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Gray-Little joins other Regents execs in giving back to university

By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

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The Kansas University chancellor will join other state university executives in donating her

raise back to the university, a KU spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Bernadette Gray-Little regularly makes gifts to KU that exceed her annual salary increase and

plans to do so this year as well, spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson said. She declined to answer specifically what fund or funds the chancellor donates to.

KU has not yet determined whether other university employees will get raises this year, Barcomb-Peterson said.

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Jayhawks beat Canada; on to South Korea

Neighbors press for area artists to be used

By Chad Lawhorn Twitter: @clawhorn_ljw

The design work hasn’t yet begun, but there already is a debate brewing over how the city should select artists for the proposed Ninth Street arts corridor.

Tuesday night, commissioners reviewed a suggestion from a group of East Lawrence residents and other community members that at least 50 percent of all the public artwork for the multimillionCITY COMMISSION dollar project be awarded to Lawrence-based artists. In addition, the group suggests half of that half reside in East Lawrence.

But several of the city’s arts advisors recommended against the idea, instead saying an impartial jury needs to have the flexibility to pick the best artwork regardless of the geographic location of the artist.

“The selection process really is quite sacred,” Porter Arneill, the city’s new director of arts and culture, told commissioners.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY FANS CELEBRATE the men’s basketball team’s 91-83 exhibition win against Canada on Tuesday at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. The team will represent the United States in next month’s World University Games in South Korea. Sports, 1C

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Surprise landing in eastern Lawrence

By Joanna Hlavacek Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

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hose cruising around the outskirts of East Lawrence (or social media) in the past few days may have noticed an eyecatching new addition to the area’s normally unassuming landscape.

Venture out past the Douglas County Fair-

grounds and you may come across a Space Age-y kiosk filled with chrome-colored playthings like rocket ships and cars, jutting out from the concrete.

Created by Wichita artist Randy Regier, the quasi-toy shop is actually a traveling art installation called

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Turning scraps, ‘faith’ into something fresh “

By Cailtin Doornbos

This is an After he emptied his per- emotional sonal bank account on a thing.” dream to start a nonprofit Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos

business to employ the “unemployable,” Shine Adams’ — Shine Adams, words in a December Jour- entreprenuer nal-World story are coming to fruition thanks to an on- months ago. “I believe in it. line fundraising campaign.

There’s no reason we couldn’t “I’ve been spending my be a solvent, sufficient life’s savings on this,” Adams Please see FRESH, page 2A told the Journal-World six

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SUN CEDAR FOUNDER SHINE ADAMS details air fresheners for the 2014 holiday season in his Lawrence basement last year. A successful Kickstarter campaign will give his company a big boost in moving into its own facilities, he said.

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KU is still working through its budget numbers but expects to release that information soon, she said.

The Kansas Board of Regents — citing a desire to keep university CEO salaries competitive in the market — approved 2 percent raises to the base pay of Gray-Little and other university presidents last week.

Gray-Little’s salary would go up to $510,040, an increase of $10,000.

New base salaries for other university presidents will be as follows: Kansas State University President Kirk Schulz, $476,290; Wichita State University President John Bardo, $357,178; Fort Hays State University President Mirta Martin, $265,200; and Pittsburg State University President Steve Scott, $263,357.

Emporia State University’s interim president Jacqueline Vietti was not included in the Regents action.

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Schulz said in a statement that he would give his increase back to the campus because he didn’t think it was appropriate to take a raise when the rest of K-State’s faculty and staff wouldn’t receive one.

A Wichita State spokesman said Bardo didn’t intend to keep the salary increase and would likely use it toward something else at the university.

Martin said she wouldn’t take a raise while Fort Hays State continues looking for ways to provide pay raises to faculty and staff.

Scott said he contacted the Pittsburg State business office about delaying his increase until “such time as we have put into place raises for the remainder of the campus,” according to a statement posted Friday to the school’s Facebook page.

“If that is not allowed because of the board action, I will gift the increase back to the campus in the form of student scholarships.”

— The Associated Press contributed to this story.

on Saturday. They want people to seek it out for themselves as a kind of art scavenger hunt. It might CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A be easier to find at night, when the thing lights up “NuPenny’s Last Stand” like a radioactive UFO. and has made appearAs part of the Free State ances in Florida, Arkansas, Festival and the SpenMaine, Illinois and right cer Museum’s At Large here in Kansas in the past program, Regier will set decade or so. up shop at “The NuPenny Since Friday, it’s been Home Office” from 9 a.m. parked “somewhere” in to 5 p.m. Saturday outside Lawrence, say Spencer the Lawrence Arts Center, Museum of Art staff940 New Hampshire St. ers, though they’re not While there, he’ll interact revealing where exactly with visitors and draw the stand is until Regier maps that lead to the art himself comes to Lawrence installation.

business and take care of our employees.”

Adams, a Lawrence Community Shelter employee and avid carpenter, last year established the nonprofit manufacturing business Sun Cedar in response to a conversation with a friend who had recently been released from prison. His friend was struggling to find work with his criminal history, so Adams hired him to help out in his carpentry shop.

The two appreciated the scent of cedar wood in Adam’s basement shop, and Adams saw an opportunity to employ others like his friend.

“Maybe I could start a business helping people who need jobs,” Adams said at the time.

They created all-natural tree-shaped air fresheners out of scraps of unwanted cedar wood and began selling their creations. They’d soon call the business “Sun Cedar” and employ about 12 at-risk community members — from felons to the homeless and recovering addicts — over the next year, Adams said.

Adams said that so far, he’s paid for supplies and his employees out of his own pocket, draining any savings he once had. But to him, it was worth every penny. Several employees have successfully transitioned out of Sun Cedar, with one woman now notably working for the city’s transit system, Adams said.

“I don’t want that money back,” Adams said. “I believe in this and always have since day one with faith in doing something good.”

The scheme eventually paid off — Sun Cedar broke even with its expenditures for “a couple months” last year. Adams said that fostered a new sense of hope.

“When we broke even, that meant it was possible (to become a self-sus-

tained business), not some crazy dream that wasn’t realistic,” Adams said.

On May 17, Sun Cedar launched a campaign seeking $35,000 on the online social fundraising website Kickstarter.com.

Sun Cedar had one month to raise the goal amount, but if they couldn’t do it within the allotted time, all money pledges would be nullified, according to Kickstarter rules.

There were some naysayers, Adams said, who didn’t believe the basement startup business could pull in that amount of funding.

Others criticized the business with a not-inmy-backyard mindset, Adams said. One neighbor grew angry with Adams, he said, referring to his employees as “trash, junkies and criminals.”

Adams said he thoroughly “vets” all his employees.

“The people I serve encounter that hatred daily,” Adams said. “This is an emotional thing.”

But over the past month, the numbers began to climb, with pledges ranging from $1 to $1,000 from individuals and organizations across the world.

Kickstarter.com featured Sun Cedar’s campaign as one of its “staff picks,” and last week, the national online magazine “Upworthy” published an article on the Lawrence business.

That’s when the pledges really started rolling in, Adams said. The campaign ended June 17 with $41,700 in donations, exceeding its original goal by more than $6,000.

“I’ve had goosebumps all month,” Adams said.

“I’ve never had such deep convictions in my life.”

Adams said the original $35,000 will go toward payroll, purchasing new tools and a new shop space (allowing Adams to reclaim his house), marketing and trade show attendance, legal fees to file with the federal government and registering intellectual property.

“Before the funding, I couldn’t afford more than two people with solid and consistent work,” Adams

said. “The goal is to provide real, regular hours week-by-week (for employees).”

With the extra $6,700, Sun Cedar will purchase a new “safety saw,” which Adams said will give Sun Cedar “increased peace of mind and safety, and a decreased insurance premium.”

Sun Cedar is still raising “stretch goal” funds, aiming to grow the total to $50,000 through another fundraising website, Megafounder.com.

With that money, Adams said Sun Cedar plans to purchase a laser engraver to expand the variety of products the business can produce and to attend even more trade shows, where they can get their air fresheners — and story — in front of wholesalers across the country.

With most pledges came orders. For example, a pledge of $10 got donors one air freshener and a thank-you card; a pledge of $500 brought 10 air fresheners, two drams of cedar oil, 10 handmade cedar hangers, a handmade cutting board, a Sun Cedar wall clock and an autographed photo of a Sun Cedar employee, according to the Kickstarter campaign.

Adams said Sun Cedar will be focusing on fulfilling orders before moving ahead with finding a new location for the shop. Until then, Sun Cedar’s band of employees will keep working away in Adams’ home.

Sun Cedar’s products are available for order at sun-cedar.com/shop or by calling 913-370-2005.

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State gets extension on No Child Left Behind waiver

By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

Topeka — The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that it has granted Kansas a three-year extension on its waiver from the fed-

eral No Child Left Behind law, even as Congress is considering an overhaul of that law that could make the waiver unnecessary.

In a statement released Tuesday, the department said the state of Kansas

has implemented sufficient measures aimed at improving the performance of all students to justify extending the waiver.

No Child Left Behind is the latest version of the 1960s-era Elementary

and Secondary Education Act, which directs the flow of federal aid for public schools, especially for schools located in low-income areas, known as Title I schools.

Under No Child Left Behind, all schools were

supposed to demonstrate by 2014 that 100 percent of their students were proficient in reading and math, based on their performance on yearly state assessments.

That law was due for reauthorization in 2007.

But after years of congressional gridlock on the issue, the Obama administration in 2012 began offering waivers to states if they agreed to implement other education reform Please see WAIVER, page 4A

Commissioners discuss city budget, property tax lid

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were presented a host of other requests that also may require an increase Current city services in the amount of property likely can be maintained, taxes levied by the city. and city employees even Commissioners on can receive pay raises in Tuesday, though, were 2016 without increasing told it’s unclear whether taxes, city commission- a new state law will alers were told at low for any propa Tuesday aftererty tax increase noon study sesfor the 2016 budsion. get. Interim City But to add Manager Diane mental health and Stoddard said her social workers to department still more Lawrence was working to CITY public schools understand how a likely would re- COMMISSION local property tax quire a property lid would impact tax increase. To add re- the city’s 2016 budget. quested employees to en“It has been confusing sure the Lawrence Police to watch,” Stoddard said Department has a night- of the legislative action, time detective staff may which came out of the require a tax increase, record 113-day session in too. And commissioners

By Chad Lawhorn

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LAWRENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT BICYCLE PATROL OFFICERS TRAIN in the city parking garage near City Hall Tuesday.

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Wagle reflects on 2015 legislative session at Dole Institute talk

By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle said lawmakers had known since 2012 that the massive tax cuts enacted that year eventually would have to be fixed.

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But speaking to an audiWe knew that we’d have to come back ence at the Dole Institute of Politics on the Kan- and fix (the tax cuts enacted in 2012).” sas University campus Tuesday, Wagle said the — Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita financial crisis the state encountered this year was deeper than leaders predicted. That, com- large number of freshman made the 2015 session esbined with an unusually legislators in the House, pecially difficult.

“This year, because of the tremendous shortfall, and because the economy hasn’t taken like we had hoped it would, we had to debate tax policy,” Wagle said. “And there’s no more difficult of an issue for a legislator to work on than taxes.”

Wagle, R-Wichita, is serving her fourth term in the Senate. She is the first woman to hold a top leadership position in either chamber. She previously served 10 years in the Kansas House where, in Please see WAGLE, page 4A

Author Jon Ronson talks social media at Free State Festival

By Conrad Swanson

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A day (on Twitter) without a shaming Journalist, author and felt weird and documentarian Jon Ronempty.” son said Tuesday night Twitter: @conrad_swanson

there have been three moments in his life where — Jon Ronson, author something in his brain clicked: when he became a vegetarian, when he rists, among other topics. quit smoking and when Most prominently, he turned off social me- Ronson spoke of his latdia. est book, “So You’ve Been Twitter, like smoking, Publicly Shamed,” and “is just coughing his observations and feeling like on the world of cr*p,” Ronson social media. told the crowd at Through the Liberty Hall, 644 wonder and Massachusetts St., power of the Inwhere he spoke as ternet and the a part of the Free spotlight that State Festival, only social mewhich continues Ronson dia can provide, today. the masses have Throughout his hour- lost their empathy, Ronlong address, Ronson son said. And on a platspoke of his 17-year-old form like Twitter, where son who will soon leave even the most innocuous home for the first time, comments can quickly be his keen ability to spot taken out of context, one psychopaths, adven- must proceed with cautures with real-life and tion. relatively-narcissistic While offenses deservvigilantes and his own in- ing of punishment are vestigative look into the Please see FESTIVAL, page 8A world of conspiracy theo-

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critics of that action called it one of the most daring and ambitious — not to mention dangerous — tax plans any state had enacted in modern times, and it immediately thrust Kansas into the national spotlight as a laboratory test for “supply side economics.�

But Wagle said the law enacted in 2012 was even more ambitious than Republican Gov. Sam Brownback had wanted. “The governor signed

a bill that wasn’t the bill he introduced, and that legislators thought we’d have a chance to conference on and resolve our differences,� Wagle said, recalling the 2012 session. “The governor was having a struggle getting the bill he wanted through the Legislature. And he chose to sign a bill that really slashed income taxes, but was not funded.

We knew that we’d have to come back and fix it.�

The pressure to fix

the tax bill mounted this year when new revenue estimates in November showed the state facing a roughly $800 million shortfall. Brownback proposed filling about half of that with transfers of money out of the state highway fund and other programs to shore up the general fund, but that still left lawmakers with another $400 million gap to fill.

Wagle said the process this year was made even more difficult by the fact that legislative districts were redrawn in 2012, and many veteran lawmakers lost their seats when they were pitted against other incumbents in Republican primaries. “One of the limits we faced this year was the fact that we had a House with a lot of freshmen members,� she said.

Lawmakers finally adjourned June 12 after passing a tax bill that fell about $50 million short of what was needed to fully fund the budget and leave the state with a small cushion of cash when the fiscal year ends in June 2016.

able strides and bold actions to improve student outcomes,� U.S. Education Secretary Arnie Duncan said in a statement. “States, districts, principals and teachers are showing incredible creativity in using different means to achieve the same goal — getting every student in America college- and careerready.�

Kansas adopted the Common Core standards in 2010, long before the waivers were announced, and they received little notice for the first two years until conservative groups in several states launched sharp attacks, arguing they amounted to a federal mandate and an intrusion into state au-

thority over education.

Several attempts have been made in the Kansas Legislature to repeal those standards, but so far those efforts have not been successful.

The new teacher and principal evaluation system also met with resistance from many teachers unions. While the new evaluation systems are now in place, districts will not start using test scores as an element in employment or promotion decisions for at least another year.

Meanwhile, Congress is now considering bills to overhaul No Child Left Behind in a way that would likely make the waivers unnecessary.

Earlier this year, the

House passed a bill, known as the Student Success Act, which contained a “portability� provision that would allow Title I funding to follow the students, regardless of where they attend school. President Barack Obama threatened to veto that bill, saying it would divert federal aid away from low-income districts that need it the most.

The Senate is expected to take up its own reauthorization bill, possibly within the next week or two. The Every Student Achieves Act passed unanimously out of the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, which is chaired by Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts.

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1994, she became the first woman ever chosen as Speaker Pro Tem, one of the top three leadership positions in the House.

Her appearance at the Dole Institute was part of a series of programs focusing on the role and influence of lobbyists at both the state and national levels. But much of the discussion focused on the just-ended 2015 session, which lasted a recordbreaking 113 days, largely owing to disagreements over how to fill a projected $400 million budget shortfall.

Wagle traced the origin of this year’s difficulties to that 2012 tax bill, which dramatically lowered income tax rates, eliminating the top marginal bracket altogether and exempting more than 330,000 business owners from paying any income tax on their non-wage business income.

Both supporters and

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measures.

Those included adopting rigorous academic standards for reading and math, such as the Common Core State Standards; adopting methods of holding schools and districts accountable for improving student performance; and adopting evaluation systems that tied teacher and administrator evaluations to those test scores. “As a result of our partnerships with state and district leaders to couple flexibility with reform, we are seeing remark-

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KANSAS SENATE PRESIDENT SUSAN WAGLE, R-WICHITA, discusses the 2015 legislative session during an appearance at the Dole Institute of Politics at Kansas University.

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Topeka.

Many cities were surprised by a bill in the Legislature that imposes a property tax lid that prohibits cities, counties and other local governments from increasing the amount of property taxes collected by a rate greater than inflation, unless a public election is held. The bill was approved without going through the standard legislative hearing process.

Cities, however, were told the lid would not begin until January 2018.

But a conflict between the bills passed by the Kansas House and the Kansas Senate was found, and now cities are being told by the League of Kansas Municipalities that it is very possible the property tax lid could begin July 1, which would impact the 2016 budget processes that are underway currently.

Legislators still have the chance to change the effective date to January 2018 when they meet for a “sine die� wrap-up session Friday. But it is uncertain whether the Legislature will change the effective date.

City commissioners on Tuesday were concerned about how the issue may impact the 2016 budget.

Commissioners were urging legislators to at least delay the property tax lid until January 2018. “Hopefully ‘sine die’ is not a synonym for unfathomable stupidity,� Mayor Jeremy Farmer said.

Commissioners agreed to reassess the budget following Friday’s legislative session. Commissioners have to finalize their budget by mid-August.

City commissioners are scheduled to receive

Stoddard’s recommended city budget near the July 4 holiday. Commissioners then will have about a month to modify that recommended budget. Stoddard released several figures and proposals about the budget at Tuesday’s study session. Here’s a look: l Stoddard said her office is optimistic it can craft a “baseline� budget that maintains current city services without seeking a tax increase.

The baseline budget also would include about $1 million for increased city employee salaries, or about 3 percent more than the city is budgeted to spend in 2015. The budget, however, technically would be about $800,000 out of balance. Stoddard said she is comfortable with the deficit because the city is now projected to finish 2015 with about $1 million more in revenue than expenses. That has occurred, in part, because sales tax collections have come in greater than expected in 2015. l Stoddard’s baseline budget does not include any funding for a multimillion dollar police headquarters project, but she said her office will recommend that the project remain a high priority. She said her office can craft several scenarios that would include funding for a a police headquarters without increasing taxes, but such plans would require cuts to some other areas of city funding. l Stoddard’s baseline budget does not include new funding for several new positions that city department heads have said are needed. The largest request comes from the Lawrence Police Department, which is seeking about $1.2 million in funding to create an evening shift for detectives and investigators.

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Work on County Road 1055 north of Baldwin City is scheduled to resume after the Fourth of July weekend after heavy spring rains have delayed the start of the final two phases of a season-long series of projects to improve the safety of the road.

Douglas County Public Works director Keith Browning said Hamm Construction won the contracts for the final two phases of construction on the popular route that connects Baldwin City to east and central Lawrence destinations.

The remaining work on CR 1055, which includes replacing a box culvert

— Douglas County Public Works director Keith Browning with a bridge just north of North 500 Road and the asphalt resurfacing the blacktop from the Baldwin City limits to Vinland, is now slated to start July 6.

Despite the late start, CR 1055 should be reopened in time for the Maple Leaf Festival, which is scheduled for Oct. 17 and 18.

“We felt it will be,” Browning said. “We plan to be done in mid-October, just before Maple Leaf in the third weekend

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Official: Economic war coming to close Topeka — Missouri and Kansas officials are close to an agreement that would end a long-running “border war” that saw both states using economic incentives to persuade businesses to move, a Kansas Cabinet secretary said.

Kansas Secretary of Commerce Pat George said the main hurdle is how to remove incentives that do not create more jobs or investments without hindering efforts to attract companies or to persuade businesses not to move to another region.

Kansas has a program called Promoting Employment Across Kansas, or PEAK, which allows a company creating jobs to keep 95 percent of the employees’ state income taxes for up to seven years. A state audit found most of the incentives went to counties surrounding Kansas City and that the majority of the jobs came from Missouri. It can be difficult to determine if the company created new jobs for Kansans, or if its Missouri employees are simply commuting across the border, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Tuesday.

George said he isn’t sure if an agreement will be announced before he resigns in July to become head of the nonprofit Valley Hope Association. In Kansas, the Department of Commerce can change the incentives without legislative approval.

of October.”

Those driving CR 1055 on the busy Maple Leaf weekend will see improvements in safety. Upgrades began this spring with the removal of timber at the bottom of Baldwin Hill to improve visibility in an area with a high number of vehicle-deer collisions. Other completed safety upgrades included the replacement of narrow culverts between Baldwin City and Vinland with

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with minds for affordable housing made their way through Lawrence on Tuesday.

The cyclists are a part of Bike and Build, a nonprofit organization that involves groups riding cross country, raising awareness for national housing issues and chipping in on construction projects along the way, said team leader Casey Moran.

“We’re very committed to providing physical labor and actually getting projects done,” she said. “Also, money is a huge part of the issue, finding funding for people to get the chance to live a healthy, sustain-

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The group’s ride began May 25 in Virginia, and they’ll finish Aug. 4 in Oregon, Moran said.

They’ll pass through a dozen states along the way, riding nearly 4,000 miles.

To date, the 32 cyclists have raised $149,865 for their cause, according to their website.

The group stopped in Kansas City on Monday and worked on a building project, Moran said. On Wednesday they’ll cycle

to Manhattan for another day of work.

In Lawrence the group stayed at the Ecumenical Campus Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave., Moran said. While in town, they had a chance to relax for a bit and speak with a Kansas University professor of architecture on the topic of housing and the design process.

“Riding to Lawrence was a very short day,” Moran said. “It was nice because people were excited to explore Kansas.”

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The bridge’s construction and the rebuilding of the roadway will close CR 1055 between North 500 and North 600 roads for the duration of the project, but the mill and overlay work will also necessitate periodic closings of other sections of the road between Baldwin City and Vinland.

Browning said Hamm would probably start with the asphalt work with the start of the construction on July 6 as the company waits for the arrival of the bridge’s prestressed concrete girders, Browning said.

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wider ones and the installation of paved shoulders on CR 1055 at its intersection with North 600 Road.

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Patrol needs Putting more Kansas Highway Patrol troopers on Kansas roads is a public safety priority for the state.

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hen asked recently what his spending priorities would be if state revenues exceed projections, Gov. Sam Brownback listed three areas: state hospitals, the prison system and the Kansas Highway Patrol.

In all three of those areas, hiring and retaining sufficient high-quality staff members has been a key concern. In his recent comments, Brownback specifically focused on the Highway Patrol and his desire “to get more highway patrolmen out on the road.” Although the governor didn’t offer a specific plan on how to achieve that goal, he accurately portrayed this as a public safety issue for the state.

The number of state troopers has steadily declined since topping out at 501 in 2006. That number dropped to 410 last year. As of last Friday, the patrol reported 399 troopers on its roster. The lower numbers have affected staffing levels across the state. Twentyone Kansas counties have no troopers assigned to them. Another 34 counties have only one trooper assigned.

Not only are fewer troopers patrolling state highways, but fewer troopers are available to help local law enforcement agencies.

From a high of $96.7 million in 2007, the Highway Patrol’s operating budget has dropped below $80 million in recent years, but money isn’t the only issue. The patrol has many troopers retiring, and recruiting qualified candidates is becoming more difficult.

There is no doubt that the challenges and hazards of working for the Highway Patrol or other law enforcement agencies have grown over the years.

Troopers routinely travel alone and face unknown dangers every time they approach a vehicle. They never know when they may be confronted by someone who is unstable or engaged in illegal activity or both. If that person also has a gun handy, the results can be tragic.

Patrol officials are working to recruit new troopers. Legislation passed in 2013 provided funding that will guarantee at least one recruit training class a year at the Highway Patrol Training Center in Salina. A new class of 25 recruits will start their classes in July, and applications are being accepted for the next class.

The Kansas Highway Patrol has a proud record of service to the state and has earned a respected spot in the state’s law enforcement system. Hopefully, the state will be able to provide the funding and support that the patrol needs to build an increased force of well-qualified and well-trained troopers.

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‘06 report may refocus Mideast policy Washington — “The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating. ... Sectarian conflict is the principal challenge to stability.”

That’s from the opening page of the 2006 Iraq Study Group report. Nine years later, it’s haunting to revisit the bipartisan commission review chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton. Their grim assessment still holds, and now you have to add Syria, Libya and Yemen as states where “the level of violence is high and growing” and “pessimism is pervasive.”

Re-examining the BakerHamilton proposals is a good way to refocus U.S. strategy for Iraq and Syria.

The report made two basic arguments: Solving the sectarian conflict requires a new push for reconciliation internally and a new diplomatic offensive externally.

President George W. Bush decided that Baker-Hamilton amounted to surrender, so he boldly took another route, authorizing a troop surge commanded by Gen. David Petraeus to reduce violence so that reconciliation could begin. It seemed to work for a time, but the ruinous sectarian hatred remained — and reignited, disastrously, after U.S. troops left and the Syria crisis was allowed to boil. Now parts of Iraq and Syria, both, are under the banner of the Islamic State.

