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Down two sets early, the Jayhawks battled back in the NCAA women’s volleyball tournament but couldn’t overtake Nebraska in Omaha.

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THOMAS “TOM” MARKUS, of Iowa City, Iowa, left; Cheryl Harrison-Lee, of Gardner, center; and Roderick “Rod” Bremby, of Glastonbury, Conn., were the three city manager finalists who met with Lawrence residents at a public reception Thursday evening at the Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St.

Final interviews are set for today

By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @NikkiWentling

Dozens of people stood in three lines inside the Carnegie Building on Thursday night, waiting for their turn to speak with each of the finalists for Lawrence’s vacant city manager position.

Over a two-hour period, candidates Rod Bremby, Cheryl Harrison-Lee and Tom Markus answered questions from individuals about their plans for the city, issues such as economic development and affordable housing, as well as their motivations for applying to the position.

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gaged,” Markus said at the World, Markus, 64, public reception. “They described Iowa City, have good questions. They home to the University want to know how I’m of Iowa, as a “slightly going to fit in and what I’m smaller version of Lawgoing to accomplish.” rence.” He said both Markus, the curcommunities have rent city manager the same types of of Iowa City, Iowa, challenges, includwas asked Thursday ing affordable for his thoughts on housing. affordable housing, Harrison-Lee, the economic developcurrent city adminCITY ment incentives, istrator of Gardner, COMMISSION said she talked with how city governments should attendees Thursinteract with the business day about her plans for community and the city’s economic development, need for a new police faaffordable housing and cility — “all the hot-button mental health issues, issues,” he said. among other topics.

In a previous inter“Really, they’ve asked view with the Journalabout all the issues a city

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would be engaged in,” she said. “It’s a great opportunity to talk about my experiences from an intern all the way to my current position.”

Harrison-Lee, 53, talked in detail with the JournalWorld in November about her experiences with economic development, which have included helping establish an economic incentives policy for Gardner and acting as the chief of growth management in Orlando, Fla. Harrison-Lee noted Rock Chalk Park as having leverage to bring in more development opportunities.

In November, students at state universities across Kansas were invited to take an online survey about BOARD OF concealed carry on REGENTS campus. More than 20,500 students took the survey and — this may surprise many — they appear to be roughly split on some campuses over whether they’re OK with campus concealed carry.

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t has become a routine at Lawrence City Hall. Every few months, the city finds itself embroiled in a controversy with Lawrence businessman Thomas Fritzel at the center of the storm. This most recent one — an alleged Several of Thomas Fritzel’s $500,000 dealings with the city worth of sales tax mis- have come under scrutiny, deeds at The while other projects, such Oread hotel as the Eldridge Hotel rehab, site — is one have been praised of the more in the community. interesting ones yet. But, it could get a lot more interesting before it is over because this controversy has at least $10 million at stake for the city and Fritzel’s development group.

As our reporting over the past few days has explained, The Oread hotel site is in a special taxing district. What is special about it is that Fritzel’s development group

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United Way projects 2015 fundraising shortfall

By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @NikkiWentling

Marian EloisE HEss Visitation for Marian E. Hess, 69, Lawrence, will be 6-7p Monday, December 21, 2015, at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Private burial later. rumsey-yost.com

Helen l. HumpHrey No formal services are planned for Helen L. Humphrey, 96 Lawrence. She passed away Wed., Dec. 16th at Neuvant House. warrenmcelwain.com.

LMH search for CEO is moving forward

By Michelle Tevis Twitter: @WellCommons

Lawrence Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees member Rob Chestnut said in the board’s monthly meeting that the search for a new CEO is moving apace.

Chestnut, who is leading the search committee, said the group had its first meeting in which search firm Witt/Kieffer shared information the firm had gathered during interviews and surveys with physicians and other stakeholders.

“We will have a few edits, but we have completed what is the basically the position specification,” Chestnut said. The 16-page document includes the CEO’s job description and statistical information from staff.

“It’s really just our brief to provide candidates all the particulars about the hospital,” such as information about the size of the hospital, its financial performance and the community of Lawrence, he said.

The CEO position will be posted officially in the next two or three days. It will be posted on the search firm’s site as well as several professional websites and the hospital’s site.

Chestnut said the committee will have bi-weekly

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That’s according to Kansas University Student Body President Jessie Pringle, who shared some preliminary results of the survey with the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday. Pringle is chairwoman of the Regents Students’ Advisory Committee.

The Students’ Advisory Committee will prepare a formal executive summary and present that along with complete results from the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University, which helped the group prepare the survey, after the first of the year, Pringle said.

That report is expected to have more details about sample size and other data.

Here are a few more stats — for all universities — from the preliminary results: l 55 percent of students want to amend the law so guns are not allowed on campus; 14 percent want to keep the current law but extend the exemption past 2017 so universities could continue prohibiting guns; 31 percent want to keep the current law and allow the exemption to expire. l In general, students were more OK with faculty and staff being allowed to carry concealed on campus than they were with fellow students or visitors carrying guns.

updates with the number of people contacted and progress on the search. Witt/ Kieffer will do face-to-face interviews and vet candidates in the next several weeks.

Chestnut said the committee expects to meet again to review a group of possibly 10 people (on paper, not face to face) by mid- to late February and expects to identify and conduct interviews with finalists in late March.

In other business: l The tentative completion date of the skilled nursing and rehabilitation unit on the fourth floor is scheduled for early February. l LMH will have signage installed by Jan. 5 at Sports Pavilion Lawrence for its leased Performance and Wellness Center space. An open house at Sports Pavilion is scheduled for Jan. 26. l The hospital had its first Patient Family Advisory Council meeting in December and discussed the patient online portal. Sarah Bradshaw, vice president of nursing at LMH, said the council will meet again in January and discuss the billing process.

The United Way of Douglas County is projecting a 10 percent shortfall for its 2015 fall fundraising campaign, according to a Thursday announcement from the organization.

The campaign, which began in September, has a goal of raising $1.68 million, which was the amount donated in 2014.

Based off donations so far, it’s estimated United Way will gather about $168,000 less than it did last year.

Colleen Gregoire, the United Way chapter’s vice president and director of the campaign, said some of the fundraising

would continue into January and February.

“I still anticipate that we’re going to be 8 (percent) to 10 percent short on dollars needed to fully fund our community partners in 2016,” she said.

Gregoire said she was positive about the chapter reaching its goal of having 6,000 donors. On Thursday, she had counted 4,131.

Money gathered through the campaign will go next year to 28 service organizations in Douglas County. The United Way’s goals for Douglas County in 2016 are broadly defined as education, health and selfsufficiency.

During its 2014 campaign, United Way was close to reaching its goal

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stead, she intends to run for a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives.

Campbell filed paperwork Dec. 11 appointing a campaign treasurer to run in the 58th District, which was recently vacated by the resignation of Rep. Harold Lane.

Campbell sought appointment to that seat when the six precinct committee members in the district met to name a replacement, but lost her bid to Rev. Ben Scott, a longtime leader of the Topeka Chapter of the NAACP. During legislative sessions, Campbell, a Democrat, also works as an administrative assistant to Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka. She was re-elected to her second term on the state board in 2012, garnering 71 percent of the vote against Republican Jack Wu, a member of Westboro Baptist Church.

Meanwhile, former Rep. Ann Mah, D-Topeka, has filed to run for Campbell’s 4th District seat on the state board.

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can align themselves with what this commission wants to do in terms of bringing this community forward.”

Those who attended the reception were asked to fill out a feedback form with comments about the candidates. Mayor Mike Amyx said those comments would be assembled by Greg Nelson, a consultant with Ralph Andersen & Associates — the firm hired to help in the search — and presented to the City Commission before a decision is made.

This morning, the candidates will receive a tour of city facilities.

Then, the City Commission will go into a closed executive session at noon, when it will hold final interviews with candidates.

The executive session is scheduled to end at 4 p.m.

Amyx would not say Thursday whether

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

Christie files for Kansas caucuses

ew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie this week became the seventh Republican candidate to file for the Kansas Republican caucuses, which will take place March 5.

Christie filed Wednesday, the day after the latest Republican presidential debate was broadcast on CNN. “The 13 Republican candidates, including Governor Christie, showcased at Tuesday’s debate, showed the American people why a Republican will win the White House in November 2016,” Kansas GOP Chairman Kelly Arnold said.

As chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Christie became a familiar figure on the campaign trail in Kansas, where he appeared several times stumping on behalf of Gov. Sam Brownback.

The March 5 caucuses will take place at about — WellCommons editor Michelle Tevis 95 different caucus locacan be reached at mtevis@ljworld.com tions around the state, or 832-2755. Arnold said. The caucuses are open only to registered Republican voters. l 19 percent of stuDemocrats will also dents said they’d be willhold their caucuses ing to pay an additional March 5. So far, Hillfee to help provide adary Clinton is the only equate security measures Democratic candidate to for buildings; 38 percent file in that race. said they wouldn’t be willing; and 38 percent Board of Education said it depends on the Carolyn Campbell, amount. who represents Lawl 42 percent said rence, Topeka and much allowing campus conof northeast Kansas on cealed carry would the Kansas State Board make them less likely to of Education, has anattend their university; nounced she will not 42 percent said it would seek a third term on the not affect their decision; state board in 2016. Inand 16 percent would be more likely to attend. l Based on the schoolby-school breakdown of responses, KU and KU Medical Center are generally the most against guns on campus, while CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A Fort Hays State and Pittsburg State were generally Bremby, who lived the most accepting. (For in Lawrence for 23 example, only 20 percent years, said he was of KU students said they asked most at the pubsupport campus conlic reception why he cealed carry. Fort Hays wanted to come back had 45 percent supportto Lawrence. Bremby, ing, and Pittsburg had 44 55, worked as assistant percent.) city manager to former A similar survey of City Manager Mike university faculty and Wildgen. staff is still open.

He also served As of Wednesday as Secretary for the morning that survey had Kansas Department of garnered 10,000 responsHealth and Environes, an overall response ment, and now lives rate of 47 percent, accordin Glastonbury, Conn., ing to Lorie Cook-Benjawhere he works as a min, Fort Hays associate commissioner of the professor and chairwomConnecticut Departan of the Regents Council ment of Social Serof Faculty Senate Presivices. dents. That survey went “Lawrence is home, live Dec. 3, and faculty and this is a great opand staff will be able to portunity,” Bremby take it until Jan. 4, Cooksaid. “I think my skill Benjamin said. set and the things I’ve been able to develop — KU and higher ed reporter Sara Shepsince I was last here as herd can be reached at sshepherd@ assistant city manager ljworld.com or 832-7187.

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Senate districts that are currently held by Sens.

Hensley, Laura Kelly of Topeka, Marci Francisco of Lawrence, all Democrats, and Vicki Schmidt, a Topeka Republican.

Brunk resigns Rep. Steve Brunk, R-Wichita, who chairs the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, officially submitted his resignation Thursday to the Kansas Secretary of State’s office.

“Please accept this resignation as my notice to resign my House seat in District 85, effective Jan. 4, 2016,” Brunk wrote in a handwritten letter.

Brunk recently accepted a position as executive director of the Kansas Family Policy Council, a conservative Christian organization that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, and pushes for legislation promoting “traditional” marriage and families.

He stirred controversy when KFPC initially announced his hiring. Brunk told the Wichita Eagle that he didn’t necessarily think he would have to resign his House seat or his chairmanship, despite the fact that his committee deals with legislation in which KFPC has lobbying positions.

Republican precinct committee members in the 85th district will meet soon to name Brunk’s successor. A date for that election has not yet been announced.

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

commissioners would make a decision today.

Once a decision is made, the city will enter into negotiations with whomever is selected.

In a handout to attendees Thursday, the city noted that the selected candidate must establish permanent residency in Lawrence within six months after the start of employment.

The handout also listed traits sought after in a new city manager, including valuing diversity, experience in collective bargaining, a strong voice, a track record of economic development success, experience in short- and long-term planning and the ability to “establish deep roots” in Lawrence.

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

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n the docket this weekend: swimming with Santa, big band music, “A Contemporary Christmas Carol” and “A Christmas Story.” Check out more upcoming events in Going Out, page 4A, and in the Journal-World’s datebook, page 10A.

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Noon to 12:45 p.m. Saturday, Indoor Aquatic Center, 4706 Overland Drive Cabin fever got you down? Take the kids out for a little exercise and holiday cheer at the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department’s Santa Splash.

Like its name implies, the family-friendly event combines swimming and a visit with Santa Claus,

plus games and holiday crafts for kiddos ages 2 to 12.

Entry is $7 per child, though parents are required to pay admission if their child remains after the event to swim.

Registration is also a must if you’re planning on taking part in the

craftmaking — the deadline passed Wednesday, but you can register the day of the event if you don’t mind the possibility of missing out on crafts.

For more information, call 832-7946 or visit the city’s Parks and Recreation website, lawrenceks.org/lprd.

4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. If the near-constant TV airing of this holiday classic on Christmas Day isn’t enough for you, Liberty Hall is hosting two screenings in its big theater as part of its Christmas film series this month.

Tickets cost $7 for seniors (over 60) and children (under 12), and $8 for everyone else.

You can snag yours at the Liberty Hall box office.

Topeka — Gov. Sam Brownback’s office said Thursday that he has not pushed for changes in the focus of an agency that represents consumers in utility rate cases, although he doesn’t necessarily think it’s a bad idea.

Leaders of the House and Senate utility committees also expressed surprise at developments at the Citizens Utility Ratepayers Board, or CURB,

whose members last week openly discussed disbanding the organization or shifting its focus to helping the Brownback administration fight new federal clean air regulations.

“We did not ask CURB to change its focus,” Brownback’s press secretary Eileen Hawley said. “However, overly burdensome regulations from the EPA are clearly the biggest threat to Kansas utility customers.”

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Point A School of Dance: ‘A Contemporary Christmas Carol’ 6 p.m. Saturday, Lied Center Pavilion, 1600 Stewart Drive This short and sweet show (it clocks in at just 30 minutes) from the young dancers of Point A and guest artists Point B Contemporary Dance Company, both of Lawrence, lends a modern twist to Charles Dickens’ classic tale.

Tickets cost $5 and can be purchased through Point A at 3300 Bob Billings Parkway or 402-785-8535.

Jazzhaus Christmas Formal 10 p.m. Saturday, Jazzhaus, 926 Massachusetts St. Dancing, holiday tunes and the Jazzhaus’ 17-piece big band return to the venue for its 33rd Christmas Formal.

Cover is $5, and the room opens at 8 p.m. Attendees are welcome to dress up for the event.

For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page or call 749-3320. More in Going Out, page 4A.

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THIS YEAR’S JAZZHAUS BIG BAND CHRISTMAS FORMAL will be 10 p.m. Saturday at 926 1/2 Massachusetts St.

Jazzhaus Big Band still swinging after 30 years

By Fally Afani Special to the Journal-World

Rick McNeely is full of stories. The animated and constantly upbeat 64-year-old musician has decades of exciting tales from the music scene behind him.

“I’ve got a billion of them!” he declares, waving his hands over his head as though rifling through a library of files.

McNeely, the owner and founder of the Jazzhaus in Lawrence, loves a good show. Even memories of bad shows end on a high note for him. A steady stream of musical highlights is one of the many reasons he’s kept a festive tradition rolling at the Jazzhaus for more than three decades.

On Dec. 19, McNeely will be leading a 17-piece band to its 33rd year of the Jazzhaus’ Big Band Christmas Formal. Revelers will dress up in their holiday finest and dance the night away to big band music while dozens of horn players blast lively tunes through the air. McNeely insists it’s a sight to behold.

“It’s not a Lawrence Welk band, it’s COOL,” he says. “With 17 pieces!

And the instrumentation is five saxophones, then four trombones, four trumpets, and then a four-piece rhythm section of piano, bass, guitar and drums. So when you have that kind of instrumentation, that just gives you an enormous pallet to draw from.”

Passing the baton McNeely is the leader of this big show, a role he only recently stepped into when legendary Lawrence musician Clyde Bysom, who passed away this summer, bestowed the role on him. When talking about Bysom, McNeely tones down his lively demeanor and gets a little sentimental. Bysom sought out McNeely, one of the few saxophone players in town at the time, back in the early ’80s right when he opened the Jazzhaus.

“He came up here when I was still getting opened and he said, ‘Hey, do you want to start a big band?’” McNeely recalls.

“I was just tickled pink because big band jazz for a horn player is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”

The band formed in April 1982, but it didn’t come easy to McNeely at first.

“Sometimes the material’s really hard. He just used to ride me so hard, I didn’t read as well as a lot of the guys,” he says.

“I didn’t have any formal music training at all. So I was practicing my butt off and doing everything that I could do so I could stay in this band.”

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IF YOU GO The 33rd Jazzhaus Big Band Christmas Formal will be 10 p.m. Saturday at Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. There is a $5 cover. him a little harder than the other musicians.

“Clyde had looked out over everyone in the band, and he knew where the baton was going to be passed,” he says. “He knew who had the amiability to do this thing.”

For fun’s sake Bysom was right. Eventually, McNeely took over as big band leader, a role he doted on between running a nightclub and playing in other various musical acts around town.

During the band’s time, they’ve played through snowstorms, played a former member’s wedding (and then later on that same member’s daughter’s wedding), and experienced a rotating roster of some of Lawrence’s finest jazz musicians.

After this many years in operation, some members have passed away.

McNeely says this makes the Christmas formal a little bittersweet, but he tends to not dwell on the sad stuff.

“The band is designed to be fun. We’re not a modern concert band; we’re a dance band. The whole idea is to have fun, because isn’t that what music is supposed to be?” he says. “It’s a unique show to Lawrence. We’re the only big band in Lawrence, the only band that plays big band jazz.”

McNeely says that looking out over a room of dancers while rocking his baritone sax with 16 other instruments piled on top of him is “an amazing feeling.” Most attendees who show up to these shows tend to dress the part because it’s a style that remains timeless.

“Swing dancing became a big craze 15 years ago, then it went out.

Then we got another big shot in the arm with ‘Mad Men,’” McNeely says. “It seems every time you turn on the television there’s something harking back to that era.

The Jazzhaus Big Band has been around long enough to see these trends come and go, then come back again. But if there’s one thing the band’s longevity has taught McNeely, it’s that there’s no such thing as a bad gig.

“Some may be more challenging than others, some you’ll do and never do it again,” he says. “But come on, there’s no such thing as a bad gig. To be able to get paid to play music? How awesome is that!”

— Fally Afani is a freelance writer and editor of iheartlocalmusic.com.

ometime between the tipoff and the end of the first half of Saturday’s 1 p.m. KU men’s basketball game against Montana, Kansas Athletics will attempt to break the current Guinness World Record for something completely unrelated to basketball.

Ironically, Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony and his colleagues in the Kansas Athletics marketing staff hatched their plan to snag the Guinness World Record for “largest gathering of people wearing holiday sweaters” during a brainstorming session last summer.

“Summer is the time for planning, and this is really an example of that,” says Marchiony, who has been stationed this week at the Final Four in Omaha with the KU women’s volleyball team. “We thought it was something our fans would enjoy, which is really the No. 1 reason we’re doing this.”

The current record, according to Kansas Athletics, was set at Loughborough University in Loughborough, United Kingdom, where 1,175 people gathered in holiday sweaters on Dec. 10, 2014.

If you’d like to join in on the attempt Saturday, there are a few ground rules: A holiday sweater, to be clear, is defined by having long sleeves and at least one holidaythemed motif on it. That means reindeer, trees, snowmen, peppermint candies, lights, etc.

(Kansas Athletics is also selling specially designed KU basketball holiday sweaters for the occasion at Kansas Sampler.)

Those wearing their homemade or storebought holiday sweater to the game will be asked to take an “official participation” ticket (completely unrelated to regular tickets, which are very much still a necessary component of attending games at Allen Fieldhouse) from a staff member upon entering.

At the 15:00-10:00 minute mark in the game’s first half, the world record attempt will take place. From there — hopefully, the numbers will be tabulated by the end of the game, Marchi-

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KANSAS ATHLETICS IS SELLING A SPECIAL HOLIDAY SWEATER in conjunction with its attempt to set a world record for “largest gathering of people wearing holiday sweaters” at this Saturday’s KU-Montana men’s basketball game.

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he Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence has been awarded a $20,000 grant to expand its STEM club, which will allow for twice as many kids to receive mentoring related to careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

The club piloted the STEM programming at Woodlawn and Cordley elementary schools in 2015, and starting next month it will expand to include Pinckney and Schwegler, said Hannah Odette, director of grants

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Last week, CURB held a meeting in Wichita where, according to reports, several of its members openly discussed shifting the agency’s mission to focus on fighting the EPA’s new Clean Power Plan.

That plan, which some critics say will result in higher electricity rates for consumers, is aimed at reducing carbon emissions from power plants to combat global climate change.

“Would we be better off taking our budget and fighting (against) that?” board member James Mullin II was quoted as saying. “If we’re talking about affecting the consumer’s bottom line, if we could defeat that mandate from the EPA we would save way more.”

The board also stripped its interim chief counsel, Niki Christopher, of her role in testifying before legislative committees and speaking to the news media.

Those development prompted the board’s chairman, Brian Weber, of Garden City, to resign Wednesday.

CURB was established

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for Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence.

The 2016 Kansas STEM Mentoring Initiative grant is awarded by the Kansas in 1988 by the Kansas Corporation Commission, the agency that regulates public utilities in Kansas. It was codified in law the following year during Republican Gov. Mike Hayden’s administration.

The board is made up of five members, all appointed by the governor. The board, in turn, hires a chief counsel who carries out most of the day-to-day operations, including representing consumers and small business customers before the KCC in rate cases and consumer complaints.

“Much of the proposal I believe violates the law that created CURB,” said Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, who follows utility and energy issues closely.

The statutes governing CURB give it very specific and limited authority.

The board itself is empowered to employ an attorney as a consumer counsel; guide the activities of the consumer counsel; and recommend legislation to the Legislature. It also has general supervisory authority over the agency’s budget, which is $860,390 in the current fiscal year.

The general counsel, in turn, has authority to represent consumers and small business customers before the KCC and to file actions before that comGrissom’s office said.

In a separate case, Elmer has outstanding charges for alleged credit card theft in Johnson County.

