000 3-Series cars made between 2004 and 2006 to replace passenger’s side air bags. Now many of the same cars are being recalled again to fix the driver’s side air bags. This time, the recall covers 2002 to 2006. It also added some vehicles that haven’t been subject to air bags recalls before. They include 28,500 5-Series sedans from 2002 and 2003 equipped with an optional sport steering wheel.

Also in the recall are 10,500 X5 crossovers from 2003.

MONEYLINE JPMORGAN PLANS JOB CUTS JPMorgan Chase & Co. will cut thousands of jobs over the next year as it seeks to contain expenses and sells businesses, Bloomberg reported, citing a person with knowledge of the plans. The New York-based bank may cut more than 5,000 workers by next year, “The Wall Street Journal” reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

March 2015: 2,783,000 MORE WORKERS LEAVING Employers are responding to rising numbers of workers leaving by offering higher pay and incentives to stay. Monthly numbers of workers who quit their jobs for new employment; (non-farm, seasonally adjusted)

AMAZON GROWS FOOD BIZ Amazon is expanding the grocery business by broadening its private-label brand, Elements, into food items, according to “The Wall Street Journal.” Amazon sells Elements-branded baby wipes but has approached several vendors for a plan to introduce more grocery items to Amazon Prime members.

Source Bureau of Labor Statistics

GEORGE PETRAS, USA TODAY

March 2013: 2,091,000 MADOFF’S EX-ACCOUNTANT GETS HOUSE ARREST A former accountant who certified fake financial records hiding Bernard Madoff’s epic Ponzi scheme was sentenced on Thursday to one year of home confinement, becoming the latest defendant to avoid prison by cooperating in the case. David Friehling had agreed to cooperate almost immediately after the financial fraud — one of the largest in U.S. history — was exposed in 2008. Last year, he testified for several days against five of the firm’s insiders before a jury found them guilty.

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Employers hustling to retain workers Paul Davidson USA TODAY

Companies are scrambling to hold on to workers amid a tightening labor market and higher turnover, doling out bigger raises, expanding benefits and providing more training and other perks.

“They’re awakening to the fact that they’re going to lose their people,” says Paul McDonald, an executive at staffing firm Robert Half. “We’re seeing an increased investment in the employee.”

The U.S. unemployment rate last month fell from 5.5% to a near normal 5.4%, helping shift the labor market’s balance of power to employees. In March, 2.8 million workers quit their jobs, largely to take other posi-

NEW GOAL: HOLD ON TO JOB HOPPERS tions, the most since April 2008.

Companies are responding.

Wages, salaries and benefits jumped 2.6% in the first quarter, the most since 2008, according to Labor’s Employment Cost Index.

About a third of chief financial officers are reinstating or increasing bonuses and half are boosting investment in training and development, according to a survey of 2,200 CFOs released this month by staffing firm Accountemps.

McDonald says 30% of his clients are making counteroffers to employees who say they plan to leave, up from 20% a year ago.

Chains such as Walmart, Target and McDonald’s have trumpeted pay increases in recent months, while Starbucks expanded its online college tuition program. Others across the USA are

moving to retain employees by: uRaising pay. Papouli’s, a four unit restaurant chain in San Antonio, recently boosted its starting pay to $9 an hour from $8, owner Nick Anthony says.

Many employees quit recently to work at the booming area’s new crop of restaurants, leaving him with a 30% staffing shortfall.

“When I saw McDonald’s” increase wages, “I thought we might want to piggyback on that,” Anthony says. uExpanding benefits. After employee turnover increased in 2014, law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath, with 1,200 U.S. employees, decided to provide lawyers and senior staffers unlimited vacation and bump paid parental leave to five months from three. The more liberal vacation policy

Some restaurants have increased their wages recently to reduce employee turnover.

JOE RAEDLE, GETTY IMAGES

shows staffers “we trust them and respect their judgment” while the longer parental leave demonstrates “that we care about them,” Chief Human Resources Officer Mark Ansorge says. “Both of those messages build loyalty.” uIncreasing stock options.

Silicon Valley marketing firm GlimpzIt recently decided to award stock options every quarter, up from twice a year. It lost a developer to Google about six months ago. Since the options fully vest in four years, “It gives (employees) an incentive to stay,” CEO Parry Bedi says. uListening to employees’ gripes. To stem turnover, Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill, with 65 restaurants in the Eastern U.S., last fall began conducting “stay interviews” with managers to determine how to improve their work lives.

“The single biggest reason people quit their jobs is they don’t trust their boss,” says Dick Finnegan, a consultant for the chain.

Avago to buy rival Broadcom for $37B Chipmaker predicts $15B in annual revenue Kevin McCoy and Mike Snider USA TODAY

Avago Technologies on Thursday announced plans to buy rival chipmaker Broadcom in a $37 billion cash and stock deal marking the latest consolidation of firms that supply parts for smartphones and other tech products.

The deal, one of the largest tech acquisitions in history, values the combined companies at $77 billion in enterprise value.

Avago and Broadcom predicted the combined firm would have “the most diversified communications platform in the semiconductor industry, with combined annual revenues of approximately $15 billion.”

The deal could mark the start of a new string of megamergers in

the tech industry, says Christopher Rolland, an analyst with investment bank firm FBR & Co. Transaction terms call for Singapore-based Avago to pay $17 billion in cash and the equivalent of 140 million of the company’s shares, valued at $20 billion as of Wednesday, to acquire California-based Broadcom.

As a result, Broadcom shareholders are projected to own 32% of the combined company.

Avago said it plans to fund the deal with a combination of cash and $9 billion in new debt.

Avago shares closed up less than 1% at $142.38 Thursday.

Broadcom shares closed down 1.58% at $56.25. However, the company’s stock had rocketed Wednesday, closing up 21.45% at $57.15 amid trading sparked by market rumors and a report by The Wall Street Journal that the acquisition was imminent.

Hock Tan, president and CEO of Broadcom, will keep both of

AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES VIA GLOBE NEWSWIRE

Broadcom Limited will continue to supply parts for smartphones and other tech products.

Avago’s purchase of Broadcom could mark the start of a new string of megamergers in the tech industry.

those roles in the combined company, which will be known as Broadcom Limited. Henry Samueli, Broadcom’s co-founder, board chairman and chief technology officer, will join the board of the new company and serve as its chief technology officer.

Henry Nicholas, a Broadcom co-founder and past CEO, will serve in a strategic advisory role in the combined company and will report to Tan. “Together with Broadcom, we intend to bring the combined company to a level of profitability consistent with Avago’s longterm target model,” Tan said.

Scott McGregor, Broadcom’s president and CEO, predicted the transaction would benefit all of the company’s key stakeholders.

The companies predicted the deal would generate $750 million of projected annual cost synergies within 18 months and would close by the end of 2016’s first quarter.

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

Just when it looks like the yield on the 10-year U.S. government bond is ready to shoot up like a bottle rocket on the Fourth of July, it comes crashing down to earthly levels near historic lows.

For two years now, Wall Street has been warning of a coming bond market sell-off the likes of which most modern-day bond investors have never seen. The bond market, of course, has been in a bull market for a long, long time, 30 or more years in fact.

But even with the Federal Reserve getting ready to pull the trigger on its first short-term interest rate increase since 2006, and pundits continually pointing out there’s no reason for bonds to be trading as if the world is com-

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ing to an end, bond investors keep buying U.S. government bonds — pushing yields down.

Thursday’s trading action was a microcosm of bond market action in recent years. Buyers poured in once again. Just two weeks after the 10-year Treasury note climbed to a six-month high of 2.34%, the yield resumed its slide and fell to 2.13%. And in bond land, a roughly quarter of a percentage point yield drop in two weeks is a big move.

So what’s driving the buying, despite all the angst over the eventual end to a low-yield world? First, the Fed keeps putting off its rate increase. June seems out. Will it nix September, too? The economy isn’t firing on all cylinders, either, as a rebound from a weak first quarter has yet to kick in. But if the rebound does take hold, investors should brace for a spike in yields.

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Eli Lilly (LLY) Diabetes drug nears FDA approval as EU nods. eBay (EBAY) Digital commerce is up 14% year-to-year.

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Matt Krantz USA TODAY

Tech-stock mania is back.

It seems as if everyone is buying tech stocks these days — including tech companies themselves.

Thursday’s $37 billion buyout of computer chipmaker Broadcom by Avago is just the biggest and most dramatic sign of tech

buyout mania, and it has significant meaning for tech investors.

More than $110 billion has been spent buying up U.S. tech companies this year, says Richard Peterson of S&P Capital IQ. If the dealmaking continues at this pace, it would reach $273.6 billion in 2015 — topping the dot-com frenzied year of 1999. At the current pace, tech M&A is second only to the $385.1 billion spent the year the tech-heavy Nasdaq peaked and began a bear market so ugly some investors are still afraid of the stock market as a result — 15

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Q: How can I pick the best broker for me?

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A: You might have money saved up and ready to invest. You might even know what stocks you want to buy. But you need a broker before you can make a single move.

Choosing the brokerage that’s best for you is a very personal decision. Each online brokerage firm offers a variety of advantages and drawbacks that can make it perfect for one investor but terrible for another.

Before shopping for online brokerages, it’s best to have an idea of whether you’re planning to buy investments that track market indexes, such as exchangetraded funds, or if you’re going to try to pick individual company stocks. If you’re just buying ETFs, brokerages like TD Ameritrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab offer commission-free ETFs. These offers can be big money savers.

Most of these big brokerages have online branches, too, if you’re into that kind of thing.

You’ll also want to know how many times a year you plan to invest. If you’re planning to buy and sell frequently, brokers that offer low-cost commissions like TradeKing and Scottrade can save you money. There are other, even lower-cost options that have unique characteristics.

Robinhood offers free trading, but you’ll need to do your trading on your phone.

Buying frenzy puts tech deals on pace to surpass 1999 Investors should be wary of buyout mania

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NAV 196.23 53.56 53.53 194.31 53.56 194.33 103.01 45.63 22.04 61.20

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Molson Coors Brewing (TAP) 74.54 Beer shares raised to overweight at Morgan Stanley.

Actavis (ACT) Wins FDA approval for new treatments.

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GameStop (GME) 40.92 Optimistic about second quarter amid tough time.

Chipotle (CMG) Raised to buy vs. hold at Miller Tabak.

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The trouble is tech companies usually don’t buy each other when they should, when shares are cheap. They instead get the courage to make massive buyouts when the market is flying.

The best example is in 2000 — when tech M&A reached an incredible peak. While tech companies were busily buying each other, the value of the tech market — represented by the Nasdaq composite index — also reached an impossible level. The same thing happened again in 2007 — when tech companies were again

getting snapped up as the dotcom freeze started to partially thaw. The Nasdaq reached a short-term peak that year, too.

It’s true, a strong stock market gives companies a powerful currency in their highly valued shares. And given just how flush with cash tech companies are and how valuations are high, it’s probably safe to assume more deals are coming.

Even so, the fact tech companies are feeling so brazen should be a red flag for tech investors.

Or maybe this time will be different?

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The Age of Adaline

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Director: Lee Toland Krieger

1 hour, 49 minutes

Mad Max: Fury Road

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Intriguing concept, poignant relationship between mother and daughter (Ellen Burstyn) Downside: Conventional, superficial, treacly romance

Plot: Lone wolf Max (Tom Hardy) escapes a tyrant with the help of Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and her crew.

Director: George Miller

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Director: Joss Whedon

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Director: Kenneth Branagh

Rating: R Upside: Hardy and Theron add exciting new dimensions to the franchise.

Downside: Too many extended chase scenes

2 hours, 30 minutes

Pitch Perfect 2

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Plenty of zingy humor, delightful cast, well-choreographed action scenes Downside: Bloated length, occasionally murky plot, overstuffed with characters

Plot: The collegiate all-girl a cappella champs take their music to an international level.

Director: Elizabeth Banks

1 hour, 45 minutes

Poltergeist

Rating: PG Upside: Splendid visuals, strong performances, uplifting message Downside: A couple of cartoonish performances

Plot: A remake of one of the better horror movies of the latter 20th century. The question: Why? The answer: Sam Rockwell is in it.

Director: Gil Kenan

2 hours, 20 minutes

San Andreas

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Eye-popping vehicular stunts, edge-of-the-seat excitement, loving memorial to Paul Walker Downside: Ridiculous dialogue, overlong and nonsensical story

Plot: A rescue helicopter pilot, a seismologist and others scramble to survive when a catastrophic earthquake hits Southern California.

Director: Brad Peyton

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Director: James Wan

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Director: Tim Johnson

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Employs some of the original’s visual signatures, such as nightmarish clown dolls, kid-eating trees and corpses that pop out of the ground Downside: Fails to re-create the original’s mix of horror and humor

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Director: Anne Fletcher

1 hour, 47 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson again is a notable action figure Downside: Most of the dialogue is laughably bad

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1 hour, 33 minutes

Tomorrowland

Rating: PG Upside: A likable, strong protagonist in Rihanna’s character, Tip; some laughs courtesy of Steve Martin Downside: Frenetic pace, forced zaniness

Plot: A young science whiz (Britt Robertson) and an aging inventor (George Clooney) team up to save a futuristic city founded to house Earth’s greatest minds.

Director: Brad Bird

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DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

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Home

1 hour, 54 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: Very funny performances by Rebel Wilson, Anna Kendrick and KeeganMichael Key Downside: Musical highlights are fewer than in the original, feels padded

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Woman in Gold

Rating: PG-13 Upside: None Downside: Tone-deaf, stale, not funny

Plot: True story of a Jewish émigré who reclaims a valuable painting stolen by the Nazis.