Even the proponents of Bush’s 2007 troop surge don’t think massive U.S. military intervention is an op-

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The report made two basic arguments: Solving the sectarian conflict requires a new push for reconciliation internally, and a new diplomatic offensive externally.” tion now. American troops can help train and advise Iraqi forces. (And President Obama should allow those U.S. advisers to accompany Iraqi forces into battle.) But “the Obama administration is right that the boots on the ground must be Iraqi,” argues Stephen Hadley, who as Bush’s national security adviser helped implement the surge strategy.

Hadley is emphatic about the political process that’s necessary this time around.

Iraq needs “an inclusive government at the national level” and “decentralization of power to provincial governments.” He stressed in an interview that this political devolution won’t work without support from the regional governments — Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and, yes, Iran.

How can the goal of na-

tional dialogue be accomplished now in Iraq, when it has failed so many times in the past? The answer is that Iraq needs power-sharing that involves the real stakeholders within the Sunni, Kurdish and Shiite communities. The top-down system the U.S. tried to impose in its 2003 invasion has failed, and it’s time for a bottom-up reconstruction.

Lukman Faily, Iraq’s ambassador to Washington, encourages such a process.

“We need to take stock of where we are. We need to translate decentralization into the structure of the state and the constitution, to enhance social harmony while keeping the borders and integrity of the state,” he told me Tuesday when asked about the reconciliation ideas.

“The Iraqi project of 2003 is definitely over,” says Barham Salih, a former deputy prime minister of Iraq. “The time has come for a serious national dialogue that will acknowledge the failure of the existing order and discuss alternatives,” such as a federal or confederal Iraq.

What’s needed is an organic process of dialogue, such as the 1993 Oslo Accord between the Israelis and Palestinians, the 1995 Dayton Accords among the Balkan states, or the 1998 Good Friday agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.

Who could jump-start such an inclusive dialogue?

It would require an organization with good contacts among tribal and ethnic

groups and experience in mediation. That’s a shorthand description of the U.S. Institute for Peace, which, as it happens, sponsored the Baker-Hamilton report and is now chaired by Hadley.

The best hope for Syria is a similar process of internal dialogue, backed by external diplomatic support. Secretary of State John Kerry has been pushing privately for just such a Syrian contact group, which would include the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia and, eventually, Iran.

The Syria problem is compounded by the toxic spread of the Islamic State and the al-Qaida spinoff called Jabhat al-Nusra. These extremists would rush to fill the vacuum if President Bashar al-Assad should fall.

Fear that the jihadists would dominate such a Syrian power vacuum is one reason the CIA recently requested a $1 billion increase for its program of covert training for moderate rebels, which would roughly double their numbers. The House Intelligence Committee is skeptical and rejected the big increase. The House should reconsider: The program, for all its faults, is one of the few checks against total jihadist dominance of the Syrian opposition.

To quote the 2006 report: “There is no magic formula to solve the problems of Iraq” — let alone those of Syria. But the Baker-Hamilton approach is worth another look.

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

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Statement may foreshadow state crisis On June 21, this newspaper ran a story about the still-pending school finance case and the fact that the court may well find that state funding of public K-12 education is inadequate and violates the Kansas Constitution. The theme of the article was that the uncertainty surrounding how the court will decide is, in fact, a “wild card” still unknown and still threatening the financial stability of Kansas.

There was nothing in this that was particularly new or surprising since the budget and tax bills finally passed by the Legislature this month and signed by Gov. Brownback provide a very small financial “cushion” that must protect the state against any and all unexpected revenue shortfalls or increased expenses. A court decision finding that the state is constitutionally bound to increase K-12 spending would undoubtedly use up all of the planned reserve and require either substantial new revenues or sweeping cuts to all other state-funded activities.

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If Sen. Bruce was saying that the Legislature, in his opinion, is not inclined to comply with a final order of a duly constituted Kansas court then the senator is suggesting nothing less than that Kansas may well face a constitutional crisis of unprecedented proportions …”

surprising — at least to the extent that a legislative leader would actually say it — was the quoted statement by Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce that he did not believe that a court

decision “whatever it was … will move anybody into action.” If, by this statement, Sen. Bruce meant that the Legislature (and the executive branch?) would not act to correct whatever inadequacies the court might determine had to be corrected in order to bring K-12 funding into constitutional compliance, then his statement is radical in import and incredibly significant both politically and legally.

If Sen. Bruce was saying that the Legislature, in his opinion, is not inclined to comply with a final order of a duly constituted Kansas court, then the senator is suggesting nothing less than that Kansas may well face a constitutional crisis of unprecedented proportions and a potential breakdown in the fundamental structure of Kansas government: the separation of powers and judicial review.

Normally, I would be inclined to say that no Kansas legislator would ever suggest that such a dispute between the legislative and judicial branches might occur or that the Legislature

might, in fact, refuse to comply with a lawful final order of a Kansas court. However, the animosity between the Kansas judiciary and the Legislature during the past several years and all that has happened up to this point, such as the change in the means of selecting judges for the Kansas Court of Appeals, this year’s judicial budget with its threat of “defunding,” and the often harsh words spoken by some Kansas legislators about the Kansas judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court, gives me pause.

If Sen. Bruce and other legislators are, in fact, contemplating potential noncompliance with whatever the court may order in the school finance cases, I hope that they will seek dispassionate legal counsel before they take action — or fail to take action — and consider the consequences that might result from this.

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made on social media, much of the justice is “disproportionate” to the crime, Ronson said. What began as a thirst for “social justice” has become a witch hunt where “a day without a shaming felt weird and empty.”

In reality, most people are neither villains nor saints, and many instances of public shaming lack both context and humanity, Ronson argued.

Although discussing serious topics, Ronson had the audience rolling in laughter for much of the evening. After his address, he took questions from the audience and signed books for his

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art. The draft work plan calls for design work on the project to begin in September and for a final design to be completed in January, with multiple public meetings in between.

Several East Lawrence residents have expressed concerns the project may end up being more of an entertainment district than an arts corridor. In an effort to combat that concern, commissioners said they were interested in starting the process to create a “conservation overlay district” that would create special development regulations for the corridor.

The city-hired consultant also told the large crowd at City Hall that he absolutely was not interested in creating a design that would turn the corridor into an entertainment district.

“If the city of Lawrence wants this to become an entertainment district, they hired the wrong team,” said Josh Shelton, leader of the consulting firm el dorado inc. “That is not our agenda at all.

I’m actually horrified by sanctioned entertainment districts. They don’t sit well with me at all.”

In other news, commissioners: l Unanimously rejected a request by the organizer of a major youth basketball tournament who wanted to use all eight courts at Rock Chalk Park for a tournament in July.

The Sunflower Showcase was seeking an exemption from a city policy that says at least one of the eight basketball courts at the Rock Chalk Park recreation center must remain open for general public use at all times.

The promise of one open court for public use was a commitment the

“If you put out a (request for proposals) that says it will favor local artists, you will have a lot of artists that won’t even bother applying.”

Some commissioners, though, said they can see the value in putting some requirements on the number of local artists who are part of the project.

Commissioners stopped short of rewriting the current requirements spelled out in a draft work plan that will guide how consultants proceed on the project. But commissioners said they may bring the issue back again in the future.

Commissioners asked whether the City Commission would have veto authority on the artists chosen for the project.

Arneill said that is not how the selection process is structured, but he noted the commission does have final authority on approving the overall design of the project.

Ultimately, commissioners will need to approve about $3 million in funding for the project to proceed.

“It would be tragic if we had a corridor in one of the coolest neighborhoods in the state of Kansas and we didn’t have any art from artists in that neighborhood,” Mayor Jeremy Farmer told Arneill. “Please relay that sentiment very strongly to the jury.”

The project is planned to stretch from about Massachusetts Street to the Warehouse Arts District in East Lawrence.

The proposal calls for Ninth Street to be rebuilt and for the corridor to be infused with public

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fans. Later, the hall hosted a screening of the film “Frank,” for which Ronson co-wrote the screenplay.

Scrambling down from Liberty Hall’s balcony, Crystal Yakel made her way to the front of the line for Ronson’s book signing.

“He was amazing and wonderful,” she said. “I hadn’t laughed that hard in quite a while.”

previous City Commission made while it was going through the controversial process of approving the $10.5 million recreation center. New city commissioners said they had no interest in modifying the policy, especially after many voters have expressed angst about how the city approved the Rock Chalk Park project.

“Somebody said this issue is really about rebuilding trust with the community, and I think that is true,” City Commissioner Leslie Soden said. “This was something that was promised, and we should back that promise up.”

The tournament, which is expected to attract more than 100 teams from about 15 states, still will be allowed to rent the seven other gyms at the center. The tournament is set for July 23 through 26. l Agreed to hold a study session to discuss issues related to a potential multimilliondollar police headquarters building at 5:45 p.m.

July 20 at City Hall. But commissioners could not agree on how the agenda for that meeting should be structured.

Both Soden and Commissioner Stuart Boley said they wanted broader information about how much the community expects to spend on police services over the next 15 to 20 years. Commissioners agreed that individual commissioners should make agenda suggestions to staff members. Commissioners will consider approving an agenda for the study session at their July 7 meeting.

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

A teacher in the Kansas City, Kan., public school system, Yakel said she is planning on bringing some of Ronson’s lessons into her classroom, cautioning her students on the use of social media.

“They’re allowed to have fun and find things funny,” she said. “But it’s important to respect people and their humanity.”

Cindy Maude said she also appreciates Ronson’s writing, but she’s thankful he was willing to take a step back and encourage others to err on the side of compassion.

“He’s still funny,” she said. “But he digs deeper into people, and I respect that a lot.”

— Reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at cswanson@ljworld.com or 832-7144.

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The South Carolina House of Representatives agreed Tuesday to debate the fate of Confederate battle flag that flies amid controversy on State Capitol grounds.

The decision came as a growing chorus of state politicians, including Gov. Nikki Haley, backed the effort to remove the symbol of the Confederacy and hundreds

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In sweltering temperatures, attendees chanted “take it down” and “bring it down.” A small number of Confederate flag supporters also were present.

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“There is a silent majority of South Carolinians who strongly believe we can have a better future without the flag being on Statehouse grounds,” he said.

Contributing: Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY; Tony Santaella, WLTX-TV, Columbia, S.C.

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DAMASCUS , VA . The body cameras should arrive any time now.

Once they are fastened to the eyeglass frames of the town’s four full-time officers, the tiny community tucked in a scenic crease of the Blue Ridge Mountains will represent the latest convert to a law enforcement technology that has swept the country since last year’s racially charged shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. The cameras are not Damascus’ only link to a national re-examination of policing amid a series of controversial police encounters that have fractured public trust in law enforcement since the eruption in Missouri.

Since 2007, when then-Damascus police chief Anthony “Tony” Richardson was busted for dealing methamphetamines, the town has churned through four chiefs,

including two who had what Mayor Jack McCrady described as “zipper problems.”

The fourth, Bill Nunley, resigned late last year, frustrated with increasingly shrinking resources and conflicting priorities.

The breaking point came, Nunley said, when the mayor told him to

The United States has wiretapped the past three presidents of France, including current leader François Hollande, as recently as 2012, according to WikiLeaks documents disclosed Tuesday.

Documents said the U.S. eavesdropped on presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac as well as Hollande on issues that included the French positions on EuroZone economic policy, United Nations appointments, Middle East peace talks and the financial crisis of 2008.

National Security Council spokesman Ned Price declined to comment on the French reports but added: “As a general matter,

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we do not conduct any foreign intelligence surveillance activities unless there is a specific and validated national security purpose.

This applies to ordinary citizens and world leaders alike.”

The French newspaper Liberation and the investigative website Mediapart reprinted documents that go back to 2006, when George W. Bush served as president.

A leaked document from 2010 reveals potential topics of discussion for a meeting between Sarkozy and President Obama.

WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson told The Associated Press he is confident the documents are authentic.

The White House did not have immediate comment, nor did any French officials.

Previous disclosures of U.S. intelligence-gathering activities have triggered diplomatic rifts with other countries, including Germany and Brazil.

After reports that the U.S. had tapped the cell phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama ordered a review of National Security Agency surveillance activities. The president reportedly has ordered a halt to spying on the leaders of friendly countries, though not their aides.

Obama to loosen rules on private ransom for hostages David Jackson and Kevin Johnson USA TODAY

The Obama administration plans to create a new office to work with the families of hostages kidnapped overseas, and adopt new rules that make it easier for them to negotiate private ransom payments if possible, officials said Tuesday.

The government itself will maintain its no-ransom policy, the officials said, saying that paying kidnappers will only encourage more kidnappings.

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Family members of hostages have protested the policy and criticized the government over threats of prosecution if they tried to raise ransom money themselves.

Among those protesting the policy: Diane Foley, mother of the American journalist James Foley, whose beheading last year was videotaped by the Islamic State.

President Obama ordered a review of U.S. hostage policy in December and expected to announce the results Wednesday.

“We hope to be the last family that fails to receive the level of coordinated government support

“The people who take American citizens working abroad as hostages do not discriminate based on their job or employer, and neither should our government.”

Elaine Weinstein, wife of al-Qaeda hostage killed in U.S. drone strike

that those who serve abroad deserve when trouble finds them,” said Elaine Weinstein, wife of American aid worker Warren Weinstein, who was killed earlier this year in a U.S. drone strike while a hostage of al-Qaeda in Pakistan. “As Warren’s case makes painfully clear, the people who take American citizens working abroad as hostages do not discriminate based on their job or employer, and neither should our government.”

Weinstein added: “This review will not bring Warren back. It is our most sincere hope that it was conducted fully and frankly so

the U.S. government can have an honest conversation about the areas where it falls short. Our benchmark for this review’s success will be the actions arising from it more than its specific findings.”

White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined to detail the new policies, but said Obama on Wednesday will issue a new executive order and a task force to “to make sure that we were better and more closely integrating the wide variety of U.S. government assets that are used to try to safely recover U.S. citizens who are being held hostage.”

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President Obama’s embattled trade agenda received new life Tuesday as the U.S. Senate advanced a key part of a legislative package in a necessary procedural vote.

The Senate voted, 60-37, to overcome a supermajority threshold to start the clock on a series of votes this week aimed at getting a group of trade bills to Obama's desk before the July 4 recess begins next week.

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The vote was “very big,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. strategy for a package of bills critical to Obama’s trade agenda.

“Speaker Boehner is clearly committed to building trust across the aisle on this issue, and

I am as well,” McConnell said Tuesday prior to the vote that paved the way for a Wednesday final passage vote on trade promotion authority (TPA).

TPA, commonly known as “fast track” because it creates an expedited process to get trade bills through Congress, already passed the Senate last month as part of a legislative package that also included trade adjustment assistance (TAA), which helps displaced American workers.

The package hit a dead end in the U.S. House, where Democrats rebelled against the White House and voted down TAA, which they support, in a move aimed at slowing down fast track, which they oppose.

GOP leaders, in conjunction with the president, devised a new legislative strategy that would pass fast track first, then the renewal of adjustment assistance, which is set to expire on Sept. 30, to build pressure on House Democrats. Republicans generally oppose TAA but from the beginning of trade negotiations it was deemed necessary to get enough

Democrats on board for fast track.

If TPA passes Wednesday, it will set up a Thursday vote on TAA. The House approved fast track as a standalone last week, and is waiting on the Senate to act on the trade adjustment assistance bill.

McConnell and Boehner have also pledged swift action on another trade-related measure, a customs enforcement bill, which must be further negotiated between the House and Senate.

“Today is a very big vote. It’s an important moment for the country,” McConnell said.

Senate Democrats took issue Tuesday with assertions that upcoming trade pacts will be good for the U.S. economy.

“It’s a great day for the big money interests, it is not a great day for working families,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

Half of agencies have fewer than 10 officers has been the target of lawsuits and separate criticism over its long-unfilled director position.

“At this point, we just want (the town) to have an open meeting to confront the issue,” said J.P. Gibbons of advocacy group Voices of Hightstown. “This is embarrassing to a degree.”

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“quit working criminal cases” in the busy meth distribution corridor and pay more attention to the needs of tourists who flock to the region, a gateway to the iconic Appalachian Trail. (The mayor, who denied Nunley’s assertion, said the former chief had “problems dealing with authority.”)

The new chief, Roger Dowell, was promoted from within.

Questions about leadership, training and basic competence track an array of unmet public safety needs that threaten smalltown policing operations in communities across the country.

Half of the nearly 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the USA have fewer than 10 officers, according to the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. Nearly three-quarters of agencies have fewer than 25 officers patrolling counties and towns where standards are uneven or non-existent.

“So many problems of organizational quality control are made worse by the tiny size of most local police agencies,” University of Maryland criminologist Lawrence Sherman told the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing this year. The panel was established in the aftermath of the riots in Ferguson, where the operations of the town’s 53officer department were excoriated in a review in March by the Justice Department.

That review, which concluded that the department engaged in a broad pattern of racially biased enforcement, raised broader questions about the capacity of small communities to carry out crucial public safety responsibilities.

Smaller agencies, the panel said, “often lack the resources for training and equipment accessible to larger departments.”

“It’s no accident,” Sherman said in an interview, “that the (law enforcement) problems that emerged last summer came from a small police department like Ferguson.”

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Laurie Robinson from George Mason University and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey join President Obama in March for a White House task force on policing.

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On his first day as mayor of Sorrento, La. (pop. 1,500), Mike Lambert learned how bad his police department was.

In a meeting in 2013 with the town’s new chief executive, judges said the six-officer police force had “no credibility in the courts.”

Corruption was rampant; residents were harassed. The capper came last year when Chief Earl Theriot pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI when he engaged in sexual activity at his office with an unconscious woman who had been the subject of a 911 call.

“I’m telling you,” Lambert said, “it was bad here.” So bad that the department lost its insurance carrier, prompting last year’s town vote to shutter the police department for good after more than a half-century of operations.

Having few options, Lambert did what many law enforcement analysts suggest may be a more appropriate public safety alternative for a vast network of small communities with extremely limited public safety resources.

The mayor struck a deal with the larger, better-trained and better-equipped Ascension Parish

“It’s no accident that the problems that emerged last summer came from a small police department like Ferguson.”

University of Maryland criminologist Lawrence Sherman

Sheriff’s Department. “It was a better deal financially,” he said.

Sorrento pays Ascension Parish $350,000 per year vs. the $600,000 it cost the town to operate its own agency. “Complaints are down; it’s working out,” Lambert said.

As policing operations in America are the focus of unprecedented scrutiny, analysts say the largest component of law enforcement — small-town agencies — should consider following Sorrento’s lead.

“No other country in the world has this model (of decentralized policing),” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the law enforcement think-tank Police Executive Research Forum. “The

challenge will be to find common ground to consolidate and still deliver the neighborhood policing that Americans want.”

This year, in an assessment of policing in the St. Louis area, which includes Ferguson, Wexler’s group advised just that. “St. Louis County contains a patchwork of police departments, many of which have jurisdiction over very small areas,” the review found. “This has led to confusion and distrust among residents, who often feel targeted and harassed by police officers and the municipal court system.”

Among the group’s recommendations: “strategic consolidations of police agencies,” merging about 20 small agencies into three policing “clusters.”

“Bigger is by no means better, and large agencies have their own set of challenges,” Wexler said.

“But there is a strong argument to be made to consolidating smaller agencies to form regional consortiums.”

Consolidation or the complete outsourcing of police work has been the subject of intense debate in many communities, including Hightstown, N.J., where the 10-officer police department

IN BRIEF REPORT: FREDDIE GRAY DIED OF ‘HIGH-ENERGY INJURY’

A black man who died in police custody in Baltimore in April died of a “high-energy injury” that likely happened when the police van in which he rode suddenly slowed down, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Baltimore Sun. Freddie Gray, 25, suffered a severe spinal injury after being arrested after a foot chase by police officers and died a week later. Police said they chased Gray after he and another man spotted police and suddenly started running away. The incident sparked protests throughout Baltimore and throughout the country, and Gray’s death followed a line of incidents involving black men or teens dying in police custody or by other citizens.

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In Damascus (pop. 840), McCrady said the police department remains an important part of the town’s makeup, despite a lampooning on late-night television after former chief Richardson’s drug-related arrest and conviction.

“If you pull out of policing, you lose a lot of your identity,” McCrady said. “It would be like losing your post office. ... It would be a last-ditch thing.”

Yet maintaining the department is not a certainty. McCrady said the department needs increased federal assistance to help subsidize officer salaries and equipment.

The police operations consume $200,000 annually from the town’s $700,000 budget.

The task of running the department has been passed to Dowell, 43, who has patrolled the town since 2008.

Arriving in the aftermath of the Richardson scandal, Dowell acknowledged that the first priority was to regain the community’s trust.

“We had to show them we were here to help them, not bully them. You show respect, you get respect,” said the chief, who worked for Walmart for 15 years.

“It doesn’t matter whether you are wealthy or homeless. In a small town like this, it’s the oneto-one relationships that matter most.”

He doesn’t like the prospect of turning over public safety duties to a larger agency, such as the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, a 90-person agency that covers 600 square miles.

“It worries me,” he said, “that you won’t have the personal connections that we have now.”

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seasonal cabin over the weekend.

Scores of heavily armed officers swarmed two locations late Monday and Tuesday afternoon after two possible sightings of Matt and Sweat, about 20 miles west of the prison. Both turned out to be false alarms.

Meanwhile, Lyle Mitchell, the husband of the prison worker charged with aiding in the escape of the two killers, says his wife admitted her involvement to him the day after the men vanished.

— Michael Winter

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D.A. Andrew Wylie told WPTZ-TV on Tuesday that Joyce Mitchell, who has been charged with aiding the breakout, put the meat in a tailor shop refrigerator at the Clinton Correctional Facility and that a guard then gave the

hamburger to Richard Matt and David Sweat, who were housed in an “honor block” that allowed them to cook their own meals.

The details of the escape came as an intense manhunt in the rugged Adirondack Mountains focused on the area of Owls Head, where authorities found evidence that the fugitives had been in a

The Senate confirmed Peter Neffenger as head of the Transportation Security Administration on Monday.

Neffenger, whose time as vice admiral of the Coast Guard capped 34 years in public service, was widely supported for the post. But lawmakers of both parties had criticized the Obama administration for taking too long to name a successor to John Pistole, who announced his departure in October and retired from public service at the end of 2014.

— Bart Jansen

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NATION/WORLD CYBERSECURITY

HEARINGS ON OPM DATA BREACH BEGIN Director under fire for hacks that stole employees’ records Erin Kelly USA TODAY

The director of the Office of Personnel Management said Tuesday she doesn’t believe anyone at her agency is personally responsible for allowing the massive hack attack that has exposed the personal information of millions of federal employees.

“If there is anyone to blame, it is the perpetrators,” OPM Director Katherine Archuleta told members of a Senate panel at the first of four congressional hearings this week to examine the WASHINGTON

OPM cyberattack..

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, RUtah, and other lawmakers have called on Archuleta to resign in the wake of what has been described as the most devastating cyberattack in U.S. history.

“I don’t believe anyone (at OPM) is personally responsible,” Archuleta said in response to a question from Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan. “We’re working as hard as we can to protect the data of our employees.”

Archuleta also blamed “decades of lack of investment in IT systems.” She is seeking a $32 million increase in OPM’s 2016 budget, with most of the raise to pay for modernizing the agency’s information technology.

However, Michael Esser, the

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OPM Director Archuleta asks for IT upgrades as she testifies Tuesday during a Senate panel hearing.

OPM’s assistant inspector general for audits, said some of the systems that were breached were modern systems rather than the aging, decades-old mechanisms that Archuleta is trying to replace. He said most of the agency’s cybersecurity problems are

“I don’t believe anyone (at OPM) is personally responsible. We’re working as hard as we can to protect the data of our employees.”

Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management

due to poor management.

“Although OPM has made progress in certain areas, some of the current problems and weaknesses were identified as far back as fiscal year 2007,” Esser testified.

“We believe this long history of systemic failures to properly

manage its IT infrastructure may have ultimately led to the breaches we are discussing today.”

Federal investigators are still trying to figure out how many federal employees are victims of two major hack attacks.

Archuleta said that more than 4 million employees were affected by a late 2014 hack, which was discovered in April and publicly disclosed this month. OPM has not yet determined how many more were victimized in an attack discovered in May, she said.

Archuleta said the hackers used security credentials from KeyPoint Government Solutions, which OPM hired to conduct background checks of current, former and prospective federal employees whose jobs require a security clearance.

CONFEDERATE FLAGS

Syrian Kurds’ victory over ISIL could stir up problems

Amazon, eBay pull flag sales from sites Retail vendors cite sensitivity in decision Gregg Zoroya and Hadley Malcolm USA TODAY

SEDAT SUNA, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Syrian children play on a destroyed tank near Kobani, Syria, on Monday. Turkey opened the border crossing to Tal Abyad in northern Syria, allowing hundreds of refugees to return home to an area that Kurdish militia recently seized from ISIL.