Elmer also had a second detention hearing on Thursday.

During the first hearing on Monday, Elmer’s attorney said Missouri child welfare records indicated that Elmer’s former husband, Justin Bush, of Smithville, Mo., may have been abusive to the girls. Bush has denied that.

After the first hearing, Magistrate Judge David Waxse ordered Elmer to be released from federal custody, which meant she would have been transferred to Johnson County to face trial in the credit card case.

But assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Oakley appealed that decision, and on Thursday U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia agreed with Oakley and ordered Elmer held pending trial. Elmer is being held at the maximum security Leavenworth Detention Center.

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mission on consumers’ behalf. He or she also has authority to appeal KCC orders in state courts.

But there is nothing in the statute specifically authorizing CURB to initiate actions in state or federal court, especially if they are not related to an underlying KCC decision.

House Utilities Committee Chairman Rep. Joe Seiwert, R-Pretty Prairie, and his Senate counterpart Rob Olson, R-Olathe, both said Thursday they’d had no prior discussions with CURB officials about changing its mission.

“Not in my capacity as chairman of the utilities committee, no,” Seiwert said. “I’ve never been to any of their meetings.”

Sen. Marci Francisco, of Lawrence, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Utilities Committee, said she was troubled by the talk of changing CURB’s mission.

“Individually, it’s difficult for an individual ratepayer to follow these hearings, do the filings,

and CURB has, I think, done a very good job of identifying concerns and participating in those hearings,” she said. “I am very disturbed to hear that they are contemplating abandoning that mission.”

Meanwhile, Sloan said he sees little value in adding CURB’s name to federal lawsuits already underway challenging the Clean Power Plan.

“Adding CURB’s voice and money will not affect the judicial outcome,” he said. “How many states, utilities, etc. joining the lawsuit does it take? This is similar to the lawsuits against same-sex marriage, the Affordable Care Act. ... Once you have a case, adding plaintiffs just is a political statement.

Spending Kansas ratepayers’ money to join existing lawsuits just means we are spending tax and ratepayer dollars, doubledipping the same purses.”

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Odette said that this year, 120 kids participated, and that number will double starting next month. One session is held per week.

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, STEM jobs in the United States have grown at three times the pace of non-STEM jobs in the past 10 years. Odette said that the STEM club, which is targeted at students in third through fifth grades, allows participants to learn more about STEM career paths from people

currently working or studying in such fields.

The Boys & Girls Club provides after-school care at all 14 of the public elementary schools in Lawrence and also runs a Teen Center for older students. Odette said that the club is looking for additional sources of funding in order to expand its STEM programming to all of its sites.

— This is an excerpt from Rochelle Valverde’s First Bell column, which appears regularly on LJWorld.com.

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For instance, one activity gives students a “makerspace tub” filled with cardboard, straws, rubber bands, craft sticks, plastic bottles and other household items, and students might be asked to build a bridge, or be allowed to build whatever they want.

“It’s free thinking time,” she said. “It’s awesome for the kids, because they don’t always get that at school.”

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In the past year, Odette said she has seen students’ level of interest increase.

“There were kids that weren’t at all interested in STEM, and now they’re really excited about it,” she said.

Part of that excitement might be that the club’s STEM-related activities — with the guidance of someone from the

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gets a large percentage of all local sales taxes generated at the site rebated back to it. The city has been sending rebate checks to the development group since 2009, when the hotel opened. But what is important to note is that the city is scheduled to send rebate checks to Fritzel’s development group until about 2029, or until the development group receives a total of $11 million in rebates, plus the interest costs the development group has paid on loans used to build the private parking garage and other pieces of infrastructure.

The project has received about $3 million in rebates thus far, and when you factor in the interest costs, there’s probably at least another $10 million it is eligible to receive in coming years.

As those numbers show, taxpayers are a major partner in this project. I predict this latest controversy will cause taxpayers to soon ask an important question: Should they continue to be partners?

If the allegations in the auditor’s report prove to be true, it seems likely the city would have legal grounds to terminate the entire incentive package being provided to the Oread project. At that point, this becomes about more than just a $500,000 repayment.

The development group would be at risk of losing $10 million it presumably is counting on to repay loans it has undertaken on the project.

If the allegations are proved to be true — and the city seems to be convinced the allegations are true because the city is seeking the money by the end of the month — the situation essentially would be this: The development group was trying to deceive the public into providing larger than required tax rebates. That’s the sort of thing that causes trust to erode in a partnership. And, partnerships without trust have made divorce attorneys a lot of money.

Whether the city will go so far as to cancel the entire incentive package of the Oread project is unclear. I asked both interim City Manager Diane Stoddard and Mayor Mike Amyx that question Wednesday. Stoddard said all options are on the table, but the city wants to first focus on getting paid the approximately $500,000 it has demanded. Amyx said much the same.

It will be interesting to hear what the public has to say about this. I would think one factor the public will weigh is the long list of controversies that Fritzel has been involved in. Here’s a reminder of a few, in no particular order:

Fake grass Fritzel in 2012 became embroiled in a controversy over whether he improperly installed artificial turf at one of his west Lawrence apartment complexes. The city staff said he did and told Fritzel while his crews were installing it that it was impermissible under city code. Fritzel disagreed and continued to install it anyway.

Commissioners eventually agreed that the fake grass wasn’t allowed under city code, but the commission allowed Fritzel to keep the fake grass anyway.

Varsity House In 2012, a Fritzel group agreed to a $50,000 settlement to end a dispute over whether the old Varsity House was improperly dismantled and removed from its

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District attorney The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday said it had received a high volume of calls regarding the city’s investigation into the 12th and Oread Tax Increment Financing District Redevelopment Agreement. The DA’s office noted it is not an investigative agency. Criminal investigations are commenced by law enforcement agencies, and the results are forwarded to the DA’s office for review and consideration for prosecution. The DA’s office said it had been contacted by the City of Lawrence and informed of the general nature of this matter.

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site in the Oread neighborhood. The city and historic preservationists thought Fritzel was going to move the old house to a different part of the lot to make room for a new apartment project. But what happened instead is that Fritzel’s crews completely dismantled the house and stored its parts offsite until it was reassembled onsite.

Historic preservationists were angry because they said the dismantling ruined the integrity of the old home. Fritzel disagreed, but ultimately agreed to pay a $50,000 settlement in order to get the needed occupancy permit for his apartment project.

The Cave Fritzel is part of the ownership group of the student-oriented nightclub The Cave, which is located in the basement of The Oread. In February, the operators of The Cave pleaded guilty to four counts of violating the state law prohibiting establishments from giving away free liquor or advertising free liquor. In addition, Lawrence police department officials previously have expressed concerns about some of the large melees they have to respond to at The Cave or just outside of The Cave’s premises.

Drywall contractor Early this year, a Fritzel attorney — when questioned by the Journal-World — acknowledged that one of Fritzel’s firms had used a drywall contractor that is at the center of an alleged multimillion dollar scheme involving money laundering and undocumented workers. The contractor was used for portions of the Rock Chalk Park stadium construction. Fritzel has denied knowing anything about the alleged money laundering and undocumented worker scheme.

When I last checked with the U.S. attorney’s office a few weeks ago, I was told the matter is still under investigation.

Rock Chalk Park A Fritzel-led group was the key private partner in the public-private partnership that built the city recreation center and KU sports facilities at Rock Chalk Park.

Fritzel faced significant criticism from the public over his demand that he would only partner with the city if the city agreed to waive its bidding practices for large portions of the project. An auditor eventually had to be hired to review questions surrounding payments the city was required to make to Fritzel’s group.

It would be unfair, however, if I didn’t note that Fritzel has been credited with several positive developments

A Thomas Fritzel-led group was the key private partner in the public-private partnership that built the city recreation center and Kansas University sports facilities at Rock Chalk Park, which became the subject of an audit. in the community, too.

The Eldridge Hotel, a jewel of the community, is in better shape than it was before his group purchased it. He has been part of successfully redeveloping portions of the 600 block of Massachusetts Street. He was a key partner in landing the Berry Plastics distribution center in rural Douglas County.

He has been involved in philanthropy in the community.

Let me be clear: I don’t know whether the city should revoke the incentive package for The Oread project. Doing so very well could put The Oread in financial distress. The city could lose some transient guest tax revenues as a result. The development community may shudder, believing this is a sign the city will revoke other incentive packages in the future.

On the other hand, I have said several times that I believe the biggest issue facing the City Commission currently is low levels of trust with some community residents.

(A quick note: The city staff deserves some credit for bringing this Oread tax issue to light.

In February, I told a city staff member I had received a tip about a company called Oread Wholesale L.C. that was operating at The Oread.

It seemed odd. The city staff, which I have found over the years to be a hard-working and professional group, took that information and got the ball rolling on this audit. State laws were stymying my efforts to get the necessary information to get to the bottom of this, so, absent this audit, I’m not sure the public would have found out about this.)

If the city believes that these allegations are true and that Fritzel was seeking to deceive the city, it is hard to see how the city can simply ask for its money back and move on. That would create a new round of trust concerns with the public.

As I look at this, I don’t see where the city has proposed any penalty for these alleged actions at Oread. The city is basically asking to be made whole. The payment of interest is not a penalty because the development group earned interest on the money while it had it.

Paying $27,000 for the audit the city had to conduct hardly seems like a penalty.

Imagine if the IRS handled situations in this manner. How many people would not pay their taxes if they thought the end result of getting caught was

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The Varsity House was reconstructed at the northwest corner of 11th and Indiana streets by a Fritzel group amid a dispute over whether the historic structure was improperly dismantled.

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Fritzel is a partial owner of The Cave, a student-oriented night club in the basement of The Oread hotel that has been at the center of multiple incidents involving local and state authorities.

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In 2012, Fritzel became embroiled in a controversy over whether he improperly installed artificial turf at the Tuckaway at Frontier Apartments. simply they would have to pay what they owed?

Again, I don’t know what the City Commission should do. It has some tough decisions to make. This much seems clear: The City Commission will be sending a message by what it does or by what it does not do. That’s been the case every time the city has had to deal with a Fritzel controversy.

Now, the question seems to be whether the City Commission will send a message that causes this list of Fritzel controversies to stop growing.

— This is an excerpt from Chad Lawhorn’s “Town Talk” column, which appears at LJWorld.com.

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I don’t have anything to hide, but I find this behavior intrusive and annoying. Sometimes, he will even ask for details about certain parts of my conversation. I don’t dare refuse to answer for fear he will think I’m trying to conceal something. He has a quick temper and becomes defensive and angry if I question him.

I hate conflict, so I just answer his questions to avoid his outbursts.

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‘The Soup’ line ends here The lunch line is closed. Tonight marks the very last episode of “The Soup” (9 p.m., E!), the snarky roundup of clips from talk shows, reality series and other ridiculous fare.

Joel McHale has served as host and executive producer for the past dozen years, after “The Soup” evolved from “Talk Soup,” a series most associated with Greg Kinnear, who hosted from 1991 to 1995. He went on to an acting career that earned him an Oscar nomination for the 1997 comedy “As Good as It Gets,” raves for his appearance in “Little Miss Sunshine” and a chance to play JFK in the Reelz miniseries “The Kennedys.” McHale has been no slouch in the acting department, starring in the NBC comedy “Community.”

Between them, “Talk Soup” and “The Soup” had a 22-season run, a remarkable duration for a series that put the accent on the ephemeral. In many ways, they are victims of their own success, as well as changing technology.

“Talk Soup” existed more than a decade before YouTube and social media outlets made silly clips accessible to anyone and sharable with everyone. Buried somewhere in the DNA of Buzzfeed and similar websites are pop culture chromosomes linked to this show. So while “The Soup” may be canceled, its spirit is very much alive.

“NCIS: Los Angeles” star LL Cool J hosts “Home for the Holidays” (8 p.m., CBS). The holiday special, now in its 17th year, puts the spotlight on children adopted from foster care.

It combines musical performances with profiles of foster children and parents who explain how adoption changed their lives. Performers this year include Christina Aguilera, Jason Derulo, Rascal Flatts and Ed Sheeran. Currently, there are more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States.

Tonight’s other highlights

The voice of Jimmy Durante animates the 1969 special “Frosty the Snowman” (7 p.m., CBS).

The 2000 cartoon “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” (7 p.m., CW, TV-14) brings a novelty song to life.

Jonathan Winters and John Goodman add their voices to the 1995 sequel “Frosty Returns” (7:30 p.m., CBS).

A child’s letter to a newspaper gets an unusual response in the 2009 animated special “Yes, Virginia” (7:30 p.m., ABC, TV-G).

Nick Cannon hosts a holiday episode of “Caught on Camera” (7 p.m., NBC).

Juvenile cooks must recreate Gordon’s dish on “MasterChef: Junior” (7 p.m., Fox, TV-PG).

Terry Crews hosts the season finale of “World’s Funniest” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

sured me until I conceded.

My husband doesn’t automatically report his conversations to me, and I don’t expect him to. Am I too private or is he too nosy?

— Nothing to Hide but My Annoyance Dear Nothing: He’s way too nosy. Confidences between friends or family members do not have to be shared as long as they don’t involve the spouse or the marriage. Saying that you were on the phone with “Myrtle” is sufficient information.

Some spouses tell each other every detail of every conversation, but that is up to them. In your case, your husband is badgering and pressuring you for additional information. Either he doesn’t trust you, or he

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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 will feel better and better as the day goes on. Your energy starts to increase. Tonight: All smiles.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Meetings play a significant role in your decision-making process. Know when you’re too tired to go on. Tonight: Take your leave with grace.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) You’ll give your time and attention to a higher-up who will have something for you to do at the last minute. Tonight: The spotlight is on you!

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Take an overview, and don’t feel intimidated by someone else’s efforts. Tonight: In the limelight.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You could be tired of always having to maintain a positive outlook. You might need to indulge yourself more. Tonight: Make sure there is great music around you.

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needs to control you.

(It’s also possible he is guilty of doing things that he doesn’t want you to know about, and this is why he is overly concerned with your phone conversations and emails.)

What concerns us the most is that you feel you must constantly appease him because of his anger issues.

Tell him to knock it off before he turns into a full-fledged bully and the marriage is in serious trouble. If he refuses, or if you believe his anger is dangerous or more than you can handle, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) at 1-800799-SAFE. — Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

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You might find that you spend most of the day responding and/or reacting to others. Tonight: Express your caring in a meaningful way.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You might feel as if you’re being weighed down by everything you have to do. Tonight: Have fun with a favorite person.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Your emotional responses will point you in the right direction. Settle down by late afternoon. Tonight: Beam in what you want.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You will need to tackle some work or responsibilities in the morning, as tension builds to new level. Tonight: Be naughty and nice.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Make calls and schedule a meeting. You’ll cover so much ground, you might want to head home early. Tonight: Run an errand or two.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Money, gift-giving and considering more of an experience-oriented present will fill your mind with ideas. Tonight: Welcome the weekend with friends.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You know exactly what you want, and you’ll manage to get past any hassles in the morning.

Tonight: Let a friend treat.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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Game safety If the Big 12 wants to end courtstorming after basketball games, it has to be willing to dole out punishments to schools and fans who are involved.

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hy have a rule if the rule is not going to be enforced?

Much was made of an incident following last season’s KansasKansas State basketball game in Manhattan, when fans stormed the court after the Wildcats knocked off the highly favored Jayhawks. During the melee, KU Coach Bill Self was pinned against the scorer’s table, and one of the fans made contact with one of KU’s players.

The potential for serious injuries is reasonably high during such demonstrations.

This prompted Big 12 athletic officials to introduce a new policy calling for far better fan controls and setting penalties for schools whose fans flood the playing area. Penalties vary, depending on the size or seriousness of the incident, but they are designed to be strong enough to curb future demonstrations.

Last week, the Iowa State basketball team defeated the Iowa University team in a hard-fought, emotional game in ISU’s Hilton Coliseum. Fans stormed the court, and a sports reporter for the Des Moines Register suffered a broken leg in the post-game rush.

Guess what? No penalty was assessed.

Again, what’s the use of having a rule calling for penalties if it is not going to be enforced?

The Big 12 Conference basketball season is about to get underway. Three Big 12 teams currently are ranked among the nation’s top five teams, and the conference is expecting a hotly contested race. The Jayhawks are favored to win their 12th consecutive conference championship, but Oklahoma and Iowa State also are expected to be strong challengers. KU remains the top Big 12 target, bringing out the best effort of every conference challenger.

In such highly contested games, emotions run high and the climate is perfect for bad crowd behavior. If the rule about storming the court is to have any weight or impact, penalties must be imposed to send a strong message throughout the conference.

Before conference play begins, students and fans alike should know that storming the court will not be allowed and, if the rule is broken, there will be stiff penalties imposed on the university and its athletic department as well as on individual participating in such actions.

The announcement about this rule should be made on the public address system at every venue before the start of every game, and penalties should be imposed without hesitation when infractions occur.

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Obama plays waiting game on ISIS Washington — To Republican presidential candidates who were denouncing President Obama Tuesday night for not fighting harder against the Islamic State, there’s an obvious if unspoken answer: Obama doesn’t think this is an existential battle that’s worth the cost to America of an all-out war.

You can disagree with Obama’s cost-benefit calculus, and with his past decisions on Syria and Iraq that got us to this point. But it’s evident that he has carefully weighed the dilemma of deeper U.S. involvement in the Middle East and decided it would be unwise. The comparison between Obama’s wary analysis and the often slapdash, half-baked proposals of GOP candidates at the debate was striking.

Obama appears to recognize that there’s a missing link in his strategy — the lack of a Sunni ground force that can reliably clear and hold the Islamic State’s heartland in Syria and Iraq.

You can sense in his public statements that he sees two basic choices, given the weakness of these crucial Sunni allies: l The United States could decide to go all-in with ground troops and provide the military muscle for Sunni moderates for the foreseeable future. That would start in Syria, but Obama’s advisers fear the commitment would expand to other collapsed Sunni states in Libya and Yemen. The U.S., in effect, would become the governor of Sunnistan.

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The U.S. must do something against the Islamic State — the threat to allies in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Europe is too great — but Obama has shown he wants to limit U.S. involvement so that it doesn’t become allconsuming.”

Obama clearly regards this option as a mistake. Advisers warn the monthly cost could be 100 U.S. troops killed, 500 wounded and $10 billion. Though Obama gets hammered on all sides for an allegedly feckless policy, he has resisted being forced into this commitment by a media firestorm that the White House sees as combining jihadist propaganda, GOP presidential politics and cable news hype. l Obama prefers the slower, bumpier process of using special forces to partner with admittedly weak Sunni allies. In the near term, this strategy will be messy and sometimes painful, because the local forces are so dis-

organized. But the White House has concluded that, over time, it’s likely to be a more stable and sustainable approach.

Underlying Obama’s policy analysis is a view that America must get out of the business of trying to govern the Middle East. It’s clear from his public statements that he sees the region in the early stages of a messy transformation that will take a generation, and that quick fixes (or the appearance of them) can only be bought at an unacceptable cost.

The bottom line for Obama is that the U.S. shouldn’t overextend itself on projects on which it probably can’t deliver, which will further bleed the country. The U.S. must do something against the Islamic State — the threat to allies in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Europe is too great — but Obama has shown he wants to limit U.S. involvement so that it doesn’t become allconsuming.

What would cause Obama to change his mind and treat the war against the Islamic State as an existential crisis requiring a major U.S. military intervention? Probably the trigger would be a big, orchestrated terrorist incident that so frightened the public that it began to prevent the normal functioning of America. At that point, Obama might decide there was no alternative to taking ownership of the Middle East mess with tens of thousands of U.S. troops.

Obama seems to have realized that he was slow to

respond to public fear after the jihadist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.

His low-decibel approach led the public to worry he wasn’t doing enough to keep the country safe. Obama, not a cable television fan, apparently didn’t realize the state of anxiety.

The White House answer, judging by this week’s high-visibility visit to the Pentagon and a blizzard of updates on U.S. counterterrorism actions, is to be more aggressive in selling the activities that are underway.

This will work only if the small-footprint approach shows success.

Calming the country is hard when GOP candidates are describing an inferno.

But Obama seems convinced that the Republican proposals amount to more bombs and louder talk, rather than a coherent alternative strategy.

As the year ends, Obama would like to celebrate what he rightly sees as major achievements — an Iran nuclear deal, the TransPacific Partnership on trade, reopening relations with Cuba, and the climate change agreement reached in Paris. But there’s that persistent, toxic problem of Islamic terrorism emanating from the Middle East.

Obama will wait it out, if he can. But a major attack could force him to do the very thing he least wants as a legacy — send in the troops.

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

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GOP needs composite candidate Each of the Republican presidential candidates brings something good to the race for the GOP nomination and some things not so good. In the fifth and final GOP debate of the year, the candidates on the main stage, and even a few on the “undercard,” presented ideas and positions that many Republican voters would consider far better than those we have under the president we have now.

Donald Trump continued to channel Republican voter anger on several issues, including the feeling that the U.S. is no longer “great,” a word Trump does not define, but which resonates with the foam finger “we’re No. 1” crowd. Terrorism and illegal immigration are Trump’s other main issues and he hit them hard Tuesday night.

In some ways, Trump is President Obama’s flipside. Trump believes he has the personality to force his largely undeveloped ideas on the country and that no one — not the courts, Congress or the U.S. Constitution can stop him.

Jeb Bush fought back, but seemed overwhelmed at times by Trump’s verbal fire.

Bush’s best line to Trump was “you can’t insult your way to the presidency.” No one else dared to take on Trump.

Marco Rubio was and has

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been throughout these debates the most skilled and polished debater, a whitecollar man, up against bluecollar brawlers like Trump and Chris Christie. Rubio is cool, calm and projects a Kennedyesque image of youthful energy and competence. Whether voters will take a chance on another one-term senator whose previous experience, like Obama, was in state legislature is, itself, a matter up for debate that won’t be settled until the first votes are cast.

Ditto for Sen. Ted Cruz, who now leads Trump in Iowa polls. Like Trump and Christie, Cruz is a fighter, but Rubio landed a punch when he criticized Cruz for voting

to end the government’s collection of metadata information, which Rubio believes is essential to protecting the U.S. from terror attacks.