Director: Simon Curtis

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HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY TREVOR NOAH Comedy Central has set Noah’s debut on ‘The Daily Show’ for Sept. 28. The South African comedian will be only the third host in the show’s GETTY IMAGES history, after Craig Kilborn and Jon Stewart, who will wrap up a nearly 17-year run on Aug. 6.

GOOD DAY ‘SERIAL’ FANS

The second season of the hit podcast will return in the fall, and a third season will follow in spring 2016. The announcement came via an email newsletter sent to subscribers by Sarah Koenig, the host and executive producer. Season One explored the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and ultimately led to her convicted ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, being allowed to appeal his conviction.

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GOOD DAY LINDSAY LOHAN For the first time in nearly eight years, the actress is not on probation. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Young on Thursday ended Lohan’s probation in a reckless-driving case from 2012, saying he was satisfied the actress had completed the required hours of community service. “Hard work pays off,” the actress wrote on Instagram.

“Thank you to all those that allowed me to volunteer while in nyc. God bless you all. Amen.”

BAD DAY CHRIS SOULES

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It’s The Rock to the rescue, but ‘there’s got to be Oprah, too’ Bryan Alexander @BryAlexand USA TODAY

LAS VEGAS Who will you be with when everything falls apart?

That’s the unpredictable question posed by the trailer of the disaster flick San Andreas for when the Big One finally hits.

Who do you want to be with in a major earthquake? That’s a much easier question to answer.

“No brainer. Dwayne Johnson.

That’s the face anyone in the universe wants to see busting through their door,” says San Andreas director Brad Peyton.

“People ask me earthquake advice and I tell them, ‘Find Dwayne and hold onto him.’ ” That might be tough. But at least we can all watch The Rock’s screen heroics in San Andreas (in theaters today). Johnson, 43, stars as helicopter rescue pilot Ray Gaines, who teams up with his estranged wife (Carla Gugino) to rescue their daughter (Alexandra Daddario) after massive earthquakes level the West Coast.

“It’s the day Mother Nature decides to kick a little (butt),” says Johnson. “I try to kick back.”

The 6-foot-5, 260-pound Johnson is solid enough to play the Greek hero Hercules on-screen.

Yet shooting San Andreas pumped up his hero credentials.

One scene required Johnson to

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“Mother Nature decides to kick a little (butt)” in San Andreas, Dwayne Johnson says. “I try to kick back.”

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skydive into San Francisco’s AT&T Park. Other scenes depicting a building being overwhelmed by tsunami waters were shot in a 1.5 million-gallon tank in Australia, where the torrent knocked over walls; Johnson climbed stairways as the water rushed against him.

He learned CPR to convey realistically an underwater rescue. “I can pick you up. I can run with you. I can provide CPR. I can throw things out of the way,” says Johnson, laughing. “Even I want to be with The Rock.”

If Johnson really could choose who he’d be with in an earthquake? He’d pick New England

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, for crisis inspiration. “He knows how to pull the best out of you. I need the coach of world champions,” he says.

“And there’s got to be Oprah, too,” Johnson adds. “We can talk through our emotional injuries.”

In reality, even celebrities look to Johnson for protection. Last month, the star encountered “turbulence from hell” on a private jet back to Los Angeles from Vegas, where he and Gugino, the Entourage movie cast and Mad Max: Fury Road star Charlize Theron were promoting their projects to theater exhibitors at CinemaCon. Theron “ said at the top of her lungs, ‘We can’t go down. The Rock’s on the plane. He’s going to save us,’ ” says Johnson. “I told her that she was in safe hands.”

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Steps to consider before buying a home Linda a. ditCh

Hometown Lawrence

Looking for a new home?

Perhaps you’re searching for your first one. Whether you are anxious to get out of a small apartment and into a roomy house, or you are hunting for your dream home, here are some tips to consider before starting the home-buying process.

Choose a Realtor®: Buying a home can be complicated. A real estate professional can help guide you along the way. Chris Earl, coowner of Stephens Real Estate, said, “We can help buyers right from the start work through the process.”

Get pre-approved: You need to know how much of a home you can afford. Getting pre-approved for a home loan will not only show you the price range you should consider, but it can also give you an idea what the monthly payments will be, how much of a down payment is required, and if you qualify for special loan options, such as FHA or VA loans. Earl recommended

going to a local lender versus online options.

“We see the best success rate with local lenders,” he said. “They care about their reputation in the local area and know what the typical time expectations are for closing on a home. On time is what it is all about.”

Buyers should also think not only about the home’s price and monthly mortgage outlay, but also the other costs of home ownership.

For example, an older home may seem like a great deal, but there will be costs associated with repairs, remodeling, and upkeep. A newer home may cost more, but comes with less ownership costs.

Create a must-have list: What features can you not live without in your new home? This list should not only include things like hardwood floors, granite counter tops, and a finished basement. Also think about location in terms of

schools, proximity to work, crime rates and traffic.

Remember the additional costs: Besides the price of the house, there are other costs you will need to cover. These include home inspections, appraisals, loan origination fees, private mortgage insurance (PMI), and homeowners insurance. Most of these costs will be factored into the total loan cost at closing, but they will affect the size of your monthly mortgage payment.

Does all of this seem a bit overwhelming? Remember your Realtor® can help guide your though.

Buyers don’t have to think about it too much. Just connect with a pro and we’ll help you get started,” Earl said.

— Linda A. Ditch writes about the Lawrence real estate market for Hometown Lawrence. Contact her at Thompson.lindaa@gmail.com.

We can help buyers right from the start work through the process.”

— Chris Earl, co-owner of Stephens Real Estate

Showcase Homes Offered by: Patty Wiseman 913.709.0963 PattyWiseman@ReeceNichols.com

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4490 Ohio Road, Wellsville What a great location on hard surfaced road! Walk in front door to a beautiful Victorian Style home with a little bit of history and a lot of large rooms. All bedrooms have bathrooms and walk in closets. The master bedroom has two bathrooms and two walk-in closets. Walk-out basement is a separate 2 bed/1 bath apartment with fireplace. Large 100 x 50 outbuilding plus a nice 30 x 50 workshop!

Just north and west from LeLoup exit on I-35 or south of Baldwin on Hwy 1055.

$580,000

Offered by: Suzy Novotny 785-550-8357 SuzyN@ReeceNichols.com

OPEN SUNDAY 1:00-3:00

1213 Lawrence Ave BEAUTIFUL home regally situated across from Orchards Golf Course. NEW wood floors, basement carpet, energy-efficient windows, HVAC & sprinkler system! Relax on the adorable front porch or cozy up in front of TWO fireplaces. Vaulted ceilings + open layout, perfect for entertaining. Custom cabinets & granite counters adorn the kitchen that opens into formal dining with views of park-like, secluded backyard & deck. Finished daylight basement boasts bedroom, living area & storage area.

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1117 STONECREEK DR

SHARP HOME! Main level living, dining, kitchen, breakfast area, large family room & laundry. Upstairs master suite, 3 additional bedrooms & full bath.

Basement has room to add 5th bedroom & 4th bath.

RANDY BARNES CRS, GRI, ABR 785-760-2140

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OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY 1:30-3:30PM 307 Dakota

Love Ranch Home on large lot - hardwood floors Lovely thro throughout, upgraded bath areas on main level. Bonus room could be den/office, eat in kitchen. Two fireplaces partially finished basement, two car garage - priced to sell! part

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Awes Awesome ranch home with walk out basement, two living areas, three bath areas, gleaming hard wood floors on area main level, spacious bedrooms, lots of kitchen storage/ cabinets. Many builder upgrades include oversized garage, cabi custom designed for wheelchair/no steps (main level). cust Exte Extensive landscaping. A must see!

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OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1:30-3:30PM 1633 Matthew Terrace

Thre bedrooms, two full baths, two car garage. Upgraded Three kitchen with granite, NEWER cabinets, vaulted ceilings, kitc new interior paint - retouched ceramic flooring in master bath, walk in closet, quiet & family friendly neighborhood! bath A re real “RENT BUSTER” with today’s interest rates!

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HOME INSURANCE Kurt Goeser, State Farm Insurance

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Open 1:00-3:00 514 Flame Way $285,000 6 bed, 4 bath, 2 car garage

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HOME SECURITY SYSTEMS Rueschhoff Locksmith & Security

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Walk out bsmt. Terrific Master Suite. 3 Car Garage.

MLS 136538

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DON MINNIS, GRI 785-550-7306

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basement. FP/custom blinds/walk-in pantry/stainless appliances/landscaped/sprinklers/extra deep garage stall/great NW location. First owners loving care!

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RARE FIND. Pampered Two Story on quiet site, backing

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custom built upgrades throughout, 3 car garage, mudroom, HUGE Master/Bonus room, large bedrooms, laundry up, walk out basement, all on quiet cul-de-sac.

4709 MCCORMICK ST

Spacious open floor plan with extra bonus room in back and 9 ft ceilings throughout! Perfect East side access for K-10 commuters! See you Sun.!

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2742 CHIPPERFIELD RD

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bath/2 car; FP in family area, updated carpet/tile, stainless kitchen appliances include refrig; wood fenced yard; located in cul-de-sac; first owners

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1531 CRESCENT RD • New listing west of KU • Custom mid-century • Remarkable materials, design & craftsmanship • Exceptional interior spaces • Nature & architecture in harmony • Visual Tour: Tom-Harper.com TOM HARPER CRS, ABR, GRI, e-PRO 785-218-6351 MLS 136991

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$725,000

$209,500

$349,900

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670 N 1505 RD

INCREDIBLE! Custom Built 4400 sq. ft. Home, hardwood floors. Douglas County’s premier property, 13.4 acres of white fence pastures, barn and stables, ponds 2 outdoor patio areas, private drive and entrance.

MLS 136679

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1017 COLUMBINE CT

SCOT HOFFMAN 785-760-4356

• New Price • Located on a sweet cul-de-sac • Main level living w/ a full unfinished lower level • Huge deck & large fenced backyard • New roof !

• Visual Tour: Tom-Harper.com MLS 136736

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890 EAST 1600 RD, BALDWIN CITY

TOM HARPER CRS, ABR, GRI, e-PRO 785-218-6351

• Modern design + energy efficiency in rural Douglas Co. • Resides on 15 acres- prairie on a hill w/ 2 ponds TOM HARPER • 7 miles south of Lawrence CRS, ABR, GRI, e-PRO 785-218-6351 • Huge 3 car garage/shop • Visual Tour: Tom-Harper.com MLS 136691

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$134,000

$279,900

$104,900

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306 CALIFORNIA

NEW PRICE! Look at this very cute and well maintained home in quiet setting. Large rooms and great room with fireplace. Close to everything!

Fenced backyard, eat in kitchen. Call for showing!

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810 ALABAMA STREET

SCOT HOFFMAN 785-760-4356

MLS #134830

• CHARMING turn of the century in OWL • Renovated kitchen & baths • 2 car garage w/ alley access • Fabulous front porch + original wood floors • Visual Tour: Tom-Harper.com MLS 136512

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440 ISACKS ST, LECOMPTON

TOM HARPER CRS, ABR, GRI, E-PRO 785-218-6351

• Historic City of Lecompton • Sharp 3 BR + 2 bath home • Resides on 1/2 acre + lot with mature trees • Manufactured home on a permanent foundation • Visual Tour: Tom-Harper.com MLS 136596

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$425,000

$174,900

$206,500

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1030 E 1901 RD

CUSTOM BUILT! 10 minutes from Lawrence! 4450 sq ft sunroom, screened porch, 2 family rooms huge lower level, custom built, central vac, insta hot water, walkout, Pella windows, incredibly spacious!

MLS 136079

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308 SANTA FE DR, BALDWIN CITY

SCOT HOFFMAN 785-760-4356

TOM HARPER, CRS, ABR, GRI, e-PRO 785-218-6351

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1111 CHAPEL ST., BALDWIN CITY

MOVE-IN READY one level home w/ open floor plan, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, wood & tile floors, DEBBIE MORGAN, GRI awesome sun room, daylight basement w/ media 785-760-1357 room & rec room, fenced backyard w/ deck & patio.

NEW LISTING! Spacious one-level home on deadend street, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, open floor plan DEBBIE MORGAN, GRI w/gas fireplace on main level, finished walkout 785-760-1357 basement w/wood stove, deck & fenced backyard

MLS 136754

MLS 136966

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DIETZ, JOHN TO ROGERS, FRED G., ROGERS, ROSYLEE L. 2412 BRETT DR. LAWRENCE FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION TO SCOTT, MICHAEL S., SCOTT, SARAH A. 2327 SURREY DR. LAWRENCE 5/12/15 - 5/18/15

MORTGAGE MARKETPLACE LENDER

Capital City Bank 740 New Hampshire 4505A West 6th St 330-1200 5/12/2015

LOAN TYPE Conv.

Jumbo

ARMs/EQUITY/ OTHER LOANS RATE/APR/POINTS

RATE/APR/POINTS

3.875 + 0 (3.971% APR) 60 day quote (credit score >= 740) Call For Rates (credit score >= 740)

3.000 + 0 (3.168% APR) 60 day quote (credit score >= 740)

3.000/3.092¹ + 0 Please Call

FHA Fixed VA Fixed Up to 100% Refinance 80%

Call For Rates (credit score >= 660) Call For Rates (credit score >= 660 3.875 + 0 (3.971 % APR) (credit score >= 740)

*Rates for refinances may be higher *Save money with our “Biweekly Mortgage” program. *We service your loan after closing. Contact Tom Koenig at 785-838-1882, or TomK@centralnational.com.