Refugees who fled toward Turkey wonder whether YPG rule is better Lucy Kafanov

Special for USA TODAY AKCAKALE , TURKEY

Abu Salah Mohammad Isam, 22, grins as he strokes his freshly trimmed goatee, enjoying his newfound freedom to shave after Islamic State militants were driven out of his hometown.

For the past year, the Islamic State controlled the Syrian border city of Tal Abyad and enforced strict rules on appearance: full veils for women and full beards for men. Those rules were scrapped last week, when Syrian Kurdish forces known as the YPG seized the town.

Tuesday, the YPG and its allies pushed the Islamic State from the town of Ain Issa, putting the Kurdish-led forces within 30 miles of the militant group’s de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria.

Concerns among residents about the YPG reveal the complexity of Syria’s four-year civil war, as well as the difficult terrain the White House must navigate as it scrambles to find an effective

strategy to fight the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS. “I am happy that they are gone, but I don’t know if things will be better under the YPG,” said Isam, one of more than 23,000 Syrian refugees who fled to Turkey in recent weeks to escape the fighting in Tal Abyad. “I didn’t enjoy living under the Islamic State, but I wasn’t afraid because there was no trouble as long as you followed the rules. With the Kurds, there is only uncertainty.”

That sentiment was common among a number of Syrians interviewed in the Turkish border town of Akcakale, where many said they were seeking refuge not only from Islamic State militants but also from the YPG and U.S.led coalition airstrikes.

This year, the YPG and its Syrian rebel allies, with help from the air campaign, ousted the Islamic State from Kobani on the Syrian border before taking control of Tal Abyad last week. The latest victory deprives the Islamic State of a critical route for smuggling weapons, supplies and fighters into Syria.

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“I didn’t enjoy living under the Islamic State, but I wasn’t afraid because there was no trouble as long as you followed the rules. With the Kurds, there is only uncertainty.”

Abu Salah Mohammad Isam, Syrian refugee

“It is an indication that when our coalition can back capable, effective, local fighters on the ground, that we can make important progress against ISIL,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said last week.

There are fears it could exacerbate ethnic tensions between Syrian Kurds and their Arab neighbors. Several hundred refugees returned to Tal Abyad on Monday when the Turkish-Syrian border reopened, but residents such as Omar Abu Yassin, 42, a farmer, said they were afraid to go home.

“The YPG only cares about making this area safe for the Kurds, and they think that we are supporters of Daesh because we lived under their rule,” he said, using the Arabic name for the Islamic State. “Before the war, we lived in peace with our neighbors.

But if I go back now, who knows what will happen?”

Neighboring Turkey has been at war with its own Kurdish insurgents and fears the YPG’s battlefield success could fuel separatism at home.

ELECTION 2016

Poll: Trump second among GOP in N.H. Business mogul trails Bush, holds weaker appeal nationally Susan Page @SusanPage USA TODAY

Real estate magnate and reality TV star Donald Trump has jumped to second place among New Hampshire Republicans, trailing only former Florida governor Jeb Bush in a new Suffolk University Poll.

Bush was supported by 14%, Trump by 11%, in the survey of

500 likely GOP primary him are voting for him, and although many more voters taken Thursday through Monday. A dozdislike him, the unfavorables are split up among en other contenders — almost all with more many other candidates so it’s not hurting him.” electoral and governmental experience than While almost no anaTrump — followed, scorlyst sees Trump as a poing single digits. tential nominee, his BLOOMBERG Still, the limits of Donald Trump support in the state that Trump’s appeal were apholds the first primary parent. Fox News’ deunderscores his ability to bate stage will be limited to those affect the conversation in the Reat the top 10 of national polls, and publican Party in 2016.

Trump finished 11th nationally.

Trump has focused much of “It’s the politics of plurality,” his fire on Bush, criticizing him says David Paleologos, director of for his support of Common Core the Suffolk University Political education standards and of a path Research Center. “Those who like to legal status for undocumented

workers. That stance is likely to be problematic for the former Florida governor. In the poll, more than eight in 10 disagreed with the view that illegal immigration is “an act of love,” words Bush has used. More than six in 10 disagreed strongly.

The findings included some encouraging signs for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, though he finished fourth at 7%.

Rubio had the most positive rating of all the candidates, with 61% of those surveyed having a favorable view of him. He trailed only Bush as the second choice of voters and as a candidate voters wanted to see in the debates.

Momentum to eradicate public displays of the Confederate flag continued to build Tuesday as more retailers and online marketplaces, including Amazon and eBay, joined Walmart to remove Confederacy-linked items from their shelves and websites.

After Walmart and its 11,000 stores on Monday night swept from shelves any product bearing the Confederate battle flag, retail giants Sears, Amazon and eBay followed suit Tuesday.

“We believe it has become a contemporary symbol of divisiveness and racism,” said eBay spokesperson Johnna Hoff.

“We never want to offend anyone with the products we offer,”

ERIK S. LESSER, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

A man wears a Confederate battle flag in May 2012.

Walmart said in a statement.

A spokeswoman for Amazon confirmed that the company is pulling down Confederate flag merchandise.

Etsy.com, the peer-to-peer online marketplace of independent sellers, also said Tuesday it would bar items emblazoned with the Confederate flag.

“Etsy’s policies prohibit items or listings that promote, support or glorify hatred and these items fall squarely into that category,” spokeswoman Sara Cohen said.

Flag makers say there isn’t much of a market anyway for the Confederate flag in the U.S. “It’s not something regularly produced,” says Reggie Vandenbosch, chairman of the Flag Manufacturers Association of America. “It’s not even a 10th of a percent of the overall business.”

He says there are roughly 150 million U.S. flags made every year

by American manufacturers. Association members plan to get together to discuss continuing to manufacture the Confederate flag, he says, but in the meantime, Valley Forge Flag, where he is vice president of sales, plans to stop selling it.

“There’s been a sea change moment out there and the issue has really come to light,” he says.

“We’re just simply not going to participate in production or selling of these out of sensitivity and not wanting to create anybody any additional emotional pain.”

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MONEYLINE NEW-HOME SALES SOAR Purchases of new U.S. homes surged in the Northeast and West in May, as steady job growth over the past year has lifted the real estate sector. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that new-home sales rose 2.2% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 546,000, the strongest pace since February 2008. Sales of new homes have soared 24% year-to-date.

NEWS MONEY SPORTS STOCKS AT NEW LIFE PEAKS WITH FUEL TO BURN AUTOS TRAVEL

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With confidence high, investors see plenty of opportunity ahead Matt Krantz USA TODAY

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Darden owns about 1,500 restaurants.

VIRGIN’S NEW VENTURE SHAKES UP CRUISE INDUSTRY Vowing to “shake things up” in the cruise industry, British billionaire Richard Branson announced his newest venture, Virgin Cruises, would set sail from Port Miami in 2020. The Virgin Group GETTY IMAGES founder said Branson he had signed with Italy’s Fincantieri to build three 110,000-ton ships, to debut in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Each ship would carry 2,860 passengers and 1,150 crewmembers.

SCETI BACKS OUT AS CEO OF COTY’S COSMETICS Cosmetics and fragrance maker Coty said Elio Leoni Sceti, who was set to become CEO in about a week, decided not to take the job. But the company says it will pay him $1.8 million in severance as well as buy back preferred stock he had bought. The company said in a news release that Leoni Sceti had “reconsidered.”

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HIGH, BUT COULD GO HIGHER S&P 500 stocks at all-time highs that still have an upside: Company (ticker)

Upside to 18-month target

Comcast (CMSCA)

10.0%

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CVS Health (CVS)

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Adobe Systems (ADBE)

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Replaces McNerney as CEO; started in ’85 as engineering intern Elizabeth Weise USATODAY

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On high alert for hacks

of businesses experienced at least 1 hacking incident in the past year.

Source Hartford Steam Boiler’s 2015 Cyber Poll of 102 company risk managers on April 27, covering previous 12 months TERRY BYRNE AND VERONICA BRAVO, USA TODAY

$41.3B streaming service watches stock rise another 2.6% after close

Video streamer Netflix announced Tuesday it approved a 7-for-1 stock split — ending years of waiting by investors as the stock soared to nosebleed levels.

The move was highly anticipated as the stock’s gains have gone parabolic this year, giving Netflix the fourth-highest stock price in the Standard & Poor’s 500.

Netflix stock rose $6.29, or 0.9%, to $681.19 Tuesday — and jumped another 2.6% after the close on the Netflix CEO EPA news. This split Reed Hastings follows recent moves by other tech companies that also had high per-share stock prices, including Google and Apple. Apple split its shares 7-for-1 last June.

Netflix trails Priceline and AutoZone in terms of per-share prices, which closed at $1,155.95 and $684.54, respectively. There are just 13 stocks in the benchmark S&P 500 that trade for $300 a share or higher, says S&P Capital IQ. After the move, Netflix would have seven times the number of shares outstanding as it does now, 60.6 million. And the stock price would fall from $681.19 to $97.31. But the company’s market value would remain $41.3 billion after the split.

Companies are warming to splits again. They’re viewed as a way to make the per-share stock price appear more attractive to individual investors, who might have sticker shock from a stock trading at more than $600 a share.

Some academic research suggests splits might indicate a degree of faith by management in the stability of the stock.

Stock splits went out of favor following the dot-com boom — after many companies saw their stock prices plummet to low levels. There was also a bit of an arms race between companies such as Apple and Google to see which could have the highest stock price.

Muilenburg takes pilot seat at Boeing

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DARDEN TO SPIN OFF 430 RESTAURANTS Darden Restaurants plans to separate part of the company into an independent, publicly traded real estate investment trust, the company said Tuesday.

Darden, which owns Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse, among other others, will spin off about 430 of its more than 1,500 restaurants into the REIT. The plan is to lease most of them back to Darden.

After soaring to all-time highs, some stocks run out of thrust.

But there’s a group of stocks investors are betting still have plenty of lift left.

There are 10 stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500, including cable operator Comcast, drugstore CVS Health and power tool maker Stanley Black & Decker, that analysts say still have upside despite being at all-time highs.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index pushed further into record high territory Tuesday.

Investors keep rushing into select U.S. stocks even with all the drama in Europe over Greek debt — as they figure they can buy high and sell higher. Confidence in the U.S. economy is high, and earnings will be robust enough to sail through the financial troubles.

And nowhere is this brazen optimism more clear than with stocks at all-time highs — where analysts think there are still blue skies ahead.

Take Comcast for instance.

Shares of the cable operator are up 5.9% this year, closing Tuesday at $60.76, and set an all-time high Monday — with the previous high-water mark being $50.90 on June 19. Even so, analysts are pounding the table on the shares, saying they could be worth 10% more in 18 months. The average 18-month price target is $66.85.

Then there’s drugstore CVS, up 10% this year to close at another record high Tuesday of $106.47 a share. But analysts are calling for the stock to be up another 8.3% over the next 18 months.

Not all the projections are for huge gains. Bank Wells Fargo, for instance, is only seen increasing 0.1% before hitting the average 18-month price target of $57.94.

Shares are up 5.6% this year — closing Tuesday at $57.89. But the fact analysts see the stock holding up — even at a high — is important. After all, the stock pays a market-beating dividend of 2.6% — so just holding the stock wouldn’t be the worst punishment.

It’s important to note that if the market hiccups, that could be a problem even for stocks that look good and are hitting new highs. But for now, investors are looking at these record highs not as a peak — but as an opportunity.

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“(It) is a tremendous honor and responsibility.”

Dennis Muilenburg, in a statement on Boeing’s website

Boeing has named Dennis Muilenburg as its new CEO. He will replace James McNerney, who will step down July 1.

“Dennis is an extremely capable, experienced and respected leader with an immense passion for our company, our people, and our products and services,” said McNerney.

Boeing shares were down 0.87% to $144.43 in after-hours trading Tuesday.

Muilenburg, 51, was previously vice chairman, president and chief operating officer of The Boeing Company.

“The opportunity to lead the people of Boeing in service to our commercial and government customers is a tremendous honor and responsibility,”

FILE PHOTO BY TIM BOYLE, BLOOMBERG

Outgoing CEO James McNerney, shown above in 2012, has reached Boeing’s mandatory retirement age of 65. Dennis Muilenburg, right, will take over when McNerney steps down July 1.

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he said in a statement on Boeing’s website.

In its annual market forecast earlier this month, Boeing said the world’s airlines will need 38,050 more airplanes over the next two decades and that the future was bright.

Muilenburg had been the company’s president and COO since 2013. Before that, he was president and CEO of Boeing Defense Space & Security.

McNerney had reached Boeing’s mandatory retirement age of 65.

Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company, with more than 165,000 employees in the United States and 65 other countries.

Muilenburg joined the company in 1985 as an engineering intern.

He has a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Washington.

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

Wall Street is a forward-looking crowd. What happened last quarter, last month, last week or even yesterday means less to investors than what could happen tomorrow.

Investors base their investments on the future outlook. If they think the economy is perking up, they might be more willing to buy stocks that will benefit from stronger growth or prepare for a coming interest rate hike.

That’s why the third reading of first-quarter GDP growth set for release Wednesday won’t be a major market mover. Investors already know that business froze up due to wintry weather in the first three months of the year and that the economy contracted. The

first read on first-quarter GDP released in late April showed growth of just 0.2%, but the revision in late May showed a contraction of 0.7%.

What Wall Street wants to see now is improvement. And it is likely to get just that. Barclays is forecasting that the latest revision on first-quarter growth will improve to a negative 0.2%.

And that improvement will be extrapolated to the current quarter. Barclays says the economy is enjoying more robust and normal growth of roughly 3.1% in the April-through-June quarter.

So directionally, the U.S. economy is heading in the right direction. The next question for investors is if growth is picking up too fast, which could nudge the Federal Reserve to start hiking interest rates — currently at record lows and a key driver of stock prices — as early as the fall.

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1.91 1.87 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.)

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A: Sonic is a giant drive-in restaurant chain that delivered right on target. But the stock still took a hit — giving investors a possible opportunity.

Shares of Sonic cratered more than 10% Tuesday even after meeting analysts’ expectations for adjusted profit for the quarter and coming in better than expected on revenue. The company Tuesday posted adjusted quarterly profit of 36 cents a share during the quarter ended in May, just as investors wanted.

And revenue during the quarter hit $165 million, beating views by 0.5%.

What was the problem, then? The company’s revenue growth from stores open at least a year was just 6%, which was a significant drop from the more than 11% growth by that measure in the quarter ended in February.

But more importantly, the company is now telling investors it only plans to open up to 27 franchised locations in the current fiscal year. That’s down 38% from previous guidance.

Even so, analysts are saying to stick with this stock, rating shares as “outperform” and seeing the stock being worth 20% more in 18 months. But as Tuesday’s action shows, this is a speculative member of the ongoing restaurant stock craze. Shares are trading for 35 times trailing earnings, a lofty price for a company expected to grow by 16% a year.

BlackBerry shares dip on lower-than-expected earnings Mike Snider USA TODAY

Shares of BlackBerry fell more than 3% after the embattled smartphone maker announced increased software revenue along with a loss for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016.

Software and technology-licensing revenue of $137 million represented a 150% increase compared to the same period last year. However, sales of smartphones fell more than 30% to $263 million from $379 million during the same quarter last year.

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BlackBerry CEO John Chen said he expects a quick return to profitability for his company.

Earnings for the quarter were lower than expected. BlackBerry’s loss of 5 cents per share and revenue of $658 million fell short of Wall Street expectations, according to consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters, of a loss of 3 cents per share on $683.63 million in revenue.

Shares were down 3% Tuesday to $8.81 after rising more than 8% in pre-market trading.

Some of the market movement is due to concern about BlackBerry’s 150% increased revenue figure. That’s because the company didn’t break out how much of the $137 million comes from enter-

prise software and licensing.

Even with software accounting for a 26% uptick in software revenue, BlackBerry is growing a “nice software business,” said BGC Financial technology analyst Colin Gillis.

A one-time market leader, BlackBerry has fallen behind other smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung, holding about 1% of the handset market.

BlackBerry sold about 1.1 million smartphones during the first quarter at an average selling price of $240. However, the company sees growing potential in its enterprise platform, a business soft-

ware service that handles Android, iOS and Windows devices, as well as BlackBerrys, and is known for its security.

BlackBerry’s net income for the quarter was $68 million or 13 cents per basic share, before adjusting for one-time items.

CEO John Chen forecasts a return to profitability during the fiscal year for the company.

“Our financials reflect increased investments to sales and customer support for our software business,” he said in a statement. “In addition, we are taking steps to make the handset business profitable.”

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AWARD TRACKER BET AWARDS Janet Jackson has a new single out and a new album due, and now she’s getting a new award.

Jackson will receive the inaugural Ultimate Icon: Music Dance Visual award at Sunday’s 15th annual BET Awards. Her influence will be celebrated in a dance tribute featuring Ciara, Jason Derulo and Tinashe. The performance is scheduled to include Jackson’s single ‘No Sleeep,’ which made its debut Monday on her website and Twitter. The ceremony airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT on BET. THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES “I was like, This is stupid. Hip-hop — dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

But then I started to think, Cookie is going to piss so many people off! She hits her son with a broom; she talks back.

Clearly, this was a challenge.” — Taraji P. Henson in the August issue of ‘W’ magazine on her PIGGOTT initial reac- MERT ALAS & MARCUS W MAGAZINE tion after Lee Daniels asked her if she was interested in playing Cookie Lyon on ‘Empire’ STYLE STAR Elizabeth Olsen stepped out looking classy and ladylike for the premiere of ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Tuesday in Tokyo. Olsen was gorgeous in head-totoe Dior, including a black silk faille evening dress, shoes and jewelry.

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hen he was a kid, Richard Kind dreamed of being Kurt Russell, starring in a Disney movie and meeting Walt Disney himself.

The furthest reaches of his imagination couldn’t fathom that he would one day voice a bouncy, happy guy who’s equal parts cat, dolphin and elephant with a pork-pie hat, hobo gloves and a body made of cotton candy.

While the five emotions get top billing in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out, the real breakout of the animated hit is Bing Bong, a little girl’s loyal imaginary friend played by Kind. “I like doing things that make people happy, and that’s what Bing Bong existed for,” says Kind, 58.

In the mind of 11-year-old Riley, whose life is upended by a

family move, the emotionally dichotomous duo of Joy (Amy Poehler) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) struggle to get back to headquarters as the girl’s core memories and Islands of Personality crash around them.

The two characters run into Bing Bong, a sweet and lovable dude who cries candy tears and pulls a rocket-ship wagon. He helps them though Imagination Land and other points along the way, and while connecting with Joy’s extreme optimism and Sadness’ melancholy, he also comes to grips with Riley putting aside childish things and growing up.

Inside Out director Pete Docter originally envisioned Bing Bong as part of a larger group of friends who were outcasts from Riley’s childhood, including Mrs. Scribbles, a crayon drawing brought to life. But as the film developed, he realized Bing Bong could represent the fading of childhood.

“He was really big when Riley was 3, so he thinks that’s how

Bing Bong leads Sadness (Phyllis Smith) and Joy (Amy Poehler) through Imagination Land.

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things should be,” Docter says.

“Sadness, in the meantime, is the opposite — she’s already getting an inkling that things are changing and we’re going to have to adjust and adapt.

“Functionally, he’s a character who mirrors Joy and allows her to see her way’s not going to work anymore.”

Kind found a camaraderie working opposite Poehler (“I admire her so much and happen to love her acting”), but “I did not put myself in the body of a cat/elephant. It’s not what I felt. I thought of Joy as a little girl and I’m taking her around: ‘How can I guide you through this world and

help you out?’ ” Inside Out marks Kind’s fifth Pixar film — he was also Bookworm in Toy Story 3 and the grasshopper Molt in A Bug’s Life — and has a special place in his heart for how it helps children realize sadness is a part of life.

Kind has three kids of his own — daughter Skyler, 13, and twins Samantha and Max, 10 — “and I can’t wait to see what they discover as they watch this again and again,” the actor says. “What was sad now might be a little confusing. As they get a little older, it will resonate in a way that is much different than when they first saw it.”

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There’s no disputing the popularity of Christian Grey.

Since its release Thursday, Grey has sold more than 1.1 million copies for its publisher, Vintage Books, and topped USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list, outselling the No. 2 book, The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, 10 to 1. The book also became the No. 1 digital pre-order on Amazon for 2015.

E.L. James’ follow-up to the Fifty Shades franchise traces the relationship between Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele and is told from Grey’s point of view.

Because of high demand, the publisher is going back to press for third, fourth and fifth printings of Grey to bring the total

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Grey has an instant attraction with Fifty Shades fans, topping 1 million sales in days.

copies in print to 2.1 million.

“Sales exceeded our forecasts across the board,” says Paul Bogaards, director of media relations for Knopf, parent publisher

of Vintage Books. #Grey??? I NEED “I am not the least MORE!!!” bit surprised,” says SaWill there be a Grey ra Nelson, editorial trilogy? “I know E.L. director of books and James has been Kindle at Amazon. heartened by the re“I imagine it will be sponse from readers,” No. 1 for a while.” Grey says Bogaards, but as of debuted this week at now there are no plans No. 1 and has remained for future volumes.

No. 1 in print and digital E.L. James Grey’s predecessor, the Fifty Shades trilogy — Fifty sales on the site for four Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darkstraight days.

And while critical reviews have er and Fifty Shades Freed — has not been favorable, fan reaction sold more than 125 million copies has been overwhelmingly posi- worldwide. The first title holds tive. “At the end of the day, this the record for most consecutive had always been a reader-driven weeks at No. 1 on USA TODAY’s enterprise and not a critic-driven Best-Selling Books List: 20 weeks in 2012 (April 26-Sept. 6). enterprise,” Bogaards says.

Fifty Shades of Grey returned On social media, the book is generating favorable buzz as well. to No. 1 on Feb. 19, coinciding One fan tweeted, “I’m sure so with the release of the film starmany have asked but are you ring Dakota Johnson and Jamie writing book #2 & #3 of Dornan.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY GUARD FRANK MASON III CELEBRATES at the end of Team USA’s 91-83 exhibition victory against Canada on Tuesday night at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mason provides fireworks in win

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Kansas City, Mo. — Frank Mason III gave Bill Self’s basketball campers a taste of his new-found offensive prowess by scoring 31 and 30 points in a pair of intrasquad games contested the past two Wednesdays in Horejsi Center.

The 5-foot-11, 185-pound junior point guard from Petersburg, Virginia continued his June scoring spree — this time on a much bigger stage — Tuesday. He exploded for a game-high 28 points — 24 in the second half — in Kansas University’s 91-83 World University Games exhibition victory over Canada before 8,235 fans in Sprint Center.

“Frank ran the show.

That’s probably as good as Frank’s played since he’s been at Kansas,” KU coach Bill Self said after the first of two exhibitions vs. Canada. The two teams will go at it again at 7 p.m., Friday, in Sprint Center.

Mason scored 16 points in the fourth quarter (the game consisted of four 10-minute quarters) off 6-of-6 shooting and 3-of3 work from the line. His

three-point basket with 2:27 to play erased an 8079 deficit and put the Jayhawks ahead for good.

Mason wound up scoring seven points in a game-ending 12-3 surge.

“Well, I hit a couple shots late,” said Mason, who hit 9-of-14 shots overall and went 8-of-8 from the line. Mason also had six rebounds, five assists and four turnovers in 32 minutes.

“I felt pretty confident.

I have to give props to my teammates. They did a great job screening, getting me in a great position to score. I just made a couple shots late,” Mason added.

Mason’s only glaring mistake was getting called for an 8-second count (instead of 10 seconds in college) as he walked the ball up the court with 3:04 left and KU ahead, 79-78. In other words, his crucial three to put KU up for good came after that turnover and ensuing bucket

by Canada.

“I am good at creating my own shot,” Mason said. “At the start of the possession, coach wants me to create and get an easy shot for my teammates. It’s what I try to KANSAS UNIVERSITY FORWARD LANDEN LUCAS (33) blocks a shot by Canada’s Mamadou Gueye on Tuesday night at the Please see MASON, page 4C Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Jayhawks show vital experience Kansas City, Mo. — It was just a sparring session in advance of a tournament that won’t budge the Kansas University basketball team’s 2015-16 record from 0-0. Consequently, heading into the night, it didn’t feel as if it meant anything.

Then the players started diving for loose balls and exchanging the lead by answering clutch shots with clutch shots, and it felt for a while as if the gold medal was at stake.

Even with Team K-USA and Canada trading the lead in the fourth quarter, it wasn’t difficult to project the winner because this Bill Self team had something that the past two didn’t, a core of tough, unflappable players hardened by years of experience playing in big college basketball games.

Relentless point guard Fearless Frank Mason III, strong, smart, physical wing Wayne Selden Jr., highly skilled forward Perry Ellis and fifth-year strong man Jamari Traylor had been through too many battles to lose this one.