The problem with the argument over metadata is not that the government lacks information about terrorists, but that it is often constrained from using it by laws, court decisions and boneheaded policies, as illustrated in the Department of Homeland Security’s “Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Training Do’s and Don’ts” manual. In that document, trainees are told, “Don’t use training that equates radical thought, religious expression, freedom to protest, or other constitutionally-protected activity, with criminal activity. One can have radical thoughts/ideas, including disliking the U.S. government, without being violent; for example, trainers who equate the desire for Sharia law with criminal activity violate basic tenets of the First Amendment.”

So if it walks like a duck, etc., it’s not a duck?

The public does not get the answers it needs from these debates for several reasons.

First, there are still too many people on the stage. Only three, possibly four, have any real chance of becoming president. For the good of the country those single-digit

candidates should drop out after Iowa and New Hampshire and certainly by the South Carolina primary, if they fail to finish strong.

Details on how the candidates would actually reach their stated goals — making America great again, protecting the country, reducing the debt, creating jobs, health care, fixing the tax code, fighting wars — are addressed only in sound bites because there isn’t enough time to discuss details. Yes, the candidates have websites and there are other sources where those details are available, but how many voters in the TV age will take the time to search for them?

The real winner in these debates is Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Little attention is being paid to her, though the FBI continues with its investigation into whether she broke the law by receiving and sending classified information on her private email server. In the still unlikely event she is indicted, all bets are off and the chances of a Republican victory next November would be all but assured. The question is, which Republican?

Too bad we can’t elect a composite president.

— Cal Thomas is a columnist for Tribune Content Agency.

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Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 8 p.m. yest. 0.00 Month to date 2.03 Normal month to date 0.96 Year to date 41.79 Normal year to date 39.25

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Festival of Nativities, noon-4 p.m., Centenary United Methodist Church, 245 N. Fourth St., North Lawrence.

Adornment Holiday Art Sale and Show, 1-5 p.m., Van Go Arts, 715 New Jersey St. “The Nutcracker,” 1 p.m., Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. “A Kansas Nutcracker,” 2 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. American Youth Ballet presents “The Nutcracker,” 2 p.m., Yardley Hall, Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park.

Christmas Festival, 2 and 7 p.m., Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. “Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” 2:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 4660 Bauer Farm Drive.

“The Nutcracker,” 5 p.m., Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. Irish Traditional Music Session, 5:30-8 p.m., upstairs Henry’s on Eighth, 11 E. Eighth St. O.U.R.S. (Oldsters United for Responsible Service) dance, doors 5 p.m., potluck 7:15-7:45 p.m., dance 6-9 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St. Smackdown! trivia, 7 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.

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Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 9-10 a.m., Prairie Commons, 5121 Congressional Circle.

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 10:3011:30 a.m., Presbyterian Manor, 1429 Kasold Drive.

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 1-2 p.m., Vermont Towers, 1101 Vermont St.

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John Jervis, classical guitar, 8-11 a.m., Panera, 520 W. 23rd St. Multicultural Storytime: Italian, 10:30-11 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Santa Splash (for 2-12 years old), noon-12:45 p.m., Indoor Aquatic Center, 4706 Overland Drive.

Festival of Nativities, noon-4 p.m., Centenary United Methodist Church, 245 N. Fourth St., North Lawrence.

Christmas Festival, 1 p.m., Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. Super Smash Bros. tournament, 1-3 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Adornment Holiday Art Sale and Show, 1-5 p.m., Van Go Arts, 715 New Jersey St. A Kansas Nutcracker: 1856 Herald of Freedom

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Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 9-10 a.m., Clinton Place, 2125 Clinton Parkway.

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 10:3011:30 a.m., Wyndham Place, 2551 Crossgate Drive.

Lawrence Public Library Book Van, 1-2 p.m., Peterson Acres, 2930 Peterson Road.

Adornment Holiday Art Sale and Show, 1-5 p.m., Van Go Arts, 715 New Jersey St. Concert: New Horizons Band, 4 p.m., Arbor Court, 1510 St. Andrews Drive.

Karaoke Cafe, 4-5:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Friday Night Dinner, 5:30-7 p.m., VFW Post 852, 1801 Massachusetts St. Bingo night, doors 5:30 p.m., refreshments 6 p.m., bingo starts 7 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St. Taizé Service, 6 p.m., St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 1234 Kentucky St. A Kansas Nutcracker: 1856 Herald of Freedom Edition, 7 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Christmas Festival, 7 p.m., Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. “Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” 7:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 4660 Bauer Farm Drive.

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“Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” 2:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 4660 Bauer Farm Drive.

Americana Music Academy Saturday Jam, 3 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Massachusetts St. Teen Advisory Board meeting, 4-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Point A Contemporary Dance Company: A Contemporary Christmas Carol, 6 p.m., Lied Center Pavilion, 1600 Stewart Drive.

Winter Solstice Party, 6-9 p.m., Lawrence Percolator, In the alley behind 913 Rhode Island St. (look for the green awnings).

Lawrence Bridge Club, 6:30 p.m., Kaw Valley Bridge Center, 1025 N. Third St. (Partner required; first two visits free; call 760-4195 for more info.)

American Legion Bingo, doors open 4:30 p.m., first games 6:45 p.m., snack bar 5-8 p.m., American Legion Post #14, 3408 W. Sixth St. A Kansas Nutcracker: 1856 Herald of Freedom Edition, 7 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. American Youth Ballet presents “The Nutcracker,” 7 p.m., Yardley Hall, Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park.

America’s Got Spelling and Crock Potluck Dinner, food 7 p.m., bee 9 p.m., Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust St. Democratic Debate Watch Party, 7:30 p.m., VFW Post 852, 1801 Massachusetts St. “Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” 7:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 4660 Bauer Farm Drive.

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Eight nicest stock surprises of 2015

Fisher says Princess Leia’s force is always with her

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Huge spending bill, lots of little quirks

Pet-peeve provisions cover stray cats, false facades, and yes, even a porn ban Paul Singer @pbsinger USA TODAY

Congress will vote Friday on a provision to block federal permits for companies that round up stray cats and dogs and sell them for research. It is one of dozens of odd provisions included in the massive year-end spending bill, which provides $1.1 trillion in federal spending but specifies many activities that may not be paid for out of that bankroll. It is akin to a parent saying WASHINGTON

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Disney World, other major parks toughen security

group was never charged in that case, but Congress cut off its federal funding, and the group closed its doors in 2010. Nevertheless, the spending bill contains a provision barring any federal funding to “the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.”

“Here’s your allowance. Don’t buy drugs with it.”

Here are some of our favorites: CATS & DOGS

Congress doesn’t want the Department of Agriculture to issue or reissue licenses “to class B dealers who sell dogs and cats for use in research, experiments, teaching, or testing.” This provision addresses a concern that companies are providing labs with “randomly sourced” animals. That is: They are scooping up strays or possibly even swiping household pets and selling them.

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Provision in U.S. spending bill would protect these guys.

KEEPING ACORN DEAD

Remember ACORN? Congress does. The community organizing/ voter registration group was the target of a sting video by conservative activist James O’Keefe and accused by conservatives of helping clients break the law. The

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During the restoration of the Supreme Court, workers toiled behind a giant sheet with a life-size photo of the building. The bill includes this passage: “None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for scrims containing photographs of building facades during restoration or construction projects performed

by the Architect of the Capitol.”

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I thought we were clear on this: Don’t watch porn at work. The spending bill contains some variation of this language: “None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading and exchanging of pornography.”

This language has been in the spending bills for years. Nevertheless, the EPA inspector-general found this year that workers there were watching porn on government computers, raising some questions about just how effective these spending bans are.

TO LOVE, TO HONOR, TO ‘STAR WARS’

SeaWorld, Universal Orlando to have metal detectors for holidays.

U.S. travel to Cuba gets easier IN MONEY

Top attorney to handle VW diesel emissions cases IN LIFE

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A fan dressed as BB-8 waits in line in New York on Thursday.

Star Wars faithful around the world celebrate in their own way.

“The Force Awakens” debuted in the U.S. on Thursday. Walt Disney Co. said it made $14.1 million from screenings Wednesday in 12 international markets.

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support the congressional GOP plan to shift Planned Parenthood funds to local clinics performing the same services — except abortions.

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Fans in Nuremberg, Germany, pose for a photo at a cinema before the screening.

Andrew Porters and Caroline Ritter of Australia marry in a Star Wars-themed wedding in front of TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood on Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual, nationally televised year-end news conferences have been compelling political theater in recent years. Thursday’s was no exception as he spent a marathon three hours and eight minutes answering questions before 1,400 journalists in Moscow. Highlights: uDonald Trump: After the news conference, Putin said the Republican presidential frontrunner “is a very outstanding

first time that his counman, unquestionably taltry’s military operates in ented.” Putin shrugged separatist-held east Ukoff criticism of some of Trump’s proposals — raine. Putin said Russia such as temporarily barhad no regular troop presring Muslims from enterence in the region, but ing the USA — as well as “certain matters, includattacks Trump has ing in the military area” lobbed at the Russian were being performed.

AFP/GETTY IMAGES uThe Islamic State: leader. “It is not up to us Putin said the extremist to judge his virtue, that is up to U.S. voters, but he is the ab- group is a creation of “elements solute leader of the presidential tied to the oil trading” who race,” Putin said. Trump said in “needed a military force to proOctober that he would “probably tect smuggling operations and illegal exports.” The Islamic State get along very well” with Putin. uUkraine: After months of “is a business, a huge trafficking denials, Putin admitted for the operation run on an industrial

scale,” Putin said. He claimed that the Russian Defense Ministry spotted 11,000 oil trucks in one place. “Unbelievable,” he said. uSyria: Putin said he is prepared to work more closely with the United States to end Syria’s 4year-old civil war because Washington appears ready to “move toward settling the issues that can only be settled through joint efforts.” The two nations are at odds over Syrian President Bashar Assad, a Russian ally backed by Russian airstrikes against rebel groups, some of which are backed by the USA. President Obama wants Assad to step down.

Reviled drug-price gouging CEO arrested on fraud charges Nathan Bomey, Kevin McCoy and Kim Hjelmgaard USA TODAY

The reviled poster boy of drug price hikes perpetuated a Ponzi scheme on investors in hedge funds and a pharmaceutical company he founded and previously led, federal prosecutors and regulators alleged Thursday.

Martin Shkreli, a pharmaceutical entrepreneur criticized for raising the price of the lifesaving drug Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to $750, was arrested early Thursday in New York City and charged on criminal and civil

charges of securities fraud.

Shkreli’s arrest was not related to drug prices but instead stems from allegations by federal prosecutors that he illegally took stock from Retrophin — a biotech company he started in 2011 and was ousted from in 2014 — to pay off unrelated business debts.

Evan Greebel, 42, who served as Retrophin’s outside counsel, was also arrested and charged with aiding the alleged scheme.

Prosecutors charged Shkreli with two counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, three counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and two counts of securities fraud. Investigators al-

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Martin Shkreli exits federal court in New York on Thursday.

leged that Shkreli, 32, siphoned millions of dollars from Retrophin to repay investors he’d defrauded in two now-defunct hedge funds. He was also accused of using company funds to settle personal disputes with investors, unjustly enriching himself and forming false ties to consultants.

For example, Shkreli told one investor Dec. 2, 2010, that his hedge fund held $35 million in assets, even though it only had $700, the criminal indictment alleged. U.S. Attorney Robert Capers charged that Shkreli, with Greebel’s help, used Retrophin as his “personal piggy bank.”

Shkreli was freed on $5 million

bond after he entered a not guilty plea. Greebel was freed on $1 million bond with similar conditions.

“Mr. Shkreli is confident that he will be cleared of all charges,” spokesman Craig Stevens said.

“He is particularly disappointed that his litigation with Retrophin, ... which should have been a private civil dispute, has become a government enforcement matter.”

Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, was criticized in September after he raised the price of Daraprim by more than 5,000%. Daraprim is used to treat a parasitic disease that afflicts people with weakened immune systems.

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PUMPED DRY THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF VANISHING GROUNDWATER

In agricultural valley, fury is what’s growing over limited resource Ian James

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he fight began early one morning on a sandy dirt road between fields of lima beans, where farmers discovered an excavator machine digging a trench for a water pipe.

Infuriated that the pipe would carry water pumped from beneath their farms, a crowd gathered and drove away the crew of workers in a fit of shouts.

Then the protesters set fire to the plastic pipes, leaving them charred on the side of the road.

As tensions rose after that confrontation, threats flew between protesters and men sent by the company laying the pipes. Some men wielded wooden clubs, a machete and a baseball bat. Some protesters faced criminal charges.

In this feud over water, small farmers in the Peruvian town of Ocucaje challenge what they view as a water grab by a company that exports grapes and asparagus. It’s a type of conflict on the rise in parts of the world where groundwater is over-exploited. In southern Peru, water disputes have grown especially bitter as some big farms bought up wells and started piping water to fields miles away.

In the past two decades, an agricultural boom transformed the Ica Valley, turning a desert bordered by sand dunes into rows of asparagus and grapevines that supply the USA, Europe and Asia. The farms depend on water pumped from wells, and groundwater levels have been falling throughout much of the Ica Valley. Some wells have gone dry, and farmers with small plots say the newly arrived megafarms are using up their water.

Leading the resistance in Ocucaje is Joselyn Guzmán, 21, a college student whose family grows lima beans, corn and cotton on their 25-acre farm. “We don’t want them to come and exploit our water,” Guzmán said as she walked down an unpaved lane, followed by more than a dozen farmers and townspeople.

The company, Agrícola La Ven-

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Peru is the world’s top exporter of fresh asparagus, and it’s taking a toll on the country’s aquifers.

ta, applied to the government water authority to start pumping from three inactive wells it bought from an association of farmers.

The company said its wells wouldn’t negatively impact neighboring farmers. Guzmán and others are worried the pumping will shrivel their crops, which are flood-irrigated once a year when the Ica River swells with seasonal rains and are then sustained by moisture left in the soil.

Measurements show significant groundwater depletion in and around the Ica Valley. The National Water Authority estimated area wells pump roughly double the amount of water than what naturally seeps back into aquifers from water that flows down from the Andes.

A USA TODAY/Desert Sun analysis of Peruvian government data found groundwater levels falling in about 60% of the wells for which measurements are available. The average drop over the past 12-18 years: about 16 feet.

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The acreage of asparagus farms around Ica, Peru, has exploded from about 1,000 acres to more than 25,000 acres in two decades.

In some areas, water levels plunged more than 80 feet since 2001. The drawdown accelerated in the 1990s, when the Peruvian government started a push to attract more investment in export crops. In the Ica area, acreage planted with asparagus exploded, skyrocketing from 1,015 acres in 1991 to 25,698 acres in 2011. Peru became the world’s top exporter of fresh asparagus. Water managers in Ica back plans to capture more water in the Andes and route it to the Ica River.

In Ocucaje, groundwater levels are relatively higher than in other areas around Ica. Despite that, the company’s plans to tap water in the town generate dissension.

Agrícola La Venta promotes its efforts to use water sustainably.

Javier De los Ríos, the company’s manager and director, said he wouldn’t approve of any violence by his workers. “They burned seven of our pipes,” he said. Referring to Guzmán, he said, “The little chubby one … she poured the gas-

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Parks are now using metal detectors Roger Yu and Mike James USA TODAY

Major theme parks are installing metal detectors for the holiday season, reflecting heightened security nationwide after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., and other incidents of gun violence.

SeaWorld and Universal Orlando confirmed that visitors have to pass through metal detectors to enter the parks. Walt Disney World spokeswoman Jacquee Wahler confirmed that Disney World and Disneyland will also use new safety protocols.

“We continually review our comprehensive approach to security and are implementing additional security measures, as appropriate,” Wahler said.

In addition to metal detectors, Disney said it is using more uniformed law enforcement officers on properties. Disney will have more specially trained dogs — including vapor-wake K9 units — to patrol key areas.

Vapor-wake dogs are trained to detect body-worn explosives on a moving target.

Disney said guests will be randomly selected for a secondary screening using a metal detector, similar to practices adopted by major league baseball, football, hockey and basketball leagues and at many music concerts.

Disney said it is discontinuing the sale of toy guns, including toy blasters and squirt guns, on Disneyland Resort/Walt Disney World property and will no longer permit these items to be brought into theme parks.

Also, Disney is adjusting its policy on costumes.

Guests ages 14 years and older will no longer be permitted to wear costumes into the theme parks.

The other major parks confirmed additional security.

“We are enhancing security measures at all of our parks for the busy holiday season, including increased security presence both inside and outside the parks,” SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment said in a statement.

Tom Schroeder, a spokesman for Universal, said the company is “testing metal detection because we want our guests to feel safe.”

Universal Studios Hollywood, has metal detectors, he said.

“We are always looking at best practices for security and safety in today’s world,” Schroeder said.

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In parts of southern Peru, water is so scarce that large farms buy wells miles away from their fields and pipe in the water.

oline to set the pipes on fire.” He said his workers saw her do it.

He said pumping water from the aquifer won’t affect the shallow layer of moist soil that the town’s farmers rely on.

He pointed to one 2014 report by the government water authority showing groundwater levels remain relatively high in Ocucaje — 7 to 23 feet underground. The National Water Authority is evaluating the company’s proposal.

In a 2010 report, Progressio, Water Witness International and the Peruvian Center for Social Studies researchers concluded that unsustainable water use in the Ica Valley negatively impacted small and medium-sized farms.

“Unless action is taken, the overexploitation of the aquifer will eventually exhaust the water resources which the city of Ica and its population of over a third of a million people depend on,” researchers said.

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Disputes over water have erupted in Peru between small farmers and large farms, and at times those conflicts have turned violent.

IAN JAMES, THE DESERT SUN

ABOUT THE FOUR-PART SERIES In places around the world, supplies of groundwater are rapidly vanishing. As aquifers decline and wells begin to run dry, people are being forced to confront a growing crisis.

USA TODAY and The Desert Sun of Palm Springs, Calif., spent nearly a year investigating the consequences of the emerging crisis. Using a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, our journalists traveled to the world’s hot spots of groundwater depletion on four continents.

The complete series, plus videos, photo galleries, graphics and more, can be found at usatoday.com.

Contributing: Steve Reilly, USA TODAY

HOUSE PASSES $622 BILLION IN TAX BREAKS

A guest at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure is randomly screened through a metal detector as he enters the theme parks on Thursday in Anaheim, Calif.

Disney World, Universal, SeaWorld step up security

In some areas where farms rely heavily on wells, groundwater levels have fallen by about 30 feet since 2003.

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Bill is part of last package of 2015, first deal under Speaker Ryan

Erin Kelly USA TODAY

The House passed a bill Thursday that would provide $622 billion in tax breaks for businesses, families and individual taxpayers.

House members voted 318109 to approve the legislation, which includes a permanent extension of the child tax credit and a delay in taxes that help pay for Obamacare. All but a handful of Republicans voted for the bill while a majority of Democrats voted against it.

More than 70 Democrats joined with Republicans to approve the legislation.

Passage of the tax bill was the first step in approving a massive tax and spending deal.

The second part of that agreement — a $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund federal agencies through September — is likely to be approved by the House and Senate on Friday.

The tax and spending package is the last major legislation Congress will pass before it adjourns for the year. It was the first big budget compromise negotiated under new House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. Supporters of the tax bill said it would help create jobs WASHINGTON

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House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., says the deal will create jobs.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says the tax breaks should have been paid for with budget cuts.

Passage of the tax bill was the first step in approving a massive tax and spending deal.

and boost the economy.

“Families and businesses are going to have the long-term certainty they need instead of scrambling year to year to find out what’s next,” Ryan said.

Opponents said the bill would explode the deficit and leave Congress with less money to pay for domestic programs.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she likes some of the tax breaks in the bill but objects to the fact that they won’t be paid for with budget cuts or increased revenue. “It is the unpaid-for part of it that is mortgaging our children’s future,” Pelosi said.

“I know it sounds good, but it’s a Trojan horse.”

Among the permanent tax breaks included in the bill are a Child Tax Credit of $1,000 per qualifying child, a tax credit for business research and development costs for start-up businesses as well as established companies, expanded tax credits for college expenses and expanded tax credits for certain charitable donations by corporations and individuals.

The legislation would permanently extend the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income workers and allow teachers to deduct up to $250 a year in personal expenses.

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Hello, Havana! Travel rules ease Deal comes year after Cuba ties renewed Alan Gomez USA TODAY

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Clinton walking fine line for debate She is repositioning for general election Heidi M. Przybyla

MIAMI Booking a trip to Cuba is about to get a whole lot easier.

Under an agreement announced Thursday — the oneyear anniversary of the historic shift in relations between the United States and Cuba — airlines can begin operating regularly scheduled commercial flights between the two nations. That means Americans will soon be able to hop online, click a few buttons and head to Havana.

U.S. interest in the long-isolated island peaked this year after President Obama announced that the United States would begin normalizing relations with the communist government. That diplomatic change did little to ease the onerous process Ameri-

U.S. travel to Cuba was up 50% in 2015, officials say. can citizens go through to get there, including the complicated charter flight system that has been the only way to legally travel between the two countries.

Thomas Engle, the U.S. State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for Transportation Affairs, said there could be up to 110 round-trip flights a day under the

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new agreement, nearly quadrupling the current flow. That includes 20 flights a day between the USA and Cuba’s capital city of Havana, and 10 a day between the USA and nine international airports spread across the island.

Engle said the United States pushed for unlimited flight opportunities, but the Cubans want-

ed to establish a limit, concerned that their airports could not handle such a high volume of passengers.

Traveling as a tourist is forbidden under U.S. law, but Americans flooded the island this year under 12 categories approved by the government, including humanitarian, educational and people-to-people trips designed to increase communication. Jeffrey DeLaurentis, head of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, said this week that U.S. travel to the island was up 50% in 2015.

Airlines operating charter flights to Cuba say there’s demand for more. “Interest in Cuba has reached levels not seen for a generation,” said Scott Laurence, senior vice president of airline planning for JetBlue, which operates charter flights from Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa.

American Airlines shared its excitement with a tweet showing a pilot holding a Cuban flag out the window of one of its planes.

USA TODAY

Hillary Clinton looks increasingly like a general-election candidate performing from a primary stage.