NMLS ID# 472917

4.000 + 0

5/1 ARM 7/1 ARM 10/1 ARM 7/1 Jumbo 10/1 Jumbo 20 Yr. Fixed 10 Yr. Fixed

2.875 + 0 (3.043% APR) 3.250 + 0 (3.204% APR) 3.500 + 0 (3.395% APR) 3.250 + 0 (3.338% APR) 3.500 + 0 (3.493% APR) 3.750% + 0 (3.848%) 2.875% + 0 (3.105%) 3.625% + 0 (3.749% APR)

(4.071% APR)

3.250 + 0

(3.410% APR)

3.750 + 0

Jumbo

4.000 + 0

Conv.

Jumbo FHA VA

3.875% + 0 (3.968% APR) 4.125% + 0 (4.206% APR) 3.250% + 0 (4.138% APR) 3.500% + 0 (3.787% APR)

3.000% + 0 (3.141% APR) 3.500% + 0 (3.627% APR)

20 Yr.

Fairway Mortgage Corp.

4104 W. 6th St., Ste. B 841-4434 5/05/2015

Conv.

Jumbo

Call For Rates Call For Rates

Call For Rates Call For Rates

FHA USDA/Rural Development

Call For Rates Call For Rates

First Assured Mortgage 856-LOAN (5626) 3/10/2015

Conv.

3.000 + 0 3.000 + 0

3/1 ARM 5/1 ARM 7/1 ARM 7/1 Jumbo

3.125 + 1 3.125 + 1 3.375 + 1

Landmark Bank 841-6677 4/16/2015

Meritrust Credit Union 856-7878 11/03/2014 Mid America Bank 4114 W 6th St. 841-8055 5/26/2015 Pulaski Bank 3210 Mesa Way, Ste B 856-1450 4/14/2015 Truity Credit Union 749-6804 3400 W. 6th 5/26/2015 University National Bank 841-1988 5/26/2015

PREAPPROVALS -NO COSTS TO YOU. WE WORK VIA PHONE INTERVIEW, EMAIL OR IN PERSON. EASY FOR YOU! WE OFFER VA, FHA, USDA, CONSTRUCTION, 2nd Homes, REVERSE MORTGAGES, Jumbo and Conventional. Annual Percentage Rate(APR)based on loans amount of $100,000.00 (80%LTV)with a close date of the first of the month. APR’s may vary depending on the day of the month the loan closes. Rates quoted for 45 days lock time.

Capital City Bank - Has 2 locations: 4505 West 6th St Suite A and 740 New Hampshire Diana Deutsch - 785/330-1220 direct Jeff Schuler - 785/330-1221 direct

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FHA/VA

Great American Bank 3500 Clinton Parkway 838-9704 5/19/2015

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HP 97 Fixed Investor 20% Down

Conv.

FHA/VA Jumbo

First State Bank & Trust 3901 W. 6th St. 312-6810 5/19/2015

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3.125% + 0 (3.247%) 4.000% + 0 (4.020%) 3.500 + 0 (APR 5.011% / 3.699%) Call for Rates Call for Rates

Central National Bank 838-1882 5/19/2015

FHA/VA

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Loan Assumptions: ¹Primary Residence, Purchase Loan with a value of $125,000 and loan amount of $100,000, estimated monthly payment of $678.62 for 180 months. ²Primary Residence, Purchase Loan with a value of $125,000 and loan amount of $100,000, estimated monthly payment of $449.04 for 360 months. Real estate taxes and homeowners insurance could increase the monthly payment. Receive local servicing for the life of the loan on all conventional loans. Please call Mark Hernandez (NMLS#556689) at 785.749.9053 or apply online at www.capfed.com. APR = Annual Percentage Rate. *Registered with HUD as Capitol Federal® Savings Bank.

3.875/3.928² + 0 Please Call

Central Bank of the Midwest 865-1000 5/12/2015

Your area real estate resource

Please Call N/A

Conv.

Jumbo

Commerce Bank 865-4721 5/26/2015

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20 Yr 5/1 ARM/7/1 ARM FHA* 30 Yr./15 Yr.

Capitol Federal® Savings 1026 Westdale 749-9050 5/06/2015

Conv.

15-YR. FIXED & VARIATION

30-YR. FIXED

RATE/APR/POINTS

hometown

(4.864% APR) (4.071% APR)

3.750 + 0 3.250 + 0

Call Carol at 785-865-4721 for free pre-approval and for more information on mortgages for residential and investment properties. Rates change daily. Rates quoted here on loan amounts of $160,000 to $417,000 with minimum required credit score.

Email Mary Lauer at Mary.Lauer@commercebank.com

NOW IS THE TIME TO LOCK IN A GREAT LOW FIXED RATE! WHETHER YOU ARE BUYING, BUILDING OR REFINANCING. CALL ALLISA HURST @ 785-865-1085 FAX: 865-1025 EMAIL: Allisa.Hurst@centralbank.net Unbelievably LOW rates! Now is the time to purchase or refinance! Give us a call or email us for a FREE pre approval or refinance analysis. (Rates subject to change. Posted rates assume credit score > 740 and are for PURCHASE financing with 20% down payment. Refinance rates MAY be slightly higher) NMLS #2889

No up front fees! No application fee and no up front appraisal fee. Apply online at www. firstassuredmortgage.com or via phone at 785-856-5626.

Jumbo

4.125 + 0

4.000 + 0 3.75 + 1

Conv.

FHA/VA Jumbo

4.000% + 0 (4.191% APR) Call For Rates Call For Rates

3.125% + 0 (3.457% APR) Call For Rates Call For Rates

20 Yr. Conv. and USDA 3/1 ARM 5/1 ARM 7/1 ARM 7/1 Jumbo

Please Call 4.191% 3.457% Please Call Please Call Please Call Please Call

Conv.

FHA/VA Jumbo

3.875% + 0 (3.931% APR) Call for Rate Call

2.990% + 0 (3.087% APR)

20 Yr. Fixed 10-Yr. Fixed

3.625 + 0 (3.702% APR) 2.875 + 0 (3.015% APR)

Free Same Day Pre-Approvals. Rates quoted on loan amounts of $125,000.00 or more, purchase, 45 day lock with a credit score of 740 and above. Rates subject to change without notice. Call us today for your lending needs!

Bob Underwood at 785-856-9409, BUnderwood@greatambank.com Derek Bailey at 785-856-9418

Conv.

Jumbo

3.625% + 0 (3.667% APR) 3.875% + 0 (3.893% APR)

2.875% + 0 (2.949% APR)

5/1 ARM FHA/VA 30 Fixed 10/1 Jumbo

3.000% / 2.958% APR 3.250% / 3.587/4.848 APR 3.375% + 0 (3.173% APR)

New, Landmark Lock and Shop, provides a safeguard while you shop for a home. Contact Brian McFall 785-841-7152. First time homebuyers you may be able to receive up to 4% of your loan amount in down payment assistance if you qualify. Landmark has FHA, Conventional and VA and RD loans. Closing costs vary from lender to lender, call Landmark and compare our costs and rates with any other lender. Rates are based on a loan of $120,000 or higher and a median credit score of 740 or above. Other rate and point options are available.

Conv.

Jumbo

3.875 + 0 (4.116% APR) Please call 856-7878 ext 5037

3.125 + 0 (3.321% APR) Please call 856-7878 ext 5037

Please call 856-7878 ext 5037

97% Advantage Program: Please call for rates (credit score 660) 20 year: please call 15/30 Pricing options available

Free Pre-approvals! Apply online or call Colette Wedan at 785-856-7878 ext 5037 for more info. Local Credit Union committed to giving you the smoothest closing! Local servicing for the life of the loan! Rates subject to change & are based on a Purchase loan, 20% down payment and 740 credit score.

Conv.

Jumbo

3.875% + 0 (4.217%) Call for Rates

3.125% + 0 (3.502%) Call for Rates

20 Yr. Fixed 10 Yr. Fixed 30 Yr FHA 30 Yr VA 30 Yr USDA 7/1 ARM 5/1 ARM Investment

3.750% + 0 (4.049%) 3.125% + 0 (3.674%) 3.500% + 0 (4.240%) 3.500% + 0 (3.861%) 3.750+0 (3.937%) Call for rates Call for rates Please Call

RATES ARE AMAZING! We offer a FREE,No Obligation Pre-Approval Letter. We are first time homebuyer specialists. Consider A USDA loan with NO down payment required! Great options on rental properties too. Call to have us analyze your refinance options. Free borrower education session ** Rates for refinance may vary. APR based on $125,000 purchase loan, 80% LTV and 760 credit score.

MEMBER FDIC EQUAL HOUSING LENDER. NMLS#619730 ****

Conv.

Jumbo

3.500% + 0 (3.763% APR)

2.875% + 0 (3.109% APR)

FHA/VA/USDA

3.250% + 0

Call

Call

20 YR 30 YR

Call For Rates

(4.144/3.531/3.903% APR)

3.375% + 0 (3.592% APR)

3.875% + 0 (4.151% APR)

THE DATA DISPLAYED BELOW IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR CREDIT AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH 226.24 OF REGULATION Z. CALL LENDER FOR APR. ARM-ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE; CAPS MAXIMUM PER ADJUSTMENTS & LIFETIME RATE ADJUSTMENT LTV-LOAN TO VALUE; JUMBO - ANY LOAN AMOUNT OVER $417,000.

Email Jessica Wollesen at jessicaw@firststateks.com

CALL TODAY or apply online for a no-obligation rate quote and fee estimate, to be preapproved, or to talk with a Mortgage Advisor about preparing for a future purchase. Pulaski Bank provides loans for purchase, refinance, investment property, second homes, second mortgages/HELOCS and Bridge Loans! We provide options with little or no down payment, and offer Financed Mortgage Insurance to keep your payment as low as possible. Rates shown are for a purchase transaction with a >740 credit score - refinance rates may vary.

Conv.

Jumbo

3.875% + 0 (3.924%) Please Call for Quote

3.000 + 0 (3.054% APR) Please Call

20 Yr. Conv.

Conv. 97% 30 Yr Fixed 30 Yr. Rental HELOC

3.625% + 0 (3.692%) 4.000% + 0 (4.336%) 4.125 + 0 (4.166% APR) (as low as) 3.750 + 0

Contact Geoff Strole at 785-749-6804 or Geoff.Strole@TruityCU.org. Local Servicing. Free Pre-Qualifications within Minutes of Applying. Apply 24/7 at www.LawrenceMortgages. org. Rates quoted are for purchase transactions with a 740 or higher median credit score.

Refinance rates may be slightly higher. Call or email for complete details and to obtain a no obligation quote! Equal Housing Lender We are also proud to be an Approved Lender for the Tenants to Homeowners Program...Creating Permanently Affordable Workforce Housing in Lawrence! Check out complete details at: www.tenants-to-homeowners.org

Conv.

Jumbo

3.869% + 0 (3.916%) Call for Rates

3.042% + 0 (3.124%) Call for Rates

20 Year Fixed 10 Year Fixed 5/1 ARM 7/1 ARM

3.578% + 0 (3.642%) 2.928% + 0 (3.047%) Call for Rate Call for Rate

Free same-day approvals! Ask us about the new Fannie Mae 3% Down Loan Product - or, consider a refinance while rates are at an all-time low! Rates are subject to change and are based on a credit score of 740 and a loan amount of $100,000.00. Please call Joylynn Harlow (NMLS #409547) at 785-749-8732 for your custom quote. The University National Bank - NMLS #403070

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$259,500

3 Bed, 2 Bath, Bsmt: No, 1,847 Sqft MLS#:136827

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Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

For Gudde, taking right path to success imperative The most important pitch that Free State High junior Hunter Gudde ever learned to throw is the one he never uses anymore.

Gudde didn’t throw a single knuckle curveball en route to the two-hit shutout he threw Thursday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark, where the Firebirds advanced to the 6A state semifinals with a 4-0 victory against Haysville Campus. The pitch no longer was in his reportoire, but the lessons it taught him were evident throughout his masterpiece, his first complete game of the season, one that improved his record to 9-0 and lowered his ERA to 0.84.

Gudde estimated he was 9 years old when he started throwing the pitch that can be thrown by either pressing the top knuckle of the index finger against the ball, or driving the index fingernail either into the ball or into a seam.

He threw it like a fastball, hence eliminating the risky strain that a curveball puts on a young arm. The feedback he received from the hitters when he threw them offbalance with the offspeed pitch that follows a path similar to a slider, moving down a little and away from right-handed hitters a lot, encouraged him to become a pitcher at an age when most are merely throwers.

Since about the age of 12, generally considered the earliest any young athlete should even think about snapping curveballs, Gudde said he picked up a traditional curve, with more north-south movement than the knuckle-curve.

The command he has on his curve has played a huge part in him killing hitters softly with such remarkable consistency. “His velocity is in the low 80’s,” Free State coach Mike Hill said. “It goes back to that old adage hitting is timing. Therefore pitching is the disruption of timing. What he can do is throw a breaking ball anytime he wants strikes.

So hitters really can’t get comfortable and he’s got a changeup, too.”

Gudde relied on that pitch a great deal Thursday.

He estimated he threw 10 of them and in some games throws, “one or two.”

Gudde struck out five and walked one, just his sixth walk of the year.

Catchers wear what are known as the “tools of ignorance,” meaning it’s a position that involves a ton of grunt work and puts the body through pain in so many ways. Firebirds catcher Jonathan Saathoff appreciates how Gudde relieves so much of that stress.