Experience translates to calm nerves, smart

Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

play and supreme confidence. Experience is why a Stanford can knock off a team armed with a freshman one year before he becomes the NBA Rookie of the Year. It explains why Wichita State can look more like the No. 2 seed than Kansas.

This year, KU will be on the other side of experience mismatches and that can only be a good thing from November through perhaps even early April for the Jayhawks, winners of 11 consecutive Big 12 regular-season titles.

K-USA defeated an older Canada squad, 91-83, because it had more talent and enough experience, just the blend that promises to make this coming season an interesting one for KU, bounced from the Please see KEEGAN, page 4C

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The past week officially launched a billion-dollar gamble by Fox Sports to unearth an undervalued sports property.

Yeah, it’s tough to call something a bargain when you sign a 12-year, $1.2 billion deal that’s roughly double what anybody expected. But given skyrocketing prices for live sports — think nine years, $24 billion for the NBA — what Fox paid to partner with the USGA could ultimately amount to a few extra golf balls.

All Fox must do is avoid ticking off too many viewers while learning the sport.

Fox clearly needed something to help it stand out. Not necessarily its main network, but a fledgling Fox Sports 1 cable offshoot taking on giant ESPN. Enter the USGA and its flagship U.S. Open, which, despite the brown grass, sound issues and spotty camera work from Chambers Bay, provided FS1 a showcase. Sports fans with no clue where FS1 was on their TV channel listing got an education the network hopes can lead to a shift in viewing habits.

“We’re still big believers in putting the big events on broadcast television for everyone to see,” Fox Sports president and COO Eric Shanks told me the day before the tournament opened. “That comes along with USGA content that is going to be put on Fox Sports 1. … It’s part of the plan to add more high quality live events to this new sports network. You’re not going to build a new sports channel without live events.”

Shanks added of Fox’s relationship with the USGA: “It’s rare you’re partnered with folks that have the same goals and agree on how to get there.”

One glance at the boyishlooking Shanks, 43, who five years ago became the youngest executive to lead a broadcast network sports division, tells you all about those goals.

Shanks had barely started grade school when Jack Nicklaus won his final U.S. Open, so it isn’t exactly traditionalist golf viewership Fox is after.

The network’s core audience is only now growing into income levels TV advertisers covet. Shanks had flown in from Canada, where he’d monitored the Women’s World Cup — another new property through which Fox and FS1 are courting millennials and their expanding wallets.

And the USGA is playing right along in that hook-’emyoung game, needing the next generation of fans for golf to thrive.

This isn’t only about the U.S. Open. The Fox deal encompasses seven other pro and amateur championships the USGA hopes will gain prestige with a network dedicated to promoting them.

After all, amateur or pro, a championship is a championship when you’re FS1 and lack ESPN’s big-event depth. It’s in FS1’s interest to hype all USGA events into the biggest thing since Tiger Woods’ putt at Torrey Pines.

So, this could be win-win for both partners. As long as Fox doesn’t blow the coverage.

There’s pressure anytime you drop a billion dollars and Shanks clearly feels some. He’d barely gotten off the plane from Canada on Wednesday when he began touring Fox production trailers, viewing last-minute preparations for graphics and on-air features.

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TENNESSEE TITANS QUARTERBACK MARCUS MARIOTA explains a football drill to students during the NFL Rookie Symposium on Tuesday in Berea, Ohio.

NFL schools rookies Berea, Ohio (ap) — To prepare rookies for life as professionals, the NFL is again providing a crash course filled with seminars, testimonials and advice on how to navigate the pitfalls of fame and fortune.

All the league really had to do was have the new players look at Commissioner Roger Goodell’s appointment book Tuesday.

If Tom Brady can step out of bounds, anyone can.

While New England’s superstar quarterback was in New York appealing a four-game suspension for using underinflated footballs in the AFC title game, the conference’s rookie draft class, including the Titans’ Marcus Mariota, continued a four-day symposium designed to get them ready for the NFL and beyond.

“That’s why we’re here,” said Mariota, the Heisman Trophy winner from Oregon taken with the No. 2 overall pick by Tennessee. “They provide us information that will help us not only on the financial side of stuff, but on the field and off the field. And as we go forward, we’ll take this information to hopefully help ourselves.”

Now in its 17th year, the symposium is viewed by the league as a vital first step for its players, a springboard toward success. Panel discussions feature current and former players, who talk candidly about their experiences, whether it’s being bilked by a financial adviser or a life-altering legal mistake.

Former wide receiver Donte Stallworth spoke to the group

about the consequences of his DUI manslaughter conviction for hitting and killing a man in 2009.

“It just something that opens your eyes and makes you realize life is too important,” Browns offensive tackle Cameron Erving said. “It makes you realize that life is too short to cut it short off something that is easily fixed.”

With its red-white-and-blue shield stained last season by the Aaron Hernandez murder case and Ray Rice’s domestic abuse situation, the NFL is trying to be more proactive in supporting its players with programs meant to help them and policies that will weed out the biggest troublemakers.

Goodell has displayed a strong, swift hand with discipline, and the league has implemented a new conduct policy that calls for a six-game suspension for a first-time domestic violence offense and a lifetime ban for a second.

Charles Way, the league’s new vice president of player engagement, said the emphasis during this year’s symposium is on actions, not words.

“We tell them, you don’t have to learn from others’ mistakes, but you can learn from others’ successes,” said Way, a fullback with the New York Giants from 1995-99. “It’s just being more positive, saying you don’t have to be labeled as a bad guy because this isn’t what this league is, this league is about values, respect, integrity, responsibility, resiliency and how if you use those values

how it can lead to a successful life not just on the field, but off the field.”

“It’s educating these guys and inspiring these guys and empowering these guys to be great men. Not just good football players, but great men.”

With their symposium winding down — the NFC rookies will be in later this week — the AFC players took a break Tuesday to play football with area school kids, some not much younger than the new pros.

Mariota and his Titans teammates, including wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, whose involvement in a domestic abuse case ultimately led to his dismissal at Missouri, broke a sweat running around inside the Browns’ indoor training facility. It was a welcome break from the serious discussions the past few days and a chance to process a lot of information.

For Ravens tight end Maxx Williams, much of what he heard during the symposium was familiar. His father, Brian, played center for the Giants from 1989-99, and has briefed his son on what to expect in the NFL. Still, the younger Williams said it was good to have the lessons fortified.

“I tried to take away from all of it, from the financial stuff, knowing how to set yourself up for the future and learning from veterans on how I should prepare my body,” he said.

“I’ve heard it from my dad, but it’s always better to hear it from someone in the league, a teammate. It reinforces everything he always said to me.”

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Virginia stops Vandy, forces deciding game Omaha, Neb. — Surprise starter Adam Haseley and Josh Sborz combined on the shutout, senior utility man Thomas Woodruff drove in two runs, and Virginia defeated Vanderbilt, 3-0, on Tuesday night to force a winner-take-all game in the College World Series. For the second year in a row, these two teams will go the distance in the best-of-three finals. Vanderbilt (51-20) will be playing for a second straight national title tonight. Virginia (43-24) will be looking for its first.

Haseley, the Cavaliers’ regular center fielder, hadn’t pitched since May 23. The freshman gave coach Brian O’Connor all he could have hoped for, working into the sixth inning for his longest outing and turning over a scoreless game to Sborz (7-2).

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Japan tops Netherlands Vancouver, British Columbia — Mizuho Sakaguchi scored what turned out to be the deciding goal in the 78th minute on a leftfooted shot from the top of the 18-yard box, and defending Women’s World Cup champion Japan held off a late attack to beat the Netherlands, 2-1, on Tuesday night and reach the quarterfinal.

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Brady makes appeal New York — Tom Brady’s appeal of his four-game suspension lasted more than 10 hours Tuesday, ending in the early evening.

The sight of Commissioner Roger Goodell leaving the league offices after he heard Brady and representatives from the players’ union during the lengthy meeting, confirmed its conclusion. League security said Brady also had left.

No details of the hearing were immediately available.

Brady was suspended by the league for his role in the use of deflated footballs in the AFC championship game win over Indianapolis. He arrived at the NFL’s Park Avenue offices Tuesday morning, as did attorney Jeffrey Kessler, who is leading Brady’s defense.

The hearing was expected to adjourn in late afternoon, but carried well beyond that.

“I think we put in a very compelling case,” Kessler said, adding that no timetable on a decision by Goodell had been given.

Kessler said he would have no further comments Tuesday night.

While Goodell was hearing a myriad of testimonies, Brady supporters were outside, some wearing “Free Brady” T-shirts.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN CARLTON BRAGG, LEFT, hits the floor for a loose ball with Canada guard Jarred Ogungbemi-Jackson on Tuesday night at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Freshmen Bragg, Vick effective in debuts

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

Kansas City, Mo. — Only a few months removed from playing against high school opponents, Kansas University freshmen Carlton Bragg and Lagerald Vick made the most of their Jayhawk debuts in Team USA’s 91-83 victory over Canada on Tuesday at Sprint Center.

Bragg finished with four points, four rebounds and three steals in 13 minutes, shooting 2-for-8 from the floor.

He was a fixture around the free-throw line, never hesitating to take the open jumper.

On defense, Bragg used his length to poke the ball away and dive on the court for loose balls, making up for any lack of strength against older Canadian players.

“I really like his game,” senior Perry Ellis said of the freshman from Cleveland, Ohio. “He was out there hustling. He played a great game, I feel. Real skilled also, so bright future for him.”

Vick missed his first shot, but scored on a fastbreak layup in the first quarter, assisted from SMU senior Nic Moore.

He added a buzzer-beating layup in the final seconds before halftime, recording four points, one

rebound and one steal in 14 minutes, while shooting 2-for-8.

“I thought they were both pretty good,” KU coach Bill Self said.

“They don’t know what they’re doing, obviously.

Legerald tries hard and his man just goes around him whenever he wants to. Carlton is not physically strong yet to, you know, get rebounds in traffic and stuff.”

“But I think you can tell Carlton is going to be really good,” Self added.

“That’s obvious. Legerald is a freakishly long, quicktwitch athlete that when he gets comfortable, he’ll be very good, too. So I think that’s pretty en-

couraging seeing those two out there. I thought they both did fine.”

If there were any nerves during their first few minutes on the court, Bragg and Vick tried to hide it with their hustle.

The upperclassmen are doing their best to help Bragg and Vick get acclimated to the college ranks.

“I feel like I was talking to Carlton and Legerald the whole time in the game,” senior Jamari Traylor said. “I feel like that’s my role to help guys out when I can because I know a lot. Being here, I know what coach KU’S LAGERALD VICK (2) DRIVES to the basket. expects from guys.”

Jayhawks familiar to Canadian players

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Kansas City, Mo. — When Canadian guard Adika Peter-McNeilly first heard that he and his countrymen were going to face Kansas University in an exhibition game at Sprint Center, his mind immediately flashed back to a former Jayhawk with whom he was pretty familiar.

“When Andrew Wiggins was playing (at KU), Toronto televised every game and we used to watch all of them,” said Peter-McNeilly following KU’s 91-83 victory in front of a crowd of 8,235 fans on Tuesday night.

“Growing up watching the NCAA tournament, you’d always see Kansas and it was exciting to hear we were going to play Kansas because it’s one of the biggest schools for basketball in America.”

Although Wiggins is not a part of Team Canada’s roster — made up mostly of the top players from their respective schools in what KU coach Bill Self said was mid-major equivalent — for the upcoming World University Games, in which KU will represent the United States next month in South Korea, the question begged to be asked — who did the guys from north of the border think Wiggins was rooting for on Tuesday night?

His country? Or his former school?

“I want to say Canada,” Peter-McNeilly grinned.

KANSAS GUARD FRANK MASON III (0) splits defenders as he drives to the basket for two of his game-high 28 points Tuesday night.

Added Canadian coach Barnaby Craddock: “A tie.”

For a good chunk of Tuesday’s exhibition, a

tie looked possible. Canada built an early 10-point lead, KU bounced back to take a five-point lead into the fourth quarter and the

final four or five minutes were played with neither team being able to separate from the other by much more than a basket.

During that stretch, the intensity reached a new level, both from the players on the floor and the fans in the stands.

“It’s a great opportunity to have a chance to bring our league and our players down here to see where we compare,” said Canada’s Chris McLauglin, who led the visitors with 15 points and eight rebounds. “We wanted to give it everything we’ve got and I think we did a good job.”

As is the case with so many KU games, no matter if they’re at home, on the road or at a neutral side, Craddock said the pro-KU vibe in the building played a huge role in the Jayhawks pulling away in the final few minutes.

“I heard it was about 8,000 or 9,000 (fans),” Craddock said. “But it felt like about 30,000 people.

I can see why everyone says the Jayhawks have such great support.”

As for Craddock’s assessment of a veteran KU team that was still missing a few key pieces?

“They’re a good team,” he said. “They made some shots down the stretch and we missed.

Credit goes to them.

They played a good game and deserved the win. We have to learn how to execute a little better down the stretch.”

These two teams will do battle again Friday night in the same building before heading to South Korea this weekend.

BOX SCORE CANADA (83) MIN FG FT REB PF TP

m-a m-a o-t C. McLaughlin 28 4-11 6-6 3-8 1 15 Berhanemeskel 24 3-9 6-8 0-0 3 13 Aaron Best 26 2-5 3-6 1-4 2 8 Jahmal Jones 32 3-11 1-3 1-2 4 7 Aaron Baker 13 4-6 1-1 2-7 3 10 Ogun.-Jackson 8 1-3 0-0 1-4 3 2 Mamadou Gueye 15 0-3 1-2 0-3 2 1 Peter-McNeilly 20 3-5 5-6 2-6 2 13 Caleb Agada 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 Josh Wolfram 13 0-7 0-0 0-3 0 0 Tommy Nixon 13 2-3 1-2 0-2 2 6 Mikeal Andrews 7 4-4 0-0 1-2 2 8 team

1-1 Totals 26-67 24-34 12-42 25 83 Three-point goals: 7-21 (Peter-McNeilly 2-3, Baker 1-1, Nixon 1-2, McLaughlin 1-4, Berhanemeskel 1-4, Best 1-4, Jones 0-1, Wolfram 0-2). Assists: 14 (Berhanemeskel 3, Jones 3, McLaughlin 2, Baker 2, Ogungbemi-Jackson 2, Best, Wolfram).

Turnovers: 18 (Ogungbemi-Jackson 3, McLaughlin 2, Best 2, Baker 2, PeterMcNeilly 2, Andrews 2, Berhanemeskel, Agada, Nixon, team 2). Blocked shots: 5 (Andrews 2, McLaughlin, Wolfram, Nixon).

Steals: 7 (Wolfram 2, Berhanemeskel, Jones, Baker, Ogungbemi-Jackson, PeterMcNeilly).

KANSAS (91)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Perry Ellis 25 5-9 7-11 2-8 0 17 H. Mickelson 13 0-2 0-0 2-6 2 0 Frank Mason 32 9-14 8-8 1-6 2 28 Wayne Selden 28 5-10 1-4 1-3 4 13 Nic Moore 29 2-7 4-4 0-2 5 9 Lagerald Vick 14 2-8 0-0 1-1 2 4 Evan Manning 4 0-1 0-0 0-1 2 0 Tyler Self 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 Julian DeBose 9 1-2 0-0 0-1 3 2 Carlton Bragg 13 2-8 0-0 1-4 3 4 Jamari Traylor 19 4-7 4-4 6-10 2 12 Landen Lucas 12 1-4 0-0 2-6 3 2 team

1-1 Totals 31-73 24-31 17-49 28 91 Three-point goals: 5-18 (Mason 2-4, Selden 2-4, Moore 1-5, Vick 0-1, Manning 0-1, DeBose 0-1, Ellis 0-2). Assists: 19 (Selden 6, Mason 5, Moore 5, Mickelson, Bragg, Traylor). Turnovers: 16 (Mason 4, Ellis 3, More 2, DeBose 2, Traylor 2, Manning, Lucas, team). Blocked shots: 8 (Traylor 4, Ellis 2, Mickelson, Lucas).

Steals: 10 (Bragg 3, Moore 2, Lucas 2, Ellis, Mickelson, Vick).

Canada 25 18 18 22 — 83 Kansas 21 20 25 25 — 91 Attendance: 8,235.

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do. Once it gets down to five seconds, I know I can get a shot up.”

Mason’s teammates were certainly impressed with the floor general’s play. The fans were impressed, also, chanting “USA, USA” after several of Mason’s highlight-reel plays.

“He did a great job controlling the pace of the game. He did everything we asked,” said senior forward Jamari Traylor, who scored 12 points and grabbed 10 rebounds with four blocks in 19 minutes.

“He was doing downhill drives. That’s what coach wants. It was opening other things up,” said senior forward Perry Ellis, who had 17 points, eight rebounds and two blocks in 25 minutes.

“He was knocking down shots. It was big.”

Wayne Selden Jr., was a fourth player in double figures with 13 points and six assists. SMU senior Nic Moore scored nine points with five assists and two steals in 29 minutes. Moore scored five of KU’s first nine points but overall went 2-for7 shooting and 1-5 from three on a night KU hit five of 18 threes.

“Nic got off to a good start tonight then didn’t find any rhythm after that,” Self said. “He deferred to Frank late

KANSAS UNIVERSITY FORWARD PERRY ELLIS (34) drives to the basket for two of his 17 points Tuesday night. which is good, but we don’t want that. We want Nic to make plays too.

Nic is good for Frank and Devonté (Graham, injured). He came in the first day and controlled the whole practice. He’s smart, talks. He’s little (5foot-9) so he has to take advantage of intangibles.

It’s a shame Devonté can’t play (in University Games in South Korea).

He would have benefited from playing with Nic as well.”

KU actually trailed by 10 points (35-25) with 6:27 left in the second quarter.

KU did cut the gap to 4341 by halftime. The game

was close, competitive and physical.

“I think the same thing goes through our minds every game we’re down.

We want to get two to three stops in a row, get easy shots and try to take the lead,” Mason said.

“It was a pretty bad scouting report,” Mason joked. There basically was no scouting report against a Canada team that was formed on Saturday. “We didn’t really know their guys. We believe in ourselves and our ability. We wanted to compete and get the job done,” Mason added.

Canada hit 38.8 percent of its shots, including seven of 21 threes. KU hit 42.5 percent, including five of 18 threes. KU outrebounded Canada, 49-24.

“They’d win games in our league,” Self said of how Canada would fare in the Big 12. “I’m not saying they’d challenge for whatever (title). They are definitely a good, solid mid-major team.

All their bigs can shoot.

When they foul they foul hard. We’re playing without four of our top nine.

We don’t have Devonté, Brannen (Greene, injured), Svi (Mykhailiuk, born in Ukraine and not eligible) so we don’t have our shooting team.

Cheick (Diallo, born in Mali and not eligible) will have a great chance to start at pivot for us.

That was a pretty good team. We’ve lost to Davidson and UMass in this

building before. I think that team ... I’m not saying they could beat those teams those nights, but they could play at that level,” Self added. l This, that: KU went with a starting lineup of Ellis, Mason, Selden, Moore and Hunter Mickelson. Senior forward Mickelson had six boards, a block, steal and assist in 13 minutes. ... All 12 Jayhawks played including walk-ons Evan Manning (one rebound, one turnover, one missed three in four minutes) and Tyler Self (one missed shot, two minutes). ... The crowd was announced at 8,235. About 10,000 seats were available for sale in the lower bowl only. The upper deck was closed. ...

Jamari Traylor reminded the media that today happens to be his birthday. l Ellis on adjusting to the FIBA rules: “The shot clock (24 seconds instead of 30) I’d say is the biggest thing. I feel we’ve got to play faster and get the ball up quicker. The ball feels different. We’re adjusting to it. We’re shooting with it every day. It’s getting better and better.” l The zone: KU played some zone to go with its staple of man. “Our zone is good obviously. They made threes every possession against it,” Self quipped. “We ended up playing man. It was better for us.”

Keegan

professional baseball. He had an outstanding 2015 season, and I know he has the skillset to play a long time professionally.”

In his first game with Spokane on Monday, McKay went 2-for-5 and drove in two runs with two outs by way of a RBIsingle and a solo shot in the seventh.

Baker names baseball coach

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Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament the past two seasons.

Freshman center Cheick Diallo from Mali, tall shooters Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk and Brannen Greene and point guard Devonté Graham weren’t available, yet KU didn’t look like a team lacking depth.

(SMU’s Nic Moore came in handy.)

“When we have Devonté, because Devonté is beyond his years, we’ll be a hard team to deal with, I think, with Devonté and Frank both out there together taking the pressure off of each other,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.

“Wayne made some unbelievable, athletic plays. That save he made to Frank for the three was probably as big of a play as there was in the game. But yeah, it’s nice. Having a fifth-year senior and a four-year senior, and two three-year juniors out there, we haven’t had that since 2012.

That turned out OK,” Self said.

That season, played without a McDonald’s All-American, lasted until the final game.

BRIEFLY Raiders fall to Next Level The Lawrence Raiders lost to Next Level Baseball-17, 4-1, Tuesday at Lawrence High.

Zak McAlister drove in the Raiders’ lone run, and Parker Tietjen added two singles.

The Raiders (6-8-1) will host two games Friday at Free State, as they play Longmont-Erie Colorado at 3:45 p.m. and Kansas Assault at 6 p.m.

McKay signs minor-league deal Kansas University outfielder Connor McKay has signed a free-agent minor-league contract with the Texas Rangers’ short-season A team, the Spokane Indians.

KU’s Stein takes Big 12 honor

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THE LAWRENCE RAIDERS’ BRAD KINCAID puts down a tag at second base against Next Level Baseball on Tuesday night at Lawrence High. The Raiders lost, 4-1.

McKay led the Big 12 in doubles with 22 and hit .346 last season.

“When I got the news

about McKay, I was absolutely thrilled,” KU coach Ritch Price said.

“I want to personally

thank Dustin Smith, our area scout for the Texas Rangers, for giving McKay the opportunity to play

Kansas University first baseman Maddie Stein was named Tuesday the Big 12 softball scholarathlete of the year.

Stein, who graduated in May with a degree in sports management, became KU’s all-time RBI leader in 2015. She also ranks third in career batting average with a .349 mark.

Baldwin City — Ryan Goodwin, a Lawrence High graduate, has been named head baseball coach at Baker University.

Goodwin, head coach at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, the past two seasons, has been an assistant coach at Jackson State, Washburn University and Neosho County.

“The opportunity to become the new head baseball coach at Baker University is something I am honored and excited about,” Goodwin said.

“Having grown up in Lawrence and at one point recruited by Baker, I have had the chance to see how special a place Baker is first hand.”

Goodwin played at Highland and South Dakota.

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LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division

Tampa Bay New York Baltimore Toronto Boston

W 41 38 37 38 31

L 32 33 33 35 41

Pct .562 .535 .529 .521 .431

GB WCGB L10 — — 7-3 2 — 5-5 21⁄2 1⁄2 7-3 3 1 5-5 91⁄2 71⁄2 4-6

Str Home Away W-1 20-20 21-12 L-3 20-14 18-19 W-3 22-13 15-20 L-1 23-14 15-21 L-1 16-19 15-22

W 40 38 37 32 31

L 28 33 34 38 39

Pct .588 .535 .521 .457 .443

GB WCGB L10 — — 6-4 31⁄2 — 5-5 41⁄2 1 5-5 9 51⁄2 4-6 10 61⁄2 3-7

Str Home Away L-1 22-13 18-15 L-1 24-15 14-18 W-3 18-18 19-16 L-2 14-23 18-15 W-1 18-15 13-24

W 41 37 36 33 32

L 31 34 35 39 41

Pct .569 .521 .507 .458 .438

GB WCGB L10 — — 6-4 31⁄2 1 5-5 41⁄2 2 5-5 8 51⁄2 5-5 91⁄2 7 7-3

Str Home Away L-1 23-14 18-17 L-3 15-17 22-17 W-1 20-15 16-20 W-1 17-22 16-17 W-3 14-20 18-21

Central Division

Kansas City Minnesota Detroit Cleveland Chicago

West Division

Houston Texas Los Angeles Seattle Oakland

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

Washington New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

W 38 36 35 30 26

L 33 36 36 42 47

Pct .535 .500 .493 .417 .356

GB WCGB L10 — — 7-3 21⁄2 41⁄2 3-7 3 5 6-4 81⁄2 101⁄2 4-6 13 15 4-6

Str Home Away W-4 20-14 18-19 L-6 26-11 10-25 L-1 19-15 16-21 L-2 17-18 13-24 W-3 17-19 9-28

Central Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

46 40 39 32 26

24 30 30 37 46

.657 .571 .565 .464 .361

— — 6 — 61⁄2 — 131⁄2 7 21 141⁄2

7-3 7-3 7-3 5-5 2-8

W-1 26-7 W-1 22-11 W-4 20-13 L-1 20-14 W-1 12-24

20-17 18-19 19-17 12-23 14-22

West Division

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

39 38 34 34 31

33 33 36 38 39

.542 .535 .486 .472 .443

— — 2 4 51⁄2 5 61⁄2 7 81⁄2 1⁄2

3-7 4-6 6-4 3-7 4-6

L-2 27-13 L-1 17-18 L-1 18-18 L-1 16-19 W-3 16-21

12-20 21-15 16-18 18-19 15-18

SCOREBOARD AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle 7, Kansas City 0 Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 3 Baltimore 6, Boston 4 Detroit 7, Cleveland 3 White Sox 6, Minnesota 2 Oakland 8, Texas 6 Houston vs. Angels, (n)

NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 4, Miami 3 Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 6 Milwaukee 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Cubs 1, Dodgers 0, 10 inn.