The challenges that come along with that, both for her and her Democratic competitors, will be clear at the party’s third debate Saturday in New Hampshire.

Clinton, who’s maintaining more than a 20-point lead in national polls over her nearest competitor, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, has focused less on mirroring his progressive positions — with the exception of a pledge Wednesday to raise taxes on the wealthy — and more on positioning herself for the general election.

With much of the 2016 spotlight focused on the GOP battle and Donald Trump's provocative statements and proposals (such as his recent call to temporarily ban non-citizen Muslims from entering the U.S.), the debate is a chance for the Democrats to get some media exposure. Clinton and Sanders will be joined on stage by former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley.

The last debate, held in Iowa the day after the Paris terrorist attacks, was punctuated by hits on Clinton’s foreign policy record, including her vote as a U.S. senator to authorize the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Now, the question is whether O’Malley and Sanders sharpen those attacks with polls showing the race largely stagnant since October.

Nowhere is Clinton’s message for a general election audience clearer than in her policy pronouncements in recent months, from a hawkish speech on Iran in September to her speech Tuesday in Minnesota, where she reiterated her view that the Islamic State must be destroyed.

At the debate, her challenge is to maintain some distance from President Obama without alienating the party’s base, with whom the president remains popular.

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WHAT’S NEXT IN FREDDIE GRAY CASE: A DECISION ON RETRIAL Protests were mostly peaceful after a mistrial was announced, but Baltimore is ready to respond as citizens await prosecutors’ decision Melanie Eversley and John Bacon USA TODAY

Prosecutors and defense lawyers met with a Baltimore judge on Thursday as the anxious city awaited word on the likely retrial of a police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray.

Judge Barry Williams declared a mistrial Wednesday after the jury twice concluded it could not reach a unanimous verdict in the case of Officer William Porter, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter and other offenses. Porter’s case is crucial because he was the first of six officers to face trial in the death of Gray, a young black man whose April death prompted “Black Lives Matter” protests.

Prosecutors have not publicly

revealed their decision on Porter’s case. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who represents most of Baltimore, said he was told that the state’s attorney intends to retry the 26-year-old AfricanAmerican officer — and that the other officers will go on trial as scheduled early next year.

“I know that many of my neighbors have been following this trial closely, and many may be disappointed by today’s outcome,” Cummings said, calling for calm.

Baltimore defense lawyer Jason Ott, who is not involved in the case, told USA TODAY the question is when, not if, a retrial will take place. They usually are scheduled about three months later, he said, to allow for transcripts of the first trial to be distributed and studied. Ott said he was surprised the jury failed to

acquit Porter. He said he is concerned that the jury feared an acquittal would spark riots.

“I don’t think he is guilty of anything,” Ott said. “I was shocked that there was even one juror who thought he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Protests after the mistrial was announced were mostly peaceful.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell she appreciated the jury’s efforts and was grateful that the “vast majority” of residents respected their decision.

William “Billy” Murphy, the lawyer for the Gray family, stressed the outcome was not a disappointment for either side in the racially charged case that has shined a spotlight on the city of more than 600,000.

“This is just a temporary bump on the road to justice,” Murphy

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Protesters rally at the site of April’s riots after the jury deadlocked in the trial of William Porter on Wednesday.

said Wednesday.

NAACP President Cornell William Brooks told USA TODAY he was “very disappointed.”

“Freddie Gray can’t get his life back, but there is an opportunity for a justice do-over, so we’re encouraging people to pursue nonviolent protest in the wake of a violent death and wait to see what happens,” Brooks said.

Gray, 25, was arrested on minor charges April 12 following a foot pursuit involving multiple officers. He was shackled and placed in a van, but officers did not restrain him with a seat belt.

After a 45-minute ride that included several stops, Gray was unresponsive when the van arrived at the police station. He died a week later; an autopsy cited a severe spinal injury.

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A friend of the San Bernardino, Calif. couple, whose shooting rampage two weeks ago left 14 people dead, was charged Thursday with the unlawful purchase of two assault rifles used in the attack and plotting at least two other assaults in 2011 and 2012 with one of the killers, Sayed Farook, that were not carried out.

In the first criminal charges filed in connection with the Dec. 2 massacre, Enrique Marquez, 24, is accused of immersing himself in radical ideology shortly after meeting Farook in 2005. And by 2011, according to court documents, Marquez and Farook bonded in the firebrand rhetoric of now-deceased al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and in the extremist literature of Inspire, the official publication of al-Qaeda in Yemen.

While federal prosecutors do not accuse Marquez of being involved in the San Bernardino attack, the former security guard is

ARGENTINES TAKE TO THE STREETS

and private sector workers, is one of his biggest endorsements to date.

It follows a series of endorsements for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton by 18 unions and labor alliances representing nearly 12 million people.

The Democracy for America PAC endorsed Sanders even after Dean asked the group’s members to support Clinton.

— Nicole Gaudiano ALSO ...

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Argentines rally Thursday in Buenos Aires to protest President Mauricio Macri's decree seeking to change the country’s media law, which regulates the distribution of TV and radio licenses. charged with helping Farook select other potential targets.

— Kevin Johnson SANDERS PICKS UP TWO KEY ENDORSEMENTS

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Democratic presidential nomination scored two big en-

dorsements Thursday, one from a major labor union and another from a progressive political action committee founded by former Vermont governor Howard Dean.

The Vermont independent’s endorsement by the Communications Workers of America union, which represents 700,000 public

The Senate Armed Services Committee has asked for copies of Defense Secretary Ash Carter's personal emails after Carter acknowledged he had used a personal email account earlier this year.

In a briefing in Irbil, Iraq, Carter said using the personal email was a mistake. He acknowledged using the account to conduct official business during his first few months as Pentagon chief, the Defense Department said in a statement released Wednesday.

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

thorities ruled that a 26-year-old rape victim was justified in fatally shooting Jeremy Arnold Ford, 25, who abducted her, AL.com reported.

ALASKA Fairbanks: A community policing initiative that matches neighborhood leaders with designated beat cops is working well in four neighborhoods and will expand into a fifth area in 2016, newsminer.com reported.

ARIZONA Prescott: Police could have an armored military vehicle available for use during SWAT events before the end of the year.

The Daily Courier reported that the City Council voted 6-1 to accept an International Navistar MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle that was available through the federal Law Enforcement Support Office of the Defense Logistics Agency.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Dona-

tions to replace about 400 flagpoles reported stolen from the First Baptist Church have largely come from outside the congregation, the Rev. Jonathan Curtis told ArkansasOnline.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Robert Andrew Falcon, 32, was sentenced to 16 years in state prison for the shooting death of tattoo artist and body piercer Michael Christopher “Trigz” Pebley, the Los Angeles Times reported.

COLORADO Denver: Safeway

confirmed that workers found card skimmers at checkout lanes in three Colorado stores in November, KUSA-TV reported.

Safeway reported the skimmers at stores in Lakewood, Denver and Conifer.

CONNECTICUT Milford: A con-

victed burglar dubbed the “White Sock Robber” denied accusations that he raped a woman in November, the Connecticut Post reported.

DELAWARE Wilmington: Identical twin brothers known as the “Twin Poets” were named the state’s ambassadors for poetry, The News Journal reported.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Mari-

juana parties used to be wild, illicit affairs in word-of-mouth locations with off-the-record agreements, according to The Washington Post. This week, High Times magazine threw a gala dinner at the Washington Hilton to celebrate innovators in the pot business.

FLORIDA Melbourne Beach:

Timothy Day, a former police officer who serves as town manager of Greenville, Fla., will be Melbourne Beach’s new town manager with a starting salary of $89,000 per year, Florida Today reported.

His pay would increase to $93,600 after successfully completing a six-month probationary period.

GEORGIA Stockbridge: May-

or Tim Thompson abruptly resigned during a City Council meeting, surprising officials who were considering charging him with creating a hostile work environment, The Atlanta JournalConstitution reported.

HAWAII Honolulu: Nuns who

HIGHLIGHT: HAWAII

Outbreak of dengue fever largest in 60 years Liz Szabo

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Hawaii has been hit by an outbreak of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness also known as “breakbone fever” because of the debilitating joint pain it causes.

At least 157 people on the island — known as the Big Island — have been diagnosed with dengue, which causes fever, a rash, intense headaches, severe muscle aches and serious joint pain, according to the Hawaii Health Department.

It’s Hawaii’s largest outbreak of dengue in 60 years, said physician Harold Margolis, the dengue branch chief for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Americans should definitely be concerned about diseases such as dengue,” said Amesh Adalja, a senior associate at the Center for Health Security at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Dengue can be extremely painful, but it’s rarely fatal. Although some people never develop symptoms, up to 15% of dengue patients can develop a serious complication, Margolis said.

Dengue doesn’t spread from person to person like the flu.

Mosquitoes pick up the virus when they bite infected people, fessor at Wheaton College, who donned a head scarf as part of her Christian Advent devotion to show solidarity with Muslims, was placed on administrative leave, the Chicago Tribune reported.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Diabet-

ics will soon to be able to buy Basaglar a knockoff version of Lantus, the world’s best-selling insulin, and it will be sold by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and its German partner, Boehringer Ingelheim, The Indianapolis Star reported.

IOWA West Union: About 30

hogs were killed when a semi overturned in Fayette County, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported.

KANSAS Wichita: The Wichita

Eagle reported that the Butler Community College’s Board of Trustees approved a $170,000 investment in a three-story fire training tower. It will be constructed behind El Dorado’s Fire Station No. 2. The tower will be three stories tall with a rooftop.

KENTUCKY Paintsville: A

school has cut Bible passages referenced in an upcoming performance of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Lexington HeraldLeader reported. Students at W.R. Castle Elementary School were set to perform the play Thursday.

LOUISIANA Gretna:

Former police officer Daniel Swear accused the department in a federal lawsuit of implementing an illegal quota system for arrests and traffic tickets, then terminating him for refusing to follow it and speaking out against it. Deputy Chief Anthony Christiana denied such a system existed, The Times-Picayune reported.

MAINE Freeport: L.L. Bean is

giving $2.1 million to more than 80 organizations this holiday season.

were ordered to move from the Manoa convent they had been living in for decades will be able to stay there a little longer. The 25 nuns living in Saint Francis School’s convent were told that plans for them to be moved out by spring 2016 have been pushed back, KHON-TV reported.

MARYLAND Tyaskin: Investiga-

IDAHO Tamarack: A Nampa

State education officials say public schools here could wind up in receivership, the Worcester Telegram reported.

man spent the night inside a snow cave after he skied out of bounds of Tamarack Resort and became lost, KIVI-TV reported.

ILLINOIS Wheaton: Larycia

Hawkins, a political science pro-

tors are treating a fire that scorched and melted exterior vinyl siding at centuries-old St. Mary’s Episcopal Church as attempted arson and are working to identify a suspect, The Daily Times reported.

MASSACHUSETTS Southbridge:

MICHIGAN Howell: Lawrence

Kopczyk, 70, won $1 million on the Mega Millions lottery and a

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Mosquitoes can pick up dengue fever by biting an infected person. The virus is then spread when the insect bites someone new.

then spread the disease when they bite someone new.

People can reduce their risk of dengue or other mosquitoborne illnesses by using bug spray, wearing long sleeves and pants and staying in places that have secure window screens and air conditioning, according to the CDC. Communities can reduce the risk of dengue by eliminating places where mosquitoes breed, such as the standing water that collects in flower pots, dog bowls, rubber tires or elsewhere.

Dengue is one of 17 illnesses listed as “neglected tropical diseases” by the World Health Organization. These diseases afflict millions of people a year, most of whom are poor and live in developing nations, said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Although dengue hits 390 million people a year, it makes headlines in the USA only when the disease flares up here. Doctors consider the tropical diseases neglected because drug companies have shown little interest in developing medications to treat them or vaccines to prevent them.

In an encouraging sign, Mexico approved the world’s first vaccine against dengue, made

by Sanofi Pasteur, this month.

In addition to dengue, two other mosquito-borne diseases are spreading rapidly in the Western Hemisphere: chikungunya virus, which first arrived in the Americas in 2013, and Zika virus, first diagnosed in Brazil in May. Both have symptoms similar to those of dengue.

In recent years, tropical diseases have spread beyond their usual neighborhoods, fueled by global travel and commerce, human migration and even international events such as the World Cup, Hotez said.

dollar on another ticket by matching the Mega Ball, the Daily Press & Argus reported.

rested last week on charges of child abuse and bribery or intimidation of a witness.

MINNESOTA Virginia: The City

NEW YORK Albany: The state

Council rejected a motion that asks a company that hosts “clothing optional” parties to leave town, WDIO-TV reported. Mayor Larry Cuffe told council members the city has no legal grounds to stop the company, AttractionUSA, from holding the parties at a downtown hotel.

MISSISSIPPI Columbus:

Twenty-five candidates submitted applications to become Columbus’ next police chief.

MISSOURI

Cape Girardeau: Police are investigating two messes on the Southeast Missouri State University campus.

KFVS-TV reported that an officer with the Department of Public Safety says someone put what appears to be detergent in one of the campus fountains.

MONTANA Helena: The Mon-

tana Public Service Commission has rejected Montana-Dakota Utilities’ request for a $10.9 million electricity rate hike. MDU provides power to about 26,000 homes and businesses in eastern Montana.

NEBRASKA Grand Island: Hall

County supervisors agreed to submit an application to take over ownership of the Federal Building here, The Grand Island Independent reported.

NEVADA Reno: The University of Nevada, Reno is planning a $20 million fine arts building with a museum, recital hall and electroacoustic lab, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

More than $1.4 million in grants was awarded by Endowment for Health to support health needs and social services in New Hampshire. Grants include $20,000 to the Concord school district to train teachers and staff on how to work with refugee children, the Union Leader reported.

NEW JERSEY Millville: With the promotion of eight-year veteran Cindi Zadroga, the police force got its first female sergeant, The Daily Journal reported. Zadroga, who is filling a retirement vacancy, was appointed to the force in November 2007.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque:

Stephanie Lopez, the president of Albuquerque’s police union, resigned from her leadership post after authorities say she abused a teenage relative. Lopez was ar-

will overhaul its system for placing prisoners in solitary confinement as part of a wide-ranging settlement to reduce the number of isolated inmates, the Gannett Albany Bureau reported.

NORTH CAROLINA

Wilmington: New Hanover County will offer early voting on a Sunday for the first time in 12 years, the Wilmington Star-News reported. Board member Tom Pollard supported bringing back Sunday voting, saying, “People do a lot of things on Sundays. I don’t know why we can’t add voting to it.”

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville:

The Blue Ridge Brewing Co. will be closing its doors on North Main by the end of this year – 20 years after the brewpub staked out the first territory for craft beer in the city, The Greenville News reported. The pub owners and the landlord couldn’t agree on the length of a continued lease.

SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen:

Residents approved a bond package to finance an $8 million public library, the Aberdeen American News reported. The City Council adopted the bond financing ordinance in late September, but people who questioned the cost launched a petition drive to refer the matter to voters. The project includes $6.2 million in city financing and $1.5 million from the Alexander Mitchell Public Library Foundation.

TENNESSEE Chattanooga: The Navy will award Purple Heart medals to four Marines and a sailor killed by a lone terrorist at the Navy Operational Support Center Chattanooga in July, the Navy Times reported. Another Marine wounded in the shooting will also be awarded the Purple Heart.

TEXAS Austin: A group that

opposes the death penalty reported that Texas only issued two new death sentences this year, a record low since the death penalty was reinstated in 1974. Texas did account for about half of the 28 executions in the U.S. this year, The Dallas Morning News reported.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Keeping

the roads clear during the state’s latest snowstorm cost more than $1 million, KSL-TV reported.

VERMONT Burlington: Edin

Sakoc, a 56-year-old Bosnian Muslim found guilty of lying about his participation in Bosnian war crimes in 1992, but later granted a new trial in Vermont, will give up his U.S. citizenship and leave the country, the Burlington Free Press reported.

VIRGINIA Gainesville: David

Abbott, 39, a police detective and hockey coach, killed himself after police tried to arrest him for allegedly soliciting a minor, WUSA9 reported.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Trumpeter swans have returned to Washington for the winter, but there has also been a spike in the number of swans dying from collisions with power lines. KOMO-TV reported that biologist Martha Jordan recently collected more than six swan carcasses in Conway.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck:

Residents hoping to add a second sheet of ice and other amenities to Schaumberg Ice Arena are asking the School Board for $500,000 so they can reach their $8 million fundraising goal, The Bismarck Tribune reported.

OHIO Lorain: An anonymous donor visited two Ohio Walmarts earlier this week, spreading holiday cheer by paying off the stores’ entire layaways. He paid $36,000 to clear layaway accounts at a store here and another $70,000 at a Walmart in Cleveland, corporate spokesman Wyatt Jefferies said.

OKLAHOMA Muskogee: Au-

thorities say two inmates were able to escape from the Muskogee County/City Detention Facility because a guard failed to follow procedure, the Muskogee Phoenix reported.

OREGON Portland: The Oregon

Health Authority is considering charging medical marijuana growers $200 a year for each patient they serve. The Oregonian reported that people who grow only for themselves would not be subject to the higher fee.

PENNSYLVANIA Allentown: A pet owner is seeking answers after his lost cat was shot and killed by a police officer, WFMZTV reported.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Officials say Rhode Island’s Vehicle Value Commission is currently operating while in violation of three state rules, WJAR-TV reported. The commission establishes the presumptive values of vehicles and trailers subject to the excise tax.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The state Hospital Association developed 10 guidelines, aided by a task force made up of ER doctors and nurses, that outline the best practices for health care providers prescribing opioids in hospital emergency rooms, the Gazette-Mail reported.

WISCONSIN De Pere: The City Council narrowly approved a zoning change that paves the way for the relocation of the heavily attended Life Church from the town of Lawrence to a former Sportsman’s Warehouse facility, The Green Bay Press Gazette reported.

WYOMING Cheyenne: The

State Parks and Cultural Resources requested nearly $500,000 for the final stage of setting up a new electronic archive system, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported. Parks Director Milward Simpson says the archive system is his agency’s top request for the 2017-18 budget. The Legislature has already spent $2.5 million to study and begin rolling out the system over the past several years.

Compiled by Tim Wendel, Nicole Gill and Jonathan Briggs, with Carolyn Cerbin, Linda Dono, Mike Gottschamer, Ben Sheffler and Nichelle Smith. Design

by Tiffany Reusser. Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.

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MONEYLINE OIL COMPANY GIVES EVERY EMPLOYEE $100K BONUS Hilcorp Energy has given each of its employees a $100,000 bonus. The Houston company announced last week that it is doling out the six-digit gift to its almost 1,400 workers. The bonuses, given after the company met its annual goal, amount to a total company payout of more than $100 million. As one of the largest privately held oil- and gas-exploration companies in the USA, it ranked 20th in ‘Fortune’s “Best Companies” list and also ranked high in the magazine’s list of “Best Workplaces for Diversity.”

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GENERAL MILLS Q2 INCOME FALLS ON SALES DROP General Mills, the food manufacturer that owns Wheaties, Cheerios and Häagen-Dazs, said Thursday its fiscal secondquarter net income dipped 4.5% as sales in snacks and baking products fell and international operations’ revenue declined 12%. Sales for the quarter fell 6% to $4.42 billion, partly due to the divestiture of its North American Green Giant business. Shares closed lower Thursday, down 3.3% at $57.23.

EGGLESS SPREAD GETS TO KEEP JUST MAYO NAME Just Mayo says it will get to keep its name, a decision that caps a roller-coaster year for the vegan spread that has rattled the egg industry. After months of discussions, Just Mayo’s maker, Hampton Creek, says it worked out an agreement with the Food and Drug Administration that lets the spread keep its name as long as a few changes are made to its label to make it clear the product doesn’t contain eggs.

GILLETTE SUES DOLLAR SHAVE CLUB OVER BLADES Gillette filed a lawsuit Thursday against Dollar Shave Club. The suit alleges Dollar Shave Club razors infringe on a Gillette patent. Gillette says Dollar Shave’s razors have damaged its business and threatened its intellectual property. It is seeking damages and an injunction to stop the sale of razors that violate the patent.

Dollar Shave Club rep Cassie Jasso said via email the company is looking into the situation.

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Feinberg to oversee Volkswagen diesel claims High-profile attorney handled similar cases for GM, BP, 9/11 victims Chris Woodyard @ChrisWoodyard USA TODAY

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BIGGEST STOCK GIFT SURPRISES OF 2015

Electronic Arts, Cablevision and O’Reilly lead a pack of top performers

Wall Street. Analysts thought the stock would be worth 7.6% less in @mattkrantz 18 months. But there’s nothing a USA TODAY $34.90-a-share buyout can’t solve. Shares soared 52% after Investors usually don’t like big Cablevision agreed to be bought surprises — unless they make by the Netherlands’ Altice. them richer. So unwrapping these Rewind to the beginning of stock market gifts has been a joy.

2015. Video-game consoles were There are eight stocks in the supposed to be dead, because Standard & Poor’s 500 index, inwe’d all be playing on our smartcluding cable operator phones. Electronic Arts, Cablevision, video-game one of the biggest makmaker Electronic Arts ers of games for conBIGGEST SURPRISES and auto-parts seller soles, was expected to O’Reilly Automotive, see its stock worth 4.2% THIS YEAR IN THE S&P 500 less in 18 months. But that have been unexwhile Wall Street was pected treats for invesStocks that were among the top 30 top performers bearish on EA, no one tors this year, according this year — despite analysts on average expecting them in January to fall over the next 18 months: told the gamers. EA’s to a USA TODAY analyExpected Actual revenue over the past 12 sis of data from S&P Company change YTD change months is up 21% from Capital IQ. These stocks Cablevision -7.6% 51.6% fiscal 2014 ended in are among the best 30 Electronic Arts -4.2% 51.3% March. Net income has stocks in the S&P 500 O’Reilly Automotive -2.7% 32% skyrocketed from $8 this year, even though Reynolds American -2% 41.6% analysts at the start of million in fiscal 2014 to VeriSign -1.2% 54.1% the year on average $839 million. And the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals -1% 34.4% thought they’d be dogs. stock is up 51% this year.