“He always stays low, always hits my spots and makes it easy on my knees,” Saathoff said.

Gudde also works fast, keeping Saathoff in a crouch for shorter periods of time.

“It puts the hitters off balance,” Gudde said of his

Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

FREE STATE’S COOPER KARLIN (9) AND JON SAATHOFF CELEBRATE after the Firebirds defeated Haysville-Campus, 4-0, in the Class 6A state tournament Thursday at Hoglund Ballpark.

Firebirds roll 4-0, reach state semifinals

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

Free State High’s baseball team earned a spot in the Class 6A state tournament with dominant pitching and solid defense all season long.

The Firebirds stuck to the same formula in a 4-0 victory against Haysville Campus in the state quarterfi-

nals at Kansas University’s Hoglund Ballpark, recording their seventh shutout of the year. The Firebirds will face Olathe South in the semifinals around 12:30 p.m. today.

They will play 30 minutes after the first semifinal between Shawnee Mission East and Shawnee Mission Northwest.

In the state tournament for

the first time in five years, junior right-hander Hunter Gudde continued his season of dominance with a two-hit, complete-game shutout.

Senior catcher Jon Saathoff caught Gudde’s brilliant performance and provided his pitcher with all the run support he would need.

In the fifth inning, senior Marcelino Cortez hit a lead-

off single and scored on an RBI single to center by senior Cooper Karlin. Following a single from senior Joel Spain, Saathoff drilled a two-run double past the left fielder for a 4-0 lead.

“He left it right over the center of the plate,” said Saathoff, who was hitting .265 Please see BASEBALL, page 3C

K.C. to keep Big 12 tourney through 2020 “

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

The Big 12 men’s basketball tournament will remain at Kansas City’s Sprint Center through the year 2020, league commissioner Bob Bowlsby announced Thursday.

Kansas City has hosted the tournament 14 of the 19 years the Big 12 has been in existence, including the past six years.

The league had already secured the bid for 2016, meaning the new four-year deal keeps the event in the Power and Light District a total of 11 straight years and Please see KEEGAN, page 3C counting.

Oklahoma City and Dallas also made bids, but didn’t appear to have much of a chance considering the event has been a complete sellout the last two years and has averaged crowds of 18,000 for all sessions every time it has been held in the facility.

“I don’t know how the tournament could have been better,” Bowlsby said of the past couple years.

KU coach Bill Self has long been an advocate of keeping the tourney in Sprint Center.

“I am happy. Selfishly I think it’s good for Kansas and our fans,” Self told the Journal-World on Thurs-

day night. “The reality is Kansas City is the best place for it. With the attendance and the track record of what’s been done here in Kansas City ... not to take away from any other sites, but it’s overwhelming the success the tournament has had and the support it’s received. I think it’s good news for everybody. I don’t think one coach in the league will be against this,” he added.

The women’s basketball championship is slated for Oklahoma City in 2017, ’18 and ’19. The baseball championship will be in OKC from 2017-2020. Sprint Center will host the league

I am happy.

Selfishly I think it’s good for Kansas and our fans. The reality is Kansas City is the best place for it. ... I think it’s good news for everybody.”

wrestling championships March 5-6, 2016. l Canadians to set up shop here: KU will be well acquainted with Canada’s Developmental team by the time the teams travel to the World University Games July 3-14 in South Korea.

Canada’s squad will train in Lawrence a week or so prior to the teams’ two exhibition games June 23 and 26 in Sprint Center. KU is allowed unlimited practice time from June 8 through the end of the Games.

“We’ll get a chance to train with them some at — Kansas coach Bill Self Please see HOOPS, page 3C

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Lawrence High infielders Sophie Taylor and Morgan Byrn, along with Free State outfielder Emily Bermel, earned firstteam All-Sunflower League honors.

Free State infielder Emily Byers, outfielder Kylie Cobb, pitcher Elizabeth Patton and designated player Cali Byrn were second-team selections from the league’s softball coaches.

Lawrence’s Annie Grammer and Jolona Shield, along with Free State’s Kate Stanwix and Lily Ross, received an honorable mention.

2015 All-Sunflower League softball team First team infield: Mady Young, Soph., Olathe Northwest; Sophie Taylor, Jr., Lawrence; Abby Weber, Jr., Olathe South; Morgan Byrn, Sr., Lawrence; Kaity Kukowski, Jr., Olathe Northwest.

First team outfield: Emily Bermel, Sr., Free State; Kayla Peak, Soph., Olathe North; Alyssa Bates, Sr., Olathe South; MaKenzie Cooper, Fr., SM Northwest.

First team catchers: Reagan Hathaway, Sr., Olathe Northwest; Maddie McCracken, Sr., Olathe North.

First team pitchers: Lexie Storrer, Jr., Olathe South; Hayley McGhee, Soph., Olathe East; Halle Brin, Jr., Olathe North.

First team utility player: Natalie Hammn, Soph., Olathe Northwest.

First team designated player: Sammi Bates, Jr., Olathe South.

Second team infield: Kaylee Byers, Jr., Olathe East; Kristina Jaderborg, Sr., SM Northwest; Sidney Holler, Sr., SM South; Emily Byers, Jr., Free State; Katlyn Schiefen, Sr., SM South.

Second team outfield: Halle England, Soph., Olathe Northwest; Alexa Sidoti, Jr., Olathe North; Kylie Cobb, Sr., Free State; Casey Shell, Fr., Olathe South.

Second team catchers: Kala Holder, Jr., Olathe South; Christian Mountain, Sr., SM South.

Second team pitchers: Aubree Herrin, Soph., Olathe Northwest; Katie Born, Jr., SM Northwest; Elizabeth Patton, Jr., Free State.

Second team utility player: Bailey Boxberger, Jr., Olathe South.

Second team designated players: Aliya Marroquin, Sr., Olathe North; Cali Byrn, Jr., Free State.

Honorable mention: Free State: Kate Stanwix, Lily Ross.

Lawrence: Annie Grammer, Jolona Shield. SM East: Hannah Nick, Brooklyn Walters.

SM North: Maddy Wood, Hannah Redick. SM South: Elizabeth Obeidat, Sam Sudac. SM Northwest: Madalyn Fagan, Megan Glenn. SM West: Emma Beason, Natalie Adams. Olathe East: Kennedy Poro, Madi Augustyn. Olathe North: Hannah Schmidt, Alexis Hodapp.

Olathe Northwest: Shayna Espy, Claire Anderson. Olathe South: Lindsey Delana, Kacey Kennett. Leavenworth: Anastasia Lucas, Ashton Roth.

Newcomer of the Year: MaKenzie Cooper, Fr., SM Northwest.

Player of the Year: Reagan Hathaway, Sr., Olathe Northwest.

Coach of the Year: Mike Allen, Olathe South.

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By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

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FREE STATE SENIOR JOEL SPAIN (2) SLIDES SAFELY into third base during the Firebirds’ 4-0 victory over Haysville Campus in the Class 6A state baseball tournament Thursday at Hoglund Ballpark.

Spain, seniors spark FSHS

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

The last time the Free State High baseball team made an appearance at the Class 6A state tournament, current FSHS senior Joel Spain was a seventh-grader who spent the spring looking up to Free State studs like Cody Kukuk, Colin Toalson, Tim Lewis, Ryan Scott and others.

That was in 2010. On Thursday, Spain added his name to the list of Free State standouts to help his team advance at state with a 2-for-2 performance at the plate that led to two runs and included a hit-by-pitch during second-seeded Free State’s 4-0 victory over Haysville Campus at Kansas University’s Hoglund Ballpark.

Thursday’s victory was filled with key contributions from several members of the Free State senior class — Spain, Cooper Karlin, Casey Hearnen, Tripp Wright, Jacob Holiday, Marcelino

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entering Thursday. “I just went with it and I did what I could with it.”

Saathoff gave the second-seeded Firebirds (194) a one-run lead in the third inning. With two outs, Spain was hit by a pitch and advanced two bases on a wild pitch before Saathoff legged out an RBI infield single to shortstop.

It was Saathoff’s first multi-hit game since April 16.

“There’s a reason we leave him in the fourhole,” FSHS coach Mike Hill said of Saathoff. “He’s a good hitter — maybe not hitting as well as he’d liked to lately — but we have all the faith in the world in him. That’s a kid

“

Getting here and trying to go out and win it was definitely a big goal of ours.”

— Free State senior Joel Spain

Cortez, Matt Pendry and Jon Saathoff. An RBI here, a heads-up baserunning play there and the typically sound FSHS defense everywhere else. Not bad for a bunch of guys who had never played on a stage quite this big before.

Of course, none of Thursday’s businesslike baseball victory surprised Firebirds’ coach Mike Hill, who has guided the west Lawrence prep program to seven regional titles and the 2006 state title since 2003.

“Any time you start a conversation with a high school kid that begins with ‘Way back when,’ the eyes glaze over and they’re gone,” joked Hill after the game when asked if he mentioned anything to this group about cementing its lega-

cy with a strong showing at state. “But they know the history of our program and they know the expectations.”

Spain, who has been a factor at the varsity level throughout his high school career, said past postseason performances by Free State teams served as motivation for the solid 2015 season, which continues today in the state semis. No one wants to be a part of the class that went its entire career without tasting the state tournament. Not only do Spain and company not have to live with that any longer, but they also are now just two wins away from delivering the program’s second-ever state title.

“Getting here and trying to go out and win it

we want up. He hit some balls well.”

“Jon has been great,” Spain added. “We know he’s a good hitter and he knows he’s a good hitter.

We have confidence in him with everything he does and that’s why right there.”

Gudde didn’t need any more help after the fourhit, three-run fifth inning. He was sharp with all of his pitches, working ahead in counts and forcing ground balls. He threw his change-up a lot more than he usually does, and it kept hitters off balance, striking out five and walking one.

Gudde’s only hiccup was in the first inning. He gave up a leadoff double to Preston Sauer, but he escaped the threat with two routine ground balls and a strikeout.

“I just have problems

with the leadoff guy getting on base,” Gudde said.

“I can’t get him out. But that really put a lot of pressure on me. I thought they would score one run, at least.”

Campus (15-8, seeded seventh) also had two base runners — through an infield single and a walk — with two outs in the fourth inning, but left them stranded. Gudde (90) cruised for the remainder of the game, retiring the last 10 hitters in order.

With his ninth win of the year, Gudde tied for the single-season school record, set by Cody Kukuk in 2010.

“He was really good,” Hill said. “I don’t know what his pitch count was but it couldn’t have been much over mid-70s.

He got ahead of people and kept our defense in rhythm. Our defense

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pace. “Working fast hurts their timing and keeps me in rhythm.”

And it keeps the defense alert.

“His demeanor’s terrific: ‘Give me the ball and let me go.’ ... There’s nothing worse than a guy walking around the mound for two hours,” Hill said. “Defenders don’t want to play behind that. I think part of our effectivenesss defensively today was because of Hunter’s good rhythm.”

Gudde and his fielders have a mutually beneficial relationship.

“They’re the answer to my success this year,” Gudde said. “It’s all them, I think. That’s what all the hype I get

Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

FREE STATE PITCHER HUNTER GUDDE DELIVERS against Haysville Campus during the Class 6A baseball tournament Thursday at Hoglund Ballpark. is really about. It’s because of them. All I do is put the ball in play

and they make all the plays.”

Gudde doesn’t throw

was definitely a big goal of ours,” Spain said.

Asked how playing in such a big game compared to what he expected or remembered from watching all those years ago, the smooth senior flashed a calm smile and said, “It reminds you a little bit of the LHS game played here — bunch of people, lot of energy, it’s a big game that you want to win and you just go out and have fun on KU’s field.”

That relaxed yet focused, modest but confident demeanor has served the Firebirds (19-4) well throughout 2015. And here they sit on the final day of the season, one of four teams still alive.

“Everybody likes to win,” Hill said. “But give me guys that hate to lose.

And they do. They don’t like it. And that brings out a little tenacity in people and a little bit of an edge.

They’ve really been playing their best ball the last two weeks of the season and it’s gonna take that to have a chance (today).”

played really well and I think that was because of his pace. He was super. He did a great, great job.”

Now the Firebirds, who have won their last eight games, are focused on winning two more today, hoping to collect their second state championship in school history.

“It’s exactly what we wanted,” Gudde said. “To come out here and shut down a team like this in the first round of state is really going to help us build our confidence for the rest of the tournament.”

Free State 4, Haysville Campus 0 Campus 0 00 000 0 — 0 2 1 Free State 001 030 x — 4 7 0 W — Hunter Gudde, 9-0. L — Neil Lemmons.

FSHS highlights — Gudde, 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 5 K; Cooper Karlin, 1-for-3, run, RBI; Joel Spain, 2-for-2, HBP, 2 runs, 3 stolen bases; Jon Saathoff, 2-for-3, 3 RBIs; Marcelino Cortez, 1-for-3, run.

as hard as many high school pitchers, but he has an advantage in that he never had to make that transition from thrower to pitcher.

“When I was little I pitched like I do now,” Gudde said. “Pound the zone and throw a good breaking ball.”

His is a terrific road map to follow for parents of youth baseball players.

Start with a safe breaking ball. Take your index fingernail, press it into the seam of the baseball and throw it with the same arm and hand mechanics as a fastball. Mix it with fastballs, and when it’s safe to graduate to a genuine bender, pick up a changeup along the way and presto! Make your teammates happy every time you take the mound.

The bigger the stage, the happier you make them.

Free State High’s girls track and field team hasn’t had many opportunities to compete at full strength this season.