Washington 3, Atlanta 1 Colorado 10, Arizona 5 San Diego vs. San Francisco, (n)

INTERLEAGUE Philadelphia 11, Yankees 6

UPCOMING American League TODAY’S GAMES Detroit (Verlander 0-1) at Cleveland (Carrasco 8-6), 11:10 a.m.

Toronto (Estrada 5-3) at Tampa Bay (Karns 4-3), 11:10 a.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 6-3) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 5-6), 12:10 p.m.

Houston (McCullers 3-2) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 4-5), 2:35 p.m.

Baltimore (B.Norris 2-5) at Boston (Buchholz 4-6), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Graveman 3-4) at Texas (W.Rodriguez 4-2), 7:05 p.m.

Kansas City (D.Duffy 2-3) at Seattle (Elias 4-4), 9:10 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 12:08 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 12:35 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

Yankees at Houston, 7:10 p.m.

National League TODAY’S GAMES Atlanta (S.Miller 5-3) at

Washington (Zimmermann 5-5), 6:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 4-4) at Pittsburgh (G.Cole 11-2), 6:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 2-3) at Miami (Latos 2-4), 6:10 p.m.

Dodgers (Bolsinger 4-2) at Cubs (Hendricks 2-3), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 9-5) at Milwaukee (Nelson 3-8), 7:10 p.m.

Arizona (Webster 1-1) at Colorado (Hale 2-2), 7:40 p.m.

San Diego (Kennedy 4-5) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 5-5), 9:15 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES N.Y. Mets at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m.

Dodgers at Cubs, 1:20 p.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 2:45 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 3:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Miami, 6:10 p.m.

Interleague TODAY’S GAME Philadelphia (Hamels 5-5) at Yankees (Nova 0-0), 12:05 p.m.

LEAGUE LEADERS AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING-Kipnis, Cleveland, .354; MiCabrera, Detroit, .351; Fielder, Texas, .338; Moustakas, Kansas City, .327; NCruz, Seattle, .308; Paredes, Baltimore, .308; Cespedes, Detroit, .307.

RBI-MiCabrera, Detroit, 52; Vogt, Oakland, 51; Bautista, Toronto, 50; Teixeira, New York, 49; Fielder, Texas, 47; Pujols, Los Angeles, 47; Donaldson, Toronto, 46.

HOME RUNS-Pujols, Los Angeles, 23; NCruz, Seattle, 19; Teixeira, New York, 18; Trout, Los Angeles, 18; Donaldson, Toronto, 17; Valbuena, Houston, 17; JMartinez, Detroit, 16.

PITCHING-FHernandez, Seattle, 10-4; Archer, Tampa Bay, 9-4; Keuchel, Houston, 8-3; Gray, Oakland, 8-3; Pineda, New York, 8-4; Carrasco, Cleveland, 8-6; 9 tied at 7.

SAVES-Perkins, Minnesota, 23; Britton, Baltimore, 20; Street, Los Angeles, 20; Boxberger, Tampa Bay, 19; AMiller, New York, 17; Gregerson, Houston, 17; Soria, Detroit, 16.

NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING-Goldschmidt, Arizona, .355; DGordon, Miami, .354; Harper, Washington, .339; YEscobar, Washington, .325; Aoki, San Francisco, .317; LeMahieu, Colorado, .316; Tulowitzki, Colorado, .312.

RBI-Stanton, Miami, 66; Arenado, Colorado, 58; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 57; Harper, Washington, 57; Frazier, Cincinnati, 48; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 45; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 45.

HOME RUNS-Stanton, Miami, 26; Harper, Washington, 24; Frazier, Cincinnati, 23; Arenado, Colorado, 19; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 19; Pederson, Los Angeles, 19; Rizzo, Chicago, 15.

PITCHING-GCole, Pittsburgh, 11-2; Wacha, St. Louis, 9-3; BColon, New York, 9-5; CMartinez, St. Louis, 8-3; Scherzer, Washington, 8-5; 7 tied at 7.

ERA-Greinke, Los Angeles, 1.70; Scherzer, Washington, 1.76; GCole, Pittsburgh, 1.78; SMiller, Atlanta, 1.99; Burnett, Pittsburgh, 2.05; deGrom, New York, 2.34; Hammel, Chicago, 2.65.

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Mariners blank Royals The Associated Press

American League Mariners 7, Royals 0 Seattle — Rookie Mike Montgomery tossed a four-hitter against the team that drafted him, Dustin Ackley singled, doubled and homered for his first three-hit game of the season and Seattle beat Kansas City on Tuesday night.

Montgomery (2-2) became the second Mariners pitcher this season to toss a complete game, joining Felix Hernandez, and he became the 10th rookie in Seattle history to toss a complete game.

Montgomery retired 17 straight batters at one point, striking out a career-high 10 and allowing only two base runners after the second inning.

Montgomery was originally drafted by the Royals, but was eventually traded to Tampa Bay before landing in Seattle via trade before the start of this season. He walked none and escaped a bases loaded jam in the first inning before overpowering Kansas City the rest of the way.

Ackley’s bat awoke thanks to Kansas City starter Jeremy Guthrie. Ackley had only one two-hit game all season, but lined a ground-rule double in his first at-bat against Guthrie (5-5) and added a single his next time up that eluded the glove of Alex Gordon’s sliding attempt in left field.

But the big blow was Ackley’s fifth homer of the season, a two-run shot off the top of the wall in right-center that gave Seattle a 6-0 lead.

Ackley is 9 of 13 with four doubles and three home runs against Guthrie in his career.

Ackley nearly got the triple he needed for the cycle when he came up in the seventh. He hit a deep drive to left-center off Michael Mariot, but Lorenzo Cain was able to sprint over and make the catch.

Logan Morrison added a solo homer in the eighth inning, his ninth of the season.

Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg. A.Escobar ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .279 Moustakas 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .327 L.Cain cf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .290 Hosmer 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .289 K.Morales dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .289 A.Gordon lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .264 S.Perez c 3 0 1 0 0 0 .280 Rios rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .220 Infante 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .227 Totals 32 0 4 0 0 10 Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Morrison 1b 4 1 1 2 1 0 .248 A.Jackson cf 5 0 0 0 0 3 .251 Cano 2b 5 1 2 0 0 0 .246 N.Cruz dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .308 Seager 3b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .265 S.Smith rf 3 2 2 1 1 1 .261 1-J.Jones pr-rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Ackley lf 4 2 3 2 0 0 .204 B.Miller ss 3 0 0 1 1 0 .221 Zunino c 3 0 1 1 1 1 .158 Totals 34 7 10 7 5 6 Kansas City 000 000 000—0 4 0 Seattle 000 330 01x—7 10 2 1-ran for S.Smith in the 7th.

E-Morrison (2), B.Miller (8). LOB-Kansas City 6, Seattle 8. 2B-Cano (19), Ackley (6). HR-Ackley (5), off Guthrie; Morrison (9), off Mariot. RBIs-Morrison 2 (25), S.Smith (18), Ackley 2 (13), B.Miller (19), Zunino (16).

Runners left in scoring position-Kansas City 3 (K.Morales 2, A.Escobar); Seattle 4 (Zunino 2, A.Jackson, N.Cruz). RISP-Kansas City 0 for 5; Seattle 3 for 12.

GIDP-K.Morales.

DP-Seattle 1 (Morrison, B.Miller, Montgomery).

Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Guthrie L, 5-5 5 9 6 6 2 3 97 5.90 Hochevar 1 0 0 0 2 2 22 6.00 Mariot 2 1 1 1 1 1 31 4.50 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Montgomery W, 9 4 0 0 0 10 105 2.04 HBP-by Montgomery (L.Cain). WP-Hochevar.

Umpires-Home, Greg Gibson; First, Chris Segal; Second, Pat Hoberg; Third, Marvin Hudson.

T-2:23. A-17,460 (47,574).

Rays 4, Blue Jays 3 St. Petersburg, Fla. — Tampa Bay’s Chris Archer won his sixth straight decision, allowing three hits over eight innings in a victory over Toronto.

Toronto Tampa Bay

ab r h bi ab Reyes ss 4 0 0 0 Kiermr cf 4 Dnldsn 3b 4 0 0 0 JButler dh 3 Bautist rf 3 1 0 0 Longori 3b 2 Encrnc 1b 4 1 1 1 Forsyth 2b 3 DNavrr dh 4 1 2 1 SouzJr rf 4 RuMrtn c 4 0 0 0 ACarer ss 4 Carrer lf 3 0 0 0 Guyer lf 2 Pillar cf 3 0 1 0 Elmore 1b 4 Goins 2b 1 0 0 0 Rivera c 4 Smoak ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 3 4 2 Totals 30

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Toronto 000 010 101—3 Tampa Bay 010 020 01x—4 E-Pillar (2), Elmore (4). DP-Toronto 2. LOB-Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 8. 2B-Kiermaier (14). HR-Encarnacion (14), D.Navarro (2), A.Cabrera (5). SB-Souza Jr. (10). S-Goins.

IP H R ER BB SO Toronto Dickey L,3-7 7 8 3 3 3 2 Delabar 1 1 1 1 1 0 Tampa Bay Archer W,9-4 8 3 2 1 1 7 Boxberger S,19-21 1 1 1 1 0 2 T-2:14. A-11,474 (31,042).

Interleague

Phillies 11, Yankees 6 New York — Rookie slugger Maikel Franco homered again and had five RBIs for the second straight night at Yankee Stadium, snapping a ninth-inning tie with a Orioles 6, Red Sox 4 two-run double that sent Boston — David Lough Philadelphia to a victory hit a three-run homer in over New York.

Baltimore’s four-run second inning and the Ori- Philadelphia New York

ab r h bi ab r h bi oles beat Boston.

Revere cf-lf 5 3 3 0 Gardnr cf 4 2 2 1 Baltimore Boston

ab r h bi ab r h bi MMchd 3b 5 0 2 1 Betts cf 3 1 1 0 Pareds dh 5 0 2 1 B.Holt rf 4 0 0 1 Parmel rf 4 0 2 0 Pedroia 2b 4 1 1 1 Wieters c 4 0 0 0 Ortiz dh 4 0 0 0 C.Davis 1b 3 1 1 0 HRmrz lf 4 1 2 1 Snider lf 2 1 1 0 Bogarts ss 4 0 0 0 Pearce ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Sandovl 3b 4 0 3 1 JHardy ss 4 1 2 0 Napoli 1b 4 0 0 0 Flahrty 2b 2 1 0 1 S.Leon c 4 1 1 0 Lough cf 3 2 1 3 Totals 33 6 11 6 Totals 35 4 8 4 Baltimore 040 101 000—6 Boston 001 110 001—4 LOB-Baltimore 5, Boston 9. 2B-M.Machado (15), Parmelee (1), Betts (16), Pedroia (14). 3B-Parmelee (1). HR-Lough (4). CS-Paredes (2), Parmelee (1).

S-Lough. SF-Flaherty.

IP H R ER BB SO Baltimore U.Jimenez W,6-3 5 6 3 3 3 8 Brach H,5 1 1 0 0 1 2 Roe H,3 1 0 0 0 0 1 O’Day H,7 1 0 0 0 0 1 Britton S,20-21 1 1 1 1 1 0 Boston J.Kelly L,2-5 3 2/3 8 5 5 2 2 Ross Jr. 2 1 1 1 1 1 Ogando 1 1/3 1 0 0 0 1 Breslow 2 1 0 0 0 1 T-3:08. A-36,508 (37,673).

CHrndz 2b 4 2 3 1 Headly 3b 5 1 2 1 Franco 1b 3 2 2 5 ARdrgz dh 4 1 2 2 Howard dh 5 0 0 0 BMcCn c 4 0 1 0 Francr lf 4 0 0 0 Beltran rf 5 1 2 0 OHerrr pr-cf 0 1 0 0 GJones 1b 5 1 1 1 DBrwn rf 3 1 0 0 CYoung lf 4 0 2 1 ABlanc 3b 4 1 2 3 Gregrs ss 4 0 1 0 Rupp c 5 1 1 2 Pirela 2b 4 0 0 0 Galvis ss 5 0 0 0 Totals 38 11 11 11 Totals 39 6 13 6 Philadelphia 001 500 005—11 New York 111 030 000— 6 E-Francoeur (2), Headley (16). DP-Philadelphia 1, New York 1. LOB-Philadelphia 7, New York 10. 2B-Revere (11), C.Hernandez (9), Franco (9), A.Blanco (7), Gardner (16), Beltran 2 (18), C.Young (10). 3B_A.Blanco (1). HR-Franco (10), Rupp (1), Gardner (9), Headley (7), A.Rodriguez (15), G.Jones (4). SB-C.Young (2). SF-A.Rodriguez.

IP H R ER BB SO Philadelphia O’Sullivan 4 1/3 10 6 6 0 2 Araujo 2-3 1 0 0 0 0 J.Gomez 1 0 0 0 1 0 L.Garcia 1 1 0 0 1 1 Giles W,3-1 1 1 0 0 0 3 De Fratus 1 0 0 0 0 1 New York Sabathia 4 2/3 8 6 6 2 4 Pinder 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 Shreve 1 0 0 0 0 1 Ju.Wilson 1 1/3 0 0 0 1 1 Betances L,4-1 1 2 4 4 0 2 Rumbelow 2/3 1 1 1 1 2 HBP-by O’Sullivan (B.McCann), by Betances (C.Hernandez, Francoeur), by Ju.Wilson (Franco).

T-3:45. A-36,198 (49,638).

Tigers 7, Indians 3 Cleveland — David Price allowed one run in 6 2-3 innings and Detroit National League scored six times in the fifth to continue its domi- Brewers 3, Mets 2 nance over Cleveland.

Milwaukee — Carlos Gomez scored the tieDetroit Cleveland

ab r h bi ab r h bi breaking run in the sevRDavis rf 3 1 1 0 Kipnis 2b 5 0 4 1 enth inning when outKinsler 2b 4 1 0 0 Lindor ss 4 0 0 1 MiCarr 1b 5 1 2 0 Brantly cf 4 0 0 0 fielder Michael Cuddyer VMrtnz dh 4 1 2 1 Raburn dh 4 0 2 0 Cespds lf 4 1 1 2 CSantn 1b 4 0 1 0 misplayed a double off Cstllns 3b 4 0 1 2 Aviles lf 3 0 1 0 the wall, helping MilJMcCn c 4 0 0 0 DvMrp ph 1 1 1 0 Romine ss 4 2 2 1 Moss rf 4 1 1 0 waukee beat the injuryGose cf 4 0 0 0 Urshela 3b 4 0 1 0 riddled New York Mets.

RPerez c 4 1 1 0 Totals 36 7 9 6 Totals 37 3 12 2 Detroit 001 060 000—7 Cleveland 001 000 002—3 E-Castellanos (4), Salazar (2). DP_Detroit 2, Cleveland 1. LOB-Detroit 5, Cleveland 8. 2B_V. Martinez (4), Castellanos (9), Romine (2), Kipnis 2 (24), Raburn (11), R.Perez (4). HR-Romine (2).

SF-Lindor.

IP H R ER BB SO Detroit Price W,7-2 6 2/3 9 1 1 0 7 Alburquerque 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Gorzelanny 1 0 0 0 0 1 A.Wilson 1 3 2 0 0 0 Cleveland Salazar L,6-3 4 1/3 6 7 6 3 8 McAllister 1 2/3 1 0 0 0 3 A.Adams 1 1/3 1 0 0 0 1 Hagadone 1 2/3 1 0 0 0 2 T-3:28. A-19,156 (36,856).

White Sox 6, Twins 2 Minneapolis — Jeff Samardzija struck out seven batters in seven innings for just his second win in nine starts on the road this season, and the White Sox beat Minnesota to snap a seven-game losing streak away from Chicago.

Chicago Minnesota

ab r h bi ab r h bi Eaton cf 5 0 3 1 Dozier 2b 4 0 0 0 AvGarc rf 5 0 0 0 ERosar lf 4 1 1 1 Abreu dh 5 2 4 0 Mauer 1b 4 0 2 0 LaRoch 1b 3 1 1 0 Plouffe 3b 4 0 1 0 MeCarr lf 5 1 2 1 TrHntr rf 3 1 1 0 AlRmrz ss 5 0 0 0 Nunez ss 3 0 1 0 Gillaspi 3b 3 1 1 0 KSuzuk c 4 0 1 1 GBckh 3b 2 0 1 1 KVargs dh 4 0 1 0 Soto c 4 0 2 2 Buxton cf 3 0 1 0 CSnchz 2b 4 1 1 0 Totals 41 6 15 5 Totals 33 2 9 2 Chicago 000 101 112—6 Minnesota 100 100 000—2 E-Tor.Hunter (4). DP-Chicago 1. LOB-Chicago 11, Minnesota 6. 2B-Eaton (11), Abreu (12), Me.Cabrera (9), Gillaspie (10), G.Beckham (6), C.Sanchez (5), K.Suzuki (8). HR-E.Rosario (4). CS-Buxton (2).

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Samardzija W,5-4 7 8 2 2 1 7 Duke H,13 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 Petricka S,2-2 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota Pelfrey L,5-4 6 2/3 10 3 3 3 4 Fien 1 1/3 2 1 1 0 0 A.Thompson 1/3 2 2 1 0 0 Pressly 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 T-2:57. A-27,349 (39,021).

Athletics 8, Rangers 6 Arlington, Texas — Josh Phegley homered and had a two-run double, Ben Zobrist also went deep and Oakland beat Texas.

Oakland Texas

ab r h bi ab r h bi Burns cf 5 0 1 0 Odor 2b 4 1 3 2 Sogard 2b 4 1 1 1 Gallo lf 5 1 1 0 Zobrist lf 4 2 2 2 Fielder dh 4 1 1 0 Fuld lf 0 0 0 0 Beltre 3b 4 1 1 1 Reddck rf 5 0 1 0 Morlnd 1b 5 0 1 0 BButler dh 3 1 0 0 Andrus ss 5 1 3 2 I.Davis 1b 4 1 1 1 LMartn cf 4 0 0 0 Lawrie 3b 4 0 0 0 Rua rf 4 0 0 0 Phegly c 4 2 2 3 Chirins c 2 1 1 0 Semien ss 4 1 3 1 Totals 37 8 11 8 Totals 37 6 11 5 Oakland 001 014 200—8 Texas 010 040 100—6 E-Lawrie (13). DP-Oakland 1. LOB-Oakland 5, Texas 9. 2B-I.Davis (10), Phegley (8), Semien (14), Odor (4), Gallo (2), Fielder (16), Andrus 2 (11).

HR-Zobrist (5), Phegley (4), Odor (2). SF-Beltre.

IP H R ER BB SO Oakland Chavez W,4-6 5 8 5 5 2 3 Scribner H,7 1 0 0 0 0 0 O’Flaherty H,3 2/3 1 1 0 0 1 Fe.Rodriguez H,3 2/3 1 0 0 1 1 Pomeranz S,1-1 1 2/3 1 0 0 1 2 Texas Ch.Gonzalez L,2-2 5 2/3 8 6 6 1 1 Kela 1/3 2 2 2 1 0 S.Freeman 1 1 0 0 0 1 Bass 1 0 0 0 0 2 Claudio 1 0 0 0 0 1 T-3:17. A-35,889 (48,114).

New York Milwaukee

ab r h bi ab r h bi Grndrs rf 3 1 1 1 Segura ss 4 0 1 1 Tejada 3b 4 0 0 0 Lucroy c 5 0 0 0 Duda 1b 4 0 1 0 Braun rf 3 1 1 0 Cuddyr lf 4 0 0 0 CGomz cf 2 1 1 0 WFlors ss 3 1 1 0 Lind 1b 4 0 2 1 Lagars cf 4 0 0 0 ArRmr 3b 2 0 0 0 Plawck c 2 0 1 1 GParra lf 4 1 1 0 Monell ph 1 0 0 0 HPerez 2b 2 0 1 0 DHerrr 2b 3 0 0 0 SPetrsn ph 1 0 0 0 Niese p 2 0 0 0 Gennett 2b 0 0 0 0 Cecilin ph 0 0 0 0 Fiers p 1 0 1 0 Robles p 0 0 0 0 HGomz ph 1 0 1 0 Glmrtn p 0 0 0 0 Jeffrss p 0 0 0 0 Parnell p 0 0 0 0 WSmith p 0 0 0 0 JRogrs ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 30 2 4 2 Totals 30 3 9 2 New York 001 100 000—2 Milwaukee 100 001 10x—3 E-Cuddyer (3), Fiers (2). DP-New York 1. LOBNew York 5, Milwaukee 11. 2B-Lind (16), H.Perez (4). HR-Granderson (10). SB-Ceciliani (4), G.Parra (5). S-Fiers. SF-Plawecki, Segura.

IP H R ER BB SO New York Niese 6 8 2 2 3 3 Robles L,1-2 1/3 0 1 1 1 1 Gilmartin 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 Parnell 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 2 Milwaukee Fiers 6 4 2 2 2 7 Jeffress 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 W.Smith W,3-0 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 3 Fr.Rodriguez S,14-14 1 0 0 0 0 2 HBP-by Niese (C.Gomez), by Jeffress (Ceciliani). WP-Niese, Fiers.

T-2:53. A-25,055 (41,900).

Cubs 1, Dodgers 0, 10 innings Chicago — Chris Denorfia hit a game-ending sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night for their fourth consecutive victory.

Los Angeles Chicago

ab r h bi ab r h bi Puig rf 4 0 1 0 Coghln lf 3 0 1 0 Pedrsn cf 4 0 0 0 Denorfi ph-lf 1 0 0 1 HKndrc 2b 4 0 0 0 Rizzo 1b 3 0 1 0 AGnzlz 1b 4 0 1 0 Bryant 3b 3 0 0 0 Grandl c 3 0 0 0 MMntr c 4 0 1 0 Ethier lf 3 0 0 0 SCastro ss 4 0 0 0 Callasp 3b 3 0 1 0 Baxter rf 4 0 1 0 Rollins ss 4 0 0 0 Szczur cf 4 1 1 0 Greink p 2 0 0 0 Hamml p 3 0 0 0 Nicasio p 0 0 0 0 HRndn p 0 0 0 0 JuTrnr ph 0 0 0 0 Strop p 0 0 0 0 Lieratr p 0 0 0 0 Motte p 0 0 0 0 YGarci p 0 0 0 0 Fowler ph 0 0 0 0 Guerrr ph 1 0 0 0 T.Wood pr 0 0 0 0 JoPerlt p 0 0 0 0 ARussll 2b 4 0 0 0 Jansen p 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 0 3 0 Totals 33 1 5 1 Los Angeles 000 000 000 0—0 Chicago 000 000 000 1—1 Two outs when winning run scored.

LOB-Los Angeles 6, Chicago 7. 2B-Callaspo (6), Coghlan (13). 3B-Puig (2). SB-Rizzo (11), Bryant (6). S-Callaspo. SF-Denorfia.

IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles Greinke 6 3 0 0 2 5 Nicasio 1 0 0 0 0 1 Liberatore 1 0 0 0 0 1 Y.Garcia 1 0 0 0 0 1 Jo.Peralta L,1-1 0 2 1 1 1 0 Jansen 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 Chicago Hammel 7 2/3 2 0 0 2 6 H.Rondon 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Strop 1 1 0 0 1 1 Motte W,5-1 1 0 0 0 0 1 Jo.Peralta pitched to 3 batters in the 10th.

T-3:10. A-36,799 (40,929).

Cardinals 4, Marlins 3 Miami — Right-hander Carlos Martinez shook off a slow start and a fastball that hit him in the right shoulder to pitch seven innings, helping St. Louis beat Miami.