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Volkswagen Group said Thursday it is hiring Kenneth Feinberg, one of the nation’s best known victim compensation attorneys, to handle claims resolution resulting from its diesel emissions scandal.

Feinberg will be in charge of the independent claims resolution program for owners of Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles with either 2-liter or 3-liter diesel engines. Feinberg will be in charge of both designing and administering the program. Volkswagen has admitted to rigging diesel engines in its cars to beat emissions testing.

In a conference call with reporters, Feinberg said he doesn’t know how long the Volkswagen program will last or what settlement options it will include. “We

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VW named Kenneth Feinberg for his “extensive experience.”

have to wait and see what the legal remedies will be,” he said.

About 500,000 claims are expected. “We are concerned that we come up with a menu of solutions that, in combination, will satisfy individual owners,” Feinberg said, adding it is premature to talk about those options, including whether VW will buy back cars.

Most recently, Feinberg served as the independent administrator in charge of General Motors’ claims surrounding faulty ignition switches. He determined that 124 deaths and 275 injury claims were valid from among 4,343 claims filed.

He rose to fame through his handling of the compensation programs from the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and for victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York in 2001.

“His extensive experience in handling such complex matters will help to guide us as we move forward to make things right with our customers,” Michael Horn, CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, said in a statement.

Volkswagen has yet to say how it plans to repair the vehicles to make them compliant with emissions laws and how it will affect their performance. Several lawsuits already have been filed.

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The latest quarterly results from Oracle show how the shift to cloud computing is putting a major dent in the software giant’s sales growth and profitability.

Like the results from its previous quarter, the numbers strongly suggest Oracle is going to need a major cloud-related acquisition in 2016 to prevent the trend from further damaging its finances.

Hurt by falling overall revenue,

the company’s operating income dropped 17% for its fiscal second quarter ended Nov. 30, compared with the same period a year ago.

Oracle’s bottom line, meanwhile, also suffered a double-digit drop, as net income fell 12% yearover-year, to $2.2 billion.

For its fiscal first quarter ended Aug. 31, Oracle had reported a 10% drop in operating income and a 20% plunge in net income.

Just as troubling for the company’s shareholders is Oracle’s shrinking top line.

Overall revenue in the November quarter fell 6% versus a year earlier, following a 2% year-overyear slip in the prior quarter.

The company’s revenue from new software licenses has fared even worse, dropping 18% and 16%, respectively, during the last two periods, on a year-over-year basis. Those numbers are especially troubling, because fewer new customers this fiscal year will translate into less revenue from software updates and sup-

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Oracle’s bottom line continues to sink, troubling shareholders.

port in the future. And that recurring revenue stream has been among the company’s most lucrative businesses for decades.

Oracle likes to tout its own cloud business and now puts those numbers at the top of its statement of operations.

Those numbers show strong growth, as cloud revenue rose 26% in the most-recent quarter, compared with a year earlier. Yet that number decelerated from 29% growth in the August quarter, and cloud-related revenues remain just 7% of Oracle’s total.

In other words, Oracle’s cloud

push has so far been unable to move the financial needle enough to stem the drop in sales and profit. The company’s operating margin — or operating income as a percent of revenue — fell to 33% for the quarter ended Nov. 30, down from 37% a year ago.

In the August quarter, it had fallen to 31% from 34%.

The less-profitable start to the company’s fiscal year has been noticed by tech investors, who’ve pushed its shares down 16% so far in 2015. The stock dropped 5% Thursday in the wake of its latest results. All this points to a need for Oracle to either pull the trigger on a major acquisition or risk more of the same as its customers move to the cloud.

Acquiring a company the size of Salesforce, the cloud computing pioneer valued at $52.5 billion, would be risky, to be sure.

Yet Oracle has moved before on huge deals, as when it bought software rival PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion a decade ago.

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

The uncertainty of when the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates has been erased after the U.S. central bank raised rates a quarter-point Wednesday, its first such increase since 2006.

But now a fresh uncertainty is sure to emerge, namely how do you define “gradual,” the term used more than a dozen times Wednesday by the Fed to describe the pace of future hikes.

And it is the pace of the rate increases that likely will have the biggest impact on asset prices as the Fed moves next year to get rates back up to more normal levels. The Fed’s so-called “dots” plot suggests four rate hikes in 2016, but most Wall Street analysts believe that pace is a bit too aggres-

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Nonetheless, the new $64,000 question on Wall Street will pivot from, “When will the Fed hike rates?” to “How many times will the Fed hike rates?”

And since the rate-hike question involves all of 2016, that new uncertainty is another headwind facing investors.

“Not all the Fed-related questions are over,” warns Citigroup economist William Lee. “Defining gradual and divining how the Fed will implement a gradual rate increase will become the new parlor game for financial markets,” Lee wrote in a report.

Wall Street firms will also reanalyze their initial bullish reaction to the Fed rate hike. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, for example, said the combination of rising rates and slowing earnings growth is not a bullish combination.

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Newmont Mining (NEM) Retreats as dollar gains after Fed liftoff.

Marathon Oil (MRO) Oil prices drop, share price follows.

Wynn Resorts (WYNN) Rating lowered to strong sell at Zacks.

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Airline’s shares have plenty of room to fly higher Q: Is Delta stock about to take off?

Matt Krantz

mkrantz@usatoday.com USA TODAY

A: Delta has been a big winner a few years running because of strong travel demand. The easy gains are over, but investors still think there’s upside.

Shares of Delta have soared for investors who bravely jumped into the stock in late 2012 when the airline industry’s prospects weren’t looking so hot. The airline’s shares have jumped 364% over the past three years, closing Thursday at $51.03 — making the Standard & Poor’s 500 look grounded with its 45% gain during the same period.

The company continued to build a positive case for the business at an investor day held this week. Analysts are looking for Delta to post adjusted earnings of $4.64 a share this year, S&P Capital IQ says. If correct, that means adjusted profit this fiscal year would be up 40% from the previous year.

Analysts are calling for another good year of growth in 2016 — with adjusted profit seen adding 26% to $5.83 a share.

The big revenue gains are over, but Delta is still growing. Delta is expected to post 1% higher revenue this year and a 1.4% increase in revenue in 2016. The key is that the company — facing less competition — is able to hold the line on ticket prices while enjoying lower operating costs. Analysts think the stock will be worth $62.71 in 18 months.

Post office deadline near, so better mail those cards now Elizabeth Weise @eweise USA TODAY

FRANCISCO For those who’ve done their shopping, written their cards and have only to drop by the post office, the time is now. Yes, there will be lines but it’s only going to get worse.

“We always encourage people to ship as early as possible,” U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Sarah Ninivaggi said.

The deadline for mailing first class mail so it arrives by Christmas Eve is Saturday. That inSAN

USPS

The Postal Service says don’t be surprised if you receive deliveries on Sundays in December.

cludes cards and small packages weighing less than 13 ounces.

The deadline for priority mail, which includes packages, is Dec. 21. The absolute, last ditch Postal Service shipping date is Dec. 23 for Priority Mail Express.

Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, the Postal Service expects to deliver 600 million packages, a 10.5% increase over last year.

Over the entire holiday season, the Postal Service expects to deliver 15.5 billion cards, letters and packages. By comparison, UPS anticipates delivering 630 million packages between Black Friday and New Year’s Eve. If you’re waiting for packages to arrive, Ni-

nivaggi says the Post Office anticipates Dec. 21 will be its busiest delivery day of the year.

And don’t be surprised if you find items getting delivered on Sunday.

For the second year in a row, mail carriers will be out delivering on Sundays in major cities and high volume areas, a day they haven’t typically worked in the past except for premium Priority Mail Express deliveries.

“We expect to deliver on average approximately 5 million packages every Sunday during December,” Ninivaggi said. “It’s part of keeping the network fluid

and the mail moving.”

The shift comes in part due to the Postal Service’s deal with Amazon to make use of USPS’ Parcel Select service to deliver on Sundays. The program rolled out in 2013 in two areas, New York and Los Angeles. It expanded in 2014 to other cities and still further this year.

“Following the success of the 2014 holiday season, the Postal Service will again deliver packages seven days a week in select major cities and high-volume areas beginning Nov. 29, for the four Sundays before Christmas,” Ninivaggi said.

SPORTS LIFE AUTOS In theaters this weekend TRAVEL

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MOVIES

Compiled from reviews by USA TODAY film critics

Rating; the good and the bad

Bridge of Spies

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2 hours, 21 minutes

The Martian

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Rylance is a revelation to mainstream audiences.

Downside: Spielberg’s latest isn’t phenomenal, though it hits the spot.

Plot: An astronaut (Matt Damon) stranded on Mars has to use his knowledge as a skilled botanist to stay alive until NASA can mount a rescue mission.

Director: Ridley Scott

2 hours, 12 minutes

The Night Before

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Jordan and Stallone take the franchise to its greatest heights in years.

Downside: It borrows from the ‘Rocky’ template a bit too much.

Plot: Three best friends (Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anthony Mackie) have one last night of Christmas Eve debauchery before they face adult responsibilities.

Director: Jonathan Levine

1 hour, 40 minutes

The Peanuts Movie

Rating: PG Upside: The two main pals are cute and their journey includes amazing visuals.

Downside: Some scenes could be too intense for little moviegoers.

Plot: Charlie Brown has to get past his own crippling lack of self-confidence to win the heart of his beloved Little Red-Haired Girl.

Director: Steve Martino

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 eegE

2 hours, 16 minutes

Sisters

Plot: Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) leads one last revolt against the oppressive Capitol of Panem.

Director: Francis Lawrence

Rating: PG-13 Upside: The franchise closer offers several excellent action set pieces.

Downside: The climax suffers from a weak script and poor editing.

Plot: Two estranged siblings are tasked with cleaning out their childhood home and instead throw a raging house party.

Director: Jason Moore

2 hours, 2 minutes

Spectre

Rating: PG-13 Upside: The whale-attack scenes are violent, immersive and gorgeous.

Downside: Most of the sailors are indistinguishable from one another.

Plot: Rogue missions and beautiful women are on tap for James Bond (Daniel Craig) while on a collision course with an evil organization and its shadowy leader (Christoph Waltz).

Director: Sam Mendes

1 hour, 45 minutes

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Olivia Wilde and Jake Lacy have great chemistry as a pretend couple.

Downside: The plot is a trite, predictable and unfunny mess.

Plot: Youngsters Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) are thrust into a war against the evil First Order and a massive search for the last Jedi.

Director: J.J. Abrams

Plot: At the height of the Cold War, an insurance lawyer (Tom Hanks) is tasked with defending an accused Soviet spy (Mark Rylance).

Director: Steven Spielberg

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Plot: The son (Michael B. Jordan) of Apollo Creed asks his late father’s rival Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) to train him as a pro boxer.

Director: Ryan Coogler

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Plot: To get home to his family, a young Apatosaur (voice of Raymond Ochoa) makes friends with a feral caveboy (Jack Bright).

Director: Peter Sohn

Plot: The crew of the whaling ship Essex (Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker) braves treacherous conditions and runs afoul of a gigantic whale.

Director: Ron Howard

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Plot: Interwoven tales of a dysfunctional Pittsburgh clan lead to the annual family get-together on Christmas Eve at the parents’ (Diane Keaton, John Goodman) place.

Director: Jessie Nelson

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1 hour, 33 minutes Rating: G Upside: Lovable beagle Snoopy steals every scene he’s in.

Downside: Story isn’t as clever or nuanced as its characters.

1 hour, 58 minutes Rating: R Upside: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have fantastic chemistry.

Downside: Much of the raunchy humor is hit-or-miss.

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2 hours, 28 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: Mendes and Craig continue to make magic as 007’s dynamic duo.

Downside: The story recycles too much past material without adding anything to the decades-old lore.

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JONATHAN PRIME

Love the Coopers

1 hour, 41 minutes Rating: R Upside: Some laugh-out-loud gags and amusing guest stars (Michael Shannon, who walks away with the movie as a prophetic pot dealer).

Downside: As saccharinesweet as a sugarplum in its attempts at emotional moments.

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In the Heart of the Sea

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Damon’s nearly one-man show is humorous and compelling.

Downside: No space botanist is this good at his job.

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The Good Dinosaur

2 hours, 21 minutes

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DREAMWORKS

Creed

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LIFELINE

2 hours, 16 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: A well-balanced mix of great new characters and old favorites.

Downside: The next film is a year and a half away.

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MOVIES

HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY ‘FULL HOUSE’ FANS Want Netflix to air its ‘Full House’ revival, ‘Fuller House,’ already?

You got it, dude! The streaming service announced Thursday that the show’s first season of 13 new episodes will debut Feb. 26. The news was delivered via a video teaser that showed many of the sites from the original show (the Golden Gate Bridge, the titular house) to the tune of Miranda Lambert’s emotional ‘The House That Built Me.’

TWEET TALK ‘STAR WARS’ ACTORS SOUND OFF ON ‘THE FORCE AWAKENS’ Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker): Loose lips sink Starships! Don’t pull a Homer, keep the secrets! #DontBeAHomer #StarWars Dave Prowse (Darth Vader): On my way to see The Force Awakens... The force is strong with us! #StarWarsTheForceAwakens Peter Serafinowicz (Darth Maul voice): Just watched #TheForce Awakens. Oh my. JJ Abrams and co deserve to be fanfared and medalled. Please tell me there’ll be a sequel!

Lupita Nyong’o (Maz Kanata): We took a @starwars plane! #R2D2 in the skies! What a cool cast and crew to be a part of!

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‘Star Wars’ marathon

USA TODAY, LEFT, AND GETTY IMAGES

Steven Spielberg is 69. Brad Pitt is 52. Christina Aguilera is 35.

STYLE STAR Jennifer Lawrence looked sophisticated in black Thursday at London’s Ham Yard Hotel. The actress, in a tuxedo dress and studded heels, was overseas for a special screening of her movie ‘Joy,’ out Christmas Day.

Watching all seven films end to end would take

15 hours, 41 minutes in Earth time.

Source USA TODAY research TERRY BYRNE AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY

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Compiled by Carly Mallenbaum

Carrie Fisher on our iconic Princess Leia: ‘She’s mine!’

‘I carry her around,’ so she wears the crown comfortably Brian Truitt @briantruitt USA TODAY

Being in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is like a high school reunion in outer space for Carrie Fisher: Everyone’s a little older and the hairstyles are still iffy, but it’s a blast seeing old friends.

“It was fun to do it again. It was like being back on campus,” says Fisher, 59, who reprises her role as Leia Organa, formerly a princess and now a general for the heroic Resistance in director J.J. Abrams’ sci-fi adventure.

In George Lucas’ first Star Wars film in 1977, Leia is a face of the fledgling Rebel Alliance when she is captured by the Galactic Empire. She is broken out of the Death Star by Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), a farm boy who turns out to be her long-lost brother, and Han Solo (Harrison Ford), a smuggler she falls for hard.

Three decades after the defeat of the Empire, Leia is in charge.

But the First Order is a huge cosmic threat, Luke is nowhere to be found, and there’s an estrangement between her and Han. “She loses everybody. She’s a little bit shut down from that,” Fisher says.

Resting on a hotel bed and petting her sleeping French bulldog, Gary, the actress acknowledges NEW YORK

ROBERT DEUTSCH, USA TODAY

Returning to the Star Wars universe in The Force Awakens “was like being back on campus,” says Fisher, 59. feeling “a little bit daunted” about returning to the Star Wars universe for the first time since 1983’s Return of the Jedi.

“I didn’t know if I could still do it,” she says. “But deep in your head, we’re permanently young.

“I carry her around and I know her better than anybody else, and we wear the same clothes a lot of times. She’s mine. She’s mine!”

She doesn't see The Force Awakens rejuvenating her career — she has worked sporadically in recent years doing voice work on Family Guy, playing herself on The Big Bang Theory and having a recurring role on the British sitcom Catastrophe. She doesn't like looking at herself on screen.

“Meryl Streep says it’s because she’s done three movies a year and just watched it go downhill. I went from seeing it whenever the hell that was and now, and it wasn’t a happy surprise.”

What she enjoys now about acting in Star Wars movies is working with a new group of youngsters including Daisy Ridley (who plays Rey) and John Boyega (Finn).

Nobody knew the first Star Wars would be a blockbuster when filming it, Fisher says, while Ridley and Boyega expect and want The Force Awakens to be huge. “And you just think, ‘Oh, man, wait till you see what’s going to blow into your world.’ ”

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Filters and Ductwork key to heating efficiency Linda a. ditch

Hometown Lawrence

Homeowners can increase the efficiency and lifespan of their home heating systems by keeping an eye on two key elements — the ductwork and the filter.

Regular maintenance on each will make sure your home is getting the most heat for the smallest financial outlay.

Ductwork, those galvanized metal channels that carry the heat from the furnace throughout the home, can be a major source of heating inefficiency. Ten to twenty percent of heat is lost through the ductwork into unheated spaces of the home.

To prevent this, start by sealing

the seams in the ductwork with foil tape. Do not use duct tape. Though the name implies otherwise, regular duct tape does not stick well to galvanized metal. Foil tape is best.

Next, insulate the ducts that are in areas such as the attic, basement, crawlspace, and garage. Then the warm air that passes through the ductwork will not leach into the surrounding air.

The other element important to your system’s energy performance is the filter. If it clogs up, the heating unit won’t work properly. Plus, it will have

to work harder and use more energy. Keeping the filter clean increases the efficiency of the system.

There are a number of different filters on the market. The fiberglass varieties are the least expensive. They are designed to meet the minimum requirements to protect your systems and filter out only about three percent of airborne particles. These filters should be changed once a month.

Pleated filters are more efficient at cleaning indoor air.

Some are electrostatically charged to trap not only dust but also

common allergens. Change this filter type approximately every 90 days.

Washable permanent filters last for about five years. They should be washed and rinsed every month.

Add regular filter changes to your calendar during the heating season, and check your system’s owner’s manual on how to change the filter and for the correct filter size. Be sure to check the airflow direction arrow on the filter’s side since they are designed to allow air movement in only one direction. Also, if you have pets, you will need to

Ductwork, those galvanized metal channels that carry the heat from the furnace throughout the home, can be a major source of heating inefficiency.

change your filter more often.

— Linda A. Ditch writes about real estate for Hometown Lawrence.

Contact her at thompson.lindaa@ gmail.com.

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DONALD S. CUSHING, CHRISTINE M. CUSHING TO ABDULRAHIM ODEME, SAMIHA HAJBAKRI 2620 RED CEDAR DR., LAWRENCE

LYNN D. BIRD, JAMES W. EVANS, MONTHANUN K. EVANS, DAVID L. BARCLAY, CECILY T. BARCLAY, ROBERT R. EVANS, JR. MARY C. EVANS TO TREVA E. JOHNSON 5903 LONGLEAF CIR., LAWRENCE

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BOWERMAN 800 ARIZONA CT., LAWRENCE

NEIL W. WAKEFIELD, LARAE D. WAKEFIELD TO PREMIUM VENTURES, LLC 1801 W. 31ST ST.,

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FHA/VA Jumbo

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Jumbo FHA VA

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NEBRASKA 3, KANSAS 1

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY JUNIOR MIDDLE BLOCKER JANAE HALL (16) WINDS UP FOR A SHOT AGAINST NEBRASKA THURSDAY at CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Nebraska won the NCAA semifinal in four sets.

Future is bright for KU volleyball

Huskers too much for KU in Omaha

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Omaha, Neb. — The Kansas University volleyball program’s dream season came to an uncharacteristic end in front of an NCAA record crowd of 17,551 on Thursday night at CenturyLink Center.

Playing before the most fans to ever watch an NCAA Tournament volleyball match — most of them wearing red and screaming for the team that came from just 59 miles down the road in Lincoln — Kansas fell victim to more than a dozen unforced errors and

watched No. 4 Nebraska (31-4) advance to Saturday’s national title match against Texas with a four-set victory over the Jayhawks, 25-20, 25-21, 20-25 and 25-16.

There will be no all-Big 12 final nor will Kansas get one more crack at the Texas Longhorns, who knocked off Minnesota in four sets in Thursday’s first semifinal match.

The Jayhawks finished their unprecedented 2015 season with an all-time best record of 30-3 and those three losses came to the two teams playing in the nationKU COACH RAY BECHARD SCRATCHES HIS al championship match.

HEAD outside the Kansas locker room during Please see VOLLEYBALL, page 4C Thursday’s NCAA semifinal.

Omaha, Neb. — The most successful, thrilling season in the history of Kansas University volleyball ended Thursday night in front of the largest crowd ever to watch the sport in a collegiate match.

It was quite the spectacle, with mostly red-clad spectators numbering 17,551 at CenturyLink Center to watch home-state favorite Nebraska defeat the Jayhawks in four sets, 25-20, 25-21, 20-25, 25-16.

The better, more physically imposing team won the match, but it would be impossible to be anything but bullish on the immedi-

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ate future of Kansas volleyball.

To these untrained volleyball eyes, the best player witnessed by the record crowd, played neither for Texas and Nebraska (the Please see KEEGAN, page 5C

Partial qualifier Traylor about to earn KU degree

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Jamari Traylor, who was deemed an academic partial qualifier by the NCAA upon his arrival at Kansas University in 2011, will be a college graduate in a matter of hours.

“After this finals week I’ll have my degree,” said fifth-year senior forward Traylor, who along with Ben McLemore, could only practice one semester his freshman year before being deemed eligible to play in games in 2012-13.

“I’ve never had a graduation ceremony. This will be my first one in the spring,” added proud Liberal Arts and Sciences major Tray-

lor, who attended three high schools — Fenger and Julian in Chicago and IMG Academy in Florida.

“I’ve got to talk to Dr. Scott (Ward, KU associate AD, academic and career counseling) about my classes (second semester), seeing what he thinks would be good (postgraduate) classes for me, because I’ve got my degree. I don’t really know what I want to do now, (but) I have my degree.”

KU coach Bill Self back in 2011 disagreed with the NCAA’s ruling on Traylor and McLemore as well as former KU signee Braeden Anderson, who was not cleared for admittance to KU in 2011 and now is playing basketball at Seton Hall,

while in Law School.

“To think that he (Traylor) came in a situation where the NCAA obviously didn’t let him play because of a rule, and basically to see him stay after it and finish up I think speaks volumes of his character and his want-to. He’s a terrific kid, or young man,” Self said Thursday.