There’s been a number of injuries. Some athletes missed meets because of college visits or a variety of other reasons.

But the Firebirds still have the same goal they usually do at the end of the season. They want to win their third straight state championship, and they believe they have the pieces to make it happen.

“Yeah, we are really close,” said senior hurdler Kiara Clark, who finished second in the 100 and 300 hurdles at regionals. “If everyone does their best or goes above and beyond, I think we can definitely do it.”

The Firebirds are led by the defending state champion in the 3,200, sophomore Emily Venters, who also qualified for the second straight year in the 800 and 1,600.

Senior Gabbi Dabney and junior Callie Hicks also added regional titles in the 100 hurdles and pole vault, respectively.

Then there’s returners with state experience such as seniors Hannah Shoemaker (discus) and Laura Kennard (200, 400 and 4x100).

“I really want to break the school record, which is 128 (feet), 8 (inches),” said Shoemaker, who took third at regionals with a throw of 118-10.5.

“I’m like close and far away at the same time.

I think with the nerves and everything going into state, I think I can do it.

So that’s what I’m aiming for.”

Free State’s boys track and field team has plenty of confidence after winning its first regional championship since 2006.

The Firebird boys finished 11th at state last year and they’re eyeing a spot in the top three this weekend.

“I think that was a huge thing for them,” FSHS coach Jordan Rose said of the regional title. “I think that they’re kind of playing second fiddle to the girls for a little bit and this is their time right now. I’m excited to see that happen for them.”

Junior Ethan Donley won a regional title in

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night, even in a scrimmage-type session,” Self said Thursday on KC 610 radio.

“It should be a great learning experience for our kids. I’m not going to kill them. It’s not going to be a situation it’s the same intensity level as during the season. The season is long enough the way it is. It will be a time where our guys can enjoy each other, have some fun.”

Of the Games, Self added: “I want our guys to get better. I also want to experiment a lot with the short (24 second) clock, with the FIBA rules. I think that will help us down the road playing with the short clock, so all our practices will be with a 10-second clock, five-second clock. On an offensive rebound it resets to 14. There are a lot of differences than we’re used to. I’m excited about that.”

Players on Canada’s developmental team according to its Website include Baylor’s Brady Heslip and Iowa State’s Melvin Ejim, plus Gon-

the 800, senior Ryan Liston won in the 1,600 and 3,200 and senior Nick Hocking was first in the discus.

The Firebirds are also hoping to have big performances from sophomore Avin Lane in the 100-meter dash, senior Tye Carter in the javelin, junior Tanner Hockenbury in the 3,200 and sophomore Zack Sanders in the 110 and 300 hurdles, among others.

“All year we’ve been focusing heavily on technique and getting everything together, getting the timing right,” Hocking said. “It’s really coming together. We’ve really tried to peak here at the end and I think it’s really leading up to that.”

Lawrence High’s girls track and field team won its second straight regional title, and the Lions are hoping to continue that momentum into their first state championship since 1979.

After finishing third at state for past two years, the Lions have the firepower and depth to contend for a title. Senior Matia Finley is looking for her third straight state title, along with the 4x400 relay with Jensen Edwards, Leah Gabler, Marissa Pope and Kyleigh Severa.

Edwards (400), Severa (long jump), the 4x100 relay and senior Rebecca Finley (shot put and discus) won regional titles.

“Every year you have a group of seniors that you can’t replace and you hate to lose,” LHS coach Jack Hood said. “But you look at our team and these senior girls have done so much for us. A lot of it has to do with they refuse to lose, whether it’s in the class, on the track or in the field.”

Lawrence’s boys team isn’t sending many athletes to state, but the Lions are confident they can score more points than they have in the past.

Junior JD Woods won regional titles in the 100 and 200, senior Tae Shorter was first in the triple jump and junior Amani Bledsoe placed first in the shot put.

“We all obviously know that our girls team is really good,” Woods said. “So we just want to come out and compete and show that we have a good boys team.”

zaga’s Kyle Wiltjer and Kevin Pangos, Stanford’s Dwight Powell, Harvard’s Laurent Rivard, New Mexico State’s Daniel Mullings, Colgate’s Murphy Burnatowski, Indiana State’s Mangisto Arop as well as 7-foot-2 Jordan Bachynski of Arizona State and some other Canadian college players.

For tickets to the KUCanada exhibitions call 1-800-34-Hawks or go to SprintCenter.com. l Bulls may target Hoiberg: The Ames Tribune reported Thursday that Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg in April “let it be known to five-star recruit Cheick Diallo that his immediate future at Iowa State was not a certainty.”

Multiple Tribune sources told the paper that “while Hoiberg did not definitively say he planned to move on to the NBA, he also communicated that he couldn’t fully commit he would be returning to ISU to coach Diallo and what figures to be a preseason top-10 Cyclones team in 2015-16.” Hoiberg is believed to be a leading candidate for the Chicago Bulls coaching vacancy.

Diallo, of course, wound up committing to KU.

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SCOREBOARD

MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP

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Orioles, White Sox split Athletics 5, Yankees 4 Oakland, Calif. — Ben Zobrist drew a basesloaded walk from David Carpenter in the seventh inning to break a tie.

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American League White Sox 3, Orioles 2, 1st game Orioles 6, White Sox 3, 2nd game Baltimore — Baltimore had just earned a split of its doubleheader with the White Sox, and manager Buck Showalter didn’t seem the least bit excited.

That’s because there would be plenty of work ahead, most of which would involve resting weary players and shuffling the pitching staff.

The Orioles rebounded to scratch out a 6-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday after a 3-2 loss in the opener of a doubleheader caused by rioting in Baltimore last month.

“In the big leagues, you can win, split, whatever and the ramifications last for a long, long time,” Showalter said. “We’re going to have to make adjustments.”

That began immediately after the final out, when first-game starter Tyler Wilson was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk.

The doubleheader was scheduled after games on April 27-28 were postponed because of riots near the ballpark following the funeral of a black man who died of injuries sustained while in police custody. The third game of that series was played without fans allowed in the stadium.

“Let’s keep in mind why we’re playing these two games. It was self-inflicted,” Showalter said. “I think sometimes we lose sight of why we’re doing what we’re doing today.”

The White Sox, meanwhile, came from Toronto and immediately left for Houston.

After Chris Sale struck out 12 over 72⁄3 shutout innings in the opener, the nightcap featured a matchup of rookie righthanders. Chris Beck (01) made his major league debut for the White Sox and Mike Wright (2-0) was starting for the third time after scoreless appearances against the Angels and Miami.

Wright’s spotless ERA vanished on his fifth pitch, when Adam Eaton hit a solo shot to center.

Beck got off to a similar start, allowing a triple to leadoff hitter Manny Machado and an RBI double to Chris Davis.

New York Oakland

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2B-Gardner (10), Zobrist (7). HR-B.McCann (7), Burns (2), Lawrie (3). SF-A.Rodriguez, B.Butler.

IP H R ER BB SO New York Sabathia L,2-7 6 8 5 5 1 4 2⁄3 D.Carpenter 1 0 0 1 0 Shreve 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Oakland Graveman 52⁄3 7 3 3 2 4 2⁄3 Abad 0 0 0 0 0 Scribner W,1-0 12⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 Clippard S,5-6 1 1 1 1 1 0 Sabathia pitched to 2 batters in the 7th.

T-2:50. A-21,795 (35,067).

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BALTIMORE’S MANNY MACHADO LOSES HIS HELMET as he races to third base with a triple in the Orioles’ 6-3 win over the White Sox in the second game of a doubleheader Thursday in Baltimore.

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2B-Me.Cabrera (3), LaRoche 2 (7). HR-C.Davis (11).

SB-Shuck 2 (4). CS-Bonifacio (2).

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Sale W,4-2 72⁄3 4 0 0 0 12 Duke H,10 1 2 2 2 0 3 1⁄3 Petricka S,1-1 0 0 0 0 1 Baltimore T.Wilson L,1-1 6 5 2 2 1 1 Roe 12⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 1⁄3 Matusz 1 0 0 0 0 Tom.Hunter 1 2 1 1 0 0 HBP-by T.Wilson (Flowers).

T-2:51. A-0 (45,971).

Game Two Chicago Baltimore ab r h bi

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IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Beck L,0-1 6 10 5 4 4 3 Da.Jennings 1 3 1 1 0 1 D.Webb 1 0 0 0 0 1 Baltimore M.Wright W,2-0 5 6 3 3 0 2 Drake H,2 1 0 0 0 3 0 Brach H,3 1 0 0 0 0 0 O’Day H,6 1 0 0 0 0 1 Britton S,13-14 1 0 0 0 0 1 T-2:48. A-18,441 (45,971).

Red Sox 5, Rangers 1 Arlington, Texas — Eduardo Rodriguez threw 72⁄3 scoreless innings to become the youngest Red Sox starter to win in his

major league debut on the road since 1967, and Boston beat the Rangers to spoil Josh Hamilton’s first home game in Texas.

The 22-year-old Rodriguez (1-0) was already the youngest Red Sox pitcher to make his MLB debut on the road since 21-yearold Roger Clemens in 1985. Billy Rohr was 21 when he won in his debut at the New York Yankees on April 14, 1967.

Boston went ahead to stay on Mookie Betts’ RBI single in the fifth off Nick Martinez (4-1). Hanley Ramirez led off the sixth with his 11th homer to make it 2-0.

Hamilton was 2-for-4, lining a double into the right-field corner on the first pitch he saw from Rodriguez in the second.

He added an RBI single in the ninth.

Boston Texas

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HBP-by S.Freeman (B.Holt), by N.Martinez (Bogaerts). PB-Chirinos.

T-2:49. A-34,085 (48,114).

Indians 5, Mariners 3 Seattle — Corey Kluber struck out 13 in seven innings to win his third straight decision, Jason Kipnis continued his hot May with two hits and two RBIs. Cleveland Seattle ab r h bi

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CS-Kipnis (4). S-Bourn.

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T-2:50. A-19,449 (47,574).

National League Giants 7, Braves 0 San Francisco — Brandon Belt’s solo home run in the seventh inning broke up a scoreless pitching duel.

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Four Jayhawks advance to championships J-W Staff Reports

Austin, Texas — Four Kansas University track and field athletes secured their spots in the finals in their respective field events at the NCAA West Preliminary Thursday, while an additional five Jayhawks extended their weekends in Austin by moving on to quarterfinal races on the track.

Junior Daina Levy set a personal best in the hammer throw en route to turning in the top qualifying mark. Junior Sydney Conley qualified for her third NCAA final after she took third in the long jump.

On Levy’s second throw, the junior unleashed a toss of 69.01 meters (226’5”) which surpassed her previous career best by nearly 10 feet. None of the other 47 in the event managed to come within six feet of Levy, which earned her

the top qualifying spot out of the West Region.

Levy’s throw was just one centimeter shy of Alena Krechyk’s threeyear-old school record in the event. The toss is the second-farthest be a collegian this year and ranks Levy among the top-40 in the world in 2014.

She will have the opportunity to compete for her first national title in Eugene, Oregon on Thursday, June 11.

A pair of men’s throwers also earned passes to the NCAA championships for the first time.

Sophomore Mitch Cooper and freshman Cole Ceban each turned in top-eight finishes in the discus to qualify for the national meet in two weeks. Cooper was the third overall qualifier after he turned in a top throw of 57.75 meters (189’5”). Ceban finished eighth overall with the

help of his mark of 55.78 meters (183’0”).

Junior Sydney Conley made it look easy as she secured her spot at nationals in the long jump for the third time in as many tries. Conley needed only two attempts to punch her finals ticket, soaring to a mark of 6.48 meters (21’31⁄4”) on her first leap of the day.

Conley will now have the opportunity to earn All-America honors in the long jump for a fifth time at the national championship level.

A handful of Jayhawks also managed to advance to the next round in their respective events on the track.

Senior Michael Stigler began his march to a fourth-straight Nationals appearance in the 400-meter hurdles. He was the fastest qualifier out of the first round with his time of 49.72.

L awrence J ournal -W orld

Class 6A State Thursday at Hoglund Ballpark Shawnee Mission East 5, Junction City 4 SM Northwest 7, Wichita NW 0 Free State 4, Wichita Campus 0 Olathe South 8, Derby 5, 11 innings Friday No. 1 Shawnee Mission East (19-4) vs. No. 5 SM Northwest (18-5), 10 a.m.

No. 2 Free State (19-4) vs. No. 6 Olathe South (16-7), 12:30 p.m.

Third place Semifinal losers, 30 minutes after previous game Championship Semifinal winners, 30 minutes after third-place game

American League

East Division

W L Pct GB New York 25 23 .521 — Tampa Bay 24 24 .500 1 Baltimore 22 24 .478 2 Boston 22 26 .458 3 Toronto 22 27 .449 3½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Kansas City 28 18 .609 — Minnesota 28 18 .609 — Detroit 28 20 .583 1 Cleveland 22 25 .468 6½ Chicago 21 25 .457 7 West Division

W L Pct GB Houston 30 18 .625 — Los Angeles 23 24 .489 6½ Seattle 23 24 .489 6½ Texas 23 25 .479 7 Oakland 18 32 .360 13 Thursday’s Games Chicago White Sox 3, Baltimore 2, 1st game Baltimore 6, Chicago White Sox 3, 2nd game Boston 5, Texas 1 Oakland 5, N.Y. Yankees 4 Cleveland 5, Seattle 3 Detroit at L.A. Angels, (n) Today’s Games Kansas City (Volquez 4-3) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 4-4), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Karns 3-2) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 5-3), 6:05 p.m.