St. Louis Miami

ab r h bi ab r h bi Wong 2b 4 0 0 0 DGordn 2b 5 0 1 0 Grichk lf 3 0 0 0 Realmt c 4 0 0 0 JhPerlt ss 5 0 0 0 Yelich lf 4 1 2 0 Rynlds 3b-1b 4 0 1 1 Stanton rf 3 1 1 2 Heywrd rf 4 1 1 1 Dietrch 3b 3 0 0 0 Molina c 4 1 2 0 JBaker ph-3b 0 0 0 0 Jay cf 3 1 1 0 Ozuna cf 4 1 3 0 Scrggs 1b 4 1 3 2 Bour 1b 4 0 0 0 Kozma pr-3b 0 0 0 0 Hchvrr ss 4 0 1 1 CMrtnz p 2 0 1 0 Urena p 2 0 1 0 GGarci ph 1 0 0 0 SDyson p 0 0 0 0 Rosnthl p 0 0 0 0 ISuzuki ph 1 0 0 0 DSolan ph 1 0 1 0 Totals 34 4 9 4 Totals 35 3 10 3 St. Louis 000 300 100—4 Miami 210 000 000—3 DP-St. Louis 2, Miami 2. LOB-St. Louis 8, Miami 7. 2B-Scruggs (1), D.Gordon (15), Ozuna (14).

HR-Heyward (8), Stanton (26).

IP H R ER BB SO St. Louis C.Martinez W,8-3 7 8 3 3 1 9 Siegrist H,13 1 1 0 0 1 2 Rosenthal S,22-23 1 1 0 0 0 0 Miami Urena 5 6 3 3 3 2 S.Dyson L,3-3 1 2/3 2 1 1 0 1 Dunn 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 Cishek 1 1 0 0 0 1 Capps 1 0 0 0 0 2 HBP-by S.Dyson (C.Martinez, Grichuk).

T-2:45. A-21,759 (37,442).

Pirates 7, Reds 6 Pittsburgh — Andrew McCutchen and Francisco Cervelli homered during a fourth-inning outburst and Pittsburgh ended a three-game losing streak with a win over Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Pittsburgh

ab r h bi ab r h bi Phillips 2b 5 1 2 0 GPolnc rf 3 1 1 0 Votto 1b 4 0 2 0 SMarte lf 3 1 0 0 Frazier 3b 4 1 1 0 McCtch cf 3 1 2 2 Bruce rf 5 2 2 3 NWalkr 2b 2 1 0 0 Byrd lf 4 0 0 0 JHrrsn 3b 4 1 2 0 Suarez ss 5 0 2 1 PAlvrz 1b 3 1 1 1 Brnhrt c 5 1 1 0 Watson p 0 0 0 0 JsSmth p 2 0 1 0 Melncn p 0 0 0 0 Villarrl p 0 0 0 0 Cervelli c 4 1 1 3 CDmng ph 1 0 1 0 Mercer ss 3 0 0 0 Contrrs p 0 0 0 0 Locke p 1 0 0 0 Negron ph 1 0 0 0 Tabata ph 1 0 0 0 Schmkr ph 1 0 0 0 Kang ph 1 0 0 0 BHmltn cf 4 1 2 1 Caminr p 0 0 0 0 SRdrgz 1b 1 0 0 0 Totals 41 6 14 5 Totals 29 7 7 6 Cincinnati 300 111 000—6 Pittsburgh 000 700 00x—7 E-Suarez (1), P.Alvarez (9), Mercer (4).

DP-Cincinnati 1. LOB-Cincinnati 12, Pittsburgh 6. 2B-Barnhart (2), McCutchen (18), J.Harrison (17), P.Alvarez (11). 3B-G.Polanco (2). HR-Bruce (12), McCutchen (9), Cervelli (3). SB-B.Hamilton 2 (33), S.Marte (14). CS-G.Polanco 2 (6). SF-B. Hamilton.

IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Jos.Smith 3 3 4 4 6 3 Villarreal L,0-2 1 2 3 0 0 0 Contreras 1 1 0 0 1 1 Adcock 2 1 0 0 1 0 Mattheus 1 0 0 0 0 1 Pittsburgh Locke 4 9 4 2 2 0 Scahill W,2-3 2/3 2 1 1 1 0 J.Hughes 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Caminero H,12 2 3 1 1 0 3 Watson H,18 1 0 0 0 0 3 Melancon S,24-25 1 0 0 0 0 3 Jos.Smith pitched to 4 batters in the 4th.

WP-Caminero.

T-3:37. A-26,949 (38,362).

Nationals 3, Braves 1 Washington — Stephen Strasburg pitched five shutout innings in his return from the disabled list, Anthony Rendon tied his career-high with four hits and Washington defeated Atlanta.

Atlanta Washington

ab r h bi ab r h bi JPetrsn 2b 4 0 0 0 Span cf 4 1 2 1 Maybin cf 5 1 1 1 Rendon 2b 4 0 4 1 Markks rf 4 0 3 0 YEscor 3b 4 0 0 0 Przyns c 4 0 1 0 Harper rf 4 0 0 0 Uribe 3b 4 0 0 0 WRams c 4 0 3 0 CJhnsn 1b 3 0 1 0 Espinos ss 4 1 1 0 Trdslvc ph 1 0 0 0 TMoore 1b 3 0 0 0 ASmns ss 4 0 1 0 MTaylr lf 4 1 2 1 EPerez lf 4 0 1 0 Strasrg p 1 0 0 0 A.Wood p 1 0 0 0 Roark p 0 0 0 0 JGoms ph 1 0 0 0 Uggla ph 1 0 0 0 KJhnsn ph 1 0 1 0 Storen p 0 0 0 0 Totals 36 1 9 1 Totals 33 3 12 3 Atlanta 000 000 010—1 Washington 101 100 00x—3 E-Maybin (2). DP-Atlanta 2. LOB-Atlanta 10, Washington 8. 2B-E.Perez (1), Span (14), W.Ramos (11). HR-Maybin (6). SB-M.Taylor (8).

S-Strasburg.

IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta A.Wood L,4-5 7 10 3 3 1 2 Eveland 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Cunniff 2/3 2 0 0 0 1 Washington Strasburg W,4-5 5 4 0 0 1 6 Roark H,4 2 0 0 0 0 1 Thornton H,10 2-3 3 1 1 0 1 D.Carpenter H,2 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Storen S,21-22 1 2 0 0 1 1 T-2:52. A-28,344 (41,341).

Rockies 10, D’backs 5 Denver — Nolan Arenado hit two home runs, including a go-ahead three-run shot in Colorado’s six-run fifth inning, and the Rockies rallied to beat the Arizona.

Arizona Colorado

ab r h bi ab r h bi Pollock cf 5 1 3 1 Blckmn cf 2 1 1 1 Lamb 3b 5 0 1 0 LeMahi 2b 3 2 1 1 Gldsch 1b 4 1 1 0 Tlwtzk ss 4 1 2 1 DPerlt lf 4 1 3 0 Arenad 3b 4 2 2 4 A.Hill 2b 4 0 0 1 Paulsn lf-1b 4 0 0 0 Dorn rf 4 0 0 0 WRosr 1b 3 2 2 1 WCastll c 3 1 1 2 Ynoa lf 1 0 0 0 Ahmed ss 4 1 1 1 Hundly c 4 0 1 1 ChAndr p 2 0 0 0 BBarns rf 4 2 2 1 Delgad p 0 0 0 0 Kndrck p 2 0 0 0 Owings ph 1 0 0 0 Oberg p 0 0 0 0 Cllmntr p 0 0 0 0 Descals ph 1 0 0 0 Pnngtn ph 1 0 1 0 Hwkns p 0 0 0 0 Totals 37 5 11 5 Totals 32 10 11 10 Arizona 030 010 010— 5 Colorado 010 160 11x—10 DP-Arizona 2, Colorado 1. LOB-Arizona 7, Colorado 2. 2B-Blackmon (12), W.Rosario (6).

HR-Pollock (9), W.Castillo (5), Ahmed (4), LeMahieu (4), Arenado 2 (19), W.Rosario (5), B.Barnes (1). S-K.Kendrick.

IP H R ER BB SO Arizona Ch.Anderson L,3-2 4 2/3 8 8 8 3 3 Delgado 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 2 D.Hernandez 1 2 1 1 0 0 Collmenter 1 1 1 1 0 0 Colorado K.Kendrick W,3-9 6 8 4 4 1 3 Oberg 1 0 0 0 0 0 Kahnle 1 1 1 1 1 1 Hawkins 1 2 0 0 0 1 WP-K.Kendrick.

T-2:51 (Delay: 0:38). A-30,079 (50,398).

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

SPORTS

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SCOREBOARD College World Series

At TD Ameritrade Park Omaha Omaha, Neb. Double Elimination Saturday, June 13 Virginia 5, Arkansas 3 Florida 15, Miami 3 Sunday, June 14 TCU 10, LSU 3 Cal State Fullerton 3, Vanderbilt 0, 5 innings, susp., rain Monday, June 15 Vanderbilt 4, Cal State Fullerton 3 Miami 4, Arkansas 3, Arkansas eliminated Virginia 1, Florida 0 Tuesday, June 16 LSU 5, Cal State Fullerton 3, CSF eliminated Vanderbilt 1, TCU 0 Wednesday, June 17 Florida 10, Miami 2, Miami eliminated Thursday, June 18 TCU 8, LSU 4, LSU eliminated Friday, June 19 Florida 10, Virginia 5 Vanderbilt 7, TCU 1, TCU eliminated Saturday, June 20 Virginia 5, Florida 4, Florida eliminated Championship Series (Best-of-3) Vanderbilt 1, Virginia 1 Monday: Vanderbilt 5, Virginia 1 Tuesday: Virginia 3, Vanderbilt 0 Today: Vanderbilt (51-20) vs.

Virginia (43-24), 7 p.m.

NBA Draft Order

Held Thursday, June 25 At Brooklyn, N.Y. First Round 1. Minnesota 2. L.A. Lakers 3. Philadelphia 4. New York 5. Orlando 6. Sacramento 7. Denver 8. Detroit 9. Charlotte 10. Miami 11. Indiana 12. Utah 13. Phoenix 14. Oklahoma City 15. Atlanta (from Brooklyn) 16. Boston 17. Milwaukee 18. Houston (from New Orleans) 19. Washington 20. Toronto 21. Dallas 22. Chicago 23. Portland 24. Cleveland 25. Memphis 26. San Antonio 27. L.A. Lakers (from Houston) 28. Boston (from L.A. Clippers) 29. Brooklyn (from Atlanta) 30. Golden State Second Round 31. Minnesota 32. Houston (from New York) 33. Boston (from Philadelphia through Miami) 34. L.A. Lakers 35. Philadelphia (from Orlando) 36. Minnesota (from Sacramento through Houston) 37. Philadelphia (from Denver through Houston, Portland and Minnesota) 38. Detroit 39. Charlotte 40. Miami 41. Brooklyn 42. Utah 43. Indiana 44. Phoenix 45. Boston 46. Milwaukee 47. Philadelphia (from New Orleans through Washington and L.A. Clippers) 48. Oklahoma City 49. Washington 50. Atlanta (from Toronto) 51. Orlando (from Chicago) 52. Dallas 53. Cleveland (from Portland through Chicago and Denver) 54. Utah (from Cleveland) 55. San Antonio 56. New Orleans (from Memphis) 57. Denver (from L.A. Clippers) 58. Philadelphia (from Houston) 59. Atlanta 60. Philadelphia (from Golden State through Indiana)

WNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB Connecticut 6 1 .857 — Washington 5 2 .714 1 New York 4 3 .571 2 Chicago 3 3 .500 2½ Atlanta 3 5 .375 3½ Indiana 3 5 .375 3½ WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB Tulsa 6 1 .857 — Minnesota 5 2 .714 1 Phoenix 3 3 .500 2½ Seattle 2 4 .333 3½ Los Angeles 0 5 .000 5 San Antonio 0 6 .000 5½ Tuesday’s Game Washington 84, Los Angeles 80 Today’s Game Atlanta at Chicago, 11:30 a.m.

Thursday’s Games Phoenix at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Women’s World Cup

SECOND ROUND Saturday, June 20 At Ottawa, Ontario Germany 4, Sweden 1 At Edmonton, Alberta China 1, Cameroon 0 Sunday, June 21 At Moncton, New Brunswick Brazil 0, Australia 1 At Montreal France 3, South Korea 0 At Vancouver, British Columbia Canada 1, Switzerland 0 Monday, June 22 At Ottawa, Ontario England 2, Norway 1 At Edmonton, Alberta United States 2, Colombia 0 Tuesday, June 23 At Vancouver, British Columbia Japan 2, Netherlands 1 QUARTERFINALS Friday, June 26 At Montreal Germany vs. France, 3 p.m.

At Ottawa, Ontario China vs. United State, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 27 At Edmonton, Alberta Australia vs. Japan, 3 p.m.

At Vancouver, British Columbia England vs. Canada, 6:30 p.m.

SEMIFINALS Tuesday, June 30 At Montreal Ottawa winner vs. GermanyFrance winner, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, July 1 At Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton winner vs. EnglandCanada winner, 6 p.m.

THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 4 At Edmonton, Alberta Semifinal losers, 3 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 5 At Vancouver, British Columbia Semifinal winners, 6 p.m.

MLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA D.C. United 9 5 4 31 22 17 New England 6 5 6 24 23 22 Orlando City 5 6 5 20 20 21 Toronto FC 6 6 1 19 19 18 Montreal 5 5 2 17 16 18 Columbus 4 6 5 17 21 22 New York 4 5 5 17 18 19 NYC FC 4 7 5 17 17 19 Philadelphia 4 10 3 15 19 30 Chicago 4 8 2 14 17 22 WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA Seattle 9 5 2 29 23 13 Vancouver 9 6 2 29 20 16 Portland 7 5 4 25 17 14 Los Angeles 6 5 7 25 21 20 Sporting KC 6 3 6 24 23 17 FC Dallas 6 5 5 23 19 23 San Jose 6 5 4 22 16 15 Real Salt Lake 5 5 6 21 15 19 Houston 5 6 5 20 21 21 Colorado 2 4 9 15 12 13 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Today’s Games Seattle at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado at Orlando City, 6:30 p.m.

New England at Columbus, 6:30 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto FC, 7 p.m.

D.C. United at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Portland at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

Wimbledon Qualifying

Tuesday At Bank of England Sports Grounds Roehampton, England Surface: Grass-Outdoor Singles Men First Round Nikoloz Basilashvili, Georgia, def.

Victor Hanescu, Romania, 6-4, 6-2.

Matteo Viola, Italy, def. Alejandro Gonzalez (10), Colombia, 6-1, 6-4.

Jan Mertl, Czech Republic, def.

Jose Hernandez-Fernandez, Dominican Republic, 3-6, 7-5, 15-13.

John-Patrick Smith, Australia, def.

Maxime Authom, Belgium, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (3), 6-2.

Bjorn Fratangelo (18), United States, def. Amir Weintraub, Israel, 6-4, 7-5.

Mathias Bourgue, France, def.

Alexander Kudryavtsev, Russia, 6-3, 6-4.

Jason Kubler, Australia, def. Rui Machado, Portugal, 6-3, 6-4.

Aleksandr Nedovyesov (17), Kazakhstan, def. Mirza Basic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 6-1, 6-2.

Benjamin Mitchell, Australia, def.

Remi Boutillier, France, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-0.

Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, def.

Maximo Gonzalez (9), Argentina, 7-5, 6-2.

Yannick Mertens, Belgium, def.

Austin Krajicek (13), United States, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5.

Farrukh Dustov (26), Uzbekistan, def. Richard Bloomfield, Britain, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Guido Andreozzi, Argentina, def.

Ryan Harrison (24), United States, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4.

Inigo Cervantes, Spain, def.

Somdev Devvarman, India, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.

Women First Round Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, def.

Junri Namigata, Japan, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Richel Hogenkamp (13), Netherlands, def. Riko Sawayanagi, Japan, 6-2, 6-2.

Yang Zhaoxuan, China, def. Alla Kudryavtseva (6), Russia, 6-3, 6-2.

Katy Dunne, Britain, def. Anhelina Kalinina, Ukraine, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-2.

Ekaterina Bychkova, Russia, def.

Allie Kiick, United States, 6-1, 6-4.

Xu Yi-Fan, China, def. Jang Su Jeong, South Korea, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Marina Melnikova, Russia, def.

Maryna Zanevska (23), Ukraine, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.

Sorana Cirstea, Romania, def.

Naomi Osaka, Japan, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Jessica Pegula, United States, def. Julia Glushko, Israel, 6-1, 4-3, retired.

Michelle Larcher de Brito (21), Portugal, def. Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgium, 1-6, 6-3, 12-10.

Margarita Gasparyan (5), Russia, def. Alberta Brianti, Italy, 6-2, 6-0.

Elitsa Kostova, Bulgaria, def.

Patricia Maria Tig, Romania, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.

Veronica Cepede Royg, Paraguay, def. Cagla Buyukakcay, Turkey, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.

Alexandra Panova, Russia, def.

Paula Kania (17), Poland, 6-2, 5-7, 11-9.

Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor, Spain, def. Varatchaya Wongteanchai, Thailand, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.

Liu Fangzhou, China, def. Tereza Mrdeza, Croatia, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Olga Govortsova (7), Belarus, def.

Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japan, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Louisa Chirico (3), United States, def. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, 6-3, 6-2.

Duan Ying-Ying (8), China, def.

Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, Austria, 6-4, 6-3.

Nao Hibino, Japan, def. Ayumi Morita, Japan, 6-1, 7-5.

Anna Tatishvili (18), United States, def. Alexa Glatch, United States, 6-4, 6-4.

Elise Mertens, Belgium, def. Maria Irigoyen, Argentina, 6-4, 6-1.

Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic, def. Renata Voracova, Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-1.

Donna Vekic (15), Croatia, def.

Misa Eguchi, Japan, 7-6 (3), 6-2.

Romina Oprandi, Switzerland, def.

Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, 6-2, 6-1.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, def. Laura Pous-Tio, Spain, 6-4, 6-3.

Stephanie Foretz, France, def.

Oceane Dodin (19), France, 6-3, 6-2.

Luksika Kumkhum (12), Thailand, def. Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2.

Eri Hozumi, Japan, def. Katerina Stewart, United States, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

Hsieh Su-wei (14), Taiwan, def.

Petra Martic, Croatia, 6-3, 7-6 (8).

Kateryna Bondarenko (10), Ukraine, def. Andrea Hlavackova, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-0.

Sachia Vickery (4), United States, def. Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistan, 6-0, 6-1.

Shahar Peer (11), Israel, def.

Yuliya Beygelzimer, Ukraine, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Grace Min (24), United States, def.

Emily Webley-Smith, Britain, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Tamira Paszek, Austria, def. Risa Ozaki, Japan, 7-5, 6-2.

Melanie Oudin, United States, def.

Akgul Amanmuradova, Uzbekistan, 6-3, 6-1.

Julie Coin, France, def. Lesley Kerkhove, Netherlands, 2-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4.

Laura Siegemund (20), Germany, def. Hiroko Kuwata, Japan, 6-7 (9), 6-2, 6-2.

An-Sophie Mestach (2), Belgium, def. Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, 6-3, 6-2.

Zhang Shuai, China, def. Zhang Kai-Lin, China, 6-4, 6-4.

Aliaksandra Sasnovich (22), Belarus, def.

Cindy Burger, Netherlands, 7-5, 7-6 (2).

Katie Swan, Britain, def. Kristina Kucova (9), Slovakia, 6-3, 6-4.

Stephanie Vogt, Liechtenstein, def. Naomi Cavaday, Britain, 6-3, 6-3.

Lourdes Dominguez Lino (1), Spain, def. Ana Bogdan, Romania, 7-5, 6-3.

Maria Sanchez, United States, def.

Lucy Brown, Britain, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Wang Yafan (16), China, def. Olivia Rogowska, Australia, 6-2, 6-0.

Tara Moore, Britain, def. Gabriella Taylor, Britain, 6-2, 6-1.

Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, def.

Amanda Carreras, Britain, 6-2, 6-3.

Doubles Men First Round Sergey Betov and Aliaksandr Bury (5), Belarus, def. Andres Molteni, Argentina, and Hans PodlipnikCastillo, Chile, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (7).

Gero Kretschmer and Alexander Satschko (6), Germany, def.

Matthias Bachinger and Dominik Meffert, Germany, 6-2, 6-4.

Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, Mexico, and Divij Sharan, India,

def. Martin Emmrich, Germany, and Andreas Siljestrom (4), Sweden, 6-4, 6-4.

Fabrice Martin, France, and Purav Raja (8), India, def. Alessandro Motti, Italy, and Stephane Robert, France, 6-3, 6-2.

Marcus Daniell, New Zealand, and Marcelo Demoliner (1), Brazil, def.

Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, and James Cerretani, United States, 6-4, 6-1.

Mateusz Kowalczyk, Poland, and Igor Zelenay (3), Slovakia, def.

Brydan Klein and David Rice, Britain, 7-5, 7-6 (7).

Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and Philipp Petzschner (7), Germany, def. Wesley Koolhof and Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Sean Thornley and Darren Walsh, Britain, def. Johan Brunstrom, Sweden, and Frank Moser (2), Germany, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 13-11.

ATP World Tour Aegon International

Tuesday at Nottingham Tennis Center Nottingham, England Purse: $670,000 (WT250) Surface: Grass-Outdoor Singles First Round Tim Smyczek, United States, def.

James Ward, Britain, 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-1.

Sam Groth, Australia, def. Mischa Zverev, Germany, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3).

Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, def. Ruben Bemelmans, Belgium, 6-4, 6-4.

Taylor Harry Fritz, United States, def. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 6-1, 6-4.

Second Round Adrian Mannarino (8), France, def.

Aljaz Bedene, Britain, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, def.

David Ferrer (1), Spain, 6-2, 7-6 (4).

Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Martin Klizan (10), Slovakia, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-1.

Alexander Zverev, Germany, def.

Thomaz Bellucci (13), Brazil, 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-4.

Pablo Cuevas (5), Uruguay, def.

Dudi Sela, Israel, 7-5, 6-4.

Sam Querrey (12), United States, def. Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Jiri Vesely (16), Czech Republic, def. Tim Smyczek, United States, 6-1, 6-3.

Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, def.

Viktor Troicki (6), Serbia, 6-4, 6-2.

Leonardo Mayer (4), Argentina, def. Chung Hyeon, South Korea, 6-3, 6-1.

Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, def.

Juan Monaco (9), Argentina, 6-1, 6-2.

Feliciano Lopez (3), Spain, def.

Taylor Harry Fritz, United States, 6-3, 6-3.

Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, def. Andreas Seppi (15), Italy, 6-4, 6-3.

Dominic Thiem (7), Austria, def.

Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, 6-3, 6-1.

Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine, def. Pablo Andujar (11), Spain, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-4.

Gilles Simon (2), France, def.

Marcel Granollers, Spain, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (0).

Joao Sousa (15), Portugal, def.

Sam Groth, Australia, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Doubles First Round Robert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Artem Sitak, New Zealand, def.

Raven Klaasen, South Africa, and Rajeev Ram, United States, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 10-8.

Ken and Neal Skupski, Britain, def. Guillermo Duran and Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, 6-1, 6-4.

Eric Butorac, United States, and Colin Fleming, Britain, def. Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Poland, and Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, 6-3, 6-2.

Chris Guccione, Australia, and Andre Sa, Brazil, def. Juan Monaco and Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Max Mirnyi, Belarus, def. Dominic Inglot and Jamie Murray (4), Britain, 6-4, 6-2.

Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, and David Marrero (2), Spain, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, and Oliver Marach, Austria, 6-3, 6-4.

WTA Aegon International

Tuesday At Devonshire Park Eastbourne, England Purse: $731,000 (Premier) Surface: Grass-Outdoor Singles Second Round Johanna Konta, Britain, def.

Ekaterina Makarova (4), Russia, 6-2, 6-4.

Andrea Petkovic (10), Germany, def. Caroline Garcia, France, 6-2, 6-4.

Eugenie Bouchard (7), Canada, def. Alison Riske, United States, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Sloane Stephens, United States, def. Carla Suarez Navarro (5), Spain, 6-1, 7-5.

Karolina Pliskova (8), Czech Republic, def. Casey Dellacqua, Australia, 6-4, 7-5.

Garbine Muguruza (14), Spain, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 5-7, 6-3, 6-0.

Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, def.

Madison Keys (12), United States, 6-2, 6-2.

Agnieszka Radwanska (9), Poland, def. Irina Falconi, United States, 6-0, 6-2.

Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, def.

Sam Stosur (16), Australia, 7-5, 7-6 (0).

Sara Errani (13), Italy, def. Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (7).

Caroline Wozniacki (2), Denmark, def. Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, def.

Lucie Safarova (3), Czech Republic, 7-6 (7), 6-4.

CoCo Vandeweghe, United States, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 7-5, 2-6, 6-1.

Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, def.

Flavia Pennetta (15), Italy, 6-3, 6-4.

Heather Watson, Britain, def. Elina Svitolina (11), Ukraine, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4.

Daria Gavrilova, Russia, def.

Camila Giorgi, Italy, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3.

Doubles First Round Chan Yung-jan, Taiwan, and Zheng Jie, China, def. Timea Babos, Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic (3), France, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Caroline Garcia, France, and Katarina Srebotnik (4), Slovenia, def. Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Poland, and Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, 6-3, 6-4.

Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, def. Michaella Krajicek, Netherlands, and Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-2.

World Golf Rankings

Through June 21 1. Rory McIlroy NIR 2. Jordan Spieth USA 3. Dustin Johnson USA 4. Justin Rose ENG 5. Bubba Watson USA 6. Jim Furyk USA 7. Henrik Stenson SWE 8. Jason Day AUS 9. Sergio Garcia ESP 10. Rickie Fowler USA 11. Adam Scott AUS 12. Jimmy Walker USA 13. J.B. Holmes USA 14. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 15. Patrick Reed USA 16. Louis Oosthuizen SAF 17. Matt Kuchar USA 18. Chris Kirk USA 19. Billy Horschel USA 20. Phil Mickelson USA 21. Martin Kaymer GER 22. Brooks Koepka USA 23. Kevin Na USA 24. Bill Haas USA 25. Brandt Snedeker USA 26. Ian Poulter ENG 27. Branden Grace SAF 28. Zach Johnson USA 29. Ryan Palmer USA 30. Lee Westwood ENG 31. Gary Woodland USA 32. Jamie Donaldson WAL 33. Ryan Moore USA 34. Thongchai Jaidee THA 35. Paul Casey ENG 36. Danny Willett ENG 37. Victor Dubuisson FRA 38. Hunter Mahan USA 39. Charl Schwartzel SAF 40. Keegan Bradley USA 41. Bernd Wiesberger AUT 42. Webb Simpson USA 43. Charley Hoffman USA 44. Francesco Molinari ITA 45. Shane Lowry IRL 46. Kevin Kisner USA 47. Anirban Lahiri IND 48. Graeme McDowell NIR 49. Tommy Fleetwood ENG 50. John Senden AUS 51. Miguel Angel Jimenez ESP 52. Joost Luiten NED 53. Brendon Todd USA 54. Matt Every USA 55. Byeong Hun An KOR 56. Ben Martin USA 57. Marc Leishman AUS 58. Russell Henley USA 59. Andy Sullivan ENG 60. Stephen Gallacher SCO 61. George Coetzee SAF 62. Alexander Levy FRA 63. Marc Warren SCO 64. Steven Bowditch AUS 65. Cameron Tringale USA 66. Jason Dufner USA 67. Matt Jones AUS 68. Luke Donald ENG 69. Tim Clark SAF 70. Alexander Noren SWE 71. David Lingmerth SWE 72. Robert Streb USA 73. Harris English USA 74. Daniel Berger USA 75. Russell Knox SCO

12.78 11.06 6.97 6.65 6.64 6.61 6.44 5.90 5.84 5.70 5.38 5.17 4.78 4.52 4.29 4.10 4.08 4.02 3.96 3.87 3.86 3.59 3.43 3.36 3.28 3.21 3.20 3.15 3.11 3.05 3.00 2.97 2.91 2.87 2.85 2.82 2.82 2.82 2.81 2.79 2.78 2.69 2.65 2.64 2.59 2.58 2.51 2.48 2.45 2.43 2.41 2.41 2.40 2.40 2.39 2.37 2.35 2.33 2.33 2.27 2.25 2.25 2.20 2.12 2.11 2.07 2.07 2.01 1.99 1.97 1.96 1.94 1.94 1.90 1.90

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned OF Rusney Castillo and RHP Steven Wright to Pawtucket (IL).

Reinstated RHP Justin Masterson from the 15-day DL. Agreed to terms with RHP Daniel Zandona on a minor league contract. Sent C Ryan Hanigan to Pawtucket (IL) for a rehab assignment.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Sent LHP Dan Jennings to Charlotte (IL) for a rehab assignment.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated RHP Scott Atchison for assignment.

Recalled RHP Austin Adams from Columbus (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Called up RHP Buck Farmer from Toledo (IL).

Optioned RHP Ian Krol to Toledo.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with 2B Ford Stainback on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Sent RHP Mike Morin to Salt Lake (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed INF Stephen Drew on paternity leave. Optioned OF Ramon Flores to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

Recalled RHP Bryan Mitchell and INF Jose Pirela from Scranton/WilkesBarre.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Released OF Rickie Weeks.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned LHP Enny Romero to Durham (IL).

Recalled RHP Kirby Yates from Durham. Agreed to terms with OF Grady Sizemore on a minor league contract. Sent 2B Tim Beckham to Charlotte (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Jon Edwards to Round Rock (PCL).

Reinstated 3B Adrian Beltre from gthe 15-day DL. Agreed to terms with INF Jhonniel Alvarez and OF Connor McKay on minor league contracts. Sent LHPs Matt Harrison and Martin Perez to Frisco (TL) for rehab assignments.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Announced LHP Phil Coke declined optional assignment and elected free agency. Recalled LHP Rob Rasmussen from Buffalo (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Todd Redmond from Buffalo. Reinstated RHP R.A. Dickey from the bereavement list.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed 1B Freddie Freeman on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday. Recalled OF Joey Terdoslavich from Gwinnett (IL). Agreed to terms with C Trey Keegan; 2B Kurt Hoekstra; 3B Jacob Lanning; LHPs Ryan Lawlor, Chase Mullins and Trevor Belicek; and RHPs Matthew Withrow, Patrick Weigel, Evan Phillips, Stephen Moore, Sean McLaughlin, Grayson Jones, Joshua Graham and Ryan Clark on minor league contracts.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled LHP Ian Thomas from Oklahoma City (PCL). Agreed to terms with 3B Brendon Davis on a minor league contract.

MIAMI MARLINS — Assigned C Jhonatan Solano outright to New Orleans (PCL). Sent RHP Bryan Morris and 3B Don Kelly to Jupiter (FSL) for rehab assignments.

NEW YORK METS — Assigned RHP Dillon Gee outright to Las Vegas (PCL). Placed C Travis d’Arnaud on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Recalled C Johnny Monell from Las Vegas (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent LHP Cory Luebke to San Antonio (TL) for a rehab assignment.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Activated RHP Jean Machi from the 15-day DL and recalled him from Sacramento (PCL). Optioned RHP Mike Broadway to Sacramento.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned RHP Joe Ross to Syracuse (IL). Reinstated RHP Stephen Strasburg from the 15-day DL. American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Released LHP Clayton Tanner.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS — Signed OF Ronnie Richardson and INF Miguel Castano.

LAREDO LEMURS — Released RHP Sam Martin. Signed RHP Luis De La Cruz.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed RHP Zachary Westcott.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed INF Dan Kaczrowski.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Released RHP Shawn Talkington. Signed INF Taylor Oldham.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Exercised the option on C Timofey Mozgov for next season.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Released DE Bryan Johnson.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Named Tony Granato, Chris Chelios and Pat Ferschweiler assistant coaches and Dave Noel-Bernier video coach.

COLLEGE MANHATTAN — Named Samera Marsh and Brandon Gade women’s assistant basketball coaches.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Named Bo Overton women’s basketball coach.

RHODE ISLAND — Promoted interim baseball coach Raphael Cerrato to permanent coach.

RUTGERS — Named Kelley Gibson and Ervin Monier women’s assistant basketball coaches.

SANTA CLARA — Named Renee Baumgartner athletic director.

SOUTHWESTERN (TEXAS) — Named Lori Morris women’s basketball coach.

TCU — Named Aaron Kallhoff women’s assistant basketball coach.

TEXAS STATE — Named Terrence Johnson men’s assistant basketball coach.

UNLV — Named Ellie Monobe men’s and women’s assistant swimming and diving coach.

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Rosemary Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches with Sea Salt Caramel Ice Cream

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resh from the freezer, the first bite is so cold that it hurts your teeth. By the third bite, the ice cream has begun to soften into a sugary goo. By the fifth — if you make it that far — a few errant drops of melted cream are probably escaping the cookie layers and dripping down your arm in a sticky sort of rill.

I am, of course, relating the pleasures of eating an ice cream sandwich in the summertime.

Other than perhaps a s’more, no dessert is more appropriate for the pool parties and barbecues to come. And ice cream sandwiches have the advantage of being perfectly happy to sit in the freezer for a week or two, which makes them perfect to make ahead to have on hand for a casual, lastminute party.

While — with the help of a trusty ice cream maker — you could make ice cream sandwiches entirely from scratch, I find that the joy of these is not in starting at the beginning, but, rather, in coming up with whatever flavor combinations your heart desires on any given day.

Cooking From Scratch

Meryl Carver-Allmond Think, double dark chocolate cookies with raspberry sorbet. Gingersnaps with cool lime sherbert. Or — an allAmerican combo if there ever was one — classic chocolate chip and bourbon vanilla.

That being said, it is worthwhile to at least make the cookies yourself.

Most cookies made with a standard recipe turn hard as rocks if you freeze them. If you add about 2 tablespoons of corn syrup to whatever recipe you’re using, though, they’ll retain a nice, chewy consistency.

As a fair warning, I’ve only personally tested this trick with chocolate chip cookies, but my research indicates it will work with any cookie that isn’t too fussy, so

experiment with confidence.

For one of my initial forays into ice cream sandwich making, I decided to emulate my favorite chocolate — the rosemary caramels that Au Marche sells. If you need some ice cream sandwich inspiration, this would be a wonderful place to start.

Rosemary Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches with Sea Salt Caramel Ice Cream Makes about eight sandwiches, with extra cookies left for snacking

Ingredients 1 cup butter, room temperature 3/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons light corn syrup 2 1/4 cups flour A pinch of salt 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 1/4 cup fresh, chopped rosemary 1 pint sea salt caramel ice cream or gelato (Talenti makes a fabulous one.)

Directions Preheat your oven to 375 F. Cream the butter, sugar, brown sugar and corn syrup together in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine the flour and salt.

Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet, then add the eggs one at a time.

Last, mix in the vanilla and rosemary.

Dollop spoonfuls of dough onto an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies are just getting brown on the edges. Cool the cookies completely.

Once the cookies are ready, put the pint of ice cream in the microwave for 10 seconds. Then, spread a generous layer of ice cream onto one cookie, top it with another, gently smush the sandwich together and wrap it in plastic wrap. Repeat with the rest of the cookies until you run out of ice cream.

Wrapped well, these ice cream sandwiches will last at least a few weeks in the freezer.

— Meryl Carver-Allmond lives in Lawrence and writes about chickens, babies, knitting, gardening, food, photography, and whatever else tickles her fancy on any given day at mybitofearth.net.

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Egg strata

Put your brunch dishes in one egg basket

By Daniel Neman St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Eggs are the building blocks of life, the first step to creating you and me and most other animals on Earth.

Isn’t it a little weird, then, that they are also so delicious?

Though they are scientifically complex, eggs are culinarily quite simple. For our purposes as cooks and eaters, they consist of only three parts — the white, the yolk and the shell, and there isn’t a lot of call to eat the shell.

And yet, look how much you can do with eggs. You can boil them hard and soft.

You can poach them and fry them. You can scramble them and omelet them, coddle them and bake them, frittata them and soufflé them and turn them into nog.

They can be benedict or quiche, strata or migas, deviled or meringue or egg salad. You can even drop them into soup.

No wonder they’re called the incredible edible egg.

True, it’s the American Egg Board that calls them that, and they’re probably biased.

But still, eggs are pretty incredible. Food guru Alton Brown calls them “liquid meat.”

Eggs are delightful for breakfast, of course, and casually decadent for dinner.

But the meal at which they reach their fullest potential would have to be brunch.

When served at brunch, eggs dress up in their Sunday best. It is when they are at their most elegant and are most eager to please and impress.

Brunch eggs take a little more effort than a couple of Tuesday morning eggs over easy served with a side of toast and a cup of coffee.

But brunch is for guests, and guests will appreciate the extra time and care you took to prepare them.

They don’t need to know how much of the work was done in advance.

The first dish I made for an egg-filled brunch was a Shakshuka, and to be perfectly honest I decided to focus on eggs this week because I wanted to make Shakshuka. This is a dish I encountered several years ago in an Israeli cookbook. I saw a photograph of it, and I was instantly hooked. It was like falling in love; it was one of those moments that changes you forever — or at least as much as you can be

Shakshuka, above left, and an Omelet Souffle changed by eggs poached in a tomato sauce.

It is the intensely flavored sauce that makes Shakshuka so special. Tomatoes are cooked with paprika, cumin, caraway seeds and turmeric, given a sweet and sour kick with honey and vinegar and then mixed with feta cheese and chopped greens. I made mine fiery hot, which is traditional, but you could easily dial down the heat if you like. A poached egg on top is the perfect accompaniment; when the runny yolk hits the tomato sauce it is the equivalent of culinary paradise.

I next made an egg strata, which is precisely the sort of dish they invented brunch for. It’s bread soaked with eggs, milk and cheese, baked until it puffs up all creamy and delicious. I topped mine with bacon (I used turkey bacon — it’s half the cost and two-thirds the calories of regular bacon) and asparagus.

Egg stratas are so irresistible because, at their core, they are really just thick, savory portions of French toast. Like French toast, they do better when you use bread that is slightly stale (mine was fresh, but I cut it into cubes a couple of hours before making the dish and that worked fine). The longer you can soak the bread in the eggs and milk, the better it will taste. I soaked mine overnight, which was ideal — both for the flavor and for the ease of preparing it the next day.

All I had to do in the morning was put it in the oven and sit back to enjoy the aroma while it baked.

Shakshuka Yield: three to four servings

Ingredients 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion, peeled and diced 3 cloves garlic, peeled and

thinly sliced 1/2 to 1 chile pepper (or to taste), stemmed, sliced in half and minced; seeds removed for less heat if desired 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 teaspoon paprika, smoked or sweet 1 teaspoon caraway seeds, crushed 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, crushed, or 3/4 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 2 pounds ripe tomatoes, cored and diced, or 2 (14-ounce) cans of diced or crushed tomatoes 2 tablespoons tomato paste 2 teaspoons honey 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar or cider vinegar 1 cup loosely packed greens such as radish greens, watercress, kale, Swiss chard or spinach, coarsely chopped 4 ounces (about 1 cup) feta cheese, cut in generous, bitesize cubes 4 to 6 eggs

Directions 1. In a wide skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions and the garlic and cook until soft and wilted, about 5 minutes. Add the chile pepper (if using), salt, pepper, paprika, caraway seeds, cumin and turmeric.

Cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly, to release their fragrance.

2. Add the fresh or canned tomatoes, tomato paste, honey and vinegar, reduce the heat to medium and cook 12 to 15 minutes until the sauce has somewhat thickened. Stir in the chopped greens.

3. Turn off the heat and press the cubes of feta into the tomato sauce. With the back of a spoon, make 4 to 6 indentations in the sauce.

Crack an egg into each indentation. Turn the heat back on to bring the sauce to a gentle simmer, and cook for about 10 minutes, taking some of the tomato sauce and basting the

egg whites from time to time.

Cover and cook 3 to 5 minutes, until the eggs are cooked to your liking.

4. Serve with lots of crusty bread for scraping up the sauce.

Per serving (based on 4): 326 calories; 21 g fat; 8 g saturated fat; 304 mg cholesterol; 17 g protein; 20 g carbohydrate; 12 g sugar; 5 g fiber; 1,345 mg sodium; 229 mg calcium.

Egg Strata

plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake 45 to 60 minutes or until heated through. Let cool slightly, then cut into serving pieces. Serve warm.

Per serving (based on 5): 400 calories; 25 g fat; 12 g saturated fat; 241 mg cholesterol; 25 g protein; 20 g carbohydrate; 6 g sugar; 1 g fiber; 666 mg sodium; 385 mg calcium.

Recipe adapted from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Yield: four to five servings

Omelet Souffle

Ingredients 1/2 loaf of white bread, crusts removed, cut into cubes 1/2 pound bacon or bulk breakfast sausage, or 3/4 cup cubed ham 1/2 tablespoon butter 1/2 pound sliced fresh mushrooms Salt 5 eggs, beaten 1 1/4 cups whole milk 1/3 pound (5 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard or 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 1/4 pound asparagus, bottom few inches removed Note: Recipe can be easily doubled. Cook in a 9-by-13inch baking pan.

Yield: two to four servings

Directions 1. Place bread in a buttered 8-by-8-inch baking dish. If using bacon, cut into 1-inch strips and fry until crisp. For sausage, fry, crumble and drain. For ham, cook in a nonstick pan, turning, until browned and heated through.

2. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat.

Add mushrooms, season with salt, and cook until tender.

Drain off excess liquid.

3. In a large bowl, combine eggs, milk, cheese, mustard, reserved meat, cooked mushrooms and asparagus. Pour this mixture over the bread, but do not mix. Cover with

Ingredients 4 egg yolks 2 tablespoons granulated sugar Salt Grated rind of 1 lemon 4 egg whites 1/2 tablespoon butter Fruit jam, sauce or preserves Directions 1. Beat egg yolks with sugar, a dash of salt and grated lemon rind. Beat egg whites to soft peaks and gently fold into yolk mixture.

2. Melt butter in a 9-inch skillet over medium heat, and add egg mixture. Cook slowly until bottom of omelet is golden brown. You may cover pan until top of omelet is thoroughly cooked or you may serve it with the top slightly runny, as with a regular French omelet. You may also turn it over if you want it browned on both sides. Spread with fruit sauce or preserves (apricot, strawberry or raspberry preserves are especially good with this). Fold in half and serve.

Per serving (based on 4): 110 calories; 6 g fat; 3 g saturated fat; 188 mg cholesterol; 6 g protein; 7 g carbohydrate; 7 g sugar; no fiber; 102 mg sodium; 27 mg calcium.

Adapted from “The German Cookbook” by Mimi Sheraton

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(First published in The Tabatha Mallory and AnLawrence Daily thony Thomas, 1930 Maple Journal-World June 17, Lane, left behind clothing, 2015) furniture, hunting equipment, kitchen ware, freezIN THE DISTRICT COURT ers, gym equipment, and OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, misc items. Property will KANSAS be disposed of on July 8th, 2015 is not claimed or picked up prior.

In the Matter of the Estate Jim Wise, of Landlord MARGIE C. STOECKER, ________ Deceased (Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59) Case No. 2015 PR 000086 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on June 12, 2015, a Petition was filed in this Court by Sharon S. Spratt, an heir, devisee, legatee and named fiduciary in the Last Will and Testament of Margie C. Stoecker, deceased, dated May 11, 1983, requesting Informal Administration and to Admit the Will to Probate.

You are required to file your written defenses to the Petition on or before July 9, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in this Court, in the City of Lawrence, in Douglas County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Sharon S. Spratt, Petitioner

Douglas rence, Kansas County Courthouse, the following described real estate located in the County of Douglas, State of Kansas, to wit:

AT THE BEGINNING NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 6, BLOCK 3, SIGNAL RIDGE, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF BALDWIN CITY, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS: THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 40 MINUTES (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal- 49 SECONDS EAST, ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID World June 17, 2015) LOT 6, 90.00 FEET: THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 26 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF 01 SECONDS DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS MINUTES WEST, ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 6, 75.25 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as FEET; THENCE NORTH 89 Trustee for the 41 MINUTES 32 DEGREES Certifi-cateholders of Banc SECONDS WEST, 90.00 of America Funding FEET TO THE WEST LINE Corpora-tion Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, OF SAID LOT 6; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 26 Series 2007-5 MINUTES 01 SECONDS Plaintiff, EAST, ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 6, 75.27 vs.

FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINS 0.16 Matthew Gish, Pamela ACRE, MORE OR LESS, Gish , et al., NOW KNOWN AS SIGNAL Defendants.

RIDGE, BLOCK 3, PARCEL 6B. Case No. 14cv402 K.S.A. 60 SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS Mortgage Foreclosure COUNTY, KANSAS (Title to Real Estate Involved) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County of Douglas, State of Kansas, in a certain cause in said Court Numbered Richard W. Hird, KS 14cv402, wherein the parBar #11219 ties above named were rePetefish, Immel, Heeb & spectively plaintiff and deHird, LLP fendant, and to me, the un842 Louisiana dersigned Sheriff of said Lawrence, KS 66044-0485 County, directed, I will of785-843-0450 Office fer for sale at public auc785-842-0407 Fax tion and sell to the highest rhird@petefishlaw.com bidder for cash in hand at Attorneys for Petitioner 10:00 AM, on 07/09/2015, _______ the Jury Assembly Room (First published in the of the District Court loLawrence Daily Journal cated in the lower level of the Judicial and Law EnJune 24, 2015) forcement Center buildAbandon Property Notice ing, 111 E. 11th St., Law-

Respectfully Submitted, By:___________________ Shawn Scharenborg, KS # 24542 Sara Knittel, KS # 23624 Kelli N. Breer, KS # 17851 Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. (St. Louis Office) 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 St. Louis, MO 63141 Phone: (314) 991-0255 Fax: (314) 567-8006 Email: sscharenborg@km-law.com

Attorney for Plaintiff _______

(109047) vs.

_______

Christian M. Bennett and Bonnie G. Bennett, et al Defendants.

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World June 17, 2015)

Case No. 14CV414 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS

NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Lower Level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center of the Courthouse at Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, on July 9, 2015, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate: Lot 1, Block 5, in FIRETREE ESTATES PHASE 2, a subdivision in the City of Baldwin, Douglas County, Kansas, as shown by the recorded plat thereof, commonly known as 907 Firetree Avenue, Baldwin City, KS 66006 (the “Property”) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case.

The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court. For more information, visit www.Southlaw.com Kenneth M. McGovern, Sheriff Douglas County, Kansas

(First published in the Prepared By: Lawrence Daily Journal- SouthLaw, P.C. Kristen G. Stroehmann World June 17, 2015) (KS # 10551) 6363 College Blvd., IN THE DISTRICT COURT Suite 100 OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, Overland Park, KS 66211 KANSAS (913) 663-7600 Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (913) 663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff Plaintiff,

Wells Fargo Bank, NA Plaintiff, vs.

Robin Harmon, et al., Defendants.

Case No. 14cv436 Division 1 K.S.A. 60 Mortgage Foreclosure (Title to Real Estate Involved) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County of Douglas, State of Kansas, in a certain cause in said Court Numbered 14cv436, wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to me, the undersigned Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at 10:00 AM, on 07/09/2015, the Jury Assembly Room of the District Court located in the lower level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center building, 111 E. 11th St., Lawrence, Kansas the following described real estate located in the County of Douglas, State of Kansas, to wit: THE SOUTH HALF OF LOTS 160, 162, 164 AND 166, IN BLOCK 12, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF MILL STREET, IN THAT PART OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE KNOWN AS NORTH LAWRENCE, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS.

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The original claim for the Court should be mailed to: Clerk of the Douglas County District Court, 111 E. 11th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66044.

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Tammie L. Lord #22039 Legal Counsel/Special Assistant Attorney General Kansas Highway Patrol 122 S.W. 7th Street Topeka, Kansas 66603-3847 (785) 296-6800 (785) 296-1790 Fax Tlord@khp.ks.gov ________ (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld June 17, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS SUNFLOWER BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

23RD STREET HOLDINGS, L.L.C., a Kansas limited liability company; and 15TH STREET HOLDINGS, L.L.C., a Kansas limited liability company, Defendants Case No. 2015-CV-136 Division 5

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that property herein described has been seized for forfeiture and is pending forfeiture to the Kansas Highway Patrol pursuant to the Kansas Standard Asset Seizure and Forfeiture Act (KSASFA), K.S.A. 60-4101 et seq. If you have not previously received a Notice of Seizure for Forfeiture, this is notice pursuant to the Act. The prop-

You should be aware that it is a crime to falsely allege an ownership interest in property or to provide other false information in a claim. Further, pursuant to K.S.A. 60-4116(f), a claimant who fails to establish that a substantial portion of the claimant’s interest is exempt from forfeiture may be responsible to pay the reasonable costs, expenses and attorney fees of other claimants and the State.

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NOTICE OF PENDING FORFEITURE Pursuant to K.S.A. 60-4109

This Notice seeks claims to the seized property only.

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erty was seized by the SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS Kansas Highway Patrol on COUNTY, KANSAS May 9, 2015, on K10 Hwy at MM 8 in Douglas County, Respectfully Submitted, Kansas. The value of the By: property has been set at _____________________ $670.00. The conduct givShawn Scharenborg, KS ing rise to forfeiture # 24542 and/or the violation of law Sara Knittel, KS # 23624 alleged is: the property Kelli N. Breer, KS # 17851 was used or intended to be Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. used to facilitate (St. Louis Office) violation(s) of the felony 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 of fleeing or attempting to St. Louis, MO 63141 elude a police officer in viPhone: (314) 991-0255 olation of K.S.A. 8-1568, an Fax: (314) 567-8006 act giving rise to Email: property’s forfeiture pursscharenborg@km-law.com suant to K.S.A. 60-4104(z).

Attorney for Plaintiff Further, a presumption of _______ forfeitability exists in that vehicle was seized at the (First published in the time of the violation.