Traylor was homeless one school year in Chicago, living on the streets.

“There’s a lot of success stories, but the ones that you probably hold truest to your heart are the ones that the deck is stacked against them a little bit, and this deck was stacked against him,” Self said.

“You know, the first time

that we saw Jamari was by accident. We go down to IMG to look at somebody else, and Kurtis (Townsend, KU assistant) says, ‘Hey, check him out, he looks pretty athletic,’ but he wasn’t a highly-recruited kid by any means.

“Texas Tech (recruited him) for a bit and there was a few other schools, but he really didn’t have much of a résumé because he really didn’t play in high school. I think he played one semester maybe or one year in high school because he was never really eligible because of his home situations with him being homeless for a while.

“Certainly that put him behind the 8-ball. But to see

how he just kind of fought through it. He went down there and did everything he was asked to do to get eligible, and come to find out what he was asked to do did not meet NCAA qualifications, not because he got bad information, I just think the person that helped him had no idea that everything he did wouldn’t count (toward core courses) because they couldn’t give him those extra two semesters because he was homeless for a year, and I think everybody assumed that that would probably be the case.

“We lost the appeal for him to be eligible, and he’s hung in there, and he’s been

Kansas University senior Jamari Traylor will be awarded his Liberal Arts and Sciences degree from KU this spring.

Traylor will take graduate courses second Please see HOOPS, page 4C semester.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY SATURDAY • Men’s basketball vs. Montana, 1 p.m.

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St. Louis (ap) — The St. Lou• Girls, boys basketball at is Rams saved some of their College Station, Texas — Lawrence High, 5:30 p.m.

AL EAST best for last.

Texas A&M quarterback Kyler Tavon Austin scored twice, Murray has left the team and Todd Gurley topped 1,000 has been granted his release to LAWRENCE HIGH yards rushing, and theSOUTH Rams transfer.

WEST TODAY AL CENTRAL beat the Tampa Bay BuccaThe highly touted freshman is • Girls, boys basketball vs. Free neers, 31-23, on Thursday night the second Texas A&M quarterAL EAST State, 5:30 p.m. in what could be the franchise’s back to transfer from the school final game in St. Louis. in a week after Kyle Allen left The 31st-ranked offense had last Thursday.

AL WEST VERITAS CHRISTIAN an inspired effort in front of The move leaves the Aggies AL CENTRAL TODAY in a difficult predicament for the another half-filled but spirited Edward Jones Dome crowd, • Girls vs. Central Christian, boys Music City Bowl against Louisville on Dec. 30. Texas A&M has rolling to a 21-3 halftime lead vs. St. Marys basketball at Corpus SOUTHtwo WEST just one scholarship quarterback behind Case Keenum’s Christi Church, 6:30, 8 p.m. on its roster in , a touchdown passes.

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Fans chanted “Keep Our junior college transfer from Blinn AL EAST Rams! Keep Our Rams!” and HASKELL College who played sparingly carried signs, one of them readthis season.

TODAY ing “We Don’t Need Kroenke, Murray missed practice • Women’s basketball at Bethany, Billy Hurst/AP Photo We Just Want our Rams.”

Wednesday and coach Kevin 5 p.m.

ST. LOUIS RUNNING BACKALTODD GURLEY, LEFT, carries the ball as CENTRAL Owner Stan Kroenke, who Sumlin said at the time that the Tampa Bay linebacker Lavonte David defends.

The Rams defeated the SATURDAY AFC TEAM LOGOS 081312: Helmet and team logos for the AFC teams; various sizes; stand-alone; staff; ETA 5 p.m. the Rams (6-8) quarterback was “going through wants to move Buccaneers, 31-23, on Thursday night in St. Louis.

• Women’s basketball at Rockhurst, some things and didn’t feel well.” to Los Angeles, attended the fi1 p.m. nale but kept a low profile.

The team announced 51,295 to rush for 1,000 yards since Rams 31, Buccaneers 23 Missouri names AL WEST tickets had been distributed for Jerome Bettis and didn’t get it Tampa Bay 3 0 3 17— 23 St. Louis 14 7 7 3 — 31 SPORTS ON TV the 66,000-capacity dome. by much, gaining 48 yards on 21 First Quarter Heupel coordinator StL-Austin 17 pass from Keenum (Zuerlein Up 31-13, the Rams became carries.

TODAY 11:54.

Columbia, Mo. — New Misconservative and Jameis WinAustin is the first player kick), TB-FG Barth 53, 4:52. souri coach Barry Odom hired College Basketball Time Net Cable StL-Britt 60 pass from Keenum (Zuerlein ston took advantage with two since Gale Sayers in 1965 to Josh Heupel as offensive coor3:15. touchdown passes in a big score at least four rushing kick), Mississippi v. Memphis 7 p.m. ESPNN 140,231 Second Quarter dinator and quarterbacks coach fourth AFC quarter.

He had just 125 touchdowns, five receiving StL-Gurley 3 run (Zuerlein kick), 2:09.

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Heupel is finishing his first quarters, but finished with a down on a punt return in a StL-Austin 21 run (Zuerlein kick), 5:35.

NCAA Div. III champ. 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 season as assistant head coach/ career-best 363, his first 300- season. He leads the Rams Fourth Quarter TB-Stocker 3 pass from Winston (Barth NCAA Div. I semifinal 7 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 offensive coordinator and quaryard effort, for Tampa Bay (6- with 10 total TDs. kick), 13:05. terbacks coach at Utah State StL-FG Zuerlein 19, 10:39.

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Several stars from the 1999 TB-FG Barth 24, 7:31. and will join the staff after the Pro Basketball Time Net Cable The halftime deficit was the Super Bowl championship TB-Seferian-Jenkins 9 pass from Winston Aggies play in the Idaho Potato Buccaneers’ largest since they team attended the finale, in- (Barth kick), 1:34.

Clippers v. San Antonio 7 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 Bowl on Tuesday against Akron. were down 35-7 against the Ti- cluding Orlando Pace, Isaac A-51,295.

New Orleans v. Phoenix 9:30p.m. ESPN 33, 233 TB StL The school will release contract tans in their opening 42-14 loss. Bruce and Torry Holt, plus First downs 30 16 details at a later date.

Net Yards 509 319 Mike Evans had nine recep- Kurt Warner and Marshall Total High School Basketball Time Net Cable Rushes-yards 27-146 33-98 “I’ve known him for a long tions for 157 yards and topped Faulk from the NFL Network. Passing 363 221 St. Teresa’s v. BV North 2:30p.m. TWCSC 37, 226 time and have always respected 1,000 yards.

Punt Returns 0-0 0-0 At halftime, Warner took off Kickoff Returns 2-38 5-188 Blue Spr. S. v. McPherson 5:30p.m. TWCSC 37, 226 him highly, as a player, a coach, Austin Seferian-Jenkins’ his sports jacket and tossed a Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-9 a recruiter and a coordinator,” Rock Bridge v. S.T. Aq. 7 p.m. TWCSC 37, 226 29-50-1 14-17-0 9-yard scoring catch cut the pass to Bruce, who made the Comp-Att-Int Lost 0-0 2-13 Odom said in a statement. “I’ve deficit to eight with 1:34 to play, catch as he was running along Sacked-Yards Punts 3-40.7 5-44.0 been impressed by the offenses SATURDAY 2-1 0-0 but the Rams’ Bryce Hager re- the home team’s sideline and Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards 9-56 5-35 that he runs, they’re very difficult covered the onside kick. jogged into the end zone.

College Volleyball Time Net Cable Time of Possession 31:20 28:40 to defend, and his achievements Benny Cunningham had a Tailgating was down with the INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 6:30p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 speak for themselves.”

RUSHING-Tampa Bay, Martin 18-91, Sims Nebraska v. Texas 102-yard kickoff return to the 12th consecutive non-winning 7-50, Winston 2-5. St. Louis, Gurley 21-48, Heupel has been a part of Tampa Bay 3 in the fourth season and temperatures in the Austin 4-32, Mason 3-13, Cunningham 2-8, College Basketball Time Net Cable 13 bowl teams and six conferquarter and a 44-yard return high 30s, although it didn’t stop Keenum 3-(minus 3).

PASSING-Tampa Bay, Winston 29-50-1-363. ence championships since Wichita St. v. Seton Hall 11 a.m. Fox 4, 204 on the opening kickoff capped Shamus McDonough’s family, St. Louis, Keenum 14-17-0-234. beginning his coaching career RECEIVING-Tampa Bay, Evans 9-157, Utah v. Duke 11 a.m. ESPN 33, 233

by Austin’s 17-yard scoring re- who have set up shop nearby at 6-60, Seferian-Jenkins 3-29, Stocker in 2003, including 11 seasons at ception.

Laclede’s Landing every game Humphries 11 a.m. ESPNU 35, 235 3-25, Sims 3-22, Brate 3-20, Dye 1-44, Martin W.Ky. v. Louisville Oklahoma. He helped mentor Gurley needed 25 yards to since the Rams came to St. 1-6. St. Louis, Cook 4-64, Austin 3-41, Kendricks NC Asheville v. G’town 11 a.m. FSN 36, 236 3-27, Britt 2-71, Gurley 2-31.

Heisman Trophy winners Jason become the first Rams rookie Louis in 1995.

Mich. St. v. N’eastern 11:30a.m. NBCSP 38, 238 MISSED FIELD GOALS-None.

White (2003) and Sam BradAuburn v. Xavier 11 a.m. FS1 150,227 ford (2008) at Oklahoma, and Ga. Tech v. Georgia 11 a.m. SEC 157 Landry Jones won the Sammy UCLA v. N. Carolina noon CBS 5, 13, Baugh award in 2010 as the na 205,213 LATEST LINE tion’s top passer.

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Heartland Park has new owners Topeka — A real estate developer and his business partner are the new owners of the Heartland Park Topeka racing facility.

Chris Payne said Thursday he and Todd Crossley are the new owners of Heartland Park, apparently ending more months of uncertainty about the track’s future.

Payne confirmed he has reached an agreement with CoreFirst Bank & Trust and has already taken possession of the track. The race track’s future has been unclear since a proposed deal between the city and former owner Raymond Irwin was rejected by the Topeka City Council in May.

PRO BASKETBALL

Cavs’ Shumpert delivers baby Cleveland — Cavaliers guard Iman Shumpert calmly delivered a baby girl when his fiancee unexpectedly went into labor.

According to Shumpert’s fiancee, Teyana Taylor, the couple welcomed their daughter on Wednesday morning in their bathroom at home. Taylor posted on her Instagram account that she didn’t initially realize she was in labor and Shumpert, “playing Dr,” helped deliver the baby with “his bare hands.”

Taylor says Shumpert tied a pair of headphones around the umbilical cord while they waited for the ambulance to arrive. Taylor’s message to her daughter — Iman Tayla Shumpert Jr. — is: “Mommy carried you. Daddy delivered you. #MeetTheParents we love you baby girl.”

Shumpert is in his second season with Cleveland. He recently returned to the lineup after missing 21 games following wrist surgery.

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Lions good enough for 62-59 win

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

Kansas City, Mo. — Lawrence High boys basketball players weren’t at their sharpest on Thursday against Lee’s Summit West and jump shots weren’t falling.

But the Lions refused to back down. Diving all over the court, they grabbed 11 steals and fought back with their defense in a 62-59 victory in the Hy-Vee Shootout at Avila University.

With four lead changes in the fourth quarter, the Lions pulled ahead for good when junior guard Jackson Mallory drove down the baseline, fired a pass to the opposite corner, and senior guard Anthony Harvey drilled a three-pointer with 2:44 remaining for a 52-49 lead.

After a free throw by Lee’s Summit West, LHS senior forward Price Morgan added a lefthanded bucket and Mallory made two free throws for a six-point lead after junior forward Kobe Buffalomeat blocked a shot on the defensive end.

The Titans (3-2) never pulled closer than four points until sophomore Mario Goodrich hit a three-pointer with five seconds left. The Lions inbounded the ball and started celebrating once the Titans weren’t in position to foul.

“I think we had a couple of deflections and a couple of rebounds go our way,” LHS coach Mike Lewis said. “But it was based on effort.

It was us digging in and wanting to compete. We had a pretty good nose for the ball, for the most part, and a good, aggres-

Kevin Anderson/Special to the Journal-World

LAWRENCE HIGH’S JUSTIN ROBERTS DRIVES THE BALL downcourt in the Lions’ 62-59 victory over Lee’s Summit West on Thurday night at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri. sive spirit at the end where we just weren’t going to let it go.”

The Lions (4-1, ranked No. 7 in Class 6A) trailed by 10 points at halftime, shooting 5-for-14 (36 percent) in the second quarter. Meanwhile, Lee’s Summit West went 9-for10 at the free throw line in the period, including two layup-and-the-foul buckets. LSW 6-foot-7 junior Elijah Childs finished with 12 points and 15 rebounds.

“I felt like they were the aggressor on offense and were kind of cramming it right down our throat,” Lewis said. “So I made it clear at half that it wasn’t going to be the case in the second half.”

In the third quarter, the Lions opened with a 6-0 run and eventually took a lead when Mallory deflected a pass, Harvey stole the ball and flipped it up the court to LHS senior point guard Justin Roberts, who converted a layup.

Harvey scored eight points in the third quarter, driving down the lane for floaters or making back cuts to create space for open layups.

“I was trying to keep driving,” said Harvey, who had a game-high 18 points and six assists. “I felt like my jumper was a little off. My legs were a little tired. I thought getting to the cup would open up my jumper. I got a few open looks, got one to fall, then the rest was just layups and floaters.”

On defense, the Lions went to their 2-3 zone for stretches in the second half. It kept the Titans from driving into the paint, and the Lions used their athleticism on the perimeter to force turnovers and scrape for loose balls.

“When the ball is on the floor, it’s 50-50 who comes up with it,” said Morgan, who had 12 points and two blocks.

“Most of the time, that was us. I think that really says a lot about our team

how we’re willing to fight no matter what.”

The Lions will play host to Free State in the City Showdown at 7 tonight.

Brou awarded scholarship: Following the victory, Brou was presented with a $1,000 scholarship from Hy-Vee, which selects one boy and one girl from the entire 42-team showcase. The scholarship is based off a criteria involving academic and athletic achievement, sportsmanship and community involvement.

LAWRENCE (62) Justin Roberts 5-16 3-5 14, Price Morgan 6-8 0-3 12, Fred Brou 3-6 0-1 6, Anthony Harvey Jr. 8-13 1-2 18, Jackson Mallory 1-3 4-4 6, Braden Solko 0-1 0-0 0, Kobe Buffalomeat 2-6 2-2 6, Austin Miller 0-1 0-0 0, Tayvien Robinson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-54 10-17 62.

LEE’S SUMMIT WEST (59) Phillip Brooks 1-6 0-0 0, Joe Ganaden 2-3 1-1 5, Mario Goodrich 4-8 4-4 13, Dusty Stroup 6-8 6-9 18, Elijah Childs 6-15 0-1 12, Tyson Campbell 1-1 0-0 2, Malachi Butler 0-0 0-0 0, Caleb LuAllen 1-2 0-0 3, C.J. May 0-5 4-4 4, Devin Cole 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 21-49 15-19 59.

Lawrence 14 10 19 19 — 62 LS-West 17 17 8 17 — 59 Three-point goals: Lawrence 2-9 (Roberts, Harvey Jr.); Lee’s Summit West 2-7 (Goodrich, LuAllen). Fouled out: Brou. Turnovers: Lawrence 9, Lee’s Summit West 16.

Kevin Anderson/Special to the Journal-World

LAWRENCE HIGH’S FRED BROU gets to the basket for two points in the Lions’ 62-59 victory over Lee’s Summit West on Thursday night at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri.

FSHS, LHS bring momentum to showdown

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

After a comeback victory against Mill Valley last week, Free State High’s boys basketball players have plenty of confidence heading into the City Showdown.

The Firebirds know they’ve struggled against Lawrence High in the past few seasons, but most of them haven’t been a part of the rivalry. They’re excited to show how much they’ve improved when they tip off at 7 tonight at LHS.

“It’s always a blast,” FSHS junior forward Jay Dineen said. “Even last year, they were supposed to blow us out and it was close. It’s always a close game, no matter the difference in players and athletes and all that. It’s going to be fun.”

The Firebirds (20) fought back from a 10-point deficit with six minutes left against Mill Valley last Friday. For the varsity newcomers, it was their first opportunity to play in a tight game down the stretch and a valuable experience.

They responded with a “great day of practice” on Saturday and are hoping the momentum carries over to their final game before winter break.

“You can only simulate so much in practice,” first-year FSHS coach Sam Stroh said. “But I think finishing a game off, making free throws when it matters, it was good for us to be in a game that was close.”

In the first two games, Free State senior forward Chrision Wilburn has averaged a team-high 17 points per game with se-

nior Hunter Gudde averaging 14 points.

The Firebirds have lost four straight games against LHS, and seven of the last eight.

“We want to earn that respect,” FSHS junior guard Jacob Pavlyak said.

“No one thinks we can beat them, even though we’ve improved. They’ve improved, too. But nobody gives us that respect since we lost to them so many times. Everyone thinks they are the basketball school.”

The Lions (4-1, ranked No. 7 in Class 6A) will be

playing on back-to-back days after picking up a 62-59 victory over Lee’s Summit West in the HyVee Shootout on Thursday, but that doesn’t take away any of their enthusiasm for the crosstown matchup.

“This is the game,” LHS senior forward Price Morgan said. “Free State at the Jungle. There’s nothing quite like it. I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about it right now.”

For the Lions, it will also serve as their home opener after starting the

season with five games outside of Lawrence.

“That’s going to be a good one,” LHS senior guard Anthony Harvey said. “It’s my dad’s birthday, so it’s going to be a real special one. I’m just real excited to play those boys from the other side of town. It’s always great to play at the Jungle.”

Dineen added of the Jungle: “It just feels like everybody is on top of you. They have great students. We have great students. It’s going to be loud.”

Smith gives Chiefs dependability at quarterback

By Dave Skretta AP Sports Writer

Kansas City, Mo. — When the pocket broke down and Alex Smith took off running, the Chiefs quarterback made sure to pick up as much yardage as possible before sliding feet-first, just as he’d always been taught.

Chargers cornerback Jahleel Addae laid a lick on him anyway.

There was no flag for a late hit on the play, but that didn’t stop Smith from popping to his feet and delivering Addae some rather harsh words.

And for good reason, considering Smith’s importance to his team and the stunningly high rate of injury among quarterbacks in the NFL this season.

“He’s a tough kid. All these guys that play that position are tough kids,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Wednesday. “There’s a lot of glory in that position, and a lot of pub that

goes with it, but down underneath it, those are tough guys doing it. The ones that make it through are very fortunate.”

Just ask the Baltimore Ravens, the Chiefs’ opponent this weekend.

Joe Flacco was lost for the season with a knee injury, and backup Matt Schaub is dealing with the after-effects of a concussion. So that could mean Jimmy Clausen is under center against Kansas City.

The same story is playing out elsewhere around the league, too.

The Bengals, in the midst of a playoff chase, lost Andy Dalton when he broke his thumb making a tackle, and had to sign former Ball State quarterback Keith Wenning off the practice squad for depth.

The Texans are also chasing a playoff spot, but will have T.J Yates at the helm for their game against Indianapolis after Brian Hoyer sustained a concussion. And the

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KANSAS CITY CHIEFS QUARTERBACK ALEX SMITH throws during warmups prior to a game against San Diego on Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri.

Colts are in a similar situation with Andrew Luck still sidelined by a lacerated kidney and Matt Hasselbeck dealing with sore ribs.

Peyton Manning, Tony Romo, Josh McCown — the list of ailing QBs goes on and on.

“I hadn’t thought about it. You get so wrapped up in your own world,”

Ravens coach John Harbaugh replied, when asked about the epidemic of injured quarterbacks.

“I don’t really have an answer for it.”

Harbaugh did acknowledge the Chiefs are fortunate to have Smith on the field every week.

Since he arrived in a trade with San Francisco nearly three seasons

ago, he has missed only two games. One occurred when the Chiefs sat all their starters with a playoff spot already assured, and the other was last season, when Smith hurt his spleen and missed the season finale.

“For everybody, you want to be dependable, accountable, someone you know will be there week-in and week-out,” Smith said. “Everybody battles through stuff but yeah, you want to be dependable.”

Dependability is only part of the equation. Being effective is just as important.

Smith has been both for Kansas City.

He threw his first interception after 312 errorless attempts last weekend against San Diego, but also threw the touchdown pass to Albert Wilson that provided the margin of victory.

Smith has also put together five games with a passer rating of 100-plus,

and his 15-to-4 touchdown-to-interception rate is best in the NFL and pacing for the best of his 10-year career.

Smith said he takes pride in staying on the field, and understands that an injury to him would be much more difficult to absorb that any other player on the team.

That’s why he is so quick to throw the ball away when he’s under duress, or slip out of bounds when he’s flushed from the pocket.

He may have been sacked 40 times already, but few have been memorable contact.

“I’m always playing the same way,” he said,” but you learn it over time.

You evaluate all those situations, as you’re running — where you’re at. Third down, first down. You get better at knowing the game situation and playing fast and being smart about it.”

So far, Smith has been smart enough to stay on the field all season.

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KU SOPHOMORE RIGHT SIDE HITTER KELSIE PAYNE (8) LOOKS FOR A KILL against Nebraska Thursday at CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska.

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“We just weren’t good enough tonight in a couple phases of the game,” KU coach Ray Bechard said. “Our serving’s been up and down all year and our passing’s been good but those two things put us in a hole early on.”

KU, which advanced to the first Final Four in school history with an improbable comeback over top-seeded USC last weekend in San Diego, recorded seven service errors in the first two sets alone — nine for the match — and did not fire its lone ace until Anna Church’s perfectly placed serve gave KU a 22-18 lead in the third set.

“If you’ve followed our

team, we’ve been an interesting serving team,” Bechard said.

“This spring, I’m guaranteeing you we’re gonna spend a lot of time on that.”

There were a couple of crucial moments in the first two sets that turned the tide of the match.