Boston (S.Wright 2-1) at Texas (Gallardo 4-6), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-0) at Houston (McCullers 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 5-4) at Minnesota (May 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

Detroit (An.Sanchez 3-5) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 3-3), 9:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Capuano 0-2) at Oakland (Gray 5-2), 9:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 4-1) at Seattle (T.Walker 1-5), 9:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Toronto at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 3:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Houston, 3:10 p.m.

Boston at Texas, 6:15 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago Cubs, 6:15 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 12:35 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Houston, 1:10 p.m.

Toronto at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 p.m.

Boston at Texas, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Seattle, 3:10 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.

National League

East Division

W L Pct GB Washington 28 19 .596 — New York 27 21 .563 1½ Atlanta 23 24 .489 5 Philadelphia 19 30 .388 10 Miami 18 30 .375 10½ Central Division

W L Pct GB St. Louis 31 16 .660 — Chicago 25 21 .543 5½ Pittsburgh 24 22 .522 6½ Cincinnati 19 27 .413 11½ Milwaukee 16 32 .333 15½ West Division

W L Pct GB Los Angeles 28 18 .609 — San Francisco 29 20 .592 ½ San Diego 23 25 .479 6 Arizona 21 25 .457 7 Colorado 19 26 .422 8½ Thursday’s Games San Francisco 7, Atlanta 0 Pittsburgh at San Diego, (n) Friday’s Games Kansas City (Volquez 4-3) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 4-4), 3:05 p.m.

Colorado (Bettis 1-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 5-3), 6:05 p.m.

Miami (Haren 4-2) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 5-2), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 3-5) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 2-4), 6:10 p.m.

Arizona (R.De La Rosa 4-2) at Milwaukee (Nelson 2-5), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 3-0) at St. Louis (Lackey 2-3), 7:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 2-4) at San Diego (Shields 6-0), 9:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Foltynewicz 3-1) at San Francisco (T.Hudson 2-4), 9:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Colorado at Philadelphia, 2:05 p.m.

Arizona at Milwaukee, 3:10 p.m.

Miami at N.Y. Mets, 3:10 p.m.

Washington at Cincinnati, 3:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago Cubs, 6:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Atlanta at San Francisco, 9:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Miami at N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m.

Washington at Cincinnati, 12:10 p.m.

Colorado at Philadelphia, 12:35 p.m.

Arizona at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 1:15 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 p.m.

Atlanta at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Senior Josh Munsch also moved on to the next round of the 1,500 meters.

The Hays native earned an automatic spot into Saturday’s quarterfinal after finishing third in his heat with a time of 3:48.87.

Others advancing in Playoffs Austin included senior NBA FINALS Kenneth McCuin in the (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) State vs. Cleveland 400 meters (22nd, 47.07), Golden Thursday, June 4: Cleveland at junior Hannah Richard- Golden State, 8 p.m.

Sunday, June 7: Cleveland at Golden son in the 1,500 meters 7 p.m.

(4th, 4:22.16) and sopho- State, Tuesday, June 9: Golden State at more Zainab Sanni in the Cleveland, 8 p.m.

Thursday, June 11: Golden State at 100 meters (17th, 11.41).

Cleveland, 8 p.m.

The Jayhawks will rex-Sunday, June 14: Cleveland at State, 7 p.m. turn to Mike A. Myers Golden x-Tuesday, June 16: Golden State at Stadium today for day Cleveland, 8 p.m. x-Friday, June 19: Cleveland at two of the NCAA West Golden State, 8 p.m.

Preliminary.

Action will kick off for KU at noon, with juniors Daina Levy, Anasta- NHL Playoffs siya Muchkayev, Dasha CONFERENCE FINALS x-if necessary) Tsema throwing in the (Best-of-7; EASTERN CONFERENCE women’s discus. Fresh- Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Rangers 3 Saturday, May 16: N.Y. Rangers 2, man Jaron Hartley will Tampa Bay 1 close out the day in the Monday, May 18: T.B. 6, Rangers 2 Wednesday, May 20: T.B. 6, Rangers first round of the men’s 5, OT 200 meters.

Friday, May 22: Rangers 5, T.B. 1

Sunday, May 24: T.B. 2, Rangers 0 Tuesday, May 26: Rangers 7, T.B. 3 Friday, May 29: T.B. at Rangers, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Anaheim 3, Chicago 3 Sunday, May 17: Anaheim 4, Chicago 1 Tuesday, May 19: Chicago 3, Anaheim 2, 3OT Thursday, May 21: Anaheim 2, Chicago 1 Saturday, May 23: Chicago 5, Anaheim 4, 2OT Monday, May 25: Anaheim 5, Chicago 4, OT Wednesday, May 27: Chicago 5, Anaheim 2 Saturday, May 30: Chicago at Anaheim 7 p.m.

French Open

Thursday At Stade Roland Garros Paris Purse: $30.86 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Men Second Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def.

Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

Andy Murray (3), Britain, def. Joao Sousa, Portugal, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.

Rafael Nadal (6), Spain, def. Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 6-4, 6-3, 6-1.

David Ferrer (7), Spain, def. Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1.

Marin Cilic (9), Croatia, def. Andrea Arnaboldi, Italy, 7-6 (3), 6-1, 6-1.

Kevin Anderson (15), South Africa, def. Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

John Isner (16), United States, lost to Jeremy Chardy, France, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

David Goffin (17), Belgium, def.

Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.

Tommy Robredo (18), France, lost to Borna Coric, Croatia, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.

Philipp Kohlschreiber (22), Germany, lost to Pablo Andujar, Spain, 6-1, 7-6 (5), 3-6, 3-6, 6-4.

Leonardo Mayer (23), Argentina, def. Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (1), 6-1.

Bernard Tomic (27), Australia, lost to Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australia, 3-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 8-6.

Nick Kyrgios (29), Australia, def.

Kyle Edmund, Britain, walkover.

Viktor Troicki (31), Serbia, lost to Simone Bolelli, Italy, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3.

Third Round Kei Nishikori (5), Japan, def.

Benjamin Becker, Germany, walkover.

Women Second Round Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.

Petra Kvitova (4), Czech Republic, def. Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Spain, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2.

Caroline Wozniacki (5), Denmark, lost to Julia Goerges, Germany, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

Andrea Petkovic (10), Germany, def.

Lourdes Dominguez Lino, Spain, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Karolina Pliskova (12), Czech Republic, lost to Andreea Mitu, Romania, 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Madison Keys (16), United States, def. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, 6-0, 6-3.

Sara Errani (17), Italy, def. Carina Witthoeft, Germany, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Svetlana Kuznetsova (18), Russia, lost to Francesca Schiavone, Italy, 6-7 (11), 7-5, 10-8.

Timea Bacsinszky (23), Switzerland, def. Tereza Smitkova, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-0.

Victoria Azarenka (27), Belarus, def.

Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-3.

Irina-Camelia Begu (30), Romania, def. Ana Konjuh, Croatia, 6-2, 6-0.

Zarina Diyas (32), Kazakhstan, lost to Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, 0-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Major League Soccer

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA D.C. United 6 3 4 22 14 11 New England 5 3 5 20 18 16 New York 4 2 5 17 14 11 Columbus 4 4 3 15 17 14 Toronto FC 4 5 1 13 14 14 Orlando City 3 5 4 13 14 15 Philadelphia 3 7 3 12 13 21 Chicago 3 5 2 11 11 14 Montreal 2 3 2 8 9 10 NYC FC 1 7 4 7 9 16 WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA Seattle 7 3 2 23 18 9 FC Dallas 6 3 3 21 18 15 Vancouver 6 5 2 20 14 12 Los Angeles 5 4 5 20 13 15 San Jose 5 4 3 18 13 12 Sporting KC 4 2 6 18 17 15 Real Salt Lake 4 4 5 17 12 16 Houston 4 5 4 16 16 16 Portland 4 5 4 16 11 13 Colorado 2 3 7 13 10 10 Wednesday’s Games Seattle 1, Colorado 0 Los Angeles 1, Real Salt Lake 0 Portland 1, D.C. United 0 Today’s Game FC Dallas at Sporting Kansas City, 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 30 San Jose at Toronto FC, 4 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Houston at New York City FC, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at D.C. United, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Orlando City, 6:30 p.m.

Montreal at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Portland at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 31 New York at Seattle, 4 p.m.

Los Angeles at New England, 6 p.m.

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent RHP Tyler Wilson to Norfolk (IL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled LHPs Eduardo Rodriguez and Robbie Ross Jr. from Pawtucket (IL). Optioned RHP Heath Hembree to Pawtucket.

Activated OF Carlos Peguero.

Designated INF Jeff Bianchi for assignment. Placed OF-1B Daniel Nava on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 26.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Recalled RHPs Daniel Webb and Chris Beck from Charlotte (IL). Optioned RHP Scott Carroll to Charlotte.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Selected the contract of OF Jerry Sands (?40) from Columbus (IL). Recalled RHP Austin Adams from Columbus. Placed INF Carlos Santana on the paternity list.

Placed RHP Scott Atchison on the 15-day DL. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Selected the contract OF Alfredo Marte from Salt Lake (PCL). to Major League Roster. Activated OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis. Placed OF Collin Cowgill on the 15-Day DL, retroactive to May 26. Designated OF Marc Krauss for assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled INF Hanser Alberto from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned RHP Phil Klein to Round Rock.

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3502 W. 8th Ct. Saturday, May 30, 8-12 EVERYTHING MUST GO, MOVING OUT OF STATE- GOOD PRICES! Lawn hedge cutter, microwave, lawn blower, old tapes, asst. electric fans, electric heater, drills, several pieces of furn.,, table + chairs, corner piece for wall, large mirror for wall, small tables. Call if you miss sale: (785)764-4289

Fri., May 29 & Sat., May 30 8AM - 3PM ~Rain or Shine~ It’s Spring Sale time and as usual our barn is full. We have several drop leaf tables, 2 small desks, vintage boxes & trunks, dressers, chimney cabinet, French style cabinet, end tables, pine cabinet, coffee table, cedar chest, bookcases, storage chests, night stands, stools, table & chairs, 4 linen “Lydia” dining chairs from World Market, 6 ft bench, old canival bowling pins, table trays, chairs, and the list goes on and ON! We have an amazing selection of interesting & unique items for your home. Come out & join us in the barn where it will be nice & dry.

(W. on County Road 458,10 miles, turn N. at Rock Creek Boat Ramp sign)

Furniture: King size headboard & night stands, coffee table, 2 end tables, & desk.

Antiques: Bamboo table, chair and end tables, trunk, rocker, brass lamp, coffee mills, books, dishes, dolls, linens and wooden buckets, & laminate table, and walnut secretary.

Miscellaneous: Crystal dishes, holiday & home decorations, artwork, jewelry, bike, weight machine, folding chairs, car topper, & propane grill, kitchen wares.

Tool/ Equipment: 10” table saw, tools, ladders, gardening supplies, and storage shelves.

Hunting/Fishing: antique guns, fishing tackle, 17’ metal canoe.

Fri. May 29 & Sat. May 30 Rain or Shine- No early callers

Fri. 9 am to 5pm Sat 9 am to noon

Baldwin City HUGE Moving Sale!

518 First St. Baldwin City Fri, May 29 7 • am - 5 pm Sat, May 30 • 7 am - 1 pm Combining households /moving and almost everything accumultated over 23 years is going!

Oak king bed frame w/ 2 dressers, king bedding, freestanding gas insert fireplace (mantel) mission chair, end tables, sofa table, mirrors, lamps, gas grill, air compressor, 8 ft. ladder, Fisher Price toys, Thomas roundhouse, G.I. Joes, Stihl weed trimmer, scrapbooking supplies galore, kitchen items, camping supplies, fishing, outdoor toys, Sporting clays shooting coats, upright freezer, etc., etc! Rain or shine!

Eudora Huge Garage Sale 1280 E 2200 rd (1061/Church St) Eudora, KS Fri, May 29, 7:30- 5:00 Sat, May 30, 7:30 - 2:00 Huge sale. Kids clothes; Girls 6 to 16, Boys 24mo. to 6T. Jeep Riding Toy, bikes, toys, adult clothes - all sizes, puzzles, Nora Robert paper back books, chain saw, wood rocker chair, lots of house hold things.

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Ford SUVs

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Campers

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Honda Cars

Honda SUVs

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2012 HONDA PILOT EX-L 4WD

Jeep

Lincoln SUVs

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Ford SUVs

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Kia Cars

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Chevrolet Cars

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CARS TO PLACE AN AD: Mercury

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Nissan Cars

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Pontiac Cars

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Toyota Cars

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Subaru

2012 Toyota Corolla S

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PUBLIC NOTICES TO PLACE AN AD: (First published in the City of Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence Daily JournalWorld May 29, 2015) Diane Trybom Acting City Clerk REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL _______ The City of Lawrence is seeking proposals from (First published in the experienced consulting Lawrence Daily Journalfirms to be used in select- World May 15, 2015) ing a principal consultant to perform executive IN THE DISTRICT COURT search services for the poOF DOUGLAS COUNTY, sition of City Manager.

KANSAS CIVIL Proposals due 3:00 PM CST DEPARTMENT on June 5, 2015.

Green Tree Servicing LLC Copy of full RFP available Plaintiff, at www.demandstar.com/sup vs. plier/bids/agency_inc/bid_l ist.asp?f=search&LP=BB&m Barbara B. McCorkle; Ani=10303 on Dethony Backus a/k/a AnmandStar, at the Finance thony S. Backus; John Doe Department at City Hall, 6 (Tenant/Occupant); Mary East 6th Street or electronDoe (Tenant/Occupant); ically by emailing Jack Doe ssloan@lawrenceks.org.