Lawrence Daily Journal World June 24, 2015) Should you believe you have a true ownership inIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF terest in the seized propDOUGLAS COUNTY, erty, you may do either of KANSAS the following; (1) File a CIVIL DIVISION verified claim with the Court, sending copies to STATE OF KANSAS, ex rel. the Plaintiff’s Attorney and KANSAS HIGHWAY the Seizing Agency; or (2) PATROL, Do nothing.

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You may also wish to con$670.00 IN U.S. CURRENCY, sult with an attorney beM/L; fore deciding what is best 4.6 GRAMS OF MARIJUANA; for you.

However, if no 3.2 GRAMS OF valid claim is timely filed METHAMPHETAMINE; within thirty (30) days of Defendants. your service of this Notice, your interest in the seized Case No. 15 CV 206 property, if any, will be forfeited. Any claim shall Pursuant to the Kansas comply with the strict reStandard Asset Seizure quirements of true ownerand Forfeiture Act, ship documentation, as set K.S.A. 60-4101 et seq. out in K.S.A. 60-4111.

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PUBLIC NOTICE CONTINUED FROM D4 TITLE TO REAL ESTATE INVOLVED Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SALE TO: THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS AND TO ALL PERSONS WHO ARE OR MAY BE CONCERNED: Notice is hereby given pursuant to an Order of Sale issued by the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas in the above- captioned action, that I will on Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., offer for sale and sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash in hand, in the jury assembly room located on the basement level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., in the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, the following-described real estate, to wit: LOT 2, BLOCK ONE, IN CARPENTER ADDITION NO. 2, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS,

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which has a common street address of 1025-35 E. 23rd St., Lawrence, Kansas 66046. This real estate is taken as the property of defendants and is directed by the Order of Sale to be sold and will be sold without appraisement to satisfy the Order of Sale.

Ken McGovern Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas PREPARED BY: Michael R. Munson, #22585 Erin A. Beckerman, #25147 GAY, RIORDAN, FINCHER, MUNSON & SINCLAIR, PA 3500 SW Fairlawn Road, Suite 210 Topeka, KS 66614 (785) 783-8323; (785) 783-8327 (fax) munson@grfmslaw.com Attorneys for Sunflower Bank, N.A. _______

Plaintiff, vs.

Pamela J Mattson, et al.

Defendants.

the above-entitled case.

The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court. For more information, visit www.Southlaw.com

Case No. 15CV14 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Lower Level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center of (First published in the the Courthouse at LawLawrence Daily rence, Douglas County, Journal-World June 17, Kansas, on July 9, 2015, at 2015) 10:00 AM, the following real estate: IN THE DISTRICT COURT Lot B, in Replat of Lots 8, OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, 9, and 10 in George C KANSAS Smith’s Addition, an addiCIVIL DEPARTMENT tion to the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, U.S. Bank National Kansas, as shown by the Association, as trustee, in recorded plat thereof, trust for registered holders commonly known as 1533 of First Franklin Mortgage Barker Avenue, Lawrence, Loan Trust, Mortgage Loan KS 66044 (the “Property”) Asset-Backed Certificates, to satisfy the judgment in Series 2006-FF18

Kenneth M. McGovern, Sheriff Douglas County, Kansas Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Kristen G. Stroehmann (KS # 10551) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913) 663-7600 (913) 663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (176663) _______ (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World June 17, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS Bank of America, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

Jerry Trober, et al., Defendants.

Case No. 15CV25 K.S.A. 60 Mortgage Foreclosure (Title to Real Estate

Involved) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County of Douglas, State of Kansas, in a certain cause in said Court Numbered 15CV25, wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to me, the undersigned Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at 10:00 AM, on 07/09/2015, the Jury Assembly Room of the District Court located in the lower level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center building, 111 E. 11th St., Lawrence, Kansas the following described real estate located in the County of Douglas, State of Kansas, to wit: LOT THREE (3), BLOCK FOUR (4), IN WHISPERING MEADOWS ADDITION, IN THE CITY OF EUDORA, AS BY THE RESHOWN CORDED PLAT THEREOF, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS Respectfully Submitted, By:

___________________ Shawn Scharenborg, KS # 24542 Sara Knittel, KS # 23624 Kelli N. Breer, KS # 17851 Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. (St. Louis Office) 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 St. Louis, MO 63141 Phone: (314) 991-0255 Fax: (314) 567-8006 Email: sscharenborg@km-law.com Attorney for Plaintiff _______ (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld June 21, 2015) ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

PEC at 785-842-6464.

A Third Party Comment o printed copy can be obKansas City Kansas tained for 50 (fifty) Dollars.

Community College Bidders on this work will The Higher Learning be required to comply with Commission the President’s Executive 230 South LaSalle Street Order No. 11246. RequireSuite 7-500 ments for bidders and conChicago, IL 60604-1411 tractors under this order are explained in the specifications.

The public may also sub________ mit comments on the Commission’s Web site at (First published in the https://www.ncahlc.org/HL Lawrence Daily Journal C-Institutions/third-party-c World June 24, 2015) omment.html Submit Comments on KCKC For Reaffirmation of Accreditation by Higher Learning Commission

Comments must address substantive matters related to the quality of the institution or its academic programs.

Comments must be in writing.

City of Baldwin City, Kansas - Public Works - 609 Kansas City Kansas ComHigh St. Baldwin City, KS munity College (KCKCC) is All Comments must be received by October 9, 2015 66006 seeking comments from the public about the ColSeparate sealed BIDS for lege in preparation for its SunflowerClassifieds the construction of a 1,400’ periodic evaluation by its x 8’ multi-use trail from regional accrediting 11th street to the Baldwin agency. The College will City Elementary School host a visit November 9 will be received by the City 10, 2015, with a team repof Baldwin City at the of- resenting the Higher fice of Public Works Direc- Learning Commission 10 LINES & PHOTO: tor until 4:00 PM (Central (HLC) of the North Central 7 DAYS $19.95 Standard Time-Central Association. KCKCC has Daylight Savings time) July been accredited by HLC 28 DAYS $49.95 8th 2015 and then at said since 1951. The team will office publicly opened and review the institution’s onread aloud. going ability to meet the DOESN’T SELL IN 28 DAYS? Commission’s Criteria for +FREE RENEWAL! To obtain an electronic pdf Accreditation. set of contract documents or view a list of plan hold- The public is invited to ers, or ask project specific submit comments regard- ADVERTISE TODAY! CALL 832-2222 information please contact ing the college:

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LIQUIDATION SATURDAY JUNE 27TH, 2015 • 10:00 A.M. 21073 EAST 450 RD., LAWRENCE, KS AUCTION From Lawrence take HWY 59 South 1 mile turn West on Dg. 458 12 miles turn Right on N 851 Diagonal Rd. ½ Mile to Auction! Watch For Signs!!

After Many Years in the Excavating Business Heine Grading has decided to Sell the Following!!

Excavating Equipment: 1988 Caterpillar D6H Series II Dozer w/3 shank ripper, 50% UC, ser#4RC1848, enclosed cab, rops;1986 Caterpillar D6H Dozer w/3 shank ripper, ser#4RC580, enclosed cab, rops; Caterpillar 621B Belly-Pan Earth Scraper ser#45P1662 rops/canopy, w/cushion hitch; Caterpillar 613 Chain-Driven Elevating Earth Scraper, rops/canopy; Caterpillar No. 12E Motor Grader ser#99E11461; 1965/66 Allis-Chalmers 260 Belly-Pan Scraper w/19K engine, Kontork Differential; Allis-Chalmers 260 Belly-Pan Scraper(parts) both 260’s have consecutive serial #’s; 1990 Mack CH613 Semi-Truck, 10 spd., 11R-24.5 tires, tandem axle, flat-top sleeper; 1977 Hyster Lowboy Trailer 8 ft. x 25 ft., 35 ton, tandem axle, wooden floor; Collector Tractors/Equipment: John Deere 830 diesel Industrial tractor; Allis-Chalmers WC tractor nf; IH F-12 tractor; Caterpillar 35 crawler(parts or restoration); Rogers Iron Works Rock Crusher 2-27-1935 ser#6558; Blacksmith Lancaster Geared Blower & Table; 100 lb.+ Anvil on block stand; 4-wheel Chicago Pneumatic CP Compressor; Large Aurora Belt-Driven Drill Press w/several spline bits;

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classifieds@ljworld.com TAGGED ESTATE SALE 1610 E 476 Rd. LAWRENCE, KS. 66049

MERCHANDISE

GARAGE SALES

LIVING ESTATE OF GORDON & CONNIE MERRITT JUNE 26TH 9:00-5:00 JUNE 27TH 9:00-3:00 Take HY 40 West to Stull Rd. Then West 2.3 miles to 476 Rd.

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Very large estate with two out buildings. Huge collection of cast iron, ceramic, wood and glass Scottish dogs, exceptional KU memorabilia, 53” Samsung LED TV, 40 “ Panasonic slim TV, stereo equipment, crystal glass ware, kitchen ware, hand and power tools, sofas, beds, chest of drawers, Armatel pewter, Norman Rockwell plates, Dog plates, Bev Doolittle art, gun case, 6’ mounted sail fish, spoon collection, coffee table, side tables, lamps, easy chairs, microwave, GE freezer & refrigerator, hospital bed, 8 piece sterling place setting, file cabinets, desks, oak dining room table w/ six chairs, hand and power tools, 4000 and 5000 Watt generators, air compressors, chain saws, weed eaters, hot tub, lawn furniture, extension ladders, Craftsman snow blade, roto tiller, ARC, 18 stick welder, ramps, antique sled, pet porters, fountain, 2 Zip electric motor scooters, Toro snow blower, power washer, much misc.

Bicycles-Mopeds 2007 Men’s Specialized Crossroads Sport Bicycle, Shimano 21 spd, drk gray. LOW MILES Includes Trek chain lock $275 (will consider offers) 785-842-1017

Garage Sale Deadline For the weekly community newspapers or to get the full Wednesday- Saturday run included in your package place your ad by 3:00PM on Monday

Shown by John I. Hughes Certified Appraiser 785-979-1941

Auction Calendar

AUCTIONS

Equipment/Shop Equipment & Misc.

1956 Chevrolet 4400 Fuel Truck (550 gallon); 1965 Chevrolet C50 single axle Truck w/Haul-Mor 14 ft. grain-bed; pull-type 8 ft. 3 bladed finish mower; Rome TAW 20-28 offset 12 ft. disk; Lincoln Type SA-200 2-wheel trailer welder; 2-wheel trailer 6 cylinder Continental trash-pump; Caterpillar 25 & 29 cable control units; 2-wheel trailer Braden cable-winch; Allis-Chalmers 19 & 25K engines(parts); several Allis-Chalmers heads/cranks/parts; roll-cage; Chevrolet 350 diesel engine; Gardener Denver 25 hp. horizontal Air-Compressor; 100 gallon L-Shape fuel tank; Tuthill 12V fuel-pump; side tool boxes; 1 & ¾ drive socket sets; ¾ torque wrench; Honda GC160 w/Pacer pump trash-pumps; acetylene/oxygen torch set; Vibromax tamper; horizontal band-saw; 10 in. bench grinder; large tapdie set; Surveyor DM4; laser-level; Craftsman tools; pipe wrenches; chisels; hammers; numerous power/hand tools; Caterpillar bolts/pins/parts; large pigeon hole bolt bin; misc. plastic pipe; drainage end caps/etc.; salvage items; numerous items too many to mention!

Seller: Heine Grading Reta & Late Otis(Lud) Heine & Rod Heine Auction Note: Most items in working condition but some will sell as is!

Concessions: All Proceeds to Kahlyn Heine 4-H Foundation Scholarship Large Bldg. To Sell From In Case of Inclement Weather! Loader Day of Auction Only!

Auctioneers: Elston Auctions, Mark Elston & Jason Flory (785-594-0505) (785-218-7851) (785-979-2183) “Serving Your Auction Needs Since 1994”

Please visit us online at www.KansasAuctions.net/elston for pictures!!

ACE SELF-STORAGE $TORAGE WAR$ PUBLIC AUCTION JJUNE UNE 28 28, 8, 20 2015 015 5 @ 1:0 1:00 00 PM 2400 FRANKLIN RD, LAWRENCE, KS • GATES OPEN AT 11:00AM (next to Douglas County Jail)

LOTS OF Storage Units to Sell! Best Bid Buys the Whole Unit!

Furniture

REAL ESTATE AUCTION **Open to the Public** Sat, July 11@ 1:00 PM 102 10th St. Baldwin City KS 1269 sqft ranch home- 3 BR w/closets, 1.5 BA, basement, garage, hardwood floors.

Older Home, Needs Updating.

OPEN HOUSE JULY 2 from 5pm- 7pm Edgecomb Auctions (785)594-3507|(785)766-6074 kansasauctions.net/edgecomb edgecombauctions.com

Auction Calendar ACE SELF STORAGE $TORAGE WAR$ Sunday, June 28 @ 1PM Gate opens at 11:00 MANY STORAGE UNITS TO SELL! BEST BID BUYS THE WHOLE UNIT! Also for sale10 pallets of decorative stone, ‘94 Chevy Tahoe, Antique Harley Davidson, ‘73 Volkswagen Thing. Vehicles have reserve-No RESERVE ON STORAGE UNITS! 2400 Franklin Rd Lawrence, KS

Rocker chairsSturdy, wrought iron w/ arms. $35 for both. 785-550-1149 Twin bed, vanity, chest Maple Veneer 5 drawer chest, twin bed head & foot board, frame, slats, vanity, mattress, box springs. $100.00 785-842-4503

Machinery-Tools Pet fountain w/ filter $ 25.00 785-841-3332

RESTRAUANT & CATERING EQUIPMENT AUCTION SUNDAY, JUNE 28, @ 1 PM 709 HIGH ST., BALDWIN CITY, KS. See internet for pictures.

Other items not listed.

L & M CATERING EDGECOMB AUCTIONS 785-594-3507 | 785-766-6074 kansasauctions.net/edgecomb edgecombauctions.com

Questions: Steve- 785-393-9366

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LIQUIDATION AUCTION Sat, June 27 @ 10 am 1073 East 450 Rd Lawrence, KS Excavating Equipment; Dozers, Earth-Scrapers, Semi-Trucks, Lowboy trailer, and more!

Collector Tractors & Equipment; John Deere tractor, Crawler, Rock Crusher, Compresor, Drill Press & more!

Shop Equipment, Tools, & Misc; Fuel truck, welder, cable-winch, torch set, pipe wrenches, & SO MUCH more!

Seller: Heine Grading See web for pics and full bill: kansasauctions.net/elston Elston Auctions- Auctioneers: Mark Elston & Jason Flory (785)594-0505|(785)979-2183 (785)218-7851

 PUBLIC AUCTION  SUNDAY, JUNE 28, @ 1:00PM 709 HIGH ST., BALDWIN CITY, KS. (Auction will be in alley behind building)

Garage Sale 4608 Hearthside Dr. Lawrence Sat, Jun 27, 8am-12pm

Little Tykes play set with rock climbing wall & slide $30 for set. 785-550-1149

Raleigh mountain bike (ladies), water skis, photo tripod, coffee table, end tables, bar stools, home decor, much more!

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GARAGE SALE 1554 B Legend Trail Dr Lawrence

Fri, Jun 26 & Sat, Jun 27 8am-1pm Wrought iron baker’s rack, swivel sweeper, CD/DVD wooden rack, women’s clothes sizes 18-3X, shoes, purses, kitchen misc., lamps, and books. Free items.

Directions: off of Bob Billings (15th St), west of Wakarusa and George Williams Way. Past road closed sign.

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Moving Sale

4178 Blackjack Oak Dr

Lawrence

Fri, Jun 26 & Sat, Jun 27 8:00 am -2:00 pm Women’s clothing, jewelry, tons of books, toys, puzzles, kitchen items, exercise equipment. Tons of items.

Everything must go!

Miscellaneous

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Antique statues of George & Martha Washington $25.00 pr. 10 small china figurines $20.00 Call 785-841-3332

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Craftsman 7 1/4 Circular Saw 20.00 Lithium-Ion 18 v. Drill Motor 10.00 Freon 12 20.00 Oil Charge or Stop Leak 10.00 Call 785-841-3332

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For Sale: 2 Free State Beer Signs, Coperhead Pale Ale and Adastra Ale $ 30.00 OBO 785-841-5708

EQUIPMENT: After many years Primed 38 Special Brass, in the restaurant and catering 250 $20 business Lloyd & Madeline Mad- Hardsided Gun Case $10.00 den are retiring. See internet for Call 785-841-3332 pictures. Other items not listed.

TERMS: CASH, GOOD CHECK & Music-Stereo CC W/PHOTO ID. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS, LOST OR STOLEN ITEMS. DRINKS & Pianos: Beautiful Story & SOME FOOD AVAILABLE. Clark console or Baldwin L & M CATERING Spinet, $550. Kimball EDGECOMB AUCTIONS Spinet, $500. Gulbranson 785-594-3507 | 785-766-6074 Spinet, $450. And more! kansasauctions.net/edgecomb Prices include tuning & edgecombauctions.com delivery. Call-785-832-9906

Chocolate Lab Puppies AKC, champion bloodlines, DNA checked, blocky heads, parents on site, hunters & companions, vet checked, puppy shots, avail. now.

2 Female, 1 Males!

Females $600 & Males $500 785-865-6013

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You will have a few minutes to look inside before the auction starts. Also selling 10 pallets of decorative stone, 1994 Ford E350 moving truck with 15’ bed, 1999 Chevy Tahoe (no title), Antique Harley Davidson (was in small fire but has all parts, no title), 1973 Volkswagen Thing(no title). All vehicles have a reserve, no reserve for Storage Units!

Questions? Call Steve (785) 393-9366

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Rain Date: July 5, 2015 @ 1:00 pm Gate Opens @ 11:00 am

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Bank tellers take advantage of dad’s ‘tips’ Dear Annie: My father is starting to have trouble managing his banking. He has a decent fixed income, but somehow, he is now living from one check to the next and he’s getting costly overdrawn notices. I have started to write out his bills, and I try to keep his checkbook balanced.

Last week, I went to the bank with him for the first time. He could not remember his account number.

He knew nothing about how much was in his account and it was obvious that the tellers were aware of this.

They called him by name, trying to help him.

When he finished his depositing a check, he tipped the teller $30.

He said he tips them all the time because

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they help him. Annie, I know he makes withdrawals every Friday to “make it through the weekend,” but I didn’t realize he was tipping the tellers.

Is this permitted?

I had no idea tellers could accept tips. My father doesn’t have a great deal of money and my brother and I often help him out so he can balance his checkbook.

How should we handle this? — Senior Banking Issues

Loner hero shines in ‘Mr. Robot’ Daring, challenging and compelling, “Mr. Robot” (9 p.m., USA) could be the most talkedabout new drama of the summer.

The challenging aspects of “Mr. Robot” present themselves immediately. Its main character, Elliot (Rami Malek, “The Pacific”), lives primarily in his own thoughts, forcing the drama to rely heavily on voice-overs. A programmer genius working cyber-security for an independent firm hired to protect the computer systems of the world’s largest corporation, Elliot has mixed feelings about his job. Or, rather, he emphatically hates it, hates his client and the rigged system it represents.

Elliot moonlights as a hacker by night. He’s first seen riding the subway, alone with his thoughts, consumed with the notion that he’s being followed.

It would be easy to believe that he’s merely a disturbed paranoid. Then he announces himself to the owner of an enormous coffee bar chain and tells him that he’s broken into his deeply encrypted personal files, revealing criminal activity of a sordid nature. We quickly learn that Elliot isn’t blackmailing this man. He’s out for justice, not money.

“Mr. Robot” follows a trend in presenting the highly intelligent, quasi-autistic activist as a new kind of superhero. It makes interesting work of Elliot’s antisocial nature. His interior monologue consistently crowds out the conversations of others in ways both jarring and funny. In one scene, a buttoned-down colleague wonders why they can’t just “chill”?

In another, a repressed superior spills that he’s really gay, not suspecting that “coming out” means little to a person locked in his own thoughts.

How hard to love is Elliot? He can’t communicate “normally,” but he hacks everybody, including his therapist (Gloria Reuben), whose eHarmony profile reveals a life of desperate loneliness that he can understand. Elliot’s self-medication of choice is morphine. His most consistent relationship is with a fish named Qwerty.

While not an easy guy to like, Elliot could emerge as TV’s next great antihero. It doesn’t hurt that many of his subversive and caustic asides are immediately tweet-able.

Tonight’s other highlights O Charles Barkley joins the cast of “Suits” (8 p.m., USA) as it enters its fifth season.

O Vince Neil hasn’t really appeared on a thousand different reality shows. It only seems that way. Look for him on “Celebrity Wife Swap” (9 p.m., ABC), along with Gunnar Nelson.

O Martin must steal a new report on “Deutschland 83” (10 p.m., Sundance).

Dear Banking: We don’t know what bank your father patronizes, but every bank we checked said that tipping is absolutely not permitted. Your father obviously has some memory issues and unless the bank tellers are depositing those tips back into Dad’s account, they are taking advantage of him. Complain to their supervisors. And if Dad is living checkto-check, it sounds as though it is time for someone else to manage his banking.

Discuss this with your brother, so there are no arguments, and then approach Dad, explaining that you want to be sure his money lasts. Make him a part of the process.

It would be best if you could limit how often he goes to the bank,

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Wednesday, June 24: This year you tend to feel pressured. You often say one thing but do another. Others in your life might find your messages to be somewhat conflicting and difficult to understand. If you are single, you could meet someone of significance anytime from midAugust on. If you are attached, you both develop an increased desire to spend more time together.

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) ++++ You might want to get past others’ attitudes. Just try to keep everything calm on the homefront. Tonight: Out late.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++ Weigh the pros and cons of a situation. Make an effort to be more in touch with your needs.

Tonight: Pace yourself.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ++++ You might want to put more pep in your step and come from a place of happiness.

Tonight: Very playful.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) +++ When you become a hot head, it might be difficult not to say the wrong thing. Tonight: Use your imagination no matter where you are.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) +++ You might enter a period where you want others to take the lead more often. Tonight: A force to behold.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ Don’t allow money to become too much of a theme. A friend suddenly could become demanding. Tonight: Your treat.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) +++ Your patience seems to be wearing thin from dealing with a difficult associate or friend.

Tonight: Happy at home.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) +++ Read between the lines when dealing with someone you care about. Rather than get into an argument, say little. Tonight: Not to be found.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ You could feel as if you need to take a different road. You might be insecure. Tonight: Where the crowds are.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ Others have expectations that might surprise you.

Avoid a disagreement. Tonight: In the limelight.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) +++++ Be willing to take a walk on the wild side. As a result, you will lighten up. Tonight: Use your imagination.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ++++ A partner’s efforts will pay off in a way that neither of you had anticipated. Tonight: Reach out to a friend.

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker June 24, 2015

ACROSS 1 Type of chest 6 Elected period 10 Affliction of the eyelid 14 Without company 15 La Scala highlight 16 Golfer’s pocketful 17 “And finally ...”

20 “Buenos ___” 21 Not one or the other 22 Chang’s twin 23 Kind of service 24 First and reverse, e.g.

28 Bounce back again 30 Rat fink 32 More crooked or off-center 35 Face a fireballer 36 Don’t take sides 40 One with an electric organ?

41 Nighttime visitor of folklore 42 Early nightlight 45 It may be high or faint 49 Gather 50 Singer Stefani 52 Work wk. starter 6/24

53 More overworked 56 Source of fries 57 “Halt!”

61 Brass subordinate 62 Wraps up 63 Classic record label 64 Within view 65 Lion’s share 66 “Poly” add-on DOWN 1 Mobile artist Alexander 2 “Seinfeld” gal 3 Two tablets every six hours, e.g.

4 Carpenter, army and fire insects 5 Civil War soldier, briefly 6 See 56-Across 7 “Sesame Street” resident 8 Cell block brawl 9 It takes figuring 10 Dorm room staple 11 Oolong, for one 12 Referendum choice 13 “C’___ la vie!”

18 Principle of some labor groups

19 Big name in building blocks 23 “Hold it right there!”

25 Goya’s “Duchess of ___” 26 100 dinars 27 On easy street 29 Semicircular basin in a mountain 30 Farmer’s need 31 Ornamental objects of no great value 33 “Sack” attachment 34 A hotel for travelers 36 Bona fide 37 “If all ___ fails ...”

38 Mountain pool 39 Biochemistry abbr.

40 Type of roll 43 Clarence Darrow, notably 44 One more time 46 Produce changes 47 Reporter’s contact 48 Make esteemed 50 Prepares, as for action 51 Least big 54 “Beg pardon ...”

55 Ashcroft’s predecessor 56 Hauls into court 57 Gabriel, for one 58 10-10, e.g.

59 Org. quoted on toothpaste tubes 60 Poem type

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

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(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: MIMIC ADAGE SORROW POETRY Answer: When the author went for a horseback ride, he ended up getting — “RIDER’S” CRAMP

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