With KU trailing 17-18, the Jayhawks executed a perfect pass, set and swing and forced the ‘Huskers to scramble on the other side of the net.

But as the ball sailed toward the scorer’s table, Nebraska saved it and cut it over the net, inside the antenna and back into play. The Jayhawks could not recover and instead of tying the set at 18 went down 19-17 en route to the five-point, first-set loss.

“It absolutely was a huge swing,” Bechard said of the wild save. “It looked like it was an impossible angle.

That should’ve been a play that we converted on.”

In the second set, the Jayhawks again struggled to limit their mistakes and Nebraska’s defense continued to handle everything the Jayhawks threw at it. Even when the ‘Huskers needed three and four swings to put the ball down, their defense and perfect positioning enabled them to take all the time they needed.

Even with KU’s struggles serving, the Jayhawks hung tough and nearly pushed the match to a fifth set.

All-American rightside hitter Kelsie Payne (22 kills on 33 swings and just three errors) was solid all night, but Nebraska never gave her the opportunity to completely take over the match.

“Twenty-two kills and three errors, she hit .576

on 33 swings and everyone knew we were going to her,” Bechard said.

“She was outstanding.

That performance was as good as any we saw in either match tonight.”

For a while, throughout the third set and halfway into the fourth, Kansas started to play the brand of volleyball that helped it get past top seed USC in San Diego.

The Jayhawks scrambled and passed better on defense and also got more physical at the net.

After a quiet start, junior Janae Hall was a beast on both side of the net finishing the third set with four kills and four blocks.

That, along with fewer errors propelled Kansas to take the third set, 25-20.

In the fourth, despite trailing most of the way, KU found itself down just 18-16, but missed an easy

opportunity to pull closer and watched NU to go up 19-16. Nebraska flexed its muscles the rest of the way and cruised into the national championship match.

“We started executing (again) and all the pressure went back on Kansas,” NU coach John Cook said. “It was a really nice way to finish that match. We played some flawless volleyball from that point on.”

Despite the loss, the Jayhawks never stopped believing they could and would come back.

“We’ve done a great job of coming back all year and especially lately,” Payne said. “And I definitely thought we were going to make a run and get back into it.”

It didn’t happen. And instead of talking about a rematch with Texas,

the Jayhawks were left to reflect on a magical season that ended in the one place every college volleyball team hoped to play when the season began.

“It was an awesome opportunity,” said junior libero Cassie Wait of playing in the Final Four.

“The ball didn’t fall our way, and we didn’t play the match we wanted to play, but we’re gonna make this a standard, not so much a goal anymore.”

Added sophomore setter Ainise Havili, who finished with 38 assists: “This sucks. Everybody hates this feeling. But that comes with this sport and we’re gonna work hard and come back next year. It’s been fun. It’s been a great year. We fight hard and we showed that tonight in front of 17,000 people.

Can’t ask for more.”

Kansas’ Kuhn named national assistant coach of year J-W Staff Reports

Omaha, Neb. — Kansas University associate head coach Laura Kuhn was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) National Assistant Coach of the Year at a banquet here Thursday afternoon.

Kuhn accepted the award after the Jayhawks’ midday practice for Thursday’s NCAA Championship semifinal match against No. 4 Nebraska inside CenturyLink Pavilion.

Since Kuhn arrived at Kansas for the 2011 season, the Jayhawks have reached unprecedented marks. KU has won 118 matches in five seasons with her on staff, including this season’s pro-

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great since. He’s not the most skilled player that we’ve ever had, and certainly not the biggest.

He’s kind of at an in-between size, 6-7, and having to play against big guys, but he always gives us great effort, and he’s very, very bright, and he understands how to play, and other guys really enjoy playing with him, so he makes the game easier for others.”

On the court, Traylor takes a 4.0 scoring,

gram-record .938 winning percentage (30-2), spending the majority of the 2015 season in the top-10 of the AVCA Coaches Poll, hosting the NCAA Championship first and second rounds four consecutive seasons, and advancing to the program’s first NCAA Championship semifinals.

“This is more about our whole staff and program at KU — everyone who is apart it,” Kuhn said. “We say to our student-athletes on the court, “what can you do to make your teammates’ job easier?”

We do the same with our staff. I can’t accept this award and not think that Coach B (Ray Bechard), Todd Chamberlain, Lucas Yanez and everyone who is a part of this pro-

gram. We are all working towards the same goal.”

Kuhn oversees the development of middle

blockers, among other duties in the program. Her first recruiting commitments when arriving in

4.3 rebound average into Saturday’s 1 p.m., home game against Montana.

He’s played two minutes in the last two games as he recovers from an ankle injury.

“I’m getting up and down the court better. I feel more active, being able to do the things I’m good at doing I guess,” Traylor said. “It’s never good to sit on the sidelines because I always want to get out there. As far as being physically ready, I feel it was good to get a little rest in, get better. I’m ready to get out there next game.”

Self is still looking for a forward to play the

majority of minutes next to Perry Ellis. In the last game, Carlton Bragg was the only big man substitute the second half as KU erased an 11-point second half deficit to beat Oregon State, 82-67.

Hunter Mickelson started that game next to Ellis.

“We always go at it in practice. Those guys were rolling in the game,” the 6-foot-8 Traylor said.

“I just wanted to cheer ‘em on. Coach always does stuff like that. When a group is on a run, he just leaves them in. They were making plays. We came back. I was on the sideline cheering for them.

Everybody is competing

to get playing time.”

Self thus is not sure of Traylor’s role in his final season at KU. “He has to be a great leader to our younger guys, without question.

He’s a better player than he was two years ago, but we also have more players in our program than we did a couple years ago when he was playing quite a bit of minutes off the bench. I think it still remains to be seen on a couple of the guys on what their role will be as the season moves forward. But certainly he’s been a great leader and a great mentor to those young kids.

KANSAS ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH LAURA KUHN walks the red carpet entering with the Kansas team as she was named assistant coach of the year on Thursday in Omaha, Nebraska.

Lawrence were current juniors Tayler Soucie and Cassie Wait. Soucie has gone on to earn All-Big 12 First Team honor in the last two seasons and Wait has moved into third-place on KU’s career digs list through two seasons as the Jayhawks’ primary libero.

Kuhn and the KU coaching staff has trained seven Jayhawk AVCA All-Americans in the last five seasons, including the program’s first-ever AVCA All-America First Team honorees in 2015 — Ainise Havili and Kelsie Payne.

The Tiffin, Ohio, native played collegiately at Georgia Tech and coached at Appalachian State, Florida State and Miami (Fla.) before arriving at the University of Kansas.

The award is particularly significant to Kuhn because it marks the fifth anniversary of her father’s sudden passing in December of 2010. Her father, Jim, coached Kuhn and her sister in basketball all throughout high school.

“This was his dream — to see me succeed in coaching,” Kuhn said.

“He was a coach. I am a coach. The coach in me is just like him. I know for a fact he would be here with me in Omaha with me and my mom celebrating.”

Bechard and Kansas Athletics recognized her dedication and effectiveness on the Kansas volleyball program with a promotion to associate head coach before the start of the 2015 season.

He pulls for them as hard as anybody does,” Self said.

Self is seeking more from the 6-foot-8 Ellis.

“Activity, going after the ball,” Self said of the Wichita native who averages 14.3 points and 5.9 boards. “He’s more than capable of playing at an All-American type level.

If that’s too much pressure, then that’s too much pressure. That’s why he came back to school.

So to downplay that we don’t want him to be that I don’t think is speaking truthfully at all because we want him to be that.

We need him to be that.”

Pollard on TV: Former KU and NBA forward Scot Pollard will compete on the 32nd season of CBS’ reality-TV program Survivor. This edition is titled: “Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty.” According to SI.com, contestants will compete against each other based on “their intelligence, athleticism and attractiveness.” The 6-11 Pollard is on the ‘Brawn’ tribe. The show was filmed in Cambodia and will air on Feb. 17. Pollard has agreed to write about topics of interest periodically for the Journal-World with his first installment to appear later next week.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY JUNIOR CASSIE WAIT (5) TRIES TO SET THE BALL AGAINST NEBRASKA Thursday at CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Nebraska defeated Kansas 3-1 in the national semifinal.

NOTEBOOK

No long faces following Kansas’ loss semifinal match did not go well for the new kids on the block — KU lost to No. 4 Nebraska in four sets to finish the season 30-3 — head coach Ray Bechard said the entire week was an experience no one would soon forget.

“They treated us like we were one of the best,” Bechard said after his team’s 25-20, 25-21, 20-25, 25-16 loss to the Cornhuskers. “And it was a really cool deal. I know the players feel that same way.”

There were no long faces, teary eyes or sighs of serious disappointment on the podium following Thursday’s loss. Sure, the Jayhawks would’ve preferred to have won and also would’ve liked to have played better. But

than KU, which has the knowledge that a player of Payne’s talent is only halfway through her CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C college career. Ditto for setter Ainise Havili. teams playing for the Anna Church, who national title, the only gave KU a lift in its lone teams to defeat Kanwinning set, and Tiana sas this season) nor for Dockery were the only Minnesota, which lost seniors to appear in the to Texas earlier in the dream-ending match for night.

Kansas.

From my vantage Payne and for most point, Payne (22 kills, of the night fellow phenomenal .576 hitting sophomore Havili played percentage) was the best like the first-team Allplayer to grace the CenAmericans that they are turyLink court. and just think, the Final Sure there is pain in Four will be played at the losing, the bigger the Sprint Center in Kansas stage the deeper the pain. City their senior seasons.

But there isn’t a team Junior Janae Hall, that lost that has a better honored as the “Elite 90” pain-killer to soothe it winner, given to the top

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Omaha, Neb. — All season, the Kansas University volleyball team believed it could compete at the highest level and hoped that this would be the year that the Jayhawks crashed the party and played on the same stage as some of the game’s perennial powerhouses.

Thursday night, the dream came true, as the Jayhawks played in front of a record crowd in a Final Four that featured Minnesota, Texas and Nebraska, programs that have become known for playing and winning at the highest level.

While Thursday’s

Keegan

Payne impresses Playing on the biggest stage of her young career, Kansas All-American Kelsie Payne delivered a monster night and left quite an impression on the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Her 22 kills on 33

swings, though spread out over four sets, all forced NU coach John Cook to shake his head and marvel at the 6-foot3 sophomore’s incredible ability.

“I almost felt like telling our team, ‘Just go for an ace when Payne’s in the front row,’” Cook said.

“Because we couldn’t stop her.”

Stop her they didn’t. But the Huskers were pleased that they were at least able to keep her from running them out of the gym.

“She’s tall, she’s big, she’s physical and she sometimes hits over the block,” said NU’s Kadie Rolfzen of Payne. “She’s a good player, she’s gonna get her kills here and there and we started

touching some of her had to play some great balls tonight and we were volleyball to win that able to slow her down a match tonight.”

Although he was more little bit.” than happy to talk about Built to last his team advancing to After the victory, NU face another former Big coach John Cook, an old 12 foe — Texas on Satfriend and former Big urday night — Cook 12 foe of the Jayhawks, sounded like a coach who could not say enough believed Kansas would be about Kansas and the back competing for a nateam Bechard has put tional title in the future. together during the past “I’m very impressed few seasons. with Kansas,” Cook add“Just a great Final ed. “I’ve coached against Four match,” Cook said. Kansas a lot and he’s got “I think we got ‘em the a great team.” first game because of the crowd and the atmo- This and that Nebraska’s win kept sphere, but, man, they started playing really alive one of the craziest well. They were a lot bet- streaks in all of sports. ter in person than they Nebraska now owns an were on tape last week. all-time record of 87-0-1 I feel very fortunate. We over Kansas.

scholar-athlete at the Final Four, showed with dominant play at the net in the fourth set that she is more than just brainy on the volleyball court.

“Janae Hall is very fast,” Nebraska coach John Cook said. “Payne can go fast and then she goes slow, so she’s really difficult to defend. Payne is a great player and so is their setter (Havili).”

Kansas associate head coach Laura “Bird” Kuhn also received an honor by the same organization, the American Volleyball Coaches Association, that named Payne and Havili first-teamers.

Kuhn, singled out as the nation’s top assistant coach, has upgraded

significantly the caliber of athletes playing volleyball at KU working for head coach Ray Bechard.

Kansas has been able to stave off attempts last year and in recent weeks from mid-major universities to raid Bechard’s coaching staff by hiring Kuhn. With her already high stock soaring in light of KU’s Final Four run, it will be more difficult than ever to keep the staff in tact. Texas Tech, for one example, is in the market for a head coach.

Yet, leaving players as talented and coachable as Payne, Havili, Hall, Cassie Wait and Tayler Soucie will make leaving a tough decision for Bird, even if the next offer is

an attractive one. That will shake itself out in coming weeks.

For now, a team that played so well together to take its growing fan base on a remarkable ride, will get red-carpet treatment from Lawrence, as it did in Omaha, a city that provided a police escort to the arena Thursday night.

The partisan crowd had an influence, but Nebraska advanced more on the strength of its powerful serves. Plus, an old nemesis, service errors, reappeared for KU. By the time Church delivered KU’s first service ace late in the fourth set, the Jayhawks already had

they left CenturyLink Center with their heads held high after a fantastic season that ended with KU fighting to the end.

“I couldn’t be more proud to be represented with this group and the work we got done,” Bechard said. “I guess we can say the three losses we had were to the teams playing for the national championship (Texas and Nebraska, Saturday night).”

KANSAS PLAYERS, FROM LEFT, ADDISON BARRY, AINISE HAVILI AND JANAE HALL HAVE FUN WITH A TWITTER MIRROR as they walk down the red carpet before Kansas and Nebraska matched up on Thursday at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska.

committed seven service errors.

“They made a lot of errors early, so I felt the atmosphere got to them and in games three and four they really started pressuring us,” Cook said.

Payne not only played the best, she summed up the season best in saying, “We’re all really proud of how far we’ve come as a team and a program.”

Two potentially terrific seasons are ahead for the Jayhawks, who finished 30-3 after getting off to a 19-0 start and reached its first Elite Eight and then initial Final Four by defeating USC, the tournament’s No. 1 seed.

LUISA LANGI, FROM EULESS, TEXAS, CAME TO THE CENTURYLINK CENTER IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY to watch her granddaughter, Ainise Havili, play for the Kansas University volleyball team.

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WEST VIRGINIA’S ESA AHMAD, LEFT, PRESSURES Marshall’s Austin Loop. West Virginia defeated Marshall, 86-68, on Thursday night in Charleston, W.Va.

Big 12 Overall

W L W L Iowa State 0 0 9 0 Oklahoma 0 0 7 0 West Virginia 0 0 9 1 Kansas 0 0 8 1 8 1 Baylor 0 0 Texas Tech 0 0 7 1 Kansas State 0 0 7 2 Oklahoma State 0 0 7 3 Texas 0 0 7 3 5 4 TCU 0 0 Thursday’s Game West Virginia 86, Marshall 68 Saturday’s Games Montana at Kansas, 1 p.m. (JTV) Creighton at Oklahoma, 1 p.m.

(ESPNU) Colorado State vs. Kansas State, 3 p.m. at Wichita (FSKC) Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Texas Tech, 3 p.m.

Northern Iowa vs. Iowa State, 6 p.m. at Des Moines, Iowa (ESPNU) Oklahoma State vs. Florida, 7 p.m. at Sunrise, Florida (FS1) Baylor at Texas Tech, 8 p.m. (ESPNU) Texas at Stanford, 10:30 p.m.

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Mountaineers roll The Associated Press

Big 12 Men No. 20 West Va. 86, Marshall 68 Charleston, W.Va. — Jevon Carter scored 15 points, and West Virginia used its depth to wear down Marshall fon Thursday night.

West Virginia (9-1) took control with a 16-1 run early in the second half to beat its intrastate rival for the fifth straight year and for the ninth time in 10 tries.

Daxter Miles Jr. added 14 points, Elijah Macon had 12, and Tarik Phillip 11.

Ryan Taylor led Marshall (3-7) with 15 points.

Jon Elmore added 14, and James Kelly had 11.

Marshall had won three straight.

Kelly, Marshall’s leading scorer, went to the bench with a left knee injury early in the second half. He returned six minutes later still limping.

The Thundering Herd went nearly eight minutes between baskets and the turnovers started to pile up.

West Virginia leads the country in offensive rebounds at 18 per game and got plenty of second chances against Marshall.

The Mountaineers made four baskets off of rebounds during the key run, including Nathan Adrian’s putback for a 5339 lead with 10:50 left.

West Virginia’s lead grew to as many as 23 points down the stretch.

The Mountaineers’ Devin Williams was held to nine points, the first

time this season he failed to reach double digits. He spent most of the game in foul trouble.

WEST VIRGINIA (9-1) Holton 4-6 1-2 9, Ahmad 0-2 1-2 1, Williams 3-10 3-5 9, Carter 5-10 4-4 15, Miles Jr. 5-10 3-5 14, Myers 0-1 0-0 0, Paige 3-7 0-0 7, Adrian 2-5 3-6 8, Phillip 3-6 3-4 11, Watkins 0-0 0-1 0, Romeo III 0-0 0-0 0, Macon 5-8 2-6 12. Totals 30-65 20-35 86.

MARSHALL (3-7) Kelly 4-6 2-2 11, Taylor 2-7 11-14 15, Browning 2-4 3-5 7, Elmore 1-9 11-12 14, Loop 3-8 0-0 9, Thompson 1-2 0-0 2, Kilgore 0-1 0-0 0, Penava 0-0 0-1 0, Burks 3-9 0-0 6, Edmonds 0-1 0-0 0, Dozic 1-3 0-0 3, Mijovic 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 17-50 28-36 68.

Halftime-West Virginia 35-32.

3-Point Goals-West Virginia 6-17 (Phillip 2-2, Adrian 1-2, Carter 1-3, Paige 1-3, Miles Jr. 1-5, Holton 0-1, Ahmad 0-1), Marshall 6-27 (Loop 3-7, Kelly 1-3, Dozic 1-3, Elmore 1-7, Edmonds 0-1, Kilgore 0-1, Taylor 0-2, Burks 0-3). Fouled Out-Adrian, Kelly, Taylor. Rebounds-West Virginia 48 (Holton 8), Marshall 32 (Taylor 6).

Assists-West Virginia 15 (Phillip 4), Marshall 8 (Taylor 3). Total Fouls-West Virginia 30, Marshall 26. TechnicalBurks. A-11,748.

Top 25 Men No. 18 SMU 105, Hampton 72 Dallas — Jordan Tolbert posted another big double-double, getting 20 points and 19 rebounds as SMU remained unbeaten.

A night after having 18 points and 23 boards in a rout over Nicholls State, Tolbert helped the Mustangs (9-0) to their highest-scoring game since November 2010. SMU is off to its best start since going 10-0 to open the 1997-98 season.

SMU played its final game under the direction of associate head coach Tim Jankovich.

Head coach Larry Brown served a nine-game suspension after the NCAA ruled in September that a former men’s basket-

ball administrative assistant completed online course work for a student to help him be admitted College Men to school. The Mustangs EAST Princeton 77, Liberty 72 also are banned from Robert Morris 69, Lehigh 67 S. Connecticut 100, Caldwell 71 postseason play this seaStony Brook 86, American U. 68 son, including the AmeriWest Virginia 86, Marshall 68 can Athletic Conference SOUTH Middle Tennessee 83, Belmont 62 tournament.

NC A&T 61, Grambling St. 47 Hampton (4-4) was Tennessee St. 89, Lipscomb 86 Troy 85, Paine 77 led by Quinton Chievous MIDWEST and Brian Darden with 18 Bradley 61, Maryville (Mo.) 53 Evansville 84, Norfolk St. 70 points each. The Pirates North Dakota 80, Valley City St. 59 trailed 58-53 with 15:20 Ohio 72, Jackson St. 67 South Dakota 92, Milwaukee 91, 2OT left before SMU pulled Wright St. 71, Charleston Southern away.

65 Tolbert had already re- SOUTHWEST North Texas 87, MVSU 74 corded his fourth doubleRice 67, St. Thomas (Texas) 54 NFL double of the season by SMU 105, Hampton 72 AMERICAN CONFERENCE halftime.

East College Women

HAMPTON (4-4) Pressley 4-7 0-2 8, Chievous 8-11 0-3 18, Cooks 1-6 0-0 3, Darden 6-17 1-1 18, Johnson 6-15 0-2 16, Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Hayden 0-1 0-0 0, Aughburns 0-0 0-0 0, Barnes 1-1 0-0 2, Mitchell 0-0 0-0 0, Wilson-Fisher 1-1 0-0 2, Adams 1-1 0-0 2, Fisher 0-4 3-5 3. Totals 28-64 4-13 72.

SMU (9-0) B. Moore 6-13 4-4 16, Tolbert 5-13 10-10 20, Milton 6-10 0-0 14, Brown 10-11 2-2 23, N. Moore 6-14 1-2 18, Foster 6-9 0-1 14, Wilfong 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 39-70 17-19 105.

Halftime-SMU 43-41. 3-Point GoalsHampton 12-31 (Darden 5-14, Johnson 4-7, Chievous 2-2, Cooks 1-4, Hayden 0-1, Fisher 0-3), SMU 10-24 (N. Moore 5-12, Foster 2-4, Milton 2-6, Brown 1-2). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsHampton 23 (Chievous, Johnson 6), SMU 49 (Tolbert 19). Assists-Hampton 17 (Johnson 5), SMU 26 (N. Moore 8). Total Fouls-Hampton 18, SMU 12.

Technical-B. Moore. A-6,329.

Big 12 Women No. 4 Baylor 97, Oral Roberts 39 Waco, Texas — Nina Davis had 26 points in 23 minutes, Niya Johnson had 18 more assists, and Baylor rolled to another lopsided victory.

The Bears (11-0) wrapped up a five-game homestand over 17 days in which they won each by an average margin of 53 points.

NBA roundup The Associated Press

Cavaliers 104, Thunder 100 Cleveland — LeBron James crashed into the crowd and injured a fan while scrambling for a loose ball Thursday night as Cleveland held off Oklahoma City, ending the Thunder’s six-game winning streak.

James plowed into a woman sitting next to PGA Tour golf star Jason Day in the fourth quarter.

She was taken from the arena on a backboard.