(Tenant/Occupant); Jill

785.832.2222 Doe (Tenant/Occupant) ; The Estate of Richard K. Moore, deceased; CitiMortgage Inc.; Serina A. Hearn; Unknown spouse, if any, of Barbara B. McCorkle; Unknown spouse, if any, of Anthony Backus, Defendants.

Case No. 15CV159 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT

known officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

classiďŹ eds@ljworld.com County, Kansas, praying to foreclose a real estate mortgage on the following described real estate: Lot 113 and the North 15 feet of Lot 115, Tennessee Street, in the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, commonly known as 933 Tennessee, Lawrence, KS 66044 (the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Propertyâ&#x20AC;?) and all those defendants who have not otherwise been served are required to plead to the Petition on or before the 25th day of June, 2015, in the District Court of Douglas County,Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; You are notified that a PeNOTICE the unknown spouses of tition has been filed in the any defendants; the un- District Court of Douglas Pursuant to the Fair Debt

Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction.

The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Kristen G. Stroehmann (KS # 10551) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913) 663-7600 (913) 663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (180191)

File No. 180191 Invoice No. 180191-741062 _______

Wopsock aka Malena Garcia, Defendants.

(First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld May 22, 2015)

Case No. 15CV180

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT

Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60

Court Number:

Bank of America, N.A.

NOTICE OF SUIT

Plaintiff,

THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of

vs.

Lynell Haggard f/k/a Lynell S. Garcia; Jon F. Haggard; Unknown Heirs of Leon Garcia, Jr., deceased; JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA; John Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Michael Garcia; Malena

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Instructors - School of Business - Fall 2015 The School of Business at Benedictine College invites applications for an Instructor (three-quarter time/adjunct) position to teach Business Math courses (three sections, one prep each semester), beginning August 2015. This will be a one-year position with the possibility of renewal, depending upon performance and review of our management curriculum. The successful candidate will possess a Master’s degree in mathematics or quantitative analysis (doctorate preferred). A three-quarter time faculty assignment will require student advising and other campus involvement. Higher ed teaching experience is expected and a business background is desired.

As an essential element of its mission, Benedictine College fosters scholarship, independent research and performance in its students and faculty as a means of participating in and contributing to the broader world of learning. Additional information can be found on the Benedictine College web page: www.benedictine.edu Benedictine College seeks faculty members eager to engage and support our mission.

Application materials should discuss how you might contribute to the college’s Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts identity. Please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of transcripts, three current letters of reference, and a statement of teaching philosophy to either:

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Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Benedictine College welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

The College is committed to assuring equal opportunities in employment without regard to race, color, gender, marital status, national origin, age, disability or veteran status. EOE

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Head Start Assistant Teacher This position assures a supportive role in the daily operation of the center providing assistance to the teacher by assuring the social, emotional, physical and intellectual development of Head Start children will be enhanced. In addition, this position provides support and assistance to the School District Early Childhood Handicap (ECH) Program and to the ECH Teacher to provide collaborative services in the least restrictive environment.

Operators Packing and machine operating a plus.

Able to lift up to 45 lbs.

Starting pay $10.53 hr. (Plus shift differential) 2nd & 3rd shift

Process Techs Troubleshoot equipment.

Perform minor repairs.

Have mechanical aptitude.

Must provide own tools.

Able to lift up to 50 lbs.

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PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI NATION • MAYETTA, KS 66509

The Social Services Administrator is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the Social Services Department. This includes the Child and Family Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Program, Tribal VictimServices,PreventionServicesandAdultServices. TheAdministrator should have a background in culturally relevant practice, administrative experience, policy development and revision experience, a willingness to meet with community members and work with community issues relevant to them, grant writing, program development, grant managing/reporting, budget development/reporting/monitoring. Establishes and maintains relationships with outside agencies including Kansas SRS and BIA, etc

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is committed to its employees and their families by offering a competitive benefits package including: health, dental, vision, life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D), voluntary life, voluntary AD&D, short term disability and long term disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, 15 paid holidays, birthday leave, paid vacation, sick leave, and 401k.

Please send application and resume to:

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defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

You are notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, praying to foreclose a real estate mortgage on the following described real estate:

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Lot 17, Block 4, in WAKARUSA VIEW ESTATES NO. 2, a subdivision in the City of LawCounty, rence, Douglas Kansas, commonly known as 2713 Blue Stem Drive, Lawrence, KS 66047 (the “Property”) and all those defendants who have not otherwise been served are required to plead to the Petition on or before the 2nd day of July, 2015, in the District Court of Douglas County,Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and de-

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U.S. Open the most open of the majors cept for amateurs and the U.S. Open chamCOMMENTARY Senior pion — has to qualify The names of golf’s if they’re not among two oldest championmillion on the PGA Tour the top 60 in the world. ships are similar, and so last season, and three There is one more cutoff are the concepts. players who already have for the top 60 the week The British Open and cleared $2 million this of the U.S. Open, though the U.S. Open are open year. It includes Thomas no more than two players to anyone who wants Bjorn, who was in the typically get through. to qualify. The differRyder Cup last SeptemMonday also was the ence between them, ber. cutoff for the British other than the 35 years It’s not easy to get into Open. of history and the turf on the major known as the It took the top 50 in which golf is played, was toughest test in golf. the world who were not evident Monday when It’s not unreasonable, already eligible from a the final exemptions either. long list of criteria that were awarded through U.S. Open champions recognizes the quality of the world ranking. are exempt for 10 years. golf being played around The U.S. Open took The Masters and PGA the world. That’s how it the top 60 in the world Championship give their should be. The proper who were not already eli- winners a lifetime pass. name of golf’s oldest gible, adding 24 players British Open champions event is “The Open to the field at Chambers can play until they’re 60. Championship.” It is the Bay in three weeks. That Winners of the other most global of majors, brought the number to 74 three majors get a fivewhich is why the winner players who do not have year exemption to the of the claret jug is introto qualify, and it brought U.S. Open, while The duced on the 18th green a smile to the face of the Players Championship as the champion golfer of USGA. winner gets three years. the year.

For the ninth straight The top 10 and ties from But it’s not as open as year, at least half of the the previous U.S. Open it used to be.

156-man field will have don’t have to qualify, nor The Open has similar to qualify for the right do the 30 players who exemptions for major to play in the U.S. Open. make it the Tour Chamchampions, and it recogThat includes seven play- pionship. nizes its European roots ers who earned over $2 Everyone else — exby giving a three-year

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pass to the BMW PGA Championship winner and to the top 30 from the Race to Dubai.

It also takes the money winner from tours in Australia, Asia and South Africa, and the top two from the money list in Japan. The list goes on.

Five more PGA Tour players can get in through the FedEx Cup standings a week after the U.S. Open. Two more from the Japan Golf Tour can get in through a special money list. There’s a spot for the Japan Open champion, and for everyone on the last Ryder Cup team (that covers Bjorn).

There’s still room for qualifying — as many as 44 spots, or roughly 28 percent of the field.

All but 12 of those are in the “Open Qualifying Series.” Those are part of an existing event, such as the Irish Open this week or the Greenbrier Classic next month. The top three or four players, provided they finish no worse than 12th in

the tournament, get into the British Open if they haven’t already qualified.

R&A chief Peter Dawson said last year that it effectively is a 72-hole qualifier, which would seem to be a more rigorous test, just like 36 holes is a better measure than 18. Except that players don’t set out to get into the Open. They’re trying to win a tournament.

It’s different when its 36 holes against a field of players with the same objective. That’s where golf’s oldest championship loses some of its romance.

That’s what the U.S. Open gets right.

Joe Ogilvie is an interesting case study. He retired last year, but not before making it through U.S. Open qualifying three straight years. A year ago, he missed three straight cuts and then tied for third in the qualifier. In 2013, he missed eight cuts and finished no higher than 46th in two other events. And then he finished fourth in

the qualifier. He had the same bad form and same good result in 2012.

Think he would have stood a chance in the British Open qualifying system?

“I treated qualifiers differently,” Ogilvie said.

“There was no scoreboard watching. I played the golf course. I didn’t try to win. I didn’t try to shoot 62. Just keep the ball in front of me, take all the big numbers out and go from there. Admittedly, if I treated my career like that I would have gone better.”

Luke Donald is not eligible for the U.S. Open or British Open for the first time in a decade.

Depending on how he fares at the Irish Open this week, he will play a 36-hole qualifier on June 8 against a field of players not eligible for the U.S. Open. His odds are probably better than the British qualifying system, especially considering it has been three months since he last finished better than 15th.

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McDowell taking a quieter approach this time

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Former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell has heard some reports of Chambers Bay, everything from a massive drop in elevation on a par 3 to a fairway wider than a football field. Until his first practice round for the U.S. Open, he is reserving judgment. And even so, expect to hear very little from a guy who often has a lot to say.

Chalk that up to recent experience.

“We’re all guilty of getting caught up in the negativity sometimes,”

McDowell said. “I made a promise to myself after Valhalla that I wasn’t ever going to get caught up with that again. Someone is going to pick up the trophy and laugh at your comments. You have nothing to gain.”

By golfing standards, McDowell’s comments at the PGA Championship last August would qualify more as sharing a popular opinion than complaining. He referred to Valhalla as unplayable during a deluge early in the third round, and that if the PGA of America is opposed to preferred lies, the third round should

have been stopped long ago.

He wasn’t a lone voice, though he has thought about the effect.

“Within your own camp, say what you want,” McDowell said.

“But there’s no point in making comments public.

Come Thursday morning, you better be ready to ignore the negativity and position your golf ball.”

Ian Poulter caused a stir — imagine that — last month when he said that based on what he heard from others, it would be a farce. Poulter hasn’t seen Chambers Bay. He was drawing conclusions

based on what others were saying.

McDowell wants no part of that.

“It’s hard to talk about an unknown,” McDowell said. “The feedback is negative. But all you can do is go in there with your eyes open and take it for what it is, and try to be as well prepared as you can.”

Another former champion, Geoff Ogilvy, also is waiting to see it for himself.

“I don’t know what to expect,” he said. “I know it will be hard.” l Don’t mess with suc-

cess: Europe’s criteria for selecting a Ryder Cup team seems to working just fine. That’s the conclusion captain Darren Clarke reached in deciding against any changes.

Clarke had contemplated reducing his captain’s picks to two players. He announced Tuesday at the Irish Open that he will leave it at three picks and keep the same qualifying format: four players from a list of European Tour points (based on earnings), five players from a list of world ranking points.

Qualifying will start

the first week in September at the Russian Open.

Europe has won the last three times, and captain Paul McGinley spoke often at Gleneagles last September of a template for success.

“I gave it a lot of thought,” Clarke said at Royal County Down. “I went into comparisons of what teams would have been like under different systems, but my overall feeling was that with the team Paul assembled at Gleneagles and how successful they were, it would have been very foolish to make any changes.”

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Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Kristen G. Stroehmann (KS # 10551) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913) 663-7600 (913) 663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (154426) _______ (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld May 29, 2015) RESOLUTION NO. 7121 A RESOLUTION CALLING AND PROVIDING FOR THE GIVING OF NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE ADVISABILITY OF THE MAKING OF CERTAIN INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS, UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF K.S.A. 12-6a01 ET SEQ., AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED; AND PROVIDING FOR THE GIVING OF NOTICE OF SAID HEARING. WHEREAS, K.S.A. 12-6a01 et seq. (the “Act”) authorizes the governing body of any city to make or cause to be made municipal works or improvements which confer a special benefit upon property within a definable area of the city and the levying and collecting of special assessments upon property in the area deemed by the said governing body to be benefited by such improvements for special benefits conferred upon such property by any such improvements and to provide for the payment of all or any part of the costs of the improvements out of the proceeds of such special assessments; and WHEREAS, the Act provides that before any contract is let or any work is ordered or authorized for an improve-

ment, the governing body shall by resolution direct and order a public hearing on the advisability of the improvement, and to give notice of the hearing by not less than two (2) publications in a newspaper, such publications to be a week apart and at least three (3) days shall elapse between the last publication and the hearing; and such notice shall be given as to (a) the time and place of the hearing; (b) the general nature of the proposed improvements; (c) the estimated or probable cost of the proposed improvements; (d) the extent of the proposed improvement district to be assessed for the cost of the proposed improvements; (e) the proposed method of assessment; and (f) the proposed apportionment of the cost between the improvement district and the city at large; and WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Lawrence, Kansas (the “City”), hereby finds and determines it to be necessary to direct and order a public hearing on the advisability of a certain improvement in the City pursuant to the authority of the Act; and further to provide for the giving of notice of said hearing in the manner required by the Act. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS: Section 1. Public Hearing. It is hereby authorized, ordered and directed that the governing body of the City, shall hold a public hearing on the advisability of the following described improvements (the “Improvements”): The construction and installation of a traffic signal and the construction of certain curb and sidewalk improvements, all at the intersection of 6th Street and Champion Lane, including all preliminary engineering, inspection and design costs, costs of issuing bonds therefor, and any interest on temporary financing, all in accordance with City standards and specifications pre-

785.832.2222 pared or approved by the City Engineer. Such public hearing will be held on June 16, 2015, at 5:45 P.M., at 6 East 6th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66044, under the authority of the Act. Section 2. Notice of Hearing.

The City Clerk is hereby authorized, ordered and directed to give notice of said public hearing by publication of a Notice of Public Hearing substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A two (2) times in the official City newspaper, such publications to be one (1) week apart, and the last publication to be at least three (3) days prior to the date of the hearing.