James scored 33 points and added 11 assists and nine rebounds. Tristan Thompson had 15 rebounds for the Cavs.

Russell Westbrook scored 27 and Kevin Durant 25 for the Thunder, who were down 98-89 with three minutes left.

Oklahoma City closed within 103-100, but both Durant and Westbrook missed three-pointers in the final 10 seconds.

The Cavaliers were missing guards Mo Williams (thumb), Iman Shumpert (groin) and Kyrie Irving.

How former Jayhawks fared Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers Did not play (inactive).

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Min: 8. Pts: 4.

Reb: 2. Ast: 0.

Sasha Kaun, Cleveland Did not play (coach’s decision).

OKLAHOMA CITY (100) Durant 7-17 9-10 25, Ibaka 8-14 5-6 23, Adams 2-3 0-0 4, Westbrook 10-18 6-6 27, Roberson 2-3 0-0 5, Waiters 1-7 2-4 4, Kanter 2-4 2-2 6, Augustin 1-5 0-0 2, Collison 2-3 0-0 4, Singler 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-74 24-28 100.

CLEVELAND (104) James 12-27 7-8 33, Love 4-10 1-1 11, Mozgov 3-5 0-0 6, Dellavedova 3-10 2-2 11, Smith 5-12 0-0 11, Jefferson 5-9 0-0 13, Cunningham 3-4 0-0 7, Thompson 6-9 0-2 12, Varejao 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 41-88 10-13 104.

Oklahoma City 28 19 31 22 — 100 Cleveland 26 20 28 30 — 104 3-Point Goals-Oklahoma City 6-20 (Ibaka 2-5, Durant 2-6, Roberson 1-1, Westbrook 1-3, Augustin 0-2, Waiters 0-3), Cleveland 12-29 (Jefferson 3-6, Dellavedova 3-6, James 2-5, Love 2-5, Cunningham 1-2, Smith 1-5). Fouled Out-Adams. Rebounds-Oklahoma City 43 (Ibaka 9), Cleveland 50 (Thompson 15). Assists-Oklahoma City 23 (Westbrook 10), Cleveland 29 (James 11). Total Fouls-Oklahoma City 20, Cleveland 22. A-20,562 (20,562).

Big 12 Overall

W L W L Baylor 0 0 11 0 9 0 Texas 0 0 Oklahoma State 0 0 8 0 Oklahoma 0 0 9 1 Kansas State 0 0 8 1 West Virginia 0 0 8 2 Texas Tech 0 0 7 2 TCU 0 0 7 3 Iowa State 0 0 6 3 Kansas 0 0 5 4 Thursday’s Game Baylor 97, Oral Roberts 39 Today’s Game Grambling State at Texas Tech, 6:30 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 16 11 .593 — Boston 14 12 .538 1½ New York 12 14 .462 3½ Brooklyn 7 18 .280 8 Philadelphia 1 26 .037 15 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Miami 15 9 .625 — Charlotte 15 10 .600 ½ Orlando 14 11 .560 1½ Atlanta 15 12 .556 1½ Washington 10 14 .417 5 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 17 7 .708 — Chicago 15 8 .652 1½ Indiana 15 9 .625 2 Detroit 15 12 .556 3½ Milwaukee 10 17 .370 8½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 22 5 .815 — Dallas 14 12 .538 7½ Memphis 14 13 .519 8 Houston 13 14 .481 9 New Orleans 7 18 .280 14 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 17 9 .654 — Denver 11 14 .440 5½ Utah 10 14 .417 6 Portland 11 16 .407 6½ Minnesota 9 16 .360 7½ Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 25 1 .962 — L.A. Clippers 16 10 .615 9 Phoenix 11 16 .407 14½ Sacramento 10 15 .400 14½ L.A. Lakers 4 22 .154 21 Thursday’s Games Charlotte 109, Toronto 99, OT Cleveland 104, Oklahoma City 100 Houston 107, L.A. Lakers 87 Today’s Games Brooklyn at Indiana, 6 p.m.

New York at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Portland at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Miami, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Denver at Utah, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.

Charlotte at Washington, 6 p.m.

Chicago at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Indiana at Memphis, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7 p.m.

EAST American U. 45, Dartmouth 41 Cornell 59, Fairfield 35 Iona 81, Saint Joseph’s 75 Rider 61, Lehigh 60, OT SOUTH Appalachian St. 73, Richmond 59 Duke 79, Liberty 41 Jackson St. 79, SE Louisiana 72 Jacksonville 79, Murray St. 54 Marshall 81, St. Francis (Pa.) 73 Middle Tennessee 70, Missouri St. 54 Robert Morris 64, Georgia Southern 49 Samford 54, Alabama St. 35 UNC-Greensboro 81, New Orleans 79 William & Mary 67, Norfolk St. 47 SOUTHWEST Baylor 97, Oral Roberts 39 Houston 76, Texas A&M-CC 73 Lamar 82, Texas A&M-Kingsville 66 Rice 58, Sam Houston St. 46 Texas Rio Grande Valley 60, Incarnate Word 47 FAR WEST Oregon 122, Portland St. 59

KU Men

Nov. 4 — Pittsburg State (exhibition), W 89-66 Nov. 10 — Fort Hays State (exhibition), W 95-59 Nov. 13 — Northern Colorado, W 109-72 (1-0) Nov. 17 — Michigan State at Chicago United Center, L 73-79 (1-1) Nov. 23 — Chaminade at Maui Invitational, W 123-72 (2-1) Nov. 24 — UCLA at Maui Invitational, W 92-73 (3-1) Nov. 25 — Vanderbilt at Maui Invitational, W 70-63 (4-1) Dec. 1 — Loyola (Md.), W 94-61 (5-1) Dec. 5 — Harvard, W 75-69 (6-1) Dec. 9 — Holy Cross, W 92-59 (7-1) Dec. 12 — Oregon State at Kansas City Shootout, Sprint Center, W 82-67 (8-1) Dec. 19 — Montana, 1 p.m.

Dec. 22 — at San Diego State, 10 p.m.

Dec. 29 — UC Irvine, 8 p.m.

Jan. 2 — Baylor, 3 p.m.

Jan. 4 — Oklahoma, 8 p.m.

Jan. 9 — at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.

Jan. 12 — at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Jan. 16 — TCU, 1 p.m.

Jan. 19 — at Oklahoma State, 6 p.m.

Jan. 23 — Texas, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 —at Iowa State, 8 p.m.

Jan. 30 — Kentucky in Big 12/SEC Challenge, Allen Fieldhouse, TBA Feb. 3 — Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 6 — at TCU, 11 a.m.

Feb. 9 — West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Feb. 13 — at Oklahoma, 1 p.m.

Feb. 15 — Oklahoma State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 20 — at Kansas State, 5 p.m.

Feb. 23 —at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, 11 a.m. or 1 p.m.

Feb. 29 — at Texas, 8 p.m.

March 5 — Iowa State, TBA March 9-12 — Big 12 tournament at Kansas City, Mo.

Hornets 109, Raptors 99, OT Charlotte, N.C. — Jeremy Lin scored a seasonhigh 35 points, Kemba Walker had 27, and Charlotte defeated Toronto in overtime on Thursday night.

P.J. Hairston added 14 points, including a threepointer with 90 seconds Women remaining in overtime Kansas Nov. 1 — Pittsburg State (exhibithat put the Hornets tion), W 80-54 Nov. 8 — Emporia State (exhibition), ahead to stay.

68-57 DeMar DeRozan WNov. 15 — Texas Southern, W 72-65 scored 31 points for To- (1-0) Nov. 19 — Memphis, W 72-63 (2-0) ronto.

Nov. 23 — at Arizona, L 67-52 (2-1) TORONTO (99) Ross 6-12 0-0 17, Scola 1-7 0-0 2, Biyombo 2-4 4-6 8, Lowry 6-29 5-7 20, DeRozan 12-25 7-8 31, Patterson 1-8 0-0 2, Joseph 3-6 0-0 7, Nogueira 1-1 1-2 3, Johnson 3-5 3-5 9, Powell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-97 20-28 99.

CHARLOTTE (109) Hairston 5-10 0-0 14, Williams 2-6 4-4 10, Zeller 2-6 1-2 5, Walker 10-24 7-8 27, Lin 13-22 7-9 35, Hawes 2-2 0-0 5, Kaminsky 1-6 4-6 6, Daniels 0-2 0-0 0, Lamb 2-6 2-2 7, Hansbrough 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 37-85 25-31 109.

Toronto 20 24 21 25 9 — 99 Charlotte 25 31 21 13 19 — 109 3-Point Goals-Toronto 9-39 (Ross 5-10, Lowry 3-17, Joseph 1-2, Scola 0-1, Johnson 0-1, DeRozan 0-1, Patterson 0-7), Charlotte 10-29 (Hairston 4-7, Williams 2-5, Lin 2-5, Hawes 1-1, Lamb 1-3, Daniels 0-1, Walker 0-3, Kaminsky 0-4). Fouled Out-Biyombo, Zeller.

Rebounds-Toronto 63 (Biyombo 18), Charlotte 61 (Williams, Hawes 10). Assists-Toronto 18 (Lowry 7), Charlotte 23 (Walker 7). Total FoulsToronto 22, Charlotte 23. TechnicalsBiyombo, Lowry. A-15,817 (19,077).

Nov. 27 — N. Illinois at SMU Thanksgiving Classic, W 66-58 (3-1) Nov. 28 — SMU at SMU Thanksgiving Classic, L 64-73 (3-2) Dec. 2 — Creighton, W 67-54 (4-2) Dec. 6 — St. John’s, L 71-86 (4-3) Dec. 10 — UMKC, L 44-47 (4-4) Dec. 13 — Navy, W 61-54, OT (5-4) Dec. 20 — Washington State, 7 p.m.

Dec. 22 — Oral Roberts, 7 p.m.

Dec. 30 — at Oklahoma, TBA Jan. 3 — West Virginia, TBA Jan. 6 — Baylor, TBA Jan. 9 — at Iowa State, TBA Jan. 13 — Texas, TBA Jan. 16 — at West Virginia, TBA Jan. 20 — Kansas State, TBA Jan. 24 — Oklahoma State, TBA Jan. 27 — at Texas, TBA Jan. 30 — at Texas Tech, TBA Feb. 2 — Iowa State, TBA Feb. 6 — at Baylor, TBA Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, TBA Feb. 17 — TCU, TBA Feb. 20 — Oklahoma, TBA Feb. 24 — at Oklahoma State, TBA Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, TBA Feb. 29 — at TCU, TBA March 4-7 — Big 12 tournament at Oklahoma City

W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 11 2 0 .846 402 253 N.Y. Jets 8 5 0 .615 325 256 Buffalo 6 7 0 .462 316 301 Miami 5 8 0 .385 264 331 South

W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 6 7 0 .462 275 356 Houston 6 7 0 .462 259 291 Jacksonville 5 8 0 .385 326 357 Tennessee 3 10 0 .231 253 326 North

W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 10 3 0 .769 354 229 Pittsburgh 8 5 0 .615 344 260 Baltimore 4 9 0 .308 278 326 Cleveland 3 10 0 .231 240 357 West

W L T Pct PF PA Denver 10 3 0 .769 281 225 Kansas City 8 5 0 .615 331 243 Oakland 6 7 0 .462 299 326 San Diego 3 10 0 .231 250 334 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA Washington 6 7 0 .462 281 307 Philadelphia 6 7 0 .462 301 322 N.Y. Giants 6 7 0 .462 338 320 Dallas 4 9 0 .308 230 305 South

W L T Pct PF PA y-Carolina 13 0 0 1.000 411 243 Atlanta 6 7 0 .462 279 295 Tampa Bay 6 8 0 .429 311 353 New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 323 397 North

W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 9 4 0 .692 317 245 Minnesota 8 5 0 .615 258 255 Chicago 5 8 0 .385 272 314 Detroit 4 9 0 .308 267 336 West

W L T Pct PF PA x-Arizona 11 2 0 .846 405 252 Seattle 8 5 0 .615 340 235 St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 241 294 San Francisco 4 9 0 .308 188 315 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game St. Louis 31, Tampa Bay 23 Saturday’s Game N.Y. Jets at Dallas, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago at Minnesota, noon Atlanta at Jacksonville, noon Houston at Indianapolis, noon Carolina at N.Y. Giants, noon Tennessee at New England, noon Buffalo at Washington, noon Kansas City at Baltimore, noon Cleveland at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

Green Bay at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Miami at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Denver at Pittsburgh, 3:25 p.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Detroit at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 24 San Diego at Oakland, 7:25 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 26 Washington at Philadelphia, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 27 Houston at Tennessee, noon Cleveland at Kansas City, noon New England at N.Y. Jets, noon Indianapolis at Miami, noon San Francisco at Detroit, noon Dallas at Buffalo, noon Chicago at Tampa Bay, noon Carolina at Atlanta, noon Pittsburgh at Baltimore, noon Jacksonville at New Orleans, 3:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 28 Cincinnati at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

Kansas City Chiefs

Sept. 13 — at Houston, W 27-20 (1-0) Sept. 17 — Denver, L 24-31 (1-1) Sept. 28 — at Green Bay, L 28-38 (1-2) Oct. 4 — at Cincinnati, L 21-36 (1-3) Oct. 11 — Chicago, L 17-18 (1-4) Oct. 18 — at Minnesota, L 10-16 (1-5) Oct. 25 — Pittsburgh, W 23-13 (2-5) Nov. 1 — Detroit at London, W 45-10 (3-5) Nov. 8 — Bye Nov. 15 — at Denver, W 29-13 (4-5) Nov. 22 — at San Diego, W 33-3 (5-5) Nov. 29 — Buffalo, W 30-22 (6-5) Dec. 6 — at Oakland, W 34-20 (7-5) Dec. 13 — San Diego, W 10-3 (8-5) Dec. 20 — at Baltimore, noon Dec. 27 — Cleveland, noon Jan. 3 — Oakland, noon

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 33 20 10 3 43 101 76 Boston 30 17 9 4 38 96 80 Detroit 31 16 9 6 38 79 79 Ottawa 32 16 11 5 37 98 95 Florida 32 16 12 4 36 86 76 Tampa Bay 32 16 13 3 35 78 73 Buffalo 33 14 16 3 31 77 86 Toronto 30 10 13 7 27 72 86 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 30 22 6 2 46 91 64 N.Y. Rangers 33 19 10 4 42 96 79 N.Y. Islanders 33 18 10 5 41 91 79 New Jersey 32 16 12 4 36 77 80 Philadelphia 32 14 12 6 34 68 86 Pittsburgh 30 15 12 3 33 68 74 Carolina 31 12 14 5 29 77 96 Columbus 34 12 19 3 27 83 105 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 32 23 7 2 48 108 83 St. Louis 33 19 10 4 42 84 79 Minnesota 30 17 7 6 40 84 70 Chicago 33 18 11 4 40 89 78 Nashville 32 15 11 6 36 82 83 Colorado 33 16 16 1 33 90 89 Winnipeg 31 14 15 2 30 85 95 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 31 20 9 2 42 81 66 San Jose 31 16 14 1 33 83 83 Calgary 31 15 14 2 32 83 105 Arizona 31 14 15 2 30 86 102 Edmonton 33 14 17 2 30 87 100 Vancouver 33 11 14 8 30 81 94 Anaheim 30 11 14 5 27 56 76 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games Buffalo 3, Anaheim 0 Florida 5, New Jersey 1 Philadelphia 2, Vancouver 0 San Jose 5, Toronto 4, OT Los Angeles 3, Montreal 0 St. Louis 2, Nashville 1 Minnesota 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 Chicago 4, Edmonton 0 Calgary 3, Dallas 1 Colorado 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Columbus 7, Arizona 5 Today’s Games Boston at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 6 p.m.

Florida at Carolina, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended N.Y. Mets RHP Connor Buchmann (Kingsport-Appalachian) 50 games for a violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated INF Chris Johnson for assignment.

Agreed to terms with OF Rajai Davis on a one-year contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms with RHP Brandon Kintzler; C Juan Centeno; LHPs Fernando Abad, Buddy Boshers, Dan Runzler and Aaron Thompson; INFs James Beresford, Buck Britton, Heiker Meneses and Wilfredo Tovar; and OFs Joe Benson, Darin Mastroianni, Reynaldo Rodriguez and Ryan Sweeney on minor league contracts.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Sent INF Brendan Ryan to the Chicago Cubs to complete an earlier trade.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with OF Mike Baxter, INF Ed Lucas, LHP Brad Mills and RHPs Casey Coleman and Blake Parker on minor league contracts.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with OF Justin Ruggiano on a one-year contract. Named Howard Johnson manager of High Desert (Cal). Named Homer Bush director of youth baseball programs.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Named Chipper Jones special assistant to baseball operations.

CHICAGO CUBS — Designated RHP Yoervis Medina for assignment.

Named John Baker baseball operations assistant. Named Jim Brower minor league pitching coordinator; Andy Haines minor league hitting coordinator; Rod Nichols pitching coach, Shane Nelson trainer and Sean Folan assistant trainer of Iowa (PCL); Mark Johnson manager, Terry Clark pitching coach, Osmin Melendez assistant coach and Jon Fierro trainer of Tennessee (SL); Buddy Bailey manager, Anderson Tavarez pitching coach, Juan Cabreja assistant coach and Toby Williams trainer of Myrtle Beach (Carolina); David Rosario pitching coach, Guillermo Martinez hitting coach, Ricardo Medina assistant coach and Mike McNulty trainer of South Bend (MWL); Jesus Feliciano manager, Brian Lawrence pitching coach, Ty Wright hitting coach, Gary Van Tol coach and Logan Severson trainer of Eugene (NWL); Jeremy Farrell and Chris Valaika hitting coaches and Lance Rymel rehab coach of the AZL Cubs; Claudio Almonte manager, Eduardo Villacis pitching coach, Jose Cueto assistant pitching coach, Carlos Ramirez hitting coach, Antonio Valerio and Jovanny Rosario assistant coaches and Amaury Gonzalez strength coach of the DSL Cubs; and Pedro Gonzalez manager, Armando Gabino pitching coach, Franklin Bianco hitting coach, Carlos Rojas assistant coach, Arnoldo Goite trainer and Manny Estrada strength and conditioning coach of the VSL Cubs.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Named Bob Geren bench coach, Turner Ward hitting coach, George Lombard first base coach, Chris Woodward third base coach, Josh Bard bullpen coach, Tim Hyers assistant hitting coach and Juan Castro quality assurance coach.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms with RHPs Andrew Bailey and Edward Mujica on minor league contracts.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with INF/OF Sean Rodriguez on a one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with RHP Johnny Cueto on a six-year contract.

American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed OF Robbie Kuzdale.

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed G Eric Herman to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived LB Daniel Adongo. Signed CB Tay GloverWright from the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Claimed WR Leonard Hankerson off waivers from Atlanta and OT LaAdrian Waddle from Detroit.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed CB Damian Swann and RB Marcus Murphy on injured reserve. Signed DB Tony Carter and RB Kendall Hunter.

Signed RB Toben Opurum from the practice squad. Signed WR Shane Wynn to the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed DT Barry Cofield.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Waived QB Brad Sorensen, Claimed OL Jeff Linkenbach off waivers from Miami.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed DT Justin Hamilton to the practice squad.

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Chiefs could ride schedule into playoffs

By Dave Skretta AP Sports Writer

Kansas City, Mo. — When the Kansas City Chiefs’ schedule was first released, the assumption was that if they could only weather the first six weeks, they would have a good shot at returning to the playoffs.

Then they won just one game.

But after the brutal opening stretch against some of the NFL’s best teams, the Chiefs (8-5) have a pillow-soft finishing kick. It begins with a trip to four-win Baltimore, where thirdstring quarterback Jimmy Clausen could be under center Sunday.

Then it continues with three-win Cleveland and

finishes with six-win Oakland, both of those games in the friendly confines of Arrowhead Stadium.

Suddenly, that 1-5 start seems like a distant memory. And after seven straight victories to set up the final three weeks of the season, the playoffs seem like inevitability.

“We’re trying to make history,” said running back Charcandrick West, who has gone from noname fill-in for injured Jamaal Charles to a fantasy football hero in his own right.

“This is a special team and I really believe that,” West said. “All of us believe that.”

There is no argument the Chiefs aren’t playing better than they did

early in the season, when they followed up a victory at Houston with five consecutive losses. Alex Smith went more than 300 passes without an interception, the running game steadily improved behind a congealing offensive line and a defense that most assumed would be among the league’s best has finally started to play like it.

The Chiefs have even overcome a litany of injuries to big names. Charles has been out for weeks, while All-Pro linebacker Justin Houston is out for the foreseeable future by a knee injury.

But more than anything else, Kansas City’s tilted schedule has helped it climb out of its hole.

Over the first six

weeks, the Chiefs played four times on the road — then headed to London for a “home game” against Detroit. That stretched included a game against Denver on Thursday night. The result was an inability to get into the kind of Sunday-to-Sunday rhythm that most teams crave.

Then there was substance of their opponents.

Among those first six teams, four are presently atop their division with another in second place.

Two of them (the Broncos and Bengals) have won 10 games, while the Packers have won nine and the Vikings have won eight. All of them except Chicago are in the middle of the playoff hunt.

Their combined win-

“They were able to pull it off. All the respect in the world for them.”

The Chiefs still have work left to make the playoffs, though. Even after seven straight victories, they are merely tied with the Steelers and Jets for the two AFC wild-card spots. And while they hold the tiebreaker over both of those teams, they can ill afford to stumble down the stretch.

The three remaining opponents have a combined 13-26 record, which means their winning percentage is roughly half that of the first six weeks of the season, and even worse than what Kansas City has faced during the thirdbest winning streak in franchise history.

ning percentage is .615.

Now, consider the seven teams that Kansas City has beaten in successive weeks. Only the Broncos are atop their division, and five of the seven have losing records. They’ve beaten three-win San Diego twice, and the fourwin Lions were in the midst of a coaching upheaval when they met.

Their combined winning percentage is .412.

Still, facing lousy opposition is only part of the equation. The Chiefs still had to take advantage of it, something that Baltimore failed to do after a similarly tough start.

“The way they turned it around, it’s something we’d hoped to do as well, earlier,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said.

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