ADOPTED by the governing body of the City on May 26, 2015.

APPROVED: /s/Jeremy Farmer Jeremy Farmer Mayor ATTEST /s/Diane M. Bucia Diane M. Bucia Acting City Clerk

EXHIBIT A NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO: RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS: You and each of you are hereby notified that the governing body of the City of Lawrence, Kansas (the “City”), will meet for the purpose of holding a public hearing, as provided by K.S.A. 12-6a01 et seq., at 6 East 6th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 on June 16, 2015, at 5:45 P.M..

Said public hearing is for the purpose of considering the advisability of making certain hereinafter described improvements. (a) The general nature of the proposed Improvements (the “Improvements”) are: The construction and installation of a traffic signal and the construction of certain curb and sidewalk improvements, all at the intersection of 6th Street and Champion Lane, including all preliminary engineering, inspection and design costs, costs of issuing bonds therefor, and

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any interest on temporary financing, all in accordance with City standards and specifications prepared or approved by the City Engineer. (b) The estimated or probable cost of the proposed Improvements is: $150,000, said estimated cost to be increased at the pro rata rate of 1 percent per month from and after the date of adoption of a resolution authorizing the Improvements. (c) The extent of the proposed improvement district (the “Improvement District”) to be assessed for the cost of the Improvements is: Tract 1: Lot 1, Bauer Farm third plat; Tract 2: Lot 1, Block 1, Bauer Farm sixth plat; Tract 3: Lot 2, Block 1, Bauer Farm sixth plat; Tract 4: Lot 3, Block 1, Bauer Farm sixth plat; Tract 6: Lot 4, Block 1, Bauer Farm sixth plat; Tract 8: Tract Farm fifth plat;

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Tract 9: Lot 1, Bauer Farm fifth plat; Tract 10: Lot 1, Champion Addition Minor Subdivision; Tract 11: Lot 2, Champion Addition Minor Subdivision; Tract 12: Lot 3, Block 3, Bauer Farm first plat; Tract 13: In Section 28, Township 12 south, Range 19 east, beginning at a point which is S 88°11’38” W, 273.91 feet on south line and N 01°48’22” W, 75 feet from southeast corner of southeast quarter, said point being on north right of way line West 6th Street; thence S 88°11’38” W on said north right of way line, 766.89 feet; thence N 01°48’22” W, 287 feet; thence S 88°11’38” W, 112 feet; thence N 01°48’22” W, 473 feet to south right of way line of Overland Drive; thence N

88°11’38” E, on said south right of way line, 635.99 feet; thence S 01°48’22” E, 533.00 feet; thence N 88°11’38” E, 242.84 feet; thence S 01”48’22” E, 227.00 feet to the point of beginning. Contains approximately 11.62 acres;

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal- World May 29, 2015) NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES HAVE BEEN IMPOUNDED BY THE LAWRENCE KANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTIONING IF THE OWNERS DO NO CLAIM THEM WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE SECOND PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. THE OWNERS OF THE VEHICLES ARE FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR REMOVAL, STORAGE CHARGES AND PUBLICATION COSTS INCURRED BY THE CITY.

Tract 14: Lot 1, Bauer Farm YEAR VEHICLE TYPE SERIAL # fourth plat; 1996 TOYT 4T1BG12K3TU715033 Tract 15: In Section 28, 2010 HOND 2HGFA5E50AH7012709 Township 12 south, Range 19 east, beginning at a Diane M. Bucia, Acting City Clerk - 05/22/2015 point which is S 88°11’38” City of Lawrence, KS W, 40 feet on south line ________ and N 01°48’22” W, 75 feet from southeast corner of Subdivision Number 3, a southeast quarter, said of an adjacent tract; parcel of land in the northpoint being the intersection of north right of way Tract 23: Lot 4, Westgate east quarter of Section 33, line of West 6th Street & Place Number 3, A replat in Township 12 south, west right of way line of of Tract A of Westgate Range 19 east, and a replat Folks Road; thence S Place, Tract A of Westgate of Westgate Subdivison 88°11’38” W on said north Place Number 2, and a final Number 2, described as: Lot 1, less west 166.74 feet right of way line 233.93 plat of an adjacent tract; thereof; feet; thence N 01°48’22” W, 227.00 feet; thence N Tract 24: Lot 2, Westgate Tract 32: Lot 2, of a Final Place Number 3, A replat of 88°11’38” E, 4.21 feet; thence on a 230.00 foot ra- Tract A of Westgate Place, Plat of Westgate Subdividius curve to the left with Tract A of Westgate Place sion Number 3, a parcel of a 121.69 foot chord bearing Number 2, and a final plat land in the northeast quarter of Section 33, in TownN72°51’14” E, an arc dis- of an adjacent tract; ship 12 south, Range 19 tance of 123.16 feet; thence on a 170.00 feet ra- Tract 25: Lot 1, Westgate east, and a replat of Subdivision dius curve to the right with Place Number 3, A replat of Westgate a 89.99 foot chord bearing Tract A of Westgate Place, Number 2, less that portion N 72°51’44” E, an arc dis- Tract A of Westgate Place of Westgate property imtance of 91.08 feet; thence Number 2, and a final plat mediately North of 4616 Hearthside Drive and N 88°12’38” E, 25.73 feet to of an adjacent tract; which is enclosed by an the west right of way line of Folks Road; thence S Tract 26: Lot 2, Westgate existing fence which runs 01°’47’22” E, on said west Place replat of Lot 3, from east to west between 2 Westgate Subdiviright of way line, 283.00 Westage Subdivision Num- Lot sion Number 3 and Lot 5, feet to the point of beginn- ber 3; Block 2, Westgate Subdiviing.

Contains approxiTract 27: Lot 2, Westgate sion Number 1, consisting mately 1.38 acres; Place Number 2, A replat of of an area of ground apTract 16: Lot 1, Block 1, Lot 1, Westgate Place & Lot proximately 6 to 8 inches 4 Westgate Subdivision in width (from north to Bauer Farm first plat; south) and 75.15 feet in Number 3; length (from east to west), Tract 17: Lot 2, Block 1, Tract 28: Lot 1, Westgate together with said fence Bauer Farm first plat; Place Number 2, A replat of Tract 18: Lot 3, Block 1, Lot 1 Westgate Place and All in the City of Lawrence, Lot 4, Westgate Subdivi- Douglas County, Kansas.

Bauer Farm first plat; (d) The method of assesssion Number 3; ment is: Fifty percent Tract 19: Lot 1, Block 2, (50%) of costs shall be as29: Lot 1A, of a Lot Tract Bauer Farm first plat; on a Split of Lot 1, Westgate sessed Tract 20: Lot 2, Block 2, Subdivision Number 3, a per-square-foot basis to parcel of land in the north- the properties in the ImBauer Farm first plat; east quarter of Section 33, provement District north Tract 21: Lot 3, Block 2, in Township 12 south, of 6th Street, and fifty perRange 19 east, and a replat cent (50%) of costs shall Bauer Farm first plat; assessed on a of Westgate Subdivision be Tract 22: Lot 3, Westgate Number 2, described as: per-square foot basis to the properties in the ImPlace Number 3, A replat of west 166.74 feet of Lot 1; provement District south Tract A of Westgate Place, Tract A of Westgate Place Tract 30: Lot 1B, of a Lot of 6th Street. (e) The apNumber 2, and a final plat Split of Lot 1, Westgate portionment of the cost of

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the Improvements between the Improvement District and the City-at-large is: 100% to be assessed against the Improvement District and no costs to be paid by the City-at-large. The public hearing may be adjourned from time to time and until the governing body shall have made findings by resolution as to the advisability of the Improvements, the general nature of the Improvements, the estimated cost of the Improvements, the boundaries of the Improvement District, the method of assessment, and the apportionment of the costs between the Improvement District and the City-at-large, all to be as finally determined by the governing body; provided, however, that the area of the Improvement District to be assessed for the costs of the Improvements as finally determined may be less than, but shall not exceed, the area proposed to be assessed as described above without giving notice of and holding a new hearing on the advisability of the proposed Improvements. ALL PERSONS DESIRING TO BE HEARD WITH REFERENCE TO THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS SHALL BE HEARD AT THE PUBLIC HEARING. DATED: May 26, 2015. /s/ Diane Bucia, Acting City Clerk ________

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Dear Annie: Thirty years ago, when I was 11, I got into an argument on the school bus with another kid my age. I was an insecure child, and I was losing the argument and feeling humiliated. In a move to try to regain some power, I called the other kid, who is black, a racial epithet. I immediately felt sick at what I had done, and it is the only time, before or since, that I ever did anything like that.

I have thought about that moment hundreds of times over the years and consider it one of my lowest, most shameful decisions.

Thinking about it has made me aware of inherent racial biases that I was raised with, and I have actively tried to address these.

Recently, through a mutual friend, I became

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aware that the victim of my words is reachable through social media.

My question is: Should I apologize? — Trying My Best Dear Trying: Apologize. If this dredges up a terrible memory for him, you can rest assured that he hasn’t forgotten the incident, either. An apology could help him close that door. A private message, rather than a public post, would be best. Don’t belabor the

Solo acting on display in ‘Nightingale’ All by myself. The perils and rewards of the one-actor drama are on display in the harrowing “Nightingale” (8 p.m., HBO).

David Oyelowo, who was acclaimed for his performance as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma,” is the only actor on screen for the entirety of the film. He plays Peter Snowden, a disturbed veteran who reveals his damaged relationship with his mother and his fixation on a fellow former soldier in a series of monologues he delivers to an unseen blog and in long messages he leaves on his friend’s answering machine.

Peter’s ramblings and interior monologues grow more revealing as he becomes ever more unhinged. “Nightingale” offers Oyelowo an opportunity for an amazing performance.

His believability as the unraveled soldier, the put-upon son and the closeted but flamboyant suitor of a married man help propel this difficult story.

But let’s be blunt. Having dispensed with most of the ingredients of conventional drama, it is doubtful that “Nightingale” will draw an audience much bigger than those who appreciate fine acting for its own sake.

Most people who have seen “Psycho” once or a dozen times often think that the film ends (spoiler alert!) with the scene of the late Mrs. Bates’ desiccated body in her rocking chair. They tend not to remember the film’s more mannered epilogue, the few scenes when Norman Bates is confined in a straitjacket and musing about how he “wouldn’t even harm a fly.” If you can imagine “Psycho” consisting only of that final section, then you’re just beginning to approach the uphill climb facing Oyelowo (and his audience) in “Nightingale.”

Tonight’s other highlights

Ethical quandaries abound on the 10th season premiere of “What Would You Do?” (8 p.m., ABC).

“Great Performances” (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings) presents the debut concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Andris Nelsons.

“New Money” (9:30 p.m., E!) showcases the lavish lifestyles and conspicuous consumption of recently minted millionaires from the worlds of techno music and gambling.

BIRTHDAYS Actor Kevin Conway is 73.

Actor Anthony Geary is 68.

Movie composer Danny Elfman is 62. Singer LaToya Jackson is 59. Actor Ted Levine is 58.

Singer Melissa Etheridge is 54.

Rock musician Noel Gallagher is 48.

issue. Simply say you are sorry, that it has bothered you for 30 years (he may be glad to hear that), and that you want him to know you sincerely regret it.

Any communication after that should be up to him.

Dear Annie: I’d like to say something about people who disregard their family members who require care.

My mother had a heart valve replaced when she was 97. Eighteen months later, she had a stroke and has been in a nursing home since. By the time she uses up all of her savings and is eligible for government assistance, she will have expended close to $300,000. My family realizes that this is my mother’s money until she dies. We have picked up the remaining costs, including

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Friday, May 29: This year you seem to carry a magic wand in your back pocket.

When you wish for something, it tends to become a reality. If you are single, your soaring popularity allows you to broaden your social circle. If you are attached, the two of you will enter a very content period where communication will be delightful.

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) Being passive is not your thing, but with so much going on around you, you might not have a choice. Tonight: Kiss and make up.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You have a lot on your plate, so it might be best if you can work from home today.

Tonight: Run around the block.

Bathing suit time is here!

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Your imagination continues to be difficult to harness.

Many of you will be focused on a new romance. Tonight: Love the moment.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Many of you might consider taking off at the last minute.

Tonight: You get others’ attention wherever you are.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) A loved one might find it hard to say “no” to you. Tonight: TGIF!

supplemental health insurance, hearing aids, clothing, etc.

My mother just turned 100. She can walk with a walker and one person assisting.

But I am at the nursing home 12 hours a day to provide the therapy that Medicare doesn’t.

The staff here is kind and caring, but they have a limited amount of time, so I help out any way I can. I have seen residents who have no one to visit or keep their interest piqued.

They tend to die sooner than patients who have visitors. I hope those uncaring people get the same treatment when they are old. — Pat

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You seem to be unusually optimistic right now. Tonight: Good times don’t require a big budget.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You are on the verge of achieving a long-term desire.

Examine your options, but not for too long. Tonight: Accept a heartfelt compliment with grace.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Just because you aren’t in the spirit of the moment, that doesn’t mean you can’t free yourself up tomorrow. Tonight: Follow your instincts.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Friends have a way of gathering around you and pointing you in the right direction. Tonight: Follow your heart.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Make a point of breaking out of your conservative mindset, and just go for it. Tonight: Surprises mark your interactions.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Detach and resist throwing yourself into the middle of a situation, and you will like the results. Tonight: Ride the wave of the unexpected.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You might choose to relate on more of a one-on-one level.

Tonight: You know how to delight a special someone!

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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